Later, Beka came into the machine shop to give Harper something.
"Here are some bras" she said. "I tried to find some that would fit you"
"I have to wear these??" All Harper knew about bras was taking them off women, when he had his 'cosmic connections'.
"For at least some of the time, otherwise, you breasts could sag"
"But I'm only gonna be a woman for a little while"
"But you don't know for how long" Beka said.
"Fine, I'll wear them, at least for some of the time" he groaned.
Also, here's a kit.. For um...menstruation. I have a flexi with information and instructions and the things you will need"
"Great!" Harper said in his groaning voice.
"Welcome to womanhood!" Beka said, jokingly.
Days later, the talks had finished and Dylan went to see Harper in the machine shop.
"Har...har...per?.." he sputtered as he turned away.
"What's the problem?"
"You're shirt is partly unbu-buttoned" Harper had left it that way, as his preoccupation with the device as made him a bit absent minded.
"So?"
"It makes me uncomfortable"
"Why? A nipple is a nipple"
"But you have breasts"
"It's not as if you haven't seen boobs before."
"Harper, Humor me" Dylan was still turned away.
"Fine" He did so.
"I just wanted to see how you were doing" Dylan had turned to face him.
"Aside from having my life turned upside down, Life is just rosy!"
"Don't worry; I'm sure that Trance will come up with something."
"Maybe..."
"I have an idea, why don't you take some shore leave? The ship is tip top shape and you just went through something rather traumatic" Dylan said gently.
"I don't know boss..." Harper wanted to work on the device and Dylan knew it.
"It's an order" Dylan said half serious, half in jest. "There is a planet nearby, with a casino, and beaches for surfing. Your mission, if you accept it will be to relax and have fun"
So, Harper borrowed the Maru, and went to Sria, the planet Dylan referred to.
Once there, he did some surfing, to try to get his mind off of the possibilities of an evil empire. After some serious surfing, he went to his hotel room, to change, and there, he got a visit from the prophets in the white room.
"The Harper must steal intelligence from a guest named Gofia, who is an Iakan"
"Why?"
"To cause distrust between his people and the Ecix."
"I see, I make sure I give the info to the Exic guys, and the Iakans will think that they took it on their own."
"The Harper understands the plan. He has to go to planet Uja"
"Is that far?"
"The Harper will see"
"But how do I get help?" Harper did not want to do this alone, yet he knew that he could not ask Beka or Trance for help.
"Seek and you shall find" The Trance prophet answered.
"Where do I look?" Harper was confused.
"Help is closer than it appears" it was the Dylan prophet's turn to talk.
"Thanks alot" Harper could not help but be annoyed by the nebula aliens at times.
Suddenly, Harper was back at his hotel room. Sighing, he went to go get a drink at the hotel bar. He was sure to bring a gun, as he knew that he would be hit on, and he was the minute he sat on a stool.
"Hey babe... can I buy you a drink?" It was a rather rough looking human male, with no front teeth, an eye patch and a bald head."
"No thank you. I'm waiting for my 6ft tall, android boyfriend" Getting hit on by men was creepy for him.
"I see" the rough looking man backed out and left the bar.
Suddenly, a waiter gave him a drink.
"But I didn't order......"
"It's on the gentleman behind you." Harper saw a man with dark brown hair, same color eyes, and a rather big nose.
"Tell him that I'm waiting for my six foot tall android boyfriend" Harper figured that this would work again. "and give him back this drink. Tell him thanks but no thanks."
Fortunately, that man left eventually. Soon, a pretty young woman, with purple hair and form fitting clothing came to sit at a nearby stool. Harper could not help but look at her for a bit.
"So, what is your racket?" she asked.
"I..am an engineer" Harper replied.
"Mine is being a thief."
"I've done that gig too." Harper said.
"What brings you here?"
"I came to take a vacation"
"How long are ya staying?"
"A bit. I gotta go somewhere for a while."
"Why?"
