Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

58. The Phanon Raid

-chapter 58-

A couple hours of fun later and both girls had thoroughly tired me out.

I dozed off at one point. I woke up a couple hours later with a sleeping Kitty, naked in her lilithmon form, curled up beside me and Pheebles nowhere to be seen. I figured she must have left to check on Saphy or something or other. I was halfway convinced to just fall back asleep, it was almost time anyway.

A few quiet minutes passed as I contemplated what to do, before the door quietly opened and Phoebe slinked in.

"Where'd you go?" I whispered.

"I just went to check on Saphy." She replied telepathically, which in my current state, sounded really loud.

"Look at how she's snuggled up to you." She said as she climbed back into bed.

"Yeah, she does that a lot, even in her lilithmon form." I said.

"It's hard for me to accept that you've been with her longer now." Phoebe said. "I almost feel like I'm intruding. She won't accept that she's not your wife."

"Well, I tried to keep my distance but she just kept pushing." I replied. "I had no idea you were still alive and well, another 20 years I probably would've married her. Turns out not only were you alive but you've stayed faithful this whole time. In short, you both deserve better."

"I didn't expect you to stay faithful any more than you expected me to, it was easy for me, I was able to keep busy trying to find you." Phoebe replied.

"I guess I could put it this way Pheebles, Kitty is great, at times she's not the brightest but she has heart, but you, my love, you're one in a million." I said.

"She is great, her and Aranea both, they kept you from being alone, and for that I'm greatful." Phoebe said.

"But nobody kept you?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter now that I have you again." She said "I love you."

"Love you too baby girl." I said before she kissed me goodnight.

"And how long is it going to take you to realize that it doesn't matter if I deserve you or not, I want you." She said.

"Another hundred years." I replied.

"We'll see." Phoebe replied.

We layed there quietly for a few minutes until I eventually drifted off into sleep again.

I awoke again a few hours later, between the two of them. They were both asleep so there was no way I could get up without waking at least one of them up. So I basically had no choice but to lay there in silence until one of them awoke. This was definitely one of the drawbacks of this particular situation.

Anyway, eventually Kitty woke up and we were able to get out of bed together while Phoebe continued to sleep. Then I took a shower alone while she went to look for Zari. Phoebe tiredly joined me several minutes later, right about when I was starting to think about getting out.

"Goodmorning." She said, in a tired, but cheerful voice.

"Morning, you look more tired than normal." I said.

"I hurried to get up so I could catch you in here." She said.

"Oh, I see." I replied. "Well then you caught me."

"I know and now I get to have more fun." She said.

"Yeah, if you're ready." I said.

"Just hold me for a few minutes. I just woke up a couple minutes ago." She replied.

"Oh allright. Just let me know when you're ready." I said as I pulled her close.

It was a longer shower than normal but eventually we were out, dressed, ready, and heading to the bridge which is where Zari and Kitty turned out to be.

"There you are." Zari said. "It's been almost a whole day."

"Yeah, it's a big ship." I said. "Once this Phanon business is over with we can hopefully get back on schedule."

"And back to training." Zari said with a wink.

"And then we'll have a baby to deal with." Phoebe chimed in seemingly excited.

"You know this baby isn't going to be like Charley right?" I said. "He's going to scream a lot more for a lot less knowable reasons."

"I can still read his mind Cj, I'll know why, and besides, it will only be for a short time until we return him to his mother." Phoebe said.

"The same mother that raped Cj." Kitty chimed in.

"I was not raped." I said, though nobody seemed to care.

"Yeah, Cj doesn't seem to think it was that bad." Phoebe said.

"And I got her back." Kitty said.

"Yeah I heard." Phoebe replied. "But you did it too well."

"That's what all that was about?" I asked. "That was worth completely destroying our reputation and getting the U.S.C after us?"

"Ummmmmm, probably not, no." Kitty replied.

"She means no it wasn't what you did was really bad Kitty you need to understand that." Phoebe added.

"I understand." Kitty insisted.

"What I don't understand is why we're doing this." I said.

"Because we don't know where Henry, Claire, and IceLeomon are, and it's just the right thing to do." Phoebe said. "We have the time we might as well do it."

"You know it's probably a trap, I don't think I even have a son." I said." Aside from Charley of course."

"Then why did she rape you? " Kitty asked.

"Stop calling it that." I replied.

"Kitty stop, Cj doesn't like it when you say that. " Phoebe felt the need to explain.

"But it's the truth." Kitty replied.

"Eh whatever, I'm getting bored we need a new situation to show up. Anything on the radar Zari?" I asked.

"Nothing at the moment, there's a few mines scattered around, but we just entered Phanon space a few hours ago." Zari said.

"Mines don't sound very fun." I said.

"They're not. Unless you think getting blown up is fun." Zari replied.

"Eh, maybe sometimes." I joked.

"Why don't you three get some breakfast, then I'll stop the ship so we can do some training." Zari said.

"Allright fair enough." I replied.

And so began another day, there wasn't really much else to say about it. We spent most of it watching the radar looking out for mines, wreckage from ships dumb enough to try to jump here, and other obstacles Phanon had scattered around to keep large military task groups from jumping in around their HQ. During this time Phoebe started to spend a little bit more time in the pool with Saphy, which was fine since Kitty was keeping me company on the bridge.

Anyway couple of days of this routine and we finally got close enough to their HQ to think about and plan what we were going to do once we got there. They knew our ship so we couldn't get too close. So we hid the ship a fair distance away and then Phoebe and I took the fighter out so we could get a closer look. It wasn't uncommon for smaller ships to navigate through here so we wouldn't raise any suspicion, this allowed us to get a pretty good view of the station, which we could send back to Zari on the ship. Without the fighter this raid would have been nearly impossible. The sword would not be able to get anywhere near the station.

"This would be easy if we had my ship." Phoebe said as we observed our target.

"Then we'd have to wait a few more days to get it over here, and even then there's a chance they have some kind of defensive measure in place against mind control. Especially with all the stuff you've been doing." I replied.

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Phoebe said.

"Remember this was your idea." I continued.

"I know, I know." Phoebe replied.

We ended up using our digivices for the first time in a long time so we could take the digibabes with us in the fighter. There was no way we could get our ship close enough to attempt to dock, so we left Zari onboard to handle communications while the rest of us went on the attack. With the fighter we were able to dock without setting off any alarms. Unlike most stations which have a bunch of shops around the entrance, after walking down a very long entryway, the first "room" was basically like a large circular lobby of an office building, a large open space with a small round kiosk in the middle. The front desk was manned by a pair of very attractive women who were obviously clones. The walls were lined with benches and pictures of various ships and pieces of real estate owned by the Phanon Corporation, including several of this very station, and elevators, lots of elevators, at least 50 of them or so about every 5 feet or so along the wall, alternating with other entryways.

"Welcome to the Phanon corporation headquarters, how may I be of assistance?" The clerk closest to our group asked in an almost robotic as we made it hallway towards the kiosk. Kitty immediate used her powers on them.

"Take us to the baby." She said.

"What baby?" Both clerks asked in unison, they couldn't follow the command because they didn't know what she meant.

"Try the research department." I suggested.

"Ok take us to the research department." Kitty asked.

"What research department?" The clerks asked in unison.

"The one that deals with cloning?" I suggested.

"The cloning research department." Kitty asked.

"Follow us." They said.

We followed them onto one of the many elevators, they pressed a button, and then we found ourselves heading to a different floor. The door opened to a curved hallway, that apparently circled around another large room. We made it about 20ft from the elevator before being stopped by a patrolling guard.

"What the heck is going on here you're supposed to be in the lobby?" He asked.

"We're taking them to the cloning lab." The clerks said.

"You know that area is off limits." The guard replied.

He reached for his radio, but Kitty took control of him before he could think to do anymore. So now the two clerks and the guard were leading the way. The security alarm tripped about 10 seconds later. Someone watching the cameras must have figured out what we were doing.

Things got more chaotic from there as more security guards began to close in on us with weapons drawn while scientists took cover. We got split up, the guard attacked the other guards and was quickly killed, the clerks were somehow able to break free from Kitty's control and quickly ran away. Phoebe started to sneak up behind the guards so she could put them to sleep. I shot a few, Saphy helped distract them long enough for Phoebe to get behind them. Eventually they stopped coming, and Kitty was able to enlist the help of one of the scientists so we could continue our journey to the cloning lab. Doors started to lock themselves, which really only slowed us down as Kitty's Nazar nail would just corrode its way through them in a few seconds. Phoebe's powers became invaluable as she located a few guards that were taking cover, guards that could have easily ambushed and ended us otherwise. Eventually we made it to the cloning lab. It looked like the most cliché room ever, the walls were lined with big tanks full of liquid with various humanoid forms inside, a few operating tables and computer equipment.

"Well this looks like the place and I don't see a baby anywhere, time to go home." I said, still not willing to go through with this despite making it thus far.

"So we just did all this for nothing?" Saphy asked.

"No Cj, wait." Phoebe replied.

"Kitty guard the door." I said.

"Right." Kitty replied as Phoebe closed her eyes so she could hear better.

"All of you shhh." Phoebe said as she tried to concentrate.

"He must be in another room." Phoebe said a few seconds later.

"Maybe they killed him already?" I suggested.

"Well I'm not leaving until we find out for sure." Phoebe said.

"Pheebles they're gonna start calling in backup." I said.

"Zari how do things look out there?" I asked over the radio.

"No ships coming in so far." Zari replied.

"gawaaaaah!" An unfortunate guard breathed his last as Kitty stabbed him.

"Kitty stop killing people!" Phoebe demanded, already annoyed that I still didn't want to be here.

"Then you deal with them." Kitty replied.

"Pheebles they have guns, she doesn't have time to hypnotize them. Besides I think they're clones or something anyway." I said, it seemed like the only staff that weren't clones here were the scientists and obviously whoever the hell was in charge. The guards were all this bald muscular guy that kind of in the right light looked like a certain movie star, but fortunately they weren't as badass, and also didn't have the accent. All their nametags were just "SG" followed by a number. Whatever skill they did have the girl's powers and my physics defying weapons more than outclassed them.

"Whatever just let me look around." Phoebe said as she started to explore the place more closely with Saphira trailing behind, eventually they found another passageway towards the back which led to a room lined with more cloning tanks.

"You come any closer I'll stab you." Kitty said, causing me to peak over at who she was talking to.

"I'm a scientist, I'm not here to fight, I know what you're here for." Said a rather scrawny man in a white lab coat.

"So what are we here for then?" I asked.

"The child, he's not here, this is just where the clones are made not where they're experimented on." The scientist said. "That's the bio lab it's on the other side of this floor."

