Finding Humanity Chapter 8
#8 of Finding Humanity
The next morning Esrie meets Trixi in her room. The only difference between Esrie's and Trixi's room is the missing second cot and the addition of fur care products. Trixi was just getting up rubbing her organic eye and yawning. "Hard time sleeping?" Esrie asks. Trixi shakes her head and replies. "Nope late night with our new toy." "Ooh! How was he?" "Well equipped though I had to make an adjustment. Forgot he had a knot so got stuck the first time." "I have to try him later. Anyway I got a lead for who I use to be so we'll be leaving in a couple of days." Trixi nods and Esrie leaves her room. After checking on Kiara who was studying at the moment Esrie decides to visit their new toy. She heads back to the ship and enters the special compartment. She strokes the erect cock with her hands causing a muffle moan from the coyote. Grinning she then starts rubbing her pussy against the cock. When her pussy is good and wet she impales herself on it and starts riding it. Moans and groans come from both of them was the sound of flesh against flesh resounds through the soundproof compartment. Soon Esrie orgasms and coat his cock with her juices. After a short pause she goes again riding his still hard cock since the ring wasn't loosened. She spent three hours riding his cock doing orgasm over and over again while he couldn't. Finally she decided he could cum so as she reached her next orgasm she released the ring and he finally came. He squirted so much pent up cum that her belly really expanded. She leaves the coyote after that and heads to the restroom on the ship to relieve herself of her bloated belly. After doing so she heads back to her and Kiara's room on the Consensus ship. A week later New Dawn lands in a docking bay at Gydos, one of the cities in the Naska System. The trio walk down the ramp and Kiara is wearing her jump suit and Esrie and Trixi have there cyber symbiotes covering their private parts. Naska was very strict about nudity so this was the solution they came up with though Kiara wasn't really happy with it. Though they had brought some goods from Consensus it isn't the main reason they were here. Her research into her past self had said this was a common spot for the Katana to hang around and after looking and some to the store fronts around the bay it was easy to see why. Nearly half of the stores where mercenary hiring firms while the rest where either parts stores or hangers for either star ships or other vehicles. Esrie picks one of the merc stores and heads in. The layout of the place was similar to a bar but better lighting. There were many tables spread about some empty, some having a figure sitting on one side with a bunch of equipment, and some with a couple of beings discussing something. Esrie made sure to have a good look over the equipment. Though her biologically eyes don't have the abilities of Trixi's cybernetic eye they are enhances so they can give a better idea of what equipment is than the average being. The stuff matches files for holo displays and uninet connections. (Uninet the universe equivalent to the internet.) In the back was in fact a bar area with a 40 year tigeress cleaning glasses. Something in Esrie says this is a normal layout for a merc place and the tigeress is the owner. She walks up to the tigeress and the tigeress nods at her and asks. "What can I get you?" "I'm looking for information of this ship and its pilot." She activates the holo of the Katana. The tigeress looks at the holo for a minute before nodding and replies. "That's the Katana, she's piloted by Esrie Argento. A very talented pilot and she always held to her contracts. She disappeared working in the Jones system." The tigeress looks up to the roof. "That poor family." The tigeress looks back at Esrie and tilts her head. "You look a lot like her." "I get that a lot. Do you know where her base here was?" "She did have an asteroid base in the system." Esrie takes a considerable amount of credits to the barkeep. "I'm no enemy of hers and I really need to find it. I hope to find her with what I can find there." Tigeress sighs and goes under the bar and comes back with a data chip. "This holds the coordinates. I can for her very much and hope you find her, but if you are lying to me you'll regret it. I have A LOT of mercs who owe me favors." "I got it." The tigeress nods and walks to the next customer. It is then Esrie notices a limp in the tigeress's walk. "What happened to your leg?" The tigeress looks back at her. "A job that went bad." She lifts her leg and supports it on the bar. The tigeress's leg was a mess and is supported by a brace. Esrie winces at the site with Trixi and thankfully Kiara was too small to see it. "I was betrayed by those I trusted and this was the result, but at least I'm