Earth's Last Days: The Invasion

Orik stepped into his quarters. Niki, Aleigha, and their infants were there with Jada. Her face was pale, and her eyes were red as if she had been crying. The two sisters were trying to comfort her.

Aleigha looked up, seeing Orik. "We can leave if you want privacy," she told him quietly.

"No, you can hear this also," he responded just as quietly. Orik turned his gaze to his mate, Jada.

"The girls that the two boys named have been given a choice to choose the boys' punishment. You are welcome to discuss it with them as well. It is only right that you are free to help decide the boy's fate. They are discussing it right now in the council room, if you would like to join them."

"What are their choices?" Jada asked quietly. "What choices were the other girls given to choose from?" She had tears in her eyes from remembering what they had done to her.

Orik sat on the chair next to his mate, pulling her close to comfort her. "They were given choices, but also the freedom to choose whatever they wished to happen to them, with only one exception: the boy's freedom. The choices that had been named were to be left in the cells for the remainder of their lives, execution, or to remove the offending appendages, or a combination of the choices. They were told they could be creative if they didn't like the choices that were given to them."

Jada laughed. It was a humorless laugh. "Maybe they should be tossed naked out through the airlock. The pressure of space would kill them."

Orik nodded. "It is a choice they could choose," he told her. "Would you like me to take you to the girls so you can help decide the boy's fate?" he asked.

Jada nodded. "Maybe I should let Hope play with him. She said torturing Kaul was something that she enjoyed. Only because he deserved it."

"I remember. Even during her interrogation, she confessed to enjoying it. She said she could see why Travis liked torturing others. She said she's not like her brother, though. She would never torture another," Orik reminded her.

"Maybe I should ask her for advice. Ideas on what to do to them," Jada said quietly. "They are those that deserve whatever it is that they get."

Jada thought about it for a while as Orik, Aleigha, and Niki watched her. Waiting for her to decide what she wanted to do.

Her eyes suddenly lit up. Turning to her mate, "Take me to the other girls."

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Jada waited with Orik as the doors to the council room slid open. Aleigha and Niki were with her. Their infants were cradled in their hands. They refused to leave their sons behind.

The girls in the council room looked up as they entered. They recognized Niki from the public interrogation and execution of Keith. Their faces paled, not knowing why she was there.

"Call me on the comm link when you're finished," Orik stated, bending down to kiss Jada gently. He turned and walked away, leaving only the girls and the two infants in the council room.

Jade looked at the group of girls. "I have an idea to satisfy all of us," she told them.

"I don't remember you," one of the girls stated. "You weren't in the mountain city."

"No, I wasn't. Those two got to me before they came to your mountain city," she said evenly. "I am no longer weak. They can do nothing to me without facing their own pain."

The girl looked at Aleigha and Niki. "Did they do something to you, too?" she asked both of them.

"Nope. We are here for Jada. Niki will authorize whatever punishment Robert and Neil will face. She has that kind of authority," Aleigha told the group of girls, smiling. She wasn't just speaking to the one that questioned her. She wanted all of them to know Niki could authorize anything they wanted to do to the two boys.

The girl turned again to Jada. "What's your idea?"

Jada's smile grew. "It's a list of things, really. I think that each of us should inflict a different punishment on them. For starters, I think they shouldn't be given clothing. At all. None. In the cells, they're given a thin set for some privacy. I don't think they should have it. I think that death is too good for them. At least until we all are finished with him; when that time comes, I think they should be tossed out of the airlock. It's a much more painful death than the standard beheading," she explained.

The girl smiled. "I like how you think. There are fourteen of us. That includes you. I agree. They should not be afforded clothing. I like your idea of their death also."

Jada nodded, then smiled again. "I think we need to find fourteen punishments. They will receive their punishments, all of it without clothing, and when they have received all of them, they die naked out in space."

"So, them being naked or the method of their death doesn't count as part of the fourteen punishments?" the girl asked. A slight smile on her face. Jada's words were causing excitement within the group of girls.

Jada nodded. "Exactly."

Jada looked at the first girl. "Knowing that, what do you want for them?"

The girl smiled. "I want their dicks removed."

"Aww, I wanted that one," another girl stated. She smiled suddenly. "I think they should be served their dicks as a meal, and they have to eat it."

Aleigha bent over to her sister. "They are getting creative," she whispered. "I hope they can deal with what they decide for him."

Niki nodded, typing something in her wrist comm as they continued to watch the group of girls plot out the punishments for the two boys, Robert and Keith.

Jada smiled, then looked over at Aleigha and Niki. "Is that allowable? Serving their own dicks as a meal to them?"

Niki nodded. "They get whatever you all come up with. That was the deal Guard Commander Drevick made with you." Niki tried to smile. She couldn't stop them from plotting. She didn't like what she was hearing, though.

Jada turned back to the girls. "Ok, that's two punishments. We still have twelve more to go."

The door to the council chamber slid open, and Hope walked in. She scanned the girls inside, who were plotting the punishment of two boys. The sounds of their excitement, coupled with their words, didn't feel right to her.

"Hey," Hope greeted Aleigha and Niki. Hope turned her gaze to the girls, then back to the sisters. "Why did you call me here? What's going on?"

Aleigha bent forward so the group of girls couldn't hear as they continued to plot. "Two boys raped them. They are in the cells. The girls are given the opportunity to decide their fate. They're trying to decide what their punishment is. We're worried about the consequences for them with their choices."

Hope nodded, understanding why they had called her to the council room. They had only told her that she was needed, nothing else. Still nodding slowly at the sisters, standing up straight, she watched the group of girls, listening to what they planned. Her face went paler as she listened.

Some of the things they had decided on were even worse than what she had done to Kaul. She had regretted doing anything to him. She was living with the consequences of it. Aleigha, using the words, 'worried about the consequences to them with their choices,' she understood why she was there. She was there to change their mind.

After a while of listening to the group of girls, she walked up to them. "If you do any of that to them, you will regret it. I know. I spent several days torturing someone for his crimes against me and several others. I didn't think I would regret it, but I do. I have nightmares every night because of what I did. The best thing you can do is leave them in the cells or have them executed. Don't do any of what you're talking about because if you do, it will haunt you for the rest of your lives. I didn't think it would haunt me when I chose to do what I did, but it does."

Some of the girls shrugged, not caring. Jada studied her friend, seeing the paleness in her features. Nodding to herself, she sighed, then turned to the group of girls. "Yeah, I agree with Hope. I saw what happened to the one she tortured. If she says, it will haunt us. It will." Jada looked at Niki. "My vote is for them to stay in the cells until their time of execution. Hope's right. I can't be a part of their torment, no matter what they did to me. I don't even want to know what is decided."

Niki smiled in relief, then nodded. She looked at her friend with pride.

Jada turned to her friend. "Thanks, Hope," Jada told her quietly. "Thanks for stopping me from making a terrible mistake. I may not have liked that they made me a victim, but I won't be haunted by my choices in getting back at them."

Several of the girls watched Jada's interaction with Hope. Although they had been whispering. The group of girls still heard what was said between Hope and Jada. Most of them didn't seem to care, but several of them looked like they were having second thoughts.

Hope nodded as Jada stepped forward, hugging her friend. Jada didn't want to be haunted. She was grateful for Hope's intervention. It was more of a reality check. She knew with all her heart that it was one she needed. If she had gone through with what she and the other girls had discussed about how to torment the two boys, it would have been worse for her. She would never be able to forget what they did to her. Her guilt at torturing them would haunt her. There would have been no going back.