First Recruits

by Marilyn Foxworthy

  I felt another subtle shudder run through the ship and asked Ee what was happening.

  She said, “Sorry. Nothing. I’m fine,” and then it happened again.

  She said, “Sorry. Um, that might happen for a while. It’s fine. I’m fine. Just ignore that.”

  As I stood in front of the door to my quarters, I heard Eevona announce, “All hands! Attention! The ship may experience periods of severe turbulence until further notice. There is no mechanical danger. It is strongly recommended that bedding be deployed quickly and that all personnel lie down while this condition lasts. This is not a drill.”

  I shook my head in a little disbelief at how the girls were treating this and the door in front of me opened. A woman that I had never seen before sat in a chair on the other side of the sofa, facing me.

  She said, “Captain,” and stood up.

  Chapter 26 - The Scent of Mercy

  This had to be Mercy, but she looked nothing like she had the last time I’d seen her. A short time ago, she had been bald, gray, flat, and naked. Now she was wearing a lacy nightgown that went just low enough on her legs that her crotch was covered, but not a millimeter lower.

  Stepping through the door, I approached the spot where she was standing, waiting for me, looking into my eyes. I tried to review everything that Michelle and the other girls had told me about their impressions of Mercy but I couldn’t remember any of it clearly right now. One of them had said, “goddess”. My body and brain screamed “lover”.

  We moved in unison then. I reached for the zipper at my neck and Mercy reached for the straps at her shoulders. I pulled the zipper down to my waist and Mercy slipped the shoulders of her gown over her arms. I let my jumpsuit fall to the ground and Mercy’s gown fell around her feet. Both of us took a step forward, coming a step closer to each other.

  I felt like it wasn’t just our movements that synchronized. It was our beings. My heart skipped a beat and joined hers. Her breath caught for an instant and slid into cadence with mine. And as our eyes stayed locked on each other, my penis swelled as quickly as her nipples. Her eyes widened and so did mine. Our hands were empty and longed to be filled with warm flesh and our bodies floated into the space separating us.

  I wasn’t going to ask any questions right now. I was going to do what felt natural, and if she had any doubts or hesitation, she could say so.

  As my hands slid around her waist, her arms wrapped themselves around my shoulders and together we lifted her up so that her legs circled my waist. Without a word, I started walking toward my bedroom and we kissed as we went. I didn’t go to the bed. I walked to the wall beside it. Ee had already turned it transparent and the stars and space filled the side of the room. I couldn’t see the window but I didn’t care. It was either there or it wasn’t. If it was, it would stop me when Mercy’s back was pressed against it. If it wasn’t there, I’d walk out into space and keep going.

  At the head of the bed, Mercy was pushed up against a firm surface separating us from the void. Her body stopped but mine kept going for another seven inches as we merged, my shaft docked hard in her pussy. She didn’t stop kissing me for an instant.

  Suddenly the ship shook violently, nearly throwing me off my feet.

  I heard Ee’s voice through a fog saying, “Brace for continued certain but unpredictable turbulence! All crew should be seated for safety at this time.”

  Mercy’s legs gripped my waist and her vagina gripped my cock. I held her and thrust at her, kissing her mouth and holding her butt in my hands. She bounced against the invisible wall and her nipples stabbed at my chest. Several times, just before Eevona trembled at Mercy’s powerful climaxes, Mercy’s legs went stiff and straight out behind me. I expected that if I could see her feet that her toes would be curled in excitement.

  I don’t know how long this lasted. I didn’t get tired of holding her. I didn’t feel a need or even desire to come to orgasm. I was content to drive in and out slowly, giving her my hardness and receiving her tenderness. Mercy’s vagina was every bit as amazing as the other girls and I knew somehow that she was far more skilled. She had me in a love grip and I didn’t want out. Neither did she. As far as I was concerned, this could go on forever. Eventually, I would fill her with my climax, but not yet. Maybe a year or two from now, but not yet.

  Finally, Mercy spoke again. Her first and only word so far had been “Captain”. Now she whispered, “Please. The bed.”

