Dark Space 49: Invasion

by G. K. Scott

  She grunted feeling it squeeze for a moment before going in to a comfortable fit. Marcus sighed aloud he pulled the collar free from under his seat slowly attaching it to his neck. He groaned feeling it squeeze before going comfortable. “So we have to drag the hyper drive free from the place we put it. Then drag it up vertically so it’s near the door.” Lucy slowly pulled his belt free. “Damn it! Why couldn’t they just build this ship so it clamps in length ways?” Marcus pulled his belt off. “I could just turn of the gravity drive.” Lucy pulled her hand out grabbing his before it hit the panel. “That is not a good idea! Because if they don’t have there’s on we’ll end up hitting their main deck like rock.” Marcus sighed aloud. “Yeah well there also the issue that, that hyper drive needs two people to carry it and I’d rather it just float like a feather.” Lucy didn’t get a chance to complain as Marcus hit the panel. She felt her body float up in to the air. She found herself sighing as the boxes in the back included the hyper drive lifted of the floor.

  Somehow she was really happy that she stashed her syringes in a safe compartment. She watched as Marcus rolled in the air. “I still think this a bad idea!” Marcus smirked slightly. “Oh come on where’s your sense of enjoyment? Just breath in relax and enjoy the zero gravity.” Lucy turned slightly in mid air watching him fly past her. She turned slightly. “You know I hope this works I really do.” Marcus breathed in deeply. “It will, I’m sure Jeuki and Emma will see as first.” Lucy looked at the closed space door. “I really hope they do I don’t want end up a trophy because the others with them made a mistake.” Marcus sighed aloud. “Everything will be okay Lucy, trust me.”

  8

  Emma eyed the ship’s hologram again. “How do we get this off?” Jeuki eyed the image he eased up a clawed finger. “We can’t shoot if of our sideways laser cannon is out of range.” Emma turned seeing the elder come in to the room followed by the two young bloods. One of the young bloods turned closing the trophy room’s door behind him. The huge door slammed down causing the sounds of screaming and howling from inside to be drowned out. Erisoki turned sharply as he got closer to Jeuki. “Now that the dishonoured prey is ready for transport would you inform me as to what’s going on?” Jeuki turned slowly. “We have a limpet.” Erisoki pulled back in confusion “Limpet?” Jeuki pulled up his hand. “It’s an ooman sea creature that clings on to rocks.” He paused looking the hologram. “This ooman ship is doing pretty much the same, it’s just clinging to as.” Erisoki leaned over looking at the image. “No ooman ship should be able to lock with as!” Jeuki looked at the image. “True but this one seems more sophisticated than the other ooman ships.”

  Emma moved the panel setting slowly making the image larger. “Same drop ship that tried to stop Oran’s ship.” Jeuki turned slightly. “What if we shake it off?” Emma looked at the image. “That wouldn’t do any good the locks that are clamped to our door are sealed tight. We could end up ripping the space door clean off.” She sighed aloud. “We can’t try to slam them in to the other ship ether. It could all end in tears, since we could end up in a fire fight.” Jeuki opened his mandibles slightly. “We might be powerful but they have more guns and our cloak might not help as.” Jeuki turned the settings slightly watching, as the hologram of the drop ship became see through. He could see two small red figures floating around in it. “Two oomans one male one female carrying no weapons there where two pulse rifles but they where locked up.” Emma pulled back. “They took their gravity drive off-line for some reason now there just floating.” Jeuki eased up a clawed finger. “Okay this does not make sense why do that?”

  Emma clicked her finger. “Wait a second! Give me a reading of the items on board.” Jeuki tapped in to the panel. “Coming up now.” Emma watched as a few yellow floating objects showed up on the hologram. She leaned closer. “Two cargo crates but the big one is not a cargo crate.” Jeuki pulled back. “It’s reading as a Yautja engine part.” Emma turned sharply. “Oh wait this isn’t what I think it is, is it?” Jeuki suddenly found himself laughing he turned sharply. “I do believe some one is giving as the technology they stole from my race, the ooman model at least.” Emma looked up sharply. “How thoughtful of them to realize that it doesn’t belong to them.” Erisoki leaned forward it was frustrating not understand ooman speak. Jeuki could easily switch from one language to another when speaking. “What is this all about?” Jeuki turned slightly. “When the oomans took your ship they made copies of the hyper drive. We destroyed the one on Oran’s ship but there where more.”

