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.“The asteroid just shot the battlecruiser,” said Exit.“It would have been really nice to know that they were going to do that ahead of time; one of the lasers singed our tail!”“Are we OK?” asked Foxy.“How bad are we hit?”“Yeah, we’re OK,” Exit replied shaking his head.“A few feet further one way or the other, and we’d have been toast.”“No kidding,” agreed Foxy.“A five meter laser is not.WHOA!” he exclaimed as the battlecruiser blew up with a flash.“I guess they hit something vital.”“I guess so,” agreed Exit.“Well, at least we don’t have to worry about the battlecruiser anymore.”Task Force Calvin, Asteroid Weapons Platform, Gliese 876, February 19, 2021Yokaze somersaulted through the air and landed on top of the cook’s shoulders as he had planned.What he hadn’t planned was for the cook to turn around to say something else to the Drakuls guarding the door.Instead of landing on his back, he landed with the Drakul’s face between his legs.Yokaze, bowed to his enemy, saying nothing as he drew two eight-inch tanto knives.As the Drakul opened his mouth to bite him, Yokaze jabbed a blade into each of the Drakul’s ear holes and into its brain, swirling them slightly to ensure maximum damage.The Drakul started to collapse, and Yokaze somersaulted backwards off of the creature, landing on the balls of his feet facing the two Drakuls that were talking to the cook.Yokaze took a step forward and threw both of his tantos at the Drakuls, hitting them both.Reaching over his shoulders, Yokaze drew his wakizashi and katana, and he dropped into a ready pose.One of the Drakuls charged him while the other drew its rifle.“Any time, Mouse,” Yokaze said, focused on the enormous creature running toward him.“Got it,” Mouse replied under his breath, squeezing the trigger of his laser rifle.The Drakul with the rifle stopped suddenly as the laser bolt drilled through its left eye and into its brain.Disdaining weapons, the Drakul charging Yokaze threw away the small knife that the ninja had hit him with, and the Drakul reached forward as it approached the ninja, hoping to grab him.Yokaze dove forward and to the right, turning his dive into a roll that eluded the Drakul’s grasp.Yokaze used the momentum of the roll to stand up, and he slashed behind him to the left with the longer katana, severing the tendons in the Drakul’s left leg.The Drakul went down.Yokaze was on it before the Drakul could get back up again, stabbing the creature through the back with both swords.Not knowing where a Drakul’s vital organs were, he stabbed several times more, trying to ensure that he hit at least some of them.He must have punctured something vital; the creature collapsed.Yokaze jumped back up and ran down the corridor in the direction that the other two Drakuls had gone.“Open the door!” he yelled over his shoulder as Mouse dropped into the corridor.A short man, the drop down to the corridor floor was a long distance for the Indian soldier, who rolled forward to break his fall.Getting up, he ran to the door and worked the mechanism that locked the door.Opening it, he said, “Yokaze and the hostages are this way.”Sergeant Zoromski ran through the doorway.Taking in the dead Drakuls on the floor he asked, “Where’s Yokaze?”Mouse turned around.Yokaze was gone.Shuttle 02, Asteroid Weapons Platform, Gliese 876, February 19, 2021“Hey, there are some kind of wormy looking things that have come onto the surface of the asteroid,” Foxy said.“Can you tell what they’re doing?” asked Exit.“They look like they’re waving to us,” Foxy replied.“How can they see us?” asked Exit.“Aren’t we still stealthed?”“Yeah, as far as I know we still are,” Foxy replied.“I’ve got no idea how they can see us, but it sure looks like they can.Wait.they’re motioning for us to land.what the hell’s going on?”Foxy paused.“Oh, wait, there’s one of our guys,” he added after a few seconds.“The wormy things must be all right; he’s telling us to land, too.”The inside of the shuttle resounded with a ‘bong!’ as a piece of the battlecruiser bounced off of it.“I was wrong,” said Exit.“We do still have to worry about that stupid battlecruiser.Hurry up and get them onboard.There are a lot of pieces of the battlecruiser flying around; I’d hate to see any of those things skewered by one.”“Roger that,” agreed the WSO [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]