The Star Chronicles: Book 01 - Battle for Earth by Rod Porter

Author:Rod Porter [Porter, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roderick Kelvin Porter II
Published: 2013-02-10T06:00:00+00:00

“Richard, I have to leave you for a minute. I’m going to get tools from the van and get you out of this thing.”

Richard grabbed him. “It hurts!”

“I know. I know. Look.”

Jackson gestured to the colonists that were running towards them.

“They’re coming over to help you. I’m going to run to the vans. I’ll grab some tools and we’ll get you out of this thing.”

With that, Jackson left Richard in a sticky puddle of blood. He was about halfway to the vans when he stopped dead in his tracks. He remembered why the click and the design of the trap were so eerily familiar to him. Frozen with fear, he developed goose bumps over every inch of his body. He turned around and started running back toward Richard. To his horror, he could see Richard, and the seven people who were at his side, reaching for the trap that was clamped to his bottom leg.

“No!” Jackson yelled as he ran toward them. “Leave it alone!”

He was almost there.

“Don’t touch-”

Jackson’s warnings were cut short by an explosion that sent him flying and blew Richard and his would be saviors to pieces. The trap had been rigged to explode if tampered with, as Jackson had sensed.

On the ground, covered in ash and dirt the only thing Jackson could hear was a constant ringing in his ears. The explosion had a small blast radius, but it had been very powerful. He could not see anything. His vision was nothing but a blur of colors as he stumbled to his feet. Running in the direction where he’d last seen Stephanie was only possible through adrenaline. Finally, his vision half returned. Jackson made out what looked like two armed men advancing on the lower fields where the colonists had been working. Still he could hear nothing, but he felt something thud against the back of his skull.

The force of the blow knocked him to the ground. A man gripping a carbine assault rifle stood over Jackson. The man aimed his gun down, poised to shoot Jackson, when he was riddled with bullets from an unknown source. A second man came to stand over Jackson, holding a pistol.

“Hivestown Bureau of Investigation,” the man said in his victorious stance. “Don’t be alarmed, you’re safe. It was just a small band of raiders. My men have killed the other two.”

That did not make sense to Jackson. Grateful that his senses were returning, he did the math in his head. An advanced booby trap, rigged to explode, leading the band of raiders to them. Followed up by an armed assault with only three men? It took a minute for him to work it all out in his head. The goose bumps returned.

“Listen,” he said, sitting up, still in pain. “You’ve got to rally your men. This is the beginning. That was just the first wave.”

The Bureau agent was shot from afar and dropped dead on top of Jackson in a bloody heap. Now that his senses were back, Jackson’s training kicked in like lightning.

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