Gateway War by Jack Colrain

Author:Jack Colrain
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

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T hings had been relatively quiet for an hour or so, during which time they’d made it through the demolished forest and another fifteen or twenty miles beyond that. Neither the Gresians nor Doug Wilson had caused any trouble or gotten in the way. Daniel had no idea what the Gresians were doing right now—hopefully heading for the main landing zones where battalion-strength forces were arriving—but Wilson was glued to his notes and records on a tablet reader. For once, Daniel didn’t think he was being egotistical for going over his own material, as it seemed eminently practical and sensible to keep refreshing the brain with the knowledge and ancient language that he would have to make use of when the Hardcases reached their objective.

The landscape over which they rattled and bumped, even when the ground wasn’t heavily bomb-cratered, was at best rural, though Daniel thought it was more like wilderness and Beswick kept comparing it to the Yorkshire Moors in England.

They had actually just left the far side of the forest when they felt a tremendous, ground-shaking impact some miles behind them. When Daniel turned in his hatchway to look back, he witnessed some of the biggest smoke clouds he could imagine, dark and roiling gray and brown, formed into thick mushrooms. “The New Delhi has begun bombarding the proving grounds installation,” Lizzie reported.

“It’s about time,” Daniel muttered.

“If we weren’t in the way, they could do the whole area with a meteor, you know. I’ve found that’s actually pretty effective,” she added blithely.

Daniel shivered. “Let’s just thank our lucky stars they’re holding that back now that we are here.”

Shortly afterwards, a couple of the Gresian drones flew overhead with their distinctive stuttering whine, heading towards the mushroom clouds at high speed.

“Recon drones,” Hope warned. “They’re heading west, away from us. Do you think we’ve dropped down their priority list?”

“Maybe,” Daniel replied. “Or they think we were toast at the forest and haven’t realized their mistake yet.”

“That’s actually pretty likely, I’d think.”

Kinsella snorted. “I’m not egotistical enough to be bothered about the Gresians not making me a priority, if you know what I mean.”

“You and me both, Sergeant,” Daniel agreed. “I’m perfectly happy for them to not attack us before we can get in and make our play.”

“You think someone ought to tell them that it’s our job to attack them, not the other way around?”

“We could always send them a text.”

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