Piracy (Original Sci Fi)

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Josh felt a rumbling. Despite the uselessness of it, he looked into the darkness towards where he thought that the rumbling was coming from. With how little space he had, Josh couldn’t really turn his body, but he could turn his head to look towards the rumbling. Throughout his entire ride, he’d never heard or felt this kind of rumbling before. There was the hum of… something, maybe the engines, but from his cramped and sealed box, he couldn’t really tell what was going on. Then there was the sound of the alien’s version of a klaxon started blaring through the walls of the box the aliens had shoved him in.

There was a sudden impact that rocked the ship, if Josh had not been lying down in his little metal coffin, he might have been knocked off his feet. From what he could hear, there was some kind of growling voice coming from some kind of intercom, blaring through the deck. For a moment, he just lay there, unable to do anything as it seemed like some kind of emergency was happening. The next, the lid on his box popped open above him. Reaching up, Josh pulled himself out a little to peak out. Treaded robots with some kind of turret mounted on their heads drove past just as he and a couple of other faces looked out from the various crates they were in. They almost looked like some kind of remote controlled tank.

Another hit rocked the ship and Josh, along with a small wave of people, were flung from their crates. Josh barely had time to realise as he flew through the air that the walls were stacked high with crates, many were filled with people, or for those closer to the top, had been. A wave of human bodies and screams came as people landed on the ground, crying out in pain as they hit the floor. Josh was lucky to be closer to the ground so he didn’t have far to fall, and a few bodies absorbed his fall.

There was a high-pitched whine, the turrets on the bots turned towards them, and scarlet beams of light started to fire at them even as they fell. The bolts of light firing into the crowd instantly lit people ablaze as they were hit. People were screaming and panicking, jumping up and trying their best to avoid the rapid bursts of light that were cutting them down. Josh did the same as he picked himself up and ran. High pitched beeps followed them as they ran, unwilling to be gunned down for the crime of being tossed from their crates.

Fuck this! Josh thought as he dodged left into a different hallway. He heard more pounding feet behind him as some people seemed to have followed him. All too quickly, however, he heard the sound of tracks behind him, the sound of what could be a laser blast, and the sound of someone falling over. Then ahead of him, somewhere to the left, Josh heard the boom of gunfire and the humming buzz of lasers.

Fuck fuck fuck! Not knowing what else he could do, Josh just ran. There wasn’t anything he could do but try to run through the halls and hope that he didn’t get shot. With each footfall, however, another lance of death burst from the bots behind him and hit those following him. Soon enough he’d be next. Josh turned again, right this time, trying to get away from the sound of the guns and lasers, trying to throw off his pursuers, trying anything to get away from the danger. As he turned, he saw the last of the people who’d turned off like him fall. His eyes were wide, pain played across his face as he fell to his side.

Josh stumbled as he saw that, barely managing to stay on his feet as he redoubled his efforts, breathing hard as he sprinted forward. He could still hear the treads of the tiny tank following him, getting closer. He was next, in the next couple of seconds he was fucked unless he rounded the next corner before the bot got close enough to fire. There weren’t any hand holds, and the only way he’d make it was if he sprinted as hard as he could and then somehow turned. Josh lowered his head as he pumped his legs as hard as he’d ever done before, getting closer and closer to the corner. As he raised his head, Josh saw he was nearly there, and tried to angle his approach so that he could try to kick off of the ground to throw himself down the hall.

Then his foot slipped, or it caught something, or maybe he’d just been clumsy, but Josh tripped forward, his eyes wide as he threw his arms forward to catch himself, trying to avoid the pain even though he already knew he was dead. Then he felt an impact on his left side and a split second later he heard the sound of the laser as he felt himself being rolled up in something, holding him tightly.

