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Merged worlds 2 Freighter jockey and the Kitsune by Raven Fox. A sequel to Merged worlds. A human male a formal slave is a freighter operator at a section of the universe. A stowaway changes his life. (This story was requested by a member who wishes to remain anonymous.)

Edge of the unknown part of the galaxy, space freighter City of Everett.

The freighter exited hyper space in a flash of white. Inside the control room the male human with light brown hair and brown eyes looked at the large brownish red planet with very few blue areas. Archer exhaled. "Mitch, we're ten minutes away, how are things down there?"

Inside the engine room the green and gold lizard morph looked at a display grabbing a large cricket from a container and popped it in his mouth eating it. He belched. "Everything is fine here, I like to spend a few hours fixing that inertia damper after we land."

Archer placed his feet on the console looking out the portal. "No problem, it will take three hours to unload and another four to reload." He answered adjusting the course for reentry.

The freighter lurched and rolled. "Warning, entry angle to steep. Correct reentry angle or ship will break up." Said the ship's computer.

Inside the engine room, Mitch did adjustments on the inertia damper. The lizard cussed as he pulled circuits out and changed them. Sparks popped and the pitch of the machinery changed.

Inside the control room, Archer tried changing the angle of the ship. "Mitch, we got to do something or it's going to get real warm in here." He looked at the planet getting closer.

The ship's computer chimed. "Warning hull temp approaching critical temperature. Please change approach angle."

Archer tried a few more adjustments. "Mitch, do something." As the outside started to glow.

Mitch grabbed a large wrench and hit the unit. Sparks flew and the ship shuddered. "Take that you defective unit."

Archer exhaled feeling the ship correct it's approach angle. "Thanks Mitch, is everything alright?"

The lizard looked at the unit sighing. "Archer, I need to rebuild this unit, now I need five hours for repairs plus check the ship over."

Archer sighed. "Alright, I'll give you hand with it after I deal with our clients." The human pounded his thigh knowing that he will just break even after unloading this cargo. He looked at rough skin around his right wrist from a bracelet he was forced to wear. During his days as a slave for the Photinos, a type of boars, like swine, the bracelet would heat up like a heating element on a stove when he did something wrong. It was a half of a year of hell before Mitch's race attacked the colony his master was on. The Photinos destroyed a mining outpost manned by Mitch's race and the lizards retaliated by destroying a colony. Archer was freed and the bracelet removed because Mitch's race hates races that keep slaves, but a lone human across the galaxy not knowing where he is decided to work for the lizards hoping that he will find his way back home to Earth. "How I miss my home in Everett Washington." He thought to himself as the freighter started its landing sequence.

Minutes later, landing pad.

Archer opened the large cargo bay doors and watched as different morphs unloaded the freighter. He grinned as Mitch walked up to him, the seven foot tall lizard morph looked at him chuckling running a hand on his hairless scaly head. The human laughed at his friend. "It got real warm in the control room."

The lizard laughed. "I didn't notice anything; it was real comfortable where I was at."

The human shrugged knowing that Mitch's race likes it real warm. "Well, if I ever find my home planet, you should visit my home town during August. It gets really warm, plus high humidity around sixty percent."

Mitch watched as the freighter is unloaded. "Sounds nice, but I prefer a dry heat."

Archer looked at Mitch who is only wearing a lion cloth and a type of vest. "Since you insist, I'll take you to Southern Utah in July where it's a 110 degrees with low humidity making it a dry heat."

The lizard sighed. "Sounds like a nice place to visit." He said looking at the human with his yellow gold eyes. "Let's go get some parts for that inertia damper." The guys walked away.

At that moment a set of silver eyes rimmed with dark blue watched the two guys. The eyes moved to the human and watched him for a moment and the figure vanished.

Hours later at a club.

Archer held the glass staring at medium blue liquid with gold foam. The human took a drink tasting liquid that tasted of bananas with to much sugar. A green scaly hand tapped him on the shoulder. "Don't drink it to fast; I don't want to carry you back to the ship." Said Mitch grabbing a type of insect from a bowl eating it.

The human nodded putting the drink down grinning. "How are the repairs going?"

Mitch was about to reply when a black furred pig like morph walked up to the two snorting. "Reptilian morphs don't take orders from slaves." He looked at Archer and saw the scar on Archer's wrist. "Did you escape from us slave?"

