Short Story (Part 5)
Posted By: Jamie<halodevotee@hotmail.com>
Date: 18 August 2002, 2:47 pm
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The ship had no 'edges' to speak of. It was curved and smooth all over. It was a sleek craft, even Fitchit seemed impressed.
There was a sharp hiss of hydraulics as the slender door opened, stopping elegantly. The marines piled in, somehow making the ship less aesthetically pleasing.
'How do you move it sunshine?' Fitchit asked crabbily.
'Just gimme a moment' Prao replied 'I gotta give it a code, a specific code for this ship'
'Try this' Corden pointed at the strange symbols on the screen. Prao not knowing what else to do tried it, and to his surprise the ships AI began to start the engines of the ship.
'How did you know that?' enquired Prao
'It's the name of this ship, I saw it outside' Corden said
'Plachecki can you fly an Andromeda?' Prao said
'Kinda, Murdock was teaching me, I know the basics' said Plachecki
'Can we get going?' Fitchit asked impatiently.
Plachecki stepped up to the ships control panel, he let his hands glide along the throttle controls, he took a while to get used to the arrangement of the controls but within a few moments he was gently lifting the ship from the ground..
'Okay, so we have a ship what are our plans now?' Dobree thought aloud.
'We could look for other survivors!' said Prao
'We could take down a few Andensum cruisers!' said Plachecki
'Can we pilot this ship without being inside it Prao?' asked Corden
'What?' Prao replied
'We could pack this ship full of explosives and then send it into one of the Andensums' large battle cruisers' said Corden
'That wouldn't work!' said Fitchit 'An unmanned craft flying into their ships docking bay'
'The Andensum would be suspicious' said Dobree
'He's right' said Plachecki 'We couldn't turn the tide of the war!'
The marines were drifting though this planets atmosphere, without an aim or purpose. They had in their hands a powerful weapon, which they were entirely oblivious of.
Prao was attempting to teach Corden and Plachecki more about the Andensum technology and civilisation. He was saying that Female Andensum have the ability to bear 250 babies at time. He said the babies are the size of a light bulb when born, and that the females are 15ft tall. They kill the male after being impregnated so all 250 of her babies can survive. He said for every set of babies 200 are male. As he was explaining why the babies' gender is predetermined a message started decoding on the viewing screen. Prao translated it as
Transmission start-
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Tendark, return the Andensum traitor immediately.
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We need more bio-implants bring the ???? Containers.
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Transmission End-
'Traitor?' said Dobree puzzled
'What containers?' Plachecki said.
'There is a cargo bay' said Prao 'I just didn't think to go in'
'A traitor!' said Corden 'perhaps we could use him to help us'
'Bio implants, containers full of them' said Fitchit
All the marines, except Plachecki who was piloting, they went down to the other end of the ship into the Cargo bay. In it they found silver metallic crates, presumably with the Bio implants in.
'Guys come over here!' Prao called out to the rest of the group
He had found the traitor he was bound to the floor by chains, he had no armour, and by the look of it he had been stripped of all his implants. The most noticeable thing about the Andensum was the lack of horns; he had 8 holes, dripping with blood. The horns must have been embedded deeply inside the Andensum by the size of the holes.
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