"For an errand"
"Well, if you need a thief... I'm your woman"
"Well, if I did want some help, what would it cost me?"
She whispered her answer in his ear.
"What?" Harper was surprised at the human woman's request. "You could get any babe you want for free!"
"I want you" she said. "Besides, I love a challenge."
"Okay" Harper figured that it was a great deal as he preferred women.
"Where do you have to go?"
"To a nearby planet. Meet me tomorrow. I'll expect some advanced payment tonight, and remember, there are times when I like to be in charge all the time. By the way, my name is Jilanka.
The next morning, he was half asleep, when he heard her say.
"Breakfast!" she was quite energetic, as she set the table.
"Alright, I'll get up." He said in a groan.
"So, don't we need to buy stuff for this job?" she asked as they sat down.
"Yeah" Harper sighed that again, he was lacking for money.
"I think I have an idea" she said.
"What is it?"
"We could do some stripping"
"No freakin way!" Harper did not like to be ogled. Besides, he hadn't had his female body long enough to be able to move it gracefully. "Maybe we could steal something and sell it."
"Or we could pick pockets"
"Great!" Harper was not above stealing, though he had never pick pocketed before.
"You could distract them, while I steal their money."
"Fine" Harper was not looking forward to doing this, but at least he knew what distracted him, so it would not be a hard task "How do we pick targets?"
"We see find the best dressed or most distracted people."
So, an hour later, they saw, what Jilanka perceived to be a good potential victim.
So, just as Harper was going to go do it, he saw that it was the man who bought him a drink.
"I can't distract him!" he told Jilanka.
"Why?"
"He made a pass at me and I told him no."
Just as Jilanka was about to say something, the man walked up to them. She found him quite good looking.
"Hello" he said politly, though he paid more attention to Harper in his female form.
"Hey." Harper felt awkward.
"It's good to see you again."
"Same here"
"So, what are you two up to"
"We are going ...somewhere" Harper answered.
"Where?"
"We haven't decided."
"Maybe I could take you two"
"I already have a ship to go in." Harper did not like where this was going.
"I see. May I at least have dinner with you?" the man asked Harper.
"No, I have a date with my tall android boyfriend"
"You don't have a tall android boyfriend."
"I do too!"
What makes you think I don't" Harper asked.
"Someone at the bar told me that no guy showed up for you"
"Oh"
"Won't you even agree to dinner?"
"No."
"Fine, for now I will accept your answer"
So he left.
Then, Harper and Jilanka went to find another victim, and were able to do a few, thereby getting 1500 thrones.
At the end of the day, they talked about their success.
"Not too bad" Jilanka remarked. "
"No I don't"
"It was awkward for you wasn't it?" she asked " I can tell that you don't really go both ways."
"Not really."
"I got an idea! Let's go eat some chow! I know a great place."
When they came back, they noticed a bouquet of dark pink flowers, with a note.
"Just as these flowers bring beauty to life, so do you."
Harper could not help but groan inwardly.
"That does it" he said. "We're going to that other planet in two hours. I'm sure that we can pickpocket there"
"Good idea" Jilanka replied.
So they went, and did some pick pocketing there. Harper hated having to flirt with men, until Jilanka said that they could distract people without having to flirt.
"Why didn't you say something before?"
"I don't know"
Finally, Jilanka had a plan.
"One of us should seduce some rich guy, and then steal his stuff when we are able." she said "However, I think that I will do it, since I go both ways."
So, she went to do that, and came back late the next morning.
"How did it go?"
"Between stealing cash and credit chips, I was able to get a total of 30000 thrones."
"Great!" Harper was quite happy. "So, how do we split it?"
"Fifty-fifty"
"Sounds fair"
Later on in the wee hours, Harper was awake, while Jilanka was asleep next to him, when he got a visit to the white room.
"The Harper must realize that the man he met was Gofia, the Iaken.
"What?? He doesn't look Iaken."