"And you're helping us why?" I asked.

"It's just a child, and the faster you get out of here the less likely they'll invoke protocol 6" The scientist said.

"Protocol what?" I asked.

"That's where they blow up the station and everyone inside to keep secrets from getting out." The scientist said.

"Oh, great." I replied.

"Saphy your hands are free, make sure this guy isn't carrying any weapons." I said.

"Phoebe?" Saphy asked.

"Let me see, He's not planning anything Cj, he isn't lying either." Phoebe said.

"Allright then. Lead the way Mr. science." I said.

"A psychic?" He asked.

"Yep." I replied, I still didn't completely trust him, despite what Phoebe said.

"What species?" He asked.

"I'm a gardevoir." Phoebe replied.

"I've never even heard of those before." He replied.

"We're not from around here." I said.

"You're a common human." He said to me.

"Yeah I'm only 125 years old, you know, that's common." I said.

" You can't be more than 30." He said.

"Nope we're all 100 plus." Phoebe said.

"Just get us to the lab." I said.

"Right." The scientist replied.

So we had to fight our way back across the floor, taking extra caution to make sure our new scientist friend didn't get caught in the crossfire. Ten minutes later we made it there, to a room with as many jail-like cells as the previous room had cloning tanks. There were also some operating tables, various pieces of medical equipment, and shelves lined with various drugs and medical supplies. A few of the cells were occupied, mostly by adult clones of attractive men and women of various humanoid races, a few were doppelgangers to the one that got us into this mess in the first place, it was hard to look at them.

"So where is the kid?" I asked.

"Sleeping in cell 61. I'll have to unlock it for you." The scientist replied as he led us down a hallway lined with cells, they all had keypad locks, but he conveniently knew the code.

"So you work in this lab then?" I asked.

"As an assistant yes." The scientist replied.

He unlocked the cell door where my supposed infant son was sleeping in a crib they had set up for him. It was kind of strange to see a crib in what looked like a jail cell, but other than that I felt little, if any emotion. There were other people we probably could've saved, but there was no way they would all fit into a 2 seat fighter, and as far as we knew there weren't any larger ships docked and we didn't have time to look for them or wait for a larger one to show up. As I said earlier the sword couldn't get anywhere near this place without getting blown to bits.

"Thankyou for your help, you can go to sleep now." Phoebe said as she knocked the scientist unconscious and gently set him down with a bit more care than the guards for his troubles.

"Let me see Cj!" She said as she bolted passed me to look inside the crib.

"Awe he's adorable." She said moments later, wasting no time picking him up.

"Can I see?" Saphy asked, having never seen a baby before.

"Ok, but try not to wake him." Phoebe said.

"Don't get too attached, we're not keeping him." I said.

"I know, he just reminds me so much of Charley." Phoebe said.

"He doesn't even look anything like Charley, aside from being a baby." I said.

"But he's your son." Phoebe said.

"No, he's their science experiment." I said.

"How could you be so heartless?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm not, I just don't feel any attachment to him, you're just going to have to except that, he's not like you and Charley, or Nina for that matter."

"Well I convinced you to care about Nina, I can convince you to care about this little guy." Phoebe said.

"Yeah well, you can try to convince me after we get out of here alive, let's get going." I said.

"Right, Saphy why don't you carry him?" Phoebe asked.

"Um ok." Saphira replied.

"Here, I'll show you how to hold him. Keep him out of harm's way." Phoebe said.

"Whatever you're doing in there you need to get out soon there's Phanon ships coming in from all directions." Zari said on the radio.

"We're about to head back to the ship." I replied.

"Hurry." Zari responded moments later.

Phoebe took a brief moment to teach Saphy how to properly hold a baby, and then we were finally on our way out of the place. Things got more complicated when we got back to the fighter, Saphira had to go back inside Phoebe's digivice and Phoebe had to hold the baby once again, and that was ok, but of course Phanon hadn't quite given up yet and there were quite a few ships moving into position. We still had a few leach missiles on board, but we didn't have near enough fire power to deal with as many enemy ships as we were facing. In space we were at a huge disadvantage, but there weren't many fighter launched yet so we had them in maneuverability.

We undocked from the station, which for the record we didn't need permission to do, and then we started to cruise away from it, we got pretty far away from it before one of the Phanon ships contacted us and threatened to fire missiles at us if we didn't surrender. However they were pretty far away from us, and there were lots of asteroids and other debris around. We made it to the debris field before the missiles did, and through some careful maneuvering I tricked the missiles into colliding with pieces of debris and exploding. After they realized missiles weren't going to work five fighters were sent after us from a light carrier, but by that point we were already lining up to dock with the sword, that Zari now had on standby to go into hyperspace, which she did as soon as the garage repressurized, before the fighters even had a chance to get in range, before we even had a chance to get out of our own fighter, and with that we had eluded Phanon for the time being.

"Well we did it Pheebles we got away." I said as I started to unstrap myself from the fighter.

The baby started crying, woken up by all the rattling caused by going into hyperspace.

"Awwe he's scared now." Phoebe said.

"Just remember this was your idea so he's your responsibility." I said.

"But our kids were my idea." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah well, I loved those kids and their mother." I said as I awkwardly climbed out of the fighter. "I don't know this kid and from what I've seen of his mother I don't like her very much."

"Well what if I decide to be his new mother?" Phoebe asked as she hovered out of the fighter.

"You wouldn't dare." I said.

"How do you know we've been apart so long?" Phoebe replied.

Kitty came out of the digivice on her own.

"I hate it in there." She said.

"Yeah, you've been out of it for a long time." I replied.

"What is that noise?" She asked.

"The baby got woken up so it's crying now." I said.

"It's so loud. I didn't know they were this loud." Kitty said.

"Yeah I know, welcome to the world of babies." I replied.

Saphira ejected herself from Phoebe's digivice.

"How does something so small make so much noise?" She asked.

"Oh he'll stop in a bit." Phoebe said as she tried her best to comfort the baby. "Here hold him so I can get out of my spacesuit."

"Why don't you just put him back to sleep?" Saphira asked as she held the wailing child at arm's length.

"Great question." I added.

"Because that could hurt his brain at this age." Phoebe replied.

"Well he's hurting my brain now." Kitty said.

"He's hurting my brain too." Saphy agreed handing the child back to Phoebe as soon as she got her spacesuit off. "I'm going to the pool, bye."

"Um, bye." Phoebe said, sounding somewhat disappointed.

"Guess I'll go check in with Zari on the bridge." I said.

"I'll go with you." Kitty added.

"Cj wait." Phoebe said as the child continued to cry.

"Well you can come to, you might want to calm him down first though." I said.

And so we all left Phoebe in the garage with a crying baby. I wasn't really sure what she expected to happen.

"So you got the baby right?" Zari asked shortly after I entered the bridge with Kitty trailing behind.

"Yeah Phoebe has him." I said.

"He's really loud." Kitty added.

"So now we're going to return him to that psycho clone?" Zari asked.

"Yep. Which means we have to go back into U.S.C space. We might use Phoebe's ship for that though, so why don't you jump us to wherever you sent it." I said.

"Sure thing, but we're going to have to stop for fuel first. I already got us near a station we should be docked within the hour." Zari said.

"Allright then, sounds good." I replied as Phoebe entered the room, still carrying the baby.

"Ayeee you managed to calm him down." I said.

"Can I see him?" Zari asked.

"Of course you can." Phoebe replied.

"Oh hi there." Zari said. The baby seemed surprised by her appearance for a moment before it cutely smiled.

"Awwwe, he likes you." Phoebe said.

"Well he kind of looks like Cj." Zari said.

"I'm not even sure he really is mine." I said.

"He has to be, the clone lady said so." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah, but he was raised in a tank, I think there's other DNA in there too." I said.

"Is that even possible?" Zari asked.

"Yeah, if you have a lab like that one probably." I said.

"What's DNA?" Kitty asked.

"If you want to know later I'll explain." I said.

"Do you think he could be like us?" Zari asked. "Like he'll live forever."

"Well, it didn't pass on to my daughter. I don't know why it would pass on to him. But I guess that is kind of what Phanon was going for." I said.

"Yeah but you had your daughter before our condition had much time to progress." Zari pointed out.

"I don't know, I don't think it matters because we're not going to be here long enough to find out." I said.

"He has really good grip." Phoebe said. "He's strong, really strong, stronger than Charley if I remember and Charley was really strong for a ralts."

"Pheebles he's basically human, no gardevoir in him at all, anyway where's he going to sleep? We don't even have a crib." I said.

"I'll sleep with him, like I used to do with Charley remember." Phoebe said.

"But then we can't."

"You have Kitty it will be fine, it's only for a couple nights anyway right?" Phoebe interrupted me.

"Right." Zari said.

"That means we get to spend more time alone together." Kitty said as she put her arm around me.

"Yeah I guess it does since Phoebe apparently doesn't care." I agreed.

"I'm just excited to be holding a baby again." Phoebe said.

"Just don't forget about Charley and Nina." I said.

"I won't." Phoebe replied. "Just don't forget you're this little guy's father too."

"I am not." I said.

"Oh Cj." Phoebe sighed with a look of disappointment.

"Would it kill you to show some compassion? He's just a baby." Zari asked.

"Yeah Cj I know he wasn't created in the best of circumstance but look at his cute little face." Phoebe said as she got overwhelmed with cuteness.

"I just don't want to get too attached, it'd be wise if you do the same." I said.

"Yeah well, I can do that and still enjoy his cuteness. And you're his father and this is literally the only time he's ever going to see you, you might want to make it count." Phoebe said. "Come on little guy I'll show you my room."

"So it's just you and me tonight." Kitty said.

"Yep, yeah it is." I replied as Phoebe's words resonated within me.

"We should make it special." Kitty continued.

"Yeah maybe." I replied. "Or maybe not because I'm not entirely sure Phoebe is actually ok with this."

"But she said she was ok with it." Kitty said.

"That's not what she said she just kind of implied it." I replied.

"What does that mean?" Kitty asked.

"Just let me talk to Phoebe alone for a bit ok?" I asked.

"Ok." She replied.

"So how are you?" Kitty asked Zari once I had left.

"I'm allright you?" Zari asked.

"I'm ok, it's just sometimes I wish he would love me as much as he loves her." Kitty said.

"Well it's not like there isn't other men around. Just wait until we get to this station." Zari said.

"Yeah, but, he's my husband and he still loves me. And those other men will grow old and die. You can see it can't you? He hasn't been quite the same since Aranea. I don't want to end up the same way." Kitty said. Still believing we were married.

"Yeah, it wasn't easy for me either, actually, it still isn't, I kind of wish I could find a way to undo this sometimes." Zari said.

