JFG GANATEREAN WAR #2
SOLAR PRISONERS
By Sirunus (Chris Jones)
Author's notes: Jet Force Gemini and all of it's characters from this story (Juno, Vela, Lupus, the Drones, Mizar, King Jeff, Barry, Magnus, Midge and Amazing Mining Mole Bros. etc) are owned by and trade marks of Rareware. I do not make money from this story, so don't sue me. The Arprodas, Sectaras, the Ganaterean Solar System, Ellie Rantrox & Star Marine belong to me.
Welcome to #2 Solar Prisoners! Please review!
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PHASE 7: UNEXPECTED REUNION
Another shock… And another shock… And another shock... But it still had no effect. What will become of Uerxo and Lupus? Vela went to observe Uerxo's situation herself. She saw that the wire had been detached from Uerxo's heart!
"Err, why isn't that thing plugged in?" Vela asked.
"What?" One of the doctors said, "I never took it out."
"Nor me…" Said another. "So he's not dying after all?"
"Nope."
"But what about that bullet wound?"
"I've bandaged it."
"Since when?"
"Since you told me to."
"I never told you to."
"Bah. I thought you checked it out by now."
"What. Who told you I checked it already?"
"He did," said the doctor, gesturing at Uerxo, "Just before he went out."
"I think you ought to check that wound."
"Sigh… Alright then." The doctor peels the bandage off Uerxo's chest quickly, and takes a look underneath his clothes. He has a glimpse at the blood that has stained nearly everywhere on his abdomen. "This blood is fake." The doctor claims.
"What? Are you sure?" The other doctor said as he ran up and slid his finger into the pool of blood. "Son-of-a-bitch. So he's faked the whole thing?"
"Looks like it. Let me take a look at the wound itself." The doctor lifts his shirt up, and found that a bottle of the "blood" that Uerxo was "bleeding" was pierced by the bullet, and underneath those bottle was a metallic vest that could take any kind of bullet, even at close range. "He's faked it!" The doctor confirms.
"But why?" Vela asks.
"Because the mighty Arprodas rule over us all!" The voice of Uerxo exclaimed. "Us inferior humans must give our lives to them! Long live Empress Zouvia, the rightful ruler of the universe." Vela stood there in disbelief. Uerxo, the first male out of her flesh and blood she started to really like, was a traitor! Or was he?
"He's being controlled by the Arprodas!" One of the doctors exclaimed. "The Arprodas are psychic, and they can use somebody else as a puppet."
"How do you know?" Vela asked.
"Look at his eyes. They're wide open and are not blinking."
"And so will yours!" Uerxo exclaimed. Uerxo rose from his bed and pulled out pistol. Vela immediately pulled out her Tri Rocket Launcher. But it was too late. Uerxo head-locked one of the helpless doctors and stuck his pistol at his head.
"Now put your gun down otherwise I'll blow this nerd's brain out!"
"You're not going to get away with this..." Vela protested.
"Too late: I already have!" Uerxo said, clutching his grip of the scientist, then fit his pistol with a silencer.
"Captain, don't let the Arprodas control you; let your brain control you." The other doctor told him.
"Oh really! Let's see what bullets in the chest have to say about that!" Uerxo shouted. His Arproda silenced pistol turned away from his hostage's head and shot the other doctor twice: Once in the stomach, another one in the chest. The shots of the pistol were so silent; that the thumps of the bullets impacting on their target were louder than the actual shots themselves. The doctor he shot shrieked in pain as the bullets thudded into him, exploding his chest, and was thrown back into the wall by the force of the bullet velocity. He crashed against the wall and then slid down it to his backside, streaming blood behind him.
"You bastard!" Vela shouted. "You just shot an unarmed civilian! Uerxo, you're not an Arproda!"
Uerxo stuck his pistol in deeper into his hostage's head. "I'm not Uerxo!" He claimed.
"What the hell is going on in here?" One officer shouted as they barged into the room. "Uerxo, what's got into you?" They asked, as they saw one of the doctors slumped against the wall with bloodstains. They immediately pulled out their guns: Automatics, pistols and Uzis.
"STAY BACK! You don't want further loss of life, do you?"
"Okay, okay." The officers replied.
"Uerxo, what are you doing?" Ellie asked as she followed the officers in and then saw the dead doctor in a puddle of blood.
"Serving my Empress." He said.
"Look Uerxo. The Arproda has taken over your body: You need help."
"No."
"You're human,"
"Stop saying that, vertebrate!" He screamed. He began pressing the trigger of his pistol.
"Drop the gun Captain."
