Dora watched as the smaller ship landed in the docking area. Four men got out in completely black armoured gear with as many weapons as would fit on a body. They confidently strode up to the door.
Dora gave an update. “Four men, full battle armour, completely black with lots of weapons”
“What is your business on Planet S610,” Dora asked
One of the men with a confident smile took a step closer, he opened his mouth then the smile faded as Dora’s gift started to pull words he didn’t intend to use towards his mouth.
“We are here to kill the Princess” The man replied, his men looked at him shocked.
“How many men do you have?”
He was starting to sweat now “15 plus a pilot”
“What is your plan of attack?” One of the men pushed him out of the way and stood in his way, only to answer the question instead. “We have sent two other ships to the north exit and the secret entrance to break in. we are just a decoy.” His hand flew to his mouth.
“who sent you?” but one of the men at the back had figured out what was going on. She is a truth seeker, and grabbed the men away. Back to the ship.
“Dora spoke up. Did you get all that?” Yes replied Alex and Jay at the same time.
“Mia you need to get away from the secret entrance, I repeat, Mia get away from the secret entrance.” Alex directed. But there was no answer. He then started to rearrange people to defend the new doors they intended to break into. Jay can you have half your team be dropped at both doors, come in from behind.”
“yep, we have two transit pods we can get there, eta 15mins”
They was a flurry of activity as everyone got to their new positions. Alex still giving new orders.
Shell’s voice came through, “seven men just breached the north door”
Jay looked at his team. “That leaves four men at the secret entrance. I’ll take the single seater to the secret entrance. You all go in the other to the north door. I don’t want any kids hurt, ok!” he ordered. “Get us as close as you can Ryder without jeopardising the ship”
They all ran for the hull where the transit pods were, they jumped in and started them up, waiting for Ryders signal.
They could hear a gun battle on the ground through their comms open line. Jay was getting antsy not being able to just be there
“Where do you think the other four men in the decoy pod will turn up” asked Tilly
“Good question” Benny replied
They got their signal from Ryder and Jay gunned the little engine, heading directly to the secret entrance. When he got close enough he thought he could just make out the last guy going through the door. He landed his pod behind a big rock so he had cover when he got out “Ready at secret entrance, going dark.” Jay said into his comms. He then tapped the black stud in his left ear and the comms became quiet. He always did this when working alone, relying heavily on his senses.
He snuck to the entrance and inched around he could see the back of the last guy just turn right up the next corridor. As he pushed off through the door, he heard, was must be the decoy team approach in their transit pod. Great he now had eight men and a princess, somewhere in the vicinity.
He peeked around the next corner and dropped the last guy, as he fell, he took down the next one. The front guy then fell and the second guy and only one left standing panicked and run flat out ahead. When he got to the corner, Jay sore him take a kick to the gut, and an elbow in the head as he fell. “Nice” he said to himself.
Behind him he could hear the decoy team entering the building. He sprinted to the corner and slowly edged around. He could see a female figure in tight fitting cargo pants and a vest take off ahead. That had to be Mia and he probably had all of 10 seconds before the team came up behind him. He ran for her noting the door just up ahead. At full stride he grabbed her opened the door and pulled them both in.
It was a cupboard! he had hoped for a room.
