The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 5 Mars and Space
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Jenny groaned as she came to. Her jaw hurt, and her body hurt even worse. She could still feel the effects of the device he had used on her. Opening her eyes, she saw she was in a metal room lying on a bed. Groaning, she stood up. She examined the bands on her wrists and tried to remove them. Each time she dug her nails under the band she got shocked.
"Damn it, that hurts."
"Then I would advise you not to do it, human."
Jen jumped when she heard the voice. Turning around, she saw a creature standing on the other side of a glass wall, or what she assumed was glass. It stood roughly six feet tall, and had four arms. Its crystal-like skin looked as if it was solid stone. Its skull-like head watched her through his three eyes, as she studied it.
"Ok. You are not T'Lari, or Tralcan, so what the fuck are you?"
Startled, he blinked all three eyes at the human girl whom he estimated was around eighteen years old.
"How do you know of the T'Lari, human? You are not pretty enough to be a Tralcan, you don't have the right skin tone or hair color, and our scanners would have detected their blood in you. Also, how did you find our procurement officer?"
"I know they love to eat anything they can get their hands on. As to whom I am, you will find out soon enough."
She grinned evilly, as she felt the tickle in her communications chip.
"They cannot hear you human. Your communications device has been blocked."
"Wanna bet?" Jenny closed her eyes.
'Hi, Amy, I am in some type of a lab, I am looking at a crystal like creature with three eyes, and four arms. It has a skull like head and... '
"Captain I have a transmission from Jenny I am relaying it now. "Hi Amy, I am in some type of a lab, I am looking at a crystal like creature with three eyes and four arms. It has a skull like head and..."
Amy's head popped up and she shouted through the com unit, 'Jen, that's a Crytherian warrior be caref... '
Jen grinned at the creature as she opened her eyes.
"So, you are a Crytherian."
Jen watched the creature stagger back at her words. It reached to the wall and pressed something she could not see. Pain shot through her body and she started screaming.
Amy looked at Ken and said, "That's a Crytherian base down there. They are a race of slavers. They kidnap other races and sell them as slaves to their people or to other races as slaves or guinea pigs for lab experiments. We must rescue her and any other humans and put a stop to this. I am scanning their base now. I detect life signs of two hundred and ten men, woman and children in cryogenic sleep and ten who are awake. I have relayed all I have to Jenny."
Ken sat in his chair now that Tammy had vacated it.
"Amy, please raise their base and translate for me."
"I am contacting the base now."
Amy activated the communications board and started contacting the base,
"Crytherian base this is the Terran Federation Battleship Washington, which is hovering above your base, put your commander on for my commander. You have twenty seconds in which to reply."
The Crytherian who was on duty in the communications room looked up in surprise at the speaker as the voice came through in flawless Royal Crytherian. Getting up he walked over to the door, and went in to a command room where everyone was packing up the equipment. Looking around, he saw Commander Vkranske talking to his flight officer. Walking over, he came to attention.
"Sir, you are requested in the communications room. We have a communiqué in Royal Crytherian from the alien ship."
"What alien ship?"
"Sir, the one that said it is over our base."
Vkranske looked at the inferior in surprise.
"Very well, I will be right there."
"Sir, I was told you have twenty scions to be there, or else."
"Who do they think they are?" Commander Vkranske stormed into the communications room and grabbed the com unit. "Who do you think you are that you can order me around like some animal."
Aboard the ship, Ken sat in his chair waiting for an answer when a voice came over the speakers.
Ken listened to the voice being translated and replied, "I am the one who has the firepower to blow your entire base away, within a blink of an eye. Now, you will release all the humans and prepare to surrender to me. You have thirty seconds to comply with my demands. To prove how serious I am, watch your monitors."
Ken turned on the ship's intercom.
"Mech Force One! You have a go."
Down in the Mech bay the two transport shuttles dropped out of the bay and flew over the base. They flew about a mile from the base, at a height of thirty feet. They hovered, and six Cheetah scout Mechs dropped to the ground, and quickly started lining up on the base and began to advance.