alive." "Well thanks for everything." Esrie then leaves the Bar/merc store back to the sun. "Okay let's do some shopping." Hours later the trio are on there way back to the ship when they here commotion nearby. A deerthro lands on the dirt outside of the tigeress's place. The Tigeress appeared quite angry resting most of her weight on her good leg. "I don't want to see you hear again you got me!" Rubbing his lower muzzle the deer glares at the tigeress. "You'll pay for this Jezel." He then gets up and walks away. Esrie yells out "Are you okay...Jezel?" Jezel looks up and over in their direction and grins. "Ya, I'm okay. Just a deer that ignore the rules." "Okay." Esrie gestures to Kiara and Trixi to follow her. The head back into New Dawn and take off. Esrie follows the coordinates Jezel gave her. It was at the far end of the system in an asteroid field. She follows it further to a large asteroid in a fairly stable area in the field. Esrie tries scanning the asteroid but gets readings saying there's nothing unusual about it, but if this was the other Esrie's hideout then it might be well protected. She slowly approaches the asteroid. In the shadowed area she finds spacedock doors and a communications panel. She connects to the panel and it asks for a pass code. She sits there for a few minutes trying to remember it. Thankfully a flashback starts show the old Esrie typing the code in. She gets out and enters the code. The bay doors open and Esrie coasts the New Dawn in. Sensors show that there is still air in the asteriod so she shows down everything except sensors and one reactor. The trio head down the ramp of New Dawn and start exploring. Trixi finds the closest thing to a control room. It has the asteriods powerplant and a large console next to a large dark display screen. She presses a blinking button and the screen comes to life displaying an outline of a Raider class ship. She then begins to download the data. Kiara finds the parts room seeing many peices that would form phasers and a supply of Photon torpedos to she herself does quite have a full understanding of the what the weapons are but there simular to what New Dawn has with the phasers. She also finds the galley and finds some Meals Ready To Eat with meat in them. She begins to chow down on them she is a growing cub after all. Esrie finds the area that housed the quarters. There is only six rooms and the first five were essentually empty except for the basic needs for an occupier. The final room however was different. It was filled with personal items and a hologram pretending to be a window to outside the asteriod. On the dresser there was a series of pictures. She picks them up one by one and looks at them. The first shows a couple with a five year old daughter all three with smiles. Next one showed the male of the couple working on some part of a ship grinning at the camera with a now seven year old trying to carry his tool box. Next was a pic of the mother and the daughter with the mother holding a baby. The next series of photos show the family of four working playing and from the smiles having fun. Then when she gets to the next pic, well in a way she has already seen it. It shows the mother, father, and the older daughter looking and a recently made grave. The tombstone read. Rachel Argento age 6, killed in Pirate attack. Esrie holds her head as flashes of memories assail her. Memories of Rachel annoying her, following her where ever she went, creating havoc, and many other things. Some one them brought a smile to her lips. When she returns from this memory trip she feels wetness on her cheeks. It is then she realizes that she's crying. After a couple of hours after they started they meet back at the ship and go over what they found. Trixi tells her about the schematics of the Katana she found. Kiara only found food and proceeded to scarf down another meat package. Trixi comments, "You eat too much." "I'm a growing cub." Kiara replies. "What did you find Esrie?" "Personal stuff, I remember more now. But my search isn't over. Come on lets head back down to the planet and get some sleep." They depart the asteroid and head back to the landing pad at the space port. As they come in for a final approach they see a small explosion. Esrie pinpoints the explosion to Jezel's place and she quickly lands. She then races out of the freighter with Trixi and Kiara following. The top of the building was gone with most of the rest on fire. Engaging her symbiote Esrie jumps into the burning building. She looks around unconcerned of the smoke since the symbiote purifies the air and she main sees flames. She listens intensely with her enhanced hearing and she mainly hears the crackling of the fire only for a bit, then....THERE! A slight moan, she races over and near what's left of the bar and finds Jezel lying on the