Nexus Effect

Ch.89

*Nom, chomp, slurp, gulp, chew, chew.* Penny watched in morbid fascination as her even sexier future wife Nora chowed down on food like a starving woman. It was like watching one of those old cartoons from Japan. Something to do with dragons? There were people on it that ate just like this. The only reason she knows this is because even though she was an orphan, having the surname Inoue let her get into some niche back alley media shops.

“So good~!” Nora groaned between bites and after finishing the whole bird she’d grabbed the moment it hit the table, she pounded her fists on the surface. “More! Keep it coming!”

“Y-yes ma’am!” The plainly terrified young quarian man who was their waiter at the RIT cafe scurried back through the kitchen doors as Nora stole everyone else’s food, which nobody was willing to contest while their friend and lover devoured everything like a Thresher Maw. Then again, wasn’t her core made from one? What monstrosity have they turned her into?

“Mm~, still hungry. Hey Penny, mind if I drink?” Nora asked with a lecherous smirk and groped Penny’s right breast, causing her to flush hotly and regret having taken off her armor for normal clothes after things settled down once Nora was stable.

“Sh-sure.” Penny smiled nervously and gasped when Nora pinned her to the booth, yanked her shirt up and began suckling in full view of everyone. “Oh~, Nora. N-not now, I thought you meant later~!” Penny whined, then gasped when Nora’s other hand dove into her shorts and began fingering her. “N-Nora~!” Penny wriggled, unable to escape and not entirely wanting to even though people began recording and smirking at them. “P-people are recording~!”

“Let them see how much I fucking love you~.” Nora purred with that new flanged tone of hers that really lent a predatory flair to her before she went back to drinking from her mocha breasts.

“Uh, I have a freshly smoked-ah!” Metallic tentacle legs emerged seamlessly from Nora’s otherwise smooth back and seized the platter the waiter brought and she placed it on the table before leaving the vulpine woman panting in her seat to ravage the smoked carcass of a local beast like a wild predator, attacking it with her sharp teeth without bothering with utensils.

Penny was both incredibly turned on and terrified of this sexy predator her hopeful future wife had become. Also, she was a bit runny right now, her slime sticking to surfaces from that hot and heavy petting session.

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“Ah~, all that food filled a hole!” I declared after terrorizing the cafe to the point they begged and pleaded with me to leave. They were being paid for all that food and sure I’d been really inappropriate back there, but couldn’t they have at least let me thank them?

“A black hole.” Jack snickered and I used a tentacle to slap her ass for that comment, the way she jumped and yelped was adorable.

“You seriously overdid it back there, babe. It was hot as fuck, but you could’ve at least waited to put clothes on first.” Ashley commented and I shrugged my shoulders, sending my B-ball boobs bouncing since they were out in the open.

“Clothes are for prudes and planets with public decency laws. Rannoch doesn’t have those last I checked.” The quarians were way too happy to shed their suits on their homeworld and there was even a nudist movement, but they settled for legal nudity instead of promoting it. Which works out for right now, because I don’t feel like hiding the body I just got! Primus has fucking taste! I’m one sexy bitch! I swear, he misjudged me. My soul can’t be that pure and beautiful. Then again, the mist and thorny rose bushes were kinda sinister...

“[Grandma!]” Ghost cheered as he rushed to me. My baby~! They brought you along! I knelt down and accepted him in my arms when he leaped into my bosom-.

*Flash!*

We all blinked our eyes and I felt drained before I steadied myself and looked down at my little...boy...I’m holding a fluffy humanoid grandson who blinked at me in confusion. “Grandma?”

I promptly did the sane thing and fainted.

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I am getting tired of waking up after passing out, fainting or getting knocked out. This feels like a running cliche or something. I opened my eyes to my ceiling at home. I smiled and snuggled the blankets swaddling me, glad to be home again.

…

I’m hungry.

With a groan, I got out of bed with the help of my retracting tentacle-like legs from my back and stumbled out into the hall and towards the living room where I found Paretia playing with her toddler triplets. “Hey Parie, there's food in the pantry?” I asked as I staggered over to the kitchen and she looked up at me with a stern expression.

