Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

62. Crimson Star

-chapter 62-

"My head hurts so much." Phoebe said, causing me to wake up.

"A little too much last night huh?" I asked.

"This is what I get for taking some of yours while you weren't looking." She said.

"Yeah, that seems about right." I replied. " I thought something was up."

"When did we get back?" She asked.

"You don't remember?" I asked.

"Did you drive?" She asked.

"Yeah and we made it so no problems." I said.

"Cj, I had a dream and it made me realize something." Phoebe said.

"What was your dream?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter, the point is Kitty is doomed." Phoebe said.

"Aren't we all?" I asked.

"I thought about what my momma said all those years ago." Phoebe continued. "We were destined to be together, she made no mention of Kitty or anyone else. So somewhere along the lines, something happens to her."

"Which doesn't necessarily mean death does it?" I asked.

"No, it could just mean permanent separation I guess." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, but do you think she ever saw this far ahead? Not just across time, what could be more years into the future or past than we even know, but across galaxies at the least, dimensions at the most. I know she's a gardevoir like you, but, her power has limits just like yours doesn't it?" I asked.

"I don't know Cj, but at some point you're going to have to choose between us anyway. I will make you." She said.

"You know you don't have to, I belong to you baby girl." I said. "But at the same time, if you really don't want to share we need to find a way out of this where nobody gets hurt, and only after we deal with the deusmon situation, promise me you'll let things continue as they are until then." I said.

"I promise, but ."

"You know how I'm your everything?" I asked. "And well, you're mine too."

"Yeah." She replied.

"Well, that's how she feels about me, I didn't want it to get that way but it did, and, even though the feeling isn't mutual, I can't deny that I have no feelings for her, just not as much as I do for you Pheebles." I said. "But I'm with you, first and foremost."

"This is going to end horribly." She said as she gently snuggled up to me.

"Well, at least we don't have to worry about it for a while." I replied. "Now come on, I bet a shower will really help with that headache."

"I hope so." She replied.

Saphy and the newbies had a much busier day visiting the brewery and acquiring camping gear, they also bought things for Chalana as well since she would not set foot on this planet whatsoever. Phoebe and I just kind of hung around the resort, after our usual morning ritual, we went out, had breakfast in the cafeteria, played some volleyball, attended some kind of weird dance class, that ended only when I was just about to get the hang of it, and then we went to our room and alternated between sex and tv, until it was time to meet up with Kitty and Zari to go to Kesley's Meat Beetle Ranch, Shop, and Restaurant, calling the place a ranch was kind of an overstatement, the whole operation fit into the space of a supermarket, with the restaurant in the front alongside a small novelty store selling various products made out of carapaces and the "ranch" in the back, but it was an interesting place none the less. Kitty still needed to do a little bit of convincing, as they were sticklers for wanting things arranged ahead of time, but they gave us a table and our orders were quickly underway.

"This place hasn't changed at all." I said.

"Except we can actually get the beetles this time." Kitty said.

"What did you get last time?" Phoebe asked.

"Oh they have normal stuff too, steaks, burgers, fish, salads. That way when they run out of beetles, they can still operate."

"Are they any good?" Phoebe asked.

"They're good enough for people to come here regularly." I said.

"So you've been here before?" Zari asked.

"Years ago, they were out of beetles though and it was a bit too far out of the way for us to come here regularly. It wasn't bad, but without the beetles, we just had closer options that were just as good." I said. "We tried to make reservations, but every time we remembered to do so they were already sold out, you don't know how lucky it is that they have enough in stock for us. I tried to get a reservation at least a dozen times before I just gave up. I guess things must have slowed down a bit." I said.

"I wondered why we never went back." Kitty said.

"It's because it was an hour drive from home for a burger." I replied.

The meal consisted of two somewhat orange fillet-sized lumps of meat on a plate fashioned out of a carapace, which was a very dark, wood-like material, with an iridescent gleam, sanded and polished smooth, another one of their many applications. As said, the meat had a strange orange tint to it, it was very tender, very well-seasoned, but also a bit gummy, which was strange to say the least it made it seem a bit fake and artificial which didn't really sit well with me for whatever reason like it was some kind of beef version of spam, despite it being anything but the case. The flavor was like beef but stronger. It was an interesting experience, but it was definitely an acquired taste, and I personally prefer meat to not be gummy. Phoebe for whatever reason turned out to be more fond of it then I was, while Kitty and Zari seemed to like it as well.

"Cj this is so good. I can't believe it." Phoebe said after the first few bites.

"Eh, I'm kind of disappointed actually." I said.

"You can't be serious, this is the best meat ever." She said.

"It's gummy." I said.

"So?" She asked.

"It's weird." I replied. "Glad you like it though baby girl."

"I think it was worth the wait." Kitty said.

"Mhm." Zari agreed.

"If you say so. I for one am not that impressed." I said.

"Well it's three to one Cj." Phoebe said.

"Yeah I know." I replied.

"I think you just set your expectations too high." Phoebe said.

"Eh, maybe." I replied.

"Would you rather have normal steak?" Phoebe asked.

"Depends what you mean by normal, there's like fifty different kinds of cattle in this galaxy. " I said.

"You know what I mean." Phoebe said.

"At this price? Steak is definitely a better value, this isn't bad, I just don't think it's worth the hype or the money." I said.

"Yeah it is a bit expensive for what it is." Zari said.

"Yeah." Kitty agreed.

"I'm just sad this is the only time I'll ever be able to have it." Phoebe said.

"There will be other food Pheebles." I said.

"Yeah I guess so." She said.

"Don't forget oran berries." I said.

"Oh yeah, I miss those so much." She said. "Real, genuine oran berries, not just things that taste like them."

" What even is an oran berry?" Kitty asked.

"It's a blue berry that tastes like a really sugary orange." I said. "It also has mild healing properties."

If you submerge a minor cut in the juice it might heal overnight, it's not nearly as fast or as effective as a potion though. It's a better pain killer than an actual healing agent. Potions are basically super-concentrated forms of the chemical present in their juice that gives them this ability. A chemical native and known to the pokémon world and very few others. It's basically a weak acid that promotes and supercharges cellular regeneration, present in both Oran and Sitrus berries, and a handful of other plants across all of existence. All in all, it very rarely occurs in nature. And unless it is found in nature, civilizations, no matter how advanced, almost never come across it "accidently".

"Oh, like Saranian sweet oranges." She suggested. "I should try growing some."

Thankfully oranges were common enough across universes that everyone knew what they were, but as with meat there were a lot of alternatives as well. For example, there were sweet oranges, spicy oranges, green oranges, yellow oranges, volleyball-sized giant oranges, then on top of that there were fruits that didn't even resemble oranges but tasted just like them. In this intergalactic community, some large stores had things sorted by flavor profile for convenience, to help ease the confusion, so for example all meat that tastes similar to beef would be in one aisle, all fruit that tastes similar to oranges would be in another, etc for other more common fruits, veggies, meats, and even eggs. If food was your thing, those stores were paradise. There was pretty much an endless variety of potential combinations. The only drawback being what was available in the store one week might not be the next, so finding a reliable source for your favorite kind of orange could be difficult, unless it was native to whatever planet you were close to. Most stations had a steady stream of "Native Imports".

"I don't think we'll have time Kitty Kat." I replied. "Besides they aren't the same."

"Mhm, they aren't, I've tried those before." Phoebe said. "They're too sweet, and too mushy, and the flavor just isn't right, it doesn't have the zing."

"How many different oranges have you tried?" Kitty asked.

"Too many to remember." Phoebe said. "Not one of them even came close."

"You'd think there would be something like it somewhere." I said.

"Yeah, but it's been 100 years and I haven't found it yet." Phoebe replied.

"Oh well, guess you'll just have to wait until we get back." I said.

"Mhmm." She replied with a hint of sadness.

"So what are you going to do after this?" Zari asked.

"Probably just head back to the resort and hang out until we get tired." I replied.

"Maybe we'll watch a movie." Phoebe replied.

"If there are any good movies." I said. "We're a bit too close to Discorba all we get is their movies." I said.

"What's wrong with Discorba?" Zari asked.

Discorba was a planet that for some strange reason was completely and utterly obsessed with it's own highly-bureaucratic government, literally every movie they made was a documentary about something that happened with said government in the past, none of which were particularly entertaining to watch, and I'm not talking civil-rights movements or anything, I'm talking about like a 3 hour movie about all the processes, paperwork, and court hearings a group of people had to go through, to construct a fountain at their local park, a 2 hour long drama about a man trying to extend his driveway by 1 ft, which ends in it getting denied, and other things most people would never consider making a movie about. If anything they almost counted as a comedy just because of how seriously they were presented. They were basically anti-movies. What they considered an "action" movie, was basically all the parts they normally cut from an action movie, paperwork, legal proceedings, paperwork, paperwork, court hearings, more paperwork, no real action sequences. And it wasn't filmed like a courtroom drama either, they went out of their way to make it look as realistic as possible down to every last mundane detail. Normally them making movies for themselves wouldn't be a bad thing, and it still wasn't really, but since Paloran and Discorba were relatively close, we had access to most of their movies, as great as that was. Furthermore, Paloran didn't really have its own movie industry, so Discorbian movies were about all there were here, so nobody really came here to watch movies. Discorba itself was a friendly planet, though going to their stations generally wasn't worth the hassle unless you like filling out lots of paperwork where you could be fined for every little mistake. Thankfully their growing desire to be competitive on the intergalactic market was slowly encouraging them to start streamlining things, slowly, as in, after 50 years, you now only had to fill out 10 different forms instead of 27 after docking, whereas the vast majority of stations require 0, because they use computers that keep track of the important stuff automatically anyway, and it's not like the Discorbans don't have computers, they just, well that's just Discorba for you.

"Have you seen their movies?" I asked. "They're about the most boring things that could possibly exist. We tried to watch one once. It started out normal enough with a narrator providing background information, but then we saw a man do paperwork for ten minutes, ten freaking minutes with no music, no dialogue, just him sitting at a desk and filling out paperwork line by line, then he made a mistake and had to start over."

"Is that the only one like that?" Zari asked.

"No, they all have insanely long paperwork scenes." I said. "Ask anyone that's not from there they'll say their movies suck."

"Yeah, but then we started fooling around on the couch so it wasn't all bad." Kitty said.

"Oh really?" Phoebe asked.

"Stop acting like you didn't already know." I said.

"Cj, I knew, but hearing it and knowing it happened is different from seeing it in my mind. I can't help it if I do and it isn't any less shocking. I really don't want to think about everything you two did together I just want to accept that it happened and move on, you're my Cj now, always and forever, just like before." She said.

"Yep." I agreed.

"Kitty you should know better than to say things like that." Zari said.

"Sorry Pheebles." She apologized.

"It's ok." She said. "It was a long time ago."

"Not that long." Kitty replied which caused Phoebe to glare at her.

"Please don't start fighting." I said.

"Everything is ok Cj." She said. "I just wish I could have been here for those years."

"Well it wasn't your fault." I said. "Don't worry about it, we're immortal, twenty years is nothing." I said.

"When it was just us we were together what four years? And we were in our twentys. So we were together for about a fifth of our life. Well I was with kitty for 20 years and now we're all 100 plus so that's also just a fifth. And baby girl hopefully we'll never get separated again but I intend to spend the rest of my existence with you." I said.

"That's really sweet Cj, but." Phoebe began to say before an annoyed Zari cut her off.

" Oh come on, every single time we go out you two can't stop talking about how much you love each other." Zari pointed out.

"Sorry Zari." Phoebe said. "We just have some things to work out. Sometimes I find it hard to accept that he had a whole life without me."

"It's not like it was by choice." I said as I took her hand. "I missed you every single day, and I had no idea where to even begin to look for you."

"So um, did you think about it?" Kitty asked.

"About what?" Phoebe asked.

"Sister wives." Kitty said.

"Kitty not right now. How can you not see this isn't a good time? " I said.

"Yeah no, sorry Kitty, he's mine. I've been more than nice to you by letting you be our virara, don't get greedy." Phoebe said.

"Anyway Zari what was your home away from home like?" Phoebe asked to change the subject.

"My wha?" Zari asked.

"You know, like Cj and Kitty lived here for a while, you must have lived somewhere too." Phoebe said.

"Not for long." Zari said. "As soon as I joined the Zelusians I've been living ship to ship."

"Yeah, our first forty years or so were like that too. "I said. "I only retired because I didn't want Aranea to spend her entire life on board a ship. Our ship got retired as well, so I would've had to move on to a new one anyway. Since I was technically over 60 at that point, nobody could really keep me from leaving, Kitty followed. I bought a house here and spent the next forty years just hanging out, taking care of Aranea and our daughter, and Kitty, well she did the best she could. Of course she always had my support."

"Didn't you have a child?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah, and a house husband that took great care of him while I was so very busy." Zari said.

"Did they stay on the ship with you?" I asked.

"They visited sometimes, but no, the Zelusians generally don't allow that, atleast until I was promoted to admiral, but they didn't want to stay on the ship anyway." Zari replied.

"So where did they live most of the time then?" Phoebe asked.

"New Haversgradt, Planet Ironan, outside the Zelusian base." Zari said. "I've only ever been there a few weeks at a time."

"You ever regret not spending more time with them?" I asked.

"Sometimes." She said. "But sometimes I think it was for the best I didn't get too attached. Either way I still miss them."

"Yeah I don't think that ever goes away." I said.

"So you got anywhere you want to go before we leave this universe for good?" I asked.

"No, not really." She replied.

"You sure?" I asked.

"It's ok, honestly. This was enough." She said.

"Allright if you say so." I replied.

Eventually the conversation ran dry and we left the restaurant to take Kitty back to her hotel, and Zari to the spaceport where she would board a shuttle to the station in order to get back to the ship. The station was close enough you could see it in the sky at certain times of the year, where it looked like a tiny little circle of lights, brighter than any of the stars, aside from the local sun of course. I kind of wanted to take Kitty back to the resort with us, but Phoebe wouldn't allow it, then when we got back she showered me with kisses to make up for it. She was really trying to get my mind off of her, the best she could without just using her powers.

"I wuv you Cj." She said as she suddenly wrapped her arms around me moments after we got back to our room.

"Why you being so cute and cuddly tonight?" I asked.

"Because I love you and I can't have you getting bored with me." She said. "This week was supposed to be just for us we can't bring Kitty over."

"Well what do you want to do then? No movies to watch, hardly any tv aside from the news, we already had our fun with the hot tub." I said.

"We can challenge that other couple down the hall to a game of volleyball." She said.

"It's a bit late for that." I replied.

"I could just keep kissing you until you think of something." She said as she started to kiss me on the cheek repeatedly.

"Pheebles." I said, feeling slightly embarrassed even though nobody was around.

"Let's play a game." I said moments later just to put an end to her torrent of kisses.

"What kind ?" She asked.

"A fun kind." I said.

"And what kind is that?" She asked.

"I don't know, we could go buy a board game or something." I said.

"This late at night?" She asked.

"Shops are open 24/7 here, tourists come in all the time." I replied.

"I don't want to go back out again." She replied.

"I think there is some other games we could play." She said.

"Maybe." I replied.

"I could let you see our kids again, if you want, it will help pass the time." She said.

"It wouldn't really be them though." I replied.

"No, but it will remind you what we're fighting for." She said.

"Or we could just screw around in the dream world, we could play games there even, we don't even need to buy anything." She said.

"Doesn't that hurt you after awhile?" I asked as I laid down on the bed.

"I can keep it going for a few hours, should be long enough until we're ready to go to sleep." She said.

"Allright if you say so." I replied.

"I bet Kitty can't do that can she?" She asked.

"No her powers are pretty much limited to mind control, and that nazar nail thing that's actually kind of scary." I replied.

Thankfully it doesn't work unless she wears it, but when she wears it, it can corrode through almost anything but glass on contact, given enough time, she can even force it through battleship armor, typical body armor doesn't stand a chance, and it's heavy enough that it will just smash through all but the thickest of glass anyway. Thankfully it doesn't work unless she's wearing it or it would be very difficult to contain.

"Come on then let's get ready for bed, since we'll probably just sleep after anyway." She said as she started to strip naked so she could slip on her nightgown.

"Or you could just lay on the bed and watch me change like a weirdo." She said.

"You're the one that just stripped naked. I never know if we're going to have a conversation or if you're going to whip out those cute little tits." I replied.

"Well maybe I shouldn't change and we should just play around a little bit first." She said.

"Maybe." I replied as she started to crawl on top of me.

And so we had a quick little fun session before she put her nightgown on and we snuggled up in bed together to spend some time in the dream world together, something that was only possible with her powers, the best way I could describe it is it was like lucid dreaming on steroids, we both shared control of the dreamscape, and nearly anything was possible, though there were a lot of limitations, many of which were shared with normal dreams, such as lights, mirrors, and written text constantly misbehaving. We couldn't do this all night either, as it wasn't really restful sleep for either of us, and if we did it for too long we'd both wake up feeling exhausted with really bad headaches, with her being too tired to continue. She can also directly manipulate my dreams without me actually being lucid or aware, while in the dream at least, though after waking up her manipulations are pretty obvious, in these cases I'll still get enough rest, but she'll lose however much time she spent performing those manipulations as she technically has to be awake to do so. But on the rare nights where I have a particularly tough time sleeping, she doesn't mind doing so, and it normally doesn't take much to turn most bad dreams into good dreams. A monster that trips over its own feet, a gun that doesn't jam, a few words of encouragement, and other key changes can turn an entire situation around.

