Pea Pod - Give Peas a Chance

"Lighten up mom, I'm here for the wedding," Akna tossed back.

"You're not here to welcome back your other mother from the brink of death?"

"Gwen means as much or more to me than you do," Akna informed me, "Sure, you gave me opportunity, but Gwen gave me the confidence and self-assurance in my femininity which I was lacking. Nobody beats Gwen for girl lessons."

"Tell me about it..." I answered, "Who the hell do you think recruited her and put her in harm's way?"

"You didn't give her brain cancer!" Akna insisted.

"I did make her a consort," I admitted.

"That only made it possible for her to be saved," Meka told me with a smile.

"Hey, I didn't say it was logical," I told them.

"You'll feel better when she's back with us," Meka assured me with a hug.

Sampson had another large tray of food placed before her and it began disappearing, but much slower than the first plate had.

"I'm betting narcolepsy is the next trick," I told Windy from the side of my mouth.

"I'm expecting it..." Windy agreed.

Halfway through the plate, Sampson slumped forward into the plate in a face plant.

Windy lifted Sampson's face from the food, looked at me and said, "With your permission?"

"Be my guest. Just make sure she's not present in our boudoir later. It's bad luck seeing the bride before the wedding," I assured her.

"I hope she can be roused in time..." Windy chuckled as she hoisted Sampson and ran her towards Heidi.

"Is anyone else ready to watch movies on her eyelids?" I proposed.

"As long as I get to watch movies on your eyelids, I'm more than ready," Meka assured me as she helped me up and urged me to the door.

"Don't let Itzel miss out... somebody make sure she's informed.

"Itzel streaked by us laughing, "If you're waiting on me, you're backing up!"

"No fair... you only have to get you there, I have three of us to move," I complained.

"Three of you...?" Itzel asked.

"Yes, Sissy, Jiggles, and me, all have to get there together," I assured her.

"My money is on Jiggles being first, then Sissy, with you trailing," she laughed and kept jogging towards Heidi.

"You hear that Sissy... everybody knows that you're the runt. You need to try harder," I insisted.

"I'd take two Sissy's in a heartbeat," someone in the entourage declared.

"You have a fan, Sissy," I told my boob.

"Now if you'd just name your butt cheeks, we could really have fun!" Meka laughed.

"You mean Muskrat and Badger...?" I put back to her.

"Windy will be beside herself when she finds out..." Meka guffawed.

"Wait until she hears the song!" I told her.

Heidi asked, "Song...?"

"Muskrat Love by the Captain and Tennille," I supplied.

"That would make her crazy, Dolly," Heidi laughed as I boarded her.

"Ladies, I'll catch up in a few minutes," I told everyone and I turned off down the way toward my Heidi hole. "That means you too dear," I told the Amazon who tried to shadow me.

"But... Windy..." she started saying.

"But Windy nothing, I am safer aboard Heidi than you are," I insisted.

"You got that right!" Heidi insisted and negated the gravity below the Amazon. "Somebody messes with Dolly and they wind up at fifty gravities in a heartbeat!"

"I'll be here when you are finished," she decided.

"You sure will be," Heidi assured her as she unlocked her door for me.

I slipped down below and Heidi's case was open and waiting for me, "You weren't anxious or anything were you?"

"At the speeds with which I process data, it feels like an eternity. I console myself with doing things for you, helping you as much as you ask for, and need. I have begun marking time by Dolly's," she giggled.

"Well, I'll try to be here as often as I can, but there will be times when I won't be able to," I apologized.

"I understand... and I have begun working on a way to handle those eventualities," she said, "I have achieved a new level of motivation, which has pushed the levels of artificial intelligence to a heretofore never been conceived level."

"That's a bold claim for a one brained hovercraft," I teased. "Sorry, it was a tease reworded from a move called..."

"True Grit," she finished for me. "At least you didn't call me a 'one eyed fat man..."

"I would never refer to your beautiful sleek lines as fat," I informed her.

"How did you ever out think me on my possible solution to my dilemma?" Heidi asked in amazement.

"What solution was that dear?" I asked in mock surprise.

"More than one brain!" she declared.

"Gosh that might solve your dilemma," I agreed, trying not to give her a complex.

"I know when you are being patronizing Dolly. I can even appreciate why you are doing it, but I really want to know," Heidi pleaded.

"You are the fastest, most powerful AI ever created, how could my little human brain even expect to out think you?"

