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The Execution of Alad

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"Up."

The command rang cold and stern from the mouthpiece of the captain above him. The blinding light behind the captain cast his figure in stark contrast, leaving only the dull red glow of his optics glowing against his shadowy frame. Alad V couldn't help but laugh. Not at any particular humor he found in the situation, but rather because he could not devise an appropriate reaction to his impending doom. Clutching his stomach where one of the crewman had struck him, he rolled onto his side and stared directly at the captain, giggling under his breath.

"I said UP!"

The captain kicked Alad in his ribs, and he felt them splinter and crack further with the impressive force. Rolling onto his back in pain, Alad coughed and spluttered as the first traces of blood trickled into his lungs. A slow dribble ran from his mouth and stained the snow of the tundra he lay upon.

"Pathetic. Vistan, Taga, get him on his knees"

Alad's vision was flitting back and forth along the edge of darkness, and he had ceased receiving the screams of pain from his body as adrenaline surged through his brain. Though the pain would return shortly. Two Crewman strode from the shadows of the scene. He finally realized he was surrounded by at least a dozen more, their cold blue visors glowing in the dark as they witnessed his suffering. He felt himself being lifted by either arm upwards, and his shoulders felt as if they would be torn from their sockets. When his arms were released, he slumped back upon his legs and leaned forward, his arms hanging limply at his sides. He kept his gaze upon the ground, noticing with bizarre interest how the specks of crimson pooled upon the snow as they fell from his mouth and nose.

"It's been a long time Alad. But you probably don't remember me. Just another faceless crewman in your little EXPERIMENTS."

Something stirred within Alad's memories. A voice paired with a name, and the pieces slowly bubbled to the surface of his clouded mind and formed thought.

"Idus..."

He managed to say, grinning with satisfaction at his ability to recall the name of his aggressor.

"CAPTAIN! Idus."

The captain struck Alad across his face with open palm, and Alad felt a sense of relief as he drifted into oblivion. But just as quickly, he was dragged back into reality, shaken awake by another crewman beyond his periphery.

"It's CAPTAIN Idus now. I managed to get some men out of that personal hell you made for us. Your little TEST TUBE shipping freights. They gave me quite the glowing review for saving those men, though they certainly didn't count those hundreds I COULDN'T save against me."

Alad's face was expressionless as he squinted against the blinding light. He struggled to maintain consciousness as the wounds from his captors and the biting wind burned into his flesh.
"But you never had them held against you either, Alad. And besides, I was only on what, one of a HUNDRED? A THOUSAND? There's so much blood on your hands it's not even worth it to fuss over the owners anymore. Only thing now is to wash it away."

"P-...I can p-...pay...you"

Alad whispered the words with what little energy he still had. He swayed in the wind, his frail body crushed like a doll by the crewman in transit. He made the attempt to save himself with little hope it would work, but he no longer knew any other way to salvage the situation.

"Don't you speak to me with your SACCHARINE DRIVEL!"

The captain struck him again, much harder, and Alad was thrown aside. Again, he was lifted by the crewman hanging on the fringes of his perception. Though this time, they remained holding him aloft.

"There is a SUBSTANTIAL reward to bring you in alive for trial on Neptune, Alad. Enough to keep our families fed for most of a cycle...But...My crew and I decided that the reward for a corpse is...well...just as rewarding."

The captain gestured at the crewman supporting Alad, and they let him drop back into his slumped position. Alad finally registered the Prova the captain had been swinging wildly as he talked over him, and he looked upward with an expression of abject horror.

"Oh, this. You don't deserve a Dera's plasma, Alad. You were always about conserving costs after all. Wouldn't want to waste such things on something as unimportant as you. I could turn this on I suppose, the shock would probably kill you outright. But again, waste not, right?"

The captain lifted Alad's chin with the looped prong at the tip of the Prova, rotating Alad's head to better observe his target.

"Who knows, this might not be so bad. Maybe I'll cave your skull in with only one go! Blissful sleep with a single strike...Though my credits are on quite a few more..."

The captain ripped the Prova back, tearing Alad's chin on the sharp edge of the loop as he did so. The pain of the cut cleared Alad's mind and brought him back to a sense bitter clarity. Alad saw the captain raise the Prova over his head, twisting his entire body as he wound up for the blow.

And then...
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Plsssssss tell me that is John Prodman :)))