Contact
Contact! By Raven Fox: Some of Yiff star readers wanted another story from the plot of: I love you Miranda. This story is about the anthropomorphic race contacting Earth at the year 2026.
Year 2026 I.S. Venture heading to Earth, between Mars and the Moon.
The strange space craft went thru the emptiness of space. The three large nuclear engines thrummed using nuclear fusion to push the craft thru space. It's been six years since the ship's first mission to Mars. Some personal on this crew knew Roy, who's now listed as KIA. His death caused the U.S. not using their shuttles for a year and half, till the fuel lines were redesigned. The ones used by the ESA used a different fuel system, plus they used thicker lines on their shuttles.
Colonel Henderson looked out the round windows on his ship. He wiggled his right foot making sure the Velcro is sticking on his feet; he didn't feel like floating in zero-G at the moment. A crewmember from Britain floated up to him. "Sir, everything is operating at normal parameters for the data dump to Earth in a few hours. Anything else you need to add to it?"
Henderson looked over to the Lt. from the Royal Navy looking at him. "No, don't need to add anything else. I am just thinking of Commander Robertson, he was a good friend of mine."
The Lt. looked at the older guy staring out of the window and shrugged. He didn't say anything; the Englishman remained silent and floated away. "I heard about that American, he was a good man and pilot. I hate it when bad things happen to nice people." The Lt. thought to himself as he floated to another section of the ship.
That moment, Sirus star system.
The silver colored craft streaked thru the emptiness of space. The male fox sighed as he adjusted his harness wrapped around his skinny body. He looked at his scanner again mumbling to himself. "These patrols are so boring." The fox thought to himself staring out of the canopy.
"Beep, beep, beep." The radio receiver was making a noise as if it was picking up a signal. The fox looked at his instruments adjusting some settings. A blip appeared on his radar set. He grinned as he adjusted course to intercept.
Minutes later.
"What the heck is that thing?" The fox thought to himself as he examined the strange craft in front of his fighter. It looked like an insect with panels sticking out of it sides and an old fashion radar dish sticking out of the main body. The fox used his gun cameras to take some pictures and sent them to base. A few minutes later, he was ordered to take the craft in tow.
Two days later, science building. Sirus home world.
The male wolf walked up to a secured door, swiping his ID card and looking thru a tube. The computer chirped. "General Han Taylor ID confirmed, opening door at your request." He stepped thru the door looking at the strange object brought in by one of his fighters.
The wolf walked up to a brown ferret. "Any idea, what it is Frank?"
The ferret grinned at the wolf. "It's a probe from the milky way galaxy Han. We spent the last two days examining the contents. There's this gold disk, which turned out to be a phonograph record with computer data. We didn't use them for over six hundred years." Frank held up a gold colored disk.
"So, who sent it?" Asked Han looking at the probe with interest.
"Humans, they look strange. Their world is like ours, they have hundreds of photographs on that disk. They are roughly six hundred years behind us in technology." Frank said with a grin.
Han stared at the probe with interest; the wolf took a deep breath and exhaled. "Get a team together Frank, some of my personal are complaining that assignments are to boring. We've been exploring the stars for the last three hundred years since we discovered faster than light travel and found nothing. Let's go pay this Earth a visit; we're invited to visit it." The wolf walks out of the room.
The ferret shrugged at the departing wolf. He then directed his gaze at the damaged probe. His team treated the battery so that the radioactivity was no longer a health hazard to his team. Frank took a last look at the probe and walked out of the room.
Three days later Milky Way galaxy. Between Earth and Mars.
The fox grinned after the ship finished a hyper space jump. He looked at his readings, and then shrugged. "Captain, we're past the fourth planet and now fifteen hours from the Earth."
The male black wolf looked out of the view screens. "Alright slow down to sub light speed. All stations report in." He listens to the replies from the sections from around the ship. Then an alarm started to sound from the fox's console.
"Captain, I am picking up a radioactivity trail." The fox looks at his scanners, then chuckles. "You should see this." Said the vulpine backing away so the wolf can see the screen.
