Miranda, I love you

Story by shetland on SoFurry

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Miranda I love you By Raven Fox: A human male from the twenty first century ends up in the twenty fifth. Humans have made contact with an advanced race and none of the humans have any interest in him but a female anthro mink.

Year 2020 at NASA launch complex.

Lt. Commander Roy J. Robert of the U.S. Navy is looking at the launch vehicle that will take him to the moon. The twenty nine year old human male grinned at the delta wing craft perched on top of a modified missile. "Ironic, a weapon that was designed to destroy cities, is now used for traveling in space. Well, in seven months I'll be walking on Mars with a few personal from Britain, France and Russia. I trained with those fellow astronauts, but they will launch from France in one week. The larger vehicle is at lunar orbit waiting for us."

The craft on top of the missile is the size of a city bus. It looks like the old space shuttle; it's made by a joint venture of Northrop and EADS, the company that owns Airbus. Both companies build the parts of the craft; the ones used by NASA are put thru final assembly at the Northrop factory in the U.S... The craft used by the European Space Agency are put thru final assembly in France. The craft has been in service since 2015 and has a good record of reliability.

Roy takes one last look at the launch vehicle and walks back to the sleeping quarters. At his room, he walks in the bathroom to study his reflection. He's five feet nine inches tall weighing 190 pounds with a medium build. Roy saw green eyes and black hair. He was married till his wife divorced him a couple of years back. There was only one kid in the marriage, a son. When his wife left him, the Navy lawyer on his side called for a paternity test on the son. It broke Roy's heart when he found out the boy wasn't fathered by him, now his ex-wife doesn't get much from him. "That witch Trina deserves to have to work to support her kid. She cheated on me and lied to me saying the kid was mine, when he wasn't. I am glad that she's not getting any part of my pension. My younger sister is getting my survivor benefits if anything happens to me." Roy thought to himself as he went to his bed.

The next day

Roy rode the bus to the launch tower. He felt butterflies in his stomach as the tower grew in size. "I've been to space two times and I still get this feeling on launch day." He thought to himself. There will be normally two personal piloting the vehicle but his co-pilot Josh has a bad case of the flu. There's only a two week window to launch the larger craft from the moon, so since the shuttle is mostly automated it can fly with one person. Roy shook hands with the techs and climbed inside the shuttle. He heard the hatch close and the locking mechanism whirred as the hatch sealed. Roy took a deep breath and exhaled, then grabbed a notebook and started the pre-flight check.

Three hours later.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the missile's main engine started. The launch vehicle shook as it lifted from the ground. Roy grinned as he looked thru the wind screens as the sky changed colors as the craft streaked higher into the sky. Eight minutes later there's a jolt as the shuttle jettisoned the missile. The shuttle's main engines burned for a few minutes then shut off. An hour later the engines burned for ninety seconds for the shuttle to break Earths gravity.

Roy sat back in the pilot's seat and grabbed the flight manual to read it. He knew it would take almost three days till he arrived at the moon. Roy studied the book on the larger craft named VENTURE. It's over two hundred feet long and took three years to build. Venture has three large nuclear powered rocket engines to propel it to Mars. The craft looked like a kids erector set. There's a cylinder shape front section that's curved at the ends and the girders connecting it to the engine section. Then there are the large solar panels for power sticking out of the main trusses. Roy looked at a photo of the Venture noting the large tanks in the mid section that housed the water tanks and fuel tanks for the maneuvering jets. He grinned at the sight of the craft.

Three days later

The shuttle is sixty miles above the surface above the moon. Roy typed on the computer to get the shuttle ready brake to establish an orbit around the moon. Unknown to him and NASA, there's a small fuel leak in the engine section of the shuttle. It had frozen the sensors and the valves to the engines. The computer was given false readings telling it that all parameters are normal. If the sensors were operating normally, the computer would have warned Roy and NASA of the problem, then the shuttle would have flown to the ISS and a spacewalk would have spotted the fuel leak. Now the fuel lines are frozen and the metal is now brittle.

