28.04.2023

It is I, the Absolute Madman and I'm back with your weekly dose of Stranded! But first, my weekly dose of reader-writer interaction!:

n1ght4ury20 - Doctor who? Never heard of the guy (it's a pun)

deathdog08 - Watch him just be like a sponge or something. If anything he'd probably be a funguy

Fabricio - Eee... perhaps?

DragrexTheBrit - She was asleep. She made a top-notch spyglass with more zoom than modern sniper rifles and it knocked her out for the entirety of the scene, but she's fine!

Parquel26 - Thanks! I was aiming exactly for that kind of realistic depiction of smut that is at least somewhat grounded in reality!

And now, the chapter!:


After the surprise from their space-faring acquaintance, the things returned to a semi-normal state. Well, as normal as you could get in this world anyways. Looking up into the sky each morning and seeing the Harrier parked just a couple kilometers off the ground was definitely going to take some getting used to but it wasn't that bad in comparison to the first time they saw it. And the second time. That evening meeting was so unbelievable you see, that some of the girls mistook it for a dream and had quite the rude awakening on the following morning when they spotted the spaceship and realized that this was not a dream.

Still, things were returning to normal, and by that I mean even more anomalies were happening around them on a daily basis, this world's definition of 'normal' it would seem.

One of the first things to happen was the appearance of a certain thing that spooked the girls from class B and excited the other half of their group - glowing crystals.

Their homes - whilst cozy and all around way more comfortable than sharing tents - had little in way of lighting unless they were to start using torches - which with the wooden nature of these structures was a poor idea. The windows definitely helped, but only during the day, which is when most of them were up and about doing menial tasks for their community. Once they returned to their homes at dusk to unwind however, the twin suns were heading to rest as well and so their abodes quickly became shrouded in darkness, effectively prohibiting the inhabitants from enjoying their time behind the closed doors and curtains. A great shame to be sure.

That's where the appearance of those nearly forgotten minerals shook their entire community and resolved one of their greatest current issues. But as you might expect, the glowing crystals didn't just return in the same form as before, far from that actually. Whereas before they were irregular clumps of crystals in various colors growing organically like a plant, now they were shaping themselves to look almost manmade with sharp lines and vague geometrical features being the base of the new crystal growths. They also didn't just grow in one giant clump like before but were spread out - quite eerily so - between their homes and it just so happened that everyone got their exact crystal growing inside of their houses. Izuku's house was bathed with the soft glow of his green emeralds, Mina's ceiling was occupied by her pinkish amethysts, Momo's onyx crystals were giving off more light now, providing enough lighting to actually see what you were doing even though the glow was still blackish in nature, Kyouka got herself the purplish tanzanites that she didn't know she was missing until she could relax in their glow once again and Tooru's home looked as if it had a miniature sun inside of it with her citrine much more vibrant than the one she was used to seeing in the past.

Changes didn't end there however, because the other four girls - Kendo, Shiozaki, Tokage and Kodai - also received some love and affection from whatever entity blessed the other five with their personalized chandeliers and they all got their distinct, brand new crystals!

A polished amber for Kendo, crystal clear jade for Shiozaki, dark green malachite for Tokage and an ebony black tourmaline for Kodai. They were understandably spooked by the sudden appearance of those crystal formation inside their respective abodes overnight, but Momo and the others were quick to explain to them the many potential uses of the aforementioned gemstones which calmed the distressed class B girls who were not quite as used to such abrupt changes as their class A companions.

Another change that could be observed since their meeting with the mysterious space explorer was the direct result of their own actions and was primarily initiated with utility in mind but quickly transformed into a vanity project.

It all started when Momo decided to put together a workbench - which for now was just a glorified wooden table without any special tools whatsoever - and install it inside of her home so that she could tinker on her own in the evenings. This meant that her home now had a unique feature to it and the others were quick to pick that up and continue the trend of making their respective houses more 'theirs'.

Whilst Mina and Tooru gave in to the vanity side of things and decorated their homes with flowers and various little details made out of twigs and stuff, others like Kodai for example decided to mimic Momo and incorporate the tools of their trade into their homes. Kodai, who's become their official tailor, had all of their tailoring-related tools and machines brought into her home so that she could work in the privacy of her house and Shiozaki who was their uncontested expert when it came to farming decided to store their farming-related tools inside her home so that it would be protected from the elements when not in use. Kendo also wanted to jump onto this trend but had a hard time coming up with anything unique to her. She spent most of her time chopping down trees with Izuku so she couldn't just steal the axe and there wasn't anything else that she believed herself to be adept enough in to warrant a house makeover. In the end she placed a chopping block in front of her home and later added in a punching bag that Kodai was happy to make in her free time. The bag itself wasn't that durable which was understandable so instead of training her strength Kendo used it to practice some more technique, something that Izuku joined her in from time to time, only adding to the mental stress that the amber-heard girl had to deal with thanks to her undisputable attraction to the green-haired harem protagonist.

