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Kyou - Delta Plus
Lesson Four - Relationships are hard
Leon's Quarters
"Unh… what happened last night?" Kyou asked herself, even as she woke up in what did not appear to be the barracks, but rather a private apartment of some sort. "I recall that I had been running dangerously low on energy by the time I made it back to the ship… but everything else between then and now? A blur."
When she started to sit up in the bed, she realized something… off. "Huh? Why does it feel like someone stuck a meat stick up my pussy and past my hymen?" she asked herself in deadpan, mere moments before she realized what she just said. "Past my hymen?!" she exclaimed.
"Nugya..." came from next to her, catching her attention. "Who's being so loud in the morning?"
Blinking, Kyou looked at the source of the voice, seeing that it was a verdette woman with a significantly smaller chest than her own, who was barely waking up. "G-Gomenasai," she apologized in a soft tone. "I didn't mean to disturb your sleep."
The verdette blinked a few times as she looked around. "Oh, right, Leon's quarters," she mumbled before plopping back down on her pillow. "Sleepy time…"
Kyou started to wonder what this was all about… until, for some inexplicable reason, her memories of the time between returning to the ship and waking up came rushing in like a flash flood.
The previous night…
Kyou sped towards the doctor from the colonists, hoping to figure out how to avoid losing her virginity, when she heard the sounds of a man and a woman going at it like no tomorrow coming from one of the nearby rooms. Stopping herself, she made her way to the door where the noise was coming from, when she was assaulted by the sounds of a couple she'd only heard over the radio.
"Leooon!" a feminine voice called out in bliss. "Harder~"
"You're being rather enthusiastic for someone who reluctantly agreed to… this!" the male grunted.
"It's just so big!" the female informed, her voice entering into a higher pitch at the last word. "How could I not be enthusiastic for it?"
"Thank you for the compliment!" the male replied. "I'm not hurting you too much, am I?"
"N… no," the female replied bashfully. "You're really gentle - even when fucking me into the bed…"
"I hold myself strictly to my code of conduct, Katrina," the male said softly. "Going to have to dig up some nice massage techniques later to help with your soreness."
Katrina let out a pitched moan. "I look forward to it… Leon," she informed in a husky moan. "Now, if you don't start moving that cock of yours I'm going to rip it off and do it myself."
"Hey, I thought you were supposed to be in your dere mode, not your tsun mode?" Leon groaned, even as the sound of flesh smacking against flesh picked up anew.
"Sh… shut up and fuck me!" Katrina shouted over her moans. "I… I just want to feel it inside me."
"Fine, fine," the male relented, speeding up his thrusts. "No regrets?"
"N… nooo!" Katrina informed in a high pitch. "How could I regret having this inside of me?"
"Alright… then…" Leon grunted out with some noticeable effort. "You're getting so tight…"
"I'm… I'm going to cum soon," she admitted. "Please… fill me up with your seed!"
"I'm close… too…" Leon groaned. "Get… get ready for it!"
"Leon, I'm cumming!" Katrina shouted as she let out a mix of a shriek and a moan.
"Here it comes!" the male roared.
"LEON!" Katrina moaned out. "Your seed… it feels so good inside of my womb!"
"That was actually my… first, you know," Leon confessed.
"Same," Katrina agreed. "But, my hymen tore during training, god that day was embarrassing."
"Sounds like a tale for another time, Katrina," Leon chuckled. "You're looking pretty wiped already."
Katrina chuckled sultrily. "Mm, but you're as hard as steel, Leon," she countered. "It would be remiss of me not to look after that."
"Wait, what are you-" Leon was interrupted as he let out a throaty moan. "Argh, that feels good!"
A muffled giggle was heard, as if Katrina had something in her mouth. "Itsh my firsh shime doing shis," she informed. "I shope you lishe ish."
"Of course I do!" Leon groaned. "Keep it up and I'm going to cum again!"
A lewd suckling sound was heard through the door as Leon moaned again, followed by a slight pop and a disappointed groan from the man. "Let me taste your seed, please… Leon," Katrina pleaded, her voice dropping several octaves as she purred his name before he moaned again.
"Ask and ye shall receive," Leon laughed.
Katrina let out a muffled moan of pleasure and after a few moments she let out a gasp for air. "It's so thick and tasty, Leon," she purred huskily. "And it's still so hard…"
Kyou, at that point, suddenly felt her armor disappearing. "EEK!" she let out, even as she hurried into the room without any regards for who might be in there, locking the door right behind her as the armor fully vanished.
Two sets of eyes stared at her as she stood there, back plastered against the wall, a green haired woman with cherry red eyes, kneeling between the legs of a man with black hair and brown eyes, the woman released the cock that she had inside of her mouth as she stared at Kyou. "Who the hell are you, why are you naked, and why shouldn't I kick your ass?" the verdette demanded.
Kyou blinked in surprise, before she stammered, "K-K-Kyou Y-Y-Y-Yamato, a-a-a-and my armor d-d-d-d-d-disintegrated, a-a-a-and I'll be l-l-l-leaving shortly!"
The pair looked at her before their eyes drifted lower to where her snatch could be seen, dripping juices down her leg. "What do you think, Katrina?" the male asked down to the woman between his legs. "Even you basically just admitted you can't get this thing to go down."
Katrina pouted, a thin sheen of sweat covering her naked body. "I know… but…" she trailed off looking at Kyou. "You're really horny too, aren't you?"
"Y-Y-Y-Yes, I am…" Kyou admitted, before she clapped her hands around her mouth in shock.
Katrina glowered at her for a moment. "Fine! You can help me with Leon," she said with an imperious air. "But I'm his lover, you're just his toy to relieve stress that I cannot, understood?"
"H-Hey, Katrina…" Leon protested quietly.
Kyou blinked, before asking, "Why can't we be equally his lovers? Isn't he man enough to have more than one lover?"
Katrina blushed cutely in a mixture of embarrassment and anger. "But I want him to be all mine!" she shouted. "Mine and only mine!"
"Then you don't want me to help out?" Kyou tilted her head to the side in confusion.
Katrina blushed even further. "That's why you're the toy, so that he can manage this monster of a dick better when I can't!" she shouted.
"Katrina, enough," Leon said firmly, making Katrina blush even further. "First off, even if she did want to join in, you'd still be special to me, and secondly, we didn't even ask for her opinion."
"Leon…" Katrina said as she ducked her head to the side. "Fine, she can join as your lover… but I'm your wife, got it!"
Leon let out a choked 'erk' in response to Katrina's declaration.
Kyou timidly walked forward to be at the bed with the others. "Um… please, give me the time of my life, Leon, Katrina," she said, even as she got onto the bed with them.
Leon smiled gently at her as he cupped a hand around the back of her neck and pulled her into a soft, gentle kiss, their lips pressing against each other as he placed a hand on her breast and slowly began to massage it.
"Ahn!" Kyou moaned into the kiss as her breast was massaged, before she sought entrance within Leon's mouth. Pushing her tongue to his lips, she begged for entrance.
