Chapter 78: The Power and the Glory.
Ethan felt Glory press into him with an eagerness and a passion that he hadn't seen in a very long time, his eyes were burning so brightly they looked like two hot coals in her head as they reflected the light from the fire a moment before she pressed into him with a hunger filled kiss.
Her lips were incredibly soft and warm as they slid over his and parted to allow his tongue to enter her mouth, to his surprise she actually tasted both fresher and cleaner than any woman he had been with not that he had been with all that many as time off wasn't exactly something Enclave soldiers get a hell of a lot of.
What shocked him more was the fact that he couldn't tell the difference between her and a real homegrown human woman, but then even as he had that thought he felt a slight pang of guilt in his heart.
Was it fair to think of her as not real?
For all intense and purpose, she was as real as he, a real body, a real heart, a real brain, not to mention thoughts and opinions all her own, as bitter a pill as it was to swallow she was essential as human as him in all the ways that it really counted and he figured that that was the point.
That's when it hit him, he should treat her as a real woman, no different from any other, she wasn't asking for his dedication or his hand in marriage, she was simply asking him for a night to feel alive, so that's what he was going to give her, synth or human he was going to make her feel alive.
Ethan pushed her backwards putting his strength into it as she was a rather strong woman in her own right given how heavily muscled she was, but she didn't fight or resist well not meaningfully anyway, she did put up a little bit of playful resistance in making him work for it, but once he got her onto her back she didn't try to push back she simply lay there and looked up at him.
"That's it, tiger! Show me what you got!" she growled and Ethan smiled before he lunged forwards and snatched a kiss on her incredibly soft and plump lips before darting from them to her neck where he planted a sucking bite that raked her skin and made her back arch before a gasp escaped her lips.
"Oh thank god," she gasped as his hand came up over her wide flared hip and across her chiselled stomach to grasp at her large breast.
His flesh folded in between his fingers like a ball of soft dough and he began to knead it letting it spill between his fingers, far below it he could feel her heartbeat accelerating like someone just stepped on the gas.
Ethan couldn't deny that whoever had designed Glory really had a great eye for detail and he couldn't help but wonder to himself if she looked like this when she designed or if all this sculpted muscle and solid feminine flesh was a result of her own hard work?
But whatever the case might be as his eyes roamed down her long naked body as he began to kiss down over her collar bone he silently thanked whoever it was who was responsible for this exquisite ebony goddess laid beneath him.
He planted slow sucking kisses down over her chest until he reached her right breast and right before his eyes he could see her nibble swelling with hot blood enough for it to cast its own shadow over her breast in the firelight, I made him think of a little black lighthouse atop of a large hill, but that didn't stop him from swallowing it.
Glory gasped and arched her back lifting him and herself up which to his eye cast a brilliant golden shadow right down her stomach to her pelvis, it made him think of an aerial photograph he'd seen in a book of fields in Virginia before the war, all these little rectangular and slightly rounded fields packed tightly together with clear lines dividing them and that's exactly what her abs looked like, he also saw the beautiful channels dividing them and he was so going to run his tongue down them.
The soft squeak of pleasure that escaped Glory's lips as he swirled and nibbled on her incredibly sensitive nipple sent a shiver of pleasure down his own spine, her reactions were no different to a normal human.
He manoeuvred himself around so now so that he was kneeling above her and he leaned down onto her facing towards her legs and lower half, just as he'd been determined to do he began to plant kisses on every single one of those chiselled and solid abdominal muscles while also running his tongue between them and to his surprised he relished the slightly salty taste of her sweat as it sparkled on his tongue.
But it seemed that Glory was not content to simply lay there and to be his plaything, she wanted to play as well, as was evident by the kisses suddenly planted on both of his thighs as she pushed herself upwards causing her abdominals to flex and bunch as he kissed down them lower and lower.
She also began to rake her nails over the backs of his thighs and hips leaving little stinging trails in their wake but they were not painful, far from it they actually seemed to enhance the sensations of the kisses being planted on the fronts and inners.
Suddenly Ethan realised he was in a race, she was matching him heading towards a target of her own as he had been heading towards one of his, oh he was not going to lose a race of pleasing to a sneaky buy sexy synth girl, so he quickened his pace until with a show of strength he leaned down gripped her raised knees and forced them apart.