  I turned from the invisible wall and laid Mercy on her back on the mattress of my bed. I didn’t bother to stay inside her, but rather let her slide away from me to get comfortable. When she was free from me, she moved so that her head was on my pillow and her naked body lay in the center of the horizontal throne that I slept in with my women. Climbing over her, she took my wrists in her hands and held me with her arms behind her head. It was a clear demonstration of a healthy act of submission; the kind of submission that the girls and I had with each other, giving way to whoever was best suited to handle any situation at any moment. In this moment, Mercy knew that I was handling her and she was content to let me.

  My penis guided itself into her body again, naturally and without any help from either Mercy or me.

  Mercy gasped and whispered, “I can’t go on,” and both she and Eevona shuddered violently.

  Riding her mound for another two or three minutes, proving that she could indeed go on, feeling her convulsions as they ripped through Eevona’s hull, I filled her. And then I let go and dowsed her inner walls with my flood.

  During this entire interlude, I hadn’t said a word. She had said just eight: “Captain. Please. The Bed. I can’t go on.” Neither of us screamed or even moaned. But we had enjoyed it. There was no doubt about that.

  I heard Ee announce, “The turbulence has abated for the present. Please stay in a ready state. I will give some warning if possible.”

  It gave me a wicked idea and I quickly rolled off of Mercy and put my hand to her vulva and rubbed her to an orgasm while Ee was just finishing her sentence. Mercy grunted and came hard against my fingers and I felt the ship jump as if we had been hit by a meteor. I was kissing Mercy when Ee started making apologies to the crew a second later.

  I said, “Ee, give us privacy.”

  Ee didn’t bother to respond. I knew that she quit listening at that moment and wouldn’t come back until I went to the corridor and called her.

  Lying beside Mercy, holding her massive breast in my hand, I sighed and relaxed. Yes, Mercy was different now. When she had left me, she had been bald, gray, flat and naked. When I entered the room, she was wearing a nightgown. The other changes were more astonishing.

  She was no longer bald. She had a shoulder-length mane of reddish-gold hair. It was shiny and incredibly soft. A small patch of the same silky fur adorned her pubic area. I let my fingers play there as we relaxed.

  Mercy was no longer gray, either. Her skin was a radiant bronze color. She wasn’t shiny. Not metallic at all. The coloring was soft, like a luxurious bronze fabric that wanted you to touch it and feel it and wrap yourself in it. It went with her hair in a wonderful way.

  And Mercy was certainly not flat. She was flawlessly curved. Her breasts were at least as large as Michelle’s. The nipples and areola were a darker shade of the color of her skin, bronze with a redder tint to them. I played with them idly as I lay next to her on my bed.

  We started kissing again and her hand snaked down to the area below my waist and we fondled each other like lovers, my hand on her tit and her hand on my post and balls. Our lovemaking had been wonderful but without technique. It was anything but awkward and yet I knew that after this she would teach me things and that I would experience things sexually that I had never dreamed of. This hadn’t been the time for that. This had been our first “DNA fluid exchange” and our first sexual bonding experience. The real fun was yet to come. Everything about her told me that she was a true sexual savant. We’d explore her skills another time.

  Part of me want
ed to go again. Part of me wanted to explore things about her other than sex. Other than lovemaking. She had only said eight words to me. Probably less than twenty since I’d met her. But there was no doubt that she did belong. She was mine in a way that was unique. And I was hers in the same way.

  I whispered, “I don’t know what to do now.”

  She smiled at me, lying on our sides, caressing each other, and said, “Do we have to do something?”

  I said, “We probably do. Mercy, tell me something.”

  She didn’t wait for me to tell her what I wanted to know. I had asked her to tell me something, so she chose something to tell me.

  She said quietly, “I have a lot to learn. It’s ironic. Tell me what you want to do.”

  I said, “I want to invite the girls to join us. To get to know us. I mean you. No, I mean us. I want to have us all get to know each other. You will be one of us, won’t you?”

