CHAPTER 1!!!!!!!!!!!


Chapter 1
Raye's Attempted Assasination

	Raye Kanwak had a funny feeling she was being
watched. Although any attempt to kill her would be
futile, she had numerous bodyguards and the like, she
still kept her eyes and ears open. A commander of the new
ship SupreDrive, Raye wore an oversized uniform over her
body armour and hilted sword. Her left arm sleeve was
ripped a litte, to expose the powerful gun her body
armour had. Most of her friends and her cousin Janis
Kanwak felt the armour wouldn't help much at all.
Actually, the oppostie was true. The armour was the most
powerful in it's class, and was very strong. However,
whenever she kneeled wearing the suit, her little rear
end, all pink and fleshey, stuck out, turning on quite a
few people, men and female alike.

	"Miss Raye," said General Terla," I have been
watching closely, and I have come to a conclusion:
someone is following you. Your suspisions are correct.
Now, what should we do about it?" Raye sighed. Her hair
was greasy from three days of not showering and she
smelled bad.
	"I'm taking a shower first, then we'll talk. I'll
address council. I'm resigning."
	"Are you sure this is the best action? Besides, you
won't get council until tomorrow."
	"Then so be it. I'll see them tomorrow." Terla
smiled, and walked away, his semi-long hair flying. Raye
watched him leave, opened her apartment door, and closed
it, locking it tight. She then turned on the lights, and
looked around, her gun armed and ready. She walked into
the bathroom, and shut the door behind her. Turning on
the music, and whistling to a Miakan dance song, she
stripped down to bare, turned on the water, and got into
the shower. She let the warm water clense her, and while
still whistling, washed herself with the soap. She
scrubbed herself clean, and then reached for the shampoo.

	Meanwhile, the door opened, almost as if the lock
was broken. Someone walked into the room, hiding in the
shadows, and hid behind the curtains.

	Raye heard the door shut, and heard someone enter
the room. She quickly dried off. She put her armour back
on, and put her commanding uniform on. She then turned
off the light, and turned the gun on, and fully armed.
She casually walked out of the bathroom, and pretended
not to notice anything. She, out of the corner of her
eye, saw something move slightly near the curtains. She
crawled into the bed, and, her eyes slightly opened,
waiting.

	The figure in the shadows approached, quietly. Raye
counted to three backwards, and then shot up like a bolt,
pulling the trigger on her arm blaster. The man gasped in
surprise, and was hit in the arm by the blast. He raced
out of the room, clutching the upper part of his arm. He
staggered by the wall, now in the openly lit corridor.
The door was blown apart by a supercharged blast from her
gun. The man raced around the corridor and vanished.
Three guards came running up to her, from the same
direction that the man had came from.
	"What happened?," demanded the first guard. The
second guard rushed into Raye's room to search.
	"That man," she said pointing, staggering from the
quick adrenaline flow. "He has been following me....
tried to kill me tonight." The two guards looked at each
other.
	"Are you sure it was him?"
	"I'm sure it was him. I attacked him with my gun."
	"It couldn't have been him, Mam'."
	"Why not?," asked Raye. "Anything's possible."
	"But..."
	"What is it?," Raye screamed. Both guards sighed.
The second guard came out of the room. He looked at the
other guards, curiously. The first guard closed his eyes.
	"That was General Terla." Raye went limp. She fell
against the wall, her left arm resting her head.
	"He said he was on my side."

	General Terla opened the door to his closet, brought
out his suitcase from above the shelf, and then shut the
door. There stood Raye Kanwak.
	"Why you, of all people? I trusted you." Terla
sighed.
	"I wanted command, and you took that from me."
	"You are higher ranking then me," said Raye. "You
can have your own ship."
	"But the SupreDrive was handed to you after one
routine mission. That will never happen to me." Terla sat
down in a chair.
	"Look. Maybe I deserved that ship," Raye said, her
voice growing hateful. "But you stabbed me in the back."
She lowered her eyes. Terla shifted his weight in the
chair, extending his hand down to where a gun was
concealed in a pocket in the chair he was sitting in.
	"Look. I'm sorry. Tommorow you ca-"
	"I do not accept your apology. You tried to kill me.
That is not an act I take lightly."
	"There is nothing you can do." Now or never, he
thought. But this thing only has one shot.
	"Yes there is," said Raye, "I can 'blow the whistle'
as you Miakans say."
	"No, you won't." Terla brought up the gun and fired
at Raye. The bullet bounced right off of the armour right
where her heart would be. Raye smiled.
	"Those type of guns only have one bullet." She shook
her head. "Too bad." She brought up her gun and shot
Terla in the stomach. The blast made a hole on the other
side of the chair, and struck the wall before
dissisapating. Terla stared down at the hole in his
stomach.
	"You will regret that, Kanwak."
	"Save it for the devil, Terla," said Raye. Terla
smiled. Blood stained his teeth as his lungs filled up
with blood.
	"I will see you in hell." Terla coughed up blood,
and then his muscles went limp. His eyes lost their glint
in the lighting. Raye relaxed, and sat on the floor. And
for the first time in her life without anyone
reprimanding her, or punishing her, she wept, silently.

	"General Terla addmitted that his intentions were to
take over my ship, only after I was killed. If not for my
armour, I would not be here now." Several members in the
audience clapped, but only briefly.
	"I see. So your ship was really the target, not
you," said a member in council.
	"That is correct." Raye wore her amour, and no
uniform to cover it. "From now on I shall wear this
armour to protect me."
	"We give you permission to do that, Miss Kanwak,"
said another member of the council," but we do not
believe that another attempt will be made to-" A shot
rang out. A bullet bounced off of Raye's armour. Raye
acted on reflexes, seeing the man in the front row with
the blaster in his hand. She brought her gun straight up
and aimed for the man's head. She looked into the man's
eyes. She only saw guilt and fear, instead of
determination and hatred. You tried to kill me, she
thought, now it's my turn. And I will not miss. She fired
on low beam straight between the man's eyes.