My Ninja Girl 4 by Gideon Caldwell (latest novels to read .TXT) 📕

gatling gun as soon as he could, which caused more panic and confusion as Liza used the object’s industria to lift it into the air and throw it to the side, a series of explosions following.

“Move!” Micah called to the crowd as one of the monks drew an energy blade. “Move!” He ran toward their assailants, Liza meeting a monk armed with an energy saber just as he reached the crowd. She repelled the strike with her blades, the nun pressing her arms forward, her own swords now crossed as he tried to strike her again.

One shot from Micah and the monk went down, Liza sending her sword to the side of his neck. As she withdrew it, blood spraying of the air, the crowd of people swelling around them began to scream.

“We’ve got to get out of here!” she said.

“I’ll handle this,” Choro said, his voice appearing in both of their headsets. “I have the schematics of the station now, and I will be able to guide you out.”

“I can help too!” Bobi chimed in.

A reticle appeared on the inside of Micah’s helmet, and he followed it off to the right, rather than heading in the same direction as they transport sling passengers. It blinked once Liza and him came to a door made of metal. It wasn’t easy to open, but they eventually were able to slip inside, the two finding themselves in an underground passage. How many of these were there in the stations of Neo-Hokkaido? It seemed like so much of Micah’s country had been simply built on top of what was there before.

The reticle shifted upward, and Micah spotted a blue ladder made of metal.

He took it to the top, and soon, Liza and him entered into a new part of the station, one that had recently been refurbished. It was the exact opposite of the dark tunnel they had just gone through, everything well-lit, people that worked on the station on high alert. Their disguises aided them to an insane degree, Micah and Liza able to actually slip around a pair of nuns who would set up a guard station at the entrance to the staff facility.

“You’re almost there,” Choro said. The reticle appeared again, this time leading them down a hallway on the right, and from there to a fire exit.

They had made it. They were finally outside, on the floating district of Uyanga no less, Micah wishing he could take his helmet off and take a breath of fresh air. He only realized then how fast his heart had been thumping in his chest. It was making him feel lightheaded.

“I need a second,” Micah said as he bent forward, his hands on his knees. “That was… intense.”

Liza placed a hand on his shoulder. “It really was. But we’re not out of the red yet.”

“Can you guide us to Ahmey’s shrine?” Micah asked aloud.

“On it,” said Bobi.

“Make sure the others are guided as well. Speaking of which… Update me, Yuri.”

“No trouble at the station, but the three of us have taken separate transport slings to Uyanga,” Yuri replied. “I’m almost there, Bunni’s on the next one, and Soraya is waiting for the last one. I think we’re in the clear.”

Liza shook her head. “Let’s not jinx ourselves. We’re only in the clear once we reach the shrine, and are safely underground again.”

A reticle appeared on the inside of Micah’s visor, and flashed again. “All right, let’s do this.”

Neither Micah nor Liza were very ninja-minded, meaning that it wasn’t instinctual for them to keep to the shadows, or take to the various rooftops and reachable balconies as they progressed toward the shrine, which was surrounded by diplomatic buildings, the ancient compound completely comfortable in their shadows.

As Micah remembered, Ahmey’s shrine wasn’t very large, a single building surrounded by a fence, prayer flags attached from the pagoda to the four points of the fence line, a tiny footprint indeed. Small nun statues were scattered in the courtyard and there was a single fountain that had recently been refurbished, nothing too glamorous, and nothing to indicate the complex underground structure that connected to a nearby transport sling, all of it running beneath the surrounding buildings, hidden from everyday Neo-Hokkaidans.

While Micah wasn’t exactly excited to spend the next few days of his life underground, he preferred this over being constantly hunted, and it would give them time to train and sort things out with the Hermetics. Maybe even a little time to rest. He hoped that Soraya wouldn’t make a big deal about it; if any of them was going to complicate matters, it would be her.

And there was still Ahmey.

Micah was unaware of how the young nun would respond to what they had conceived. There was still the chance that she would reject their plan altogether, that she had her own ideas, perhaps a less extreme way to take power. There really was no telling…

Once they were in the clear, Micah and Liza moved past the gate. As they did, Yuri stepped out from behind one of the statues. Bunni did the same, but from behind the fountain. Of course the two had been there all along, and predictably, neither Micah nor Liza had spotted them.

“And Soraya?” Micah asked, a smile taking shape on his face as he saw his two wives. After what they had just been through, it felt really good to see that the two of them were safe.

“She should be here any moment.”

Micah turned back to the entrance of the shrine and began scanning some of the balconies of the surrounding buildings. Sure enough, he saw a flash of movement, Soraya nimble enough to actually take a few ghost steps on a power line and leap from it to a spot just in front of Micah and Liza.

“Sorry it took me