Another week and the U.S.C contacted us to tell us that the time machine was nearing completion. So we left Paloran for the last time and prepared to return to the digital world. Unfortunately we didn't think about how the ship was going to get back to Kayla, as it would be left 100 years in the past. This unfortunately meant it had to be destroyed to prevent anyone getting access to its technology too early. Or at least that's what we were supposed to do. In reality we just left it floating there, with the vaguest hopes that we might be able to retrieve it someday. During that week I hadn't seen Kitty or the others that much, which was all part of Phoebe's plan, and though this helped me reconnect even further with my baby girl, it did nothing to curb Kitty's jealousy, nor my feelings for her, and once we got back on the ship it was argument after argument, sometimes directly over me, other times over petty bullshit just so they could hide the real issue. I realized I could never leave them alone in a room together, as they wouldn't get so heated whenever I was around. The night before we were supposed to time travel was particularly hectic. Kitty waited until we were asleep so she could sneak in and snuggle with me.

"Kitty get out of here, why are you even here you creep?" Phoebe yelled as I woke up and tried to comprehend the situation.

"I just wanted to snuggle." She replied.

"What the heck is going on now?" I asked.

"She snuck in so she could snuggle. Without my permission." Phoebe said.

"Well let her snuggle, you were asleep weren't you it's not hurting us any." I said. "Look you haven't let me sleep with her for weeks, she just wants to snuggle let it go. Come here Kitty Kat I'll hold you for awhile."

"Thankyou Cj." Kitty replied.

"You two don't have to fight over me you know I love you both." I said as Kitty made herself comfortable.

"I bet I love you more than her." Phoebe said.

"Do not." Kitty replied.

"Why don't we get back to sleep because I'm freaking tired right now and then tomorrow you can both show each other how much you love me." I said.

"What?" Phoebe asked.

"You heard me." I said. "I'm sick of this you think I don't know what you two get up too when I'm not around? You need to stop fighting and start loving." I said.

"You're too tired, you're not thinking straight. Go to sleep." Phoebe said.

"Yeah well, we'll see. See you both in the morning." I replied.

"You mean just me I'll kick Kitty out by then." Phoebe replied.

"Good luck with that I got her held pretty tight." I replied.

She replied with a jealous moan.

"Oh I can hold you too don't worry." I replied.

"Be quiet and leave me alone." She said as she turned away from me.

"Well ok, geez." I replied.

She seemed upset, but by the time we fell back to sleep she somehow wrapped my arm around her again and I woke up holding both of them close. Though it was very cute, once again this was not the most convenient position to wake up in, because I was trapped in bed, without the use of my arms, until one of them woke up as well. Thankfully that didn't take long, Phoebe cracked her eyes open a few minutes later.

"She's still here." She grumbled.

"Yep." I replied.

"We can sneak off to the shower while she's still asleep." She said.

"Yeah no." I replied.

"Cj if you're expecting a threesome, it's not going to happen." Phoebe replied.

"Ok." I said.

"So come on let's go." She whispered.

"Nah." I replied.

"Cj." Phoebe replied.

"Pheebles." I jokingly replied.

"Fine then I'll just shower by myself." She said.

"OK, then when she wakes up we'll just have fun without you." I replied.

"You wouldn't dare." She said.

"Pheebles I love you more than anything in all of creation, but, at the end of the day, I'm still a man, and Kitty, is still a freaking beautiful woman, and I love her, not as much as I love you, but still, I can't stand to see you treat her this way. My heart will always belong to you baby girl, but, she was there for me when I needed her, and it isn't your fault, it's nobody's fault, but, I'm never going to stop loving her Pheebles, just like I'm never going to stop loving you, I wish it didn't have to be this way, I wish things could just go back to the way they were, but after 100 years, things change, and you have to understand, it would kill me to walk away from either of you. "

"Oh Cj, it's like everything I love about you magnified tenfold, you're such a good guy, trapped in this great dilemma, but still, I believe she is doomed, your relationship with her will be cut short, and it will cause you a great amount of pain. And I rue the day that this will inevitably come to pass, because of how much it will hurt you, my love. I wish you would understand this, that I appreciate how much she loves you, but, the pain she will inevitably inflict on your heart scares me. Otherwise, I'd love to be her sister wife. I'd love to share with her my love for you, but I know such things would not last, and thus, I wish I could be your only, the only one who truly loves you more than anything in the world, your baby girl, the mother of your children who can't stand to see such pain inflicted upon you." She replied.

"So you really believe it then? It's not just some petty excuse?" I asked.

"Mhm." She replied.

"You know I remember you used to lie a lot." I said.

"Yep." She quickly replied.

"But still I know that at the very least your love for me is real." I said.

"No duh." She replied.

"but ultimately if such pain is to be inflicted upon me, I know your love for me will endure." I said.

"mhm." She hesitantly replied.

"So what do you have to lose Baby girl?" I asked.

"You, you idiot." She replied.

"I'll say it again this isn't happening so if you really love me more you'll come with me." She said.

"Who said it has to happen?" I asked. "We could just lay here, together."

"What fun is that?" She asked.

"Really Pheebles?" I asked. "There was a time where we wished we could do that forever, you're just being difficult."

"No you're being difficult, I know this is a difficult time for us, and I'm trying to show you the right way out, but you won't listen." She said.

"This is all my fault. I'm sorry I'll just go." Kitty suddenly spoke up, neither of us realized she was awake.

She kissed me on the cheek.

"Thankyou so much I'll see you at breakfast." She said before getting up and walking out the door before either of us could think to say anything.

"Well that happened." I said after she left.

"It is her fault for coming in here in the middle of the night." Phoebe said after using her powers to hit the button to reclose the door which Kitty forgot to do.

"Oh just let it go." I said.

"Are you going to come with me now or not?" She asked.

"Well you kind of killed the mood." I replied.

"Well can you still come with me then? Please? I'd feel more comfortable." She asked.

"What you're afraid I'll run straight to Kitty?" I asked.

"You know I wouldn't do that to you." I replied. "But I can't do it to her either, that's why I'm in this mess."

"I know you won't, but I want you to come anyway." She said.

"Fine." I replied.

A pretty crappy start to an eventful day.

At breakfast it wasn't going to get much better, as Zari came in and announced that the U.S.C informed her to set the ship to self-destruct once we had left it for the crack in space back to the digital world.

"Yeah we're not doing that." I said.

"Who knows, we might find a way to retrieve it someday." I said.

"We could take a set of keys with us. They have a homing beacon, we'd need a huge facility to create a signal, but once it is sent out it can bounce off the stations and satellites, and then the ship can be set to automatically jump towards the signal taking on more fuel cells as needed, if it's given enough credits to do so, which we might as well just give it the rest of our credits cause we aren't going to need them once we leave. It is extremely unlikely to work, as we're still not even sure whether all these universes are secretly connected, but it could be worth a shot. Devon Co might have a facility like that we could borrow and all we'd have to do is press a button" I said. "And it's not like the U.S.C is going to find out."

"Yeah but, the complications that could arise from them getting access to technology 100 years too early." Zari replied.

"We could hide it somewhere." I replied.

"We could." Zari said.

"Then we could continue to explore the stars together." Kitty said.

"Possibly." I replied. "But it's a very slim chance."

"No way, Charley is not growing up on board a space ship, he needs to be around other children." Phoebe said.

"Well then we could sell the ship to Devon and make a fortune, given the .00000000001 percent chance it works." I replied.

"So you'd risk absolute chaos just to take that chance?" Zari pointed.

"Hell yeah!" I replied. "What could possibly go wrong?"

"We aren't blowing this ship up Zari." Kitty said. "Never ever."

"Fine, but I get a cut." She said.

"Well then we want one too." Henry chimed.

"You all get a cut, if it's feasible by then, if you don't make it back with us, it's not going to be feasible, but seriously don't get your hopes up, you might as well buy lottery tickets." I replied.

"Now anything else we need to discuss?" I asked.

"They said they're ready to fire it up." Zari said. "They need to talk with Phoebe about the calibration though."

"Pheebles do you know how to calibrate the damned thing?" I asked as she was usually pretty vague whenever she spoke of her little project.

"I know the gist of it." She said.

"That's not very reassuring." I replied.

"If they set it for 88000.569 rpm, that should send us back to about a week before we came through, that will give us enough time to get to where the wormhole or whatever it was opened, set up camp, and wait for it. " Phoebe explained.

"We got enough camping gear for that?" I asked.

"We bought plenty of camping gear." Saphy said. "We got sleeping bags for everyone."

"Yeah they did I saw the bill." Zari said. "Sometimes I wonder how I'm not in debt."

"Well even if you were it won't matter once we go through the machine anyway." I said.

"That's what we should of done, should've taken out a huge loan from the shadiest characters we could find." I said. "Fill the ship full of expensive junk and take it back in time."

"Yeah they'd have no way to get it back." Henry said.

"Right." I replied.

"Yeah just what we need, more enemies." Phoebe said.

"Oh Pheebles, relax. We can't do it anyway now, it's too late." I said.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me, I also saw how you two apparently tipped 1400 credits while you were at that resort, I mean really were they that good?." Zari asked.

"They were amazing." Phoebe promptly replied as we exchanged awkward glances.

"Well I think, after what we've been through in this universe, taking down the rest of the dark kings or whatever should be easy." Henry said.

"Hopefully, We haven't really gotten that much more powerful though. I mean I'm in somewhat better shape, Kitty can digivolve, I got my pokémon back, but most of us haven't seen a good fight in a long time." I said. "Even when we had to enter into combat, everything here has been way too easy."

"Wait Saphy still can't digivolve?" Claire asked.

"Don't remind me." Saphy replied.

"We'll work on it more Saphy I promise." Phoebe said.

"Talk to the U.S.C, they will help, they helped Kitty digivolve they can do the same for her and probably IceLeomon too." I said.

"No, way, I'm done digivolving, I don't want to become a pandamon again." IceLeomon said.

"You shouldn't." I said. "That only happened cause you de-digivolved, you should become something more powerful, I don't know what that will be, but it won't be a pandamon."

"Maybe he'll become something even more adorable." Saphy commented with a giggle..

"Maybe." Phoebe replied as they both laughed.

The newbies stayed quiet not knowing what event we were talking about.

"What happened?" Illustria asked.

"It's a long story I'll tell you all later." Zari said.

"No you won't." IceLeomon objected.

"Oh come on it's funny." Zari replied.

"I"ll bring Saphy up when I talk to them about the calibration later." Phoebe said.

"Sounds like a plan." I replied as the newbies continued to press Zari for information. Even IceLeomon's wives were curious and they rarely said anything. Henry went and explained what happened before moving on to stories of his own, more recent escapades which provide a bit of entertainment.

"And he was never even in the limo, the whole time he was riding down the lakeside on this mint green hoverscooter. So after totaling three of our vehicles chasing this guy down obviously we weren't too happy. I don't know what species his driver was, but, he did things with that limo that shouldn't be possible. Anyway after flying down an embankment and getting t-boned by this big ugly truck, he wasn't in too good of shape, so we couldn't even question him because they shoved him into an ambulance and carted him away, but the gps screen was intact, so from there we could see where he lived, so we went there, thinking he'd have to show up eventually because we had no other leads at this point. And to give you some perspective, he has a brand new Janali roadster in the driveway. That with the limo you'd think he'd show up with something special. No he just comes bumbling up the road on a mint green hover scooter, and we're watching this trying not to laugh because we have to stay quiet, but then right when he makes it up to his garage he falls on his face trying to get off of the thing. And he's an Aglorian so he's a big round, egg-shaped person. Like it's just a race of normally very profit-focused, very high and mighty, egg people, not fat people, just literally 4 foot tall egg-shaped people. All types of business are legal on their planet even abducting and selling people of other sapient races because they think they're superior to all others. So there is a lot of them on the wrong side of the law because they tend to disregard any laws but their own, not all of them, but some of them. Anyway so we're finding it very hard not to laugh at this point, but he's on the ground, nobody is around, and it looks like a great time to go in and bust his ass, so we start mobilizing, and he looks over at us, and he gets up, and he runs, straight into the garage door. He's on the ground again, the scooter is slowly hovering its way back down the drive by itself, and it's one of the easiest arrests I've ever had. After all that bullshit with the limo, it was definitely a satisfying ending. " Henry said.

"We looked at one of those roadsters, it was in the same showroom we ordered this ship at, but we didn't have near enough for one after paying for the ship though. It wasn't like we'd ever get to use it anyway." I awkwardly commented. "Bought this big expensive ass ship from them and they wouldn't even let us test drive it."

"Well you're on Paloran, there's not a lot of places to drive it." Zari said.

"We could just take it out over the ocean and let it rip." I said.

"Until you hit a wave and capsize the poor thing." Zari replied.

"True." I replied.

"What did the egg man do again?" Illustria asked.

"Well the creep was caught associating with a known missing woman, which got people suspicious, then police have later seen him pick up other women off the streets who would later be reported missing, they tried to chase him down but he escaped thanks to his insanely talented driver. Then after we arrested him there were another dozen women tied up in his garage and his basement. The fucker was running this whole operation, shipping them back to his home planet where they could be legally sold and what's he do with the money? He buys a fucking mint green scooter! " Henry explained.

"Have you heard anything about my father?" Selenia asked.

"Well I'd have to know who your father is to answer that." Henry replied.

"I'll tell you, in private, I don't want anyone else to know." Selenia said.

Eventually breakfast came to an end. Phoebe, Saphy, and I went up to the bridge so she could talk to the U.S.C scientist about the time machine, and also to see if they could help Saphy to digivolve. It turned out that they could but it would take them a few hours to get the necessary equipment out here. So with Saphy incessantly pleading we decided to wait. A few minutes later Henry and Selenia came up.

"This is awkward but I need to use the communication system to talk to some old friends." Henry said.

"Ok, go ahead we just got done." I replied.

"In private." Selenia added.

"So you want the whole room to yourself?" Phoebe asked.

"It's kind of an important room." Zari said.

"It won't be for very long." Selenia said.

"We have to wait here a few hours anyway." Phoebe said.

"Allright just let us know if any other ships show up on radar." Zari said.

"Where's the radar?" Selenia asked.

"It's this screen. Keep an eye on it." Zari pointed it out as the rest of us got up to leave.

"I'm going to go to the pool." Saphy said.

"Ok, we'll call you back up when we need you." Phoebe replied.

"I need to talk to my pokémon." I said.

"Yes you do, after 100 years." Phoebe replied.

"It hasn't been a hundred years, I had them out when I got them healed." I replied.

"Come on, we'll let them out in the rec room." I said.

"Ok." Phoebe replied.

So Phoebe and I headed to the rec room where I let my pokémon out, except for Aggron, so I could explain what was going on.

"Allright this is, complicated so listen, it's been about 90 years or so since I let most of you out last."

Most of them responded with surprise.

"I know that sounds mean, but I apparently don't age anymore. I wasn't sure if the same applied to you and I didn't want to risk that. Aranea is dead, she died twenty years ago after living a full life, but as you can see Pheebles is here, and we got the rest of the old team back together. We're about to leave this universe, so hopefully, we won't have to wait that long to see each other again.

They were in stasis most of this time, so they were pretty cool with it. They only come out of stasis once you press the button and the ball expands to softball size. They were more fascinated about the ship so we went and gave them a tour while we were waiting to be allowed back onto the bridge. Zari went to hang out with Kitty and IceLeomon's wives in her garden. I don't know what they talked about, but they seemed to get along ok. I didn't know where everyone else was at the moment, probably in their rooms or at the pool.

By the time we got to the pool as part of the tour, Chalana and Illustria were there, along with Saphy of course.

"What is going on here?" Illustria asked. "What with the big shellback?"

"These are my pokémon, this is Bubba, he's a Blastoise." I replied before introducing her to the rest of my team.

"The only one not here is Aggron because if I let him out he'll tear the ship apart." I said.

"Blastoise blast Blastoise." Bubba commented.

"He wants to go for a swim." Phoebe said.

"Well go ahead and go then if you want, just play nice." I replied.

"She can understand him?" Illustria asked as Bubba made his way to the pool.

"Yeah, she's a pokémon too." I replied.

"But she can talk." Illustria said.

"She's what you would call a sapient pokémon, those with intelligence that meets or even exceeds humans. Though they are all a lot smarter than the majority of wildlife." I said as the other girls started to look Bubba over in the background. He started showing off with his cannons and making it rain everywhere in the room.

"Um you don't have a phone or anything on here do you?" I asked.

"No Chally doesn't either why?" She asked.

"Um." I said as I pointed behind her, she turned around and saw that Bubba had managed to thoroughly soak the entire room.

"He soaked my towel." Illustria cried.

"Well um, uh." I tried to say something, but was too embarrassed.

"Sorry he gets carried away sometimes." Phoebe said.

"I see." Illustria replied.

"We should finish the tour Cj." Phoebe said.

"Right I guess we should finish with the reactor room." I replied.

"You're just going to leave him with us?" Illustria asked.

"He likes water, besides he should get to know you all." I replied.

"Bubba we're going to finish the tour, we'll pick you up later if you want." Phoebe said, to which he happily turned toward her and waved.

"Ok, now we have to go down more stares, so Rocky, lead the way and try not to trip." I said as the tour continued.

-a few minutes later-

Ok so behind this door is the reactor room, you can see in through this extremely thick window, but you can't go in because of the radiation. Only certified refueling technicians are allowed behind this door.

Cap'n'magnum started rubbing against the walls sensing the powerful electrical current on the other side.

"Yeah the reactor generates more electricity than anything we've ever come across." I said. "It generates so much power it can create wormholes and jump across large distances of space in an instant by burning through entire rods of nuclear fuel. It's made of extremely exotic metals with extremely high melting points, metals that only occur naturally on a handful of planets."

"And that's about it, there's not very much else to show you aside from the bridge and Kitty's garden which are way back up on the top of the stairs." I said.

Rocky and Rhyhorn groaned, neither being fond of stairs.

"But we can take the elevator." Phoebe said.

"Yeah you'd have to go with Rocky or Rhyhorn though. It won't hold them both." I said.

"That's fine." She replied.

"Allright then, Everyone but Rocky and Pheebles on the elevator." I said.

