Chapter Two
Predator
She awoke only to find herself in a twisted position on the floor while the siren continued. The ship was jerking radically and she could hear shots being fired from her starboard bow. Lifting her right hand towards her head, she could feel warm blood streaming from the top of her brow. Confused and lost, she quickly stood up and braced herself against the walls as the ship was tossed to and fro. She couldn't wait for the sliding doors to open into the cockpit, so she turned to her side and slid through them as they were still opening. She climbed into the seat and strapped herself in. Checking the status of her ship, she realized that the other ship had been firing on her for at least 5 minutes and had already broken down most of her shield causing other damage to several of her systems. Life support was low and navigation was off. Her Back up systems were running on low capacity and were dropping even further. Still not knowing what had caused this to begin with, she pulled up the view from behind on her secondary holographic video system. She saw an alien ship that she did not recognize. It had an organic feel and look and she could sense that the beings on board were predatory. She could feel their need to survive and their predator nature that was fueling it. Nothing on her ship seemed to want to work. It was not looking good. All that she could do was to jump into hyper space and pray that it would work. She diverted all the power that she could without sacrificing the shield and what little life support she needed to the hyper space drive. Without hesitation she pushed the button not caring again of her destination only knowing that it was true and right.
She felt tired and weak both from her intense dream and from the fight that had unfolded before her. She was also loosing a lot of blood and had trouble seeing as it was falling down over her eyes. Her eyes once again drew weary and fought hard to keep them open. She pulled the ship out of hyper space and found herself within a small distance of a planet. Her senses told her that there was good on this planet and new that it would be safe to land there. She proceeded to do so, but found that the ship had sustained too much damage and was now even harder to fly. Her ship was slowly venting atmosphere, there had been a breach in the hull near the engine. Now she was flying as blind as a bat, trying hard to keep her ship on a course towards the planet. With a strong jolt, the ship had entered the planet's outer atmosphere. On her screen she noticed a floating city in the midst of a great wide open sea with landing pads on its outskirts and aimed for that. She was feeling dizzy now, and her eyes were even more dangerously close to closing. She felt them starting to fall back as the ship glided like missile towards the city.
'Oh God not now…hold on….Hold ON….just a little bit longer! You can do this!' she told herself within her mind.
Pulling the ship's nose upwards slowly allowing for a landing, she did her best to keep it steady. The ship landed hard on one of the landing pads, and she felt it slide forwards more. This jolt caused her to be tossed from her seat, the straps had snapped from the force. She was now lying on the cold metal floor. Blood streamed from her brow while she allowed herself to drift away, far away. Again she saw the clouds and again the scene turned on her. However this time she was lying in a field of wheat. The breeze was soft and the air was sweet. She knew this place as well, but could not remember why. Closing her eyes, she allowed the blackness to surround her completely only allowing her mind to think one more thought…
'Oh God…please help me…..'