Wings of Battle (Liberators Book 1): A Military Sci-Fi Space Opera by SJ Schauer

Author:SJ Schauer [Schauer, SJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dawnrunner Press
Published: 2021-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Marda stood there for a moment just staring after them. That kiss was unexpected and wonderful. She stood touching her lips for a long moment, watching them disappear behind a building. There’s no way I’ll make it to class in time before they mark me absent now. I don’t care though. With joy in her hearts, she began the three kilometra walk up-spin toward her next class

UCSBA-13, Main Hangar

After classes, Blazer skipped dinner and the squadron’s evening drill and ceremony. Instead, he headed back to the hangar deck. It appeared that the orb had gone unnoticed by the chief in his absence. It was gone by the time he arrived. There was a lot of work left, he grabbed the macomm off the wing. Blazer noted the large number of components checked off, mostly as scrap. He continued his work and wondered why the orb had left so many gaps.

After a hect, Chief Flind poked his head in to check on his progress. “What’s your status, cadet?”

“It’s coming along slower than I’d like, sir, but I think I’ll be done before the end of the cycle.”

The chief eyed him skeptically before he opened one of the magnetic screens and stepped in. “You really think so?”

The chief looked at the mess strewn about the alcove. Blazer had set up a number of carts with bins and placed the salvageable parts in or on them. Those that he deemed too damaged for use, he arranged on another set of carts in the rear. The wing looked more skeletal than the last time the chief had seen it. Even the EPC now rested on a cradle on the opposite side of the alcove with its sub-assemblies arrayed on the shelves beneath. The chief looked at the engine with all of its access ports opened and removed.

“Are you going to do the same for the engine?”

Blazer looked at the macomm. “It looks like you want me to, sir.”

The chief shook his head. “You’ll be at it for a decle.”

Blazer held up the macomm for the chief to see. “Well, sir, you did order that I check every subassembly and piece of connecting and mounting hardware.”

With a wicked grin the chief scratched his chin and replied. “I did at that. We’ll see though.”

Even to Blazer’s surprise, he finished the job that cycle. It was right before lights out as he finished cataloging the wing. Beaming with pride, he walked up to the chief and handed him the macomm. “There you go, sir. Completed as ordered.”

The chief snatched the macomm out of his outstretched hand. The look on his face told Blazer enough, he couldn’t believe it either. Blazer had checked every component and the major engine sub-assemblies off as salvageable or unsalvageable. “Who helped you?” the chief grumbled.

“No one, sir. It was just me.”

The chief glared at him. “I saw the orb.”

Blazer took a step back sure that some punishment was coming. I had no idea that Rimdook could see orbs. He hoped that surprise didn’t meet his face.

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