Space Trek Fleet Wars Universe

Starfleet Captain Tom Starwalker is the only crew member of the cargo ship «Chugger», delivering hairdressing supplies to the Nexus quadrant. En route, it takes aboard a cadet that is joining the crew for her work experience. The cadet turn out to be Tom’s sister Rebecca (Bex/Becky), in much better shape than Tom remembered. Seduction ensues. As Tom and Bex finally have sex, the ship decides to take onboard a spacecraft emitting a distress signal. Tom’s efforts to cancel the action fail due to the ship’s computer rebooting (revealing it runs on a Microsoft operating system). The forceful docking puts out of commission the new craft pilot, that turns out to be a female blue alien with huge breasts named Twill, from planet Tw’dek, who was smuggling rum. During a threesome with Becky and Twill, Tom gets a wake-up call to discover everything was just a dream: there is no blue alien named Twill on board, and his sister is still fat but flat-chested, and has been thrown out of the academy for “having too many fits of rage”. Tom despairs.

At Jabba’s palace on Tatooine, a stormtrooper breaks a Twi’lek free from the slave trade. The rescuer turns out to be a girl (not affiliated with either the Empire or the Rebellion) who was desperate to experiment on lesbian sex, and thought her best chances was to save someone who had been bred for sex.

A couple of months after the events of the first chapter, the «Chugger» comes across an unidentified space craft in distress coming through a wormhole from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The craft carries fake stormtrooper Lucy (Luce) and her pretend-slave Twi’lek named Zan. On Tom’s refusal to provide supplies in exchange for the possibility to rape Zan, the proposed exchange is revealed to be a test to gauge his attitude and personality before asking to join his crew due to their fighter having broken down. While having sex with his new crew, Tom receives a call from his sister who asks to be beamed to the ship to discuss something important with him. Becky turns out to be in excellent physical shape, after having gone through therapy for her anger issues, which were caused by the crush she had on her brother. Tom reveals his dream to the sister. While the crew is having sex all together, they manifest deadly sickness symptoms. As the ship computer finishes downloading updates and rebooting, it finds no living crew and a virulent compound in the ship’s atmosphere. After contacting Starfleet, it receives the command to self-terminate and explodes.

Tom in civilian clothes enjoys his English afternoon reading a book in the garden, only to discover a fairy trapped in a spider web. As thanks for having been freed, the fairy, named Tinkerbell, realizes some of his wishes, including ten million pounds, a bigger penis, and the ultimate orgasm. The fairy lets slip a «Captain Tom» when talking to him, which makes Tom understand that the events were fictitious as he is regaining consciousness.

Tom wakes up prisoner of General Gaw, Spymaster of the United Starfleet Federation. The Spymaster reveals that the “deadly virus” on the ship was part of hoax to fake Tom’s death and the destruction of the ship that came through the wormhole, in order to send him through that wormhole to find what resources could be found on the other side. Tom manages to get hold of a gun and shoots the Spymaster, gaining control of the ship and freeing Zan, Lucy and Becky, that were being held in stasis to be used as hostages and for other motives.

The crew reaches GlaxoSmithKline spaceport, a wretched hive of scum and villainy, to get rid of the ship and get a new one. Lucy informs the rest of the crew that she has decided to leave to join a fighter crew. Tom reveals that with the sale of the freighter and part of the Lattinum there was on board he has managed to buy an over-armed luxury yacht. Becky finds an exceptionally well-qualified ex-fighter pilot (Ix) for the new ship and they depart from the station. Leaving Tom and his sister alone on Becky’s request, Zan gets to know Ix and explains her how they are all very open about sex. Ix jumps at the opportunity to seduce Tom with the excuse of needing to calibrate some ship sensors. A hostile ship approaches them requesting they cede the Lattinum and the girls. Tom refuses, and as the hostile shoots at them Ix proves her piloting ability by dodging all shots using mini warp jumps and taking the opportunity to drop some bombs in the hostile’s hangar.

Becky reminisces the past, wishing she could have had the opportunity to be involved with her brother before he left for the academy, even though at the time Tom was not interested in her sexually due to her not being as developed as she is now, and daydreams about what could have been if she had. Ix reveals she has a twin brother, who is also a fighter pilot, and she wonders where he is now.

Walking around the ship, Tom discovers the Tactical Simulation Suite (Tacspace), a Virtual Reality chamber designed for space combat training and able to simulate arbitrary environments. Constructed with solid-state meta materials, the suite is able to provide users with tactile feedback, in contrast to a holodeck that only provides visual feedback. The crew has some fun simulating scenarios where they impersonate various characters, even experiencing the sensations of being a different gender. In a faux pas, Tom jokes about Ix looking like she could be his twin sister in the simulation, triggering her memories of her actual twin brother, and the realization that, being out of the military, she will probably never see her twin again. Tom pushes her to find information about him so that they can go visit, and Ix manages to infiltrate the Starfleet network using her combat helmet, only to discover that her brother is MIA, presumed killed, during an undercover operation on Kalixa investigating a smugglers' group. The crew decides to attempt a rescue operation, sending Ix in a stealth operation, dropping her from orbit in a Halo suit.

Ix drops into the smugglers' stronghold on Kalixa, and manages to finds her twin brother Xho, who is only in coma, but gets caught by guards that stun her and undress them. Ix comes to bound to a chair, surrounded by three guards, two of which (Karl and Simon) are arguing with a third (Mike) who is trying to talk them down from raping her. Playing easy to get and actually inviting them all to have sex with her, she manages to get Mike to drop his weapon, taking advantage of the moment to break the neck of Karl and Simon. Mike removes her handcuffs, and she offers him sex as thanks for having tried to talk the other two guards out of raping her, and for the information he provides on her brother’s induced coma. They have sex, which Ix uses to gain additional information on how to leave the base undetected and without killing everybody. Mike chooses to escort Ix to the hangar to help her escape, and in exchange he gets stunned instead of killed. Zan gets sent out on the X-Wing to meet with Ix' shuttle, but as they are approaching the yacht several smuggler ships arrive on the scene, and Ix demonstrates her ability by piloting the yacht remotely, while Zan plays distraction. A transmission from the planet, addressed to Ix, contains the codes for the smugglers' shields, which Ix uses to tune the yacht weapons thus allowing them to destroy all hostile ships. After docking safely, Ix takes Xho to the sick bay with Becky’s assistance, and the stress of all she’s gone through finally catches up with her.

While the crew relaxes in the recently discovered lounge («Opium Snug») of the ship, complimenting and comforting Ix, they received a call from Admiral Fabuloso, that has received an automatic report from Xho’s suit about the rescue, and wishes for Ix to rejoin the military, promoted to the rank of Captain First Class and with a cancellation of her AWOL status. Ix refuses the offer, implying that Fabuloso knows quite well why she left and isn’t coming back. Tom and Becky have the opportunity to discuss their jealousy and resolve to be more open and honest about their feelings for each other. Admiral Fabuloso calls again, this time threatening to drop them into deep space if Ix keeps refusing. In agreement with the rest of the crew, Ix tries to call Fabuloso’s bluff, with the result that the yacht is forced out of hyperspace. The crew is left to ponder the vastness of space, and hope that Xho may be able to find a way to get them out their new situation.

Xho recovers from his coma. He gets briefed by Ix on the rescue and their new predicament, and in turn recounts that the smugglers had found a new profitable operation by smuggling to a system that forbids cosmetics and fashion some trillions and hairnets they had found next to the derelict of a cargo ship (it is implied that these are the remains of the «Chugger»). Ix runs a medical examination on him, aiming to get a physical reaction with her body, but ultimately decides to not push things any further, afraid that he might refuse her. Despite her feelings for her twin brother, Ix asks Zan to seduce Xho, seeking comfort in Tom instead.

Zan seduces Xho, and discovers that his twin sister has been watching from the CCTV system. Ix confesses to be desperately in love with her brother, but too afraid to talk to him about it, because of the fear that in his perfection he would refuse her.

Engineering student Hayley is amazed to have the opportunity to go over a docked wraith. The wraith’s owner (Luce) finds her attractive, and tries to hook up with her, and offers her to join the crew as a mechanic. Hayley accepts after discovering that the other member of the crew is an android (Victor). Meanwhile, Tom and his crew are enjoying their time out of hyperspace after having discovered that they can contact any nearby station to ask to be picked up whenever they want. Xho has moved the X-Wing into the Tacspace for some unknown reason. While Ix thinks up new ways to get closer to her twin brother, Tom and Becky reflect on how lucky they are in knowing they satisfy their love and attraction for each other. They receive an email from Admiral Fabuloso, informing them that he knows where they are and has sent bounty hunters after them.

The model for Hayley is credited as being a copy from the model of the character Polly from Epoch's Dark Rift comic.

Left alone with Victor on the wraith, Hayley takes the opportunity to unlock some of the android features and capabilities, making him able to respond emotionally and physically to stimuli. When Luce comes back, Hayley tries to hide Victor’s new sexual response capability to avoid getting in trouble. Her boss pretends the efforts were successful, and then looks over bounties, finding the one targeting Ix and discovering that Tom is among Ix' associates, and decides to move in to save them. During the night Victor attempts intercourse with Hayley, but his operating system crashes due to sensory overload.

