Reality Intrudes

Chapter 10

"Stop laughing you old bastard. It isn't that funny." Alice glared at Jim. Jim who sat stone faced behind the wheel of the new truck driving to the yard to change to a bucket truck.

"I haven't said a word and I don't think I have changed expression once."

"That's how I know you are laughing your ass off you fuck."

Jim chuckled "Come on babe. It isn't that bad. Who could have known it would freeze her fifty feet in the air like that. We'll get the bucket truck and have her down in a jiffy. We got that clone making fella and these ABB clan chiefs so we are in profit for the night. Rachel and Taylor got into some big money crime stoppers idiots so they are good. Whole bed full of them in Rachel's truck. It's only eleven. We will be home by one at the latest. That was a hell of a snap shot too. I mean dodging that broken up concrete like that."

Alice huffed "I'm keeping that little bitch and retraining her."

Jim shrugged "She just got out of juvy. Not sure it's worth the time or effort. She isn't worth anything though."

Alice nodded and got out of the truck to climb in the passenger side of the bucket truck. One of the night crew took the pickup away to unload it. "We can use a flyer. Sherrel didn't take any effort at all."

Jim looked at her as he climbed in the driver's seat "So three hours a day of classes for her isn't much effort?"

Alice shrugged "Checking her work mostly. If she gets to where she can communicate in understandable English I will be happy. She is a hell of a tinker. She even understands what she builds. You should fuck her." Jim snorted. "No seriously. I'm pregnant, plus she could use some time where she is in total control, plus she is horny as hell but has no self-esteem. She will bring some idiot home. You fucking her would solve a lot of problems. Rachel is doing whatever she is doing with Taylor so it's not like it would be an imposition on your time."

Jim sighed "Maybe I got what I want right there. Plus Sherrel doesn't come out of her shop except to shower once a day, maybe to sleep, once every three or four days. We should do something about that. Not saying she isn't pretty and the cussing doesn't bother me, but She aint you."

"I appreciate that, really I do. It will prevent problems though." Alice tried her puppy dog eyes on Jim. He chuckled again. She huffed "Fine. Don't be surprised when you wake up with her on your cock if you are going to be obstinate. She will get to a more regular schedule when she figures out we aren't going to take the good tools and materials away. We have to build some trust."

Jim growled and Alice grinned. He changed the subject "Speaking of Sherrel, she got the superliners up to twelve miles a gallon."

Alice nodded "And not a btu of heat wasted. Wait until she gets the steam turbines hooked up to the generators instead of those triple expansion engines out of those oldest ships and the scrap yard. Now that we have the five axis mills and she has worked the transmissions and differentials over she can get building on those. That should take them to twenty miles a gallon with the turbines in line replacing the tail pieces on the transmissions."

Jim nodded "So, how does an engine with an aluminum piston run exhaust temperatures of eighteen hundred degrees?"

Alice answered absently "Big oil passages, oil sprayers pointed at the bottom of the pistons and the coolant passing through the oil cooler last after it gives up all its heat to the condensing boiler intake water. Its ambient temp when it passes through the cooler, knocks a hundred degrees off the oil temp. Pull up on the left. I want her facing away from you in the bucket."

Jim rolled his eyes "You are going to strip her aren't you. Why don't we just dart her? It's the hands that are dangerous not the shit she is carrying."

Alice nodded "Sure, if she didn't get someone to tink some autonomous shit."

Reality Intrudes

Jim looked over the gym area from the running track around the outside of it. Alice had gone completely crazy with the, bunker, underground base? Lair? Anyway the fucking thing was two hundred thousand square feet on three levels and getting bigger as she had workers digging to bedrock, a hundred feet down, seven stories. He probably should have put his foot down but she wanted the access to the bedrock to start mining and she got all kinds of shit from the dirt for her chemical works at the old refinery. Meh, it kept her busy. Horny and demanding to. He chuckled. Lisa glared at him "Her demanding you fuck her in every room of every facility she starts is some sort of psychosis you know."

