LERISTORY
Episode Six
MuraliRez cringed and waited for the shock, the twitching, the memory loss, the blurring of personality and reality, and finally, the darkness... the darkness that would eventually envelop and enfold him, the safe, warm, moist, s
"Scared ya, huh?", Lorelei chuckled.
"Wh..wh..WHAT?!?!?"
"Damn, but you're easy to spook when you're all..." she gave Rez's numb legs a nudge with her foot "...helpless like that, aren't you, my rescuer?"
"You crazy bitch! You could have killed me! You could have killed both of us!" Rez grabbed for the stim, but Lor held it just out of reach as he tried to drag himself forward to get it from her. "Will you fucking give me that thing! What the hell's wrong with it, anyway? Why didn't it discharge?"
Lorelei gave a sardonic harumph. "Yeah, you think that those BEMs are gonna give us working weapons when they kidnap us? Damn, and I though you were a bright one, darlin'. Besides, you ought to know that there ain't no way in hell that I'm letting that kind of charge get that close to my tender vittles, considering my...former line of work..." She stared off into the blackness.
"Um. Yeah. Okay, whatever...look, let's just get our respective selves out of wherever we are here, and then we can worry about other things, like...*ZFFFFT*whump*...um...like what the hell was that?"
"Hello?" A quiet female voice answered.
Rez could hear the spack of Lor's palm striking her forehead. "Oh, no! They promised! No more...and especially not her..."
*knock*knock*knock "General Moore, sir! We've located them!"
The General opened the door, adjusted his belt, and forced his way past the aide and back into his office. "SO?" he gruffed, slamming down to his DeskTop.
"Well, we've located them with the Ynder'thian ScanBoards, finally...um, sir, I'm not sure if you're going to like this..."
Scotto rose, grasped the shaking man by his three sets of lapels, and growled into his face, "I'm going to like it a lot less if you don't just download their whereabouts NOW!"
"Well, sir, um, the reason that we had difficulty pinpointing their location before was...um, well, uh, they were hidden behind shields, apparently also of extraterrestrial origin..."
"GODDAMNIT! I knew those creepy fuckers couldn't be trusted! Who'd they sell the defense systems to, huh? Who do we have to take out now?"
"...well, um, well, sir, I was just getting to that...um, they're not the InterLoper's shields, sir...they're the...um...the Ynder'thian's shields..."
"OBVIOUSLY they're the aliens' shields, you simpering twat! But who has them now?"
"...but sir...um...I mean...they're the aliens' shields... um, you know...like, on a ... um...spaceship?" He held up the handheld VirtualDisplay for the General to see. There, on the 3-D projection were two small flashing orange points of light, apparently surrounded by a much larger red flashing Point Of Light, all three of which were apparently rapidly approaching the Center.Position. Suddenly, with no apparent cause, yet another orange light joined the other two on their trajectory towards The Dome(tm).
"Well. I'll be fucked." General Moore slumped back into his chair. "Go. I said GO! NOW!" he bellowed, as the meek aide hurriedly backed out of the room, dropping the VDisplay on the General's DeskTop. "Shit. Shit shit shit shit shit." General Moore muttered to himself as he absent-mindedly produced a small red and black key, opening up the clear PlasSteel cover marked *WARNING* on his DeskTop. "Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit." He flipped open the cover, revealing a Big Red Button. "Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit." The General's thumb did not hesitate as it depressed the Big Red Button. No alarms were sounded. No flashing lights. There was no Earth-Shattering Kaboom(tm).
The large red flashing Point Of Light, along with its three smaller orange companions, simply vanished from his VDisplay.
"Well, there goes the exclusive media deal", Scotto intoned as he gingerly replaced the cover over the button.
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