Alien Captive

by Jaide Fox

  ALIEN CAPTIVE

  By

  Jaide Fox

  © copyright by Jaide Fox, November 2012

  Cover art by Eliza Black © copyright November 2012

  www.jaidefoxbooks.com

  This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are of the author’s imagination and not to be confused with fact. Any resemblance to living persons or events is merely coincidence.

  Other titles by Jaide Fox:

  Shadowmere Book One: Mark of the Beast

  Bordeaux Trilogy Book One: White as Snow

  Bordeaux Trilogy Book Two: Red as Blood

  Bordeaux Trilogy Book Three: Dark as Wine

  Intergalactic Mayhem: Intergalactic Bad Boys

  Intergalactic Mayhem: Intergalactic Pain in the Ass

  Demon Huntress Book One: Sacrificed

  Alien Captive

  Summoner’s Captive

  Earth Girls Aren’t Easy

  His Forbidden Fruit

  Night Shade

  Sexdroids

  The Sky Fox

  Archangel

  Chapter One

  “I wish we’d left Carlsbad Caverns before it got so late. We’re going to have to drive all night before we find another hotel,” Adrienne Raines said. She moved in her seat to find some relief for her aching butt, but the little movement she managed barely helped.

  Her sister, Ebony yawned. “Yeah, well, it was a once in a lifetime thing. We’ll probably never go across the country like this again. I’m glad we got to see it. I just wish we’d gone north a little and seen Roswell. You know I’ve got a thing for aliens.”

  Adrienne laughed and glanced at her sister. Ebony flipped her straight black hair out of her face. She’d always admired her straight hair. She had to get hers relaxed to achieve the same effect, but she disliked the strong chemicals. “Me too, but if we don’t stop taking detours, we’ll never manage to keep our hotel in New Orleans. And I don’t want to miss that. We paid too much for our deposit. And it’s not like I can change our reservation. There’s no service out here. Who knows when we’ll get service again.”

  Ebony nodded. “True. There ain’t shit on the radio either. Not even Mexican music. I wish I’d brought the car charger for my Ipod.”

  “Yeah. You can’t think of everything. I wish I had one of those new phones that you could put a playlist on it,” Adrienne said, glancing at her phone in the cup holder. She took a swig of water and set the bottle down.

  “Me too. Wish you did that is.”

  “Whatever. You’re stuck in the dark ages with your phone.”

  Ebony snickered. “You too. You don’t have much room to talk. Beeping all the time with your old ass text messaging and no keyboard. It takes you forever to reply to one of my texts.”

  Adrienne shrugged then sighed, wishing she wasn’t stuck driving. She didn’t really trust Ebony behind the wheel though. The girl was a speed demon and had already wrecked two cars, though admittedly, one time it hadn’t been her fault.

  “I just hope I can hold my pee in.”

  “Yeah, you don’t want to pee out there.” Ebony looked out the window. “You might get bit by a snake or el chupacabra.”

  Adrienne laughed. “You watch too much scifi channel.”

  Outside, the empty countryside passed in a blur. There were no trees, only scrubby little bushes near the edges of the road. There wasn’t much of anything out here, in fact. After they’d left New Mexico and moved into western Texas, they had left all signs of civilization behind. There were no cell towers, no towns, no gas stations, no houses, power poles, streetlights, or fences or anything that showed this part of Texas had ever been occupied other than the highway running straight through the flat countryside and posted speed limit signs. She couldn’t remember the last time they’d passed any mention of a town. The only thing they’d passed were a few plateaus, which they had thrilled at seeing for a few brief moments before they went back to being bored.

  Adrienne had begun to get nervous. They had three or four hours to go before they’d reach the next big town, and she worried about being stranded in the middle of the desert with the car running on empty and no cell phone service. She watched the needle on her gas gauge.

  Dusk settled over the empty landscape. She dropped their speed from 85 to 75 when she passed the speed limit sign that warned for nighttime driving to reduce speed, though she didn’t know why she bothered. They hadn’t seen another vehicle on the road with them in hours. Adrienne highly doubted cops patrolled the area, but a healthy fear of the law kept her in check.

  Ebony groaned, rolling her eyes. “You should just speed. We’re never going to get there at this rate. There ain’t anybody out here to catch us, you know. You’re such a goody two-shoes, Adrienne,” Ebony said, giving her a look that Adrienne caught out of the corner of her eye.

  Adrienne pursed her lips, familiar with this argument. “The moment I do is when I’ll get caught.” It had only taken her one huge ticket and fine to teach her a lesson to never speed again. Plus, this was a rental car, and she felt uncomfortable risking an encounter with the law when she wasn’t driving her own vehicle.

  “Yeah, well. It sure is dark out here. It gets dark quick. This must be what the earth looked like before people took over with their light pollution.”

  Adrienne glanced out the window. All she could see were stars twinkling down from a thick black blanket of space. The moon hadn’t shown up. Maybe it wouldn’t.

  “Must be why they call this big sky country.”

  “I thought that was Montana.”

