Homeworld: A Military Science Fiction Novel by Eric S. Brown & Tony Faville

Author:Eric S. Brown & Tony Faville [Brown, Eric S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2013-04-02T07:00:00+00:00

Traveling With the Enemy

“Lord help us,” Dinah muttered as she lay on her stomach next to Drake. She didn’t need binoculars like the ones Drake was using to see the staggering mass of Coalition troops gathered around Alpha Base. The view from the rooftop they were on was clear enough as she stared into the seemingly impossible army of them. There had to be thousands if not ten thousand surrounding the base and she could see a dozen or so tanks just on the two sides of the installation that were in her line of sight.

Abigail wasn’t with them. They had left her on the ground floor of the building rather than attempting to lug her up the stairs with them.

The power was out across most of the city now. It was a telling sign of just how badly the Coalition had already ravaged it. There were so many redundancies built into any Earth city’s power grid that a wide spread blackout like this was nearly unimaginable.

Dinah wasn’t a medic but Abigail seemed to be stable. She had regained consciousness for a brief moment on their way here and tried to claw Drake’s eyes from their sockets before Dinah had been forced to shoot her up with an injector of sedatives, from her first aid kit, to keep her and Drake from killing each other.

Dinah couldn’t help but be impressed by Drake’s skill in patching and stitching human flesh. If she had been all Abigail had to rely on, she may have bled to death. There was also the fact that this enigma of a man, who had saved their asses, patched them up and then helped her lug what was supposed to be an enemy across seven klicks of enemy held terrain only to get them back to an Infantry Base. Several questions ran through Dinah’s mind. “What was his motivation? Why had he turned traitor? Could she trust him?”

“Your people in the base are getting ready to try something,” Drake announced.

“What? How can you tell?” Dinah asked with surprise showing in her voice.

“There’s a lot of activity near the Northern wall. I would wager they’re about to try to break out.” Drake offered her his binoculars.

“I’ll take your word for it,” she said, waving them away. “What does that mean for us?”

“Depends on whether they get lucky or they get massacred.” Drake set about checking over his rifle while they talked. “All we can do right now is to wait and see what happens. If, and that's a mighty big if, they are able to break out of the siege, I think it should be fairly easy to join up with them. If they don’t,” Drake shrugged, “I guess we start considering other options on how to get you two back where you belong.”

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