Arlene and JeffChapter 230
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The Retreat
Back home, Diana received a phone call from the dress shop owner saying the wedding dresses were on the way. A little over an hour and a half later, she hung the bridal gowns in her closet, each clad in its clear plastic storage bag with the name attached.
When she came back out of her dressing area, she stopped to look at her husband as he sat near their bed reading from an engineering journal. I almost lost him because of my stupidity, but thanks mainly to my daughter, he didn’t leave, and now we’re closer than we’ve ever been – at least he is to me, and I hope I am to him.
After plopping down in his lap, she leaned to kiss him with the journal jammed between them. With a chuckle, he dropped it on the carpet.
“I’ve talked to all the Alphas’ wives...”
“To the bosses, you mean,” he returned while gently squeezing a nipple through her thin top.
“Since when have I been the boss of this marriage?”
“Since I said ‘I do,’” he instantly returned.
“Well, you do get your dick sucked regularly.”
“There is that,” he agreed with a chuckle. “So, what did the women have to say about the wedding?”
“Day after tomorrow will work for everyone, unless Matt has to work, of course. But since he’s the SAC of the Denver office and the wedding is going to be on a Saturday, he’ll be off. If anything comes up, he has told his assistant to handle it.”
“Do you need to go back to 2214 to tell them?”
“No. We agreed on the time, and if there were conflicts, I was to get word to them. We’ll go early to get everything set up, of course, and if you don’t mind, you can come back to fetch everyone else in time for them to be there a couple of hours before the wedding at 2:00 P.M. 2214 time. I checked with Jasmine while we were there, and our times will almost coincide come Saturday.”
“So Morales is finally going to get some Ashley and Christine pussy again, huh?”
While they had been talking, he had continued teasing first one, then the other of Diana’s nipples. “Is that all you think about?” she pretended to grouse.
“Well...” he drew out the word as if he were deep in thought, “sometimes I think about having my dick sucked. Want to make that come true for me?”
“Ummm,” she said with a smile, “I could probably be talked into it.” She suddenly sat up straighter, “I’m not trying to change the subject, but while I think of it, several of my sister wives and I are finally going to begin learning about Ship’s weapon systems – at least the ones that she believes that we can operate. Didn’t you say that the scout team’s latest estimate for the aliens’ arrival in our system was roughly two months? And by the way, what happened to the four-month estimate?”
“I suppose that they must have finally gotten their warp drive operating properly – or at least much better than it was, according to the second message torp the scout team sent. The Alien ship is still extremely slow when compared to Ship or her scouts. Unfortunately, their increase in speed cuts a couple of months off the total number of weapon platforms that Ship will be able to manufacture before the aliens get here.”
“Baby,” the Clan Queen whispered, “I’m beginning to be worried. Even at the distance the scout has to remain in order to watch without being seen, that alien ship looks ... aggressive, and those videos that the first scout team took of those Paladins practicing, well, I hate to even think about my daughter and my sister-wife going up against them, not to mention the other crews. Baby, what will we do if they are...”
“They won’t be. Don’t even think about that. Our interceptor crews are good – excellent actually – and with the interceptors’ inertialess drives, they are going to be nearly impossible to hit.”
“Nearly? But those Paladins are much bigger and virtually bristling with guns. My daughter and Ann are going to be in front of those terrible weapons. Jeff, I don’t know...” she faltered. “Hon, didn’t Ship estimate the alien ship to be...”
“It could be bigger than Ship and one of the reasons that I worry there might be females or even young aboard that thing.”
“Why would any race bring kids in their warships?”
“Ship’s instructions were to design the most powerful warship imaginable, and we’re going to have families on board her. Families will eventually mean children too. Besides, we aren’t positive that the alien ship has females aboard, but Ship thinks that might well be the case.
