Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00


26

Bowie knew there was no way he was getting out of the AO without a fight. Too many of the donks were ahead of his course track and able to cut him off. He stopped for a moment, weighing his options. Trying to see if he had any more than the few that seemed apparent.

Out there across the new boomtown that was the rapidly-expanding Soob City, fires and violence were underway and well out of control. Armored sled convoys escorted emergency services vehicles to various locations, each one more desperate and in dire need of attention than the last. The sound of automatic gunfire, the occasional exchange of other random small arms fire, and the whine and retort of blaster fire near and close, went on in fewer than a dozen places across the cityscape.

Below the office park towers, the donks had entered the buildings, all of them almost at once. If he could jump, weighed Bowie half seriously, he could get down onto the streets and disappear.

But he had no jump pack or chute. So that was mere wishful thinking and therefore of no value in real-world ops-land.

Jack Bowie was running out of options fast.

A quick glance behind him at the tower he’d just come through was his best shot. Even though a larger contingent of those street donks had entered there, odds-wise, he’d ultimately have to do one firefight either way just to see the other side of this and get back on course for the embassy.

He didn’t like to fight when he didn’t need to. But sometimes… there was no other way.

A refinery out near the star port suddenly exploded violently in the distance. An ancient rusting power array that converted energy into reusable packs suddenly gave off a catastrophic BOOOOM, the sound catching up with the fireworks seconds later.

How, Jack Bowie wondered, could any of this be Team Nilo’s play?

“You’re the bait, Jack.”

That’s what Reiser had said. Leaving the Jackknife Supreme dangling by its carrying strap around his chest, Jack reached into his pocket and took out a cigarette case. He thumbed the dispenser and shook one into his mouth, then blew through it as it chemically lit.

He thought things through a moment.

This was going to be a fight. No two ways about it. Go forward… fight. But still more armed jackals at his heels. Go back. Big fight. And still more to go through.

He inhaled deeply and blew more smoke out.

It barely drifted away. Even up here, five stories above street level, there was no breeze. It was a long, hot day getting longer and hotter by the second.

Nilo had wanted it this way. They’d wanted everything to catch fire and get out of hand all across Soob City. Maybe even all of Kublar. And the donks, because they were donks, had been all too willing to get in on the crazy and throw gasoline on the fire.

They just needed… the fire.

And that had been the assassination at the party. And the online outing by Team Nilo to the news streams.



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