Page 60 of Swept By The Alien Pirate Prince

I nodded, reached for her, pulled her close and gave her a compelling kiss that sent a ripple of pleasure charging through me like a bolt of lightning.

On cue from the electrifying sizzle surging through my body, I began fighting off the Operator, trying to hurt it to the point where Carmela could get past it and work her magic.

The Operator put up a good fight. It rejected my blows in every sense of the word. Nix and the other warriors on my crew were doing their best to stab at it and harm it to the point of no return.

It whipped its robotic arms around with aggression, it’s eyes red and full of malicious intent.

I was able to stab it in the chest. It backed down, wobbling backward, teetering on mechanical feet.

I turned toward Nix. “We’re going to have to tear it apart limb from limb.”

Nix’s eyes brightened with enthusiasm. “Let me at the giant beast, then. We’re already halfway there!”

Nix’s vigor inspired me. I was compelled, driving myself forward to finish the job.

I caught a glimpse of Carmela in my peripheral vision.

“Go,” I shouted. “It’s now or never.”

I waved her ahead, keeping my eyes locked on her as she jogged forward like a marathon runner who had the finish line in their sight.

“I’m going to hack the system and place the I/We’s mind at the center of the system instead of the Operator’s,” Carmela explained.

“Good luck,” I said, blinking salty, burning sweat out of my eyes and just praying above all else that her plan would work.

Right on cue, the I/We’s began popping into the picture, whizzing above our heads, and hovering at shoulder level with us, working as allies to remove the control algorithms enslaving all the lower level cyborgs in the planetary region.

There were a few cyborgs who refused to give up, were too loyal to the Belic cause, and it cost them dearly in the end.

Once they were killed or disabled, they crumpled to the floor and went still and silent, the final nail in their metaphorical coffin’s hammered in.

“The Operator is resisting,” Carmela grimaced. “Are you going to be able to kill it?”

“I’m doing my best,” I promised her, surged with adrenaline, wanting every fiber of my muscles and bones to be put to good use to resist this dreadful robot and give it the death sentence it deserved.

“It’s getting weaker,” Carmela said, giving me an optimistic smile over her shoulder. “Should we tell the troops to ambush the starships and capture the Belic fleets still roaming out there?”

“It’s time,” I said, calling over the inter-communicator system on my headset and handing out the instructions.

“I’m in!” Carmela squealed with delight a few minutes later. Her petite frame was a silhouette against the glowing lights in the mainframe, her back turned away from me, her hands on the throttles, gears and buttons. She looked like a natural, taking down the system one wrenched problem at a time.

I knew from that moment forward that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, to make her my wife. I could never live without her as my partner. She had shown immense loyalty and true honor tonight, and her brilliance saved our entire planet.

Beside me, the Operator collapsed into a hissing, popping, steaming pile of metal and wires.

It clunked to the ground, shaking the floor and the surrounding walls. I stiffened, but relief flooded over me as it took it’s final, raspy breath.

Its red eyes fluttered, then sealed. It was dead. We could finally take back Alesis from the terrorizing savages who never should have gotten the chance to occupy it in the first place.

It had been a long time coming, but the victory felt so sweet. It was time to gloat in the rewards with Carmela, my sexy, spunky, genius lover by my side.

Epilogue

CARMELA

“Ican’t believe I’ve been living on Alesis three whole months!” I declared to Cyburn as we stood in the center of the capital, hand in hand, relishing in a job well done by all the allied parties involved.

“ThreeEarthmonths,” he corrected, the mischievous smirk that I loved so much pronounced in his smile, the bold and confident flicker always present in his handsome, almond shaped black eyes.

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