Chapter Ten
Sector 12 Transgalactic Station
Joel wasn’t sure what surprised him more: the behemoth bug, or the fact that expletives had just come out of Reggie’s mouth.
“Uhhhh… Cody? Can you hurry it up? We’ve got a big problem.”
Cody tapped furiously on his wristcom. “Got it. Dumping the lines now.”
Joel twisted together a casing rigged up of old paint cans. “Flashbangs are ready. As soon as I toss these, all the bugs in the hall are toast.”
“But the elevator is on the other side of that swarm,” Reggie said. “We’re trapped in here with that beast.”
“Maybe not,” Cody said, studying the floor schematics. “Looks like there’s a service elevator toward the back, right next to the engine. We just have to get past the mother bug.”
“Because that’ll be ‘easy as f*****g pie’, right, guys?”
