“What?” I hadn’t expected her to say that.

  “I mean, we’re out here in the action, the thick of it.” She brought her hand back to my leg, then turned back to the screen, motioning. “You ever stop to think that maybe all of your excitement, your passion… a lot of it might be fueled by this?”

  “As in, do I wonder if a group of the most amazing, most beautiful ladies might not be enough?” I couldn’t help but scoff. “Navani, girl… you’re crazy.”

  She grinned, shrugged, and said, “Just remember that when we’re sitting around taking care of your children.”

  “If we have multiple children to take care of, I’m sure I’ll be too exhausted to think of anything else.”

  “Hmm, good point.” She frowned. “We’ll have to make sure you get laid quite often, keep that hype going so you can run around with the kids.”

  “No arguments here.”

  “I should think not.” She licked her lips playfully. “At least a good blowjob each and every morning, right?”

  “Who needs coffee?” I said, my mind suddenly taken over with the image of her going down on me.

  She laughed. “Who, indeed? Shouldn’t you be out there seducing the other women?”

  “I’ll never get used to the way you treat this situation,” I said, but nodded. “I’ll go see how they’re doing, but… honestly, even I need a break sometimes.”

  “Wuss,” she replied playfully, waving me off.

  “How about you try four guy—” I stopped myself right there, about-faced, and left. I knew it was sexist for me to be okay with the thought of all of them with me while not being able to even speak, let alone think about, the idea of any of them with another man. But it just wasn’t something I could bring myself to be okay with.

  Lucky me, they all seemed to think the same way. Some of them seemed into touching each other, and that didn’t bother me at all. It was a turn-on when I was involved.

  The thought got me wondering if the supers universe had anyone in the reverse situation. Was everyone open about sex like this, and were there superwomen who ran around with groups of men? I couldn’t think of any reason why not, as there hadn’t been any signs of overt sexism or differences in roles in their society. Not that I’d had a chance to see a whole lot of it.

  Making my way out to the break room, I nearly ran right into Sacrada. She grinned as I stood there, her breasts pressed up against me.

  “If you’re going to make a move on me, at least give me a warning first,” she said, then continued past me.

  I put an arm out, hand on her waist, and spun her around. “And if I did?”

  She shrugged. “As I said. When the time is right.”

  “And it isn’t now?”

  “It isn’t.” She started to turn again, but paused when I cleared my throat. “Yes?”

  “To be clear—”

  “Hmm, that word.”

  I chuckled, but finished. “To be clear, I mean… you did kiss me, right? We’re serious about making this work?”

  She furrowed her brow, leaned in and gave me a gentle kiss on the cheek, and then whispered seductively into my ear, “When the time is right,” before turning to walk off.

  It was still a good sign, but part of me couldn’t believe she was doing anything other than teasing me.

  “Fucking tease, huh?” Threed said, exiting a second later.

  “Huh?”

  “I saw that. Man, she’s luring you in. But when you finally land that, mmmm it’s going to be good.”

  I couldn’t help but smile at Threed’s crude ways. “Nothing you’d ever do, huh? Tease me.”

  “Hell no.” She leaned against the counter, one leg up so that I could see the sweet curve of her pussy through her outfit. “You want me, you got me.”

  “I always do,” I said, stepping up and caressing her mound, loving the feel of it. “But honestly… maybe some food would hit the spot right now?”

  She laughed, bringing her leg down. “We wore you out. I get it.” She turned, finding me an old military meal that looked like rice and chicken, but could’ve been anything out here. As I dug in, she sat across from me, watching each bite I took.

  “Really?” I asked, after my third swallow.

  “You’re fascinating,” she said. “I just want to absorb you.”

  I frowned. “Thanks?”

  “It’s a compliment—I mean, I want to remember your face, you know, at nights and whatnot. When I’m napping, when I’m in the shower touching myself. But really, I want to know you. Who are you?”

  “You ask me this now, after all we’ve been through?” I took another bite as she considered that.

