Explorers of the Universe

Chapter 20: Prisoner Break; Welcome to Blue Moon

The Falcon
Cargo Hold

Adam walked as he inspected his crewmates after Hilda had enhanced them through machines instead of through the same process as he was before looking and stood before Isaac then continued to pace before his crew, "As all of you know, Hilda had done a technological method of enhancing you instead of a biological energy based like myself and I am curious about how much stronger and faster you are. Depending on each will allow me to make the correct training course to ensure you all learn how to control your new physical abilities."

He then looked at those assembled before going to Isaac in the eye through his shades and said, "Isaac... hit me."

When he said that the air felt different around the veteran of the Colony War and First Warrior. He stood perfectly, while Isaac asked, confused, "Excuse me?"

"Don't worry, my barrier will be deployed when you attempt to hit and no one has ever broken through it before." Adam assured him, remaining still.

Isaac was still shocked, and denied it, "What? No, I'm not gonna..."

"Isaac, just take him up on the offer. You'll never get another shot of it," Jeff replied, comically pushing him to it.

Isaac looked to Adam, as he asked, "You're not gonna get mad if I do this, are you?"

"No, after all nothing has broken through my barrier not even a plasma bomb that was used against me. Especially not anything that the Monoliths could throw at me." Adam assured, again, he remained perfectly still.

Isaac blinked, as he looked to Hilda, as she stated, "Oh, you'll be okay too. Though if you wanna be safe, you should go full armor."

Isaac sighed, as he switched on all armor, and was suited up. He walked over to Adam, as he asked, "One punch?"

"One punch," Adam answered.

Isaac sighed... and lightly shoulder punched him, barely being an attack at all.

The barrier came up before he touched him, much like what happened when Mathias tried to kill him, but Adam got in the way. And Isaac was pushed back several inches away. Adam raised a brow, "interesting, but I meant full force otherwise I won't know the full extent of your enhancement."

Isaac got up, as he confessed, "Look. I've never thrown a punch in my life. Not even against Kenneth, or to Misty."

Misty arched an eyebrow, as she asked, "And why not, Shepard? You being sexist? You won't hit a girl?"

He shook his head as he answered, "No, I just for some odd reason still see you as the girl I was friends with, helped kept her dry from the rain and so on."

Kori and Rei looked to her in question, and Misty felt the stares as she blushed. Flabbergasted but riding it off, she shook he head, as she walked over to Isaac, "We're gonna fix this situation with him right now."

Isaac blinked, "Huh?"

"Adam, let's set this up again," Misty replied.

He nodded, standing still.

She began to instruct, "Okay, it's like this: to make a good punch, it's not rocket science. Just ball up the fist, pull back, and assert strength."

"Yeah, I know that part," Isaac replied.

"Okay, but here's the tricky part," Misty relied, as she got behind him and helped him out. "When asserting yourself, you need a special kind of fuel to push through that brick wall you call holding back."

"Like what?"

"What makes you flippin' angry? What is it that gets you royally boiled up to wanna punch out all the teeth of your opponent," Misty replied. Isaac shrugged, as she sighed, and leaned in, whispering, "Pretend Adam is that Creator bastard that took your parents, and experimented on the Orange princess."

Adam watched while looking at her as she taught Isaac how to punch, "Maybe a visual example would be best?"

Isaac shook his head, "No. No. I got it now." He then strut over and stopped right in front of Adam... and in a flash, launched a genuine punch. Though no one could figure out what his strength level was as it sent Adam flying across the room, crashing into a tower of crates. Barrier and all, shocking the enhanced war hero, before he admitted, "That was unexpected."

Dusting himself off, Adam told Isaac, "If my barrier hadn't deployed automatically as usual, you would have put a hole through my chest."

Isaac nearly melted with worry, as he sighed, "I think I'm good for the day, I should go."

Sphere floated to him, as he said, "If you'd like, we could go see the two ladies that are still in recovery."

Isaac nodded, as he replied, "That would be good."

Adam said, "You are not going anywhere until the examination is complete and I give you all your training courses to control your new physical abilities."

Looking at Jeff he said, "Officer Carter, you are next."

Jeff rushed towards him, as he pulled back fist, "Got it!"

And smashed his fit forward... only for the guy to get thrown back into the wall when Adam's barrier appeared before him and his fist touched it.

Jeff groaned, "That... didn't work well."

"That is how it usually is when someone tries to hit me, much like the traitor Mathias." Adam told him and explained more about his barrier, "My barrier is one of the more difficult powers I had to learn how to use because not only did it deflect gunfire, projectiles and energy, it causes the physical force of melee blows to be sent back at the attacker making what would've happen to me, happen to them instead. You were close, but Angelo was the only one to cause cracks in my barrier before it repaired itself."

He looks at others who were enhanced, "Next."

And throughout the time each one tries and were sent backwards, some farther back than others displaying how different their strengths haven't been enhanced evenly, just enhanced by their specific strength alone.

He looks and asks, "Are you sure you're up for this one Ben?"

"Heck yeah," Ben cried out. He ran forward to punch one of his heroes.

Only to get thrown back by Adam's barrier, and crash hard into the crates, as he groaned, "Personal best."

"If it was someone else you would have been dead." Adam told him bluntly as he looked around, "Anyone else who haven't tested their strength?"

Misty strode up, cracking her knuckles, along with Jonie, as the latter smirked, "Care to take two girls at a time, chief?"

Sadly, both were thrown back, with Jonie landing to a skid on her feet, while Misty rolled crashing into more crates, though being helped up by Kori, as she asked, "Misty, are you injured?"

"My dignity, Kori," she groaned. "That's the only thing that's broken."

"You two are not the first to try a converging attack, but the only two who survived." Adam told them before asking, "Was that everyone?"

Ernesto and Gwen shrugged, as Gwen replied, "We're support not Heavies."

Teo who looked worse for wear, "No more please. I failed the first 56 times before Isaac."

He then pointed out, "And Kera is still in the med wing looking after those two girls with Cloud. Oh and Isaac went there while you were busy throwing everyone around."

"Yeah, how is it he's the only one that managed to push you back," Ernesto asked.

"I... do not know..." Adam admitted as it was a first for him too. But thinking quickly he typed with his PIC's holo-keypad and send each of them instructions of their training as to get a better control over their strengths and speeds, "What I am sending all of you is a modified version of what all Legionaries go through in order to not accidently destroy anything of value or kill someone by accident with their enhanced strength. You may find the training course unusual but it is better than the alternative. Your individual course is based on your own individual level of strength. Those of you who have been tested may leave to rest up and read over your individual training course. Engineer Borjeas and Ms. Tenalds will remain behind as they have not been tested. That is all."

With that one by one the enhanced members of the crew left while Ernesto and Gwen remained behind.

Gwen sighed, "Couldn't we get a pass on this?"

"No." Adam replied.

"But what if Isaac needs me? I mean, I am the xenobologist here," Gwen reminded them.

Isaac suddenly spoke on comms, as he talked, "Gwen?"

"Yeah, what's up, Isaac," Gwen smiled, feeling she got out of this situation.

"Cold you send Kori up? We might have a bit of a problem," Isaac stated.

Gwen immediately face-faulted, as she sighed, "Of course."

Kori bolted as she went, "I shall meet him in Medical." and flew off as the door closed.

Misty arched an eyebrow, as she retorted, "What makes her so special?"

"Well for one thing she didn't make him feel like he was a unitologist. Or harassed him throughout training back on earth, or made his life miserable." Adam told Misty, who fumed angrily at his words, before she picked up a wrench from the tool box and tossed it for Gwen to catch. However when she did she heard it making a sound as she caught it with the same strength as she did before her enhancement and saw that when she caught it she literally bent it without meaning to.

"That tool was a chrome plated steel, something you wouldn't have done that before you were enhanced. Imagine if that was a person's hand such as greeting them with a handshake. You could accidently make a peaceful first contact into a war without meaning to." Adam told her as she looked at the bent wrench in her hand.

