Memoirs of Kitty Siam Ch. 47

Through my wireless connection we shared I begged Megyn to cut me open and remove them. Of course she objected being that she did not have any anesthetic that would work on me as she had tried several of the serums and devices in the medical kit. They had no effect on me as the chemicals and the nerve soothing impulses were blocked by the toxins still coursing through my body.

Continually I begged her to cut me open as the pain grew worse and the baby slugs inside me made their way into my intestines. She still refused and after we went back and forth on this many times, I begged her to just kill me quickly as I could no longer stand the pain. I was becoming incoherent, but I was able to keep up my wireless chant of, please kill me!"

She realized that I was right and that she had to do something. She would never confess this to me but I think she realized that she had to try to cut the slugs out of me because no matter what happened, I would be dead either way.

The two slugs that were chewing on my insides were joined by a third that had hatched and even though Megyn had convinced herself to do this, she was still hesitating even though I begged her to hurry up.

I was biting down on the tentacle in my mouth as an old west cowboy would bite down on a bullet, as his partner was about to dig an arrow out of his shoulder. I was surprised as I clenched my teeth and relaxed then clenched again as a new wave of pain washed over me that my teeth were having an effect on the tentacle. By the time that Megyn cut into me as if performing a Cesarean delivery, the next time I bit down my teeth cut their way through the tentacle plug. I still could not talk but I sent Megyn a signal to clear the tentacle from my mouth.

Unfortunately when she did that she had my belly sliced open and once my mouth was clear I was able to scream freely from the pain and scream I did. She quickly pulled off her t-shirt, rolled it up and pushed it in my mouth. She urged me to bite down hard as she turned her attention back to the slice she had made just above my pubic bone. Her first slice was not deep enough or wide enough for her to get her hands in to yank out the eggs and the burrowing larvae so Megyn made a second slice along the same line with her government issue Marine Corp knife. This knife was good for its intended use which was sneaking up behind and enemy and plunging it upward into his skull to scramble his brains, but it was not a surgical instrument and Megyn was not a gentle person.

In her haste to get into me and remove the parasites she cut too far and too deep. My external nervous system was still greatly degraded but my internal nerve network was functioning perfectly and registering every sort of pain that my body was receiving. I could even feel the blood filling up my abdomen from the slice that my traveling partner had just made in my iliac artery. I knew that it would just be a matter of minutes before I bled out and would have my wish of death.

The pain that I was feeling from Megyns attempts to clean out my tummy and womb, and the pain of the critters gnawing on my insides was worse than I would wish upon any enemy, human, or animal. My training and my altered physiology had prepared me to endure great suffering and I had hoped that the torture that I had endured on Galora at the hands of Lord Hetch's inquisitors would have been the worst that I would have to deal with, but this was a thousand times more intense. Now that I realized that it would be over in a few minutes I calmly contacted Megyn by wireless and thanked her for attempting this for me. I think she knew something was wrong because my voice was now relaxed and had no sense of urgency to it. Also gone were my pleas to her for a quick death.

The Marine Corp through out history had always done their best to leave no man behind. When a brother in arms fell in battle they would make sure that one of their own accompanied the body of a fallen comrade to his or her final rest. As Megan began scooping out the goo that had been pumped into my womb along with the eggs that had not hatched I made her promise that when the end came for me that she would not leave me behind on this planet alone.

The Colonel agreed but promised me that I would live to see Central Command, but we both knew that she was just being kind to me. Even she had to know as an experienced combat officer that I had now lost too much blood to survive much longer. Megyn promised not to leave me behind and to see that I got home, though she confessed that she could not fly the ship. She was qualified to fly short-range shuttles and troop transports but had no training in flying such an advanced ship as the Koloth.

I explained to her as my vision was growing dim and my breathing becoming labored that the destination was already programmed in and that all she had to do was use her wireless link to give the activation command. I also told her that if she was in doubt that Sheba would help her as I had given her such instructions before we left Dushambi by text message.

Megan congratulated herself, as she was able to reach up into my open abdomen and pull out one of the gnawing invaders. The last thing I remember telling her was to make sure she got me cleaned out good so that none of the parasites made their way off planet in my body. With the last electrical impulse that I had left in my body I issued the following command to my installed systems, "PDA end recording... close personal journal and forward the entire document to Princess Neko along with my End Of Life message... also attach to End of Life Message my summary of the Journal of Enoch."

Megyn promised that she would take care of me, and that was the last thing I remembered receiving through my wireless system before everything shut down. There was no more hearing, no more seeing, no more feeling, no more doing, no more crying. There was just one last violent convulsion that ripped through my body, then everything that needed to be done had been done and I was now at peace with the universe.