The Hunted by Andrew Wichland

Author:Andrew Wichland [Wichland, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

“They’re either crazy or they’re drones! They’re still right behind us!” John barked back.

Robin issued a curse as his eyes roved everywhere, searching for a solution, before they froze on one of the instruments. A light went off in his head.

“John!” he barked, eyes shooting to his friend, and LJ glanced over. “How much longer can they last?”

Blinking, Little John frowned. “Not as long as us, but—”

“How long?”

“I don’t know, a few seconds!”

“Okay,” Robin said, looking down at the rear-view readout again, eyes locked on the fighters still following them. “Everyone, brace yourselves!”

“Why? What are you going to do?” Freya demanded.

Before he could answer, the fighters began breaking apart. “Brace! Brace! Brace!” he called out. At once, he pulled the throttle into neutral and the engines died. At once, the ship shook harder as they began to drop like a stone.

“What the hell, man?” LJ reached for the throttle as they started going into a spin.

“No, don’t!” Robin barked.

“Are you crazy?” Freya shouted as she hung from her safety straps like a Christmas ornament.

“Maybe,” he muttered under his breath as he was thrown in and out of his chair, the safety straps the only thing keeping him in it as the ship tumbled through the atmosphere. The debris of the fighters fell around them.

“LJ, give me a count!” he barked, hand gong to the throttle.

“I hope you know what you’re doing!” his friend called out before counting down their altitude. The seconds seemed to last an eternity. “30,000…25,000…20,000…” LJ reported as the ground got closer. “Robin, if we don’t pull up soon, we’ll die!”

“Tell me when we reach 10,000!”

After shooting him a look that clear showed he thought he was crazy, LJ looked back at the rapidly-falling count on the altitude reader. “NOW!” he barked.

At once Robin, opened the throttle. “Come on…” he growled as he began making out each tree in an oasis and several large boulders surrounding a small patch of water.

Just when he thought they would crash, they came to a fast stop a couple hundred feet above the ground. After landing the ship next to the oasis and sighing, Robin sagged in his seat, face turned toward the ceiling and eyes closed.

“Do you mind telling us what the heck you were just thinking?” LJ demanded, glaring.

Letting loose another sigh, Robin opened his eyes, looking over at his friend. “It just came to me,” he admitted, “to let the fighters fall apart and then hide in the falling debris,” he explained as he climbed out of his seat to lean against it.

Breathing deeply, LJ shook his head, looking away. “Good plan,” he muttered with a scowl, “but a little warning would have been nice!”

“I sure hope insanity doesn’t run in the family,” Freya murmured, still in her seat, as the safety straps retracted.

Before Robin could say anything, the hatch opened, and they all looked at a slack-faced Willa, who looked a little green around the gills.

Her face formed a snarl and she pointed at Robin. “You’re lucky

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