Things were looking up at the moment, but as the story usually goes that's when something went awry as expected. As it turns out the glowing crystals were not the only thing to return, but the only good thing to return. They were already used to the weather being a lot less violent than in the other areas, but that was about to change for the worse.


"Man, when it rains it pours." Kendo stated as they stared at the droplets bombarding their valley from the sky. Thankfully the overhanging piece of the cliff that served as the ceilings for their homes offered a bit of a shelter so that they wouldn't have to wade through the rain just to visit each other.

"It sure does." Mina agreed as they continued watching.

It's been like that for a few days already, the never-ending rain effectively confining them to the limited sheltered area around their houses and the homes themselves. Thankfully the roof of their food storage was holding out for the time being and they didn't have to water the fields since the rain did it for them. Too much moisture in the ground was not good for the corpse either however and if the clouds didn't move on soon enough then all of the seeds that they'd sown could end up rotting, leaving them with only a handful of seeds to restart their farming operations in the future. Constant rain also meant that wandering out of the valley would not only be a nuisance but also a grave danger since the sound of rain could muffle the sounds of an approaching predator.

Staying indoors it was then! Easier said than done for some unfortunately.

Kodai had a lot of work on her hands, making additional blankets and covers to stave off the creeping cold in the night and trying to create something even remotely suitable for the terrible weather outside, so she had no problems with staying in her home all the time. It also made it easier to stop her wild fantasies about her green-haired crush if she didn't have to see him everyday.

Kendo was busying herself with chopping extensive amounts of firewood and training with her punching bag to make sure that she remained at least somewhat productive even with the weather being how it was.

Momo meanwhile was busy scribbling plans and ideas for the future as well as trying to write out everything that she's learned during her brief theoretical physics geek out with Martin to hopefully try and recreate his discovery once they were back home. Now that she thought about it though, it was quite weird that she doesn't remember anyone even similar to Martin even though she was quite well-versed in the world of science and was sure to keep up with the new theories, discoveries, inventions and experiments. Yet there weren't any mentions about anyone trying their hand at either abolishing or confirming the string theory and definitely no mentions about anyone actually succeeding to not only do so, but also invent something based on that discovery. The spaceship itself was also hard to miss, so how was it possible that she hadn't seen even a mention about something so colossal being constructed? It was strange, but she'd just have to ask Martin the next time he came around to share his findings. For now she was content to stick to documenting what she already knew and looking for ways to make their lives more and more comfortable.

Izuku, being the hard-worker that he was, wasn't adjusting to this forced confinement too well and was quite restless most of the time. The only times he was able to calm down was whenever either of his girlfriends would sneak into his house through the front door - not a very sneaky way in his opinion but it was better than trying to style it through a window - for some quality alone time. He expected something like this to happen from time to time as soon as they started planning to build proper housing for all of them, but what he didn't expect was all of his girlfriends jumping him at the same time!

Thankfully for his pelvis they had a different agenda in mind.


"You need to stop." Kyouka stated firmly as the girls stared him down.

"Stop… what exactly?" He responded in full confusion mode, his eyes narrowing to slits as he tilted his head with a deadpan expression on his face.

"Being such boyfriend material!" Mina declared with an accusatory finger jabbed into his chest.

"But, I'm not really trying to be… And what does that even mean?!" Izuku responded, his confusion only deepening at the vague explanation.

"I told you it wasn't going to work." Momo sighed as she grabbed Mina by the wrist and pointed it away from Izuku. "I think we already established that Izu has absolutely no idea about the effect he has on members of the opposite sex." She reminded the girls and a sudden wave of realization seemed to wash over them as they all released a collective 'ohh' once that thought set in.

"So there really is nothing we can do, is there?" Tooru summed up with dejection clear in her voice.

"Do nothing about what?" Izuku questioned, trying to make at least some sense of the situation, but failing miserably to do so.

"About Kendo, Shiozaki, Kodai and Tokage wanting you to fuck their brains out you dork!" Ashido shouted, clearly fed up with how dense her boyfriend could be when it came to certain topics.

"They want me to do what?!" Izuku exclaimed, taken aback by such a baseless assumption. It was baseless right? It had to be… right?

"Sometimes I'm wondering how we were able to get through that thick skull of yours…" Mina muttered as she massaged both of her temples to fight the settling migraine.

"Well, we all kinda did sleep with him and after that there was no way even he could make up an excuse for that…" Kyouka reminded them with a slight amount of pink dusting her cheeks.

"Oh yeah, we did that." Mina realized suddenly.

"Wait, we didn't come here to debate that!" Tooru chastised the two girls.

"Then why did you come to my house?" Izuku asked, now acutely aware of the topic and the direction that this conversation was bound to be centered around.

"For starters we wanted to see whether or not you were aware that the girls from class B had the hots for you but I guess we could've predicted the answer to that question." Mina started with a sigh. "I swear, for a genius you can be quite dense sometimes." She added.

