Space Pirates & the Battle for Power by Amber Riel (best big ereader TXT) 📕

Ben and Jeremy were fist fighting. Zelda, Peter, Scott walked out of the office and over to them. The other shipmates were gathered around, watching the fight. Zelda was mad. "BENJAMIN! GERMANY! STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS THIS INSTANCE!" she ordered.
Ben took a time out for a second. "But," he puased to catch his breath, "captain. We're fighting over you."
"Oh." Zelda smiled. "Then carry on." She enjoyed watching two guys fight over her.
Ben and Jeremy started fighting again. Ray walked over to Zelda, confused. "You're going to let them fight?" he asked.
"Yep."
"That's not right."
"Well, they're fighting over me."
"Still."
"Yea," Austin jumped in. "Who cares if they're fighting over you? I mean say if me and.... Paul got into a fight, you'd yell at us."
"Yea," Zelda agreed. "But that's different, he's smaller and younger than you and you two shouldn't be fighting at all. We're part of the same crew."
"Just because I'm younger and smaller doesn't mean that I can't fight...." Paul spoke up for himself. "Anyways, they're part of the crew too and they shouldn't be fighting either."
"They have a good point, captain," Scott said.
"Okay. Fine." Zelda gave in. "BENJAMIN, AND YOU WITH THE FACE, STOP FIGHTING!" she yelled at Ben and Jeremy.
They stopped fighting and turned to Zelda. "I have a name, captain," Jeremy said.
"Everyone has a name. I just can't pronounce yours."
"Okay."
"Ooo.... Germany, it looks like you were trying to put some make-up on," she said, looking at his black eye. She turned to see what Ben looked like. "Ow.... You have one busted lip, Benjamin."
Ben touched his lip with the side of his hand, moved his hand away, and looked at the blood which was now on his hand.
"Hey, captain. Why don't you kiss his lip?" Scott asked, joking. "I'm sure that'll make him feel better."
Zelda turned to Scott, mad. "You better shut up, Scotty."


Olivia was leaning on a wall of the Black Velvet's deck, talking to John. "John."
"Yes, captain."
"I want you to go and get Donny for me."
"Yes, captain."
John went to get Donny, while Aaron and Blake walked up. "Captain," Aaron said.
"What?" Olivia asked, turning to face them.
"Check this out, captain." He handed her a device which was beeping.
"What's this?" she asked, taking the device, confused.
"This is the tracking device that I made and guess what."
"What?"
"Captain...."
"Can I tell her?" Blake asked.
"Yea. Go ahead."
"Zelda has landed on Skullcove."
Olivia smiled. "Good. Blake, I want you to bring the ship to Skullcove."


Zelda and Ben were on Skullcove. The town, which they were in on the planet, almost looked like there wasn't much life on it at all. The town looked like a town from a western. They walked pass a little girl, holding a teddy bear. "I never had a teddy in my life," Zelda said, tearing up.
"Captain?" Ben asked, confused.
Zelda turned around, walked over to the little girl, and took the teddy bear. She walked back over to Ben.
"Captain.... You just stole that bear from that little girl. I know we're thieves, but that was mean."
"I know, but," Zelda started to say, acting childish and hugging the bear. "I never had a stuff animal before."
"But still. That's like taking candy from a baby."
"Oh. I did that before. Bad idea, because the baby's mommy was going to kill me."
Ben just looked at Zelda, shocked.
"Now, let's go before her mommy comes out here."
They left and ran into Olivia and John. "Well, hello again, Zelda," Olivia said.
"Olive Oyl. I see that John Jacob Jingle Honner Smit came with you."
"Of course." Olivia snapped. "Now, look around."
By that time, Olivia's crew was there, trapping Zelda and Ben. Zelda turned around. "Oh crap. We're trapped." She looked at her sword. "But you know," she said, looking at Olivia, "what?" She smiled. "This time," she said as she grabbed the helt of the sword, "I came prepared.
Olivia grabbed her sword, while watching what Zelda was doing.
Zelda pointed the blade at Olivia. "See. I got my gun.... I mean my knife.... I mean my sword."
Olivia pointed the blade at Zelda. "I see that, but are you going to be brave enough to use it? Seeing that this sword is the same one I used to kill Ryoko with, and I'll use it to kill you."
"That has nothing to deal with me fighting. And yes. I'm going to fight you."
"Then, let's fight."
Zelda and Olivia started to sword fight.


