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MS Girls

Lesson Seven - Shopping is Hell


The Next Day - Captain's Office


Ryu let out a sigh as he palmed his eyes as he looked over the daily section and recon reports that came in overnight, staring at his holographic interface with a deep frown before changing the reports over to the power readings that they discovered emanating from the desert region by the nightly patrols. 'Going to need to send a team out there to investigate,' he thought to himself as he looked the data over.

"What's going on, Ryu-kun?" Hanami asked from behind him, craning her head to look at the interface.

"Recon data from the nightly patrols," Ryu answered as he read through the reports. "Unusual power readings from the desert region were detected last night, considering who I should send out to investigate it."

"Why not send us, then?" Kaede smiled, stepping up as well. "We're strong enough to deal with anything they could throw at us after all."

"And if there really is something there, I can just crush it, right?" Ibuki grinned, holding out her arm and summoning her Buster Rifle.

Ryu hummed slightly before shaking his head. "No, I need you here for the start of the Training Camp," he said. "No, I think I'll be sending Leon out…"

"But I thought Kira-san wasn't combat-ready yet?" Hanami pointed out. "She's still getting used to her body, right?"

Ryu bit his thumb slightly. "Only thing is, outside of us, Leon and his girls are the only combat ready grouping," he pointed out. "I'll be sending three of the mixed combat squads… hmm, but I think some of the men have MS Girls that are… connected to them, we could send some of them out instead…"

"That might work…" Ibuki conceded. "It would be a good time for the other girls to get some field experience as well. So we're all going to be stuck here for now?"

"That's going to be a little boring…" Hanami pouted, her eyes flashing for a brief moment.

Ryu hummed as he drummed his fingers on his bicep. "How are you managing to switch out like that?" he asked without turning.

"Ack, you figured me out that quickly!?" Hanami gasped, before she slumped. "Should've expected it from you, Ryu-kun… Well, shall we just say she's a little weak-willed and I can easily switch in whenever I want? She'll still remember everything that happens to me, don't worry."

Ryu chuckled. "She'll probably be a bit put off by that comment of yours then," he commented idly. "Plus you normally would never say that not going out to battle is boring."

"Pooh, where's the fun in sitting around all day?" Hanami pouted, resting her bountiful bosom on top of Ryu's head and wrapping her arms around him. "There's nothing to do on the ship besides a few gathering missions and sex with you…"

"Hanami, stop trying to get ahead with Ryu! That's not fair!" Kaede suddenly shouted out after her eyes flashed, pointing an accusing finger at the silverette.

"Yeah!" Chris shouted in agreement, pumping her fists angrily. "We all want sexy time with Ryu!"

"Then why don't you get over here as well, girls?" Hanami smirked saucily, pressing her bust into the top of their lover's head.

Ryu deadpanned as Chris and Kaede pushed their own busts onto his shoulders as he tried to keep reading the reports. "I can't focus on my work like this," he commented dryly. "Plus, isn't the shopping arcade opening today?"

"Oooh, I can grab some sexy clothes!" Hanami was instantly distracted. Slightly. "Hey, Ryu-kun… What do you think of me walking around the house in a black, lacy bikini or maybe… a thin, skimpy thong? Maybe I should go topless like you do sometimes… just wearing a pair of your boxers too."

"I go topless because I don't have boobs," Ryu pointed out plainly. "Not sure if that can work so well for you."

"Well, no one else is going to see us, right?" Hanami bounced up and down, causing her breasts to also bounce up and down on Ryu's head. "It'll just be the two of us… plus the extras beside me."

"Don't call us extras!" Kaede tried to smack the flirty silverette upside the head, only for her to dodge. The attack hit Chris instead.

"Owie!" Chris cried out in pain, looking at Kaede with teary eyes. "Et tu, Kaede?"

"Fine fine, you can join in too," Hanami sighed, still remembering her experience with the berserk Kaede and not wanting to repeat the same thing lest she get into trouble with Ryu as well. "Ryu-kun would definitely enjoy it after all…"

Ryu sighed as Chris suddenly realized something. "Wait… the shopping arcade is opening today?" she asked slowly.

"Yup," Ryu confirmed with an absent nod.

Chris seemed to vibrate for a moment before she let out a high pitched excited squealing sound. "SHOPPING SPREE!"

"Yay!" Hanami cheered as well, raising her hand to high-five the goldette. "Let's get sexy for Ryu-kun! Ibuki-chan, you want to come along too?"

"Now you're calling me -chan?" Ibuki raised an eyebrow. "Well, I do suppose I look a lot closer to your age now…"

Indeed, Ibuki no longer had any of the wrinkles she used to, and her skin was perfectly smooth and pale. Her hair was also a lot more voluminous and lively and glistened with a beautiful sheen. She was also just slightly taller and her skintight compression suit showed off the abs she had developed during her prime, while she had been training for the JGSDF.

"You're like my super cool big sis right now!" Chris informed with a wiggle. "So you want to be one of my models?"

"Why not?" Ibuki shrugged. "Let's invite Ryu-koi as well, into the dressing room too."

Ryu sighed in resignation. "There's no escape, is there?" he asked rhetorically.

"No, there isn't," Hanami grinned saucily, tugging at Ryu's arm. "Come on, just take a break from all that work and come shopping with us! We promise you'll enjoy it!"

"Yeah, you're right," Ryu agreed smiling at them. "I think I do need a break."

"And we can invite Leon and his harem along as well!" Hanami gushed excitedly. "Kira-chan still doesn't have a full wardrobe yet!"

"Yes, another model!" Chris shouted excitedly. "Hanami! You and I will ensure she loves shopping by the end of this and will be our willing subordinate, right?"

"Yes, we shall!" Hanami cheered happily. "Let's corrupt her over to the side of the sexy lovers!"

"It's all for Ryu-kun!" Kaede threw in as well with a huff.

"Sexy lingerie shopping spree - plus sexy clothing - away!" Chris shouted as she latched onto Ryu's arm and started to drag him to the doorway.

"Chris, let me get dressed first," Ryu said with a deadpanned expression, gesturing to his boxers. "As the captain I can't really be seen being dragged around in my underwear."

"I dunno, Chris-chan, should we?" Hanami looked at the overexcited goldette. "We can always grab some handsome clothes for him at the shopping arcade too…"

Chris hummed in thought. "But… I don't want some random girl eyeing up our Ryu though," she pointed out.

Hanami conceded, relaxing her grip on Ryu's arm. "Fine, fine."

"If any random girl so much as looks in Ryu's direction, I'm killing her," Kaede growled.

"So glad that you agree to letting me get dressed," Ryu said dryly. "Give me a minute."

As Ryu headed for the wardrobe, the girls followed along happily.

"Say, is it just me or is my suit getting tighter and tighter?" Hanami muttered, crossing her arms under her bust. The other girls turned to her just in time to see her apparently stretch taller slightly, while her bust and hips bulged outwards slightly within her suit's confines.

Chris' eyes flashed for a moment before she let out a somehow mature sounding chuckle. "Hmm, it appears our bodies are changing to their adult forms when we take control," she said musingly.

"Oh, that's cool!" Hanami grinned, even as she grew a little more. "That's going to mean even better sexy time!"

"Of course!" Chris agreed with a wide smile. "And we can get super-sexy clothes for sexy time too."

"Well, life since joining the colonization effort hasn't been boring," Ryu commented as he stepped back out dressed in a compression suit. "And it's been chaotic since meeting you three."

"Chaotic in the fun way?" Hanami smirked, sashaying towards Ryu seductively, even as she unzipped the front of her suit to relieve the stress on it. She pulled it down to just below her bosom, exposing her cleavage in its full glory.

"That's one way to describe it," Ryu agreed with a smirk. "Because I'm definitely not complaining."

"Well, I still have you beat in the maturity department, girls," Ibuki chuckled, sticking her chest out. "Keep trying to surpass me! Let's just make it all the more fun for Ryu-koi!"

"Don't forget all those 'special massages' Ryu's been giving to Hanami's breasts!" Chris pointed out. "She'll definitely surpass you with the help from those massages!"

"Aw snap," Ibuki muttered, before she brightened up. "Ryu-koi, give me those massages too!"

"Well, I think he might have been massaging them a bit too vigorously…" Hanami confessed, feeling a slight trickle of liquid on the inside of her suit. "Not that I mind, of course."

"Why do you say that, Hanami?" Ryu asked in confusion.

"I'm… leaking," Hanami actually blushed slightly at her own confession as she unzipped her suit a bit more to make her point.

"Lactating?" Ryu asked in shock as he put it all together. "That's… a shock…"

"Ryu-kun, I want more of those massages too!" Kaede huffed, folding her arms.