"People of his race are rare on that planet. He has infomation, and you need to get it from him." The Trance prophet spoke
"Hopefully, this will only require my engineering skills"
"The Harper must get the information and use it to create distrust." It was the Dylan prophet, who spoke for the rest of the time.
"So, he lives here?"
"Yes"
Suddenly, he was back in bed, with Jilanka's surprised look.
"You seemed out of it" she said.
"It was nothing, but I have a better idea about what I have to steal."
"Great!"
"See, I got...some info while you went to seduce that rich guy, and that guy who tried to make a pass on me, is someone I need to steal information from"
"Why?"
"I can't really say"
"I see. How will we find out where he lives?"
"I'm an engineer, remember?"
"So I do. Well, enough talk, let's get down to business...."
So they did.
After hacking some systems, he found out where he lived, and where he frequented.
Then, he tried to access the guy's personal computer but it was no use.
"Looks like you'll have to do it the hard way" Jilanka said.
"No freakin way!" Harper was adamant, so he tried for one more day, sent a message to the Andromeda, and groaning, went to plan B.
After getting some advice from Jilanka, he went to a restaurant, where he knew the fellow went to often, and sat in the middle of the restaurant. With any luck, it would not involve anything too intimate.
As luck would have it, he came in, and walked towards his table.
"May I join you?"
"Of course" Harper had Jilanka on call as she was to help him in whatever he needed.
"So, tell me about yourself. What's your name?"
"Uh.. Florencia"
"Mine is Tosoian. Where are you from?"
"A planet far, far away" was all he could think of.
The man noticed that Florencia despite her beauty, tended not to be as graceful as other woman he had met, but to him they were a result of being from a different planet.
"Seriously, though, where is your homeworld?"
" It's somewhere over the rainbow" Jilanka had taught Harper to use that phrase, whenever he was asked about his origins.
"I see" the man replied, " You like to be mysterious. I like that in a woman. Is there anything about yourself that you'd like me to know?"
"I'm an engineer. What do you do for a living?"
Suddenly, a waiter came up to them.
He then whispered to the Tosoian.
"Sorry, but I have to go" he said after the waiter was finished. "Can you see yourself home?"
"Sure. What happened?"
"I have to go offplanet for a while, on an emergency"
"bye"
"Will I see you again?"
"I'm an engineer, not a fortune teller"
So, he left. With that, Harper went to meet Jilanka at the back of the restaurant, and told her the good news.
"Great! Let's do it!"
So, Harper, using the information he had before, hacked into the security system of the building where he lived, and went straight to the guy's personal computer, where he got the intelligence. With it, he will make it look like one ally spied on the other.
Happy, he and Jilanka went to the bar. After a while she had to leave, to steal some money. Meanwhile, a tall dark haired light eyed male Nietzchean, with skin the color of coffee with too much cream, sat next to him.
"Hello pretty face" He smiled.
Harper was taken aback first of all, he still had some prejudice against ubers, and they usually didn't fall for human women.
"You seem surprised" he said "Why would such a beautiful woman be so surprised?"
"Because I'm human" Harper replied.
"Ah! I'm not into all that crap about genetic purity and reproducing my genes.
"Well" Harper said, "I gotta go now". So, he left.
The next day, Harper found out that Tosoian, as he preferred to called himself, had left the planet. So, he, with Jilanka's help tried to get informationt that would get one ally to think that the other was spying on them.
However, it, as they figured was a futile exercise, as they search the apartment and Tosoian's personal computer.
Harper was at a loss.
That night, he got a visit from the nebula aliens.
"The Harper must finish his task" it was the Dylan prophet.
"I know I know" Harper replied.
"The Harper must gain help from a stranger" The Trance prophet now took over.
"Who?"
The Trance prophet, as she did before, took out a full metal water basin, that was used for washing one's face, and something began to appear.
Harper was puzzled, as all he saw was a still image of a woman with metallic green skin and pointy ears. She was wearing gray outfit and drinking some sort of blue liquid.
"Ya mean that I gotta meet with an elf?" Harper thought they didn't exist, yet he used to think the same of dragons, so he figured that they were for real.
