From the Ashes by A B Lucian

Author:A B Lucian [Lucian, A B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-24T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

There were twenty-six of them gathered around a large, rusty table in the armory. Although the Archibald was supposed to be just a smuggler ship, Captain Dupont came up with top-of-the-line military equipment for everyone soon after he agreed to the rescue plan they had brainstormed. He’d given Yosh a dark blue assault suit with red patches of reactive armor. Yosh flexed his arms and his legs to test his mobility, and he found the suit comfortable as if it were custom made. The armor patches looked bulky, but were very light, and his mobility wasn’t hindered in the slightest. Assai stood next to him, donning her own assault suit—black with black patches of armor. Her fondness for black garments seemed strange and quirky to Yosh, but it was part of why he liked her.

Assai had gifted him the kohiri sword he used in their duel, after mending the edge of course. She said he earned it. Yosh thanked her, grinned like a dope at her, and strapped the scabbard across his back, the way he saw Assai do it. Miles offered him a heavy double-barreled pulse rifle, but Yosh’s part in the plan involved more stealth than actual fighting, so he took two regular pistols instead. One was white with two barrels, of lorran fabrication and design. Yosh had practiced with it often during the past four years and was comfortable using it. It fired crude bullets meant to bleed the victim to death, a cruel weapon, but Yosh couldn’t be picky. The other gun was twice as small, red, and pulse-based. Miles told him it was silent and deadly. He would need it for what lay ahead.

Everyone donned their assault suits. Most were black and red and green, but there was a yellow one—the lorran woman who couldn’t stand him. A good thing she isn’t in the infiltration team, Yosh thought. What have I ever done to her I wonder?

“Attention everyone,” Captain Dupont said, and in a few seconds the tumult died out. The captain’s suit was as black as his skin, and he held Miles’s double-barreled pulse rifle over one shoulder. “Gather around the map. We will go over the plan.”

The table was fifteen feet long and seven feet wide. A crude, bright-blue holo-map of Shacktown sprawled before them. The landing pad in the center, the shacks, the surrounding farms and herd pens, and the Pitts, all spun gently on the tabletop.

“Mikail is no fool,” Captain Dupont started. “If his plan is to lure Yosh to him, he has surely brought more Enforcers from the cruiser. We might face anywhere up to a hundred Enforcers.” He paused a moment and everyone whispered and mumbled to one another. “However, our objective is not to kill them all, or free Shacktown from them. They have over eighty prisoners. We will do our best to save them, but our primary aim is Olexander Farmer. We must bring him back alive, or our rebellion will fail before it starts and Earth will remain in arkanian hands.

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