Shadow Strike: A Cyberpunk LitRPG (Marionette Task Force Book 2), page 32
A team of engineers fixed up Yukina and Cerise. Amber wasn’t there to do it. Eden must have silently taken her away once she fully recovered. Kai would never know, because nobody at the base wanted to talk with him. He couldn’t blame them. He had snuck out and left, taking Ilona along when they wanted the opposite. General Thorpe not returning Kai’s messages was also deeply concerning.
Kai was ready to leave and return to the Starslayer. There was nothing more for him to do now that they had paid him. Eden had deposited a bonus into Kai’s account for what they did to the enemy convoy on the highway. Kai double-checked his belongings and stuffed what could fit into his backpack, the Dragon’s Tooth included. He spun for the tent’s exit after heaving the bag up to his back.
Two uniformed Eden officers pushed Kai backward as he approached the tent’s opening.
“Where do you think you’re going?” one officer asked.
“To my ship, like we discussed,” Kai said.
“We never agreed for you to take the drone,” the second officer said.
Kai crossed his arms. “What makes you think I’m doing that?”
The two officers grabbed Kai, forced him to spin, and pulled his backpack off. The men unzipped it and dumped everything Kai had inside the bag onto the floor. Ilona rolled out of the bag and tumbled across the pavement.
The drone floated upward and spun toward the three men. “Oh, hey, how did I get in there?”
One officer pushed Kai to the wall while the second moved toward Ilona. “Now more than ever,” the officer said, “we need this drone’s cooperation and its software.”
“Her,” Kai cut in.
The two men turned to him. “Excuse me?”
“Her name is Ilona,” Kai said firmly. “Stop calling her it. She’s not an inanimate object.”
They ignored him and turned around with their hands reaching for Ilona. He considered his options as of that moment. Fight them even though they were the good guys? Bitch and complain?
“Kai!”
And there it was, Ilona, pleading, begging, calling to her savior to do something.
So Kai balled his fists up, eyed the man holding Ilona, and lunged forward.
Mitchell entered the tent, stopping everyone when he made his approach. He held a phone with long-range laser capabilities in his hand.
“Sir!”
The two officers stood to the attention of the base’s commander.
“Belay your previous orders, gentlemen,” Mitchell said.
The men stepped away from Ilona. Mitchell walked toward Kai and handed him the phone. “It’s for you.”
Kai took the phone out of his grip. “Who is it?”
Mitchell stood away with his hands behind his back. “It’s the President of Eden.”
“Fuck off. Are you shitting me?”
“If it wasn’t the president, I wouldn’t have asked these men to stop,” Mitchell said.
Kai put the phone to his face. “Hello?”
“Are you the freelance commander of the fuckers making the enemy angry?” said the voice of an irate woman.
“Yes.”
“The same fuckers whose actions have interfered with dozens of our attempts to take back Jardin? The same fucking freelance commander who seduced Corporal Adams into disobeying direct orders and assaulting fellow servicemen?”
It was definitely the President of Eden, Maria Heinonen. The accent, her unforgiving tone, and her use of the word fuck in every other sentence, on camera and off. Kai was chatting with the most powerful woman on the planet.
“Well, shit. I wouldn’t say I seduced her,” he continued.
“Listen, you little cum squirting motherfucker,” Heinonen said. “You are a fucking menace. You do nothing but leave a pile of bodies everywhere you go.”
“Coalition bodies, the last time I checked.”
“Right. So, from now on, I’m putting you on a tight fucking leash. If you are going to go fucking the shit out of the enemy, you do it when I tell you to, or maybe the fucking general or admiral, but not on your own.”
“What’s in it for me?”
“Whatever you fucking need. You’re an asset we can’t afford to lose.”
“Ilona stays with me.”
“Fine.”
“And Amber, she’s pretty good at her job. I want her on my team.”
“Fine.”
He cocked a smile, not that Heinonen could see it. “Just like that?”
“Don’t push your luck, cunt licker.”
“You flatter me with your words, Madam President.”
“You get one more wish, Novak.”