"This is why you need to be taught how to control your power or you will cause those around you to be hurt or worse." Adam said before admitting, "I had to learn the hard way after I was enhanced, and I was six years old."

Both girls looked at one another, realizing it wasn't much of a childhood, as Misty sighed, "I get it, Adam, we'll take the training." But then she comically pouted, "And I still needed that wrench."

Gwen blinked, "Still, wonder what it is that Isaac need s help with."

Meanwhile
Med Bay

Isaac was in the medical wing, waiting for Kori while looking at the two they had rescued from Matrix. They were both wide awake, and very frightened. One of them, a fifteen or sixteen year-old-girl with a petit figure, slim but athletic build with a small chest, looked Caucasian and normal. But her most prominent features were her pixie cut scarlet pink hair with a small braid on the right side of her bangs, and her yellow eyes.

The second girl was Caucasian, appearing as sixteen or seventeen. Her figure was slender with a bigger bust, being around Misty's bust range, with short orange hair done in a flip bob cut, sharp blue eyes, and had a beauty mark under her left eye. Both were wearing blue and white patient attire, but both were curled up with them freaking out in an unknown languages.

"You'd think we'd have a translator to do this," Isaac sighed. But then looked to Sphere, "Can you get Hilda here too? Maybe she might have something."

"Of course," Sphere said, radioing Hilda to come as well.

"What about Adam? It was mentioned he can learn languages quickly. And be a translator," Kera asked, curiously.

"I don't wanna have to pull him so far and around like cheese or taffy, Kera," Isaac explained.

Just then, Kori flew in, as she asked, "Yes, Isaac?"

The two girls were freaking out at this, as the pink-haired girl shouted, "Nabatchi no komo yu daijuka!"

Isaac asked, "Question, Kori: do you have any qualms about kissing them to translate?"

Kori arched an eyebrow, as she reminded him, "I did kiss Misty to calm her in her own language."

"She has a point Isaac." Sphere told him.

Isaac shrugged, as he defended, "yeah, but I don't know if she'll be okay with this. Kissing these two or one of them to translate."

Kera, on the other hand, was holding her nose as she turned around, as she groaned inertly, 'girlxgirl action. It better be just a kiss, or I'm gonna get a freakin' nosebleed.'

"Are you all right?" Sphere asked Kera flying over to her.

Kera wavered, "Oh no, I'm good." She straightened herself out, as she asked, "So um, will you...?"

"Yes, I shall," Kori replied, as she walked over to the pink haired one, who was still a bit frightened. Though that changed as Kori gently pulled her in, and kissed her. Kera was to say, shocked, as a trickle of blood went down from her nose, where Isaac pinched his. Sphere flew over as he asked, "You seem a bit okay with this now, but what's with the nose plugging?"

Isaac looked to his floating friend, and replied, "If we have time to stop, look up Yuri in anime/manga. You'll understand."

"Humanoids..." Sphere sighed as he watched.

The pink-haired girl almost fought back, but for some weird reason, she was blushing, and relaxing. When Kori pulled away, she spoke in her regular tone, "Are you well now? Tell us about your home. We might be able to..."

But the pink-haired girl suddenly tackled her to the ground, as Isaac asked, "Kori?"

But then nosebleed as he and Kera, who also had a nose bleed, plugged up their noses, as they saw the pink haired girl fondling Kori's breasts and giggling.

"It appears to be that the pink-haired girl mistook the intention of the kiss." Sphere said observing the scene.

The pink haired girl smiled, as she exclaimed, "Uma Zamaron femagriend!"

Kori seemed to blush at that in shock, as Isaac asked, "Um, Kori, what did she say?"

"She's asking me if I want to be her girlfriend."

That question caused Isaac and Kera blushed and gushed out blood from their noses, as both groaned, 'How'd this happen from one kiss?'

"Can we dispense with the blood coming out of his nose please?" Sphere asks before flying over and telling her, "Kori, please tell her that that was the only way for you to learn her language as the two with you do to have translators."

"Actually, she already knows that. While you were dispersing on the bleeding noses, she had already conversed me on her knowledge of Zamaraneans," Kori said, as she got up, with the girl still holding onto her in a hugging manner. "Apparently, she is very affectionate."

The orange haired girl sighed, "Zoata, Vivian..."

Sphere inspected her as he commented, "Apparently..."

Outside of the room, Misty was listening in, as she watched the scene, and Isaac. She then thought to herself, 'So the alien princess is getting a girlfriend now, eh?' She then pulled out an old faded pic of her in the first grade... with her smiling in a classroom photo, but smiling at Isaac. 'I screwed up with this whole tough girl role. Kicking these Creators' asses wasn't the only reason I came along,' Misty told herself, as she lightly traced her finger on Isaac, 'The truth is, Isaac. I... I...'

"Misty?"

"GHA!" she jumped as she hid the pic, and looked at Isaac, annoyed at the scare, "What? What is it, Shepard?"

"Did you need to get a checkup," Isaac asked, pointing at the med bay.

She shook her head, "Nah, we're coming up to what the ship is saying is a space station," Misty replied. "I figured the captain had to tell everyone to stop fooling around and get serious on this."

Sphere came flying over and asks, "What about the training you and the others were going through?"

"This is important. Training later, figuring out where the heck we are now," Isaac told him. He turned on the comms, "Everyone, we're heading to a location of locals. Hopefully, we can..."

Suddenly, the ship rocked and racketed, throwing everyone around. "What the heck?"

Rei suddenly got on comms, as she implied, "Everyone, we have been boarded."

"Rei can you get a visual of the invaders?" Sphere asks flying next to Isaac.

Rei showed a holo-screen, and it apparently was a small ship, no bigger than the lifeboat, and it seemed pretty beat up. At the moment, it was latched onto the top like a tick on someone.

Sphere looks at it, "Curious... it doesn't look like anything in my databanks."

Suddenly, they heard a door being cut open, and crashing sounds of people coming in.

"What was that?" Isaac asked hearing the sound.

"Trouble," Jeff replied, as he pulled out his rifle, as everyone wielded their weapons, as they saw the cluster mess that was rushing in.

It was a group of aliens that seemed like they had broken into the ship in a hurry.

The first was a being of seven or nine feet, orange scaly skin, and heavily muscled with digitoed hind feet with three white elephant-like toes, two fingers and one thumb on its hand, a stubby but strong-looking dinosaur-like tail, and had a thick neck with its head having a solid metal bone dome, and spikey bones protruding out of his chin, looking like a stubble of sorts, and yellow eyes.

The second was as sixteen-year-old female humanoid with a slender frame, similar to Kori's green skin that seemed to glisten, and an underbelly of light green that ended at her neck, red eyes, and a light green tadpole-like tail fin on her head making her look like she had a mowhawk-like flip hairstyle. She was dressed in black, plurple and golden attire.

The third fellow looked like a four foot humanoid porpupine/opossum-like being. His height came up to Isaac's chest, he had big yellow eyes, long pointed ears and had piercings on it. He had yellow eyes with the skin surrounding them to be darkish purple, a rat tail, four fingers on his skin hand and three toed feet. He wore a black T-shirt, an orange zipped up jacket with yellow accents, and orange yellow shorts.

One eating rations in a hurry was a small 2 foot tall vaguely humanoid amoeba-like creature with green skin, six sprout-like growths on the back of its head, a dark-green patch of skin on its head, light-green skin on its face and belly and a crooked teeth overbite. He had whisker-like lines on his face, and a green tail, and green eyes, and wore tattered brown pants and backpack.

A hulking figure was with the orange dinosaur-like being. Physicaly features unable to be noticed, but he appeared to be an eight foot individual, wearing a heavy, dark green-teal oven-like robot body or containment suit. He had arms that reached down to his calves, showing a bit off-balance, box-like feet, a scuba tank-like scructure on his back, a small flattop head with two glowing orange eyes, and a grill mouth that glowed as well, with two tubes on his chest.

