Kan-Gar-Chu! (One Piece fanfic)

Medea and Ashwin began visiting different places to earn as many Credits as they could.

They planned to purchase anything they could find that seemed as advanced or otherworldly as possible.

Anything that they had never seen before was on their list of things to buy so that they could bring a large amount of new and strange things back for Alyssia and the others.

It did not matter whether it was a tool of some kind, a consumable, or even a unique species, Alyssia just told them to bring back as much as they could.

It did not matter whether they had to purchase some pets or slaves that would be on sale in some areas so long as they were what could not be found on their planet.

Unique alien races and other creatures had their unique traits that could be studied to help Alyssia's studies of Lineage Factors and to further her other areas of research.

Anything like that could be what would be needed for a breakthrough in her studies toward making a perfect humanoid or animal that could surpass her current creations.

Ho-Ho Station seemed to not handle human trade so it showed that it did not allow such things but it was very different for other types of creatures.

It was not uncommon for different types of creatures to be captured from all kinds of places and sold as pets.

Some would even be quite rare species or so unique that they would sell for a large amount of Credits.

Any resources from other planets or that could only be found in space were just as important since they could unlock new paths for her whether it was for discovering new energy sources, technology, and many other things.

Other resources like plants and many other materials could be put toward creating medicines or her serum research.

There was a wide variety of applications for each newly discovered thing they could bring back.

Even books or other forms of data storage methods containing knowledge were just as valuable.

Knowledge of the history of the influences in space or the surrounding planets was just as important.

Translation machines would be a great help too for understanding a lot of the things that were not too easy to translate manually.

Bunbun continued exploring the many things available as she was carrying around a bag with a clear liquid inside with a straw sticking out of it. "Mmm... this stuff is not so bad!"

She had purchased a flavored nutritional supplement which was the most common for meals in the space station.

Some locations sold edible food of different types but it seemed like there was a limited supply and the prices for them were very high.

Even a small vendor barbequing some strange-looking meat had attracted a large amount of people who were willing to pay high prices for it.

Meat and other consumable goods seemed to be a luxury in Ho-Ho Station since they would mainly be brought in from the outside.

They might have had ways to grow their supply somewhere but a large amount of that would not be made available to everyone.

The most used method for consumables was usually different types of drinks and food that came in a liquid state.

The one that Bunbun was having was vegetable flavoured so she quite enjoyed it.

She was curious to try out some more things so she kept exploring until she came across a large machine.

It looked very strange and had many buttons on it so she couldn't help but become curious about it. "Looks fun!"

Her eyes shone as she approached and paid using her card causing the machine screen to turn on displaying many strange symbols.

There were many things that she did not understand so she started to mess around with the buttons causing some symbols to change and move around until she pressed one more button.

When she pressed it, noises were being made by the machine as if something had been triggered.

It opened up and a large metallic claw pulled her inside.

The insides looked like a small booth that had many colorful lights inside along with some mechanical parts. "Wait... what is this?"

The mechanical parts moved as she was held in place and she did not resist.

She did not feel danger from it and she was still quite curious about what would happen. 'Something dangerous could not just be sitting out in the open like that right?'

The mechanical parts began glowing and gathering some form of energy at the tip that was approaching Bunbun before it came into contact with her body. "Hey.. that tickles... Ahahahah!"

She broke out into laughter from the sensations her body went through causing her to forget about the situation she was in.

The mechanical parts continued to move around her body at a fast speed without fault.

Even her slight movements were no problem for it as it seemed to adjust itself and was very accurate with each part of its actions.

Bunbun was ejected moments later and was left standing there wondering what had happened to her.

It was not until she looked at herself did she realized that something about her had been changed. "Wait what are these markings?!"

Covering her body were many strange markings that she had been playing around with on the screen.

They were all in black and covered various parts of her body making it look like an intricate body tattoo.

There were even parts of her furry body that was slightly longer that would usually cover up any tattoos yet it was more like the tattoos had not just been on her skin but over her fur too like her fur had been dyed or changed in some way.

Bunbun panicked for a moment but upon closer inspection, she quickly found that it looked quite cool. "I wonder what the others will think of this. Ashwin will probably be envious!"

She remembered that Ashwin and Aizah had tattoos of their own and took great pride in them so they would probably be interested in such a thing.

She did not dwell on what happened to her for long before thinking of something else. "There was a job outpost somewhere... where was it again? I guess I could just sneak in and take a quick look."

A mischievous look appeared on her face as she went in search of the next interesting thing that caught her interest.