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Escape From Altera Ch 11 12

Escape From Altera Ch 11 12

by cliffordcroft
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[Note: This is not a "sexy story". It is a mix of WW II "The Great Escape" and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Achipelago"... set in outer space)

Chapter 11: "Escape is Impossible"

I was on the run for an entire day before I twisted my ankle again and fell to the ground in the middle of a road, in total agony.

This was not entirely a coincidence. Mr. Chekov had not succeeded in entirely healing me from my last trauma there. Malnutrition and exhaustion had made my body susceptible to a number of minor illnesses. This time I didn't even trip over a rock; my injury flared up simply by the angle at which my foot touched the ground as I walked.

The funny thing was, as I lay there on that road, I wasn't thinking about capture, or escape, but the War Captain. Had he been right when he said he didn't have the genius of Battle Admiral, now War Admiral Norman North?

Admittedly, he had gotten captured, but the odds had been heavily stacked against us from the beginning. I think he had successfully, and safely, gotten us over two hundred miles from camp, and he had kept us free for two weeks. His last act, the shouted warning, was the reason I was still free.

Of course, his decision to steal the car had proved to be the end for most of us. Would the War Admiral have walked into such a trap? Would he, out of options, have selected this choice? Perhaps there were some battles that could not be won. More than once I've seen the War Admiral withdraw from a battle not to his liking.

But he always regrouped and attacked again. I hoped wherever he was, that the War Captain would do the same.

"You are hurt," came a feminine voice.

I stiffened, and turned over, to see a young, attractive woman standing over me. "Yes," I said in Slurian, careful not to say more.

"I take care of you," she said. "Can you walk?"

With her help, I got up and balanced on one foot. But I couldn't stand on the other. She acted as a crutch, helping me into her home, which was just down the street. At this point, I had few options.

Once she had me inside her home, a small two room cabin, she said, "My name is Natasha." She looked at me for a response.

I didn't know what to say.

"You are not Slurian," she said.

"How can you tell?" I said.

"Because you are so handsome," Natasha said. "You are one of the escaped prisoners."

"Are you going to turn me in?" I said grimly. Could I hobble out of there? I didn't think so.

"Let us talk of that later," she said. "For now, let me see your ankle."

I took off my mukluks and boots and socks, to reveal a very reddish ankle.

"We must apply heat to that, it will help the healing," she said, starting to boil some water.

Natasha took care of me that night. It didn't take much to realize that she was lonely. Most of the young men had been conscripted for the war. I slept on her bed that night, and was a little surprised when she lay next to me and hugged me as I slept.

The next day I tested the ankle. I was making progress; I could stand on it, with some discomfort. But I still couldn't walk. It would take several days to get me back into shape.

I started to have confidence that Natasha would not turn me in. She fed me and took care of me. But her behavior at night started to worry me. On the second night she started kissing me. I gently pushed her away. Then again, later in the night, the same thing.

It wasn't that I found her unattractive; she had long, flowing, black hair, and the typically large, fleshy Slurian breasts which Slurian men found so alluring. Unfortunately, she also seemed to have the intelligence of a grapefruit plant. She had a child-like intellect. Also, to be fair, romance didn't rank very high among my priorities, given my current circumstances. I was malnourished, temporarily crippled, and under intense stress.

Meanwhile, my leg was recovering. The next day I felt well enough to limp around. I suspected that, given my current rate of recovery, I'd at least be able to walk soon, and something intangible made me uneasy enough to decide to leave the next day.

Unfortunately, I made the mistake of telling Natasha that.

She started crying. "You're going to leave me? All alone?" She wept some more.

I attempted to console her, but I also kept a close eye on her, for fear she would report me to the Redcaps.

That night she served me a strange tasting soup. I thought it was odd tasting because of the unusual vegetables in it, but had second thoughts as I suddenly became very drowsy. In fact, I had trouble keeping my eyes open.

"Why don't you get some rest?" she said, dragging me to the bed.

I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. I knew immediately I had been drugged. I tried to move my arms and legs, but couldn't. Natasha had used leather belts to tie my arms and legs to the bed frame.

"Ah, you're awake and rested," she said.

"Are you going to turn me in?" I said fearfully.

"Idaho! I would never do that!" she said. She started to undo my pants.

