Sundown by Herb Scribner

Author:Herb Scribner [Scribner, Herb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

THHREE

A dust storm spiraled up from out of the ground. Rock and pebbles flung and flew in all directions. The whirring only increased in size as the ship touched down on Yukotill soil, its legs digging deep into the dust and locking tight. It was taller than the village’s walls, maybe about as tall as a normal home back on Earth.

This wasn’t a main ship, Bennifer realized. This was a smaller deportation vehicle that had come from the almighty. The mission might not have been about invasion or attack, after all. Maybe it was about deliberation.

Smoke and steam hissed out from the sides. Eventually the door at the center of the ship slipped open and scratched itself against the rock hard ground. There was a faint purple light glowing from inside. From the purple darkness stepped a figure, his entire body cloaked and shielded from sight.

Bennifer listened as all the gunners behind him unlocked their safeties and prepared for the coming figure.

“That’s him,” Jake whispered.

Belacue. Bennifer rolled his eyes. Why was it that all villains wore dark cloaks to shield themselves? It didn’t always hide their identity. In fact, it may have revealed them more than it hid them. Now everyone knew that the most nefarious villain this side of the galaxy wore a cloak and didn’t want his body to be seen. There wasn’t exactly a lot of people like that.

But then Belacue did something that Bennifer seldom saw villains do. His gloved hands rose up and rolled the hood from his face, revealing his purple skin and starry yellow eyes, though there was something pinkish about them, too. The black tattoos were jazzed and haphazard across his face. Steam flew up form his skin like it was a cup of hot water.

His hard boots crunched against the ground until he stopped about twenty yards away from Jake and Bennifer, his ship maybe the same distance away.

“We need to talk,” he said. “You and me. No one else.”

Bennifer gave Jake a side-eye glance to see if he was okay. Jake handed Bennifer his gun and marched forwards towards his enemy.

Jake wasn’t the type to wait.

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