Archer was about to give the Photino a piece of his mind when Mitch walked up to the pig baring his needle like teeth. "No swine, I found him locked in a sub level of a structure and freed him. His name is Archer and he's my friend." The lizard picks up the Photino so that the swine is looking at the yellow gold reptilian eyes. "Now, do you have the coordinates of a planet called Earth?"

The Photino squealed. "I am not telling you."

Mitch shrugged. "Oh well, that bug wasn't enough. I am still hungry, I like eating live prey." The lizard opens his maw.

The Photino screamed. "The trading and slavers guild knows, I am just a merchant who sells stuff."

The lizard drops the pig. "Get out of here, my race doesn't like slavers. The reason you're still alive is because you did something for me get out or I'll eat you." He laughs at the sight of the Photino running out of the place. "The repairs are complete, after we take off, I need to calibrate the damper and we can go to our next stop. I checked the hull and its fine, the Briansk class of freighters are a tough class of freighter, that's why they're still being built after all these years." The lizard looks at the human. "At least we got a lead of how to find Earth; we're scheduled to stop at a station that has a member of the trader's guild for the Photinos."

Archer nodded grinning to himself taking a slow drink. "Yeah, thanks for your help bud."

Mitch patted the human on the back. "No problem, soon we stop over there, get the information and swing on by the Earth."

Outside in the alley by the bar.

The Photino watched the entrance holding a club. Now the pig morph is in an alley watching the entrance.

A female voice sounding like a female Photino said. "What cha doing?"

The Photino replied. "I am waiting for an escaped slave, going to recapture him and geld him. Can't have humans running around loose can we. What to help out, you can have the reptile." He looks at the cloaked figure near him. "Nobody makes me look like a fool. I can't stand the lizard race, a strong race that rather pays their help instead of enslaving them. Anthonis does it right, that wolf morph enslaved his home world."

The female replied. "I found out that Anthonis was killed three years ago by a human and that human now rules Anthonis's wolf tribe. One thing I can't stand is slave owners and races that practice slavery, but that lizard morph might have spared you, but I am not. Because I don't pass off a free meal and you Photinos taste like grilled pork chops."

Something engulf him, the Photino found himself in a wet slimy area lying on a wet moving something. It rolled him aside and the Photino saw the outside, plus he's up in the air. A thick black curtain blocked his view and for a second the Photino saw that he's over something large and white. His snout is force on it and something large pushed the back of his head pressing his snout on the white thing. "CRUNCH" darkness.

The large canine head chewed a few times and swallowed and the form vanished in a shadow. A minute later a slender human form walked out the shadow and belched. She watches as a human male and a lizard morph walked out of the bar and walks down the street. The female grins and changes into a small fox and follows the two.

An hour later, high orbit above the planet.

Archer looked at the planet below his ship and maneuvered the ship as requested by Mich. The lizard morph is in the process of calibrating the inertia damper. The human looked at his readings checking the cargo. "Archer, I just got done calibrating the inertia damper. We can go to our next stop." Said Mich.

The human smiled and replied. "Alright, I'll set the navigation computer." An alarm went off in the cargo bay. Archer reset and noticed that CO2 gas is slowly building up in the bay and he's getting a heat heading. "Mitch, meet me at cargo bay two and bring your side arm. I think we have a stow away onboard, it might be our pig friend from the bar."

Mitch answered. "That's impossible; no one can get by the security at the port."

Archer said. "According to the sensors, we have a humanoid on board and I trust your work on stuff."

The lizard replied. "I am flattered, but it's impossible for some one to sneak pass security. Alright, I'll meet you at cargo bay two."

Minutes later, cargo bay two.

The human and the lizard opened the door to the cargo bay. Archer looked at the dim lighting of the bay seeing shipping containers stacked and tied down. He looked between rows seeing nothing.

Mitch held a scanner looking at the reading. The lizard saw something on the reading and pointed to an area between rows. He saw his human friend nodding and drew his gun.

Archer went to the area and something leaped out between the containers pinning him to the floor. The human saw silver eyes veined dark blue looking at him.

Mitch aimed his gun, but the figure looked at him. "Put away thy weapon, I mean ye no harm." The lizard cocked his head at the way the figure talked to him.

Archer looked at the figure sitting on him. He noted by the curves on the body the figure is female. Then she brought her face into view and Archer saw a human female face framed with copper red hair, but her eyes are a strange color, silver with dark blue. "Who are you?" He asked the female.

