Lisa rushes towards the hangar bay along with several others as they fire back behind them at the security drones chasing them. Laser blast and smoke fill the corridor as Lisa and several other humans that had decided to head back to Earth were running for their lives from security drones. They had to get back to warn Earth about the invasion coming their way. They were heading to the hangar bay towards the secret transport ship waiting for them. Lisa and Ralph turn around and return fire towards the approaching security drones. Lisa hits one dead center in the chest, while Ralph’s more powerful rifle takes two of them out. Lisa raises her wrist near her mouth.

“Lisa to P9, fire the ship up and prepare for launch.” She was their pilot and they had to hurry, because if they missed this window to escape, they would be doom.

Lisa and her companions hurry as they slip through the closing blast doors of the hangar bay and into the hangar. She watches as Henry and everyone else rushes towards the transport ship they had stolen and board it. Lisa was the last one to board the transport and secures the portal door.

“We got to hurry, Lisa.” Henry had sat down in the co-pilot’s seat and was preparing to launch.

Lisa rushes towards the cockpit and sits down in the pilot’s seat and buckles herself in for launch. She glances over towards the drone she had rebuilt and programmed. Troy told her it reminded him of some droid from an Earth movie called Star Wars. He said that her drone looked a little bit like the character R2D2 in Star Wars. She had saved it from the recyclers and rebuilt it first for fun and later to help with the ship. She had loaded it with all the navigation charts she could get her hands on or into. It could also help her with any repairs and such. It had a basic AI intelligence.

“I’m hurrying.” Lisa flicks a few switches and fires up the thrusters.

“Better buckle up people, we’re taking off.” Lisa presses the launch button and prepares herself for the take-off.

Everyone, including Lisa as well is pushed back into their seats as the transport launches out of the hangar bay and up to the upper atmosphere. She notices on the scanners that four security ships were coming after them. The security ships were trying to shoot them down. The ship rocks as laser blast hit against the protective shielding surrounding the transport.

“Troy, Ralph can you guys man the turrets and shoot those drones off us please?” Lisa was doing everything she knew how to do to avoid the laser blast, because she only had forward weapon control. The rest of the laser cannons on board needed gunners for them.

“We’re on it, Lisa.” Troy heads towards the upper center gun turret and Ralph takes the bottom center gun turret.

Lisa adjusts the flight path as she feels the ship rock from the laser cannons firing from the transport. They hadn’t had a chance to test the recoil from the stronger laser cannons they mounted on the transport. Lisa dodges another round of fire from the security ships as they fire on their transport. The ship rocks as the laser cannons fire back towards the security ships. Lisa keeps the transport on a direct path up away from the planet and out past the atmosphere and into space.

“Secure all sections and buckle-up Troy and Ralph.” Lisa glances over towards her navigation drone.

“P9, load flight plan coordinates to navigation computer to the carrier Viminacium and engage the slipstream drive.” Lisa hopes the new slipstream drive does what it was designed to do.

They only had a chance to test it out only once and it almost tore the transport apart. The light on Lisa’s console blinks to let her know the slipstream drive was ready.

“Henry on my count 3, 2, 1, engages slipstream drive.” Lisa was praying the slipstream drive works like it was supposed to as Lisa watches Henry flick the switch for the slip stream drive on.

A bright flash of light appears as the transport enters it and begins to travel faster than it ever has. Lisa maneuvers the transport through the tunnel they were producing and bobsled through it as they head towards the coordinates where the Viminacium was supposed to be waiting for them. Hopefully Captain Vellutus was there waiting for them or it was going to be a very short trip. She was having a hard time with the controls, but it felt fun to be bobsledding through the tunnel. The ship jerks as it drops out of slipstream and shuts down the main drive. The transport sits there drifting in space.

“What happened?” Henry was looking at Lisa to see what she thought.

“I don’t know.” Lisa looks at the scanners and readings and tries to figure out why the main engines shut down. She checks their position on the navigation charts.

“It looks like we’re we are supposed to be” Lisa tries to fire the main engines up and as they come on-line. She breathes a sigh of relief as they start working.

“Let’s see if we can find the Viminacium.” Lisa punches in the coordinates they were supposed to meet at.

Lisa heads towards the location where they were supposed to meet. She maneuvers the transport through the asteroid field they needed to travel through. Some of the spaces between the asteroids were tight and she had to dodge some that were moving through the field.

“Bring the shields up to maximum, Henry.” Lisa didn’t want to have any micro-asteroids punching its way through the reinforce armor plating covering the transport.

“Where are they?” Henry was checking the scanners looking for any signs of the carrier. He knew Captain Vellutus was very punctual about being places.

“I don’t know Henry, but if he is late. He must have a very good reason.” Lisa was wondering where her good friend was. If it hadn’t been for him, she would have never been able to adjust to being abducted and being brought to an alien planet and sold into slavery.

She and two hundred others had been experimented on and most of them had died off. Her mind had been transplanted from her male body and placed inside an artificial created female body, but was stuck at having the body of a fifteen-year-old girl. Her mind was of a forty-year-old woman. Her aging had been halted along with several others that the Orgaians had experimented on. They were testing temporal energy on them to see what effects would happen. Some of the people had aged to their natural life span and others like her had either reverted or stopped ageing period. She was technically immortal, but it had side effects. The side effects were she could never have children.

Lisa was looking for a place to land the transport. Lisa hopes she could find a stable asteroid to land on and wait for the carrier.

“Henry, do you see any place we could land and wait for the carrier?” Lisa looks over towards Henry for an answer.
Henry looks out the cockpit and at his scanner.

“Ya, over there, about a hundred clicks to the port side.” Henry had spotted a nice place to park the transport without being hit and stable as well.

“Okay, we’ll land there and wait for Captain Vellutus to show up. Hopefully, he won’t be long.” Lisa guides the transport over to the asteroid and lands on the surface. She powers down everything except life support.

Lisa gets out of her seat and heads towards the back to check on the rest of her friends that had come with them.

“Is everyone okay?” Lisa walks from the cockpit towards the passenger section where everyone should be sitting down.

“We’re fine Lisa, but why are we just sitting here?” Cleo didn’t like space travel that much.

“We’re waiting on Captain Vellutus to show-up. He’s not here yet.” Lisa hopes everything is okay on his end.

“What happens if he doesn’t show up?” Cleo was worried and didn’t want to get lost here in space.

“We’ll go to his last known position and see if he is there. If he isn’t then we’ll head to the secret asteroid base he uses and stock up on whatever supplies that are there and proceed towards Earth afterwards using the slipstream drive on this transport. If we really need too Henry and I could put the rest of you in the stasis pods and pilot the ship ourselves on our normal sub-light drive. The trip will take longer and there is a good chance that the Orgaians will get to Earth before us.” Lisa and Henry had brought the original pods that everyone had been kept and transported in when they were abducted.

“No thanks, I don’t ever want to be put back in those things.” Cleo shivers just thinking about them.

“I don’t think any of us do Cleo, but if it means living or dying, I’ll go back into them.” Kimberly wanted to get back to her family. As far as she knew, she has only been gone from her family for five years and wanted to get back to them.

“I’m with you on that Kimberly.” Troy wanted to get back to Earth as well.

For next few hours things are quiet as everyone sits and wait for the carrier to show-up. Lisa hears a beeping sound coming from her console. She rushes towards the cockpit to look.

“Carrier Viminacium to Orion transport, do you read? Carrier Viminacium to Orion transport, do you read?”

Lisa picks her headset up “this is Orion transport, we hear you carrier Viminacium, where are you guys?”

Lisa takes her seat as she watches Henry take his.

“We’re at the following coordinates.”

Lisa watches as the coordinates appears on her screen. It wasn’t too far from their current position. She figures it will take ten to twenty minutes to arrive at the carrier.

“We’ve received your coordinates and should be with you in about twenty minutes. Orion transport out.” Lisa smiles as she starts going through the process to fire the transports engines back up.

“We’re on our way people, so buckle up back there.” Lisa and Henry fire the engines as Henry plots their new course in the navigation computer.

Lisa watches as they carefully lift off the asteroid they had landed on and headed towards the coordinates they were given. She could see the carrier as they got closer and closer. She watches as the landing bay opened for her and the landing strip lit up for her to land on the deck of the carrier and hover into the hanger bay. She felt the transport shake some from the difference of no gravity to gravity. She lands the transport and shuts everything down.

“We’re here.” Lisa was so glad to get off the transport. It was bigger than her fighter, but still to stretch her legs would be nice.

Lisa stretches as the hot water cascaded down her slim body. She had slept like a baby for the first time in her life. Henry steps up behind Lisa and holds her trimmed youthful slim body tight against his body. He leans down and kiss the side of her neck. The two of them have been lovers ever since the experiment that turned both immortal. It had started off innocent at first, but developed into what it is now. Both were pilots and had come from the same state, but different cities and different times. Lisa presses her wet body against Henry’s and enjoys the feeling of his cock pressed between her butt cheeks. She also loved the feeling of having all twelve inches stuffed inside her tight body. It has been so long since the two of them had any time to be together while they were under the Orgaians control.

They had to sneak off to places the Orgaians couldn’t monitor to have sex and just lay in each other’s arms. The Orgaians didn’t like it when the two different genders interacted with one another, unless it was for their benefit or entertainment.

They enjoyed watching as the women were forced to have sex with different species or their own while their heads were covered. Sometimes, they would hold gladiatorial fights of men vs. women for the entertainment of themselves or other races. As for working together, they were permitted, but they were forced to wear shock collars that put a negative charge around the person to shock them if they touch. The Orgaians used humans and several other races they had conquered as slaves and soldiers for hire.

That was how she met Captain Vellutus and how they had come to construct the Viminacium. They had stolen everything they needed to build the Viminacium, the space fighters and several other ships to return to Earth to protect it. They had even managed to construct several support ships to protect the Viminacium, which is why they were heading to meet up with them right now. Once everyone was together, they were going to head to Earth to protect their home planet from the invasion the Orgaians had planned. They wanted Earth’s resources for themselves and to turn the planet into a new home world for their own people.

Henry felt Lisa rest against his body and could tell she was thinking about their new life. He knew it was going to be hard on them, because the Orgaians would do everything they could to stop them from reaching Earth. Henry holds Lisa’s slim body against his and places a kiss on her cheek. She smelled like wildflowers from the shampoo and soap she had used. He knew she had bridge duty later this afternoon and he had it tomorrow morning. Everyone on the ship had a job they were supposed to do. Some like him and Lisa had two or three extra jobs they performed along with their primary job.

“We better go and get some breakfast or there might not be any left.” Lisa knew her and Henry didn’t require food, but it was nice to at least sit down and act normal.

“True, I bet the mess hall is going to be busy right now.” Henry looks down at Lisa. She was short for a fifteen-year-old. She came up to his chest and he had to bend down to kiss her.

“I don’t know. It might be less busy then you think it is. Its nine o’clock Earth time and most of the crew is normally at their station at eight or so. Captain Vellutus has three eight hour shifts so someone is always coming on or getting off work.” Lisa looks up and places a kiss on Henry’s chin.

“You go and get ready. I still need to wash up. Does she want us to wear our uniforms if we’re not on duty?” Henry releases Lisa.

“Nope, when we’re off duty, we can wear whatever we want to. Other than that, it’s uniforms while we are working.” Lisa gives Henry another kiss and grind her ass against his cock. Before she walks away with a little wiggle in her walk just for him. Married quarters had private showers, while unmarried quarters shared a communal shower. Officers had their own quarters and junior officers had theirs.

Flight personal and Marine personal had dormitory style quarters and shared showers. Lisa dries off and fixes her short hair. She had it cut in a pixie style, to make it easier for her to manage it. She puts on her under garments and uniform and wait for her husband to come out of the shower. She had to meet with the Captain and find out what her duties were going to be on the bridge. Then afterwards, she had to meet with her squadron leader and practice with them. Her fighter was unique and could do things the others couldn’t. She had design hers off an old Earth show she saw when she was younger back on Earth.

Once Lisa and Henry were fully dress, they head down to the mess hall to grab some breakfast. She could smell the fresh food all the way down the corridor from the mess hall. Fresh food had been rare for slaves. Their food use to be four or five days old. Her mouth starts to water as they get in line to get their morning serving. They could come back for seconds if they wanted too. Lisa notices that Troy, Kimberly, Ralph, Cleo were all sitting at the same table. She and Henry walk over to join them.

“Hey guys, do you mind if me and Henry join you?” Lisa was just being polite in asking.

“Not at all, have a seat.” Troy pulls a chair out for Lisa and Henry sits down next to her.

“So, did Captain Vellutus give you your assignments?” Lisa picks a biscuit up and starts eating it.

“Ralph and I are on the gun crew. He has the main gun turret that protects the landing strip for you guys, while I have the guns protecting the bridge.” Troy didn’t mind his assignment. At least he had more guns protecting him then Ralph did.

“Me and Cleo work in medical now. Dr. Felicia is nice to work with. I’ve never met her kind before. She’s a humanoid female rabbit.” Kimberly couldn’t believe who their Doctor was.

“The Orgaians experimented with turning a few Earth animals into humanoids and mixing a few humans with animal DNA as well. Why, I’ll never know, but they are nice people and they did volunteer to help defend Earth. Dr. Felicia is cool. You should meet her husband. He’s a humanoid bulldog and in charge of the Marines.” Lisa stuffs her mouth with some more food.

“How many are on board?” Kimberly was wondering how many had been created.

“There’s about fifty here on this ship and between ten to twenty more on the other ships in the task group. There is one you need to watch out for. He’s a transformed dinosaur that was spliced with a reptilian race. He’s extremely mean and doesn’t like weak humans being around him. I would be careful when you met him.” Lisa met him once and he thought he could boss her, but she pulled her gun on him and pointed it at his manhood.

“What’s his name?” Cleo and Kimberly wanted to avoid him.

“His name is Supay. Someone named him after an Inca god of death from Earth.” Lisa takes a sip of her coffee she had gotten.

Everyone finishes their breakfast and goes their separate ways.

Lisa and Henry meet up with the first officer, Commander Givens and given their assignments. Lisa was the new navigator and held the rank of lieutenant. Her husband was the new Chief helmsman and held the same rank as she did. She was going to be taken the second shift, while her husband took first shift. That meant she would be available for patrols and guarding the ship.

Her husband has the second shift for patrols and guarding the fleet.

She goes down to the fighter bay to go over her fighter. Hers was the only one that was different then every one’s else. She used to be a big Buck Rogers fan and had her fighter designed after what she could remember of that show. Like all the fighters onboard the ship, it had its own hyperdrive engine.

“How come your fighter is different than the others?”

Jerry had been wondering since he saw the fighter.

“Because the other fighters are too big for me. I can barely see over the console in them. Mine is built for people of my stature and I can
control it better. Plus, I built mine out of different material than the other fighters. We ran out of material like what the other fighters are made of.”

