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- Chalker Jack L W Świecie Studni 5 Zmierzch przy Studni Dusz (pdf)
- Ian Rankin [Jack Harvey 03] Blood Hunt (v4.0) (pdf)
- Jack L. Chalker Watchers at the Well 03 Gods at the Well of Souls
- James Fenimore Cooper Jack Tier, Volume 2
- Chalker Jack L W Świecie Studni 3 Poszukiwanie (pdf)
- Jack L. Chalker Dancing Gods 3 Vengance of the Dance
- Jack L. Chalker Three Kings 3 Kaspars Box
- Jack Vance The Gray Prince
- Jack London Tales of the Klondike
- Jack Kerouac On the Road
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the barracks area, driving them back or blowing them sky-high. Even the
Hellcats who broke and fled found that their speed wasn't enough to save them;
a second attack wave, diving from high altitude, overtook the things and
chopped them down with missiles and cannonfire.
More Invid bipeds, rallying from outposts and patrols, headed for the
camp by way of a canyon to the west, forming up to steamroll into the
rescuers. The first problem with that plan was that the Wolff Pack was there,
and met them head-on.
It was no open-country tank battle; it was a murderous set-to in a
limited space, both sides throwing themselves into it without restraint, like
a knife fight in a commophone booth. Tank and Gladiator mode didn't offer
enough agility, so the Wolff Pack went to Battloid and grappled, fired,
kicked, and punched. The Invid met them with claws, tentacles, chelae, and
feet, annihilation disks and explosive globes. The valley was a
slaughterhouse, but the heavier and more numerous Hovertanks began pushing
back the tide inch by inch.
Kami watched as the Hellcat rolled to the upper position, determined to
bite the Alpha's throat out or rip its head off with those enormous fangs.
But the Alpha got one forearm under the 'Cat's jaw, slowly levering it
away. Then the Battloid had both hands on the feline's throat, squeezing with
Robotech strength. The 'Cat screamed and went wild, tail thrashing, but it
couldn't free itself. Alloy groaned and squeaked as it gave way, crushed. The
light in the 'Cat's remaining eye slowly dimmed.
Then all at once it was dark, and the thing's body went limp and
lifeless. The Alpha rose to its feet, lifting the Hellcat up, then threw it to
the ground with an impact that made Karbarra quake under Kami's feet. The
Invid mecha was a shapeless mass of smoking scrap.
The Skulls had turned things around in minutes. The ground was littered
with the remains of Invid mecha, and no enemy was standing. But there were VTs
down, too, and their fellows were attending to them.
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The functioning Veritechs deployed repair servos that snaked forth on
metal tentacles to fix what damage they could. Many of the disabled mecha were
beyond such help, though, and would require the facilities of a full Robotech
engineering bay.
But some of the damaged Skulls would never rise again, and their pilots
had paid the final price. The living descended from their ships for the
wrenching and ghastly duty of gathering up the remains. In several cases there
was simply nothing left.
The red Alpha turned and walked over through the drifting smoke of
battle to look down at Kami. A female voice said over an external speaker,
"Sorry we cut it so fine, my friend." It was Miriya Sterling.
Kami could still smell his own singed fur. "It could have been much
worse-by several seconds." She laughed. Then he thought of something. "The
shuttle! It disappeared over that way!"
Miriya paused for a moment-perhaps informing Max of the situation-then
blasted away through the air on her back thrusters, quickly mechamorphosing to
true Veritech mode, and heading like a missile in the direction Kami had
indicated.
At the landing site, each second seemed like an hour on the rack to
Lisa. The Destroids had redoubled their efforts to hold out and, in a few
places, had even retaken a little ground. But the Invid were pressing hard
again.
Suddenly there was a crackling noise over the command net, and Max
spoke, sounding choked up. "We got the kids, Lisa. They're all okay. Do you
roger? I say again, all hostages are safe."
Max was starting to talk about arrangements to get the cubs to safety,
but Lisa cut him off. "Max, things are deteriorating here. Leave a security
force and then get back here with every VT you can spare. Repeat, I need you
here ASAP with every mecha you can-"
"Cap'n! Look!" A Spherian tech was pointing through the vast blister
that roofed the bridge.
"What-" she said, ignoring Max's efforts to get her to finish her
sentence.
All through the city, doors and windows and access panels were opening
up on roofs and other vantage points, and intense fire was pouring forth,
mostly Invid-style annihilation disks and beams. From what she could see and
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