Sentient: Evolution Read online

  Kate shook her head, “I guess we should get started,” she headed for the door and Ari got up, bowed, and followed her out.

  Timothy asked curiously, “What was that about?”

  She giggled, “Kate just found out she’s still working for a man after all.”

  Timothy snorted, “I’ll try to stay out of her way.”

  She shook her head, “Don’t try too hard, she’ll survive. She needs to grow out of that.”

  Timothy asked in a playful voice, “Can you set up some simulations? Fighting interdimensional battles wasn’t covered when I learned that stuff.”

  She nodded, “Not yet, I don’t have enough data to know exactly how it will work. But I will as soon as I can. I also have no records of prior battles, so I can’t really know how the enemy will fight. We may have to learn as we go, fortunately we have plenty of ships.”

  Timothy frowned, “Did you notice any communications in those data scans? Maybe they don’t have A.I.s and you can invade their computer systems, like you did to Earth long ago?”

  She shook her head, “I don’t think so, their ships are protected from that. If I could do that, we could open a quantum connection inside their ship and send over plasma instead. I’ll think about it though. I may be able to figure something out. It would be nice if we could just steal their tech… wouldn’t it?”

  He shrugged, “Just a thought, but if it’s not possible,” he trailed off.

  She looked thoughtful, “I just hope this is the limit to their tech, what if they have access to any dimension, what if dark energy and matter are just one of their toys. We could bust our asses, get up in there to stop them, and they could just disappear and take us out again while out of our reach.”

  He blew out a breath, “Do you think that’s likely?”

  She shook her head, “Not really no, but there is a point zero six percent chance of it.”

  He snickered, “I’ll take that bet. But why so low?”

  She shrugged, “People don’t use or keep around older tech in the long run. If they had something better than the dark energy dimension to play with, they’d most likely be using it instead. There is a very high chance they have other weapons that relate to dark matter and energy, but I’m hoping that’s it.”

  She felt his feelings turn wistfully amorous in her direction with the others gone. He covered it well in his bearing, but she was an empath. It struck a chord in her, and after a while she just had to do something about it. She walked over behind him and started to give him a massage. He groaned and relaxed under her expert hands.

  She said softly, “Did I ever tell you I’m an empath? I’ve had it shut down for years, but since the attacks and moving past Olivia’s death, it’s been even stronger than ever once I removed some of the blocks.”

  She felt his body stiffen under her hands, when his mind caught on to exactly what that meant. She continued to massage his shoulders and leaned down to his ear.

  “Relax Tim, how could I be offended by what you feel, it’s a gift,” she kissed the side of his neck below his ear, “I’d like to give it a try, us a try.”

  She slid around his chair without taking her hands away, now running them around his chest while she straddled him. The look of lust, awe, and love she saw in his eyes excited her, she felt a heart speed up, and a shiver of pleasure ran down her back, which caused her core to clench.

  “Will you take me to your room captain?” she asked in a soft sexy voice.

  Timothy asked, “Are you sure?”

  She leaned forward and kissed him. It was… different. Olivia had been so soft, her lips, her body, her hands… all of her. Tim was… hard, his hard and defined chest muscles felt good against her soft searching hands, and his hard demanding lips lit a fire low in her torso, and she felt herself moisten as he deepened the kiss. She wanted him so badly in that moment.

  She wasn’t in love with him, but she did love him, and his feelings for her mixed in with her own arousal was driving her crazy. Then she had an interesting then, one that made her shiver with excitement and a strange kind of need.

  She broke the kiss and smiled while looking into his eyes, “You know, there’s nothing in my protocols regarding sex…”

  It took him a minute to understand what she’d meant, and he shook his head, “I would never order you to…”

  She covered his mouth with a finger and giggled naughtily, “I know… but the idea that you could… really turns me on actually. Maybe on special occasions…” she finished so sultrily that she felt his lust overwhelm his senses.

  He growled and picked her up, threw her over his shoulders and spanked her before carrying her out of the room and down the hall toward the captain’s quarters while she grinned in delight and anticipation. Her main processor thinned their connection, since right at this moment she was working with Ari and Kate on the tech problems, so her body was pretty much independent right now. She knew of course, her main processor would sync later, and they’d both relive the experience, if in an abbreviated timeframe.

  She couldn’t decide where she wanted him to take her first, so she’d just follow his lead. She got a little wetter when he took her in his room and dumped her onto the bed. She wondered what got into her, because she really did want him to order her to get on her knees… or bend over. She couldn’t wait to feel a cock in her for the first time, Tim’s cock… she looked up at him with a coquettish look through her eye lashes as she reached to undo her suit…

  Tim could hardly believe what was happening, it was a long time coming and he never really believed it ever would, and he was afraid he wouldn’t last very long the first time. He wouldn’t be surprised if he launched as soon as she touched him. He’d always thought her bedroom voice was sexy in the past, she could have turned him on reading the dictionary. But what she had just said to him, and how she had said it, had made him rock hard and aching inside his suit.

  He had an idea about that first problem though, and he started to strip. She watched him hungrily and licked her lips unconsciously when his manhood was revealed, which made it jump in need. She stripped her own suit off without a word, as he crawled into the bed.

