minor setbacks.

While your ship was disabled by a torpedo, this drop-ship one was hit and cut by multiple lasers. Too many power conduits were ruptured and a poorly patched-up power conduit without safeties or redundancies was the surest way to blow a ship mid flight.

Even by cannibalising all you could find, it wouldn't cut it. You were three large conduits short to fly even the short hop to the Gorgon.

You'd have to remove the damaged ones, drag them to the boat, sail to the Gorgon refit the three conduits correctly and come back to put them in place. All that before making the risky flight to bring the Swordfish back to the Gorgon where you could scrap it for parts.

Either that or scrap the Marine ship here and do dozens of dangerous round trips with massive blocks of metal on an improvised boat, which could take months for this part only.

You gathered the team to give them the news. Alice told you where the clothes were stashed but you refrained from clothing yourself as it could incite others to follow you on that path. (The view was so good)

All the ladies were naked, even Tania who hadn't bothered to put anything on after her bath. (Wearing power armor is sweaty business, the marines quarters on large ships often have a peculiar smell)

"We'll there aren't many ways around it." You tell them what you've decided. "We will have to travel to my ship to repair several of these vital parts if we want this thing to fly. It should take about a week to put them back in shape and get them back here, but then we will be able to fly the barge around, at least in the atmosphere. Once this is done we can use it to repair the Gorgon and fly away to return to Terran space." You explain.

"You're still sure it's possible? I mean from what you said both ships are different and really damaged. " asked Tania.

"More now than before I did the inspection. The triplets aren't engineers but know a little maintenance work and the good parts on the barge are what is missing on the corvette. Besides even as scrap or raw material it is worth it. Mining enough stuff to repair would take years." You replied seeing her nod.

"Who will you need?" Asked Alice.

"Everyone ! The parts are very long and heavy conduits, moving them will be hard and we'll need hands both for lifting and for defense along the way. It would require almost everyone but I don't want someone left alone for more than a week. We will pack some food and charge the conduits on the grav sleds, it will be overloaded but it should hold with some adjustments." You ended. "Oh and you'll have to dress for the trip, it will be dangerous"

The news was not popular, no one wanted to dress in this humid heat or to miss the view of the naked bodies around. (Except Alice that never wore a thing in her existence and didn't mind either way, her synthetic skin was stronger than yours so she didn't see the point in her wearing clothes)

The triplets went away with Tania to help her prepare the loading.

"I'm happy to see you engage physically with biological females Master. Will you still need my services in such matters?" Asked Alice when you were alone with her.

"It's not the same and you're special. You were my first and you're mine. There will always be some place for you, in my heart and in my bed. " You replied.

"The Tsui-Chin sisters asked me to engage in some activities with them that fall well within my original programming, I need your permission to do so as you didn't specify it in my initial setting." She explained.

The triplets had nearly killed you from exhaustion by tag teaming you. What they lacked in size the made up in energy, the three little bunnies were insatiable. Throwing them a really tireless android could be a good way to ensure your survival.

"As long as it doesn't distract you or them from your duties you are free to engage with any member of the team that will ask or consent to it." You order.

"Does that include Sergeant Usklova?" She asked.

"Yes Tania is included." You replied with a little surprise, as far as you could tell the Valkyr had shown little or no interest in the artificial life form.

"Do you consent to have sex with me ?" She asked you.

"You don't have to ask me, of course I do." You replied realizing a second later that you had misunderstood her. You thought she was getting around gathering consent for such activities.

She on the other hand had a more short term concern in mind. She grabbed you and pushed you gently onto one of the mats laid out around the fire-pit you used as a gathering point.

Your back was barely on it before she slid down to avidly suck your cock, using levels of talent on it that you never experienced until then, not even from her.

Just as you were about to explode she stopped. She them turned around and slid on you, impaling your dick in her asshole. The synthetic muscles inside of it massaging your dick along the strokes and bounces of her movement without ever letting you come.

After the five minute blowjob and almost fifteen minutes of this treatment you started to contract and came into her ass, feeling your balls empty themselves and the spasms of the thick liquid going through your dick still constricted by her small hole.

"My purpose is pleasure, Master! It is good to feel wanted. Let's see your flesh girls do that." She told you before cleaning your cock with her mouth and leaving to help for the coming trip. Once alone, you struggled to understand what had just happened in your mind. Alice had initiated sex with you, without any request and she seemed almost jealous of the other girls, despite stating that she was happy of you having sex with them.

You hoped that having her being with the girls will trigger her sense of worth and make her feel purpose. You were not sure if you could survive such a thing too frequently. You unlike the Grey-tech pleasure bot, were not a machine.

You climbed to your feet slowly and went to rig the grav sleds. You had to bypass the safeties and monitor the charging carefully to over-charge the sled's batteries. Even with the 30% hypercharge it would be a long and dangerous round trip through the jungle with the heavy conduits and other assorted faulty components.

That was not your greatest concern though, with over two days on a small boat with those five women, being devoured by a kraken seems like it could be a mercy .