Eric Olafson: Space Pirate by Vanessa Ravencroft

Author:Vanessa Ravencroft
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Exploration, Military, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher: Inkitt
Published: 2017-03-10T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Rewards

When I came around, I was still lying under that purple thing. The armed and fully armor-suited men were close now, holding their weapons ready, pointing them at my friends.

The bearded dark-skinned man wearing a battlesuit of unknown origin argued with Cardwell, “I want you to open those Translocator storages now. We do not have much time.”

Cardwell pointed at me and barked, “I told you that two command codes are needed to open them. The only one able to do that was killed by your idiotic pet!”

“Be very careful, Cardwell. Your usefulness has ended!”

The base commander’s Quasimodo hand snapped around the throat of the bearded pirate and he hissed, “I am still the commandant of this base, and I am wearing a Quasimodo. Unlike your goons, I know how to use it.”

The pirate struggled and coughed. “You are nothing; now unhand me. Do you think I trusted you while you put on that suit? I put a Eugeletrian Sneegal in it while it was still open and it might just crawl to the base of your neck. Not even your Auto-Doc can prevent the effects of those little suckers’ poison.”

Caldwell dropped the man and opened his helmet, which was my chance. No one paid any attention to me, and I fired my last round. The bullet hit Caldwell right under the chin, and the effect of the heavy lead projectile was quite gruesome. My friends didn’t need more distraction to react.

Wetmouth’s strange sword sliced one of the men from shoulder to hip, battlesuit and all. Hans hammered both of his fists and all his might on the helmeted head of the third.

The rest tried to use their weapons, but they did not work. Cirruit said, “Nanites are so useful!”

The armor of the next disassembled itself and the pieces dropped to the floor, and he stood there as naked as on the day of his birth. Narth’s eyes glowed no longer yellow but deep red, and his voice was no longer recognizable. “You have felled my Hugavh sharer. You have harmed my friend. You shall know and learn that Narth has learned the meaning of rage!”

Twenty pirates slowly rose from the floor and, with sudden popping sounds, the insides of their helmets were splashed with dark-red matter and they all dropped lifelessly to the ground.

Several strands of Spider silk hit the bearded man. He was pulled with force close to Krabbel, who turned him with dizzying speed between his hind legs, and Cardwell was turned into a cocoon, battlesuit and all, in less than a few seconds.

Wetmouth came over and sliced his helmet off.

I raised my hand and said as loud as I could, “Cirruit, go activate the Cerberus. Do not let anything distract you!”

Cirruit was a certified Translocator technician. A fact that was not mentioned in the non-classified section of his personnel file and had Blue-Blue-Yellow clearance, I held out my code key and said, “Day code is strawberry.”

Cirruit ran with machine speed and out of my sight.

Hans lifted the purple thing off me, and Wetmouth dropped to her knees, examining me.

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