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

him as he rolled down the slope.
The Invid princess came to a halt at the bottom of the chute where the others had taken up
positions behind groupings of terminal moraine boulders. Lunk was loosing bursts against the
cockpit canopy that made it impossible for Sera to tell in which direction the leader had headed.
Sera allowed the brutish Human to have his way for an instant, then turned on him, aware
of the blood lust she felt in her heart. But all at once one of the Human's teammates ran from
cover and pushed the big one off his feet and out of the path of her shots. Angered, Sera
traversed the command ship's cannons to find him, realizing only then that it was the lavender-
haired Human.
Her hand remained poised above the weapon's ovalshaped trigger, paralyzed.

Elsewhere, the rebels and Shock Troopers continued to trade fire.
Marlene cowered behind a boulder as lethal packets of energy crisscrossed overhead, her
hands pressed to her head, as if she were fearful of some internal explosion.
"Fight or die!" she screamed, her words lost to the storm. "There must be another
way...another life!"
Then, a moment later, the fighting itself surrendered. Scott heard an intense rumbling
above him and looked up in time to see enormous chunks of ice fall from the buttresses surrounding
the cirque, avalanching down into the basin, scattering the Invid Troopers and burying the
Cyclones and Veritechs under tons of crystalline snow.


CHAPTER TWO
Scott had assumed that the "waning" [sic] of Yellow Dancer had something to do with Lancer's
infatuation with Marlene; but while Scott was certainly on the right track, he had the wrong cause-
a fact that contributed to the rivalries that arose later on. Had the two men sat down and talked
things out, perhaps they would have realized that Marlene was not the amnesiac Scott wanted to



file:///F|/rah/Jack%20McKinney/McKinney,%20Jac...0Robotech%2012%20-%20Symphony%20of%20Light.txt (5 of 83) [1/19/03 5:05:58 PM]
 file:///F|/rah/Jack%20McKinney/McKinney,%20Jack%20-%20Robotech%2012%20-%20Symphony%20of%20Light.txt

believe she was, nor Sera the Human pilot Lancer assumed her to be. Time and time again this
failure to communicate would undermine the team's movement toward unity, right to the end.
Zeus Bellow, The Road to Reflex Point

It was Scott's idea that they separate into three groups. The avalanche had indeed buried the VTs
and Cyclones, but at the same time it had forced the Invid out of the basin area and bought some
breathing space for the team. Reunited, they had picked their way farther down the mountainside,
splitting up when they reached the tree line. There they left obvious evidence of their separate
paths in the snow, hoping the Invid commander would similarly redeploy her Troopers. This way,
Scott hoped, his irregulars would stand a better chance of circling back to the chute and
retrieving the mecha.
Somehow.
The squall had moved through, but the temperature had actually risen a couple of degrees.
Nevertheless, the freedom fighters were soaked to the skin and feeling the chill. Annie felt it
more than the others-her jumpsuit had little of the thermal protection afforded Rook by the
Cyclone bodysuit, and she simply wasn't as inured to the cold as Rand. As a result, she had ridden
piggyback into the woods, her shaking arms draped around Rand's neck.