"What are you doing?" I asked. Actually, though it seemed pretty self-explanatory.

She lowered my trousers, and then removed her own clothing. I might have admired her figure, if I weren't malnourished, tied to a bed, and feeling the psychological weight of several platoons of Redcaps searching for me.

"Do you like what you see?" asked Natasha, standing so I could admire her. She flaunted her large, jiggling pear shaped proletarian breasts at me.

"Ah, yes, well, they look very squeezable, but-"

Natasha started to lay down on me, rubbing against my body. Unfortunately, she started to get me excited despite myself. Those large Slurian breasts seemed to work wonders on me. Her softness above evoked a hardness below. In just a few moments she grew the response she had been looking for, and she took full advantage of it. She grabbed my organ put it in a place designed to maximize her pleasure.

Actually, it didn't do too badly for my pleasure, either.

Natasha groaned as she grinded on top of me. She seemed to be having a great deal of fun. I was just worried that her cries would attract the Redcaps.

She seemed to go on for a long time. How long had it been since she had been pleasured by a man? I could only wonder. For me, it was pleasurable, in a way, but I was really under too much stress to enjoy it properly. I was able to squirt inside of her, which pleased her to no end; she clapped her hands and yelled when she felt me explode inside of her. When she was done, and both of us were exhausted, she dismounted and gave me a quick kiss. "You were wonderful, Idaaho."

"I'm even better when I'm untied," I said.

"No," she said. "You can never leave me."

She couldn't keep me tied up forever.

Could she?

The next day she fed me while I was tied up. She put a potty under me to take care of my other needs. And the following night she came to me again, turning me on so I would turn her on, so to speak.

This continued for three more days. I tugged and tugged on the straps holding my arms and legs, but the restraints were strong, and wouldn't budge.

Meanwhile I was starting to worry that my muscles were atrophying. After a few more days of this, I would no longer be able to walk. Maybe that's what Natasha was hoping for, waiting for that moment when she could untie me because I would no longer be able to stand on my own two feet.

"Love me!" cried Natasha that night, as she pulled down my pants and tried to get me excited again. I gritted my teeth and tried to resist, but it was ultimately futile. Those large Slurian breasts never failed to conquer me. The sight of them flopping up and down as she rode on top of me never failed to ignite my passion.

How would I get out of here? I didn't have a clue.

And then something very unexpected happened the following day.

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I heard voices outside. Natasha looked outside the window. "Sshh!" she said. "Redcaps. You stay quiet. I will deal with them." She went outside.

I could only vaguely hear her voice as she talked to them. As I listened for a moment or two, I could sense that the conversation was quickly coming to a conclusion.

And then I thought of an idea. Yelling out.

Natasha hadn't bothered to gag me, believing that I would never, ever turn myself in to the Redcaps.

Indeed, the prospect of prison, labor camps, and torture didn't appeal to me.

But my chances of escaping on my own here were zero.

The thing that I'm embarrassed about is that I didn't even pause or take any time to consider my decision. I was so miserable I just did it.

I yelled out.

Nothing happened, but outside it was suddenly silent.

I yelled again, and as I was yelling, the Redcaps burst through the door.

"My heroes!" I said sarcastically.

One of the Redcaps turned to Natasha, who suddenly tried to spin a story of how she was keeping me captive for them. The Redcap slapped her, and she fell to the ground. As she spun about, I noticed her large breasts jiggling.

As the Redcaps untied me and propelled me to the door, Natasha, lying on the ground, still persisted, grabbing one of my legs. "No!" she cried. "Don't leave me! Love me! Love me!"

One of the Redcaps, a young officer, looked down at her, and then at me, and grinned.

********

"So, we meet again," said a familiar face.

The blindfold was taken off and I saw the blonde Redcap major standing before me. I was tied to the interrogation chair in her office.

"This was the last one, Major Almorsa," said one of the Redcaps.

Almorsa? Finally, I had a name to attach to my torturer's face. We hadn't been formally introduced in our first two encounters, and quite frankly I never expected a third one.

"Did I not say you would regret it if we met again?" she said, giving me a hard look.

"I've been having memory problems lately," I said.

Major Almorsa put her face close to mine. "I will help you to remember."

