Chapter 9 - A Visit from Yvette

Yvette was wearing a light and flowing dress that looked more appropriate for wearing on a summer day rather than in some climate controlled ship, but I was not going to say anything. I was more interested in the motley assortment of humanity accompanying her.

Philippe was the first in the door after her. He was dressed, if you can call it that, in a loincloth and nothing more. He still seemed a bit unhappy, but it was clear that Yvette was continuing to support his inclusion in her harem.

The next two to enter were surprisingly similar in looks. Esther and Marie were both in their mid twenties and had short and curly hair. The only noticeable difference at first was that Esther's hair was a dirty blond, while Marie's was a dark brunette. They both had been given the short shifts I remembered from the first day, but did not seem to upset about the lack of clothing, even when Tina greeted them in her miniskirt.

The last adult was a young man, who I guessed was Nathan. He was big and relatively brawny, but his face and expression screamed that he was a bit of an uneducated bumpkin; an impression he only reinforced when he whistled at Bethany upon arriving. Yvette was not much more generous with his clothing as he had on a pair of cyclist shorts which looked almost molded to his skin.

As he walked in five children tumbled into the room, engaged in some version of tag. As soon as the door closed they looked around and separated. The youngest who looked to be about four immediately ran and hid behind Esther, while one of the boys took Marie's hand. The other three ran over to Philippe and started demanding his attention.

"I'm sorry about the kids. But I wanted everyone to have a chance to get out, and with things the way they are..." Yvette began.

I held a hand up. "Say no more. I talked with Sergeant Powell last night after our run in with Larry. I don't blame you for wanting to avoid the resident apemen."

Yvette laughed. "The term fits so well doesn't it?" She smiled at the blond woman with her and then nodded over to Philippe. "Permission to speak freely here is granted."

Tina burst out laughing as she heard that, which startled the children. However the girl near Philippe looked at her and smiled. "Why are you dressed? Are you like mommy?" she asked Tina.

Tina knelt down to look at the girl. "No, I'm actually like your father, but my master likes to see me in clothing. However, how about we get you and the others a game to play?"

The word game instantly galvanized the children and they all rushed around Tina, who looked somewhat overwhelmed by the response until Bethany rescued her and led the children into the game room. A moment later music could be heard and it was clear that Bethany was setting up the console for the kids.

Philippe paused for a moment, but then offered a bow to Yvette and followed the children into the game room. Yvette smiled as he went. "He's becoming so good with the children," she said lovingly.

"Well, what brings you here?" I asked. "Although a social call is nice, occasionally."

Yvette laughed and then sat in one of the chairs at the table we normally used for meals. "Part was just needing to get out of the pod for a short time. With five children needing to be entertained, it's hard to get a moment to relax. The rest was hoping that a moment with you might bring a change of pace. I do love my harem, but I'm afraid I did not select them for the mental challenges they give me."

I smiled as Meiko came up to hug me. "Well, it is nice to have you, but we haven't had time to prepare much for guests. Unless you want to try a few hands of bridge while the children enjoy the games."

Marie looked a little lost as she scanned the room. "I thought you had the rabbits?" she asked.

I nodded as I saw Nathan follow the path Philippe had taken into the other room. "It was my idea, but they are in a different pod for the trip. That pod will land next to this one once we reach Ishtar."

"Oh," Marie said in disappointment.

I shook my head. "I'll try to bring a couple over to Yvette's pod in a day or two, to pet. Right now Brenda is trying to breed as many of them as possible, so that we have a good base of babies to start with. Rabbits are apparently the only animal that humans have taken from Earth, and I haven't had time to really look into how this will work."

Yvette laughed. "We have a few too many adults for bridge, and I'm not sure anyone knows it. Anything else?"

I chuckled and led her into the game room where we found the children enjoying a tag-team wrestling contest on the console. The two boys who were clearly brothers were taking on their sister, along with the other boy, as the youngest girl tried to follow the figures around the screen. Philippe and Nathan were providing mostly bad advice and laughing.

Bethany smiled and asked what we should do. I remembered one of my more unusual games that had made it into the boxes, and immediately suggested it. Soon we had all ten adults sitting around a table, commanding hordes of killer rabbits as we fought to be the last to claim carrots, hoping we would get the winning one. The game had taken a bit of time to explain, but soon everyone was having fun.

The only bad sign was discovering just how illiterate Tina really was. She could recognize some words, but only a few, and finally everyone agreed to dissolve her spot and allow her to sit on my lap, and play my position, as I whispered the words from the cards into her ears. The knowing smiles I received from Bethany and Janice when Tina squirmed only seemed to add to everyone's amusement.

We did have a great time. Yvette proved to be surprisingly cutthroat throughout the game, regularly directing attacks on everyone, but saving her strongest attacks for Philippe and Nathan. But the game ended when Esther swooped in to grab the last and winning carrot.