Commander Vkranske watched the six strange vehicles move towards his base.
"All defense batteries engage those monstrosities."
Around the base, laser cannons popped up out of the ground and opened fire on the six Cheetahs that were moving around the field of stone, at close to one-hundred miles per hour. On the screen, one of the machines was caught in a cross fire of seven lasers. The shields start glowing under the combined attack, then the Cheetah dodged and ran into a small cavern.
Ted turned his lance of Mechs towards the enemy base and started closing with it. His scanners searched for the Crytherian defensive weapons, and found them. The cannons popped up out of the ground and opened fire.
"This is Command One, take out those cannons," Ted said.
The rest of the Mechs acknowledged and rushed towards the laser cannons, firing their lasers back and letting loose a massive barrage of missiles. Three of the defensive lasers blew up when the missiles come down on top of them. Ted saw one of his Mechs caught in a crossfire.
"Matt! Jink and duck into that cave, or they will overheat you." He saw an explosion on Matt's leg, and one of Matt's laser cannon exploded under a direct hit.
"Aye, aye sir, I am moving now, minor damage to my leg and loss of my right laser quad, but I am still combat efficient."
Matt dodged his Mech into the small cavern and runs out the other end onto a small cliff. Sighting another defensive laser with two cannons on it as it swivels towards him, he let loose with all his remaining weapons and the weapon emplacement blows up.
"That's another down! How about some music guys and gals?"
Matt pressed the switch for the internal speakers on all the Mechs and played Richard Wagner's, Ride of the Valkyries. The ghostly music played in the mechs as the charged in and fired their lasers in pairs, destroying three more of the dual mounted laser cannons.
Ted laughed as the music played.
"From now on this scout force will be called Valkyries! This is Valkyrie One to all Valkyries, fall back to the ridge and give them time to think about what is going to happen to their base if they continue."
Ted flipped another channel on and contacted the ship, while the music died in the cockpit.
"Captain, we have destroyed about half of their defenses. I have located a hanger bay protected by a force screen. I don't know what they have in there, but I have my missiles targeted on it. If the force screen drops I will put all my missiles into the bay, nothing is getting out if I can help it."
"Very well, Commander White. Be prepared to engage if you must, but I don't want unnecessarily deaths. I will get back to you; the base commander is contacting me."
Commander Vkranske was fuming as the strange vehicles ripped through his defenses.
"What right do you have to interfere with our culling of this planet? We own the charter to this system, you have no right to interfere, and we take very few of them for the trade, now."
Ken was livid when he heard the words of the creature.
"Amy let these bastards see who they are dealing with."
The main viewer came on and they were looking at Commander Vkranske.
"You are on screen, Captain," replied Amy as she activated full communications.
Ken stood up showing that he was human and the anger was in his face.
"I am Captain Kenneth Thompson of the USS WASHINGTON, and the planet you say you have been 'culling', is my HOME WORLD. Now, you either surrender or my Marines are coming in there with orders to kill every last one of you slime buckets. Your race has been kidnapping, murdering and who knows what else to the human race for far too long! It stops, now!"
Commander Vkranske staggered back as he looked into the face of a human in command of the alien ship.
"How ... what..." he sputtered. "You humans don't have the technology to build something like that."
"We do now, Commander Vkranske! Now, are you going to surrender?"
"I..."
Ken turned his head and looked over at the weapons officer. "Lieutenant, target that tall mountain to the north of the base and fire all main batteries that bear on it at minimum power settings."
Commander Vkranske looked in horror as the huge mountain was literally cut to rubble as two hundred and fifty laser batteries blew the mountain clean off of the moons surface. Looking back at the human he faced, he saw the determination in the human's eyes, and knew he was looking at his own death.
"Now, Commander Vkranske, does that look like we don't have the power or the technology? Also, do not even think about trying to escape with a shuttle or a larger ship. If you blow up the base, we will go to your home world and blow it to bits. You just saw what we did to that mountain, and that was at minimum power."