I'm not going to recount the torture, only to say it was very unpleasant, like last time, and the beatings were worse. One slightly positive effect of the sleep deprivation is that I didn't remember very much of the details afterwards.

The beatings went on for several days, but I could sense that her heart wasn't really in it. I certainly hadn't told her anything useful.

Finally, she said, "You are wasting my time! Guards! Get him ready for transport!"

Major Almorsa put her face close to mine. "I hope you've enjoyed our little encounter."

"Oh, every moment," I assured her.

"Because this will be our last meeting," she said. "You have caused us enough trouble, little man. W have received authorization to put 'shoot on sight' in your file. On your next escape attempt, there will be no more interrogations, no more sweet talk."

She watched me as the implications sunk in. If I tried to escape again and failed, there would be no further chances.

The next thing I knew, I was bundled on a shuttle. I assumed this was the first leg of my trip back to Labor Camp 94.

I couldn't have been more wrong. We flew for several hours. And then, eventually, I could see, out the window of the shuttle, an enormous mountain looming in the distance. As we got closer, I couldn't help but gasp. It was huge. It looked like a giant vertical pillar rising out of the earth, made of stone. There would be no climbing that, neither up nor down.

As the shuttle gained altitude, I saw that there was a plateau on the top of the mountain, relatively flat, with vegetation growing. "That's where we're going?" I asked.

One of the Redcaps nodded. "Mount Perm."

"Perm?"

"Perm," said the Redcap. "Our most secure prison facility. You will find no way off this mountain, unless you jump, Richman." The other Redcaps in the cabin laughed at this feeble attempt at humor.

The shuttle set down on a landing pad outside the encampment. To one side was a series of fields with tall vegetation. I wondered what they grew here. On the other side of the landing field was the camp. The Redcaps escorted me to the front gate.

One of the things I noticed immediately was that the guards at the gate were not Redcap. They were regular Slurian military. Did the military also maintain labor camps?

Salutes were given, receipts were signed, and I was turned over to them. The guards took me to the commandant's office. He turned out to be a balding Slurian military officer named Colonel Yevgeny Tenov.

Colonel Tenov was typing something on a screen when I came in. He continued typing for a minute more before turning to me.

"Ah, Idaho Tuch," he said, checking a readout. "Take a seat, please."

I stared. It was the first time I had heard the word "please" come out of a Slurian's mouth. I sat.

"You are the latest troublemaker to be sent here," said Colonel Tenov mildly. "I presume the Loyalty Police didn't tell you where you were going or why?"

I shook my head.

"Yes, they are sometimes short on words," said Tenov. "This is a camp for prisoners of war who have repeatedly caused trouble by attempting to escape. Some of them are actually quite good at it. But not here." He punched up an image of the mountain on the screen. "As you can see, we are over two and a half Sluromiles up in the air. The way down is nearly entirely vertical. Even if you were to fashion ropes and spikes, you would be unlikely to make it. And long before you made it, we would find you, if you were lucky."

"And if I were unlucky?"

"The Loyalty Police would find you," said Tenov. "I see you have a shoot on sight order attached to your file. We are not barbarians; we understand it is the duty of officers to try to escape. But here it is not possible. And if you try to escape, it is our duty to make life unpleasant for you."

"Wait a minute," I said. "This is a prisoner of war camp?"

"Yes," said Tenov, giving a small smile. "I see from your record that you have spent over two years in civilian labor camps. Most amusing."

"Ha ha," I said, deadpan.

Tenov stared at me. "You may find life a little easier here, but no less strict. We are brutal when we need to be, but not for, how do you say it in your League English. "kicks" or "fun". Obey, and you will not be harmed. You will be provided with adequate food and clothing, and you will serve shifts on the farming team."

"Farming team?"

"We grow our own food here, so as not to be a burden on Slurian society," said Tenov. "We also grow a special crop... for export." He paused, and he looked away as he spoke again. "The only amenity you will not find here is mail."

"No mail?"

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"This is a punishment camp, and mail is a luxury." For the first time, Tenov seemed to have trouble meeting my eyes, staring at the wall behind me. There was obviously more to the story than that. If they didn't want us to find out what was going on in the outside world, why not simply censor our mail?

And then Colonel Tenov looked at me again, and said something shocking to me that no Slurian had ever asked before.

"Do you have any questions?"

