THE PRIZE: BOOK TWO - RETRIBUTION by Rob Buckman

Author:Rob Buckman [Buckman, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: sci-fi
Publisher: Rob Buckman
Published: 2016-03-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Slave Ship

Penn woke with a pounding headache, again, but not surprised seeing how it had taken three stun bolts to take him down. As expected, he was naked except for his underwear and the shackles around his ankles and wrists. Blinking his eyes to clear his vision, he had to squeeze them down to see, as there was very little in the way of light in the first place. Again, as expected he was in a steel box with twenty or so other unfortunate prisoners, all in a similar state as himself. So far, his plan was working perfectly, but then again it didn’t take a genius to let himself be captured by slavers and dumped in the hold of a ship along with the other unfortunate people that had gotten captured. His interrogation of the slaves and prisoners from the underground complex had proved futile. They either knew nothing, or so little it hadn’t helped him find out where Ellis had gone. Not that he had expected it to. It was only when he concentrated on Ellis that he realized that he couldn’t detect her smell, and he should have. There was something very similar in one of the bedrooms, but not exactly Ellis. If that was the case, what had they missed? The video of the woman by the outdoor pool certainly looked like her, at least from a distance, but it wasn’t, nor could any of the prisoners tell him where the imperial courier ship had blasted off to. Telluria Prime would be his guess, and it brought back the impression he had that some of the people at Emperor Cytec’s birthday party had been human. At the time, he and Ellis had dismissed it as imagination as he couldn’t think of any reason, or way anyone on Earth could have made contact with the Imperials before the invasion, or what they would have to offer that the Empire couldn’t take by force. After seeing the underground complex and the imperial shuttle lifting off, he began to have second thoughts. Either way, he needed to get back to Telluria Prime and find out, and find Ellis. By backtracking her movements when she’d gone missing, they had discovered their mistake. Ellis and Jenny had gone looking for a slaver band that had come through the small town of Gillett in Wyoming, North West of Lebanon Nebraska a week before. It was only by expanding the aerial search for her that they’d stumbled across the underground complex in what had once been the Big Horn National Forest. Ellis’ trail had actually ended at the old airfield at Hartford just outside the town of Bar Nunn. By the time Penn and the troops had arrived, the place was abandoned but showed signs of having been used as a slave holding station. Even slavers had to use the imperial Nav beacons to navigate back and forth between the Empire and Earth, and with his virus program running, none were coming back.

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