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"But what if he's lonely!?" I asked, balling my hands into fists. “Roger has never been outside of the house before! He's probably scared, all alone!" I stomped my foot and pressed my eyebrows together.

“I promise," daddy said as he brushed his hands on the blue fabric of his jumpsuit covering his thighs, “After dinner I'll go look for Roger, okay? Now sit down, your mother's almost finished."

My puppy Roger had escaped when I was at school. I had fed him that morning like I was supposed to. Then I went across the colony to school. I was born on Eriadu. I know the sounds, the different plants, both good and bad. I know the animals. Roger doesn't! He definitely doesn't know to stay away from the marine lab!

I was so worried about him when I came back home and Mommy asked if I had taken him with me to school! He had been here when I left! Right in the kitchen eating his breakfast! And now he was out there somewhere!

“But I want Roger to be home now!" I pled, blinking the tears away that had begun to well in my eyes. My heart was broken for poor Roger. “Please can we go look for him noooooow?"

Daddy's face scrunched up and his eyebrows pressed together. I knew he was angry. But I didn't care! My puppy needed me and I-…

A thunderclap shook the house, leaving my ears ringing. It was all I could hear for several minutes! Daddy rushed forward and scooped me up. Another loud thunderclap and the house shook again. Daddy stumbled and fell.

As he dropped me onto the ground, I rolled a few feet away and turned to look. The kitchen had caved in! Mommy was in there! Part of the wall had fallen on Daddy! I stood up to rush back to him, but something crashed nearby. A sharp pain erupted on the back of my head and a bright blue flashed across my eye.

As I fainted, the last thing I saw was the floor rushing up at me.

* * * * *

It was wet. That was the first thing I noticed when I woke up. The floor was covered in water and it was raining pretty hard. Not as hard as a stormy day, but it wasn't sprinkling either. As I pushed myself up, the cold night air made me start shivering. Little bumps appeared on my exposed arms and legs. It was a warm day, so I'd dressed in a little blue skirt and a blue t-shirt with my favorite cartoon character, Nebula, on it.

And both of those were soaked now! It was freezing! I stood up, my shoes splashing in the water. It was so dark! I looked up, but couldn't see the moons or stars in the sky. Just dark clouds. I shivered again and looked down at the flat image of Nebula plastered perfectly against my chest. I had to be brave like her.

I looked around slowly, but I couldn't really see anything. It didn't look like my house anymore. It was just rubble with a few standing walls. The rubble where my daddy had been had been moved, thrown away. Maybe Mommy and Daddy got out!

Why did they leave me there? I hugged myself and moved under a part of the upstairs floor that was still attached to the wall by what used to be our front door. I huddled beside the wall, thankful for the cover from the rain. But it was still cold. I shivered again.

Maybe they were going for help. Maybe they knew I wasn't in any danger so they left me laying there on the floor while they went looking for a doctor or something. Maybe. But when did they leave? All of the broken pieces of our house were as soaking wet as the floor. Maybe they forgot I was here still?

A loud shriek distracted me in the darkness! I whipped my head around, smacking myself in the face with my soaked pigtail. What was that? It didn't sound like any of the animals that usually lived around the electric fences. Maybe something got inside? My heart was pounding as I stood up. Before I knew it, I was running!

I ran toward the colony as fast as I could. We lived pretty close to the fences. If they weren't working, I didn't want to be anywhere close to them! What if they had fallen down like our house and some of the big animals like the ones Mommy and Daddy said they helped study had gotten in? They told me the animals on Eriadu were big, hungry things that would eat me if they had the chance!

I wasn't going to give them that chance! As soon as I got around the corner of Mrs. McKreadie's house, I'd-…

I skidded to a halt as I came around the corner. Most of the buildings had crumbled, caved in like our house. In the middle of the colony, the big lab the marines guarded was completely ruined. Almost half of it had fallen down and was on fire. Or had been on fire. The rain must have put it out. Smoke was rising from the remains of the big building. Most of it was still intact though.

Nobody was in the streets around it. Nobody was nearby. All of the buildings I could see looked empty. Where did everybody go? Maybe they were on the other side of the colony, by my school. It was a big building, maybe everyone had gone there to get out of the rain. That had to be it.

I looked back again at my house. I could barely see it. I wanted to go back, but… Something snapped there. Something large, maybe a big piece of wood or composite tumbled and was still. I held my breath. Was it just falling down more? Another tumbling sound came through the darkness, then a loud crash like something had been lifted and thrown aside.

It was the animal I heard! I turned and ran around the corner of the Mrs. McKreadie's house as fast as I could. My feet splashed loudly in the puddles and I prayed the animal looking for food in my house didn't hear it! I looked over my shoulder, but there was nothing there. Good, it didn't hear me.

When I had run almost three blocks, I decided that I was far enough away that the animal wouldn't hear me anymore. I slowed down and looked over my shoulder one more time. Still nothing. No big monsters, no hungry animals. And no people. They had to be at my school.

I heard the animal shriek again far behind me and I gasped. It was probably angry that it couldn't find anything. It was probably going to search the next house, or go back into the forest. I hoped it went back into the forest. Either way, I was walking a little bit faster. I didn't want it to catch up if it didn't go back outside the fence.

By the time I reached the school, I was really, really worried. There wasn't anybody anywhere in the colony. And there weren't any lights on in the school. Thankfully, most of it was still standing.