On instinct Josh struggled against whatever was binding him. Somehow still alive despite the laser blast. Josh shouted as he struggled, his body getting more wrapped up as something coiled around him. There was a hiss, and something shifted, nearly bending Josh in half as he was pulled to the side, brought along by whatever was coiled around him. There was the sudden thunderous boom as a gun fired three times. The sound deafened Josh, and his ears rang. Rattled, he looked around, and saw massive aliens in heavy armour rushing forwards from the side hallway, huge guns on them that looked like some kind of long box. They were far larger than his captors, where his captors were generally around the size of a man, these monsters were like huge brick shithouses given life and heavy armour. They seemed vaguely lizardesque with their thick tails and helmets that looked like they had a muzzle.

A hand gently landed on his head and began to stroke back his short hair. Josh looked up and his eyes widened as he saw a massive snake creature with the same kind of gun as the huge armoured lizard guys. The Snake was one handing the damn thing while her other hand stroked his head. The snake was armoured like the lizard guys, adapted to her body with some kind of rough cloth that was on the bottom side of her armour, the part that was wrapped around him. Her helmet wasn’t fully sealed, leaving her mouth free for some reason. Then Josh noticed that the snake had breasts on her. For a moment he was distracted, he was a hot blooded male after all, but then he cocked his head wondering why a snake of all things had breasts.

Slowly, the ringing in his ears began to disappear. Pulling his mind from admiring the shaped fetish armour she had on, Josh focused back on the fact that he was tied up in the coils of the snake lady, unable to move as her thick coils wrapped around him. The lizards walked up to them and began to speak in some kind of guttural tone while the snake hissed back. The lizard and his squad nodded and seemed to touch something on their armour before talking into it. A hissing sound came through some speakers before cutting out. The lead lizard made two sounds which the rest of the squad of theirs echoed before they all started to jog down the hall, leaving Josh and the massive snake lady there with the destroyed robot.

Josh made a few squirming movements, testing the strength of the coils again, but once more, it was to no avail as the snake woman’s coils were still far too powerful for him to even budge. The snake looked down at Josh now, her free hand still stroking his head like he was a dog. Nervous giggles slowly broke their way through Josh as despite the situation, he was slowly being calmed down by the snake lady. He wasn’t going to be killed, not immediately, which was alright, not great, but alright for now. A nervous giggle slowly made its way out as Josh’s adrenaline slowly fell and his heart began to slow down.

Another group of snakes came around the corner, both of them wielding their boxy rifle weapons and scanning the area as they approached while the snake holding Josh looked over to them. There was a small amount of hissing between the two before the snake woman slowly unwrapped herself from around Josh. As she did so, she kept one hand on his head as if to keep him still. Once she finished unwinding, her hand came off his head and he felt a small push towards one of the snakes. One of the two placed her hand on his head as the other slithered her way past him. With that, the snake that had saved him turned with the other and they followed in the direction that the lizards went.

Josh felt his head get turned towards the direction that the new snake ladies had come from. Judging by the slight pressure at the back of his head to move forward, he assumed that she was there to guide him to wherever. Seeing no other option other than being shot, Josh followed the snake lady’s implied orders and began to walk along, passing the ruined scraps of the bot as they walked.

The first thing Josh noticed as he was being guided was the smell. It nearly made him gag as he smelt something burning up ahead and he started to hack and cough. Soon enough the snake lady just picked him up by the torso and carried him under arm as they kept moving towards the source of the horrible smoke.

They didn’t have to go on for too long before they came across what looked like a mixed crew of lizards and snakes, moving stacks of crates into their ship, the kind of crates that not minutes ago, Josh had been in. The ruins of multiple tank robots littered the ground or had been swept to the side. A number of human bodies were piled high or pushed to the side as those working continued to either move the crates of humans or were simply moving humans into the ship. Most of them were groaning and seemed to be in pain as they were moved. Some of the humans had arms twisted in wrong directions, others were being carried onto the ship like he was by either an armoured lizard or one of the large snake women, hacking and coughing. Josh could also see what looked like scorch marks and even a few fires that had burst out among the bodies.

