By and all copyright Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
A new collection of short stories featuring the Time Warriors. Think you know everything that happened in series one? Not quite. Join Varran, Jacke, Tyran and Michael as they find face new dangers which will test them to their limits. Six stories including Fire and Ice which was released as a surprise extra in Tempest. In Irish Eyes, we learn more of Varran’s past, in the Gift a distraught Robert meets a woman that can talk to the dead, Jacke is trapped alone in ancient Ireland during an invasion in Trinity while Rachel faces an occupied Earth which has never heard of the Time Warriors. In Twisted Michael and Jacke find the world has changed dramatically and it’s all their fault.
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There were dozens of humans working underground he knew and as many slaving away on the surface mining camps. Yuri only hoped they would seize the chance when the reactors fell and escape.
“Question is, how do I take it out?” he said softly to himself.
“Well, if this was the Death Star, it would be a simple matter of turning off the magnetic shields and letting the reactor fall. Then toss in a well timed bomb on a countdown would set this place alight.”
Yuri whirled round, sword igniting in a second inches from the face of a young woman of about twenty three. Her eyes flicked up and down, eyes widening at the tight fitting battle suit. Obviously, she is impressed, noted Yuri.
She was pretty, western with short chestnut brown hair in a bob, hazel eyes staring at him, lean body tensed. Dressed in black combats, trainers and tight scarlet jumper, Yuri found her attractive, the impression of a fiery minx filling his mind.
She ignored the tip of the fire sword, instead locking onto his black eyes, almost challenging him to make a move.
“Does take me to your leader mean anything to you, manga boy?” she quipped, her voice tinged with a slight nervous quake.
The sword lowered slightly but before either could say another word, a barrage of orange laser bolts smashed into the wall beside them, blackening the stone where they struck and sending hot shards spitting at them.
With a defiant cry, Yuri swung his sword, deflecting more bolts into the magnetic fields where they faded in a splurge of oil on water.
Rachel ducked behind him, realizing this samurai was her best bet for survival with his super sword. She looked about for a weapon but there was nothing to hand.
Instead all she could do was duck up over his shoulder. Two levels above them were what looked to her like raptors but more humanoid like, powerfully built like gorillas.
Across the left hand sides of their faces were metallic clamps like elegantly crafted jewels, some replacing the eye. They wore red leather jerkins, their four toed feet bare as thick tails swung behind them.
They were firing their stocky laser rifles and she could see metallic implants dotted along their bodies but there was no missing their savage teeth bared eagerly as they fired at them, punctuated by long red tongues covered in hard nodules that whipped like hungry cobras.
“Can you run?” Yuri yelled to her.
“Faster than you can chafe in that outfit mate!” she replied, ducking again. Nodding at her, Yuri stared at her determinedly with those black eyes.
“Just follow, no matter what!” What the hell does that mean, she wondered? She didn’t have to wonder much longer as he jumped upon the railing as the bolts flew about them.
She gave him a disbelieving look. “Are you serious?” she gawped as he held out his hand. She could see the chasm beneath them.
“Would you rather stay here?” he laughed. Terrified she joined him.
“The name’s Rachel just in case we die!” she cried as a new barrage shot by them, their trajectory wavered by the fields.
“I’m Yuri, possible saviour of the world!” he beamed, slipping his arm round her waist and plunging them over the edge.
The Time Warriors and Beyond 