One of them hit her port-side wing and nearly tore the damn thing off. Others rose up all around her. The screech of proximity alarms drowned out whatever Melissa had been saying.
Hissing air through her teeth, Larani snarled. “Hang on!” she panted. “Just a little longer!”
With a flick of her wrist, she performed a ninety-degree roll. The enemy ship was now a vast expanse of metal on her left, the emptiness of space on her right. She sailed through the narrow gap between two plasma bolts, one passing over her head, the other under her feet.
When the next generator drew near, she righted the shuttle and angled the nose down for a clean shot. Glowing bullets surged from her wing cannons, converging on the target and destroying it in a flash of electric radiance.
“Job’s done, Shuttle,” th