With his left hand holding his rifle wrapped around her waist and his right hand over her mouth, he leaned his back against the inside of the cupboard for stability. The cupboard door on his left. He froze, trying to hear how far away the other team was. It was pitch black it there. Mia started to struggle, he just realised she didn’t know who he was. “Shhh,” he whispered, straight into her ear, I won’t hurt you. Her body shivered involuntary, then she tried to elbow him in the ribs, but lucky for him it was only half a blow because of the tight confines of the cupboard. He then felt her hand move down his leg to where his hand gun was. Oh that would not end well, “Mia” he whispered, he could feel her body tense. Oh yes it was Mia alright. “Its Jay, from the second” He whispered into her ear again, her body shivered again, “can I remove my hand” She nodded, “Another team came in behind me” he took his right hand from her mouth slowly. “Do you trust me?” Jay asked, th
They exited the cupboard slowly, allowing their eyes to adjust to the light again. They headed back down the corridor they had just come from. They passed the man Mia had taken out with a kick and elbow, her gun was on the ground near him. She must have dropped it in the attack. He was still alive but wouldn’t be coming around anytime soon. She had got him good. Jay kicked the weapons from him, “did you want your gun, or will you use mine.”Mia thought “yours” Jay nodded and they continued.They stopped at the next man, or the lead man. He had been shot straight between the eyes. Jay removed his vest. “Take your vest off. This will offer you more protection, not to mention more weapons.” Mia did it quickly. “Crack shot” he said to her. She was trying not to look at the man, she blushed. He helped her tighten the straps so it wasn’t too loose on her. “Ok?” he asked“Ok” she replie
“Yes” she replied. He let out a breath and helped her up with his free hand and then he made a direct line to the control panel. He tapped his stud a couple of times. “Ryder, do you have a copy”“Yes Jay” replied Ryder“I’m on the other ship. Can you configure its system so we have control? There’s still a Pilot on here somewhere.”“Yes” Ryder said. “Open a line to me.”Jay tapped his stud again to turn it off and opened a line between both the ships. His voice came through the ships speakers. “If you can find the override key, I can do it remotely, that would be quickest.”“Where do we look for the override key,” Jay asked“It’s a long shot but it comes in the manual, but most people change it.”“Manual,” Mia said stepping up beside him with a think book in her hand. On the first page t
“I have to go get him” she said, she grabbed Jays gun, ran to the door and held the switch down for 3 seconds like she had seen Jay do. As soon as the doors were open, she ran straight for the engine room. She took a big breath before the last door opened, she could see them both trying to stagger to their feet. She charged and the Pilot and kicking his feet out from under him and following through with an elbow in the ribs. She then ducked under Jays big arm and tried to force him to walk back to the door.He got in six steps before his knees started to buckle, with all her might she held him up against the wall. She moved in front of him and getting both his arms over her shoulders she lent forward taking all his weight on her back and started walking forward, his feet dragging behind. Her lungs were burning screaming out for air but she couldn’t take a breath yet or they wouldn’t make it. She had to get further from the fumes. Four steps away, 3, 2,
She gently cleaned the bullet wound and surrounding area. With the tweezers, she could feel the metal bullet, she quickly pulled it out, pressing a cloth over the wound applying pressure. With her other hand she got the needle and thread. A smile formed on her face as she remembered Master Alex scalding her in their first aid classes because she had figured out how to sew “Mia” in most of the sewing practice. She laughed out loud and set to work, she never dreamed she would actually use these skills. She would have to thank Alex later. She looked at her handy work. Oh yeah “M i a” had worked perfectly, she had even impressed herself. Alex couldn’t possibly be upset with this job. She quickly went back to the Medi bay and washed all Jays blood off her hands. She got back and bandage his arm firmly. She then removed his vest, no easy feat with all Jays muscles. She rolled him onto his front to make sure he had no other injuries. She felt down his le
He reached his hand up and tapped his stud Mia, did the same “Ryder you called”“Yeah Jay, I’m going to land you guys on the dock, we’re going to need that ship”“Why?” asked Jay“There is an injured Trainee down here who just went into shock, we are going to fly him out for medical treatment ASAP.”“And I suppose you really, want to fly this Ship,” Jay said“Like a hand grenade without a pin!!” Ryder repliedJay Laughed “You have better take Tilly with you although be careful using that expression around her, she might try to disarm you. Is there anyone else injured.”“Master Dora got shot in the upper thigh and they can’t get the bullet out without surgery, she will go too. And then You got shot but it looks like you’ll make it, Mia sore to that. Ok stay where you are this is a first for me”The Ship gave an
As she entered the room Sao ran up and hugged her, “Mia, I was so worried. I didn’t know where you were.“Hey Sao,” she hugged her back. I’m fine actually, I had to get a bullet out of Jay’s arm”She looked at her with big eyes, “is he alright?”“Oh Yeah, he also got gassed and is just resting.”At that point Alex found her, “Mia, Oh your alright, where is Jay, we need to co-ordinate plans.Mia took a breath, “Jay got gassed and shot in the ship so I patched him up and put him to sleep in my bed. He eyes can’t tolerate the light and he is really weak and in pain. I was going to give him an hour and them go check on him. He really won’t be any use to you for a bit.“I see,” he said. “You patched him up”“Yep as I was taught.”He caught the glimmer of mischief in her eye. He made a mental note to che