The game had lasted several hours, and both Nathan and Philippe were more than a little buzzed from the alcohol I had allowed them to consume. My ladies all kept to juices, as did Esther and Marie. Yvette had a couple glasses of wine, but had switched to water later in the game and was still relatively sober. Of course the children had long since grown bored of their games, and had actually spent some time watching us play, with Marie and Esther happily hosting their children in their laps.

Because of how long the game had lasted, Yvette suggested that it was time to head out after we finished. Everyone agreed that it had been great fun, and I received a cheer from the children when I suggested that we might do it again in the future. I could see Philippe blush as he admitted that the idea of a game room had not occurred to him.

Yvette's family took their time getting ready to leave, and I noticed several quiet conversations between my ladies and her concubines as I put the game away. As I did Yvette walked over to me. "I know you don't want to stand out, but we are going to need a leader, and I think that right now you are the best choice," she told me.

"Why not you?" I asked.

Yvette actually sighed and looked down. "Because I don't have any ideas. I can't see the patterns you already have. I was an office manager. The person who accepted the orders from above and made sure they got carried out. I guess if I had the right personality, I'd be a decent sergeant, but I don't know how to lead. Look at my harem. Nathan and Marie would vanish instantly if they had the chance."

I looked over at her concubines, who were waiting by the door. Philippe had his usual look of sullen love and awe, and the clear love in Esther's eyes was unmistakable, while Nathan and Marie kept their eyes down on the floor. Finally I shrugged. "I don't really care to lead, but if that's what I have to do to protect my ladies I will. I've already started looking into setting up where the pods end up. The AI has agreed to drop our pods to the west of the colony center, and to have only one passage between our cluster of pods and the center itself."

Yvette laughed. "See, you just went out and did something. I bet you have an idea for the rabbit pod and yours as well."

"I do," I admitted. "Although I don't have much more."

Yvette just shook her head. "And you asked about the empty pods. Want to bet that no one else has?"

The AI immediately responded. "Volunteer Bernard Russell from the front of the ship has asked, but issued no orders about the empties. There have been no other queries."

Yvette just smiled as I shrugged. "Very well, call me the leader if you must. I'm just going to protect and love my family."

Meiko chose that moment to walk up and plant a kiss on my lips as Yvette laughed and walked to the door. "And you do it very well," she said as the door opened to let her family out. With a quick glance down the hall to verify that it was empty the gang proceeded to exit, thundering off towards Yvette's pod.

Silence descended on my pod for a moment as the door slid closed and Janice flopped into a chair. "That was fun," she said with a sigh. "We need to do that more often.

"It felt a bit like an invasion," Bethany replied. "But I agree, it was fun, especially the game. I'd never seen a game like that before."

I smiled, but then had a thought. "AI, say I wanted a pod converted into a kind of recreation hall. Say, six bowling lanes, three or four console game setups, enough tables and chairs for forty people and a small bar, can that be done?"

"A recreation hall?" Janice asked.

Bethany laughed. "It makes sense. All that we did here, we could do there, and as it's not in someone's pod, it becomes neutral territory."

"But bowling?" Tina said. I noticed she was looking down as if ashamed, but figured the question needed to be answered first.

"It's the only indoor sport that doesn't need a high ceiling or lots of space," I replied. "Volleyball or basketball would be better, but you'd need a pod set up with a high ceiling. I was guessing that there is a limit to the size a pod can expand."

At this point the AI finally responded. "Calculations are complete. A pod can be reformed to the size you indicate, but for safety the changes would need to occur once the pod is on Ishtar. Due to power requirements it would be about seven days to have it ready for use."

There was a general cheer, but I walked over and put my arm around Tina. "What's wrong my love?" I asked.

Tina turned into my chest and sobbed. "I'm so dumb. I couldn't even play the game with you."

I held Tina close and ran my fingers through her hair. "You did play with us. You sat on my lap and played very well," I whispered to her.

"But I couldn't read the cards," Tina moaned.

Bethany came and joined me in hugging Tina. "We promised you we'd fix that," she said. "And we will."

I relaxed my grip and Bethany gathered Tina in. She smiled at me and then glanced over at the replicators. I caught the gesture and called out. "AI, please allow Bethany to obtain any reading material she needs in order to improve Tina's skills."

Tina looked up and I gave her a gentle kiss as Janice walked over to join us. "You'll learn. I promise," I said as Janice also hugged her.

Bethany pulled Tina back towards the game room and smiled. "I'll get her started today. You should probably sneak a little studying in," she told me.

I watched Bethany, Tina and Janice walk into the other room. Meiko gave me a shy smile and then kissed me. "Go," she said. "Just leave me some paper and I'll see about drawing up some changes to our home."

