The witness has to vanish C1

The customs branch sees a spaceship entering our sector of space. we wish to board.

The ship had been in this sector watching over the section to see if anyone has entered. The spaceship has armaments as they are the customs branch of the confederation to protect the people of the confederation from gaining their illegal merchandise or weapons, or drugs

This ship tried to outrun them. When this ship came into our sector of space. It looked lto have fairly heavy armaments, we could see cannons on its bow and aft. The vessel was 15 miles long and appeared to be in the shape of a manta ray. They were concerned that someone was moving into their sectors. We had a suspicion that someone was bringing in something that could endanger our people. We did not see any of these items until recently.

They did not know what was happening. They did not recognise this ship or what region of space it had come from.

Our captain said,"Send out a comminque to it. Advise them to stop and prepare to be boarded by us!"

A communication officer did this.

The ship did not seem to notice this comm, They began to pick up speed.

"Are the torpedoes in the tubes?" the captain said.

"Yes! Captain." the gunnery tech said as he looked at the systems that were armed to defend the ship or attack another ship.

"Fire eight torpedos," the captain said, he smiled. This has been done before hand to have a ship listen to their request if they failed to do this.

"Yes," the armament tech said.
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"Launch them at the drives on the ship. Do not hit them." the captain said

"Launched," gunnery tech said he grit his teeth. Punched the buttons to fire them.

"He did it. Captain,:" the radar tech saw that the volley arrive there.

"Just to tell them we mean business!" the captain said,

"Fire returned," the radar tech said as the ship was rocked, by missile fire.

The ship's emergency system was augmented. The lights turned red,

"Battle stations." the captain said as she sat down on her chair. Her eyes were wide with surprise.

Gunnery tech. smiled as he looked us and grabbed the seat he was to be in. He hit the keyboard to bring up the choices of weapons they could use to defend themselves with. He asked,"Weapon choices?"

"Are there torpedos in the tubes," the captain said as he looked the weapon's tech.

"In tubes, sixteen," gunnery tech said.

"FIre!"

"Target?", gunnery tech said as he looked at the captain as he stood there looking at the comm tech's board which was lit up.

"Fire on the drives and cannons, You see,"

The other ship fired on them. It hit the drive system as they hit theirs. The ship was not harmed. They waited a few minutes, then fired their laser cannons on it. Their captain opened fire on the ship, hitting it in its drives. The ship had stopped moving..They suspected that there were eyes on their command bridge, but we were unable to receive any response from their ship.

So their captain advised us to prepare to fire in front of its path to have them stop or be hit by our gunners. The gunners knew what to do? They had been trained to do this for years.

"We will allow you to board our ship. We will stop trying to evade you," the voice had come over our comm.

The ship stopped moving. It was a luxury-class ship. There was a drawing of a woman's face on it beneath that were some lines and circles with a line beneath it also.. This house is from another region of space.

Their soldiers boarded shuttlecraft. They seemed nervous; they did not know what they were walking into. Was it a trap? The other ship stopped firing on them. They were bringing in weapons to defend themselves from the occupants who were there. The soldiers numbered seven to board it. The security of the ship was armed and seemed ill at ease seeing them as they walked down the plank to board the ship. The soldiers were wearing respirators, and armor..

The passageway was large. We could walk six people side by side with ample room to allow them to enter. The deck had a lounge. It was the size of a football stadium. Our soldiers looked at the bar; it was huge. Music poured out of speakers, and there were strobe lights going on and off. Smoke filled the air. It looked as if the customers were using drugs.

"What are you doing here?", A statueque woman dressed in armor, she was holding a submachine gun, she was wearing a visor at the door to the ship to allow them entry having tanned skin, her top was scoop-necked and like the skirt was thigh length and was made of black leather.

"We wish to see what you have on board your ship?" Soloman said. The woman's hand rested on the handle of her submachine gun

"I see, I believe you will find that the air is breathable, so you can remove your respirators. I am Nicole." she said. as she began to step back away from the people desiring to board the ship.

'We would like to see what is in your holds, and speak with your captain," Soloman said as he walked through the entrance way.

"I think you will have to speak with our captain." Nicole said as she looked at them.

