Death Defied by Justin Sloan & P.T. Hylton & Michael Anderle

Author:Justin Sloan & P.T. Hylton & Michael Anderle [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2017-12-26T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Space Station

The feeling of unease hadn’t left even after exploring the passages and chambers of this space station for what felt like an eternity. Each step echoed and the ship’s walls gleamed as if alive, accentuated by distant machine noises that sounded almost like deep breaths.

“Stay alert,” Arlay said, as if she were leading her people here.

They turned into a room full of toppled machinery with robot parts scattered here and there. It seemed to be nothing, until one of the robots’ eyes went red and an alarm sounded.

Valerie slammed it into the nearby wall, shattering it, but it was too late. There was clattering from ahead of and behind them, and then the robots and cyborgs started appearing, metal gleaming and shots flying.

Arlay rolled to cover behind one of the toppled machines, and the others followed suit. One of the commander’s people took a few hits and collapsed to the floor in a pool of blood, but by then the group had their weapons out and were pushing back the enemy.

“Where they hell were they before?” Robin shouted, but Valerie continued firing. How the hell should she know?

When she saw an opening, she decided that letting them come to her wasn’t fair—she was going to bring the fight to them. She grabbed a slab of metal and was up and charging. Shots pinged off the metal, but within a second she was at the far door, leaping through the now-broken glass windows at its side. She landed next to a relatively small mech, one that stood only slightly taller than she was. As it spun to aim at her she ducked under it and took out its legs, slamming it into the floor before using it like a baseball bat against the others nearby.

Shots rang out, but from her side and aiming her way.

“Get the others,” Valerie shouted at them. “I’ll take these out.”

She hefted the mech down a side hallway and caught some newcomers off-guard, then darted through them, disconnecting robot limbs and anything else she could hit along the way.

She heard a loud whirring and then, just as she hit the floor, a fresh barrage of bullets tore into the wall next to where she had been standing. She rolled across the floor toward the source and was able to make out three drones, one about to shoot in her direction again.

With a push off the floor, she grabbed its wings and brought her feet up to kick at the body. The wings came free with a pop and she fell with the body to the floor, then chucked the wings at one of the other two drones, causing both to hit the far wall with a small explosion.

Shots came from the hallway and connected with the last drone, taking it down. Valerie was up again, and fired at a new wave of small robots while the rest of her group caught up. Robin led the way, with Arlay and the others close behind.

When they had

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