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Merged Worlds 5 by Raven Fox: This is a story a friend of mine paid me to write for him. I was given 100% creativity of how this story is done, if I released this story as a stand alone, this story will be to much like a story I done years back. (The Vixen and her prey) So I decided to make this a fifth chapter of Merged Worlds by doing some changes for the readers of this website. Now for the plot; A couple of friends get taken after the merge by a race who bears the resemblance of humans. In this chapter, everyone will now why other races don't take Photinos prisoners.

Day of the merge, Everett Washington.

Han looked at his best friend Luke as he packed the camping equipment in his blue and white 1977 Chevy Blazer. The twenty two year old human male looked at the twenty year old friend with dirty blonde hair with green eyes, "Well, that's it, anything else you need?"

Scratching his blonde hair, Luke looked at his friend with black hair with hazel color eyes, "I think that's it, let's get out of here before rush hour." He answered looking at his watch.

The Chevy roared as the 350 cubic inch V-8 started. Han grabbed the gear selector placing the transmission in drive. He looked and avoided city traffic. The male human grinned knowing that in an hour he will be at a camp site near a good lake for fishing.

A day later, a campsite.

Han looked at the fire while he cooked the rainbow trout on a skewer. He took a deep breath smelling the air with wood smoke and scent of cooking fish. Also in the scent was the resin smell of the nearby pine trees. The human loved this area of Washington state. This area is quiet and at night you can see thousands of stars in the sky.

"So, what are our plans for tomorrow?" Asked Luke.

Scratching his chin, Han grinned, "We're going on a days hike, then some night fishing." He examined the cooked trout and took a bite out of the fish, "This is real a fish dinner, just got to put the right spices on the fish before you cook it over a open flame."

The other male nodded in agreement taking a bite of his fish, "Your right Han, there's nothing like fresh fish for dinner." He looks at the night sky seeing a streak of light and another then a few more, "Never thought I'll see a meteor shower." Luke thought to himself.

The two friends talked some more and went in the two man tent after staying up for a few more hours.

The early morning, hours later.

Han is rudely waked up by someone pulling his sleeping bag out of the tent. He looked at the humanoid figure dressed in a type of black outfit. At his side, he saw his friend Luke in the same situation. Glancing at his assailant wearing full headgear with two protrusions that looked like camera lenses where the eyes should be, "What do you want!?" Han yelled at the figure earning a stun blast from a strange looking gun that looked like a FN P90.

Luke watched wondering if his longtime friend was just killed. He watched as two of the figures dragged Han to his Blazer throwing his body in the back. One of them walked up to him jabbing something in the back of his head. The feeling of something crawled into his brain causing the human to grab his head because for a few seconds, it felt like his head was going to burst open. The same thing happen to Han from Luke view after the pain settled.

One of the assailants walked up to him looking at him, "You're a smart one, just keep your mouth shut and we won't half to stun you. Our friend Anthonis has asked us to rid this planet of the native inhabitants." He said to Luke gesturing with his weapon to make Luke get in the Blazer.

"Hey Imps, those slaves are ours." Said a grunting voice. A combination of a boar and pig showed itself and ran to the group.

"Set weapons to kill! The Photinos are here, don't let them get to close." Said the humanoid who just talked to Luke.

The firefight lasted only less than a minute. Luke watched as the pig morphs were slaughtered by the humanoid beings. He watched as the group that just captured him looked at the woods and fired their weapons when they spotted something in the woods. They walked around occasionally firing at a body on the ground, "Don't you guys take prisoners?"

One of the humanoids answered, "We took you and your friend prisoner, but don't bother try taking a Photino prisoner. They blow themselves up when they know that there's no hope in a fight. The feline race and the Squibs had lost some of their personal when try taking them prisoner. When they reach puberty and get a lot of fat on them, the military places a pound of a type of explosive in their body fat. There's a ring like on a grenade below their left armpit, pull it, five seconds later they blow up taking everything within ten feet. The Squibs captured ten of them years ago and placed them on one their shuttles. Those ten Photinos pulled those rings at the same time and the Squibs lost the shuttle with fifteen of their best fighters. They told the felines and one of our spies heard a couple of felines talking about that incident. That's why nobody takes any Photinos prisoner, we Imps can't stand races that practice slavery. Count you and your friend lucky that we got you instead. Being forced to serve ten years in one of our military units is a lot better than being a Photino slave or doing sexual favors for one of their females." The humanoid shudders getting behind the wheel of the Blazer.

Luke watched as the humanoids struggle as they walked to the Blazer. To him, they act that were heavy for their bodies, "The Earth must have to heavy of gravity for them." He thought to himself as the Chevy drove down the road.

"Dam, I hate planets with heavy gravity." Muttered one of the humanoids as they drove on.

A couple months later, a military training camp in the humanoid world.

Han stood next to his friend Luke in formation with the rest of the unit that has been in training for the last two months. It was a intense two months of training. The two humans were standing awaiting for their final assignments.

The training instructor walked to the front of the men, "You all passed training to become foot soldiers of the IMP forces. When I call your name and service number, listen for you assignment. Han, 589745, infantry. Luke, 589746, drop ship pilot training."

Han walked to his assigned unit and stood with the other personal assigned to infantry. He watched as Luke was lead away with other beings in officer uniforms, "He was always bright and always wanted to be a pilot. Was rejected by pilot training schools at Earth. It took getting taken off Earth to fulfill his dream of piloting aircraft." The human mused to himself as the other personal from Earth were called to their assignments.

Another two months later, IMP home world.

Luke sat next to his co-pilot Rich, the human male with light brown hair was from the town Midvale Utah. They watch as a Imp walked to a podium and looked at the assembled pilots with his gray colored eyes. The newest pilot of the IMP forces knew that the IMPs are human like, but they have a white tone to their skin and weird coloring for their eyes. He hid a smile that humans from Earth are seven times stronger making the locals have a type a shock weapon on their body, "That's why they have Earthlings serve in their military, we're stronger and have higher endurance." The human from Earth thought to himself as the IMP started speaking.

"Alright you Earthmen, we have been in a conflict with a race of felines, but I got to do a small brief of the life forms in this sector. There are two different types of feline species. One type is more advance than us and is allied with a canine race called Squibs." The commanding officer said turning on a screen behind him.

Luke looked at the picture of a anthro canine that looked like a fennec fox with the coloring of a sable colored rough collie. Then there's a picture of a breed of feline predator, the shown is a anthro female cougar.

"This is a picture of a known female cougar named Arcadia. She's the commanding officer of a feline ship Lynxsclaw. This female cougar is the most dangerous commanding officer of a starship in their ranks. Arcadia not long ago, with the help of a few ships have taken out one of the Photinos largest colonies. There were no Photino survivors. According to our spies, they rescued almost ten thousand humans from Earth along with other species that were slaves of the Photinos. It is the other feline race we're in a conflict with, their planet has a mineral that we need . The mineral is in large quantities on that planet. All forms of negotiations have failed with that race and our leaders have decided to take it with force." The humanoid said clicking a remote showing another anthro feline.

