Chapter 7 – Escape Route “What is this stuff?” Murissa snarled, angrily throwing her helmet to the floor before starting to strip out of her suit. “Some new alien intent on consuming everything?” Hilde offered, shaking her gloves off and dropping them in with the rest of the ruined gear. The black rubbery stuff had splattered all over their equipment, but for the moment hadn’t spread...
Chapter 6 – A Sticky Situation “Talk to me, Hilde! What’s going on?” Shi shouted over the rising cacophony of the ship around them. Hilde was already trying the console she had been setting up on, hammering the buttons and shaking her head. “Can’t get anything for sure until the system is fully up and running. It looks like everything is coming online, though. Something triggered it, I...
Chapter 5 – Awakening “Should be around here that the aliens attack,” Hilde said. “This sealant is obviously their blood or like their secretions that liquify their food.” She clicked a button at her wrist and swept the beam of her forearm mounted light across a particularly large section of floor covered in the dried sealant, stopping on a bundle of cables spilling from an open panel in...
Chapter 4 – Signs of Disturbance “More sealant here,” Kaylee said from the front of the line. She had only gone about fifty feet down the corridor leading from the stairs that had led away from the corridor outside the airlock, toward the first of the bulkhead transitions into the cargo area of the ship. “Looks like a canister of the stuff or something exploded against the blast doors...
Chapter 3 – The Bridge Kaylee stepped up to the door, setting her weapon against her hip, then slammed her fist into the button to open the passage. She steadied herself, ready to fire the big weapon. “Damn it!” she spat a half second later as Murissa shoved passed her, forcing the human pilot to quickly draw the weapon’s muzzle upward. Murissa didn’t seem to have cared one way or the...
Chapter 2 – Through the Airlock “Oh, I hope they’re hostile,” Murissa growled, cracking her knuckles inside the gauntlets of her armored space suit. “It’s been way too long since I’ve got to indulge myself.” “But…why? Why do you always want to hurt people?” asked Briar as he finished sealing his own suit, frowning as he awkwardly shifted himself to better situate the suit’s light armored...
Chapter 1 – Derelict “Coming up on the unidentified vessel,” Kaylee said from the co-pilot’s seat. “Time to intercept ten minutes. All communications have remained unanswered, no change in course.” Shi frowned at the sensor readouts over Hilde’s stout shoulder as their small recon ship, the Pteravilla Stalker, closed in on the unidentified contact that had crossed into restricted military...
House Call Laura sighed as she sank onto the couch, the coolness of the soft material soothing some of the day’s aches. She crossed her legs, rubbing one foot after she plucked her shoe off, easing away the fatigue. It had been a long, tiring day spent working on her latest case at the SCPD, and even with her enhanced stamina from her burgeoning powers as Gun Bunny, she was tired. She glanced...
Show Some Restraint Voices…voices in the dark. Far away, down a tunnel? In another room? A ringing sound nearly drowned them out. “Just a few more minutes…” The voices wouldn’t stop. “Why are you not letting me sleep? Just shut up already!” And they were getting closer, louder. “…other places for working out baser aggressions, at least a dozen that I’m aware of in Sentinel City. It...
Big Fight Night “What the hell did you just say?!” Cat snarled, slamming her fists onto the tabletop, causing her dishes to clatter, her drink nearly toppling to the floor. She was on her feet and hadn’t realized it, muscles tensed and ready for a fight. The redheaded brute of a woman who had just strode in with a half dozen women behind her rested her meaty hands on her hips and smirked down at...