Reactivated by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

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Eric tried to slice the web away with his blades, but his wrist was bound at a poor angle, and he couldn’t do it.

Crusher landed beside him, and she waved her blade around his body in rapid succession, cutting him free.

“You’re welcome,” she said.

Without warning a long blade penetrated her unit from behind, passing through the chest piece and lifting her into the air. She shook violently as sparks passed outward from that blade, electrifying her body. Then the blade, lowered, and she slid off, falling lifelessly to the now muddy ground.

That blade was connected to a long tail of some kind, making it a stinger. Eric gazed higher, toward the source of that tail, and spotted a huge Dragonworm, far bigger than any that had come before. It was wearing a metallic helmet of some kind, and from it protruded mandibles that were made of plasma beams—they looked like they could cut through anything.

That head darted toward Eric, and he switched to Bullet Time to dive out of the way; he smashed into the wall of corpses beside him and crawled upright. He struck down at the huge head beside him as it attempted to retreat, but his blades glanced off the helmet.

The tanks and robots behind him unleashed a barrage of plasma and laser fire at it, but the Dragonworm touched together those two plasma mandibles, and from the join a long beam of energy shot out. It cut a swath of destruction through any tanks and robots that got in its path.

Traps and Brontosaurus dashed forward to engage the big creature, while the other Bolt Eaters and support units continued to fight off the smaller Dragonworms.

Meanwhile Eric hurried to Crusher’s side. He dragged her Devastator behind a nearby tree while Bambi watched his back and protected him from the attacks of other Dragonworms.

He ran a remote damage scan. The tail blade had cleanly pierced Crusher’s chest piece, but thankfully it had missed her AI core entirely. She was out of action for the time being, however—those electrical sparks passing through her system had shorted out some critical components.

“Looks like we fight here for the time being,” Eric told Bambi.

“We protect her with our lives,” Bambi agreed.

That was a far cry from the early days, when Bambi and Crusher had been at each other’s throats. They had grown fond of each other as the years passed, and he knew neither could imagine life without the other. He couldn’t imagine life without them, either.

He slammed his dual blades into the maw of the next Dragonworm that presented itself, and he flung his arm to the side, twisting the dead body off his blade.

Alarms went off on his HUD as lasers struck him from above, and he tilted his shield upward to protect himself and Crusher. Bambi also deployed a ballistic shield on her left claw, and used it to partially protect Crusher, in addition to herself. She swung her barbed tail at a Dragonworm, exploding its head.

Then another huge

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