The Dark Ones (The Vixen War Bride, #6) by Thomas Doscher

Author:Thomas Doscher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military science fiction, alien invasion, alien romance, military sci-fi
Publisher: Thomas Doscher
Published: 2023-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Chase Warren had been around a lot of explosions during his time in the Navy. Sure, it had mostly been demolitions projects and not combat, but they both overlapped in certain ways.

No matter what kind of explosion it was, when it went off, you always made sure your head was covered and you were well behind cover.

And as pieces of alien gore and snail shell fell all around him, he resisted the urge to raise his head and look over the berm he was hiding behind to admire his handiwork.

It was only when he heard M-31s and hardlight rifles begin going off that he peeked over the edge to see half an armored snail blocking the road below them, the other half thrown into the air in several different directions after it had stopped and examined the painted fuel drum it found half-buried in the road.

He flinched as purple energy singed the air near his head, and he brought his M-31 up to add his fire to the rest. Down below them, the aliens had quickly found cover behind their vehicles, and some of them had run to find safety in the trees on the other side of the road.

Exactly where Warren hoped they would go.

He looked to his right and signaled to Captain Turan, who was crouched over and making his way up and down the firing line. He saw Warren waving at him and raised his crystalline saber into the air.

<DOWN!>

The firing stopped briefly as Warren hit the clacker in his hand three times. The claymore mines affixed to the trees on the far side of the road all went off at once, the Dark One’s armor all but useless against them at such close range. Several trees fell over, and one unlucky mollusk, too close to the side of the road, raised its head and gargled in pain as the armor covering its slimy head was torn to pieces.

<SHOOT!> Turan commanded.

The firing continued. But although the invaders’ actions were hurried, they weren’t panicked, and now that they had found what cover they could, they began throwing aimed fire back at them.

One snail made high-pitched noises at them, rage or pain, none of them knew. On its back it carried a five-meter long arrowhead shaped piece of equipment that Warren knew instinctively was a gun of some kind. The tip of the arrowhead split apart, and a glowing purple orb began to hum as the weapon turned toward them.

“INCOMING!” Warren shouted at them.

A blast of purple light erupted from the mounted weapon and passed just inches above the top of the berm and then past it, cutting through a line of trees which then began to fall around them. Looking that way, Warren saw two headless Va’Shen bodies hit the ground near him. Another flash hit the berm dead on further down the line, and human screams could be heard over the sound of gunfire for a moment before falling silent.

“Someone waste that thing!” he heard a Ranger yell.

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