Omega Force: Secret of the Phoenix (OF6) by Joshua Dalzelle

Author:Joshua Dalzelle [Dalzelle, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Phoenix, you are cleared for final approach,” the Defiant’s com officer said. “Please secure primary flight systems prior to requesting hangar elevator retraction.”

“Is it just me or are they getting more and more wordy since they began flying that battlecruiser instead of the Diligent?” Kage asked.

“It may be a new com officer,” Jason said. “You want to send the approach to my station or would you rather I just try and wing it while we’re on a five-thousand KPH collision course?”

“Shit! I forgot to send it over,” Kage said. A moment later the final approach vector and velocity corrections appeared on Jason’s navigation display. He immediately commanded a speed reduction and corrected their course to they would be parallel to the Defiant.

Once the Phoenix was motionless in space relative to the Defiant, sitting off the larger ship’s port flank, he began to ease the gunship over so they could land on the battlecruiser’s flight deck. He dropped the landing gear and started thrusting down until the wheels impacted the upper hull with a soft bump and a green indicator on his display told him the mag-locks were engaged. He began shutting down the engines and securing all the ship’s weaponry. While he did this, Twingo switched over to backup power and shut the reactor down. The Defiant’s deck officer was never a fan of the Phoenix crew bringing their ship in with the anti-matter reactor still running, so Jason had agreed to start shutting it down and allowing them to hook up an external power umbilical.

“Signal the Defiant that we’ve shut down our engines and main reactor,” Jason said. A moment after Kage finished talking to the com officer there was a lurch and the elevator began lowering them onto the hangar deck. Once the mag-locks released, Jason grabbed the jog control and taxied the gunship off the lift and followed the illuminated arrows on the deck to their parking pad.

“I’m going out,” Twingo said, bounding out of his seat. “Don’t pop open the access panel for a minute. I don’t want those morons trying to hook a fuel vent hose up to the water fill again.”

“Maybe you should change the connections in the access panel so that can’t happen,” Kage suggested.

“Maybe you shouldn’t worry about shit you don’t know anything about,” Twingo said hotly before running off the bridge.

“He has a point,” Crusher said.

“Shut up.”

Jason ignored them and waited a few more seconds before double tapping the icon that appeared on his display to open the Phoenix’s service hatch. A few moments later and he saw external power was available so he selected it and shut the rest of their systems down.

“Let’s go,” he said. “The sooner we can talk Crisstof into helping, the sooner we can be on our way. If the Machine is beyond the fringe we’ve got a hell of a long flight ahead of us anyway.”

“Oh, I can’t wait,” Crusher said as he clomped off the bridge.

“Captain!” Mazer Reddix shouted from the bottom of the ramp as they walked down into the hangar.

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