Ravagers by C.A. Gleason

Author:C.A. Gleason [Gleason, C.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.A. Gleason
Published: 2015-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Makada was impatiently asking redundant questions, as he often did. Horne was used to it by now and never took it personally. Horne allowed it because Makada was the best. When someone has done a job for decades and obeyed the rules, Horne believed they deserved to bend those rules to suit them. It wasn’t because of insecurity, quite the opposite actually. For Makada, questions—though at times pestering—allowed him to soak up every detail of a mission and sometimes a little more. He was searching for flaws and ways to improve upon it in ways that he may have missed in the introductory mission brief. Missions changed often, as any soldier who’d been in long enough knew.

Horne had no doubt Makada would soon attain the rank of colonel, probably faster than Horne had achieved it himself, and then quickly surpass it. Even though Horne respected Makada, the Major often tried his patience, and definitely Kayner’s. He’d seen Kayner roll his eyes plenty of times today already. Horne had enough of the endless questioning today and changed the inflection of his responses, getting his irritation across. Makada always got the hint, but sometimes he’d still push a little more anyway. He was always looking for ways to get ahead, to strive to be the best, and to do his best, and he didn’t really care how he went about making that happen.

Horne was just about to tell Makada to shut the fuck up when Captain Nev walked into the TOC aiming a Rovla assault rifle. The rest of the soldiers erupted and leapt up, grabbing and pointing their weapons, and Horne suddenly felt everything he’d been working on for years teetering.

“Whoa!” Kayner said, raising his hands. He motioned to the soldiers. “Stand down! Stand . . . down!”

“You’re alive,” Horne said.

Kayner looked over at Horne and then back to Nev. “And you look like you have something on your mind, sir.” He turned to the soldiers. “Lower your weapons I said!” Then he refocused on Nev. “What do you need that for, sir?”

Nev’s eyes brushed over the TOC. The soldiers had done as Sergeant Major Kayner had commanded. They still held their weapons at the ready, though.

Major Makada was as still as an Earth lion stalking prey.

“To get my point across,” Nev said.

“And what point would that be, sir?” Kayner said.

“Colonel Horne is a traitor.”

“Just calm down,” Horne said.

“Shut your fucking mouth! My men are dead because of you!”

“That’s preposterous!” Horne said. “We’re in the midst of a mission! Our families, including yours, are in extreme danger until we secure this planet! Makada, get your men in here.”

“Sir, don’t you fucking move, or I’ll cut you in half!”

It wasn’t fear that flashed over Makada. What Nev had said pissed him off. He did as Nev said though and remained immobile. “You’re only substantiating what you’re accused of, Captain. You aren’t acting like an innocent man.”

Nev didn’t know what Horne had fabricated about him, but it didn’t matter. “Whatever he told you is a lie, sir.

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