Author: Thinking Horndog
Title: Alien Bear Baiting
Part: 2 of 4
Universe: The Swarm
Summary: A trip to Tulakat (a blockaded Sa'arm world) and a grunt's eye view
of the war on the ground there and home life at the nearby Marine base at
Truman.  'The Mercury Incident' is recommended reading first.

Keywords: MF MFF oral ScFi

Chapter 2

	Ned got about ten feet down the hall before the Captain roared
"Petersen!" behind him.

	Ned braced.  "Sir!"

	"Wait.  I need to do what commanders always end up doing when they
lose troops."  He closed the door of his office behind him and stalked up to
Ned.

	"What's that, Sir?"

	"Confer the condolences of the service to the widow -- or widows, in
this case.  Granted, they're technically property, but Marco's little family
seemed to be operating smoother than yours, so I assume they loved each other.
Come on."  CPT Mackay took the lead and Ned followed him off down the corridor
and down three tunnels to the hub that led to the late PVT Lezynski's pod.
Mackay punched an access code on the keypad beside the door.

	"Do they know, Sir?" Ned asked.

	"No, they've been blacked out for communications -- and locked in,"
Mackay replied.  "AI, this pod is temporarily CPL Petersen's property -- but
it reverts to the service pool in seventy two hours," he added, eyeing Ned.

	"Acknowledged," the AI intoned.

	The door slid open, revealing two nervous, obviously pregnant women.
"Ladies," CPT Mackay said solemnly, after entering the room, "it is my sad
duty to inform you that your sponsor has given his life in the service of the
Confederacy."

	"Omigod!" the young woman on the left was buxom, curvy, and a redhead,
maybe twenty-five, if she hadn't had her clock turned back.  "Marco?  Dead?"

	"I'm afraid so," CPT Mackay nodded.  He turned his attention to the
other woman.  "My condolences."

	Ned got a shock -- the other woman was...  Dolores!  But she hadn't
noticed him yet; she was too busy looking stricken and collapsing onto the arm
of the couch.  "W--what happens to us?"  Her fear was palpable; she'd been
close to being spaced at least once...

	"Marco made a bequest," CPT Mackay told her.  "CPL Petersen is your
new sponsor."

	"Ned."  Dolores' eyes shifted to Ned's.  "I'm as good as dead."

	"Not this time," Ned promised.  "Trust me."  Dolores just looked away.
Ned was miserable; she was even more desirable with a swollen belly!  He owed
her -- and by God he was going to make it right!  "I'll be back tomorrow.
Pack your things -- you're moving to my pod then."

	"Ned, if you can't..." Dolores began.

	"No, I'm going to take charge.  Judy is gonna have to toe the line!  I
just discovered some of the shit she's been doing, and it's time for a
change..." Ned swore.

	Dolores' expression said 'I'll believe it when I see it,' but she
nodded.

	"I'll be by around 12:00.  Be ready," Ned told them both.  "I owe
Marco and I owe you.  Things will work out."  He turned his attention to CPT
Mackay.

	"Again, my condolences."  Mackay nodded and backed out.  Ned followed.
Once in the hallway with the door closed, he said, "You made promises in there
-- see that you keep them."

	"Yessir."

	"Dismissed."

	Ned saluted and they parted company.

                        -----------------------

	Judy was waiting at the pod door.  "You're back!"

	"Yeah," Ned nodded as he came in, poker-faced.

	"Good!  Ellie has been driving me nuts and you need to get her pointed
the right direction before..."

	"Judy, shut up."

	"Hey!"  Judy glared.  "That's no way to speak to..."

	"A concubine?" Ned finished.  "What would you know about it?'

	"I'm your wife!" Judy snapped, "Not some..."

	"You're wrong!" Ned interrupted her, "And you have been for a long
time!  I've put up with it because we WERE married, but you just keep stepping
over the line!  It's over!  Our marriage is over, too, and you need to stop
wandering around here under the assumption that you rule the roost..."

