Chapter 13
Captain Alicron Qinov
I only wanted to make Vicki smile. So when she grew sad that she might never see her friend again, I knew that I had to find her friend for her. It would be my gift to her. She had already given me a gift; she had sex with me.
Now, we were walking to a trading village. I was very optimistic about this. If there was a village nearby that had Lana, that meant it was possibly an intergalactic trading space with many species, possibly even my own. I would possibly be able to buy a ship, or at least send out a signal to my home planet. Now, all we had to do was get there. If I had found out about it, maybe my crew had as well, and maybe some of the human females, like Vicki's friend.
“I see something,” I said as we walked along. I could see something in the distance ahead of us.
“What is it? I don't see anything,” she said.
“I think that my eyesight is stronger,” I said as I zeroed in on the chunk of metal half a mile ahead of us.
“Well what do you see?” she asked.
“I think it is another part of my ship. Come,” I said.
Ten minutes later, we were standing near the chunk of metal. I was right. It was a piece of my ship.
“What does this mean?” she said.
“It just means that we are walking along the path that the ship broke up in the atmosphere. It makes an arc. That's usually how it happens. I want to check it out; come on,” I said walking toward it. I recognized it immediately. It was the weapons hold of the ship.
“Do you see any sign of my people?” she asked.
“No. I don't. I think this is part of the cargo weapons hold. This is good,” I said. I moved around it and pulled a panel off. There were guns, knives, bombs: pretty much everything that we had with us on the ship. I went in and took a freshly charged a gun, and a couple of explosives, putting them in my belt.
“Do you know how to work one of these?” I said holding up a gun.
“Are you serious? No. I am a Hollywood agent,” she said.
“I don't know what that means,” I said handing it to her.
“It means I don't know how to shoot guns,” she said.
“I will show you.” I grabbed a cross-body holster for her.
Then we stepped outside.
“You're going to wear this across your body like this,” I said laying the strap across her shoulder across her belly down to her hip. I grabbed the gun.
“This is the lock position. You can't accidentally shoot anything. You flip the switch here, and now it is ready to go. This means that it is fully charged, this level here. Then you aim and pull the trigger,” I said, demonstrating to her by shooting at the sand ahead of us. One quick laser blast shot from the gun. I put it back in the lock position and handed it to her.
“All right. It is no different than what I have seen in the movies, even ones I have negotiated the deals for,” she said.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing,” she said. She followed my direction unlocking the gun and then aimed and shot.
“Good,” I said.
“Yes, good, except I was aiming for the same spot that you hit. I'm about five yards off,” she said.
“Well, at least you know how to work it. That is good enough for now. Show me that it is locked,” I said. She locked it and showed me. Then I showed her how to carry it in the holster.
“Good. Let's go,” I said. Then we continued walking. We came across a very large sand dune. We hiked to it, but when we got to the other side, we were surprised.
“Cyborgs!” I shouted as I grabbed her and hit the ground. There were two cyborgs that looked like they were on patrol. They saw us.
“There!” the computer voices said coming our way.
“What do we do? There's nowhere to run,” she said.
“Stay down,” I said pulling my gun. Then I remembered the explosives. I pulled one from my belt. I stood up and threw it toward the cyborgs as hard as I could. Then I dropped back down. I threw myself over Vicki, covering her.
Boom! The explosion detonated. Sand went everywhere. But I could still hear the voice of a cyborg.
“The blonde human. I have seen her,” I heard. “My coordinates are…” It was all that I needed to hear.
I stood up and ran directly toward the cyborgs. One of them was dead, blown to pieces. The other one was lying on the ground speaking into the radio on his chest. I raised my gun and shot at his head, directly toward his mouth.
“Alicron!” I heard Vicki say. But I did not want this cyborg to report our location. The cyborg leader was after Vicki. If he knew our location, he could get to us fast. I don't know if the cyborg gave our location before I shot him. He laid there dead.
“I got him. It's all right,” I said. I shot him again for good measure as well as the other cyborg. Vicki ran to my side.
“That was close,” she said. “Are you all right?” she asked looking at me up-and-down as though she was actually concerned for my safety and well-being. I looked at her and smiled.
“Does that mean you actually care for me? You care if I have been injured?” I asked.
She playfully slapped my chest with her hand. “Shut up. I just want to know if you are injured,” she said.
“I am fine. But we need to get out of here fast. I don't know what kind of signal they put out to their camp. We need to run,” I said putting my hand out to her. She looked at it. Then she reluctantly put her hand in mine. I grabbed her hand and then began to run. She struggled to keep up with my stride, but she ran with me. I looked at my instrument. We weren't too far from the village: another mile or so. All we had to do was get there before the cyborgs got to us.