“The time for graciousness will come later. We must return to your metal cave quickly before this drone recovers and more follow.” Sarah felt herself lifted into the air by a pair of strong, slender arms. She opened her eyes and looked up to see a blue woman holding her in a princess carry. Sarah didn’t know when it had happened, but her long white lab coat had been placed over her tired body to cover it from view.
“A’luhr…?” Sarah wheezed, beginning to come to her senses. “Whuh-”
“Do not speak, Sarah Cassidy.” A’luhr replied in a concerned tone. “The more you move your throat, the more the nectar will be absorbed and poison your mind. Rest now.” Sarah was about to protest in confusion and anger for having been stripped away from the endless well of pleasure she yearned to return to, when suddenly she felt a strong grip on a pressure point at the base of her neck and she fell into darkness.
All she could sense before slipping away were the sounds of unintelligible voices, hurried footsteps, and the calming drops of rain that began to gently patter against the unfeeling pavement below.
***
“Drink. That’s it. You are lucky water is so abundant on your planet. Its ability to fight-off the effects of the corrupting nectar is very strong.” A’luhr’s distant voice drifted into Sarah’s ears. She felt something cold and wet pressed to her dry lips and she thirstily welcomed it into her parched throat.
She didn’t realize how dehydrated she had become. She wasn’t surprised, however, as rigorous physical activity, sweating, and ejaculating all heavily tax the body. She struggled to open her eyes and blinked at the bright light, feeling like her mind was finally pushing its way out of a deep, foggy forest after days of being lost in the dampness. She could make out four humanoid shapes nearby.
“Is… Is she going to be okay?” Adam said with concern. “What the fuck was she thinking!?”
“Shh!” Zoey shushed. “Not so loud! Diana and Arlo are still sleeping too.”
“Her body already begins to reject the drugs in her system. We got to her in time, it seems.” A’luhr assured them. “Look, she awakes.” Sarah’s blurry vision slowly came into focus as her eyes scanned around the room. She was back in the bunker and lying on a cot with the rest of the group huddling over her. A’luhr had a water bottle in her hands, which she gingerly removed from Sarah’s lips as the dazed woman attempted to sit up.
“Whoa… whoa easy there…” Adam gently breathed a sigh of relief as he and Zoey both helped Sarah into a somewhat seated position. She looked down at herself. She was covered in a blanket but realized she was completely nude beneath it. She suddenly blushed and wrapped her arms around her hidden chest and clenched her legs.
“D-did you…!?” Sarah stammered.
“Good ol’ Zo took care of washing you while you were out; don’t worry.” Steven remarked. “Though it’s not like A’luhr and I didn’t already get an eyefu- SHIT!” He yelped as Zoey kicked him hard in the shins. Sarah realized that her body was indeed feeling clean and refreshed. She ran a hand through her hair and confirmed that there wasn’t a single glob of slime or dried cum in it. She wasn’t sure how Zoey had managed this feat, but she was damn impressed.
“Thank you…” Sarah whispered. “I… I know I was stupid. I just wanted to do anything I could to feel like I was in control of the situation and then, well… the opposite happened.” She felt blood rise to her cheeks as she remembered the pitiful, horny state she had been in. She almost could have vomited from the embarrassment writhing in her stomach like that long tentacle had been doing not long ago.
“How long was I…?”
“You’ve been back around two hours now.” Adam answered, predicting her question. “You’re the first to wake up though. Likely because you weren’t as exposed to the Taker’s aphrodisiac stuff as the other two were.”
“Other two…?” Sarah turned her head to look across the room at the other beds. She saw the sleeping heads of Diana and Arlo poking out from under the blankets of the two cots next to hers. She let out a sigh of relief. It had all been worth it.
“The Krinis’s nectar keeps their slaves conscious for as long as possible, despite the heavy physical strain that constant copulation puts on the body,” A’luhr explained, offering Sarah more water, who gratefully accepted. “Now that they are separated from their source, the effects of the accumulated exhaustion have hit them both all at once, so they rest. They will be fine, though I don’t know how their… bodily modifications will adjust. I take it that most males of your species do not usually have phalluses this large, nor do your females often possess mammaries of that magnitude. We will have to monitor them to make sure they remain healthy.”
“What about the fireworks?” Sarah said, suddenly remembering the entire point of their mission.
“Got ‘em ready to roll in the work-space.” Steven replied, rubbing his leg. “We managed to get back just before the heavens opened up on us!”
“Yes. We would have made it with a larger window of time had you not insisted on saving the other two humans here.” A’luhr grunted. “We cannot afford to jeopardize our entire cause just for two individuals. Believe me, I’ve made that mistake before and it cost me.”
“I won’t turn my back on people when I know I can help them,” Steven declared defiantly. “…Not again…” His gaze turned sullen and he looked away from the alien woman.
“Thank you, Steven,” Zoey said with sincerity, putting a hand on his arm. “Really… you helped save my friends…” She sniffed. “If only I could have been there to help too…”
“What kind of brother would I be to constantly put his little sister in danger?” Steven perked up. “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, you know?”
“Sure.” Zoey laughed while rolling her eyes. “Anyway, we have the magnesium now… but how exactly are we planning to use it? We only have enough fireworks for one good explosion and I don’t think the creatures will just let us waltz into their nest with them.”
“Good point.” Adam agreed. “We got enough for a big ol’ fuckin’ blast, but from what A’luhr was saying earlier, it sounds like we need to kill the queen or else the bitch’ll just keep spewing out more of those freaks.”
“Indeed, we do not have a lot of time to figure out our plan of attack.” A’luhr sighed. “We have merely set foot on the ‘starting line.’” She glanced over at Steven as if looking for approval on her idiom usage. He gave a curt nod and a thumbs up. She hesitantly returned his gesture with her own thumbs up, seemingly still getting used to the humans’ mannerisms.
“Is there some way we can mask ourselves from them so they can’t see us?” Adam wondered aloud.
“They hunt based on a combination of sound and heat,” A’luhr replied. We would never be able to sneak in.” She shifted uncomfortably in place before continuing. “I propose we allow one of us to get captured, similar how to Sarah Cassidy… distracted… the drone earlier.”
“What!?” Zoey cried. “That’s insane! You’d be a goner!”
“Correct.” A’luhr nodded. “If not for my last impulse detonator.” She held up her one remaining grenade. “We simply find a way to get someone inside the breeding grounds while retaining their possession of this and the starfire. Then when the time is right, they activate the impulse and set off the starfire towards the queen, at which point she will die and all the Krinis will lose the will to live.”