RV Summer

Chapter 28

Epilogue

It is now one year later

Kate was walking through 1 of the 6, 30 feet by 96 feet greenhouses. They all had plants in them producing food for them. She was impressed just how warm it was inside this one. Granted it was summer instead of the dead of winter, still it was rather cool outside. She saw Alexis's boyfriend and came up to him. "Bialy, this looks amazing. You and the others are doing good work here."

"This is much better than what we were doing on the ILLUSTRIA. I'm still amazed that you were able to produce what was needed to make these. All the metal and all the glass." He hadn't had to worry about that on the ILLUSTRIA.

"You can thank one of our search teams for that. Followed by still more people to make all this." Kate looked around and was still amazed. "Would you be surprised to find out that we're thinking about building more of these? We want to have more than we need in case 1 or more of these has a catastrophe and the cold outside destroys everything on the inside."

"I'm in. The more we have the better off we'll be." Bialy was ready to get started on the next one.

"Well I'm going to leave you to it. I have a boat launching to attend. We need to get some fish and other things caught before winter gets here and freezes everything." They needed meat and a lot of it.

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Kate found Alexis, Rick, Howler and others at the dock where the boat had been put together. It wasn't big as boats go but it was different looking for the Orions. They'd been talked into building an Earth based trawler. It had booms out each side with immense nets. They even had nets that would go out the back and rake the bottom to get the bottom feeders. The bridge was tiny and it had almost no living space. It wasn't meant to go too far away from the city so sleeping space wasn't needed. Fish storage, however, was.

Kate saw the color of the hull. "It's blue." She had listened to the description and she'd seen the sketches but this was totally different. "So what it this thing?" She saw something that was being built next to the boat that she didn't remember authorizing.

"Boat lift." Rick thought it was obvious. "When the water freezes and if the boat is still in the water it will probably crack the hull and then the boat will sink when the ice melts. So we want to lift it out of the water over winter. That and drain it of everything." They didn't need pipes bursting, the hull cracking open, or ice damaging anything else.

"Okay." It made sense to her. She just didn't know who had thought of it.

"The nets on the side catch fish closer to the surface while the back nets will catch fish or other sea life closer to or on the bottom. We should get several hundred pounds every week before it gets too cold." Rick told her what she already knew. "They go out, catch fish, and come back. Then they plug it in to recharge the batteries overnight and go out again the next day. Just repeat day after day. We'll have more than we know what to do with in no time."

Actually Kate was a little fearful of just that. However the walk-in in this city were numerous and massive. It was meant to hold close to a million people and they still hadn't come anywhere close to that number. Even with all the births of babies of late.

Actually all the babies had created an all new problem. Diapers and everything else babies needed. Who wasn't farming, fishing, cooking, making more greenhouses, doing maintenance or still searching where they still hadn't searched, they were stretched really thin. Plus the Control Deck needed to be fully manned everyday, all day.

Rick pointed out another benefit of having the boat lift and dry dock. "Plus if we ever have to fly this place again we'll have a place to store our ship for the next place. That way we don't lose it and have to build another one."

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Kate had watched their ship take off and had heard it had come back completely full. Even more people were unloading it as she stripped to get ready for bed and get some sleep.

She found a naked mate waiting for her in their bed. She eagerly climbed in and settled in next to him. "We're finally doing pretty well." They were growing food and catching food. They had figured out a number of things in this city. They even had a population that was growing. Plus they hadn't seen a sign of the Vree after getting here. It felt safe at last.

"After all this time I still can't believe that all those shuttles were armed and we missed it." Rick still didn't understand how they had all missed that. Each shuttle had four drones hidden away inside its body. You had to open a door, scan your target, transfer that to a drone, and fire it.

They had only done it twice since they hadn't wanted to use them up since they had no idea how to make more. But the asteroids had blown up nicely and spectacularly. Howler was still wondering just what to do with them now that they had fighters of a sort.

Kate smiled and she snuggled in. "Howler's happy. He's got his big gun and now he has his fighters even if they don't look like fighters." Things really were looking up.

"Can we talk about starting a family again?" Rick asked.

"We've talked about this. I fell in love with you partly because you're human. You turn yourself into an Orion you won't be the same person I fell in love with. And until you can get pregnant and carry the baby Alexis is all the children either of us need." It wasn't so much as having children, it was bearing the children and giving birth to said children. Besides, she wanted him to stay human. She loved her human mate and lover.

