I fell in love with my hostage mantis alien?!

You stared out of the clean transparent window, outside the large expanse stretches endlessly for what could be dozens of lightyears, in the distance the tiny dots that are stars beckon to you, even if you can never go back to them you still dream of making enough money to go to the uncharted area and settle down in safety

When you were young you made a dumb bet, it led you spiraling down a credits debt and now your head was worth many thousands to a lot of powerful people, it was at that time that you knew a friend who had joined a gang of privateers who were off to the Beta sector, seeing this as your chance to escape you joined them, that was over 15 years ago

Now they were all dead, all of the original ones anyway, you were a master of your craft, even if that craft happened to be a futuristic version of being a highwayman. Your train of thought was interrupted by the flashing red light on your cabin "they're here" you flipped a dozen switches and prepared to enter hyper speed, your small ship was about 4x4 meters, just enough for a small uranium drive and a chair with a front hatch.

Your plan was simple, you were going to ram your bullet shaped ship into the side of whatever cargo hold was passing by, burst out and shoot anything that moved until you either died or they did, You weren't a master strategist after all. the fwoomp sound alerted you to activation of the uranium core a low humming slowly increased.

the scenery outside slowly shifted, from the hidden field of asteroids it rapidly turned to darkness of space and then to the grey metallic shell of the ship you were boarding, the speed of your ship was well over 9 bytes over the council approved speed,

in fact your entire ship would be illegal by their standards, but you didn't think of that when your burst out of it with a plasma pistol locked in one hand and a matter-suppresant blade in the other.

the fight is quick and bloody, you kill over 5 mantid people before you find the first sign of resistance, even then they're lowly laser rifles had no chance of even scratching your armor, specially designed to negate heat and redirect it. You grinned underneath your aegisglass visor and slashed the attacker in front of you, she looks at you weirdly before spitting blood and grasping her broken abdomen, trying to hold together despite the greenish goo now freely flowing from where her vital organ should be, she fell and you stepped over the dying form.

Before the end of the hour the ship is yours, you allowed the captain to live in exchange for access to her crew logs and key codes, the faster you could sell this ship the better, it was no good to be walking around this when you neared council protected regions.

you were about to end the captains life when the intercom sparks to life "we of the Equus Ferus Order have picked up your distress signal, prepare to be boarded, we repeat, prepare to be boarded" your sweat turns cold and you glance at the captain.

"Hey this ship has one of them warp cores, right?" you speak with clear worry in your voice she responds in a series of clicks and hand signs before her translator activates and you hear a sensible response "yes, it was supposed to be decommissioned but stayed in auxiliary use" you smile underneath your helmet and tell her to guide you there

you reach the engine room with only a few moments to spare, you made sure to set the gate to an open close loop in order to confuse the horse knights of the status of the captives, but that wouldn't last long until they simply blasted their own entrance. The floating ball in front of you sparks and shifts like a miniature sun.

Before the advancement of antimatter engines and quantum flux capacitors the warp engine had been the first to be put in use commercially, it boasted an impressive speed but was renown for it's use in makeshift bombs able to take out at least a quadrant of civilian space and pierce over 5 meters of military shielding, you were going to do that right now.

You mess around with the switches for a bit before figuring out how to get it stuck in a constant energy feeding loop, basically aging it by millenia to the point of exploding on it's own, given more time you would've had more fun but it was going to get you killed if you spent too long.

"okay, you stay here, I go, No follow" you signal to the captain and she nods rapidly and shut the door behind you, you didn't need useless mantid-scum anyway.

You return to the main room before you hear the first blast of ionizing energy "fuck" the centaurs were going to force their way through, you didn't have time to spare now so you rushed straight to the evacuation lounge, you calculated that there were about 3 minutes before that core went nuclear

the circular door opened before you, there were ten or so of the small pods perfect two sustain one person comfortably for a year or so, and in the worst case you could activate an induced coma and float for a century before it failed. the longest official record however indicated that it was likely only a 150 years before anybody would rot in their capsule.

You walked up to the first one and were surprised yet again, two mantid women hid inside and their faces turned to terror when they saw you, you laughed and activated it, sending them on their way, the last you saw of them was confusion as the pod readied to launch. You weren't a saint but you didn't fancy meaningless death.

