Eden's Endgame by Barry Kirwan

Author:Barry Kirwan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Space Opera, Science Fiction, Galactic Empire, First Contact, Alien Invasion, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Published: 2014-12-29T06:00:00+00:00

Micah held a small ball in his right hand, one of Shiva’s more gruesome devices. A surprise for Louise. He walked along the corridor, stepping over inert bodies of Alician guards – unconscious rather than dead, despite Vashta’s recommendation. He paused at each intersection, ready for an attack, but none came. His resident had been feeding him telemetry from Ash’s vision, relayed via the Hohash, until Louise had used a laser scalpel to blind him. Micah heard voices up ahead, and sped up.

As he rounded a corner, he was confronted by the sight of Ash inside a large lab, strapped to a chair, his eyes slit, black streaks down his face. He looked like a nightmarish clown. Sonja talked softly beside him. Two Alicians lay prone on the floor.

Micah didn’t enter. His resident detected a shimmer in the air in front of him, just inside the chamber, and enhanced the image: humaniform mostly, except for one arm; female; advanced stealth camouflage. Micah tossed the ball towards the image.

Louise cried out as a silver net wrapped itself around her. Her stealth field stuttered then failed, and she came into full view, in black one-piece coveralls. Micah didn’t move. He watched Louise struggle to break free of the mesh, her Q’Roth claw snapping uselessly at the tightening fibres. Micah wrested the pistol from her grip as some of the fibres slid across her face, sealing her lips and forcing her eyelids closed. She staggered forward a pace then froze, locked down, barely able to breathe, an ungainly statue.

Micah’s resident reminded him that if he didn’t stop the process, it would begin to cut into her flesh, then her bones, then her organs. It would dice her. He watched its progress a few seconds longer, recalling all his encounters with Louise, flashbacks that usually ended with many people dead, people Micah had cared for, had sworn to protect, until the first thin traces of blood etched across her forehead and hands, then he sent the command for it to halt; at least until Kat confirmed that the device linking Louise’s survival to the fate of the captives had been deactivated. Then they would decide, though he had no doubt how Kat would vote; it was his own vote that was in question. Sandy had been right about him. It was difficult to kill someone in cold blood, no matter what they’d done. Despite that, he vowed to do it when the time came. She was too dangerous to stay alive.

Micah had thought many times of all the things he would say to Louise when he next saw her, when he fulfilled his promise to kill her, but he said nothing. Instead he walked past her to Ash and Sonja.

“I’m sorry it came to this, Ash.” He placed a hand on Sonja’s shoulder. “We’ll fix him, don’t worry.” He sliced through Ash’s restraints with the same bloodied laser scalpel Louise had used earlier.

Sonja drew aside to look at Micah’s handiwork on Louise. “Don’t worry, Micah.

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