Redeemed by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

13

Eric glanced up, and saw the spears bearing down from slots in the ceiling. Because of the range, he had time to dodge before those spears struck.

Two doors opened in the far wall, on either side of the room, and Black Tails rushed inside. They were creatures the platoon had encountered in the first invasion: essentially giant centipedes with six jointed legs, whose frontal areas were capped by a torso containing four arms and an elongated white head with razor-sharp teeth, and whose rear harbored a tail that drooped over their bodies, ending in a black, glandular sac. They carried spears in every one of the hands that tipped those four arms, and a double-barreled cannon resided on the carapaces behind their torsos.

“I remember these suckers!” Slate said.

“Shoot the glandular sacs!” Marlborough ordered.

Eric and the others unleashed their weapons, but the bolts were absorbed by the energy shields that protected the bioweapons.

“Figures!” Dunnigan said.

The bioweapons rushed them. Those in the forefront threw their spears, and Eric and the others were forced to dodge, or smash them away with their ballistic shields—disabling their own energy fields first so as not to drain them upon impact.

The Bolt Eaters in turn unleashed a barrage of spears, breaking down the first wave. But the second wave of attackers merely leaped over the first, and continued forward. They threw spears again, waiting until they were closer this time: Eric dove to the ground to avoid this next round. Some of the other Bolt Eaters did the same, while most merely dodged.

Eric scrambled upright as the first of the Black Tails reached him. He met the spears of his current foe with his own in a melee that vaguely resembled a sword fight. He was faster than the Black Tail and readily parried those blows, weaving between them to stab the bioweapon through the torso. It screeched, crumbling as he removed the blade.

Another Black Tail simply moved forward to intercept him. It threw a spear, and he dodged it. He parried the next two blows, and had to leap to the side as the Black Tail swiped downward with its tail. The glandular sac struck the ground, and the sticky fluid spilled out, killing the beast. Eric quickly cleared the area, because touching that fluid would pin him fast. He grabbed the carapace and tugged, the tail was stuck to the ground because of the fluid, but he pulled harder, ripping it free.

Then he swung the bioweapon at the incoming units, smacking them like they deserved. His favorite strategy. The dead Black Tail still clutched one of the alien spears, which added extra damage. It was like he was swinging a barbed glove.

Bambi came to his left side, and Crusher his right, and they fought together. Bambi swung her own tail like a weapon, using the three spears that pronged the tip to deadly effect. Crusher meanwhile alternated between firing her energy cannons—it distracted them, she claimed—and cutting with her alien spear.

As Eric swung the dead

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