Project: Phoenix (Neon City Book 3), Chapter 13
"Here ya go." Otto placed the cup in front of Shakira and sat on the opposite side of the small, glass-topped table. He'd spotted a media van parked nearby, but luckily this place had a half-dozen tables on the roof, and all but one were unoccupied....
Harbinger, Chapter 6
"Oh, hell," Raf whispered as he stared wide-eyed at the bank of monitors in front of him and the others. Ratchet stood off to the side, keeping his optics on the screens and his right hand over the ground-bridge controls. Tomoko sat beside Raf,...
Freelancers, Chapter 23
"So, what do you make of this? Is it 'indoctrination?'" Dr. Michel leaned back in her chair and watched as Dr. Chakwas finished reading the file on her tablet. Chakwas passed it to Mordin, who read the file in mere seconds and handed it back to...
Arena, Chapter 9
"Eww!" Dylan stood in front of his newly-opened stasis pod and stared down at the goop covering his body. "_Eww!_ What _is_ this shit?" "Not sure." Cora glanced over the nearby pods. "Could be some sort of protective agent, or maybe it keeps the...
Arena, Chapter 8
"Here they come!" Cora kept her optics on the approaching shapes for less than a second before flicking her gaze back to her control panel. The _Mae Jemison_'s scanners analyzed the objects and fed the results directly into her CPU. Aircraft of varying...
Arena, Chapter 6
"I thought you said you could insert us into another simulation," Dylan muttered as the six white-armored goons marched toward them. "Working on it. I should be able to open a portal to another simulation in a few seconds." Cora planted herself...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter 12
"Where are we going?" Otto muttered. Jack glanced over his shoulder at Otto and Shakira as they lay on the floor of the rear compartment, keeping well away from the windows. "Hope you don't mind, but we figured it might not be a good idea for you to...
Freelancers, Chapter 22
"You know, it just now hit me," Dr. T'Lura said as they waited for the airlock's decontamination cycle to finish. "We're actually going to meet Commander Shepard and his team. The ones who saved the Citadel from Sovereign _and_ stopped the Collectors...
Arena, Chapter 5
"Okay. So far, so good." Dylan turned slowly, taking in their new surroundings, and let out a slow breath when no new instructions popped into his mind. He and the females had found themselves standing on the corner of a street in another alien city....
Harbinger, Chapter 4
"No news on Airachnid yet," Arcee muttered as her remote-controlled body held the door open for Jack, his mom, Miko, and Ashanti's team. "Optimus said he's holding off on reviving the two dormant 'Bots until after we view the new records. He didn't say...
Elsewhere, Chapter 14
"I'm guessing this is where that critter came from," Morrison said as the others entered what appeared to be a storage room--with curved sections cut out of the floor, one wall, and the ceiling. The edges glowed red-hot, indicating the damage had been...
Elsewhere, Chapter 13
"Jump completed," Astra said. "Initiating scan." Kamala slithered over to the central console, coiled herself up to keep out of everyone's way, and braced her lower hands on the panel. Roger put his left arm around her as she stared at the graphics...