And the last one was a sixteen-year-old of Isaac's height and build. He looked a bit wimpy though. He had dark hair that was in a Mohawk style and also wore a dark brown jacket and light brown jeans. His body color was teal green and his eyes were the size of tennis balls.

Adam, holding his pistol before him, said, "State your business."

The 7-foot humanoid dinosaur spoke out, "GRAWWW! Gra! Huaaaarrr!"

The rat-looking one shook his head, as he squeaked to the big guy, while the frog-looking girl shook he head, and quickly shot Isaac at the head, as a dart had hit his forehead, as he stumbled back.

Adam caught Isaac before ordering, "Restrain them!"

And everyone went into action as the others went on the attack on the group who boarded their ship. However, the big guy seemed to actually fend off the others, fairly well, and even the little woodchuck looking creature, had a surprisingly long prehensile tail that lasted out like a whip protecting the others. Though the armored one just shielded and didn't attack. Though Kori was more focused on Isaac, as she helped him, "Isaac, are you injured?"

Isaac quickly yanked it out, as he grumbled, "Yank it out like a Band-Aid."

Though what he saw and heard next, surprised him deeply, as the Dino-man's lingo was starting to make sense, "Graah-op attacking! We just want the ship, Xandarians!"

Even the rat-guy was talking normally, as he heard, while cowering behind the dino, C'mon, Vax! Kick their asses!"

"You could try knockin'em all out, you know," the frog girl spoke up. "Use yer quills, Ragit."

"But nobody throw them out the airlock, okay," the timid teal alien said.

"Screw dem. Let us take'em prisoner, da," the over-shaped suited fellow spoke in a Russian accent.

Isaac blinked, as he got up, despite Adam and Kori worried about him, as he asked, "Are you guys speaking English now?"

The fighting stopped, as the five newcomers blinked at him. Not certain if he was hearing right, he then asked, pointing to the frog girl, "Hey, you! I have a question. If I were to kiss you, would you turn into a princess?"

Hilda smirked, "Oooh, fair question."

Kori though, blushed furiously, as did Misty, as they both asked, "Whhaaaaa..?!"

Even the frog alien girl blushed at that question in shock, until her blush went from embarrassment to anger, as she snarled, "I AM a princess, you jackass!" And then pointed a green, yellow, and purple blaster at him, "If we didn't need dis ship to escape the New Order, I'd have ya obliterated!"

Adam blinked and asked, "Isaac, what are you talking about? They're not speaking English..."

However, the frog girl wasn't taking it anymore, as she grabbed the rat, and squeezed him with his back showing to them. He suddenly fired a barrage of needles, hitting them, as suddenly, everyone who was organic, were knocked out.

Hours Laster

Isaac slowly regains consciousness as the feeling of drowsiness slowly fades away from his mind.

"Uuuuuuuuuuggggghhhh..." He groaned as he opens his eyes as his mind began to take in the way his body was feeling at the moment. The lingering taste of something I feel should've come out of me instead of going in, gaps in my memories starting from said meal, and my entire body feeling like anything could agitate it. "Oh man, if this is a hangover, then I don't think I ever want to start drinking like on the Hangover films." He then turned his head to see Kori next to him with her head resting on his right shoulder. Her hair was covering her face and spread out over her chest.

'Only the actors never wake up next to an alien girl... A very beautiful looking girl even if her hair is a complete mess and naked.' Isaac thought to himself. He was pretty much used to seeing her naked next to him. He then turned his head to see Misty, Jeff, Gwen, Theo, Jonie, Ernesto, Adam, and even Misty, Kera, and Ben all sleeping as well. 'Boy that meal must have made us all- WHY IS EVERYBODY NAKED!?'

"About time you woke up."

Isaac looked to see the frog girl that attacked him before.

"You!" He got up as the memories of last night suddenly flow back into his mind, "You're the one that attacked us!"

"Yes," she groaned, but blushed at the sight before her but keeps a cool expression, "But only because-"

"What the hell are you yelling about, Shepard?!"

Isaac turned around to see Misty and the others slowly wake up with groans from the attack.

Kori groaned, as she sat up, "I feel like I've been trapped in a Golzarian Swamp Spider's web."

Gwen groaned as well, rubbing her forehead, "Tell me about it. Ugggghhhh."

Jeff was on all fours while he held his stomach with his right hand, "I haven't felt this sick since that party at my place one weekend back on Earth. It took a month to just to get the smell of vomit out of the carpet."

"Bleegh!" Ben nearly barfed, as he gagged, "I think I'd prefer to wake up with the flu than to wake up with the taste of manure in my mouth."

Isaac turned around as he stated, "Shape up gang, we've got trouble. Also you might want to cover up."

Everyone was confused by this.

Misty arched an eyebrow, as she asked, "What the hell are you on about, Shepard?" but then amazingly paled and blushed at the same time, as she caught to see Isaac's naked butt. "Why the hell are you showing everything!?"

"For the record lady, he isn't the only one!" the frog girl stated, as everyone looked to see they were as naked as Isaac and then freaked out aside from Kori who was used to being naked as they picked up their clothes all over the floor.

Kori walked forward with her hands and eyes glowing, "If you think removing our garments will prevent us from defending our home, then you have made a greatly mistaken. Now where are the others?"

Isaac held his hands up as he got dressed, "Easy, Kori. If she wanted us dead, she would've done it already."

Gwen managed to get her suit on, as she agreed, "He's right. So that means you want something from us."

The frog girl crossed her arms, as she stated, "We just had to be sure. The others on my ship, I mean. We had to be sure you weren't with the New Order or had any concealed weapons. What I wasn't expecting was finding the Last Zamarian Princess the Order has been talking about."

Kori seemed confused by that, as she asked, "Last Zamaranian?"

Isaac then stated, and asked, "Her name is Kori. And where are the others?"

"If you mean the robots of your group, Chunk is still examining dem for weapons."

Gwen then sighed "That will be hard because-"

But then they heard Rei's scream, as she rushed in, with Adam looking miffed as the woodchuck looking creature waddled in, "What is up with the androids of your crew?! They don't even have any vid games downloaded! Ooooh Maybe there's one between these-" SLAP! "OOOOOWWWWWWW!"

DRU then walked up, as he stated, "That's what you get for going for the forbidden area of a girl."

"Chunk! Stop being an accidental pervert and focus on checking for any weapons they might have" the frog girl stated. "Of all the cells I had to share, it had to be with him!"

"Sorry, Attea," Chunk said.

Getting dressed, Gwen stated, "If you know who Kori is then you know who we are and that you attacking us wasn't necessary, Miss..."

"The name's Attea to you," the frog girl named Attea stated. "Words mean nothing without actions and proof to back them up. You might've been with the New Order so we couldn't take the risk after just escaping from them. You can't be trusted any more than these two." Attea pointed, as everyone looked in the direction of Rosalie and Vivian.

Misty then pointed to them, "I take it these two are with this New Order that we can't go a planet without hearing about."

"They're so young though," Jeff commented. "Where does the New Order look for recruits? In grade school?"

Rosalie blinked as she saw Jeff's Black armor. "He's one of them!" she then ran at him ready to punch him, only for Jeff to catch the punch, swing her arm, and put her arm in a lock behind her back.

"Yeah... Definitely grade school recruiting."

"Hey, come on. It was just a joke, you know. Just a way to ease the tension in the room." Rosalie smiled nervously, "I joke around all the time."

Everyone then thought she was kind of a dork when not armed. When suddenly Kori's voice was heard as she was once again caught off guard and pushed onto the wall by the pink haired girl.

She smiled as she nuzzles Kori's boobs as if they were pillows. "Ahhhhhhh. They're so warm and comfy. It's as if what a cloud would feel like if it was a warm sunny day."

"Well... Thank you-"

The girl, now being able to talk in plain English, "Hi, I'm Vivian. Who are you? Do you have a lifelong partner yet? No? Well, you do now!" She said as she put her head in between Kori's boobs again. Kori became confused at this while majority of the boys including the ones who heard the whole thing suddenly had nose bleeds from this.

