BANG!

Pant pant pant ....gulp.

BANG!

The pale alien continued to get up and run back to the power crystals on all their separate pedestals. Each time she lifted one and shoved it into her mouth, she was blasted back against the wall again. But damn those crystals tasted good, and the ship surely would be dying from the lack of power soon. She was beginning to make her-shaped craters in the sides of the power room. But every time she was blasted back, she ran forward, persistent, crystal 'crumbs' left behind in her wall-crater. Thank Gaia she was durable. Never before had it payed off to not be organic to another planet so well.

BANG! Again, her body skyrocketed backwards with the force of the crystals, but slowly she was getting her strength back from all the blood lost. Even better, with her persistence she'd already eaten through a third of the crys-

BANG! 

God she was going to have such a headache later. She groaned as she pulled herself from the wall, panting. Ogh... c'mon she could do this. Her petite belly was already so full of crystals. She stopped, sweating and leaned over on her knees. 

[b]"Wwwwhhhheeeeeewww...."[/b] She exhaled. All this running and momentum of being blasted back was starting to get to her. Like a rollercoaster where the only option was to stand instead of sit. And be only held down by your ankles. [b]"Aagghh...!"[/b] She picked herself back up and continued on her cy-

BANG!

T-this was worth it-

BANG!

For the good of the-

BANG!

It w-

BANG!

E-

BANG!

Marilyn peeled herself off the crater ridden wall, laughed airlessly, and fell onto her face. [b]"A...ahaha....haa...hooooo...."[/b] A little over half the crystals had been eaten and taken off of their panels. Maybe it was time to get a to-go box...?