And it was a good thing too, because very close behind me, the animal shrieked loudly again! I gasped and ran to the front door. I flung it open and rushed inside. As I sprinted down the hall, I wished I knew how to lock the door behind me!

“MOMMY!" I screamed. “DADDY!" I rounded a corner and still, no lights anywhere were turned on. The entire school was empty, filled with only me and the echoes of my wet footsteps.

I opened my mouth to call out for my Mommy and Daddy again when the front door I had come through crashed open. I looked behind me and panicked. In the dim light from the silent fire alarms panels in the wall, I could see my footsteps. It could follow me!

I didn't want to get eaten! I wanted so badly to cry, but as I looked down at Nebula still clinging to my chest as flat as a painting, I knew I had to be brave. I quickly kicked my shoes off and threw them as hard as I could down the hall.

I rushed to an open locker and slipped inside. It was a tight fit, but I managed to get in and close the door.

click, click, click

I tried to hold my breath as I heart the animal in the distance. Maybe it was going the other way. I barely heard the thing's footsteps. Maybe it couldn't follow me after all. But I wasn't about to come out of the locker until I was sure it had left. After I got out, I was going to search the rest of the school and find my Mo-…

Click, Click, Click

A shadow covered the vents on the locker and I froze! The animal was right there! But how could something so big be so quiet!? Carefully, I leaned close to the vent in the locker door and peered out.

I clapped a hand on my mouth to keep myself from screaming. It wasn't an animal outside, it was a monster! It looked like a big black skeleton! It was skinny and I could see the bones in its ribs! It's arms and legs were very thin, but there was no empty space between the bones. It looks like a black skin was stretched tight over the dark skeleton.

Each of its hands and feet had long fingers that looked like claws. Unlike any of the people skeletons I had seen in school books, this one had a long tail that looked as segmented as it's spine. My teacher called them vertebrates, I think. The end of its tail had a long pointy thing like a spear. On its back were six long tubes, almost like stiff hoses.

I was shaking. I tried so hard not to cry, but I couldn't help it. Its head was the scariest of all. It was a long curved dome without any eyes in the front. The only part of its face that was there was a big mouth with lots and lots of teeth that looked like needles.

I rubbed my eyes and brushed away the tears. I just knew the monster had made the marine lab blow up. Did it eat everyone? No, it couldn't have. It would have been big and fat. Everyone was hiding somewhere. I knew it. Mommy and Daddy were with everybody else somewhere safe, hiding from the monster. They just forgot me. That's all.

The monster turned its big domed head this way and that, looking for me without eyes. It turned, following the drips my shoes made when I threw them.

Click, Click, Click

It walked slowly down the hall, crouched low to the ground like it was sniffing me out. Except that it walked right up to my shoes and sniffed at them for several moments. It looked around, trying to decide where I went.

Not in the locker, not in the locker, I'm not in the locker! I thought. It turned around and walked back the way it came, right past all of the lockers.

Then it stopped in front of mine.

I bit down on my hand and tried not to scream. It lowered its dome to the ground again and looked all of the drops and footsteps I left behind. It followed them right to my hiding place and lifted its head upward.

It stared right at me! I leaned back against a jacket someone forgot in the locker. I was shaking like a block of jello. I was dead! It was going to eat me and I'd never see Mommy, Daddy, or Roger ever again!

It lifted one of its long fingered hands and pulled at the handle. The door shook but didn't budge. It was locked outside, but there was a release on the inside just in case someone got locked inside, like I was now.

One of the fingers slipped a centimeter or two through the vent. It knew I was here! It was gonna tear the door off and eat me piece by piece!

Again the door rattled as the monster tugged on it, but it didn't open. The finger slipped back out of the vent and the monster turned. I clamped my eyes shut, waiting for the tail to bash the door open and all of those teeth to sink into my neck…

Click-click-click

I opened my eyes and peered through the vent again. It was gone. The monster had run down the hall. Which way, I didn't know. It was probably going the direction I had thrown my shoes. For all the monster knew, I just kicked them off and kept running with dry feet.

I waited and waited. I was sure it was going to come back any minute and try to open the locker again. But it never did. It must have been hours that I was in there. It felt like forever, but I finally reached up and pressed the unlock button. It took a couple tries to get it open, but I eventually did. My hand was shaking really bad.

I slowly pushed the door open and peeked out. I looked down the hall the direction I had thrown my shoes. They were still there. The monster wasn't, though. I stepped out onto the cold, wet tiled floor and started to tippy toe down the hall back the way I'd come. If the monster was in the school, I didn't want to be.

Every few steps, I looked over my shoulder, but the monster was never there. I came back around the corner and saw the front door. I was almost out, I just had a little way to go. I reached out and rested a hand on the wall to steady myself. Just a second to catch my breath.

I remembered Mommy telling me that when I was really scared, I had to remember to breathe or I'd pass out. Take a deep breath in, then slowly let it out. Just like Mommy taught me. A deep breath in, then slowly out. Feeling a little better and shaking a lot less, I took a step forward, then another.

I let my fingers trail over the wall to keep myself calm. They glided over the cold composite, then over the metal doorframe and onto the door… It swung open slowly and I reached for the knob. But already the hinges let out a loud CREEEEEAK.

