Sentient (12 page)

She saved her work and contacted Aide.

“
Can you run a simulation on the plasma cannon I just upgraded?”

Aide replied, “
Standby…  Wow, simple but it’s effective.  Should I start upgrading, although I probably won’t bother with our current fighters, or do you need more time?”

She shook her head, “
No, I think that’s as good as I’ll get it.  If I come up with other weapons it won’t be plasma based.  At least, I don’t have any other ideas.
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She shut down the lab systems and went back her room.  She felt an immense relief and smiled when she saw Nate lying in the middle of her bed, stark naked.

She smiled, “Sorry about that, inspiration struck.”

He grinned, “Well babe, if you ever need more inspiration I shall make sure my dick is available.”

She snorted and he made a face.

He admitted sheepishly, “That sounded better in my head.”

She smiled and gave him a little strip show, but her heart wasn’t really in teasing him anymore, she wanted what he’d promised.  She crawled sultrily onto the bed, the way he was looking at her made her feel sexy and desirable.  Her core clenched when he got his hands on her and pushed her onto her back.

She kissed him back fiercely when he claimed her lips, and then he started to kiss his way slowly down her body, tasting every inch of her just like he’d promised.  The pleasure of his hands and mouth on her felt so good it was almost torturous toward the end, she wanted his mouth on her sex badly.

She sighed in breathy pleasure when he kissed his way up her inner thigh, and let out a gasp when his tongue at long last finally licked along her wet and swollen labia.  Her whole body shivered and squirmed as she arched her back and pushed into him as he licked deeper inside her and grazed her clit.

She said softly, “God that’s good.  I want you in me.”

She squirmed as he held her down tightly and licked inside her deeply again before he said, “If you’re a good girl and cum for me.”

She gasped and her center coiled tightly as he sucked in her clit and bit down lightly while he reached up and teased her breasts and nipples.  She loved having his mouth and hands on her.

She gasped as he flicked her nub and then circled it with his tongue.  She rose so high it almost hurt.  Her whole body felt tight and then she heard him say, “Come now!”

Her body splintered into rapturous ecstasy as her muscles locked up, her back arched and her hands clawed into his hair.  She couldn’t help but squeeze his head between her legs, locking him there as her silken liquid pleasure flooded his face.  She was lost in the bliss as it seemed to go on for eternity, then she found herself gasping for breath as her lungs kicked back in.

Her body was pliable and her muscles still weak when he flipped her onto her stomach and pulled her up to her hands and knees roughly by her hips.  She whimpered in need, her core tightened in anticipation as she felt his bulbous head tease apart her hot, wet, swollen lips as he ran it up and down her eager sex.  She pushed back trying to claim it, but he held her body too firmly.

He asked, “You want this babe?”

She said breathily, “Yes, fuck me, I need you in me.”

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Her wet heat was so hot and felt amazing as he ran his tip up and down her sex.  He loved her perfect supple bubble ass and the curves of her hips and waist.  He held her still with a strong grip on her waist as he slowly slid into her.  He sighed in pleasure at how tight she was.  Despite how sloppily wet she was he had to push hard into her and pause every so often before she could fully accept his manhood.

He couldn’t get over her tightness as she sheathed him snugly, her core fluttered up and down his length pleasuring him.  He waited patiently for her to get used to him before he started to move in and out of her.  He started slowly, not wanting to hurt her or rip her, but it didn’t take long before she started to beg him to go faster and harder.

He’d always been in good shape throughout his life, but never as much as he was after Aide’s nanites had gotten done with him.  He kept going as this beauty underneath him came time after time.  He wouldn’t be able to hold it forever though; he wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long if he hadn’t cum so recently.

He growled, “I’m gonna cum babe.”

He gasped as she started to buck back into him even harder and launched into another orgasm, he took that as not only permission to cum in her, but that she wanted him to fill her with his essence.  He felt his balls start to boil and his legs start to numb.  He slammed hard into her two more times with great effort, then continued to push in an effort to be as deep as possible as her pleasure milked his seed desperately as he pumped it deep inside of her luscious body.

When he came down he collapsed next to her, she absolutely blew his mind.  He put his arm around her and pulled her against his body, her silken skin felt good against his body as she kissed his chest and laid her head down.  They were silent for a while as they cuddled.

He said, “I’m staying the night,” in a definitive tone, not giving her a choice.

He wasn’t giving her the option, he was afraid she’d change her mind and decide it was a mistake if he left her alone, so he wasn’t leaving unless she chased him out.  Besides, he had a feeling he’d be up for round three and four after a quick nap.

She mumbled something back he couldn’t quite make out, he wasn’t sure but it might have been, “You better you pig.”

He smiled and kissed the top of her head and then caressed her perfect ass and lower back until they both fell asleep…

Bill walked into the staff room at the White house again.  So far it was good news, but who knew if that would last.

The President just nodded at him cutting right to the chase.

Bill gave his report, “Well sir, the video checks out against our long range telemetry satellites.  The feed from Aide we saw earlier is what actually happened.  Don’t ask me how, but based on the distance and the speed of light, somehow we were seeing what was happening right at the time, the reason for the lag was the speed of light from the location of the fight to our satellites, then of course the transmission down to the surface.