“If those females are warriors, I will fire on them if need be, but I don’t want to even think about firing on a ship that has children, or females that are non-combatants. Another thing, once the alien ship gets closer, we can’t visit 2214, or if we do, we can only stay a few minutes. Dammit, if I knew the aliens’ intentions were hostile, I could challenge them far from Earth. If. If. If,” he finished exasperatedly. Pulling his Clan Queen to him, he hugged and eventually kissed her. After a glance at her watch, she decided they had time.
Diana had doubts that some of her sister-wives would do well as gunners on a starship, but she knew that the ones she chose for the first team to train would not hesitate. Nevertheless, she led a quiet group of women up the ramp to stop just inside the hatch. Tosha had asked and received permission to join them. Kayla wanted to be part of the group, but her orders were to be the last line of defense for her Prime. She would, therefore, be on the bridge with Jeff. Susan, Helen, Laura, Jennie, Melissa, Joyce, Caitlin and Tosha stood nervously waiting with the Clan Queen.
“Greetings, Ladies. Might I assume that you came to begin your training?” Ship asked.
Diana spoke up. “We have three hours or so, if now is a good time for you?”
“Excellent. The training area awaits,” Ship responded with apparent enthusiasm.
“Lead the way,” Diana prompted.
“No use wasting time,” Ship replied as she transported them to the training area.
Jeff’s wives had all been moved by Ship’s internal transporter before, and Tosha knew about it, so no one said anything, although Tosha looked a bit amazed. “Choose a couch and relax,” Ship told them.
Seconds later, they were immersed in the training scenario as they, in full uniform, walked up the steps of the space academy with new cadets coming to attention to salute the officers.
Unlike their first day in what seemed like years ago, they stepped into the building to be met by a young ensign who respectfully asked them to follow her. Tosha, familiar with military etiquette, followed with no problem.
In the classroom, they met Space Navy, Lieutenant Marvin Edwards who would be in charge of their overall training on Ship’s supplementary weapons. Thus, they spent the rest of the day learning about Ship’s primary and supplementary weaponry. They were told that they would each learn to operate all the different types of supplementary weapons, but Ship’s primary weapons would be controlled by Ship and her bridge personnel only.
Ship, of course, could fire all her weapons, but with the profusion of supplementary weapons, even her vast brain would be taxed to do so efficiently while in combat, especially if she were to engage multiple opponents with comparable weaponry. An advantage was a separate AI for each weapon that would allow one operator to simultaneously fire several weapons from various relatively near positions about the ship. If the operator wanted multiple weapons under his/her control to fire on a single target, the supplementary AI would adjust for angles and anticipated positions in a fast-moving target-rich environment relative to Ship.
Many of those fast-moving targets could very well be incoming missiles designed to break apart into smaller, more elusive, missiles in an effort to overload Ship’s point defenses while concentrating on a critical area. It would be the gunner’s job to prevent this from happening while Ship used her big guns to engage the alien ship(s).
The Lieutenant warned the women that they might never even pick up the alien ship on their boards. However, their job was still essential because once Ship’s shields were weakened or down in an area, the incoming missiles and energy weapons would concentrate on that point, which could lead to disaster.
“But I thought that Ship’s shields were impossible to breach,” Diana blurted before she could stop herself.
“As far as she understands, but I’m sure that you must have heard at least one of the variations of the adage that generally states that no military plan lasts past the first engagement with the enemy. Or no plan lasts past the first round fired. On and on. Enemies tend to carry out the unexpected, and you – meaning all of you – must expect the unexpected... and adapt. Thus the expression, improvise, adapt and overcome. Make it your personal motto,” he emphasized. “It may very well save your life.”
Hours later.
That’s all for today. You already have your assignments, but to reiterate, you will be responsible for everything we covered today, plus everything in your pads through section five. I strongly suggest that you spend some time studying before bedtime, for you will use that knowledge to survive tomorrow in your mock combat scenario. We will spend the morning with hands-on familiarization of your ballistic weapons – mainly the rail gun and the ball cloud weapon. The next stage will cover energy weapons, including lasers and particle beams. We’ll meet at 0700 hours in the simulator building. Come prepared to have your ass handed to you on a platter. And remember, pain is a great stimulator, and we use it.”
