Chapter Seven

HE tossed the tablet across the room, taking small satisfaction in the subsequent sound of its screen shattering as it impacted with a metal table.  The V’Kar were starting to annoy him.

Not only had their operatives killed his entire team in the Caribbean, but he’d been playing an abstract version of whack-a-mole with their techs for days.  As soon as he’d tunnel into their network, they’d plug the hole.

He recognized the game for what it was, an attempt to keep him coming at them so they could try and pinpoint his location.  That wasn’t going to happen.  He wasn’t that foolish.  His path was well protected.

It was getting tedious.   An hour ago he’d decided to change the game.  He’d set up a program that would attack their network at irregular internals, making it appear that he was still intent on breaking in.  While their attention was focused on that, he would turn his attention in another direction.

Namely, keeping track of their operatives and discovering their drop zone.  Once he knew where the data was being delivered he’d develop a plan for getting his hands on it.

Equally interesting were the operatives themselves.  The woman was quite stunning.  Beautiful and possessed of an animalistic grace, she was strong and fearless in battle.  And obviously sexually insatiable if what he’d viewed of her tryst on the deck of the yacht was any indication.

The man was a powerhouse.  Nurian.  HE knew the difference between the three races of V’Kar.  Nurians were physically larger than the other two races.  This one had the look of a warrior; hard, muscular and with a look that said he feared little.

It would be supremely satisfying to force the Nurian and the woman into submission; leave them with no choice but to fight to the death in a hopeless battle with overwhelming numbers,.  Yes, he liked that idea.

It was a shame that the V’Kar were not candidates for assimilation.  The Vox Nar within them, the symbiotic life form that endowed them with extreme longevity,  extrasensory and psychic skills, had the ability to protect them.

And thus make them useless to HE’s people.  Humans were no problem.  They were ripe for assimilation and the process took less than twenty-hour hours to be fully in effect.

The V’Kar stood in the way of his and his Queen’s plan, therefore they must be eliminated.  It was HE’s mission to locate all of the V’Kar on Earth, find their weaknesses and develop a strategy for their termination.

He’d not expected their numbers to be so great, nor their influence.  While they’d yet to reveal their true identity to humans, they had infiltrated much of human society, controlling great wealth with their hands in virtually every industry.

Not to mention the unseen power they wielded over those in political power.  The Earth saying he’d read that money was power was all too true.  With their wealth, the V’Kar had bought their way into a seat of power behind many governments.  It was only a matter of time before their influence became power that ruled.

Well, it would have been only a matter of time.  HE was here to see that it didn’t happen.  He was determined to fulfill his mission and enjoy the rewards his Queen would bestow upon him, but saw no reason not to have some fun in the process.

Which turned his mind back to the operatives he was following.  He fetched another tablet from his work station and activated an app he’d developed to retask satellites for brief periods of time.  He needed to see where that yacht was headed.  Whatever their destination, he’d be waiting when they arrived.