Invasion by Joshua Anderle & Michael Anderle

Invasion by Joshua Anderle & Michael Anderle

Author:Joshua Anderle & Michael Anderle [Anderle, Joshua & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642026108
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-Two

“Professor! It’s working.”

“What is?” Laurie had his answer before the technician could respond. When his personal interface reappeared and his console booted up, he wasted no time. “Get the defense array online immediately and all the hatches open if Wolfson has not done so already. Bring the network up and contact every student and faculty member you can. We need to get them to safety.”

“Right away, sir.”

The professor opened a holoscreen. “Cyra, are you there?”

“I am. It’s good to hear from you, Professor!” she responded, her smile wide despite the fatigue in her eyes. “Were you able to locate the source of the disruptions?”

“Actually, no. We’ve worked on it but all our—”

“Laurie! I’m finally able to get through to ya,” Wolfson said cheerfully as he appeared on another screen. “Everything is back online. The tunnels should open now and the security bots are reactivating. Good work!”

“It wasn’t me, Wolfson,” he admitted. “I’ve been blind since the start of this. We weren’t able to get a lock on whatever caused the problem.”

“Really? Then who— Hold a moment Laurie.” The head officer looked to the side. “Yes, Haldt? Were you able to— Eh? Took care of the disruption? Where was— Kaiden!”

“Kaiden?” Laurie would have laughed if it weren’t for the chaos surrounding him at the moment. Even when he had no idea what he was doing, the ace always seemed to find a way to be useful.

“The ship’s cannon is coming online!” That caught his attention instantly. He looked at a camera feed from the main plaza and craned it up at a definitive glow in the ship’s cannon.

“Sir, from what we’re able to discern about the ship’s model, that cannon is currently at thirty percent of a charge,” one of the technicians explained hastily.

“We have control again. Everything is working and we will execute the plan,” he stated. “Prepare the array and target the ship.”

“Right away.” A trio of technicians rushed over to the array to help the others already working on it.

“Some of the systems are still rebooting. We’ll have it ready in approximately three minutes, Professor.”

Laurie nodded and took a position at the main console as Cyra’s monitor appeared next to him and Wolfson signed off. “When we’re in, we’ll have access to the ship’s EI. We’ll cut the power to everything but the main engine. If they do not surrender, we’ll threaten to send them into the ocean and overheat the core.”

She looked at him in surprise “A blast like that, Professor—I mean, the ship is massive!”

“I said threaten, Cyra. There’s no need to actually do so,” he pointed out. “It would be a waste. How are you holding up down there?”

“Much better now that all the defenses are activating,” she stated. “We had to be selective on what we powered up and had people running spare generators and using older model power cores for the bots. Everything is working as intended now.”

“Very good. Keep it up. We’ve weathered the storm now.” He wanted to believe his



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