Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
Bioweapons Are Now Pets
Writing prompt: Humans have managed to create new species by improving upon bioweapons. But no matter how cuddly, beautiful, or funny they look, remember they descended from weapons.
The slaver ship came from behind a cluster of asteroids that were a almost perfect shield to prevent detection of their ship.
The target was a liner which had been visiting the planets in the system for the tourists. Unfortunately their trip is now going to be a lot more dangerous and possibly tragic for a lot of passengers and crew.
The captain set off the emergency beacon, sent a message torpedo off to the nearest fleet base and called for all passengers to return to their rooms to stay out of the way of the crew as they tried to fight off the slavers.
It was almost guaranteed to be futile but they had to fight and maybe they could drive them off if enough casualties were inflicted.
But even with distribution of weapons to her crew, the captain knew it was a long shot because slaver crews were a lot larger than the 63 armed crew members she had to work with.
But she didn’t understand that there were a couple of families on board who were not the normal run of the mill tourists. These families were from Terra or Sol-III and they had their family pets with them.
Now family pets were not unusual on cruise ships. Lots of families took their pets with them to help keep their children under control and occupied. But humans had a slightly different set of pets.
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