Rise of the Resistance (War for Orion Trilogy Book Two) Read Free Page B

the other two break off once again
and his body lurched to the left as the ship turned. Two more
explosions erupted from above and he knew the others had taken out
the remaining ships.
    “That's all of them for now,” Falcone
informed them. “Keep your eyes peeled for anymore of them. I'm sure
they know we're here now that we've taken out four of their
own.”
    Anlon pivoted the turret in all directions,
but saw nothing as they got closer to exiting Gaea. Enormous fires
raged below and crodillians ships littered the planet’s airspace,
converging on any ship that wasn’t theirs. It looked as if they had
only one thing in mind: destroy the planet.
    “We may have a problem up ahead,” Falcone
came over the comline again. “We have a huge mother ship and
a lot of smaller commander ships around it. You all might want to
come up here and take a look at what were about to face.”
    Anlon exited the turret and met up with the
others in the cockpit. Falcone wasn’t exaggerating, there was an
enormous ship surrounded by thousands of smaller ones, all waiting
for them to get closer.
    “What are we going to do?” Camillus asked.
“There’s no way we're getting through that!”
    “Calm down, Camillus. Let's talk out all of
the options we have before we give up,” Nimesha said.
    “There are no other options but giving
ourselves up if we want to live!” Camillus exclaimed. “Look how
many of them there are!”
    “It does look pretty hopeless,” Kanti
agreed.
    “Hate to make things worse, but we have a
lot more incoming enemy fighters,” Falcone told them. “Our options
are quickly dwindling to nothing.”
    “Tell me you have an idea,” Anlon let out a
deep breath. “We can't give ourselves up, and if the Princess is
captured along with us, Orion will never be saved.”
    “I may have one idea,” Falcone twiddled his
thumbs. “I don't know if it'll work before we're shot down
though.”
    “I don't care what it is. Do it,” Anlon
ordered.
    “Hang on everyone, this may get a little
bumpy.”
    Anlon sat down next to Kanti and she grabbed
his hand, clenching until he could feel it. He looked over to her
and gave her a reassuring smile that everything would be just fine.
Falcone speed the ship up, straight towards the enemy fleet. Anlon
could hear Drakos Mavros taking heavy fire, but knew the
bigger problem lay right in front of them.
    “What are you doing?” Camillus shrieked.
“You're going right into them!”
    “Hang on!” Falcone pushed the Sonodrive
button.
    The enemy ships disappeared and stars
started streaming around them. After several long seconds Falcone
disengaged Sonodrive and slumped back in his seat. He let out a
long deep breath and started laughing.
    “What were you thinking?” Camillus got up
from his seat. “You could've gotten us all killed!”
    “Looks like we're all alive and fine to me,”
Falcone looked around. “I don't see what the problem is. You wanted
me to get you out and that’s exactly what I did.”
    “Do you know how dangerous that was?”
Camillus asked hysterically.
    “Of course I do, but I didn't see many other
options for me to take at the time,” he answered. “I didn't see you
coming up with any bright ideas.”
    “I've never actually seen someone do that
successfully,” Nimesha asked. “They definitely weren't expecting it
or we'd be dead right now.”
    “Whatever,” Camillus waved his hands in the
air. “Let's just get Kanti back to Nesoi.”
    “I don't think that's an option right now,”
Falcone shook his head. “The crodillians will surely be keeping an
eye out for our ship now that we've escaped.”
    “So you're suggesting we keep her with
us?”
    Falcone nodded. “Any extra trips we make now
will just increase the chances of us getting caught. We need to
make as few stops as possible.”
    “I agree with Falcone,” Kanti smiled. “We
need to go straight to Ovrea and talk to the Elders.”
    Camillus walked past them and went upstairs
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