Fireborn: Season 2 (Dark Legacy Ep. 5) (Universe in Flames Book 15) by Kallias Christian

Author:Kallias, Christian [Kallias, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2021-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Menelas tore through the next wave of drone ships with extreme prejudice, and it barely took a minute to reduce the enemy craft to dust.

He could feel his rage being fueled by the presence of Diaspira in the area. Once the sky was clear, he looked around, trying to figure out where they had come from.

“I think the entire area in front of us must be cloaked,” he said over the comms.

“That would explain why they appeared out of nowhere and were upon us instantly,” said Ryonna.

“It also means that whatever technology this place has to offer, Diaspira found it first and is already in control of it.”

“I’m not so sure.”

“Why would you say that?”

“Well, these weren’t exactly extraordinary craft by any stretch of the imagination.”

“For a Fury perhaps, but our shuttle wasn’t exactly a match for them, and seeing how small they are, I could easily imagine an Atlantian destroyer with the capacity to carry tens of thousands of them, if not more.”

“Death by a thousand cuts, as the humans say.”

“Exactly. When sheer power doesn’t work, it’s usually compensated by swarming numbers. In fact, that’s how the Ferogot once foolishly attacked my world.”

“Atlantian or not, we have to find the source and deal with that Diaspira character before she finds out more deadly things to throw at us.”

Menelas and Ares rematerialized inside the shuttle, scaring the crap out of Cedric in the process.

“You could say something before just appearing out of thin air,” he protested.

“Sorry,” said Ares. “Yanis never seemed to mind all that much.”

“Oh, if Yanis didn’t mind…” said Cedric with a derogatory tone.

“Aren’t the two of you friends?” asked Ares.

“Of course, we are, what kind of question is that?”

“You could have fooled me... Would you mind scanning the area and telling us where to go next since it seems apparent that we can’t trust our eyes?”

“I second that,” said Ryonna, “and who knows what booby traps we could trigger in the process.”

Cedric mumbled something incomprehensible in his beard while he brought a set of holo-controls in front of him and went to work. After a few minutes, he had something to report.

Cedric brushed the chin part of his beard. “There seems to be an intense force field, one that doubles as a cloak, and you were right worrying about booby traps. The field seems to go on for miles. If we had just flown straight toward the coordinates, then the shuttle would have been obliterated. There is, however, a small path within the field that’s navigable.”

“That doesn’t make any sense,” said Menelas. “Why attack us and save our lives in the process?”

“Perhaps it’s not Diaspira who launched the drones?” Ares proposed.

“It doesn’t matter right now, what does is for us to accomplish our mission and find out what is located at the target coordinates,” said Ryonna. “So where do I fly?”

“I’m afraid you don’t,” said Cedric. “The passage is quite windy, and the turns are too narrow for us to risk flying through manually. Let me program the flight path into the shuttle’s autopilot instead.

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