Renegade Survivor

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Chapter 1 - Salad on the floor

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With a loud PREEEED! I suddenly woke up from the black nothing I call my sleep and with a 'clang', my head banged against the ceiling and I fell out of my bed. The door swung open and a tall guy with short reddish hair, wearing a t-shirt, brown pants and black leather boots stood in front of me, glaring down. I, laying on the floor just covered with my blanket looked up with a confused but still tired face expression..

"My, it still is night, please come back one year later, ok?!" I said with a yawn and turned my body away from him - still laying on the floor.

"How long do you work for me now?!" the guy snarled.

I raised one hand and showed him four of my fingers.

"Yes, 4 weeks! And isn´t that enough for you, to learn to get up in time?!" he growled.

I turned towards him again and looked up at him: "Yes, usually, but sadly you don´t get a feeling for time when you run through the galaxy every day and everything surrounding you is just darkness and probably NOTHING!"

He slowly went over to the other side of the room and turned on a light: "It'll be easier for you when you change the time of your lamp."

I rubbed my still hurting head 'oh yeah, hitting a wall with a metal plate in your head does hurt!' and looked over to the lamp I never really loved because of its odd design: "I didn´t even know that this extraordinary lamp would be able to wake me up!"

"Oh it does, and now it will wake you up right in time, just to let you know for the future." he said with a nearly as be laugh on his face.

'Oh how I hate it when he is right' I thought, got up, still my blanket around my body, because I didn´t have the mood to sweat all my bed. We had it very hot and dry lately, because we were near some suns, we had to pass. And to fly around it would take us more precious time we didn´t have: "Ok, ok I am up now and please, would you be so kind and leave my room now. I must put on my..." but I even couldn´t finish my sentence,

"Oh yes, I have no mood to watch a naked Akrennian putting your poor clothes on!" the captain said and left my room as quick as he could. 'Maybe something embarrassing for you, ha?' I thought and put on the clothes.

We were on the way to a very far away planet, I forgot about the name, captain told me about. Never heard about it before, but he said, he guessed the Titan, his beloved ship he was searching for since 5 years ago would be there. He said, it was well hidden. And a very far away planet, I guess would be a good hiding place.

I went up to the bridge and looked into the sky of space. There was a black deep field of nothing. You couldn't even guess how deep it was, because there were no stars which grow bigger, flow past our ship and disappear in the wide black nothing which surrounds us every day. Sometimes I ask myself for what am I doing all this?. Captain sat in his chair and was piloting.

I stood right behind him: "When do you think we have crossed this sphere of boredom?"

He shrugged: "No clue, maybe in some days I guess. I never have been here before."

"I am just curious, first this nearly incredible heat, I actually was melting! And now this!" I said, crossing my arms.

"Heh, you're just bored, you need some action! You will see, on the planet we go, maybe there we find some action! How I know we will arrive at a small space port right at the end of this endless episode of "nothing" you call." he said, trying to make me patient.

"Oh yeah, it always was my dream to rough up some small and unmentionable places like that." I said, sitting down in the chair beside the captain's and putting my feet on one of the navigation consoles.

"Because it is not a well-known public place? Oh c'mon I thought you would be happy with each shoot out you can incite, may it be just as small." he said slightly grinning. But the grinning turned off that fast as it came, "and put down your dirty feet from the console, or you will clean it up again!"

I put down my feet: "Oh it always was fun, wasn´t it? All those stupid guards who didn´t deserve it better, smacking their heads, punching their limbs, that was fun!"

"It was me who did that all," the captain said: "You just stood there and didn´t do anything."

"But I had no gun at all! You know those guards are huge, how should I knock them out with my slender arms?!" I said, sniffed in disagree and looked away, my arms crossed.

"We will get you some guns. At the space port, we surely find some dealers who have something for sale."

"But Korso!" I said: "Not one of those tiny girly guns again!" He looked at me with a confused look, one eyebrow reaching up as high as possible. "You know what happened with the last one you bought me?! It is like a trend, it´s like, if every god's sake woman needs a laser gun! You see them everywhere lately! And because of that they make these extra tiny-grab-to-tight-fall-into-pieces-guns, that´s annoying!"

Korso had this growling face again: "Shut up with that, yes I know they are not made for Akrennian hands, but we were out of money and there was no other way!"

I raised one hand with my pointing finger: "There always is another way! And this time, I will get the gun my fortune will lead me to!"

Korso laughed: "Ha! Your fortune? Isn´t it more like a dream?"

I grinned: "Maybe more like a wish, because I never dreamt of a gun. I never dreamt of anything in my sleep before."

Korso laid his head on one of his fists in boredom: "Yeah I know, I heard about that Akrennians can´t actually dream, blah-blah..."

"Oh it is a very interesting fact that we do not dream. Can you as a human just imagine how that is?" I asked.

"Oh yes maybe, it is you fall asleep and wake up again and between this, is nothing?!"

I was kinda surprised: "Who told you that?!"

He looked up to me, still kinda tired from the arguing with me: "No idea, maybe my dreaming brain told me?"

He turned the radio on, but in this space area there was nothing to receive. Then he took a flat round disc which twinkled in rainbow colors and put it into a slit in the console. It was one of those earth things, humans used for entertainment. The music turned on. Maybe it was me, but human music wasn´t that bad. Akrennian music rarely was something I could get in and love, because it mostly gets made by tribal woodland Akrennians.

"Be so kind and make food, I am dying when I don´t get something to eat over here!" Captain said.

I stood up: "Oh, will I take your place and be captain instead of you then?" I asked with a grin, but right after that, Korso stood up and tried to kick me away. I hopped aside and hurried far back into the ship's rump to the kitchen room. He knew my sarcastic jokes too well, since I was with him in the hospital. But sometimes I manage to tease him out of his temper which is a bit more action on the long boring trips through the world I call my environment. In the kitchen, I took some frozen burritos out of the fridge box. It was nearly as big as a room, and you won't like to get locked in one. We had this huge thing there, because space ports were not everywhere in galaxy. So we needed to buy a lot of food reserves. I took the burritos out and unwrapped them from their plastic bandages. Korso loved this stuff. It was earth food and even I could eat it. Human stuff is so harmless. It´s already dead and you can eat it without the fear, it would hop out of your mouth. It can´t mess with the well-known Akrennian beetle sushimi. Nearly everyone knows it and loves it, but for humans it is just disgusting. Humans never eat still alive beings. I put the burritos into a microwave, a box where food gets hot pretty fast. One of those things which still were on this ship and came from earth.

Back on the bridge I reached Korso his food: "Here, 'Mr I am so hungry' I hope this will satisfy your grumbling belly for a while." I grinned.

I sat myself into the chair again and began to eat as well. "Can´t you stop with that shit, for just one minute? Please be so kind, I would like to enjoy my lunch just this one time."

I looked up to him, mouth full of burrito ingredients: "Stopping? With what?" I spat out some of the green leafy things which are always content of burritos.

"Well, I originally meant, stopping with your sarcastic comments, but now I would say, stop throwing all the food to the floor and the consoles!" he growled, then taking a huge bite from his beloved burrito.

I sank down in my seat, covering salad leafs with my boots: "What did you mean, I don´t see anything on the floor..." I grinned.