Hey all! Vanity is back in another new chapter of Harem of Vanity. I really had fun writing this one and I hope you'll have fun reading. As always, please contact me via my contact's page here with any questions, comments, hearing from you guys is a big part of what keeps me at this!
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I was wrapped in towels made from the terry-cloth like hide of some unfortunate mountain creatures who live on Omicron Perseii 4, warm and comfortable.
*Bleep!* My door announced a visitor. I waved a hand dismissively, indicating the computer could let them in.
Fiona's heavy foot-falls forecast her entrance, I eyed the hulking amazon as she gave me a curt salute.
"Captain, we've sighted a pleasure craft coming out of Leap Velocity into our sector. Scans indicate a crew of sixteen, just shy of a ton of Irredeemium, and some exotic animals. They don't appear to be armed and their shields will be absolutely no match for The Audacity. Permission to set a course to intercept?"
I breathed a heavy sigh. We had to do it. We were low on money, even lower on precious fuel, and we'd need that Irredeemium in order to escape this sector's police who would be on us like me on a sixteen incher. Robbery was absolutely necessary, but it had begun to bore me.
"Make it happen, Fiona. Assemble a boarding party, anyone you want to bring, just leave Bianca behind."
"Of course, Captain, I would never think to interrupt one of your punishments."
While she went about her business and the ship lurched to motion, I geared up, leaving behind my sexier outfits in favor of the sturdy burgundy leather ensamble I used in raids. I belted on my Cutlass and Punch Pistol. The former was made of specialized solid-state Mercury, frozen into a quick-silver blade that could hack flesh or cut fine enough to bloodlessly cleave between molocules depending on how I set the vibration. The punch pistol was a much simpler affair, boasting a hundred-pound blast that I could set wide to knock things around or refine down to blow holes in stuff. What can I say? Just like with cock, when it comes to weapons I like to have options.
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I stood on the bridge as we closed in on our prey. It was a little ship, smaller than The Moonshadow, and of course much slower.
"Captain, I think maneuver the Audacity's docking bay around them if you'd rather we put them on board our ship instead of boarding theirs." Minerva offered
I considered her suggestion a moment, but shook my head. "They'll just see us coming and zip away. Fiona, lock on the Pneumocanon and fired when ready."
Moments later the disk shot out from the canon, striking flat-side to the hull of The Aphrodisiac as this pleasure yacht was apparently christened. Their little ship shook at the impact but was only firing up its engines as the disk punched a gaping hole in their side. Our ring held fast as it deployed the tube we would use back through the empty space, connecting to our ship. Now we were held fast to them by clear, semi-rigid plasteel. Fiona beckoned her away team and lead the charge into the shoot that linked to the Pneumocanon, each member leaping down and gliding through the contained tubes.
It's not unlike a child's slide, and I always found it a little fun as I flew untethered through space, following the away crew of Fiona, Crysanthia, and Adria. There were a couple of the stronger men from the Harem as well. I could tell from the boarding party she'd chosen that Fiona didn't anticipate any resistance, but still we were coming armed and dangerous, you couldn't never be too careful.
By the time I'd made it through the tube, Fiona already seemed to have the situation in hand, most of the crew were face down in surrender. One man stood defiant across the room though, trembling as he leveled a long ornate sword in our general direction. Swords were a popular weapon aboard ships since any wrong shot through the hull with a gun could kill all sides involved.
"I challenge you to single combat!" the young man's voice trembled as much as his hands.
"Permission to kick his balls into his brain-pan?" Fiona asked.
"Denied," I said as I strode towards him, huge tits going ignored for a change as I closed the distance. "I accept your challenge, dumbass."
His fighting stance looked well-rehearsed, and told me that he was likely from a wealthy background that could afford tutors and trainers for the more ritualized combat styles. I needed no ritual, however.
My swing was a straight arc from the right. He moved into what would have been a perfect block, at least if my sword didn't simply pass right through his.
"Freeze," I commanded. He looked down, eyes wide.
"My blade is sticking right through your heart, son. It's currently out of phase, but if I flick this switch with my thumb, it will solidify and you will die. Do you surrender?"
His sword clattered to the deck in agreement.
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"Booty check!" I commanded, the women and studs of my away team rapidly went about their duty. The check is well-rehearsed, fast and efficient, something essential on richer vessels that usually have artificial intelligence that can contact the authorities even when the humans on board cannot.
Fiona herded our captives together like the cattle they were, making sure they kept out of the way as Crysantha and Adria went quickly to clear rooms of valuables. They pooled everything at the base of the ramp and then began to float boxes up, the mild artificial gravity of the tube wouldn't let them go all the way to The Audacity, but it would be easier to push them halfway in a rush all bunched together.
While cargo traveled I hit my com-earing to keep Ashworth appraised of what she should document.
"Paintings, three pieces, worth unknown. Silverware set, probably a few hundred in Kash. One bottle of Yrolian Brandy, screw the value, I'm drinking that. Yes I'll share. Four Bottles of Vaporwine, maybe four hundred. Miscellaneous jewelry from the women, we'll need to get that appraised of course. A small cage containing an unknown alien pet. Kinda ferret-like I guess..."
As I continued to enumerate objects that went up the tube, Crysantha and Adria conducted the next phase of Booty Checking.