Turning Point (Galaxy's Edge Book 7) by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge, LLC
Published: 2018-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

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The battle that followed was a series of brutal engagements along the hallways and upper floors of Air Defense Tower Four. Besson and the Shadows found themselves quickly switching from battlefield assassins and intel gatherers to shock troops.

But every legionnaire started out a killer. So they adapted quickly, falling into something that felt as natural as walking to them. In moments they were moving by fire teams, taking key intersections within the complex, and setting up brutal fields of crossfire against the near psychotic zhee. They lobbed fraggers through forced blast doors, or used the breaching charges they’d brought along in the event they would need to crack reinforced blast doors. Massive explosions rocked the lower levels of the tower, and beyond its walls, the cry of energy displacement guns could be heard across the night.

Explosions in the tight corridors, and in the zhee’s densely packed firing positions, combined with the coordinated fire from the teams, decimated the zhee on the lower levels quickly. Second Squad breached the blast doors that guarded the access to the fire control nexus above. That would provide access to the main batteries that ringed the upper level.

Within moments it became clear that the zhee were determined to hold the line at the top of a wide set of stairs that led up to the control nexus. Except the zhee as a whole had no idea how to actually “hold a line.” They excelled in other strategies—strategies that made them something to be feared by all other races in the galaxy. The zhee were definitely a “handle with care” fighting force. They were so unhinged in battle that fear turned quickly to frenzy.

The zhee idea of holding was to charge.

Just as Third Squad was preparing to go up the wide, dimly lit stairs in wedge formation, covered by an overwatch from the remaining squads, the zhee attacked like a torrent of wild zathabulls. In seconds they were in and among the advancing legionnaires, who were firing back at them at point-blank range. N-4 blasters spat out hot wicked blasts of fire that illuminated and strobed the darkness of the rising stairwell.

Second Squad tried to put fire into the advancing wave of zhee, but as quickly as the front rank had been punctured and ventilated by searing bolts of blaster fire, the next rank of zhee were pushing the fallen aside and swooping down into Third Squad with their bright kankari knives flashing. Behind these, another rank of zhee carrying heavy blasters fired into anyone in front of them, including their own if they managed to get in the way.

This sudden and devastating zhee counteroffensive was only the second-most jaw-dropping aspect of the assault.

“Donks got armor!” screamed some kid from one of the overmatched squads. And it was true. And that surprised everyone. From within the melee along the stairs, Captain Besson could see that the zhee warriors were wearing a type of armor, similar to Legion armor, across their massive chests. Blaster shots that struck the plate were reflected off and away.

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