59 Serina – Discovery (1/2)
[Sorry Serina,] Bit said. [Putting me through the port played havoc with the power reserves back on Endor. The reports I'm getting estimate another five minutes before I they can send anyone else through. I've got Ailis, Tegan, Rey, Nadine, Iona, Hope, Effie, Anne, Lola, and Brogan on alert.]
[Thanks Bit,] I replied. [They are a good team. We will somehow manage to hold out that long.]
I swapped out with Dad, which gave both of us a breather as no one wanted to attack Dad once they saw how he treated those on the front line.”Dad, Lance, help is on the way. We need to hold out another five minutes.”
”Roger that,” Lance said.
Dad finished taking care of his current target, the sounds coming from him as he did so, terrified the guards in his door and they tried to back away, but the pressure behind them just kept forcing them into the room.Still, in that brief pause, Dad in his most polished English accent replied, ”Certainly, anything for my darling daughter.” Then with a growl, he pounced on the closest one.
It began as small disturbance at the back of the pack of guards. Then it looked more like a tsunami as guards got tossed like thistledown in a tornado. Ailis and her platoon all in light armor had arrived.
”Thanks for the rescue!” I said thinking of Bit as I told Ailis and her platoon. Ailis's, ”No problem” sounded like an echo to Bit's [No problem.] Then Bit continued, [We have about a half hour until that fleet arrives.][Roger that,] I responded.
”Dad?” I said to get his attention, ”We have company upstairs in about a half hour” one carrier, presumably full of heavy armor troops. And a bunch of support ships.”
”Ok, let me go check on what the admirals have in orbit, I'll be right back,” as he dashed around the corner to the communications center in his suite. Ailis snapped, ”Nadine, Brogan protect the emperor! They followed him out weapons at the ready.
I took advantage of the time to hug Lance first then worked my way around Ailis and her platoon, giving thank-you hugs to my kids and grandchildren.Dad had not yet reported back when Hope said, ”Mom, there is something weird with this guard. You know that I was an optometrist back on earth?”
”Yes, dear, and what does that have to do with the guards?”
”Well, they are all wearing scleral lens. Now, why would anyone be wearing a contact lens in this day and age? From what I learned there is no reason for it.”
Lance and I came over to the guard that Ailis was crouching over, while the rest of the platoon kept guard. ”You should take out these lenses with a small suction cup, but I don't think she is going to care if I accidentally scratch her eye…” And Hope manipulated her eyelids until he managed to pop the lens out. Now a sclera lens is enormous, compared to a standard hard contact lens. But a tad smaller than a soft contact lens, as it rides on the whites of the eye, and this was no different. But when we saw the guard's eye, what we found was a startling blue eye with a vertical slit like a cats eye. While we have discovered some mutations as we have settled the stars, this was a new discovery.
I was dumbfounded at first and then said let's get her out of this uniform.What we found left us speechless. She had beautiful fur where her uniform would hide it, with four nipples equilaterally placed on her chest.”Ailis, I want four guards, two per door. I want the rest of your team to strip these guards. Let's see what we have found.”
As Lance and I inspected the now naked guards, we found a pattern. They all had cat eyes, and they all had fur covering their bodies. It was a finely textured fur, about like Chinchilla's fur and similar in color, a beautiful grey to an almost white color. Their genitals also were somewhat like a cat's, but disturbingly more like a human's. The females had from two to six nipples on a flat chest buried in their fur. Their faces, except for their eyes, looked human and their bodies looked human, but they were not human.