why me

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We were scouting out the houses on the street jole mention, not sure which house it was. The houses were all normal, two story buildings lined up down the road. Ailign let loose a couple mini drones the size of a large bug. They flew off down and around the street.
"What do we do now?" I asked "just sit and wait for artis to walk by?"
"Yes" he said "well see if he has a dog."
I let out a small chuckle, ailign was getting better at making jokes as time progressed. I look up at him warmly, and he returns my smile.
"Why wait for him at all if you have drones?" I ask
"He might have taken on the form of another species." Ailign said
"And you'll be able to tell he's mech?" I ask
"Yes" he said
"How?" I ask
"I just can" I grumbled then let out a sigh "mechs can identify other mechs, it's like an instinct."
"Ow" I say and reajust in the small space of the shuttle ship.
Ailign leans back and grabs a tablet, then hands it to me after he pulls up the feed.
"You can watch the droids and I'll watch the streets. Let me know if you see anything." Ailign says
I happily take the tablet, overjoyed ailign was letting me help in some small way to find the man who hurt me. Artis would pay for what he did to me, ailign and I would make sure of it. I scrolled through the feed, the little Droid going from window to window, I feel a blush creepy along my cheeks as it stops on a certian window, a couple intimately sharing a night of passion together.
"Find anything yet?" Ailign asks and turns to me.
He goes quite as he takes in my face, his attention only making my face flush deeper. I scramble about, dropping the tablet in my lap, my hands going to my face. Ailign bends over the seat and grabs the tablet, grunting as he sees the couple in action. He tosses the tablet back in my lap and goes back to watching the street.
"You shouldn't blush at that. We've done worse." He gets out in a husky voice.
"Yeah but that's us, and I'm pretty sure I blush everytime we... do it too!" I say hurriedly.
He laughs then as he remembers our intimate times, a hand going to the top of my head. "You do sometimes" He says and looks over at me with a smile fresh from his laughter. One of my hands goes to his hand on my head, and the other goes back to the tablet, the android moving on to another window.
Me and ailign sit in the shuttle for hours just sitting and waiting in silence, a few pedestrians walking by every now and then, we were about ready to give up for the day when a man starts walking down the street. He was yellow with blue stripes, his head bald and his eyes too large for his alien face. The man was humanoid in figure, but clearly an alien. He was also walking a dog. Ailigns hand goes to my lap and squeezes.
"That's him" he said
"You sure?" I ask
"Yes. Or it's a mech in disguise." He said
He took the tablet from me then, and moved the drone on the mech, having it follow him down the road. We watched him pass the shuttle slowly, the tint hiding us from his visage.
"Is this why we took the ugly shuttle?" I ask
"So he wouldn't recognize it as mech." He said "it's used for covert missions."
"It's a hunk of junk." I say
"It's adequate on the inside." Ailign said
Artiss figure disappeared down the street, the drone following him to a large blue house, he entered and locked the door behind.
"We got him" ailign said buckling his seat belt, I quickly followed suit. The shuttle roared to life as ailign pressed the button, the holographic panel lighting up the darkness. I turned on the radio, the sound of squealing blaring my ears. Ailign quickly flipped the dial to what sounded like an orchestra.
"Let me handle the radio. You don't know what your pressing." He said
"I know that's the radio button" I say innocently.
"It could have just as easily been the eject button." He grumbles
"There's one of those!?" I ask in bewilderment
"Yes" ailign says all too seriously.

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Back at the space ship ailign quickly puts together a personal squad to storm artiss home. With consent from the local government under the name of the galactic alliance they prepare to make there move. Forming in a circle ailign goes over the plan.
"I want Remy and tarus in the back before we move in on the sides and front, with two shuttles in the sky to prepare for chase if he flees. I'll be in the front squad, breaking down his door and making entry." Ailign says
"Yes my prince" they all said at once then forming a line set off to there shuttles. I watched in silence from the sidelines, fole beside me. There red uniforms fading in the distance.