"Well, don't leave us." Kitty said.

"I won't, but are you happy with this arrangement you three have?" Zari asked.

"Yeah, most of the time." Kitty said.

"Then, well it's probably best to leave it as it is." Zari said.

"Also I guess he forgot but we're going to be at a station in an hour." Zari said.

"So?" Kitty asked.

"We can probably buy a crib there, and some other supplies." Zari said.

"So?" Kitty asked.

"The baby can sleep in a crib instead of with Phoebe."

"Annnnnd?" Kitty asked.

"Cj can sleep with Phoebe tonight instead of you." Zari pointed out.

"What, but that's not, no." Kitty objected.

"Well, actually I don't think they would do it with a baby in the room, so maybe you're still in the clear." Zari said.

"Stop it you're making my head hurt." Kitty yelped.

-meanwhile-

"Pheebles." I said as I went into our room.

"And this is Aranea, she was very nice, but she died a long time ago before I could meet her." Phoebe said as she showed the clueless baby around the room.

"You know he probably doesn't understand you?" I asked.

'I know, but he likes being talked to." Phoebe replied.

"Before you ask, I'm ok with you sleeping with Kitty Cj." She said.

"I don't think I feel comfortable with it though." I said. "It doesn't seem fair to you."

"It will be ok Cj, like I said earlier I'm just excited to feel like a mother again, and you're here and we're both still trying to get back to our kids even after all this time. Besides you've been sleeping with her for 20 years a few more nights won't hurt anything so please enjoy yourself and remember one day when we get back home, it's just going to be you and I again and I will always love you, you silly human." She said.

"It's been so long Pheebles." I said.

"I know it has, but we will get back, I know how we can get back to the digital world at least, and now that Kitty is able to digivolve whenever she wants we should have a lot easier time. Like you said Cj, it's been a long time, things are going to be complicated for awhile." Phoebe replied. "Now, you want to talk about something else or do you want to hold your son?"

"What else do you want to talk about?" I asked.

"Oooooh I don't really . . . . . " Phoebe began to say.

"CJ get to the bridge now!" Zari said on the intercom in a somewhat urgent tone.

"That doesn't sound good." I said.

"Well if you need me I'll either be in here or with Saphy." Phoebe said.

"Ok love you babe bye." I said, wondering what was going on.

-A few minutes later-

"What's going on?" I asked as I returned to the bridge.

"Bounty hunters, lots of bounty hunters. They were hiding behind the station." Zari said.

"Jump out of here." I replied.

"Not enough fuel." Zari said.

"Fuck maybe they don't notice us?" I asked.

"They're sending a vidcom request." Zari said.

"Well accept it." I replied.

"Surrender the children and no harm will come to you." Their leader said.

"Yeah bullshit, and what children we only have one baby." I replied.

"Don't lie, Phanon said you just ripped off a whole bunch of children from their HQ." Their leader said.

"No, just the one. You can run a scan if you want." I replied.

"Don't let them do that!" Zari said as she smacked me in the shoulder.

"What are you smuggling children?" I asked.

"No, but if they scan us they'll see we have crap for weapons." Zari said.

"Well if this goes hot we'll just hightail it to the station. We're almost in the safety range." I said.

"Yeah, but with that many fighters they could get a lot of shots off before we get there, I don't like it, and they're requesting communications again." Zari replied.

"Let them through." I replied.

"Listen not even 20 minutes ago we got a report from Phanon about a ship exactly like yours with the same class same manufacturer, same stupid name same com I.D, We looked out the window of the station and there you were coming right to us. Now normally according to common law we can't fire on you if you're close to a station, but due to children being involved that station has agreed to let us do so."

"We have one child, there is no children." I replied. "Furthermore I'm it's father and the name is not stupid!"

"Scans are coming back negative Sir, there's no children on board." Said one of his lackeys on what sounded like a radio in the background.

"They couldn't have gotten rid of them so quickly could they?" Another lackey asked. "Phanon has been known to inflate stuff before to get people to react faster."

"Well it looks like that checks out, sorry to bother you, have a nice day." The bounty hunter replied as he terminated the com link, the fighters moved out of there pretty quickly afterwards.

"Must be Zelusian-based." I said as they didn't seem to know or care that we were wanted by the U.S.C

"I was getting close to pulling rank on them." Zari said.

"Would that even work?" I asked.

"Hell yeah, if they hurt me the Zelusian army will hunt them down. At the very least they'd be run out of Zelusian space." Zari said.

"Well that's good to know." I replied.

We proceeded to dock at the station as planned. We got more fuel while Phoebe and Zari excitedly went shopping for baby supplies taking a somewhat less enthusiastic Saphy with them, while I hungout with Kitty at a bar where we could listen to other people's stories, while selectively sharing ones that wouldn't blow our cover, ones before Phoebe and I entered the digital world worked best. Some of which Kitty hadn't even heard yet. It broke up the monotony and allowed us to meet new people which for a crew as small as ours was great for morale, because in space the isolation you feel from the rest of existence is almost unparalleled. Kitty was in her Persiamon form, which she was usually in when out in public. It all seemed to be going well. Until a man entered that looked a hell of a lot like Henry, minus Claire and with a fairly sizable group of strangers he seemed to be friends with. At that moment Kitty and I were sitting alone as the group we had been talking with had dispersed, a few left for the "night" and others went to other groups. The bar had been gradually quieting down until this new group had entered.

-meanwhile back at the Phanon HQ-

"We checked four times now sir, all they took was the baby." Said an unknown Phanon assistant to his even more unknown superior.

"Let me know if the bounty hunters get back to you, we got another situation going on right now, The

team from the true northern edge just sent back another report today, more stars have disappeared they don't know what it is that's doing it, but it's something, way bigger than these guys."

Phanon, like many corporations and planets, had several teams exploring the edges of the known universe, mapping out new planets, species, and resources. The "known" universe grows on a constant basis. Nobody in existence knew it at the time, but that thing was deusmon, and in it's current state this universes's days were numbered. Nothing could stop him at this point, not even the most powerful warships, he had ascended from a digimon into a world killing eldritch abomination.

But at the time we were all blissfully unaware.

Anyway, back at the bar Kitty and I wondered if the man we thought was Henry would recognize us. It had been more than a century since we've seen him, but we hadn't really changed all that much, Kitty barely changed at all. It got to the point where we went and sat with the group, engaged in casual conversation, but it didn't seem like the really wanted us there, so we backed off and retreated to our corner table.

"That has to be him." Kitty said.

"I don't know." I replied. "Maybe it isn't, maybe it is and he doesn't remember us, or maybe he's just being a jerk. I mean if he has his own life here, we might as well just let him be."

"But he has to come with us he's one of the chosen." Kitty said.

"Why? He never even found his digimon." I said.

"Yeah, but, well you get it, we need them. Ophanimon said so." Kitty said.

"Over a hundred years ago." I replied.

"Cj you know you're never going to talk me out of this." She said with a look I knew all too well at this point.

"Yeah, I know." I replied. "But if that really is him he probably would've recognized us by now. Hell if Pheebles was here we'd know for sure."

"Well we should go get her." Kitty said.

"He'll probably leave before we get back. Besides we don't know what store she went to." I said.

"How many could there possibly be?" Kitty asked.

"I think the sign said there was about 400 different shops here." I said. "So probably a couple dozen she could possibly be at."

It was like one big supermall.

"That's not that many" Kitty said.

"It's enough to make it take too long to find her." I replied.

"Well I'm going to go find her, you stay here and keep an eye on him." Kitty said.

"Hold up! Let's switch that around." I said.

"Why, you don't even want to go?" Kitty said.

"Well, Phoebe can find me easier than you, and you're probably better at keeping him here longer." I said, seeing there was no way to talk her out of this.

"Why?" She asked.

"Cause you're beautiful, now I'll go look for Pheebles and you try to keep them here until I get back." I said.

"You better come back." She said.

"I will, don't worry about that." I replied.

I had little more than those "You are here" map signs to go by, but I started my search by heading towards the closest store I felt she could have gone to. Unfortunately the laws of convenience did not apply in this situation so the search had to continue on to several more stores. It was a solid hour before she found me.

"Why are you looking for me Cj?" Phoebe asked as she teleported near me.

"Oh there you are baby girl. I need you, there's a guy at the bar that looks like Henry, but we can't tell if it's actually him or not so we need your special powers to help us find out for sure." I said.

"Couldn't you just ask him?" Phoebe replied.

"Yeah well, what if he forgot about us? Or what if he doesn't want us to know? Anyway we have to hurry, it's been an hour and Kitty can't keep him at the bar forever." I said.

"Oh so that's where Kitty is?" She asked.

"Yeah." I said as I started to lead her towards the bar.

"I thought you ditched her so you could spend more time with me." She said.

"You did not." I said.

"Well it was worth a shot." She replied.

"That's my line." I said.

"Well it's mine now." She said.

"You thief." I replied.

"Just wait here a moment I need to go tell Zari and Saphy." She said.

"Ok." I replied before she teleported away. I found a nearby bench and idly watched the crowd for a few minutes before she returned.

"Ok so what bar did you go to?" She asked after suddenly appearing behind me.

"Dammit Pheebles stop doing that. Let's go." I said as I got up, somewhat shocked.

"Ok." She replied with a mischievous smile.

"I missed doing that." She said.

"Yeah, I can tell." I replied. "I'm going to miss doing you."

"Cj don't be lewd, and don't be silly we'll still have our shower time. Zari agreed to look after him in the mornings." She replied. "And it's only for a few days."

"If you say so." I said as we navigated through what basically resembled a cityscape, but surrounded with giant metal walls and a fake sky up above that was eternally noon, complete with fake clouds, a feature a lot of stations have in an attempt to make it feel like you were planet side, sometimes with features resembling the skies of certain nearby planets, on some planets, for instance, the sky is slightly more green than blue. They could also change it for certain events and holidays for added flare, for instance an entire fireworks show could be displayed, setting off a bunch of actual firework inside a station not being a very good idea.

Eventually we made it back to the bar where Kitty was now dancing on one of the tables.

"What the hell?" I quietly asked my beloved as she followed me inside.

"Looks like she's having fun without you." Phoebe said.

Kitty spotted us, jumped off the table and came over to hug me.

"This is Cj he's our husband." Kitty said.

"Hi Cj." A bunch of random strangers said in unison, including the one that looked like Henry.

"He's my husband." Phoebe muttered with a cringe that meant that this was going to be a fun conversation later.

"So um, he's right over there." I said to Phoebe as I struggled to pry Kitty off of me, as nice as her hugs were.