Jerry looks at Lisa and just shakes her head.

“Well, your fighter carries less missiles and bombs then the others do.”

“I know, but it is more maneuverable and its pulse lasers are more powerful and fire at a higher rate. So, what I lack in missile and bomb capability, I make up in fire power. Plus, my shields are stronger.”

“I don’t know how to manage to do that.”

“The shield generators weren’t from an Orgaians ship, but from a Quruwths transport ship. Their shields tend to be stronger then the Orgaians.”

“Ah, that would explain your energy readings were higher. Let me guess, you’re running a standard fusion reactor?”

“Yep, the other fighters are running off High pressure radioactive gas.”

“So, yours doesn’t require refueling?”

“Yes and no. I require deuterium/tritium fuel mixture to run in my fighter, but I don’t burn through it as fast as the other fighters do with theirs. Plus, I don’t leave a particle trail either.”

“Well, all the fighters including yours are ready for to be used if need be. I don’t go on patrol till tomorrow. So, I wanted to spend some time learning the controls of my fighter.”

“Have fun.”

“Echo three to Viminacium, sector 047 is clear. No, Orgaian security patrol or drones detected.”

Lisa was out on patrol in her new fighter. Echo four was in one of the standard fighters and just ahead of her. She was enjoying being able to fly when she wanted to.

“Flight control to echo three, we’re picking up a disturbance in sector 44 off our port side. Can you check it out and see if it is going to be a problem?”

“No problem flight control.”

Lisa heads towards the sector and notice it was an old unmanned probe about two hundred years old.

“Echo three to flight control. It’s an old Federation class V probe.”

“Can you bring it back?”

“Yes, I can use my tractor beam and bring it back to the ship.”

“Alright echo three.”

Lisa locks on with her tractor beam and brings the probe back to the ship. She wonders why it was left out here to float in space. She heads into the landing bay with Echo four right behind her. The forcefield that protected the cargo bay from space allowed her and the probe to pass through. She lowers the probe to the waiting bay crew and maneuver over to a clear space meant for her fighter. She powers down her fighter and takes her helmet off as she exists from the cockpit.

“Where did you find this hunk of junk?”

“I didn’t, the bridge did. Is it going to be of any help to us?”

“Well, most of the data recorded in it is about two hundred years old, but we could compare what it recorded against what we know already
and see if there is anything we might have missed.”

“Well, good luck. I’m heading to my quarters.”

Marlow watches as Lisa walks off. She had a cute behind underneath that flight suit of hers.

Lisa walks over and takes the lift to the deck her quarters were located on. Her husband was up on the bridge right now, so she had the place to herself. She strips out of her flight suit and steps into the shower. Even though her body didn’t sweat or produce as much waste as a normal human body did, it still felt nice to let the water cascade down her body.

The Orgaians did a good job on constructing her new body, even though it was a girl’s body instead of a boy’s body, she still enjoyed it. She scrubs her body and trim what pubic hair her body grew, which wasn’t much. She puts on a nice skirt, blouse and flats head to the mess hall to grab some dinner.

As she is seating and eating her dinner, she wonders what Earth looks like now. She had been abducted in October of 1979. Her husband had been abducted several years earlier and didn’t know who Buck Roger’s was. Which, was fine with her. She didn’t know what Star Wars or Star Trek was until Troy told her about them. When they were designing and building the other fighters, he wanted to make them look like something called an X-Wing fighter. She wanted them to be more like her Thunder fighter. In the end, Captain Vellutus had decided on the design of the fighters to look more like advance Earth fighter jets, so when they got to Earth it wouldn’t take their pilots long to adjust to how their fighters worked. Her fighter was the only exception.

She was shorter than most of the other pilots. She built two fighters for herself. They could construct another fighter for her if they needed to, but normal she kept primary and secondary.

P9 was used on the bridge and down in the hangar to maintain the ships navigation systems and chart.

As Lisa is sitting and relaxing. She notices two members of ship security come walking into the mess hall. They looked like they had been put through the ringer. She wonders what they have been up too.

“Hey Alex, why don’t you and your partner there, union me?”

“Thanks, Lisa.”

Lisa watches as Alex gets his meal and his partner in crime gets her meal as well. She hadn’t seen her before, but she did have some cybernetic implants. Her right eye had been replaced with a portable scanner that allows her to see through any type of material.

She knew that type of operation was painful. The Orgaians didn’t believe in pain relief. They perform all operations on their victims without any pain killer or numbing. Sometimes, their victims didn’t survive the operation. Sometimes, they did survive, but were never the same afterwards. Lisa could see it in her normal eye. The hunting look of what they did to her. She notices she had a cybernetic artificial right arm. Which meant they must have made the whole right side of her body cybernetic.

“Who’s your partner?”

“This is Mia. She doesn’t speak much.”

“Nice to meet you, Mia.”

Mia just nods her head at her.

Alex and Mia sit down at the table with Lisa.

“So, do you guys regret cutting ties with the Orgaians?”

“Nope, both me and Mia are happy to be free from their control. If we had stayed any longer, both of us would had ended being turned into full
mindless cyborgs. They would had completely wiped our minds, destroying all our memories and emotions. Then they would had filled our minds with every security law and tactical knowledge. Basically, turning us into mindless drones.”

Lisa noticed that Mia had gotten a special liquid concoction that was meant for people with cybernetics parts. Alex had grabbed a cheesesteak sub. The meat wasn’t true steak, but it was enough you couldn’t tell that it wasn’t.

“I can understand that reason extremely well. I lost a few friends who they turned into combat drones. There was none of their humanity left inside them. They were just killing machines.”

Lisa shivers from the memory of four people she knew. Luckily for them, they didn’t live long after the conversion to have to suffer for long.

“So, what mischief have the two of you been up too?”

“Nothing. We had training today. One of the human/animal hybrids today. He tore into us and pushed us beyond what we were used to. Even people like Mia who have cybernetic limbs and such were pushed to their breaking point. He’s our new instructor for the rest of the week. Then we move on to advance combat training.”

“Dam, he sounds like a hard ass. I hope I don’t get him. The Captain wants all pilots to go through a survive course. So, we’re going to be going through a two weeks survive course on the Vanguard starting next week.”

“You’re using the Vanguard?”

“Yep, it’s the only ship in the fleet right now that can create any type of environment. The artificial environment is so real, that you actually believe you’re in that environment.”

Mia looks at Lisa “is it that realistic?”

Mia’s voice had a computerized tone to it.

“Yep, it’s that realistic. I only worked on the Vanguard for a few turns, but I was there when they tested the systems out. I nearly froze my assets off when they tried to recreate the environment from Crawonus. It was so real, that when they created the environment from Crawonus. We all had to huddle together to keep from freezing.”

Mia looks thoughtful for a few minutes.

“Are we allowed to visit the Vanguard for personal reasons?”

“If it doesn’t interfere with your duties or you have put in some time off with your department head. If you want to use it for entertainment, the
holosuites here can recreate most things. They aren’t that bad.”

“No, there’s another reason I’m interested in the Vanguard.”

“Okay.”

Alex and Mia finishes their dinner.

“Well, we’re off Lisa. It’s been nice talking to you.”

“You too Alex. Bye Mia.”

“Bye Lisa.”

Lisa watches them go and decides to head back to her quarters. Her husband should be off soon.

“You know what the good thing is about never having to sleep like we use to?”

“No what?”

Henry was staring up at Lisa as she straddles his waist. His hands were resting on her slim waist as sweat beaded down her lightly tanned skin.

“Is we can have sex all night long and never get tire doing it.”

She leans down and kisses him on the lips. For years they had never been allowed to sleep or have sex with each other because of the
Orgaians. They didn’t want their male or female slaves become close or have sex outside of when they wanted you too or who you wanted too. They wanted you to perform sexual acts with whatever creatures they chose for you. Sometimes it wasn’t to bad, but a few races you didn’t want to have sex with them. Especially, if your anatomy was setup like a humanoid.

For the next four hours Lisa and Henry make-up for the years they couldn’t spend time together as husband and wife. As they laid next to each other with Lisa snuggled close to Henry. She wonders what Earth is going to be like since she was taken forty years ago.

It’s been forty years she has been a slave to the Orgaians they have experimented on her and abused her every way possible. She’s had her gender changed and had to learn how to live as the opposite gender then what she had been born. She wasn’t complaining, she had a nice fully functional body, except she couldn’t have children due to the temporal radiation she had been exposed to. She was just like Henry. He couldn’t impregnate a woman, because his reproductive system had been affected by the same temporal energies that made the two of them immortal.

When the Orgaians found out her and Henry were immortal, every experiment that would kill their subject was tried on them. Since, they couldn’t die, it allowed them to perfect weapon devices or medical procedure on the two of them. She closes her eyes and just lay in bed and enjoy some down time.

She doesn’t know how long she’s been out. She hears the alarm clock go off to let her know she needs to be up on the bridge in an hour. She leans over and kiss Henry and slide out of bed and start getting ready for work. They finally managed to get their schedules on the same time frame. So, they can have the third shift to themselves. It still was when she was up on the bridge, he’ll have first flight recon and she’ll have second flight recon and he would take the second shift on the bridge.

She takes a nice relaxing shower and get dress. Her husband comes stumbling into the bathroom, just as she comes walking out.

“Have fun on recon patrol.” She blows him a kiss as she heads towards her station on the bridge. Lisa grabs a coffee on her way up and sit down at the navigation console and bring up their current location. She notices some new navigational charts have been added to the data base. She checks their current heading and estimate how long it would take them right now using the slip stream drive to get to the Sol system.

She knew not all the ships in their fleet had Slip stream drives, but most did. Those that didn’t had to use hyper-drives or fold drives to get to where they were going. So, any time they did a jump, they had to take into effect the speeds of the other ships and plot their course to either show up early to protect them or later to protect their rear.

“Alpha one to flight control, sector is clear.”

“Roger Alpha one. Alpha one, were going to perform a jump in two hours. In thirty mikes, I need for you and your squadron to head to these
coordinates and do a recon of the location.”

“Roger flight control, coordinates recieved and will perform recon in 30 mikes.”

Lisa calculates the coordinates for their jump. She double checks with the other navigation officers on the other ships that were with them to
make sure their jump coordinates matched hers. The last thing they needed was the fleet split up and in disarray. They had ten squadrons of fighters in the fleet and couldn’t afford not having them protecting the fleet. Her and Her husband’s squadron were stationed here on the Viminacium. Along with three other squadrons, since they were the main flagship of the fleet. The other fighters were stationed aboard two smaller carriers in the fleet.

“Alpha One to flight control, jumping to new coordinates.”

“Roger Alpha One, see you in four hours.”

“Flight control to Gamma flight leader, take up position protecting the fleet.”

“Roger flight control.”

Lisa watches on her instruments as Alpha squadron starts disappearing from the area. She starts the countdown clock for their return.

“Is Gamma squadron in their assigned areas, Lisa?”

“Yes sir. Gamma squadron have taken up their assigned sectors and is patrolling their assign areas.”

“Good.”

Captain Vellutus was going over the reports coming to his screen from the other ships in his fleet. So, far everything was going smoothly since
they left Orgaian space. He knew the Emperor of the Orgaian people couldn’t let their citizens know that over 40,000 slaves and other races that had been conquered had escape with newly design advance starships. No, he knew the Emperor was going to have to either recapture them or completely wipe them out.

Captain Vellutus knew that in a long sustain fight, the Orgaians would win. They still had several shipyards that were still operational, but nothing as capable as their ships. Still they couldn’t afford to lose any of their ships right now. Their agriculture and livestock ships were producing enough food for everyone in the fleet with a surplus they could save for themselves or use for trade with any colonies they find.
Several hours go by quietly as everyone waits on Alpha squadron recon patrol to jump back into their sector of space. Just as the clock reached time for them to return. Alpha squadron reappears and had several ships in tow with them.

“Alpha five to flight control have a security detail waiting in the hangar deck. We caught some slavers on their way back to Orgaian space from Earth.”

“Roger Alpha Five. Security personnel and medical personnel will be waiting down on hangar deck three.”

“Looks like the Orgaians are trying to replace what slaves they have lost already.” Lisa looks up at the Captain when she made that statement.

“It’s possible Lisa, but they could had left before the upraising and don’t know we have left. Remember, transmissions from Andromeda Galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy take time and small slaver ships like the ones Alpha squadron caught don’t have the transmission capability that the Capital ships do or the newer freighters do.”

“Maybe, I know I would had space the slavers.” Lisa and most of the crew members she knew hated the slavers.

“I know, but let’s see what people they have brought back with them and the areas of Earth they took them from, before we kill them.”

“Yes sir.”

Just as the slave ships land in the landing bay. A massive energy surge sets off the ships alarms and several portals in space opens directly in
front of them and several large vessels exit from them.

“Captain, we have visitors.” Lisa was trying to identify the ships coming through and who they were with.

One of the ships identified as a Revenge Heavy Battle Cruiser class. She knew from her history that all those ships were supposed to have
been destroyed or scrapped, but here was one in front of them.

“Captain, that’s a Revenge Heavy Battle Cruiser class. It’s not supposed to be around anymore. That ship is over hundred years old.” Lisa
couldn’t believe it. She heard stories about those ships.

“Captain, we have a transmission being directed at us.”

“Put it on the main screen.”

“This is Captain Ranuis with the Ailuros defense force. We mean you no harm. We’re interested in the slave ships we tracked to your ship. A
member of the Ailuros Royal family and a member of my crew was kidnapped and is being held aboard one of the ships.” There was an older human male wearing a black uniform with several other humans behind him in similar uniforms and a humanoid cat person as well dress in a skin-tight body suit.

“I am Captain Vellutus of the starship Viminacium. You’re welcomed to come aboard and check to see if your crew member is aboard the slave ships we capture.”

“Thank you, Captain Vellutus. Do you have transporters capability, Captain Vellutus?”

“Yes, we do. If you can transport to these coordinates, I’ll meet you there.” Captain Vellutus sends the coordinates to transporter room four.

“Thank you, Captain Vellutus. We’ll transport over in ten minutes.”

The main screen goes blank.

“Lisa, Drake you’re with me. Have Alex and Mia meet us down in transporter room four.” Captain Vellutus had been looking over at Lt. Gail
when he gave that order. She has been with him since he first got his command.

“Are you expecting trouble, Captain?”

“Nope, but I did recognize that humanoid cat person standing behind Captain Ranuis. That’s Princess Catlin of the Ailuros Royal family. She’s one of their best warriors. If it was her kitten that had been kidnapped, we might have a problem. The Ailuros warriors and people aren’t known for their tolerance of people messing with their family. Especially, a child of a Royal member.”

“I hope they don’t think we had anything to do with it.” Lisa didn’t feel like killing anyone right now.

