Call Girl
Chapter 36
Kate hadn't failed to notice that their new friend had been watching her closely as she tied Rick's hands and attached a rope to use to drag him behind her horse.
"You have not been out long," Mistress Val'de'Stim mentioned. Kate's skin was pale much like her slave. Neither of them had a tan telling her that these two didn't get out much.
"My parents died suddenly and that hurt. Finally I just couldn't stay there any longer. Just me and him." Kate continued their story and nodded behind her at Rick.
"This will be different," Mistress Val'de'Stim told her.
o- [:] -o
Kate was told to put her slave in the pen just like Rick had said they would. Kate didn't like it but she had little choice. That was followed by meeting the head mistress of this village. They didn't have a spare building for her to sleep in so they gave her a space inside the main meeting building. To Kate it looked like it had just recently been a closet. However, it had a bed and that was about it and even it barely fit.
She was also given a job. Everyone in this village had chores to do to support the village. In her case she got to wash and brush horses. At least she wasn't all alone in this but it also meant she was doing something she had never done before.
As she washed and brushed a black gelding she found herself glad she wasn't the one looking at their feet. One at a time, no less. Now her problem was that she was hungry.
o- [:] -o
Rick meanwhile was having his own form of fun. He was learning that even slaves had their own form of hierarchy and since he was new he was at the bottom. He was now the lowest of the low.
He also got to watch how slaves used the bathroom. It was a hole with a pole over it for them to sort of sit on and do their business. OUT IN THE OPEN!
They had no chairs and their beds were hay. But since he was the lowest of the low he got dirt. Then along came a mistress and she began pointing at men. "You three will follow me." She had a job for them and their muscles to handle.
"What did she want them for?" Rick asked one of the men who didn't seem to be liked by anyone either.
"Construction project most likely. That or the mine," he replied gruffly.
"Mine?" Rick had recently seen men in a mine and these people didn't have nearly any advancements so how did they mine anything?
o- [:] -o
Rick spent most of his time up against the fence and watched everything he could. He was here for research after all.
A woman yelled, "SLAVE!" and Rick actually turned to see who was after who this time. "Yes, you slave." She pointed right at him.
Rick pointed at himself since she had to mean someone else. He wasn't her slave.
"Come with me, slave." She had a job for him and since he was new she was going to find out if he was any good.
After arriving, collars were put around the necks of all slaves. A leash was attached to Rick's collar and found himself being taken to an open air barn-like structure. It was only a roof with four or more poles holding up the roof. Under the roof was nothing but hay. Most of it was still in bales but not all of it. This was where she stopped.
She immediately began to remove his thong. Mostly it simply covered his private parts and exposed a fair amount of ass. "What are you doing?" Rick had an idea what she was thinking and he didn't approve.
Incensed, she slapped him hard enough to split his lip which began to bleed. "Speak again, slave, and I will whip you," she threatened.
Rick knew he had a weapon on him but how was he going to explain her being found unconscious later and how was he going to get back into the pen? A slave walking around without a mistress sounded like trouble to him.
Removing his thong only took a moment and now it was lying on the hay floor. "Not bad." She liked the look of him. "You are going to service me, slave." That had Rick really worried. His mind was thinking she meant sex. As in he was suppose to fuck her. Kate would kill him if she ever found out.
o- [:] -o
Kate was grumbling to herself. Washing and brushing hadn't actually been all that bad. The two horses she had washed and brushed so far had simply stood there and let her do her work.
"Now they want me to go get hay. How am I supposed to get that much hay from there to here anyway? Do I look like Arnold Schwarzenegger?" Kate continued grumbling as she walked. She'd been told the hay was under a roof off in this direction. She still didn't know how she was going to move enough hay to satisfy even two horses.
Kate walked in and to her surprise saw Rick standing there. He was totally naked and this woman with big tits was down on her knees and had his cock in her mouth. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"
"Mistress!" Rick finally had a reason to pull his cock out of her mouth. He dropped to his knees then bowed down to the ground and put his hands on the ground before her.
