Tuesday Night

"I love you."

Ilulu blushed and the others chuckled good naturedly as Penny snuggled up to her mumbling in her sleep. "Is it always like this?" She asked.

Pyrrha giggled but nodded as Neo did the same as Penny. "Only when Walt's not here. Then we take turns but the newest person usually takes "Walt's spot" for the night."

Ilulu laughed quietly. It was pretty sweet ritual and she liked snuggling... and napping! And even in this huge bed it looked like most of the others snuggled up to each other as well... and "Walt's spot" was nice, it vaguely smelled like him. "I see. It's actually pretty fun! But... is she talking to me or "Walt"?"

The ladies who were still awake looked at each other and smiled. "Yes."

"Arrrgh! I hate you! Leave me alone!"

Mystique grabbed a rock to throw at one of the drones following her but she received a "mild" pain as a warning as her aggression and hostile intent was detected by the system.

Gritting her teeth she dropped the rock and cursed. She'd tried several times to give them the slip but nothing worked. She was willing to bet that whatever she'd been injected with also contained nanites or some other mysterious tech.

It really was looking hopeless. She sighed. Escape definitely wasn't possible tonight. She was tired. She'd had the bad luck to encounter a massive bear. Thankfully the drones were good for that much. She shook her head. "That's not something to be thankful for! I wouldn't need them if he hadn't done this to me!"

*Don't you mean, if you hadn't done this to yourself?* her annoying inner monolog questioned.

That was the worst part of being here. Being stuck with her own thoughts and nothing to do but time on her hands to think.

*You could bring that up in group tomorrow if you'd like,* her inner voice snarked. *It could be your first "share"!*

Mystique cursed. She looked in the direction she was going. Many more long hours to go, jump a fence and get knocked out before even touching the ground on the otherside. Then deposited tied up and cold on the porch?

She looked back at the direction she had come. It was almost equally long. But there was a place for her with a warm bed, a roof and good food waiting?

An impossible hope she couldn't give up versus an inviting better option that she couldn't give in to?

Mystique set down and opened her backpack pulling out the sleeping bag. *Fuck choices for one night,* she decided. *Damn drones have to keep me safe anyway.*

She had no way of knowing but all her allies had come to similar decisions.

Pirotess had never intended to "leave" tonight. She just wanted to spend the night in the forest instead of the bunkhouse.

Anastasia had left but brought a small shelter with her. She would wake up and scan the fence perimeter through the binoculars she'd found and take notes. She wasn't sure that any of what she was doing would be useful or not but had decided gathering information this way was a better use of her time and at least she'd get some rest.

Demona had taken Walt's advice. She'd glided down the otherside of the mountain and built a small fire to warm up. Opening the bundle she was surprised by the amount of food and even more when she found the sloshing she'd heard wasn't a canteen but a bottle of wine. She'd found it all to be quite delicious. Warmed again she sat by the fire with the rest of the wine. She decided she would like to finish it... but not here.

She climbed a tree and flew around the mountain rather than back over it to the cave near the hotsprings.

She pulled a small towel out of her pack. *Yes. A warm bath and some good wine,* she thought. *Just for tonight...*

"Alright now, mister. It's time for bed."

Zwei looked up at the fox girl they called Senko and the frog girl called Tsu. They gave excellent belly rubs and had even brushed him!

But they were right, he yawned. He kissed them both and when Senko placed him in his bed near the fireplace he turned around three times and lay down watching the others.

"Yes," Glynda agreed looking at the time. "It has gotten late." She adjusted her glasses. "Shall we call it a night?"

Raven sleepily nodded. She put a bookmark in her book. She picked up her tea cup. "Thank you, Manami. I liked that. I'll wash and return the tea set before going to bed."

Manami smiled looking up from her laptop with her Friday glasses. She seemed to be splitting her time with editing videos and looking at pictures and video of Walt. "Thank you Raven. I'm glad you enjoyed it! Good night! I'll stay up just a bit longer."

Blake stood and stretched also bookmarking her place. "I should get home too. Good night." They waved to her as she left.

"I'll also stay up. I'm more of a "night person" anyway," Serana said smirking. "If you'd like I'll return our books to the library, Glynda."

Glynda smiled. "Thank you, Serana. Good night." She was glad the "book club" could meet like this in the great room sometimes. It was usually busy but the times when it wasn't were nice and peaceful by the fire and a nice change from the library from time to time.

Senko also yawned. "Good night everyone. I'll see you all in the morning for breakfast."

Tsu looked at her. "Without Kali you're a little shorthanded? I'm not a great cook but I know how to from looking after my siblings. May I assist? Ribbit."

Senko smiled and nodded walking off with Tsu. "That would be a big help! Thank you, Tsu!"