“If they did, we wouldn’t be having this meeting. The Ailuros warriors would have boarded us by now and taken over our ship.”

All of them arrive outside transporter room four where Alex and Mia were waiting for them. They walk in and Captain Vellutus looks over to the transporter person “have you received their request for transport?”

“Yes sir, just waiting for your permission.”

“Proceed.”

Jay proceeds with the transport as everyone watch as six forms materialize on the transporter pad. Once the transport is complete.

“Captain Vellutus, thank you for letting us come aboard your starship. Let me introduce you to my crew. My number one, Commander Jones, this is Princess Catlin of the Ailuros Royal family, My chief of communications officer Lt. Queens, and my bodyguards Agent Harris and Agent Brock.”

“I can feel her here and she is scared.” Catlin could feel how scared Terry was. She didn’t want to go back being a slave again.

“Who can you feel Princess Catlin?” Lisa was curious.

“My daughter. She doesn’t want to be a slave again.”

“Then I think we better hurry.” Captain Vellutus leads them down to hangar deck three.

When they arrive, they see medical personnel helping people from the slave ships and the crew of those ships were cuffed and were being held in one spot on the deck.

A small humanoid cat girl looks towards them as they approached and starts running towards Princess Catlin.

“Mommy.” she throws herself at her mother. Catlin scoops Terry up off the deck and holds her tight to her body.

Lisa notices that the little girl had on the same type of uniform that her mother did.

Lisa looks towards Captain Ranuis “she’s a member of your crew? Isn’t she a little to young to be a member of a starship?”

“She’s older then she looks. She’s my chief engineer.” Captain Ranuis was happy Terry was safe once again. He knew Catlin and her father
were planning on eliminating the planet the slaves were taken to be sold to set an example. They may still do it to.

Princess Catlin comes up to Captain Vellutus “thank you Captain for rescuing my daughter.”

“Think nothing of it Princess. My crew and myself hate slavers. We thought they had come from Earth with new slaves to replaces us.”

“You are from Earth, Captain?” Captain Ranuis was surprised to be meeting another group of humans from Earth.

“Most of my crew and myself were kidnapped from Earth by the Orgaians.”

“I’ve heard of them. I think we might be able to help each other Captain. What do you think Princess?”

“I think this might be beneficial to all of us. Captain, would you mind coming back with us to my home planet and meeting with my father and
the council? I think we can help each other.”

“If you haven’t notice Princess I have a rather large fleet I’m responsible for and I can’t just abandon them.”

“We can call some of our ships in to protect your fleet Captain. If nothing else you can come back with us on the Revenge along with the trash over there.” Princess Catlin nods her head towards the slavers.

“You don’t mind if I bring a few people with me, Princess.”

“Not at all, Captain.”

“Very well, Princess. I will come along with you and speak to your father and the council.”

Lisa had been watching Terry as her mother held her in her arms. The young girl had been looking around the landing bay and watching the crew members. She seemed so young to be a chief engineer of a Starship.

“Why don’t we take one of our shuttles back to your ship Captain.”

“Sounds reasonable. That way the trash can stand trial for kidnapping a Royal member.”

“Lisa, can you and your husband prep a long-range shuttle to take?”

“Yes Captain.”

Lisa taps her communicator “Henry, can you meet me in the shuttle bay please. We need to prep a long-range shuttle for the Captain and our
guest.”

“On my way now.”

When Lisa gets to the shuttle bay, she notices her husband has already began prepping shuttle fourteen for departure.

“Where are we going?” Henry was taking his seat.

“To the other ship and then to the Princess home world so Captain Vellutus can talk with her father and their council.”

“Is the fleet coming along?”

“Nope, just us.”

After ten minutes, everyone boards the shuttle and they launch towards the Revenge and land. Once the shuttle is secure and they are shown
rooms, they feel the ship vibrate slightly and the next thing they know they are on their way.

Captain Vellutus and his crew were given a tour of the Revenge while they traveled to Creuhiri.

“It’s an impressive ship Captain Ranuis.” Captain Vellutus was impress with the Revenge.

The ship was over a hundred years old, but its systems were only five years out of date compare to the Viminacium systems. The Revenge engineering systems was an older system, but more reliable.

Lisa couldn’t believe that the little cat girl that she met earlier was responsible for maintaining these systems. She also couldn’t believe that she had refurbished the whole entire engineering section. According to what she was seeing there were systems from different ships and cultures working together with no problems.

When Captain Vellutus and guest arrive back up on the bridge. They noticed Princess Catlin breast feeding Terry. She was draped across Princess Catlin’s lap at the navigation station.

“We’ll, that’s something you don’t see every day.” Lisa was a little startled to see the Princess breast feeding a grown cat girl.

Captain Ranuis had noticed the looks of their guest on seeing the Princess breast feeding their chief engineer on the bridge. Among the
Ailuros their child’s need always came first. In Terry’s case it was an enzyme only her mother’s breast milk could give her.

“It was a good thing that you found Terry when you did Captain Vellutus. Terry has a medical problem that only her mother can prevent from getting worse.”

“Oh? Why does she need to be breast feed? Couldn’t you bottle feed her?” Lisa was curious why the Princess was breast feeding while on the bridge.

“Well, to answer your question Lisa. First, The Princess can basically do what she wants. Her government own this ship. Plus, she’s a value member of my crew, along with her daughter as well. Which means she can override me if she wanted to., Second, she is sticking to her culture customs. Children always come first among the Ailuros people. Since Terry has been missing for the past few days. Her health has started to deteriorate and needs the enzyme that only her mother’s breast milk produce. Third, the Princess prefers to breast feed her child herself. She doesn’t like to use bottles, unless she really needs to. She prefers Terry on her lap. The last reason is, the bond between Terry and the Princess is stronger than most parents.”

Captain Ranuis was against it at first, but got used to it after a few times. Ever since Terry had gotten her new body from Dr. Ayaan and his medical staff. She was going to need the enzyme from her mother till her body could start producing it on her own. Right now, she only had one more year left of drinking breast milk from the Princess.

“I didn’t mean to sound rude Captain and Princess. It just seems kind of strange to breast feed while on the bridge. If you don’t mind me asking Princess. How old is Terry?”

“Terry is fifty-five years old Lisa. The reason she needs to be breast feed, her new body lacks an enzyme. It’s taken Dr. Ayaan a few years to come up with a way to make her new body to produce it.” Princess Catlin strokes Terry’s head while she feed.

Terry wasn’t even listening to the conversion going on near her. She had her eyes closed and concentrated on drinking her mother’s milk. At first, she felt uncomfortable having to drink from Catlin, but ever since the explosion she had been involved in. Her new body needed the enzyme in Catlin’s milk to stay healthy. She was the first human/ Ailuros hybrid child ever created. It was against the law to produce mix species children. You were either one or the other, but not both. Since her body was a clone between her damage DNA and an egg taken from
Catlin. She wasn’t against the hybrid law. Her new body was already smaller and slimmer than the average Ailuros female.

A couple of hours go by before they arrive at the Ailuros home world. They take the shuttle that Captain Vellutus and crew took from the
Viminacium to the Revenge down to the planet and was given permission to land at the Royal Palace. The place reminded Lisa of the Royal Palaces located on Earth.

The prisoners they brought back were immediately taken into custody. When Terry emerged from the shuttle, she was immediately protected. So, was the Princess as well.

“Boy, talk about being protective.” Lisa couldn’t believe the armed guards around the two.

“The princess and Terry have been kidnapped before from here. The King isn’t taking any chances any more with his daughter or
granddaughter.” Captain Ranuis had patrols out right now protecting the airspace out and around the Royal Palace. Nothing was getting near or pass the Revenge.

They are escorted into the Royal Palace and shown their individual rooms. Since Lisa and Henry were married, they shared a room. The room they had been given had a beautiful view of a huge garden that they could talk a walk in. They are informed that there are certain sections of the Palace and the city that no other race can enter and not to take it as an offense.

Lisa looks towards her husband “you know we could join the Captain in the talks or explore the grounds and city.”

“Captain Vellutus will let us know what he wants from us, hopefully.” Henry walks over towards the window and look out.

Lisa walks over to join him and takes a deep breath “it feels nice to smell real air for a change, instead of the air we have aboard the ship.”

The two of them stand there for a while enjoying the scenery and the fresh air. They were lost in their thoughts when they hear a knocking on their room door. Lisa turns around and goes to answer the door. When she opens it, she notices a young-looking cougar humanoid standing at the door.

“Excuse me ma’am, but you and your husband have been invited to a luncheon. If you’ll please follow me. I’ll escort you to the dining area.”
Cecil had been told to summon the earthlings that had come down with the princess.

“Henry, we have been invited to a luncheon.” Lisa looks back towards her husband.

Henry takes one more lungful of fresh air and walks towards Lisa and the young page.

Lisa and Henry follow the young page as they are escorted to the dining hall. They pass a lot of important looking images that take up huge sections of the wall. Lisa figure they must be important events from the Ailuros past. They finally arrive to a huge dining hall. Cecil show Lisa where she’ll be seating and Henry as well. They were sitting next to each other at a huge table.

Servers fill their wine glass with blueish purple drink. Lisa and Henry both notice that there were a lot of humans there at the table Captain Vellutus was sitting near the head of the table along with Captain Ranuis and a few other Captains and Commanders.

Servers come around the table and fill the plates up. Lisa notices that Terry was sitting next to her grandfather and grandmother. Several people introduce themselves to Lisa and Henry and discover they too were from Earth and had been kidnapped to be used as food, slaves and experimented on. A few were members of the Revenge, while others were on different ships or were specialist operators like the Princess. The luncheon allowed Lisa and Henry interact with everyone and discovered that Earth’s technology was still primitive compare to what they now had. Also, some moron was in the white house. If an invasion fleet came now to earth. Everyone would be enslaved.

A few of the people show Lisa and Henry images they took on their last recon of the Sol system and what Earth currently looked like. Lisa and Henry couldn’t believe how much it had changed since they had been kidnapped. They were going to have to ask the Captain if they could take one of the long-range scout ships out to investigate for themselves.

Lisa and Henry had gotten permission to take a long-range shuttle to investigate the sol system. They wanted to verify what they had been told by the captain from the Revenge. When they entered the system. They couldn’t believe what the scanners were telling them. There wasn’t any type of defense systems. No starships, and no advance technology at all to protect the Earth from invasion.

They landed the long-range shuttle at an abandon rail station. They managed to conceal their entry into the Earth atmosphere so that they could do some recon. They wanted to take back images of Earth to give to the Captain. Lisa did set their computer system aboard the shuttle to download information from the library of congress and several libraries and news agencies. She doesn’t think the current computer knowledge the Earth has, could defend itself against the advance technology they had.

Lisa and Henry spend almost a week gathering data to take back. The leaders of the different Earth governments were so fucked up, that she is surprised they haven’t killed themselves or destroyed the Earth with their dam greed, religious beliefs and prejudices. When were people going to get it through their thick skulls that crap like that doesn’t matter. All it does is cause wars and distrust between people. The leaders themselves and some of the religious leaders who preached intolerance and such. Should be shot or put on trail and let the people judge them.

“Henry, you know something. I’m kind of glad that we don’t live on Earth any more. It seems all the leaders of the different governments and beliefs these people hold onto. It has made them stupid and ignorant.” Lisa just couldn’t believe how society has gone down the toilet, instead of revolting against all this crap. How they were sheep and believed lies from officials that didn’t care for them at all.

Lisa and Henry do pick up a lot of things to take back with them. They knew the people that were still back on the ship would enjoy the items they were bring back. As they stock up the shuttle with the items, Lisa looks over towards Henry.

“Has Earth changed a lot since you were born?”

“Yes, it has changed a whole lot since I was born. Some of the people I knew when I was little are all died. I’m still young and everyone that I knew and loved are dead.” Henry had some research into his family to see who was still alive.

He had a bunch of nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews, but all his aunts and uncles were dead. So were his parents. There was no one that would know him still alive. Even the family home had been torn down and replace with the cookie cutter houses he saw.

“How about you? Were there any one from your family still alive?” Henry looks over towards his wife.

“Nope. My family line is dead.” Lisa did a computer search and everyone from her male side of the family was dead. On her mother’s side of the family. There were still members alive.

They finish loading up and board the shuttle. As they are taking their seats, Henry looks over towards Lisa.

“You know, we could set-up an observation base here and relay that information back to us.”

“It’s a good idea. We might want to speak to the captain about it when we get back.” Lisa straps herself in and bring the engines online and slowly raise up into the air. Once they get to a certain altitude. She engages the thrusters and take them into space and finally the hyper-drive.

“Well, we’ll be back home in about four hours.” Henry looks over at Lisa as she makes some minor adjustments.

“Can you believe the jackass they have as the president now in Washington D.C.? The man is a disgrace and all the other congressmen and women that support him. They are screwing over everyone all because they want to get some type of win.” Lisa couldn’t believe what she read about the current situation.

“You feed the masses what they want to hear, and they will believe almost anything. That’s why I’m glad we don’t have this bullshit out here where we are.” Henry was happy their current captain knew what the fuck he was doing.

“How many people do you think will still want to come back here to Earth after we give our report to the Captain?”

“I don’t know, but any one that has been modified or enhance can’t come back. These people aren’t ready for the advance technology we have now. If any of it fell into the wrong hands on Earth, it could tilt the scale of power into the wrong hands.” Henry just watches his wife.

“I know, and we couldn’t go back anyway, because we will live forever almost unless we are blown-up.” Lisa knew they could never go back. They were literally immortal.

Lisa gets up out of her seat and heads towards the back of the shuttle to grab something to drink. She looks at all the stuff they brought back and knew by the time word got out. People were going to be bugging them for the items.

“You know we are going to be spending some time in decon along with everything we brought back with us.” Henry walks up behind his wife wrap his arms around her waist.

“I know. We can pass the time making love with each other while were in there.” She leans back against his chest and grind her ass against his manhood.

“Mmmmm!! You don’t play fair.” He starts kissing Lisa and sliding her zipper down on her flight suit.

It doesn’t take him or her long to get each other undress and making out on the floor of the shuttle. Lisa made him lay on the floor on top of their clothes, while she rode him rough and hard. She was driving him deep and hard into her petite body. She keeps him busy, giving him what he wants, just as he gives her what she wants. By the time they are done using each other’s bodies and fulfilling their needs. They were tired and exhausted.

Lisa takes a light nap, while Henry listens out for the warning they were dropping out of hyper-space. After an hour, Henry hears the warning.

“Come on sleepy head. It’s time to go to work.” Henry heads up to the pilot’s compartment.

Lisa slowly gets redress and join him as the shuttle drops out of hyper-space. Lisa notices that the other ships from their convoy had arrived and was in orbit of the main planet and several stations and colonies. The Viminacium stuck out like a sore thumb against all the other ships. It was docked at the main space station along with the Revenge.

