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She grabs my chin and twists it so that I’m staring right at the Syndicate soldiers. “Over there, you, insatiable beast.”
I see the targets. They’re sitting below the guard tower, enjoying a smoke break. They’re laughing hard about something. It brings me back to when I used to make the big drop-offs. My stomach churns at the sight.
“I got this,” I say.
But it’s too late. Weapons drawn, Anna and Clara both run ahead of me. They start firing, and the alien bodies drop like flies. As the sound rings out, I hold my breath because I know what’s about to happen.
The alarm goes off, blaring like a nuclear siren. Aliens scatter outside like insects on a damp night, b
ut the women are fucking banshees, and they are slaughtering each and every one of them. It even stuns me.
Clara runs toward a beam, balances on the edge, and screams, wielding her blade high into the air. “Come and get it, bitches!”
As a massive beast of an alien runs toward her, she uses on of their own shock prods against his neck. He goes down for the count, twitching and seizing up violently. Of course, there are more of them, but she wastes no time in fucking up their night. She leans on her heels and does a backflip, spinning the blade outward. She slices the necks of three brutes at once.
“Stay down!” she cries.
I’m stunned, but another wave is coming our way. This time, they’re running toward me. Their eyes burn with fire and hate, but an idyllic image of my future life with Anna pops into my mind. I look back, only for a second, and witness all of her beauty.
Her freckles.
Her dumb, cute smile.
The way her hazel eyes scrunch up when she’s stressed. She gives me all the energy I need.
Standing next to her, I open fire. Rows of Syndicate aliens come at us, but they are no match against what we have. They pile up in front of the caged, pregnant women, and eventually, there’s no more of them.
When the last one falls, I feel a rush of endorphins. Everything happens so fast. I lunge toward the cages, quickly freeing the women inside. However, when I step back, they do not move. They just stare at us in horror, as if we’re the bad guys. Well, it’s no wonder. I used to be a pretty bad guy, so I step away and let Anna and Clara take over.
Anna falls to her knees. With tears in her eyes, she takes the first woman in her arms. “It’s okay. You are free,” she says. “Tell the others, too.”
One woman shakes her head. She is malnourished and small, and the color in her scales has nearly vanished. “How can I be free if I have no home to return to? We have no family and no safety net. We cannot even remember our old names. We are the ones everyone forgot about. No one will take us now,” she says.
Anna came here because she needed to save them. She won’t accept no for an answer. She says, “Then come with us. On the other side of the compound is a starship. We will all find another planet to live on.”
Clara comes in on the backup. “We don’t have a home either,” she says.
I drop my gun onto the muddy grass. “Do not be afraid. The world has forgotten about us, too. We are in this together,” I say.
One by one, the aliens come out of their cages. They are brittle and badly injured, but there is hope in their eyes. Together, we walk in curious silence toward the looming ship in the distance.
We walk through the auction house, now abandoned but still filled with fresh cigarette smoke. Music plays softly as we walk through the loading facility, the place where the women were first checked in.
Finally, we get to the other side. The starship that transported me here is massive but empty. We simply walk up the long pathway to the deck, step inside the hollow transporter, and stop at mission control.
Tears drape down Anna’s cheeks, but she looks at me in a way that says, it’s all over now.
Clara takes a deep breath. “I’ll start up the systems. We should hurry. We can get out of here in less than five minutes.”
Anna nods and glances at the long row of women still entering the starship. “I’m sure there’s a first-aid room in this thing. I’ll tend to the injured.”
I say, “I’ll come with you.”
She takes my hand. “No. I need you to man the weapons systems,” she says.
“You think Earth Federation will come after us?” I ask.
Clara speaks up. “General Kyev is dead. They’ll find out what we did, but it will take them too long to track us. I can get us out of the star system faster than you can blink.”