After bringing them to attention, “Dismissed.”
With that, he spun on his heel and exited the classroom.
“All right. Let’s eat and get to it. At least we’ve been assigned to the same dorm so we can study together,” the Clan Queen said.
The next morning.
“I, for one, am thankful that we don’t have to do a hundred push-ups and a like number of sit-ups before chow,” Arlene said while fighting back a yawn.
“I need about a gallon of stim,” Melissa grumbled as she fought back her own yawn.
“Crap, why do we have to know how many Joules of power that’s needed to push a one-kilogram mass at one quarter light speed? The gun either fires or it doesn’t,” Jennie groused as they made their way through the chow line.
“Well, Melissa said, “we know that the ball gun will only fire one pulse of balls every two minutes.”
“Yeah,” Jennie returned, “but it takes almost that long to reload and for the balls to reach a quarter light speed as they build up speed while circling inside the acceleration chamber of the gun. Also, that pulse contains a thousand, one half inch steel balls all fired within a quarter second, and they’re coated to make the cloud of them very difficult to detect. If nothing else, it will keep the aliens honest, forcing them to change course frequently or risk running into a storm of the balls. One screwup and their shields are going to use up a lot of energy, or maybe even have a whole area of the alien ship vaporized if their shields have been weakened enough. At least the way things are set up, a gunner can alternate between two of the ball guns, which means we can release a cloud of balls once each minute.
“Besides, that’s the only gun we’ll use that might actually engage the enemy’s destroyers or cruisers. All the rest of the supplementary weaponry will engage incoming missiles or fighters. Most of the time, we won’t even know what’s going on other than what our screens show is coming toward our part of the ship.”
After chow, and on time, they walked into what they thought was the training building they had used when they had all gone through the space academy, but things must have changed. A Sergeant ordered the trainees aboard a ground vehicle that sped through the giant building and on out onto the vast expanse of the spaceport itself.
Seconds later, they watched a combat shuttle come in for a hot landing both, figurative and literally. They could feel the blistering heat of the live nacelle on the stubby port wing as they double-timed aboard. The crew chief yelled for them to strap in as the large hatch closed. He barely slammed into his seat next to the door before the shuttle lifted and headed for space like the hounds of hell were on its tail. Everyone was pinned to their seats as the acceleration exceeded what the dampers could handle.
Seemingly only seconds later, the roar of engines on overload died to a whisper of sound now conducted through the metal of the combat shuttle as it entered near space. Clear of atmosphere, it continued to accelerate to reach their objective in high orbit.
Abruptly, the drive either cut off or the acceleration was reduced enough that the dampers were able to handle it. As Diana and her people were musing about what was going on, the Crew Chief grabbed a stanchion and pulled himself into an upright position.
“Listen up,” he bellowed.
Diana, her group, and perhaps thirty more troops instantly quieted.
“This is your first combat mission for many of you, but I see a few old heads aboard. To those, take a nap or something while I inform the rest about what’s going on.
“For you newbies, we plan to attack one of the spiders’ major nest facilities. Our scout division has informed us that not only is this a nest planet, but the system has a full shipyard, which includes not just a repair facility, but also a full ship building complex. In that installation is their newest monster battleship, which we have tagged as dreadnought size, and from observation, it is almost ready to launch on its maiden voyage. This is the largest ship the bugs – or us, for that matter – have ever created. It’s over 2000 meters long, and as we speak, it is receiving ship-load after ship-load of ordnance. From our information, much of its crew is already aboard. Once this thing launches ... well, it’s doubtful that our forces could ever be able to take it down.
“Now is the time to attack, but we don’t have a large enough force available at this point in time. If we wait, though, that monster will soon gather its support craft and launch. Of course, it’s heavily guarded. Our information tells us that upon launch, it will have a heavy cruiser squadron for support, which includes a full-sized carrier group. As of the last update, the carrier squadron hasn’t arrived, but hopefully, the monster won’t launch before we can engage and destroy it while still in dock.