You then went to the second one and entered, you were ready to go when the screen flashed red, at first you took it for a system failure that you could repair, the truth was much worse, these pods required a mantid life-scan to activate. "FUCK!" you slammed your hand on the controls

You were resigned to death when a miracle appeared, from the corner you spotted the captain awkwardly walk into the lounge, looking confused "CAPPIE OVER HERE!" you signaled for her to come

If you had known you would've taken one of the girls with you. Now you were stuck with this girl

"hey cappie, wanna share with me?" you smiled and she raised her own trump card, a small dagger that she held to your head, you would’ve laughed but you had better sense than to take away her small sense of victory and lead yourself to death. “okay, I’m in your care” you raised your hands and she slowly entered into the pod, nestling herself in the opposite corner from you.

You decided to spy a look at your clock and “HOLY FUCK!” you jumped over her and activated the pod, now it shined green and began the sequence, you two had about 30 seconds before the entire ship turned into a grave and you weren’t one to go down with the ship, especially one that’s not yours. You sat back down in your corner and touched the dagger wound, it only went an inch deep but it still didn’t feel like heaven.

The captain was shaking, now holding the dagger with two hands and looking at you in alarm, her clicking was strange but you could almost make out a message, regardless you didn't particulary care and simply sat down to wait out the rest of this shitty trip. You didn't realize she had pierced your gut and you slowly faded out of consciousness as she gripped you with worry, trying to help you maintain lucidity.

When you woke up again there was no sign of the burning ship, of the centaurs or even of the mantis girl.

that is what you thought until your hear soft clicking coming from beside you, to your right the mantis girl comfortably sleeps, her secondary eyelids deployed making it look as if she’s completely awake. You think this might be the best chance to tie her up when you realize she took the initiative and tied you up.

“goddamn it” you mutter silently but it’s enough to wake her up, she stumbles and stands up looking at you with the same emotionless eyes of the mantid people she holds a note up to your face –idiot- you read in a chicken scratch handwriting –jump on dagger no smart- she shows you the notepad again and begins writing her next message.

-no supplies- she puts on a small scowl while looking at you “what do you mean?” this wasn’t sounding good at all she scribbles again –low supply hold- she shows you the message again with the same robotic scowl “well let me see” you motion to your tied wrists.

She looks at you with suspicion but is smart enough to give in and allows you to revise the supplies, somehow they messed up and were offline, you could activate it again but there was no assurance that it wouldn’t just shut itself off again.

You sigh, now you couldn’t even activate the coma without surely risking death. You’re broken by your train of thought by the speaker in the top of the capsule

“this is a signal for survivors of the crash, we are the Equus Order if you hear this please send a signal to locate you” “fuck” you whisper to yourself

ou make the call by yourself, if you can get the mantis girl to agree with you then it shouldn't be too much of a problem to put up a facade for the centaurs,they held marriage in high regard so you had a chance

you breath into the intercom "hello, this is a message from capsule 2,1,56 if you are hearing this then I request immediate action for recovery" you sit down again and the mantis girls sits down next to you,

the capsule lurches, within a few minutes the ship is thrown from one side to the other repeatedly until it stops at once, the ship remains still and you peek out of the emergency window.

outside you see the hull of the large ship and the congregation of 5 centaurs who have come to greet you, each heavily armed with heavy armor and masks

the hatch opens and you are beset at once, until they see the mantis clinging to you and rapidly clicking and gesturing all around

the tallest centaur signals for the others to stand at ease "state the nature of your relationship" her mask gives her a darth vader voice.

"we-we're just a happy couple!" you grab her hands and kiss her on the cheek, eliciting a blush and look of bewilderment on her face.

the centaur seems to relax, she removes her helmet "very well, you are free to remain on board until our arrival at the nearest inerspecial station.

"o-okay" you continue grabbing the girls hand as they lead you through the ship and kiss her a few times to keep the game going, she also begins kissing you back and by the end of the tour she is holding on to you naturally

The room they lead you to is spacious and comfy, obviously it was meant to accomodate a centaur couple and not a humanoid one, the bed itself is literally large enough to lay the two of you back to front and still not touch for a few feet.

Once the guards leave you tell the mantis girl to stay on her end and you’ll stay on yours, the two of you go off to sleep although yours is particularly hard to consolidate, you twist and turn on the bed for hours.

