Dora watched as the smaller ship landed in the docking area. Four men got out in completely black armoured gear with as many weapons as would fit on a body. They confidently strode up to the door.
Dora gave an update. “Four men, full battle armour, completely black with lots of weapons”
“What is your business on Planet S610,” Dora asked
One of the men with a confident smile took a step closer, he opened his mouth then the smile faded as Dora’s gift started to pull words he didn’t intend to use towards his mouth.
“We are here to kill the Princess” The man replied, his men looked at him shocked.
“How many men do you have?”
He was starting to sweat now “15 plus a pilot”
“What is your plan of attack?” One of the men pushed him out of the way and stood in his way, only to answer the question instead. “We have sent two other ships to the north exit and the secret entrance to break in. we are just a decoy.” His hand flew to his mouth.
“who sent you?” but one of the men at the back had figured out what was going on. She is a truth seeker, and grabbed the men away. Back to the ship.
“Dora spoke up. Did you get all that?” Yes replied Alex and Jay at the same time.
“Mia you need to get away from the secret entrance, I repeat, Mia get away from the secret entrance.” Alex directed. But there was no answer. He then started to rearrange people to defend the new doors they intended to break into. Jay can you have half your team be dropped at both doors, come in from behind.”
“yep, we have two transit pods we can get there, eta 15mins”
They was a flurry of activity as everyone got to their new positions. Alex still giving new orders.
Shell’s voice came through, “seven men just breached the north door”
Jay looked at his team. “That leaves four men at the secret entrance. I’ll take the single seater to the secret entrance. You all go in the other to the north door. I don’t want any kids hurt, ok!” he ordered. “Get us as close as you can Ryder without jeopardising the ship”
They all ran for the hull where the transit pods were, they jumped in and started them up, waiting for Ryders signal.
They could hear a gun battle on the ground through their comms open line. Jay was getting antsy not being able to just be there
“Where do you think the other four men in the decoy pod will turn up” asked Tilly
“Good question” Benny replied
They got their signal from Ryder and Jay gunned the little engine, heading directly to the secret entrance. When he got close enough he thought he could just make out the last guy going through the door. He landed his pod behind a big rock so he had cover when he got out “Ready at secret entrance, going dark.” Jay said into his comms. He then tapped the black stud in his left ear and the comms became quiet. He always did this when working alone, relying heavily on his senses.
He snuck to the entrance and inched around he could see the back of the last guy just turn right up the next corridor. As he pushed off through the door, he heard, was must be the decoy team approach in their transit pod. Great he now had eight men and a princess, somewhere in the vicinity.
He peeked around the next corner and dropped the last guy, as he fell, he took down the next one. The front guy then fell and the second guy and only one left standing panicked and run flat out ahead. When he got to the corner, Jay sore him take a kick to the gut, and an elbow in the head as he fell. “Nice” he said to himself.
Behind him he could hear the decoy team entering the building. He sprinted to the corner and slowly edged around. He could see a female figure in tight fitting cargo pants and a vest take off ahead. That had to be Mia and he probably had all of 10 seconds before the team came up behind him. He ran for her noting the door just up ahead. At full stride he grabbed her opened the door and pulled them both in.
It was a cupboard! he had hoped for a room.
Mia had a weird dream that night, Mia was being led by someone who was familiar but she didn’t know who. It was a young woman dressed all in white, the white woman lead her into a dome and on every surface they were moving images or footage playing. Each scene contained a certain woman as the focal point. All the different scenes all starring the same woman. Mia gasp as she took in each new scene. The woman picked up and tightly hugged a young girl who had just fallen and hurt herself, the woman solving a dispute between two boys, the woman running with all her might towards a fight, the woman laughing with a friend, the woman standing strong while under attack from an unknown threat, the woman rushing to the rescue of a teenage girl, the woman taking a shot at her enemy. There were so many to see. And each footage or scene seamed to loop. Playing over and over again. It was strange Mia couldn’t place any of these scenes but each one felt like dejvu, like she h
Once they were back in their apartments, Jay stood Mia beside their bed and he removed her dress and took her hair out. Mia could feel the anticipation coursing through her heating her core. Jay then knelt before her and removed her ankle boots and holster. He then peeled her tight black pants down so she was just in her underwear. He ran his hand up the inside of her leg. He then removed his weapons belt and suit. “Have I fully disarmed you” he asked as he kissed across her collar bone. “Almost” she said as she felt her body stirring from his touch. “You were so good tonight” he claimed her lips stealing her breath and igniting the fire she felt in her core. He broke away, running his fingers down her back kissing down her neck, she didn’t even realise that her Bra was no longer there, he took her first nipple into his mouth and a sigh escaped her lips. His hands wondered lower pulling her undies down. Once they were out of the way he picke
The Elites began the Banquet and after they were announced Mia and Rota held hands while they walked out to take their seats, Jay was announced next and he followed. There were a few whispers as people took in Mia’s dress. They all stood before their seats until Rota had declared the Banquet to begin. Jay then helped Queen Rota into her seat and then Mia, taking his seat next to Mia.The food was delicious and between courses Rota took Mia around the tables to officially introduce her to the people of Ziion. She got a lot of comments about her dress. She just smiled politely and thanked them. As the dessert was brought out, they wondered back to their table. After Rota announced Jay in his new position as Ziion’s Royal Ambassador. Everyone cheered. Rota also explained that Mia would be going on a trip with General Jay to meet all the Planets leaders and to extend our continued friendship to our allies since the crowning. With the official part of the night over, M
Day 21The next day Mia was introduced to all the Palace advisors and important people at a variety of events and functions all organised by Rota and Aunt Alice. Mia was also given two senior attendants that could help her with everything from hair and make up to who she might meet at the next event and the traditions behind the events. She found it exhausting, but it fascinated her too.Dora had prepared Mia as much as she could for her meeting with the Mercern Ring. Jay had also spent some time with Dora, talking over plans about Mercer and questioning Octave. It turned out that the girls on the other planets were on loan to other smuggling rings and that the problem was a lot bigger that they had first thought. For every one of the GPS trackers, they could see, there might be more girls that they couldn’t see.Octave was stripped of all his wealth and it was directed straight into Ziion’s Royal Ambassador’s account. That Jay
Jay and Mia had arrived back to their apartments ten minutes before the dress makers Evie and Skyla arrived with a heavy suite case between them.“Hi, come in” greeted Mia “How did you go?”“Oh, we came up with some really good ideas but I need to see how they feel on you, and if you can move in them”“Ok sure,”The girls set up, they pulled out three dresses that were partially finished. One was a deep maroon, another a deep blue and the last was black.“Wow those colours are really dark,” said MiaYes, they are suitable for a queen and they reflect your true warrior abilities. I wanted your dresses to give you a edge of danger but if they are too dark we can lighten them with chiffon layers, beading and embroidery.”“They are perfect,” said Jay “these are exactly what you need to wear before the Mercern Ring, they convey power and an edge of danger.
Hunter took a big breath, “Yeah. There was another guy that started in the same class as me but his Father was 2nd in command of the Viv military, as you can imagine he couldn’t fail, instructors spent twice as much time getting him through than anyone else. I seen him take the place of other brilliant soldiers when he was incapable. No one in the class could pass or rank up until he had. It was a complete Joke. He lorded it over everyone because of his success, he didn’t even see that he was holding us back. The brass finally got sick of pandering to him and finally let me rank up before him but they got raked over the coals and he was made commander too. We were both sent out on a mission together.” Hunter stopped to rub his hand over his face “He led his team straight into a trap, they were captured and tortured while he bargained for his freedom with classified information. It was two days before my team could get into a position to rescu