“If we could manage to warp in without their pickets detecting us, we might have a chance of destroying the dreadnought before it can get clear of the skeleton structure that surrounds it. The Admiral plans a high relative speed, non-ecliptical entrance into the system.
“To some of you, your training has just begun, but ... we are the only ship in our group that isn’t fully manned. Our primary assignment is to protect the heavy cruiser, Atlas. Command has decided to put every ship that can mount a weapon on this mission to destroy the dreadnought, and if possible the spiders’ repair and shipbuilding facility.
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They were high up and soon over the ocean, having left the continent behind. They passed the terminator and continued into night, still headed west, the myriad lights of the cities twinkling as the Earth seemed to slowly spin below. But before the view could become boring – if it ever could -- the horizon seemed to shift downward on the big screen as the Ship gradually pointed her nose away from the planet, the full moon drifting down toward the center of the viewscreen. There was a...
Jeff met with Kei, Edi and Alesha on the updated design that they were working on for the new ski lodge, then stopped off in the living room to watch the late news before eventually winding up in his suite. After a shower where he "played" with Jennie and Melissa, he walked into a strangely quiet bedroom. Looking around, he began to wonder. "What?" he asked, then suddenly it hit him, "Where's Ann?" Arlene caught his eye. "We've looked for her, and she's not anywhere in the Retreat....
The Castle ...”Certainly,” Arlene responded, “but please don’t either of you touch it. The AI can become quite persnickety, and he has the means to back up his displeasure.” “You have a functioning artificial intelligence?” Karl asked. “Please don’t mention it around him. I think he is trying to find a way to become a citizen,” Arlene returned with a chuckle. “Uh, I won’t,” Karl responded, not quite sure if Arlene were kidding or not. Both Karl and Fischer thanked Arlene and hurried off...
Jeff had stopped by his office to pick up a few pieces of printer paper. Alone in the living room a couple of minutes later, he wadded up a sheet of the paper into a loose ball. If I screw up with this paper ball, air resistance, if nothing else, should keep its flight slow enough to prevent me from tearing up things. With Arlene's encouragement while on the Ship's range, he had gained a small measure of expertise as he mentally moved a steel ball around and caused it to spin, but he still...
The Mission ... Both were tempted to use their suits’ drive units, but they knew that would alert the Throme if anything would. Scrambling down, they were soon in the water. A hundred meters out, they saw a glint of movement coming toward them just under the surface. “Let’s go home,” Arlene said to her partner. As soon as the hatch closed and even before they were out of the airlock, the AI had them moving away from land. “Oh, I so want to get out of this suit,” Arlene grumped a few...
The Retreat Shortly after lunch, Arlene went out to the Ship expecting to sit in one of the command couches and be swept away by the simulator to another very realistic space battle, but she froze as soon as she passed through the hatch. Jeff had called Kayla and Art to his office, intending to ask them to begin training in the Ship's simulator. Before he could begin, the AI turned the TV on to show Arlene jogging back from the Ship. The AI didn't say anything, but apparently thought...
The Retreat After breakfast, Arlene, Ann and Selina gathered enough food to last them the rest of the day. “Should this not be the correct castle and we continue the search, we will need something to drink with our lunch,” Selina said as she opened a refrigerator. “There is water available at each station on the interceptor. As for soft drinks, please bring only what you are sure you will drink. Storage space is at a premium,” Arlene told the seven-year-old. “Bathroom?” Selina asked as...
Jeff had just dialed his next door neighbor who lived a mile down the road. "Steve Sperman here." "Hi Mr. Sperman. This is Jeff. How's it going?" "Hmmm. Didn't we have a discussion about that Mr. thing?" Jeff chuckled. "Yeah, I guess we did, Steve. How's Marcie doing?" There was a hesitation. "You know, that's a funny thing, like I mentioned before. Seems like after the night we spent at your place, ol' Uncle Arthur (arthritis) suddenly got much better. Odd that both of us...
