Falling Apart: Chapter 3 Aside- Altair's Thoughts
#5 of Falling Apart
Shorter "Aside" chapters are made to tell the background stories happening with the other members.
Log of TeraDyne Almegia Ezeri, codename "Altair". The date is month two, day four, year two-three-oh-two local time.
I got my paws on a new recruit from planet Senkai a few days ago. She's a lovely female who shares several interests with me, and even a few body augmentations. Sadly, I had to bring her in during a rather sensitive time. The disaster that could have destroyed civilization on her world is now hitting this one, and it's havoc is nearly finished setting in. Sadly, the information is classified, but I'm going to need our new Copycat to be comfortable with what's going on when he finds out, and this kid is the perfect one for the job.
Nocti... He's a nice kid, but he's still way too naive for his own good. He may also be the key to the safety of this world, but he's an individual, so I won't interfere in his life... Aside from keeping him comfortable from the sidelines, of course. Judging from sensor info from the base, he's quickly becoming close to Ceti. I can't think of anyone more compatible with him personality-wise, though that does make me worried about his relationship with Marcus. From what Reaver said, it had become more of a Master-and-Pet thing behind closed doors, even though neither of them want to admit to it. Still, love is love, just as my father always says. I have two mates who don't talk to each other due to conflicting views, but I love them both regardless. Goes to show that you can't judge a situation from a report.
My old friend Oksear stopped by to visit me in the base camp Thuban and I set up in Hoenn. He still tries to be as strong as any younger Blaziken, but his age is definitely getting to him, and being homeless isn't helping. I offered to bring him back with me--give him a real home again. Took me three hours while I helped the field medics from Pokètara deal with injured 'mon and morphs, but I did finally get him to agree... with one exception. He made me turn him into a plush toy, and I had to agree to make him a teacher for one of the smaller island villages in the Dragon Frontiers.
While I was busy over there, I added a second pair of arms, like how I am when I'm joined with one of my siblings. I admit, it makes field surgery much easier, and with how busy I've been, I think I'll keep them for a while. Hmm... Auva's reforming, Naimea is busy in the Operator's Nest, Ceti and Nocti are asleep, everyone else is gone, and I'm feeling a little lonely. Wait, looks like Rigela's in hir quarters. I think I'll go pay a visit. End log entry.
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I knocked on the massive door to Ascella, Eletanin and Rigela's quarters. They were always taller than me... Taller than almost anyone, to be honest. Still, it's rather nice to feel like a small toy sometimes. When Rigela opened the door, that's exactly how I felt, too. She was a herm, like me, but a Nidoqueen. She was also three-and-a-half meters tall, and just over half a metric ton in weight, most of it muscle. Granted, you wouldn't know that with her semi-anthro build.
She looked down the hallway in each direction, then quietly motioned for me to enter. The reason for her concern was rather apparent when I got inside. Sitting one of the chairs around their group table was a female Rhydon of equal size, but I knew it wasn't Elly, as she was still in Johto, staying with an old friend. "Altair, I'd like you to meet Fredrika Galvonia. Fredrika, this is Altair Ezeri, the one I told you about on the way here." Her voice was very feminine and adult, and one I always had a bit of friendly envy for.
The Rhydon nodded at me shyly, but I smiled and approached her. "Please, just call me Alti. A friend of Cindy is always welcome here." Rigela tried to stop me from getting too close, but it was too late. A smell hit me hard, and it was one that I knew all too well. It was that of sexual heat from a non-morph, and one strong enough that any lesser creature would literally pass out. Thankfully, I had, and always have, extreme control over my own sexual desires. I shook my head to clear it a bit, though I was thankful that a lingering transformation kept me from showing arousal.
The ground shook as Rigela walked to her own seat next to Fredrika. "Shit! Sorry, Alti. I should have warned you. Rika's been in season for the last three days. Asked me to bring her here to get away from the insanity back home." She seemed to be choosing words carefully as she paused, looking at her friend, who nodded in approval of something. "She was born with a condition called 'Akseria', which makes her naturally big like us. About a tenth of her clan ends up with it. Problem is, the males of her area see anyone like her as nothing more than an egg factory. She's..."
"Not a morph." I smiled and shook my head, climbing up on the giant bamboo table and sitting on the edge of it. "I've encountered more than a few clans like that, especially among the ground-type and water-type races. I'm glad you're safe. Still, you need help handling your heat? We have meds, or other methods that don't involve sex."
She looked at Rigela, almost as if talking to her in some way. Rigela relayed what I assumed were her thoughts. "She doesn't want to be mated, but she still wants that kind of play. Says it lets her unwind after a long day. We can't exactly spay her, though. She'd still suffer through heat every six months. Only thing I could think of is turning her into a synthetic, but she's really shy about it, and you know I don't like changing myself unless I have to."
I immediately started working out a few alternatives in my head, and after a few minutes of silence, I had to start asking questions. "First of all, is she going back home at some point, or staying in the Dragon Frontiers?"
"Staying on this island. I'd rather not see her out there while all this chaos is going on."
"Okay, how about keeping her here with you, and helping her try out different solutions? I'll gladly take you off active roster until she's comfortable here. Hell, I'll make her part of the island crew if she'd like to."
