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Synopsis:
“Mak” Makintay watches
helplessly as his beloved Ketrian Altronel slowly
succumbs to the poison within her. Nothing Rebel medics
have done seem to help her. Vowing not to let the woman
he loves die, Mak decides to hunt down the man who
poisoned her – Major Pedrin. Commander Biros Baran
refuses to let him go. He slugs Baran and takes off
anyway. He returns to Hargeeva, where he learns Pedrin
has been demoted and is being shipped out tomorrow. He
decides on Plan B – kidnap Pedrin from his apartment
that night. He stuns the Major and finds a woman he was
beating named Thera Capens. He takes her and the stunned
Pedrin back to his ship and takes off. Mak almost
tortures Pedrin himself to get the antidote out of him,
then puts a blaster to Pedrin’s head. Pedrin swears up
and down that Trypanid (which the Rebels already gave
Ketrian) should have fixed the poison – something else
must be wrong with her. Mak decides on Plan C –
instead of going to the Rebel base, send an
interrogation team out into space to deal with Pedrin.
(Which is just as well – Pedrin has a tracking device
planted in his body.) Thera suddenly realises this, and
Mak cuts the transponder out of Pedrin and throws it out
the airlock. Then he promises Thera a chance to give
Pedrin his own medicine. Pedrin begs Mak to keep her
away from him – he will personally cure Ketrian if he
takes Pedrin back to the Rebel base. Mak takes him to
the base infirmary. He is sickened to find a Hargeevan
nurse about to inject more poison into Ketrian – that
is why she is dying!! Pedrin takes advantage of the
situation, jabbing a scapel into Mak’s back, grabbing
his blaster, and taking him and the nurse (Griek)
hostage. Greik throws herself at Pedrin as the Rebels
run in, taking the fatal blaster bolt meant for Ketrian.
Mak is bandaged up, and Ketrian is finally cured. She
uses blackmail to save Mak from court-martial, and the
couple prepares for a bright future together...
Synopsis taken from Christopher
G. McElroy's Time Tales, www.theforce.net/timetales.
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