Gemini Warrior
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The world slowed and sharpened into crystal clarity. I saw every strand of auburn hair peeking out from under Shane’s helmet, every crease on her uniform, every scuff mark on the edges and back of the shield. She rested her carbine on the shield’s left-hand cut-out and took one step. A second step. A third. And went right.
I blew past her, following the wall to the far corner of the room, pivoting as I went, carbine rising to dominate the room.
Next to the door, Ruiz and Sophia Vega rummaged through a massive closet. The bed stood in between them and me. The closet doors were flung wide open, right in Shane’s face. She wouldn’t be able to see them.
But they saw me.
And Ruiz had an AK-47 in his hands.
He turned, slowly, slowly, trying to track me. I mashed the laser pressure switch, training the bright green dot on his chest. I didn’t need it, but it was his final warning that he was one trigger pull away from the point of no return.
“POLICE!” I roared. “FREEZE!”
He kept turning, turning, his left foot stepping back, his torso blading towards me, arms swinging up the AK to greet me.
I snapped my carbine to the shoulder, cheek welding itself to the unyielding buttstock, found the blazing green dot-in-circle of the holosight centered on his chest and the smaller green laser dot just beside it, rotated the selector lever down with my thumb.
Fired.
Once, twice, the classic controlled pair. He shuddered, his lips drawing back in an involuntary grimace. I lifted the carbine a touch, found his face framed in the holosight window, stroked the trigger twice more.
He dropped.
Lowering the Virtus to the compressed ready, I saw Ruiz crashing to the floor in slow motion. His hands sprang open and the AK clattered under the bed.
“NOOOOOOOOO!” Vega screamed.
Shane bashed the door out of her way.
“POLICE! HANDS UP!” she yelled.
Vega ignored her, diving to the body on the floor, to the AK under the bed. The alarm in my head screamed again.
I aimed at her.
“HANDS IN THE AIR! BACK UP NOW!” I yelled.
Vega looked up at me, face twisted in hate. She rose from the floor, her arms shifting with her, her hands still out of sight. My eyes trained on her collarbone, with my peripheral vision I hunted for her hands, where are her hands—
Wood.
Metal.
I fired.
One round to the upper chest, second to the throat, third to the mouth and forth between the eyes and down she went, arms splaying out, head haloed in blood.
Her hands were empty.
I stepped my power down. The world accelerated, snapping back to regular time.
“Shots fired! Shots fired!” Shane called.
“Roger on the shots fired,” Oliveira radioed. “Who fired? Everyone okay?”
There was still one more room to clear. The attached bathroom. Shane moved to the corpses. I burst into the bathroom, peeled back the shower curtains, peeked into the tub.
“Amp fired the shots,” Shane replied. “Wait one.”
“Bathroom clear!” I yelled.
“Room clear!” she called back.
“Coming out!”
“Come out!”
Stepping out, I saw Shane kneeling over Ruiz, her fingers pressed to his neck. I took a deep, stabilizing breath and hit my push-to-talk switch.
“This is Amp. I fired the shots. Two suspects down in main bedroom, GSWs to the chest and head. Room is clear.”
Shane scooted over to Vega and felt for signs of life.
“Copy that. Is everyone okay?”
I patted myself down. “Shane? Are you okay?”
“I’m fine!” she replied.
“Shane and I are okay,” I reported. “No injuries.”
“Copy that,” Oliveira replied. “Entry team, secure the house and lock it down. Shane, Amp, check in on the suspects. EMTs inbound.”
Shane looked up at me, a mask of dread on her face.
“They’re dead,” she said.
“I know,” I replied.
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Six kills in six years.
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But this time he’s killed the wrong bad guy. Now the local drug lord’s son is dead, and the boss is out for Adam’s blood. Even his secret identity won’t keep him safe. The police department hangs him out to dry, his years of exemplary service forgotten. Adam must take justice into his own hands to keep his family safe.
Because Adam is a Song. And Songs take care of their own. No matter the cost.
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JD Cowan is a writer with an obsession for stories and Truth. He takes pleasure in looking for Light in the places where darkness grips the tightest.
His works include "Grey Cat Blues", the young adult novel "Knights of the End" and short stories in "Superheroes: The Crossover Alliance Volume 3" by the Crossover Alliance, the PulpRev Sampler, and "Paragons" by Silver Empire.
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GEMINI WARRIOR
GEMINI MAN BOOK ONE
By J.D. Cowan
Published by Silver Empire
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