I laughed as I obtained the requested paper and pencils from the AI, and then entered one of the empty chambers on the floor where I found the sleep-training cylinder the ship had created. After a short introductory lesson from the AI, I set it to give me a one-hour primer on Marine military equipment and started the process.

Sleep learning, I quickly discovered has advantages and disadvantages. Its nice because the system can pack a lot of information in the time available, and what I expected to be a simple introduction proved to be an in-depth study of the Marine Battle Armor and its abilities. Unfortunately, it also seemed to last forever, as you lose any sense of time, and I woke up feeling more tired than I had when I laid down in the device.

I did take a moment to find out what the recommended classes as well as the available classes were, and set up a program where I would spend three hours per day in training. Most was going to be weapons and simulation training, but I set up a generous selection of hand-to-hand martial arts. I also checked on training for concubines and obtained permission to have all my ladies undertake some martial arts training, in order to help better protect them from any of the monsters they might encounter.

The main room was quiet, so I checked in the game room to find Tina slowly trying to fight her way through some early reader texts with the support of Janice and Bethany. Meiko was not there, so I climbed the stairs quietly and found her lying in the open area at the top, looking at rooms and making notes on the pad I had the replicators create for her.

Meiko had her feet facing the stairs, and in her innocence her legs had spread, giving me a clear view up her short skirt to the thong panties that failed to cover her ass. I realized she had not heard me come up and decided to be devilish, slipping my shorts and briefs off and then quietly stalking up behind her to gently place my hands high on her thighs.

My fingers quickly found her pussy under the panties as Meiko stiffened for a moment. I feared she might scream or cry out, but just as quickly she relaxed and the reached down to pull her panties aside as she rose up on her knees. She used her hand to bat mine away and it took little time to realize she wanted more than a finger. I used my hands to pull her panties down and she quietly assisted me in removing them before rising back to her knees. As she did, I got in position behind her and slid my cock into her pussy.

What followed had to be the quietest sex I had ever had. At first I worried that Meiko was not enjoying the experience because unlike the other ladies she said nothing as I drove my cock deep inside her, the only indication that I was fucking her being her short, fast breaths that kept time with my thrusts. I suddenly realized that she was the only one of my ladies who never was very vocal during sex, and closed my eyes to concentrate on enjoying our joining.

Meiko might not have been vocal, but her body definitely started to respond, because I could sense as her pussy began to spasm and clench. I let go at that point, feeding my seed into her and then holding my cock deep inside her as she slumped down to the floor. She lay still for about three minutes, breathing quietly before pushing herself off of me and turning to kiss me.

"Thank you," she said quietly.

"I should thank you," I said with a blush.

Meiko shook her head. "I came first. Women aren't supposed to cum first."

I held her close. "My wives are supposed to cum first, last and always," I said as I held her. "Although I have to admit I'm surprised you didn't fight me."

Meiko actually laughed. "The door can only open if you let it, and the others would have called out. Besides I have wanted you to take me like that."

I joined in the laughter and kissed Meiko one more time. I looked down at the work she had done, and was impressed. The ground floor mostly remained the same, but she wanted to see if a hot tub could be added next to the large shower. At my raised eyebrow she admitted that one of her classmates in high school had bragged that hot tub sex was the best and she wanted to try it.

The upstairs had the most changes. Meiko was suggesting that the individual bedrooms be shrunk down for sleeping only, while several new rooms were added for teaching and play areas. She even had a designated rabbit room, with space for several rabbits. It looked like a well thought out and considered design.

Just as I was about to speak the AI called out. "Just feed the design into a converter and I will analyze it."

I shook my head at the AI and it's ability to anticipate some requests, but I also followed the instructions. Meiko and I waited in silence as she picked up her panties and slipped them into the waistband of her skirt before throwing my shorts at me and telling me to get dressed. We were about to head back to the bottom floor with the AI spoke. "This design is possible. The only concern would be the hot tub. Due to the shipboard water capacity being limited it would not be usable until after planetfall, when the colony water supply can be linked in."

I laughed and kissed Meiko. "I guess we wait until planetfall to use it then. But otherwise, that's the design we want."

My reward was a return hug from Meiko and then a journey down the stairs where we found Tina crying into Janice's chest. Bethany saw us and smiled. "Its ok. Tina just found out that she can read, but just needs practice and confidence. It's mostly tears of relief."

"Just don't make my girls cry!" I said while wagging my finger at Janice. "Or I'll make you lick their pussies until they scream for you to stop."

Janice giggled. "Maybe I should then, Tina has the sweetest nectar hidden between her legs."

Tina stopped crying and pushed away from Janice, looking at each of us. I could see the looks that Bethany and Janice returned, and knew that the same look of love, trust and devotion was on Meiko's face and mine at that moment. Tina tried to hold herself together but collapsed into my arms with a cry of joy.

