(Warning: This story contains futa, cum inflation, slime inflation sorta, and an alien)
Trying my hand writing another one mostly from scratch. The premise was partially inspired by the Cygnus chapters and another concept. I still intend on resuming Callisti's story but I wanted to mix things up a bit first. Maybe I'll try to alternate chapters on them, we'll see. This is another I definitely intend on writing more parts for. I think the future chapters for both will be leaner and more focused on the spicy stuff, now that the worlds are established.
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Kara sat on the ramp of her ship, watching the commuters pass by on the way to their transports as she waited. She'd been on-planet for a few days already to unwind after her last job. In fact, she thought she may have unwound a little more than a professional ought to, as her pounding headache reminded her of the night before. Regardless, she was now kitted up and ready to get back at it. She wore a skin-tight, black space suit with some scuffed up gray armor plating across all the vital spots and extremities. The plate over her chest was quarreling a bit with her generous bust, reminding her that it was probably time to get her armor resized. Her modified blaster was strapped securely in its holster on her left hip, and her sleek helmet sat next to her on the ramp. Kara was on the lookout for a woman named Jules. She'd only seen one picture in their brief contact, but hoped the blue hair would stand out enough to spot her in the crowd.
Kara made her bones on the backwater planet where she grew up. Plenty of children became lost or abandoned in the towering shanty towns outside of the main cities and ended up street urchins like her. Kara wouldn't let her circumstances define her fate, though. She learned to fight as a basic necessity of survival. She learned to tinker with the endless bounty of discarded technology in the surrounding landfills. Kara made herself useful to anyone with a little bit of sway or power, and she also quickly learned not to trust them beyond their utility, as that's how they were sure to treat her in return anyway. Eventually, she managed to win a compact but maneuverable cargo ship in a bet with a small-time freighter, finally allowing her to test her mettle against more than just the sprawling junkyards of her home.
Since then, she'd been trying to gain a bit of renown as a contractor, performing odd jobs, hazardous retrievals, and all manner of other risky and questionable things. She had visited many dangerous corners of the galaxy and managed to survive them. Still, even slum-dwellers who've never even left their home world could tell you there are some places too dangerous to go solo. Most of the space denizens hiding in some dank cavern out there cut to the chase and try to fight; these can be handled just fine with a blaster. Others, though, prefer that you live, so long as you can host their young, which Kara had no interest in doing. Now an experienced contractor, she knew very well that different jobs required the right set of tools. Jules would hopefully be the perfect tool to deal with some of these more unsettling threats.
Kara got up to stretch her legs a bit, feeling herself beginning to lose focus. She paced around the landing pad near the ship's ramp, stretching her arms out and upward to wake her body back up. After a while longer, she saw a petite woman break from the crowds streaming past and begin approaching her. The woman had immaculate caramel-tan skin, sparkling brown eyes, and wavy, blue-ish teal hair that flowed down a bit past her shoulders. She was in a similarly skin-tight white suit, but hers had a funky seam around the midsection and no armor. She wore a backpack and carried a duffel bag with her, seemingly exhausted from lugging them for quite a while.
"Kara?" The woman called out as she neared. "Kara Steyward, yeah? Is this the right bay? This place is kind of a labyrinth." Her confusion dissipated when Kara perked up as if she'd been expecting her arrival.
"You must be Jules," Kara replied, approaching with a hand extended to greet her. "Glad you found your way here, let's get you acclimated and get a move on. We've got a time-sensitive job queued up already," she explained.
The two shook hands and Jules gave a nod, following Kara into the ship. Kara provided a brief overview of the modest features and facilities as they passed through towards the cockpit. It was outfitted with a small med-bay, combination kitchen and lounge area, a few personal cabins, an armory, and a decent cargo hold. Jules slung her bags into one of the empty cabins as they passed by, and the women settled into the cockpit and buckled up for takeoff. The engines hummed to life as Kara fiddled with the controls, and they awaited the go-ahead from the spaceport control tower. Despite Kara's very personable demeanor and genuinely friendly nature, she wasn't really used to having someone around for long periods of time, especially while working. In fact, this would be her first job with someone else, and she was a little nervous about how it would go.
Kara had essentially struck gold finding someone like Jules to work with. Jules was a Tank- a common term for a human with a set of mutations suited for a very specific role in certain hostile environments. A Tank is the best way to deal with those scenarios where a hostile alien is more interested in offloading its young than killing you. When you're in the alien's natural environment, they've got an upper hand that makes it far less of a guarantee that you'll stop them before they can grab you. Tanks, on the other hand, are there to get grabbed instead. Something about their physiology universally pings them as an ideal host for eggs, goop, or whatever else a creepy crawly is intent on pumping into its victims. In the way that cats can't help but instinctively chase a string, many aliens can't help but want to fill up a Tank, and when they're preoccupied like this they're far, far easier to dispatch. On top of attracting sexual aggression away from other crew members, Tanks are also physically suited to deal with such large fillings. They have extremely flexible skin and insides, and are very resistant to mutations and other effects from exposure to exotic chemical or biological substances that they may come into contact with.
"Maybe it's just my inexperience with Tanks, but are you all so slim?" Kara asked, now maneuvering the ship up and away from the pad as they were given clearance to take off. "I don't mean to doubt, but you *do* have some insanely huge capacity, right?"