Pirate Bebop

Ch.25

Duo sliced through another zaku before firing the built-in wrist laser at a ship as he tried to keep them from setting foot on Thanatos. He has been battling for over three days now by he stealing weapons from his enemies. The Scythe was a powerful machine, but he still needed ammo to fight at range for extended periods of time. The wrist-mounted laser needed to recharge.

This all seemed so suspiciously planned. Shortly after he arrived, military forces from the nearby Gov, Zeon Fleet Systems and the UnSC poured into the system and somehow resisted the lethal effects of the nearby black hole. This meant these forces gathered whatever available Relic drive cores they could get their hands on to resist the pull of the singularity.

They even deployed on the opposite side of the planet from said gravity well and used it to help them try to blitz to the planet’s surface, but after he gutted the first star destroyer to try this, they maintained a cautious distance, sending skirmishers to whittle him down. It was working. It was a loathsome tactic of attrition, but every droid-piloted MS and fighter he fought was another bit of his precious energy spent.

He would have to retreat, maybe even try to squeeze Zelma into the reverse-engineered Mobile Trace System and flee. He knew enough that so long as she didn’t move too much, it wouldn’t interfere with his ability to pilot the Deathscythe. He was about to attempt to do so when a new FTL signature lit up and the most gorgeous ship he’d ever seen warped into the system.

It was like a narrow bodkin arrowhead and like one, it shot from the dark down to the planet so fast Duo could only curse and give chase! His comms lit up and it answered automatically much to his surprise. “Hey, good job. Get down here and evacuate with Zelma. We’ll even box up yer Gundam fer ya.” A cocky woman’s voice stated and Duo felt incredible relief, so they were the retrieval team that Zelma told him about.

“Thank you. I was about to try and escape with her on my own.” Duo dove down to Thanatos and pulled up to land next to the beautiful golden ship. He had Deathscythe kneel and then used the cable to descend from it. “We don’t have long! However you’re going to store Deathscythe, do it fast!”

“I get you’re in a rush, but get that bug out of your ass, boy.” The utterly beautiful red wolf/dragon huffed when she approached and he could only look up at the deadly icon of violence that radiated his Lady’s favor like a beacon. “This is new. Who made this?” She looked around the ankles for something and he watched the armored beauty, transfixed.

“Professor G. He...he had me execute him to keep his brilliance out of enemy hands.” Duo told the badass beauty, unable to look away from her.

“Oh, smart. I can arrange to have him brought back with some help from my sister.” Her words baffled Duo and he felt a surge of indignant anger.

“You can’t bring back the dead.” If that was possible, he would’ve brought back Father Maxwell, whose only crime was being a good person and helping people in need, but that was enough for him and his church to be blown up for ‘harboring terrorists’ who were just peaceful protestors.

“Wrong, you can’t bring back the dead. Ah, here it is.” The woman pressed something and Deathscythe shimmered in iridescent light before vanishing in a flash and she held up a capsule! Capsule technology had been lost for good with Nexus’s sabotage! In the woman’s hand was a 3-inch cylinder with a button on one end which held one of the deadliest war machines Duo had ever seen! “Glad that still works, now get in my sister.”

“W-what?!” Duo was utterly baffled. Who, what and how?!

“Me! Runner Themis at your service!” The ship’s loudspeakers declared. “Get in! Zelma is already on board.” Duo rushed up the ramp and towards the bridge. By the time he reached it, they were in space?! He didn’t even feel this wondrous ship take off! “Buckle up! I don’t like making an FTL jump without people-.”

“Punching!” The woman’s voice behind the pilot seat shouted and the viewscreen turned into something similar to flying through a snowstorm. “Alright, we’re good and clear.”

“Mou, Silvy-chan, that was so unprofessional.” The ship’s intercom said with a vocal pout.

“Sis, don’t pull that anime crap right now. It’s bad enough we just brought a gundam on board.” The red dracowolf huffed with a scratch of the back of her neck. “Sit down, boy. Your job is done for now.” She sat in the seat next to Zelma, who looked completely at peace. “You’ll have your questions answered when we get there.”

Duo groaned in relief before he sat down and promptly passed out from the exhaustion.

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“So where is Luster Dawn?” The sexy green skaven asked when we brought her into the HbTC after returning to Devorak. She’d been quiet this whole time, seemingly in a world of her own and letting things guide her to her destination.

“Right here.” Eris said gleefully as she led us to where Luster was on the ground and playing with several of the puppies and foals. Most of them had been rounded up it seems and taken to a nursery along with all of the eggs to my disappointment. “Luster, your destiny awaits.” My mate looked up and looked as if she were struck by an epiphany as Zelma approached.

