Captain Ranell Glent by Frank Carey

Author:Frank Carey [Carey, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-08T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

"Now, that's what I call indigestion," Kryn said while kicking a piece of bat off her foot. She tapped her gauntlet. "I've recalled all the remaining bots to this location."

"Very good, LT." They walked over and stood in front of the heavily damaged door. "Do you think it'll open?" he asked Kryn.

She shrugged and knocked. After sounds of a large lock disengaging, the door slowly opened. Once there was enough space to let them pass, Ran and Kryn stepped through. They found themselves in a large room which may have been a store room. It was filled with Katalans and members of other league species, twenty in all, each armed with an energy weapon.

"Ranell? Is that really you?" his mother said as her sister, Sala, helped her to the front of the crowd.

Ranell hurried over to help her sit down on a crate. "Yes, Matriarch, it's me."

"Always so formal and polite. Who's your friend?"

"Space Patrol Lieutenant Kryn Wasatch, ma'am," Kryn said while she kept an eye on the door. "I'm the Captain's copilot."

"You have wings."

"Yes, my mother is Lady Wasatch and my father is a Basili professor of philosophy."

"They actually work?" Sata said, referring to Kryn's wings.

"Yes, ma'am. Like my father, I can fly and breath fire."

"Damn, a pteroleon," one of the humans said.

"Damn, you can pronounce a word with more than one syllable!" an Erdexi noted for the record.

"Enough!" Sala said loudly. "Ran, there are things out there..."

"Yeah, their completely blaster-proof, and the big ones are fairly bullet-proof. We need to get everyone out of here and back to the Lynnea, assuming you all can put this coup d’état on hold until we can get you back to the home world."

"You think this is a coup attempt?" Sala asked. "And you think I'm leading it?" Everyone backed away from her as she stood to her full height, all that is except for Ran who stood his ground. "Against my own sister?" By now, she was standing toe to toe with him. He reached over and gently pressed his hand against Kryn's shoulder, a signal she should move away. She took the hint and stepped back, but slowly raised her weapon. "Really?"

He looked up into her angry eyes. "Let's see, middle of nowhere, a ship load of non-family members who I assume are mercs and miscreants, and you brought the whole upper echelon of the family... With all due respect, yeah, really."

"Sala, stand down. He's right, we did make it look like a damn coup attempt. Ran, it's not what you think," Sata said.

He stepped away from his aunt and turned to face his mother. "You just called me Ran. You have never called me Ran. Matriarch, what the hell is going on?"

"The family is broke. We... I made some bad investment decisions which has brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. One of our operatives got word of an asteroid housing weapons. I also heard that one of my cousins was in the market for weapons. One thing led to another.

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