Chapter 1
On a nameless planet with bugs, same as all the others, humans in their made base. The perimeter is protected by friers, lights that the bugs seem to understand is a means to keep them away. Some of the soldiers has witnessed single bugs making their way slowly to the devices to test it, the people have learnt this by watching them.
A girl laughs as she watches one get fried. She settles back down once the chard flesh stops moving. She looks around and sighs then reaches into her pocket and pulls out a picture of a man and two kids.
"You'll see them, we will get off this planet... You'll see", says an older lady walking over to the younger one. The young one looks up at her fellow soldier, as it where even their commanding officers are equal as the rest.
Out of no where the ground starts to shake, all the bugs start screeching as though something is about to happen.
I slowly but surly make my way under where the lesser beings are staying, they are unaware of my and my brother and sisters even being around. We are different then the others, we are our queens elite force. My mission being the eldest by a few hundred years older then my brothers and sisters, is to become one of the lesser beings.
"We are approaching, we best make our way up now", my sister calls though the telepathic passages we all have among one another.
"Hold it, we do not want to be made sooner then we want, so take a short break", I call back, but also to every one. No one complains, how I know this is because I can feel my siblings movements. I look up as I hear one of the lesser beings let out an odd sound, laughing, that's what they call it. Then with my bug senses I hear the being pull something out of the Clothing they wear.
"You'll see them, we will get off this planet... You'll see", I hear another lesser being say.
"This is it, lets go", I say and we all start digging up, causing a ground tremor to go through the surrounding area, we can hear our soldiers screaming at our in coming. I'm the first to emerge and shortly after my sister.
The young woman stands looking around wandering what is going on and then she hears the ground creak beneath her.
"We are under attack from below, get into your positions"! Yells the older woman. Then tones of thundering feet come rushing out, aiming their guns at the ground, waiting for the bugs to appear, not knowing how they where smart enough to even think about it. One of them comes out of the ground, looking around, with out a sound. It looks different then the ones that are out of the area. The first that emerged stunned the troopers, that they are looking at the beast in shock, its twice the size as the others and its nearly all black, its legs are yellow, and its underside is also yellow. This creature has four extra arms on either side of its large beak, and its eyes are in the same place as normal bugs, its body is shaped so it can see through its eyes with out the interference of any of its stuff.
Another one emerges out of the ground and that's when every one starts to fire their weapons, but not at the first one, at the second one. At the sound of the gun fire, the first one goes into action, and impales the older woman, brings her so that it can look at her and then screeches at her and tosses her aside. With in moments the humans have been over run.
The weird bugs got in, they got in. I rush over to a spot hopping that it will hide me, and stay their, trying to get my heart to stop beating so fast, I may be young but at this rate I might get a heart attack. I seem to stop breathing as I hear a sound coming from the way I had came. Something that baffles me is these bugs leave the wires and building itself a lone, its like they are planning something, and what, I can't even think about it. My eyes widen when I focus on what is in front of me, the nearly all black one is standing right in front of me, moving its four hands, as I call them in and out.
I open my mouth but nothing comes out, the bug then screeches and all I see is its mouth approaching me, I then manage to get out one loud scream, some would of said it was a girls scream...
Couple of months later
I sigh as I step out of the small yet large ship, my friends are with me, just as we had hopped, we where sent here to retrieve any survivors and information that the people have gathered, and this... This is my first time out of the main ships.
Oh god, where are my manners, my name is Hikaru, Hikaru Sayotanna, I'm 20 years old, I have long dirty blond hair, and really nice blue eyes. I'm average weight for my height, which is 5ft 6in.
"What type of bugs are these"? My commanding officer asks. I look through my data log and see no bug like this, its larger then the four leggeds.
"What ever this is, I hope they are long gone now", says Steve, one of the other soldiers. He is an ass by the way.
"You can't be too careful", stats another man I do not know.
"Good point, I need people to keep watch", says our commanding officer. Then four others stay out, while the rest of us walk into the building looking for any survivors.
