Gadget

By Viola Grace

Gadget enjoys being a member of Guardian Transport, but when her mission is changed from transport to diplomatic escort, she adapts quickly. She knows that the Guardian coming on board is her destiny, but how long can she make him wait to prove it?

Shatter has been waiting for his Terran, and now that he is on her ship, he has no inclination to do anything other than sway her to his way of thinking.

The Dark Fairy is a symbiotic ship, and knowing that her pilot has a mate, she does everything she can to put the two together, but what do ships know about mating?

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Jul 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781771116039

Viola Grace

Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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A cyborg Terran, a star ship and a Guardian with more than protection on his mind make for a peculiar union that grows stronger with time.

Gadget enjoys being a member of Guardian Transport, but when her mission is changed from transport to diplomatic escort, she adapts quickly. She knows that the Guardian coming on board is her destiny, but how long can she make him wait to prove it?

Shatter has been waiting for his Terran, and now that he is on her ship, he has no inclination to do anything other than sway her to his way of thinking.

The Dark Fairy is a symbiotic ship, and knowing that her pilot has a mate, she does everything she can to put the two together, but what do ships know about mating?

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Gadget

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ISBN: 978-1-77111-603-9

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Gadget

A Terran Times Tale

By

Viola Grace

Chapter One

Tobitha Morris closed her eyes and checked on her cargo. All cryo units were online and functioning at full capacity. Her ship had a belly full of escaped convicts and it was in her personal interest to make sure they stayed calm and unconscious in the belly of the ship.

The wires and wireless connections that kept her in control of the Dark Fairy were integrated into her body, and it was times like this that she enjoyed the plugs and wires supplementing her neural systems. She was in the most secure part of her ship, she could sense a germ with the sniffles on any deck with the scanning units she had onboard.

In her command deck, she had her favourite music playing. Despite six years in space and her exposure to dozens of other species, it was the sounds of home that relaxed her on long voyages, though she supposed music styles back on Earth had changed by now.

The feeling of looking inside herself and outside at surrounding space had taken some getting used to, but now that she embraced her life as a Guardian Transport Specialist, it was just another new sensation that she had adapted to.

"This is the Dark Fairy Guardian Transport with the escaped prisoners. Requesting aid with transfer." Speaking through her thoughts and having it turn into an audio broadcast was one of the freakiest side effects of her newest implants.

We are ready and security has been increased to assist in your arrival. Do you want to dead drop or have us extract them?

Toby had no interest in landing her ship in the prison. I will do a dead drop. They are all in stasis, but the moment they disconnect, the waking process will commence.

We understand and are ready to decant your cargo.

Toby watched as the drop coordinates ran across her screen. She overlaid a projected grid on it and doubled checked against existing specs. She cut the audio feed. Damn.

It looked like the prisoners were still running the facility. The drop zone was in an unsecured area and retrieving the drop box would allow some of the more slight species to hitchhike back onto the next vessel.

I have changed my mind. I am coming in. Be prepared to meet me at the dock.

She heard a spluttering on the other end of the com, and she grimaced as she loaded up her bio-weapons via the ship’s chargers. Toby didn’t like to use her built-ins—they made her skin feel too tight—but it was the best way to deal with the situation when her own body wasn’t up to the challenge.

She called in the situation to Guardian control at the Nyal Imperium and began the slow descent to the prison world where the situation was unknown, and it wasn’t going to get better.

She kept herself calm as she hooked into the prison systems and looked for the life signs of the guards. She found eight of them in one cluster near her landing site and forty of them in a distant area of the prison. If she freed the eight, they would be able to regain control of the rest of the facility.

Eight was doable. She could rescue eight.

She settled the Dark Fairy down gently and moved into position, attaching her ship to the lock plates.