Lykos (ESS Space Marines Book 6) by Victor James David

Author:Victor, James David [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

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“Shut the door!”

“I can’t! I broke it to get it open, sir!”

“Well, shit!”

Andy ran into the waiting squad, hoping to shut her pursuers in the compound behind her, but apparently that wasn’t going to happen. Already, energy bolts were shooting haphazardly through the door and she could hear her father shouting orders from inside.

“Then run, Marines!”

Every ounce of her body hurt at that moment, and her brain felt like someone had lit it on fire. She realized as Alpha Squad booked it through the trees that things felt a little…less real than they had just an hour before. Was it because of seeing her father here, or did she have a concussion.

She had no idea. She just ran.

“I ordered the others back to their shuttles to be ready to leave in a hurry,” Roxanna shouted over the sound of their heavy footsteps and the angry cries of Arkana soldiers pursuing them.

“Good idea,” Andy called back, realizing at that moment that speaking hurt.

The six of them dodged trees as they bee-lined back to their shuttle. Andy expected energy bolts to start flying past their heads at any moment, hopefully not into their backs, but they seemed to still be out of range for the moment.

Up ahead, the clearing came into view and they saw the shuttle. The back hatch was open and the pilot stood in the opening, gun in hand and ready to defend the ship but keeping it ready for them.

Andy was going to put that pilot in for a commendation when this was done.

“Get ready to lift off,” she shouted. “We have company!”

Without a word, the pilot rushed back to the front of the craft. Alpha Squad practically threw themselves inside and the hatched hissed as it began to close. They weren’t even in their seats when the shuttle began to shudder and lift. Within a moment, there were faint thuds of enemy weapons fire hitting the ship as it took off.

“Buckle yourselves in fast,” Andy ordered. “I don’t need any of us to survive all this just to have a concussion because we weren’t strapped in properly.”

Everyone hurried to their seats and strapped in. As the strap crossed Andy’s torso, it sent a new lance of pain through her from where her father had kicked her in the ribs. She didn’t think any were broken, but she knew several were bruised. Maybe fractured. But at least not snapped… She hoped.

Andy gripped the edge of her seat as the ship rose, leaving the little thuds behind.

They rose quickly through the atmosphere.

“Are we in contact with the other shuttles?” she asked.

“Yes, Major,” the pilot—a human lieutenant by the name of Anne Wilkes—replied over the noise of atmospheric flight. “All shuttles have lifted off and are heading off planet. We have not been able to raise the Star Chaser, however.”

“That’s not good,” Andy murmured. Then more loudly, she asked, “At all?”

The pilot worked the controls for a few moments before replying. “We get the ‘please hold’ response, basically. They are

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