by Maia Starr
I looked over just in time to see the man drop a glass of water in his hand. The glass shattered on the ground.
"Are you fucking kidding me?” The man said.
"I wish that I was kidding. But it is true. I need to get this information to you and everyone else. I need you to send that message far and wide to every single data port that we have. Do it now and then prepare for an air raid,” she said. I was very impressed with her logic and tactic. She was shouting orders just like a leader, she was my equal. I looked over at her in admiration. Just then a loud boom was heard on Dr. Waldrorf's end and his building shook. Then we lost the communication with the scientist.
"Dammit! It has already started,” I said to her.
"What can we do?” She asked me.
"Stay alive,” is all that I could say to her. The invasion was too far gone to stop. Even if I captured and killed Yiri, by the time the warriors were forced to return to the mothership the battle would be too far along. The Earth army would not just let them go, so the warriors would have no choice but to fight.
As we broke through the atmosphere of Earth we were not prepared for what we saw.
"Holy fuck, that cannot be,” Lily whispered.
"I am afraid it is,” I said to her.
"But capital city, it is in the ruins. It has almost been completely wiped out,” she said through tears.
"Hold on!” I shouted as we flew through hundreds of ships belonging both sides. It was a dog fight.
"This is unbelievable! This is wrong!” Lily shouted.
"We need to get out of here!” I shot about her.
"And go where? This battle is all over Earth. Nowhere is safe,” she said as I maneuvered the ship in and out of blaster bullets flying by us.
"We're going to be shot down by either my side or yours at any second,” I said to her.
"Fine! let them shoot us down. There's nothing here for anyone anymore. There is no point,” she said.
"No, do not speak like that. Do not speak like that Lily, I do not want to know that I have done this to you. I cannot bear it. I need you. Earth needs you now more than ever. This battle will not last forever, and when it is over it will be time to rebuild. Earth is going to need a leader like you, one that will promote peace. Your alternate plan can still be put into place, and it will be needed now more than ever after this. But only you can do it. I have faith in you. I am here to serve you."
She looked over at me and I could see the mood on her face change. She was turning into the brilliant human female that I knew she was and always had been.
"You're right. I will be needed, we will all be needed. We need to get out of here," she said.
"Good, good…but where, Lily? This is your planet so direct me where to go” I asked her.
"To my sister. Set coordinates for Lake Michigan. There is an island in the middle of it. That's where she would go. It is a secret that only she and I had talked about, but I have never actually been there.”
"Setting coordinates for Lake Michigan,” I said as the ship shot forward and out of the battle. I could only hope that the Earth army would not follow.
Chapter 9
LILY RETRON CRACE - DIRECTOR NEW EARTH EMBASSY
"There," Zian said as he maneuvered the ship along the outside of the battle over capital city.
"What? What is it?" I asked as I looked in the direction that he was looking.
“You see that ship with the orange stripe down the side? "
"Yes, I see it. It is a Corillion ship. What about it?" I asked.
"It is Yiri. That is the lead ship. That's where he is,” he said to me.
"Are you sure?" I questioned.
"Yes of course. That is the ship I would be in if I were leading the battle," he said as he steered our ship in the opposite direction.
"Wait, where are you going? Aren’t you going after him?" I asked him, confused that he was not.
"No. I have to get you out of here. I have to protect you.”
"No. Let's get him. Shoot him down," I said to him.
"Lily, no we cannot do that. It is too dangerous," he said.
"I don't care. War is dangerous. Letting him live is more dangerous than going after him. He cannot be in charge of the Corillion. You know that, and I know that," I replied.
"Yes, I do know that. But let me go after him on my own time. I am skilled, but I will not take you with me!" he said.
"By then it will be too late. You have the shot now, take it. Do it for me!" I demanded of him.
He looked at me for a few seconds. Then he made a hard right. He was heading for Yiri.
"Hold on. This is going to be messy!"
"Do what you do best," I replied.
In seconds, we were engaged in battle once again. But Yiri's ship was just on the outside of the battle, as though watching over it. Zian flew straight for him. He went around the backside and I was impressed by his tactic. He really knew what he was doing.
"Firing!" He shouted as he fired off a few shots.
A few seem to hit the ship but then ship went into action. It flew hard and fast, twisting and dodging as we chased after it. Zian continued to fire on it using guns. Then a puff of black smoke appeared and the ship went hurtling down to the ground. It crashed, but it did not break apart. Zian looked at me. He was asking me what I wanted him to do.
"Go get him!" I said to him.
"I thought you might say that," he said with a grin.