  “Oh. Maybe it is. Well, what’s Texas?” Adrienne asked, counting the reflectors they passed.

  Ebony snorted. “Too damned big.”

  The lines flashing by the car made Adrienne feel hypnotized. Sleepiness had started to take a hold of her, making her lids feel droopy. She wasn’t sure she could take more hours of this.

  She straightened in her seat and cranked up the air conditioner. “You should try the radio again. It’s been a while since you tried. We might pick up something,” Adrienne said. And it might help keep her awake.

  Ebony sighed. “I guess. It’s pointless, you know. But I’ll try for you.”

  She flipped through the stations, picking up static as she pressed the scan button. A male voice that sounded elderly suddenly cut through the static in the silence of the car.

  “…aliens. It happens every time the moon’s dark. If you go out in the desert, you’ll see them,” the male voice ranted, rising in pitch with his irritation. “The government’s been keeping it a secret for years….” The radio station cut out and went back to static.

  Ebony fiddled with the radio, trying to get the station back. “Damn. We lost it.”

  Adrienne perked up. “Must be some conspiracy theorist. Hey, we found you a boyfriend, Ebony.” She laughed. “Y’all would get along great.”

  Ebony shot her a bird. “Funny. There’s always some nut in the desert with his own radio station spouting off about aliens. Everyone knows that. We’re too close to New Mexico to avoid them.”

  “Hmmm.” Something in the distance caught her eye. A flashing light. “Do you see that? I think it might be a new hotel. Does that look like spotlights to you?”

  Ebony sat up and looked out Adrienne’s window. “I do see something. We’re getting closer. Speed up a little. Oooh. It’d be so nice if it was a hotel!”

  Adrienne pushed her speed up five miles to 80, hoping like hell there wasn’t a cop lurking in the dark somewhere for her. The spotlights got bigger as they neared. She furrowed her brow, following the light. The two lights suddenly stopped scanning the sky and turned towards the
m.

  The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. That was weird. It gave her the creeps.

  “Weird,” Ebony echoed her thoughts.

  “Yeah.” Especially after catching the brief message on the radio. Her awareness was on high alert now. One look told her the sky was dark and devoid of moonlight. That old man was crazy. There was nothing to any of it.

  She wished they’d caught more of his broadcast.

  The spotlights seemed to come closer, growing in size as if they were honing in on them.

  “I don’t think that’s a hotel,” Adrienne said.

  “I’m starting to feel like it ain’t either.” Ebony edged forward in her seat as far as her seatbelt would allow. “You should go faster.”

  Adrienne felt a shot of adrenaline shoot through her veins. With a speed that shouldn’t have been possible, the lights were right on them, keeping track with their car, and she could see exactly what was illuminating the ground in front of them and lighting up the sky.

  Two silver orbs turned toward them, flooding the inside of the car with whitish blue light.

  Ebony screeched. Adrienne screamed too then floored the gas, zooming ahead. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the orb shifting metal, folding in and around itself until its shape changed into that of a huge disc rimmed with lights.

  “Fuck! It’s a fucking spaceship!” Ebony screamed.

  They had to be having a nightmare. This wasn’t real. Someone had slipped them some LSD in their food and they were high.

  Unfortunately, psychedelic drugs it wasn’t. The spaceship was real.

  Adrienne felt something tug at the car, jerking at the wheels and sending her careening into the other lane. She gritted her teeth and fought the force. And then all the lights flashed inside the car. The radio scanned through stations, static deafening in their ears, and then the car battery went dead. The headlights blinked out, and the car rolled, slowing to a stop without warning. The clock on the console flashed on and off, then the entire interior went dark.

  Adrienne pumped the gas, her heart pounding, hoping it was just a coincidence, but knowing deep down the ship had something to do with the malfunction of the rental car. The lights from the ships flooded the inside of their car again, getting brighter and brighter until she couldn’t see anything and had to close her eyes. She held a hand up, blocking her face from the light.

  Dimly, she could hear Ebony saying something, but a white noise filled her head, making her deaf to anything but a horrible buzzing sound.

  Without warning, her world went completely black without consciousness.

  ***

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  Someone shook Adrienne’s shoulder. She snuggled down deeper into her arm folded beneath her head. “Go away,” she mumbled. She was so tired.

  “Adrienne. Wake up. You have to wake up.” Ebony’s familiar voice broke through her sub-conscious.

  Sleepily, she opened her eyes and looked at her sister’s face and then past it. Silver walls loomed overhead. Above, rings of small blue recessed lights lined a circular ceiling in concentric circles. She sat up stiffly and groaned. Her body hurt all over like she’d been beat with a stick.

  “Why am I hurting?” she asked, more to herself than anyone else. She noticed a small bruise on her forearm, but otherwise, she was unmarked.

  “Don’t know, but someone beat the shit out of me too,” Ebony said, rubbing her arms.

  They were in a room surrounded by dozens of other women, all of them white, mostly blonde with a few brunettes and redheads sprinkled in. Some were wearing pajamas. A few had nightgowns on. Others had on t-shirts and panties. One poor girl was completely naked with shampoo running down her hair and back.

