Bug Hunt (Argonauts Book 1) by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2017-02-26T18:30:00+00:00

seventeen

Rade. Boss.”

Rade blinked. He realized a figure in a jumpsuit was kneeling in front of him. Harlequin.

“How long have you been kneeling there?” Rade said.

“Only a few seconds,” Harlequin replied. “But we’ve been trying to contact you for the past five minutes.”

“Why didn’t you tell Shaw to ping me,” Rade said. “She’s been screening my calls.”

“I did ping you,” Shaw transmitted. “You weren’t answering me either.”

“Your vitals were okay, and we could tap into your vision feed, so we knew you were conscious,” Harlequin said. “They sent me down to check on you.”

“You all right, boss?” Bender said. The concern was obvious in his voice.

“I’m fine.” Rade stood. “That battle just drained me a little, that’s all.”

“Bet you miss the meds the navy used to feed us,” Fret said. “Block all that shit out.”

“Block what out?” Rade said. “I told you I was fine. And I don’t want to hear anything more on the matter.”

He noticed a couple of Centurions were in the concourse with him, guarding the entrance to the building. He glanced at his overhead map. Tahoe had arranged the Hoplites into a defensive perimeter on the rooftop.

Good man.

Rade glanced through the floor-to-ceiling windows at the sky outside and zoomed in on the rent. He spotted the small, crab-like dome repair bots slowly moving along the ragged edges, 3D printing a plug. “How long until the rooftop dome is repaired?”

“Given the current rate of repair,” Lui said. “We’re looking at two weeks, at least.”

“Unit D, get the mayor to show us where the lab is on the map,” Rade said. “It’s time to track down Ms. Bounty.”

“I have it,” the unit said a moment later. “Marking the location.”

Rade watched a flashing waypoint appear on his overhead map, about five blocks away, two blocks north of the damaged pedway station shed.

“By the way,” the unit continued. “Farhad wants to know how many of those bioweapons we faced.”

“I see no harm in telling him,” Rade said. “Three.”

A moment later, the unit said: “He tells me there were seven of them trapped in the underground pedway system originally.”

Rade stared worriedly past the floor-to-ceiling windows into the street beyond. The remaining four could be anywhere out there. He wondered how long the glass could hold out to an assault.

Fret carried a spare comm node in the storage compartment of his Hoplite; Rade had him leave it with the colonists. Then he and the others vacated the building and proceeded toward the lab building.

Best to draw the creatures away, if they’re watching us.

Rade, Harlequin and the robots once more shadowed the Hoplites from the rooftops.

When they reached the target building, they discovered that the main door was a slab of metal as thick as the one on floor thirty-five of the skyscraper. Neither TJ nor Bender was able to hack through, so Rade set the Centurions to work cutting it.

The main door was three meters high and two across, just wide enough to fit a Hoplite. Of course, whether or not the mechs could fit depended on the size of the hole the Centurions cut.

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