You wake up to a strange weight on you, something rubbing itself on your crotch, given the amount of people here you can tell it’s her, when your eyes adjust she is still looking at you with that blank expression, all the while her lower body is rubbing painfully on you

Finally she comes closer and kisses you; her tongue inside of your mouth presses itself to your gums, next to the roof, then to the bottom and so on. When you try to resist she unsheathes two large blades that spring from her arms “shit” you think to yourself, those hadn’t been there yesterday.

As she continues kissing you something strange happens, her clicking slowly dies down and is replaced by guttural moans, slowly but surely they take on the form of words, some of them completely random too “sofa” “cat” “surgery” “head” the list of words goes on and on while she continues her rubbing and kissing.

Just when you think you are going to lose it she stops, her mouth disconnects rapidly and her rubbing dies down to only slight movement, although you can feel her shaking. She looks at you and smiles weirdly, almost artificially “I… am… bride” she points to you and then to her “you… are… husband” her pronunciation is a bit wonky but understandable

“okay, so what’s going on” you would have freaked out if she still didn’t have pressed her large organic blade to your neck, you’re caught between a blade and a hard place, that place being your erection “I-I learn through mouth connection” she puckers her lips to show off. Okay that made sense to you, she could suck knowledge through mouth “oh so like the teen titans?”

She looks at you funny “teen… titans? I not know of titans teens” so her learning ability was limited to linguistics and not to actual knowledge, that was good she wouldn’t know all the times you jacked off at least

“so why did you do that?” you asked her while trying to distance yourself from the edge of the blade she was holding “I want love husband, need learn to be close” she retracts her blade and pushes her fingers together “Husband belong to me, no danger now” she smiles slightly with that same mechanical nature and looks at you

"wait what?" you try to get her to explain her previous message but she cuts you off with a kiss "husband take responsiblity" she starts rubbing again, now with added fervor and desire, you try to push her off which wins you a punch and an annoyed look "why does husband not move?!" she looks with a fierce look "husband need join to be husband!" she points a blade in your direction

"husband, work" she jumps on you again and begins her rubbing and kissing you. it's at this point you see the lamp next to the two of you, with sufficient grasp you could use it.

you give in to her particularly pushy brand of love and kiss her, her eyes light up and she renews her efforts with intense appreciation for you, her rubbing begins again and this time you waste no time to properly enjoy it, ripping off the over-sized white pants that the centaurs gave you.

the two of you continue like this for a while. you kiss her and she uses her blades to quickly and with terrifying precision strip off her shirt and yours as well, with that out of the way she assaults your body, using her hands and the blunt side of her scythes to feel you, she runs them over and over and finally stops when she reaches your erection. she stoops and stares at it with a curious look, as though she doesn't quite understand how it works.

"what is?" she points at it while hanging above it and grasping it with one hand clumsily, you laugh and show her how to pump it "this, this is strange!" she begins turning red while maintaining her emotionless look "Feel weird" her mouth opens and she looks at you with a new hunger in her eyes.

"come here" you motion for her to kiss you again and she reluctantly lets go of your cock and slides her way to you, kissing you again and embracing you closely "stay calm, you're going to feel really good right now" you motion for her to hide her blade and she complies, then you guide your erection to her now soaked slit and she begins quivering with desire

you hold it there for a second to tease her, one second too much apparently "D-Do it!" she throws herself down and forces you inside of her, causing her to scream happily. and shake terribly in pleasure

for the first time she shows an emotion, lust to be exact. her face is red while her tongue lolls out and her eyes flutter into the back of her head, "GOOD, VERY GOOD!" she screams and arches her back while her hands continue feeling you up, she finally throws herself back on you and humps without abandon.

jumping up and down and not showing any signs of stops, when you cum for the first time she screams again and closes her eyes, her arms wrap around you and she bites her lips with enough force to bring out blood

her grasp on you tightens "g-good, nice, pleasure!" she lists off postive words while never letting go of you and still shaking uncontrollably. When she finally opens up again you've gone flaccid and her emotional face is also gone with it "husband, clean" she removes herself and begins wiping with the blanket "now husband is mine, only mine" she blushes slightly while looking at you.

