Snowflake woke up on the cargo bay deck-plates and sat up. Her head throbbed as she got helped up by Kael,who looked concerned as he asked,"You alright? The Ngoran-Goran worker chief said it was some kind of high frequency EMP thing that the workers were trying to get to levitate." She looked over to where Thena was helping Sunshine up at. She sent to Sunny,[Are you functional?(insert unhappy face emoticon)] Sunny looked over groggily and sent back,[I'm... doing a system check. WHAT HAPPENED?(insert explosion and crisped corpse emoticon)] Thena asked,"How you feeling? You scared the piss out of me. My body cut off for a couple of seconds, but I didn't lose consciousness!" The fat green worker chief bowed deeply and said,"I apologize most humbly about the accident. Our small Relative-Inertial-Frame drivers are balky and we have new hires. Should we call paramedics? My android has diagnostic ability if you want her to scan you for damage? I would never have suspected so many with cybernetic bodies! I am so sorry!" Sunshine asked,"Who are you?" He said,"I am Spav, Ngoran-Goran worker-chief. I let my workers go back to face reprimand. This is Afora, my android. I like pink,human girls. She also has medical and cybernetic knowledge from all over the galaxy." Afora said,"I can scan your android's systems or check on the cyborg girl's body if you wish." Kael said,"No, that won't be necessary. We have our own doctor onboard our ship. Snowy are we good to go?" She closed her eyes and checked on borrowing Lime's power. She said,"We're good. This trip for trinckets is OVER. Sunny, our asses are TOAST. You mom with strangle both of us. I was looking forward to an UNEVENTFUL trip! If anyone is messed up...",she trailed off with a dire look on her face. The heavy-set Spav said,"It was MY crew! It's my responsibility! Explain it's my fault for my crew being sloppy! You two AREN'T androids?" Snowy exclaimed,"WE'RE MACHINE-LIFE! OW, my head!" Spav said,"I pray to to the Ancients both of you are undamaged by the EMP. I wouldn't have expected it to knock both of you out!" Snowy said,"No EMP I know of would normally. Thanks for sticking around to help sort things out,Mister Spav." He looked them over and said, mostly to Sunny,"I would have much preferred meeting you all under very different circumstances!" He and his machine lady bowed and walked off toward the Ngoran-Goran cargo dock. Thena muttered,"What a CREEPY guy!" He looked over at Afora as they walked away,"It's a GREAT thing they are undamaged! I was VERY worried!" Afora said,"Indeed it is. Our employers would have had our head if they were hurt or even died!" Snowy grabbed hands with the others and they teleported directly to sick-bay. The green man exclaimed,"The green girl can TELEPORT!? WONDER OF WONDERS! That WOULD have been disastrous to simuloid her or the one-eyed girl! At least our infiltrator is with them and they didn't notice anything! They didn't even notice any breaks in awareness! Thank you for your usual acting skill,Afora!" 'She' smiled, "They never suspected I wasn't really an android or a woman! I'd love to demonstrate what a functional hermaphrodite can do to the backwood bumpkins!" The passed through the customs zone of the Ngoran-Goran enclave. 'Spav' said,"Now,now! Patience! We have to tickle the fruit tree until the plums fall right into our hands! Slave-1 is monitoring the infiltrator to see if she needs to intervene. We have to play this one VERY carefully. Our passions and hobbies come second. Our job come always comes first! We can't let ANY human species be equal to ours, after all!" He laughed, enjoying the opening movements of the new game of espionage he was involved in. He'd make Erhlutian Secret Police commandant by year's end at this rate. Or die trying. --To be continued!--