Mind to Body by Sandra Bard

Author:Sandra Bard [Bard, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: M/M romance, sci-fi
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2014-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

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The Palomino was one of the most powerful single space fighters ever designed, a small, needle-shaped craft with the engine power of a small cargo transporter, and the modification made by ISF made it extremely fast. Which made the maneuvering a tad difficult unless the pilot had enhanced reflexes. Even then, a sudden stop or a turn was next to impossible.

"Inspector, is that you in the little needle?"

"This little needle can punch a hole through that mech suit of yours," Hideki said calmly as he weaved through a series of protrusions near the surface of Marion. Whoever had designed the station had been a sadist with an eye for pointed sticks.

"I'd like to see you try." Tyler's voice sounded a lot less sullen, probably because he was out shooting things. Hideki ignored him, concentrating on rounding a series of glass bubbles attached to the side of Marion—hydroponic gardens, he assumed—when he saw what was causing the explosions. It was an old stealth fighter, larger than Assumption, with a modified iron grey armored hull that could have only come from one of the far colonies that mined that particular element, Euramiun. It was bulky, like a squashed frog, with streamlined sides that made the scanners bounce off without detecting it. Hideki knew the older design wasn't as fast or agile as Assumption, but what it lacked in speed, it made up in brute strength with the help of the armor.

It had been the pirates' plan all along: distract the main weapons while sneaking in from the back door—a self-made back door, if needed.

He fired before the stealth fighter could react, a series of scatter shots that had no effect on it. It would take a shot from a space cannon to shoot that monster out of the sky. The ship continued to fire at the side of Marion, slowly but surely eroding the shielding. Hideki switched to the big guns, the anti-matter missiles and the bigger flak guns, everything on him. The enemy ship—he had no idea what model it was—rocked under the barrage, but didn't cease its firing. It was either unmanned, or the pilots were suicidal, or the ship had better shielding than an ISF Warbird.

Hideki aimed his ship at it. He'd have to save punching Tyler's mech suit for later. He'd been told that Assumption had armor strong enough to fly through a small moon. He was about to find out just how good the armor was.

Fighters were programmed for close combat, and as a result most of the proximity alarms that were present on other spacecraft did not exist on Assumption. However, as he bore down on the attackers, a series of alarms did start to blare at him, something Hideki had not been anticipating.

He manually switched off the alarms and clenched his fists until his fingernails bit into his palm, knowing the motion sensors in the gel would interpret it as a bid for more speed. And Assumption responded, the small ship rocking in the shockwaves generated from the explosions.

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