Courageous by Nicholas Olivo

Author:Nicholas Olivo [Olivo, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t help myself. I planted my fists on my hips, squared my shoulders, and gave Eva my best Commander Courageous smile. “Because I’m a hero, dammit.”

She shot me.

Or rather, she tried to.

Something shifted in my chest, and I felt much more… solid? It was an odd sensation, as if I were made of metal rather than flesh and bone. The bullet bounced off my chest and ricocheted around the stairwell with a high-pitched whine.

Eva and I stared at each other, dumbfounded. That gave Petra an opening to reach forward, grab the nearest trooper’s wrist and break his arm in two places before hurling him into another of his friends. They both went down in a heap. I recovered enough from my sudden invulnerability to snap out my switchblade and slash at Eva’s gun arm. She pulled back fast enough to avoid getting cut, but the Olympian steel sliced through the barrel of her pistol as if it were butter.

Eva grabbed my wrist, twisted, and slammed my head into the wall. Stars blossomed in my vision, and despite the ringing in my ears, I heard Eva say, “Kill the girl! Use grenades!”

My sight cleared enough so I could watch as Eva and one of the troopers, the one farthest from Petra, both lobbed something into the room.

Three.

Time slowed down for me. The grenades drifted toward their targets, and I recognized them from Gearstripper’s workshop. These had three-second fuses.

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