War is Not All Bad

Maddie on the other hand wasn't doing much better. Her fighter took several hits from the laser batteries. Her fusion engines were disabled but she had made the turn and had accelerated away before being hit. Her momentum should take her close to the USS Guadalcanal's current position. Because she was in the gravity of the small planet, she could also use the gravimetric drive although the farther she got away the less the drive would respond. She could make it back to the carrier though. The lasers also took out her life support so she was now dependent on her suit's life support. The suit would keep her alive for several days. She was still being shot at so she decided to eject. She ejected and she pushed the emergency beacon on her spacesuit. She would be picked up after the battle was over, hopefully. She could see the carrier and was slowly drifting toward it, by her reckoning.

She had a ringside seat for the battle. She noticed only two nuclear explosions on the enemy base. One looked like it didn't even hit anything. Out of 190 missiles only two had gotten through. She was very slowly rotating. When she turned far enough around she noticed several concentrations of debris which where probably what was left of other Scorpions or maybe the enemy fighters. Her fighter was still taking hits. Seconds later the carrier came into view and it was being pulverized by the enemy fighters.

She didn't like what she saw. She may be stuck in the spacesuit floating around for a while. She didn't think the USS Guadalcanal was going to make it.

As she turn toward the planet, she looked for Jake's Scorpion. She spotted it very far away and falling toward the planet. Jake's Scorpion was smoking and appeared to be missing a good part of his right wing. A tear came to her right eye. She was going to miss Jake. She had come to love him, against all the regulations. She prayed that he wouldn't crash.

Jake was in near panic. He was trying to get the gravimetric drive going but it wouldn't stabilize. He was hoping that the hit on the fusion drive didn't take out the control circuits for the gravimetric drive. He had noticed that the planet was getting larger. He had to get that damn gravimetric drive started and stable. He was now laying on the floor with his head in the main control panel. He was hoping a connection came lose when the Scorpion was hit with the missile.

Twenty minutes later, he found the problem and pushed the connector back into the jack. Out from the control panel, he said "Holy shit!!!" His Scorpion was starting to enter the atmosphere. He flipped the switch for the g-drive and he suddenly had control. He slowed the descent and changed the attitude of the Scorpion. At least he probably wouldn't burn up now. He could even stay right where he was if he wanted although he would have a hard time getting all the way back to the carrier.

Suddenly a ground laser hit his Scorpion again. This time it tore a large hole in the fuselage. A half a dozen gauges went dark. He did a quick check and the g-drive was still working but life support was done for. He looked back and there was a large hole in the cabin through which you could see stars. He checked his suit for integrity. Damn! There must be a pin hole puncture. The O2 level was going down way too fast.

He looked for the USS Guadalcanal and was just in time to see it explode. There were at least a half a dozen explosions. It looks like the carrier was done. Jake didn't take long to make a decision and set the g-drive for landing on the planet. He decided to land on the far side of the planet from the enemy base. Hopefully, they wouldn't come looking for him. There was not much chance of getting his Scorpion space-worthy again though without an oxygen supply.

When he got down to the planet and found a good place to land, he put the wrecked Scorpion down. He climbed out and checked out the air. It was similar to Earth. A little less oxygen, more nitrogen and the Argon was level was higher too. The temperature was 20 degrees Celsius. Not cold or hot. He looked at the sky and estimated that the local time of day was around late morning. Very livable.

Now he had to check the area for food and water.

Maddie was still rotating when she saw the USS Hiroshima arrive to assist the USS Guadalcanal. The Hiroshima launched all fighters and they immediately had the enemy on the run. They started the rescue of any and all humans on board who were still alive. Maddie watched as the Hiroshima fighters and lasers took out nearly all the enemy fighters. The Hiroshima was taking some hits from the planetary lasers but they weren't doing much damage.

One of the USS Hiroshima squadrons made another run on the base concentrating on the laser batteries. They managed to take the batteries out. Two of the fighters fired their 20 missiles at the rest of the base and they all hit. The base was done. After the rescue mission was complete, they checked for emergency beacons and discovered several. Troop carriers were sent out to retrieve the pilots who had ejected. Maddie finally was safe. She was uninjured.

