They wanted the city and palace now, for various reasons. It held advanced technological knowledge, and it was a convenient place to rule from, since it was already the center of the empire. But now they were committed, if they lost the low ground they’d most likely just take it out, rather than chance losing.

  He wasn’t sure, but it was just over five hours later that something happened in their favor. His overlay activated, and he saw Christi, Sally, and about forty other A.I. androids in the background.

  Sally winked, “We’ll be there in twenty seconds, it will take a little time to secure the palace, you might want to barricade the door, if you can get those women off your cock I mean.”

  Christi snickered, and then the visual of them dropped, and was replaced by the eddying currents of energy in subspace.

  He pushed the empress rather rudely off of his cock, and she gasped as she fell off the bed. He got up and pulled Xia and Xylla off as well, firmly but as gently as possible. Then he pulled the mattress off and destroyed the metal bedframe. He tried not to think about how easy and effortless it was now, to call on the greater strength available to him in this body.

  It even felt natural.

  He grabbed a few metal bars, and then used them as crude braces to lock the door. It might buy them a second or two. Then he picked a sturdy looking piece about three feet long, and wielded it like a bat and put his back to the wall right next to the door.

  He managed with some stern words, to get a few groups to move their orgy to the side of the room, so if they opened the door with a blaster of some kind they wouldn’t be hit by door shrapnel or energy.

  Xenia walked over to him with a strange look on her face, and then dropped to her knees and took him into her mouth.

  She moaned softly, as she suckled on his cock, and Xylla laid down on the floor and shimmied between her legs, and then started to lick the empresses hot wet sex as she sucked him off. The princess in turn started to service Xylla with her mouth, and he shook his head at the absurdity of the moment.

  He was guarding the door with a very primitive weapon and barricade, while he got a blow job from the empress of a galactic empire. Life truly was stranger than fiction.

  Then the overlay changed. Subspace disappeared, and impossibly, they seemed to be around the planet already. How was that possible? It should take three days in subspace, unless they’d already cracked the second level problem? He knew his new power core design was the biggest breakthrough toward that, they already knew how after all, they just needed components to handle the higher stresses of power.

  That they must have finished up in just a day was rather… impressive. It was the only way to explain how they’d gotten here in five hours.

  Christi’s face came on the overlay, but it was stern, a look he’d never seen her wear before.

  He knew if it had been directed his way, he’d have thought twice about trying to stand in her way. He knew his thoughts were a bit muddled with the empress giving him a world class blowjob, but he also thought Christi’s stern look turned him on more than a little bit.

  Christi said in a determined voice, “War vessels currently in orbit around Xaran, this is the Mars vessel Stedman. You will immediately desist all aggressive actions and recall your people from the surface. Any deviation from my orders or any aggressive actions you take will be met by the same.”

  Wait, what? Stedman? Christi and Sally had named their ship after him?

  He groaned and gasped when Xenia slipped a slick finger into his ass, and started to massage his prostate as she worked him expertly with her hot wet mouth and tongue. He moaned a curse, and hoped they wouldn’t choose that moment to rush into the room, as he exploded into orgasm and started to fill Xenia’s greedy mouth as she sucked, slurped, and milked him dry.

  Sally looked at him in amusement from the overlay. But also, with an edge of hunger on her face. For a brief shocking moment as he locked eyes with her as he continued to fill Xenia’s mouth, he wished it was her sweet lips wrapped around his cock instead of the empress’s, with her warm brown eyes looking up at him.

  One of the ships in orbit replied voice only, “You are too primitive to threaten us, leave, or it will go badly with you.”

  Christi shook her head, “This revolution is over, we can’t permit you to harm those below, or take over the empire. This is your last warning.”

  He knew what they didn’t. Level two subspace required much stronger shields, able to resist the more concentrated energy in that layer, and so that meant it could direct more of it as well. Which meant that the Stedman was the most powerful ship in the system as far as shields and weapons went. They were the newest world on the block, but quite possibly also the most advanced thanks to the A.I.s.

  His theory was proven correct a moment later when all three ships opened fire on the Stedman. He sighed, he still couldn’t believe they’d named a ship after him, and the Stedman’s shields easily redirected the flow of energy around it, and all three streams were combined into one and flashed back across space to the middle vessel.

  It exploded, or at least, most of it did. The energy ripped through their shields as if they weren’t there, and tore through the ship cutting it in half. The secondary explosions were horrific, and the ship was almost completely annihilated.

  There were tears in Christi’s eyes, but she still looked determined, and her face was stony.

  He heard a loud scream of rage, and then the door banged… but held.

  Christi heard it too, and her eyes narrowed. The ship flashed with subspace energy, and it all gathered at two points on the hull in the blink of an eye, and shot out like two spears and took out the other two ships.

  He guessed that Christi hadn’t been joking about the last warning part. The captains should have done what she’d said and called their troops off.

  Sally smiled and winked, “Just a few seconds Ted, I’m in their systems, thanks to Helen showing me how this will be easy. And here it comes,” she said in a tone of satisfaction.