“Y-you...I…” When they touched, Zelma melded into Luster! I watched in a mixture of horror and awe as my lover seamlessly absorbed the green skaven, who even kissed the stunned Zerg before she was completely gone. “...She’s still here. She’s not gone, just...in a different form.” Luster suddenly became more indescribably beautiful despite her alien appearance and she looked at her hands. “I’m...Life. I represent the forces that drive all living beings to exist.”

“Where’s Zelma?!” Duo demanded after coming out of his own shock at the sight of the woman he’d protected vanishing into nothing.

“She’s here. She’s me. Eris, how cruel of you. You made her into the essence of Life only so that she could fuse with me.” Luster said with sadness at the serpent woman, who nodded.

“It had to be done. I wouldn’t have if I had Time. I...when I found myself out of options, I did what I had to. I’m not proud, I’m not happy, but it’s this or death. Not the balanced kind either, I’m talking Thanos Snap levels of it. Death would be heartbroken and we would all be...gone.” Eris sniffled and wiped her eyes. “If it’s sacrificing a beautiful person like Zelma versus all of us and dooming our universe, at least within the Three Galaxies...the choice is obvious.”

“You-!” Duo started before he froze and everyone saw Death talking to him. While the bony wolf babe that looks like Vinnie without flesh oddly enough having the same curves when wearing clothes despite there being nothing beneath them, I approached Luster and gently squeezed her hands.

“Are ya okay?” I asked gently while looking into the glowing orange orbs that were her eyes.

“I’m fine. I just...I was always Zelma, Zelma was always me. It’s like I’m no different than before. The only key difference is that I now both physically and spiritually embody Life, at least in the Three Galaxies. I have the genetic code of every sapient species we’ve ever encountered, even the Terrans and Protoss thanks to the Zerg already having them before they vanished. Zelma was the last piece to make me complete.” Luster rubbed her belly and smiled. “She’s in here…”

“So she isn’t gone, then. At least our new human friend will have the comfort of knowing she still exists.” I rubbed my mate’s belly and even kissed and nuzzled it. My children are inside, but I have puppies to go find. “So, where have the attendants taken all of my rugrats?”

“I’m afraid that since I’m not the mother, I’m not allowed to know until you do too. I may be their sire, but the locals place equal importance on both parts of the child’s parentage, especially if both are alive. Which is refreshing. The Empire had a clear bias in favor of non-men. Sometimes, it baffled me that most ladies only saw a sex toy or muscle when looking at men back in the day. The Argentines haven’t fallen into gender-based favoritism.” Luster said with a mixture of annoyance and happiness.

“It sounds like the Empire never tried to ensure gender bias didn’t happen.” I commented and Luster sighed as she joined me in sitting down with the remaining puppies.

“The problem was our leadership, which was heavily female/herm dominated. We had no strong male leaders. At the founding of the Empire, that role subconsciously was attributed to the Argentines, who, as you know, purposefully distanced themselves from the Empire. Honestly, I think if the Argentines didn’t do that and instead had a direct hand in how the Empire functioned, it wouldn’t have devolved like it did.” Luster wistfully theorized with a sad expression.

“Perhaps you are right.” Brennie admitted with a sigh, nearly making us jump from our place sitting on the steps with the slime puppies. “However, we believed our wives could do things for themselves, that they didn’t need us for everything. Shows what we know.”

“While I’m sure Wiatr and the rest appreciated that you wanted the Empire to grow into its own thing, but just to ask; did they ever ask you for help in that department?” Luster queried as I snuggled the three pups in my reach, two going for nipping at my clothed boobs and I snorted.

“Yes. A lot. It was really annoying. Now though? Hindsight’s a bitch. If we did help them out on the legislative issues and not just the military ones, they wouldn’t have turned into slobbering sex addicts little better than the Corruption we helped them stamp out at the start of it all. However, there’s also the possibility of some people thinking we Argentines are favored above all others.” Brennie replied as I put fingers in the pup’s mouths and they suckled on my slime.

“Weren’t you? The Empire always tried to defer to your judgment. If you tried to relate with them instead of holding yourselves at a lofty distance, maybe the Empire would’ve tried emulating you more rather than believe you were too perfect to achieve.” Luster suggested and I groaned in annoyance and frustration.

“Lasses, please, no big-brain talking. I’m a pirate, not a politician.” I huffed and tickled a pup.

