Insurrection (Athena Lee Chronicles Book 5) Read Online Free PDF

like hours Wylie looked behind him and saw several groups of men, pushing a couple of wheeled carts in front of them, coming down the corridor. They pushed the carts into the center of the corridor and locked the wheels. Instant barricades. Wylie quickly slipped out of the doorway and behind the first cart.
     
    “Am I glad to see you boys! Help me grab poor Willie-boy over there, he’s hit pretty bad.”
     
    With help the pirates dragged the half conscious man out of the room and down the hall. Unfortunately for Willie they did not have a Dr. with them. The Bad Penny Clan’s plan had counted on using the ships Dr. for any problem. Theirs was a ‘live and let die’ society. If you got hurt you had better have good friends to take care of you. If not, they would strip your ass bare and toss you out an airlock.
     
    “So Wylie, what is the situation here?” It was Reuben the boss’s enforcer. He had heard the boss call him ‘Mickey’ a time or two but neither he nor any of the others were brave enough to do so themselves.
     
    Wylie explained how he and the others ended up pinned down. Pointing back at the ‘heroes’ talking it up big to the other pirates, he explained how they had led from the rear and had run like the cowards they were.
     
    Reuben was a big man with a deep dark voice like the echoes inside of a crypt. Dark and mysterious is what some would say. Fecking scary is what Wylie would call him. “Don’t worry if the boss doesn’t get them, I'll take care of it. Don’t you give them another thought.” The big scary man had turned toward the two ‘cowards’. Turning back to Wylie he grumbled. “So, all you have seen is a half dozen or so? Is that what you are saying.”
     
    Not liking the attention Wylie began to stutter. “Y-yes, s-s-sir. We thought we saw them get a runner with more ammo but we weren’t sure. It’s hard to tell with that wall they built. Our guns barely scratched it, so it has to be a slab of armored bulkhead.”
     
    “Well get yourself some food and take a rest we are going to bust through that bulkhead with some toys we brought along.” The big man motioned behind him. Wylie could see the other pirates unpacking a large machine gun and what looked like some sort of heavy gun.
     
     
     
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    “Get Lieutenant Mutai up here immediately!” Captain Pigot had seen something on the cameras that worried him. Those pirates had some sort of heavy weapons! How in the nine hells had they gotten those weapons on his ship? If he got out of this situation alive he swore that heads would roll over this.
     
    “Sir, you called for me?” The lieutenant was panting a bit having run the whole way.
     
    “Yes, sorry about the run. We were watching the cameras caught a flash of something. It’s hard to see from this angle, but that looks like some sort of rocket launcher.” He pointed at the screen.
     
    The image was blurry and in the left corner of the screen. Three men were unpacking something that looked to the lieutenants expert eyes, like a Mark 45 Anti-Armor Rocket launcher. Those things dated from before the last war. They were popular with some colony worlds because they were inexpensive to buy. Most of the units barely functioned. Quite a few had exploded before launch killing the operators. Kinno wondered where they got it from.
     
    He explained to Captain Pigot what he knew about the system. “Captain, this one has about a 50% chance of blowing up when they fire it. They must be insane to use a rocket launcher on a spacecraft.” Kinno looked back at the monitors. “Sir, if they have that we need to figure out what else they might have. They seemed pretty desperate to get into the armory. They must not have much in the way or ammo. They might have explosives. We need to watch for bombs or suicide charges.”
     
    “Surely your aren’t serious, are you? Suicide charges in this day and age? Even in the last war we never saw anything