Three Square Meals Ch. 079

"Shall we start without you?" Sakura asked, with an arched eyebrow.

He pulled her in for a kiss then replied, "Definitely! I want you all nicely warmed up for when we come to bed."

The girls laughed with delight at his blatant lust for them, showering him with kisses as the water cascaded over the group. They all rinsed off after that, then dried themselves before returning to the bedroom. Jade, Sakura and the twins climbed into bed, eager to get started, while John strolled into the walk-in wardrobe with a slightly apprehensive Calara following in his wake.

She leaned against the doorframe, watching him hunt through Alyssa's expansive collection of clothes until he found what he was looking for. He handed a slinky bathrobe to the Latina and she looked surprised as she held the alluring garment up to take a better look. A smile crept onto her face and she slid it over her stunning figure.

"Interesting choice of outfit for the debrief," Calara whispered to him, trying not to wake the three Terran girls sleeping in the bed.

John nodded his approval as the black silk moulded to her mouth-watering curves, then put on his own dressing gown and said sombrely, "We're doing this strictly by the book, Commander."

She stifled her laughter, then followed him out of the bedroom, linking arms with him as they headed towards the grav-tube at the end of the corridor.

"Where are you taking me for this debrief, Admiral?" she asked him curiously, as they stepped into the blue anti-grav field.

"My Ready Room," he replied, leading her out onto the Command Deck. "We can have some privacy there and it's nice and comfortable."

Faye greeted them both with a friendly wave, smiling at the couple as they walked down the ramp and across the Bridge. Calara's eyes gleamed at the prospect of some time alone with John and there was a bounce in her step as they walked into his Ready Room. He guided her over to the sofas then patted his lap in a clear indication for her to sit. She gave him an eager grin, then sat across his lap while crossing her wrists behind his neck, licking her lips in anticipation of some passionate kisses.

John wrapped his arms around her, then picked up the remote to activate the holographic interface. Calara looked at him in confusion as he pressed a number of buttons, until a recording of the battle appeared on the Tactical Map before them.

"Oh! You really do want to do a debrief," she said in disappointment. Glancing down at her figure hugging bathrobe, she added, "When you asked me to wear this, I thought you had something else in mind."

He smiled at her and gave her a tender kiss before explaining, "We really do need to review the battle, but I can't help the fact that you're so gorgeous." He slipped his hand inside the robe and caressed her toned stomach suggestively. "I promise I'll try not to distract you too much."

She looked positively ravishing as she laughed and her eyes sparkled as she gave him a glorious smile. Turning her head to look at the Tactical Map, she asked, "Alright then, what point did you want to start from?"

Seeing that she was relaxed and calm now, John withdrew his hand from her robe and placed it semi-respectfully on her firm thigh. He watched her face and said, "We'll start right from the start, beginning with your plan to use the gravity-well generators and luring the Drakkar into the minefield."

Calara looked at him in surprise, then sounded confused as she said, "Okay, but you were there for that part. Why do you want to begin there?"

John studied her face and said sombrely, "I want you to go through our preparations for the Battle of Ashana and the combat itself. Take your time, but let me know if there's anything we could've done to improve the outcome for the Ashanath."

She was a very intelligent girl and it only took a couple of seconds for her startled look to be replaced by a perceptive one. The Latina met his probing gaze and said pensively, "You've been talking to Irillith, haven't you?"

"Yes, and I think this will be a useful exercise. I'd like you to indulge me please, Commander," he replied, his tone firm and authoritative now.

Calara nodded obediently, conditioned by years of training to respond to her senior officer's orders. She looked thoughtful for a moment, then said with regret, "Unfortunately, the Ashanath had rather limited resources at their disposal. I spent as much time as I could, reviewing everything that their High Council had sent to us, but I still can't think of a better way to cripple the Drakkar fleet on their approach. Anything more elaborate would have taken too long to prepare, what with such a tight timeframe." She let out a melancholy sigh, then continued, "I just wish they'd told us about the Legacy. If I'd known they had a Progenitor ship at the outset, I could have integrated it into their forces. The outcome could have been drastically different."

John nodded his agreement, and asked, "How would you have used it in the battle?"

