centuries, the elevator finally reached her destination. Tilyhn stepped out into the monstrous hallway filled with many vehicles of different sizes and designs. She made it for the closest spacetruck and climbed in. She started the engine and drove the truck towards the smaller crafts’ section on the far side of the monstrous hall. She knew her way around this place. She'd etched every detail of the place in her photographic mind a week ago when Cede dragged her through here to his quarters above where he'd kept her as his personal sex slave – plus she had been down here those few times she tried to escape unsuccessfully.
There were six bodyguards on watch today. She reached to her waist for the laser gun but stopped before making the mistake. There were six trained bodyguards, and she was alone. There was no way out for her. They would kill her if she tried it. It wasn’t as if she had any experience with guns. She was just a third year university student studying fashion and design in Tyrlia University, besides being the president’s daughter. Guns and shooting people were not among her many skills. But I MUST escape. I MUST manage to escape today . She reasoned silently. She cold-bloodedly cut Cede’s penis, she was dead if they caught her – whether Cede was dead or had lived did not matter. She had to escape. However, there were six guards on watch today. She didn’t expect that. Every time she’d made an escape attempt in the past few days there was always only one guard. She had been counting on that. Secretly creeping behind one guard and shooting him or her in the back at close range so she wouldn’t miss her target had been her strategy. Now things weren’t as she had expected and planned for. The reality was harsh but it was a fact that she wouldn’t manage to acquire one of the spacecruisers. She was fucked. She knew it. If she tried to steal one of the crafts she was likely to be captured or killed, if she didn’t try to escape too she was still to suffer for what she did to Cede. She cursed herself again and again. It was she who created this impossible mess for herself. She’d done so the moment she cut Cede’s penis. Now she regretted it. If only she hadn’t cut him, but pretended to have given up, and played the happy sex slave for a few more days. But no, she had to cut him – and now she too was sure to die. She swerved the small spacetruck to the right and headed for Lilzaint’s door to the outside world. Best die in a way chosen by myself. She decided. Go out of the Lilzaint into the harsh dead alien planet and die out there...
CHAPTER 3: COOKE HAMILTON
“Now Delilah. Let’s get this done with, I want to rest when we come back. Fuckin’ tired.” Cooke grumbled. Thirty-one year old Cooke Hamilton, a lieutenant who had been in service for ‘ the serpents’ for almost nine full years now, slumped exhausted unto Toyer’s comfy seat. Cooke had just arrived with the force’s own subterranean tube from North America to the Africom army base located somewhere beneath mid Southern Africa. He'd been at his brother's place in Alaska playing first-person-shooter video games with his nephew when he received a call from the commander of the serpents himself. The serpents were humanity’s only security force in place. They served as both spies, police and army. The commander briefed Cede about an alien ship that landed in North Africa a week before, the same time other alien crafts had landed on several locations on planet earth. He was told the other ships that landed along with it a week earlier, left hurriedly two days ago as if they were being chased by something, but this huge crab-like ship in particular had remained behind. Why it didn’t leave with the other ships the commander’s superiors wondered. They didn’t like its presence a bit. Cooke’s orders were simple. The alien craft had to be destroyed. Earth’s council of leaders did not want the