Harder than Steel by Jane Galaxy

Author:Jane Galaxy [Galaxy, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eventide Press
Published: 2018-06-04T05:00:00+00:00

The response from the private security guards had turned from bullets to heavy weaponry barrage, the sound going from a series of melodic ricochets to thunderous blasts that shook the ground and knocked the breath from his body.

The Steel Knight planted the boots of his exoskeleton more firmly against the ragged bits of cement floor and used the trans-subsonic receiver to let out another blast wave of pulse energy, knocking the fresh fighters back and making them grip their heads, ears ringing.

Private security firm, his ass—these were Special Ops recruited to protect something big. Nobody who purchased Dirk Masterson’s ruthlessly acquired technologies needed to hide or protect them this desperately; hell, half the software was probably available for download somewhere on Tor. But this . . . this military industrial response was overkill. He was just coming in to get a simple circuit board. One that made better medical imaging possible, okay, and technically this was breaking and entering and stealing, but still.

It was the principle of the goddamned thing. Let a guy with good intentions steal shit in peace, maybe.

Suddenly, more men in black gear began to descend on him, not just in waves from the open warehouse doors, but through the ceiling.

His armor was good, but it wasn’t strong enough to take on an entire army without significant damage. Two of the guys, covered by men with automatic weapons, were assembling something behind the blasts from the firefight. He focused on that, began to power on the dynamic thrust laser, and—

The sound that usually accompanied the laser turning on and firing died into a slowly spinning-out whine.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” he muttered between gritted teeth. Something in the laser was off; he’d repurposed it wrong, or he’d used it all up, or the impact from one of the ground artillery that had hit him a few moments ago had knocked power to the main charging unit—

He smacked the control with his hand, forgetting for a moment that the glove went through to the exoskeleton, and only succeeded in crushing the entire panel that gave him any kind of offensive weaponry at all.

Fuck. He was fucked.

The two men on the floor were moving faster, making final preparations for whatever it was that they had assembled. It looked black and metallic, and he did not want to find out what it was—

They were finished with the device; the men who’d been cover distraction now moved their weapons out of the way, and he was staring down the barrel of whatever it was. Dirk considered his options, and decided that in the end, it was better to go down not just swinging, but making a statement, too. He could still run the skeleton in manual, but it would be harder, and not the least because he was already exhausted.

Steel Knight’s exoskeleton took one step back, and then a running start off that, throwing him into a line of soldiers and crushing them, barreling straight toward the mysterious device as it flickered and

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