"Same here!" Chris shouted. "It sounds like it'll be fun during our fun time."

"I definitely want more too!" Ibuki pressed her chest against Ryu's back.

Ryu sighed and pulled out the age old card that men the multiverse over used in their aid against battles with their significant other, or others in his case. "You don't want to be late for your shopping spree, do you?"

"Gah!" Hanami recoiled as if struck by an arrow. "Chris-chan, Kaede-chan, Ibuki-chan, let's hurry up and go!"

"We cannot miss this opportunity!" Chris shouted in agreement as all four girls began to drag Ryu away. "Shopping Spree Brigade… AWAY!"

'I think I just doomed myself to an even worse fate,' Ryu thought to himself mentally as he was dragged by four overeager women.


Leon's Quarters


"Well, it seems like the shopping arcade's open," Kyou noted from her spot at the table, her tablet showing her the news. "So, who wants to go shopping?"

"I have no objections…" Leon sighed, recalling his time back on Earth with his family. "…so long as I'm not a pack mule."

"Don't worry Leon, we'll get a trolley to carry our purchases," Katrina assured, patting his arm as the two snuggled up on the couch. "Don't want you to be all tuckered out tonight after all."

Leon rolled his eyes and looked at Katrina. "Of course there's an ulterior motive behind that," he said with a straight face.

"All women have ulterior motives," Katrina countered primly. "Even Kira's developing them, mostly trying to get into your pants before she's fully adjusted."

"I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the Eligor's second-in-command is trying to do that so soon after becoming a girl," Leon groaned, leaning backwards and freezing when his head encountered some… unexpected soft resistance.

"So…" Kira started to say from behind him, a tone of playfulness in her voice. "You like what you're feeling?"

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't like it," Leon muttered, looking up into her eyes. "But it's still a weeeeee bit awkward considering you used to be a guy."

Kira rolled her eyes at that last statement. "Please don't get me started on when I was known as Kenji…" she said. "I was born the wrong gender, and it messed with my life ever since."

"The Thais have a concept like that," Leon closed his eyes, choosing to try and relax into the soft pillows cushioning his head. "Being born the wrong gender and going through sex change operations to correct it. Oh, they were people of a country called Thailand on Earth."

"Really?" Kira blinked, looking down at Leon. "What sort of people were they like? Did you ever meet anyone from there?"

"Went there on vacation once," Leon said without opening his eyes. "The Thais have a very strong culture, quite obvious throughout their society even if they weren't exactly very well-off. Just one problem - sometimes you're not sure if the girl you're talking to is really a girl or not. Some of the transgendered girls were even prettier than real girls."

Kira blinked again. "Is that… normal on Earth?" she asked hesitantly.

"It's not, which is why I'm having to forcefully rewrite my mental perception of you as a guy," Leon explained. "The people who actually go through the transgender operation are a minority on Earth, sometimes looked down on for leaving their original genders behind. Thailand is only one exception to that."

Kira winced at that. "Ouch… stupid sexist jerks for ruining a girl in mind and hopefully body," she said.

"Onee-chan, I think this was one of your not-so-bright ideas to follow through on," Kyou commented from the table.

"I used to have the same thoughts myself when I was young and stupid, you know," Leon muttered. "I thought myself too polite and unmanly - I hated sports unlike my peers - to be a guy. I eventually learned to let it go, of course, which is why I'm even here on this expedition now. Wouldn't have gotten selected if I hadn't left that one behind."

Kira sighed heavily. "I wonder what would have happened if this didn't happen to me, being corrected to being a girl…" she said.

"I'm quite curious though - what about your duties as the Eligor's second-in-command?" Leon opened his eyes again, sat up and turned around to face Kira. "You've been here for so long, but you definitely haven't been doing anything that looks like what a second-in-command would do."

Kira blinked, before she facepalmed. "Crap… I gotta get to my duties to the Eligor side of things," she said. With that, she headed for the door, to make sure that she made it to her superior officer.

"What happened to shopping?" Leon casually spoke up. "Not that I'm forcing you to skimp on your duties, but if I'm not mistaken, you're still not fit for duty yet, Kira."

Kira stopped before she reached the door, looking at Leon in the process. "Erk!" she let out. "I have to at least get my things to do from Captain Delnaz, though… Paperwork, mostly, but…"

Leon held up his holographic tablet, expanding the screen to twice its size so that Kira could see said list of things to do on it. "I kind of predicted this situation and had him send them to me," he grinned.

Kira face faulted a few seconds later.

"Ack! Onee-chan!" Kyou shouted.

"Even Miltians know what a face fault is these days…" Leon sighed, stowing the tablet away and getting up to walk to where Kira was lying on the ground. "Need a hand?" he extended a hand towards her.

"Y-Yeah…" Kira said, holding out one of her hands to let Leon help her up.

Leon gripped her hand gently and pulled Kira to her feet, handing her the tablet as well. "You can get it done when we have free time," he encouraged.

"Ah, thanks," she accepted the tablet.

"Onee-chan, we gotta work on your ability to stay on your feet more," Kyou sighed exasperatedly. "This is just getting ridiculous…"

"Clumsy girls can be cute sometimes," Leon muttered absentmindedly. "Kyou, it's called a face fault. Usually done by comedians on Earth whenever someone does something incredibly stupid. I have no idea how Kira did it without knowing what it is, but she did, even if I don't think what I did was stupid."

Kyou blinked, before she facepalmed. "Oh… whoops," she said at last.

"Not exactly something to go 'whoops' about," Leon raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, this is just too much fun," Katrina commented idly from her position, a cheshire grin on her face as she watched the unfolding scene. "Who needs TV when this household has all the entertainment I need?"

"Katrina!" Kyou shouted at the green-haired woman irately. "Not helping!"

"I know," Katrina informed primly. "I can't wait for when Chris shows up, the chaos will be simply delightful."

This time, Kyou face faulted.

"I'm not sure if I want to go along with this if Chris is coming along," Leon took one step back. "Knowing that girl, she'll do her utmost best to make Ryu and I faint from blood loss…"

Katrina giggled. "Too bad~" she sang. "She's on her way with the rest right now~"

Leon looked at Katrina incredulously. "Goddammit," he simply groaned. "Anyone got tissues for when I start bleeding from my nose on the shopping trip?"

Kira held out a box of tissues for Leon. "Here you go," she said.

"I'm not carrying that around," the male deadpanned.

Kira replaced the box with a small package of tissues. "This better?" she asked him.

"Yep," Leon nodded, pocketing the tissues. "Much appreciated."

"Any time, Leon," she nodded.

"What's wrong Leon, don't you want to see us all dolled up sexily?" Katrina asked teasingly.

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't," Leon muttered, rubbing his head. "But I'll get a nosebleed from seeing you dolled up sexily. And if Kira and Kyou join in as well…"

Kyou stood up at that point. "Please, just make sure we don't do too many things on the sexy scale for just anyone…" she begged Katrina.

"Leon's only teasing, nosebleeds only happen in anime," Katrina said dismissively. "And of course, only Leon gets to see us all sexy like."

"Pooh, ruin my fun, will ya?" Leon pouted, but smiled anyway. "Just make sure you get some comfortable casual wear too. I'm not sure if I can restrain myself with so many girls strutting around the place in sexy clothes all the time."

Kyou sighed in relief. "That's good to know," she said. "Now… um, Kira-nee, would you like me to find you some decent clothes?"

"Oh, that would be good, imouto-chan," Kira answered with a smile and a nod.

"Oh, are we about to see the incestuous bonds between sisters?" Katrina asked teasingly, her grin growing wider

Both sisters spluttered as they looked at the verdette, indignant about the question. "No, you're not!" they answered simultaneously.

"Boo," Katrina countered with a thumbs down. "That's no fun then."

"I didn't need that image, Katrina!" Leon groaned, rubbing his temples. "Now I won't be able to get it out of my head!"

"You know you love that image, Leon," Katrina said smugly. "All guys do."

"You're corrupting me," Leon's forehead met the wall.

"Of course, it's half of my daily fun," Katrina giggled. "The other half is having the sex."

Kira groaned as well. "Please don't bring that up while I'm incapable of actually doing it…" she said.

Katrina giggled again. "But it's so fun watching you squirm!" she announced.

Kira facepalmed. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that…" she said.

"Our society here on this colony is really starting to become very different from Earth…" Leon muttered.

"Well with what happened to, what, 70% of the females on this ship, are you really that surprised?" Katrina asked in a suddenly serious tone. "Because of our need for sex now, especially since in the near future there are high chances of us needing to fight, slowly our culture will adapt to that."

"Yeah…" Leon scratched his head. "For now… I guess I might as well go with the flow, huh…"

Katrina gave him a smile. "I'm actually curious what the culture will be like even three generations from now," she admitted.

