Joacim & L'ielit (3 of 10) - The Journey

Finally the selection was over and all four volunteers and their concubines went through the transporter nexus. The marines led them from the transportation chamber to the big briefing room.

"Volunteers, please collect your concubines around you and find yourself a place to sit down." Sergeant Ryan started the on-board routines. After a minute, everybody had found a comfortable place. "Volunteers, you are now on board the colonization ship 'Sergeant Pepper'. It is one of the older Aurora class ships, but still fully functional. Welcome aboard. We have space for 96 sponsors with their new families and we will fill up in the next two days. You were just the first ones. Our main order is to stack up the losses of Marines on two colonies. So, some of you will have more time than others to adjust to this new situation."

Joacim raised his hand "Sir, may I get two headsets with universal translator access? It would make things much easier here."

Sergeant Ryan ordered a marine to get the requested gadgets.

"I need you volunteers to collect all CAP ID's of your concubines. Ask them if anybody is in need of immediate medical treatment for diabetes, blood pressure and the like. If someone is addicted to cigarettes, cocaine or anything like that, we will fix that too. We will make a priority list out of your responses for the med bay. Also, I need the names and probable locations of children below the age of 14 that the volunteers are willing to accept in their new family."

There was a little argument among the group of Egon Ellert. "Sir, I have a little problem here" Egon pronounced.

"What's up?" the Sergeant asked. A marine approached just in case a stinger was needed.

"Nelly here has a two year old son and I'm willing to get him to the colony. Nelly had been very obedient until now, but she doesn't want to tell me his name. She refuses to sell her son into slavery."

"Ah, that's information from page 5 of the written information we spread in billions of copies. A lot of people stop reading at page 3. Listen Nelly and everybody else. Children are not concubines. Children are volunteers in training. No sponsor has the right to dump a child or harm it. The sponsor is responsible to raise the children he accepts here and all further children in his household in a proper way. I expect he will delegate this to his concubines though, and the AI will teach knowledge. At the age of 14, the child will be CAP tested. If he or she reaches a score of 6.5 or above, we have a new sponsor who can collect his own concubines. If a sponsor decides to give a mother to another sponsor, it is his decision to keep the children or let them go with the mother. If a sponsor gives a mother to the Civil Service, he has to keep the children and raise them as best as he can."

Several of the other concubines around relaxed a little. Obviously they hadn't read this part of the written information either.

Nelly calmed. "I apologize and obey. I didn't read that. His name is Olaf. My mom takes care of him when I'm at the university."

"You have a good mother here it seems. But keep an eye on her if her children don't reach a CAP of 6.5" the Sergeant said.

Joacim checked his family for the requested information.

Sabine raised her hand, "I have no health problems at all but my child's situation is urgent." Joacim was surprised when she told him her daughter Zoe was seven years old. He already knew Sabine was twenty. "Please bring her up quickly. She's most probably at home with her father – who's mine too."

Joacim interrupted the questioning to bring this piece of information to the Sergeants attention immediately.

Sergeant Ryan turned to another marine "Sergeant McGregor, would you please collect two of your men for an emergency dependant pick-up? The child may be in the hand of her incestuous paedophile father." Sergeant McGregor quickly left the room.

"Zoe will be picked in about half an hour. Sergeant McGregor has a talent for situations like this. He doesn't like paedophiles." Sergeant Ryan told Joacim.

Joacim returned to his group and continued the questioning.

Petra had no health problems except smoking. She had two children below fourteen, her daughter Irene, age thirteen, and her son Markus, a smart but somewhat rebellious boy, age twelve. Most probably they both should be at home, doing homework. Her third child, Maria, was fifteen and had already been selected as a concubine a few months ago.

Helga had no health problems at all. Her little five-year-old daughter Honi should be at day-care until late evening.

Anita admitted to taking ecstasy pills from time to time. "But I really use them only when going on wild parties! I'm not addicted to them."

Prudence had a minor blood pressure problem. "Nothing serious, really. I have low blood pressure. I sometimes pass out from boredom because of this," she chuckled. "But currently I'm so pumped up with adrenaline that I will be fine, really!"

"L'ielit" Joacim talked into the microphone of the headset. "Do you understand me?"

L'ielit looked up for the first time she had arrived at the ship. "Yes."