“If you eat everything your ass is combing the beach for crabs. Yola called me and warned me you better not and your body requires an Argent-heavy diet anyway, which was why you ate so damn much at RIT.” I flinched at Paretia’s warning glare. Damn does being a mother bring out the scary eyes. I would know, I practiced in the mirror for when any of my kids get out of hand.

“Okay, thanks for letting me know, but I’m starving~. Don’t we have any Argent stockpiled here?” I asked with a whine and Paretia rolled her eyes before pointing in the direction of the basement. “Right, for the lab. Thanks.” I hurried downstairs, my retractable legs sprouting and allowing me to rapidly descend the stairwell to the bottom floor. I almost salivated at the sight of the tank holding my liquid food. “Oh~, so hungry~...” I moaned as I approached the spigot and sucked on it as I opened the tap.

I went into a zen state as I sucked away like I usually do until someone tapped my shoulder and I turned off the spigot to look at Paretia. “I came down when Jeanne voiced an alert on the dangerously low volume in the Argent tank. Where did you put it all?” She patted my muscular abs and I hummed in consideration.

“Maybe I have a built-in Navel Pearl? I wouldn’t put it past Hermais to sneak something like that into me.” Although, I lack a sexy belly-button jewel. Primus gave me a navel damn it, I should decorate it like all my lovers do!

“Well, how are you feeling now?’ Paretia asked worriedly, my turian lover rubbing my fit stomach and I hummed in appreciation for her touch. “Well hello there~.” I looked between my massive tits to see my penis was engorging and I bit my lip as Paretia wrapped her hands around my girth and she cooed before she licked my glans. “You still taste the same too. Good, but I’m not really in the mood.”

“Well, then why were you touching me down there?” I asked teasingly as I tried to calm down after she removed her hands. Once stimulus was gone and I could relax, my penis retracted just as quickly as it always did before.

“Mostly out of curiosity and appreciation. You nearly die and you come back as a damn fertility goddess? You have hips and an ass to die for, legs for days and tits so big you can suffocate two krogan at the same time!” Paretia cheered and I blushed at the flattery.

“But I’m not.” I mewled despite my smile as I leaned down to kiss her. “I’m just me, even if I’m, once again, the first of my species.” I sighed at the understanding I had a lot of breeding to do since Primus used the local biomechanical systems to model my new body on, so I’m not stuck with being the only Transformer. Oh, right, I somehow turned Ghost into one. “How is Ghost?”

“That precious little boy the others brought home with you? He’s out frolicking in his ‘beast mode’ among the flowers.” Paretia answered as she looked at the lab and then me. “Well, are you quite done depleting the Argent tank?”

“...Actually, I could go for some more…” I admitted sheepishly and she sighed.

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“...Okay, there we go.” Pillar sighed as he and Hunter placed some magical artefacts on the Argent tanks that will keep them topped up. “Right, you won’t have to worry about having a shortage of Argent liquid here with Urta passively letting off some of her production into them.”

“Thank you.” Penny sighed and nuzzled them.

“No problem.” Pillar said as the two Doom Marines kissed her on each cheek.

“You didn’t need to.” I mewled before I drank more Argent from a glass like it was kool-aid.

“We’re not going to let you starve, you’ll oxidize and rust. Maybe even turn feral.” Hunter stated the possibilities of what might happen to me, which I do remember from the comic books.

“Don’t say that!” Penny chided them with a glare as she hugged me by the waist.

“Alright, we’ll cut out the negativity and let the positivity flow right through.” Pillar held his hands up in defeat as Penny smirked in victory.

“Good, we don’t need my future wife to panic because you made her worry.” Penny huffed and nuzzled my shoulder, causing me to smile and stroke her knuckles affectionately.

“Yes, sweetie.” Pillar agreed but he made her blush when he called her ‘sweetie’.

“Oh, what’s going on? Are you getting deeper into the royal family?” I teased my girlfriend, who released her hug and backed up slightly as she raised her hands in protest.

“It’s nothing like that! I-um-um.” Penny whined and bit her lip as she tried to explain.

