[Episode 244521] [Episode 244521]Nerima, Aruka Ran's scoutship home at the Tendō residence (local time: 9:11 PM)…
"Don't be ashamed to show yourself, my wife. Let me see you."
A red-faced Akane blinked as she heard that teasing voice, and then she sighed as she pulled her arms away from her body, revealing her breasts and her womanhood for her wife — also nude and now lying on her bed, her legs tucked in though spread out in invitation for Akane to taste her now-damp opening — to gaze at. "I'm sorry about this, Ran," she then admitted before taking a deep breath and walking over to sit down at the side of the circular water bed Ran slept in. "I like the idea of being married to you, but to actually have it happen so fast…" She then giggled before she gazed once more at the rose-haired alien. "Is this normal for your kind?"
"Less so Seishins like myself than Onis like Lum-chan," Ran admitted as she shifted herself to one side, reaching over to gently feel the curve of Akane's firm buttocks. At that touch, Akane was quick to sense an increase of the warmth she had been feeling from her new wife since that incredible moment that morning when their blood was spilt thanks to Kunō Tatewaki on the front lawn of Fūrinkan. "Under most normal circumstances, Seishins like me go through the whole long courting process you Terrans like so much. That's how my mother was able to win my late father over to her. But we still hold onto the tradition that if blood is shared, our hearts become one."
Akane looked down. "I'm sorry that you got trapped into that, Ran."
Ran blinked, and then she laughed. "Well, that makes two of us. But I could tell that you were more than happy to finally find some way to get free of those stupid boys back at your school. How in the Maidens' Names did that start, anyway?"
"Thank Kunō; he's Kodachi's brother and a senior now at school. His father, wherever he is, is the principal there," Akane explained. "He's always been attracted to me since I began attending there last year. But I was never really in the mood to seek out a boyfriend; I always found myself attracted to more mature men. And he kept trying and trying and I kept making it clear that I didn't want anything to do with him. He wouldn't listen. And then, three months ago, just after Ranma got married to Shinobu-san, he came up with this insane speech he made to the school. The only way that any boy attending Fûrinkan High could date me was that they had to defeat me in battle. Right the next morning, the Horde started up. And kept right on going…"
Before the youngest Tendō could say anything more, she found herself in her wife's arms, Ran holding her tight as she tried to fight back tears. "You put up to that…for THREE WHOLE MONTHS?!" the alien woman gasped before she turned to hold Akane's head steady before her as she gazed into the Terran's dark brown eyes. "Gods, why didn't your father do something about this?! Take you out of the school; transfer you to a private school?! Have those boys arrested or…well…!"
A sigh. "Tō-chan did try to do something, but the Kunô family has too much sway in this town. The staff wouldn't dare try to process a transfer to another school if they didn't want to lose their jobs; Kunō wouldn't allow it and he threatened to call his father back from Hawai'i if he didn't get his way." Another sigh. "Kodachi tried to help, especially after she and Kanami started seeing each other. Using her own expertise in drugs and chemistry to try to find some way to slow Kunō down. But it just wouldn't work in the long term; he's just too damned stubborn." Akane then gave her wife a look. "Chances are there that if you start coming to school with me, he'll either start trying to fight you or maybe chase you down. You have to admit, the way Avalonian women like to live their lives is any boy's wet dream come true."
Ran then smirked. "Well, then, he hasn't faced me yet, my beloved Akane. I've been known to pull some very nasty things on people who've crossed my path." The smile then turned lethal. "And I have a strong feeling that Kunō here doesn't have a clue as to what's going on with all of Earth." On seeing Akane shake her head, the alien woman then hummed. "Well, let's see how he likes the idea of my threatening to take you back to either Shingetsu or maybe to another planet…"
"Like Pacifica," Akane cut in.
A nod. "Hai!"
