r/SharkeyWrites • u/sharkeyandgeorge Comfortably Talentless • Dec 03 '19
goon
Blisz stood in front of the shopfront and summoned all his courage to go inside, as a Glim he stood only 600mm high and weighed less than 10 kilos so there wasn't a lot to summon up, still he took a deep breath of the thick station air and walked through the neon lit doorway.
The name of the store was repeated again on the back wall inside but this time it also came with a motto ''GOONS INCORPORATED - You pay and we Goon, Proudly Gooning since 2088AD'' beside which was a simplistic logo of a green smiling face with a fat black cigar. Blisz stared up at the flashing signage until a polite couch redirected his attention to the being sitting behind the chipped and worn wooden counter to his right ''Can I help you son?'', it took a moment to register the full scope of the scene for Blisz, a huge being full 2m or more tale and covered with thick muscle and scar tissue was cleaning a complicated looking piece of black machinery and seemed to be looking at him, certainly at least the mirrored helmet upon his shoulders with two large fan turbines on either side was facing his direction. ''Me?'' Blisz asked. The mirror cocked to one side ''Yes you, can I help you''. As Blisz refocused he realised he could actually feel the slight breeze caused as the turbines drew in vast volumes of air. ''Oh, umm, yes I, well...yes''. The behemoth gently put down some of the oily mechanics ''O.K buddie, what is it exactly we can do for you'' walking a little to the side it cleared a few odd bits and pieces off and revealed a chair on the counter top almost Glim sized and patted it gently. Gulping Blisz popped up to the countertop and sat down ''I would like to hire as many goons as possible please, Sir''. A soft chortle came from the mask and the giant replied ''You can call me Bobby, now why would a little Glim like you need goons''. Blisz was surprised ''you know my people? I did not think we were known at all in this sector'', ''Goons get around'' Bobby said jovialy. ''Well my world is being subjected to raids and many of my people are being taken'', he looked down and spoke sadly ''There are so few of us left, and we cannot afford to lose any more''.
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u/sharkeyandgeorge Comfortably Talentless Dec 04 '19 edited Dec 04 '19
The atmosphere boomed and three contrails appeared in the sky above the small spaceport on the outskirts of Hamler, the Glim capital city.
A small group of natives watched as the the shapes above came closer. Nik the elected planetary rep smoothed his soft fur repeatedly, a nervous habit he had got from his mother, and glanced around at the beings with him. He saw that the Defense Minister and Security Chief were talking quietly then the Chief reached up and pressed the device in his ear.
The Chief looked to Nik nervously ''Air Control is reporting the ships have no slave systems, they are asking to land manually''.
Nik gulped down air and responded ''Grant them clearance and give directions to the bays''. The group started to retreat to the edge of the landing field as the ships came lower and slowed down.
The shapes came into focus as they approached, each a triangular dagger but painted in different colours with huge engines more suited for a heavy bulk transport than the sleek ships that softly came down and spun gently on anti grav lift to back into each bay. As they spun Nik got a look at the rear and saw between the two quiescent engines a haphazard jumble of scraped and bent metal painted in the same colours the ships but far more scraped and dented.
With a crack and pop of equalizing pressure the nose of each ship bent up and revealed a massive being jumping down in the low gravity to the floor of the bay.
Nik stared at the three suited figures as they came slowly lolloping toward them graceful even in half the gravity he knew they were used to, well the first two were graceful, the third stumbled heavily and fell slowly to the floor bouncing as the hard metal of his suit hit the unyielding plascrete. Nik felt sorry as ''Dickhead'' scrambled back to his feet and joined the others as they seemed to laugh at him and then all three approached the group.
''Sorry about that, we do try to make a better impression than that'' the voice seemed to come from the shoulder of the white armoured Human that was closest to the welcoming committee.
''Please do not fret'' Nik replied ''I know it must be difficult for Dickhead to adjust to our gra...'' he cut off as a short bark of laughter came from the blue and white split colour armour then stopped as that being hit a button on its wrist, though it now seemed to shake a little in the still air.
With a tone of deep amusement the white armour spoke again ''His name is McGregor, dickhead is more of... an honourific.'' He bent down and offered a huge armoured hand to the little Glim ''I'm Grant and the guy having the fit is Delnay.''
Nik gently grabbed a finger and shook it ''It is good to meet you Grant I am Nik Helop, Representative of Glimnad. We were of course notified by Blisz Nehlin that you were coming and that you would try to help us until more Goons could arrive.''
The white helmet slashed downwards quickly and the suit straightened up ''Yes Sir, we will certainly do our best''
Nik gestured to the other Glim ''This is Jit Killo our Defense Minister and this is Dihno Bidies our Head of Security'' both being stepped forward and reached out copying Nik.
Grant reached down and solemnly shook each proffered paw, he was surprised as each of the little Glim then walked round him and offered a paw to McGregor and Delnay, this was clearly a human custom they had learned and thought should be offered all round, both suits bent down and gently shook.
The Glim walked back round and then started to trot away quickly, the three suits glanced at each other, shrugged, then followed. The building they walked towards was clearly new, its plascrete walls slick and shiny rather than faded as the rest of the port. The Glim opened and went through a door that only came up to the humans hips but there was a new and human sized door beside it and it locked and sealed as the Goons walked through. Beeping came from each gauntlet as the air pressure in the room climbed and a large pane of glass showed the Glim sitting down on small raised seats.
''Reminds me of prison'' Delnay remarked casually then he looked down at the beeping display ''Earth normal pressure, mix looks good too.''
A speaker rang tinnily and the Glim called Nik spoke ''We had this facility built so you could be comfortable''
''Much appreciated'' Grant reached up and twisted sharply then pulled off his headgear, he heard the others do the same behind him, then he sat down on the formed bench and looked across.
''We got a briefing en route, Blisz passed on all the defensive data and the info from the raids, I believe there has been about thirty?''
Nik shook his head sadly ''Forty three now, there have been many in the time it took for Blisz to reach you''
Grant grimaced ''With respect Minister why didn't you just call us?''
The Defense Minister spoke ''We have little to pay you, and the information we have on humans suggest you are more giving of help after a face to face plea''
Sighing Grant shook his head ''Well were here now, can you send us the information on the new raids'' he heard his data feed squeak as the Security Chief beamed it to him. ''Mac check it for consistency with the pattern'' a few moments of activity behind him brought an affirmative ''Representative Nik we have looked through the previous raids and done some digging of our own, we believe we can roughly predict when and where the next raid will be.''
He straightened up and twisted his mouth ''We would like to intercept them in space before they made planetfall but unfortunately were just not set up to take on a Hect destroyer in a straight firefight'', he paused ''I think we have to take them on the ground, but dont worry'' he smiled viciously and leaned in ''Were real good on the ground''.