Refuge in the Stars_An Alien Galactic Military Science Fiction Adventure by Tim Marquitz & Michael Anderle & Craig Martelle

Author:Tim Marquitz & Michael Anderle & Craig Martelle [Marquitz, Tim & Anderle, Michael & Martelle, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Uh, that’s not good,” Torbon muttered, scrambling to an awkward halt and seeking cover behind a nearby ship’s landing gear.

“What the gack are they doing here so soon?” Taj asked no one in particular. She huddled up alongside Torbon, Lina right there with them, and glared out at the dozen aliens standing about the Discordant. “How the gack did they find us? They couldn’t have known where we went after traveling through the gate.”

“I’d say the current circumstances suggest otherwise,” Torbon said, motioning toward the soldiers. “Those are Wyyvan soldiers standing there, blocking the way to our ship. Well, their ship, but you know what I mean.”

Taj reached for her weapon and sighed as her fingers hit the empty holster, scraping leather. She’d forgotten that the pirates had taken it in her rush to get back to the ship. “Rowl,” she muttered under her breath. “Can nothing go right today?”

Lina hissed. “Don’t tempt fate or Rowl,” she warned. “We don’t need any more challenges.”

Taj nodded her agreement. They sure didn’t.

What they had splayed out before them was more than enough already, but Taj knew they couldn’t let all the gack stop them.

And then, like a sparkstorm roiling in her brain, she remembered why she’d returned to the Discordant in the first place. Just inside was an army of Furlorians and enough weapons to arm a good percentage of them.

Taj chuckled. “Gack these lizards.”

She tapped the comm and called Kal and Jadie.

Only static answered.

She did it again to the same response: nothing.

“What’s going on?” Taj asked Lina. “I’m not getting through.”

Lina tried her own comm and groaned, clearly not getting a better result than Taj had. “They’re blocking the signal,” she replied, waving toward the Wyyvan soldiers, their black armor absorbing the sunlight. “That’s why we haven’t heard anything from Jadie or Kal. They’ve been cut off.”

“Still, they have to know these guys are out here, milling about,” Taj reasoned.

“Probably, but why didn’t they engage them while we’re gone? That’s the quickest way to bring Ovrun security forces down on them, leaving us stranded and them locked up…or worse.”

Taj growled. She hadn’t thought of that.

Even now, with her and the crew there, to start a battle on the tarmac would only cause them all more grief. That left her with only one option, which was the very last one she wanted to enact.

But given the circumstances, there wasn’t anything else she could do if she hoped to clear the soldiers from the ship without alerting local authorities and muddying the waters.

At least Doran really was bluffing about the men surrounding the Discordant, she thought as she glanced about, seeing nothing but the day-to-day traffic of the port and the mass of Wyyvan soldiers. That would have mucked things up nicely if he hadn’t been.

She pulled her crew back into the shadows of the landing gear a little further and turned them to face her. “Here’s what we’re gonna do,” she said, meeting each of their eyes in turn. “You two

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