An Unbending Vengeance

Jox

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Planet Yama


At about 4000 galaxies distance from the planet Earth a volatile and supposedly inhabited blue planetary system intertwined. In its midst a blue star exerted its gravitational pull to 92 gaseous planets, 8 terrestrial planets and 412 moons. The planets orbited the star at such a slow pace, that one year was 200 Earth years.


One planet on one of the furthest orbits was made home to a once dying species. Earthians call them Butterfly Men or as some mockingly say, 'bout to die men.' Butterfly Men had their original planet destroyed by an ancient alien race. Wise and imbued with great innate speed but they had one weakness. They only lived anywhere from 1 to 3 days, 4 days to the strongest of them. For a long time, they had sought for a planet to call home but most planet systems were inhospitable or at best sped there life cycles. This caused them to lose valuable information and/ or miss the small fertile window. Upon entering this galaxy they realized that as they came closer to the sun time seemed to slow down allowing them more time to learn and reproduce. Soon their ship was unable to sustain the growing population.


Eventually, by pure luck, they found an ocean planet. They heard how once Earth was full of water and great power separated the waters into clouds. Great power had created oceans and dry land. And so they worked hard to imitate Earth's atmosphere and ecosystem. The sentient beings lacked resources and therefore realized in order to survive they had to change their ways from pacific creatures to violent and ruthless. And so they pillaged and made unlikely unions to advance their ships' technology and eventually create a planet suitable for them.


The planet was divided into a dry desert on one half and a wintry snowy desert on the other end. And the butterfly men were known as the Yamans. Their ships are unrivaled for thousands of galaxies. Eventually, the butterfly race became powerful but were doomed not to leave their solar system as none of the citizens wanted to live a short life.


Not being able to leave their purplish grey planet was not a problem. They would send out underground intergalactic communications of things they needed or wanted and in exchange they'd offer technology or information worth one's trouble. Underground shuttles at black markets were secretly located at at least one place on every galaxy. These transactions rarely were done race to race.


However, this time was different. A shuttle landed on the planet. The shuttle opened its hind doors and a humanoid with 6 arms and 2 antennas waited outside. In an authoritative high pitched tone, before even seeing the passenger, the creatures spoke, "Do you have what we seek, show it to me?" If the passenger came out she'd see that the butterfly man's body was mostly black with blue wings. The butterfly race usually had about 20000 eyes on it's head to help it see in about every direction.
 
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This was a terrible, awful idea. Bindhi knew it when she first thought of it, and now she was reminded once again as she tightly clutched her package in her arms and tried not to stare at this strange alien with... what was it? Twenty-thousand eyes. She wasn't even sure of when or where she learned that fact. It along with a myriad of other nonsense factoids were tucked away in her brain, all from an education that in the end didn't matter. The job she was supposed to get was gone. The home where she would live, also gone. All that she had left was the package in her hands and a desire for revenge.

Swallowing hard, Bindhi nodded and held out the square package wrapped so carefully in brown paper. These aliens weren't interested in credits, or units, or useless currency exchanges. They needed a mineral that was now so hard to get, it would probably land her in prison for a hundred years for even attempting this exchange.

"Do you- do you have a ship for me? Like was promised." Bindhi didn't at all sound like the type to be doing these sorts of trades. As an afterthought she wondered if she should've brought a weapon. What if they tried to cheat her?
 
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The monstrous butterfly, almost twice the speaker's height, reacted with great speed the moment the visiting humanoid took out the package and questioned for a ship. Flickering it's antennas and flapping its wings violently, the Yaman emitted a loud crackling sound and gust of wind. And instantly perched his feet while the visitor held it, assuming she didn't drop it. The beast used his feet to continue smelling the package without applying weight or damaging the product in hand. And then, assuming she didn't resist, the butterfly flew back slowly to the position he was in before.


"Forgive the intrusion," the butterfly man explained in his high pitched voice, "but I had to make sure you brought the Cinnabar Alloy." The butterfly man began walking away from the visitor to a 4 meter black hole not too far from the shuttle. If the visiting trader said anything, the butterfly man did not react instead looked down the hole. "Climb on me," the butterfly man screeched in a flat tone.
 
What in space is happening! Bindhi thought to herself in mild panic. She'd expecting to hand over payment and then be giving controls, or maybe the location to a warehouse somewhere the ship was stored. Not to climb on an alien and go... who knew where!

Still, she had come this far, would she really want to give up now? Besdies, this alien had her payment now. Bindhi wasn't going to leave empty handed.

"I- okay," she responded softly. With a great deal of hesitation and a whole lot of care, Bindhi gingerly climbed onto the back of the butterfly man, wary of his wings and even more wary of this hole that seemed to be their next destination.