“Recon shuttle Kelsey's asking permission to dock.” Lisa was heading towards the Viminacium landing bay.

“Recon shuttle Kelsey’s, divert course to hangar 46 delta at New Quarter station.”

“Control, why aren’t we docking with our assigned ship?” Lisa was curious.

“Because Lieutenant, your recon shuttle has been reassigned to New Quarter station.”

“Roger control. Diverting course to New Quarter station.” Lisa kills the transmission and turns towards her husband.

“I wonder why we have been transferred off the Viminacium?”

“I don’t know, but we’ll learn once we land.” Henry prepares the landing sequence.

They spot the hangar they were told to go to and pass through the force field protecting it from space. Lisa lets Henry take it over as they head over and land the shuttle in its new assigned spot. Lisa notices a few people she didn’t know were waiting for them.

“I wonder who the welcoming committee is.” Lisa gets up from her seat after they touched down and shut the engines off.

“Well, let’s go and find out.” Henry gets out and walks pass his wife. If anything was going to happen. He wanted it to happen to him first.

As they exit from the shuttle, they are met by a young humanoid woman with blue skin and short purple color hair.

“Greetings Lieutenant’s, I’m Yeoman Triana and I work with the council. The council would like to talk with you, planet side. If you’ll follow me. I have a shuttle waiting for us. Also, all the stuff you brought back with you will go through decon while we’re gone.” Triana smiles at Lisa and Henry.

Lisa and Henry follow yeoman Triana to the shuttle waiting for them and head planet side.

Lisa couldn’t believe that once she gave the Captain and the council the report on how Earth was currently. The decision had been made to just send any of the normal looking humans that wanted to return to Earth. They were told to keep their existence quiet. A plan had been made to establish an outpost on the moon for observation reasoning. They would use that as a staging area to send people back to Earth. People who had been modify couldn’t go back, unless they have the modifications remove from them.

The debate went on about people returning and how to transport them.

Then Captain Vellutus and the council had agreed that he would put the Viminacium and all her support ships at the councils use. Some personnel have been shifted around so crew members serving under Captain Vellutus could learn and serve on other ships in the fleet. Lisa and her husband were still stationed aboard the Viminacium. They only lost a few members, but most of them had come from non-critical departments.

They did lose a few fighter pilots, but they were replaced by a bunch of cadets from the Ailuros military. Her husband was running a lot of drills.
Her squadron had three new people in it. Her husband’s squadron had five members that had been transferred to other ships. The hardest thing was getting the new cadets use to their fighters. The Ailuros people had different types of fighters.

“What are you doing to your fighter, Lisa?” Calvin didn’t like it when the pilot’s tried modifying their fighters. It made things hard on his crew to figure and replicate when the fighter got damage.

“I was getting interference on my scanners, so I thought I would try calibrating them.” Lisa found the circuit board that that had been damaged.

“You know, you should have just asked me to look at it?” Calvin walks over and looks at the circuit board.

“You forget, I helped design this fighter. So, I know where everything is and which boards I need to check and replace.” Lisa walks over towards the supply room and grab a new board to install.

“I don’t care, next time just tell me please?” Calvin watches as Lisa installs the new board.

She shuts the sensor repair bay and climb up and into the cockpit and turn the sensors on and gets a good reading. She makes a few adjustments and the scans come in clearer. Lisa shuts her fighter down and climbs out.

Calvin just shakes his head. He does a walk around making sure nothing else was opened or wrong with the fighter. It was the only fighter that wasn’t like the rest of the fleet.

“I still don’t understand how you managed to construct this fighter, instead of what we are using.”

“Because I can’t see properly over the instrument panel of the other fighters. I can rely on the sensor, but I like to look out into space when I fly. Plus, the controls of this fighter are calibrated just for my reflexes. So, it responds faster.” Lisa heads towards the pilot locker room and changes out of her clothes.

She slips on her skin-tight flight suit and grab her flight helmet. She heads back out to the hangar deck and over to her fighter.

“Calvin prepare me for launch.” Lisa climbs inside her fighter.

“Load Echo 1 on launch rails and launch when ready.” Calvin watches as Echo 1 is loaded on the launch rail.

Once Lisa was ready to launch, she launches. She flies around the ship and then does a scan. As she is flying her instruments pick up an intermediate beacon.

“Echo 1 to flight control. Are you guys picking up a beacon signal?” Lisa wonders why no one had picked it up.

“Negative Echo 1. We’re not picking up on anything. Are sure your picking it up?”

Lisa locks onto it and manages to bring it in stronger.

“Yes, I’m picking up on it. I’m going to go and investigate. If I’m not back in one hour. Send a rescue squad.” Lisa sets the coordinates.

“Roger, Echo 1. Setting timer now.”

Lisa engages her jump drive and jumps towards the location. It doesn’t take her to long to make the journey to the system where the beacon was coming from. There were large sections of ships debris floating around. None of the ships she spots look familiar to her. She tries identifying them with the on-board computer system in her fighter, but everything was coming up blank.

The beacon leads her to the fourth planet in the system. Her sensors classify the plant as tropical and was a little bigger than Earth. Its gravity was slightly higher then Earth, but within tolerance levels. She follows the beacon to its source and spots an over grown structure. There was a natural clearing not far from the structure. She engages the lateral gravity landing drives and land her fighter in the clearing. She grabs her backpack and her pulse laser and climb out of her fighter. She activates the security systems and heads towards the over grown structure. As she gets near it. She could tell it had been rebuilt several times. There were blast marks on it from where an explosive device or object exploded near it. There were craters where the devices had exploded.

It takes Lisa twenty minutes to find a way inside the structure. It looked like some sort of observation/research facility. It looked like it had been rebuilt a few times. She was finding material that should had been on the inside of a Starship inside the structure. Even the main console that controlled the place, looked like it had been recycled from a starship engineering section.

She continues to look around and soon finds the source of the beacon. There was a medical stasis pod. She checks the condition of it and finds out it still had power. She looks around and finds an old fashion holo-cube. The thing was at least two hundred years old.

Lisa taps her communicator and relay the signal through her fighters comm unit.

“Echo 1 to Viminacium, echo 1 to Viminacium, are you receiving me?”

“We’re receiving you Echo 1. What did you find?”

“I found a person in a stasis pod. Can you send an engineering team and medical team to my location?”

“Right away Echo 1. Viminacium out.”

“Echo 1 out.” Lisa continues to look around the place.

She finds a hidden door that leads to crew quarters and a hidden hangar. Inside the hangar were fighters she hadn’t seen before and a transport shuttle that looked like it had seen better days. She checks the fighters out and find them fully armed and ready to fly. She also discovers they were equipped with a cloaking field. As far as she knows, there weren’t any cloaking fields installed on any fighters she knew about. She’ll have to ask the Princess when she gets back to the planet.

A few hours later, two long range shuttles show-up. She meets them by her fighter. Her husband was one of the pilots that came along.

“I see you found something interesting.” Henry walks over to his wife.

She just smiles at him “all I did was follow my nose.” She stands up on her tip toes and gives him a kiss.

“Oh, I found something you would like.” Lisa takes her husband down to the hidden hangar and shows him the fighters.

“They are equipped with a cloaking device. They don’t have jump drives like our fighters do, but they have a cool cloaking device built into them. Can you image how much of an advantage it would give a strike squadron.” Lisa wouldn’t mind having one in her fighter.

Henry just shakes his head at his wife. They help the engineering team and medical team at the site.

Klara wakes-up and looks around her. She could tell she was in some sort of medical bay. She tries to move, but there was some sort of neural inhibitor that was preventing her from transmitting commands to her limbs.

She tries to figure out where she was. If she had been found by the Draconic Empire, her body would already be deconstructed. She spots a human doctor walking in. He had some gray in his hair and looked handsome.

Dr. Hawkins walks over to the person they found in a medical stasis pod. The body itself was a highly advanced android body. It was still more advanced than anything they had today. They had done a scan of the body and discovered it had an actual human spirit inside it.

It was like how the Theocratic Systems Masters would take a humanoid and turn them into bio-organic robots. How they did it, was by completely wiping the memory of the host body and slowly replacing their organic limbs and other body parts. They kept the brain in tack but programmed it like it was a computer until the person was completely gone. If they had their original eyes, you could see it.

The technology to transfer a person’s spirit into an android body was still new. Whoever did the construction of the body and transfer the spirit had to be a genius.

“Where am I and why can’t I move?” Klara didn’t like being paralyzed.

“You’re aboard the Viminacium and I am Doctor Hawkins. If you don’t mind me asking, what is your name and why were you in the medical stasis pod?”

“I’m Klara Swansong and I put myself in the stasis pod, after waiting for someone from the Federation to get back to her. I’ve been sending a signal to them for the last fifty years and I got no response from them. My artificial body needs certain synthesized proteins the lab I was left at, couldn’t produce. I tried to keep operating and coming up with a different version of the protein I needed, but my artificial organs really need the protein. So, when my body started hurting and shutting down. I put myself in the medical stasis pod.” Klara had no other choice to do what she did.

“Well, I fixed the protein problem your artificial body needs. I had to replace one of your organs, which is an older model for one of the newer ones. Now, you don’t need to have the protein and barring natural accidents. You’ll live for a very long time.” Dr. Hawkins knew if she gets killed, her body would never die. Even if she didn’t eat anything.

“Can you at least remove whatever neural inhibitor on the back of my neck, please? I am not a threat to you or anyone else.”

“Sorry about that.” Dr, Hawkins reaches behind Klara’s neck and disengages the inhibitor.

“Thank you.” Klara felt better now that she could move.

“How did you end up in an artificial teenage girl body?”

“During an attack from the Draconic Empire. They bombed the research facilities you found me at. I managed to drag my damage body over to the research lab where we had constructed this body. I used the equipment in the lab to transfer my essence into this form. I didn’t wake till hours later and discovered my original body had been sealed inside the medical stasis pod.

I tried to get help, but the Draconic Empire had a strong presence in this system. I tried to work under the radar, but they discover me a few times. So, the last time they attack. They destroyed the pod my real body was kept in.”

“So, now you’re stuck in your current form?” Dr. Hawkins knew someone like Klara.

“Yes, even if I could clone a new body. I’ve been in this body for so long, that I could never transfer back to a normal body.” Klara had already thought about the problem.

Royal Palace Pool Side:
Lisa was laying on her stomach, enjoying the sun and the downtime. She was totally nude, along with her husband lying next to her. The Ailuros people didn’t have a nudity problem. So, Lisa and her husband were taking advantage of the fact they weren’t required to have swimsuits on.

“I love feeling the sun rays.” Lisa glances over towards her husband, who was reading a book.

He found a book he liked in the Royal library and borrowed it to read by the poolside. The book has been tagged with a chip, so it is automatically transported back to the library. Henry was enjoying the time with his wife. He looks over towards her cute behind as she enjoyed the sun.

“You look like a cat that is recharging its battery in the sunlight.”

“Can you blame me? We spend so much time in space, that sometimes I forget what it is like to be planetside.” Lisa turns over, so the front of her body could tan.

Lisa has come to terms with what was done to her so long ago. She could never see herself going through life without Henry by her side. As for the fighters they brought back. They managed to get one up and operational. She took it out and enjoyed every minute of it. If it had its own hyperdrive, it would give it a better advantage.

The engineers aboard the Revenge and Viminacium were working on constructing a new one that had hyper-drive to it. She couldn’t wait till it came off the assembly line.

“Henry, what do you want to do tomorrow?” Lisa looks over towards her husband.

“I figure we would go sailing for the day. The Captain said he didn’t want to see us back on the ship for two weeks.”

“Sounds good to me.” Lisa closes her eyes and enjoys the rest of the day tanning.

Vicky checks her navigation charts again as she exists from hyperspace. She was bringing relief supplies for Vesta V colony. As she approaches the planet, the sensors were picking up several destroyers that belonged to the Orgaian Confederation.

“Captain, we might want to get the hell out of here.” Jexa was worried about the three destroyers in orbit.

“Are we picking up anything planetside?” Vicky knew what would happen if she and Jexa were captured by the Orgaians. They would be turned into slaves either as sex slaves or servants. She knew Jexa would be turned into a sex slave, her they might turn into an organic robot.

“Just ruins. They have leveled everything down there.” Jexa was getting ready to do a one-eighty and take them back the way they came.

“Let’s get the fuck out of here.” Vicky prepares the weapons and shields.

Jexa does a one-eighty and starts heading back out of the system.

“We got company coming towards us, boss.” Jexa had picked up a squadron of fighters coming towards them.

“Dam! I was hoping they hadn’t picked us up on their scanners yet.” Vicky forgot that the Orgaian Confederation ships had the best sensors onboard. She’s been out on the outter edge too long.

“Their getting closer, Vic.” Jexa has been watching the incoming fighters coming towards them. The Monkey Wrench was fast and could defend itself against a heavy cruiser, but fighters were another thing. They were faster and about as agile as the Monkey Wrench.

“I’ll take care of the fighters, you handle the Wrench.”

“Good luck.” Jexa begins basic avoidance maneuvers.

Vicky heads towards the weapons chamber and jumps down into it. She is suspended in the middle of the chamber as the interior switches to looking like if she was outside of the ship. She loved the design of the weapon chamber. It gave her complete sensor reading around the ship. She turns to face the fighters coming up from behind the Wrench.

Green energy beams flash by as she feels Jexa takes evasive action. She pulls her hand back sling it forward. The plasma cannons mounted on the back of the Monkey Wrench fire towards the fighters that fired at her. The plasma cannons hit three of the fighters.

Several more fighters open fire on the Monkey Wrench. Jexa avoids the attacks, however, one energy beam manages to hit the shields. The Monkey Wrench rocks slightly.

“How dare you fire at my ship.” Vicky fires two skipper missiles at the fighters. The Monkey Wrench wasn’t your typical freighter. She was an old military escort ship from the Federation and was equipped with military grade weapons, shields and armor meant for a cruiser type starship.

Several missiles start coming towards the Monkey Wrench. Vicky fires the countermeasures as she feels the ship dance. She knew Jexa was one hell of a pilot and was lucky to get her away from her people. Most Mephitidoids stayed with their family, but Jexa wanted to explore the galaxy.

“Vicky, I’m picking up an incoming ship.” Jexa had noticed an energy spike directly in front of their path. She avoids the incoming ship and its escorts.

Viminacium Command Bridge:
Captain Vellutus had received orders to head towards the Sirius system to protect the Uav'yk people from three Orgaian Confederation ships. The long-range communication station had picked up on Orgaian communications They were sending three destroyers and several cargo carriers to gather the populous of the planet.

“How much longer, Lisa?” Captain Vellutus didn’t know if the attack has already taken place or not.

