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.But the vapor rose from as far as he could see.Bigones.His hand trembled.553The Shivered Skyby Matt Dinniman Steady, Captain called. No one fire until I give theorder.Ko adjusted his weapon, giving it full power.It quivered onhis stump, the vibrations shaking his teeth.By Jehu, heprayed.Let them be friends.The silver tops of the ships emerged like behemoths fromthe deep.They belched black fumes and the dark sound ofburdened machinery.Beasts of hell gasping for air.Each onethe size of a large air transport.Hundreds, maybe thousandsof them. Steady, Captain cried.The monsters pulled forward to the edge of land.Theywere wider and taller than normal port ships by almosttenfold.An artillery shell exploded on the top of one to noeffect.Ko slowly began to realize he knew where these shipswere from.He had ridden in one himself on his journey here.Not quite relieved, he lowered his weapon. Overseers, Ko called to the captain over the rain.Next tohim, Tix let out a stream of breath.A moment later, the colossal doors of one crashed down,confirming what Ko had said.Overseers dressed in theirridiculous ornamental combat armor filled the transports,many already astride steeds.The steeds were Vangs, grayarmored beasts with six legs and two horns atop their beakedsnouts.The Overseers of old rode them in battle, but Kodoubted any of these fat fools had ever even trotted on one.The helmets of the Overseers were decorated with rainbow-colored brushes, and some wore feathered headdresses that554The Shivered Skyby Matt Dinnimancascaded to the ground.Even some of the Vangs werecolorfully outfitted like dolls. What are they doing here? Tix asked, suppressing herfeline laugh.She shook her head, though it did no good asthe water continued to fall on her. They look like overplumped game turkeys. They're here to defend their precious honor, Ko said. They sure got here fast.They never liked the Dahhak, andnow they probably mean to  help us defeat them. Well there are a lot of them, that's for sure.The mid-commander, a Charun, strode forward to speakwith one of the Overseers.Ko manually tracked her with hisweapon, pretending she was Ungeo.She nodded and turnedaway.She began to relay orders on her microphone. We are to cover them while they disembark, Captain saidafter a moment. They've come to help us. The last time the Overseers fought for themselves waswhen they conquered my world, Ko said. That was longbefore any of us were born.Captain shrugged. They were slaughtered mercilessly,and they've come to help us.Besides, they say Asag arefrightened by bright colors.Behind them on the other side of the wall, the battlecontinued to rage.Though Ko couldn't see what washappening, he could tell it had taken up a fevered pitch.Bothsides likely had received reinforcements by now.The Overseers had mechanical winches that pulledthemselves onto their beasts.It was slow going, and theobese clowns sometimes fell off, usually to the jeers of the555The Shivered Skyby Matt DinnimanFooties covering them.When the first line of ships werefinally empty, they closed up and sank, allowing the secondline behind them to come forward. This is going to take forever, Tix groaned.* * * *Rico watched Hitomi pace back and forth, back and forth.She was antsy as hell.He wanted to get out of here too, butMoloch said stay put.He hated waiting.None of them couldsleep, and Hitomi, timid Hitomi, wanted nothing more than toget back out there and start kicking ass.He respected it for sure.She was worried about Indigo andDave, and she wanted to find and help them.He probablycould transport them to the Tower.It was far, and the effortwould most likely knock him out, but he could do it.However,Hitomi said there were angels there, and he didn't think he'dbe able to control himself.These guys didn't understand whatthe angels had done to their people.Maybe in time, but notyet.Gramm was curious about teleporting, so to pass the timeRico tried to show him how to do it.Surprisingly, Grammbegan to pick it up almost right away [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]