“You know you’re as deep in the royal family as we are, remember?” Hunter pointed out as he looked down at Penny’s toned belly, which hid the fact that she carried my babies inside her. Huh, I guess he’s right about that. This only made Penny squirm more as her face went completely red in embarrassment, rubbing her flat stomach.

“I uh, yeah.” I guess I’m part of this huge fucked-up family after all, if I’m in a genuine relationship with Penny, who is more-or-less Urta’s twin sister.

“What is it?” Pillar asked me as I finished my last glass of Argent.

“I’m just coming to terms with that fact that, after all of this is over and I survive, I’m part of your family because I’m marrying Penny and she’s been accepted by Urta as her sister.” I shrugged and the boys sighed while they watched my huge honkers bounce from my shoulders. “So, thanks for topping off these tanks, but when the Normandy arrives, I’m going to need a tank on the ship so I don’t have to pump Penny for my sustenance.”

“I would love to be your food provider.” Penny breathlessly declared, as if my words had stolen the breath from her.

“But I can’t just drink from you whenever like I so rudely did at the cafe. I need a tank in my room so I can refuel whenever I need to.” I insisted and Penny sighed with a nod of understanding. “Now then, we’re home, I want to visit Chrys and any of my other children available and willing to see me.”

“Ash, Tali, Yola and I have all visited our kids that fit those descriptions while we were in Qwip-Qwip. You were dead asleep and snoring, so your children we came across were able to at least leave you messages on your omni.” Penny informed me and I wilted. Damn, I was hoping to actually visit, not snore in their faces as they chuckled and left me messages.

“Well, shit. At least they were kind enough to do that.” I smiled wryly as I rapidly absorbed the recordings. I only got visited by several of my thousands of children, but it still felt nice. “Welp, when the Normandy arrives we’d better get back to work, Martra isn’t-.”

“Say my name~!” I yelped when familiar fluffy hands groped my breasts from behind and I laughed before extending four tentacle legs to hug the Cat-Kut without moving.

“Martra! What are you doing here? I thought you were on Feros!” The tiger-taur wasn’t so much a lover as someone I deeply trusted and would bang anytime she wanted. For some people that’s enough, but Martra is more casual about our involvement with each other. Like Celise.

“I was visiting family, but this is my home, remember?” Martra purred to me, the tiger-taur nuzzling the back of my neck before she began giving me a hickie and I gasped as I hugged her closer to my back.

“Ladies, there is a time and place, this is neither.” Pillar chided us and I pouted at him before retracting my back-legs and Martra released my tender flesh from the graze of her teeth. “Sorry to be such a prude at the moment, but you need to get used to your body in things other than sex.” Pillar reminded me and I sighed.

“I know.” I groaned and went to the bay doors that led to the beach. The fact I didn’t know about these doors for over a week after moving in made me feel so embarrassed that I’d been using the ‘scenic route’ down to the beach that first several days of paradise I shared with Penny, Ash, Yola, Tali and-. “Wait. Is Marrow still not back?” I mewled unhappily and Penny shook her head.

“Marrow is undergoing her first molt.” Pillar gently informed me and I staggered. This news struck me like a lightning bolt.

“M-molting?!” Then she overdid it with my eggs and now she’s a changeling queen! Oh, my Marrow, my beloved wife, I’m so sorry~! “I pushed her too hard. I gave her too many eggs…”

“Marrow wanted your eggs, so much that she became a queen. She Loves you, her devotion to you is why she is now undergoing the transformation and will found the first official Hive of the Milky Way here on Rannoch after she’s finished.” Hunter continued the explanation and I mewled sadly as I went out onto the beach.

“That doesn’t make me feel any better.” I sighed and shook myself, ignoring the delightful jiggling that caused. “Right then, time to get in some practice. I won’t survive to kiss my beautiful wife if I don’t know how to use my body.” I reached for my Spark, felt it ping my Change Cog and with the signature sound I was now a floating space cuttlefish the size of a small freighter. “Hm, it would make sense I can float considering I have my own M.E-field.”

“Why do you have an exposed vagina?” Hunter asked as he looked up at my underside and I flushed hotly. OMG my cuttlefish form can blush!

