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Global Defences

Part 1

By Wolfie Steel featuring Draft the Suffolk Punch.

So I am sitting here in my apartment when I should be Captaining the crew on board a ship called The Atlas, but thanks to things conspiring against me and also my temper I am now known as ex-Captain Cramer, let me please explain, you see I am an Akita, a gay one at that and I held a crush on the Commander of The Atlas, a Horse called Draft Tanner.

The thing is though, Draft was unaware of my crush on him, the operative word there being WAS, unfortunately for me a young Wolf, Ensign Chester, had seen the way that I kept staring at the Horse and had kind of put two and two together.

Now he could have just told Draft, who would have either punched me out or even accepted me, but no, he threatens to go to the top of the fucking tree, oh yes; I forgot to mention that Ensign Chester's father is none other than Admiral Tyran Chester.

So yeah he's got the idea that he will go to his dad with this news and in his plan his dad would call me into his office when we next docked back at earth base one and would probably rip me a new one, but unfortunately he is so very wet behind the ears and he tries to blackmail me, basically he is telling me that any mistakes that he makes while he is an Ensign, will not go on his permanent record, failure for me to comply would result in him going to Admiral Chester.

But he had thought that I wouldn't do anything to him, how wrong he was, in front of all of my bridge crew I punched him hard in the face, breaking his nose and dislocating his jaw. So now he has won anyway, because now I have lost my commission, he didn't have it all his own way though because once everything came out he spent two weeks in the brig with reduced rations and privileges.

I have lost the most though, my Captaincy, gone, my secret crush, probably hates my guts, and pretty soon this apartment which was provided by the company that I worked for, Global Defences, will most likely be repossessed leaving me homeless.

God damn it why can't I control my anger? To rub a little salt into the wounds it turns out that Admiral Chester does not share his son's homophobic views, and the most that would have happened is that I would have had to confront Draft about my crush and then move on.

My communicator begins to buzz, I look at the device knowing that it can only be one of two people, it will be either Draft to call me all the hateful names under the sun, or it will be Admiral Chester telling me when I am to be evicted, but I believe in not being rude by not answering the call, so I activate the comm.

"Ward, this is Admiral Chester, can you please come to see me in my office right away?"

Well here it is, my marching orders have been prepared it seems.

"Of course Admiral, I am on my way"

I arrive at Admiral Chester's office after a fifteen minute walk; I press the call button on his access panel and wait to be granted entry, with the entry clearance being given, I walk into the Admirals office, the atmosphere inside is decidedly frosty.

"Hello Ward, please take a seat"

I do as asked and then I begin to put my foot in it even further.

"Look Admiral, we both know why you asked me here, it is so that you can evict me from my apartment, so I just wish you would hurry up and do it already"

The Wolf's eyebrows rise in mild anger.

"With your recent conduct yes I should be booting your arse out, and yes I know that my son is not totally blameless in this matter, but fists rarely solve anything. Now to the actual reason why I called you here, we have a problem, as you are aware the earth is surrounded and protected by an energy shield, now to keep that energy shield complete we have a network of base stations in a low orbit, these stations are all connected by the shield and also supply power to the shield, now these stations need to be permanently manned so that their power matrix doesn't fail, that is where you come in, you see the current keeper of station eighty nine has decided to retire which will mean that the station will fail because his Commander will not be able to keep things together by himself"

A slight smile spreads across my muzzle.

"So let me get this straight Admiral, you need me?"

The Admiral lets out a defeated sigh as he nods his head.

"Yes I need you, but I want you to promise me that you will control your temper this time"

It is now time for me to try to eke out an even sweeter deal.

"Okay Admiral I will take on station eighty nine but I will do so with my own choice of Commander"

The Admiral rubs his temples and shows a mild form of irritation.

"Let me guess, Commander Draft Tanner, and I think I will hazard another guess in the fact that you would want to maybe work on getting together with him?"

I chuckle quietly.

"It seems that your son is not the only one who can use blackmail to get what he wants, in fact the only other difference between us apart from our sub species is the fact that I know how to use it to good effect"

There is another sigh from the Wolf.

