Benefactor by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

6

“Jason’s team is down. A bomb went off. Get to them now,” Paul said from Morgan’s helmet as it sat on a crate beside her as she was gnawing on a ration bar in the middle of their field base. She laid the half-eaten chocolate covered bar on a crate and pulled her helmet back on, hearing the tell-tale clicks as it locked into her collar armor.

“I’m not getting a hit on his position.”

“Go here,” Paul said, giving her a waypoint. Nearby it were two other Archon tags. “I lost his signal when the bomb blew, but he wasn’t right on top of it. I can’t reach any of his team on comms.”

“Isn’t anyone closer?” she asked, grabbing her rifle and running across the makeshift camp, tagging a couple others on the shoulders to get them to follow.

“I’ve got two other teams headed that way, but I think you can get there the fastest. If they’re still alive I don’t want any lizards stumbling over them and finishing the job.”

“On my way,” she said, adjusting comm channels. “Jason’s team is down, get to the waypoint as soon as you can,” she told those Archons following her a few steps back before she accelerated and soon lost them in the maze of the jumpship.

Paul followed her progress from the Excalibur, wanting to head down to the shuttle bay and go over himself but knowing that he wouldn’t get there as soon as the others could. As expected, her dot on the battlemap was traveling faster than all the others and made it to the waypoint a good 3 minutes ahead of the other teams, with those Archons trailing her still 8 minutes back. Her dot merged with one of the two Archons’ from Jason’s team then his comm activated.

“David’s down and out cold, but alive,” she said, pulling off the adept’s red helmet and finding a blood-soaked patch of sandy blonde hair beneath it, though it took on a ghostly hue in her helmet lights. A small rivulet of the dark liquid ran out of the helmet as she set it aside, but the injury wasn’t nearly as bad as his helmet looked with a puncture through the far left temple where a piece of metallic debris had imbedded and poked superficially into his head.

Morgan stepped over and lifted a section of wall off his legs then dragged his unconscious body back down what was left of the hallway as her eyes scanned the area, looking for more signs of Jason’s team or lizard incursions, which could have been hiding anywhere in the debris piles. Walls and ceiling were gone, replaced by a cluttered cave of broken ship with the upper decks having fallen down in pieces to the lower ones. She was on the edge of a large crater that stretched at least two levels down and into which most of the debris had fallen, but there were still piles around the edge blocking her view and making her very

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