	"Somebody has to," Judy said snidely.

	Ned froze.  He counted to ten, thought about it a bit -- basically
ignoring Judy's follow-on comments about how she had to constantly take care
of his sorry fucking ass - decided that nothing less would get her attention,
and backhanded her just hard enough to put her bony ass on the floor.

	Judy sat there, looking up at him in shock.  "You hit me!"

	"Want to go for two?" Ned asked levelly.  "What are you?  Tell me what
your status is around here.  Get it right, or I'll continue educating you the
hard way..."

	"I'm a... concubine."  Judy eyed him carefully.

	"And that confers exactly what powers over me?" Ned asked coolly.

	"Uh..."  Judy thought about it and decided that she was looking at the
possibility of losing ground via dangerous admissions.  "Now look, Ned..."
Ned, poker-faced, took a step toward her and she threw up her hands, "All
right!  All right!  None!  Okay?  But..."

	"But fucking nothing!" Ned snapped.  "I've fucking had it!  I let you
get away with shit because we were married before, but all you do is take
advantage and mess with everyone's head!  Who the fuck told you that you
didn't need to get pregnant?"

	"Now, Ned, do you really want me to swell up like a hippo and have to
drag around kids?  I'm not really the mother type..." Judy decided that it was
time to appeal to reason.

	"And Ellie?  Why is SHE infertile?"

	"Jeez, Ned - I've got enough kids here..."

	It was absolutely the wrong thing to say...  Ned growled deep in his
throat, reached down, and hauled Judy into the air by the front of the nice
blouse she'd nagged him into letting her acquire instead of the standard shift
that most concubines wore and tossed her like a doll against the nearest wall.
"GET IN THAT CORNER!" he roared, pointing.

	Judy, trying to get her breath back, opened her mouth to protest - and
Ned turned to face her directly, a move that was obviously threatening.  She
shut her mouth and scrambled to the corner, never taking her eyes off of the
creature who had been her wimpy husband.  What the fuck had gotten into him?

	"Put up a field!" Ned snapped at the AI.  "She's not to get out!  I
don't want to hear her, either - but I want HER to hear ME!"  He turned to
Judy as the air began to shimmer before her.  "You do NOT rule the roost here!
In fact, you're on probation, and if you don't get your shit together, I'll
flip a coin to see whether you breathe vacuum or just get converted into steak
and eggs!  Do you fucking understand?  Nod - don't open your fucking mouth!"
He glared at her.

	Cautiously, Judy nodded.

	"You're in there until I decide you're out," Ned informed her.  "If
you have to take a pee or crap or something, you'd better hope Ellie takes
pity on you and escorts you to the john, because I won't - and if you make a
mess in there you're gonna clean it with your tongue!  You are NOT Numero Uno
around here any more - if you're lucky, you'll be Number Four for a while -
make that Number Five, since the Number One spot belongs to ME!"  He spun on
Ellie, who flinched back.  "Come here!"

	Ellie minced over fearfully and stood cringing before him.

	Ned got a grip and shifted gears.  "Relax, you're not in trouble.  How
could you be?  Judy probably doesn't even allow you to think on your own..."
He eyed her.  "Take off all your clothes."

	Ellie stripped without comment.  She was as much a sheep as Judy was a
wolf - which is why Judy settled for her during the swap that got him Ellie
for Dolores.  When she was done, he asked her gently, "Did you know you were
sterile?"

	"No, um, Ned.  No..."  Did he want her to call him Master or
something, now?  She shook her head and turned to look at Judy.

	"I didn't know, either - I gave Judy blanket authority with the AI in
Medical and didn't realize," Ned told her.   "What do you think about that?"

	"It sucks," Ellie declared, her eyes hardening.

	"We'll fix it tomorrow," Ned told her.  "Was there anything you wanted
to have done that wasn't before?"