"Okay what do you mean with that?" you gave in the first time but now you wanted an explanation "I'm not some toy you can throw around and own" you push her to the side and get up off the bed, she follows you and wraps her arms around you from behind, taking the chance to show off her blades "wrong, husband is mine, no others, you belong to me, when is time we make daughters and help find husbands"

she smiles barely at you and then playfully bites your neck she's so caught up that she retracts her blade and begins feeling you up again　"hushbend" she mutters through her teeth while her reddening intensifies.

You decide that maybe you can live with this, so far she had shown to be understanding to a point, in any case you could just ride it out until she showed off too much crazy to handle, not like any court would uphold your "marriage" in any legal way anyhow so you were set if you ever decided to ditch her.

she guides you back to the bed and you repeat your previous ritual over again, after an hour of screaming and humping she finally gave in and collapsed on you, you could practically see the circuits making sparks from her dizzy look and the slight shaking of her body, as well as her pasted on smile that showed her teeth and her reddened face that didn't decrease.

you stayed like that until morning, or whatever the equivalent of morning is in space, holding her close and kissing her whenever she started shaking, occasionally she would mutter something in her sleep and turn over, forcing you to grip the blanket tightly for fear of losing it all to her.

when the lights came on the two of you woke up and got cleaned and dressed, back into the white shirts and pants that obviously weren't made for humans of your size, she grabbed your hand tightly and the two of you wandered through the large ship, occasionally a centaur would pass by and smile at your sign of affection before going her own way, after a while of searching you found the cafeteria, just now starting to fill up with people looking to eat.

you guided her through the line of food and named the different object that she would point towards "Pi-sssa" she would repeat the word over and over "Wo-terr" the two of you filled your trays and sat down together in a small side table

just then, a familiar face stopped by, the same centaur that had greeted you yesterday when you arrived at the ship "excuse me sir, when you are finished with your wife I would appreciate if you would stop by the lounge to speak, there are pressing concerns to attend to" she gave a curt bow and turned, leaving as quick as she came

your wife looked at you "pressing?" she whispered and looked at you with a slight hint of worry "what is pressing?" she grabbed you and shook you a little, you looked at her and explained "pressing is when something is very important" she stops and becomes even more agitated "pressing is bad, do not go" she motions for you to stay with her. by holding her arms to your shoulders and pushing downards

"I can't just ignore it, they'll find out" you try to get her to calm down but that just makes her more worried "No go, No go!" she refuses to budge on the matter and her grip on you tightens up

"calm down" you grab her hands and throw them off of you and she looks at you slightly hurt, the two of you continue eating in silence until you both finish, even then you just look at one another deciding what to do.

"I'll be back soon, alright?" you break the silence and stand up, she silently grabs your sleeve and looks at you with a pleading expression "please." she mutters and looks down again.

"don't worry about me, I'm a tough bug to kill" you laugh and hug her and she hugs back, throwing her arms around you "please" you stay in her embrace for a bit before finally getting up and walking to the elevator, halfway through she runs up to you "I join, go together?" she smiles as though very proud of her new idea and you decide to let her follow you, they were going to separate you at the gate anyway so it didn't change anything. "alright"

when you walk up to the communications center you're met by the same centaur, her uniform has a few stripes and decorations, very different from the armor she had been wearing yesterday that completely hid her more than bountiful assets "Sir, please follow me" she begins at a leisurely trot and the three of you walk through a set of hallways, eventually leading to a small enclosure with a few chairs and a mat meant for a centaur "sit and wait" she points to the chairs and leaves the room

your mantis girl awkwardly clings to you, the two of you wait in uneasy silence until finally a new centaur entered the room, this one with a much more decorated uniform and a stern look on her face "alright, so you're name is anon, is that so?" "yeah that's me, hey are you sure it's alright to have me interrogated with her present?" you point to the girl who looks confused "why, having trouble with your wife?"

the centuar chuckles and continues "so let's get down to business, the ship we recovered you two from is blown to bits, there is no trace of an attack or of other survivors left, the only clue we got is a rifle pistol with your finger prints on it"

she takes out a bag containing your old gun "yes, I had kept it from my family, couldn't bear to give it up" you came up with stupid excuse and she continued "you know those are illegal right? You'd get a hefty fine and a few years of prison time for carrying this on a council planet"

