Border Station Five

John dreamt that he was wrapped in a warm duvet and his legs were bound together. He woke to find something heavy was resting on his head. Blinking his eyes clear, he remembered where he was. John was currently sharing a nest with Milsi, and she had her tail wrapped around both legs. She hugged him tightly while his head was enveloped by one of her enormous breasts.

"Milsi?" John called out. He heard a murmur from above, "Milsi, are you awake?" he asked.

"You are so warm," she replied. Milsi shifted her hold and then rolled onto her back. She pulled John with her, and he found himself lying face down atop the Quartermaster. Milsi unwound her tail from his legs, and as the blood flow returned, he felt her tail flop over the side of the nest. John's head was now resting just above her breasts, his arms by his side as Milsi kept hold of him.

"Milsi, can you loosen your grip?" John asked, "You're holding me a bit too tight," he then watched as she opened her large eyes, their warm yellow glow visible in the dimness of the room.

"Sorry, John," she apologised, her mouth emitting a similar glow. John relaxed once Milsi loosened her grip on him.

"Thanks," he said as he rested his chin on her cleavage, "how long till we have to be up?" John inquired.

"About an hour," she replied, "I will need at least twenty minutes to buff my scales, perhaps less if you help," Milsi suggested.

"I'll need a shower," John said, "care to join me?" he offered.

*****

Officer Thissa stood in the queue at the ship's canteen when she noticed Milsi and John arrive. As the two stopped next to her, Thissa noticed how the light from above shined off of Milsi's scales.

"In all the time I have known you, Milsi, your scales have never been so shiny," Thissa said.

"Thank you," Milsi replied with a smile, "It has been so long since I last had someone to help," she then took hold of John's left arm, "John did a great job. I barely had to direct him," she said with another beaming smile. Looking at John, Thissa watched as his face went red.

"I used to polish my car with a buffer, and you must keep it moving. Otherwise, you could damage the paint," he said while shrugging, "I figured the same principles applied to Viper scales," John then detached his pad and distracted himself.

"I suggest you be careful, John," Thissa warned, looking down at him.

"What for?" John asked, looking up at her.

"If you buff Milsi's scales too well, you will have crew members chasing you around the ship," she replied with a smile.

"Haha," he replied.

"Next fifteen," John heard someone shout from the front of the queue. Unlike his first visit to the Cruiser's canteen, he did not have to wait long before entering.

Stepping through the doorway, John saw the familiar light show as each Viper consumed their favourite glowing paste. This time, John asked for the colour which had the most taste. He didn't see the point in eating food with little to zero taste. Finding an empty table, John sat down with Thissa and Milsi. Thissa had her usual large bowl of yellow paste, and Milsi had three bowls. One was a black paste, another was white, and the third was yellow.

"Do you know what I'm meant to do while I'm on this ship?" John queried.

"Well, you are a guest of The Matriarchy," Thissa answered, "until we reach one of the main systems, there is not much you or we can do," she then used her brightly glowing yellow tongue to scoop up a large amount of paste from her bowl. John found himself staring, and when Milsi noticed she nudged him, John laughed as she scooped up a large amount of glowing paste from one of her bowls.

"You don't have to compete, Milsi," he said, "I'm already in your nest," Milsi smiled as John scooped up some of his paste. "I'm surprised this doesn't make my pee glow," he said and then sucked it off his fingers.

"What is Pee?" Thissa asked.

"Urine," came a reply from nearby. All three of them looked over to see Doctor Mizta approach, "I see you have survived a night with a Viper, John," Mizta said with a wink. She sat down next to Thissa and nodded at Milsi.

"He was so warm," she said, pulling John against her chest. Despite her uniform, his head was enveloped by her large breasts. As he tried to free himself from Milsi's tight grip, John noticed several nearby Vipers watching.

"Milsi," he whispered, "let me go," John pleaded. After a few moments, she relaxed, allowing him to free himself.

"Your scales are lovely too," Mizta said. Milsi thanked Mizta as she licked up some of her white paste. "Have you had any problems since yesterday?" the Doctor asked, looking down at John.

