Space Pirates 3: Russel's Revenge by Amber Riel (sad books to read .txt) 📕

          “Oh.”  John decided to change the subject.  He was growing tired of talking about fighting bounty hunters, planets where they were going to visit, and who was driving which ship.  “Can we have dinner?  Just you and me…. No one else…. Not Ben and Zelda…. Just us…. To get our minds off the bounty hunters.”

          Olivia smiled.  She needed a break from all of that as well.  “I’d like that.”

          “I thought you were.”

          There was a knock on the door.

          “Come in!” Olivia called.

          Austin walked in.  “Zelda said that she’s ready to go.”

          “Okay.”

          Austin looked around the room.  He couldn’t understand how Olivia could stand being in a dark area without going insane.  “It’s dark in here.  How can you stand this?” He looked at Olivia and froze.  “Are you a vampire?”

          Olivia and John began to burst out into laughter at Austin’s question.  No one had ever asked Olivia that before.

          “No,” Olivia answered, “but thanks for the compliment.”

          Austin was confused by Olivia’s answer.  “You wel-come.”  He began to leave.

          “Hey, Austin.  If you run into Shawn, can you tell him that I want him to drive the ship?”

          “Okay.”

          “Thanks.”

          Austin left.

          “Okay so back to what we were talking about.  Let’s have dinner here.”

          “Good idea,” John agreed.  “Before we do anything though can we go see where Zelda wants us to go so that way we don’t have to wait?”

          “Yea.”

          Zelda and Ben were leaning against the wall on the White Rose.  Ben had wrapped his arm around Zelda.

          Zelda enjoyed the cool wind blowing her hair out of her face.  “This breeze feels good.”

          “Yes it does.”

          “Aww.  That’s so cute.”  Olivia had appeared out of nowhere.

          “They say it’s dangerous to lean on a wall of a moving ship,” John informed as he worked his way from behind Olivia with a smile.

          Zelda and Ben turned around to face the other couple, laughing at John’s reply.

          “Danger?” Ben kind of laughed.  “We’re pirates.”

          “Yea,” Zelda agreed.  “And as pirates we take our chances.”

          “Zelda, where’s our next stop?” Olivia asked.

          “We’re going back to Pluto because we have to talk to the cops again and because I want to make in fun of Lava Girl.”  Zelda had changed her plan.  She had realized that they were going to need back up a lot sooner than she had originally thought after the last encounter with the bounty hunters.

          “I should have known.  You have a different plan?”

          “Yea.”

          “So we’re going back to Pluto?”

          “Yep.”

          “Okay.  Well, that’s all I needed to know.  Come on, John.”  Olivia began to walk away followed by John.

          “So you guys aren’t going to hang out?” Ben asked.

          “Nope,” John answered.

          “Why not?”

          “Because we have a date.”  John wrapped his arm around Olivia and looked at her with a smile.  “Right, baby?”

          “Right, honey.”

          Ben didn’t have to ask.  He could tell from the way that they looked at each other that they wanted to be alone.  “Oh.”

          Magma sat on the bed in her ice cold cell.  Freezing and ticked off about the situation, she wanted to be home where it was steaming hot and comfortable for her.

          Saphire and Daniel walked down the hall way and stopped at Magma’s cell.  “Enjoying yourself, Magma?” Saphire asked.

          “No,” Magma answered, rudely.

          “You’re harder to deal with than your brother.  You’re pathetic,” Daniel replied.

          Flames of anger rose up inside of Magma which made her jump up on her feet and rush over to the bars.  She tried to reach for Daniel like a caged lioness but couldn’t.

          “Remember where you are,” Saphire reminded her.  “I think we should leave her alone,” she told Daniel.  The couple left.

          Alaska and Gregory hung out in the dining room.  They sat next to each other at the long table.  “Alaska,” Gregory asked as he revealed a diamond ring, “will you marry me?”

          Alaska smiled.  The sight of the ring had rendered her breathless.  “Oh my gosh…. Gregory, I…. I…. I don’t know what to say.”

          “Please say, ‘Yes?’”

          Alaska’s smile grew wider at Gregory’s question.  “Yes,” she answered.

          He took the ring and placed it on her finger.  She kissed him.

          Jason walked into the room.  He realized he was interrupting something good and felt kind of bad for what he was about to do.  “Sorry to interrupt, sir, but Zelda’s here and she wants to talk to you.”

          “Okay,” Gregory replied.  He turned his attention back to Alaska.  “I’ll be back.”

          “Okay.”  Alaska’s smile never left her mouth.  “I’ll be here waiting.”

          He kissed her on the forehead.  “Good.  I love you.”

          “I love you too.”

          Alaska watched as Gregory and Jason hurried out of the room.