"Anyway, Alexis took it apart a little and scattered the parts all over the city and won't tell anyone where they are. Not even me. It won't even power up any longer." No working device meant he stayed a human and that meant no children.

"My own daughter." Rick was sure he had a knife in his back.

"Alexis loves you and she understands you." Kate knew he knew that already.

Rick pointed out a potential problem. "You both are going to end up with me being the very last human if you don't."

"You don't know that, and besides it'll take generations for the Vree to use up every human. Maybe if we're all lucky that won't happen." The Vree might find someone that can fight back and wipe them out. It might be a long shot, but so far there was no one that could.

Since he was still losing this argument he decided on what they he always won at. He placed a hand on one of her breasts and then squeezed the nipple until it was nice and hard. Since this caused him to have an erection it told him that she was using her pheromones on him again.

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Alexis was dressed in one of Bialy's shirts that was almost too big for her. She was still getting used to the fact that even wearing a shirt that was too big for her, her breasts were still straining at the buttons.

"Hi." He was sitting on the edge of the bed and watching her closely as she started to rock her hips and dance in front of him. Her mind wandered back to the very first time she'd dance for him.

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Alexis had practiced for weeks until she was sure she was ready. They'd gone out on another date and she was ready for the next step. She was dressed in what she thought was as sexy as she had that still covered her breasts. He was sitting on the edge of the bed still dressed when she came out barely dressed.

She danced in front of him and popped a couple of buttons. She was starting to worry whether he was even interested in her that way. They had done a fair amount of kissing and he had even placed his hands on her breasts, but that was as far as they had gotten.

Then she saw him rubbing himself through his pants. That was when she got her first idea that he might be big. She'd listened to Nalon and figured out that if anything was going to happen she was going to have to take charge.

"Take your cock out of your pants. I want to see you stroke it." He had done exactly as she had told him and soon she was dancing and swaying her hips, even cupping her breasts in her hands and presenting them to him.

She'd been right, though. He was a big boy. Seeing him doing that was getting her wet which also told her that she had to be sending out a vast amount of pheromones. She figured that out when she saw him speeding up as he stroked himself. Except she couldn't having him climaxing just yet. It was too soon.

She'd stopped dancing and gotten on her knees. She took his hand away and replaced it with one of her own. She started licking it and doing what she could to take it into her mouth. He quickly climaxed into her mouth and she swallowed all of it. Her pheromones kept him hard so she had pushed him onto his back and mounted him.

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Tonight was going much like their first time. She was dancing, he was stroking his cock, and she was soon on her knees with his cock in her mouth until he climaxed. Then she pushed him down onto the bed and mounted him. She was adapting to his size and was learning to love having him inside her. He even placed his hands on her breasts that she loved because she had such big breasts.

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Nalon saw Alexis show up for work. "You're smiling this morning." They didn't have an enemy ship to scan, but they'd learned that they could use the scanner to scan a large area around the city for a lot of things.

"Bialy must be pretty good." Nalon loved teasing her best friend. Alexis was spared for the moment when the dogs showed each other that they wanted to play and wouldn't try to hurt anyone. Now they were running all over the place and it sounded like they were trying to rip each other to pieces when they were just playing.

"Bialy is… He's really…" Alexis used her hands to try and show how big he was. "He's nice." Alexis settled for that.

"Should I be jealous?" Nalon was happy for her. "I have news. I asked Roy to be my mate and he said yes." Nalon began squealing since she was so happy.

Alexis clapped her hands over her mouth and was smiling wide behind them. "You asked…he said yes." Now Alexis was squealing and hugged her. Now there were two women hugging and dancing and squealing.

"I want your help selecting my tattoo. I want something that will impress him. Something that shows I want to be his mate." Nalon wanted her best friend's help.

"Gladly! We'll knock his sock off!" They couldn't fail.

"Just his socks?" Nalon teased and smiled wide.

"We knock off any more than that and your mating is going to be a lot more than just that," Alexis argued. That had Nalon laughing followed by Alexis. "My place tonight and bring Gino. We can start planning immediately."

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Kate was in her normal place in her seat in the conference room while Rick and others were outside working on clearing space for another greenhouse. Others were doing a lot of other things that she had to keep track of.

