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“Okay,” Alex replied, then hit so on a panel twice and frowned “Huh, we have a red on the board Gettin’ a ‘no seal’ on the cargo airlock Might’ve caught souess It was pretty hot up there”

“Well, we’re not going to stop and fix it now,” Holden said “We keep the bay in vacuuo area is showing a good seal, just override the alarer,” Alex said, and tapped the override

“One minute,” Holden said over the shipwide, then turned to Alex “So I’h that shit-storain on the way out?”

Alex laughed

“Sihest threat on anyone’s board And, of course, not bein’ there any you a raise,” Holden said, then began the ten-second countdown At one, the Roci blasted off of Ganymede on four pillars of superheated steam

“Rotate us for a full burn as soon as you can,” Holden said, the ru hi below us thatof the remnants of black filament they’d seen in the hidden base “Melt it”

“Okay,” Alex said Then, once the ship had finished orienting straight up, he said, “Givin’ her the spurs”

Even with the juice coursing through his blood, Holden blacked out for awildly from side to side The cockpit was alive with the sounds of warning buzzers

“Whoa, honey,” Alex was saying under his breath “Whoa, big girl”

“Naoto decipher it with his blood-starved brain “Who’s firing at us?”

“Everyone” She sounded as groggy as he felt

“Yeah,” Alex said, his tension draining soood-old-boy drawl out of his voice “She’s not kidding”

The swaran to ht It looked like half of the inner planets ships on their side of Ganymede had lobbed at least one missile at them He entered the command code to set all the weapons to free fire and sent control of the aft PDCs to A his best to keep any of the inco the with meat inside it could outrunto target aarc The point defense cannon fired off a long burst at it The h to turn sharply and evade, but its sudden course change bought them a few more seconds

“Callisto’s on our side of Jupiter,” Alex said, referring to the next sizable et in its shadow”

Holden checked the vectors of the ships that had fired at theambit would only buy them a few minutes But it didn’t appear they were Of the dozen or so that had attacked theed, and the ones that weren’t were still busy shooting at each other

“Seems like ere everyone’s number one threat there for a second,” Holden said “But not so much anymore”