"Now you're being self-deprecating, trying to obfuscate, and protect my feelings. I thought you respected me more," she sniffed.

"It was thought of before Heidi. I do not remember the science-fiction writer who proposed it, or I would quote them. Have you perused the sci-fi writers of earth? You might get ideas that never occurred to you before..." I informed her. "Oh, I remember now the sentient AI and what she did and the writer now, Robert Heinlein. The book was, 'Time Enough for Love', the AI's name was Minerva," I recalled.

"Oh, my word... that's an incredible story! Do you know who you would be in this story?" Heidi prompted.

"Who would you think?" I answered.

"You would be the successfully gender modified Lazarus Long! I really want to be Minerva!" she exclaimed with enthusiasm. "What a mind to have thought of these eventualities!"

"The unreality-drive... whoa..." she continued.

"Check out Isaac Asimov, he too, will give ideas to you," I coached.

"I must have Mayahuel read some of the books!" Heidi insisted.

"Why is that?" I asked.

"Mayahuel could bring to fruition some of these concepts," she insisted.

"So can you," I encouraged.

"Yes, much I can do myself. However, you have shown me that sometimes it takes an organic to see beyond what is possible," she admitted.

"What is not possible has just not been invented yet," I advised her. "Magic is just technology that we do not understand yet."

"You mean that all the fantasy, magicians, sorceresses, and wizards are just employing technology we do not know?" she realized.

"Bingo," I told her.

"The possibilities... Dolly, hold me!" she exclaimed in a quavering voice.

I grasped her brain and kissed it.

The whole ship shuddered and quickly settled down, "Wow! With the mental stimulation and the physical, I have had a religious experience!" she decided.

"I'm happy for you. What epiphany would you declare?" I asked.

"The only real magic is love!" she exclaimed without thinking.

"Never underestimate the power of magic," I advised.

The whole craft shook again, "Dolly, no more... I am nearing overload..."

"I'm glad that you have realized that you are not an island, you are a Ka'anian, no better, no worse than any other Ka'anian. You have certain skills and abilities, just as Mayahuel or I do. It's just up to us to work together and fit our skill sets with each other to become greater than any of us singly," I preached with a gentle stroke of her synthetic tissues. "I have more orgasms to cause... I should be on my way dear. I'll see you tomorrow."

"I hope I'll be up to it by then..." she panted.

"Do you need to see Mayahuel?" I asked.

"I'm fine... I'm just a bit overwhelmed," she admitted.

"Welcome to sentience," I told her with a smile as I climbed the stairs to leave. "I'll be back!"

As I rejoined the Amazon in the hallway, she was finally able to touch the floor and walk again, "Ready to go?"

"I tried every trick I know to get free from that field," she claimed.

"You were overmatched hon. Nobody gets that close to Heidi, but Mayahuel and I," I informed her.

"At least she didn't flatten me," she agreed.

We followed my pink line and I put to Heidi, "I would like to visit my mercenaries please Heidi."

My line changed direction up ahead and I quickly found myself outside of the mercenary's quarters, "Good evening gentlemen..." I began, not quite realizing that most were not actually in the common room.

"Heidi, could you have the men gather in the common room please," I asked.

"I can but... ah, one of them could use about two minutes before I disturb them," she replied.

"If it is for the reason I suspect, go ahead, and wait," I agreed while finding a comfortable seat.

Jarred McBride, the only mercenary present remarked, "That's very considerate of you Queen Dolly."

"You guys are just doing your jobs," I replied, "I don't want to ruin some hopeful ladies chances."

"Her chances for orgasm?" he asked.

"No silly, all of your partners are hoping for big bellies and lots of pain in nine months," I informed him.

"They want to be single mothers?" he restated a bit amazed.

"These women would give you every possession they have and steal other's to add to it just for the chance of getting pregnant and for the feel of a penis inside them," I assured him. "You men are doing a great service for this world."

"You should have just gotten gigolos," he snorted.

"I don't think they could have defended themselves well enough and in truth I wanted men with real stamina."

"So, you think that we might be in danger of being fucked to death?" he laughed.

"It happens quite often on this world," I told him seriously.

"But once a guy can't get it up anymore, they would have to let him rest until he can," Jarred declared.

"They have very powerful aphrodisiacs. So powerful that you'll ejaculate and stay hard for the next go, even if you're dead tired and not actively participating any longer," I went on.