Both girls then laughed, and then they gazed at each other for a moment before Akane then leaned in. Ran remained in place as her new wife's lips brushed up against hers, and then she gently drew Akane into her lap as their mouths opened and their tongues began to play with each other. In a moment, both were lying down on the bed, Ran to Akane's left side as the alien's hands began to explore the Terran's body. Akane shivered slightly, which made Ran stop as she pulled away from her. "First time?"
Akane blinked, and then she nodded. "I…um, well, there've been times when I've played with myself or with Sayuri-chan or Yuka-chan — they're my best friends — but n-no…not all the way…" She then closed her eyes. "Please be gentle."
Ran breathed out. "I will be, my wife. I will be…"
She then blinked as something seemed to touch her mind for a brief moment, and then she tensed as she felt a directed empathic probe come her way. "What the…?" she began as she looked over her right shoulder, and then she hissed. "Oh, hell…"
"What?!" Akane gasped.
"A sister…" Ran said…
A block away from the Tendō home…
"Did you stop her? Did you stop that alien from hurting Akane-san?!"
The crimson-haired tomboy with the dark chestnut-brown eyes — not to mention tapered ears and a leather-and-metal collar around her neck — turned to gaze in confusion on the shivering boy nearby, who was still dressed in his high school uniform. "She was not hurting Akane-san," she calmly stated in a formal yet still human-sounding voice. "She was about to engage in sexual intercourse with her. You stated that Ran-san now sees herself as married to Akane-san. Is not sexual intercourse a normal mode of expression by members of a married couple?"
"THEY ARE NOT MARRIED!" Gosunkugi Hikaru blurted out as loud as he could, which wasn't really that loud to begin with. Still, the woman in the form-fitting jumpsuit paid attention to him. "That was something that alien monster did to make Akane-san turn away from men! You have to stop her, Karen-san! You said you can do it!"
A nod. "If that is what you desire…"
"YES! YES! THAT'S WHAT I DESIRE! SAVE AKANE-SAN!"
Karen blinked, and then she turned to walk off towards the front gate of the Tendō home. Watching her go, Hikaru could only breathe out in relief. It had been truly a strange bit of luck when he had encountered Karen and her five strange companions one day when he was going through one of the more remote parts of the local Ginza…
The Nerima Ginza, two months ago…
"Hello, there."
Hikaru gasped on hearing that polite voice, and then he slowly turned around to see a very pretty girl gazing at him. Of course, it was quite hard for him to not stare at said girl as she was dressed in a jumpsuit that almost seemed like a second skin to her, solid black save for the slight V-shaped cut at her collar that dipped down to show a little bit of her cleavage. She appeared to be in her late teens, possessing long and straight black hair that went down all the way to mid-back, with sea blue eyes under reading glasses. The only thing that was truly odd about her was her ears. And on seeing those gracefully tapered appendages sticking out of her skull…
"You're a fairy!" Hikaru gasped as he pointed at her.
The strange woman blinked before she tilted her head to the side as she gave him a confused look. "'Fairy?'" she repeated that word as a far-away look crossed her face, as if she was trying to recall something that she knew she had to know but couldn't exactly put her finger on what it was. She then focused her attention back to him as she took a step forward to gaze intently into his eyes. "Explain, please," she said in a voice that brooked no defiance. "What exactly is a fairy?"
Hikaru jerked on hearing her tone, and then he blinked. "You don't know?"
"No, I do not know. What exactly is a fair? Answer, now."
The frail would-be voodoo sorcerer nearly felt his bowels go as she seemed to look right through his eyes into his very soul…and found what lay within wanting. Oh, gods! She's some sort of killer robot from the future! he mentally gasped before he gulped. "Um, w-well, a fairy is a m-magical creature with sp-special powers…"
The woman blinked for a moment as she took that in, and then she hummed. "Then you will assist us," she declared as she reached down to grasp her hands in his own. "My designation is Mitsuko. My companions…" — she waved over her left shoulder as five other women, all dressed as she was, walked out of the shadows they had been standing in to join them — "…are Harumi, Karen, Natsuko, Kiriko and Mirai." As Hikaru blinked as he gazed on all of them, his jaw dropping on noting the fact that all of them also had tapered ears, not to mention were insanely beautiful in a way that he never could imagine women to be, Mitsuko added, "We suffered some injury in the immediate past that made us forget what we are and how we came to be as we are. We will live with you as we investigate ourselves further, Gosunkugi Hikaru."
