Rick sighed as he thought
<Who am I kidding!That sick cripple of a sociapath got me
by the balls thirteen years ago when he and his golddigger of a mother
June Cleaver barged into my life>
No,the ex spacer and one time alien anthro reptilianess showgirl
would have to take it in his house.And even in her house,if his alter ego from
16 years earlier were around.
Even in the 27th century,Human Authority takes notice when a
five year old kid in a wheelchair,one Brendan Cleaver,
comes to them with a puppy dog face of innocenc
and a story about his stepfather touching him in certain private places.
"Hermm,so son,tell me again,did Mr Smith touch
you here or near a 'naughty spot?"
Since it was well known in spacer circles that Rick Smith had once
done the strip tease act in the chain of LuLu Lounges
on space sailers doing the Orion Nebula run,it seemed
perfectly plausible that Rick was capable of touching
a wheelchair bound five year old boy
in certain places.
Rick had been left flabbergasted when Officer O'Malley had
told him privately in
a spacer bar that Human Authority was thinking of pressing sexual assault
charges against him.
Then when Brendan and his mother Jumne had cornered Rick and shown him
a letter from Human Authority Court,Rick had known
his stepson was out to get him.
June was just in it for the money.
So thirteen years ago Rick had transferred the considerable funds
he'd accumulated as his alter ego
Kira 109 the Theran Belly Dancer
to June.
So now the eighteen year old creep listening to
alien soundtracks upstairs had his
very own bio-magnetic ExoSkeleton Power Suit
and didn't need the wheelchair anymore.
Although the charges had been stayed,Ricks name had been ruined and he'd found it
impossible to find work at the spaceport nearby
not even as a janitor cleaning out alien toilet stalls.
He'd scraped by by making small batches
of bio-magnetic engine lubricant,such as the
last failed batch,but it was just enough to make ends meet,
With another sigh,Rick swept up the ruined batch of engine lubricant
and went to a small corner of the room,where a rather
risque robot double of Kira 109 of Thera
stood motionless,its power drained at the order of the Court
thirteen years earlier.