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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Radio"
"Alter Egos"
"Jigen Haoh-Ryu techniques"
MS Girls
Ibuki Serizawa - Wing Gundam
Ymir Collase - Heavyarms Gundam
Lesson Five - Being True to Oneself
Evening time - In the shared room of Ryu Hisanaga and his lovers
"Hey," Ryu greeted as the quartet, still clad in their armored forms returned from their job. "I heard you were helping out with contracts today, how'd it go?"
"Turned out quite well," Ibuki nodded, still looking completely healthy without a sign of fatigue. "Although Kaede got a little tired of mining by hand and ended up using her hands like shovels instead. Turned out surprisingly well. Apparently we have more power than the power drills we're supposed to be using."
"But it's getting a bit hot…" Hanami muttered, fanning herself slightly. Her face already looked slightly flushed.
Chris giggled happily. "Plus we managed to find a sheep like animal that they can use to create wool," she informed. "They sent out some herders to bring a bunch in to start a small farm with."
"Even with the air conditioner up this high, I'm still feeling… hot…" Kaede groaned, splayed out on a chair resting.
Ryu blinked, his eyes narrowing as he took in their flushed expressions before letting out a small sigh. "How long have you guys been transformed?" he asked, giving them a kind smile.
"Since this morning, after we accepted the contract?" Ibuki mused, looking a little red in the cheeks herself as she looked herself over.
"We… haven't figured out how to transform back to normal yet," Hanami confessed.
"Well, I guess that answers what we'll be doing tonight," Ryu said with a slight chuckle. "Oh, before I forget, found out something interesting today, it turns out, that the armored forms you all have, including the others, hold an unerring resemblance to robots from the old 'Gundam' shows."
"Heard of them, wasn't really interested in them, interested in them now," Ibuki pulled up a chair in front of Ryu, her face schooled into a determined look. "Robots from the old 'Gundam' shows?"
Hanami gasped out loud, before tentatively raising her hand. "I… errr… used to watch some of them," she confessed. "But I never… made the connection until now…"
"So… we somehow ended up looking like them?" Chris asked, tilting her head in confusion. "Wow, that's a coincidence."
"That's what makes me worry, to be honest," Ryu admitted, shaking his head as he raised his hands in a shrug. "I mean, what are the odds that you would get powers that were almost the exact same to an old TV show…"
"So… any clue which Gundams our armours are based on?" Hanami asked. "I can't think straight right now…"
"I'd also like to know who figured it out," Ibuki nodded. "I assume there's a lot more going on to our armoured forms than just a superficial resemblance."
"My 2IC, Leon, was the one who finally made the connection," Ryu said as he let out a small chuckle. "Ever since then, both the R&D and Engineering Departments have been pouring over the shows, apparently trying to find ways to improve combat abilities and figuring out who uses what type of weapon."
"So what kind of weapon we can use is actually dependant on what… 'Gundam' our armours are based on?" Ibuki mulled the information over. "I'd love to know what I get… so far from what I can tell, I just have these," she drew her energy sword, but didn't ignite it. At the same time, a pair of quad-barreled gatling guns emerged from hidden compartments just on top of her shoulders and a shield appeared on her left arm.
Ryu nodded. "We can talk to the ones in charge of that later, they can also inform you of what the 'parent' Gundam was capable of, and that may influence what you are capable of," he theorized. "Also, we had a department head meeting, we're going to be having anyone who has been changed by the radiation undergoing combat training for self-defense and colonial-defense, we hope that those who don't wish to fight would be the last resort, but… with these enemies we face…"
"I'll volunteer to be an instructor, Ryu-koi," Ibuki quickly spoke up. "I have training from the JGSDF's 1st Airborne Brigade."
Ryu blinked in surprise before giving her a grateful smile. "Thank you, Ibuki," he told her before giving her a soft kiss on the cheek. "I appreciate that, some bad memories came back up today, hearing you say that makes me happy."
"Why? Was it something related to the ISIS incident that happened on Earth before we left?" Ibuki's eyes hardened in the way only a war veteran could. "Because I lost some good friends in those fights too."
Ryu nodded. "My last mission before being assigned as Captain of the Sanctuary," he informed, rubbing his forehead as he sat down at the kitchen table. "They used child soldiers, brainwashed and genetically engineered."
"Ran into them too," Ibuki shook her head. "Lost a good friend because he hesitated shooting one of them. It's a good thing we stamped those bastards out."
Kaede softly touched her mother's shoulder. "Okaa-san, can we not talk about depressing stuff now?" she pleaded.
"Yeah, Ryu-kun…" Hanami nodded her agreement as she walked over behind Ryu and wrapped her arms around his neck, unwittingly pushing his head into her bust. "Sometime else, when we're all sober enough to actually listen."
Ryu smiled softly, placing a hand on one of the arms Hanami had wrapped around him. "Yeah, it is rather depressing isn't it?" he asked, tilting his head to look up at Hanami. "I wonder what I did to deserve you girls?"
"Well, you helped us out during the ship's crashland," Kaede smiled. "Armoured or not, I don't think we would've survived being unrestrained during that mess."
"And you've been nothing but… kind to us after that, too, helping make us feel useful," Hanami added in her own two cents. "I mean… sure, we ended up losing our…" she turned red and started sputtering unintelligibly, but everyone got the basic gist of what she wanted to say.
"Not to mention how great you are in the sack!" Chris chipped in. "But… you're also really kind, you don't see what others do, you just see, without judgement."
"Point is, Ryu-koi, just shut up and let us love you," Ibuki grinned. "The girls have it right."
Ryu chuckled as he accepted the kiss that Kaede planted on his lips. "I suppose you're right," he informed. "Maybe I should repay you girls for cheering me up."
"I'm still feeling sore down there though… I don't think I can make it tonight," Kaede sighed. "I'll just rest and hope I can recover like that. After figuring out how to dismiss this armour…"
Hanami blushed, but stepped up beside Kaede to show her agreement with the black-haired armoured girl.
Chris nodded as she wrapped her arms around Kaede and Hanami. "We can have fun later!" she chirped. "Cause I don't think having fun in these suits of armor would be comfortable."
"The girls have spoken," Ibuki shrugged, turning to Ryu. "Let's just make it a snuggle night, clothes optional. That way we still get some degree of fun, but we don't wear them out either."
Ryu chuckled in amusement. "Sure, that sounds good," he agreed as he felt his body relax. "A snuggle night sounds like a good idea."
Hanami wrestled with her armour for several moments, before giving up as it apparently resisted all attempts to take it off physically. Kaede had better luck, concentrating and trying to cut off the flow of energy from her core. She looked on in surprise as her gauntlets faded away in a burst of particles, leaving behind her normal, slender human hands.
"Huh, so it's the inverse of what we did to summon the armour…" Kaede noted.
Chris blinked before trying herself, her own armor beginning to fade into particles as she let out a giggle. "It tickles," she managed to get out between her giggles.
