Three Square Meals Ch. 040

Alyssa nodded as she followed the other girl's logic. "You're right! The stone pictographs showed what looked like legions of different alien girls, and their numbers were obviously in the hundreds at least," she said excitedly, seeing where this was leading.

"Even for just one hundred girls, that would be two hundred weeks, or four years, of them blowing a Progenitor to get them all combat ready. That's not even remotely practical for an expendable army," Rachel said, nodding in agreement. "So what I said was mostly true," she added with an apologetic smile.

Appraising the brunette with fresh eyes, Alyssa nodded and smiled appreciatively. "You're just as smart as Dana, but your mind works very differently," she said, studying the other girl speculatively.

"Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment," Rachel beamed back at her.

Alyssa returned her sparkling smile, and said, "You should, that's how it was intended."

Rachel paused a moment and her smile took on a wry look. "It's funny, the thing I was most worried about with the change, was any modifications it might make to my personality. I don't really feel any different, but thinking about it, there's definitely been a few tweaks here and there. I wasn't exactly a jealous person before, but now when I see John with any of you girls, I just feel so delighted for you. I've honestly never been happier than I am right now."

"I've tried to explain that to John before as well, but he can be a bit stubborn about things sometimes," Alyssa said with a fond smile.

"If I see an opportunity to put his mind at ease about that too, I won't waste it!" Rachel said with a conspiratorial wink.

Alyssa hugged her tightly again, and looked incredibly happy as she said, "I love the other girls so much, but bringing you onto the team is making my life so much easier!"

They cuddled together for a little while, and Rachel felt closer to Alyssa than ever before. They started to hear the sounds of people stirring in the Commander's Quarters so they got up to go and rejoin them. Just as Alyssa was about to get off the bed, Rachel reached out and held her hand for a moment.

"Thanks for this chat, it was wonderful. I see why the other girls love having you in their mind so much," Rachel said gratefully.

Alyssa smiled at her warmly, and replied, "You're very welcome, and I meant what I said. Please don't feel like you owe me anything, you're already part of the team, and have been a big help."

Rachel looked at her a little shyly "I'm looking forward to being able to bond with you, and share our thoughts," she said hopefully.

Alyssa climbed off the bed, and offered the brunette her hand. When Rachel stood, the blonde girl wrapped her in her arms in a loving embrace, catching her a little by surprise.

"There's no need to rush things, you aren't quite ready yet," Alyssa said to her gently as she stared into her smoky grey eyes. "I'll let you know when, and all you'll have to do is open yourself up to me. That might sound annoyingly abstract, but it will make sense at the time," she added with an encouraging smile.

"Alright, I trust you," Rachel replied honestly, and then the two of them held hands as they walked back to rejoin John and the other girls.

***

John had woken up with his arms wrapped around the olive skinned Latina, and he hugged her close to him and buried his face in her thick brown hair so that he could find her neck to give her a kiss. Her playful giggle told him that she had woken up as well, and he relaxed his tight hold of her, so that she could turn around and look up at him.

"You seem to be in a very happy mood," Calara said to him, with a big smile on her face.

"Can you blame me?" he asked her cheekily, as he ran his hand over the smooth toned skin of her coffee coloured stomach.

The brunette laughed and her brown eyes sparkled with excitement. "Your endurance is truly legendary, and I'm always up for a big lunch," she replied, looking down at the suggestive way he was stroking her slim tummy.

"As fun as that sounds, I was hoping we could have a little sparring session later instead?" John asked her with a raised eyebrow.

Calara stared up at him, and let out a little lusty moan as she nodded. She was about to reply with some more banter, when she paused as another thought came to her, and her face suddenly looked a little pensive and she stayed quiet.

"What is it?" John asked her curiously, surprised by her abrupt change in mood.

Before she could reply, Alyssa and Rachel sashayed into the bedroom with contented smiles on both their faces. When Alyssa saw and felt Calara's sudden change in mood, she separated from Rachel to rejoin them on the bed.

"Go ahead and ask him, it's a perfectly reasonable question," Alyssa told the Latina soothingly.

John sat up, and so did the other girls, fanning out into the semi-circle they liked to use for these kind of impromptu bedroom conversations.