"Hikaru come with me", my friend Sam says. She is a short girl with long brown hair, she has hazel eyes and she is the ideal model. I'm not jealous really, I love who I am. I follow her, over to a different part that no one has bothered to enter. I then stop after a few minutes of walking hearing something, Sam noticed as well. She raises her gun, and nods at me. I start walking, my own weapon ready to fire. We walk the few minutes down the hall to an old jail type mettle thing, its a bug cage.
I hear more tapping, then, "Help". I look at Sam and she nods at me again. I reach out after putting my gun to my side and pull open the door, not realizing what is going to come falling from the door. A rather tall man, falls, with a large bug on his back. Though the bug isn't the large new bugs. I look into the mans eyes, they seem to be swirling with colour, but the one that comes out the most is a blue.
"Sorry, should of mentioned this bug against me, it was too heavy for me to get it off", he says sheepishly.
"I'm on it, one moment", I hear Sam say.
"You hurt"? I ask. He attempts to try to look down his body, and looks back at me and replies, "I don't think so, I managed to kill this one with my knife". My eyes widen at that, this man is dangerous.
"And ho", My friend finally says even though I didn't hear the first part to it. The bug is then lifted off of the stranger and he gets up, holding out his hand for me to take it. I do that, he helps me up.
"You sure that fall didn't hurt you"? He asks looking me up and down. I can't help but have a blush creep to my cheeks.
"I'm fine", I say.
"That's good, I was afraid that I might of hurt that little body of yours when we fell", he says with a smile. I feel my face heat up now, and I look away, my friend then just starts laughing.
"I have all this armour on, so I'm good", I reply.
"Come on we have to look for more survivors", Sam says. The man looks at her oddly then nods his head after straightening his features. Then we all start walking, making our way into uncharted territory.
A few hours latter every one is now in the main room, Sam and I with this stranger, and their is one other survivor that is in the room. When I glance at the stranger we found, he seems displeased about their being another survivor. The two men seem to be having a staring contest.
I groan inwardly as I stair at the soul lesser beeing that stopped me from killing him, and trapped me into the bug cage, where I had to kill one of my own kind because of how angry he was. This lesser being is going to kill my disguise.
"So who are you two"? The being that seems to be in charge asks. Oh did I mention how I had to fall on the smaller lesser being, now that was gross.
"I'm just a regular soldier from my platoon, and he was a guest, his name is Reed", I had to look at him shocked for that. I thought he would of sold me out, I only smile, because the moment I have him alone, he is a goner.
"Hikaru you take care of Reed, the rest of you work on getting pick up", the lead lesser being says. I look over at the small one and she just looks at me, strangely.
"Well"? I ask in the lesser being tong, though I may speak it looking like them, I cannot speak it in my true form.
"I guess the first thing is first, you should take a shower, and I will join you", she says with a smile. She then turns and starts walking. I shake my head slightly and follow her, if I'm to be lead around by her then so be it, I'll but up with her.
"So Reed, what brings you into this type of work"? She asks. I had to think about that one for a long moment, and answer, "Research". Its not all a lie.
"Ah yes, we need to learn all we can of these bugs", she says the word bugs in a disgusted manner, I had to narrow my eyes at her, she don't realize that she is talking to one of these bugs they call us.
"Though I have to say...", she pauses at one of the dead smaller ones. She looks at it, and puts her hand on it, closing her eyes.
"Don't tell any one this, but I admire these creatures, I hate making it seem like I dislike them, I mean the attack against us was our fault after all, we where the ones that came into their lands", she says. Then she looks down and sighs.
"I believe they are smart, smarter then any human alive, they can work together even in large numbers and not kill one another... Not like our kind", she stops talking and puts her head onto the dead 'bug'. I couldn't help but look at her, she is strange, I could feel it, but I didn't realize its because of how she admires my kind.
"Well I guess it makes two of us", I reply, trying to make it look like I understand, which I actually do. She wouldn't kill if she didn't have to. She looks over at me and smiles, green blood now on her forehead, I had to smile at that, I reach up and use one finger to let her know, I take some of the blood on the finger and show it to her.
"Oh god, damn, hold on a moment", she says seeming nervous for some reason. She then turns and fiddles with something to try and get rid of the blood.