The Prison Planet Ship had received permission from her Prime to go back to Earth long enough to pick up Arlene, Ann and the other aviators, then take the Wing to orbit for its launch. The trip to Earth and back would only take a few minutes. Giving the interceptors a ride to orbit and their launch would take only a few minutes more. The interceptors normally remained in their bays on Ship’s flight deck, so she would have to go back anyway. Also, she would have to return to Earth again when...
Deep Space "Question is, are they going to notice us?" Ann asked as she watched as one of the alien vessels came from behind a large chunk of moon and headed straight for them. Ann knew she could not warp out without her drive trying to take some of the debris field with them, which would probably result in the destruction of her warp drive, and/or her ship. In addition, she strongly suspected that the aliens would pick up her inertialess drive's signature, should she use that with them...
“Despite our AIs actually doing the flying, I want every pilot to have his or her hands on the controls at all times when we do this for real, and when we practice as well. Ann and I have put together a rough outline. Everything seems to work in the simulation, but we haven’t done it for real yet. There could very well be glaring errors that only show up when actually flying the patterns. Bottom line: be careful and think about what the next step is. Does the current process make sense with...
When they left the suite a few minutes later, they saw Melissa at the far end of the hall. She seemed to do a double-take, then turned and rushed around the corner, probably heading for the kitchen. A little later, when they walked through the door, she was already setting out two more plates. Jeff pulled Ann tighter against him, and they stopped just inside the kitchen. I know Ann is blushing. Damn, I thought I was too old to blush, but my face feels like it’s on fire. Everyone was seated...
EARLIER IN THE MORNING AT QUINTON TATE'S HOME After his morning shower, Quinton, dressed in his uniform and still buckling on his gun belt, walked into the kitchen. Before he could sit down, the phone rang. "Quinton," he said, putting the instrument to his ear as he finished securing the belt with the keepers. "Well, good morning. Are you planning to go somewhere on your little impromptu vacation?" his Captain asked, cheerily – a little too cheerily. "What vacation?" Quinton joked...
"We still have a problem," Diana said. "I doubt if Billy has ever used a litter box. So how are we going to train him to use it and not pee on the carpet? Since there aren't any pet stores in Winter Park, I guess we can order a kennel on the Internet and have it overnighted, but as late as it is, it will still be day after tomorrow before it gets here..." "Yeah, we were lucky the grocery store even had litter boxes. But we're ahead of you about the kennel," Jeff said. "Arlene had an...
The Retreat ... Charlotte and Ada sat for a moment as Diana's words sank in. Both mother and daughter were clearly skeptical as they furtively glanced at the other three women. Diana let out a chuckle. "You can say it; we won't get mad." Ada hesitated. "This is no joke? You're actually telling us that Susan is your mother and Arlene is your daughter?" "Got it in one," Diana said with a grin. "But..." Ada began. Then, after studying Susan's and Arlene's faces some more, she...
Jeff sat in his usual place at the head of the table. Frank Wainwright sat to Jeff's right as the family (minus four who were eating with Margaret and Tina in their suite) ate lunch. All the Alphas ate a lot, and Jeff usually ate more than most of them, but today, he was hungrier than usual. He had gone through his first plate and was already started on his second one. "Looks like you're a bit hungry today," Frank tactfully said. "I didn't see you after breakfast. What did you do to...
Joyce, Caitlin, Jennie, Melissa and Ann came in with the latter two pushing serving carts. Soon, the table was set and food arrayed in front of Arlene, Diana, Susan and Jeff. The wives' efficiency was not lost on Susan, but she refused to acknowledge it due to her sour mood. Each time she had talked to her daughter or granddaughter on the phone lately, her suspicions that something was going on had increased. Then the introductions in the living room were almost more than she could...
Everyone except Matt and Courtney was waiting in the living room. The new SAC and his wife had borrowed an Escalade and driven down to Winter Park. "HELICOPTER APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. SECURITY HAS CLEARED IT TO LAND ON OUR PAD." Margaret had called earlier to say that everything had gone without a hitch and they were on the way home, but Angel had been beaten and was in need of medical attention. "Let's go," Jeff said as he started out the door of the living room with Little One...