"Yeaaaaaaah. I'm not seeing it." Phoebe said.

"What?" kitty asked.

"That's not him." Phoebe said.

"not who?" A random stranger asked.

"Never mind." I said.

"I could be wrong though." Phoebe said." I need more time."

"What?" I asked.

"Nobody has all of their memories on the surface Cj, and that was a long time ago so they're going to be buried, if they're there at all." Phoebe said. "So come on buy me a drink already."

"Hehe, what do you want?" I asked.

"What do they have?" She asked.

"A lot of stuff." I said.

"Um, let me see." She said as she staired at the shelves behind the counter while the bartender glanced over, anticipating her order.

"Do you think they know what oran berries are?" She asked a few moments later.

"Do they ever?" I asked.

"No, but it's like you always say it's worth a shot." She replied.

"Excuse me bartender do you have anything that's orange flavored?" She asked.

:What's an orange?" The bartender asked.

"Try something with a universal standard type 4 flavor profile." I suggested.

"A what?" Phoebe asked.

"It's the universal flavor profile for oranges and fruits that taste like oranges. Helps simplify things between planets since people can't be bothered to remember thousands of different alien fruits." I said.

"A type 4?" The bartender asked. "Yeah I know a few of those I can make."

"Just make whatever is lowest on alcohol." I said.

"Hey." Phoebe said as she nudged me.

"We're not here to get wasted baby girl." I replied as the bartender set to work preparing a drink for her.

"I know, but I want to know what all the different drinks are." Phoebe said.

"Well if you don't like this one you can pick a different one." I replied.

"Ok." She said.

"Here, try this." The bartender said as she set a glass of yellow orange liquid on the table.

"Could use more sugar." Phoebe said after sipping it.

The bartender handed her some sugar cubes, gave me my change and went to tend to other customers.

"Is this sugar?" Phoebe asked confused, somehow she had never seen a sugar cube before.

"Yeah it's just cubed, just break it up and mix it in." I said curious as to how she hadn't seen one before.

"Oh. Ok." She said as she did so. She mixed it in and then took another sip.

"Still needs more." She said.

It was clear she was trying to make it taste like oran berry juice, which is like orange juice, but a lot sweeter, like if there was a liquid form of orange taffee that was also light blue for some reason. Though it would be impossible to replicate the taste just by adding sugar, as the juice also contains some unique compounds that not only alter it's flavor, but also gives it some slight healing properties.

We waited for the bartender to come back so she could get a few more sugar cubes, then we took a seat at a booth in the corner while Kitty went back to socializing with her new friends.

"I don't like how she keeps saying you're her husband." Phoebe said.

"Well it makes her happy, and I don't think she really means any harm by it." I said.

"I know, I just don't like it, you're mine. She's not your wife I am, she's just our virarra. " Phoebe said.

"Yeah well, I don't think she understands the difference." I replied.

"That's exactly why I don't like it." Phoebe said.

"We were alone together for twenty years Pheebles, just let her have this." I said.

"You probably should have distanced yourself more." Phoebe said.

"Yeah I know, but Aranea was gone and, I didn't know if you were alive or not. I had to keep her somewhat close because she was still my digimon, and if you weren't still alive, I needed somebody." I began to explain.

"I know Cj." She replied.

"You both love me, you have that in common." I said.

"I know." Phoebe replied.

"Cj they offered to buy us all drinks!" Kitty interrupted from across the room.

"Great!" I replied. "I'll just have the usual."

"What's the usual?" Phoebe asked.

"Burble light, it's a beer. Available almost everywhere." I said.

"You drink beer now?" Phoebe asked.

"Yep." I replied.

"I remember when you wouldn't touch the stuff." Phoebe said.

"Yeah well, things change." I replied.

"Interesting." Phoebe said.

"You don't get crazy drunk do you?" She asked.

"Only on really bad days." I said. "But yeah it takes a hell of a lot of beer for me to get drunk so don't worry."

"Kitty can you come here for a second?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah what do you want?" Kitty replied.

"What's Cj like when drunk?" Phoebe asked.

"Can't you just read his mind?" Kitty asked.

" For memories of himself being drunk? It's not the most reliable source." Phoebe replied.

"He just gets really sleepy." Kitty said. "It's no big thing why?"

"I don't know, just curious." Phoebe replied.

"It's one beer Pheebles I'm not going to get drunk." I replied.

"Worst thing that will happen is he'll be too tired to sleep with you, but since you're looking after the baby tonight that won't matter anyway." Kitty said.

"Really?" I asked.

"I'm just being honest." Kitty replied.

"I'm not going to get drunk that's not what we're here for." I said.

"You know he didn't need to drink when he was with me." Phoebe said.

"I didn't start drinking because of her either Pheebles. I started because everybody else was so I figured what the heck?" I said as I put my arm around Kitty who was standing by the end of the table.

"Now that being said, can you tell if that guy is Henry yet?" I asked.

"Well the beer makes it even more difficult." Phoebe replied.

"Great." I replied.

"Well Kitty why don't you get back to them. Maybe he'll spill the beans." I said.

"Ok." Kitty replied.

"Seriously Pheebles you just have to keep putting her down?" I asked.

"I'm sorry it just keeps slipping out." Phoebe replied.

"One of these days she's going to get you back." I said.

"She already did that when she ran up and hugged you when we came in. As well as every time she refers to you as her husband." Phoebe replied.

"Well, if you weren't happy with this arrangement." I began to say

"I am happy with it, but no part of that arrangement gave her the right to call you her husband." Phoebe interrupted with a hint of frustration.

"Well just because she keeps saying it doesn't make it true Pheebles." I replied.

"Yeah, but she believes it." Phoebe said.

"So?" I asked. "Nothing has really changed she's not demanding I sleep with her every night. She's not accusing you of calling me your husband, hell she accepts it. Let her believe what she wants to believe if it makes her happy."

"But Cj you're mine." She said.

"Right and I always will be regardless of what she says or believes. So relax. Let me tell you a secret, she's great in battle, she's great at sex, she's great at gardening. That's it, the rest of her is a complete mess, she can't cook, she lives like a slob, you know how we were able to afford this ship? Ever since we retired from the U.S.C, She never even bought a house for herself. She rented one for maybe a month once we retired but she didn't make the next payment even though she could afford it, she argued with her landlord that she "already paid for the house" so they kicked her out, and since then she's either stayed with me and Aranea, as a friend, or whoever her boyfriend of the month was. She thought she stilled owned it even though eventually somebody else moved in there. She just decided to leave them be as they "had more things then her anyway". You wanna know why most of her relationships fell through? Because, bless her heart, but she really is a complete and total idiot. A lot of her exes told me she can't cook, I don't really know, I did all the cooking when we were together because she doesn't really need to eat. If I remember correctly though I think she accidently set one of her ex's houses on fire trying to." I replied.

"Really?" Phoebe said.

"Yep, and that's what ended that relationship." I replied. "Another time she accidently clawed this guy's car, I don't know how, but yeah he didn't take it too well."

"Anymore stories?" Phoebe asked.

"Don't you dare tell anyone I told you this." I said.

"I won't." Phoebe replied.

"Um let's see, she killed this guy's pet Neblong by putting it in the microwave because she thought it was cold." I said.

"What's a Neblong?" Phoebe asked.

"They're basically a living ball of fluff with the face of a cat and tiny little legs, normally hidden by said fluff. They're about basketball sized." I said.

"Ok so what happened? " Phoebe asked.

"Well it exploded and its guts flew everywhere. Relationship over." I said.

"Awwe poor thing." Phoebe said.

"Thankfully she never made that mistake again. I think that one traumatized her just a bit." I said.

"I hope so." Phoebe replied.

The bartender came by and gave me a can of burble light, as well as another martini glass of whatever Phoebe was drinking.

"So is that enough? You feel better now?" I asked.

"Yeah, a little bit." She replied.

"So how was your shopping going before this came up?" I asked.

"Oh it was great, we're finding everything we need." She said. "I wish we could have found some of this stuff for Charley."

"Well if you can hold onto it for that long." I said.

"Oh no, it will never fit on the bus." Phoebe said.

"You think our bus is still good after all this time?" I asked as I took a sip of beer. We had no way of knowing it, but in the current timeline it was destroyed along with the rest of the digital world.

"Well we're going to be traveling back in time so it should be." Phoebe asked.

"Your side project is a time machine?" I asked.

"Yeah, the largest in the known universe." Phoebe said." But last time I checked it's not ready yet. That's the only way we can get back there is we have to go back in time to where we came here, and then going through that crack in space should bring us back to the digital world. I already pinpointed the exact spot I came through, so all I have to do is get the machine set up and we should be able to get back to the digital world."

"So how does this time machine work?" I asked.

"No idea, I just found a culture that knows how to make them." Phoebe said.

"And what if we can't find Henry, Claire, and IceLeomon by then?" I asked.

"Well then we'll have to probably just go on without them, unless we can pinpoint where they went somehow." Phoebe said.

"Well at least Kitty can digivolve now." I said.

"If we could get Saphy to digivolve too we'd be good to go." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, pretty much. Maybe the Zelusians can figure it out like the U.S.C did, Zari probably has connections, you should talk to her." I said.

""Yeah maybe, I don't know Cj, I don't feel so good." She replied.

"Too much to drink or."

"The bartender poisoned the drinks." Phoebe said.

"Could've said that earlier." I said. Not feeling the best myself.

"I didn't think to check." Phoebe replied before we both passed out. We tried to stay awake, but it was no use.

I awoke in a room next to Kitty and my beloved.

"The fuck is the meaning of this?" I asked.

"Calm down Cj, don't fight." Kitty said as she casually stood to my left.

"You'll notice you're not tied up." Henry said as he calmly sat in front of us. "I've been looking for you guys for a long time. I can't believe my luck I just saw you walk into that bar."

"You know Henry you could've just said something." I replied.

"You're wanted, both by Phanon and the U.S.C" Henry replied. "I couldn't be seen associating with you in public. It was easier just to pretend you were any other bounty, pay off the bartender, knock you out and bring you onboard. I had to make it look convincing. Unfortunately Kitty wasn't affected by the drugs, so it didn't work completely as planned, but we got you here."

"So you're a bounty hunter now is that it? This is Zelusian space, our bounty is only good in U.S.C space, and nobody really cares about Phanon, so what are you even doing here?" I asked.

" We just finished tracking down a notorious sex-trafficking pirate. Donaby Jackaboy. His bounty is only for U.S.C space as well, but given his crimes we went the extra mile. Anyway, once we blew him to bits, we went to the bar to celebrate and there you were. And now, I just have to ask how did you each get a billion credit bounty for just breaking and entering and vandalism? What did you do blow up a station?"

