Hunters Thought She Was Prey. The Deathworld Girl Proved Them Wrong | HFY Sci-Fi

When Vortan Syndicate hunters stormed a remote space station to collect a human prisoner, they thought it would be a routine extraction. They were wrong. Dead wrong.

Maya Reeves wasn't just any prisoner. She was a survivor from Earth, a Category Twelve Deathworld species with a very personal grudge against the Syndicate. When six armored hunters entered her cell, they expected compliance. What they got was a masterclass in why you never, ever corner a human with nothing left to lose.

Armed with nothing but a ripped-off bench plank and pure Terran fury, Maya turned a simple prisoner transfer into a station-wide catastrophe that would make the Syndicate wish they'd never heard of Earth. Because when you hurt a human's pack, when you make it personal, they don't just fight back. They make sure you regret every decision that led to that moment.

This is the story of what happens when galactic bureaucracy meets human determination. When treaties clash with justice. When hunters become the hunted. Told from the perspective of a station security officer who had to choose between following orders and doing what's right.

Sometimes the most dangerous weapon isn't a plasma rifle or a neural disruptor. Sometimes it's a angry human with improvised weaponry and a very good memory.

Welcome to humanity. We don't start fights. We finish them.

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