Five minutes later we were all back up on the 6th deck. We introduced my pokémon to IceLeomon's wives who were both really surprised, and after a few lengthy explanations later, Henry and Selenia finally left the bridge and came down to the now somewhat crowded garden to talk to us.

"I found out where my father is." Selenia said. "If you don't mind I want to go see him."

"He's on the prison ship Crimson Star." Henry said.

"How far away is that?" I asked.

"You're going to go visit him in prison by yourself?" Zari asked. " Somebody should go with you."

"Henry can go with me, he knows who my father is now." Selenia replied.

"Did you talk to Claire about this?" I asked.

"I will once we're done here." Henry replied.

"How far away is it?" I asked again.

"The Klagnar abyss, about half of our fuel to jump there." He said.

An abyss in this sense is an area of space where for whatever reason there's no stars visible, and is basically in absolute darkness, a depressing area and a preferred parking place for prison ships.

"And there's a place we can refuel nearby?" I asked.

"Well it's a prison ship, the entire point is to put them out in the middle of nowhere." Henry replied.

"But there's still a refuel spot within jumping distance?" I asked.

"Yeah, another quarter tank away." He replied.

"Well allright, Zari go set the ship to jump there for them." I said.

"Ok." Zari replied.

"So where did all these guys come from?" Selenia asked.

"Oh these are my pokémon, except for aggron and Bubba he's playing around in the pool. " I explained for the third time today.

"Have you seen Claire around?" Henry asked.

"No and we just went on a tour of the whole ship." Phoebe explained.

"So she's probably in your room." I said. "And not a whole tour we haven't shown them the bridge yet."

"Right, let's do that." Phoebe replied.

"Can I go?" Kitty asked.

"You've seen the bridge before haven't you?" I asked in return.

"I know, I just, I want to hang out with you guys some more today." Kitty said.

"Ok fine." I replied.

"Cj." Phoebe nudged me.

"Oh just let her come along." I replied. "What's she going to do?"

"Maybe I should tell your pokémon about you and her." Phoebe said to me telepathically as we made our up one more set of stairs to the bridge.

"Why drag them into this?" I asked.

"Because they love me." She replied.

"Maybe I should tell them you've been bullying her." I replied.

"Only because she won't leave us be." She replied.

"Because she loves me, and I can't just walk away from her, regardless of what you think." I said.

"Cj it's for the best, you even said you love me more than her." Phoebe reasoned.

"That is true but I still care about the both of you." I replied as I took both their hands. Phoebe pulled away, Kitty just looked up at me at smiled.

We were about to the bridge so we had to talk about other things.

"And this is our last stop, it's the bridge, where we can control almost everything on this ship." I said.

"We're jumping in about 30 seconds." Zari said over the intercom so everyone would know. My pokémon immediately turned their attention towards the windows, seemingly fascinated by space travel. The ship was slowly rotating at the moment, aligning itself with the destination it was about to jump towards.

"Magnum please don't get too close to the console." I said.

"Magnezone." He replied.

Once the ship finished rotating, Zari activated the jump drive, a countdown started as the reactor began to heat up to an insanely high temperature, that could best be compared to that of ground zero of a nuclear explosion but even hotter, and as I said before the reactor, as well as most of the reactor room, was made of metals not known to earth that could not only withstand this but absorb most of it, and this massive release of energy, is what gave it the ability to bend space time, afterwards the fuel rods were converted into pure lead and, while still incredibly toxic, were no longer radioactive, the ship began to move forwards, and once a certain critical temperature was reached, space began to warp, distant starts turned into streak of light, the whole ship began to shake, accelerating to a point where everything became a blur, and a pattern of various colors streaked across the windows from various objects we were phasing through but were literally moving too fast to collide with, countless stars, planets, and other objects appearing and disappearing in infinitely small fractions of a second. The ship was basically encapsulated in a little bubble of space, so it could phase through planets, stars, and even other ships without being heard, seen, or felt, until we finally arrived at our destination, a completely black void, save for the lights of the Crimson Star in the distance.

"I'm going to miss seeing that." I said once things settled down.

"Yeah, hyperspace is so beautiful." Kitty said.

"Yeah, I mean, um, it kinda gets boring after a while." Phoebe said.

"Not really, it's different every time." Zari said.

"Yeah because you're passing different objects every time which results in different patterns." I replied.

"Contacting Crimson Star, this is the Great Sword of Space requesting fighter docking permission for reason of visitation." Zari said over the communications relay.

Obviously prison ships could only accommodate docking for shuttles, fighters, and other smaller ships. It was larger than our yaught, of course, but still pretty small compared to a station. Also it was usually a good idea to announce that you were sending a fighter over prior to launching said fighter.

"Permission granted, dispatch fighter and proceed to open hangar bay, as marked by lights." Their radioman replied a few seconds later.

"Ok, Henry, Selenia, wherever you are, you have permission to dock on the Crimson Star, get your butts to the fighter in the hanger on deck 2." Zari said over the intercom.

"Um, we're right here." Henry said.

"Oh, I didn't see you enter." Zari replied.

"Well get your butts to the hangar bay then." Zari repeated.

"Right. I just gotta talk to Claire first." Henry said as he and Selenia headed for the door.

"You've flown a fighter before right?" I asked.

"It's been awhile, but yeah." Henry replied.

"We stole it from some bounty hunters a while ago." Phoebe said.

"Yeah we made a really good team." Kitty added.

My pokémon were still fixated on the windscreen.

"Here guys if you look at this screen here you can see them launch the fighter in a few minutes. I said as I directed them to the somewhat disused security console after setting it to display a live camera feed from the hangar. There were cameras in all the major rooms and hallways, including the pool, which didn't seem creepy to me at all until the moment came when I realized that.

Anyway, Henry met Claire in the hallway on the way down, who was already concerned thanks to Zari's announcement.

A couple minutes later Henry and Selenia could be seen on the security screen, entering the hangar, they suited up, then entered the fighter itself and strapped themselves in, then the hangar bay doors opened and depressurized. A countdown started and when that was done the fighter was catapulted out of the ship almost too fast for the camera to see it. It was there in one frame and gone a few frames later. After turning towards the Crimson Star and activating the engines the two of them could be seen from the bridge as a white streak flying towards the lights in the distance until they were far enough away that they blended in with them.

Afterwards, I returned my pokémon since the tour was over, then we left Zari on the bridge to keep an eye on things and then headed down to the pool to collect Bubba.

"We're not going swimming right?" Kitty asked as we made our way down.

"Are we wearing swimsuits?" Phoebe sassily asked.

"No, but." Kitty replied.

"Then why would we be swimming?" Phoebe interrupted. "I don't know about you, but I don't want to get my dress all soaking wet."

"Pheebles enough." I replied. "We're just going down there to pick up Bubba because we left him there earlier so he could play around."

" Do you think Henry will be safe over there on his own ?" Claire asked as we met her at the entrance to the stairway on the fifth deck.

"Yeah, it's a prison not a war zone, they're not attacking it or anything, they're just visiting, plus they should have their own guards right?" I asked.

"If you say so." Claire replied.

"What have you been doing all day?" Phoebe asked.

"Just sleeping." She said.

"Oh like Kitty?" Phoebe replied.

"Pheebles enough." I said.

"What? She does fall asleep a lot." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, that's true." Kitty shamelessly admitted, to Phoebe's chagrin.

"Just trying to adjust to your different time schedule here." Claire said.

"Well in a few days we'll be back on a normal day and night schedule." Phoebe replied.

"I know and then we'll all have to adjust to that too." Claire replied.

"Yeah, but at least there will be a solid day and night, not just night, and, well more night." Phoebe replied.

"True." Claire agreed.

"Well see you around." Phoebe said. " We gotta go pick Bubba up from the pool."

"Oh ok, see you." Claire replied.

And so we continued down another flight of stairs to the fourth deck and made our way back to the pool to find Illustria, Saphy, and Chalana standing in the hallway stairing through the glass doors at the entrance.

"What's going on?" Phoebe asked, sensing something was off.

"IceLeomon is fight your shellback." Illustria said.

"What? Why?"

"For fun? Why else." Chalana said, sounding rather displeased.

"He made the water too cold." Saphy said.

"Even for Chally?" Phoebe asked.

"Well they keep splashing it everywhere, it's not very fun either." Chalana said.

Sure enough there was water and bits of ice flying everywhere as Bubba sparred against our former captain.

"Saphy, it's time for you to be more assertive." Phoebe said as she patted her on the back.

"Are you sure?" She asked.

"Mhm." Phoebe replied.

"Don't hurt Bubba." I replied.

"I'll try not too." Saphy said.

"It'll be fine Cj, just relax." Phoebe said as Saphy headed into the pool room alone.

She pulled some kind of fancy pose, closed her eyes and started manipulating the water in a way Phoebe could not. Forcing both of them out of the pool and slamming them both against the wall moderately hard. Hard enough to cause them both to be stunned by her power, but not hard enough to seriously hurt them.

"That's a lot of water." Illustria said.

"Impressive." I said.

"As long as she's near water she's way stronger than Kitty." Phoebe replied.

"She is not." Kitty defended.

The two battling morons got back up at about the time IceLeomon's wives arrived at our little bikini hallway party to cool off from spending time in Kitty's garden, which was naturally one of the warmer places on the ship. They both turned towards Saphy.

"I'll fight her first." Iceleomon said.

"I'm not fighting either of you, stop fighting, you're ruining everyone else's fun." Saphy said.

At that point, Iceleomon's wives finished analyzing the situation, charged in and proceeded to chew the silly digimon out for ruining the pool room, which aside from the pool now needing more water and everything being soaking wet or frozen really wasn't that bad, but it was comical none the less. In an extremely rare moment of shame, the proud digimon looked at the floor and apologized, before leaving the pool. After which his wives came out for a brief moment to tell everyone they could come back in, before leaving once again, probably to return the their room. Only Chalana went back to the pool because it was still too cold now for Saphy and Illustria, I went in to chew Bubba out for a moment before returning him, and then Phoebe and I decided to head to the rec room, while Illustria returned to her room to shower and change her clothes, Saphy decided to go with us at least until it warmed up again, and of course Kitty did as well, so it was now just the four of us. We went up to the rec room, spent a few minutes playing foosball before moving onto pinball, and Zari called Phoebe and I back to the bridge over the intercom. So we left the digibabes behind to go see what was going on.

"I wonder what this is about." I said as we made our way up there.

"I think something must have gone wrong, I could hear it in her voice." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, I kinda heard that too." I replied.

We made it to the bridge a couple minutes later.

"What's going on?" I asked.
"Just listen." Zari said as she started to play a recording on the console.

"Maday, maday, this is the Crimson Star, there's been a break out, prisoners are rioting, guards are dying, requesting police and military assistance."

"Call Kitty and Saphy up here, take us in close." I said.

"They could activate the defensive cannons at any moment." Zari said.

"Get the jumpdrive on standbye." I said.

"We're just going to leave Henry and Selenia?" Phoebe asked.

"If they open fire on us, yeah, so they don't blow us up." I replied.

"Once we get close enough it shouldn't matter, we're big enough that if they blow us up we'll probably take them out too." Zari said.

"Ask if they still have the defenses under control." I replied.

"Great Sword to Crimson Star, what's the status on your perimeter defenses?" Zari asked.

" Active, but still under control if you're trying to attempt a rescue, they can't get in here without the code." The Crimson Star replied. "Our scans show you don't have another fighter on board though, so how are you going to be able to help?"

"We got something else." Zari replied as she glanced towards my beloved.

"I guess I can try." Phoebe said.

"Kitty, Saphy get up to the bridge now. Everyone else sit tight, this could get messy." Zari said over the intercom.

"You got thirty minutes to launch a rescue attempt after that the U.S.C should receive our distress call, and it'd be best to let them do their thing." The radioman said.

"Roger that we're moving in, try to keep your defences down." Zari said.

"There's a blind spot if you come in from the starboard bow." The radioman said.

"Well we kind of have to be near a window to get in." Zari said.

"There's windows there." The radioman replied. "Please hurry, we're losing more guards ever minute."

"I need to get my guns." I said as Kitty and Saphy entered the room.

"What's going on?" Saphy asked.

"Apparently there's some kind of riot going on." I said. "Obviously we need to rescue Henry and Selenia, so it looks like we have a mission."

"I see." Kitty said before she digivolved into Lilithmon.

"So we're moving in closer to find a place where Phoebe can teleport us on board, I need to go get some guns from the armory, and then we'll head over and kick some butt." I said.

"Last mission in this universe babes, make it count." I said.

"We're all babes?" Phoebe said.

"Damm right." I said before leaving for the armory.

"Just go get your gun you big weirdo." Phoebe said.

"Right." I replied as I headed for the door.

"Well we are all kind of cute." Kitty said.

"Yeah well he's still being weird." Phoebe replied. "Zari how long before we get close?"

"It's going to take a few minutes these things can't be rushed." Zari replied.

"Awe, I was hoping we could leave before Cj gets back so he can't go and get himself hurt again." Phoebe said.

"I don't think he would appreciate that." Zari said.

"I know, but I'd rather he be safe." Phoebe said.

"You can't leave him here, he has to come with us." Kitty said.

"Yeah, well, I'd rather he not get hurt, especially since I just got him back after 100 years." Phoebe replied.

"What if something happens to you and he can't do anything but sit and wait on this ship?" Zari asked. "That would probably hurt him more don't you think?"

"Well, I." Phoebe struggled to reply.

"What if it was the other way around?" Zari interupted.

"You're right, I'm sorry." Phoebe conceded.

"Good, make sure you remember that." Zari replied.

I returned to the bridge a few minutes later, way after their conversation ended.

"Allright I got my guns, we're all ready to go." I said.

"Mhm." Phoebe agreed.

"I'll let you play with my feet if you stay here." She said to me telepathically, subtly teasing me at the same time by slipping off one of her shoes for a moment.

"Why?" Was all I could say.

"Because I don't want you to get hurt." She replied.

"Pheebles I'm going with you whether you like it or not." I said. "You weren't like this when we went against Phanon."

"Because you had to be there for your son." Phoebe replied.

"Listen I know it's been awhile since we've all seen combat together, so take it easy and let this be a refresher for what inevitably awaits us in the digital world." I said to all three of them.

"I got your back Cj." Kitty said as she hugged me.

"And I got yours." I replied.

"And I would have Pheebles too, but she seems intent on just standing there and staring daggers at me." I said.

"Maybe she should stay here then." Kitty replied.

"Wait how do you know about that?" I asked.

"About what?" Kitty replied.

"Wait how do you know about it you weren't here?" Kitty asked moments later while I stood there confused.

"Huh?" I asked.

"When you were gone, we talked about how Phoebe wanted to leave you here so you wouldn't get hurt." Kitty said. "She was hoping we could get there before you got back."

"Kitty be quiet." Phoebe replied.

"But he already knows." She said.

"No he did not you idiot." Phoebe replied.

"Then how did he . . . " Kitty asked as Saphy looked on and enjoyed the show.

"I asked him to stay here telepathically and he refused." Phoebe interrupted.

"Would you two please shut up I'm trying to fly the ship." Zari said.

"They have to argue about everything don't they?" Saphy commented.

"Yeah pretty much." I replied.

"I really wish you would stop trying to make me look bad." Phoebe said.

"You probably do the same to me when I'm not around." Kitty replied.

"Cj don't be mad." Phoebe pleaded.

"Why? That's just like you to come and leave without warning." I replied.

"I'm sorry I just don't want to lose you again." She replied.

"Yeah and I don't want to lose you, and I don't want to sit on my ass when I could be helping to ensure that doesn't happen." I replied.

"So I'm going, you're going, Kitty is going, and Saphy is going, we're going to get Henry and Selenia back, and then we're going to rescue whoever else we can. And then maybe tonight, we'll have a big damned foursome with just the four us." I said.

"No." Saphy said.

"No." Phoebe said. "Just you and me."

"And Kitty." I added.

"Yes." Kitty cheered.

"No." Phoebe replied. "Not after that stunt, you fluffy-butted liar."

"Um, she's a lilithmon now." I said.

"Human butted liar." Phoebe comically corrected herself.

Eventually we got close to Crimson Star and went looking for a spot behind a window where Phoebe could teleport us inside. Once we were on board we went looking for Henry and Selenia. We didn't know the interior layout of the ship and we started at some random corridor, so that didn't help things any. There were no cells on this floor from what we could tell, so it was also pretty empty. There wasn't much on this floor. There were two corridors that wrapped around a wall which was probably an upper level of the ship's reactor room as well as a pair of airlocks on both sides, Since we knew we were on one of the lower decks, we decided to move upwards. Eventually we found a staircase so we could get to some other decks. The next deck up contained rows and rows of cells, all of which were empty with the doors wide open, as well as the corpses of a single unlucky guard and several unlucky prisoners who never even made it out of their cells. The only living occupant was an old man just sitting in his cell, apparently too tired to take part in the riot, he watched us go by, didn't even say a word. Phoebe assured us he didn't mean any harm.

At the end of the corridor of cells there was a cafeteria in a state of disarray, and then another set of stair cases. The next floor up had a very similar layout, and was a little more lively with a few more prisoners remaining in their cells, all of which were women. There were a few more corpses scattered about of both men and women, prisoners and guards, some were stealing food from the cafeteria, they didn't try to attack us so we just let them be and after making it to the other end of the hall, we continued onward to the next floor which seemed to be a lot like the last except we were attacked by a prisoner with a crowbar. Unfortunately for him he was more than a bit outmatched. Phoebe quickly knocked him out and we shoved him back into a cell which we then blockaded with corpses as Phoebe couldn't force the computerized locks to close as by his behavior it seemed that he was probably responsible for a few of them.

The next floor was another women's floor, which again was mostly empty, though it was still the busiest floor so far. A few quietly remaining in their cells.

"Are you guards?" One of them asked.

"Yes." Phoebe lied.

"Where's your uniform then?" She asked.

"Well, being dressed as a guard during a riot isn't the best idea." Phoebe said.