"Well Kitty did some things to a clone, so they couldn't legally charge for that so they inflated the bounty." I said.

"Sorry." Kitty replied.

"Care to elaborate?" Henry asked.

"Not really. I wasn't even there, so, yeah." I said.

"She raped Cj so I made others do the same to her." Kitty said.

"God dammit Kitty for the last time stop calling it that!" I yelled.

"Ok well that's a new one." Henry replied. "And because she's a clone and has no rights they couldn't legally press charges so they just artificially upped your bounty instead."

"Yeah pretty much. By the way Phoebe has nothing on her so you might as well just let her go." I said.

"I'm not interested in the bounty though, even if it's because of that, I just need to borrow Phoebe to save Claire." He said.

"Oh good you know where she is too, that's great." I said.

"Sort of." Henry replied.

"Sort of?" I asked.

"I'll show you when Phoebe wakes up." He replied.

"You know Zari and Saphy are probably wondering where the hell we are right?" I asked.

"Yeah well, I'll let you go, after this." Henry said.

"You know you could come with us, Phoebe has this plan to get us back to the digital world." I said.

"Yeah well it's been a hundred years, I'm not really interested anymore." Henry said.

"But you're one of the chosen ones." Kitty said.

"We never even got a digimon." Henry said. "You didn't really need us."

"Maybe you couldn't take down the dark kings, but give you a gun and you could deal with their cannon fodder." I said. "It's not like you were no help at all. You probably could have found a digimon given time."

Phoebe finally started to wake up.

"Where am I?" She asked as she squirmed around and tried to get her bearings.

"Long story short that was Henry." I replied.

"So where are we now then?" Phoebe asked.

"I would assume his ship." I said as Henry nodded in agreement.

"You could have just said something you didn't have to poison our drinks." Phoebe said after taking a few minutes to regain her senses.

"Yeah we've been through this already can you just get to the point? You needed her to save Claire?" I asked.

"Right, um, if you could follow me." Henry said.

"Cj." A frustrated Phoebe exclaimed.

"He said he'd let us go after this, so let's just get it done. Besides Claire needs help apparently." I said.

"He doesn't want to join us?" Phoebe asked.

"No it seems he moved on." I replied.

He led us to a room where Claire sat in a chair, her body was as fine as ever especially for being 100 plus, but she wasn't really there, her hair was a mess and her clothes were even worse.

She yelled when we came in.

"I found her, she can help you." Henry said, to which Claire responded with another series of indecipherable yells. She seemed to be almost completely feral.

"The hell happened to her?" I asked.

"I found her like this at an auction about 40 years ago. She eats nothing but bread and hasn't said a word in all this time." Henry said.

"A slave auction?" I asked.

"One I quickly put an end to of course. Most of my crew are former slaves by the way." Henry said.

"So what do you think Pheebles.?" I asked.

"There's a lot of walls." Phoebe said. " A lot of walls."

"Can you fix her?" Henry asked.

"It's going to take a while, and I would really like to have Cj with me while I do." Phoebe said.

"Fair enough, get to it." Henry replied.

"Henry, we're docked at LB5, why don't you tell Zari and Saphy where we are so they don't come looking for us?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah, ok, just get to work." Henry said before leaving the room.

"What am I supposed to do?" Kitty asked.

"Just sit and watch I guess." I replied.

"This is going to be tough." Phoebe said. "I'm kind of afraid of what I might see that's why I want you here with me."

"Allright." I said.

She placed her hand on Claire's head and it began to glow.

60 years of bad memories, even for a psychic, weren't very easy to erase. I saw it in her eyes, all the years of pain and suffering, all the depravity, about five minutes in and she pulled her hand away and they both broke down in tears probably experiencing the same thing. Kitty stood there gob smacked as I tried to console my baby girl, Claire just sat there and cried uncontrollably.

"It's ok baby it's allright, I'm here, I love you, whatever you saw you're trying to make it go away for good, so you gotta keep going." I said as I held her close.

"Like I said this is going to take a while." Phoebe replied as she started to regain her composure. She stopped crying after about another minute, kissed me on the cheek and set back to work. Claire stopped crying as soon as her hand started to glow again, and the cycle repeated itself until about another hour later they both fell asleep, while Kitty sat on the floor extremely bored.

It was then that Henry came to check on us.

"How's it going?" He asked.

"They both fell asleep, but they've both been crying on and off for the last hour." I said.

"Can we go? I'm bored." Kitty asked.

"Yeah you can go, I told Saphy and Zari where you are. My guys will show you out." He said.

"Bye Cj see you tonight." Kitty said as she waved goodbye.

"Yeah not going to happen." Phoebe quietly mumbled.

"Still don't want to come with us?" I asked as Kitty wasted no time leaving the room.

"No not really." Henry replied.

"You know we could travel back in time and intercept you and then this version of you won't exist and you'd have never caught that Janoby guy." I said.

"Donoby Jackaboy, and there's research that says even if you did that this universe would continue to exist. It would simply break off into a universe where you never succeeded at doing such a thing." Henry replied.

"So are you going to leave too?" Henry asked.

"Phoebe needs me here, to deal with all this, whatever it is she won't tell me." I said.

"You probably don't want to know." Henry replied.

"Probably." I agreed.

"Well we got all the time in the world. You want another beer?" Henry asked.

"One that's not laced with sedatives?" I asked.

"Of course." Henry replied.

Phoebe woke up about 2 hours later.

"Did you finish?" I asked.

"No, I had to erase it all from my mind too." She said. "I think the worst is over though, I'm passed the point where she broke."

"Ok, so how much longer?" I asked.

"Not much and she'll be right back to the way she was after the portal machine exploded." Phoebe said.

"Ok, sounds good." I replied.

"Wheh am I know?" Claire said in an utterly defeated voice.

"She can speak." I said.

"Yeah, like I said, we're passed the part where she completely broke." Phoebe replied. "But there's still a few years of wear and tear. So she's not quite herself yet."

"Phoebwe is tha you?" She asked.

"Mhm, now hold still we almost have you back to normal." Phoebe replied.

Another ten minutes and they both went unconscious again. Another five and Phoebe woke up.

"Ok, when she wakes up she'll think she's 100 years or so in the past." Phoebe said.

"So you just wiped the last century of her memory?" I asked.

"Well there really wasn't much going on a few years before Henry found her." Phoebe replied. "So not quite a century. At some point she just gave up and stopped remembering for her own sake, but she was too far gone at that point."

"What made her break?" I asked.

"Whatever made me cry a few hours ago. I don't remember." Phoebe said. "I just remember you being sweet and comforting me like the amazing husband I remember, while Kitty just sat in the corner and stared at the floor."

"Yeah, well, when's she going to wake up?" I asked.

"In a few minutes, and then she'll have a lot of questions to ask because as far as she's concerned the portal machine was just destroyed." Phoebe said.

-a few minutes later-

She started to wake up.

"Welcome to the world of tomorrow!" I said in my best shot of the appropriate voice.

"Cj? What just happened?" She asked.

"Henry will be here in a bit it's probably best if he explains." Phoebe said.

"Where are we?" She asked.

"On a space ship." I replied.

"No really where are we?" She asked.

"On a space ship." Phoebe said.

"How?" She asked with a completely appropriate level of confusion.

"You didn't survive the explosion and you've been cryogenically preserved for the last century or so and we just got the technology to bring you back also we're immortal now." I said.

"So Henry's an old man now?" Claire asked.

"No literally we're all immortal it's something the explosion did." I said.

"What's with my clothes, these aren't the same ones I was wearing." Claire said.

"Ummmmm." I struggled to come up with an explanation.

"The cryogenic facility ran out of nice clothes that day, and your other ones were covered in, oh this is dumb here I'll show you the truth." Phoebe said as she placed her hand on her head.

"Pheebles." I said.

"Oh it will be fine. I don't remember any of the bad parts neither will she." Phoebe replied as Claire took a moment to process all the new information she just received.

"Wow ok, that's a lot." Claire said. "So you just wiped my memory from the past century?"

"Mhm and now it will never ever haunt you again." Phoebe replied.

"And now Henry will come back here in a few minutes and you can be together again, and we'll be off trying to find a way back to the digital world." Phoebe said.

"So we're not a team anymore?" Claire asked.

"Well to be fair we just found Henry again today, and after a hundred years I guess he just has his own thing going on now." I said.

"But we were the digidestined." Claire said.

"Yeah well take it up with him." I replied.

Just then Henry came back.

"How's it going."

"Henry?" Claire asked.

"She's good to go." Phoebe said.

He ran up and hugged her.

"Are you really you now?" He asked.

"Yep." She replied.

"We gotta get you some new clothes." He said.

"Yeah you do." She replied.

"Thankyou guys." He said.

"Yeah no problem, good luck with your thing." I said.

"What thing is that?" Claire asked.

"It's a long story." Henry replied.

"And for fuck sakes next time just say hi." I replied.

I left the room with Phoebe trailing behind me while Henry and Claire shared a moment together. Various crew members showed us the way off the rather spacious, military looking ship that once we were outside, turned out to be an old de-milled U.S.C corvette, a 3 decked vessel, smaller than our own, but with way more firepower, two huge guns in ball turrets up front that would've threatened the capital ships of the time, but now were only good for blowing the ever loving crap out of fighters. The guns had their own micro-reactors and were designed to detach when the shields went down so the rest of the ship wouldn't get taken out by the explosion, a design gimmick that didn't make it to the newer models that went back to a centralized reactor.

Anyway, we headed back to our ship where we found Zari setting up a new room for the baby with all the things they had bought earlier.

"So you found Henry?" She asked.

"Yeah and he's not coming with us apparently." I said.

"Oh well. I almost got the baby's room finished." She said.

"Awe I wanted to help." Phoebe said. "Where is the baby?"

"He's sleeping in his new crib." Zari replied.

"You know we should probably name him." Phoebe said.

"Yeah probably." Zari agreed.

"Problem sounds like a good name." I said.

"No it doesn't, that just sounds mean." Phoebe said.

"Trouble, annoyance, sob." I continued.

"Sob?" Phoebe asked.

"Son of a bitch." I clarified.

"Cj if you're not going to take this seriously just shut up." Phoebe said.

"I am taking it seriously, he is a problem so that's a perfectly appropriate name for him." I said.

"Just because you were forced to create him doesn't mean you have to be mean to him." Phoebe said. "He's just a baby, even if he wasn't yours you should at least respect that. This was supposed to be fun, but you're really disappointing me Cj."

I stood there for a moment unsure of what to say to the woman I still loved more than anything.

Allright, allright fine" I began to apologize.