  “The other ladies cared sooner, wanting to get to know you before they leaped into the sack with you. I get that, but… eh, I could tell with you. Plus, I don’t know, something about being one of the first supers to sleep with an Earther is hot on its own. But now, I mean with what we’re doing, and the fact that I’m kinda stuck with you out here—”

  “Stuck?”

  “You know what I mean,” she waved off the word like it didn’t mean anything. “My point is, do you have any siblings?”

  “The… call…”

  “Oh, right, your brother.” She shrugged and laughed. “But I mean, like real siblings? Is he your real brother or like my sisters? Half-sisters who I didn’t know growing up.”

  “Full brother,” I said between bites. “And I knew him at times, others… less so. Then I went off to join the Marines, and… a lot of ‘less so’ times.”

  “Ah. But he didn’t want to join?”

  “Him, in the Marines?” I scoffed. “Can you imagine?”

  “Actually, yes.” She raised an eyebrow. “From what I hear, he’s kind of a badass.”

  “Oh, shit. I completely spaced there… Now, yeah. Sure.”

  “But if he’d joined, maybe he would’ve become like that long ago,” she pointed out. “For all you know, he just needed some encouragement.”

  I nodded. “I wasn’t the best brother, not in our later years of living back home. All I could think about was my future career in the Corps., my fitness. Honestly, I feel like a dick about it now and can’t wait to get to spend some time with him at the Citadel.”

  “You know,” she said, thinking about what I’d said, “I think that’s great. It’ll be fun, like a little family reunion.”

  “Oh, I just thought of something else,” she said, leaning in. “Want to know what?”

  “Yeah, sure.” I took another bite.

  “Your cock in my mouth.” She winked as I nearly choked, not expecting her to say anything like that, and then she was under the table, pulling it out and laughing. I started to protest, but then it was there, in her mouth, and I sat there enjoying it.

  After a moment, I considered my food and took another bite only to feel a pinch on my dick.

  “Ow, did you just bite me?” I asked.

  “No eating while I’m giving you head. That’s rude.”

  “Sorry,” I said, and then leaned back in my chair, closed my eyes, and let her work her magic. It hadn’t been what I was expecting and I was damn spent in that regard, but head from a beautiful woman was never something I’d push away.

  To my surprise, I actually came again, and fast—leading me to wonder if I had unlimited supplies of this stuff and never needed a full recharge. It was like straight out of that song about super sperm.

  She loved it, and pulled me along by the hand to one of the sleeping areas, then had me lay with her, holding her as she started asking me all about past relationships and even the weirdest places I’d ever gotten head.

  I told her there weren’t any, but she kept insisting so I said while eating and flying through space was up there, but maybe second was back in school.

  “This one time, a girl took me to the corner market and got pudding snacks, and we went into the car and stripped and licked pudding off of each other. It was a total mess, leaving us all sticky, but it was fun.”

  “That’s not so crazy,” she said.

  “I know… but we didn’t want to put our clothes on when we were all sticky, so the crazy part was running naked from the car and sneaking up to my third-floor apartment window via the fire escape. An old lady who lived below stuck her head out and got the full show, and I never heard the end of that from her. Always winking and making lewd comments when nobody could hear.”

  “Huh.” She thought about it, then gave me a thumbs up. “I approve of this story.”

  “Thanks,” I replied with a chuckle. “Do I even want to know your weirdest?”

  “Hmm,” she thought about it, then said, “No.”

  “No, as in no I won’t want to hear about it?”

  “Right, but I’m going to tell you anyway.” She propped herself up on her elbow, smile spreading wide. I cringed, expecting to hear some horrible story, when she started laughing. “Are you nuts? Of course I’m not going to tell you stuff like that. Shit, now I’m stuck with some image of you and a random whore in my mind, all sticky from pudding. Fuck that bitch, you’re ours now.”