The sight that greeted him made his heart sing and his loins burn just like it would have if it had been on any human woman, the sight of her splayed womanhood bathed in the rich golden light from the fire glistening and glinting at him made him think of a knight on a quest glimpsing the treasure he sought for the first time, it filled his heart with both joy and want.
But he could also feel Glory nearing her own treasure as her kisses got ever closer to his manhood which was swinging free between his legs but was so filled with blood that it was dancing away from her as if trying to keep itself out of her reach and teasing her at the same time, oh he was going to win this race and in this race, the goal was not to come first, the place you wanted was second.
Quick as a flash he stuck like a cobra, he darted down and with his hands he spayed her incredibly soft ebony outer lips to reveal the hot pink and glistening inner ones, the scent of her arousal filled his lungs as he pushed both his nose and his own lips in-between those outer ones of hers and the squeal that came from the other end of her indicated to him that he'd beat her to the punch, now it was time to win this.
Ethan dragged his tongue over her burning flesh making her gasp and squirm, "Ohhh fuck! Holy shit you are good at that white boy! Where the hell did you learn that!?" Glory growled as Ethan began to swirl his tongue around amongst her flesh.
"A good soldier never spills his secrets not even under torture," he said before nipping her incredibly swollen clit between his teeth making a beautiful high-pitched squeal of delight and surprise escape her.
"Oh, now that's just playing dirty! Well if it's going to be like that then take this!" Glory growled and before he could guess at what she was up to his entire manhood sank into something incredibly wet and warm.
As his brain struggled to catch up with what it was feeling he felt something soft but also strong fighting its way under his protective outer skin in an effort to reveal the sensitive treasure hidden beneath it.
Ethan moaned right into Glory's womanhood as he felt her drag her tongue around over his super sensitive glans as she forced his skin back with her teeth and exposed it to her mouth.
But he was not going to be beaten, he had never once lost a fight and he was not going to start now, so he double down and sucked her clit into his mouth, two could play at that game indeed.
Glory howled in pleasure as she got overwhelmed by the mixture of teeth, tongue and lips that he assaulted her with as he bombarded her with a mass of different sensations all at the same time but it seemed that she too was not one to go down easy because she also redoubled her efforts.
Her tongue swirled and danced as her teeth raked all while her whole mouth sucked upon him, this whole sensual barrage made Ethan grit his teeth to stop himself from howling in pleasure like a wolf spotting a full moon.
But after a long and torturous fight for both of them Ethan's sheer determination won out, well that and he'd been saving his party piece and secret weapon for when he was fully backed into a corner, so as he felt his own orgasm fast approaching he deployed it and it clinched his decisive victory.
Lifting himself onto one hand and using it to support his entire upper half he manoeuvred his other hand in-between her legs and before her pleasure-addled brain could comprehend just what it was her sneaky soldier boy was up to Ethan had plunged his two fingers into her body right up to his last knuckles.
His cock pooped out of Glory's mouth as he let out a stuttered moan that was half squeal and half moan as the surprise hit her like a slap made of electric feathers, but before she even had a chance to recompose herself and launch a counter attack Ethan like any good special forces soldier pressed his advantage and hit his opponent's weakest spot, so he simply sought and acquired his target before launching an all-out assault right upon her G-spot.
To be fair he wasn't even sure that as a synth that she was going to have one, but thankfully that attention to detail had come right back into play as it was exactly where it was supposed to be about one inch up along the inner wall towards her belly, a little rough and incredibly sensitive spot filled with densely packed nerves that acted like a little hidden clit inside her, so with both of these spots under assault at the same time Glory folded and her defences crumbled like dust in the wind.
She arched her back and howled through a mouth filled with his throbbing cock as her orgasm tore through her entire body like a nuke going off in her belly, she arched so much she pretty much swallowed his entire cock right to the hilt much to Ethan's surprise because this caused his own brain to fire off like it had been hit by a tesla rifle and it wasn't only his brain that fired off.
A deep and throaty growl escaped his lips as he pumped his seed right down her throat which he could actually feel contracting and tightening around him as he did, she never even tried to pull it out but instead simply swallowed.
