Tony walked with Humphrey and Garth back to the gate room. Tony thought of all that had happened to them in the last few hours before coming here.
They were all part of the Lupine Alliance, an alliance of various anthro wolf sects in the Milky Way Galaxy. For weeks they had been trying to dial the infamous nine-chevron address to see what technology and secrets might await them on the other side. But the Earth Alliance had somehow learned of their plan and attacked their base. The Humans seemed to think they owned the universe. They were always trying to control things and stick their noses in other races', such as anthros, business. So when Human cruisers showed up in orbit one day and attacked their base, the wolves decided to escape through the stargate, but he had decided to take this last opportunity to dial the nine-chevron address and escape that way. Thanks to Humphrey's help, he had finally succeeded, and now here they were.
Back at the gate room, they had managed to get the lights in the room on when Tony, Garth, and Humphrey walked back into the room.
"Listen up!" shouted Garth. Everyone got quiet. "We are on an ancient spaceship. So far that's all we know."
"WHAT?" shouted someone in the crowd. Everyone started speaking in complaint and worry again.
"Then lets use the stargate again to get home," shouted Mooch.
"We are going to try that," said Garth. "But right now we all just need to remain calm while we try to get more information."
Before long, Tony was in some sort of control room they had found, working at a computer consol to try and find more information about where they were. If only they had had more time to prepare before coming here, but the surprise attack by the Earth Alliance had forced him to make a snap decision on the spot. Humphrey and Garth were with him, there to help in any way if necessary.
Suddenly, after Tony had messed with it a bit, a holographic image appeared before them. It was an image of a galaxy. The Milky Way, to be exact. And there was a small dot on the screen.
"Whoa!" said Humphrey.
"What is it?' asked Garth.
"It's a map," said Tony. "I think it might tell us where we are."
"So is this us?" asked Humphrey, pointing at the small dot on the screen.
"No," said Tony. "I think that's Earth, the place where the ship started its journey."
Suddenly the image began to move out and it started showing a small line going from galaxy to galaxy. They all stared at the image as they came to realize just how far away from home they were.
"So how far away are we from home are we?" asked Garth, although he guessed he already knew the answer.
"Several billion light years," said Tony.
"Oh my god," said Humphrey in both awe and fear.
Back in the gate room, Garth went to tell everybody the news.
"Okay, listen up," said Garth to everybody. "Everybody who as able, we are going to start searching the ship. See if we can find anything of use. Also remember that this ship is really old, so be careful. Kate and Scar, you're with me. Everyone report back here in two hours."
Kate and Scar nodded.
Garth went over to Hutch and asked, "How many weapons do we have."
"Forty-two, including side-arms," said Hutch.
Garth nodded. That wasn't a lot, but it would have to do.
Garth walked out of the room with Kate and Scar, as everyone else also began leaving to search the ship.
Humphrey watched Kate go with sad eyes as he looked at her. Ever since they had split up, things hadn't been the same between them. Things also weren't going so well with Garth and Lilly, who were having relationship problems.
"Humphrey, come here," said Tony. "I'll be needing your assistance."
Humphrey walked over and went with Tony back to the control room. He still couldn't believe that out of all the wolves in the alliance, he had been the one who had cracked the code, and he hadn't even known it when he had cracked it.
He had just been a low ranking wolf, only performing minor duties. Omega rank, it was called. In his spare time, he would just hang out with his friends or other hobbies. One of his hobbies was playing video games. And it was in that that his life changed forever. While playing a video game, he had solved some secret code that it turned out the high-ranking Alpha rank wolves in the Alliance had snuck in the game to see if anybody out there could solve what they, including Tony, were having trouble doing. So after he had solved that level in the video game, the Alphas came to him, and told him exactly what he had done. He was immediately brought in to help Tony solve the nine-chevron address, earning him the nickname Math Boy.