Cyber Viking 3 by Marcus Sloss

Author:Marcus Sloss [Sloss, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Mitchell stood at my side with Elithen flying the AH1. The mock battle was formed and the sun cresting the horizon with its opening rays signaling it was go time. I had Slister on my left flank in her TP63s. The core of the army was leaving Marble Heights in a clustered clump that officers and sergeants were fixing. Making the task tough was the fact that Mclain and his octosuit teams were being towed by Eddy’s TG99s. The eight legged platforms were attached to sleds and the tanks themselves. At some point, the octosuits would need their own hover sleds to move and the hop off to dig in. Or something. This was a mess.

“Slister, perform recon, give me light probing,” I ordered.

“Yes sir,” Slister said over the command net.

The back wall of AH1 displayed my battalion commanders in a picture frame. Under them were the company commanders, then platoon, and finally small units. This was how I tracked reactions and losses. The lower half of the screen had over two thousand tiny images of my force with individual mug shots.

“Thoughts on what you want to use next rotation?” I asked Mitchell.

A glance out the front window showed Slister sending the light tanks out to find Jevon’s forces. Adapting to technology was tough. I still found the small tank’s agility and speed incredible.

“Our electric dirt bikes are slim, fast, and low profile. After seeing what is out there I want something similar that hovers and can fly. So a non-encased gravity sled with a quick attach point to put on a jetpack if needed. The squibbles had a platform like that. A bit of firepower, fast mobility, not meant for extended engagements. The fake exterior throws people off. Next time at least. I understand benching us, we can't take a single shot safely even on low power, and jetpacks are going to need more testing after we had three broken limbs already,” Mitchell said, grumpily with folded arms. He shifted to glance at the drone operators. “Elifer, what are you seeing?”

“Well, they are not hard to find,” the crixxi woman said while looking at us with goggles on.

A forward view screen showed the Aspen army on the move. An ambush nailed one of our scouts. The TG99 unloaded enough firepower for the machine calculator to register a death. The first point went to Aspen. I glanced at the back wall not finding the blacked-out screen.

“Right here,” Sammie said, flicking the image to the port sidewall. She was geared for battle in a black and white acrium suit with no helmet. My personal squire of sorts. “Crixxi Yemminex, young, and inexperienced.”

Mitchell and I smirked. Training was meant for those traits to improve.

“Thank you Sammie,” I said, returning to view the developing battlefield.

“You want to capture the point or slug it out?” Mitchell asked, intently watching Jevon’s actions.

We had set up three control points to hold. Marble Heights which was closer to Mansion was labeled Objective Marble. Leafwind Frontier, a similar housing community closer to Aspen was labeled Leaf.

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