Leon parted his lips as the two deepened the kiss, his massaging of her breast became a bit more earnest as he picked up the tempo, Kyou jolted in surprise as she felt something warm ghost across her lower lips, and looked down in surprise in time to see Katrina drag her tongue along her lower slit. "Pay attention to Leon," Katrina told her with a small glare. "That's the only reason you're here for, I'm just making sure you're ready to take him in here."
Kyou gave Katrina the 'a-ok' symbol, before she focused her attention on Leon. As she did so, she wrapped her arms around him and squeezed her considerable assets against him as she drew him closer.
Leon groaned as he felt her breasts press up against his chest, as the two kissed, his hands were now both occupied with massaging the parts of them he could reach while down below, Katrina began to slowly push her tongue into Kyou's pussy, drinking up the juices that were pouring from her.
"Ahn!" Kyou moaned into the kiss again, this time because of Katrina devouring her insides. Even still, her attention was on Leon and the ministrations he would give her.
"You're liking the attention Katrina is giving you, huh?" Leon asked in a husky whisper as they separated. "Do you want to return the favour?"
"Return the… favor?" Kyou asked, a bit confused by Leon's words.
"Do to her what she's doing to you," Leon clarified with a small smirk.
Kyou's eyes widened, before she nodded enthusiastically. "Alright, Leon…" she said, before she positioned herself and Katrina into a 69 position, sticking her tongue inside the other woman's snatch.
Katrina moaned as she felt the bluette's tongue press inside of her, the weight of the other girl pressing down upon her in a warm way, instead of feeling oppressive weight upon her - like she had thought such a position would have felt like - it rather felt intimate. "Ah… your tongue…" Katrina moaned out encouragingly as Leon positioned himself behind Kyou, his tool ready for penetration.
Kyou couldn't speak to Katrina at that time, especially since she was dutifully returning the favor given to her, devouring her insides like Katrina was doing to her.
Katrina, upon seeing where Leon intended to penetrate, smirked before she went back in, although she didn't start attacking the pussy, instead, her tongue brushed up against Kyou's rosebud.
Kyou finally let out a squeak in surprise when she felt Katrina's tongue there, something her own tongue appreciated, especially since it hit a rather sensitive spot in the alpha's snatch.
Katrina let out a low pitched moan in response. "Like that~" she encouraged before looking up at Leon with a heated look and pulled apart Kyou's ass cheeks. "It's all ready for you, Leon."
Leon nodded in understanding as he pressed himself against Kyou's rosebud, making the bluette jerk slightly as her eyes widened. "I'll be gentle," he promised as he slowly began to push himself in, all the while Katrina began to focus her own efforts of Kyou's clit.
"Ahn~!" Kyou let out, even as her anal virginity was slowly being taken from her and obliterated. Even though she wanted to say more, she honestly couldn't say anything, both because her tongue was occupied and because of Leon's four inch thick dick going up her ass.
Katrina watched entranced as Kyou's ass was parted by Leon's dick. "It feels great, doesn't it, Kyou?" Katrina asked in a low moan. "I remember when he did that with my ass…"
Kyou couldn't help but nod at what Katrina said, even as she hit the latter's most sensitive spot inside her pussy in her attempt to devour Katrina's insides.
"Man, she's really trying to squeeze my cock of its juice," Leon commented with a slight grunt.
"Oh~" Katrina moaned as she felt her inner coil tightened. "I'm going to be cumming soon~"
Kyou didn't have the chance to say anything, even as she finally got Katrina to orgasm from her licking, spraying her face with Katrina's juices. As soon as she got her face out of Katrina's pussy, Kyou said, "Ahn~ More, Leon, more! Go harder, faster too, but don't be gentle!"
"If that is what you want," Leon grunted out as he picked up his pace, slamming into her. "I hope you're ready for it, cause it's going to cum soon."
"Ye-Ahn~ Yes, I'm re-Oh~ ready!" Kyou shouted. "Give me your load!"
"Here it comes!" Leon shouted out as he gave one final thrust into her and let out an explosive orgasm, dumping his seed into her.
Meanwhile, Kyou's pussy was quick to react to the huge amount of seed going into her, despite it going up her rectum. Her ass, on the other hand, was able to milk Leon's dick for a bit before she slumped to the bed. "Alright…" she said. "I want it past the wall this time."
Leon nodded in understanding as she rolled off Katrina to lay down on her back. "If that's what you want," he agreed as he positioned himself at her vaginal entrance. "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be, Leon~!" Kyou said enthusiastically.
Leon nodded as he pushed himself into her pussy, breaking past her barrier and fully sheathed himself into her womb. "Wow… you're really tight…"
"And I'll hopefully stay tight, too," Kyou said before Leon started his thrusts in her pussy.
"It's really trying to milk me for everything," he commented. "You really want my seed, don't you?"
"Yes~! I do~!" Kyou cried out, even as she felt the massive dick sawing through her womb, before she noticed something odd about her belly… there was a bulge going up and down her stomach in time with the dick's tempo! He was so massive he was rearranging her stomach lining!
Katrina eyed her enviously before she moved over and began to suckle on Kyou's breasts. "I'm jealous that mine aren't this big," she pouted slightly as she played with her opposite number's breasts. "I want bigger ones."
"Ahn~! More… more~!" Kyou exclaimed, even as Katrina played around with her pumpkins. "Play with my body more, both of you~!"
Katrina grinned as she held one of Kyou's nipples between her teeth. "Wow… I think she actually wants to be a toy…" she commented in slight surprise.
"I want to be Leon's toy most of all~!" Kyou confirmed, mostly because of the aphrodisiac-like chemicals in her system, though. "As well as the toy of anyone else who loves Leon like I do~!"
Katrina grinned as she bit down a bit. "See, Leon," she said to their shared lover. "She wants to be a toy."
"Huh… who would have guessed?" Leon said in surprise as he continued to pound into her. "So… does that mean you want it rougher or something?"
"YEEEEESS~!" Kyou screamed. "Make it way rougher than before~! In fact, don't just make it rougher, I want you to fuck me stupid 21 ways to Sunday~!"
Leon blinked before shrugging and increased the force of his thrusts, the bulge from his cock becoming more pronounced with each thrust, even as Katrina became rougher in her ministrations, her fingers twisting Kyou's clit at the same time. "I'm going to cum soon!" Leon shouted out.
"Y-Ahn~! You don't need m-ahn~! My permission t-ahn~! To cum~!" Kyou shouted out for Leon to hear.
"Who said I was asking?" Leon replied. "Because I'm claiming this womb!"
"YES~! THANK YOU~!" Kyou screamed to the heavens, even as she and Leon came at the same time, her inner walls clamping down hard on his dick to fully milk him for what it's worth.
Leon panted as he felt his balls empty out into Kyou's womb. "I… I'm finally tapped," he informed in a panting breath.
Kyou panted hard as well, especially as she closed her eyes. "I'm so… tired, master~. I need sleep…" she said.
"Go ahead and sleep," Leon said patting her head before nearly collapsing on top of her, resting his head on her large breasts.
