CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Alf and the others didn’t take more than 0.001 seconds to respond to his yell; they threw themselves sideways, trying not to expose themselves to the Slig fire from above while trying to dodge the Wolvark’s laser fire from close ahead of them.
Abe performed his best shooting maneuver: throwing himself sideways, he went into a roll and came back up again firing. The Wolvark dodged with amazing agility, but for several seconds the attacker did not fire, and in that moment, Abe realized the Sligs above weren’t firing.
Apparently they had seen the Wolvark and figured they would wait to see how that ended up.
Awful nice of them to stop firing, Abe thought, as he fired at the Wolvark again.
The bounty hunter – at least, that’s what Abe figured he was – dodged to the side even before the trigger was fully depressed, neatly dodging the shot. The Wolvark then opened fire again, and Abe ducked and dodged as madly as he could, trying to fire at the attacker without getting killed.
Bullets flew from his Snuzi pistol, but he didn’t think he scored any hits. The lasers flew thick and fast; one of them scorched his foot, and another burned a gash in his upper shoulder.
Burning with pain and even more brightly with rage, hardly able to see with blinking at the light of the laser bolts, he struggled to see where the agile Wolvark had moved to, tracking him with his gun. He decided to let his new friend speak.
He fired one more time.
Blood spurted from the Wolvark’s chest, then the bounty hunter fell to the ground, his boot rockets still activated, plowing him forward through the rocky ground. Abe watched the bounty hunter slide forward across the ground until he slammed headfirst into the canyon wall, and the boot rockets detached themselves from his ankles and propelled themselves down the length of the canyon.
“Nice work, Abe!” Grunn called out –
And the Sligs opened fire again. One shot grazed Abe’s forehead before he could scramble away toward the rock cover again. His whole body burning from the close hits from the enemies scattered around the canyon, he barely made it behind the rock before something else came flying down the canyon at them.
It looked suspiciously like a clenched fist, and it landed with a sharp thunk.
Someone screamed “Grenade –!”
And then it exploded, and there was a bright flash of light and pain, and Abe knew no more.
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