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Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

What!!! What a hell are you waiting for?... Post it, post it, post it!!!

!!!"MOAR, PLS"!!!

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

Probably related to the fact that our collective fingers are trying stop our collective eyes from popping out of our collective heads

Rest assured, we are engrossed in the imag...err... story/stories

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

Later. I was BBQing yestereve, hence no second episode. :p

I got more tomorrow, just working on another project first

And the title 'Miss Spanner eyes, 2014, goes to..........'

Keep it coming guys.

BBD

Bangbangduck wrote:

And the title 'Miss Spanner eyes, 2014, goes to..........'

Keep it coming guys.

BBD

I like the hi-tech "universal adjuster" she has attached to her tool-belt. Mechanics never change...

My Dad had some Chinese-made spanners that were stamped "Fukung". He was too well brought up to have ever said "Hand me that Fukung spanner," though - at least in front of his son.

BTW, Paradox, what do you use to draw this stuff?

vsfc wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

What!!! What a hell are you waiting for?... Post it, post it, post it!!!

!!!"MOAR, PLS"!!!

LOL! Ok, wanted to make sure I hadn't bored everyone to death! };] Coming right up!

SteveKing wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

Probably related to the fact that our collective fingers are trying stop our collective eyes from popping out of our collective heads

Rest assured, we are engrossed in the imag...err... story/stories

Okay, thought maybe I had lost my mojo with the story. };]

Bangbangduck wrote:

And the title 'Miss Spanner eyes, 2014, goes to..........'

Keep it coming guys.

BBD

You know, it's really to bad this is a "family board", because some of her outfits... };]

mossfoot wrote:

I got more tomorrow, just working on another project first

};] wink wink, nudge nudge!

Malacandra wrote:

Bangbangduck wrote:

And the title 'Miss Spanner eyes, 2014, goes to..........'

Keep it coming guys.

BBD

I like the hi-tech "universal adjuster" she has attached to her tool-belt. Mechanics never change...

My Dad had some Chinese-made spanners that were stamped "Fukung". He was too well brought up to have ever said "Hand me that Fukung spanner," though - at least in front of his son.

BTW, Paradox, what do you use to draw this stuff?

I use a program called Poser Pro 2014. Unfortunately, I am only able to use the lowest possible settings, and even those are pushing this old laptop to it's limits. 1 figure, simple outfits (the toolbelt on her was almost too much!) etc. The background, ground, and shadow, I did in photoshop, just because it's faster.

We came out of witchspace for our second re-fueling stop, at a planet called Esesla. Spitfire was off crawling through some access tunnel or other. Said she wanted to check on the maintainance that the mechanics had performed. I could hear her occasionally muttering or cussing, or banging away through the ventelation shafts.

"Two ships astern Captain, idents mark them as having offender status."

"Yep, I see them Aria, remember, we don't fire unless they targ..."

"Aria to the Stars, drop your cargo and get out of here!"

BANG BANG BANG on the hull.

"Aria, tell Bee to get hersel..."

"Here Captain!" Said a dirty face, that had just appeared from under a console.

"How did you get down there..." BANG! "Never mind, just get in your seat and buckle up!"

Bee wiggled and squirmed, and finally managed to crawl out of the panel. She jumped into her seat and buckled herself in. I turned the ship around and hit the turbos to get some distance between the two ships and Aria. "Why are we running away?" Shouted Spitfire. "Let's blast those pirates out of the sky!"

"Do you have target lock Aria" I asked.

"I do now Captain."

I lit up the rear laser. The target, a Moray Starboat named The Prosperous, would be prosperous no more.

"Oh ya, the rear laser!" Cheered Spitfire. "Now get the other one!" Bloodthirsty little thing.

I was evidently out of the last ships laser range, so I turned the ship around and locked onto him. It was a D.T.T. Manta, the Witch Finder or Ferret. I wondered, and not for the first time, how these people came up with the names for their ships. His laser flashed past our windows. I hit the front mil laser, and watched the sparks fly from his shields. The sparks stopped. There were no more ships.

I sighed and turned Aria back towards the station.

"Ya we did it! We like totally vaporized those two!" Spitfire was bouncing all over her seat.I couldn't help but grin at her a little. Then I looked down at the holopic on the arm of my chair and touched it with my finger.

"I just killed at least two men Bee."

"Ya, but they were totally pirates, and they were so shooting at us!"

"Yes, but they were still men or women, just like us. They just made some bad decisions. We will defend ourselves and others when we have to Bee, but I don't like having to kill them."

She had lost some of her enthusiasm as she unbuckled her belt and stood up. She came and put a hand on my arm, and said. "I hadn't thought of it like that Captain, sorry."

"It's ok, why don't you go check for damage hunh?" I patted her hand and watched her walk out of the bridge, and down the hall.

"We still totally wasted them!" I heard her say, and then she did a little jump and fist pump in the air.

Kids... What can you do?