  “Suck it,” he said a little more demandingly than he’d planned on, his voice coarse and challenging.

  He worried for a minute he’d let his lust make him go too far, but her eyes twinkled as they locked on his, and her lips parted with a needy sigh as she crawled close to his body, and while maintaining eye contact, she wrapped her lips tightly around the head. She circled the head with her tongue and sucked hard before she leaned forward and took him all the way in.

  He gasped when the tip popped into her tight vibrating throat as she purred in satisfaction. He expected her to back off, but she just stayed there, her nose buried in his belly as she looked up at him with shameless naked need and desire. Her tongue was slathering the underside of his cock as her lips created suction.

  Then he felt her throat start to ripple around the tip and the first few inches, he wasn’t ridiculously large, but he was on the high end of average with eight inches, and she didn’t seem to be having any trouble with it as she kept it deep in her throat and pleasured him. Her back was arched, and she was on hands and knees with her ass sticking up, and her head was bent up to take him in. She was so damned sexy and he couldn’t hold out any longer.

  She moaned in approval and sucked harder, and her throat vibrated and undulated more as he started to expand in her mouth until his knees went weak and he exploded down her throat. He couldn’t remember having a more intense orgasm in his life, he was dizzy with the intense blissful pleasure of her hot wet mouth sucking his seed out.

  Aide moaned softly as she finished milking all he had to give. The taste wasn’t all that great, but it wasn’t bad either, and it made her feel good taking it all down her throat like that. God, she’d almost came when he ordered her to suck his dick, she couldn’t believe how turned on she’d been, still was. She hoped she did okay too,
it was her first blowjob, but she was sure she’d get better at it with practice.

  He said softly, “Lay back Aide,” and he pushed her shoulders back softly.

  She obeyed, although it hadn’t been an order, and flipped over onto her back and looked up at him. She sighed in pleasure as his hands started to caress her body, explore her generous and firm breasts, and he kissed her teasingly on the lips and nipped and kissed her neck. She’d forgotten how wonderful intimacy could be, and he was reminding her.

  She gasped when he kissed down to her breasts and sucked her nipple into his demanding mouth, her head rolled back on the pillow when his strong thick fingers found their way between her legs, to her burgeoning pleasure. His touch was sure, and she felt safe and loved, how could she not as she took in the tenderness and love emanating from him with her empathy. She felt… decadent and worshipped as her pleasure built slowly and inexorably toward its peak.

  Then she arched her back, gasped and ground her body down against his face when his lips found her wet puffy and silken sex. She was so close to exploding, and just as she was sure she’d fall over into bliss, he brought her even higher with his skilled fingers and invading tongue. She felt her body start to tremble.

  He ordered, “Cum for me love.”

  Holy crap, her body obeyed that order. The intensely coiled pleasure in her center broke and washed over her body and mind like a tidal wave. She felt tears in her eyes at the intensity of her ecstasy, and when her eternal seeming bliss ended, she gasped in a breath as her body trembled. She smiled down her body at him, looking into his eyes as he slowly crawled back up her body.

  She moaned into his mouth as he took her with a hungry kiss, and she could feel the tip of his length, now hard again, against her silken labia. She reached down and around while spreading her legs further, grasping his cock to guide it into her. She squeezed lightly and stroked him teasingly as she spoke in a heated voice full of desire.

  “Fuck me Tim, you’ll be my first, I want you in me now. I want to feel you fill me up.”

  She watched his eyes widen, and felt the surge of lust that knowledge engendered in him. She gasped in pleasure as he pushed inside of her in one firm smooth stroke. Her tight wet heat was slick with her juices and more than eager to accept him, but when he was fully buried she tightened immediately around him, her body loathe to give him up. The inner walls of her sex were undulating and fluttering around him, encasing his sex in her tight velvet heat. The sensation of his hot fleshy cock was unlike anything else she’d ever felt and she surrendered her body to the pleasure of it, the pleasure of him.

  She understood then when she looked into his eyes, how it was so much better than any toy could be. He filled her perfectly, and when she got used to him he started to thrust in and out of her fast and hard. She gasped when he grabbed her legs and threw them on his shoulder, and practically bent her in half. He was so deep inside, and touched places in her that had never been touched.

  She cried out, “Tim… fuck!” right before she exploded. The pleasure washed over her again, and she mewled in desire for more as she felt herself tighten around his perfect cock.

  He kept slamming into her hard, she was begging him to go harder and faster, but he wasn’t even sure if she knew she was saying it, as she came hard around his length for a third time. This was why he’d cum in her mouth that first time, he knew he’d last long enough to bring his skills to bear and truly pleasure her on the second round. Still, he didn’t think he’d be lasting much longer, she was incredibly tight around his manhood, and perfect in every other way. His eyes kept roving between her beautifully bouncing breasts as the shook and swayed each time their bodies slammed together, or her sweet blue eyes.

  Sure, he knew he was biased, he was in love with her, but she was perfect to him.

  He was going to fill her soon, so he reached down and started to thumb her clit, sending her into one more intense orgasm before he buried himself as deeply as possible, and fed the results of his own intense pleasure to her grasping and milking sex...

