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This isn't just a novel. It's a novel for the October Prep Challenge too. |
Protagonist Wandita “The Caves of Moomdor” Wandita’s spaceship flows about two hundred feet above the surface of Moomdor. On her viewport in her control room she can see are large hills scattered all over that part of the planet. Those hills are called Cave Mountains and by each one of those Mountain there is a small settlement where the cave workers and their families live. “I know that there are about twenty thousand of the Cave Mountains scattered all over Moomdor, but I didn’t think that they were so close to each other. Where am I supposed to land my spaceship? It doesn’t look like there is any place to do it. Unless I land it on one of those mountains.” “That may not be a bad idea. I can land on the mountain that has a problem that I’m here to solve.” After thinking about it for a few minutes, Wandita changes her mind. “No, I can’t do that. My spaceship might do more damages to those individuals in the caves. Besides, I don’t want them to know I’m here until it’s too late for them.” Wandita continues her flight down the main road that looks like a square tunnel with the top half of it missing. Every so often there’s a brake in that road to a side tunnel that leads to the settlements and the caves. She looks at each one as she flies by it. First, through the main viewport. Then at the side monitor on whichever side the brake is on. Suddenly, Wandita’s spaceship stops. Wandita gets up and goes to within a few inches of her viewport. “I can’t see anything for several miles except for the roads, the caves, and the settlements. I’m not going to be able to land my spaceship anywhere here.” Looking up at her ceiling as she walks back to her command chair Wandita smiles. “I’m going to have to use my transport to solve this problem. My spaceship has more firepower to do it faster, but my transport has more than enough firepower to do it too. It’s just going to take longer to do and I can’t promise none of the individuals in the caves won’t be hurt or killed because of it.” Wandita’s spaceship floats up toward the clouds that cover Moomdor. It stops just before it reaches them. a bluish green mist forms around her spaceship. Now it blends in with the rest of the clouds there. “That should protect me from them knowing that I’m here until it’s too late.” After Wandita puts her spaceship into Hover Mode she heads down to the bottom level of it to where she keeps a couple of MiniShuttles. Wandita goes to the one nearest her. She gets in it by placing her palm against it. The side of it next to the red hand print suddenly disappears to reveal an entrance shape hole. Wandita enters that MiniShuttle. She goes directly to the control room. After checking it out she turns it on. The MiniShuttle shakes is it rises a few feet above the level floor. Under it the floor disappears to show the cloud mist below it. Wandita’s MiniShuttle begins to float down to Moomdor’s surface. As it goes down it changes shape and size to fit the transports there. Once it’s down the new MiniShuttle transport starts to hover a few inches above the ground down that road tunnel. Wandita sits in front of a large control panel. She keeps one eye on the main viewport in front of her, and one eye on the side monitors. It depends on which monitor she is looking at as to which eye is on the main viewport. Wandita hovers down that road tunnel for a couple of miles before she came to a stop just before another side road. She looks at the strange unknown symbols on the top corner edge of it. After mumbling something unrecognizable she turns and hovers down that side road. Just before she gets to the end of it she stops again. Wandita first looks at the settlement in front of her. Then at another side road. Pushing a button on the control panel a continuous beeping sound. A flashing orange green light starts engulfing that part of the MiniShuttle transport. Wandita taps another button to turn off both the beeping and the flashing. “I’d like to talk to Enaina, please.” “You said please. That doesn’t sound like you, Wandita.” “It’s me, Deimi. Now please get me Enaina.” Deimi, who appears on Wandita’s viewport, is silent for a moment. “I’ll get her, but I still don’t believe it’s you.” The image of Deimi disappears. A few seconds later the image of Enaina appears. “You are actually contacting me before you try to solve a problem.” “You insisted that I do it. Something about not wanting me to get anyone killed who is innocent.” “Everyone knows how you solve problems. You don’t care who gets killed as long as the problem is solved.” Wandita shook her head sadly. “I don’t kill innocent people. At least I don’t do it intentionally. Sometimes I do kill them though. It’s part of the job of a Problem Solver.” “No, it’s not. I knew it was a mistake to ask you to solve this problem, but you are the only one in this area who can do it. Should have known you wouldn’t try to talk to them in a solution to their problem. It’s not the way you solve them.” “This is exactly the kind of problem that I should solve. They have taken over that cave for its minerals, and they are holding about fifty innocent Moomdors from Polvorn. All of them are female and young ones.” Wandita waits for Enaina to respond. When she doesn’t she continues. “I don’t plan on killing anyone who doesn’t deserve to die.” “I don’t think that I’m going to be endangering another who should be killed. They know that I’m coming. I’m sure they will be waiting for me.” “Any idea how many of them you are going to have to kill?” Enaina asks. Wandita thinks about that for about a minute. “I’m not sure, but I’m thinking there are going to be about two hundred of them. Most of them will be using the cave openings to help in their attack, but some will probably be trying to surround me. I’ll take them out first. Then I’ll take out those who are at the cave openings.” Before Enaina can say anything for or against what Wandita is planning to do, Wandita hits another button to remove her from the viewport. After tapping several more buttons her MiniShuttle transport turns on to that secondary side road and hovers toward the caves of Polvorn. Just before Wandita gets to those caves she stops again to get her surroundings. It takes her several minutes of careful scanning first with her eyes than with the MiniShuttle transport scanners. Wandita has identified twenty-five Cave Workers. All of them have weapons. Some have hand weapons. They are the ones closest to Wandita. The rest of them are using big things that are in the open area between the road entrance and the cave openings. They are going to be harder for her to kill, but Wandita can do it. If anyone can, it’s her. Wandita gets up and goes to the center of her MiniShuttle transport and pushes a button. Wandita jumps back as the center of that floor disappears. She almost falls into it. After she looks at the ground below Wandita jumps down. Using the hover MiniShuttle Transport Wandita takes out the Cave Workers closest to her with a single shot to their heads with a hand weapon. After Wandita takes out the Cave Workers closest to her she jumps back into her MiniShuttle transport and starts it to move forward slowly. Wandita grabs a small metal looking box with blue buttons on the sides of it and a red button on top. Then she returns to the ground and uses the MiniShuttle transport to head for the cave openings. As she gets closer to those openings Wantita starts taking out the Cave Workers not protecting the openings. Also, with a single shot to their heads. Only she is using the long weapon to do it. Once she is sure all the Cave Workers outside the openings are dead, Wandita maneuvers the MiniShuttle Transport to continue toward the openings. There are five of them. Her MiniShuttle transport is headed for the center one. Using the blue buttons on her box she moves the MiniShuttle in any direction she wants to it to go. Wandita uses the red button on top to shot laser balls out of her MiniShuttle transport. She’s using both of her long weapons to kill them too. One after another Wandita killed all the Cave Workers at the Cave Openings. She has done it so fast she is sure that none of them have gone to get the Polvorns. The few she overheard trying to order others to do it, she took out before they can do anything about it. Soon they refuse to do it and the orders stop. They concentrate on trying to kill Wandita. Which they don’t do. One by one they are all killed. The whole thing only takes about five minutes to complete. Wandita is sure that none of the Polvorns there have been hurt by what has just happened. Word Count = 1,580 |
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