When it all goes wrong... Pt3
#70 of Exploration
After five very tension filled minutes, Kodey opened his eyes.
"Alduin?" he asked the world.
"We got you out, Kodey, I said we would." I replied, crying freely in relief. Draco and Silverine also looked like they were about to burst into tears. Arachno shook Drason's hand.
"That was good going."
"Couldn't have done it without help.I thought we might have been in trouble there." the Drider replied.
"I think a good rest is in order." Arachno said, breathing out.
"Can someone fuck me?" Kodey asked out loud.Everyone turned.
"Ah, possible side effect." Drason smiled,"With all those chemicals, subject may become rather horny for the next couple of hours.It was predicted, but I didn't think it was likely.No change to whether he's dominant or not, but he just wants it, badly."
"I want some of that stuff." I smiled.
"I do have a recipe for some fairly powerful aphrodisiacs, but I've always found it easier to let nature take it's course."
"Either that,"Silverine smiled properly at the Drider for the first time,"or give it to the submissive ones, so you can fuck them as much as you want."
"There is that.I have tried that before, with amusing results."
"So shall we talk shop in your new lab?" Arachno suggested."By the way, strict rule, no giving out that sort of potion without them wanting it, okay?"
"Certainly Arachno." they both left.
"Is someone going to abuse me, I need it after that snake escapade." Kodey sighed.
"I'm keen." I volunteered.
"Yes, Silverine, Alduin, fuck me anally. Draco, I want to taste that draconic cock of yours." We all unclothed ourselves, although Dev was already naked and my clothes were the same I had worn in the serpent's stomach, so my top was barely holding together, and my worn trousers were acidified up to the knees, they were now shorts.
I sat on Silverine's thighs, my cock and his side by side, and Kodey sat down between us, until the Lupogriff forced the reindeer's ass to allow me and him in. Devlin sat down beside me with Draco on top of him,and Draco took the reindeer by the sides of the head, and pushed him onto his cock.In doing so, Devlin thrust into his cousin, and then looked at me. He looked slightly down.
"Your shoulder's bleeding still."
"I know."I rubbed it reflectively, smearing the trail of blood. Devlin leaned over, and gently licked at the wound.It hurt somewhat, as his rather warm saliva came into contact, but I felt the pain ease ever so gently.
"Your saliva has the same effect as your semen." I whispered.
"I had a guess." Devlin smiled, tasting my blood on his tongue."You are so delicious, you know." he came closer, and brought one hand around to pull me into a deep kiss. His forked tongue went deep into my own mouth as I felt him shift his tail.
Knowing what was coming, I opened my legs and felt two tails brush my ass. Silverine's long thin tail wrapped around Devlin's, he had almost a panther's tail rather than a wolf's, and Devlin forced the combined tails into my ass.I almost ejaculated on the spot, god it felt good.So we fucked. I was too mesmerized by the tails and Devlin making out with me to pay that much attention to everything else, but before long I heard Silverine ejaculate,feeling his slippery semen coat my own cock and then Devlin let fly into his cousin's ass.
Draco felt this, and gave a howl of pain, and then a second of intense pleasure as he let go his load into the reindeer's mouth.Then I let go, and large quantities of semen flooded out of the reindeer's ass onto me and Silverine. As we changed position, I opted out so the others could all fuck Kodey, and after getting dressed, walked out into the corridor.
Landon was there, waiting, along with Time and Salbar.
"How is he?"
"Sexually enthusiastic, he's got Silverine, Dev and Draco all fucking him at the same time." I replied, shrugging my shoulders as if it didn't make that much of a difference. Landon raised his eyebrows.
"So how did this happen?"
"Drason reckons it was his hellbrew, a side effect of the antidote."
I went down to the new room for Drason, and opened the door. After two seconds, I shut it, walking back.
"I thought talking shop was discussing things you do at work, not have it off."
"Are they having it off too?"
"Yes. Arachno is adamant that he will never have a lover, professional reasons, but that hasn't stopped his having it off with people."
