Seeker

Indiana Jones meets Air Bud in this short tail of loyalty, responsibility, and adventure set in The Realm of Reason... Opie works a boring government job so he can send money back home on Mars to his drug-addicted parents (who don't even remember their son is a cybernetic human-dog hybrid now). He's got a chip-slot in his tongue that allows him to speak any language that can be loaded onto silicon, and a sense of morality more true than any compass -- making him the perfect errand boy for people like Section Chief Ferra Cain, head of the Human Authority Tactical Intelligence. When Cain summons Opie to the backwater planet of Shihar to act as guide for an expedition headed up by the native Shihari people, it seems like a pretty standard mission: don't let the Shihari get greedy.
Don't let the mission go off the rails. DON'T let anyone take the payload. But as the mission wears on, it's the very things that made Opie the perfect spy that plant the seeds of doubt in his mind. As he ponders the right path, Opie will make choices that change the course of the mission -- and his life.