When she did finally release him she grabbed him and spun him around so he was facing her before jamming her mouth to his, at this point neither of them cared a single shit where their mouths had just been or what they had been doing all that mattered was the wild burning passion that both of them felt.
"After a performance like that you had better fuck me hard and good white boy or I am going to spin you over and fuck you into the goddamn ground!" Glory snarled biting his jaw and earlobe.
"Trust me that was the plan," Ethan growled back at her responding in kind on both her ear and her neck which made her arch her back lifting him up as he moved himself over her so that he now knelt between her powerful thighs.
Much to his surprise and delight his throbbing erection had not gone away or even deflated slightly after she attacked it, it was still hanging proudly under him ready to be called back into battle once more against this female and Ethan wasted zero time making the battle call.
Lowering himself down Ethan reached under himself and gripped his throbbing cock before Glory could get ahold of it and he guided it towards her slick and soaking entrance where it clicked into place like a jigsaw piece sat ready to be pressed in to complete the picture which with a single powerful thrust he did just that.
Glory growled hungrily which turned into a gasp and then into a moan as Ethan's cock tunnelled its way deep into her flesh parting it and making it mould to him, "Oh fuck yes! That's what I fucking need! Give it to me white boy fucking give it to me!" she snarled and Ethan didn't even have to think he simply did.
It was like his whole body went completely into autopilot, he began to thrust so powerfully and deeply into her that he could feel his tip smashing into the neck of her womb like it was a fleshy battering ram trying to force its way through the braced gates of a mighty castle.
As it turned out this is exactly what Glory had been wanting as well because she wrapped her long powerful legs around his hips and gripped him, he could feel her internal muscles gripping his like a fleshy vice that sucked on him like it was trying to pull him back in every time he pulled back to ready another strike.
That felt kinda odd to him because it kinda skewed his castle gates analogy that his mind was projecting as he'd never seen a castle smash its own gates into a battering ram before but that's exactly what she was doing right now because as he drove inwards she used those supremely powerful legs of hers to tighten her grip and to up the force of his strike by smashing herself into him with equal vigour.
Glory reached up and grabbed hold of his face which thanks to the fact he was using his hands to hold himself up he was unable to fend off, but then he really didn't want to either because the kiss she locked them both into simply added to the flames of passion that was burning through both of them like a living inferno.
Despite having orgasmed once what felt like only moments ago the pair of them because acutely aware of a second building within the other, for Ethan he could feel her muscles tightening and the force of her grip strengthening and for her she could feel the intensity and tempo of his strikes increasing until the only noise was a fast pace wet slapping noise that drowned out all the beautiful moans and squeals that escaped them both before together they came to a perfect stale mate, a mutual orgasm.
As Ethan's seed fired into Glory's womb like mini little egg-seeking missiles he couldn't help but hear her voice in the back of his mind telling him of how the institute had robbed her of her chance to ever be a mother and of him trying to comfort her by talking about how there might be a key to unlocking that part of herself out there somewhere, now he wondered if that key might be one of the little soldiers that were currently breaching those castle gates and storming her innermost sanctum.
That's when a thought hit him, what would happen if that truly was the case?
A life born half human and half synth, what would it look like, would it be as undetectable and as normal looking as either one of them was?
It was a hard question to answer but at the same time it actually gave him an odd sense of joy imagining such a thing happening, he actually hadn't been lying when he'd said that Glory would make a good mother as a synth or not she truly was a good person, a good and beautiful woman who in his humble opinion deserved the chance to experience what was supposed to be one of the simplest but also most rewarding pleasures of being alive, seeing a new life that you made come into this world open its eyes and see for the first time.
Glory didn't let him go for a single second while they both rode the wave of pure pleasure and burning joy, nor did she let go after it had subsided, instead she pulled him down off his arms and onto her body full now, she even kept her legs around his hip until she was sure that he wasn't going to pull away from her, it seemed she wanted to stay joined to him for as long as she could.
"Fucking hell Owl I asked and you sure as hell fucking delivered, definitely ain't had it that good ever," she panted in his ear placing sucking kisses along his jaw until she looked right into his eyes again, only this time her expression was far from tense and was now relaxed and what he could only read as sated.
