Genetic Dust: Hybrid Genesis, #2.5

By E. L. Strife

A rescue mission leaves a security officer stranded and unveils a secret that could turn the tide of an ancient war.

Netti's primary concern is the safety of the military representatives on board Envoy. When the planet they've come to help attacks their ship, she's forced to make the ultimate sacrifice to get her people to safety.

In a desperate attempt to survive, Netti takes the alien ship locked in the belly of Envoy and crash lands on the planet. Those who find and capture her know more about her past than she does, opening up questions about who she really is.

Will Netti's truth build her into something greater or break her forever? And what will her decision mean for the others at the mercy of the enemy?

A short space opera and colonization story featuring violence and cursing.

--Hybrid Genesis--

Reclamation: Mind Jack #0
Zedger: Edge of Zion #1
Oblivion: Fractured Empire #2
Renascent: Starborn Blood #3
Genetic Dust: Side Story

• Language: English
• Publisher: E. L. Strife
• Release date: Dec 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223937739

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Genetic Dust

By E. L. Strife

elstrife.com

Hybrid Genesis

Genetic Dust is a side story to this series, taking place before the third book: Renascent - Starborn Blood.

Reclamation: Mind Jack #0

Zedger: Edge of Zion #1

Oblivion: Fractured Empire #2

Genetic Dust: Side Story

Renascent: Starborn Blood #3

Envoy

I usher Earth’s frantic representatives and military leaders to escape pods as red light drenches the halls of Envoy. Sirens warble at ear-throbbing volume amid pelting explosions and groans of failing metal. Pods race out into space. General Abernathy fights me, trying to push me into the last escape pod.

Your father will kill me if I show and you don’t, he says.

You are my responsibility. I’m younger and stronger and shove him into his seat. The automatic belting system straps him in tightly, despite his protests. I guard commanding officers and dignitaries. My duty is to protect him at any cost. My father has another daughter, one of blood. Your knowledge is critical to winning this war.

Netti, let me out!

Can’t do that, sir. I slap the blinking release button. The hatch seals.

You don't know what you're doing! He bangs on the glass between us, his voice muffled. Netti, please! I found you in a re-gen tank on Keppler-22B. You’re the only life form we recovered! You’re hundreds of years old. You have to save yourse—

He’s cut off by the pod’s launch. There’s pity in his sun-spotted eyes. He knows I’m going to die with the others. I don’t think about it. I can’t let go of how backward the ambush feels.

His confession startles me. No one’s talked about my origins before. Earth’s Intergalactic Defense Force took me in, trained me, and built me to fight. They gave me two years I can remember. I owe them my life. I would gladly give it in their name.

I brace myself on the transparent airlock and look down the chute after him, but his pod has vanished. Now I want answers. How long and why was I in stasis? Why wait until now to tell me?

All remaining personnel, report to the bridge! Captain Shaw commands over the intercoms that work.

I bolt out of the room and into the main starboard corridor. On