	"Yeah," Ellie hung her head.  She was a little pudgy and mousy, with
small, saggy tits and a belly - and considerable cellulite on her ass and
thighs.  "A bunch of stuff, actually.  Judy said..."  She stopped.

	"What DID she say?"

	"Judy said I didn't need any improvements.  She said I was just around
to do housework, anyway, and she didn't want you distracted."  Ellie turned
another frown on Judy.

	Ned grimaced.  "Judy has a problem.  I haven't helped; I coddled her
and let her have her way.  But her way isn't MY way and things HAVE to
change!"  He flicked a glance at Judy.  "Tomorrow, there will be two more of
you here.  One of you will be at the top of the pecking order - and it WON'T
be Judy!"  He glanced up - the almost universal sign that one wanted to
address the AI.  "Display the medical options program!"

	For the next hour, Ned and Ellie looked first at options for Ellie's
redesign and then at options for redoing Judy.  The objectives differed
markedly; Ellie was to get enhancements that improved her visually and her
self-image, while Judy was to get a mixed bag of upgrades designed to
facilitate turning her into a baby factory WITHOUT improving her looks - in
fact, the strategy was to emphasize some areas at the expense of others,
making her look misshapen.  Judy got to watch, of course - and got exactly
zero input.  That she was horrified went without saying.  Last but not least,
Ned discussed with the AI augmentations that would improve the women's sexual
response; Ellie blushed profusely while Ned ordered a larger, more protruding
clitoris and an enhanced G-spot for her, while Judy was horrified to hear him
order augmentation that would enhance the sensitivity of her rectum after
telling her pointedly that once she was pregnant he wasn't going to use her
vagina.  Both got other components of what had come to be the standard package
- things like an increase in throat size and suppression of the gag reflex to
support deep-throat.  "It's time I got a little sex around here," Ned
announced, eyeing Judy.  "In fact..."  He snapped his fingers and pointed -
and Ellie delightedly draped herself over the couch arm.  Ned thought about it
a moment and changed his mind, "No, blow me first."  He settled onto the couch
and Ellie crawled forward and started worshipping his cock with her mouth.

	Ellie had no problem with this; Ned was good to her, but Judy had
always come between them.  As a result, she'd gotten VERY little sex from Ned
- and when she had, fear of Judy had kept her from enjoying it.  Since Ned was
CLEARLY intent on putting Judy in her place, Ellie let go and enjoyed her
little chore, working to please Ned as much as she could - and it turned out
that she was good at it, which surprised Ned no end!  Riding her lips up and
down his shaft and teasing him with her tongue, Ellie derived great pleasure
from his moans and groans.  Lifting her lips from his glans, she asked him
softly, "Can I get bigger lips, too?"

	"Ahh, sure..." Ned gasped, thinking, 'Fuck!  Like she needs 'em!'
He'd planned to just warm up this way, then fuck her, but this was too good...
"You're gonna swallow..." he grunted.

	"Of course!" Ellie backed off just long enough to reply.  Then she
seemed to redouble her efforts - and Ned couldn't hold out!  "Aaaahhh!!
SHIT!" he roared and erupted into Ellie's mouth.  Ellie sucked the thick,
chewy product down and swallowed it happily, "Mmmmm!" -- then milked him dry,
getting every last drop.

	Judy, looking on, was somewhat disgusted; she really didn't enjoy
giving head at all.  Ellie had gone after Ned like a total slut!  Gawd!
Trying to swallow the thing, and slurping down his cum - disgusting!  The time
would come when she would discuss THIS little incident with the little
tramp...

	Ned picked up the look on Judy's face, and could almost divine her
thought process in toto.  "Did you enjoy that?" he asked Ellie.

	"Oh, yes!" she bubbled.  "It was great!  You taste wonderful!  But..."

	Ned had a good idea what was behind that 'but', too...  "Don't worry,"
he chuckled.  "We're gonna fuck."  He eyed her.  "I suppose Judy had
instructions for you regarding sex..."

