Raptor One – Chapter 64
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Sighing and taking off my helmet i take my personal tricorder and update the mission log so i don’t get lost.
Taking the opportunity while clicking out with my right hand as it rests on my helmet i decide to know about the next destination while using my free hand to caress Lemi.
As i was absorbed on my knowledge sink i get surprised by Zu as she sits on me.
“Ey, lyubov’, you startled me here.” i say a little flustered by the surprise of a jumping Zu.
“Lyubov’?” Zu ask me with a cute pronounce as she tilts her head.
“Oh? Sorry, lyubov’ means love, want a hug or something?” i explain and ask her as while hugging her, moving my white pupils back to my tricorder.
Zu stay silent but i can feel her temperature rise a little, she’s embarrassed.
“Hum.. I'd like one... What are you reading?” Zu reply and ask back as she looks up at me, her muzzle almost touching my own.
“Da.” Is the only word i say before lowering my head and giving Zu a kiss.
I can feel the coldness of her body lowering as she becomes even more shy and flustered.
Our kiss don’t last long as i back down first to look at her dazed look, my grin can’t be hidden as i smirk at her shyness, making her lower her head and exposing all of her four ears to me, of which i start to playfully and gently nibble her ears while i press her soft white body on me, i can see from my angle her eyes start to get wet while her body shivers on me, her cute squeaks increasing her beauty as she try to look at me with her wet droopy cyan eyes of her, but every time she try i change the targeted ear.
All this play biting however had to come to a end as even me can’t keep all this rising heat in our bodies, so i release her ear and bring her head up to me with my right hand, the tricorder hitting the ground as i make her look up at me while sitting on my lap.
Before she can utter a word however, i dive in for another round of kissing, our tongues rolling on each other mouths as we savor each other taste.
I could feel her body temperature dangerously hot, meaning that Zu is close to her egg laying cycle.
I deepen tour kiss while contorting Zu position into a ninety degree angle before retreating back into my chair while taking her tongue with me in a playful bite before ceasing and hugging her tightly again.
Zu looks up at my face, wondering why i did not follow the flow with further actions, instead i manage to make the shift of situation into a romantic one very naturally to my own surprise.
I decide to be a little daring today even thought my body and mind was a little distraught because of all the occurrence earlier with Sigma and the station.
“Lyubov’, i know we are a pack, but i can’t support this anymore...” I utter with a voice of pain.
Zu look up at my face with full attention.
“I love you Zu...” I whisper the words close to her ears. “I can’t keep this relationship only as pack member anymore...” i continue with a lower whisper, her attention so high on me that she trembles, i don’t know if it was my words, play bites or just the heat of the moment.
Zu take some small space to look again at my face, her eyes resolute yet wet with tears, i don’t receive a response, nor a reply, but she do only one action....
She close her eyes and give me a lovingly and chaste kiss, her hot tear hitting my right hand and sliding on my feathers as i cup the side of her face with care and love.
After our moment is done we hear four coughs, startling us to look at the entrance of the Bridge.
There was both of the twin pairs, both of the Li sisters showed a tinge of sadness before smirking back, Li’luk jumping our way, almost throwing comfette, the other three walk our way with smiles, congratulating us.
Zu at first got really shy, but she did not stay like that for even a small cycle before hugging me and truly engaging into the conversation.
“Haha! I did not think this would be this soon! I thought i had at least another full month cycle to get his attention.” Li’luk dropped a bomb with a happy laugh.
And to all our surprise Li’lak agreed!
I look at the this brown ball of shyness, and see her face go full red as she looks away.
I look at the boys and see their faces, they look like i stole their candy.
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Me and Zu look at each other and start laughing, the rest soon join and the conversation take a light tone.
“Here.” Su’zu say and give me my tricorder.
I nod back and take it before i holster it.
“So, what got your attention until now?” Li’lak ask me, her curiosity in full display.
“Besides each other.” Su’ra give some more detail to the question.
I blush along with Zu at the extra addition, but i manage to recover myself and respond.
“I was searching about Stratta VII c, or as it is called, ‘The hivemind’s ice sheet’, I was confused why it was named like that and searched further, the station and colony are either ex terrans or ex imperials, but what they had in mind was their transhuanist trait which led the colonists to forsake their flesh body...” i say and extend the last part as i remember the time i did it once.
Zu place a hand on my face and shake her head, the others also stay quiet for a small time so i can recover.
They did see this phase of me too.
I sigh before continuing.
“What got my attention however was not their way of life, but their way of fighting... They use some unknown techniques that remember me of ‘Panzer kurst’, also known as ‘Armor Arts’, and their way of doing it is so different from what i learned back at home...” my voice stall a little again as i hit another sore spot on myself.
Zu again placed a hand on my face and lifted it again, giving a worried smile.
I give a weak smile back.
Was i this weak before? Or is it my exhaustion talking?
At least i have my pack to pull me up.
My smile get bigger and more genuine as i stand, bringing Zu with me on my arms as she yelps cutely in alarm, everyone starts laughing as we head back into the rec room.
