Enemies on All Sides by Michael Chatfield & Dawn Chapman

Author:Michael Chatfield & Dawn Chapman [Chatfield, Michael & Chapman, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

VCF Moby

Ark Orbit, Emarl System

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“We’re going where?” Carla looked to Chen in confusion.

“Right about…there.” Chen pointed at the conference table that showed the Ark rotating below, a soup of thunderstorms and powerful natural forces.

Carla and Travestki looked at each other, clearly not looking forward to a journey like that. In contrast, Taelyon was practically doing a jig, an excited smile on her face.

Chen was thankful that he could control his stomach now as his body had gone through the full transition and he was now a complete merging-capable person.

Carla and Travestki looked to Taelyon and then slid their eyes to Chen with accusatory stares.

“Well, at least one of us is happy,” Carla muttered.

“Fucking awesome!” Taelyon let out a shout and held her “rock on” hands up.

“Why?” Travestki asked.

“Because it’s a base, underneath that soup of flying hazards. Our goal is to make it there. We will be taking down supplies and flight crews for a number of ships that have been built down there, as well as engineering crews to look over the different facilities and some people from the navy and ground forces to check out the facilities.” Chen sent information packages to them all. Their eyes flashed as they merged and integrated the information, looking at the planet with new eyes.

“Well, it looks like there’s at least a path in where different lightning rods can draw the lightning away from us. Might be good to rig up some kind of system to bleed off any static energy we build up,” Carla said.

“Going to be a bitch to thread that needle,” Francis said, a look of concentration on his face. It would be his job to make sure to warn Taelyon of any dangers. In the planet’s atmosphere, there were more than one could count.

“There’s a system in place in the base; we get down and it’ll discharge into the clamps to be turned into energy,” Chen said.

“That’s a lot of energy,” Taelyon said. Even excited to push her flying skills, she wasn’t blind to the dangers.

“The place makes anti-matter—I think the power from a lightning strike won’t be that hard to deal with,” Chen said dryly.

“Too bad we don’t get to shoot anything.” Travestki sighed. He wanted to put the new weapon systems and missiles to use. Not only were they the most advanced weapon systems in known existence, they were actually made with nanites and when an upgrade was available and tested properly, then it only took uploading the programming into the new weapons to have them upgrade themselves internally, no longer needing to strip out weapons and replace them completely.

“Easy for you to say—you can turn off the feeling of nausea,” Liang complained. He was the only member of the team who didn’t want to become a merger; the others had applied and had undergone treatment.

“Well, higher wants us to be ready to move in two hours,” Chen said.

This wouldn’t be enough planning time before, but now, two hours was like years to the mergers, especially if they were working together.

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