Act 18: Ranii's Gift

She grabs his shoulder, and prepares to beam up.
"Oh, a little heads up before we get up there.... it's a little cold."
They disappear in a flash of light, and find themselves on her ship. Although, calling it a ship is a bit generous...

The Lucario looks around at this new environment, he remembers this feeling very well, like when it was that day when he met that Ghost Bear Pack. "Hhhmmm...i wonder where they are right now."

"Who knows? last I heard they were doing anti-pirate ops over in the Acrux Harangue system. Though, that was several months ago."
She gives a soft chortle.
"Anyway, yeah, as I said, tis a little cold up here. I mean, this thing is essentially an ice comet that's been hollowed out, had a reinforced duraglass dome put on top, and had some engines and thrusts slapped onto the outside. Up top you'll find my crops which I've been growing. In here you'll find, well, Rest and relaxation area. The place we need to be is the basement Biolab. Follow me."

He noticed it was a bit chilly but it didn't bother him much. "It's alright, I don't mind the cold. Just lead and I will follow."

She leads him towards the basement biolab. it doesn't look that much different than the ghost-bear's version, to be honest. Though he never really saw that part of the ship.
"Alright, now that we're here." She says with a look in your eyes. "I need your blood."
She says that while holding her hands in front of her menacingly, while flashing a very threatening smile. Before chuckling and laughing.
"I'm kidding. Well... kinda. I do need a sample of your blood though. Just to get your genome. And your blood is the best way to do that."
She takes out a syringe instead of doing it... that other way.
"Hold out your arm. this will only take a few seconds."

"You are going to use that pointy thing to draw my blood? Alright then." He believes in her, he knows she isn't going to do anything bad, maybe that will just hurt a bit but that's probably just that. The Lucario holds out one of his arms for her. 

She inserts the needle, carefully, so as to not hit his bones. The tube begins to fill up with red blood, and once it's full, she pulls it out again.
"See? What did I tell ya? Quick and easy."
She takes the syringe full of his blood over to the smaller computer with the test tubes and flasks and other stuff, and inserts the syringe into a small port inside of it. The blood rains, and items appear on the screen. The avali cracks her knuckles, and then begins to type away at the screen.
"Let's see here... yes... yes... synthesization ongoing...  okay... goood..." She continues this sort of technobabble while she works, her partner obviously not understanding a single word of it. 
A moment later, a flask fills up with a strange liquid. A liquid that the avali looks at, swirls around carefully.
"Very good. Veeerryyy good."
She takes it, as well as a few other tubes filled with unknown contents, over to the larger computer, the one with the huge green pod next to it. She dumps the liquids into the port, one by one, and begins to clatter away at the keyboard there. 
"This tech is a little outdated, but it still gets the job done." She says as she works. On the screen, the image of Lucario appears. She hits some buttons, and it zooms into the crotch area. Currently, it's missing its penis, but soon one appears.
"Well, let's see... nice size. We don't want it too small obviously, but not too huge either. I mean," She turns to Luca, addressing him for the first time since she started working on this. "you've probably heard that there's no such thing as too big of a dick, right?"

His eyes dart left and right for a moment, this...is not something he is quite about hearing, that or he couldn't have paid attention. "Well...I know that some males can brag about the size of their penis, does that count?"

"Kinda. Well, take it from a female that knows what she's talking about. Whoever says that there's no such thing as too big of a dick... is a fuckin' idiot. Pun fully intended. Having too big of a dick means your really limited with what you can do with it. I mean, I know slutbunny would go crazy over you, and I'd have to spend the rest of my time having to beat her off with my spear."
She grumbles under her breath.
"Which I will probably have to end up doing anyway. But.. Well, let's never mind that."
"So, let's see...." She continues in her normal tone as she plays with the size on the screen. "Ah, that should work. How does that look?"
The cock is big for his size, but not overly huge as to where it will cause problems.

"I suppose it's...good." Luca isn't exactly sure what's gonna happen so he sounds unsure, he is mostly trusting her judgment here.

"Alright." She says. She hits the button on the thing. The word "in progress" appears on the screen, followed by a progress bar. 
"Now we play the waiting game." She sighs. "Normally this would take a few DAYS to complete. Time we don't have, but... well..." she blushes a bit as she grins. "Let's just say I have a certain method to speed things up."

"And what would that be?"

"Well" She says as she holds her hand out. The spear, Gungnir, appears in it. "Remember those... 'odd powers' I mentioned back when I was telling you my story?"

He nods. "Yes...are you going to use them?"

She nods. "Stand back please." 

She holds the spear with one hand, straight up, and holds her other hand out towards the tube. She begins to chant in a strange language that even the translator cannot register. If it even is a language at all.
After a few moments of changing, her hand begins to glow with a yellow light. When this happens, she pulls her hand out, thrusting it towards the large green tube, the energy shooting from her hand and through the glass, into the tube.
"AAAHH!!" She suddenly yells, quickly falling to her knees , using the spear to lean on, as if hurt by this.

"...!" The Lucario was quick to go to her side, grasping at her with her paws to help her stand. "Ranii are you alright?!"

"I... I..." She coughs. She shakily stands to her feet, with Luca's help. "I'm fine. It's .. It's just this takes a bit out of me every time I use it." She looks towards the screen. It seems the progress bar is rapidly filling up from 2%, where it had been proceeding at a crawl before, it's now rapidly filling up. At least untill it hits 44%, where it resumes its normal pace. "Damn..." she says. "Looks like I'll have to do it again soon... Though... I need a bit of rest first. If I use this too often too soon, it might be dangerous."

If she needs to rest he can take her back to that R&R area. "Do you need me to carry you?"

"I... I..." Part of her, the more proud part of her wants to say 'No, I can handle this myself.' But the other part of her... the part of her that's doing all of this in the first place... "If... If you want." She finally says.

"Don't worry, I got you..." He carefully places his arms behind her legs and back so he could lift her up safely, carrying her bridal-style, then he starts going back the way they came, the R&R area is that way after all.

"Mmm" She softly coos as she's carried back up the lift and to the R&R area. Normally, she'd be way too proud to admit she likes this, but right now.. things are different.

When he got there, he placed his Avali partner on one of the hammocks. "Does...using that power always ends with you like that?"

"Yeah..." She replies, looking at him as she's laid into the hammock. "Though, mostly it just knocks the wind out of me. If I use it too often in too short of a time however, it could actually hurt me."

So if she rests it should be fine, right? "So this...spear of yours, you said it was made by gods?"

"Well, that's what the legends say. And it does have strange abilities. Ones even I don't fully understand. For example..."
She holds out her hand, and the spear appears in it again. She casually tosses it some distances away, causing the spear to bounce, yes, BOUNCE off the walls, before finally resting onto the ground, and vanishing, and reappearing in her hand again.
"There is that."

