OMEGA Guardian by Arseneault Stephen

Author:Arseneault, Stephen [Arseneault, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: azw, epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Stephen Arseneault
Published: 2014-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I slowly pushed the stairwell door to our floor open before yelling out, "It’s me! Knog!"

Layda replied, "Is everyone OK?"

I spoke as I walked to the room. "Yeah. The ship took a hit, but we should be able to fix her. I need you to come down to watch the lobby as I close this building up. I want to block off the other stairwell. The elevators are already out of commission. That should limit them to the main stairwell. I need to make a quick stop on the sixth floor. There is a cable there that runs from this building to the next. If it’s strong enough, we could use that as an escape should this building be compromised."

Layda nodded. "I’ll take the lobby. What should we do with the other helocycle?"

"Park it by the lobby door. If needed, we will shove it out into the street and blast it. I don’t want to give it back to them. If everything is clear when I get down there, I may have you ride out to park it with the Jess. Garmon can ferry you and Garrett back to here from there."

Layda replied as she turned away, "Got it. I’ll have it by the door when you get down there."

Starting on the sixth floor, one level below ours, I began to blast away the stairs going down to the lobby, leaving the single stairwell as the only way up. The cable running to the next building was secure and substantial enough to hold my weight, and therefore the weight of anyone in our group. When I arrived in the lobby, Layda was waiting.

I pointed to the helocycle. "Take it. If you pass Garmon and Garrett on their way back, tell him to return to pick you up as well."

As Layda sped away on the cycle, I was startled by Jallis’s voice behind me. "Tell me what I can do, Knog. I can’t swing a pipe or a fist, but maybe I can be of use as a spotter."

I shook my head. "You should have stayed upstairs. If you are moving slow, you may not make it back up if a fight starts."

Jallis turned and using a closet rod as a walking stick, began his climb back up to the sixth floor. I scouted the street near the hotel’s entrance for places that would offer good cover to an attacker. I then looked for vulnerabilities. Fifteen minutes passed before Garmon showed up with Garrett. After a quick unload, Garmon was on his way back to get Layda.

As we walked back into the lobby of the hotel, Garrett said, "I think we should be good at the factory. It would be incredibly bad luck for someone to stumble across it before we get back there in the morning."

I replied, "I don’t like that the sun is going down on us. It gets dark here quickly, and even with as quiet as those helocycles are, they still put off a whine that can be heard for a good distance at night.

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