Insurrection (Athena Lee Chronicles Book 5) by T S Paul Page B
Authors: T S Paul
Tags: Science-Fiction, Space Opera, Military, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Marines, Lesbian, special forces, space, engineer, Space Station
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package of some kind and affixed it to the door. Lights began to blink rapidly then settled into a pulsing pattern.
My hands started to itch. I really wanted to examine that little thing. I subvocalized to Wilson. “If you get a chance, scan that thing and get the spec’s on it. I want to build one of those!”
“Did you say something Lieutenant Lee?” Sergeant Yannos was looking in my direction.
“Sorry sergeant. I was mumbling to myself I do that sometimes.” Quickly, I changed the subject. “What does your little ‘toy’ say about the door?”
“This?” He held the gizmo up, then quickly put it away. “ That is something that was made for special forces, it isn’t that important. The door is fine. Oxygen levels on the other side are a little low and there are large amounts of phosphorus pentoxide in the air. I would suggest we keep our space suits on just in case.
“Phosphorus pentoxide,” I thought for a moment. “You only get high concentrations of that when you use phosphorus munitions like smoke grenades. Who would use something like that on a spaceship? The effects would be horrific.”
The whole team was looking at me with surprise visible on their faces. “Oh, very good Lieutenant. I didn’t know that you knew combat engineering, too.”
I laughed at the special operations team. “You look at me and all you see is a short, but cute, blond playing dress up. Don’t you? You forget that I had 15 years to do lots of reading and studying on a variety of topics out in my little ‘retreat’ in Diablo sector. I am smarter than you think I am Mr. Yannos.” I had moved close to him and was poking him in the chest to make my point crystal clear. “Any more comments any of you would like to make?” I looked around the room at the others. “Good. Let’s go find some people shall we?” Reaching over I pressed the open button.
The airtight door opened with a whoosh. Lying on the deck, directly in front of the door, were the remains of five or six pirates. From the amount of dried blood and gore it appeared that several had been shot, the rest cut into pieces during some sort of fight. There was a blood trail leading off to starboard. Someone had crawled away from this.
Yannos motioned to two of his squad to go check it out. We didn’t touch the bodies, except to move them out of the way of the door. The two men returned, they found one dead pirate about twenty feet away in a pool of blood. Staying together, we headed toward the bow of the ship. We knew that someone was alive on the bridge. Ahead of us was another airtight door, this led to the main corridor running the length of the ship. Once again Yannos used his scanning device to check for danger.
In my head I heard Wilson. “Athena that little thing he has is pretty cool. It has more computing power than three of your engineering tablets. I got a good scan off of it. I think I can tweak the system a little and build you a better one if you like.” I nodded my head, you bet I wanted one of those things.
Yannos motioned me over to him. “Lieutenant the main corridor is highly contaminated with phosphorus pentoxide. Can we go around?”
I pulled out my tablet and brought up the schematics for the ship. If my map was correct, the only way to get to the bridge was through the main corridor There were a few air ducts that might work but we would not fit inside in the spacesuits we had on. I explained all of this to Yannos to get his opinion.
Carefully, I opened the door to the main corridor. Using an override code I slowed the door. Wisps of white smoke and flakes of ash rolled through the doorway. The fire had gone out with the lack of oxygen to fuel it. Battle damage was evident in both directions. Since we knew for a fact that people were alive on the bridge, we went there first. As we approached the bow we found more dead pirates. The effect of the phosphorus pentoxide at full
My hands started to itch. I really wanted to examine that little thing. I subvocalized to Wilson. “If you get a chance, scan that thing and get the spec’s on it. I want to build one of those!”
“Did you say something Lieutenant Lee?” Sergeant Yannos was looking in my direction.
“Sorry sergeant. I was mumbling to myself I do that sometimes.” Quickly, I changed the subject. “What does your little ‘toy’ say about the door?”
“This?” He held the gizmo up, then quickly put it away. “ That is something that was made for special forces, it isn’t that important. The door is fine. Oxygen levels on the other side are a little low and there are large amounts of phosphorus pentoxide in the air. I would suggest we keep our space suits on just in case.
“Phosphorus pentoxide,” I thought for a moment. “You only get high concentrations of that when you use phosphorus munitions like smoke grenades. Who would use something like that on a spaceship? The effects would be horrific.”
The whole team was looking at me with surprise visible on their faces. “Oh, very good Lieutenant. I didn’t know that you knew combat engineering, too.”
I laughed at the special operations team. “You look at me and all you see is a short, but cute, blond playing dress up. Don’t you? You forget that I had 15 years to do lots of reading and studying on a variety of topics out in my little ‘retreat’ in Diablo sector. I am smarter than you think I am Mr. Yannos.” I had moved close to him and was poking him in the chest to make my point crystal clear. “Any more comments any of you would like to make?” I looked around the room at the others. “Good. Let’s go find some people shall we?” Reaching over I pressed the open button.
The airtight door opened with a whoosh. Lying on the deck, directly in front of the door, were the remains of five or six pirates. From the amount of dried blood and gore it appeared that several had been shot, the rest cut into pieces during some sort of fight. There was a blood trail leading off to starboard. Someone had crawled away from this.
Yannos motioned to two of his squad to go check it out. We didn’t touch the bodies, except to move them out of the way of the door. The two men returned, they found one dead pirate about twenty feet away in a pool of blood. Staying together, we headed toward the bow of the ship. We knew that someone was alive on the bridge. Ahead of us was another airtight door, this led to the main corridor running the length of the ship. Once again Yannos used his scanning device to check for danger.
In my head I heard Wilson. “Athena that little thing he has is pretty cool. It has more computing power than three of your engineering tablets. I got a good scan off of it. I think I can tweak the system a little and build you a better one if you like.” I nodded my head, you bet I wanted one of those things.
Yannos motioned me over to him. “Lieutenant the main corridor is highly contaminated with phosphorus pentoxide. Can we go around?”
I pulled out my tablet and brought up the schematics for the ship. If my map was correct, the only way to get to the bridge was through the main corridor There were a few air ducts that might work but we would not fit inside in the spacesuits we had on. I explained all of this to Yannos to get his opinion.
Carefully, I opened the door to the main corridor. Using an override code I slowed the door. Wisps of white smoke and flakes of ash rolled through the doorway. The fire had gone out with the lack of oxygen to fuel it. Battle damage was evident in both directions. Since we knew for a fact that people were alive on the bridge, we went there first. As we approached the bow we found more dead pirates. The effect of the phosphorus pentoxide at full
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