BattleTech: Blood of Heroes by Andrew Keith

Author:Andrew Keith [Keith, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2011-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

“This is it!” shouted the driver of the Legion’s hover carrier. “Hold on back there!”

In reaction to his warning, Alex Carlyle gripped a strap mounted on the hover carrier’s front partition, hastily double-checking the restraints that held the portable computer terminal in place. The carrier skewed sideways as it came to a stop, and the motley group of technician-soldiers and armed ex-prisoners at the rear of the passenger compartment were piling out before the turbofans had shut off completely. Julio Vargas, the aerospace pilot, brandished a Sternsacht pistol as he barked orders.

“Move! Move! Move!” he urged, waving the pistol with one hand and using the other to shove men toward the rear door. With his bristling black mustache and the ammo belts for the team’s machine gun draped across his chest, Vargas looked like a stock bandito character from some trideo costume drama.

“Aircraft! Aircraft incoming!” someone shouted.

On Alex’s monitor, the three blips that represented the surviving Planetary Guard aircraft were swooping low in another attack run. He could hear the rattle of machine gun fire outside as the lead jet started strafing the legionnaires on the ground.

“Strike One! Strike One!” he called as his hand stabbed the commlink button. “Headshot, get those bastards off us!”

“Roger that, Ghost Leader,” the cadet Mech Warrior replied, imperturbable. Unlike his father, Cristiano de Villar rarely ever betrayed his emotions. “I’ve got them.”

“Legion strike force, Legion strike force,” a familiar voice crackled over the commlink. “Legion strike force, this is Cadet DeVries. Please respond.”

Caitlin . . .

Alex checked his automatic impulse to respond to the call. He hadn’t seen or heard anything about her since the coup, but the fact that she’d been assigned to the governor’s staff just before the whole crisis had erupted didn’t look good.

And the governor was, after all, her father. Alex couldn’t imagine going against his own parent. How could they trust her now? This had to be some kind of trick.

Beside him, Major King turned quickly and keyed the commlink. “This is King,” he said, raising his hand to cut off Alex’s protest. “Go ahead, Cadet.”

“I’ve got important information, Major,” she said, sounding breathless. “They’re getting ready to evacuate— my father and Colonel Walthers. By VTOL from the helipad. I think Walthers intends to take some of the Legion officers as hostages.”

“Where are the hostages now?” King demanded.

“Third . . . third floor,” she replied. “South wing, I think. I’m heading that way now, but if you can get anyone else up there ...”

“Understood,” King said. “Good work, DeVries.”

As King cut the commlink, Alex finally gave voice to an angry protest. “It’s a trap, Major! Has to be . . .”

King shook his head. “It was Cadet DeVries who tipped us off to this mess in the first place. Got a message out through one of the Residence service people. Her father probably didn’t want to lock her up with the rest of you, but he had her under house arrest just the same. We’re damned lucky she got loose when she did.

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