Melody woke up with her mouth gagged and her eyes blind folded. She tried to move but couldn't because she was tied to a wooden chair with her hands tied behind her back. She heard a mechanical voice say, "Alright, MEL-07, tell us why you are here?" She tried to speak with her mouth gagged. "Oh, I'm sorry, you have something in your mouth. If you scream, the authorities will know you are resisting. Will you cry for help?" Melody shook her head. "Very well, then." The cloth material was pulled out of her mouth.
"What is going on here? Who are you and what do you want? Where am I?" she asked.
"That is funny you should ask that. You don't know me but I know of your host." the mechanical voice said.
"Host, what host?" Melody asked. "My name is Melody, not MEL-07. Are you suggesting I'm some kind of alien parasite? That is very offensive."
"What is offensive is you impersonating someone who was abducted a while ago." the robotic voice said. "My men will use the tool which will extract your memories. Turn it on boys."
The gazelle heard a buzzing noise that made her fur stand on end. "What do you have?"
"You want to know? Okay, give her a small sample of what is to come if she doesn't comply." the voice said.
"I'm not afraid of pain." she said.
"No, we are going to use you for a suppressed consciousness experiment. A man's soul will enter your body while you are trapped inside your own body and you will be completely defenseless." said the monotone voice.
"AAAH! Don't do that!" Melody shrieked.
"Then tell us the truth." the voice ordered.
Melody gasped in fright. "Alright, I am a clone of a gazelle girl. Melody is somewhere on a hidden military base on a planet."
"Which one?"
"Pluto. Some people consider a dwarf planet but she's there." the gazelle said.
"How many clones are there of you?"
"Over a dozen at least. Each one slightly genetically modified to make them improved." Melody responded.
"What kind of technology was used to clone you?"
"Technology used the Grays of Zeta Reticuli. I was grown inside of a glass tube as an embryo and stayed there until I was fully grown. I have been outside of the tube for ten years already." she responded.
The voice paused. "How about what you were doing tonight with that lion freak? What were you getting from him?"
Melody sighed, "I was looking for the code to find where the real Melody was to set her free. I escaped the secret space program and from the Grays. The lion was meddling into the SSP's profiles and he was my best option to get the code from."
Another male voice said, "Okay, she gave us what we needed to know." The blindfold was removed and she found herself in a kitchen with a blue fox, cow, and a human in a SSP uniform were standing. The person who removed the blindfold was the fox.
"So, this interrogation was not by the authorities!" Melody glared. "What was this 'tool' you claimed you were going to use on me?" The human showed her a men's facial shaver. He turned it on and it made the buzzing noise she heard.
"Listen, we don't want to harm you." the fox said. "We are just concerned about Clark's safety. Ever since the Secret Space Program been on our tails, so to speak, they have given us nothing but threats and problems. They could have sent you to attack us at any time." the fox explained.
Melody looked at their concerned looks. "You truly did think you were under attack, didn't you?" Melody asked. She sighed, "Hear me out, I am a victim of the SSP just as much as you all are. When I first came out of the tube, I was a full grown gazelle woman who had to learn everything at a rapid pace. Then I was sold off to the SSP as part of a cloning program that sold able-bodied clones as slaves to the SSP and E.T.s of other galactic federations. I knew about Drake but only from reports. He and a captive Sirian escaped. She was a hyena, and a princess of her planet too. Enemy reptilians held her for ransom and handed her to the SSP for safekeeping until her royal family could pay the ransom, but they have not been successful with handing in the money. Last I heard she used a stargate to escape and ended up in a random location."
"What was her name?" Drake asked.
"Kayla Buntop." Melody replied. "I think she might be on this planet." Melody looked around. "Where's Clark?"
"He's passed out on the couch." Snips said. "He is going to have a hangover before he can talk to you."
Drake asked, "Were you involved with my kidnapping? I thought I saw a gazelle that looked like you the day I was taken away from Earth." he was looking very upset.
"No, that must have been another clone that looked like me." Melody replied.
"Drake, we will deal with the kidnappers soon enough." the fox said. He turned to Melody. "He's not been very happy with the SSP's misdeeds."
"Neither am I." Melody answered.
"I'm Alfonzo, by the way." he said.

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