Evasion by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-07-21T23:00:00+00:00

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Esna and the others ran for more than an hour before the speeders came back. Rammak and the other fighters trailed them so far behind sometimes she couldn’t see them on her battlemap, but for the moment they were just within range. As the others began loading the cargo she looked back but had to activate her zoom just to catch a bit of their armor getting around the slight curve in the ice.

They were still there, but they wouldn’t be taking this ride. They’d have to wait for the speeders to come back again and Esna got a sinking feeling like she might lose Rammak if she left him now.

Her brain told her no, that they were ahead of the Zen’zat and would stay ahead of them, but still…

“Get on,” one of the Kiritas said, snapping Esna away from her zooming stare and focusing her attention on the here and now. They’d loaded more quickly than she’d expected, with only a couple techs left stepping on. Esna ran two steps then jumped, floating up and over to her single empty spot at the back of one speeder with a stack of cargo behind her nearly reaching to the ceiling, but when they accelerated off it missed by several inches with the guiding energy fields making sure there would be no impacts so long as the tunnel remained smooth.

And just like that Rammak’s icon on her battlemap disappeared as they got out of range. She didn’t have anything to look at except the backside of a mechwarrior’s armor and the ice walls to either side that were nothing but a blur, so she just stood still with her feet pinned under holding straps as the group traveled further and further away from the Zen’zat. Esna chewed on her inner lip a bit as what Rammak had labeled ‘claustrophobia’ started to twitch inside her head again.

A few minutes later she retracted her helmet, getting a blast of cold air on her face for the few seconds that she could stand it, then closed up again. She did that twice along with tapping on her leg armor as time seemed to blur into one long and pointless ride without Rammak here. When she was with him Esna knew she was accomplishing something, but split apart from him now she felt a little…

Well she might as well face it. Star Force had Humans in it and a lot of other crazy, wonderful people that she was starting to fit in with a bit, but without Rammak she was totally lost. She didn’t expect the others to leave her behind to die or anything like that, but they probably didn’t understand just how slow and weak she was when even the weakest person in Star Force was still a badass. Even the techs she was traveling with could defeat her in hand to hand combat with ease, and that wasn’t their focus in training.

Well, not all of them. The Irondel couldn’t. She’d just kick

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