She picked up the remote and looking eagerly at the map, she cycled through the recording until she stopped at the instant they had first seen the Legacy. She studied it for a moment, then replied, "With the range of its primary weapon, the Legacy would have been best placed behind a full screen of destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. I would have saved a quarter of the mines and spread them in front of that formation, then taunted the Drakkar into charging by firing at them from beyond their Beam Laser range. Hitting the minefield would have caused chaos and confusion amongst the Drakkar forces, setting them up as sitting ducks for concentrated and well-focused fire."

"How about the Ashanath's telepathic command web?" John prompted her.

She shook her head remorsefully as she replied, "If only we'd known about that from the beginning. I could have coordinated the entire battle from the start." Letting the recording begin, she began pointing out how she would have rapidly redeployed the forces to fully exploit the Drakkar's reckless charge.

John let her talk it through, prompting her now and then to keep her mind ticking over and fully focused on the various possibilities. He didn't doubt for one moment that she'd done the absolute best she could with the time and resources available to her, but it was that nagging doubt that was bothering her. In her drive for a perfect victory, he knew she was blaming herself for everything the Ashanath had kept concealed from her during the battle.

They talked for over an hour and he could see the bottled-up tension easing from her shoulders as she spoke. Finally, they reached the end of the battle and she turned to stare at him, suddenly going quiet.

He gave her a tender kiss, then looked into her eyes and asked, "Do you feel better?"

She nodded as she gazed at him. "Yes, much."

Watching her beautiful face as she studied him, John asked, "What was the point behind that exercise?"

Calara took a deep breath before letting it out slowly. She was quiet and serious as she replied, "That I shouldn't blame myself for things that go wrong in a battle, which were outside my control. It's easy to be overly critical with the benefit of hindsight, but we simply didn't have access to all that information at the time."

He nodded, his expression grim as he said, "If the Ashanath had told us about the Legacy beforehand, it would have been a game-changer. They didn't though and that was their mistake, not yours."

She looked relieved then gave him a sad smile. "It's hard knowing how different things might have been, but there's nothing we can do about that now."

His face was shadowed with guilt as he said, "I wish I could shoulder the entire burden of command myself and spare you from all this. It's not fair of me to burden you with it, but the simple truth is that your tactical skills far outmatch my own. Letting you coordinate their forces gave the Ashanath their best shot at survival."

The Latina leaned in to give him a tender kiss and said, "We all have our part to play. Please don't feel bad for letting me help you."

Brushing her cheek with his fingers, he marvelled, "You're an incredible woman, Calara. What you accomplished here today was absolutely astounding. Just remember that a billion Ashanath on their homeworld are safe now because you stopped that invasion fleet."

Calara's smile widened and a look of contentment formed on her face. She laughed as she said, "It's not every girl who can say she's saved two homeworlds from catastrophe!"

John laughed along with her, hugging her fiercely now. She turned to straddle him, her kisses growing more passionate as he pressed her against his chest.

When they finally separated to take a breath, John said with a smile, "I think it's well past time for bed."

She nodded, her face inches from his as she stared into his eyes. "We haven't discussed all the damage the Invictus sustained, or how I allowed the Drakkar to board us yet," she said, a hint of a smile teasing her lips, undermining her otherwise serious expression. "I might need to be punished for my negligence on duty."

"It's a good job you all survived unscathed, or I'd be very cross," John agreed, stroking her taut cheeks. "Although, I still need to reprimand you for such reckless disregard for my ship."

Calara shivered with lust, remembering the last time he'd been so dominant with her in front of an audience. Staring out at the raging storm on Oceanus while being roughly fucked and spanked to the pealing of thunder, then crying out in ecstasy as lightning arced across the sky... Even just thinking about it now was thrilling - she couldn't remember ever feeling more alive!

She grinned at him as she said eagerly, "I'll go and get the girls! You set up the storm simulation in the Training Dojo!"

***

John stretched as he awoke the following morning, being careful not to jostle Tashana and Calara who lay fast asleep beside him. He was relieved that his right hand was no longer feeling numb and a smile crept onto his face as he remembered the wild antics the previous night. After the girls watched the Latina experience multiple orgasms as she took an energetic pounding and a stern spanking, they'd all insisted on having a turn.