  “But you…”

  She laughed again. “I’m just messing with you. I like your story, but I’m not telling you mine. Not yet, anyway. Maybe when we’re more comfortable together.”

  I frowned, but she turned away and lay back down, ass pressed up against my crotch, and pulled my arm around her. As fun as this lady was, she was definitely weird. Still, it was a weird that I was growing fond of. My weird lady friend.

  Her heavy breathing came about two seconds before my eyelids closed and I drifted off to sleep again.

  50

  To my surprise, we weren’t awoken until we were just about to enter the planet’s orbit. Navani was calling for all hands when Sacrada came by and found us, motioning for us to follow and saying, “Get your panties on,” even though we were fully dressed.

  We ran to the bridge and strapped in as the ship started shaking, an excitement in Threed’s mismatched eyes that I’d never stop adoring. It was like that with all of them: Sakurai’s almost wicked smirks, Sacrada’s holier than thou but so sexy attitude, and the way Navani was like a proper lady most of the time.

  What they saw in me was still a bit of a conundrum, because I’d always put so much emphasis on my chiseled jaw and muscles, on my ability to be a badass. When surrounded by supers and women who could practically blow fireballs out of their tits—an exaggeration, but who knows, maybe there were some that could—all that macho shit kinda doesn’t do it.

  Then again, I was a son of one of the most powerful supers around, so maybe it still held some weight? Looking around at them though, as we shot down toward this unknown planet, I knew it wasn’t that.

  With these ladies, it was simply the connection. We all had it, I could tell. Like when you sit down at a restaurant and those fajitas come out and you can tell right away they’re going to be the best fajitas you’ve ever had—smell, sizzling sound, right amount of seasoning and no stupid sauce. It was like that for me with each of them, I thought with a chuckle. Some had more spice than others, but in this case it worked out to be the perfect dish.

  “Yea-aaah boy!” Threed shouted as the vibrations got really bad, and everyone started laughing as she faked orgasm sounds. At least, I think she was faking.

  Then we were there, arriving on planet and tearing through a night sky over a dark, bleak landscape of dead trees, scanning for life and debating where to land.

  “I’ve got something, but it’s weak,” Navani said, but as much as she scanned, it wouldn’t show up on the screen other than as a light indicator.

  “Going down?” Threed asked.

  “Cliché, from you,” Sacrada said, and then looked around as if she hadn’t meant to say it out loud.

  Threed just chuckled and said, “Ain’t nothing wrong with loving giving and receiving head. Am I a bit of a nympho? Fuck yes. When you could die at any moment, why wouldn’t you be?” After a moment of silence and a quick glance from Sacrada at me that conveyed nothing in her expression, Threed continued. “No, seriously, I want to know.”

  Sacrada chuckled, turning back to the screen, but Threed kept staring. Finally, Sacrada looked back at her and said, “Maybe I want to believe there’s more, so I hold out thinking that the universe wouldn’t take that from me. Okay?” She turned to me now. “As long as I don’t fuck you, it’s like the universe won’t let either of us die.”

  “I’d personally take the chance,” I said with a shrug, earning a laugh from Threed.

  “Fucking A,” Threed said, and then she watched in silence along with the rest of us as we came in for a landing.

  It was even darker here than above, especially as Navani turned off the external lighting to take it all in. The trees rose tall but not a one had leaves, and many were cracked or broken in half. The ground rose and fell in waves of blackness.

  “You’re showing life here?” I asked.

  She checked the scanner again, nodded, but didn’t seem too committed to the answer.

  “You should be able to find them with your sight, right?” Sacrada said, already standing and sending out her gold waves of light that shot out and should’ve been able to tell her if there was anything. Apparently, they weren’t successful, because she was frowning and trying over and over.

  “Results may vary, apparently,” Navani said, and turned to the door. “We don’t want to fly, to avoid those balls of light, and our first goal here is to find signs of life, which…” She checked the equipment again. “I’m seeing traces of, but it’s hard to read.”