Zwei yawned and closed his eyes. This was a good place. Lots of happiness... when they find them... the girls will... be happy... here...

Puppy watched Mistresses and Emerald on the bed from her kennel. She'd done a good job today and Mistress had been pleased! She'd given her cookies and even let her cum with the little vibrating things when she'd done a good job with "lick" like Emerald was doing now. She hadn't gotten spanked or tied up once today!

Still... Puppy wasn't allowed on the bed like Emerald was... it was a little odd... but that's what Mistresses wants so it must be right! After all, Puppy was Puppy. Not Emerald and definitely not Mistress. The bed was their place. The kennel was where Puppy belonged. Like a dog... but not like... her dog?

Puppy had a wierd thought about a small dog for some strange reason. She shook her head and lay down. It wasn't good to get distracted by strange thoughts! Strange thoughts were bad and would only get in the way of training. Mistress said so and Mistress was pleased with her training so far. Puppy went to sleep... mustn't dream about...

"A'ight Goldie! That's enouv, hey! Hit the showahs!"

"One more?" Goldie asked. "I got a fight coming up! I can't afford to lose!"

The trainer looked at her owner who shook their head. "Sorry, Goldie. 'Sides you've still got some days, yah? Restin' is part o' trainin', ya savvy?"

Goldie clearly didn't like that answer but she nodded. She'd learned. Losing her temper was almost as bad as losing a match. She already had two strikes. One more strike or a loss and she'd be in big trouble. "Fine," she said then sighed. It wasn't the coaches fault. He wasn't the greatest but he'd at least been decent to her. "Thanks for the instruction."

The short bald man nodded and gave her a thumbs-up. "No bother... gowan."

Goldie followed the "gaurds" to the showers and tried to ignore their stares as she stripped down and cleaned up. Bunch of perverts.

"Alright, "Ice Queen" we're almost at your assigned coordinates, sweetcheeks. Suit up."

She glared at the stupid speaker on the wall but put on the environmental suit and respirator anyway. This one had been patched with duct tape and reeked... well they all reeked. That was part of the job. Still whoever last wore this one had been more than a bit ripe.

She stopped and sniffed herself... and immediately wished she hadn't. "What's the current job?"

"Trash world salvage." Came the voice over the speaker. "It recently got swept of undesirables so the big shots took the bid on the salvage rights. One of the teams struck it big with a spacestation or something."

She rolled her eyes. "How nice for them. What do I get?" She didn't work well with the other teams yet so she was still a solo operator. Bigger "rewards" if she found something good but most of the time it meant she was in the-

The airlock doors opened and even through the suit and mask she could smell it.

"Sorry "Ice". Apparently someone dumped chickens and radioactive waste. They got rid of most of the radioactive stuff and the chickens but one of them mutated and grew freaking ginormous... but there might be something valuable under all this-"

"Chicken shit," she said. "Sifting through radioactive monster chicken shit... this... is my life now."

The dropship disengaged her "life/work pod" as her coms crackled. "Good luck, "Ice". I'll try to swing back by in a couple of days if I can, baby. Radio in if you find something good... or if you get lonely for some Dandy!"

"In your dreams you a-" drowned out by the sound of the engines lifting off.

A storm was coming. Possibly a big one... but not as big as the storm in her-

*Growling stomach noises*

"So hungry..." she said.

*Maybe I should have stayed with one of the others after all,* she thought. It had been hard after they'd escaped because none of the three of them seemed to share the same language.

The spinning furry guy was the first to split. It seemed like he could literally eat anything but he seemed to be obsessed with rabbits and ducks. It was hard to tell with all the blahs and spitting and other strange noises.

That left her with the dead girl who was honestly kind of freaky. The first time her head popped off had been quite a surprise! But other than that she was quite nice. Better she was "lucky"! Things seemed to bizarrely work out for her. She figured out her name was "Ty", "Tie" or "Tae" and they'd gotten along well enough but she was handful! It was bad news when she was the voice of reason and the sensible one... plus dead girl "Tae" only really cared about was finding and eating dried Squid.

*Loud tummy grumbling*

Why did she split from her in the middle of nowhere? She should have at least followed her and her luck to civilization first! Still it was easier to avoid being recaptured out here but-

*Gurgling drawn out empty stomach noise*

She was afraid if she didn't get something to eat soon she really would die!

"Pancakes... griddle cakes... hotcakes... flapjacks..."

Repeating her mantra to herself she continued to set one foot in front of the other, believing in the promised land of breakfast out there, calling to her.

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Raven Manami Aiba also with Tsuyu Asui Haruhime Sanjouno The Baroness Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana and Mission Vao

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