Xho fantasies in the shower keep redirecting to Ix. Interrupted by Becky, he tries to deny any attraction towards his twin, but Tom’s sister remains unconvinced, and lets slip that Ix may be attracted to him. Out of the shower, Xho tries still to drive away his sexual thoughts about Ix, but reflecting on Becky’s words he realizes that Ix wanting to «treat him like the rest of the crew» does not exclude that kind of physical contact.

Tom manages to run Tomb Raider 1 on the ship’s computer after disabling the shields that were interfering with the emulator. Ix finds Xho in Tacspace, working on the X-Wing, and takes the opportunity to try and seduce him, while he explains that they me able to use the X-Wing’s hyperspace engine by using the Tacspace computing power to drive it. Stone particles in their path perforate the ship, causing Tacspace to lock down to avoid decompression.

Xho and Ix find refuge in a maintenance hatch below Tacspace, and the tight spaces they have to crawl in to get to the environmental controls give them an opportunity to feel each other’s body. On the wraith, Luce asks Hayley to demonstrate the new capabilities of Victor while they travel to reach Tom’s crew. As Ix and Xho crawl out of the maintenance hatch into an autorepaired Tacspace, bounty hunters start popping out of hyperspace all around the yacht. The wraith also reaches the rendezvous point, and Luce enters slowtime to fight against the other bounty hunters.

The wraith makes short work of the bounty hunters, while yacht crew wonders why they are not getting attacked. When the battle is over, the yacht get boarded by the wraith pilot, who proposes to take Ix and Xho from the crew and share the bounty with the rest. When Tom and Zan refuse, Lucy reveals herself and is introduced to Ix and Xho. She spots the Bellerophon tattoo on Xho’s shoulder and reveals her own tattoo of Pegasus, Bellerophon’s horse. When Xho reveals that the new X-Wing/Tacspace hyperspace system is ready to jump at any time, Zan proposes to use it to send artificial meteorites with a message asking for the removal of Admiral Fabuloso, before using it to actually jump with the ship, As the wraith crew joins the yacht crew, Hayley is offered a tour of the ship by Tom, coming across Becky getting familiar with Victor, Xho with Lucy, and Ix with Zan. Lucy takes his time with Xho to encourage him to pursue his interest in Ix, and Zan reveals to that twins that they are “made for each other”. While the twins meet in the canteen, we see that the message sent to their home system is starting to have some effect.

Becky scolds Tom for hiding from Hayley their incestuous relationship, denouncing his silence as a form of control, lie by omission aimed at improving his chances to bed the engineer. When she leaves to join the others in bed with Xho, Ix finds Tom and after confirming Becky’s remarks, she provides suggestions on the approach Tom should take. Meanwhile, Xho comes to the realization that his desire for Ix is reciprocated, and goes looking for her, coming across a very confused Victor. Tom goes to find Becky and Hayley to apologize about trying to keep the relationship with his sister a secrete, and Ix and Xho finally open up to each other. The Emperor in person contacts the yacht, to thank her for giving the possibility to oust Fabuloso, and to offer her the possibility to become an independent privateer sanctioned by the imperial house, with the rank of commodore and the possibility to call in help from the fleet if needed. While Ix and Xho celebrate by finally satisfying their reciprocal desire, discovering that the dots on their faces light up when they are joined, Tom discovers that he has “lost” 3 years, and it’s now 2366 rather than 2363 as he would expect. Former Admiral Fabuloso and his trusted crew prepare a plan to bait Ix and exact revenge, stealing a freighter that will act as decoy.

Act I: Ix finds the courage to inform the rest of the crew that the reason why she went AWOL was because Fabuloso tried to rape her, and that even Xho’s failed mission was part of the former Admiral’s plan to try and control her.

Act II: the crew plans their attack on Fabuloso’s ship «Excalibur», and discover that the freighter captured by Fabuloso is the «Chugger», Tom’s old ship, as well as the presence of entire families on «Excalibur», to act as human shields. Ix pretends to accept to be beamed over to the «Excalibur» to discuss Ix' surrender, but Victor beams over instead, acting as a remote sensor that Lucy can use for precision targeting. The wraith’s kinetic gun manage to perforate the «Excalibur» command bridge, causing decompression. Ix hits Fabuloso in the knee, and asks Becky to beam his loyalists to the «Excalibur» brig, as she informs the rest of the ship’s crew about Fabuloso' renegade state. When things are over, Ix explains to her crewmates that she ultimately decided against killing Fabuloso to be truly free of him. She also demotes Tom to Major to punish him for disabling the shields to play Tomb Raider.

Act III: having gotten rid of the Fabuloso threat, the crew faces the existence of the «Chugger», that should have been destroyed years before, and the issue of Tom’s “missing years”. With Xho’s knowledge of physics, they determine that Tom is stuck in a time loop, and that he now has to get on the «Chugger» and bring it back to 2361 to close it, since not doing so would lead to the death of all the crewmembers that got saved by meeting him, and the X-Wing hyperdrive would fall into the wrong (Spymaster’s) hands, leading to a galactic war. Becky is desperate at the news, since it means losing her brother in their current timeline. Xho remarks that Tom’s lost memories must be the result of the on-ramp to the time loop, and that it’s theoretically possible that there could be an off-ramp as well, a paradox that would allow Tom to persist in the current timeline without breaking the main time loop As they find their way back to the wormhole where it all started, Luce reflects on Ix' mercy. The twins start looking for ways to let the rest of the crew know about their relationship, starting with Becky so as to let her know that she’ll be able to join them after Tom will be gone. As Tom prepares to move aboard the «Chugger», Xho encourages him to rest assured that they will find the off-ramp to the loop: there must be greater forces at play, to explain all the coincidences that have led to their current situation. For the time being, he must be prepared to lose his memories, that will probably just feel like a dream to him, a dream about blue aliens with large breast, tiny sex bombs who like rum, and a fitter, sexier sister. Tom leaves, with a book about Loop Quantum Gravity as a present from Xho, and the last opportunity to tell his sister he loves her, on the verge of breaking down from the fear. After the hyperspace jump that will bring him back in time, Tom finds himself in an empty white space, discussing with God in the form of the Emperor about guilt, value, love, freedom, choice, and the possibility to find an exit ramp.

(The reader is now given the option between going back to the first chapter or see what happens if Tom manages to reconfigure the hyperdrive before the final jump.)

A new anomaly manifests at the edge of the galaxy. Coordinating with the rest of the Federation to decide what to do about it, the Emperor mentions that he might have a team available to reach the singularity and collect data on it, if the Federation is willing to give coverage to the vessel too.

Epilogue: Ix' ship reaches the anomaly, confirming that it’s the «Chugger». Tom rejoins the crew, and they leave the freighter behind, after deciding to set it up like a ghost ship. After another vision of God in Emperor form, Tom proposes to name the yacht «Freedom».

Charlotte (Charlie) Eleison and Jack Eleison live together in the house of Charlie’s mom Karen, in apartment 512 of Rue Éveiller on Ethealdor’s capital, after the death of Jack’s parents. Charlie’s mother frequently leaves them alone due to her work at the embassy. After returning from a shopping trip and finding Jack still lying on the floor in the same position she left him, Charlie manages to get him to confess that he has been recently broken up with his violent girlfriend Aggie, whom he still loves. She decides to entertain him with a showcase of the clothes she has bought, that includes some sexy dresses to which Jacks tries not respond with too much enthusiasm, and most importantly a Chamaleonware suit, an active camouflage suit that, if working would have cost a fortune, and must have been found at a charity shop because it was malfunctioning. The cousins manage to get it to charge to a point where some of its basic functions (color and transparency) get working again, until they discover the material can even become transparent, embarrassing Charlie who runs away from the room. The two reconcile and Jack confesses to admiring his cousin to the point of finding her to be the ideal girl, before walking away in embarrassment. Later, Charlie tries to bring him some hot chocolate, but finds him masturbating and cannot resist the temptation to spy on him until her mother comes home, resulting in her nearly getting caught red-handed. Distracted by the event, the two fail to greet Charlie’s mother with sufficient enthusiasm, resulting in a rant about their ingratitude from Karen.

Charlie mocks Jack to let him know she knows he was masturbating, and Jack points out that she did more than just catch him masturbating, since the hot chocolate had the time to get cold. She finally admits it, and then asks him to forget, but also mentions that she wrenched her back when running off. He offers to give her a massage, during which she starts to undress, until her mother comes back. Karen reproaches them for being too close, and lets slip that she is trying to take over the system. Jack discovers that his cousin cuts herself. Meanwhile, on Ethealdor’s moon-moon goons are collecting crates with stasis pods in them, preparing an army of mostly Aemarians (planet natives) pawns to be brainwashed into fighting for them. As one of the goons starts manifesting perplexities, and gets eliminated as a traitor by the other. Back on Ethealdor, Charlie and Jack watch the news that mentions the recent cases of people disappearing, and the girl finally finds the courage to tell her cousin about the reason for her self-harm. She was developing a non-platonic relationship with her friend Skylar, but as Skylar wanted more from it than she was willing to give, Charlie decided to break it off, and resorted to self-harm to find relief from the guilt of doing it. He consoles her, and they end up kissing. When she offers him the possibility to touch her breasts, which he accepts until he feels the need to runs off and they masturbate in separate rooms.

