The Awakening (The Hyperscape Project Book 1) by Swan Donald

Author:Swan, Donald [Swan, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Back aboard the Ashok, Nick roused to find Karg standing over him. “Karg?” He squinted up at the big ghoul looking down at him, then placed one hand on his head as if that could ease the pain burning through his cranium. “Damn, what a headache.”

Nick readjusted his neck so he could see Karg better. As Nick became more lucid, his eyes flew open wide. “Karg! It’s Arya! She’s the spy. She’s the one who killed Argos. We have to stop her!”

Karg stared out of the open hangar door into space. “She’s disabled half the systems on the ship and there’s a Dreadnought closing fast. We’ll be lucky to even survive the next twelve chronits.”

Nick stood up with effort. “Come on, Karg, buddy, don’t give up so easily. We can use the Admiral’s ship to go after her.” He pulled on Karg’s muscle-bound arm to no avail. The behemoth didn’t budge an inch.

“It’s too late. We’d never make it in time. Right now a strategic retreat is the best we can hope for.”

“But what about Arya? And what about my module?” Nick’s brain raced to come up with a plan. There had to be something they could do. The Admiral had mentioned something about a way to eradicate the spy nanites. That meant they might still be able to save Arya and his precious module.

“No!” He pointed a finger in Karg’s general direction and shook his head emphatically. “I’m not going down easily. No way. Not this space cowboy. It ain’t over til the fat lady sings, and I don’t see any fat ladies singing around here. We have to stop Arya! No question about that. And we will. You and me.” Nick made a move for the Admiral’s ship.

Karg reached over, grabbed the back of Nick’s shirt with one hand, and yanked him off the floor so he couldn’t take another step. He spun Nick around in mid-air and looked him in the eye. “This isn’t the time. Not here. Not this way. I don’t like it any more than you do, but we’ll have to find some other way to rescue her.”

Nick hung uncomfortably by his shirt and stared up at Karg. Something about Karg’s face just didn’t look right. He cocked his head to get a better look as he swayed in the air. A huge tear ran down the big lug’s cheek, pausing in its path for just a moment before dripping onto the floor. The sight of emotion on Karg’s face shocked Nick. He hadn’t known Rakozians could cry.

“We won’t give up on her. We will find a way. We owe her that much,” Karg said as he tried to hold a stiff upper lip.

“Karg. Buddy. Put me down.” When Karg silently refused, Nick became more insistent. “I mean it! Karg?” Nick reached up and put one hand on Karg’s arm to stop his incessant swaying. “Karg?” Karg’s limb was as solid as an Oak branch. Judging by Karg’s stubborn stance, Nick wasn’t going anywhere.

He wasn’t one to give up easily, but he was very familiar with strategic retreats.

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