"What the hell is going on?" Kate yelled again.
"This slave is going to service me," she said haughtily.
"THE HELL HE IS! He is mine and no one else's and what do you mean service you?" She had his cock in her mouth not in her… "LIKE HELL HE IS!" Kate finally caught on to just what she meant.
"My standing allows me to have any slave I choose service me," she said, eyes blazing. She even had the gall to suck in her stomach and stick out her breasts at Kate.
"Touch him again and I will kill you," Kate growled at her and laid her hand upon her sword's hilt. She was bluffing because she was betting this woman could take her in seconds. Still her nanites would save her and Lucile would transport her so she could eat a whole lot.
"You dare to challenge me?" She put her hand on her own sword's hilt.
"I don't have to challenge you over something that doesn't belong to you!" Kate snarled and kept her hand on her sword.
"The arena it is then." She stormed off leaving Kate and Rick behind.
"Arena? As in Roman arena?" Kate's eyes opened wide for a moment before turning her wrath on Rick. "You were letting her give you a blowjob?"
"I'm a slave and she's a mistress! What was I supposed to do?" Rick was still down on his knees looking up at Kate.
"And you were going to fuck her, too, I suppose?" Kate was beyond angry. Her husband had his cock in some other woman's mouth and she just knew sex was next.
Rick attempted to explain. "I hadn't really thought that far yet, but no, I wasn't going to fuck her. I just hadn't figured out how to get out of it without getting both of us into trouble."
"Oh, you're in trouble, mister, big trouble." She just hadn't yet figured out what she was going to do to him. He had his cock in someone else's mouth and she didn't share.
"LUCILE!" She wanted out of here. She'd had enough of this place already.
o- [:] -o
Kate was sitting in a chair on the bridge, not giving a damn where Rick was. He could be in outer Mongolia for all she cared. She was still steaming about what she had seen. Some woman had plans for her man. Her husband, her mate!
Lucile materialized and tried to defend Rick. "You are a mistress, Kate. Men are slaves on this planet. It is not like Rick had a choice."
"Of course he had a choice! He was standing there naked with his…" Kate screamed at the ceiling.
Lucile tried again. "As a mistress you could have ordered any of the men to do the same thing. Men have no rights there, Kate. You know this."
"I don't want another man. I just want Rick and she was going to…" Kate couldn't say it. Just thinking about it was too much. "I'm not going back down there, I know that much and neither is Rick. No one touches him but me."
"This is how their society works, Kate, and we still need to finish our research if we're going to get paid," Rick reminded her from the doorway after getting dressed.
"Screw research! No amount of money is worth watching you with your cock in some woman's mouth and you didn't even stop her!" Kate was still so very angry.
"I was armed but I didn't know what to do after I stunned her. She's a mistress and we're new here. Or did you miss the me slave part?" Rick questioned her.
"She was going to have you fuck her, wasn't she? GOD!" Kate waved her arms in her agitation and looked at the ceiling.
Suddenly an alarm sounded which had Kate spinning in her chair to look at her controls. "Proximity alert! Another ship has suddenly exited FTL near us and is headed on an intercept course for us," Lucile informed them.
That had Rick racing for the other chair. "Identification?" Rick asked Lucile.
"It's big, like really big," Kate stated as she looked at one of her screens.
Lucile was surprised. "It is your parents' ship, Rick!"
"Mother and Father are here? Why are they here?" Rick didn't even know where they'd gone. It had only been a few months.
They were both trying to understand why when they heard it and watched as Martha was put back together directly behind both of them.
"Richard." Martha was all smiles. They had found them and she was very happy about that.
"Mother?" Rick didn't understand.
"Martha!" Kate was happy to see her.
"You two need to come with me to our ship," Martha told them. "Lucile send these two, please." Then Martha promptly got ripped apart and was gone.
"What was that about?" Suddenly Kate wasn't nearly as angry and looked at Rick.
