Shadow Fleet by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2018-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Kwan and Oorea, along with the other trainees, were plowing through wave after wave of those damn oversized beetles. He had no idea how long they had been at it, but it seemed like forever. They had been heading out the rear way she mentioned, when the scurrying had started.

The beetles came strong, scurrying across floor, wall, and ceiling. As horrific a sight as it was, at least it gave Kwan’s team ample target practice. He took the rear, more confident in his skills at avoiding friendly fire than the rest of them. Shot after shot rang out, until soon the beetles’ bodies made up their own blockade.

But they kept pushing.

It was like a wall of beetle corpses coming at them now. While the shots made it through to those beyond, the others kept on pushing and pushing and pushing.

“We need another way though!” one of the trainees shouted, running back toward Kwan.

“I’ve got one right here,” Kwan said, unable to avoid the smile. “Everyone get back, all the way to the dome!”

The others shouted in protested, Oorea the loudest, but he repeated himself and shoved one of them away, too caught up in the moment to see which. He’d been waiting on this upgrade, and with the number of beetles he’d just killed, he might have enough skill points to get it.

Quickly pulling up his HUD as he blindly fired into the oncoming beetles, he went to his Earth skill tree, traced the path he’d been on, and saw it—Shatter Earth, it was called, and the description sounded epic.

One skill point too low, he noticed and cursed. Except, then, as he watched the skill point counter went up by three. Apparently, he was hitting something with his random firing!

Selecting it, he saw a quick demo flash across his HUD screen. He shouldered his weapon, laughed as he charged the wall of corpses, and pulled back his fist.

In the demo, it showed a soldier raising a fist and slamming it into the ground, which resulted in the floor splitting apart—even dissolving if hit hard enough. He meant to do that here, but not to the floor.

Throwing his fist forward, he felt energy surge around it like a thousand battering rams pushing it forward, felt the armored glove forming reinforcements so that it wouldn’t shatter his hand or wrist inside, then… WO-KOOMBA!

What an odd sound, he thought, as he was thrown backwards by the impact. His eyes flickered down to see that he was horizontal, the wall looking as if it was beneath him in his trajectory, and indeed it was disintegrating.

Stone scraped along his armor with a screech. He was on the floor, motionless, groaning.

Oorea stood over him, mouth moving as she called out to him, but all he could hear was a loud ringing.

“Are you okay?” her voice finally came through as the ringing faded, and then he was laughing, laughing hysterically. “Oh, no, he’s gone. He’s lost it!”

“That was… AWESOME!” he shouted, leaping to his feet and punching the air.

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