“Since I’m the commander of the Marionette Task Force, I want the power to make decisions based on what I think is the right call. I’ll take what your admirals and generals say under advisement, but my operations are mine. Oh, and the girls are programmed to follow only my orders and anyone else I consider worthy enough to give orders, like Ilona or Amber.
“That’s two requests in one, but I’ll let that slide.”
“Whatever.”
“Now, in return, when I have a job, you drop whatever the fuck it is you’re doing and do it.”
“Okay.”
“And right now, I need you to fucking cool it. The enemy suffered a major loss, and they want blood. We expect them to up the intensity of their attacks very soon. That means a lot more of my soldiers will die because of you. You made this mess, Novak, and now I want your help to clean it the fuck up.”
“Sounds like we got a deal.”
“Save this number on your phone and keep close to Eden. Don’t go fucking off to the other colonies, like Tau Ceti, and disappear into the galaxy. We need you, and we’ll be in touch later.”
President Maria Heinonen hung up without saying goodbye. Charming.
Kai copied Maria Heinonen’s number into his phone and slid it into his pocket with a grin. He had the president on speed dial. It could be a good or bad thing. Bad because Heinonen was quite the controversial leader. She was married to Greggory Heinonen, the CEO of the Twin Suns Corporation, who conveniently scored lots of government contracts after she took office.
Kai wondered if Maria Heinonen was going to strong-arm him into protecting her husband’s corporate interests, more so than defeating the enemy.
He had no interest in turning the Marionette Task Force into corporate soldiers.
A blast of warm shower water sprayed over Kai’s naked back. It felt good to be back in the Starslayer and washing off the days of blood and grime built up on him. He was certain this was the first time he had bathed since railing Cerise weeks ago. Kai spent extra time in his quarter’s personal shower. He wanted to ensure he got every bit of grime and dried blood off him.
Partway through his wash, he saw the reflection of something behind him. Someone behind him. Kai wasn’t alone. He instinctively spun for the shower’s sliding door and eyed his washroom’s cabinet. There was a gun inside it. He’d become very paranoid as of late. Getting shot multiple times would do that.
He slid the door open only for Cerise to appear into the white mist that had filled his shower. Her golden eyes paralyzed him in place, stopping Kai from moving forward. The sway of her naked breasts compelled him to stand longer as she approached him. She pressed her hand on his chest and pushed him backward into the shower before sliding its glass door shut. Cerise cocked her gaze with a sly grin at him.
“What are you doing here?” Kai asked her.
She eyed him closely, the shower’s water running off her restored silicone skin, wetting and sticking pink hair to it. “I need this.”
“Need what?”
Cerise giggled and stood on her toes while puckering her lips. She kissed him. “I’ve been under a lot of stress lately and need to relieve it,” she whispered. “Just let me enjoy this, babe.”
She shoved Kai to the shower’s wall, wrapping her arms around his upper body and leaning forward. With each kiss, she pushed him harder against the shower wall, the water cascading around them. Their kisses grew more passionate as Cerise’s hand moved to his stiffening cock, firmly stroking it up and down to harden it further.
Cerise teased further by holding his cock’s head just barely away from her dripping wet womanhood adorned with pink pubic hair.
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GLAD YOU FINALLY JOINED US!
Cerise tilted her head back and moaned as the water fell onto her skin. Facing away from the shower faucet, she embraced Kai, locking her lips with him and hugging him against her wet breasts dripping with shower water. He moved to her back and placed a tender kiss on her neck, his hands tracing the contours of her soaked figure. She inched her lips backward and rewarded him with a kiss and a playful tongue entering his mouth. She fell against the shower’s glass, squishing her breasts against it while he kissed her from behind. Kai pulled locks of pink hair to the side and ran his fingers down the spine of Cerise’s back, right down to her USB cable dangling over the curvature of her ass cheeks. As he brought his fingers below her ass, he teased her with slow, deliberate strokes up and down her clitoris. Her kissing mouth moaned its purrs into his.