Skylar Tumnus comes to visit after Charlie gets in touch with her to clarify things. Meanwhile, on the moon-moon Charlie’s mom is preparing for the second phase of her plan, that involves kidnapping a ‘mark’ and letting her ‘find’ a subspace communicator to get in touch with her cousin the commodore, that will then run to them with her wraith fleet and, most importantly, the ship Karen wants to put her hands on. Charlie finds Skylar has developed, which the Aemarian ascribes to a family thing, since her cousin the commodore is equally well-equipped. After meeting with Jack and teasing him with Skylar’s breasts, the girls retreat for some private time. They come back to Jack, and Skylar thanks him for his kindness towards Charlie, before coopting him in a game of truth-or-dare. With naive innocence, Skylar tries to make Charlie confess about her desire towards Jack, but she deflects and turns the game into a game of dares that quickly degenerates. Just as Charlie is manifesting the first signs of jealousy towards Skylar with Jack, the Aemarian’s communicator calls for attention and Skylar leaves for her internship at the Imperial palace, with plans to meet again for a sleep-over. Charlie grabs the opportunity to finish the last dare, while outside Karen’s goons capture Skylar.

As the incestuous relationship between Charlie and Jack progresses, Charlie receives a message from her mom that she is coming home. Karen reveals that Charlie is actually Jack’s older half-sister, daughter of Karen’s own sister and her at-the-time boyfriend: Karen had taken Charlie in as her own to save them (Charlie and her biological mother) from their strict, religious parents who would have not hesitated to kill them to save their honor. When Jack’s parent moved to Ethealdor, they tried to get their daughter back, but Karen refused to give it back to them, feeling entitled to her parenthood given the effort she had put in. After the bombshell revelation, Karen leaves, leaving the apartment to them and letting them known that they are welcome to join her if they so desire. Charlie and Jack drink themselves into stupor. On the moon-moon, Karen gets informed that Skylar has successfully contacted the commodore, but her call could not be traced, making it impossible to know how long it would take for the fleet to get to them. Hoping to still be able to use the Aemenian as a bargaining chip, Karen gets Skylar put in stasis, with her pod on display in her room. Coming back to her senses after the alcohol night, Charlie wonders how the discovery of their brotherhood will affect their relationship, but Jack makes it manifest that his feelings for her have not changed, so she decides to push things further.

As Charlie and Jack develop their relationship, Karen on the moon-moon fights with the exasperating wait for Commodore Ix, frustrated even by small things like the serene look on Skylar’s face, and still hopes that Charlie will start seeing the opportunity to join her so that they can rule the galaxy together. On Ethealdor, Charlie and Jack’s den by the window is spied on by Sam Javelin, Minister for Alien Affairs, and his lover Laryn Xogood. Charlie teaches Jack about her body, and reveals that she has taken a pill to avoid getting pregnant. They start planning on their return to school for the imminent end of the summer.

Between a romp and the other, Charlie starts getting worried about being unable to contact Skylar, and discover other signs of abuse from Karen, such as the ignored letters from the orthodontist about the opportunity to remove Charlie’s braces. While playing around with Jack, they effectively have their first time, although they try to dismiss it on technicalities. On the moon-moon, Karen keeps berating her goons, frustrated by the wait. One of them (Geoff) finds comfort and support from another (Mike), despite the risk that any familiarity (even just exchanging names) has for them. Minister Sam Javelin and his lovers watch over the incestuous sibling, always missing the most salacious moments and thinking that their sexual tension remains unresolved: indeed shortly after he, Laryn Xogood and Clive leave for a night out, Charlie and Jack enjoy each other’s bodies while she recites some erotic scenes from a thriller book she is reading, but even though she playfully encourages him to try going further again, he shies away.

Although not an explicitly declared soundtrack, Mike is “introduced” here singing his “theme song”:

Act I: Charlie is torn between her desire to have sex with her brother, and the reticence he shows despite the passion he manifests. She’s also worried about not being able to get in touch with Skylar, but Jack dismisses her worries suggesting that she’s probably involved in some high-level project as part of her training with the praetorians at the Imperial Palace. On the moon-moon, two goons are getting too familiar with each other and get reported to disciplinary to be separated. Charlie and Jack go shopping to get new clothes, but the girl suddenly decides to run home. Jack finds her in her room, ready to cut herself as self-inflicted punishment for leading her brother astray. He stops her, and helps her confess that she is worried about becoming like her adoptive mother, dragging her brother down with him. Jack console his sister, telling her about their biological parents, the desperation their mother had fallen into for not being able to retrieve her own daughter and how this led to their parents death, and about how their father despised the hypocrisy of the religious integralists that were ultimately responsible for destroying his wife. Comforted by his brother’s words, Charlie decides that she needs to have a talk with Karen

Act II: Jack reassures Charlie that he is not being led astray, but is willingly following her sister’s lead out of his own interest in her, even though he prefers to take things in his own stride to avoid doing somethings they both might later regret. He proceeds to show this to his sister when she accepts to be bound to the bed, and he teases and pleases her with only his mouth and fingers. After they again have their pretend-not-intercourse, they agree, for the last night before school, to wake each other up if they ever need the other’s company.

Act III: Charlie and Jack don’t get any sleep that night. On the moon-moon, Skylar uses her training with the praetorian guards to subconsciously recover from stasis and free herself, while a bored goon suddenly discovers that one of the pods has a human from Earth, put in stasis in 2020, and is surprised by the discovery. On the first school morning, when Charlie comes to me proposing a game of pretend-not-intercourse, Jack refuses, and finally finds the strength to tell Charlie that he wants to stop with the pretense, the games, the accidents: he wants to make love with her properly, if she so wishes, or not at all.

Act I: Charlie and Jack run to school, while on the moon-moon Skylar takes consciences of her situation and uses her praetorian training to unlock the stasis pod from the inside, with her true power starting to manifest through her anger for the mistreatment received during her capture. At school, Jack is completely unable to concentrate, lost in his memory and desire. On the moon-moon, Skylar starts to calm down after knocking down the guards at the armory. Jack and Charlie tease each other when they meet at school

Act II: On the moon-moon, Robert “Bob” Bridger is woken from stasis by two goons who want to get information about how he could end up in a pod when Earth didn’t have the technology. Before being fully woken up, Bob has a vision of God, who provokes him into a fight through which the man unexpectedly manages to overcome the goons that were waiting for him. He steals one of the guns, but finding he is not able to use it due to biometric locks, he throws it away, managing to knock out one of his pursuers. At school, Charlie is desperately looking for Jack, who got detention. On the moon-moon, Mike finds the knocked out guards, alerts medical that it’s going to be a long day and advises one of his friends (1302) to get good protection against incoming Karen’s violent outbursts. Robert barely avoids being seen by Mike, but he comes across Skylar as she is stepping out of the armory with a load of guns. They decide to join efforts to escape, but Skylar gets distracted and they end up in the Jacuzzi room, where she has the opportunity to demonstrate her both her friendly naivety and her capabilities helping Bob to face the trauma of the battle he barely escaped and of the friends he has possibly lost. Meanwhile, Karen has found out about the missing Skylar and commands a search, taking out her frustration on 1302.

Act III: Charlie rebukes the attention of one of her schoolmates before running home with Jack. The living room furniture suffers severe damage from the siblings' passion. In Sam Javelin’s apartment, Clive finally observes the moment, but Laryn Xogood distracts him and Sam, finding it improper to spy on the siblings now that they’ve connected.

Act IV: Charlie and Jack playfully decide to set up the den by the window again. On the moon-moon, Skylar’s fun with Bob in the Jacuzzi starts affecting the station, with the lights flickering on and off. Karen’s goons believe they may have found Skylar’s hiding place in the armory, that is locked from the inside. The siblings enjoy each other in their den, while Bob and Skylar in the Jacuzzi room inventory the weapons she recovered from the armory, and the Aemarian helps Robert understand that what he thought was his story was really Steph’s. Bob keeps getting confused between Skylar’s lucidity and the innocence and naivety of her approach to life. As night falls, Charlie and Jack admire each other bodies, before deciding that on the day after they will skip school and seek Karen to see what she’s up to.

Act I: Charlie and Jack wake each other up in the early morning. On the moon-moon, Karen’s acts grow more and more uncontrollable. Mike steps in, confronting her about her attitude. He tries to kill him, realizing her gun is empty and the guards will not come to her aid. Mike threatens Karen that if he tries to kill anybody else she’ll face consequences, and slips away, only to join her own security detail. The goons responsible for the CCTV system recognize Mike and pretend that the feeds have been sabotaged, before actually wiping them out. Mikes continues proselytizing. In their bathroom, Charlie and Jack further experiment with their bodies. Still unable to contact Skylar, and with nobody else they know having any information on her, they finally take action, deciding to find Karen and see if she is connected with the disappearances that were being reported on the news, and to which Skylar might have fallen victim, too. They get to the corvette, only to find that the navigation logs have been wiped, but they still manage to find a copy of it in the microwave’s computer. They discover that Karen has been going to the moon-moon more often than to the embassy where she was supposed to work. At Sam Javelin’s place, Laryn Xogood presents her associate Joanna, former sniper, to Sam and Clive. Spying on the siblings through the binocular, she discovers Charlie wearing the camo suit she had thrown away, and decide to try and intercept the siblings before the suit gets fully re-enabled, as it may become dangerous for the them. On the moon-moon, a lonely goon decides to thaw a stasis pod with a woman with large breasts in it.