They shrugged, and I headed back to my room.I decided to try something new,a new form that no one else could guess, so what I did was concentrate on a very special craft which I had seen several times on the internet. I went into my yoga, and dropped the faithful Audi Quattro.The advantage of this form was that it could go over rougher terrain than a tank.As soon as I was finished,I opened my eyes.
"Typical, everyone's still elsewhere." I muttered, walking out into the corridor, and changing into my new form.
The roof was only just tall enough.This surprised me mightily, that with my kit in this new form, I could be about ten or eleven feet high. I was standing on three pneumatic legs, but silent, so when I shifted one there was just a loud tang noise as my foot hit the metal floor.My feet were three clawed, all pointing outwards at sixty degrees to one another. My eyes saw everything in thermo and X-ray, depending on which I wanted, and I turned my hemisphere to the left and right, looking around. No, no one here.
Very well, if Mohammed won't go to the mountain, bring the mountain to him. Turning down the corridor, I started walking forwards.With three legs, my system of walking was back leg, left leg, right leg, and I covered distance pretty quickly, although not nearly as fast as one of my car forms. I reckoned my top speed could be about thirty.Then I tried something else. A small laser like thing directly below my eyes swivelled about, and I directed it at the wall.
A tremendous burst of power emanated from the nozzle, and struck the wall, it's blast searing the air. It was actually connected to my C.E.O pistol, modified to suit the new abilities of this form. As I walked down the corridor, my feet echoed off the corridor, and it was then I saw my first friend see me.
Time Dancer appeared around the corner with a glower. She turned, saw me, and she stared in terror.
"Eeep!" she uttered, drawing her phaser. The glower stood in interest.
"Alduin, that's quite impressive." he said.
"It looks good, granted.I'm just trying it out." I said, as Time Dancer realised what was going on.
"geez, you scared me, Alduin." she said, watching me stalk up.
By now, some of you will have guessed what I was. I had changed into an old school tripod from the War of the worlds, not the type in the movie by Tom Cruise, but the more menacing version from the musical.It worked too,and as the three of us walked towards the food store, Time and the glower asked me where it came from, and I told them the irony of the story. Time dancer merely smiled acidly.
"You are going to wreak havoc in that form." she said.
"Don't I always?" I smiled.
They heard me about a minute before I got there.My feet being solid steel, and like a three pointed star, it wasn't that surprising. I was quite wide with my legs, I took up a substantial amount of the corridor. Devlin opened the door as I turned the corner, and we spotted each other. The door slammed as Devlin disappeared back inside.
"Draco, how much have I had to drink?"
"Sod all, what did you see, and what's that thumping noise?" The thumping noise was my feet, and I pulled up to the narrow door.
"Glower, could you change the wall around to wood, so I can get through?"
"Certainly." There was no outward change, but suddenly it was silver coloured wood. Balancing on two legs, I lifted my right one, and delivered a kick at the wall. There was a crack, and I punched through it like matchwood.There was a multi throated gasp, and Time Dancer smiled, creeping back so she couldn't be seen when I came through.
I lifted my Heat Ray, and fired a one second burst at the top of the wall, cindering it. Manipulating it expertly, I drew a line across the top, and then down one side.
"It's coming through the wall!" Devlin shouted.
"Get back,Dev!It'll break!" Draco roared in retaliation.
I gave him a few seconds to do so, and then reduced another line to ash, drawing a ten foot wide square.Then I kicked the square. There was a pitiful little noise as the wood groaned in agony, and then it collapsed inwards, sending up a cloud of dust and splinters. The smoke from my burning through hung, and I entered the room through it.
Straight into about forty or so barrels. They had all their weapons trained at me, and all looked terrified. Silverine was at the back, and as the dust settled, I crabbed over towards him.Everyone kept their guns trained as I approached. The Lupogriff scowled as I brushed past chairs, and everyone backed away. No one quite knew what to make of this.Indeed someone had an itchy finger, and Grant fired his phaser.
The red bolt bounced off my hemispherical body, and earthed into the roof. Without breaking stride, my body turned, and I reduced the table next to him to ash. Grant looked stunned, but then everyone else did too. Time Dancer and the glower entered, unseen. I came to a halt directly in front of the Lupogriff.
