Liberty by Nick Webb

Author:Nick Webb [Webb, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Bridge

Sword of Justice

Debris cloud of El Amin

When the three other thugs had made it to the flight deck and started trying to patch the hole in the door where the Granger’s Heel was lodged, it was a simple enough matter to remotely lock and seal the doors, and cut off access to the emergency hatch behind the bulkhead. They were trapped. For a long time. She supposed she could kill them, but that would have probably freaked her captive out and make him try something desperate knowing he was probably next, and she still needed him.

She turned to him. “See? They’re safe too. Trapped, but safe. Your name is Gephardt?”

He nodded once. “Steve.”

“Ok, Steve. This is what’s going to happen now. You’re going to summon the doctor here. What was his name? Avasar?”

“Yeah.”

“Get him up here. Tell him Taylor is alive after all, but needs immediate medical attention, and that you and your companions here,” she motioned to the other two dead bodies, “can’t move him without risking his life. Got it?”

“Ok. Yeah.” He tapped the PA again. “Hey, Doc, Taylor’s alive. I repeat, Taylor is alive. But he’s in bad shape. I don’t think we should move him or he’ll bleed out. Get your ass up here asap.”

Avasar answered. “I’m on my way. Keep pressure on those wounds, for god’s sake.”

She pointed the gun straight at his forehead. “Stay. If you move an inch, you’re dead. Understand?”

He flinched when the gun pointed towards him, but nodded vigorously.

Liu positioned herself next to the entrance to the bridge, out of sight of anyone coming in. Moments later, the door opened, and the doctor ran through. He stopped suddenly when he saw the bodies.

“Wait a minute…” he began.

“That’s far enough, Doctor Avasar. I’m glad you could join us,” said Liu.

He turned around, slowly, and put his hands in the air. “Oh.”

It took over an hour, but she managed to get all five of them locked in her freighter, donned with vacuum suits, and the ship pushed back out into space, free and clear of the frigate. She tapped on her commlink to the freighter. “Sorry about the q-drive, boys. But you should have enough fuel to make it to Sangre de Cristo with conventional engines in about, oh five days. Don’t eat the rations all at once.” She tapped it off.

Now. The reason she’d come.

Finally.

Dr. Avasar had given her his charts and all the notes of everything that had been done for him. And to him, as some of the files had ominous names like Viral Assays, Biosignature-Metawave Impedance Matching Charts, and some that were title-less. “My god, Danny, what have they done to you?”

The door to sickbay slid open, and there he was. Asleep. Just like in the picture Proctor had shown her, with tubes coming out of him, horrible wounds and burns covering his body. And yet, somehow, the scarring seemed far less serious in person. Or perhaps they’d healed miraculously fast.

She stood by the bed, unsure of what to do.

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