End Flashback
"Oh… that's what happened," Kyou muttered, unsure of what to make of the situation.
"Mph," came the oh so very intelligent response from the verdette who was on the bed with her. "It felt amazing…"
"I'm not gonna deny that…" Kyou said, even as she looked at the still hard protrusion inside her inner walls. "Still, I guess that we were lucky to be with him… forever and ever."
"Oh, a romantic are we?" Katrina asked with a sly smirk. "Funny coming from the one wanting to be a toy."
Kyou had the decency to blush at that. "W-Well… because I love him is why I want to be his toy, and the toy of whoever else he is with," she said at last.
Katrina blinked and looked at her in surprise. "You love him?" she asked. "No offense, but you don't even know him."
Kyou sighed, looking down at that. "Honestly, I think it's love at first sight… plus, in my culture, women are supposed to be married to the one who takes their virginity and/or makes them pregnant… this counts."
"Huh… well… just remember, I'm the first wife," Katrina informed haughtily as she gripped one of Leon's arms possessively.
"Not gonna question that," Kyou chuckled weakly, even as she embraced Katrina. "Thank you."
Katrina flushed slightly as she felt Kyou's assets press up against hers. "S… shut up…" she mumbled out, ducking her head.
"I'm serious, though," Kyou said. "Thank you for accepting me… and my place in the relationship."
"You're… welcome… I guess…" Katrina mumbled cutely.
"Right, now that that's over with," Kyou said, even as she released Katrina from her embrace. "I suppose we should get to know each other better, right? My name is Kyou Yamato… or, it was, before this happened. What's yours?"
"Katrina Sanders," the verdette informed. "I'm Captain Hisanaga's personal assistant and communications officer."
"I see… thank you for filling me in," Kyou said, before she glanced at Leon's sleeping form. "And… who's our husband?"
"Leon Kho…" Leon informed with a small groan as he woke up. "Weapons officer and 2IC of Sanctuary… well that happened last night…"
"Oh? Thank you for telling me this, honey," Kyou said. "I… really wanted to find the right person for me somehow, which is part of why I was in the military, in spite of the sexism involved."
"Huh… so… by your culture's law, we're married now?" Leon asked for clarification. "Man, this is Karma, it just has to be…"
"Yes, we're married," Kyou admitted. "Although… my brother would likely want to kill whoever he thinks raped me, because of his overprotective tendencies, which, while nice, are too much for a woman to have."
"Great, the one thing worse than a mother, is an overprotective brother," Leon groaned out. "Well, we should get informing him out of the way as soon as we can… but… I am hungry…"
"Me too, Leon, make us breakfast…" Katrina whined.
"Me? I can barely boil water, let alone cook," Leon protested.
Kyou raised her hand. "My mother taught me how to cook when I was younger," she said. "I might be a bit rusty, but I'll make breakfast."
"Well, it'd be better than the unidentified goo the two of us would make," Katrina informed her. "I can't believe I almost forgot about your attempt at cooking during Colonial Training, that thing almost got the better of Captain Hisanaga."
Kyou winced at that. "Ouch… not fun. Well, let me get to the kitchen in here, then."
"Back in the main room, to the left," Leon informed, gesturing to the right. "I need a shower…"
"This way, Kyou," Katrina informed as she climbed off the bed.
"Thanks," Kyou said, before she remembered something. "Uh… honey? Your morning wood's still here."
Leon blinked. "Oh, sorry," he replied as he removed himself from within her. "Better make that a cold shower," he muttered to himself.
"Aww… I wanted to be your toy longer…" Kyou whined.
Leon let out a small 'erk' before he coughed a bit. "Well… I suppose I could make use of your body, Toy," he informed, letting a leer slip onto his face.
"Yay!" Kyou exclaimed, even as she tackled into Leon in an embrace. "Use me however you wish, I don't care how!"
Leon sweatdropped a bit before nodding as he looked down at her assets. "Then I want you to give me a titjob," he commanded her. "Put your full effort into it."
"Okay, honey!" Kyou exclaimed, even as she let go of him. Positioning herself at the right place, she hefted her large breasts and squeezed them around his dick, noting that a few inches were left uncovered. Rubbing her I-cups together around Leon's little sword, she put her mouth around the last few inches to help him along, suckling all the while.
Katrina grinned as she witnessed Kyou getting down on her knees. "Ohh~" she moaned, feeling herself tingle down below. "What a nice, obedient toy we have," she cooed before moving over to kneel down next to her. "Let me help you… just this once, toy," she then proceeded to take one of Leon's balls into her mouth and began to suck on it, much to Leon's vocal encouragement.
"Damn, that… that feels really good, you two," he told them.
Kyou didn't have the ability to thank Leon for the compliment, given her dutiful dedication to his enjoyment. As she massaged his dick with her jugs, she suckled on the part not covered by her breasts, swirling her tongue around what was in there.
Leon groaned out in pleasure as he placed his hands atop of her head, pushing down lightly as he rocked his hips a bit. "Glad to see that toy's udders have some use for us," he commented to Katrina, who smirked. "I'm tempted to keep her in the bedroom forever, just as our toy and that is all."
Kyou moaned in pleasure from how her body was being used, even as she took more of his dick into her mouth, and felt, right then and there, that her ultimate purpose in life was to please her husband. She continued swirling her tongue around the part of his cock in her mouth, making sure to keep up the pace, and she continued moving her breasts up and down Leon's dick.
"I think she should get a reward," Katrina informed as she reached down and began to slowly tease Kyou's pussy, making her shudder. "Would you like that, toy?"
Kyou nodded in anticipation, even as she continued her task at hand.
Katrina smirked and pushed three of her fingers into Kyou's pussy and set a rough pace, pumping her fingers into her. "Mm, you like that?" she asked as she felt Kyou's pussy ripple around her fingers, before using her free hand to give Kyou's ass a light smack. "How about that?"
Kyou moaned in pleasure at what she was feeling, even more so with her her body doing what it was under her conscious will.
Katrina grinned as she gave a bit of a sharper slap and pressed the thumb of the hand pumping into Kyou's pussy down on her clit. "Mm, I love our new toy," she cooed. "Don't you, Leon?"
"It is a nice toy," he agreed. "I'm going to cum soon!"
Kyou didn't need to be told twice, even as she sped up the process of Leon's release.
"Here it comes, I hope you enjoy your breakfast Toy!" Leon shouted as he exploded into her mouth, even as Katrina did her best to trigger Kyou's own orgasm.
Kyou's own orgasm was almost at the same time as Leon's, especially since she let out a flood of her juices, while at the same time drinking down Leon's thick and creamy cum.
Leon let out a relieved sigh as he pulled himself free from Kyou's warm pillows and mouth, his erection dying down finally. "Good girl," he told her, patting her head like a pet with a small smirk. "Now… I really need a shower."
Kyou nodded, before standing upright. "I'll make the real breakfast, then, and take my shower after eating," she said. "Also… thank you."
Leon blinked. "Hm? For what?" he asked in confusion.
