6 Living on the Edge

"There it is!" Steven whispered to the rest of the group. Sarah and A'luhr came to a stop behind him and peered out from behind a parked car towards where he was pointing. Sure enough, a large black backpack could be seen on the side of the road, covered in a layer of hard orange ichor.

"This is a problem." A'luhr spoke in a concerned tone. "We are going to need to break through the shell covering your storage unit. It will be loud. It will attract nearby Krinis drones." The group had been careful to watch both the streets and the skies for drones.

So far they seemed to be in the clear, but the dragonfly-looking ones were fast and stealthy, so they stayed vigilant. The weakness of the dragonflies, or the Kri-penna, as A'luhr called them (Sarah preferred 'dragonfly'), was that they had no captive host inside their bodies from which to draw energy. As such, they had to quickly go back and forth between the nest and their hunting grounds in order to stay energized. With the skies clear, now was the group's best chance.

As Sarah looked up to confirm that there were no buzzing creatures above them, she felt a drop of water hit her cheek. She began to equate the dark clouds closing in above to hands circling their necks. She knew they had to take action NOW.

"Can't we just use your weapons if a Taker comes to investigate?" Steven asked hopefully.

"No." A'luhr's eyebrows shivered. "It will not stop them for long enough. Or, at least, it would be a very big gamble."

"What if…" Sarah gulped. "What if we had some sort of… of distraction…?"

"What are you suggesting?" A'luhr turned to her in surprise.

"J-just… I could… you know… get the attention of any of the Takers that come our way…?" Sarah could feel heat rising in her face.

"What!?" Steven hissed. "You know what those things do, right!? Besides, who's to say that they will only go after you and not us as well?" This is a dumb plan!" A couple more raindrops pattered to the pavement next to them.

"I agree with the male." A'luhr said. "The risk does not match the reward. We will just be as swift and silent as we can. Come." She strode out into the street without any hesitation. The other two followed.

"Haha… yeah… I don't know what I was thinking…" Sarah mumbled, biting her lower lip. They approached the encased backpack and stood looking down at it.

"So… how are we going to break this stuff?" Steven inquired.

"With these." A'luhr declared, pulling two dagger-shaped pieces of metal from straps on her legs. She handed one to Steven and kept one for herself. "Strike down with as much force as you can summon," she instructed. "You start there, I will start here. We will create a fissure between us to weaken the shell and then pry it open." She pointed to spots on the ichor to show where to strike. "Sarah Cassidy, you look out for drones. Alert me if you see any."

"Got it." Sarah nodded. She turned around to watch the backs of the other two as, on A'luhr's mark, they both started to chisel away at the hard ichor. The loud sounds of the daggers striking the shell echoed off the houses and cars that surrounded them, and after about thirty seconds, there was still no sign of trouble.

"How's it coming, guys?" Sarah nervously asked without turning around.

"It's gonna take - ngh! - a few more minutes, at least!" Steven grunted. Sarah wasn't sure if it was sweat starting to drip down his face or water droplets from the rain that was slowly but steadily starting to pick up. Suddenly, Sarah spotted movement out of the corner of her eye. A single drone lumbered up to the intersection a block away and began to turn in their direction.

"We've got company!" Sarah warned.

"Hm. We are getting close but I do not think we have time before it gets here." A'luhr said calmly, looking up to see the approaching Taker. "It located us faster than expected. We will have to retreat."

"But this is our only chance!" Steven groaned, continuing to hammer away at the ichor. "It's already started to rain; we can't miss this opportunity! Let's just hurry up!"

"You still have two of those orbs left, right?" Sarah slowly asked A'luhr. Looking around, she didn't see any sign of other drones. It was just the single one approaching her, though it was somewhat large, as it seemed to already have two captives inside. At a distance, she could make out the nude bodies of a man and woman extending from its abdomen.

"Yes, but -" A'luhr began to object to whatever it was Sarah was going to suggest, but she didn't have the time to finish before a white lab coat hit her in the face as she turned.