Three minutes later

The engines tried to start, but the fuel lines burst and the super cooled fuel went into the cockpit of the shuttle. Roy felt an extreme cold and his world went black. The shuttle went pass the moon and into deep space, it went a different route away from Mars. The Venture did go to Mars; Roy's back up went to Mars instead of him by hitching a ride on the shuttle launched from France.

Four hundred years later near Pluto.

The shuttle drifted, the inside is way below zero degrees, and nothing is working. A small asteroid grazed the bottom of the shuttle and it shook slightly altering its drift. A piece of drifting ice hit a panel resetting systems. The computer rebooted, noting abnormal parameters the computer activated the distress beacon.

Nearby starship

The anthro ferret shrugged as his com gear picked of the distress signal. "Captain, I am picking up a distress beacon from a nearby craft."

The female gray wolf walked up to the brown colored ferret and looked at his gear. "That's strange; the humans haven't used this frequency in three hundred and fifty years." She turned to the fox at the controls. "Adjust course for intercept, it must be a probe like the one we picked up near our planet three hundred ninety four years ago." The red colored male fox adjusted the controls and the large ship turned. The wolf turned to a male lynx. "Send a message to Earth about this, maybe they might know what probe this is." The lynx nodded and went to the communications room.

The ferret saw the shuttle's image on his screen. "Captain it's an Orion class shuttle, it's the Demos. The one that disappeared near the Earths moon four hundred years ago."

The wolf looked over the ferret and studied the image of the shuttle. "Activate tractor beams on the low setting. This type of shuttle is fragile, put it in bay three." The ferret touched some controls on his panel. The wolf turned her head to the lynx walking out of the communications room. "John, how many humans are on this ship?"

The lynx muttered to himself and looked at the wolf. "We have fifteen, seven men and eight women."

"Have them go to bay three. Maybe one of them might be a history nut and maybe might able to open the shuttle." The wolf said with a grin. "Such a shame that all these shuttles were scrapped long ago."

The lynx laughed. "At least the Venture is still in one piece orbiting the Earth. That's one weird looking craft."

The wolf chuckled. "That's the human's first attempt of a starship. I've been on it, it's very neat inside. They had a greenhouse full of plants to create oxygen and grow food."

"But the craft was a polluter; it used nuclear fuel for propulsion." Replied John with a serious look.

"I know, when we did first contact with the humans we showed them how to use clean burning minerals for space flight. The Venture was modified to use this technology. The humans used the Venture for another twenty years till they built better space craft. They were going to scrap the Venture, but history buffs fought to save it. The Venture is the Earths first orbiting museum ship." The wolf said looking at a screen showing the shuttle now in the bay. "Let's go and check out another piece of Earth space history John."

Bay three of the starship.

The wolf and John stared at the shuttle resting on supports. John walked up looking at the tiles making up the heat shield. The fifteen humans walked around looking at the lines of the craft. A red haired woman named Tammy walked to the wolf named Samantha. "Captain, you access the shuttle at that round hatch. From what I read from the history books there was one pilot on the mission. His co-pilot fell ill two days before the mission. NASA decided to just send him because this shuttle was mostly automated. So there will be just one body on board."

Samantha nodded grimly looking at the shuttle. She looked at a female medium brown colored mink. "Miranda, there's only going to be one body on this shuttle." The mink nodded and looked at the shuttle as a ladder is wheeled to it. Tammy climbed the ladder and hooked a cable to a port on the shuttle.

Tammy studied the reading on the hand held computer and shrugged. "There's still an atmosphere in the shuttle with temperatures below zero. I'll need to put on a protective suit to shield me from the cold." She climbed down to put on a suit. Five minutes later she was again trying to access the shuttle. The hatch opened with a mist escaping the shuttle. Tammy shined a light looking at the cramped quarters. Ice is all over the surfaces and only a few lights are on. "Man talk about a relic. This craft will make a good addition to the Venture museum. Such a shame this shuttle is the only one of its kind. I better check on the body, he'll be at the pilot's seat." Tammy walked to the cockpit bracing herself for the sight she's going to see. She didn't know of the mink following her.

