Chapter 16
Vicki Varsa
I had made a big mistake. I thought I was being such a brave woman by going off on my own and making my own plans. All I wanted to do was to have a place to go to when I found Bridget. I wanted to have a plan ready to get us back to Earth, but leaving Alicron's side was a big mistake. Now I found myself back where I started when we crashed on this planet. I was being held prisoner by the cyborgs. And it wasn't just the cyborgs; it was their leader, K8L. The very same leader that I had run away from. The one that I heard say that he wanted me no matter what, and now he had me and I did not know what he was going to do. All I wanted was to see Alicron's face. But he had already rescued me once; why would he rescue me again? He was probably extremely pissed off at me that I left his side in the first place. He would think that I was ungrateful and forget about me.
“There you are again, my strange creature,” K8L said to me as he walked around me. I was standing up inside of his land ship. It was speeding across the desert landscape so fast that it was a blur outside. It was almost like a very large flying bus. It scared me how fast we were going because it meant this was how fast we were moving away from the trading village of Cantu and from Alicron.
“Stay away from me,” I said to the cyborg as he came closer to me.
“You do not make commands here. I am the leader here; I am the one that makes commands. You should have never run away from me. Do you know that only made me angrier? It only made me want you more,” he said putting his face an inch from mine.
“You have feelings? You can feel rage? I didn't think a tin can like you had any feelings,” I said sneering at him.
“You try to insult me. You cannot insult me because you are my prisoner now. You are my prisoner forever. I will never let you go. You will not slip away again,” he said.
“I am not yours. I do not belong to you. I do not belong to anyone. I am a human, and nobody own me,” I said.
“You are wrong, human; I own you. You are mine. I will do with you as I please. I am not entirely sure what that is yet considering I have not explored what you are,” he said as he ran his hand from my shoulder to my neck. He grabbed my neck squeezing it slightly. He was terrifying. I was scared, but I did not want to show him that he was making me scared. Then his hand continued down my body. “I am sure that I will find out more about what you are once I get this clothing off of you,” he said as his hand moved over my breast. Then it moved further down over my belly until it was resting on my crotch.
“Get your fucking hands off of me!” I shouted.
“I will do what I want,” he said. I wanted to push him away, but my hands were tied behind my back behind a post on the ship. Then he stood up.
“I will never be yours,” I said.
“You are already mine,” he said. Then he slid his long tongue out of his mouth. I was surprised that it was not mechanical. It was flesh. He licked my chin and continued clicking up my cheek. I pulled my face away. I was completely disgusted.
“You taste good. I cannot wait to taste more of you,” he said. I was scared. Was he going to chop me up and eat me? It was possible. I didn't know anything about these creatures on this strange planet that I was on. Suddenly being with the Kynon who wanted us as wives was not so bad compared to this.
“I cannot wait to kill you,” I said in return.
Then he laughed. It surprised me. I did not think that the machines could laugh or know what humor was. “You? You are so smart, and so weak. You have no mechanical parts. Yet you think that you are going to kill me. You cannot kill me. No one can kill me. I am the leader of the Vindon. Killing me would cause a war on this planet. Many leaders want to kill me, but they cannot. None of them will out of fear of retaliation of the Vindon. Yet you, the tiny human, think that you can kill me. I have never heard of something more ridiculous than this,” he said.
“I am not a leader. I am just a human, a visitor on this planet. Therefore I have nothing to fear in killing you except that I won't be able to kill you again, and again,” I said.
“You are going to be fun. This is just what I have needed. I have been bored these many years. I am glad that you crashed onto my planet. Once we get to my city, the fun can begin,” he said.
Finally, he stepped away from me. He went to a different part of the ship. I was glad for it. I did not want to be near him. He scared the shit out of me. But what did he say about the city? That made me nervous. I was hoping that we would go back to another camp like the one I was in to begin with. The camp was easier to run away from. This city that he talked about sounded like it would be harder to escape from. It was probably a city full of cyborgs. I tried to look out of the glass, but it was still a blur.
