{"id":5989,"date":"2017-04-18T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2017-04-18T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:01:53","slug":"the-gemini-affair-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5989","title":{"rendered":"The Gemini Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAll fighters are fully operational and ready to engage the enemy, Jack. Shall we?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall,\u201d Jack answered as over one hundred point defense lasers opened fire on the incoming missiles. The freighter\u2019s attack evaporated far short of Jack\u2019s thirteen Avengers. \u201cBut let\u2019s try to take her intact. They were nice enough not to shoot up our cargo pods. Let\u2019s return the favor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Jack,\u201d Betty and Jasmine said in perfect unison, and the Avenger shuddered as her missile arrays deployed from their main fuselage. Covers rolled back to reveal the many small tubes, the arrays spun back and forth to test their range of motion, and then they finally locked onto the freighter and his displays began to flash red with multiple target locks.<\/p>\n

Jack smiled and passed his hand over a control that started his favorite music. One had to have the right soundtrack playing when you made the bad guys pay, after all. The very best singing duo in all the worlds, in Jack\u2019s completely biased opinion, began to sing about bad boys and Jack chuckled.<\/p>\n

\u201cFire,\u201d Jack ordered to the tune of T&J\u2019s screaming guitars and all thirteen Avengers spat scores of tiny missiles towards the freighter.<\/p>\n

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The Gemini Affair is a short story written for An Atlas to Time, Space, and Bonfires. There\u2019s a kickstarter for it right now in case you\u2019re interested in seeing a couple dozen stories by different authors. And this one, of course.<\/p>\n

An Atlas to Time, Space, and Bonfires Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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