"Before I entrust myself to your ability to fly six thousand miles on a thousand mile tank of two hundred year old jet fuel," Nix said, glowering first at Wolf, then at her jet. "I want to examine you."
"Dooo you now," the cocky, wolf eared spirit said, her tail wagging as she reached up to rub her chin and waggle her eyebrows.
Nix turned to look at the Captain of the Hundred and One. "Has she ever been serviced?"
He grunted noncommittally.
"I'm bloody trying to save your yank asses, and you can't be bothered to give me the intelligence I need to make sure I survive?" Nix asked.
"She's British?" Wolf asked, sounding faintly shocked. Nix glowered at her - her accent hadn't shifted
that
far living in the colonies, had it? No, no, she was fairly sure that Wolf just barely noticed accents. Spirits had a hard time judging that kind of human inflection. The Captain sighed, his hands sliding into the pockets rumpled jump pants he wore, his lips pursed.
"We have a few American technicians. Mostly highwaymen," he said.
"Highwaymen!?" Nix spluttered. "This is a...a
jet
airplane, and you've only ever had her serviced by those maniacs that ride up and down the Midwest with bloody flamethrowers strapped to their cars?"
"They're American," the Captain said. "Mostly."
"I'm totally fit to fly," Wolf said, grinning and stepping away from her jet-body. She brushed her hands through her hair, her aviator glasses glinting brightly as the movement caused her leather flight jacket to slip open, showing off the sleek, athletic build of her silver and yellow spirit-body. Nix took her in, slowly, frowning as she slid her eyes along the spirit. She paused, spotting a most unexpected addition between Wolf's legs. She pointed.
"What is that?" she asked.
Wolf glanced down.
She had a penis.
Wolf glanced up, then the most impossibly smug, dare one say,
cocky
expression appeared on her lips. "I'm transonic," she said.
Nix rubbed her palms against her face. She had never
serviced
a transonic capable aircraft spirit before - even the swiftest of all the Empire's fixed wing aircraft never got close to that speed. It was intimidating. Give her a nice, sweet airship. She rubbed her palm against her cheeks, breathing in, then breathing out again. "I think I can get you to Europe," she said, quietly. "But when we get there...if the Mechanical Turks are working for who I think they are, if they have suborned the Empire to the degree that they might have, we won't just be facing an airship. There are royal Spitfires out there. Can you defeat a whole squadron of the best fliers in the world in the best planes in the world?"
Wolf swaggered towards her. She slid her arm around Nix, then planted a finger on her chest. "Two words, baby," she said, letting her head tilt forward - her aviator glasses sliding forward so they almost fell off her button nose. Her eyes glittered like gun cameras, fixed on a kill. "Boom. Zoom."
"...what the bloody hell does that mean?" Nix whispered.
"Baby! I'm not just faster than them! I'm
two times
faster than them!" She laughed. "Sure, they'll turn better than me, but who giiiiiiiives a shiiiit!" She pointed back at her fuselage. "Those are six! Count em! Six fifty caliber M3 Browning Machine Guns, loaded to the gills with AP, API, tracers!" She slapped her palm against Nix's belly. "We're fighting assholes in World War 2 spitfires, it's not even fucking fair, I have
radar
." She beamed.
"Famous last words," Nix said.
"Nah, I've got way more words I can say, baby!" Wolf said. "Come on! Lets get in and fuck shit up! Come on! Come on!"
Nix allowed herself to be chivied towards the plane.
***
"Are you sure you want me here?" Nix asked, squirming as she sat atop Timber Wolf's lap. The spirit leaned back in her cockpit chair, the two of them squished together by the close confines of the interior of the jet. Nix's head was almost touching the canopy. A silvery hand traced a shivering contact along her thigh, while the low whirring sound of the jet engine warming up filled the cabin. Wolf's voice purred soft in her ear.
"Nah, you're all good, baby," she said.
"My name is Nix," Nix said, her voice growing a bit frosty - but by now...she had fairly firmly pegged
Timber Wolf
. The spirit was easily the most arrogant spirit she had ever met. So all Nix had to do now was play hard to get, and she'd fly halfway around the world to impress her. Unlike many a-time spent servicing, Nix here would need to
avoid
letting Wolf climax. She wanted to edge her. Draw her out. Push her. Almost punish her. She was already selecting gambits as Wolf laughed.