Hikaru jolted on hearing her address him by name, and then he blinked. "You must have used your magic to probe my mind," he concluded, and then he nodded. While he could have refused them, he was afraid that it would be bad if he did. "Well…okay."
The six women staring at him all smiled. They had such pretty smiles…
By the Tendō home (local time: 9:28 PM)…
Hikaru breathed out as Karen walked calmly out from their hiding place behind the wall surrounding a home across from the Tendō home and walked over to the front gate. Watching the redhead proceed calmly ahead, the frail student could only sigh. Much that he did really like his six new alien friends — that had been one of the things they had discovered with his help over the last couple of months — his heart was set on somehow winning Tendô Akane over. Much to his personal joy and delight, his new friends supported his desires for Akane to become his "child-mate" (no doubt, the term was their version of "spouse") and had been monitoring the movements of people like Kunō Tatewaki and his friends to better judge how they could do something like that.
Of course, during the last two months, Hikaru had learned that these girls — whoever and whatever they were and wherever they came from — were not too shy about using considerable force when dealing with potential opponents. Especially when it came to Mirai, who seemed to have been trained as some sort of covert warrior similar to the ninja and kunoichi of old. Remembering what had happened when the usual gang of street thugs had tried to shake him down for money, Hikaru then winced. Much that he hated those creeps, they didn't deserve to get compound leg fractures that would lay them up in the hospital for weeks afterward. It was just blind luck that none of them had seen Mirai attack them, much less anyone else. Fortunately for his peace of mind, she had accepted his scolding with a level of stoicism that made him feel ashamed; all he had to really to do when it came to her was just ask her not to be so rough.
Now…
"Damn!"
"How bad is it?!"
"Bad," Ran — who had draped herself in a nightshirt before racing to her ship's control platform so she could use the sensor suite to see what was going on — said as she gazed at the picture of Karen now calmly walking to the front gate of the Tendō home. "She's Niphentaxian-form; when the factory was liberated, not every Avalonian was retrieved. At best estimates, there are still several hundred missing. And she's probably one of them…wait a minute." She tapped controls to blow up a sector of the picture, revealing a very frail man her age peeking out from behind the corner of the neighbours across the street, clearly watching Karen's movement. "Who's he?!"
Akane — also now in a nightshirt — could only gape. "That's Gosunkugi Hikaru! He's a classmate of mine, but he never was…" Her jaw then dropped as it suddenly hit her. Just because this particular fellow wasn't a fighter…! "Oh, hell!"
"Doesn't seem to be much of anything outside skin and bones, but he's clearly got a fighter working for him now," Ran noted as she blew the picture back up to reveal Karen now standing by the front gate, her head scanning around as she seemed to take a moment to determine her next move. "And if he's interested in you and she supports that…"
Akane paled. "Are you going to have to fight her?"
The Seishin girl sighed. "I'd prefer not to…" she breathed out, and then she took a deep breath as she closed her eyes. «Sister!»
Outside, Karen jolted as that whispered voice echoed in her mind, and then she blinked in confusion as a surge of recognition flooded her. «How are you able to communicate with me like this?» she immediately demanded. «Explain!»
«Because I'm an Avalonian. Just like you.»
Silence.
"Avalonian…" Karen whispered. «What is an Avalonian?»
«A biological android. A bioroid for short,» Ran replied back. «As human or as humanoid as the next person, but created in a massive city-sized laboratory ship that was once used and abused by people who have your general features, especially your ear contours.» Karen was quick to sense the disgust in the other woman's voice on mentioning these beings she was shaped to resemble. «Five years ago, the laboratory ship was liberated from their control and almost all those that the ship had created were free, but a good amount could not be found. Are you alone?»