The wolf looked at the screen, and then snickered. He saw a strange looking ship; it has a cylinder shaped front section connected to a network of trusses with tanks in them. Then there's the large solar panels sticking out both sides, plus three large engines responsible for the readings. "Rob, my fox friend that is one weird looking spaceship." The wolf turns his head to another fox. "Mark, adjust course to intercept that ship."
I.S. Venture at the same moment.
Colonel Henderson grinned as he saw the faint outline of the Earth. He knew it would be another five months before he'll walk on it again. The human exhaled looking at his crew from different parts of the world. The mission they just finished was exploring the Moon Phobos to see if a base can be constructed for further exploration. The first Mars mission was a success other then the tragedy of the original Lander pilot getting killed in an accident in route to the moon. Henderson turns his head to speak, when the star field vanished from the windows.
"Colonel! Take a look in front of us!" Replied Lt. Charles, a member of the royal navy. The Englishman has a startled look on his face.
Henderson turns to the window and gasped. Right in front of his ship is a monster of a craft. Its nine hundred feet long being a silver gray in color. The craft looked like the SR-71 spy plane the air force used till the early 1990's. He watched as the craft turned around and headed toward them. "Stop the ship, try all means of communication with them even flash the exterior lights in Morse code. Lt. Charles, notify NASA of what's going on." Henderson looked at the craft mumbling to himself. "I hope they're friendly." As he felt the ship slowed down.
Sirus starship.
Mark turned his head back. "Captain, the Earth ship is stopping."
The black wolf looked at his screen nodding. He looked at the weird ship in front of his, its two hundred feet long with large solar panels sticking out on each side. "Any weapons on the scanner?"
The fox laughed out loud, then chortled to speak. "I am sorry Michel, no weapons on that ship. It doesn't even have gravity, or an oxygen generator. That ship is a relic; it was going its max speed when we intercepted it."
Michel looked at the ship again thinking. "Man those humans are crazy to fly something like that in space. How do they generate oxygen in something like that?" He saw the exterior lights flash a sequence. "Mark, do you still know that ancient form of communication?"
The fox looked at the ship. He dug in to his mind to translate the message. "They're asking who we are and do we come in peace? The message repeats itself." Said Mark looking at Michel.
The wolf looked at the ship shrugged. "Flash this message: We're a friendly race; we found something that belongs to them."
I.S. Venture.
Henderson looked at the large ship in front of his, he watched as lights flashed. The colonel's eyes widen as he translated the flashes. Lt. Charles floated up to Henderson. "What do they have that belongs to us?"
"I don't know, they might have picked up one of our probes. It can be either one of the voyager craft or Pioneer 10 or 11." Henderson replied. "Ask the ship of what they have."
Lt. Charles operated the switch to the lights. One minute later the large ship flashed its response. "Colonel, they found voyager 2 drifting by their planet. They are now broadcasting the different hellos from the disk from voyager on their audio bands."
The crewmember from France cycled the different bands on his com set till he picked up the signal from the large ship. "Ok, I found a frequency we can talk to them."
Henderson floated to the com set; he felt butterflies in his stomach as he fitted the headset to his ear. The colonel cleared his throat and exhaled. "This is the I.S. Venture calling the ship in front of us."
"I.S. Venture, this is the S.S. Explorer. A week ago, one of our patrol ships found your Voyager 2 space probe by our planet. It has an invitation of any intelligent life forms to visit your planet. We like you humans are to a race of explorers. You can relax; we want to be friends with you humans. Till a week ago, we thought we're the only life out in the universe. So, do you want to come visit us? I think you might find our ship is roomier than yours. We studied the data on that disk, finding out that we breathe the same gases as you humans." Said a deep voice.
Henderson looked at the ship, then grinned. "Ok, let's make the arrangements, we to thought we're the only life out here to." He looked around the cramped bridge of the Venture, the ship right now seem small to him.
Half hour later.