This really isn't a regular spear at all, he is surprised to know all of this."I see..." He thinks for a moment. "Hhhmmm...i don't remember hearing about anything similar from the gods of our world..."

"It gets better." She says with a grin. "I'm not able to demonstrate it here, for obvious reasons, but if there was a hostile creature or enemy soldier or bandit or whatnot nearby... If I had thrown this thing at them then, it wouldn't have bounced off the walls, it would have honed in right at them."

That's even more surprising. "So this...spear has a mind of its own?"

"Pretty much." She says. She lets it go, and it vanishes into thin air again. "Though, I have never heard it talk or try to communicate or something like that."

He takes note of how the weapon keeps disappearing and reappearing. "Hhhmmm, it's not possible for it to be stolen from you, is it?"

"No." She gives him a smirk. "Why? Were you thinking of 'borrowing' it?"

He can not ignore the fact that a weapon like that would be pretty effective, spears are not his style though. "Not really. It just seems priceless and it doesn't deserve to get taken away by some rouge and used against you. You think there are swords like that out there though?"

"Maybe?" She shrugs in her bed. "I mean if something like this exists, then there is definitely the possibility."

"Hhhmmm..." He sits himself on the floor. "Do you know anything about the gods that made that spear of yours?"

According to the legends, the spear was created by Alpacodin, the Alpaca all-father. It was wielded by his chosen herald and wife/lover/concubine. The exact position is rather vague and seems to vary from tribe to tribe, the first Valkyrie. And that they both perished in a battle against a universe-destroying monstrosity, but the spear returned. 
Or so the legend goes. I'm not sure if this is the only one of its kind out there, or if there are more Valkyries than myself. Alpacas are rather rare in the universe, like Fenroxes.
"I will say this though." She adds. "I do find it odd that if this is truly the only one of its kind and that I'm the only Valkyrie out there, that the weapon managed to land on that planet in particular and only made itself known to that tribe in particular. Especially since the legends always referred to Valkyries in plural." 

"Hhhmm, i see...that is pretty odd, honestly sometimes i wish these things were easier to understand, i get a headache if trying to think about it too much." Quite a little story, maybe he can tell one of his one his own. "You know, Guildmaster Stics has a collection of written papers back in the guild. There was this one i read once about a three pokémon gods, Uxie who gave us knowledge, Mesprit who gaves emotion, and Azelf who gave us willpower." 

He continues on telling her. "Then there is this god who created all different species of pokémon, and it could become any of those species on a whim, it's called Mew. There isn't a lot about this one at all. I heard that there are some out there who associate this god with...breeding."

"Mew the slut-god?" She asks with a chuckle.

He shrugs. "No idea. I guess because it 'created' life, and it was said that mew could also be any species of pokémon it so desired. There is a species of pokémon that...kind of gets close to that though, but it's kind of possible to go your whole life without seeing one...the Ditto. We have one living in secret in our Guild...wonder if Stic will finally use it."

"But...before Mew or the other three gods i just mentioned...it is said that only one pokémon existed at first, Arceus, who created the gods that shaped the world." He says. "That's pretty much all I know about this one though, there wasn't a whole lot written about it that the guildmaster could find."

"I see...." Of course, Ranii wasn't briefed on any of this, but she still listens. "Anything else?"

"Not really." He shakes his head. "Unless we want to count humans...like the Iron King."

"I have vaguely heard of the Iron King... anything else you can tell me about them?"
"..Actually, hold that thought." She suddenly says. She stretches one leg over the hammock, letting it down on the ground, and then the other. She gets out of the hammock. "There... I should be good now."

If she is getting up, Luca is getting up as well. "Are you sure? Not feeling any more weakness?"

"Na. It only lasts about a half hour usually before it dissipates." She gives a few stretches. "Come. Let's see how our ... project is doing." She heads towards the basement biolab again.

"Right." He follows behind Ranii once more.

They reach the basement and Ranii looks at the screen. 
"60%... further than I expected, but it seems I'm going to have to do it again. At least a few more times, in fact."

"Do that again and get tired right away?" He sighs. "If you are sure about that, alright. I will carry you again if you need it."

"I appreciate the thought." She smiles as she once again summons her spear. "But don't worry, I'll do this in smaller bursts this time. I'll still get tired, but it shouldn't be as bad."
She holds her hand out, and chants. Her hand glows again, but it's fainter than before, and she extends her hand out to the tube, the light going into it like last time."
"Ahhh!" She once again shouts, softer this time. She doesn't fall to her knees like last time, but she does take a few deep breaths. It looks like the backlash isn't as severe this time.

Luca watches on as she does her thing, but he is ready to move in at a minute's notice if it looks like she needs any assistance.

She pants for air, gasping for air, even this lower grade version is exhausting. But, it looks like she's recovering.
"I'm... I'm okay. Even with this low grade, it looks like I'm going to have to take a few breaks... "
Now that she has her bearings back, She checks the screen. Just like before, it's rapidly rising.
"65%... 70%.... 75%... 82%... Alright."
She turns around, facing Luca.
"I'm still going to need a few moments before doing this yet again... should only take one or two after this though. I think I can stay down here though for the remainder of this. Sooo... anyway, back to that 'Iron King' guy..."

"Hhhmm...okay then." The Lucario nods before continuing that topic they were having back at the R&R area. "The Iron King was a human turned pokémon that saved our world many many years ago, He knew how to forge weapons with Iron, and he used that knowledge to arm himself and others."

"And he's the reason we have this whole... Iron stuff, I take it?"

"Yes, I heard that even farming and writing is something we have thanks to humans that came before the Iron King. When his adventure was done he somehow did not disappear like the previous humans...he stayed. He proceeded to expand his influence through the continent until he had an 'empire'. Eventually he died and his empire split into three kingdoms: The Snows, The Grove, and The Sands."

"Yeaaah that tends to happen with personality cults." She groans.

"....Did humans really save us...? Or have they been destroying us?"

"Sounds like a little bit of both?" She shrugs. "Anyway, I wonder what else this 'Iron King' brought in? I'm pretty sure iron swords aren't the only thing."

"Who knows..." He shrugs. "If we don't win tomorrow...i don't know what we are gonna do." 

"It'll be okay. We'll make it." She pats his shoulders. "It'll be alright. Let's concentrate on tonight for now."
She turns to the controls.
"84%... One more boost ought to do it."
She once again summons the spear, and does the ritual, the light fills, then leaves her hand towards the tube.  She pants for breath afterward, just as before.

That last one should have been enough, right? He approaches just in case she is feeling too to walk again.