I shook my head.

"Sergeant Pigli," said Tenov. And then he was looking away, back at his screen.

A fat sergeant took me away. As I was marched into the compound, the fat Sergeant spoke to me. "The colonel likes you, I can tell," said Pigli.

"Oh, I'm flattered," I said dryly.

"Everything he said was true," said Pigli, as he walked me across the compound. "If you behave and don't get into trouble, no one will hurt you." He paused. "I notice the bruises on your face. Did the Redcaps do that to you?"

"Yes," I said.

"Shameful," said Pigli. "Well, you won't find those bastards here."

I was a little surprised by his attitude. I knew that the military had some rivalry with the Redcaps, but didn't realize that there was this level of dislike.

Pigli took me to a barracks, where I took in a view that I can only describe as a delight: League soldiers--Army, Navy, even pilots, by the faded uniforms they wore.

"Hey!" said a man with sergeant stripes. "We haven't seen a new face in a while!" He jumped up to shake my hand.

"Just a minute, Sergeant Bailey!" said Pigli sternly. "I have not yet introduced the new prisoner. Prisoners, this is Lieutenant Idaaho Tuch."

"Tuch?" someone asked.

"Took," I said.

"What ship did you serve on?"

"Where are you from?"

"Are we winning the war?"

There were so many questions coming so fast. "I don't know," I said, answering the first question last. "I've been a prisoner in a civilian labor camp for two years."

That raised another babble of questions.

"Hold it, hold it," said Sergeant Bailey. "He should report to the Colonel, first."

The other soldiers looked disappointed. Then I remembered they didn't get any mail. No wonder they were starved for news!

Sergeant Bailey took me to the senior officer, Colonel Robert Crawford. Crawford, I learned, had been a regimental commander who had been taken prisoner nearly four years ago.

Crawford interviewed me at some length, asking very specific questions. I started to get the idea that he was suspicious of me for some reason, and said as much.

"Forgive me, Lieutenant," said Crawford. "But the Slurs have been known to plant spies among us. I'm just trying to get all the facts. As a matter of fact, you have quite a credible reference."

"I do?" I asked. I hadn't recognized anyone I had met so far.

"Have him come in now," said the Colonel, speaking to an enlisted man.

The door opened, and none other than War Captain Emmett North stepped in.

"War Captain!" I said. "When did you get here?"

"Just a few days before you did," he said. "It's good to see you, Lieutenant."

"Do you know what happened to the others?" I asked.

The War Captain shook his head. "We can only hope they were sent back to the labor camp." There was a certain irony in how he said it. That was the best possible fate they could have hoped for.

"Like you, they determined I was too great of a security risk, and sent me here," said the War Captain. "Apparently, we're the first newcomers to arrive in nearly six months."

"What does that mean?" I said.

"Either that there aren't a lot of determined escapees, or there are fewer newer prisoners coming into the system," said the War Captain.

"That means we're winning the war!"

"Not necessarily," the War Captain corrected. "It may simply mean the war is at a stalemate."

"Oh," I said. "So what do we do now?"

"Escape again, naturally," said the War Captain, as if the question didn't really need answering.

Since the War Captain had vouched for me personally, the prisoners of Mount Perm were willing to share with me the details of their escape plan.

"How can you possibly hope to escape off this huge mountain?" I asked. "I'm told it's unclimbable."

"Who told you that?" Sergeant Bailey said. "The Slurians?"

"It

is

climbable," said the War Captain. "But only by expert climbers in good physical condition. The Colonel was correct when he told you that long before you got to the bottom, your absence would be noticed, and they would find you."

"How do you know what Colonel Tenov told me?" I asked curiously.

The War Captain and Colonel Crawford exchanged glances. "We are, at times, able to listen in on the conversations in his office."

"A listening device?" I said.

"Nothing so sophisticated, Lieutenant," said Colonel Crawford. "Simply a man lying in the gap between the floorboards of his office and the ground below."

Oh. Then I noticed how all the barracks were elevated above the ground.

"That's to make it easy to spot diggers," said Crawford. "But they don't often look under their own buildings."

"So how do you dig a tunnel?" I asked.

"Carefully," said Crawford.

"But even if you do dig a tunnel... and get out... and somehow get down the mountain... what then?"

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