by Jamie Hawke
“Fucking hell.” The man took out a chip from his device, handing it over to Twitch. “I’m done here.”
“What was it?” I asked, not having seen clearly.
The man stared hard at me, then started backing away. “You all say the Marines are fighting off these things? Well, not all of them.”
“The Marines… shit.” It sunk in, what he was implying. That the blips were Marine ships, and that essentially the Orion Corp military complex was currently being guarded by a large number of them. “Back to the ships.”
“But, Breaker,” Ezra protested.
I spun. “We can’t discuss this here. Too many eyes and ears. Too many factions are involved in this. To the ships.”
Ezra nodded, the others quickly falling in. Trunk said farewell to his father, who had decided to stay here for the duration. Fighting wasn’t really his thing, he said. I got the feeling that Trunk and his father weren’t close, but in the end they gave each other a hug so I guess they’d made their peace with each other. As I exited the bar, wincing slightly at the sight of the bottles and wishing I had time for one more drink, I could’ve sworn all eyes were on me. It might’ve just been the pressure. Back in the Oram system, the idea that I was supposed to be an Elder had felt so outside of the norm that it hadn’t truly hit me the way it did now. And yet, the idea that we were facing Nihilists without any way of getting to them, along with someone trying to take over Earth and the rest of the solar system, and on top of that the fact that we were going against Orion Corp and the Earth Marines… it was enough to make my head explode.
Once we were at the docking bay and clear, we gathered up.
“They aren’t the enemy.” I stood tall. “Too many good men and women have died defending my freedom, my right to live, for me to ignore their sacrifices and turn on them now simply because they might be being used by these fucks at Orion Corp.”
“Breaker, they’re in our way,” Andromida protested. “My way.”
“And I’ll be too, if you insist on this. We will not plow through them, killing them, simply to get what we want. If we did so, how would we be any better than Muerta? Than Orion Corp themselves?”
She was seething, but took a deep breath and turned to the display, staring out at the Marine Corps ships in the distance.
“Your brother was a Marine, wasn’t he?”
“Is,” I corrected. When she turned back, confused, I added, “Once a Marine, always a Marine.”
“Dammit.” She put her hands behind her back and hung her head. “Go around, then. Drew’s a good man, and if these are his brothers, his people… You’re right.”
“Go around? What does that mean?”
“It means we go in a different way. Avoid them. With all the supers and… interesting… characters we have assembled here, someone has to have an idea.”
“Sneak past all those Marines, the Orion Corp security and sensors, and somehow get in there, to either see if Muerta has attacked yet… or wait for her to show up so we can stop her?” Charm shook her head. “This is hurting my brain.”
“But… it doesn’t have to be as complicated as you’re making it sound,” Twitch interjected.
“How so?” I asked.
“You’re already halfway into their network, right?” She nodded to the area where our ships were, where Aegriss waited. “If she can get onboard and finish the connection, we can have full access. Basically make them think we’re just another one—or several—of their ships returning, and if anyone sees us, do what you did on the Paradise Planet.”
“When you say it like that, it doesn’t sound so bad.” I grinned, but then my smile faltered. “But… Muerta. She’s either going to bring a large Nihilist force with her, or—”
“I don’t think so,” Letha interrupted. “Because why are they attacking the Paradise Planets?”
It hit me. “To pull away the Marine forces! Of course.”
“She’s preparing her move,” Twitch agreed with a nod of respect Letha’s way. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more of those ships leaving the area soon, and when they do, that’s when she’ll strike.”
“Couldn’t the Nihilists just take down Orion Corp?” Ezra asked. “From what I saw back there…”
“I’m not sure.” I scratched my chin. “Thing is, the Nihilists and supervillains were working together where we came from, and Ranger was among them, working for Orion Corp. Yes, they were making a move against Orion Corp, but something tells me there’s a reason the Nihilists can’t simply turn on the organization like that.”