She looks at the screen. The progress climbs.
85%. 90%... 95%... 
"Come on.. come on..."
... 100%
"And there we go!" 
She pants.
Inside the tube, a shape has taken form. The form of a blue furred sheath, a pair of similiarly blue balls, and a large red shaft, complete with a knot.
A lucario's dick, floating in the liquid. All it needs now, is a lucario to attach it to.
One that happens to be approaching Ranii at this very moment.

He looks at it, speechless, seeing a penis just...there, without a body, it feels pretty surreal. "Uuuuuh......i guess now you are going...attach it to me, right?"

"Yes." She says, still catching her breath. "As soon as I catch my breath..."

"Alright, just take your time, Ranii."

She takes said time to regain her strength. A few moments, then she then turns to Luca.
"Alright. Now the easy part's done with." She says. "Now the hard part... no pun intended. I need you to get on that bed."
She adjusts the strapped bed so it's laying parallel to the ground, flat as it should be.  She then extends a hand to it, motioning for Luca to lay on it.

A bed that can be adjusted...he wonders how comfortable it is. "Got it." Luca proceeds to lay down on the bed like she instructed him to.

Well, it was really not designed to be slept in, so it's probably not that comfortable.
"okay so here's kind of the tough part." She reaches for the ceiling, and a mask-like thing attached to a hose comes down. "Normally, I would put you under sedation using a chemical. Buuuut there's one problem with that. I think we both know what it is."

"Hhhmm, I see...so these 'chemicals' won't work to put me asleep huh?" He sits up and thinks for a moment. "Does it have to be like that or can I sleep because of...other reasons? such as passing out?"

"Yeah. That's basically my plan." She said, knocking the ceiling-mounted mask a bit. "I intend to force you to pass out by means of oxygen deprivation. I'll put this mask on you, which will control the amount of oxygen you can receive. Kind of like choking, but less sudden and forceful. And once you're asleep, I'll raise the oxygen just enough for you to stay alive and undamaged, yet stay asleep while I work."
She sighs.
"Look, I know that plan sucks, but it's the best I got. Especially since you being awake during this operation is very much out of the question. Reattaching it is almost as painful as losing it. Perhaps moreso, as it takes longer."
She sighs again.
"You know, this would be FAR simpler if they authorized me to give you nanites. Then I could just send a command to your brain to 'switch you off'. But noooooo. I can't do that unless I make you part of my pack. Which doesn't exist."

Forming a pack with her? like how those Avali before her and their crew? He doesn't quite understand what it entails. "Then...can't we decide to form a pack?"

"Well... uh..." 
A blush forms on her cheeks. 
"would you really want to go that far with me?"

"Thinking about it now, I'm not sure...I don't know what becoming a pack member truly means." He stays silent for a moment, thinking that maybe saying this can sound bad. "I think highly of you, Ranii, I really do. But I don't think I can forfeit the world I was born in like that Shinx, Jolteon and Linoone did..." 

"Well... the closest thing I could equate it to in this culture, and my own alpaca upbringing would be... ummm" The Avali thinks for a moment, before a blush forms on her face. "... Marriage? But minus the sexual commitment? It's... hard to explain. ESPECIALLY since I never had a pack. But I'll try."
She sighs.
"Thing is, packs always stick together. If we were to form a pack, just the two of us, and maybe others if we so choose... you would have to go where I go, and vice versa. I'd have to stay in this world forever, or you'd have to come with me should I ever get called elsewhere. I mean, for the foreseeable future, I'm more than fine with the former. But, you never know when something like the Occassus crisis might spring up in this galaxy, and the AEF might decide to call me to somewhere else. In that case, you'd have to come with."

"hhmhmmm..." He thinks and thinks. "Alright, listen..." He places his paws on her shoulder and begins talking with all of his sincerity. "Me, Stic, the entire guild...we dedicate everything to free sandstone from the nobles, and with your help...the Avali's help, we could do more than help just Sandstone, I know that. And when that day comes, when we make this world a better place...how about we go to other worlds and do the same huh? I just want to help make Guildmaster's vision a reality first, if it weren't for him i wouldn't be here today...i probably wouldn't even be alive, it's the only way i see to pay him back for being my father in all but name."

"That..." She pauses, placing her own paws on his cheek. "That sounds like a plan. I would like that."
She nods to him.
"So... does that mean you're ready to become a pack with me? It... it will feel weird, having a pack that is."

"I don't feel ready for that yet I'm afraid." He sighs. "I know this would mean that you will have to asphyxiate me momentarily but it's fine, you are putting a lot of effort for my sake, we can't stop now." 

"... Alright." She sighs. A little disappointed, but perhaps this is for the better. At least for now. "Besides, I forgot to mention that having the Nanites in you would also make you... well... nigh immortal. Or at least, immune to aging. It's part of the reason they don't hand them out willy-nilly to just everyone."
Now that they're back at square one, she pushes him down onto the bed gently. 
"I'm going to strap you onto the bed. Just to keep any sort of instinctual struggle to a minimum."

Immortality? That's some food for thought, he doesn't quite know what to say to it at the moment though. "Alright then, I will make an effort to stand still too."

"Alright." She says as she brings the straps over him, making sure to tightly strap him to the table. First the chest and upper arms, and then the legs. 
"I know this isn't comfortable for you, but believe me when I say the alternative is much worse."
She places the mask on his snout and mouth, the form oddly fitting to him. She tightly ties it around his head. 
"Alright..." she says, going over to one of the consoles. "Here we go. I'm turning the oxygen down."

The Lucario took in a breath to steel himself, then exhaled. When she started turning down the oxygen is getting it he began to feel the difference, the air fills thinner and thinner but since this is how it's how it's supposed to be he keeps himself strong even if it's uncomfortable...At least until it got to a point where he was gasping and gasping, he struggled too but tried to consciously stop himself from doing so, all the while his vision got began fading until he finally passed out from the lack of oxygen.

Ranii looks on, holding back every single urge in her body and mind to rush in, to stop all this, as she watches him struggle to take in what little air. 
"Keep it together, Ranii... Keep it together..." She says. Until she finally sees him pass out and lose consciousness.
The moment that happened, she did not waste a millisecond. She right away turned the air up, just as promised. Enough to keep him alive, but unconscious. Even so, she'd still only have a limited time to do this before he became damaged.
The green tube drains of liquid, and opens up, revealing the appendage she intends to attach. She grabs it, the tools she needs. And begins to work. 
This was the first time she's done such an operation, but the Nexus is guiding her. As are the spirits of the Valkyries. And perhaps, just perhaps, the 'gods' of this broken world.
Time passes, An hour or so of very hard, strenuous work, but, by all outward appearances, it has paid off. The mask is removed from the lucario. She clicks a button on the bed, and it shifts, now perpendicular to the ground instead of parallel. If his feet weren't tied to the 'bed' he would be standing.
"Luca?" She speaks. "Can...Can you hear me?"

