“Not enough time,” I murmured.
“So, what do we do?” Gloria asked, a desperate determination in her voice. “There has to be something.”
“I don’t—” I clenched my eyes shut, wrestling with my growing panic as I fought to find a solution. “Without more cabling… I just don’t know…”
Suddenly the lighting shifted, and I opened my eyes, all but gasping at the sight through the assault craft’s canopy. It was a black shadow wreathed in flame hurtled from above.
It was the Essta, engulfed in a fireball as it dropped from orbit.
“Not like this!” Hunter roared across the comms, plunging the ship deep into the moon’s atmosphere. In an instant, it swept past us, flying straight for the floundering colony ship.
Another flash ahead of us marked a new particle cannon blast, but Hunter ignored the thre
