Omega Games by S.L. Viehl

Author:S.L. Viehl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

I ran out of the treatment room and into Cat, who caught me with all three arms, and pinned me against his nearly bare chest.

“Hey, where’s the fire?”

For a dreadful moment I thought I would blurt out what had happened in the solitude room. But I had not meant to intrude on his and Mercy’s privacy, and I didn’t have time to feel embarrassed, anyway.

“I need to get to the crash site,” I told him. “I’ll need a pulse weapon, the fastest surface vehicle you have, and some spare O2 tanks.”

“It’s all right,” the Omorr assured me. “Drefan’s drednoc stopped the raiders.”

“Reever’s suit is damaged and leaking oxygen. I have to get to him now or he’ll suffocate.” I slipped out of his grip and ran in the direction of the exterior air lock.

By the time I reached the suit lockers someone was already coming through the air lock. I saw it was Drefan’s battle drone. It carried two limp bodies under each extensor arm. One of them was wearing a raider’s gear.

“Duncan? Duncan.” I pounded on the plas panels separating us, and then the control panel, but the locks would not release. None of the bodies the drednoc carried moved.

“It won’t until the pressure equalizes and the biodecon is complete,” Mercy said as she joined me. She studied my face. “Well, at least you’ve stopped blushing. That’s progress.”

“Bypass the decontamination cycle.” When she hesitated, I added, “Or I will.”

Mercy heaved out a breath and began reprogramming the air lock controls. “If I lose my skin because we didn’t scan them, I’m going to come back and haunt your scrawny little ass forever.”

“Whatever.” I shifted my weight from foot to foot until the panels finally opened and I could get inside. I began yanking off helmets until I found Reever, unconscious, his face covered in frozen blood. I felt a sluggish pulse beneath his jaw. I covered his nose and mouth with a portable breather. “Mercy.”

“Right behind you.” She rolled an enormous, flat-topped cart into the air lock. To the drednoc, she said, “Put them on here.”

The drone carefully lowered all four bodies onto the cart, and then gripped the handle as it pushed them into the suit chamber.

“Follow me,” I told it, and hurried down the corridor toward the treatment room.

Mercy kept pace with me. “Cat is setting up some beds for them. What else can I do?”

“You can assist me.” I glanced back to see if the drednoc was keeping up. “I’ll need a clean, empty space that I can isolate and use as an operating room.”

“I’ve got an air lock for cargo deliveries on that side of the house,” she said. “You can do ten or twenty surgeries in there, all at the same time, if you want.”

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to perform any. “In here,” I said to the drednoc as I rushed into the treatment room. Cat was waiting, along with Ekatarana and four of the beds from the pleasure rooms.

At that point I would have put Reever on the floor.

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