Now able to breath normally, Lucas begins waking up. He groans as he slowly opens his eyes. "uurggh...Ranii? Did it work...?"

She smiles and looks down, extending an open palmed hand towards his crotch. "see for yourself."

The Lucario slowly looks down to see...his new genital, is it really his? He moves a paw to touch it and he can feel it, so yes it is pretty real. "Wow...you did." He smiles at her.

"Yes... " She pants. "Yes I did."
She worked tirelessly throughout the hour that he was out. She even had to resort to using that magic again. But in the end, it was worth it. Or so it seems.
"Real question is though..."
She gives him a sly, naughty grin, the same sort of grin the fluffy bunny would give when approaching someone for the first time. She turns around, slightly bending over, but not completely. Just enough for him to see what she intends to show him.
Her shapely, curvaceous ass cheeks, tightly together to hide her butthole. Her pussy lips, plainly visible and even more plainly moist, even to the point of a slow drip of fluids from them. Those fluffy skirt feathers complete the scene, acting as a stage for her goods. That tail, raised up into the air as high as her muscles will allow it, raised high, curving behind those ears, up around her head, and the large tip of it resting in front of and to the side of her.
She looks back, giving him a wide, seductive grin, and a wink. 

She has shown him this before, multiple times, 'accidently', to no effect. At the time, she had thought him simply uninterested in her, too shy to act or show any emotions, or perhaps, she had thought, she was too female for his tastes. But now that she knows the truth behind those other failed attempts, she is holding nothing back. No more subtlety. There is neither time, nor a need for it any longer.
"... Does it work?"

"What are you...?-" He looks at her rear as it is in full view for him, and he begins to feel...something inside of him. He is blushing and he can't take his wide eyes away from what he is seeing. What's more his newly-attached penis responds by getting erect.

"It appears it most certainly does." Ranii laughs sultrily. "This view... it seems it have a new effect on you now, doesn't it, my friend? Tell me... do you like what you see? Do you see... something that you desire? Do you... perhaps want to test out your new 'gift'?" She gives her ass a slow, seductive sway, side to side.

His eyes follow her rear's movement, like it's hypnotic. "Y-yes, my new penis just got erect and I feel rather attracted to you. So this...this is arousal?" He blinks. "Test it? You mean..."

"I most definitely do." She says. "I am no virgin, of course. Where I come from, losing one's virginity is... sort of an unofficial rite of passage into adulthood. Same thing in main avali society, though it's usually done with their packs. That said, this is not a gift I offer to just anyone. Unlike some people down there." She says that last part with a bit of distaste. "In fact, I've only offered it to two people on this planet. Ara being the only other, obviously. And now, I offer this to you, my partner and closest friend."

He remained silent for another moment examining the Avali's sexy body. "I... don't really see a reason to say no, it feels like my new penis is telling me to make use of it.....i...never had sex before obviously, but if you are okay with my total lack of experience, let's do it."

"That's the spirit." She grins. "And don't worry. I won't hold your lack of experience against you." She chuckles slightly.
"Normally, we would engage in foreplay. To get me wet. To get you hard. In preparation for this event. But, I think we're both good to go on that front. As you can see, I am already dripping wet. I mean..." A crimson red shade appears on her cheek. "I have been handling a dick for the last hour. Plus, I... might have been touching myself a little bit in anticipation of this very moment. Still..."
She pauses.
"That said, If you wish to explore my body, to feel me up with your hands, to intimately get close to me before getting right to it, I certainly won't stop you."
She frowns a bit before continuing. 
"Tomorrow, we will be fighting for our lives. And for the lives of an entire town. I don't know how it's going to turn out. And, as confident as we both are, we might not get this chance again. Hope for the best, expect the worst, after all. So... for tonight. I am yours. My body, and my heart. Every inch of me. Every orifice. My mouth, my pussy, my ass. It's all yours for the taking."

Maybe she has a point on that, tomorrow is going to be pretty important, and while they have nothing important to do until tomorrow comes, living a little isn't going to hurt. The Lucario eyes his penis again, giving it a few pumps as he approaches the Avali. "I'm uuhh...not sure where to begin, you got any suggestions?"

"Hug me? Kiss me? Feel me up? Or just stick it in my pussy?" She shrugs. "Just... relax. Let your body and instincts guide you. I'm not going to judge you for doing this 'wrong'."

"Hhhmmm...okay." Maybe there is no need to be so uptight about this, horny pokémon certainly are...maybe he should really 'let loose' a little. He pulls her into a hug, just keeping her a little to the side so his spike doesn't cause any problem, then gives her a kiss on the cheek.

As soon as she feels him wrap his arms around her, she stops swaying her hips. She does feel the spike off to the side, and is appreciative that he took that into consideration. 
Not that she had any doubts that he would. 
"Mmm" She gives a small, soft moan at this start. She closes her eyes, enjoying the feeling of closeness with her partner, and his hands around her. She gives him a slow, teasing grind with her rear, her soft, short, feathery down rubbing against his cock like a brush.

Her feathery rear rubbing against his cock allowed him to feel something he never felt up until now, pleasure, this new sensation that came out of the blue felt...pretty nice. His breathing seems to have increased a little. Luca's paws then begin exploring around her chest, feeling her feathers.

Ranii pushes her chest into his touch, cooing softly as those paws travel up and down her soft, 'furry' chest. Her own breathing is slow, yet deep. She closes her eyes, enjoying this sensation. 
"That's it, Luca. Touch me."

She can feel him grinding his cock against her rear, and one of his paws begins slowly descending down to her crotch.

The avali says nothing as she feels one of his paws slide down her body, her furry down bristling with small amounts of pleasure as the lucario's paw travels past the small 'hairs'. Only a small anticipatory moan for what is no doubt to come of it.

"I take it that I'm doing this right." He sounds pleased. "So how exactly do I touch you in your vagina for you to feel good?" His paw pokes her folds. "Is it here...?"

"Mmm yeah." She answers him with a moan, giving a very subtle shutter as she feels his paw touch her moist folds

Then if that is the right spot he begins to rub it, feeling how moist it is. "I think it's about time I put it in there, want to bend over?"

She sighs happily as she feels her pussy being rubbed, giving a loud "mmm". He can feel the dampness on his fingers as he rubs her there. 
She gives another "mmm" and a nod to his question. She's already bent over quite a bit, but she backs up just a bit, bumping into him softly, and grinding his cock against her butt again as she bends forward just a little more for him. Once she has done that, she spreads her legs apart, first her left leg, then her right, allowing him easier access. 
"Don't keep me waiting, big boy." She coos as she looks back with a sultry grin.

