Starfire and the Space Dragons: A Grennig Crew Adenture by Westhead Christine

Author:Westhead, Christine [Westhead, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Starfire should be back by now,” said Erion, slightly cross. It really annoyed her when her crew did not follow protocol, but they weren’t in the Marines anymore and she didn’t force the issue. Raemond and Rigondal had gone back to their suite to get changed and they were all supposed to meeting up for another tour of the complex. Hal stood up, frowning.

“What’s up?” asked Raan, putting out his cigarillo. Hal’s self-preservation instincts, honed by years of peril where he only had himself to rely on, were mentally shouting for his attention.

“I don’t know,” said Hal, “something doesn’t feel right.” Before he had finished his sentence, Erion was speaking on her comlink.

“Starfire; Lieutenant, are you there?” she looked at Raan, “I can’t get through,” Hal, his gun already in his hand, walked to the balcony and looked out.

“Is it them or us?”

“Something’s blocking us, I think,” said Erion. “I can’t get Rigondal or Raemond either.” The three of them stood up and grabbed their jackets and weapons. Raan went to the door and switched on the hall video screen to see outside.

“Aircar door is opening. Shit, they got guns.” The air door opened and six masked figures rushed out of it, heading down the short hall towards their door. They had the master key and one of them it swiped it across the door call pad. The door opened and they rushed in, drawn guns sweeping the empty room. They checked everywhere, pointing their guns in a dramatic way. The suite was empty.

“There they are!” A shout went up and someone opened fire with a sonic rifle. Hal fired back and they ran along all the balconies, jumping over the little separating walls as Hal gave them covering fire. The balcony ran all around the top floor and they turned the corner. They scuttled along until they found a suite with an open door and slipped inside. Someone was in the Vanity, going by the sound of enthusiastic singing from that direction and didn’t see them as they ran quietly through the room and out into the main hall.

They turned away from the aircar and went in the other direction to the service lift. They didn’t bother to call it, but waited patiently while Raan hot-wired the door to open. The lift was clanking down, one floor below them and they all jumped onto its roof without thinking and watched the big, painted numbers on the lift shaft counting down.

“Who the hell was that?” asked Erion. She looked at Raan. “Jealous husbands?”

“Not me, Major.” Erion glared at Hal, who shrugged and looked a bit sheepish.

“I should have known.”

They looked at each other and nodded when the numbers got down to one and prepared to jump. As the lift roof passed the ground floor, they all stepped onto the upcoming ledge on the lift shaft wall and held on as best they could, while Raan tried to get the doors open from the wrong side. They opened for a couple of feet and stopped.

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