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Ren Needs the Stuffy
Intro
This is a story based in the First Contact Universe, by user Ralts Bloodthorne on the HFY reddit. The relevant chapter is linked below.
Part 1
"Life isn't fair, sure I get it, everyone knows that. It's like the first thing a kid learns. The universe doesn't care and will kill us and everything we love the moment it has the chance. The only way we made it this far is by making our own luck, right? Pushing back against anything that wants to stop us. So why is it then, that when I, a denizen of Barker's Round, a member of the freaking Terran Confederacy, an honest to the omnimessiah human derived sapient, locked in a damned jail cell for trying to do the same thing my ancestors did that let us enjoy this wonderful place we call home?!"
The pink haired anthropomorphic fox paced back and forth in her cell, glancing up at the lone guard sitting at a desk in the detention hall. Her body language screamed danger, her ears flat on her head and her tail flicking in adjitaiton. The poor guard was lucky those durasteel bars were between her and him, she thought, fantasizing about giving him a right hook and leaping out the window to freedom.
The guard just stared back at her with amber eyes. "You hit a nanoforge and somehow cracked part of the inner casing, thats why."
"I did not hit it! That's bullshit! I did not…" The slamming of a door interrupted her rebuttal.
Another guard stood in the doorway beside a stocky hyena morph with a jet black mane and a very much not amused look on his face.
"Oh, hi Mark!" the vixen perked up, giving the guard a shit eating grin. "Come to tell these fine gentlebeings that they were wrong to arrest me?"
"Stuff it, Ren" Mark Growled. "You realize you broke the only working nanoforge on this rock, the one we needed to fix the ship and get us moving?"
Ren huffed and scowled. "All I did was give it a bit of a whack, the damn thing wouldn't print my job!"
"You fucking headbutted the damn thing and cracked the inner chamber lining!" He exclaimed as his voice rose. " I don't even know how you didnt cave your skull in doing that!"
Rin rubbed her head a bit, memory of the throbbing in her skull making her wince. "Well it did hurt a bit. What was I supposed to do?!"
Mark rolled his eyes and let out an exhasperated sigh. "You're damn lucky we need to depart soon, the sheriff said he'll release you so long as I escort you back to the ship." The guard beside him nodded. "What the hell were you even trying to print? We already got the converter. Why didn't you just contact the tech VI and ask what the holdup was?"
Her bold front disintegrated, tail curling between her legs a bit as her ears tilted down. "The stuffy…"
"Excuse me?" His eyes widened. "Did you just say a stuffy?"
"Yea, the one that's all over SolNet, it's pretty cute!" Ren chirps cheerfully.
"A FUCKING STUFFY!?" His voice boiled with rage.
"Hey hey! It's not just a stuffy! It's the one that xenospecies captain that survived the precursor attack made, its SO CUTE! I needed it Mark." She protested, ending on a meek note. "It even says I love you when you hug it…"
The hyena just stared at her for a moment before turning to the guard. "You know what? Keep her here, I don't need her back on the ship that badly."
She looked on in horror as her saviour and the other guard walked out and closed the door. "YOU JACKASS! COME BACK HERE! FUCK!"
The guard at the desk just smirked and laughed.