"So you're just going to wear street clothes and look like neither one?" The woman replied. "What are you doing? Don't touch me!"

"Shh go to sleep." Phoebe said as she knocked her out before she caused a scene.

"Pheebles." I objected.

"If they think we're trying to break in they're going to want us to take them with us. The only people we're trying to break out are our friends Cj and innocent people, but I haven't seen a single innocent one here yet." She said.

"Well Pheebles, they have psychics on the legal side of things so yeah, if you get sent here you're guilty." I replied. "All though there is the possibility of memories being implanted by other, more nefarious and experienced psychics, so, you never know."

"I couldn't tell if their memories are fake just by walking by them Cj." Phoebe replied. "That requires more time."

"More time than we have Pheebles, focus on Henry and Selenia." I said.

"Right." Phoebe agreed.

Further down we were attacked by somebody holding what looked like part of a chair, once again they didn't pose much of a threat. The next four floors were basically the same story, empty cells, a few prisoners trying to keep their good behavior points by staying in their cells, wrecked cafeterias, occasional insane idiots trying to attack us with whatever "weapons" they could find. Some tried to hide behind corners or in darkened cells but it still didn't work thanks to Phoebe. On what was the sixth or seventh or eighth floor (I wasn't sure what floor we started on and there didn't seem to be any indication.) There was a large kitchen behind the respective cafeteria, were all the food was made and stored for all the cafeterias on the lower floors. It was locked up tight and a somewhat large group of stereotypical tough guys were trying to get in by repeatedly bashing the door with chairs and a poor defenseless trashcan. We were hoping we could sneak by, but Henry and Selenia were taking cover in there along with 3 guards and a half dozen prisoners acting as the cafeteria staff. So Kitty used her powers to force them to hold still so Phoebe could safely go in and put them to sleep. It was a cakewalk.

"Hey we took them all out you can come out now." I said, hoping my voice could travel through the wall.

The door cracked open a few seconds later, and a guard poked his head out to look around, spotted all the unconscious guys on the floor, then motioned the others out.

"Are they dead?" He asked.

"No they're unconscious." Phoebe replied. "They'll wake up in a few hours that should give you enough time to get them back into their cells."

"Poor timing you came to visit right before a mass breakout. I didn't think you'd be much help, but dam, they've been watching you on camera the whole time on the bridge." The guard said.

"So, what happened exactly?" I asked.

"From what we've gathered, somebody got into the auxiliary control station, which was supposed to be disabled, but they must have got it back online somehow. Thankfully we were able to secure the turrets but we can't control the cell doors from the bridge anymore. They locked us out somehow. Another group is trying to access the bridge, if they do that it's game over, they'll have full control of the ship." The guard said.

"Are you two feeling ok?" Phoebe asked Henry and Selenia as another guard contacted the bridge using a radio.

"I'm allright, I've seen it before." Henry said.

"They said things to me, things I can't repeat. I was so scared Phoebe, I'm so glad you came." Selenia said as she pulled Phoebe into a hug.

"Did you find your father?" I asked.

"We didn't even get to his cell, we were on our way down when this happened." Henry said.

"Did you come across a group trying to access the reactor room?" The second guard asked.

"No we boarded on the deck above it." I said.

"Great somebody has to go back down there and stop them before they blow up the entire ship." The guard replied.

"What's more important?" Phoebe asked.

"The reactor room." I replied.

"We'll take the bridge." The guard insisted.

"You sure there's probably more people there?" I replied.

Pheebles why don't you go down to the reactor room? Kitty and I should be able to take the bridge.

"No you're coming with me Kitty is going with Saphy." Phoebe replied.

"Ok fine, whatever, we don't time to argue."

"What about us?" One of the prisoners asked.

"You'll be returned to your cell when it's feasible. As for now why don't you lock yourselves in the kitchen while we take the bridge." The third guard said.

So the digibabes and the guards went to take the bridge while Phoebe and I hurried back down the stairs to the reactor room floor, it was faster cause we didn't bother to sweep the floors again. As the guard said a large group of escapees were gathered around the reactor room door. Instead of trying to break it down with a bunch of chairs, which was next to impossible as the doors were radiation proof and extremely thick metal, they were gathered around a man who was trying to hack the security system with an assortment of cell phones stolen from several of the dead guards. Normally only trained refuel technicians are allowed to access the reactor room, so not even the guards would have access to it. There was probably a set of keys in the bridge for emergency use only, but those would be the only ones on the whole ship. Anyway, without Kitty it was a bit more challenging for Phoebe to deal with this many people at once. She knocked a few out, prioritizing the ones with firearms, then others started taking swings at her with chairs, chair legs, and other improvised weapons. Phoebe being Phoebe she forbade me from shooting at them, trying to kill as few as possible. They pretty much ignored me until they managed to clip her and forced me to react. The man move to strike her again and I pulled the trigger. The laser pulse cut instantly cut right through him and left a burn mark on the walk behind. He shuddered in pain as Phoebe regained her composure and teleported to safety. He turned towards me as a few drops of blood hit the floor, not nearly as much as a bullet would cause as lasers automatically cauterize their wounds, but at this point I had the attention of the rest of the group as well. Phoebe put her hand on my shoulder and teleported the both of us further down the corridor as the suicidal lunatics ran after us, except for the man with the cell phones. At that point I continued to fire at them and Phoebe resorted to using shadow balls. The good thing is lasers can easily cut through multiple targets at once, even more so than bullets, bad thing is I need a new battery after about 30 pulses, if it's cold you might get 31, so you tend to carry extra batteries around like they are a magazine and aside from not containing any bullets they basically work the same way (though they are a bit lighter than a mag of equivalent size). You press a button, you remove the battery from the gun, then you slide a fresh one in until it clicks and you're ready to fire again. Batteries can be plugged in and recharged later, which is actually a bit tedious unless you have something like a charging rack.

It wasn't something I was particularly proud of, but they wouldn't stop charging, so we ended up gunning them all down. At that point the man with the cellphones seized a firearm from one of the ones Phoebe knocked out earlier and he shot me before I could figure out what he was doing. Thankfully it was head on so the damage wouldn't be too bad. It was worse to get hit in the side. Anyway I promptly and uncontrollably threw up as I fell to my knees in pain. Phoebe freaked out and forced the man against the wall so hard I could swear he died on impact, before she snapped his neck. She probably broke every bone in his body, of course she was only ever that strong when I was hurt.

My stomach contents came pouring out of both sides along with just a few drops of blood consistent with laser burn. It was quite a mess, but I couldn't care less at that moment because it hurt like a mother fucker to the point where Phoebe eventually turned around and put me to sleep just to ease the pain. The moment I felt her hand on my head I had no idea if I was even going to wake up again. I lost track of everything for what in retrospect was only a few minutes before she woke me up again after she healed me with some white digiroot she had stashed in her digivice all this time. Needless to say she was still very upset.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME I KNEW YOU WOULD GET HURT!" She yelled and cried and held me tight.

"Well you healed me so I'm fine now." I said.

"Yeah I guess you are." She replied as she layed on the floor beside me. "You're so lucky I remembered we had that white digiroot stuff."

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"No after killing that guy and smashing the white digiroot up into a paste I'm exhausted." She moaned. "There's a reason I don't fight like that all the time."

"You're going to need to carry me back up to the bridge." She said as she started to calm down.

"Seriously?" I asked.

"Yes, my head is burning and I'm too tired to teleport. I can't think I just want to lay here and YELL AT YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN IDIOT!" She replied.

"How was that my fault?" I asked.

"You didn't see he was reaching for a gun?" Phoebe asked.

"You didn't see it either?" I replied. "He was all the way down the hall it was hard to see whether he was reaching for a gun or a cellphone or just sticking his thumb up his butt."

"Just kiss me you idiot." She said.

"Ok fine." I replied as we kissed.

"Don't hold me too close you're covered in puke. It wasn't your fault, but still, I almost lost you again." She said. "Now are you ready to carry me or not?"

"You know it still hurts quite a bit." I said. "And I'm covered in puke."

"Well it needs some time, it went right through your tummy. And we'll just have to deal with the puke I guess." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, I can feel it it's getting a bit better.' I replied.

"Let's just rest here a bit, I'm sure Kitty is handling things well." Phoebe said, sounding very tired.

"Probably." I replied as she nuzzled me.

"I can't stay up anymore Cj. That took too much. Don't worry I'll wake up again I just ... need ... to rest. " Phoebe said as she closed her eyes and fell asleep beside me seconds later. She wasted a lot of her power just to ensure that guy died.

"Well ok then." I replied as my stomach continued to throb in pain, though it was slowly getting better.

Both of us were too exhausted to care about how uncomfortable the floor was. I spaced out for a bit, thinking the artificial gravity generator in this place was top notch, you can tell by the way liquid reacts on a perfectly smooth surface, such as the metal floor. It didn't vibrate or flow towards any direction, common problems with one that was inadequate, it just spread to a certain point and pooled up like it would if one were on a planet's surface. The hacker guy, he was bleeding a lot. I had a faint worry the pool would make its way to us, but it never did. Anyway as I became a bit stronger and less delusional my back started to get sore from laying on the perfectly flat, cold metal floor. So I sat up, and eventually found myself standing up. Phoebe woke up and did the same a few minutes later, she struggled to stand so she ended up leaning against me. Then, together we hobbled towards the stairs, and started climbing them slowly. Why they didn't have an elevator on this ship was beyond me, probably some bullshit security reason.

"It's going to be a fun shower after this." I said.

"Mhm." She replied. "But you're cleaning yourself up, I'm not touching that grossness."

"Fair enough." I replied.

"I'll come in later then you can help clean me extra thoroughly." She amorously replied.

"Eheh, ok." I said.

"Actually shouldn't there be showers here?" She asked.

"Yeah with no privacy and god knows what else." I replied.

"Oh, right." Phoebe said. "We'll just have to wait until we get back on the ship then."

"Right." I replied. "And that might be our last on that ship."

"We'll have to make it special." She replied.

"Maybe." I said.

"Are you feeling allright?" I asked. "I saw you get hit with a chair."

"I'm just exhausted." She replied. "The chair didn't hurt that bad, and then you saved me before he could seriously hurt me, so it all worked out ok. It hurt me more to see you get hurt so bad."

"Yeah, that was, definitely one of the worst, as short as it was." I said. "Even that time you had to use your powers to keep my heart beating didn't hurt that bad."

"Oh you remember that?" She asked.

"How could I forget?" I asked.

"I can't say I didn't miss this though." I said. " Just you and me fighting together."

"In twenty years you never did anything like this with Kitty?" Phoebe asked.

"Surprisingly no, not really." I replied. "We had a little bit of that while we were in the U.S.C, but I was still with Aranea then."

"So this is really just something you and I share?" She asked.

"Well, Kitty's here too." I replied.

"Oh now you're just being silly." Phoebe said.

It was a long trek up all those stairs, but eventually we made it to the top, at that point the digibabes managed to liberate the bridge, with a surprisingly low amount of blood spilled.

"Why do you smell so bad?" Kitty asked as she hugged me the moment she saw me.

"Some stuff happened." Phoebe replied.

"It looks like he puked all over his shirt." One of the guards kindly pointed out.

"Did you get shot?" Another one asked as he noticed the hole in my shirt.

"It's a laser proof shirt." I said to try to cover up the digiroot. "One of those fucking freaks down there puked on me."

"A laser proof shirt?" A different guard asked.

Of course such things didn't exist.

"Why is there a hole on the other side?" The first guard asked.

"I got shot twice." I said.

"It looks like they about line up." The guard said.

"Coincidence." I replied.

"Enough, he's still standing he's fine, you all need to go down to the auxillary control room, and try to see if you can fix it so we can get control of the cell doors again." A higher ranking senior guard said.

"Where's that?" I asked.

"Third Deck, Starboard bow get to it before they figure out how to get even more control." The guard said.

"I still need to find my father." Selenia said.

"We'll get to that." Henry said.

"What are we supposed to do check every corpse we come across?" I asked.

"Yes." She replied.

"Pheebles did you pick up anything?" I asked.

"No, although when we were fighting it's kind of hard to keep track of that stuff." She said.

"I guess we just have to make our way back down then." Saphy said.

"We don't have time for that." One of the guards said.

"Oh it shouldn't take long, just a few seconds per corpse and only male corpses." I replied.

"They could get control of the turrets any seconds and if that happens they might start firing at your ship." The guard said.

"It's got enough energy to jump away, and our navigator is the best." I replied.

"What if they hit the jump drive?" Phoebe asked.

"They can't, the jump drive can only be activated by the warden, it's unhackable, but the turrets and the regular flight controls aren't." The guard replied.

"Where's the warden?" I asked.

"He's on vacation on Paloran." The guard replied.

"No kidding? I'm from Paloran." I said.

"No you're not." Phoebe said.

"Pheebles I've lived there for sixty years. Me and Kitty both." I replied.

"We're both from Paloran." Kitty said.

"Oh." She said. "But what about where you grew up?"

"I guess I'm from there too, in a way." I said.

Selenia came running up behind us after checking out another corpse.

"Was that him?" Henry asked.

"No, thankfully." She replied.

"Saphy how are you doing sweety? Did you take down any prisoners?" Phoebe asked.

"Kitty did most of the work." Saphy replied.

"Well you gotta be more assertive." Phoebe said. "You want to gain experience don't you?"

"Experience? Is that how it works?" Saphy asked. "I get enough and I can digivolve?"

"Well, it's usually the ticket." Phoebe said. "I don't know."

"I got hit with a chair." Saphy said.

"I did too, did it hurt you?" Phoebe asked.

"A little how about you?" Saphy asked.

"I'll tell you later." Phoebe said. "Maybe tonight."

"Tonight we might be in the digital world." I said, apparently the only one that knew exactly what she meant.

"What's the digital world?" A guard asked.

"It's an online roleplaying game, it's a private beta, you need a special key to join." I said.

"Is it any good?" The guard asked.

"Eh, the flying physics are a bit, weird. If you flip the vehicle upside down it smashes itself against the ground repeatedly until it crushes itself into a neat little ball of physics that then violently explodes and sends itself into orbit where it burns forever almost like a star." I said.

"Phhh, what?" Phoebe laughed.

"I saw it happen Pheebles it was hilarious you gotta try it next time." I said.

"How do I do that?" Phoebe asked.

"You know how there's that huge billboard outside the first city? Well you have to get a car hauler and park it in front of the sign, then you have to get basically any sports hovercraft and hit it full speed with the afterburner engaged and if you do that it will hit the sign and start to drive up it, then once you get to the edge the front hover gyros will go over the edge of the sign and push the whole thing onto it's back." I explained.

All nonsense aside, I really hoped Selenia's father wasn't the hacker guy, but even so, there wasn't much of a chance he was still alive really, A lot of prisoners were dead along with several staff members.

We made our way back down through the decks, taking longer than usual as Selenia inspected each and every corpse and male prisoner we came across. The fact that nobody was attacking us anymore only added to the monotony. And every deck we descended made it more and more likely that her father was one of the ones we had to gun down. And since that was getting to me, of course it was completely crushing Phoebe, while Kitty and Saphy didn't understand and were just bored, and the guards were in a hurry to get to the ACR making it difficult for Selenia to keep up with them. By the time we reached the third floor without a positive ID it seemed almost certain we had killed him, and Phoebe and I were preparing for what would have been an extremely awkward explanation and apology, but before the nightmare could be realized, we made it to the auxiliary control room. The door was locked tight, but one of the guards accompanying us put a code into the door to force it to open, revealing 3 prisoners inside doing god knows what with the interface screens with a fourth, a guard, handcuffed to the handle for a server rack in the wall. Selenia recognized one of them as her father and embraced him immediately.

"Dad?" She asked.

"Honey what are you doing here?" He asked. "Who are these people? I told you not to try to break me out. I can handle that myself. That was your ship that docked wasn't it?"

"I'm not trying to break you out, I came to visit." She said. "And yes it was."

"You were going to leave her here fighting for her life I take it?" I asked.

"Back off man, I didn't know it was her." He said.

"Let's go, you've earned yourself solitary confinement for a month, and it's safe to say you're here for life now." The guard said as he promptly put him in handcuffs.

"Wait, please just let me say goodbye." Selenia said.

"Goodbye honey, sorry you had to see this, I'll get out, I promise." Her father said as they took him away.

"No you won't." One of the guards said.

Another guard deactivated the control station which finally allowed the bridge to control the cell doors once again. After that the guards started rounding up all the prisoners that were still alive, yet not in their cells. It was a huge mess, thankfully not one we really needed to deal with.

"So your father orchestrated this whole thing?" I asked.

"That's just the way he is." Selenia replied.

"So you're probably never going to see him again no matter what you do." I said.

"Atleast I got to see him one more time." She replied.

"How'd he get in here anyway?" I asked.

"Stealing parked ships by hacking their mainframes." Selenia replied.

"Awe, that makes sense." I replied.

"Well guys I guess that's it for this mission, Henry take the fighter back, Celly you could either go with him or come with us, it doesn't really matter that much." I said.

"I'll go with you I want to talk with Phoebe." She said.

"Ok, fair enough." I replied.

"Henry take this." I said as I handed him my gun. "In case you come across anyone on the way down."

"Thanks." He replied.

"I think we got on just a bit down the hall, Zari should still be waiting outside." I said.

"Right." Phoebe replied.

So we headed down the hall to where we initially teleported to.

"Allright there's the sword over there, you ready Pheebles or do you need more time to rest?" I asked.

"I think I can make it back." She said.

"Are you sure though?" I asked. "Cause you know what happens if you mess up."

"I know. Just take my hand already." She replied.

"Ok." I said.

Thankfully we all made it back to the bridge safely.

"Ok Cj go take a shower already. Celly if you want to talk come with me, Saphy I'll see you tonight, Kitty, you get Cj tonight, but I get him in the shower first."

"That's not fair." Kitty protested.