“Considering you’re in our group now, you better change that to privateer.” Brennie snarked with a playful grin.

“Meh, that’s just a pirate with a long-standing paying contract to do what they luv. Traveling the stars, meeting new people, getting into dangerous fights. I can live without the last one, but I’m a wanderer at heart, even if I would like to have a port of call.” I looked up to see that Duo was gone and now I was surrounded by everyone, who was looking at me...intently. “Uh...what?”

“You’re such a cute mama. Feeding your babies even though they don’t need to be fed right now.” Rivala cooed and I shrugged sheepishly. They wanted nummies, I gave them nummies. “Well, all’s well now, let’s get pregnant again! Visi shouldn’t be preggers alone!” Eep!

“H-hold on! As much as I’d enjoy that, lasses, we have work to do. Time dilation or not, I want to meet my babies, massage the lot of you, then go home. Jet will have a nervous breakdown if we’re not back soon.” I protested with great concern of losing myself to the carnality of it all.

“Time magic~!” Eris declared and I deadpanned at her. “I know, I know. Same difference to what you just said. You don’t want to be gone so long that your short memory fouls up.” Hey!

“Just because I used to be a blackout drunk doesn’t mean I have a bad memory! I just...I don’t bother to remember unimportant stuff!” I defended and Eris’s eyes glinted. I don’t like that!

“What utterly important and grisly act did you commit before you Surprise Adopted Aurora?” Eris questioned and my brain drew up a blank.

“...I think I did something very violent to a redhead. Not sure what, just that it had to be done!” I have to be blushing! No~! My poor memory has been exposed! Curse both of my halves having a bad memory for things not associated with my interests!

“She murdered the most notorious and successful slaver in the Triangulum galaxy when she went walkabout to clear her head and then Surprise Adopted Aurora immediately after.” Eris informed everyone cheerfully and I snapped my fingers at the memory slotting in.

“Oh yeah! Beth Carver, fucking bitch. With her dead, the Chains of Slavery have been broken at their strongest link. It’ll make freeing the slaves and starting the rebellion easier.” Why are you all looking at me like I’m some six-faced horror that you’re only now seeing the depths of?! I feel so naked! “Don’t judge me~! Don’t look at me with those awe-filled eyes~!”

“She assassinated an important figure and then promptly took an orphan in. She’s definitely our kind of insanity. Cocoa would love you.” Visi declared and I felt myself puff up in pride.

“I am her descendent. Well, her’s and Penny’s. As you can see, I take very much after Cocoa.” I summoned my heads and petted my trio of heads with a similar number of cheeky grins. “Oh, wait. How are they? I remember someone mentioning Urta and Penny weren’t doing so good. Something to do with Jimbo replacing them.” I mean, I can’t forget Jimbo. He’s important.

“They’re all calming down. Urta and Penny are making a full recovery thanks to Brennie’s contingency plan. The only thing we have to worry about is whether those two are going to force their way over here to thank us personally.” Visi snorted in amusement as she rubbed her stomach. “Well, not that we would complain about it.”

“It would be fun, but if they could get through the seal, they’d be staying here for their safety. You can go back if you want, but the only difference will be that you'll miss out on a ton of fun and be back, maybe, 40-ish minutes earlier than us.” Vinnie said and I mewled before a robed demoness collected the last of the puppies and left the chamber. “I mean, how much time passed between us leaving and coming back?”

“I had the chamber’s time dilation turned off so that there wouldn’t be any disparity between the babies taken away and the ones still in here.” Visi informed us and I sighed in resignation.

“Okay, fine. I didn’t get to fully enjoy the whole process with my heat-addled brain turned to metaphorical goop on top of being literal goop. I can’t remember half of what we did to get me so fucking pregnant I was a 50-foot sphere with two 20-foot spheres attached to it.” All I remember is that it involved a party in my womb and everyone wanted to breed me.

“Well, we won’t be doing it that way. Not with Luster still pregnant and unlikely to be able to turn into semen-slime again.” Rivala said with a pout and Luster wilted in disappointment. “You even managed to pump your womb with your own semen slime and got us knocked up with your babies too.” I did?! Whoa, I was really far-gone.

Still… “Lasses...I...I feel constrained being stuck here for longer than necessary.” I admitted and all of the gods in the room flinched. “As much as I’d enjoy it, as much as I love it, I don’t want to be like that all the time. I know this is a special moment, a special opportunity, but I just...I can’t, not without hurting myself.” I gulped, hoping they understood.