“Could be,” Shimmer mused, arms crossed, considering all possibilities. “Honestly, none of us know, and the best way to find out is to get in there and ask… with our fists.”
Gale laughed. “I like the way this girl thinks.”
“Long as I get to kill some evil asshats, I’m in,” Cheri said, grinning wide. “Pick team captains, see who gets the most?”
“We’re not doing that,” Erupa stepped in front of Cheri, frowning and shaking her head, while the little fairy sat on her shoulder, seemingly bored. An odd group, that one.
“Right.” I ignored their byplay. “The rest of the ships hold back while my team gets Aegriss into place, then we get in and set the trap. Unless Muerta’s already been through and finished them off…”
“In which case the hunt continues,” Andromida said.
“Huzzah!” Cheri shouted, sword in the air.
Fucking nuts. I laughed, seeing why Ezra enjoyed having her around.
We all agreed on the plan and made our way back to the ships, where we inserted the disk into our mapping system and plotted the coordinates, ready to get down to business. It wouldn’t be a long ride, but long enough to take turns sleeping. This time, exhausted as we were, we actually slept.
19
I had just finished my turn at rest, waking up to find Andromida and Twitch there, too, the former just arriving, the latter waking up and moving over to make room for her. Looking through the porthole gave me a view of another craft hanging there in space. I turned toward it in my attempt to hide my ‘morning’ wood. It didn’t always happen after sleep, but with the way sex rejuvenated me and with how little sleep I was getting, it was like my body was on constant sexual alert. It needed one or the other, and honestly, sex was easier than sleep. It kept my mind distracted, for one, while sleep would sometimes take me to places I’d really rather not go.
“We’ll need to be stronger this time.” Andromida walked over to me.
She stood at my side, looking out at the other ship. Twitch was sitting on the bed, her hair all mussed up in a sexy way, still waking up.
“I don’t mean to let them escape, if that’s what you mean.”
Andromida nodded and stepped closer, putting her hand on mine as it rested on the railing. I looked at it, then at her, and she smiled. At her nod toward the window, I looked through it again, and this time found that I could actually see right into the ship out there. It wasn’t a fully clear image, but sure enough, there was Ezra grabbing Erupa’s horns and yanking her about while he did her from behind. It was… awkward. And kind of hot. A moment later, we saw another head, this one with blue hair, appear from behind Ezra. There might’ve been someone else past them.
We watched for a couple seconds, then I turned away, embarrassed, remembering how wildly inappropriate that was of us.
Andromida chuckled, turning away as well. She looked at me, then Twitch, and shrugged. “What… what if I didn’t have blue skin? Like the Heavenly Light thing—when that happens. Would that make me more attractive?”
I froze, totally caught off guard. “No matter what—blue, white, pink, black, I don’t care—you’re you. That’s what matters.”
She looked away, but I saw her smiling.
“He’s right.” Twitch yawned and stretched in a way that totally drew my eyes to her breasts. I had to wonder if women did that on purpose, or if I was just a perv. Probably the latter. Twitch pushed
herself up, rotating her back. “I wouldn’t care if you were blue or not, but… the blue is one thing I find sexy as hell about you.”
“You… find me sexy?”
Twitch smoothed out her green hair and tucked a lock behind her ear, then shrugged. “I’m not as into the woman-on-woman action as some of the others, but… Sometimes I imagine what your blueish-purple lips would look like wrapped around Breaker’s cock, and I touch myself.”
I stood a little straighter, feeling Andromida’s grip on my hand tighten. Turning to her, I tried to hide the tingling sensation that caused my body to twitch and my cock to stiffen further.
“Right, Breaker?” Twitch clearly noticed. “Wouldn’t that be… hot?”
What else could I do but nod, my mouth suddenly unable to move? Damn, I hadn’t realized how badly I wanted this, but now that Andromida was looking at me in that curious way, like it might actually happen, my cock was about to explode out of my pants.