The new picture showed another anthro feline, another female cougar. He already saw the difference. Arcadia, the cougar, had human like feet. This feline has digit-grade feet. Luke saw that the head hair didn't end at the neck, it sprouted on the neck and went to a thin mane like a horse to the spine ending at her tail giving the feline a more feral appearance. The image rotated giving Luke a view of the front. He held his tongue of a frontal view of the feline, the feline features were more sharper, "Reminds of Star Trek the animated series. Arcadia, I would count as a Caitian and that feral one a Kzinti." Luke thought to himself looking at the picture of the feline anthro wondering why she is wearing a baggy shirt.

The IMP doing the briefing stayed silent as the pilots and co-pilots studied the pictures., "You all have been briefed of the Photinos?" He saw the Earthlings nod., "Alright then, lift-off is at 0500. The final briefing will commence night before dust off...Dismissed!" The pilots filed out of the room.

Luke walked out of the briefing room feeling strange. He always wanted to be a pilot, but not a war pilot. All what he wanted to fly was small aircraft and someday a Airbus 380. The human male sighed to himself and walked to his barracks.

The same moment, a different part of the base.

Han grumbled to himself due to the base being in lockdown. There is an hourly head count of all base personal. He knew that something is up and it wasn't good due to be raised on different military bases while growing up.

The base PA blared., "All infantry personal of Battalion 5028, 8745, and all drop ship pilots report to your assigned barracks.

He saw Luke walk by and gave him a salute and walked to his barracks. When he entered the barracks, sentries stationed themselves at every door that lead outside., "So it begins." Han thought to himself as he walked to his rack.

Days later, IMP troop carrier, over the feline planet.

"This is not right, were the Spanish in the 1400s and those felines are the Native Americans." Han thought to himself as a type of rifle was issued to him along with other type of weapons. He walked to his assigned drop ship, it turned out that Luke is piloting a different one.

Luke did his preflight checks as the squad boarded his drop ship. He keep a calm demeanor as the troopers settled into their seats.

"All drop ships stand by for launch." Said a voice in every headset.

Han felt the ship lurched as it took off. He saw the troop carrier grew small and another ship exited hyper space one hundred yards from the troop carrier., "Oh crap, looks like these cats contacted the other cats." The human thought to himself knowing the briefings of the other advanced feline race.

Bridge of the troop carrier.

"Raise shields!" Ordered the captain when the other ship appeared., "Give me the hull number!" When he heard the hull number, shivers went thru his body., "Your move Arcadia." The IMP captain said looking at the ship as bolts of energy pummeled his ship.

"We just lost shields and weapons, one more hit and were done for." Said the tactical officer at his station.

Forms materialized on the bridge, a Earthling male with red hair walked up to the captain., "Hands in the air, you all are prisoners of the feline race, resistance is futile."

"Had to run into a Trekkie." Said the helmsman, another Earthling.

Isaac watched as humans, Squibs and felines took control of the troop carrier. He watched the operation for a minute., "Home base, troop carrier is under our control. Unfortunately, they already launched the drop ships."

"Isaac, there's nothing we can do with the drop ships or those humans. We will just let the politicians do their jobs. I am not authorized to land any of my crewmembers on that planet. Secure the ship for towing, I am sorry, my hands are tied." Said Arcadia from his headset.

Isaac nodded in agreement and relayed his commanding officer orders to the troopers who just took over the troop carrier. From his understanding, Arcadias' people have a love hate relationship with this species of felines. A human planted on the IMP home world told fleet admiral Kang of the hundreds of Earthlings being forced to invade this world. The original plan was to take all Earthlings from this ship and send them back to Earth or if they wanted to, live with the felines or Squibs. Due to being late, the only Earthlings they have are the ones crewing this ship., "Talk about a cluster fuck." The human male muttered to himself as he walked around the ship to double check it for being secure.

Bridge of the Lynxsclaw.

Arcadia sighed to herself watching the images of the drop ships as they entered the planets' atmosphere., "An hour late, we were an hour late."

"Can't we use the tractor beams Captain?" Asked the male Squib at tactical.

"They're out of range, to get in range, I'll be disobeying orders from command by moving the ship closer to this planet. All what I can do is send a message that we were to late to stop this. Those IMPs stirred up a hornets nest by doing this, we did offer them to sell that mineral, but they're cheap and want to save credits. Get ready to take that ship in tow." The female cougar ordered.

The squib at his station watched as a blip intercepted one of the drop ships., "I don't like the price those humans from Earth are paying now." As a blip representing a IMP drop ship with humans from Earth blink away from existence.

Arcadia nodded as she saw the same image., "I am sorry Isaac, if I could do anything, I'll be getting those humans. It's the dam IMPs fault that your brethren are now getting slaughtered on that planet."

Lukes' drop ship the same moment.

He watched as the ship on his right exploded in the air. A warning alarm started buzzing.

"Incoming SAM!" Yelled his co-pilot.

"Launching countermeasures!" Luke yelled as he flipped switches hearing noises as the ship launched chaff and flares. The SAMS were either radar guided or heat seeker. He saw the missiles go for the countermeasures and relaxed.

Minutes later, Luke saw a town in the distance with a large clearing near the town. Details of the buildings came to view as the town drew closer. Then black specks materialized and grew larger. The humans' blood went cold as the fighter aircraft grew in detail., "Incoming fighters!" He yelled as the drop ship shuddered due to getting hit by bullets.

The last thing Lukes' co-pilot said was a vulgar remark., "Those fighters have propellers on them we're being attacked by aircraft with propellers....." His body bucked when the windscreen shattered letting in fifty rounds of 50 cal being fired a defense fighter.

Feline fighter.

The male feline rolled his fighter and did another strafing run on the drop ship. He watched as black smoke started pouring out of the craft. Baring his teeth in his mask, he watched as it crashed close to town., "One enemy craft down, commencing attack on remaining craft." The feline said in his radio.

Hans' drop ship.

He felt the drop ship shudder as it was attacked and a second later, a loud pop was heard in the front. Han walked to the front seeing most of the troops are dead from large wounds. Being raise with a father being a member of the U.S. Army, he knew damage from a large caliber bullet would do to a human body. Body armor can defect so much before it failed.

At the pilots station, both pilots were dead with a hurricane force wind blowing inside. Luke did show Han how to fly these drop ships. He pushed the pilots' body off the seat and seated himself down. Han grabbed the controls and debated to fly back to the ship, but the idea died due to the fighters shooting down the drop ships., "Plus there's a big hole in front of me and I don't feel like breathing vacuum. If this ship is one hundred percent intact, I know I'll be shoot down if I try getting out of here." Han thought for a moment and made his decision., "I'll crash it near those woods." The human male said to himself doing a turn to a clearing.