"For treating me right, for one thing," Kyou answered. "Also… for complimenting me on my abilities."
Leon blinked. "Oh…" he replied dumbly, unsure of what to say. "You're… welcome?"
"Oh, she most definitely is!" Katrina informed with a wide grin, licking her hand clean of Kyou's juices. "After all, she's our adorable little toy!"
Kyou beamed at that. "Thank you very much," she bowed, a smile on her face.
"Mmm, I think we should get to work before I start to eat you," Katrina cooed. "We don't want to waste our day away with only sex… okay, maybe we want to do that, but we can't… we have stuff to do."
Kyou blinked, before she facepalmed. "I can't believe I forgot about my duties to the Miltian Empire military!" she exclaimed exasperatedly. "I really need to convince my brother not to kill you, honey…"
"Yeah, don't think I want to be killed," Leon agreed with a sweatdrop. "Anyway we can break the news while avoiding that?"
Kyou opened her mouth to say something, but couldn't really think of anything, so she said, "I'll get back to you on that."
"Please do," Leon informed as he stepped into the bathroom and closed the door.
Residential Block B - Serizawa household
Chris let out a low groan as her eyes slowly fluttered open, her lower lady parts were feeling a bit numb. "What happened last night?" she questioned in confusion.
"Oh, you're finally awake, Chris," Ibuki chuckled from beside the bed, swirling a glass of something that looked distinctly alcoholic. "Had fun last night?"
"Huh?" Chris asked as she looked around the large bedroom she was in, as well as the large king-sized bed, on either side of her were Hanami and Kaede, laying unconscious, face down on the bed with dildos in their pussies, feeling a… peculiar feeling in her loins she looked down to see another dildo sticking out of her own. "What happened last night?"
"Well, you girls got a little… hot and bothered while I was doing it with Ryu-koi," Ibuki scratched the back of her head. "I must admit he's very different from what I was used to."
Chris nodded absently as the memories of the previous night came flooding back to her, turned out that proximity and sight of sex happening could also set off their new aphrodisiac-producing brain part, which led to the three younger girls getting into the action, using dildo's whenever someone else was being fucked by Ryu. "Yeah… Ryu's… something else," she agreed. "It… it was fun last night, I didn't know your tongue could twist like that inside me…"
"It's… slightly liberating being able to think like a teenaged girl again," Ibuki confessed with a wistful smile. "I feel younger already after last night. And here I was thinking I'd never be able to accept another man after Koshiro-koi passed…"
Chris blinked and tilted her head slightly. "Umm, not to sound rude or anything… but… your face does look younger, like you lost a few wrinkles or something," she informed cautiously.
"Well, that's a really nice compliment," the mother laughed, looking down at herself. "I should be past my prime already, but it might have something to do with finally getting some action. You girls look more mature as well, like you've lost some extra baby fat."
Chris blushed slightly as she looked down at herself. "Umm… maybe?" she responded before looking around. "Hey… where did Ryu go?"
"Captain's business, he had to leave a little earlier," Ibuki explained with a sigh. "Our lover is a very busy man, Chris."
Chris nodded in understanding. "Man… look at me, I was a slum girl, that had been fortunate enough to be chosen for the Colonization effort," she informed as she hugged her legs. "And from there I was catapulted to one of four lovers of the Colonization's Leader…"
"I don't think any of us expected to get into this situation either," Ibuki gulped down the last of her drink before setting the glass down gently on a table. "Quite honestly, this almost feels like a dream to me…"
Chris smiled slightly. "I can't complain though," she agreed, tucking a strand of hair behind her head. "Plus the benefits are amazing."
"I couldn't agree more," Ibuki laughed, hefting her large breasts. "Whatever that star did to us, these things don't even sag one bit despite being on normal Earth gravity! And we're apparently strong enough not to get back pains from them!"
"Plus the sex!" Chris agreed with a happy smile before something dawned on her. "Oh no, I never got to use Kaede and Hanami as my models! We never even went shopping!"
"Wouldn't it be more fun to do the shopping with Ryu-koi around?" Ibuki giggled. "And watch his face as we try on increasingly more exotic clothing?"
"Okaa-san!" Kaede shot upright with a groan. "Stop giving Chris-chan ideas!"
"But I like those ideas," Chris informed with a happy smile. "Let's do it!"
"It'll take a while for the shopping arcade to get back into full swing after the crash though," Ibuki mused, completely ignoring her daughter's protests. "Not to mention the need to source for suitable local materials… Think we should help the local craftsmen along with that? I mean, with our armour, we'd make really good escorts to ward off any local unfriendly wildlife…"
Chris nodded in encouragement, her excited nod doing… interesting things to her chest. "Yeah!" she said aloud. "Think of all the exotic dyes that could be produced!"
"Mugyaa… noisy…" Hanami rolled over on the bed, ending up in a pretty uncomfortable position lying on her breasts. After a bit more rolling around, she finally got up, blinking groggily.
"While I won't object to helping get everyone else back on their feet after all that happened…" Kaede sighed, rubbing her temples, "What do we do if we run out of energy again and need to look for Ryu-kun? And okaa-san, you don't even have your armour unlocked yet…"
"We just let Ryu-koi know what we'll be doing, and I'm sure you girls can help me do something about that," the mother responded immediately, having already thought out everything.
Chris let out a giggle as she threw her arms up into the air. "Field trip!" she shouted out excitedly.
"Kaede-chan… what just happened?" Hanami asked her black-haired friend.
"Something troublesome," Kaede simply replied with another sigh and a shake of her head. "But… maybe it's something better to do than just lazing around."
"Yup yup, plus we get to help people and explore more of this new world!" Chris added. "It'll be so much fun!"
"And I don't think we'll be having the classes we were promised until we fully settle down anyway…" Kaede added as an afterthought.
Hanami blinked away some more of her drowsiness. "Um, new cooking ingredients?" she asked.
"Of course you'd be thinking of that, Hanami," Ibuki smiled. "Of course. Let's just go see what needs doing for now."
Chris nodded as she leapt to her feet, her breasts swaying a bit. "Let's go!" she shouted out eagerly.
Residential Block A - Conference Room 002
"I call the Colonial Heads meeting into order," Ryu announced as he took his seat at the head of a table with a large assembled group of varying people. "I would like to welcome Captain Argus Delnaz of the Miltian Naval Fleet, the people who our ship fused with, to this meeting," he gestured over to where the Captain sat with one of his aides who both nodded in return.
"This meeting is over the… situation we have found ourselves in, and the opportunities it presents, first off, as of this moment, we are on an unknown world, that shows signs of an attempted colonization by an alien species of reptile origin that were attacked by another species - also of reptile origin, but of a different type - and killed, now I understand that there are those that wish for us to focus our Colonization efforts on this planet?"
"It is perfectly logical for us to do so, Captain," the Head of Domestic Affairs, a bulky man who had been an electrician before he was selected for the effort, spoke up. "The scouts have reported that the infrastructure of the settlement you clashed around is still fully functional and easily adaptable for human life. If there are more settlements out there like that, then it would greatly reduce the amount of effort we need to put in to make this venture succeed."
