Hell Divers X: Fallout by Fallout (epub)

Author:Fallout (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-24T21:49:33+00:00

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The old Sea King sat in the pounding rain on a rusted platform between two stone walls at the Sunshine Castle. Kade sat in the troop hold as Bulldozer worked outside, securing the fuel tank that had leaked most of their reserves during takeoff.

General Jack and Nobu guarded their mechanic and only pilot. Zen had climbed with his sniper rifle up into a turret overlooking the fortress—the same spot where X had stood a week ago. Or was it longer?

Kade had lost track of time. But he hadn’t forgotten what had happened directly beneath them. The Barracudas had been attacked by the spiderlike humanoids that dwelled within those walls. Kade had already warned the knights, but they knew all about the monsters. These were the same creatures that had forced their troops to abandon the old base years ago. Fortunately, they still had fuel here—and it was treated with a hybrid stabilizer that Bulldozer claimed would work.

The cockpit radio crackled. Lucky grabbed it. “Copy that,” he said.

Then he returned to the troop hold, where the other knights waited.

“They’ve finished sealing the tank and are adding petrol now,” Lucky said. “We’ll be out of here shortly.”

Kade checked his HUD—his battery was at 30 percent. Plenty of time left to get back to the Coral Castle. That was a relief. In this storm, he’d be dead without his filtration system.

He watched out the starboard side as Bulldozer uncoiled a long black hose. Lucky watched the rest of the knights.

“So this was a bastion?” Kade asked.

At first, Lucky seemed reluctant to talk, but then he opened up.

“It was many years ago,” he said, still looking outside. “My father was stationed here. He trained many warriors inside these walls. Held off the monsters for many battles. Long before the Forerunner sent him to Panama.” He looked over to Kade briefly. “Where’d you learn to fight?”

“I was a teenager,” Kade replied. “There were two types of fighters on an airship: militia, to keep the passengers in check, and Hell Divers. I started in the militia, but I didn’t like beating starving people. So I decided to beat starving monsters instead.”

Lucky chuckled.

“Hell Divers are trained on the ships but also on the surface,” Kade explained. “It’s the best training, because it’s realistic. Problem is, most don’t survive it. They threw me out of the airship at twenty thousand feet and gave me a beacon locator for a supply crate that landed in a crater with—”

A distant shriek made him pause.

Heart pounding, he moved closer to the window.

“Hear that?” Lucky asked.

“Yeah,” Kade said. “One of those spider things.”

Lucky unslung his rifle and went to the cargo door. Outside, Nobu and the general had their weapons trained on the eastern wall. Kade squinted but didn’t see anything moving along the parapet.

Another shriek sounded over the howl of the storm. But this one came from a different direction. Kade went to the cockpit and scanned the walls. He squinted at movement on the exterior of a tower.

“Oh, son of a bloody .

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