The Twenty-four-year-old Dr. Araya Quizaria sat anxiously beside her mother waiting for the signal to move to the vehicles. Her mother was former Commodore Drexlia Quizaria, the most infamous prisoner interrogator of the Altonesian legions when the war on earth first began. She was well known for her the harsh torture and treatment of earth human prisoners during the war. After the war she and a handful of other Altonesian legion officers that were never pardoned, were forced to go into hiding.
The Altonesians had been a dying species of beings from a different galaxy. Years before the invasion of earth, their planet had suffered a mysterious virus, which had been deliberately unleashed on them. It acted much like the human flu virus did on humans. Except this virus only effected the respiratory system of just the males of their planet. The virus effects caused horrible and agonizing deaths, by suffocation. It had spread like wildfire wiping out the entire male population in less than a year in Earth time.
The Altonesians were very much identical to earth human beings in their biological make up. They were highly intelligent beings. Their features, and anatomy, body systems all worked the same. Their exception was that the entire race all had dark jet-black shining hair that contrasted with their very light pale skin and bright almost neon blue almond shaped eyes.
The roles of dominate and submissive played a very important role in Altonesian life and culture. Altonesian females of their species were considered the alpha or the dominate of the species in their culture. The purpose of the male was to essentially to be the submissive or what they termed, "the house pet". Used for providing the seed for the giving of offspring. On her 18th birthday the female could choose her pet from among the eligible slave males. Pleasure in sex was never considered a requirement especially for the male of the species. His priority was only to provide the seed for life. If possible, he was to provide it on demand by the female or as quickly as possible in order to return to the performance of his duties, which were to earn financial credits(money) for their family either by working or soldiers in the Altonesian legion. Those males who were found to be sterile, to old, or too sick to be considered a reliable submissive were branded and sent to work camps or trained as foot soldiers for the legion. The others, the ones that were considered too uncontrollable or even worse a danger to the beliefs of their culture were simply sentenced to execution.
During the period, in which the Altonesians were going through the dreadful virus, Another Humanoid species known has the Ice Pirates had also began an invasion of the Altonesian planet. These tall, olive green skinned Ice Pirates, both male and female, with human like bodies, cat like facial features with yellow eyes; were vicious fighters set on nothing more than utter conquest of any and all other known species of life.
The much taller and stronger Ice Pirates attacked the Altonesian planet by the droves. The Altonesians later found out that these Ice Pirates, or IP's has they were called, were also responsible for planting the deadly virus. It had been done in the hope that the Pirates could invade, rape plunder and pillage the planet at will.
Between the virus and an all out inner planetary war with the IP's, the Altonesian population was depleted at an alarming rate. Desperately the Altonesian women searched the galaxies for a similar planet that would be able to sustain them. Within days they found one. It was a small planet in a nearby galaxy. The Plant, X810. The planet known to all of us as Earth. It had a similar atmosphere, climate, even the surface terrain was similar.
The problem was it already had a population. The original hope was to see if the male humans would peacefully agree on terms of becoming pets for the purpose of breeding. After further investigation, it was uncovered that the female population of Earth would not be willing to give up their male companionship so easily. Plus, the fact that the males of the species were the alphas of the planet. This was direct contrast to the Altonesian way of life. It was also a role Earth man had no desire to surrender without a fight.
Altonesians would not agree to any form of submission. Furthermore, terms of equality to any male of any culture would not be something they were willing to except either. They would rather go to war, and so they did. It was immediately decided to launch an all-out attack on the planet and enslave its male population as pets for mating purposes.
Over two million Altonesian highly skilled, female troops invaded. Each landing party had been taught to speak the native language of the countries that they were to land in and take control over.
The first targets were the nuclear weapons facilities of the major countries as well as military and air bases, even before the first warships landed. This was to destabilize any response. Next came disabling any means of long or short-range communication. This purpose was to isolate each country and eventually the entire continent before any defense could be organized on a global level. Next came infrastructure collapse. Railway systems, electric and water plants, police national guard, and medical facilities were taken over. This parallelized any local organization and stability of the invaded country. Then finally, the unleashing of the two and a half million well armed ground troops world wide. To go in and collect Prisoners to be taken in the hundreds of thousands in numbers, throughout all the countries. The only thing left were outnumbered but well-armed troops and civilian rebels that made up small bands of local resistance fighters.
Although the initial attack had proven successful for the Altonesians and they found themselves controlling large areas, it had come at great loss of life, to them and to the people of earth, the men especially. All this in less than a year after learning the Altonesians own planet had been complete overtaken by the Ice Pirates. With this news and the fact that they were losing most of the remaining Altonesian women along with most of earths male inhabitants in a war they could not win on Earth as well, The Altonesians agreed to meet at the negotiation table.
The two sides sat down together and created the Earth - Altonesian Peace Alliance Treaty.
Full unconditional pardons for all Altonesian female soldiers were granted if they agreed to accept all Humans has equals and unite with earth military forces to become the Earth Alliance Forces. Those who didn't would be put in prison camps.
Altonesians could establish their own lands and governing bodies, however there would be no ownership of Human or Altonesians as slaves or pets, unless it was by mutual agreement of both parties, and a written contract signed by both be in place with the governing courts. This was to accommodate the Altonesian female culture. The final condition agreed upon was a joint group war criminals court to be formed. Victims and witnesses were interviewed, and a list of war criminals was posted. A reward posted for turning in of each person on the list, alive to face charges in a public court was created. At the top of that list were the names of Commodore Drexlia Quizaria and her daughter Araya Quizaria. Both were worth two million credits each.
It was present day now. Araya awoke with her hands cuffed together and raised above her head. Her eyes covered by a blindfold of some sort. A fabric dark, soft. Tied at the back of her head in the form of an uncomfortable knot at the base between her skull and neck. She sensed the soft presence and felt the heat of a single spot light that showed down on her from the front. It hung just above her head slightly out of reach of her hands. She hung there completely naked. "How did I get here?" She thought to herself. She was still trying to clear the cobwebs from her brain. "How long have I been here?" She wondered.
She could hear the clacking of the metal from the cuffs as she twisted her wrists, but she could feel the softness of the fur lining on the inside against her skin. She tried to move her legs, but they too were locked in place as well. Connected to what ever she was sitting in. It was a chair. She moved from side to side. As she did, she felt her lower ribs rub against a hard-unmoving surface. "Arm rests," she thought to herself. The chair had arm rests to it. She tried to remember how she had gotten in this situation. "By the Gods" she thought. She prayed that she was not in the hands of the. "Think damn it," she whispered to herself.
The last thing she remembered was that she and her mother had just walked from the safe house that they were staying in. They were on the move again to a new safe house. Every two weeks, they had moved from one established place to another. Always trying to stay ahead of the authorities looking for them. "War criminals", she thought to herself. Her mother had done this to her. Because of it they would always be on the run, with over two million credits each on their head. She despised every moment with the woman now but to go it alone meant capture for sure. So, for now she accepted her situation.
