This is my entry into the POB story telling contest hosted by @fireguardian.
The game is, he starts a story and you finish it. This is my own finishing. The quoted part is how he started and the rest is mine. Enjoy 😃
The Mzarx500 is a fierce ship with cutting edge technology. It's by far the fastest ship in the 98D sector, it has full plasma cannons, that can shoot in any direction, its design in slick and oppressive, making all other ships to look like children's toys. It's so incredible that all the raiders of the sector try to put their hand on it, but always fail due to the speed and fire power of this ship. Most people call it "Death Lighting" but Captain Sam call it "The Moth". And Sam can do that, after all, who is the owner of the ship? That's right, Sam is. Maybe that name is because of the stealth system of the ship, or maybe because it can fly in any direction, but no one dares to question the Captain. The small crew that travel with Sam are Mink, the crazy torak space engineer and Lativber, the human weapon specialist. No one is sure of what race Sam is, but again, no one dares to question the Captain. They get along very well, and have been in many trips together. You could say they are family already, just don't say it in front of the Captain. Something happened in the past with the Cap's family, but by now you probably know already what I'm going to say right?
It all started as it always does: Sam got a message to help some traders in the border of Guklen, really close to the Runit system. "Ok, another easy job for us" thought Sam, while setting the course in the ship main window. "Warp gate ready to deploy Cap!" screamed Mink below the deck. Sam was not a big fan of warp gates, but it was the only way to get to the destination in time to meet the traders. With a simple gesture in the air, the portal was open in front of the ship. A big golden purple ripple in space, bending the view in front of them. Lativber gripped tight to the chair, and in a blink of an eye they were gone. The jump is supposed to be fast and clean, but for some reason it was taking longer than usual. Sam decided to look the left to watch the ripples of energy that happens when you warp, but what the Captain saw was...
Sam decided to look to the left to watch the ripples of energy that happens when you warp, but what the Captain saw next was scary! It sent a cold shiver down his spine. Another portal was joint with theirs and another ship was traveling through it. The Captain checked the time his own ship's warp portal was created, and checked when the new portal about to collide with his own was made; it turned out he was there first, that means this incoming ship was the one who didn't do it's calculations well. Now sadly there would be a collision.
The Captain was enraged and scared at the same time as he and his crew looked at the incoming ship, rushing at them with intense speed.
'What do we do now, Cap?' Mink asks.
The hugeness and ugliness of the incoming ship now becomes clearer, it was The Ape a ship owned by the Gunguru planet people, a race of ugly wreckless creatures. They are known for their ugly ships and dirty troublesome lifestyles, always up to no good. After identifying them, the Captain was pissed off even more.
'We have no choice but to blast them into pieces, there's no way we're letting them run into us, neither we nor them would live to tell the story.'
With that the captain picked up his the controls, directed his ship's gun at the incoming ship and shot. Somehow the shot seemed to go through the incoming ship without doing any harm at all. And the ship was now almost hitting them. The captain shot again and again, it still didn't touch the ship and soon the incoming ship zoomed off without colliding with the Captain's ship.
The Captain and his crew were all on the ground panting. They had been terrified, but now were relieved that nothing had happened to them.
'What was that? How did that happen?'
Screamed the Captain. Mink the engineer immediately went to work on the ship's monitor to find out what had happened. It turned out there had been a glitch and the warp was not successful and infact they were still back home. The failed warp had somehow made the captain and his crew able to see other ships passing close by when they were actually on a different portal that cannot be reached, that explains why the shots couldn't get to the previous incoming ship. Where then had the shots gone to?
The Captain ordered the warp to be stopped in order to try again. When it stopped and they found themselves still back home, the captain looked around and saw his home destroyed, the shots he fired had landed on his home.
That was how the Captain lost his real family: his Wife and two Children (a boy and a girl). The Captain was brokenhearted and ever since then the Captain became a mean, bitter and unhappy man. You couldn't talk to him just anyhow and couldn't ask him many questions, he'd bark or give you a mean stare.
Now two years has passed and the captain still carries his mean demeanor, the members of his crew want to ask him about it, but remember no one dares question the Captain since then. Two years after the tragic event the captain decided to go see Traxy the young talkative scientist who had just invented a machine you can use to look into about 5,000 other galaxies from wherever you are. He claims with time it would be able to let you look into all the galaxies in the universe but it was a work in progress.
The Captain had wanted to look through this machine because there were some parts he needed to maintain his ship.
'Hey there Captain Sam! How do you do?'
'Let me look through your new machine, Mr. Traxy.'
'Why the hurry, man? Wouldn't you sit? Grab a drink? Some tea? Exchange pleasantries and tell me about your adventures? I was just..'
