ベラミス Belamis - the fugitve giantess (9)

Chapter 9 The treacherous trip with an evil officer

Katrina was a higher ranking officer than Dolores and she took the seat of the commander. Dolores stood beside her and kept a calm face.

"I cannot talk.." She thought. If Dolores talked to Belamis she might be heard.

Dolores vividly remembered the horror when she tried to look up about Katrina at a terminal...

She keyed in the command to locate the information about Katrina from the Galaxy Union millitary file systems.

"What the...?" The screen showed Katrina's name, rank, where she stationed, but the other information were blocked and a big red box with the words "CLASSIFIED" blinked at her face.

"What happened... I should have the clearance needed to look at it ...????" Dolores was alarmed.

Then somebody touched her shoulder, "Why are you so interested in pryng ??"

Dolores felt her heartbeat would stop - that was Katrina behind her.

Dolores had cold sweat all over her. Dolores resisted the urge to take a deep breath and she knew her face was pale like a sheet.

She calmly stood up and looked at Katrina.

"Yes...I have to know my superior well.. in order to better serve her..." Dolores said. She thought she heard her voice shook - but in fact she was as calm as still water.

Katrina stared at her, and replied, "Ha..." She walked away.

Belamis heard all that with her super hearing - she saw Katrina walking towards Dolores, and was amazed by Dolores' cool.

"Katrina would not do a thing to harm Dolores..yet..." Belamis thought, "..she is a very good officer.."

This was after all an Galaxy Union ship, and the ship's position and things happened were all logged and secured in a kind of cosmic blackbox - just in case any mishap happened the Galaxy Union could investigate. Any move by anyone there would not escape the log.

"Dolores blew her cover... she is lucky because the Interpol ship is a safe haven ..." Belamis thought.

Dolores stood there, and she waited till Katrina was out of sight before she gave out a look at Belamis which in her eyes were like saying, "That was close..."

Belamis tugged a chain, meaning "yes".

Dolores could not even user her voice - there might be ears on the walls.

She knew she had to communicate with Belamis and she rushed back to her own quarters.

Dolores quarters were secured and the door could only be opened with the system scanning her whole body.

She entered the quarters and closed the door, then locked it.

Dolores turned to the closet, and opened it - out it came a gray cat.

The cat purred softly. Dolores grabbed a small device and put a strap on it, and let the cat carried it with her mouth.

Then Dolores opened a little trap door on the ceiling, and let the cat climbed in.

The trap door led to small passage way in the Interpol ship, and then it led to a small opening to the outside, and the cat was small enough to crawl in and get out.

Then the cat ran to Belamis.

Belamis nodded. The cat jumped up to Belamis and then transformed to Nako the cougar!

"Ednan really make you a handy spy!" Belamis thought and smiled at the cougar.

Before they parted, Ednan said, "I think Dolores needed a body guard..." He looked at Nako.

"She's too big..." Medora said.

Idina replied, "If she can be as small as a cat!"

Ednan exclaimed, "Yes... a cat!!"

Ednan then gave Nako the powers - to transform to the size of a housecat!

This way, Nako could hide in the Interpol ship.

Nako dropped the small device on Belamis' palm - it began emitting a sound of ultra high frequency - which only Belamis could hear.

It was Dolores' message she encoded, "Belamis, the situation is bad.  Katrina knew I was trying to find out about her. I try to look up her backgrounds, but it is blocked from my access. This is not normal for her rank. I should have the clearance to look at her files..."

Belamis remembered she was the Admiral Major, "Perhaps...my access is still usable..."

Belamis knew how to encode back her message to the device, "Use my access and passcodes....."

Then Nako changed back to the small cat, carried the device and climbed back into the small opening, and wriggled herself along the small pathways before she was back at Dolores' quarters.

Dolores was waiting, and Nako let out a small purr sound.

Dolores let Nako back in.

She immediately got the device.

"Belamis' passcodes ???? Yeah... Belamis is the Admiral Major...maybe her access can still be used... she has much higher security clearance than me!" Dolores thought.

Dolores then used the terminal in her quarters, and access the system.

The system display: ENTER PASSCODE.

Dolores keyed in Belamis' passcode.

"ACCESS GRANTED FOR ADMIRAL MAJOR BELAMIS, CLEARANCE LEVEL 9999".

"It's the highest level...they have not revoked Belamis' passcode!!!!" Dolores thought.

"I have to be quick.." Dolores said to herself as she worked on the computer.

Dolores immediately checked the files for Constantine and Katrina, and she recorded where she read on the device, which would be delivered by Nako in her cat form.

Dolores heart beat quicker as she read the files she found.

She heard a sound.

Dolores immediately signed off and then let Nako had the device.

"Go..." She gently urged and picked up Nako in her cat form and tugged her into the small vent.

Nako was quiet and she wriggled away in the narrow channel.

Someone knocked at Dolores' door, and it was Katrina.

Dolores' switched the lights of her quarters off, and quickly slipped into her sleeping gowns, pretending that she was sleeping.

"Aarrrhh...Yawn..." Dolores pretended she was awaken from her sleep.

"Dolores.. are you asleep ?" Katrina was at the door.

"No.....no.. just taking a nap..." Dolores opened the door.

During the whole process Belamis was listening in and she was worried.

"Dolores has to be smart and inventive..." She thought.

Then Belamis saw Nako running out a small opening at the side of the Interpol Ship to her.

Belamis looked and caught the cat in her palms and concealed her - if Katrina saw Nako, their cover would be blown away.


Dolores opened the door...

"I am not looking decent.. sorry.." Dolores said.

Katrina looked at Dolores in her gowns and gave her a look of contempt.