He flew the ship straight down amongst the chaos of the battle. I could see the Earth army to my right and the Corillion army to my left. Both were on foot and were headed toward each other. Yiri's ship was in the middle of what would be become the battle ground.
"We're not going to have much time," I said to him.
"Look at me," Zian said to me. I looked at him and he had his hand on a joystick.
"This lever, this is how you work the ship. Pull it back to go up. Got it?" he said as he began to land the ship near the wreckage of the other.
"Why are you telling me that? I am not going anywhere without you," I said to him.
"You are staying here inside the ship. I am just going to go check it out. I'm going to go make sure that Yiri is no more. "
"No, I'm going with you," I said to him.
"No, you are not. Stay here," he said as the ship landed and he unbuckled his belt. He grabbed a blaster gun off the wall and opened the door. I knew that he would not let me go so instead I planned to wait just a few seconds before I following. He stood in the doorway and turned back to me. "Lily, I love you. I love you so hard and it happened so fast that I can't believe it. I can't wrap my head around it. Just know that I love you!" Then he was gone. He vanished into a cloud of black smoke from the wreckage, just as he had appeared the first time that I saw him. I unbuckled my belt and stood up, staring out the windshield. I watched as he ran toward the wreckage and went inside. It felt like he was in there forever. I couldn't stand it anymore. I could see the two armies were moving closer. I knew that in a few minutes they would be engaging in a massive battle and we would be right in the middle of it. I grabbed a blaster gun off the wall and followed him. I entered the wreckage. Zian had a gun pointed at Yiri, who was on the ground bleeding.
"Why? Why did you do it? Do you know what you have done?" Zian said angrily.
"I told you why. Because you would not. You met that human and you became soft. Someone had to pick up where you left off," Yiri said.
"No, not like this. This was never part of the plan. It was only to be a last resort. We were going to use the water contamination as leverage to create a system that both the Corillion and the humans could live with. That was phase 2 of the plan. The invasion was only a last resort to that plan, and mostly just to protect ourselves so that we could leave the solar system. You took it into your own hands and made it something more sinister," Zian said.
"No, I took it into my own hands and made it something more successful. Look around you. We are at war! This
is not just a battle here and there, but war all over Earth, and we are going to win. I did this. I am the one that will get the glory for it," Yiri exclaimed.
"You can’t get the glory if you are dead,” I proclaimed, shooting off a few rounds as I stepped beside Zian. Yuri, fell, dead. I had shot him.
"Lily? "Zian said to me.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. I didn't mean to do that. It just happened," I said, shocked at my own behavior. I had never shot anyone before. Just then, we began to hear the voices of men and Corillion shouting.
"We got to get out of here," Zian said as he grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the wrecked ship. I was walking as though I was floating outside of myself. I could not believe what I had just done. I didn't recognize myself. This was what war did to people. I stopped walking.
"What is it? "Zian asked.
"I've imagined myself killing a Corillion countless times. After my father was killed in battle with the Corillion, all that I ever wanted was to get revenge. But now it doesn't feel good at all. All of this useless and senseless violence," I said to him even though I was just thinking out loud, and not really directing my words to him.
"Stop Lily. As you said before he could not live. He will only cause more pain and chaos. Yiri was not right in the mind. You did the right thing. I was on the verge of doing it myself. But right now, we have to get out of here. The two armies are marching toward us and we will never be able to leave. We will die if we stay here!" He yanked on my arm and pulled me to the ship. Once inside I strapped in and stared out the windshield at the massive armies converging.
"We're never going to make it out of here," I said to him.
"Yes, we will. We just have to move faster than they can respond to us," he said.
"How do we do that? "I asked him.
"We're going to go full throttle as soon as I start the engines. Go from a parked position,” he said.
"You can do that?”
"I'm going to try," he said.
"Wait, that means you have never done it before? "
"Exactly. Strap yourself in."
"But..." but before I could finish my sentence Zian hit the throttle and we jolted straight into the sky. It was very fast and I almost thought I was going to black out. Zian was concentrating hard and his knuckles were turning white as he maneuvered and flew the ship toward the coordinates.
"That was amazing," I said to him, impressed with his skill yet again. There was a reason that he was the leader of the Corillion. He was a brilliant specimen of an alien and I doubted that there were any other like him.
"Thank you. It was close!"
"It was?" I said, a little bit scared.
He laughed and I looked out the window. I could not see any battle at all. We were flying over farmlands. keeping a fair distance from anything else in the sky.