  She said, “Lover, I have little choice. It is my choice and I make it freely and wholeheartedly. It’s like the choice was made a thousand years ago and we have been waiting for the fulfillment of our purpose. It has always been my purpose to be with you and the girls. It has been your purpose to rescue us and love us this way for longer than you knew. Bring our lovers to your bed and let’s get to know them.”

  I said, “Ee, send the girls to my stateroom.”

  There was no answer.

  Mercy laughed gently and said, “Touch your ear-comm and tell her again.”

  I touched the thing in my ear and repeated my request and Ee immediately answered, “Aye Aye, Captain. Executive staff, please report to the Captain in his stateroom.”

  Mercy said, “You told her to give us privacy. She can’t hear you unless you use the comm specifically.”

  Mercy and I stayed in bed and waited. I didn’t see a need to get dressed. This was going to be an intimate meeting.

  A few minutes later, I heard, “Captain, are you here?”

  I said, “In the bedroom. Come on in.”

  All three girls walked in together. Seeing Mercy and me in bed, now covered by a luxurious purple sheet, Allie squealed gleefully and stripped in an instant. She ran to the bed and launched herself at us. Grabbing the sheet, she pulled it back, nearly tearing it from the bed, took a quick look at Mercy’s new body and threw herself on top of the girl and hugged her excitedly.

  Mercy laughed and said, “Hello Allie.”

  Allie said, “You look marvelous! Did you fuck? Was it fun? Can I kiss you?”

  Mercy laughed again and said, “I’d love to kiss you,” and Allie was on her before she’d quite finished speaking.

  The kiss didn’t last long, but it looked like Allie had fully attacked Mercy’s mouth and it seemed like Allie took a big handful of breast and had given Mercy a good feel as well. Allie pulled off and jumped out of bed as quickly as she’d jumped in.

  Running to a cabinet at the side of the room, she quickly started pulling out some objects that looked like cushions with legs attached. She tossed them toward the bed and told us to get up and stand aside for a moment while she worked. A few seconds later, the bed had been extended to the side about three feet in a way that made it wide enough for all five of us. She re-tucked the sheets, which were already big enough for the larger configuration.

  She smiled and said, “There we go. You guys should kiss Mercy. It’s wonderful. And feel her boobs! Isn’t she beautiful? Mercy, you’ll like it here! Let’s all get in bed. Why are you still wearing uniforms? Oh, are we supposed to be dressed? No, um, the Captain is naked, so what’s going on? I thought we were getting into bed so that we can hug and get to know Mercy. It’s a pretty name. It means compassion and forgiveness. Mercy, did you need that? Or is that why you’re here? To get that? But come on, get in bed. It will be cozy!”

  We all smiled and I nodded and the girls removed their uniforms. I liked the lack of underwear.

  Allie pushed Mercy in beside me and Allie slid in beside her. Michelle and Bailey climbed in on the other side of me and I was sandwiched by two on my left and two on my right.

  When we were settled, Allie asked Mercy again if the name meant something to her and Mercy smiled.

  Mercy spoke in English when she said, “It does. And to answer your other questions, we did, and it was, and it was more than I had actually imagined.”

  Michelle said, “Mercy, you belong here. Um, we think you do. Um, you have your own choices, so I didn’t mean to tell you what to do. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that.”

  Bailey said quickly, “What we mean is that you are welcome here. It’s up to you. But we would be honored.”

  Mercy laughed and said, “You guys, of course I’m staying. Have you lost your minds?”

  Allie said, “I wouldn’t blame them if they did.”

  Mercy said, “OK, for those of you of a more bureaucratic mindset, I have my registration, I have a DNA fluid exchange, a very complete, thorough, and highly enjoyable one, by the way. So, since I have taken an oath of loyalty as binding as any first partner arrangement can be, you girls are stuck with me for life. Michelle, I’m still a bit dehydrated. The transformation took a lot of energy.”

  Michelle stammered, “Oh, of course! I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry!”

  All the girls were so flustered by something about Mercy that I shouldn’t have been surprised at what happened next but I was.