The cockpit has only a few instruments on. Tammy studied the LCD screens then turns her head to look at the frozen form of the pilot. He's now a whitish gray in color. "Lt. Commander Robert, what happen to you? Your frozen solid, I'll make sure you get a decent burial." Tammy said to the frozen body.

A gloved hand touched her shoulder and she turned around looking at the dark green eyes of Miranda. Miranda held a device at the frozen body looking at the readings. "He's still alive Tammy. I am sending him to sick bay."

"Are you nuts, he been frozen for four hundred years." Said Tammy.

"I can resuscitate him. He's been cryo-frozen some how. All I have to do is carefully thaw him and use nanites to repair his body." She raised her wrist to her muzzle. "Sick bay send a couple of personal to carry a cryo-frozen body to the nanite chamber." Miranda looked at the body.

Tammy looked at the mink with mixed thoughts. The race of minks are mostly female, there are a few males. Its five females to one male, some males have more than one wife and some females live with other species of anthros. Miranda doesn't see other anthros. She has this thing with human males. Tammy has seen her talking with the human males on this ship. "Miranda, Lt. Commander Robert is twenty nine years old and he's never seen an anthropomorphic being. So, I don't know what his reaction will be if he see's you." Tammy said to Miranda as sick bay personal removed the frozen body out of the shuttle.

Samantha and John watched as the frozen body is removed from the shuttle. Tammy walked up to the two anthros. "Captain, are you sure that you want her to try resuscitating him?"

The wolf looked at the human female. "She's a doctor; Miranda took an oath to save lives. According to the readings she's getting, he's still alive. Tammy, I know Miranda has a thing with human males. She's always been that way. Tammy, what do you know about Lt. Commander Roberts?"

Tammy closed her eyes for a moment and opens them. "He's twenty nine, an F-18 pilot for the U.S. Navy. His wife divorced him when he was twenty seven. He was going to be the Lander pilot for the Mars mission. That was the mission he was flying. The Venture was assembled at lunar orbit. The United States, Europe and Russia flew shuttles from the Earth to the moon. They did that due to the nuclear powered engines on the Venture. I don't know what Robert's reaction will be when he see's his first anthropomorphic being captain, we better prepare him before you talk to him." the wolf and lynx nodded as Tammy went to look at the old shuttle.

Samantha turns to John. "We better get a hold of Earth to tell them of what we found."

John grinned. "Yeah, we found their missing shuttle and our doctor who has a crush on humans is trying to thaw him out."

"No, we homed in on a distress signal that turns out to be the Demos. According to the medical readings, the pilot is alive and our doctor is trying to revive him. We'll keep them posted." Samantha said looking at the shuttle.

One hour later on the bridge.

A vixen walked up to Samantha holding a clip board. "Captain, we found out what happen to the Demos." Samantha turned to the vixen as she continued to talk to her. "There were fuel leaks which cause the main fuel lines to rupture, along with the other cooling pipes. It put the pilot in perfect hibernation."

"Just like the show Buck Rodgers Linda." Said John listening to the conversation.

"I didn't know you watched old Earth TV shows." Samantha said turning to her XO.

"I liked the space shows like Star Trek, and both versions of Battle star Galactica, the Star Wars movies and Sci-Fi shows Captain." Replied John looking at the two females. "Should I send our findings to Earth?"

Samantha looked at John and nodded. She looked at Linda. "What else did you find out?"

"The craft is in fine shape, all you have to do is repair the ruptured lines and refuel it. We don't use super cooled fuels anymore and neither does Earth. Like Tammy said, it's only good for as a static display at a museum." Said Linda, then she looked up at the wolf. "What's the word on the pilot? I heard that Miranda is trying to thaw him out."

"I don't know, she told me she'll contact me as soon as possible." Samantha said.

Sickbay at the same moment.

Miranda looked at the human form on a transparent bed. She looks at the readings on the handheld computer. She turned to a male black colored ferret. "All right, release the nanites Todd." Miranda watched as Roy is completely covered in silver colored microscopic robots. She watched the readings on her computer. "Ok, repairs on tissue are at ninety five percent. Start bringing up his body temperature slowly." Miranda watched as the nanites left the body and she can see Roy again. She touched a few areas on her screen and watched as Roy's body convulsed. Miranda looked at her computer and grinned. "Ok, life signs stable. Time for us to leave and send in the humans." Miranda walked out with Todd, a second later Tammy and a blonde haired human male named Steve walked in.

