After War (Revenge Squad Book 1) by Tim C. Taylor

Author:Tim C. Taylor [Taylor, Tim C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Human Legion Publications
Published: 2016-12-19T18:30:00+00:00

— CHAPTER 29 —

Sarge was shouting loud enough to make the inside of my head ring, and some of the others I rarely heard from were screaming incoherently. I couldn’t even think because the cacophony in my head was so loud. Then a sudden sense of calm descended on me. A loving and embracing sense of calm I recognized and missed terribly. It was Bahati clearing the others away so she could have a quiet word with me.

Just take a deep breath, she said in a creamy smooth voice. My muscles slowly loosened. There, she said, that’s better. Don’t think, just do. Squeeze the trigger.

I still had their leader, Karim, in my sights. I readied and… nothing!

What was wrong with me?

Take another deep breath, said Bahati, and we’ll try again.

My breath was rasping, my head was pounding, but my muscles weren’t locked up any longer. I just couldn’t shoot the bastard for some reason, like that incident that got me court-martialed all over again.

But I could still be useful.

I thundered out of cover in a spray of ripped foliage and raced at the attackers. “Hey! You wanna fight? Forget about those weasels, pick on someone your own size!”

I dove for the ground and rolled, just before a volley of bullets came my way. I felt a scald of pain in my left shoulder as I went prone and raised my carbine.

In that slow motion way you get when things are moving fast around you, I already knew I was too late. I was a sitting target, and these intruders were showing no hesitation in pulling their triggers.

More shots came my way. I was hit, multiple wounds, but I couldn’t feel them. Their weapons were trading stopping power for stealth. Not military grade stealth, but instead of the crack of gunshot thunder it was more of that breeze through the trees I’d heard earlier. Even so, gunshot wounds are serious business. If I wasn’t hurting, then it was because my body, with all its rewirings to optimize me for a life as a soldier, had decided the sense of pain was no longer helpful. That was a very bad sign.

And the reason I was pondering this in such detail? Isn’t it obvious? I was about to die.

Suddenly, the characteristic whine and scream of a railgun shardshot round came from the trees to my left. Then another, accompanied by a scream of pain.

Of the three intruders in the clearing, two spun around to face this new threat, while the third, the little Imp, hit the ground and started crawling for cover. Full marks to the alien for remembering to stay alive first and shoot back second. Didn’t help it though. The next railgun round went straight through her eye band in a spray of goop. Two more whines in quick succession felled the other two intruders.

Go Shahdi! At least, I was making a working assumption that it had been the farm girl firing. I hoped I was right because I was already on my feet and stumbling over to the fallen assailants.

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