*Previously, on Yuki: Space Assassin:*
*These are the adventures of Yuki, a sexy Bounty Hunter who puts the Ass in Assassin. As she travels the ‘verse in search of big scores and the deadliest prey. She’s cocky, and with cockiness come mistakes, and mistakes lead to servitude, as she is about to find in the Palace of Soddorom, a monstrous, fat, Alien warlord.*
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*Click.*
*Cl-Cl-Click.*
*What th–!?*
Before she can complete the thought, Yuki realizes the trigger is jammed. It hadn’t lit.
The icon on on her blaster wasn’t green, accepting her DNA, nor red. It was disabled. The Maraxxians at the door, they hadn’t scanned her for weapons. They had disabled them.
The stun-spears light around her, and the Maraxxians mandibles palpitated as they lunge with them.
The first stun spear comes from behind, striking her shoulder. She had been stunned before, anyone else would’ve fallen there and then–but the Blue Rose persevered. Knocking away the spear, and delivering a fatal blow that loosens one of the Maraxxian’s mandibles before taking off down the steps.