Invasion (Blue Star Marines Book 3) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

9

Kitzov watched the pod containing the sleeping spy from outside the med-bay. The pristine chamber was high-end medical tech, the best the Faction could provide, augmented with stolen Union tech. Poledri stood alongside him, the old pirate seething.

“I don’t know why we don’t just kill the scroat,” Poledri said with venom edging every word. “We can make it a long, painful death. Sometimes airlocking is too good for them.”

“I am not killing him,” Kitzov said firmly, his eyes fixed on the unconscious Boyd. “Not yet, anyway. He’s worth more to us as a Union undercover agent in a big showy trial. We’ll cast it across the Faction. Everyone will see we have legitimate legal authority. No more will those subjugated and oppressed by the Union be seen as or feel like second-class people. We are Faction. We are free, and we will defend our state from the totalitarian Union.”

“Well, I would kill him,” Poledri snorted in fury.

“If you like…” Kitzov turned to Poledri. “I’ll appoint you executioner. We will hang him after the guilty verdict is passed down by our judges.”

Poledri looked at Kitzov and gave a short nod of acceptance.

“Be my honor and my pleasure, sir.”

Both turned as they saw Thresh come along the corridor escorted by a med-drone. Poledri stepped over to her.

“You are looking great, Thresh. Ready to get back on the Fist?”

“She’s not going anywhere,” Kitzov said. He wrapped an arm around Thresh as she was escorted into the med-bay. “She still has injuries from the Battle at Kalis LZ.”

“We’ll take good care of her,” Poledri said.

“I’m sure you would, but a few hours in a high-end med-pod here on the Silence and she’ll be fighting fit again.”

Thresh walked slowly. She looked at Boyd.

“I can’t believe he is a spy,” she said. “He deceived us all.”

Kitzov helped Thresh up into the pod. As she lay back, she again looked at Boyd in the pod next to hers.

“Don’t worry about him,” Kitzov said. “He’s out cold until we wake him. He won’t deceive anyone else ever again.”

The drone activated the pod, and the cover slid over Thresh and sealed shut.

“Do you think she’s—” Poledri asked.

“No.” Kitzov turned on Poledri, fury in his eyes. “She is Faction, more than anyone here. She wouldn’t betray me. I know her better than any of you.” He turned back to Thresh and laid a hand over the top of the pod. “She will be out for an hour, two at most. You don’t have facilities like this on the Fist. Speaking of which…” He turned and faced Poledri.

Poledri nodded, straightening up. “Yes, sir. I’ll get back aboard the Fist right now. Just let me know when I can have my engineer back.”

Kitzov looked down at Thresh. She was motionless now that the induced coma had taken hold. She looked relaxed, calm. He remembered back to the first time he had met her. She had been nervous, a lost child amongst pirates. He had seen a hint of her talent in the way she fixed an aging pulse pistol.

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