Chapter twenty two

The terrans are a strange species. They are very warlike, but are also very empathetic. They have very strict rules to war, ones that they usually adhere to religiously. On the very few occasions they broke their rules they were pushed into corners with no options left, and the one who issued the orders always resigns immediately.

“Don’t you think that its suspicious?” Scipulous whispered to his partner as they lay in wait outside a terran scientific outpost. It had been very hard sneaking into orbit, and even harder getting this close to the outpost. They had even had to drift with no power for weeks to get into a good path.

“What?” His partner whispered back. Scipulous didn’t really know his partner all that well; they hadn’t been friends, or in the same class.

“You know, the terrans in general. They suddenly appear one day with the best tech in the galaxy, and out of the Dead Zone! Not to mention the period of their history which they just don’t talk about. They don’t even allow us access to certain parts of their space!” His partner shrugged.

“Every race has their secrets and things they don’t want to talk about. Don’t we have the Great Strife?”

“Yeah, but they have so many strange things about them. Don’t you find it strange?” His partner snorted arrogantly.

“No matter how strange they are, they cannot stand against the might of the Grent Empire! They are nothing compared to the empire.”

“You do realise they have better tech than us?”

“it does not matter; the empire will always prevail!”

Scipulous just snorted. He did not have the arrogance of his companion, nor his stupidity. After all, patriotism would not save him from plasma packets, nor would it protect against the enemy. He would rather keep his life, thank you very much.

“Well, what do we have here? A couple of spies, perhaps. Didn’t anyone tell you its rude to spy on people without their permission?” A cheerful female voice rang out behind them as he was musing. His shock dissipated a moment later as he fell into unconsciousness.

“Hello!” The same voice greeted him as he woke up, his head feeling like he had just been run over by a herd of dristali. He looked around with bleary eyes to see a white room with a bed and a toilet. The front of his cell was a translucent forcefield that kept him inside, with a cheerful-looking human female standing behind it.

He quickly woke up fully and panicked at being captured. He instinctively tried to activate the suicide device in his spine, before then trying to use the pill hidden in his tooth. Realisation slowly set in when that failed as well. He was truly trapped. He looked nervously at the human smirking at him.

“Realised your suicide devices don’t work? How smart of you. Really, you were so easy to find. You followed the exact same routine as all 19 agents who came before two. I suppose your superiors though sending two of you would work better. Idiots. All it did was make you more visible on our sensors.”

Scipulous’ nervousness rose further at the unhinged grin the human female was giving him. He well and truly panicked when she started laughing.

“We are going to have so much fun.”