"I've been meaning to ask for a while now, but why aren't we just giving the new tech we've developed to the Terran Federation to aid them against the Kintark Empire?" Calara said passionately. "It's obvious our side is taking a hammering, so why can't we just help tip the odds in our favour?"

John sat back against the headboard for a moment, and studied the Latina, thinking about how to frame his reply. "It is a good question, but I'm not sure you'll like my answer. Firstly, you know better than I do that there appears to be traitors high up in Terran Federation High Command, and we can't afford to hand over all of Dana's innovations to a potential enemy. If we ever have to intervene personally, we're going to need every tech advantage we've got, as we're going to be outgunned and outnumbered. Does that make sense?"

Calara nodded, looking a little subdued. "I can't argue with your logic, even though it flies in the face of all the loyalties I've held for most of my life," she admitted, before asking hesitantly, "You said 'firstly', so what else?"

John studied her face intently, wishing he could gauge how she would react to the next thing he was going to say. "I'm not sure the Terran Federation is 'our' side any more," he said gently.

The brunette gasped at this, shocked at the very thought. "You can't possibly be thinking of siding with the Kintark against the Terran Federation can you?!" she asked him in disbelief.

John laughed, and waved a hand dismissively. "No, of course not," he said reassuringly. "But with everything that's been happening with us, and the Progenitors making a reappearance, I think we might have to start thinking of 'our side' as being everyone in this room. I trust all of you with my life, but there's not really anyone else I can say that about at the moment."

The other girls smiled at him and nodded, but there was one vocal exception.

"What about my family?" Calara protested. "You can trust them, surely?"

"We've only met them once, honey," John said gently. "They are lovely people, and they obviously care about you a great deal, but I'm just your pointy-eared boyfriend they barely know."

Calara was about to object, but Alyssa intervened, "I hope it never comes to this, but hand-on-heart, if your family had to choose between siding with John or the Terran Federation, which way would they choose?"

The Latina looked saddened at the thought, but nodded her understanding.

John reached out to hold her hand and squeezed it comfortingly. "I promise I'll do everything in my power to make sure it never comes down to that, and I obviously have a great deal of loyalty to the Terran Federation after spending years in the military. I just wanted to be honest with you, and let you know that we might be playing in a bigger game now."

Calara looked up at him and smiled. "Thanks, I do understand. You're taking very sensible precautions, and I do trust you that we'll never have to put my family in that kind of position," she told him gratefully. "Was there anything else?" she asked tentatively.

He smiled at that and then glanced over at Dana. "Just one last thing, but the most important. The new tech isn't really mine to give away," he said as he looked at the redhead affectionately.

"Oh! You mean it would be up to me?" Dana asked in surprise.

"Sure, they are all due to your hard work," John nodded as though it was obvious.

The redhead chuckled in surprise. "I'd never really thought about it before, but I developed all this stuff purely to help protect you guys. As our leader, I just assumed you would make the best choices about where to trade or sell the schematics for any devices I create. In all honesty, we could make an absolute fortune selling all the new tech I've developed, but I've got no real interest in money beyond having access to lots of fun toys to play with," she explained carefully.

John looked at her curiously, and asked, "What are your thoughts about giving away the new heatsink designs, or the formula for Invictium to the Terran Federation?"

Dana just gave a nonchalant shrug. "I wouldn't object if you made that decision, but I don't feel any loyalty to them whatsoever. I only really care about my family," she said, smiling at the last and looking around at everyone present in the room.

"But they are your fellow Terrans, fighting against aliens!" Calara objected. "Don't you think we should help them out?"

"The Terran Federation never lifted a finger to help Alyssa or me, growing up on Karron," Dana said fiercely. "If they had, I might give two shits about them, but frankly, Terran Federation High Command can go fuck themselves for all I care."

Calara gasped at this, never before having been exposed to such loathing of the Terran Federation, which had always been a cornerstone of her life growing up in a military family.

Alyssa was about to intervene, but a look from John held her back.

*Let them thrash this out, we'll step in if it gets ugly,* he told her firmly, and she nodded her understanding.