Karen blinked. «No. There are six in my group, myself included. Our first memory was awaking aboard a small warp-capable ship two years ago, Earth-time. We had no idea who created us and the library computer on the ship had been all but erased of everything it might have contained within it. We wandered throughout space until we came to this solar system and took note of the massive spacedocks and starfleet being constructed here. We eventually came to this land a year ago since it appeared to be quite behind other nations of this world in assembling its own spacedock and starfleet. While we meant no harm, who were we ultimately to trust beyond each other?»
Hearing that, Ran could only sigh. She had learned that Starbase Edo had just been put into commission a half-year ago, so there would have been a window of opportunity for Karen and her friends to get down to Earth and avoid detection. Taking a deep breath, she looked at Akane. "She won't hurt us, I think," she said. "Go outside and let her in. Don't act as if you know Gosunkugi is watching you." As Akane nodded and then headed to the quarterdeck to go outside, Ran then relaxed. «Sister?»
«My self-designation is 'Karen,' Ran-san.»
A nod. «Alright, Karen-chan. Listen closely, but I think you'll realise this when my wife comes out to open the door and let you inside…»
As he watched, Hikaru felt a surge of impatience start to flood him. What the heck was Karen waiting for? Just jump over the wall, go challenge the alien and…
He then gaped as the door opened, revealing Akane herself, a smile on her face. Karen stared at her for a moment before she walked into the compound, the door closing behind her. Silence then fell before Hikaru shook his head.
What was going on here?
Two minutes later, Karen was relaxing in the living room, enjoying some tea as Ran passed a scanner over her. "Some sort of wireless cybernetic spinal link in the collar to a transmitter in the nerve cells itself," the Seishin woman muttered as she gazed on the scanner's readout. "Have you ever thought of taking the collar off?"
"There's no way to unfasten it," Karen noted. "It was stitched together as one unit and we have no way of removing it. And shifting it on the neck…" She then closed her eyes. "It hurts us. But it seems not to inhibit us, either."
"A slave collar?!" Akane spat out; she had been sitting nearby, watching her wife fuss over this strange woman. "Who on Earth would have done that…?"
"Who knows," Ran stated. "Let's just hope the bastard's dead." She then sighed. "Karen-chan, can you call your sisters here so that we can get you up to Starbase Edo so the healers can look at you? You don't deserve to live like this."
Karen stared at her, and then she nodded.
Several minutes later…
"Eh?! What are you girls doing here?!"
"Karen summoned us, Hikaru," Mitsuko stated as she and her companions all stopped beside him. "She made contact with Ran-san and she has promised to assist us in better understanding ourselves and how we came to be as we are."
Hikaru gaped at her. "Eh?! You mean…?"
"Ran-san is one of us," Harumi, a very nice, almost motherly, woman with long black hair in a ponytail and deep brown eyes, stated. "We will no longer require your assistance in learning more about ourselves, Hikaru. Please allow your memories to be properly restructured by the United Nations agents now approaching."
Hikaru jolted. "Well…!" he sputtered before his eyes went wide as his brain caught up to what he had just been told. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"Look here, kid."
He turned to look…
CLICK!
…and then darkness fell.
Later…
"So he'll not only forget that he met those girls, but also not pursue me anymore."
"That's right," Elle stated as she nodded her thanks as Ran handed her some tea. "The whole world saw what happened when you and Ran came together, Akane. I don't think the Japanese government is going to like it if people from abroad start believing all its high school aged men are closet stalkers." She then smiled at Jay. "Fortunately for you, Jay's pretty good with the neuralyzer, so I doubt he'll ever think of you again."
"But don't be too sure about it," Jay added. "I managed to see some police reports on that Kunō guy you've had to deal with. If he's normal for guys here…"
Akane then moaned. "Ran?"
Ran looked over. "What is it, dear?"
"As soon as we can, we're moving to Pacifica!"
As the two visiting MIBs laughed, we now…
(Posted Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:56)
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