She was assigned quarters and the first thing she did was to take a shower. She stood under the waterfall and cried for Jake. She didn't realize how much she cared for him but she did. She wondered if he was safe. He wasn't picked up by the troop carriers. They were not picking up any more beacons. She knew she probably would never see him again. After almost an hour, she turned the water off and looked in the mirror and told herself to get it together. Live goes on.

The USS Hiroshima picked up three Bortaq heavy carriers jumping into the system. They would take quite a while to get there but it would be time to leave soon. Four days later, the Rear Admiral set sail for the jump point to Tau Ceti.

Maddie looked out the viewport and silently told Jake goodbye.

4. Captured.

1st Lt Jake Buck was putting his survival training to work. He had found a stream and the water tested okay. Food might be a problem. Most of the vegetation was safe to eat but there didn't seem to be any animal life on this planet. His tester told him that the vegetation didn't have much nutritional value. He hoped he didn't have to live here long or he might die of a nutritional disease. Jake thought "Vegetarian Here I Come."

Jake found a stand of trees and made himself a lean-to. If it rained, at least he'd have shelter. He tore the seat out of his Scorpion and after tearing it apart, he cobbled together a make-shift bed. It wasn't much but it would keep him off the ground.

His supper was some vegetation that had a light pepper taste. It wasn't bad. However, he would get tired of this quickly. Also, he didn't know if this 'food' would keep him alive very long. There were probably quite a few nutrients that he needed that the vegetation didn't have.

As he laid down for the night on his make-shift bed, he was wishing for a blanket. His space suit helped but not much with the helmet off. The pin holes had ripped while he was building his lean-to. The air temperature was dropping and was probably down to 15 degrees Celsius now. Unfortunately, there was no cloth he could pull out of the Scorpion.

The following day, he found a plant with large leaves. He cut the leaves into strips and wove himself something to put over him at night. It would help keep his body heat near his body. He was really cold last night especially his legs. There were three pin holes that had ripped out and he now had three gashes in the suit of varying length. One on the right leg and two on the left.

There didn't seem to be a lot of variety in the plant life either. His meals would be boring.

On the third day, he awoke to noise. He slipped out of 'bed' and sneaked through the little stand of woods to where the noise was. There were several Bortaq around his Scorpion. Shit! He decided to hide in the woods. He went deeper into the small forest trying his best to be quiet.

A few standard hours later he was dug in pretty good. Then he heard something flying over. He stayed where he was and didn't move. The fighter or whatever it was circled a couple of times and then left.

He was still dug in when he heard some more noise of someone or something moving in the woods. Crap! It wasn't very long before they captured him. Three tall, green warriors pulled him out of his hiding place. Jake was six foot one and these warriors were at least six inches taller. They were not being gentle with him. One of them kept poking him with a pole that gave him an electrical shock. It wasn't really bad but it did make it hard to walk. Every time he had trouble walking because of the electrical shocks, the other two would start to beat on him.

Finally, one of the warriors grabbed him and gave him a shot of something on his neck. Within ten seconds, he started to lose consciousness. He was still somewhat lucid when they started to drag him by his legs.

Jake later woke up and he was suspended from his hands and he had been stripped out of his space suit, underwear, shoes and socks. Naked and hanging from the ceiling by his hands was not going to be good. Jake didn't know how long he'd hung there but his hands were numb. At least his feet were still on the floor and his hands didn't have to support his entire weight.

5. Time In Hell

Sometime later, an evil looking Bortaq who was even taller than the previous warriors came walking into the room where Jake was hanging. The alien walked over to Jake and punched him in the face. He walked over to a table behind Jake and picked up a nasty looking whip. He walked up to Jake and started to whip him. The whip was a lot like a bullwhip and the alien was not taking it easy. "Damn, that hurts!" thought Jake. The alien kept at it and Jake finally started to scream in pain.

