Meow Ranger
The sleek little silver ranger raced through the starry sky, its lone
occupant asleep at the controls. Going from point A to point B in the next
solar syatem was becoming tiresome, but the young security Chief was
becoming used to the disarrangement by then, To her it was just another job.
Paid well and she was slicker than the normal run of the mill individuals
she usually worked for. However the narn hours she had to work was starting
to tell on her sleep patterns, and it was no surprise that it finally caught
up with her finally on the next run. No matter she had set the computer to
awaken her when she came within range of the Meow System.
**Prowrr....Prowrr....Prowrr** the vicinity Alarm started going off. It
snapped her awake in an instant. Uncurling from her position she looked out
the Ranger's windows and nearly had a heart attack. Right in front by 2
narns was an enormous Blue ship with its bay doors open!
Her Meow Ranger was going too fast to avoid it in fact she was going to hit
it in a few tics. Knowing that, she strapped herself in for a bumpy crash
landing and curled up tightly.
She hit the Bay a few tics later, crashing along the breadth of it and
coming up hard against some packaging. The Meow Ranger seemed to slump
totally as if it had lost its grip on life. Smoke was everywhere. The nose
of the Meow Ranger was totalled completely, she could see it from her
position. She knew that unless she could get it repaired - she had just
joined this new ship, wherever it was going. There was no way she would ever
be able to get back to her home now.
Uncurling herself and taking off the harness that she had been in, she stood
up and went to the hatchway and popped open the emergency airlock.
She leapt out onto this strange ships deck and stood up. The air was
breathable, there was an alarm screaming from somewhere else, and her ship
was totalled. She snarled angrily, the fangs glinting in the semi darkness
of the ships hanger bay. She turned round and stomped off to look for
habitation. Not knowing what she would meet on this strange
vessel.
She saw a shimmer ahead and found herself looking at a mirrored wall. She
stared hard at the image of herself and groaned. She looked dishevelled and
most unbeautiful. She brought up her paw, and licked it to pat down her mane
of red hair, the white streak standing up like a ridge. She licked her paw
to clean her face and then straightened the uniform she wore. Pulled up the
boots because they had slipped down. She brought her long bushy tail round
to the front and cleaned the grime off of it.
Then she heard a strange noise and the mirrored wall opened and she found
herself looking at a strange being. It was also Bipedal, but it had no fur
excepting for some small patches of it on its head. It stared at her in
something akin to amazement and said "By Begorrah...a pussycat." She stared
at him in disdain and replied "I am not a Pussycat, I am a Meow Ranger. Who
and what are you?" It looked at her and then laughed. The door closed on it
and it vanished from wherever it had come from. When the doors opened again,
the room was empty. She entered and the doors shut her inside. It went up a
ways and opened and she walked out into a long deck. There was no-one on it.
So she began to explore her new place. She figured she would finally meet up
with the owner of the vessel sometime and she and the owner would come to
some kind of arrangement.
Rounding a corner however she saw a disturbance ahead and there were
creatures of unknown variety arging with others. So she leant against the
bulkhead and watched the proceedings unfold. It wasn't her place to
interfere, so she chose to watch instead.
Lt. M'Ress
Meow Ranger
Chicaba System
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