by Nick Broad
“I haven’t decided anything yet,” Meiko said from over my shoulder.
Shay’s gaze slid to the woman behind me. The pleased expression dropped right off her face.
“No? I’m less impressed with you, obake. None of my treats were ever sufficient to coax you out of your cell.”
I didn’t have to look over my shoulder to tell that weird snarl was back on Meiko’s face. I could hear it in her voice.
“If this place were fair,” she growled, something inhuman entering her tone, “you’d be dead where you stand, Shay.”
Shay didn’t seem the least bit afraid. Her lips twisted in a pout as she stared over my shoulder, her every move dripping with disdain.
“So if you aren’t helping him,” Shay said, arching an eyebrow, “why are you out here? Just trying to make me nervous?”
I’d heard more than enough. I had to cool the conversation down between these two before things escalated into actual violence. Walking through the tether was hard enough; fighting in it was going to be impossible.
“Meiko agreed to help me conditionally,” I explained. “She and I are going to go visit the other potential prisoner over in Gamma. As long as I can convince them to join us, Meiko will help us, too.”
Shay crossed her arms beneath her breasts. An acid little smirk curled one corner of her mouth. “So that’s the game,” she said, chuckling to herself. “Always with the bargains, Meiko. The little puzzles, the little games. I should’ve expected no less. An obake to the core.”
The sound of ringing steel filled the tether. This time I did turn around, even though it nearly cost me my balance. Meiko had drawn her sword and was pointing it at Shay.
Oh shit, I thought. Not good...
“Call me that one more time,” she said, her grin so wide it looked inhuman. Actually, everything about her looked inhuman, from her stance to the half-crazed look in her eyes. Something about Shay set this woman off. Normally she was unflappable - but when she got that look in her eyes and that smile on her face, it made my blood freeze solid.
“Oh, calm down,” Shay said, tapping her fingers on her shoulder. “We both know there’s nothing you can do to me. Cut me to ribbons if you want - I’ll just be back in a new body tomorrow, twice as powerful and three times as pretty.”
“And four times as bitchy,” Meiko snarled, sheathing her blade. “You and I will have words later, Shay.”
“Looking forward to it.” She smiled sweetly, as if they’d just agreed to take tea together. “I’ll meet with you anytime you want. We can take the raincheck for now, though - my man’s looking a little queasy over there.” She refocused her attention on me. “You doing okay, Noah?”
Huh? “Yeah,” I muttered. “I’m fine.”
“Looking forward to being back on solid ground, I’m sure.” Shay turned on a heel, arching her back ever so slightly to make sure my gaze stayed on her ass. “Well, I won’t keep you. Remember to come see me later, Warden. I’ll be waiting...”
With a wink, she retreated back down the tether. She blew me a kiss at the entrance to Alpha, right before the door closed in our faces.
“What the hell was that about?” I asked, stunned. “Good lord, I thought the two of you were about to go at it right in the tunnel-”
A pair of hands closed on my shoulders. I turned around to find myself face-to-face with Meiko.
“Come with me,” she growled, something savage in her tone. The crazed look and smile were gone, but the woman underneath seemed to be completely unhinged. Dimly, I wondered if that was Shay’s whole purpose in stopping us at the tether - to unsettle Meiko.
Those two definitely had one hell of a history. I just hoped they could keep from killing each other long enough to get the station off the ground.
“I’m coming,” I said. Meiko practically hauled me off my feet, dragging me down the remainder of the tether. I closed my eyes tight against the sight of endless space until I felt the tether door close behind us.
I opened my eyes.
And Meiko kissed me.
Nine: Meiko
What the fuck?
The sensation of Meiko’s lips on mine was so shocking that I almost didn’t know what to do. Then something clunked over in my brain and instinct took over. My hands went to her waist, pulling her closer as she covered my mouth with hers. She was warm beneath my fingers - like a fucking oven - and her tongue swirled around mine with an urgency I found totally out of character for her. What had happened to the cool, reserved woman I’d just met?
“Meiko,” I groaned, breaking the kiss. “What are you doing?”
