He abandoned the militants and rushed upstairs, but instead of heading to the toilet he made a beeline to room three-ten. Ethan proceeded to rummage through the various belongings and backpacks of the company members. Whenever he found a passport, he set it down and snapped a picture of the phot...
He wasn’t sure how the captains would take the plan. It was dangerous, daring. And there was a good chance it wouldn’t work. Still, it was the best chance they had. The alien course vectors had updated shortly after the fleet left orbit. The two units definitely intended t...
"Mason, we gotta get out of here, now!" the mech pilot transmitted over the comm. Never open a story with a battle scene, the editors used to tell me. You have to give time for the reader to get invested in the characters, time to care about them. All right. I'll give you some background first, t...
The Gate to Delta Avalon was indeed already in place. Apparently some surviving repair drones had fixed one of Anvil Prime’s surface-based defensive lasers days ago, and that weapon had forced the Raakarr comm node equivalents to flee through the wormhole. It was likely so...
Eight hours had passed since he had been sentenced to the brig, a span of time that had brought the fleet that much closer to battle. Task Unit Two would have separated from the first unit by then, and Captain Scott would be aboard the Callaway. Jonathan pitied Robert. The...
Well, that's my callsign really, but it might as well be my name. I've embraced it. Killed with it. I'm the Leading Petty Officer, or LPO, of Alfa Platoon, MOTH Team Seven. One of the most elite special forces units in the galaxy. MOTH stands for MObile Tactical Human. We're tacticians, corpsmen,...
The alien entities were all the same blue color, and packed so close together I couldn’t tell where one Phant ended and another began. That was good in a way, because by grouping together like that, the alien liquid made for an easy target. Not that it really mattered, because bullets and grenade...
It was all he could do to hold himself up. There she was, the woman he'd given up everything for. She regarded him uncertainly. "You." He shoved the old man away, and lunged forward, step, by step, his hands clawing at the air for balance. &nb...
Ethan doused the flames beneath the river, but when he brought him to the surface, the fires started anew. He quickly piled mud onto the boy's body, choking the flames of oxygen, but by then it was too late. The dead eyes of the boy looked up at him accusingly. "I tried," Ethan told him. "I tried...
All of us were in jumpsuits, jetpacks fully fueled, rebreathers charged. The only thing left was to wait the designated hour for our bodies to adapt to the suits. "This is the worst part," Ghost said. "The time before the drop. Being on the drop is fine. You know, taking f...