Attea groaned, as she got fed up, "I don't need this-"

Chunk on the other hand shrugged, as she said it to her while she stressed out, "Oh sure, she acts like a pervert on purpose and that's fine with you!"

"Of all the cells I had to share..." Attea said as she whispered to herself.

Then Isaac asked, "So how is it we understand you guys now than we didn't before?"

"Mostly because you guys didn't have Babel Bots implanted into your head," the rat boy walked in, as he looked at a convoy list of stuff aboard the Falcon, "Though why you Xandarians didn't get injected with them at birth, I'll never know."

Adam felt his face for his glasses before seeing the light of his eyes glowing on his hand as he forced his hand over his eyes and demanded, "Where are my glasses!"

The rat picked out the glasses form his coat pocket, as he handed them to him, "Here ya go. You're pretty creepy with or without them, Vampirean."

Adam calmed down when he took his shade and slipped them over his eyes as he said, "I'm not a vampirean, whatever that is, I'm a human, most of us are humans from the planet earth."

The aliens looked confused on that, as Chunk asked, "Earth?"

"What the Zargin Frued is Earth? You ever heard of it, Ragit," she asked looking to the rat-like alien.

Ragit shrugged, "Dunno. But you might as well call it Dirt. Planet Dirt. With a name like that."

"Better than naming your planet Cheese, rodent." Adam said glaring at Ragit, "What did you do to make everyone understand you now?"

"Like he just explained, Red Eyes," Attea explained, "We injected you all with Babel Bots."

Isaac arched an eyebrow, as eh stated, "Yeah, that still doesn't make any sense when you say it the 2nd time."

Attea slapped her forehead, as she explained, "Babel Bots are nanobots that are injected into the head at birth that enables you to translate any language you see, read, or hear. They were made with the sole purpose of making sure mistranslations didn't happen. The Galvanites and Cerebra-crabs are still at it due to a miscommunication they had for the talk of the Prime Thinkers."

"This will hinder my own language learning capability." Adam said as he made his PIC's holo-keypad appear and began to type it, "Time to gain control over them..."

However, a gun was trained in his head, as Attea stated, "Put down the fancy computer. You might not be a Vampirean nor New Order, cept for those two, but this ship is still ours. We'll be dockin' in ta Blue Moon soon."

Isaac asked, "Blue Moon?"

"It's a space port for outsiders, those that wanna stay off the radar," Ragit explained. "Basically, an outlaw station."

Adam said, eyes narrowed behind his glasses, "I wouldn't shoot if I were you, it will be sent back at you." He saw the looks given to him by others and said, lowering his arms, "But in order to make sure my crewmates are safe, I will comply... for now."

Jonie placed a hand on his shoulder, as she stated, "Just calm down, Adam. The captain's taking it cool, so you should too."

The door opened, as Chunk asked, "Which one's the captain? Shades?"

Everyone just pointed to Isaac, as he sighed, "yeah, me."

Attea blinked, as she pointed at him, "Seriously? This snowflake?"

Jeff snickered behind his hand before getting serious, "It's true, Isaac's our captain, especially since he got rid of those damn xenecromorphs and that shitty Creator."

"Xenecromorphs? Creators? What the zarg are you talkin about," Attea asked.

"Everyone! We have reached the port that is Blue Moon," a Russian voice spoke out.

"I'm guessing that is the talking kettle?" Adam asked looking at the group holding them captive.

"His name is Grihl," Chunk replied. "And he hates it being called a kettle."

"Why are you taking us to this Blue Moon?" Gwen asks looking at Attea.

"Supply and demand." Attea stated. "We demand they supply."

Ernesto arched an eyebrow, "Guess that makes sense."

"That and the Falcon has no weapons," Hilda replied.

Adam remained silent while requesting, "May I be allowed to leave this room?"

"Why?" Ragit asked skeptical.

He sighs and said bluntly, "I need to use the toilet."

He then felt for his blood pendant, but found it missing, he begins to look around for it frantically, "My blood pendant! Where is it!?"

"Haven't a clue," Ragit shrugged.

Isaac arched an eyebrow as he asked, "Could you take me to the bridge? I and the pilots can help dock in while Adam finds his lucky charm."

Attea shrugs, "Fine." But then walked behind Kori, "Does she comes with me."

Adam kept looking for it as he said, "Be careful where you step otherwise I'll force this ship to self-destruct if someone stepped on it and destroyed it."

Later
The bridge

The falcon flew into pass through what appear to of been a broken asteroid field slowly making its way hey the dogs all of it well. Well not in any immediate danger, there were still caution and to avoid any unnecessary crashes. It's a ship didn't leave flu through the vastness is of the black in space as well as the asteroid a loaded area, they made their way to what appeared to of been a giant asteroid. They will build within the asteroid was a space station seemingly full of life and with a giant neon sign that said blue Moon.

They soon dock without any problems while there was some fear of meteors getting close to hitting the ship, but they were able to get by them. When they got into position the docking clamps kept them in place.

However, getting them was the outlaw law enforcers. One was a twenty-year-old African American-looking fellow with small pointed ears, a head of black dreadlocks, and a slim small muscle build. He wore yellow shades, a purple t-shirt, black baggy pants and white boots. The other fellow looked like he was wearing a big ball suit with black limbs shaped like tentacles; two for his arms and four for his legs, and the leg tentacles were smaller than his arms, and a black slit on his suit with two yellow eyes showing up.

"Well this is a new sight," the tentacle being slithered up spoke. "Teenage outlaws. Man, I gotta get out more. Name's Watto," he introduced himself, and then pointed to his partner, "And this fellah is Zimon."

Adam tried to use one of his powers to apport the pendant to him, but with the guns on him by the ones who took them, he needed to be careful. He asked Attea, "Do you mind not shooting me while I get my pendant back without tearing the ship apart to find it?"

Watto held up his hands, "Whoa, hold on there pal, that's not a smart idea to go pipping a gun around, missy."

"Why's that?" Gwen asked.

"Mostly because of the station," Watto explained. "If some nutjob or stupid idiot started firing around this place, a puncture within the hull of this place would send everyone floating into space, without a suit."

"Which is why one of the rules here is no firearms," Zimon finished.

"So I can do this?" He asked holding his hand out as he apported his blood pendant into his hand in a light but non-blinding flash of light. Especially now that he cannot be threatened of being shot by someone. He replaced it around his neck after making sure no signs of damage or cracks on it was found.

"I suppose, but I wouldn't get too much hopes up if someone frames you for firing anything," Zimon replied.

"For a bunch of Outlaws, you guys are really new to this," Watto replied.

Isaac raised his hand, "Oh no, we're not outlaws. We're explorers."

"Well, then you might not last that long," Watto replied, as he circled Isaac, "See there are three powers in the Magellan Galaxy, kiddo. The Pirates who are the freelance scum of the universe and more like organized crime. Then there are the Military which serve Xandar Prime as they are the center of the Alliance; they function for the Galaxy Police and the Space Rangers. And then there are the middle guy, the Outlaws, who take justice in their own hands. For the right price."

Misty then asked, "So they're like Mercenaries or Adventurers?"

"Pretty much, little lady," Watto replied. "But what motivates an Outlaw is their own choice."

"When you say they are in the middle you really mean that. Considering they could be inclined to support either of the other two or just be on their own." Adam said as he thought about what the two said that.

Watto nodded, as he pointed to Adam, "Shade's here gets it."

Adam smiles looking at the others, "Now where do those that steal ships go?" Looking at the five who stole the Falcon.

"Can't really say for sure. But there are a few outlaws that steal ships just starting out," Watto answered. "So I take it you're the captain of this stolen ship, Shades?"

"My name is Adam, and as much as I would like to take the credit, the true captain is Isaac Shepard." He said using his hand to gesture Isaac.

"Seriously, this guy?" Watto asked.

Isaac slouched, as he groaned, "Why does everyone thing I'm not the captain?"

