Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions

Darryl Wright

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This is the second book in a series about a wealthy family of the future.

The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse - even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.

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• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781935186441
• Langue: English

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Adventures of Space Cadets 101:
Invasions
Second book in the Adventures of Space Cadets 101 Series
 
by
Darryl Wright
edited by
Karen Paul Stone
 
 
Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
Walden, Tennessee

Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions
Second book in the Adventures of Space Cadets 101 Series
 
 
Copyright ©2014 Darryl Dean Wright. All rights reserved.
 
 
Edited by Karen Paul Stone
Published in eBook format by Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
100 Clegg Street, Signal Mountain, Tennessee 37377 USA
www.waldenhouse.com 888-222-8228
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ISBN-13: 978-1-9351-8644-1
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
 
“An action/comedy with astronauts taking off on one journey which turned into many adventures throughout the galaxies.” -- provided by Publisher

 
 
 
I would like to dedicate this E-Book to the memory of
Roy E. Hartley
 
 
 
This is the second book in a series about a wealthy family of the future.
 
The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse - even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.
 
Titles available or to be released soon include:
1. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Space Pirates, Allies, and Aliens
ISBN 978-1-935186-38-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013905825
Available as an E-Book for most readers.
www.waldenhouse.com
2. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions
ISBN 978-1-935186-44-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013919446
Available as an E-Book for most readers.
www.waldenhouse.com
3. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Weddings
4. Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Back At It on Two Fronts
Introduction
In book one, Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Space Pirates, Allies, and Aliens, brothers Austen and Derek Houston captain their ship The One-Oh-One into space. While they are investigating Professor Cross' ship, Earth Defense (ED) comes onboard the 101 looking for JR, the oldest Houston brother who is wanted on earth for criminal activity. JR, though illegally aboard, secures his right to his brothers' protection when he keeps Extra Terrestrials from kidnapping his teenaged nephew, Kirk. When the Space Cadets finally make it to Jupiter Station they find that Space Pirates have taken it over, but Kirk and JR take care of the problem. Derek is shot up by Space Pirates and loses his memory - even the memory of his proposal of marriage to Deana Kester. ED makes the new 101 retreat into an armada of Space Pirates. They are rescued by alien friends, the Lizardians, and taken into deep space where the two new allies answer a distress signal.

