Impact Imminent_The Kylie Rhoads Space Adventure Continues by M. D. Cooper & Chris J. Pike

Author:M. D. Cooper & Chris J. Pike [Cooper, M. D. & Pike, Chris J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2018-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

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Kylie pushed through the doors into what had been the grain processing and sorting facility. Not that it served that purpose anymore.

She’d entered the lab from the videos. Vats lined one wall, and equipment covered a pair of long tables where the workers were shackled.

<This is so weird,> Marge said. <It’s so low tech….>

A pair of guards came into view, lights mounted on their rifles as they swept the space. Kylie’s armor reported only seventy-percent stealth capability and she decided not to rely on sneakiness as she circled the first table, opening fire on the guards.

The workers ducked down, some crying out in fear as the firefight erupted around them.

“Stay down!” Kylie screamed at them. <Marge…>

<Filtering civilians best I can through your HUD. Not all of them were chained to the tables. Some are moving for the exits.>

Shit…so much for a clean strike.

More guards entered, and indiscriminate weapons fire streaked across the room. Kylie took a breath and ducked behind a table. The CSF officers on her HUD were advancing on either side, working on flanking her.

When the guards were within a few meters, Kylie broke cover, rising and firing on the woman to her left. Then she pivoted and shot the closest enemy on her right. She kept her bursts short, worried that one of the workers would stand up and take a shot in the head.

Return fire ricocheted off her armor, but Kylie barely noticed as she fired on two more of the guards.

<Another down,> Marge said. <Careful. One of them has a hostage. He’s coming from the back.>

<Noted.> Kylie approached the man holding a hostage slowly. “You want to talk about this, friend?”

A second later the lights snapped back on and the full horror of what the worker’s situation hit Kylie all at once. The men and women cowering on the floor, were shaking with weakness as much as fear. It was as though they were deliberately being worked to death.

Directly ahead of her, stood five remaining CSF officers—all in armor with helmets in place. The one in the center had her arm wrapped around a bruised and battered man, a ballistic pistol pressed against the whimpering prisoner’s temple.

“One shot is all it takes,” the guard said, gripping the hostage’s neck. “Look around. You know I’ll do it.”

“I don’t want any more dead,” Kylie said. “Let him go and let’s discuss this woman to woman.” Kylie raised one hand in a show of good faith, while lowering her rifle, though not loosening her grip on it.

The woman laughed. “I’m not talking about shit until you kick that rifle over to me.”

<Kylie…careful,> Marge warned.

<Don’t worry, not like I need the rifle.>

Not to mention the fact that Rogers and Ricket were fully stealthed, creeping up behind the guards. Still, things could go very wrong for that poor hostage.

“All right…” Slowly, Kylie lowered her rifle to the floor and kicked it toward the security personnel. One of the guards bent to pick it up, but never took his eyes off her.

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