"No way! It's going to be all over soon!" He then executes the doctor, as a bullet from his pistol splats into the side of the doctor's head into a bloody mess, instantly killing him. As soon as the others saw the doctor tumble over dead on the floor, they began to shoot at Uerxo. Uerxo immediately dived behind the beds as the bullets hissed past him. He peeked over to return the fire. The officers rolled out of the way, and began blasting away at him again, as bullets hit the side of the bed and caused debris to fly around. Vela didn't want to use her Tri Rockets because it would risk the injured Lupus getting caught in the blast, as he was only a mere metre away the Uerxo. Vela pulled out her JF pistol and fired a couple of shots when Uerxo peered over table to shoot at them every now and again. A couple of officers slowly ran to get around the beds to Uerxo, but are risking getting shot, but with their Uzis they fired constantly as he tried to shoot them. Uerxo got distracted from a gunshot fired by the officers covering the two that had gone round to get him, and the officer tried to hit him over the head with the Uzi. Uerxo, however was an extremely skilled marksman with fast reactions, and turned around to shot the officers. As they fell to the ground, Uerxo picked their Uzis up. He had double Uzi now. He peered over and shot a hail of fire at the officers. One of the officers got hit and fell backwards. The other officers however began avenging their three friendly casualties. But Uerxo kept on moving, diving behind tables for cover. Lupus recovered a bit now first opening his eyes immediately realised what was going. He immediately got up and shook his body. He howled, which distracted Uerxo. As soon as Uerxo was about to shoot Lupus, Vela shot Uerxo in the arm. Uerxo made a foolish mistake for letting his guard down. He then screamed in pain and dropped his Uzis. He held his wounded arm in pain as blood frantically poured out of it; Vela had hit his artery.
"Thanks boy," Vela said. "But you need some rest." As the officers went over to seize Uerxo, Vela ran up to Lupus. She checked the monitor and could see that he's regained his blood and the air that leaked from his popped lung had been drained. Lupus soon led down again to rest as the recovery laser continued to repair his pierced lung.
"You humans haven't won!" Uerxo screamed. The Jet Force officers grab Uerxo a hand cuffed him. They held a cloth over his wound. "In fact, my capture is meaningless. The Arprodas have already won!"
"What?" Ellie and Vela said simultaneously. "What do you mean?"
"Ma'am! You better take a look at this!" One of the pilots shouted.
"What's wrong?" Ellie asked running into the cockpit.
"There's a strange ship heading straight for us! In the shape of an Arproda!" The pilot told her.
"Oh shit. Vela! Come here!" Ellie called out. Vela rushes into the cockpit.
"Yeah? What's happening?"
"Err… Isn't that the ship that steals Solar Systems?" Vela looks on the radar: It was a giant Arproda. She looks out the cockpit window and sees the Arproda craft that was described to her as the planetary thief.
"Oh my god. Get the hell out of her!"
"Yeah. I think you've got a point. Right people. Let's blast off!" The Arproda ship was closing in on them fast!
"Roger." The pilot said. He pulled the lever to start the rockets and to U-turn. But something is wrong. "Ma'am. The thing won't start."
"Crap!" Ellie yelled. The entire ship went pitch black and all electronic systems were disabled: Radar, circuits, computers and the medical machines treating Lupus. Lupus, now well enough to walk around and interact, was woken up by the sound of electronic equipment shutting down. The Arproda ship has sent out an electronic pulse that attacks the electronic. Uncontrollable waves electricity pierced through electronic equipment as the electronic bolt struck the ship and signalled the equipment to shut down, causing the ship to spin wildly out of control. Thankfully most ship walls and floors are insulators for safety reasons. "We're in trouble…" Ellie moaned as the gravity device shut down and exploded causing everyone to float like they were undersea. As she spoke, they were sprayed with an invisible nerve gas. The sedative nerve gas entered the walls of the ship and as they inhaled it, Vela, Ellie, Uerxo, Lupus and all the other officers fell to the ground coughing and lay unconscious… The Arproda ship shot out a yellow and green beam. The yellow beam pulled the ship into the Star Thief and the green beam shrank it. The Arproda shaped craft consumed the ship and closed its gargantuan mouth and blasted off…
Vela slowly opened her eyes. "Vela? Vela? Wake up!" Said a familiar voice. Too familiar for confers in fact. She struggled to sit up, her head was aching and she opened her eyes… Juno!
"Juno! Juno! Oh thank god! I thought I might not see you again!" Vela hugged her brother, her arms crushing his body as she held him tight.
"Okay Vela! Okay…" He said, wrapping his arms around her.
"Where are we? I better not be where I think I am…" Vela said, as she saw that she was in a force field generated cell.
"Sorry Sis. We are…"
"The Spawnship?"
"No. The Arproda Prison Camp on Tawfret."
"Where's Ellie?"
"I saw the Arprodas bring her in earlier. I'm not sure."
"Ellie said she's got a squad ready to break into the Spawnship."
"That's not going to help us now…" An Arproda soldier walks up to the cell.
