Space Pirates & the Battle for Power by Amber Riel (iphone ebook reader TXT) 📖

Sailing through space was a white, big pirate ship. The ship looked old and kind of beat up. The ship's deck had some chairs and a table for the crew to hang out at when they weren't doing anything. The only room that was located on the deck was the captian's office.
On top of the office was the steering wheel and stairs, leading to the roof of the office. A boy was driving. He looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. He had dirty blonde hair which was messy. The only thing was that he didn't know where he was driving to. The captain never told him.


Now, inside of the office was a bed, a desk, a chair, and a bookshelf with a couple of books. The bed was on one side of the room, while the bookshelf was on the opposite side of the bed. Next to the bookshelf was the closet. In between the bed and the bookshelf was the desk with the chair behind.
A sixteen-year-old girl was sitting behind the desk. Her brown hair was shoulder length, and even though, she was wearing a bandanna her hair was all over the place. She was the only girl on the ship, but that didn't bother her. Now, she never understood why it was bad luck to have a woman, of any age, on a pirate ship.
She was a girl on her ship and nothing bad happened to them, yet. Actually, she happened to be the captain on her ship. She was talking to her first mate, which was a person who was basically an assistant to the captain.
He had curly, dark brown hair and was very cute. Everyone on the ship knew that he liked her. She knew it. Heck, she liked him too, but she kept it a secret for two reasons. One being that he was four years older than her. Another was that she promised herself that she would never date one of her shipmates.
"Benjamin, have Pater Pan land the ship on the Planet Pluto," she said to him.
"Yes, captain," Ben said, "but even though his name is Peter doesn't mean that his last name is Pan." Now, Ben was royal to his job. He enjoyed working for this girl. She was everything that he was looking for, but he didn't think that she would want him to say that. He had admitted to her, who knows how many times, that he liked her and each time, he noticed that he made her uncomfortable when he did that. Even though, his name was Ben, he loved when she called him Benjamin.
"I know, but I like to call him Peter Pan. Now, go and tell him." She liked giving people nicknames for fun or just because she had a hard time with pronouncing someone's name.
"Yes, captain." Ben left the room.
The girl leaned back in the chair, laying her legs on the table.
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Ben walked over to Peter, who was at the steering wheel. "Hello, Ben," Peter said as he noticed Ben walking on the steps. Peter was the ship idiot.
He was the kind of guy that thought that two plus two was chicken and his favorite color was shoe. Everyone was shocked that he could actually dress himself.
"Hey, Peter. Listen, the captain, wants you to land on the Planet Pluto."
"Okay."
"Hey, Ben?" a voice asked.
Ben sighed and turned to face the guy. It was Jeremy. He also liked the captain, but he would try to deny it. Everyone knew that he liked her though. He was jealous of Ben.
"Why is it that you get to tell everyone what to do?" he asked, trying to hide the jealousy in his voice.
"Well, that's because I'm the captain's first mate, and that means, when she tells me to tell you guys what to do.... I get to do it," Ben replied, kind of rubbing it in his face.
That made Jeremy mad. "I should of been her first mate."
"What?"
"Nothing."


They had just landed on Pluto. Peter took his hands off the steering wheel. "Okay, we're on Pluto," he told Ben.
"I'll go tell the captain."
"Okay."
Ben walked away.
Jeremy was still mad. "This is so not fair."
"Why? Because Captain Zelda chose Ben to be her first mate, and you loooove the captain."
"I don't loooove her.... I just think that I would of made a better first mate, than Ben."
"Yea. Whatever. She can't even say you're name right, Germany...."
"I know. But I kind of like that about her."
"Yea. You like her."