"You know if your taking me to the showers, and your going to shower as well, then why not worry about it then", I say.
"Right", she says stopping what she was doing and then she starts walking, picking up her pace. I shake my head at her, she had gained my respect, now its just the other lesser beings that I have to worry about.
I can't believe I did that, I told him a man I hardly knew about the way I feel about the bugs, its was embarrassing, then he turns and says that he agrees with me... Don't forget the blood on my forehead, I can't believe it.
We get to the showers and I instantly walk over to the stalls, so I can shower in private, I all ways do. I strip down of all my weapons and armor and then get into the stall and undress the rest tossing it over after making sure their was a towel with in my reach. I smile as I hear the water turn on where ever he is. I turn my water on and let it just rain on me. I close my eyes, I like this guy, and its really rare for me to like some one, which means I should fear him. That's just what I'm going to do, is fear him.
I had been hurt too many times and the most was with a man named Tyler, he broke what I had left. Then trying out a rebound guy, John, he had made me fear men and to get the pieces back, is going to be hard, so I have told myself that I wouldn't get close to any one, and even when this really hot man comes into my life, I will stay away from him.
The next day I wake in my bunk feeling well rested and very refreshed, I sit up and look around, Sam is smiling up at me.
"What"? I ask.
"He is defiantly a man", she says now grinning at me. I put on my most grossed out face I can come up with and say, "To much information". She just starts laughing.
"Though he seems kind of odd, he didn't show any interest in any one men and women alike, he just went on doing his cleaning with out a care in the world, where all the other men, take interest in the bodies depending on what preference", she says. She smiles up at me again, and I can't help but shake my own thoughts out of my mind.
"Well any way now that your up, you should come with me and get something to eat", Sam says as she gets off the bed.
"Alissa is all ready going to be there", she says as she walks out of the door. I sigh and slowly climb out of bed and follow her staying a few paces away from her as I stair at the ground. I look up the moment I hear many people talking. We then walk over to the empty part of a large table and sit their, looking over to see Alissa walking over with three trays of food.
She is a big over weight but she is a good guns woman, and for some one with the extra pounds she can run when she needs too. She has long brown hair with green eyes.
"Something been bothering me, if Reed was stuck in the bug cage then how did he eat"? Sam asks as she digs into her food. I look at her with a mouth full of my own food.
"Maybe he ate some of the bug every now and then... When they examined the body it did have small chunks of flesh taken off", Alissa says.
"Its not all that bad, I mean don't bugs have the most amount of protein in their system"? I ask taking a bit of my eggs.
"Yeah that's true", Alissa says as she eats her mouth full as well. Then the three of us all eat our food, making quenching our hunger and hopefully all of our hunger for our hike to the pick up point, which is a ways away. Just when I had finished my food I ended up looking over at the door and see Reed standing their looking around, almost as if he is disgusted, but once he looks at me his features seem to change.
"Come over here", I call as I wave at him.
"Hikaru is calling over her boyfriend to be", Sam teases me. I just glare at her after seeing that he is on his way.
"Sit beside Hikaru", Alissa says as she points to the seat beside me and smiles sweetly at him. He does just that.
"So we where just talking about it, but did you eat that bug the whole time you where in their"? Sam asks looking at him. I then turn my attention to him and he seemed to be bothered by the question.
"Yes, and let me tell you, its foul", he says shuttering to the thought of it.
"At least it kept you alive", I say stupidly. My friends laugh at my comment and I groan then look down.
"Yeah if you think of it that way, then its better to eat something that is foul to stay alive", he says.
"Listen up you apes", our commanding officer says as he stands on one of the tables. Every one turns their heads to him.
"Grab the things that you need, and we are going to head to the pick up point and, its going to take a few days, grab all the canned goods, and bottled water you can for the trip", he says.
"Yes sir", every one says in unison. Then every one gets up and walks to the back room, I stay sitting down going to wait for the others to be done with what they are doing.
"Well I see that the soldiers still listen to the commanders", Reed stats. I look over at him with questions in my head.
"The reason why I say this is because I have seen many who didn't listen to their commanding officers", he says smiling at me.