As Josh looked around, he spotted a pair of slavers, the bastards that had come to Earth. The alien slavers were a bi-pedal species that looked like some kind of striped werewolf hyena people. The slavers stood against the wall as a group of snakes and lizards aimed at them. It didn’t take long for Josh to realize what was about to happen, and a moment later, jets of plasma sprayed out of the bottom barrel of the reptile’s boxy guns, coating them, lighting their fur on fire, drawing from them horrified and agonized screams. Mixed in those screams were the sounds of hisses and rough grunts as the slavers burned.

Despite everything that they’d put him through, Josh couldn’t find joy in their death as he was hauled into the tunnel towards the other ship.

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As the snake carried Josh, he was free to watch what was going on around the reptilian ship. All around there was movement as more of the heavily armoured wide lizards slithered or stomped their way around, grunting and hissing as they moved and made demanding sounds. All the while smaller reptiles moved around the place, bringing various kinds of equipment to the larger creatures, working on various parts of the ship that were hidden behind the steel gray panels. In other places, there was a mix of lightly armoured snakes, both big and small working on consoles or hauling some kind of equipment that looked like radar dishes. Like the slave ship, there were different sounding klaxon’s blazing and deep roars blaring over some kind of intercom.

Despite trying to take everything in, Josh quickly found his gaze continually shifting from the larger creatures and the various parts of the ship to focus on the smaller snakes and lizards. Unlike the far larger lizards, the smaller bluish green lizards were clothed in some kind of one piece swimsuits. They also had fleshy whisker things making it almost seem like some kind of collar for them. Unlike the larger lizards, their snouts were shorter, and they had large black eyes. In truth, they were kind of cute as from the few looks Josh got they had this innocent look to them. Their eyes, however, didn’t distract well enough from their most distracting features, their ass. The little lizards were, in a word, thick. Their asses were like dump trucks while their thighs were thick lamb shanks. Half of the time their rears were barely covered up by their one-pieces. Half the time their outfits often rode up their cracks, basically advertising their rears. From the slap one of the smaller lizards got from one of the armoured wide lizards, that might actually be what they were doing.

The smaller lizards were only half of the reason he had gotten distracted. The other were the smaller snakes. Like their larger cousins, the smaller snakes were dressed in a similar kind of body sock, though theirs weren’t armoured, it was still the same bodysock, same open mouthed helmet. They even had breasts as their larger cousins. The breasts of the smaller snakes were just as large, rather than being shrunk to fit the smaller size of the snake. Not only that but while they didn’t have the ass of the smaller lizards, their hips swayed in a hypnotic way as they slithered around the ship.

Abruptly, they stopped and Josh was manhandled around until he was standing on his own two feet again. There is a loud hissing as two of the smaller lizards who’d been walking by abruptly stopped, looking up at the large snake while stealing glances at Josh who was doing his best to hide his awkward erection. There was some more hissing before the two lizards nod and move to either side of Josh, reaching to grab at his arms. Not really sure what to do, Josh pulled his arms away from his side and let them grab a hold of him before they started pulling at him, urging him forwards, deeper into the ship.

As they moved further into the ship, one of the smaller lizards reached downwards from his arm to Josh’s crotch, and grabbed his bulge before he could react.

“Gah, the hell!?” Josh shouted as he struggled in the grip of the lizards. The one which had grabbed him pulled away as the two of them seemed to start to giggle, making quiet higher pitched sounds rhythmically as what looked like smiles began to spread across their short muzzles while a twinkle shined in their admittedly cute eyes. There was a loud growl from one of the large lizards as it passed, and the two lizards holding him did their best to hide their amusement before moving on.

Josh saw that he wasn’t the only person being guided forward. Other humans were being led into the hallway one way or another. Some were being guided by either of the warrior species, but most were guided by the smaller lizards or the smaller snakes, pulling at the human’s arms, as everyone was slowly guided forwards down the large corridors.

