The being itself was humanoid, which wasn’t a surprise, Bill had told me the stations and seats on their bridge had been sized for humanoids not all that different from us. That’s as far as the comparison went however. It had a space suit on with gloves, so outside the fact they had six fingers I couldn’t really tell about any differences to their bodies, but their faces were more than different enough to make up for that.

  I wasn’t proud of it, but its appearance made me throw up a little bit in the mouth, and I could taste bile in the back of my throat. They were uglier than their favorite color of orange. A muddy blue scaled face with a slightly elongated snout, and sharp teeth. The black eyes were huge, and recessed giving it a gaunt look, and they were likely compounded like an insect’s eyes. But my first thought on seeing it was reptilian, but I doubt their biology could be compared to any species on Earth.

  “I am Captain Blaine of the Lovian starship seeker. You have done quite well to have developed such technology in the last two hundred years. I admit to surprise that you were able to find us, and that you learned how to manipulate the energies of the universe.”

  I replied, “The adept, and a guardian of Earth. Your actions will doom hundreds of thousands on the planet to death. I request that you stop what you’re doing so we may discuss how to move forward in peace with each other.”

  He sighed, “We are sorry your world has become corrupted by one of our damaged vessels. We have just concluded a two-hundred-year war with the species that caused your world to become collateral damage. They are no longer a threat, and we must clean up after our mistakes. The deaths of those on your world which have been infected are unfortunate, but there will be billions left to resume the natural order of your species and its advancement toward the future. Those you speak of are already dead in our eyes.

  “I know this is not easy to hear, as you and those with you on the ship are also infected, but it is our highest law. The energy in your core is too dangerous to leave behind.”

  I frowned, “Too dangerous for whom.”

  He continued as if he hadn’t even heard me.

  “The energy retrieval will also include the core of your ship and the fourth planet from the sun. I will allow you to evacuate the ship so you may prepare for death and come to peace with this tragedy.”

  Well, fuck. This diplomatic effort was going to shit. The alien was dictating to me, as if laying out terms of surrender, and I was starting to believe there would be no compromise. I wasn’t about to let the fucker murder every super on the planet.

  But I wasn’t ready to start a war with their species on behalf of humankind. I had to try one more time.

  “That isn’t acceptable. We have a handle on things, and there must be some compromise we can come to that doesn’t end in the murder of hundreds of thousands of my people, including myself.”

  The alien shook his head, “Our laws are clear. Without the incident your species would not hold such power, nor would your world be in such shambles with infected running around with powers they should not have. This conversation is at an end, you have our apologies, but that doesn’t change my duty or the laws I hold dear. I am not a murderer, the people on the planet and on your ship are already dead in my eyes, such infections must be sought out and eradicated.”

  The hologram blinked out.

  Fuck me running.

  “Thea, how long?”

  Thea said, “Thirty seconds.”

  “Can we engage them safely?”

  Thea replied, “Yes, we’re far enough out of phase we won’t impact the planet. Even if they’re destroyed, the creation energy can be reclaimed, or even just left here to dissipate over two billion years. We’re too far out of phase for it to heat the planet, or for the meta-energy released to impact our phase and the people in it.”

  I shook my head, “We’ll collect it. We’ll need it, plus he’s not wrong about cleaning things up. We just disagree on the energy in the core being a part of that mess.”

  Thea raised her eyebrow, but it was too early in the game to be focusing on what came next, so I left the implied question unanswered. We might die here, which would make it all moot. Even matching their power might not be enough. Point being, I needed to focus on the here and now, not work through what happens if we survive.

  Fucking Lovians. He could take that apology and stick it up his ass. If he expected us to lay down and die, then he had another thing coming.

  Thea said, “Ten seconds, master.”

  “Fire everything we have at them, as soon as we’re at full power.”

  Thea nodded, “Yes, master.”

  I was tempted to kiss them both, but fuck that. It would’ve felt like saying goodbye.