Aboard Ship, Arlene, Ann and Selina are teaching the Morales family how to field strip, clean and reassemble a pulse rifle. ...”Very good, Mr. Morales. That’s a whole lot better than I did the first time,” Arlene blatantly lied. “Okay, Jasmine, do you know what’s next?” “Well, I did until you scrambled the parts,” Jasmine said with a chuckle, “but I think it’s that thing over there — a modulator, I believe you called it.” And the process went on. The next time they field stripped the...
The Prison Planet As the group neared the second area that was obstructed by boulders, Jeff said with a sigh, “Sorry, Ladies, but I still have a headache from moving the last bunch. No way am I going to play bulldozer just now.” “It’s getting colder in here,” Tosha said as she zipped her jacket, took her gloves out of a pocket and pulled them on. “Is it just me, or is the path sloping downward more?” Kei asked as she and the others followed suit – other than Jeff, who only zipped his light...
Kayla very briefly told everyone what had happened. Just as she was finishing up, Sheriff Tate, who had been eating with the team, walked into the hallway to chat with the others. "I helped the guys move the bodies out. We found a roll of black plastic in the basement and covered the pile of them." "That piece of plastic over there on the floor," Jill said, motioning down the hallway near the theater door, "is that where one of them..." "Yeah," Kayla said. "General Whitworth has a...
As everyone walked down the hall toward the theater, Selina hung back. When Diana turned and caught her eye, Selina, with purpose, walked on past, turned the corner and went on to her suite. If I do not ask, then the answer cannot be no, she thought. Waiting four minutes by her internal clock, she walked back out of her suite, down the hall and peeked around the corner in the direction of the theater. There was no one in the hallway. Shortly, she slowly opened the theater door the tiniest...
With the Alphas at Security headquarters studying the pulse rifle and the women apparently all in the basement, Jeff wandered through the Retreat at a loss as to what he should be doing. Deciding he would work in his lab to pass the time, he returned to the basement. Poking his head in one of the rooms, he got a smile from Kayla who was leading an exercise class – push-ups for the moment. His position allowed him a view of erect nipples on several of his wives, and a couple of the other...
Characters that appear in this chapter. Matt – Alpha. New Denver SAC for the FBI. Courtney – Matt's wife who thinks the Matthews may be aliens. Jeff – The Prime. Diana – Jeff's wife and Clan Queen. Arlene – Queen, wife. Diana and Jeff's daughter. Helen – Genius wife and teacher. Susan – Wife and Diana's mother, who is also a Queen. Kayla – Jeff's wife who first worked for the FBI, but then went to work for the General, and now she is Jeff's last line of defense. Art – Alpha....
Arlene grabbed Jeff's hand. "Come on, Daddy. Let's go back to our suite. Mom and Selina will be back ... uh sometime." Jeff frowned as he turned back to the others, "Yeah, that's what I'm worried about – the sometime. It's not like Diana to run off like that." Laura put her arm around his waist to get him started toward their suite. "Well, you were the one who kept pushing Diana to go through the academy. I have been through only the first six months there, but all that discipline...
Bobby put her hands on her face and took a breath trying to stifle a giggle. "We're acting like whores," she said, while desperately trying not to reach for Art's cock. Sandra hissed in a breath. "Art, I don't know what's happened to us. Honest, we don't act like this. We've each had one guy — once, and that was just to get rid of our cherries. But it's like we've been given an aphrodisiac. I want you so bad that it's hard to breathe," she finished, not knowing that Art was...
The Colonel’s Office Aboard Ship ...”And Worthington. Hear this! If something happens to my wife, I’ll kill you without a second thought. Now get out of my face before I change my mind and do what I know should be done.” Without saluting, Worthington spun on his heel and stomped out. Jeff sat thinking. Should I tell his Commander why I’m sending him back? After a moment, he shrugged. On second thought, I asked for his best aviators to give them a chance in my unit. No one, other than us,...