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Chapter 25

Lynn

I watched as Yorix went full berserker, leaping out into the midst of a bunch of alien soldiers, his dick literally swinging.I’d grabbed a blaster for myself as I passed the weapons locker, not wanting to be completely useless.

“Mrowww!” Charlie wailed from his kitty backpack as I jumped out after my husband.

“Not today, Satan!” I screamed, finding courage from goodness knows where. I pulled the trigger, aiming it at some fully armored guy who was trying to burn a hole through my man.Nothing happened and I glanced down at it, realizing there must be some sort of safety.

The guy I was aiming for turned his attention to me, dashing towards me.

“I said not today!” and tried again after flicking some switch. A beam of bright red light shot out.

“Oh shit! I’d just burnt a hole through whoever that was. He dropped like the proverbial stone.

“Lynn!” my mate shouted from way too far away. I pumped my legs to reach him. Whoever these guys were, they hadn’t had the sense to realize that even a small research vessel might have someone onboard who had battle skills and would respond to violence with lethal force. They’d only sent about six or seven dudes.

Yorix punched a control by a door and it opened, revealing a corridor with more assholes coming our way.

“This way,” Yorix hissed at me, turning the opposite direction. Whoever these guys were, they weren't using energy weapons now, no doubt not wanting to punch a hole here where it would be harder to seal than say, a hangar.

“When did you put on your boots?”

On the way to the navigation console,” he replied.

“But you didn't think to put on pants?”

He shrugged, handing me one of the two blasters and unsheathing the sword he'd slung across his back.

“Run ahead and look for escape pods.”

I didn’t have to be told twice. Luck was on our side, as about ten feet away, I saw what we were after.

“Here!” I called out as he began a deadly dance with one of the aliens. He sliced off its arm and it fell in a shower of sparks before the body crumpled down alongside it.

The others stopped as if sizing him up and he used it as an opportunity to spin my direction and leg it. I smashed a button next to the nearest one, hoping that opened the door instead of shooting it into space. The door swished open, thank God. Unfortunately, so did a door behind us and as the armored soldier came out, he shoved Yorix hard, forcing him into the pod, while with his other hand, he smashed the button a second time.

“No!” I screamed as I watched in horror as the door closed and the pod ejected.I reached for the button to the next pod, but didn’t make it. The soldier pinned my arms against me, dragging me back through the door he’d come out of.

I flailed against him, trying to point the blasters I held somewhere like a leg, but another soldier came up and easily plucked them out of my hands. I’d thought he'd taken me into a room at first, but now I saw we were in an interior corridor and that the door we’d come through had a seal on this side, I guessed to act as an emergency seal in case of catastrophe. Now I was shoved against the wall and the other soldier was cutting the backpack straps from me.

“No! Don’t hurt Charlie! He’s just a baby!”

Charlie hissed and spat at them. The second soldier held the backpack up, examining him silently. Without a word, he held it out in front of him while the one who had me cuffed my arms behind me and began marching me deeper into the ship. We took a few turns and it rapidly became apparent that their ship was a veritable warren. There were ramps and stairways instead of access ladders and elevators, as well, making it apparent that I was going up. I had a nasty suspicion that I was being taken deep into the bowels of the ship. Another door this time guarded by two more armored assholes and my destination became clear as cell after cell greeted my gaze.

Most of them empty, the occupied ones holding a being of no species I’d ever seen. One looked like a komodo dragon wearing a loincloth, while the other had a vulpine looking man with no pants. I glanced away, not wanting to look at anyone’s dick except for Yorix. Yorix, who they’d ejected into space in an escape pod. I hoped they hadn’t then shot it down. A tear slipped from the corner of my eye. If only one of us got out of this, I was glad it was him. Surely the Mylos would find him and bring him home. He’d be safe and my family would at least get to know what happened to me.

My captor unlocked an empty cell and shoved me inside, closing the door behind me. He then gestured for me to turn around, then put his wrists together and pulled them apart. Hoping he meant that he was going to undo the cuffs, I obliged and sure enough, he removed my shackles. I turned back around in time to see the second jerk put the backpack in another empty cell, close the door, then unzip it to let Charlie out. Charlie dashed off into a far corner, hissing.

Yeah, me too, buddy. Me too.