MECH by Tim Marquitz

Author:Tim Marquitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ragnarok Publications
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Mala drifted to sleep to the sound of distant war. Great thumping explosions, felt more than heard, shook loose rubble from the cliffside. The hiss of medusa rockets snaking their way from one side of the great battlefield to the other, ending with a noise like the pounding of the brigand drum. Rending of metal, whirring motors twisting the mec’s great limbs to pull spider legs from an opponent.

The boy had heard it all before. The war that never ended. The battles that came and went, that he could hear even from his little cave, miles away. He knew the sounds. He could picture it, put the sounds to the sights he’d seen when he’d scaled the massive tree in the northern forest, looked out over the scorched and twisted outskirts of a place Da said was once called Atlanta, and watched the men and machines in the far distance slaughter each other.

He drifted asleep to the sound of that battle now, the booms blending into the sound of the ocean waves crashing against the rocks far below. The sound seeped into him, so he dreamt of mecs, the servants of the A-Eye, soulless machines built to kill and destroy, all lethal grace and unthinking precision. And for one disorienting moment in the dream, he was the mec, standing at the cliff side above the ocean, his limbs formed of metal, every sinew bristling with power, the human tanks and soldiers tiny beneath him. He raised his arm, the A-Eye’s instruction clear, his weapons primed.

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.