Metal Warriors Full Series Boxed Set: Mech Fighter, Books 1 - 9 by Victor James David

Author:Victor, James David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2021-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

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“It’s booby trapped!” Hopskirk was shouting.

“Bruce! What the hell?!” Dane shouted out, as the ground started to shake, and shrapnel of rock started to dislodge and fall from the ceiling, scattering over the benches and making noise like the fire of gunshots.

“What!? How was I supposed to know!?” Bruce shouted as they edged to the wall and then started back towards the archway to the main corridor.

Just as rocks the size of hands, then heads, then entire orbital AMP suits started to fall and crash into the floor around them. The boulders smashed benches. They cracked and split stone and fractured the paving slabs beneath them. If any of them were caught under them, then Dane knew that they would be lucky if they got out with just a broken limb.

“Run!” Dane shouted, and the three Marines turned for the short archway as the boulders fell at their heels.

Dane spun around the corner just in time, before he kicked himself back to the main corridor . . .

But there were boulders falling here too. They were crashing over the exit way and falling from the ceiling in a wave towards them.

“Come on, further in!” Dane shouted, seizing first Hopskirk and shoving him further down the main avenue and then Bruce, before Dane, too, went after them.

The boulders were crashing to the floor behind them, filling up the avenue in a fast flurry of stony rage. The ground beneath their feet shook and trembled as they lengthened their strides to desperately keep ahead of the falling rock.

But where are we running to!? Dane raised his head—to see that straight up ahead of them, an impossibly large slab of rock was lowering itself across their vision, cutting the corridor in half . . . and then three quarters.

It was too far away to run to in time.

They were going to get crushed here.

All of these thoughts surged through Dane’s head, but he knew that they had one thing that any other normal bipedal did not have.

“Thrusters!” Dane leapt forward as the twin cannisters of the pulse emitters on his back fired, and he was flung forwards as the other two ignited their own thrusters as well . . .

The three Marines half jumped, half flew down the corridor towards the slowly lowering stone doors, watching as the gap between door and floor grew ever smaller, and the boulders blocked off any chance of escape behind them.

“Argh!” Dane was shouting in frustration as he flung himself downwards, hitting the floor and rolling a fraction of a second before Bruce and Hopskirk did, and rolling through, underneath the stone door as it slammed home.

Behind them, the thunder of the falling boulders was muted and diminished, but it still carried on like a far-off storm for a long moment afterwards. From where Dane was lying, face up on the stone-flagged floor, he could feel the vibrations shaking upwards through him, until the final rock fell, and all was silence.

The Marines were trapped under the surface of the alien planet.

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