Galactic Blues - Box Set Episodes 1-3: A Newton's Gate Space Opera Adventure (Galactic Blues Box Set) by C.J. Clemens & Daniel Martone & Laura Martone

Author:C.J. Clemens & Daniel Martone & Laura Martone [Clemens, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NGU Publishing
Published: 2019-02-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

REMY

Remy stood over the nav station, squeezing and flexing his fingers. If they ever got out of this alive, he was going to kill that girl. His instincts screamed at him to power up and run. Between his flying skills and Dreyla’s navigation prowess, they’d have a fifty-fifty chance. But the nav station still showed the main engines doing a big, fat load of nothing.

Why had she asked him to stall? And why the hell had he agreed? Whatever she’d planned, it’d better happen soon. Those three ships were creeping closer, and they didn’t look any friendlier the nearer they got. He didn’t want them to reach umbilical range.

A commotion from the corridor made him turn.

Dreyla was dragging Tosh onto the bridge. But this was a Tosh that Remy had never seen before. He had two large blades strapped to his chest. He carried a double-barreled blaster as if he knew how to use it. His face and clothes were drenched in blood. And strangest of all, perched on top of his head, was a black pork pie hat with a red feather.

Remy pointed at it. “Hey, that’s my hat.”

“Remy, meet the Jay’s new captain,” Dreyla said with a smirk.

Tosh gave a goofy wave. “Sorry about the hat, Captain.”

Another warning crackled through the comms. This time accompanied by a large plasma beam blasted across the Jay’s bow.

Remy gazed down at the nav console, noting the encroaching enemy ships on the display, then glanced back at Dreyla, one eyebrow cocked quizzically.

Dreyla stepped toward her station and pushed him aside. “Captain, there’s no time to explain, but if this is gonna work, you need to keep outta sight.” She slid into her seat and brought up the display for the ship’s main reactor and a secondary reactor.

The steel-like urgency of her tone prompted him to move his ass over to Newman’s former station, just as Tosh stepped up to his.

Remy and Dreyla had pulled a lot of jobs together, and he’d taught the girl everything he knew about being a pirate. He’d shown her that a job didn’t always mean attack and conquer. If at all possible, he preferred doing it nonviolently, conning his way in and out of sticky situations. He wasn’t afraid to fight, but stealing and fleeing often guaranteed a better chance of keeping him and his crew from getting shot up.

Needless to say, Larker Max preferred the old-fashioned way: kill and take what you want. From the look of the situation, and whatever scheme Drey had set up, it seemed as though she was following in Remy’s footsteps: con and flee.

Tosh activated the video and audio comms to respond to Commander Shaw. Remy chuckled inwardly, imagining how her temper was heating to white-dwarf levels at being made to wait. If the situation weren’t so life-and-death, he might actually be enjoying this.

“Who the hell are you?” Shaw snapped.

“I’m Captain… Captain Robert Tosh,” the old man said amicably.

“And who made you captain?” Shaw narrowed her green eyes to slits. “That weasel Bechet?”

“You did, when one of your mutineers killed him a few minutes ago.

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