"So am I, but I'm not even sure if we'll be around long enough to see," Leon nodded, reaching for a glass of water on the table. "I'm not even sure if MS Girls can pass down their powers to their children."

"…speaking of children…" Katrina began. "What are your thoughts of having them?"

Leon froze halfway through a sip and began coughing.

"Wow, I thought he'd do a spit take," Kyou commented idly.

"Argh, you even know what… a spit take is!?" Leon groaned, wiping some water off his chin. "Being an MS Girl seems to be giving you more random cultural knowledge than anything… Anyway, Katrina… The answer to that is a definite yes."

Katrina smiled softly. "Good, because I definitely plan on having some myself," she placed a hand on her abdomen. "I've always wanted a little girl or boy of my own to hold and cuddle with…"

Kira coughed slightly into her hand. "Um… what about shopping?" she asked. "When are we getting to it?"

A pounding noise was heard on the door, drawing their attention. "Katrina!" Chris shouted through the door. "It's time!"

"How about now?" Katrina said in response to Kira's question.

Kira blinked a few times, before nodding to Katrina. "Works for me," she said.

Leon nodded as well, walking towards the door and hitting the button to open it. He blinked a few times when he saw exactly who was outside. "You girls aren't transformed, how are you in your adult forms? Or at least, between adult and teen…"

"The answer to your question, Mr. Kho, is that we - the secondary personalities - took control." Chris informed. "And our bodies matched us."

"Girls, are you ready to get sexy?" Hanami bounced into the room uninvited, forcing Leon to avert his eyes from the immense amount of cleavage she was showing.

"Of course!" Katrina shouted in agreement, leaping to her feet and grabbing hold of Kira in an iron grip. "Here's the primary subject… of… experimentation."

"Oooh, fun!" Hanami leaned in closer to Kira. "Kira-chan, we'll make sure you're all dolled up for Leon tonight~"

"Um… thanks?" Kira weakly asked. "Though, I don't think I'm able to enjoy tonight like you girls can…"

"You had better not look at Ryu-kun too much!" Kaede wrapped her arms around Ryu's arm possessively, directing a glare at Kira.

Kira chuckled weakly. "Sure, I'll keep my eyes away from him during this time we'll be shopping," she acquiesced.

"I don't know…" Chris said musingly. "I think sharing between us would be… interesting."

"I should kill you for even suggesting that!" Kaede yelled, turning her glare on the goldette instead.

"Nah, you won't kill me, cause you love me," Chris countered with a cat like grin.

"Shouldn't we be going?" Kyou asked, looking at the clock to check the time.

"Of course!" Chris agreed clamping down Kira's arm as she began to drag her away. "Shopping, away!"

As the gaggle of girls left the room, Leon looked at Ryu. "How do you keep a handle on those four girls at once?" he asked.

Ryu gave him a strange look. "Handle them?" he asked skeptically. "I just try and survive them."

"I get the feeling it's going to be even worse once Kira gets completely used to being a girl and when she can start having sex," Leon slumped against a wall. "So, you're developing some slight telepathy, Captain?"

Ryu nodded. "It's on and off sometimes, I can pick up what seems to be particularly strong thoughts that have a particularly emotional connection to the person," he explained. "Also I've been picking up vague feelings of people around me, like I can sense them."

"Me too, Captain," Leon sighed. "I suspect it might have something to do with some of the MS Girls in our harems having Newtype-based abilities… but without concrete evidence I can't prove it."

"I'll be talking with Dr. Vossler tomorrow," Ryu admitted. "He'll be taking an MRI to get a good look at my brain."

"Bring me along too," Leon looked at Ryu. "And see if we can get any other people with MS Girl partners with special genetype-related abilities into the MRI as well. If my theory is right, this could change our way of life forever."

"Right," Ryu agreed. "But first, we have to survive the girls going shopping."

"Hey, Leon? When will you and Captain Hisanaga be ready to leave?" Kyou called out from the distance.

"We'll be right there!" Leon shouted back, before sighing and nodding at Ryu.

Ryu shrugged in response with a small chuckle before following after the girls with Leon.


Several Hours Later - Hisanaga Homestead


Ryu let out a sigh of relief as he pushed the heavily laden trolley into the home he shared with his harem… and it was still awkward to admit that it was a harem, no changing that anytime soon. "Alright, ground rules, you have bought too much, if the trolley almost breaks from the number of purchases you've made," he announced as the others followed him in. "You realize I would have made you carry the rest if it did break down right?"

"That wouldn't have been a problem," a still somewhat adult Hanami grinned as she knelt down and picked the trolley up with both hands, demonstrating her strength.

Ryu gave her a light glare. "Why do you have to make it so hard to be threatening, is withholding sex really the only tool at my disposal?"

"Ah, Katrina and Kyou told me about that one," Leon nodded. "But that would probably do more harm than good if you try it against Hanami."

"It would, Ryu-kun…" Hanami looked at Ryu with a pitiful expression on her face, her eyes widened and teary. "How could you… You know I'd just be even hornier afterwards… and I do extreme things when I'm really horny…"

Ryu gave her a deadpan look. "I need to find something to threaten you with, you'd just get off on spanking so don't even try suggesting it," he commented.

"I know I would!" Chris exclaimed, flouncing into the abode. "Oohh, can I be spanked tonight?"

Ryu just gave her a strange look in return.

"It's not like you wouldn't get turned on from it either, right?" Hanami chuckled, turning around and wiggling her butt in Ryu's direction. "With the way they'll bounce and jiggle as your palm smacks into them, and how soft they are~"

"Blackmail," Ryu announced suddenly. "I need blackmail, you got anything I can use for them, Ibuki?"

"Not for Hanami - anything I've got on her will just slide off her perverted side," Ibuki chuckled. "Nothing on Chris, but I have baby photos of Kaede…"

"OKAA-SAN!" Kaede screamed, tackling Ibuki to the ground before she could continue.

"Well, it's a start," Ryu muttered to himself as the mother and daughter pair wrestled. "Maybe in their personnel files there's something I can use."

"Good luck with that, I already looked. There's not much," Leon rolled his eyes. "You'll have to find some on your own."

"There has to be something, there always is," Ryu declared with a malevolent grin. "I will find it."

"Well, you'll only be able to cow the other me into submission with that kind of stuff," Hanami chuckled, squashing herself against Ryu's chest and drawing circles on his pecs. "For me, there's no such thing as shame!"

Ryu hummed in response before narrowing his eyes. "I think I know," he announced. "Banning you from the kitchen."

"Try harder," Hanami laughed, before she stiffened up and her eyes flashed once. "Ryu-kun, how could you!?" she suddenly demanded, backing off from Ryu while tearing up.

"Because Hanami, you are far easier to work with than your perverted side, you actually listen to my requests," Ryu answered. "And I promise to only use it in desperate times."

"Ryu-kun…" Hanami whispered softly, before she became aware of a distinct draft on her chest and looked down into her completely exposed cleavage. "Umm… Ryu-kun… why am I still older?" she blushed brightly even as she tried to discreetly pull up her zip again.

"Hmm, I think the reversion back to your younger self only happens when you lose consciousness, i.e, sleeping or something," Ryu commented. "The last time this had happened, you had shifted back when you fell asleep."

"So… I'm stuck like this for now?" Hanami whined, not really wanting to draw attention to her body. "B-But it feels so shameless… and lewd…"

"Um…" Kyou spoke up at that. "I think being that way suits you better, personally, though that's probably just me."

"Plus, we can't have you becoming younger yet, Hanami," Chris informed. "After all, we need to give our darling Ryu a fashion show, don't we?"

Hanami started spluttering and her blush only got even brighter as she was abruptly reminded of what her other self had bought during the shopping trip… and what she had done to Ryu as well.

"You're not passing out on us now, Hanami-chan!" Kaede smacked Hanami upside the head, apparently having reverted to her original persona as well. A snickering Ibuki holding a tablet nearby and cooing over it apparently had something to do with that.

"Well, I guess it's only natural that clothes like that end up being the norm after news of MS Girls' and their sex recharging got out…" Leon scratched his head, sighing.

Ryu sighed in agreement before peeking over Ibuki's shoulder at what she was looking at. "Is that Kaede?" Ryu asked skeptically. "With her diaper on her head running through a park?"

"GAAAAAAAAAH!" Kaede rushed over back to Ibuki, bowling her over once more in an attempt to snatch the tablet out of her hands. "OKAA-SAN! DELETE THOSE PHOTOS!"

"These are mementos from Earth! There's no way I'm deleting them!" Ibuki's voice rang out of the ensuing comedic dust cloud unapologetically.

