Lucky Empire: Lucky's Marines | Book Three by Joshua James

Author:Joshua James [James, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: down7media LLC
Published: 2018-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Hector cursed. “It’s Digger’s men. This was his stronghold. They’re making a last stand. Foolish assholes.”

Lucky looked around at the situation. They were stranded now, with the burning ground hugger ahead of them. Stuck in a perfect row, easy to pick off by the hovertank, which had chosen a perfect tactical position to sit and slug them from.

The tank was an old piece of shit. He didn’t think he’d ever seen one like it in his life, to be honest. It was barely hover-capable. It had stabilizer sleds on either side that were used to keep it from bucking too wildly when it shot. It probably couldn’t move at more than a few miles an hour.

But at this moment, it didn’t need to.

A wave of heat poured down, followed by used slugs as the kid in the turret above opened up with his slug cannon.

The ground hugger bucked and bounced, although with its hover engines cut off, at least all it did was rattle his teeth.

Still, it was a futile gesture. Maybe the kid just didn’t know any better. He was firing mid-style slugs at a tank. It took him a second to get the range, but now he had it, and he was peppering it with pulse slugs.

“Might as well get your dick out and piss at it,” Malby screamed. Lucky tapped Malby on the leg and nodded. Jiang was already on the move. They leaped out of the door of the ground hugger just as the dirt around them exploded with small arms fire.

They dove forward against the side of the building. In the circumstances, the tightness of the road worked to their advantage. It provided plenty of cover.

Lucky looked up and almost got shot in the face.

“Snipers,” yelled April as she dove out of the ground hugger. Hector stepped out with her, firing upward at the rooftops as he did so, ignoring the rain of energy slugs flowing down around him. He looked almost offended that they were daring to shoot at him. Maybe he was just trying to glare the slugs into missing him. It seemed to be working.

He walked rather unhurriedly under the roof of the building they were standing in.

“Plan B?” asked Lucky.

Hector shook his head. “We just wait. My men will be here soon and they’ll take care of these assholes. It’s just stupid. Delaying the inevitable.”

Lucky looked at April. “We don’t have time to wait,” he said. “If the element of surprise isn’t completely gone, it’s hanging by a thread. It’s not like those Da’hune ships aren’t already on the doorstep of Old Earth.”

Lucky still had the timer up that Meeley had given them. It showed less than seven hours left, and that was just an estimate.

“We have a few hours until that armada is in position to destroy Old Earth,” explained Lucky flatly. “We’ve gotten nothing that would indicate that the timetable has changed.”

“Old Earth is screeeweeeed,” said Malby, shaking his head. He didn’t sound quite as concerned as Lucky would have liked, but Malby wasn’t the sentimental type, and he wasn’t wrong.

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