Lucky Invasion: Lucky's Marines | Book Five by Joshua James

Author:Joshua James [James, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: down7media LLC
Published: 2018-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

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“Shit,” yelled Diaz as the entire shatter-proof glass front spidered and snapped back, driven free of the seal holding it in place. It threatened to crush them all, but Lucky had rolled back on the ground, thanks to his spiders warning him a moment before the impact.

He braced himself against the ground and shoved upward with all his might, forcing the hulking chunk of broken glass up off Diaz and Ellery, who were both trapped in their cockpit seats under it.

Diaz, to his credit, never let go of the stick. The hugger bucked under the impact, but kept moving forward.

“What the hell,” Ellery said as he joined Lucky in shoving the smashed glass screen back out of the cockpit. It rattled down the side of the hugger and fell away.

Lucky felt the hugger begin to buck back and forth as the slug cannon on top began to fire, a steady stream of used cartridges smacking down into the hugger cabin. Lucky saw a blue energy beam leap out of the side gun port of the hugger; a second later, a Croc grunted and spun completely around, doing a death pirouette before it smashed to the muck. Two Crocs next to it tried to dive for the safety of the high grass, but two more perfect pulses sent them flopping backwards.

Miggs was on her game, as usual.

“Look out!” yelled Diaz, as he jerked the stick to the right and the hugger jumped sideways. Something smashed off the inside lip of the now-open windshield in front of them. Lucky saw it as it bounced past. It was one of the combination javelin-spear weapons that the Crocs used. Lucky saw some blue sparks from the electrified edge of it as it bounced off the hard metal of the hugger. A chunk of the outer hull went with it.

“This thing isn’t made for this,” Ellery screamed, as another of the spears flew harmlessly over the top of the hugger.

“We’re almost to the water,” Diaz roared back. True to his word, the trees fell away almost instantly. The ground turned a darker shade of brown as the few patches of high grass disappeared. There was nothing but mud and muck below them.

“They’re trying to keep us off the river,” yelled Ellery over the roar of the wind and rain.

As he said it, a huge green-yellow flare roared into the sky, followed by two more in quick succession. They lit up the sky brighter than anything Lucky had seen so far on this planet. “Maybe,” Lucky said, but he suspected the real goal was to make their location known to someone else. Someone who could bring a lot more to bear than just this little ambush at the edge of the water.

The rain was pouring into the cockpit of the hugger. The wind was smashing into Diaz’ squinting face. He smiled and laughed as his mustache danced around in the wind.

Lucky looked down at the floor of the cockpit. He could already see standing water. The instruments in front of Diaz were soaked.

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