Bad Seed

Chapter 5

Esmeralda was still pacing, there had to be a way through the Ceti-5 defenses. She had never seen any system, especially one as old as the master's on the planet were.

For the umpteenth time she called her techs. Snapping at them he growled, "I suggest that you get something done. I am of a mind to start removing body parts."

"Empress, we are doing all we can, we have managed to get through the first. The second is appearing to be on a shifting frequency. At present, we are reading well over five thousand codes, with more it appears well behind those." A voice came from the com.

Those that were on the bridge were trying to shrink too as small as they could. All of them could swear that the Empress eyes were glowing an evil red color.

In a voice that bellied her anger, she stated in an unusually calm voice. "I advise all of you right now, if we do not break through and retrieve my daughter? None of you will be alive in the next few days."

Smacking her hand down on the com she cut the signal. Turning abruptly, she stormed out to her private quarters. Upon entering the room, she growled at the number of guards and attendants there. "Out!" She shouted scaring all there to rush out immediately.

Esmeralda dropped angerly into her throne like seat. Thumbing a separate com she'd hidden in the seat, she nearly shouted, "Thomas!"Less than a minute later the voice of Thomas came through the speakers. "What's crawled in you underwear?"

"Don't push me Thomas I will..." Esmeralda started.

"You'll do what? I am the one with the firepower, I am the one that carried out all the plans. I was the one that managed to get all six races united to destroy the earth. Without me you'd have nothing, so I don't want to hear your blustering. So, what the hell do you want?" Thomas Tygoron said.

  "Why I ought..." Esmeralda started again.

"Can it mother, we both know you have nothing without me. What do you want I am busy." Thomas said.

"Yes I heard," Esmeralda stated coolly. "disabled, unable to fire, against such a small ship."

The look on Thomas face went from a sneer to sheer, enraged, anger. "Look Mother! She has advanced that piece of shit, of a ship far more, than we BOTH thought. Believe me it will NOT happen again."

Esmeralda sniffed a moment then said, "see that it doesn't, she is all that stands between us and the galaxy. She has to die before she finds out what we have been up to since her poor daddy, disappeared."

Both of them started to laugh hard at Esmeralda's pun before Thomas disconnected.

Thomas was far more pissed than he had showed his mother. Slamming his fist into the bulk head several were backing away from him. All looked at the indentation he'd left there.

Thomas took a deep breath Thomas whirled stomping off the bridge. Though the only human on the ship ALL were afraid of him. Many had attacked him when he first came on board. That had ended with over three hundred dead, another three hundred severely injured.

With his anger still high, Thomas only killed twenty, when they got in his way while he went to his quarters. The walls in his quarters were already full of holes and dents.

He was going to have to kill that little bitch of a, here Thomas growled, sister. Never in his life, had he ever wanted to kill a creature or person, as much as he wanted to strangle the life from her.

 Esmeralda sat back with a sigh. At least she had HER son on her side, remembering back she felt her anger stir. "YOUR son will never be emperor, he hasn't the royal blood in him. He is therefore, by the rules set down by all the previous emperors, unqualified to rule. Nor, do I feel that he has the intelligence to rule."