"She is not an elf" it was the Dylan prophet again. "
"How do I find her? How is her species like?"
"The Harper must rebuild his teleportation device and now we will allow the Harper to return to his original form."
"Cool!"
"But, someday, The Harper will need to face some of his missions in his alternate form" it was the Beka prophet.
"That sucks!" Harper groaned.
"The Harper's form will return in two days" the Tyr prophet said.
"What about the information getting?"
"It was a test to get you used to your alternate form. We have other plans regarding that planet" the Rommie prophet said, in a miraculous moment of giving enough information.
Before he could say anything, Harper was back where he was.
So, Harper broke it off with Jilanka, and went back to the ship.
Everyone was glad that Harper was back to his old form.
After settling back in, Harper went to the database, and tried to find any sign of a race with green skin and pointy ears, but to no avail, then he went to see if there existed any mythical being with said characteristics.
"Man, all the information and I can't find crap!" Harper was getting annoyed and cranky, as he was tired. He wished he could ask Trance, but she would ask too many
After two weeks of hard work and lots of all nighters, Harper was able to finish fixing the device, to the point where he was sure he could teleport a person again.
Suddenly, Harper got a vision from the nebula aliens: it was transporter cordinates. So, he wrote programmed them into the device. Then, he turned it on, after engaging privacy mode. Suddenly, the same woman with green skin and pointy ears appeared. When she was fully at the Andromeda, her face showed her eye brows being scrunched up in confusion. Fortunatly, for Harper, she had no weapon, but he had his at hand, just in case.
"Who are you?" she demanded. "Are you from Starfleet intelligence?" She did not move as he had his weapon pointed. Harper noticed that she looked young and had a good figure.
"What a babe!" he said aloud.
She just glared at him.
"Look, sorry I kidnapped you an all, but I really needed help with a mission, among other things"
"Who are you?" she demanded to know.
"Seamus Harper, at your service"
Suddenly, Ship Andromeda called him.
"Harper.....There's an intruder!"
"No no! She's someone who is here to help me"
"I have no intention of helping you" the Romulan woman replied.
Meanwhile at Dylan's office, HoloAndromeda appeared.
"Dylan, there's an intruder on the ship"
"What?"
"She's a female of an unknown species, but she is there because Harper used his teleportation device, and he says that he needs her help with something."
Dylan just sighed, "tell Harper and his guest to stay where they are and instruct Tyr to meet me at machine shop 17"
Soon, Harper heard Dylan's voice.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I take it that my transport was not authorized by your superiors" she commented wryly, to Harper.
"You could say that" Harper replied nervously. He was hoping that he could keep her presence a secret by blinding Andromeda's sensors in the machine shop she would be staying in.
"Who is she, boy?" Tyr asked.
"Uh.. see, I gotta do something for the nebula aliens and I needed her help to do it."
"Why?" Dylan asked.
"I don't know"
"You teleported some stranger, whose intentions we can't be sure about, for some beings who want to exert their will on the universe?"
"For a human,you certainly show good sense" she told Tyr, as she liked his distrusting nature.
"I am not human. I am nietzchean" Tyr did not like to be mistaken for a human.
She just raised her eyebrows.
"Where are you from?" Dylan asked.
"From Earth, where do you think?"
"Really? Maybe I should have stayed on Earth, huh?" Harper said in his usual smart aleck fashion.
Dylan just glared at him.
"We are not familiar with your species" Dylan said diplomatically
"How can you not be?" she was getting impatient, as she assumed that she had been captured by Starfleet, who, unsurprisingly enough, in her opinion were using terrible interogation tactics.
Dylan was getting impatient, as well as he thought that she was merely being incoroporative on purpose.
"If you don't tell us who you are and where you come from, I'm afraid I'll have to put you in the brig"
"You will not get any information from me!"
"Tyr, take our 'guest' to the brig.