"Do you suffer from any diseases? Do you depend on medicine or anything like that?"

"No, I'm fine now. I'm really fine now."

The four sponsors walked over to the Sergeant with the required information.

"OK, ladies and gentlemen," Sergeant Ryan declared "We have to pick twelve children altogether. That will need a few hours. I'm handing each sponsor a nice little GPS gadget that can be voice controlled. You say 'to my assigned pod' or 'to the med bay' or 'to the briefing room' and the GPS will show you the way. Please take your new families and make yourself comfortable at your assigned pods. While you wait for your children we will call single persons or groups to the med bay. Just hand them the GPS. The first med bay visit will only last fifteen minutes. Please make your concubines wear shifts or walk nude outside the pod. You will find shifts in the pods. That makes it a lot easier to differentiate between sponsors and concubines. If you are curious about the possibilities of pod configuration, ask the AI from within your pod. It will answer any questions. Currently only the sponsors are allowed to change configurations but you can give individual levels of permissions to your concubines. Thank you, Ladies and gentlemen, that will be all for today. We meet here at the briefing room tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and start your education and the more time consuming med bay sessions for body adjustments."

Sergeant McGregor was on his own mission now. He didn't like pick-ups that much, but they gave him opportunities to punch a child molester's face from time to time. The Confederacy would normally not pass minor cases of child molesting to the local police, especially if they have little evidence and the child would be taken up to a colony anyway. But in McGregor's opinion that was not fair enough. He liked to let them know that he knew and see what happened. But of course, the child's safety came first.

"Private Zabata, watch the rear door. You have one minute to get there. Don't let anybody pass, especially no one with a child. Better zap an innocent than let the target slip away"

Private Zabata wasn't entirely sure if Sergeant McGregor's 'target' was the child or the father.

"Private Spinosa, we'll enter through the front door." A minute later he rang the doorbell of the small townhouse.

An old woman opened the door "We know of the extraction from McDonald's at noon. You must be the Marines?"

"Yes madam. We expected little Zoe be here with her father. Where is Zoe?"

"She's upstairs, first room to the left. Bob is in there too. He's terribly mad." The old lady signalled Sergeant McGregor to lower his head to her level. "Shoot him. My son has gone way too far," she whispered, hand-wringing. "Rescue Zoe."

Sergeant McGregor signalled Private Spinosa to follow him upstairs quietly and readied his stinger. The first door to the left was not closed entirely. The Marines heard the rhythmically squeaking of a mattress. With one big step Sergeant McGregor was over the man and pulled him off the bed. Underneath him the Sergeant spotted the naked seven-year-old child. There was a pool of blood on the sheets below her. "Grab her and head for the transporter. Call Zabata. Call the ships medics for an incoming emergency. I need 30 seconds here..." When Private Spinosa had left the room with Zoe in her arms he punched the struggling man through a two-layer brick wall.

Joacim had just reached his new home and told his women to explore a little. They just found the shifts when the voice of Sergeant Ryan came out of nowhere "Mr. Zelle, we have little Zoe here and she's currently in a med tube"

A scream came from Sabine "Is she OK?"

"She will be physically OK in about 30 minutes. But for her mental health, she probably will need the presence of her mother when she comes out of the tube."

"Sabine, wear one of those shifts" Joacim demanded "Let's have a look at how serious the damage is." Two minutes later they were on their way the med bay.

A female marine in a quite dusty uniform awaited the two "Hello, Joacim Zelle? Sabine Engel? I am Private Olivia Spinosa. I am a member of the team that picked up Zoe."

"Is she ok?" Sabine tried to peek into the tube but wasn't able to see any details.

"She will be, I was told," the Private answered. "Sergeant McGregor and I came too late to get her unharmed. We found her father on top of her unconscious body."

"I'll kill the bastard!" Sabine shrieked.

"You are a little too late. Sergeant McGregor has taken care of him." The Private smiled weakly. "The house is a little damaged and your former husband is dead. I hope you two can handle this situation now. I have to change my uniform and do some more under-age pick-ups, hopefully without trouble." The marine left the med bay.

"Why didn't you leave that house with Zoe long ago?" Joacim asked.

"And then what?" Sabine said. "I had nowhere else to go. Bob was gentle most of the time. He only started to become violent when something wasn't going the way he liked. He hadn't touched me before the age of twelve and I've spotted no signs of abuse on Zoe until now. I think this situation took him over the top. God, this is all my fault," she sobbed.

