by C. R Corbin
"The bug is still unfixed but that's not too big of an issue. What I really wanted to talk to you about was that matter that you found a couple of weeks back That little strange line of code that you found in the back bases? I need you to take another look at it, we think it might have something to do with the boosters not working at full capacity." he muttered while toying with the tablecloth.
"I'm going to need something from my quarters to do that. It's on one of my USB's." I remarked and he nodded.
"Go get it then, i'll be waiting in the main offices for you. Make sure you don't take too long." he said and got to his feet.
"That's it? Right now?" I asked and he nodded.
"Right now."
I sighed and put my dishes away before getting to my feet and walking out the door to the lower levels. On the way there I could see Xu marching along with a disgruntled expression and a box of tools in his hands. Other than that he merely waved at me and nodded with a little smile before returning to his duties. Looks like Hasan is really being a slave driver today if even Xu didn't want to talk.
I quickly ran down a flight of stairs before arriving near the trunk close to the foot of my bed, I get on my knees and quickly opened it to sift through the pile of junk that I had in there.
"Alright no those are just wires...is it this one? No, it was red, I remember that much." I muttered while combing my way through the pile until I found it. Just as I lifted the red USB up I felt a rumble rush through the ship.
I fell on my back and cry out in shock while looking around. My hands clenched the USB drive and I shivered as I get to my feet and sighed, must have been turbulence.
"Everyone stay in your rooms! Stay where you are! We are under attack!" called Hasan over the intercom and I shivered. I instantly freeze in place and my eyes widened.
We were under attack? What the hell was even happening?
I quickly let out a yelp as I ran to my door and engaged all the locks that I could. Soon after that I crawled under my bed and took out my phone to comb through the security footage around the ship. After a couple of button presses I saw the camera footage pop up and...these strange tall beings were walking through our halls. They were much bigger than the average human and looked to be much stronger as well.
"What the fuck is going on?" I whispered to myself, just a minute ago we were doing fine and all of a sudden out of nowhere we get raided? How?
I continued to watch the footage on my phone, line after line of strange alien soldiers were making their way into the ship with more than enough weapons to take us all. I shivered in place while I watched the rifles get lifted and the laser bolts dig into the walls. I see various crew members fall under the continuous fire and began to cry as soon as I saw the first bodies fall. They dropped on their backs and sides with burning holes in various awkward parts of their flesh. The steam trickled off of the corpses and I covered my mouth in an attempt to quiet myself.
I was going to die! I was really going to die at the hands of...aliens.
I continue to watch as some of the enemy soldiers ran down the hall with knives in their hands and hurriedly buried the blades into my fellow crew members. I just hoped that Penny and whomever else that I knew had made it out. I hold the frame of the bed as I watched the corpses pile up, these men were speaking a language that rumbled and ran on with seemingly no punctuation or end, it sounded like rocks rolling down a mountain if I was to be completely honest.
"Shit, shit, shit, what do I do?" I asked myself in a worried voice. I knew that the security on this ship was practically a joke thanks to the fact that we hadn't even known that there could have been pirates out here, much less aliens that were going to kill us all!
I look around my office for a sign of anything that I could use. A knife, a gun, anything at all. I shake my head and stay in my spot, with any luck I could make a run for an escape pod. I didn't know what sort of security measures the ship had but I doubted that we would be able to fight this magnitude of enemy off for long. I paused for a moment and listened in on the screams in the distance, people were begging for their lives and all I heard in response was the rumblings of these alien bastards.
"Why?" I whispered to myself in denial.
Why would they have wanted to attack a ship that was basically being sent out on an expedition? Why would they want to attack us if all we were going to do would be checking on some potential colonies and then leaving? It made no sense at all and the more I thought about it the more afraid I became. How much did these aliens know about humanity? Was this some sort of wide scale invasion that was going to wipe everyone out. Was that it?
I have to escape! I have to get on my feet and run directly for the escape pods...only problem was that the scores of alien soldiers already blocked those rooms off.
So I was left stranded.
Shit! I could hear them getting closer.
I bite my lip and I run the scenarios through my mind. Perhaps they were going to use us for ransom or study our anatomy. Perhaps they were just here to steal the tech and were just going to kill all of us and be done with us by the end of it. What could it possibly be?
They're getting closer, shit they're almost upon me now.
I tense my fingers around the cloth of some folded blankets as I heard screaming outside. Men were being hurled around and weapons were being fired, at least that's what I saw on the camera. I quickly switched the view to the cameras right outside my room and I could see a squad of approximately 5 alien soldiers outside. They were snuffing out whatever resistance that they could find with lethal efficiency. I see a body get tossed into the wall outside of my room and it makes a sizeable dent on the metal. I hear crew members screaming as they are dragged out of their rooms and tossed onto the cold metal hallway. There was one of these aliens soldiers that stood out, he wore blue armor instead of the regular grey that they had all adorned. He also had a visor that glowed red instead of the typical yellow that was featured on the others. This man, whom I would presume was the commander, marched forward and began to kick down all of the unopened doors. I hoped that the locks would buy me some time to think of a plan.