"But Dylan..." Harper started
"You'll get to visit her later." Dylan answered. "For now, we are going to have to talk"
TBC
"Here are some bras" she said. "I tried to find some that would fit you"
"I have to wear these??" All Harper knew about bras was taking them off women, when he had his 'cosmic connections'.
"For at least some of the time, otherwise, you breasts could sag"
"But I'm only gonna be a woman for a little while"
"But you don't know for how long" Beka said.
"Fine, I'll wear them, at least for some of the time" he groaned.
Also, here's a kit.. For um...menstruation. I have a flexi with information and instructions and the things you will need"
"Great!" Harper said in his groaning voice.
"Welcome to womanhood!" Beka said, jokingly.
Days later, the talks had finished and Dylan went to see Harper in the machine shop.
"Har...har...per?.." he sputtered as he turned away.
"What's the problem?"
"You're shirt is partly unbu-buttoned" Harper had left it that way, as his preoccupation with the device as made him a bit absent minded.
"So?"
"It makes me uncomfortable"
"Why? A nipple is a nipple"
"But you have breasts"
"It's not as if you haven't seen boobs before."
"Harper, Humor me" Dylan was still turned away.
"Fine" He did so.
"I just wanted to see how you were doing" Dylan had turned to face him.
"Aside from having my life turned upside down, Life is just rosy!"
"Don't worry; I'm sure that Trance will come up with something."
"Maybe..."
"I have an idea, why don't you take some shore leave? The ship is tip top shape and you just went through something rather traumatic" Dylan said gently.
"I don't know boss..." Harper wanted to work on the device and Dylan knew it.
"It's an order" Dylan said half serious, half in jest. "There is a planet nearby, with a casino, and beaches for surfing. Your mission, if you accept it will be to relax and have fun"
So, Harper borrowed the Maru, and went to Sria, the planet Dylan referred to.
Once there, he did some surfing, to try to get his mind off of the possibilities of an evil empire. After some serious surfing, he went to his hotel room, to change, and there, he got a visit from the prophets in the white room.
"The Harper must steal intelligence from a guest named Gofia, who is an Iakan"
"Why?"
"To cause distrust between his people and the Ecix."
"I see, I make sure I give the info to the Exic guys, and the Iakans will think that they took it on their own."
"The Harper understands the plan. He has to go to planet Uja"
"Is that far?"
"The Harper will see"
"But how do I get help?" Harper did not want to do this alone, yet he knew that he could not ask Beka or Trance for help.
"Seek and you shall find" The Trance prophet answered.
"Where do I look?" Harper was confused.
"Help is closer than it appears" it was the Dylan prophet's turn to talk.
"Thanks alot" Harper could not help but be annoyed by the nebula aliens at times.
Suddenly, Harper was back at his hotel room. Sighing, he went to go get a drink at the hotel bar. He was sure to bring a gun, as he knew that he would be hit on, and he was the minute he sat on a stool.
"Hey babe... can I buy you a drink?" It was a rather rough looking human male, with no front teeth, an eye patch and a bald head."
"No thank you. I'm waiting for my 6ft tall, android boyfriend" Getting hit on by men was creepy for him.
"I see" the rough looking man backed out and left the bar.
Suddenly, a waiter gave him a drink.
"But I didn't order......"
"It's on the gentleman behind you." Harper saw a man with dark brown hair, same color eyes, and a rather big nose.
"Tell him that I'm waiting for my six foot tall android boyfriend" Harper figured that this would work again. "and give him back this drink. Tell him thanks but no thanks."
Fortunately, that man left eventually. Soon, a pretty young woman, with purple hair and form fitting clothing came to sit at a nearby stool. Harper could not help but look at her for a bit.
"So, what is your racket?" she asked.
"I..am an engineer" Harper replied.
"Mine is being a thief."
"I've done that gig too." Harper said.
"What brings you here?"
"I came to take a vacation"
"How long are ya staying?"
"A bit. I gotta go somewhere for a while."
"Why?"
"For an errand"
"Well, if you need a thief... I'm your woman"
"Well, if I did want some help, what would it cost me?"