Hanami managed to get everything on her first try, her entire set of armour dissipating into nothingness. She blinked for a few moments before she let out a loud squeak and covered herself on reflex, looking shyly in Ryu's direction.
"No need to be shy, he's already seen us naked more than once, Hanami," Ibuki rolled her eyes, her own armour fading away as she imagined a tap being turned closed to shut off the flow from her energy core.
"Hanami, you have nothing to be embarrassed about," Ryu told her soothingly. "You're a beautiful young woman and you should be proud of yourself."
"B-B-But I can't help being shy…" Hanami whispered as she wrapped her compression suit around herself for some quick cover, having brought it back on their way back home.
"You'll probably take that suit off again later anyway, so just don't put it on," Kaede sighed, walking over to the main door and making sure it was locked and secured.
"Yeah, cause we're going to have some naked snuggle time with Ryu tonight!" Chris said encouragingly. "It'll be great!"
"E-Eh?" Hanami gaped, red all over.
"Come on, let's get some good rest for tomorrow," Ibuki clapped the silverette on the back softly. It still made her stumble a few feet. "It's getting late - has anyone figured out the hours for this planet yet? I swear the days feel longer than they're supposed to."
"28 hours," Ryu explained. "So that's probably why the days feel so long."
"Ugh, that means more adjusting," Ibuki groaned. "Well, at least it sounds like a reason to sleep in…"
"Sleeping in sounds good," Ryu agreed with a slight yawn. "So… how should we assemble ourselves on the bed?"
"Ryu-kun in the center, everyone else around him," Kaede said without hesitation.
"C'mere," Ibuki said commandingly before laying down on the bed, dragging a compliant Ryu with her as she set him atop of her, his head resting in her bosom as the girls began to climb around them, Hanami nervously laying down ontop of him as Chris and Kaede each took one of his arms. "See, we all fit."
"I guess so," Ryu agreed with a chuckle as he relaxed back into Ibuki, shifting around slightly so that he could wrap his arms around Chris and Kaede before resting his hands on Hanami's back, making the silverette squeak slightly. "Night, see you all in the morning."
"Good night~!" the three girls replied as they made themselves comfortable.
"Good night, Ryu-koi," Ibuki said as she wrapped her own arms as best she could around all of them, enjoying the warmth they all provided for one another.
The next day - With Captain Delnaz
Captain Delnaz was silently praising the Miltian Empire's deity that there were women trapped in men's bodies in his forces. He was thoroughly and pleasantly surprised when he learned that there was about 50 of his forces who wanted to undergo the treatment and not be discriminated for it. Hell, he was even surprised to see his second in command join up for the process, for a reason known only to Kenji and himself.
"Good day gentlemen," Dr. Vossler greeted as they entered into the Medical deck. "Please, follow me into the conference room and I can run through the process with you."
As soon as the soldiers walked to the lecture room, with Delnaz staying behind, the Captain thought about how this all started. He didn't want to force the whole thing to occur because the colonists had no women to go around, far from it, actually.
"Is there something wrong, Captain?" Erik asked as he paused outside of the room.
"I'm not one of the ones you need to consult, doctor," Argus explained. "I'm not a woman trapped in a man's body… to my knowledge."
"Perhaps, but as their commanding officer, I would like you to see this presentation, so that you are aware, yourself, of the risks, the support they will need and how we will do this," the doctor informed. "We have long since learned that medicine is far more than physical, it is also a mental art, and while you may voice your support, just being seen overlooking them, will encourage those that follow you even more."
Argus blinked, before he sighed. "Alright, I'll come in with my soldiers," he relented. "I'd best get this over with, too."
Erik nodded and followed the captain into the lecture room. "Now, I am not sure how your own medical specialists handled your… situation, and if you've had transgender operations available back home," he began as he took his place at the head of the room. "So I will begin with a little history of our practice of this medical field."
A holographic image appeared at the front of the room of an anatomical model of a male and female. "This field of study was first theorized in psychology - the study of the human mind - as we found that there were men who behaved more like females, and vice versa, and upon in depth study, we found that sometimes, when an embryo is still within the womb, instead of the extra 'X' chromosome being changed into a 'Y' chromosome, one will spontaneously appear, with the extra 'X' remaining behind, now sometimes when this happens, the child will be born female, while others will be born male."
He started pacing in front of the assembled people. "These of course were not only ones, but it was the most readily available explanation we had at the time," he explained. "So, we began asking questions, that, if it were possible, would they want to be female, or male in the case of men trapped in women's bodies, and if they were willing to risk medical testing for this, of course this is after we had done extensive animal testing.
"Some subjects stepped forward to receive the surgery and treatments and thus, transgender medical research began, since then we have discovered bio-augmentation which has helped the process immensely, reducing the risks and recovery time and when Sanctuary had left our planet, even exploring options of a 'false' womb so that they can carry children if they so desired."
The image changed to a pure male model. "Now, as to the process itself, there are several steps that need to be taken over the course of a month, and provided there are some volunteers, we will expose some of you to the radiation to test what the limits for the transformation process is, if it is also a mental consideration, purely physical, etc," Erik told them as he paced. "The first stage starts with a drug regime to increase the levels of Estrogen in your system, and this process takes up to about a week to finalize, and this is when we would begin the second test with the radiation and volunteers to see if Estrogen levels do affect the chances of transformation."
The slide changed again to what looked to be a man with feminine characteristics, such as softer angles, curves and breasts. "This is the average appearance of men when they are at their 'peak' Estrogen levels for the surgical process," the doctor explained. "It is at this point that we will begin the surgical process to create a vagina within the now former males.
"We normally allow a week to two weeks recovery before beginning the next stage of the process, and to allow time for the neo-females to adjust to their new sexual organs, although you will have to abstain from coitus for a period of one week minimum, it is at this point we will begin the radiation expose to the volunteers to see if sexual organs affect the transformation process.
"The next stage is the bioaugmentation process where we use bioaugmentation to… smooth the edges so to speak and complete your transformation into fully female humans, and this period normally takes a few days to complete, now… are there any questions?"
None of them had any questions to ask.
"Very well then," Erik concluded. "We will begin the process with a full medical physical, so please, step outside and you will be assigned to a doctor who will oversee your transgender transformation from beginning to end."
With Kenji
After a short trip to outside the conference room, Kenji was almost immediately partnered up with a female doctor, one by the name of Patricia Moriarty. "So… doctor, how does the process start?" he asked her.
Patricia smiled at Kenji, tucking a strand of her light brown hair behind her ear as her green eyes sparkled. "Well, we will be running a full physical on you to begin with," she informed. "And there will be a small psychological exam, both are to step up guidelines of mental and physical health throughout the process," she gestured to the room they were standing outside of. "Please, come in, you will need to strip down for the physical."
Kenji nodded, before he headed to the room with Patricia right behind him. As soon as he started stripping his clothes off, he asked, "What level of stripping?"
"You can keep your underwear on if that makes you comfortable," Patricia informed with a small laugh. "Once you are finished step onto the pad and hold your arms level with your shoulders."