Beeves and Boris arrived at the princess apartments right in time for a coffee before they all had to get going for Princess Rota’s meeting with the Governors.They got the princess to the Governors meeting and positioned themselves around the room watching over proceedings as they discussed the ruling of the Planet. The Governors had requested that Princess Rota step in as the Kings representative, she was after all next in line for the throne. She had agreed but wanted a clause put into the agreement. In the event that her father did in fact pass away, she would get a full seven days to grieve before his funeral. Then the crowning ceremony would happen seven days after that. It was all agreed upon, written out by a scribe and signed but all parties.She made the first lot of arrangements to have the Kings advisor visit her to work out the particulars.“I also have another request.” Said Princess Rota “I have been told that you will late
Mia had a weird dream that night, Mia was being led by someone who was familiar but she didn’t know who. It was a young woman dressed all in white, the white woman lead her into a dome and on every surface they were moving images or footage playing. Each scene contained a certain woman as the focal point. All the different scenes all starring the same woman. Mia gasp as she took in each new scene. The woman picked up and tightly hugged a young girl who had just fallen and hurt herself, the woman solving a dispute between two boys, the woman running with all her might towards a fight, the woman laughing with a friend, the woman standing strong while under attack from an unknown threat, the woman rushing to the rescue of a teenage girl, the woman taking a shot at her enemy. There were so many to see. And each footage or scene seamed to loop. Playing over and over again. It was strange Mia couldn’t place any of these scenes but each one felt like dejvu, like she h
Once they were back in their apartments, Jay stood Mia beside their bed and he removed her dress and took her hair out. Mia could feel the anticipation coursing through her heating her core. Jay then knelt before her and removed her ankle boots and holster. He then peeled her tight black pants down so she was just in her underwear. He ran his hand up the inside of her leg. He then removed his weapons belt and suit. “Have I fully disarmed you” he asked as he kissed across her collar bone. “Almost” she said as she felt her body stirring from his touch. “You were so good tonight” he claimed her lips stealing her breath and igniting the fire she felt in her core. He broke away, running his fingers down her back kissing down her neck, she didn’t even realise that her Bra was no longer there, he took her first nipple into his mouth and a sigh escaped her lips. His hands wondered lower pulling her undies down. Once they were out of the way he picke
The Elites began the Banquet and after they were announced Mia and Rota held hands while they walked out to take their seats, Jay was announced next and he followed. There were a few whispers as people took in Mia’s dress. They all stood before their seats until Rota had declared the Banquet to begin. Jay then helped Queen Rota into her seat and then Mia, taking his seat next to Mia.The food was delicious and between courses Rota took Mia around the tables to officially introduce her to the people of Ziion. She got a lot of comments about her dress. She just smiled politely and thanked them. As the dessert was brought out, they wondered back to their table. After Rota announced Jay in his new position as Ziion’s Royal Ambassador. Everyone cheered. Rota also explained that Mia would be going on a trip with General Jay to meet all the Planets leaders and to extend our continued friendship to our allies since the crowning. With the official part of the night over, M
Day 21The next day Mia was introduced to all the Palace advisors and important people at a variety of events and functions all organised by Rota and Aunt Alice. Mia was also given two senior attendants that could help her with everything from hair and make up to who she might meet at the next event and the traditions behind the events. She found it exhausting, but it fascinated her too.Dora had prepared Mia as much as she could for her meeting with the Mercern Ring. Jay had also spent some time with Dora, talking over plans about Mercer and questioning Octave. It turned out that the girls on the other planets were on loan to other smuggling rings and that the problem was a lot bigger that they had first thought. For every one of the GPS trackers, they could see, there might be more girls that they couldn’t see.Octave was stripped of all his wealth and it was directed straight into Ziion’s Royal Ambassador’s account. That Jay
Jay and Mia had arrived back to their apartments ten minutes before the dress makers Evie and Skyla arrived with a heavy suite case between them.“Hi, come in” greeted Mia “How did you go?”“Oh, we came up with some really good ideas but I need to see how they feel on you, and if you can move in them”“Ok sure,”The girls set up, they pulled out three dresses that were partially finished. One was a deep maroon, another a deep blue and the last was black.“Wow those colours are really dark,” said MiaYes, they are suitable for a queen and they reflect your true warrior abilities. I wanted your dresses to give you a edge of danger but if they are too dark we can lighten them with chiffon layers, beading and embroidery.”“They are perfect,” said Jay “these are exactly what you need to wear before the Mercern Ring, they convey power and an edge of danger.