Act II: En route to the moon-moon, Charlie cannot keep her hands off Jack. On the moon-moon, Mike keeps meeting Karen, and trying to make her understand the error she’s making. His detachment affects Karen in ways she didn’t expect. Bob gets out of the Jacuzzi, weakened by cold and hunger. Skylar makes another show of her capabilities teleporting pieces of toast from the kitchen to her hand. Charlie and Jack land on the moon-moon and get into the base, passing by the pods and the war tanks. Karen gets them captured and brought to her, revealing her plan. She had been working with Admiral Fabuloso to prepare a coup against the Emperor, collecting stasis pods abandoned for centuries, using their biometric data to gain access to their bank accounts, and preparing to use them as fodder after wiping their mind. Karen confesses to having kidnapped Skylar to use her as bait and attract to the moon-moon her cousin Commodore Ix, who has a ship with a special hyperdrive technology that she wants to gain control of. When Charlie refuses to join her, rejecting her idea of “love” as a tool of control, Karen guesses about the relationship between Charlie and Jack, and is disgusted by it. She’s sentencing to them when she receives news that the armory has been breeched, but Skylar is not inside. Karen steps out of the room in a burst of anger, leaving the siblings behind, tied to a ladder. Meanwhile, Steph wakes up from stasis and lectures the goon, distracting him to get his gun. Finding it locked, she still manages to use it to knock him out, discovering a set of grenades. Mike reaches out to Karen again. She is tempted to shoot him, and finally points the gun at herself, but he pulls her hand away. Their romance gets interrupted by the arrival of an unidentified spaceship. Steph collects some grenades, calls up random groups of people (delivery trucks, convention goers, animal societies) to the moon-moon, and programs the pod transport droids to start waking random people up from stasis. Finally, she leverages the gun’s vocal commands and accessibility and networking functions to disable all the guns. Bob and Skylar prepare to get out of the Jacuzzi room to attempt their escape. Above the moon-moon, Commodore Ix prepares for an incursion. Jack manages to get his hands free, but avoids revealing it to the captors.

Act I: Charlie and Jack bide their time while waiting for an opportunity or something to happen, pondering if it would have been a better idea to just say home, while the pod transport droids start releasing people (among which Kip and Yun). Commodore Ix drops to the moon-moon and starts making short work of the goons, whose guns have been disabled. Kip and Yun survive encountering with a goon squad thanks to Steph’s intervention. While Karen gives order to kill everyone, Mike recommends laying down their weapons.

Act II: Karen gets informed of the dire situation and the random thawing of people. She orders the stasis pod drones be stopped, while the civilians and delivery trucks start arriving. As Steph, Kip and Yun keep moving through the base, Bob and Skylar make the last preparations to move out. Charlie and Jack refuse to cooperate with Karen again, and when she moves out with all of the guards they discover that Charlie’s Chamaleonware suit is almost fully charged and can be set in combat mode. Skylar overdoses in combat drugs, and she and Bob break through the goon squad waiting for them outside the Jacuzzi room. Mayhem swipes the corridors of the base, as thawed aliens and more goons join Mike’s squad. Karen decides to wipe the minds of the remaining stasis pods' guests, but the goon refuses to follow her orders. Just as she shoots him, Mike appears and tries to talk her into surrendering. She aims for goon 308 that tries to intervene, but Mike throws himself in front of the gun. Karen runs away, flabbergasted, as Steph arrives and recognizes his father. Relived by the opportunity to actually say goodbye to him in person, Steph talks the remaining goons down from any revenge plans, and they move out to do damage reduction. In the hangar, Karen hides in a spaceship and locks out all of the systems of the base, transferring all controls only to the tablet in her hand. Skylar feels her presence, and Ix cuts the tank door open. Karen tries to threaten to kill all the people in stasis if anybody moves, but Joanna snipes the tablet with a FarSight XR-20 from Sam Javelin’s cruiser. Karen still tries to bring Charlie to her side, but the girl has enough and knocks her down with Jack’s helmet.

Act III: Skylar faints, and Ix encourages Charlie and Jack to get her (and themselves) out of the way before the official military gets called in, complimenting them for having the courage to take action, and asking them to look after her cousin. The people thawed from stasis organize an orgy in the Jacuzzi room. Bob and Steph meet again and decide to go over the stasis pods to see if they can find the rest of their old crew. Charlie and Jack fly back home with Skylar in their arms, and plan to let her leave with them, even if it will mean being careful to avoid her discovering about their relationship.

Epilogue: Mike meets God, in a time-frozen moment of convergence (when he had met with 308, and Laryn Xogood with Sam Javelin), to re-evaluate his life choices.

Act I: After tucking Skylar in Jack’s bed, Charlie comes down to his brother setting up to sleep in the living room sofa, and teases him showing she’s wearing stockings and suspenders under her pajamas. They go back upstairs to have sex, trying to not wake Skylar, but she gets up to pee, ending up still half-asleep in Charlies room. Charlie redirects Skylar to the bathroom, hiding Jack under the quilt. Skylar makes a mess in the bathroom, and then falls asleep on Jack’s room door. Meanwhile, on the moon-moon, Ix finds out about Mike’s death.

Act II: Jack interrupts Charlie’s masturbation in the bathtub. They talk about what Skylar presence might mean for their relationship, and about her possible involvement. Jack offers to shampoo Charlie’s hair, and during the act she takes the opportunity to give him oral sex, accepting to take him anally when he reaches his orgasm.

Act III: As Jack lies asleep on his sister’s bed, Charlie masturbates Skylar to orgasm, but when it comes to asking her friend to reciprocate with some oral sex, she chickens out and proposes to move downstairs instead. Sam Javelin and Skylar’s trainer find their apartment to drop off some of Skylar’s stuff and to ask her if she’s interested in resuming her studies. After she accepts, and Sam inquires on Charlie’s and Jack’s relationship, Skylar’s trainer asks her if she could please put the planet back in its orbit, since it seems to have moved a little a bit, and this seems to be causing all sorts of natural disasters. She then gives Skylar a “santaphone”, with which the young Aemarian may ask for anything she needs. As soon as they are outside of the door, Sam and the trainer take the necessary precautions to protect Skylar and keep the information about her capabilities secret. Charlie and Jack, still amazed by Skylar’s power, finally muster the courage to ask her to stay with them, and she accepts enthusiastically, especially at the idea of having the possibility to fool around with them. After giving oral sex to Charlie, Skylar proposes they all go to sleep on Charlie’s bed, with her in the middle to not make things strange for them, since they are siblings, but as they start to climb the stairs, the food they ordered on the santaphone arrives.

Skylar takes a dump in the basin, and then teleports it to the previous week. This is where Charlie and Jack found it in Chapter 4 (The Sister Secret) after getting wasted. (The author remarks that this is a retcon, it wasn’t planned at the time Chapter 4 was written.)

Act I: Jack gets to Charlie’s room only to find her and Skylar in a 69 position. As they play around, the Aemarian introduces her friends to a collection of dolls she keeps in her ber, William Bartock the cowboy, and Rumina, an incredibly realistic sextech doll. They use Rumina to masturbate Jack before letting him have sex with Skylar. Meanwhile, at the Emperor’s palace a distressed valet warns of an impending invasion as the tanks from the moon-moon arrive to ask permission to bury Mike somewhere on the planet. The Emperor gives them permission to use the special Garden of Remembrance on the palace grounds, and as they all move in he greets Robert and Stephanie, to reassure them on the destiny of the rest of the crew. On Charlie’s bed, Skylar is having another exhausting orgasm, and Jack takes the opportunity to have sex with his sister, while the Aemanian decides to organize a match of Boggle. Jack nearly lets it slip that he and Charlie have been having sex.

Act II: Jack, Skylar and Charlie are listening to the news to hear about the moon-moon, that is shortly presented after the “injured-minded children” segment on persisting figures the like of Andrew Tate, Elon Musk and Piers Morgan being sent to community jail to receive treatment. Both Charlie and Jack express their gratitude for having managed to get out of there before the police had arrived, as it had spared them vain validation of fame. Jack leaves the other two to go relive himself with Rumina, and Skylar takes the opportunity to give her a chance to talk about her mental health. Hearing about her continuing self-deprecation, Skylar recommends to Charlie that she should go talk with the Emperor, even if the human finds the idea completely ridiculous. Skylar insists that she can take her by opening a portal, which she demonstrates by teleporting to Sam Javelin’s apartment and stealing the binoculars with which he was keeping an eye on them. In the gardens, the Emperor is having some parting words about grief with Robert and Stephanie, before leaving them to meet Charlie and talk to her about love and value, leading her to understand the he is actually God. With her moment of clarity, she gets teleported back to her apartment just as Mike appears, to be sent on a mission by the Emperor involving “a federation pilot and her husband”. As she pops back into the apartment, the last segment of the news is announcing that Micronesian polyp-elves have been pretending to be sextech dolls for nefarious purposes. Charlie and Skylar run upstairs to warn Jack, who is close to reaching orgasm using Rumina to masturbate. Discovered the pretend doll runs away, just as Jack starts ejaculating everywhere. Rumina tries to make a run for the door on her toy car, but she gets arrested by the guards stationed outside the apartment.