Kenji nodded, even as he stripped completely naked. "Let's get this over with, please," he said, stepping onto the pad and doing as instructed.
A ring separated from the floor as his body was scanned. "Alright, as the scanning is happening I'm going to be asking you a few questions to ensure that you have a stable frame of mind," the doctor explained, holding a tablet. "First question: Why did you become a soldier?"
"To protect my family," Kenji explained. "Even with Kyou joining right behind me, I still want to protect them."
Patricia nodded and made a note down on the tablet. "Do you have any sort of past regrets that weigh heavily down upon you?" she asked. "Such as military mistakes, a feeling of personal failing, and the such like, keep in mind that even if you are of different military, I am still bound by our confidentiality laws and regulations and can only reveal what you tell me if you are at risk of harming yourself or another."
"There is one regret that I have…" Kenji admitted. "It's that I couldn't protect Kyou's twin from being abducted by a splinter cell of the Miltian military… Katsu was only five at the time. I wanted to protect all of my family, including Katsu, so I joined to find him as well."
Patricia nodded in understanding as she made another note. "Loss of family members is always a hard thing," she agreed. "Alright, final question for this part: why do you wish to be female?"
"It's… complicated, but, I think I was initially supposed to be a female in accordance with the Seer's prediction back home," Kenji replied. "My parents told me I was supposed to be a girl, and thus able to get better education for not just myself, but Kyou, too… and, I've had weird dreams of being a girl completely."
"I see," Patricia informed as she made a note. "I'm sorry, but it does require to ask this, but do you feel pressured into following through this procedure?"
"Actually, no," Kenji admitted. "I feel more like I was pressured to do more because I was born a boy… with my whole family suffering for it. I wish to help take the stress off of them… and to understand why I've had those weird dreams… among other reasons."
Patricia nodded. "Alright then, as a rule, we cannot accept people who have been pressured into taking the treatment as it is against our ethical and moral codes," she explained before an ink blot hologram came to life over the tablet. "Can you tell me what you see when you look at this?"
"I see… a grandfather clock," Kenji admitted. "I know it's just supposed to be an ink blot, but that's what it looks like."
"Quite alright, it's what we want to hear, what you see," she informed as a new blot showed up. "How about this one?"
"It looks to me like someone threw a bunch of tomatoes at the screen…" Kenji replied.
Patricia laughed a little as the blot changed. "And this last one?"
"I see… a human head," Kenji replied. "More specifically, my mother's."
"Alright, that's good, you seem to be of sound mental health," Patricia informed as she looked over the results. "And Physically you are good shape as well," she pulled out a bottle of pills. "Like Director Vossler explained, the first part of the process will be an Estrogen drug regimen, take one pill per meal for the next week, and if you experience any negative side effects, please come and see me as soon as you can."
Kenji nodded. "Alright, doctor," he said, before he blinked. "Er… what time is it?"
"Just about breakfast," Patricia informed. "Make sure you eat something with the pill, alright?"
"Alright, thanks for the reminder," Kenji nodded, before he had one last question. "Does this mean eat right before taking the pill, or what?"
"Either take it before or after you eat," she informed. "And if you do miss one, do not take it between the meals, it needs to be broken down with other proteins and chemicals."
Kenji nodded again. "Thank you," he said, before getting his clothes on and taking the bottle of pills from her. "I hope to see you soon… as your patient."
"Please come back in seven days to begin surgery prep," she informed. "Also, we would like to ask if you would like to volunteer for the radiation exposure tests."
"Sure, I'll do so," Kenji agreed. "If it doesn't work the first time, I'll have to wait, right?"
Patricia shook her head. "You will be the control test, should you not be transformed the first time," she informed. "We suspect though, that each persons 'requirement' will be different."
Kenji nodded. "Alright," he said. "I'll have to find my 'requirement', then."
Patricia nodded with a smile. "Thank you, now you better get to your meal," she commented. "And I'll see you in a week."
Kenji nodded again. "Alright, doctor, thank you," he said, as he walked out of the office.
A bit later - Mess Hall
Katrina hummed happily as she dug into her massive pile of her personal vice, syrup soaked chocolate chip waffles. Looking up she saw someone that she had become familiar with recently, Kyou's brother. "Hey, Kenji, right?"
"Erk!" Kenji let out, before he turned to face Katrina. "Er… hello, miss Sanders," he said. "How may I help you?"
"Just having breakfast!" she chirped happily. "C'mon, join me!"
Blinking, he asked, "Are you sure? I don't want to impose upon you and whoever else you'll have join you…"
"It's no worries, food is best shared with friends!" she claimed.
"Best shared with… friends?" he asked, before a mirthful smile graced his face. "Sure, why not?" he asked. "I might as well."
"Well, what else are we going to be, bitter enemies?" Katrina offered sarcastically. "If the captain is willing to let bygones be bygones then so am I."
"Ah, right…" Kenji chuckled, before he placed his tray down in front of her. "I hope you know what happened to Kyou, by the way… haven't seen her for a few days."
Katrina paused slightly before swallowing. "Umm… actually… I do…" she admitted. "Well… she ended up… umm… losinghervirginityandbecomingsomethingofawillingsextoy?"
Kenji blinked before he could take his pill. "Wait, slow down, please," he said. "What happened? I'll hear you out."
"Well… you know how using the armor makes us girls… horny?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm aware," Kenji admitted. "What about… it… oh, dear gravy, NO!"
"Well, her armor dissipated when her energy ran out right outside where me and Leon were… engaged…" her blush was luminescent. "And we offered her a chance to join in that she took… and she's… kinda submissive… in bed."
Kenji almost gave way to his murderous tendencies until he heard the whole explanation. "Oh… well, that's better, I guess," he answered.
"She's a willing participant, there's no worries on it," Katrina soothed. "So yeah, please don't kill Leon, I rather like a certain part of him."
Kenji nodded, before he said, "Alright… well, not like I'll be one to talk soon…" With that, he took the pill and started to eat.
Katrina blinked as she tilted her head. "Huh, what are you talking about?" she queried.
After taking a few bites worth of his food, Kenji swallowed. "Well… I have to take one of these pills with each meal for a week, so that I can be with my sister better than before," he answered, showing her the bottle.
Katrina read the label, her eyes widening slightly. "Estrogen? You're going for the transgender surgery?" she asked in surprise.
"Yes, I am…" Kenji admitted. "Please don't tell Kyou, though… I don't want her to pull the plug on this, especially since she and I both were supposed to be girls to begin with."
Katrina blinked. "I won't tell her, but… how are you a guy then?" she asked. "If you're supposed to be a girl?"
Kenji sighed. "Medical science isn't quite up to par back home…" he admitted. "Plus, our parents were trying to get out of the path to poverty, and a seer told them I would be born a girl… women are more valued for their status in nobility back home."
"Huh… must have been hard when you were born then," Katrina murmured. "Were your parents hard on you because of it?"
"No, but that was because they didn't care if I was born wrong," he said. "In fact, they treasured my life, mainly as proof that they weren't impotent."
