Lost Mission by Joshua James & Daniel Young

Author:Joshua James & Daniel Young [James, Joshua & Young, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Ada

Ada knew she had one chance, or she was dead. She jerked her head around quickly enough that the man would see her, but moments before the soldier was back in the room.

The man turned to look at her, confusion and growing terror on his face as what was all around him was becoming clear. Ada held his gaze with her own.

Okay, good. Now look at me, keep looking at me.

Carefully, she shook her head back and forth, not moving the body on top of her. She also used one hand, stuck it out straight and flat, motioned downwards in an attempt to tell him to stay down.

The man froze.

A moment later, the AIC soldier appeared right in the line of vision between the two of them. He leaned down and poked the body that had fallen. Satisfied, he stood, turned, and ambled out to join the others.

The AIC soldiers moved on from the Marine HQ, allowing Ada to let out a huge sigh of relief. With the coast almost clear, she just waited until she heard them leave the docking bay.

Ada scrambled out from under and on top of the pile of dead Marines. She gasped, desperate to refill her lungs, which she’d deprived of the proper amount of air for the last five to ten minutes.

The other Marine did the same. He crawled out from under his own dead-comrade pile-up and then got up and sat in one of the chairs.

“What in the—” The Marine was getting ready to ask what was going on when Ada shushed him.

Ada climbed out of the Marine HQ just enough to look out into the docking bay. There wasn’t a AIC soldier in sight. It was finally safe, at least in that small portion of the Atlas.

“Your name?” asked Ada as she returned to the surviving Marine.

“Angel,” he said. “Private Angel Baez. Who are you? Why are all these people dead? What the hell is happening here?” Having just woken up, Baez had no idea what was going on. Like Ada, he’d been knocked unconscious by the initial attack after the fold jump.

“My name is Private Ada Ericsson, and we’re under attack.”

“Under attack? By who?”

“The AIC.”

Baez took a second to process the news. He ran his hand across the top of his standard-issue Marine crew cut. “Damn…how bad is it?”

Ada raised one eyebrow and waved her arms around the room. “What do you think?”

“And that was them, out there?”

“Who else would they be?”

“Damn. Okay, so, we gotta get outta here, right? Join the fight or whatever.”

We need to run, hide, and figure out a way off this ship. Otherwise we aren’t ever getting home.

She swallowed that down. “We do. First we have to get out of the docking bay. Come on.”

“Right on, boss lady. I’m gonna follow you.”

Ada climbed out of the Marine HQ and into the docking bay proper, with Baez right behind her. She wanted to ignore the dead Marines laid out on the floor, but they needed their weapons.

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