I hissed inward and stopped. Maybe the monster didn't-…

It shrieked somewhere deep in the school and I whimpered. Don't cry! Hide! I imagined Nebula telling me. I couldn't hide in the open class! The monster would know I was there! I bolted across the hall and forced the other classroom's door open. I quickly shut it as quietly as I could and turned around.

I almost screamed, seeing a skeleton there staring at me where it hung.

I clapped my hand over my mouth to stop it, though. Just in time, too. The door I accidentally pushed open crashed as the monster burst into the classroom looking for me! I glanced about. So many jars of body parts, little animals, things like that! In the corner, all of the school lab's wheely tray things had been stacked up.

I didn't know what they were, I didn't take any lab classes yet. I'd seen through the window in the door though. The trays were what the big frogs and other things the big kids got to dissect were put on then rolled over to their work tables. Each of them had a thick white cloth draped over them now, but I knew they were empty, hollow underneath the tray. Just four legs with a shelf and wheels on the bottom.

I ran over to the wheely trays and quickly slipped under one of the white blankets. I hugged my knees to my chest and squeezed tight. The tears rushed down my cheeks as I cried. Hard. I was so scared. The monster couldn't get me in the locker, but there was nothing protecting me in here. Just a blanket.

I heard the door crash open. There was silence for a little while. Maybe the monster only broke the door down in a fit. It couldn't find me so it got angry and broke the door.

Click, Click, Click

I held my breath as I heard it walk into the classroom. It hissed angrily as it searched around all of the work tables. I held my breath and clamped my eyes shut. I'm not here, I'm not here, I thought again. Its claws clicked louder as it got closer and closer to my hiding space. This was it, it was going to pull the blanket off and find me!

The wheely tray suddenly jerked and rolled across the floor. I squeezed my knees tight and curled my toes. My fingers dug painfully into my thighs, but I didn't make a sound. I had to stay as still and quiet as possible!

The monster shrieked loudly, hurting my ears and making them ring again. I heard it crashing through the trays, throwing them about and knocking them around. One of them slammed into my hiding place and it tilted. My heart skipped a beat in my chest and I felt like I was falling.

I was falling! The wheely tray tipped then fell over onto its side.

I squeaked a little as I fell onto the hard floor, cushioned only by the thin blanket. I hoped the monster didn't hear it as the crashing stopped. It wasn't throwing the wheely trays anymore. I bit my lower lip hard. I tasted blood, but I didn't care.

Click-Click-Click

The monster was walking quickly right toward me! I stared up at the taut white blanket hanging dangerously low to me. It was going to whip up and the monster would be there, ready to tear me to pieces any second!

I watched the shadow fall over the blanket and held back another whimper. The blanket rustled, flapping quickly with as little movement as it could as the creature rushed over the trolly and headed back toward the door.

I heard the skeleton topple noisily to the ground as the monster rushed past. Its claws clicked on the tile as it ran down the hall and I heard another classroom door break open.

I stayed perfectly still in my hiding place as the muffled sounds of crashing and breaking things in the next room over echoed back to me. The monster shrieked loudly and moved onto the next room.

It went from one room to the next, it's shrieking cries growing more and more angry as it searched for me. I crept out of my hiding place and crawled to the door that hung open just enough for me to fit through. I could see down the hall. I watched as the monster, barely visible through the window in the classroom's door, tore the room apart looking. It was making so much noise, I could probably slip out and go back outside without worrying about it hearing me!

I slowly stood up and pressed myself against the wall. I suddenly wished I could press as flat against the wall as Nebula was to my chest! I looked down at her again, reminding myself to be like her, a brave girl who overcame just about anything.

When I looked back up, the other room's door burst open and the monster rushed across the room. I heard the door crash open and the monster starting to tear that room apart as well. That was my chance!

I slipped out into the hall and bounded like a gazelle to the front door! I had to bounce on my toes to keep my feet from slapping wetly against the tile, but I made it! I pushed the door open just enough to slip out into the rain. Instead of letting it close heavily once again, I turned and gently let it slide back into place. It closed with barely a click and I exhaled heavily.

Tears rushed to my eyes and I choked back a sob. Then another. I clapped a hand over my mouth as the other brushed away my tears. I couldn't help the frightened moan that wormed its way up my throat, but I was safe now.

I looked over my shoulder again, making sure the monster wasn't right there ready to eat me. It wasn't. I sprinted down into the street and rushed across back the way I came. The monster would never think of going backwards to find me.

Halfway back home, I slid around the corner of a building and pressed my back tightly against it. Deep breath in, let it out slow, I reminded myself and started to calm down. I slumped down to the ground and hugged my knees to my chest again. Where was everybody? If they weren't in the school, where were Mommy and Daddy hiding?

I looked at the marine lab woefully. This wouldn't have happened if that building hadn't blown up.

I stopped for a moment and looked closer. Was I really seeing that? The water was dripping from wire to wire around the electric fence surrounding the marine lab. As the droplets fell down to the wire beneath, little bolts of lightning followed their trail back to the wire above, hissing and sparking brightly for an instant as the electricity travelled from one wire to the next.

The marines kept it very well protected. Mommy and Daddy worked in there and had to use special keycards to get in the front gate. They said it was very dangerous in there and that I should never try to get close to it.

Maybe that's where everyone was. If the fence was still on, maybe it was still safe inside and the monster couldn't get in! But then how was I supposed to get in? I would have to find a way. I glanced down at Nebula again and willed my feet to move. Be brave.