"Keeps her happy. Which means she bitches less. Life isn't some Japanese shit anime. It ain't some legendary tale either. It's hard work, what did that dude say, nasty, brutal and short. Yeah, that about covers it." Jim shrugged. "And if momma isn't happy, nobody is happy."

"Except in your case." Lisa eyed him.

Jim nodded "Maybe. Meanwhile I can make a twenty year old Asian who could win a miss universe competition howl like a wolf and I get to shoot idiots for money. Don't even kill the fuckers now. Just freeze them in time. Took a while but as it turns out, maybe it ain't so bad."

"Alice gets to indulge her whims for inventing shit no one has ever seen or heard of. Sherrel gets to build her monster trucks, sweet rides, as she calls them, Rachel gets to play with her dogs, Taylor gets trained and some support in taking over the fucking world and remaking it in her starry eyed, rosy tinted, image and you get to help her do it by corrupting that fucking OCD freak from Boston's plans and having fun doing it."

"Chill Lisa. Need some sex?"

"Yes. NO! Goddamnit!" Lisa leapt up and fisted her hips stomping her foot at Jim.

Jim fell over laughing. He eventually managed "I didn't mean with me. If you want though we can knock it out."

"Not here. No! Goddamnit!" Lisa stomped off. Jim brayed like a donkey.

Heidi, Rune, looked at the running track and snorted "That frucking dude is weird."

Alice narrowed her eyes "What did I tell you about racist humor?" She tossed a small tube at Runes feet.

Heidi screamed when it exploded. "Fucking bitch! Stop with the pain crackers. I swear to god!"

Rachel shrugged "Negative and positive reinforcement training. Beats just threatening your family, or having you raped."

Heidi shook herself and grimaced "OK fine. Damn. Hey speaking of shitheads. You know Kaiser isn't going to let this stand and the videos of you and Jim taking me are on PHO. He is going to come calling."

"Fucking hope so. I made a shit load of those freeze mines. Goddam things soak up resources like you can't believe. Billions of gallons of sea water and sewage to harvest that. Palladium is cheap at a thousand dollars an ounce compared to some of that shit. If it wasn't for all the other shit we get from the water and sell off we would have to sell pussy or drugs to afford it. OK enough fucking off, back to exercise. Jim likes his women muscular." Alice clapped and made shooing motions.

Heidi rolled her eyes "Like I want to bang the old folks."

Rachel shrugged "I like em muscular too."

Heidi snorted "Taylor would kill you, cradle robber."

Taylor walked up behind Heidi "Nope. We can do you together. You can be my birthday present." Heidi leapt in the air yelping as the others laughed.

Later Heidi looked at Taylor "You aren't gay."

Taylor grinned "Not anything yet. Child of my era? Girls are hot but maybe that's the advertisers having an effect. Boys can be hot too."

Lisa laughed "Muscles are what you think is hot. You are as bad as Jim." She snatched Taylor's shampoo. They were all in the shower attached to the gym.

Taylor shrugged "I don't think it's bad?"

Rachel, five foot eight inches and a hundred and forty five pounds at about ten percent body fat smiled and flexed a bit. Taylor blushed and the others chuckled. Then they blushed. Rachel was pretty fucking hot. Taylor huffed. She was still waiting on some more 'shape'. Though with the diet and exercise she had picked up a cup size. A pleasing development, even while she leaned out and added lots of muscle to her tall frame.

Heidi asked "School?"

Alice grunted "Fuck those idiots. We run a better school. Max you out. Got any friends you trust? Bring them along."

"Price of admission fucking the old guy?" Heidi arched a brow.

Sherrel snorted "You wish. I still haven't gotten him on this. Of course having access to all the tools and materials I want is a little distracting. Soon though I am going to have to do something about it. All work and no play you know?"

"Yellow fever?" Heidi watched Alice's hands.

Lisa shook her head "No or he would never leave the pickers break room. Different, not not interested but not like boys or men we are used to. He doesn't think about it near as often. More like a woman in that regard. Still tactile though. Not getting off in his head like we can."

Sherrel grunted "You can. I need something to get there, something other than my thoughts."

Taylor sighed "It sucks to have to build models of people though Lisa. We will find you someone." Lisa gave her a small smile.