ground unconscious and burnt. Esrie lugs the tigeress over her shoulder and races out of the building. Seeing them emerge Trixi heads over to help while Kiara asks. "Is she okay?" "She's alive, Trixi help get her in the ship. As Esrie and Trixi carry Jezel the building collapses behind them. Jezel floated naked in a status healing tank while Esrie and Trixi look over her status. "Well." Esrie begins. "We'll need to replace her bad leg and have spend some considerable time in the tank for regeneration. Afterward though with that and the nanos we're introducing she should feel ten years younger." "Do we connect her to the Consensus?" Trixi asks. Esrie looks at her very seriously and replies. "No. My time up at the asteroid helped me recover more memories and she was a good friend so no, not unless there's no choice." She also made that mistake once with Trixi and she wants to avoid it again if she can. An hour later local law enforcement came by and asks for the captain. When Esrie arrives the cop asks. "Ma'am do you know anything regarding the fire last night?" "We were landing late last night when the explosion happened. We raced over and I jump into the flames and rescued the owner. She is currently being treated for her injuries and can not be moved." The officer sighs and says. " Very well though I prefer her to be in one of our hospitals." "Our medical bay is top notch and probably better than the nearest hospital." "Fine! Do you have anything more about this incident?" "Well Jezel was arguing with a deerthro before we left on our task and I'll give you a copy of our scans during the explosion." "Thank you much ma'am." After giving them the data the officers left and Esrie turns to Trixi and says. "Okay let's get to work on Jezel." Jezel wakes up feeling groggy and with aches all over except strangely her bad leg. She hears voices and stills to listen. "Why didn't you make her a full cyborg and link her up to the consensus Esrie, like you and Trixi?" "I might have been tempted if she was able to agree before hand. I don't want another Wildheart incident okay. And though I haven't gotten all of my memories back, I got a lot of her and I care for her nearly as much as you and Trixi." "Oh Okay." Jezel recognizes the voices as the Cyborg human and the Lioness cub. Wait! Did the cub call her Esrie? "When to you thing she'll wake up?" the cub asks. Taking a chance Jezel says. "I'm awake." The Cyborg helps Jezel to sit up allowing Jezel a close look at the Cyborg. "It really is you Esrie. Goodness what happened to you?" Esrie opens her eyes wide and then sighs. "I went to help a group of synthetic lifeforms calling themselves the Silican Consensus when they were under attack. Me versing four raiders and I barely won. The Consensus sent a repair crew over but the Katana was a lost cause and was going to explode. I myself badly damaged and they did the best they could but as you can see they had to replace a lot and I lost my memory and for the past couple months trying to find myself again." Jezel nods in understanding she looks at Esrie with gleam in her eye and says. "So you care a lot for me." Esrie blushes a bit and replies. "From what the pictures I found told me and the feeling in my gut, you were like a second mother to me. Still have a lot of blanks in my memory." "Okay what's my condition?" "Well we had to replace your bad leg. You spent a week in our tank regenerating tissue and you now have nanos in your system to assist in repairs and such. You should feel ten years younger when your fully healed." Jezel looks at the prosthetic leg and moves it a bit. "Nice." She final comments. "The Consensus has the edge in technology, especially in cybernetics." "What about my bar?" "Completely destroyed. You can stay here for a while. I don't plan to go anywhere unless the Consensus has something I need to do. Was it the deerthro who did this?" "Yup, boy will he regret that and thanks for the offer I'll take you up on it." Esrie smiles and gets up. "Well I'll call Law enforcement for they'll want to talk to you. Kiara will get you anything you need." Jezel nods and Esrie heads to the cockpit to make the call. The officers return and interviewed her. After an hour the left and Jezel ask Kiara to hand her a communication device. When she gets it she contacts her merc friends and got a ball rolling. In a day the mercs deliver the deer responsible. After a couple weeks he was found guilty of attempted murder and sentence to 30 years. Jezel begins to rebuild her place and she bonds with the crew and she tells Esrie stories about her old self. Esrie also goes over the data she gathered, she sent the Katana blueprints to the Consensus as well as to why she wasn't really going any where right now. What she did was highly useful but not essential so it was fine. She sold the