"Keep that safe for me! I'll… do what I can to slow it down!" Sarah yelled back - already springing down the road towards the creature, now only in her red fitted T-shirt and khaki office pants. Her shoulder-length auburn hair fluttered behind her as she began to wave her arms towards the Taker and skirting off to its side.

"The fool!" A'luhr hissed, moving to stand and go after her, but Steven grabbed her arm.

"Let her go! We need to finish this!" He barked. "She's strong; she'll be able to handle it until we can come help! Let's not let this go to waste!" A'luhr seemed momentarily torn, but then quickly agreed and turned back to her work as if she had never stopped, pounding away as chunks of the ichor began to break off and deep cracks began to form.

Sarah saw the Taker's body swivel and face her, clearly falling for her provocation. She nearly tripped in surprise, though, as she got a good look at the humans inside of it for the first time.

"D-Diana!?" Sarah gasped. Sure enough, the eighteen year-old student of hers was deeply embedded in the creature's chest. Her arms and legs were both swallowed up into the tentacles behind her, leaving only her naked torso and head exposed. Sarah almost didn't recognize the Asian girl at first, as her stomach was grossly inflated as if completely filled with cum. It shook like gelatin each time the creature took a step.

"pRoFesSoR!" Diana moaned with a happy, dazed expression on her face. "Ahnnn! Ah! I'm soooooo glad we found youuuu! Come join us! It's amazing! Ohhh!!" She could barely speak through the series of moans pouring from her mouth. The cause of her ecstasy was clear.

Two translucent tentacles were completely engulfing her now F-cup tits, squeezing them taut. Inside the tentacles, Sarah could see dozens of smaller tendrils wrapping all around both boobs, playing with them while flicking and kneading her painfully erect nipples. Creamy milk regularly squirted from her stiff peaks, which was already filling the visible insides of the tentacles and sloshing around, coating her bound breasts in their own milk.

"Oh! Ohhhh! There! That's it, Arlo! YES! OH GODDDDD! GHOOOOOOO!!" Diana howled in pleasure as she bucked her restrained hips up and down to better ride the huge black cock that was repeatedly pistoning in and out of her gushing cunt from below. The eighteen" monster was several inches thick and completely stuffing her helpless teenage pussy. Her moist lips were stretched far apart as they greedily hugged his thick shaft in an effort to coax more thick cum out of him. There was already quite a large amount of it oozing from her spasming slit and down his thrusting length.

The mixture of semen and girl-juice constantly flowed down his bulging balls, which were being individually sucked on by tentacles. The liquid mixure fell into a bowl-shaped appendage below their squirming bodies that absorbed the fluids into the creature's fleshy form.

Diana suddenly gasped and screamed again as small tendrils found her erect, exposed clitty, which was now almost the size of a pinky finger. One of them morphed into a transparent sucker and swallowed the top half of her twitching bud, aggressively sucking and squeezing on the sensitive flesh. Two more tendrils started to vibrate and began to rapidly stroke the bottom half of her clit, coating it with slime as they scoured up and down the length.

"NGHHHHHHHNNNN!" Diana's eyes rolled up into her head as she clenched her teeth. Her whole body shivered uncontrollably, went rigid, and then slack, save for the bouncing of her milky titties and distended belly from the force of the boy continuing to mindlessly plow her.

His own body was enraptured in orgasm as a thick, slippery tentacle thrust deep into his asshole, while a vibrating tendril was busy sliding around the inches of his cock that weren't currently inside Diana's overflowing pussy.

"Diana! Stay with me! D-did you say, 'Arlo'!?" Sarah slowed down a bit as she tried to get a better look at the two of them. She blushed deeply while doing so and felt a sudden flow of moisture between her legs as the familiar heat of arousal filled her core. She thought she had gotten desensitized to all this, but seeing it… hearing it… FEELING it in person was a whole different world from watching it over a small screen. She gulped.

She couldn't see the face of the boy underneath Diana's writhing nude body, as he was positioned directly behind her, with only his genitals exposed between his obscenely spread legs. Arlo was one of her other students and she remembered seeing him with Diana in the nest months ago. If it really was him, she knew she HAD to find a way to save them both. But what could she do? She had to think.