"That… makes sense then..." Katrina replied, biting the inside of her cheek. "Are you volunteering for the radiation exposure as well?"
"Yes, I am," he admitted. "I wish to know what it's like for Kyou to have that happen to her… on a regular basis."
Katrina flushed slightly. "Then… then I guess it's alright for you to join us with Leon when you transform," she informed imperiously. "But I'm the first wife, got it?"
Kenji blinked, before nodding. "Alright, then…" he said. "Please keep me in good care, then, boss lady."
Katrina flushed deeper. "Of… of course!" she informed. "It's the duty of the first wife to take care of the concubines."
Kenji nodded in understanding. "Alright… oh, and I'll join under a new name," he said.
"What is it going to be?" Katrina asked. "And when it's complete, what will you tell Kyou?"
"I'll be Kira," Kenji explained. "I would've been named that had I been a girl… and I'll tell Kyou the truth, don't worry."
"Okay…" Katrina replied slowly before going back to her meal. "So long as you do, I'll hurt you otherwise."
Kenji shivered slightly at that.
With Ryu - Medical Deck, Dr. Wilson's office
"So doc, got into the minds of the lizard people yet?" Ryu asked as he walked in.
Dr Wilson snorted slightly as she looked up from her work. "Somewhat," she informed. "From what we've managed to translate from the colonists and the personal effects of them and the attackers we theorize that they're a predominantly aggressive culture that gained power on their home planet by essentially consuming the other nations for their own gain."
"So, you think that they're basically a war tribe then?" Ryu clarified.
"Something like that, yes," Wilson agreed. "Without more to research, this is just preliminary speculation of course, but, we have made some progress in understanding their biology."
Ryu nodded, motioning for her to continue.
"They are, like I had said before, mostly carnivorous, but, we came across something surprising," she continued, placing a small mechanical device on her desk. "They have cybernetic implants, far more advanced than we have ever used before."
Ryu picked it up as he inspected it. "Really, any ideas what they do?"
"Speculation mostly, we believe that the one you're holding is their equivalent radio device allowing communication over large distances," she explained. "The Engineers are looking over the device we believe allows control over the drone like weapons that the giant beetle used, which is another matter altogether, an almost perfect synthesis of mechanical and organic life."
"Can we make use of their tech?" Ryu asked, looking at her.
"Possibly, R&D is working on reverse engineering it now, but it will take some time to get a working model."
"Keep me updated on their progress, those impact shields the beetle had would be helpful, seemed to stop anything moving at subsonic speeds, but allowed slower moving objects to pass through," Ryu mused. "Mines will be helpful if we can get them within the shield's radius."
At that point, a call came over the intercom. "Captain Delnaz to Captain Hisanaga… could you please come to my office?" he asked.
Ryu sighed as he placed the device down. "Duty calls," he commented, getting a chuckle from Wilson. "Talk to you later doc."
"You take care of yourself, Captain," she answered.
Ryu nodded as he stepped out of her office and headed for the elevator and punched in the floor for one of the Miltian decks.
Later - Argus's office
"You called me, captain Delnaz?" Ryu asked as he walked into his opposition's office.
"Yes, I did," Captain Delnaz answered. "I was hoping to share the list of men who are currently trapped in female bodies by this point, if you don't mind."
Ryu nodded and accepted the list that the captain handed him and looked it over, one name standing out. "Kenji?" he asked. "Your second in command?"
"Yes, my second in command," Argus answered. "He always had these weird dreams about being a woman, among other things, especially since he himself was sexually confused as a child… so he told me."
Ryu nodded in understanding. "Well, if the Radiation does transform them, Ibuki Serizawa is setting up a training camp of sorts for the girls who have awakened this power," he explained. "It's twofold, help them manifest their armor, and train them for combat, like we talked about in the Director's meeting."
"Ah, yes, that would indeed be a good thing," Argus nodded as well.
Ryu nodded in agreement. "Anything else you need to cover with me?" he asked as he looked up from the list.
"Not that I'm aware of right off," Argus shook his head. "I hope you manage to find the list helpful."
Ryu nodded. "I'll make sure that if they do transform they are enrolled in the combat training course," he assured. "Right, if you'll excuse me, I need to meet up with my - and I still can't believe it's plural - fiances."
Argus chuckled heartily. "I hope you have a good day ahead of you, Captain Hisanaga," he said, just as Ryu was about to leave the office.
"Same to you," Ryu returned with a wave of his hand.
One week Later - Medical Deck
"Well, your Estrogen levels have definitely increased, I hope the… growth of your new breasts wasn't too uncomfortable," Patricia said as she looked over Kenji's charts.
Kenji sighed, before saying in a clearly feminine tone, "No, it wasn't uncomfortable like that… what was uncomfortable was getting used to my voice reversing the deepening process because of testosterone." After a couple seconds passed, he asked, "How are the measurements?"
"Well your three sizes now are Bust: 79, Waist: 58 and Hips: 72," Patricia informed. "Rather impressive for a transgender actually, especially for pre-augmentation."
Kenji blinked, before looking down at his body. "Huh… that's something," he said. "So… any idea on the size of my rack in cups?"
"Mid-ranged C-cup," Patricia informed. "Now, are you still willing to expose yourself to the radiation before undergoing the surgery?"
Kenji nodded solemnly. "I might as well see if it will work, doctor," he answered. "Please, take me there as soon as possible."
Patricia nodded as she led Kenji through the labs to a fully sealed door. "The rock is on the other side, and once you give the ready signal, it will be removed from containment," she explained. "If anything goes wrong, a team of medics are standing by."
Kenji nodded. "Thanks, doc…" he said, before walking to the door.
The room itself was white with only the rock and a couple of cameras in the room. "Whenever you're ready, Kenji," Patricia informed over the intercom.
Kenji gave Patricia and whoever else would be watching a thumbs up. "Ready now," he said.
There was a slight hissing sound as a pair of mechanical arms descended from the ceiling and gripped the glass case and removed it, allowing the radiation to flood the room.
As soon as the radiation touched Kenji, a grunt escaped his lips, before he screamed like a little girl and was engulfed in the same transformative light. When he… she was done with the light, the form she took was a yellow-eyed woman with white, blue, and black streaked hair, and tears in her old clothes from the sudden growth in her measurements. Plus… she was unconscious.
The rock was quickly resealed as the medical team came in wearing HAZMAT suits and hussled the unconscious neo-female out. "Well, it seems that Estrogen is a need factor for the transformation…" Patricia commented as she followed. "But it may not be the only requirement…"
"Er, doctor, are we gonna replace the patient's clothes?" someone from the medical team asked her.
"Once we're certain she's in stable condition," Patricia informed. "I think we should be more concerned about her livelihood than fashion."
"Right, doc… sorry," the same person answered.
"Just get her to the Care Units," Patricia commanded.
"Yes, ma'am!" the whole team responded, taking the neo-female over to the Care Units.