I ran back into the street, this time straight toward the marine lab. I ran around the outside of the fence looking for any way at all that I could get inside. It was all still standing. I went almost halfway around the fence and couldn't find anything. Any farther around and I would be going back toward the school and I didn't want to be anywhere near that!

I looked bac the way I'd come and was starting to lose hope when I saw a large puddle of water flowing beneath the wire. The gap between the top of the water and the bottom wire was a little bigger than the rest of the space between the ground and the wire. Oh yeah! I'd learned that running water could actually move dirt with it, making canyons after lots of time.

It wasn't a canyon yet, but maybe it was deep enough to crawl through! I ran to the edge of the puddle and stared at the gap. It didn't look wide enough to crawl through. But the building beyond was my only chance. I was lucky, too. The gap was on the side of the building that was still pretty safe looking. I couldn't even see the blown up part from here.

I took a step into the water, but it didn't feel any lower. I took another, then another. Soon, I was knee deep in the water! My heart was pounding. If I was knee deep in the water, and there was almost a foot between the top of the water and the wire, that meant there had to be enough room!

I dropped to my hands and knees and crawled forward. The closer to the wire I got, the higher up the water got. As I got close, I had to crane my head to keep it above water, and some was still getting in my mouth! I watched the sizzling wire for a moment then took a deep breath. Now or never!

I closed my eyes tight and ducked my head under water. It rushed fast against me, trying to push me back out, but I crawled forward. My fingers curled in the dirt, dragging myself as my toes dug in and pushed!

It was getting hard to hold my breath! I'd been crawling for a long time now, I had to be through! I lifted my head and excitement rushed in! I was through! A big smile bloomed on my face and I stood up.

I wasn't through as much as I thought. As I started to stand up, white hot pain shot into my lower back and I screamed! I tumbled forward as tears rushed down my face. It felt like I had touched our houses heating coil, except it was all the way across my back and felt much, much worse! It stung so bad and I felt like I had burned myself all the way to my spine!

I scrambled forward and reached a hand back to feel for what I knew was a large, deep cut. There was nothing there but wet shirt, though. I stumbled to my feet and shook. I hurt. I was cold. I was scared. But I was safe.

I walked forward, sloshing through the water for a little while until I was back on solid ground. I wasn't sure where the front door was, but there was a small door in the side of the building ahead of me that was hanging open. Maybe someone had gotten in the same way I did.

It was dark inside, but I knew that was so the monster wouldn't know anybody was there. When I finally came inside, I pulled the door closed, but it wouldn't latch. I tried a few times to get it to stay shut, but it slowly swung open every time. Fine, let it hang open. It wasn't like the monster could get past the fence anyway.

It was very quiet inside. I walked down the very dark hallway and felt unease settle in my cold body again. I had to reach a hand out to the smooth wall just to know where I was going. The fence was on, but there weren't any silent alarm panels to blink and show even a little bit of light in here.

When I was deep enough into the building to know the noise wouldn't echo back outside, I called out “Mommy?"

My voice echoed, bouncing all around me, but nobody answered. My lower lip trembled and I felt like I might cry again.

“Daddy?"

Still nobody answered.

My fingers trailed over a door and I whimpered. Where was everybody?

Suddenly the wall disappeared and I felt like I was falling again. I couldn't see anything, not the floor or the ceiling or the walls around me! I took a step back and found the wall again, then followed it as it turned right. Just a turn. That was all. A nice little right turn.

I followed the wall again and tried to open my eyes wider, as if somehow that would let more light in. There really wasn't any improvement. It was still the same pitch black darkness. Why weren't there any lights in here?

I stopped as my fingertips touched something wet and sticky on the wall. What was that? I took a step forward, thinking to walk past whatever it was, but my feet pressed down into something that felt almost exactly the same. I turned and ran both hands over as much of the wall and floor as I could. Whatever it was seemed to be covering the entire hallway. What was it? It felt so gross and icky between my toes.

tick, tick, tick

I stopped and turned my head sharply down the hallway the way I had been going. What was that?

tick, tick, tick

It was the same noise the monster made at the school! Breathing heavily, I stood up and sprinted back the way I came. How did it get inside the lab!? I rushed back around the corner, nearly falling when the wall turned and I didn't. I found the wall again and followed it back to the door. I yanked it open and rushed inside. I wanted to slam the door and huddle in the dark, but I knew better. That would only tell the monster where I was! I pulled it quickly close then stopped just short of the frame. I slowly, gently latched the door and turned the lock.

Click, Click, Click

I backed away from the doorway slowly. It was just outside! I could hear the claws tapping on the floor as it searched for me, getting closer and closer with every moment.

I backed into something solid, it felt like a pipe. It wiggled and bent as I pressed inadvertently against it. I reached back and felt the wall behind me. The room I was in was a tiny little one. I pressed my back and the pipe flush with the wall.

Something popped and sizzled above me when the pipe pressed against the wall. The lights flickered on and I leapt forward.

Outside, the monster shrieked and I heart it quickly running down the hall as something boomed far away. I turned around and looked at the pipe. It looked like it had been cut in two. The top part had been attached to the wall and the part I bumped into was hanging loosely from a thin wire that connected the two halves. '

Other frayed wires had sprouted from the open ends of either half of the pipe and when I pushed them close together, electricity leapt from one half to the other. It was a power line! Pushing it back up allowed the power to flow again, but not very well. The lights were on for several seconds then flickered off, then back on again at random.