“I don’t know,” Andromida said after a couple of pulsating heart beats that pounded in my head. “We have our mission—”
“And right now we have to get there,” Twitch countered. “Plus, you want us to be stronger—this is a way to give Breaker more powers. So…” Pursing her mouth, she said, “Here, let me make this easier on you.” Turning to me, she leaned over so that her breasts were pressed against my crotch, smiled as she bit her lip and watched me, then slid her breasts down until it was her face in my crotch, nuzzling my cock through my pants.
After a moment of that she pulled back, stood to kiss, me, and then slowly pulled down my pants and boxer-briefs so that I was fully exposed.
Her finger moved down, landing on my tip and then tracing it, around the head at first, then down the base, eyes on Andromida the whole time. “Do this, but with your tongue.”
“I know how.” There was a hint of annoyance in Andromida’s voice, but she was watching very intently, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
“I’m not saying you don’t,” Twitch replied. “I’m telling you what I want you to do, while I watch.”
Andromida raised an eyebrow at this, but Twitch stared back, not looking away or blushing. To my surprise, Andromida smiled and then crawled over on all fours.
“Are you sure?” I asked, when she was at my feet, looking up at me with those blue eyes.
“Am I…?” She laughed then pushed me back before crawling over me, wrapping her hands around my cock, and massaging it vigorously. “I’m a grown-ass woman. If I make a move for you, you can be damn sure that I’m sure.”
“Just wanted to make—” Twitch leaned over, a hand on my mouth.
“Andromida, dear?” Twitch spoke playfully. “I think he needs a way to occupy his tongue, if you don’t mind.”
“Oh?” Andromida smiled and considered me, then nodded to herself, stood, and stripped. First, her top came off and, while I’d seen her breasts before… I don’t know if it was the different lighting or the fact that this time I was much more certain of what was coming, but the sight of them made me want to leap up and rub my face in them. I resisted, of course, but damn. Then, eyes on me, she shimmied out of the lower half of her superhero suit, so that she was left standing there in all her blue glory, only her purple panties left.
She glanced at Twitch and, for the first time, she seemed nervous.
“You want me to go?” Twitch asked.
It took a few seconds, but then Andromida cautiously shook her head. “Stay.”
Twitch smiled, and nodded at me. “Better get over there before I do.”
I didn’t need to be told twice. This time I was the one crawling, kneeling at her feet. My fingers traced inside the top of her panties then reached in and pulled as my lips pressed to the bottom of her naval before going over to her right hip bone, following it down as I lowered her panties all the way. Her body shuddered as they came off and my lips went to her mound with its small tuft of indigo hair. When I guided her down to the ground and buried my face in her pussy, she grabbed my hair and clenched tight, guiding me not so gently.
Something nudged at my thighs and then pushed to spread my legs apart. When I looked down I saw a head of green hair, and my cock vanishing as Twitch took it in her mouth. There I was on all fours, getting head from behind while I went down on Andromida, all in this cramped little sleeping room.
When I felt the warm tingles and knew I had to stop or I’d cum, I pulled back and gently pulled my cock away. Twitch rose, wiping saliva from the edge of her mouth and smiling, then sat back and ran her hand down her body, stopping between her legs as she watched. I took the cue, maneuvering up to kiss Andromida’s neck.
I was about to ask if she was ready for this, but hell, she was lying there with her legs spread, alternately caressing her breasts one minute, then my back the next. She’d made it clear as a bell. As her hands moved down to grab my ass, I slid into her.
While Charm had been damn tight, this was at least as tight or tighter. It fucking hurt, like someone grabbing my cock and pulling the skin as hard back as they could. But she was wet, so each thrust moved with more ease as we continued, until finally it was pure bliss: her pussy bringing me to new heights of arousal, her tongue teasing mine then finding my earlobe and whispering how sexy I was, how huge my cock felt inside of her, how she never wanted me to stop.