The Lander from the mission flew from the Venture to the Explorer. Henderson looked at the lines of the craft as the Lander maneuvered in to a shuttle bay. The humans exited the Lander looking at the large space. A door opened and three anthropomorphic beings walked toward them. After a few minutes of nervous talking the group exited the space and walked down the passageway. Henderson is lead to a room; he saw a probe sitting on a table. The colonel knew the probe, he remembered when he read all the data it collected while it was leaving the solar system. Contact was lost in the year 2012.
Henderson felt a hand on his shoulder, it was the wolf Michel. "We manage to get some data out of it. It will be given to your people; the probe was still gathering data when our patrols found it."
Twenty four hours later.
The I.S. Venture docked with the station Armstrong. The Venture was towed to the moon by the S.S. Explorer. Right now the crew of the Venture is on the Explorer's bridge watching the Earth getting close.
The wolf in command of the Explorer looked at the humans glancing at the Earth. He remembered visiting the human's ship with a grin. Michel thought the ship was a B- in effort of a starship. The Venture was in his opinion unique, the ship has a large greenhouse for generating oxygen, plus a supply of food. One thing Michel didn't quite like was the use of nuclear fuel for the main propulsion, but he's keeping that opinion to himself. Henderson the commander of the Venture had pride in his bearing in showing him the small starship. "Those humans must be brave or crazy flying something like that in space." The wolf thought to himself as the Earth grew larger. "Nice looking planet, kind of reminds me of Sirus."
United Nations building, one hour later.
The glass building sat in the sun, then the sky darkens. People looked at the silver gray colored ship as it parked itself above the building. Then a door opened on the ship, a type of shuttle flew out of the ship. The public watched as the shuttle parked at the entrance in front of the building. The secret service surrounded the shuttle as a door opened on the shuttle. The crew of the Venture and a few from the Sirus ship exited. The group from the shuttle is escorted inside the building.
Armstrong station, fifteen hours later.
Robert a male human with light tan hair and green eyes looked out of one of the portals. He stared at the Venture docked at the station. The ship has personal floating in and out of the ship. The station personal are still in awe that the Venture was five months early from its mission. The human chuckled remembering the surprise of the station personal when the Venture showed up being towed by a large ship. "Captain Clover field, please report the communications room." Said his radio.
"All right, I'll be there in a minute." He replied floating thru the narrow passage to the room. He floated to the set. "This is Clover field."
"Armstrong station, this is NASA in care of our partners from the countries who fund these missions. Our visitors are working on a friendship treaty with the United Nations. Another ship is on its way to Earth, it's bringing faster than light technology for the Venture, plus some of the Sirus leaders. Your orders are to give any assistance to the techs who are working on the Venture. They are going to use their radioactive cleaning technology on the Venture's engines, then they're going to install faster than light engines on the Venture, plus oxygen generating and artificial gravity technology. ETA of the ship's arrival four days." The voice on the radio set said.
Robert looked at the radio set. "I understand, what do you want done with the old engines?"
"The shuttle Orin is en route to take custody of the old engines. This is the last mission of that class of shuttle. The Sirus race is giving us five of their shuttles; two are going NASA and the other two to the European Space agency. The last one is going to be the new Lander of the Venture. Northrop and EADS were given plans for a class of shuttle that the Sirus race used for years and now has been replaced. Things have changed forever on our planet for the better. I envy you Robert; I wish I was on that station now." Replied the voice on the radio. Robert grinned knowing it was General Mc Cloud who was talking to him. Mc Cloud was the commander of the first Mars mission.
Four days later, Armstrong station.
"There here." Said Trish an auburn colored hair female specialist looking thru a portal. Robert floated up by her looking over her shoulder. He saw a silver gray colored ship approach the station. "This one is a monster; it must be twice the size of the other one." Trish said examining the ship.
"Armstrong station, this S.S. Carrier. Requesting permission to dock." Said a female voice on the radio.
"A female, this is interesting." Robert thought to himself. He looked at the ship approaching. It must be fifteen hundred feet long, with wide construction. The ship looked like it was built for hauling freight, but from Robert saw it must move pretty fast, because it looked like the B-1 bomber. "S.S. Carrier, this is Armstrong station. Permission granted to dock."