"Maybe if you spoke up or at least tried to look cooler than Shades here, that wouldn't be an issue, Rookie."

"I have an eye condition." Adam told Zimon and Watto.

Kori flew up, as she stated, "Isaac is the cool. Even though his body temperature is still rather warm." But then she saw the look on Zimon and Watto's faces, as she asked, "What? What is it? Are my grebnacks showing?"

"Well, no one's seen a Zamaranian in quite a while," Watto explained. "Everyone thought they were all wiped out. Until you showed up."

Kori flew back to Isaac and asked confused, "Wiped out?"

"Well, anyway, back to the subject. Do you guys have a registration number for the ship? It'll be easier to park on nearby inhabited planets at ports if you have one. If you don't I'll consider giving you guys a freebie."

"That depends if our number from our planet is recognized as acceptable." Adam said showing the number on the holo-screen of his PIC.

Watto looked at it, as he nodded, "Yeah, I think this would work. I'll memorize it and keep it logged into the system."

"Good to know. Majority of the crew, especially the officers are from a planet called Earth, and only now know of a larger galactic community." Adam explained, using his PIC to send the number to Watto's computer.

"What the heck is Earth, sounds like," zimon started.

"Dirt? Is that what you were going for," Isaac asked.

Both then two sweat dropped at that.

"The five who I mention already did that poor joke..." He said looking at the five he already mentioned with a disappointed look.

"While you're here, can you tell us about this New Order someone we just heard about?" Isaac asks looking at the two.

"Ugh, those guys," Watto replied. "In true honesty, they're a pain in the galaxy's backsides. A bunch of zealot bigots that are more Xandarians than any other species. They talk about superiority when they're just a bunch of bloodthirsty control freaks."

"Sounds like something similar on our world," Isaac replied.

Kori asked, "The Unitologists?"

"Nazis," Isaac answered.

"And those guys are the worst of the worst," Teo pointed out.

"Personally I see no difference between those two." Adam commented as he used PIC to try and gain control over his Babel bots in his head.

"Well, anyway, if you guys wanna crash and fuel up while we refuel the ship, you can check out through town," Watto replied. "It's Neutral Territory, so you can walk around with no fret of getting mugged. Captain Isaac."

Isaac blushed, "Still not used to that."

Adam advised him, "No one is when they get their titles. Just take it one step at a time until it feel natural."

"Well, let's get something to eat. I'm starving," Isaac stated.

"Hold it! WE ain't finished yet. And we still have commandeered with your ship," Attea shot back.

Though the Grey-looking one, spoke up, "Maybe we could form a temporary truce and decide tomorrow?"

"Shut it, Tak," Attea, Chunk, and Ragit groaned.

Jeff looks back and asks, "Why should we truce with you bastards?! You tried to steal our ship!"

"Well, that's coming from the guys harboring two New Order soldiers," Ragit replied.

Rosalie got snarky, "Says a sleazy Sleazonian. Your kind are practically bred for sleaziness and thievery."

Ben looked to Ragit and asked, "Was that why you were in the prison ship?"

The Sleazonian sighed, as he stated, "Look, I have a bit of a pickpocket situation that I can control. It was just my rotten luck that I got set up with debts that weren't my own. And the people that put the bounty on me... they quite literally want you to pay up for it in flesh."

"Considering you're a rodent, I'd say that's a fair trade..." Adam commented at him.

"Hey!" Ragit shouted as he fired a quill only for Adam to stop, it hit his barrier and shot back at Ragit paralyzing him.

Ragit was frozen with that shocked expression on his face.

Gwen looked to the others and asked, "What were you guys wanted for?"

Chunk raised his hand "Going beyond the whole All-You-Can-Eat slogan. He waved his arms around as he comically stated, "They say all you can eat, but they never figure a Gourmandian's bottomless appetite."

Grihl sighed, "I vas vanted for fighting."

Jonie arched an eyebrow, "Well, that doesn't sound..."

"Against New Order soldiers who were picking a fight with little old lady," Grihl stated. "Dat, and from my Homeworld I was a public nuisance. Dat is vhy I vear dis suit as part of my punishment."

Tak raised his hand, "I was stealing fruit."

Then they all looked at Attea, as she sighed, "I got framed for killing my father." But she angrily shot out, "But I didn't do it, okay? I may be violent and angry, but I'm not homicidal! The difference is that someone does it professionally while the other's mental illness. And I ain't the latter."

Ben looked at Vax and asks, "What about the Dino-man?"

"It's Vax," he introduced. "And my crime was protecting my family... from the New Order."

"So cool." Ben said star struck at how heroic Vax was.

"Well, at least we got one honest guy. Well, make that two, if you count Tak," Jeff replied, and then looked at the nervous Tak.

"So what now captain? Truce or fight?" Adam asks Isaac.

"Honestly, we're all tired, so let's find an Inn and just get some sleep," Isaac groaned.

"Then I recommend a pretty good place. The Star Inn," Zimon replied.

"Though be careful, there are pirates," Watto replied. "Especially the Shank Pirates. Buncha brutes."

"Shank Pirates?" Adam asks looking at the two. Feeling as though he needs more information before doing anything.

"Only one thing to say: don't make an enemy out of him," Watto answered, with a dead serious tone in his voice.

Later on
The Star Inn

The crew was divided up into pairs with Isaac and Kori sharing a room, Gwen and Jeff, Misty and Teo (with Ben), Ernesto and Jonie, DRU and Kera, Adam and Rei, and finally Hilda and Cloud.

In Kori and Isaac's Room
Isaac, unable to sleep at the time, was looking up at the night sky staring at the stars. Despite all the hardships that had gotten him and the others here, this was like him living out a science fiction movie. They had traveled across the universe, in hours rather than years, and had made their way to a space station. And if things weren't even crazier in a good way for him, alien lifeforms were all around the place, socializing. Though they didn't feel out of place, as to him, Gwen, and Jeff, the station felt a whole lot like Chinatown back on Earth in New York. He just had to wonder what else was in store for him at this point.

"Isaac," Kori spoke up, surprising the boy, as he turned to see her walk at his spot. She leaned on to the side next to him, as she stared at the skies as well, "I guess you like to look at the night sky as well? I used to do it when I was a young Gilflink."

"Gilfli… you mean a little girl," Isaac asked. He was still a bit confused on the Zamaranian language, even with her speaking English and with the Babel Bots in his head now. "When I was a kid, I always wondered that big question: are we alone?" He then looked to Kori, as he smirked, "Guess about a few days ago, we got that answer."

The redheaded alien girl then turned to him, and asked, "Was the answer to your satisfaction?"

Isaac shrugged, "It's a mix of both. I mean, here we are, trying to go to the Creator Homeworld to stop them, knowing they're gonna try to wipe out Earth, so it's the bad kind of answer." He then looked at Kori, and smirked, "But then I met you, and go to go further than our universe, so that makes it a good one."

Kori chuckled, catching Isaac's attention, as he looked to her, and asked, "What?"

"You remind me of my little brother, Kai. He would always see the bright and dark side of things," she confessed. But then she looked to Isaac, and how the light that shined from the stars above reflected on a silhouette of him. She began to feel a little warm, as she confessed, "Isaac…."

"Yeah, Kori?" he asked. "What's up?"

"Well, we are in space, so I believe there is no up or down," Kori applied, but then changed the subject. "I have not been with you or the others very long, and I am a little unfamiliar on payment," she confessed, as she rubbed her hands nervously. "And because of that, I cannot repay your services." She then blushed a little, as she finished, "But there might be a way to I can repay you for both your services and kindness with a different form of compensation."

Isaac blinked a little, as he asked, not sure if he was going to like the answer, "Um, Kori, what do you mean exactly?"