Act III: Skylar and Jack are making love on the bed, and he reveals his love for the sister. She overhears from the door and gets into the room and joins them in a 69 with Skylar still penetrated by Jack. As they all reach their orgasm, the Aemarian eyes and face dots start sparkling, and remain glowing even afterwards, indicating that the three of them are now bonded for life. Later that night, Jack and Skylar wake up to find a contemplative Charlie looking out the window. She shares with them her realization that Karen had been treating her like a doll, but in contrast to Rumina, who wanted to be used and wanted to be a doll, she had to undergo the experience without knowledge or consent. Realizing she is still feeling stuck, Charlie asks Skylar to teleport her to the palace gardens, where she meets the Emperor, who gives her the opportunity to vent as if she was talking to Karen. In her outburst, Charlie realizes that, to avoid falling in her adoptive mother’s mistakes, she has to start by accepting that she needs to change too if she wants things to change. She finally takes the opportunity to take as stroll through the garden, wading through a bamboo forest to a majestic tree standing on a rocky hill.

The sound Jack’s penis does popping out of Skylar’s vagina is rendered as shloerrr, which the author attests being the origin of the name of the UK famous pop drink.

Jack wakes up finding Charlie sleeping next to him. He wakes her up, and she tells him briefly about the previous night, before getting distracted by the absurd position Skylar is sleeping in, next to them. As Skylar wakes up too, juices drooling from her vagina to her mouth, Jack plays around with her using his fingers and mouth, until Charlie invites them to have sex. As Jack penetrates Skylar with Charlies encouragement, they all realize that his penis has grown bigger, to the point of making it possible for him to penetrate her cervix, much to her satisfaction and despite Charlie distracting them some by mocking a questioning at school about the way she spent the last few days, watching them having sex and saving the world.

Meanwhile, we’re shown a nondescript courtroom where Karen’s trial is ongoing. She feels compressed and attacked by the collapsing comic panel, until the judge comes in, that turns out to be the Emperor in person. The trial is quick, and the Emperor declares her punishment to be death by electrocution, with the sentence to be carried out the next day at dawn.

Later, we find Jack and Skylar in the bath, with the Aemarian playing with the boy’s penis, while Charlie fixes up her make-up, asking Skylar why she didn’t just stop the Elf that was running around their house, given she could easily do with her powers. The Aemarian reveals that it wouldn’t have been fun, which reminds Charlie that Jack had expressed a desire to have anal sex with her. Skylar initially interprets this as meaning he would like to be penetrated by her, which she can’t do as she’s missing a penis, so Charlie explains that he would mean it the other way around, and the Aemarian gladly complies, sitting on Jack’s erection and slowly impaling herself while revealing that the anus can dilate larger than the size of a raccoon. As Charlie finishes putting up her make-up, Jack remember that it’s her birthday, something that had slipped even her mind in the confusion of the last few weeks. Jack and Skylar sing her “Happy Birthday”, and Skylar uses the special phone she has been given to ask for champagne and cake to celebrate, while Charlie asks her to be popped back to the Emperor’s gardens.

Charlie manifests to the Emperor/God her feeling of darkness, rooted by her attraction for her brother, and he helps her see how she’s projecting Karen’s accusations, and that she should consider giving it some thought instead, and try to look for help outside, if she thinks she has a need for it.

Later, as Skylar is playing a videogame in the living room, Charlie and Jack are under the cover, fooling around while pretending not to, until the Aemarian decides to drop the game and shows interest in seeing them having sex without going behind her back, revealing that —being connected to the whole universe as she is— she has always known whenever they had been doing it. They finally drop any pretense and they start humping more openly, but Charlie has to ask Jack to slow down because he’s being too aggressive. As he comes inside her, Jack reveals how glad she is to be able to do this in front of Skylar without feeling judged.

As they get some rest, the matter of Jack’s aggressiveness emerges again, and slowly he opens up to reveal how hard it has been to hold it up, while feeling a sense of rage growing inside of him for everything that happened, starting from his parents' death. He asks Skylar if she could go back in time to save them, and she reveals that she couldn’t, because that would have meant that he wouldn’t have been there with Charlie to thwart Karen’s plan, which would have led to her brainwashing the thousand of people in stasis, and his mother would have still not have been able to see Charlie, and would have slipped into destroying her life by drinking. As they hug in comfort of each other, Jack wonders how it feels to be portalled, and before he can even asks, Skylar teleports him into the Emperor’s garden.

In the gardens, Jack discovers that the disgraced former Admiral Fabuloso, who should have been in prison, works here as a gardener, enlightened by his meeting with the Emperor while the target of attempted suicides and assassinations in prison. He keeps working on the plants with dedication, as a way to atone for his past mistakes, and is glad to be able to this even if it won’t be enough. Jack is distraught by the meeting, and runs away, until he find himself in front of the Emperor/God, and Jack goes into a raging rant about how Fabuloso has been given grace despite being responsible for the scheme with Karen to try to topple the Emperor, a scheme without which his parents might have been saved, and now he isn’t even in prison. In his frustration, Jack turns around and drops on his knees, asking for help, and the Emperor lays a hand of encouragement on his shoulder.

While confessing to her crime (p. 39), Karen shouts «I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those MEDDLIN' KIDS!» that is even acknowledged in-comic by the Emperor/Judge for being a classic Scooby-Doo villain quote.

1997: 14-year-old Robert “Bob” Bridger is accosted by Steph under the pretense of fixing a “Java” applet on a laptop in a camper van in the woods. The boy finds the code unfamiliar, but is able to understand that it is not just buggy: it has been intentionally compromised. When he identifies the young woman as an alien, and the code as something about advanced physics and dimensional jumps, far beyond his knowledge, he gets thrown out of the van, that takes off to space hitting relativistic speeds.

Over twenty years later, Bob is still trying to come to terms with the memories of this unbelievable (or, as his psychiatrist says, “delusional”) encounter. In the mists of London, he spots the unforgettable van and runs to it as his dreams of abduction come true.

Bob gladly joins the van crew (Steph and her sister Jen, Suki), for which only a few days have passed since the encounter, in exchange for the promise of fixing their hyperdrive. Bob finds out that Steph and Jen are in an incestuous relationship, but is more aggrieved by the discovery that Eep, the “pet” kept by the trio is a person, disagreeing with the others assessment about her species, the Arkorians, being pre-sentient. Bob obtains that Eep’s shackles be removed, provided he takes responsibility for her, and leads by example in treating her as he would anyone else. Captain Suki is the first to warmp up to his ideas.

Steph dreams about being a fairy, confronted with a big, dangerous Bob who decides to reduce himself to her size, to be on equal terms with her. Her sister Jen comes in and swats them as disgusting insects, causing the dream to end.

As Steph reflects on the meaning of her dream, Bob confirms that Eep is not only sentient and perfectly capable to understand and speak English, but also the one responsible for the busted hyperdrive. Eep tells him that the reason why she did it was to strand the ship and avoid being sold to some worse owners, but that it may now be time to fix it. He promises to keep this discovery from the rest of the crew until the hyperspace communications are restored.

While Jen is showing him around the RV, Bob mistakenly increases the strength of the gravity plane, precipitating a crisis in which the crew is unable to move and Eep faints. After Suki and Steph manage to restore the gravity settings, Steph revives Eep who almost lets it slip that she can speak. After the blunder, Bob gets to work on fixing the hyperdrive. While they wait for the ansible communication system to catch up with 20 years of news, Bob gets closer to Steph, that has unresolved issues with her father.

Prologue: A flashback to 1995, when Steph was teaming with her father as reclamation miners (“junkers”). She tells the story of her growing interest in her father as a man, and her goofy attempts at seduction, with their relationship precipitating after an incident with a meteorite puncturing the ship and the father nearly dying in a foolishly hasty, but successful attempt at closing the hole.

Back to the present: Bob learns part of the story from Steph, and guesses that there might have been more to it, even though Steph denies it. She explains that the reason why they had gone to Earth was to look for her father, who had a passion for Earthican books, after he had left her with her mother and sister (Jen), telling her that she would understand when she was older. Jen and Suki overhear the conversation, which surprises even Steph' sister. Steph and Bob have a deeper conversation on the topics of abuse, control, ownership, fear and love, at the end of which Steph agrees to remove Eep’s collar, and the Arkorian reveals to her too that she can speak. Despite Eep’s forgiveness, Steph is pained by her realization of the abuse she has put her through, and she feels Bob’s words as reproach directed at her which, combined with her father abandonment, make her ponder suicide. Bob manages to pull her from the edge by exposing his own fragility. Suki thanks Bob for his help, revealing that Steph had already been showing symptoms of depression for some time. Discovering that Bob is in his late thirties, Steph confesses to having a “daddy complex”, which they have the opportunity to play out, before having a conversation on slavery, conquest, racism, liberty, historic recurrences, weakness and strength.

Similarly to Lithium Chapter 6, no explicitly declared sountrack, but Mike sings his “theme song”, «Cars» by Gary Numan, in multiple scenes.