She whispered her answer in his ear.
"What?" Harper was surprised at the human woman's request. "You could get any babe you want for free!"
"I want you" she said. "Besides, I love a challenge."
"Okay" Harper figured that it was a great deal as he preferred women.
"Where do you have to go?"
"To a nearby planet. Meet me tomorrow. I'll expect some advanced payment tonight, and remember, there are times when I like to be in charge all the time. By the way, my name is Jilanka.
The next morning, he was half asleep, when he heard her say.
"Breakfast!" she was quite energetic, as she set the table.
"Alright, I'll get up." He said in a groan.
"So, don't we need to buy stuff for this job?" she asked as they sat down.
"Yeah" Harper sighed that again, he was lacking for money.
"I think I have an idea" she said.
"What is it?"
"We could do some stripping"
"No freakin way!" Harper did not like to be ogled. Besides, he hadn't had his female body long enough to be able to move it gracefully. "Maybe we could steal something and sell it."
"Or we could pick pockets"
"Great!" Harper was not above stealing, though he had never pick pocketed before.
"You could distract them, while I steal their money."
"Fine" Harper was not looking forward to doing this, but at least he knew what distracted him, so it would not be a hard task "How do we pick targets?"
"We see find the best dressed or most distracted people."
So, an hour later, they saw, what Jilanka perceived to be a good potential victim.
So, just as Harper was going to go do it, he saw that it was the man who bought him a drink.
"I can't distract him!" he told Jilanka.
"Why?"
"He made a pass at me and I told him no."
Just as Jilanka was about to say something, the man walked up to them. She found him quite good looking.
"Hello" he said politly, though he paid more attention to Harper in his female form.
"Hey." Harper felt awkward.
"It's good to see you again."
"Same here"
"So, what are you two up to"
"We are going ...somewhere" Harper answered.
"Where?"
"We haven't decided."
"Maybe I could take you two"
"I already have a ship to go in." Harper did not like where this was going.
"I see. May I at least have dinner with you?" the man asked Harper.
"No, I have a date with my tall android boyfriend"
"You don't have a tall android boyfriend."
"I do too!"
What makes you think I don't" Harper asked.
"Someone at the bar told me that no guy showed up for you"
"Oh"
"Won't you even agree to dinner?"
"No."
"Fine, for now I will accept your answer"
So he left.
Then, Harper and Jilanka went to find another victim, and were able to do a few, thereby getting 1500 thrones.
At the end of the day, they talked about their success.
"Not too bad" Jilanka remarked. "
"No I don't"
"It was awkward for you wasn't it?" she asked " I can tell that you don't really go both ways."
"Not really."
"I got an idea! Let's go eat some chow! I know a great place."
When they came back, they noticed a bouquet of dark pink flowers, with a note.
"Just as these flowers bring beauty to life, so do you."
Harper could not help but groan inwardly.
"That does it" he said. "We're going to that other planet in two hours. I'm sure that we can pickpocket there"
"Good idea" Jilanka replied.
So they went, and did some pick pocketing there. Harper hated having to flirt with men, until Jilanka said that they could distract people without having to flirt.
"Why didn't you say something before?"
"I don't know"
Finally, Jilanka had a plan.
"One of us should seduce some rich guy, and then steal his stuff when we are able." she said "However, I think that I will do it, since I go both ways."
So, she went to do that, and came back late the next morning.
"How did it go?"
"Between stealing cash and credit chips, I was able to get a total of 30000 thrones."
"Great!" Harper was quite happy. "So, how do we split it?"
"Fifty-fifty"
"Sounds fair"
Later on in the wee hours, Harper was awake, while Jilanka was asleep next to him, when he got a visit to the white room.
"The Harper must realize that the man he met was Gofia, the Iaken.
"What?? He doesn't look Iaken."
"People of his race are rare on that planet. He has infomation, and you need to get it from him." The Trance prophet spoke
"Hopefully, this will only require my engineering skills"
"The Harper must get the information and use it to create distrust." It was the Dylan prophet, who spoke for the rest of the time.