Joacim grabbed Sabine's arm and turned her towards him "Stop thinking like that. Do you even understand what you just said? He impregnated you at the age of 12! He raped your 7 year old daughter an hour ago! He is the rapist, not you. He is the child molester, not you. The only thing you should have done better would have been to grab your daughter and run away and report him to the police. You were a child. Nobody blames you for not having had the courage to leave the only place you knew. This whole mess is HIS fault, not yours. Understand?"

Sabine nodded. Joacim held her in his arms and comforted her.

20 minutes later a corpsman helped a very confused little Zoe out of the med tube "Where am I? Why am I nekkid? Mommy! You wear funny clothes. Ayye, no bear hugs please, Mommy! What's all this???" The corpsman got a shift for the child.

Sabine let go of her daughter. "What is the last thing you remember?"

"Pop was watching the news on TV and suddenly got very upset. He grabbed me and dragged me upstairs, calling you bad names. Then he hit me in the face with his fist. What happened?"

"Sweetie, do you remember when we talked about Confederation extractions? This kind young man selected me and now we are on a colonization spaceship. Daddy became very upset when he heard that there was an extraction at the place where I normally have lunch, and he did very bad things. But now, all is fine, all is fine." Sabine hugged her daughter again and cried silently.

"Mommy, please, why are you crying?" Zoe asked confused.

"I'm crying because I am so happy that you are here and you are OK and Daddy can't hurt you any more." Sabine swallowed her tears "Now where are my manners. Zoe, this kind man is Joacim. He is the boss of our new family and he has 5 more wives. Joacim, this is my daughter Zoe."

"Hi, Zoe, nice to meet you," Joacim put forth his hand.

"Hi Joacim," Zoe grabbed his hand carefully.

"You know, I don't bite," he grinned at Zoe. "Let's go back to our new home and look at what we have there. I know very little about your mother or your new aunts right now." With Zoe in the middle, they walked back to their pod.

While Joacim and Sabine were out of the pod, the other women continued to inspect their new home. First, they were a bit confused about the lack of enough bedrooms for all of them. All they could find was the living room with separate dining area and an open kitchen, the master bedroom, a bath room, an office and a storage room where they had found the shifts. They tried to ask the AI about additional bedrooms but the AI didn't react on them.

They started a search for hidden doors when suddenly Prudence shrieked. Helga saw Prudence quickly moving upwards, struggling for her balance. Prudence vanished in a hole in the ceiling that previously hadn't been there. They needed only a few minutes to figure out how the elevator worked. With that, they were able to explore the upper level and found four smaller bedrooms, another bathroom, a nursery and a family room. But more than half of the upper floor was just a large common room that was empty except for the elevator. They guessed this was open space for more bedrooms or whatever was needed.

The women made themselves comfortable in the living room again and started chatting.

"Looks like there is nothing more we can do," Helen said. "Everything in here is operated by the AI and the AI ignores us."

Anita giggled. "I just thought how it would be if we have to ask for Joacim's permission for everything and pay with sexual favours." They all burst out in laughing.

At that moment the door opened and Joacim returned with Sabine and Zoe. "Sounds like you started partying without us?" Joacim asked with a grin.

"Not really," Helga said. "The music is down and the DJ was out of the building." The women burst out in laughter again.

"Sorry about that, but important things first. Ladies, this is Zoe. Zoe, these are Petra, Helga, Anita and Prudence. Zoe is fine, everything is ok. Where is L'ielit?"

"The female called L'ielit is currently in the storage room near the main entrance." the AI declared.

Joacim went to the room while the women greeted Zoe. L'ielit was sitting on the floor, hugging her knees. "What's the matter L'ielit?"

L'ielit looked up at Joacim. "This headset is only translating your and the soldiers' speech. When your other wives started chatting in German, I felt a little lost. Except for that, I'm fine."

"AI" Joacim demanded "Make the headset of L'ielit translate speech in a normal hearing distance until she gets a universal translator chip and translate her speech for all others."

"Confirmed"

"AI, all my concubines and children have permission to ask you questions and operate the pod for daily business."

"Confirmed"

"Now come L'ielit and join us at the living room. I want you be an integrated part of my family." Joacim said softly.

