The Jump Ship: Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant Book 5 by Moriarty Andrew

Author:Moriarty, Andrew [Moriarty, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

The two groups met in the small lounge next to the medical area. Shutt kept the shotgun with her, and she had reloaded it. Yvette and Odette stood, facing Jammy and Perlins. Merced moved back and forth from one pod to the other, checking readouts and accepting suggestions from the medical pod software for treatment.

Shutt gestured her shotgun at Daav, slumped in a chair. “What’s wrong with you?”

“Dislocated shoulder, I think,” Daav said. “I got shot as we were escaping.”

“Who shot you?”

“The last of the officers’ council was on that ship,” Daav said.

“At least the last of them that were orbital,” Perlins said. “After that fiasco at GG Main, and after the admiral rallied the troops and called everybody back to their duties, they seized that last cutter and headed for the rings. They were still arguing which outer rim station to take over when you guys appeared.”

“What were you three, wait, you six, doing on that cutter?”

“Can we give him something for his arm?” Perlins asked. “Some sort of shot to knock him out or something?”

“I don’t need to be knocked out, skipper,” Daav said. “I just want some pain meds.”

“I think the pod can do that,” Merced said. “Give me a minute.”

Jake stepped through the hatch. “The pod can do it. Why do you need it? Who’s hurt? What’s going on?”

Merced pointed to the medical pod. “Dalon in the pod here is in rough shape. His air cut out back on our ship, and he passed out. He might be brain damaged. The med pod says there isn’t much brain activity.”

“What treatment is it recommending?” Jake asked.

“It isn’t. It just says he’s comatose and to transport to a hospital.”

“I don’t suppose you have a hospital tucked away here on this ship?” Perlins said.

“Nope. What about the others?” Jake said. “What about that guy in pod number two?”

“That’s Krikweigh. He just puked and passed out a few minutes ago. Pod says increased heartbeat, low blood pressure, and high fever. The diagnosis is either stomach flu, food poisoning, or radiation exposure.”

“How were you shielded when you got into high orbit?” Jake said. “There was a big increase in cosmic rays and a corona ejection.”

“The computer called it a corona expulsion,” Daav said, “And said we should hide inside Delta’s magnetosphere or go to a shielded part of the ship.”

“There’s no special shielded parts of the ship on a cutter as small as yours,” Jake said.

Daav sat on the deck. “No, there isn’t. I don’t feel so good.”

“We put the ship on auto,” Perlins said. “And we hid out in the air lock. We pumped some water in for better shielding.”

Daav put his hands on his knees. He retched for a moment, then a stream of vomit blew out and impacted the deck. “Not enough shielding, obviously.”

“Water? That was clever,” Jake said. “What about the rest of the crew?”

“We didn’t tell them,” Jammy said. “There wasn’t enough room for all of us in the air lock, so we just let them sleep.

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