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Terror From Deep Space 9 (standard:science fiction, 9825 words) | |||
Author: Waldo Pepper | Added: Apr 08 2006 | Views/Reads: 3585/2439 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
A security agent and her robot investigate the strange silence of a space station in deep space. | |||
The Terror From Deep Space 9 By Waldo Pepper ronk@axion.net Comments are the life blood of any amateur writer, the currency in which they are paid. It takes only a few minutes to send off a line or two to the author or place a vote on this web site. It is little to ask for in creating a story. So please be sure to take these few minutes, it can only result in more and better stories in the future. Page 1 Space, the last frontier, an airless waterless wasteland stretching for millions of light years and its only inhabitants a myriad of twinkling stars. It was into this vast ocean that Deep Space 9 was constructed and now lay over a light year away from the dead planet Pluto the last outpost in the exploration of space. The space station was one of many that were built between the years of 2030 and 2050 by the National Space Association on the planet Earth. Their mission to search and seek out alien life. Miss Jessica Towns sat at her desk in the offices of the Space Association and dictated the last few words of a report on her previous assignment into her computer. She has head of the Association's new elite security task force that monitored the crews of each space station. Most of the work was routine checking facilities for adequate relaxation programs and settling any minor squabble that may occur in crew living in such cramp quarters for such a long period of time. Suddenly Jessica's computer screen flashed and the image of her supervisor Commander Red Harris appeared. "Would you come into my office Miss Towns," he said in a soft but assertive voice. "I would like to go over a few things with you." "Certainly sir," she replied. "I shall be right in." Jessica left her office and made her way down a short hallway and knocked on the first door that she came to. The door was opened by an attractive secretarial robot that was a little taller and much more endowed then the young girl. The robot was Page 2 attractively dressed, had long blond hair, and almost human features. ÔIt is amazing what modern science can do with a little plastic and silicon,' she thought following the robot through the door and into the office. "Commander Harris will see you now," she said in a soft perky voice. "You go right through the door marked private." Letting herself in through the door that was indicated Jessica found herself in another well lit office. Behind a large oak desk looking through some papers sat Commander Red Harris. Harris was a middle aged man of about fifty his once flaming red hair now thinning and streaked with gray. The dark circles under his eyes indicated he was over worked and h ad spent many a long hour at this desk. "Ah Jessica, do have a seat for a moment would you," he said a faint smile slowly spreading over his distinguished face. "Damn new secretary the Association has given me is still new and just being broken in and I can't find a Damn thing." "Yes Sir," she replied taking a seat. "I thought that she was new." "Yes, well my lost correspondence or my new secretary are not why I called you into my office Miss Towns," he said. "Have you ever heard of Dr. Cameron Mitchell or the Deep Space 9 Project?" "Only some vague media reports on the Deep Space 9 Project Sir," she replied. "I believe it was a fully automated space station that we had built a long way from the planet Pluto. As for that chap Dr. Cameron Mitchell I am completely in the dark. What has he been up to?" "Nothing any good I am afraid," he replied opening a file and rubbing Click here to read the rest of this story (1072 more lines)
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