  Had she died and woken up in a teenage boy’s fantasy dream?

  “Where the hell are we?” she said, looking at her sister’s deep brown eyes.

  Ebony pushed her straight black hair behind her ears. She looked like she’d hung her head out the window in gale force winds. More than anything though, she looked worried.

  “You’re gonna think it’s crazy, but we’ve been abducted by aliens. I saw them, Adrienne. They’re little grey men! It’s the fucking greys! It’s all real! All of it!”

  Adrienne frowned. Much as she wanted to laugh, she couldn’t. “How the hell did we get in here, and why don’t I remember being brought in here?”

  “Alien technology. We’ll never understand it. I just hope they don’t start probing all of us.” Ebony leaned close, whispering in her sister’s ear. “I think they got us by accident. We’re the only ethnic girls in here. Ain’t that weird? I didn’t think aliens would be so racist.”

  That did make Adrienne laugh, despite their situation. Ebony always had a touch of the ridiculous in her, even if she didn’t realize it. “Now you’re being absurd. It’s just some weird coincidence. Hey, does anyone here know what’s going on?” she said to the crowd of women huddling together on the cold metal floor.

  They gave her blank, confused looks. One girl with curly red hair spoke up. “I was asleep when I started having this weird dream and couldn’t move in the bed. I’m still not sure I’m actually awake.”

  Another girl pinched her and she said ouch. “You’re awake. You just wish it was a nightmare.”

  Adrienne supposed the aliens had gotten most of the women at bedtime. It was just their bad luck to run across them. Wrong place, wrong time, as usual. She wished now they’d just bitten the bullet and stayed another night in New Mexico.

  Adrienne stood. “We need to see if there’s a way out of here instead of sitting down and accepting our fate and waiting to see what they’re going to do to us.”

  “They can’t get away with taking this many women at one time,” Ebony said, following her sister as she walked around the round room and felt along the walls. “Someone’s gonna notice we’re all missing.”

  “Sure, but thousands of women go missing every day. Where are you from,” Adrienne asked a petite blonde as she walked by, feeling for cracks.

  “Los Angeles,” she answered.

  Adrienne pointed at a short brunette. “And you?”

  “Seattle.”

  “You?” she pointed to another.

  The woman hugged her arms around her legs and struggled not to cry. “Nashville, Tennessee.”

  Adrienne looked at her sister. “Looks like they’ve been shopping all over the country. Probably to keep suspicions down. They might do this shit every night and people would write us all off as victims of homicide, serial killers, runaways, sex slave traffickers. You see it on the news every day. Ain’t nobody gonna find us. It’s up to us to get ourselves out of this mess.”

  “Shit,” Ebony said, feeling frantically along the wall for some sort of hidden opening. The room looked completely sealed from the outside. No edges stood out. There were no windows, no cracks in the floor. The ceiling was too high to reach, even if they could boost someone up on their shoulders. Besides, it looked just as impregnable as the rest of the room.

  “Looks like we’re stuck here until someone decides to come in. That’ll be the time to do something.”

  “Hell yeah. The greys are tiny. We could take them. Force them to bring us home.” Ebony smacked her fist into her other hand.

  Adrienne cupped her chin with her thumb and forefinger, tapping her chin with her finger as she thought out their situation. “Unless they have overwhelming forces, I think there’s enough of us here that we can jump them when they come in to get us. Maybe take something off them as a weapon if we’re lucky. Has anyone here had self-defense training? Raise your hand if you have.”

  About ten women raised their hands. “Y’all feel like fighting for your freedom?”

  Most of them nodded. “Good. I ain’t going down without a fight.”

  Adrienne didn’t know what the alien
s’ plans were for them, but she hoped they weren’t going to be dissected, probed, or be cut up for dinner. Her and her sister would put a hurting on anyone that came in the room--that was for sure.

  Ebony nodded, reading her sister’s thoughts on her face. “I’m with you. Let’s hurt these bastards before they can hurt us. They’ll be sorry they fucked with the Raines sisters.”

  Chapter Two

  Dezec Zeta watched the Nexus Lamian ship silently lower to the ground. The white-blue lights rimming the silver rounded edges pulsed with leashed power. The tops of the trees danced in the wind, rustling leaves the only sound in the air around him.

  Dezec opened the door of his vehicle, dropping down to the ground and shutting the thick armor plated door. The men in the first transport followed suit, hefting their weapons over their shoulders and scanning the countryside for other movement. The two other transports remained inside. They had to be careful for rebel faction attack. This was the most vulnerable time for their race, the Heliodryads of Chalcedon, and the most likely time they would undergo attack by their enemies.

  When they collected fresh mates for his people.

  It’d been too long since they’d been attacked, and it was too much to hope that they’d simply given up their mission. Not with the extent that they’d gone through to defeat his people.

  He shouldn’t have to be doing something like this, but like it or not, he didn’t want to see his people wiped off the face of their planet. If they wanted to continue on, they had to have mates.