"Not really," he replied, shaking his head, "although," John went to whisper, but then he remembered how well Vipers could hear. "I'll send it to you as a message, Doctor," John retrieved his pad from his thigh and tapped a message to Mizta. A few seconds later, her pad beeped. Removing it from her right thigh, Mizta read the message.

"Milsi alleviated your blue balls?" Thissa blurted out as she read John's message. Instantly, the canteen went quiet, and John's face went bright red. He tried to hide as he felt dozens of eyes staring at him.

"Officer Thissa," said a familiar voice. John saw Yutsi, the ship's Chief of Security, standing nearby. "What have I told you about reading private messages between crew members?" she asked. As the Chief spoke, Thissa's hood folded against her head and neck. "Apologise to our guest," Yutsi ordered.

"I am sorry," Thissa said, bowing toward John.

"It's okay," he replied with a smile. The admonished Viper smiled back, her hood relaxing.

"I see you have finished your food. You should go and start your shift," the Chief ordered and then looked at John, "if you keep making a scene while people are eating, I will have to separate you from the crew," Yutsi then looked around the Canteen, "back to your food ladies," she ordered and then headed for the door.

"What happened last time?" Milsi asked John as Thissa said their goodbyes.

"Everyone heard him say he likes the smell of our musk," Mizta replied.

"I wondered why you were sniffing me," Milsi said, laughing when she saw John's reaction. "I promise not to say anymore, especially with all the jealous looks I am getting," Milsi then looked around the room as she finished talking.

"No fair, how come you get to have a male?" a brightly coloured red and yellow scaled Viper said, "Calm down before the Chief comes back," another Viper replied. This one had vibrant purple scales with a glowing pink pattern dotted around her body.

"I think we should leave," Mizta said as she stood. Both John and Milsi nodded in agreement. John tried not to make eye contact with any of the Vipers as the three of them left. "If you follow me," the Doctor said, looking down at John, "I want to do a few more scans, double-check that your body is working fine, and ensure you were not injured last night," Mizta then headed down a nearby corridor.

"I will see you later," Milsi told John as she walked towards a different corridor.

*****

"Lie still while I activate the scanner," Mizta said as she left John at the medical bed and headed to her workstation.

Watching from where he lay, she pressed a few buttons and the ceiling above John split open. A mechanical arm descended, and the small boxy device attached to the end of the arm activated. John covered his eyes as a bright green light blinded him. He watched it as it travelled down the length of his body and then up again.

"Try not to move too much," Mizta said from her workstation.

"Sorry, it blinded me," John replied.

"The scan will finish shortly," she said.

A minute or two later, the scan was complete. The arm ascended back into the ceiling, and the panels returned to their original position. Mizta stood up and walked back over to where John's medical bed, pad in hand.

"Did you find anything?" he asked.

"There is no damage to your body," Mizta replied as she tapped her pad, "and the computer can not find any side effects to the treatments I administered," she said.

"What damage were you expecting?" John inquired. He sat up and tried to look at her pad.

"Well, you did spend a night with a Viper," Mizta replied and then showed the scan to John, "Milsi is one of the larger females on board," she pointed out. Looking at the scan, John noted that the pad showed a clear resolution of his skeleton, nervous system, muscles, and skin.

"We didn't have sex," John protested.

"I know," Mizta replied with a smile.

"How?" John asked.

"I watched the footage from last night," Mizta replied.

"I forgot you guys record everything," John said as he folded his arms.

"You were told that they can be set to private so that no one can view them," she reminded him.

"True. I guess I just forget that option is there," John admitted. "Am I free to go?" he asked.

"You are," Mizta replied, "unless you want to provide me with a sample of your sperm?" she said. John laughed as he hopped off the bed.

"Sorry, what did you just say?" he asked, looking up at Mizta.

"Your sperm, I would like a sample," she replied and held a round device in her hand. To John, it looked like a Collar but much smaller.

"Why do you want a sample of my sperm, and what is that?" he asked.

"We regularly test samples of Male Viper sperm," Mizta replied, "and this device is what we use to extract and store it," she said.

"Why not just ask them to produce it themselves?" John asked as he leaned against the medical bed.