“I don’t know~!” I huffed/wailed before flying about and shooting laser beams at the ocean. It was by this time I noticed the two familiar collections of spheres out on the ocean were gone. I felt a mixture of happiness that the last batch of babies were born properly and sadness that I might never get to do something like that again. I don’t know if my body can do that or if I can transfer to another chassis now that I’m bound to my Spark. Am I like Starscream?

“All I know is, that is a nice pussy.” Martra praised and I vainly tried to cover myself-only to hear metal clanking. “Aw~! You covered it up!”

“Yay~! I’m not flashing everyone!” I cheered happily, bobbing in the air like a drunken Metroid before pausing and looking at my many sharp-tipped legs. “I’m so much more powerful than anything on our side right now. If I play my cards right, I might be able to turn the tide.”

“Isn’t that the point?” Pillar asked rhetorically and I bobbed in agreement, since I don’t have a separate head in this form. Well, if I don’t count my mono-eye as my head. “Good, because the Normandy arrived in orbit ten minutes ago.”

“And the eyeball weakness?” Matra brought up and I rolled my eye.

“It’s the only part of me that can see, I think I’ll just have to guard it. Now then, if they have clearance to land they should be arriving-.” The Normandy swooped in, causing massive wind gusts as it flew over the mansion and landed within the span of a minute. Go Joker. “Time to go. I’m going to hug and kiss Paretia goodbye and rejoin the crew!”

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“Shepard. Good work with the Collector Cruiser. The defected Collectors are restoring the slurry they made of the colonists back to normal. Gruesome, but at least they can be restored from a fleshy paste.” TIM answered when Penny made the call the moment she boarded the Normandy.

“I’m glad that Cerberus is allowing them to help revert them. The Collectors are slaves like the Keepers. With Nora having freed both groups, the Reapers are now lacking their organic assets.” Penny reported, since with several fleets of ships guarding the Omega 4 Relay, the Collectors would be hard-pressed to make it past Omega.

“Indeed. Thanks to our Reaper friend, we’re another step closer to killing her genocidal brethren. That said, it is unfortunate, but the Collector Cruiser has had it’s Reaper IFF access scrambled by Harbinger when it retreated from Nora’Feell’s attack. So we’ll have to pull the IFF from a derelict Reaper we discovered in the outer layer of Mnemosyne in the Thorne system.” TIM took a drag of his cigar and sighed. “Shepard. After this, I’m going dark.”

“What? What’s happened?” Penny didn’t care for TIM, he was a monster, but to drop all contact now? When they’re so close?

“Cerberus is as good as gone. The ESA, STG, ONI and the Argentines have dismantled our operations left and right. I just want you to know: you were worth the effort of retaining, of sponsoring, of supporting. I know that even though you’re not human any longer, that you care about the well-being of humanity. You’re a hero and I have faith you’ll accomplish what nobody else can. Give them Hell, Shepard. Because I certainly have given in.”

TIM disconnected the call and Penny worried about the connotations. Hell was real, the forces within insidious and bent on the death and destruction of all. So Cerberus was dealing with the devil instead of guarding the door. Heh, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

That said. “EDI! Announce to everyone that TIM just stated Cerberus is dead, this ship is mine now!” Penny shouted at the ceiling with a beaming smile as she finally relaxed and let her foxy form free with a sigh of ease.

“Will do Aunt Penny! Everyone! Good news for those of you disenfranchised with Cerberus…” EDI continued on and Penny strutted back towards her room and smirked at the sight of Nora doing the ‘french girl’ pose on her bed with a salacious smile, still stark naked.

“So~. We’re free from the bigots.” Nora traced a finger around her left areola and Penny slid out of her clothes by the neck hole and reformed on the bed, kissing her lover and groping her succulent breasts-.

“What?!” Miranda yelled when she barged into Penny’s room. Oh yeah, she still has all the overrides to the doors. “The Illusive Man just dropped us? Or Cerberus is gone?” Miranda demanded and Penny sighed before using her tail to wrap around Miranda’s waist and she yelped when she was pulled onto the bed. “C-Commander I-!”

“Shut up, relax, Cerberus is dead, long live the queen. Now either get licking or get out.”