Lisa looks down at the jump counter “right about now, sir.”

The Viminacium emerges out of hyperspace and right in front of a small freighter. Captain Vellutus watches as the freighter veers off. It was being followed by several Orgaian fighters.

“Launch fighters and head towards the planet.” Captain Vellutus stands up from his command chair.

“Launch all fighters, I repeat, launch all fighters.” Lisa wishes she was going with her fighter group, but it was her turn at the navigation console.

Launch Bay:
Henry heard his wife’s voice to launch all fighters. He grabs his helmet and runs towards his new fighter. He was just given one of the new fighters equipped with cloaking devices. It had twice the weapon systems that his old fighter had. He launches with the rest of his squadron.

Henry and his squadron intercept another group of fighters that had been launch. He spots the freighter dodging and firing at the remaining fighters that had gone after it.

“Lisa, there’s got to be a carrier around here hidden somewhere. See if you can find it.” Henry knew the Destroyers weren’t designed to carry fighters.

“I’m on it, Henry.” Lisa looks over towards P9 since he was on the bridge with her.

“P9, scan for Orgaian stealth carriers.”

Captain Vellutus was watching the fighting going on outside of the ship on the holographic screens in front of him. He notices the destroyers had chosen a protective stance around the cargo carriers.

“Sir, the Challenger, Aramis are heading towards the destroyers.” Lisa transfer the readings to the holo-screen Captain Vellutus was watching the combat.

“Good, give them cover fire and send fighter squadron Delta and Gamma to cover them.”

Lisa does as she is instructed to do. She looks over towards P9 “come on P9, I need those coordinates for those carriers.”

Monkey Wrench:
Vicky notices the incoming ships and continues to fire at the fighters coming after her ship. She spots something out of the corner of her eyes while inside the holographic weapon chamber.

“Jexa, concentrate our sensors towards these coordinates.” Vicky types the coordinates in mid-air and sends them towards the bridge.

Jexa receives them and concentrates the Monkey Wrench sensors towards the coordinates. She makes a few adjustments to get a better scan. The sensors were still having problems locking on. It seemed to her that the carriers didn’t want them to know they were there. She boosts the sensors and ties them in with the old Gravity sensors that were no longer used.

“Vicky, I’m picking up several ships hiding over there.” Jexa watches as the images fade in and out.

“Who is that other ship with?” Vicky knew the Monkey Wrench wasn’t carrying enough firepower to attack the carrier.

“According to the marking on their ship, they are with the Ailuro Federation.” Jexa had done a scan of the ships that had jumped in.

“Send those scans to their flagship. It should be their carrier if they have one.”

Jexa does as Vicky instructs.

Viminacium Command Bridge:
P9 finally manages to lock onto the stealth carriers, using all the sensors from all the fighters. He now knew where they were located. He sends those coordinates to Lisa.

Just as P9 was sending the coordinates to Lisa, Brenda was receiving a transmission from the Monkey Wrench.

“Sir were receiving a transmission from the freighter.”

“Put it through, Mrs. Jones.”

“This is the Monkey Wrench to Ailuro carrier. There are three Orgaian carriers hiding at these coordinates. I repeat, there are three carriers hiding at these coordinates.”

Lisa looks at the coordinates that were being sent and they matched the ones they had.

“They are matching, Captain.” Lisa was ready to head there and take them out.

“Lisa, recall Alpha and Echo squadron and have them join us. We’re going after those carriers.”

“Yes, sir.” Lisa gives the recall to Alpha and Echo squadron to form upon them.

Monkey Wrench:
“Vicky, the Carrier is heading towards the others. Do you want to help out?” Jexa wanted to have some fun.

“Nope, we’ll play support for the fighters. Take us towards the destroyers.” Vicky arms the Atlas ship killer missiles the Monkey Wrench was carrying. Using those missiles were going to cut into her profits, but they were powerful enough to disable the destroyers.

Jexa flies the Monkey Wrench like it was a butterfly towards the destroyers. The ship danced like it was a living organism. If there was one thing Jexa was good at, was flying the Monkey Wrench.

Once the Monkey Wrench was within range, Vicky fires the Atlas ship killers. The fighters had already done a nasty job to them, but when the Atlas hits them. It just makes matters worse for the destroyers.

A big gapping hole opens up on the Destoryers.

“Remind me later to paint three destroyers on our hull.” Vicky had an evil smile on her face.

“You can’t count that as a full kill Vicky. They were already damaged from the fighters.”

“Ya, ya.” Vicky leaps out of the weapon unit and heads towards the bridge.

“Let’s see what help we can provide.”

Viminacium Command Bridge:
The Viminacium rocks as the energy beams from the enemy carriers hit the protective shields protecting the Viminacium. Captain Vellutus watches as the powerful phase cannons from the Viminacium struck the protective shields of the Orgaian carriers. They tear right through the protective shields and go straight to the hulls. The energy tore right into the hull of the other ship.

“Keep firing.” Captain Vellutus wanted to make sure the Orgaian commander got the message from them.

The Viminacium phase cannons kept pounding and passing through the protective shields of the Orgaian shields. The secondary weapons of
the Viminacium intercepted any incoming missiles or fighters that tried to get close to the carrier.

Lisa was watching the activity going on outside of the ship. She kept a close eye on her husband’s fighter. He was out in one of the new fighters and she wanted him to come back safe.

Once the Orgaian carriers were destroyed. She looks towards the captain to see what he wanted to do next.

“Send our medical team over towards the cargo carriers to check on the prisoners.”

“Aye Captain.” Lisa sends the order to the medical team standing by down in the shuttle bay.

Monkey Wrench:
“Vicky, what do we do with the supplies we were sent to deliver?” Jexa looks over towards her boss.

“Let’s see what is going to happen with the people from Vesta V colony. They might go back down and resettle the place.”

“If they do, they better hope the Ailuro Federation is going to station either a space station here or ships.

Monkey Wrench:
Vicky and Jexa helped with the unloading of the cargo they had been hired to bring to Vesta V. The Ailuro carrier was providing protection for the planet, while a defense station was being brought in. The citizens that had been rounded up and put in the transport ships were back planetside and rebuilding.

Once the Monkey Wrench was unloaded. Vicky and Jexa took it to the location of the destroyed carriers and destroyers. They were doing salvage work to replenish the missiles Vicky had to fired and to see what other goodies might be there.

Jexa was out in her space suit, while Vicky handled the Monkey Wrench. She was scanning the debris field locating the ships they wanted to go aboard.

“Jexa, check out these coordinates.” Vicky sends the coordinates to Jexa onboard computer system.

Jexa checks the coordinates and engages her thruster pack. She spots the hull of an Orgaian destroyer.

“Found it, Vicky. I’m going aboard to see what missiles are still left.” Jexa makes her way inside the Destroyer.

“Roger Jexa.” Vicky keeps watching on the sensors, making sure Jexa doesn’t head into any areas with heavy radiation readings.

Jexa goes through the departments till she comes to the weapon magazine. She looks around and spots several missiles that they could use to replace what they had used.

“Hey Vicky, I found gold for us. Sending over transport coordinates.” Jexa sends the location of the missiles she found.

“Alright, receiving coordinates.” Vicky inputs them into the transport station and beams over the missiles.

“I also found a few more items you might be interested in, Vicky.” Jexa found several advance power armor units that the Orgaian shock troops use for a ground assault.

“Vicky, I have more items for you to beam over to our cargo holds.” Jexa puts their tags on the items.

“Alright, beaming the items over.” Vicky locks onto Jexa signal and beams her over as well.

Jexa feels the tingling sensation of the Monkey Wrench transport beam as it gathers around her body, setting the fur on her body on end. One minute she is in deep space and the next she is aboard the Monkey Wrench in the cargo hold. She deactivates the life support force field unit and takes it off to recharge it.

“I hate that beamer of ours. It always puffs out my fur, every time I use it.” Jexa takes a brush out to brush her fur flat.

Vicky suppresses a smile as she watches her partner brush her fur down. She couldn’t believe that Jexa’s people resembled Earth skunks in humanoid form. They didn’t have the stunk sacs/spray.

“Why don’t you use the spray I got you?”

“Because it doesn’t work when I use the beamer.” Jexa finishes up brushing her fur back down.

“Alright, we need to head back to Upolu Station and see what new jobs they have for us.” Vicky and Jexa head back towards the cockpit to head towards Upolu Station.

Viminacium Command Bridge:
Captain Vellutus had received orders to stay in the system and protect Vesta V colony. The space tug Arthur Foss was transporting a retired defense platform from the mothball fleet to the system. It was fifty years out of date, but the engineering crew they were sending to get it up and operational were upgrading the systems on it.

“Lisa, what is the Monkey Wrench doing?”

“It’s going through the destroyed ships, sir. Captain Vicky is doing salvage work. I got confirmation she has already delivered the supplies she was hired too.”

“Very well. Send a recovery team out to the Carriers and the Destroyers and retrieve whatever information they can from their computer systems.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Lieutenant Frost gather your recovery team and prepare to head out for information recovery.”

“Roger, Lisa.”

Ensign Arreola had been called down to the shuttle bay and was told to start prepping a shuttle for the recovery team. Her friend Ensign
Spriggs was prepping shuttle 6 to take the secondary recovery team. Once the recovery team show up and board. Shuttle 6 and shuttle 43 launch and head for the damage ships to recover what they could.

“Any word from the Arthur Foss, Alice?” Captain Vellutus looks towards his communication officer.

“Yes, sir. Their ETA is 3 hours out. They need to be careful while pulling the Defense Platform through hyperspace.”

“Alright, let me know when they arrive.” Captain Vellutus leaves the bridge and heads down towards his quarters. Originally, he had helped in designing and building of the Viminacium and her support ships. They were meant to escort all the humans that had been kidnap and turned into slaves back to Earth.

However, all that changed after meeting the Ailuro’s. The other Empire that they had never heard of had kidnap humans or bought them on the slave market. On top of that, Earth wasn’t what any of them remember it use to be and they weren’t ready or prepared for the trouble that
might come their way.

The information Lisa and her husband gathered while they were there. Proved that the governments of Earth weren’t ready for the type of technology they possess. They let stupid, arrogant people and religion rule them. If they had the technology he had under his command, they would destroy each other.

He walks over towards his bar and fixes himself a glass of Phoenix whiskey. Once he downs the whiskey, he fixes himself another glass and sits down to go over the reports from his First Officer. She was planetside with several engineering teams helping to rebuild.

PlanetSide:
Lieutenant Commander Baskey was planetside with her away team overseeing the reconstruction of the colony. Several engineering teams from Viminacium were working hard to rebuild what the Orgaian Empire had destroyed. So, far they have managed to get the power center and water flowing again. The water treatment centers that had been damaged we're going to take longer. Several of the main halls were acting as temporary living centers, while reconstruction was going on.

“Lieutenant Commander Baskey, we’ve managed to get the communication systems up and running. Now we can reach the Viminacium and the Defense Station once it is operational.” Ensign Marston hands her tablet over to Baskey.

Baskey accepts the tablet and looks over it. Getting the communication system up and running was important, along with getting places where people could live. So, far things were going according to plan. Baskey decides to test the communication array. She sends a message from the tablet up to Viminacium.

A reply message is sent back to her from communications aboard the ship.

“Looks good Ensign.” Baskey hands the tablet back.

Marston accepts it and runs off to tell her team.

A smile appears on Baskey’s face as she watches Marston runoff. She remembers when she first joined the fleet. She had been a house servant for one of the local Governors on Vordan. She was born on Vordan and then sold off to be raised in the household she would serve, till she was sold or died. The Governor and his wife made sure she understood her status among their slaves.

The slave master had his way with her when she started her first cycle, and if she resisted his advances, she would be punished. Everything from whipping to her rations cut. He would knit pick her work, so the house manager would punish her.

When Captain Trejo personally freed her. She had no idea what she was going to do. She never knew what freedom felt like. So, she joined the fleet under Captain Trejo. When Captain Vellutus started to gather Captain’s and ships to head back to Earth. She did everything she could to help.

Monkey Wrench:
Vicky pilot’s the Monkey Wrench into one of the docking bays at Upolu Station. She shuts down the gravity engines and slides down the old fashion wooden ladder from the cockpit. The ladder was made of a special tree that was as strong as the armor plating on modern starships.

“Hey, Vicky. I’m going to Kaleidoscope for some fun.” Jexa loved Kaleidoscope and enjoyed herself while she is there. She wonders if Zhora was going to be there?

“Alright, have fun. I’m going to check with Chasch and see if he has any jobs for us.” Vicky puts away her gun belt.

Jexa heads off towards Kaleidoscope, while Vicky heads towards Chase's office to see if he had any more jobs for her. Also, she was going to collect on her last delivery as well. She passes a few security officers and notices that there were more than normal security officers out on the promenade.

She wonders why there was an increase in security. She was lucky that Chasch was in his office. Vicky walks in “greetings Chasch, I’m here to collect on the delivery and to see if you have any more jobs available.”

Chasch looks at his favorite female human. He has known Vicky since she was with the rebels. She grew-up among freighter Captain’s and started at the bottom before she became a Captain herself.

He taps a few keys on his keyboard and transfers the credits to her account. He looks back at her “payment has been made to your account.
As for a new job, unfortunately, I don’t have anything for you now. I heard you ran into some trouble on your last job.”

“Yea, I ran into some Orgaian destroyers. Luckily for me, I had support from an Ailuro carrier.” Vicky was surprised when they came into the system.

“Well, it seems your little butt was saved again.” Chasch had a teasing smile on his face.

“Yeah, yeah, I know that the Monkey Wrench is an old ship, but he has a few surprises most people don’t know about.” Vicky had made some special modifications to the Monkey Wrench that came from other ships bigger than the Monkey Wrench.

“I’m sure you do, Vicky. Are you going to stay at the station for a while?”

“Yep, Jexa wants to have some fun. She’s more than deserves it.” Vicky knew it was dangerous to search damaged ships.

“If anything comes in, I’ll call you and give you first shot at it.” Chasch knew Vicky could handle almost anything.

“Thanks, I’m heading to The Naked Lady Pub.” Vicky leaves Chasch establishment and over to an old fashion Irish Pub.

The place has been passed down from one human to another human for over two hundred years. The original owner had been taken from Earth back during the 16th century. During the centuries as more people were stolen from Earth. The bar would pass down to either a decedent of the original owner or be bought from the few Irish clans on the station.

Vicky could hear a celebration going on inside the bar as she walks in. She walks right up to the counter “Jerry, give me an ale, please.”

An old man with salt and pepper hair turns around. He still retained some of his features from his youth, with his strong build. His right eye was cybernetic. He had a scar underneath his left eye.

“Victoria, where have you been hiding, lass?” As he fills a large mug with an amber ale.

“Been doing some planet hopping and deep space hauling.” As she accepts the mug of ale from him.

