Taylor's Watch by Wecks Erik

Author:Wecks, Erik [Wecks, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Military Science Fiction
Published: 2014-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Taylor looked gun first down the long flights of grated metal stairs which led to the lower decks. The regular lighting started to return as she stared. She watched it rise from the bottom and climb to her, deck by deck. She needed to get to engineering which lay at the bottom. Thankfully, the stairway remained empty.

She was just about to start heading down when a calm male voice interrupted her thoughts. “Captain Taylor. I would like to negotiate the surrender of you and your staff.”

Instinctively, Taylor twisted around in the stairwell, aiming her gun at the door behind her. No one was there. For a minute, she crouched in the corner trying to figure out how the Korpis had overridden her heads-up device. She decided not to answer.

After a few seconds of silence, the voice continued in her heads-up “I must say, I am impressed. Your team has posed a challenge, which I did not foresee. Your destruction of the communications array and the server reset have put us back somewhat, so I am not able to greet you in person, but I want you to know you cannot win.”

How the hell do they know so much about me? And how are they communicating with my suit without my authorization? Taylor looked around and, in the corner, noticed that the security camera seemed to be working again.

She told the heads-up to power down. It didn’t respond.

She asked it to bring up an intraspace overlay again. There was a thin stream of heavily encrypted data flowing to the external camera on her suit from the camera in the corner and also from the nearby intraspace connection. Somehow they had hacked her heads-up through the camera on her suit.

Looking at the data stream, things started to make sense—the security cameras in the control center, the quick lock from the system. There’s a fucking cyber-agent aboard my station! They’re on board! This wasn’t an attack from intraspace.

“The station and all its contents are now now under Unity control, and the only way you are going to see your children again is to surrender.” Here the voice paused.

White hot rage filled Taylor. “My children have nothing to do with this! You leave them out of it!”

The voice continued in the same fashion. “The Unity is not the horrible evil empire you’ve been led to believe by your leaders. We handle our prisoners in a civilized manner. We intend no harm to your children. We just want you to see them again.”

Desperate with a rage and fury she didn’t know existed, she fought for control. She knew if she lashed out she would only give the Korpi bastard an advantage. The mother in her won out. “I don’t know who you are, or how you’re overriding all my systems, or how you even got on board my station, but fuck you to hell! My children will be proud of their mother! Surrender is not an option, so suit up and come hunt me yourself.”

The voice remained gratingly calm.

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