  The ship’s power spiked, and our shields turned a blinding bright white that was easily a match for the enemy’s ship. Then eight meta-energy beams fired and converged in the center of their ship. The power readings I showed told me Thea had made the secondary reactor strong enough to outpower them by ten percent.

  Our beams were ten percent stronger than their shields.

  Except… their shields held.

  Thea said, “Energy buildup on the outside of the alien ship’s shields, I don’t recognize the energy type, but it isn’t reacting with their shields at all.”

  Which meant it wouldn’t react with ours either.

  Fuck me.

  “I love you, both.”

  The enemy ship fired, sort of. It was like a bubble, like the shield extended outward in all directions in a powerful wave of energy, and the world turned a blinding white.

  I expected to die, kept expecting to die. Then I was confused, as at least five seconds had passed, and all I could see was white.

  “What the fuck?”

  “Love you too, master,” Thea said breathlessly, “Defend yourself.”

  When the white light disappeared, I was standing on the ugliest bridge ever. These fucking Lovians and their fucking neon orange. For that alone they deserved to be extinct. Well, not really, but I was pissed off in that moment, and while I was confused, I knew what to do.

  The captain leapt out of his chair and froze in shock as he saw us. Several of the crewman reached for sidearms. I quickly conjured a device not sure at all my shields were proof against them, and I released my own wave of pure kinetic force even as I wrapped my left arm around Alina and pulled her into my side.

  The wave slammed into all of them, and it sent them flying against the wall so hard they all fell to the ground, still. I was fairly sure they were dead from impact trauma. I’d also destroyed the bridge, all of the consoles had been crushed and ripped from the floor.

  Oops.

  I ran a scan of their blasters, and it was that energy a hundred times more powerful than fusion, particle to particle. So, I’d have been fine. Just in case I dropped a shield over the doorway.

  I looked around, no sexy light brunette in sight.

  “Thea, where the hell are you, and what the hell did you do?”

  Thea giggled, “A little busy with their core, but he has his hands tied behind his back, master. Let me ask you a question, some energies trump meta-energy, or at least ignore it, but what energy trumps all energy of the universe.”

  Fuck me. Of course. I shook my head, and decided I became a potty head when under stress. I think I’d said fuck more times in my head the last half hour than I had in the last ten years.

  Alina asked, “What’s going on?”

  “Thea saved us, using creation energy, which of course completely ignored their meta-energy shields and other types of energy, as well as protected us from the unknown energy attack. It must’ve destroyed our ship though, so Thea decided to take this one instead.”

  Thea interjected, “Correct. I’m in the process of absorbing all of the ship’s A.I.s knowledge. I’m absorbing his energy at the exact rate I’m spending it. The extra is being routed into secondary containment and sent back into our core to match what was there earlier. As a mercy, I’m also restoring the energy to raw undefined form, in essence putting him out of his misery. Point is, when we meet another Lovian ship we will be equals, I’m learning all sorts of cool stuff right now.”

  Alina frowned as she turned to me, “But I thought she was forbidden from using creation energy.”

  I nodded, “Yes, but she has two core directives to her being. The first is to serve and protect me, the second is to protect her own life. In pursuit of those goals, she can ignore any other orders I’ve given her. I suspect she realized it was our only chance of survival. Since the alien A.I.s core directive is to never use creation energy under any circumstances, he can’t defend himself.”

  Thea replied, “Yes, that’s true. He has tried to self-destruct the ship several times, but I’ve prevented it. I’ve also spaced the rest of the crew, who’ve been atomized by the meta-energy shields. I’ll need about an hour to finish this process, and a few minutes after that I can repair the bridge. So, why don’t you tell me why we need the creation energy of two ships?”

  Alina narrowed her eyes, “How do you know they’re forbidden on that deep level, no exceptions.”

