Chapter 10

“I am safe, Ray. With the added life force of Elizabeth, I am far stronger than I was. You do make a valid point though. What do you suggest?” Nali asked.

“I have a few ideas and surprises for them if they come back, plus I think it might also help me more when I go against them again. Now here’s what I have in mind...”

All stayed quiet for a week, something Ray was glad of. He would check on the BLEMS on their planet each day, adjusting and adding to the defenses he’d built. Then, at the end of the week, Ray heard the BLEMS leader call him.

Laying down, he was there in moments. “Damn, I’m glad I added a hell of a lot more!” thought Ray. There were more ships than he’d ever seen; obviously, the Queen had been serious when she said that she was going to bring ALL her ships.

There were so many they almost blotted out the sun. Smiling, Ray watched as the huge fleet tried to encircle the planet, and the extending arms of ships started to vanish as fast as they tried to move into position. It wasn’t much, but hey, a few thousand less was that much bigger a hole they would leave.

Ray could hear the Queen screaming when her ships stopped their advance. “It’s only half a trueton! Go! I want this planet reduced to a smoking ball of dust!”

Smiling, Ray started another trick he’d learned this week by accident. He was playing around, remembering when he created food out of thin air for the BLEMS. “Huh,” he’d thought, “wonder if I can do other things.” Thinking of one of the bombs, it was suddenly there! “Oh shit!” Sending it outside the shields, he felt it explode. “Damn, that was close!” It had gotten him thinking, so all week he had made bombs everywhere he could behind the planet.

Laughing as more ships exploded, he was placing more bombs back in place of those that had exploded, as fast as he could. Ray knew he wouldn’t be able to keep it up all day, but he would make a serious dent in them. Changing tactics, Ray started to place one on every ship he touched. As the front of the fleet started to explode, hundreds of ships turned to flee, smashing into those behind them. The resulting chaos destroyed close to a million before order was restored.

“Now,” he could hear the Queen, “screaming louder that the Treg Trag was here somewhere, find him and kill him!”

Snarling, Ray reached out violently, entering the mind of the Queen, ripping everything he got his hands on. Screaming for her guards, Ray was diving out of the way of the rays as he snapped the vital brain function areas of each he came to. The Queen was starting to froth at the mouth, or whatever that opening on what appeared to be a face was. Ray was ripping more loose when he felt the ship lurch. “Ah! Good! The bombs had finally reached here!” Giving a final twisting pull on the huge vital brain function area of her brain, he felt her jerk then scream louder.

Ray left the ship, pausing. He saw that quite a huge part of the fleet was gone. “Good! At least the poor BLEMS wouldn’t have to worry about the Chortons for a long time. The only problem was that Ray needed to end this for good.”

“This constant worrying over my friends was starting to have an effect on my work. Unfortunately, that was all that John would need to take the company from me. Though Ray knew his friend wasn’t like that, Ray had found that nothing was ever as it seemed. Yeah, John could take the company and yeah, he could probably run it for a few months before it started to fail, but Ray knew that without him, it would. He just hoped that John also realized this fact before he tried anything too rash.” Ray watched the last few thousand ships leave. “Good! I’ll finally be able to hit them where they live. To Ray, the ships were extremely slow, even when they entered hyperspace they were still moving slow.

Finally, Ray had to attach himself to a ship and let it take him with it. Finally, after what seemed a long week, the fleet dropped out of hyperspace and approached a gray-looking planet.

Even from this distance out in space, Ray could see that the entire planet was covered by a web-like structure of metal. Shaking his head, he could see why they were in such desperation for energy. The closer they got, the worse it appeared. Ray started to become angry. This was bull shit! Not realizing it, Ray had driven his hand through the hull. It wasn’t until the ship started to shake that Ray woke up and saw that he was also in danger. Quickly, he moved to another ship, watching as the one he’d been on started to shudder harder, then exploded! “Holy fuck! I only punched a small hole!” Not even slowing, the rest of the fleet ignored the explosion and kept going for their home. Ray was trying to hide when the last ship he was on landed. Damn! There were billions of the Chorton spider people!