by JK Stone
Sure enough, within a few minutes, Terrah’s eyes popped open and she looked beside her to find Doran gazing at her with the eyes of a starving man.
Doran brought his mouth to hers and Terrah could feel his hand begin to run through her hair as he settled himself between her legs. She was about to remove her body suit, but Doran beat her to it.
*****
Doran had driven Terrah’s passions past the brink, and unable to wipe the grin from her face, Terrah asked, “Where’d you learn that position?”
Doran let out a chuckle and with an unabashed grin he said, “It just seemed like it would be a fun position. So, what did you think of it?”
Doran was fishing for a compliment and Terrah felt he deserved it after that performance. She let him know that it was on the top of her favorite positions list now, and they would have to do that one more often.
Doran smiled looking quite pleased with himself and asked, “How many positions are there?”
This got Terrah to laugh out loud and after she regained her breath she said, “I don’t know for sure, but there are a lot. I can think of a few we can try out next though.
“Come to think of it, I know of a book we will have to get from Earth when we’re there next. There are pictorial representations of many positions we will have to try.”
Terrah smiled seductively at him and added, “This position for instance.”
She moved to one of her favorites and proceeded to drive Doran over the brink several more times before they collapsed in an orgasm induced slumber.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Terrah awoke and was quite surprised to find she was not exhausted at all. After the night she’d just had, she expected to at least be feeling some aches and pains. But the effects of the Ambrose must’ve lingered a bit longer than her body held out. Stretching out she sat on the edge of the bed.
“Time to get up already?” Doran yawned as he asked the question.
Terrah stood and turning to Doran she replied, “Time does seem to move faster when you are having fun, and that was far more pleasurable than any ‘fun’ I’ve ever had.”
Terrah chuckled and continued, “I told Jason we’d be over when you were ready, so we need to clean up and get dressed.”
Doran didn’t look happy about it, but he got out of bed and followed her into the Ion shower. A moment later they were cleaned and Doran pulled Terrah’s backside tightly against his chest while cupping her breasts.
“I think we need to go back to bed and get dirty again,” Doran said with a laugh.
Chuckling back at Doran, Terrah said, “You’re incorrigible,” She turned in Doran’s arms, sighed and re-dressed the both of them with a swipe of her hand before saying, “The sooner we get this over with, the faster we’re back here,” then she took Doran’s hand and led him to TDS 1.
*****
Jason and Alise greeted Doran and Terrah as they arrived on TDS 1, then led them out of the engine room and into the control room. Jason looked Doran over and said, “It looks as if you’re none the worse for wear. Considering the condition Terrah found you in, you’re lucky to be alive.”
Doran nodded mournfully, fully recalling the feelings emanating from Terrah as she explained his condition, and he said, “It was an ill-conceived plan. I will not be making that mistake again.”
Jason cupped Doran on the shoulder and led them down the corridor toward the medical unit.
“That’s good to know,” Jason stated. “What made you think to do it anyway?” Jason asked of him.
Doran thought about it a moment then said, “I was scanning the battleships just before the blast and I noticed the harmonic resonance of one of the ships had changed. When I saw that the battleship had damaged the GoW, I figured it could not hurt to try to reproduce the effect when the GoW kept maneuvering off our beams.
“Obviously, I was wrong because I did not take into account that it would affect anything within the vessel. But luckily I made sure Terrah was off of the ship before I did it.” Doran looked over his shoulder at Terrah and gave her an apologetic smile.
Terrah was still unamused that Doran had risked his life on an untested theory, but she knew he did it for their protection, and that made her feel warm inside. Terrah had read a lot of novels in the past about Artificial Intelligence, and before now she always figured that AI’s, if created, would just see humans as insignificant and destroy them all.
Terrah had to marvel at the Imortum’s ability to create life from a computer program. She’d seen a DARPA attempt at AI a few years ago. And at the time it gave her chills when the program, once integrated into a helicopter learned to take off and land on its own. And at the time the thought of what the hell are we doing had crossed her mind.
