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#+TITLE: Ren Needs the Stuffy
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* Intro
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This is a story based in the First Contact Universe, by user Ralts
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Bloodthorne on the HFY reddit. The relevant chapter is linked below.
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[[https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/fne594/first_contact_rewind_part_seventyseven_nakteti/][First Contact Part 77]]
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* Part 1
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"Life isn't fair, sure I get it, everyone knows that. It's like the
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first thing a kid learns. The universe doesn't care and will kill us
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and everything we love the moment it has the chance. The only way we
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made it this far is by making our own luck, right? Pushing back
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against anything that wants to stop us. So why is it then, that when
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I, a denizen of Barker's Round, a member of the freaking Terran
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Confederacy, an honest to the omnimessiah human derived sapient,
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locked in a damned jail cell for trying to do the same thing my
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ancestors did that let us enjoy this wonderful place we call home?!"
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The pink haired anthropomorphic fox paced back and forth in her cell,
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glancing up at the lone guard sitting at a desk in the detention
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hall. Her body language screamed danger, her ears flat on her head and
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her tail flicking in adjitaiton. The poor guard was lucky those
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durasteel bars were between her and him, she thought, fantasizing
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about giving him a right hook and leaping out the window to freedom.
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The guard just stared back at her with amber eyes. "You hit a
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nanoforge and somehow cracked part of the inner casing, thats why."
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"I did not hit it! That's bullshit! I did not..." The slamming of a
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door interrupted her rebuttal.
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Another guard stood in the doorway beside a stocky hyena morph with a
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jet black mane and a very much not amused look on his face.
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"Oh, hi Mark!" the vixen perked up, giving the guard a shit eating
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grin. "Come to tell these fine gentlebeings that they were wrong to
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arrest me?"
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"Stuff it, Ren" Mark Growled. "You realize you broke the only working
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nanoforge on this rock, the one we needed to fix the ship and get us
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moving?"
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Ren huffed and scowled. "All I did was give it a bit of a whack, the
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damn thing wouldn't print my job!"
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"You fucking headbutted the damn thing and cracked the inner chamber
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lining!" He exclaimed as his voice rose. " I don't even know how you
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didnt cave your skull in doing that!"
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Rin rubbed her head a bit, memory of the throbbing in her skull making
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her wince. "Well it did hurt a bit. What was I supposed to do?!"
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Mark rolled his eyes and let out an exhasperated sigh. "You're damn
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lucky we need to depart soon, the sheriff said he'll release you so
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long as I escort you back to the ship." The guard beside him nodded.
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"What the hell were you even trying to print? We already got the
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converter. Why didn't you just contact the tech VI and ask what the
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holdup was?"
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Her bold front disintegrated, tail curling between her legs a bit as
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her ears tilted down. "The stuffy..."
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"Excuse me?" His eyes widened. "Did you just say a stuffy?"
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"Yea, the one that's all over SolNet, it's pretty cute!" Ren chirps
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cheerfully.
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"A FUCKING STUFFY!?" His voice boiled with rage.
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"Hey hey! It's not just a stuffy! It's the one that xenospecies
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captain that survived the precursor attack made, its SO CUTE! I needed
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it Mark." She protested, ending on a meek note. "It even says I love
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you when you hug it..."
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The hyena just stared at her for a moment before turning to the
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guard. "You know what? Keep her here, I don't need her back on the
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ship that badly."
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She looked on in horror as her saviour and the other guard walked out
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and closed the door. "YOU JACKASS! COME BACK HERE! FUCK!"
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The guard at the desk just smirked and laughed.
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