Redeemer: A Military Space Opera Series (War Undying Book 2) by N.D. Redding

Author:N.D. Redding [Redding, N.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

15

“Cut the damn thing up before they’re on top of us!” I snapped and grabbed the handles of my chair.

Mitto was using the Gavran beam to slice the ship in our tow to a slightly more fitting cargo-bay size. He was making good progress, but the small ship was built to take a beating.

“I want to get the Tanaree out of here, boss. This doesn’t look good for my love.”

“Mitto, I’m not leaving without our bounty. I didn’t spend all our fuel just to leave this place empty-handed and with a slap to the face!”

“The bounty won’t do us any good if they catch us, boss.”

“Vogron, Arthur, Fars, to the guns! Fire at will. Mitto, how’s our detrium reserve?”

“Two jumps, boss; I really want to use one of them right now.”

“Enemies in range,” Fars yelled over the comms. A volley of mass-driver rounds struck our shield and kept peppering us as he announced. Two of the six prototype ships buzzed by us and hit our shields with something I couldn’t distinguish without Mitto’s analysis. They came about as the next four fired missiles.

“Incoming missiles, boss!”

“Activate countermeasures! Bring those missiles down!”

They detonated at the bow.

We were sitting ducks while Mitto cut up the unfinished ship to meal-sized proportions, and yes, I had to agree that it was an insanely stupid thing to do, but if I was right, then we had a real chance of making a difference down the line. If we managed to survive.

Two of the missiles exploded far out as small beams sliced them apart but two slipped in closer, detonating near our bow.

“Boss, I’ve loaded the pieces up. Can I get us the hell out of here, please?”

The odds of winning this fight were virtually zero. The Tanaree was a hell of a ship but there was no way it could hold its own against six of its sisters.

“They’ll follow our signature, Mitto. We can’t escape with just two jumps. Or am I missing something?”

“Maybe we can?” he replied with a strange tone to his voice.

“Mitto, stop questioning me! I’m taking manual controls over the ship. You just focus on our defenses.”

I studied the sensor data with a single glance and decided on the one ship that seemed to be flying a tad bit faster than the rest of its group and got on its tail. Our shield was nearly depleted, but I had confidence in the hull and my team. I couldn’t say that we had ever faced something like this, but we had picked up a trick or two in our relatively short career as pirates that could prove useful.

“Five of them on our tail, boss. Why are we chasing the one that is hardest to get?”

“Distractions, Mitto. Don’t spare the countermeasures, our goal is to survive as long as possible, not to inflict damage. Arthur, use our mass-driver cannons to deter the missiles that Mitto doesn’t catch with the countermeasures. Fars keep our plasma beam pointed at the bow of ship four at all

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