  “So, what then?” I asked. “Take a stroll and see what’s out there?”

  “Checking it out with our own eyes might not be the worst idea,” Sacrada admitted, scanning with her gold light, apparently figuring signs of life were so scarce she didn’t have to worry about giving our position away. “I’m finding something, but yeah, it’s like a wall has been put up.”

  “Best way to go might be on foot, then,” Navani said. “Keep your wits about you, because they might be using some form of cloaking technology.”

  My mind instantly went into overdrive imaging us surrounded by crazy invisible aliens, my eyes searching for mud to hide from their heat sensors. My hype was still roaring and I was ready for a brawl, but as my heart started thumping faster, I found myself wishing I’d manned up and had more sex to get my hype going even more… if that was possible.

  We walked without a word, Navani and Sacrada scanning with their powers, me looking about with my suit’s screen that would analyze supers if any were about. I wasn’t seeing anything, and judging by their silence, neither were they.

  This place was seriously giving me the creeps. If not for the golden glow of Sacrada as she did her thing—what with the black clouds shooting by overhead and only sporadic spurts of light from the moons—it would’ve been nearly impossible to see anything.

  “I used to hide in my closet when I was scared,” Sakurai said as we spiraled outward, making sure we didn’t lose sight of the ship.

  “A normal thing for children,” I said.

  “Sure, but I’m talking a few months back. It was like the darkness was a blanket of comfort. Now… here? Not so much.”

  “Where do you hide now?” Navani asked.

  “Anywhere you all are,” Sakurai said, and laughed as if it were a joke, although it clearly wasn’t.

  I gave her my best attempt at a comforting smile, but she was staring at the ground ahead of us.

  “What’s that?” she asked, then froze.

  We all turned to the ground where she was looking and indeed saw movement. Something small, scurrying away.

  “Life,” Navani said, glancing around. “I don’t see any others.”

  Sacrada joined her sister and let out a blast of fiery light into the sky, illuminating a small, fluffy creature.

  “Can we keep it?” Sakurai asked, but then added, “Joking, joking.”

  Still, Threed had already started after it, moving toward the next hill out and mumbling about how cute it was. We followed, warning her not to try and touch it, but when we crested the hill we all froze, the little fur ball completely forgotten as it scurried away.

  Instead, we were focused on the death and destruction that lay in front of us. The wreckage of crashed ships, craters from explosions… bodies everywhere. And those little fluffy creatures were moving about, converging on the bodies. My bet? Feasting on them like rats.

  It went on as far as we could see, past that hill and further again, down into valleys and beyond. Whatever had happened here had been massive. My stomach was churning, my mouth dry, and I was all too happy to hear Navani say we were turning back, that there was no life here. We scanned the ships from where we were, noting some were completely alien to us while others had a familiarity, though my mind was spinning with questions. What had we missed, and so recently? Those things were definitely feeding, but I turned away and let my mind just accept it. That being the case, it all had to have happened not so long ago. It was cold here, so the bodies could’ve lasted a bit longer, but not that cold.

  “What this really means,” Navani said as we boarded the ship. “Is that they’re either all dead, or there’s a winning force out there, likely not far off, reveling in their blood lust and ready to take on more.”

  “We’re leaving, just like that?” I asked.

  “This was the only part of the planet showing any remote signs of life. If this is all that’s here, it’s safe to assume we won’t find anything else.” She glanced around, and then added, “But to be safe, we’ll do another sweep.”

  “The question is, which side won?” Sacrada replied, giving me a ‘holy shit’ look as she passed.

  Whatever flirtation and tension had been going on between us had just flown off with the endless corpses we’d seen. I imagined my mind wouldn’t be able to forget that image for a long time.

  Following after them, I reached the bridge and strapped in, none of us saying a word. Soon we were airborne again, sweeping over the sight, continuing to scan. We went on like this for some time, but when the system clearly showed no sign of life and we’d all accepted it, we gave up on this place and returned to space.