Chapter Sixty-Two – Did This to Myself

Chapter Sixty-Two – Did This to Myself

“We really need to find a better way to intimidate our opponents than just having whichever part of the armed forces likes us best show up to their rallies and conferences. It’s getting old and we’ve had three bombs go off killing soldiers already. If it continues, they might start bombing us instead.

Maybe target their family instead? It’s more subtle, classy.”

–Overheard conversation between two Arizona governors, 2031

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I woke up at some ungodly hour the next morning, and only because Lucy got tired of shaking me awake and decided to straddle me in bed and started laying kisses down the side of my neck.

Where a shake couldn’t wake me up, and I was pretty sure I could sleep through any alarm, my libido came in clutch.

“Hmm, good morning,” I said.

Lucy grinned at me. She was close, and warm, and I reached up and slid my hands out of the blankets so that I could hold onto her waist. She had a bit of tummy, and with the way she was bending forwards, it was deliciously squishy.

“You’re late,” Lucy said.

“We have time.” I muttered.

“You really, really don’t,” Lucy said. “Come on, up with you.” She sat up straighter, and looked like she was ready to climb off from on top of me, but I wasn’t ready for that. So I rolled over. Lucy squeaked as she fell onto the bed, and then I was dragging myself over to pin her down. “Cat,” Lucy whined.

“It’s your fault,” I said. “Waking me up like that.”

“It was that or dropping a bucket of water on your head,” Lucy said.

“See, you made your choice. Now there’s consequences.”

“It’s ten thirty. You need to be downstairs by twelve,” Lucy said.

I blinked. “But that’s plenty of time to make a mess out of you.”

Lucy giggled, then climbed up onto her elbows so that she was within kissing range. “Tell you what,” she murmured in a voice so low and seductive that I felt a shiver run down my spine. “You need a nice, long shower, don’t you? So how about we go take care of that? Hmm?”

A very enjoyable shower and about an hour later, I was dressed in my samurai finery and heading downstairs, all while feeling a very nice kind of buzz.

A good wakeup, some nice shower sex, and now I was gonna head out with some friends to blow up aliens.

Today felt like it was going to be a nice day.

And then the elevator doors opened, and I found Princess standing there, bouncing on her toes and staring at me with wide, guileless eyes. “S-Stray Cat!” she said.

Yeah, no, today was gonna go downhill fast. “Hey Princess,” I said. “Is your sister here too?”

“Yup! We’ve been here all morning.”

“Wait, seriously?” I asked.

She nodded. “Knight said that it would be rude to just ride up to your floor. I’m sure you were doing important things all morning.”

Well, she wasn’t wrong about the ‘doing important things’ part. Looks like I owed Knight. “Yeah, something like that,” I said. “I hope it wasn’t too boring?”

“No! No, it wasn’t,” Princess said. “I was just looking around. But I didn’t touch anything.”

“Sure,” I said.

“Is your mech alright? It looks like it’s still all taken apart.”

“Oh, the Nyanzerfaust? It’ll be fine. I’ve been fixing it up for a week or so now. Still not done with it, but I’m getting there. Had to replace a bunch of sensors in the head, and there were some armoured plates that were bent out of shape.”

“What happened?” she asked.

“Some fuck-off huge alien tried to eat me. A model thirty-three, I think it was. Like a spider crossed with a chameleon and a t-rex. Mean, ugly bitch. Killed it in the end, but it was tough.”

“You killed it with your mech?” she asked. “I should get a mech.”