"I aim to please," he said with a smile and she laughed.
"Oh, you sure as hell did that alright, tell you what if you ain't opposed I think I could let you twist my arm into having a couple more rounds of that along this trip if you want," she said and he grinned at her.
"You wanna watch that or you might start getting addicted to us humans you know, he said playfully and she roared with laughter making his whole body shake.
"Maybe not the plural part but definitely the singular," she said and with that, she pulled his head down so they were laid together still joined but now pressed face to face while also being side by side, just as he was beginning to think how he could really get used to this sleep ran in and claimed him like a thief in the night.
The rest of the night passed peacefully for the pair and thankfully nothing set off Glory's traps so when they woke in the morning they were both well rested and fresh, Ethan also noticed that Glory had quite a spring in her step to go with the smile on her face.
Honestly, Ethan was surprised that his team hadn't been running a commentary on his nighttime activities with the synthetic woman but they hadn't said a single peep to him the entire night or even this morning, though with Glory sticking so close to him he couldn't exactly check in with them either.
But that having been said it wasn't uncommon for ESF teams to go radio silent or dark when needed as it was part of their SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for the most part so he figured they had simply encountered something that required their more than watching him get it on with Glory.
"Alright, all packed up and ready for the off, you ready lover boy?" Glory said playfully as she hoisted first her pack and then her weapon up and checked the balancing.
"Yup all set let go shall we?' he said gesturing to the open road ahead of them.
Glory nodded and took point again and setting the pace as the pair continued on their way, for most of the trip they ran through plans of how to deal with the situation when they arrived with Glory giving him an overview of the building layout to study as they moved.
Ethan ran over many potential plans for both entry and assault as they walked and they discussed things like numbers and armaments as well as potential placement of the hostages and how to extract them safely.
"The main point we need to get across here is what happens if you fuck with the Railroad and our people, we cannot let this sort of thing go unpunished or pretty soon it will be open season on any if not all of our caravans, so we need to send a clear as fucking day message to these fuckers, touch us and we will fuck you out of existence along with all of your friends and it will not matter a single shit where you hide because we will find you," Glory said with a great deal of fire in her voice.
"Agreed, is this camp well known to the local raider clans?" Ethan asked and Glory shrugged.
"Not sure but most of the raider clans tend to keep tabs on one another so I'd assume at least one or two of them know of their existence, they are always stealing shit from one another and raiding each other, though they tend to stick to softer targets for the most part," she said.
"Well then I think a calling card will be in order don't you?" Ethan said thoughtfully and Glory glanced at him.
"What did you have in mind?" she asked.
"Well just spitballing ideas at the moment but I'm thinking that after the fight is done we leave some kind of message that basically says who did this without actually spelling it out, now I know raiders aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, to say the least, so it will have to be something that even those thick fuckers can understand but at the same time something that can also be ambiguous, plausible deniability and all that, so I'm thinking maybe we use a couple of railway spikes to nail up the clan's leaders where they can see them and maybe leave a single rail sign in the middle of the camp," he said.
Glory looked impressed, "Wow didn't know you were such a vicious fucker Owl I mean after last night I could have sworn you were a gentleman, but I like the way you think, yeah the fucking corpses only gonna be left to rot anyhow so we might as well make use of them to send a message to the rest of the thieving cunts about what happens if they cross the Railroad," she said clenching her fist in determination.
"Oh and I've also had a thought about how to extract the hostages safely too," he said and that got her attention.
"Oh? Well don't leave a lady in suspense spill it pretty boy," she said shooting him a smile.
Ethan pointed to a place on the crude drawing of the compound, "See here? That looks like a drainage culvert to me, now I very much doubt those fuck sticks have the collective brain power to light up a loose bulb let alone fix a drainage system, so it should be as dry as a bone, I could use a plasma cutter to cut through the grate that feeds into the channels here and head in through the pipe right under their feet, if my estimations are correct it should bring me up here because my guess is this is a drainage and septic system, if you guys are creating holy hell at their front door they'll be looking the other way as I slip into the compound and look for the hostages, once I got them I can send them out through there and maybe even have time to slip a nasty surprise or two into their armoury, pretty much every raider camp I've ever hit of this size always has one, should make a pretty nice bang," Ethan said.