"Do you think, Silverine," I said, my voice grating metallic," that this would work rather well in jungle?"
There was a pause.
Devlin laughed."Alduin, is that you?What in the name of sanity have you created?"
"This is a machine drawn up from a ancient story on my planet.It was used for invading Earth by Martians, and practically invincible at the time.It was called a Tripod." I replied, laughing at my own joke.
There was a collection of replies that were rather sarcastic, but Draco couldn't stop laughing.
"So what can it do?"
"Well, it walks, so it's better off road than anything I could otherwise come up with. I can see everything in thermo without glasses, although they help, and my C.E.O pistol has changed into this heat ray, which is like a special sort of laser."
"And in defence?" Devlin asked, sitting back down.
"Nothing short of Eryx rounds will puncture this. And because of three legs, it's somewhat more stable." I said, walking back to him. "Winslo, Orion, could you toss a couple of spells at me?"
A lightning bolt struck me, and crackled over my carapace, earthing into the floor. Three seconds later, a ball of fire washed over me, and again, no effect. Five seconds after that, I was encased in ice, but with a burst of strength, I flexed my legs, breaking out of the frozen tomb.
"You had to pick something indestructible like that." Draco leaned back."Why are you so tall?"
"I suppose it's because these legs are so thin, yet so strong, most of the weight is in them.My body is carrying a bit, but not much in comparison."
"So any other abilities?" Gareth asked.
"One more,I think." I replied, coming back over to him. With a mental command, a slot on one side of my body opened, and a long flexible metallic protrusion came out. It had no hand, it just ended like a whip, but with a mental command I brought it around.
Gareth watched in slight apprehension as I brought that tentacle like arm around.It was about three metres long, and it easily snaked around the fox, tightening gently around under his shoulders.He forced himself to relax as I gently pulled upwards. It took me nearly all of my effort and strength to left the fox, and while I reckoned I could lift most of Central, I certainly couldn't lift any of the dragons, Arachno, Drason or Silverine.
I gently let Gareth back down to the ground, and he massaged life back into his underarms as I relaxed, my body sinking down several inches. When I was alert, my body was above the joints for the legs, when I was relaxed, I sunk beneath them, the same as when I was walking. This new game played, we listened to the casual conversation. Devlin asked if he could hear this musical that I had taken the idea from, and I said that would be fine, I had a copy at home.
One of the G'zara took it into his head to see if he couldn't climb onto the top of my carapace, so he began climbing up my legs, as conversation returned to normal. I was perfectly aware, and I watched as he shinnied up my leg, like someone climbing a pole. He got to the joint at nine feet, and then tight roped across until he was standing directly on my carapace. I had sent my tentacle back in to my body, and he sat cross legged on top of me.
"The sort of armoured fortress." Javid smiled." One of them on top, with a phaser, he could cover your back, Alduin."
"That's true, and it would also help if we came to any swamps or rivers." I added. The G'zara smiled.
"That depends on how well I can keep my balance while you move." he chuckled, his naturally higher pitched voice said.
I decided to test this. After a couple of steps towards the door, the G'zara, his name was Zac, spoke.
"Magnetic clamps would help, or some kind of device keeping me seated." he commented, holding tightly to me.
"I'm sure we could design such a device." Abigail replied, watching the diminutive humanoid try and keep his lofty position as I turned around and walked back.
"It's like watching a rodeo." Draco commented, as I came to a halt.
Zac sat cross legged while Abigail came over and began sketching something.
"I imagine some kind of magnetic device that can be removed easily." Ryan volunteered.
"I know that." Abigail replied."Do you normally sit cross legged, Zac?"
"I do." The voice above me replied.
"Right, some kind of device that rotates around." Abigail thought.
"In which case, how do we keep it from spinning?"
"Mental command." Zac suggested," or by verbal.Should be easy enough to hook up to my glasses.So it's normally locked in place, but I can say, left 90 degrees, right ninety etc."
"It won't be obtrusive, that's for certain.I think some sort of flat circular device on the top, Alduin?"
"Put the sort of laser cannons on it, portable assault tower." I would have grinned, but everyone else did.
