STAR TREK - VOY - Captain Proton!

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A Full-Length
C A P T A I N P R O T O N
Novel
By D.W. “Prof” Smith
CHAPTER 1: A DOOR OPENS
The Interspacial Cross-Galactic Door opened about two feet behind Constance Goodheart's chair as
she leaned forward to daintily sip her soup, a chicken bisque flavored with the thick richness of the Jovian
Emir plant. The Door opened with a faint sucking sound, as if Constance had made a rude noise with her
soup, which she never would have done. In all the years Constance had been Captain Proton's secretary,
he had never heard her make a rude noise. Lots of screams, but never, ever rude noises. That type of
thing was just not in her nature.
With a second rude noise, the Interspacial Cross-Galactic Door shimmered, then stabilized just
above the carpet, covering everything with a faint blue tinge. Captain Proton had reserved the private
dining room of the Moon's most famous restaurant, Tranquillity Fine Dining, just for the occasion of
having a nice, quiet dinner with his secretary, Constance Goodheart. With so much going on around the
galaxy, with so many problems, it had been a long time since they had had a dinner together when they
could just sit and talk. Both Captain Proton and Constance had been looking forward to the evening and
the wonderful food always served by Chef Henry of Tranquillity.
Now it was ruined!
"Move!" Captain Proton shouted at Constance as the rude noise made him look up and he saw
the door. He instantly recognized it for an Interspacial Door from the shape and the blue tint of everything
close by. Such doors were very expensive to operate, took massive amounts of power, and were illegal
on every world in the Incorporated Planets.
But Captain Proton had learned that something being illegal never stopped the bad elements of
the Galaxy.
Constance looked up at Captain Proton over her soup, a small drop of the bisque glistening on
her lip like morning dew on a rose petal. There was an innocent expression on her face and a puzzled
glint in her eyes.
He tried to reach across the table, to pull her out of danger, but before he could get a hold of her
arm, a tall, powerful-looking woman stepped out of the door and leveled a weapon at him.
He froze.
The first thing Captain Proton noticed right off was that the new woman in the room wore very
little clothing. In fact, that detail was hard to miss. She had on what looked to be a brass- or maybe
copper-bodice held firmly in place by leather straps over her shoulders and under her arms. The bodice
looked sharp enough to be a deadly weapon in a close, hand-to-hand fight. Captain Proton had no
intention of getting close enough to find out.
Her skirt was short and golden and revealed her stomach above the waist and powerful legs
below the hemline. Her hair was the color of a setting sun, almost red in its richness.
And she was tall. Taller than Captain Proton by a few inches at least.
The weapon she held was almost transparent and very, very large. Frozen in position reaching for
Constance, Captain Proton found himself looking right down the very, very large barrel. He was fairly
certain he could see the firing chamber inside.
Using his years of training and lightning-fast reflexes, he dove sideways just as the woman fired,
exploding his chair into sawdust and spilling his bisque all over the expensive moon carpet.
As he rolled he noted that the weapon fired a high-energy pulse beam. He'd never heard or seen
anything like it before. But that didn't mean much. The Galaxy was a very large place and high-energy
pulse weapons were possible.
Constance screamed, stood, and tried to run.
Captain Proton rolled and came up with his ray gun, a small weapon he always kept tucked into
his boot just for such emergencies, even when dressed up and dining out in a fine restaurant.
The tall woman fired at him again!
Captain Proton rolled to the left, just in time to get out of the way.
Another tall, muscular woman, dressed exactly like the first, appeared through the door and
grabbed Constance by both arms, picking her up as if she weighed nothing more than a leaf. Captain
Proton knew that Constance weighed a great deal more than a leaf, which made that second tall woman
extremely strong.
The first tall woman fired once more!