“Okay, yeah, we won’t hold you down like that.” Visi insisted with a concerned expression.

“Thank ya. I mean, ya can send me back alone if you want or even have me given a tour of the local space while I wait for you. At least then it won’t seem so long to me.” I suggested, not wanting my own needs to interfere with their desires. I had the feeling that this was an especially rare thing for Visi to indulge in, I don’t want her to ruin it on my behalf.

“Or, I know this goes against the whole Freedom thing, but would you like to be a Belly Pet for a bit?” Vinnie suggested and I tilted my heads curiously. “Oh, you poor, innocent thing. Brennie, she doesn’t know what a Belly Pet is.” Okay, now I really want to know.

“Of course she doesn’t know, I don’t think any of them know-ah!” Brennie was interrupted by another Chaos noodle jumping on her shoulders. “Pandora!”

“Brennie-baby~. You went female and didn’t tell your personal Belly Pet you were going to be a busty babe again for a while?” The noodle pouted so hard her eyes cartoonishly outsized her head along with her lips. “Am I not good enough for you~?”

“Sorry. Shit got chaotic as fuck and one thing led to another.” Brennie sighed as she petted the noodle’s head while I returned to only having one head.

“Can ya please stop talking about it and tell me what it is?” I demanded and the new noodle was suddenly a familiarly voluptuous babe wearing a business suit with a projector stand.

“So, prospective Belly Pet trainee! Are you interested in living part-time inside of the womb of your main squeeze? Maybe a mother-figure you feel too emotionally and physically distanced from? Your sister even? Worry not, we here at-.” The sudden projector sales-pitch was smashed by Brennie, who was blushing so fucking hard her ears were ejecting steam!

“D-don’t talk about it like that! It’s way more intimate than some time-share! Look, you get unbirthed by someone, you stay in their womb for however long you want, so long as it’s longer than just for sex and then leaving when done.” Brennie briefed me and I felt my loins clench.

“The longest I’ve lived in Brennie-baby’s womb in one go is 7 years!” Pandora boasted and Brennie was flushed so hard I think her eyes have faded into her face like she’s an anime character. “And now I want to go back in~!”

“Eek~!” Brennie squealed when Pandora ripped off her pants and slithered right into her pussy, the sexy red bitch was squirting from the experience and Rivala promptly did the same to Lusty! My mate moaned and smiled as she came from the intrusion and she licked her lips with a hungry look at me.

“I-I-I...maybe? I’d be entrapping myself, but if it’s my choice and nobody will try to stop me from leaving, I guess...it’d be okay? I don’t want to constantly share space with Rivala though. I’d never get a moment’s rest.” I Love her, I do, but my sexy slime fairy was the sort of nonstop bubbly silliness you needed to take in shifts or she’d become annoying and I don’t want that.

“Well, Pandora is like that too, so I guess I’m out.” Brennie huffed as she bit her lip and rubbed her falsely flat front, before she allowed it to swell into a term with quadruplets belly. I gulped and looked between Visilia and Vinnie. I’d be trying something new, but Luster looked at ease with me doing it with someone else first since she’s got Rivala inside of her.

“W-well, any takers?” I asked nervously, wringing my hands together. The regal and dominating Visilia Themis or the overwhelmingly sexy and energetic Vinnie Themis.

“Hm, has anyone ever tried having two Belly Pets?” Vinnie asked and I felt confused.

“Brennie.” Visi pointed out and the dracowolf blushed at being called out.

“No, no. I mean, recursive preggo belly pets. Like, if I unbirth her, then you unbirth me while I have her inside me…” Vinnie clarified and I felt myself boiling! Th-that sounds super hot!

“Well, she seems to like it. Let’s do it.” Visi approached a chair and sat down, spreading her legs. “Hurry up Vinnie, I don’t want to be kept waiting~.” I was promptly grabbed by the not-a-Jolteon and I squeaked when she shoved me down her pants and I promptly poured myself up into her empty womb. Wow. This is...great. It’s quiet aside from her body’s oddly accurate biological sounds. Y’know, heartbeat, gurgling-. “Oh~! Yes! Fill me you bitch!”

The compression! The feeling of Visi’s vaginal walls clenching around Vinnie as she was unbirthed was surprisingly pleasant! I pressed against the wall of Vinnie’s womb and got a groan of pleasure from my host. Soon, everything stilled aside from the feelings of pleasure I oddly had transmitted to me from Vinnie masturbating and groping her tits. I let myself quickly fall into a slumber. My gosh...the Void, being immobile, now this. So much peace...zzz.