Space Witch by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Publisher: Michael-Scott Earle
Published: 2017-05-25T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The display screens on the bridge flashed, and I could see a swarm of missiles leaving the pair of destroyers. There were way too many of them to count, so I guessed the number was over fifty. They were probably blowing their entire payload to make sure we didn’t capture their carrier.

This was the exact opposite of what I expected would happen.

“What is going on? Why are they firing on us?” Jatal shouted to me from the other side of the bridge, but I ignored the man.

“Distance?” I asked Z as my stomach dropped.

“Eleven kilometers. What do we do?” I could hear the hopelessness in her voice.

“Activate shields, and see if you can deploy drones,” I replied as I fought back my own despair. Missiles weren’t usually much of a problem if a ship was properly crewed. They could easily be caught by drones, shot down by plasma cannons or laser arrays, and most shields could block a good chunk of the damage. The problem was that this carrier only had a skeleton crew and said skeleton crew was mostly incapacitated by the fall from the ceiling. No one knew how to fly this carrier or use any of the cannons.

“Hey Admiral Asshole, you don’t know how to turn on the shields, do you?” Z growled as she ran her fingers across the control interface.

“No, I just give the orders,” the man whined.

“How many escape pods do you have?” I asked.

“We have a two hundred and forty,” he said as he pointed to the pair of chute doors on the wall of the bridge.

“Adam, there are sixty-four--”

“Extract the tube and get off of the carrier!” I interrupted Eve’s voice coming across the transponder. “We are going to take the escape pods,” I yelled loud enough for Jatal and his people to hear me, and the men sprinted toward the doors leading to the chutes.

“I will disengage and try to pick you up from space,” Eve said.

“Can you destroy the other ships?” I asked. “We will aim for the moon, but they might shoot us down before we get there.” Z was already out of her chair, and I motioned for her to follow me.

“I will--” the Alloprize officer began to say, but Z interrupted him with a shot from her rifle. The man screamed as a bullet tore through his leg, and he fell to the ground with a spray of blood.

“Captains go down with their ship, asshole.” Z spat on the man, and then we turned to run.

We made it a few steps before the missiles hit the carrier.

We both lifted off the floor as if we were insects trapped inside of a thrown bottle. I managed to grab the blonde woman with my left arm as soon as we left the ground, and I tried to do my best to wrap my larger body around hers.

I felt my shoulder slam into something and break into a hundred pieces, then my back collided with metal and my spine shattered.

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