Captain Proton rolled again and this time came up firing, making sure he didn't hit Constance. He
winged the first tall woman in the arm. She spun around and smashed to the ground as two more very
large, very tall women stepped through the Interspacial Door. They were all dressed the same and
looked the same. And both new women had weapons drawn, aimed, and ready to fire.
Rolling out of the way wasn't going to save him this time. But he had an old saying he lived by:
When facing terrible odds and no chance of survival, doing something is better than doing nothing
.
Right now he was about to be blown into just a little more than a wet spot on the wall, a
distasteful stain that would ruin a perfectly good dining room in a wonderful restaurant.
Again his instincts took over and he sprang toward the swinging door that led into the kitchen,
smashing through it just as the wall behind him was destroyed by two high-energy pulse beams from the
two new visitors.
Constance screamed.
Captain Proton tumbled into the kitchen and crashed into a serving table, sending dishes full of
salad and shrimp flying in all directions. Two chefs started to come toward him, but he waved them back
out of danger.
He shoved himself up onto one knee, picking crustaceans out of his hair, ray gun still aimed at the
door, ready to take on anyone who followed him.
In the dining room, Constance creamed again. But in mid-scream the sound was cut off as if
someone ad stopped a recording in mid-note.
No one came through the door after him.
Then he realized what was happening. The women didn't care about him. He was expendable,
something that had simply been in the way.
They wanted Constance!
Captain Proton moved quickly back to the door and pushed it open just enough to peer into the
smoke-filled private dining room.
The wounded woman was being helped through the Interspacial Door by one of the similarly
attired women. Two others stood guard.
There was no sign of Constance. She must have already been taken through to the other side of
that portal.
Captain Proton swung the kitchen door open and fired again, hitting one attacker solidly in the
brass bodice, sending her tumbling backward and through the Interspacial Cross-Galactic Door.
The remaining invader fired, exploding the door frame right above Captain Proton's head and
sending him sprawling backward into the kitchen from the shock.
By the time he had scrambled to his feet and gotten back to the edge of the now destroyed
kitchen entrance, all the invaders were back through the Interspacial Cross-Galactic Door and it was
shimmering, about to vanish.
They had taken Constance!
With no regard now for his personal safety, only thinking of rescuing Constance, he rushed back
into the dinning room and dove full-out through the air for the shimmering Interspacial Cross-Galactic
Door. His thought was to get through the Door before it closed, then deal with the women on the other
side.
If he lived long enough.
Chapter 2:
OF MICE AND HUMANS
He flew over the dining-room table like a swimmer diving from the starting blocks, reaching for the
blue-tinted opening where they had taken Constance. But he wasn't fast enough.
Before he could reach the Interspacial Cross-Galactic Door with his mad dive, it shrunk to the
size of a small ball, hovered in the air for just an instant, and then, with aslurpy-pop and a flash of blue,
vanished completely.
Captain Proton landed hard, face first on the carpet, right below where the Interspacial
Cross-Galactic Door had been.
Around him the silence settled over the destroyed dining room and the remains of their quiet
dinner. He glanced around. No one else was in sight.
Constance had been kidnapped right out from under his gaze!
It was all his fault!
He had relaxed, let his guard down, decided to try to enjoy an evening, and that had allowed
Constance to be taken.
His job was to protect the Galaxy from the Scum of the Universe. He knew it was a full-time job,
twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The Scum of the Universe never rested.
From now on neither would he!
He pounded his fist on the carpet, then pushed himself to his feet, a determined look covered his
face like concrete hardened on a statue. He stared at the space where the Interspacial Cross-Galactic
Door had been. Constance had been taken somewhere in the Galaxy. His first problem was finding out
exactly where. Then he had to rescue her. But he'd worry about that when the time came.
He put enough credits on his table to pay for both the meal and all the damage, then added a big
tip before heading toward the door.
He had to act fast!
There wasn't much time!
There was no telling what those tall women in the brass bodices would do to poor Constance.
