Alright, so I didn;t get an Alf bit in it. But I got in something better! What I hope some of you have been waiting for... So read it already!
Chapter 12
Splat
Once the cameras were off I made my way to the maintenance block in about 15 minutes. It was surrounded by greeters but no sligs. I guess the boss preferred to put guards that didn’t slig away for a smoke in the middle of a shift for the more sensitive areas.
Still, greeters are no walk in the park, but the lack of sligs made using shred power an option (if rather painful when it comes to bone hitting metal at over 70mph).
Once I’d got into the maintenance block it became more tedious. Sligs and vykkers were running around and I came pretty close to a painful death more than once before I found the security control room. It was filled with rows of WINDIES computers, controlling various sections of the building. At the far end a couple of vykkers were sitting side by side at 2 computers. Two or three sligs were sitting at various terminals around the room.
There was no way I could knock out any of them without letting the others no I was there. I ducked behind a desk where no one was working (or not working) nearby. Someone had left in a hurry and not turned it off. Which gave me an idea.
I sneaked up to the computer and ducked behind it. Then, quietly, I opened up the controls for the central alarm system. Five minutes of security protocols and popups asking me to donate a lung later, I had the security alarm knocked out.
I peered over my computer and made sure no one was looking in my direction. Then I took off and flew up into the ceiling and crossed the room, praying that none of the sligs would find a reason to look up.
Once I was above the two vykkers I spent a few seconds trying to decide which one was more important. Picking out the one with more metal fingers and expensive pens, I swooped down and crashed onto the other. He started screaming up until the point that I shredded him with a shred power that I’d prepared earlier (had to put it in somewhere).
A little factual lesson is that when you murder a vykker, sligs begin to pay attention. As several scrambled for their weapons I grabbed the surviving vykker and held him in front of me.
"Whadda we do Sir?" One of the slower sligs yelled at the vykker.
I called up another shred power. "Don’t give me a reason to kill this guy," I called to the room in general.
The vykker began to panic.
"Shall we try and shoot him sir?"
"Don’t be an idiot!" He was acting perfectly. "One shot at me and I’ll have you fed to the slogs!"
"You should be so lucky," I muttered into the vykker’s ear. Then to the room, "All of you, get over towards that corner," I motioned the corner opposite the door.
Most of the sligs began shuffling towards the corner I indicated, guns raised. Then at once 2 of them lunged away.
One leapt at the security alarm next to the door. Another dived forwards, hoping to get behind me. I yanked the vykker towards the latter and let go of him. I unleashed shred attack on the slig and grabbed his gun in one hand and the vykker in the other before he could move. The slig by the alarm began to laugh. "What are you gonna do now freak? In a minute reinforcements will be pouring in here and any other terrorists you brought with you will be killed!"
"Wouldn’t that be nice?" I answered and shot him awkwardly with the sligs gun. It fired a few shots and then shut down.
The vykker laughed. "Ha! That gun is top of the range! You can’t shoot us all, they’ll all shut down once the slig using them is dead!"
"Thanks for the tip mate." I muttered and ran over to the door and locked it. The vykker laughed again.
"You think that’ll keep the guards out? That lock won’t stop our troops!"
"Not if your troops aren’t coming." I answered.
"The alarm…"
"Oh, didn’t I say? I shut the alarms off. No one’s coming to save you."
And then, still tugging the vykker, I leapt at the crowd of confused sligs in the corner and released shred power on the lot of them.
Amy
"How long will it take you to realise that the sea will dry up before we let you escape?"
I didn’t answer. What was he expecting? I was too tired, and my body ached too much, to listen to this.
I was near laying. Two or three days before I was expected to lay a nest of children ready for them to become slaves of my captors, and the b@st@rd beside Martor knew it.
Gerent was one of my "minders". Two vykkers were given the job of being carted off to Odd-knows-where with me so they could make sure I was dropping out eggs at the right time and to… study me.
Covdi, my second minder, was probably preparing a nesting place as I stood in Martor’s office with pain soaking through my body as the ex-president himself lectured me about how pointless any attempt at escape was. I was determined not to give Gerent the pleasure of seeing me suffering. He and Covdi would laugh about it later when I was lying in a cell, wishing I was dead so I could stop betraying my children.
If I could stop laying I would have, but I am a queen. My body is designed to produce a nest of 8 to 20 eggs every 2 months. I could never stop it without badly injuring or killing myself.
Martor was shouting at me with all the breath in his lungs, despite my only being 2 feet away. He gave me a furious look, informed me that "we will not tolerate this kind of rebellion" and motioned the sligs around me to take me out of my office.
As soon as they were away from Martor they stopped leading me and began forcing me. Shoving guns in my back, the pain intensified with me being so sensitive from being so close to laying.
"What dya think you’re doing, Mud?" "You think this is a game?" "We’re all getting real sick of this." "Much more and we’ll have ya, whatever Martor says!"
They wouldn’t do anything to me, despite the threats. They were scared of Martor when he was angry, and Martor got angry very easily. He, himself, was scared of any trouble. From what I’d gathered he’d been caught up in a whole heap of it and if he screwed up this particular assignment he wouldn’t live long enough to get another job.
We arrived at my cell and the sligs unlocked the door and shoved me in. I hit the ground hard and yelled in agony. They laughed before locking the doors and leaving.
A while later Covdi appeared outside my cell and taunted me for a while. Of course I knew I was betraying my species…
He eventually got bored and left. Shortly afterwards I slept…
At last the queen makes an appearance! The second bit just kept getting longer till I ran out of room for any more. I don't think Splat's bit went as well as I hoped but at least it's something. Hope those of you who still read this liked it. This won't be Amy's last appearance.
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