Defying The Alliance (Novokin Alliance Invasion 1) (11 page)

Asmot's boots crunched on colorful shards of broken glass spewn about the room. He surveyed what was once the mobile living quarters of the New Astorian Prime Minister, disguised as a cargo ship. His face grim and unreadable. Spotting two of his guards in a far corner, flanking the still bound crew of the cargo ship, Asmot changed his direction.

A small, weaselly looking Terran in what appeared to be frilly pink silk robe and fuzzy slippers was kicking up a fuss, demanding the guards release him. The annoying, little alien male called out to him, trying to stand as he approached.

"Thank goodness, you're here Captain, these idiots refused to let us go."

Asmot signaled his guards to allow the male to stand up. "What happened here Prime Minister?"

"One of the old Protectorate Captains." The prime minister shot hate filled looks when it seemed like the guards were going to push him back down again as he lurched towards the Novokin Captain. They made no move but to snicker. He then waddled up to Captain Asmot, still bound at the ankles like a fatted Larludian pig awaiting slaughter.

"They called her Jones. Her and her crew disabled my ship and then stripped it clean. She assaulted me Captain. She then had her psy-witch try to tear secrets out of my head." The puny male shook his bulbous head to illustrate his point.

A psy-witch. Interesting.
Asmot mused and leveled a dark scowl on the tiny male, stepping forward. "What exactly did you tell them, Prime Minister?" Asmot uttered in a cold, smooth voice.

"Nothing." The groveling alien male tried to backpedal out of Asmot's path. Realizing the Novokin Captain wasn't stopping, the prime minister frantically looked around for help. His head banged into a bulkhead jutting out from the wall. Asmot had him cornered.

"Then why did they let you live?" The smile on his purple lips didn't quite reach his eyes.

"I...I don't know what you mean?" The prime minister’s sparse hairline beaded with sweat.

"I mean, why didn't they destroy all of the evidence? Why not erase any trace of them ever having been here? Come now Minister, even you know the question that begs to be answered. Why did she leave you alive?"

"Captain, do you know who I am?" The scrawny pink male with a potbelly in the pink robe had apparently decided it was time to stand his ground.
Who would've guessed
, Asmot thought,
the little skeckling actually has some teeth. Good for him
. Unfortunately they were a far cry from being as sharp as his.

"I know exactly who you are." Asmot gave a partial bow. The perplexed look on the prime minister's face was priceless. "You're the great and noble Prime Minister of the people of New Astoria. You sacrificed so much for peace in your galaxy, only to be brutally assassinated by filthy marauders. Marauders that were once part of your so-called Protectorate."

The prime minister's face reddened, his consternation evident in his raised voice. "What nonsense is this? It didn't happen that way, I just told you they restrained us, then took–."

PhsstSCHOOOOM!

A fist size hole now extended from where the prime minister's left eye had been only a millisecond before, through the back of his skull. Cauterized by the heat of Captain Asmot's plasma pistol, the prime minister swayed in place for the briefest of moments, before his lifeless husk crumpled to the ground.

The captain of the formidable Novokin ship, the Harbinger, turned to his guards. "Kill them all."

End of Book 1
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Defying the Alliance: Book 2
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Defying the Alliance: Book 3
in December

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