The drifter comes calling

You wake up and Athena is still asleep. Stay still for a while and think about going back to sleep, not wanting to break the embrace you two are still locked into.

Eventually, you decide to get up. You gently rub Athena's cheek with your hand and kiss her forehead. You whisper for her to get up as you break the embrace and stand out of bed, pulling your pants up as you do so. You watch as Athena stretches and jerks her panties up, her top and bra still on the floor by the bed. As she does this, you notice something you didn't while you were in bed before. She had a small tuft of hair above her pussy, well groomed and only barely visible.

"I could use a shower." She runs her fingers through her hair. She eyes you. "You could too. Care to join me?"

You turn to Athena as she opens a door and chuckles to herself. "They ask why I got the monument." She steps into the room and checks a screen on the wall. "Yup, we've got plenty of water."

You step into the room with her and see inside is a shower and bathroom. With the press of a few buttons water begins pouring out of the shower-head. She strips her panties from her legs and steps under the water. You follow her steps and stand behind her in the shower.

Your cock begins to swell and harden as she lathers herself up. She turns to you and rubs her now soap covered body with yours, embracing you with a kiss at the same time. She fills her hands with the suds squeezing out from the center of your embrace and rubs them around your back. She breaks the kiss and giggles. "All lathered up now."

You were now fully erect and stuck with no way to hide it, so you didn't. You covered your cock with suds and lodged it between Athena's thighs.

She lets out a surprised noise before moving her hips forwards and backwards slowly. "What am I going to do with you?" She teases.

You begin to grope her ass and knead one of her breasts. You also begin to move your cock opposite her movements. The feeling was incredible, your cock being rubbed by the soft, yet muscular, soaked and soapy thighs of Athena under the warm running water of a shower.

She begins playing with her pussy and moaning softly as you enjoy thrusting at her thighs.

She tilts her head back so your lips can meet, embracing each other into a sloppy, morning shower kiss. You run your hands over Athena's body, following the contours of each muscle with your fingers. Eventually, you rub your fingers over the peach fuzz that makes up her pubic hair. You move her hands aside and start to penetrate her pussy with two of your fingers. She moans in your mouth as you begin to rhythmically finger her pussy.

After a while you both reach climax at around the same time. The fluids of your love mixing together before being drained into the ships waist containment.

Athena turns the shower off and steps out. She grabs two towels and hands one to you. "You know, I suppose I should've said this earlier." She stops and pulls you into a brief kiss. "Love you." She drags her finger across your chin and walks into the dressing room.

She exits with her armor and grabs her ghost. She looks to you. "Spearmaiden." She point to the cockpit. "That's the password, take this thing wherever you need to go, just don't die." She opens the door and the ramp slides out, she turns back to you. "I don't want to see any chips in the paint either." She waves as she leaves.

You dry yourself off and get dressed. You wanted to go somewhere to get those rewards for Lord Shaxx, but still had no idea where to go. You think on it for a while, but decide that you should familiarize yourself with more of the people at the tower.

You leave the ship and begin to look for people you haven't already met. As soon as you start your way out of the hangar the voice of The Drifter strikes your ears.

"Hey brother, you got anything going on soon?"

You turn to see him walking up the stairs behind you, carrying a box of discarded ship parts.

You inform him of your situation.

"You know I might be able to snag you a reward for those guardians." He snickers. "You should drop by my spot in the Annex. I've got something I was thinking you should take a look at. Really pisses me off that I can't figure it out."

You follow him to the tower's Annex and watch as he places the box and moves over to a lumpy object, covered by a green banner. He removes the banner to display a tank, similar to the one in the center of the room.

"I was trying to build myself a bank capable of making more efficient fuel out of motes." He tosses you a pyramid shaped object. It pulsates with a bright energy. Holding it in your hand causes ot to throb. "You know, this bank here should be able to convert some of the waste into the material used for synths. Then I should be able to turn the synth material into more motes after enough time." He leans against the wall and flicks several different colored coins at you. "Self sufficient, y'know?" He sighs. "This thing here won't make the synth materials. It chugs and chugs tryin' but just won't finish. Causes a waste jam and ends up forging a hollow mote." He chuckles and shakes his head. "I didn't even know that was possible." He opens the bank. "Take as much time as you need, brother. I'll find some stuff for those rewards."

You do your best with what is around to identify what makes up these motes, but fail. You identify the coins -which you assume to be synths- and determine the two contain the same energy and are made of a similar material, as the structure shares many similarities and both cause a light throbbing in your hand. You then begin to study the bank itself. You can use the shapes of several components to piece together what they are for, before even checking the machinery. Once you figure out how the machine takes the energy from within the mote you follow the components on the path that turns it into fuel. You find to seemingly useless traps and figure these collect the waste. Tubes come out of the traps and lead into a box full of parts you have never seen. You study it for a while and begin to understand it about as much as you understand ghosts, that is to say, very little, but enough. You fail to find any flaws in the machinery. Stuck, you think back to The Drifter's analysis.

You call The Drifter over and he comes carrying two incompatable gun parts. "What's up? You figure it out?!"

You let him know what you think, that the failure to produce synth material and the waste backup is a result of the machine not knowing which synth materials to create.

He taps his fingers against the bank, the flips a synth. "That makes a lot of sense." He smacks his own forehead. "Can't believe I was so stupid!" He grabs a view tools from a nearby workbench. "I'll get started right away! There are a view guns and engrams layin' around in those boxes over there, take what you want." He tosses you a synth with a piece of paper on it, a communications frequency is written on the paper. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. There's my feed, keep in touch." He begins working on the bank. You grab a few random weapons and decide you would combine them, mixing their attributes together, then let Shaxx figure out what to do.

You leave with your new weapons in a box, but on the way out you run into someone. You look to make eye contact with the person to apologize, and find that the person is a female with a thin figure with clear, but petite curves. Her armor is tight to her body and clearly elastic. She wears a helmet which has a hooded cape attached, the hood is down.

"Watch where you're going!" A frustrated feminine voice exclaims with a slight, almost robotic muffle. You were sure it was just her helmet.

You reach your hand out for a handshake and offer your apologies. She shakes your hand and apologises to you about her hot headedness.

She reaches for her helmet and removes it. Underneath the helmet you are shocked to see that a blue tinted and metallic face stare at you with glowing green eyes. The face has some feminine features in shape, but her mouth is more of a protected slot that shows more glowing green light, just like her eyes. A white splatter-like marking covers around her right eye. She has two antenae-like parts coming off where her ears would be.

With a surprising amount of clearness you make out confusion in her face. Likely a response to your shocked behavior after seeing this robot woman reveal herself.

"I'm Lilly-7, but you can just use Lilly."

"John." You introduce yourself.

The Drifter suddenly walks up behind you two. "Hey there Lilly, I see you've met John."

Lilly nods.

"Did he act surprised at all when he saw you."

"A little."

"Yeah, according to Athena this guy's been on Nessus for who knows how long scavenging his way for life." He leans on the wall. "And get this... All without the light!" He chuckles as Lilly seems to be lost in his rambling. "Dude's crazy smart, just figured out that problem with the bank I was tellin' you about."

"So, if he fixed the bank," She steps close to The Drifter and starts whispering to him.

The Drifter laughs. "Nope! It's not that easy, you remember what you had to do." He moves off of the wall. "John and I are the same kind, and he doesn't have the light." He seems lost in thought for a moment. "If he keeps pullin' through for me, sure."

Lilly eyes you. "Don't miss out."

The two of them turn together and enter The Drifter's part of the Annex.