Revenge is a dish best served cold. It is very cold in space.

"Drexler," he said, "go and take a look. We'll cover you."

Drexler slowly edged towards the open door, peering into the darkness. Something large flew out of the door and slammed into Drexler, sending him sprawling on the floor. Lying on top of him was the body of one of their crew members, his head lolling to the side as if his neck was broken.

"Get him off me! Get him off me!" shouted Drexler, frantically sliding himself out from under the corpse.

"Pull yourself together, man," said the captain, rolling his eyes.

One of the men went to help him when a tall figure with flaming red hair leapt out of the doorway.

Astra stood up to her full height, a sword in one hand, a pistol in the other. "Hello boys."

"Get her!" shouted the captain. He lifted his pistol but before he could fire, Astra had knocked it from his grip with a swoosh of her sword, taking most of his fingers with it. He screamed in agony as blood spurted from his hand.

Fritz got her in his sights but by the time he had squeezed the trigger, Astra had swept past him and was stepping towards Stan. Then he noticed that his belly had been sliced open and he tried unsuccessfully to hold his intestines in.

Stan swung a punch at Astra's head but all he found was thin air. He looked down and was suprised to see the tip of a blade emerging from the bottom of his rib cage.

Drexler managed to get to his feet just in time for Astra to lop his head off. Astra stood over the captain as he fumbled to pick up his pistol with his remaining good hand.

"Get your paw off it or I'll cut it off," said Astra.

The captain looked down at the pistol then up at Astra. He went for the pistol anyway and Astra stamped down on his hand and then swung her sword down at his groin. He let out a screech, and fell back, clutching between his legs.

"You crazy bitch! What's wrong with you!"

"I said I'd cut it off," said Astra, levelling her pistol at him. "You know I never did catch your name. But, my ... lovely ... I AM going to kill you."

"Just get it over with," said the Captain through gritted teeth.

Astra pulled the trigger and put a bullet through his shoulder.

"Aargh! Fuck!"

"Oh silly me," said Astra. "I was aiming for your head. You want to amend what you just said? Otherwise your last words will be aargh fuck."

The captain grimaced and opened his mouth to speak but before he could say anything, Astra shoved her blade down his throat and all that came out were gurgles.

"Oops. Too late, my lovely. Too late."

Just as Astra pulled her bloodied sword out of the dead captain's throat, the air shimmered and Stacy, Kester and Ogilvy appeared.

"Hello again," said Kester.

"We're here to rescue you," said Ogilvy.

"Well," said Astra stepping over the captain's body and taking a teleport bracelet from Stacy, "mission accomplished."

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