When L'ielit rose from the ground, Joacim demanded "AI, I need shifts in the proper size for every concubine. The shift should be long enough to cover their ass and vulva."

"The requested items will be available in one minute."

Joacim and L'ielit returned to the main room. When Zoe spotted L'ielit, her eyes went wide. Her mother whispered to her "That's L'ielit. Some terrible things happened to her. Please be a nice girl and don't stare. OK?"

"OK, Mom," Zoe answered.

A ping came from the kitchen area. "The new shifts are now available" announced the AI.

After a lot of giggling, everyone had found the proper sized shift and changed clothes while Joacim was watching them. Then Joacim looked around "You have checked this cosy home. Tell me, what do we need in addition?"

"We have only four bedrooms and a nursery on the second floor. With six women and four children we need another six bedrooms and maybe another bath room" Helga said.

"AI, change the pods layout as Helga just has asked. I get a round bed for the master bedroom, three meters in diameter, and a whirlpool bathtub for my bathroom. I wanted one of these things for years."

"A whirlpool can not be used during space travelling because of the limited amount water on board of this ship. It will function when the pod has reached its final destination. I suggest a bigger shower with 120 massage shower heads for the travel," the AI intervened.

"That's ok with me. I want that thing for recreation." Joacim continued. "Color and surface selection is up to the girls. Execution as soon as possible. The girls have permission to change colors periodically. Let's say, once a week for the beginning. But at least four of them must have the same opinion. And before I forget it, can you use any smooth surface as 2D display or do we need something special like a flat screen for entertainment and video communication?"

"Master bedroom and bathroom will be ready in two hours as soon as I get the color scheme. The upper floor will be ready in four hours. Surfaces can be customized to change colors fast enough to be used as video display."

"Do that with all table surfaces and that long wall of the living room" Joacim pointed to the opposite wall of the room.

Instantly there was a loud discussion about the best colors for every detail.

"Ladies! Make it simple!" Joacim interrupted the chat. "We need the bedrooms for tonight. You can go into details next week."

"OK. How about a simple egg shell white for walls and ceilings, light brown for solid furniture, light green for upholstery, a cottage parquet pattern for the floor and light blue color for the beds?" Prudence suggested.

"Better than the current colors, definitely" Helga agreed.

"Details next week? Then it's okay with me," Anita nodded.

"I say OK too. AI, do it" Joacim said.

"Confirmed. Security force fields are established. Reconfiguration is in process."

While they waited for the arrival of the remaining three children they began to get to know each other better. They were only interrupted by the AI for the med bay visits. They made themselves comfortable in the armchairs and sofas and started to tell their stories.

Joacim started with his story "Well, what can I say about myself ... I'm a wunderkind, an engineering nerd. A doctor once diagnosed that I am a savant. That's the reason why I began studying at the university at the age of 13 and I think that's the reason for my high CAP. My parents are nice, understanding people who supported me in any way they were able to do. They taught me how to behave. I think that's their most important gift for my and your future lives. To be honest, I have no experience with girls and this will be my next adventure. I don't want to rush this, so whoever I ask to join me, don't think anything about favorites and subordinated. It's just that I don't want to handle all of you at once."

Everyone grinned and giggled.

Sabine took a deep breath and told her story "I think, I'm the real weirdo here. I'm the daughter of Magdalena and Bob Engel. I found out that Magdalena is also Bob's mother when I once ransacked through old family photo albums that were hidden in the attic. I was taught that incest is part of our family secret and that I have to keep it secret. Bob made this very clear. When he stared at me with his petrifying gaze, there was no way not to believe in this. I gave birth to Zoe when I was thirteen years old and Bob is the biological father. I knew for years that all this is wrong but I never had the guts to leave my family." She lowered her head in shame.

"So you are mother and sister of Zoe? That's weird for true." Petra mentioned. Anita laughed.

Zoe, who was cuddling at her mother's side, raised her head "I didn't know that!"

"We didn't talk about it often. I think we all played 'happy family'."

"This is not funny" Joacim interfered. "I don't like this kind of family weirdness. If someone in this pod starts to fuck her own biological progeny then she is out of this pod."

"I think it's time for some more normal family background" Helga said. "I was a businesswoman of my own. I was the boss of a little boutique for corsetry and lingerie. My little daughter Honi will hopefully arrive soon. My former boyfriend dumped me when I told him that I was pregnant with her. You see, a totally normal background."