“Alicron, please come for me,” I whispered to myself. I pulled on the chains on my arms. They were too strong. I could not get loose. Even if I could, I couldn't exactly jump off of this ship.
All I could do was wait. Half an hour later, the transport began to slow down. I grew nervous, this meant we were near our destination. This was not good. I did not want to be with K8L alone. I looked out the glass again, but this time I could see. It was not a blur. We were in the desert again. There was a large rock wall; I could see carvings into it. Then I realized that the entire city was carved into the rock wall. It was several stories high. Shit. this was like a fortress. There would be no escaping it.
“Human, it is time,” a cyborg said as he entered the room. I was glad that it was not K8L. I assumed as the leader he had other important things to do. The cyborg unlocked my chains. But he held the chains in his hands and pulled on them. I had no choice but to follow him. Then I felt a familiar jolt of the transport coming to a stop. We had landed.
“Mango, the human…” the cyborg said as he brought me to the ramp. Mango was standing there with several other cyborgs.
“Put her with the other. I will have to deal with her later,” K8L said. He didn't even look at me. This was good. I had time. The cyborg yanked on my chains and pulled me to the ramp. I walked down it, following him. But what did K8L mean by the other? Crap, did he mean Nancy? I had almost forgotten that she was with me when I was first taken. Alicron wasn't able to rescue her and me because we had been under pressure and hunted. Was Nancy still with these things? I hoped that she was all right and they had not hurt her.
As I walked off the ship, I got a good look at the city. It was massive. The brown rock wall stood very high. It was like a massive castle fortress built into the wall, complete with towers. I could see the shiny chrome of the cyborgs walking around. There were millions of them; it was obviously a cyborg city.
“Hurry up. Keep up, human. Too slow,” the cyborg yanked on my chains. I kept up with him. It hurt when he pulled on my arms with the chain. I kept going. I was trying to memorize everything that I saw so that maybe I could find my way out of here later. But it was a labyrinth of carved walls. It would be very hard, and we kept walking uphill into the fortress higher and higher on the wall. We zigzagged up a ramp that went across from one side to the other climbing higher and higher into the fortress.
“This belongs to K8L. I have to put her with the other creature,” the cyborg said as he came to a large wooden door that was guarded by two cyborgs. I noticed that this area of the fortress was more ornate with carvings. This was obviously the castle of the leader, K8L.
The guards nodded and opened the door. I was lead inside. It was cavernous, like a grand hall. Then I was the lead down more hallways. We walked up several flights of stairs. Then he unlocked a door. I was surprised there was not a guard there. The door opened, and he pushed me in. I fell to the ground. Then the door locked behind me.
"Vicki? oh my God, Vicki! I'm so happy to see you! I did not know if they still had you or not,” Nancy said running to my side.
“Nancy. Are you okay? Did they hurt you?” I asked.
“I am not hurt. But I wouldn't say that I'm okay. I am being held prisoner by these damn robots!” she said helping me to my feet. I looked around the room. It was furnished. I was expecting a prison cell, but this was a room to sleep in.
“Yes, you are right. This is really fucked up,” I said.
She hugged me. “I am just glad to see you again. I am glad to see any human.”
"Yes, I know the feeling,” I said.
“Where have you been? The last time I saw you was in the camp. Have you been at the camp this whole time? What happened?” she asked.
“It is a very long story. No, I was not at the camp. I was rescued, but then I was captured again and brought here,” I said.
“What? Are you fucking kidding me?” she said.
“No, I am not. It is a long story. I will tell you everything, but first, tell me what you know about this place. Did you see what it looks like out there? This is like a castle. How are we ever going to get out of here? I need to know everything that you know about this place. Then I will tell you everything that has happened since I last saw you,” I said.
“All right, come, sit down,” she said walking me to the bed.