Invade (Blackout Book 4) by Daniel Young

Author:Daniel Young [Young, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

8

The racer vaulted into the night sky. In a matter of seconds, it left the turbulent weather and arced into still air well above the surface. Flashes and laser fire split the darkness under the protective dome. Jackson didn’t see any structures still standing beneath it.

The racer kept climbing. It didn’t go near the capital city, but in no time at all, Jackson realized he was in trouble. The racer’s trajectory carried it dangerously close to the Krakzid hovering in formation above the city.

The racer’s instruments recognized the Krakzid craft, but for some reason Jackson couldn’t fathom, it didn’t try to avoid them. Instead, it veered and shot straight for them.

Jackson attacked the controls. He scrambled to wrestle the helm away from its programmed course, but Woolzi had buried his programming under so many complicated layers of encryption that Jackson couldn’t do anything.

Just when he thought he might make it out of this disaster alive, the racer rocked hard to starboard. The instruments locked onto a medium-sized Krakzid battle craft, and the ejection blocks opened up.

The racer lambasted the Krakzid vessel with pulses. It knocked the enemy out of the way. The racer squeaked through by a whisker and then floored it, right into the heart of the Krakzid fleet.

The racer buried itself in the enemy horde, with blasts and pulses firing on all sides. The ejection blocks spun faster than any person could shoot. They whirled in a complete sphere, laying down a punishing torrent of shots.

Too bad Keter Legion technology couldn’t hold a candle to the Krakzid. The racer’s blasts ricocheted off the Krakzid fighters and, what a surprise, all the enemy turned on the little craft.

The racer followed a spiral trajectory inside the Krakzid horde. Jackson spotted a window of clear space where the racer could have darted away to safety, but did it dart away to safety? No way. It whirled the other way and zoomed back into the Krakzid fighters. The Krakzid closed to destroy the racer with Jackson on board. He locked his teeth and concentrated everything on the console in front of him, while the racer sprayed blasts in all directions. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t break through the programming.

The Krakzid opened fire, but the racer’s buffer guard protected it...for now. The little craft seemed to be trying everything in its power to aggravate the Krakzid into a frenzy. It zipped in and out of their formation, peppering them with charges, but never enough to do any damage—not that this puny craft could damage them.

Jackson came up against the same encryption again. It blocked his every move, but left the main body of programming untouched. He could access all the readings he wanted. He could see every detail the racer was checking as it skimmed under and around each Krakzid vessel. He just couldn’t control the craft in its headlong course to destroy itself.

Another opening appeared. It offered a perfect route out of Apra’s orbit that would have given Jackson an unobstructed path to freedom and left the Krakzid to destroy Apra city in peace.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.