New Alliance (The Survivors Book Seven) by Nathan Hystad

Author:Nathan Hystad
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Woodbridge Press
Published: 2019-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

The next forty or so minutes were tense, becoming more stressful the farther into the asteroid field we got. At the start, the rocky debris was far enough apart that we didn’t need to concern ourselves with moving away from one piece and having to avoid another. As we neared our target, the clusters of rocks grew closer together, and W had us on the edge of our seats as we zigged and zagged around them.

“Shields at ninety percent,” Slate said, having taken over the co-pilot’s seat. Two more rocks struck our side, and he amended his comment. “Eighty-five percent.”

However, we were almost there, and I could live with those numbers. We’d elected to not bother with a covert mission. While using the new cloaking device, we weren’t able to use the shields, so the choice had been a simple one.

The entire region was teeming with debris, but W managed to navigate us through relatively unscathed, and we lowered toward the round asteroid. In the viewscreen, it looked a lot like a roughly-shaped moon, slightly concave on the top, but mostly spherical. From this viewpoint, I counted three wide craters but couldn’t gauge how large they were.

Suma pointed to the largest of the three craters. “The transmission came from the center one.”

“It came from there?” I asked, and she shook her head.

“Now that we’re closer, I can see it originated from under the surface,” she said.

Since there was nothing above the slate-gray surface, that wasn’t a surprise. I wasn’t sure what wonders the underground of this asteroid held for us, but we were about to find out.

“Taking us down.” W directed our ship to face the asteroid, its broad image filling the entire viewscreen.

It was only a matter of minutes before we were lowering into the widest crater – which, it turned out, was over three kilometers wide, and at its lowest, four hundred meters below the rest of the rock’s exterior.

The ship settled to the ground on its landing gear, right next to a fault line, a crack in the crater rock.

“There is a minute amount of gravitational pull, but I’ll set the anchors into place, Captain,” W said as his metal hands sped across the console, giving it commands too fast for me to follow.

This was it. “Who’s coming below with me?”

Slate set a hand on my chest, stopping me from exiting the bridge. “Boss, maybe you should sit this one out. You and W can stay on board and be here for backup.”

I tried to stifle the laugh but wasn’t able to. “You have to be kidding me, Slate. Since when do I hang back on the ship while you all stick your necks out? If anyone should be staying, it’s Suma.”

“Why me?” she asked defiantly.

“Because your dad will kill me if anything happens to you. And Karo, you’re the last of your kind. I’d suggest you stay here with W and Suma,” I said firmly.

Karo seemed ready to argue with me, but he sat beside W instead.

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