Chapter 279: I Want To Go Home
"Does anyone else feel like we have completely fucked up?" asked Tha’juen as he scrolled through the information on his wrist unit that Jun Li had sent to all of them.
Raguk grunted in agreement as he looked down at the tablet in his hands. It was taking everything in him not to crush it out of anger and frustration. But this was the fifth tablet this week, and he was running out of them.
"Fascinating," breathed Ye’tab, absorbing the information at a much faster speed than the rest. "Absolutely fascinating."
"It’s completely different from how the Njeriuujk incubate their offspring," muttered Midnight, looking at his own tablet.
The six males had gone to the living room to be able to read everything and leave Mei Xing to sleep peacefully. It was almost funny how they now had their own seats in the room, refusing to sit anywhere else. Even Mei Xing’s spot was empty, just waiting for her to join them.
"Ha!" barked out Raguk. "You think that’s bad? Female Uugazts, who are with offspring, will kill anyone that even enters the same level as them. Over half of my ship is reserved for breeding females. And we have yet to have a single one."
"Breeding Saalistaja are just as violent. They are much bigger than the males, and there have been a few incidents where they have ripped the heads off of any male that stumbled into their nesting cave. It got to the point where there is a whole planet dedicated to them where males refuse to go."
"Must be nice to be able to give them a planet," muttered Raguk. "What is the size of a tadpole? What is a tadpole?"
"You don’t need to worry about sizes," said Jun Li, interrupting the conversation. "If this was a human conception, she would only be considered two weeks pregnant. The infant is too small to be measured. The problem that Mei Xing is having is that she is not giving birth to a human. She is scared and worried and has no one to offer reassurance."
"Pregnant human females need constant reassurance," muttered Da’kea as he half listened to the conversation.
The other five males grunted.
"Then we take her back to Earth," said Raguk. "There has to be a female there that can offer reassurance."
"Oh, sure, that sounds like a wonderful idea. Let’s send Mei Xing back to a place that doesn’t believe in aliens from other planets pregnant with an alien from another planet. I am sure that the rest of her species would be thrilled at that."
That statement caused the males to look up at the camera in the corner. "You mean she didn’t know that there were other species in the universe before the Sisalik abducted her from her planet?" asked Da’kea slowly.
"Nope," answered Jun Li, putting added emphasis on the ’p’. "In fact, she kept thinking that it was a nightmare for the first few rotations after she woke up. But that is besides the point."
"She needs to be assured that everything is going okay," said GA, reading from the documents.
"She needs to be assured by someone who knows what they are doing that everything is going to be okay," said Ye’tab with a shake of his head. "Should we abduct one of these OBGYNs? Whatever they are?"
"They are a doctor that specializes in pregnancies and the human female body," informed Jun Li.
"This would be so much easier if she had taken on a doctor as one of her mates. Then we wouldn’t need to worry," muttered Tha’juen, his eyes narrowing on his wrist unit.
"We don’t really have doctors out here," pointed out Jun Li. "For almost everything, we have the med units and scientists."
"I like your idea of abducing a female doctor," said Raguk just as the door to the living room slid open.
"You want another female?!?" came the low growl of a very pissed off mate.
"No, you misunderstood," said Raguk, jumping to his feet and spinning around so he could watch Mei Xing stalking toward him.
"Oh, so now you are calling me stupid?!" she snarled, causing the rest of the males in the room to jump to their feet too.
"Not at all," said Da’kea.
"You know that you are the smartest female I have ever met," added Midnight as he walked toward his mate, holding his arms open for a hug.
"I think that this is the hormonal mood swings that the literature warned us of," said Ye’tab to himself, but his voice carried over to their female.
"I hate you!" yelled Mei Xing before she jumped into Midnight’s arms.
"You don’t talk about mood swings, menstrual cycle, or hormones with a human female. They don’t take it well," advised Jun Li, coming through Ye’tab’s earpiece. The Saalistaja male nodded his head and wished that he had that information before he stepped on that particular landmine.
"I don’t know what is going on with my body," whispered Mei Xing in a low voice as if she was just trying to talk to Midnight, but the others were able to hear her perfectly. Da’kea felt his heart breaking at how vulnerable she sounded.
"Then we go to Earth," he said, coming to a decision. "You can get checked out by a female doctor, and we will be there the whole time to protect you. We will not let anything happen to you," he continued, happy as he watched her stiff body relax with his words.
"Really? We can go home?" she asked, looking at him from over Midnight’s shoulders. "But I want all of you there with me, and the other two don’t have camouflage armor."
"I might be able to help with that," said Jun Li. "The Sisalik were trying to find a way to manipulate the Saalistaja armor so they could use it too. I think they managed to succeed before they died, but I don’t know for sure."
