Defying The Alliance (Novokin Alliance Invasion 1)
showdown with some slavers."
    The supreme commander cracked his neck from side to side. He was getting bored with this. "Well don't keep me in suspense Lieutenant."
    "Apparently Sir, the rogue Captain and several other individuals, possibly of said Captain's crew covertly entered the station, biometricly cloaked and dressed as Daunietes. They attacked the slave caravan directly, killing two Lizardian slavers, five standard space station security officers and twelve Imperial guards."
    The commander yawned. "Yes yes, I get that. Who was it?"
    The lieutenant’s voice cracked when he responded. "I'm sorry Sir, I’m not privy to the information. The details have been designated for your eyes only, as per your command, on quadrant 34's Novokin Alliance Independence Day, three years ago."
    The supreme commander briefly considered demoting the lieutenant down to auxiliary crewman status. But then he would have to demote every fool he was forced to suffer under his command and soon he'd be out of a crew. Instead he chose to lash out at the man. "Why didn't you just start with that you gelk! Give me the data pad!"
    The young lieutenant didn't move. "I'm sorry Sir, this was designated classified red Omega. The only copy has been forwarded directly to your data terminal."
    The supreme commander slid to the edge of his bed, swinging his feet to the floor. Letting his sheet fall completely away, he smiled at the young man's embarrassment. He was as fit today as the day he first enlisted, and he didn't mind if people knew it. Actually he made sure they were aware of it.
    The room was still draped in shadows, but he was careful to step over the dead Terran girl lying at the foot of his bed, her glassy eyes catching the light and staring into nothingness. He tapped a few keys on his data terminal. The face of a beautiful Terran woman and her statistics rolled across the screen. The supreme commander licked his lips and smiled.
    "Lieutenant." He barked.
    The young officer stepped forward. Still at attention, he purposely avoided making eye contact with his commander.
    The Supreme Commander of the entire Novokin Alliance's fleet scanned the communiqué, then spoke in cool even tones that almost approached mirth. "Are the perpetrators still on the space station?”
    “No Sir, they escaped,” the young lieutenant’s palms dripped and his mouth filled with cotton.
    “Get me Captain Asmot. I have a traitor I want hunted down and brought back to me, alive."
     
     

Episode Two

Chapter 1
     
     
    We descended the three decks down to engineering. And by we, I mean myself and my new ever present 6'8" brick wall of gold, rippling muscles that was my new shadow, Trex. Not that I was complaining. Well, maybe a little. Every chance I got actually. To everyone I met, but not inwardly.
    I only met him a day ago on Deep Proteus space station 5 where Jaxx and I had struck an unfortunate deal with a less than shady character named Skeeves. That son of a sheetek, sold us out, to the Novokin Alliance no less. Who expected them so far into the outer rim? If it wasn’t for Trex, I'd be a little more than a carbon scorch mark on the station's promenade.
    He was part of a slave caravan, waiting to be sold. And I was pretending to haggle with the one-eyed lizard mongrel in order to stop him from abusing a young Terran woman. Things went south, fast, when he refused to sell her to me, while making detailed threats of what he would do to the poor girl. I snapped and blasted the monster’s arm off. Ooops!
    The commotion that followed my assault alerted the Novokin and station guards who were quite displeased with my negotiating tactics. As expected, plasma fire was exchanged. That’s when my golden barbarian made his brilliant entrance and saved my ass. Well truthfully, he is not exactly mine and I know nothing else about him. Except, that he’s from a different galaxy and I owe him a life debt, which I intend to pay back, in full. Still, he is an unknown on

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