Terrah saw Jason shake his head and say, “Well it did work a little, because of your actions the GoW was disabled and now it doesn’t even exist.”
Jason lowered his voice to a whisper and said something Terrah couldn’t make out to Doran. One second Doran was smiling, and the next he seemed to pale.
Terrah was walking and chatting back and forth with Alise when she wasn’t watching Doran, and Alise had just asked her something before they were to enter medical when she felt a massive wave of raw emotions flood over her.
The emotions were so strong Terrah froze in her place, and taking a few breaths Terrah focused on them and she realized they had emanated from Doran. Terrah rushed up to him and grasped Doran’s hand and almost immediately the wave had dispersed.
Terrah looked at Doran with concern mounting and asked, “What’s wrong?”
The panic in Doran’s expression seemed to leave him, then a moment later he looked as if he forced a smile and said, “Nothing now, I will explain it later.”
Terrah could feel Doran was more at ease, so she let it go for now. She nodded at him and they entered the medical unit. In the room sitting side by side were three medical units with their prisoners on them.
Jason gestured toward Nephthys and said, “I’d suggest you begin with her, I’ll explain the procedure to Doran while you’re sifting through her memories, and after her, you should move to Sethis, because after Horuisis you may want to sit down for a while.”
Terrah nodded and cautiously placed her hand on Nephthys’s forehead, and began sifting through her mind. Nephthys, along with her other family members were some of the most sadistic and cruel individuals she had the displeasure of being near. Nephthys was party to countless tortures and merciless experimentations, and she took great pleasure in the pain she caused to the insignificant mortals.
Terrah was sickened by the very existence of their family. Nephthys did have minimal knowledge of the Imortum battleships, but Sethis wouldn’t allow her any access to anything within the Imortum battleships. Pulling out of her mind, Terrah had to shake off the feeling that she needed to take another Ion shower. She stepped to the side and allowed Doran in to scan Nephthys.
Terrah turned on the spot to the bed on her other side and began to sift through Sethis’s memories. He too was as sick and depraved as the others she saw in Nephthys memories, but where his memories got interesting was when he boarded one of the Imortum battleships.
By the description Calia had given her before, Terrah felt sure that this ship was the one from Anukan. Her suspicion was confirmed a few memories later when they began attaching a makeshift hatch to the opened access on the ship’s hull. Terrah sifted further through Sethis’s memories and found that they had repaired some damaged components on the ship and soon afterward an AI activated.
With the assistance of Sethis, Gebb, and Horuisis, they eventually repaired some of the ships other systems, then one day the AI told them the ship was repaired enough to bring the Imortum commander out of stasis.
Once the commander was awake, tempers became heated, and Sethis and Horuisis were ordered to leave the ship. Sethis’s memories kept flashing back to a massive ship that made them appear to be children walking down the corridors. Each
time that memory would flash, it would begin with him climbing out of an almost twenty-foot pod, then being dressed by twins, and triplets of himself and she wondered what that was all about.
Terrah was about to pull out of the memory when she saw another Imortum battleship in Sethis’s memory.
Terrah grasped ahold of the memory of the other ship and sifted further back to the point when Sethis had discovered it. Then he dug thousands of feet below the surface of Abnearu to salvage the wreck.
Sethis and his slave army had unearthed that battleship tens of thousands of years prior to finding the battleship on Anukan, and after restarting the battleship, Sethis managed to get it into orbit.
Thousands of years had passed, and Sethis and the Imortum commander of that battleship had built and commandeered an armada of ships that they had surrounding the planet, and effectively hid the battleship behind the cocoon of ships.
Most recently they were joined by the other two Imortum battleships. Sethis had gone to the ship he had unearthed on Abnearu and spoke with that commander.