Vicky takes a good deep gulp of the ale. She misses drinking it. She has been all over the galaxy and hasn’t come across anything like the ale the Naked Lady makes. She takes another sip from it.

“Keep it coming tonight Jerry. I am planning on getting wasted tonight.” Vicky was going to find someone to take back to her ship and fuck their brains out.

Viminacium:
Klara looks at herself in the mirror in her new quarters aboard the Viminacium. Dr. Hawkins informed her that they couldn’t transfer her essences from her artificial body back into a living body. The technology just wasn’t there to do that. Even with the equipment and notes, they found at the station she had been living. The technology only allowed a one-way transfer.

Dr. Hawkins did say they could transfer her essence into a much newer and older android body if she wishes. They constructed another model for her and transferred her essences into a new body. Her older one they made copies of and placed it into storage.

She was now a crew member of the Viminacium. They were protecting Vesta V colony until the space station was up and running. The Arthur Foss had towed the station into the system and several engineering teams from the Arthur Foss and the Viminacium were upgrading and prepping the station. The Revenge had come into the system to help out. They had sent over an engineering crew that had the Princess daughter with them. Shew as one of the best engineering around and she wanted to help get the station operational.

She had volunteered to go over herself, but the doctor told her to give it a few days for her mind to adjust to her new body.

Klara heads towards the agriculture center of the ship to help with harvesting the crops the crew had planted. They had expected to be aboard
the carrier for a long time heading back to Earth, but as it stands. Earth isn’t ready for the type of technology they would be brought back.

Lisa and Henry on patrol:
Lisa was loving the new fighters the engineers had come up with. They were based on the fighters she brought back from the planet she found them and Klara on. She still loved her Buck Rogers style fighter.

“Woohoo!” As Lisa streaks right by her husband in the fighter.

A smile appears on her youthful face as she puts the fighter through paces. She activates the practice drones and tests the targeting sensors on the fighter. They were a little different than the ones on her fighter, but they were extremely good.

Lisa knew her husband was having as much as she was having. She and Henry begin a cat-mouse game of who could tag who. In the end, her husband wins.

The two of them head back to carrier to give their reports and to spend some time together.

Upolu Station, Monkey Wrench:
Vicky looks at the man she brought back to the Wrench last night. He had a military hair cut and was well built. He was one of the security officers that guarded the station. He had come into the pub to enjoy himself.

They had a few drinks and the next thing she knew. They were back at the Monkey Wrench tearing each other’s clothes off. She slips out of her bed and walks into the bathroom. She shivers, as the cold air in her quarters hit her warm body.

Once Vicky is done in the bathroom and has washed her hands, she heads back to bed. She snuggles up to the man she had sex with last night. It has been a long time since she has had sex like she did last night.

Lieutenant Suder wakes up and notices the woman he had left the pub with, laying next to him. She had milked him so much last night, that his testicles were hurting. He looks down at her sleeping form and notices she had a vine of roses that started down near her tailbone and climbed up her spine. It weaved in and out with different color roses in full bloom.

There was also a tattoo of a Monkey with a huge Wrench in its hand. There was something written in some sort of alien language underneath the Monkey. He wonders what the translation of the writing was?

He slips out of bed and finds the bathroom in her quarters. He notices the bathroom was simple and a little small, but it had everything a person needed. He walks out of the bathroom and back into the main room. He looks at all the decorations the room had. He notices that over in one corner was a custom-made weapons locker. Inside were all sorts of energy and black powered weapons in it, along with some more ancient bladed weapons.

Next, to the custom weapons, locker were suits of body armor. Some of them still had battle damage that hadn’t been repaired.

“I wonder what did this?” Derek was curious what weapon had left such a deep carter in heavy armor.

“It was an Ojmox plasma rifle that hit me. I spent a week in a recovery tank being put back together.” Vicky had woken up again.

She saw the man she came back with looking at her collections of weapons and her old combat gear. The body armor he was asking questions about was when she helped protect a Zurunda colony from the Ojmox. An Ojmox assault squad had been sent to kill the colony and the Monkey Wrench had been pinned down. An Ojmox plasma beam from a soldier’s rifle had hit her body armor. If the armor hadn’t been as tough as it was. The beam would have removed her whole entire left arm.

“You spent a week in a recovery tank?” Derek had never heard of that before.

“Yeah, the Zurunda have medical technology that is more advanced then Draconic Empire or the Orgaian Empire. They completely fixed all the damage done to my shoulder area.” Vicky loved the Zurunda race.

Vicky hated that she had to leave their planet. She wanted to stay, but they preferred to be left alone and didn’t like off worlders. Their homeworld was all the way out on the fringe of space. Which meant it would be hard for her to get jobs.

“So, how long are you going to be on station?” Derek wouldn’t mind spending more time with this young Captain.

“Don’t know, it could be just for a few hours or a few days. I’m waiting to hear back from my booking agent.” Vicky hopes she gets some jobs soon.

“Well, I don’t have to be back on duty, till later. We could continue what we started last night.” Derek smiles as he looks down into Vicky’s eyes.

“Sounds like a good idea, but I need food first. Come on, I’ll make you some breakfast.” Vicky grabs a pair of clean panties and slips them on. She also slips on an oversized t-shirt as well.

Derek slips on his pants and follows Vicky to the common area. He notices that it was rather plain looking. There was a wooden table that could seat eight people around it. There was also a relaxation area where the crew could relax.

Vicky starts cooking some food for the two of them. It was rare when she could cook some normal food. Sure, her and Jexa shared the cooking and the food, but there were things that she couldn’t eat that Jexa made and there were things she could eat, that Jexa couldn’t.
Derek finds the entertainment unit and selects some music, while Vicky cooked. He couldn’t understand, why Vicky would want a ship so old.

“Do you want some freshly brewed coffee?” Vicky had fresh coffee beans on her ship.

“You have fresh coffee?” Derek looks over towards Vicky.

“Yep, I have fresh coffee.” A smile appears on her face.

“Good, I would love a cup.” Derek walks over to the counter and watches Vicky as she cooks.

Once the food was done, Vicky serves it up along with some freshly brewed coffee. The two of them walk over towards the table and sit down to enjoy the meal.

“You should be a chef.” Derek was enjoying his meal.

“Thanks, I use to be a line cook on a passenger ship.” Vicky served for a few years as a cook on a space liner.

Entry Port, Upolu Station:
Juno follows the rest of the passengers from the transport through the arrival gate. Her hood hid her alien looking face from anyone trying to look at her. She is stopped by security and asked for her identity card. She hands it over and watches as the security officer scans it.

The security guard hands her card back to her. Juno accepts the card and tucks it into a hidden pocket on her bodysuit, under her cloak. She walks over towards the main directional map of the station to locate some lodging.

Juno selects a decent place to stay at, while she is at the station. Once the arrangements are made. She heads towards the place.

It has been a long trip from Yoirus. Juno wanted to finally get some rest and sleep. She has been on the run for the past seven days with little sleep and little food. She doesn’t regret what she did and was still getting used to her new form.

Juno never thought what happened to her could change her life so much. She receives the card key to her room and heads towards it. Once she is inside, she lowers her hood and removes her cloak. She drapes it over the chair in her room, along with her gun belt.

Juno looked at her new form in the mirror. She hadn’t realized that the alien device she stole from Governor Tillis of Gezoanides would change her as it had. It merged her male body with the rare Nightshade Tiger that the governor kept as a pet. The device had combined their DNA and changed her into a humanoid female Nightshade tiger with all the abilities the Nightshade had. She removes her bodysuit and examines her new body.

She hasn’t had time to examine her new body since she changed. Governor Tillis had hired a hunting party to bring her back. He wanted to place her in his private zoo and breed her to produce more like her. every station or planet she stopped at, there had been someone there trying to capture her.

The last hunters she encountered, she was forced to kill them. She turns around and looks at her gun belt. The strange cylinder object on her gun belt, she had found in a crashed transport. Most of the weapons she had, she found in the crashed transport. She didn’t know what the race was of the pilots, but they were catlike in appearance. She had taken their weapons, clothes and whatever credits they still had on them.

The escape pod she had crashed landed in, had landed near the crashed transport. She had been nude and had no way to defend herself. She was glad that the bodysuits she had taken off the dead bodies were self-forming.

It had grossed her out to wear something someone had died in. But she needed something to protect her soft fur body from the harsh sand storm that had blown in. She was lucky that the survival gear in the escape pod had fresh water.

Juno heads into the bathroom to take a sonic shower. She would love a nice hot water shower, but the rooms that had those were expensive. She had to be careful with what money she still had left. She steps into the sonic shower stall and takes a shower.

Visitor’s Quarters, Upolu Station:
Juno slowly wakes up, after sleeping for two days straight. She was feeling dehydrated and extremely hungry when she woke up. She gets up and heads towards the small bathroom her rented quarters had. It wasn’t much, but it had what she needed in order to clean herself and to relieve herself.

After she goes to the bathroom and slips the form-fitting body suit back on. She grabs her weapons belt and put it on. she pulls the slender circular cylinder that hung from the belt. She has never seen anything like it before.

Juno examines it for about twenty minutes and just as she was about to give up. A blueish white blade erupts from it. The blade itself was about 4 foot long. She has never seen anything like it before.

Juno cuts it off and manages to turn it on again. She wonders where it came from and who constructed it. She hangs it on the gun belt and grabs the battered cloak she has been wearing to conceal her looks.

Juno leaves her quarters and heads down to Promenade Deck 2 to see what food places they had. As she is walking around, she remains on guard and aware of anyone that is around her. She doesn’t know if she has lost the bounty hunters that were trying to capture her and take her back to Governor Tillis.

Her nose guides her to a place that was owned by an Ailuro. Since they were like her, she figures the food they served would be compatible/acceptable with her new form.

She walks up to the vendor “I would like a sampler plate please.” Juno figures it would be a good place to start.

Moya looks up at the person before him that just ordered some food. His nose told him the person was female and had a feline scent to them. He tries to see the persons face, but the hood of the cloak they were wearing hiding their body, hid the woman’s facial features.

“That will be ten credits.” Moya wonders why the person was being so secretive about their looks.

Juno digs her credit card out and slides it into the card reader to pay for her meal. Once the reader accepts the payment, she removes the card and slips it back into the secret pocket on her bodysuit. She has found the form-fitting bodysuit she was currently wearing very handy.

“Here you go, one sampler. If there is anything you find that you like. Please come back and let me know.” Moya hands the sampler over to Juno.

“Thank you.” As Juno walks over to a table, so she could eat her meal and watch what was going on.

As she attentively takes a bite of the food. Her taste buds seem to come alive. She has never tasted anything so wonderful before. All the feeling she was feeling from her taste buds was new to her. She never experienced anything like this before when she used to be human.

Her body crazed more as she takes another bite. She moves onto the next sample that was on the plate. It was okay, it didn’t set her taste buds off as the first one did. She wonders what she is going to do now. The device that combined her male body with the female DNA of the
Nightshade Tiger burned itself out. She didn’t know that the device could do something like that. The client told her that it was a device that could transfer the soul of a healthy person to a dying person. Nowhere, in the description or diagram did it mention anything about combining the DNA of two different species to form a new species.

Juno enjoys the rest of her meal. She did find that of the samplers she had been served, there were three samples her taste buds loved and that her body craved. She had ordered some sort of cream drink and loved it. She ended up drinking four of them.

Once she was done with the sampler and full for the first in the past seven days. Juno walks around the Promenade decks. She buys a few odds and ends that she was going to need in order to survive. The credit card she was using, couldn’t be traced back to her. It was one of the cards she found on the dead alien pilots.

If she hadn’t managed to take cover in their crashed ship, she would be dead right now. As she is looking around. She checks out transport ships that was taking on passengers. There was one transport named the Monkey Wrench that was heading to the Ailuro’s homeworld Anchorage IV.

Juno heads back to her rented quarters and packs the stuff she bought while out on the Promenade. She hopes she could hide among the population on the Ailuro homeworld. She gets house credit for the rest of the days she didn’t use.

Juno buys a few weeks of survival rations to take with her. Once she was ready, she heads over to the berth where the Monkey Wrench was docked.

Monkey Wrench:
Vicky couldn’t believe that Chasch managed to get her a big supply run to the Ailuro homeworld. It was going to take her a week travel time from the station to Anchorage IV, but she didn’t mind. The Royal Court on Anchorage IV was picking up the bill. She also had several passengers that had booked passage on her transport. Which was a welcomed bonus? As she supervises the last load of the supplies she was paid to transport. A figure wearing a dark hooded cloak approaches her.

Juno found the berth without any problems. She spots a short human female, directing a loading drone as it loads the ship. She was dressed in a pair of black pants that hug her hips and legs and a white uniform shirt. Her medium length dark brown hair came a little past her shoulders.

Juno walks up to the woman “excuse me, but is this the Monkey Wrench?”

Vicky turns around to face the person that just spoke to her. The voice sounded female and from what she was seeing. The person was wearing a dark cloak and hood that concealed her features.

“This is the Monkey Wrench, I’m Captain Vicky Adams how can I help you?”

“I booked passage on your ship. I thought I would introduce myself to you.” Juno could tell the human female standing before her was rather young.

“So, you’re my last passenger. If I remember correctly, there was only a single name listed.” Vicky memorized all names of the passengers that booked passage on her ship.

“Yes, is that going to be a problem?” Juno hopes this Captain wasn’t the xenophobic type of person.

“Nope, welcome aboard. Your assigned room six. We will be having a communal meal. Dinner is normally served around seven o’clock ship time. I maintain a twenty-four-hour time cycle on my ship.” Vicky has experienced several different times on the different ships she has served on.

“That is fine with me.” Juno didn’t care what type of time the Captain kept. She originally came from a thirty-two-hour rotation planet.

“Then welcome aboard the Monkey Wrench. We’ll be leaving in about thirty minutes.” Vicky smiles as she watches a loading drone, load her ship.

Juno boards the ship and spots a humanoid skunk woman climbing up a wooden ladder to the next deck. She follows up behind her and finds herself on the second deck. There was a sign with an arrow pointing where the passenger berths were.

Juno finds them without any problem and saw that the number assigned to each room was written in several different languages. When she opens the room, she notices it was a little smaller than the room she rented on the station. She makes herself comfortable and familiar with the room.

Vicky makes sure her cargo was secured and locked as she heads up to the cockpit. She spots Jexa prepping for takeoff. Vicky takes her place and double checks everything.

“Everything is ready Captain.” Jexa looks towards Vicky.

“Thanks, Jexa.” Vicky gets permission to launch.

The Monkey Wrench pulls out of her berth and once he is far enough from the station, Vicky engages her hyperdrive.