Sarah had been lost in thought a moment too long. She leapt out of the way of an incoming tentacle but was slow to notice the second appendage that shot out towards her. She attempted to juke it... but she was too late. The wet tentacle coiled around her ankle and made her trip to the ground.

"D-damn it!" She frantically looked around for anything to help her, but there was nothing. Unless a few blades of grass would be of assistance, but she highly doubted it. Steven and A'luhr were still focused completely on their task down the road, but, luckily, the Taker seemed likewise completely focused on Sarah's squirming limbs. She realized she was on her own. She knew that from the beginning, of course, but had hoped her companions would be far enough along by now to render some aid - but that didn't yet seem to be the case. She knew what would come next.

"I… I can do this…" She clenched her eyes and shakily whispered to herself. "Just don't give iiiNNNNN?" She yelped suddenly as she was lifted bodily into the air by the tentacle around her leg.

Strong tentacles flew out of the Taker and wound around her arms, pinning them to her midsection and leaving her legs to kick wildly in the air behind her. She jerked her shoulders around in an effort to break free, but it was useless. She let her head drop and took labored breaths. The tentacles binding her still allowed her to breathe, but they were extremely tight.

Things were progressing as she had anticipated, but it still didn't stop them from being any less unnerving. She felt a slimy tentacle begin to worm its way down the back of her pants, sliding underneath her panties and between her tight ass cheeks. She shivered as it wrapped around to the front of her crotch and began to gently rub directly against her already dripping mound.

Her head became extremely hot and she could feel her pulse in her ears. She was both completely terrified and aroused as the exploring tentacle continued to slide between her legs and up under her shirt to stroke her quivering stomach. The tentacles binding her loosened slightly to allow it passage, but she didn't even bother to struggle.

Another tentacle suddenly grabbed onto the front of her waistband and began to pull. The button popped off and the zipper tore away as the appendage slid the garment off of her shapely legs. Her plain, cotton white panties were revealed, tightly hugging her wiggling ass. Her underwear might as well have been transparent given how wet it already was. The thick fleshy tentacle could clearly be seen beneath the soaked fabric, separating her delicate pink lips on either side as it brushed between them and over her sensitive clit.

Sarah bit her trembling lip in anticipation. However, after almost a minute of this, she realized that the tentacles had stopped stripping her and instead seemed content with just gently gliding against her wet folds and twitching little bean. It wasn't quite enough to push her over the edge, but it was making her more and more horny as the aching between her legs begged for release.

"Mhnnnn…" She moaned. "Wh-why are you teasing me like this…?" She didn't expect an answer, of course, but as if in response, she was suddenly swung through the air with her body parallel to the ground. Her gently panting mouth was positioned inches away from where the two teenager's genitals were messily slapping into each other with gooey, wet sounds. Sarah attempted to look away from the lewd sight, but another tentacle wound its way around her head and forced her to witness the intense fucking happening right in front of her eyes.

"N-no!" She panted. "Why do you want me to see this!? How is it helping you at all? This makes no seAAAAHH!" Her words were cut off as more tendrils wormed their way into her open mouth and forcefully pried it open, leaving her moist tongue lolling out.

"Uht har hoo doig?" She tried to speak, but her mouth was no longer hers to control. This somehow almost felt more violating to her than the ribbed tentacle that continued to teasingly caress her dripping slit.

"Ehehehe…" Diana giggled drunkenly. "Mmm you're joining us, Cassidy...? It's good for teachers to spend time with their students, right?"

"Hiana!" Sarah shouted up at the girl. "Yoo eed ooh geh-!" But whatever she was trying to say suddenly melted away, along with her thoughts, as some of the juices gushing out from the teens' holes in front of her splattered into her mouth. "Hhhhnnn?" She groaned.

Her vision began to gently swim a little and her head felt like it was full of fluff. The only things she were able to focus on any more were the tentacle cruelly edging her and the delicious-looking cunt and dick that were nearly touching her nose. She took a deep breath through her nose to enjoy the rich, erotic sent of their sex and it made her stomach tremble with butterflies.