cargo she did have and with everything the past couple of years she has a couple million in credits for her own use while Consensus as a whole has got around a billion. So she had no problem paying the docking fees for this long period. A month into this routine Esrie found out where she could find her mother since both her dad and little sister were dead and as far as she could see she had no other living relatives. Jezel walks into the mess hall where Esrie was working on the family data. The tigeress was much improved physically in the month with the crew. She started exercising so she could get use to her new leg and that and the nanos have gave her defined muscles and besides from the gray streaks in her fur she look like a tigeress in her late thirties not the late forties she actually is. She was actually wearing a sports top and shorts showing off her figure thought part of the reason is the clothes were replicated since Jezels clothes went up in smoke and she has shown no interest in getting any new ones yet. Despite that she's the most dressed of the group with every one else in birthday suits. Jezel sees Esrie and asks. "Whatca working on?" "Well I figured out where my mom is so we'll head there when your place is done." "Why not now?" "Because I told you we'd stay until your place was done unless the Consensus had something. This can wait." "We can go now Esrie. The crew is doing good on my place. If they have any questions they know how to contact the New Dawn. It's also been a while since I left this system and now with the new leg and those nanos I feel better than I have in years. Heck Heck I was going to ask if we could travel around for my place won't be done for a few months." Esrie sighs a little. "Okay, we'll head out after supper." Jezel nods and head over to the replicator and gets a meal. "Hey Jezel." The tigeress looks over her shoulder to Esrie. "Thanks." "No problem." Later that evening they head out and Jezel is walking the corridor when she bumps into Trixi. "Hey Trixi what's in the locked room behind me. I noticed it earlier but forgot to ask." Trixi looks around the large tigeress and recognizes the door and grins. "I'll show you." The vixen enters the keycode and the door opens. To reveal a small storage space with a coyote in a strange bondage situation. "This coyote kidnapped Kiara to make us have sex with him. His plan backfired and he decided to make him our sex toy. He is kept in orgasm denial until we want him to. He is also in sensory deprivation so his entire focus is on what's going on with his cock and his butt. Wanna give him a whirl?" Jezel nods and Trixi sends a signal for the cock ring to loosen. The tigeress walks up to the bond coyote and strokes his cock. He twitches and jerks to the new style of stimulation. Jezel then strips and plunges herself on the cock. It was pure heaven for her since she hasn't had a male in the long time. For a minute she just stays there feeling his cock in her before she starts riding him. She grunts for a couple of minutes before he cums. Since he's been here his stamina is going since he is constantly teased and denied. After giving him a minute to recover she starts riding him again. He cums 3 more times before she has her first orgasm. After her after glow fades she gets off the coyote and comments to Trixi who watched the entire thing. "Nice, that was fun." "Isn't it?" A week later they arrive at Alpha Centauri and land at a surface pad of the colony. Esrie and Trixi walk out first with their symbiotes covering the naughty bits while Kiara and Jezel wear skin tight jumpsuits. Esrie was eager to see her mom and hopes that will fully restore her memory. As she approaches the address she was giving she stops and stares. After a minute she says. "No." Before her was a graveyard. She runs in with the others trying to follow. After ten minutes she approaches three tombstones. The first and oldest had this written on it.
Lizzy Argento Died at age 8 from illness The next read.
Max Argento Died at age 45 from cancer The last read.
Miriam Argento Died of age 50 of natural causes
Esrie just stands there staring at the tombstones for a couple of minutes. Before dropping to her knees and she starts crying. Kiara runs and hugs Esrie's chest while both Trixi and Jezel put their paws on her shoulders. As she continues to cry Esrie whimpers out. "I'm alone now." Kiara looks up at her and says stately. "No you're not. You got me, Trixi and even Jezel who all love you." "Not to mention the rest of the Consensus who owe their lives to you." Rubbing the tears away from her eyes Esrie looks back at them. "You know, you're right. I'm not alone." She gets up while holding Kiara with her cybernetic arm. "I know most of my past now. Now have to look to the future. The three other females nod in agreement.