Here it is, chapter 22! Hope you enjoy it!

Upon the beams lifting up into the hull, the group were encased in darkness, but there were a few small dim lights around them, revealing to be surrounded by wiring, pipes, a bit of noise coming from them, noticeable, but not loud enough to annoy them, moving all round the hull, quite a few coming from a large circular object in the centre of the hull, a light buzzing noise coming from it. The ceiling was low, causing Flasheart, Captain Harry, Jai and Paul to either bend their heads forwards or bend their knees a bit. They quickly got off the beam and put their feet on the floor, the Humans putting on the masks they grabbed to help them breathe as they heard a whining noise, quickly getting louder and louder. "The engines are firing! Hold onto something!" Flasheart yelled out as they all held onto the beam again, the engines firing off with loud screech noise, the acceleration jolting their bodies backwards, forcing them to hold onto tight to the beam. After a few seconds of moving forwards, the ship then flew upwards, gravity pulling them backwards as they struggled to get a grip, Sara, Paul, Jai and Freddy screaming as the hull began vibrating and shaking. "Haven't you done this before?" Sara yelled/screamed at Freddy, looking rightwards at him. "Not like this!" Freddy yelled back, his tail swishing backwards. Paul struggled to hold on, then his hands gave away, and fell back onto the rear of the hull with a yell, Sara quickly falling on his right. After two minutes, they noticed the engines were screeching and vibrating less, and a few seconds later, they felt less being forced against the hull so they moved off the wall, the others looking around as they felt the same things they were. "We're now in space." Flasheart explained before he then started to move forwards, being mindful of all the wiring and beams in his way. 

"So what's the plan?" Jai asked as he and the others moved slowly behind him. "I don't have a plan. Well, not yet, anyway." Flasheart answered honestly. "Oh, well, your perfect plan to get on board certainly was ingenious." Harry spoke sarcastically as Jai came up to his right. "Excuse me, but at least we're on board this ship. And, who are you, by the way?" Jai asked, looking leftwards at him. "Captain Harry, US Army. I commanded the men who were kidnapped and exchanged." Harry answered back, looking at him. "Did they really make you strip down and all of that?" Freddy asked, from behind, bringing up the rear. "Yeah. Why?" Harry asked, looking over his right shoulder at Freddy. "Nothing. Just curious." Freddy replied, before Harry followed Jai. "That's not really how the Weren treats their prisoners." Freddy muttered to himself as he kept moving. "Hey, if we're in space, how come we're not floating around?" Sara asked as she tapped her right foot on the floor. "Remember what I said about Weren technology last Night? Artificial gravity." Flasheart answered. "Hey, is it just me, or is it a bit warmer here?" Sara asked as she narrowed her eyes. "And what's that buzzing noise?" Paul asked as they approached the large circular object, the warmth and noise getting stronger as they moved forwards. "It from this. The power core." Flasheart answered with a hint of pride in his voice, pointing his left index finger at it, all eyes on it. "Holy shit. That's a nuclear fusion core, isn't it?" Jai asked excitedly, Flasheart looking over his left shoulder with a smile. "You've harness the power of a star!" Jai exclaimed in awe.

The ship flew out into space, out of Earth's atmosphere, and approached the fleet. It came up to the ship in the centre of the formation, a handing door up opening upwards to reveal a hanger. The ship moved into the hanger, the door closing behind it, the ship turning around as the door closed and air filled up the hanger, the ship lowering its landing beams and set down on the floor. Hotspur and Ric walked out down the open ramp, the soldiers marching down on either side as a male Weren wearing an officers uniform, next to Cherry came up to them. "May the Moon shine upon you, Grand Growler." The male officer greeted in Weren with a bow as the soldiers kept marching past them. "Is everything ready, Captain Garth?" Hotspur asked back in Weren, impatiently. "We still need to roll out the last few, but we're nearly finished preparing them for deployment, Grand Growler. And, may I ask, did you get what you were after?" The male officer, called Garth, asked, as he held out his right arm, pointing across the hanger, where behind them several crew members were running up to. "Yes, I did." Hotspur replied with an evil smile as he lifted up his left hand, revealing the Ring of the Moon on his finger. Cherry and Garth both gasped at the Ring. "Gather the crew in the main hall. We'll join you shortly. In the meantime, you're dismissed." Ric ordered in Weren before he held up his baton, Cherry and Garth bowing and then turned and walked briskly out of the hanger. Hotspur and Ric walked out slowly.

A moment after they walked out of the hanger, Flasheart climbed down the rear right  hand side beam, stopping halfway, looked forwards, then left and right, then behind to see no one looking at them, behind he looked upwards and did a thumbs up, indicating it was ok to come down. After that, he then climbed the rest of the way down, letting go of the beam, and whilst Freddy climbed down, he looked leftwards and rightwards. After Freddy came Sara, Harry, Jai and Paul. "All right. Listen carefully. Keep as little noise as you can, and do as I say. Now, Freddy, you lead up to Hotspur's quarters. We might be able to find something out. If not, we make for the bridge, try to eves-drop. And if they plan to leave the solar system, we'll get into an escape unit." Flasheart whispered his plan to them, Freddy nodding. "That's why you asked him if he knew his way around this ship?" Paul said in realisation, referring to the question Flasheart had asked Freddy before the ship boarded. whilst Harry looked over his left shoulder before he looked forwards again. "Hey, do you know what those things are?" He whispered to the others, then looked over his shoulder again and pointed with his left hand/index finger out to the right hand side of the hanger to see several crew members pushing a large cylindrical metal machine on a set of extended wheels. They pushed it behind and besides several more, revealing quite a few sitting in the hanger. "I don't know. Never seen things like those before. Why?" Flasheart asked as he shook his head. "I saw them pushing the first two out into the hanger as I arrived with my men. Then saw more have been moved out as we were leaving." Harry whispered. "We'll figure that out later. Come on." Freddy then ordered as he then led the others quietly, ducking between boxes as they ran across the hanger. They came to the ran doors, Freddy holding his left hand out, telling them to keep back. Then he peeked his head out past the door, looked rightwards, then leftwards and his face froze for a few seconds before he calmed down and walked out into the corridor. The others followed him out into the corridor, saw him looking leftwards at the left wall to see a Weren soldier leaning his back against the wall, fast asleep with his long gun on his right. "Sleeping on the job." Harry whispered sarcastically as Flasheart took his gun in his hands. "Just in case." He whispered to the others as he saw them staring at him. Freddy then led them down the corridor.