Luca can get used to her calling him that. "Alright, I'm coming in, be ready Ranii." He slowly touched the tip of his new penis on the entrance of her pussy, then began pushing it forward. He begins feeling another spike of pleasure from his dick going in a pussy for the first time, making his eyes roll up. "Ooooh...~"

In contrast, this is not the first time she's had a dick in her. Far from. She's no slut, granted, but she has had her fair share of sexual experiences.
That said, it has been a while. Discounting her romps with Ara, she has not had sex ever since being assigned to this mission. And it feels no less good being slowly stretched and filled by this lucario's dick. Pleasantly big, yet not huge as to be uncomfortable. 
Not a surprise at all. After all, she did make it for him. 
"Ahhh yeah..." She gasps, pushing back softly to get him as deep as he can with that first push, her wetness soaking his newfound appendage with her juices as her tight walls squeeze him pleasantly. "Just like that."

"This feels...this feels good, your inside feels so pleasantly warm..." This makes Luca wish he had a penis before, he really has been missing out on something good wasn't he? Now he sort of has an idea of what to do next, after all he saw other mons doing it before. He pulls his cock out, then pushes it back in, out and in, out and in...

"Ohhh yes!'' She cries loudly . "That's it! Ahhh Yes! Ahhh!" She pants and moans loudly as she feels her walls stretch with each push in, and hungrily contract each time his cock leaves their tight embrace. Her body begins to rock back and forth, softly at first at this soft pace he has set, as her buttcheeks lightly bounce against his legs each time he pushes that delicious rod she has given him into her. Oh, how she has missed this feeling.

He moans and breathes heavily, this feeling...this pleasure...it makes him feel such euphoria, he can't stop wanting more right now. His paws tightly grips her hips as he begins to thrust into her with more vigor.

"Ah! Ah! Ah yes!! Ah!" Her body rocks back and forth as Luca speeds up, his grunts and moans filling her four ears like euphoric music. Her mouth remains open, as she can no longer breathe simply through her nose, but now sucks in short but heavy breaths with pull. Her tounge drinks out, quickly picking up the scent of sex and sweat filling the room. "Yes! Ahh! More!!" She begs, her head rolling back as she begs, "Please, give it to me! Ah!"

He wants more too, so he is happy to oblige. Gritting his teeth and smiling, he just keeps on fucking the Avali hard. "Alright...then...take more of me!" With a few more hard thrust he manages to get his knot to go into her pussy too.

"AHH!!" Her eyes roll up as his knot enters her. Now this.... 
"That's AH, New!" She's never had a knot before. She feels so full around it, so stuck. Yet, so good. 
That thing, plopping inside of her, combined with herself 'getting herself ready for this moment', it's more than enough to almost send her over the edge. "Oh gods! Gonna cum!!" She yells back to her partner.

There aren't any more words for him, he is just moaning louder and louder until......"AAAAHHH!~" His penis begins unloading his load right into Ranii, rope after rope his warm white liquid going right in, and with more to come as they are going to be stuck for a bit until his knot deflates.

"AHHH! LUUCAAA!" Ranii yells as she too is driven over the edge, her eyes rolling up as her walls contract around her lover's cock and knot. Her body shakes and trembles from the sheer pleasure she feels. The hot seed fills her up, filling her cavern with a warm, filled feeling. 
"Mmmmmm" She moans softly, her mouth finally closing as her orgasm subsides, and she regains her senses. 
She looks back, and smiles. "How was that? Was your first time as good for you as it was for me?"

"Aaahh...aaaah..." It took a bit of time for him to process what she just said to him. "It...it was the best...i have ever felt." He said between pants.

"Mmmm, that's good." She says, looking back with that same, sultry smile she wore when this all started. "... Because it's not over yet."

"Really? Are you still ready for more?" He smirks. With a well trained body like his, even his first orgasm didn't depleted all of his stamina. The Lucario would want more too but when he tries to pull his dick out of her pussy...it appears to be stuck.

Ranii tries to pull away as well, but a few painful tugs later... 
... nothing. They're still stuck together. 
"Well... uh... that's awkward." She chuckles with embarrassment. "Looks like we're stuck like this. At least for a bit. Ah well."

"Well..." Blushing, he looks away a little in embarrassment. "Yeah." Maaaybe changing the subject is a good idea, so he will do just that. "So I better than anyone would know how much someone's penis is...a sensible area, so I'm thinking of wearing some protection for it."

"Like... a sheet of armor or something?" She giggles. "Might not be a bad idea. I put a lot of energy into that thing, figuratively and literally, so I wouldn't want my hard work to go to waste thanks to a stray blade or arrow..." 
"... Even though it is easier to fix or attach a limb than it is to make a new one." She adds under her breath.

"Something like that, though i'm not sure what material to use to be honest" He sighs. "There aren't plenty of hardy materials good enough to make it in sandstone, and Iron always goes for making weapons."

"I think I might be able to come up with something." She informs him. "... After we're done of course."

"Hhhmm, alright then." Luca wonders what she is going to come up with, the last time she came up with something it was giving him a new penis. After a little while he pulled again, with a small 'pop' sound his dick was able to slide out of her pussy.

The dick leaves with a wet pop, and a short but pleasureful gasp from Ranii. She turns around, and leans back against the wall, looking down at her crotch, which is now leaking their combined fluids. 
"Quite the mess we made in there, isn't it?" She says, giving it a teasing rub in full view of him. "Though, now you're getting a little limp, I see."
She walks over to him, and kisses him on the lips. 
"Don't worry, I know how to fix that." She says with a few soft giggle. 
"... And no, it won't involve me using magic, so don't worry."

The Lucario eyed her leaking pussy until she walked up to him for that kiss. He enjoyed that little moment where their lips touched. "Yeah, I think this dick had enough magic for one day."

"Heh. Well, actually..."
She kisses him again, this time, a little lower, on his neck. 
"You might find this kinda like magic. But..."
She kisses a little lower on his neck.
"Just not the kind that..."
She kisses him where the neck meets the chest.
"... Involves spears or gods."
She eyes that chest spike of his for a moment.
"Actually, I wonder..."
She gives the chest spike a kiss, followed by a lick of her long, avali tounge. She looks up at him, as during this time, she has lowered herself down ever so slightly.
"How does that feel? Does touching this spike turn you on at all, or not really?"

He does feel something actually. "Well, kind of I think. Did make my chest feel tingly."

The avali reaches down, and traces his dick's length with the back of her talon tip., starting at the bottom, and slowly slides it up , till its right at the very tip.
"Interesting." She comments. She gives the chest spike a few more licks, before taking it into her mouth, sucking on it as she wraps her long tongue around it, coiling it as one might coil a snake. 
It has a slightly metallic taste, and a sweaty smell. THough that last part might just be from their previous romp. She moans onto it softly, and begins to bob her head back and forth slowly.
A little preview for what she has planned further down below.
Her hand does not remain idle, however. She slides it in between his legs, cupping his new balls in her palm, and begins to slowly rub them, back and forth, softly and gently.