Robert and Trish watched as the S.S. Carrier docked with the station. They heard the clunks as the ship attached itself to the station, then the hiss as air entered the airlock. Robert floated to the airlock, then saw the door to the ship opened. He watched as three figures entered the airlock, they ended up floating after they crossed the threshold from their ship. The airlock opened, Robert braced himself as the three figures entered the station.
"Welcome to Armstrong station." He said to the three figures floating to him. Robert saw a dark brown colored female mink, a red orange colored vixen and a female cougar.
The female mink look at Robert with blue eyes, her long black head hair is floating everywhere. She shook her head making her floating hair wave. "I am glad we brought an extra gravity generator with us, sorry my name is Amy. The vixen is Tamera and the cougar is Zoë. We had artificial gravity for the last two hundred and ninety years, so zero-G is alien to us. Is it ok for us to put a gravity generator on this station?"
Robert looked at the trio of females floating before him. He was ordered to assist them in modifying the Venture. "How large is the device?"
Amy smiled at Robert. "It's the size of that object over there, plus it has its own power source."
Robert saw that she's pointing at a personal computer tied down with Velcro straps. "Sure, no problem, how long will it take to install?"
Tamera said. "It will take three minutes to set up, but it needs to be placed in the center of this station."
Robert nodded; he showed Tamera the center of the station. Zoë went back in the S.S. Carrier to get the gravity generator. He talked to Amy, a minute later Zoë floated back in the station carrying a black colored box with a couple of spheres on it. Robert showed the anthros the center of the station. Tamera sat the device on the deck, Robert warned everyone on the station that gravity is going to be added to the station. He watched as Tamera turned on the device, his body fell to the floor. The human stood on his feet; he knelt near Tamera as she adjusted the device. The vixen is looking at a screen; he saw an outline of the station and a yellow out line expanding to the airlock entrances. Tamera looked up and grinned. "That's better; zero-G makes me nauseous." The human chuckled to himself agreeing with her.
Two hours later, control room of I.S. Venture.
"Unique, a B- in effort of a starship. Kind of reminds me of our first long range ship, it's no longer around, because it was orbiting one of our moons unmanned and it crashed on it." Said Zoë floating around the control room. "Talk about a museum piece." She said to herself looking at the controls.
Outside of the I.S. Venture.
Robert, Amy and Tamera are crawling along the red colored metal truss. He turned his body due to the bulky space suit. The two females are wearing slim space suits that look like over sized cover alls. The helmets are smaller than the one he's wearing, plus he saw the tails of the females wagging. He remembered Tamera wrapping a bandage around her bushy fox tail so that she can stick it in an extra sealed sleeve on the suit. "Ok, this area here is the midpoint of the Venture." Robert said into his suit radio, then watched as Tamera secured the gravity generator on the truss. He radioed everyone on the Venture to brace for gravity. Robert watched as Amy floated to the back of the Venture examining the three large engines.
Amy looked at the engine in front her. She saw the radioactive warning labels on the engine assembly. "Well, in a week, they will be made safe and gone. I am glad our leaders are showing the Earthlings cleaner energy sources." Amy thought to herself, then sighed. She's lonely, because of the few males in her species. Amy thought of the human Robert, she knew that he's single and unmarried as Earthling terms. "I'll just take it slow with him and see what happens." She grinned to herself as she floated back to the group.
Twelve weeks later, I.S. Venture, creeping away from the moon.
Robert sat at his station on the Venture, he looked over at Amy. The mink is at the engineer's station showing the crewmember of how the new systems work. He examined Amy, noting the small white area under her muzzle. She stood a couple of inches shorter than his five foot six inch height, plus she has a nice looking slim body with 34 D breast size. Robert became friends with her in the last three months on the station. Amy looked at him, smiled and winked at him. The Venture now has faster than light ability, meaning now it can go into hyper space. The anthros also installed an oxygen generator, plus artificial gravity. The greenhouse is still on the ship, but now it just supplies fresh produce. There are also a couple of shield generators installed on the ship to protect it from space debris.
Colonel Henderson looked around the control room. He looked ahead. "Take us to Ganymede." He ordered as the ship undocked.