Anita looked wery interested at her "Can you do something about these shifts?"

"I think we are currently not allowed to wear other clothes, but I can sew and I designed my own fashion line for my boutique. If it's OK with Joacim, I'll try my best."

"In general you have my permission to wear individual clothes," Joacim said. "But right now, you are only allowed to wear a shift or nothing when outside the pod. Sorry, not my decision."

"I'm just a European girl," Prudence started her story. "My father was a linguist from Poland. My mother was born in Germany. The parents of my father came from Hungary and Russia, but now they live in Latvia. The mother of my mother lives in Switzerland. My mother's father was an Italian migrant worker whom I never met. My uncles and aunts are spread all over Middle and Eastern Europe. We all liked to visit each other whenever possible and these were big culinary events. Everyone tried to top each other with local specialities. If you like, I can give you some samples. I spent a lot of time in kitchens chatting and helping when we were on vacation."

"Very impressive. I can't compete with that," Petra stated. "I'm just a mother of three kids. Two of them will hopefully arrive here soon. My husband - well, ex-husband - is a nice man and a hard working factory worker. My daughter Irene is thirteen. Her birthday is in two days. My son Markus is somewhat rebellious. He's twelve. My other daughter Maria is fifteen and was selected as concubine a few months ago. My and my husband's families lived in Berlin for generations."

"I am from Spain" Anita said. "But I have lived with my parents in Berlin for more than ten years. When we arrived in Germany, my parents opened a restaurant, but it wasn't a success. After two years we were broke. My father worked as a receptionist in various hotels and my mother worked as waitress. They both are very conservative Catholics and they were not happy with the way the world has gone lately. I was at McD with my mother today and a Marine had to zap her because she was so upset. I hope she's okay again. I'm not that old-fashioned. That caused a lot of trouble in our family. But I love them and I hope they can forgive me for being here now."

L'ielit hadn't moved while the others told their stories and hadn't shown much emotions. Joacim asked her to tell her story. It was a little strange to listen to her, because her translated voice came out of nowhere. "I was born in Ethiopia. At the age of six, Sudanese rebels kidnapped me. For the next eight years I had to steal and fight for my living, but at least the rebels didn't touch me. When I was fourteen, the rebel leader sold me to an Arab human trader. That man thought I wasn't worth much because of some scars. He started to treat me like shit and did some terrible things to me. He permanently held me in chains and liked to whip me, among other things. I was there for about one year when I learned about the Darjee, the Sa'arm and the Confederation. The Arabs talked about their exclusion from the rest of the world. I needed another year to find a way to break free from that place. I hid for months in the wilderness to regain strength before I started my journey to Europe. I walked all the way through Lybia and it was hard to make the money to pay the passage to Italy. Once in Italy, things started to get better. A doctor saved my life without taking money or telling the police about me. Even though I lost my breast there, I am very thankful for this man's help. The doctor introduced me to Guido, who brought me to Berlin. I would have run away again without Guido. Berlin is the first big city I have ever seen. It is so crowded and everybody was speaking languages that I did not understand. I was scared to death. Guido is running a special refuge for people who try to escape the planet. He organized translators to make sure that every one of his protegees knew exactly what being picked as a concubine means. He escorted us when we had to deal with officials. He tried to find the places with good chances for an extraction. He tracked people with a high CAP and made us follow them secretly to public places. He had found out about that lady named Astrid Bode who was at the McD today. He just had told me to follow her in public places when the extraction started. And now I am here."

All others had listened in silence. "That really tops my story" Sabine said.

"This is no contest of sad childhoods" Joacim declared. "It is good that we know each other a little better now. Maybe we can avoid hurting each others feelings with their stories in mind."

They were eating sandwiches when the remaining children arrived, accompanied by a big female Marine. They were greeted with hugs and kisses by their mothers and than they were introduced to all other residents of the pod.

"OK ladies, kids, this was a very thrilling day. Tomorrow they will educate us about our future life, where we will live and so on. So let's go to bed." Joacim told his new family. There was quite a bit of disappointment, especially from the older kids who had arrived just an hour ago. "Anita, Prudence, would you please join me in the master bedroom?"

