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“Chief Tabulan, come with me. I have a war to
fight and I need to get you to the safest place abroad our battleship.”
    “What about my
subject?” Tabulan asked.
    “Forget that
primitive alien, he doesn’t matter,” Admiral said and walked out and Tabulan
turned around to take one regretful look at Roofus and then followed him out.
They had gone less than two minutes when there was another vibration and this
was more intense than the one before.
    Roofus despised
the Admiral’s parting words but he was also gleeful that they had left him
alone. Now he had a chance to escape but if they had taken him with them, he
would have been stuck.
    As a spy he was
trained to escape tie-ups and confinements and Roofus tried to move and wiggle
around to see if he could find any weakness in his harnesses, but to no avail.
The Mercurians had done a thorough job of securing him and left no out.
    Roofus hoped that
General Bakus would come to his rescue and a few minutes later his wish came
true. The entire battleship felt a massive shock from a rocket blast and the
walls of Roofus’ room shook like building walls during a huge earthquake. Most
of the instruments not tied down came over the tables and crashed to the floor
and shattered to pieces. Roofus’ own table turned over to his left and its edge
hit the floor. Fingers of his left hand felt a few sharp metallic pieces and he
used one to cut away the strap on his left wrist. Then the rest of it was easy,
picking up a knife like device that had fallen on the floor, he cut himself
free, stood up and tiptoed his way to the door. He looked around the hallway
and found it empty. Now all he had to do was find his way back to the bay where
his spaceship lay. He just hoped they had not taken it apart for study.
    Roofus stepped
back into the room one more time and then took off his pants belt. He feared
that the Mercurians had taken out what he was looking for but right under the
buckle was a small transmitter and he took it out and activated it. Lucky for
him, the Mercurians had not anticipated any situation where he would be able to
escape. He activated the transmitter and it started flashing a small green
light in front.
    There was another
transmitter in his spaceship and the two were synchronized. He just had to move
his transmitter in a circle and the green light would start flashing whenever
it was pointed in the direction of his spaceship. He slowly walked out in the
hallway and using the flashing light as an indicator started searching for his
spaceship. Mercurians had taken away his laser pistol, he was not that lucky,
but he had picked up the sharp, knife like object that he had used to free
himself.
    He felt the sudden
movements under his feet and he had enough experience from participating in the
space battle training to know that the Mercurian spaceship was maneuvering to
avoid incoming fire. This and the occasional explosion that was jolting the
spaceship meant that General Bakus’ had brought their own forces to bear.
    He did not come
across any Mercurian crew as he made his way back to the bay guided by the
small transmitter. This was not a surprise since these spaceships were so huge
– miles long and wide – that a clever operator could travel avoiding contact.
And in the middle of the battle, all the crews would be at their stations
performing their predetermined duties.
    Roofus walked into
the bay and stopped just a second to catch his breath and take a sigh of relief
when he saw that his spaceship was intact. Either the Mercurians didn’t care
for such ‘primitive’ spaceships or they had examined Nestorian spacecrafts from
earlier abductions to their hearts content.
    Roofus jumped into
his spaceship, fired up the engines and controls, hit the switch for
‘emergency’ controls that would allow him very rapid acceleration, and turned
on the single laser cannon that his spaceship contained. He transferred as much
energy to his laser cannon as it could handle,