Resurgence: Lucky's Mercs | Book 3 by Joshua James

Author:Joshua James [James, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“So, as far as bad ideas go, this is a doozy,” Jiang said.

Lucky had given up his seat in the cannon, but instead of relying on Otto to try and shoot straight, he was coming up with another plan for the ship-board AI.

“You got a better idea?” Lucky asked.

Jiang shook her head. “Nope, and we’re outta time.”

On the viewscreen, the drones were closing the trap on the salvage ship. She wasn’t as powerless as Lucky had assumed. It seemed she might have been playing possum, drawing the Empire drones in. She’d managed to open up and clear out a good chunk of time.

Enough that the corvette seemed to have had enough. The big ship was sliding into position. It seemed she was willing to risk the damage from the salvage ship’s big weapons to get in a kill shot of her own.

And Lucky didn't blame them. Honestly, the combined firepower of the Last Gasp and that salvage ship, impressive as its big cannons might be, was the equivalent of two flies trying to gang up on a horse. They were just going to get flicked away.

The Last Gasp lurched forward as Jiang mashed the thrusters.

“This is crazy,” Knives said.

Even Fang, who was generally onboard with anything, looked a little skeptical.

“Otto, you got this right?” Lucky said to the ceiling of the ship.

“If you’re asking if this maneuver will work, that will depend on Jiang,” he said. “If you mean if this is a good idea or not—”

“Nope,” Lucky said. “That’s fine. Just get that docking beam ready.”

“It’s ready,” he said. “We just need to get in range.”

“Ten meters,” Jiang whispered under her breath. “No problem.”

“As soon as we’re in range, shouted it out, Otto,” Jiang said.

The Last Gasp fired right at the dead salvage ship as she floated in space.

“Are we sure she’s not going to fire at us?” Malby asked suddenly from somewhere back in the top cannon assembly.

Lucky looked around. “Well?”

Jiang shrugged. “Beats me. We’re about to ram her, or so it will look to her.”

“We’ll just hope for the best,” Lucky said.

“That always works,” Malby said.

As the Last Gasp closed the gap, the corvette seemed to realize what was happening. She turned her cannons to bear on them. A barrage of red lights exploded into life on the monitors around Jiang.

“Incoming,” she said sarcastically.

“Get some!” Malby screamed and his cannon came to life, peppering the nearest cannons on the bottom side of the corvette as she twisted herself into range.

The Last Gasp rocked, but Rocky had a handful of drones left out there and managed to kamikaze enough of them into the kinetic impactors the Empire ship was raining down on them to minimize the damage to the hull plating.

But that didn’t meant here wasn’t anything getting ben on the ship.

“This is feeling a little suicidal!” Knives said. “Just a little.”

“Jiang?”

“Almost there!” She shouted. She scowled and Lucky could feel the energy of both Fang and Knives behind him.

Knives in particular looked like he had some

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