"That's actually a good idea, like what Alduin has on his BF2 game, what is it? Stinger." Alecto snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name.
"That's it, although whether it fires small rockets or C.E.O laser bursts is entirely up to Abby." I replied.
"Rockets have their advantages, but take too long to reload in a fire-fight." the tiger replied, doing some computations," But pulse cannons sound good.Two normal sized C.E.O pistols, lined up together, side by side, with a special trigger made for Zac's race to fire."
"Right, we'll leave you to design it, shall we?" Devlin suggested.
"Bugger off." Abigail said, thrilled by the challenge of designing something new. She left the room.
"We're making something ugly, you know that." Tufty commented.
"In what use of the word?" Simba replied.
"Alduin, in that form, with heat ray, with Zac and his collapsible dual cannon on top, he's going to be impossible to sneak up on, and the arsenal, yeah." the fox left the sentence open.
"I can't wait for some band of unwary cut throats to try and ambush him." Devlin chuckled.
"So can Alduin vary the power behind that heat ray?" Valmeero asked.
"I haven't tested that." I replied.
"I see, so you vaporised my table, and my dinner, on a high or low setting?"
"Grant fired at me, I gave him a warning shot. Your dinner made the supreme sacrifice."
"It did, I'm just not keen on dining on ashes." the wolf/dragon replied pointedly.
"It's not ash, it's roast chicken well done." I replied.
"Thoroughly well done." Landon looked at the pile of black powder.
But I reinbursed the wolf for a new dinner, and with Zac climbing down, we decided to pack up, and get back to our makeshift campsite on the new planet.
Nothing had changed, so we set up camp there. To test my abilities in the treacherous terrain of the jungle, I went for a walk, camera glasses on and recording, attached to Landon's laptop.
"There goes trouble." Billy said, setting up a tent, as I began to walk off.
"Hahaha, right." I replied, crashing past a plant. The smaller plants were brushed aside like a tank had struck them, and even the smaller trees and larger bushes put up little resistance. I was loud, though, so the idea of me being stealthy in this were naught.
So after half an hour of crashing through vegetation, I came back. Several scans were being run, but Billy had collected firewood with Javid for ye olde fashioned campfire. As Blake turned to ignite it, I interrupted.
"Permission to use my ray, Blake?"
"We want it lit, not cindered." Blake smiled, but let me do so. I lowered the power on my heat ray, and fired. The small beam burned into the wood, leaving a small hole. Then it caught fire, and Draco looked up.
"Fire lighter and armoured assault vehicle, he's onto a good thing."
"How powerful can it go?" Dev asked.
"I don't know." I replied, increasing my power to max., and aiming at the trees, not really intending to fire.Draco ruffled one handed through his back pack, and tossed Landon a long thin cloak.
"Hold it in front of you, and let Alduin hit it with his heat ray?"
"And what happens if it punches through?" Landon looked at the cloak critically.
"You die, quickly." Draco replied.
Blake took it off the fox.
"I'd rather you did it, Blake." Landon replied. Blake held it like a matador's cape.
"Come on Alduin, give it your best."
The resultant burst of power knocked the sheet out of his hands. Draco consulted his screen.
"Huge spike there, he could probably melt through most metals, let alone everything organic. We're talking of temperatures near enough to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to melt Iron, Chromium, that sort of metal."
For me, the week long trip was testing my new form, and occasionally enjoying the company of the others. But I kept distant from them, because I could tell there were already partnerships among them. Salbar and Blake chose a tent together, and the first night we could hear them enjoying themselves. Draco and Devlin were hard at work, and a few of the others were becoming very much intimate with one other.That's not to say they concentrated on this one entirely, but it was noticeable.
The week trip finished rather well, and nothing really much happened for the rest of the week, save the occasional long distance flights from the Aurora prototype that Ryan had changed instead of his old Blackbird. It looked magnificent flying through the sky, but nostalgic me preferred Black bird to any other recon aircraft. We did a couple of day trips, studying the wildlife, and on those times Ryan was bring his off road remote control toy with us, carrying all our important gear.