Commander Vkranske nodded his head at the human's words. "We have no choice but to surrender."
Ken reached over and turned a microphone on.
"All Marine shuttles! You are a go."
The secondary screen showed six shuttles dropping out of the bay and heading for the surface. The Mechs move in closer to the base and started to cover the landing zone incase the Crytherians attacked.
Deep in the base, the Crytherian named Joshua Howard walked into the processing center and saw the human woman lying on the floor. Dropping his laser carbine on the floor outside the room, he opened the door and walked in.
"Human, you are going to tell me what I want to know, or I am going to hurt you."
He looked at the naked woman and then noticed the blood on her wrists and moved closer.
"Damn it, she's sliced her wrists with her nails."
Grabbing a medical kit, he moved towards the woman.
Jenny played as if she was unconscious, and waited for the creature to get closer. She heard his words and smiled inwardly, as he fell for the cuts on her wrists. As he knelt beside her, she made her move. Snapping her leg up, she hit him in the head, staggering him back. Jumping to her feet, she executed a kick that hit the creature's right hand sending the device he was holding flying across the room, where it was smashed to pieces against the wall.
Joshua saw the pain stimulator hit the wall and shatter.
"You will pay for that, bitch. When I am done with you, you will beg for death."
His lower arms ripped out of his fake skin and he reached for her with all four hands.
Jenny jumped back as the new arms came out of his body and swung at her. Executing a flying kick, she hit him in the chest, knocking him against the wall.
"Think you will kidnap me and kill me like you did the others? I don't think so you fucking son of a bitch." Jen moved in, did a leg sweep, which dropped him on his ass. Getting back up as the creature started to stand, she did a snap kick to his jaw and felt something moved under the contact of the blow.
Joshua could not believe this puny human was hurting him like this! He was a Crytherian warrior. Through his broken jaw, he said.
"You will die now bitch."
Turning his upper hands to crystal spears, he started jabbing them at the woman's face while his lower hands were used to block her kicks.
Jenny looked in shock as his hands changed, and realized that if she did not finish this battle fast, she was a dead woman. Dodging the thrust at her eyes, the second hand cut her left shoulder to the bone. Jen staggered back and looked at Joshua.
"Son of a bitch! That hurt, you bastard. I was playing with you before, but now you will die." Jen moved in after his next attack, snapped her bare foot against his right kneecap and shattered it. Her second kick hit him in the groin and smashed his testicles.
Joshua roared in pain as his knee shattered and then grinned as the human wasted her second attack on his fake testicles.
"You are one dead bitch, so lie down and let me make it easier on you." Joshua started the healing of his knee as he waited for her response. Watching her, he noticed her blood was not flowing out of the wound he had given her.
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Amy accessed the data link into the Earths internet and started searching through the records and history. Happily, she started downloading all she could find. On the chat programs, and peer to peer sites, she gathered movies, books, music and anything she thought the crew would like an then she froze as she started reading some of the historical documents. "Oh NO!" Which caused her to dive into more pages and then she froze all her downloads, and locked her system down. Flight 329 from...
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Joshua drove back towards his home. His heart was beating faster than it ever had before. Pulling up to a red light, he looked down on his catch and smiled evilly. "I think I will keep you for awhile, you have been such a game to catch, but now you are mine." Reaching down, he squeezed her breast. Frustrated by her shirt, he started pulling it up. For some reason, it refused to yield to his grabbing. The light changed, and he pulled through the intersection and into a dark parking...
Ken drove the big vehicle and continued to think about finding people to get to join them. One group he was going to ask was his Dungeons and Dragons group, and the ROTC class. They were going to need military people, so he added his dad's Vietnam buddies to the list, or at least some of them. As the miles went by, everyone else fell asleep to the drone of the tires on the road. Every few minutes they passed a car going the opposite way. A few hours later, they pulled into Tonopah, Nevada...