I.S. Venture is on a test flight, Henderson was ordered to test the new engines on the Venture and place the ship in orbit around Jupiter's moon Ganymede to get data. If everything is operating normally, a shuttle will land on the moon. Henderson sighed looking at the bridge of the Venture. He was told this is his last mission as commander of the ship. The colonel is going to be promoted to General, plus he's going to Sirus in a month to be part of the ambassador staff at Sirus.
Robert looked at the round portals to the outside of space. He heard a count down, plus the sound of machinery winding up. The he felt a gentle lurch and the stars streak.
Five hours later, Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
Robert stared at the medium gray moon below the ship. "Orbit establish, the ship is now seventy miles above the surface." He said looking at his readings. The human looked at the large mass of the gas giant Jupiter in the distance. Robert saw Amy staring at the planet, with a look awe in her expression. "Wait till you see Saturn." He said to her.
Henderson looked around and said in his calm voice. "All right, we're on a scientific mission. Do a systems check, then tell me if it's a go or no go for shuttle deployment." He smiled as the crew checked the ship's systems. "I am going to miss this." The colonel thought to himself.
One hour later Robert, Amy and five members from the Venture are in the shuttle doing a preflight. Amy is in her EVA suit without the helmet at the pilot's station flipping switches. Robert is at the seat next to her doing his checks. The crew on this shuttle have been out fitted with newer suits to make it easier for them to move around outside in the vacuum of space. Robert felt nervous looking out of the windscreen; he saw the part of the front section of the Venture. The shuttle is in the grapple claw of the Venture, during the Venture's refit, the starship was modified to carry a Sirus shuttle at the bottom of the front section where the Lander use to be carried.
Ten minutes later, the crew heard the claw release the shuttle. Amy maneuvered the shuttle away from the starship. Robert saw the Venture decrease in size as they flew away from it.
Thirty minutes later, the shuttle is one thousand feet above the surface. Robert looked at the surface watching the surface go by underneath them. A few minutes later the crew saw a good place to set down.
Surface of Ganymede.
The crew put on their suit helmets and checked their suits. Amy depressurized the shuttle, then opened the door. They walked out examining the ground, Robert crouch and ran his gloved fingers thru the surface. The dirt felt like sand and powered sugar mix. He looked up seeing Jupiter in the distance, then he saw a bright speck of the Venture streak pass. The other members of the crew walked around setting up experiments. Robert watched as a crew member from France set up seismometer with the crew member from England, then directed his gaze to the Russian setting up a core sampler. He felt a hand grab his, then saw Amy looking at him. The human watch her mouth something to him.
After six hours of exploring the surface, plus putting up the UN flag, the explorers walked back to the shuttle with samples. When they walked thru the doorway all dust and dirt on the suits was forced away from the shuttle, the crew walked in cleaned. The shuttle lifted off the surface and headed back to the Venture. Robert watched as the surface dropped below them. He watched as the Venture came in view, then felt the shuttle dock with the starship. "Shuttle crew report to the bridge." Said Henderson's voice on the radio.
Bridge of the I.S. Venture.
Robert and the shuttle crew stood before Henderson. The colonel has a smirk on his face. "Well, while you personal was playing in the sand, I gotten some news and orders. The news is the UN is no more." He saw the crews' expressions. "The United Nations changed its name to the United Planets. Robert, you were ordered to accompany me to Sirus as part of my staff, plus you are promoted from O-3 to O-4." The Colonel shook Robert's hand. Robert saw a sly grin on Amy's muzzle.
One month later, I.S. Venture orbit Sirus.
The crew of the Venture looked thru the view ports of the planet below them. They watched as the Venture maneuvered to a station. Few minutes later they exited the Venture.
"That is one interesting ship." Said the male tiger greeting them at the air lock entrance.
"It does the job." Replied Henderson shaking the tiger's hand.
The tiger chuckled leading them to a different section of the station. Robert saw a crowd of station staff looking at the Venture. Henderson requested the use of the Venture to send him to the planet of Sirus. He was granted the request due to that he was responsible for first contact.
