Earth's Fury (Obsidiar Fleet Book 4) by Anthony James

Author:Anthony James [James, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

With a deep breath, McKinney brought the Colossus tank out of the main Obsidiar storage building. He sent the command for the door to close behind and waited for the few moments it took to seal the building.

“No point in leaving the door open,” said Roldan.

“Absolutely. Is everyone set?”

The Space Corps trained its soldiers to be multi-skilled. If you chose a squad at random from any base throughout the Confederation, you could be sure at least one of them could fly a shuttle, pilot a tank, operate a comms pack or safely blow a hole through a sealed blast door. Those in McKinney’s squad were no exception and he was able to call upon men who could do the business in a Space Corps tank, not that many of them had operated a weapon so rare as the Colossus tank before.

“All set,” confirmed Li.

“Yep, good to go, Lieutenant,” added Bannerman.

“Roldan?”

“Let’s do this.”

There were so many screens within the cockpit it took a few seconds for McKinney’s brain to settle. When it did, he knew he was going to have some fun - for however long it lasted until the tank got torn apart.

McKinney turned the tank, aiming it along the inner compound to the place the Vraxar had breached the perimeter walls. He pushed the control sticks away from him and with a grumbling roar, the engines overcame the tank’s inertia and hurled it forward. McKinney was pressed firmly into his seat and the muscles in his neck struggled to keep his head level. This wasn’t the time for a softly-softly approach and he planned to give the enemy a nasty surprise. He got one of his own first.

“That battleship hasn’t moved, Lieutenant. I can see it straight overhead,” said Bannerman.

McKinney swore and very nearly swung them around. Something inside wouldn’t let him. The die is cast, he thought.

“Keep me informed.”

“Yes, sir,” said Bannerman.

Not one of the crew suggested they stop and go back. They’d been cooped up for too long and bringing death to the enemy in this tank was too good an opportunity to miss.

The tank reached a speed of forty kilometres per hour and the outer wall of the main facility building sped by. The east wall was directly ahead, though there was no breach through this section and he was going to have to make a turn.

At the last second, he pulled the sticks to the right. The tank tilted to one side, its left-hand side lifting a few feet higher off the ground. The grumbling in the cockpit became louder and the tank executed the turn with a nimbleness McKinney hadn’t expected. It was so agile, he nearly cut the corner too close and the right-hand side of the tank came within a metre of striking the wall of the building. He straightened the tank’s course and, on the sensor feed, he saw the wide breach through the inner wall. There were Vraxar soldiers everywhere – in the few minutes since McKinney had left

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