Dan Sherman Space Guardian All Worlds

Tourgen Base. part two

The relief was something I knew might be of use to the enemy so I had to use all my will power and just stay calm. I didn't even say anything to Reeas in case we were being monitored. I didn't even risk calling the ship to smash our way out, which was something I would do later if we had to. Several hours went by and then the two same guards came in; one said, ‘You will be stripped and flogged, and then your skin will be sliced off bit by bit. What do you think of that?’

I said, ‘If I had my strength back, I would kill you both.’

That seemed to infuriate them. He said,

‘You’re only a cloned Tourgen, you wouldn't last two minutes.’

‘Give me a chance then.’

They looked at each other before stroking Reeas on the leg as though they were going to assault her, and then they walked out. Maybe they were trying to get me to divulge my thoughts, I had to keep calm.

Reeas said, ‘Don't worry, Dan, things will work out, I can take whatever these animals give out’

I thought, no, I won't let them touch you. Our luck must have been running as half an hour later the two Tourgen guards came back. The biggest one said, ‘OK, Clone, you will be able to move in the next minute. If you can beat me in a fight to the death, which is unlikely, you would then have to fight my partner, and if you beat him, you can both go free, but if we beat you, we will take the female as our prize. Is it a deal?’

‘Yes, I said.’ I felt good, I also felt a strange liking for the way the Tourgen’s do business, they are animalistic, but they are also warriors. Maybe I was wrong; maybe they do come from a planet somewhere. All I really knew was I had to kill them. I started to get my feeling back, Reeas also. Within a short time I was back to my old grumpy self. Obviously the leader didn't know about this contest. I said, ‘what about the officer, won't you be disciplined for this.’

‘We are our own boss; we can make our own decisions.’

I thought, no, he doesn't know. So be it, I said to myself.

‘Where do we fight?’

‘Here.’

‘OK, are there any rules?’

‘Yes, no weapons, we just use pure strength, and our nails and teeth.’

‘Right,’ I said. I knew Reeas could take the other one as she had twice his strength. Looking at him he was about the same size as me but I had many times the strength, but I didn't bargain for the speed at which he came at me. He lunged for my eyes with his claws; I managed to dodge him and punched him in the stomach. He fell back in agony; I felt pity as I knew I could to kill him. Maybe I didn't have to kill him? It was the other Tourgen I wanted, the leader.

‘Look.’ I said, ‘you don't have to die, tell me where the leader is, and I will spare you.’ Reeas knew it wouldn't make any difference and went for the other guard, she ripped his throat out in one movement. The other guard saw this and went for Reeas; I jumped on his back put my arm around his neck and broke it with one pull.

‘What now?’ Reeas said, ‘we can't risk going to the guardroom in case the leader is there. We don't know if he could still disable us. We have to find the source of the power to the control panel.’

I said, ‘We will have to risk bringing the ship close by the underground room and blasting the wall out. The plan is discovered anyway, so we may as well use force. Reeas agreed, but said what if the leader has managed to access the ship? I felt cold just thinking about it, if he has, he is truly Kallo's equal. I was about to summon the ship when a message from Deria came through, she said, ‘I have managed to disable the control panel you should be able to get to the power room which is near to the room where you are destroy it with whatever you can.’

OK, I thought, I can send a message to Deria, so I asked her where the leader was, she said he was trying to locate the ship. Reeas and I focused our minds on the ship, or Debra, as I called it, and within a minute we managed to bring it to the outside of the wall were we were located. Then all we had to do was simply have it push its way through the wall, much easier than blasting through. The hull of the ship was like a knife going through butter, in the meantime, there were Tourgen guards beginning to make their way down the corridor to us. The ship was already all the way in the building, so all we had to do was simply push our way in through the ships wall. We could already see the Tourgens trying to do the same thing, only they just slid off the surface, like a ski on ice. We located the power room and blasted it to oblivion; In fact the whole place was destroyed. I knew Sionn was going to be angry, well maybe not angry, Sionn didn't get angry but disappointed. The first thing to do was locate the leader which wasn't too hard as Debra found him simply by his DNA, the only problem was, he was dead!

Deria said he had detonated the container! Before he blasted himself!