"Jack McKinney - Robotech 12 - Symphony of Light" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKinney Jack)

Scott heard the rock impact the mass and decided to help things along by training his
weapon on the ledge itself. The charges from his MARS-Gallant did what sheer momentum alone
couldn't, and in a moment the whole mass was avalanching toward the bottom of the ravine with a
ground-shaking, deafening roar. Scott threw himself up the opposing slope, figuring the Invid
would blast free of the ravine, giving him and Lunk a chance to reach the VTs. He never hoped they
would actually catch the Troopers unaware, but that was exactly what happened. They had both tried
to lift off, but the bounding rocks had shattered the ships' sensors, and in the confusion the
things got caught up in the slide and were overturned and buried.
When the snow settled, Lunk appeared at the top of the ravine, a triumphant look on his
face.
"Not bad, eh, Commander?!" he yelled down.
Scott surveyed the damage they had wrought and could only regard it in wonder. "Yeah,
great, pal," he called back. "Just like we planned."

Lancer and Marlene had run clear through a finger of woods. They were not far from Rand
and the others, but their trail had led them to the edge of a deep gully, with a river of snow
several hundred feet below them. They had no way of knowing that the one Trooper on their tail was
the last of the four.
Marlene seemed unaware of where she was or what it was they were running from. Lancer had
simply pulled her along like a helpless child, often shielding her with his body from debris flung
up by the Trooper's discs. But now all he could do was gaze hopelessly across the ten feet of
empty space that separated them from the gully's opposite face.
"Maybe if we hurry we can double back around," Lancer told her, trying to make it sound
feasible.
But as he took hold of her thin wrist again and prepared to set off, he saw the Trooper
emerging from the woods, closing in on them fast. Marlene understood that they would have to jump


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across the abyss. She nodded to Lancer, her forehead wrinkled up in apprehension.
They gave themselves several yards of runway and made a mad dash toward the ledge, hand in
hand as they soared across the chasm. And they almost made it. But they fell short by a foot,
catching hold of the edge-which was really little more than snow-and falling backward to what they
thought would be the chasm bottom. Instead, however, they landed on a narrow ledge approximately
ten feet below the lip.
Lancer was thinking that things couldn't get much worse, but of course they could. Above
them, the Invid command ship came into view. But to his surprise, he watched as the control
nacelle sprang open and a Human pilot jumped down from the padded cockpit. It was the same
brainwashed captive he had seen on the island: a slim female of medium height with punked out
greenblond hair and eyes as red as a Trooper's scanner. She wore a bodysuit of colored panels that
emphasized the body's major muscle groups in swaths of black, purple, and pink-like the colors of
the command ship itself.
"I know you," Lancer called to her as she peered down at them. "Why are you fighting for
the Invid?"
The woman's only response was to mock him with a short laugh.
Lancer pointed at her accusingly. "You're a traitor! Answer me: Why are you fighting for
them?"
Sera continued to stare at the Human, angered and confused at the same time. I should