Across the Universe Found

Just call me Ash the Berserker!

Found a Pic for the Cat Men!

The poor fuzzy beings were forced to see their downed family member for a full day. He lay before their cell while they mourned him with sad keening noises. Me and the girls cried on and off in sympathy. The larger surviving fuzzy and I made eye contact half way through the day. I didn't drop it. I tried to convey my feelings of wanting to share vengeance with my eyes. She perked up as she stared into my eyes. She shuffled closer to the cell door and looked down at her fallen mate and then back up at me, I took the chain in my hands and tried pretending to loop it around a Skinnies neck and popping their head. She widened her eyes and looked back down at her mate and then at me. She touched her own collar and seemed to realize she didn't have a chain. I shrugged to indicate I didn't know why she hadn't been tethered too. That wasn't a problem long, as a few hours later she too had her own shiny new tether, along with the smaller fuzzies. She didn't fight them, but she did give them a good death glare. They collected the body this time, I felt so bad and yet relived that she didn't have to stare at the corpse anymore.

I turned back to the girls in our cell, we all looked and smelled horrible. Our hair was greasy, and so dirty we all looked like we had black matted kinked up hair, even though I knew for a fact that three of the girls were blonde. My own had been dyed a dark cobalt blue color, although by now my own golden brown, with a few white sprigs(gimme a break I'm 35 for pity's sake I gots a white hair or two and so will you when you get to be that age!), is beginning to show. Our bodies were so covered in filth we all looked to be the same dark brownish color, again I knew at least two of the girls to be very pale in color, while my own mixed heritage of Hispanic and European was unidentifiable. Any alien to see us would think all humans look about the same, boy would they be in for a surprise were they to hose us off!
They looked back at me with equal measures of weary watchfulness. We were exhausted, but had to be on guard at all times, we'd taken to keeping watch. The Skinnies never took our jewelry or watches, just our clothes sans underwear. So we used timer settings on one girls sports watch to rotate the look out. My turn had been not long ago so I was pretty fresh and rested. As alert as I was gonna be given the food they gave us was just enough to keep us alive, but not at optimal health.
I felt a sudden shiver under my rear and in my hands wrapped around the bars of the cell. It increased in power then cut off with a abrupt lurch. I turned to look at the other girls and they returned my wide eyed look, "What the hell was that?" I whispered
"No fing clue" was the reply. The whole cell bay had gone quiet, which was a feat, since it was quite large, like a plane hanger bay, large. The other poached creatures and beings were all looking back and forth at each other, wondering what this new development would mean for us. We'd clearly docked with or been docked by, something. My heart began to pick up speed. Oh no, had we reached our destination? Were we about to be sold off like cattle for meat  or worse made into slaves(hey better a quick death than a life filled with endless agony and misery)? I was wanting to freak out very badly. But knew I had to hold it together and wait and see what was actually going on first.
It being so quiet, I could hear faint banging sounds in the distance, and yells. Then the ship would shudder faintly here and there, like it was trying to get away from whatever had docked with us. All of the sudden the big door leading from the ship opens and large group of Skinnies come running in. They run past us and look to be heading to another door at the other end of the bay. But that door blasts open before they get there and a group of black clad, Black Ops looking people rush in, making the Skinnies scatter. One of the Skinnies rushes to a panel on the wall and hurriedly taps some keys. A series of beeps sounds. My tether slacks suddenly before unfurling completely and falling to the floor, then the cell door slides open. I gape for just a second before catching on to the Skinnies ploy. They hope to avoid capture by these military looking dudes by causing pandemonium. I intend to use it for some payback. I gather up my chain and make a loose knot loop. I then creep out with the girls behind me having copied my weapon of choice. "I'm gonna rope their heads and pop their necks like zits, you girls with me?" I whisper to them, they all whisper back an affirmative.
In the crazy of all the creatures and beings rushing out of their cells and milling around chasing Skinnies and the Black Ops Alien's trying to get a lock on the Skinnies, I was able to sneak up on the very Skinny who shot the Fuzzy male. I knew it was him because of his uniform, he was wearing the same one, it had a distinctive emblem on it. At the same time as I was reaching him, he was threatening the Fuzzy family to keep the military aliens at bay. I stepped quietly on to a box behind his stupid ass and looked to the Fuzzy female, she made eye contact with me and pulled her babies closer while hunching closer to the ground, the military aliens went stiff and stared at me making glare at them in a way I knew was probably kinda feral, the dumb asses were gonna give me away!
I had to move fast! So I threw the loop over the Skinnies head while planting my foot into the small of his back and pulled like I was in a tug of war contest with myself. He started choking and clawing at the chain, dropping his weapon. But I held on tight and pulled harder. I turned my head as I felt his neck give and his head pop. His blood sprayed across the side of my face and chest, ew.
I dropped my arms as his body dropped forward onto the deck in front of the Fuzzies and Black Ops dudes. They stared down at it for a beat, then back up at my heavily breathing self. I knew I had to be a sight, this nasty dirty person with a collar that has a long bloody chain hanging off it dangling from my hands, covered in blood, chest heaving, looking like a barbarian chick in my black lacy boy shorts and push up bra. I wouldn't know what to make of me either.
The Fuzzy female crept over to me and put her fuzzy paw on my foot, and petted it, like she was trying to bring me down from a bloodlust berserker high or something. I tried to show her I was good by squatting down real quick and placing my hand over hers. Bad move, cuz I heard the sound of guns lifting all over. And steps being taken real fast in my direction. I put my hands up and dropped my chain in doing so. The girls, who'd been behind me this whole time stepped forward like they were going to protect me.
"No! Don't! They have guns! I don't think chains are gonna do much good here ladies!" I hurried to say, which made them freeze mid-motion.
The two soldiers in front startled, and glanced at each other. They were clearly surprised that I spoke. I glared at them for that.
"Yeah, I speak, I'm not an animal, like animals wear underwear?" I said while snapping out the waistband of my boy shorts. I couldn't help mouthing off, even though I knew they couldn't understand a word I said. They followed my hand movement with their eyes then whipped them away and seemed to be looking anywhere but at me for a moment.  Which I found amusing, I'd embarrassed them, how cute.

