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Be Brave Little Cadet
Stephen E. Richard

stephenrichard1973 (at) gmail (dot) com

Category: Science Fiction/ Fantasy

The silence in her quarters was disrupted by the sound of the door entry chime.  The young flight cadet knew it would be her guardian.

She had not meant any harm by the joke, she had only meant to hit the alarm button in the mess hall but had instead hit the general alarm button. The whole space station orbiting Pratmas IV went onto alert, shields up, weapons locked, and fighters launched.

Once the station had been released from general alarm, she had been confined to her room.  The CO's words still echoed in her ears "I will be there to discuss this with you in the near future" still rang in her mind and she dreaded what it meant

She had lied about her age to enter the Cadet corps. She could no longer bare life on the planetary system, to many painful memories.

Pressing the unlock button and the cadet sat up as the CO entered her room. Her father had served with him in the rift wars had been killed when she was five years old. Her mother killed on the raids on the planets mining camps only a year later.

Her father had made him promise to look out after her even when she had lied to get into the corps he thought it was better for her to stay there under his command so he could keep a better eye on her.

He had dealt with the lying of her age when he found out about her joining. From time to time he would visit her quarters or send for her to come to his office in the control tower of the station where he would deal with her behaviors, the only way he knew how to with her, over his knees.

At the age of sixteen Flight Cadet Kalie stood before her CO, but also the only father figure she had known from the age of six. He sat down on seat beside the bed. With a firm "lets get this over with" tone of his voice she removed her pants and her panties and bent over his lap. His lap she had been over many times before, and just as recent as two weeks ago when she arrived.

Her mother's hairbrush was no longer on the nightstand it was held in his hand and he started to use it for the same purpose her mother had. "To teach her to be a brave young cadet" those were the words her mother had used when she got the spanking the day her father had been killed, her mother said to her "Be a brave young cadet the way your father would have wanted you to be" And now she was feeling that brush again on her bare bottom. Closing her eyes she said, "Daddy I'm brave" this was his sign she was ready. And he started to spank her with the brush, "Be brave little cadet" she whispered as the pain built up.


Readers Comments:
Winks:  irishwinks (at) bresnan (dot) net

This story left me with a question:

Why did she get spanked the day her father died?  It sounds like it was just to make her brave (which would greatly affect my take on the story), but that might not have been the author's intent.

I liked the predicament - a practical joke going awry and the whole space station going into red alert.  I also liked the idea of a CO as a surrogate father for an underaged (and orphaned) soldier.

The last line though leads back to my question.

I would have liked to have seen a little more care in punctuation. The run-on sentences were a bit distracting, but only a bit.

An enjoyable story overall, and the situation is one that could easily be made into a serial.

Alex:  alexbirch (at) blueyonder (dot) co (dot) uk

This is an interesting little tale, slightly different from many, and I'll give it plus marks for that. I liked the sci-fi concept and the way Kalie remembered the miltary tradition as her nemesis arrived. I hate to keep doing this but, again the story was slightly marred by grammar problems.  I did rather like 'could no longer bare life' - the sort of Freudian slip which maybe foretold her fate, but there are phrases like 'Her father had served with him in the rift wars had been killed' which jar more than a little. Please, please I beg writers to use a proof reader before sending stories in.  The concept was nice and a little different from many.

Kris:  worsci (at) webtv (dot) net

The grammatical errors and the unintentional pun of "bare" when the author meant "bear" were somewhat distracting, but could be fixed with some guidance.  The story itself wasn't a bad one; it just wasn't very original or interesting.  If we're not going to gain some keen insight into human nature (we didn't here), there has to be some other reason to choose a science fiction setting. Was the cadet being spanked by trilateral aliens, perhaps in a unique relationship with one as her godfather?  No.  Did we get to see the ambassador who looked like a spined sea urchin floating ridiculously around in zero gravity, making the cadet realize it looked like a hairy anus?  Sadly, no.  Could the story have just as easily been set on a battleship on Earth?  Yes.  So what was the point of attempting to create a completely different atmosphere in an extremely constrained medium (500 words or less)? While the author did it minimally, there wasn't anthing to really drive the story or make it stand out because of the setting.

Hal:  janhaltn (at) gmail (dot) com

I am not a big Science Fiction fan but this was an enjoyable story to read.  There was a nice warm feeling to this story. The spanking was delivered with love.  The flow of the story made this as good read from start to finish.  I would enjoy reading another Chapter of this story and hope the author writes it for us.  This was a complete story.