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13 : The Convicts

Things start off a little crazy in this story. Just as the nuclear explosion was about to burn through the missile site control room, a light door appeared at the far side of the room. Larna was dragged from the missile site through the door by three strange machines. She found herself coming through into another sort of control room with a Portal framework in it. She has no idea where she is. The machines were given orders to remove Larna’s clothing. Larna resists and jumps through the Portal. She finds herself now in woodland. A gang of men, dressed in primitive clothing, then surrounds her.

The men tell her that she is on the planet Slaronia. An evil race called the Loretis attacked the planet. They captured the living quarters. The men were sent out into the wastelands to do battle against Strike-Clones sent out to exterminate all humanoid life in the wastelands. The women were kept in the living quarters. The quarters were turned into a farm. A breeding farm where the Loretis impregnate the Slarone females with Loretis DNA to keep their people going. The Slarone females are free to go wherever they like in the living quarters, but they are permitted no belongings of any sort…even clothing. All the women above twenty-five were killed. The ones between fifteen and twenty-five were operated on. A fertility monitor was implanted into their bodies…when the light turns green on the indicator attached to her naval, it means she is ready for impregnating.

Larna helps the men get to the farm and get inside by being captured herself. One of the men, 223-M had a girlfriend inside the complex…her name was 675-R. They did not have names…just number identifications. 675-R had disagreed with her masters on a fifteen-year-old woman being impregnated. She had been sentenced to a double pregnancy. Larna helps 223-M and 675-R to escape the farm. Larna calls them Rhonda and Marcon to save confusion with numbers for names. They all transport through the Dimension Portal back to Earth. The Loretis masters are not happy. They call in a pair of bounty trappers to chase after the three escapees and to kill Rhonda and Marcon before they say anything.

Bounty trappers are like bounty hunters. The only dimensional Bounty Trappers were a partnership called L and J. L and J were Liam and Jazz. Liam managed to escape from the ice lake in the year 72043. Liam meets up with a Dimensional Traveller, Jazz, who is after the killer who killed his sister, Jade. Together Jazz and Liam form an unbeatable team. They cannot wait to take their revenge out on Larna Fox.

When they arrive on Earth, Rhonda arrives in a different place to Marcon and Larna. Rhonda arrived in Northern Ireland 1995, while Larna and Marcon appeared in Scotland 1995. Liam and Jazz both arrive in Northern Ireland to trail after Rhonda. Rhonda makes friends with a bank manager after stopping an armed robbery at his bank. He takes advantage of Rhonda simple nature and rapes her after getting her drunk. Rhonda leaves very upset. Jazz and Liam go around to the man’s place and kill him after gaining the information they require. They trail Rhonda through Belfast and finally catch up with her in a nightclub. Larna manages to escape, but the two bounty trappers capture Rhonda and Marcon. They know they are being paid to kill Rhonda and Marcon, but they want to eliminate Larna. So they keep the two Slarones their slaves by placing a C.O.C. around their necks. This plan of action, they think, will bring Larna to them.

Larna realising that she cannot defeat Jazz and Liam on her own befriends a Private Investigator. His name is Hunt Faulkner. Larna realises very quickly that Hunt will have a number of important contacts. So, Larna goes with Hunt back to his home base of Scotland to try and stay away from Jazz and Liam, while figuring out how to save the Slarones. Liam and Jazz follow after her, bringing Rhonda and Marcon with them.

Larna, being unable to travel through time because of a Thala malfunction, must find a way of staying away from Liam and Jazz, while trying to come up with a plan to rescue Rhonda and figuring out a way on how she can get back to the future. Larna, on Hunt’s request, goes undercover as a student at a Scottish University. Hunt goes back to his office to start the hunt for Rhonda and Marcon. Jazz and Liam followed Hunt and take him hostage. Larna begins to wonder if she is ever going to get away from the two bounty trappers. During her time as a student she has to uncover an arsonist. Talk someone down from committing suicide. A petty thief who steals from his fellow students. And has to find out how a student was killed during a day out. There is also the problem of finding a drug dealer.

Larna figures all of these problems out, then becomes involved with a face to face with Liam and Jazz. All her problems are answered in one swift and surprising way.

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