After a while, Jake felt light headed and thought he might pass out. The alien stopped whipping him and walked around to look him in the face. The alien turned on a device and began speaking. "You, Earther, are going to die. But it will not be quick or painless. Your bombs destroyed our school. There were 207 young Bortaq taking classes there when your bomb hit. My son and daughter were there. They are now dead. There are not even any bodies to bury. Their spirits will never get to Goetakon, our heaven. I will make you pay for this atrocity. Your death will be long and difficult with much pain. But I will enjoy every minute of your pain. We will also learn some more about the human nervous system and other parts of your body through your pain. We have had a few prisoners that died so we know some things about your species. By the way, two of those dead at the school were immature female humans."

Now Jake was scared. He started to struggle and try to break his bonds but the alien only laughed at him. "Unless you are some kind of wizard, you will not break free."

The alien then stepped back and began whipping Jake from the behind. He whipped him until Jake passed out.

Jake woke sometime later in great pain. He looked down at the front of his body and saw hundreds of red, bleeding stripes on his chest, abdomen and legs. Damn it hurt. He couldn't feel his arms now though. They had gone numb. He was also starving. Since he didn't know how long he hung there, he didn't know the last time he ate something. The alien walked back into the cell and grabbed a container like a bucket. He went to an area where he ran what appeared to be water into the bucket.

Jake was also very thirsty. The alien took the bucket and threw it on Jake. Jake managed to catch some in his mouth and the rest hit his body which caused another strong shot of pain all over the front and rear of his body. Jake didn't know what the damage was on his back, ass and legs but the water made him hurt everywhere but especially on his back. The alien repeated throwing the bucket of water on him and he managed to catch some more. Well, at least he wouldn't die of thirst if the alien kept this up.

Jake asked the alien for something to eat. The alien said "No. You will get water but no food today. Food is in short supply because of your raid. You will be fed once every three day-night cycles. Three battle cruisers are in orbit but they do not have extra provisions. They have set up some hydroponic tanks but that will take awhile to produce anything eatable. Until then, we are all on restricted food rations. You get to suffer with the rest of us. Of course, you will suffer much more for your crimes."

Jake says "But what about the vegetation where you picked me up."

The alien says "That vegetation has no nutritional value for either of our races. You can eat it but it will eventually cause you to die."

Jake stared at the alien. Looks like he was going to be on a diet for awhile. The alien next grabbed one of the, for lack of a better term, pain sticks like they used on him in the forest. "You are acquainted with the electronic nerve stimulators. Those that captured you used a low setting. You will now feel a medium setting. I hope you enjoy it."

The alien started to touch Jake with the pain stick. The shocks were like being touched by a live electrical wire. The alien kept shocking Jake until he finally passed out again.

When Jake woke up after passing out, the alien was there waiting for him to awaken. The alien said "Your species does not tolerate electricity well. We, however, are very tolerant. We evolved from a aquatic species that could easily use electricity and could generate it internally. The evolution of our species over millions of planetary revolutions has taken the ability to generate electricity away from us but we can tolerate it well. We control our criminals with a pain stick that has twice the capacity of this stick." So they were descended from some type of electric eel.

The alien walked up to him with the pain stick. "I'm going to find out how your brain can tolerate the electricity from this device. I will use a lower setting for this. Enjoy." The alien began to touch Jake's head with the stick. After five touches, Jake went into some sort of seizures and eventually passed out again.

When Jake woke up, he was upside down hanging from his ankles and swinging free. He had a terrific headache. The alien eventually came in and said "So, how do you like your new accommodations."

Jake said nothing. The alien picked up a rod of some sort. He start Jake spinning slowly. The alien start to swing the rod through the air. Then every time Jake's ass turned toward the alien, the alien would strike him with the rod. It hurt like hell but Jake started to realize that the pain wasn't as bad as it was yesterday. Jake could deal with it but he was cut all over this back and front. He wondered what the damage would be from the rod. He took the beating with the rod well without any screaming. The alien was not happy.