She cut me off with a harsh glare. “Fuck me,” she commanded, boring holes into my soul with her eyes. “Right now.”
I could barely believe my ears. What the fuck had Shay set off inside this woman? “Look, you’re very pretty,” I babbled, trying to regain control of the situation. “I mean, god damn, you’re an absolute babe, Meiko. But we’re not even officially working together-”
“What, am I not enough for you?” Okay, there was that mad little glint I knew. “Does your dick only cut on when Shay flips your switch, Noah?” Her hand slid between my legs, found the bulge there and started massaging it. “You seem plenty hard to me.”
“Oh, I am,” I said, something dark and primal rising up inside of me. “I’m fucking raging...”
Before Meiko could cut me off with another insult, I grabbed her ass with both hands and lifted her off the ground. She came easily, wrapping herself around me as she nibbled at my neck with her teeth and tongue. I turned her around and pushed her against the wall, holding her up with my android strength.
With her pinned like this, she couldn’t move or fight me - all she could do was spread her legs and let me take her. Which she did, eagerly and with loud, lusty groans.
“Is this what you want?” I grunted against her neck. My cock pressed into the hot valley between her thighs. Her own hands were working at her robes, discarding them as fast as I could talk. “Four years in that cell with nothing but your fingers to give you release - I’m surprised it took you this long to jump all over my cock!”
A mischievous twinkle lit up Meiko’s eyes. “I didn’t just use my fingers,” she said, watching me through heavy lids. “I had a nice little toy hidden in my cell.”
Oh, fuck. The thought of this gorgeous, lithe woman getting herself off with a vibrator made me throb. The image of her, legs spread, arching her back and screaming with pleasure as she came, entered my mind and refused to leave.
“Where the fuck did you hide it?” I panted, tugging down the zipper on my shipsuit. “There was nothing in that fucking cell...”
She grinned and put her lips to my ear. “I’ll never tell,” she purred, grinding herself harder against me. “You’re a much nicer toy than anything else this station can fabricate, anyway...”
Her words triggered something deep down inside of me. “Is that all I am to you?” I asked, grabbing a handful of her long dark hair. “A toy? Something this station built to get the women in here off?”
Meiko licked her lips. “What do you care?” she giggled, tugging the last remnants of her robes to the ground. “You’ve got a naked, dripping wet woman in your arms, Warden. Are you going to be a man, or not?”
She was right. My own personal feelings could wait. I was hard as hell, she was horny, and we were two good-looking people trapped inside a galactic prison. I wanted this, and I knew she did, too.
“Spread those legs wider for me,” I commanded, holding her ass up one-handed while my other tugged her raven-dark locks. “Let me see that wet little pussy, Meiko.”
She let out a whimper of need and did so, parting her thighs as wide as they would go. That strange herbal scent was even stronger between her thighs, mixing with the scent of horny pussy, and I found the whole thing insanely intoxicating. Her tight, pink slit dripped with honey, hairless save for a small triangle of pubic hair just above her swollen clit.
“You t
ook care of yourself down here,” I murmured, the hand that was in her hair going down to her folds. “Almost like you knew this was going to happen.”
Meiko’s eyes narrowed. “Let me give you a piece of advice, Warden,” she said, a teasing lilt to her voice. “If you tear the panties off a girl and find a perfectly-shaved pussy underneath, it definitely wasn’t you who decided to have sex. Understood?”
“Yeah,” I said, grinning. “Got it.” The head of my cock pushed into her folds, parting her inner walls as I slowly drove into her core. “I like it, Meiko. Your pussy’s so fucking hot, just like you. I can’t wait to feel it wrapped around my cock...”
“Oh!” Meiko’s body smacked into the wall, her hair forming a messy halo around her head as my cock entered her pussy. She closed her eyes tight, the orbs rolling back in her head as she arched her back. The way she was balanced against the wall allowed me to look down and watch my shaft as it slowly disappeared inside of her core. Every inch enveloped more of me in wet, tight heat. I cried out with relief as I buried myself inside of her.
