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Old Wounds Chapter 02 Part 3

“Naw.” The figure shook his helmeted head. “You ain’t important enough.” Before he could make another move a soft hand closed around the Interceptor’s wrist. He spun to face his assailant and found an Asian woman a full-head shorter than him holding his arm. A black Nanoweave mask circled her eyes. She smiled. “That’s why they sent me.” The Interceptor cursed and yanked his arm out of her grasp,…

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Old Wounds Chapter 03 Part 1

Chapter 03 Wu Gang Shu moved his towel and change of clothes to his left hand and checked down both sides of the corridor for movement. When neither the Ranger nor Hae Lee managed to appear he moved towards the bathroom door like a sapper approaching the enemy’s barbed wire. The occupied light on the door latch was off and the door itself sat ajar by less than an inch. Wu listened carefully for…

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Old Wounds Chapter 03 Part 2

“What are your plans for the future?” Hae Lee tried again. “Do you see yourself settling down? Maybe starting a family?” “It doesn’t matter what I want.” Wu said. The timer hit zero and Wu switched the encryption. He held his breath for a moment while he waited to see if he’d chosen correctly. When the collar didn’t shock him, he knew it worked. The timer reset and he went back to the job. “In…

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Old Wounds Chapter 05 Part 1

Chapter 05 An electronic ‘ping’ in her nanoputer told Penny that she was coming up on the Jagganath. Penny switched her main window from the navicomp’s screen to the visual sensors, putting the pride and joy of the Hindu Pantheon Fleet right in front of her. Jagganath sat in high orbit over St. Aloysius like a turtle guarding its eggs. The flying fortress was the ops centre for the entire…

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Old Wounds Chapter 09 Part 2

[There ain’t.] Captain Niazi crossed her arms and let the silence hang in the air for a while. She regarded the Ranger sitting across from her like a burglar casing a new mark. Then she spoke out loud. “Okay we’re done.” “Hey Ranger.” Wu interjected after the first mouthful of his second beer. “What I don’t understand is why you make me follow you around on a leash. Why not make an arrangement to…

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Old Wounds Chapter 06

Chapter 06 The briefing room was quite a few corridors away, situated between the Docking Bay and Marines’ Barracks. Lecture hall chairs lined the walls of the circular room, focusing the occupants’ attention on the sunken floor in the centre, where stood a short and slim woman with close-shaved hair and a marine captain’s insignia floating in the air beside her head. Recon Marines filled the…

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Old Wounds Chapter 10 Part 1

Chapter 10 Gerald Sanswick leapt over the edge. His heart kicked into high gear as he enjoyed the fleeting moment of weightlessness before gravity took its hold. Gerald sailed over the narrow street, two stories down and landed in a roll on the opposite roof. He sprung out of the roll and was running at full tilt again right away. A twinge of pain scrambled along his arm up to his brain. He…

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Old Wounds Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Camp Gideon was built upon the biggest rock overlooking the Red Plains, half a continent away from the capital. The only man-made structure for a thousand kilometres in any direction. Terraforming had been completed on St. Aloysius decades ago, but vegetation was only just starting to appear this far from the domes. The camp leaders had begun to wonder if they might have to rename the…

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Old Wounds Chapter 11 Part 2

We’d smoked out two ringleaders in the capital and started moving out to the rural areas. I took a platoon out to this two-bit nowheresville out on the coast and we hit the streets. I wanted to see the grounds with my own eyes. The locals were nervous, but I told the Jarheads to pop their helmets, let ’em see our faces, see that we’re just like ’em.” Rodgers face fell. “We passed this old house…

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Old Wounds Chapter 11 Part 1

Chapter 11 When Penny’s eyes opened again, she was standing in the middle of a windswept field. High above her a flock of virtual geese flew in V formation across the cloudless sky. Penny called up her portal and a human-sized oval of shimmering light appeared before her. The borders were brilliant light but the inside displayed nothing but endless black. Penny copied the Headspace’s address from…

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Old Wounds Chapter 10 Part 2

The disposal android stretched out both arms and burrowed its tendril cameras into the windows’ metal frames. It repeated this process a few times, checking various places on the frame. Finally it stopped. [Power cable found, deploying micro-droid.] [Understood.] Penny replied. She turned to Marines. [Hang tight boys and girls. It’s using the micro.] [Hang tight she says.] Amrah sighed, suspended…

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Old Wounds Chapter 09 Part 3

Niazi ignored her tone. “I used to have this friend. He served at Hades, he died at Hades, but none of his squad mates would tell me a damn thing about what it had been like there.” The question put out the fire in Penny’s eyes and her whole face darkened. She broke eye contact with her. “It’s um… it’s difficult for veterans to talk about Hades. It’s hard to put into words what it was like to…

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Old Wounds Chapter 09 Part 1

Chapter 09 Out of the pub’s speakers thumped rapid-fire beats, lightning fast rhythms and a string of Hindi lyrics so long and hurried that Penny could never tell when one sentence ended and where the next began. “Oooh I love this one.” Amrah said, his head popping up to hear the song. “I haven’t heard these guys since high school.” Captain Niazi gave him an impish grin. “While you’re up Corporal…

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Old Wounds Chapter 08 Part 2

Wu put the tools down next to the cleaner and leaned back against the couch. She had a point. He picked up his tea and took a sip, he’d left it a bit too long, but he could get it down a lot easier now. [All right.] He messaged. [But you’ve got to get me out from the Ranger’s yoke before this agreement means anything. I’m going to give you my access to the Triad’s network. You’ll be able to send…

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Old Wounds Chapter 08 Part 1

Chapter 08 Wu put the soldering pen down and looked up from the parts spread out in front of him. “Hey man.” He said to the marine standing by the kitchenette. “Can you put the kettle on? I’m parched.” The marine’s armoured shoulders shrugged at him. Wu took that to mean the soldier hadn’t understood a word he’d said. Wu mined drinking out of a cup at him. The marine stepped aside and gestured…

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Old Wounds Chapter 07 Part 3

Penny reached the droid’s hand out over the sheet and at the last moment, hesitated. She pulled the hand back until it was a few inches from the edge of the sheet and burrowed the tendril-camera right into the floor. Angling the tendril around until she entered the couch-space she was expecting from the side. [Well I’ll be damned.] Penny whispered. In the space under the sheet of MDF, Penny saw a…

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