The feline fighter.

Chack maneuvered his fighter watching a transport, a minute ago, it was out of control. Now the craft is flying that someone is flying it. The male puma watched as it flared doing a controlled crash. Due to all of the drop ships being destroyed, he decided to watch this drop ship. After it stopped, a door popped open and a figure got out and ran to the woods. Turning his fighter, Chack debated to fire a few missiles to kill the unknown, but the feline decided an act like that is dishonorable. He turned his fighter watching as ground troops stormed the crashed drop ships to take prisoners., "I'll contact base about the one that ran in the woods. Those guys and gals love tracking an escapee." The feline called his base and watched as a squad went in the woods.

Lukes' drop ship.

He opened his eyes finding his vision blurred, a wipe with his forearm cleared his vision., "Shit, my situation is not getting any better." Luke said to himself seeing six armored figures aiming guns at him thru the busted windscreen. Raising his hands, the human was taken in to custody.

A male cheetah looked the crashed drop ship over seeing his squad taking the surviving troopers in custody after taking the weapons off them. Kegee watched as two of them came to him with another human male.

"Sir, we have one of the pilots, what are your orders?" Asked one of his men.

The male feline in charge of this unit knew that their enemies the IMPs have taken a large portion of humans off a planet called Earth. He sighed remembering a briefing he attended a week ago that the people from Earth are being forced to do the IMPs fighting for them., "Are orders are category 1 confinement and the same orders apply to any pilots you happen to find alive. Any abuse to any prisoner is a court martial offense. Keep the pilot nearby and comfortable, I wish to interrogate him later. According to one of our pilots, one of the troopers ran in to the woods after a drop ship crashed." Kegee looked at his men and yelled to make his point clear., "When you run in to that single trooper! Your orders are to take him alive, stun him if necessary, anyone who kills him, I'll kill him myself! Those are our leaders orders, the ones we just killed with our missiles and fighter craft was honorable warfare." He did a feline grin as his men got the prisoners organized and a few more of his men went in the woods double checking their weapons.

Luke remained silent as he watched the felines talked amongst themselves. Of the thirty drop ships launched from the ship, only six made it to the ground. From what he saw, he was the only pilot alive out of sixty. The male cheetah walked up to him.

"I am taking you to one of your drop ships, maybe you can help us." Said the male cheetah.

He is lead to a drop ship and was forced to look at the survivors and the dead. After looking at the occupants he was told that one has escaped and now he knew that his best friend Han is still alive. Luke turned to the male cheetah and replied., "Sir, I know who escaped from you, he's a friend of mine and we known each other for years." The human male told the feline of their ten years of being friends and what happen to them to bring them to this planet.

Kegee nodded and talked on a com unit., "Bring tracker Selaas here, I got a job for her."

A minute later, Luke saw an armored figure walked up to the male cheetah giving the male feline a Roman salute. He watched as the figure remove a helmet that completely covered the head. He saw curves in the armor revealing the gender of a female cheetah with long black head hair.

"What do you want father?" Selaas asked the male cheetah.

"We have a male Earthling lose in the woods and I want you to find him and bring him to me. This human over here can tell you all about him." The male feline said pointing at Luke.

The human male stood still as the female feline walked up to him. Amber brown colored eyes gazed at him with sharp feline features. Luke kept his mouth shut as the female feline looked him over.

After talking to him for a few minutes, Luke watched as Selaas walked in the drop ship and a minute later, he saw her in the pilots area thru the busted windscreen looking it over. She came out of the drop ship minutes later putting on her helmet and looked at the ground. Shivers went thru his body when he saw the front of the helmet looked at him., "She looks like that hunter from that movie Predator. Well, these felines are based off feline predators." Luke thought to himself as Selass ran in to the woods.

"Don't worry human, she'll catch him and she won't harm him. Selaas is one of our best trackers." Said Kegee next to him and the feline looks at him grinning., "Time to take you to your new quarters." The male cheetah does a gesture and two felines guided him to a vehicle.

Luke did another involuntary shiver when he was put in the vehicle. When the cheetah grinned, he did the full toothy grin showing his feline teeth., "That's one cat I don't want pissed off at me." The human thought to himself as the vehicle started to move.

Hans hiding place.

He watched from a tree as the felines took his fellow troopers prisoner. Han tried to communicate with the ship that launched the drop ships. After trying a few more times someone answered., "The ship has been taken by the other feline race, you're on your own, good luck."

"Thanks for nothing." The human said in a sarcastic tone and turned off the com unit. Han resumed his vigil as the sky grew darker. The group that was sent in the woods to find him walked back to their unit. He assumed that they were ordered to return., "Ok, all that leaves is that armored one that that's dressed up to look like the predator." The human thought to himself and elected to stay at his hiding place.

Not far away from Hans' hiding place.

She walked the trail using the tech in her helmet to see at different levels of light. The helmet use to belong to a IMP scout who was captured when the race first try to take this planet. The cheetah typed on a keypad on her wrist making the helmet see infrared and night vision. Selaas remembered when her father had the helmet customized to fit her finer boned features over the flat blunt ones of a IMP., "I find those IMPs really ugly, but those Earthlings, I find more better looking." She thought to herself walking under the human.

Han stayed still barely drawing a breath when he saw the figure walk under him. He noted the longer feet with splayed toes on the digit-grade feet and the long tail with bands at the end ending with a white tip., "Watch it Han, those kitties sent a cheetah after you." The human thought to himself seeing the slender waist with broad hips connected to powerful legs that the armor couldn't hide., "Hmm, I think that cheetah is a female from the looks of that waist and the way that cat is walking. I don't hurt females regarding skin color, race or what they do in bed. As what my dad would tell me, son just avoid her and don't let her see you. Yeah, but my dad didn't have a anthropomorphic female cheetah looking for him." Han thought to himself watching the feline continue down the trail.

An hour later, Han jumped to another tree, a stunt he knew that he couldn't pull on Earth. His IMP instructors told him during training that Earth has a heavy gravity field. On this planet, the gravity is around half as it is on Earth. Meaning that the human male is three times as stronger as a feline on this planet and three times as agile. He had an idea what the predator style helmet on the cheetah is used for. Han knew of IMP tracking technology using a type of helmet like that one. He also know how to fool it, by smearing a type of paint on his exposed skin and turning his uniform cooling system to a near freezing. Teeth chattered while the human looked for the cheetah to avoid her.

Government building an hour later.

Keege walked to the leaders' office showing his ID to the guards stationed outside the office. A few seconds later, he was called in. Inside, he saw a few other military officers talking to a male lion. The feline stayed quiet till the leader started questioning him.

"I see the commander of our ground forces just walked in." Relied Quin looking at the cheetah, "So, how many Earthlings made it to the ground and how many did the IMPS had killed?"