Terry suckles on her mother’s breast as she laid close to her in bed. She was extremely hungry when she woke-up and she tiptoed into her mother’s bedroom. She knew her mother had company last night. The scent of the guy she went to bed with was all over her mother’s body and in the space next to her mother.

She was excited that the item she ordered for her mother and grandmother was arriving today. She switches from the breast she was suckling on to the other one. After fifteen minutes of suckling on her mother’s breast, she stops.

“Are you finally done, my little kitten?” Catlin rolls onto her back, pulling Terry along, so she was laying on top of her.

Terry looks into her mother’s eyes “yes ma’am. I’m finally full.”

Catlin just holds Terry in her arms as they laid in bed. She remembers the day she met the poor girl. The Theocratic System doctors were slowly turning her into an organic robot.

The Theocratic Systems doctors had performed surgery on Terry body and replace a few items inside of her. Terry had told her that she remembered the pain as they removed and replace parts of her body they took out and replaced with advanced cybernetic systems to make her a better tool. They had left her vocal cords intact as they removed parts of her body without numbing or knocking her out. According to what Terry told her, she had screamed the whole entire time they operated on her. They had peeled her skin off and laid down a sensory web over her whole entire body and ran leads to her brain and replaced parts of her brain with cybernetic systems. They had cut off her right arm and attached a cybernetic one after removing all her bones. Terry’s masters had replaced her bones with lightweight polymer composites.
They reinforced her spinal cord and her rib cage. There were times when the sensory web they had installed under her skin made her feel uncomfortable when it was active. It sent a tingling sensation throughout her body. The information was sent to the computer chips in her head and gave her headaches from all the information being given to her all at once. Both her eyes had been replaced to make her see her work better.

The cybernetic systems were only one reason why she hated them so much. The loss of her parents when she was just three years old was another reason, she hated them. Her mother and father had died from an explosion from one of their left-over mines. What happened to her birth parents was a constant reminder to her? It was why she hated the Theocratic Systems Confederacy so much.

When Terry had been nearly killed in an explosion aboard the Revenge. They took Terry’s DNA and combined it with an egg from Catlin and cloned her a new body. Catlin was happy to be Terry’s mother. The cloning hadn’t worked as they had hoped. Terry had turned out to be a throwback to when the Ailuros people were small and childlike.

Catlin rubs Terry’s back and gets her purring. She holds her against her body and loved the fact that she got a second chance to be a mother after her abduction. She holds Terry for a little while longer.

“Alright kitten, I need to get up and go to the bathroom.” Catlin transfers Terry to the spot next to her and gets out of bed.

Terry watches as her mother heads to her private bathroom. She looks at the time and gets up and dressed. She wanted to meet the transport that was bring her gifts for her mother and grandmother at the space dock. She sticks her head into the bathroom “mom, I have something I need to go and take care of.”

“Alright, sweetie. Remember, grandpa wants you at the meeting today, so don’t be late.” Catlin looks at her daughter as she steps into the
shower.

“Okay, mom.” Terry turns around and heads towards the spaceport.

Ailuros Capital Spaceport, pad 5:
“Monkey Wrench to Ailuros Capital Spaceport, requesting permission to land.” Vicky stretches as she waits for Capital control to give her permission to land.

Jax was sitting next to her and was ready to land and get off the ship for a while. Jax was missing her playmate back at the station.

“Vic, how long are we going to be here?”

“A few days. We’re picking up a load heading to Echo station.”

“Isn’t that along the Ailuros boarder and the Draconic Empire border?” Jax couldn’t remember exactly where it was.

“Yep. Don’t worry, the Revenge is going to meet us there.” Vicky wouldn’t normally go there, but the Revenge was going to be making an appearance there to discourage any aggression

The Draconic forces in that area have had their butts beaten several times. Every time the Revenge had an encounter with the draconic forces in that area. They beat them and took away the area the draconic had.

“Good! I hate that area of space.” Jax sits back in her seat and waits.

After ten minutes “Ailuros Capital Spaceport to transport Monkey Wrench, you have permission to land at spaceport 5.

“Thank you, Ailuros Capital Spaceport.” Vicky follows the flight path they sent for her to follow down to the spaceport.
Passenger Quarters, Monkey Wrench:

Juno looks up from the book she had been reading. It was one that she found in the small library aboard the Monkey Wrench. She felt the ship shake and could tell from the shaking that they were entering the atmosphere. She gathers her stuff and prepares to get ready to disembark.

The week that took them to get to the planet had been interesting. The captain was a gracious host and showed them some old movies from a place called Earth.

She especially enjoyed the food that the captain cooked for everyone. It was tasteful and flavorful, and it didn’t bother her stomach at all. She feels the ship touch down.

Juno waits a few minutes before Captain Vicky lets them know that they can disembark. Knows she’ll have to go through screen screening when she leaves the ship, but it didn’t bother her. All her ids were on the up and up. Also, with the way she looked, the Ailuro authorities won’t look that hard at her id’s.

Spaceport 5:
Terry was waiting for the loading doors on the Monkey Wrench to lower. She had accessed the cargo manifest that had been filled with the spaceport. Her items were aboard the transport. She watches as the cargo ramp lowers and the captain of the vessel walks down the ramp.
Vicky spots a young Ailuro waiting for her when she exits the ship. She also spots that she had two royal security guards with her.

Terry walks up to Vicky “Captain Vicky, I’m Terry, daughter of Princess Catlin. I was wondering if I could get the cargo unit that has some items, I have been waiting for to arrive from you?”

“All cargo has to pass through customs and inspected before it can be offloaded, you should know that.” Vicky looks at the young girl. She looked like an earth puma.

“There are exceptions, Captain. Since I am a member of the Royal family I can have any cargo that belongs to us by-pass customs.” Terry sometimes loved she had the authority of the Royal family.

Vicky just shakes her head “which cargo unit is it?”

“DH-21” Terry shows the cargo manifest to Vicky.

“Alright, let me get some cargo handlers to unload the area that unit is in.” Vicky was about to walk off.

“I have you covered, Captain.” Several cargo handlers come over after Terry sends the signal.

A few minutes later, an inspector comes walking over to investigate why the ship was being unloaded. Crock didn’t like it when Captain’s took
the matter into their own hands. They knew the rules.

As he gets closer “Who gave you permission to unload your ship?” He was looking at Vicky and the cargo handlers.

“I did, inspector.” Terry still had her guards standing near her.

Crock turns around to see who just spoke and spots a young puma looking girl with two Royal security guards standing next to her. It took him a few seconds to recognize who the Puma girl was.

“I’m sorry Lady Terry, I didn’t know you had authorized the unloading.” Crock wishes she had constituted him first.

“Sorry for sidestepping you Inspector Crock, but there are some special gifts on that transport for my mother and the Queen.” Terry had looked
high and low for these special gifts.

“I’ll let it pass this time, Lady Terry, but next time please talk to me first.” Crock looks at Terry.

“I promise.” Terry waits until the handlers had the unit she wanted.

Juno goes through security to be cleared. She shows her Id cards and waits as they are scanned. The port security guard looks at Juno and
backs down at her cards.

“You’re clear.” He hands the cards back to her.

“Thank you.” Juno accepts them and places them in her belt.

She takes a transport into the Royal city and books her a room at one of the medium price lodging. She notices that there were areas that humans and other species weren’t permitted to go to the Royal city. Only Ailuros were permitted.

The lodging she got was nice and clean and there was a hover pool that she could swim in if she wanted too. She leaves her bags pack in the room as she leaves to look around the city.

Lisa completes the preflight checklist. Her husband was checking the cargo they were taking to the Sol system. The council had approved the construction of a base on the dark side of the moon. The reason the council approved the construction, was because of the recent activities of the Draconic Empire.

They have been sending more slavers to the Sol system to replace the slaves they have been losing. Human slaves were a commodity both for cheap labor and for food stock. Lisa and her husband’s squadron had intercepted several shipments of humans that had recently been taken from Earth.

They took this information to the council. The council debated and decided that a base needed to be set up in the Sol system to monitor and stop further Draconic Empire activities. So, construction of a base had been approved and now it was almost completed. The load they were currently carrying, were the last remaining supplies the new base needed.

“Mom, dad said everything is safely secure.” Paige was heading towards her new mother.

Lisa looks at her adopted daughter and smile. The poor thing had been kidnapped off the streets of Chicago and sold to the Draconic slavers by a group of humans. The information they recently received, said that there were groups of humans and some aliens that could pass as human gathering up other humans and selling them to the Draconic slavers.

Paige had been one those humans that had been taken by the group. The rundown apartment building she had been squatting in along with several others had been raided. She was there because she ran away from her abusive relatives. Both her parents had died in a suicide and left her with her Uncle. The man didn’t like the fact she was dressing as a girl. He believed boys should be boys and girls should be girls. Not the other way around. So, after being beaten by him on numerous occasion, she gathered her stuff up and ran away.

The people that captured her, decided to have some fun with her. They passed her around like a party favor to numerous gangs, before finally deciding to sell her off. One of the people the slavers passed her to, had been an alien. He fed off her memories and completely wiped her mind.

Lisa and her husband had realized what happened to her when they intercepted the slave ship she was on. They managed to restore some of her memories, but there was still a lot she was missing. They also gave her what she always wanted. She was turned into a fully functional girl.

Lisa looks up at her adopted daughter and smile. She and Henry had talked about kids, back when they first met, but after what the Orgaians did to the two of them. They could never have children.

“Okay, tell your father to get his butt up here. Also, are you sure you want to come with us? You could stay with Alex and Mia until we get back.”

“I want to go with you and dad.” Paige didn’t want to be left behind any more by her parents.

“Alright, you know we can’t afford to go to Earth right now.”

“I know mom and I don’t want too. After you and dad restored my mind. My memories of my former life make me wish, that I was never born on that backwater planet.” Paige never wanted to go back to Earth. She liked living aboard the Viminacium and visiting Princess Catlin and her daughter.

“It’s not a backwater planet, Paige. It’s that they haven’t grown up yet. They still let their religion, hatred, greed, and prejudice rule them. Some of their leaders and scientist are good people.” Lisa understood why Paige felt the way she did.

“If you say so, mom.” Paige sits down in her seat.

Henry had been heading up front when he heard his wife and their adopted daughter talking. He only caught the end of the conversation. He knew how Paige felt now about Earth and the alien that had wiped her mind and turned her into a mindless, drooling empty shell of a person.
It took several sessions with Dr. Azyriah to restore some memories that had still linger but had been blocked.

Dr. Azyriah also had to help build a new personality for Paige. That part was difficult because there wasn’t anything left of her old one. She managed to do it, but Paige would never be like she used to be. Her old life was completely behind her.

“What were you and your mom talking about?” Henry sits down in the co-pilot seat.

“Earth. Mom says it’s not backwater and I disagree with her. I think it is and I never, ever want to go back to it.” Paige tears open a bag of
snacks and pop a few in her mouth.

“Your mom is right. There are a few good people down there. It’s just a shame that the bad ones outnumber the good ones.”

“I don’t care. I never want to go back there. I’m happy with you and mom.” Paige moves aside some of her long light purple hair.

When Paige decided to have her body corrected. She had the doctor doing the work remove all her body hair and give her light color purple hair permanently. Even her eyebrows were light purple. She had her eyes enhanced to see into the ultraviolet range.

As for her reproductive organs, they had been engineered to work like the Ailuron women. She would have her period every two months, instead of monthly. The drawback, she had to relieve herself or the increase sensations she felt would drive her bonkers.

“Well, if we decide to go to Earth while we're at the moon base, you can stay there, until we return.”

Lisa launches before her daughter could reply. She had checked her husbands plotted course.

“How long will it take us to arrive?” Paige was curious.

“About four hours. If you want to go and take a nap, go ahead.”

“Thanks, mom.” Paige gets up and places a kiss on her mom’s cheek, before heading back and climbing into her bunk.

Henry just watches his daughter. He wonders what she was like before her memories were removed.

“You’re wondering what she was like before her memory was removed?” Lisa had noticed the puzzled look on her husband’s face.

“Yes, I wonder what type of person she uses to be.” Henry would have liked to know what she used to be like.

Four Hours Later, Deep Observation Station 779 (Dark Side of the Moon.)
“Shuttle Estersage to station 779, Shuttle Estersage to station 779 we’re approaching your location. Is everything okay to land?”

“Station 779 flight control to shuttle Estersage, approach along this flight path.” Jackal sends the coordinates to the flight computer of shuttle Estersage.

Henry watches as the coordinates arrive. This was the first time they had come in on this particular flight path.

“This is strange, I don’t think we have ever come in on this route before.” Henry looks over towards his wife.

“Me neither. I wonder what is up.” Lisa follows the path and hovers over the spots she was told.

A set of doors open below her as a tractor beam takes control of the shuttle and bring it down into the huge hangar. The doors start closing as they go below the moon surface.

Once the shuttle was landed. The tractor beam disengages

“Well, we better wake Paige.” Lisa shuts down and gets up.

She walks back towards the bunks and gently wakes Paige. She shakes her one more time “we’re here sweetie.”

Paige opens her eyes and yawn. She crawls out of her bunk and stretches. She looks towards her mother “how long are we going to be here?”

“A few days. We have to get all the stations reports and any people they rescue from the slavers.”

“Okay.” Paige follows her mother towards the cargo area of the shuttle.

They open the ramp, so the loaders could unload the items they brought. While the loaders unload the shuttle. Lisa, Henry, and Paige head towards the command level. Henry was curious why they were told to come in on the path they did. The lift takes them up to the command center. When they step out of the lift, they notice how busy everyone was. Lisa spots Commander Skodo. He was over at the communication station talking with his chief communication officer.

“Is everything okay, Commander?” The trio walks over towards him.

Commander Skodo turn around and smile at the trio. It’s been months since he last saw his friends.

“Yes, but recently there has been an unusual amount of activity coming from Earth. Yesterday, we picked up on a temporal distortion in two different areas. Before that, we picked one up at Earth’s North Pole region. On top of that, we have been picking up the signature of an unknown craft, but by the time we get a lock on it, it disappears from our sensors.”

“Do you know where it has been coming from?” Henry steps forward and over towards some sensors and presses a button on the panel before him.

“Yes, over in the Western part of the United States in Utah, somewhere. We know there is a research facility in that location. As for the temporal distortion, we picked it up in the same location of the research facilities and about twenty miles from that location.” Commander Skodo were confused and puzzled because the technology down on Earth wasn't advanced enough to construct time travel equipment.

“Could it had been the slavers?” Paige wonders if they were in on it.

“No, we know where they operate from. This is something entirely different.” Commander Skodo had looked at Paige. He had been informed that she just recently was rescued from a Draconic slave vessel they had miss. It had slipped right by them.

“Maybe you should send some agents down and investigate this matter.” Henry was thinking they needed boots on the ground.

“I think your right. I’ll start putting together a group of people to investigate the matter.”