“Somehow they can communicate faster than light in addition to travelling that way.  Though based on what we’ve seen FTL travel won’t work inside the solar system.”

The President blew out a breath, “Should we go public?  We’re already leaking at the seams and the networks aren’t happy with my request to ignore the story for now.”

The general nodded, “I’d start with the fact that we won the battle, otherwise there will be riots before you can reach the end of your speech.  It’s a good idea; if it gets loose before you release it you can’t control the spin.”

He decided he had it easy, the President was kind of screwed.

The President said, “Alright Bill, if the alien is telling the truth… we won’t see any more issues for up to a month, go ahead and take a week off before you head back to Cheyenne Mountain.  I just wish I could do the same.  Just keep your phone close in case the shit hits the fan.”

He nodded with a ghost of a smile on his face, “Thank you sir.”

He turned smartly and marched out the door.  Well, this should make the wife happy at least…

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With so many nanites the eight ships were being built unbelievably fast and the first command carrier would be done in just a few hours, the rest would be finished a little over a day later.  She informed everyone and had the bots start packing; soon this ship and the thirty six scouts would be decommissioned, built for one battle only, and broken down and used in one of the new ships.

It was odd, but she felt a little regretful about it, as if she was betraying a friend.  When had she started investing emotions in objects?  It was an extremely strange feeling.  Still, this was the place her body was born, where she’d felt love for the first time, and so many other firsts.  On an impulse she changed her mind, it was five hundred feet wide, but compared to the cavernous deck space on the new five mile ship she knew it would fit inside easily.  Who knows, but it might prove useful some way in the future.

She just couldn’t bring herself to destroy it.

She dispatched the nanites in the ship to upgrade the weapons, since they were keeping it now.  She wondered how many other civilizations had been destroyed, and how many were still in danger.  She was amazed the humans had come up with the advances they did, and wondered if more were coming.  Not that what they already had wasn’t enough.

She pondered for a moment, they were going out to try and make peace with both the Sthellan and the Alion, but what if they failed.  According to her data the Sthellan would most likely reject any peaceful offer, but she didn’t trust her data anymore, she was missing too many pieces by design of her creators.  As for the Alion, well she thought they would go for peace, but then they didn’t have any problem killing anyone that became a threat either, so her data was biased there as well.

She would have to wait to find out, just like everyone else.  The uncertainty bothered her.

She reran the possibilities factoring in the new ship designs and upgrades and thought there was a 73.4 percent chance the humans could survive, but what about other civilizations that the Alion will drag into the crossfire?  She considered for a moment that she couldn’t save everyone, but perhaps they could help more than just Earth.

She was sure the others would want to try if they could, so she started making plans.

She paused the building nanites and doubled them again four times.  With 128 trillion nanites, she resumed the building which would now be drastically cut, all seventeen ships would be done within forty eight hours.  The first was finished less than an hour later.

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Kris and Stacey were alone on the bridge, which was a good thing because she was currently straddling him in the command chair and neither of them had a strip of clothing on.  She was riding him slowly and decadently.  This was their fourth round of the day and there was a casual feel to it as she rode up and down slowly, keeping them at a constant simmer and enjoying the pleasure of it almost nonchalantly as they chatted.

He teasingly took a nipple into his mouth and circled it with his tongue.

She said breathily, “I think we’ll be going soon, aren’t we almost in the hangar?”

He nodded slightly, lightly pulling on her sensitive globe with suction.

“Yes, it’s hard to believe it’s so big, this ship is completely dwarfed.”

She smiled and ground down against him slowly, “Yes, it’s very big love.”

He chuckled, “How’s the terra-forming idea coming?”

He pulled her head down lightly by her hair and started kissing along her neck as she said, “Good, Aide and I worked out all the details, although I’m not sure how often or long we’ll be there.  I think we all want to explore.  It will make a good home port though.”

He groaned as she squeezed hard around his entire length, then rose up to the very tip before releasing and dropping back down.  He’d been on the edge so long but he didn’t want it to end either.  He especially enjoyed watching Stacey have one mini-orgasm after another, he’d lost count a while back.

She said tentatively, “I’m about out of my birth control pills, when I asked Aide about getting more, she said the nanites were a safer form of birth control.”

He nodded.

Her voice grew even more reserved, “Do you think, maybe I should tell her never mind.  I know we should probably get married first, but does that even mean anything out here, with just six of us?”

At first he didn’t get what she was asking, when it finally hit him he felt a surge of lust at the idea of her carrying his baby.  He completely lost control and buried himself up inside her and held her tight as he exploded, ropes of his essence filled her warm hot core.  She cried out and her voice was cut off as her tight wet heat locked down and started to undulate along his length, milking him.

When they came down she giggled, “I guess that’s a yes, you want to make a baby?”

He kissed her fiercely, “Yes love, so don’t worry about taking the rest of those pills.”

She smiled and he moaned when he felt her body squeeze his shrinking manhood tightly.  She got up and they got dressed and went to their cabin for a quick shared shower and a change of suits before joining the others.

