Fate of Terra

Chapter 9.2 - Adaptation

'Aww,' Kat whispered in his head, 'She's blushing.'

He kept his eyes on his food but had Pandora open a window in his vision and saw that her cheeks had indeed lightened a shade. At first, he thought she was embarrassed because of all the attention she was receiving, being fed as she was, but every once and awhile she would glance in his direction. That gave him a warm feeling inside. He by no means considered himself an 'Adonis' so it was nice to be appreciated, though he questioned what that meant in her culture. 'With my luck,' He told himself, 'They eat their mates.'

Studying her face in the window Pandora had opened, he was amazed at how human she looked. Granted she had fur and was a different colour; her ears were pointed, making him wonder if she'd mind if he took a nibble; her eyes were gleaming sapphires, slightly slanted, giving her an exotic look. Michael had seen her claws shoot out when she first saw the plate of meat, before Aki had giggled and shown her a fork. Her canines put humans to shame, ending in long gleaming white points. 

'And that tail...' He groaned. It crept up behind her back and seemed to do whatever it wanted, playing with Rin's hair as she leaned forward, a sweet sticky fruit extended in her hand. 'That'll be fun finding out how dexterous it can be.'

Kat dropped her hand under the tablecloth at his internal groan and felt his hardening cock. She grinned, squeezing it, and shot him a sly look. 'That slinky white chemise Aki picked out for her doesn't hide much, does it?' She intoned approvingly and felt another pulse. 

'You're just asking for a session tonight, aren't you?' He ground out. Her eyes flashed and she gave another squeeze before taking her hand away. That didn't stop her from making teasing, lecherous comments in his head all throughout dinner, even when their parents showed up. By the time they reached their suite, Kat had worked him up enough that she knew she was going to be punished. They retired to their play room next to the bath and the gym. 

Michael stripped her and tied her to a stool with a hole in the bottom, arms secured behind her back. A couple of vibrating clamps clipped her nipples and fastened to the ceiling, giving her an 'incentive' not to tip over. Finally, a fucking machine was placed under the stool and a dildo came up underneath the seat and into her pussy. She moaned when it started up and squealed in surprise when it started rotating. Her heavy breathing caused her to pull back on the fastened string, pulling on her clamped nipples. 

'I really have to get that stool secured,' Michael thought to himself. 'I can't use the flog without the whole thing tipping over.' Shrugging, he decided on a more delicate touch and got the electro wand. Turning it on he ran it over her perfect tush, causing her to jump and plunge herself deeper on the invading toy, drawing delicious gasps from his captive. 

Of course, that was when Rin and Aki chose to walk in with a wide-eyed Dejah in tow. 'Well, fuck,' Michael thought with an irritated frown, then shrugged it away figuring it was too late now. 'So much for easing her into things...' 

* * * * *

The next month moved fast. They'd completed the moon base and built an isolated structure twice the size of a football stadium where they unloaded all the B'Amuf crews. Then Pandora's construction bots had taken apart their ships piece by piece, bringing various parts into the main hangar to study.

Meanwhile a large group of construction bots had made it to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and began a relay race between the various controlling pilots against Pan, each pushing the rocks on a trajectory towards the space dock. When developing a tractor beam, Pandora had discovered something quite remarkable. Usually there is no sound in space, but when creating the field of energy to redirect the gravity of objects, it was found that molecules could vibrate inside that field.

Thus, when the asteroids reached the space dock, they could catch them in a field and release a sound at the harmonic frequency for the individual piece to shatter the rock, leaving the metal ore inside untouched and ready to be processed. Using this method, they were able to solve their materials limitation. More space docks were built and the active ones began churning out AI-controlled ships in a variety of designs.

While Isaac and Dejah chose to stay on the ship, the other two aliens agreed to go down to Earth with Councilmen Whitmore and Matsushita. Stacey had gone down with her father, but would be boarding the ship again when the Intrepid went down to do their recruitment runs. For the initial run, twenty cities from around the world had been chosen and their locations had been advertised for the last two weeks.

Roughly one month after the aliens had attacked, another B'Amuf ship entered the solar system. Pandora spotted the small vessel and the Intrepid went on high alert while over a dozen AI-controlled ships of varying classes arrayed themselves around the planet in a defensive perimeter.

Michael asked if Pandora could take control of what was obviously a scout ship. 

"I'll try, master," Pandora responded, "But it's doubtful the signal will reach the ship in time and that's assuming its systems are set up like the other B'Amuf ships. Additionally, the image we're seeing is a few hours old. That ship could already be gone."

Her words proved to be prophetic as the ship left soon after, no doubt taking scans of what it saw around Earth with it. Michael talked with the council and it was agreed that the scout must have been launched before the invasion force had even reached the solar system. Depending on how fast the scout was capable of traveling, the B'Amuf would soon know of what became of their invasion force. It 'should' then take them some time to put together another fleet, if they didn't already have one handy, and then another three months to travel to Earth.

Regardless, they were looking at fighting an even bigger invasion force in less than a year and had lost most of their element of surprise. Michael was thankful that his plans to build more ship factories around the Kuiper Belt and the defensive system he'd planned for Earth hadn't been revealed.

He knew that while they had Pandora as an ace in the hole, they would need to test their new ships objectively in the coming battle to see where they stood and to give the new crews some much needed experience. Many of those crews had yet to be recruited yet, but Michael planned to change that in the coming weeks. He and Kat sat on the bridge and looked towards the future knowing they would soon leave all they had known and travel among the stars.