I know that it would be useless to hide under here any longer. I had to get to my feet and fight back. I walked over to my desk and grab a pair of scissors along with a small laser cauterizer from my first aid kit that I had stored in my nightstand. I hear the door being struck and the hinges being torn as it tried to stay closed. I hide behind the wall and gazed at the door as it began to creak ever so slightly.
Then the scenarios began to run their way through my mind.
I wondered if they would be experimenting on us or doing other nefarious deeds with our bodies. They could very well simply take us and rip us apart on medical beds or feed us toxic substance after toxic substance until we collapse. I hug the dull grey walls of my room and shut my eyes as I tried to summon the will to do what I was about to do. I didn't want them to take me alive, I knew that much.
I bite my lip and groaned out as I heard the blasters hammering against the door. They were almost upon me, a couple more seconds and the door would likely be flung onto the ground and I would be held down and experimented on, violated.
"No, no..." I whimpered as I lifted the scissors up to my neck. "I don't want to, I don't want to..."
I had to set the scissors down. The best I could do would be to give these bastards what was coming to them, that's what I wanted.
I steeled myself as flashes of my past ran through my mind. My time in school, when I grew up in the desert and played amongst the red rocks and attended high school science fairs, when I signed up to be on this ship, all the nights that I sent up late staring out into the void, all of those moments seem larger than they ever were before. Perhaps it was due to the magnitude of their importance in relation to my life, that was why. I had never learned to value them as much as I did now.
What had happened to Jeremy? What had happened to Penny? Were
they still okay or were they already killed and pinned down on the floor? Was Xu killed while he was fixing the pipes? Was captain Hasan in the command deck fighting for his life with whatever survivors he had? We had no real security force so the thought that we could fight these men off was preposterous.
I could almost remember the exact day that Penny and I had joined this starship.
I phoned home from work in Virginia to my parents and told them that I was going to be flying into space and I would come to visit them one last time before I left. I took a plane back home and sat on the front porch while petting my dog and watching the neighbors clean up their Halloween decorations. My parents told me that they were so proud of me, that I could do nothing that would make them happier and that I had achieved more than they ever thought possible. Penny had called me from her home in England and agreed to meet up in Canada for the launch. We took the plane and giggled to one another about how cool our new jobs were.
And then the door broke.
It was as if everything moved in slow motion. I watched as the metal hinges flew off of the door frame. Ash trickles down onto the floor as I waited with bated breath, my eyes rolled back as I launched myself forward with the scissors in my left hand and the laser cutter in my right. I am instantly pinned to the floor by that same man in the blue armor. He holds me down as I tried to get a cut in on him. I managed to turn the laser cutter on at just the right time to cut one of his fingers and he yelps in a startled manner.
"Let me go you alien freak!" I cried out, I could see some of his facial features through that visor of his. He had fangs, horns, his eyes glowed a menacing shade of red, he looked almost human but more...demonic in a sense.
I cried out and grit my teeth as I struggled against him. With that one hand free thanks to striking him with the laser I launched it upwards and swung my tool violently against his chest. It burns him only slightly, unfortunately his chest plate seemed to be much denser than his gauntlets. He snarled at me and knocked the laser pen out of my grasp before pinning me down once more. His gauntlets wrinkled as I watched these small claws stretch out of his fingers and slightly graze my wrists.
"What the hell are you? Who are you? What do you want with us?!" I cried out.
My white dress shirt wrinkles and I struggled to get away but he wasn't having any of it. I kicked and screamed but he merely held me in place, saying nothing as I tried to break free.
"Let me go you alien prick!" I snarled and spat on his helmet.
That got his attention.
He quickly grabbed something out of his belt in one swift movement. I looked at it and saw this layer of...metal that he slipped over my mouth. I groaned and cried out as my voice is muffled as a result and my hands are bound behind my back using some sort of handcuff that he had. These aren't the harsh metal ones that were used by police back home, these were made of some sort of strange rope that was soft to the touch and yet tough as could be. I struggled as he gets to his feet and stared at me, there was a certain sense of...lust in his eyes.
What the hell does that mean? What was going through his mind?
His eyes shamelessly run over every inch of my body, he gazed at my breasts, my backside, my thighs, my face, he knelt beside me and just...stared for a while until one of his men popped their head in and grumbled something in a language that I couldn't quite understand.
We had received word a couple years back about a ship that had been sent out into the interstellar zone, the same ship was reported to be missing about a couple months after it launched. The official story had said it was due to a combination of a technical error and an asteroid field. Those were the reasons behind its crash. The scraps were never quite found and well...we just assumed that it was some sort of accident.
I could see that there might have been other reasons now though.
