Chris Kennedy [Theogony 03] Terra Stands Alone (epub)

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.They didn’t have anything that would be able to get through the door before reinforcements arrived.Before he could tell the troops to fall back, he saw Sergeant Hattori ‘Yokaze’ Hanzo waving at him.“Just a second, sir,” Sergeant Hanzo said.“I have an idea.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of things that looked like 10-inch long pieces of plastic with plungers attached.He held one to the wall, pushed on the rod sticking out, turned it and then released the apparatus.The plunger stuck to the wall, with the plastic piece sticking straight out from the wall.He stuck several more to the wall, and then began climbing up his impromptu staircase.He reached the ceiling just below a vent and wedged himself between a foothold and the ceiling to hold himself in place while he took off the vent’s cover.Looking down, he said, “Mouse, come join me.” He pulled himself up and through the opening in a somersault.Havildar Rajesh ‘Mouse’ Patel went up the ‘stairs.’ Although he wasn’t as smooth as Yokaze, he made it to the top.As he reached for the opening, Yokaze reached out and grabbed his arm, helping him into the ducting.“This way,” the ninja said, leading Mouse in the direction of the bolted door.Task Force Gordon, Asteroid Weapons Platform, Gliese 876, February 19, 2021“Fuck,” the Gordon twins said simultaneously as blue lights began flashing, and a horn began sounding.The screams from the auditorium paused as the Drakuls processed what the lights and horn meant.That was all the time the brothers needed.As they had discussed, Corporal Austin ‘Good Twin’ Gordon fired an antimatter round at the guards that stood 75 feet down the hallway.Corporal Jamal ‘Bad Twin’ Gordon also fired a grenade, but his continued past the guards and into the open area of the auditorium.50 micrograms of antimatter contacted an equal amount of matter and exploded with the force of a ton of TNT.What little the brothers could see of the fireball was impressive.until it came racing down the hall toward them.Both of them dove to the side in the cross-passage, and the flames went past them down the corridor.“Sweet!” yelled Bad Twin, who noticed that his voice sounded funny.Or maybe his hearing had been damaged, he wasn’t sure.“My turn!” Good Twin yelled as he launched a 50 microgram antimatter grenade into the auditorium.If one was good, two was better.“Dude!” said Bad Twin, picking himself up off the ground again after the second fireball had passed.“Let me know before you do that again.Like this.Austin, I’m about to nuke the shit out of the Drakuls.” He leaned out into the hallway and saw that a couple of Drakuls were silhouetted in the doorway.Somehow they had survived the first two explosions.They didn’t survive the third one, which detonated 30 feet behind them, cooking them in their own juices.“I could really get to like doing this,” said Good Twin.“My turn!”Task Force Calvin, Asteroid Weapons Platform, Gliese 876, February 19, 2021Yokaze looked down through the grate at the largest Drakul he had ever seen.He guessed that the creature was the Drakuls’ head cook; if not, the creature was dressed like one, holding a giant cleaver and wearing a blue overcoat spattered in a variety of colors of blood.The monster also appeared to be an officer or senior enlisted the way it ordered the other Drakuls around.“You two,” the Drakul said to the two near the locked door.“Do not let anyone short of the Overlord through that door.” It turned to look in the other direction.“You two, kill all of the prisoners! We’ll show them what happens to minions that revolt!”“Mouse, we don’t have time to get the others,” said Yokaze.“We’ve got to stop them now before they kill the civilians.”“I agree,” Mouse said, “but there are at least five of them and only two of us.”“You’re right,” Yokaze agreed, nodding his head, “we’ve got them vastly outnumbered.”“That is so not what I meant,” the Indian soldier said with a sigh.He shrugged.“OK, what’s your plan?”“I’ll drop down, kill the cook and you shoot the two guarding the door,” Yokaze said.“Then, while I kill the other two, you let the rest of the squad in through the door.”“Got it,” Mouse said.“Anything else?”“Yes,” said Yokaze.“Don’t delay.We are in a bit of a hurry at the moment.”Mouse looked dumbfounded.“A hurry?” he asked [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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