to cooperate and save your child’s life, or to resist us and know you have condemned him to death.”
Kim was silent. She knew that they were in her husband’s realm, and she was not about to interfere. Whether the monkeys were serious or not, she knew Cort would act in both their best interests and those of their son.
“What do you want?” Cort asked. Where are the wolves? And how does the comm already know their language? I’ve never heard it before, at least not that I can remember.
“We don’t want anything, Addison. We are taking the planets you have cleansed for us. We have hidden from others for eons, since the Nill banished us. But now we will take back what is ours.”
While listening to the answer, Cort appeared to be looking around at his captors. In reality, he was considering the layout of what was about to become a killing ground. He said, “We are not the Nill. Your fight is not with us.” Bingo! The Nill again. Damn those little bastards.
“No, but you are now their champion. Our fight is with you.”
--
Captain Ross ordered the Beretta to transition. On the Nill homeworld, the ship’s transition sent signals across the being that had attached itself to the Core. Like a short circuit, the altered connections caused the Core to overload. As the Beretta disappeared, the particle map of the graviton that was meant to pull the ship back into normal space time inside the H’uuman system was forgotten by the Core, leaving the ship, its crew and its passengers in null space, that area of the universe that existed outside of conventional space time.
--
The monkey-like aliens burst through the wall as Heroc transformed into something Dalek had never seen. She moved with grace that was fitting for a queen, but her carapace had separated and she used it to begin spinning and slashing at the invaders. Zandra took her cue from the queen and began to fight as well. But dozens of attackers poured through the opening. When the invaders carried Dalek from the room, the teary-eyed boy looked back at Heroc’s body as well as the lifeless form of his companion wolf and cried, “My Poppa is gonna to kill you all.”
Thousands of light years away, supercharged tachyons delivered the sound of his son’s tearful voice to Cort. He turned back to the leader of the group and spoke. “My son is right. I am going to kill you all. You didn’t come here to talk. You are nothing more than a kidnapper and a murderer. I’m not going to plead with you. I certainly am not going to beg you. I will warn you, though. This is our planet and you have one chance to leave it and return my son to me. If you do that, I will make your deaths painless.”
Cort didn’t recognize the whistling sound that the thin six-limbed primate made, but he had no doubt that it was laughter. “Addison, you are hardly in a position to threaten us. You are foolish to be here at all. You cleansed this planet of the scum, and I intend to harvest it. My people will take everything in the galactic arm.”
“You won’t leave then?” Cort asked.
“No Addison, we won’t leave.” The creature raised his left arms to the apes behind him and said, “Kill him. He is of no use to us.”
“Then you will die,” Cort said, as two of the apes grabbed his arms. Without his armor, Cort was significantly smaller than his captors. He didn’t even have his FALCON suit on, but he was still nearly two meters tall and carried the muscle of a man used to working. Unfortunately for the attackers, the work those muscles had done was killing. He brought his arms together with such force that the creature on his right side felt two of its thin arms ripped completely from its body. Then he swung his right knee into the other’s midsection. The shocked animal doubled over, releasing Cort’s left arm and whistling in agony.
At the same time, Bane and Coke attacked from where they had watched the scene unfold. Cort was the only one in the group that didn’t
Kim was silent. She knew that they were in her husband’s realm, and she was not about to interfere. Whether the monkeys were serious or not, she knew Cort would act in both their best interests and those of their son.
“What do you want?” Cort asked. Where are the wolves? And how does the comm already know their language? I’ve never heard it before, at least not that I can remember.
“We don’t want anything, Addison. We are taking the planets you have cleansed for us. We have hidden from others for eons, since the Nill banished us. But now we will take back what is ours.”
While listening to the answer, Cort appeared to be looking around at his captors. In reality, he was considering the layout of what was about to become a killing ground. He said, “We are not the Nill. Your fight is not with us.” Bingo! The Nill again. Damn those little bastards.
“No, but you are now their champion. Our fight is with you.”
--
Captain Ross ordered the Beretta to transition. On the Nill homeworld, the ship’s transition sent signals across the being that had attached itself to the Core. Like a short circuit, the altered connections caused the Core to overload. As the Beretta disappeared, the particle map of the graviton that was meant to pull the ship back into normal space time inside the H’uuman system was forgotten by the Core, leaving the ship, its crew and its passengers in null space, that area of the universe that existed outside of conventional space time.
--
The monkey-like aliens burst through the wall as Heroc transformed into something Dalek had never seen. She moved with grace that was fitting for a queen, but her carapace had separated and she used it to begin spinning and slashing at the invaders. Zandra took her cue from the queen and began to fight as well. But dozens of attackers poured through the opening. When the invaders carried Dalek from the room, the teary-eyed boy looked back at Heroc’s body as well as the lifeless form of his companion wolf and cried, “My Poppa is gonna to kill you all.”
Thousands of light years away, supercharged tachyons delivered the sound of his son’s tearful voice to Cort. He turned back to the leader of the group and spoke. “My son is right. I am going to kill you all. You didn’t come here to talk. You are nothing more than a kidnapper and a murderer. I’m not going to plead with you. I certainly am not going to beg you. I will warn you, though. This is our planet and you have one chance to leave it and return my son to me. If you do that, I will make your deaths painless.”
Cort didn’t recognize the whistling sound that the thin six-limbed primate made, but he had no doubt that it was laughter. “Addison, you are hardly in a position to threaten us. You are foolish to be here at all. You cleansed this planet of the scum, and I intend to harvest it. My people will take everything in the galactic arm.”
“You won’t leave then?” Cort asked.
“No Addison, we won’t leave.” The creature raised his left arms to the apes behind him and said, “Kill him. He is of no use to us.”
“Then you will die,” Cort said, as two of the apes grabbed his arms. Without his armor, Cort was significantly smaller than his captors. He didn’t even have his FALCON suit on, but he was still nearly two meters tall and carried the muscle of a man used to working. Unfortunately for the attackers, the work those muscles had done was killing. He brought his arms together with such force that the creature on his right side felt two of its thin arms ripped completely from its body. Then he swung his right knee into the other’s midsection. The shocked animal doubled over, releasing Cort’s left arm and whistling in agony.
At the same time, Bane and Coke attacked from where they had watched the scene unfold. Cort was the only one in the group that didn’t
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