The Rifleman - Ch.46
Chapter Forty-Six
Trouble comes in threes.
“We need to leave,” Malia hissed as she tried to sit up. “You know that.”
“You can’t walk,”...
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Chapter Forty-Six
Trouble comes in threes.
“We need to leave,” Malia hissed as she tried to sit up. “You know that.”
“You can’t walk,”...
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Scramble
“What are you doing here?” Salem glared at the trio as they stepped out of Paren’s lab.
“I was fixing a severed comm lin...
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Ruins
Wesley looked at the ruins and couldn’t help but feel they were somewhat out of place. He had been expecting something like a c...
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Swamped.
The familiar stench of damp rot and stagnant water washed over Wesley as he stepped through the barrier. It was strange, consi...
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Final Plans.
“We have a total of seventy armed personnel,” Duke told them while his shadow Hadrian hovered behind him. “Of that, I estima...
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Status Report
Cix-El waved to Robot as he walked over to join the shy man at the back of the crowded main thoroughfare. Everyone had gathered a...
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Gearing.
Wesley looked down at his uniform and over at the two upgrade orbs. It was tempting, but his M1 needed more than just a singl...
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It’s not a bug; it’s a feature!
The moment they were outside the dungeon and back in his Domain, Malia bathed ...
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The Fallen Dungeon.
The first encounter room was not much of an improvement over the passage that had brought them here. It had rusty wa...
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Lava world.
“If you don’t stop that, I swear I will leave you here,” Malia snapped after about five minutes of him hopping back and fo...
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The Unexpected.
Malia and Wesley entered the Outpost, weapons in hand as they came through the door. The common room itself was comple...
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Timing is everything.
“It seems things have not gone your way,” Duke stood in the doorway of the comm room and crossed his arms.
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Dashing through the snow
“You are now officially a probationary member of the Errant Rangers,” Malia said as she tapped her badge...
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Malia’s trail
Wesley stepped out of the portal, finding a much cleaner and nicer room than the ones he had seen so far. The previou...
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Sit and Kick.
“Downjumping!” Tri called as the newly christened Destiny popped back out of Transit Space and into regular.
“Weapons...
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Frig-it.
“Is this going to take much longer, Maxton?” Carter sighed as he tapped his foot against the enameled metal floor. The communicati...
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Just Passing Through… Again.
Wesley approached the Outpost a few hours after sunrise, having released his hold on the My Doma...
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Tiering Up
Wesley leaned back in the chair and groaned, knowing there was no chance he had managed to avoid getting an excess of essen...
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Settling Up.
Wesley seriously considered smashing his face into the wall a few times just to have a reason to rest. The healing tents ...
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A Long Day.
Getting a meal seemed like a great idea right about then. It had been way too many hours since the glorious meat pies, an...
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Not our job.
Wesley sat in the tent his squad was assigned to and stared into the faces of his Simulacrums. The rest of the squad was s...
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Adjustments.
“Just so we are clear,” Crush said with a lazy smile. “You are allowed to visit to deliver good news. It doesn’t only have...
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Showdown on the corner.
An old military adage states that no plan survives contact with the enemy. This is not only very true but also ...
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I am happy to announce that the editing and formatting of The Rifleman went much better than expected and I decided to release it ahead of schedule.
So, if you have Kindle Unli...
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Fastest
Wesley settled himself on the roof as best he could, still grumbling about being made to climb rather than, to quote Split, ‘chea...
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Salvage Work.
“Elder Tw’ee,” Nellie walked slowly in case things had changed since they last met. People tended to get jumpy when beams o...
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Shifting Focus
Carter smiled warmly as he stepped off the shuttle while Maxton and two of her heavies gave everyone the evil eye behind him. Th...
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Faster
“Fall back!” The call woke them in the middle of the night, feet pounding past the tent flap as lights came on all around t...
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Slowly
Split was already awake when Wesley woke. He watched her, standing at the entrance to the tent with the wind blowing that strange hair b...
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Routed
It would be great to say that his actions saved the flank from failing and that once the enemy retreated, everything stabilized, and Wes...
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