Leo, Keaton, and Romano were now on Skullcove, looking for Olivia. "We're going to split up. Keaton, you go that way," Leo said, pointing to his right. "Romano, you go that way," he said, pointing to his left. "I'll go that way," he said, pointing straight.
"Yes, sir," Romano said as he walked away.
"Um.... Which way do I go again, sir?" Keaton asked.
"Right."
"Oh." Keaton started to walk away.
"Not your right," Leo said, stopping him, mad, "my right."
"Oh, right." Keaton turned around.
"Idiot," Leo said to himself, walking away. He walked over to the crowd of space pirates. "What's going on, pirates?" he asked.
John turned to face him. "Captain Olivia is fighting Captain Zelda."
"I have to stop this nonsense," Leo told himself. "STOP!" he yelled to the two pirates who were fighting.
Olivia and Zelda stopped fighting. "What do you want, Leo?" Olivia asked.
"I need to talk to you, Olivia." He turned to Zelda and Ben. "You two are always together. Are you two really married or was that a lie?" he asked.
"Yes. Leo, did your parents name you Leo because of your Zodiac sign?" Zelda asked.
"No."
"Oh yea. That's right, you're named after a turtle."
"If I could kill you right now, I would," he said, mad. "The only reason why I'm not is because I told princess Magma that I wouldn't."
"So I can kill you," Olivia said.
"I don't think so," Zelda replied.
"Olivia," Leo interrupted, "I have to talk to you. Now, come on."
Olivia was mad. "NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO, LEO! Come on, John."
"Yes, captain," John said, following Olivia.
Olivia, John, and Leo walked away from the group. Zelda and Ben were still trapped by Olivia's crew. "So, you guys work for Olivia. Huh?" Zelda asked.
"Yea. I'm Blake...."
"So, I'll call you, Lake...."
"That's my twin brother, Drake," he said, pointing to his brother.
"He's Rake...."
Blake pointed to Aaron. "He's Aaron, the smart guy on the ship...."
Zelda eyed Aaron. "Ah.... So, he's going to be Brain.... Where's Pinky?"
Blake pointed to Shawn. "That's Shawn...."
"Oh yes. I know Curly Fries. He snuck on my ship."
Blake pointed to David. "That's David...."
"David. Hm.... What would be a good nick name for David? I'm going to change the a to an i to make Divid."
Ryan walked over to Zelda like a love sick puppy. "And I'm Ryan," he introduced himself to her.
"Hello, Blondie."
"I like you.... You're pretty."
"Thank you, Blondie. Well, it was nice meeting you all, but Benjamin and me really should be going...."
"But you can't leave me," Ryan said, grabbing Zelda's hand, "Zeda. Think about our children."
"We have children?" Zelda asked, giving him a funny look. His question confused her. They didn't know each other that well and he was talking about "their" children.
"I mean when we're older and married...." He was talking about a life that was never going to happen and Zelda knew it. "And we're on the same ship.... And we have two kids.... A boy and a girl.... The boy will be Ryan Buster Mummy Jr. and the girl will be Gabby Diana Mummy."
Everyone looked at Ryan, shocked.
"I can't believe that he said that," Shawn told Aaron and David.
"It's a good thing that Captain Olivia isn't around," Aaron agreed. "This is like Romeo and Juliet."
"I loved the ending," David told them. "When they killed themselves."
Zelda faked a smile. "Oh yes. Um.... I need to go," she said to Rayn. "I'll be back for you.... My love," she lied to him. "Don't worry." She turned to Ben. "Let's go before Blondie says anything else that I can't get out of," she whispered to Ben."
"Yes, captain."
"Well, it was nice meeting everyone," Zelda told them, "especially, Blondie." Zelda thought of a plan to distract them. "Hey," she said, pointing at nothing, "look here comes Olivia."
All of the guys on Olivia's crew actually looked. Zelda and Ben left.
"That was close," she told Ben.


Olivia, John, and Leo were in an ally, which was kind of dark and a small gray mouse scurried by them. They were too busy talking to notice. "You can't capture Zelda. Okay, Olivia," Leo said, simply.
"And why not?" Olivia asked.
"Because you're going to kill her."
"Yea.... So.... You're a bounty hunter, you kill pirates all the time, so why can't I kill Zelda?"
"Because princess Magma doesn't want you to kill her.... She doesn't want me to kill Zelda.... The reason is because she wants to kill Zelda herself."
"Then I guess that I'll break that deal with the princess," Olivia said, mad.
"Then I guess I get to kill you and your crew," Leo replied. He reached for his sword.
"NO! Tell Magma that whoever gets to Zelda first, gets the honnor to kill her."
"I don't think that's such a great idea, Olivia. How 'bout this?" Leo had another idea. "You capture Zelda, bring her to me, and I'll bring her to Magma.... I'll tell Magma that you captured her and you can be free.... To do whatever. Not just on Blaze, or this galaxy, but this universe. How's that for a deal?"
"NO!"
Leo walked around. "Come on, Olivia. Think about it. Zelda won't fight unless she has to."
"She won't fight at all."
"Well, now. That's hard to believe seeing that I watched the both of you sword fight, today."
"Only because she challenged me and she normally forgets her weapons. Not everyone, Leo, is as smart as a dead guy in dead man valley."
"And what does that mean, Olivia?"
"It means that someone who is ready to die, they already know and they want to get killed. Zelda isn't that kind of person."
"Very well said," Leo agreed, nodding.
"Tell Magma that I'll capture Zelda, and let her kill Zelda. Okay, Leo."
"Okay."
"Come on, John," Olivia said, walking away. "We're going to capture Zelda.... This should be easy seeing that we all ready have her trapped."
"Yes, captain," John said, following her.
They left.

Olivia's crew was just standing there, waiting for Olivia and John to show up.
"The captain's not going to be happy with us," Shawn told them.
"Why do you say that?" Ryan asked, confused.
"Because, Ryan, we let the enemies escape."
"Yea." Aaron looked at Ryan. "Well, Zelda's