Ken caught the young mother before she could fall to the floor. He looked over at Molly. "Get in there and do what you can to help her." Molly looked in the window and her heart started to break at the sight of the little girl. Tubes running in and out of her, an oxygen mask over her face to help her breath. "Yes, Sir!" Molly went into the room and set her bag down on the bed. Nurse Gretchen Hilliard looked down at the little girl suffering from the cancer. Turning to get her pen,...
Maria had just sat down to her morning cup of hot coffee when the phone rang. Reaching over she picked it up. "Hello? Ted, Honey, how are you? Are you ok? Why have you not called ... oh silly me, you are calling now. Did you all have a good time? Did Tammy get any pictures? Oh, what's that? Ok, let me ask them." Getting up, she walked down the hallway, looked in the bedroom, and called to her husband, "Andy, wake up!" as she walked over to the bed. On the bed, Andy rolled over to look...
Amy appeared in the bedroom and looked down at Ken and Tammy curled up in each other's arms. "Sir? It's four am. It's time to wake up. You have four hours until the United Nations meeting," she said with a sigh. Ken opened his eyes and looked over at Amy, and replied, "Good morning, Amy, and thank you," Then he looked down on Tammy with her head pillowed on his shoulder, her other arm across his stomach holding him tightly in her arms. Ken tried to slide out but Tammy clutched him...
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She sat, her power at minimum, for ages. Her servants repaired the great tears in her body. They restored her passageways, her components, and her systems to pristine condition. The servants burrowed deep down into the Earth. They gathered the resources she so desperately needed. They mined the gold, titanium, platinum, iron, and 'rare earths' that would have cost far too much in precious power to have been replicated. They brought her back to life, as she slowly rebuilt herself. In the...
The people went around and learned about the ship. They were each deciding what career choice they wanted. James Woods had decided he wanted to be a fighter pilot once he saw the sleek attack fighter sitting in one of the cradles. Code-named Tomahawk, the fighter carried a miniature rail gun in the nose cone, two lasers on each wing, and a missile bay with sixteen ship-to-ship missiles. The missiles were antimatter warheads for larger ships or 'fire and forget', for enemy fighters. James...
Around the base, the Marines gathered up the Crytherians as they surrendered. They herded them into the large underground hanger. While Jen and her squad of Marines moved through the base to the hanger bay, they passed other Marines gathering up papers, computers and any other intel that they could find. Walking out into the bay, she saw one of their shuttles, where Marines were herding four Crytherians into the bay and put them into chains. Walking up the shuttle ramp, Jen saw Lynn standing...
Jen finished her writing, stood, and stretched. Taking her bottle of water, she walked out the door. After locking the door, she walked down the driveway to the mailbox and checked the mail. She stood there flipping through the mail. Seeing a letter from her pen pal in England, she stuck it into her pocket. She turned to start walking back up the road with the rest of the mail when she saw a brown car slowly pass by the driveway's entrance. Looking up, she looked into a face she would not...
Night Skies Hotel VI: Destroyers of Worlds By Solari Author's note: "Destroyers of Worlds" is the third story in the three-part "Foundations" trilogy that shines a light on the wider Night Skies Hotel universe. The other stories in the "Foundations" trilogy are "Night Skies Hotel IV: The Lost Worlds," and "Night Skies Hotel V: Shadows on the Sun." It is recommended that the stories be read in order, or the reader risks not understanding the events that unfold. "What you consider...
Ted sat there looking at the woman who had just given him a blowjob. His eyes kept wandering to her scantly clad body as she crawled up his body kissing his bare flesh as she went which caused him to moan. "You are so handsome looking! I just had to come and thank you personally for saving me and my Angel," Augusta said as she licked his nipples. She straddled his waist, and raised her green eyes to look into Ted's brown ones that were wide, as if he was a deer caught in the lights of a...
Ted walked down the hallway, passing people who were being guided out of the medical bays, and were being lead back down to the shuttles. Passing a side passageway, he started to head into medical when he heard the crying. Turning around, he saw a brown haired girl sitting against the wall. Her dress was slightly dirty, and her knees were pressed tightly to her chest as she rocked. Walking over, he saw she was about eight years old. Kneeling beside her, he said, "Hi, I'm Ted. Are you...