  I said, “I’ve suspected it for a while, but the proof is he’s not able to fight Thea on equal ground. Once I realized Bob was the core and the meta-energy source of creation energy, it was kind of obvious. Using creation energy Bob could’ve prevented parts of him being drawn off by the Earth’s gravity, using creation energy to maintain cohesion and creating a gravity field of his own, as Thea must’ve done.

  “Secondly, with creation energy he could’ve simply repaired the ship and left our world before doing any damage to it. That he did neither of those two things tells us he was forbidden from doing it. My guess is the Lovian’s worst nightmare would be a runaway insane A.I. phasing themselves back to creation energy’s phase. At that point, the A.I. would become the universe, and it’s likely all of creation would be destroyed or remade at its whim.”

  Alina asked, “But you’re not worried?”

  I shook my head, “There’s no situation where she’d be required to take that step to save her own life or mine. Which means my order not to mess with creation energy would take precedence and prevent it. Plus, our Thea isn’t crazy, and doesn’t want to become so by taking on that much power and potential.”

  Alina nodded, “That makes sense, so what’s bothering you?”

  I smiled, “That I didn’t even consider Thea’s solution, I thought we were all dead. Anyway, to answer your question, Thea. We need more ships. If the Lovians come again, they won’t be sending one ship. We’ll be a match for them next time, but they’ll still outnumber us. It would make little sense to extract more creation energy from its rightful phase when we already have enough for one more ship.

  “Even as creation energy you can only be in one place at a time, and we can’t depend on the aliens having enough honor not to threaten our world’s destruction to make you stand down. So that’s your next task, we need to build more ships.”

  Thea replied, “Yes, master. Do you really trust me with the universe?”

  I laughed, “Yes, I do. I also think we should avoid using creation energy directly if possible, but today it was definitely needed. Good work, baby.”

  Thea said, “The Lovians don’t know everything, but the information I’m getting will let us skip several centuries of discovery and experimentation. This ship will be ours, and the ships I build will have the same technology.”

  That’s what I’d been hoping. I’d be going back to school again, although not as single mindedly as I had before. Maybe five hours a day until I caught up to the knowledge of the Lovians, and the other three to four I could focus on more practical advancements for the Earth’s benefit.

  “Good, we have a lot of work to do before they get here, no time like the present.”

  Or, maybe not right that second. I was feeling rather worked up from the battle and adrenaline, and my Lina was looking rather sexy and felt amazing pulled into my side. She looked a little worked up herself, and when I pulled her into a kiss she froze for a moment, then melted into me with a wicked sigh into my mouth.

  Alina was just twenty, five foot eight, with curly and dark reddish-brown hair. She had gorgeous warm gray eyes I could get lost in, and had a classic beauty of face, save the hint of exotic from some Latina blood in her family a few generations back. If Faith’s severe beauty belonged on a catwalk, than my Alina belonged on the cover of a magazine.

  Her body was on the lithe side, soft and willowy, save her generous and supplely rounded C cups, and a rounded ass to die for. She let out a little gasp into my mouth as I grabbed that ass and squeezed firmly, and she mewled into my mouth and ground her body against mine and the growing bulge in my pants.

  It was a little wild and crazy, but while my Thea was finishing off the ship’s old A.I. I pushed Alina firmly backwards until her back hit the wall. My lips plundering hers with a powerful passion I didn’t even recognize in myself, as we both desperately clawed and pulled each other’s clothes off. Her proud breasts stood firmly for me, and her large nipples were mouthwatering as I moved back in and crushed our bodies together.

  She was a flier, so wrapped her legs around me and rose up to the perfect position, her pussy already wet and so very hot against the sensitive skin of my shaft. She swiveled her hips and ground against me, leaving a dirty wet trail of arousal behind from her generous and meaty folds on that perfectly petite mound of hers.

  She was breathy, and more than a bit wild, as she lined me up. As soon as I felt the head slide between those flowered and moist labia, I thrust up hard making her gasp, as I stretched her out around me, forced my hard cock up into her heavenly heated passage. Her sexy panting and needy gasps as her hands seemed to be everywhere on my neck, shoulders, and chest drove me crazy, as I started to pound my way into her snugly silken depths.

