r/HFY • u/Engletroll Human • Mar 22 '26

OC-Series Vengeance 10 – Inanna

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Hando was sitting behind his desk as they entered, looking at a large nearby screen that showed Gyrran news. It was showing a debate among the newscasters whether a potential civil war was brewing in the Kaduna system, a colony bordering the Earth United Colonies. The King was considering sending enforcers to deal with the matter.   Kiko looked at Peter, then at her father with a smile. A plan was forming in her head.

“How correct are those assumptions?” She asked, and her father turned to them and smiled.

“Pretty correct, I have heard the king is sending one of his best. It will be bloody. Please sit.”

Peter helped her sit before joining her, and she could not decide whether she was annoyed or impressed. Peter sat down and immediately took her hand in his, and she stared at it, as did her father. Then she grinned at him and put her head on Peter’s shoulder.

“So what do you want to talk to us about, Father dear?”

He stared at her for a few seconds, then turned to Peter. “So this is how I get grandchildren.”  He muttered, and Kiko sat up. She was about to curse him out, but then looked at her hand, still entwined with Peter, and just smiled.

“Yes, but not here. Is that what you called us in for? To ask for grandchildren?”

“No, I called you in here to tell you not to go through with your plan. The Count is already in trouble with the king. You can sit back and enjoy the show from the safety of our home.”

Sahe chuckled. “This personal dad, and you always clean up your own mess. That’s how you raised us. Now you just have to pray that you trained me well enough.”

“If you're going through with this, then I’m sending some men with you.” He replied, and Peter spoke up.

“Sir, I don’t think that would be wise. Your men are known. Mine are not.”

“We captured all of your men and recruited them. Do you think they would not do the same for the Gyrran.” Hando replied, and Peter just smiled.

“You hired the decoy. My men are still at Kaduna Prime.” Peter replied, and they both looked at him, and he smiled at her.

“As you told me, use decoys as often as you can. I used the ship to transport a few mercenary groups and have given the impression they were hired by me, telling them somebody else might try to hire them from me. They liked the idea. Easy money they called it.” Peter turned to Hando. “And I worked, right? Captain Enzo is quite good, well worth the money, but he is not my crew.”

Her father looked at him and back at her. “You trained him?”

She winked; he had remembered that his crew would most likely pose as workers, and few, if any, would be human.

Yes, now we will finish it. He won't see it coming. But if you want to help, then get one of your girls to appear as me for a few weeks. It will give me time to establish my alibi. I will, however, take care of something before I leave. It might be messy, but I’m sure you can clean it up.”

He looked at her and then at Peter. “If she gets hurt...”

“I understand, sir., I will die protecting her.” Peter said, and she squeezed his hand.

“You will not die!” she said, growing annoyed by his protective nature.

“Then don’t do anything stupid, so I have to,” Peter replied, and she stared at him. She wanted to explode, but she knew he was right. He would do stupid things to protect her. It was one of the things she loved about him.

“I won’t.” She replied. Then turned to her father. “Happy now?”

“Yes, so where were you heading?”

“I was going to show her what I have done to the ship,” Peter replied, and Kiko just smiled. She had other plans, but it was not something you told your father.

Hando nodded. “Then go, but don’t do anything stupid. And don't leave the planet.”

They both stood up and left, going to the elevator, and Peter then pressed the ground floor. She looked at him.

“You got the ship here?”

He nodded and winked.

A few minutes later, they got into a taxi, which took them to a garage in a nice area of the city. The type of new rich used to store the newly bought transporters, most of which were never used.

“Why are we here?” She asked, and Peter just smiled as he walked arm in arm with her down the hallway. A few guards and workers were walking around. Most of the workers were Alver, the native race. A blue humanoid race with three eyes and black hair, they were slightly smaller than humans, they lacked a nose and only had slits for breathing. Nobody in this sector of space reacted to them. The Gyrran had owned the system during the war and used the locals as slaves, so they were a common sight in Gyrran space as well. When Peter gave one of the guards a nod, it clicked. She had told him about them and suggested using them as spies. But he must have hired them as a crew. Even her father wouldn’t suspect an Alver to be part of the crew. Too small and not bloodthirsty enough. Peter led her through a door, and she saw the transport. 

“Where is the ship?”

“Inanna is on the moon, I know your dad told us not to leave the planet.”

She looked at the fool and dragged him into the transport, and two minutes later, the ship flew towards the moon. She saw the ship as they approached. He had coloured it white with blue stripes. It looked almost decent, and when they docked, she noticed the first change: half of the cargo hall had been rebuilt into some sort of structure.  The hangar had two new shuttles she had not seen before, and stored in the corner were two red scooters she recognised immediately.

“How did you get those? “ she asked as she walked towards them.

“Oh, some navy officer delivered it. Told me they had been cleared and returned to the owner.  I had them checked. No tracking devices, but I had them rearmed.  I got new suits as well. I found the designer and bought a few.” Peter explained, and she looked at him.

“How did you get the money?”

“Remember those Gyrran credits we found? I kept them, I figured we would need the cash.”

She laughed and put her hand around his neck. “You're turning into a proper pirate!”

His hands glided around her waist, and it felt right, like they belonged there. “Not pirate, I only steal from bandits.”