Bee reported that we had lost a cargo container in the battle, but other than that, damage was minimal. "I can fix it the next time we dock Captain." We reached Esesla Station with no further mishaps. While Bee was working on repairs, I wandered around the station. When I returned to the ship, I found a group had gathered and were looking up at Aria's side. This isn't new, the huge mural on the sides of the ship, showing a naked girl "charming" a cobra, often drew a few admirers. Mostly of the adolescent male variety. Most of this group appeared to be natives. Small, black furred bipedal rodents. They looked like guinie pigs on two legs. Kind of cute actually. There were also a few human boys and girls, as well as a couple other races present. I walked up behind the group, and looked up to admire my ship with them. But it wasn't Aria or the mural they were all staring at. Like a forth story window washer, Bee was suspended against the side of the ship, scrubbing off the carbon smear left by a laser burn. And she was wearing her micro skirt "work kilt", as she called it. At least she was wearing underwear... I think... I squinted trying to tell for sure...

WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?!

I ripped my eyes away and clapped my hands to get the boys... and girls..? Attention. "Okay gang shows over, nothing to see here. Go on, run along home now." Gulp.

"Is she really your mechanic?" Asked one of the human girls.

"Umm... yes, she really is." I replied.

"Wow..." Said more than one of the group, craning thier necks once again.

Suddenly, sparks flew into the air as Bee begain welding up the hole she'd uncovered. The crowd oooh'ed and aaah'd appreciativly at the impromptu fireworks show. Were they really here just to watch someone their own age, work on a spaceship? Was I being a prude again? I looked around at the assembled group, and this time, I tried to really see them. A few of the girls, of all different species, were actually wearing outfits just as outrageous as Bee's. I left the group watching Bee work, and went to my cabin to think.

Not long after, Bee reported that repairs were finished, and Aria reported that we were refueled and ready to go. On the bridge, we waited for the docking control to give us permission to depart.

"You had quite a little crowd of admirers out there today." I said.

"I know! Some of them were like really cute too!" She looked at me and laughed her most mischevious laugh.

"Umm... Ya, I guess... Look Bee, I umm... I don't know if your pa or ma ever had the chance to talk to you about umm... Well..." I took a deep breath, and then blurted. "Sex."

Bee stared at me like I had just grown an extra head. Her eyes grew huge and then she... Laughed. She laughed till tears leaked out. She laughed the entire time I maneuvered the ship out of the station and into witchspace. I got up and stomped to my room to sulk. I was laying on the bed staring at the ceiling and feeling a little sorry for myself, when I heard the knock on my door.

"Captain, may I come in?" Bee asked.

"Sure, why not." I grumped.

She opened the door, and walked over to the bed. She sat on the edge and just looked at me for a few seconds. Then, she layed down beside me, and squirmed around until she could rest her head on my outstretched arm. We both lay there staring at the ceiling for a bit, then she turned on her side to look at me. "I'm sorry." She said.

"What? You ain't got nothin' to be sorry for."

"I'm sorry I laughed at you. It was just the look on your face, and then, when I realized that you were trying to have "The Sex Talk" with me... It just totally took me by suprise. But I know how hard it is for you to talk about things like that, and I appreciate what you were trying to do. So I'm sorry."

"It's okay." I said. And just like that, I suddenly felt a whole lot better. Bee rolled over on her back, her head still resting on my arm.

"I'm not a virgin you know." She said kind of quiet like.

I didn't say anything. I didn't have the faintest idea what to say to a statement like that. I felt like a rabbit caught in a hover-cars headlights.

She put her hands on her breast. "These puppies grew in about the time that daddy died. And the day after my thirteenth birthday, Bobby Gristew popped my cherry. Three times. He had to keep trying because..."

I cleared my throat uncomfortably.

"Sorry. Well anyways, then mom left and I was all by myself, and I had to survive."

I had a funny feeling I knew where this was going. A lot of young girls have had to "do things" in order to survive. I started to squirm on the bed.

Bee slapped me on the stomach. "No, not like that! I never slept with anyone for money or anything. But sometimes Morgan, I was just so lonely." She turned to face me again, and curled up against me so she could watch my face. Her hand picking idly at my shirt. "It wasn't very often, and it wasn't just with boys either." She paused as if waiting for a reaction. I was still playing rabbit, afraid to move."Anyways, I guess what I am trying to say, is that I know all about sex, and you don't have to worry about me like that. I'm not interested in getting pregnant or anything, and I know all about "being safe". Besides, I'm not lonely anymore. I have you and Aria now." I let out a long, slow, breath I didn't know I had been holding. Then, I curled my arm, pulling her closer to me, and we gave each other a big hug. "Am I forgiven?" She asked, her eyes twinkling.

"Ya." I replied. She snuggled into my side, and we just lay there, sharing the quiet hum and rumble of Arias systems, until we both fell asleep.

Malacandra wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Hmm... I have two more chapters done, but it has suddenly gone quiet in the fiction forum! }:[

Later. I was BBQing yestereve, hence no second episode. :p

And I've been enroute to my brother's place, in the next state.. just catching up now.. and enjoying it immensely..