It had eight large knobbly wheels, and tracked very well, being eight wheel drive. It was about two metres in length, maybe slightly more, and surprisingly low slung.But it also carried an automated C.E.O blaster on top, for the unlikely case of danger. It was pretty heavy, so on the rare cases it got stuck we needed most of the party to heave it out. I remember fondly when Ryan changed into his M1A2 form to pull the thing out,the huge tank engine roaring in exasperation with most of us pushing.
And speaking of the M1A2, he and Simba were getting on very well in those forms. They would spend their free time when not discussing weaponry with Javid racing each other in the tanks.
It was also the opportunity for us to test some new equipment. The glowers knew enough about my Raptor form, and had got the techs to build one of their prototype ion engines. I know very little about how they worked, but they were about half a metre long, and looked just like jet engines.
It was the penultimate day when I tested them. Holding them in my hands, I changed into my jet form.I was consequently about five centimetres larger due to the fact I weighed more in total, and I took off with my vertical engines. As soon as I got to a good enough height, I ignited my normal horizontal ones, which were directly beside the new ones.
"Alright, Alduin, let's see what that crate's capable of." Simba said, as he watched me fly away on normal power.I went for about eight miles, and then banked around, heading directly towards them. Then I mentally fired up the ion engines.
This was possibly the most terrifying experience I have ever had. The boosters catapulted me forward like a stone from a sling, and I watched in terror as my digital speed reader blasted past Mach 1.
"Mach 1.4, Mach 1.7, Mach 2, for Christ's sake this thing won't stop!"I shouted over the tremendous whine of the dual engines.
Mach three came and went, just as I flashed past the campsite. Simba looked up briefly.
"They work rather well." he said, oblivious to what I was feeling. The entire craft began to waver under the excess power, my passage was bumpy through the air currents, even though there was no breeze. I also felt myself warm up, much like being in a hot pool.
"Mach 3.8." I shouted."Simba, it's going to kill me!"The heat began to increase faster.
"Then stop." Simba replied calmly.I cut out the ion engines, and was slowed back to my normal cruising speed by the drag.I flew back, but something felt wrong, everything felt really itchy, and when you can't scratch an itch, it feels terrible.
I landed beside Simba, and changed.
"Oh my god!" Landon shouted.
"What the hell happened?" Kodey bent down next to my prone form.I interlinked with Draco's glasses.
My entire body, or at least the visible parts, were covered in raised red blisters, caused by the friction of flying so fast.
"Mach 4.1, at about a thousand feet, he was literally burning away." Simba looked in sympathy at my blotched red arms. He started applying burn ointment.
"To test it's full potential, best make it high in the sky." Ryan replied.
"Just think, Aurora, Mach three point eight in scale form,or whatever plus those engines.You'd be nothing but a blip on the radar.You could fly over Area 51 without the sensors being triggered."
We went home the day after. It had been a most interesting trip for all of us. Me, Simba and Ryan went to the techs lab, a glower not far behind.The technical lab was a mixture of metal work and chemical works. Abigail stood as she saw us enter, a smile on her face.
"Ah, how did the guinea pig enjoy his rockets?"
"About four times faster than normal speed." I replied," until I realised Raptor was burning away from friction.Can I keep them?"
Abigail laughed."Of course, I designed them for you. And speaking of things for you, if someone can fetch Zac, we're going to test out my idea."
"That won't be a problem, Abigail,"a voice said from underneath her bench,"I followed them here." the lioness looked underneath the desk, and saw the G'zara standing patiently between two devices. He climbed up onto the desk as Abigail fetched the attachment.
"Now while I reckon Alduin's quite capable of defeating monstrous hordes by himself, this had many benefits." she came back with a foot wide circular flat piece of metal,and it was attached to another similar sized piece, but on the other side of it were straps of some sort, and some collapsible harness. She started folding it out, and Zac sat cross legged in the centre. Directly against his back was a chair rest, which he was strapped into. His legs were strapped down, and behind the chair rest was a small pack with two hose like pipes that were connected to two small phasers, their triggers shifted forwards so Zac could actually hold them sort of like he was holding the steering wheel a car, and not uncomfortably close to his body.
