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“Octopods? That’s what you call those things? Jesus. Well, I want them dead. Release all of it. Some of you men may pass out even with their faces protected unless your visors are meant to clean these small molecules?”
“I don’t know. There’s some protection,” I say, considering this. “If we put all of it in the corridor, do you think they’ll be able to run away?”
“If you put all of it in the corridor, we won’t be able to run away,” she says. “Put twenty units in.”
I hold eye contact with the human woman. “Will we die too?”
“It’s possible, but we might die anyway, and if we do, good, who wants to give birth to those things?” She seems very confident and nods at me. “Do it.”
My finger hovers over the computer. Finally, I release the sleeping agent. “Twenty units have just been released,” I tell her. Then I say to my men, “Return. Do not raise your visors.” I put my visor down as I watch my men enter the medical center. We close the door as well as we can and seal it behind us. Now we wait.
I turn on the internal cameras from the medical center to see what I can in the flooded corridor. Three Octopods are down on the floor, but two more are trying to crawl away. We watch them as they come to a complete stop and then, after some jerking, come to a complete standstill.
A human asks from behind me, “Are they dead?”
I check their life signs. “Three of them are, yes.”
“Good. Can we leave now?”
“Almost,” I reply. Then I give orders to my men in Alliance. Some are to escort the humans onto the Des. Others are to search the ship and ensure we have all the humans and Octopods. I am going to comb their computer for any valuable information about where this ship was headed and who they were meeting with. Then I ask the human chemist standing beside me, “Have you seen any other humans?”
She nods solemnly. “There were men, but they were pushed out of the airlock. Apparently, these aliens didn’t know the difference between men and women until we got to the medical center, and they began using our wombs. They tried on some men first…” she trails off.
I close my eyes in pity for those men. At least they weren’t sold as slaves on Gala. “I see. When we get back to our base, you’ll be interviewed, and it’s very important you give my colleagues as much information as you can remember.”
“And then what? Will you get these things out of me?”
“Our medical team will do what they can.”
She’s about to walk away and then turns back. “May I ask your name?”
I point to my name on my uniform as it’s not done in Alliance culture to say one’s name, but then I remember that she can’t read Alliance. So, I break the rule. “Sem, an officer in the Alliance Force.”
“Thank you for saving us, Sem.”
“You are the Lost People. This is my duty and my honor,” I say as I bow.
“Oh, one more question: should I mention in my statement I killed those alien doctors?” she motions to the lifeless Octopod bodies.
“Yes, as long as you were using a weapon, it’s legal. The galaxy has special rules involving toxic gases, viruses, and the like.”
“Am I going to get in trouble for helping you?” she asks more out of curiosity than that she’s angry.
“I’m not going to tell if you’re not going to tell, and I already deleted the record.”
“Sem, you are a man after my own heart.” She picks up a bloody medical tool. “I used this to cut them up. It’s a weapon, right?”
I look through the medical center and hand her a better weapon. “You used this, actually.”
She tries it out in the air as if she’s going to use it again.
“Remember, we’re here to help you. Please don’t hurt anyone,” I say, wondering if I should allow her to board our ship with the weapon. But in the end, my sympathy for what these human women have gone through wins out. “Go now,” I point to where the other human women are beginning to walk. “Our doctor will help you.”
* * *
Back onboard the Des, I wait for the GC ship. When it arrives, and they are verified with a code the commander gave me, I release our lock with my code so they can take the prisoners that are still alive. As far as I’m concerned, no one needs to know that these human women killed as many Octopods as they could. If we were going by the book, those human women would be going with the GC, but just like the doctor on Alliance Force, we do what we feel is right for this area of the galaxy on a case-by-case basis. I learned from Commander Fox, and my men, in turn, will learn from me. We try to follow the law, but at the same time, we allow for compassion. Even if someone from the GC finds out in a week or year from now what we’ve done, I doubt anyone will come all the way out here to arrest me or any humans.
Once the codes are exchanged, and everything is complete, I give the command to my helmsman to head back to base. The human women have already gone ahead with Ash in the Ge. So I’ve nothing to do but think about Ivy and the trip she wanted to take in a few weeks. I wonder if I’ll be able to control myself if we are alone and no one is watching but the goddesses. Am I strong enough to resist Ivy?