"I don't care." Phoebe replied as I left the bridge.

"So how did it go?" Zari asked.

"It went ok, we can talk later, I just want to lie down now." Phoebe replied, feeling very tired again after teleporting so many people.

"Ok" Zari replied.

"It was really boring." Kitty said.

Saphy quietly agreed.

"Ok, I guess we'll just make that fuel stop and then get back to the time machine." Zari said.

"What fuel stop?" Kitty asked.

"We don't have enough fuel to make it back in one go, we have to stop to get more, we should be able to get back in a couple hours, hopefully." Zari said.

Anyway, I took what was going to be a long shower because I had to wait for Phoebe and Phoebe was tired and not in a hurry at all.

"Ok Celly what did you want to talk about?" Phoebe asked as she layed down on our bed.

"You know he was never really the best father, but he was all I had." She said. "He tried, but he always had to do things his way, which was usually the wrong way."

"Well not everybody has the best parents. " Phoebe replied. "But you're not a kid anymore you shouldn't need him or anyone else. It seems to me that what you really mean is that you can't decide what you want to do. Well, we could drop you off at a station, either here or 100 years in the past. I wouldn't suggest trying to free your father, you'll just end up like him and I'm sure if he really loves you he doesn't want that. Nor would I suggest going back in time and trying to make sure he doesn't end up that way or you could very easily undo your entire existence. So basically you have two options, either strike out a new life for yourself, by yourself, or come with us on our own adventure which, if anything, I can pretty much guarantee it will be a unique experience that you will probably never have another chance at again. Now I need to rest, and Cj needs me to make sure he showers properly, so why don't you go play pinball in the rec room or something while you consider your options?"

"Ok, thankyou Phoebe." Selenia replied.

"Mhm, no problem." Phoebe said, briefly using her power to shut the door after she left.

She rested quietly for a few minutes until her headache subsided before getting up and heading to the shower at which point I was already squeaky clean.

"Hi baby girl." I said as she got in the shower with me.

"Oh good you cleaned up all the puke already." She said.

"Yeah, it doesn't take that long." I replied. "Anyway I'm pretty much clean so we might as well focus on washing you."

"No you're not you haven't washed your thingy at all." She replied as she started to rub my thing.

"Well I know you like doing that yourself." I replied.

"Mhm." She said as we began to repeat our sacred morning ritual.

Anyway another hour later and we were back in our room snuggling together.

"Maybe I won't let Kitty have you tonight." She said, breaking the silence that had persisted for the last few minutes or so.

"That's allright with me I'm fine with just snuggling with you." I said.

"Then again I already told her about my plan so she already expects you." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah and this sudden change would not be very conductive to the relationship you need to form with her." I said.

"Well that's your idea CJ, not my idea, but still, I don't want to be too mean to her." Phoebe replied.

"Yeah well, you know she's been really tolerant of you, at some point she might start fighting back." I replied. "But I really would prefer it if you two would stop fighting and just get a long."

"I can't, you know I can't." She said. "Then I'd have to give up being alone with you all the time and I don't want to do that."

"But Saphy needs my love tonight and I don't want to leave you alone, so on occasion, I will let you have her on the condition that I get Saphy." She continued. "And if that's not enough for her she'll just have to deal with it. You're mine."

"Is Saphy yours?" I asked.

"Saphy just wants me to fulfill my duties as her tamer and she wants somebody to play with. What you and I have, our connection, our family, our most intimate secrets, she doesn't want that with me. We probably won't stay together after all of this." Phoebe said. "But Kitty, Kitty adores you, and it scares me sometimes."

"She doesn't mean you any harm Pheebles, she just wants somebody to belong to. The last century hasn't been the kindest to her. She's dated about every kind of guy you can imagine and they all left her in the end. So you see why I can't" I said.

"You don't have to leave her Cj, just don't sleep with her unless I give you permission." Phoebe said.

"What if I don't give you permission to sleep with Saphy?" I asked.

"Then I guess we'll just stay here tonight, together." Phoebe said. "But what does that accomplish?"

" Well we could bring Kitty in here and share her together." I suggested. "If she's mine she's yours too you know?"

"That's really sweet, but you know we don't like each other that much." Phoebe said.

"Now, why don't you go to her room and screw her brains out when you're ready, and I'll go play with Saphy in the pool." She said as she sat up. "Then I'll see you tomorrow morning in the shower."

-a few minutes later.-

"Kitty kat you awake?" I said as I entered her room.

"She actually sent you to me?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah, surprisingly." I replied. "Just so she can play around with Saphy though."

"I keep trying to talk her into being nicer to you, but she's adamant about having me to herself. Except when she wants Saphy." I said.

"Yeah well, does she love you more or Saphy?" Kitty asked.

"She's just playing with Saphy for fun, they're not really in love." I said. "They don't even have what we have."

"What do we have?" She asked.

"Well, you've been really good to me Kitty, so, I may love Pheebles more, but I'm always going to be looking out for you. I'm trying to talk her into being nicer to you and even just letting you be my wife alongside her, but she is being very stubborn about it." I said.

"You love me though too right?" She asked.

"Of course, but I've been holding back, these last twenty years, I couldn't allow myself to be as close to you as I was with her. And what happened with Aranea didn't really help at all." I said.

"You know you could just marry me without her permission." Kitty suggested.

"Yeah no." I replied.

"I wish could just make you both happy." I replied. "Why don't we get some sleep and then you can come with me to the shower tomorrow."

"You know I don't like that." She replied.

"I know, but Phoebe will come too, and well, she'll probably join and then, and maybe you could make her like you." I said.

"Do you really think that will work? What if she just gets mad?" Kitty asked.

"Well we can't really screw things up any further, besides she can't stay angry at me." I said.

"Yeah, but what about me?" Kitty asked.

"Well it's my plan so I don't see why she would be so angry at you." I said. "Anyway let's get some sleep, ship lights off this room."

The ship automatically turned off the lights. She snuggled up to me and eventually we fell asleep.

Roughly 8 hours passed, the only light in the room being a display on a clock, the same basic digital clock that was in nearly all the bedrooms as standard equipment, and the emergency lighting, which dimly lit the floor, showing the way to the door. I sat up gathered what clothes I wasn't wearing at that point and waited about twenty minutes for Kitty to wake up before I grew impatient and gently nudged her awake.

"Wah?" She asked. "Stop."

"Awe, you are still alive." I joked.

"Of course I'm still alive." She replied. "Do I look like a cloud of data?"

"I didn't want to wake you, but we need to beat Pheebles to the shower and we're already a bit late." I said. "So are you in or not? If you're not I'll just go."

"I'm in." She said. "Just let me wake up and digivolve."

"Ok just remember you need to get there before her." I said. "I'll go get it started."

I got up and headed back to the room Phoebe and I usually shared, headed into the bathroom, turned the shower on and waited.

Kitty came in in her lilithmon form minutes later, wearing nothing but a towel which she quickly cast aside before entering.

"Now what?" She asked.

"Now we can fool around a bit until Phoebe shows up." I said as I stared vacantly at her enormous breasts.

"I'm not really in the mood." She said.

"Well we'll have to get you in the mood then come here." I said as I pulled her close.

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" She asked as I kissed her repeatedly.

"It will be fine, Phoebe loves me." I said. "Now turn around let me squeeze those balloons.

" It shouldn't be so surprising why she's so jealous, your body is fucking perfect in this form." I said as I played with her breasts.

"Does that feel good?" I asked.

"It always does." She replied.

"What if I rub down here?" I asked.

"Yeah." She replied as I did so.

"Can I suck it?" She asked after I played with her for a few more seconds. I was already starting to get hard at this point, with a body like hers it was hard not to.

"Of course you can, let's see how far we can get before Phoebe shows up." I said.

"What if I get you off before then?" She asked as she turned around and got down on her knees.

"Don't, then I honestly don't know what will happen." I replied.

"Let's just take it slow and easy." I said.

"We'll see." She replied.

Ten minutes later and I was fucking her against the shower wall, Phoebe apparently came in with Saphy, realized what was going on and then told her to head back to the pool, but given my current situation I wasn't paying all that much attention when she burst through the bathroom door.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asked as she opened the shower door.

"She's here." Kitty said as she pulled away from me.

"Oh crap hi Pheebles." I said.

"Why is she here?" Phoebe asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" I replied. "What are you mad about? You gave me permission."

"Not right now, now is our time." She replied.

"Oh come on Pheebles look at these boobs." I said as I presented her with Kitty's amazing breasts.

"She does have nice boobs." Phoebe quietly said.

"Are yours bigger I don't remember?" I asked.

"Well she's a bigger girl too, you know?" Phoebe asked. "Not in a mean way."

"Well why don't you get that towel off and come in here and find out?" I asked.

"I can't believe I'm going to let this work." She said with a sigh as she dropped her towel and entered the shower.

"Hehe they're so tiny." Kitty laughed.

"You know they're not ready yet." Phoebe replied.

"I know." Kitty said as I kissed them both on the cheek.

"Why don't you help me get ready to make up for this little transgression?" Phoebe asked.

"What transgression?" I asked. "Nonono, you two are going to make nice right here, right now, or."

"Or what Cj?" Phoebe asked.

"I guess I'll just leave the shower." I said.

"Ok, but still, I want her to go down on me." Phoebe said.

"Ok." I replied.

"Kitty why don't you lay down then?" I asked.

"Ok." She replied.

A minute or so passed while they got into position.

"Ok, now Kitty, while you do that, if you put your hands on her breasts you can feel them grow." I said.

"Why are you telling her that?" Phoebe asked.

"Well apparently I have to show you two how to love each other." I replied.

"Now before you ask anymore questions." I said as I shoved my cock into her face.

"Of course." Phoebe said as she rolled her eyes before opening her mouth and giving me head.

"You're right I can feel them getting bigger." Kitty said a few minutes later.

"Get your tongue back out nobody said you could stop." Phoebe said.

"Nobody said you could stop." I replied.

-A few minutes later-

"Ok those look about as big as they're going to get." I said.

"And you're as hard as you're going to get." Phoebe replied.

"Well why don't you put yours against hers and see whose bigger?" I asked.

"Ok." She replied as she gently lowered her fun bags against Kitty's.

"Yeah see her's are a bit bigger." Phoebe said.

"Yep." Kitty replied.

"Yeah, but you're still really busty for how tiny you are." I replied.

"So are you ready to take me?" Phoebe asked.

"Are you ready to be sister wives?" Kitty asked.

"I should've saw this coming." Phoebe replied.

She paused for a moment.

"I can't think right now can we talk about it after this?" She asked.

Twenty minutes later after fucking my baby girl against the wall and covering Kitty in my seed, we were all snuggling in bed together.

"Well what will it be Pheebles?" I asked.

"You're never going to stop asking are you?" She asked.

"Nope." I replied.

"It's very clear she loves you a lot, if not as much as I do." Phoebe said.

"Yep." I agreed.

"Mhm." Kitty agreed.

"Well, it's not that she doesn't deserve it, but I don't want to give up the nights we have alone." Phoebe said.

"You don't have to, we can still be alone together some nights." I replied.

"Look, Cj, I'm just not ready for that. Kitty, I'll be nicer to you, I'll let you snuggle with us, sometimes, but I'm just, I'm not ready for that, Cj means a lot to me and I don't want to share him all the time." She said.

"Then you need to break things off with Saphy." I said.

"I know." She replied.

"You were going to bring her up here this morning weren't you? " I asked.

"How'd you know?" Phoebe asked. "It was supposed to be a surprise."

"I thought I heard her voice while I was, um, " I began to say.

"Boinking Kitty?" Phoebe suggested.

"Yeah." I replied.

"And then I boinked you and now we're all in bed together, isn't that great?" I asked as I pulled both of them close.

"Mhm." Kitty agreed.

"For the time being I guess." Phoebe replied.

"When are you going to be ready?" Kitty asked.

"Honestly I don't think I ever will." Phoebe replied.

"Well I had him for twenty years, so, I guess you have a lot of catching up to do." Kitty said.

"Yeah." Phoebe replied. "I'll always be grateful for you and Aranea taking such good care of him."

"Thankyou." Kitty replied.

"No more fighting right?" I asked.

"No more." Phoebe said with a sigh. "Maybe we'll spend the rest of the day celebrating."

"It'll probably be our last day in this universe." I said. "We just have to get more fuel then we're going to the time machine."

"I know." Phoebe replied.

"You know if I let you marry Kitty we can't go around sharing women anymore?" Phoebe said. "It wouldn't be fair to her."

"I'm fully aware of that." I replied. "Is that the real reason you're not ready?"

"No, my reason is I don't want to share you." She replied. "Honest."

"And a while ago it was because you thought she was doomed." I pointed well.

"Well, this is difficult, don't you get that?" Phoebe said. "I used to be the only girl that would give the world for you."

"Yeah well it's not easy for me either." I replied. "I owe both of you so damned much."

"Both of you just need to shut up and love each other." Kitty said. "I'll settle for being your Virara or whatever and digimon, but Phoebe we need to be friends or none of this is ever going to work out. Look at Elishen and Kaytori, they're inseparable."

"Who?" I asked.

"IceLeomon's wives." Kitty replied. "You forgot their names?"

"We don't see them around much, except at breakfast." Phoebe explained.

"You should talk to them sometime they're really cool." Kitty said.

"They're cute, wearing those bikinis all the time." Phoebe said.

"They said they'd wear more if it wasn't so hot in here." Kitty said.

"Yeah, but then it would be freezing for everyone else." I said.

"Have they showed you their room? I bet it's like Chally's just above freezing and only the lightest blankets." Phoebe said.

Since we were in space, where the ambient temperature is – 455, you could get the room temperature down to about 35 degrees very easily just by turning the heating as low as it would go for that room. If you turned the heating off for that room it could of course go lower, but then liquids start freezing, and it's generally not very convenient, or good for structural integrity, and then within a few hours temperatures would start to plummet to unsurvivable levels. It's pretty much a design standard in this universe for a ship's climate control systems to go no lower than a few degrees above freezing.

"Yeah, I don't get how they can even sleep like that." Kitty agreed.

"Hey Cj you want to get Saphy in here for round 2?" Phoebe asked.

"Oh there's going to be a round 2?" I asked.

"Of course, we're celebrating." Kitty said.

"I want to boink Kitty with my new strap-on." Phoebe said.

"Why the hell do you have one of those?" I asked.

"Well what did you think I was doing with Saphy all those nights I let you boink Kitty?" Phoebe asked.

"Other lesbian stuff without toys?" I suggested. "You kinky little gardevoir."

"That's exactly right I haven't even worn it yet." Phoebe said.

"It says on the box the harder it gets rubbed the more it vibrates." She continued. "So it should feel good for both of us.

"Ok." I replied. "Well, I'm sure that will be great fun for you two."

"Mhm, and then I can take it off and you can boink me." Phoebe said.

"And I can put it on and boink you." Kitty said.

"No, that will never happen." Phoebe replied.

"Awe." Kitty said.

"We'll just have to wait until she owes us something." I said.

"Only if the same goes for you." Phoebe said as she rolled her eyes.

"Um, no." I replied.

"Then no, never." She refused.

"But hey, you can boink my digimon while I boink yours." She said.

"We can fuck Kitty at the same time!" I said.

"Huh?" Kitty asked confused.

"Yeah!" Phoebe agreed.

"It won't hurt will it?" She asked nervously.

"No, of course not."

"We could both fuck her at the same time." Kitty said.

"How about you never say that again?" Phoebe said.

"Why?" Kitty asked.

"Just let it go you're not going to talk her into it." I said. "Now why don't you change to your other form and go get Saphy?"

"Right now?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah." I replied.

"Phhhh, ok." Kitty said as she got up, changed to her Persiamon form automatically dressing her, and left the room.

"So you wanna see it?" Phoebe asked as she gestured towards one of the dresser drawers.

"Not really, you know that's not one of the things we have in common." I said.

"Yeah I know, that's allright though I still love you." She said as she kissed me on the cheek.

"And I love you, you crazy girl." I said before kissing her back.

"How many rounds can you go?" Phoebe asked.

"If it's just you three we could probably be here all afternoon, but we'll probably be interrupted at some point." I said.

"You think you could take me again before she gets back?" She asked.

"Probably, not that that's the smartest thing." I said.

"True." She replied.

"Did you sleep with any women while we were apart?" I asked.

"Cj I didn't sleep with anybody. I've told you a hundred times, I was too busy trying to find you to worry about that." She replied.

"You don't have to hide it, you know that?" I asked.

"I'm not hiding anything. You don't have to feel guilty because you did." She said. "We're all back together now, that's all that matters. And then one day we'll get back to our children, and then it will just be us again, no more other women, unless Kitty makes it back with us then we'll have to accommodate her somehow. She loves you and as much as I hate to admit it we can't just leave her. It would destroy me if you left and now I see the same would go for her as well. But I'm not letting you marry her."

"Yeah, allright then." I said. "You want to just snuggle until they come back?"

"Why don't we just start making out and try to get you hard again?" She suggested.

"You sure you can control yourself?" I asked.

"Or I could let you play with my feet." She said.

"Yeah you could do that." I replied.

A few minutes later Kitty returned with Saphy in tow, at that point Phoebe and I were starting to roll around in the bed a little bit, so it was good timing.

"You really couldn't wait?" Kitty asked.

"Well we haven't really started yet." I said.

"I let him lick my feet, that was my mistake." Phoebe said as she got up.

"You know that gets him going." Kitty said.

"Longer than you've known." Phoebe replied. "Why don't you come here I'll show you my new toy? Saphy Cj is all yours."

"So feet get you going huh?" Saphy asked.

"Well they're making a bigger deal out of it than it really is." I replied, feeling somewhat embarrassed as she awkwardly crawled on top of me.

"Whatever, I just want your cock." She said as she looked into my eyes.

"Did you have fun with Pheebles last night?" I asked.

"I always do." She replied with a smile.