Now he was in, he spoke.
"So how does it work?"
"Exactly as you suggested. Speak your directions."
Zac put his glasses on, and spoke into the mouth piece.Immediately the top piece of metal swivelled around, and the G'zara turned quickly but not in a lurching way, it moved without jerking.
"O.K., let's get this onto Alduin." the lioness looked appreciative. I changed into my tripod form, and sat down as low as I could with my legs underneath me. Now I was about three feet in height, my legs passing under me and about six feet out the other side.Abigail and Simba carried Zac, he looked like a king on his throne, and placed him gently onto the top of my carapace. There was a small clunking noise as the magnetic metals attracted it to my armour, and Zac was secure.
"Right, Alduin, let's go to the food store." Abigail rubbed her hands. I stood back up.She ruffled through one of many drawers, and came out with a pair of quite ordinary two foot metal rods, handing on to Simba. I had never seen these before, and I enquired what they were.
"Prototype shields." Abigail replied, pressing a button on hers and gripping the middle of the rod. Instantly a six by two shield of beautiful light formed in front of her,"Zac can test his gunnery on me and Simba as we walk, just so he gets the hang of your lurching."
Zac thoughtfully left his cannons on a one setting as Simba activated his shield, and they walked out first. The glower was also thoughtful, and widened and heightened the door with his special abilities, although how I have no idea. I walked through, and immediately Simba was there, poking his tongue out at the G'zara behind his shield, and running backwards. Zac shifted around, aimed, and began firing. These phasers were slower than the average C.E.O blaster, three shots every two seconds, but there were two of them, and they fired alternatively. Simba blocked the stream of bolts whistling towards him, as I stomped after him.
Zac's accuracy was good, but to begin with every time I landed a step, his aim would jerk down or up depending on which leg I had just shifted. But he soon got the regular rhythm of my steps, and was blasting away accurately at the lion. Abigail came from a corridor after I walked past, and Zac turned to face the lioness, while I aimed my heat ray at Simba's shield. Both of us blasting away, they circled around us consistently, and Zac had to make minute movements every time I turned my carapace to face the lion or lioness to hit their shield with my ray.
But Zac is a G'zara, their race is notorious for learning fast, and soon he was firing his cannons with remarkable ease at which ever shield was near him. The pulse blasters had a bit of give, so he could aim them slightly, unlike the guns on old aircraft, which could not move and thus fired in one direction only, straight ahead.
The door of the food store opened up, and Devlin was treated to the strange sight. He casually stepped back inside.
"You might want to come and see this."
"Not really." Abigail called," because we're coming in there."
Both of them had drawn their phasers now Zac had the hang of things, and they began firing from behind their shields. Bolts bounced off my armour, and Zac dodged when ever one went whizzing past him.
I entered the food store backwards, both me and Zac firing at the lion and lioness methodically. Red bolts whizzed past us and into the food store, but the patrons were in no danger from one setting blasts.As they entered they split in two different directions through the lines of tables, and as they went along the rows of tables behind customers, I aimed for Simba, and Zac turned to face Abigail.
Everyone thought this was hilarious, watching the fire-fight. Devlin good naturedly fired a few bolts of his own, as did Doran, but everyone else just merrily dodged if I or Zac aimed their way. Simba finally got a gentle blast from me, and he yelped, dropping both phaser and shield, rubbing his shoulder where I had caught him, and Abigail caught a bolt across the very top of her head from Zac, which likewise stung her.
"Bravo!"Draco clapped enthusiastically,"Encore! Jeez, Zac, that looks awesome."
Zac turned as I came to a halt, and smiled.
"This thing is wicked, Abby's overdone it big time!" the G'zara felt like a child given something really cool. I got down as Abigail came away to pack the device away, and Zac got unstrapped and off. the metal came away from me with a gentle amount of force, and I changed into my normal pink self, joining in the variety of comments.
While the week started off horridly, I can think of no better way to end it, speaking, laughing and joking with all my friends over a meal. Unfortunately my other job would be calling me, and I bid farewell later that afternoon, to teleport back to my home planet.I think I would keep this new form, and certainly keep the memories.