"There is the matter of the aliens attacking us, however," the Head of Agriculture pointed out, a slim woman with graying black hair and brown eyes behind a pair of wireframe glasses. "How can we safely Colonize if we're under constant attack?"
"We can enlist the help of the armoured girls to help protect us, right?" the Head of Domestic Affairs replied. "We've all watched the recording of the battle. Overlooking their more… shameless natures, their strengths have already been proven once."
"About that," Leon coughed, stepping forward beside Ryu. "It has come to my attention that the armoured girls apparently have their roots in something from old Earth. Most of them don't seem to know, but their powers are derived from large humanoid exoskeletons known as Mobile Suits. And they are pure fantasy."
There was a short period of surprised murmuring before Ryu raised his hand for silence. "Can you clarify this for us, Leon?" he asked, turning to his 2IC.
"Gladly," Leon bowed, pulling out a tablet. "These Mobile Suits only appear in animated videos from Japan, from several series collectively referred to as the 'Gundam universe'. While there are certain differences in scale, our armoured girls, or MS Girls as I shall hereby refer to them as, share very noticeable similarities to select Mobile Suits. Most are unique, but grunt variations have been noticed as well."
At that, Leon pinched a file between two fingers and sent it flying towards the holographic screen in the center of the room. "I have selected some choice footage from one of the series in the universe known as Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, and edited it alongside battle footage recorded from the clash yesterday. You will observe those similarities I was referring to."
Ryu's eyes narrowed as he saw Hanami, Chris and Kaede go into their further transformed state, alongside three 'mobile suits' that held shocking similarities to them. "They're based upon each of these… 'Mobile Suits'?" Ryu asked. "Does that mean we can extrapolate their abilities from their… 'parent' suit?"
"Yes, we can," Leon nodded. "Their ability to morph their own customized weapons also seems to be based on their 'parent' mobile suit, which means that they can only morph weapons their parent suits used."
Ryu hummed in response. "I don't like putting the entire weight of defending the Colony on these girls, some of them only have the barest training in combat, let alone full-scale war," he informed. "While I agree they are critical for our defense, we should only have those who volunteer for the duty fight."
"I concur, Captain," Leon nodded, taking a step back.
"Captain, with all due respect, I believe we have a case of conflict of interest here," the Head of Domestic Affairs' eyes narrowed. "Are you not romantically involved with those three girls in the video?"
Ryu sent a look at the man. "I have asked their opinion before the fighting even started, they wish to fight," he informed. "And they wish to continue fighting, it was not them I was talking about, but rather those who were pressed into combat without choice," he tone dropped several levels towards threatening. "And are you implying that I cannot put my duties as Captain before my own personal feelings, Director Barkhorn?"
"I stand corrected then, Captain," the man, Director Irvin Barkhorn nodded. "But without full cooperation from those 'MS Girls', we may not be able to adequately fight off our enemies on this hostile planet. Wouldn't it be better for us to conscript them into the security corps and have them help defend us?"
"And what, create an army of child soldiers?" Ryu asked in complete deadpan. "If that's so, why do we have such things as our research and development teams, our engineers and scientists who are working around the clock to develop new ways for us to fight back against whoever we may come into conflict with?"
"Sacrifices are sometimes necessary for the survival of our group, Captain," Director Barkhorn said gravely. "If we don't sacrifice those girls now, we might stand to lose even more precious people later on, without knowing how much time it'll take to develop the new weapons and tactics we need. Even with new weapons, it doesn't change the fact that our security corps are more than likely outnumbered by whatever the aliens have."
Ryu shook slightly in his seat, his eyes glittering dangerously as he glared at the Director. "Well then, by that reasoning why don't we also hand you a gun and force you to fight as well, Barkhorn?" he asked in a low voice. "After all, every life to buy time right?"
Barkhorn shook his head. "From what we've seen, the MS Girls vastly overpower the aliens, and won't even be hurt by any of their weapons. If we train them well and mount a preemptive strike, we could rid the planet of the aliens and secure the safety and prosperity of the colony for years to come. Think about it, Captain. They have the power to make a change. Shouldn't we then train them to use that power?"
"Only if they wish to, Director," Ryu informed. "I am all for them fighting, because I do agree that they do make a difference, but… if we force them to fight, when they have no desire to, then we are no better than the Cult of Serka."
That had many of the people in the room wincing, the God Serka was one of the… less popular Gods whose primary domain was conquering, and doing so at any cost, the Cult of Serka was one that took this to an extreme in a black mark on their Earth's history, when they forcibly conscripted hundreds of children, elderly and anyone else they could get their hands on and forced them to fight a bloody war of conquest.
"But Captain, surely you agree that all MS Girls, awakened to their powers or not, should be trained to use their powers, right?" Barkhorn pushed on, feeling he was in the right. "Without proper training, they could end up hurting themselves due to lack of control and proper restraint. I'm not suggesting a complete military training scheme, but rather something similar to a… National Service of sorts. We should train them to an acceptable level at the very least. That way, they can still defend us in an emergency, but they don't have to stay in the military chain of command permanently unless they choose to."
"Barkhorn, right now I am treading on my own moral ground," Ryu informed. "By agreeing that we should even consider training civilian volunteers for combat, and while I agree they do have the potential for harm, imagine what would happen to them if they were overstressed, those three there," he gestured to the image of Hanami, Kaede and Chris in the 'ascended' state so to speak. "Reached a secondary state in the midst of combat against this enemy, and thank Santis they were mentally stable, can you imagine what would happen if a forcibly conscripted person were to awaken like that in less than ideal conditions? Or if they mentally broke down? Forget about the damage they would do to themselves, they could potentially try to kill each and every person they saw responsible for causing it! Including us!"
"Captain, that is why we need to at least train them to control their powers so things like that don't happen," Barkhorn pointed out. "If not full military training, at least just enough that they know what can happen to them due to their status as MS Girls. We don't have to expose them to deadly conditions, and it would definitely be preferable to have them know how to fight, but not need to. We'll keep them in the very last line of defense, where they stand the least chance of getting hurt."
Ryu forcibly calmed himself down. "On that, we can agree director," Ryu informed. "I suggest you be careful on how you word things, as when it comes to the topics of forcing people to fight against their will when there are other options, is a very sensitive subject for me, for only monsters take the easy way out."
"The reminder of that dark mark on our history was sufficient, Captain," Barkhorn nodded slowly. "I apologize for bringing up the bad memories."
Ryu nodded. "Now, onto other matters, our engineers report that Sanctuary's modular build model remained intact from the ship's fusing," he announced. "As such, when we manage to complete what repairs we can in this situation and get airborne, we can detach the Residential and Shopping Arcade Blocks for Colonization efforts."
"Then what will we do with the ship? Convert it into a warship for defense purposes?" Barkhorn asked. "We don't have need for a dedicated cargo ship with a small, self-sufficient settlement that the ship's provisions allow for."