Ryu simply reached into the dust cloud and snatched the tablet out of Ibuki's hands and kept looking through the pictures. "These are rather cute to be honest," he said with a chuckle.

Kaede tumbled out of the dust cloud with a prominent blush dusting her cheeks. "R-Really…?" she whispered.

Ryu chuckled again. "Yup," he replied. "Everyone has something embarrassing in their childhood, so do I actually."

"So… you're not going to use them as blackmail, right?" Kaede asked hopefully.

"Only if you give me a very good reason to," Ryu promised, before pointing to the tablet. "Why are you dressed as a ballerina… in a brown leotard?"

"Oh, that was when she was in ballet as a kid," Ibuki chirped, getting up from the floor. "She practiced so hard for that performance until she was aching all over, but still went for the real thing anyway. She couldn't move for the next day."

"Really?" Ryu asked curiously. "Did you keep up with it, Kaede?"

A blushing Kaede nodded.

"It's one reason she's so flexible in bed now~" Ibuki giggled.

"OKAA-SAN!"

Ryu chuckled. "Well, I know Dr Wilson did ballet for a while if you're looking for someone to practice with," he said idly.

"I… dropped out of it a long time ago," Kaede confessed, after regaining her composure from her mother's abrupt reveal. "To focus on studying."

"She did get into one of the top 10 high schools in Japan at the time," Hanami confirmed.

"Couldn't beat Miss Honour Student's scores though," Kaede huffed, glaring lightly at Hanami.

"Well, if you enjoyed it, you should take it up again," Ryu informed. "People need to have relaxing hobbies they enjoy when they are to fight, it helps soothe the soul."

"I didn't exactly enjoy it all that much," Kaede sighed. "I'm more into music than dancing, I realized after a few years in ballet. That's why I quit it and started taking up the violin."

Ryu smiled at her. "I'd love to hear you play it sometime," he said honestly. "I'm actually a guitar player myself, it's my own chosen hobby."

"I'm finding it very hard to picture a warrior priest playing the guitar," Ibuki admitted, trying and failing to imagine Ryu in a strange cross between military tactical armour and priestly robes strumming away at a guitar.

Ryu shrugged in response. "I actually have my guitar in storage, it's actually a heirloom from my father, the only thing I have of my parents," he admitted. "We should play together sometime, Kaede," he suddenly blinked before a choked out laugh escaped his lips. "Dear lord Ibuki, what is with your mind?"

"What? I don't know how you looked like in the past! And that's the first thing that came to mind when I thought of a warrior priest!" Ibuki huffed, before she realized something. "Ryu-koi, you did it again."

"Yeah, I'll be getting an MRI later on to make sure there isn't any negative repercussions," Ryu assured. "And to sate your curiosity, we actually only had formal robes for functions and combat suits for battle, but… any other time, whatever we wanted to wear."

"Ryu-kun did what again?" Hanami asked curiously, even as she painted a very good mental picture of Ryu in a toga in her mind.

"No, Hanami, we didn't wear togas," Ryu informed with a small smirk.

Hanami blinked owlishly for a second or two. "R-R-R-Ryu-kun, did you just…" she whispered, pointing at her head.

"Yup, I can apparently read minds now," Ryu announced. "Well, your minds."

"Gah, he can get blackmail on us easily then!" Kaede pointed an accusing finger at their smirking lover.

"Oh! He can read our dirty wishes and make them come true!" Chris announced happily.

"Aren't you scared of being blackmailed…?" Kaede quirked her eyebrows, looking at the exuberant goldette.

Chris shrugged. "Give and take is the basis for all relationships," she declared. "So I don't mind."

"I'm not sure if it's proper to discuss blackmail when another harem is in the vicinity," Leon remarked jokingly.

"Else we may use it ourselves," Katrina said with a giggle.

Kira sweatdropped a little before leaning into Kyou. "She's really opportunistic, isn't she?" she asked her sister.

Kyou sighed a bit. "You have no idea…" she replied in a bit of remorse. "Sometimes, I wonder why I'm even with Leon… before I remember that I can't undo the marriage between us, only his parents or ours… can… crap!"

"Are your parents even on the ship? Because if this is a completely different dimension, they're not going to be able to undo anything," Leon asked worriedly, drawing a little closer to the bluenette to offer his reassurance.

"Um… our parents are friends with Captain Delnaz," Kira pointed out. "If they want to check up on us, they can and will check up on us, regardless of distance, regardless of anything."

"Well, for starters you can explain to me how your parents can communicate across dimensions if your interdimensional corridor is still in prototype stage," Leon pointed out calmly. "Because the colonists would sure as hell like to get messages back to Earth as well."

Kyou blinked at what Leon said. "Er… they said they were involved in the development of the corridor, but I'm not sure if they were pulling our legs or not," she admitted.

"Either way, to get a message to the ship, they'd need to lock on to the ship's coordinates in a completely different dimension," Leon surmised, his brain running at full power. "Otherwise there's just far too much space to cover trying to get a message out and it would take astronomical amounts of energy to bombard the whole dimension with the proper information, and risk it getting intercepted by the wrong sort anyway. Without a dimensional beacon on the Eligor, it's therefore nearly impossible for an interdimensional message to arrive without loss of information."

Kyou sweatdropped at what she heard. "Honey…?"

"Too technical?" Leon turned to Kyou with a small smile.

"Yes," Kyou answered, dropping her head in the process.

"Um… could we please wait on the science lessons?" Kira asked. "I don't think Miltians in general like having to learn that technical a subject. Our parents were part of the oddballs in that case…"

Leon chuckled, pulling up another tablet and checking a personnel list on it. "I've been looking for people in the proper fields to teach some lessons. Expect a school to be opened up in some time if you're interested in learning."

Before Kira could say anything, Kyou answered, "Sure, that'd be good, honey."

"Although…" he paused for a moment. "Definitely going to need to get a biology expert to give everyone a refresher on what happens during sex first…"

Katrina snorted slightly with an amused smirk. "The good old 'birds and the bee's' talk," she said. "Making conversations with parents awkward for centuries."

Kira blinked for a bit. "What do birds and bees have to do with sex?" she asked obliviously.

A pregnant silence hit the surrounding five meter area, which slowly expanded as more people sought to process what they heard.

"…guys?" Kira asked, slightly worried.

Katrina groaned. "Of all the information for the transformation not to give you," she muttered. "Y'know, being told what sex is and explaining reproduction."

"Um…" Kira said slowly. "Sorry, we never had that discussed back on Miltia, I don't remember…"

"Onee-chan, you never had it discussed," Kyou pointed out. "I was the one to learn what it was!"

Katrina sighed before palming her face, rooting around her purchases for a moment she pulled out a book and tossed it to Kira. "There, a smut book," she declared. "No way in hell I'm talking to you about that stuff."

"Um… thanks?" Kira asked intelligently.

"I find it slightly incredulous how she was trying to get into my pants without knowing what it entailed," Leon smacked his forehead and groaned.

"Good luck with that Leon," Ryu said honestly as Chris moved over to the three other girls before dragging them off to the bedroom, bringing Hanami, Kaede and Ibuki with them. "But I think we need to worry about the now as Chris is going to start her little 'fashion show'."

"W-W-W-With Leon-san here!?" Hanami asked, looking fearfully over her shoulder at the technical officer.

"No worries, no worries, think of him as a brother," Chris assuaged pushing the silverette into the bedroom. "We'll be back in a second boys~"

Leon turned expectantly towards his own harem.

"We'll be out in a second, honey," Katrina promised as she ushered Kyou and Kira into the room as well. "I hope you're ready for it when you get out."

"I hope I will," Leon chuckled. "I'm expecting to be completely stunned when you get out."

Katrina gave him a saucy wink before disappearing into the room. "Well… want a beer?" Ryu asked.

"I don't drink beer," Leon raised an open hand in polite refusal, even as he pulled out a bottle of red wine from a crate from the trolley. "Ever tried red wine?"

Ryu shrugged as he moved to the fridge. "Not personally, but I think Ibuki might have a bottle somewhere," he commented as he pulled out a can of beer for himself before hunting around for the wine. "Ah, found it."

"I'm surprised she has red wine, thought she'd have sake instead," Leon raised an eyebrow, taking a seat on the couch and placing his own bottle on the table.

"She has that too, actually, a rather large collection of wine, sake, champagne… where did she get all this?" Ryu muttered to himself before shrugging and opened his beer for sitting down in a reclining chair and letting out a relaxed sigh. "Damn, I love this chair."

Leon let out a low whistle. "Now I have to ask her to let me try some at some point. Sorry I'm not a beer person, Captain."