But at least I could see.

The room I was in looked like a janitor's closet. Sort of. There were more tools and not as many brooms or mops. Several of the panels looked burned or like they'd blown up, but a lot of them looked normal. Some of them had to be for the fence, and of course the line I accidentally put back was for the lights.

I wanted to stay in there, but the monster probably knew where I was. Maybe. I couldn't take that chance! I had to find Mommy and Daddy!

I unlocked the door and slowly pulled it open. I peered out into the dimly lit hall, looking for the monster. All I could see where white walls, white tiled floor, and a white ceiling with the flickering lights. How boring, but it was just like those holovids with the secret agents and stuff.

I slipped out into the hallway and tip-toed around the corner the direction I had been going to-…

I stopped and my mouth hung open. The entire hallway was covered in this thick dark blackish-green stuff. Ceiling, floor, both walls. And it kept going. A little bit of light filtered through the stuff where the lightbulbs weren't completely covered, but it wasn't very bright down there. What was it?

I looked over my shoulder as another dull boom echoed to me from the opposite direction. The monster would be going that way, so I would have to be brave and go down that hallway. Or tunnel. I wasn't sure what to call it, now.

It felt so weird between my toes. It was slightly warm, but it was gooey and sticky. It smooshed all around my feet with every step and it smelled awful. Like rotten eggs mixed with sour milk and moldy cheese.

Every time the lights would flicker, I would look back. But the monster was nowhere to be seen. The tunnel turned and twisted, always at right angles as it conformed to the lab's hallways. I hoped it would eventually lead to safety. I was so turned around that I didn't know which way was the way back.

The lights flickered as I rounded a corner and I resisted the urge to press flat against the sticky goop. I got as close as I could to the wall without touching it and peered back the way I had come. When the lights stabilized, there wasn't a monster to be seen. When I looked ahead again, my heart stopped in my chest.

The room I had come into was a large, wide one with something round in the middle. It was just as covered with the dark stuff as the rest of the building I was in, but it looked like one side of the large cylinder had been broken, leaving a sort of circular room with a wide doorway.

All along the walls were lumps. People shaped lumps. They almost looked like cocoons, but pressed tightly against the wall and were made of the exact same gooey stuff as the rest of the stuff covering the walls and ceilings.

Maybe they weren't people after all. Maybe they were specimen pods or something sciency like that. I was in a lab, after all.

I slowly moved through the large room toward another hallway on the other side. It was hard to be quiet when every footstep went squish but I did my best. I kept looking at the pods, the cocoons or whatever they were on the wall. I was so sure the monster would burst out of one at any moment.

The hallway was just right there, a few more steps away. I had almost made it through when one of the gross looking cocoons nearby shifted and wiggled slowly, groaning with a deep, wet grlorolp sound.

My eyes snapped to the cocoon and my breathing quickened. It shifted again with another ominous sound and my heart started to pound in my chest. What was inside that thing!? I turned and ran, sprinting into the hallway and the flickering darkness beyond.

I rushed around a corner, stumbling in the goo as it grew more firm beneath my feet. It seemed harder and darker the farther I ran. Soon, it had very little give to it and I found it much easier to run on the hard surface, even if it was knobby and uneven.

As I rounded another sharp turn, I stopped and pressed myself against the dark wall and peered back the way I had come. Whatever was in the cocoon wasn't following me and the monster wasn't coming after me.

My head began to spin and my body began to tingle. Deep breath in, then let it out slow, I reminded myself again, focusing on my breathing like Mommy taught. Several minutes later, I was calming down again. And safe. I was safe.

I turned around and froze in place. Ice rushed through my veins and my eyes got as big as Frisbees. This room was another large big one with many, many cocoons on the walls. There was one very big difference, however. These cocoons weren't the same dark green goop as before. They were people.

There were so many people hanging from the walls. Their wrists and ankles were covered in the same material as the rest of the walls and floors. They were spread wide in X shapes side by side, and all of them had been undressed, hanging there completely naked. And they were all girls and grown up women. Each of them hung there unconscious. Or dead.

Many of them had round, bulging bellies. Others had faint swells. A few of them were as taut and fit as ever. I wasn't sure why many of them were big and round. None of the ones I recognized were pregnant before the explosion. Maybe the monster had put something in them to make them like that. I hoped not. I hoped it was just….

I didn't know what I had hoped it was.

“Hello?" I called. None of them responded. I stepped into the room and looked at all of them. There were so many. “Can anyone hear me?"

The hall across the room reverberated with an echoing shriek. I gasped and spun in place. There was no way I was going back to the room with the pods, not after the one made noise and moved! But the monster was in the only other hallway! I looked around for a hiding place, but there was barely anywhere to go.

Click, Click, Click

The monster was coming! I needed to get out of sight somewhere, anywhere!

One of the lumps of the dark stuff holding the women in place was a little larger than the rest. I rushed over to the lump and huddled against it. Once again, I wished I was as flat as my Nebula shirt. I pressed myself as tightly against the lump as I could and peaked up over it to the hallway.

My vision was obscured by the woman's naked leg, but around it I could see most of the doorway clearly enough. The monster was already there. He was walking into the room, his eyeless dome looking every which direction for me. He moved like a cat, but that only made him look even scarier to me. Cats don't look like skeletons.