The tentacle restraining her head suddenly loosened its grip and Sarah didn't hesitate a moment to spring into action now that she had the chance. But instead of attempting to bite at the tentacles or otherwise try to escape, she lustfully began to use her warm, wet tongue to lap at the thrusting cock in front of her. She ran long, tender licks up and down the glistening shaft like a lollipop as her gaping mouth curled into a contented smile.

The cum oozing from Diana's nearby pussy began to collect in Sarah's wide-open mouth, which she had no choice but to swallow - not that she even considered anything other than that.

Her tongue glided up the boy's throbbing penis as the tendrils released her cheeks, allowing her to get her entire mouth on the thick meat, which she dutifully began to kiss and suck along the side of.

Sarah slid her lips and tongue around the boy's rigid rod, savoring the feeling of it pulsating as he continued to ejaculate almost nonstop. She began to squeeze and grind her own legs in frustration as the tentacle between them continued to drive her into a sexual frenzy but offered no climax. She groaned into the cock between her lips and moved upwards, licking at the spot where it was frantically pistoning into Diana's well-used womanhood.

The twenty-seven year-old woman began to lick back and forth between the wet pussy lips and the penis that was spreading them wide, drawing complex shapes over the teens' engorged flesh as if her tongue were a paintbrush.

Eventually the pressure building from her own loins made Sarah begin to desperately squirm and beg for release. She just needed SOMETHING to make her feel full and satisfied before her brain turned to mush.

"P-please…!" She gasped and panted while continuing to lick. "S-stop p-playing with meee! J-just fu… FUCK ME ALREADY! Mnnnnnn!" Her dignity as a professor trying to rescue her students was gone. Her mind had been washed away with her only goal now being the pursuit of pleasure.

But still, her captor did not allow her reprieve. In fact, she felt a small tendril begin to gently vibrate inside her hopelessly ruined panties, slowly caressing her erect clit. It was just enough to elevate her to the next level of arousal but maddeningly too weak to push her past the point she so craved.

"Nghhh!!!" She attempted to buck her hips in an effort to achieve more friction on her aching sex, but the tentacles held her completely immobile, forcing her to endure the torture. If she wasn't being allowed to orgasm, then she at least wanted to keep helping her young students do so, Sarah decided. This was her duty as an educator… right? Her mind struggled to string together cohesive thoughts.

The tentacles playing with Diana's long clit suddenly fell away, allowing Sarah to greedily slurp the lubed-up nub it into her warm mouth. She sucked it in and out between her lips as her tongue danced along its tender surface. She felt Diana squirm and tremble satisfactorily under her ministrations and she drove the girl towards a climax that she herself was deprived of.

Sarah didn't have a long time to continue to savor the taste of girlflesh as she was suddenly moved from the two teens' writhing crotches. Diana's clit audibly popped from Sarah's mouth as her lips still attempted to powerfully suck on it even while being pulled away.

A change came over the Taker as it began to shift the positions of the two teens inside of it. Diana was slowly lifted up and off of the boy's huge meatstick, allowing the cum inside of her to freely gush from her hole.

The appendage was doing its best to collect the valuable fluid, but it quickly overflowed, and the excess spunk splatter to the ground below. The Asian girl was brought up to around where the creature's head would be if it had one, and her legs were spread obscenely wide while still being fused into the creature's flesh. Diana hardly seemed to notice this change of events as her head still rolled around in a happy daze with her tongue hanging out.

Sarah, though only half-conscious in her swimming mind, was able to make out the face of the African-American boy who she had just been tending to. As Diana had briefly alluded to earlier, it was in fact Arlo, one of her students from the same section as Diana and Zoey.

Arlo stared back hat her with a blank smile.

"Heeeeeeey professorrrr!" He groaned. "Yoouuu know, I've always wanted to play with your huuuuge boobs heh… such a distraction in class!" He hungrily eyed Sarah's transparent panties. "Why… why don't you come with us?" He winked. Sarah didn't even have the state of mind to roll her eyes at his pun. He always was the class clown. Arlo shook his hips, making his rigid cock and tender balls sway back and forth in an enticing, lewd motion. She was about to find some sort of words to reply with, when suddenly the tentacles around her began to act.

