Kelly leaned back , putting the gun in her lap, and her head on the cave wall.

“My real name is Zaria Zurg. My father was second in line for the throne of planet Zurg. It was such a beautiful planet. Streams everywhere, outside of the capital it was mostly forest and farms. The capital, Zepton city was a beautiful place made of green lime and black marble. It was a wonderful place to live with a large water way leading through it to the spaceport.”

“It was a pretty laid back planet, not one a whole lot of people went to, but we liked it that way. I remember mom and dad and I would go for a ride in the country and everywhere we stopped, people would flock to us. Mom liked to get out to the country, dad liked to get out and meet people and find out what they needed. It will probably always be the best time of my life.”

Then things started to get bad. A man came from the Galactic alliance wanting us to join up. Grandpa Zeke told them no, Planet Z was a peaceful planet. We wanted to live our lives without interferring with others peoples lives and them ours.

This was back when the Galactic Alliance was more of a military power and controlled by a military council. There whole goal was make the Alliance stronger by any means. Planet Z was deemed a strategic resupply point by the Council of Admirals. It was thought to be the last place in our galaxy a space ship could stop and re-supply, as well as the first line of defense against an invasion.

On planet Z there was a small group of people who thought that we should have been in the alliance out of fear or weakness. They felt so strongly that when they were offered weapons and funding by the council if they would overthrow our family, they would put them in charge so long as they joined the alliance and let them rape our planet with their war machines and bases.”

Grandpa Zeke refused them one last time, and they sprung the rebellion. Only trouble is, it never caught on in popularity. In fact no one joined, and the whole group was caught by couple of farmers hunting.

Uncle Zurg was only a prince at the time, but he was in charge of the planetary Judicial system. He decided that the Zurgites would be put to death for treason, and everyone from the alliance who had helped be hanged for spying.

As you can imagine, the galactic tyranny didn't like that too much. They invaded the planet. Everywhere we went there were soldiers. They did what ever they wanted. It was when one raped and killed my sister that everything changed.

You see, planet Z was one of the few monarchies that really worked. All the princes and princess's spent most of our time in the country with the citizens of the planet, then came home and reported what we had seen and heard. People were represented well that way, and people got to know their lords and ladies.

My sister Zia had been touring the country for only six months on her own. People loved her, she was warm and friendly and was so beautiful, I was jealous of her. She had met a farmer and the two were engaged to be married. I can't tell you how excited the planet was. A royal wedding was a planet wide holiday were everyone would celebrate with cookouts, family reunions, parties, etc. Couples would renew their vows, and a lot of people would get engaged that night.

We never travelled with any guards, never had to. So when a couple of Galactic soldiers got drunk on some local hooch and raped and killed my sister, their was rioting at their bases. Gates were smashed. Armories were raided, and about a third of the invaders were killed or wounded. The rioting stopped when Alliance ships began to take off and leave the planet, taking everyone who had invaded.

We all went home, The whole planet was quiet, nobody went to work, it was in mourning. Finally, Uncle Zurg made a speech. He told us all what an amazing job we had done defending our home planet and that Zia would have wanted us to celebrate her life, not mourn it.

I remember when it happened. I had gone scuba diving with Uncle zurg off of the coast of the city. I remember being under water when I felt a booming noise rip through the water. I looked up and the blue sky had turned black.

I swum to the surface and found my uncle Zurg face down in the water. It was hard to breathe and I couldn't get anyone on the radio.

We had been attacked by biological bombs. They killed almost everyone, especially my family, there were a few left. Most were worse than Uncle Z. His body still worked, but his skin was destroyed. You could see ligaments and bones everywhere. We called the best doctors in the galaxy and they were able to save Uncle Z's body, even though he has to wear a suit to cover it all up. The rest, well we were able to save their brains, so Uncle Z built the special pods to put them in. Noone wanted to remember what had happened so everyone was number, 42, 36 whatever. Uncle Z went by King Z, taking over from grand pa. Only I kept my name for a while.

Noone could believe what had happened. Uncle Z decided we should have a military to protect us from being attacked again. Only thing was there wasn't anyone who could fight. No bodies remember.

Uncle took on of the last ships and set out. While he was out he found a planet where there was a smart race of little blue men who called themselves the grubs. Apperantly no matter what they did, a race of dragons attacked them and fed on them. So uncle Z brought them home and put them to work. They built an army of robots, hornets they called them. We decided we needed a buffer zone to protect us from the alliance.

The grubs wanted a queen, and Uncle Z thought I would be just perfect. I also led the armys in most of the takeovers of planets.

Soon, though, it became about the power and control.”

Suddenly Kelly sat forward and looked at mira.

“I know how we can get out of here.”