Chapter Five
Sector 12 Transgalactic Station
If Reggie’s life passed before his eyes, it did so fast enough that he didn’t notice. All he saw were the pincers coming at him. He reached up instinctively and caught them, his gloves keeping the pincers from slicing into his palms. The momentum of the creature sent him onto his back into the stinking garbage.
His shoulder seared with pain as he struggled to keep the pincers from closing. They inched closer to his face, closer to taking out his eye. The life he might yet lead flashed in front of him then. And that was all the inspiration he needed to muster his strength for one big move.
He squeezed the pincers like they were dual joysticks and he was in an epic, deep space dogfight in Galactic Force. He pulled them in opposite directions u