  The air around them seemed to waver, and filled with a white mist. Xia, Xenia, and the rest of the hot female clones started to gasp for breath and the blood drained from their faces. A few moments later, the room was filled with thirty very angry Xarans, who removed his barricade and moved out to secure the palace. Two stayed, and with a quick check of his scanners, he knew based on the mass they were Xenia and Xia.

  Xenia formed into a statue, “It disturbs me that your A.I.s can so easily access our systems, but I can’t bring myself to regret it.”

  She was silent for a moment, “The one named Sally has already pulled out before asked, and I can tell she stayed out of all systems except for what was required to save us and slay our enemies. Please have them join us? We would like to thank them.”

  Christi smiled and said over the overlay call, “We’ll be right down Ted.”

  Her eyes seemed to scan him up and down, slowly, and then she smirked and said teasingly, “You might want to put some clothes on… or not.”

  Sally giggled as the overlay call was dropped.

  He cleared his throat and said, “They’ll be coming down by shuttle shortly.”

  Then he looked for his clothes…

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  It didn’t take them long to arrive. In fact, by the time he found his clothes, and showered off the sex, he only waited a minute or two once he joined the Empress in the throne room.

  Christi and Sally came in, and both of them hugged him tightly. They were clearly happy to see him, but there was a gravity on their faces he’d never seen before. He hoped they’d seek out Mia at some point. A.I.s were extremely peaceful, and they had just killed a lot of aliens. Bad aliens perhaps, aliens that would have ruled and not protected as the Xarans did, but he knew it would be hard for them to come to terms with what happened.

  He kissed each of their foreheads and sighed, “Thanks for the rescue ladies.”

  Sally smirked at him, “Anytime,” she said in a flirty manner, “Where’s my reward?”

  He kissed her cheek, and she raised an eyebrow. He was fairly sure she was just teasing, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t tempted as hell to kiss her breathless, both of them. Was he simply incapable of being just friends with a beautiful woman, or was it just because they obviously wanted more than that too? Their availability and offers were more and more accompanied by warm emotions and desire on their faces and in their eyes, rather than just gratefulness and mere curiosity.

  They all turned to the throne as Xenia rose out of the tub and into a humanoid statue form, and interrupted his rambling thoughts.

  Xenia said, “As you know we have no way to know your kind, since you are artificial. The human Ted clearly believes you are alive, and sentient, yet we have argued about it internally for a while now on how to address this... anomaly. It is the first time this has happened, most other races do not use artificial intelligence, even if they have the technology to get it done. Those few others that do, keep them non-sentient.

  “Yet you saved us this day, and used the most minimal force possible to do so. I am… impressed with you as a species, and though I can’t truly understand you, it would be uncharitable in the extreme not to acknowledge you. Your kind will be registered from this moment forward as a separate race, with equal rights to protection under empire law.

  “I would also note, that we have updated our security precautions, in the future any sign of invasion will immediately cause us to be poisoned to return to our true from. A precaution we had not seen a need for previously. This will be adopted on all of our ships as well. The three races involved will be chastised, but that is for us to do. Please send a representative to the next Senate meeting, it is no longer appropriate for Ted to represent both his and your people. Today’s meeting has obviously been cancelled.”

  Christi nodded slowly, “We will have to elect a representative empress, but we’ll be ready before the nine days are up. May we send a spare android chassis, much like this one serves for Ted?”

  Xenia nodded, “Yes, or simply transmit the specifications you desire, and we can replicate one in moments for your use.”

  Sally said, “Thank you Empress Xenia.”

  Xenia replied, “It is we that thank you. Now I need to talk with my advisors, chastisement is in order for three of our races.”

  Clearly dismissed, the three of them left and he walked toward his room. He was surprised, but shouldn’t have been, to see that the bed was once again in perfect condition, as well as the door and wall.

  He asked, “How long until we can do that, replicate things from pure energy I mean?”

  Sally shrugged, “Not sure, we have the data we need, but it will take time to get there. Maybe a year? Why?”

  He frowned in thought, “Well, I just wondered how quickly we could terraform with that technology, not to mention build two hundred million androids, and another ten cities… without domes. It seems like we could do that a lot faster, mere years, or maybe even quicker, instead of decades for all that.”

  Christi bit her lip, “That’s… a really good idea. I’ll pass it on when we bring up the vote. Right now the constraint is a specific element which helps stabilize the forming matter. It’s extremely rare, and the refinement process is exacting. Ironically, once we have enough for the first machine, we can just make more of it. The atmosphere would take years, but ten copies of the current city would take… less than a week.”

  Sally suggested, “Maybe we should get more ships to search the asteroids?”

  Christi nodded, “We’ll do that too. Or put it to a vote.”

  They both hugged him, and when they backed away there was reluctance in their eyes, and a yearning. It would have been pure folly him to act on their feelings alone, not to mention a dick move to take advantage. But the truth was, he cared for them as well. What the hell was wrong with him, having eight life mates was crazy, ten would be fucking insane.