"We should set her down, as there is a lot of air-traffic showing up on the radar," he said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"I don't know. But it's best if we land and go off-line so that they cannot track us"
"What about over there?" I said, as a pointed at a large red barn.
"That will do," he said as he flew into the open barn doors. It was empty. The farmhouse was dilapidated and abandoned. It was the perfect cover.
"Going off-line," he said as he turned off every single switch in the ship. It grew very dark with all the lights off.
"Now what?" I asked.
"We wait. We wait a couple of hours until that air traffic has cleared up. With everything in the ship off I won't be able to know when that happens. So, I will just check every few hours. It is better not to risk it."
"Okay, I understand. What are we going to do in the mean time?"
"Well with all the things that are happening in the world, I think there is only one thing that we can do," he said with a smile.
I unbuckled my seatbelt and walked over to him. I sat in his lap and he passed his mouth on top of mine. His hands went to my chest and his fingers pressed at my nipples. I was turned on instantly. It was the adrenaline and uncertainty of the world ending. It had my heart rate pumping and the sensation was making me very aroused. Not to mention the fact that there was a very sexy Corillion underneath me.
I pushed my hand into his trousers and rooted around his large cock. "It seems like you have already been ready for a while," I said him. He smiled and said, "Flying does that to me."
We both laughed at his remark. I pulled his cock out of his trousers and looked at it. Then I moved my hand up and down slowly at first, and then faster and faster until he was breathing harder and harder.
"I cannot take it anymore. I need to have you," he said standing up and picking me up off my feet. I wrapped my legs around him and he carried me to the console and sent me on top of it. He grabbed the waistband of my pants and pull them off of me. Then he quickly and voraciously entered me. We both groaned and moaned in delight. It felt good. It had been too long. The first time was not enough, and I did not get my fill of him. I wanted more and more every second. Now he was inside of me again and I felt relieved by it. I had become addicted to him and I was now getting my fix. He moved in and out of me, rocking his hips back-and-forth as he wrapped his arms around my back. I pressed my face against his hard, blue scales, the scales that forever reminded me that he was an alien. I could not hold on any longer and I felt the pulsing growing faster and more intense inside of me. "I'm going to release!" I shouted.
"Good, I want you to. Do it my love," he whispered as he continued to pump harder and slam against me. Then I released and I felt my entire body going numb as the sensation shot through me. I collapsed against his chest as he continued to move in and out of me. He put his hands underneath my bottom and cupped me, pulling me closer to him as he carried me. I put my arms around his neck and he kissed me. His tongue explored my mouth. Seconds later he tensed, his entire muscles on his back and arms tightening up and his breathing growing harder as he began to growl. Then he came inside of me. He groaned and twisted his hips. We were both enjoying what could be our very last orgasm on Earth and in life. It was an intense feeling to have.
Zian continued checking the radar over and over until it finally was clear, a couple of hours later. By this time night time Zian and I wondered how much of the cities of Earth had been destroyed.
"Cover of darkness is best. We should get going," he said as we took our seats in the ship and he prepared for lift off.
"We are still going to Lake Michigan, yes?" he asked me.
"Yes, that has not changed. I only hope that I am right about this."
After an hour of flying, the blue waters of Lake Michigan came into view. "There! Do you see that patch of land, that island?" I said to him.
"I see it. There is a lighthouse on the other side. That is where we always spoke of that we would run away to if we ever had to run. We promised to always meet each other there but to never tell anyone. We have only seen it in pictures and have never actually been," I said to him.
"That would be why it was not in your file nor in hers," he said.
"Exactly. But she knows to go there, and so do I. I only hope that she listened when I told her too. There is nothing left of her building in capital city. If she stayed, then she did not survive. In fact, I'm not sure that anyone in the city did,” I said.
"I'm going to land on that patch of grass over there. Then we will have to hide the ship. I would want to sink it into the lake, but we might need it. So, hiding it is a better choice," he said.
"That is a good point. We might need it."
We searched the island by flashlight, and finally, I came upon a familiar sight. It was a mailbox with the initials A.R. on it. I ran up to the door and knocked.
"Who's there? "My sister's voice said through the door, and I nearly broke down and cried in a pile on the porch.
"Adelaine it's me! It is Lily!"
"Lily! "She shouted as she fumbled to get the door open. Then she flew
into my arms, and we cried together.
"I thought I would never see you again," she said.
"I thought I never would either. I am so glad that you are alive. I am so glad that you are OK."
"How did you find me?" she asked.
"I thought you might come here since we talked about it so much when we were little, and we would look at the photos in the book of this place. We always talked about coming here one day. "