Boneyard Dog Omnibus by Andrew Beery

Author:Andrew Beery [Beery, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-10T06:00:00+00:00

2100.1207.2044 Galactic Normalized Time

Merab dried her hands. She had finally been allowed to help in a meaningful way. The Gilboa had sustained significant damage during a brief encounter with the Defilers defending the cloning facility on the planet Tarf. With this damage had come a host of injuries and perhaps more distressing… Admiral Riker had been taken prisoner.

The Saulite doctor had been asked to help with the injured. She agreed quickly. She also offered to help with any rescue attempt for the Admiral. The very fact that she could walk through the cloning facility without raising alarm bells should have been enough to get her on the duty roster for that mission. Sadly, even though she represented the Admiral’s best chance of rescue… she had not yet regained the trust of her crewmates. Absent that trust, she was going to have to act unilaterally.

Chapter 14: Dog Bite…

Let me state for the record, using your head like a hammer to knock another person out cold is not a practice endorsed by the Surgeon General. The fact that it works… sometimes… does not mitigate the fact that it hurts both parties involved. Case in point, the Saulite doctor was unconscious, and there was a very real risk that I might join her. I had to fight to stay awake. I wondered how many concussions I had racked up over the last day or so.

When my head stopped ringing, I began to work my hand free of its restraint. It took more time and quite a bit more skin than I was hoping for but eventually I got the job done. Ironically, the skin scrapes and blood from my efforts to free the hand actually helped to lubricate the hand so that I could pull it free. A few moments later the same could be said for all of my limbs.

Ktan was moaning softly on the floor. I could see a small pool of blood coming from her nose. Judging from the angle of said nose, it appeared I broke it. I would have restrained her, but I was on the clock and quickly running out of time. We were alone in the… whatever the heck place this was, but who knew how long that would last.

The room was a medical bay of some sort. The design was unfamiliar, and the tech looked even more sophisticated than what we had on the Gilboa. I knew I needed a plan if I was going to make good my escape, but the reality was… I was winging it. As strategies go, winging it… was not a good one, but sometimes you had to play the cards you were dealt and hope for a winning hand. This was one of those times.

I put an ear on the door. I could hear activity on the other side. I thought about stealing the good doctor’s lab coat. The problem was this was a cloning facility and as far as I knew there were no Riker models walking about.

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