Aboard the cruiser Starburst, fires raged throughout the ship. With the internal force fields on, the fires had air to burn, but with the damage to the ship, they knew if they lowered them they would lose many warriors trapped in damaged compartments. Lieutenant Vak watched as his squad of firefighters battled a fire near the number one magazine. With temperatures reaching up to the eighteen hundred degree mark, support beams were becoming weakened and the storage room was an inferno. The...
Lisa slowly woke up and opened her eyes. As she moved her eyes, they settled on her sister's face. In a scratchy voice, she said, "Hi, Sis. Can I have a drink of water? I'm really thirsty." Tammy brushed the hair out of Lisa's eyes. "Hey, Sis! Yes, you may have a drink. How are you feeling?" Reaching over to the bedside table, she lifted a glass of water with a straw in it to her sister's lips. "Take your time drinking. Well, we now know what was wrong with you, and it will...
Jenny hung from the wall. The pain had finally stopped and she looked around the room. Her eyes slowly focused on the only things in the room, a spider bot hanging on the far wall above the replicator and the camera in the center of the room pointed at her. Suddenly the pain started up again, and she started screaming until her voice was hoarse, and she lost control of her bladder and soiled herself. The pain stopped for a second and she started gasping for a breath. She screamed into the...
Jenny tossed and turned in her bed as she slept. She twisted and wrapped herself up in the sheets. The dream came once again to her. It had come often, since she had found out that she was supposed to die. She watched her dream self walk down the stairs of her home, dressed as a clown. Walking up to her parents, she gave them a kiss and a hug. A sad smile was painted upon her face, and she gave a small sigh for her brother. Her mother took her face in her hands. She looked deeply in her...
Setting his wife down on the couch, Mike staggered back up the stairs and over to one of the windows. He looked out. What he saw, appalled him. Black smoke billowed up into the sky all around them, while people staggered out of their shattered homes. Mike took one more look around, and limped down to the bathroom, where he pulled the first aid kit out from under the sink, and carried the kit back downstairs. Setting the box down by his wife, he looked over at his gun safe. Going over to his...
The miles went by quickly. One hundred and forty miles later, Ken saw a sign welcoming them to Hurricane City, Utah. Ken reached over and slapped Ted's arm, waking him up. "Hey, Ted, wake up." Ted jerked away. "Yeah, Ken? What you need?" Looking around he saw buildings and civilization. With a yawn, he asked, "Where are we?" With a glance at Ted, Ken replied, "We just entered Hurricane City. Look for a restaurant. We'll stop for a stretch, get something to eat and use the...
High above Reno, an F-14 plummeted towards the ground. All the electrical systems had failed throughout the plane. Suddenly the fighter stopped in midair and a voice crackled over the radio. "Devil Dog, this is Heavy Hauler one-niner. I have you, and we are taking you aboard our ship. Sit back and enjoy the ride." "Thanks, Heavy Hauler, whoever you are. Everything was failing, here, including the ejection seat. Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kincaide, United States Navy on this...
The next week went by quickly. The shuttle made nightly flights to the ship, depositing the belongings into the prepared quarters, or into a storage container in the hold. On Friday night, the gang finally arrived at the house. A cargo/lifter shuttle arrived, and all five of the kid's cars were loaded up, along with the U-haul carrying their belongings. Amy took the new crewmembers into medical and began their training until Molly could return. Molly had returned to Las Vegas to look for a...
The ship was at General Quarters as Captain Kenneth Thompson ran onto the bridge. The ship was nearing the asteroid belt. Looking over at Lieutenant Kathy Jenson at the ships helm, he moved to his chair and began issuing his orders. "Kathy, raise the shields and take us into the belt. Deploy recon drones for surveillance. Spin up all shield generators to minimum power." Sitting down in his chair, he looked over at Commander White at the weapons station. "Ted, how many Lightning fighters...