"Over the years, we have found that mechanical extraction is more effective than manual extraction," Mizta replied. "The process is relatively quick," she pointed out, "if you return to the medical bed and insert yourself, I will activate it from my workstation," Mizta offered the device to John. She watched as he looked at it for a moment, then smiled as he sighed, took it from her hand, and hopped onto the bed.

"So I just place it on my groin?" John asked.

"Make sure to adjust your Nanosuit so that your groin is exposed," Mizta said as she walked over to her workstation.

John lay back on the medical bed, used his tablet to access his Nanosuit and figured out how to expose his groin. Placing the device on his lap, he made sure his cock was sticking through the 'collar'.

"Activating it now," Mizta said.

With a familiar flash of blue light, the collar-like device activated, and Nanos exited their reservoir and moved toward John's cock. As they slowly formed around it, John felt something strange and realised he was getting aroused. When the device had finished, his cock was fully covered in a flexible material and as hard as it had ever been.

"Well, this is weird," John said, "what's next?" he asked, looking over to where Mizta was standing.

"This," she replied.

"Fuck," was all John could manage as immense pleasure flooded his brain. Within seconds, he orgasmed, his toes curled, hands clenched the fabric of the medical bed, and cum erupted forth from his cock. Falling backwards, John relaxed into the medical bed as the fog of what happened slowly faded. "What the hell was that?" he asked.

"A surprisingly successful activation," Mizta replied as she walked to the medical bed.

She reached over to the device and slowly lifted it. John was surprised to see that his cock was flushed red and glistening. A line of cum connected the head to the device as Mizta rotated it in her hand. Looking at it, John noted a glass vial attached to the side facing away from John. Mizta was turning it left to right, watching the contents move.

"A surprisingly large sample," she admitted.

"What the fuck was that?" John asked.

"I told you, it is how we extract sperm samples from Viper Males," Mizta replied. She then gripped the base of John's cock with her right hand and pulled up firmly.

"Hey, it's sensitive!" John complained.

"Just watch," Mizta replied as she continued to move her hand up his cock. It felt like she was milking him as the last ropes of his orgasm dribbled down his cock. Thanks in part to the size of her hand, as well as how she was holding his cock, John's cum stayed together until she reached the tip. "Hold this," Mizta said as she went to hand the vial to him.

John was surprised by how warm the glass vial was as he held it in both hands. Mizta brought her right hand over to the vial, and with her left, she unscrewed the vial. John watched as Mizta manipulated her hand so that his cum went in.

"Thanks," she said after screwing the top back on.

"Won't your hands contaminate the sample?" John asked.

"I sterilised them when you were getting comfortable," she replied. "You are free to go," Mizta said as she turned around and approached a nearby piece of equipment.

"You'll let me know if you find anything wrong?" John asked as she placed the glass vial into an open slot.

"There is no need to worry, John," Mizta replied as she turned her head around.

"Oh, okay," he said. John used his map to find the correct corridor and walked out of Medical.

Turning back to the scanner in front of her, Mizta hummed to herself as she watched John's cum slosh about inside the vial.

*****

John guessed he was near the hangar, and it wasn't just the map on his pad telling him. The corridor he was now walking through had pipes and cables of various sizes running along the walls and ceiling. Along the way, John had been stopped by a few crew members. One was a Security Officer who wanted to know what he was doing. After John had shown her the message from the Chief Engineer, he was allowed to pass. Another crew member was an Engineer. Somehow, he had lost his way and found himself an inch away from walking face-first into the tall Viper. She hadn't seen John because of the boxes she had been carrying. After dropping them, the engineer apologised profusely and then, as suddenly as she had appeared, the Viper was gone.

Finding the door to the hangar, John stepped through it and gasped at what he saw. The room was vast, and he guessed it was around three hundred metres long by one hundred and fifty. He saw machines lining the walls, cables and steam rising as he looked left to right. Looking up at the ceiling, John guessed that it was around forty metres high, and he then saw that there was a large crane or some sort of claw set into the middle. It ran along tracks fixed to the ceiling, and John watched as it descended, picked up an alien craft and then moved it to another part of the hangar. Looking to his right, John saw two very large doors and guessed they might lead into space. Looking at the edges of the doors, he noticed a light blue shimmer. Shield technology? He asked himself. A whistle from nearby interrupted his current train of thought, and John looked down. In the middle of the hangar, below where he stood on a raised walkway, was a group of Vipers. He recognised one of them as Chief Engineer Zoazhis, thanks partly to the two mechanical arms attached to her back. Finding the nearest stairs, John headed to the hangar floor and over to Zhoazhis.

