Galactic Badlands 2: A LitRPG Space Western by Zachariah Dracoulis

Author:Zachariah Dracoulis [Dracoulis, Zachariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SciFi, Western, Cyberpunk
ISBN: 9781797082202
Google: 6mjdwgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1797082205
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

18

For about five seconds I was really excited about the prospect of not only making a new army of allies, but also being able to fill out the map at home as soon as the operation was copacetic.

Then reality set in.

It wasn’t the kind of thing that made me stop in my tracks or anything, but it certainly did a good job of kicking every other thought out of my brain like a pissed off landlord.

I didn’t know if I was ready to take on that much, home had already been attacked by the Protos when I wasn’t there, and it wasn’t like we were undergoing the smoothest takeover in history.

Hell, up until five minutes before I’d had no idea I’d be taking over anything.

‘You’re fine,’ the voice in my head said, clapping me on the shoulder, ‘your best decisions are the ones you make automatically. That’s what kept you alive in the war.’

Before I had the opportunity to start delving deeper into my memory and the war my sense of self-assurance had mentioned, we reached the front door where two burly men stood with their guns aimed at Amy and I’s chests.

“Relax, boys,” Eugene said, waving them off, “he’s dead. Definitively.”

Breathing a sigh of relief, the men lowered their weapons and allowed us to step outside.

“Don’t worry about them,” Eugene whispered once we were outside, “they were just waitin’ for the ol’ clanker to give the kill order.”

“That’s comforting.” I chuckled in response, following Eugene around the back of the house and looking at the unsure expressions of the men we were passing, “And these guys?”

“Mixed bag,” Eugene replied coolly, “my advice to you would be to head on out as quickly as possible, I’ll contact you once everything’s cleared up.”

“Guess we should just be grateful we’re getting out of here without a fight.” Amy half-joked.

“Day’s still young.” a voice grumbled from the crowd.

My first instinct, naturally, was to find the guy and stare him down, but I was quick to remember that they had guns and Amy didn’t have any sort of armor to speak of.

So, in an act that felt kind of cowardly and twisted my stomach up, I got in the truck, letting Amy take the wheel again as I grabbed up my revolver and got ready to take fire.

“Just head back up the way you came then hammer ‘round to your sniper,” Eugene suggested through my open window, “don’t want to pull all the attention there if you haven’t already.”

“Thanks,” I replied with a nod, “look forward to hearin’ from you.”

“Look forward to workin’ with you.” Eugene chuckled before slapping the side of the truck twice.

Taking the signal, Amy threw the truck in reverse, whipped us around to face the way we came, and floored it.

“Bit eager?” I remarked amusedly as my body got used to the speed.

“Trust me when I say we want to be as far away from that circle jerk as possible,” Amy muttered concernedly, “Eugene was really understating the whole loyalist thing.

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