"You two!" It snapped. "Warlord General Zepter wants to give his first and last regards to you." It had a key card for the cell generator. More Arproda troops arrive to escort them. It slotted the key card into the cell generator. The generator faded as the Arproda Troops pointed their guns at them. The Arprodas push the twins past more cells with prisoners of war until they reached a large house. The house was an Arproda military mansion beautifully decorated with carved pictures in the ceilings and paintings. At a point they reached a large room. The Arprodas station the twins on the balcony at the top of the stairs and then tie them up together with an energy rope. Then the ceiling opened up and an energy rope with a hook on the end of it descended upon the twins. The hook gripped the rope that tied the twins together and was claw-like. It lifted them up high above the floor while the floor beneath opened up like a trap door and revealed a pit with hungry Arproda Larvae. Arproda Larvae are flesh eating, carnivorous, horrid grubs that are Arproda children with razor sharp mandibles and large mouths. And they're interested in devouring Juno and Vela. Then, the hook that's holding the twins very slowly began to descend the twins down towards the Arproda Larvae! The twins were the Larvae's next meal? Then, Zepter walks into the room.
"Greetings, Jet Forcers…" Said the giant warlord wasp.
"Zepter," Vela whispered to Juno, "How are we gonna get out of here?"
"Let me do the talking." Juno said.
"I trusted that you two would die together. Well, look where you are now!" The Arproda General laughed.
"Why do you think that we're threats?" Juno asked innocently.
"Me and my sister have nightmares that Jet Forcers identical to you come in and kill the Arprodas. The Arprodas are psychic, therefore that's foreseeing what will happen if I let you take that path."
"Can there be a peace between our races?"
"No. Peace. I hate that definition."
"Why are you doing this?"
"We were bred for violence. That's the way we are. Oh, by the way, prepare meet my nephews and nieces." Zepter said, gesturing at the pit of Larvae that Juno and Vela are a fifth of the way down there. "I'm sure they would love to make your acquaintance." The twins were beginning to be lowered down a bit quicker now. "Oh, and lovely weapons. I too have some heavy arms."
"Really? That's very nice. Can we go and see Ellie now?"
"Choose what friend you want to see wisely because it's the last time you'll see him or her in your short life." The twins were now a quarter of the way down to the pit. Uerxo enters the room with Arproda troops and Ellie. Ellie's eyes were wide open and did not blink once. "Now, are you sure this is the friend you want to see? Make good decisions because it may be your last chance to…"
"Ellie… How you doing?" Juno asked.
"KILL THE HUMANS! KILL THE HUMANS!" Ellie chanted.
"What?" Juno said.
"Ellie's made a good last decision haven't you Ellie?" Zepter said.
"I will sacrifice myself and my humans for you master…"
"Ellie?" Vela said disbelief. An Arproda is controlling Ellie too? "Not you too! You're not one of them."
"Ellie's going to kill the Caspia colony for me, aren't you?" Zepter said.
"Yes…" Ellie replied. "I will enter the base as normal and then plant this neutron bomb disguised as my ship but I will kill myself in the time being."
"Ingenious. Okay Zepter, what are you going to make me and Vela do for you then?"
"Hahahahah." Zepter cackled. "Perish." Juno and Vela were now halfway down towards entering the pit of horrible, flesh eating giant larvae.
"You'll regret this!" Juno shouted. "Many of our friends will avenge us!"
"Don't worry. I'm sure that they won't be much more of a threat than you two are. In fact, may do more good for us than harm, giving us more food for our young to be healthy and strong soldiers. In fact, I would very grateful to them."
"Well, if you kill us, you will lose an opportunity…"
"Hah! What opportunity can you two give me that I already haven't got?"
"We can be your loyal soldiers."
"Yes. You are, to Jet Force. You can do nothing for me but be pests. If you're defecting then planets are square shaped."
"Plus, you can hold us hostage, convince the federation we're the ones that will kill your race and then demand a ransom that will cripple them."
"Hmmm…" Zepter thought to himself. Juno looked underneath his feet, as he was only a mere metre away from the pit.
"Would you really be that stupid to give that up? You can just kill us after you receive the ransom later." Zepter was still thinking about. Juno began to sweat. So did Vela. What would Zepter's decision be in so little time? In a few seconds they would be having Larvae gnawing on their legs. If he said no, then that will be the end for sure.
"Stop the rope descending!" Zepter ordered. "You're absolutely correct, vertebrate. You're more valuable to me alive for the time being." Juno and Vela sighed in relief. Just a foot more or so then they would have devoured flesh where their shins should be.
"You're not really going to work for them you?" Vela whispered to Juno.
"You know me." Juno replied silently. "I've got a cunning plan."
"Take them to their cells! I'll use them later!" Zepter ordered.
TO BE CONTINUED…