The Laboratory Omnibus by Skyler Grant

Author:Skyler Grant [Grant, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

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Abruptly we were inside the cavern and above Aelfwal.

"Shit, Emma," Anna said as she crossed the distance to settle into her throne. A moment later she leaned over to vomit. Charming. What was it about humans and them dumping their disgusting bodily fluids all over my nice clean floors?

"I give you the ability to teleport and you still can't get a toilet in time," I said.

It was as if we’d never had the side trip. I was picking up the warring fleets on sensors all around us.

The Wolve's ships were coming after us. All of them. They realized where we were and figured out who had absconded with the pyramid crystal —their one way to get through the shield.

Sylax was seizing the opportunity to set her forces fully against them. While most of the dragons were downed after the transition, she still had a half-dozen ships.

The other fleets were breaking off and disengaging, getting out of the way. They'd suddenly found themselves in the presence of the ultimate prize they'd wanted and didn't quite know what to do about it.

I hit an overdrive thruster burst and steered us into the middle of Sylax's formation. At least she wasn't interested in shooting at us, for the moment, afraid to hit her own ships.

I teleported the pyramid to the bridge, along with Mechos and Doctor Batavius.

"I'm rather distracted keeping us alive. The three of you combined may be equal to the task of figuring out what that thing does," I said.

Mechos reached out to touch the pyramid. Blue lines tracing through the pyramid turned red to match the outlines that ran through his flesh.

"Well, that is a reaction," Anna said.

"Do you say silly things in the pathetic hope that one of these days someone might find you interesting? We won't," Doctor Batavius said, pushing up her goggles to take a look at the sphere with her enhanced vision.

"Do you ever think about the consequences of your words?" Anna asked.

"I'm usually devoting my thoughts to useful matters," Batavius said. "There are multiple levels of dormant, powered circuitry which are becoming active. It is attempting to interface with Mechos."

For research purposes, I made sure my scanners were getting a good recording of everything that happened. In the meantime I had to keep us alive. Placing the ship in the middle of Sylax's fleet had provided us some cover from the Wolf ships, but now Sylax was sending out boarding craft.

"I believe I have it," Mechos said.

"You can drop the shield?" Anna asked.

"I think so. The systems are strange and this crystal keeps attempting to connect to a larger network that’s not responding," Mechos said. “But I think so.”

No surprise there, given the city had been long abandoned.

"Emma?" Anna asked.

This plan had quickly gotten away from me. We were where I'd wanted us to be, but there were just so many enemy ships. That hadn’t been in the plan.

"Do it," I said. I just had to hope that we could seize the socket before anyone else, and once the prize was ours the capabilities of the city would somehow save us.

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