	"Uh huh," Ellie eyed Judy.  "She said I shouldn't invite it and I
shouldn't enjoy it and if you got too happy, she'd make me wish I'd been more
careful.  She said I wasn't here to fuck or suck or anything - and that if I
had needs, I'd better take care of them myself."

	"I see..."  Ned eyed Judy.  "Well, that's changed, obviously.  Are you
wet?  Turn around."  Ellie got up on her hands and knees and propped herself
on the couch arm, kneeling over his lap - and she WAS wet!  Ned laughed in
pleasure and started diddling her with his fingers, running them up and down
her wet slot and rubbing her clit.  Ellie moaned.  "Cum for me," he told her.
"Tell me what you like and I'll do it - and when you've cum once, I'm gonna
fuck you."

	"Oh, God..."  To Ellie, this was a dream come true; she thought the
world of Ned -- who had saved her from being tossed out an airlock, but had
never seemed interested.  Now, he was diddling her bringing her to orgasm -
and then they were gonna fuck, and she didn't have to pretend...  She shot
right up to a peak in record time -- Ned seemed to know EXACTLY what she
needed - and wailed and grunted and humped his hand as orgasm overcame her,
"OOOOHHH!  FUUUUCK!  MEEEEEEE!!!!"

	Ned was thoroughly pleased with himself - and Ellie!  This wasn't the
Ellie who had reluctantly succumbed to his attentions on the three or four
occasions that he had more or less dutifully offered her sex - this was a
different girl!  He eyed Judy -- who was displaying a fine mix of anger and
disgust - and said, "Go bend over the couch arm - I think it's time for that
fuck!"

	Ellie was up like a shot and bent over the couch arm, her legs spread
to display her wet twat.  Ned, who had regained his erection while rubbing her
off, had no trouble at all plugging her.  "Make all the noise you want, Ellie
- don't let Judy bother you.  Either she'll get used to it or she'll wish she
had!" Ned told her.

	Ellie took this encouragement to heart and got VERY vocal!  "Omigawd!
Fuck!  Fuck!  It's...  Omigawd!  Do me!  Yes!  Yes!" she wailed.

	The more pleased he was with Ellie, the more irritated he got with
Judy.  Ellie - unlike on previous outings, when she'd more or less emulated a
dead thing - was turning out to be a fine fuck - which meant that Judy had
scared her spitless in order to maintain her place in the pecking order.  That
Ellie was easily terrorized mattered not at all - Judy had selected her for
just that reason!  The depths of Judy's manipulations were never more clear to
him as he buried himself again and again in Ellie's depths, to her obvious
pleasure!  From a sexual response standpoint, Ned might have to throttle back
on Ellie's proposed changes - she was a LOT more responsive than Ned had been
led to believe!  He hadn't long-stroked her more than forty seconds before she
wailed "AAWWWWW!" and turned blind eyes on the ceiling while her ass went
crazy and her pussy clamped down on him!  Ned managed to bring off Ellie two
more times before his balls crawled up into his scrotum and he hosed her
insides, grunting.  When he staggered back, Ellie whipped around and knelt
before him, sucking him in, producing an agony of post-coital pleasure as she
cleaned his shaft from tip to root, her somewhat homely face glowing.  "Oh,
thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!" she burbled.

	"Thank YOU!" Ned replied, gasping.  That had been the best fuck he'd
had in years, probably!  He cradled her cheek and turned his attention on his
onetime wife, his expression clearly telegraphing his displeasure.

	Judy's mouth was a tight line; obviously, Ned wasn't going to be any
too pleasant for the near future.  Who knew that Ellie would be such a slut if
she was allowed to?  Clearly, she'd turned out a bang-up performance -
something Judy hadn't bothered to do in some time...  "I can do better," she
said confidently, forgetting that he couldn't hear her.

	Ned read her lips, anyway.  "Well, you haven't been!" he retorted.
"And you had CERTAINLY better be - OR ELSE!"  Her turned and walked out of the
room, directing Ellie to follow with a finger wave.