Weapons of Earth by Scott Moon

Author:Scott Moon [Moon, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scott Moon

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Shock Trooper Down

REBECCA looked to her right and saw the Ror-Rea princess watching the battle with pain, regret, and anger on her face. She was beautiful, even though her back bent under the pressure of her mistake. Rebecca didn’t understand her power — didn’t need to. Clavender was the only one who could move so many living creatures between Crashdown and the Ror-Rea. This was her fault.

She understood shapeshifters well enough to know she didn’t like them. Trust them? Hell no. As the battle intensity increased from one end of the field to the other — war cries growing louder, numbers of Wingers on the attack increasing — Rebecca spat into her reclamation tube. To her right was Clavender. Far away to her left was something that looked like Clavender but wasn’t. Kin was being drawn into the middle of a fight he couldn’t survive, much less win. Before long, the real Clavender would be forced to toss the Reaper horde through a wormhole and Kin would find himself separated from reinforcements.

Rebecca slapped Dogface on the arm, then Mikey-Danny on his chest plate. “Let’s get Kin.”

“Wish we had our Mechs,” Dogface said.

“I second that request,” Mikey-Danny said. “I feel small in this gear.”

Rebecca ignored the byplay and jumped from the ledge, landing so hard that the impact dampers of the FSPAA-IIA overloaded and vibrated from the soles of her boots to the top of her helmet. The Reaper she landed on fared much worse. The dark blood of Hellsbreach squirted like a starburst across the ground. Stumbling, catching her balance with one hand, she slid on a knee and ducked as a swarm of enemies came over her lowered position. Nearby, Dogface and Mikey-Danny were flinging bullets on parallel courses just above her head. She stayed low and stayed alive.

There had been only a few times when crawling in modern armor became necessary. The sensation was strange, like getting lost in a tunnel as it collapsed. She could hear and feel her friends marching a pace behind, clearing a space with their heaviest weapons.

Both men stopped to reload. Rebecca sprang to her feet, rushed a group of Reapers. She used her peripheral vision to aim at two individuals, sending them to hell even as she smashed forward to strike the middle creature with her helmet.

I am such a badass in this armor. She wondered what her adversaries would think if they saw she was just a little girl — toughened physically, mentally, and emotionally by combat — but just a girl.

“I am glad to hear you laughing again!” Dogface yelled over the radio.

“Battle bitch!” Mikey-Danny.

“Settle down, MD. You know how you are when you get carried away.”

“Oorahhh! Motherfuckerskissmyballs!” Mikey-Danny yelled.

Rebecca smiled as she killed everything that crossed her path.

Wingers came to help, then abandoned Rebecca’s area of dominion. “Pick up the pace!”

Dogface and Mikey-Danny complied. Rebecca almost forgot what they had come here for. “Get Kin!”

“They’re pushing back,” Dogface said. “We can’t hot-dog this shit all day.”

“Ahhhhhh!” Rebecca bulldozed her way through a crowd of Reapers that had stopped to feed.

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