home world, were renown for their fighting skills—and the fact that males, not of their species, tended to not survive the mating dance they indulged in after battle.
“Negative, commander. Ship appears to be veering off.”
“Any other signs of pursuit?”
“No.”
“Good. I’m going to sleep now. Wake me if anything changes.”
Heading to his quarters, Jaro stripped out of the assassin head cloak and the tiny bottoms that left little to the imagination. He placed it in the ship’s cleansing unit, though, along with the bloody arm whip. A warrior and assassin never knew when a disguise like that might come in handy, either for subterfuge—or in the bedroom. Nude, he used the ship’s laser shower unit to disintegrate the gray dye from his skin.
Back to his purple color, he dressed in some loose shorts.
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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais and galactic perimeter check. Everything seemed calm and vessel free, which meant he could get some rest.
Dropping off into sleep, the jarring sound of the ship’s alarm woke him only a short time later. He’d no sooner sat up when a shockwave rocked the ship. Everything went silent and black as the energy pulse temporarily threw his computer offline.
Ah frukx. I should have known my escape was too easy.
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Aylia only trailed her target’s ship long enough for her to listen to his plans via the bug she’d planted on its hull.
While a true tracking device, or attempt to hijack his computer, would bring attention, a simple audio recording device, made of organic components, went virtually undetected. Once she learned his destination, she veered off to shadow him out of range, her ship’s cloaking device, a rare and expensive feature, hiding her from his ship’s radar.
Impatiently waiting for her chance, and for them to reach a less habited part of the galaxy, she couldn’t help the constant squirming in her seat as excitement gripped her. Soon I’l have my purple warrior in my grasp and then..
What to expect next, she’d not quite fully understood, although, she’d watched some educational videos that made it seem like a lot of groaning and gyrating. Presumably, the beings indulging found it pleasurable, although some of the contorted expressions and screams made her wonder.
However, this isn’t about personal gratification but the start of my future as a Zonian matriarch. Despite her mental claim, the flutter of her heart said otherwise. She also had to wonder if her experience would mirror what she’d seen on screen given none of the creatures depicted looked completely like her.
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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais Most of the females seemed to sport more than two teats, and their skin hues varied to every color but the pale white pigment she owned. Am I a mutant of my kind? She’d allowed the computer to run tests on her, and it claimed she was perhaps descended from humans originating from a barbarian protected planet called Earth. But, the image of the female it displayed showed a black-skinned being, who, while two breasted obviously, didn’t even come close to sharing the same skin tone. Not that it mattered. She was Zonian now despite her background.
The testing did serve another purpose, which involved the computer displaying potential races she could mate with, their genetic makeup similar enough to her own for breeding to work. And lucky for me, my chosen purple warrior has just the right genes.
Ever impatient, Aylia made her move as his ship entered a galactic dust cloud, the charged particles swirling around their ships, messing with the computer readings.
Depressing a button, an energy pulse, followed by a second one for good measure, shot from her prow and hit the target ship, the electrical zap shut down all onboard systems.
The effect, a temporary one, would render the ship useless until his system rebooted.