  Michelle hurried to climb over me and knelt on her hands and knees, with her breasts directly over Mercy’s lips.

  Mercy said, “Oh, that isn’t what I was asking for but…” and she opened her mouth with a smile and started to suckle.

  Apparently, Mercy had been asking for another glass of “nutri-fluid”, but Michelle was so in a hurry to provide it that she offered it straight from her “on-board canteens”. I thought that I could use some myself and repositioned in bed so that while Mercy drank from the one, I could enjoy the other.

  Allie giggled and said, “I have got to spend some more effort on learning to do that.”

  Michelle grunted hoarsely, “It does feel good.”

  I said, “Ee, are we safe for excitement?”

  Ee said, “Yeah, but Captain, I’m kind of…tired.”

  I said, “I’ll be gentle.”

  I continued sucking at Michelle’s wonderful globe and slid my hand into the space between her legs, above Mercy’s crotch. Playing tenderly with Michelle’s clit, I brought her to orgasm and felt a flood of warm sweet milk gush into my mouth spontaneously. Mercy hadn’t been ready and was caught by surprise and choked and started coughing. Michelle collapsed, smothering both me and Mercy with her chest. I rolled Michelle back into her spot beside me and laughed.

  I said, “Ee, how long until we reach the debris field.”

  Ee said, “We are approaching it now, Captain.”

  I said, “Girls, should we try to get the crew started or should we give everyone a day to rest?”

  Bailey said, “The ship is crowded. It will be more comfortable if we can offload some personnel. And the crew will feel more comfortable once the work starts and they see what conditions are. They still don’t quite believe what’s happening.”

  Michelle said, “We only have eight hard suits. We can only send a few out until we establish a base.”

  I said, “So, you recommend that we put a small crew to work exploring with the mission of finding a base ship and making it habitable?”

  Bailey said, “I do. A lot of these Units, sorry, women, haven’t had any work for quite a while. They’ll welcome it. And I think that they are in fine physical condition to get started if Michelle agrees.”

  Michelle said, “I concur. But I only want four hard suits taken off the ship for now.”

  I said, “Ee, can you read the data from the exploration mules and find a good candidate for a habitable ship?”

  Ee said, “I’m on it now.”

  I said, “So, Bailey, can you and Michelle explain the assignment and get four of them out
in the shuttle as soon as we identify a target?”

  Bailey said, “I’ll go now.”

  Michelle said, “We’ll take people from several different companies. Let them work together. Take a command unit, a chief engineer, a mechanic, and a laborer. We’ll tell them to find a ship with Ee’s help, see if it’s livable, and make it ready. We have roughly fifty people in each company. They should start by finding a ship big enough for a single company to live on and work from.”

  Bailey said, “That will make it easier to find one small enough to repair in a reasonable time.”

  Shortly afterward, Michelle and Bailey dressed and left for the cargo bay to identify a crew. As soon as we had a habitable ship, one capable of being lived in, we would shuttle more workers who could start repairing less critical systems and then move to find another when the hard suits weren’t needed for the repair work.

  Mercy said, “I’d like to help. The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can relax and get to know each other better.”

  I said, “What do you want to do?”

  She smiled and said, “Take me to the command deck. The bridge, I guess. I need to look at the maps.”

  Mercy and I pulled on tunics this time and I took her to the bridge. She smiled and sat in a chair beside mine and took a second to familiarize herself with the layout.

  She said, “Eevona, give me full unrestricted access to all records and charts.”

  I was a little surprised that she hadn’t asked permission but simply gave Ee an order. I was a little more surprised when Eevona complied without comment.

  Mercy watched a large screen in front of us and said, “Show me an overview of the debris field. Good. Yes. There were three combatants. It started with two and then a third came when the opportunity presented itself. Rotate the view 28 degrees clockwise. OK, move to the far right of the screen and show me the twenty percent in the center. Now to the right again. Up. Right. Zoom in eighty percent. That one. At screen coordinates blah blah blah.”

  She didn’t say “blah blah blah”, but it wasn’t something that I understood yet.