"Sir, thirty troop drop ships were launched from the carrier. Our surface to air missiles destroyed twenty of them. The fighters we sent to intercept the remaining ten destroyed four more causing the remaining six to crash land. We took seven hundred prisoners and one of the pilots. He was the only pilot that survived, plus one trooper is at large and my daughter is tracking him for capture." Keege answered watching his leaders' reaction.

The male lion remained silent thinking to himself., "Our brethren did warned use of this impending invasion and I just heard that they captured the troop carrier that drop our unexpected guests." He looked at one of the other military officers., "They just called me an hour ago to request permission for one of their ships to land on this planet to take custody of our guests.."

A tiger snapped., "Not yet sir, we should get the one on the lose first before we allow them to land on our home world. We don't need their help to find a lone Earthman. Let Selaas catch that runaway human and then allow our brethren land their ship and take our guests. For now sir, act real angry over this botched invasion and lead them thru some red tape till we get that last human and give their negotiator a work out. The last time they wanted permission to land, it took a week till permission was granted. So what's a few days."

Quin looked at the other felines in the room seeing them nod. He cleared his throat replying., "Alright, Selaas has one week to find that human, that's the longest I can stall them. Kegee, I would like to see that pilot at the soonest time possible."

"I'll bring him by tomorrow at 11:00 am sir." The feline answered and the felines left the office leaving the leader at his desk reading reports.

Late night a dark alley at the town near the crash sites.

It took hours for Han to elude the female cheetah that is looking for him. Crouching between a couple of waste containers, he looked at the clothing he dug out of the containers. The felines used coins for currency on this world and the human managed to acquire some of the red copper colored coins. He followed a familiar smell to a building emanating a strange music while pulling a hood to cover his human features.

A minute later, an armored figure walked to the containers and saw discarded com stuff and excess useless items for surviving out in the wilderness., "So he's in this town and will be disguised, better contact my dad so he can have someone to get this stuff for study." Selaas said to herself thinking of what her prey would be doing next. The feline smelled meat cooking and grinned to herself hearing her stomach growl in hunger.

Inside a bar restaurant plus dance hall.

He watched as a female bobcat pole dance as a human female would do at a strip club on Earth. Then the feline started to strip off her clothing and Han found out why the female felines wore baggy clothing., "She has six breasts!" The humans' mind scream causing him to let down his guard.

"THUNK" As an alien type helmet is plunk on his table., "Interesting setup we female felines have." Said Salaas to the human male sitting across from the human.

Han turned to the voice seeing a fine featured feline looking at him with amber brown colored eyes with the eyelids black rim along with the black tear marks. He sighed., "Looks like you got me."

She did a chuckle and studied the human from what she can see due to the hood covering his features. Selaas can see that he did a courtesy glance at her and resumed watching the female bobcat dancing. The cheetah felt jealousy and then wondered why she is feeling jealousy., "Sometimes I wonder how the larger felines manage with monster size breasts. I know mine are not as large but a pleasant handful, all six of them." Selaas said to the human glancing at the female feline pole dancing. From what she studied, Earthmen never ran across morphs like her before. Seeing a female feline with average size breasts with another two rows under the main two would have a human male staring at the sight. The female cheetah sighed., "Hey human, lets' talk for a few minutes." She relaxed as the human turned to her.

Turning his head, the male human looked at the feline looking at him. He seen that look on the cheetah before when he was at Picnic Point beach with Kathy his now ex-girlfriend. A woman from India walked near them wearing a very skimpy bikini causing Han to do a quick glance causing Kathy being mad at him for a few days., "I am millions of miles from my home, I spent the last five months on a planet being trained how to kill you people. Myself personally, I have nothing against your race. I love cats and I really love anthropomorphic felines since I watched Star Trek the animated series because of a female feline named M'Ress. After eluding you in the last so many hours, this town reminds me of Everett Washington my home. I think I'll open up a bar with some dancers like that bobcat over there."

Selaas knew that the Earthling was pulling one on her. She kept her calm demeanor and made her decision., "I am enjoying this assignment and you haven't decided of what you want to do. So I am giving you a thirty minute head start before I resume chasing you again." The female cheetah gives him a kiss and removed her breast plate showing her smaller breasts to the human. Then replaced the breast plate.

Lukes' prison cell.

The place reminded Luke of a 1970s' hotel room with a TV mounted on the wall above the dresser. He knew that the door is locked and he couldn't leave if he wanted to. The felines knew of his enhanced strength having all possible escape routes fortified. Luke did his walk around the room again taking in the details noting the only complaint of the place that is was cold., "Must be that the regular occupants have fur on them." The human thought to himself watching the door open letting in a female puma with long gold blonde colored head hair.

Leila looked at the human before her taking in his features. The female feline saw that he was wearing a gray colored flight suit with most of the accessories removed from it. She did find the strange creature cute in a weird way., "How are you doing?" Leila acquired.

Luke looked the feline over being reminded of the time when he and Han went on a summer vacation in Utah visiting the big cat house at Hogle Zoo. Being a big cat lover, he thought the cougars and pumas were cool. Sitting at the foot of the bed, the human male studied the anthropomorphic female feline looking at him.

She stood shorter than him with a light muscled build for speed., "She wearing a baggy shirt like all the female felines I've seen since landing on this world. What's with that?" He questioned himself looking at her gold colored eyes.

The female feline sighed to herself and talked to the human telling her name and the job she has on the base. She moved aside a strand of gold yellow head hair., "Alright, there's a reason why us females wear a baggy shirt. Our anatomy is different than our brethren on the other feline planet." Leila said removing her uniform top.

Luke gasped seeing three rows of breasts. The top row were a medium size, not to large, rather a nice size. He looked at the two bottom rows with the middle being a small size with the bottom row being a almost flat chest size at her abdominal area., "Well this is different." The human thought to himself remembering seeing a few drawings of female felines on various websites drawn in the same fashion.

She walked up to the human sitting on his lap facing him and stroked his chin., "One thing, I've never done an Earthling and I want to try something different." Leila said in a seductive voice undoing Lukes' flight suit.

He remained still as the feline undid his clothing feeling his heart race. From looking at hundreds of drawings and reading the same amount of stories. Until five months ago, the human knew that anthro felines were fantasy, now a female puma with six breasts is about to have sexual intercourse with him. Luke watched as the feline removed her under garments giving him a view of her private area. He saw a feline vulva instead of a human like vagina he seen on furry websites., "These felines are more feral like than the other felines." The human thought to himself seeing his organ slide into the feline vulva. Luke returned the kiss to the feline hugging her feeling her breasts pressing on his body. Since that experience, he never had the urge to have sex with human females with only two breasts.

The next day, the leaders office.

Kegee lead Luke into the office with a male lion morph looking at him from a desk. With a gesture from the lion, the human seated himself at a chair and looked at the lion.

