Psion Omega (Psion series Book 5) Read Online Free PDF

barking boom that immediately led to another one and another one.
    “Help us!” Brickert wheezed into his com. “Attack …
on the … security center!”
    “Each leader send half your team downstairs now!”
Sammy ordered. “I’m coming in, too. You four hold tight and keep your shields
up.”
    “Gas,” Brickert coughed. “They’ve got gas.”
    The words came with great difficulty. Brickert’s
world burned. His eyes, his mouth and nose, his lungs. Even his guts were
aflame. The Thirteens continued to fire shots from just inside the doorway,
unwilling to spread out around the room. They
have the upper hand. Do they not want to press it?
    It was easy for Brickert to shield himself while on
his knees. His body became a smaller target. The Thirteens could shoot forever
and hit nothing. Pretty soon, however, Hefani’s coughing turned to gagging.
Then, without warning, he leaned over and threw up. The stench mixed with the
gas was nauseating. Both his hands hit the carpet to brace his body. Bullets
flew. Blood spattered the carpet, mixing in with the pool of vomit, and Hefani
hit the ground, dead. Strawberry screamed and then began to cough.
    The Thirteens chose her as their next target.
    No! Brickert jerked
his body to the side to cover his sister. Gotta
get back to my feet. Gotta be a leader.
    The same moment he tried to get up, a tremendous
cough racked his body, so strong that it nearly knocked him over. The Thirteens
turned their guns back on him. Brickert kept one hand up, but it wasn’t enough.
A bullet pierced his shinbone. The fire in his abdomen was nothing compared to
the searing heat in his leg.
    Seeing Brickert get shot seemed to rob Natalia of
her sense of reason. Rather than moving in to shield for him, she charged the
Thirteens with a powerful blast, unholstered her weapon, and fired. Her efforts
forced them back; she clipped one Thirteen in the neck, causing him to bleed
out. In the process she opened herself up to the Thirteens’ attack. They took
advantage, fired back at her, and hit her in the stomach.
    “No!” Brickert screamed, finding his voice amidst
the flames in his throat. “Get back! Get back!”
    Natalia stumbled back, dropped her gun, and clenched
her stomach while shielding herself as she hit a table with a CRASH . The table broke and collapsed
around her. With Hefani and Natalia immobilized and Brickert injured, the
Thirteens moved in boldly for Strawberry. She fired blasts at them, coughing
and shouting for help. Brickert scurried to help her. He saw the Thirteens’
guns move away from Natalia’s direction and back toward him, but he didn’t
care. Only Strawberry mattered. Only his little sister.
    Brickert fired blasts from both feet and shot
himself into the Thirteens, bouldering into them with his body. He knocked two
over but two others grabbed him and seized his arms. Fresh pain blossomed in
his shoulder and he cried out from the agony. Shrieks came from all directions,
muffled by gas masks and clouded by the hissing from the canisters spewing out
their contents into the air. Brickert struggled and fought, but the Thirteens
wouldn’t let go. Two more came forward and took hold of his ankles. Brickert
fired blasts at the enemy to no effect.
    He heard his sister scream his name as they carried
him out of the room.
    “Save Natalia!” he yelled back.
    Brickert knew he was dead. He waited for one of them
to put a bullet in his skull, but it didn’t happen. Once they reached the
lobby, the Thirteens hustled Brickert to the elevators.
    Where are they
taking me?
    Two more Thirteens joined the group, each with a gun
trained on Brickert’s head. Their dark red eyes told Brickert they were
exercising great restraint by not killing him. These beasts would jump on any
excuse to splatter his brains across the wall. The elevator arrived quickly.
Two sets of doors opened side by side: one elevator for the Thirteens and
Brickert, the other full of Psions.
    The Psions poured from the