Tashana had had that same lustful need in her violet eyes as well, but that certainly wasn't how he planned on having their first time together. She seemed to instinctively know that and had been happy to climax on Jade's eager tongue instead as she watched him ravish the other girls one after the other. He'd been profoundly thankful for his enhanced Progenitor stamina by the time Sakura had sprawled insensate on the matting and he'd cried out with relief as he unloaded his fevered quad down Tashana's throat.

He leaned down to plant a fond kiss on his beautiful bedmates' tousled heads and as he did so, his sharp ears pricked up as he heard furtive whispering coming from the bathroom. He craned his head forward to look down the bed, but from this angle he couldn't see who was talking. He did spot Faye though. She was sitting cross-legged in the chair at the foot of the bed, chin propped on her hands as she gazed away into the distance, a pensive expression on her face. Carefully untangling himself from Calara and Tashana's smooth, toned limbs he crawled down the bed before padding over to join the distracted purple girl.

"Morning Faye!" he greeted her in a cheerful whisper, squatting down beside her.

"Oh, hi John!" she replied after a start, giving him a beaming smile. Her gloriously happy expression faded as quickly as it had arrived and she peered at his left arm, sounding anxious as she inquired, "Does your arm feel better this morning?"

He glanced at the gunshot wound he'd sustained in the previous day's fighting. In truth, he'd forgotten all about it after cleaning it in the shower; it hadn't been a deep gash and there wasn't much pain. As he looked at his arm now, his skin was smooth and unbroken, fully recovered as he regenerated overnight.

"I'm in great shape, honey. Nothing to worry about, I promise," he said with an exuberant grin. He wanted to give her a reassuring hug, but unfortunately such a simple thing was impossible for a holographic girl, no matter how convincingly real she seemed.

Faye smiled at him and exclaimed, "I'm so relieved you're okay!" Her voice faltered then as she added, "It was so awful seeing you covered in blood. Dana and Rachel too..."

There was giggling coming from the bathroom now, but John ignored it as he stared at Faye with concern. "Let me just go and get dressed, then you can talk to me about what's upsetting you. There's also a few other things I'd like to discuss, especially our pre-battle liaison yesterday," he said with a smile.

The purple girl blushed, then reached up her hand to stroke his face. He couldn't feel her digital fingers tracing his jawline, but the look of yearning in her luminous eyes was very real.

"I'd really like that, but we can catch up later, there's no hurry," she said gratefully. Glancing towards the bathroom, a knowing smile crept onto her face as she added, "There's a couple of very appreciative girls who want some attention this morning."

"There's definitely something bothering you," John insisted. "I don't like seeing you get upset like this. What's the matter?"

She smiled at him, the tension easing from her face as she replied, "I was just being silly. You're all healed up now and perfectly fine. There's nothing to worry about, I promise!"

"You're sure?" John said uncertainly. "As I said before, my door's always open for you. You can grab me any time you need to discuss anything, okay?"

"I remember," Faye said with a nod and an affectionate smile. More giggles reached their ears and she glanced that way and grinned. "Don't keep them waiting!"

He chuckled and stood up straight, before turning back to glance at the bed. The girls were all still fast asleep, including Alyssa who lay serenely with her hair fanned out in a golden halo on the pillow. John padded around the bed to check on her, but she seemed to be sleeping peacefully, her chest rising and falling rhythmically with every breath. He had a good idea who was making all the noise in the bathroom, but seeing who was still in bed removed all doubt via a process of elimination. Tashana was now being cuddled by both Calara and her sister, while Sakura and Jade were intertwined together.

There had been no word from Edraele yet this morning, but he assumed she was sleeping off over-exerting herself during the battle. Rather than waking her by calling to check see she was alright, he decided to leave her to rest peacefully. If she still hadn't contacted him by the afternoon, then he resolved to try rousing her then to make sure she was okay.

He heard the splash of water and curiosity finally getting the better of him, he walked across to the bathroom and strolled through the door. Dana and Rachel were in the huge new bath together, foamy bubbles up to their necks as they whispered in each other's ears. They both squealed with delight when he arrived.

"We're so fucking horny!" Dana gasped, before letting out a sultry groan as Rachel moved her hand somewhere very intimate.