"That is one of the reasons Captain Delnaz is here," he informed gesturing to till then silent Captain. "Captain?"
"Thank you, Captain Hisanaga," Argus nodded as he stood up. "I would like to mention that, at present, the ship would need to go to a drydock for full repairs that would be needed. It might not be what would have been hoped for, but, at the very least, we know the full extent of the repairs needed, and are willing to share that information with the colonists that have a hand in the maintenance of the ship."
"In other words, this ship is going to have to leave the planet at some point to be fully repaired," Ryu clarified. "We would never be able to build dry docks with the limited resources we have at hand…"
"Regretfully, that is the case, Captain Hisanaga," Argus sadly nodded.
"So, this is our situation, Captain Delnaz has agreed to assisting us in ensuring that the colony is fully defensible, should the aliens from before return," Ryu informed, giving the captain a grateful nod. "However, I believe that our best defense would be to draw their attention away from this planet, in other words, using the ship as bait, and for that to happen, we will need to have some of these… 'MS Girls' with us."
"I have no objections to that, but where are you going to drydock the ship?" Barkhorn inquired. "Even if you say that we'd never be able to build dry docks with our resources, where would you go about finding a dry dock we can use?"
"I was hoping to find the deceased aliens we found in the Colony and try to broker a deal with them," Ryu informed. "Granted it's a bit of a longshot…"
"It's more than a longshot, Captain, with our lack of navigational knowledge in this new world," Barkhorn frowned. "Perhaps it might be a better idea to assign some of the MS Girls to more mundane mining duties to gather enough materials to actually build the drydock? They do appear to have enhanced strength, and the ship does possess the refining facilities to handle most of the complicated work."
Ryu shook his head. "There is still the factor of being attacked again," he informed. "With our current situation, I personally would rather not colonize this planet at all and leave as soon as possible as we are able to maneuver better and not be stuck defensively, even if the ship is weakened at the moment, however, I realize that many here have no wish to fight, and are simply not capable of fighting, which is why I believe this ship should be used as bait to draw away the majority of the enemy ships if they do return."
"But still, you're going out there with barely any chance of successfully finding the progenitor race here, Captain," Barkhorn reasoned. "There has to be another way, perhaps we can mine the local settlements for clues? They have to have kept navigational logs somewhere…"
"That's what our teams are doing now," Ryu informed. "They're working with Sigurd as we speak to translate whatever they can, even if we can get a heading."
"Then I will offer my support in whatever way possible," Barkhorn nodded. "Captain, the colony needs you. Make sure you do come back afterwards."
Ryu smirked in response. "Well, considering that all we face is the unknown? I think I'll be fine," he informed with a slightly cocky tone before addressing the entire room. "Are there any other matters that need to be brought forth?"
"I have something to bring up, Captain," the head of Research and Development, a older man with grey hair and dark brown eyes wearing a white labcoat over a simple button up shirt and blue jeans. "We have been studying the rock that you recovered during your expedition to the Colony, and quite honestly, we were shocked to find that it emits the same type of radiation that Sigurd recorded as what changed some of the women on the ship."
The entire room blinked in surprise. "Really?" Ryu asked. "This is a surprise…"
The scientist nodded slowly as he typed in a few commands into a console. "One of the researchers, Ymir Collase, volunteered herself to testing to see if it held the same properties," he informed as a holographic image sprang to life in the center of the room, showing a dark skinned, brown haired, brown eyed woman wearing a black body suit that clung to her small B-cup breasts and slight hips, standing in the center of a containment room with the still covered glowing green rock next to her.
"This is Researcher Ymir Collase," the woman informed to the recording camera. "This is a test to see if the radiation the rock is giving off still holds transformative properties, okay, remove the shielding unit."
A mechanical arm lowered from the ceiling and attached to the seemingly glass case and lifted the case off, allowing the radiation to escape, seconds after doing so Ymir let out a grunt before a small scream before a light engulfed her.
The case was quickly slapped back into place as a pair dressed in full HAZMAT suits entered and approached the now collapsed Ymir who now sported white, orange and yellow streaking burning red hair and bright green eyes with a now paler skin tone with a definitely larger DD-cupped breasts and wider hips.
The pair quickly pulled her from the room as the video ended. "As you can see, it still holds its transformative properties," the director informed. "We tried with a male volunteer, but other than some dizziness, nothing happened."
Argus raised an eyebrow at that. "If that's the case, then what if they were made women artificially, instead of staying in their natural form?" he asked.
The director shrugged. "Well, if you know of a woman trapped in a man's body let me know and I'll have the surgery room prepared," he replied blithely. "Unfortunately, that was one of the things that we had to screen for, not out of discrimination, but necessity, as we had to think of procreation."
Argus nodded. "I understand what you mean," he said, "and I believe I know of some candidates for the process… willing candidates, at that, sir."
The director blinked in surprise. "Oh, that was actually meant as a joke, but by all means, send them to me and I can walk them through the Gender Reassignment process and discuss the risks with them," he informed. "Once their hormones have settled they can volunteer for testing."
Argus nodded again. "Thank you, doctor," he said.
"Alright then, thank you Director Vossler," Ryu said to Doctor Erik Vossler, who actually held the record for most Medical PhD's held by one man. "If that is all, I call this meeting to an end, thank you all for your time, and I wish you well until our next meeting."
With Hanami and the others
"Well, so we've got a job… for now," Ibuki held up her tablet, a contract displayed on it. "I didn't quite expect to get one so fast, from a tool manufacturer, but okay…"
"Only because you were so pushy, okaa-san…" Kaede sighed. "I don't think I've ever seen someone that pressured to accept us."
"It's an adult technique, Kaede," Ibuki winked, turning back behind to look at the shop front. "Besides, I didn't even use my feminine charms, so you can't complain about that."
"Er, Ibuki-san, I think our feminine charms come into play regardless of whether or not we're actually trying to use them…" Hanami weakly raised her hand.
"Nope, they can be used," Chris interjected. "Flash a little skin, give your voice a cutesy or husky tone, and men will do anything!"
Hanami opened her mouth to say something, before a small puff of steam left her ears and she turned slightly red.
"Chris-chan, I don't think they'll work on Ryu-kun…" Kaede muttered with a small smile.
Chris hummed. "Well… maybe we need to use more skin to sway him?" she offered. "Or Puppy Dog Eyes, those are great too."
"Don't be indecent, Chris-chan…" Kaede smacked the goldette lightly on her head with a knife hand.
"Well, I don't think he'll mind," Ibuki chuckled. "When we're the ones doing it at least."
Hanami's cheeks turned noticeably redder.
Chris giggled excitedly in response. "Oohhh, I can't wait for the Shopping Arcade to open," she informed happily. "Getting so many modelling ideas… including a Ryu's Eyes Only risque lingerie shoot."
Kaede smacked Hanami upside her head just hard enough to stop her from passing out. "Don't do that, Hanami-chan," Kaede sighed.
"That's why we need to hurry up and help it open!" Ibuki declared.