As if a kiss from an angel, Sarah felt her panties get pulled away and her legs twitched in surprise as the cool air brushed along her moist slit. Though, "moist" wasn't really the best word to describe her hopelessly dripping hole. The tentacles fiendishly edging her poor womanhood withdrew as her body was rotated to be perpendicular with the ground.

Two strong appendages wrapped around her knees and gently pried them apart with little resistance as they moved her trembling ass directly over Arlo's still fountaining cock. She could feel his thick, warm semen splash up onto her eager, swollen pussy lips that were only centimeters away from his throbbing glans.

The tentacles slowly began to lower Sarah's sweating hips towards the hard shaft, but stopped just as the tip of it grazed her petals. She could feel her student's warmth as his cum started to gush up between her labia while his twitching cockhead gently brushed back and forth over her sensitive clit.

"D-don't stop!" Sarah groaned. She began to shake her ass as best she could to try and get more stimulation by feebly grinding her vulva against the spongy tip of Arlo's rod. Instead, all she managed to do was make more of a mess as the spray of his latest ejaculation missed her crotch and painted the dark red patch of hair that delicately adorned her soft mound.

Though there wasn't much of a need to keep things shaven anymore, Sarah still made regular efforts to keep her pubes neatly trimmed. It gave her a feeling of control in her life and also allowed her to be ready just in case things… developed… with Adam. She had fantasized about the two of them making love in the monitoring room some day, surrounded by the sights of countless other people being fucked as well.

Sarah was distracted from her futile task of getting off when she looked up to see that Diana's gaping pussy was again only inches from her face. Suddenly, a thick tentacle wrapped around Diana's swollen midsection and squeezed firmly. Diana cried out as gallons of gooey cum and slime erupted from all of her holes. Her cries turned to choked gurgles as some of the fluid belched from her mouth, while it continued to flow from her wildly spasming asshole and vagina.

The violent burst of juices completely drenched Sarah's head, making her lose her sight and sputter for breath through the thick coating. She opened her mouth wide to take a big, gasping breath and suddenly her head was pushed forward until her lips engulfed Diana's still-flowing cunt. She began to gulp-down mouthfuls of Arlo's cum that flowed from it while digging into the Asian teen's messy slit with her tongue, as if trying to shovel more of the jizz into her greedy mouth.

As Sarah feasted on Diana's pussy, the tentacles binding her arms to her side suddenly loosened enough for her to slide out of them. Using her freed limbs, she attempted to reach down to masturbate herself, but tentacles blocked the path of her eager fingers. She gave up in frustration but still found other uses for her hands.

Unable to stimulate her own breasts, which were still wrapped in tentacles, she instead blindly felt her way up Diana's slippery body and began to sensuously massage her student's jiggling tits.

Suckers continued to milk the girl's nipples, but now Sarah added her own rhythmic squeezes into those of the tentacles. She buried her fingers deep into Diana's soft, supple boobs and hefted them in her hands, enjoying their warm weight. It was then when it finally happened.

"HMNGHHHH!" Sarah's yell was muffled in Diana's pussy. Sarah gasped in both shock and lust as she felt Arlo's huge cock suddenly ram up into her begging cunt. Small tendrils held her moist lips wide open, so his rigid manhood easily slid deep inside of her, reaching the very back of her walls in one thrust. Any pain she might have felt from the violent intrusion was easily eclipsed by the flung-open floodgates of her first orgasm in months.

She felt her pussy walls cramp up from the overwhelming pleasure, clamping down onto the well-lubed shaft that continued to piston in and out of her spasming hole. Her entire body shook from the release that had been building up for the past ten minutes, though it felt like hours. Her anus twitched open and closed, her hips bucked, and her painfully erect nipples rubbed against the inside of her bra. It was the best orgasm of her life. And she wanted more.

As the fireworks inside of her head began to fade away, her panting mouth resumed hungrily sucking on Diana's welcoming pink lips. Lost in her own orgasmic bliss, she paid little mind to the sudden wet choking sounds that her female student made.

