Free Insurrection (Athena Lee Chronicles Book 5) by T S Paul Page B

killed.
     
    “What are you trying to tell me? Knew what! Speak!”
     
    “They have cameras everywhere. It’s a separate system, not listed in the specs. That is how they know what we’re doing. Sir, look over there” he pointed above the door. “See that little bump there, it’s a camera. They are watching us!”
     
    “What camera?” Alvin drew his gun, blowing a large hole in he bulkhead where the ‘camera’ was.
     
    “Find the rest of those cameras and destroy them! Good work Carson! You get to live a little longer.”
     
    A series of explosions and gunfire caused his bodyguards to react, heads swiveling they covered Alvin bodily.
     
    “Get off me you idiots! That was behind us. Find out what that idiot McCoy is doing!”
     
    His second in command Reuben came around the corner.
     
    “Mickey! What in the hell is going on?”
     
    “Damn it, Alvin you know I hate that name. The Navy pukes are attacking us from the aft. And somehow, a small force attacked the weapons room and have closed and locked the door. We lost the bridge too. Our boys killed a few of them, but we can’t get the door open to kill the rest.”
     
    “You lost the Fecking Bridge! And Weapons! You idiot, they have us trapped in the middle of the ship! What kinds of fools did you leave in charge up there!” Alvin drew his gun and was using it to make a point. He waved it at the surrounding pirates. “You. Have. Killed. Us. Did you hear me? Mickey? You have killed us!”
     
    Reuben’s face was bright red and he was shaking with anger. “Alvin you son-of a bitch! You were the one who left Jenna in charge up on the bridge. It was your cousin Eddie that was in charge of weapons. My fault. You say that this mess is all my fault? It’s you Alvin, you caused all of this.” Reuben wore two pistols in a cross draw over his chest. He quickly drew both of them and began firing at Alvin’s bodyguards. Reuben was yelling as he fired. “Your dammed body guards are ‘pixie-dust’ feckers if they think they can protect you!”
     
    Two of Alvin’s guards were down, bleeding out on the floor. Alvin had his pistol out and was blasting away at Reuben. Stray shots had already hit a few of the pirate bystanders. Many had jumped for cover. Hiding in doorways or behind consoles. Very few had any thoughts of stopping them. Killing for position was the pirate way.
     
    His left arm now useless with a hole in his shoulder streaming blood, Reuben dropped his pistol and reached for one of his grenades. Unlike the grenades of old this only required a button sequence to be pushed. Grabbing one at random one-handed, he lobbed the small bomb at his former boss. Alvin was crouched behind the pile of his bleeding, dead, and dying bodyguards. He saw the grenade arcing toward him. He dove to port, rolling behind a rolling cart filled with ammunition. Realizing his mistake too late, he pressed himself flat to the floor saying one of the first prayers to the space gods in his life.
     
    Reuben’s grenade was a fragmentation-white phosphorus type explosive. It landed next to the rolling cart and exploded. Flaming white phosphorus was sprayed in all directions. The burning metal is very dangerous to flammable things like clothing and skin. Once ignited it will burn until it runs out of material or oxygen.
     
    A shard of the burning metal landed on Alvin’s back, setting him ablaze. Other flaming shards landed on some of the cowering pirates and amongst the cart load of ammunition setting it ablaze.
     
    Reuben slumped to the ground and began to choke, hot acrid white smoke began to fill the corridor. Many of the pirates doubled over as their lungs burned from he exposure to phosphorus. The smoke began cooking the pirates from the inside out. Ship smoke alarms began to blare, red and yellow lights flashed as the fail-safe systems alerted crew to the danger. The air-tight corridor doors slammed shut in a effort to contain the ‘fire’ trapping the pirates