"Just go I want to talk to Zari alone, go play with Kitty you can both ignore him together." Phoebe interrupted.

"Pheebles." I said.

"Go!" She demanded.

I left as there was no use arguing with her, but I had no intention of seeing Kitty, I didn't even know where she went anyway.

I just went into one of the empty bedrooms and she found me a few minutes later and peacefully sat down beside me without saying anything.

"Weren't you just mad at me?" I asked.

"Not mad, disappointed." She replied. "But I still love you and I can't stop loving you."

"I don't want you to get too attached to that kid Pheebles we're not keeping him." I said. "I still don't get why we bothered to save him in the first place."

"Well Zari and I talked and we decided that maybe it's best we leave the naming up to his real mother." Phoebe continued. "And with the jump drive I should be able to leave before tonight so I know we were originally planning to stay here another night, but Zari and I don't think it's really necessary. "

"So we're going to take him back to his mother in U.S.C space?" I said.

"No I am taking him back, but Zari and I decided that we're going to my ship first. We should be jumping there within the hour." She replied. "I'd like it if you'd accompany me back to his room."

"Oh baby girl, I can't say no to you. That's why we got the kid in the first place." I replied.

"We had you outnumbered." She replied.

"Sure you did." I said.

"Oh just shut up and come with me." She said.

"You know that kid is going to grow up without a father?" She asked once we left the room and headed out into the hallway.

"Oh bullcrap have you seen his mother? She could walk into any halfway busy bar in any town and walk out with at least 5 guys fighting for her affection." I said.

"Mmmmmm." Phoebe said as she rolled her eyes.

"But you would command an army baby." I said hoping I didn't offend her in some way.

"That may be, but have you ever thought what he'll think of you?" Phoebe asked after an awkward pause.

"Does he even have to know I exist?" I asked as we arrived back at his room where he was still sleeping in his new crib. I followed my beloved over to him.

"See isn't he cute?" She asked.

"All babies are cute Pheebles." I replied.

"He has your eyes." She said.

"So does Charley if I remember, and mine aren't that bright." I replied.

"You don't remember Charley?" She asked with noticeable concern.

"I remember him, just not as well as you do. A lot happens in a century Pheebles." I said.

"Well he did have your eyes too, so, you remember him a little at least, I guess I might have to remind you of our kids." She replied.

"I would get to see him again?" I asked.

"Yeah and Nina too, but it wouldn't really be them it'd just be a dream. You know how it works." She explained.

"I know baby girl." I replied.

"Maybe after I get back after this I'll show you." She said.

"I'd like that." I replied.

"Good because it's happening and you don't get a choice anymore." She said.

"Hehe, guess we should quiet down a bit so we don't wake him." I said.

"Mhm." She replied.

"You want to hold him when he wakes up?" She asked.

"Oh why not, what could it hurt?" I replied.

"When's he gonna wake up?" I asked a few seconds later.

"I don't know, whenever he wants to." She replied. "You want to play pinball or that really hard pool game for a while and then come back."

"You sure you don't want to do something else?" I asked as I pulled her close.

We kissed for a moment.

"Not after what you said earlier! You have to earn it you goofball. That kiss is all you're going to get for now." She replied as she gently pushed me away.

"Oh now I have to earn it?" I asked.

"Yeah, you do." She said.

"How do I do that?" I asked as we headed out of the room and over to the rec room on deck 5.

"Just don't say anything stupid and we'll see about shaving fun sometime after this when I get back." She replied. "And treat your son with respect."

"He's not my son." I replied.

"Well then at least be as nice to him as you would any other baby." She replied.

"I'll try." I replied.

"You better if you want to have any fun. And technically he is your son." Phoebe said.

"We don't know that for sure." I replied.

"Cj there's some of you in him. You can deny it all you want, but the truth is, consensual or not you got his mother pregnant." She replied.

"I don't wanna hear it Pheebles, can we just go to the rec and play pinball or whatever?" I asked.

"Sure." Phoebe replied.

Things went quiet until we eventually we made it to the rec room.

We played pinball for a while and then we tried once again to play the impossible pool game, I got one ball in after trying about 30 times, and then we gave up to check on the baby again. This time he was awake and crying for attention, prompting Phoebe to rush in and scoop him up.

"Oh poor thing, I'm here for you don't worry." She said.

"Welp he's awake now." I said.

"Mommys here for you." Phoebe said to the crying infant as she carefully rocked him back and forth, eventually calming him down.

"There we go, you're not alone see?" Phoebe continued.

"Allright he's settled down, Cj come see." Phoebe replied as she beckoned me closer.

"Hey . . . . . . little guy." I awkwardly said as I looked into his eyes.

He briefly looked up at me before looking back at Phoebe.

"I don't think he knows what to think. He's a little shy, Phanon really didn't bother giving him much attention." Phoebe said.

"But it doesn't look like he's going to cry so I think, yeah he's happy." She continued.

"It's been awhile since I've seen a baby up close." I said.

"You realize it's been even longer for me." Phoebe said.

"Yeah it has hasn't it?" I replied.

"Hey have you ever thought how you're going to find his mother once you get there?" I asked.

"Not really, but it shouldn't be too difficult. My ship can probably find her pretty quickly" She replied.

"Eheh, Pheebles." I said, feeling the contrary, considering it was in U.S.C space.

" I'm going to go alone with my ship so you and everyone else can stay under the radar." Phoebe said.

"You sure you can handle it?" I asked.

"I know I can, it will be fine, you can sleep with Kitty until I get back." She said.

"And who are you going to sleep with?" I asked.

"Nobody, I'll be fine, you can just make it up to me when I get back." Phoebe replied.

"This whole situation with you two is a mess." I said.

"Yep, but you know it has it's moments." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah, sometimes." I agreed. "I'd rather go with you."

"You can't you're wanted. You'll get me wanted too. Just think of me when you're with Kitty, she won't know, but I will." She said before he kissed me and the baby on the cheek.

"Now shhh before you spook the little one." Phoebe said.

"Pheebles I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that." I said.

"You don't have to if you don't want to, I just want you to know in advance that if she manages to tempt you, that it's ok." Phoebe replied.

"Can I see the baby again?" Saphira said as she entered the room.

"Of course, I thought you thought he was too loud." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, but he's quiet now." Saphy replied.

"Yeah well they don't always cry, just when they need something or they think something is wrong." Phoebe said. "It's also important that they receive a lot of attention."

"So cute!" Saphy said.

"Would you like to hold him too? Cj doesn't have the guts yet." Phoebe asked a few moments later.

"How?" She asked.

"Here sit on the bed with me I'll show you." Phoebe said as she gently sat down.

"What guts? You don't need guts to hold a baby." I said.

"Oh yeah, but you're afraid you'll get attached." Phoebe replied.

"Ok so Saphy, you have to be careful with his head because he can't support it yet. So put your hands here and here." Phoebe said.

"He's starting to cry again. " Saphy said.

"Well he'll settle down once you're holding him comfortably." Phoebe replied as she carefully adjusted her hands. "There now try to stay like that."

"Now what?" Saphy asked.

"Now you just hold him like that and watch how he reacts to his surroundings." Phoebe said.

"Basically all he can do is smile and scream at things." I said.

"Yeah well, eventually he'll learn and grow." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah, but by then he won't be our problem anymore." I said.

" Cj, he's not a problem now." Phoebe replied.

" If you say so." I replied.

The ship began to rumble as the jump drive activated.

"Well here we go, towards your ship probably." I said.

"Mhm." Phoebe replied. "Come on Saphy we should head to the bridge so I can teleport over to my ship."

"With the baby?" I asked.

"No I'll get the baby later, once I get all his things onboard." Phoebe said.

"How you gonna do that?" I asked.

" We can just exchange it airlock to airlock or I can teleport it over." Phoebe said.

"Are you sure it's safe cause you make one wrong move and you either freeze to death or you get fused with said ship." I said.

"Cj if it wasn't safe I wouldn't do it" Phoebe said. "Now before I leave I want to see you hold your son and tell him goodbye."

"Ok ok, I will, just wait until we get to the bridge." I replied.

"Phoebe he's starting to get upset again." Saphy said as the baby started to cry.

"Because you're not holding him properly any more, here let me have him." Phoebe replied as she took him back and calmed him down by the time we made it to the elevator.

We met Zari on the bridge, Phoebe's ship was visible in the distance, but too far away for her to teleport to it yet.

"So once we get close enough I'll teleport over and then I'll see you all in a week." Phoebe said.

"Well that will be a few minutes away then." Zari replied.

"Ok then Cj, it's your turn to hold your son." Phoebe said in a voice that implied grave consequences if I refused.

"Ok, fine." I replied.

She handed him to me and I quietly held him until she was satisfied, I wasn't really sure what she was expecting to happen. A few minutes passed, thankfully the kid stayed quiet, and then Saphy held him for a bit while I hugged my baby girl with a bit more passion.

"We'll wait for you here Pheebles, if you get in any trouble." I said.

"I won't don't worry. I'll use my ship to find his mother, it will be fine." She replied.

"Just don't get yourself killed. I don't want to lose you again and honestly I don't like this idea at all." I said.

"Well you just make sure you don't get yourself killed mister." Phoebe replied.

"This is about as close as I can safely get." Zari said. "You can see the cockpit glass from here, I can turn the lights on too to give you the best visual."

"Yes please. And call Kitty up here if you can." Phoebe said.

"I can try, she might be asleep though." Zari replied.

"Kitty come up to the bridge please if you can, I repeat, come up to the bridge." Zari said into the com system before setting to work trying to turn on the interior lights of Phoebe's ship.

"Pheebles you come back to me you hear?" I said.

"Of course I will Cj." She said as we kissed. "I'll love you forever."

"Good grief. You know as soon as you leave he's going to hook up with Kitty." Saphy said.

"Well that's why Kitty's our virara Saphy. Because my big boy needs love when I can't be here." Phoebe said.

"You know I could easily do that too." Saphy said.

"I know, but you weren't Cj's girlfriend for the last 20 years were you?" Phoebe asked. "But don't worry Saphy whenever I'm around and Cj's not it will be our time."

"Well when is that ever going to happen?" Saphy asked.

"Maybe we can share her sometime?" I asked.

"Yeah maybe we'll share you sometime. And then you can learn a few things from Cj. And Zari can play too. You can all feel Cj's cock, but only when I say so." Phoebe said.

"Geesh Pheebles." I said.

"Why is everyone up here but me?" Kitty said as she entered the room.

"I don't know. Why weren't you up here?" I asked.

"Kitty, I'm going to be gone for a few days so I need you to look after Cj and give him all the love he would miss out on otherwise, it's your duty as our Virara." Phoebe said.