In the captain's office, Zelda was sitting at her desk, writing, when someone knocked on the door. "COME IN!" she yelled.
Ben opened the door. "We're on Pluto," he said as he walked in.
Zelda placed the pen on the desk. "Good," she said, standing up and smiling. "Now, let's go."
"Okay."
"Oh, and, Benjamin, can you hand me my hat on the door, please?"
"Yes, captain." He grabbed the pirate hat on the door and gave it to Zelda.
"Oh, thank you. Now, let's go." Zelda grabbed her jacket, then her and Ben walked out of the room.
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Zelda spoke loud enough for everyone to hear. "Okay. Me and Benjamin are going to leave the ship. Germany...."
"That's not my name." Jeremy liked it when Zelda tried to pronounce his name and liked to correct her as well.
"Then, Jimmeny...."
"That's not my name neither." He had to smile at those two attemps. "It's Jeremy."
"I don't care what you're name is, but I'm leaving you in charge." Zelda was kind of annoyed. That was one reason why she didn't like Jeremy. She thought that he was cute with his short, dark hair, his tan, and his muscles, but Ben was cuter, and she didn't like him.
"Okay, captain." He smiled.
"I don't think that you should leave him in charge," Ben whispered to Zelda.
"Well, I do."


After Zelda and Ben left the ship, Zelda started thinking. "OH CRAP!" she exclaimed.
"What?"
"I forgot to tell them to watch the rum."
"The rum?"                                                                          "Yea."                                                                                     "Well," Ben started, smiling, "I think they'll make sure that the rum is safe."
Zelda smiled in relief. "Oh good." She looked at a picture of herself which read 'wanted'. "Oh crap."
"Now what, captain?"
"That picture. It's me.... I hate getting my picture taking and it's a wanted picture of me." Zelda never did like getting her picture taking. It was one of the last things that she would ever do.
"Captain?"
"I have an idea." She took out a marker and took off the top.
"Where'd you get that picture from.... I mean marker?" Ben asked. He hated when he got his words mixed up in front of Zelda because he sounded like an idiot. What he didn't know was that Zelda actaully liked that about him because she knew that he was being himself.
She smiled at his mistake. "I had it," she answered. She walked over and drew a mustash and beard on the picture.
"Why did you do that to your picture?"
"So, that way people won't know it's me."
"Oh." Ben didn't really understand that because anyone could tell that the beard and mustash was drawn on.
They started walking away, when two space police stopped them. One cop had kind of long and kind of curly, brown hair. The other had short, brown hair.
The cop with the kind of long and kind of curly, brown hair also had a mustash and some hair on his chin. He looked to be a little bit older. They both looked like they could be related.
"Well, you two don't look like you're from around here," said the cop with the mustash.
"And you're right," Zelda said. "We're from the Planet Crash." Zelda had taken her hat off and held it behind her back when she seen the cops.
"Oh. So, ya'll are visiting someone?"
"Yea. You can say that."
The other cop turned to him and held a picture up so he could see it. "Daniel, she looks like the space pirate in this picture."
Daniel looked at the picture then to Zelda. He seen the connection. "What are ya'lls names?"
"Our names?" Zelda asked.
"Yes, ya'lls names."
"Um...."
"I'm Mr. Claw, and this is my wife," Ben cut Zelda off.
"Wife? I'm too young to be his wife, well, I'm not that young, but...." Zelda said to herself, giving Ben a funny look. She had to admit that she liked the thought, but later on in the future.
"Are you sure about that?" Daniel asked.
"Yes, I am. Right, honey." Ben smiled, putting his arm around Zelda, and pulling her closer to him.
"Yea, right," Zelda said, playing along.
"Um.... Mrs. Claw, what is your first name?"
"Donna. Why?"
"You kind of look like a space pirate by the name of Zelda Samara Griffen."
"Oh. Well, my madien name is...." Zelda had to look around for help. "Dadog."
"Dadog?"
"Yea. I know it's a funny last name, but that's my madien name."
"Well, me and my wife," Ben started, "have to go."
They turned around. Now, the head of the space police was walking over to them. Ben recognized him and tried to hide. It was too late. "Ben," the guy said, recognizing him. The guy kind of looked like Ben, but two years younger and had kind of short dark brown hair.
"Crap," Ben said to himself.

Now, there were Zelda, Ben, and three cops in the city of ice, on the coldest planet, and one of the cops actually recognized Ben. They were out in the snow, next to a store. "Ben," the guy repeated.
"Hello, Gregory," Ben said.
"You know him?" Zelda asked. She knew the guy as well, but didn't know his name. They first day that she had met Ben, had been the first day she met Gregory. She didn't make a good impression when she met him.
"Yea...." Ben had to take a breath. "He's my brother." He was actually afraid to admit that.
"Oh. I didn't know that you had a brother." Zelda knew Ben for a