The female flipped a strand of hair off her face and smiled. "My name is Juniper; I use to live Belfast Ireland." She said a few words in a language.

Archer saw Mitch looking at him with a puzzled look. "She's speaking Gaelic, language spoken by the Irish. It's a country by the British Isles; I think I told you about Great Britain a while back."

The lizard nodded looking at Juniper. He noted that Juniper is the female of Archer's species, buy the long hair and body curves. This is the third human female he seen since the humans were forcedly removed from the planet Earth a few years back. Mitch didn't find human females attractive, he preferred his own species. "Or the occasional anthro fox vixen." The lizard thought to himself looking at the human female. "I am curious, where were you when you forced from Earth?"

Juniper smiled. "I was at Ireland when the Photinos took me from my home, but I mange to escape from them. I've been spending the last three years looking for Earth, that's why I stowed away on your ship." She looks Archer over.

The human looked at Juniper nodding, then looked at his friend Mich. "Alright, you can stay with us, just remember that you half to work with us till we find Earth. I've been looking for Earth for the last two and half years."

Juniper nodded straightens her copper red hair. She looked at Archer smiling. "I have no problem working for ye." Then she walks away.

Mitch looks at Archer with a puzzled look. "She speaks different then you, what's with that?"

Archer chuckled. "She's from a different part from Earth than I. Juniper stated that she's from Ireland which explains that lilt when she talks." The human scratches his head. "Speaking some phrases in old English, nobody spoke like that in centuries, but I never been to Ireland and I think some people there must still speak like that. Her eye color, I've never seen an eye color like that on a human, but the Irish I heard mostly have green colored eyes." He said walking out of the cargo bay.

Mitch nodded watching his friend walking out of the cargo bay. "I am keeping an eye on her, because she doesn't smell like a human female. She smells like something else I never seen before." The lizard thought to himself shutting the door and sealing it.

Hours later, Archer's stateroom.

Archer sighed to himself looking at his small stateroom. He looked at his reflection seeing the a few scars on his body from his days as a slave at the hands of the Photinos. The human shrugged and climbed into bed.

The door opened and Juniper walked in. The human female looked at him smiling. She walked to the foot of the bed and removed her clothing. A training bra and a pair of underwear is the only clothing she's wearing. "I am sorry, I don't like sleeping alone." Juniper said walking to him with a smile. "Also, it's been a few of years since I seen a human male, I am not saying the other thing." She climbs on to the bed and straddles Archer's hips.

Archer breaths out while Juniper removes the rest of her clothing. She holds up his organ and sits down on it. He sighs as the warmness engulfs his member and he admires the lean body sitting on his. The human strokes the medium size pert breasts. Juniper bends over and kisses him tickling his cheeks with her fine long hair.

After the kiss Archer turns his head aside to sneeze. "What the heck?" He says looking at the shadow on the wall. On the wall is Juniper's shadow, but it's different. Instead of a slim human outline is a larger humanoid outline with two fluffy tails and a canine like head.

He gets pinned to the bed by inhuman strength, looking up Juniper is looking at him. Those eyes are just looking at him, but instead of round pupils, they're like the ones of a cat. Her face lengthens and her nose turns black. The front of her body grows white fur and the body grows a little larger and muscular. Archer looks at the hand pressing on him grow a little larger and the finger nails turn into claws growing black fur feeling tough callus on his chest. The human looked at Junipers front seeing her breasts grow larger as white fur covers them, but below the large breasts, smaller ones are forming being a size smaller. Archer whistles at the large anthro fox vixen sitting on his penis. He looks at the red furred muscular thighs with white fur on the inner parts. Then he realizes that his dick is still inside the vagina, but it's hard like steel now, but this anthro fox vixen's vaginal canal felt like the one off a human female. "Are you a Kitsune?"

Juniper's canine head lowers to his face. "Yes I am, but I am from Ireland. Most of my kind does live in Japan, but a few of us live in different countries." She brings her muzzle close to Archer's face giving him a lick. "But we're mostly females and we mostly take a human male as a mate." The Kitsune hugs the human to her breasts.

Archer does have the fetish of anthropomorphic beings since he has been released from the Photinos. He has seen anthro canines, felines and different types of reptilians like Mich. The human remembered a type of reptile morph that has Mitch's build, but they have more like a dragon type head with spikes and horns. Mitch called them draconian, plus he said they're friendly like him. At the current moment, Archer is under an eight foot tall Kitsune with four breasts and two tails and now his face is between the top row.