Quin sniffed the air in front of the human and chuckled to himself., "I see that one of our females have taken a liking to you human." He said watching the human blush in embarrassment., "Don't worry, I am not angry over that, but I am angry over the attempted take over of our planet. I know that your brethren are being forced to do the IMPs fighting for them because of your planet having a heavy gravity field for a M class planet. Our planet and the IMPs' home world have a lighter gravity field making you humans and the other races three times as stronger than us and the IMPs. Even if we want to, we can't visit the other feline race on their world if we wanted to, the heavy gravity will have us barley moving till we adjust which would take two to three days with a healthy person from here. So tell me, do you know of any future attempts of the IMPs trying to invade this world again?" Asked the male lion.

Luke sighed to himself, looking at Kegee and talked to Quin of what he knew. The only place the human had loyalty to was the United States of America and Everett Washington., "I have nothing against your people sir. Me and my friend Han was on a fishing trip near the Cascade mountains near my home when we were taken from our home world."

Quin took it all in nodding., "To prove that you will not take any action against us. Renounce any loyalty to our enemies the IMPS." Said the male lion looking at the human.

Looking at the male felines, the human renounced any loyalty to the IMPs who captured him and his long time friend., "I know my friend Han is still loose on this world evading capture. He's will do any two actions, one he would find out that he has nothing to fear and turn himself in. Two, he will consider this a game and do this evasion tactic till he gets bored or captured by that female cheetah who looks like that character from the movie Predator." Luke said to the felines.

Kegee patted the human., "Well done, if the leader says it's ok, I'll take you to the squadron leader to start training you to fly our aircraft." He looks at Quin who nodded in agreement.

"Remember, Selaas has six more days to capture his friend or I'll half to let our brethren land here." The lion reminded the male cheetah who nodded leaving the office. Quin looked at the report Kegee put on his desk stating that the human is now in the town according to Selaas report. He made a note to alert law enforcement in the town with strict orders that the human should not harmed in any way or the ones responsible would be severely punished.

The current moment on a building top.

Han watched as his friend walked out of the building with a male cheetah and another few felines. The group went into a large car that reminded the human of a 1970s' Ford LTD., "I bet that car has a 8-track player from the way the technology level is on this planet. Oh how I miss my 64 gig iPOD touch. I want to listen to the movie sound track to Heavy Metal. Better not attempt to get Luke, I may be stronger and take on those kitties, but I am not bullet proof because I using to much energy in my H.E.V. (half life opposing force reference of Hazardous Environment Vest. RAVEN FOX) hiding my body temp from that female cat who is chasing me. Better not slam the tech level of this planet, they manage to stop almost four thousand humans in high tech landing ships from invading them." He thought to himself watching the blue car drive away.

The next building over Selaas watched the human on the next building over. She could end this chase, but she's having to much fun on this assignment because it's on a rare occasion she can use her hunting instincts., "Checking on your friends well being, I would to if I was in your situation. What is going on in your mind at the current moment. Five more days of fun and I must end this, better not get upset over the time I have left, enjoy the fun while it lasts." The female feline thought to herself watching as the human jumped to another building knowing if she tried that, she would be badly injured in the fall because she would not of made that jump., "Lucky human, I wish I could jump that far." Selaas growled to herself.

Four days later, feline airbase.

Luke is walked to an aircraft hanger dropping his jaw at the two aircraft parked in the hanger. He recognized both aircraft, one of them was the type of aircraft that shot down his troop transport. The other has the lines of a World War 2 medium bomber known as the Douglas A-20 Havoc., "Or Boston the RAF called them." The human thought to himself noticing how the feline aircraft is different than the Earth ones.

The fighter looks like a Submarine Spitfire from the lines of the aircraft, but the aircraft is painted a flat black. Instead of the twelve exhaust pipes sticking out of the nose. A single large exhaust pipe is near the end of the engine compartment with a four bladed propeller with wide blades., "Turbo-prop, but why hadn't these cats made a turbojet yet." Luke thought to himself walking to the bomber to look it over.

Just like the fighter, the bomber has turbo-props instead of the radial engines. The human sighed to himself because he always like the sound of a round engine because they sounded like a dragster on steroids. He looked at the green camouflage pattern al over the aircraft.

"Looks like you're my new co-pilot human." Said a voice behind him.

Luke turned around seeing a male Puma looking at him with gold colored eyes., "I guess I am....."

"Chass, I am Flight Lt. Chass, over there is my brother Chack." The feline gestured to another puma who looked just like him.

An alarm sounded., "Alert, all aircraft scramble! Two Photino transports are entering our atmosphere."

The human is pushed to a ladder at the bomber. Luke settled into the co-pilots' seat as a tech hooked up his stuff. A screaming sound started and he watched as the four bladed prop started turning. There's a rumbling sound as the engine caught and the prop turned faster with the familiar sound of a jet running.

At a building top.

Han looked at the view of the field in the distance. In the field, the wrecked transports are almost done being dismantled for scrap and study. The human didn't blame the felines for the humans killed in the battle. He blamed the IMPs for the waste of life because of the lack of an armed escorts for the unarmed transports which only had chaff and flares for anti-missile defense., "In Vietnam, the Huey transports had those Cobra gun-ships escorting them to Lzs. Those IMPs don't have knowledge of how to do an invasion." Han thought to himself watching as aircraft flew overhead., "Are those idiots trying again!" He yelled out loud.

"No, the Photinos are trying this time." Said a female voice behind him.

The human turned and saw Selaas looking at the sky and back at him., "How do you know that?"

She removed her helmet and grinned at him showing her teeth.

"I wish she stops doing that, when one of these cats grin at me, I feel like a mouse." He thought to himself.

The feline pointed at her helmet., "I just gotten the alert in my com unit. This is the third time in two years those pig bastards tried this. What is with them, they always send two transports and our Air-force downs the transports, I must admit, those IMPs build more sturdy craft than those Photinos. Oh, I forgot to tell you this, your friend Luke is flying one of those bombers."

"Excuse me, a bomber attacking a space transport?" The human exclaimed.

Selaas sighs., "Our bombers don't drop bombs, they fire a cruise missile at a target. Watch the show human, we might be behind other species in technology level, but we can defend ourselves with what we have. One thing, those space transports have very weak shields, hit the transports with enough high explosives, the shield generator overloads and fails."

Han turned and saw two ugly transports surrounded by flying shapes.

In a feline bomber.

Luke is glad that he has hearing protection. The bombers' engines are making a loud screaming noise due to the engines being at max throttle. He is now holding the control wheel in his hands watching as laser bolts streaked to the feline aircraft. None of the slow firing laser bolts hit the nimble aircraft. Luke turned his head to Chass seeing a predatory grin on the feline.

"Bombardier, stand by to release weapons!" Yelled Chass in the com circuit.

The human saw fighters doing attack runs on the transports firing sidewinder missiles at the ships. He assisted Chass in the control of the bomber by wrestling the control yoke watching as the transport grew larger in front of them.

