CODE ORCHID

I sat in my apartment, the wall between my home and Orchid's had been welded shut after her incident. "So...thanks." Mici sighed and laid down across my bed, over a towel. "I can't explain to you how nice it is to lay down and dry out." She looked off to the ceiling while I looked over the freshly welded wall. "So...what now?"

I turned to look at her. She looked like any other mare from hip up, with a normal mane and a Wrench cutiemark. "Uh, I don't know. They're supposed to be bringing food." I walked over to my desk and grabbed my chair. I sat down and wheeled myself over towards the bed. "So, you can be on land, I figured by the whole no leg thing you'd be in the water all the time."

Mici shook her head. "There are places back home where you can get up into a cavern...usually dry there." She wiggled herself around on the towel. "It's usually...where we...." She looked away. "There's a lot of reasons why I told you this wasn't a da--"

I scratched my neck. "You bang on land, don't you?"

Mici laid her chin down and huffed. "Its not really all that safe to do it out in the open ocean. And critters can come and...eat...the stuff in the water...." She shook her head. "Ocean stuff is gross. That's half the reason I agreed to come along." She looked around the room. "So...crackers? I thought you said you had some?"

I spun in my chair. "Uh, sure." I stopped my spinning and stood up. I walked over to a small fridge I had in the corner of the room and rummaged through it. "So, are you like the ponies, or do you eat red meat?"

Mici bit her tongue. "Like any other pony." She laughed softly. "Fish aren't bad depending on what you catch. Generally they're better as you go farther up."

I grabbed a box of animal crackers from the fridge. "Bloody Barnum's, fake ass crap." I slapped the fridge shut and walked over to her. I dug my finger into the box and ripped it open. "These were what you were talking about, right?"

Mici looked into the box and tilted her head. "No...." She tipped the box and let a few crackers fall into her hoof. She looked it over. "What is it? Like a little dog or something?"

I looked at the box. "I think it's supposed to be a bear or something." I sat next to her on my bed and looked back at her mark.

Mici hummed and brought a cookie to her mouth. "I gue--" She stopped dead and kept chewing. I could see something click in her brain while she ate. She swallowed hard and frowned. "This is what sweet is, isn't it?" She sighed and laid down on her side. Her tail slapped a pillow rather loudly. "You just ruined my life."

I laughed and reached towards the box. "What did I--" She slapped my hand away rather hard. "Ow...."

Mici tipped the box over and collected the crackers in a pile. "These are mine now." She pulled them all into her mouth and glared at me, her cheeks puffed out like mad. She mumbled something through the crackers and pointed a hoof at me. Her tail slapped the pillows again.

"I filled your mouth now get in bed?" I stopped myself from chuckling as she glared harder. She turned away and relaxed her jaw. She sat there, head up, chugging on cookies for a while before she started to crush them down.

She let out a soft moan as her face eased into a pleased smile. "Ish eshts suuh gud."

I reached out and rubbed her back. "Sure." She had a normal coat down to her hip, then a soft rubbery skin that reminded me of a dolphin. She whipped her head around, her cheeks still packed with crackers. "What?"

Mici turned away and slapped my back with her tail. "Nuuthin...." She set her tail back and laid down flat. She swallowed hard and settled in against the towel. "...Your grabbers are all hot."

I rubbed down and ran my hand over her fin. "Or, you're cold. Probably a bit more likely."

Mici sighed and turned away. "Why ya gotta touch me?"

"Why do you have a wrench on your ass?" I scratched her tail and got a slap across the back in return. "I wouldn't think seaponies would have machines."

Mici looked back up at me. "We do...a little. Boats that sink down and junk." She whipped her tail again. "... Are you gonna touch me?"

I shook my head. "Like, sexually? Because I really just like your skin." I rubbed the side of her tail. "Smooth."

She snorted and laid her head back down. "Fine.... I just-- Fine." She huffed and went slack. "... Your touching my mark...think about where it is on land ponies."