"Yes, Ibuki!" Chris cheered with a fist pump and YOUTHFUL fire burning in her eyes. "For the Lingerie Shoots!"
"Why do we feel like the most normal people in this group?" Kaede looked at Hanami.
Hanami blushed and shrugged.
"Because you are, so stop being normal!" Ibuki grinned, grabbing the two normal girls in a headlock and dragging them over towards the airlock leading outside the ship designated for civilian use.
"So, where are we heading, Ibuki?" Chris asked curiously as they moved.
"The shop we're contracted with now, Piezo Metalworks, identified a strain of ore nearby using the resource scanners that recently came back online," Ibuki explained, referring back to the contract. "They've been looking for people to go check it out, but they don't dare to send any non-armoured people along because of the alien scare."
"So we're digging?" Chris asked. "Oohh, down and dirty!"
"Yep, we'll be digging," Ibuki confirmed. "We'll have a drone along with us that'll help check the purity of the mineral vein. If it's usable, we bring back whatever samples we can."
"Cool," Chris replied with a wide grin as with a slight humming noise a cylindrical-like drone came floating down to them, several claw like grippers mounted along its body while the main camera/scanner was prominently displayed on the front of it. "Ain't you a cute little fella, I know, I'm gonna call you Spot!"
"Really, Chris-chan?" Kaede smacked her forehead, almost able to see the faces of the men in the control room for the drone in her mind. Even the drone itself had a bead of cold sweat on its back somehow.
"Well, I guess we need to change before we head out," Ibuki nodded to herself as she looked out over the expansive landscape from a view several stories high up. Access to the ground level from the airlock was provided by several platforms connected by stairs, built on the side of the ship. A few crew were bustling around, quite grateful for the Earth-like composition of the planet's air not requiring them to wear helmets.
"Why?" Chris asked looking down at her compression suit. "Our clothes get shredded when we transform…"
"That's what I meant by change, Chris," Ibuki chuckled, looking around them once again at the predominantly male crew. "No sense giving them a peep show, so let's find somewhere with a little more privacy to strip down and you can teach me how to summon the armour."
Hanami gave a pointed look at the drone as they headed over to a more out-of-the-way spot behind a few large crates. "You guys over there had better not be looking," she advised, killing intent leaking from her as an ominous white Noh mask appeared levitating in the air behind her.
The drone quickly looked away.
"That still scares me, even after so many years in cold sleep…" Kaede blinked, staring incredulously at Hanami's trademark floating mask.
"Eh? What are you talking about?" Hanami seemed genuinely confused as she looked at Kaede with her head cocked sideways. In the same instant, the mask dissipated into nothingness.
Chris looked at her with sparkles in her eyes, fists under her chin. "Hanami! Teach me that please~!" she cried out pleadingly. "That was so cool~"
"Teach you what?" the silverette blinked in further confusion.
"Keep trying, Chris… you're not getting that one out of her," Ibuki sighed, one step further away from Hanami than earlier.
Chris folded her arms and pouted. "But it looked fun…" she whined, giving Hanami a surprisingly serious look. "I'll figure it out one of these days, just wait and see!"
"I don't even know if she actually doesn't know how she does that or if she's just playing innocent…" Kaede groaned, eyeing the still confused Hanami. "And it never shows up on any recordings for whatever reason either…"
"It's one of the few things that scares even me," Ibuki confessed, shaking slightly. "I'm just lucky she doesn't pull it out whenever I want to have some fun…"
"Pull what out?" Hanami asked.
"Never mind, Hanami-chan!" Kaede muttered, checking their immediate area for any cameras and finding none.
"Right, transforming time!" Chris shouted as she closed her eyes momentarily and reached for the energy she could always feel in the back of her mind, upon 'touching' it she was engulfed in a light before a tearing sound was heard - her compression suit falling in pieces around her, as the light died down she was now clad in her familiar golden armor. "It feel's good, like, all tingly and stuff," she informed with a giggle.
"It's like…" Kaede took a moment to think before adding. "Remember that energy we gained when we were changed?"
"Yeah?" Ibuki nodded, reaching inside her where she could feel the energy.
Hanami was stripping off her compression suit off to the side so she wouldn't tear it while transforming.
"Just get a good feel for it…" Kaede encouraged her mother, making sure to copy Hanami in the meantime.
"Maybe I can help!" Chris chirped as she stepped up to Ibuki placing her hands on her shoulders before concentrating on both of their energies. "Maybe if I push my energy in like… this…"
Ibuki suddenly stood ramrod straight as what felt like electricity passed through her body, causing her to heat up. "Ahn~" she couldn't resist letting out, even as she leaned against the wall for extra support, her hand reaching for her core down below.
"Chris-chan, what did you do?" Kaede looked on, horrified.
"I was trying to help bring her energy out!" Chris informed defensively. "Umm… I thought that I could kinda do something like jumpstarting a car battery?"
"Sure, the energy we have does behave like a battery, but that's not really a reason to do this right off the bat!" Kaede groaned, pulling her mother up and freezing up slightly when the Serizawa matriarch groped her breasts.
"Heheh… you've gotten bigger…" Ibuki giggled, even as both of them were engulfed in light.
When the light subsided along with the ripping sound of Ibuki's compression suit tearing off her, Kaede was standing off to the side, her hands around her armoured chest protectively. Her mother was standing against the wall, blinking and clutching a red armoured handprint on her cheek.
The biggest difference, however, was that Ibuki was in her armoured form now - a majestic red, blue, yellow and white coloured set of armour consisted of pauldrons made from three sharp shells layered over each other with sensors pointing forward where her shoulder should be. Yellow and blue chest armour bared her cleavage, with a blue protrusion from the center of the chestpiece holding a green, flashing orb that appeared to hold some significance. A few thin strips of red armour wrapped around her midsection, baring her navel. Slightly lower down, a white pair of spandex panties covered her hips, with additional coverage provided by white skirt armour with blue highlights.
Covering her legs from the knee down were two white greaves ending in red heels, while a pair of white and blue gauntlets wrapped around her arms. The most striking feature about the gauntlets were the yellow claws on the backs, although reversed they appeared to be capable of flipping over for melee attacks. A pair of mechanical, but birdlike wings in the primary colours of her armour also materialized on her back, while her ensemble was completed with the addition of long white and blue ear extensions to make her ears looked pointed and a golden circlet with two pairs of V-shaped fins flanking what appeared to be sensors.
"I needed that," Ibuki sighed, blinking in surprise as her green HUD made itself known, superimposed over her vision. "This is cool," she flexed her limbs, marvelling at how well they moved despite the bulk of the armour.
"Wow~" Chris cheered, looking Ibuki over. "Your armor looks so cool~! Not to mention sexy."
"Quite honestly though, the trend with the armour seems to be sexy and revealing so far," Kaede frowned, looking down at herself.
Hanami blushed as she touched her own core of energy mentally, and emerged from the resulting flash of light in her own white armour. "It does seem to be the… case…" she nodded, covering her exposed underbust with an arm.