After a while the alien stopped hitting him. His ass hurt but it didn't seem as bad as it should feel. The alien hosed him down again and sprayed water into his mouth. All his cuts, bruises and now welts hurt when the water was sprayed on them. The alien walked over to him and said "So these must be the male reproductive organs?" With that the alien grabbed him by the scrotum and squeezed hard. Jake screamed. The alien smiled and grabbed his penis and squeezed. Jake grimaced but said nothing. The alien said nothing but grabbed Jake's testicles again and squeezed. Jake screamed again. The alien said "Hmmmmm. Interesting."

The alien came in later that day and used the pain stick on Jake again but at a higher level. Jake noted that the shocks hurt badly again but he was beginning to tolerate the electricity. He didn't scream this time except when the alien directed it at his scrotum. The pain was off the scale the couple of times the alien touched his scrotum with the pain stick. The alien put the pain stick away. He walked over to Jake and punched him in the chest very hard. Jake almost passed out and then had a hard time breathing after the hit. He couldn't catch his breath.

That night, Jake was lowered to the floor and his feet were untied from the lift rope. He was allowed to sleep on the floor that night. This was the first night for a while that he slept at all. His feet were still tied together but at least he was right side up. Sort of.

In the morning, Jake was handed a bowl of some type of gruel. It wasn't much and it tasted foul but Jake was starved so he ate every bit. They also gave him a large tumbler of water. His water intake hadn't been enough the last couple of days. He drank the water like it was the best thing in the world. He was left alone for most of the day. Sometime later some guards came in and put his legs into two straps which were attached to a bar. His legs were spread wide; about 4 feet apart. They then attached the bar to the lift rope and hoisted him up. As they left the room, they spun him.

6. Oh, You Thought You Were In Hell, huh?

His torturer walked in sometime later carrying something that Jake couldn't recognize. The alien approached him and stopped his spin. The alien said "I noticed something yesterday so I thought I would see if you could experience pain in what appears to be another hole. I'm going to shove this rod into this hole I noticed and see how much pain it gives you."

As the alien began pushing the rod into Jake's asshole, Jake started to scream and the alien smiled. It was hard going though so the alien stopped and walked away. Minutes later he came back and spread some type of lubricant on Jake's anus. He then began to shove the bar into Jake again and Jake started to scream again. Ten minutes later, the alien said "Wonderful. Although it caused you pain, I was able to get over half this rod in this hole. What is this hole?"

Jake was stunned and in pain. He eventually answered "That hole is where my body's solid waste comes out. It's not supposed to be an entrance."

The alien smiled and said "Well, it will be an entrance now. We have over 100 male warriors and only 22 females. The two females of your species have been servicing some of the warriors but not enough. Starting tomorrow evening warriors will come to you every night and use this hole for sex. Their male members are similar in size to this metal bar."

Jake said "No, please. That hole is not made to have anything enter it especially something so large."

The alien said "Too bad. You are going to be used that way every day for the remainder of your life. Which probably won't be too long. The two human females don't seem to mind our genitals in their reproductive holes though. The two surviving females will start servicing our genitals in that hole as well. Oh, by the way, the two females don't like our reproductive juices. When sprayed into their holes, it seems to burn them. You'll enjoy that too, I'm sure."

Jake grimaced. He thought, "I thought I'd had it bad before, from now on it's really going to be hell. Out of the frying pan and into the fire."

The alien left him alone with the bar in his ass. An hour later, another alien came in, removed the bar and hooked up the alien's version of an enema to Jake. The enema hurt like hell. What looked to be several quarts of water were forced into his asshole. A couple of hours later, the big alien returned and stripped his garments off. He stood before Jake, put his hands together like he was praying and closed his eyes. His reproductive organ began to grow. When he was finished, his organ was huge. Jake had never seen anything like it before in a gym locker room.

The alien had him taken down and bent over a bench. He was tied down so his legs were spread wide. The alien's assistant squirted something greasy into Jake's ass. The big alien walked over to him and put the head of his large organ at Jake's entrance and then shoved it in as far as he could get it. The alien's penis was at least a foot long and he only got half of that in. Jake screamed in pain. The alien translator device said "Ah, so you like it, huh?"