"Well, I am truly a little nervous about it, but if it is you… then I would not mind or object," she replied, taking a deep breath to give her courage. Then turned to him, as she began to unbutton her shirt, as her cleavage was loosening up, as well as showcasing she wasn't wearing a bra… and if that was the case, no underwear under the shirt. She then spoke up again, blushing heavily, as she was about to take the shirt off completely to be in the nude, but spoke rather nervous, "And… according to the reading articles I have read, and the depictions they described, the only way I could repay you is by sharing my body with you."

"Sharing?" Isaac asked, sounding rather nervous, as he saw her stop at her shirt, but then blurted out with a sweat and blush, "You mean you wanna sleep with me?!"

"If you are referring to having intercourse with you, then yes," Kori nodded, as her blush became timid, as did her voice, "It is okay. I have asked Sphere to learn all I could from your ship's database, and I… I have found that our reproductive systems are quite similar, so it will not cause any discomfort for any one of us." But then she became shy, as she blushed, "I… I do not mind performing the various sex with you, Isaac. But… do you have to wear that leather mask and body suit?"

That last part got Isaac flustered, as he squeaked out in a panic, "Mask and suit? Where did you get this stuff from?!"

"Well, it was in that magazine you were holding for Jeffery," Kori confessed. "They were guides to couples intercourse and mating."

Isaac sighed, as he rubbed his forehead, as he corrected this vast mistake, "Um, Kori… those magazines. They're all fictional."

Suddenly, all of Kori's timid and shy nature left her as she was surprised to hear that, "What? You mean that is not how I should act in a sexual relationship?" He shook his head, stating that it wasn't. At that, Kori sighed, as she giggled, "What a relief."

Isaac sighed, as he nodded, "Yeah, I bet you're glad to know you don't have to do that with me then, right?"

Kori shook her head, as she answered, "Well, no, not really. To be honest, that was not the reason. You see it is my sixteenth cycle, and…" she then got shy again, as she smiled, "Well, I really do not have any experience in reproduction activity."

Isaac was a bit surprised at her answer; not because that she didn't have the experience. What sixteen-year-old did? But she didn't state that she didn't want him. In fact, she never said she didn't want to sleep with him. But he pushed that thought aside, as he replied, "Hey, do you know who also doesn't have experience? Me."

"Really?" Kori asked.

He nodded, and then the two had a good laugh with one another, shaking out all the nervousness between the two.

However, their little talk didn't go unheard, the room next door, where DRU and Rei were staying in, DRU had heard the whole thing, as he groaned, "Okay, I'm gonna lose my dinner now."

And he wasn't the only one, for on the room over to the right, Gwen was listening in on the conversation. It wasn't eavesdropping as they spoke pretty loudly with Isaac's outburst. And unfortunately, she had overheard the conversation the two had a while ago.

She groaned at what the two had just talked about, "Barf!"

On the other side of the room Adam was listening and said, "Unbelievable..."

Rolling his eyes he mutters to himself, "This is going to be harder than I thought..."

He then goes to lay in the same bed with Rei.

Rei was still awake, as she asked, "What's wrong, Adam?"

"Misunderstanding in the captain's room, Kori thought Masks and bodysuits were a part of the human mating." He told her as he took off his glasses and places them on the night table.

"Oh, I thought it was because Isaac was becoming emotionally attached to Kori," Rei replied. "You do know they will deviate from our mission to return her to her home."

"Will that be so bad?" Adam asks her, before reminding her

"Unlike everyone in our crew, we of the W-Organization are not allowed to date or pursue romantic relationships."

He chuckled humorlessly and said, "As if a woman can look at me with these eyes compared to the other Warriors."

"I'm not certain. I think there are some who could see past those eyes," Rei replied. "Not to mention that Kori told me her people are not disconcerting of the eyes. I think the females would all find you attractive. As her people are okay with relationships with other species."

Adam blinked, "Okay."

"Though they wear little to nothing, as Sphere and she told me so," Rei concluded.

I hope you are right..." Adam said as he turned over to his side to try and sleep.

However, as Isaac and Kori were asleep, with Kori snuggled up to him, something crawled beneath the sheets.

Back in Isaac and Kori's room the thing kept crawling under the sheets in their direction.

Meanwhile
Ernesto and Jonie's Room

Both were fast asleep, well, attempting to sleep. But they were just having fun cuddling with their suits off and only covered by their blankets. Ernesto sighed, as Jonie was cuddled next to him, blissfully smiling as she felt safe and warm in his embrace.

Kera and Dru

Kera was fast asleep, sprawled on her bed, while Dru was looking outside, up at the stars, enjoying the sights before him.

Isaac blinked, as something suddenly shoved him out of there. As he sat up, "What the...?" But then Vivian stuck her head out, "Vivian?"

"Isaac Shepard," she venomously spout. "I've been watching you this whole time, and quite frankly, I think Adam's the real captain. I couldn't follow a half-baked guy like you."

Isaac paled as he held his head, as her words echoed, 'Half-baked guy... Half-baked guy... Half-baked guy... Half-baked guy...'

While Kori was still asleep, Vivien smirked, "Listen, you. I'm not about to let my Kori be sullied by a creep like you."

"H-huh?!" He asked whisperingly while asking, "What're you talking about?"

Vivian smirked, "I'm in love with Kori, so don't even think about..."

Though Isaac stopped her as he held his hands out, "You hear that?"

"Yeah right. Like I'm gonna..."

Suddenly, the door busted down, as three pirates popped up, as they looked around the room, and pointed at Kori, "There she is. The Zamaranian."

"She'll pay a hefty price," the second one smirked

Though the third one, smirking perversely, "Though I'm sure we can have some fun with her."

Isaac got up and shouted, "Leave her alone!"

"Oh yeah, and what are you..." one pirate shouted... until Vivian shot forth and drop-kicked the guy in the groin.

Vivian turned around and smirked at Kori, "Don't worry, Kor-Bear, your knight is here to save the ..."

Isaac hissed in pain seeing this before he went to punch the another of the pirates like how Misty showed him back in the ship when the guy tried to attack Vivian from behind.

"Hey, don't upstart me," Vivian shot back.

Isaac looked back at Vivian after punching the pirate in the face, "Can we please focus on keeping Kori safe!?"

A pirate showed up as he was about to attack, "I gotcha now!"

But suddenly got hit in the beck by a long tongue, as he fell down unconscious, as Attea rushed up, "We gotta bail. Now."

"Why? What's wrong?" Isaac asked looking at Attea confused.

"It's those Shank Pirates," Attea warned him. "Apparently, they heard that a Zamaranian was in the vicinity, and plan to sell her."

"What!?" Isaac asked, angrily as he ordered her, "Warn the others."

He then went to wake Kori up. Tak ran in there, as he sighed, "I managed to warn everyone, Attea," Tak replied. "Were you able to warn the...?" But then looked at Isaac and the others getting suited up, "Oh, you did."

"What are you saying," Kori asked, after waking up.

"We need to leave, right Tak?" Isaac asked him.

Tak nodded looking at the human.

"Then let's get outta here," Isaac replied. "Back to the Falcon."

30 minutes later

They arrived at the hanger where Watto and Zimon were seen tying the rest of them up as Zimon said, "That's the last of them."

Watto looked and said, seeing them, "Oh there ya are."

Jeff walked up, as he asked, "What the heck is going on?"

"Apparently, they heard that a Zamaranian female was spotted around here," Watto replied, before replying, "Apparently females are valued as breeders."

That made the Falcon crew from earth take on disgusted looks as Adam found one still conscious and said, "Surely these aren't all of the crewmates of Shank..."

He then went over grabbing the conscious pilot by the collar and said, "Tell me your plans, or I'm tossing you into space."

"Heh. Yeah right... given what my captain's gonna do when he finds out we failed to get the Zamaranean bitch..."

Adam narrowed his eyes behind his glasses even as the pirate head-butted Adam in the head, knocking off his glasses. With the glasses off. The smirking pirate thought him. Even as the sunglasses hit the floor.

Adam then said, turning to the pirate, his pupils contracting cat like glowing brightly, "Big... mistake..."

