The Withered King by Ricardo Victoria

Author:Ricardo Victoria [Victoria, Ricardo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781932926743
Amazon: B07HQCX524
Goodreads: 42049701
Publisher: Shadow Dragon Press
Published: 2019-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Realizations

The Figaro’s alarms were blaring as the hatch gate closed. Gaby felt Alex dragging her to the cockpit, followed by Harland, who was tightly holding onto Sam to keep her from jumping out of the ship to avenge her father. Alex led them into the med bay and closed the door to keep them safe. The ship rocked under the heavy fire of the dreadnought. Alex and Gaby reached the cockpit and strapped themselves into their seats just as Sid pushed the thrusters to get the Figaro out of there, away from the platform and into the Maze.

Gaby’s heart ached as if it had been skewered by a thousand needles. The image of Fionn being impaled, his healing ability not working, and then falling into the void, seemingly dead, was stuck in her brain. Fionn was a hero. The Hero. The one she and Alex had grown up worshipping, reading about his exploits and how he always found a way to come victorious. He couldn’t be dead.

But the reality was a different thing. And then she thought of Sam who had witnessed what happened to her dad and to her students. They needed to go back to help but Gaby only wanted to cry. She shook her head. This was not the time to get lost in her thoughts. She took a deep breath and turned towards Sid and Alex.

“How can I help?” Gaby asked.

Alex was frantically pushing buttons and trying to help Sid with the additional systems, while the samoharo flew the ship around the Maze, trying to evade the barrage of fire from the dreadnought. To his credit, the samoharo had maintained his cool after witnessing what had happened to Fionn, and had taken them out of the place before that creature closed the gap. It had been a narrow escape. But they weren’t out of the fire just yet.

“Can you shut up that damned alarm?” Sid yelled. Gaby punched the dashboard and the alarm stopped.

“Better?” Gaby said with a calm voice. Alex and Sid freaking out was already enough. Someone had to keep the calm.

“Thanks. What’s our status?” Sid asked.

“Seems that we are going down in flames,” Gaby replied dryly.

“Care to be more specific? I can’t check the readouts and keep us from crashing at the same time.”

“The radar is offline, structural damage in the outer hull, the AI has called it a day, and for some reason the cores are being drained out,” Alex replied, looking at the instrumentation readouts.

“Drained out? By what?” Sid said, confused.

“I can’t say. But the closer we get to the dreadnought, the faster they drain. It doesn’t make any sense,” Alex tried to explain. Gaby saw his brow covered in sweat. “At this pace, we won’t have the power to be airborne.”

“And we will fall like a rock.” Sid cursed under his breath. “Damn it. Alex I need you to go and check the cores, and see if you can keep them working.”

“How?” Alex replied, clearly frustrated.

“I don’t know! You’re the energy expert.

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