"Nix? Cute name. Cute name for a cute little limey broad," Wolf said, her breath warm against Nix's neck as she leaned around, kissing her throat. Nix bit her lip, slightly, to make sure she didn't moan. She kept her hips resolutely still as, around the jet, men hurried to drag the
Timber Wolf
towards the exit out of their cave-side hanger. A massive doorway began to swing smoothly open - mechanics or no, they had managed to keep their gears and joints oiled and hooked up to the various cranks and levers required to shift metal. Twinkling stars glittered overhead, and a moon rose high above the horizon. Nix, remembering those stars, pursed her lips.
The radio on the dashboard crackled.
"
Timber Wolf-1,
this is Constitutional Actual, are you ready to launch."
"Ready!" Wolf was almost buzzing underneath Nix.
"Good luck, spirits speed you on your way."
"Eeeeee!" Wolf whispered. "Okay. Put your hand there, on my throttle, baby."
"Wait,
I'm
going to fly this thing?" Nix asked. "You're the spirit, can't you do it?"
"I can totally fly myself. I just wanna get a cute girl's hands all over me," Wolf said, grinning impishly over Nix's shoulder. Nix smirked slightly. She reached out - her eyes flicking over the console. Fortunately, some studious American had gone through and actually applied stenciled letters to the dash. She saw there were a lot of dials and knobs, but the one she was interested in was the starter switch. She put her finger on it, grinning ever so slightly.
"So, you want me to flick this on?" she asked, flicking the engine off.
The jet turbine whirred down and the plane settled slightly.
"What, no! That's off!" Wolf said, her ears twitching up.
"Oh, sorry, let me just..." Nix wiggled the starter switch - not quite flipping it over and up to the on position. Wolf tried to reach around her to get her hands on her own console, but Nix pinned the spirit's arm to the wall with an 'accidental' shift of her elbow. "Almost got it!" She said, cheerfully.
"Come onnnn!" Wolf whined.
Finally, Nix flipped the starter switch to the active position. The jet started to whine up again. The radio crackled.
"Uh, everything 10-4 in there,
Timber Wolf-1."
"We're just fine in here," Nix said, picking up the radio before Wolf could grab for it. As she leaned forward to speak into it, she rolled her hips, grinding her ass against Wolf's crotch. The transonic spirit squirmed and let out a whine almost as piteous as her engine. "Just revving her engine." She ground her hips again.
"Just...just push my throttle up!" Wolf said.
"This?" Nix asked, putting her hand on what was clearly labeled the radar on-switch. She twiddled it and rolled her hips a third time. Wolf let out a noise a bit like a bubbling teapot.
"That's...no, there! That! There! Push it up! Come on, I wanna fly!" she said, while Nix slowly put her hand on the throttle.
"Ohh, it's soooo
heavy
though," Nix purred. "If I push this up, are you gonna fly really far and fast?" Wolf, looking as if she was about to explode in every sense of the word, gasped and tried to reach around Nix. Nix mercilessly leaned back, so that she squished the spirit into her own crash chair. She rolled her head back, so that Wolf's nose and eyes were covered by her brown hair. "What does a good spirit say?" she purred.
"Push the fucking throttle up, come on!" Wolf whined.
"I want a good spirit who does what her technician says," Nix crooned.
"You don't play
fair
," Wolf whispered. She nuzzled into Nix's hair, despite herself.
"I play to win," Nix whispered. "Now. Come on. It starts with a Puh...puhhh..."
"Puh...puhpffcuk you!" Wolf growled. Her hands reached around, fumbling at her own controls. Nix reached up, grabbed onto Wolf's wrists, then shoved them up, so her silvery palms were pressed against the glass canopy. Wolf growled and bit Nix's shoulder - fortunately, Nix's shirt was relatively thick. Nix grinned wickedly.
"Puhhhhhh!" She prompted. Wolf wiggled her jaw, like she was worrying into Nix's shoulder. Then...she released.
Quietly, she mumbled something into Nix's neck. Since there was a jet turbine whirring up outside the cockpit - despite the dampening effects of Wolf's presence on sound - Nix honestly didn't hear her, even if she could feel the shape of of the words on Wolf's lips. Her own smile grew more predatory.
"Louder," she whispered.
"P...Please!" Wolf whimpered. "Please push up my throttle."