The thought made him shudder and move even faster. In his ship at the Moon Spaceport, he told
his friend, Ace Reporter Buster Kincaid what had happened to Constance.
"But how are we going to find her?" Kincaid wondered. "It's a big Galaxy out there."
"I have an idea," Captain Proton replied. "If we adjust the setting on a long range Imagizer to
show only the blue spectrum of light, we might be able to trace the path of the Interspacial
Cross-Galactic Door to its source."
"Easy as snapping your fingers," Kincaid replied, jumping to the panel and twisting two knobs
marked IMAGIZER ADJUSTMENTS. "Done!"
Captain Proton snapped on the main Imagizer and stared at the weird vision it now showed
outside. Everything was tinted blue, with no other colors showing. The big Moon Dome looked like a
giant blue bubble on the blue Moon's surface.
"Wow," Kincaid emoted, "I bet you don't see the Moon like this very often."
'True," Captain Proton answered. Then he spotted what he was looking for. A faint blue line
heading off into the depths of space from the area of the restaurant The blue tint around the Interspacial
Cross-Galactic Door had clued him in.
"Prepare to take off!" Proton ordered, stepping to the controls of his ship.
"Ready!" Kincaid shouted back from his panel.
"Lift off!" Proton exclaimed.
The ship rumbled, then easily left the light pull of the Moon's gravity. Proton quickly banked the
ship to follow the faint blue line heading off into space. "Full power!" he ordered.
"Full Power!" Kincaid repeated, and a moment later the ship surged forward into the ether.
The blue line in space led them directly to a yellow and green planet and directly into a giant gold
palace that sat up on a giant cliff.
"There's no record of this planet," Kincaid said. "I searched the entire Interplanetary Patrol's
planet file."
"So we go in quiet and well-armed," Proton said, landing the ship behind some giant rocks a few
miles from the huge gold palace. From space he could tell there were underground caves in those rocks
that might lead up to the palace. Better than knocking on the front door he figured.
It took them only minutes to strap on Energy Ray Guns and secure the ship. Then at a fast run
they made their way through the gold-glowing caves. They had brought lights, but found they didn't need
them, since something in the walls seemed to create a light all its own.
"The path is well-worn," Proton explained, pointing to the dirt ahead. "Be ready!"
Just as he said that, a blue beam of light slashed past his ear and exploded against the gold wall
behind him, sending rocks spraying in all directions.
He rolled to his right while Kincaid went in the other direction.
Proton came up on one knee and fired, hitting a guard solidly. Then both he and Kincaid waited, but it
seemed there were no other guards down here.
A moment later they were standing over a stunned, but very beautiful giant woman wearing a
brass bodice, short skirt, and gold head-band. 'Tie her hands and feet, "Proton ordered Kincaid. "We'll
free her on the way back."
Proton scouted ahead down the cave as Kincaid did as he had been told. If there was one guard,
there were bound to be many more. Their odds of getting to Constance didn't seem good this way, but it
was the best way he could think of.
"Captain Proton!" Kincaid's shout echoed through the cavern. "Hurry!" Then the sound of ray
gun-fire and exploding rocks filled the cavern.
Proton instantly sprang back toward his friend who was fighting for his life.
Kincaid was behind a large rock, his ray gun aiming back down the cavern in the direction they
had come.
"Are they coming up behind us?" Proton demanded as he ducked behind a second rock near the
bound giant woman.
A half dozenzip like sounds filled the air and the rock in the tunnel around Proton and Kincaid
splintered.
"Didn't see who was firing," Kincaid shouted over the noise.
"Nanoids," the bound giant woman said calmly. "We will be killed."
Morezip -sounding shots cut the air around them as Captain Proton kneeled over the woman.
"What are Nanoids?"
"Like you," the woman said disgustedly. "Only tiny."
"Small Earthlings?" Kincaid asked the woman, looking puzzled. "Like me?"
"Much smaller." She almost spit the words as if talking about nothing more than rats. Clearly her
people and the Nanoids did not get along.
