Free Metal Deep: Infinite - Metal Wing: Episode 5 by GX Knight Page A

answered my question. He stalked toward us with his own gun drawn, “Because he sprung the trap that was set for you. That isn’t his gun he’s holding.”

    I jerked the other pistol and pointed both my guns toward a very menacing General Wyld. At the same time Starshine snapped out of her trance she’d been faking, elbowed Uncle Raven with her one arm, and then spun kick the gun. It flew out of his hand and fell over the edge of the balcony. She pulled an identical gun from beneath her hospital gown and pointed it at my uncle at the same time he was pulling his own pistol to point back at her.

    We had ourselves a standoff. My uncle versus Starshine, and me versus the general.

    I had no idea Starshine could be so brutal. I never would have thought she could be the warrior type. I couldn’t believe how deeply I had been deceived. I had to give it to her; when it came to acting she had me and Dupe beat handily.

    “Drop, it honey ,” She said through a sneer, “Or I get even with your uncle for getting the best of me before you got here.”

    I held my gaze and my guns on Wyld. Two blue dots danced on each of his cheeks, “You do that, and you won’t be Daddy’s little girl anymore.”

    There was a long silence. I could hear the hallway outside filling with guards. Air-chopping VTOL’s started to buzz around us. Their search lights sped back and forth across the windows until the spotlights stopped on us.

    “Give it up,” Wyld ordered. “You are surrounded.”

    I considered his position, and I had to agree. Things seemed grim, but before I could make up my mind on whether or not I was going to surrender, a whooshing sound zipped past us. Less than a second later, balls of lighting screamed out from the black of night and crashed with thunderous claps into the VTOL’s. They fell to the ground and exploded into columns of fire that reached up far higher than we were.

    War broke out just after the last VTOL crashed. Everyone started firing.

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    Wyld moved his sights from me to Uncle Raven and then fired at the same time I did. From my pistols two blue bolts zipped through the air, leaving tiny plumes of heated plasma trails in their wake. The bolts went through Wyld’s chest and stomach and didn’t stop until they hit the wall behind him. I turned just in time to see Uncle Raven dodge the pointblank shot Starshine took at him, grab her arm, and then pull her in front of him so that the bullet General Wyld fired went into her good shoulder.

    Starshine didn’t even register that she had been shot. She looked to her dad’s fallen body, and then to me with intense hatred. She elbowed Uncle Raven in the face with her shot arm. He teetered for before losing his balance over the edge of the balcony. As he went over, he grabbed her by what little hair she had left, and pulled her over with him.

    I yelled for Starshine but tripped over a side table as I was trying to get to the rail to see what happened. I instinctively ducked from a boom sound Sabra made as she whooshed by again. This time she rained devastation from her rattling chaingun into the scattering ground forces. The wind of her passing rushed through the door and shuffled some of the fallen papers that were on the table I tipped over. My glance happen to spot a blood stained blue envelope. I scrambled to get it. It was the emergency envelope Uncle Raven gave me back at the java shop. Somehow it had ended up with Starshine after the bombing.

    I threw it my pocket, jumped up, and ran to the ledge. Down on the ground I saw Star’s twisted, unmoving body. There was no sign of Uncle Raven. Somehow he had disappeared. I didn’t have time process or investigate as guards decked out in full tactical gear began pouring through the door.

    They weren’t there to arrest me. One soldier checked Wyld’s dead body. When he didn’t get a pulse, he rose and took aim. I pleaded under my breath that the rest not follow suit, but they did. Damn them for