Rika Outcast by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper [Cooper, M. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781974508938
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Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2017-08-10T23:00:00+00:00

RESCUE

STELLAR DATE: 12.16.8948 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: Northeast Berlin

REGION: Pyra, Albany System, Theban Alliance

The fireworks had been amazing. Rika had stared out the truck’s window at them for a full five minutes before fire drones finally arrived and began putting them out.

She imagined that they must be even more impressive in the sky than on the ground.

News feeds on the local nets had been abuzz about the fire, but there was no mention of anything suspicious about it—though it was far too soon to tell. Rika doubted that inspectors would be able to start crawling through the mess until the next day.

Barne drove the truck several kilometers, and then parked it in a garage next to another, equally nondescript truck—though this one was black. Together, he and Rika swapped all their cargo over and swept the truck clean. Barne had informed her that it was long-term storage parking, and that he’d rented the space till the end of the month.

They would be long gone by then.

The drive to the next location was short, just ten minutes, and they pulled into another warehouse area before reaching a self-storage lot.

“We going to set up shop here?” Rika asked.

“No,” Barne replied as he opened the storage unit’s door, revealing a smaller car.

By the time he had driven the car out, and she had parked the truck in the storage unit—which it just barely fit into—Howe was beginning to rise in the eastern sky.

“I haven’t asked, because I assumed you had a plan, but how are we going to get to wherever Cheri is?” Rika asked. “Jerry said it was halfway around the world.”

“He was exaggerating,” Barne replied as he leaned against the car. “It’s near Jersey City—about seventeen hundred klicks up the coast. They have high-speed highways here, and this baby can do four hundred an hour. We’ll be there by lunchtime.”

Rika nodded and opened the back of the truck, and then she jumped up and opened a crate. She tossed two rifles down to Barne, followed by a duffel bag full of ammunition. She turned to another case and opened it up, pulling out her gun-arm and helmet.

“You think you’ll need that?” Barne asked, as she jumped out and pulled down the truck’s overhead door.

“Maybe. I’d like to keep them close.”

“Sounds reasonable,” Barne replied with a shrug.

Five minutes later, they were pulling onto the highway, the car sliding onto a high-speed maglev ridge and accelerating to top speed.

Rika opened up a panel on her leg and pulled out her charge cord, sliding it into one of the power sockets in the car.

“Glad it has that,” she said. “Wouldn’t want to go into our big rescue with only half a charge.”

Barne gave a soft laugh. “I know what you mean…I don’t have to plug in—not modded enough for that—but I do need to eat a ton to keep going.”

“Speaking of which,” Rika reached into the back and grabbed a fistful of protein bars, dumping half in Barne’s lap.

“Thanks…” he said, a pregnant pause hanging between them.

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