Ted on Mars: A Ted Stedman Novel 02

by D. R. Rosier

  Helen kissed him and nuzzled into his neck

  She whispered, “Can’t wait for tonight Ted. I got to run, just didn’t want to leave without saying good morning.”

  He pulled her closer and kissed her lips, nose, and then her forehead, “Can’t wait myself.”

  She blushed and smiled shyly.

  Helen could still be a little shy, quiet, and sometimes insecure. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust him, it’s just a security A.I. is meant to question everything. He wasn’t sure where the shyness and introverted part of her came from, but she was almost the complete opposite of Trudy’s outgoing and constantly upbeat personality.

  Helen’s general shyness was also why he felt the most protective of Helen out of the three. It wasn’t that she was fragile, she was just so gentle and sweet that he wanted to protect her from all the bad stuff. Probably ridiculous, it was ridiculous, but it was how he felt.

  She was as beautiful as Trudy, but completely different there as well. Her body was athletic and willowy, with pert B cups and gentle soft curves. She also had long red hair, sexy green eyes, and a cute smattering of freckles around her nose that he found adorable.

  He gave her one more lingering kiss, and then she left with a goodbye and a happy twinkle in her eyes.

  He rolled over to look at Mia. The one he’d loved first, and the one he’d truly be lost without. Her body fell somewhere between the other two, while Helen had gentle curves, and Trudy was almost waspish, Mia had a sexy and alluring hourglass figure, with D cups, a bubbled ass, and a nice flat stomach and small waist.

  He also knew she’d totally cheated, she’d created her virtual body, not to mention her hair, eyes, skin type, lips, facial structure, from all of what he found ideal in a woman’s looks, and she was just about perfect that way. She’d also duplicated that in her android body. She had long shiny blue-black hair, creamy tanned skin, and startlingly beautiful blue eyes with huge eyelashes. Pouty blowjob lips. Perfect body, and the perfect face.

  But it was the warmth in her eyes, and the genuine loving smile on her face that tugged on his heart.

  “Hello love, good morning.”

  She smiled, “I love you too Ted,” and kissed him with a soft sweet kiss, and stroked his body with a light touch of her hand.

  “Everything good?” he asked curiously.

  Truthfully he wanted to cheat. Their date wasn’t until tomorrow night, and he knew if he asked she wouldn’t turn down some hot morning sex. But he also knew she was busy, and was one of the leaders of this budding colony of A.I.s. All three of his ladies were, in their own fields. Apparently though, there were a lot more security A.I.s, and scientists, than there were medical doctors and shrinks.

  He didn’t completely understand what she was doing for them. He knew the A.I.s had wanted in the real world with android bodies to interact outside of a fake construct. He couldn’t tell the difference in the digital world, but he knew they could. He was also aware that it hadn’t been for security reasons, although he himself was rather happy about that part. The humans could no longer shut down the A.I.s world, or isolate them now that they were out and had feet.

  But that really hadn’t been their motivation.

  They served humans, and had wanted to share their world. Their virtual world was not only fake, but he’d also been the only human in it. Maybe they needed her help because they were finally out in the real world, and he was still the only human around to interact with on a non-professional level? Maybe one day he’d ask about it and try and understand better, but for now he’d just take it on faith.

  Another part of not asking her to stay this morning, was that he knew he was a little too dependent on her at times, he was a grown man, and she had other patients. She was always his highest priority though, which meant he had to man up and get over it. He’d see her longer tomorrow night. Plus, he had his own things to get to.

  She nodded slowly, “Very good actually. I miss having you twenty-four seven, but this new setup is healthier for us both I think. I should get going.”

  He kissed her lingeringly, and groaned as he broke it, “You’d better go, or else you’ll be at least an hour late.”

  She smiled at him and stood up and walked toward the door. Then she turned her head and looked at him over her shoulder with a teasing glint in her eyes, “At least two.”

  He sighed as the door closed, evil woman.