"You know you gotta pay for that." I said as I started to undress her.

"Make her pay for what she did to me Cj!" Phoebe said as she played around with Kitty over by the dresser.

"I'm sure I can handle it." She replied.

I started to lap at her tits while Phoebe and Kitty were checking out her new toy.

"I wonder how it works?" Phoebe said as she pulled it out of the package.

"It's all wiggly." Kitty replied.

"Maybe it needs batteries." Phoebe suggested.

"No it works see you have to rub it." She demonstrated.

"Where are the balls?" Kitty asked.

"Um, it doesn't need them." Phoebe replied.

"Let's get you naked again." Phoebe said as she set it down for the moment and went for Kitty's top gently pulling it down and exposing her breasts.

"Perky and smaller than mine just like they should be." She said before gently sucking on her left nipple.

"Jealous?" Kitty replied.

"Maybe a little." Phoebe replied.

While they were doing that, I got Saphy naked then she started sucking me off.

"Now I gotta see if what they said was true." She said as she reoriented herself so she could put her feet around my cock, which actually wasn't very comfortable at first because they were cold.

"You like my toes? Phoebe helped me color them." She said.

"Yeah, she told me." I replied.

"They're so cold, and slick." I said.

"Is that bad?" She asked.

"The cold yes, the slickness not so much." I replied.

"Sorry." She replied as she pulled her feet away.

"Well you don't have to stop it will warm up." I said.

"Ok ok sorry." She said as she went back to what she was doing.

"Stroke a little faster, get some heat built up. There you go." I said as Kitty got in bed beside me.

"Hold on Kitty I have to get in on this." Phoebe said as she crawled in bed and wrapped her feet around my cock as well.

"See he's going to start getting really hard really fast now with both our feet on him." She said.

"Pheebles." I said.

"You better not cum yet." She said as she looked me in the eye.

"Well you're not making it any easier." I replied as Kitty started kissing me on the cheek which prompted me to turn towards her to kiss her back.

"Awe you're going to make out with Kitty while we jerk you off with our pretty little feet?" Phoebe asked.

"Well you're not doing anything with her." I said. "Love you Kitty kat."

"Love you." She replied.

"There he's getting pretty hard now you two should start fucking." Phoebe said as she pulled her feet away, turned towards the edge of the bed and got up.

"Cj get up here, Kitty, Saphy, turn around and bend over." Phoebe said as she tried to figure out how to put on her new toy.

I got out of bed and made my way towards the dresser while Phoebe prepared herself and the digibabes got in position.

"Hey look Cj I'm bigger than you." She said.

"Yeah, but I'm hard, you're still all floppy." I replied.

"So it can still get bigger." Saphy said.

"If it was real you goofball." Phoebe replied.

"Shall we?" She asked seconds later.

"Hell yeah." I replied as we approached the waiting digibabes.

"Kitty are you ready?" Phoebe asked.

"Mhm." She replied.

"Are you sure you're ready." Phoebe continued.

"Pheebles don't do that to her." I said.

"But I've always wanted to." She replied.

"Do what?" Kitty asked.

"This." Phoebe said as she tried to suddenly thrust into her.

"Don't do that." Kitty said with a gasp.

"Cj used to do that to me when we were just starting." Phoebe explained.

"Would you stop watching them and fuck me already?" Saphy asked.

"Ok ok geez." I replied as I got to work.

"Don't go so deep it hurts." Kitty said seconds later.

"Pheebles you better not break my Kitty Kat." I said.

"Eheh, I'm trying not to." She awkwardly replied. "This is weird."

Things went quiet as we concentrated on getting our rhythm down. We fucked them both side my side for a little while, before getting Saphy to lay her head on Kitty's chest so I could make out with my baby girl while we fucked them.

"Now you're getting it." I said as Kitty was moaning like crazy.

"Ehhh, I liked getting boinked by you more." Phoebe said. "Although it's fun doing this to Kitty."

"Yeah just be careful she doesn't scratch you up too much." I said.

"Round 3 we're both boinking her." Phoebe said. "I wanna make her scream."

"Harder Cj harder." Saphy demanded.

"Ok." I replied.

"Give her all you got Cj." Phoebe replied. "Then you can have me and you can get Kitty the next round."

I gave Saphy everything I had for awhile, until Phoebe removed her toy, pulled me away from her and into a kiss.

"Saphy why don't you take my new toy and show Kitty what you can do in the shower?" Phoebe said.

"Ok." Saphy replied.

"Wait? What? In this form?" Kitty asked.

"Oh you'll be fine." Phoebe said.

"Come on." Saphy said as she tried to pull Kitty out of bed, a few seconds later she practically dragged her into the bathroom.

"Ok, why do you want me alone Pheebles?" I asked.

"I just thought it would be nice. A quick reminder of who you're married too." She said as she gently stroked my cock.

"My lusty little baby girl." I said. "How do you wanna do this?"

"I want you to pick me up and hold me like we used to." She said.

"Ok, we can do that for a while go on and lay down." I replied.

She layed down and spread her legs and before long we were going at it again, and I held her like that for a few minutes before laying her down and moving onto a less strenuous position before finishing.

"Why didn't you tie with me?" She asked as I layed next to her while we waited for the digibabes to finish. I could hear Kitty moaning to the point where it was starting to concern me.

" Because they're still in there, and I kind of want to make sure Kitty is allright. What the hell is Saphy doing to her?" I asked.

"She'll be fine." Phoebe replied. "Saphy is just really good with her powers."

"You crazy girl." I replied.

"One more round and that will be the end of the craziness for a while I promise." She said.

"You're going to drain me you know that?" I replied.

"You've gone more than three before." Phoebe said. "And it will just be Kitty and I."

"This was only supposed to be one." I said.

"Well not everything has to go as you planned." She replied.

"Attention everybody we will be docking at, um, I guess it's pronounced Cholcris 2 in about five minutes for a refuel, this will be our last major stop before leaving this universe so if you want to buy anything as a memento now is the time." Zari said over the intercom.

"Weird name for a station." I said.

"Yeah."Phoebe replied.

"What did she say?" Saphy asked as she poked her head out of the bathroom.

"We're going to be docking soon, last stop before we leave this universe for good." Phoebe said.

"You done in their?" I asked.

"Yes we're done." Kitty aid as she pushed passed Saphy and curled up next to me on the bed, soaking wet.

"Hey dry off first geez." I said.

"Yeah." Phoebe added.

"Ok ok sorry." Kitty replied as she got back up.

"And if you're going to digivolve get to the shower first so the water doesn't end up on the floor." I said.

"Right." She said as she returned to the bathroom.

"20 years huh?" Phoebe asked.

"You just have to catch her before she does stuff like that, it's not that big of a deal." I replied.

"You didn't catch her that time." Phoebe said. "You were too busy staring at Saphy's boobs."

"Well Saphy and her boobs weren't there for 20 years." I said as Kitty came back out of the bathroom in her fully dressed Lilithmon form. She set the nazzar nail on the floor and then awkwardly crawled in bed beside me.

"You allright?" I asked.

"I'll be ok." She replied.

"Was it fun?" Phoebe asked.

"She's too rough." Kitty quickly replied.

"Yeah that's what it sounded like." Phoebe said.

"Is she that rough with you?" I asked.

"No." Phoebe replied. "Maybe Kitty is just a wimp."

"No she's not." I said.

"I was a little rough with her I'm sorry. She kept clawing at me." Saphy admitted.

"Yeah she does that." I said.

"It's ok." Phoebe said. "It's hard not to be rough with her. Why don't we get dressed and go check out this station together? We'll postpone round 3 for now And Saphy, you can go back to the pool if you want, I kind of want round 3 to be just Kitty and us." Phoebe said.

"Um ok." Saphy replied as she started to gather up her clothes, things went pretty quiet until she left.

"It's hard to not be rough with her?" I asked. "What's that about?"

"Cj is never rough with me." Kitty said as she kissed me on the cheek.

"You know what it's about." Phoebe said.

"You're still jealous, I see." I replied. "Well relax between the two of you I have more than enough to deal with."

"Pheebles if you let her marry me I promise it will stop there ok?" I asked.

"No, just no, quit asking." Phoebe replied. "In fact you're never allowed to be alone with her again."

"Well then the same for you." I replied.

"I'm fine with that." She agreed.

A few moments of silence later.

"But, " Phoebe began to say.

"No, no buts, what applies to me has to apply to you." I said.

"Would you just listen?" She asked, sounding very annoyed.

"Kitty, if you ever need us, we're here for you." She finished

"Awe thanks." She replied.

"Especially if it's to find a non-Cj boyfriend." Phoebe continued.

"I don't want that I want Cj." Kitty replied.

"Did you ever think what it would be like if you were in her position?" I asked.

"I'd know better than to go out with a married man." Phoebe replied.

"Neither of us even knew you were still alive." I said.

"You kept the ring." She replied.

"To remember you, and Aranea, and if there were other women them too." I replied." And in another few years Kitty would have one as well."

"Then give it those few years ok?" Phoebe asked." Because I can't read her mind and I barely know her and if you marry her than I have to marry her too."

"Oh look another reason." I said.

"Exactly there's a lot of reasons why I don't want to go through with this." Phoebe said. "Give it time, please I am trying to be nicer to her."

"Ok, if you feel like you need to get to know me that's fine, I can wait." Kitty said.

"Thankyou." Phoebe replied. "I just want to say one more thing and that is that you're doing really good so far."

"Really you mean that?" I asked.

"Mhm, now, Cj let's get dressed and check this station out." Phoebe replied as she got out of bed.

"Allright." I agreed.

A few minutes later the three of us left the ship to check out the last space station we would probably ever see, let alone explore.

A mid-sized station, there wasn't a lot to look at. But there were still a lot of shops and bars. The closest station to the Crimson Star's semi-permanent parking spot, the station wasn't as focused on tourism as others. Cholcris 2 was a desert planet, only 20% of the surface being water and what water there is being extremely salty and undrinkable, the only settlements that exist are on the edges of the ocean, making use of large desalination plants. The rest of the planet being an uninhabitable wasteland. Originally it had no sentient life at all, and it's capital was only settled in the last 300 years or so by civil war refugees of the more mundane Kolva-chol, roughly another half tank away. The only things known to be native to the planet are microscopic organisms, a few different kinds of fish that adapted to survive in the salty water, and basic variations of cactuses and palm trees. The station itself was purchased entirely from the U.S.C constructed about a century ago near one of their shipyards, and jumped over to its current location, as there are not enough resources on the planet itself to construct a vessel of this size. The cities on the planet's surface are constructed mostly out of old ship-hulls and imported materials. It's also one of the very few instances of there being more people living on the station than on the planet. Those numbers being roughly 135,000 and 80,000, respectively. In most other cases it's usually several billion to maybe a few million for the absolute largest stations. We went shopping for a bit, but didn't really buy anything of significance, then we got something to eat with the newbies.

"So where have you been all day?" Selenia asked. "You missed breakfast."

"Oh we were just hanging out in our room, watching tv." Phoebe said.

"Have you seen that show where this doctor gets his car trashed every episode?" I asked.

"No but I heard this." Selenia said as she held up her phone and played a recording of Kitty moaning which could clearly be heard in the hallway outside our room.

"Hey that's me!" Kitty said.

"Yeah, delete it." I said.

"Creepy sneak." Phoebe said.

"You're just going to play that in public with no shame?" I asked as I looked around to see if anybody noticed, it didn't seem like there were a lot of people around to do so, in their time it was a pretty late lunch after all.

"We want in." Selenia said. "I owe you anyway for rescuing me."

"Yeah it's been awhile since you've had any fun with us." Illustria said.

"You can bang other guys you know? We're not married, we're just friends." I said.

"Yeah, but we know you're clean." Illustria said.

"And experienced." Selenia added.

"Not today girls. I already have round 3 planned out and it doesn't involve you two." Phoebe replied.

"Round 3?" Selenia asked.

"Yeah that little recording you got is only round 2." Phoebe explained.

"What do you think Chally?" I asked as she hadn't said anything.

"I'm just trying to stay cool." She replied.

"Well it's a lot cooler up here than on the planet." I said.

The surface temp was 95 degrees at the moment, if the temperature readout by the shuttle bay was accurate.

"I know and it's still too warm." She said.

"I don't know how you guys are going to do when we get back to the digital world. I'm kind of worried actually. Where we were when we got here it was like 80 degrees constant." I said.

"They could stay in the shower on the bus." Phoebe said.

"All three of them?" I asked.

"Well they could take turns." Phoebe replied.

"The bus has air conditioning too." I remembered. "So if they stay inside it won't be that bad, unfortunately it won't be as cold as your rooms on the ship though."

"We'll make it." Challana replied.

"Cool, if it gets too hot for you let us know so we can move to a cooler spot, if nothing else I think if I remember correctly there's a mountain range up north, so you'll probably feel at home there at least."

"It might be awhile before we get there though, we still have to deal with Indramon." Phoebe said.

"Oh yeah." I replied. "Eh, but as strong as Kitty is now that shouldn't take long, especially if the U.S.C can help Saphy and Iceleomon digivolve too."

"How long did it take her to get used to her new form?" Phoebe asked.

"A while actually, since we weren't in combat very often, she came across her abilities very gradually." I said.

"But once we go back to having to fight every day it probably won't take the others as long." I said.

"Will we get a digimon too?" Selenia asked.

"I wouldn't count on it, there wasn't enough around when it was just us five. There were supposed to be more, but we never found them. Your best bet is to not count on the other chosen digimon showing up and just find one you like and befriend it. It might not be that good in a fight, but, I mean that's your best shot. Ophanimon didn't really do a good job planning it all out." I said.

"I'm sure it's not her fault, she must've been attacked or something." Kitty said.

"And even after all this you still defend her." I said.

"I always will, just like I'll always defend you." Kitty said.

"Except when I go against her." I pointed out.

"Well, yeah, she's my goddess." Kitty replied.

"Wrong, I'm your goddess now." Phoebe said.

"Pheebles." I scolded her.

"Goddess Phoebe I wish to repay you and god Cj." Selenia said.

"And I want to help." Illustria added.

"Ok, ok, ok, I am not a god, and Pheebles, you know I love you, but if you're a goddess we're all screwed." I said.

"Yeah, in more ways than one." Phoebe replied. "I already told you girls not today, maybe some other time."

"Maybe." I replied. "We kind of need some time to work on our relationship."

"You've had lots of time." Selenia pointed.

"We need more." Phoebe said.

"Mhm." Kitty agreed. "There's no room for you right now."

"Kitty stay out of this." Phoebe said. "Let's change the topic."

"To what?" Selenia asked.

"Well, maybe you'd like to hear about some of the things we'll be fighting." Phoebe suggested.

"There's indramon, he's like a big ponyta monster of some sort." Phoebe said.

"What is a ponyta?" Illustria asked.

"You have to use universal terms Pheebles. She means he's like a four legged saddle beast." I said.

That was the term used to describe anything vaguely horse-like, as most creatures like that usually end up being used as a primitive form of transport. You remember Illustria referring to Bubba as a shellback earlier? That's the term for anything vaguely turtle-like. As in he resembles something that follows a similar evolutionary path to turtles, basically a four legged, reptilian thing with a shell on its back. It's used to describe anything from a common everyday sea turtle, to the maglosian spike-back, a vaguely turtle-like creature that can detonate the top half of its shell and send shrapnel flying everywhere as a defensive measure. After which it not only usually survives but can regrow its shell after several months, with its spine and backbone being encased in a dome with a bright yellow color like an egg yolk and the texture of raw chicken. It constantly emits a slime which eventually hardens into a new shell, which becomes thicker and thicker over time. The slime can be easily collected in this state and when combined with other ingredients can be used to make both glue and explosives and the larger species are farmed for this reason. In a handful of subspecies, even the eggs they lay can do this from a few days old, as they are layed yellow and shell-less, and it takes a few days for them to develop a shell. When they hatch, they explode for a final time, where instead of remaining egg-shaped, the yellow membrane separates from the lower body revealing the newborn's head, legs, and underside. The newborn will then recover from whatever position it has gotten itself in, devour the separated membrane if it can find it, and then walk away completely unscathed and like turtles, will immediately head for water, where it won't emerge until it has managed to regrow a proper shell. Whenever shell-less they seek out water and typically won't come out unless forced to or their shell regrows. Sadly despite the cool parlor trick, it isn't much more intelligent than common turtles and is far too stupid to be a pokémon. Because of the chemical makeup the meat is also toxic, containing large amounts of sulpher and other unfriendly chemicals, hence the yellow color. It's only preyed upon when shell-less and only by birds and fish that have adapted to deal with that level of sulpher, non-native species that attack it usually end up dead, either by the explosion or by sulpher poisoning. The explosion generated by an adult is usually lethal to anything human or smaller in a 3 yard radius, it's enough to cause moderate, but not crippling damage to vehicles (it will scratch the paint and might ruin a tire, sometimes.) and is not strong enough to damage metal or concrete structures. Basically it's a literal mine turtle.

"Yeah, but he stands on two legs." Pheebles said.

"So he's like a two legged saddle beast." Illustria asked. Which usually implied something more raptor-like.

"No four legged." I said." But he stands on two legs, no scales or claws or feathers."

"Oh, I get it." Illustria agreed.

"What?" Phoebe asked, confused.

"Since different planets have wildly varying species and every single culture tends to come up with different names for them, there's a universal list of terms used to refer to groups of animals that look a certain way." I explained. "I had to learn them all to work for the U.S.C, I'm surprised you didn't."

"I never really paid much attention to those things." Phoebe said. "I was busy."

"Anyway, then there's Marionamon, she's like a living puppet lady." Phoebe said.

"That sounds creepy." Illustria replied.

"Did you sleep with her?" Selenia asked.

"Hell no. She's one of the dark kings." I said.

"And she's a puppet that wears this creepy mask all the time." Phoebe replied. "You weirdo."

"It'd be like screwing a tree." I said.