He bites his lips and breathes heavily, looks like this is getting him excited again. His heart also seems to be beating faster because of this. 

Part of Ranii wants to keep going with this, seeing just how far this check-spike licking will take him. She even wonders if she can make him cum like this...
But, she decides against it. If he did cum again this soon, they'd be right back at square one, and she has other plans. So many other plans.
So, somewhat reluctantly, she pulls away from the chest spike, now drenched in her drool,  giving it one last lick and flick of her tounge and a final kiss before she kisses below it, continuing to kiss her way down his chest, his belly, and finally, just above his crotch.
She is now on her knees, in front of him, his almost hard again cock right in front of her face. She could almost leave it like this, and proceed with her next plans just like this.
... But where is the fun in that for either of them?
She looks up at him from where she's now sitting, with that same sultry grin.

Looking down at her he can guess what she might do next, he figured it out the lower she went until she came face to face with his dick. "Time for the mouth, huh?"

"You got it, big guy", she says with a wink as she takes his cock into her talons with one hand. She brings it down to her face, lining it up with her mouth. She starts by giving it a lick, similar to how she started out with the spike, starting with the base just behind the knot, and then working her way up its underside, the avali's wet lengthy tongue sliding along the bottom side of that penis, the tastes and smells of their combined fluids still fresh on the orifice filling her tongue with flavor and scents, causing her to moan out softly in lustful appreciation before she reaches the tip. When she does, she gives it a flick with that snake-like tongue of hers, and then does something she didn't do before: she goes back the other way, from the top on back, licking along the topside.

The Lucario lets out a small moan when she starts putting her mouth to work. "Hhhmm, your mouth is not bad either...go on~" He said before patting her on the head with a paw.

"'not bad?'" she says with fake indignation. "I'll show you 'not bad!'" 
She wraps her tongue around the lucario's cock as much as she can, gripping it as tight as she can with said tongue. It's not as tight as her pussy, obviously, but still. At first, her wrapped, coiled tounge slides up and down the appendage, her mouth open and only the tip of his meat hovers inside as she does her work, stroking him off with her long snakey tongue.
She gives a moan as her tongue drinks up more scents and tastes from the appendage, both her own and his at once. 
However, she soon closes her mouth, taking extra care to avoid scraping him with those sharp predator teeth of hers, while sucking as much as she can. Her coiled tongue still strokes him, but now it's aided as her whole head begins to bob back and forth along his length, taking him as deep as she can without choking as she can.

The spike of pleasure he feels from that catches him by surprise. "O-oooh!~" He thrust his hips forward a bit, getting in the rhythm of her head's back and forth movement.

Her head moves back and forth along his length, sucking as hard as she can to get her mouth as tight as she can, while taking him as deep as she can, as her tongue strokes him off as much as it can.
Truth be told, blowjobs were never really her thing, and she only intends to do this to a certain point. Still, she knows her lover is enjoying this, and so she continues, moaning onto his hardening cock, vibrating it a bit.
And it isn't like he as a bad taste. That helps keep her going as her tongue swirls around the lucario's length.

"Is...is that your tongue around it? don't stop, i'm liking it~ aaaah!~" Luca moans out, he can feel the pleasure rising more and more. Ranii should already be able to taste some of his salty pre in her mouth, perhaps he is not too far off from coming.

Unfortunately for him, this is the end of this blowjob. She needs him hard for round 2, not fully cumming yet. So she slowly backs off, his dick slipping out of her mouth slowly, her tongue uncoiling from his cock and giving it one last teasing flick before she slowly rises to her feet. 
Her hand goes to the base of his dick, rubbing his balls gently, as to keep him hard.
"Sorry, big guy, but don't worry, I'm sure you'll like this next part even better. But first..."
She puts both of her hands on his shoulders, giving him a seductive, yet very hard and domineering stare.
"I let you dominate me last round. But this time, it's my turn.... so lie down."

This is a side of her he never saw before, so his wide eyes and open mouth indicated that he is surprised. "Heh, seems fair." First he sits down, then lies down on the ground.

"Good boy." She says, grinning. She stands over him, giving him a full, frontal view of her pussy, still slick, still full of his cum, before she lowers herself onto him.  Onto her knees again, sitting as tall as she can as her pussy hovers a mere inch or so away from his throbbing hard cock. 
She takes his newfound appendage into her clawtips, and points it towards her needy, dripping cunt, lowering herself just a little, just enough for the very tip to touch her dripping folds.
"Ready for round 2?"

With eyes focused on her pussy as it slowly descended to his cock, the Lucario nods. "Heh, yeah i'm ready alright."

"Good. Cause you're in for quite a ride." 
She lowers herself, teasing him at first by only sticking the head in, before pushing herself down hard onto him, taking him as far as she can into her already fucked insides. 
"Ahhh!" She yells as she takes him to the hilt, making sure NOT to knot herself. She has plans, and for those plans to work, she needs to NOT knot him this time...
At least, not here.
She places her hands behind her head, pushing her fluffy chest out, giving him a full view of her front as she looks off to the side, yet her eyes remain fixed upon him. She sticks her tounge out, both in a teasing manor, and to smell the air, and to drink in the intoxicating smell of sex that has permeated the room.
Still keeping this posture, she lifts herself up, using only her strong, well-toned legs, lifting herself until his cock has almost left her pussy, before she falls upon him again, giving a grunt of pleasure as her pussy once again meets his knot. She lifts herself again, only to fall again, and to set a brisk and fast pace, all the while keeping her hands behind her head and showing off her front for him.

"Mmmm~" still very much hard and eager since the blowjob stopped, Luca is getting some good pleasure on dick. He reaches a paw forward to touch her chest, rubbing it slowly.

"Mmmm yeah!" She moans, leaning forward into the lucario's touch as she feels his paws brush her short feathery down, feeling a lot like fur.
She slides up and down his cock, further and faster, moaning and panting as she dominates him like this. Occasionally, she slows down, just enough to keep him going but not enough to allow him to cum. Not yet.
"Mmmmh oh yeah. Good boy. Ahhh!" She pants as her vaginal walls are filled again and again with dick, being stretched out while gripping said cock tightly, their fluids making his cock glide in and out of her moist walls.
She's going to need all the lube she can get on that cock for this next part.

Just when Luca thinks she is going all in, she slows down, it's his first taste of edging. "Aaahhh~ H-hey...why are you slowing down all of the sudden?"

