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Feon looked over his shoulder at me. “I need you to delay them for as long as you can.”

Me delay them.

It had always been Feon who undertook such missions.

It had always been his duty to protect me.

And now, with us being brothers in fate, the situation had drastically changed.

I was now as responsible for him as he was for me.

The difference didn’t go unnoticed by Feon, and it was painted clearly on his face.

I gave him a nod and, without another word, put Beth down.

I kissed her softly on the lips — for all I knew, this might very well be the last time I ever got to see and touch her.

I grabbed the armrest of another chair and snapped it off.

It wasn’t much of a weapon but it was something.

I stepped outside the capsule, my back to the wall, and listened as the creatures’ heavy thunderous footsteps raced toward us.

I peered around the corner and saw that they were less than two yards away.

I swung the snapped armrest across the first creature’s face.

Purple blood erupted and fell in a cascade down his ugly features.

I grabbed his plasma rifle and jammed it to one side, aiming towards his crewmate.

He pulled the trigger and fired off a pair of blasts, neither striking his crewmates.

Damn!

I slammed my elbow onto his arm that held his rifle and although it wasn’t a strong enough blow to snap his arm, it did dislocate it, and I felt the crunch.

I immediately twisted his arm, bringing him around and hurling him across the floor.

His crewmates leveled their plasma rifles at me and returned fire.

I quickly dove back behind the wall where a glob of pure plasma screamed past me.

It struck the wall and melted it.

“Done yet?” I yelled back toward Feon.

“Negative,” Feon said, not looking up. “The security system is more sophisticated than I thought. I just need a little more time.”

A little more time meant putting my life on the line again.

I took a deep breath and dropped to the floor.

I rolled out from around it, aiming upward roughly at the height and angle I thought the creatures might be standing.

I was rewarded with a creature that had stepped out from the corner at the same moment I had to close in on my position.

I opened fire into his wide, startled face.

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