Chapter ThirteenTORBEN WAS THE FIRST to die. One of the guards lifted his weapon and calmly blasted the commander in the head. As the Cruthian’s suit split apart, her body erupted in a massive froth through the gap. Jas was already running at the guard. He saw her and turned, but before he had a chance to fire his weapon again, she drove her shoulder into his chest, throwing him back against the wall. The impact to his head stunned him, and he slid toward the floor. Jas grabbed his weapon as he fell and turned it upon him. His eyes widened briefly before she burned a hole through his skull.
Fights had broken out all over the bridge as the Shadows attacked the non-Shadow officers. Jas focused on the comm officer who had relayed the Command message. The alien was a large quadruped, and he w