"Just to Anngh keep you from Ahhh cumming in there a second time." She pants sultry. 
She breaks her pose, putting arms on either side of his hips. She slams down hard up and down a few more times, before she rises up suddenly, his cock popping out of her sopping wet pussy entirely, its wet length being exposed to the cold air.
"So you've had my pussy, and my mouth..."
SHe takes the wet appendage in her talons again, and for a moment it looks like she's about to line it back up with her pussy to push it back in.
However, she instead moves forward just a bit, lining it up with her last remaining untouched orifice
"I... Normally don't do this. But, with you..."
His cock pushes against her butt. It seems lubed, as if she had lubed it up prior to starting this. Like she had anticipated this beforehand.
"I'm going to take you in there too!"

At first the Lucario was wondering what she was going to do next, but when the head of his cock was against the entrance of her ass, it looked like is considering begging her to slam her butt down so his cock could go in. "Y-yes! Do it!~"

"Alright. Here I gooo!~" She coos as she lowers herself down, gently, as she's not used to having stuff in that orifice. "Gnnngh!" She closes her eyes, and closes her mouth as she sits down, the thin tip pushing through easily, but the thick meat taking a little more effort. Her butt o-ring very tightly squeezes his cock. She takes this much slower though than she does with her vagina.
"Ooooooh" She says as she finally opens her eyes once the cock is almost all the way in her rear. "There we go.... good thing I lubed myself up back there before we got started." She says with a wink.
Ranii takes a moment to let herself adjust to having such a big object in her rear. She lays back a little, using one hand to prop herself up, while her other hand travels to her now abandoned pussy and clit, and she begins to rub, first the latter, then the former, in full view of Luca, putting on a show for him while they both adjust to this new orifice. 
Her buttcheeks lightly squeeze the lucario's cock as well, sandwiching it between their soft large mounds.

Feeling all that tightness around his dick is soooo good, he never thought that orifice of all places could be so good to put a cock in. "Aaaah!~ Aaaaah!!~" He moans loudly.

Once she is used to him up there, she begins to move, up and down, setting a slower pace than she did earlier, but the tightness more than makes up for it. And she feels it too.
"Mmmph yeah, Ahhh, that's the stuff!" She says as her fingers work their magic on her pussy, further stimulating the avali  as she sticks two of them in, in full view of the lucario in front of her, and begins to pump her pussy with said fingers.
As she grows more and more comfortable with this cock in her butt, her pace increases once more, never quite reaching the lust-filled, hungry speed of when she was slamming down on him when she had him in her tight wet snatch, but still more than enough for him to feel that tight buttring milk his cock.

He just lays there panting and moaning as his cock goes in and out of the Avali's ass as it is moving up and down. "Aaaahh...~ You are gonna...let me cum this time right?~" By his tone, it almost sounds like he is begging.

"Mmmmmm...." She moans, not answering him at first, her butt merely bouncing against his knot.
However, suddenly, she pushes down, down hard, hard as she can, giving a loud grunt and moan as she does, as that thick bulbous knot pushes hard against her rear hole, said ass squeezing his cock just above said knot very tightly, untill
pop
She gives a yell as the knot pushes past her sphincter, burying itself in her rear hole and tying her butt to her lover.
"AHhhh! Ahhh...." She breathes heavily as she rests for a little bit, panting heavily, her own fingering having come to a half for just a bit.

When his knot went in that tight hole of hers he must have felt like he was in heaven, his eyes were rolled up, he was drooling and he just moaned and moaned. "Ranii...!~ Aaahh!~ Ranii..!~" He probably won't be able to hold out his orgasm for much longer.

Ranii is surprised he lasted through that, to be honest. She was expecting him to shoot his load the second that knot pushed through her ass. 
No matter. 
Once she has her breath back, She squeezes her butt, and gives a few more little bounces, while resuming her self-fingering intently, determined to get another orgasm out of this on her end. 
"Nnngh, yes!" She says as her fingers dance inside of her, rubbing her G-spot from below. "I... AHH... Gonna cum again!! NNNGH!!"

Now he can't hold it in anymore, he begins to cum. And this next orgasm of his...it's stronger than his first one, his cock is firing thick rope after rope of his seed in quick succession right into the inside of Ranii's ass. "RANIIII!!!~"

As Ranii feels that thick dick throbbing in her behind, filling her rear with hot spunk, her fingers work overtime to drive her over the edge. She throws her head back, yelling  and screams.
"LUUUCAAAAA! AAAAAHHHHH!!!" 
Her body spasms as she cums, her body vibrating his trapped cock all the more.

The stream of his cum shoots dies down eventually, yet his knot is still stuck in her ass. As for Lucas himself, he is just laying on the ground, panting a lot as he takes in the afterglow.

Ranii sits on top of him, exhausted, her fingers still buried in her twat as she looks upon her lover, panting with exhaustion. Delicious, pleasureful, fulfilled exhaustion.
She slowly removes said fingers, placing them on luca's knees as she lays back a little, relaxing from the exaustion.
"I... Ah.... soo... .. Ahhhh... Good... wasn't it?

"Y-yeah..." He is a little out of breath right now. "It was...a very good...~"

"Looks like neither of us are up to a round 3, huh?" She pants, the knot still big and throbbing in her butt.

He slowly shakes his head at that. "i...think not."

"Well... that's alright." She sighs happily, pushing her hips forward slightly to show him her wet goods. "I'd say we both did well here."

He smiles. "Yeah, we sure did. Though I guess now...we are gonna need some more time until you can show me that idea." Because of course, they are still stuck together.

"Yeah... this knot can be a pain in the butt." she says, giving her butt a small, very slow tug. "But a very, very pleasurable one."

"Hhmmmm. I didn't exactly know it could get stuck inside someone until it did just that."

"Heh. Well, that does seem to be the idea. tying you inside of your mate so the cum doesn't escape until the sperms are swimming in the right direction. Increases pregnancy chances..."
She gives a soft chuckle.
"Not that we have to worry about that, do we?"

"Heh, really?" He sighs and looks up at the ceiling. "Yeah that's good. Also i think it loosened up a bit in there, try to pull now, maybe we can unstuck ourselves."

"Must we? I think I've grown quite ... comfortable like this." She laughs.

He chuckles. "So you want me to lift you up and walk around with my dick in you all the time?"

"If you could even lift me up like this." She giggles back. "And you know you're probably going to stick it right back in at the first opportunity."
"But, uuugh, alright, fine." She sighs with fake annoyance. "I'll try now."
She pulls herself up, and back, and with a little effort, and a little tug...
pop
The knot slides out of her rear suddenly, and the rest of the cock soon follows. A trail of white cum bridges between her ass and his cock. 
"I feel... so full" She sighs happily.

Now that she is no longer on top of him, he sits himself up. "Huh...did i came that much in you?"

"yes... yes you did." She chirps happily. "Been a while since I had something like this."

Luca gives her a pat on the lower abdomen, at least there is where he thinks she feels full. "I'm glad it was as fun for you as it was for me."