Ryu shrugged as he took a sip. "Not everyone is," he agreed, letting out a small sigh of contentment. "Y'know, I'm surprised this chair survived in storage when I was in cold sleep before this whole colonization effort."

"I'm more surprised it didn't break apart during the crash land," Leon said, swirling his bottle of wine idly. "Got a spare glass?"

"Should be in the cupboard to the left of the fridge," Ryu pointed. "Sorry, I'd get up, but this chair has a nasty habit of making me lazy."

"Maybe I should've had it broken down for materials then," Leon rolled his eyes as he got up to grab a glass.

Ryu chuckled. "I would have fought to kill if you had done that," he countered. "This chair and I are old friends."

"Sheesh, I was just kidding," Leon grinned, returning with a glass and setting it down beside his bottle of wine. "I know the feeling, I just wish I had kept my own lazy bed from my home on Earth. Maybe I'll see about getting a new one made on this new planet. Hmm, I wonder what kind of new alcohol we'll come up with here?"

Ryu chuckled as he raised his can up in a toast. "Leave it to humanity, we will always find a way to make either alcohol, or liquor," he announced. "Out of anything."

"The only problem is making sure that whatever we get isn't poisonous, or finding a way to sterilize it," Leon chuckled, raising his glass as well. "To the future."

"The future," Ryu agreed. "Actually, one time in training, me and my fellow trainee's got desperate enough, we actually made poisonberry moonshine, thankfully this was after our kidneys were augmented to process poisons."

"Normal civilians don't have those augs, Ryu," Leon rolled his eyes again, pulling out a tablet. "So far we've discovered 168 new species of plants and 133 new species of animals and insects. We have a few food scientists working with the botanists and animal physiologists to figure out what we can eat and what we can't. Our food supplies aren't going to last forever after all."

Ryu nodded. "It's a good variety, so long as the lifeforms are dextro-based we should be fine," he took a sip. "I'm sure we can figure something out."

"We also need you to make a decision though," Leon nodded, going to another file displaying the ship's stocks of seeds from native Earth. "We have seeds from Earth, but we're not sure if we should start planting them. Some of the people are arguing that they should have access to food they're familiar with, but at the same time we're not sure if we should introduce species that may become invasive to a foreign planet and disturb the local ecosystem."

"We could always detach one of the Greenhouses and use that for Earth-foods," Ryu pointed out. "The thing I'm worried about is the livestock in cryo."

"There's no room on the ship to rear them after all," Leon nodded. "And letting them out to graze will definitely put them at risk from local parasites, and we're not even sure if they can survive on local grass. Maybe we should just do it anyway? We'll keep them tightly corralled, and hopefully they can adapt to the local climate and evolve."

Ryu nodded in agreement. "Also," his voice lowered. "I've been hearing some… disturbing rumblings."

"Hmm?" Leon paused, lowering his tablet to look at Ryu. "It's not about the cult that's popped up worshipping MS Girls as messengers from a higher power, isn't it?"

"That one is fairly harmless, for the moment," Ryu dismissed. "And not all that hard to believe either, no, this one's a bit more quiet, like I said, only rumblings, but… some believe this is a chance to start carving an empire for ourselves."

"Ah, the expansionist faction?" Leon nodded. "But we don't even have the numbers. Our MS Girls are powerful, yes, but they do have limitations and we're a pretty damn small force too."

Ryu nodded. "They're talking about forcibly transforming people," he revealed, a deep frown on his face. "As in making people undergo the transgender operation and forcibly exposing them to the radiation."

Leon almost did a spit take at that as he looked at Ryu incredulously. "What the flying fuck!?" he growled out a rare curse. "That's taking it too far and treating the MS Girls like tools!"

Ryu nodded in agreement. "Not a word of it to anyone else, understand?" he ordered sternly. "I can't let them know that I'm onto them."

"Got it, Captain," Leon nodded, his expression tightly schooled. "I'll look into it personally and see what I can do. Maybe we need to start our own faction to counter their growing influence. Speaking of which, I've been checking up on Ymir Collase, the first artificial MS Girl."

"And?" Ryu raised an eyebrow.

"She hasn't unlocked her armoured form yet, but from what we can tell, her cells aren't completely adapted to those of an MS Girl yet. R&D theorizes that she'll burn more energy in active combat compared to the other MS Girls who got the full brunt of it," Leon explained. "Her armoured form should also be somewhat weaker."

Ryu nodded. "Should probably expect the same from Kira and those who undertook the transgender operation," he mused. "Still, it's better to have the bolster to our ranks."

"Right, and she's expressed interest in studying the Unicorn girls in their NT-D forms," Leon nodded. "Says R&D wants to try and reproduce the Psycoframes they use - the three of them are quite unique in the sense that so far in the series only they had full-body Psycoframes, not to mention the powers they exhibited because of it."

"I'll ask their opinion about it later," Ryu promised. "Maybe we could create a mimicry of some kind for the combat suits…"

"Be warned, they're supposed to have some unpredictable abilities," Leon cautioned. "And there's something else R&D is seriously looking for. A MS Girl with a true GN Drive. Those things are the energy source of the future - efficient solar power. Even better if we can find the 00 or 00 Quanta Gundams. If we can reverse engineer a true GN Drive, it'll solve all our energy issues forever."

"That would be helpful," Ryu agreed. "If I remember correctly, the Quanta can jump through space, correct?"

"Yep," Leon confirmed. "With that power, we'd be able to visit other places of the universe, perhaps even take the fight to our buggy invaders."

Ryu hummed in response, his eyes tightening. "I hate defensive battles," he admitted. "Never been good at those…"

"So far we've seen MS Girls from Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing, Gundam UC, and Gundam Build Fighters," Leon added. "If every Gundam universe is represented, there's a very good chance that either 00 or 00 Quanta are represented by a MS Girl somewhere on the ship too. It sucks how we can't find out who's what without seeing their armoured form."

Ryu nodded. "The training camp should help us catalogue who transformed into what," he commented. "Nothing can ever be simple, can it?"

"It's still going to be hard to keep track of who's what for most people," Leon mused, before snapping his fingers. "How about we have the MS Girls use their parent Mobile Suit's name as their middle name? Like… Hanami would become Hanami 'Unicorn' Yukikaze. A little on the cheesy side, but I'd say it's practical enough."

Ryu nodded. "It'll be a good idea, it could also be their call sign in combat," he pointed out. "I'll be sure to bring it up."

"Katrina 'Kshatriya' Sanders does have a ring to it too… better than Hurricane Katrina," Leon mused, before he froze, feeling several presences behind him. "They're done, aren't they?"

"Oh? How could you tell… dear?" Katrina asked in a dangerously sweet voice, dressed in a pair of tight, hip hugging jeans that showed off her shapely hips with a tight black, gold trimmed tube top with an open dark green jacket that fell to just under her bust with the sleeves ending at her elbows with a pair of knee high boots finishing off the outfit. "And what was that about my nickname?"

"Well, it's high time you gave up that nickname, isn't it?" Leon turned around, drawing on all the suaveness he could to bullshit his way out of his predicament. "Wouldn't being remembered by your parent Mobile Suit be better than that old… one…" his mind went blank at the sight of Ryu's and his combined harems standing there. Hanami was conspicuously absent for a reason they all roughly knew.

Katrina's eye twitched before smacking the back of his head slightly. "Eyes on your harem, buddy," she said. "And I never chose 'Hurricane' for my nickname."

"We definitely are done, honey," Kyou answered in a sweet tone that was a few notches sickly. Her outfit was a steel-gray cleavage-showing tee with a dark blue miniskirt and five-inched heeled leather boots that went up to her knees, with red socks going up to her thighs.

Leon shook his head for a few moments. "I mean, think of it as a way to overwrite that nickname!" he said, even as he scanned his own harem, trying not to look over in the direction of Ryu's. "You girls all look… great."

Ryu nodded dumbly in agreement. "Hanami fainted?" he asked Chris.

The goldette giggled in response, she was clad in a cleavage showing dark gold corset top with a similarly colored miniskirt and a pair of thigh high leather five-inched heeled boots that went up to just a few centimeters from her miniskirt. "Not… quite," she informed mysteriously.

"Well… she's… agonizing over her choices. I'll go in there and drag her out later," Kaede scratched the back of her head, stepping forward in a black pair of shorts that were almost panties, as well as a black shirt with detached sleeves and gold trim, cropped to expose a good portion of her stomach.

Ryu chuckled, looking Kaede, Chris and Ibuki over. "You three look gorgeous," he said honestly. "Damn, if this was an anime I'd be nose bleeding right now."

