Mimic: The Space Shifter Chronicles Boxed Set (Books 1 - 9) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2019-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

10

The Fight Takes to Ground

“You don’t have to carry me, ya know,” I reminded Eske as she hauled me into the lower entrance to the crashed ship that the mimics had mined out while we were away stealing ships. “I can see just fine now.”

“Until one of the Twins gets a look at you, I’m not really about trusting the patch job of an alien who’s never so much as had a splinter.”

“Fair enough.”

But the woman’s tone darkened as she continued to drag me through halls. “You know, what you did out there was insane. Amazing, stupid, and insane.”

“Yeah, war makes you do things like that, I guess.”

“Oh, so we’re going to pretend that it was because of this big fight and not because apparently the two of you lose your minds around each other now that everything’s out of the bag?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Heh, of course you don’t.”

We reached a thick, metal door and she punched a code in. The portal quickly slid to the side with a hiss, and I instantly recognized the engine room that Bahn had showed us what felt like forever ago.

My eyes may have still been healing, but they didn’t miss the blonde, bouncing curls marching toward me. Before I could open my mouth to say much of anything, her hand lanced out and struck me across the cheek.

“You. Are. An. Idiot!” Ciangi cried, face red and frustrated tears in the corners of her eyes.

“Ow,” I murmured, a bit surprised. The blow hadn’t really hurt that much, but the sting had certainly been a surprise.

“Don’t you ever do something like that again!” She was still yelling, and she held a single pointed, shaking finger up toward my face. “No self-sacrificing and making me watch! In this family, we fight to the end! The very end! You got that?!”

“I got it.”

Her level of emotion surprised me. Sure, I had seen Ciangi lose her temper over many different things, from failed projects to human incompetence. I had never seen her trembling and looking somewhere between a full temper tantrum and an emotional meltdown. I guess I had underestimated what our friendship meant to her. What my friendships meant to all of them.

I was going to have a lot of making up to do if we survived all this.

“Good. Now get your butt to that chair over there while I try to do as much rapid first aid as I can.”

“Uh, is that advisable?” I asked.

“No, but nothing about this situation is, and I need you to be able to hold a gun and watch our backs while we work.”

“Did someone say gun?” I looked to the door as I breathlessly shuffled to the chair I had been ordered into. Gonzales and Bahn were there, grim looks on their faces. “Because I just dropped down a cannon on top of this place and we need to make an opening in the ceiling so we can bring the wiring down into the setup you have here.

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