by Maia Starr
“It's not like we can call the police,” Nancy said.
“Well I won't sit here and just take this,” I said.
I walked to the panel on the wall and began banging my fist against it. “Hello! Open this door! This is bullshit!” I shouted over and over.
"Do you think they really care?” Bridget said.
“Open the door!” I shouted again.
The door slid open. I stepped back. I actually wasn't expecting it to open.
“Who is making all of this noise?” a deep voice said.
Suddenly a very tall blue alien stepped into the room. I remembered him. He was the one that I had walked up to. But now in the light, I could see him more clearly. He was at least ten feet tall. His skin was a beautiful blue color. He had a long black hair in tendrils down to his shoulders. His eyes were a piercing brown that seemed to have light coming from them. He did not wear a shirt, and there were geometric patterns on his skin in a darker blue color, almost like the pattern of a tiger. He had hard abs on his stomach, like an eight-pack. The strong muscles were chiseled leading down into his trousers that were a tight material that reminded me of a wetsuit for surfing. Large boots went up to his knees. There were all kinds of gadgets hanging from a belt around his waist, including what looked like futuristic guns. My breath was taken away as I looked at him. He was absolutely massive and so strange looking, yet there was something very attractive about him, and I felt ashamed for even having this thought. He was an alien for crying out loud.
“I am. I am the one making all of that noise. I demand to speak to someone in charge,” I said standing up tall.
“I am the one in charge. I am Captain Alicron Qinov,” he said crossing his large muscular arms across his chest.
“Well, Captain, my name is Vicki, and I demand that you tell us what is going on here. Whatever it is that you were doing, you cannot do it to us,” I said.
“I told you before, human female. We are Kynon. We came to your planet to take human females back to our own planet of Xeion. How many times do you need to hear this? I knew human females were good for mating, but I did not expect that you would be this unintelligent,” he said.
“What! How dare you. You can't just take humans from Earth. We are not property. I demand that you put us back where you found us right now,” I said.
The room filled with a boisterous laugh. The tall blue alien was laughing at me.
“What makes you think you can make demands, human? You will do as I say. You will stay in this room until we arrive on Xeion. You now belong to me,” he said. “All twelve of you human females are now my property.”
“Twelve? Where are the others?” I asked.
“We have more rooms like this on the ship. They are home to the human females that you were with. Enough of your questions. Do not bang on the door unless one of you are dying or ill,” he said turning around.
“Wait. Where are we? Are we still on Earth?” I asked.
“No. We left Earth hours ago. We are somewhere near the Karelian system. I will have food and drink brought to you. Settle in; it is going to be a long journey.”
He walked out, and the door slid closed behind him.
“Did that just happen?” I said.
“Did you hear what he said?” Bridget said.
“Yes, that we are not on Earth. Do you really think we are in space?” I said.
“No, not that: the mating part,” Bridget said.
“Yes, I did. Do you think he really means that? We can't possibly be expected to have sex with aliens. This is not real,” Nancy said.
Suddenly it hit me. I had missed that part of his speech. I was so focused on getting him to let us go. But they were right. They were taking us hostage to make us into some sort of sex slaves.
“Oh no, no, this is not going to happen. No way are we going to become some sort of space sex slaves. We have to get out of here. This is complete bullshit. We have to get him to let us go and take us back to Earth,” I said.
“I agree but how do you expect to do that? Your speech and demands did not exactly work,” Bridget said.
“They are so much larger than we are,” Nancy said.
“But maybe there are more of us than them. He said that there were more women on the ship. How many of these aliens do you think are on the ship?” I asked.
“There were ten women on the hike plus myself and another staff employee, Scarlet Grant. She is the yoga teacher,” Nancy said.
“What does that matter? Even if there were fifty of us women, that does not change the fact that we are all separated, we are on a spaceship in space, and there are very tall and powerful aliens that can put us to sleep in an instant,” Bridget said.
“Well, it's not like you were coming up with any ideas. We have to get out of this. We have to get home,” I said to her.
“I agree. But how? Do you know how to fly the spaceship? Even if we took control, we would crash the damn thing,” Bridget said.
“So you are just going to give up? You were just all right with becoming a sex slave to one of these blue alien men?” I shouted.
She shouted back. We got into an argument and Nancy join in as well. This was all that we could do: bicker with each other. We were all very scared and confused. And all the while, all I could think was: I wonder if Captain Alicron Qinov will end up picking me as his chosen mate? It made me feel completely disgusted with myself. Why did that thought keep entering my mind?