A Short While Later
Patricia calmly waited for her patient to awaken from her unconscious state, organizing her notes and data for submission as she waited. 'Estrogen levels have a strong connection to transformation into these 'MS Girls' as they started calling themselves,' she thought as she wrote down her theory. 'It is possible that the subjects will also plays a factor, Subject 13, formerly Kenji, now Kira Yamato, has expressed her own desire to be female and a strong wish to protect those close to her, this desire to protect may play a role in the transformation.'
"Ungh…" Patricia looked up from what she was writing to see that Kira was indeed awake. "What… happened?" she asked aloud. "Did I… really turn female?"
"I am quite happy to inform you that you are indeed a fully functional female now," Patricia informed. "You will even be having periods and can have children."
Kira blinked a few times, before looking at Patricia. "Um… did the radiation play a part in the process?" she asked.
"From what we can tell, yes," Patricia informed. "Now, you will be kept overnight for observation, but you should be able to return to your duties tomorrow, and I would advise you to abstain from coitus for at least five days to allow you time to adjust to your new body."
Kira nodded in understanding. "Alright, doctor," she said. "Please let me know when that time comes, alright?"
Patricia smiled. "Please do come back in five days so that I can give you one last checkup, just to make sure there's nothing wrong with you," she requested. "I'll see you in the morning to discharge you, and, congratulations."
Kira smiled happily. "Thank you… I feel like I should be for once," she said.
"Then enjoy it," Patricia ordered as she left. "And good luck."
"Thank you…" Kira nodded from the bed, before falling asleep again.
With Ryu, Leon and Ibuki - Armory
"So you think you know what weapon should go to what girl?" Ryu asked Leon as they and Ibuki entered the armory.
"Yep, after going through the episodes of all of the old series. I must say it's a pretty nostalgic feeling…" Leon had a goofy grin on his face.
Ibuki giggled slightly. "If what you said is right about what weapon I'd get I'm quite eager to test that theory," she said. "What was it? A Buster Rifle?"
Leon actually shivered slightly. "I get it that you're formerly of the Japanese JGSDF, but please do NOT test fire that gun within the confines of the ship. There's a reason it's converted from an extremely high-calibre anti-materiel rifle."
Ibuki giggled again, covering her mouth with her hand as she did so. "Please, don't worry, I wouldn't dream of damaging my Ryu-koi's ship," she explained loftily.
"My ship?" Ryu asked in confusion. "How is it my ship if there are two captains?"
"You must admit Ryu-koi, you definitely are more charismatic than that Captain Delnaz," Ibuki pointed out.
"She's got that right, Captain. There's just something about that young blood that makes you that much more charismatic," Leon grinned.
"Right, and you're not being an ass kisser at all Leon," Ryu countered with a snort. "So, what sort of gun should we have her try out?"
"The Denel NTW-20, for starters," Leon walked over to a rack with several gigantic guns on it. "20mm x 110 Hispano ammunition. South African make, one of the most powerful anti-materiel rifles at its time of service. Still is."
Ibuki nodded as she gripped the weapon and hefted up, and waited a few moments. "Umm, is it supposed to be an automatic thing?" she asked.
Ryu let out a small hum. "The others were all in their armored forms when the weapons changed, maybe try channeling some energy into it?" he suggested.
Ibuki closed her eyes as she reached for her inner energies and gently pulled it towards the rifle in her hands, a brief glow enveloping it before it was changed into a massive rifle-like weapon that started off bulky near the grip, mostly due to three energy capsules that dominated a good 50% of the weapon's bulk and thinned out towards the barrel. "So, this is the Buster Rifle, huh?" she asked with a smile. "Looks like it can do some damage."
"Let's just say two of those can destroy a nuclear bunker with 3 consecutive full power shots, or 6 shots for one," Leon shuddered at the thought of the weapon being fired inside the ship. "It's a siege weapon, Ibuki. Use it wisely. You should also get a pair of racks on your forearms to store the energy capsules you need to fire the thing. I'm not sure how ammo works in your armoured forms, we'll need to figure it out eventually."
"Well, that's going to be helpful," Ibuki said as she looked at the rifle before cutting off the small flow of power trickling into it, causing it to disappear in a shower of particles. "Handy."
"Definitely," Ryu agreed with a somewhat jealous look. "Wished I had that kinda power when I was lugging a ton worth of weapons and ammo through the Himalayas back home."
"By the way, the weapon you converted it from is supposed to be carried by 2 people in parts, definitely not one handed or even hand carried in the first place like you just did," Leon remarked with a shake of his head. "It still amazes me how strong you MS Girls are."
"I know, it's great, but kinda scary at the same time," Ibuki nodded, clenching her fist a few times. "And this is me out of shape and rusty…"
"Definitely something to consider," Ryu agreed. "I'm just glad none of you accidentally broke my back with an affectionate hug or something."
"You're already quite strong enough to resist our strength after all," Ibuki chuckled, patting his back softly.
"Also, is it just me, or do you look younger, Captain?" Leon frowned, peering at his captain through his glasses. "I mean, less stubble, less wrinkles, everything."
Ryu blinked as he rubbed at his own chin in thought. "Hm, now that you mention it, I haven't needed to shave in a while now…" he commented. "And don't take this the wrong way, but the same could be said for the two of you, Ibuki, Leon."
"Maybe it's something related to having sex with an MS Girl?" Ibuki mused out loud. "I do feel like I'm getting younger and younger by the hour, and my suit has been feeling a little tighter recently..."
"It could be," Leon nodded. "I'll check with the Doc later, see if any changes have been recorded in other guys who have been with MS Girls."
"Good idea," Ryu agreed. "It doesn't seem harmful, but it's best just to be on the safe side, so, speaking of being with girls, you and Hurricane Katrina and Kyou?"
"It just happened!" Leon turned red. "Kyou just showed up out of the blue during our first night... And, well, she was running low on energy and... you know what happens when they do that."
"Yup, I know," Ryu agreed looking at Ibuki with a smirk. "Something tells me Ibuki's going to be a hellcat when she runs low on energy."
"Really?" Ibuki laughed. "I blame my newly-recovered youth. I wonder if that means my menopause was reversed too…"
"Uh oh, sounds like I'm in trouble," Ryu said jokingly. "Although, that does bring up a thought… pregnancies…"
"Don't remind me," Leon shuddered. "While I would like to be a father, I'm not sure if it's a good time to do it when we're in a state of war."
"If you need any fatherhood advice, feel free to come to me," Ibuki smiled. "I still remember my previous husband's fatherly duties at the very least, even if he didn't manage to perform them for very long."
Ryu placed an arm around her waist comfortingly. "Well, this time, if it does happen, you won't be alone," he told her, kissing her behind her ear. "I promise."
"I'll hold you to that promise, Ryu-koi," Ibuki chuckled, kissing him back on his cheek. "Kaede's always wanted a little sister or brother to dote on, even if she doesn't quite want to admit it."
