Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
This is part of a project to touch up and publish an older series of works I had done in the past, placing them on Literotica. There are quite a few parts, so they will seem repetitive as more are updated, and since they are not being completely revised, they will show their age. There will also be some questionable content, and due to said age, may not be presented in the most palatable manner, as much as I may have believed I did those years ago. Please keep this in mind.
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Xander banged his head on a locker in dismay, lost in the sheer hopelessness of the situation. He was a janitor, not a soldier! How could he possibly fight those things with nothing but the mop he was using to clean up a coffee spill outside of the warehouse offices. They were monsters that moved faster than he'd ever seen in any sprint race, and they were so
quiet
for their size. How could he compete with that? And now he was trapped in his own little 'office', which had his bed and most of his cleaning supplies, plus a small kitchenette. What was he going to do, try and live his life in here?
He was meaning to get some supplies from the requisitions office before the monsters invaded, so he didn't have much food to begin with. He knew he should've tried to get permission to transfer to another colony when everyone started disappearing... but all minor personnel transfers were restricted to the end of the month.
"No doubt those bastard WeyYu types did this... they knew, they had to," he muttered. He was only thirty years old, and he was going to be hunted down like a dog by some alien monsters he could hardly see.
He wanted to sob, but Xander took a deep breath. "It's okay... you're near the landing pad. Remember that little place you had to clean up after that one asshole?" he said to himself. "Go there, you'll be safe from those things, and you'll be able to see if any ships come or go... got it. You got it man."
Inwardly, he was very much doubtful of his ability to survive his journey, short as it was, from his office to the landing pad.
But if he did, he might be able to last long enough for a rescue to come and pick him up... if not, well, he wasn't going to live long staying where he was. Steeling himself, Xander made his way over to the kitchenette, and began rummaging through the cupboards and the fridge, filling up a small bag with items he'd need to last in his intended hiding spot; a few bottles of water -- he usually carried some with him whilst he was out and about throughout the colony cleaning -- and what remaining items of food he still had left; a few crackers, some sweets and dehydrated fruit. It would have to be enough.
With one final, hesitant pause at the door to his janitorial office, Xander would consolidate his resolve, holding a heavy flashlight in his hand, mostly to use as a weapon -- one he very much doubted would save him if it came to that -- and less to light his way. He creaked the door open, peering out one way and then the other, seeing if there was anything lying in wait for him. He saw nothing, just empty corridors strewn with paper where people dropped their nonessentials and tried to flee or hide... though, at the end of the corridor in the direction he had to go if he wanted to make his way to the landing pad, were conspicuous claw marks raked into the panelling of the wall.
He paled and gulped audibly; if those things did that to him, he'd be dead instantly, and if not, and they didn't finish him off right away... it'd be a slow, painful death. Hopefully they were merciful enough to make it quick. With that in mind, he slowly and quietly crept forth from his office, looking down one way and back the other, hoping he was not being watched.
He saw no eyes in the dark or sinister shadows lying in wait for him, so Xander decided it was now or never. He quietly made his way down the hall towards the claw marks, much as he wished to just hole up in his office. He was already contemplating whether this was a bad idea, but now he felt he couldn't turn back. He made a right turn, following the signs that said 'CUSTOMS AND PROCESSING'.
It seemed odd to him, since they rarely got 'immigrants', and wouldn't get many more new arrivals until much more construction had been concluded... well, he doubted they would get
any
new arrivals now. This place would be as good as annihilated once people find out what happened here... he just hoped that, if he was successful, he could reach out to any investigative or supply vessel that came before that happened. Tell them to leave, get away from this hellish place. At least, that was the plan.
'
Small steps, Xander, small steps,'
he thought, reminding himself not to get ahead of himself. He still very much expected those aliens to suddenly find him, and kill him.
He gave a broken vent grate lying on the ground a wide berth, his eyes fixed to the hole in the ceiling that connected the room to the ventilation network, the ducting a favourite route for the creatures to ambush their victims. Xander only knew this because he saw several of his fellow humans dragged kicking and screaming into the ducts by surprise, only to be silenced moments later. He could not hear what happened to them, but he dared not picture what they did to those they caught, only hoping that such quick silence and the noticeable lack of gory sounds to accompany it meant if it truly came to it, death would be quick and painless. Hopefully.
He grimaced, and shook his head; he knew his chances were slim, but he had to stop thinking on it if he wanted to even
have
a slim chance. Otherwise, he'd make a mistake that would definitely assure his death. He had to keep moving, and not dwell on what may lie in store for him... it certainly was not healthy by any means, and certainly not helping him escape his current situation. Still, he could not help but have morbid thoughts that gnawed at the back of his mind, constantly reminding him of death that might lurk around any corner.
Xander made his way through the eerie, abandoned hallways and corridors, and was forced to go through a tight tunnel connecting the main colony with one of the Transportation Processing Centres, praying one of those things didn't attack when he was in there; he'd have no way to defend himself in such a tight space, just wide enough for two people to walk abreast comfortably. There was a larger tunnel for freight, but it connected to the warehouse directly, so he couldn't get to it from where he was.
Fortunately, he was not ambushed as he made his way through the connecting tunnel, emerging into the Customs and Processing offices. It was a large room lined with seats and benches along the walls and placed in the middle of the room, with one wall dominated by an office and counter, among other items meant to streamline processing of new arrivals. Of course, there were no people here now. Along one wall was a window, which gave a view outside to the landing pads; there were four of them, all large enough to fit a fairly sizable shuttle, set a bit below the surrounding buildings.
Behind the pads was a jagged rock formation that created a sort of cliff, a structure built into the side of it and surrounding the pad. One of them led to the communications tower, which sat atop of the formation high above. In some ways, it was a bit of a treacherous approach, but there were wide open spaces and approaches from every other direction. If anything, the rocky formation served to make pilots more cautious and not grow complacent, as one of the traffic controllers once told him.
And his destination was right by one of the pads, under a walkway that surrounded the pads and connected the various surrounding structures. It was an old cargo container that had been used to bring construction supplies when the colony was in its earliest days, and instead of removing it, the workers just built over it and left it there. He remembered it because some junkie almost overdosed in there, suffering from withdrawal since his usual drugs couldn't be shipped in, forced to make any sort of substance from ingredients on site... he was lucky he survived. Xander was not so lucky to have to clean up after he projectile vomited all over his little haunt.
But any residual sputum that he didn't get to was hardly anything compared to the slim chance of survival. He made his way over to the airlock that led outside; fortunately, the atmospheric processor at the colony ensured the outside atmosphere was perfectly breathable, though Xander wasn't too savvy on the details.
The electronic signs in the entrance tunnel flickered, various messages talking of an emergency underway. He wondered how many people tried to come here in hopes that they would be rescued soon... and where they'd all disappeared to. He didn't want to think about it. He would open the door to the outside, the automatic locking sequence apparently disabled by the emergency alerts. Good thing for him; he'd forgotten the codes to the external airlocks, and the customs entrances were on different codes as well. Procedure, it seemed, saved him, because other external airlocks were
not