The Last Symbiotes 2: Living Starship by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It took them a good half a day to get back to the GWC HQ. They had to trundle back at the sort of speed that a small beat-up craft might cruise back to base with an incredible prize in tow.

“If the crew are like any of the other security forces that run around this system, they’d take their sweet time getting back,” Decker said to Craglin, who had taken Rosa’s position in the co-pilot’s seat.

“Yeah,” the Renkiddion said, “so they’d have longer to drink the booze they weren’t supposed to have and get over the hangovers they wouldn’t be able to explain.”

Decker fidgeted in his seat the closer they got to the looming vastness of the GWC base. The ill-fitting uniform of pine green, complete with sashed holster, was too tight in all the places that counted.

“What’s wrong, Captain Decker, you got ants in your pants?” Craglin quipped after Decker had stretched his thigh so much that a seam had partly given.

“These damn trousers are so tight they could be painted on,” Decker grumbled.

“You sure you haven’t loved a lass that wasn’t clean, mate?” the Renkiddin joked. “It happens to us all, you know.”

“No,” Decker said, wriggling uncomfortably, “I just guess that the GWC doesn’t employ anyone who has to worry overly about how tight something is in the crotch. It’s probably why you’re so comfortable over there.”

He glanced sideways at the short Renkiddion and snorted. The little man was dressed in the same uniform, but had been obliged to make some alterations to the length of the arms of the tunic and the trouser legs with a laser cutter and a hot sealant gun. All in all, the little fellow had made a perfectly passable job of it. Decker just hoped that the sealed seams would hold long enough for them to complete their mission.

And what a mission that’s going to be, he thought, as he steered the Farrago along behind the cutter being piloted by Rosa and Hera. Break into what is most probably the most tightly defended security complex in the system, free a prisoner that is likely guarded by all sorts of top level equipment and the most stringent protocols, then cruise on out again in a spaceship that sticks out like a sore thumb.

“Just another fucking day at the office, eh?” Craglin asked eerily, as if he could read Decker’s mind.

They were still quite far out when the station’s traffic control tower hailed. Decker had linked himself mentally with Rosa and so he heard the radio crackle in the stolen cutter. Thankfully, there was very little that Rosa needed guidance on in the end. As Decker has suspected, she had found the cutter’s callsign laser branded across the top of the slightly antiquated comms panel.

Although she might not have had as much confidence in her abilities as she should have, when the time came for action, Rosa Hawkes was not one to be found wanting. She handled the radio transaction with admirable aplomb,

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