The Imortum commander had agreed thousands of years earlier to join the consortium that Khepri-Atum-Ra had secretly created back before the Lantin’s were forced to leave Anukan, and the commander of that ship only recently formulated a plan to eliminate the final TDS ship.
Now Sethis and the Imortum commander were just waiting on Enyali to contact them to collect the dark matter weapon and put their plan in motion.
A bit irritated Terrah pulled out of Sethis’s mind and said, “So, they think there are only Enyali’s ship and one other? How can that be, the battleship at Area 51 saw my ship leave and tried to destroy it as they passed. And from what Eneria told me, that other ship at Anukan had to have known something was amiss with TDS 5.”
Jason nodded and said, “Well I think the Imortum on the battleships are, or rather were playing them for some reason. Did you happen to notice the two commander’s resemblance?”
Terrah nodded. “Yes, they looked like they could’ve been twins.”
Jason nodded and said, “Sift through Horuisis’s memories now. I have to warn you though, he’s one sick bastard, almost as bad as Gebb and Enyali were.”
Terrah nodded and moved around to Horuisis’s bed, and taking a few deep breaths, she placed a hand on his forehead and began to sift through his memories.
Jason was right, Horuisis was sick. Apparently, he and his half-brother-cousin taught each other in the fine art of torture, and at that moment Terrah realized that if her brothers had not rescued her, there wouldn’t have been much left of her by the end.
Terrah watched as Horuisis and Anubisis came back to Terra to dismantle the pyramids generators for the material to make another ship and personal armor, and they slaughtered anyone who tried to prevent it. They had created the GoW many thousands of years before the destruction at Lantis, with the intent of putting a TDS ship in the front if they could acquire one.
Every so often a memory would surface in his mind about a different ship on Terra, the memory appeared to be like a repeated video clip, where Horuisis would keep waking, and stepping out of a massive pod, and Terrah realized that it was the same ship as Sethis had in his memory as well, but every time Terrah would focus on the memory, it just seemed to fade, so she pushed on.
Horuisis and Anubisis had hoped that if they had full control of the TDS ship, its power would transfer to the larger GoW. But without access or control, TDS 2 was relegated to being nothing more than a battering ram, and they used the GoW to ram TDS 4 off of the beam at Terra, then they opened fire on the Prometheus when the Prometheus attempted to assist TDS 4. But despite looking for the Prometheus, they had been unsuccessful in locating the crash site.
Horuisis and Anubisis did manage to locate and attempted to gain entrance into TDS 4, but they were unable to open it in any way. Almost twenty thousand years had passed, the ice TDS 4 was buried beneath had melted and after that, it was under too much water to allow them to work on it. So, they left it alone for the time.
Several thousands of years had passed, and Horuisis and Anubisis returned to find a new civilization on the once icy continent. The location TDS 4 had crashed into was now a dried-out lake bed, and they formulated a plan to finally retrieve the ship.
Anubisis had worked on the ship for thousands of years prior and knew where it was located, so when the new country was formed, he embedded himself within the governing body and offered technological advancements if they helped him with the ship.
Horuisis and Anubisis with the assistance of the new government, had dug their way down to where TDS 4 had finally settled, only to find there were actually two ships there. One the pyramid ship TDS 4 and the other was an Imortum battleship, though neither Horuisis nor Anubisis ever informed the government of what they knew about the battleship.
The United States government, specifically the military and a few government funded corporations had tried over the years to move the ships, but something about their construction made the ships too heavy to even budge, and after years and years of experiments and wasted money, the government finally shut down the project.
Horuisis’s memory flashed forward. The third Imortum battleship had recently arrived, and despite repeated attempts to contact them, there was still no response. Horuisis had gone over to the battleship he and Sethis had unearthed at Abnearu, and had been discussing the third battleship with that commander. The Imortum commander gave Horuisis little insight as to why the third battleship was not responding, and Horuisis was told that they were more than likely having communications issues, and not to worry, then Horuisis was sent back to the GoW.