"Open weapons doors. Launch weapons in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire." Said Chass turning the bomber away from the transport.

"This is going to be messy." Said the bombardier as the as the four missiles launch after being dropped. (Jar, Jar Binks said the same line before the pod race in Star Wars Phantom Menace.)

Building top.

Han watched as both transports started to fall from the sky after suffering multiple hits. They crashed on the ground and swarms of feline squads stormed the down spaceships., "Do they know about the charges in those Photinos?"

The female feline nodded., "Keep watching human, you'll see what we do to them. Unlike the other races, we take them prisoner."

The human watched as scores of Photinos are forced out of the crashed spaceships with their wrists bounded in front of them. A different squad of felines walked to each Photino with a small pair of cutters cutting something off each pig morph.

"Now they can't blow themselves up. They will be put in category 5 confinement to be part of the prison work detail. Sounds heartless, but they tried to make us slaves and we're giving them a taste of their own medicine. There's worst punishment then killing them like the other high tech races who kill them. You humans we're forced to fight us, that's why your brethren are confined to the base till our leader allows the other felines to land their ship here to take custody of the humans we took prisoner. We just want to live our lives and enjoy life. What do you want to do with your life human?" Selaas asked him.

Luke sighed and hugged the feline giving her a kiss., "I want to stay here and just live a quiet stress free life. By the way, does this planet have any good fishing spots?"

Selaas nodded and gestures the human to follow her to the roof access of the building., "Sorry Han, times up, I got to take you into custody." She smiles at him seductively., "If you want to do something with me before you see my sire, there's a vacant apartment at the floor below us." The cheetah grins at his eager nodding.

Feline bomber approaching a airbase.

The bomber landed on the runway. Inside, Luke grabbed the control levers reversing the pitch on the propellers to start slowing the aircraft. A ground crew member guided the aircraft to the assigned hardstand doing the gesture to kill the engines.

Chass slid the controls to idle shutting off the engines. The feline patted the human., "You did good human, you can fly with me anytime." He commenced shutting down systems on the aircraft.

Luke assisted the feline in shutting down the aircraft systems. He found his place on this world. The human decided to stay on this planet because he found a purpose and use of his talents. After shutting the aircraft down, Luke followed Chass and the bombardier, another puma to the debriefing room., "I wonder what Han is doing at the current moment."

A vacant apartment.

The couple is in a embrace kissing each other. He backed away watching as she removed the armor exposing her slim body with the interesting anatomy with six breasts.

She looked at him watching as he removed his clothing exposing his slight muscled body with almost no hair on the body. Selaas saw the tube like organ between his legs twitched and went hard increasing in size., "Very interesting, never saw anything like that before." The feline thought to herself removing her underwear.

Han lays himself on the bed looking at the slim female cheetah climbing onto him. He gazes at the her private area seeing a feline vulva instead of a human like vagina as depicted on furry websites he and Luke looked at on his computer. The human holds her hips feeling the powerful muscles as she lowers herself onto his penis. Han sighs with pleasure as he saw his penis vanishes inside the cheetah. He them moves his hands feeling all six of her breasts making the cheetah sigh with pleasure.

Selaas lays on the human kissing him again and feels Han hugging her. Then, he starts rubbing her back gently doing a massage on her.

He loves the current situation he's now in, the feeling of the cheetahs' unique anatomy feels great on his naked skin. The human strokes her head looking at her eyes. She then does a feline scream like a wildcat, it startled him, then he realizes that he just made her orgasm.

Feline airbase, the current moment.

Luke walked out of the debriefing with his new friends Chaas and Rizz the bombardier. He sighs looking at the city in the distance.

"What's on your mind?" Asked Rizz looking at the city.

"I wish there was a way to contact my friend who is on the loose. Just want to tell him to turn himself in because he will not be harmed." Answered the human looking at his feline friends.

Chaas scratches his chin in thought., "Maybe we can have my brother drop some leaflets in the city to tell him that. According to Selaas, he's in the city because she found some of his stuff in a dumpster days ago."

The human nodded and followed the felines to his barracks. He is glad that Leila is assigned to this base and he did have a couple more encounters with the female puma. Luke found her better and more kind than a human female in bed.

The vacant apartment.

Han yelled as he emptied himself in Selaas. He relaxed panting as the female cheetah repositions herself to lay in the bed next to the human. The human stroked her pelt gazing at her., "So when's the deadline to have me turned over to you father?"

She plays with his hair looking at him., "Got to have you at my fathers' office in a few hours."

He nodded and started to dress himself looking at the sexy cheetah on the bed gazing at him., "I am going quietly ok?"

Selaas nodded getting out of bed and started to dress herself. She tosses a pair of handcuffs to the human., "To make it convincing, put these on before we enter the building my father works at."

The human nods and looks at her., "I will get a chance of taking a shower when I am turned in?" He asked watching her nod, Han went to the floor and smeared dirt allover himself and ripped a few areas on his clothes., "To make it convincing, you found me in a crawlspace under a building." The human said to the cheetah and followed her out of the apartment.

A couple hours later, Kegees' office.

He sat in the office grinning to himself, an hour ago, his daughter reported that she has the human in custody. The male cheetah talked to the leader and told him that when the human was caught, the human is dirty with ripped clothes due to hiding under a building., "Well Arcadia should be landing in a couple of hours." Kegee thought to himself as the door opened admitting his daughter with a handcuffed human male.

Feline ship Lynxsclaw, a couple of hours later.

Arcadia looked at the clearing on the view screen seeing the wrecked IMP transports. She grinned seeing two wrecked Photino space transports.

"Captain, isn't that race thirty-five years behind the Earth in technology? How did they manage to down two Photino starships?" Asked the male Squib at the helm looking at the wreckage in the field.

The feline cougar chuckled and looked at the canine., "A few reasons, I'll explain it to you. The Photinos use slaves to build their starships making them junk and real low in quality. These felines are real ferocious when they're fighting an enemy. They're stubborn and don't give up and they use numbers in a fight. I would say they used at least fifty aircraft to attack those two Photino starships. If I can, I rather have these felines as friends instead of enemies. If they use the same tactic on us as they did on those Photino ships, we'll survive, but the ship would have severe damage when we half to make a run for it. It wouldn't be those aircraft that would damage us, it would be the SAMs being fired at us."

The bridge crew stayed quiet knowing that their captain is right. Isaac walked onto the bridge looking at the view screen doing a whistle., "I take it from the looks of those Photino starships. We half to make sure that we have permission to land on this planet or we end up like those pigs."

Arcadia nodded., "That's the reason Isaac, Kang told me years ago, never underestimate an adversary or you end up dead. The IMPs build better quality stuff over the Photinos. If one of those surface to air missiles can blow up a IMP drop-ship, some I know can do some damage to this starship if enough of them hit us. That's why I wouldn't get close to this planet unless I have permission. Now we're going to hover one hundred feet above this field and have a talk with Quin the leader. I heard that a few of the Earthlings decided to stay on this planet due to them falling in love with the local females."