          Zelda, Ben, Olivia, John, and Daniel waited in the battle room for Gregory and Jason to arrive.  “So you guys have been to Twister?” Daniel asked.

          “Yep,” Olivia answered.

          “I hear that it’s a dangerous place especially this time of year.”

          “It is,” John agreed.

          “We hid in the basement of a Twistyin’s house,” Olivia replied.

          “You hid in a Twistyin’s basement?” Zelda asked with shock.

          “Yea.”  Olivia looked over at Zelda.  “What’s wrong with that?”

          “Now Twistyins are nice people but they’ll get mad if you hide in their basements during a party.  It’s just not right.”

          “Oh.  Well I didn’t know and besides we needed to hide some where’s safe and that was the only safe place.”

          “I still say that it wasn’t smart.  Now Icies, on the other hand, are different.”

          “Icies?” Daniel asked, confused.

          “It’s the name that us pirates gave you guys because you’re from Pluto.”

          “Yea,” Olivia agreed, “and it’s not one of the nicknames that Zelda gave to ya’ll it’s something that all of us pirates call ya’ll.”

          Gregory and Jason walked into the room.  “What do you guys want now?” Gregory asked, looking over at Zelda.  He had a feeling she was the reason they had arrived.

          “I have a new plan,” she stated.

          “Another one?”

          Zelda nodded.

          “What?”

          She stood up and began pacing back and forth.  “We didn’t go to all the planets but I don’t think that we have to because what happened on Daze.”

          “What happened on Daze?” Gregory asked with interest.

          “We were attacked by Leo and his crew,” Ben answered.  “Zelda hid because I don’t want her fighting.”

          “Me, Ben, and Olivia fought his crew,” John added, “while he just watched.”

          “We killed the other bounty hunters but he got away,” Olivia finished.

          “I believe,” Zelda said as she stopped in her tracks, “that he’s getting an army of bounty hunters on Blaze.  I think that it’s time to go back to Blaze for one more fight.”

          Gregory smiled.  “I think you’re right.”

          Everyone from both crews was on the Black Velvet, having a random party.  It was mainly because they didn’t have anything else to do.  Olivia and Zelda sat in two chairs on top of the captain’s office of the ships, waiting for Ben and John.  “You know,” Olivia pointed out, “I’ve heard John sing but I’ve never heard Ben sing.”

          “I know,” Zelda agreed.

          “You’ve heard John sing?”

          “It’s kind of hard not to when he sings randomly.”  Zelda began laughing, thinking about it.  John was in the kitchen of the White Rose when she had walked in and noticed him singing and dancing.  He hadn’t realized that she had arrived until she started laughing.  “One time,” she told Olivia, “he was singing I'm too Sexy.  I think you would have liked it.  Of course I was laughing at him and he was embarrassed.”

          “Really?” Olivia asked, laughing.

          “Yea.  He told me not to tell you because it was a song that he was going to sing to you after….” Zelda realized she had said too much.  “Oops.”

          John and Ben walked over to them, carrying drinks.  Ben pulled Zelda out of her chair, sat down, and pulled her into his lap.

          John sat next to Olivia.  He used her chair as an arm rest.  “So what are you two talking about?” he asked.

          “Nothing.”  Zelda knew that John would be mad if she told him.

          “Hey, John.”  Olivia laughed as she started singing I’m too Sexy.

          John’s eyes grew wide as he looked over at Zelda.  “You weren’t supposed to tell.”

          Zelda smiled.  “It just slipped.”  She looked at Ben and decided to change the subject.  “Ben, me and Olivia were wondering if you could sing for us.”

          Ben raised an eyebrow as he looked at his beautiful wife.  “Why?”

          “Because we heard John,” Olivia explained, “but we never heard you sing.”

          “I don’t want to sing.”

          “Why not?” Zelda asked.

          “I don’t like singing,” he admitted.  “I’m not good.”

          “Oh come on.  You can’t be that bad.  I’m probably worse than you.”

          “Yea.”

          Zelda looked at Olivia for agreeing that she couldn’t sing.

          “Please,” Olivia asked, “just one song?  We’ll leave you alone and we promise we won’t laugh.”

          “It’s just one song, Ben,” John jumped in.

          Ben decided to give in.  “I don’t know what to sing,” he told them.

          “Try to think of something.”

          Ben took a minute and thought.  “Okay.  I’m going to need help.”  He thought for a moment to make sure he was thinking of the right song then whispered something to Zelda.

          “Okay,” she agreed.

          They took turns singing I Got You Babe from Sonny and Cher until they got to the chorus and sang together.

          “That’s a nice song, Sonny and Cher,” John joked.

          “The both of you did great,” Olivia told them.

          “Thanks,” Zelda and Ben spoke together.

          “You did great, Ben.