The ansible catches up with the 20 years of missed galactic news and the crew learns that the Arkorians have started to revolt, and that their Eep is actually the Arkorian princess Eeplinu Uvavu. They record a message from Eep to the entire galaxy asking the Arkorians to stand down from violence and for all actions against the Arkorians to be terminated too. She concludes the message proposing a meeting among representatives of all species to begin talks towards the formation of a united federation of peoples and planets. Eep then reveals that the she was finally convinced that the United Federation, a dream long sought by the Arkorians, could be a real possibility after meeting Bob.

Epilogue: A new flashback to 1995, to Steph and his father Mike, this time from the father’s perspective. Mike recounts his losing fight against the temptation posed by his growing daughter and her goofy attempt at seduction. The critical event of the punctured ship turns their relationship around, leading to them abandoning any pretense, until Mike finds the strength to put an end to it to avoid further ruining his daughter’s life. Consumed by guilt and unable to give a proper explanation to his daughter, he decides to drop her off at her mother’s. Unable even to determine if he’s doing this to save her life or to try and resolve his own sense of guilt, Mike falls in a spiral of destructive depression. When he comes into sight of a spatio-temporal anomaly, he decides to throw his ship at it, re-emerging over 300 years later. He finds his way to the Kalixa system, where he starts working as security for a group of smugglers until his meeting with Ix, that leads to him deciding to rethink his life. He moves to planet Ethealdor, where he joins the security detail of a new mob on the moon-moon of the planet, this time consciously aware of the situation he is getting in. He actively works to sabotage the hierarchy, fighting the dehumanizing, masked anonymity use to keep the grunts under control. When he discovers a stasis pod that was being kept on display is now empty, he does not raise the alarm, and instead wipes all traces of the escape.

As the camper van crew approaches the rendezvous point where ships from tens of civilization are meeting after Eeep’s message, Bob and Steph discuss the opportunity of a more exclusive relationship. With warships in sights at the rendezvous point, it becomes apparent that war may breaking out and they might not make it out alive since the RV is not properly equipped. Captain Suki informs Bob that in the worst scenario he should find refuge in the shower, that doubles as an escape pod. As Eep prepares to meet the other delegate, Steph finds the courage to declare her feelings for her, and the Arkorian reassures that it is the love of the crew that is giving her the strength to attempt this encounter. The talks suffer continuous interruptions as some leaders refuse to concede the possibility of equality between species. Despite that, several delegates, including some that were under extortion from more powerful ones, follow Eep’s example and kneel with her in acceptance of the idea of a united federation. One of the ship (the «Affronter») suddenly attacks the rendezvous bubble. In the ensuing chaos, Eep gets beamed out of the meeting while Suki tries to get to her and bring her back to the RV. The rest of the crew, minus Steph that is trying to pilot the vehicle to safety, scrambles to get in the shower while space marines from different factions fight around them. As the van’s shields get depleted, Steph hails the closest friendly ship to ask for help and tries to move the vehicle so that the pod can be ejected in the blast shadow of the nearby-exploding «Affronter». Bob, Suki and Jen realize that Steph has sacrificed herself to keep them safe. Bob and Jen get beamed out of the shower, in a cascade of jumps until Jen manages to help Bob in an escape pod of the friendly Calamar Technocracy, where he drifts into stasis wondering where the rest of the crew is.

A page from the StarFleet Wiki summarizes the conflict as the Battle of Tannhauser E-5, indicating it as the seed from which the United Federation of planet would be founded 141 years later.

Steph finds herself sitting on a beach on 15th century Earth, where she meets God, who reassures her on the safety of the rest of the crew. They talk about regret, love, shame, innocence, guilt, value. Finally God reveals that she has the opportunity to live still, as the Elench managed to beam her to a medical pod in the nick of time, and she will find herself with a unique opportunity when she wakes up.

During the pandemic, Kal Smit finds himself stranded in London, and becomes a guest of his aunt Anna Smit, 10 years older than him, who lives in an old warehouse that she has converted into a studio apartment. Kal is glad to have a place to stay, since he doesn’t want to go back home, and Anna is glad to have someone around, since she’s been alone for six months, after she broke up from her former boyfriend Patrick. Preparing for bed, they spy on each other through the bathroom privacy glass that has been mounted the wrong way around and the bathroom door that doesn’t close properly, and masturbate thinking of each other.

Anna introduces Kal to her friend Chun in a videocall, and while he showers Kal overhears them talking about him and betting £20 on Anna masturbating him before midnight. He mentions it to her after the shower, and they recollect all the awkward moments they’ve had in the past. Anna convinces him to touch her breasts, and says sexy things in Dutch hoping Kal wouldn’t understands, but he still manages to pick up enough to produce even more awkward moments, especially after the towel wrapping his groins drops to the floor, nearly making Anna lose her bet with Chun. They decide to spend the rest of the morning doing pilates, which Kal finds exhausting. After spending the rest of the day watching TV on separate chairs, they seek out some physical contact, together on the couch, until Anna lets Kal ejaculate between her breasts.

After they both take a shower, Kal finds the courage to tell Anna he loves her, to which which responds in a awkwardly provocative way, as her habit, before managing to express the same sentiment towards him. Kal lets Anna direct him in pleasuring her, and they almost kiss. Unable to get to sleep, Kal joins Anna on the bed, starting to face the fragility and shyness behind her confidence.

Kal brings Anna a cup of tea in bed. Before she can initiate more physical contact, they receive a phone call from Kal’s mother (Carol) Carol is hopeful that Kal will come home soon, manifesting low expectations for Anna as a provider and hinting that any good results of her were due to her ex-boyfriend Patrick. Kal and Anna start to secretly mock his mother with double entendre between Anna’s hospitality and their growing physical relationship. Hurriedly terminating the phone call with Carol, the two start playing more seriously under the pretense of telling bed stories, but still shy away from sharing a kiss. They find the willpower to go back to studying and working, making small talk from time to time, that gets interrupted by the arrival of Patrick, Anna’s ex-boyfriend, who appears distressed and insists on getting back with Anna, bringing a marble bust as gift for “their” (Anna’s) home. As the situation degenerates Kal intervenes and manages to de-escalate, ultimately convincing Patrick to leave under threat of getting the police involved if the harassment continues. When Patrick leaves, Anna is positively flabbergasted by Kal’s handling of the situation. Unable to resist anymore, she initiates a kiss that marks the end of the “fun and play” relationship turning it into something more serious. They decide to celebrate with champagne their becoming an item in the face of societal conventions.

Anna and Kal celebrate by opening a pricey bottle of champagne that she was gifted on birth. They fool around, pouring the content on her body, that becomes a hint for Kal to kiss Anna all over. He manages to give her an intense orgasm through oral sex, only to quickly reach one himself as soon as his erection gets stuck between her breasts. They get started on lunch, and while they’re talking about their dreams of visiting or moving to other countries, and how to build healthy relationships, Anna receives a message from the bank, informing her that Patrick has finally accepted to recover his half of the downpayment for the apartment, thus removing the last dependency she had on him. They celebrate by choosing the pouring of alcoholic drinks as an invitation for oral sex, and Anna happily succeeds in fully swallowing Kal, who comes quickly again. As he decides to retreat to the bathroom to clear his mind, Anna contacts again her friend Chun, to update her on her situation, including the visit from Patrick, the resolution of her dependency from him, and the fact that she has fooled around with Kal, and is thinking about having sex with him. Chun sees nothing wrong with it, if she’s on birth control, but reminds her that due to them being close relatives, they won’t be able to formalize their relationship with marriage.

Kal is still uncertain, and Anna convinces him to talk to Chun to clear up his mind. After some initial embarrassing misunderstandings, Chun repeats to Kal what she had already said to Anna, that even though they can’t get married, they can still and have sex, and that actually loving someone is something that transcends societal conventions —and not to worry about not knowing what to do, because nobody does. Kal is finally convinced, and despite all their perplexities and doubts he and Anna decide to listen to their instincts and finally have sex. Ashamed by how quickly he reaches orgasm, Kal runs to the stairs, but Anna helps him overcome his shame, directing his attention away from the penetrative act to the deeper experience that is making love. She brings him back to bed, where they finally make love with calm but intense passion while Chun masturbates hearing their moans (and bemoaning the lack of a video stream) through the video call still ongoing after Anna dropped her tablet. Later that evening, as they are watching TV, Kal receives a call from his father, who begs forgiveness for not being more in touch, and takes the opportunity to make sure Kal is all right, thus finding out that Anna has spit from Patrick. Unwittingly, Kal lets transpire that he and Anna are together now, and when he tries to deflect, his father hints that he understands the situation and has no problem with it as long as Kal and Anna are happy together and love and support each other. After the phone call, Anna points out that Kal has taken his loving attitude from his father, and the two make love through the rest of the night, with Chun now compensating with her imagination what she can’t follow acoustically anymore since the tablet (and vibrator) batteries have died out.

