“If Zarek hadn’t shielded us, our minds would have been destroyed.”
“Remind me to thank him.”I rubbed my aching forehead.“Is Zarek hunting Ziyn too?”
“He is.”
An orange light popped into existence by the door.
Several seconds later a spinning black vortex formed on the roof.
“That can’t be good.”I struggled to stand.
Kaelen helped me up and frowned.“It is not. Qa’a has sent his executioners.”
“Are executioners the Katanic version of cops?”
“Consider them judge, jury and assassin,”Kaelen replied.“Only Qa’a can control them.”
“Oh yippee. They are chasing Ziyn, right?”
A muscle twitched in Kaelen’s jaw.“That would be my guess. Ziyn is unaware we have discovered her collaboration with the Tai-Kok and that we have taken the ship.”
“This should get interesting.”I pulled one of my special grenades out of my pocket.“Let’s see if this gives her a bad case of indigestion.”
A predatory smile formed on Kaelen’s mouth.“I like the way you think. Give me the other one.”
I handed it to him.
Four dark, wraith-like creatures arrived in a dazzling display of pyrotechnics. Slashes of incandescent green danced around them.
Holy hell! They had glowing yellow eyes, a bunch of fang-like teeth, and wore funky black, hooded capes. Huh? No feet, they just sorta hovered in the air.
The second vortex suddenly spat out five Katanics shapeshifters in their true form. Their tentacles were wrapped around twelve loudly honking Tai-Kok soldiers.
“Which one is Ziyn?”They all looked the same to me.
“None of them are female.”
“Huh? How can you tell?”The image of a Katanic female formed in my head. She had three tits.“Gotcha.”It was hard to sort through all the new information swirling about in my head.
Whoosh! Moving faster than the eye could follow, the executioners attacked.
Tai-Kok soldiers went flying in every direction as the Katanic shapeshifters battled the executioners.
Being careful not to hit the warp engines, we shot the Tai-Kok before they could draw their weapons. Four hit the floor dead.
The other eight were wounded and seriously pissed. Quacking like Donald Duck on meth, they charged us.
I somersaulted out of the way of a Tai-Kok soldier’s slashing metal claws, rolled to my feet and hurled my boot knife.Thud.It struck the soldier in the middle eye. He staggered backward, yanking frantically at the knife and an executioner ate him.
Huh? Guess they had the munchies. Pivoting on one foot, I drove my size twelve boot into a Tai-Kok soldier’s groin. Giving a weird quacking honk, he fell to his knees, and the executioner gobbled him down too.
Teleporting rapidly around the room, Kaelen avoided the executioners and killed the remaining soldiers. Whoa! My guy was a badass.
A Katanic shapeshifter missing big chunks of flesh shot out of the vortex, took one look around and let out a high-pitched screech.
Well, hell. This one had tits. I grimaced. She also had pieces of bloody flesh stuck in her teeth. Her intense hunger hit me like a sledgehammer. I gave her my Debbie Sunshine smile.“Don’t worry, honey, I have just the thing for you to eat.”Pulling thepin on my grenade, I tossed it down her gaping maw.“Babies are off limits, bitch.”
A muffled boom sounded, and her flesh ballooned out. Shrieking like a banshee, she threw herself into the vortex.
