John stretched contentedly after enjoying a relaxing cuddle with his girls. He looked over at Jade, and saw that her stomach was still emitting softly glowing green lines, that spread out over her body and curved along her limbs.
"So that was new." he spoke to her with a smile, then frowned curiously. "Did you even have any idea at all you could do that?"
"No." the Nymph said, shaking her head with a puzzled frown. "I just felt a strange tingling sensation when you took me that way and then... well you saw the result!"
"I felt a little more than a tingling sensation the first time he took my ass!" Alyssa laughed, with Dana and Calara bursting into fits of giggles.
"Well you do seem to be full of surprises!" John spoke to Jade warmly, opening his arms, and she shifted wordlessly into the warm embrace with a contented purr.
"So does that mean you can just grow a copy of John's cock whenever you feel like?" Dana asked, biting her lip coyly at the thought of being sandwiched between Jade and John.
Jade tilted her head to the side, grinning eagerly. "I don't know, but I'd like to try and find out!" she said.
She lay back on the bed and closed her eyes filtering out the distractions and concentrating hard. Her brow furrowed as she focused intently on making her body grow another replica of John's impressive cock. After a couple of hushed minutes though, Jade blew out a sigh and opened her eyes.
"It's no good." she said wistfully, making a 'tsk'. "No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to form my body into that shape."
"That's a relief!" John smirked haughtily. "You won't be replacing me that easily, little Nymph!"
The girls laughed at the joke, diving towards him as one and burying him under a pile of nubile flesh, cuddling and tickling him in equal measure. Finally managing to extricate himself from the impromptu assault by the appreciative young women, John glanced at the ship's chronometer on the wall. They still had a couple of hours to wait until the Greys launched whatever it was Dana had them constructing, and his mind began to shift to tactical planning for the upcoming confrontation with the Drakkar. The girls sensed his shift in focus and they sat around him on the bed, waiting to follow his lead.
"So what's the plan then?" Alyssa asked him curiously.
"First, I need to know what Dana's got the Ashanath working on at the moment" he stated.
"They're going to automate a freighter and modify it to tow a string of decoys." The redhead explained. "I've given the Ashanath instructions on how to hack the transponders so that it'll look like a nice fat convoy of freighters and civilian transports."
"I thought hacking transponders like that was highly illegal?" Calara asked with a raised eyebrow.
"For civilians it is." John replied. "But we've been given the go ahead by the Ashanath High Council to react to an emergency situation. For all intents and purposes, we're above the law."
"Well you've got no objection from me." Calara said, then grinned evilly. "The Drakkar won't be able to pass up a juicy target like that! Especially after the Ashanath starved them of targets over the last couple of days."
"So we lure them in with another tempting target." John stated with a nod. "It's a good plan. Calara, can you look at the system charts and find me a selection of good ambush sites."
"Yes, Sir," The Latina purred with just the hint of a seductive tone, before standing up to go.
"I'll come along too!" Jade said, eager to see where the cunning Latina was going to set the trap.
The Latina and the Nymph got up and disappeared into the bathroom to take a shower, the sound of splashing water soon accompanied by soft feminine giggles.
Dana, Alyssa and John exchanged glances and laughed, before returning to the discussion at hand.
"We took a few hits in that last battle." John addressed Dana, turning serious once more. "Is it going to be difficult to do repairs, if this Onyxium element is so rare?"
The auburn haired girl looked at him in surprise, her eyes glinting happily. "You really were paying attention during my presentation!" she said overjoyed.
John chuckled amusedly. "If my science teachers had looked as hot as you, I'm sure I would have found the subject far more compelling!" he said.
Dana preened at the compliment and laughed along with him.
"In answer to your question, I do have a little Onyxium to spare and certainly enough to fabricate enough Invictium alloy to patch the hull." Her mood then turned serious. "If we do take major damage though, we could be in trouble," she said regretfully.
"That reminds me," Dana continued, remembering something important. "If you aren't busy right now Alyssa, I could do with your help to test something?"
"I'm completely at your disposal!" Alyssa grinned, bowing regally.
"I'll come along too," John said, standing up. "I'm intrigued to find out what this test involves!"
They got up to go and have a shower, saying farewell to the other two girls coming out of the bathroom, both of them eager to get up to the bridge.
Not long afterwards, Alyssa and John were being led by Dana down the grav-tubes to Deck 9. They walked down the corridor, past the new ship defences and the redhead stopped at the entrance to the cargo bay, hitting the button to open the robust set of double doors.
"The cargo bay?" Alyssa asked curiously. "What are we doing down here?"
"Aha!" Dana said, turning and spreading her arms theatrically, as she led them over to the far side of the vast room. "All will soon be revealed!"
A few dozen five foot cubed containers were stacked together neatly and a large exotic piece of machinery loomed over them where it was positioned nearby.
"This is called a Psi-Shaper," Dana said with a flourish of her hand. "The Greys use them to manipulate the metal they use to construct and armour their spacecraft. I asked if they could spare one, so they gave us this to use."
John and Alyssa approached the odd looking piece of equipment, taking a few steps around it as they studied its bulky base and robotic arm that ended in a group of emitters. It looked very much like a conventional crane, but the emitters and otherworldly sensor array clearly marked it as being of alien design.
"I embedded Etherite crystals in the Invictium alloy, so that we could armour the ship using the Psi-shapers they have at the Ashana shipyard," Dana explained. "However if we're off having adventures somewhere. light years from Grey Space, we'll need to be able to do field repairs ourselves."
"Intuitive thinking." John said, impressed. He frowned then, and nodded with his chin towards the device. "How do we use it exactly, anyway? I don't see any obvious controls on that thing."