"Ma'am, we have a ship on the long range scanner." Kate moaned. Things just had to go bad. It was inevitable. She got up, moved to the scanner, and looked at it.

"It's in FTL and it's still about 2 days out but it doesn't appear to be headed for us. It doesn't look like it will even enter this system," Willian reported.

"Who is it?" Kate prayed he wouldn't say Vree.

"We don't know. The system doesn't recognize it. We do have a silhouette of it, though." That meant they didn't know who it was and this place didn't know who it was.

"Show me." Kate watched as the display changed. She saw the silhouette of the ship. "What is that thing?" She'd never seen anything like it. She tapped her communicator tag. "Howler, you're needed on the Control Deck immediately. We have an alien spaceship on the long range scanner."

It only took seconds thanks to Alexis's transporter room. She heard the sound of booted feet running in the hallway and then up the stairs.

"I've never seen anything like it before." Howler shook his head. "What are these? Horns, maybe." They looked big and they were vertical on the aft end of the ship. "Then there are these at the bow. Those look like weapons. Big ones!" He was impressed and worried.

"A big head, long body, horns at the end, and big weapons. Where's it going?" If it was toward them they might be in trouble.

"They're going through this system but on the outer edge. We're far away from them," Willian said.

"We need to man the weapon system and the scanner, just in case. I'll have Wells and Marco down there immediately. Have Alexis and Nalon report there as well. We may need to defend ourselves." Howler wasn't going to just lay down and die. He was going down fighting.

Suddenly the ship vanished. "They're gone! Where did they go?"

"Entered FTL, perhaps, and was instantly out of range," Willian suggested.

"FTL. That means they're advanced. So are they enemy or friend?" Howler wasn't sure he wanted to know. "Keep your eyes open. They may return if they spotted us. Keep the weapon system and shield manned continuously from now on. We need to be ready." It was a military matter and he knew it. Kate had no choice but to agree.

"Do we contact them next time?" Kate inquired.

Howler thought about it. "Only if we believe we've been found. We could use an ally, but we don't need another enemy. We just left one. Maybe we should go back to random dialing to find another planet. Maybe we'll get lucky finally." Their luck had to change eventually.

Kate made a quick decision since it was an easy one. "Commence dialing the Portal. Pick up where we left off. Pray we find a friend and not another enemy or at least a safe place if we need one."

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Kate was riding Rick and just approaching yet another orgasm when her communication tag started beeping at her, demanding her attention.

"Not now." Just a few more strokes. Kate screamed as her orgasm washed over her and she let herself collapse onto her mate. Damn, but sex with him was the best. She had known sex was pleasurable but never like this.

Regrettably her stupid communicator was still beeping at her. It was all she could do to roll over and touch it. "What!?" She was going to kill whoever it was.

"A ship has suddenly appeared directly over us. It came out of FTL and moved into a position directly over the tower and is just sitting there," Elio reported.

Her orgasm may have wiped her out but she suddenly sat up. "Have they said anything?" She would berate them for not paying attention later. Their scanner usually gave them 2 days notice. How in the name of all they held sacred had it made it all the way to just above them and no one noticed them approach?

"No, ma'am, they're just sitting there," Elio replied.

She knew all stations were presently manned. "Inform Howler, get our shuttles manned, and raise our shield. I'll be right there." Kate didn't want to. What she wanted to do was roll over and have Rick fuck her senseless. But they had a problem.

"Our aliens are back?" Rick wasn't as weak at the moment; he rolled out of bed and started getting dressed. He was going with her wherever she went.

"Perhaps. Let's find out." Kate tried to get her legs to respond. She stumbled out of bed and scrambled to find something to wear.

By the time she and Rick had made it to the Control Deck Howler was already there. "Anything?"

"Nothing. They're just sitting there. It's definitely the same ship as last time or at least its twin." In case they used the same design for all their ships.

Then someone alien looking just sort of shifted into being. It was the best way to describe it. It was a bad picture that suddenly became solid looking.

He said something none of them understood and then just stood there. He was clearly in a uniform of some kind and he had skin similar to Rick's. But that was where the resemblance ended. He had a thick beard, thick hair that looked like large worms or straws and they were bent all over the place. And he looked every bit as big as Rick.

Kate hoped for the best. "I don't understand you. Who are you?"

They watched him turn his head and look somewhere else. Then he spoke but not to them.