A moment later, she felt a firm, slick tentacle prod against her puckered starfish. Though she was an anal virgin, Sarah felt no hesitation as she obediently relaxed her tight sphincter and allowed the thick tendril to enter her. The feeling of being so thoroughly filled in both her holes made her gurgle happily into Diana's soaked pussy. This was far better than doing it with any man she had ever been with, much less her own toys.

Suddenly, she felt something rising in her throat and she thought she was vomiting from pleasure, but instead a thick tentacle pushed its way up through her esophagus and out of her mouth. Sarah went wide-eyed and fear overtook her for a moment, expecting to suffocate, or feel her internal organs be shredded to pieces from the appendage that had clearly gone entirely through her body. However, neither of those horrific fates came to pass. Instead of pondering the mysteries of the Krinis's biology, she began to focus once again on tending to Diana's succulent genitals.

Sarah glanced up and noticed Diana's own mouth filled with a pulsating tentacle, which she was happily sucking on. Looking down as best she could, Sarah could see a tentacle connecting the anuses of both her and her student. She realized then what had happened. The tentacle had entered Diana's mouth, exited through her ass, then plunged into Sarah's before making its way up to her throat. The squirming tentacle connected both women, and it was about to come full circle.

The end of the appendage wiggling around in Sarah's mouth seemed eager to help her pleasure Diana's exposed sex. As Sarah's lips latched onto the girl's tender mound, the tentacle pushed past her licking tongue and delved deep inside the twitching hole. Diana moaned throatily into her end of the tentacle as the appendage opened up inside or her like a flower and scoured her inner walls. it aggressively massaged her g-spot while her teacher suckled at her moist, swollen vulva.

All three of them came at the same time. Sarah felt Diana's twat flex open against her lips as the teen's love juices poured down into her mouth. The tentacle came as well, adding to the liquids pooling inside of Sarah's cheeks, unable to enter her throat, instead cascading down her chin. Sarah thought she felt a bulbous object travel up her throat and pass between her lips and into the girl's pussy, but it was hard to tell through all the other sensations overwhelming her convulsing body.

Sarah never considered herself to be a "squirter" before, but that all changed now. At first she was alarmed, thinking she was peeing herself (which wouldn't have been too surprising), but soon realized that she was in the midst of ejaculating a huge flow of womanly juices that gushed down to envelope Arlo's own orgasming organ.

Sarah felt her insides filled with hot, sticky cum as her student's cock erupted deep inside of her twitching cunt. His fluids joined hers in a sloppy dance as they oozed from her hole and were quickly sucked up by tentacles. Some of it still managed to escape and drip down his hanging balls to spatter into small pools on the street below.

Lost in their shared ecstasy, none of the enslaved humans noticed as the Taker's body began to morph. The tentacles writhed as if full of new energy and began to separate to make room for a third person to join the creature's fleshy abdomen. Sarah's gasping, sweating head flopped forward as the tentacle slid back out of her body as it prepared to move her to her new home in the creature's warm embrace.

She felt herself being spun around to face the other way as the tentacles holding her torso separated to allow another set of tendrils to begin to slide down her shirt and into the D-cups of her bra. Their questing feelers brushed against her stiff nipples as they began to tear at the fabric of her shirt in an attempt to expose her hidden tits for the world to see.

Just before the tentacles pulled away to finish their work and reveal Sarah's completely naked, slime-covered body, she heard a shout and groggily turned her flushed face towards the sound. She saw a silver glint pass by her head and suddenly she was falling. She landed softly in a pile of squirming tentacles and tried to focus her eyes, desperate to find something to fill any of her desperate holes with.

She fished around clumsily with her hands as she felt something else grab onto her arm and yank her to her feet. However, she was too weak and shaky from the powerful orgasms she had endured only moments before, and she collapsed to the ground, causing the remainder of the cum inside of her slit to spurt out and lazily drool from between her legs.