“Fuck, that’s so tight, Meiko,” I growled. Her thighs shook as I filled her pussy, legs trembling as I bottomed out inside of her. The swollen crown of my cock slammed into her back walls, ringing her g-spot like a fucking bell. When I was finally balls-deep inside of her, Meiko’s mouth opened wide in a soundless scream of pleasure.
Meiko’s ass slapped the wall harder and harder as I fucked her deep. I kept on watching myself pump in and out of her like a piston, my cock covered in more and more of her juices as I stoked her inner fire. Her walls clenched around me every time I bottomed out inside of her, adding a toe-curling level of pleasure to my thrusts.
“Oh fuck you feel so fucking good,” Meiko whimpered, her shoulders shaking in sobs of pleasure. “Can I touch myself, Noah?”
“Huh? Yeah!” Both hands slid down to her hips, holding her aloft as I pounded her. Her body shook with every impact, clinging to me tighter and tighter as I filled her. “Go for it!”
With a slowness that was almost shy, Meiko slid a hand between her legs and found her clit. Her fingers moved in hard, fast little circles around it as my cock pumped in and out of her, coated in juice. She moved faster and faster, her cheeks flushing as she approached the edge.
“Harder,” she whimpered, and I complied eagerly. It was nice to know I wasn’t going to break her. “Right there! Don’t stop, that’s perfect - oh fuck, keep hitting me right there...!”
The angle let me go even deeper inside of her, hitting her g-spot on every thrust like a hammer smashing an anvil. It was too much for Meiko; she couldn’t handle it. She started to unravel in my arms.
“Fuck fuck fuck I’m gonna cummm!” she screamed, her fingers a blur around her clit. “Fuck I’m coming, Noah, I’m fucking cumming!”
At the last moment she squeezed her thighs together, making everything between her legs even tighter as I drove deep inside of her. She arched backwards so far that she was looking up at the ceiling as she came, her shoulders shaking in huge, shuddering sobs of bliss. Her fingers slowed at her clit, milking it of every sweet drop of pleasure as a torrent of juice dribbled down her thighs.
Fuck, did she just SQUIRT? It certainly felt like it.
Her fingers left her clit and dove deep into her mouth. She sucked them dry as her eyes unclouded, her gaze refocusing on me. Orgasm had left her cunt oven-warm and oh so tight, and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to hang on long.
“What are you doing?” Meiko’s voice was smoke and sex, pitched to a sultry growl. “I know you need to get off, Noah. Stop holding back. Cum inside of me!”
She was right. Every thrust into her tight, wet pussy felt more heavenly than the one before. The pleasure built and built, until I lost my rhythm and just started pounding her as fast as I could, slamming between her legs like a fucking animal.
She pressed her breasts against my chest, giving me as much skin-on-skin contact as she could as I reached the peak. Her hands grabbed my shoulders, tugging me even closer as we became one.
“Fill me,” she begged, her teeth nibbling my earlobe. “Fill my pussy up with your load, Noah...”
A moment later, the galaxy exploded. The universe went white as the pleasure became unbearable, so hot and sweet that I screamed. My cock swelled harder and bigger inside of Meiko’s cunt, then jerked as I started to erupt inside of her. I felt the detonations hit her inner walls like tiny bombs as they splashed against her core, pumping it full of my creamy spunk.
“Yes, oh yes,” Meiko murmured, holding me tight. “I can feel it, Noah. I can feel you filling me up. Mmmh, I feel so fucking full! Give it all to me, put it all inside me, baby...”
I did my best to give her exactly what she wanted. The pleasure ebbed out of me with agonizing slowness, coursing through me for so long that the room began to swim. When I was finally done, I rested my face against her shoulder and just held her, exploring her body with my hands. She did the same, giving my ass and hips gentle squeezes as the last few drops of seed drained from my balls.
Afterwards, we didn’t say much as we got dressed. Meiko swiftly found the clothes she’d discarded and put them back on, while I zipped my shipsuit back up with only a little difficulty.
Finally I decided to break the silence. “Not that I’m complaining one bit,” I said, testing the waters, “but did I do something to deserve that?”