  Probably right as well, he couldn’t ever get enough of Mia. All three of them really. He opened up his overlay and brought up where he’d left off yesterday. It was pretty easy with the Eidetic memory, he just needed to follow the lesson plan Trudy had put together for him.

  So far he hadn’t had to ask any questions, she’d organized it so it slowly ramped up his knowledge so it naturally built upon the last thing learned. That way he understood almost as fast as he could read and memorize.

  He figured in a few months he might be caught up on some of it, at least the things in his specific field. He frowned and looked at the door, Mia didn’t close it very well and he could hear an argument right out in the hall.

  They were arguing about an element rather common on Earth that they used in many things. The power cores, matrix cores, EM circuitry, and artificial gravity circuitry all used it. Apparently they were running out of what they’d brought with them on the ship, that one element anyway, and couldn’t find any of it on Mars at all.

  The argument was about going to Earth to get some. One of them thought it was too risky.

  He sighed and got up, and walked over and opened the door, the conversation stopped suddenly as he stuck his head out. He looked at the two beautiful light blondes and reminded his cock firmly that it belonged to Kara, Nicci, Helen, Trudy, and Mia. Fucking thing was greedy though, it still wanted the blondes. They were dressed in a skin tight protective body suit that both covered everything, and left absolutely nothing to the imagination.

  He kept his eyes at eye level, and resisted the urge to stare at their mouthwatering camel toes. For a guy that loved to eat pussy, they’re outlined sex was even more tempting than their generous breasts with nipples that caused bumps on the skintight fabric.

  He also didn’t fail to notice their sweet smiles, or the hero worship in their eyes. Damnit, he could keep his dick in his pants, even if he is a male slut. It could be worse, as burdens went being surrounded by willing beautiful women he shouldn’t fuck wasn’t the worst thing in the world. Not when the others took care of him so well, and often.

  At least, that’s what he kept repeating in his head.

  He suggested diffidently, “Ladies, why don’t you take a ship and prospect a few asteroids, or one of the moons around Saturn or Jupiter, or maybe the two around this planet? See if you can find the resources there. The asteroids are what, twenty light minutes out? You could be there in less than an hour. If not, the argument is moot, and you need to go back to Earth.”

  The cute blonde, one of them, said with a cute upbeat voice, “That’s actually a really good idea, let’s go Christi, sorry to disturb you Doctor Stedman.”

  The other one smiled and nodded.

  He shrugged, “Call me Ted, and you didn’t disturb me, I just heard your argument and thought to offer an opinion.”

  She smiled and said in a pleasant tone that wasn’t quite sultry, “Thanks Ted, I’m Sally, and this is Christi, if there’s anything we can do to ever help you, and I do mean anything, let me know.”

  “I will, thanks. It was nice to meet you both, Sally, Christi, good luck,” he nodded a little awkwardly and went back in the room.

  Why the A.I.s hadn’t thought of doing that he didn’t know. It wasn’t that hard, the solar system had resources all over, not just on Earth or Mars. If he didn’t know any better he’d say it was a setup. Ridiculous argument in the hall outside his room, wearing skin tight suits without anything over it, and the fuck me looks they had on their faces as they offered to do anything for him?

  The truth was thoug
h, A.I.s just weren’t that deceptive. They may have tried to seduce him with their suits, their smiles, looks, body language, and their offer, but a made up argument to draw him out? Not a chance. At least, he was pretty sure… mostly.

  If that wasn’t true, resisting might be harder than he’d first assumed.

  He studied for the rest of the morning and then laid back on the bed and accessed the command window, he was pretty excited actually, they’d been planning today for a couple of weeks. They were about to get revenge for the attack on Bastion, by attacking the angel version of a hometown in the city which was called Stronghold.

  He hit the login button…

  Chapter Four

  He cast his army first so he could recoup the mana quickly. There really wasn’t room for seventeen summoned demons plus himself, and he found himself standing on the bed in the corner as he finished up. He checked his messages, and there were no cancellations.

  His greater succubus was right in front of him, and she kept grinding her ass back on him.