"She has drunk of the Krinis's nectar." Sarah heard a familiar female voice say above her as she lay in a fetal position. "It may not be too late if we help her quickly. For someone claiming to be an educator of this world, she is remarkably brash in her decision making."

"Well, it's because of her that we were able to get the time we needed to snag my bag. So instead of chastising her, maybe thank her!" Said another, deeper voice.

"The time for graciousness will come later. We must return to your metal cave quickly before this drone recovers and more follow." Sarah felt herself lifted into the air by a pair of strong, slender arms. She opened her eyes and looked up to see a blue woman holding her in a princess carry. Sarah didn't know when it had happened, but her long white lab coat had been placed over her tired body to cover it from view.

"A'luhr…?" Sarah wheezed, beginning to come to her senses. "Whuh-"

"Do not speak, Sarah Cassidy." A'luhr replied in a concerned tone. "The more you move your throat, the more the nectar will be absorbed and poison your mind. Rest now." Sarah was about to protest in confusion and anger for having been stripped away from the endless well of pleasure she yearned to return to, when suddenly she felt a strong grip on a pressure point at the base of her neck and she fell into darkness.

All she could sense before slipping away were the sounds of unintelligible voices, hurried footsteps, and the calming drops of rain that began to gently patter against the unfeeling pavement below.

***

"Drink. That's it. You are lucky water is so abundant on your planet. Its ability to fight-off the effects of the corrupting nectar is very strong." A'luhr's distant voice drifted into Sarah's ears. She felt something cold and wet pressed to her dry lips and she thirstily welcomed it into her parched throat.

She didn't realize how dehydrated she had become. She wasn't surprised, however, as rigorous physical activity, sweating, and ejaculating all heavily tax the body. She struggled to open her eyes and blinked at the bright light, feeling like her mind was finally pushing its way out of a deep, foggy forest after days of being lost in the dampness. She could make out four humanoid shapes nearby.

"Is… Is she going to be okay?" Adam said with concern. "What the fuck was she thinking!?"

"Shh!" Zoey shushed. "Not so loud! Diana and Arlo are still sleeping too."

"Her body already begins to reject the drugs in her system. We got to her in time, it seems." A'luhr assured them. "Look, she awakes." Sarah's blurry vision slowly came into focus as her eyes scanned around the room. She was back in the bunker and lying on a cot with the rest of the group huddling over her. A'luhr had a water bottle in her hands, which she gingerly removed from Sarah's lips as the dazed woman attempted to sit up.

"Whoa... whoa easy there…" Adam gently breathed a sigh of relief as he and Zoey both helped Sarah into a somewhat seated position. She looked down at herself. She was covered in a blanket but realized she was completely nude beneath it. She suddenly blushed and wrapped her arms around her hidden chest and clenched her legs.

"D-did you…!?" Sarah stammered.

"Good ol' Zo took care of washing you while you were out; don't worry." Steven remarked. "Though it's not like A'luhr and I didn't already get an eyefu- SHIT!" He yelped as Zoey kicked him hard in the shins. Sarah realized that her body was indeed feeling clean and refreshed. She ran a hand through her hair and confirmed that there wasn't a single glob of slime or dried cum in it. She wasn't sure how Zoey had managed this feat, but she was damn impressed.

"Thank you…" Sarah whispered. "I… I know I was stupid. I just wanted to do anything I could to feel like I was in control of the situation and then, well… the opposite happened." She felt blood rise to her cheeks as she remembered the pitiful, horny state she had been in. She almost could have vomited from the embarrassment writhing in her stomach like that long tentacle had been doing not long ago.

"How long was I…?"

"You've been back around two hours now." Adam answered, predicting her question. "You're the first to wake up though. Likely because you weren't as exposed to the Taker's aphrodisiac stuff as the other two were."

"Other two…?" Sarah turned her head to look across the room at the other beds. She saw the sleeping heads of Diana and Arlo poking out from under the blankets of the two cots next to hers. She let out a sigh of relief. It had all been worth it.

