That news report that was the previous chapter will come into play later

The sun was nearly setting on the Farm when Donatello and Bill came back, a lot had happened in that time, most notably Bob got a sudden, severe case of 'Oracle Sickness' the visions he saw were so horrific so unspeakably grotesque that he was hit with a sudden bout of nausea raced to the nearest bathroom and promptly started wretching for some time, Ichabod and Kong came in to find the poor Catfish passed out with his face in the toilet bowl.

"Poor guy." Kong said "Must have had a doozy of vision...And that can only mean...More trouble for us."

"I've never seen Oracle Sickness this bad." Ichabod said "Has it ever been this bad before."

"He's never vomited before." Kong said as he gathered the Catfish Boy in his massive arms "So I don't know how this relates to what then the future troubles are or how bad they will be...I'll put him on the sofa to rest and you fetch him a soda for when he wakes up."

Bob was still out cold when Bill and Don arrived, at that point Marzipan had discovered an ancient swing hanging from an old oak tree and it was still in good condition so she decided to test it out, Ichabod finding her testing the swing decided he would give her a push, and the two of them were having a great time when they heard Jim's Red Squirrel chattering

"Bill is back! Everybody gather in the barn! It's important!"

Soon everyone but Bob was gathered in the barn, Human, Humanimal and Mutant.

"Bob got some bad visions and started upchucking." Kong explained "He's chilling out on the couch right now, I think he's going to be out of commision for a while."

"Maybe it's better this way." Bill said the blush on his cheecks showing easily through his white fur "I don't want my one blood brother to hear what this."

"Wait?!" Raph exclaimed "Blood brother?! You mean to say that you and that fish are related by blood?!"

"Yes." Bill said

"How?" Mikey asked

"Do you really want to hear that story?" Bill asked "Or something that might be relavant to solving this whole mystery."

Everyone conceded that they would rather hear this sordid story then a story of how a Fish could be a blood brother to a Bull.

"OK." Bill said taking a deep breath "It's offical, Morgan is in this world and she's been living in this world for quite some time."

"Who's Morgan?" Ichabod asked

"You don't know..." Bill started to say but then he remembered how recent Ichabod's joining the crew was, in a very short time Ichabod felt like any other Herd Brother to him

"Morgan is a Snake Girl." Bill said "Specifically a Black Mamba...She claimed she fought as one of the many Humanimal Soldiers in the Earth Rebellion we led...And keep in mind we had like over a trillion Wild and Feral Humanimals serving us in those days there was no way we could have counted all of them with none of the Human Technology, so she may very well have been in our army on the fringes but despite all that, for some reason she decided to turn traitor to her own kind and join a crew of Space Bandits, Space Bandits loyal to the Wrangler Empire!"

"OK." Mikey said "I know you guys explained that that in your Universe the Federation is the good guys trying to free all the Humanimals and the Wrangler Empire dudes are trying to keep them all slaves...If she is a Humanimal...How did she not get enslaved..."

"The Bandits she was working for are a bit more...Loosey-goosey in their conduct then the Official Armed Forces of the Empire." Bill said "As Bandits they were criminals to the Empire as well, they merely preferred the Empire's Rules which were pretty soft on Human Crimanals to the Federation's rules of 'You do the crime, you do the time'

Bill looked at Ichabod, Edward, and Marzipan, this was exactly one year before you three joined us." Bill said "Edward, we hadn't officailly met yet but I'm pretty sure you knew of us by reputation."

"The leaders of the slave rebellion? How could I have not?" Edward chuckled "But you had had countless run-ins with my wretched first cousin."

"Duchess Bimbolurlina." Bill chuckled "Our favorite punching bag."

"Can we please get to the important parts?" Leo asked

Bill exhaled sharply "We came across the bandits in an Asteroid Field." He clutched his temples remembering those moments "We were quite shocked when we saw amongst the Human Crew there was a Humanimal! It didn't seem real...We stood there on that Asteriod in our Space Suits, and among the twelve Human Bodies on the opposing side there was one legless serpentine body, we couldn't comprehend it at first how could one of our own, aid their own oppresstion? Maybe she was being forced to fight against her will...Maybe she was being mind controlled...None of us were willing to believe that a Member of our own Kind could possibly be a traitor, Humanimals are always loyal and true because that's what a Humanimal is..."