The human stayed quiet because his mate gave him all the information on this race of felines with a description of the females in detail., "Ok, so your going to talk to these Earthlings and we pick up the ones who want to leave." Isaac said to the cougar who is nodding.

A day later, the clearing.

Isaac stood near the group watching as Arcadia talked to a male lion. Turning his head, he saw a couple of human males with a couple of female felines talking to each other. The human walked over to the group to have a talk with them.

Han heard a noise seeing a human with red hair walk to him and Luke., "Luke we have company." He said to his friend as the human joined their group.

The conversation started and Isaac relaxed when he found out how these two were treated. The human named Han is moving five miles East to a fishing wharf to take a job on a fishing trawler. He found out that Han didn't like the idea of being drafted. Isaac didn't hold it against him, because not everyone likes to fight.

Luke is staying because he prefers flying the bombers this feline race uses. The human told him flying the aircraft is a lot more fun than flying drop-ships.

One thing the two humans have in common, they love how the female felines are built on this world., "The female felines here know how to treat a male human. One last thing, we will never go back to those hairless two breasted humans." They said in unison causing Isaac to laugh.

"What's so funny Isaac?" Asked Arcadia walking up to the group.

"Nothing, I'll tell you later in your quarters." Isaac answered looking at his mate.

The female cougar nodded., "Well, out of the three thousand humans here. Eleven hundred are staying here due to them getting visits by curious females and the humans on the Photino ships. Some of the Photinos were killed by revenge killings when their formal slaves pulled that ring under their left armpit. All the humans who did that survived the blast and Esmeralda is treating them."

Isaac nodded knowing that the female lynx would give those humans a pat on the back. Arcadia will pin a medal on each human and offer them a job. He knows that his mate still hates the pig morphs a lot due them almost destroying the ship she was on. The human knows that this race of felines take the Photinos prisoner from Han., "Yeah, I agree to what these felines do, give those pig bastards a taste of how they treat other races. I am for what they do on this world, Arcadia might disagree, but sometimes you disagree with the ones you love." Isaac thought to himself watching as Arcadia talked to the male lion.

Epilogue, a week later, the Lynxsclaw leaving the planet.

Arcadia sat at her chair looking at the view screen seeing the planet grew smaller in the view. During the week, she had long hours talking to the government working trade agreements and treaties. Right now, relations with this feline race is a lot more friendlier and less strained. The female cougar just gotten done sending a very long report to her boss Fleet Admiral Kang., "I know one thing, I bet he's green with envy. But he and my sire did the first contact with the Squibs ten years ago. So it was my turn to have the fun of being the negotiator this time." Arcadia thought to herself enjoying her job.

Feline star base.

Adamson walked in to the office to visit his old friend. The male cougar watched as the lion read a report on a data slate.

"Just give me a minute old friend, I think you might want to read this after I am done. Your daughter just left that feline system and she just sent me her report with a few treaties in this package." Said Admiral Kang handing the data slate to his friend.

"You know I've been retired in the last few years. You and my daughter do this stuff now." The cougar said taking the data slate. He read the report taking in every word. Adamson grinned when he got near the end of the report., "That's my girl, I would say in a few years, she'll have your job old friend."

The lion stretched on his chair., "She can have when the time comes, the leaders agree to this after they talked to her during the mission. Your daughter just used her wits and smoothed out a few rough edges. At least we can land on that planet without waiting days for permission. Having some of them serve on our and the Squib ships seem like a fair deal."

"What are we going to do about the gravity thing. Our planet has a heavy gravity field compared to their planet." Adamson answered giving the data slate back to the lion.

"The Squibs and our medial personal are working on something to make the adjustment time shorter." Kang puts away the data slate and locks his desk and stands up., "Let's go to the bar and pound a few drinks and catch up. It's been a while since you visited me, how's the wife doing?"

"She's doing fine, we should get your wife, mine and that human Isaac with my daughter together to go on a trip." Said the male cougar as the two felines walked out of the office.

THE END OF CHAPTER FIVE RAVEN FOX

Bonus short story, First contact with the Squibs By Raven Fox and Shetland.

Ten years before the events of chapter four of Merged Worlds, feline ship Tigersclaw.

Rick Adamson sat on the captains chair watching the view screen as the stars streaked by. The ship the male cougar is commanding is the first warp five ship his race built and now it's on it's shakedown cruise. He turned his chair slightly grabbing the metal bar on the rail behind him to feel the ship. Adamson closed his blue colored eyes and concentrated feeling the ship as it was at it's max speed. The cougar felt a slight vibration, but very faint.

"Everything alright captain?" Asked a male lion serving as his XO.

"Everything is ok Kang, just feeling her out." Replied the cougar to the male feline.

"So, what's the names of the three ships under construction going to be?" Asked Kang sitting on his chair near the captains chair.

"Hull number 1002 is going to be named the Lionsclaw. Number 1003 the Jaguar. Number 1004 is going to Nightsclaw. These four are going to be the only ones in this class. Then in a few years after we test this class of ship and work out the bugs in our warp engines, the Lynxsclaw class is going to be built. My daughter Arcadia might end up serving on that class." Said Adamson with a grin of pride.

Kang nodded in agreement, it's been twenty years since his race perfected warp travel with a small five seat craft that had to be launched from the space station. Right now, the craft called the Cheetah is now planet side in a museum. The captain of this ship was one of the five volunteers who flew that ship on its first warp flight twenty years ago. Adamson was one of the designers of this ship and command thought it was a high honor to reward him the honor of commanding the first warp five vessel., "So, how is your daughter doing sir?"

"She starts in the academy next year at the age of sixteen. Arcadia graduated from school three years early due to her high IQ. She has the IQ of 350 compared to my 250, I am considered a genius and they want me sitting at a desk pushing data slates and designing ships. I rather be sitting at the chair of something like this instead sitting at a desk." The cougar said taking a data slate from a lynx and read it.

The lion nodded in agreement, he knew it would be at least six more years before he has his own command. He would serve one more tour as XO, after serving time on planet side or the new star base being built at high orbit. The way to leave this ship is either by shuttle or a docking tube., "I seen those TV shows from Earth, sorry trekies, we don't have transporter technology, just warp five and that's it." Kang thought to himself as the com officer stiffens at her console.

"Captain, I getting a distress call from an unknown ship, two million miles ahead of us. They under attack from a race they call the Photinos." The female cougar at the com console.

Adamson scowled., "Set a course to intercept and put the ship on red alert. Full shields and have weapons ready, looks like this ship would have her baptism of fire today." He grinned as alarms sounded thru out his ship.

Squib ship 15487.

The male Squib in command felt his ship shudder as he saw the ugly ship fire on his ship again. He flinched when he heard another explosion., "Return fire, what's the status of any rescue?"