"You've got me." He had no idea and without even asking Lucile transported the two of them next to Martha and they saw Jackson sitting in a chair.
"WOW!" Kate knew she'd never seen this room before. Jackson was sitting in front of a lot of controls and he had a whole lot of glass in front of him.
"Now this is a bridge, Mother." Rick liked it.
"Table," Jackson said then pointed and got up. He went to the table and waited for these three to join him. "We have something we need to show you and tell you. But we're short on time." Jackson suddenly went back to his seat and sat down.
"Lucile, I need you to dock at this air lock and allow a secure connection. The second you do we're going into FTL," Jackson told her as he waited and watched intently.
"What's going on, Mother?" They couldn't leave yet. He needed to finish his research somehow if he was going to get paid.
"You'll see, Richard. I need you two to trust us." Martha knew they needed to do this.
o- [:] -o
Jackson was satisfied and they watched through the glass as this ship entered FTL, presumably with their ship attached somewhere.
He was back over at the table. "I need you two to watch this. We were given this recording so we weren't actually there when this happened. Now get ready this is going to be hard to watch and follow," Jackson warned them and began pressing panels.
Suddenly there were two 3D views hovering above the table, however, everything looked frozen. "This is a scan recording on this side. Blue triangles are one side and red squares are the other. Now this side is a little bit of actual footage. It's not much but enough." Jackson activated both views.
Rick and Kate were trying to look back and forth between the two views. "Two fleets. They're in combat." Rick opened his eyes wide.
"Combat? Like a battle using spaceships?" Kate focused and tried to make sense of what she was seeing.
"Who versus who?" Rick queried.
"An invader and someone you know well. Now just watch," Jackson replied even if he hadn't really answered the question.
Rick pointed at the view of ships in combat. "I know that design. One side is the people that hire me for the research that I do. I don't recognize the other ships."
Rick and Kate kept watching and the view showed a number of ships of their client blowing up spectacularly. "They're losing!" Rick's jaw dropped as he watched Jackson point at the scan of both fleets.
"They're blue and the other side is red," Jackson mentioned.
They all watched as the blue triangles kept vanishing and suddenly the view of combat ended. "The drone recording this was destroyed," Jackson explained since now all they had was the 3D view of a scan of the area.
Little by little all of the blue triangles vanished leaving just the red squares. "They lost!" Rick was stunned.
"One hundred twenty-eight ships. An entire fleet," Jackson told them.
"I thought they had this empire and couldn't be beat." Kate looked at Jackson then at Rick.
Jackson told them the obvious. "They found someone bigger and badder than they are. We got this third hand so keep that in mind.
"They are called the Movellans. The theory being floated is that they're a mechanical species," Jackson said to them.
"Robots?" Kate was shocked.
"A Movellan." Since the battle replay was done he changed it to a view of a Movellan.
Everyone saw a humanoid being. Two legs, two arms, a body, and a head. They were wearing mostly white, had black belts, and tall white boots. They had silver colored dreadlocks for hair and of the two one was black in color and male while the other was a white female.
"They don't look very robotic," Kate commented.
"We don't have many views of them but so far they all look the same and all of them are armed." Jackson changed the view to show that each had something attached at their belt. It looked like a cone and was pink in color.
"So why did they attack or better question who attacked whom?" Rick inquired since he knew his client. They were not above attacking anyone they chose to.
"This should answer that question." Jackson pressed a different series of panels and a voice came over the speakers.
"We are the Movellans. You are an organic and will be eliminated. You are infesting space and need to be cleansed." The recording ended.
Rick raised both eyebrows at that. "The working theory is that they're mechanical and simply make more of themselves. They've decided that all intelligent organic life is not a true life form so all organics must be eliminated." Jackson leaned back in his chair and watched his son and his daughter-in-law.
"We're the life forms. They're robots," Kate insisted.
"Not to them," Jackson countered.
"So how did you two learn all this?" Rick asked his parents.
"That's the good news. We found more of our kind. Thousands even." Martha was glowing and smiling brilliantly about this.