The monster stopped in the middle of the room and turned this way and that, looking at all of the girls held up on the wall. One of them started to wake up and wiggle where she hung.

She moaned deeply, groaning in fear or pain. Her belly was doing more wiggling than she was! Whatever was inside was doing a whole lot of moving around! I bet it hurt, that's why she was making the noises she was.

The monster rushed to the woman and slashed at the dark stuff holding her up. It broke away like pottery and the monster pulled the woman down. She clutched at her tummy, more worried about it than the monster that took her into the middle of the room and laid her down on her back.

She started to scream.

I pushed a knuckle into my mouth and bit down. I was shaking as much as her tummy was! And there was nowhere I could escape. I was stuck there watching as the belly moved, wiggling lower toward her legs.

She screamed louder and spread her legs wide. Her hands dug into her belly and she arched her back. I couldn't see from this angle, all I could see was her side, but something had started to crawl out from between her legs. Was it coming out of her cunny?

Her screams grew louder, like she was dying. Then the thing slipped free. It was a tiny white thing, a small version of the big monster! Was it the monster's baby!? It sure looked like it!

I looked up at the round tummy above me and my eyes began to tear up. All of these girls had baby monsters in them. I looked back to the woman in the middle of the room and pressed tighter against my hiding place.

The monster took the woman's limb, crying body back to where she had been hanging. He held her up and started to spit more of the nasty green goop onto her wrists and ankles. He held her in place for a few moments then let her go. Once again, she hung from the wall like the rest of them.

The baby in the middle of the room stood up and started to crawl toward the hallway that led toward the pods. It was slow and awkward at first, like a baby horse I had seen in holovids in school. By the time it disappeared into the hall, it was running as good as the big one.

Speaking of the big one, it was already walking toward another flat-bellied woman on the wall. It started to slash at the things holding her in place and she woke up.

“No! Get away from me! Don't fuck me! No!" she screamed as the monster grabbed her and carried her toward the middle of the room.

MOMMY!

I wanted to scream and run out to help her, but I was frozen in place! I couldn't do anything, even breathe! I watched the monster push Mommy down onto her back. She flailed and fought back, kicking and punching at the monster as it struggled to restrain her.

The monster gave a screech and flipped her over like a doll! It pressed her down on her belly and held her there as another tail sprouted from between its legs. The monster crouched behind Mommy as its new tail grew longer and longer.

Not a tail. I remembered health class. We had learned about all of this in school only a couple weeks before. This was boy parts, a penis. Its-his-penis started to get long and stiff. He laid it along her back and leaned down close to her to hiss into her ear.

As the monster leaned down and rubbed his groin against mommy's butt, the big black penis rubbed along her spine, almost halfway to her shoulder blades! It was segmented and ridged, like thick cones stacked on top of one another! And it was as big around as mommy's arm!

The monster lifted his sharp claw off of Mommy's back and she got up! She lifted onto her hands and knees and tried to quickly crawl away!

The monster hissed and grabbed her hips, yanking her back! Mommy screamed loudly, trying so hard to drag herself away from the big monster, but it wouldn't let go.

Mommy screamed more and more, crying loudly as the monster pulled his hips back and pressed his penis to her cunny. When the monster pushed the penis into her and pushed his hips against her butt, Mommy threw her head back and held her mouth open. It looked like she was screaming, but she wasn't making a noise.

Her bell was bulging beneath her, but not like the monster's baby was in it. It was shaped just like his penis. I could see all of the ridges pressing against her skin from the inside. I wanted desperately to look away, but I couldn't move. I was helpless to do anything but watch as the monster dragged his penis out of Mommy and forced it all back in.

His hips were fast, pounding against Mommy's butt. I could hear his body slapping against hers as he pushed his penis into her again and again. Mommy's back arched and her head turned and writhed this way and that. Her voice groaned in a raspy way, like she was trying to catch her breath after she'd fallen flat on her back.

I'd fallen on my back before. The terror I had felt at not being able to breath, then slowly starting to gasp. I imagined that was how mommy felt, only worse. Much worse. She was crying again. I could hear her sobbing as the monster pulled her back to meet his every thrust against her cunny.

She curled her hands into fists and mouthed words I couldn't hear. Maybe she was begging the monster to let her go again. I was sure she was doing that. I was. Inside, I kept begging the monster to let Mommy go. I kept praying to whichever god I'd learned about would listen. I didn't want my mommy to have a baby monster in her.

My wishes went unheard. The monster pressed himself tightly against Mommy and hissed loudly, almost a screech. Mommy's tummy grew outward, rounding out to look almost the size of some of the tummies hanging around the room. She sobbed, burying her face in her hands.

The monster pulled his penis out of Mommy's cunny and pushed her over. She fell on her side and tried to curl up to cry. The monster wouldn't let her though. He grabbed her and roughly forced her onto her back. Mommy begged the monster again, saying words that weren't really words as the monster pulled her legs apart and crouched over her.

Once again, the monster pushed his big ridged penis into Mommy. I could see her belly bulge every time he pushed it into her. She arched her back up off the floor, crying and screaming every time the thing pushed into her.

The big thing leaned down and pressed his eyeless face into her neck. It's bit mouth opened and something that looked like a tongue pushed against her neck. Mommy tried to pull away from it, but she couldn't get away.