Roy opened his eyes; all he saw is blurred images. He felt cold and smelled a slight musk smell in the air. Roy rubbed his eyes and opened them, a woman with shoulder length red hair is looking at him. He looked around and saw a man with short blonde hair looking at a clear clip board. Roy looked at the woman noting the dark blue eyes and small build with medium size breasts. She looked like she's five feet four inches tall.

"So, where am I? I take it this isn't the lunar station Armstrong." Ray asked noting the white walls with stainless steel colored fixtures. He knew the Space station is more cramped than this room. "Am I on Earth?"

The woman walked up to him with a grin. "No commander, this isn't going to be easy for you to take in. So I am going to blunt with you now. You're on a starship passing Neptune. You've been asleep for four hundred years."

Roy rubbed his temples and sighed. "So, I am four hundred years AWOL from the Navy. Other than I might be in big trouble with the Navy, what happen in the last four hundred years?"

Tammy shrugged her shoulders. "The Venture had a successful mission to mars; it made two more trips to explore the moons. Six years after your disappearance, beings from another world made first contact with Earth."

"Wait, what do you mean beings from another world making first contact with Earth?" Asked Roy looking at Tammy.

Tammy smiled looking at Steve who shrugged. "Alright, I am being rude. My name is Tammy and this is Steve." She said pointing at the blonde guy. "Roy, I am sorry for being blunt. The beings I am talking about are anthropomorphic canines, felines and rodents like ferrets and minks. They live in a universe next to ours. Voyager 2 got drawn in a black hole and ended up in their universe. Voyager 2 was slightly damaged and the anthros returned it to us. The anthros are six hundred years ahead of us in technology, they taught us faster than light space travel. The Venture was the first Earth ship with faster than light engines."

"Wait, the Venture now goes faster than the speed of light? Where is it now?" Roy asked with a puzzled look.

Tammy snickered. "It did, now it's orbiting Earth. It's now a museum; your shuttle will make a nice addition to it. Roy don't yell or carry on when Miranda and the captain of this ship walks in. Miranda is a medium brown colored mink with light tan shoulder length hair. She's a couple of inches taller than me. The captain is a female gray wolf a few inches taller than you with dark brown hair. Don't scream when these personal walk in." Tammy walked out the room. As she walked out of the room, she turned to Steve. "That went o.k.; I forgot to tell him about Miranda liking for human males."

Steve turned to Tammy and shrugged. "He'll find out soon, did you have to be blunt with him?"

Tammy grinned and turns to Steve. "I did tell him the truth, plus I am married Steve to military serviceman."

Miranda glared at Tammy as she walked by her. She held her finger over the panel to open the door, after a second she touch it. The door slid open, and then she walked in.

Roy watched the door slid open. He saw an anthropomorphic mink walk in. The mink is a medium brown in color with light tan head hair tied in a pony tail. She has a skinny build with medium length body fur wearing a light blue colored one piece uniform. The mink walked up to the bed. Roy noted the front of the uniform being low cut in the front. The chest area has thicker longer hair spilling over medium size breasts Roy guessing a 34 C cup. The mink held a device at him looking at him with dark green eyes. "So Miranda, what's the verdict?"

Miranda looked at the human that's four years older than her. "Well Lt. Commander Robert, other than a slightly elevated heart rate and blood pressure you're great health. I think your readings will go to normal after the shock wears off. I think they should have had Brenda talk to you instead of Tammy. I am sorry, that Tammy was rude to you."

Roy looked at Miranda's eyes noting the concern look in them. He relaxed and took a deep breath. "Ok, I am curious, how did I end up in a four hundred year sleep? I can tell by you body language and expression that you're a doctor. I like to have a professional opinion of what happened to me."