I ignored them for a moment to take stock of the rest of the hanger. I knew the Skinny I popped was one of the big wigs because of the way the others deferred to him all the time. Seems like once he was dead, the others folded like a deck of cards, they were all trussed up in what looked like glowing handcuffs. I turned back to the Black Ops Alien's group before me and noted that they had holstered their weapons while I'd been looking about. The two in front who I'd embarrassed were still watching me, but hadn't approached. I noticed they seemed different then the others in their Unit, they had odd legs and stood much like imagine cats would look if they were sentient and walked upright. They seemed to be talking to each other, separate from the rest almost. One nodded to the other and proceeded to remove his helmet. He faced me, so I got a good view of the very masculine feline face that was revealed. I have no clue how or why, but my body took notice at this. He had the flat nose of a feline, the split lips, a kind of thin muzzle, and a smooth cat-like sloped forehead, but with a human like hair line, with tightly braided rows of hair, at this distance I couldn't tell what texture the hair would have but it didn't take away from the sensual whole picture. His eyes had elliptical pupils like a cat, and were an amazing blue color. His gaze was trained on mine. I glanced away once I realized I'd been caught staring. His partner then also removed his helmet and I saw his eyes were that amazing yellow-green color only cats can pull off. I was getting a bit freaked out by how intensely they were staring at me. The others of the Unit didn't seem nearly as interested in me. They were milling about, securing Skinnies, or talking to the Fuzzy female. She was yammering a mile a minute it seemed, with gestures, and hand motions that kept pointing my way. I turned to the Candy Girls, and stepping down from the boxes, placed myself among them in an attempt to not be so noticeable.
A large Unit member wearing a slightly different uniform, approached us. We eyed him warily. He put his hands out, palms facing us, showing himself to be unarmed. He then put a hand in his leg pocket and pulled out a long case. Upon opening it, I saw it held little devices. He held one up and motioned to his ear, then offered one to me. I took it gingerly. I looked it over and saw it was shaped like a hearing aid, I glanced at the large one, he kinda nodded encouragingly. I sighed and took the plunge by setting the thing into my left ear. It buzzed slightly. I jumped a bit. The large one stepped closer, and tapped his right ear briefly. He then spoke to me slowly.
"Can you understand me Small One?" He murmured to me, lips moving out of sync with the words I was hearing.
"Yes, I can"I replied carefully, eyebrow raised.
"Excellent, perhaps now we can learn just what species you are, and how you came to be here." He then said to me.
"I can try" I answered him wearily.