"Where's the crew?" Paul asked, noticing they hadn't come across any Werens. "Well, Weren ships don't really have that big of a crew." Flasheart answered as they suddenly heard footsteps coming from the bend in the hallway in front of them. Then a shadow appeared, walking towards the bend. Freddy then turned around and shoved Sara leftwards into a small gap in the wall, the others and Flasheart ducking in behind, keeping as quiet as possible. Then Flasheart glanced downwards to see the gun he was holding in his right hand was glinting a bit in the light, so he held it out to Sara at the end of the gap and she took the gun from him, the footsteps getting closer. They kept quiet for a few seconds, watching as a group of Weren crew members walked past them, none looking to their left as they came past. After a minute, Flasheart poked his head out to face forwards, then looked over his left shoulder to face the other way, and saw no one. "All clear." He whispered as he stepped out, the others coming out one by one. Sara came out last, but she didn't have the gun on her. "Hey, where's the gun, Sara?" Flasheart whispered to her as he narrowed his eyes, looking her up and down. She looked confused and looked back down the gap. "I don't get it. I was afraid it would glint again so I put it in that box. Then I opened it, and it was gone." Sara said back, looking over her right shoulder down the gap, revealing a white box at the end with a circular door in the top. Harry ran over to the box, opened the door and found it empty, as Flasheart and Freddy let out a groan. "It's a waste disposal. It incinerates the contents the moment you shut the door." Freddy explained as Jai and Paul also groaned and rolled their eyes. "Guess we're going in short handed." Harry spoke as he came out of the gap. Flasheart rolled his hands through his furry forehead in annoyance."Ok, let's put this behind us. Freddy, lead the way." Flasheart ordered, pointing his right index finger at Freddy on his right. A moment later, they resumed walking across the corridor, Freddy sniffing occasionally, until at the end of a corridor they came upon a red door with gold Weren writing and decoration all around it. "Here it is." Freddy whispered as he stepped up to the door the placed his left ear/side against it for a few seconds. "I don't think he's in." Freddy said as he looked rightwards at the others.

Freddy then grabbed the door handle, moved it as quietly as possible and peeked his face though, stood still for a few seconds, then opened the door further and stepped into the room, the others coming after him, Flasheart being last and closing the door. They found the room to be circular with a large silver chandelier on the roof, an intricately designed carpet on the floor, statues of Weren warriors at points along the walls, a painting of Hotspur standing amidst a storm of lighting and snow in the left hand side corner of the room, a bed at left hand side, and a large closed door on the opposite side wall. On the bed sat a smart looking red and gold tunic. "Uh, what are we looking for?" Paul spoke as he looked around, confused. "Anything that could be linked to Earth." Freddy said back looking over his left shoulder before he headed over to the black cabinet to the left of Hotspur's bed and opened the drawer. The others then started moving around the room, Harry looking the vases on a table against the wall, trying to not make too much of a mess. Flasheart moved across the wall, staring at the painting of Hotspur, seeing something off about it. Jai came up to the right hand side wall, and saw a button on the left hand side of the closed door and pressed the button, which opened the door, revealing a viewport, revealing space. Jai screamed, looking out the viewport into space. "Shush! What is it!?" Sara whispered softly as she moved to cover Jai's mouth for a second, then uncovered it. "We... really are in space." Jai said back, his eyes fixed on the view. The realisation was fully sinking into him and the others (minus Flasheart) as they all gathered by him and the viewport, staring into the darkness of space. "They say that going into space changes your perspective of things." Jai spoke out after a long time of silence. "Don't feel so mighty out in space, don't you Humans?" They heard Hotspur's voice in English ask from behind, causing them all to freeze and widen their eyes, then turned around to see Hotspur (with a translator), Ric and 6 Weren soldiers standing before them, their guns aimed at them as they all put their hands up. "Never thought you had it in you to sneak on the ship, but... call me surprised, Freddy. Especially the fact that these Fangen joined you, despite the risk of never coming back. Especially the prisoner here." Hotspur spoke, glancing at Harry.

Flasheart, whilst they were staring out the viewport, moved his hands swiftly up and down the painting, suddenly heard a clicking sound as he touched Hotspur's nose, causing a hidden door in the wall to open up. His eyes widened at the revelation, seeing a hidden room, causing him to step forwards into the room. He looked to see a decent sized room full of images, a table with a hologram box on it. His attention was suddenly diverted when he heard the sounds of the door, which caused him to look over his right shoulder to see the door closing, but just before it did, he saw Hotspur and Ric enter the room through the door. He then looked forwards again to look around the room, seeing several movie posters, suck as Twister, The Planet of the Apes, Independence Day, Star Wars, The Day after Tomorrow. Along with weather maps,  He then turned around leftwards towards the closed door, leaned his left ear/side against the door, hearing that the Weren and Humans were walking out of the room.

And that's chapter 22 done! Hope you enjoyed it! Please leave a vote!

Btw, the gun being incinerated bit was inspired by the scene in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol3" (2023), in which the space suits get expelled into space via the contamination bin.