Henderson sighed took one last look of the Venture and followed the tiger. "I am going to miss being on that ship."
One hour later surface of Sirus, city Voyage.
Robert followed Henderson off the shuttle. He examined his surroundings; he saw a shuttle lifted off from a distance. The city comprised of tall buildings. Henderson is lead to a light blue car. Robert noted the car's rounded shape as he entered it. The interior is a whitish gray in color. He felt the car rise and go down a street. The human heard Henderson and the tiger talk to each other while a fox drove the car. "General Henderson, my name is Khan. I am going to be part of your staff. The fox's name is Ron, plus a one more is at your office waiting for your assistant." The tiger looks at Robert with a grin.
Henderson's office half hour later.
Robert followed Henderson and Khan into a nice looking building. He looked at the light blue exterior as they walked to it. They entered the office looking at it, seeing a picture on the wall of the Earth and another picture of the Venture flying thru space. Robert looked around the office, he missed Amy. The mink left Earth a couple of days before them due to personal reasons. She told him that she'll get in touch with him soon.
The door opened and Amy walked in, she looked at Robert with a smile. "I am going to help you settle down here." She looked at Khan and Henderson. "Since it's late I am going to show Robert his sleeping quarters." The two personal nodded as Robert felt a hand grab his.
A minute later Robert is standing in his living quarters. The place looked like a one room apartment. Amy led him to the bed with a smile. "I know your curious Robert, plus I know we known each other for a few months." She slipped off her one piece outfit. Robert saw that she's wearing a light blur bra and panties. The mink looked at him as he removed his clothing, then she removed her underwear standing naked before him. Robert looked at Amy's firm breasts with pink small areolas and vaginal lips concealed by thick brown hair. She grabbed his hand leading him to the bed. Amy laid him on his back looking at his erect penis. She licked it a few times triggering a moan from Robert. Robert watched as Amy got on top of him, then got up a little holding his penis up, then lowered herself on it. He watched as his penis slid into the vaginal lips. The human gasped as he felt the warm wetness on his organ. Amy bent down giving him a kiss. "My race, has this problem. Its five females to one male. Some females ended up in a marriage with more than one wife or go seek companionship with another species." She said pressing Robert's face to her breasts. Robert smelled a sweet musk scent on her, while feeling fur on his face.
Twenty years later an orbiting space station.
Senator Mc Cloud walked up to the podium with a sullen look. He looked at the crowd before him. "Today we take the I.S. Venture out of service. The ship was responsible for bringing two races together for a peaceful coexistence. Time has caught up with this ship, it was design to last fifteen years, but it was decided to recycle it. But groups of people didn't want to see this historic ship get chopped up. Some personal from our friends on Sirus made this orbiting museum to park this ship inside it. The I.S. Venture will be part of this museum; tomorrow we will commission its replacement the I.S. Friendship." He walked away while the crowd applauded.
Henderson, Robert and Amy watched in sadness as the Venture is placed in a very large sphere. "I going to miss riding on that ship, plus I am going to miss that vibration when it goes into hyper space." Said Henderson with a tear sliding down his cheek.
Robert nodded with a lump in his throat; he wasn't upset about the Venture being taken out of service. The human was thinking about a Navy friend who went missing twenty six years ago. "Roy where are you?" He muttered to himself. A hand touched his; he looked at Amy's blue eyes.
S.S. Horizon, three hundred and seventy four years later.
"And that is how my ancestor fell in love with a human on your world." Said Miranda stroking Roy's hair looking at him. The couple is in a bed together.
Roy looked at the mink with green eyes and light tan head hair. "Man, I wish I could have seen that happening."
Miranda grinned, sat on Roy's penis moaning as it entered her. She bends down giving him a kiss pressing her breasts on his chest. "I got some recordings of that Ganymede moon landing, plus the decommissioning of the Venture. You can see your friend Robert and my ancestor Amy."
Roy hugged Miranda back feeling her fur against his naked skin in thought. "Now I know why some female minks love male humans." He thought to himself inhaling Miranda's sweet musky scent.
THE END