Striking Freedom (Mechanical Advantage Book 6) by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space Opera, Mechanical Advantage, romance, Adult, Science fiction
ISBN: 9781987969719
Publisher: Viola Grace
Published: 2019-08-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Ladies, stay here. I need to check on the cyborgs.”

“Empress, there are guards coming.” The yellow woman was nervous.

“Remain here, ladies. I will deal with this.” Lacey looked at the men sprinting toward her, and she smiled, removing her outer robe and the one beneath. She stood there in her limited glory, framed by the harness that supported her and kept her limbs in alignment.

The guards slowed in horror as she stood up with her staff in her hand. A flick of her wrist and the stone in the top began to glow.

She walked toward the guards, and they stopped, pulling weapons. Lacey grinned, and it was not a very nice grin. “Why are you pulling your blasters? Am I not one of the pure humans you have welcomed into your midst?”

She stepped toward them, and when they aimed and shot, nothing happened.

“My grandfather is dead, but he left his safety measures in place. I only turned off the ones that would stop cyborgs. You are going to have to go hand to hand.”

She switched so that she was holding her staff in both hands; a slight squeeze and it shot out a beam of light. It caught one of the guards and flipped him up and off his feet.

One of the men lunged at her, and she released the staff and struck him with her fist, sending him flying into one of the cyborg torture podiums.

She leaned forward and whispered, “What are you waiting for?”

Footfalls warned her that others were coming, and she punched, kicked, and zapped her way through as many as she could.

Yurik moved in between her and her attackers. “We can take it from here.”

She looked around, and six fairly intact cyborgs were moving to stand between her and the incoming wave of guards.

She stepped back and watched as the warriors did what they had been trained to do.

Lacey walked back to her robes, and she calmly got dressed as the fight waged on.

The concubines were staring at her. When she finished dressing, she turned to them and smiled, “Do you have questions?”

The blue one whispered, “What happened to you?”

“Ah. General Adams turned me over to the Splice as a goodwill gesture. I, too, was sold.”

The humans were fading fast. They formed a heap as the cyborgs outmatched them physically and with nanite-driven stamina.

She looked at the girls behind her. “Are you sure you want to come with us?”

The females nodded. The blue one said, “We have no future here.”

Lacey looked at her grandfather and nodded. “Right. Well, are there any other cyborgs here?”

The women nodded. “There is a stable down below. He keeps them in case the ones on display die before they can be healed.”

“Right. Show me.”

The females shook their heads. “We are not allowed to pass. Only humans can pass.”

Lacey nodded and sighed. “Right. Point me in the right direction.”

The ladies pointed to the opposite side of the dais from the med bed in the garden. She took her staff and walked calmly around the structure, heading down the hallway that snaked behind it.

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