"Go back to sleep!" Katrina said.

Dolores closed the door as she yawned.

Katrina left, and thought, "This officer is not really as good as Constantine described.. sleeping in gowns ???"

Dolores listened and knew Katrina was far away.

She went to the window and checked Belamis out.

Nako came out and she dropped the device at Belamis palm, which emitted the message for Belamis to hear.

"Belamis, I used your passcodes and saw the files of Katrina and Constantine. You wouldn't believe what is there!! The file appeared to be forged.... Constantine and Katrina's background don't check out. I ran all the checks, and the stations and posts that were claimed in their files don't match. Someone ... a spy or agent ... possibly from the enemies put the file in... and that person has to have same level of access as you !!"

Belamis listened, and knew she did the right thing, "I have to be back there to find out... someone infiltrated the Galaxy Union!!"

The next question was, who and how many  infiltrated the Galaxy Union ?

Belamis then gently let Nako out and she quickly ran back into the Interpol ship. Belamis looked out to the cosmos.

The Interpol ship began to move and Belamis as dragged along.

"Wonder when I can join Kugo ...?" Belamis thought.

Dolores and Belamis had the same thought - Katrina and Constantine had very suspicious background, and they were up to no good.

Nako were in her cat form, and so she could slip quietly back to Dolores' quarters.

Dolores was still at the command room, and Katrina was there.

"Order the ship to change course to 1172..." Katrina ordered.

"Yes... Adjust course... 1172..." Dolores commanded.

Belamis noticed the ship turned.

"Now what ?"

"Captain... we detected something ahead..." A crew said.

Dolores watched and frowned.

Katrina said, "I do think Belamis need some ... entertainment ?"

Dolores then coughed, "I..I think I have a cold...I'll go to the sick bay..."

Dolores walked to the sick bay, closed the door, and whispered, "Hey..kitty..kitty ?"

Then from the vent at the ceiling came a soft meow sound, it's Nako.

Dolores quickly grabbed a chair and whispered into the device hanging on Nako's neck.

"Belamis...watch out...the region ahead is another area of high energy storm..."

Then Nako wriggled and crept away.

Belamis sensed Nako was coming to her.

"This is not going to be good..." Belamis thought.

Nako came out a vent and jumped to Belamis.

"Good girl.." Belamis thought, and she listened to the message.

"Wonder how Dolores can help me..?"

Dolores came back to the command room.

"Have to avoid going to that area...but how ?" Dolores wondered.

She looked at Katrina, and Katrina was looking at the controls.

Dolores then thought of a way.

"Katrina, we have to avoid that storm .... this ship carries anti-matter weapons, and we have problems going through this kind of storm..." Dolores began.

Dolores started keying in commands and show the plan of the ship.

"The  storm may damage our ship and causes the torpedoes to explode..." Dolores said.

Katrina frowned, "Is that no other way ?"

Dolores said, "No..."

"Well then.... we have to change courses again ?" Katrina smiled.

Dolores nodded, with a straight face.

"But for Belamis..." Katrina grinned.


The ship fired four probes pulling Belamis towards the storm area, and the probes landed on an asteroid, nailing the chains on Belamis' there.

Belamis knew Katrina wanted to torture her and Dolores tried her best.

Belamis turned around and saw the Interpol ship far away, and she was on an asteroid heading to the storm.

Dolores was frustrated - she knew Belamis would be hurt by the storm as the storm would whip up a lot of rocks and debris hitting her, and there would also be lightning strikes.

Belamis signed - she would have been able to escape, but if she did Dolores would be in danger.

She had already sent Nako back the ship, now Belamis was all by herself.

"This Katrina surely hate me..."


Katrina was holding a cup of wine, and watched as the storm cloud approached.

Belamis in her giantess form growled, and she stared back at the window at Katrina.

Katrina was taken aback by Belamis' stare.

Then the storm cloud came and passed through the asteroid.

Swarms of stones and rocks hit Belamis. Belamis was chained and she could not even lift her arms to shield herself. Yet Belamis was there boldly, and the rocks and stones hit her, cutting her body.

Dolores looked away.

Then a lightning hit Belamis. Belamis endured without a sound.

Katrina laughed.

Dolores could see that Katrina hated Belamis, and Dolores wondered, "Where is this Katrina come from ? And Constantine ? They both hated Belamis...."

It was half an hour before the storm cloud left, and Belamis was hurt all over.

Belamis breathed heavily, and thought, "I will have to endure things like this many times..."

"Get her back ..." Katrina ordered.

The Interpol ship re-engaged the chains on Belamis and pulled her back.

Katrina went out the deck and looked.

Dolores followed.

When Dolores saw Belamis her heart was hurt. Belamis had a lot of wounds on her caused by the swarms of rocks that hit her.

Katrina grinned, and said, "This is to warn you, don't try anything funny..."

Dolores kept her face calm as Katrina turned to her.

"Make sure she is not comfortable!"

When Dolores  was back in her quarters, she decided.

"Have to get the cat to find Belamis' friends....I cannot let them hurt Belamis...."

Dolores checked that her door was locked, then she climbed up and whispered to the vent, "Kitty...kitty..."

Nako was there.

"Go... leave the ship!! Find Belamis' friend!!!"　Dolores urged.

Nako nodded, and she wriggled out, exit the ship and jumped onto the deck.

Suddenly the door opened.

Nako jumped onto Belamis' palm.

Belamis saw her and thought, "What is it ?"

Nako hid herself inside Belamis' hair.

It was Katrina.

"What is she up to now ?" Belamis thought.

Katrina looked at Belamis and pulled out a control and pressed a button.

Belamis roared in pain.... the chains were sending EM waves on her...