The Captain gives him a mean stare and he shuts his talkative mouth immediately and takes the captain to the machine. The Captain was not his boss or anything, but was like an uncle to him since he was his late father's bossom friend, the respect had to be there.
Traxy stood over the Captain as the Captain looked through the machine, many people who come by to look as the machine is still under construction are always awed and heaping praises on Traxy as they had their first look, but the captain didn't say anything at all. He just looked on in quietness to Traxy's surprise. Then all of a sudden the Captain screamed!
'Gloria! Gloria!'
That was the name of his wife.
'What is it, Captain Sam?'
'Gloria! I just saw Gloria and the kids in here! What planet is this?'
'Really? Your wife and children? Let me take a look, Sir, you're just hallucinating.'
Traxy takes a look and screams:
'My God! It is Aunty Gloria, little Andy and little Tess!'
He turns to look at Captain Sam and Captain Sam was already dressed and ready to leave.
The Captain was going to go for his family immediately, without any waste of time. He called Mink and Lativber immediately and ordered they set the ship for travel. He was going to use the Warp gate again, for the first time in two years. It was the fastest means and he was not going to take anything else but the fastest means whether he liked it or not, he was going to act quickly.
Mink and Lativber were very happy to hear the news and were eager to go on the journey with Captain Sam. Mink as the engineer began explaining how he think it must have happened that his wife and children were still alive. His theory was that the shooting tht destroyed his home may have caused another ripple since the shooting came from their ship while it was in a failed warp ripple, the new ripple must have transported his wife and children somehow. Besides, a lot of crazy things happen when the warp goes wrong.
This time it didn't go wrong, though, but as the captain landed in planet Dash he was attacked - raiders! They had always wanted his great ship Mzarx500 and now they had him, in strange territory and his ship already landed and anchored. The Captain and his men fought with their guns, taking cover behind wood-like structures scattered all over this planet. But the raiders were in large numbers and kept driving the captain and his men further and further away from their ship.
Until one by one, the Captain's men fell. Lativber was shot first, then Mink next. The Captain was too heartbroken to continue fighting. He loved these two men dearly, they had been his crew members for 15 years. Looking at the men lie there injured, the captain shed tears, he just realized how much he loved these men and how much he had neglected them since he thought he lost his wife and children. These men were loyal to him, they would do anything for him. The Captain then laid down his guns and was captured by the raiders.
They took him to their ship were they was wild celebration amongst the men for the new great ship they've just captured. On getting there, Captain Sam was taken to the master of the raiders. These raiders were a different creature from human beings, they looked like trees but had skin like humans although their skin colour was green. They didn't talk or spoke through their mouth but communicated with each other through facial expressions and grunts.
The captain was dumped in a small room, it was just him and the master of the raiders in the room. The Captain did not understand what was happening, why did they leave him in a room with their master? But the captain remembered, these people were the Kitu people, ruthless pirates, their ways are not the ways of humans and they are known for being fund of tests, they are known to put their opponents through situations just to test them and if they pass the test they could let them go.
The Captain became alert because he knows anything he experiences here might be a test. The Pirate master just sat there looking at him and making no move. Sam now looked around and found a dead Kitu on the floor with a gun on his hand. The dead Kitu was so close, Sam could take the gun and kill this captain. Sam waited for an opportunity and soon the opportunity landed on his laps, the Pirate master stood up, walked around and had his back to Sam. Sam wanted to reach for the gun immediately but it dawned on him that this was his test. They must have put the gun there to see what he will do. These people were no fools, there's no way they'll leave a loaded gun so close to him.
Sam picked the gun and tossed it slowly at the Pirate master. The Pirate master made a loud sound and 5 other Kitu people hiding behind curtains came out. They all seemed pleased, made some sounds and expressions and Captain Sam was taken away. He and his men were free to go, although their ship was taken from them.
They roamed the planet of Dash, with their poorly treated injuries and the poor meal supply the Kitu had left them with. About a week passed, they were worn out and couldn't do anything but sprawl on the ground, then came the young talkative Traxy to the rescue. Cackling on and on. The Captain had been gone for so long, Traxy was worried so he came. With Traxy's help the Captain found his wife and children and it was a glorious reunion. The people of Dash were a backward race and had very poor technology and that was why his wife and children were trapped here.
Days later, back home the Captain recovered, left the hospital and was at last able to spend a night in his bedroom with his wife. He probably had a hot sex romp with his wife, but you dare not ask him about that. Or can you? Of course you can, the captain has gone back to his former happy self, he is no longer mean and angry. So let's ask him, Captain, you beat your wife's pussy to a pulp, didn't you? You sly devil.
CAPTAIN'S REPLY: Well, let's just say I waxed that ass.
Nice story, it's fine that all ends well, and with somekind of happy ending heh?
Yeah 😂
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