"Don't worry Christine said as she stepped up to me and unbuttoned thetop three buttons of the blouse and spread it open a little so that youcould jus... see a little of the tops of my boy boobs. "There, that looksbetter", Christine said as she rubbed my rounded tummy through the blousea little and then continued, "Four months." Four months what?" Four months pregnant, silly. Now let's go to the movie."As we walked out to the car, I could feel my fishtail braid swinging backand forth against my. I'm retired, I don't mind." I represent a special department within the Confederacy: Targeted Extractions. We look for those individuals who have certain desirable skills at certain colonies, and see to it that they get extracted and sent to those colonies. If they're willing, of course." Yes?" Well, we have a very special colony with a very special need. A need for captains of submarines — the best captains we can get. And as anyone with access to your service jacket knows, you were one of the. Whatever genetic switch made us jumpers also roughly doubled our lifespans. We could each rationally hope to see two hundred years.I called the rest of the clan for an emergency meeting through our encrypted phones. People quickly started popping in. Several seemed ready to strip my hide as I was only twenty and didn't have the right to call a full clan meeting. When they spotted mom's bleeding body on the table they shut the hell up. Soon it seemed as if everyone was there that was going to. First contact was a pair of fast moving targets coming towards our position. We also saw some blips moving slowly toward the enemy LZ. As we got closer we got a clearer scan on the fast movers and saw they were a Locust and Spider.Glitch opened up on them with her Shadow Hawk’s weapons and the PPC got a lucky hit on the Spider. Medusa opened fire just afterwards and we were all surprised to see the Spider collapse when the AC-10 hit it in the centre torso again and disabled it. One down but.