The Adventures of Bethany Starglider
Part Two - The Xithor
After all the excitement with the Reptilians in Martian customs and then meeting all her old friends Bethany had gone to her cabin for several hours sleep. By the time she had woken up Sarha had flown the ship far out of the solar system and into deep space, traversing light years with each wormhole that the ship opened.
Bethany walked into the main cabin where Sarha was preparing the ship for it's next Wormhole jump whilst she chatted to Emily. Sarha had changed since Mars into what Bethany thought was a somewhat ugly combination of Sarissan Leopold Skin mini-skirt and Bikini with Larkian Crocodile Skin boots. Whilst Emily still wore the incredible tight grey shipsuit, which while it showed off her amazing arse perfectly, Bethany thought it, could show off a little more flesh.
"I've got to say intergalactic space travel is more boring than I thought. Now the solar system was exciting, really exciting but this is dull." Bethany said as she approached the other two girls.
"That's right honey. Being a space pirate..." Answered Sarha.
"Or top-class cruiser pilot." Chipped in Emily.
"May sound very exciting but most of the time you just sit around waiting for the ship to jump. Deep space is boring, it's only when you meet other ships or get to planets that the exciting stuff happens."
"Well when does any that stuff happen to us?" Bethany pleaded, a bit disappointed that after all the initial excitement nothing much else might happen until they got to Pleasarous IV.
"Well due to my, err..Less than popular status on most civilised worlds in the galaxy I was hoping to avoid any stops on the way." Sarha said looking a little bit embarrassed.
"You're going to have to tell us exactly what you've been up to Sarha!" giggled Emily.
"Well it's quite a long story but a few months ago did you hear about the Princess of Harla eloping with some lover of her's rather than marrying her second cousin in a political arrangement."
"Yeah, so what?" Answered Bethany, she and Emily were now quite concerned at where this tale was going.
"Well that lover wasn't some palace guard like everyone speculated. It was me." Bethany and Emily gasped at the revelation.
"My God Sarha! You naughty girl!" Said Emily.
"Maybe a bit naughty but I don't think it deserves having a million credit bounty put on your head, does it?"
Bethany was suddenly feeling a bit jealous; Sarha would risk upsetting one of the most powerful planets in the galaxy for a fuck with some royal slut. "What was this princess like?" She asked trying not to let the jealousy show.
Emily spoke up before Sarha could answer "You've never seen the reports from Harla? The princess and at one time heir to the throne is considered one of the most beautiful women to ever live. Guys were committing suicide around the galaxy when she vanished. Hee hee, apparently into the arms of our dirty little friend here."
"Most beautiful woman ever eh? Well where is she now Sarha? Waiting somewhere for you to come home?" Bethany nearly shouted, getting quite upset now.
"Calm down honey, we had a few arguments and she left. She may be hot but she's also a bitch." Sarha said, looking a bit guilty.
"Yeah don't get worked up Beth. Can't you be happy for Sarha? You're not her mother?" Emily said, rather bemused by Bethany's reaction. Still, she thought, she's always been a bit stuffy so maybe the thought of Sarha being a lesbian had shocked her.
"Sorry." Bethany mumbled as she turned around to look out the ship window into the black expanse of space.
"Let's just forget it. The ship's ready for the next jump anyway." Sarha said as she turned away from Bethany to pointedly look at the console.
Emily couldn't understand what was going on with these two. So Bethany didn't like her friend being a lesbian but it was hardly a new revelation and Emily had thought Bethany's new PVC wardrobe had indicated a less old fashioned attitude as well.
Suddenly Bethany spoke up "What's that over there?" pointing at a small grey dot in the far distance.
Emily turned to look at it "Looks like another ship to me, bit too though quite far away. Scanners say it's dead in space must be a wreck."
"Can we check it out?" Bethany asked excited again.
"I don't see why not, someone could go over in the shuttle." Said Sarha; happy to see Bethany had got over the Princess. She made a mental note not to mention any previous fucks to Bethany; she was obviously the jealous type and if she found out about the thousands of girls before might not take it too well.
"I'll take you over if you want, exploring a wreck might be fun." Emily offered and the others quickly agreed.
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The small shuttle craft approached the huge, dark hulk of the space wreck, it looked totally devoid of life and had obviously suffered a lot of damage to it's hull in collisions after years of hanging in deep space. Large holes dotted the surface and most of the weapons and communication systems had been ripped off.
Bethany, sitting next to Emily who was piloting, was wide eyed with amazement as they approached. She'd never seen such a big ship before, "It's massive! I didn't think ships could be so big."
"They not, at least not these days. This is an Avarian Battlecrusier; they were built over 200 years ago. Totally amazing warships they could take on several battleships at the same time but the last was commissioned in 2278 shortly before the Avarian economy collapsed. A few are still kept running by the larger navies but they really are too old and are falling apart. I can't believe we've found a wreck, if any spare parts are left in working order we could be rich." Emily answered, a huge grin on her face.
"It doesn't look in a very good state."
"My dear Bethany these things could survive direct nuclear strikes, a few meteor collisions will have done little damage to the internal systems. All we have to do is get to the bridge, get the power online and we can see what's still working."
"But if anything works, why leave it here?" Bethany asked whilst still staring at the huge wreck getting closer all the time.
"Who Knows? Crew mutiny, no fuel or maybe the ship was in combat and at the time thought too badly damaged but these days even damaged parts could be worth loads."
Suddenly the shuttle's command console began bleeping and several data readouts began filling with information.
"What's that?" asked Bethany.
"Um, well it seems the ships communication transponder is still on. That's more than a bit odd; you'd normally turn it off if you abandoned a ship as it could cause confusion to other ships. Still least we now know some power is still operating. Check out those screens it will tell you about the ship."
Bethany began reading the small data screens printing out information from the Battlecrusier. "It says the ship is called "The Aurora" and it was part of the 12th Martian Fleet. It claims to be in a holding orbit but I don't know around what and it says nothing about being abandoned." She read out and now not so sure about the excitement of exploring the wreck, "Do you think we should maybe leave it alone?"
"No we'll just land and take a quick look around. No one could possible be on board, we'll be alright." answered Emily not really reassuring Bethany or herself.
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The two girls crept through the corridor from the shuttle bay towards the bridge. A low level of power just about provided enough light to see by but strange shadows flicked across the walls. Thankfully environmental integrity had been maintained so the girls didn't need spacesuits but Bethany was wishing she had something else to wear, her PVC g-string and crop top were not providing much warmth in the cold atmosphere of the wreck.