Chapter 5
Captain Alicron Qinov
It did not surprise me that the blonde human female would have strong words for me. I was counting on it. It was why I had already decided that she was going to be mine. She had everything that I wanted. She was incredibly sexy with her long legs, long blonde hair, trembling pink lips, and fire inside of her. I wondered if that fire came out in bed as well. I would soon find out. Until then, I had to concentrate on getting this mission back to Xeion.
"Captain, we are approaching the 562 black hole, and we are picking up strange readings. These were not here when we crossed it the first time,” Elonu Fiul said.
I went to the monitor and sat next to him. “Tell me what is going on.”
“It seems that the black hole is shooting out dangerous levels of radiation, far-reaching across the path we are supposed to take. I don't think we are going to be able to go back the same way that we came,” he said.
“Shit. That means that we are going to have to swing out around this solar system here. We have no record of Kynon crossing in that direction. That would be unknown territory for us,” I said.
“What is going on?” Ambassador Jion Lek said as he came onto the bridge.
“We might have to change directions back to Xeion,” I said.
“Do we have a safe path as an alternate?” he asked.
“Not in this region we don't. This would be the first time that a Kynon ship has taken this path. It is unknown to us,” I said.
“Then maybe we should take our chances with the black hole. At least we know that it is a safe path,” Ambassador Jion Lek said.
“It is not possible. The radiation levels would break the ship apart. I already ran the numbers,” Elonu Fiul answered.
"Shit, that means that we have to take this path. It is the only one. Let us hope that we can do it in hyperspeed and do it fast. I don't know what races if any live in this section. We don't have any recorded information other than a flight path,” I said.
“Hyperspeed from our point to around the solar system and back on our path?” Ambassador Jion Lek asked.
“Yes. That is what we are going to have to do. Elonu Fiul, go ahead and start preparations for it. We cannot allow the ship to get any closer to the black hole,” I said.
“Yes, Captain.”
“Alert me over the intercom when we are about to start hyperspeed. I am going to get Lieutenant Vnor Gin to feed the human females. Then they will need to buckle in for the hyperspeed ride. How long is your estimation to the
jump?” I asked.
"Jump into hyperspeed in approximately one hour,” Elonu Fiul said.
“Good, that is enough time,” I said and then laughed at the bridge of the ship.
I went to find Lieutenant Vnor Gin and helped him to prepare the trays of food to be taken to the individual holding rooms and the human females. We had twelve females on board with three humans in four different rooms.
“You take those two rooms, and I will take the other,” I pointed out to Lieutenant Vnor Gin.
“Yes, Captain.”
I chose wisely because I wanted to see the blonde human who called herself Vicki.
I held a large tray with food and drink on it and opened the door. All three human females immediately stood up.
“Here is the food and drink for you. And in approximately forty-five minutes we will be jumping into hyperspeed. You will see the light here turn red. That means that you should buckle into the benches around the room. These are the belts,” I said pointing out the light on the wall and the seatbelts that came down over the body and buckled at the waist.
“Hyperspeed. Why? What is happening out there? I demand to be let out of this world,” the blonde woman got closer to me. I looked down at her and smiled.
“Do you ever stop talking?”
“No! Do you ever stop taking people hostage against their will?” she said.
“I am doing my job. It is my mission.”
"It is your mission to abduct human females and take them to your planet? What kind of mission is that?” she asked.
I ignored her. Time was wasted. “Eat, drink, and when you are done, the tray goes here,” I said opening a cabinet to show them where there were water and blankets stored away. “Then you will buckle up unless you want to bounce around this room hitting one wall after the other. I can guarantee you it will not be pleasant, if you even survive. That is all.”
“What? Wait,” the blonde human said.
I ignored her again and walked out of the room, locking the door behind me. She was just as fiery as ever, and I was having fun making her act that way. This was going to be a lot of fun.
I went into the second room down the long hallway to deliver the tray of food. I opened the door and repeated the instructions to eat and buckle up when the red light went on.
“Why are you doing this to us? This is complete bullshit,” a woman with black hair, pale skin, and a thick and curvy body said to me. She was also very attractive. If I had not already set my eyes on Vicki, I would possibly be taking this human female instead. Maybe I could take two.
“What is your name, human female?” I asked.
“My name is Lauren Kate. I don't appreciate what you are doing to us.”
“Trust me. You will like your new home. It is beautiful, just like you,” I said with a wink.
She gasped and stepped back from me. I laughed then walked out.
An hour later, I was strapped into my seat next to Elonu Fiul as we traveled in hyperspeed near the unknown solar system.
“There is something wrong. I am picking up some sort of pull on the ship. I don't know where it is coming from,” Elonu Fiul said.
