Star Resistance by D. R. Rosier

Author:D. R. Rosier [Rosier, D. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2018-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The airlock cycled in just a few moments, and then the inner door opened. With a thought, I interfaced with the ship to check status. Jillintara was already running a scan on our three new guests to make a determination on their implant status. We were also moving at two hundred gravities toward the border of the star system. It would take us a little over two days to reach earth.

Everything back at Tau Ceti seemed to be on track as well.

Dessia demanded, “Where are we?”

Vik replied, “Just a minute, we need to make sure you aren’t bugged.”

The scans finished a moment later. All three of them had their normal implants shut down, and had a secondary implant installed. I tried to interface with one of them, and I couldn’t. Either they were dumb spy implants, or they didn’t have local access protocols, only quantum paired connections, which would handily defeat any efforts to analyze them by software.

I wondered why he didn’t use the overrides on their implants instead of going this route, but maybe he didn’t simply because we’d already defeated that measure when he used it on Jillintara, and he probably didn’t understand how we did it. So, he’d changed tactics for this trap of his, which happily blew up in his face. The trap I mean. I was more than sure that trap had been meant to kill both Vik and the bait.

Still, I kept that part to myself, the last thing I wanted to tell a mother and two sisters was that their brother had intended to kill them. They either already knew, or didn’t want to know.

I said, “You are bugged, and have a secondary implant installed. Please follow me to the med bay.”

Nanites took care of keeping us healthy, and could repair most anything including light wounds in battle if they weren’t mortal. But some damage, and some procedures, were beyond them.

Sylara said, “Who are you, take off that head covering.”

I shook my head, “Not until your bug free. I’d rather not introduce myself to Denik.”

Sylara didn’t look happy with that, but the six of us all headed toward the med bay, where Jillintara held the same type of device that had implanted my palm weapon. I guessed it was used for implanting and removing artificial assistants as well, I hadn’t been conscious when Ann was installed.

It might already be too late to keep my race a secret, I wasn’t sure. The assistants were extremely helpful, which meant they should be translating my speech to Isyth without further comment. Unless Denik thought to ask, and in the next minute or two before the implants were destroyed, he’d never discover there’s a human on the Scythe’s crew. I worried if he worked that out, he might divine a part of our plan.

Hopefully, he was too busy yelling at people for their incompetence in letting us escape right now, instead of directly monitoring us. Hope was a bad plan, and I always endeavored to take it out of the equation, but sometimes it was all I had.

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