I stopped with my hand on her side. "...I'm touching your ass, aren't I?"

Mici sighed. "You've been fondling my since you sat down." She huffed and slapped me with her tail.

I rubbed my cheeks with my thumb. "Well stop me next time."

Mici sighed and rolled onto her back. She curled her hooves up to her chest. "...See that?" She looked down. "Look."

I sighed and looked down her. I already knew what I was looking for. A discolored spot on her underside was starting to show, and just below that a neat little pit. "...Right?"

Mici groaned and rolled over again. "...Grabbers." She huffed and settled in. "Ponies don't have grabbers."

I flexed my hand. "So, why'd you show me that?"

Mici snorted. "I don't know. Dry air makes me feel all weird." She shook her head. "Kinda good weird, kinda bad weird--"

"The whole breeding thing?" I scooted away from her.

"Maybe." She rubbed the towel with her hoof. "It's nice though. Really warm when you're not under all that pressure and freezing ass water." She huffed and looked up. "I wanna go see the sun."

I nodded. "Well we're gonna go up to the surface so I can help peel Orchid's plates. It'll be safe enough, and if it's too cold you can borrow a coat." I looked back to the clock by the head of my bed. "I mean--" I stopped myself as Mici laid her head on my lap.

She looked a bit mad and stared off to the side of my lap. "Small circle, around the opening."

I shifted in place. "Huh--"

"Small circle around the opening. Tell nopony, I'll deny it if you say anything." She sighed heavily. "For the crackers...and the bed...and the towel--"

"You don't have to pay me for anything.... Especially not like--"

She looked up at me and grumbled. "I thought this is what you wanted."

I sat there, my knees together as Mici looked up at me. I took a deep breath and reached around her. "So this is a one time--"

"Shut up." She shifted around and exposed her belly. ".... One time. We don't talk about this."

I sighed and slid my hand over her tail. "So this mean that another date's out of the que--"

"Shut up." She looked down and laid against my knee. "We'll see."

I slid my hand down her tail and felt a very very weak warmth dip against my fingers. Mici let out a soft sigh and closed her eyes as my fingertips touched her slit. I was rushing it like mad, but I was also ten seconds from getting finger deep. Being a strange sea-loving man took the lead. "So first date--"

"I will bite you, and I'll probably take off a grabber." She huffed and wiggled her tail as I traced a circle around her rubber body. "Between you and me, that's it."

I left her talking and focused on tracing a close circle around her. I paused and pressed my fingertips in against her. She let out a soft groan and wiggled around. "Right there, wait." She pushed her body forward against my finger.

I slid my finger down and pressed them inside her. She tighten up immediately and started hyperventilating. I put my free hand against her ear and sunk my fingers into her warm squish insides. She pulsed and convulsed around my fingers as I sunk my index into her body. "Shit--shit--mmm." She rocked her body back and sighed. I pulled my finger out of her squishy little hole and held her belly. She huffed and went slack. "Um, that's not what I--"

I cut her off and started slapping her hole lightly. She convulsed and wiggled as I tapped her over and over with the inside of my fingers. I planted my palm down against her slit and rubbed her in a rather vigorous circle. She opened her mouth and let out a smooth sigh, something like a singer. A creamy white goo dripped out of her slit and rolled down her tail. "Ooooooo--" She pouted hard and closed her eyes.

I stared at her. "...Been a while?"

Mici didn't answer, didn't open her eyes, she just laid down on my lap and tucked in. "Second time the stuff came out." She sighed and curled her hooves around my thigh. "Dear Celestia...that was weird."

I pulled the towel up and wiped away the thin white cream that was dripping from her. "Sure.... Weird."

I'd done it. First human if not first land creature to take a seapony to bed. However sudden and slightly desperate it might have been on either of our parts. I could complain, but I could also lock myself in an airlock and go skinnydipping, both were poor choices.