Steel World
“The one Sargon had gutted was down as well. With the two he’d shot earlier, that left four of them out of the fight.
The last two got smart and retreated behind the smoking hulk of the revival unit.
“Are they running or getting guns?” Carlos asked.
“It hardly matters which. We can’t break off. They’ll come after us, and they run a lot faster than we do. Let’s charge.”
“Okay. You left, me right.”
“Go!”
We’d been hugging the ragged walls of the tunnel, but now we fully exposed ourselves and rushed forward. We ran to the machine, stumbling over dead bodies and uneven spiraling cuts in the steel floor. We each came around the sides of the tunnel—and met up with two armed lizards.
They were picking up gear from a sled of sorts they had on the ground. I could tell right away it was some kind of air sled, a machine built to help carry heavy loads.
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