Adventures of Space Cadets 101: Invasions
Chapter 1
ANTIBODIES
Fifteen hours later, Deana Kester was back on the bridge and she told her captain that she knew where the bad aliens were. Austen always thought she was amazing. He was going to ask how she knew the location, but that question went out the air lock when he realized who he was talking to. Of course she would know. She was empathic.
She said, “I’m only picking the ‘where’ up because of the lizard queen. Her thoughts and feelings of remorse are so intense it’s making my stomach hurt. She is hoping her god will grant her last request.” First officer Tim Johnson, Lita, and Captain Austen listened to her every word. Deana continued, “Sir, they were eating her eggs.” She started crying. “They stole the queen so they could feed off of her eggs! Their ship has other females, more lizards, one human, though not from Earth, and others that I do not know their species, and many more. They were all captured to give these … things … FOOD!” She was crying a river.
His experienced Communications Officer, Lita Scott, started to cry too, and Austen was getting a feeling in his gut. He wondered if Deana had been taking her medications, even though he had backed down on requiring them.
For all Austen knew, everyone, meaning females, on his ship was crying right then. He told Deana to snap out of it and that that was an order. Then he asked her if she still had her pill, the inhibiter, but she did not. She had taken it days before. She said that she had had to take it then because she had wanted his brother, Co-Captain Derek, so badly that she could taste him and had almost attacked him.
Austen got up, ran to the infirmary, and banged on the hatch because it was locked. He was tired of waiting, so he jumped the rest of the way to the end of the bridge to look at the other females on the lower bridge to see if they were crying too.
They all looked depressed and their eyes were glazed over. No tears yet, but Austen knew that wouldn’t last long. Deana was already losing control. He left the hatch open. That way when he could hear the other women crying, he would know Deana had lost it. He had been thinking that she had done so well up until then. He was glad Derek was sleeping right then, or rather, he hoped he was. If not, then the cat was out of the bag for him.
He started banging on the infirmary hatch again. He wasn’t going to stop. His big brother, JR, might and probably would hurt him, but it was an emergency. JR finally opened up. “What the hell do you want, or are you committing suicide?”
Austen told him that it was an emergency. He needed one of Deana’s inhibitors and a needle full strength of something to knock her out A.S.A.P. JR looked over at Deana who was crying, and he asked Austen why she wasn’t asleep like everybody else on her shift. Austen didn't answer that, he just insisted that JR hurry. They were in space, and Austen could not afford for Deana to have one of her waves right then … or ever. JR ran back into the infirmary, which he considered his room, to grab her meds. He decided he would deal with Austen later. He couldn’t let his brothers order him around and get away with it.
Austen went back to Deana and asked her, “Deana, we don’t have the means to know what this solar system looks like. I need you to tell me where, in terms that I can tell Qworn’s father, where the aliens' ship is. Can you do that for me, Commander?” He was using her rank to pull her back into the here and now. It was working; she was shaking her head yes. The rest of her body was shaking too, poor girl.
Lita was sniveling, so Austen knew he was running out of time. He had to hurry. “Yes, OK, Commander, tell me where she’s being held,” Austen ordered her. He said, “I assume she is on a ship and not in some other dimension?” Deana was shaking her head yes again, but she knew when she told him the "what," no powers in the universe could stop the wave she had been holding in with all of her strength and control. It was a wave from mothers who were watching their babies being digested.
Austen said, “Good, good; she is on a ship. Where, Deana? Where is she? It is very important, but keep it simple so I can tell SSSaa, and leave you out of the explanation - lefts and rights, in front of, or behind us - kind of simple.”
She said it was in back of them, and Austen asked, "A little or a lot?"
JR gave her a pill and a glass of water. Then as he was giving her a shot she said, “Captain SSSaa couldn’t see the ship. I tried to enter the location into his mind, but his ship stopped me. There is no doubt about it; his ship is stronger than I am, Sir. It wore me down until I started to lose control, so I came here to tell you, Austen. I’m sorry!”
“It’s OK, Commander, just tell me where this bad ship is,” Austen told her as he noticed the shot was kicking in. She had a hard time holding her head up. Austen was worried because SSSaa’s ship could kick his commander’s ass, and he mentally noted it. He didn’t want to hear that. The lizard’s tech was very alien to him.
She said, “I even begged the ship to tell its captain, but it said that it was too dangerous, and then it threw me hard and hurt me.” Sniff. “It hurt me, Hermano!” Austen pulled her into a hug.
JR said, “Great, now ships are talking and throwing girls around. What next?”
Austen grabbed her tighter by the shoulders and said, “Where is that bad ship, Commander?”
Deana looked him in his eyes, the same eyes she had been avoiding or she would have lost all control, and said to him in a whimpering voice, “Behind us, 209 kilometers and to the right about 2287 kilometers. It’s behind a rogue moon and …” Austen snapped his fingers at Lita for her to go and get Qworn and Kirk to the bridge A.S.A.P. He didn’t want to talk for fear the interruption might distract Deana. Lita knew what he needed because she got out of her chair and left the bridge without a word.
Deana kept talking during their exchange, “Captain … Captain … When the lizard queen saw one of those things eat one of her eggs, and because they are blurry and see-through creatures, she saw the remains inside the demon …”
Austen was undoing the strap that he had put on her earlier just before the breakdown. He knew what was about to happen. He just knew, and dreaded the near future. That was why he worried about her empathic abilities in space.
Deana said, “The alien ate another egg and …” She was crying hard.
Lita was hysterical then too. She wasn’t going to recover from it for a while. She was on her knees bent over with her hair touching the deck, and her face was hidden by both of her hands. The guys on the bridge could hear all of the women on the lower bridge crying and screaming. JR said, “I hope Bubba Derek is sleeping alone today.”
Deana was shaking her head "No" at JR’s statement.