Page 35 of Cops in Space
“You do look like one of those victims in a slasher movie, and you smell like you’ve been dead for a month,”Dad groused.
“Har. Har. If Captain Zan tries to interrogate me again, I will shoot him.”
“I’ll talk to him,”Uncle Saul said.
A horde of flies swarmed me.“Gita, help!”
Uncle Ben placed Gita on my right shoulder and backed away.
My little Tabor made short work of the flies.
“For God’s sake, go take a shower and the kids need one too. You all stink,”Dad ordered.
I saluted him.“Yes, sir.”I looked around for Nix. Where the heck had he gone? My gaze froze on a rather large scorpion and before I could stomp on it Gita jumped on top of it.
“No kill Nix. No kill Nix.”
Nix? Shit. It was Nix. The question was: Why had Nix transformed himself into a big, scary scorpion? I scanned him. The little guy was scared to death.
I knelt.“You’re safe now, Nix. The monsters that hurt you are dead.”
“They ate his momma. Him watch. Me watch,”Gita cried.
My stomach roiled and I fought down the urge to puke. Those bastards. I was surprised the kids weren’t catatonic. Carefully picking them up, I cuddled them against my chest, smiling when Nix morphed into a Tabor.“Your mother will be avenged. I promise you they will pay. You now belong to my family, and you’ll never be alone again.”
Dad added,“And we’ll teach you how become a fierce warrior like Qa’a.”
Little tentacles sprouted from Nix and wrapped around my fingers.“Promise?”
“We promise,”Dad, Kaelen, Uncle Saul and Xyler said in unison.
“I am going to teleport all of you to the shower,”Kaelen said, giving them a mental picture of what teleporting felt like.
Jaxor reached for me.“Me go. Me go.”
“Okay. Okay.”I took him from Xyler.“This shower is nothing like the last one you took. This one has real water and soap.”
Xyler cocked his head.“You waste water on bathing?”
“Yes, we do.”
“This I must see.”
“But…”
Chapter Nine
Good times for all…
There was a flash of black and poof! We were in the communal shower room.
I shot Kaelen a narrow sidelong glare.“Why did you teleport Xyler too?”
“He has a tracker on Jaxor, and it would have been a matter of seconds before he found us.”
“Swell, another public shower.”I stripped down to my underwear.“If Captain Zan shows up, I’m shooting him.”
Xyler bared his deadly fangs.“If he dares to disrupt your bathing, I will challenge him to a duel.”
