“… Now disboarding, District 9, Falhum Area…” A feminine AI voice resounds through an intercom.

The transit ship begins to descend onto a metal platform with flashing green and blue lights. With a soft thump on its landing, the glass doors slide open with a long draft.

Miya jumps from her seat and walks past Loliel, who quickly follows after her while looking behind at the two still mating Ya’valtians.

The city square was quartered off with buildings of different shapes and sizes. Some curved into each other creating paned glass walkways above the amble pedestrians. Others formed large spheres with flashing rainbow-colored lights as if a rave or festive gathering was being held.

Holographic ads were plastered high in the sky. Some offered ramen with a dancing noodle in a steaming red bowl, while others flashed a catalog of the newest trend of clothing: hex-gridded shirts and pants with silver outlines.

A hover-train shoots through a tunnel above Miya, causing her brown locks to flutter back while gazing at the passing Ya’valtian pedestrians with an irritant resting face.

Loliel walks to her side and revels in the red, green, and blue lights illuminating her entire body. “Well, this is something. I never thought it would like-“

“—YAWRP YAWRP YAWRP!”

Miya's head whips to the side, noticing a humanoid figure on all fours running toward her. Her side-holster releases a puff of smoke, unlocking it’s contents with a blue blur and allowing Miya to pull out her XMS-pistol, the gun’s sides flexing upwards and creating a white-dot sight.

The figure then jumps over Miya, lands on Loliel, and forces her to the ground. Loliel locks face with the individual, now revealed to be an athletic-built human being with a bald head, despite being a young adult.

“What the hell? Get off of me!” Loliel shouts.

She attempts to push him off, but he restrains her arms and starts to lick her mask while humping her front like a dog in heat.

Miya snickers while walking up behind him and putting him in an arm-lock before throwing him to the ground. She then stomps on his chest, making him yelp to stop him from attempting to get up once more.

Loliel gets up from the ground and glares at Miya, still giving her a shrewd grin.

“I’m glad you found that funny. You could’ve helped sooner by the way.”

Miya clasps her gun back into her holster with a chuckle. “What? I thought you had it, with you being a better fighter than me and all. Guess we all have our faults I suppose. Should I let him up and you two can go at it again?”

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“… Yaktsman! That’s enough!” A female voice yells from behind them.

Miya and Loliel look behind at Curase now exiting the shuttle. She clips up her blouse and bows her head toward Loliel.

“I’m so sorry, he hasn’t been satisfied since yesterday. I guess when he saw someone pretty he pounced at the opportunity. Think of it as a compliment!”

Loliel looks at Miya for translation, who rolls her eyes with a sigh.

“She said sorry, and her pet thought you were attractive.”

“What do you mean by, pet-“ Loliel’s eyes widen at her surroundings.

“… Good job Vuusman!” A Ya’valtian woman exclaims to a human woman on all fours, lifting her leg to urinate in a metal urinal on a nearby block.

A group of Ya’valtians cheer on a copulating human couple, mating naked on the street while panting uncontrollably.

On a nearby bench, a Ya’valtian woman moans in pleasure as a human male with castrated arms laps at her pelvic area, his back being whipped to bloody shreds by a Ya’valtian man laughing in his demise.

Miya glances over to Curase, now hugging her human companion, pouting in between her arms. “Aw, don’t worry Yaktsman, she didn’t mean it. You just startled them is all!”

Yaktsman then looks up at Miya with beady eyes. “Wah- Weally?" He stutters in broken Ya'valtian tongue.

Miya glances at him with a spiteful gaze. “Let’s just be glad you didn’t jump on me, or your head would be split in two.”

Yaktsman trembles, grabbing at its head and resting its chin on the floor. Curase laughs and pats his scalp while standing up.

“Well then, shall we be off? It’s not too far from here actually, I just wanted to stop at this district to retrieve Yaktsman from the pet carrier.”

Miya nods her head with Curase turning around and walking down the black-plated avenue. Yaktsman gazes up at Miya who shows her canine teeth in a crooked smile, making him rush to Curase’s side with a wail.

“Ha! Did you see that? He was scared shitless!” Miya revels while turning around.

Loliel takes a step back, watching through the drizzling saliva rushing down her holo-mask at the human dogs continuing to breed in the middle of the street surrounded by a cheering crowd.

“What… What is all of this?”

Miya walks to her side and glances at the scene. “What… That? It’s intercourse between two animate beings, sex to be rather blunt. You literally just saw it on the way here between those other two—“

“I know what it is, Miya! I want to know why they’re all humans!” Loliel shouts, drawing the attention of some of the passersby.

Miya scrunches her eyes and takes Loliel by the hand, guiding her down the tinsel pavement with a shake of her head. “You should not, ever do that again. If a person with high enough status asks for your code and you aren’t serialized then it'll be out of my hands. So let’s not make a scene.”

Loliel looks to her sides, noticing a pair of human pets walking on holo leashes with a Ya’valtian man. Their arms were severed up to their torso, while their mouths had a metal muffle screwed into their cheeks. The masculine human pet locks eyes with her, noticing tears flooding from his eyes as he beckons at her with a shake of his head.

Miya’s body jolts with her next step stopping abruptly. She looks back at Loliel, holding her arm back with a dispirited gaze.

“Do that again, and I’ll rip your bionic limbs right off. Now let’s go.”

Loliel lifts her head with a short nod.

“Not until you tell me what’s going on here.”

. . .