Proton returned fire down the tunnel, slowing slightly the pace of the ray gun fire that was
shattering the rock and filling the tunnel with dust. But he still couldn't see what she was talking about.
Humans smaller than Kincaid? What were they doing here?
"Captain!" Kincaid said. "Look!" He pointed down the tunnel.
Through the dust Proton caught a glimpse of a Nanoid. It stood no more than a foot tall at most,
perfectly formed, just like the giant women, with gold skin and solid muscles. The Nanoid carried the
small gun that had been making the zipping sounds when fired.
Then suddenly the floor seemed to be alive with the creatures, filling the cavern from one side to
the other. And they were charging their position!
Hundreds of them!
Maybe thousands of tiny men with tiny guns!
Around them the roof of the cavern started to collapse from all the shots.
"We die now!" the giant woman declared.
Proton and Kincaid both returned the Nanoid's fire, but it didn't seem to even slow them down.
The hordes of tiny gold men kept coming.
And coming.
And coming.
All of them firing. None of them stopping.
Then above Captain Proton the roof of the cavern collapsed, pouring tons of rock down on him,
his trusted friend Buster Kincaid, and the giant golden woman tied at their feet.
Chapter 3:
QUEEN FOR THIS DAY
The cavern was coming down around them!
Captain Proton grabbed the giant golden woman, hefted her to his shoulder as if she were a bag of
concrete, and headed away from the attacking Nanoids.
"Run!" Proton shouted for Buster Kincaid to follow him through the cave toward the castle.
Behind them the tiny men called Nanoids kept firing and firing.
Zip!
Zip!
Zip!Rocks exploded.
The ground rumbled. Those tiny weapons certainly had a lot of power.
The running was hard with the giant woman over his shoulder, but Captain Proton couldn't leave
her there to be killed by falling rock or hordes of tiny golden men. He had never left a woman behind and
no matter what the size or strength of the woman he carried now, he wasn't about to start.
Behind them a mighty crash shook the ground as the cave collapsed.
He stumbled, but managed to not fall under his heavy burden, then kept running.
Thezip-zip-zip of the Nanoid's guns stopped.
Proton managed to stagger another hundred running steps before dumping the bound huge
woman on her seat against the cave wall.
"We make our stand here!" he ordered.
Kincaid took up a position behind a boulder on one side of the rock tunnel and Proton did the
same on the other, guarding where they had just come.
Nothing moved except a distant cloud of dust.
"Seems like the cave-in stopped them," Proton observed.
"That it does," Kincaid said.
Proton stood, put his gun away and turned around to face ten very large golden women, all
wearing brass bodices and short skirts, all pointing weapons at him.
Very large weapons. The same kind the women had pointed at him in the restaurant on the
Moon.
"It seems," he commented, "that we have found those we were looking for."
"Or they found us," Kincaid whispered back.
"Don't kill them," the tied-up woman ordered the other women. "They saved me from the Nanoid
attack. Queen Ferns must know of this!"
The woman on the ground was untied and Captain Proton and Buster Kincaid were led quickly
through the rest of the cave and up into the castle.
There, in a massive gold room, Covered in thick carpet and fancy drapes, was Queen Ferns. She
was sitting on a massive gold throne, a golden headdress towering above her head.
Beside her stood Constance Goodheart, looking small and very scared, yet still strikingly
beautiful.
Proton and Kincaid were led forward and forced to stand before the Queen.
"Have they hurt you?" Proton asked Constance.
Before she had a chance to answer the Queen held up her hand. "We had no intention of hurting
her before you got here, Captain Proton."
`"You know who I am?" Proton asked, astounded.
"Of course I do," the Queen replied. "You are the most famous of all themen in the Galaxy."
Proton noticed that she almost spit out the wordmen.
"So why did you take Constance Goodheart?" Proton demanded. He'd have put his hands on his
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