And then, seconds after looking at Adam in the eyes, the pirate jumped seeing the eyes as he shouted, terrified, "OKAY! I'LL TALK! I'LL TALK! KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ME!"

Then suddenly, Isaac stepped up, pointing his blaster under the pirate's chin, "Start talking."

The prate paled at not just the eyes, but the blaster of this kid, until finally... the sounds of piddling caught everyone's attention as they looked down. And saw the pirate had wet himself, as Isaac stated, "Fear is not an option..."

Watto said, "That's weird... no one's ever broke a Shank Pirate before... Especially enough to wet themselves."

Adam apported his glasses to him as he slid them back on and said, "I don't think we'll be getting anything out of him. We may have to get out of here ASAP before more show up and drag Misters Watto and Zimon into this more than they already had."

He said looking at the two mechanics.

"The ships all fueled and the repairs are done," Watto replied. "Though you might wanna hurry and skedaddle. There's also a New Order ship coming along, as well as a Ctarlplexian ship coming around also. So they and the pirates might be a threesome of problems.

Ragit's eye twitched hearing that about the other ship and he asked, scared, "Ctarlplexians? Here!?"

"Ctarlplexians? What are they," Gwen asked.

"Trouble," Ragit replied. "A lot of trouble."

"Ctarlplexians are a brutish and violent race. They're very emotional. Violent and get pretty distracted when that happens," Watto explained. "They believe that any problem can be solved by hitting it."

"They also aren't that bright," Zimon replied.

"Sounds like the people of our world... some of them." Adam commented as he looked at the pirate who whimpered when seeing the shades wearing human look at him.

"Yeah I think it's time to go." Jeff said as he went to get the ship ready.

"Alright, let's get outta here," Isaac replied.

"Oh yes," Kori agreed, drawing attention from everyone, "And to return home as well."

And then flew into the ship with the others following.

As Isaac was entering last, Watto stopped him, "Uh, Kid. Can I talk to ya for a moment?"

Moments Later

Isaac reached the bridge, while everyone was arguing, "What the heck is going on here?"

"Apparently, our new friends refuse to forget rights of the ship," Cloud answered.

"This is becoming most troublesome," Dru replied.

"Really? We're about to face people who wants to kill us and everyone's arguing?" Isaac askes before putting the hand to his lips and whistles loudly to get everyone's attention.

Once he did he shouted, "Is now really, I mean really, a good time to fight each other when we have the New Order out there coming here and Pirates here trying to kill us?!"

He then gets to his seat and said, "Let's just focus on getting the hell out of here BEFORE they realize we know and when we're at a safe place we can argue about the ship rights then, Okay!?"

Taking a breath he said, to those of Attea's group, "I know that you guys are scared and I can get it but arguing with each other, trying to get rights to this ship isn't going to help save us from the people we're trying to get away so just work with us in getting away, then we can hash out who keeps the ship. Can you do that?"

"Oh, can it! You have-baked jerk," Vivian shouted, her words almost stabbing Isaac in his head. "As far as I'm concerned, the guy with the glasses should be captain."

Even Rosalie shot up, as she scolded, "Yeah, you think you're so hot shit, you barely register a blimp on anyone's radar."

"How dare you!" Kori shouted getting in Rosalie's face before going to Isaac's side and said, "If it is not for Isaac and his friends I would still be on the Creator's ship to be an experiment or worse dead. Isaac is one of the bravest, strongest, and compassionate people I have come to know. He taught me how to be... nice... and I know he wants the best for us and to keep us safe."

"When I was worried about not getting back to Zamaron with my people, Isaac was there to help me get out of the garbage by giving me hope to seeing Zamaron and my family again."

Tak blinked before whispering to Attea, "She doesn't know?"

Before Attea could answer, she saw Isaac quickly swatting away and shushing, like he was trying to tell them not to spill the beans.

Theo then asked, "So what now?"

"We'll get out of here first and then we'll kill each other later, okay," Isaac suggested.

Adam looked around and said, "You heard the captain people, get to your stations."

As the ship was getting ready to get out of there, they were pulling out of the docks into the empty vacuum of space before the screens blinked red, Rei reported from her vat.

"Put them both on the main monitor." Isaac ordered before everybody saw before they could get out, a bunch of pirate ships at the ready. Isaac grumbled, "Oh crap."

"Isaac, we have a transmission coming through from one of the lead pirate ship, as well as another transmission for another reship that's coming our way."

"Put them both on screen," Isaac replied.

The figure appeared to be a man in his forties, white hair in a bowl cut, and an artificial eye for the right eye, with his skin tanned, and a gem in his forehead. "I am captain Shank of the Shank Pirates. Surrender and give us all you got... and die."

Gwen sweat dropped, "Shouldn't that be or die?"

Isaac paled, as he sweat dropped, "And the other transmission?"

Suddenly, another screen showed up showcasing a brown and almost Asian ship of sorts. And a female voice was speaking, "This is the Orte Hone. Registered to the Ctarlplexian Empire. I am Asia Erisa of the Ctarlpexians as well as lieutenant and commander of this ship. I am speaking to you as an ambassador of the Ctarlplexian race... we are docking here at Blue Moon, so clear the way."

Suddenly, in the background, everyone was shouting and roaring, "YEAH! CLEAR THE WAY! CLEAR THE WAY!"

Isaac blinked, "What the what?"

"Make way for the Ctarlplexian Empire!" An officer shouted from his station on the ship through the chanting.

"If you don't move those puny ships we're gonna Sirius Butt-kick yer ass!" Another shouted.

In the Pirate ship, A man next to Shank said, "Captain... it's the Ctarlplexian empire."

"Maybe we should move out of the way like they said?" another man suggested, scared of facing the Ctarlplexians.

However, the man questioning, was shot by the captain, as he fumed, "You think I'm afraid of a couple of cat people with anger problems?!"

Meanwhile

Isaac then asked, "Can we put a screen comms with the Ctarlplexians? I'd like to talk to them?"

"Working on that now." Sphere replied, an s he and DRU worked hard on it. Finally, a screen popped up in front of them.

Within the exterior of the ship, looked like a tranquil forest platform with a waterfall involved. In it, were catlike people wearing armor made of leather and metal, as they all looked rather vicious.

However, Isaac was doing his best to hide his blush and from smiling... which perplexed not just his crewmates but also the new ones. Though Gwen sighed, "Ugh, I knew it."

Kera blinked, as she asked, "What is it?"

"Isaac has a thing for cats," Gwen groaned.

Maintaining his composure, Isaac asked, "I am Isaac Shepard of the USSCS Falcon. May I speak to your captain? Who's this Asia Erisa?"

"I am."

There, sitting at a captain's seat was a young lady of Isaac's age, physically fit and slender; she may have been slim but she had small compact muscle underneath the fur. She wore a green one-piece leotard with a brown skirt and brown shoulder pads, including bandages on her forearms and hands, her suit showed off an impressive D cup cleavage, and she was that of a Tiger with orange and black stripes, with her face and belly of white, with a cat-like tail. Her hair was medium length tied up to an upper ponytail and bangs framing her head, swept to the left, and on her face were two black stripes under her eyes like claw marks, with her yellow eyes piercing even the bravest of souls.

"I am Aisa Erisa of the Ctarlplexian Empire," Asia replied. "And I take it you're..." But then she blinked, as her anger face disappeared with one of confusion, as she saw the goofy grin on his face, "What's wrong with you?"

Finally, Isaac blurted out, "YOU'RE JUST SO CUTE AND FLUFFY! I JUST WANNA HUG YA LIKE A STUFF ANIMAL!"

Everyone was silent after heard.

Rei said, "It appears that we have two feline enthusiasts onboard..."

Blinking Gwen asked, "Wait you mean..."

Adam looked at Isaac and said, "Captain Shepard, please control yourself. We can talk to the beautiful cat woman after we get past their ship."

'I knew it...' The others said picking up at how Adam called the Ctarlplexian a "beautiful cat woman" and that he likes felines too.