The male Squib at the com console shook his head., "We just lost coms sir, I am trying to get them back up."

Lynk shook his canine head watching as his ship returned fire. Then another ship of a unknown type appeared from a warp field and attacked the Photino ship. The Squib watched as the Photino ship returned fire and the unknown ship fired three photon torpedoes at the Photino ship causing it to explode. Then the unknown ship turned to his and cold fear gripped his heart., "We're friendly, we're friendly, I must admit, you're one lovely looking ship." Lynk muttered to himself glancing at the white colored sleek and deadly looking ship.

"Captain, I managed to get coms up, we're being hailed by that ship, by both audio and visual. I am patching them thru." Said the com Squib flipping a few switches.

"Have the first contact team come to the bridge now!" Said the male Squib.

Feline ship Tigersclaw.

Rick watched as the view screen changed to a inside view of the ship they just rescued from that hostile ship. The Tigersclaw didn't suffer any damage other than a few crewmembers had some bumps and bruises during the short fight. He saw morphs like him, but, they looked like fennec foxes with long pelts with the coloring of a sheep dog his race uses for herding sheep. The cougar just stared at the light blue glowing eyes of those canine morphs., "I am captain Rick Adamson of the feline ship Tigersclaw. Can we render any assistance to you?"

Lynk saw the different feline morphs on the other ship looking at him. He looked over his shoulder seeing the members of the first contact team coming on to the bridge making him sigh in relief., "Sure Rick, we're grateful for the assist, you're the first warp equipped species we seen in two hundred years. Would it be ok if I and our first contact team beam over to your ship?" The Squib saw puzzled looks on the felines.

A female Squib of the first contact team whisper to him., "Sir, I don't think that feline race has transporter technology. We been studying that ship, I think this race only had warp travel for only twenty years from the looks of that ship."

"I don't really care at the moment, the only other warp species we know of are the Photinos and the IMPs. We can use some friends if you know what I mean." Lynk answered keeping his gaze at the felines.

"There are the lizard morphs." Replied another first contact member.

"But they're few in numbers, let's beam over to that ship and meet our new friends. Get chief engineer Hastings, she'll sulk if I don't include her in this mission." The male Squib said as he resumed talking to the felines.

Engineering space of the Squib ship.

The female Squib is in a service tunnel repairing damage when her assistant crawled in., "Maam, captain needs you on a away mission."

She looked at the male Squib., "I got to finish fixing these relays if we want to get warp speed again."

"The mission is for you to study a new warp five vessel and see how's it constructed. That Photino cruiser pummeled it at point blank and there's no signs of damage to that ship. So the captain wants your expert eye to take a look at that ship." Replied the male squib seeing a look of interest on the chief engineer.

The female squib got out of the service tunnel going to a undamaged screen bringing up a view of the feline ship. She zoomed in a few areas studying the warp nacelles and the main structure of the ship. In Hastings opinion, it's lovely design from the lines. But in her expert eye, the ship seemed over engineered., "Yes, I can see how's she's built, tell the captain I'll join him, I want to take a good look at that ship. I can already tell that she's been over designed making it a really tough ship for it's size. Right now I want to take a look at her warp core, it's got to be huge to push a ship like that at warp five. Warp five is going to be that ships' top speed, it will never go as fast as ours because the way she's been built."

Later that day, feline ship Tigersclaw.

The male cougar watched as columns of light appeared and the forms of canines appeared. He shook the hand of the captain of the squib ship and introduced the members of his crew. Rick saw one of the female squibs look around studying the bulkheads and other areas, telling him that the female squib must be the chief engineer of the squib ship., "Lynk, this is Dirk, my chief engineer, how about he shows your engineer around and we talk."

Lynk nodded in agreement as the male lynx took Hastings on a tour of the ship. He heard her report after she studied the exterior of this ship and the reason this ship didn't suffered any damage. It told him that this ship must be a prototype or an experimental one. But he won't reach any conclusions till after his engineer did a tour.

Going down a passageway.

"So, how old is this ship?" Asked Hastings starting a conversation.

"Less than a month old, we're on our second shakedown cruise. Your lucky that our captain insisted that we carry a full weapons load to see how the extra weight effects the ship. This ship is the first of warp 5 ships built with the other three almost done except the Nightsclaw. That ship is only fifty percent constructed, the construction slowed down to see if we need to do any design changes from what we learn from this one." Replied the lynx as they entered a turbo lift., "Engineering."

The female squib nodded knowing that this race has a voice activated computers like her race. Hastings touched the rail at her waist noting that the travel is smooth telling her that these cats are using a magnetic field like her race. She filed that fact in her memory to tell her captain later. Because she wanted to see the warp core of this ship., "So, how long had your people had warp ships?"

Dirk grinned., "Twenty years, our captain was the first feline to break the warp barrier. We have a few ships, but this is our first large warp five ship. In my opinion, I think she's been over designed. She won't go faster unless some parts are removed or build a more powerful core the same size as ours." The doors opened and the warp core can now be seen.

Hastings looked the warp core over taking in the details of it's construction. Her expert eye saw familiar components her race uses and the type of materials used. She looked at the over head seeing the structure of the ship whistling in admiration., "I am right, this ship is built like a tank. The lattice work making up the structures between the frame rails when you only need stringers. You can built five of our ships with the materials these felines used for making the frame of this ship." Hastings thought to herself following the lynx as he showed the engineering space.

Later that day, the captains cabin of the squib ship.

Lynk listen to his chief engineers report of what she saw on the feline ship and what she gotten out of the chief engineer. He looked thru the portal gazing at the feline ship near his. The squibs are going to allow the feline ship to tow his ship to their home world while a freighter heads to the feline world. His government has a team on that freighter with all the supplies needed to repair his ship.

The female squib continued her report to her commanding officer and his interest when she told him that the Tigersclaw is a experiential prototype. In her opinion, the ship is a bit over designed, but seeing a warp five vessel was neat because her species had warp travel in the last five hundred years. The last warp five vessel the squibs built was four hundred years ago., "Going from warp one to warp five in twenty years was monumental feat. These felines are sharp sir, I think they will be great friends to have in my expert opinion sir." Hastings said to her commanding officer.

"I agree and our government agrees, we're going to help them. We're giving them transporter, replicator, holo deck and a few other technologies and how to build stronger ships with less and lighter materials. Two of those three ships they have under construction already have their warp cores installed. The Nightsclaw, we're giving them a few design changes so it could keep up with our ships along with a more powerful warp core. It would be a little lighter than her sisters, but that ship will still have that over designed frame work as her bones." Said Lynk putting away the report Hastings gave him. Right now, the Squib race has another race they can call friends.

THE END

Authors note, I always liked the geodesic construction of the Vickers Wellington aircraft framework which gave me the idea of the framework structure of those four feline starships. Making the feline starships very tough in construction. RAVEN FOX:)