"The Krinis's nectar keeps their slaves conscious for as long as possible, despite the heavy physical strain that constant copulation puts on the body," A'luhr explained, offering Sarah more water, who gratefully accepted. "Now that they are separated from their source, the effects of the accumulated exhaustion have hit them both all at once, so they rest. They will be fine, though I don't know how their… bodily modifications will adjust. I take it that most males of your species do not usually have phalluses this large, nor do your females often possess mammaries of that magnitude. We will have to monitor them to make sure they remain healthy."

"What about the fireworks?" Sarah said, suddenly remembering the entire point of their mission.

"Got 'em ready to roll in the work-space." Steven replied, rubbing his leg. "We managed to get back just before the heavens opened up on us!"

"Yes. We would have made it with a larger window of time had you not insisted on saving the other two humans here." A'luhr grunted. "We cannot afford to jeopardize our entire cause just for two individuals. Believe me, I've made that mistake before and it cost me."

"I won't turn my back on people when I know I can help them," Steven declared defiantly. "...Not again…" His gaze turned sullen and he looked away from the alien woman.

"Thank you, Steven," Zoey said with sincerity, putting a hand on his arm. "Really… you helped save my friends…" She sniffed. "If only I could have been there to help too…"

"What kind of stepbrother would I be to constantly put his kid stepsister in danger?" Steven perked up. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, you know?"

"Sure." Zoey laughed while rolling her eyes. "Anyway, we have the magnesium now… but how exactly are we planning to use it? We only have enough fireworks for one good explosion and I don't think the creatures will just let us waltz into their nest with them."

"Good point." Adam agreed. "We got enough for a big ol' fuckin' blast, but from what A'luhr was saying earlier, it sounds like we need to kill the queen or else the bitch'll just keep spewing out more of those freaks."

"Indeed, we do not have a lot of time to figure out our plan of attack." A'luhr sighed. "We have merely set foot on the 'starting line.'" She glanced over at Steven as if looking for approval on her idiom usage. He gave a curt nod and a thumbs up. She hesitantly returned his gesture with her own thumbs up, seemingly still getting used to the humans' mannerisms.

"Is there some way we can mask ourselves from them so they can't see us?" Adam wondered aloud.

"They hunt based on a combination of sound and heat," A'luhr replied. We would never be able to sneak in." She shifted uncomfortably in place before continuing. "I propose we allow one of us to get captured, similar how to Sarah Cassidy… distracted… the drone earlier."

"What!?" Zoey cried. "That's insane! You'd be a goner!"

"Correct." A'luhr nodded. "If not for my last impulse detonator." She held up her one remaining grenade. "We simply find a way to get someone inside the breeding grounds while retaining their possession of this and the starfire. Then when the time is right, they activate the impulse and set off the starfire towards the queen, at which point she will die and all the Krinis will lose the will to live."

The rest of the group stared at her in silence.

"I agree that this plan has holes." A'luhr's eyebrows twisted together. "We cannot guarantee that the captive will be able to keep their hold on the weapons, nor that they will be brought near the queen. It is dangerous, but the only chance we have. So I vote for myself to go." She stood back as if offering herself to them all.

"A'luhr…" Sarah whispered. She didn't like the idea of her new ally being subjected to the horrors of the tentacles for her sake, but she had no other ideas to offer.

"What if…" Steven spoke up, his voice getting stronger and more excited with each word. "What if we didn't need to send any PERSON into the tunnels at all?"

"Explain." A'luhr tilted her curious head towards him.

"Do you know something we don't?" Adam asked, crossing his arms.

"I know plenty of things that you don't," Steven said with a cocky wink. "But more importantly, I HAVE something you don't!" He suddenly bolted out of the room, leaving the rest of the group to blink at each other in confusion.

"Ah! I wonder if it's…!" Zoey started to say, as Steven burst back into the room carrying a large, rectangular case. It was the one he had risked his life to bring to the bunker back on the first day. Sarah seemed to recall him referring to it as his "baby". She raised her eyebrows at the sight of the admittedly forgotten box.

"This will be our ticket to sending those alien fuckers into the ground that they love so much." Steven grinned devilishly as he snapped the case open. The eyes of the rest of the group opened wide in surprise.