the escape

The Escape part 3

I dropped the wood I collected and ran towards her screaming but slowed down when I heard others talking to Ella. I looked at her, she was bleeding on her forehead. She probably got hit in the head and therefore screamed.

I looked at the people that talked to Ella, they were Space pirates. I knew that because of how they looked like, they were a light shade of orange, their heads looked like octopuses, like that one pirate captain from pirates of the Caribbean.

All I knew about them was that they are awful creatures. They didn't care about who or what they killed unless they had something they wanted, but it always was something valuable, whether it was money or information.

''Where is she'!? The pirate with only one eye asked her.

''I-I don't understa'' Ella was cut off by the same pirate.

''Don't play with us young lady'!

''But I...'' She got cut off again by another pirate who was probably the captain of the group.

''Just tell us where Abigail Elsher is, or you'll regret it!''

There was a long pause... I saw her eyes filled with tears looking straight at me. Her eyes sprung up as she winked at me. Instead of pointing at me, she pointed in the opposite direction of where I was standing.

I smiled a bit at her, but it disappeared when the captain spoke again.

''Alright'' the captain said as he continued... ''you two stay here and keep an eye on her'' he pointed at the guy with one eye and the bigger/buffer guy.

He continued. ''The rest with me'' he said as he started to walk toward the direction Ella pointed to.

I waited a while so that the pirates wouldn't notice me. The two guys standing in front of Ella each had a blaster, so it was going to be a bit hard to knock them unconscious.

I crouched quietly so I could pick up a big stick and a stone that I threw across the camp hitting a tree. Both of the pirates swung their heads to see what the noise was.

That was my cue. I started to run towards the big guy with the stick in my hand as I hit him straight in the head, there was a grunt and then after about one or two seconds there was a loud thump.

The one eyed looked back at me surprisingly for a sec. He swiftly put up his blaster, but he was knocked out and fell on the big guy. I looked down at him and back up and saw Ella standing there with a stone in her tied hands.

She panted a bit when she started talking.

''Are you going to untie me? Because these ropes are hurting as hell!''

I started laughing a bit before I started to untie her. She had a few marks on her wrists, but nothing was that bad.

We heard the other pirates nearing us, so we decided to get our stuff, get on the speeder and get out of there as fast as we could. This time Ella was driving, I was I bit scared because I've never seen her drive, but I guess it was fine just as long as I held on tight I wouldn't fall of. but she was actually good at driving. Not as good as me but she was still good.

We laughed as we heard the pirates scream at us. But like everything else ends so did our laughter. It was quiet for some time until I started to speak.

''So, what did the pirates want?'' I asked Ella.

''They wanted to know where you were for some reason...' 'it was something about a bounty on your head'' Ella continued.

''A bounty on MY head!? Who published the bounty!?'' I answered with even more questions.

I think it was... The Solace Empire'' she said with a hint of fear.

The Solace Empire was an Empire that was a lot like the Empire from Star Wars the movie... it was pretty confusing as to why the Empire would set a bounty on me because I've never done anything bad.

I tried to ask Ella more reasonable questions, but the only question I could ask was how high my bounty was...

''It was 150'000 Mars credits'' Ella answered me.

''And what's that in dollars?'' I asked another question.

''It's the same... 150'000 dollars''

''Wow, that's like a lot'' I said back as she nodded in agreement.

And that'll be bad for us because more people will be after you.