"Well, with how much skin we're showing, shouldn't that be natural?" Ibuki grinned, doing a twirl and drawing Ryu's attention to the lacy white panties she was wearing under her blue and white miniskirt - so short they barely hid said panties, as well as the way her bust bounced within the confines of her sleeveless blue and red vest, a circular opening over her chest offering a full view of the valley between her breasts, as well as revealing that she wasn't wearing a bra. White and yellow gloves going up to mid-forearm and simple white sandals completed her ensemble, leaving her shapely legs exposed to the world completely.

Ryu chuckled in agreement. "Very completely natural," he raked his eyes over them. "I mean… damn."

"Can't hold a candle to Hanami though," Ibuki shook her head. "I can't believe she's bigger than me… and she's not even full adult yet."

Chris giggled. "I guess the rumor about massaging breasts is true," she pointed out. "Helps that she loves the massages."

"Chris-chan!" a scandalized yell came from the bedroom.

"Gimme a moment," Kaede rolled her eyes as she walked over to the bedroom door and stepped into it.

Kira, for her part, had white hot pants that hugged her hips, which went down to a bit below her knees, blue and white sandals, and a black, blue, and white-striped cropped shirt that went down to above her stomach and hugged her other curves. "So… Leon-kun, how do you like my new look?" she asked in as sensual a manner that she could pull off… well, it didn't work as well as she'd hoped, sadly.

"For one," Leon began, "You don't seem to have the saucy expression down yet, you're not sticking your chest out far enough to project your confidence and your legs are too far apart for that to look comfortable. Oh, that's three."

Kira blinked, before she did as suggested for the last two suggestions. "I'm afraid I don't know how to do the expression yet…" she admitted, a sad tone in her voice.

"I think you just need some coaching from Katrina and Kyou," Leon smiled softly. "Nice first try though."

Kira blushed a slight crimson and was about to say something when—

"Ka-Kaede-chan!" Hanami's yelp could be heard.

—that happened.

"Just get out here already! You're already dressed!" Kaede shouted.

"B-But, this isn't being dressed at all!"

"Just go!"

And with that, Hanami was pushed roughly out of the bedroom by Kaede. She let out a small squeak and attempted to cover herself up - she was wearing a skimpy white half singlet that exposed her back and stomach and did nothing to hide her massive assets, the only thing preventing her from flashing everyone being a halter neck that held it up. A white set of lacy panties preserved her modesty, underneath a transparent frilly skirt that was even shorter than Ibuki's. The same frill also wrapped around her chest, only serving to emphasize her curves rather than hide them. She also sported a golden ribbon on the back of her head, as well as some silver bangles around her wrists and feet, completing her costume together with a set of white slippers.

"D-D-Dynamite…" Leon breathed, only for Katrina to step in front of him and block his view of the scantily-clad female.

Ryu smiled as he stood up and walked over to Hanami, gently placing his hands on her waist. "You look ravishing, Hanami," he informed her before leaning in and placing a soft kiss on her lips.

Hanami froze up, a red blush making its way down her neck to her shoulders. "B-B-B-But I can't go out like this!" she protested. "A-A-And the other me didn't… get anything that w-w-w-was d-d-decent!"

Ryu chuckled lightly. "You look amazing, Hanami, and if you feel so strongly, I can take you to get some more clothing," he promised. "But you have nothing to be ashamed of."

"I feel so… indecent…" Hanami whispered softly, tugging at her skirt uncomfortably.

"I can't believe she's bigger than me by 2 full sizes…" Ibuki groaned, staring enviously at the younger woman's chest.

Chris giggled. "But Hanami, you look just so… delectable," she informed with a lusty look. "Plus isn't it fun?"

"Mugyuuu…" Hanami shivered at the look in the goldette's eyes, and pressed herself further into Ryu, making him aware of exactly how big she had gotten without her other usual clothes making her seem smaller. "But they get in the way…"

"Not really," Ryu said idly, enjoying the feeling of her breasts pressing against him. "I rather enjoy them… and the massages you enjoy."

"What size did the shop say you were again?" Ibuki mused, seeing her chance to tease the girl in somewhat petty revenge.

"Ibuki-san!" a bright red Hanami complained, before looking up into Ryu's eyes and jerking when she saw his expectant look. She turned away from Ryu and fidgeted for a while, not quite able to meet his eyes in her shyness. "…J-J-cup…" she whispered barely loud enough for him to hear.

Ryu raised an eyebrow. "That's… impressive," he said in an impressed tone. "Do you need… some massages?"

An impressive cloud of steam burst out of Hanami's ears. She looked back up at Ryu, her eyes quivering slightly, before she buried her head in his chest. She tried opening her mouth to say something, but found she couldn't say a word. In the end she settled for a barely perceptible nod.

Ryu chuckled lightly as he wrapped his arms around her. "Nothing to be embarrassed about," he assured. "I enjoy giving them to you."

"O-Of course you do…" she whispered. "My body is so… lewd…"

"No, not because of that," Ryu answered. "But because you love it, and I love you."

Yet another cloud of steam escaped Hanami's ears, but she didn't look up. Instead she just wrapped her arms around Ryu. "T-Then take responsibility…"

"Of course I will," he said as he kissed her neck. "I always will."

Ibuki grinned, pulling out a compact camera and snapping a shot quietly. "She's too cute!" the mother squealed, keeping her voice down so the two lost in their own world couldn't hear her.

"Tch, that body should be illegal," Kaede folded her arms.

Chris giggled. "But isn't their lovey-dovey moment so cute?" she asked excitedly. "Plus we'll get our own soon enough."

"True," Kaede nodded. "But I'm still jealous of that body of hers…"

"Ryu is one lucky bastard," Leon commented from the couch, where one of his harem was covering his eyes with her breasts to stop him from watching.

Katrina giggled from her spot on his lap, grinding herself against him slightly as she made sure to keep his eyes covered. "I should be angry about you wanting someone other than us," she said musingly. "But personally, I'd like a piece of that."

"Well, I can't help it, it's a natural guy thing!" Leon complained. "But then again, this isn't too bad a feeling either. And I'm not so disloyal that I'd just forget about you girls and go running over to Hanami."

"And that's why I'm not mad," Katrina pointed out. "You know that you can look, but not touch others."

"Really though, Hanami, you look beautiful in that," Kaede sighed, looking down at herself and feeling slightly inadequate. "Maybe you should try wearing that thing out, try and build some confidence in yourself."

"I agree with Kaede," Chris announced with a fist pump complete with blazing eyes. "You need more GUTS!"

"B-But I'm not an exhibitionist like the other me is…" Hanami whimpered.

"But it's not exibitionisim, it's being sexy!" Chris argued. "And Sexy is awesome!"

"While I wouldn't put it in such extreme terms, you can start building confidence by trying to change the way you walk, for one," Ibuki chuckled, walking over to Hanami and adjusting her posture, setting her legs slightly further apart and pushing her chest out from behind. "Just start walking confident for now."

Hanami shrunk back into a bit of a slouch as if it would help hide how big she was topside. Ibuki rolled her eyes and adjusted her pose again.

"Hanami," Ryu said softly, getting her attention as he drew her head up by placing her chin between his thumb and forefinger. "You are a shockingly beautiful, kind, compassionate, and passionate young woman," he told her firmly. "And with confidence, you could take the universe by storm."

Hanami let out another puff of steam from her ears at the praise. "I-I-I'll try…" she nodded slowly, stuck out her chest and tried out the most confident walk she could pull off…

"You're goose-stepping with the wrong foot," Kaede snickered.

Hanami paused mid-step with her left arm and left leg stretched out in front of her in an extremely unbalanced pose. "Mugyaa!" she yelped as she began to tip forward, only for Ryu to immediately catch her before she could hit the ground.

Ryu cradled her bridal style in his arms, giving her a proud smile. "A bit over the top, but a good first step," he announced. "Do you think she deserves a reward for that, dear?"

Ibuki let out a small chuckle as she flashed a thumbs up at Ryu and Hanami. "Yep, she does."

"Umm… Ryu-kun…" Hanami spoke up, her cheeks burning red.

"Yes, Hanami?" Ryu asked curiously.

"You… can put me down now…" she whispered, looking off to her side where Ryu's palm was resting on her breasts. The heat from his touch alone was making her feel a little… hot.

"Hmmm… nope," Ryu denied with a grin. "One: I like having you in my arms, Two: Your legs are shaking, leading to three: that wet patch on your panties."

Hanami froze up as she tried to crane her head around her chest to see. When she found out she couldn't do it anymore due to her oversized chest, she felt her crotch for a moment, before letting out a loud squeak and an especially large burst of steam from her ears. Her blush also finally covered her entire body somehow, and she went limp in Ryu's arms.

Ryu jostled her slightly. "Hey, no fainting," he scolded. "Don't want to be asleep for your reward now, do you?"

