"This is Shaun, reaching Bio scanner disturbance area, nothing in sight so far...." Shaun carefully shifted a robotic arm with his legs, bracing against a crate for support, "Are you sure it just wasnt a malfunction?" "Negative Shaun, somethins there....Its in a Shipment Crate, Label, TD 349, should have a large ASC stamp on it." "Roger.....Found it." Shaun grunted as he pulled out a large blue crate from a shipping cabinet. "thing feels like its empty." Shaun pulled a crowbar out of his equipment pack and slowly managed to break the top of the crate open. Shaun fumbled with his light rod strapped to his leg and peered into the crate, at first all he noticed were metal pipes, but as he looked in deeper, he saw a foot sticking out of one of the piles. "This is Shaun, initiate Oxygen flooding now, we have a Biological!" Nate jumped to his feet and rushed to the oxygenation control room, "damndamndamndamndamn!" Nate rammed into the control board and hit the ground with a loud thud. "Damnit." He stood quickly and looked for the shutter switches, hastily he flipped them and began to initiate the Oxygenation process, "Shaun, take cover, de-vacumization initiating in 4 seconds." "oh shit!" Shaun dived into the crate and pulled the lid back on hard, fastening it shut with one of the pipes. Shaun panted heavily in his suit, sweat trickling down his neck and on his chest, just then a soft voice emerged from the mass of pipes underneath him, "your hurting me." Shaun shifted sharply to see a pair of bright pink eyes glaring from the darkness of the crate. "what....the..." The crate was shaken suddenly by the enormous pressure regulators of the station, the crate flew across the room and slammed into a Ventilation shaft, denting it deeply. "Nate, Nate, This is Shaun, the Biological is still alive, and I think I slammed into something." His radio was silent, just the soft clicking of the radio's receiver waiting for a signal. "creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak." Shaun shaded his eyes as the top of the crate tore away, Nate standing in the bright yard lights will the mini Jaws of life jabbing him in the gut, "well, where is the Biological?" Shaun shook his head vigorously and climbed out of the crate, ripping his helmet off and reaching in to pull pipes out of the crate. Nate dropped the jaws to the floor and helped, tugging pipe after pipe out as they slowly uncovered the thin from of a Female Alien. Nate wiped at his forehead as he looked her over, "Shaun, Get her out of there, we need to call a Medi-craft." Shaun nodded and leaned in, tugging her free of the small pipes still pinning her to the crate floor. As they walked to the control room's medical center, Shaun took time to look over the frail girl in his arms. Her bright neon green hair seemed to be alive, with strands constantly entwining with each other and his arm. She was Human in appearance and features, but obviously of an alien race, most possibly one of the LFUNs. Her Light blue skin seemed to shift in shades as shadows cast themselves on different parts of her body, becoming lighter in the absence of light and darker in the presence of light. "Shaun, watch your step, were coming up to the bay door." Shaun nodded and picked her head up slightly, keeping it from hitting the door as they walked into the cabin, she managed to murmur another sentence through her blue tinged lips, "I'm going to do something bad, please let me go." Shaun blinked and looked down at her, she continued in her half comatose state. He thought of telling Nate, but saw him arguing with himself about how this was slowing down the yard, so he decided to keep it to himself. "Shaun, lay her out on the table, see if she has any atmosphere burns or injuries." Shaun nodded and laid her out on the table, placing a thermal blanket on top of her. Nate let out a large sigh and sat down on a stool nearby, running a paw through his short spiked hair. "this is great, 5 days after that damn Pluto tour ship rammed into the outer docking area, i get this, some LFUN hiding in a crate of fighter coolant pipes." Shaun opened one of her eyes and shined a light into it, "if you can hear me, or understand me, follow the light." Shaun moved the light back and fourth with no effect. "Can you speak, are you even concious in any way?" one of the girl's eyes opened and locked onto him, keeping its gaze on him. "Nate, shes in some state of comatose, but shes still concious." Nate walked over and waved a glow rod in front of her, the eye suddenly locked onto it, the pupil expanding almost to the point of bursting. "holy crap, shes definately one of those LFUNs, her eyes went crazy over a neon light source." Shaun rubbed at his neck, "wait....what?" Shaking his head, Nate propped the girl's head up on a padded cushion, "the LFUNs come from a region of space with a dying sun, thats why they've been flooding into our galaxy, they never go past Pluto or one of the Teraformed moons near Saturn and Jupiter, their anatomy makes them incapable of withstanding more than a few minuets of bright sunlight, they would fry on Earth." Shaun leaned on a nearby medicine bench, ".....what?" Nate growled deeply, "Their bodies cant stand extremely bright sunlight, so they decided to come here and remain on the icy planets." "then why is she here, or still alive, that crate read ASC property, which means its been to Earth at least once, and if thats true, like you said, she would have fried." "You expect me to know everything about these damn aliens, i can barely understand our own race, and dont get me started on the Humans." Shaun peeled his EVA suit off slowly, his fur matted down heavily, "Nate, im going to hit the showers, ill be back in a bit, if you need help just buzz me ok?" Nate nodded, "go ahead, i still need to radio for a Medi-Craft." Shaun saluted sarcastically and walked out of the bay, the top half of his EVA suit hanging off of him from the waist. Shaun carefully inputed his preferred temperatures into the water regulator's user interface, and as the water started and heated up, played the song, 'to Trixy and Reptile, thanks for everything, by Chiodos' and stripped the EVA suit off completely. "this is our, our one chance to make things right." Shaun sang along as he climbed into the shower and washed himself off. "the reflection in her sun bright eye." Shaun gargled a bit of the water and continued to wash off, " Ill keep dreaming, not another word sweetheart." he lathered his fur with shampoo and continued to wash off. He closed his eyes and turned around as the chorus played, "would you ever admit, your, in love?" He shook his head vigorously and wiped the last bit of soap from his bangs, brushing them aside. As he opened his eyes, the alien girl was leaning against the opposite wall of the shower, "hi." "GAH!!!!!" Shaun jumped out of the shower and pulled a towel out of the rack, unfortunately it was a hand towel, "wh..wh..what are you doing here, werent you in the Med bay?" The intercom squaked to life, "Shaun, Uhmm....The Girl is missing......yeah, Get up here....Now." Shaun turned back to the girl, who was holding his jeans up and examining them, "they feel so rough....what are these?" Shaun reached out and pulled them out of her hands, "those, are mine, and why are you here?" "the girl sat down on one of the wash stools nearby, "that Other Earthling was boring me, plus he was shouting at himself too much, I wanted to see if you would play with me." Shaun blinked and blushed deeply. "awww, cool, i wanna do that." the girl held her breath, her cheeks flared red momentarily, "whew...thats hard to do." Shaun walked forward and tossed her over his shoulder, "you, wait here, dont move alright?" He set her down inside of the maintenance closet. (just a note, the Alien girl is not a child.) "wait here, ill be back, and no looking." Shaun began to shut the door when one of her hands stopped it, "no looking at what?" Shaun was about to turn when he felt something grip his backside, "This?" Shaun growled deeply and slapped at her hand, "dont......dont do that." he closed the door and moved to his clothes, dressing quickly, water still dripping from his hair. The girl was crouching over a small california dove that had been hiding in the closet, "is it time to go already?" Shaun growled and picked her up, throwing her over his shoulder. "oof, your mean."
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