Warrior: Integration (The Singularity War Book 1) by David Hallquist
Author:David Hallquist [Hallquist, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theogony Books
Published: 2020-04-14T22:00:00+00:00
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Chapter 57
It’s instinct alone that saves my life.
I jerk aside as the ladder flares and a shower of white sparks goes flying from the new, glowing hole in the metal. I let go and drop, and another shower of sparks explodes above my head. A large box of relays races up past me, and I grab on with my adhesive pads. A flash of light goes off where I would have been if I’d kept falling.
My array indicates the laser fire came from the Beacon’s roof. They had lots of time to get an ambush ready. I’m almost at the Beacon, and there is at least one gunman on the roof, likely two.
I jump over to another panel facing me and adhere to it with my pads. The box is still giving me cover, but not for long. Already, the shooter will be changing position to get a better shot at me.
The panels aren’t very strong, and they are micro-thin. A long stream from my laser weakens a seam, and I force my way through the flexible material to the other side.
As I’m climbing through, I see a figure in a white and gray spacesuit on the roof, taking cover behind a radiator panel and holding a pistol in a two-handed grip. The other killer. I fire first, burning open his helmet with a puff of vapor. He runs in circles and erratic leaps, while trying to stop the damage to his helmet with his bare hands.
I pull myself through the panel just before a blast melts another hole in it. Adhering to the array, I circle around it faster than he can, then attach my climbing rig and let the line quickly take me down the last few hundred meters.
I land hard and rebound off of the roof, aiming for a large box of equipment topped with antennas. I duck behind the box and hold still.
Waiting. Bursts of coded transmissions let me now there are two men left, and one pinpoints his position with an energy pulse as he fires where he thought I landed. Sloppy. The one who was firing at me earlier is approaching, clearing possible hiding places. The other one is near the edge of the Beacon, likely waiting to shoot me as soon as the other flushes me out.
While they are communicating, I make out the other Terran—a gorilla in a spacesuit holding a scanner laser in his mitts. The instant he sees me, I’m dead, so he gets to go first. I take careful aim at his faceplate and fire.
His plate was mirrored, so that’s probably why he lived to drop his weapon and hold his mitts to a cracked visor, spewing mist and blood. I don’t need to decode the messages to understand the screams blasting from the radio. Blind, he teeters on the edge and drops out of sight. Two hundred kilos of killer are on the way down to the greenhouse domes, five kilometers below. I hope the glass can take it.
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