"And secondly we wanted to check what are your thoughts about them." Tooru continued.

"My thoughts?" Izuku echoed, not sure what exactly that question entailed.

"The menial stuff like are they pretty and stuff." Kyouka explained in a straightforward manner.

"Oh. Well, I guess they are all really pretty. And they are all distinctly interesting and very unique. Tokage has that flirty vibe that's similar to Mina's but she's also really smart like Momo. Shiozaki is really caring and kind and her quirk is really interesting. Kendo knows a lot about martial arts and is really passionate about them, that's something I really like about her. Kodai is the most peculiar out of the four, but I think that that's exactly what makes her really fun to be around. She has that calming air around her, y'know?" Izuku recalled semi-dreamily, getting kinda lost in his monologue.

"We really need to educate him on how to read girls. Did he really not notice that Kodai looks ready to jump him the moment she sees him ever since we've joined forces?" Kyouka asked her fellow girlfriends with disbelief.

"Thankfully we got to him first. Can you imagine what would've happened if they were to find him first?" Momo asked in fear.

"Oh yeah, I can imagine it alright…" Mina said with a sus groan as she rubbed her thighs around.

"I didn't mean for you to actually imagine it!" Momo exclaimed with a flushed face.

"Sorry, kinda got lost in the moment." Mina apologized with a sheepish grin.

"Let's get back on the topic." Tooru stated. "We already know that Izuku has absolutely no idea about the danger that his pelvis is in, so how should we protect him?"

That question was an actual problem which prompted the girls to have a surprise brainstorming session where they tried to figure out how to deal with their boyfriend being an irresistible chick magnet. Easier said than done of course as this particular feature of his didn't have an off button which would've made their lives much easier. The next best thing to do would be to publicly announce the nature of their relationship to the other girls but they were not quite ready for that just yet. As such they found themselves in quite the tricky situation.

"Hey, I know that this might be a wild idea, but how about we actually try to convince them to join us? There's only so much we can do just with the four of us, but if we were all to join forces under the banner of the Dicku then we'd be able to secure Izuku much more efficiently!" Tooru eventually suggested, earning incredulous looks from the other people in the room, Izuku included.

"You can't be serious. You're saying that to monopolize our boyfriend we have to share it with other girls?! How does that even work?!" Mina exclaimed in shock.

"Wait, that might actually work." Momo muttered under her breath as she thought the idea over.

"Not you too!" Mina cried out.

"I mean now that you mentioned it, we're already kind of sharing him with them, right?" Kyouka observed.

"How so?" Izuku himself stepped in to ask for an explanation.

"Well, you spent a lot of time cutting trees with Kendo, you basically kick-started our farming with Shiozaki and I see you talking with both Tokage and Kodai all the time." Kyouka listed out and the other girls listened intently, finding themselves agreeing with what Kyouka had just said.

"When you put it like that it really seems like we're already sharing him, just without him sleeping with any of them." Mina realized in surprise. "Can this actually be a solution to all our problems?"

"Certainly not all, but it could be a good choice for the future. I mean, we're all really amazing and stuff, but we don't have that many similar hobbies or interests. Meanwhile Kendo is really into training and martial arts, Shiozaki is all about helping others, Tokage likes to geek out about quirks and some heroes and Kodai… well, I'm at a loss when it comes to her but leaving her out would be just mean at this point." Momo explained and the other girls ended up agreeing with her point of view.

"Are we really debating expanding this harem?" Izuku said with uncertainty.

"Please don't call it a harem…" Momo whined from the sidelines.

"Also, do you really think Shiozaki would be willing to join something which can probably be viewed as the epitome of debauchery?" He shared his worries.

"I didn't think about it… It's clear that we shouldn't rush this decision just yet, but we shouldn't throw this option out the window either. Let's take some time to reflect on what we've discussed so far and come back to this topic some other time, agreed?" Momo proposed in a truly diplomatic manner and they all agreed, seeing as pushing the subject any further was bound to be a fruitless endeavor and an all around waste of time.

"Great, now that that's dealt with, you can go." Mina said with a smile.

"And what about you?" Tooru asked in confusion.

"Well… all this talk kinda got me in the mood so I'd like to… you know… do something whilst I got the chance?" Mina explained in the most vague manner she could manage, trying - and failing - not to blush in front of her friends.

Thankfully they seemed to get the clue and decided to leave the two be as they gave in to the atmosphere and enjoyed some quality time with each other, completely unaware that their entire conversation was eavesdropped on by one sneaky lizard.

"Holy shit, I gotta tell the others about this!"


The cat is out of the bag! Kinda! I wonder how things are going to unfold?

Also, the crystals are back! And so is the weather... But wait, can those two things have a different meaning? Is there a method to this madness? I don't know, I'm currently putting out the fires aboard my spaceship!

And with nothing left to say have a great day and I'll catch y'all in the next update!