Retribution by Joshua James

Author:Joshua James [James, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Malby and Jiang reacted instantly, spinning around and bolting for the cave entrance.

Lucky saw Spider knocked out cold on the floor, leaning against the wall that Blight had clotheslined her into.

He yanked her up and over his shoulder and shot out the back of the cave, stumbling over the three dead bodies of the Hooti on the ground.

Ick and two of his lieutenants were standing outside the cave. Ick had a cloth wrap that another Hooti was wrapping around the stump of his right claw.

He was screaming something at Lucky, but Lucky ignored him.

“Get to the ship—” he started to yell at Jiang, but the air was blown out of him as something smashed hard into his back.

It couldn’t be Blight. He would have had to cross the full distance of the cave practically instantly.

But as he felt the pain exploding from his side, he realized it was Blight. The Hooti sword he’d taken was shoved again into Lucky.

“I’m really tired of getting stuck with the same damn fucking knife like I’m a piñata,” he shouted at Rocky for no good reason.’

“I told you to stop doing that,” she reasonably responded.

Lucky rolled away from the knife, but as he did it, he had to drop Spider from his shoulders.

At least, he thought he did. But she actually lifted away.

It took him a moment to realize that Blight had let go of the knife he’d stuck in Lucky’s side and had jerked Spider free and over his own shoulder.

Blight spun around, quick as a gazelle and started to rush back down the pathway they’d followed, back toward the river.

“Fuck me!” Lucky screamed. “Stop him!”

Lucky yanked the knife free, and got to his feet, running after. But even with the body of Spider over his shoulder, he could outrun Lucky easily.

Jiang and Malby both trained their weapons Blight, but with Spider’s body draped over his shoulder, it was tough to get a clean shot.

Malby tried firing at his legs but they were a blur.

Then Ick let out a roar, some alien guttural roar that sounded like the one he’d first heard on the train. That seemed like a lifetime ago, even if it had only been a few hours.

Two large trees, that reminded Lucky of above ground versions of the underwater things he’d seen activated when’d the Hooti had shot into the water right before they’d crusher the legs of the mech in the water, started too shiver.

All at once, they shot skyward like springs, clearly something that had been holding them back suddenly cut loose.

A pair of thick ropes exploded from the dirt just in front of Blight. Incredibly, Blight somehow managed to avoid the first one with his superhuman reflexes, and Lucky had no doubt he’d be able to avoid both if it weren’t for Spider, who was over his shoulder, waking up at that moment and kicking wildly, throwing off his balance, and sending him tripping over the thick rope and smashing to the ground.

Spider sprawled forward and started the scramble away.

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