"Oh yeah there's evil trees too." Phoebe said.

"They were just minions though, not dark kings." I added.

"How did that go?" Illustria asked.

"Well they burn really good." I replied.

"Oh geez you remember that?" Phoebe asked.

"How can I not?" I replied. "I kind of miss it to be honest, I haven't seen combat like that in a long time."

"You'll be sick of it in a week." Phoebe said. "If you're not a vegetable by then."

"Oh Pheebles quit over reacting." I said.

"It happens every single time Cj." She said.

"Pheebles I was in the U.S.C for forty years, not once was I critically injured in that entire career." I said.

"But you didn't see much combat." Phoebe replied.

"We fought pirates." Kitty said.

"Not very often." Phoebe said.

"Our ship carried missiles and other munitions, we got hit at least once a week by pirates wishing to take them for their own nefarious purposes." I replied. "True it wasn't like the digital world, where it was just attack after attack after attack after attack, but it wasn't all smooth sailing either. Sometimes we had fighter escorts, sometimes they got shot down, I can still remember their screams. Those were the nights I missed you most. "

"Well it must not have been that bad because I didn't see it until now." Phoebe said.

"Eh true, when all the other stuff is added in it's just another brick in the wall. " I said.

"Anyway how'd it feel to get hit by a chair?" I asked.

"You got shot! I got knocked onto the ground." Phoebe said.

"Yeah and if I didn't shoot that fucker guess who would've gotten hurt?" I asked.

"She got hit with a chair and I didn't get to see it?" Kitty asked.

"Shut up Kitty." Phoebe demanded.

"Really you two? In front of the newbies?" I asked.

"You know I love you both." I said as I put my arms around them and pulled them close together.

"You should marry them both." Illustria said.

"Thankyou." Kitty said.

"I would, but the one I'm married to now doesn't really approve." I said.

"I just need more time Cj." Phoebe replied.

"You know there were also giant ugly bugs." I said.

"Are you going to let us go now?" Phoebe asked.

"No not until you kiss and make up." I said.

"I'm not doing that." Phoebe replied.

"Me neither." Kitty said.

"Well that's fine I like holding you like this you're both so cuddly." I said.

"Maybe we should kiss him instead." Kitty suggested.

"Maybe." Phoebe agreed.

"Can I?" Kitty asked.

"If it gets us out of here." Phoebe replied.

Then they both started kissing me on the cheek repetitively.

"Hey cut that out." I said as it kind of tickled and was awkward in front of everyone.

"Let us go." Phoebe replied.

"Fine you win." I said before kissing them both and letting them go.

"Did that just happen?" Illustria asked.

"Yeah it just happened." Phoebe said.

"You are so weird." Illustria said.

"We know." Phoebe replied.

"It's mostly her." Kitty said.

"Yeah, probably." Phoebe said.

"Nah you've done some pretty weird things." I said.

"Sexy things or like?" Selenia asked.

"No just weird things in general." I replied.

"Like what?" Illustria asked.

"Don't answer that Cj please?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah on second thought Phoebe is hard on you enough isn't she?" I asked.

"Mhmmm." Kitty replied.

"Ok what are some weird things about Phoebe then that we don't already know?" Illustria asked.

"Well there's the kitchen thing." I said.

"We knew that." Selenia replied.

I thought about this for a moment and honestly couldn't come up with anything.

"I don't know, just look at her." I said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Phoebe asked.

"I don't know. You're sitting there smiling at me, while inside your thinking about what you're going to do if I say something completely embarrassing, but the truth is I don't know what to say, your weird side is pretty apparent and out there for everyone to see." I said.

"Bad Cj! That's not how you answer that question." She said as she playfully smacked me on the nose.

"Ow, what was that for?" I asked.

"See wasn't that weird?" She asked before kissing me on the cheek.

"Yeah I guess." Illustria said.

"I can think of some." Kitty said.

"I'm sure you can." I said, immediately knowing where this was headed.

"How about the way you walk around most of the time, but sometimes you decide to float around instead, make up your mind!" Kitty said.

"Sometimes it's fun to float around, sometimes it's not worth the effort, especially when I'm walking with Cj or anybody else and it's just easier to keep pace that way. Anything else you want to say?" Phoebe explained.

"How about the way you suddenly teleport around everywhere?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah that can be annoying sometimes, not really weird though." I said.

"Do you know how many times she's scared me by suddenly appearing behind me for no reason?" Kitty asked.

"It works every time I can't help it." Phoebe said with a laugh.

"When was this?" I asked.

"Basically whenever you're not around so you don't freak out at me for it." Phoebe explained.

"Oh really?" I asked.

"She's a bully." Kitty said.

"Kitty you should have said something sooner." I said.

"I'm sorry Cj it's just too funny." Phoebe apologized.

I didn't even know what to say.

"Kitty it's your job to snitch on her whenever possible." I said.

"No it's not." Phoebe replied.

"What else do you do when I'm not around?" I asked.

"Nothing too interesting." Phoebe replied.

"She probably tries to find new ways to be mean." Kitty said.

"Well you enslaved half the galaxy, so." I said.

"To find you." She replied. "While you were busy banging her, and Aranea."

"Well what was I supposed to do exactly point a gun at the head of the U.S.C and hold it there while they devote all their resources into finding you?" I asked.

"I don't blame you I just can't believe you moved on so quickly." She said.

"As far I knew I was stuck on that world for good. Aside from that I was pretty much forced to marry Aranea, who the hell knows what the king would have done if I said no." I replied.

"I don't blame you Cj, especially now that we're back together anyway." She said.

"Then why did you bring it up?" I asked.

"To make you look bad." Kitty said.

"I did not." Phoebe replied.

"So what are you going to do after lunch?" Selenia asked changing the subject.

"Huh, oh, I don't know, this is the last station we're probably ever going to see, I guess we should spend some time just taking it all in." Phoebe said.

"And then round 3." Phoebe said to me telepathically.

"We'll see." I thought as a reply.

"No that's what is going to happen." She said.

"No that's what you think is going to happen." I replied.

"Yeah." I agreed. "It's going to be back to plain old non-space fairing civilizations after this. I'm pretty sure I forgot what that's even like." I said.

"I never knew what that was like." Illustria replied.

"Me neither." Celenia said.

"So we'll just be stuck on one planet forever?" Illustria asked.

"No we'll be in the digital world, for a while at least." I said. "It's like a different thing all together basically everything is made out of computer code and the laws of physics only apply when they want to. It's inhabited entirely by sapient beings known as digimon which come in every shape and size."

"And once we destroy the rest of the dark kings and deusmon by extension, Ophanimon said she would help us get back home." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, but, who the hell knows at this point?" I asked.

"I don't know." Phoebe replied.

"She said she'll help that means she'll help." Kitty said.

"Yeah, well, you're the only one that still has any faith in her." I said just before Selenia's phone went off.

"Huh?" She went.

"Who's calling you?" Phoebe asked.

"It's just Zari, weird. " Selenia replied before answering. "Hello?"

"Yeah they're here, you want to talk to them?" Selenia asked.

"Ok, I was wondering why you called me." She said before handing her phone over to Phoebe." She wants to talk you to."

"Ok." Phoebe replied.

"What's going on Zari?" Phoebe asked.

"Somebody called the ship and asked for Cj?" Phoebe asked.

"It's probably Kiera she's the only one that would know the ship's number." I said.

"Who?" Illustria asked.

"Cute refuel babe, Saphy got me to bang her awhil- Oh fuck she's pregnant." I said, realizing halfway what this was probably about.

"Shhhhhh! Is she pregnant?" Phoebe asked.

"She didn't say?" Phoebe said.

"She just wants Cj or Saphy to call her back?" Phoebe continued. "Ok well she's probably not then if she's willing to talk to Saphy too, just get Saphy to talk to her."

"Saphy doesn't want to talk to her? Well it's Saphy she usually doesn't talk much to anybody." Phoebe continued.

"No we won't ignore her because if she is pregnant then Cj needs to be responsible." Phoebe said.

"Yeah well he better or he'll pay." Phoebe said while Kitty just glared at me and the newbies giggled.

"Yeah we'll be there in a bit." Phoebe said. "See you then."

She hung up the phone and gave it back to Selenia. She took a deep breath before saying.

"Cj if she is pregnant, you're marrying her." Phoebe said.
"What?" Kitty reacted.

"Uh Pheebles, you never met her, I barely know her." I said.

"Yeah, but if you're that child's father then you have to take care of him, you don't have that excuse that you were forced to like with Kayla."

"You don't think I don't know that?" I replied. "But still that doesn't mean we have to marry her."

"Well whatever the case we need to sort this out, Selly, here's Zari's card, we'll see you three later." Phoebe said.

"What about me?" Kitty asked.

"I don't care do whatever you want." Phoebe replied.

It was an awkward walk back to the ship.

"Pheebles, are you mad?" I asked.

"No that was before I came back. We're fine. I don't know if I can say the same for Kitty though." She replied.

"Eh she'll get over it, she always does." I said.

"So I'm not the only one that treats her bad." Phoebe said.

"It wasn't really cheating, I try to distance myself from her but she keeps getting close again." I said.

"For twenty years? Really?" Phoebe asked.

"I've pointed it out to her hundreds of times, I've begged her to find somebody else, I've done everything short of blatantly assaulting her, she won't leave. I've never really gone out of my way to sleep with other women for pretty much the same reason I haven't married her yet, because of you, but dammit Pheebles she deserves it." I said.

"I know." Phoebe admitted. "But now you need to figure out if Kiera has your baby or not."

Thankfully we found out a few minutes later that that wasn't the case. Kiera simply changed her mind after apparently falling on hard times, possibly due to the impending apocalypse, and wanted to know if she could still join our team. I told her she could, but she'd have to get her butt out here quickly, and she'd have to hire a ship to do so. Either way, even with access to a jump drive it would take her a few hours to get out here so we'd have to wait a little while. The U.S.C was contacted, informed of the change of plans, and then we left the bridge and started to head back to our room.

"Thank god she's not pregnant." I said.

"You got really lucky." Phoebe replied.

"I'm pretty sure I came inside Saphy." I said.

"Ew." Phoebe replied.

"Oh come on now, you did just embarrass me in front of all the newbies." I said.

"Yeah well, that's what you get for sleeping with random women." Phoebe said.

"Well she's coming over now so she's not going to be random for much longer." I replied.

"Hey." I said as we passed Henry and Claire in the hallway.

"How are you doing?" Phoebe added.

"We're just going to get some lunch and check out the station." Henry said.

"Awe, we just got back from lunch." Phoebe replied.

"We should have lunch together sometime." Claire said.
"Well if we ever find another restaurant in the digital world we will." Phoebe replied. "If not we'll have to wait and see whatever comes next. Anyway we're due for a nap, so we'll see you later."

"Yeah, just a nap, sure." Claire said.

"Hey, don't make me tear those walls down I put in you." Phoebe playfully replied.

"Whatever, you two have fun, we'll see you, bye." Henry said.

"Bye." Phoebe replied before we continued on our way.

"What were we talking about before that?" I asked.

"I don't remember." Phoebe replied.

"Why don't we talk about Kitty?" I said.

"Because I don't want to." Phoebe replied.

" You said she deserves marriage." I said.

"I know, but that doesn't mean she gets it." Phoebe said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because you're mine." Phoebe said.

"She could be yours too, you know, she could be ours." I replied.

"You know what Cj? Let's just settle it this way, if she makes it back home with us, I will propose to her myself alongside you if you want, and yes I will tell her this too, but until then, both of you just drop it. And we are still In control of whoever we sleep with, not her, not you, not anyone else, but just you and me like it always should be ." Phoebe said.

"Ok." I replied.

"I'm tired of you both bugging me about this." She continued.

"Right." I said.

"So we're practically married then." I said.

"Don't you dare for one second treat it that way. I don't want you getting too attached to her. You've done well so far. I can't let her hurt you." Phoebe sternly replied.

"You know she's never tried right?" I pointed out.

"I am aware of that Cj, but what if she gets killed or separated from us?" Phoebe continued.

"That has about the same chance of happening to her as to you. Unless you're planning something." I said.

"Cj I would never." Phoebe replied. "You know me."

"Yeah well your obsession with the possibility of her dying is making it seem like you are." I said.

"Cj." She said.

"Pheebles." I replied. "Chill out."

That kept her quiet until we got back to our room where Kitty was waiting.

"Is she pregnant?" She asked as we walked in.

"Yeah, Cj is going to be a father, again." Phoebe said.

"Pheebles." I scolded her as Kitty started to cry.

"It's all my fault. Of course you'd get a stranger pregnant before me." Kitty said.

Phoebe just smiled at me, pleased with her work.

"She's not pregnant, Phoebe is just messing with you. She just changed her mind and wants to join us, she'll be here in a few hours." I explained.

"I thought you said you were going to be nicer to me." Kitty said.

"Yeah, well, you're too much fun to mess with, I'm sorry.' Phoebe replied.

"Maybe she's starting to like you?" I suggested.

"Shutup." Phoebe replied.

"Are you going to tell her what you told me earlier?" I asked.

"Hmm?" She pretended not to know what I was talking about.

"Pheebles." I scolded.

"Ohhh, ok." Phoebe said as she rolled her eyes.

"Or was that just another one of your many many lies?" I asked.

"No it wasn't." She said.

"Yeah you're still our Virara for now." Phoebe said.

"For now?" Kitty asked.

"Look, I decided that if you can make it back home with us, we'll marry you." Phoebe said.

Kitty went and gave her a hug.

"Thankyou sister." She said.

"Mhm, um, you're squishing me." Phoebe replied.

"Sorry." Kitty said as she stopped squeezing her so hard.

"She was squeezing you too hard?" I asked.

"I know it's weird. Can't you feel my psyhorn pressing into you?" Phoebe asked.

"I can, but it doesn't hurt that bad." Kitty replied.

"It should hurt you more than me." Phoebe said.

"It's not that bad." Kitty replied.

"It's probably because she's a digimon." I said. "She can even take a few bullets and walk away sometimes. They still hurt her, but it's more like just a scratch compared to what would be a life threatening injury to either of us."

"Yeah I forgot digimon are weird like that." Phoebe said.

"Yeah and it makes no sense because she's just as soft as you and I." I said.

"Mhm." Phoebe agreed.

"And Kitty, we're still going to have threesomes without you sometimes." Phoebe said.

"Ok. Just don't get anybody pregnant." She replied.

"Well duh." Phoebe replied.

"Like this evening we're going to have some fun with Kiera." Phoebe said.

"We are?" I asked.

"Yes, you got to play with her it's only fair I get to as well. It would really help make it up to me." Phoebe said.

"Well maybe Kitty can come too." I said.

"Or maybe I'll just be alone with her and I'll let you two have a little honeymoon tonight?" Phoebe suggested.

"But we're not married yet." I pointed out.

"True." Phoebe said.

"And maybe we should have the actual wedding before we get back, otherwise it's going to be really awkward to explain to our parents. And I don't know about your world's laws on such a thing, but I'm pretty sure it's not normal in mine." I said.

"Well, it would be more of a symbolic marriage than anything I guess, you'd still officially be married to me." Phoebe said. "Or more like she's marrying both of us, because we're technically united as one." She said as she lovingly embraced my arm.

"Well since we're both marrying her we should both take part in the honeymoon." I said.

"Are you thinking it's time for round 3?" Phoebe asked.

"Does this answer your question?" I asked as I lifted up her dress and stuck my hand down her panties.

"Ugh, Cj!" Phoebe squeaked.

"Oooooooh I love you." She said seconds later as she started to get into it.

"Kitty I'll massage her tits you lick her pussy." I said.

"Um, ok I guess we're doing this then." She replied as she came forward and got down on her knees.

"Mhm." I said.

"I'm starting to hope she makes it back with us now." Phoebe said as Kitty went to work.

"Oh really?" I asked as I passionately fondled her breasts which were quickly starting to expand.

"Mhhhhm." She replied as her knees grew week and she started to lean backwards as she tried to push her crotch into Kitty to the point where I had to stop massaging her so I could keep her from falling.

"Hold still." Kitty said.

"I can't." Phoebe replied.

"Guess I'm just supposed to hold you while she eats you out?" I asked.

"Well I didn't mean for this to happen it just kind of happened." Phoebe replied.

"Ok stop for a bit let's get you on the bed you silly girl." I said as I helped her back up.

"Actually I'm good let's get you naked now." Phoebe replied as she kicked off her shoes and panties, span around, and immediately started to unzip my pants, kissing me deeply as she did so. She pulled my cock out and her and Kitty proceeded to suck on it for awhile, before encouraged me to make out with Kitty, during which I got her undressed and onto the bed with me.

"Go ahead and let her ride for awhile, while I get this strapped on." Phoebe said.

"You ever had a big weiner in your big fluffy butt before Kitty Kat? Phoebe asked shortly before I put my cock in her cunt.

"Heh? A few times." She said.

"Was it you Cj?" I asked.

"No." Kitty said. "We've never done it that way."

"Really? He keeps asking to do it to me that way." Phoebe said.

"Because you won't let me and it makes me curious." I said.

"Awe, I was hoping I could be the first." Phoebe said.

"It's the first time I've had two weiners in me at once." Kitty replied.

"I guess that will have to do." Phoebe said.

"You sure you're ready for this?" I asked.

"If it makes her happy." Kitty said.

"Get moving I want to watch you fuck her as I get this on." Phoebe said.

"Ok ok." I said.

And that was how round 3 began, where Phoebe used her toy so we could both nail Kitty at the same time, the look in Kitty's eyes when she went in was priceless, and she started squeeling so loud I was afraid the whole floor would hear.

"Pheebles not so rough you break my kitty you're next." I said.

"Good luck with that." She replied.

"Pheebles, your psyhorn is retracted, you're almost powerless." I said.

"Almost." She replied.

"Need I tell you that Kitty is just as strong as ever?" I asked.

