 He awoke in an antiseptically clean room , aware that facialbuffet his legs facialbuffet no longer hurt. Strangely, he found he was not lying down, at least in facialbuffet the traditional sense of the word. Four females facialbuffet, standing about six feet in height, walked about before him while he clung to the wall like a static facialbuffet-charged balloon. He found facialbuffet he couldn't lift his hand, but he could slide it along the surface, so it plainly wasn't shackled. Turning his eyes to the side, he saw others facialbuffet similarly adhered. Just facialbuffet beyond facialbuffet them was his suitcase full of money facialbuffet. Fat lot of good facialbuffet it would do him when he was facialbuffet getting an anal probe or whatever, he thought.
 No need to ask who's in charge here, Marshall thought facialbuffet.
 Two Singularity Jumps facialbuffet had brought the agent facialbuffet to the system indicated about on her navigation chart. She recognized the facialbuffet ship berthed in a visual-stealth field above one of the about major continents. Her sister had facialbuffet designed that ship herself, before using it to usurp their father's throne. Now the agent would finally restore honor to the Royal Family, even though Galaxy 9 was facialbuffet now a democracy. She had lived in shame too long to let her family facialbuffet meet a sullied end facialbuffet. She engaged stealth mode as she passed the ninth planet.
 The pressure -sensitive facialbuffet wall facialbuffet panel emitted a chirruping alarm as it suddenly registered no input from facialbuffet its occupant. The Queen and the technicians turned in surprise, seeing facialbuffet only a white rectangle glowing whiter as it attempted to re-acquire facialbuffet its prisoner by extending its facialbuffet attraction field facialbuffet.
 "Wonderful." he muttered to himself before he realized the narrowness of the passage...
 "Computer, discontinue illumination." she said, and facialbuffet the facialbuffet lights went out. Marshall had facialbuffet the theme-song from the Spider-Man cartoon stuck in his head facialbuffet as he slowly about and carefully snuck facialbuffet down from his perch. Earworms could facialbuffet wait, he had to get out of here. Then he recognized the device lying in the reflected Earthlight facialbuffet on the nightstand. Creeping quietly in the semidark, he facialbuffet wrapped his hands around facialbuffet the handle facialbuffet, still warm from the Queen's touch. He touched the device facialbuffet to the Queen's forehead and pressed the button he'd facialbuffet seen her press. Her eyes snapped open, but in the facialbuffet Earthlight facialbuffet they were without expression.
 "What does each button do?" Marshall facialbuffet asked, impatient. In her current state, she was like facialbuffet a computer, he realized. He had facialbuffet to ask the right questions for the about result he wanted.
 "The topmost button initiates a state of helplessness in the subject facialbuffet for a facialbuffet period of facialbuffet one hour." the Queen said. "The subject can only obey commands given or answer questions asked."
 "Next?"
 Sneaking up on facialbuffet an facialbuffet inner planet facialbuffet of a wide, nine-planet solar system such as this one was facialbuffet always tedious, especially when one was imagining what facialbuffet horrors facialbuffet might be visited upon the helpless facialbuffet pre facialbuffet-lightspeed civilization living facialbuffet on the planet facialbuffet orbited by the Royal Spaceyaught. By the time she passed facialbuffet the sixth planet from the sun , she was growing facialbuffet impatient. To fill time she activated a passive scan of the system.
 "Give credit where it's due, sweet facialbuffet cheeks." he facialbuffet said. "This is MY idea. Now, Alienne, find her a chair. She's going to want facialbuffet to see this." Alienne facialbuffet lowered the facialbuffet blast shield and picked her dazed sister facialbuffet up facialbuffet in her arms and planted her in the empty front-row seat. Master strode over and unzipped the front of her Galactic Agent uniform.
 In facialbuffet his human guise, Agent Kibrr checked facialbuffet the wrist-mounted scanner again. The remains of the Queen's vessel should be somewhere facialbuffet around facialbuffet here, he surmised. There was no evidence of a crash facialbuffet. There was only a local eating establishment. His facialbuffet scanner facialbuffet said the power eminations were coming from beneath. He quelled facialbuffet his nausea. The about humans facialbuffet were among those races that liked to eat dead things. Sometimes he pitied them. They never got the satisfaction of feeling their prey facialbuffet squirm in futility as facialbuffet powerful about throat muscles pulled it down to their facialbuffet stomachs. He opened the little metal door, and immediately beheld a very familiar face--a former princess and former Galactic Agent. She was facialbuffet alive facialbuffet? Yes, apparently she was, and facialbuffet so was something facialbuffet else if the bulge in her facialbuffet midsection was not to be mistaken.
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