Bill looked wistfully at the setting sun "It was Morgan herself who suggested that all of us fight inside the asteriod, for inside this particular asteriod was Plants that provided oxygen and strange mutanted animal life...No offense to you guys."

"Don't worry." Mikey said "We're cool."

We went into the Asteriod, took off our heavy, clunky space suits and engaged in battle, in actualllity the Bandits' own sense of sportsmanship and fair play turned out to be their undoing, for a bunch of Humans are no match for Humanimals in a fair fight, then, at one point, I got too close to a slippery downward tunnel, a slipped, and thankfully a merely slided down the slippery slope into a pitch black cavern."

"And we were unable to rescue you right away." Matoaka said "Because at that point the Mutants came forth in our chamber and everyone had to flee.

"And that's when this whole mess began..." Bill said

Flashback

Bill, weakened from the intense fight and dazed from the tumble he took, lay on his stomach trying to get his bearings back

"Oh..." He groaned "Bill, you're now up the River Styx without a paddle this time, trabbed in a pitch black pit full of mutated monsters."

Bill's ears perked up when he heard the sounds of breating and footsteps

"By the Great Spirit!" He gasped "Here they come now! Maybe if I play dead they won't notice me!"

But the Beasts came closer and closer

"Why look my Mutated Brothers." Said one voice "I believe we have found ourselves a delcious meal this day!"

"Yes." Said another voice "Let us devour the Earthling!"

"I don't know you guys..." Came a third voice "It's a Bull, you know how fatty they are and I'm trying to watch my intake."

"Good point." Said the Other "I could do without the transfats."

"You guys should look into Atkins." Said the first voice as they slowly walked away "Xi's on it and he can have all the Bulls he wants as long as he doesn't have any bread with them."

"Ugh! That can't be good for you in the long run." Was the final words Bill heard before their scent left the cavern."

Bill breathed a sigh of relief "But the next monsters probobly won't be on a diet." He swished his tail back and forth as he tried to think what to do next, he then tried rising to his hooves, but his limbs were too wobbly and he fell right back down again. That's when he heard the sounds of something else coming

"Easy Bill..." The Bull pulled himself into a fetal postion, "Whatever hellspawn is coming I hope it chokes on my horns.

But then came the familar smell of Earth Snake and a cheery voice said "Hi!"

"You?!" Bill exclaimed "What are you doing here? Come back to finsih me off?"

"No." The Snake Girl said "I don't want to hurt you Bill."

"You got an interesting means of accomplishing that Morgan." Bill said as he tried to get back on his hooves.

"I never wanted to fight you guys." Morgan said "I once fought for your army during the inital rebellion, but as a Mage I was seeking a rare artifact and these guys were gracious enough to let a Humanimal join there crew because my Mage Powers were needed."

Bill became quiet as he took that in.

"Here." Morgan said as she handed him something in the dark "Have some sweet liquoice root, it will restore your enegry and cool you down after that intense fight."

The root didn't smell like it was poisoned so Bill accepted the sweets and as he started to crew he felt his engergy being restored to him.

He gulped down the roots for he would chew them as cud later "What exactly happened up there after I fell down?" He asked

"Well, we had to flee because several monsters had come into the chamber, I fell into a different pit but luckily my fall was cushioned by a horrible monster, as a Mage I was able the use the sacred sactuary spell to protect myself from the Mutants, and that's when I found you. I can cast Sactuary for both of us and we can probobly walk out of here untouched."

So off they went through the pitch black caverns, Morgan with her infered vision could navigate slightly better then Bill could so he let her take the lead as they wandered and meandered through the darkness, they came across what seemed like a large Mutant but they easily defeated it, they didn't even kill the Monster they simply attacked it with such ferocity that it quickly fled rather then risk dying.

