The Stranded Fleet: An Epic Space Opera Saga (From Far Beyond Book 2) by Christian Kallias

Author:Christian Kallias [Kallias, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

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The first thing that Kevin noticed once in the elevator was that the numbers, grouped by sliding controls every hundred floors, stopped at six hundred and ninety-nine. He didn’t mind walking to the last level by foot; it was better than continually climbing the levels one by one as he had up until now. He was just glad he could bypass nearly four hundred of them with a single press of a touch control.

Thankfully, his advanced armor had been doing most of the work. Kevin remembered once visiting one of his friends that lived on the twentieth floor on a day the elevator was out of service. That had not been a fun climb, and it had taken him nearly five minutes just to catch his breath.

But here he was, three hundred levels later, after having faced a horde of enemies and he could breathe just fine. Sure, he felt some fatigue, but there was no way he could have done a tenth of what he did without Ziron’s amazing suit of nano-armor.

“What are we waiting for?” asked Mira.

“Right.”

Kevin entered the last level as their destination, and the elevator smoothly ascended with no perceptible G-forces and no other perceptible clue other than a slight humming. It was updating every ten floors and it didn’t take long to reach the top.

The elevator doors slid open to an ominous three-note chime. Dum-dum-duuummm.

“That’s not reassuring at all,” said Mira.

“You can say that again,” answered Kevin as he timidly exited the elevator cage into a large room with a super high ceiling. There were only two sources of light, one was artificial and the other a far-off window revealing a dark purple sky.

It made him wonder how high they were. Could the skyscraper be at the top of this planet’s atmosphere, or even beyond?

Kevin didn’t want to think as to why this room was so big, though his video gaming instincts were titillating just like when he was about to face some sort of boss character. Hopefully, the room served another purpose.

A voice boomed, the sound surrounding and echoing against the room’s walls.

“You’re not welcome here,” said a deep female voice. “You have exactly twenty seconds to turn back or be destroyed.”

A holographic timer appeared in the middle of the room and started its countdown.

“That’s unfortunate,” said Mira. “What do we do?”

Kevin briefly looked at Mira with a dumbfounded expression before returning his gaze back to the timer.

“We wait and face what’s coming. We haven’t come all this way to abandon the mission now.”

“While I’m happy standing by your side, my hologram can’t do much.”

“I know.”

Kevin was well aware of that as the timer counted down below ten seconds, but perhaps she could distract some of the enemies. And, if not, well, he would fight alone. He had been all day already.

When the counter reached zero and blinked red three times, the lighting in the room died out. With very few stars outside, what Kevin’s eyes could see was negligible beyond the little light radiating from Mira’s hologram.

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