Destiny Lost: A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Epic: Aeon 14 (The Orion War) by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press, LLC
Published: 2016-11-01T06:00:00+00:00

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STELLAR DATE: 07.27.8927 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: Sabrina, Interstellar Dark Layer

REGION: 72 Light Years Core-Ward of Ayrea

It was that reoccurring nightmare again. Something was chasing her through the dark corridors of the Intrepid where there was no power, no lights, no Link. It was gaining on her, no matter how hard she ran, it grew ever closer, its clawed feet scraping the decking, the sound echoing around her. Tanis was sick of these nightmares, she wanted to wake up. She was done running.

Repeating the mantra over and over in her subconsciousness, she felt herself rise from the mire, from the darkness, moving to the light, and gradually come awake. The light pressed against her eyelids. It was going to be bright again. Steeling herself, she cracked one eye and then the other. She seemed to be in some med lab, not on the Intrepid, that much was for certain. Her chest hurt; hurt a lot.

<Where am I, Angela?> she asked.

<You’re on Sabrina, Tanis. You were wounded in taking that pirate ship, the Regal Dawn.>

Angela sounded concerned, but not alarmed. Tanis knew that was a good sign; Angela wouldn’t hide her condition if it were bad. She concentrated for a moment, and the memories slowly trickled back; the escape pod, the abduction by Padre’s pirates, Sera saving her, and then her saving Sera. She took a deep breath and smiled. They’d be on their way to the Intrepid now. This leg of her journey was finally coming to an end.

“We seem to be making a habit of this,” a nearby voice said.

Tanis turned her head to see Sera sitting beside her, a look of concern mixed with relief on her face. She handed Tanis a bottle of water with a straw, and Tanis took several long pulls, washing the moisture around her parched mouth.

“We do seem to be,” she agreed when she had finished. “Thank you for patching me back together again.”

“Nance and Angela did most of the work. I’m all thumbs when it comes to hooking up artificial hearts and then growing new organic ones.”

“Heart?”

“When that guy shot at us with the rail gun, I thought he had hit me at first. I figured if I was still standing, I was going to take him down. Later, after I got him, I realized what I thought had been the railgun slug hitting me was a piece of your rib cage. It punctured my right lung, but my fancy new skin sealed around it and kept me breathing.”

“Good to know my impending death didn’t inconvenience you too much,” Tanis smiled. “I did notice back on the ship that you had replaced your skin with some sort of polymer, glad to see it proved useful.”

Sera looked down at herself and smiled. “I was saved by fashion. Anyway, when you tried to speak, I turned and…well, let’s just say it wasn’t pretty. Angela is really the one who saved you. She sealed up your arteries as fast as she could, and managed to keep most of your blood in while we got you on a medical stasis rack and raced you back to Sabrina.

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