Messenger by Diesel Jester

Author:Diesel Jester [Jester, Diesel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Jaegers of the Consortium Novel
Publisher: Steam
Published: 2018-10-22T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Two days later, Gabriel received word that a raider airship was steaming its way up the Ohio River. Now that word was out about what Auctor Frost’s trio was up to, they were relatively easy to spot. With the help of Coleton Muller and Jaeger Intruder, in his new Bell-Carmichael Devastator II, Gabriel got a quick ride up north by hanging underneath the right-wing bomb rack. As they circled high above the Ohio River just west of the Theocracy border town of Paducah, Emancipator joined them by flying up with his armor’s flight pack. He locked into place on the bomb rack underneath the left wing and cut his engines.

“Fancy meeting you ladies here,” he quipped with a quick salute of his brass gauntlet.

“Wouldn’t miss it,” Gabriel responded through the radio. “So, where’s our boy?”

“Coming up from the Memphis Ruins at the north end of the Bay,” Lincoln said, checking a display on his left wrist. “I figure that we have a few minutes before they come around the bend,” he said and pointed off toward the west.

“Well, we can wait,” Coleton added from the cockpit. “I charge by the minute, anyway.”

They all shared a laugh which helped loosen them up in the otherwise tense moments leading up to an engagement. Five minutes later, Coleton called out the contact.

“Tallyho! One fugly looking airship at nine o’clock low! Is that y’all’s buddy?”

Lincoln looked in that direction, a reticle coming down over his helmet where his right eye would be. It telescoped out as he studied the ship. “Yup. The Airship Henosis. The blue-white starburst emblem on the back tailfin is the dead giveaway. Many people confuse it with the Corporates State’s ice and refrigeration company, Polar Ice, but the difference is that Frost puts it against a sandy background with flecks of red mixed in to represent the sand and blood of the Wastelands,” he explained.

“If you know so much about this guy, how come you haven’t bagged him yet?” Gabriel asked jokingly, knowing full well that catching Consortium’s most wanted was easier said than done.

“Remind me — how long has Deliverer gone after Cheyenne and how long did Shadow go after Vyner?” Lincoln countered, holding his armor-encased middle finger toward Gabriel.

“Eh… good point,” Gabriel conceded.

“If you two are done gabbing down there,” Coleton interjected, “how you wanna play this?”

“We could always ask them to land,” Gabriel snickered.

“Oh, hey, yeah, then we can have tea and fuckin’ crumpets while we’re at it!” Lincoln replied sarcastically. “You think they’re gonna just heave to and let us board ‘em?”

“We could ask.”

“Oh sure, we could ask.”

Gabriel could hear the eyeroll and sigh in Lincoln’s voice.

Lincoln chimed in the broadband radio. “Airship Henosis, this is Jaeger Emancipator of the Consortium. Land immediately and stand by to be boarded at once.”

Below them, the airship seemed to pause as its old-fashioned propeller engines cut off and it drifted forward on inertia. Then it slowly and laboriously turned in place. Three white lights in the aft of

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