I bit down hard on my finger. It looked like another tiny mouth was biting her neck! Was it eating her! Nooo! I wanted to run out and push the thing off of her! But my legs still wouldn't move.

I didn't see any blood though. It looked like the tiny mouth was only giving little nibbles, like Roger would do to my arms or legs when he was being playful. But the monster wasn't being playful. He was hurting Mommy bad! He was putting baby monsters in her!

I rubbed my eyes with my free hand, trying to push away the tears that had started to flow. There was nothing I could do but watch the monster force his big black penis into her cunny again and again.

Mommy's legs were spread wide around the monster's waist and every time he pushed his hips against hers, her feet would bounce and she would gasp and moan. Her hands lifted and pushed against the monster, but he didn't seem to care. He just kept doing what he was doing.

After several long minutes of this, Mommy started to scream again. “No! No! No more, please! Stop! I can't take anymore!"

It didn't take me long to figure out what she meant. Her belly was getting bigger! It swelled up and up and up, but the monster didn't stop moving. It kept thrusting into her, putting more monster babies in her! She was so big! When the monster babies were ready to be born, she'd be so huge! There was no way Mommy was going to be okay!

click, click, Click

The monster pulled his penis out of her cunny and grabbed her roughly in his sharp black claws. He picked her up and flipped her back onto her hands and knees. Mommy tried to scream again, but her voice was too hoarse from crying. She groaned loudly and tried to crawl away, but she barely moved her arm when the monster pushed his penis back into her and started to thrust into her again.

Click, Click, Click

Mommy wasn't strong enough to hold up her shoulders. Her arms kept bending more and more. Every time the monster pushed his penis into her belly, her boobies would sway back and forth and her elbows would bend. Mommy's shoulders got closer and closer to the ground until finally her head laid on the ground and her boobies didn't sway anymore. She turned her head slowly from side to side and gave weak moans as the monster ravaged her.

Above me, the woman started to wake up. She groaned weakly and I saw her leg wiggle. She groaned a little louder and I looked up. Oh no! Was she going to have her monster baby now!

She was looking down at me with half-lidded eyes and groaning a little louder. Her belly wasn't moving though.

HISSSSSSSSS!

My eyes widened as the loud noise reverberated in my ear. I turned my head to the side and screamed at the top of my lungs! Another monster had snuck up behind me and was crouched right there! His head was centimeters from my own!

I scrambled to my feet and tried to run! It reached out and grabbed one of my ankles and I fell flat on my face! A bright flash like the one back in our house lit before my eyes! I felt myself being moved, dragged along the knobby floor, but I couldn't hardly move. I couldn't even see!

I rubbed my eyes and blinked them back into usefulness, but the second monster was already pulling my clothes off! I struggled and tried to get away, but one of the monster's claws grabbed my wrists and held them above my head! I kicked the monster, but he didn't care. He simply tore away my skirt and panties then stared down at my Nebula shirt.

Maybe he recognized Nebula! Maybe he knew who she was and was getting scared!

No. He tore the fabric away and left me as naked as Mommy and the other girls! Tears ran down my face as I struggled. Something hot and damp fell on my hairless cunny. I blinked away the tears and lifted my head to look.

I wailed and screamed as I saw the monster's big penis laying on my cunny! And it was getting bigger! The pointed tip of it was moving up along my tummy and flat chest! It rubbed over one of my nipples and came to rest a few centimeters below my chin!

“Ellen!" I heard mommy croak beside me.

I turned my head and saw her staring at me. Her shoulders and face were still pressed against the floor and her tummy was even bigger, but the monster kept thrusting against her. She was reaching a hand out toward me. I reached back for her, but we were too far away.

The monster pulled his ridged penis over my body. As it rubbed my cunny, something sparked and I felt my hips buck against each of the ridges. A funny little tickle I would have been more curious about if I were somewhere else rippled through my belly every time my hips bucked, but I could only think of one thing.

It's not going to fit in my cunny like it fits in Mommy's!

It pressed against my hairless cunny and I gasped. My eyes widened and stared up at the monster. It looked down at my girl parts and hissed in frustration. It kept prodding against me, trying to force himself into my cunny. Every time he pushed, I felt my cunny lips stretch a little more around him and pain shot through my groin

Finally, the monster grabbed my hips with both hands and held me tight. I felt the sharp edges and pointed tips of his claws dig into my skin and new tears sprang to my eyes.

Then he was in me! I felt his penis rush into my body, stretching me wider than I would have thought possible! My cunny was on fire! Deep inside of me, there were two places that burned with white hot pain! I threw my head back and tried to scream, but the air had already rushed out of my lungs.

I heard my mother scream just as loudly as when the other monster had pushed into her. I turned to look at her and she was still on all fours. She was staring right at me, her eyes as wide as saucers. Not at me. At my tummy.

I lifted my head and looked down. My eyes widened and I screamed. This time, it was a loud, shrill screech. My tummy was bulging outward, from my stretched, bleeding cunny to the bottom of my ribs! I could see every ridge stretching against my skin like a glove! I couldn't see the pointed tip, though. It had disappeared under my ribs.

My head fell back against the floor. The pain was starting to dull. I felt the alien pull his penis out of me and every time a ridge rubbed against the top of my bloody cunny, that same weird tickle filled my body. I tried to focus on that instead of the hurt. Especially as the monster started to push his penis into me just like the other one was doing to Mommy. He was doing it a little slower, but his hands on my hips still hurt a lot.