Hunter took a big breath, “Yeah. There was another guy that started in the same class as me but his Father was 2nd in command of the Viv military, as you can imagine he couldn’t fail, instructors spent twice as much time getting him through than anyone else. I seen him take the place of other brilliant soldiers when he was incapable. No one in the class could pass or rank up until he had. It was a complete Joke. He lorded it over everyone because of his success, he didn’t even see that he was holding us back. The brass finally got sick of pandering to him and finally let me rank up before him but they got raked over the coals and he was made commander too. We were both sent out on a mission together.” Hunter stopped to rub his hand over his face “He led his team straight into a trap, they were captured and tortured while he bargained for his freedom with classified information. It was two days before my team could get into a position to rescu
“Well Mia, this looks like this is on you” said Bunny “we all know how bad ass you are, you just need to NOT piss them off while demanding they listen to you”Mia laughed “I’m not bad ass”“Hell yes, you are,” said Bunny “we can vote on it if you don’t believe me”Mia laughed again “Your kidding me right”“Actually Mia, how you see yourself is very important, if you don’t see yourself as a queen and their equal they will strip you down with the truth you believe.” Dora said“So who says Mia is a bad ass” Bunny saidYeah they all yelled“Bad ass is carrying a solider twice your weight to safety when he told you to stay in a safe place” said Ryder”“Bad ass is taking out an assassin in the middle of the Kings funeral,” said Kat.“The way you held yourself when I grabbed your
Day 20It was just before 9am the next day and everyone had gathered for the first meeting in what used to be the Kings Apartments.“Alright,” Jay began “thank you everyone for being here. Today we need to figure out, how this team will operate and how we can get into Mercer to rescue the girls.”“I’ve given the new team, some thought. We will have people who operate in a combative role . . . trained soldiers and a non-combative role, this will cover things like advisors, the gifted and administration. I suppose we will figure out most of this on the way and a lot of you already know the tactics that I use but please look out for the people who don’t. Is there anyone else you can think of that we need on this team?”We will need a good cook, if we don’t have your Mum, Shimel and Lacy abord,” offered Bunny“Maybe someone to clean and tidy?” Suggest
“They looked shocked before one of the girls shyly took a sketch pad and started drawing, the other girl while looking over she shoulder made a couple of suggestions. They both look at each other before hesitantly turning the sketch around.The dress had the same corset type top of an evening dress but the skirt was just one layer of shear fabric over the top of pants that and an A-line skirt like a traditional dress.Jay smiled, “Hey Mia, Come have a look at this.” She handed Jay a cup of coffee while examining the dress. “Yes, Said Mia “that’s what I’m after, what other ideas can you think up?”“Um . . . can I see the weapons you normally carry and how you would normally use them, so I can design the dress around them.”“What is your name?” Jay asked“I’m Evie, and this is Skyler. I prefer to sketch and Skyler is the most amazing at making any creation come