I'm Not A Hero! by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-19T22:00:00+00:00

19

Stadium Surprise

I screamed at the top of my lungs as we moved closer and closer to the damn stadium. This wasn’t going to be close. This was going to be next to impossible.

“Is it really necessary for you to make those noises when you are performing a rescue like this?” CORVAC asked.

I stopped screaming just long enough to think about the perplexing question he’d just asked.

“Is this really the time of the place to be asking questions like that?” I screamed.

Hey, I figured if I was screaming I was screaming. It didn’t matter whether I was screaming at CORVAC or screaming unintelligibly.

At least the stadium was one of those open air deals. No dome to add to the height and make this even more impossible.

We just barely flew over the edge. The engines chose that moment to cut out, and oddly enough that actually made my job easier.

When the thing was under thrust I was fighting the weight of the shuttle and the old-fashioned chemically fueled booster engines. Now all I had to contend with was the shuttle’s fat ass.

Which still wasn’t exactly a pleasure to lift, don’t get me wrong, but it was better than what I had to deal with before.

I pulled back hard. Like we’re talking I pushed so hard on the antigrav that they all went into the red on my heads up display. You wouldn’t think it would be that much of a problem in a suit that had taken on giant robots and giant irradiated lizards and two heroines who could punch way above their weight class, but there it was.

I was putting the whole system under extreme stress, and I lurched to the side as one of those antigrav units went out.

“Damn,” I muttered. “That’s never happened before.”

I looked down and tried to figure out a good spot to set this giant fucker down. I’d never appreciated just how big they were from the outside until I had to lift one.

They looked like something straight out of an old ‘70s or ‘80s scifi movie and they were huge motherfuckers. By necessity on both counts.

“Remind me again why we made these fuckers so big?” I growled. Another one of my antigrav generators gave out in response to my question.

“Because the physical requirements for the drives on these shuttles were such that you needed to make them big,” CORVAC said. “I do admit that they have a certain brutalist aesthetic to them that is pleasing to the eye in some respects. Even if they are not as nice looking as some of the later designs you came up with.”

“Great. I’m getting design pointers from an asshole artificial intelligence who once thought all of humanity needed to be turned to radioactive slag.”

Thankfully all the players had vacated the field. It was nice to know that some people in this city had the good sense to skedaddle when they saw an obviously dangerous situation developing. Though of course the drunken idiots in the stands were all standing and staring, and of course all of them had their phones out.

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