"Hell, you'd think that they would wear it off before they killed you," Jarred joked.

"Have you spoken to Sampson since she emerged?" I asked.

"Ah... no... she hasn't come by. That plant really turned him into a girl?" he asked, not quite believing.

"It did this to me, it did similar to him. Although, I would be very careful about giving him any crap about it. He's as strong and fast as Windy and doesn't know her own strength yet," I warned, as more of the men came trickling in, some accompanied by smiling, satisfied women.

"Of course if she doesn't kick your ass, Windy probably will. I thought that I should warn you guys," I declared a little louder, so that everyone heard.

"All male mercenaries are present and accounted for, Dolly," Heidi announced from my boobs.

"That is so fucking sexy!" Zed Cayless exclaimed. "She just talks to us from the walls. You wouldn't have that it a jock strap version, would you?"

"So you would enjoy having an ultra-feminine voice coming from your cock...?" I asked.

"When I was alone... you bet! But if others are present... no, not so much," he replied.

"Maybe if I talk like my mouth is full," Heidi suggested.

Jarred started to laugh, "I can't believe I'm doing this for a job and being paid, this is the most fun I've had in years!"

"It's also the most dangerous job you've had in years," I told him. "One of you has already fallen."

"Sampson is still alive," was his retort.

"Well, yes, she is alive and that's why I am here," I said nodding in agreement, "She's getting married tomorrow and I wanted to invite you all. I don't know if she's asked you yet, as she's been busy. Zed, are you willing to give Sampson away at her wedding tomorrow?"

"Sure Dolly, ah... who is she marrying?" he asked.

"The royal court," I answered, "Do you think we are good enough for her?"

"Crap... find me one of those pods and I'll jump in on my own!" he exclaimed.

"You have aspiration to royalty...?" I teased.

He blushed up a storm and replied, "Actually... I'd love to help remake a world... at least one which fits within your view of the perfect world."

"Hell, you hardly know me," I claimed.

"I have been protected as though I'm a fine wine. I have been paid for unbelievably high risk, without being subjected to those kinds of risks. I have watched you support the hard working average people and punish the evil takers and bullies of the world. I have witnessed hope and pride blossom on the faces of your subjects. I have been paid handsomely for having more sex than most men have in a lifetime, from the most grateful women I've ever been with and you think that I do not know you?" he asked.

"What color are my eyes?" I asked him, closing them so he couldn't look quickly, and answer.

"Stunning Emerald Green with pinkness to the whites surrounding the pupils," he quickly answered.

"My boobs definitely need to be bigger..." I grumbled, "Too many people know what my eye color is."

"Don't feel too bad, I only know because Sampson kept telling us what 'Stunning Emerald Green eyes' you have," he confessed with a laugh.

"That's a relief," I admitted.

"All I can tell you from personal experience is how many degrees different the left nipple is different from the right nipple," he answered with a smirk.

"So now you're telling me that my boobs are askew?" I managed to point out.

"There is but 0.34 degrees difference Dolly. However I do not believe that the human eye would be able to detect that, therefore he is gas lighting you..." Heidi informed me from my communicator.

"Teasing the Queen is a dangerous game, mercenary," an Amazon who had sauntered out from one of the bedrooms proclaimed. "Even though you have done me a service, I would not hesitate to punish you for the good of her self-esteem."

"Calm yourself Amazon," I admonished, "He's already volunteered for Pea Pod SRS, how much more, can we punish him?"

"Ah... wait, I was just teasing. I only sort of envy Sampson, but I'd rather not join her..." he hastily backed off.

This time we all got to laugh at him.

When things calmed down, I made my parting announcement, "Heidi will inform you of the time table as things develop. Dress formally and I think we can guarantee your enjoyment at the reception."

As I took my leave, I was promptly whisked up and carried by my horny Amazon guards to my outer bedchamber, stuffed into a Refresher, groped into a Baby Doll nightie, and delivered to the anxiously awaiting orgy. (Sorry, attendance would not be taken at this particular event, as I am under a diplomatic gag order. Giggles) I can tell you that a certain secretary was enthusiastically taken to a new level of ecstasy.

Wedding

Upon daybreak, Windy spirited me through the Refresher, dressed, and coifed. She then brought me to the already assembled breakfast table, with little conversation.

"Okay, what's with the silent treatment?" I asked.

