**This story is an homage to the infamous scene in the movie _Galaxy of Terror_ where a woman is raped by a giant worm. I had heard a lot about this scene, and was massively disappointed when I finally saw it. This is what I had expected to see.**
Tanya Cross hunched behind her laser gun as she shuffled through the corridors of the starship Ramses. She tried to keep the gun aimed straight but her hands kept shaking. Fear clutched at her chest, forcing her breath to come in tight.
She was going to make it. The escape pod was only a few feet away. It was right on the other side of the door.
All she had to do was keep from thinking about what happened to the others. The worms were gone, probably satiated from the others. But that thought led her to think about what the worms did to the other crew members. The men had been killed by the worms, crushed to death. And the women...
Tanya shook herself. That didn't matter anymore. She was going to escape. That wouldn't happen to her.
She reached for the button to open the airlock. Something dripped onto her hand. Tanya reached out to wipe it off. Then she realized it was slime. The slime.
Tanya felt it before she saw it. Something curling down from the ceiling. A pink worm, seven feet long, glistening with slime. She raised her laser weapon. The worm curled its head down to bring its sucker mouth onto the gun. The gun sizzled where the worm's slime touched it. Tanya screamed and jumped back as the gun melted away in her hands.
"No," Tanya moaned. "Not me..."
The worm slithered off the gun onto her left arm. She gasped as she tried to pry it off. Her fingers couldn't find a grip on its pulsating flesh. The worm oozed its way around her arm, wrapping it tightly. It began to writhe its way up her shoulder. It moved too quickly. she couldn't stop it before it had wrapped itself around her arm, her shoulder, her ribs, her chest. Her left arm became pinned against her body. Her right arm flailed, desperately trying to grab something to free herself. Her fingers only skidded along the slick wall. She lost her grip.
Tanya toppled over onto her back. The weight of the worm pinned her to the ground. Its length slithered around her in tight, wet coils. She screamed at the top of her lungs, knowing there was no one left to hear her, but unable to stop.