Empyrean Iris Story Collection

For Science Pt. 3

Sunny slipped back into the cover of darkness surprisingly stealthy and light on her feet for a creature covered in almost a hundred pounds of natural armor.

Conn and Krill crowded around her eager to hear what she had to report, but they were immediately wilted as she shook her head, "Guards ahead, at least three of them, all Drev. I don't recognize any of them, but I am sure they sympathize with general Cosma, and I can't take three of them by myself. One ... maybe even two, but three is pushing it."

She jumped in sudden surprise as the usually even-mannered doctor spit a rather vicious human curse onto the air. Perhaps even-tempered wasn't a good description. He was generally even tempered accept for when he was prone to bouts of rage and extreme moments of over-exaggerated bitter sarcasm.

Conn floated silently, and thoughtfully in the air as was his want. He was a useless sack of useless anyway she thought to herself.

"If only I was...... if only."

"Three feet taller, and about a hundred pounds heavier." Sunny finished, and to her surprise, the Vrul nodded with a desperate growl of frustration.

Tilting his head to the side, the starborn ignored their conversation appearing to be deep in concentration as if listening to something coming at him from far away.

"Well, are you going to share, Convict." Sunny growled. Instead of an answer, the starborn simply responded with an upturned middle finger and an even more exaggerated tilt of the head. The other two waited in bated silence as the minutes dragged on. Finally Conn turned to them, wide black eyes narrowing in focused attention, "My infected brethren have taken command of our other human comrades. Drev boarding parties have subdued them and plan to bring them to the docking bay.

Sunny cursed hopelessly, "Were they able to get off a transmission to the ship?"

"I am afraid the telepathic waves were used to disrupt our signals as soon as we were within range."

"And you couldn't hear this!" Krill demanded angrily.

Conn turned to look at him, "It is very difficult to distinguish the difference between many voices, and the many voices of silence. Each system has a sound unto itself that vibrates inside the brain, and creates a background noise. I have never experienced complete silence before, And similarly I have never experienced the ravings of complete madness."

"Well it doesn't matter now, does it." Sunny hissed, they are coming, and unless we come up with a good plan in the next few minutes, we are going to be caught."

"A pity the captain will be awake to witness the fall of his crew." Conn muttered quietly.

Sunny paused..... "Conn, is Adam awake."

The creature shook his head, "No, but the effects of the drug are beginning to wear off. He is likely to awake in the next few minutes.

Sunny groaned in frustration feeling her heart go cold. She had a feeling that the insane little scientist would much prefer having Adam awake for what he was going to do next, he seemed like the vindictive type to do that. The coldness spread from her heart and all through her body. If only she could talk to Adam one last time, be there for him when......

And idea suddenly struck her, and she rounded on her other two companions startling them backwards suddenly and violently, "Conn, you can talk to Adam!"

"Um yes." The starborn snapped waving her off.

"NO, I mean just listen to me, you could let him know what we are doing. He could give us information. He could help us." The chilling that had formed in her heart from earlier thawed out as suddenly as if she had stood herself in front of a blast furnace, "I'VE GOT IT!"