Miranda smiled, she told him of what happen to his body and explained the process she used to revive him. After she was done, Miranda explained the malfunction of the shuttles systems that frozen him. "So that's it Roy. I am awful sorry of how Tammy treated you. The people of the planet Sirus are a race of explorers and always try to make friends with everyone. Me, I live on Earth. We minks have a problem with a shortage of males. Its five females to one male. Some anthros and human females don't like me because." Miranda looks at the floor and at Roy.

"You like human males. I can tell by the way you are looking at me Miranda. It seems that you're my only friend at the moment. I wonder if you like a guy who's four hundred and twenty nine years old." Roy looked at Miranda wondering if he should get involved with a female again.

Miranda hugged and gave Roy a kiss on the mouth. "Let's see what happens, I got to contact the captain. She wants to talk to you; I heard everything between you and Tammy. So you know that she's an anthro wolf."

Roy nodded and looks at Miranda who seems to be more relaxed. "Miranda, can you stay here while I talk to her? It might be better for me if you're in the room with me."

Miranda nodded and walked out the room. Roy laid back on the bed in thought. "So I am in the future. I thought beings on other planets will be gray skinned humanoids with large black slanted eyes abducting people, flying saucer shaped craft. But no, they're anthropomorphic beings who found Voyager 2 that Earth lost contact back in 2012. One of them has a crush on me, I been awake in less than a half hour and I already have a girlfriend, oh well."

Bridge of the starship

Samantha listened to Miranda as the mink told her that Roy is awake and seem to be doing fine. The wolf nodded when Miranda explained that Tammy was little blunt with the human. Samantha grinned at Miranda. "Ok, so he's ready to talk to me. He wants you to be in the room with him." Miranda nodded. "I see no problem with that." The wolf turned to John. "Tell Earth that Roy is awake from his long sleep." The lynx nodded and walked away. Samantha turned to Miranda. "Well let's go talk to our guest."

Sickbay ten minutes later.

Roy lay on the bed looking around his surroundings. He thought about of his current situation. The astronaut is wondering what is going to happen to him now. Roy is twenty nine years old and to him he just started his life. He was the youngest man to be accepted by NASA to fly in space. Roy was going to be the youngest member to walk on Mars. He knew the higher ups in the Navy liked he dedication to the military and clean service record. Roy is still in thought when the door opened.

Samantha walked through the door and looked at the young human staring at her. "So commander Robert, how are you feeling after your long sleep?"

Roy looked at the tall female wolf wearing a dark blue uniform. He noted her tall height and large build. The wolf has a curious look in her light blue colored eyes. Roy studied her body. He saw that her uniform front is not as revealing as Miranda's. Roy saw that the wolf has a 38 D cup bust size. "I am doing fine maam."

Samantha smiled, she liked this human already. He's using military slang in addressing her. "I take it Miranda is treating you kindly?"

"Yes maam, I am being treated alright. I take it you have a lot of questions to ask me maam." Roy said, relaxing himself.

"Just call me captain or Samantha Roy. Miranda told me that she explained to you to what happen to your shuttle. You're on my ship named the Horizon. We where on our way to Earth when we picked up the distress beacon from your shuttle. I know what you're thinking, how the power lasted for four hundred years. We're looking in to that now." Samantha said sitting down at a chair.

Roy saw the door open and a male lynx walked in. The lynx is lean in build and has the fur pattern of a Canadian gray lynx. Roy saw that he has black colored head hair and steel gray eyes. The lynx handed Samantha a clip board. Samantha read the message and nodded. The lynx walked out of the room and Miranda walked in and sat down near the captain.

Samantha grinned showing her large canine teeth and flipping a strand of dark brown hair off her muzzle. "We've been ordered to return to Earth ASAP. Some higher ups in the U.S. and U.P, want to talk to you."

"What's the U.P.?" Roy asked the two female anthros.

Miranda directed her gaze to Roy. "The U.P. is what the United Nations is calling itself now. After we did first contact with Earth, we sent a few leaders to the United Nations. So the U.N. has been calling itself the United Planets for the last three hundred and ninety four years."

Roy shrugged and answered Samantha's questions and asked some to the female anthros. The conversation went on for another hour till Roy asked one. "So, can I see my ship?"