However as he looked Adam lost control and said, levitating to the screen, "You are without a doubt a beautiful example of your species Ms. Erisa. I wish I could be there right now and admire your beauty up close."

"Well... at least Adam is not losing complete control over himself with his affections like our captain is..." Rei commented to the crew.

However, Asia seemed angered, as she roared, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WTIH YOU?! Lemme tell ya something: Ctarplexians aren't cute and beautiful! We're fierce warriors whose blood flows the beast of the Moon! We..."

"She looks so cute when she's snarling, doesn't she?" Isaac smiled.

Adam, though while trying to compose himself, nodded, "Yes, captain. She is. But remember to heed caution or she will never accept our affections."

The Ctarlpexians blinked as one of them asked, "Is it just me or are these Xandarians weird?"

"They must be defective batch..." Another whispers before asking, "Lady Asia, what should we do about the other ship?"

"They're a bunch of pirates! Blast both ships out of the water," Asia demanded.

"Ambassador Asia, we have incoming of a third ship," one of the officers called out, "It seems like it's a New Order Star Rectifier." His voice then grew fearful, "It's the Event Horizon!"

Even Asia paled, "The Event Horizon!? Khronan's Ship!? Why is he here?"

Outside, a new ship was coming into view. It looked like a blackened triangle with red designs all over it. Inside were black and gray armored troops that looked like Nazi storm troopers while the figure on a seat was watching the scene before him.

He was a young man of eighteen, human in appearance with pale skin, black jet hair that was swept to his right with a bang, a cruel and evil grin on his face and had a pink gem on his forehead with pale pink irises. He was slim but well-built wearing a black and red getup with a dark red cape.

An officer approached the young man, saluting, "Lord Khronan we've arrived at Blue Moon, but our scans indicate that there are three ships in the way, one from the Pirate guild, one from the Ctarlplexian, and another is an vessel of unknown origins."

"I see," Khronan stated, as he looked at the screen, seeing all three ships, "Well, we were running out of slave forced labor and food for Ernest. Might as well take all three."

Meanwhile
Aboard the Falcon

Isaac got on the console, and radiated the engine room, "Guys, do we have the Gravity Drive online yet?"

"It's ready, Shepard. Ready when you are," Misty replied.

"Got it," Isaac answered, and then turn towards the screen, "We'll be taking off now, so you might want to shield yourselves."

"You little punk, I'll..." Shank tried to talk, but got cut off.

Asia looked pissed, as she roared, "WHAT?! YOU DARE TO DEFY THE CTARLPEXIAN EMPIRE!" And then got cut off.

On the Ctarlpexian ship, "That monkey cut me off! BLAST'EM ALL!"

"Ma'am, the ship is heading right towards us," one of them stated, as they saw the Falcon heading in their direction.

"Are they mad? We'll rip them to shreds."

On the Shank Ship, Shank blinked, "They're gonna go after the Ctarlplexian ship and the New Order ship? They're on a suicide trip!"

"Lord Khronan! The unknown ship is heading towards the Ctarlplexian vessel! Some sort of energy emissions is being detected on our sensors!" Another bridge officer reported from his station.

"The Ctarlplexian ship is firing full barrage to try and stop them!" Another reported.

Khronan arched an eyebrow, "What the...?"

But suddenly... the mysterious ship coming in between them, suddenly sparked with electricity... and suddenly, a blast wave shot from it. The energy messed with all of the ships, as the ship disappeared into a closing black hole.

"What in the master's name was that?!" A New Order officer asked shocked by what happened.

Khronan looked confused on that, as he thought, 'What the...? A Gravity Drive? I thought Father said only the Creators' ships could have those.'

"My lord? Your orders?" The first officer who reported to him when they arrived asked, though scared to upset his superior for reasons known only to those on his ship.

Khronan's thoughts became clear as he spoke up, "Release the boarding shoots on both ships. And bring everyone on board for interrogation. And tell Ernest to come over." He smirked, "It'll be feeding time if no one talks."

"At once my lord. I'll personally make contact with Lord Ernest immediately," He said saluting as he recited, "TO the glory of the master and his divine goal."

Soon Khronan can hear his ship firing on both Ctarlplexian and the pirate ship.

Back in the Falcon

Isaac sighed, as he slouched in his chair, "That was close..."

Sphere flew to him, and asked, "You okay, Isaac?"

"I'll let you know as soon as I can get back up again," Isaac sighed.

"You can say that again." Jeff agreed looking at Isaac.

Another pair of eyes were staring at Isaac, as he looked to see Vivian, as she smiled, "Huh?'

"You're amazing, Captain!" Vivian immediately replied. "I take back at you being half-baked."

The most intelligent thing Isaac said was, "huh?"

Even Rosalie was taken back, as she shot out, "What the heck are you talking about?"

"Oh, don't worry. The past is past, this is the now," Vivian stated.

"So you agree that Isaac is a superb captain?" Kori asked flying over happily.

Vivian nodded... and then glomped on Isaac, "Even more so, I'm in love with him!" Everyone looked confused on that, as she explained, "When he gave orders or protected me and you from the pirates, I didn't feel like a little kid." She then nuzzled the stunned kid, as she stated, "What I mean to say is, I want him to make me feel like that all the time."

"Oh, come on, Captain. How is it you're such a babe magnet," Theo complained.

"Maybe it's the universe giving back to him after all he had suffered." Adam suggested as he looks at the screen to watch as they travel through the Drive Warp.

"Speaking of the Universe, what was you saying the cat girl was beautiful," Jonie asked.

"I have an affection for cats, especially during my childhood since they were beautiful creatures and helped me through tough times before Wayward found me." Adam told her.

Isaac quickly broke free of Vivian, as he nodded, "I agree. My Block apartment had cats and kittens there. Their cute little faces always made me feel happy. I usually would spend an hour there, nuzzling the kittens on how soft and fluffy they were."

Adam smiles a bit looking at Isaac when he though he heard the computer beeping about them reaching an end point of the Warp Drive.

Everyone watched as Vivian, the girl who had previously had hated Isaac until recently hug the life out of him as she exclaimed, "Oh, Isaac, I love you and Kori to death!"

As an extra measure she went and nuzzled her face against his and Kori's at the same time.

Gwen blinked at this, as did Rosalie, as the former asked, "Uh, Vivian… what are you doing? I thought you were in love with Kori?"

"Oh yeah. But it seems I've fallen in love with your cousin too, Gwen. It's a regular threesome between us," Vivian answered, still smiling, as Jeff, Kori, and everyone were confused on this, while Gwen's looking peeved at her cousin with a vein on her head, and Misty's silently pissed by the idea of this girl falling for Isaac. Vivian blushed as she pulled away from Isaac, cupping her cheeks, "When Isaac defended us from the pirates as well as the Ctarlplexians, for some weird reason, I felt rather tingly all over. Like I blossomed as a woman." She then embraced a rather stunned Isaac. "What I mean is I want him to push me and take me from behind over and over again." She then winked at Kori, "I'm hoping you'll be in the mix as well, Kori."

Kori looked a little shocked and blushed at this while twiddling her fingers together.

Jeff noticed this, as he cocked an eyebrow, "You're embarrassed by a little FFM action? I thought your kind were open to that stuff?"

Kori corrected, "My people are, Jeff. But I… well, it is my first time involved in a… polygamy relationship."

Gwen lost it as she shouted at her cousin, "Jeez, you pervert! What the hell, Isaac?! I don't want you monopolizing girls like this! We're on a mission here!"

Isaac retorted, "Gwen, it's not like I'm trying to do this!"

Vivian, however, frowned at Gwen, "Hey, it's not his fault I fell in love with him…" she then pulled Isaac away with a smile, as well as Kori, "Come on, you two. Let's take a bath together. We can wash each other's backs."

Everyone on deck were watching this as Sphere commented, "She's fast in this, isn't she?"

Ragit nodded, as DRU stated, "It's good to be the captain."

"Seriously," Isaac nearly shouted.

Next Chapter: Welcome to Zamaron; Homecoming