Rigela blushed softly, looking at Fredrika with a confused gaze. She knew just as well as I did that 'island crew' meant mates and close family, or pets and the like, who stayed in the base. "Well... Yeah, I think that'd work. We'll talk about enrolling her here later. Still, you're the one who does all the extreme body mods. Anything she could use?"
I started looking through my personal card library, though silently cursed to myself as I realized just how big it had become. "There's always something. She could go all out, or do targeted transformations. Maybe just turning her sexual organ into a synthetic would be enough, since she could use it for her normal body functions as well. Wouldn't have to worry about heat or pregnancy unless she absolutely wanted children. Maybe silicone. Much easier to use in day-to-day needs, and wouldn't give off a squeak sound when she walked."
I saw Fredrika tilt her head to one side as Rigela started laughing. "Just like you to be so casual about this sort of thing. I swear, will you ever consider something to be too much?"
"Not hardly, though if you ask my mates, I've broken that barrier a few times over." I couldn't help joking about it. She was right, I did take problems too casually at times. "Anyway, you're welcome to try anything in my library that might help. Just promise me you'll give Renard a nice kick in the ass if he tries anything."
"First off, he'd like that too much. Probably think I was hitting on him." Ouch. She turned my own joke back on me. "Second, when did you start using real names for some of us?"
I smiled and decided to lie back on the table. "When you decided to be more open about using it in public. Speaking of public and real names, I just remembered something. Our newbies haven't met you, Lindsey or Thuban."
"Newbies? Don't tell me you got more Starlight members. Who? Give me details!" She was definitely excited about it, though I wasn't sure exactly why.
"Well, there's one moving in tomorrow... err, today. She's a bit of a classified case for now. Then there's Nocti, a Growlithe who Ally tried to kill. Found him washed up on the south shore after he absorbed a crystal, and now he has an organic modular body. His boyfriend and partner Marcus is here, too. Ally almost DID kill him. Had to put him in a bioshell body in the end, but he absolutely loves it. And you met Naimea, so there's no intro needed there."
Fredrika gave her another look, and she smirked. "Sorry. I told Rika about your little bioshell project. Let her see one of the pre-builts you have, and you'd think she was a cub in a candy store. I'd never seen anyone so curious about technology."
"Oh gods, wait 'till you meet Nocti." I laughed at the thought of small-and-meek Nocti meeting any of the giants, but Ascella the most. She had a reputation of plushifying others and cuddling them in bed like a child. A really BIG child, but a child none-the-less. "The kid has a HUGE curiosity streak to him. Kinda why I'm glad we've got him instead of PRA. He's a a full-power Copycat, too. Lost control while in Vega's form and started to merge with hir memories." Her eyes went wide. "D-don't worry. No one got hurt. Well, Auva got popped, but there's nothing new there. Anyway, he's got a bioshell computer built into his brain. It's been reporting back, and said it put up something to keep it from happening again."
What Rigela said next absolutely stunned me. "No, I wasn't worried about deaths. I was just wondering if he'd go as far as shi does with getting hir way. You know how shi is with teasing and rev-psy. Hell, shi made Myuutsu go from arrogant to submissive like it was nothing. Last I heard, he's STILL begging you or hir to capture him in one of those sadistic Monster Balls shi made."
It was true, though he wasn't exactly submissive... yet. Even though he was the most brooding of the group, he did have a soft side. I became really close to him, enough that he'd share his thoughts over some hot tea and a meal, but when it came to Vega, he was always acting proud of himself. Go figure. On his birthday last year, Vega was in an extremely teasing mood, and when shi ran into him, they got into a war of words. Shi kept teasing him, leading his words until he started slipping up. Then shi pulled out a "Bondage Ball" -- a Pokè Ball that puts it's victim, morph or mon, in full-on bondage gear and forces them through sexual training while inside. He got curious, and shi took advantage of it, telling him that shi'd have to capture him if he wanted to know. Another fight started, but just like in one of those Loony Toons cartoons back on Earth, shi got it into his head that he wanted hir to capture him. Shi's never done it, but his dense skull and pride will let him free of "wanting to be captured" until it actually happens.
I started laughing, though I also let the thought of actually capturing him start to float in my mind for a while. "Yeah, and shi'll keep teasing him for eternity. Nocti probably would, if his computer's email was any indication. He turned Auva into a quivering pile before popping her. Hmm... I wonder if he still has access to hir memories. I need to find out what shi wants for hir hatchday. Same with Rei."
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We talked for a few hours, and I even learned that like Rei, Fredrika was born mute. Rigela had given her a neural comms unit to send email, which is why it was so quick. Rika decided to go to bed for the night, though I gave her a silicone sexual organ mod so she could sleep. The best thing, though, is that I might have discovered another permanent bioshell candidate. I'll definitely keep an open mind, and she said that she would think on it as well.
On my way back to the medical bay, I ran into Vega. Apparently, shi ran into hir ex-lover Loren, a non-anthro Pidgeot. Lor became a courier for the Trans-Regional Postal Service, and was on route to deliver Giratina's mask to Morty of Ecruteak, but ended up getting attacked. Vee saved her, secured the mask, and had a nice chat. It's good to see them getting along. I just wish shi hadn't brought twenty critical-care patients with hir. I'm having to use my snakeshaft as a second head just to keep up.
Well, as soon as I get done here, I'll have to welcome our new member. Then, I need to hunt down Mewtwo. Admittedly, I want to find him more for personal reasons than anything professional. I just hope he's willing to help me. End log entry.