The men grumble amongst one another in this strange language. They all stand beside my prone body as I looked around in a frantic effort to search for a way out. My legs were also bound so that made running a non-starter, my hands were bound but maybe I could get the scissors to kill myself since I know they're going to take me captive now.
I don't even want to think of what they might do now that I'm bound.
I knew that their plan had to involve some of us surviving, that was for certain. I was still firmly in the "they'll probe and eat us" camp but even I wasn't entirely certain of that. Still, it was better that I died to spite them than for them to use me for whatever sick purpose they wanted. I grimaced as I struggled and reached towards the scissors. I scooted towards them and were trying to grab them to cut the rope so I could just stab myself and be over with this hell but I was stopped.
By that same damn man in the suit.
I grimace and lashed against him but he gripped my hands and kept me in place. He kicks the scissors away to a corner of the room and holds me down while he removed his helmet. I see the air decompressing as his men reached out in an attempt to warn him of something but he doesn't pay attention. The man in the blue armor simply set his helmet aside as that handsome face of his is revealed.
He was like the amalgamation of all the qualities a woman would find in a handsome man. Defined jawline, solid cheekbones, eyes that simply charmed and mystified you.
He runs a hand through his tussle of black hair and gazes at me with those blood red eyes as I watched those two ebony horns of his stem the tide of rippling hair that he was pushing back. His fangs peek out from his lips and he sighs while gazing down at me, I could see a sense of pity there, perhaps even a bit of frustration, but mostly it was just mere anger.
I have to admit that if I had met him under more affable circumstances I wouldn't be so opposed to chatting with such a good looking man. I realized that I was being rather ridiculous but for some reason I couldn't help but...admire him for a bit.
And then I heard him speak.
"No." he hissed as his teeth formed into a snarl and his eyes burned with both lust and frustration.
Oh boy.
CHAPTER FOUR
Relkor
She was completely and utterly...beautiful.
That was my first thought when she got pinned down in place. I had seen her lying there beneath me, struggling and all I could think about was the hardness that was quickly growing in between my legs. The second thing on my mind was how energetic she was, the other women just surrendered without a moment of hesitation, at least that's what the other soldiers told me at least.
But her. She actually managed to hurt me, she wanted to fight back!
A conundrum indeed.
All that I could think about when I looked at her was how the brown locks seemed to flutter over her chest and how those curves seemed to meld against the floor. Those warm brown eyes of her locked with mine and I shivered as I appraised her body. I wanted to do all that I could to her, I wanted to make her feel true pleasure, I wanted to strip her down right then and there and claim her as mine.
My lustful thoughts only intensified when I glanced at her, they only got worse and worse as I stared at her and wished that I could feel her completely. I wanted to hold her down and drive myself deep inside of her, to make her understand that she was to be mine from now on.
Those curves of her's, they seemed to press against the soft fabric of her shirt and her backside seems to curve at all the right spots. Her bosom was threatening to pull out from that shirt, the top buttons were already partially off when I pinned her down on the ground. I would have given anything to have a moment with her, to have my fun.
I would have to talk this over with the captain later and hope that the prince didn't feel the same way about this woman as I did. What did I care?! Prince or not this was my mate and I was not going to let her go just because some fool wanted her as well. She was mine and that was final.
I had pondered it for a bit, I had appraised her body and tried to search for any sign of lust in those eyes and all that I saw was a
pprehension, disgust, it troubles me for a moment but I knew that most mating bonds were supposed to work out so I didn't hesitate.
Yes, she was my mate, that was clear from the first moment that I had seen her.
I watched her every movement, that pale skin of hers slid against the cool grey floor as the metal shone with hints of sweat on her brow. The way in which she struggled, even the sound of her voice that squeaked as I pinned her, it was all so...enrapturing.
I want her, I want her right now!
She was currently gagged and bound, held down by my tools as I discuss what was going to happen with the other men. We had already succeeded in taking over most of the ship and were currently just searching for survivors so any other operations shouldn't be that difficult. What was on my mind was her and her alone, that was all that I was focused on and nothing else could sway my attention. I was so distracted that when the men had begun meeting up with the captain I almost zoned out.
And then I saw her do it.
She was creeping off to the side and her fingers were reaching for those strange blades that laid on the ground. I immediately acted and pinned her while kicking the blades off to the side. Through the light of my red visor she glared at me and began to scream into her gag although no sound ever emerged. I'm sure she realized it as well because she soon stopped trying to scream.
"What is it that you want? Why do you resist?" That was what I wanted to ask her but I didn't have the words to convey it.
She would have to obey me, I wouldn't tolerate such insolence from my mate. I had to keep her in place somehow. I didn't know many human words but the batch that we had caught before had some choice words for us. Our local translator had deciphered some of their words so we could say them until we implanted translators into the humans.
So I only knew one word but I had a feeling that it was all I needed.