He backed away from them looking at them. The top two are a large size firm with pink colored nipples poking thru the white fur and the bottom two are a size smaller below the top pair. The human used both hands to fondle all four of them hearing a sigh of pleasure from Juniper. Archer looked down to his pubic area seeing pink vaginal lips wrapped around his member, a few minutes later, he ejaculated into Juniper.

The Kitsune gets off Archer, stands up and stretches. She looks at the human giving him a canine grin. "Thanks Archer, it's been a few years. Will you be my mate?"

Archer looks at the eight foot tall anthro fox vixen with two tails. She shimmers and changes back to a human female. "Uh, sure."

Juniper jumps onto the bed and hugs Archer. "Thank ye, I don't like being alone. My last mate was taken from me by those pigs when we were taken off the Earth. I know that he's no longer alive, just stay close to me." She rests her head on Archer's chest and falls asleep.

Archer hears her mumbles some words in Gaelic and phrases in old English. He strokes her hair and stiffens at a phrase. "How old is she?" The human thought to himself as he falls asleep.

A few days later, bridge of a Squib ship.

Pete sat at the control console checking the readings. He sighed to himself. "Been doing this for the last three years. So far, we found around thirty thousand and still billions more to find. How did that Anthonis get all of those humans off the Earth in one night?" The human thought to himself.

A white furry slim hand touches his shoulder. "A penny for your thoughts." Said Sarah massaging his shoulders.

The human male with dark brown hair with dark blue eyes with a brownish tint looked at the female squib. She has the build of an anthro fennec vixen, but the squibs have long fur colored in the pattern of a sable rough collie with glowing blue eyes. Sarah is wearing a black mini skirt and a red type of tank top with a V cut in front, plus showing her navel above the mini skirt.

Pete smiled looking at her, they been mates for the last three years. He and a couple of his best friends ran across the squibs when they were investigating what happen to his home planet. A little over three years ago if someone told Pete that he would be across the universe mated to an athro fennec vixen with glowing blue eyes with long fur he would of wonder what drugs the person was taking. "I am wondering if I will be able to finish this job in my life time." The hum said with a distant tone.

Sarah sighed. "I don't know, according to my father, the universe is vast. We only explored a small portion of it."

A male crew member at a console stiffen. "We have a type of ship two thousand miles off our port bow. I am reading one human male, one reptile and a human female."

Pete looked over to Sarah's father Ethan. The male squib shrugged. "Adjust course to intercept."

A few minutes later, the gray ship is seen on the view screen. The main body is shaped like a long box with wings and at the top is a rounded structure. Written on the side of the main part in blue lettering is three words CITY OF EVERETT.

Ethan replied. "City of Everett, what kind of name is that?"

Pete is grinning. "The human must be from Everett Washington, that name of the freighter is the name of the first Boeing built 747 airliner. We found someone from my home town."

Bridge of City of Everett.

Juniper saw the white starship appear near them. She pushed the button near the bridge chair. "Archer, Mitch, we have an unknown ship near us."

A minute later Archer and Mitch entered the bridge. Mitch looked at the white triangular starship for a second. "Squibs, they're a type of canine and harmless."

The speaker of the com console emitted. "City of Everett, what is your destination and can we speak to the humans on board?"

Archer tilted his head and looked at Mich. "That voice doesn't sound canine, it's human and he sounds like he's from the same area of the United States as me." He grabs the headset. "This is Archer, part owner and captain of this freighter. Who is talking to me?"

Bridge of the squib starship.

Pete remained still for a second holding his headset. He knew the owner of the voice. "Hello cousin, where have you been for the last three years?"

A moments silence and Pete's com answered. "Hello Pete, I've been forcefully taken from a friends place and taken across the universe. I've been spending the last two and half years trying to find Earth. Is your posse with you Sheriff?"

Pete grinned answering. "Uh no, my posse is back on Earth at Seattle Washington."

Archer replied. "I thought Ray loathed Seattle and Rior is terrified of the place. What made them ending up living there?"

Bridge, city of Everett.

Archer stared at the Squib ship near his. Pete's voice replied. "Something happened at the Puget Sound area, we need to talk face to face."

He looked at Juniper and said to the com unit. "I am three hours from my next stop, while my ship is unloading, we will talk."

Bridge of the Squib ship.

Pete looked at the freighter near by. "Ok, we'll follow you to your next stop."