Samantha shrugged. "Sure, I have it in shuttle bay three. We have been asked to turn it over to the Venture museum. Some personal are going to look it over and restore it for display. You better put on a more presentable uniform; I'll allow you to wear a dark blue ships uniform. I think that it will be more comfortable than that pressure suit you're wearing now. You look like around Steve's height and build." She walked outside the room.

Miranda shrugged and said something to a panel and a second later she opened a panel, removed a folded up piece of dark blue fabric. She handed it to Roy. "It's like a flight suit Roy. What size of shoe do you wear?"

Roy took the piece of fabric and told Miranda his shoe size. He noted that so far the anthros he saw are not wearing any foot wear. Miranda handed him a pair of black shoes. Roy examined them as Miranda walked out the room. The shoes are light weight and seem to be made of a thick fabric. He turned them over examining the cross hatch tread pattern, noting that the sole felt like rubber. Roy put on the uniform and shoes, and then knocked on the door to notify Miranda that he's changed.

Miranda walked thru the door and smiled at the sight of Roy in the dark blue uniform. She looked at his slight muscular build. "That's a big improvement over that pressure suit you where wearing. Leave it here; someone is coming by later to clean it to present it to the museum. Let's go, the captain is waiting." Roy looks at the gray white colored pressure suit and held up an arm to look at light weight uniform he's wearing now. He sighed and followed Miranda out of the room.

Shuttle bay three ten minutes later.

Roy talked to Samantha and Miranda while walking to the shuttle bay. The other humans where still looking at the shuttle when Roy walked in. The other humans are awestruck when they saw Roy. Roy answered the questions they asked as he looked at the shuttle that is now resting on its landing gear. He walked up to it noting that the engine access panel has been removed. Roy saw a vixen peering inside the engine area. He saw a black cord plugged to the shuttle.

Samantha walked closer to Roy. "The vixen is my chief engineer. She loves antique machinery. Linda is having a ball looking at your shuttle; her favorite place at Earth is Venture museum. She also likes flight museums, be warned Roy. Linda loves jet fighters; she knows that you flew the F-18. Linda will be asking you a lot questions." Roy nodded as the vixen saw him walked up to him.

Roy smiled as the short vixen with long blonde hair walked up to him. Linda has her hair tied in a pony tail like Miranda. She has brown eyes with an intelligent look and a lean compact build with the same breast size as Miranda. "Well, it looks like Miranda thawed you out. I am so glad that your cooling gases and fuel mixed at the correct ratio to preserve you. What was it like to be in an F-18 being launched off a Nimitz class aircraft carrier?" He heard a laugh from Samantha and Miranda. Roy grinned and told Linda the feeling of a catapult launch and the landing. He noted that Linda held on to every word.

Half hour later.

Linda smiled. "Well, I'll be seeing you later. Sometimes I think I was born four hundred years late. One of my ancestors did fly the F-18 before the navy retired them. There are still a few around. Just once I like to be in the co-pilots seat in something like this. I would love to do a re entry in one of these." She runs a hand feeling the heat shield tiles. "Now ships today have shield generators, with quadruple back ups. I'll see you around Roy, looking forward to talking to you again." Linda walks back to the engine area of the shuttle.

Roy chuckled and looked at the shuttle. He turned to the two females. "So when do you have the next meal?"

Samantha looked at Roy and grinned. "In a few minutes, lets start heading to the mess decks as you navy guys will say."

Passage way on the Horizon.

Roy followed Samantha and Miranda; he noticed that the starship is laid out like a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. The passage way is like on a navy ship. The walls are a tan in color and the deck is a gray in color. Through the shoes he's wearing Roy felt warmth coming from the deck. Roy briefly stopped and touches the deck, it felt warm and the material felt like a rough plastic. He looked up at the ceiling noting the soft white coloring and some panels emitting light. Roy caught up to the females without making a sound.

Cafeteria of the Horizon.

Roy walked in the mess decks. Samantha ate her meal with the crew. He got himself a soup with some vegetables. Miranda got herself a meal with fish and green string beans. Samantha got a plate with chunks of meat.