While all others went upstairs to their own rooms, Anita and Prudence followed Joacim into his. Joacim jumped onto the extra-large round bed and lay there spread-eagled. "Wow, that's incredible. This is ten times better than a waterbed. It hugs the body perfectly and absorbs every shockwave. No danger of seasickness" he grinned. He jumped up again "Ladies, I'd like to relax in the massage shower and then you can teach me something about oral sex. I think I'm too tired to try the full package right now. Is that OK for you?"

Anita and Prudence looked at each other. "Sure," they said simultaneously.

All three quickly got rid of their clothes. When they entered the marked area, a weak force field appeared and the massage shower heads started doing their magic.

"Oh yes, that really hits the spot," Joacim closed his eyes and sighed while small jets of water massaged his body. "What did I want to do? I'm already in heaven right now," he said caressing Anita's ass and fumbling Prudence's breast. Anita and Prudence started caressing the body of the young man who was now their sponsor. Joacim wasn't impressive. He was taller than most sixteen-year-old boys but he wasn't sportive or anything and his cock wasn't an anaconda. After they licked and kissed Joacim all over for nearly 20 minutes, Joacim's knees went weak and they moved over to the bed without towelling.

Anita's and Prudence's lips and hands were all over Joacim's body. Joacim groaned and moved under the soft touches and his member was rock hard. Then Anita swallowed his whole cock with one smooth motion. Joacim had held back his libido all day and his first encounter with a pair of soft lips around his cocks base and a tongue swirling around it's head made him shoot immediately. But that was not all.

Somewhere deep within Joacim's brain, a part woke up that had been long asleep. Something his own mind had created in self-defence against the overwhelming impressions of his savant senses. A split personality of a stoic little boy that just started to sort things out and ignore what he didn't know. The little boy crawled through a whole thunderstorm of climaxing emotions and finally emerged through the clouds towards open sky.

Joacim blinked. "Uuuh, I was out cold? Hey, I didn't invite men to this party! Who are you?"

Prudence was holding his head in her lap and her face showed fear and relief, now that he acted normal again. Two men from the med bay had just entered the room to look at Joacim.

"Sorry Sir, we were alerted by the AI that you were showing extremely uncommon physical reactions. Do you feel OK?" One of the men asked while checking his pulse.

Joacim grinned. "Looks like these two ladies got me over the edge and my special talents went out of control. Please check my medical file. I'm a savant. Normally I have full control over it, but heavy stress or extreme excitement make my senses open wide and I go catatonic for a while. This is not a disease or physical weakness. It's my potential. Did I scare you, ladies?"

They nodded. "Thou hath thnocked outh one oth my teeth" Anita said, trying to stop her upper lip from bleeding.

Prudence told him, "You bucked with your hips like a mad mule and knocked her off the bed and then you went limp with wide open eyes and you didn't react to us or the questions of the AI."

"Sir, I think it would be a good idea to check you again in the med bay," the medic suggested. "We can have a look at your concubine too."

Joacim grabbed a gown and together with Anita he followed the two medics.

After Joacim had left the med tube for a diagnosis for the second time this day, the AI pronounced "Mr. Joacim Zelle is physically in perfect shape. The basic nanites are performing well. The level of brain activity has normalized. As we have little experience with people called savants, we will keep a closer eye on your health."

"There is really no need to worry. The first time I managed to fight the overload down was at the age of four. Since then this has happened several times and I never had a problem to gain control again. This side effect will keep me from becoming a pilot and I will never get a driving license, but this is important for my analytical capacity. I can live with it. And this certainly was the best experience I ever had. So don't touch it," Joacim exclaimed.

Joacim and Anita walked back to their pod. Anita was feeling up her lip. "The medics told me that my lip will be OK in a few hours and I get my tooth back during the body adjustments. You should have warned us that you kick like a mule," she grinned and Joacim could see the new gap between her front teeth.

"Sorry, I didn't really know. "Joacim hugged her shoulder while walking. "This was my first 'mind blowing orgasm'." They giggled. "By the way, do you feel comfortable walking totally nude in public? I'm curious."

"It is a thrilling experience, and it's a little embarrassing. But since a lot of concubines are naked here, it's not that embarrassing. I get used to it. I think I left my sense of shame down on Earth."

They entered the pod giggling. After they had calmed all of the others they finally went to sleep.