Kill Before Dying (Tau Ceti Agenda Book 5) by Travis S. Taylor

Author:Travis S. Taylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781476782072
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2017-02-07T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

February 19, 2407 AD

Northern Region

Target Star System

700 Light-years from the Sol System

Monday, 5:06 P.M. Ship Standard Time

Colonel Delilah “Jawbone” Strong hit the toggle to transfigure her FM-12 mecha from fighter mode to bot mode. Several of the other Maniacs stood guard and all of the tankheads were ready for action. But, as it appeared so far, as long as her squadron and other soldiers stayed in the canyon basin and within the ruins the Chiata were leaving them alone. The blue force tracker showed that every other drop team across the planet was dead.

The only other person still alive on the planet other than the Chiata or local fauna was Major Deanna Moore. Delilah had known Ms. Moore since she was a child and in fact had been partly instrumental in rescuing her and her father, who never really needed rescuing because he was such a badass, at the battle of Orlando on the day of Tau Ceti secession in the Separatist war. She had become friends with the Moore family since that time and hated to see Dee shot down and on her own on an alien-infested planet.

Delilah wanted to get to the Major but for the moment there was nothing she could do to help her. In fact, as far as she could tell, she was just as screwed. She was stuck where she was until somebody came up with a better idea for getting them out of there. Good or bad, the alien forces were above them in overwhelming numbers, but as long as they stayed put there were no blue beams, no red and green blurs, no porcupines, no AA fire, nothing. The aliens simply didn’t attack.

So, as any good Marine would do, Delilah decided to do something rather than sitting around with her thumbs up her ass waiting for someone else to save her. They were stranded with the ruins. Where there were ruins there were no Chiata. That meant something. What exactly, Delilah had no fucking clue. But she did know that if the Chiata didn’t like it, whatever “it” was she was going to find “it” and use “it” to kill a whole bunch of the red and green blurs and porcupines. She hoped.

“Alright, Popstar, the two of us will move this thing together once we’re in place.” Delilah told her second in command. They clanked across the large artificial chamber floor tossing small puffs of chalky gray limestone dust with each mecha step. Delilah brought the view of the large granite wall up in her sensor view and scanned it across all frequencies and with active particle scans. Her sensors gave her no reading whatsoever. As far as the mecha’s sensors and computer were concerned there was no wall on the back side of the large cavern. But she could see it. She could touch it. It was there.

“Jawbone, I’m reading nothing on my sensors. Are we being jammed?” Major Dana “Popstar” Miller said over the pilot’s tac-net. “I can see it with Mark I eyeballs, but nothing else.

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