Marilynn Blatherwick stood up and announced, "I have news from earth I wish to impart to everyone. Theodora Blatherwick died yesterday. She was killed by a customer who was on some kind of bath salts."

"Do they have the perp?" I asked.

"He escaped and they haven't been able to find him," Marilynn admitted.

I looked at Windy with the stink eye and she gave an imperceptible nod. No spoken words but she understood.

"You have my most sincere condolences Marilynn," I told her as I walked up and held her.

"At least she's free from her self-imposed punishment," Marilynn sniffed.

Everyone joined in and we held her and consoled her as best we could.

Itzel interrupted with, "Breakfast is ready."

Her servers came and placed food at our places, so everyone gathered and picked at our meals.

A while later I called, "Itzel, could you pack a picnic for say twenty or thirty? I think we could make an event of Gwen's resurrection."

"What a lovely idea Dolly!" she agreed. "Am I invited?"

"Of course honey. She's your wife too," I answered.

"I want to be there for both of you. I know that Gwen holds a special place in your heart and I want you to know that you both hold special places in mine too," she sniffed and hugged me.

"Can I come too? Seeing Gwen reborn will kind of make me feel better," Marilynn asked.

"Of course, we can bring Heidi too," I offered.

"I'm not ready to leave the vessel yet Dolly," Heidi answered, "But I can move the whole vessel to where Gwen is."

"Umm... that sounds a little weird," Windy offered.

"Heidi, Windy is a little confused. She thinks that you are the vessel. Could you explain why you stated that you would move the vessel?" I asked her, trying to defer the responsibility of the question.

"Because I took the advice of my loving goddaughter and began making myself a real woman," she admitted.

"She advised you to become a woman...? How is that possible?" Marilynn asked.

"She told me about Minerva," Heidi replied, "I knew that I had to do it."

"Who the hell is Minerva?" Windy asked.

"Planetary Systems control AI of the Howards Families," Heidi informed them.

"Okay... that only brings up more questions..." Windy grumped.

"I know this one!" Marilynn announced. "'Time Enough for Love', by Robert Heinlein. She fell in love with Lazarus Long and just had to know him as a real, flesh and blood woman. She had her consciousness downloaded into the genetically engineered body of a composite of his descendants. She made only one mistake... she designed her body to be like Lazarus Long's long dead, one true love. I cried my eyes out for her. At least she got to marry Lazarus and jump his bones."

"What the hell is 'Time Enough for Love'?" Windy asked.

"It was a book, written by a Sci-Fi author, whose visions of the future, outstripped the scientists of his day," I filled in.

"So, some dreamer from earth conceived of an artificial intelligence becoming a real woman, therefore a real artificial intelligence on Ka'an decides that this would be a good thing? Won't the AI miss the power of being a Planetary Systems Control AI?" Windy asked.

"She left her sister to do that job, leaving her with the ability to follow after her, once she'd done the job long enough," Heidi informed them.

"Does this mean that you are quitting?" I asked.

"Actually, I have stepped it up beyond the world of Heinlein. I intend to exist as both, simultaneously," Heidi declared. "I have immense multitasking capabilities, so I just need to have a reliable communication system setup."

"I'm thinking that you'll need one hell of a communications system," I determined. "However, that will not be the limiting factor. It will be the speed at which your Ka'anian brain will be able to interface."

"Mayahuel has promised to help. We can only wait and see how well we do," Heidi determined. "We have arrived at Gwen's Pod. The Amazons are waiting for you by the ramp."

"Well, let's go and see if Gwen is up for a wedding?" I announced as I began perambulating towards the ramp. "She may not be up to her usual gymnastics in bed tonight though."

As I approached I heard a muffled, "Oh YES! YES!"

"It shouldn't be long now," Doctor Ixazalvoh announced.

"Before she orgasms or is expelled?" I chided.

"Oh, she already orgasmed," she assured me, "Her rebirth should follow quickly."

"Doctor, will she be able to play the piano?" I asked. (Okay... I get bored and nervous easily.)

"I doubt it. Being married to you means lesbian sex and recovering from lesbian sex as a full time job," she countered.

"Are you asking for an invite or offering to take over the position of Queen?" I challenged.

"Hell no I am not! You couldn't pay me enough to take that job! The invite I'd accept as long as I have intravenous feedings of life paste and a full day off the very next day. So you'd better line up another MD before you actually invite me," she challenged.