The Lieutenant by Nick Adams

Author:Nick Adams [Adams, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781915347053
Publisher: Elliptical Publishing

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Katadromiko 2, orbiting Dresse, Dresse system

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Bache screamed at the monitors in the remote control room as the two he had covering the bridge suddenly went black.

‘No, no, no,’ he shouted, banging his fists on the desk. ‘Zaffie—oh, please no.’

Even though the screens had gone black, he could still hear the sounds of rapid weapon fire and see the flashes of laser energy bolts criss-crossing the room. Screaming, lots of screaming. The more he listened, the more he realised the weapons firing were laser cannons, they had a deeper boom when discharged than a pistol or rifle, and he reasoned it was the armoured suits that were doing the majority of the firing. Light suddenly cascaded across the bridge as the main door swished open and as Bache watched from the camera above the same door, the four soldiers from outside piled in with guns up. In a split second, four cannon bolts met them, decapitating them with blood and limbs flying back through the door or ricocheting off the door bulkhead.

He squinted as the lighting on the bridge suddenly came back on and his heart missed a beat as he could see Zaphir lying on the floor in the same place she’d been standing only moments before. The two armoured suits stood back to back either side of her, their twin cannon barrels mounted on their shoulders roaming the room for more targets. From what he could see, all the Gata soldiers that had been lining the outside of the room had suffered the same fate as the four coming in the door. Bache knew those suit-mounted weapons could track and eliminate multiple targets in milliseconds.

Grabbing a data chip from its housing on the control panel and his rifle, he lunged for the door control. Once outside and he’d closed the hidden room up again, he sprinted for the nearest tube station.

Annoyingly, once there, he had to wait for a carriage. He punched the door in frustration, ruing the decision to let Zaphir go on her own down to the hangar. He also decided he’d rip those marines’ heads off for using Zaphir as bait to get them onto the bridge. The carriage came, he piled in and set the destination as the bridge deck, entering an officer’s code that ensured it went non-stop.

He didn’t sit down for the fifteen-minute journey, he paced up and down the ten-metre tube, muttering to himself and gripping the rifle so tight his knuckles were white. He glanced at the rifle setting and considered changing it to full power, so he could murder any Gata he came across. The humanitarian side of him won over though, as he realised giving in to that amount of hate would make him no better than the monster who’d just killed his colleague, best friend and occasional lover.

As the small train arrived at its destination, he was through the door before it was even half open. The smell of death hit his nostrils as soon as he ventured up the corridor.

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