Sitting on the low table of the rec room with Zu on my lap i thank Su’zu who took my helmet with him for me, of which is now resting on our orange low table.
“Captain, what’s the issue that makes you so sad sometimes?” Su’ra ask me
“Heh, tovarishch, I'm planet born and adopted, the only knowledge of the people i knew is that they were evacuated from the planet before it became a volcanic hell, and here i am, on the neutral sector, i have three big empires to search where the people i care for was taken, was they enslaved and made work in the Terran empire? Was they saved by the nomadic Avali empire, or was it the shattered empire that did it? Until now i have no idea.” i say and give a sigh before relaxing again.
“Well, that’s true, if i had people to take care of i would be just like you.” Zu say with a nod.
The Li sisters nod too before one the more curious ones ask me a question.
“If you don’t mind, can i ask about how many of the people you cared for?” Li’lak ask me, her curiosity plain to see.
“Making a exception for my pack? About... Nine high priority and one critical, the rest was the city as normal priority, of which i failed because i got KIA on Sigma’s old city along with my Walker, of which got destroyed.” i reply to Li’lak.
I do manage to keep a straight face because i remember my time after all this.
The time i met Lemi.
And the time i met Sigma.
“Hey, heads up, we got food incoming!” i hear Li’luk and lift my head of which i unconsciously lowered down.
The call out surprisingly did not alert me into placing my hand on my pistol nor reading my needle gauntlet.
I sigh at this happy go lucky girl and her antics and smile back while grabbing Zu a little tighter.
We smile and chat as we eat, letting the time pass while i wait for Sigma.
The conversation is good, but don’t keep me entertained for long as soon i get restless.
Being a M.M.E do help in this situation as i find the motive rapidly after some small and unseen diagnosis on myself.
It’s my Super soldier side.
I’m having a small backlash because my body did not have that much combat time. Nothing some training can’t resolve.
I sigh and get up after placing Zu on the ground.
“Izvinyayus’ guys, I'm feeling a little too stiff, so I'm going to train over there.” i say as i point at the crew quarters.
My pack get a little confused at my somewhat sudden disengage of conversation, but do agree at the end.
Grabbing my helmet and giving Zu a kiss i head to the crew quarters where i take off my power armor, Lemi tries something but fails and hit the ground before rematerializing in her snake form.
I watch confused as Lemi slides over my body and back to my left arm again where she rest while sulking at her failure.
I do get why after some seconds of thinking.
She tried to become a nanite mist and fly over to me but failed, that was a good try because she already have the basic to progress on.
“Hey, girl, why not try again?” i ask Lemi, trying to give some boost of confidence.
I do get a reaction.
A angry hiss right beside my ear, if not for my mechanical internals i would be freaking out in pain.
“Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Easy girl! Are you trying to make me deaf of one ear!?” i do use the opportunity already knowing she won’t fall for it.
But she does, of which make me look at her with surprise, leaking out my intention, of which i just wasted.
“Easy....” i say a little worried that Lemi will try to bite my ear off this time, of which she really looks like she wants to, but decide to calm down in the end.
I really did think she would bite my ear off, i sigh.
“Why so much drama girl, it’s just a failed attempt, it happen a lot to me too, which one you wanna train? Sync rate or your new nanite mist form?” i ask her and her head rise up quickly from my shoulder at the word mist.
“Mist it is, I'll help by providing some psionic help, we are linked anyway.” i chuckle and raise my left arm.
Lemi looks at my raised arm with a very shaky mindset, of which make me sigh.
“Lemi, no success comes without failure, just do it until you know it won’t work, you can levitate in orb form, why can’t you in mist form?” i say and smile at Lemi, my mind showing her all my failure until here.
Lemi closes her eyes and don’t move for a small cycle, i keep my left arm lifted, waiting for her, and after the second small cycle she open her eyes and try, and fail before trying again, just to fail again, but i can visibly see her progress as she try a third time, this time becoming a full mist and levitating around me looking just like the ‘Shadowless’ as her black mist forms a special layer around my body.
I see fine and feel Lemi try to move further from my body, a half success as she manages to move a small distance before retreating back to me, her second try just make the new shadow like layer undulate before stabilizing, her third try was worse as she broke down and rematerialized close to me in her snake form, of which i manage to catch before she fell.
She did try again despite our exhaustion as she became a shadow layer around me again, but this time she succeeded as i see her move very fast and materialize on the pile of pillows, that’s on the other side of the ship.
I can’t help but grin, she did manage on her last attempt, that’s a crazy learning speed there.
I sigh in exhaustion before locking my power armor in place inside the crew quarters before walking for the pile of pillows.
Yes, i did not learn with my last mistake with the noisy power armor start up.
I just chuckle as i hit body first the pile of pillows, my vision locked on the roof as i feel Lemi exhaustedly slide into my left arm again, coiling there before resting on my shoulder like this was normal.
That’s why i feel pain when she’s not there, we don’t separate at all after she forsake her humanoid form.
I sigh one last time before sleeping, arms wide...