And then she turned around so that I could do her from behind, get even deeper. She had likely been so tight because of a long break, because now that we were getting into it there was no doubt she knew what she was doing, and fucking loved it.
I slapped her ass. She arched her back, giving me more of that ass view. I slapped it again.
“Oh yeah.” Twitch all but purred the words. I turned to see her watching, one finger in her mouth and her other hand massaging herself. I reached for her, but she took her finger from her mouth and wagged it back and forth, then pointed at Andromida. “Again.”
So I slapped that sexy blue ass again, then grabbed her hips and started pounding, fucking her and loving the sound of my hips slapping against that ass, my balls swaying and hitting her thighs with each thrust.
Then she pushed me back and spun, hopping on me and digging her nails into my chest. Her eyes were closed, her mouth open. Her muscles tensed like I’d never seen them do before, and then she actually punched me, or more like slammed her fist into my chest as she moaned, bit back a scream, then moaned long and hard again while holding her fist there.
I was lucky to be such a badass now—Earth me probably would’ve quit at that. Hell, with her strength she could’ve given a younger, less leveled-up me a heart attack, or broken something.
I laughed at the thought as she finished her orgasm. She started laughing too but then, mad that she was laughing, punched my nipple and put on a fake crazy face as she started working my cock, moving her hips up and down in a steady rhythm until I came too. A second later, Twitch brought herself to climax.
I would’ve happily helped her out as well, but I supposed she wanted this first time between Andromida and me to be special. That worked for me, too. Whatever was best for the team, but also for each of these women individually. I was on uncharted ground here with this relationship, so I was learning as I went along.
So far, judging by the looks of satisfaction in these two women’s eyes, I was just fine.
Andromida stared at me, her blue eyes taking me in, then turned back to Twitch. “Good enough for you?”
Twitch laughed, breathing deep, and nodded.
“Sorry I’ve been such a pain in the ass,” Andromida said. “It’s just… all this—I can taste it, you know? Victory. Glory… Vengeance.”
“And when it’s done?” I asked.
She frowned, then reached over to grab my cock again, massaging it, running her thumb along the head. “Can’t we just focus on the here and now?”
“I could live with that,” I said, closing my eyes for a moment and enjoying her touch. “But eventually, there will be an eventuall
y.”
Looking into her eyes, I had my answer. She hadn’t committed either way. Whatever this was with her, or had been, it didn’t mean she was fully ours, yet. Which meant I had to win her over.
It would start with helping her take down Muerta and Plague, and then Orion Corp.
“I don’t mean to be crass here,” Twitch covered herself and looked sheepishly at Andromida before turning back to me. “But, powers?”
“Yes,” Andromida said, sitting up. She, to my enjoyment, did not cover her breasts. While I pulled up my screen, pretending to look at it, I took an extra moment to take them in: the curve, a slight sag but sexy in the way they hung; the dark blue, almost purple of her areolas. Perfect breasts that also made me imagine I was taking in large scoops of blueberry ice cream in warm perfection. I wanted to take her nipples in my mouth and fuck her again right then and there, but we had a job to do.
She cleared her throat, waiting.
“Er,” I grinned. Caught. Turning my attention to the screen in front of me, I noticed something very strange. Where the paladin track had been going, it now diverted into something darker: a veil placed over the image of the white sword, now with two glowing blue eyes behind it. I looked forward to getting into that more, but now wasn’t the time.
Andromida took a moment, about to lie down, then shook her head. “There’s no way I can sleep after that good a fuck. Come on, let’s go see how the others are doing.”
“You sure?” Twitch asked, but then checked on a mini-map she threw out, and shrugged. “Actually… we’re not far off. If you’re not needing the rest, might be good to have all hands on deck.”
My mind was just gone at that point, having heard ‘all hands on dick,’ and trying to push away the image of every woman on that ship at once crawling over me, trying to get a piece. Shit, maybe I was still waking up.