Alcantaran 1: Alien Abduction Read Online Free PDF

Some hit it but they didn't even seem to phase it.   Other shots missed and were ricocheting around the hangar making creatures of all sizes duck for cover.   Gus stayed under cover in the planetary flyer as he continued to watch.   The octopod creature swung past the cluster and then swung back on the other side.   As it went by the cluster of Challekans, it shot out another silky strand.   The strand made a loop and went over the entire cluster.   On the return swing, the creature shot another strand that looped the cluster of Challekans again.   The octopod creature seemed to tighten the loops and jerked all the Challekans off their disks.   The strands were sticky and held the Bugs in place twenty five feet off the hangar deck.   The creature proceeded to add more loops quickly and then climbed down to the cluster to start biting with its fangs.   The Challekans were shrieking in terror and struggling to no avail as the creature bit them all.   Alarms started sounding and some armored Challekans armed with blasters flew through the big doors on their disks.   They formed a box under the creature and fired the blasters.   They hit the creature and Gus could hear the sizzle as the blasters did their damage.   Shortly he could smell the burnt flesh and the creature slowly relaxed its grip on the strand and fell to the floor dead.   The Challekans blasted it again for good measure and then flew to the back of the flying machine Gus was standing in.   They lined up so they could blast anything that came out of the back.   Sabah brought the whole line over and ordered everyone to rush with the unloading.   The guards stood there at the ready until the last item was unloaded.   Once all of the creatures in Gus' line were out, two of the guards went in and searched the flying machine.   Sabah ordered Gus and one of the other creatures to drag the octopod creature to the disposal and throw it in.   Gus saw that the first Challekan that had been bitten was dead and he figured the ones hanging from the ceiling were also.   Sabah and the other Challekans lined everyone up and marched them out of the hangar.   They put them back in their cells early that day.   The next day when they arrived at the hangar, the bodies of the dead Challekans were gone.
    Gus settled back into the monotonous routine again.   Whenever he unloaded fresh fruits and vegetables he snitched all he could eat and then loaded his pouch.   As long as the Bugs didn't see him and he kept moving, they didn't even seem to notice.
    Gus had been captive about seven months when he started to notice that he didn't have the stamina he normally did.   This worried him but he didn't know what it was.   He did notice that when he carried some sacks and boxes that were dusty, he felt better the next day.   He tried to get all of the dusty things he could but it just wasn't enough.   His strength started to wane in the ninth month and he had trouble just putting one foot in front of the other.   Eventually, he was too sick and weak to even get out of his bunk.   Sabah came in and blasted him with the stingerray but he was too sick to even care.   The next day two of his bunk mates hauled him to a waiting grav-sled.   The sled took him to another part of the mother ship and a robot unloaded him into a bunk in a new cell.   A Challekan came in and used a healer unit to check him out.   The Bug left and came back shortly with a device that he put next to Gus' arm.   There was a poof and Gus felt a sting in his arm.   Later that day he felt a little better and the next day a Bug returned and gave him another shot in the arm.   After three days of treatment, Gus almost felt like he would live.   The next morning a Bug came and ordered Gus to follow.   They wound through the mother ship and ascended several levels until finally they arrived at the repair hangar.
    The repair hangar was a huge room containing damaged planetary flyers, robots and