Rogue Stars 3: Reclamation: (A Military Sci-Fi Series) by Jaime Castle

Author:Jaime Castle [Castle, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

PREDAXES

I’d only worked with Calvo and his breacher Marines a handful of times since we’d landed on Faebos. Most of those times, I was in a Dragoon RCP or riding a desk in the control center. Even though running a mission like this was super exciting, I could see why my place was directing a battle rather than fighting one.

We raced along a guide wire inside the station’s central tower, moving at incredible speed. It felt like falling in reverse as we’d yanked on the cable to get ourselves moving. Without gravity tugging us back the other way, we just continued to fly along the wire, connected by a latching belt—a heavy harness strapped around our waists and a thickly braided cable attached to a carabiner. The metal connector vibrated against the threads on the guide wire, and if I wasn’t wearing full kit, I’d probably laugh from being tickled. Or scream from pain. It was a toss-up.

Soaring along the expansive spire’s interior, I stared into a speed lift plate heading for us. “Everyone get to the exterior bulkhead past the pylons.”

Luckily no one questioned my request as we didn’t have the time to explain that we were about to be flattened by an elevator. I remained on the wire while everyone unclipped and spun away from the tether. The Visitor technician, Grayse, struggled to get the carabiner from the cable and began to panic. While we weren’t technically in the elevator’s path, one wrong move could have changed that and that would have ended badly for the young woman. I pulled over to her just as Calvo noticed the problem and sailed across to join me.

“Hey, let go,” I said firmly but calmly.

Unwinding the safety sleeve on the clip, I removed it from the cable. Nodding to the master sergeant, I backed off the wire to give him plenty of working room. As if he were throwing tags against a fellow Marine, Calvo took the woman by her drag handle and tossed her toward the tower’s exterior.

I was grateful for her still wearing a helmet—though with the open comms, I really wished I had flipped mine to mute. She shrieked as she flew, her mind not fully comprehending that up and down had no meaning here and not being attached to the guide wire wasn’t the hazard she probably thought it was. On the other side of the launch, Revas was there to catch her and deposit her behind the pylons where they could take cover.

We nodded to each other as we pulled against the cable and stretched out for the exterior walls ourselves.

The lift soared past us, holding a foursome of guardsmen kitted up in full armor. All were seated and lashed into the lift restraint chairs to accommodate for the fast and spasmodic motions of the delivery system.

“What did we forget?” Volina called into the comms.

“I bypassed ARA through the command plate on the outside of the station,” I explained. “Once I had control, I put the security system into inspection mode keyed to my SIN-Link.

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