Chun recants her epic masturbations all night long as she’s been thinking about what Anna and Kal may have been up to, so epic that she has needed an ice pack (substituded by a pack of frozen peas), which turns out to be stimulating. She texts to Anna in desperation asking for an update. Anna and Kal are enjoying a relaxing moment on the carpet by the fire, pondering their past, present and future. On receipt of Chun’s message, Anna replies with a provocation about how much sex she’s getting, leading Chun to start another masturbation session. Kal wonders about the existence of aliens, contemplating Anna’s body as an example of the fantastic richness of the universe. He then wonders about sex, if it’s always great like the one they’ve just had, and Anna remarks that it’s not always like that, that it can be good and bad, and is often used to avoid true intimacy, but how life-changing it is when both sex an intimacy go together, like what they have now. Kal then remarks that what Anna wrote to Chun wasn’t really true, and it might be the case to make it true. Anna welcomes him with open legs, and they a brief but intense rump, as she invites him to squirt all of his seed inside of her. After this, they decide to go to bed. It’s shortly after midnight, and as Anna is brushing her teeth Kal tells her about how exciting it had been for him to see her the first night, before asking her to bend over, removing her knickers, and diving full face in her nether regions, pluging his nose unwantedly in her pussy as he reaches deeper to lick her. Just as she shuffles around to improve his positioning, getting closer to the edge, he pulls out, stands up, and lowers his trousers to penetrate her, bringing her to orgasm. A couple of hours later, she’s giving him fellatio in bed. After a bit of rest, she goes to pee, explaining how it’s a way to minimize the possibility of UTIs, and that drinking cranberry juice helps avoid this. As they finally prepare to get to sleep, she jokes about moving to Japan the next day, but he agrees without missing a beat, as he has his passport with him, even if he’s a bit short on the money. The joke turns serious when Kal mentions that this could be a way to start a new life, somewhere where it’s not known that they are relatives, and satisfy her dreams of having children, and raising a family. Anna feels the sincerity in this proposal, and is left speechless as he ponders, in a silence that Kal respects, driving her to tears. They finally turn off the light, as they give each other permission to each other bodies during the night, joking about leveraging this offer.

The story is narrated in first person by Crash. Him and Captain Madiy are onboard a stolen cruiser, and having just gotten rid of an infected cargo of terror worms, are now fighting with time to restart the turbines to prevent the Zylon empire from destroying the galaxy once more. Captain Madiy is already entangled with cables in a tight crawlspace, and asks for help from Crash, reminding him to get naked to avoid getting killed by the textile poison that is coating the walls. Crash manages to reach the Captain to help her turn the switches, but in so doing he ends up penetrating her: despite the worries that this might lead to her getting pregnant, as she’s a twill from the Andorian cluster. His efforts to avoid the complications go vain, as turning the switches has absolute priority and this requires him to get deeper both into the crawlspace and into his captain. It is then revealed that the whole scene is an imaginary setup by two youngsters that locked themselves in their room to fool around, as a voice calls them from beyond the door to come and eat some chips and peas.

The story is narrated in first person by Crash. Him and Captain Madiy are running away from the warrior-guards minikins of the mighty temples of Kahlua after stealing the Enchanted scrolls of Perineum. Jus as they leap out of the remains of the security gate, Madiy gets hit in the girly garden. Crash picks her up and sprints to the megasparrow, the shuttle that takes them to the main ship. On the safety of the ship, Crash removes the Captain’s pants and the stone-statue darts stuck to her fanny. He then proposes to use the medical transmogulator, but Madiy recommends checking up on the infotablet first, where she finds the recommendation that human saliva may help fight the robert-the-neurotoxin used with these darts. Crash thus offers to use his saliva, and Madiy invites him to lick her vulva thoroughly, obviously enjoying the attention, leading Crash to wonder how much of this is needed by medical procedure, and how much of it is actually flirting with him. Checking on the medscreen, Crash finds out that while human saliva helps contrast the toxin, the best cure is human sperm, to which Madiy replies by inviting him to pour it inside of her. Crash finds that penetrating the Captain is easier this time compared to the previous one, and quickly reaches orgasm.

(We see again the barricated room, with their mother’s voice asking them to keep it down.)

As they travel to Infinitystation to sell the stolen scrolls, Crash finds Madiy in the shower. She hears him mumbling and offers to narrate the next episode, flirting with him about the saliva and sperm cue, before discovering another stone-statue dart stuck to her butt, and asking him to penetrate her anally to pump his sperm and contrast the neurotoxin.

Marcus Goodfellow, just delivered by pod to the first experimental facility for growing humans on an extraterrestrial colony, discovers that he and an intern are the only one who got there safely, as the pod carrying the lead researcher (Doctor Jameson) and the embryos had an accident that leads to its explosion.

The intern herself, who chooses the name Sophie, is a “brand new” fast-grown clone, prosperous, extremely naive, and uninformed about the ins and outs of the projects itself. Marcus inquires with his remote colleague Frank about the clone, but the colleague is dismissive of Marcus' worries, and starts hinting that, with the rest of the mission lost, the intern being a healthy, attractive naive clone will be the last resort to carry on the experiments, leading Marcus to terminate the conversation in anger.

Later, the researcher briefs the intern on the intended purpose of the now ruined mission, informing her that they won’t be recovered before three years at best. He guides her around, showing her how to set up the room kits, and faced with her naive enthusiasm at every little thing he’s now grown accustomed to, starts developing ambiguous feelings, just as she is processing her attraction for him.

After a bath and masturbation session, Sophie goes looking for Marcus, finding him in a heated video call with his colleague Frank. Marcus is enraged by the dehumanizing attitude of his colleague, who insists that Marcus should just breed with Sophie, without any consideration for her will. Frank insists on the priority of the importance of the scientific experiment to grow the first extraterrestrial human baby over any other ethical consideration, rebuked by Marcus pointing out that his colleague’s beliefs on man/woman relations is at the root of Frank’s family issues. Noticing Sophie behind him, Marcus terminates the call after pointing out that him and the intern are effectively out of Frank’s control, and proceeds to try and make verbal amends to Sophie. The woman thanks him for standing up for her, and realizes that she finds physical contact with the researcher arousing, and accidentally lets it slip that she’s attracted to Marcus and to the idea of getting pregnant, as long as she’s not treated like a mindless being.

After a change of clothes, Sophie follows Marcus to visit the rest of the facilities, to which she again reacts with a refreshing and contagious enthusiasm, all the way to the root habitat, the safest part of the facility, where Marcus has been setting up his quarters. Sophie decides she’ll sleep in the same room, and discovers a cozy alcove, that she elects as her bed. They sit there and watch movies until Sophie decides to undress, to which Marcus reacts by heading to his own bed, in a desperate effort to keep it professional, while realizing with every passing moment in the hours he fails to fall asleep that he’s falling more and more in love with her. Her refreshing innocence ultimately lifts his spirits, and they dance across the room to celebrate. When Sophie openly admits to wanting to masturbate (without revealing that she’s excited by Marcus' presence), he finds the courage to follow her on the path of honesty, revealing he doesn’t need glasses, and has been using them only to give himself a more professional air. They say good night, but Marcus cannot fall asleep while Sophie masturbates loudly in the same room, so he gets into the bathroom to rub one out himself. After a powerful and refreshing orgasm, Sophie sends another good night to Marcus, but seeing him missing from his bed gets up in a worry, soon relieved to find him in the bathroom. She enjoys looking at his naked butt, without realizing he’s masturbating too, and returns to bed without realizing that his last reassurances that everything is fine were given just as he was ejaculating.

Marcus wakes up preoccupied by the weight of having to set up the first space colony on a remote planet before remembering about Sophie. Seeing her naked butt in the alcove, he decides to rub one out in the shower furthest from the sleeping quarters, only to be interrupted shortly before finishing by Sophie, informed by a note he had left her to spare her a panic attack. She gets distracted by his erection while he’s trying to describe their plans for the day, completely failing to respond coherently when he asks her opinion on it, even leading him to suspect she might be having a stroke. Sophie retreats to one of the toilet stalls, and quickly masturbates to an orgasm, quite audible by Marcus that takes the opportunity to get his own.

Shortly after, Sophie is contemplating the planet through the window, while thinking about Marcus' organ. As he approaches her with a cup of tea, she apologizes for her unprofessional comments from the previous day, to which Marcus responds with his admiration for the thoughtfulness she has demonstrated, despite her short life as a fast-growing clone, and balances out her unprofessionalism by remarking that he too finds her quite attractive, to which she responds as if distracted again, but taking the opportunity to show more of her skin. They are interrupted by a call from Earth, not by Frank, but Philip, who lets Marcus know that Frank has been fired. Marcus insists that he wants him reinstated, and is finally informed that Doctor Jameson left in her will an encrypted video message for Marcus.

As Marcus finds the password to decrypt the video, Sophie caresses his body, as a way to console him of Jameson’s death, but also driven by her growing desire for him. The video finally starts playing, with a monologue from Jameson that reveals the most important reason why she insisted to have Marcus in the team was because of his quality as good, kind man with a big heart.

After the message, Marcus and Sophie distract themselves with manual work, which gives the man an opportunity to reflect on his relationship with Doctor Jameson, with his dad, and with Sophie, whose enthusiasm in work and life in general continues to impress and attract him. As Sophie finishes her task and leaves the environment where they’re working together, he recites a confession, talking to himself, but a nearby microphone catches his voice, allowing Sophie to hear everything he says while she’s still in the decontamination room, down to the admission that he would never confess, despite how attractive he finds her, because of the unfairly uncomfortable position he’d put her in, in the likely case of a rejection.

She is tempted to expose herself completely to him, but ultimately decides to try a more classic seductive approach, walking back into the laboratory and preparing what effectively amounts to a date to watch a film together. He gladly accepts the invitation, even if a bit perplexed by how spirited she seems to be acting.

