StarFlight: The Prism Baronies (Beyond the Outer Rim Book 2) by Reiter

Author:Reiter [Reiter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lajko Press
Published: 2018-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

“Team Lead, I’ve got a track on the bitch,” the pilot reported as he flew down the corridor.

“Make it happen fast,” the Gunnery Sergeant replied, “I’m about to call for our doors back.”

“You hear that, target?” the pilot huffed as he landed on the floor in the middle of the corridor. “… Daddy’s only got a few seconds to cook your bones!” Hearing a noise to his left, the pilot moved to his right as he pivoted. He did not fire, but he did see the swing door to the stairway closing. “No way you shake me!” he barked before charging the door. Neither the make of the door nor the hinges could withstand the collision, and the pilot came to a stop on the landing. Going to his sensors, he was frustrated. None of his instruments were reading functioning properly.

“Who the hell packs a scrambler in their gown?!” he thought as he checked his weapons.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk… not a good sign,” Jocasta said. Her voice started in front of him but then it sounded as if she was above him, then behind him and nearly too far away to be heard. “The tell-tale weapons check. Thought I was going up against a pro. You’re just a kid who’s barely discovered his balls!”

“If you think the balls are a discovery, step out and get some dick!” the pilot spat back.

“Sorry, I’m not into trivial pursuits,” Jocasta ribbed, relaxing her arms but maintaining her grip. She closed her eyes for a moment and put into play the pseudo-meditation she had learned from Nugar. By her next breath, she could barely feel her body weight. “… and I’m not ticklish… so whatever in the worlds would I do with that thing? Can’t even hang an earring on it!”

“Where are you?!” the pilot yelled, firing his shoulder-mounted weapon. Heavy laser fire flew from the weapon, tearing into the metal of the bannister and the concrete-like material of the stairway. Cracks formed in the walls as alarms started to sound off and flashing lights were activated.

“Wonderful,” Jocasta thought. “I would be in a stairway at the edge of the platform. Well, Jo, that’s what’s served when you get too involved in the idea and not where the idea has to take place! Live through this mistake, find a way to make another.

“Well, I’m certainly not where you fired,” Jocasta replied the moment the barrage stopped. “Why don’t you come on up, sweet thing? We can have all sorts of fun!”

“You want me to come up, do you?” the pilot asked, looking up the stairway. “So you can attack me from the rear? That means you’re downstairs, right?” The pilot started down the steps as he chuckled. “Not feeling so superior right now, are you?”

Jocasta moved her hands to one end of her cane as she deactivated the gravity lock. She fell from the bottom-side of the landing one level up, silently dropping behind the pilot as he was four steps from the landing. She

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