"Hello again," said the Chief Engineer as he approached the tall Viper. John could see her mechanical arms were busy manipulating some kind of device.

"Hello, Zoazhis," John replied, looking up at her bright blue eyes. She smiled when they made eye contact, and John thought he had seen one of her mechanical arms twitch.

"What do you think?" she asked, gesturing to the dismantled remains of his ship.

"To be honest," John replied as he looked around the hangar floor, "I'm surprised you were able to dismantle her so quickly," he said and then walked over to a group of engineers. A few of them nodded and smiled at him, and they moved aside so that he could look at the various pieces.

"I would have been surprised if it was not easy for us to dismantle the ship," Zoazhis said, stopping next to John as he bent down to examine a piece of the Poseiden. "We stopped using titanium thousands of years ago, and our tools can easily cut through it, plus.." she waited as John stood up again, "the central crane can cut through most materials," the engineer smiled at him when John looked up at her.

"I can imagine. What did you want to talk to me about?" he asked. John noticed that the other engineers were watching him.

"This," Zoazhis replied and walked over to a nearby monitor. She tapped away at the keyboard, and a bright green hologram appeared next to where she was standing. "We have figured out how you managed to get to the system we found you in and why you survived the journey," the Chief Engineer then waited for John as he walked over to the hologram.

Over the next few hours, Zoazhis and a few of her engineers explained to John what had happened: why his stasis pod had failed to wake him, how the Poseiden had entered the Vortex, why it took two hundred years to reach the system he was found in, and why he had managed to survive without a Vortex shield. They had also answered any questions he had about what the Vortex was. John left the hangar and slowly made his way towards the canteen. What they had told him had both surprised and shocked him. He was now hungry and not in the best of moods.

Arriving at the canteen, John found himself at the back of a long queue. "We keep bumping into each other," said a familiar voice from behind. Turning around, he saw Thissa, and she smiled when he looked up. The light from above caught the shine of her scales. "You okay?" she asked, with a hint of concern.

"Oh, it's nothing," John replied, "I've just got a lot on my mind," he then looked back at the queue as it started to move.

"I have some snacks in my quarters if you want to chat?" Thissa asked. She placed her right hand on John's left shoulder, "I can be great company if you let me," she said, smiling at John as he made eye contact. He could see the warm glow of her yellow eyes and mouth as she spoke. John wanted a distraction from his current thoughts and nodded.

"Let's go," he said, following Thissa as she walked away from the canteen. "You won't get in trouble?" John asked as she slowed her pace to match his.

"No, I am off duty now," she replied, "besides," Thissa said as she bent forward so that her head was level with John's, "it will be a few hours before my roommate finishes her shift," she then laughed as his face went red. Fifteen minutes later, they arrived at Thissa's quarters, and she placed her right thumb against the door. With a hiss, the door opened, and a warm red glow from inside lit up John's face.

"So," Thissa said, turning around to face John as the doors closed behind him, "how do Terrans have sex?" smiling at John's reaction to her blunt question.

"I forgot how forward Vipers were," he replied and then looked up at Thissa, "Pretty much the same as Vipers do, although I only have one cock, and I'm shorter than you," John then yelped as he was picked up and hugged by the eight-foot Viper in front of him. She spun him around and threw him onto what John guessed was her nest. He bounced when he landed and sank slightly into its soft interior.

"Good," Thissa said as she stepped into her nest.

****

"Damn, look at him go," Tactical Officer Suhli said while watching the image displayed above the Tactical Display Table.

"I knew Thissa enjoyed anal but not this much," Comms Officer Akhi chimed in, "my butt feels sore just from watching John fuck her," she then looked over to where the Captain and Matriarch were standing.

"He does have a nice rhythm," Theka said as she watched John fuck Thissa in the arse. "It is a shame we never made official contact with the Terrans," she recoiled slightly as the TDT emitted an audible scream. Ema tapped away at the control panel projected in front of her, and the audio from the image was lowered.