At this stage Amber's kid sister Indigo had heard enough of this
out stepped out of the ranks of politely not-trying-to-listen
dragonkin and marched up to the three of you
"Amber,stop pulling the human jumpers tail.You know perfectly well
that she came from Earth and that she started as a male human!"
Both Amber and Pitch exclaimed
"Indigo,Get Lost!!!"
but Indigo pointed at her sisters outfit and said
"human jumper,don't you see my suster is wearing a lab coat?Don't you see the slide rule she has in her right pocket?"
You did.And did.
You looked at Pitch and Amber with a bit more suspision this time
"Whats up!" you said
Amber glowered at her snickering bratty sister Indigo,
rolled
her slitted eyes and said
"follow me"
So you,Pitch,Indigo and quite a few of the other (clothed dragon-kin
followed a furiously marching Amber down the path.
Amber turned around,blushed as she realized you were going about in nothing more then a hospital gown and waved to someone in the crowd to get you some
decent dragoness-kin clothing.
Several dragoness-kin charged back into their caves and came back with various
sets of jewelry,corsets,brassieres and overcoats and gowns and dresses.
So after about 15 minutes of getting you properly clothed ,soon
the procession was on its way tagging behind Amber,whose tail
was swinging back and forth obviously in a rotten mood.
Pitch sidled up beside you,as did Indigo,and the two gave you a crash course
on advanced teleportation physics 101.
"Ambers a 4rth year university student specializing in jump science " said Pitch
"After the enemy forces abducted all our jump scientists,including
Dr Theresa Klinckelmeyers,Amber was the only dragoness-kin ( and
drake-kin for that matter) who knew how to get our smashed
Jump-Slip repaired and going again" said Indigo
"However she'd made a mistake while putting the machines back together and broke the Prime Directive" said Pitch
"Prime Directive?" said you
" Contact with a less technologically and morally advanced
civilization" said both Indigo and Pitch simultaneously
It seemed that the rebuilt Jump that smart and brilliant Amber had
got going again had not made contact with Earth Prime,
which this colony depended on,but some backwards Earth # 76,665
where dragons and dragon-kin hadn't even ever existed.
Your Earth.
Naturally the colony had been hoping for supplies of food for the starving colonists,ammunition for their bolt guns and
a functioning spaceship would have helped.
As Amber swept down a curve in the path,she pushed aside
some brushes and soon you and the others were going down a paved path
pockmarked with little craters and ash spots here and there
"Mom and dad both were killed in the attack" sniffled Indigo
and Pitch moved to your other side to comfort his still grieving sister
"Amber's actually Indigo and mine half sister" said Pitch as
Amber up ahead picked her way around fallen masonry from
collapsed buildings
"This reminds me of the Tadross University campus" you remarked as
your first memory of your Earth life was sparked awake
"Ambers dad was the dragon jump researcher Fafnir Klinckelmeyers
and her mother was Theresa Klinckelmeyers dragoness-kin sister"
said Indigo,sniffeling as she stared at some heaped up mounds of rubble
"After daddy died in the loss of the LuSirius IV
the rebels cut off mommy's allowance.She came to the colony
when I was still a baby "
Pitch steered his sister away from two mounds of rubble,a small one and a large one,and continued
"Mom had lost a husband,stepdad had lost his wife so the two got
married so Indigo and I could get some support from the
dragons"
"So Ambers a half dragoness as well as your half sister" you said
and the dragon-kin brother and sister nodded in
agreement.
It seemed that Fafnir Klinckelmeyers had got his daughter Amber a
scholarship to study at Earth Primes prestigous (known across)
the galaxy) Harvard University after he'd noticed his daughters natural
talent for fixing up the various components of the colony's only
Jump-Slip Machine.
Amber had been there for eight years at Harvard studying hard,unable
to visit her dad and stepmom for those eight years.
"She only came back a half year ago ,just in time to watch
the Dalai Vader stormtroopers swoop in,killed both our parents and
blow her only means of escape,the Jump-Slip ,to
a charred wreck" said Pitch
"Then when I got it going again ,what I got was your planet" growled
a obviously ticked off Amber
"And I got you" she hissed as she stood by the open leadway,
turned around and staring at you with her angry half dragoness eyes.
And behind her towered the nine storey tall Jump-Slip
Machine,a deep dark tunnel with various coils,rods and glowing red plates fastened to its outer tube.
There were six other tubes of ever decreasing diameters mounted
on its insides with gimbal bearings.
The huge hulking thing lay still.
A second memory from your past human life rose to the surface of your
mind,the Echelon Tunnel.
That failed Tadross physics experiment that Tadross
researchers had hoped would scrub out the ozone from
Earths atmosphere.Tadross U's gift in the war against climate change.
You,Frank Dillinger,Security Guard 1rst Class,had been hired to guard the Echelon Tunnel from rescue by the protesters till it could be dismantled and scrapped in a few weeks.
You started to open your snout to ask Amber a question
but she had already stormed inside the ruined building
that housed the Jump-Slip
"She hates your guts" stated Indigo to the obvious body
language statement.
"After Amber crossed over to your Earth,she was horrified to discover
the Jump-Slip she found on your planet wasn't actually a Jump-Slip
Machine" said Pitch,who continued
as he ushered his sister and you through the leadway
" It takes two Jump-Slips to cross back and forth,and what
you Earthers call a Echelon Tunnel was drawing all its power and
conversions from our side"
"And Amber was rebuilding our machine and computers when I
came barging in with my gun drawn" you said as a image of a
darkened room with a scaly intruder at the computer console
flashed into your awakening mind
"She's half dragon"said Indigo
"When she sunk her fangs into you gun arm her
saliva began dissolving you from the inside out as "
"Her dragon black bloodcells inside you turned you into the raw stuff
they needed to make a clone of Amber" finished Pitch
Amber had a problem.She'd already done a wonderful job of
breaking the Prime Directive and there she was giving
Earthers a rudimentary Jump-Slip machine
and here was this disintegrating human falling apart as a new clone of Amber was fairly bursting out of the human skin it was
encased in
"I'm Ambers twin sister?" you said incredulously
" Yes" said Pitch and Indigo together
and
"NOOO!" said Amber,who was dashing about on a platform flipping over various levers
The Jump-Slip began to creak as the inner tunnels swayed on their gimbals
She'd scooped up what was left of your human bits and pieces into
a bucket and hauled you,her unwanted clone,with her
back through the newly created Earth Jump-Slip back to the colony
You felt a bit of a letdown as you realized
you weren't the Chosen One,so-to-speak,but the
result of some dragoness saliva going rogue once it had
left Ambers mouth.
"I want you out of my horns" snapped Amber as she pointed you towards the
conveyor-escalator that had suddenly started moving.
You just stood there,confused
"Don't you get it human,I'm sending you back to your Earth!" the brilliant 4rth year Jump-Slip Science student said as she began
frantically glancing at various televisors mounted in the control module
"They haven't destroyed the Echelon Tunnel yet.Our machine and
that excuse for a oversized garbage compactor have re-established
contact" she choked out as the blurry image on the televisor cleared up to show
a darkened room at Tadross University.