Galactic Frontiers: A Collection of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: C.C. Ekeke
Published: 2017-05-06T06:00:00+00:00

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“I didn’t see anything,” which isn’t a lie.

“Kryt are chameleons, they can transform into different shapes and colors, whatever they need to do to change color.” I lean back into the walk. “What is it? What do you know?’

“Last night when I was cleaning, a glass jar shattered. I was nowhere near it, I was across the other side of the lab. I looked, and there was nothing there, so I just cleaned it up,” I looked down at my hands. “Does that mean the Kryt is in me?” I gulp.

Nova’s eyes budge and the black outline only makes the whites of her eyes even bigger, she’s not making me feel any better at all. “Let’s get to the medics,” she says, already making her way out of the canteen, pushing people out of her way as she goes. I’m not sure she’s worried about me or her, “are you coming?” She yells at me over the chaos which has started to erupt in the canteen.

Nova and I run down the hallway, weaving around people. My stomach feels empty. I’m not sure if it’s cause I’m starving or because the bug is inside of me is eating away at my organs. My mouth dries up at the thought. I stop being polite to people and push people out of the way. I need to get to the med’s lab.

We stop in our tracks when we get there. It’s full! I’ve never seen it this busy before, normally it’s got people trying to get out of working their shift or some accident from an assignment. This is utterly crazy.

“She may have been in contract with the Kryt,” Nova tells the nurse, that’s currently scanning someone else’s body.

“You’ll have to wait your turn.” She says pointing towards all the other people who got here before us.

“Brooke is a pilot,” Nova tells her. I look at Nova wondering why she told her that, but go along with it.

“Yes, I’m a pilot,” I say proudly.

“Why aren’t you out on assignment?” She says sharply.

“Less of your questions, do you want to be the person that crashes the mothership?”

The nurse looks at Nova then me, then the person she was seeing to. She looks at the device in her hand which reads blood, “your fine.” She says to her patient, “go on, move on,” she hurries him off the bed. “Get on.” She says to me.

I look at Nova trying to ask her what the hell is gone on with my eyes, but she just stares back at me.

The nurse leaves us for a second, “here is a Kryt in Munroe,” Nova says, I feel my own eyes budge with the revelations that the captain of the mothership has an alien inside of him.

“Is he…”

“Dead? No. He was the first to be screened and the first to be put on ice.” Nova nods to the door at the back of the med lab, that’s where the freeze pods are. An alien technology which we use to freeze the body until we find a cure.

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