Hothar's Folly by Gail Koger

Author:Gail Koger [Koger, Gail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gail Koger
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

It took ninety long seconds before the tracking device Zarek had planted on the quantum logic belt to show up on his scanners. “The Earth First base is outside Paraburdoo, Australia and is hidden beneath an open-pit iron mine.”

“My battle cruiser has moved into position over their base,” Sariel said, tapping away at the icons on his gauntlet. “I have routed your transmissions to my command center.”

“Link confirmed. The magnetic field is growing in strength.” Zarek advised. He touched his bracelet and a 3D hologram of the mine formed in mid-air.

I grabbed a beer and pulled up a chaise lounge to watch the show.

Sariel studied the lightning snaking across the reddish-orange soil. “The resulting detonation will register as a magnitude eight on the human’s Richter scale.”

Yikes! “It’s going to cause an earthquake?”

“It will,” Zarek confirmed and took the beer away from me.

I gave him the stink eye. Didn’t he realize how thirsty, tired and hungry I was? “How far away will people feel the effects?”

“All the way to Perth.” Zarek replied and handed me a bottle of water.

“Shit! Can we warn them?”

“General Jones is doing that now,” Zarek answered.

I drained the bottle of water. “Good to know.” As soon as Zarek’s attention was back on the growing crisis, I snuck another beer out of the fridge.

Sariel stated, “My transporter crew has been alerted. Anyone leaving the area will be tagged and transported.”

“That information has been relayed to General Jones and his warriors are on standby,” Zarek responded and magnified the image.

“My warriors will help roundup any surviving enemy soldiers.” Sariel bared his truly scary fangs. “If they resist, they will feel our wrath.”

I grimaced. It was about to get very bloody. Popping the top of the beer, I took a sip and focused my attention on the 3D image. Red electromagnetic pulses arced over the mine. It wouldn’t be long now before everything went boom.

The wide terraces lining the sides of the mine were suddenly swarming with Rodan, Legionnaire and Earth First soldiers running for their lives. “Like rats fleeing a sinking ship,” I murmured.

“Soon to be exterminated rats.” A pitiless smile pulled at Zarek’s lips as he snagged my beer and drained it.

Dang. Did he have eyes in the back of his head?

The floor of the mine suddenly slid back, and two shuttles shot out. Almost instantaneously glittering blue lights penetrated the ships. “The Rodan commanders and their crews have been taken. I have given permission to destroy the vessels,” Sariel said.

Two deadly laser beams flashed from the heavens and nailed the ships. Flames erupted from the crafts as they tumbled from the sky.

“The magnetic field has reached critical mass,” Zarek announced and crushed the beer can into a tiny ball of metal.

Kablooey! A torrent of power exploded from the mine, hurling huge chunks of earth in every direction. A sun bright holocaust raged overhead, and brilliant bolts of silver lightning crackled wildly.

The enemy’s stockpile of ammunition and weapons abruptly ignited. Kaboom! The unholy cataclysm belched blazing shrapnel, bodies and pieces of machinery.

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