Rachel nodded, eyes narrowing with concentration as her fingers plunged into her girlfriend. "You better shut the door so we don't disturb the others. I want to hear you make her moan like the naughty little slut she is!"

John quickly shut the door behind him, astonished at their lewd behaviour. "What's got into you two this morning?" he asked them in amazement.

"You will be," Rachel purred as she increased her pace on the redhead, making her arch her back and gasp.

Not needing to be told twice, he climbed into the massive new bath that they'd added in the last refit. It was big enough to comfortably fit ten, so with just three of them in there, it felt like being in a swimming pool - a lusty, foamy one at least. As soon as he'd sunk into the bubbles, Rachel pulled her fingers from Dana, making the redhead gasp. They both surged across the tub like water nymphs and planted a deluge of wet kisses on his cheeks and face.

"Wait a second!" he said with a laugh. "I love the enthusiasm, but what's got you two in this state?"

"You healed us both," Rachel murmured, moving around to nibble at an ear lobe. "We've slept it off and we're full of life this morning."

Dana writhed against him, her slippery breasts sliding against his chest. "That means we desperately need a good fucking!"

"As you might imagine, I'm also very grateful that you saved Dana's life," Rachel added, licking the pointed tip of his ear and making him shiver.

"Plus, you gave both of us fucking awesome new abilities!" Dana grinned, her sky-blue eyes flashing with lust. "I'd want to hump you into oblivion just for that, let alone all that other stuff."

John grinned at them both. "I had been planning on having some intimate one-on-one time with each of you. You're good girls and I know you'll both be emptying my quad this morning, but how you do it is up to you. Together or separately, it's your call."

Dana and Rachel looked horribly conflicted, drawing back a few inches to stare at each other as they tried to make up their minds. He could see the unspoken conversation passing between them as they both tried to decide what they wanted.

In the end, he put his arms around Rachel's waist and pulled her over his lap, positioning his cock against her pussy, then sliding her down his length. She was very wet for him and wonderfully tight, gripping his shaft like a fist as he pushed his way in. Her groans of delight harmonised with Dana's groan of frustration as he impaled himself fully inside Rachel's stunning athletic body.

"Take your time making your mind up, but you both looked far too tempting now you're this turned on. I needed to be inside one of you while I waited," John explained, a satisfied smile on his face as he felt Rachel grind against him.

"How come she gets to go first?" Dana whined, before shooting Rachel a guilty look. "Sorry babes, I'm just super horny!"

"I understand, I'm sorry you have to wait," Rachel murmured, undulating on John's lap and rubbing her breasts against his chest. She linked her arms around his neck and gave him a tender kiss, before saying breathlessly, "I love you so much."

"I love you too," he replied, keeping his right hand on her waist, while wrapping his left around Dana and pulling her in close. "Same goes for you, Sparks. I love you both."

"Me too," she moaned, eyes fluttering as she kissed him.

They melted against John, both giving him soft kisses as he alternated between each girl's lustful lips. He loved seeing the blissful expressions on their faces and he relaxed back against the edge of the bath as Rachel rode him at a languid pace.

"How about this for a plan," he suggested, seeing that the two teenagers were thoroughly distracted now and incapable of making any kind of decision. "We make this one about Rachel, then I'll spend the rest of the morning with you, Dana. The two of us need to review the Valkyrie anyway."

The redhead's lustful haze vanished in an instant and she gave him a guilty look, her full lips turning down into a worried frown. "I'm sorry I nearly got myself ki-" she started to apologise.

"Shh, I'm not mad at you," John said, placing his index finger on her lips and silencing her apology.

She relaxed immediately, then opened her mouth and sucked his finger inside, swirling her tongue over it suggestively as she increased the suction. He couldn't help groaning and his cock flexed inside Rachel, making her gasp.

"Oh, he liked that," she said, flashing a naughty grin at her lover.

He laughed and nodded, then slowly pulled his finger from Dana's mouth and helped guide her behind the brunette. She understood what he wanted her to do and she snaked both hands around the other girl, one sliding down her toned belly to find her clit while the other reached around to massage her proud breasts. Rachel moaned as Dana swept her hair out of the way and began to kiss her neck, the redhead darting John a mischievous look over the sandwiched girl's shoulder.