"Okay I will see what I can do, because although you are a major pain in the ass who has little respect for authority, you do know how to get things done, now I have to reinstate you as a Captain but before I do I want you to listen and listen good, if I get any reports that your temper has showed it's ugly face again, I personally will lunch on your ass and then I will not only evict you from your apartment, I will stuff you onto a lunar shuttle and watch as you are blasted away from earth with no chance of return, okay now for the hard bit, by the power vested in me I now reinstate you Ward Cramer as the Captain and keeper of station eighty nine, welcome back to Global Defences Captain Cramer, now go back to your apartment and wait by your communicator, I will be in touch"

I head back to my apartment and wait for the Admiral's call, meanwhile back in Admiral Chester's office.

"Computer, open a communication channel to The Atlas"

A series of bleeps later and the channel is open.

"Ah Captain Magnus, I was wondering if I could have a secure chat with Commander Tanner please?"

The Dalmatian on the screen in front of him looks confused.

"Of course you can Admiral, but I am wondering if there is something wrong that I need to know about?"

The Admiral shakes his head.

"Relax Captain, I will be bringing you into the loop soon enough but first I really need to speak to Commander Tanner privately"

The Captain on screen turns to the Commander and nods his head towards the Captain's ready room, the Horse heads inside and then secures the door, he then activates the secure comm. Link.

"Hello Admiral, the channel is secure so go ahead"

There is a moment's pause and then the Admiral speaks.

"Commander Tanner, I kind of have a major problem which can only be resolved one way, base station eighty nine is in need of a new Captain and Commander, unfortunately there is only one Captain that I can place at the station and that is Captain Ward Cramer, now he has requested that you be transferred to station eighty nine as Commander, I know that there is possibly a bit of bad blood between you both after certain...revelations were uncovered and punches thrown, the thing is though Cramer has also asked me to steer you down the path of...hooking up with him...in a...sexual way, normally Commander I would not be pandering to his requests, but I'm afraid he has me by the balls so to speak, basically if I can't fulfil any part of his request he won't take on the Captaincy of station eighty nine, the station will fail and the result will be that we have a weak spot in our security shield which any alien vessel will be able to penetrate"

The Draft Horse gains a thoughtful expression.

"Under normal circumstances my answer would consist of two words, the second one being off, but these are far from being normal circumstances and so for the greater good I accept the posting and all of the trimmings"

An exasperated sigh is heard as the Admiral nods his head.

"I appreciate very much what you are prepared to do to keep earth safe, and rest assured that I have told Captain Cramer that he has to restrain his temper, otherwise, earth security or not, I will personally see to it that he will not bother anyone else ever again, thank you Commander, now if you would be so kind as to ask Captain Magnus to join the conversation I will then be able to give him the details of your replacement"

The Horse opens the door and calls the Captain into the room, the door is then sealed again and the Admiral continues.

"Now then Captain Magnus, Commander Tanner is being reassigned to one of our base stations, at this time I am not at liberty to give you any further details about his new posting, however I can tell you that I have a replacement Commander waiting to relieve Commander Tanner upon your return to earth, his name is Commander Darryl Webster and he is a Husky, he has a bit of a puppy look to him, but don't let that fool you, he is very much the equal of Commander Tanner, so with that said Captain, I would like to ask you to set course back towards earth and I would ask that you set your speed to warp five because I need to get this posting moving as soon as possible, that is all for now Chester out"

Captain Magnus looks towards Draft.

"Well Commander, it looks like I will be losing you, but I want you to know that in the brief time that I have known and worked with you, you have proved yourself to be one hell of a decent Commander and I will be sorry to see you go"

Captain Magnus holds out a paw to shake Draft's hoofed hand, Draft takes the offered paw and shakes it gently.

"Thank you Captain, it has been an honour to serve with you, if it is okay with you I would like to go back to my quarters to prepare for my transfer"

The Captain smiles weakly and nods his head, Commander Tanner leaves the ready room and then leaves the bridge of The Atlas for the final time, and he heads to his quarters to prepare for his new posting. How will he react when he meets up with Captain Cramer again? Only time will tell.

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My thanks as always go to Drafty the Suffolk Punch for allowing me to use his fursona in this new story, bud you are one in a million, trot on bud, trot on.