Meiko looked closely at me, then laughed and shook her head. “No. Just being you, I guess.”
That was more than enough for me. “Four years, huh?”
A knowing glow came into her eyes. “Four years, seven months, twenty-three days,” she whispered with a grin. “And all it took was for that bitch to try and claim you in front of me...”
Her expression turned shocked, as if she’d realized she said too much. After a moment, I realized she had.
“You did that to get back at Shay,” I realized, my jaw dropping open. “You fucked me just to piss her off.”
A guilty little smile spread across Meiko’s face. “She did admit she’s tracking your every move,” she said, giving me a little sorry-not-sorry wink. “So she just saw every moment of that.”
I swallowed hard, my heart missing a beat. “Shit,” I said, shaking my head. “You think she’s going to be pissed off?”
“I hope so,” Meiko said with a giggle. “Don’t worry, she won’t be mad at you. If anything, she’s going to try twice as hard to lock you down now.”
That sounded...fun. Maybe. Although with an AI who owned her own torture chamber, you could never be quite sure.
“Shay called you an obake,” I said. Mentioning Shay had made me remember. “She seemed to imply it was a derogatory term.”
Meiko made a face. “To someone like her, it is,” she said, rolling her eyes. “It means-”
“I know what it means,” I said, scoffing. “I’m not a complete idiot. It’s a Japanese word - it means shapeshifter. It was a mythological creature capable of transforming from human to animal and back again.”
Meiko stared at me for several moments, her eyes wide. “I may have underestimated you,” she said in a tiny voice. “Maybe Shay chose you for more than just your big-”
“So which is it?” I asked, stopping her from going into any more detail about my genitals. “Are you like a fox, or a wolf, or...?”
Her lips curled in that secretive little smile I knew so well. I was really starting to dislike how many secrets she kept from me.
“It’s a long story,” she said, smoothing down the side of her robe. Looking at her, you’d almost never believe the two of us were just fucking like bunnies. “Parts of it I’d rather not think about. How about we make another deal?”
“I’m up for it,” I said. “Say we convince this other prisoner to join our crew, you give me the whole story?”
She looked surprised. “We’re a crew now?” she asked.
“Well, what else would we be?” I asked. “Trust me, I’m sure Shay�
�s about as happy about all of this as you are. You should all be pitying me - I’m the one who’s got to keep you from going for each others’ throats.”
Meiko gave a sweet smile and leaned over. Her lips grazed my cheek, planting a little kiss there.
“Oh Noah,” she whispered, an edge of steel in her voice. “I don’t need you to do that for me. If Shay pisses me off, I’ll slash her wrists open myself.”
Note to self, I thought. Even after making her cum, Meiko is dangerous as hell.
“Duly noted,” I said, nodding towards the stairway into Gamma. “Shall we?”
Ten: A Girl With No Name
“Wow,” I said, craning my neck to see the uppermost row of cells. “This place is a dump.”
After the ‘stadium the day after a sold-out heavy metal concert’ atmosphere of Beta Spire, I thought I had a good idea of what we’d be facing as we made our way through Gamma. I figured both spires looked the same from the outside, so they’d almost certainly be identical inside as well. Empty cells, trash on the ground, silence - creepy, but not dangerous.
Those assumptions died the second Meiko and I reached the first of Gamma’s twelve cell blocks.
“Meiko,” I said, taking in the cell block with a panicked look, “tell me you know what this is. This is just one of those future things I haven’t gotten used to yet, right?”
From floor to ceiling, nearly every surface was covered in a glossy, chitinous material. It was jet black, nearly as dark as Meiko’s robes. It protruded from the walls like it had grown there, as if some fungal infestation had decided to make the Gamma Spire its home. But this wasn’t a fungus - this was so much stranger that an ordinary mold would have felt downright comforting in comparison.
“No,” Meiko murmured, putting her hand an inch over an outcropping of the growths. This close, I could see that they overlapped each other like the scales on a fish - or the links in a suit of chainmail. She frowned as she extended her wrist. “It’s warm,” she pronounced, her eyebrows furrowing together.