The commander noted that they clearly wanted to show us their weapons. The commander slung his rifle over his shoulder, his laser pistol was on his belt.

The lady knocked on a door, and it opened momentarily. A woman who was bald, with a net on her head. She looked at the commander as he walked toward the door. This woman stepped aside to admit them into this room. The room had several people seated in chairs. The woman allowing him to enter and put her hand on his wrist.

His hand felt something metallic, her skin was slippery to the touch. Cold and very hard. Her eyes looked unlike a human;s eyes, he saw a silver circle beneath their ball that made up its eyes. The commander thought she was a droid. Not a human being. He said,"Who are you? Why have you entered our sector space?"

"I am mexus, captian of this ship. I have goods to be bought to your people!"

"I see," the commander said.

"Can I look at the merchandise you wish to bring to our planets." the commander said. as he peered into her eyes, her face had a mishevious grin on it. She was wearing a micro mini skirt. her left arm was missing at the shoulder,

"Of course is this how you communicate with new arrivals in your space?" , she asked..

"If you had stopped when we asked you to stop. No we would not have desired to fire upon you. But you still continued to fly in our quadrettes, So we have to board you. So, we had to fire upon your ship."

"I see, so. You were forced to fire upon us. I see," she said as she stepped out of the commander's path.

There were several people here, one was seated on a chair, there was something that looked like an octopus head dangling down from the ceiling over his head. There were other people dressed in armor, they numbered sixteen. The majority of them were seated, a few were on their feet. The room was huge, far larger than the ship he was on, for a bridge. This area was gold in color. There was a screen showing our ship there was light on the bridge of our ship. and the weaponry systems.

CHAPTER 2

"What is the meaning of this happening to us" the captain said as she looked at the soldiers brought to her bridge. She allowed the soldirers to walk onto the bridge, the soldiers noted that there were members of their security there. Their weapons pointed at the soldiers from our shuttle,

"We had asked you to stop and allow us to board your ship. Did not not hear us say this over your comm." Soloman said as they watched the officers who were trying to allow the ship to fly without incident.

"We did not hear your call. Your signal was breaking up over the com." Mexus said as she looked at the soldiers who had come here.

"I see?" Soloman said as he tried to figure out what had happened here.

"Why did you fire upon our weapon systems and the drives as well," Mexu said as she looked at the soldier standing there,

"We had to stop you from moving any further into our sector of space," Soloman said as he looked at her, his eyes narrowed as he approached her.

"Put down your weapons," mexu said as she brought her hand down toward the controls on the ship.

"We only want to talk to you to see if you are not carrying any contraband."

"Sure be my guest.. Take all the time you need to explore my ship!" Mexu said as she had allowed him to send out his troops to explore this ship.

She laughed as the custom branch officers began to walk down the passageway.

While they were doing this, the crew members of the ship silently slipped onto the shuttle craft. A lanky woman slipped toward the pilot's position in the ship..The doorway was sealed. So, the pilot should be safe from the people who boarded the ship. He had an alarm put on the ship to see if anyone had boarded the ship.

The woman slipped toward the door where the pilot was. She tried the door, it did not open. She lifted a block of explosives to put to the door. She stepped aside, and let the explosion rip through the door. The pilot was wearing a flight jacket, it was bomb proof, so there was no damage to him. He reached for his belt to pull out a laser pistol from his belt. He stood there pointing at his pistol at the open door way into the cabin.

The woman began to step into the cabin. She saw the face of the pilot who was wearing a respirator, with a helmet oin his head. The pilot lifted his weapon up to fire at her. She reached up on the frame of the door. She swung forward driving her feet into his stomache. He fired.

The laser beam cut into her arm. She lost her balance and fell onto her back. The arm was with the humorous bone was cut in half. The pilot was aware of what he was doing. He fell backwards.

When he had got the air into his lungs, she had climbed back to her feet. She drove her shoulder into his chest.. He was driven back to the helm. He hit her in the back with his fist. She drew a dagger from her belt as they rose back to their full hieght, he drew his own dagger to protect himself from her knife.

He tuirned and hurled his boot into her guts, as he whipped the dagger toward where she was standing.