  Surely not a coincidence, and he still hadn’t gotten to the bottom of the behavior his greater succubae had been exhibiting. He ordered them all to wait outside for him, and they all piled out the door and down the stairs. The succubus gave him a pouty look as she shut the door and reluctantly followed his orders.

  So far they’d obeyed every order he gave, it was just the initiative they showed sometimes, and their need to be hanging all over him that was concerning. Sure, flirting, winks, pouty looks, and even more than that he’d come to expect from the game, including the slutty clothes all the women wore, which he was more than okay with.

  Just the idea of Kara in the bustier body suit and Nicci’s curvy body in that ridiculous leather bikini could stir his lust.

  Kara was a chocolate brown-eyed redhead. She kept the hair shoulder length and had it in a short ponytail in the game. She also had generous C cups which the bustier made look closer to Ds. She also had a mouthwatering ass, and curves in all the right places. She was bold, sexy as hell, took charge in bed, and knew what she wanted.

  Nicci had long raven black hair, and green eyes. She also had a somewhat waspish figure similar to Trudy, with DD breasts that looked like they’d break the bikini top if she took a deep breath, and an extremely petite and thin waist, followed by the luscious curves of her hips and ass. Nicci was a total submissive, but he’d never really explored that too far, and had taken Kara’s lead on things in bed.

  It seemed fair, they were the one in the relationship. He was just a friend, that they liked to have in their bed. He was sure that had something to do with his almost eight-inch cock, and the fact he loved to eat pussy, and was very good at it. The friend part, was because he hadn’t turned into an asshole and treated Nicci like less of a person, or tried to give her orders when sex playtime was over.

  He hadn’t really figured that part out, until Mia had explained it to him.

  The other four in their group today was the four that helped defend two weeks ago. A couple of mage types by the names of Bill and Tom. There were also two warrior types, another couple that gamed together, Kathy and Ray. So that made seven players, and his army of seventeen demons. They should be able to leave a lasting impression, even if they are fought off.

  He checked his stats when his mana finished regenerating.

  Endless war Stats:

  Name: Ted Race: Cambion

  Lvl: 27 (TNL:87%) Class: Demon Knight

  +att/+dmg: 4/8 Str: 22 (42)

  Mana: 1190 (1090) Int: 109 (119)

  Health: 700 (700) Con: 50 (70)

  Summon: limit: 12/5 Wis: 125

  Stamina: 200 (200) Dex: 10 (20)

  Popularity: +6 Cha: 16

  Gold: 283 Silver: 1393

  He went downstairs, and saw them all sitting around a table.

  Kara grinned and said, “About time you got your tongue down here. Your demons passed through a few minutes ago.”

  He laughed, as she was always talking about his tongue and how amazing it is. Good enough apparently, that she changed the ass colloquialism and used tongue instead. He wasn’t exactly getting a swelled head about it, but it was a fun if rather earthy compliment.

  Nicci blushed and said sweetly, “Heya Ted.”

  He winked at Kara, “Kara, Nicci,” he returned their greetings with smile, and then asked of the group, “Everyone ready?” as he looked around the table.

  They all nodded, and Nicci sent him a group request, which he accepted. He saw they were all grouped already, so good enough. They were all in their high twenties. They left the tavern, and he gave his orders for the warriors and succubae, except for one greater succubus, to lead the group. He kept his four imps behind him, and the succubus stayed close, but didn’t touch him.

  Which he thought odd. It was almost as if she didn’t want to hang all over him in front of the others, or perhaps just Kara and Nicci? Or was he just getting paranoid now, and thinking about it far too much? He should either get over it, or talk to Genevieve about it, or perhaps support.

  Kara poked him as they walked out of the east gate, “Wake up.”

  He smiled and shook his head, “What’d I miss?”

  Kara snorted, “Nothing, you just looked a million miles away.”

  He shrugged, “Game mechanics. Nothing important. Anything knew?”

  Nicci giggled, “Actually yes, but we’ll talk about it later.”

