Strike Zone releases on February 27th! Woot I’m sharing scenes from the first chapter as we wait.
You can read the first scene of the first chapter here:
https://tasteofcyn.com/?p=11560
This week I’m sharing the second scene.
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“My plan now is to erect a shield around some space debris and fire missiles at it.” Their navigator appeared content with that modification.
“I projected that was your plan.” Intrepid nodded. “Engineering will assist with that project. Choice?”
“I’ll assist him, Captain.” The kid lifted his chin.
Their leader dipped his head in acknowledgement. “Strike, organize two more mock battles.”
“Organizing two more mock battles, Captain.” Strike wouldn’t participate in either of them.
He trained. His fighting skills had to be honed to ensure he could physically protect the beings around him. But he derived no joy from mock killing others.
Others felt differently about the events.
Pick me as one of the leaders. Grid resumed his campaigning.
Strike would give him that honor. “The teams will be led by—”
Captain held up his right hand. That was a signal for silence.
A strange sound pulsed through the bridge.
Strike couldn’t process how Captain had heard it first but their leader often detected danger before others did.
“What’s that noise?” Intrepid looked at them for input.
Strike had no projection of its cause. He skimmed his hands over the control panel embedded in the console before him. There were no indications of any issues on board the battle station.
No one else spoke.
“What’s the status of our systems?” Intrepid looked at Choice.
“All systems are operating within spec, Captain.” The kid looked down at his control panel also.
“The sound isn’t originating from our communications systems, Captain.” Argot verified that fact.
“It isn’t impacting the Dauntless’s flight.” Drift, their pilot, kept the battle station on course.
Cure, their medic, raised his handheld. “The sound has triggered threat responses in us, but there are no other signs of damage to our forms.”
Strike ran noise-level scans on the entire vessel. “It’s loudest on the right side of the battle station.” That side faced the border. The border they vowed to protect. He shifted his weight from his left booted foot to his right booted foot. “Requesting authorization to modify the Dauntless’s trajectory 90 degrees to the west.”
“That path is clear, Captain.” Grid relayed information Strike already processed.
“Authorization granted.” Their leader didn’t hesitate to take his suggestion. That pleased Strike. “Drift, adjust your course.”
“Adjusting our course, Captain.” Their pilot made that modification.
Strike performed another set of noise-level scans. “The sound is now loudest at the front of the Dauntless.”
“It’s originating from outside the vessel.” Captain tapped his chin with his right index finger. “And also from outside the sector.”
That meant it was outside their responsibility.
“Is it a distress call?” Cure placed one of his hands on the medic pack set on the console before him. The male was prepared to respond to any request for assistance.
“If it’s a distress call, it’s unlike any I’ve ever heard.” Argot shook his head.
“It resembles…” Strike searched the databases for a corresponding sound.
“What does it resemble?” Intrepid gazed at him. “Give me your best projection.”
“There’s no exact match, but the variance to this is merely 2.1258 percent.” Strike played the audio recording.
Captain listened to it and then nodded. “That was my projection also.” Their leader recognized the sound.
As did every cyborg on the bridge. A solemness fell over the space.
“I can’t hear anything.” Argot’s female’s forehead furrowed.
“The frequency is above a human’s range,” the Valkyrie, her chosen mother, explained. “And it resembles the sound of an activated world-ender.” Captain’s female had lived longer than any of them and had fought battles all over the universe. She had identified the partial match. “The pulsing is coming from a weapon.”
“If it’s a weapon, it’s a different type.” Strike didn’t have enough inputs to label the source of the noise.
Choice, their engineer, nodded. “A 2.1258 variance is significant.”
“We’re being hailed by the Nimble, Captain.” Argot relayed that development.
The Nimble was the primary patrol battle station assigned to their section of border.
“Open communications.” Captain shifted in his chair.
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Read the next scene (available February 12th) here:
https://tasteofcyn.com/?p=11564
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Strike Zone
A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.
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While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.
She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.
The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.
Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.
Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.
Desperately.
Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.
When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.
She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.
Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.
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Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a cyborg warrior with a finely honed sense of honor, a human support being taking on her first dangerous mission, and an evil that threatens everyone in existence.
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