  He guessed he must be nuttier than a fruitcake, because he pulled them back toward him, and claimed Sally’s lips with his own. That simple act caused an explosion of feelings, desires, and pure lust to descend upon the three of them like a storm. He was lost in their scents and the feeling of their supple bodies against his as he turned his head and claimed a kiss from Christi as well.

  He supposed he’d be getting back a little later than he’d expected, as the two women stripped him, themselves, and proceeded to ravish him on the bed. Something he didn’t mind at all. They both were athletic, supple, and had perfect C cup breasts, warm brown eyes, pouty lips, and soft silken light blonde hair. He got lost in their touch, and the pleasure they brought him as he did the same for them in return.

  Due to their building friendship over the last couple of months, it was also far more intense of a first time emotionally than with any of the others, who he’d jumped into bed with before developing truly deep emotions for them. He was half in love with them already. He stopped thinking, and just enjoyed learning what pleasured these two new ladies the most, and explored their bodies and reactions as they explored his, and each other’s.

  After they both ravaged him, he actually made love to both of them, one at a time while the other watched and caressed them both. He didn’t know if he actually loved them of course, but he cared about them deeply as friends, and all the budding feelings were there.

  It was a couple of hours later, they were both cuddled into either side of him, and they were all sated. His actions started to catch up with him at that point. He wasn’t that worried about his life mates being jealous at two new additions, except maybe Jennifer who was on the edge there already. Still, he couldn’t really bring himself to regret it.

  When he’d turned them down in the beginning, he’d been turning down empty sex. What had passed between them this afternoon was anything but empty.

  Sally bit her lip, “You know, we’re out a lot, at the asteroid belt, or hauling stuff.”

  He shrugged, and kissed her, “We can always meet online, either together like this, or separately? I’m free a lot during the day, and especially very early mornings. I assume it won’t be forever, once Mars is up and running. Hell, even the replicator technology will put an end to that right? Technically you won’t need resources anymore after that.”

  Christi sighed, and rubbed her body against his to burrow against him deeper.

  “That sounds just about perfect to me. We’ll get with Mia and work things out? Assuming you want us to I mean?”

  He smiled, and kissed her with all his feelings behind it, he didn’t want Christi to doubt his feelings, Sally either.

  “I wouldn’t have slept with either of you, if I didn’t intend it to be meaningful.”

  Sally relaxed against his side, apparently she’d had the same worry.

  Christi bit her lip cutely, “You should probably get home, we’ll see you soon Ted.”

  He could see her heart in her eyes, and heard it in her tone of voice.

  He nodded reluctantly, “Soon I hope.”

  He kissed the both of them rather thoroughly and then logged out. He hoped things were going well with Jennifer on Mars, he hadn’t really given it much thought until now. First, he’d been worried about the revolution, and after that Sally and Christi had his complete focus. He was good at that, he always worried that one day he’d call out the wrong name in bed or something, but when he was with one or even more of his women, he was always with them in spirit, mind, heart, and body, and them alone. His mind never wandered to the others in his life.

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  The first thing he noticed was he wasn’t in the bed anymore, but over in the chair in the corner of the room. The second thing he noticed was the soft feminine sighs, gasps, and heavy breathing from the bed. He was a curious sort, so he opened his eyes just enough to peek.

  Well, that answered his question about how Jennifer was doing.

  Jennifer was sitting on Mia’s face. His sweet Helen was between Mia’s legs and eating her out. Silvia was standing, with her legs open, arms braced against the wall as Jennifer’s face was between her legs. Trudy was to the side and spreading Helen’s cute little ass cheeks, and was digging her tongue in somewhere he couldn’t see. He thought by the angle it was her sex, but he wasn’t positive. Amber completed the sexy picture before him, as she was on her back with Trudy grinding down on her face, and one of Mia’s hands was clearly working Amber’s sex completing the circuit of pleasure, while Amber’s hand was clearly teasing Mia’s breasts while the other was helping her mouth pleasure Trudy.

  He just smiled, and watched as the six beautiful, sensuous, sexy women rose toward orgasm.

  Silvia must have sensed something, because she turned and they locked eyes. He smiled, whipped it out, and started to unashamedly stroke his steel hard cock while he watched his mates go at it. Silvia’s sudden twist alerted Jennifer, who backed off a moment and saw what he was doing and gasped in surprise, or maybe it was in pleasure since Mia seemed to be going to town on her sex with her tongue and her other hand.

  Silvia said, “Get over here and pick a hole.”

  Jennifer gasped, but he just smiled and stood up. He didn’t count on this as a test to see if Jennifer could handle things, it was a hell of a push. Still, she seemed to be enjoying the benefits of his five other mates right now, so he kind of had some hope that way. He got up on the bed and stood behind Silvia, straddling Mia with his feet and being careful not to step on Amber who laid right next to Mia. He slid his cock between Silvia’s parted legs who arched her back and sighed in pleasure.

  Jennifer looked shocked for a moment, but he started to slide his cock along Silvia’s very wet labia, and eventually Jennifer moved her head forward while grinding down on Mia’s face, and opened her lips. He groaned, as he started to fuck along Silvia’s labia and right into Jennifer’s ready moist and warm mouth.