The Cage of Zeus by Ueda Sayuri & Nieda Takami

Author:Ueda, Sayuri & Nieda, Takami [Ueda, Sayuri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Story
ISBN: 9781421542454
Publisher: Haikasoru/VIZ Media
Published: 2011-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

5

AFTER WATCHING HARDING handpick the members of the rescue mission entirely from his own team, Arino voiced an objection.

“I have operational control here,” Harding said contemptuously. “I need a team that’s going to be familiar with and responsive to my commands.”

“Then at least choose two or three from my unit to bring up the rear.”

SSD had instructed Shirosaki and Harding to work together. If Shirosaki’s team wasn’t included in the mission, Harding would be the one who’d have to answer to Captain Hasukawa later.

Arino prayed that Harding still had enough sense to listen to reason.

Despite looking none too pleased, Harding relented.

Arino summoned Shiohara and Ogata and explained that Shirosaki needed information about the weapon dispersed in the special district.

“You’ve been inside the special district, so you should be able to move around faster than the others who’ll be relying on maps. I want you to capture Karina Majella before Harding’s team gets too reckless. I don’t care if you have to injure her, but keep her alive. If you can, try to avoid an altercation with Harding’s team. Karina will try to seize every opportunity if she senses dissension in our ranks.”

“What do you think she’s after? If her goal was to kill everyone on Jupiter-I, she would have blown up the entire station.”

“No way she would have been able to smuggle in that many explosives alone. Tampering with the station’s core power system wouldn’t have been easy either. It would have been difficult to effectively use chemical weapons in a station of this size, especially since the partitions between each section would be automatically lowered at the first sign of trouble. But a biological weapon can easily be smuggled in in small quantities, multiply exponentially inside a host body, and infect others rapidly. That has to be what she’s dispersed in the special district.”

“Then maybe she’s been vaccinated. If so, wouldn’t it be possible to make an antivirus from her blood after we’ve captured her?” Ogata asked.

“I don’t know if that’s possible with the lab and infirmary in the shape they’re in. But if we bring Karina in alive, she’ll be of use to us.”

The members of the rescue team stood in front of the air lock in the residential district and climbed into their hard space suits. They opened the hatch and stepped inside, carrying their hazmat suits and weapons in a sack. They waited several moments for decompression, and after the green light blinked on, opened the hatch on the other side.

The black void spread out before them.

One by one, the rescue members kicked away from the edge of the hatch door.

Shiohara and Ogata followed.

Holding their sacks close to them, they dove into the darkness with only the station’s beacons to light their way. They immediately felt the burden of 0.3 Gs give way to utter weightlessness.

Their sacks felt like air in their grasps.

The silver exterior of the station’s central axis gleamed before them.

Twenty meters in diameter and eight hundred meters long, the axis housed the station’s

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