"You mean we get to be alone together?" Kitty asked.

"Yes." Phoebe replied.

"Like before? I miss those days." Kitty said.

"Ok the lights are on you can jump when you're ready." Zari said.

"Ok Cj, no getting anybody pregnant, I love you more than anything, Saphy we'll have fun as soon as I get back. Kitty, I already said everything I need to say to you. See you in a few days." Phoebe said before she turned to stare out the window for a moment, before she could teleport away I turned her around and kissed her deeply.

"Arceus Cj what gives?" She asked.

"For good luck." I replied.

She kissed me back, everyone looked away for a moment as we got really into it before she finally pushed me away.

"Ok, I think that's more than enough, I'll see you in a few days, I love you, but now I should get going." She replied. "And say goodbye to your son before I come back for him."

Phoebe turned back towards the window, a few moments later she teleported away, we took another hour to send the crib, some diapers, and some other supplies out the airlock which then went over to the airlock on Phoebe's ship with some assistance with her powers though they would then need a few hours to defrost. And once everything was transferred and the babies room left in basically the same state it was in before. Phoebe teleported back to take the baby, and then a few minutes later her ship jumped away.

"And there she goes, again." I said.

"I'm here for you." Kitty replied.

"I know what she said to you, but she also said to me that I don't have to if I don't want to, and you just have to understand Kitty, I'm just not that comfortable with it." I said.

"Ok." Kitty replied.

"Why don't we go play pinball or something, I need to relax for a while." I said. She had only been gone for about half an hour at that point, and I already missed her.

"Well maybe tonight we could?" Kitty said.

"I don't know." I replied.

"Zari we're going to be here awhile so you might as well take a break. How long have you been awake?" I said.

"Probably too long, I had a nap when I got back from shopping, but yeah I need to sleep. I think I'm just going to rest for a bit." Zari replied as she got up, she looked really exhausted.

"Ok. Sleep well." I replied as she dragged herself out of the room.

The loneliness in space can drive a person mad, and, for the first time in a long time, without Phoebe, I felt very lonely indeed. There wasn't much to differentiate between the period of wakefulness we referred to as days, as we were in space and it always looked like it was night outside. They all kind of blurred together.

I played pinball with Kitty for a while, then we had a quiet dinner together with Saphy, then I said goodnight, went to the room Phoebe and I shared and watched super blurry tv until I fell asleep. By the second day Kitty just wasn't going to have it, she started following me around everywhere, from the moment I left the room that I shared with Phoebe, like she used to do when it was just us up here. She even stood outside the shower, and watched me through the blurred glass, normally she never even went near that room. She left when I got out of the shower though, not out of respect for my privacy, but because I was wet and she wanted none of that. Once I left the bathroom she started to follow me again. So I headed for the pool room thinking she wouldn't follow me there, but she did. So I left so I could talk to her in private without Saphy hearing.

"Why are you following me everywhere?" I asked.

"Why did you sleep alone last night?" She asked.

"Because I'm waiting for Phoebe to get back. " I said.

"Why are you following me?" I asked.

"Because we used to have sex all the time before Phoebe came back and now that she's not here again you won't even sleep next to me." Kitty replied.

"Yeah well, I'm trying to stay faithful to her, despite what she says." I replied.
"Well what about me? You love me too don't you?" Kitty asked. "Did the last 20 years mean nothing?"

"Yeah, you do, I do, I just, Pheebles, yeah." I said as I opened my arms so I could hug her.

"Well don't touch me now your hair is all wet." She replied as she awkwardly avoided my hug.

"Good grief you hate water more than fire type pokémon, it's ridiculous." I said, my hair wasn't even really all that wet anymore.

"Yeah well I don't need it to be clean, I can just digivolve." She said.

"Yeah, but a hundred years ago you couldn't." I said.

"Yeah well. That was a hundred years ago. Cj please I know you love her more, but I don't want to just e friends now that she's back, I need you. We both need you." She replied.

"What you want to play some pinball ? " I suggested.

"Yeah ok, at least until your hair dries." Kitty replied.

"Sorry Kitty. I just. I don't want to hurt her." I said as we headed to the rec room.

"If she gets hurt it's her fault because she said it was ok." Kitty replied.

"You know that's actually one of the smartest things you've ever said." I said.

"Awwwwe, thankyou." She cutely replied.

We weren't moving so what would have been a long day felt even longer.

We could barely get a tv signal so all the tvs were very fuzzy and difficult to watch. Pinball, pinball, a few games of foosball, a few vain attempts to complete the pool-like game, and more pinball until I got bored with that and took Kitty down to the hangar to show her the emulator installed on the fighter's computer, the closest thing we had to video games since I still hadn't found a way to get the console we bought a while ago to work.

The screen was a bit small, but we killed a few more hours until we headed up to the dining room so I could assist a recently awoken Zari with making dinner since the digibabes never learned how to cook. Saphy never tried and Kitty, well you know the stories.

Unlike Phoebe, Zari was actually willing to let me help. Whereas if Phoebe cooks something she wants the whole kitchen to herself, unless our kids wanted to watch. Aranea hated cooking, though she wasn't terrible at it. Anyway while Phoebe was here we usually took turns, but without her things were a bit different.

After dinner, I snuck off to the room Phoebe and I shared hoping I could fall asleep before I did something I would regret, but Kitty came in minutes later and snuggled up next to me.

"What are you doing?" I asked with my eyes still closed.

"I need your love and Phoebe told me to take care of you and letting you sleep alone again wouldn't be doing that." She replied.

"Ok fine you can sleep next to me, but we're not doing anything." I said.

"Are you sure? It's still pretty early to go to sleep." Kitty replied. "Just let me be your pretty little Kitty again for one night, just us, please, for one night. I got something new to show you."

"And what is that?" I asked.

"Well if I take off my clothes, and put them in the digivice, then when I digivolve I'll still be naked." She said.

"Really?" I asked.

"Well Saphy came up with it, but she can't digivolve yet so she told me before dinner while you were in the kitchen." Kitty replied.

"You sure she's not just playing with you?" I asked, knowing Saphy didn't really like her that much.

"Why would she do that? She asked as she turned around and hugged me. I felt her nipples rub against my chest and it took a few seconds for me to put 2 and 2 together.

"You're already naked?" I asked.

"Yes." She awkwardly replied. "I came in here naked how did you not notice?"

"I had my eyes closed." I replied.

"You're one strange digimon you know that?" I asked.

"I know, I'm in love, with my tamer who keeps ignoring me." She said.

"Yeah well I'm trying to love two women at once because I can't say no to either of them and it's probably going to end badly." I said.

"But it won't." Kitty said. "Because Phoebe trusts me with you and I don't care if you love her more as long as we still have some time together."

"Why are you selling yourself so short?" I asked.

"I'm not, you know I'm not, you know all my previous boyfriends, you know how many times I've been rejected, but you were still my friend through that entire time. And now we're married and."

"Yeah, but we're not married though you're just our virara, whatever that means." I said.

"That's still more than anyone else ever saw me as." Kitty said.

She kissed me.

"Oh baby I don't even know what to think of you sometimes." I said.

"Don't think, just act." She replied as she moved my hand to her breast.

"You got those pretty little Kitty titties." I said.

"Just for you." She replied with a giggle. "And then they get bigger when I digivolve."

"Yeah." I replied.

"So you get the best of both worlds." Kitty replied.

"Yeah." I said.

"Maybe this isn't such a bad idea." I said.

"It's not." Kitty replied before she kissed me again.

"Oh hell let's just get it over with." I said, realizing it was inevitable.

A few minutes later and we were going at it.

"Oh baby you squeeze so tight, one thing I always loved about you, Phoebe doesn't squeeze nearly as hard." I said.

"Really ?" She eeked out between breaths.

"Mhm be careful though don't scratch me up too much." I said.

"I'll try …. not …to." She replied with a giggle.

"It's because of her psyhorn you know?" I said. "If we hold eachother too tight and fall asleep like that she could hurt me."

"Stop talking about her she's not here, but I am and you can squeeze me as long and hard as you want." Kitty said.

-a few minutes later-

"Yeah, fuck my pretty little kitty just like I used to." I said.

"Yeah . . . . when it was just us. I love you I love you I love you." Kitty replied as I fucked her silly.

-a few minutes later-

"Stop wait, Don't cum yet don't you dare." She said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Let me get up." She said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Remember what I said? If I put my clothes in the digivice I'll still be naked when I digivolve. So where's your digivice?" She asked.

"It's in the drawer, on my side." I said as I got it out for her.

"Great now let me get my clothes." She said as she retrieved them from a pile on the floor.

We put her clothes into the digivice.

"Ok and now you have to digivolve right." I asked.

"Mhm." She said before she began to glow.

When the light faded she was standing there completely naked as a lilithmon.

"Dam it works." I said.

"Mhm now you want your little black wing angel?" She asked.

"Damn right I do." I said.

She crawled on top of me and we started to go at it again.

"Oh Kitty kat, my sweet little Kitty kat." I said after we finished." I hope Pheebles won't get upset."

"She said it was ok." Kitty replied.

"Yeah well, what she says isn't always what she means." I said. "I love you baby, I really love you, but she has to come first ok?"

"I know, but that's why we have to make these times count, no more ignoring me." She said.

"I'll try." I replied.

"No you will, or I'll make you." She said.

"I thought you were supposed to be the good lilithmon?" I asked.

"I'm the digital incarnation of the goddess of lust, nothing comes between me and my husband." She said.

"For the last time Kitty you're our virara." I replied.

"Close enough." She replied.

"Eh whatever, let's get some sleep, it's been almost two hours now." I said.

"As long as we can snuggle." She said.

"Well, if we aren't I might as well just kick you out." I said as I wrapped my arms around her.

"I'm married to a goddess of lust and a galactic empress." I said. "I'm either the luckiest man in the world or the unluckiest."

"Yeah but how do you feel right now?" Kitty asked.

"We'll see how Pheebles reacts when she get back." I said. "But a few minutes ago I definitely felt like the luckiest."

"Awwe." Kitty sighed before kissing me on the cheek.

And so I slept with her that night, and woke up next to her the next morning. I felt great but at the back of my mind I always wondered what Phoebe would've said if I managed to hold out until she got back. I dreaded this being some kind of test. That the moment she found out she would burst into tears and that things would only go downhill from there. It hung over me the entiriety of the next day until near the end of it when she finally came back. After Phoebe teleported back over to our ship. I wasted no time wrapping my arms around her.

"I missed you baby girl." I said once I did so.

"Oh I missed you too Cj." She replied. " But I have some news you're not going to like."

"You cheated on me?" I asked, very faintly hoping for it. "Well I guess I should have expected it."

