The Soulmate Initiative: Book 2

11. Fighter or food?

LOCATION: SAKAAR

25 DAYS LATER…

Tasia, unconscious, falls out of a portal in the sky on Sakaar. She unburies herself and groans as she pushes herself to her feet. Things continue to fall from the sky all around her, she has to dodge a huge item. She climbs to the top of a hill of items, in the distance she can see skyscrapers. A yard or so to her right she hears an alarm blaring and looks to see a machine hovering above all the items, a small ship breaks off from it and flies over to Tasia, landing close by. A group of beings in creepy masks, step out of the ship, carrying weapons. One of them removes his mask and asks "Are you a fighter or are you food?" Confused, Tasia explains "I'm just passing through." The man who asked, speaks to his group "It is food." They start to approach Tasia "On your knees." Tasia holds out her hand for Mjolnir, but then remembers her hammer was destroyed. 

Tasia raises her hands in surrender as one of the group gets close and points a gun at her, but then she attacks him, throwing him far away. Another approaches her and rips off half of her red cloak, so she punches him in the face. She punches the next one who approaches, too, but the man who spoke before, shoots an electrified net at her. As she drops, they all surround her and start hitting her, while she's still being electrocuted. A ship about three times the size of the first, but still small compared to ships Tasia has seen, flies over and lands a few metres away, everyone stops and looks at it. The man who had found Lavina, sends out the ramp, opens the windshield and gets up, a bottle of alcohol in hand. The man drains the bottle and tosses it aside, shattering it, he takes a step down the ramp "She's mine." He takes a few steps, but can't walk in a straight line, instead he falls off the edge of his ramp. The group just turn back to Tasia, but from amongst the random items and a dead bilgesnipe, he calls out "Wait!" He gets up "Wait."

"He's mine. So if you want him, you go through me." "But we've already got him." Tasia's 'saviour' smirks "Alright, then. I guess I go through you." "More food." As the man starts to approach the group, Tasia notices that he is a very tall and muscular man, covered with war paint. But the group don't look scared, he's only one man, there are more of them, but the man doesn't look scared either. He taps his fists together, that are covered in gloves, there's a small spark, he does it again and they light up a subtle blue. Tasia starts to worry for the man, as the group approach him, looking very confident, believing they've already won. But then the man taps twice more, the gloves light up properly and a mechanical hand protrudes from either side of the ship behind him. As he moves his hands, the mechanical hands move as well, the group stop approaching and the man smirks, pointing his fists at them. He starts shooting beams of energy, in a matter of seconds all but one are incinerated. Tasia manages to throw offr the electric net. The survivor of the group runs at the man and swings at him, but he ducks low and punches him in the face, then tosses him off into the distance with Asgardian-like strength.

Tasia looks up at the large man several feet from her "Thank you." He tosses a disk at Tasia's neck, then when he pulls a remote out of his pocket and presses the button, she gets electrocuted worse than by the net, causing her to fall unconscious. The man picks Tasia up and puts her in his ship, then flies them to the city. Tasia wakes up on the way to hear "Scrapper 142. I need clearance and an audience with the boss. I've got something special." "Hey! Where are you taking me?" He doesn't respond "Answer me! Hey! I am Tasia, daughter of Odin. I need to get back to Asgard." The man doesn't look bothered "Many apologies, your majesty." He zaps Tasia into unconsciousness again.