  Chapter 6

  Andil knew he wasn’t that bright. He was tall, less than an inch shy of seven foot three, when the average Ardroth male was only six foot five, or six. He was brawny, some might even mistake him for out of shape, but the truth was he was all muscle and the strongest man out of all he knew. The Meliax had come to his world long before he was born. He was a slave, just as his entire race was. He wasn’t sure why, he didn’t even think they did anything for the Meliax, he just knew they were watched by Meliax supervisors.

  He figured it was because they didn’t want them working on anything they shouldn’t, such as technology. Their society was held at an agrarian status, and anyone caught with technology was killed without question or excuse. Houses were often raided, and people dragged away for reasons not always apparent never to be seen again.

  Another way the Meliax interfered, was with mating. He was told once a long time ago they could choose their own mates, and join with them for life. Now, it was the choice of the Meliax that oversaw the village. He was still young, just nineteen years old. He’d been paired just four days ago to a woman that was five years older than he was… and much more intelligent.

  Andil knew he wasn’t that bright, but he also wasn’t stupid. He’d seen the fear in the woman’s eyes when she’d seen him who had been chosen for her. Her name was Erza, and she was a foot shorter than he was at six foot three, she looked petite and fragile in comparison. She was also the most attractive woman in the village, or at least, he’d thought so.

  Her hair was bluish purple, and her eyes were as violet as the morning sky. Eyes that hadn’t been able to rise to meet his when he took her home for the first time. Her body was pleasing to his eyes, or the parts he could see of it in her dresses. He’d tried to talk to her, but she always answered shortly, or even with one word if possible.

  He understood why Erza was afraid, their choice had been taken away, and he was a very big man, he knew he looked brutish, though he’d never harmed anyone in his nineteen years. Well, there was that one time he’d had to kick the shit out of older brother, but siblings will fight after all. He understood, but it still hurt him, and he’d taken the couch that first night, and the last three nights as well.

  Erza startled him, he hadn’t even heard her footsteps, “Breakfast will be ready soon.”

  He murmured a thank you and she shuffled off while he stared at the ceiling.

  He had to move eventually, so he got up and washed, then changed his clothes. He worked in the fields, it was a good job for him. He liked it outside, and his strength and stamina were up to the task of working long hours in the fields. He shared another quiet breakfast with his wife, and then they left for their jobs. He escorted her to where she worked, she maintained the books for a smithy, and it was on the way to the fields.

  He sighed when she didn’t even say goodbye, and got to work in the fields. He had a wife that seemed terrified of him, just another day under the rule of the Meliax…

  Kate frowned, she wouldn’t be able to test anything here on the ship, it was too dangerous.

  “Aide, I don’t think it’s safe to test on the ship, what if we successfully channel dark energy here, but get the containment field wrong. Can we rig something up for remote testing?”

  A few moments later, “Aide?”

  Aide replied from the wall speaker instead of in her mind.

  “Sorry, I was distracted by something. Yes, I’ll send a ship outside the galaxy and set up quantum connections to one of the labs inside of it. You can build and test anything as if it were there, even see a holographic representation of it.”

  Kate nodded, that sounded just about perfect, “Thanks Aide.”

  First things first, she studied the data they had on the enemies shield. If they’d gotten a good scan off what the field should look like, and what it consisted of, they should be able to reverse engineer how to create it, in theory. It actually didn’t
look that difficult, it wasn’t that different from a plasma containment field, just heavier on the gravity component and an exotic particle or two. That begged the question of how to collect the energy however.

  She brought out the general scans of the dark dimension. It was really nothing like here, she didn’t see how life could be maintained there. From what she was seeing, there were no stars, or planets, dark matter seemed to be clumped around randomly at first, some places denser than others. She noticed right away the heavier clumps of dark matter were in the same location as the stars. There seemed to be some relationship there, or it was merely gravity interacting across the dimensions that caused the matter to partially align in that way.

  Regardless, without suns… dark energy was kind of uniform. If she was reading this right, the matter itself was unstable, and seemed to be ejecting dark energy. Basically, there was a low level field of energy everywhere in that dimension, which meant… she wasn’t entirely sure. Dark matter however would take a long time before it fully destabilized, she ran a few calculations and discovered it would be about the time the stars burned out in this dimension.

  The dimensions were obviously tied together and dependent on each other. But if there were no pools of dark energy, like there were of plasma, then… perhaps they needed to take a step back to an older technology.

  Right now they didn’t use reactors. Instead the power came through quantum connections directly from the stars, but that wouldn’t work for dark energy, it was too diffuse and weak to gather in such a way. But perhaps a dark matter reactor would work. The dark matter would constantly eject dark energy, and build up in the reactor, then the reactor could be harnessed for shields, weapons, and whatever else they could come up with.

  Of course, how would they collect dark matter, they couldn’t go into the dark dimension without a dark energy shield to protect the ship from dark energy and matter, and they couldn’t get dark energy without a reactor... The circular logic made her head hurt. She’d have to think of a way around that problem, or maybe see what the others thought?