It is indeed. She gives a sigh of contentment as she's patted there. 
"me too. I'm glad I could give you this gift, and let you use it to the fullest on this night." She sighs, the bitter thought of what's to come tommorow returning after being almost forgotten in the heat of their passion together.
"I... I just hope we both live to do more of this after tommorow." She says sadly.

"Me too..." He pats her shoulder. "But we can't let these thoughts make us hesitate...that could be dangerous."

"Of course." She nods. 
She shifts her foot in front of her, now only on one knee. She lifts herself, fully up, and offers Luca her hand.
"I'm going to have to work on that 'armor' for you, and then, we'll need to get some rest... or should we return to the Guildmaster first, you think? He might start questioning where we ran off to..."

The Lucario reaches for her hand and grasps it so she could help him up to his feet. "No I don't think so, Stic is going to be busy coming up with strategies for the battle and making plans for an evacuation I'm sure. We should report to him when dawn breaks."

"Alright. I guess we'll rest up here for the time being." She says as she pulls him up to his feet.

"mmhh-mhhh." He nods. "Let's have some rest together."

"Alright." She replies. "Upstairs. In the living quarters."

"Let's go then." He makes his way up to the living quarters with Ranii.

After going up the elevator with him, they're back in the main room/living room of her little sphere-ship.
"you know..." She says. "One of these days I'm going to put in soft carpeting in here instead of this hard floor. Ah well, not today though."

"Hhmmm you know what i was wondering...what exactly was that power that you used?"

"That healing power you mean?" Ranii pauses. "I don't quite understand it myself, I mean I know what it does, and how to use it, but I'm not exactly sure how it works or ... Guess it's a bit similar to iron in your world in that regard."

"Oh, so it is healing?" He perks up a bit. "Now that you say that...it reminded me of a move i know."

"Oh?" She asks.

"It is called Heal Pulse. Which is, using Aura to heal someone." He explained "But from what I could see i think what you have must be way more powerful."

"Yes." Ranii replies. "When fully charged, like that first round you saw, it can take a critically injured person on the verge of death back to full health in one go... but... well.. you saw what happened with it. And if I use it too often without rest, it robs me of my own health."

"Well, if it's of any consolation: this power seems to come directly from the spear... our species isn't really capable of that either."
"... well, not without nanites and big laboratories and science and whatnot." She quickly adds after a brief pause.

Luca gives her a pat on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I won't envy you, ever."

"Heh, thanks Luca." She says. "Now... get some sleep. We're going to be in for a lot tomorrow. Though as for myself..." she takes out her horseshoe thing. "I have some ... work to do, then I'll be in bed shortly."

He nods. "Alright, I'm gonna lie down and get some sleep now. Also... what is that? Some sort weapon?" The way she is holding it reminds him of those weapons that the Ghost Bear Pack used against him, the ones that spat fast projectiles at him.

"What? This?" She holds the object out. 

"This is a matter manipulator. And it's not a weapon. Or at least, not a very practical one... It's more used to do mining work, construction work, hold items of interest, etc. Ironically enough, it's a human invention. Of the late Protectorate... before the giant tentacle beast destroyed them, that is."
She pauses a bit before continuing.
"As I tend to live a more nomadic life, or at least I did before I got assigned this mission, I tend to keep my crafting tools in here. Like..."
She points it at the floor, and presses a button on it. Suddenly, a beam shoots out of the device, and object appears on the floor.

"This nanolathe. Which I intend to use to make your armor.... though not here."
She presses another button on the MM, and a beam shoots out of the manipulator, and the nanolathe vanishes as quickly as it appeared.

Seeing this device do it's thing leaves him staring in awe. "And...and everything is able to fit in there?"

"Well, everything that I need, yes." She says. "There is a limit to just how much it can hold. Which means I would have to store it physically... but yeah."

"Hhhhmmm i see."

"Probably one of the things the reborn illuminate plans on introducing after... well.. you know." She says.

"Hard to imagine who wouldn't want one of those to be honest."

"Yeah. For a while the Protectorate kept exclusive rights on the thing. After the earth went boom, every faction scrambled to get their hands on them to reverse engineer them. Turns out, that was a lot harder to do than everyone thought."

"So they aren't easy to make?"

"Not at all." She says. "Hell, it's easier to make those brain-scanner thingies some crews have than one of these."

"Oh." Brain-scanner, he still remembers very well how it was to be in one. "Alright. I'm going to sleep now."

"Alright. See you in the morning... or early night. whichever ends up being the case." She says as she heads upstairs. It appears she intends to do this outside of this room so as to not disturb Luca.

Back in the desert, dawn is beginning to break. At first everything seems to indicate it's going to be just another day, but those who do know of what is coming this day are waiting, the Four Eyes guild are ready for the fight, while Ara is anxious of the conflict but she did make some preparations to escape with her girls when the fighting starts.

Meanwhile, hundreds of miles above the planet, where day and night seem meaningless, Luca and Ranii begin to wake on their respective Hammocks. Ranii gives a long yawn, slowly turning, and falling out of the topmost hammock, landing on her feet with grace. She turns to Luca...

Lucas is slept with his front facing up, which he must because his spike would poke a hole in his hammocks. He was just opening his eyes when she jumped down. He yawns before speaking. "hhmmm...morning Ranii." Then he began getting up from his hammock.

"Morning, Luca!" She says cheerfully, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Feeling energized?"

That little kiss made him blush. "Heh, yeah." He nods. "We should get back down there as soon as possible. You ready?"

"Yeah... but first..."
She heads over to a box, one that wasn't there yesterday, and pulls out something. 
"I was working on this last night. And...."
She turns around, presenting him with... what looks like to be some sort of armor. 

"Ta-da!"

Luca looks at it. "Oh, I thought you were going to make me something to protect my crotch but..." He approaches the armor to look at it closer. "I wasn't expecting you to go beyond that, heh."

"Well.." She says to him as she hands the armor to him. "Of course I'd make something to protect more of the body than just the crotch. I'll admit, it's probably not the most top-grade thing, as the materials I had on hand were limited, but... it should protect you against most if not all of the weapons we'd come across down there."

"I hope it was not much of a train on your resources then." Picking up the armor, he looks at it trying to figure out how he is going to put it on. "Still, thank you, Ranii."

"It was worth it." She says cheerfully.

Luca now begins putting on the armor. "Hhmm...hmmmm...alright, i think my arm goes through this..."

"yeah, that's right so far..."

The armor fits him well. The Lucario touches the plates now protecting his chest. "Feels like this can really keep me safer."

"Let's hope so." Ranii sighs.

"Well, it's best we get going now..." He knows this day is going to be intense, he just hopes they both can make it to the end of it alive. "You ready?"

"Ready." She says, taking him by the arm. "Ready to beam down back to the Guild Hall, right?

"Yup, let's go."

Light surrounds them, and in a flash, they are back in front of the Guild's cave entrance.