She spun and leaned against the glass, pressing her squeezable rear against it. Her wet hands came to clamp on Kai’s face, keeping it still for her aggressive lips and their insatiable desire for him. Cerise kissed her way down his body, starting at his shoulders and ending at his stomach. She got lower and lower until she fell to her knees, kissed his cock, then took it into her mouth. Behind, the shower’s faucet rained water down her backside and dripped off her plump ass, shoulders, and elbows. Cerise stood up with his penis in her hand and jacked him off swiftly, holding it just above her pink pubic hair, wet and sticking to her flesh. Her free hand touched her intimate slit and rubbed it simultaneously. Lengthy locks of wet pink hair fell over her left dripping breast, obscuring the nipple from sight.
Cerise stopped moving her hands. Keeping his cock in her grip, Cerise smiled at him and twirled around. She guided his penis to her cunt below her ass, slid it into its warm embrace, then pressed her palms against the shower’s glass, leaning her body and bosoms against it. Kai captured her hips and started pumping his, fucking her from behind. He parted her pink hair to the side, giving his lips access to the back of her neck, and kissed it softly to her echoing moans lost in the sound of the falling shower water.
Liquids rolled off his cock. He wasn’t sure if it dripped from the insides of Cerise’s warm womanhood or the showering water. Probably both.
She trembled suddenly, and her cunt tightened around his ramming prick. Kai slowed down. He’d climax if he continued thrusting at the speed he was. Cerise wasn’t pleased with his choice and backed her behind into him. She slammed Kai against the back of the shower’s wall, continuously throwing her ass backward. He hugged his left arm over her heaving breasts, feeling the texture of her wet hair sticking to them while stroking her thigh with his free hand. Cerise moaned up to the shower faucet, now splashing her face with water. She quivered in his grip, and her pulsating orgasm caressed his prick comfortably. This time there wasn’t anything he could do. Cerise repeatedly thrust her bottom onto him while occasionally swirling her hips about, forcing her pussy to devour his cock.
His cock couldn’t take it any longer. His throbbing member, deep inside Cerise, released its white load as a surging orgasm paralyzed Kai in place. He pumped her with his seed’s warmth. They leaned against each other in the shower, chest heaving as the water sprinkled over them. Kai held her wide hips from behind, running his hands up and down its feminine shape. Cerise laid the back of her head against his shoulder, purring erotically at him. After a minute, his penis slipped free from her hot snatch, alongside gobs of his semen that fell to the shower’s floor and vanished down the drain. He filled Cerise to the brim.
“Never stop being such a fucking awesome lover, babe,” Cerise whispered to him. “I don’t know what I’d be doing without you. I really don’t.”
Their gazes locked, and for a moment neither of them spoke.
“Feel better now?” he asked.
“I should be asking you the same thing!”
The two shared some much-needed laughter. And then a minute-long passionate kiss.
“I am confused.”
That was Yukina.
Anxiety filled Kai’s chest. Yukina was there. He was sure he had heard her speak those words. He slowly moved his face away from Cerise’s kissing lips and faced the glass door of his shower. Yukina stood ahead of it, peering at them through the foggy glass.
“Oh, what the hell!” Kai yelled.
“Yay!” Cerise stepped away from Kai and raised her arms cheerfully. “Hey, sis! Glad you finally joined us!”
Cerise slid open the shower door and led Yukina into the warm mist of water spraying from the faucet, their hands clasped together. Now two naked girls were bathing with Kai. Yukina ambled toward him, her eyes examining every detail of his physique.
She spent at least five seconds looking at his erect penis then pointed at it. “The natural form of a male differs greatly from what I thought it would be.”
“Cerise . . .” Kai said, slowly facing her.
“Yuki has so many questions!” Cerise said with a shrug. “I figured this would be a perfect chance to answer some of them. And she could use a bath too. Water is in short supply here, so the three of us showering would be the most effective way to save water!”
Kai snorted. “Yet we wasted water when fucking—” Yukina stroked the grooves of his abs. “Hey!”
Her hand was warm against his penis as she held it up toward the light, examining it with a curious gaze. “This is . . . firm. Master, why is that?”
“Now, now, sis,” Cerise said. “Wash yourself first before you go on touching him.”
“Wash myself . . .” Yukina tilted her head to the left, facing Cerise. “Please explain the procedure.”
“Ugh.” Cerise facepalmed. “Kai, give me a hand here.”
