The Green Knight (Space Lore Book 1) by Chris Dietzel

Author:Chris Dietzel [Dietzel, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Watch The World End Publications
Published: 2016-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Walking into an Ambush, by Chris Dietzel –

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“Bounty hunter!” Vere yelled, darting past Fastolf, toward the rest of the group.

The others, save for Pistol, turned to look at her rather than duck for cover. Before she could say anything else, a beam of energy shot out from the tree top and struck Occulus’s chest. The laser beam passed through him, sizzling where it struck the ground a few feet away.

Occulus gurgled and put his hands to his chest. He stumbled backward.

It wasn’t the laser blast that was pushing him backwards, however. Although a laser destroyed almost anything it hit, it didn’t have actual force behind it the way a club or an ancient metal cannonball did. Rather, it passed directly through flesh and matter, incinerating any organic material it came in contact with. The sensation Occulus was feeling, of being forced backward, was a trick of the mind as the body went into shock. Other people who were hit by laser fire, either to their arms or legs, remained perfectly upright and complained of a burning sensation that pulsated through the area of their body that had been hit. Having been hit directly in his chest, though, a large portion of his ribs and an entire lung now missing, Occulus wouldn’t notice this. His body was already shutting down. He immediately went into shock, stumbling about until Vere raced up and held him so he didn’t fall. In her arms, she lowered him until he rested on the ground.

Morgan and the others had realized they needed to find cover. Everyone except Vere, who was still cradling Occulus in her arms, fled for the protection of the nearest tree trunk.

“Where is he?” Morgan shouted.

“I don’t know.”

“Beats me.”

A’la Dure just shrugged.

“Pistol?” she said, looking for the android. He was the one she had been looking for a response from anyway.

“Halfway up a tree, approximately two hundred and twenty feet away,” the android said.

Pistol and Morgan both knew it was pointless to try and explain which tree when they were surrounded by hundreds of giants that looked exactly alike. Only when the bounty hunter moved positions or fired again would they be able to see where the blast had come from and begin sending back any kind of meaningful countermeasures.

She would have been content to let that take as long as necessary, but seeing Vere out in the open, an easy target, she cursed under her breath, and darted from one tree to another. As she did, she let off three shots of her blaster, hoping one would come close enough to the bounty hunter to make it think she might know where it was. After a deep breath, she darted to another tree and sent another four laser blasts sailing through the trees. Other than yellow and orange leaves drifting to the ground from above, there was no indication that her shots were doing anything at all.

“Traskk,” she said, “Aim halfway up the trees directly in front of me.” And then, a moment later, “Traskk?”

No matter where she looked, she couldn’t find the reptile.

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