Ten minutes later, Marcus walk in the sleeping area, only to be called by Sophie to join her in the shower, were she’s completely naked, drying herself off. He walks in, trying to stay as far from her as possible, hands behind the back, envying the towel she’s using. She proposes a nap to rest from the work, but lets it slip that she’s thinking about masturbation instead. Despite her embarrassment, she keeps her clumsy attempt at seduction, getting into the alcove only covered by a light cardigan, and encourages Marcus to bring his erection in, before inviting him to undress her. The man finally realizes that she’s not as innocent as he’s been thinking, and is actually actively trying to seduce him, right before she goes full out, talking about her need to masturbate and asking him if she can do it on top of him. When he agrees, she straddles him, and starts masturbating. He helps support her, taking advantage of the opportunity to caress her skin, just as she’s taking the opportunity to bring her dripping vulva closer to his erection. As she reaches her orgasm, Sophie lowers herself against his erection, and as her lips part to welcome him, Marcus too starts ejaculating, just inside of her, to her great satisfaction. With the veil finally torn between them, she becomes more open about her desire, resting naked against his naked body, asking for and getting permission to caress his testicles while in a soft embrace, for several minutes.

They talk about their biggest embarrassments, and Marcus confesses that the main reason why he pushed for the mission was because he wanted to get away from everybody else. Sophie confesses that what she feels most ashamed of is her desire to have sex with herself, which Marcus reveals being a pretty common desire. As they talk more, she also confesses that she would like to have sex with him, again, any time he gets an erection.. Marcus finally admits to himself that he’s being avoiding to accept that they did have sex already, and makes love to her slowly, deeply, until they both reach orgasm, and decide to celebrate with champagne, which they try to reach while remaining tangled in their love position.

Ernest Archer is preparing his father’s old boat to leave, but his sister Jilly comes to insult him, in an effort to make him stay and protect her from an arranged marriage she’s not happy about. Unable to change his mind, she walks back to the house as the ship starts slowly moving, with a crying Ernest at the helm. Inside the house, his mother remarks how pathetic and weak he is with his whimpering, and this gives Jilly the final push to rush to her brother, jumping from pier to the ship, with Ernest welcoming her with open arms. Their ship gets lost and stalls in the fog, with Jilly expecting a scolding from the brother, who confesses to having chosen to run away because he couldn’t stand to see her getting trapped into a terrible marriage. The two go to sleep waiting for the fog to clear and the ship to get wind again. As the sun comes out, it turns the cabin into an oven, which Jilly takes as an excuse to undress, only to find his brother has a raging erection. As the tension builds between them, leading to a kiss, she distracts herself by turning to insults again with little success, convincing instead the brother to reveal the full size of his erect penis. As they discuss their future plans to be merchants, she nonchalantly starts caressing his brother’s penis, and gets him to confess that his desire for her. She proves that she reciprocates, starting to jack him off and even taking him in her mouth. As Jilly gets distracted by the weather outside, Ernest finally notices the overabundance of her breasts, and is allowed to play with them, while she keeps playing with him to the point of ejaculation. He reciprocates by touching and licking her slit to orgasm. As the wind refuses to pick up, they enjoy the sunset, and Jilly finds the courage to confess how worthless their lives made her feel, and how calming she finds nature. Ernest admits to be scared of the future, but insists on his plan to become a merchant, having managed to get a stash of steel that had been abandoned by a previous employer. Undressing as she hears his explanation, Jilly invites Ernest to go back to the cabin, so that she may sit on him and listen to a story like the did when they were little. With his growing erection between her legs, and still playing with her breasts, Ernest tells Jilly a story about a princess with a flat bosom and his brother’s magic cock who could help her overcome the lies and accusations that had been thrown around when she refused the courtship of many foreign nobles. As he does so Ernest starts penetrating Jilly, who asks him to stop, even though she enjoys the feeling, because she’s not fully convinced yet. He pulls out as they talk about her feelings and sensations, and Jilly finds the time to inform him of the incestuous relationships of Meg, a girl they both know. After Ernest finishes his story, Jilly starts her own, that happens to be quite similar to her brother’s, but with a sister with a magic purse now consoling the brother. Jilly uses a story as an excuse to start riding Ernest, and they finally have full penetrative sex, even though Jilly tries to pretend it doesn’t count if he doesn’t bury his erection to the hilt in her. Later, he shares his fear of having made her pregnant, which she dismisses as an impossibility since they are blood related, just like Meg and her brother and father. Jilly apologizes or having asked him to pull out, revealing that it was only a test to verify if he would follow her requests. Ernest openly confesses his love, and together they decide to leave behind all their learned behavior from their youth at home, and use kind words to support each other.

Ernest and Jilly, having stocked up on water, get drunk from drinking some of the rum on board, and decide to drop anchor so they can make love again. With the alcohol making it harder for Ern to get an erection, they play around with Jilly’s abundant breast, and play around a bit by frotting his half-erect penis on her muff, leading her orgasming and him getting a full erection, which allows them to have penetrative sex. It doesn’t take long for Ernest to orgasm too, and as they rest, still joined, he realizes he went fully inside, despite the promise from before; but Jilly isn’t worried, and in fact encourages him to do it again. The next morning, Jilly wants to go again, confirming that it wasn’t just the drunkess, and since she’s worried of getting seasick as she’s never been out at sea for so long, Ernest encourages her to suck his penis to get cured of sea sickness, which she does gladly, drinking up his semen when he orgams in her mouth. Later, as Ernest is fishing, Jilly takes the helm, undressing to get some sun. They joke about the size of her breasts, and warn each other against possible sunburns. As they navigate around, they talk about what is home, how it’s different from the house they grew up in, and Ernest reveals he has been talking to the priest his father warned them against, and that he has even taught him to read. Jilly hopes her brother can now teach her in turn, which he gladly accepts to do, as it would help him practice as well. They keep talking about what’s beyond the literal and the factual, how some things that they learned as fact, such as dominance and hierarchy, may not necessarily be as they assumed they were, and how these are used to bind people together, but also prevent them from maturing, and how deconstruction is necessary to rebuild, which may be what they’re doing now. The discussion gets Jilly excited, and him too by reflection, so they have sex again, this time with her on top, riding Ernest to orgasm, quickly followed by his. A few hours later, they see another ship at the horizon, wondering if it’s the navy that patrols the Channel to keep the French at bay, or another merchan ship, not unlike theirs. Jilly is playing around with Ernest’s erection, and retelling of the time she caught Meg doing the same to her brother. She then asks him about the time he got home with a black eye, learning that the one responsible for it was the same brewer she was engaged to, who had reacted violently to a comeback that could be interpreted like an affront to the brewer’s sexuality. The information is a relief to Jilly, who is now glad she escaped the possibility of being tied down to such an angry, violent man. They have sex again, this time with her leaning over a barrel. As night fall, Ernest goes for a swim, and they discuss the opportunity to remain in the area. As he gets out of the sea and they sit contemplating the sunset, remembering his comment from the day before about nature singing people into being, and once again talk about what’s beyond the literal, the facts that have imprinted on them, and how the deconstruction, as painful as it may be, is the way forward, beyond the squabbles, the glorification of power, the transaction, the rationalization and gamification of human feelings; and this is the journey, the adventure Ernest has decided to travel, and on which Jilly is glad to come with. He asks her what finally gave her the final push, that made her jump on the ship. Jilly reveals that it’s how it was mother’s words accusing Ernest of being «the weakest man she’d ever known», which she knew to be quite false, because of Ernest’s courage to transform, to see wonder everywhere, in contrast to every body else, stuck with a Narcissus' mirror in their head, only able to see what comforts them. Her knowledge of Narcissus' mirror reveals to Ernest that she has been talking to the priest too. After a brief interlude showing Meg having sex with her father and asking him to make her pregnant, we follow Jilly and Ernest as they travel to St Peter Port to sell the steel, buy stone with it, and then travel back to Exeter to sell the stone, before navigating back to the house where they started from. Jilly finds out that Ernest has kept a block of marble from the sale, which he reveals is to commission a bust of Jilly when they will have the money for it. As they moor and disembark, they are greeted by the enraged brewer, who claims ownership of Jilly and threatens to skin Ernest. As the brewer throws a fist, Ern protects himself with the marble in his bag, easily avoiding the next fist, and then tapping the brewer on the shoulder, making him lose balance and fall off the wharf. They next confront the mother, who reveals she would have been paid three guineas for marrying off Jilly to the brewer. As the mother inquires about her virginity, Jilly radiantly denies her an answer, stating instead that she has no power over her anymore. As Ernest predicts, the fight and fall cool off the brewer’s rage, leading to him giving up on the whole thing, without even taking revenge by damaging the ship, as Jilly feared. Ernest and Jilly, realizing how less threatening the house looks to them now, decide to travel to Kingsbridge. Jilly reveals that she had liked pretending to be his wife at port, and proposed they get married for real, to which he gladly agrees. They walk towards the pub to celebrate, complimenting each other along the way.

The planned marble bust of Jilly is most likely the one that Patrick has in his studio (as seen in Chapter 1 of One Human, Being), and that he later offers to Anna in Chapter 4 of The Rather Magnificent Family Bubble (either that, or the original, of which Patrick’s is a copy).