Darkness Falls - The Story
Chapter Five

Wriiten by Paul A. Keifer
Kyle slowly raised his arms, he bit his lip as he saw his friend in the predicament, He began to ask the man a question, but Garth beat him to it, "I'd know that voice anywhere, Celius Kane, I thought I'd never have too see your face again, well I'd hoped anyways."
The Cloaked Figure made a rasping sound that Kyle assumed was a laugh, "Insolent little Garth, it seems your on the other side of the blaster now, eh?" He swiveled the gun to point at Kyle, "Now, takeoff, we three are going on a trip, And I guarantee at least one of us isn't coming back."
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A few hours later the ship was gliding silently through hyperspace. Kyle had put in the co-ordinates that Kane had given him, and as far as he could tell it was a random spot in space.
Kyle sighed, "Now does someone mind telling me what's going on? I don't like to be hijacked without notice."
Celnius Kane, who had taken off his cloak to reveal himself as a gray-skinned creature about a foot taller than a normal man, smiled and licked his lips with a thin reptillian tongue, "Oh, I think Garth here would be a much more eloquent story teller."
Garth crossed his arms, "I have no intention of getting into it." He replied adamantly.
Kane's precisely aimed blaster shot caught Garth in the arm, "I believe you should reconsider!" The alien said venomously. Garth snarled and made a move for Kane's blaster, but the creature was too fast for Garth he snapped off a shot that went wild and smashed in the back of Kyle's chair.
Kyle reacted instantly and leaped at Kane, he knocked the alien down and snatched the creatures other blaster out of it's holster.
Garth circled around to the other side of Celnius and grabbed hold of the aliens neck. He smiled and spat on it's head, "Well lookie here, seems your STILL on the wrong side of the blaster."
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Kyle and Garth had stunned the big alien and tied him to one of the passenger chairs, Kyle held a blaster at the thing's head while Garth smiled cruelly and used a drug from the ships medikit to wake Kane up. Kyle made sure that Celnius could see the blaster was on kill and then began his inquiry.
"Now, I believe you have something to explain to me, like the armed hijacking perhaps?"
Kane sighed, "I had better start at the beginning. 5 years ago Garth and I were partners in the 'Enforcement' department of an organization which shall remain nameless for the time being."
Kyle conceded to that, "Go on."
"Then, this ... human decided that a promotion would be in order if he turned me in for ... taking a small extra fee from the company."
Garth snorted, "Embezzling a freightload for every 15 that we sent out, I don't call that a small extra fee."
Kane hissed, "It'd be a write-off for them."
"Write-off or no what you did was wrong and they should've kept you locked up where you belong you lowlifed scum of ..."
Kyle cut of Garth's rantings, "Please, I'd rather we get the story out of him before you get excited and blow his brain out."
Garth stared coldly at the alien, "I'll try to ... control myself." He muttered through clenched teeth.
"As I was saying, He helped them track me down and lock me up, but when Garth decided to ... defect from the company, they offered me a full pardon if I could either kill him, or get him to a certain location, which just happens to be where we are going. And that, as you humans say, is The End."
Kyle leveled the blaster closer to the Aliens head, "No, it isn't I want to know the name of the Company."
Kane licked his lips, "If you must, I am afraid your colleague here was once a fine upstanding agent for...The Black Sun."
Kyle's eyes widened, "The...B..Black.."
"Sun," finished Garth, "Yes, I was, but I got out before I turned into one of their puppets like Kane here."
Kane smiled and laughed his raspy laugh, "But you see, it does not matter, because as soon as we get where we are going, which unless I've been out to long will be a matter of minutes, we will all die."
The whine of a blaster going off filled the lounge as Garth placed a bolt of energy into the creatures head, "You Lying Piece of.."
He was cut off as the Hyperspace Exit sirens blared. "Well, perhaps we should see if he was lying or not."
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The two raced to the cockpit and Kyle pulled them smoothly out of hyperspace, he checked his sensor readouts. "Of All the Gods in All the Heavens! What the heck is that thing....?"
.......to be continued.
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