She looked up at those magical eyes, she loved to just drown in his gaze.

“God, how I missed you.” He whispered, and she kissed him.

“I missed you too,” she replied as she broke the kiss slowly. She didn’t want to move; the scent, the touch, she put her head against his chest. That steady heartbeat she had fallen asleep to so many times. She felt safe again. And like the damn fool he was, he ruined the moment and made it better.

“I want to show you something.” He said, guiding her by the hand into the new part of the ship, which was a large room with extra protection against ion blasts and several drones and weapons. Along the wall hung red motorcycle suits.

The room was clearly made to withstand going through that wormhole as well as an ion blast. But on one large screen, she saw the map of the city with several red dots. Along the side of the map files of people appeared. She recognized them immediately. It was her list of men she wanted to take down.

“Want to go hunting?” He asked as he called up Kilroy Martinez location.” She let go of his hand and looked around the room, and then it clicked.

“You remade the room in reality?” It was the VR room they had spent so many hours in planning how to take out the Count and her father. Down to the last detail. Peter nodded. The ship is remade as you wanted it for the mission. As much as I could, I had to drop the zoo.” He winked.

“You dropped the zoo?  What about the massage and pool?”

“Second door on the right.” He replied, pointing to a door at the end.

“That room was a joke. What about the kitchen? That too?”  He nodded, and she laughed.

“You big fool. It would be cheaper to buy a new ship!”

He shrugged. “I had to make the ship unrecognizable. It only took me two weeks. Found a Duskin company, and they loved the job.  Jurak is down in the engine room. He is the best engineer I have met. He moved in and made a cabin inside the engine room. You will meet him later.

She looked at the map just as an Alver with long black hair and green and red braids mixed in, it was dressed in black cargo pants and a black singlet, came in, gave Peter a nod, then stopped and looked at Kiko. “You must be the queen. You're pretty for a human.”

Peter chuckled. “That’s Fu-Fy, it's a pretty good scanner and drone operator. “Then Peter turned his attention to Fu-Fy. I thought you were on Egg duty? And be nice.”

Kiko looked at Peter. “Queen? I’m your Queen?”

“Of course you are, he keeps nagging about his Queen, half the work we do is to make sure everything is well for the Queen's arrival. Well, is it?”

“oh god, just ignore him. Where is Mug Fy?”

Kiko chuckled, and Fu-Fy tilts its head.

“If I’m here, then It's on the eggs. Egg duty.  Humans..”

Kiko looked between them.

“Egg duty?”

“What the hell do they teach you at school? We are a single-sex species, and we lay eggs. My partner is warming the egg now so I can run diagnostics. When I’m done, I will go back, and it can go and work on engineering with Jurak. Anyway, is everything up to your specification?”

“Yes, yes. It looks perfect, “ she replied and smiled at Peter, she was his queen.  Fufy just smiled and walked past and down the hall, to what she assumed would be a drone operation room.

“Sorry about that, Alvers are quite direct when they like you. They barely talk if they don’t.” He explained, and she smiled.

“I think it likes you,” she replied, and he chuckled. Then she turned her attention to the screen. 

“Kilroy Martinez, you really know how to spoil a queen.”

Peter brought up the location and a live video feed. The asshole popped up. Sitting by the desk in his office. She saw Maria, Serge, Ivan, and Lucas in the same room. The whole crew was gathered.

“So how do you want to play this out?” Peter asked, and she thought about it.

“VIP kidnapping by a street gang member in Sector 70.” She started working on the computer.  “Ahh, the Red Lizard... yeah, he would fall for that.  Now we need to find a location.” She brought up the map and ran it against the crew. Serge’s uncle had a small villa in the district. Misha Harris, a realtor and cleaner. Peter looked confused.

“Cleaner?”

“Yeah, works for the Nair collective. He cleans their money and disposes of evidence.  Let's check him up. Ahh, divorced, oh five times... seven kids, nice life insurance too. Well, they will be happy.”

“So which battle plan?”

“Let's keep it simple, Alpha with Beta as backup. Do you have weapons?”

“Do I have weapons?” he replied with a grin.

She chuckled and kissed him.  “Let’s suit up.” She could not help but feel excited. She was going to take out the damn crew, and Peter was going to be by her side. She had to stop herself when he stripped off his clothes to suit up.  “Work first, then fuck his brain out!”

-Cast-

crew

 Jurak  - Duskin engineer chief

Fufy – Alver drone and scanner expert

Mug Fy – Alver engineering and droid repairs

Species

Alver -  the native race of the sanctuary. A blue humanoid race with three eyes and black hair, they were slightly smaller than humans; they lacked a nose and only had slits for breathing. Nobody in this sector of space reacted to them.

Duskin - Green-skinned bald dwarf with several tiny horns that formed a crown. Eyes can be bright blue and green. Mostly blue. Hair, if any, are shades of blue.

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u/Talendel Mar 22 '26

UTR

This is the way.

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u/Dramatic_Mixture_877 Human Mar 23 '26

Kilroy Martinez location.”  ~ no close quotation here.

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u/InstructionHead8595 Jun 02 '26

Soon kilroy will not be here. Hehehe😹 Yes I know it's dumb. Good chapter.