"So, he lives here?"
"Yes"
Suddenly, he was back in bed, with Jilanka's surprised look.
"You seemed out of it" she said.
"It was nothing, but I have a better idea about what I have to steal."
"Great!"
"See, I got...some info while you went to seduce that rich guy, and that guy who tried to make a pass on me, is someone I need to steal information from"
"Why?"
"I can't really say"
"I see. How will we find out where he lives?"
"I'm an engineer, remember?"
"So I do. Well, enough talk, let's get down to business...."
So they did.
After hacking some systems, he found out where he lived, and where he frequented.
Then, he tried to access the guy's personal computer but it was no use.
"Looks like you'll have to do it the hard way" Jilanka said.
"No freakin way!" Harper was adamant, so he tried for one more day, sent a message to the Andromeda, and groaning, went to plan B.
After getting some advice from Jilanka, he went to a restaurant, where he knew the fellow went to often, and sat in the middle of the restaurant. With any luck, it would not involve anything too intimate.
As luck would have it, he came in, and walked towards his table.
"May I join you?"
"Of course" Harper had Jilanka on call as she was to help him in whatever he needed.
"So, tell me about yourself. What's your name?"
"Uh.. Florencia"
"Mine is Tosoian. Where are you from?"
"A planet far, far away" was all he could think of.
The man noticed that Florencia despite her beauty, tended not to be as graceful as other woman he had met, but to him they were a result of being from a different planet.
"Seriously, though, where is your homeworld?"
" It's somewhere over the rainbow" Jilanka had taught Harper to use that phrase, whenever he was asked about his origins.
"I see" the man replied, " You like to be mysterious. I like that in a woman. Is there anything about yourself that you'd like me to know?"
"I'm an engineer. What do you do for a living?"
Suddenly, a waiter came up to them.
He then whispered to the Tosoian.
"Sorry, but I have to go" he said after the waiter was finished. "Can you see yourself home?"
"Sure. What happened?"
"I have to go offplanet for a while, on an emergency"
"bye"
"Will I see you again?"
"I'm an engineer, not a fortune teller"
So, he left. With that, Harper went to meet Jilanka at the back of the restaurant, and told her the good news.
"Great! Let's do it!"
So, Harper, using the information he had before, hacked into the security system of the building where he lived, and went straight to the guy's personal computer, where he got the intelligence. With it, he will make it look like one ally spied on the other.
Happy, he and Jilanka went to the bar. After a while she had to leave, to steal some money. Meanwhile, a tall dark haired light eyed male Nietzchean, with skin the color of coffee with too much cream, sat next to him.
"Hello pretty face" He smiled.
Harper was taken aback first of all, he still had some prejudice against ubers, and they usually didn't fall for human women.
"You seem surprised" he said "Why would such a beautiful woman be so surprised?"
"Because I'm human" Harper replied.
"Ah! I'm not into all that crap about genetic purity and reproducing my genes.
"Well" Harper said, "I gotta go now". So, he left.
The next day, Harper found out that Tosoian, as he preferred to called himself, had left the planet. So, he, with Jilanka's help tried to get informationt that would get one ally to think that the other was spying on them.
However, it, as they figured was a futile exercise, as they search the apartment and Tosoian's personal computer.
Harper was at a loss.
That night, he got a visit from the nebula aliens.
"The Harper must finish his task" it was the Dylan prophet.
"I know I know" Harper replied.
"The Harper must gain help from a stranger" The Trance prophet now took over.
"Who?"
The Trance prophet, as she did before, took out a full metal water basin, that was used for washing one's face, and something began to appear.
Harper was puzzled, as all he saw was a still image of a woman with metallic green skin and pointy ears. She was wearing gray outfit and drinking some sort of blue liquid.
"Ya mean that I gotta meet with an elf?" Harper thought they didn't exist, yet he used to think the same of dragons, so he figured that they were for real.
