Cyborg's Captive by Vixa Moon

Author:Vixa Moon [Moon, Vixa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Vex

There isn’t much time to comfort her. But it must be terrible, knowing that your father wants you dead.

I wouldn’t know, since I don’t know who my father is. I don’t have the slightest memory of either of my parents. Ever since that comet passed Mina Dos, I kept thinking that sooner or later I would have some memory of them, some little scrap of something. But nothing ever came, and at this point I’ve lost hope thinking that it might. It just seems like too much to hope for.

I try to comfort her with just a look here and there, but I want to hug her and tell her that everything’s going to be fine, that everything’s going to work out OK.

But the truth is, I don’t know that everything's going to be fine. In fact, we’re going up against seemingly impossible odds here.

After a few hours, I think I’ve figured out the general structure and layout of the transportation devices on this planet.

There’s a transport tube near here, according to the map. All we have to do is leave this storage closet room and head to the tube undetected. Fortunately, there wasn’t a single sign of the aliens down here. Maybe they don’t come down this way much. Maybe it’s just for special situations. Who knows. These aliens with their antennae and extra arms have me completely baffled.

But I don’t need to understand them to defeat them.

The really tricky part is doing it at exactly the right moment.

“So we’re just going to get on the general’s ship and fly away from this crazy planet?” says Felia, interrupting my thoughts slightly, but essentially asking the same question that I was wondering myself.

“That’s the plan,” I say. “The less people we have to kill, the better. I think we can take over the ship without a great loss of life. As long as the alien blasters can be set to stun rather than kill.”

Felia nods. “But that’s not really answering my question,” she says. “I don’t have any doubts about your fighting abilities. But what about once we get out of orbit. We don’t know what kind of ships these aliens have. By the looks of it, they have some very advanced technology, and they might easily be able to hunt us down…”

I nod. “Yeah,” I say. “I’ve been wondering the same thing myself. But… well, I don’t know why I think this, but I’m pretty sure that different species develop their technology in distinct and different ways. These aliens seem to have developed their transportation and communication and espionage systems much farther than the humans. But I haven’t seen anything in their records here of space craft. Maybe the reason that they developed these white transporter tubes is that they never developed their travel technology by other means, and it seems like they wouldn’t have to with those tubes.”

“But what about traveling to other planets, to other solar systems, other galaxies?”

I shrug. “I’m not sure they’re so interested in that,” I say.

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