  He leaned forward. “This ships hyper drive isn’t working to full and never has been since it was damaged. The oomans in that vessel I believe have brought us the working version, there model at least.” He looked up. “That’s why they’ve clamped on to us, so they can give it to us.” Erisoki clicked his mandibles. “I see.” He put a hand under his chin in thought. “Well I believe we should have what is ours back.” Jeuki looked at the two young bloods. “I agree and I believe we should all stand at the ready since this may not be what it seems.” Erisoki eased up a clawed hand. “I believe your mate will be able to tell if this a bad ooman situation.” He looked up. “You can just tell her to signal if this is a trap, then we can make trophies of these oomans if there intentions are truly hostile.” Jeuki patted Emma’s back gently. “She won’t let you down she’s never let me down.” Erisoki turned giving the ooman females shoulder a pat. “No and she hasn’t let this clan down once ether, I have full faith in her judgement.”

  He turned walking over to the two young bloods. Emma eyed Jeuki. “What was that all about?” Jeuki leaned forward slightly. “He likes you.” He turned slightly. “He just wants you to be the first to deal the oomans, because he believes you can judge their intentions.” Emma raised an eyebrow. “I see what does he need me to do?” Jeuki watched as the two young blood moved to ether side of the space door pulling out there weapons. “He needs you to send a signal if there hostile, and another type of signal if their not.” He gently put a clawed hand through her hair. “I’ll be cloaked directly behind you.” Emma turned seeing the elder cloak. She turned meeting Jeuki’s amber gaze. “This shouldn’t be a problem.” Jeuki clicked his upper right mandibles. “Just slowly point your fingers down if they’re not hostile and make a fist behind your back in they are.” Emma laughed slightly. “This is going to be so much fun.” Jeuki pulled his wrist armour. “I have to agree.”

  CHAPTER 28

  BE FOREVER HUMAN WITH A YAUTJA SOUL, WHICH BURNS WITH GLORY

  Location somewhere in the galaxy, aboard our ship waiting for the right moment to open the space door.

  It’s hard to say what a moment will bring; it can bring so many things. A moment in time can change your life. It can forever bring about a cascade that’s ever changing. They can strange or wonderful or ever depressing. There are the ever mellow moments in existence that are unforgettable and those that some would rather forget forever. Life is such a strange thing, full of wonder and changes. Some bad some good but all work there way to an end result. It’s strange some human beings value there life and existence in terms of results. While others value the person they are by the event in their life. It’s hard to really say who’s better because both get to there goals. They just get there just in different ways. I guess at the end of the day the journey is all that really matters, not the how you got there. It truly comes to define who you are and who you’re going to be. If soul is what they say defines a persons being then does your soul define who you are? Is it the true driving force?

  Is it a driving force that takes you to your destination and ignores that the ever changing world around it. They say that eye’s are a window in to a person’s soul. That always surprised me when I think about it. Because people say they see the person when they’ve changed but the eyes are different some how but they don’t know how. Funny when I think about it Jeuki’s eyes used to scare the hell out of me, they where just yellow eyes that reminded me of some kind of reptile. I
guess it was the colour since to me it wasn’t human and I couldn’t relate to it at first. I never even considered at first that there was a soul or even warm feelings behind them at all. I say this because when I look at it now I feel so different towards them, it’s the same yellow eyes but I know there something there. Something I can’t describe but I know it dwells with in. I even found myself referring to them as amber instead of yellow. Since it felt right and made me feel better deep down inside.

