Chapter 138: Whispers in the Dark.
Now with both Raymond's and Wisp's teams together again the decision was made to consolidate the two into a singular team with Raymond in charge of the group's diplomatic arm and Wisp in charge of the strike teams.
With the Railroad now fully on board the group had not only grown in size but in reach, the same went for the Valkyries, Brotherhood and now the Minutemen as well.
Infact a contingent of Minutemen troopers had just arrived at the newly minted Alliance base and were currently making themselves comfortable in the still mostly empty residential wing of the Vault.
"Damn this place is getting busy quickly," Yumi said leaning back into an armchair as she sat opposite from Zixxy as well as Lucas who was out of his armour for once and was currently play chair for the rather happy looking alien girl.
"It gives the place both life and purpose, granted its not the purpose that it was initially intended for but this one is far greater," Zixxy said following Yumi's gaze over at the group of Minutemen troopers who were currently locked in conversation with both some Railroad heavies as well as Ven and Riss.
It was obvious that having a normal conversation with a non-human was very much still in its adjustment phase for both the Railroad heavies and definitly more so for the Minutemen troopers but the groups seemed to be both jovial and civil.
"As our resident mind wanderer how are you reading our newest arrivals?' Yumi asked and Zixxy turned to her and gave her a smile.
"it seems that the Minutemen chose wisely with the group that they sent over, they knew what they were getting into when they signed up for this, or at least they had some inkling, they seem rather excited to mixing with us and to be working with us, I even sense some more.........hopeful intentions among them shall we say," Zixxy said with a sly smile and Yumi blinked at her before bursting out laughing.
"Seems there are far more non-human lovers out there than we ever could have guessed huh?' she said as she dried her eyes and Zixxy nodded before aiming that same sly smile upwards at her own beloved human, whom she had yet to be able to get her little green hands on properly due to all the work they had been involved in over the last few days.
"Hey we don't all wear a label that says 'Hi my name is Non-human lover number XXY,' you know," Lucas said a little sniffily which made Zixxy's smile widen tenfold.
"That is part of the fun my dear Lucas, finding those little shining gems among the rocks and extracting them before polishing them up to display to the world as your greatest tresure," she said which made Lucas smile shyly and blush just as shyly.
"I've never been called someone's greatest treasure before," he said softly and with a note of embaressment to his voice that was simply adorable to Zixxy, she loved making this bashful but brave human display his true colours.
"Thats because it took a girl to travel from a different galaxy to show the females of your species how blind and late they are, because you are mine now and they missed out, now you will be my treasure and I am going to polish you up every chance I get," she said in sultry sounding voice which made him blush an even deeper shade of red.
"Somehow i doubt your talking about my armour are you?' he said making Zixxy laugh out loud before reaching up to stroke his face lovingly and delighting in the warm and soft roughness of his stubble covered chin.
"Not even slightly my dashing knight," she said.
From across from them they both heard yumi making gagging noises and Zixxy shot her a playful smile.
"Are those the sounds of human jealousy I hear from over yonder?' she said and Yumi gave her a tooth filled grin.
"Damn straight little green, with all the human non-human love going around here I'm beginning to wonder if I should give up on my own parent race and expand my own horizons, I mean Fuller was starting to catch my eye for a bit but given that his heart is royally in Glory's synthetic hands and well I rather like my fine Japanese ass attached to my legs and not being used as a fucking skipping stone I think I'm gonna need to start my search from scratch," she said with a tinge of sadness to her mirthful voice.
Zixxy change her grin to a warm smile and nodded, "Don't see that as a failure Yumi, see it as part of your new begining, you chose yourself a new name, a new path and now a new love seems to be a good fit to go with that whole new life don't you think?' she said and that caused Yumi's smile to widen.
"Yeah you're right, thanks little green, its just a pity we only got the one fluffy spider boy to go around, think I woulda quite liked me a nice jumpy fluffy boy to ride around on and who could ride around on me at night," which made Zixxy howl in surprised laughter.
"Vivid description," she said and Yumi grinned.
"Just figured that since you were having such fun making Lucas there blush I'd join in a bit," she said shooting her smile up at the now thourally embaressed Knight.
"The pair of you are as bad as one another, seems that species isn't the issue it must be a gender thing," her grumbled and both girls laughed before shooting him looks of mock outrage.
"I'll have you know I am a model of human pioty," Yumi said flashing her teeth at him.
"Yeah sounds like it, god help the non-human boy who falls for you girl, he ain't gonna have a fucking clue what hit him," he shot back and Yumi nodded.
"Thats the plan, sweep him off his feet before he knows whats going on, regardless of how many he has or how good they grip," she said doing what looked like finger guns and a wink at Zixxy who just howled with laughter.
"Well at least if that doesn't work you can definitly win him over with your sense of humor," she said making Yumi laugh and nod.
"Well thats a start at least," she said.
