FreeFall by M. Pax

Author:M. Pax [Pax, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01N2L4FQ2
Publisher: M. Pax
Published: 2017-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Arriving in the Ronu system, Lepsi used his waning willpower to seek out receptive minds, broadcasting what scant warning he could. The Ims on the planet blocked his message, and he pled with them to let him through.

For a nanosecond, the Ims relented, connecting him with Dactyl, enough time to drop their vigil over the Quasser. The souped-up Quasser, which could control minds more powerfully than its relatives, invaded the brief contact, opening Dactyl’s quaking soul. Lepsi clung to the last vestiges of the Ims’ former gift—the ability to disengage from the Quassers—to stop a total transfer of information, but not quick enough.

The message about worlds of perfect bodies broadcast without hindrance into every depraved alien mind.

Planets filled with better bodies . If the Quassers could have giggled, they would have.

Their twisted imaginations dreamed of an endless sky filled with chrome faces—the next generation in their evolution. The pink-tinted eyes of the Cytrans burst into Lepsi’s thoughts, dropping him to his knees.

The invasion will continue as planned, he said. The Quassers couldn’t obtain the Cytrans.

This planet of ice wins us nothing . The Quasser in which Lepsi traveled tasted of bitterness; of a battle, even if waged, not significant enough to sate its bloodlust. Let’s retrieve our evolved kin then find the silver bodies. They’ll endure what our current army cannot .

The current troops do enough , Lepsi replied. We cannot leave until this quadrant of the galaxy wails in fear . It took every bit of fortitude he had not to flinch. The last thing he wanted was to attack a Backworld with squadrons of his look-alikes; but if the Quassers obtained bodies that possessed no weaknesses, those Lepsi held dear had no chance at survival.

The extermination will run more smoothly with the chrome bodies . The Quasser would not give up the dangled prize easily.

What if the thought is false? Lepsi snatched at an iota of logic. The image of the return of the Seuks to their world turned out to be untrue .

Rationality prevailed. For the moment.

The Quassers encircled Ronu and landed battalions of Lepsi copies. The brutal cold of Ronu won the first round, freezing solid two entire units before the landing spheres finished opening. The Quassers learned rapidly, and the next squadron stormed the docking facility.

Lepsi took command, directing his killer clones slowly through the structure, systematically searching for life. He prayed the delay would give the Ronuans a chance. They stupidly didn’t take it. Standing their ground, fighting over chunks of ice no one really wanted, they died pointlessly. The Lepsi copies tore the eight citizens of Ronu apart with their hands. The Quassers relished in the personal touch. Lepsi instructed the soldiers to shovel the remains into the landing sphere. Ronu didn’t have much biomatter to contribute, but it would make two new soldiers.

The folks of Ronu deserved better. They’d been kind when Lepsi had first arrived in the Backworlds after his enslavement with the Quassers, and the Ronuans relationship with the Ims had quieted the unspeakable horrors Lepsi had endured.

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