  I guess yellow was the colour of my fear, which is why I prefer amber, amber being the soft colour of ancient tree resin. A pure amber resin that encases life in a beautiful way, insects trapped in it almost seem alive. A life that is bound in time in such a beautiful way, they are motionless but still moving. It is a Stunning feat of nature. Timeless and ageless beauty trapped in amber glass that shines with its precious moment locked in time. I guess some things have so much beauty that you can’t really put them in to better words but it doesn’t stop me trying. I spent most of my life not feeling like I really found my way. I just felt lost and with out a clue. If I were to say that I made a difficult journey then I wouldn’t be putting it in to the right words. I think my journey was more one of self-discovery and truly finding out more about myself and where my morels lie. I guess it’s been as much of journey of soul as it has been a journey of understanding. I feel that I found out so much from it.

  I think mostly that other races like Jeuki’s are so similar to my own his race. He has feelings and contemplates his existence; he has his own weaknesses just like I do. The world through his eyes is just as daunting and exciting as it is through mine. People look in to faces and judge them by appearances, yet few ever try to see the real person beyond the face. Few ever vision a soul behind the eyes they stare in to because most forget that one is behind those eyes. A soul that is just as fragile as their own if you can’t look in to the eyes of another. Then see deep in to there gaze, then how will you ever come to really know them? If you can only look at the surface layer then you’ll never see anything apart from what you want to see. If a soul is what makes you and defines you then I guess that is where you have to look for. If you want to see a person for whom they really are. I know if I had never looked past Jeuki’s mandibles and appearance I would’ve never really seen how kind he is. I wouldn’t still be seeing a yellow-eyed monster and not the partner who I love so much. Emma flicked her wrist blades slightly she slowly raised her hand punching the code in to the door. She moved her head slightly watching Jeuki pull up his weapon through her sight lens. She breathed in deeply as the door began to slowly lower itself. It was slowly lowering so it was inside the drop ships lower deck.

  8

  Lucy turned sharply watching as the door come down she moved closer as it came down further. She turned slightly. “Finally I was beginning to wonder if they’d open it or not.” Marcus pushed up his glasses. “You know I hate to say it but I was starting to get concerned.” Lucy moved closer watching as smoke began to leak in to there ship. She turned slightly. “Should I be floating here?” Marcus raised an eyebrow. “I don’t see any harm in it, I mean we haven’t been sucked in. Maybe there ship compensates for different gravities.” Lucy watched as the door finally hit there deck, she turned looking through. She couldn’t see any thing but the red and mist. She moved closer putting her hand on the side of the door. “Well I guess the clamps are on right…I mean where not dead.” She floated a little closer narrowing her gaze. “Okay I still can’t see anything!” Marcus floated slightly closer. “Well it’s just best we go through no point in waiting any longer.” He watched Lucy float closer.

  She eased up her hand. “I seriously thought we’d get sucked in but I guess not.” She moved closer. “Guess your right I guess there ship does compensate for different gravities.” Marcus raised an eyebrow dragging the floating hyper drive closer to the other ships door. “Well it more a theory, but I guess I got this one right.” Lucy moved closer putting her hand through in to the other ship she stopped feeling something pull hard on her arm. “Err…something’s pulling me.” Emma moved closer there was someone coming through. It was hard to tell who she took a step closer. They where probably having just as much trouble seeing her as she was them. It wasn’t the greatest time for the cleaner to clean their air, it had really caused the room to be covered in smoke. She slowly took a step closer trying to see the figure better. She could hear Jeuki moving slowly closer behind her, his clawed feet making very slight tapping sounds as he moved position. Lucy didn’t get a chance to think as she was suddenly forced forward.

  Emma leaned closer only to feel agonizing pain as something slammed in to her. She didn’t get a chance to think as she was sent pile driven in to the ground back first. She felt the person move on top of her, which caused her to slam her hand out grabbing their throat. Lucy didn’t get a chance to think all she could see was two spears aimed at her head. She could feel the air in her throat being sucked out as someone tightened their grip lifting her up. Jeuki turned sharply what on earth had just happened! He moved forward feeling his shoulder cannon lift as it aimed at the person’s head who Emma had grabbed by the upper throat. He could see the two young bloods spears where raised at the intruder oomans back. He could see Emma’s other hand as she raised herself pulling the intruder to their knees. He looked at the young bloods they where waiting for the signal. He moved closer seeing Erisoki take a slow step forward. Emma yanked the person up fully she found herself staring in to a pair of brown eyes which looked shocked.