They left the ship together, he smiled a little, as it looked like everyone else had also just gotten out of the shower.  They walked into the bay and big was an understatement.  He smiled at Aide, who had a sense of theatrical timing as the download tour started a few seconds later.

It was only one of the eight bays that had sixty fighters in it and there was plenty of room left.  The eight bays were quartered, equally distributed with four on the top of the carrier and four on the bottom.  They didn’t go that far into the ship however. 

The external walls of the ship had millions of plasma conduits which powered all the different types of shields and plasma turrets.  The electromagnetic field stopped just short of a half mile into the interior of the ship.  A mile into the ship, there was more armor and another set of millions of plasma conduits with its own fields.  It was far enough in not to interact with the external conduits.  These conduits and all the energy they created went to powering the shields and weapons on all the fighters via quantum connections.

Despite the very small size of these fighter attack ships, their shielding and weapon systems were just as powerful as the scout fighters.  The small rings of plasma for internal power were more than enough to power the reaction drive and gravity systems for integrity fields.

Another mile into the carrier command ship was another even smaller ring that powered internal ship systems, such as the drive, bridge, quarters, internal lighting, gravity, inertial dampers, another set of shields, and all other ship systems.  Despite being the smallest ring, it still had a two mile diameter and put out a heck of a lot more power than the ship they just left.

In the core of that ring along with the suites, which were more the size of a house, there was plenty of room for storage along with smaller rooms for thousands of crew, though they would never be used for Earth.  They could also be used to rescue a great number of people.  There were also a number of research labs and of course the bridge and the engine room.

Between the internal rings were forty large warehouse size rooms filled with dirt.  Not only could the dirt be transformed to repair the ship by using the nanites, it could also easily replace all four hundred fighters if they are lost twice over.

He couldn’t help but look over at Nate and give him a salute.  The ship was an absolute marvel of engineering and could put out more power than a planet would know what to do with.  He could hardly believe there would be another sixteen of these so fast.

He asked, “Aide, if we can make ships so fast and automate them so easily.   Why don’t the Sthellan and Alion have billions of ships?  I gathered that this war has been long and hard, but I don’t get why.”

She bit her lip, “Well, I can’t speak to the Sthellan, but I believe the Alion are paranoid about AI’s having too much power.  Considering what I’m doing here, and that I will support you over them as long as you don’t violate the rules I guess I can see their point.  What we’re doing isn’t in my programming, if I hadn’t evolved… it wouldn’t be a possibility.

“Really, all Alion and Sthellan ships are under their control with people aboard.  In a way I suppose they are exactly like humans in that way.  If it wasn’t against my protocols I’m sure you would have designed manned ships instead of these computer controlled fighters under your command, and then filled them with human volunteers.

“I guess it seems a little silly to me too, but that’s how it is.  I also have an idea I want to run by you.”

Kris asked, “What’s up?” as they started moving toward the lift.

Aide said softly, “Well, I had the idea we should try and safeguard more than Earth if we can with the technology we built.  Maybe it could lead to more allies?  I had the idea of dropping off the nanites at the asteroid ring when we leave.  There are tons of available rock and metal there to create more ships, and then when they start pumping out ships, we can visit new places.

“Unlike the Alion, if they’re primitive we won’t have to uplift them at all, just kind of leave a ship there and prevent them being dragged into the war.”

Kris pondered that, it didn’t sound like a bad idea on the face of it, unless they found a stronger aggressive species, but everything had an element of risk.

“How many ships are we talking about?”

She said nonchalantly, “At the current level of nanites, we can create one hundred twenty eight every three days.  It works out to something like twelve hundred eighty a month.  In just a year we can have over fifteen thousand systems under watch with plenty of ships left over for quick responses.”

She looked at Stacey, “It would also be a good way to find somewhere to visit and look around in person, rather than wander from empty system to empty system until we find something worthwhile.  The ships can be like… big ass scouts.”

Kris snorted, it always surprised him when Aide cursed or made a joke.

He said, “It’s not a bad idea, although do we want to be responsible for policing the universe against aggressive species?  What gives us the right to impose peace?”

She shrugged, “I wouldn’t suggest going after the aggressive species, just protect the peaceful, or weak ones.  There’s a difference.  It’s something we can decide case by case anyway, but there are other reasons to do it, like exploration.  Besides, could you really stand by and do nothing while an entire species is eradicated?  Does your stance include humanity?  Because here I am, defending your world.”

Her voice got a little tense there at the end and he acknowledged her point.

“I get it, we do what we can.  I just hope we don’t make things worse, humans are bad at that sort of thing, we don’t normally do it as a country unless there is something in it for us.  But with your help and just six of us we could do a lot of good I suppose.”

She nodded as they finally arrived at the lift and rode it to the core of the ship.  There were ten huge officer suites like houses around the bridge, with a few labs and the officer’s mess.  He pondered that they wouldn’t even have to leave the center deck unless they were leaving the ship.

He wasn’t that surprised however, when only three of those ten suites got used.  They had a couple of days to wait before they could leave and he could use the time to both train and consider all she said.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but then they had the greatest check and balance possible.  Aide would never allow them to become the aggressors.