The Borei

[Leo]

Day 7

No sooner than the power went out, I was already on the move to get off the station. The door was a solid millimeter of steel; it was unlikely that anyone was going to be able to break through the door, much less a few Borei. They were, from what I could tell from the files, advanced, but they had no tools with them to be able to--

The door made a loud thud noise and then nothing. My eyes grew wide and I ran away from the door and covered my face. A loud explosion sounded from the other side, but the door didn't move, I heard the Borei on the other side talking loudly to one another, I could only guess they were probably swearing at the door in their native tongue as I heard another several thuds against the door: More explosives.

I looked around the inside of the room and looked to the oxygen tanks that sat just on the other side of one of the consoles. They were used to keep the people in the control room alive longer than the rest of the station so they could be rescued and relay what happened inside the station to anyone who would come to save them...that is if a group of psycho man eating aliens hadn't come to get them first. I drifted over to the tanks and slowly unhinged them from their holders and sat them each in line, floating, and pointing directly at the window. Another loud series of explosions sounded from the other side of the door. By now, the door was starting to turn red as the metal warmed up from the constant explosions they were popping off.

I floated back to a chair next to the console and brought it down on top of one of the tanks. The valve spun off and the oxygen tank missed the window, slamming into the console and sending sparks everywhere. Two more chances to get this right. I thought to myself. I swung the chair at the second tank and hit the valve; the tank connected with the window and caused the bulletproof glass to shatter. A bullet might not make it through, but an oxygen tank in 0 gee propelled at 80mph did.

Just as the tank went through the window, the final explosion sounded and the door rattled off its hinges. I thought fast and spun the tank to face the Borei that came through the door. The one at the lead stopped, turned its head sideways and smiled showing its razor sharp teeth.

"Have a nice flight, freak."

"Nass'Borei?"

"Borei dead."

I slammed the chair down on the valve and the tank slammed into the one at the lead sending it flying and spouting blue blood all over the console, it screamed a high pitch scream as it died. The other Borei ran down the hallway trying to escape the rogue oxygen tank that was now tearing down the hallway after them. I moved quickly floating out of the window and down to the deck floor.

I made my way for the hole in the floor and looked down, seeing my ship still floating in space just on the other side of the emergency force field. I floated down to the field and looked around for anything to disconnect the field. There was a power generator near me humming with power, blocking my path out of the station. I picked up a piece of debris and swung at the generator, just as the other Borei made their way to me.

"Hope you can breathe in space, blood sucking maggots."

The lead Borei rushed me quickly and landed a bite on my right shoulder, I screamed in pain as I felt the razor sharp teeth pierce my flesh and bone, I swung the metal at the generator and a loud pop silenced the room as the Borei realized that they were in vacuum. The remaining air on the station that I had managed to generate rushed out as the Borei slowly died from suffocation. I floated to my ship in the dark of space quickly, the suits alarms wailing as I floated through thick radiation. I made it to the cockpit, slid the canopy back, and returned it to its original location. Quickly, I engaged cruise and made my way for the Tau-37 jump-hole.

"Thank human for design. We use soon for you home. We see you soon, yyuman." said a transmission as I flew towards the hole. It started laughing, higher pitched this time. The noise burned my ears as I ripped the helmet off.

"Bloody aliens." I said aloud as I jumped back to Tau-37.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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