The Failure
Chapter one
He did not know how long it had been since they were attacked. He was hanging from the center of the wall. There was no one else in the small cell with him. He thought about his missing comrade. The young and rebellious Harper. He had been looking out for the young engineer the best he could. He was annoyed at the young man, but always made sure that nothing happened to him, the only problem was that this time he failed. Some weird creatures had attacked the maru. Some weird alien race that had horns attacked to their heads. Unfortunately, they had found the young engineer first. Harper tried his best to defend himself, but the aliens were much bigger than the poor engineer was. One of the aliens picked him up by the neck and began to strangle him. The aliens continued to beat the defenseless man. Until there leader piped up.
"Alright, troops stop playing with the poor kludge."
Harper was beginning to fall unconscious from the lack of oxygen. He saw one last thing before he let the darkness take him. A figure at the door. He smiled before falling into the darkness. Tyr stood at the doorway watching as the aliens noticed his presence; he looked towards Harper who was unconscious in the grasp of one of the intruders. Tyr looked around, there were three aliens beating the defenseless engineer and three more watching. What seemed to be the leader looked at Tyr and smiled?
"Oh look another toy. Men why don't you throw away that banged up one and go play with this one."
Tyr watched in disgust as they threw the injured engineer into a pile of scrap metal.
"Boy are you alright."
He shouted hoping for a response, but none came. Tyr turned his attention towards the approaching aliens.
"You will pay for that."
The aliens laughed as they approached the angry eitzian the aliens charged punching and kicking. Tyr swung around landing his heel right into the aliens face. He quickly rolled out of the way of another alien. He punched the alien in the ribs throwing him into the alien lying on the floor. Now there was only one left if the other three did not get involved. Tyr turned towards the one remaining alien who he had left unattended too, this was his first mistake. He found the alien holding Harper by the hair with a dagger on harpers throat. Tyr froze not wanting to en-danger the young mans life further.
"Coward, you hide behind a defeated enemy, one who couldn't protect himself."
The man seemed displeased with tyrs words. Taking the dagger away from the engineer's neck. Tyr relaxed some, but only for a moment. The alien smiled at Tyr.
"Fine, how about I give him something to defend himself with?"
Tyr did not know what the alien meant by this, but he was sure that he was not going to like this. The alien smiled one last time at Tyr before stabbing the dagger into harpers upper arm. The young engineer awoke from his unconscious state screaming in pain. The dagger went all the way through the poor engineers skinny arm. Tyr simply glared at the alien.
"Now- now that isn't fair. Now you don't have a weapon."
The alien nodded towards his commander. Breaking the dagger off in the young boys arm. Tyr flinched as he watched this happen and the boy began to scream again in pain. Tears were going down the young boys face. The alien looked at the hilt and then casually hit Harper over the head with it. The screaming stopped as harper body became limp in the aliens arm.
"Stupid, weak, kludge"
The alien threw the unconscious engineer onto the cold hard floor. Tyr kneeled down next to the engineer. His breathing was shallow. Tyr turned harpers arm to look at the blade still embedded in harpers flesh.
"What do you want"?
Tyrs tone was deep with anger.
"Nothing. We wanted some entertainment. Oh and we need to bring you to the king. Your friend will be most entertaining. The king's last kludge only lasted about a week in the gladiator games. Perhaps you friend could do better. In addition, the fact that we will be bringing a nietzchian is a real prize. Most likely you will get to kill him yourself."
Tyr growled at the thought of being forced to hurt Harper. The young man was smart, but did not know how to last in a gladiator style game. The aliens had gotten up and were watching Tyr trying to wake up the injured boy. They grabbed a hold of Tyr and got him to his feet before tying his hands up. Next, the aliens tried to wake up the injured engineer. When he did not respond they kicked him. Tyr lurched forward to try to prevent them from kicking him again. They pulled him back.
"Now- now you don't want him to get hurt does you."
Tyr growled at their threat. Finally, the aliens quite their attack on the limp body and started to drag him by his hands, not caring when he ran into anything. They locked Tyr and Harper in a crew room and continued to take control of the maru. They began to pilot the maru back to their planet, where the games would be held.