"According to readings that were taken while we were there, the person you indicated was not on the planet," the computer said.
"What!? That bastard ass isn't even there? Where has he gone? This won't work unless I can kill the both of them!" Risen shouted, his anger rising.
"From all reports that I have intercepted, he and the empress left the planet a few days ago," the A.I. stated.
"Did you happen to see just where that the fake ass went to?" A now pissed off Risen asked.
"Now checking through all records and recordings of data," the A.I. said a moment later.
A few minutes later, Risen was starting to grow impatient, the A.I. was far slower than he was used to. He was actually tapping the console as his impatience grew.
"Sir," the A.I. said a moment later. "It appears that the person you requested information about left for the planet Jitaku. It appears that this is a highly skilled planet of martial arts-trained people. From what is coming from there, there is a fight to the death taking place, between Kimon Dempsy and his brother."
This seemed to perk Ri9en up as he realized that, indeed, now, was the perfect time to set a death trap. He just had to first get past the soldier that had shot him. Then he nodded his head he really had three people to kill. That ass of a soldier, the little bitch of a child and the bastard fake to the throne.
It was another five hours before Risen was aware that the ship had stopped and was turning.
"Sir," came the A.I.'s voice. "We are now reversing course. Now engaging trans-warp, we should arrive in two hours."
A broad wicked grin spread across Risen's face. Ah, he thought of the tortures that he would subject the little bitch child to. If, as he thought, this was the soldier's child, it would make it sweeter when he snapped her neck. Yes, a wider smile came to Risen's lips, kill her in front of him, then blow a hole in his chest.
Gunther had been beside his wife the entire time, as had been their daughter. Shelly had cried herself to sleep an hour ago holding on to her mother. Her brothers had tried to remove her, shocked when she fought them off. Gunther just shook his head as they sat nearby, each trying to hold back their tears.
They had been there almost six hours when an alarm went off that was as suddenly quiet. "Mary, are there any intruders in the palace?" Gunther asked.
Mary was quiet for a moment, then appeared before Gunther. "As of right now I am not detecting any, sir," Mary said.
Gunther walked to Shelly, gently awaking her. "Shelly honey," he whispered in her ear.
Shelly stirred, then looked at her father, then her mother. "Father?" she asked.
"I think that the bad man that hurt your mommy is back. He has somehow blocked Mary, is there any more you can do to help her?" Gunther asked. He'd already checked the charge on his energy pistol.
Shelly looked at her father again as she nodded, then asked him for a tablet. She then started to enter code almost as fast as before. Within ten minutes she had the cleared code at thirty-one percent and rapidly climbing.
Risen was moving as slowly as he could, with as much as the bitch A.I. had he had to be careful. A beeping let him know that thirty-one percent was lost to him. Without fail, he started to download a data crystal.
According to what he had they were in the Imperial med room. Good he thought as he saw that the new program was playing havoc on the rest. He was still in danger though, as he saw that the little bitch child was still going. Damn it, she was at thirty-five six percent now.
He finally reached the med room though, he didn't see the male soldier. A sudden shot next to his head, had him firing and jerking back.
"Hey soldier boy, gonna kill all three of you," Risen shouted, then a shot hit next to his head closer than before.
"Damn it," Risen yelled as he still wasn't able to locate the soldier. A sudden movement caught his attention as he saw the soldier past his location. An evil smile came to Risen's lips as he aimed at the soldier's back, then held the trigger for several minutes.
Risen started to laugh even more evilly 'til he saw that the energy beam was bouncing off the soldier's back.
The evil smile he'd had quickly faded as he saw that the soldier was fine. Shit he said as he turned and started to run as fast as he could. Several energy shots hit near him as he tried to escape. One finally hit his right hand as he turned a corner to his ship.
He dived through the open hatchway as another energy shot hit him on his right leg. A high-pitched scream was heard as the hatch slammed shut.
Gunther shot the sip and the door several realizing that the gun hadn't the power to actually damage it. Shit He thought as he saw that the ship was preparing to lift off. Gunther ran as fast as he could to the port hatch, then kept going. He'd just got the second port door closed when the ship arose. The blast took the first door off and flew and impacted the second.