  She squinted recognizing the face with its long blonde hair and slightly tattered white lab coat. Lucy looked up despite the pain in her neck slowly meetings Emma’s gaze. She coughed looking up painfully seeing Emma’s eyes change from anger to utter shock. “You know…the last time you did you were talking about Knopf’s and fear.” She looked up. “You…where right about both.” Emma let go quickly she watched as Lucy hit the floor coughing as the air slowly started to move through her lungs again. She quickly pushed her hand down watching as the three dots disappeared from Lucy’s head and the two young bloods lowered their spears very slowly. Emma looked down sharply “Lucy!” Lucy rubbed her neck painfully. “Sorry about banging in to you, it seems nether ships compensate for the each others gravities.” She found herself stopping in mid sentence as Jeuki’s huge forms materialized behind Emma who was still looking shocked beyond belief. “Hey there big guy, you don’t know how good it is to see you again.”

  Emma blinked hearing Jeuki start to laugh behind her. She breathed sharply finding her voice. “I’m really sorry…I didn’t know it was you.” She paused easing up her hands trying to ignore the blood on them. “I never thought I’d see you again.” Jeuki turned slightly watching as Erisoki brought his cloak down. The huge elder came forward slowly. Erisoki tapped his lower mandibles. “Do you know this ooman female?” Jeuki tapped his upper right mandible slightly. “Oh yes I know her, she’s a very good friend of both myself and my mate.” Lucy eased herself to her feet. “Eddy Ida gave us a helping hand, thanks to him we got of the Iron Year.” Emma looked up slightly. “Us?” Lucy grinned widely. “Marcus made it out, he’ll be coming across any moment now.” Emma turned slightly. “You don’t know how happy I am to see you again.” Emma eased out her hand grabbing Lucy’s hand. “I thought you’d died, I saw Leo pull his gun on you.” Lucy looked at her still bloody shoulder which still had the bullet embedded.

  She grinned slightly. “The asshole just blew a hole in my shoulder, nothing serious.” She looked down slightly noticing Emma’s bloodied hands the woman looked like she been through hell and back, numerous cuts and wounds could be seen. She breathed in. “Looks like you had some fun to.” Emma looked down noticing the blood on her hand. She pulled it away slowly putting it behind her back. “Sorry, I meant to wash that off.” She was about to say something else when Lucy grabbed her giving her hug. Erisoki tapped his mandibles looking at Jeuki. “Strange ooman female behaviour.” Jeuki moved a littl
e closer to Emma who was still being hugged by Lucy. “It’s a type of ooman female bonding.” He moved watching as Lucy stopped hugging Emma. He slowly put a clawed hand on shoulder squeezing slightly. “It’s wonderful to see you again.” Lucy pulled up her hand putting it on his clawed one. “Like wise.” She turned slightly. “I think Marcus is having problems bringing the hyper drive through the gravity field.” Jeuki looked up sharply.

  He moved a clawed hand out. “Help the other ooman with the hyper drive!” The two young bloods sped in to action moving through the mist they both grabbed a huge object as it came the gravity field both held it tightly so it didn’t hit the ground. Jeuki watched as both of them heaved it in to the room slowly placing it on the floor carefully. Lucy turned sharply as the form of Marcus came flying through the mist. He hit the floor shoulder first before looking up in anger at her. “A little help would’ve been nice!” Lucy turned helping him in to a standing position. “Its okay Marcus the hyper drive is fine, Jeuki and Emma’s friends have put it in a safe place.” Marcus adjusted his glasses. “God I’m so glad it didn’t hit the floor when I put it though.” He watched as two other hunters who looked far younger than Jeuki kneeled down looking at the ship part. He turned slowly meeting Emma’s gaze. “Oh you have no idea how happy I am to see you again Emma Wingates!”