Martian Roulette - Backwoods Station book 3
Spurlock stepped
back, both guns raised. His arms formed a v from his chest, head moving slowly
back and forth like he was watching a tennis match.
His eyes studied
one man, then the other, never staying too long in one spot. Roaming as he
watched. The two men shifted their weight away from each other.
"Hold on
now," Spurlock warned, his voice just a notch above a whisper.
"There's two
of us, Marshal," said the man on the left.
His blaster was
in his hand, but he had yet to lift his arm. Finger tight on the trigger, it
would take less than a second to aim and pull.
Spurlock knew he
was a breath away from getting shot. Maybe a breath away from dying.
""You
got the draw," said the man on the right, the muscles in his shoulder
tense as he held his blaster aimed at hte ground. "But are you sure you
can stop both of us before one of us gets you?"
"I told
you," said Spurlock. "You draw and I'm putting you down."
A third man
stepped in between them, pistol aimed toward the Marshal.
"And now
there's three," he growled. "Marshal, I'm going to ask you to lower
your weapons and place them on the ground before my boys here have to perferate
you with red hot laser beams."
"That my
only option?"
"Seems like
it is."
"Alright
then."
He pulled a
finger off the left trigger and moved the gun into the holster on his waist in
a slow controlled manner.
He repeated the
motion with the right, and when he clicked the strap closed on that holster, he
sighed.
"I'm gonna
ask you to give it up one more time," he said.
"Now
Marshal," Bob snorted. "I think it's incredible that a man in your
position still can maintain his sense of humor in the face of overwhelming odds
such as these."
"Yep,"
said Spurlock. "At least I've got that going for me."
He popped his
left hand up to the handle of the rifles strapped to his chest and twisted as
the barrel came up.
It made a short
burring sound, like a buzz saw ripping through wood as super heated air created
wispy sonic booms, strobing across the short distance between the four men.
Three bodies
flopped to the floor, smoke curling toward the pristine ceiling.
"Holy
shit," said Hillbilly Jim.
Spurlock aimed
the rifle in his direction.
Jim reached for
the ceiling and just in case that wasn't high enough, kept reaching for the
dome he couldn't see beyond.
"You part of
that?" Spurlock grumbled.
"Hell no,
Marshal. I'm just here to sling drinks."
"Then get to
it."
Hillbilly Jim
lowered one hand and poured, making sure to keep the other in the air and right
where the Marshal could see it.
Spurlock let the
rifle fall back on it's short sling and snatched the glass of the bar. He
dropped the shot of hootch past his lips and smacked it down, then held out the
glass for a refill.
"This isn't
the good shit," Jim said, still too scared to drop the hand not holding
the bottle.
"It'll
do."
Jim poured
another shot that Spurlock gulped.
"Funny
thing, killing a man," said Spurlock as he caught a glance of his eyes in
the reflective surface behind the bar.
"Men,"
said Jim.
"Killing
men," said Spurlock. "I still don't like it."
"Like it or
not," Jim poured a third shot and filled another glass for himself.
"You're pretty damned good at it."
"Yep,"
said Spurlock.
He guzzled down
the third shot and pulled out his communicator to call Pete.
"Eleven
eleven," he said into the badge.
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