Progress (Becca POV)

Author’s note; chapter 69…nice.

A spark lights up the dim shelter with an electronic sizzle. Becca curses, sucking on a singed finger, but grins triumphantly as the display in front of her lights up. Her smile fades as she hears footsteps approaching outside. Throwing her cloak over the monitor, she quietly reaches for her rifle.

When the door opens, it’s just Captain Layla, and Becca breathes a sigh of relief. She smiles at her commander and companion. “Welcome back!”

Layla nods. “I’ve got sensors set out around the perimeter, so we’ll have early notice if someone tries to approach. How are things here?”

Becca pulls her cloak off the monitor with a flourish. “I got it! I only shocked myself a couple times, too!”

After their arrival, the pair had quickly made their way away from the ruined forest. In a stroke of luck, they had found an abandoned seeming hut, though the fact that there was power was unsettling. Within, they found what was obviously this world’s version of a computer, though it was in a state of disrepair. Becca, being the electronics expert, set to work as Layla secured the area.

Layla nods. “Good job. Now let’s see if we can connect to anything from here.”

Becca watches the screen, as various windows open. “It’s…well, something is connected, but I can’t read any of this. Wait, look!”

Layla leans over Becca’s shoulder to look at the screen. There is a video playing, the audio tinny coming from the speakers. It is an interview, though the interviewer is a strange moth-woman, and she’s speaking a language neither of them understand. However, they can definitely understand the response, and they immediately recognize their quarry.

He seems to be explaining how he arrived, and discussing, in rather lurid detail, his relationships with the scientists who are studying him. As they watch further, he even appears to flirt with the host!

Layla shakes her head. “This is so bizarre…how can he understand her? And what kind of interview is this?”

Becca giggles. “I bet they’re going to fuck.”

Layla blinks. “Becca!”

The white haired woman grins. “What? He’s clearly interested, and so is she, and apparently he’s fucking those scientists too. Hell, maybe he’ll come willingly if I flash my tits at him!”

Layla shakes her head. “Any excuse to show off, right?”

Becca grins. “Hey, he’s cute, maybe we can have some fun with him, you know? Don’t be jealous just because you don’t have much to show!”

The blonde woman grumbles, but she blushes slightly. “Just for that, you’re sleeping alone tonight.”

Becca pouts, and turns back to watch the interview. The two of them listen intently as he describes the facility he is located in, and a vague sense of it’s location. The two women grin at each other. Just then, an alarm begins to buzz.

Layla stands, grabbing her weapon. “That’s the proximity alarm. We need to go.”

Becca nods, all business now. The pair quickly gathers their gear and ducks out the door, quietly moving into the woods away from the tripped alarm. They don’t even bother to close the door behind them.