At one point Morgan yawned "It's getting pretty chilly." She said "I can hardly keep my eyes open, here's a safe burrow that's too tight for any monsters to enter."

"I guess we can sleep here." Bill said "I know my crew won't abandon me, and hoefully your's won't either."

As they settled down in the moss lined burrow, Morgan intertwined her tail with Bill's

"You are strong Bill." She sighed "You are really truly strong."

"I'm not that strong." Bill sighed "I'm a runt, most Bulls are much more powerful then me."

"I don't mean you are merely physically strong." Morgan said "But you are certainly that as well...I mean you a mentally strong as well, I know how hard life can be for us Half-Human Hybrids."

"How...How did you know I'm half human?" Bill asked nervously

"Most normal Bulls I've seen don't have upper front teeth." Morgan replied "And I do hope you can see my hair and breasts."

"Oh yeah." Bill chuckled can't forget those."

"I so rarely get to meet fellow Half-Humans..." Morgan said "...So wehn I met you I knew we had everything in common."

One thing led to another and that night Bill lost his virginity on Asteroid B-17.

"Wow..." Bill gasped when it was over "That was...That was..."

"I knew you'd like it." Morgan said as she lay her head on his chest

"I never realized how good those slinky scales can feel." Bill said as their two tails intertwinned "I'm sure my herd would welcome you if you became my mate."

"Do we have to go back your herd?" Morgan asked

"I can't abandon my duty." Bill said "We're spreading the revolution across the Universe, it's too important to abandon, I'm sure we can help you find the artifact you're looking for...Don't you want to be free of those filthy Humans?"

"Bill..." Morgan said "...I don't want to live in a Herd, I tried that once, hated it...I was raised by my Mom, my Human Mom out in the wilderness of Earth, she taught me all about being a Mage and how to increase my power farther then any Mage in history, but then my Dad showed up when I was 8 years old and took me to live with his herd, I couldn't stand living with the Herd, always bossy and controlling and always hounding me with their endless questions. Shortly after the revolution, and left Earth, found my crew and I've been happy ever since."

Bill felt his blood run cold as she lay her head back on his chest, he quickly scrambled out of the burrow grabbing his clothes

"What's wrong?" Morgan asked

"What's wrong?!" Bill roared "You're a traitor, that's what wrong! You've betrayed your Herd, you've betrayed Earth, you've betrayed the entire Humanimal race!"

"But I didn't like living with my herd!" Morgan protested "It didn't make me happy!"

"Happy?! HAPPY?!" Bill was now roaring at the top of his lungs "What does that have to do with being a Humanimal?! You have betrayed our ancient laws, the laws forged by our ancestors!"

"Oh!" Morgan hissed "I'm SO sorry I can't get worked up over what a bunch of dead Humanimals think about my personal life, MY personal life as in my business."

"Listen to you!" Bill snorted "You sound like one of the Humans with 'If it feels groovy do it' and their 'inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness'

"Hey I like living among Humans!" Morgan said "At least they don't shackle me with pointless rules about what I can and can't do...As a fellow Half-Human I thought you'd feel the same way."

"You've only ever known Humans who treated you as an equal." Bill said "You've never known Humans who treated you like a slave...The Code of Animalia was set up by our ancstors so we could be better then the Humans, I stay with my Herd because it's the right thing to do, and being a Humanimal is all about doing the right thing, even if sometimes makes you miserable."

"I...I think I might love you!" Morgan gasped

"My Dad always told me that I should take feelings like that and bury them somewhere deep in my four chambered stomach and never talk about them again, you as a Humanimal have a duty to your Herd."

"Are you asking me to leave?" Morgan asked her voice trembling

"Yes." Was all Bill said

Morgan slithered away weeping, and Bill walked slowly and all fours, guiding by his sense of where his herd was, walking with his head held low, until he found the light and found his herd.

"Bill!" Matoaka exclaimed joyfully "What happened down there?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Bill said

END FLASHBACK