"She is not an elf" it was the Dylan prophet again. "
"How do I find her? How is her species like?"
"The Harper must rebuild his teleportation device and now we will allow the Harper to return to his original form."
"Cool!"
"But, someday, The Harper will need to face some of his missions in his alternate form" it was the Beka prophet.
"That sucks!" Harper groaned.
"The Harper's form will return in two days" the Tyr prophet said.
"What about the information getting?"
"It was a test to get you used to your alternate form. We have other plans regarding that planet" the Rommie prophet said, in a miraculous moment of giving enough information.
Before he could say anything, Harper was back where he was.
So, Harper broke it off with Jilanka, and went back to the ship.
Everyone was glad that Harper was back to his old form.
After settling back in, Harper went to the database, and tried to find any sign of a race with green skin and pointy ears, but to no avail, then he went to see if there existed any mythical being with said characteristics.
"Man, all the information and I can't find crap!" Harper was getting annoyed and cranky, as he was tired. He wished he could ask Trance, but she would ask too many
After two weeks of hard work and lots of all nighters, Harper was able to finish fixing the device, to the point where he was sure he could teleport a person again.
Suddenly, Harper got a vision from the nebula aliens: it was transporter cordinates. So, he wrote programmed them into the device. Then, he turned it on, after engaging privacy mode. Suddenly, the same woman with green skin and pointy ears appeared. When she was fully at the Andromeda, her face showed her eye brows being scrunched up in confusion. Fortunatly, for Harper, she had no weapon, but he had his at hand, just in case.
"Who are you?" she demanded. "Are you from Starfleet intelligence?" She did not move as he had his weapon pointed. Harper noticed that she looked young and had a good figure.
"What a babe!" he said aloud.
She just glared at him.
"Look, sorry I kidnapped you an all, but I really needed help with a mission, among other things"
"Who are you?" she demanded to know.
"Seamus Harper, at your service"
Suddenly, Ship Andromeda called him.
"Harper.....There's an intruder!"
"No no! She's someone who is here to help me"
"I have no intention of helping you" the Romulan woman replied.
Meanwhile at Dylan's office, HoloAndromeda appeared.
"Dylan, there's an intruder on the ship"
"What?"
"She's a female of an unknown species, but she is there because Harper used his teleportation device, and he says that he needs her help with something."
Dylan just sighed, "tell Harper and his guest to stay where they are and instruct Tyr to meet me at machine shop 17"
Soon, Harper heard Dylan's voice.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I take it that my transport was not authorized by your superiors" she commented wryly, to Harper.
"You could say that" Harper replied nervously. He was hoping that he could keep her presence a secret by blinding Andromeda's sensors in the machine shop she would be staying in.
"Who is she, boy?" Tyr asked.
"Uh.. see, I gotta do something for the nebula aliens and I needed her help to do it."
"Why?" Dylan asked.
"I don't know"
"You teleported some stranger, whose intentions we can't be sure about, for some beings who want to exert their will on the universe?"
"For a human,you certainly show good sense" she told Tyr, as she liked his distrusting nature.
"I am not human. I am nietzchean" Tyr did not like to be mistaken for a human.
She just raised her eyebrows.
"Where are you from?" Dylan asked.
"From Earth, where do you think?"
"Really? Maybe I should have stayed on Earth, huh?" Harper said in his usual smart aleck fashion.
Dylan just glared at him.
"We are not familiar with your species" Dylan said diplomatically
"How can you not be?" she was getting impatient, as she assumed that she had been captured by Starfleet, who, unsurprisingly enough, in her opinion were using terrible interogation tactics.
Dylan was getting impatient, as well as he thought that she was merely being incoroporative on purpose.
"If you don't tell us who you are and where you come from, I'm afraid I'll have to put you in the brig"
"You will not get any information from me!"
"Tyr, take our 'guest' to the brig.
"But Dylan..." Harper started
"You'll get to visit her later." Dylan answered. "For now, we are going to have to talk"
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