Wizard Defender (Intergalactic Wizard Scout Chronicles Book 8) by Rodney Hartman

Author:Rodney Hartman [Hartman, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27 – An Opening

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Once Timerman dropped the Defiant’s crew into the opening created by the explosion in the yacht’s bridge, he pulled the X-shuttle back a light second to wait for Sergeant Ron’s orders. The next five minutes were the longest of his life.

At least the two destroyers have stopped firing at the yacht, he thought. From the chatter on the intercom, the pirates have boarded the ship. He slapped the armrest of the X-shuttle’s pilot seat with the palm of his left hand. My friends are fighting for their lives, and I’m sitting here doing nothing.

Unable to stand it any longer, Timerman punched the intercom icon on the armrest of his pilot’s seat. “Sergeant Ron, I am in position. Do you want me to start my attack run?”

The agitated voice of the Defiant’s captain sounded loud and clear over the X-shuttle’s intercom. “Negative. Now stay off the air until I give you the order. The last thing we need is for those destroyers to pick up a signal from some young, inexperienced fool before we start our gun runs.”

Timerman felt his face grow warm and glanced over his shoulder, knowing before he did that no one else was inside the X-shuttle to witness his embarrassment. The cabin was as empty as he knew it would be. He checked the tactical hologram between the pilot and copilot’s seats. The white dot denoting Asquan in the dragon-fighter was at his seven o’clock position exactly five light seconds behind him. A second white dot at his five o’clock showed the position of Daniel in the Zip fighter. A green dot on the tactical hologram indicated the location of the Defiant a full ten light seconds behind the two fighters.

“Maybe the Defiant should be a little closer,” Timerman said out loud.

The voice of Margery came over the shuttle’s intercom. “Everyone is exactly where they should be. This is your first major engagement in a ship other than the Defiant. Rick’s plan is a good one. Don’t start second guessing it now. We can’t start our attack on the destroyers until our team on the yacht has its airlock secured. Once that happens, you won’t have time to ask questions. You’ll be too busy dodging plasma beams and missiles from the destroyers to worry about where everyone else is.”

Sufficiently chastised, the teenage orc did another check of the X-shuttle’s weapons systems. The mix of magic and technology weapons Sergeant Hendricks had installed on the X-shuttle was ready and waiting. He grasped the shuttle’s joy stick with his right hand. The gray calloused skin of his palm completely covered the small lever.

“The blasted thing’s too small for my hand,” he said speaking more to take his mind off the wait than he was worried about the size of the controls.

“The X-shuttle was made with humans in mind,” replied Margery. “You are an orc. Now get ready. Jeehana and her team are almost at the airlock. I calculate it will not be long now.”

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