"We should be at Earth in fifteen hours. The ship will dock at the station Endeavor, personal from the U.S. and U.P. will be at the station to talk to you. I have a small problem; all available sleeping quarters are taken. I need to find some sleeping quarters for you." Samantha is looking at Miranda who's giving her a please look. "Well Miranda's stateroom has two beds in it and her room mate is on vacation. Roy you won't mind staying in Miranda's stateroom?"

Roy looked at Miranda who's looking at him with her dark green eyes. "No problem captain. I won't mind it at all."

Samantha stood up and stuck her plate in a receptacle. "I got to return to the bridge, just like on Navy ships I got to keep an eye on stuff. The ship is going to pass Jupiter in a couple of hours. That planet has a strong gravity field and you got to know what you're doing or the ship will get pulled in to the planet. If that happens might as well vent your atmosphere and end it." She walks out of the mess deck.

Roy sat looking at his plate thinking. He looked around seeing different anthros eating. Vegetarian ones are eating plates of vegetables and carnivorous ones are eating plates of meat. Roy finished his meal, then he and Miranda left the mess decks.

Few hours later Miranda's stateroom.

Roy sat at his assigned bed; his head hung low looking at the floor. He tried to make conversation with the other humans, but the other humans treated him like he wasn't there. Roy felt a hand touch his shoulder, he look up to Miranda. "Well Miranda, I guess I am not welcomed on this ship."

Miranda gave Roy a look. "Come on Roy, the captain likes you and some of the crew. Those humans are just passengers for this one voyage. If the humans don't want you around, I think the captain will find you a job on this ship. I will love to have you on this ship Roy. I barely know you and I want to mate with you."

Roy looked at the mink. "I am curious to what it's like to have sex with an anthropomorphic being. What will the captain do with an ex-fighter pilot?"

Miranda smiled at Roy. "Well we're looking for shuttle pilots Roy; I'll talk to the captain later about getting you a job on this ship. Let's satisfy that curiosity of yours first." She unzips her uniform and let it fall off her body. "Don't worry about any problems Roy; my next heat cycle is not due for a few weeks. I did check you out and you're clean.

Roy look at the mink only wearing a white bra and panties. He watched as she slips off her panties. The pink vaginal area is barely seen through the medium brown fur. Miranda removed her bra releasing the medium size breasts. Roy examined them looking at the long thick fur covering part of the cleavage. The breasts are firm with inch and half pink areolas. Roy removed his clothing and lay down on the bed.

Miranda looked at the human that's four years older than her and smiled. She saw that he takes care of his body. Roy has no tattoos or piercing on his body. She noticed a surgical scar on his lower abdominal area from having the appendix removed. Miranda noted that Roy didn't have any hair on his chest and abdomen, just in the arm pits and pubic area. She climbed onto the bed looking at him.

Roy watched as Miranda climbed on to his abdomen. She hugged and kissed him. He felt her breasts on his chest and soft fur on his naked skin. "Man, this feels great." Roy thought to himself as he felt his penis enter Miranda's vagina. He held her firm rounded backside feeling her tail with short fur with a black tip. Miranda grabbed Roy's head and held him to her breasts. Roy felt the long fur on his face smelling her musky scent. Miranda orgasm doing a moan. He felt the tug on his penis and the small amount of fluid running down to the groin area. Roy felt a breast on his face and he started sucking on it. A few minutes later Miranda orgasm again. Five minutes later, Roy felt a build up and he released his seed inside her.

Miranda got off Roy and cleaned him off. She went inside the bathroom and cleaned herself. Miranda went back to the bed and saw that Roy's eyes are half closed. She looked at him for a minute and climbed onto the bed. Miranda looked at Roy and smiled and got closer to Roy and snuggled him. She heard him mutter something, Miranda asked him to repeat the saying. She heard him say. "Miranda, I love you."

"I love you to Roy." She said resting her muzzle on his head, and then she fell asleep.

Six hours later, Miranda's stateroom.