"No." Phoebe replied. "And what do you mean? I would never do that. Just as much as you never would."

"I slept with Kitty." I said expecting her to snap, but she smiled instead.

"I know and I gave you permission you goofball, so it's ok. I think it's cute you tried to hold out though. Silly Cj, you don't understand how great my love is for you, I let you sleep with her just so you can be happy, not because I don't care, but if I ever catch you sleeping with anyone without my permission we're done."

"There's that boundary I was looking for." I said.

"Kitty thank you for taking care of him, you're turning out to be an amazing virara." Phoebe said.

"I was only with him last night he slept alone the first day." Kitty said.

"Well, all three of us are still learning how to make this work." Phoebe replied.

"So are you pregnant?" I asked continuing to guess what the bad news was.

"No." Phoebe replied.

"You're pregnant and it's not mine?" I asked.

"No! Cj. I brought the clone lady back along with the baby." Phoebe confessed.

"Pheebles that is literally the exact opposite of what you were supposed to do." I said, I couldn't hide the extreme disappointment on my face, not that it mattered with her.

"Well they wouldn't let her out of the asylum even though I healed her and they wanted to adopt the baby out to some other family." Phoebe said as she tried to justify her actions.

"You should have just let them do that he would've been fine." I replied.

"But Cj he needs to be with his real mommy." Phoebe replied with what now looking back seemed to be a case of a poor choice of words.

"You're not Nina's real mommy and we took care of her." I pointed out.

"Nina's mom died, that's different." Phoebe replied.

"Pheebles you're being ridiculous." I said.

"No they were! They wouldn't let her out even though she was perfectly fine and they wouldn't let her have her own daughter. They were being silly so I went around them." Phoebe replied.

"Well you already busted her out of the asylum so you might as well bring her over here and give her a room." Zari interjected.

"Yeah, might as well." I reluctantly agreed.

"Pheebles you're a mess, you know that?" I said.

"I'll go bring them over along with the supplies." Phoebe replied.

I let go of her and she teleported away.

"I can't believe this." I replied. "Still got a damned baby."

"And that evil clone lady." Kitty pointed out.

"Eh, maybe she won't be that bad, you should probably keep your distance though." I said.

"Just don't fall in love with her." Kitty said. "Don't sleep with her, you can have anybody but her, just not her, please."

"I don't really plan on it Kitty." I replied.

"Good." She said.

"Now Pheebles on the other hand." I said.

"I don't care what she thinks you're not sleeping with her, ever." Kitty said.

In all my years it with her it was the first time I've ever seen her blatantly dislike somebody, even after all the crap Pheebles put her through.

"Why don't we go check out your garden for a bit?" I said.

"Why?" Kitty asked.

"Just to keep you away from her." I replied.

"So I don't have to see her stupid buttface?" Kitty asked.

"Yes, exactly." I replied.

"Ok then let's go." She said.

"Right Zari tell Phoebe where we went when she gets back." I said.

"Ok." Zari replied.

We went to her garden and I helped her water and rearrange a few things, while Phoebe and Saphy moved the clone in along with the baby and all the supplies and things from Phoebe's ship and Zari took a very well deserved nap.

"Thanks for helping me with this Cj." Kitty said once we completed everything she wanted done.

"It's no problem, it's kind of relaxing actually." I said.

"I hope I never have to see her." Kitty said.

"You're going to have to see her eventually Kitty, it's a big ship but it's not that big. And when you do you're going to have to keep yourself under control." I said.

"I know, I'll try to stay calm, but she just infuriates me, because of what she did to you." Kitty replied.

Before I could think to respond Phoebe came in.

"Ok Zari said you'd be in here." She said as the door closed behind her.

"Hey baby girl how's it going?" I asked.

"She's moved in to the babies' room, they're so cute together Cj. They really are." She said, apparently still trying to justify her decision.

"It was a mistake bringing her here you know that?" I replied.

"Well she can help us, since Henry and Claire aren't coming." Phoebe argued.

"What can she do really?" I asked.

"Yeah what can stupid face do? I hate her." Kitty said.

"Oh come on Kitty, she's not that bad." Phoebe said.

"But she ra. . . . " Kitty tried to say.

"Don't you dare say that again ." I interrupted as I covered her mouth.

"Yeah and I think you've more than avenged that. I know, I had to wipe it from her mind, along with most of the rest of her memories." Phoebe said.

"Then she's just another piece of eye candy." I replied. "I got you two I don't need more of that."

"And the baby is useless." Kitty said.

"Oh yeah and the baby, we're going to have to bring a baby into combat with us! Smart thinking Pheebles!" I said with heavy sarcasm.

"Well I just I." Phoebe struggled to say anything.

"Pheebles she can't stay with us." I said. "I know you're just trying to do the right thing but we can't take her or the baby with us."

"Then we need to find somewhere safe for her." Phoebe replied.

"Ok, now you're thinking. Where should we take her?" I asked.

"I don't know maybe Zari will have a good idea." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah maybe." I agreed.

"So other than the fact that you completely and utterly failed your mission, how was your trip?" I asked.

"Boring." Phoebe replied. "It was just me and a baby. And I didn't fail, the baby and his momma are still safe."

"It wasn't much more exciting here." I said. "We played around with those video games in the fighter."

"Oh." Phoebe said.

"The screen is too small to see anything." Kitty said.

"It's not that small, 14 inches maybe." I said.

"It's tiny Cj." Phoebe replied.

"Eh whatever, we had nothing better to do." I said.

"I could think of a few things." Kitty said.

"Yeah you would wouldn't you?" Phoebe replied.

"You're one to talk." I said.

"Yeah you're right I could think of a few things too." Phoebe happily agreed. "Cj next time you don't have to try so hard to resist her, I can't stress this enough she's supposed to be your outlet for when I'm gone."

"I keep telling him that he won't believe me." Kitty said.

"So are we going to go talk to Zari or what?" I asked.

"Tomorrow, I'm tired, I just want to snuggle with my Cj." Phoebe said as she hugged me.

"Awe baby girl." I said as I was overwhelmed by her cuteness.

"Kitty don't start any fights with the clone lady or anyone else for that matter, I'll see you, uh."

"Tomorrow." Phoebe interjected.

"Tomorrow." I repeated.

"That long really?" Kitty asked.

"It's almost time for bed anyway. Goodnight babe." I replied.

I kissed her very sensually.

"Until next time." I said.

"Until next time." Kitty replied with a giggle.

Then Phoebe grabbed me and kissed me even more sensually.

"Pheebles." I exclaimed.

"You were starting to make me jealous." She said.

"Oh now you get jealous." I replied.

"Yeah I'm back now, you're mine." She said.

"Oh ok then princess." I replied.

"Threesome?" Kitty suggested.

"Maybe tomorrow I just want my husband to myself tonight." Phoebe said.

"Oh ok, goodnight." Kitty said.

"Goodnight." Phoebe replied.

Phoebe and I headed to our room. Once we got there we snuggled up next to each other in bed.

"I missed you so much baby girl, when you left I was worried I wouldn't see you for another 100 years." I said.

"I'm never going to leave you for that long ever again if I can help it." Phoebe replied.

"I hope so." I replied. "No more blowing up crazy portal machines."

"Mhm." Phoebe replied.

"Anyway thank you for not being mad about the clone lady." Phoebe said a few moments later.

"I still can't stay mad at you baby." I replied.

"One of these days it will just be the two of us again." Phoebe aid

"Yeah well until then I need to try to keep both of you happy, as difficult as that is." I said.

"Well I'm happy, I don't know about Kitty. I think she'll be fine, did you enjoy sleeping with her last night?" Phoebe said.

"Yeah." I replied.

"Did she enjoy it?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah." I said.

"Then she should be fine, and if you're really that worried you can make it up to me in the shower in the morning." Phoebe said.

"Allright then." I replied.

"Anyway, after that, I need to go check on the baby again tomorrow, you want to come?" Phoebe asked.

"I thought it was with its mother?" I asked.

"He is, but she doesn't really know how to be a mom yet." Phoebe replied. "Zari is helping her now."

"So we're not moving yet?" I asked.

"We can start moving tomorrow. We don't even know where to go yet." Phoebe said.

"So how's your time machine coming along?" I asked.

"It's not ready yet, we have plenty of time to find a safe place for the baby." Phoebe replied.

"Awesome." I said.

"So you want to watch tv or what do you want to do?" I asked.

"Can we get tv out here?" Phoebe asked.

"We can, but it's kind of patchy." I said.

"Let's see what's on." She said.

"Ok." I replied as I took the remote out of the nightstand drawer.

We were a bit too far out in the middle of nowhere to get a good tv signal, though whether there would be anything on to watch anyway was largely hit or miss. A lot of stations just broadcasted a single program with an infomercial about said station in multiple languages, alongside a local newsfeed. Occasionally there would be channels with kid shows or locally produced movies. Most of which were in indecipherable alien languages. There was a reason we didn't spend a whole lot of time watching it. But occasionally it could be entertaining just to see what happens. And this seemed like one of those times though the reception was very fuzzy.

Through the fuzz we could see something that resembled a hospital operating room.

"What is this?" She asked.

"Some kind of hospital?" I replied.

"Maybe that guy was looking out a window and it fell on his weiner." Phoebe suggested.

"Yeah, maybe, who knows?" I said with a shrug. "looks like he's bleeding from his stomach though."

"Maybe that's where this species weiners are." Phoebe suggested.

"Yeah I doubt it." I replied. "You got weiners on your mind?"

"I'm just trying to be funny. I know one species where their weiners grow on their head so they all wear helmets." Phoebe said.

"So every time they hit their head on something." I began to say.

"Yeah it's hilarious." Phoebe interrupted. "There's a whole tv show where it's just them hitting their heads on things. And the look on their faces is priceless when they do so."

We spent the next hour or so trying to decipher what was going on with the tv program we were watching, it seemed to be some sort of hospital drama, but between the foreign language and the unpredictable fade outs, neither of us could follow it very well. An old woman was dying on a hospital bed, her three sons came to visit and seemed to not get along very well, a doctor was having an affair with a nurse, his wife finds out and vandalizes his extremely ugly car. Either that or he did something else to make this other woman really angry. It seemed like the cars in this world were extremely chunky for some reason, like they were all cartoon versions of actual cars, and the doctor's in particular, was quite ugly. It was vaguely like a Pontiac Aztek, if it was made by Mercedes, but somehow chunkier, like if it had a super boxy wide body kit. For some reason we enjoyed discussing what might be going on. It was a lot of fun, until we got tired and Phoebe fell asleep. I turned the tv off and followed shortly after.