Ryu chuckled. "Mm, I've always wondered about having a family…" he admitted, his eyes growing a bit distant as he held Ibuki. "It would be nice I suppose… eventually."
"It definitely would," Ibuki agreed, her eyes misting over slightly as she recalled her former husband. "I wouldn't trade having a family for anything else in the whole world."
"Mm, you thinking what I'm thinking?" Ryu asked with a grin.
"Get a room, you two!" Leon chuckled. "But do that later, we still have to work out the armaments for your wards."
"Tch, fine fine," Ibuki grumbled, folding her arms under her impressive bust. "Spoil our fun, you spoilsport."
"He really is, isn't he?" Ryu asked with a teasing quality to his voice. "Always being such a downer when anything fun was being planned, like changing the bridge into a rave club."
"It's my job to keep you in line whenever you come up with anything too crazy, Captain," Leon stuck out his tongue in a show of maturity. "That includes that tank derby you were trying to organize back from before we set sail. Military hardware is not supposed to be used like that, even if you weren't going to get much flak from command for that with how high up you were."
Ryu waved his hand dismissively. "It would have been great for morale and you know it," he huffed. "Plus they wouldn't do anything cause I could kick the ass of anyone who was even close to being able to stop me!"
"You actually tried to organize a… tank derby!?" Ibuki let out a cute bark of laughter, clutching her sides in slight pain. "Your logistics would've given you hell for that! That's a lot of parts that would need replacing after something like that!"
"Hey it would train for tank operation and repair!" Ryu informed haughtily. "I think things through, really!"
"And it's also a waste of perfectly good resources that could possibly have caused us to miss our launch window and delayed the launch for days due to not having enough equipment on board to protect ourselves adequately," Leon rolled his eyes. "Clearly you didn't think enough, Captain. That, command would've given you hell for, high-ranked or not."
"Yeah yeah, let's just get this over with so that I can have some fun time with Ibuki," Ryu said irritably. "Why couldn't I get a more compliant 2IC?"
"Right, right," Leon shrugged, pressing several buttons on a nearby control panel and causing several weapon racks to slide out of the walls. "From what we can tell, the Unicorn trio - that's Hanami, Kaede and Chris, can use mostly the same weapons. Chris is the slight problem - there's not much data available on Unicorn 03 Phenex, but we can quite safely extrapolate the usable weapons from Unicorn 01, Hanami and Unicorn 02 Banshee, Kaede."
"So the girls' MS Girl armours were based on similar 'Gundams' after all?" Ibuki asked.
"Indeed, Ibuki," Leon nodded. "All of them should be able to use gatling guns, beam rifles, bazookas, missile racks, grenade launchers and a melee weapon called a hyper beam javelin. R&D is working on miniaturizing missiles for use by MS Girls that can equip them, but for now they'll just have to stick to the rest. In addition, Kaede will be able to use a large physical claw - that one she'll likely have to materialize herself, and a special beam smart rifle, a rifle that doesn't have to aim precisely where its targeting."
Ryu nodded in understanding. "If I remember from what the tech boys wrote down, the Unicorn and Banshee were upgraded in their shows, right?" he asked for clarification. "Do you think that will come into play with their powers?"
"Likely. But without the ability to understand or upgrade their armours directly, there's likely to be an alternative way for them to upgrade," Leon frowned. "We've got all sorts of theories flying around the place from R&D. I'll organize everything and deliver a report to your tablet once I'm done."
"Thanks," Ryu said gratefully. "I'm not a dumbass, but the way they just slapdash those reports together gives me headaches."
"Tell me about it," Leon rolled his eyes. "I've had to personally go down there and kick their asses in gear more than a few times, then rewrite the report along the proper format myself. Wish I was a Newtype or something and could rewrite everything in an instant."
Ryu snorted. "Would be helpful," he agreed. "So, any other recommendation for the girls?"
Leon walked over to a rack holding large Gatling guns. "The M134 Minigun, a classic from the USA. Usually mounted, but with how easily Ibuki handled the Denel earlier, probably easily hand-carried by a MS Girl."
Ryu walked over, gripped the carrying handle and the trigger of the Minigun and lifted it with a grunt. "Yup, definitely heavy," Ryu commented before setting it back down. "So, you think they can change it?"
"Definitely," Leon nodded, pulling out a tablet and showing some footage of the Unicorn Gundam from the show firing a beam gatling gun, before he walked over to the next rack. "The Carl Gustav, an 84mm multirole recoilless rifle. Would've gone for an RPG, but that wouldn't work with what we have in mind - we needed a bazooka, not a rocket-propelled grenade."
"Well, that's another classic," Ibuki remarked, stepping forward and examining the weapon. "We called it the Sumitomo FT-84, before it was replaced by the Type 01 LMAT."
"Those three girls seem to be getting a lot of heavy weapons," Ryu commented as he looked over the weapons.
"Yeah, they do," Leon scratched his head. "Hanami should be able to carry the biggest load - in the original series her parent Gundam could get loaded with 3 shields, 6 beam gatlings, 2 hyper bazookas, a beam magnum - that's the gun she has now, 2 grenade launchers, 2 anti-ship missile launchers with 3 missiles each, and 8 racks of grenades, 3 grenades each for a total of 24. All at once."
Ryu was silent for a moment with an incredulous look on his face. "Are we talking about the same Hanami? Y'know, shy, sweet, doesn't want to hurt a fly?" he asked. "That's… that's just overkill."
"That's what I thought when I first saw the thing," Leon sighed. "Overkill. But yes, theoretically she'll be able to carry the same loadout at some point. And also, you forgot to mention that in her NT-D mode - her secondary transformation, she gets perverted and a lot more outspoken."
Ibuki was apparently still trying to wrap her head around the fact that the normally soft-spoken silverette had the ability to carry and use enough gear to wipe out an army.
Ryu groaned palming his face. "Don't remind me about how she becomes," he pleaded. "I should warn you, Ibuki, your daughter becomes a bit of a Yandere when she transforms…"
"Huh? Oh, that little problem?" Ibuki snapped out of her funk. "It's nothing to worry about, she won't raise a hand against me, yandere or not."
"Not you I'm worried about Ibuki," Ryu informed. "I had trouble getting her to our quarters from the hangar without killing anyone the last time she went into that… NT-D form, granted I was also trying to stop Hanami and Chris from showing off their exhibitionist sides…"
"Kiss them into submission," Ibuki grinned, sashaying forward. "I think that should work perfectly fine. Once you lock lips, they won't be able to think about anything else. Well, at least one of them won't for a bit."
Ryu groaned. "This is going to get troublesome, isn't it?" he asked, although the smirk on his face took away the bite from the comment.
"I'll be happy to let you practice on me now, Ryu-koi…" the mother smiled saucily, pressing herself against Ryu. "If you can kiss me until I go gaga, you won't have any trouble getting the girls under control."
Ryu smirked as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into an intense kiss, his tongue reaching past her tongue and into her mouth to entwine with hers.
"Get a room, you two," Leon groaned.
