JFG GANATEREAN WAR #2

SOLAR PRISONERS

By Sirunus (Chris Jones)

PHASE 6: LIFE OR DEATH?

The Arproda Soldiers aimed their guns at Vela's head. Vela shut her eyes tightly. They slowly began pulling the trigger. But, to her surprise, a savage flare rampaged through the corridor and an explosion blew into the ship, and the explosion destroyed half of the Arprodas, saving her. The remaining Arprodas flinched in terror. Arproda heads, limbs guts and blood splattered in all directions.

"Take that you bastards!" Yelled a familiar voice.

"Damn!" Yelled Zero. "We're going to have to make runner for it! Shit! We were so close!

"WE CAN STILL GET HER! In exchange of our lives!" An Arproda Soldier suggested.

"NO way!" Zero protested. "Retreat!"

"We have a job to do, Sir: Don't abandon your purpose for the Empress!" A soldier said.

"Fuck her!" Zero shouted. The Arproda troops gasped.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't- AH!" Zero blasted the Arproda in mid sentence.

"I'm getting out of here!" Zero shouted. "You numbskulls coming or not?"

"As you wish Sir." Zero flew down the corridor like a frightened insect, his antennae waving in the air, with the other mutant wasps close behind him.

"Go on, do a runner, you cowards!" A figure of a lady in shiny green armour walked through the smoke of the all-guns-blazing action she just made. Vela rubs her eyes and was about to make a happy reunion… It was her old friend in the war… Lieutenant Ellie Rantrox! Or "Raptor", as she's known to her fellow Star Mariners.

"Raptor!" Vela gestured. "What are you doing here?"

"Came here to save you of course!" Ellie replied. Vela looks sorrowfully at the severely injured Uerxo and Lupus, who were heartlessly shot by the Arproda soldiers.

"Are… Are… They dead?" Vela asked, gesturing at her two friends slumped lifelessly on the floor. Ellie kneels down to inspect Lupus' body.

"No…" She replied. Vela was so relieved! "But they require immediate medical attention. MEDICS!" Four medics of the team run down to Uerxo and Lupus and lifted them up onto paramedic beds.

"Please tell me they're gonna be okay!" Vela told Ellie.

"Trust my team. We've covered everything… Ships… Guns… Enemies… Medical..."

"Listen, the Drones have held Juno prisoner somewhere."

"The Spawnship… I've got half my team on the case now!"

"Right! Let's not mess around!" Vela said. Vela looks up at a golden ship that looks like a futuristic space shuttle. "Wow! Is that yours?"

"Yep. Climb in." Vela and Ellie board the shuttle. In the back, separated from the lounge, the weapons cache and the bridge the team of doctors to treat military personnel is attending to Lupus and Uerxo. Vela comes into the medical room and runs over to Lupus.

"He is going to be okay, isn't he?" Vela asked the doctor.

"I'm not sure…" the doctor replied. "He's lost A LOT of blood, and his lung was pierced." Vela saw that the doctor had already placed a bandage over the bullet wound, which was very close to his heart! It was a very depressing and distressing sight for Vela. First her parents, now Lupus? The doctor attached a tube from a pint of pedigree blood to Lupus' artery. Lupus led there, struggling to breathe. Suddenly, an alarm sounded over at Uerxo's bed. His blood pressure was dropping dramatically! Uerxo was apparently eternally bleeding… And dying… "I'm sorry…" The doctor said to Vela. "I'm going to have to abandon Lupus for the time being… Your other friend needs me more than your dog does."

"Okay…" Vela accepted. Vela watched Lupus as the recovering laser began repairing his popped lung. Then she starred at Uerxo. Something was wrong…

On the Spawnship, the Drones watched in disbelief. Arprodas running from their vital mission? Juno sighed in relief. Vela was okay! Hey was extremely worried still about Lupus and the captain he saw at the meeting who was shot, though. But what will happen now?

"THAT'S IT!" An angry Drone exclaimed. "Kill the boy at once!"

"No! We can't kill him! General Zepter's coming here shortly to see the enemy twins executed! Zero was supposed to have the female executed without fail!"

"But Zero said that Zepter ordered him to execute Vela right in front of her brother's eyes. Then we kill him"

"No. Zepter die together unpleasantly!"

"Zero's failure means we have to give the male twin back to the Arproda General."

Back on Star Marine ship, two doctors frantically surrounded Uerxo, they tried shocking him again and again, but it was no use. Vela watched with concern. Something was not right… In fact, something is very wrong. But little do they know that the eerily thieving Arproda craft, Star Thief, is heading straight towards them!

Meanwhile, the Arprodas accompanying Zero looked around. Zero contacted Zouvia.

"Shit…" he cursed to himself. "What have I got myself into?"

"You're going to face the consequences. The Empress does not like failure. She also despises Arprodas running from humans. We made a bad stunt back there Zero." A soldier said.

"You asked for it!" Zero exclaimed, pulling out his pistol and blasting the Arproda. He told the other troops: "I've got a plan. It's the only way out for us now."

"The only way out for you." Another Arproda soldier said.

"Why are you shit heads being so insolent? I'm your senior commandment!"

"You've failed the Arproda cause. We only retreated because we obeyed your orders, which is the orders the Warlord General gave us. But we are expendable, and so are you. We must sacrifice ourselves for the Arproda empress, but you've "betrayed" her."

"If I go down, I'm taking you dense vertebrate waste down with me!" Zero said. He pulled out his comlink. He was about to insult the intelligence of his leader.

"I've murdered the siblings that will damage your empire mother, and now we can continue the General's Operation without interference."

Zouvia sat on her throne and glared at Zero.

"You are insulting my intelligence, Colonel. The siblings are still alive. You ran from your purpose and now have become like a human: Thinking about their own skins, not their race's. Cowardly, running from your enemies. You are an incompetent fool. And now you will pay the price!"

Zero was shocked and stunned. "N-no! You can't kill me! I'm you're trusted Colonel!"

"You were! But now you're just an Arproda with special abilities with a mind of a human."

"I'm sorry, mistress! I'll get the female sibling next time!" Zouvia sat back on her throne, pondering Zero's humiliating disgrace to the 'great' Arproda Confederation.

"You know Colonel, you better get the job done-or ELSE!"

"Yes my Queen, I won't fail you again."

"For your sake Colonel. The Arproda race does not accept fiasco. Get the siblings-NOW!"

"Of course… And while the female was busy searching for us, I took control of the mind of one of her friends. I'll leave him normal for now until he's lead us to the sibling's location, and then, I'll strike! Plus even the human I took control of thinks he's bleeding to death. Poor minded vertebrates!"

"Good. Maybe you haven't messed up that badly with the use of the Arproda psychic mind. Now go and actually resume to your assignment, you stupid wasp!" Zouvia thundered.

"Yes ma'am! Sorry!" The transmission ended.

"She's pretty mad with you still, Sir!" An Arproda said.

"Shut up, you freak!" Zero snapped.

NEXT CHAPTER: UNEXPECTED REUNION