"Our race!" Rick was shocked.
"It was just a scout ship that held four people but they informed us that they are part of a ship that holds thousands. We are going there soon and want you two to come with us." Martha watched them intently.
Jackson had something to tell them. "There's some really bad news. This fleet that just destroyed a fleet of ships is headed your way. Meaning your chosen home planet will be next."
"NO! We just built our home. We've barely even spent any time in it," Kate cried out then groaned. "TiPhar." It sounded like her best friend was going to be killed by robots.
"We are headed for your planet now, dear." Martha truly felt for her then patted her arm. "We have space for maybe fifty people or eighty tops. Our eleven bedrooms are just not going to be enough. We will be having people sleeping everywhere."
Kate felt better about that. "And go where?" Rick questioned his parents.
"To their ship to live." Jackson touched some panels and the 3D view changed to one of the Milky Way Galaxy. "We are here." He made a light blink. "We're going to meet them here." A red light began blinking. "From here we're going to go to way over here." This time Jackson used his hand to point at a far away area of the galaxy. "No one knows what's there but we're going to risk it. We know what's coming so maybe there will be safer."
"You two and your friends and perhaps some of their friends are coming with us. We were given approval to bring some friends. We just didn't tell them how many." Martha had tried to be careful about that in fear of having them say no.
Rick looked at the map. "It will take counlless years to get there." Rick waved his hand at that area of the galaxy.
Jackson shook his head briefly. "Apparently not. As big as our ship is we'll be docking in a bay for spaceships. Once both of our ships are secure and we have someplace to stay they'll be using their drive to get us there. They utilize what at the time was a prototype drive our people had designed." Jackson had given his son a hint.
Rick had to think about that till his face showed surprise. "A Fold Drive!?" And watched his father nod.
Kate tried to understand. "Fold Drive? Isn't that where you bend a piece of paper and the two edges join?"
"That's the one!" Jackson was a bit surprised that she knew the concept given that Earth didn't have a single spacefaring ship. "Now I don't understand how the drive works but the way these four talked about it it isn't going to be just one jump. It sounded like the trip was going to be several jumps with a cool down after each jump."
"We are going to need to fill this ship with not just people but food and other supplies," Martha informed them.
"So this ship's going to fit inside their ship? Just how big is this ship?" Kate was starting to think Death Star size or at least Super Star Destroyer.
"It's a City Ship. The very last City Ship our people ever made," Jackson responded.
"City Ship? Like in huge?" Kate spread her arms wide.
"Father, that would make it…" Rick tried to do the math in his head. He knew how old he was and how old his parents were so that made this ship even older than he was. "And it still flies?"
"We didn't talk about that, but yes. Keep in mind with droids and enough material you can make repairs and replace anything you want. It could last for centuries if you're willing to do the work," Jackson reminded him.
"Replace outer hull panels. Scanner emitters, shield emitters, power conduits, power cores, entire computers…." Rick couldn't even begin to imagine what would be needed to keep this City Ship viable and up to date enough to want to live in it.
"A lot of hard work. We'll both likely be put to work the second we arrive," Jackson admitted.
Rick paced as he thought. "We're going to need to get more than just food. We're going to want computers, droids, engine parts, power cores, you name it."
"We haven't used my droid kit yet," Kate told them. "I think it's even still in the cargo bay. Can we stop and get more?" Kate knew all about needing things. She alone was going to need a lot of food.
"Sur'Kesh. Will we even be going in the right direction for them? We could undock our ship, make the trip, and meet you somewhere," Rick offered.
"We can talk about it, son." Jackson was willing to see if it would work.
Kate had questions. "A city ship?"
"I don't have an image of it. Sorry. However, if it helps think a ship capable of holding roughly three hundred thousand people. We were told that a third of it was water that was used for fishing and sailing for pleasure. As well as swimming of course." Jackson told her and watched as Kate's mouth fell open.
"Oh and it's domed so you can see out into space." Jackson chuckled as Kate's mouth dropped open again.