World Enders (The Phoenix Initiative Book 2) by Wolf Marisa & Kennedy Chris

Author:Wolf, Marisa & Kennedy, Chris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seventh Seal Press
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Outside the Goka Facility, Tarpik

Justice couldn’t take over the anti-aircraft system. Disappointing—he’d had an image of himself in a seat, aiming large artillery all over the field, and seeding body parts throughout. Not his usual method of killing, but it made up for that in flair.

Esthik, one of the healers back home, had always said Hunters don’t need flair, but Justice was sure Esthik hadn’t meant it. The older Hunter had chosen two Humans and a Wrogul as his companions—that was a bit of showing off.

As he caused three Goka to stab each other while he flickered in and out of view, Justice considered that he should take a companion. His Dama had encouraged it for years, and he wanted to, sometimes, but…

Maybe he could get a Peacemaker contract and take Tald as a companion. He wondered if there’d be a Peacemaker contract for the Hunters again now that they’d retaken Khatash.

He should probably focus more on the situation at hand, but he’d killed enough Goka that it was routine. It had been more interesting on Khatash, when he’d had to dodge Tortantulas, as well—some of them had had an uncanny knack for stabbing their giant legs down too close to him, despite his field.

The Dama had had ideas about that, though she hadn’t shared them. Much like she hadn’t shared all the ways she was using the five Veetanho she’d had turned over to them. Stupid Veetanho.

Justice spit, used a falling Goka to leap higher and claw out the eyes of one that was wildly shooting at nothing—Justice supposed the Goka was meant to be shooting at him, but as the alien was failing terribly, Justice could forgive himself the confusion—then used his leverage to spin the Goka around until he fired into enough of the Goka to pull their attention further.

Something large exploded, and Justice decided he should probably hurry up and destroy the enormous, missile-spewing machine ahead of him. He’d circled it twice already, trying to figure out a way into its control system, but—unfortunately—the Goka weren’t complete morons.

The controls weren’t exposed to the air, and all the access points were well covered. If something didn’t draw the Goka away, he wouldn’t have the time he needed to splice into it and redirect its ordnance.

If he couldn’t use it, though, better to remove it from the board. There, Dunamis. That’s something we have in common.

Justice laughed to himself and started climbing—he hadn’t brought all his favorite toys from home, but he had enough to jam plenty of moving parts. Given that some of these moving parts were housing things that already had a lot of explosive material, he could jam it with absolutely spectacular results.

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