"Jeff Kirvin - Unification Chronicles 4 - Exiting Eden" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kirvin Jeff)

Warning lights flared and buzzers sounded all through his helmet, desperate to tell him what
he already knew: one more hit like that and he was dead.
 Jack struggled to get to his feet, but a missile barrage from the other Saurian machine kept
him down. They had him pinned, and they were moving in for the kill, or worse, capture. Jack
didnтАЩt know what Saurians did with their POWs, but they were all claws and teeth, and he
didnтАЩt relish the thought of being alone with them without his armor.

Jack rolled across the rubble, staying ahead of a stream of autocannon fire. Somewhere
along the way, heтАЩd lost his railgun, and his shoulder-mounted missile rack was pulverized.
Fight was no longer an option; he had to find a way to make flight feasible.

The Saurians machines drew closer to Jack with each barrage of weapons fire, the one on
the right stepping lightly for a hunk of steel weighing several tons, and the one on the left
eschewing avian grace for a crippled stagger and dragging its smoking leg. The noose was
closing, and Jack could see no way around them that wouldnтАЩt get him flattened in the
attempt.

Better that than capture, he thought, and pulled himself into a crouch on the rubble,
preparing to explode into the fastest run his armor could muster.

Just as the closer of the two machines, the crippled one, drew another step in, Jack heard
the familiar sound of plasma fire and saw a stream of superheated hydrogen erupt off the
cockpit of the machine. Two figures appeared in his peripheral vision, one on either side of
him, and the Saurians stepped back, reassessing the situation.

тАЬI was wondering when youтАЩd get here,тАЭ Jack said to Robyn. тАЬWhereтАЩs Girish?тАЭ

тАЬHe didnтАЩt make it.тАЭ

Jack nodded, and looked back at the two Saurian machines. Their initial surprise fading,
they moved towards the humans again. тАЬAt least the odds are in our favor. Three to two
instead of two against one.тАЭ

Jack was knocked off his feet by an explosion from behind. Spinning around, he saw three
more Saurian war machines crest the rubble, standing atop the ruined building, great
conquering birds forged in steel.

тАЬMake that five against three,тАЭ Robyn said. тАЬWhere the hell did they come from?тАЭ

Jack lurched to his feet. тАЬYou didnтАЩt think we saw all they had in that clearing, did you? We
still donтАЩt know what their dropships look like. LetтАЩs go.тАЭ

Robyn and Jabari turned and fired on the three Saurians standing on the rubble. The
Saurians returned fire, but the humans were no longer there. They ran top speed for the two
Saurians in the street, Jack slowing only to scoop up his railgun.

Jabari took aim and fired on the smoking knee of the crippled war machine, tearing the
joint apart and causing the machine to topple onto the street. The standing war machine was
hit repeatedly by weapons fire from the other three Saurian machines as the humans put it
between the three on the rubble and their escape. As they turned the first corner, they heard