"Yeah well we all trust him, he more acts like a soldier then an officer", I reply.
"I guess that's a good thing", he says. Then he looks back over to the large crowd.
"Why did you join the force... I mean what you told me yesterday you don't really want to kill anything"? He asks not bothering to look at me. I look down, I have to think about this.
"I guess its because if I did die I have nothing to lose", I say. He then looks at me with his odd colour eyes, that I seem to notice, though the blue stands out more then any other.
"Why say that"? He asks.
"Well, I have no boyfriend to speak of, my siblings and parents are all dead, even all my cousins and what not are also dead", I say.
"So I have nothing to really live for". He looks at me for a long while then sighs and looks back over to the group that is slowly disputing as the people leave the lunch room.
"You do have something to live for", he says.
"Like"? I ask looking at my hands not really caring about what he is going to say.
"Your living for what my come tomorrow, at least if their isn't anything else, then live for yourself", he says. I look at him wide eyed and watch him get up and walk out of the lunch room. Not once did I get anything like that told to me. It amazes me to no end that he was so kind to say it. I then feel my face heat up to the very thought that he might of actually meant something else.
I shake the thought out of my head and get up then walk over to the now rather small group of people, my friends are no where to be seen. Its been a long while before it finally comes to me, and I look around the all most empty shelves. Sighing I grab a sack and walk around, finding any thing, any canned food, Mushroom soup making a face at it, but its better then nothing. A little bit of this and that, then finally coming to the water. There is still lots of bottles of water. I grab all of them and stuff them into my sack, making it heavy, but I can manage the weight.
I then turn and walk out, walking over to my bunk. Seeing Sam and Alissa sitting at their bunks. They look over at me and smile.
"We pack tonight, and first thing in the morning we leave", Sam says. I nod, put my sack down and then grab my large bag, and start organizing everything into it. Once that's done, I then crawl up to my bed and lay down, with out a word to my friends, who are talking quietly among themselves.
I had to go and get fresh air, I new it would of been a bad idea to go to the room that all the lesser beings are in, but I had to make an appearanceanyway. Now I'm outside looking over to where my siblings are.
"We have to kill all but the commander", says my brothers voice.
"Then bring an attack while we are walking through the canyon tomorrow... Most will get killed their", I say back.
"So your out here"? Comes a voice. I look over and narrow my eyes at the man, who trapped me into that bug cage.
"Now I should say some rules, so you don't get sold out", he threatens.
"Oh really, you think your at the advantage out here"? I ask. He looks around and smiles at me.
"You never know how many people are out here with us", he says so sure of himself. I walk over to him and lean in to whisper in his ear.
"You don't understand that your the one that is at a disadvantage".
"Yeah right", he says.
"Yeah right, because as it where, their is no other lesser beings out here, and its only you with a lot of 'bugs'". I can feel him start to panic and I smile at this, he turns around and all I could do was go back to what I truly look like and impale him with a mighty scream. Then I toss him aside, a couple of the small soldiers come into view, and I turn back into the lesser being form. Picking up the gun and yelling bugs, I didn't have a chance to pull the trigger which is a good thing as two other lesser beings come beside me.
"Come Reed, help us close these doors, so that we can rest in peace", one of the lessers say. I nod at him and we turn then walk into the building, closing the door after fiddling with it a few times. I watch then turn and leave, I myself go wandering. Finding myself walking to where the female lessers sleep. I look into the door and find myself looking up at Hikaru, the lesser being that I seem to be hanging out with the most.
I shake my head and sigh, making my way down the hall, I don't have any need to sleep or drink or eat, I only pulled chunks of flesh off my fellow being to make it look like I had eaten it. I stop and lean against the wall, wondering if this is really what I should be doing, wondering if the queen is really thinking clearly, I mean she is getting old, she is rather old actually that she can no longer produce off spring. She requires her children to reproduce.
In a sense I love this mission, so I don't have to reproduce with any of my sisters, all I get is to just slowly kill off the lessers till its just me and the commander left. I smile and can't wait for tomorrow to come.
That's it, that's the first chapter of my Star ship troopers. I hope you like it.