"Theyll be ok" fole said suddenly.
"I know" I answer back "He always is"
Penelope was waiting for me in the cafeteria. Her expression was dark when I reached her, a tray filled with pizza in my hands. I wondered then if Penelope got in trouble from her mate for our little escapade, being to wrapped up in my own worries I neglected to ask.
"Penelope are you ok?" I ask
Her face brightens up at my arrival, her blue eyes shining in the light.
"Yes I'm ok. I've just been lonely lately, but now that your here it's fine." She says
With a little more deliberation I decide to ask, wanting to clear the air.
"You never got in trouble for me running away did you?" I ask
"Ow my mate was mad. He fumed about how irresponsible I was and how mad the prince was." She said
"So he just yelled at you?" I asked taking a bite of my pizza
"He yelled until he made me cry. Then he appoligized like a million times. I think he was just happy i didn't run away too." She said "speaking of yelling her comes Veronica"
I look behind me to peer at the skinny brunet make her way down the cafeteria, the only other human on this space ship besides myself and Penelope.
"Hello ladies" She greets
"Veronica" I say moving my tray a little farther away from her.
Veronica was the embodiment of everything I hated in a person: selfish, lying, and boisterous. She was simply annoying.
"You wouldn't guess what my mate got me today at the market." She says shoving her hand our way, on it was a sparkling new ring, the same shade as her green eyes.
"He saw it and he thought of me. Isnt he so nice." Veronica said
Penelope grabs her hands and ews and ah's at it. Penelope did not have the same views as I did on Veronica, she thought she was a bit emotional but otherwise a delight. I saw through her bullcrap.
"It is the same color as your eyes" I said between mouthfuls trying to be polite.
"What did your mate get you?" She asks me then.
The chance to be a part of my personal vengeance. To find the man who terrorized me, but I didn't tell her that.
"Ailign gets me plenty of stuff, he just hasn't on this trip." I say then
Veronica's nose goes a little higher in the air at my remark, her fingers tapping away on the table, showing off her new ring.
"I can wait to see all the gifts I'll get when I'm pregnant. That's all my mate keeps talking about. I'm sure I'll be showered with presents." She laughs
"Babies are a gift." Penelope chimed in happily. I rolled my eyes. Why anyone would want to have a baby with Veronica was beside me. I still wasn't sure if the woman knew I was mated to the prince or not, I was saving that one for a time she really pissed me off.
"Presents aren't the only thing that matters" I said.
"Yes well when you don't have them I guess you'd feel that way." She chortles.
I continue to chew on my pizza, ignoring her words.
"My mate completly redid our living room to make me happier. It was all white like they like. We painted the walls, and added tapestries, really lightened the place up." Penelope said
I reach over to hold her hand " that's so sweet" I breathed.
"I'm sure my mate would be happy to do the same for me if I had asked." Veronica said, and I wondered how many times I could roll my eyes without her noticing.
"My house was already styled after human sinsibilities." I said not at all interested in this conversation.
Veronica's attention goes Holly onto me then, her eyes peircing into mine.
"How nice of your mate. I heard you didn't even know him before he took you." She said, and I glanced at Penelope who gives me a guilty look.
"That's true" I bite out
"How sad for you" she says fluttering her eye lashes.
Not as sad as being a hateful bitch.
"My mate has tried to make up for it." I say
"How randome and awful it must have been. To be a last minute decision." She says
"You have no idea" I say and Penelope rubs my shoulder, the comforting gesture appreciated.
"This is a sensitive subject" Penelope says "maybe we should change it."
"Ow I'm sorry megan I didn't mean to make you upset. I figured you'd be over it by now."
Tears well in my eyes, but I won't let this bitch see them. The hurt and fear I felt at first she would never be able to understand. This hateful woman would never understand how much I cried and shook in the beginning.
"It's fine" I say and get up from my seat. My appetite gone.