The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Three by S. D. Perry

Author:S. D. Perry [Perry, S. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

21

No more aliens appeared in the ten minutes it took for Kent to get Joyce’s wounds bandaged and for her head to stop spinning. She still felt light-headed when she stood and the lump just above her hairline hurt like hell, but otherwise she was going to live.

The room looked like a hurricane had hit it. All the floors were covered with an inch-deep, jelly-thick water that made the footing slippery at best, and the place smelled a combination of alien rot and her son’s chemistry set.

She was wet, bruised, and cut, but alive. That just amazed her. Every time she even blinked she saw the razor teeth of that alien inches from her face and the second mandible waiting to cut through her. But when she kept her eyes open, she knew she was alive.

She gave Hank’s hand a final squeeze to say thank you one more time and let him know she was all right. He’d stayed with her like a worried mother, hovering over her while Kent had mended the cuts from the alien’s claws. He’d saved her life, and now she was even more determined to get them both off this rock and back home safely.

She did a quick check of her Kramer to make sure it was all in working order, then glanced around at the men circled in defensive positions around her. Five, maybe six dead aliens littered the white lab around them and Cray’s body had washed against one of them in a grotesque loverlike position. Behind his body, the wall of glass they had broken to knock out the alien holding her had a human body hanging in it by the wires over his face. Another one of the Professor’s experiments. Looking at that body there, she really hoped Green was having some luck finding the Professor and Larson. They deserved whatever Green could give them, and much, much more.

“Everyone ready to see if we can make it to the ship?” she called out, her voice echoing through the big lab and over the dead bodies of the aliens and Cray.

Nods and a few “anytimes” answered her question.

She took a deep breath. “Kent, lead the way. Stay close, people. If the bugs were in here, they for damn sure are going to be on the hangar deck.”

Kent patted her shoulder as he passed her and headed for a double-sized brown door on the far side of the lab. Three others dropped in beside him and then she and Hank dropped into line behind them.

She didn’t even look at Cray’s body as they passed. That could have well been her there beside him. She didn’t want to think anymore about that than she already was. Instead she looked at every shadow, at every corner as if an alien was going to come around it at any moment.

From the jerky movements of everyone else’s heads, they were all doing the same. They were scared to death, and they all had a right to be.

Kent

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