Page 26 of Cops in Space
“Commander Zot wants the female’s armor removed,” the taller soldier quacked and shoved me at the goat creature.
They expected me to scream and beg for my life. So, I did. My little distraction gave me time to pull my boot knives and hurl them.
Thunk! Thunk!My knives protruded from their center eyes.
Just call me Deadeye. I never missed. Making grotesque gurgling noises, the soldiers fell right on top of the dwarf.
I smiled and did a little happy dance.
His arms and legs wiggling frantically, the dwarf made a bunch of weird honking quacks.
My eyes widened in disgust. The dwarf had just threatened to eat my pussy and not in a good way.
I grabbed the taller soldier’s laser pistol and fired. Thousands of fireflies danced over them. Ooops. The laser blast had put a rather large hole in the floor.
Three hate-filled eyes stared up at me.
“Sorry, my bad,” I called in perfect Tai-Kok. I waved all friendly-like and shot him. Dang. Another hole. Oh, well, shithappens. A vibration shook the ship. That wasn’t good. Had they skimped on titanium for the hull? Probably. It was time to get the hell out of Dodge.
“No leave me. No leave me,”a child cried in my head.
Shit! Someone was still alive.“I won’t. I promise. Where are you?”
“Me. Here.”
I spun around.
Eight emerald eyes peered out of a cage.“Where my momma?”
“I don’t know, sweetie.”I opened the cage door. A small tarantula with fluffy golden fur crawled up my arm. Eeek! I wasn’t really fond of spiders. The information on Tabors suddenly scrolled across my mind. They were an intelligent race of arachnids with psychic abilities.
The little spider perched on my shoulder.“Who you?”
God, was she adorable.“I’m Lexi. Who you?”
“Me Gita.”
“Nice to meet you, Gita. Where was the last place you saw your mother?”
“Furry ears took her away.”
“Okay, I’m going to look for her with my scanner.”
“Kay.”Gita peered at the screen on my communications bracelet.“Me look too.”
What a smart little girl. I tapped an icon and scanned the ship. Nothing but Tai-Kok and Rodan and to my surprise, the Minister of War was still alive.“She’s not on this ship anymore.”
Gita’s eight eyes stared at me sorrowfully.“She dead?”
Shit. How did I handle this?“They might have put her on another ship, but we need to leave before Commander Zot realizes I killed his soldiers.”And the two big holes in the deck were kinda hard to miss.
A red bar at the top of the wall began to flash.
“We take Nix too?”
“Who is Nix?”
“Him in last cage. Nix very hungry.”
