Relentless (Fleet Ops Book 3) by Scott Bartlett & Joshua James

Author:Scott Bartlett & Joshua James [Bartlett, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mirth Publishing
Published: 2021-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Python Air Group

UHC Providence Nearspace

Fesky felt a twinge of frustration as Husher suggested the exact same formation that O’Malley had refused to follow in the first place. Her squadron was intact, but Gold had taken some losses that they wouldn’t have if they’d used the proper technique.

Of course, she had to admit she hadn’t planned to use it to attack a specific region in space as Husher was planning to use it. And she would have surely seen some losses among the wing if they’d made the formation and then slowly closed the net as they tried to disable those ships. But nonetheless, it was the principle of the thing, and it annoyed her.

“Copy that,” Fesky said to O’Malley as her orders were given. “You guys have that,” she said on the squadron com. “Make sure you’re in position to get those ships where we want them to go.”

“Here they come,” Damon said. He hadn’t been Fesky’s wingmate previously, but they were shaking things up to get in position.

The seven Junlo ships were in a tight formation now. They started firing, and again they were concentrating their fire. But this time, there were more ships positioned to return fire. And it was clear that they were better coordinated.

“Look out!” Eightball said. Fesky spun around and fired her thrusters at the same time, just before an energy beam seared through space near her fighter.

“That was close!” Damon said.

“I’m hit!” came the scream of Eshtyr, one of the other Winger fighters.

And then the steady chaos of fighting settled into the all-com channel. Fesky closed her eyes and let the sound of it wash over her. This wasn’t new to her, and she was happy to just let the battle come to her. In short order, she heard more hits coming in. At least three of the fighters in her squadron were partially painted by the concentrated laserfire of the Junlo.

But none of the Pythons were completely destroyed.

“Bingo!” said Eshtyr as she and Damon managed to hit perfect shots on the engine compartments of one of the trailing ships closer to Fesky and the Aces squadron. “That’s two.”

“And there’s a third on the far side,” Keefer said. He was leader of Red Squadron, which had managed to peel a third Junlo ship away from the main group.

“That’s three disabled,” O’Malley confirmed.

Fesky eyed the three Junlo ships drifting in space. One still had partial power, but with the other ships pulling away from it quickly, it had no defense except its own small laser, which was barely powerful enough to scrap Pythons without concentrated help from its friends. A swarm of ships from Gold Squadron finished off its engines and it came to a stop, dead in space like the other two.

But that left four ships that were still pushing through.

“What about the others?” Fesky asked O’Malley over the command channel.

“I’m not sure there’s much we can do,” she said. “They’re engaging the battle group. We’ll have to swing around and try to

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