“What kind of readings are you getting?” Lieutenant Vnor Gin asked.
“It is something like…”
But Elonu Fiul could not finish his sentence. Suddenly the entire ship began to shake violently.
“Get her out of hyperspeed now!” I shouted.
Elonu Fiul frantically worked the controls, and I continued to help as we pulled the ship out of hyperspeed. The ship slowed down.
“There! Look at that planet! I think there is a ship!” Lieutenant Vnor Gin shouted.
Suddenly the ship began to move toward the planet.
“What are you doing?”
“Captain, I am not doing this. We are being taken over. I can't control it.”
Then suddenly the ship was speeding toward the planet. In a flash, we were burning through the atmosphere. We were all holding on for dear life.
“The ship is breaking apart!” Elonu Fiul shouted.
“Hold on!” I shouted. When I couldn't hear anything at all, I knew that we were in severe danger. We were crashing into a planet, and we did not know if we would survive.
Everything went dark. When I woke up, my head was pounding, and there was blood running down the side of my face. I was still strapped into my seat. I looked around and realized that it was the seat and nothing else around me. I unbuckled the belt and fell out of the seat onto red dirt. There were parts of our ship around me, but only small parts that were smoking and on fire.
“Elonu Fiul? Lieutenant Vnor Gin?” I said. There was no answer.
I got up to my feet and looked around. I could not see any other seats or any big portions of the ship in view. If we had broken up in the atmosphere, we could be miles apart from each other.
I stretched my leg out and my arms. I touched my head and found that I was only bleeding from a small scratch. I pulled my gun from my belt and made sure that it was charged. Then I put it back in the holster. I looked around again.
I was on a small ridge. I slowly climbed to the top of it. I looked around at the ground, looking for my any sign of footprints or seatbelts. But when I got to the top of the ridge, I was completely shocked and surprised by what I saw.
There was a large encampment down below. “Cyborgs.”
Chapter 6
Vicki Varsa
For the second time, I had blacked out. All I remember was the ship shaking violently and the sensation of falling. We had all buckled in the way that the arrogant blue alien had told us to do. But it didn't feel like this was simply hyperspeed. Sirens had been going on all around us, and we knew that something was wrong. But what could we do?
Now I opened my eyes. Looking up, I could see a pale green sky above me, like a mint color. I didn't understand it. I realized that I was moving like I was floating on something.
“Vicki?” I heard a whisper. I turned to my side to see Nancy lying beside me. She had a very frightened look on her face.
“Nancy? What is going on? What happened?” I asked.
“You are not going to believe it. So just take a look for yourself,” she whispered back.
I turned my head and slightly got up on my elbows. She was right. I did not believe what I saw. Nancy and I were inside of a large box with bars. But that was not the most shocking thing. It was what was marching alongside of the box and pulling it. They were men that looked like robots. They looked to be half man and half robot; could this be a cyborg?
I looked at Nancy. “What the hell are they?” I whispered.
“I don't know. I woke up in this box, the same as you. I can only assume we crashed on some strange planet. I don't know where the blue aliens are. These things seem to be robot and man.”
“Fuck. What about Bridget? Do you see her?” I asked.
“I do not know, unless she is in a different box, but I cannot see very well,” she said.
“I never thought I would say this, but I hope that she is with the aliens. I don't like the look of these,” I said.
“I agree,” she whispered.
“No talking!” a mechanical voice said as he hit his mechanical arm against the bars. His voice sounded like a computer. It was very frightening. Nancy and I quickly quieted down. We did not want to give them a reason to open the bars.
I took a good look at the robot man. His arms were covered in chrome all the way down to his hands. But only half of his face was covered in chrome, and the other half looked somewhat human—like they were wearing a phantom of the opera mechanical mass. The tops of their shoulders down to their abdomen was organic. Then from the waist down, they were covered in a material with boots, and I could not tell how much of that was mechanical. They were definitely cyborgs half organic beings and partly mechanical robot. I had never seen anything like it; it was scary. I very much preferred the tall blue aliens to these cyborgs.
I was scared for Bridge
t. At least I wasn't alone, but it was very much possible that Bridget was alone.
I looked at Nancy, and she gestured with her chin for me to look ahead of us. My eyes grew wide as I realized we were entering a camp of more cyborgs. Being around a few of them was frightening enough, but now we were going to be around a camp full of them.
“Take these two creatures to K8L,” one cyborg said to the other.
We were pulled towards a very large compound like a temporary dome.
“Tell K8L we found these two on the outskirts,” the cyborg said to another.