Escape Velocity by Mark Walden

Author:Mark Walden [Walden, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781442413672
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘How are you feeling?’ Raven said, looking at Otto with obvious concern.

‘I’ve felt better,’ Otto said honestly. He leant against the wall of the lift, not entirely sure if his legs would support him for very much longer. He was finding it hard to concentrate, his head filled with the confusing muddle of data that he had absorbed from the network. He fought to keep the coordinates of the facility that was holding Nero from becoming lost in the swirling mass of information rattling around inside his skull. In truth, he felt like all he wanted to do was curl up in a ball in the corner and sleep for a week.

Suddenly the lift jerked to a stop; the doors stayed firmly closed. Raven pulled them apart slightly with a grunt, only to be met with the featureless concrete wall of the lift shaft. She let the doors go and they closed with a thud.

‘Plan B,’ she said and jumped up and caught hold of the edge of the open hatch in the ceiling, pulling herself up effortlessly. Once she was on the roof of the carriage she lowered a hand back inside and gestured for Otto to take it. He grabbed on to her wrist and she pulled him up through the hole as if he were weightless. Otto activated the night-vision mode on his helmet and the pitch blackness of the lift shaft was lit up in an eerie green light. Raven stood looking up at one of the doors in the shaft wall, ten metres above them.

‘Feel up to climbing?’ she said quietly.

‘Do I have a choice?’ Otto asked, sounding tired.

‘Not really,’ Raven replied calmly. She moved to the cables supporting the lift carriage and examined them. They were covered in a thick layer of grease; there was no way they’d be able to climb them. She moved to studying the concrete walls that surrounded them, but they were featureless and smooth, offering no type of footholds. Silently she cursed the fact that the camo suits weren’t fitted with grappler units, an oversight that might prove fatal. She pulled the twin swords from their sheaths on her back and thumbed the controls, switching them to their sharpest setting. She moved to the wall and slid the first blade into the solid concrete effortlessly. She touched the controls again and the forcefield surrounding the blade deactivated, trapping the blade within the wall. She pulled herself upwards, using the hilt of the sword as a handhold and followed the same procedure with the other blade, sliding it into the wall a couple of feet higher than the first one. She clenched her jaw as fresh searing pain from the wound in her shoulder lanced across her back. She pushed the protests from her injured body to the back of her mind and ignored them, just as she had been trained to do. Once she had pulled herself to the level of the second blade she switched the first blade’s forcefield back on and withdrew it smoothly from the wall.

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