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CHAPTER
ONE
The
NC 17 was moored in the D section of the halfway space station between Mars and
Earth. Tinker stood at the triple paned window that offered a view of the vast
expanse of space and his pride and joy floating against the inky backdrop.
“Darling,”
he whispered against the reinforced plastic that separated him from the vacuum.
“You make my dangly bits tingle.”
“Excuse
me?” a rough voice interrupted his reverie.
Tinker
turned and saw a couple behind him. The man was six inches taller than he was
and outweighed him by a hundred pounds, but only in his shoulders and massive
slabs of meat that most people called arms.
He
showed them off in a hideous orange tank top tucked into the narrow waist of
pants that ballooned around his legs.
The
woman next to him wasn’t wearing much else. Tink had seen hookers in the
brothels he liked to frequent with heavier gauge gauze covering their nether
regions than she was wearing.
It
left little to the imagination, which was how the pilot normally liked to see
women.
Except
when their steroidal boyfriends glared at him like this one was.
“Scuse
me, mate,” he flashed a charming smile. “I wasn’t talking to your lady.”
The
modified giant glanced up and down the steel corridor.
“There
ain’t no one else here.”
Tinker
looked first one way. Then the other. They were both empty. He did it again,
just to be sure.
“Yeah,
you’re right,” he said. “There’s just you and me and her.”
“Then
you had to be talking to her.”
Tinker
shook his head.
“Nope.
I can see how you would think that though-”
“Then
you were talking to me? Do I make your dangle tingle?”
“Bits,”
Tinker corrected. “Dangly bits, and no. No you don’t.”
“What’s
the matter with me?” the guy sneered. “You think I’m ugly or something?”
Tinker
gulped.
He
did think the guy was ugly, but he was pretty sure that if he said so, it would
be taken personally, and probably violently.
He
didn’t want things to get violent.
He
just wanted a drink. And maybe a camera to capture the vision of the striking
woman standing in the corridor.
He
tried not to stare.
Failed.
“I
was talking about my ship,” he pointed over his shoulder.
“That
ain’t your ship,” the giant grumbled.
Tinker
nodded, his eyes locked on something shiny in the navel of the woman. She had a
trail of glittering gems that led all the way from her belly button down to-
“Of
course it’s my ship, mate.”
“They
why is it leaving?”
Tinker
blinked and turned.
The
tether to the NS 17 floated free from the docking berth. Ports on the back of
the ship blasted frigid geysers of air into space to turn the ship away from
the space station.
He
beat against the plastic glass.
“Hey!”
he shouted. “That’s my ship!”
The
rear rockets began to glow as soon as the NC 17 was clear of the station.
“No!”
Tinker screamed.
But
he could do nothing as the rockets engaged and the ship, his ship took off,
racing away.
A
heavy hand fell on his shoulder and ripped him around off the glass.
“How
are your bits now?” the giant asked.
He
didn’t wait for an answer and instead punched him into the sweet oblivion of a
blackout.
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