Gunther had been knocked off his feet when the launch occurred. He'd managed to get a little further though the second door was barely taken off its hinges.
Consequently, Gunther had managed to get past the first major bend, though the door still caught his leg. He heard the sickenly sound of his leg breaking in several places. The pain was as bad as he remembered then he hit his emergency beacon. He just hoped that Mary could catch it,
Shelly had hit almost fifty percent when she felt the building shaking from a somewhat large explosion.
"Mary? What was that," Shelly asked.
Mary was at fifty percent seeming to wake up. "Miss Shelly?" Mary asked, then had several alarms going off. Sher also saw the program that was trying to invade the rest of her. She then saw Risen's ship rising through the atmosphere. Thanks to Shelly, she arrested the program then fired a few pulse cannons at Risen's ship. Of the three shots on destroyed a section of Risen's ship.
Risen was in a bio-chamber as soon as he came aboard. He donned a thought transfer helmet as the door was closing. It was almost closed when a pulse cannon shot tore a hole in the ship hear him. The bio-chamber door would have been torn off if it hadn't been ninety-nine percent closed. Still, a good part of the air in the chamber was sucked out.
He immediately connected to the ship's computer, "Can the damage be repaired," he asked.
"It can be, though, repair will require no less than three days. The extent of your plasma burns and injuries will require no less than two weeks. Running both will not finish for at least twenty-five days as the power drain will be substantial. Also I will need to put you to sleep to affect some of your repairs," the A.I. said.
"Repair the ship first, when that is finished, start in on me. The ship needs to be whole if I am to survive," Risen said.
"Compliance," the computer said as around the hole in the ship started to glow, then very slowly grow smaller.
Back in the palace, Gunther was trying to stay conscious. He had managed to drag himself a few thousand meters nearer to where Shelly was. He could see that Mary still hadn't answered the distress beacon he'd activated. He knew it was a long shot though he was getting closer, he was also losing blo0od at an alarming rate.
He started to yell as loud as he could, though after as few minutes he was starting to feel weaker.
Shelly was starting to get worried; she'd stopped at fifty-one percent. Her father had gone after the bad man, there was no word from him. She'd just moved out of the med room when she heard a weak voice.
"Papa?" She almost whispered as she listened harder. There! There it was again. "Papa!" She was shouting as she started to run through the corridor.
"Shelly?" She heard, then started to cry as the voice was so weak. Rounding a corner she screamed as her father was on the floor with a trail of blood behind him. "SEE THROUGH LADY!" Shelly started to scream at the top of her voice.
Mary appeared shocked that she hadn't detected the Admirals' wounds. She immediately had him in a bio-bed.
"Please save Papa, see through lady please," Shelly begged.
"I will do all I can, Miss Shelly. Your father has lost a lot of blood, though I think that I can save him," Mary said.
While she was doing this, she was going through all her programming. She could see where this new programming was interfering with her operations. She had removed that part of it, her moving to fifty-two percent. Not all that great a few things she did were blocked.
Kimison and Rayburn had been at it for almost a day when they awoke the next morning. They both shook their heads as they noticed that there was a warm body beside them.
Both males jumped up from their beds when the bodies next to them started to purr. What in the hell was going on they both thought, then looked at each other.
In his bed Kimison saw the tallest Delcron female, Medalina, with blood-red fur looking at him. Her tail was swishing at a furious rate.
In Rayburn's bed was the shorter Delcron female Cetalina with shiny yellow fur. Her tail was also swishing at a furious rate. Both males looked at each other, what the hell had happened last night, they thought to each other?
Both females looked at each other then they lowered their heads. "We are sorry, we didn't know if it was allowed to sleep in the same bed as you," Medalina started.
"We didn't think that either of you would mind as you both passed out on the counters. These were the only beds so we thought it would be alright. We are sorry and will leave as we have dishonored you both," Cetalina said as she and Medalina got out of the beds with lowered heads and eyes.