The further in they got, the less of the warriors that could be seen and the more of the smaller reptiles could be seen working on various things in the ship. Then Josh saw one of the hyena-wolf aliens. Unlike the ones that were on the ship he’d been loaded on, this one wasn’t wearing a uniform, but rather had on some kind of casual clothing as well as their fur was all kinds of messy and unkempt. Unlike his captors, this one kept its head down, never trying to draw attention to itself as it continued its task, which apparently was hauling around a big bag of something. What was more striking to Josh, however, was the metallic collar around the alien’s neck. It looked almost the same as his own collar that was still sealed around his neck.

The procession of humans, lizards, and snakes turned down a corridor and entered into a long hallway with more doors on all sides. From what Josh could see ahead, another group of people were being led into the rooms by the smaller reptiles, pushed in one at a time while the bigger armoured lizards stood watch over them as they entered the room. As they got closer, the ones near the front of his group were mixed in with the group ahead of them. All around them were a cacophony of hisses and reptilian grunts coming from the lizards and snakes gathered around them, herding them into whatever the rooms were.

A man ahead of Josh broke from the crowd, and nearly managed to get past some of the guards, only for one of the large lizards to grab him by the arm. Josh almost expected the man to get his arm ripped off or something, but instead, the lizards just roughly pulled him back into the group, and let out a deep growl. The man shouted something, but it was in a language that Josh didn’t understand. When the lizards leveled his gun at the man, however, he quickly shut up, and the people in front moved faster.

Finally, it was Josh’s turn to enter the room. He was guided by the two smaller lizards, and as he was about to enter the room, the other little lizards quickly gave Josh’s bulge another cheeky squeeze, bringing forth a yelp from him. Josh gave the lizard a look who just giggled at him before he finally stepped forward. As he entered, the door shut behind him. Seems the others would be going to another room. The room itself wasn’t very bright compared to the rest of the ship. The best explanation that Josh could think of was that they were saving on the power bill but if they had a damn spaceship, they could spare a bit of power on some lights right? Other than that, it looked similar to the rest of the ship, grey steel panels.

From the looks of it, most of the people were dressed in either some kind of Arabic garb, or had that kind of look to them. From the sounds of it, none were speaking English, if they were speaking at all. Some were comforting each other while others sat alone. Taking a deep breath in, and finally letting it out in a sigh, Josh leaned against the door as he slid down it to sit at the base of it.

“Fucking hell.”

“Hey there, glad to hear English around here,” Josh heard and looked up to see a man coming over. He was older than Josh and larger than him. While Josh wasn’t exactly slim, this man, if he were a foot taller he could have been a lizard. The big man had that kind of farmer's build where you knew they were strong enough to lift a hay bale but still had a gut on them. He was dressed in a button up shirt and jeans with a huge brass belt buckle on him, as well as a holster on his hip but there wasn’t a gun in it. Slavers knew to take those off of people.

“So, where you from?” the man asked as he came over to sit down.

“Washington, state, right along the border, you?” Josh said while the heavy set man nodded.

“Canada, right around the prairies there… so, how’d the wolves get you?” the man asked.

“Same as most other Americans from what I heard, Aliens wanted us to give up our guns so everyone told them to fuck off. Their armies finally reached us I guess, I was working on putting some armour on a truck when they rolled through the place and caught me while I was working, how about you?” Josh asked. The heavy set man shrugged before spoke.

“Must have been in a city eh? You know they blast anything less from orbit if they get resistance,” the man shakes his head, “poor souls. No, they got us to surrender a while ago after they blasted a few farms from orbit. They started demanding tribute from the town so we had to pull sticks, and unfortunately, I got the short end.”

“Any idea what’s going to happen to us?” Josh asked, already knowing the answer. It was the same one everyone had when they’d gotten sealed into small boxes.

“No idea.”

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