Archer's voice replied. "See you later."

A few hours later at Archer's next stop.

Pete, Sarah and Ethan walked up to the freighter. The human laughed at the Confederate flag painted on the side of the freighter. "Archer is a rebel, at my last job before the incident; I've gotten s few complaints of him flying the Confederate flag at some days. He's harmless, a couple of years younger than me, he will be twenty nine now.

A minute later, he gasped at the sight of his cousin. Archer used to be slightly over weight like his friend Ray used to be. Ray is now in better shape due to being mated to a female anthro tiger and being chief of the west wolf tribe. His cousin is really thin and his brown hair has some gray in it, plus he looked around Ray's forty one years. "What happen to you cousin?" Pete asked Archer as he walked up to him seeing that his cousin let his hair grow long and now it's done in a pony tail, plus he grew a beard.

Archer grinned at Pete. "I was a guest of a race called the Photinos; they're a pig morph that practices slavery." He points at the lizard standing next to him. "I was a slave of them till Mitch here rescued me and freed me. Been looking for Earth for the last two and half years."

Pete looked at the human female standing next to Archer. He watched her movements for a minute noting that she acted like Sarah. She has her arm around him looking at Pete's group like a mother guarding a single kid. Pete heard Sarah and Ethan talking to each other in their native tongue, it sounded like growls and barks. The human female looked at the squibs with her silver eyes. "Archer, who is the lady?"

Archer put his arm around the female. "This is Juniper, she's from Ireland. Been on board for the last few days. I am taking her back to Earth once we get the coordinates to Earth." He said looking at her.

Pete nodded looking at Archer's group. He heard Sarah whisper to him. "She's not human." Pete saw Juniper looking at Sarah.

The group walked from the landing area and Archer opened the cargo bay doors of his freighter, while Mitch went to an office.

While Pete walked away from the freighter, Sarah stopped him. The Squib has a look of fear on her. "Pete, I thought that race was extinct, you cousin has a Kitsune with him."

Pete looked at his mate gazing at her glowing blue eyes. He knew about Kitsunes, a Japanese legend, but he never heard about them in Ireland. "I heard about them, but they're mostly pranksters and harmless."

Sarah looked at Archer and Juniper noting that she doesn't let Archer out of her sight. She looks at Pete with a serious look. "Yes, that part is true; they're harmless and play pranks." The Squib looks at Juniper with a cautious look and back to Pete. "But you don't want to mess with a vixen's mate or you'll be very sorry. Even we high tech canines gave that race a wide berth when we knew them centuries ago, but they disappeared hundreds of years ago."

Pete looked at Juniper trying to find anything odd about her. The only thing he noticed was her eye color being strange. He looked at Sarah and grinned at her. "I am giving Archer the coordinates to Earth."

Sarah looked at Pete nodding. "We will give him the means to go to Earth, but don't get that Kitsune mad at you." She saw Juniper looking at her and she whispered to Pete. "Just don't threaten your cousin in her presence."

Later that day, exiting a shipment office.

Archer walked out of the office putting away his I.D. with Juniper. He looked at her grinning. "Well, we didn't get another load, but we gotten paid and the means to go to Earth. Ethan said that we can do the run between Earth and his home planet." The human looked at her fine features and moved a stand of copper colored hair. "I told him, I'll think about it."

Juniper smiled at him hugging him and giving him a kiss. She put her hands on his shoulders looking at him, but her smile turned into a sneer.

Archer turned his head to the direction Juniper is looking at and sighed. Walking toward him is five Photino pig morphs. Juniper squeezed his right shoulder saying. "For give me for putting ye under, but I don't want ye to watch this." He falls asleep.

Pete was watching from a distance with Ethan. He saw his cousin get put gently on the ground. Juniper walked up to the pig morphs threatening them and there's popping sound, but near the pig morphs isn't a petite human woman with copper colored hair. Now there's a fox the size of a locomotive. The fox growled and picked up one of the Photinos by the head and shook it. Pete watched as the fox chewed the pig morph and ate it. A hand rested on his shoulder, Ethan said. "Now you know why Sarah told you not to threaten your cousin when she's near and why we gave that race a wide berth." The Squib watches as a Photino shots the Kitsune, but the laser bolt just bounces off the fox's hide. "Weapons fire just makes her mad. I better see if I can use this chance to my advantage, I really hate the Photinos, we Squibs loathe races that practice slavery."

