“who are the Mind-Breakers?”
“That is our name for the aliens you call ‘Superiors.’ It is a much more fitting name, for that is what they do,” said the amplification system in the voice of Commander Gupta.
“I am going to call them the Supes, if you don’t mind,” said Leona. “I think either Mind-Breaker or Superior is too long—and gives them too much respect, considering their brutality toward humans.”
“Very well, Supes it is.”
Commander Gupta motioned to half of the werewolves, and they sat down to rest—but they chose places where they could quickly jump up if anyone entered by the door.
“Could the lady with the weapon please set it down. We have a lot of things to talk about, and I do not want a stray emotion to cause the weapon to fire,” he thought.
Leona looked at Mary and nodded. Mary set the blaster down beside her. It was out of her hands, but still within quick and easy reach.
All the commandos relaxed visibly. One of them walked straight to the bed that still projected from the wall in the “office” part of the lab, and climbed in. Mary was indignant at this.
“Excuse me, madam, but I have been without a proper bed for more than a year!”
The Indian commando, with his werewolf ears laid back and his eyes hopeful, looked for all the world like a pet dog that had been caught on a double bed. Leona shrugged.
“Let it go, Mom, the bed has an auto-clean function on it. You won’t have to sleep in wolf hair.”
The commander looked displeased with the commando, but decided not to intervene.
“Commander, I am Leona Stevenson. This werewolf here is Thor—Theodore—Stevenson, my husband. That woman is my mother, Mary O’Brien, and my father, Will—William—O’Brien, is on the conversion table in the big chamber through that other door there. We are from the state of Texas in the United States.”
Leona walked near Commander Gupta and looked up into his eyes. Even for a tall woman it was a stretch, but she was reassured by the look of calm competence he projected.
“How is it that your commandos still have their memories? It was touch and go for a while whether my husband was going to kill and eat us!”
“Oh, madam, how very frightening for you! As for us, three of our team are originally members of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, Unusual Research Department. We were tasked with exploring non-ordinary means of intelligence gathering. Which is how RAW described the idea of using telepathy to try to take secrets from the minds of our enemies,” he thought. “Our scientists had designed a drug that was based on the study of electric eels. This drug would allow the energy level of our brains to increase substantially. While under the influence of this drug, the people who already showed telepathic tendencies scored perfectly on the Zener cards ESP tests,” he continued. “We at RAW thought we would be using our new-gained skills on terrorists in the mountains. But then the alien spaceships came.” The commander shook his head.
“That changed everyone’s plans,” said Leona.
“When COBRA started fighting the werewolves, they noticed that the tactics were well coordinated, without any type of detectable radio system. RAW tasked the Unusual Research Department to work with COBRA to find out what was going on. Two other RAW adepts and I were attached to a COBRA unit. We captured a werewolf and, using the drug, made psychic contact with it. Unfortunately for us, when we did that, the werewolf contacted its ship to notify them. This had never happened before for the…Supes. They dispatched thousands of werewolves to capture us. They took our whole COBRA unit captive.”
“That is fascinating, but it doesn’t answer my question,” said Leona. “About your memories.”
“We were given to one of the main Mind-Breaker—excuse me, Supe—researchers on this ship. He decided to convert one of my RAW psychics to a werewolf to see what would
“That is our name for the aliens you call ‘Superiors.’ It is a much more fitting name, for that is what they do,” said the amplification system in the voice of Commander Gupta.
“I am going to call them the Supes, if you don’t mind,” said Leona. “I think either Mind-Breaker or Superior is too long—and gives them too much respect, considering their brutality toward humans.”
“Very well, Supes it is.”
Commander Gupta motioned to half of the werewolves, and they sat down to rest—but they chose places where they could quickly jump up if anyone entered by the door.
“Could the lady with the weapon please set it down. We have a lot of things to talk about, and I do not want a stray emotion to cause the weapon to fire,” he thought.
Leona looked at Mary and nodded. Mary set the blaster down beside her. It was out of her hands, but still within quick and easy reach.
All the commandos relaxed visibly. One of them walked straight to the bed that still projected from the wall in the “office” part of the lab, and climbed in. Mary was indignant at this.
“Excuse me, madam, but I have been without a proper bed for more than a year!”
The Indian commando, with his werewolf ears laid back and his eyes hopeful, looked for all the world like a pet dog that had been caught on a double bed. Leona shrugged.
“Let it go, Mom, the bed has an auto-clean function on it. You won’t have to sleep in wolf hair.”
The commander looked displeased with the commando, but decided not to intervene.
“Commander, I am Leona Stevenson. This werewolf here is Thor—Theodore—Stevenson, my husband. That woman is my mother, Mary O’Brien, and my father, Will—William—O’Brien, is on the conversion table in the big chamber through that other door there. We are from the state of Texas in the United States.”
Leona walked near Commander Gupta and looked up into his eyes. Even for a tall woman it was a stretch, but she was reassured by the look of calm competence he projected.
“How is it that your commandos still have their memories? It was touch and go for a while whether my husband was going to kill and eat us!”
“Oh, madam, how very frightening for you! As for us, three of our team are originally members of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, Unusual Research Department. We were tasked with exploring non-ordinary means of intelligence gathering. Which is how RAW described the idea of using telepathy to try to take secrets from the minds of our enemies,” he thought. “Our scientists had designed a drug that was based on the study of electric eels. This drug would allow the energy level of our brains to increase substantially. While under the influence of this drug, the people who already showed telepathic tendencies scored perfectly on the Zener cards ESP tests,” he continued. “We at RAW thought we would be using our new-gained skills on terrorists in the mountains. But then the alien spaceships came.” The commander shook his head.
“That changed everyone’s plans,” said Leona.
“When COBRA started fighting the werewolves, they noticed that the tactics were well coordinated, without any type of detectable radio system. RAW tasked the Unusual Research Department to work with COBRA to find out what was going on. Two other RAW adepts and I were attached to a COBRA unit. We captured a werewolf and, using the drug, made psychic contact with it. Unfortunately for us, when we did that, the werewolf contacted its ship to notify them. This had never happened before for the…Supes. They dispatched thousands of werewolves to capture us. They took our whole COBRA unit captive.”
“That is fascinating, but it doesn’t answer my question,” said Leona. “About your memories.”
“We were given to one of the main Mind-Breaker—excuse me, Supe—researchers on this ship. He decided to convert one of my RAW psychics to a werewolf to see what would
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