"I kind of wonder how what Ryu-koi thinks when he sees us like this," Ibuki laughed, striking a sexy pose and blowing a kiss at an imaginary camera. "I haven't worn anything like this in years!"
Chris giggled in response. "Oh! Maybe I can do a fashion shoot with all the transformed girls, do a Calendar or something!" she realized in excitement. "With more risque shots for their… significant other!"
"That's an idea!" Ibuki laughed.
"Don't encourage her, okaa-san!" Kaede groaned. "I don't wanna be a gravure model!"
Hanami was clearly almost ready to faint from the sheer thought of being a gravure model.
Chris turned to the pair, her eyes seemed impossibly large and watery as she curled her hands up under her chin. "Pwease?" she pleaded cutely. "Only Ryu will see our risque photos."
"That doesn't change the fact that posing in the armour is going to be risque enough as is!" Kaede complained, pointing at her chestpiece where her underbust was exposed. "And the Puppy Eyes technique doesn't work on other girls of the same age!"
"Damn," Chris pouted as she crossed her arms over her chest. "It didn't even have to be a naughty photo, even just a group pose picture…"
"Err… Kaede-chan…" Hanami tugged at Kaede's pauldrons softly. "I don't think Chris-chan gets it that our armour itself is indecent…"
"Can we just go grab the minerals already?" Kaede groaned, trying to change the subject and distract Chris.
"Fine, but I'll get you yet," Chris swore as she turned sharply, causing her hair to swish behind her. "I swear it! Now… um… which way are we going again?"
"That way," Ibuki pointed off somewhere in the distance, near a few hills, jumping slightly when her HUD apparently downloaded the contract data off the tablet she had been holding to display a waypoint in her field of vision. "Okay, that helps a lot."
Chris giggled as they started walking. "I know right?" she asked. "I mean, we don't have to get lost anymore!"
"Well, sorry for having a bad sense of direction," Kaede grumbled at her own expense.
"That's one thing she doesn't take like her okaa-san in," Ibuki snickered unrepentantly.
Chris knuckled the side of her head. "I do too actually, I wasn't allowed to leave home without my GPS," she informed. "I could get lost in a straight hallway with two doors."
"Hanami does okay, when she has a map," Ibuki indicated the armoured silverette, who blushed lightly in response.
"So do we need any specialized equipment for the dig?" Kaede tried to deflect the subject away from her own navigational incompetence. "I mean, even with our enhanced strength and durability, I don't think our hands are good for digging…"
The drone floated over to a crate and hovered up and down over it as if beckoning them over.
"What is it Spot? Is Jimmy stuck in a box?" Chris asked the drone, getting a smack to the back of her head from the other three. "Ow…"
"The next time she does that again, I'm throwing her off the nearest platform with a vertical drop," Kaede smacked her forehead, even as she watched her mother approach the crate.
Once she was close enough, the crate opened up to reveal a few pieces of assorted mining equipment, as well as a smaller crate that was floating on an antigravity device, apparently for holding the ore they would need to deliver.
Chris inspected the mining equipment for a moment before grabbing a hold of a large power drill that was normally used by the automated mining Drones and lifted it with ease. "Heheh, I love my new superpowers," she informed twirling the drill over her head. "Super strength for the win!"
Ibuki nodded, hefting a similar drill with one hand. "It's quite scary how light this feels…" she noted absentmindedly. "Oh yeah, you girls mentioned being able to transform guns as well?"
Hanami nodded meekly, drawing her rifle from the back of her hips. "We got ours from touching the guns from the Eligor…"
Chris nodded eagerly in agreement before placing a finger on her chin in thought. "Although, Ryu said that it only works with certain weapons from what he could figure," she informed. "He said that one of the girls he was working with tried it but it didn't work…"
"Well, I suppose until we get more clues as to how it works, it's trial and error!" Ibuki grinned. "I want to learn to fight as well, so I wanna find mine out ASAP!"
"I don't think Ryu-kun will have problems getting access to the weapons you need for testing, okaa-san," Kaede mused, before her expression turned serious. "But are you sure you want to be out there fighting? It's dangerous…"
"Fighting is in my past, Kaede," Ibuki smiled sadly. "It's been a part of me since I left high school. I don't think I've ever been able to put it behind, no matter how much I managed to immerse myself in my work after I had you."
Kaede sighed, rubbing the back of her head. "Okaa-san, the JGSDF doesn't exist here, you don't need to feel obliged to fight…"
"I can't lie to myself about putting my gun down anymore, Kaede," Ibuki softly patted her daughter on the head. "Not in these hostile conditions."
"You were in the JGSDF, Ibuki?" Chris asked curiously, tilting her head.
"Yep, 1st Airborne Brigade, based in Camp Narashino, Funabashi, Chiba," Ibuki smiled softly, remembering her past. "Basically we were paratroopers."
"Wow… that's pretty cool," Chris informed with an awed look. "You're pretty awesome, Ibuki!"
"The training was very grueling, Chris. I'd rather not have any of you girls go through that," the mother sighed. "Besides, I'm supposed to be pretty out of shape compared to those old days, after I left the JGSDF to have Kaede here."
"But the armour does give us super strength to make up for it…" Hanami pointed out.
"True," Ibuki laughed. "But it feels like too much of a shortcut. Besides, think of it this way - if we're this strong after the super strength, then what if we train our normal strength up? If the super strength works like a multiplier, we'd get even stronger, right?"
"Maybe we can ask Ryu to help us train then?" Chris asked as she gave a small skip and a twirl. "After all, he's some kind of warrior priest, right?"
"I can understand what kind of training he went through, even if I didn't go through it myself," Ibuki explained. "It's quite similar, if more intensive than mine, and that's saying something. You can probably get him to scale it down for you, but are you sure? Quite honestly, I don't think you girls have any business going into battle…"
"I don't think I have any other way to contribute to the ship in a situation like this if I don't fight, Ibuki-san," Hanami confessed. "I mean, I was just a high school student before coming onboard… with no useful skills so to speak. I want to help!"
Chris nodded in agreement, an unusually serious look on her face as she held a hand to her chest. "When we were attacked before we transformed and crashed on this planet, I felt so weak and helpless," she admitted, her eyes tearing up slightly before hardening as she gave Ibuki a determined look, her hand clenching into a fist. "I swore to myself, I will never feel that weak again, and if I have to push myself past the breaking point to do so, I will do it."
"I feel the same as Hanami-chan and Chris-chan, okaa-san," Kaede nodded firmly. "I don't want to feel like useless baggage when everyone else is fighting for our survival."
Ibuki was silent for several moments as she looked over the three determined girls in armour. It was another minute or so before she finally took a deep breath and responded, "I've seen your determination, girls. I'm probably going to regret this, but how about I train you girls for now before passing all of us over to Ryu-koi? That is, after we complete this little quest of ours. I could use some training myself, need to get back into shape if I'm to help defend the ship."
Chris nodded happily. "Of course!" she agreed, jumping a little with a fist pump. "Now, let's go get some ore!"
END CHAPTER