Now Glory was grinning all over her face, "Oh yeah I definitely like the way you think, you can tell you were SF Owl, if you keep this up I'm gonna have to recommend that you get made into my permanent partner because you seriously know your way to a girl's heart," she said squeezing his shoulder.
"What high explosives or a roll in the hay in an abandoned truck trailer on the open road?" he asked playfully and she roared with laughter.
"Fucking both duh," she said grinning.
As they walked on they continued to talk and plan but now Ethan was really starting to struggle with what was coming, not the operation but the inevitable betrayal he was going to have to perpetrate in order for his team's plan to work, he knew there was a very real likelihood that Glory, Mouse and who knows how many others might actually perish going up against Seven and his crew.
Seven's people might seem ragtag to the uninformed outsider but their results spoke for themselves, they were determined, prepared and professional in their work, the trail of devastation left in their wake spoke to all of that, plus that was before they even touched upon that power that Seven was supposed to possess, how exactly do you stop someone who can turn you into a soda can made of meat with a single thought?
The thought of that happening to either Glory or Mouse or any of them really weighed heavily on Eathn's heart and soul, the thought that these people might die for because they were trying to do something just and good but were led by a lie disturbed him and he didn't know why.
Hell people died every day around here for a hell of a lot less than that, he'd seen raiders kill people over a box of Sugar Bombs and this mission was a hell of a lot higher priority than that.
These people were supposed to be terrorists and not only that but Seven and Three belonged to Dr Chalmers so taking them out was of much greater importance than most because getting them back where they belonged and back on the side meant that they'd have the means to swing the power balance back in their favour in any region where they deployed them as they were already field tested and proven effective which meant as soon as they were under control they were ready to go.
But that's when it kinda hit him, not hard and fast like a slap but slow like a dawning realisation, these people were fighting for their freedom, just like the synths, just like the slaves they rescued, they weren't killing indiscriminately they were freeing people, helping them.
But he had his duty to carry out, he was a sworn and loyal soldier of the ESF and he had a job to do, a mission to carry out, nothing more, this wasn't personal it was just the job, but that didn't mean that it hurt him.
He glanced at Glory as she spoke about how happy she was that they finally got another good heavy to defend people and to help them and his mind flashed to the night before, seeing her as nothing more than a beautiful woman laid bare and willing, the thought of her hurt or worse filled his heart with sorrow, now he knew he didn't love her but that didn't mean that he couldn't care for her or about her, in only a single day she'd already made him feel more alive and dare he say it happy than he had in years.
So to allow something negative to happen to her like that was unthinkable to him, he was going to have to figure out a way to not only ensure that nothing bad happened to her or the Railroad's people if they hit Seven's crew but to also maintain his image in their eyes because he realised that that also meant a great deal to him, he couldn't bare the thought of his betrayal breaking her even more than she was already, she had suffered enough already, they all had.
When they rested up for the second night it seemed that Glory had plans for him again because straight after food she pounced on him going right for his clothing, it didn't take her long to get through them as Ethan didn't exactly try to fight her off.
As he let her take control and make love to him he couldn't help but wonder if he was now just doing this to ease his conscience over what might happen or because of the impending betrayal, if he was giving her this pleasure as a way to say a preemptive sorry for what was going to happen.
This thought cut him up inside even further because it soured such a beautiful act though thankfully Glory was so distracted by having her wicked way with him that she didn't notice his distraction or his guilt shining through the cracks in his facade.
As he watched this beautiful woman giving him her all and smiling down at him both joyfully and merrily as she rode him he just couldn't help but smile up at her, he could see all her hopes and dreams surrounding her like an aura, just like any human woman hell more so because unlike a human she wasn't born with a sense of entitlement to anything, for everything she'd got she'd had to fight and claw to achieve, even him.
It really hit him then just how much of a chance she'd taken not only in opening up to him the way she had but asking him to share her passions with her, it could have backfired on her so spectacularly as he had to wonder how many of the Railroad actually saw the synths as people in this respect, it was one thing to wish to see them free and equal to be able to not only make their own choices and to live a free life, but it was a total other to wish to share a bed with one because at the back of your mind there would always be this thought of the fact that you are actually sharing yourself with a non-human.