"Ok fine I'll slow down a bit, but once I take this off you have to work that much harder." She said.

"Thankyou this is so much better." Kitty whimpered out.

"Oh Kitty kat you know I love you baby." I said as I pulled her into a kiss.

"As soon as I saw this thing I knew I wanted to put it in your big fluffy butt." Phoebe said.

"While my husband takes your pussy with his big fat cock." She continued.

"You keep talking like that you won't get a turn." I said.

"Just keep humping your girlfriend with me." Phoebe said.

"She's so wet she's going to make me cum." I said.

"Well then you need to slow down." Phoebe said. As Kitty wordlessly moaned in pleasure.

"This is too good." Kitty said.

"Yeah I can see that." I replied.

"You like being sandwiched baby?" I asked.

"Uhuh." Kitty said in pleasure before she started to make out with me.

Anyway after doing that for a while, Phoebe stripped naked again so I could finish with her. After it ended I was once again lying in bed between the two of them.

"So what was it like to get humped by both of us at once?" Phoebe asked.

"You should try it. I'm still sore." Kitty said.

"Yeah we got you pretty good didn't we?" I asked.

"Yeah, no." Phoebe replied. "Only Cj can hump me."

"What's that about?" I asked.

"Well, you're the only one for me, and I'm never letting her do that to me. I'm never going to let you do that to me even, why would I let her?" Phoebe replied.

"I won't even let Saphy, but she does that thing with the water, it's amazing." She continued.

"If you say so." I replied. "Wait saphy can play with your?"

"Cj, the reason I don't let you is because if you tried you'd seriously hurt me, dumber gardevoirs have died like that before." Phoebe said.

"Oh, ok." I replied.

"And yes Saphy is gentle enough, but she's still not as good as you." She said.

"You know you don't have to lie about that?" I asked.

"I'm not lying, I love you more than anything, so, when we have sex, it really feels the best." She explained.

"Don't you feel the same?" She asked.

"Yeah." I said.

"And I still can't tie with anyone but you." She said.

"How would you? Don't you need sperm inside you for that to."

"Yeah, but I can still tell beforehand whether it would work or not, in theory. I feel a very specific tingle."

"How would you know that unless you tied with somebody else?" I asked.

"Because I just know, my momma told me a long time ago and that's all I'm going to say about that." She insisted.

"What kind of secrets are you keeping Pheebles?"

"None." She said. "I can show you everything that happened over those 100 years Cj, right now if you want."

"Don't keep secrets from us." Kitty said.

"You stay out of this." Phoebe replied.

"But she's right though." I said. " No lies, no secrets Pheebles."

"Would you just trust me I don't have any secrets!" She insisted.

"Ok, but you know you have nothing to lose by telling me." I said.

"I know, but I don't have any." Phoebe replied.

"What do you think Kitty Kat?" I asked.

"I believe her." Kitty replied.

"You believe everybody." Phoebe said with a giggle.

"So you are keeping secrets." I said.

"No, I just, ok you know what? Fine? I slept with over a thousand guys, big wieners, little wieners, multiple wieners, fat wieners, squishy wieners, big red wieners, curly wieners, lumpy wieners, shriveled old geezer wieners. Happy now?"

"I can't tell if you're being serious or."

"No I'm not being serious you bonehead I love you. I've told you a thousand times, while we were apart I was too busy trying to find you to worry about any of this stuff. So please just trust me or so help me Arceus we are going to spend the rest of the day going over every single frame and action I remember committing since we were separated, and then we're both going to wake up with big fat headaches, but if that's what it takes to get you to shut up about this then Arceus help me because it's completely worth it. So what do you say are you going to trust me or do I have to prove my loyalty the hard way?" Phoebe asked.

"What do you think Kitty?" I asked.

"She called you a bonehead." Kitty replied.

"That she did." I said.

"That wasn't very nice." Kitty pointed out.

"No it wasn't, but she's getting pretty frustrated."

"Ugh!" Phoebe exclaimed in disgust.

She held put her hand up to knock me out, but I kind of saw it coming so I was able to grab it before she could do so.

"Let me show you Cj." She said as she tried to get her arm free.

"Ease up, I believe you." I replied.

"You do?" Kitty asked, surprised.

"Really?" She asked.

"Yeah, if you were hiding something you wouldn't have made up that bullshit about all the different weiners." I said.

"What the heck has a curly wiener?" Kitty asked.

"I don't know I'm just making stuff up." Phoebe replied.

"Maybe this isn't such a good idea." Phoebe said with a sigh. "Seeing as both of you are working together to drive me crazy."

"Yeah well, sometimes both of you work together to drive me crazy." I said.

"Yeah I know, it's fun." Phoebe replied.

"And you both still manage to drive me crazy even when you don't work together." I said.

"Yeah well, we might start working together more often so you better be prepared." Phoebe said.

"Mhmmmm." Kitty agreed.

"Well guess I'm fucked then." I said.

"We're all fucked." Kitty said.

"Yeah, after 3 rounds, we're all pretty thoroughly fucked and fucked out." I said.

"She better not talk like that around the kids if she makes it back with us." Phoebe said.

"Oh she rarely says it." I replied." Besides she's been around children before, it's not like Paloran is a childless planet."

"I've dated guys with kids." Kitty pointed out.

"Yeah, see, she'll be fine." I said.

"Well if I remember correctly, according to one of your memories, she got dumped by said guy after the kid ended up in the hospital." Phoebe said.

"He stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, how was I supposed to know the carpet would catch on fire and he would receive burns over 60% of his body?" Kitty asked.

He survived, by the way, somehow. This resulted in another court case, but ultimately no proof of negligence could be found.

"And then there was that other guy's kid that got hit by a hover car, paralyzed, burned over 50%." Phoebe said.

"I thought they would stop." Kitty defended.

To be fair, the driver got nailed to the wall for that, for violating various laws including excessive speeding. So it wasn't entirely her fault.

"Yeah, she probably shouldn't babysit." I replied.

"Oh come on really?" Kitty asked.

"You almost ended up in jail you realize that right?" I said.

"Well maybe Nina could assist her." Phoebe suggested.

"Maybe, if she's willing to help." I replied.

"And I'd be babysitting for what exactly?" Kitty asked.

"So we can go out." Phoebe said.

"You know maybe we shouldn't do this. I know I've wanted it for a long time, but, I want to think about this some more." Kitty said as she got up and quickly digivolved to redress herself.

"Kitty Kat, where you going?" I asked.

"Well maybe we could alternate." Phoebe said.

"That's not the problem." Kitty said before heading out the door.

"What was that about?" Phoebe asked after she left.

"I have no idea." I replied.

"Well if she doesn't want to go through with it I guess it's just you and me again." Phoebe said as she wrapped her arms around me.

"Pheebles, you know we have to find out why." I said.

"I know." She said with a sigh.

"And by we I mean you." I said a few moments later.

"Why me?" Phoebe asked.

"Because, maybe if you help her out it will help you bond with her." I said.

"Yeah no." Phoebe replied. "As far as I'm concerned you're mine again."

I let out a disappointed groan as she pulled herself closer to me.

"Oh come on I'm not that bad." She said.

"Kitty is sad, I'm sad, you're ecstatic, it's driving me mad." I said.

"Ok fine, I'll go talk to her, if I can find her." Phoebe said as she got up and threw her dress back on.

"She's either in her room or in her garden, most likely anyway." I said.

"Attention everyone, I am waiting for Selenia and Illustria to return, as well as another late recruit, and then we will get going. We're going to be here for another few hours at least so feel free to go out and explore the station if you haven't yet done so." Zari said over the intercom.

"They're still out and about?" I asked.

"They must be shopping or something." Phoebe said as she finished dressing herself.

"Maybe." I replied.

"Are you just going to lay there naked until I get back?" Phoebe asked.

"Um, I think I'll just take a walk around the ship." I said, knowing I was soon going to have to say goodbye to the most expensive thing I've ever owned in all 100 plus years of my existence. The comfy beds, the pool, the spacious showers, I could take the pictures I had of Aranea and our daughter, but everything else would be left to float in space for what could be eons. When not moving the ship would have power for about 200 years, but after that it would go dark. I started taking pictures with this ancient cellphone I had for the past twenty years, but never had much use for since my daughter passed. I basically just used it as a camera. I stopped paying the phone bill a long time ago. The built in camera had 16K resolution, which was pointless as typical human eyes can't see more than 8k, but there are a handful of sapient races with eyes that can see enough of a difference to make it a standard feature. The memory was an astonishing 10Tb of internal storage, which could hold a lot of pictures, and a lot of games and other applications if I wanted to waste time with such things, not that internet speed was particularly reliable in the middle of outer space, you had to be close enough to Paloran or another planet or station with a compatible internet protocol, and unlike what most people are used too, there are many different internets, as one usually can't cover vast interstellar distances very well, and each of these internets has their own set of websites, there are a handful that are copy pasted, but aside from the basic design and company logos most of the content is localized, to better explain this, lets take you tube as an example, youtube doesn't exist out here there's this site called Vwatch instead, that's basically the same idea, but, we'll pretend it does, so basically you take earth's youtube, and you would have all the videos that are on there now, along with mars and venus and other nearby planets if they were inhabited, and then once you get outside the solar system, a second solar system would have it's own youtube, where the website would basically look the same, but most of the available videos and channels would be different aside from some highly viral ones that have been basically hand-picked and brought over from another nearby system. So basically the internet in space is a cluster fuck where you never know what you're going to get or find. Data can't be efficiently transmitted through space and it can't jump across vast distances like ships can. Unless it's physically copied, put on a ship, and transported over. The only plausible way to solve this was to use high powered lasers in a matter similar to fiber optics, but having high powered laser beams flying through space in seemingly random directions isn't exactly very safe, and it's too easy for pirates to construct something like a giant mirror and then use it as a weapon of mass destruction or simply hold the internet for ransom. So plans to construct a network like that never really got off the ground. Radio signals were also an early alternative, but they are extremely slow and the longer the distance the harder it is to predict where they will end up exactly. To this day the fastest way to transfer data over long distances was to put it on a physical medium, put that medium on a ship and then jump somewhere and re upload it, there's people that have entire careers just doing that, it's known as cyber trucking, and is most commonly done with large amounts of financial data for gigantic, intergalactic level companies.

"Well why don't you follow me until we find her and then stay by the room for a bit?" Phoebe asked. "Because I don't know what she's thinking and she might try to hurt me."

"Awwwwe, are you scared Pheebles?" I asked.

"No, I just don't want to have to hurt her even more." Phoebe said. "That's another reason I'd rather it just be us. I can't read her mind like I can yours, I don't know what her intentions are, and you know, your safety and our kid's safety is a lot more important than your happiness at the current moment, because I know you'll get over her in time. You'll always have me after all."

"Eh, we'll see Pheebles, let's find out why she walked away first." I said.

"Cj, I'm serious, I don't trust her." She said.

"Do you trust me?" I asked as I got up and started to get dressed.

"More than anyone." She replied.

"Then believe me when I tell you she's a good girl." I said. "She's a little more reckless and a little more violently inclined than you, but she's just as loyal."

We got dressed and left the room to go looking for Kitty, she went into her garden and locked everyone else out. However I knew the code, as she apparently forgot I was the one that put it in for her in the first place, so it didn't work like she had hoped.

"Kitty we need to talk." Phoebe said.

"No, you were right things should just stay the way they are." She said. "I know I'll screw up again if I get too close, I know somewhere along the line I'll do something to make him hate me."

"That's what you're worried about?" Phoebe asked in disbelief.

"I can't go through it again Phoebe, especially not with him." Kitty said.

"So let me get this straight, you don't want to get married anymore, you've just decided you're happy being our Virara?" Phoebe asked.

"I'll settle for friend with benefits." Kitty said.

"Arceus no, you deserve more than that." Phoebe said. "And Cj thinks you deserve more than just being our virara, but I also think if he really wanted to marry you he would have already. He's probably told you several times he's always going to love me more, but he loves you too, and he's not going to stop loving us just as much as we can't stop loving him."

"Mhm." Kitty said.

"You looked after him for twenty years Kitty, you saw him through pain I can't possibly imagine. I'm jealous of you, but at the same time I owe you so much." Phoebe continued.

"So here is what's going to happen, as long as you're with us, I'll let you have him one night a month, at least, if not more, I'm going to stop seeing Saphy, I'm still going to let you call him your husband, but you are not his wife, you're our virara, and if you ever decide you want to marry a man who can't stop feeling guilty because he knows he can never give you the love and attention you truly deserve, we'll make arrangements. If you want to look into finding somebody that can, I am more than willing to help you. But if we're both going to love him we're going to love him together, and we're going to drive him absolutely insane, and if you mess up I will always have your back because we're still sisters. "

"But, if I'm not." Kitty objected.

"I don't care if you're married to him or not we're sisters now and forever." Phoebe said before embracing her.

"Thankyou." Kitty said with tears in her eyes.

"Cj do you need some kind of ring or ceremony for me to make her my sister?" Phoebe asked.

"None that I'm aware of." I said as I stepped out from behind the door.

"He was there the whole time?" Kitty asked.

"I wasn't sure how this was going to go so in case things went bad I wanted him here to keep it from getting out of control." Phoebe explained.

"Soooo." I said.

"The marriage is off again, she doesn't feel ready." Phoebe said.

"Ok and this is the final decision, we're not going to flip flop tomorrow or ten minutes from now?" I asked.

"I don't know, it's if she ever feels ready." Phoebe said.

"Are you sure about this Kitty Kat?" I asked. "She doesn't have any dirt on you does she?"

"Cj how dare you?" Phoebe asked.

"She doesn't I just, when we were talking earlier it made me realize when I'm about to get close to somebody I usually do something stupid and it makes them hate me."

"Well that thing with Kayla kind of already, like, I don't hate you for it, but it's hard for me to imagine you doing any worse than that." I said. "We've been together for what twenty years? That's longer than any of your other relationships."

"What if she accidently hurts our kids?" Phoebe pointed out.

"Then it's an accident, you don't hate people for an accident." I said. "Besides we already agreed that leaving her alone with our kids was a bad idea anyway."

"I just don't want to take the chance, you know my history, you know how many times I've been dumped, cheated on, and the like. This means a lot to me and you know I don't want to ruin it." Kitty explained.

"All too well." I replied. "Well allright if that's really how you feel."

"I'll always love you though." She said.

"I don't think I could ever stop loving either one of you." I replied.

"Well, I'm going to let you spend the night with her again." Phoebe said. "Once this Kiera lady gets here I'm going to give her a tour."

"If you say so Pheebles." I said.

"And that will be it for awhile, you can join us in the shower tomorrow if you want, but after that he's mine." Phoebe said.

"Thankyou sister." Kitty replied.

Kiera showed up and boarded a few hours later, Phoebe gave her a tour and introduced her to everyone then showed her to her room, after which she refuses to tell me anything more.

The ship left the station and jumped back over to the time machine. We decided to spend one more night onboard before going through, a night I spent alone with Kitty while Phoebe was doing god knows what with Kiera.

"So you still don't want to marry me?" I asked as we snuggled together after making love.

"You had twenty years to make up your mind about such things." Kitty said. "So no, Phoebe said if you wanted to you would have by now."

"Besides, I think Phoebe is a better wife than I could ever be." She said.

"Oh don't be like that." I said. " She let me spend the night with you so she could screw Kiera on her own."

"Well you screwed her first." She pointed out.

"Yeah, yeah I did." I said.

"So have you ever thought about maybe finding somebody else?" I asked.

"Never." She replied. "We've had this conversation before."

"Well it's like you don't want to marry me, even though you have for the longest time until today, but you don't want to find somebody else either?" I asked.

"Well I realized I'm happy just being your digimon and virara so all we have to do is have sex while Phoebe has to do all the hard work." She said with a grin.

"Yeah I guess that is half of something." I said.

"No cooking, no housework, no childcare, just sex with my loving husband that I share with my new sister." She said.

"I'm still your husband even though we're not married?" I asked.

"Well who else would you be?" She asked. "And I'll shower you with love. Just like I have been these last twenty years or so."

"Well you better pickup after yourself at least." I said.

"Haven't I always?" She asked.

"For the most part." I said as I looked towards the floor, which had 20-30 different rings scattered around it, that I could see.

."We'll just have to see what Phoebe thinks about that." I said. "If you think you're just going to mooch off of us don't get your hopes up."

"And maybe you could watch our kids sometimes so Phoebe and I can go out. I mean I guess if Phoebe thinks of you as a sister you really are their aunt then." I said.

"Cj, you know that won't end well." Kitty said.

Well Nina is old enough she pretty much takes care of herself, and she can help you take care of Charley too. And besides, alongside Pheebles you're going to need to learn to get along with them too. " I said.

"Maybe it's best they don't know me." Kitty said.

"If you're going to live in the same house as us that's not possible." I replied.

"It'd be best for them though." Kitty said.

"Oh don't be silly, remember my daughter, the one I had with Aranea?"

"Schlekmistjeklenala?" Kitty asked.

"Uh, yeah something like that, I always just called her kid." I replied, completely unsure whether that was her name or just what Kitty remembered of it.

I think Aranea was the only one that ever used her actual name on a regular basis. I think she told me once that it meant "A new beginning." In some language that was ancient and nearly dead on her home world. I misprounounced it constantly much to her annoyance so I just started calling her kid or found other ways to avoid having to say it. Other people either did the same or called her Misty, which she herself was ok with, but Aranea disapproved. So I always just called her kid.

"Anyway when she was like 8 or around that age she completely adored you, wanted to see you every day even though that wasn't always practical. She always saw you as a sort of aunt even before we started saying it. So you're not that bad with kids? Allright, you just gotta learn to pay attention."

"Ohhhhhh well, goodnight Cj, maybe we can have more fun tomorrow before the shower?" She said as she curled up beside me and kissed me on the cheek.

"Maybe, goodnight Kitty Kat. Remember what I said." I replied.