Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Chimera Adjustment, Book Two (Imperium Cicernus 5) by Caleb Wachter

Author:Caleb Wachter [Wachter, Caleb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Galactic Empire, Military, Space Fleet, Space Opera
Amazon: B013NO4WRQ
Publisher: Pacific Crest Publishing
Published: 2015-08-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter XIX: The Great Escape

“Systems are all in the green, babe,” Eve reported, her digital avatar having transferred to the corner of the helmet’s HUD. She was now ‘dressed’ in an all-black body glove and had the familiar eye black stripes on either of her virtual cheeks. “Let’s blow this hole!”

Masozi tested the suit’s range of motion and found it was precisely as she remembered it. She had only practiced a handful of times with it since the Keno Adjustment, but operating it felt incredibly intuitive to her.

Flexing the fingers of her right hand into a fist, she activated the suit’s stealth systems before opening the apartment’s lone door. The corridor beyond appeared empty, but Masozi knew that its appearance was a lie so she straightened herself, drew a deep breath, and launched her armored body out of Carter’s apartment.

No sooner had she emerged into the corridor than a hail of weapons fire impacted against her armor, causing a series of mild alarm icons to appear on the bottom of her HUD.

“Damn!” Eve snapped as her virtual hands flew over the icons springing into life around her avatar. “Get to cover—quick!”

Following her so-called ‘angel’s advice, Masozi complied by launching her body into a nearby junction to escape the incoming fire. Looking down at her torso, she saw several large sections of the suit’s stealth systems had been rendered inoperable—and there were large scorch marks on each of the inoperable sections.

“Gimme a sec,” Eve said, her little hands working furiously as she re-routed power from the suit’s systems. “Shutting down the stealth suite…that should give us a little more firepower.”

The suit’s invisibility field went down just as Masozi regained her feet, and the former Investigator growled, “How bad is the damage?”

“Not bad, Sis,” Eve assured her, “but our stealth suite’s toast; they knew how, and where, to hit us.”

“Did you get a look at them?” Masozi asked as she drew General De Rossi’s hand cannon from its new holster on her suit’s left hip. The weapon had only five of its overpowered cartridges loaded—its maximum capacity—but it also featured a sonic emitter which would prove exceptionally lethal at point blank range and may even be useful at longer ranges.

“I only saw two,” Eve replied promptly, and a pair of icons began flashing more brightly than they had done a second earlier and Masozi considered her best approach. “No idea where number three is.”

“Let’s deal with those two, then,” Masozi said as she held the pistol before herself, seeing Eve’s recently-installed targeting program spring to life in the center of the HUD. Cross-hairs appeared where the hand cannon was pointed, regardless of its orientation to her eyes, and Masozi quickly leaned around the corner of the intersection to snap off a round at the nearest assailant.

No one was more surprised than Masozi when the first round slammed home in the armored agent’s chest—but she was far from surprised when that armor, and the chest it protected, exploded under the incredible power of the specially-made rounds Eve had designed for the weapon during their time on the Zhuge Liang.

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