The Nyxia Triad 3: Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen

Author:Scott Reintgen [Reintgen, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Survival Stories
ISBN: 9780399556890
Google: gQBlDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07FRZK3S4
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2019-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

EYES

Anton Stepanov

07 days 12 hours 14 minutes

I stand at the rear of our makeshift command center. Aguilar picked this place as a containment strategy. The room boasts a less complex system than the main command center. It allows her to monitor her team more closely. Fewer chances of betrayal. I like the place because there’s a hidden back door in one corner that leads to all my favorite places.

It’s hard to stop thinking that way.

Back doors. Tunnels. Hiding.

It takes effort to return my attention to the task at hand. Every console glows with blue light. Hands dance over schematics and layouts. Quick swipes silence the growing number of alarms. Our crew has been on high alert ever since the first alarm announced objects leaving the planet’s atmosphere. Patrols roam the corridors. Vandemeer is sending reports from our detainment area. It didn’t take Aguilar’s team long to determine the incoming ships weren’t from Babel. That news had my heart beating with a new kind of hope.

The Imago are coming. Maybe my friends are with them.

“Twenty-three breaches,” one of the techies announces. “Most of them are along the hull of the Genesis 12. There’s only one outlier in the mix.

A breach near the auxiliary hangar.”

My eyes narrow. “That could be the Genesis 14 crew.”

Aguilar shakes her head. “There’s no way to know. We don’t have eyes on any of it after shutting down the main security system. We can bring it back online, but we risk giving anyone loyal to Babel a foothold if it’s up and running.”

“Let’s focus on the main breaches,” I say. “Is anyone aboard the Genesis 12?”

“One of our techies was performing maintenance there. Her name is Lilja Gudmundsson,” the nearest techie says. “The no-grav areas are patchy at best. We can’t get any contact. But we have an open line with the person that was posted on guard rotation aboard the Genesis 12. ”

It takes her a second to scan down the list before she selects the right name. A photo appears on her console, and she transfers it to the main screen for the rest of us to see. A pale face with dark raven eyes. “Dr.

Karpinski,” Aguilar announces. “Let’s get him on the comm.”

It takes a few seconds for the link to work. A hesitant voice echoes back to us.

“He-hello?”

“This is Commander Aguilar. Are you at your post aboard the Genesis 12?”

“I’m here.”

Dr. Karpinski’s file is up on the screen. The more I read, the less confident I feel. He was one of the caretakers aboard the Genesis 11. His two wards were Roathy and Isadora. I can’t help noticing the demerit

listed in the bottom right corner of his file. It describes the doctor’s actions during their flight as “reckless” and “treasonous.” It goes on to say he “intentionally endangered the life of Emmett Atwater, a valued asset…”

All I can do is shake my head. Not the most promising option.

“Dr. Karpinski, our systems are showing breach points in the Genesis 12. We believe a number of Imago ships have made contact.

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