Invisible War: A Military Sci-Fi Series (The Undying Legion Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

Author:Joe Kassabian [Kassabian, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

My eyes opened, and I saw the familiar pink liquid bubbling all around me. I wasn’t dead after all. Well, I wasn’t any more dead than I had been before. I was in the upload tubes. I breathed an extra sigh of relief when I noticed I hadn’t gone insane as Nune had. Technicians weren’t going to come and drag me away screaming like a wild animal. Not this time at least.

I dropped out of the bottom of the tube, landing with a splash on the chamber floor.

“Welcome back,” said a technician without a hint of enthusiasm. “Hakobyan?”

“Yeah,” I coughed and expelled what remained of the pink liquid from my lungs. The technician plugged me into his computer.

“Everything seems to be running as normal, you’re free to go,” they said, unplugging me and walking off toward the next reupload who had dropped out of their tube next to me.

It hadn’t felt like it had been that long since I had first woken up in the chamber, but I was just realizing that I had lost any sense of time since I had died. There was a day and night cycle aboard the space station but random missions and sleep being unnecessary in our new bodies meant it was meaningless to all of us. I was starting to see how everyone slowly lost track of how long they had been here.

I went to walk out of the chamber barely noticing that I no longer cared about my nudity when I noticed Noa standing by the door.

“Welcome back.” They grinned and handed me a beer.

“Thanks, but I thought I had to buy everyone beer for getting reuploaded.”

“Remember what I told you about when everyone gets killed? It’s a wash. Don’t worry about it.” We walked down the hallway and through the normal raucous party atmosphere I had come to expect. It seemed like everyone had been reuploaded before me.

Then, it hit me. “Noa, if everyone died what happened to the girl?”

“I don’t know.” They shook their head. “I shoved her into a closet and told her to stay in there until the aliens were gone. When I turned around, I caught a bolt between my eyes. I don’t know what happened after that.”

“Goddamnit,” I sighed, cracking open my beer and taking a long swig. Just for a moment, just for a single damn second, I thought we might have actually done something good for a change. I locked eyes with Noa, and we both knew that the girl was dead. Whether the aliens got to her or she was left alone in a dead settlement. She died with us.

“I know.” Noa put a hand on my shoulder. “We tried, Sargis. It’s all we could do.”

“We could have done more!” I shouted, I wasn’t even sure where this burst of anger came from but it was coursing through me now. “The legion could have done more! All of these goddamn soldiers on this space station, and they only send a few companies?

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