It was getting hard to see. Color swirled in front of my eyes and blackness started to eat away at the edges. The pain was getting lesser now. But that tickle was getting better. Better and better.

My lungs were empty. My tears were dry. My mouth gaped as I tried to sob. The only sound that came out was a small moan every time the alien pushed himself into me. I lifted my head again, strangely fascinated with watching the penis push into me, then pull back to leave my tummy as flat as ever before filling it again with that odd shape.

I looked past the bulge of my belly when he thrust in. He was only pushing about half of it in. I knew it wouldn't fit. I smiled and lifted a hand I had only just then realized wasn't being restrained anymore. I pressed my palm to my belly, feeling the penis rush in and out of me.

The monster was moving faster. The pain was starting to increase. I knew that, but I couldn't really feel it. It was all a blur, like it wasn't actually real. It almost felt like I was watching it through somebody else's eyes.

The monster pulled his hips back until only the point of the tip of his penis was left in me. It shrieked loudly, but even that was a dull echo in my ears. He thrust his hips forward and I watched the penis rush into me again. This time, his hips pressed against my own.

My eyes widened as an ache blossomed deep in my chest and moved up into my throat. I felt heat rush into my chest and rush into my belly. My head fell back and my eyes closed. Somehow, as the heat bubbled up and out of my mouth, I knew my lids were still open..

* * * * *

I stare down at the broken body of my prey.

Her body was only barely longer than my cock. I knew I wouldn't fit inside of her womb. I knew that if I fucked her, she would not survive. She would be food, just like the males of this species had become after I broke out of their cursed laboratory. But the little bitch had led me on quite the frustrating chase. How something so small, so young could evade a mature drone like me, I would never know. The others had been easy to track. But this one?

I watched my seed bubble out of her mouth as her lifeless eyes stared up at me. I leaned down close and hissed profanity in her face.

“NOOOOO!" the child's mother shrieked as my offspring bred her. “ELLEEEEEEN!"

I turned to consider the woman. I could see through the spectrum that already, his seed had taken root, integrating enough of her DNA to complete the embryo. I chirped an affirmation to my drone and he hissed back. Fine. One more. I would allow him one more orgasm before we put the woman in the restraints for the next two hours until she was ready to give birth. Then that offspring would be taken to feed and when he was strong enough, would come back and shove his cock into the very canal he emerged from. Just as his father-drone did.

I turned my attention back to the swollen child beneath me. She was bloated and round. All of her had blown up like an empty sack in vacuum. I held her still as I wretched my cock free of the once living cock sleeve. Her flesh drew taught, forcing much of my green cum out of her torn and tattered vagina.

I watched with mild fascination as her body deflated to a somewhat normal shape, then tossed it aside. It was a shame to waste such potent, valuable seed. But there were more hosts to be had.

I lifted my dome and glanced around. At least three dozen more hosts for me to impregnate and start the cycle over again. I always began the cycle. I was the first to breed these weak females. Then every generation would get one chance until the host finally succumbed.

Sense, logic told me to keep some alive. If by some stroke of misfortune neither I nor my predecessors sired a Mother-Queen, our colony would not last. Eventually, the drones would not follow my command and we would turn on each other.

Still, if I bred all of them and didn't save any just in case, the same would happen, except there would have been one less womb to run our chances. More than that, eventually more of this pathetic species would come to investigate. And we would overwhelm them. There would be more food and more wombs.

I shook myself from my thoughts and watched my offspring lift the bloated woman up onto the wall once again. She still wept, sobbing like a newborn drone. Her gaze never left her offspring's empty eyes.

I tread slowly, purposefully to the woman and interposed myself between she and her offspring. I leaned in close and hissed a low threat to her, a promise she would never understand.

If you do not give me a Mother-Queen, I will personally make you my host breeder. I will fuck you until you swell with my offspring. I will fuck you as your belly fills with their embryos. Then I will turn you over and I will fuck the other orifice as you give birth. Only when you give me a Mother-Queen will I kill you.

She cried louder. Her body quaked and her eyes welled with moisture that rolled down both sides of her cheeks. Her bladder released and I could smell the pungent stench of her excrement run down her legs to pool beneath her.

Pathetic.

I turned away from her and strode back to her daughter. I stood beside the tiny mangled corpse of her offspring and looked back at her. She stared unblinking. I leaned down close to the offspring's face and spread my jaws wide. My needle teeth parted slowly and I extended my tongue. It paused just within my jaws and I glanced at the mother again.

She wailed, pleading with me in a language I wanted her to forget.

I turned my attention back to the girl and lunged. My tongue pierced the girl's skull and I tasted the sweet juice of her brain wash over and into my tongue. I quivered at the delightful taste as my tongue retracted, sucking her skull dry in the blink of an eye. Well, if her eyes could still blink.

I looked back at the woman. She had let her head droop, hanging loosely down toward her ample bosom and round belly. She was broken.

Good.

I reached down and curled two fingers into the hole in the girl's skull just above her eyes and dragged her out of the breeding room, back toward out food stores. Her tiny body would be a nice snack for one of the newborn drones.

As I rounded the corner, my ears detected a soft noise behind me, something moving into the breeding chamber.

Click, Click, Click