Ryu and Ibuki, still locked together, raised their hands simultaneously and made a shooing motion towards the technical officer.
"Fine, fine!" said officer threw his hands in the air and headed for the door. "Do whatever you want!"
Ryu lifted his hand and flipped Leon the bird before separating from the flushed and dazed Ibuki. "Bedroom?" he asked, a grin on his face.
"Most defi… nitely…" Ibuki murmured.
Ryu chuckled as he wrapped a hand around her waist and led her from the Armory, heading for his quarters. 'Wonder where the girls are at?' he asked himself absently.
With the girls
"Kyou! Over here!" Chris shouted, waving excitedly, which did… interesting things to her bust, drawing the attention of nearby males.
"Chris, quiet down a bit!" Kaede hissed, pulling the exuberant goldette down to the seat she had been occupying in the cafeteria.
"Aww…" Chris pouted, puffing out a cheek. "You never let me do anything fun…"
"The guys are looking at you funny," Kaede pointed out, her eyes darting around to check out the other guys around them.
"Nothing is going change them looking," Chris pointed out. "They can look, but they will never touch."
"…Ryu-kun will kill them if they lay a finger on us," Hanami nodded with a blush. "And I think they know we're… his…"
"I know, but I just don't like feeling other lecherous eyes on me," Kaede slumped backwards in her seat, the sudden action causing her bust to bounce slightly, drawing more attention.
Chris shrugged. "Meh, I kinda like blue balling them, myself," she informed with a giggle.
Kyou finally made her way to their spot at the cafeteria, before sitting down with them. "Alright, what's up?" she asked. "I was just about to go find my brother, see what happened to him over the past week or so that required him to see the doctor."
Katrina swallowed slightly as she sat down, making sure to fill her mouth with food as soon as she did so.
"I hope he's alright," Chris said in concern.
"He's your ship's second in command, right?" Kaede asked, receiving a nod in reply. "Then he's probably alright. Nobody would dare to touch him, unless you Miltians do it differently."
"No… people don't appreciate back stabbers so… it can't be that," Kyou muttered, rubbing her chin in thought. "But… he's been wearing bulky clothes a lot and his voice has been sounding weird lately."
"That does sound… weird," Hanami agreed. "Maybe he's not feeling well? A cough, sore throat or something like that?"
Katrina suddenly coughed, thumping her chest.
"Oh yeah!" Kaede started slightly, turning towards the verdette. "I don't think I ever got your name. I'm Kaede Serizawa."
"Katrina Sanders… although it'll be Kho as soon as Leon gets off his ass and gets a ring," Katrina answered, letting out a huff of irritation.
"I-I'm Hanami Yukikaze!" Hanami quickly introduced herself. "Katrina… didn't Ryu-kun mention that name before?"
"You're the one that couldn't transform the weapon, right?" Chris asked making Katrina flush angrily.
"Sh… shut up!" she shouted. "I don't need any guns! I'm going to be getting remote weapons!"
"Remote weapons?" Hanami blinked a few times before she smacked her palm with her fist. "Like the ones I… took over during the fight last time?"
"Oh yeah… wonder if Kaede and I can do that as well?" Chris wondered. "It would be helpful."
"I wouldn't doubt it if we could," Kaede nodded. "Although I wonder if I can actually think enough to do it in that… state," she finished lamely.
Chris giggled. "Kaede is as articulate as a barbarian in that state!" she said teasingly.
"Are you cruising for a bruising, Chris-chan?" Kaede cracked her knuckles threateningly.
"Kaede-chan!" Hanami hurriedly held back her black-haired compatriot before she could actually throw herself at Chris.
"Nyeeh!" Chris taunted as she pulled down her eyelid and stuck out her tongue.
"Sometimes… I forget that half of those transformed are teenaged girls…" a random security officer commented to no one in particular. "Then this happens, and I fear for us all…"
"Chris-chan, that was rude!" Hanami quickly tried to placate Kaede, who was actually struggling hard enough against her grip to leave a sizable dent in the wall when her fist accidentally hit it. "Kyou-san, Katrina-san, help!"
"Right!" Katrina shouted as she jumped onto Kaede and joined in the struggle to bring her down, toppling the table over in the process. "What does she eat, muscle supplements?"
"Normal food, like a normal human being!" Kaede growled. "Let me at her! I'm gonna kill her for calling me as articulate as a barbarian!"
"Chris-chan, you… need to apologise!" Hanami got out while catching the flying plates sure before they could land on Kaede and potentially enrage her even further.
"Niener niener, pumpkin eater," Chris taunted, dancing out of the way of Kaede's free hand. "Can't touch this~!"
"Oh, it's on!" Kaede growled before there was a flash of light and accompanying ripping sound. She rushed out of the light in her armoured form, sending Katrina flying from sheer strength alone.
"Mugyaa!" Hanami yelped as she dove out of the way of the angry MS Girl. "Ka-Kaede-chan, calm down!"
"Eeep! Run away!" Chris shouted as she took off running out of the Cafeteria with Kaede hot on her heels.
"This… is not good," Kyou informed with a sweatdrop.
"W-We need to go after them before they cause too much damage to the ship!" Hanami quickly got up. "I don't know if Kaede-chan will try to use the beam magnum when she's like that, and that would definitely break through the hull!"
In a flash of light Katrina transformed to her own armored form. "Let's go!" she shouted.
With Ryu and Ibuki
Ryu panted as he and Ibuki separated from a particularly intense makeout session after stumbling into his quarters. "You're insatiable, you know that, right?" he asked as he helped her remove her compression suit.
"I blame my newly-recovered youth," Ibuki chuckled. "It feels different when your body is younger!"
"I think I can agree on that," Ryu's hand began to drift lower, reaching towards her core-
"Captain, emergency! Miss Serizawa and Miss Jaeger are getting in a fight in the hallways of the ship!"
"Son of a bitch!" the two adults cursed.
"Argh, that was a complete buzzkill!" Ibuki groaned as she quickly climbed off the bed and transformed into her MS Girl form in a flash of light. "What happened this time!?"
"I don't know," Ryu growled as his eye twitched angrily. "All I know is that I just got blue balled by them… very badly blue balled."
"We'll finish this later after we punish them," Ibuki rolled her eyes, feeling a slight trickle of liquid going down her thigh. "And hogtie them up in a corner and force them to watch without being able to relieve themselves."
"Sounds good," Ryu agreed as he began to stalk towards the door, making sure his compression suit was on. "Now let's go prevent some property damage."
With Chris and Kaede
"Where are you aiming?" Chris asked tauntingly as she dodged Kaede's beam slash, already transformed to her own armored form.
"Stop dodging and eat my beam saber! You want a barbarian, you'll get one!" Kaede roared, slashing at the goldette once more and leaving a large gouge in the wall of the ship. Thoroughly frustrated, she raised her left hand and made a grab at Chris.
She barely even noticed when a large metal construct appeared around the hand and unfolded into a large claw.
"Eep!" Chris squeaked as she managed to barely dodge the manifested claw before using her thrusters to gain some distance. "Wow, taking a trip down your beastial side, Kaede?"