"But the Terran Federation is a force for good!" Calara objected to the redhead. "It helps protect us from being overrun by hostile alien races!"

"The massive territory grab from the Ashanath doesn't strike me as being very 'good'," Dana countered. "You saw what the Ashanath were like. They weren't hostile or aggressive in the slightest, and the Terran Federation basically just stole a huge chunk of their planets, which the Greys gave up to avoid a fight!"

Calara looked a little shaken by that, but then looked inspired and said, "Yes, but what about the Kirrix! Those aliens are hideous monsters, and the Terran Federation fought a long hard campaign to liberate those worlds from Kirrix enslavement and death."

Dana nodded, but then frowned. "How about Rupert Grant though? He was a Commander in the Terran Federation, and he sold out his own men to pirates, who then sold on Terrans as slaves to the Kirrix. That's another huge failure from the Terran Federation!"

"He was just one rogue officer! You can't blame the entire Federation on the actions of one corrupt and evil man!" Calara objected strongly.

Rachel then chimed in unexpectedly, "From everything I've heard about the Kintark war, it seems like the Terran Federation instigated that, but then seemed to have grossly underestimated their strength. Despite what the TFNN reporters say, we weren't just responding to unprovoked aggression."

Calara looked at John with a silent plea in her dark brown eyes, looking for some assistance, and he decided to end the debate before risking it getting unpleasant.

"There's actually truth in what all of you have to say," John said solemnly. "I think the Terran Federation is generally benign, and looking out for the best interests of humanity. However, they could certainly do far more to help out the fringe outposts like Karron, which are basically just run by the gangs and mine owners.

They fight against the Kirrix and the Drakkar, who are unrepentantly evil, but they've exploited the pacifism of the Ashanath to ruthlessly expand Terran territory. A man like Rupert Grant should never have been allowed that far up the ranks, but ultimately he was a traitor who betrayed his people for personal gain, and the Terran Federation can't really be blamed for that. I agree with what Rachel said about the Kintark conflict too, but with traitors in High Command, who knows what's going on there exactly?"

The girls listened to him attentively, and nodded their agreement with what he said, as he played mediator in their discussion.

"Now be honest, do any of you feel upset with each other about what was said? None of what I heard seemed like a personal attack, but I want to clear the air fully," he asked them firmly.

They all shook their heads, and smiled at him and each other.

"Great," John said with a sigh of relief. "Now let's go and get some lunch, I'm starving!"

The girls giggled as his stomach rumbled to accentuate the point, and everyone moved to get up.

"One second!" Dana blurted out suddenly.

"Sure Dana, what is it?" John asked her curiously.

The redhead cast a seductive look the Latina's way and said, "I think we should kiss and make up, to just be sure there's no hard feelings."

"I think we can delay lunch for that," John grinned, and watched as Calara and Dana knelt in front of him, inches apart from each other, and then began to kiss lovingly.

Alyssa walked over to a side-table, retrieved something, and then sat beside John while the redhead and the brunette moaned and sighed into each other's mouths as they kissed with increasing passion. She passed the object over to him and then grinned at the startled look he gave her.

The blonde smirked as she saw his expression. "Calara is too busy to talk right now, but she felt like she lost the argument, and as you won it with your intervention, you should take your spoils," she said eagerly, then moved to join the other girls, lying on her back so that she could lap away at the panting Latina.

John looked down at the familiar looking tube in his hand, and with a huge grin, he flipped the top off the lid.

"Why don't you let the Doctor help you with that?" Rachel asked him in a seductive purr, as she squeezed out a large dollop of lube into her hand and then began to slide it over his throbbing length. "I've not seen you take any of the girls like this before, and I must admit, the thought of you fitting this huge thing in such a tiny hole is getting me rather excited!"

He shuddered at the slick sensation as she went to work, making sure his whole length was liberally coated, while watching Jade move eagerly to join the other girls. The Nymph straddled Alyssa's tummy, and then leaned in to spread Calara's firm cheeks and began to lap away at her, getting her ready as well. The whole scene was so wonderfully debauched, that John's cock jerked excitedly in Rachel's grip. His favourite part was when Jade took a firm hold on Calara's asscheeks and then obviously elongated her tongue inside the writhing Latina. Calara jerked back from Dana's eager mouth for a moment, and shrieked as she felt the wet, velvety smooth organ began to probe her deeply from behind.