"yes, I realize that" you face her with a straight face trying to call her bluff, or at least hope it was a bluff "luckily for you we don't work with the council unless there is a special occasion, and this gun might disappear if you tell us what we need to know, understand?" she took a long deep breath from a cigar and blew out to the side, you weren't sure what it was she wanted, but if it got you free you were willing to say anything

all this time the mantis girl was standing awkwardly to the side, trying to keep up in a language that wasn't hers her gaze shifts between the two of you rapidly and she settles back down "Now" the centaur begins again "we don't care what really happened as long as we get someone to punish for this" she points at you accusingly "so what I'm trying to say is that if we get a likely suspect we can make this all go away, and your word is worth a hundred of hers" she points at the mantis girl this time, who reels back in shock

"husband, what she say?" you look at her and smile "just stay calm, it's alright" you have to think, about what this could mean to you, she was offering you a free ticket in exchange for the life of the mantis, at the same time that pistol was pretty damning for you, but like she said there wasn't anything left to be damned for.

Epilogue

you walk out a free man for the first time in twenty years, after your little meeting with the general centaur you refused to give up your wives name as a culprit, the two of you were torn apart and separated, you hear she spent the rest of the trip in front of your cellar door hoping to break you out, but it was impossible to bypass centaur security, especially on a military ship

you were sent a mining camp on an outer planet, your entire day consisted of being underground digging up ores and oil for whatever big company had hired your labor, you had to fight to survive and there were very few left who had gone with you into the deep dark crust of that prison.

For the first time in 20 years you feel the first whip of cold air, the slight twitter of a bird and the sound of thunder in the distance, you cry and fall to your knees, covering your face with your hands. finally happy to be back where you belong.

"Husband?" you look up with tear stained eyes and see her, she hasn't changed a single bit, her curves and carapace shine brightly, she's wearing a purple sweater with your name emblazoned on it, what's more, she's guiding two mantis girls who appear to be teenagers by the hand, they look around worried and anxious.

you stand up and she smiles when she sees your face, a smile wide enough and bright enough to replace the sun, for a second you feel dizzy with joy and you hardly realize it when you run to her embrace

"I knew you wouldn't die" she whispers into your ear and you bury yourself furthers in your embrace "Y-You waited for me... you really waited?" your tears are flowing freely and so are hers, the two of you melting into each other's arms.

*BANG* the sound of a rifle is clear in the air, you don't notice it, but you do feel it. the first thing that occurs to you is to protect them, but they aren't the ones in danger. You push her to the ground in time to feel the second bullet enter your torso and rip through your clothes. taking a nice chunk of lung with it.

you fall unceremoniously to the floor and spit up blood "HUSBAND!" your wife throws herself on you and begins using her hands to cover the wound, it was useless. you could tell from the feeling of warmth spilling out of your torso "It's okay" your words to her, she cries deeply and continues trying to stop the bleeding. you raise your shaky arms and grab her hands, looking at her one last time, it's okay" she wails loudly and grabs you

"I-I love you" you whisper as the lights fade for the last time, and then all goes black, the last thing you see is your wife's face looking at you with worry and love all at once.

She walks up to the stone grave, the dirt is cool and nice underneath her armored feet and the girls wait in the distance for her to pay her respects to you “It was a good year” she smiles and rubs the top of the grave with her hand “the oldest got married, he’s a fine fellow and he reminds me of you” her eyes get wet but she continues smiling and kneels in front of the stone.

“I know you hate gossip, but the youngest has a crush, she doesn’t show it but there’s a boy she visits every day, she even has a diary where she writes his name” she laughs a sad downtrodden laugh, but continues anyway “I wanted you to know that they’ll be naming their first child after you, I helped set up the nursery, you would’ve liked it it’s full of spaceships!” the first tear slides slowly down her cheek but she ignores it

“I’m… so happy” her first sob is shallow and quick “I-I’m so happy, that I meant someone… like you” she can’t hold back any longer and begins openly crying “someone… s-someone I loved so much” she hugs the stone grave with your name on it, holding it close to her body with as much strength as she can “that it hurts this much… this much to have t-to say goodbye” she lowers her head to the stone and holds it there for a while. A single drop falls from the sky and onto her shoulder, followed by another, and then a few more.

the drizzle is light and the sun shines through it, she gets up and smiles, clearing away the tears before walking back to where your daughters wait for her, she does this every year on the day you left them.

now amended thanks to anon.