The Phoenix Requiem by Richard L. Sanders

Author:Richard L. Sanders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, mystery, space opera, war, sci fi, phoenix conspiracy
Publisher: Richard L. Sanders

CHAPTER 13

Calvin had hoped to avoid any more fighting as he and his team raced back toward the pods. He wanted nothing more than to get back on the Nighthawk, jump away from this system, and put the entire experience permanently behind him. For the most part, he kept his concentration well, and managed to think only of the mission, and, when they had come across enemies, it had been Calvin who had spotted them first.

The fight had proven to be brief, although extremely gruesome. The enemy force outnumbered Calvin’s group by about fifty percent. However, they also seemed to be taken completely by surprise when Calvin and his team attacked them. For a few deadly minutes, Calvin was not sure that he and his forces would prevail, or that anyone would manage to get back to the pods and back to the Nighthawk. If that proved to be the case, he dearly hoped that Nimoux would eventually retreat the ship to safety after making the obvious assumption regarding Calvin and his team.

But, as the fight intensified, Calvin’s Rosco-trained soldiers proved to be more effective than he had expected and, through superior marksmanship and a little cunning, his force managed to entirely eliminate the enemy soldier patrol, while only sustaining six casualties of their own. They were regrettable losses, all six of them. The lost included: one of the mercenaries that Raidan had sent Calvin what seemed like forever ago; also the specialist pilot—rendering one of the two pods completely un-flyable since only Calvin remained who knew how to operate the damned things; and finally four Rosco soldiers whose names, Calvin was ashamed to admit, he had never bothered to learn.

During the chaos, their captive slipped free of the soldiers restraining him—mostly because those men had to draw their weapons and return fire on the enemy to save their lives. The escape attempt was noticed immediately, and the captive never managed to get far, nor could he wriggle out of the restraints that kept his arms behind his back, but his effort still contributed to the chaos. Ultimately, Nikolai had been the one to overtake the fleeing captive, the Dark Prelain, and aggressively tackle him to the ground. When Nikolai returned to the group, he had the captive slung over his shoulder as if the Dark One were a bundle of potatoes, yet, considering the ease with which Nikolai held him, it was as though he was as light as a feather. Fortunately, by the time Nikolai returned, the fight was over. So he had set the captive down and turned him back over to the two soldiers charged with watching him.

“Don’t let him get away again,” Nikolai had warned them, “Or else I’ll do to you what I did to him.”

The guards seemed to understand; although the exact threat hadn’t been clear to Calvin, the message had essentially been not to allow the captive any opportunity to slip away, even if their group found itself embattled once more. Calvin

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