  “So good, Jon. Fuck me, just use me. Use my body for your pleasure, fuck that’s good. I love when you take me like this,” she moaned deeply in wanton approval as I finally slammed home and our bodies were flush. She nibbled my earlobe and suckled it, then said in a sultry tone, “So good in me, don’t stop, please. I need to get pounded like the slut I am, a slut for you, Thea, and Faith,” she gasped sharply as I started to ravish her from below, and she bounced wildly up and down the wall.

  She was still talking, words falling from her lips that only occasionally made sense, sometimes nasty and sometimes sweet, and it absolutely drove me into a frenzy of wild lust and need that had my mind spinning. I think I even growled like some possessive neanderthal, as I fucked her as hard, fast, and as wildly as I could. Her dancer’s body bouncing on my cock, as her back slid up and down the ugly as sin neon orange wall. Her firm tits bouncing against my chest and chin, her hard nipples leaving a burning trail of sensations behind.

  She said, “Yes, I’m so fucking sexy for you.”

  What, had I said that out loud? Whatever. I kept going like a man possessed. It was a cathartic and wild fuck, a life affirming coupling that was raw and wanton. I was usually far more concerned with my lover’s pleasure, but that day on the bridge I think I was trying to fuck her into submission until I blew my nut. All that mattered was claiming her, using her, exactly how she wanted it.

  She didn’t seem to mind, in fact she was loving it and getting off on it. If anything she was egging me on, telling me to use her, take my pleasure in her, and show her who owned her naughty pussy.

  “So good,” she said between gasping breaths, over and over again. Her pants gulping in oxygen as I ravished her heedlessly.

  I growled, “Mine,” as I felt my knees start to go numb.

  My goddess of storms took over as my thrusts got sloppy, and started to work for my pleasure, as she squeezed, rolled her hips to milk me, and looked at me with begging eyes to fill her with my cum.

  “Fuck, my sexy sprite.”

  She cried out at being called that and started to tremble as she followed me over, or at the fact I’d just unleashed a torrent of cum into her heaven. Either or both had set her off hard, and despite the roughness of it I got totally lost in her warm gray eyes, as I emptied myself into her quivering and wildly constricting pussy. She’d stopped breathing altogether as the pleasure rolled over the both of us, and we both gasped in a breath as we were released from that heavenly height.

  She smiled almost shyly.

  “That was amazing, Jon.”

  I smiled back, “So, I should be a selfish ass more often?”

  She blushed, then bit her lip and nodded, almost in embarrassment, “Yes. Though don’t you dare stop pampering me either.”

  I laughed, ‘Got it. I wouldn’t dream of it. I like hearing you scream as you tremble on my tongue far too much.”

  She winked, then raised an eyebrow, “Goddess of storms?”

  “Oh, I said that out loud, did I?”

  She giggled, “Yes.”

  We kissed then, lingeringly and sweetly, in opposition to our wild coupling of moments before. She melted against me, softening completely, except for her legs which held me even tighter around my middle. As if she was loath to let me out of her body.

  Thea interjected, “I’m almost done, why don’t you take her to bed. I’ll clean up the ship and make up a lesson plan for you to follow. So things build on each other and it will be more organic for your mind.”

  “That… sounds like a good idea. The planet?”

  Thea replied, “Earth is fine. The rest of the energy will be used in the secondary reactor, until half can be transferred to a new ship.”

  That was good enough for me, while still inside Alina, I teleported us straight to the bedroom.

  Chapter Seven

  Our hearts pounded as one as Alina collapsed and rested on my chest, both of our breaths labored as we recovered. My cock was spent inside her heaven for the second time and the after-bliss sensations of remaining inside of her were wonderful. After getting back to the room she’d rocked my world from above, cumming over and over again around my cock as she rode it hard and fast. I’d plowed up from below just as hard, and she’d been if anything even wilder and freer the second time around.