Roy felt something gently shaking him. He opened his eyes and recent events played thru his memory. Roy looked around, taking in his surroundings. He looked at the room he's in looking at the tan walls and white ceiling. Roy looked at Miranda who's naked looking at him. He smiled and watches her get dressed. Roy laid back and watched Miranda get dressed. It's one of his fetishes; he liked to watch women get dressed. Roy watched as Miranda slip on a pair of light blue panties, then watch as she slips on a bra. He watched as Miranda adjusted the bra and slip on a uniform. Then she zipped it up and did up some buttons near the tail hole of the uniform. Miranda handed him some underwear and a clean uniform. "I normally wash myself off in the morning." He said to Miranda.

She looked at the wall clock on the wall and smiled. "There's only enough time for one of us to clean themselves. Unless you want to take a shower with me." Miranda looked at him with a grin.

Roy looked Miranda who's undressing herself. "No problem, one of my fetishes is taking showers with beautiful females."

Miranda walked to the doorway stopped, turned her head to Roy. "I don't see a problem with that. Give me a hand with washing my back, in my professional medical opinion I see no problem with males wanting to take showers with females." She did a come here gesture with a slim finger. Roy followed her in to the shower.

In the shower Roy is behind Miranda washing her back. He's giving her a massage while working the soap in her fur. A while later he moved his hands to her front feeling her firm breasts and rubbing them. He heard a moan from Miranda. She turned around rubbing her hands allover his body. He held her and gave her a kiss while feeling the water strike his body. Miranda kneeled down and Roy felt her muzzle starting sucking on his penis. Roy placed his hands on the walls of the shower stall. He sucked his breath in of the strange feeling of Miranda's muzzle on his member. Roy looked down at Miranda who's at his groin area; he felt her breasts on his thighs. He looked at her light tan hair cascaded on her back flatted due to it being wet. A few minutes later he released in her, but she sucked on his penis for another minute till it went soft.

Four hours later Horizon's bridge.

Roy stood by Samantha while the ship approached Earth. He looked at the view screen of the planet. To him it looked the same, he saw a large a large round structure with the words Venture museum on it. "Is that where my shuttle is going at?"

Samantha looked at him and nodded. "But first some personal from NASA want to take a look at it and check if there's anything interesting on the onboard computers. Miranda talked to me earlier, after you're done with the talking with these personal. Do you want to work for me?"

Roy looked at Samantha and nodded, then watches as the ship docked at a large station. The space station is huge, to him the ISS station he been on once during a mission is like comparing a row boat to a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

Samantha grinned at Roy. "And that is how we dock now a days. I and Miranda will escort you to the personal who want to talk to you. Roy, I can only stay for awhile. I got to do a debrief with personal from my government to, since a Sirus owned starship found your shuttle it will be easier for you to be a citizen of Sirus than Earth."

Roy looked at the light blue colored eyes of Samantha. The anthropomorphic beings in his opinion treated him a lot nicer than the humans from Earth. "Sure, the way I been treated by humans I rather stay with Miranda and your crew."

Samantha smiled. "Al right Roy, Miranda will be you thru the questioning and she'll escort you back on board. I want you to report to my cabin when you're finished with the questioning." She gave him a wink.

Venture museum five weeks later.

Roy stood at a platform with his arm around Miranda looking at the Venture. He then looked at the shuttle Demos now sitting on a new platform. There's a large crowd looking at the shuttle, in the crowd he saw a blonde hair vixen. Roy turned to Miranda. "I guess Linda is never going to get tired of the sight of that shuttle."

Miranda chuckled as they walked closer to the Venture. "I can't believe that you were going to spend almost two years on that ship."

Roy shrugged. "To me back then, she seam huge. It was state of the art in the early twenty first century." He looked at the painting of the flags of the USA, European Union and Russia on the cylinder shape front section. Roy examined the solar panels sticking out of both sides of the main truss like wings. He walked the length of the platform and saw strange looking engines on the rear of the ship. "So that what our first faster than light engines looked like." Roy thought to himself as a hand touched him. He turned and looked at Miranda. "Let's go home; the Horizon is going to leave tomorrow afternoon."

Miranda nodded and took one last look of the Venture and followed Roy. She smiled to herself looking at Roy's body as they left the museum.

THE END