Ethan walked up to the fox, he saw the last Photino in the fox's jaws. "Juniper, I need to talk to your meal, so don't chew on it yet."

The fox turned her head to him; Ethan saw the Photino's pig like head hanging out under the fox's nose. "Why do you what to talk to this filth?" A female voice said in Ethan's mind.

Ethan shook his head due to the power of the Kitsune's mind. He looked at the Photino with disgust. "The way you act to me in the next few minutes will decide if you walk away from here or join your buddies in Juniper's stomach."

The Photino sneered to Ethan. "I don't bargain with Squibs." He yells as the fox's jaws clamp down on him. "Ok, ok, what do you want from me?"

Ethan looked at the pig morph with a disgusted look. "First thing filth, you tell your race and leaders to leave the humans alone, meaning if you see any humans walking around at another planet don't lay a hand on them or you will be seeing my friend here." Juniper growls squeezing the Photino in her jaws. "Second, I want to know how many humans are your slaves."

The Photino looked at Ethan from up in the air. He felt his body gets squeezed by the maw that has him prisoner. "Alright, I'll tell my race to leave the humans alone; we have around five hundred million human slaves. You won't be getting them back Squib because your race doesn't have strong bodies for fighting us." The Photino gets spat on the ground, but before he can run, a large paw pins him to the ground.

Ethan walks up to the pig morph, the Squib kneels down looking at the Photino. "Just for your information, we now have an army of strong fighters. We have wolves, felines and humans who are looking for lost kin. I find humans an interesting race, they might have their faults, but in a time of need they have this tendency of banding together to over come obstacles. Just for your information, I don't want to be around your race when the humans find out that your race has around five hundred million of their brethren." The Squib picks up all of the Photinos weapons. He gestures to Pete to get his cousin.

Pete walks to Archer and picks him up. He looks at the large fox holding the Photino to the ground, the human nods to her as he drags his cousin away. A minute later, Juniper in her human form walks up to Pete and touches Archer causing him to wake up. "Remind me not to get you mad at me." Said Pete, as they walk away.

Juniper chuckles as they saw the Photino running away. "Those Photinos better not touch another human ever again."

Archer nodded as they walked to his freighter. "Yeah, I am buying myself a weapon as soon as possible."

Juniper held his head looking at him with her silver gaze. "No need for ye to buy a weapon. I will always keep an eye on thy." She gives him a kiss.

"Get a room you two." Said Mitch walking to the group with a female Draconian. The lizard put an arm around the silver gold female. "This is Nagini; she wants to join our crew."

Archer nodded and boarded his freighter, but he called to Pete. "I'll follow you guys to Earth." Then he remembered something. "Uh Pete, do you know what season it is at Earth?"

Pete looked at his watch. "It's the middle of June." He saw Archer grinning.

Pete turned to Mitch. "It's Summer time at Earth, meaning that it's going to be hot there."

Mitch exhaled. "Oh it sounds it's going to be nice over there." The lizard said walking into the freighter being followed by Nagini."

Epilogue, three months later, City of Everett, approaching Squibs home world.

Archer grinned looking at the readouts on the console. He looked over to the human female sitting next to him. Him, Juniper, Mitch and Nagini run supplies between Earth and the Squibs home world. Mitch is now mates with Nagini the female Draconian. Archer's friend likes the summer weather at Earth.

The human drummed his fingers on the control console looking at the readouts. He gazed at the blue green planet getting larger thru the windscreen. Archer noted that it looked like Earth other than the land masses are different shapes and the planet is around the same size as Earth. The human looked at Juniper again grinning and grabbed his headset. "Mitch, prep the ship for landing."

Mitch's for replied. "No problem bud, any word about your kinsmen in the hands of the Photinos?"

Archer stared at the Squibs home world. "Ray sent a unit of his tribe along with some warriors from his mate's village and some humans. I've been told this mission is going to a while. Pete's right, this is going to take years." He looks at Juniper's look and replies to the headset. "I am not going back to that section of the universe, to many bad and painful memories." The human rubs his scared wrist. "I am not a coward, I am not a coward, I have this feeling if I go there, I'll might not return home."

Juniper grabs his head looking at him. "There's no need to go back there, just do your part by hauling freight."

Mitch's voice replied. "I agree with her and you, those swine hate my race because we don't practice slavery."

Archer nodded as the freighter entered the atmosphere to drop off a load of cargo and passengers.

THE END