"What, you still don't understand how much we love you?" I asked as I stroked her hair. I got a devilish grin and smiled over to Bethany. "AI, can you proved a French maid outfit for Tina. No panties though and make sure the skirt is just barely decent."

Bethany smiled as Meiko and Janice came forward to strip Tina naked. She fought a little, but the smiles on everyone's face confused her and she sat quietly as that clothing was carefully folded and put on the table. Bethany came over and handed her the tight fitting top and skirt, helping Tina struggle with the closures and lace as Janice found the hair ribbon and used it to decorate Tina's ponytail. When she finished we all stepped away.

Meiko gasped as we looked on Tina. The earlier hologram had not done justice to just how sexy and sensual Tina would look once dressed in the costume and Meiko was merely putting a voice to my own thoughts as I tried to bring my jaw back up from the floor. Tina turned around nervously as I sighed in wonder.

"Okay, this has to be a reward in the future. Tina just looks so damn fucking good," I said with a growl.

"Then why don't you take her against the wall?" Bethany said with a smirk.

Janice giggled and quickly walked behind Tina, giving her a shove to thrust her into my arms. "Do it master, she needs it bad!"

Tina looked up at me surprised as I brought her lips to mine for a kiss. I could feel hands working to remove my shorts, but they were not Tina's, which hovered in the air near my face in shock. Once my shorts were off I spun Tina and myself around and got her to face the wall, as my cock began to tease her pussy.

"Damn that's hot," Janice moaned. I looked over to find that Bethany had already pushed Meiko down on the couch and was eagerly using her tongue on the younger lady's pussy. I took that as my cue and thrust deep inside Tina, who screamed out an orgasm the instant that my cock entered her.

"Fuck! James, how do you do it? I feel so fucking good. Oh, master! Fuck me like this forever," she cried as I started to pound into her pussy.

I thought Janice might join us, but she joined Meiko and Bethany on the couch as for the next several minutes I thrust hard into Tina, finally cumming with a loud groan. Tina had come at least three times and slid bonelessly to the floor as I relaxed and allowed my cock to slip from her pussy.

I leaned back against the table and groaned. "I need more vitamins."

Bethany laughed and looked up, her clothing in disarray. "How about we all have dinner," she suggested.

The idea was universally approved, although all the ladies took a moment in the master bedroom to place their outfits in their wardrobes for cleaning, coming to dinner naked. I could see Bethany give Tina a bit of a surprised glance when she came out without panties on. "Won't you leak?"

Tina just smiled. "I like the feeling of the love James and I have dripping down my legs. It reminds me of just how much love I have, for all of you!"

Janice seemed puzzled. "For all of us? But you only said James?"

Tina laughed. "For all of you. Without all of you, I could not feel so loved and supported. Besides, I love how you taste too, Blondie!"

"God, not that! Any name but that," Janice replied before sticking her tongue out at Tina. Bethany and Meiko both joined in the laughter.

It was Bethany who asked the next question. "So what are all you thinking?"

I sighed. "According to the AI I have fifty-nine more hours of sleep training to be proficient in the main tasks ahead of us. I've found another forty hours of recommended courses. At two hours per day, we'll be almost to Ishtar before I have all the courses complete. I did find a few for you ladies. Basic martial arts classes the AI says you can take."

Meiko whispered. "I tried karate. Sensei said I wasn't aggressive enough."

I could see Bethany about to speak and raised my hand. "These aren't classes for aggressive behaviors. They teach how to break free from an attacker and run away. I thought you might like them considering the lower life forms that are hitching a ride with us to Ishtar."

Janice laughed. "Good idea, although I think the furry ones might resent the comparison."

Tina appeared a bit unhappy. "What will we do while you are in the sleep training cylinder?" she asked.

"Practice reading and writing?" Bethany asked with a laugh. "You really showed a lot of promise today. Give Janice and me six weeks and you'll read just fine."

"Why not let me use the sleep-trainer?" Tina asked.

I shrugged. "The sleep training system is mostly images. Without the benefit of actually writing, and sounding out words you struggle to learn. It's actually faster to learn reading outside the training cylinders."

"You can also learn to play bridge, and I need some ideas for goods we can trade for in the future. Ishtar is going to be at the end of the line, but if we get some orders out, we should be able to interest any navy ships knowing they will come our way into carrying small quantities of items. Especially as we will be the only place to get rabbits for a while, and I'm sure they will be very popular on the other planets," I said.

Janice seemed worried. "But we have so few to start, what about inbreeding?"

I laughed. "One of the computers we grabbed has a special program just to track rabbit breeding. I'll show you how to use it, and we'll be able to enter enough information to get started. Brenda has a list of the names of the parents of every rabbit in the pod, except for her two old pet bunnies, which are not going to be bred. We just need to enter them."

Bethany laughed. "You like to be prepared," she said.