"I don't give a crap!" Kaede growled, grabbing at Chris once again. Her claw missed and buried itself in the wall, coming back out with a large chunk of said wall. She tossed it aside without batting an eyelash and performed a thruster-assisted horizontal jump to close the distance, shifting to running on the wall for several seconds when Chris turned a corner.
"Slow poke~" Chris shouted from the other end. "Can't catch me slowpoke!"
"You wanna up the ante, Goldilocks!?" Kaede shouted out, pulling out her beam magnum from its holster on the back of her hip. "Just wait till I get you in my sights!"
"With your aiming skills barbarian?" Chris asked tauntingly. "I'd like to see you try!"
"Wa-Wait up, Kaede-chan, Chris-chan!" a panting Hanami closed in from behind, also in her MS Girl form. "Don't fire in the ship! The beam magnum will tear a gi-giant hole in the hull!"
"I wish I could use my fighter mode inside the ship…" Kyou groaned, following close behind in her own armour.
"Nyah-nyah!" Chris called out cheekily as she ducked around a corner. "Where am I, Kaede?"
"In very, very big trouble," a familiar voice replied from behind her.
"Huh?" she replied, turning around to see an eye twitching Ryu with an irritated Ibuki.
"I hope you realize how much trouble you're in, young lady," Ryu said in a low growl.
"Meep," came Chris' response as Kaede rounded the corner.
In a flash, Ibuki had stepped forward and clotheslined her daughter right into a wall, her superior speed showing its advantage. Kaede dropped her rifle in surprise, while her winged mother stepped on it and kicked it away. "Kaaaaaeeedeee…"
"Fuck me," Kaede muttered, surprisingly meekly.
"No fucking for you for a very long time, Serizawa Kaede-chan…" Ibuki replied in a tone sharp enough to cut steel.
Hanami rounded the corner and stopped in shock. Kyou and Katrina couldn't quite stop in time, resulting in a loud squeak from the silverette as she was plowed into a wall.
"So…" Ryu asked in a deceptively calm tone. "What's going on here?"
"Umm… a rousing game of tag?" Chris offered hopefully, only to get a blank look from Ryu. "Crapbaskets."
"She started it," Kaede said sullenly, apparently back to her normal personality. "She called me a barbarian."
"And that led to you trying to blow a hole in the ship?" Ryu asked bluntly with a raised eyebrow.
"A… A red haze came over me?" Kaede slumped. "My yandere personality took over…"
"Still, you should've come to me instead of trying to turn the ship into a beehive," Ibuki sighed, looking to her side at Kaede's discarded beam magnum. "God knows maintenance is hard-pressed enough patching up all the holes from our crash landing. We don't need you adding any more."
"So, I think the punishment from earlier applies handedly, don't you, Ibuki?" Ryu asked looking at the mother with a downright evil smirk.
"It does. To both," Ibuki confirmed, ignoring the look of horror on her daughter's face. "Hanami, I know you tried to stop them, you're alright. Thanks, er…?" she looked at Kyou and Katrina, still in a pile of limbs together with Hanami.
"Umm, I'm Kyou Yamato ma'am," Kyou informed in a nervous voice.
"Katrina Sanders… miss scary lady," Katrina offered.
"Well, you two don't have to be scared of me," Ibuki laughed, barely doing anything to the tension in the air that was thick enough to cut with a knife. "You didn't do anything wrong. I appreciate the help in… apprehending my errant wards, Yamato-san, Sanders-san."
"You're welcome," the two chorused, not at all relaxed, remembering how easily she had taken down the berserk Kaede.
"Um… what's going to happen to them?" Hanami was almost afraid to ask.
"They're going to be tied up in the corner of the room while Ibuki, myself and you have some… fun," Ryu informed. "And they're going to stay like that all night."
"Until they reflect on what they did wrong," Ibuki added with a glare at the two previously bickering armoured girls. "If they still don't get it by morning, we're going for round two."
The two affected girls paled noticeably.
"Well, shall we get started?" Ryu asked in a pleasant tone as he withdrew a length of reinforced carbon nanotube rope from somewhere.
"Yes, let's," Ibuki nodded, her tone similarly pleasant as if simply talking about the everyday weather. In the meantime, she produced a pair of gags from somewhere.
Chris and Kaede turned to look at Hanami pleadingly, trying to communicate through their eyes to get her to help them.
Hanami looked at her two harem sisters pitifully, but made no move to do so despite her stellar blush.
"Well, have fun, Katrina, Kyou," Ryu called out as he and Ibuki force marched the pair down the hallway. "Cause I know two people that won't!"
The remaining three armoured girls stared after the leaving quartet in silence. Through one of the holes Kaede had left in the ship, they could even hear crickets, or at least cricket-like creatures chirping outside.
…
"I pity them," Kyou broke the silence with a remark.
"They did bring it about themselves though," Katrina pointed out. "But… I never thought the Captain could be so… cruel."
"I… I couldn't agree more," Hanami was shaking at the thought of Chris and Kaede's punishment. "I mean… I know I'm going to… um… l-l-l-like it, but it's kind of at their expense…"
"Have fun with that," Katrina said absently. "Umm… Kyou… am I the only one feeling a need to find Leon right now?"
"You're not," Kyou confirmed.
"But b-before that…" Hanami began, trying to roll over and failing.
"Oh, right," Katrina said in realization as she tried to pull her limbs free. "How did my leg end up stuck on your horn?"
"I-I don't know, but please… get off me…" Hanami groaned, giving up and planting her face in the ground where she was at the very bottom of the group. "Two armoured girls on top of me is too… much…"
"Right!" Kyou said as she tried pulling her arm free. "How could we get this tangled up from simply landing on one another?"
"I think my leg is almost… free!" Katrina shouted in a strained manner.
"I… I think my right arm is going numb…" Hanami whined pitifully. "A-And my chest hurts…"
"Don't you die on me Hanami!" Katrina shouted. "Keep thinking about the sexy time you're going to have with the captain, you can't have it if you die!"
"N-No… I mean my breasts…" Hanami corrected, her eyes scrunched up in discomfort. "They're being squashed against the floor…"
"I think I almost got it…" Katrina said as she let out a grunt of effort before, with a strange 'pop' sound, the three girls suddenly tumbled apart. "What just popped?"
"I… don't… k-k-know…" Hanami finally found herself able to roll over to ease the weight pressing her large breasts uncomfortably against the floor. "I just want to go finish off the lunch we got interrupted in the middle of… and then go rest…"
"What about the sexy time with Captain?" Katrina asked. "your actually going to skip out on it? And rubbing it into Kaede's and Chris' faces?"
Hanami's face reddened dramatically. "On s-second thought, see y-you girls later!" she hurriedly climbed to her feet and rushed off in a hurry.
"Thought so," Katrina mumbled before turning to Kyou. "Should we go find Leon?"
"Yes," Kyou agreed. "Yes we should."
END CHAPTER