Horuisis had just made it to his ship when he was finally hailed by the third battleship. The commander of that vessel told him that he needed to speak with him, and in a flash, he was aboard that ship.
Horuisis approached the commander’s chair from behind and when he pivoted his chair around, he came face to face with the commander of the battleship from Area 51.
Horuisis had snorted in apparent amusement, and asked, “Are the three of you triplets? You look strikingly similar to the other Commanders.”
The Imortum Commander had an irritated look cross his face then he said, “Yes, we are as you refer to as triplets.” The commander yelled, “Bot! Get this ‘man’ a chair.”
The AI bowed its head in submission and a moment later a chair was pulled over to them. Over the next hour, the commander grilled Horuisis about what had become of the Imortum and the remaining TDS ships.
Horuisis was informed that Anubisis had negotiated with him and he was to release the TDS ship that was embedded in the hull of Horuisis’s ship back to them, if they wanted their alliance to continue.
The Imortum commander also told him that Anubisis would be there within days to explain what they had agreed upon. Reluctantly Horuisis agreed and was sent back to his ship to see to the release of TDS 2. Horuisis had just sent a crew to unbind the ship when one of his officers shouted that all of their ships and bombs surrounding Abnearu had vanished.
Terrah felt the fear Horuisis had experienced and he ordered the bridge officer to get them out of there. They had just started their engine when a massive flash of light filled the room and alarms sounded indicating there were hull breaches throughout his ship.
Horuisis sent a team into the forward bulkhead and they reported back that there was a hole blasted through the TDS ship, and Horuisis ordered them to secure the vessel and report back.
Terrah knew from sifting through Horuisis, and the other family member’s memories that Horuisis had never been one for self-sacrifice, but he must’ve decided that if the Imortum battleship or they aboard the TDS ships were going to take him out, then he would take them with him.
Horuisis grabbed ahold of the dead man’s switch and activated the dark matter bomb. Before long Horuisis began getting reports of an incursion within his ship, and he ordered everyone to battle.
A while later Horuisis felt a
tug on his hand, he looked down and Terrah saw herself staring up at him, and then there was a shocking jolt and Horuisis was out cold.
Terrah pulled out of Horuisis’s mind and stepped aside to allow Doran the opportunity to scan Horuisis’s memories next, then she turned to Jason, “So they were triplets the same as us.”
Jason looked at her with concern etched across his face and said, “Are you alright? I would’ve figured seeing what they have done in the past to their victims, it would’ve upset you.”
Terrah smiled warmly and said, “Forewarned, I only watched enough to get the picture. Then I moved on to the important stuff. So, the Imortum were playing them, because none of what the commanders told Horuisis or Sethis was true.”
Terrah thought over what she had seen, then added, “I would bet that when the cocoon of ships and the bombs disappeared, the Imortum panicked and tried to destroy TDS 2 before they left. My only problem is, Eneria told me those battleships are supposed to be newer than these ships and the Imortum onboard those battleships should have been able to take the TDS ships back any time they liked.
“With the battleships being so powerful, and seeing what they were capable of doing to not only the GoW, but TDS 2 as well then why all the games? If the Imortum wanted the TDS ships back, then why not approach us directly instead? And what really baffles me is that battleship from area 51 launched in two thousand Eleven. What took it so long to finally meet up with these other ships?” Terrah asked with a shrug.
Jason shrugged in return and said, “Your guess is as good as mine, the battleship at Anukan only launched from the planet a couple of months ago from our current temporal position. It is possible that they were in hiding until they located the other ships. And you’re right, those battleships are seriously powerful. Their newer hull must allow for the resonance change without killing the crew aboard.”
Doran could be heard sighing and drew Terrah’s attention.
“Something is not right about all of this. Those battleships are more advanced than these ships in many ways, but the Nefastus almost defeated the Imortum despite the advancements. We have a few hours before we arrive at Anukan, I think I will use the time to sift through Gallos’s memories,” Doran stated.