Rick stepped up behind Kate. "It looks like a projection, like in the movies. He's not really here."

That had Kate reaching out a hand to press the weapon Howler was holding on it down a little. "If he's right you'll just shoot one of us," Kate whispered. Howler hated it but lowered his weapon.

"I am Dex of Atteria. I command the ship Golden Gate. You are in space controlled by the Satedans. Why are you here?" He had never seen people like them before.

Kate took a step closer. "I am Katherine, I am the leader of this place. We fled our galaxy since it was being taken over by a race that call themselves the Vree. They control much of our galaxy. They breed by using us as incubators. They are wiping out all life as they go." Kate decided on the truth since it was easier to keep control over. A lie on top of another lie was difficult to keep track of.

"You are refugees," he stated but kept his poker face.

"We are not looking for your help with anything. We do not require any assistance from you, so we are not officially refugees. We are…," Kate looked around, "looking for a new home. We found this planet and decided to try and make it work for us."

That got him to raise an eyebrow. His ship, even if it was a ship of the line, was sitting on top of a city that was several times larger than he was. Did they really mean they had flown a city to this planet from another galaxy?

He had aids already telling him that they had put up a shield around their city that his weapons would have a tough time penetrating if at all. They had technology and it was advanced. Then he was told they had structures outside of the city.

"What race are you?" Maybe that would help him decide what to do.

"We call ourselves Orion," Kate answered. Only to have him turn his head toward Rick. "That is my mate. He is human."

Unfortunately that did not help him. Still they had shielding similar to his just horribly stronger than his. They had a drive that was capable of interstellar travel and they had the power to get here. If these Vree had forced them out then he needed to understand them since they might be a threat.

He made his offer. "I require information about these Vree. Everything you know. In exchange we will allow you to claim this system and remain."

That sounded promising to Kate. "Give us a minute." She turned away from him and whispered, "Comments? They have advanced technology. I'm thinking their FTL is advanced. They jumped to a space right above us without us noticing. You don't just drop out of FTL with that kind of accuracy unless you are advanced."

"He isn't shooting at us so that's good. If he's that advanced then he likely can sense our shield and maybe he's not powerful enough to get through it," Howler posited.

"We just told him the Vree were overpowering us and that's what he wants information on," Kate said.

"So would I if we found someone who was on the run and might be being chased. Did they just bring a powerful enemy to our door?" Howler added.

Rick decided to play devil's advocate. "What if he reneges on this deal? Take the information and shoots at us?"

It was simple for Howler. "We shoot back and run after we blow him up."

"We could use an ally if we can make him one." The voice of Alexis had them turning to find her up here instead of down where she was supposed to be.

Kate wanted to be angry at her for being here instead of there. It was just she had done so much for them already. "Do we try?" Kate asked.

"Do we want to be forever on the run? I still don't know just how much power we have, are capable of generating, or how long we can keep generating enough power to keep moving from planet to planet." Alexis didn't see a choice. "In the area of space he says they control if he isn't lying."

"I'm going to accept his offer. Any objections?" Kate looked at everyone and didn't see one.

Kate turned to him. "We accept your offer. We will begin transmitting as soon as we can gather all the information we have on the Vree."

For once his poker face left him. "Excellent! I will await your transmission. Once I have all the data, this system belongs to you." He thought he was getting a bargain since this system did not have much in it. The planet they were on was barely habitable. True they had not surveyed any of the planets as yet so he didn't know what it had in resources, but he doubted they held much value and this system was on the very edge of their space.

Kate and the others watched him slowly vanish like he was fading out. "Hologram technology! Nice." Alexis was impressed. "Especially when he can send it through our shield." Alexis points out.

Kate turned on Alexis. "What are you doing up here? You're supposed to be at your station!" She hated being angry at her but she couldn't just let her run around as she pleased, either.

"You didn't answer your communicator and I had something I wanted to say so I used the transporter. I'm going now." Alexis spun on her heel, walked toward the transporter, then entered it and vanished.

Kate sighed and shook her head. "I'll apologize to her later. For now we need to gather everything we have on the Vree and what they've done and transmit it. Then pray he keeps his word." The last thing she needed was a shooting match.

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Alexis was learning that if she wanted sex she had to initiate it. Bialy was really shy about a lot of things. Alexis exited the bathroom dressed to impress and found him sitting on the edge of the bed again, petting Hannah.

