The Breeding Experiment - Laurann Dohner Page 0,7
halves, with thick tentacles holding them up from below. They each had ten of them. Where their faces should have been were only three round, dark eyes, and a harsh slit for a mouth centered about five inches beneath them.
“The fleet is coming for us,” Barbara yelled. “They will fry your asses. You fucked with the wrong shuttle!”
“Why is she trying to anger them? It’s just going to make things worse, right?”
“Yes,” Darla whispered back to her sister. “I hope they can’t understand her.”
“What do you think they want?”
“I don’t know, Becky. Just keep calm.”
“What if they want to eat us?” Her sister pressed closer. “Are those Ke’ters?”
“No. Ke’ters are reptilian. Those are…” Darla didn’t have any idea. “Not reptiles.”
“Fish people who can breathe air…or maybe not air, since we don’t know what’s on the other side of that glass wall. It’s solid. I don’t see any holes in it, do you?”
“No but it looks like air on the other side.” Darla was glad her sister wasn’t totally panicking. “The fleet will be looking for us. We just need to remain calm and give them time. I’m pretty sure their shuttles have trackers.”
Barbara kept screaming at the aliens, making threats. It was causing Darla’s headache to worsen. She’d woken with it, probably from the gas that had knocked them out.
Despite that, she felt grateful. Her sister was with her, they were still dressed, and since the aliens didn’t wear clothes, it was readily apparent they were either female, or they just didn’t have dangling bits in the groin area. She hoped that meant they hadn’t been taken to become sex slaves. Rumors of people frequently kidnapped and sold for that purpose had reached her planet often.
Part of the wall opened, and three aliens came in. They each held a round metal device in one lifted tentacle.
Barbara rushed at them, looking ready to attack.
A blue streak shot out of one of the devises and hit her in the chest, sending her flying backward. She hit the floor hard and gasped.
Everyone else in the room immediately tried to put distance between themselves and the aliens.
“We are Elth,” one of them stated in a whiny, high-pitched voice. “You will do as told. We own you.”
Barbara sat up, rubbing her chest. “Fuck you! No one owns us.” She stayed down, though, and didn’t try to attack them again.
“We do,” the Elth stated.
“What do you want from us?” asked a woman with short dark hair. “Are you going to sell us or something?”
Each Elth peered at her with their unnerving trio of eyes. “We need test subjects.”
A chill ran down Darla’s spine. “Shat.”
Becky clutched at her tighter and a soft whimper escaped from her sister.
“Fuck you,” Barbara hissed. “You’re not going to do anything but return us to the fleet, if you’re smart. That’s the only way you’ll live. No one fucks with United Earth!”
The Elth stared at her for long seconds before they glanced around. One of them lifted a second tentacle, pointing it at Barbara. “Her first. She’s loud and rude. The male will probably kill her. He’s very enraged. I’ll enjoy watching it.”
“You will breed with the Veslor,” another of the Elth ordered.
Darla jerked her head in the direction of Barbara, still on the floor, to see her reaction to that news.
Barbara shook her head. “No fucking way!”
“You will,” the Elth stated calmly. “We need his young. All of you females will breed with the Veslor to give us many young to train.”
Darla felt sick. “To train for what?”
The Elth all looked at her. She instantly regretted asking. They gave her the creeps.
“To kill for us,” one of them answered. “Veslors are skilled at killing. He killed many of our race before capture. We recently learned Veslors have bred with Earth females.”
Another one spoke. “We’ve run analysis. A mixture of your species should make excellent trainable killing creatures. Humans will follow orders after training, where Veslors won’t. The combination will be a perfect solution to find the right balance.”
“I’m not fucking that animal or having a mutated freak with it.” Barbara struggled to her feet.
“You will,” the Elth paused. “Many times.”
“What did you do to the others? The men and the older women?” It was the dark-haired woman who asked.
One Elth turned its attention on her. “Dead. They were useless to us and not worth feeding.”
“You fucking monsters!” Barbara spat. “You killed Adam and the others? The fleet is going to destroy your entire squid race!”
“There are a few serious flaws in