Indigo Squad by Tim C. Taylor

Author:Tim C. Taylor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Space Fleet, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera, Space Marine, Science Fiction, Galactic Empire, Military, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Human Legion Publications
Published: 2015-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

— CHAPTER 32 —

If Heidi ever spoke in words then Indiya was not privy to them. Heidi spoke to her in other ways.

Indiya ducked, hid, crawled, and flew through the ship, taking shortcuts to reach Arun before he gave them all away to his treacherous brother.

Via the access console viewscreens scattered throughout the ship, Heidi showed Arun’s current position and the route ahead of Indiya. If the way ahead was clear, Heidi bathed her display in soft green and yellow; spiky red warned of danger.

Whenever possible, Indiya used the polished silver bracelet Finfth had loaned her. It looked like a genuine adornment, albeit large and masculine, but was far more. She’d always known Finfth had a natural aptitude for engineering, and propulsion systems in particular. With only the faintest of power hums, this pheromone-controlled bracelet could zip her around the ship as quickly as a Marine in her battlesuit. Maybe Finfth had reverse-engineered a battlesuit’s propulsion system.

It seemed everyone dear to her had been keeping powerful secrets. The fact that they were now all revealing them gave her a feeling as if crawling social insects were marching around her insides. Where they were crawling she didn’t know, but the sense of approaching her inevitable fate clung to her like a dark cloud.

Indiya shook aside these unhelpful thoughts, certain that Arun and the Marines didn’t suffer from such worries. She had to get to Arun before he reached the Security HQ. Nothing else mattered.

It was close, but she was going to make it with about three minutes to spare. Up ahead, Indiya’s passageway joined the corridor Arun was racing down, but Indiya would get there first. She’d cut it fine: if Arun didn’t stop, he would be only a minute or so away from the Security HQ.

In her peripheral vision, she noticed something flashing.

Merde!

Indiya carried on, desperate to reach the junction before Arun, but nagging fear slowed her to a halt, she glanced back at the flashing viewscreen.

It was Heidi. Someone was coming… Marines!

Indiya bit her lip. If she tried to brazen it out, chances were the Marines would want to know what she was doing in this part of the ship. The swaggering wastes of mass would probably stop for a little amusement at her expense.

Growling in frustration, she backed up the passageway, ducking into a compartment just before the Marines saw her.

“Heidi,” she commanded, “please show me the Marines outside.”

How could she get Heidi to cause a diversion, just enough to hurry the Marines out the way and give her a chance to slip past them?

But the view Heidi showed of the scene outside in the passageway froze the blood in Indiya’s veins.

The Marines weren’t passing through. They had taken up positions, spreading out along the passageway to defend in depth, carbines at the ready.

She couldn’t see inside their darkened visors, but she knew the blank expressions she would see there if she could.

The Marines had set themselves up in sentry mode. If she stuck her head out the

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