"Mugyaa?" Hanami blinked several times. "R-R-R-Reward…?" she whispered in a mixture between apprehension and anticipation.

"Well, if you're going to be putting in an effort to increase your confidence, I have to give you… incentives, correct?" Ryu asked temptingly.

The thoroughly embarrassed silverette sucked in a deep breath before letting out a slow nod, fighting to keep herself from fainting again.

"And keeping yourself from fainting, hmm… I think she's wanting the grand prize," Ryu commented to Ibuki in an idle manner.

"Well, she's clearly being very patient waiting for it," Ibuki grinned, noticing that the wet patch on Hanami's panties was growing.

Ryu chuckled as he looked at Hanami. "So, shall we adjourn to the bedroom?" he asked her. "So that you may be rewarded?"

Hanami shivered in arousal and anticipation, letting her agreement be known with a weak nod. She couldn't quite bring herself to care about everyone else in the room already when her beau was being this courteous to her. Hell, she didn't even notice that her peaks were hardened and erect from her excitement, and most definitely showing through her skimpy clothes, not to mention slightly damp.

"Okay, I'm jealous," Kaede sighed.

"So am I," Chris agreed with a pout as she folded her arms under her massive bust. "When's my sexy time with Ryu going to be?"

"You'll get it," Ryu assured over his shoulder as he moved towards the bedroom. "No worries on that."

"You could always go for sexy time with each other in the meantime…" Ibuki giggled, making to follow Ryu only to pause when the door to the bedroom closed in front of her. "Ryu-koi?"

"Sorry Ibuki," Ryu said apologetically through the door. "But this is Hanami's reward, remember?"

"Argh, right…" Ibuki slumped.

Katrina giggled from her spot on Leon's lap. "Did the wife get overthrown by the mistress?" she asked teasingly. "Will you be soothing your ego with the other two mistresses now?"

"Like hell I'm going to do it with my own okaa-san!" Kaede groaned, backing off from Ibuki.

"Or I could soothe my ego with you…" Ibuki grinned, looking at Katrina.

Leon had to let out a low groan as well. "Don't tempt her, Ibuki…"

Katrina grinned widely. "Aww, don't you want to share, Leon?" Katrina asked in a purring voice. "How greedy~"

"I'm not too sure how to explain to Ryu that my partner banged his partner," Leon raised an eyebrow. "Any red-blooded male would find that kind of thing hot, but I'm not sure if I want the added awkwardness between Ryu and I."

Katrina chuckled lowly, pinching and tugging on Leon's cheek like one would with a child. "So cute, you're worried about awkwardness with your boss."

"Besides, is it wrong to want you all for myself, Kat?" Leon grinned, pulling her closer and capturing her lips with his own.

Katrina shuddered into the kiss, feeling herself growing wetter by the second, when they separated she gave him a smouldering look. "You better get us back to our apartment before I make you shove your cock inside of me in front of everyone," she growled lustfully. "And you know what seeing sex does to us MS Girls."

"Well, I guess those three are going to have to find some way to relieve themselves while their harem master is in the bedroom with the mistress," Leon winked at the remaining three members of Ryu's harem as he gently patted Katrina's hip to get her off his lap. "Grab your purchases, girls. I'll carry a few."

It didn't take long for the three horny girls of his harem to gather their purchases before shoving a load into Leon's arms and began to push him earnestly to the door. "See you all later!" Katrina shouted over her shoulder.

"Argh, the nerve of that guy!" Ibuki growled, shaking her fist in Leon's direction even as his harem left the house, before freezing as Hanami's erotic moans floated out through the bedroom door. "Goddammit Ryu-koi!" she groaned, before turning to look at Chris and Kaede with an odd look in her eyes.

Chris grinned in response to the odd look as she grabbed a hold of Kaede and quickly pulled off her new shirt, being sure not to tear it in the process, showing off her breasts to Ibuki and proceeded to start molesting them, getting a mixed indignant squawk and aroused moan from the blackette. "Isn't your daughter just so… molestable?" Chris asked Ibuki.

"She is, isn't she?" Ibuki giggled, joining in the fun as she ran her hands down her daughter's sides, causing her to squirm.

"O-O-Okaa-san!" Kaede protested, even though she could feel herself getting moist down below as the sound of the other two going at it in the bedroom got louder.

"You're feeling it too, aren't you, Kaede?" Chris asked excitedly. "That bliss Hanami is feeling?"

Kaede blushed a bit, but nodded, somehow feeling the bliss of Ryu pushing into her, even though it was Hanami he was doing that to, in another room. "Yeah," she moaned out. "I do feel it…"

Ibuki blinked in surprise as she stared at the pair. "You can feel what Hanami-chan feels?" she asked in shock.

Chris nodded, letting out a low moan. "It's not as good as Ryu's is directly… it's almost like an echo," she explained. "But still… it feels so good…"

"That is just sooo unfair…" Ibuki groaned as she began to strip.

Chris giggled in response, letting out a pitched moan as she felt the phantom pressure hit against sensitive points in her body, before mimicking Ibuki and stripping her clothes off of her body. "I get to see the incestuous love of mother and daughter again!"

"We look more like sisters with radically different hair colour by this point!" Ibuki grinned, sidling up beside Kaede and showing that it really was true - their physical features and apparent age were similar enough for them to be mistaken as sisters.

"That doesn't help, okaa-san!" Kaede yelped.

"That just makes me even more aroused," Chris informed, groping Kaede even more. "This should be fun."

"Aaaahn~" Kaede couldn't help letting out an erotic moan as Ryu also just happened to start massaging Hanami's breasts and coincided with the goldette's grope. She blinked when she felt a slight trickle of liquid on her breasts… "Goddammit Hanami-chan!"

"Milk?" Chris as in surprise before grinning. "Why thank you, I was getting thirsty!" she announced before clamping down on a nipple with her mouth.

"Oooh, me too, me too!" Ibuki jumped at the chance, taking the other nipple.

"D-D-Don't!" Kaede protested fruitlessly, trying to hold on to her composure. "This is just wrong!"

"Why not? It reminds me of when I used to breastfeed you as a baby!" Ibuki chirped, releasing her daughter's nipple for a moment before diving back in.

"Plus this milk is really yummy," Chris pointed out, releasing her nipple briefly. "I think I might have this for breakfast tomorrow."

"Don't!" Kaede groaned, arching her back slightly. "Get it from Hanami-chan instead! I can't believe I'm doing this!"

"Not stopping~" Chris sang before leaning back in to Kaede's nipple.

"Actually…" Ibuki stopped for a moment and turned to look at Chris, particularly at her moist peaks, before moving to her nipple instead and sucking on it.

"Ahn~" Chris moaned out as Ibuki began to suckle on her nipple. "Yes~ Like that!"

"So the echoes from Hanami are making both of you lactate too?" Ibuki grinned lustfully, as she reached down with one hand towards the goldette's thoroughly wet snatch, and pinched Kaede's free nipple with the other. "Interesting…"

Chris moaned as she felt Ibuki's hand tease her entrance. "Yes, please, fuck my pussy~" she pleaded.

"Well, I don't have Ryu's big meaty cannon with me to do it with, but I'll see what I can do," Ibuki chuckled and dove right in with two fingers.


Later that evening - With Ryu


Ryu hummed as he looked over the information displayed on his tablet with narrowed eyes. "Going to need to make this quiet," he muttered to himself. "So no heavy weapons, going to need some silencers."

"Umm… Captain?" an old man with balding white hair dressed in a formal military outfit spoke up in a thick Russian accent, staring at Ryu incredulously.

"How can I help you Major?" Ryu asked, looking up from the Tablet to look up at the officer.

"How are you doing… that?" Major Rogozin Ruslanovich, from the Marines' logistics division pointed at the floating holographic windows arranged all in front of Ryu, on top of the tablet he was holding. "Analyzing all that data at once… should be impossible for any normal human being…"

Ryu blinked as he looked around with a surprised look. "Huh," he said finally. "That's… new."

"We should get back to the point of the meeting though, Major Ruslanovich, as odd as our Captain's behaviour has been these past few days," another man sighed, rubbing his temples. The plate in front of him on the desk said Major Sakari Asikainen, Reconnaissance Division.

"Right, we need eyes on whatever's generating the power in the desert," Ryu announced, setting the tablet down. "And I don't quite feel comfortable in sending out a team without any of the MS Girls being apart of it…"

"If I'm not mistaken, some of the MS Girls have AWACS capabilities, right?" Sakari asked, scrolling through data on one tablet - secretly he was jealous of his captain's newfound ability to browse through several screens at once. "So far we've found four with them, two apparently with the same parent mobile suit. We can have them provide overwatch, and I'd really love to have them in my division after they complete training."

