Take The Shot

Young Adult and Teen Sci Fi Action Adventure

By: J. T. Skye

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I’m Rishi Tremayne. I’m fifteen, female and desperately working to take care of my sick family.

I hunt wrecked spaceships, destroyed in battle during the Empire's Galactic Slave War and turn in their location for credits I desperately need.

If I don’t find hulls. . . we don’t eat. . . or pay rent. . . or get the necessary meds my family needs to block the excruciating pain they suffer from the dreaded nerve disease.

Anyway, I found what I thought was a valuable metal asteroid.

I don’t get credits for those. . . but when I posted it to the Mining Guild, the attacks started - my family and all of my friends were murdered by a squad of alien mercenaries. I saw them do it. They even used a battle drone to destroy our apartment building. Only elite Houses have that kind of wealth to hire merc’s and battle drones.

So. . . maybe it wasn’t an asteroid after all.

It's a mystery to me, but it just can’t be a warship. . . it’s waaayyy too big for that - over 2 kilometers long!

After the first attempt to kill me, I was saved by an elite warrior and now we’re on the run barely surviving attack after attack as they try to kill us, too.

She’s convinced I accidentally discovered a warship - a dreadnought she called it - that was supposed to be hidden. And, now she wants to share that with the Empress of the Empire.

She's used to all of the action and adventure of battle. She can be the unlikely hero. Not me. I just want to run, hide and live, somewhere, somehow.

I know this sounds like some kind of space opera, but this IS my story. Yes, I do meet Empress Elith, leader of the entire Hoganthan Empire that spans the civilized galaxy and her elite warriors.

And, they have a plan. Their plan is scary simple - go kill the dreadnought. Simple and direct, but it is a plan. They are just so. . . otherworldly competent.

Before? I wanted to run and hide. Now, after meeting them? I guess I'm coming-of-age because I want retribution for those who killed my family and friends. I want revenge, plain and simple.

Anyway, I get one shot at that. . . just one. . . IF I can live long enough to take it before our ship is destroyed by the invasion of the enemy spaceships firing their weapons at us.

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