The three bathed together. Cerise handled Yukina’s long silver-white hair and backside, scrubbing it clean and applying shampoo and soap. As a test, Cerise asked Yukina to do what she had learned. Yukina twirled to Kai, wiped soap over his back, fetched Cerise’s loofah sponge, and washed him clean. Kai felt the soft weight of Yukina’s young breasts against him as she reached up to wipe his neck. And the gentle touch of her pubic hair grazing his left thigh from behind. Her slender hands trailing down his spine and onto his ass cheeks was something else.
Yukina stood away from Kai. “As for my front?”
“Hmm.” Cerise narrowed her eyes and held the bottom of her chin inquisitively. She turned to face him next with a wicked leer. “Would you like Kai to do that, Yuki?”
“Okay.”
Cerise took the loofah from Yukina and handed it and a bottle of soap to Kai. “Your turn, Commander!”
She giggled.
Yukina pivoted toward Kai while Cerise held her shoulders, almost keeping her in place. Kai applied the soap to Yukina’s chest, spreading the white and foamy substance across her left breast then her right. After he smoothed the soap across Yukina’s neck and face, his hands glided down her slender figure to her waist, where he rubbed her adorable navel. Kai wanted to leave it at that, but Cerise kept holding Yukina still and giving him that wicked leer. She wanted to see him go deeper and wouldn’t move until he did.
So he did.
Yukina stood still as Kai lathered soap onto her intimate area, taking great care to be gentle. He then moved on to rub her thighs, feeling the suds foam and cleanse her skin. Next, he coated her legs and feet, making sure to cover every inch with soap. Yukina didn’t say anything or express emotions. She stood with a blank expression and watched Kai run his hands up and down her body.
“I see,” Yukina said when he finished. “This is how one cleans their front exterior.”
“Yes,” Cerise said. “It’s best to clean yourself every day, okay?”
“Okay.”
Cerise yanked the shower faucet from its hook and sprayed Yukina’s body with warm water, washing away the suds. She returned the faucet to its hook when finished. “All done!”
“Yay.” Yukina angled her head up to meet Cerise’s gaze. “That was the appropriate word to use at a time like this, correct?”
They shut the shower off, slid the door open, and stepped out into the foggy washroom. Cerise skipped to the towel rack, fetching a towel for herself and offering the other to Yukina. “Now to dry off.”
Yukina tilted her head at the towel in Cerise’s hand. “Now dry? Please explain.”
“Watch me.”
Cerise held the towel and used it to pat her body clean. Yukina examined Cerise, toweling her curves off, and mimicked her.
“Good,” Cerise said, eyeing Yukina. “Now, do the same to him.” She gestured to Kai, reaching for his towel.
He shook his head. “I can dry myself—”
Yukina brushed her towel over Kai’s chest and abs, drying him.
Cerise tiptoed behind him, held his shoulders so he wouldn’t move, and pressed her buxom chest onto his back, sinking hard nipples into them. While Yukina wiped Kai’s front, Cerise used her towel to wipe the back of his head and hair before dragging it down over his backside and ass. Yukina stepped closer to his chest and wiped his face dry of the water. He felt her nipples tickle his frame, and wet, white pussy hair gently brushed across his flaccid cock. There were two pairs of breasts made of silicone squishing against Kai. His member was hardening again, ready to rise between Yukina’s legs as she wiped him dry.
Yukina gasped.
His dick touched her inner thigh. She stepped away and gazed into his eyes. A rosy hue spread across Yukina’s cheeks, and her lips parted slightly in surprise. She was astonished and blushed quite possibly for the first time ever.
With Kai’s penis stiffening again, he moved slightly to the side to prevent unwanted contact with Yukina. Cerise just embraced him from behind and moved with him. He realized something critical at that moment. Kai never removed a condom from his cock because he didn’t have one on to start with. He didn’t fuck Cerise with a condom, and she was okay with that. Cerise disobeyed her programming directive, having sex without protection. And as he recalled, Cerise desired it, not because she yearned to please him but because she was the one who needed sexual healing. That wasn’t how marionette sex dolls were to operate. They fucked because they wanted to see their partner’s face and eyes lost to the euphoric rush of an orgasm.