“Sounds like a plan.” Henry was still messing with the sensors.

The sensors locked onto a strong energy source. He has seen this energy pattern before on ships equipped with force fields, like their shuttle.

“This is strange, there’s a force field down in that area you were talking about.”

“No way, Earth couldn’t possibly have that level of technology.” Commander Skodo and Lisa come over to look for themselves.

Paige walks over to the communication officer and asked to listen to what was being transmitted. The communication officer just smiled at Paige.

“If you like Earth music and movies, we have a huge collection of it in our storage banks.”

“Maybe, I’ll look at it later. We’re going to be here for a few days.” Paige wanted to go back to the Viminacium and train some more on the simulator to get her flight license.

“Mom, is it alright if I go to the mess hall?” Paige was feeling hungry.

“Go ahead, sweetheart.” Lisa hands her daughter a credit card.

“Thanks, mom.” Paige places a kiss on her cheek, before walking off.

“I never thought you two would ever have children.” Commander Skodo looks towards Henry.

“When you’re as old as us and can’t have children. You start to want something that is missing from your life.”

Susan and her human partner sat at their spot at the conference table. They had been called by the council for a special mission. Captain
Jollus comes walking into the conference room.

Susan and her human partner, Jackal stands at attention and salute him.

“Please sit.” Captain Jollus takes his chair and looks at Susan and Jackal.

“The reason I have summoned the two of you here. Is, I have an important mission for your team. It has been determined that we need a surveillance team down on Earth. The Draconic Empire has been sending slavers down to Earth recently and we need to put a stop to it. On top of that, our surveillance unit from outpost Deep Space Observation Station 779 has been picking up unusual energy readings on Earth. The problem is, every time they have tried to get a lock on the object. It disappears and reappears sometimes later.”

“What do you want us to do, Captain? Do you want us to make contact with whoever or whatever that object is?” Susan was curious.

“Determine what the object is and if you can make contact, do so. Also, it seems the Draconic Empire is working with a bunch of humans on Earth. I want you and your team to locate them and eliminated them.” Captain Jollus hated humans that worked with the Draconic Empire.
Susan and Jackal were surprised the Captain was giving elimination orders.

What they knew of him, he wasn’t the type to order his people to shoot anyone. She was going to stick out like a sore them with her bluish coloring and spaded tail. Jackal and Klang would blend in and so would Ezri, if she covered up her cybernetic implants. The Draconic Empire replaced three-quarters of her body with cybernetic implants. Moya, well she was going to have to use a holographic imager. She was a member of the Ailuron people and look like a mutated house cat.

“Is there anything else you want us to do, captain?”

“Yes, try to keep your existence to the general populous secret. I don’t think the natives on Earth can handle the fact that you are there and that some of you are aliens.” Captain Jollus remembered reading Lisa’s and Henry’s report.

Both of them concluded that Earth wasn’t ready to receive advance technology, because the leaders of the different countries were set on destroying each other and that some of the leaders were morons. Plus, they let their religious beliefs and intolerance rule them. Giving them advance technology would be bad.

“When do you want us to leave Captain?”

“As soon as your team is assembled, and supplies have been loaded onto your scout ship. Henry and Lisa suggest these places might be good to set up your base camp. Also, all the information we have will be upload to your computers.” Captain Jollus dismisses Susan and Jackal.

“I wonder why Captain Jollus choose our team to go to Earth?” Jackal had been quiet while the Captain had been given them their orders.

“It must have been because Lisa and Henry recommended us.” Susan walks beside her Husband Jackal as they headed towards their other team members.

Normally, she wouldn’t have married outside her race, but she loved Jackal very much. She had her reproductive organs changed, so she could carry a human baby. The men of her race carried the baby inside them after the women impregnated them.

Susan calls her team members together. Once all of them show up.

“We got a job, people. We’re doing a seek and destroy mission, while also doing surveillance job.”

“That doesn’t sound like fun.” Moya looks at Susan and Jackal.

“Sorry Moya, it isn’t. That’s just the tip of the troubles we will be facing. You’re going to have to wear holo imager.”

‘I guess that means I will have to also?” Ezri looks towards her leaders.

“You’re lucky, yours is built into your cybernetics. I have to wear that damn collar that conceals me.” Moya hated the blasted thing.

“So, what is the mission?” Klang looks at Susan for an answer.

“First part of the mission is to set up a base we can operate of. The second part is to find out what humans are working with the Draconic
slavers and put a stop to their actions. The third part of our mission is to locate a mysterious energy source. We can make contact with it and hopefully we can see if it is willing to work with us.” Susan wonders who or what they will encounter.

“So, when do we leave?” Moya had some ideas of which of her weapons she wanted to take with her.

“As soon as our scout ship is loaded up. So, if there are any last-minute things you want to do. I would go ahead and do them now.” Susan
knew she wanted to take care of some things before they left.

She heads down to medical to have a birth control device installed in her body. She didn’t want to accidentally get pregnant while they were on Earth. Captain Jollus didn’t tell them how long they would be there. So, if they were going to be stationed on Earth for a while. She didn’t want to have an accidental birth.

Klang and Jackal supervised the loading of their scout shuttle. They were taking enough supplies to set up a surveillance outpost and parts for Ezri, just in case, she gets damage. Klang looks over towards Jackal.

“Do you know what Earth is like?”

“Nope, all I know about it is in the report Lisa and Henry did. The moon outpost is sending reports to us, but they don’t have any from planet side. Only Lisa’s and Henry’s report have images from the planet.” Jackal had gone and talked with them. They had some extra images they hadn’t turned over.

“So, how backward is it?”

“Let’s just say, the highest technology level they have, isn’t equal to anything of ours and they still use internal combustion engines to get around.”

“Oh boy, this should be fun.”

The two of them work getting the scout ship loaded and once everything was loaded and the crew takes their seats. Susan and Jackal take off and punch in the coordinates for Earth.

Susan and Jackal look at the land they purchased to use as a base. They could build the base part underneath the house they were planning on living in.

“What do you think?” Jackal was looking towards his wife with her holographic imager turned off.

“I think, it's going to be a lot of work, but were far enough out of town that we shouldn’t draw any attention to ourselves.” Susan didn’t know what to make of all the green grass surrounding them.

This is the most green she has seen in years. She has spent most of her life aboard a starship or stationed on an asteroid with her husband and crew. This is going to be a new experience for them.

“It shouldn’t take us long to get all the material we will need to build a house and a barn to hide our shuttle.” Jackal already had some plans on how their house will look and what the sub-basements will contain.

“Well, let's wake the kiddies and start setting up a temporary shelter for us.” Jackal heads back into the shuttle and pull out the command tent
Lisa and Henry suggest they take until they have a permanent shelter built. The shuttle had one of the new cloaking devices installed in it. So, they could hide the shuttle.

One Month Later:
“I can’t believe we got the house and the barn done.” Ezri looks over towards Klang as they stood out in the front yard, looking at their new residents.

“Well, we did have you, me and Moya helping.” Klang knew if it hadn’t been for all their efforts and unique abilities. They wouldn’t have been able to get their home done within a month.

Moya and Susan were currently out looking into a disappearance that that happened a few days ago. A teenage couple had disappeared without a trace. The car they had been in had been found empty. All their things were still inside the car, but the teenagers themselves were gone.

Moya had picked up a scent of reptilian and followed where it had gone.

Jackal comes walking out of the new barn, where the shuttle was hidden. The floor of the barn opened and lowered the shuttle down into a
hidden underground hangar. The property was totally off the grid. They were using a hydrogen generator to power the place.

They were using the underground water and purifying it to drink, cook and fuel the hydrogen generator. As for their waste, they were using a recycler they brought with them. They could use it for fuel or fertilizer.

Moya and Susan:
Moya follows the trail she had picked up. The scent of the reptilian was strong. She could also smell the scent left by the two humans they kidnapped as well. The fear the couple was feeling left a strong scent.

Susan was dressed in her standard skin-tight combat suit, just like Moya was. She could tell Moya was itching for a fight. Moya’s people enjoyed fighting and she was extremely good at it.

After two hours of tracking the Reptilian’s scent, they find the location they were keeping the teenagers. Moya moves quick and silently up to what looked like a metal building. It was in the shape of a half shape curve.

Moya gives the all-clear signal to Susan. There weren’t any outside cameras or sensors. The windows of the place were covered up by plates welded over them. That way no sunlight could get inside and so whoever was inside, couldn’t see out.

“The place is boarded up good. The way inside is through the front door.”

“Do we know how many people are inside?” Susan was being cautious.

A smile appears on Moya’s face as she pulls out her special binoculars. She faces towards the building and looks inside the place. The computer interface built into the binoculars identifies the people inside.

“There are fifty humans, contained behind some sort of force field. At least four Draconian and four Silurian’s. As for weapons, they are carrying stun staffs and proton blasters.” Moya loved her special binoculars. She presses a button on the side to show Susan what she saw inside the building.

A hologram appears with the information. It projects the image out in a 3D form.

“So, the only way in and out is through the front. The building itself isn’t protected by a force field.”

“Nope, which means I can use my special talent to get inside.” Moya loved that her special gift allowed her to bypass solid matter and walk through them. Force fields and certain types of metals and elements were the only things capable of keeping her out.

“Can you get inside and let me in?” Susan had a few stun grenades and her laser pistols with her.

“No problem.” Moya concentrates and jumps through a section of the wall.

There are several explosions and the main doors start to open. Susan saw Moya dodging out of the way of several beams from the proton blasters.

“Moya, move.” Susan tosses several of the stun grenades she brought with her.

Moya moves just in time as the stun grenades go off. The energy discharge from the grenades, drop two of the Draconian and one of the
Silurian’s. Susan draws her pistols and starts firing at two Draconians.

Moya extends her bo-staff and charges it. She swings and connects with the chest of one of the Silurian’s. The Silurian she hits with her staff goes flying backward into the force field containing the human captives. He drops from hitting the field.

Moya dodges as one of the draconian tries to hit her with the stun stick in his hands. She blocks the attack with her own staff. She redirects the energy back at him. She watches as he falls to the ground smoking.

One of the Silurian’s try hitting Susan, but she shoots him in the chest. One of the Draconians swings his staff at Susan, hoping to shock her. She grabs it and turns it against him. He drops from the strong shock he received from it.

Moya and Susan continue to fight. They try to keep at least two of them alive, so they could interrogate them and find out who else was helping them.

Moya looks at Susan when all the fighting is done. She was disappointed that the fighting hadn’t lasted longer.

“Damn, I was hoping to beat up more of them.” Moya kicks one of the ones she dropped.

“You’ll have another chance to beat up on more of them later. Now we need to get these people back to their families.” Susan looks for control
of the force field.

She finds it and deactivates the field. There was a large box truck in the building.

“Come on people, we’re here to help you.” Susan watches as the people start leaving where they had been held.

"Does any one know how to drive this thing?" Moya points towards the box truck.

"I do." A huge Mexican looking guy looks towards Moya.

"Alright get everyone who was brought here in it and get away from this location ASAP!" Moya goes about planting the explosives she brought with her. She was going to level the place.

Susan supervises the loading of the people and once they were inside the box truck. She sends them on their way. The Silurian’s and Draconians they didn't kill were coming with them, back to their base.

Once everyone was cleared of the building. Moya activities the explosives and watch as the place collapses inward and disappear.

"One less alien holding point to worry about." Moya loved blowing things up.

"You have too much fun. Let's head back to base and interrogate these slime balls."

Several weeks had gone by after Moya and Susan had freed the humans that had been captured. Their base was up and running. Ezri was on duty monitoring the communication probe they had sent out when it stopped transmitting. She checks the controls, trying to figure out what caused it to go dead as it did.

She presses the communication button “Susan, Jackal you better come to the command room.”

“What’s the problem, Ezri?” Susan was in the training gym when she received the message.

“We lost our communication probe. It just went dead, and I can’t contact it or locate it.”

"Alright, we're on our way." Susan and Jackal come walking into the command room. They walk over towards Ezri “okay, what happened before we lost contact with it?”

“I managed to send our operational status to the moon base and they are keeping their sensors trained on any alien vessels coming and going from Earth. They are still having a problem detecting that one abnormally that pops up occasionally. They also said that the energy reading they had been picking up in Emery County, Utah hasn’t changed any.”

“Alright, since Moya is already out in the field investigating a lead. Send her the coordinates to check the location out.” Susan knew Moya could handle the job.

“Doing it as we speak.” Ezri sends the last known coordinates of the probe to Moya.

Back Country of Utah:
Moya was tracking down the human smugglers that have been rounding up runaways and the homeless to sell off-world. The group responsible was a militia group that was known to be prejudice and gun-happy. Most of the members were scruffy, big belly red necks that
have a problem with immigrants coming up from Mexico and such. She had tracked them back to their main compound.

She also located several of their holding pens where they took the runaways, homeless and immigrants they were going to sell. She managed to mine one and was working on the second one when her communicator starts beeping.

“What do you want, Ezri?” Moya places the charge she had to blow and collapse the building she was at.

“I need you to go and check on our communication probe. I’ve lost contact with it.”

“How did you lose contact with our probe?” Moya sets the last explosive and moves away from the building.

“Don’t know. It just stopped responding to commands from here. It isn’t even sending a location or distress signal out.” Ezri had tried everything she could to get anything from it.

“Alright, I’ll go to the location, after blowing this place up.” Moya stands back before she presses the trigger.

“Alright, let us know what you find.” Ezri sits back in her chair.

Susan and Jackal just kept watching the main screen. It showed where Moya was and what she was doing. The next thing they see is Moya walking towards her motorcycle. Behind her, an explosion goes off.

“She loves blowing stuff up.” Susan knew how much fun Moya has.

“That she does.” Jackal had to agree with his wife.

Moya gets on a motorcycle she bought a few weeks back and head towards the coordinates. Next to Susan, she was the team's trackers/scout. Not only that, but she was also a weapons master. That meant, she was could use any weapon without any problems. The only other person that was better than her was Ezri and Klang.

They were the heavy weapons experts. Susan and her husbands were pilots and planners. She guns the motorcycle and within thirty minutes she arrives at the coordinates. The sun was coming up as she parks her motorcycle and starts looking around.

She spends ten minutes to twenty minutes searching for the place. She finds a set of footprints that lead to where the probe had rested on the ground. The footsteps she found, were about human women’s size.

Susan and her husband were watching everything “someone came and picked the probe up. The thing is, how did they manage to cut it off, without a kill code?”

“I would like to know as well.” Ezri was curious.

“Guys, whoever took the probe, knew what they were doing.” Moya follows the footsteps back to the highway.

“Alright, come on back home.” Susan figures, they will wait until the probe is turned back on to locate it.

“Alright, coming back to base.” Moya puts her helmet on and mounts her motorcycle.

Susan looks at her husband “another mystery for us to unravel.”