They might look the look, walk the walk, talk the talk but that didn't make them any more human than if you dressed up an Assaultron and gave it a human face, it was still a created being even if you gave it sentience, it was still artificial.
Glory looked, smelled, felt, hell even tasted exactly like a beautiful, healthy young woman but she was still synthetic inside, whether it be artificial muscle grown in a lab or real grown from a womb Ethan began to wonder if it really made a difference at all.
As he looked into her beautiful shining eyes he could clearly see her soul shining through, he could see her passion, feel her desire, it was all there clear as day just like it would be for any womb-grown woman, so if that was the case did it really make any difference how she came into this world?
Because right now she was in it and she was as alive and as sentient, as he was, no different, same wants, same thoughts, same feelings, same needs.
He watched her powerful muscles flex and bunch as she pistoned herself up and down on his cock and he watched his white flesh sinking into her ebony flesh over and over again, he saw his flesh glistening with her emanations and hers with her perspiration of the effort she was going to not just for herself but for him, he saw it in her eyes as clear as everything else, determination.
She wanted him to feel as good as he was making her feel, she wanted him to enjoy her as much as he enjoyed him, hell that alone was more than any other woman had ever given him, every woman he'd ever been with only ever seemed to care about what she wanted, her pleasure and that was it, half the time when she was done she simply stopped caring and the effort went from intense to pretty much fuck all.
But not her, not Glory.
She gave her all despite having already come to an incredibly powerful orgasm herself she kept going because she knew that he hadn't come and she was determined to give him the pleasure she felt he deserved for allowing her the rights to his body once more.
Once it did hit it was like a fucking bomb going off and that's when Ethan realised something, synths like Glory had something to prove, they didn't want to just be human, they wanted to be more than human, they wanted to show humans that not only were they worth the time and effort but that they are not just every bit as good for them as their own kind but better, it was like they were trying to prove themselves both worth and superior all in one and as Glory crashed down into his arms and clung to him, their sweat covered flesh sliding over one another, he realised that she was doing a fucking good job of doing just that.
The waters of Ethan's mind were so fucking muddy now, one one hand he had his duty, on the other he had this new blossoming dawn of what things could be and not only that, what they really should be if only people tried to make thing better on both sides.
No sooner had that thought whispered its way through his mind it simply clicked into place, Seven and his people were right.
The reports he'd read had said that Seven and his people were trying to usher in some kind of new age where humans and non-humans lived peacefully together, helped one another, and fought together against all threats.
As he lay here in the arms of this beautiful non-human woman who was now soundly asleep on his chest with a warm satisfied smile on her face he swiftly realized that their fight was the right one, it didn't seek to divide humanity or rob it of its power or even to grant power to one group or another, they simply fought to make things better for all, unlike him.
Again his heart turned to a stone wrapped in lead and he actually found himself having to fight off the tears that it threatened to bring, infinitely glad his subdermal only relayed his words and not his thoughts across the airwaves or right now the team would probably be bursting in here to take him and Glory out.
Suddenly a voice spoke up in his head and he very nearly screamed as it took him by surprise, "I know you can't exactly respond right now Fuller but we're just checking in to tell you we scoped out this camp you are heading to, be advised they have heavily fortifications and are very well dug in, we have ariel and satellite photography of the place and they have their hands on some serious firepower, your plan about going in through the drainage culvert checks out and it appears that their armoury is close to where they have the prisoners stashed, take this into account when you hit them tomorrow, we can't afford to lose you as I do not want to have to start this process from scratch, Fletcher out," she said.
Fuller sighed heavily, so that was as much as his team cared about him huh?
They worried only as long as he was able to carry out his orders and complete the mission, he was an asset and nothing more, well it wasn't like he hadn't known that, the Enclave had pretty much made that shit clear all the way through his training and subsequent service, power and control were their watchwords.
As he lay his head down and pressed his face into Glory's hair filling his lungs with her scent he began to wonder, would it be so bad to really be what he'd told Glory he was?