Shattered Will by J.N. Chaney

Author:J.N. Chaney [Chaney, J.N. & Maggert, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

For a few minutes, we mulled over the best way to approach the two… agents, we presumed, although they might have been scientists or bureaucrats or some other type associated with a supremely secretive government department. Unless they did all their back-end administration themselves, the agency needed people to handle finances and expense accounts, file and retrieve records, do purchasing and all the other myriad things required to keep an organization running, after all. But we decided to assume the worst case, that they were armed—possibly with off-world weaponry—and were willing and able to use it.

“We need something like a stun grenade. Luckily, we have one,” I said, looking at Perry.

He sighed. “The bird leads the way again. I’d point out, though, that you guys don’t have your helmets, so do not look directly at me.”

We crept up to the back of the house, which was only a few meters from the tree line behind it. Aside from a fitful breeze, the distant lap of waves on the rocky shore, birdsong, and bug buzz, we heard nothing.

I gripped The Drop. Again, I had no magazine plugged into it, planning to use only the stun setting. Torina cradled a goo gun.

“You ready, bird?” I asked.

“Anytime.”

The plan was simple. Perry would smash through the window in the back door and dazzle anyone inside. Torina and I would follow, keeping our gaze on our feet until he shut off his dazzle effect and took those inside into custody.

“Here we go,” he said, flinging himself into the air. I looked down. As he passed over the back porch, he fired up his razzle-dazzle machine and slammed himself into the window.

And bounced off with a heavy clunk, before clattering onto the porch.

“Son of a—!”

I swore and charged forward, drawing the Moonsword. “Perry, shut it down!”

He did just before I reached him. He was still getting his feet back under him on the porch, so I leapt over him, swung the Moonsword, and neatly carved through the frame and door. When my weight hit it an instant later, it bashed inward.

A short, stocky man with a mustache stood at a counter, holding a cup of coffee and gaping stupidly. He was just starting to react, dropping the cup and reaching for something slung under his arm. I raised The Drop and slammed a stun beam into him, toppling him backward with a heavy grunt. He crashed against the refrigerator and slid to the hardwood floor with a thud.

Torina charged past me, through the kitchen and into the dining room beyond it. Perry landed on the kitchen counter beside me.

“Watch him!” I said, pointing at the man I’d stunned, then raced after Torina. As I did, I heard a shout from ahead, then a gunshot, then the flat, wet smack of the goo gun shooting. I arrived in time to find Torina lowering it with a glare at a whipcord-thin woman with ash-blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes. She’d been pasted to the wall with a gout of thick, resinous gunk that was foaming as it expanded and hardened.

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