Vengeance by Tim Marquitz

Author:Tim Marquitz [Marquitz, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“We’ve got incoming,” Dent called.

Taj followed his eyes to the sky and growled low in her throat. Although they were currently little more than black specks against the pale blue horizon, she knew what was coming.

“Gack it all!” she snarled.

She looked at her people spread out across the field and realized how little protection that distance offered against the mass of Wyyvan fighters screaming their way.

She was glad she’d relayed her orders before they’d arrived, or any chance they had of survival would be nil—not that even perfect execution of her plan offered much hope of better odds. But at least the handful of shuttles she’d sent the back ranks had peeled off before they could be shot down.

“How’s the loading going?” she asked Dent.

He paused for only an instant before replying, and Taj knew he’d been communicating with the bots. “The first two shuttles are loaded and away. A third is almost ready, and the others are in process. Won’t be much longer before they are airborne.”

Taj groaned, despite knowing her complaints would do nothing to speed things up. “We’re gonna need one right away.”

Dent didn’t even bother to reply.

“Spread out, people!” Cabe shouted over the comm. “Make it as hard as possible for these approaching fighters to target you.”

“We could always jump on their backs like Taj did,” Torbon laughed.

“Yeah, because that worked out so well, huh?” Taj asked, recalling how she’d only made it through because of Dent and the shuttle he’d summoned to keep her from becoming a bloody splat on the ravaged terrain.

A few moments later, the Vipers joined the fight. They streaked across the sky and engaged the shuttles without mercy.

Two of the shuttles evaporated in fierce explosions as soon as the Wyyvan fighters made contact.

Dent adjusted then, disengaging them from the ground troops and turning their focus to the fighters. The Wyyvan soldiers pushed forward as soon as the pressure was off.

Taj ducked and darted to the left, dodging the sudden burst of renewed fire that came in their direction. Another of the Furlorians fell, and Rat just managed to slip away from an energy burst that nearly took her head off.

“Stay low, girl,” Taj growled at Rat, despite feeling like a hypocrite.

There were Furlorians as young as Rat in the battle, and several of them had died already.

The only grace Taj could retain regarding the situation was that the Furlorians had come to the planet of their own accord. Sure, they’d followed her, but they had had a choice to come and fight for the planet of their birth.

Rat didn’t have that option.

She’d been dragged to the planet and enslaved, forced to work for masters who didn’t care for her on a planet where she didn’t belong.

For Taj to see Rat die for such an empty cause would be far too bitter a bite of cruel fate for her to take.

Two more Furlorians fell under the barrage and Taj growled, wanting to look away but needing to record their deaths in her mind.

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