Planet Kill by Sebastian Wilde & Jamie Hawke

Author:Sebastian Wilde & Jamie Hawke [Wilde, Sebastian & Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Down Press
Published: 2018-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

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Ambush

Planet Kill, Field of Reckoning

This wasn’t just a team of fighters moving for her, Letha realized. It was an actual army. While she’d been waiting and preparing to fight Fireshot in a duel, he hadn’t given the idea two thoughts. Instead, he had been forming alliances, buying off other warlords, preparing for this moment.

Normally this didn’t happen, because splitting the spoils of war was tough business and a fellow warlord was likely to turn on you. Alliances were great until someone realized they didn’t need you anymore or wanted your power. There was the other kind of alliance, the partnership Letha had with her generals, but that was formed from something else, something she was quite sure Fireshot was incapable of. She grimaced just thinking of it.

Dammit, she wished she’d told Aero to stay close. She noticed him on the far side of the recruits, but wasn’t sure he’d even seen what was happening.

Fireshot stepped up as his men bent over, so that walking onto them was like walking up stairs. Then he aimed and fired. It took only that split-second for Letha to realize the gun in his hands was the one Ulric the Warden had been selling, and that they were all fucked.

“Shields!” Letha shouted, diving back.

Two shields moved into place, but a third warrior took the attack before he could get his up. Three bullets ignited upon impact, shooting out liquid flame. The other two shield-holders nearby were caught in the fire. The shields stood in place as those responsible for them fell to the ground, shrieking in agony.

There was no way this was going to turn out well for Letha and her team, not if she continued like this.

“Retreat!” she shouted, looking toward the area where the smoke from the shuttle was still thick.

Three others went for the shields, more returned fire, but a couple were shot down. She was quickly losing her team and was pissed about it. For the moment though, she had to pull back and come up with a new strategy.

An arc of electricity shot across the field. It hit one of the shields and knocked its holder over. The shield hit the ground and the energy fizzled out.

Holy fuck, she wished she had bought that gun somehow.

The recruits were largely stuck between her and Fireshot now. Letha’s team moved into the smoke and one of the drop-off points on the other side, where they could get cover from the treeline. Going back the way they came wouldn’t have worked, even though it provided great cover. It was like trying to fight the current. The best way to avoid it was at a diagonal.

Aero was trying to fight his way over to her, but a portion of Fireshot’s army had moved to intercept him.

“Shit, shit, shit,” Aisha was saying. At least she was still there with them.

“Everyone stay together,” Letha ordered, leading them down the ravine as shots of electricity lit up the smoke around them. Bullets hit the ground behind them, others whizzed by.

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