Lucky's Marines 02 Lucky Legacy by Joshua James

Author:Joshua James
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: down7media LLC
Published: 2018-03-20T22:00:00+00:00

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EMERGENCY

“UNDER ATTACK?” April asked.

“Did I stutter?” Nuchik replied.

“We have to tell them that there’s a conspiracy!” April said, her voice rising.

“We can tell them when we get there.”

“Do they know that there’s also a Da’hune armada coming? Do they know what happened here?”

Nuchik nodded. “I filled them in.”

Valdin stormed past Nuchik and put her hand to the doorway of the comm room. It didn’t budge.

So much for being able to open every door, Lucky thought.

“Impossible,” she said.

“It’s doing it for your own safety,” said Nuchik calmly. “That airlock now opens into space.”

Valdin looked at her, confused. “How?”

“I jettisoned the communication array.”

Valdin looked shocked. “You jettisoned— But why?”

“It was a corridor.”

“So?”

“The Da’hune hybrids can cross the corridors now. I was ordered to destroy that corridor. Once we go through the corridor on Nar, we’ll destroy that one too.”

Valdin started to say something else, but Nuchik cut her off.

“I get it, April. I do. This is huge. There’s a conspiracy! It’s real.” She slammed a pulse cartridge down. “But dammit, right now we have to get down there and stop this attack.”

“The five of us?” asked Malby. “What exactly are we going to do?”

“We’re going to destroy that corridor,” she said. Then she hesitated for a long moment. “After we go through it.”

Lucky raised an eyebrow. “I’m betting the orders were to destroy the corridor, not go through it first.”

Valdin said nothing.

“Wait,” said Jiang. “It doesn’t matter whether we destroy it from this side or that side, right? We just have to do it.”

Lucky nodded. “But if we do it from that side, we’re in the fight.”

He held Valdin’s gaze as she considered him for a long moment, then she nodded almost imperceptibly.

Lucky sat back. “Okay, let’s get down there.”

Malby held up a hand like he was in school. “Uh, question. How do we do that?”

The sergeant laughed. “That’s easy.”

“How is that easy?” Malby asked. “Do you see another ship that isn’t punctured, split in half, blown to the stars, or not otherwise completely unusable? It’s a graveyard out there, in case you haven’t noticed.”

Nuchik nodded somberly. “You’re right. It’s a real emergency.”

“Yeah, it—” Malby stopped and tilted his head. He opened his mouth, then closed it, and followed Nuchik’s line of sight. They all did.

“No,” said Malby. “No, no, no, no.” He moved like a cornered animal, circling around the others, until his back was to the hatch to the emergency escape pod.

“I’m serious,” he said. “We had to take one of those things in basic. That was the only time I threw up in basic.”

Jiang laughed. “Everybody threw up in these things.”

“I mean, from doing Marine stuff at basic.”

Jiang laughed again, shaking her head.

Nuchik shrugged. “You don’t come, and it’s that much roomier for the rest of us.”

Jiang did, in fact, look sick. Lucky felt sick himself. Valdin seemed oblivious, which was all the proof he needed that she’d never gone through basic training. Maybe you got some kind of special super-spy training when you were personally appointed by the Emperor.

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