Prison Break (Star Breaker Book 5) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2021-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

This time, just as she popped up from the other side of the boulders to level her rifle—

She was met by the alarming sight of the nearest prison rover bouncing off the jag of land and flying through the air—almost straight towards her!

“The captain!” she heard someone shout—she thought it could have been Marshal—but she was too busy firing as she pressed herself flatter than was possible.

Whumpf!

When the rover landed, the impact sent a tremor back through the ground and her body, and it sent a spill of ice particles and rock dust into the air around it as it swerved behind her. The rover had completely jumped over her position in a bouncing leap across the dwarf planet’s surface and was even now turning around to bear its arms at the back of their line.

So much for holding THAT damn line! Holly thought as she slung her rifle across and fired a line of angry bullets at it. Almost in slow motion, she could see the line of her fire hitting the surface as well as arcing across behind the vehicle, before the bullets started to hammer the shell of the rover itself, sparking off in brilliant flashes.

One of the bullets that struck was brighter than the others and cascaded with sparks at the same time. Had she hit something important? Something vital? Had she struck a power line, an essential part of the rover’s engineering?

No, apparently not, since the rover kept on moving around in an arc behind their position with the two mercenary guards on its back taking potshots at Holly’s squad.

“Frack it!” the captain hissed, crouching as close to the boulder as she dared. She couldn’t jump on the other side of her cover. That would expose her to the rovers on that side, and now this rover was behind their position as well. The only one of her team that appeared insulated from the worst of the threat happened to be the doctor.

A good thing, she thought, since the doctor was the most vulnerable of all of them. But her crater afforded her cover both behind and in front. Should they all join her there?

All of these thoughts and assessments flashed past in an instant for Holly as her trained mind attempted to find a solution for this problem. To find a tactic that would work.

There was always something that would work. That was what she had been led to believe in her basic, and then again in advanced leadership training.

It wasn’t a problem of being outmatched. It was a problem of imagination.

“Cap! We’re surrounded!” she could hear Marshal shouting. They were still taking shots at the two rovers in front of them, which were busy moving in short fits and starts and taking shots back at the Marines. Luckily for the squad, firing while moving and actually hitting anything was incredibly hard to do. No one was getting hit. No one was getting hurt. Yet.

“Flash-bangs! Concussion grenades!” Holly called out, taking a moment to burst fire a spray at the rear rover once again.

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