Chapter 7
Bridget Thomas
I waited. I did not know what else to do. I was too terrified to sleep. The sun had gone down a long time ago. I could hear that it was much quieter outside in the city. I had eaten and drank plenty of water. I even laid down for a bit to rest my body, but I could not fall asleep. I did not want to wake up to that terrifying cyborg in this room.
I walked to the window and looked out. There were very few cyborgs walking around, so much less than before. I found it interesting that they slept. They seemed more machine than organic, but I guess they needed sleep as well. I wondered if Lieutenant Vnor Gin was still alive. I hoped that they had not taken to executing him. Was he still out there? Would I ever see him again? Was I now in this alone? I really did hope that he was alive. Even though he was a jerk, the jerk had grown on me. I did not want harm coming to him.
Suddenly I heard a sound outside the door. I backed away from the window and put my back against the wall. The door opened. My blood ran cold when I saw K6R enter. He closed the door behind him.
“Human. I am glad to see that you are awake. I have kept you waiting too long. But you do not need to wait any longer,” he said.
“Don't come near me. Get out of this room,” I said.
“This room... This room is a room that I own. It is part of my living quarters. I will not leave my own room. Why do you think you can tell me what to do, human? What planet do you come from?” he asked.
I knew that I had to keep him talking. Keeping him talking meant he wouldn't be doing anything else. While I had him talking, I could figure out how to defend myself from this machine. But it would be hard. He was practically covered in metal. How could I hurt something like him?
“I come from a planet that you have not heard of. It is called Earth. I am a human; on Earth, we are the ones that rule the planet. We do not have creatures like you. What are you anyway?” I slid with my back against the wall, slowly, toward the food area. Did I see a knife there earlier?
“I am a cyborg. I am part machine, as you can see. But the rest of me looks almost like you. That is as far as what I have seen. But I am here to see the rest of you,” he suddenly moved very fast toward me. I pressed against the wall, scared. His chrome hands were grabbing at my clothes.
“Stop. Don't do that!” I shouted as his hands pulled my shirt off of me completely. He was so strong that I could not fight him. I pressed against him trying to push him, but it was like pushing against the wall. Then his hands went to the waistline of my jeans and he began to tug them down. The button and zipper gave way and he pushed my jeans down to my thighs.
“I see that you are very much like us,” he said as he put his cold metal hand right on the center of my slit. I screamed! “Stop! No get off of me!”
He moaned as his hands slid up my naked body. I was frantic as I moved my hands wildly, trying to punch him, but it only hurt my own hands. Then I felt his mouth on mine. He pressed his lips against me and shoved his tongue into my mouth. I tried pushing him off. I struggled and screamed a mumbled scream into his mouth.
Then I heard a loud thud. “Get off her.”
K6R stopped kissing me. I opened my eyes just as Vnor was pulling him away from me. I was frozen against the wall. Vnor threw the cyborg down onto the ground as an alien I had never seen before aimed a gun at K6R’s head.
K6R smiled. “I see I underestimated the blue one. I should have had you killed on sight instead of waiting. Does not matter; you will be killed in a few minutes time.”
“Not if I kill you first,” the other alien said.
“Are you alright, Bridget?” Vnor said walking over to me. I was trembling. “It is alright. I am here,” he said as he picked up my shirt and gave it to me. I pulled my jeans up and pulled my shirt on. I couldn’t believe that all of this was happening.
“Knock him out,” Vnor said to the other alien.
“But I prefer to kill him,” he said.
“No. We’ll knock him out and tie him up. Do it,” Vnor said.
“Shit,” the other alien said as he hit K6R in the face with butt of the gun, very hard. It did the trick. Vnor looked at me. “Get what you need. We are getting out of here quietly,” he said as he went to the corner and grabbed the chains that had been on me. He put the wrist and ankle cuffs on K6R as I zipped my jeans and tied my boots. I pulled my hair into a ponytail and stared at the other alien. “Greetings,” he whispered.
“Yes same to you,” I said.
Then Vnor tied the chains to the bedpost. “Alright. Your move, Nippara. You know where the speeders are kept. Let’s go,” he said as he held his hand out to me. I put my small hand in his large blue one. I felt safer having him hold me. It was a good feeling.
“Yes, stay low and follow me quietly,” Nippara said. We walked out of the room, and Vnor turned off the lights and closed the door.
I found myself quietly following these two aliens down a maze of hallways, down empty staircases and out the back of the building. We crouched down, running quickly from one pile of rubble to the next. We would crouch and wait until a couple of cyborgs walked by. I held my breath. Then we ran to another pile and another until it felt like we had come to the edge of the city.
“Ready? I see a speeder. It is unguarded, and I know how to fly that model. But I will need you on guns as soon as we get in. If anyone tries to stop us, it could turn ugly,” Nippara said to Vnor.
“I am ready. Let’s do it,” Vnor said.
Then we ran to a small ship. I had never seen anything like it before. It looked like a long narrow triangle. It was black and very technologically advanced. I watched as Nippara opened the side door. Vnor picked me up and helped me climb in. Then they climbed in and closed the door.
“That was good. Better than I thought. Let’s hope it’s a silent ship,” Nippara said as he worked the controls.
“Buckle into your seat,” Vnor said to me.
I sat down and buckled in. I held my breath. I was so tense. These cyborgs could blow the ship up and all of us with it. I didn’t know what was going to happen.
“Ready?” Nippara looked at Vnor.
“Charging guns. Ready,” Vnor said as he sat at the controls with Nippara. Then suddenly everything in the ship came alive. The ship raised about four feet in the air.
“Go,” Nippara said as he pushed a lever forward and the ship shot straight forward.
“To Cantu,” Vnor said.
“Yes, on it. I’m hitting it hard and fast. Putting as much distance between us and the city as I can. I don’t see anyone on our tails. We might have done it,” he said with a smile.
I sat buckled in for about twenty minutes quietly watching the two aliens get us across the nighttime desert and to some village they called Cantu. I could tell they weren’t as tense.
“I am going to the panel to disable any tracking the ship might have,” Vnor said as he got up from his seat.
“Good idea,” Nippara said.
Vnor walked back toward me. He opened a panel and began to pull on wires.
“I just wanted to say thank you, Vnor. Thank you for coming to get me.”
“I didn’t have a choice. You are my mission,” he said coldly without looking at me.
Damn him. Even when I was trying to be nice, he was still rude to me. Why was he such a jerk? Why so closed off?
“Well, sorry you had to put yourself in danger to rescue me. You know, you are the reason that I am here. If you had not taken me from Earth, I wouldn’t need rescuing at all!”
He looked at me. He said nothing. He pulled a few more wires from the panel and then walked back to the front of the ship and sat down. I was so fucking annoyed. I had enough of his bullshit. I hoped that I could find some way to find Vicki and get home. At least this village would provide us with more information and answers.