"Mmm," Rachel hummed with satisfaction as she looked at his painfully hard cock glistening in the light. "You look ready to go!"

John kissed her quickly in gratitude, and then climbed over the bed until he was by the other girls. Rachel had already moved into position to start sucking on Calara's right nipple, and when Jade sensed his presence, she quickly moved around to continue the attention on the Latina's left nipple. That meant that Calara was slicked up and ready for him, so he slowly straddled Alyssa, being careful not to accidentally squash her, and sidled up behind the brunette.

He stopped for a moment to admire her spectacular body, and her coffee coloured skin seemed to glow in the lights in his quarters, her lithe athletic form looking so strong and healthy as she knelt before him. Like all the other girls, she had a couple of dimples at the base of her spine, just above her bottom, which he found quite adorable. "Dimples of Venus", he believed they were called, and they couldn't be more appropriately named on such a ravishing girl. Reaching out with his eager hands, he was about to take hold of her wonderfully round and taut buttocks, when a slender pair of feminine hands appeared from below and held her instead.

*Let me help you with that,* Alyssa's seductive voice sounded in his mind, and he could see her bronzed fingers take a firm grip on Calara's buttocks, and slowly but steadily prise them apart to reveal the Latina's anus to his hungry gaze.

*Thanks, beautiful,* he thought to Alyssa gratefully.

"Are you ready, gorgeous?" He asked Calara, who was frenziedly kissing Dana, as he nuzzled his lubed-up head against the tight knot of muscle.

Alyssa's voice sounded eager as she spoke to him once again, *Calara's a little busy right now, but she said to 'push the whole way in, and then rest your weight on her and really go to work'. She loved your display of strength the other day, and she wants to show you that we're strong and built to take a good fucking!*

*That sounds an awful lot like something you or Dana would say. Are you sure you're not embellishing things a little?* he asked the blonde teasingly, as he began to apply pressure with his head against his target.

*Sorry about that, I appear to have corrupted her a bit. I promise you, those were her exact words!* Alyssa told him sincerely, while she sucked lovingly on Calara's clit.

John grinned with satisfaction as the teen's tightest hole yielded to the pressure, and then spread enormously wide to envelop the broad girth of his head. Calara groaned into Dana's mouth, and he could see her beautiful olive toned body trembling with arousal as he began to penetrate her, while her four girlfriends lapped away with their eager tongues. As he began to push in further, he placed his left hand on her shoulder, while he held her slim waist with his right, to stop her from wriggling away from him. From the smouldering look she flashed him over her right shoulder, he knew she wasn't planning on going anywhere, but it was instinctive to hold her steady, just in case.

"Do you want to take some more?" he asked her considerately.

Calara broke away from Dana's flushed lips for a moment to say, "I want the whole thing, in one long thrust!" before she turned back, and began to kiss the redhead passionately once more.

John felt sorry for Dana's ears when he steadily forced inch after inch into Calara's gloriously tight ass, and the stunning Latina wailed long and loudly. She quivered beneath him as his slicked up cock proceeded along that snug and well-travelled path, uncoiling her passage so that it was wrapped tightly around him. Eventually he had crammed every last bit of his shaft inside her, and he could feel her perfectly rounded cheeks trembling against him. Alyssa released her grip, and Calara's pert bottom snapped back into place, as though locking him into her ass.

Rachel had stopped suckling on the dark nipple in front of her for a moment, and sat up to peek over Calara's shoulder. "I can't believe you took all of him!" she said to the Latina in awe, who was kneeling there with her mouth open, as she moaned with pleasure.

Calara's eyes were glazed and hooded, so she struggled to focus on her for a moment. "You're going to love it when he takes you like this, it feels so submissive and intimate," she said as she panted for breath.

Dana switched places with Rachel and began to suck lovingly on the erect nipple that Rachel had seemingly forgotten.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Rachel asked the olive skinned girl, who was momentarily distracted again as John pulled back a few inches and then sank up to the base inside her once more.