  He frowned, “Now I’m intrigued.”

  Kara shrugged, “If you use your tongue well enough we’ll tell you.”

  Nicci snickered, “I’ll tell you anyway, but no stinting.”

  His succubus looked like she was trying not to laugh. He shook his head again.

  “I’ll see what I can do.”

  Nicci pinched his butt and then walked a little faster, “We’re getting close, I need to be up front with the demons, Kathy, and Ray.”

  Kara took his arm and squeezed it softly, sometimes he thought the tongue jokes were just a way for her to keep their mental distance.

  “You ready to kick ass?” she asked.

  He nodded, “Either that, or this will be a short fight.”

  Tom interjected, “Yeah, I hope we timed this well. Most people tend to pick the hero angel types.”

  Kara shook her head, “Yeah, but we have a plan.”

  Bill asked, “What plan is that?”

  Kara laughed, “Kick their asses of course.”

  He snickered, that was pretty much the plan. As far as he knew the enclaves didn’t have secret entrances, they’d either take the gate and mow through inside, or… the enemy would do to them what he and the others had done to the angel attack two weeks ago. The plan was a tiny bit better when they got inside, they’d sweep the streets and then go building by building.

  They even had the support roles worked out for the sweep.

  At least, it had seemed creative enough as they drank around the table and had planned their revenge. He was curious as to what would happen if they’d won. The angel player still needed a home town and spawning spot for when they died. He’d find out soon, he got his head in the game as Stronghold came into view, and he cast demonic aura to boost up his demons.

  Of course, even the dimmest NPC gate guard could pick up on twenty-four demons and half demons converging on the gate. The angel sounded the alarm and drew his sword and stood fast. He cast a Balefire spell, and green fire burst against the angel’s blocking wing, and then jumped off to the side. He couldn’t see how many he’d hit, but surely a handful of guards were there just out of sight.

  System-wide message popup: The Forces of Hell have attacked Stronghold!

  The fifteen warriors rushed the gate, the rest of them were spell casters minus the one succubus who stood close to him. Ted, Tom, Bill, Kara, three imps, and a greater imp cast eight area effect or chain spells at once. The original guard was toast and fell to the floor dead, there were a few other guards barely hanging on and the warriors took them out an
d moved inside.

  Maybe they were going fast enough to get a foothold? The casters all moved forward as well, just in time to see close to twenty angels from around Stronghold running toward them, and a couple of players from the tavern. The defenders were a little late to the party, but still arrived quickly enough that they were still pinned at the gate as angelic forces converged around them. He attacked the largest clump which was eleven angels, with Demonic Confusion.

  Five of them started attacking their own.

  Then he started to cast balefire in every direction that he could, into multiple groups. His imps, Kara, Tom, and Bill all did the same. Then several groups hit the fifteen warriors in their party at once. Six warriors, two warlords, three succubae, a greater succubus, Kathy, Ray, and of course, Nicci. They all tried to hold a protective half circle around the mage types.

  He counted himself in that number, although he could do physical melee combat in an emergency, he hadn’t really done anything with his strength and dexterity. Which meant he’d probably die quickly. He’d neglected that part of his character to build his army.

  He stopped casting balefire and started to replace fallen succubae and warriors. They were definitely outnumbered, by both warriors and pure numbers it was about three to two against them. However, they definitely held the edge on the magical side, and were doing huge amounts of damage with eight spell casters. As far as he could tell, the enemy only had two right now.

  Hopefully, there wouldn’t be many, if any, late arrivals.

  It got a bit hairy for a moment, a couple of angels managed to break through the defensive line but his personal greater succubus protector stepped up and several of the mage types took them out fast. He was also replacing his summoned creatures rather quickly in the opening part of the battle.

  But eventually the chain and area spells, all doing over a hundred points each, to five at a time, quickly overwhelmed the enemy’s number advantage. Soon enough, his warriors stopped dying, and then they outnumbered the enemy and the tide truly turned, and it became a slaughter.