Ray and Sam boarded the elevator, Leia followed. She pressed a button, and they went down quickly to a massive room filled with machinery, screens displaying blueprints for inventions and the outside world, and liquid-filled test tubes.
"Fresh as hell, huh?" Leia chuckled.
"Yeah..." replied Ray.
Leia pressed a button on a watch on her left wrist, which opened up a comlink.
"Petey clone 17, please come down here.." she said. "We got guests.."
"Thereʼs more than one Petey now?" asked Raymond.
"Yep!" said Leia. "Once the original
Petey died, I cloned his DNA and genetically programmed versions of him to serve all forms of career possible, from butler to super-soldier..."
Everyone gasped as a tall, human-like creature entered the room. He was muscular, clad in a tuxedo, with rat ears, teeth, paws, and a tail
being his only non-human features.
"Greetings, mistress Leia..." Said the rat-man.
"He can communicate?" asked Samuel.
"Yep!" said Leia. "I also programmed him with an IQ of 300, heʼs extremely intelligent."
"Impressive.." Samuel said.
"Anyway," Leia said. "We've got buisness to attend to—let's put our a landing pad for whenever the kids get back from space."
"Yeah!" Raymond exclaimed, then stopped. "Say, do you hear something?"
(*KA-THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!*)
The very ship that Samuel and Leia we're discussing had crashed about some few miles to the northeast of Leia's home, causing some mild tremors to occur.