Ryu nodded. "After they complete the basic camp and if they agree," he commented. "For the ground team… have any stealth based MS Girls appeared?"

A pale-skinned woman with jet black hair falling down to her shoulder blades in a low ponytail spoke up, "I'll sortie myself if you need me to, Captain. Apparently my armoured form has a stealth function known as Mirage Colloid that allows me to basically become invisible."

Ryu looked over to the French Major MS Girl before nodding. "That would be extremely helpful," he admitted. "We're going to need more than you though."

"Unfortunately I'm all you have at the moment, Captain," Major Charlotte Beauvilliers from the personnel division shook her head. "MS Girls with stealth capabilities as good as mine are a rarity, apparently. The only other ones I can think of from my analysis of the Gundam series are the N Dagger N, the Nero Blitz, Nebula Blitz, Gold Frame Amatsu and Gundam Spiegel. We haven't found them yet."

Ryu nodded. "I'll go myself then," he announced. "I'll have Ibuki, Hanami, Kaede and Chris on standby if we need heavy firepower."

"Do we really want to use heavy weapons on those ruins though?" Rogozin frowned. "They could hold priceless information about the natives of the planet. It would be a waste to end up destroying them with indiscriminate usage of heavy weapons."

"It can't be helped sometimes if we want to keep our people alive, Major Ruslanovich," Charlotte sighed. "The best we can do is bring along MS Girls that won't cause collateral damage."

"Well, if we're talking about less collateral damage, then Katrina is a no-go since her mega particle cannons will tear the whole ruins up," Leon frowned from his seat beside Ryu. "And she won't be able to use her funnels in gravity too… Kyou should be fine."

"So should my girls," Ryu pointed out. "They're highly adaptable in their use of weaponry, plus Ibuki can make sure that any enemies that might be there can't land reinforcements with that rifle of hers in the higher power settings."

"We can contribute a few UCAVs as well for close air support," Rogozin spoke up. "Retrofitting a few Hunter drones with the GAU-8 should work."

"You sure those drones can support the weight and recoil of those 30mm gatlings?" Leon blinked.

"We'll figure something out," Rogozin dismissed the technical officer's concerns with a wave and a grin. "We Russians have our ways, even if it's with American tech."

Ryu nodded. "Get it done then," he ordered. "Also… how does it go analyzing the MS Girl armor and capabilities?"

"We're getting somewhere at least, but each MS Girl has different equipment and they get more and more advanced as they correspond to the timeline of the original series," Dr. Sarisha Sastry, a native Indian from the R&D department sighed, adjusting her round glasses and tossing her bright pink braid over her shoulder. "The more advanced technologies are beyond our capabilities to analyse for the moment, but we're making progress on building a usable personal beam rifle. Gundanium armour we've figured out how to make, but we're not sure if the elements we need even exist on this planet."

"How soon for prototypes to be rolled out?" Ryu asked curiously.

"We're trying to figure out how to miniaturize the heat dissipation systems and batteries for now," Sarisha replied, pulling up a file and throwing it over to the large projector in the middle of the conference table and causing it to project a blueprint of what looked like a bazooka. "But we'll have these inefficient models ready for use during this deployment. We're calling them Beam Bazookas for now - unimaginative, I know. They're heavy and bulky, and can't fire in rapid succession, but pack about the same punch shot-for-shot as the first Gundam's beam rifle."

"Still better than nothing," Ryu muttered. "Especially with those kinetic based shields the enemy uses."

"We'll be mostly relying on MS Girls for firepower then," Charlotte frowned. "I don't want to impose on the civilians too much… but we really don't have a choice."

"Same here, but remember, we were all prepared for an eventuality like this," Ryu announced. "The only thing we can do, is what we have, work as hard as we can to reverse engineer it and help them fight."

All personnel present in the room nodded resolutely.

"Oh yeah, I'm going to need a combat knife and a rapier if possible," Charlotte turned to Rogozin. "The beam rifle and beam sabers my armoured form comes with are hardly suitable for stealth use."

"No problem, though I have doubts as to their effectiveness," Rogozin frowned. "We don't know how effective our melee weapons are against their armour."

"With the strength boost MS Girls have, it shouldn't be a problem," Leon pointed out. "They can actually exert enough force to break bones with their bare hands when unarmoured. They just get even stronger in armoured form."

"I'm authorizing the usage of the monomolecular swords," Ryu announced, getting shocked looks from the group. "They're fragile yes, but if anything can break past armor, those things can."

"Not so much breaking through as just plain cutting through, Captain," Leon corrected.

"Those will definitely help a lot!" Charlotte grinned in anticipation. "Even if they're not quite optimized for the thrusting rapier style I learned."

Ryu hummed in response as he looked over the data. "I can see how that will be a problem," he admitted. "Do the best you can in this op, I'll have the boys down in Engineering build you a custom one."

"Right," the head of the personnel division nodded, before looking at Ryu hesitantly. "Is… it true that MS Girls get horny if they stay in their armoured form for too long?" she asked uncharacteristically timidly.

"Very," Ryu rubbed his forehead. "I take it you didn't reach that point?"

Charlotte shook her head. "I only had the form for long enough to help fight off the Miltians during the ship's fusion. After that I managed to deactivate it somehow and never reused it until R&D asked to see those of us who had already transformed."

"What, I thought you French were some of the most romantic people in the world?" Sakari chuckled.

"It's precisely because of that that I'm worried about… about that happening," Charlotte confessed, shrinking back into her seat slightly.

"I can understand your concerns, believe me, I can understand," Ryu said with a heavy sigh. "For the most part, it doesn't seem to impact rational thought or your personality… the 'Unicorn' model girls are different due to the NT-D form."

"I mean… I'm just worried I'll go bonkers and start… trying to…" Charlotte struggled to find a word that would be proper in their situation. "Er… do it with the nearest guy in sight, a guy that I might not even know or want to do it with…"

"Well, from the way I understand it, from what the R&D division extrapolated with volunteers, while most do experience the… horniness, it is controllable and it does recede over time." Ryu explained, flipping through the notes. "It's just a slower process than if they… give in, to those urges."

"Did… you ever test the volunteers to the absolute limit?" Charlotte asked hesitantly.

Ryu nodded. "On our first and last try, the heightened lust period lasted for about two days, then they had to abort the test," he let out a wince. "It was too much and doing far too much psychological damage."

The black-haired MS Girl sank into her seat, rubbing her temples. "I-I'll have to be careful not to reach that limit…" a bead of cold sweat rolled down her brow.

Ryu nodded in understanding. "We need to work on pairing MS Girls up with compatible people," he muttered to himself. "Especially if they're going to be fighting…"

"I'm still a… a… virgin," Charlotte spoke up in a low whisper, fidgeting nervously in her chair.

"Well, I'd like to at least try it out once…" Sarisha chuckled. "The absolute limit I mean. I already have someone in mind…"

Ryu nodded. "Very well, I will have them pull you out, so to speak, if it proves to be too much of a mental strain," he informed sternly. "I can't lose my best when I need them."

"Oh, you never know what kind of new ideas you can get from experimenting," the Indian scientist smiled mysteriously, folding her arms under her ample bosom. "But yes, I'll take all necessary precautions and have my partner on standby should I need… relief."

Charlotte turned red at the mental image that Sarisha was apparently suggesting.

"Very well," Ryu nodded. "Charlotte, what should we do with your… situation?"

"I… don't know," the French MS Girl admitted, shivering slightly. "Captain… I'll leave it up to your judgement."

Ryu sighed, but nodded. "Right, how do your energy levels feel right now?" he asked curiously.

Charlotte closed her eyes for a moment to concentrate. "I'm running on a full tank now, I haven't used my armoured form in a while," she replied, opening her eyes.

Ryu nodded. "We'll continue the mission and run reconnaissance then," he announced to the room. "When you feel that you are reaching your limit, inform me and we will pull out."

"I don't even know how to tell that I'm reaching my limit…" Charlotte sighed. "But alright, Captain."

Ryu stood up. "Alright then, the mission will begin at 0400 tomorrow," he said calmly. "Have everyone at their stations and ready for the worst, this meeting is now closed."

"Make sure to get your reports to me soon about your projected equipment and personnel usage," Leon added in, directing a glare at Sarisha. "And make sure your department's reports are properly written this time, Dr. Sastry!"

"Ack," Sarisha let out a very unconvincing gulp.

"Dr Sastry, do I have to make you take the writing course again?" Ryu asked in frustration.

"No, Captain!" Sarisha snapped a hasty military salute. "I'll make sure they're well-written, Captain!"

"Good," Ryu said with a hard look. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to pull the monomolecular blades out of lockup."


END CHAPTER