She did get his attention easily enough. She even danced her way closer to him. When she finally saw him take out his cock and start stroking it she knew she wanted him. That meant she was sending out her pheromones to make sure he stayed that way.

They'd had sex often enough by now that she thought she recognized when he had stroked his cock almost too long. So she stopped dancing and got down on her knees so she could try and take his cock in her mouth.

When she tasted his pre-cum she got up and pushed him back onto the bed; then she got on top and lowered herself down onto him. In just seconds she was lifting up as far as she could and dropping back down quickly, plunging him deep inside her.

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Unknown to either of them, Alexis was resting naked on top of her boyfriend while Kate was resting naked on top of her mate. Neither woman was going to get pregnant so sex was strictly for pleasure.

Kate groaned when her communicator began beeping at her. "Don't they know I'm making love to my mate." She didn't want to answer the cursed thing.

"Maybe a do not disturb sign on our door would help." Rick wasn't any happier since he was thinking of flipping them and fucking her.

"This is Kate." What was it this time?

"We have a ship on the long range scanner. It is a match for that Satedan ship from last time. They're 4 days out at this sped and headed right for us," Willian reported.

What Kate wanted to do was blow up at them. They couldn't have waited even 1 hour to tell her a ship was 4 days out? "Inform Howler and we'll be ready." Kate ended it.

"Now where were we?" Kate asked since she wasn't needed anywhere else at the moment.

"I believe we were right here." Rick flipped her onto her back and had Kate squealing and then moaning in pleasure as he plunged his cock deep inside her in 1 swift stroke.

It only took a couple of minutes. "YES! FUCK ME!"

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All of her pheromones had finally made Bialy bold and he had flipped her onto her back, grabbed her legs and pushed them toward her head and slammed his cock deep inside her.

It only took a minute and Alexis wanted more. "Yes! Fuck me! Harder…faster." It had her pumping out a vast amount of her pheromones to keep him hard and deep inside her.

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"Captain Dex, what can we help you with?" Their hopefully new friend had shown up and instead of sitting right on top of them like last time, he was in a high orbit that would take him directly over them on each orbit.

"I have brought someone with me. Her mission is to try and establish a trade of items between us. Her mission is to find something that will benefit both of us at a price we can agree on. She wants to invite you to our ship for the first round. You may bring an armed escort if it will make you feel better. We will have a small one of our own. We will send a shuttle that will fit our bay."

That was better than Kate had hoped for. Talking was enough for her but trade was even better.

"Give us 1 hour and we will contact you." Kate killed the communication. "Have Howler, Heuer, and Alexis meet me in the conference room. We need to discuss this."

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"What did they want?" Howler was glad they weren't sitting right on them demanding things.

"They want to establish a trade. They've offered a shuttle to take us to their ship. We have 1 hour to decide who goes, what we're willing to offer, and what we need," Kate advised.

However, before anyone could say anything Patrick showed up at the doors that Kate had left open. "We dialed a Portal to somewhere!" He was excited. It was their first here and it was unexpected.

"We got…" Kate's mouth dropped open. It should have been impossible was what she'd been thinking. This was a different galaxy so how was that possible?

"Assemble a team and send them through as soon as possible," Kate told Howler. "We'll talk when you get back."

Howler left to gather his team while the rest of them sat there waiting for him.

For Kate things were finally looking up. The city was working perfectly. They had food. They were growing it and fishing for food. She had a mate and life was really good. Now they possibly had a future ally and were about to start a trade with them. They even had their own system provided their new friends didn't renege on the deal. In addition they possibly had a planet they could retreat to if they had to.

It was a far cry from when she had accepted this mission when the Vree had shown up and started destroying their home planet. They had a future.

Kate was even willing to talk to Rick again about letting him turn himself into an Orion so they could have a family. Having kids running around was a gift and as leader she had to make sure they had a future. She still wasn't happy about being pregnant, but she was also trying to listen to what her parents would say if they were here. Though the Doctor had said something about needing to make adjustments for them to have a baby the natural way. They still had to investigate that part. Maybe Rick didn't need to be an Orion for them to have children.

If, and that was still a big if, she and Rick did have children her parents and his mother were never going to get to see them all thanks to the Vree. Maybe someday they would pay for that, but first they had work to do.