Author's Note: I was working away on the next chapter of my Danmachi story, and it's taken a while, with quite a bit more to go… And so, I thought I'd try get something else up short and simple in the meantime. Just a really straightforward story I could hash up in a few days without needing too much effort.
I originally thought I'd do another chapter of my XIV story for that, but I've been playing GFL2 a lot recently and Klukai/HK416 has been a huge favourite of mine since years ago playing the first game, so when she joined the sequel… I got really inspired, and I've had a few ideas bubbling away ever since!
Night crept slowly across the sky. Moonbeams and distant stars shone only dimly through dirt-crusted windows.
ELID roars and bestial cries filled the air. All went unheard and unanswered, drowned out by the might of humanity's engines.
The storm-swept plains shook and heaved. All that was still was thrown asunder, and all that was silent was thrown into chaos.
Continuing on its mission, from danger into disaster, the Elmo thundered endlessly on its way through the Yellow Zone.
And, in a certain room within, in a world inhabited only by two…
Feelings that had long been kept silent were thrown asunder.
Words that had been unsaid and unheard were whispered aloud.
Emotions that had been still moved once more. Desires that had been unfulfilled were thrown into chaos.
Two hearts, mechanical and organic, thundered together as one.
"Hehe… Commander… There's no need to cling to me so desperately," despite her words, she sounded as happy as he'd ever heard her, "You really haven't changed, even after all this time."
"You're one to talk, Klukai," he inclined his head towards where his jacket was lying on the floor, having been stripped from him the second she'd locked the door behind them, "You're holding me so tight, I can barely breathe."
As always, just a little teasing was wonderfully effective on the strict, protective T-Doll. Her face, which had been flushed pink with excitement, suddenly burned red with embarrassment, and her grip loosened just a fraction.
"Th-That's only natural. You always… It's always… It's as if I look away for one moment and you're running away into danger again," given how his life had been recently, that was certainly true. But then, this most recent time he'd been running into danger towards her, "But… But now, now I'm here. And so, you need not worry anymore. Everything will be perfectly managed by me. Any problems you have, I will resolve head on."
As always, her words rang loud with pride. But, it was pride she had earned.
Whether it was following him into the Paradeus deathtrap, a warped cyberspace, or the very gates of Hell. Time and again, Klukai had come for him.
The ferocious sound of her 416 had become almost as comforting to him as the sight of her rare smile.
"There's only one thing I'm interested in resolving right now," being pressed this close, he couldn't possibly have restrained his arousal even if he had wished to. Instead, he pushed his waist directly into hers, making every last inch of the effect she had on him as clear as possible, "I'm hoping you feel the same."
The sight of her cheeks burning even brighter red showed just how long they'd been apart. She used to be far better at dealing with this level of teasing, but already he could practically see her Neural Cloud heating up.
Still, it was maddeningly cute. To think the strict and proud Klukai could still blush like this, even after everything they'd already done together. Just looking at the way her expression melted as she fought to keep her composure was enough to leave him breathless.
"A-A-As as always, y-you're hopeless, Commander. So, just leave everything to me. I shall handle it perfec-Mmph!?"
His lips met hers once again.
Her arms tightened frantically around his back.
And they fell back into the embrace they'd both yearned for, for so long.
It was now almost three weeks since Klukai had joined the Elmo.
Nothing had gone how either of them had intended it, nor like how either of them had imagined their reunion playing out over the distant years apart.
The weight of his guilt had left him struggling to find the words to explain himself. An impulsive outburst and glass of vodka had left her rampaging around the MBV. And finally, with a feeling like he was pulling off ten years of scabbed over regrets, the explanation and the apology she'd sought from him for so long finally tumbled free.
His answer was exactly what she'd already known it would be, exactly the answer Kalina and Leva had already told her to expect. But hearing it from him, rather than just the painful silence of her unanswered messages, had left the Tactical Doll soaring, as if her entire Neural Cloud had been defragmented. All the worries she'd stockpiled, all the doubts and insecurities that had built up were washed away all at once, and all that had been left was the happiness she'd always wanted to feel being his again.
It hadn't actually mattered what his reasons were. She would have argued vehemently against them regardless, and she would have followed them just as loyally as always. It had only mattered that he had reasons and that he confided them to her.
At long last, the shackles of duty, of guilt and of everything else weighing them down had been shaken off. And with that freedom, they'd sped across the wastelands, outrunning a Collapse Storm just to win the chance to be together. At long last, the lonely sense of distance that had haunted them both throughout their reunion had been closed.
The oath they'd made so long ago was sworn anew as a Covenant.
A golden ring shone atop her left hand, and the proof of their bond was uploaded directly into her Neural Cloud, never to be lost for as long as her digital self remained.
Finally, Klukai's long Aphelion had become Perihelion.
For the first time in a very long time, the leader of Those Who Don't Exist had invited herself into the Commander's room. And, for the first time in a very long time, she was held tight in his embrace.
"Mmhha… Ha… Commander…"
Their kiss deepened.
His hands moved from around her neck; her jacket was tossed atop his on the floor.
Her fingers pulled insistently at his shirt; the warmth of her body pressed against his took its place.
He undid the fastenings to her top, lined down her back in six segments; she tugged impatiently at his belt.
There was a time, a great many times, when he would have taken this slowly, savouring the feeling of stripping each last bit of clothing from her. When she would have looked for his reaction to seeing some secretly purchased lingerie. When he would have basked in every little shiver running up her spine and every heated breath she gave as her processes heated up with anticipation.
That wasn't what she wanted now, and so that wasn't what he wanted.
Now was nothing but to make up for all their lost time and all the lonely nights that had passed them by.
Their clothing fell haphazardly around the room.
Undone from her ponytail, Klukai's hair fell loose around her shoulders. Silky soft, icy-blue tresses threaded through his fingers like water, even with all the rigours of her missions and the burden of leadership, her hair was as dutifully maintained as ever.
Released from her top, her breasts bounced wonderfully into his hands. Huge, soft and deliciously supple, Klukai's chest was just as alluring as he remembered. Without even intending to, he found himself kneading each of her large, full mounds, rolling his palms slowly across her skin, dragging the tips of his thumb across her beautiful, pink nipples. Just enough to leave her eyes half lidded and her voice calling out in a low moan.
With her skirt kicked across the room and her leotard rolled down her legs to join it, the full curves of Klukai's round, wide hips, the trim lines of her toned stomach and the glistening, eager wetness of her pussy were all unveiled to him together.
Creamy-white skin, unblemished either by combat or hard-living. Ageless beauty, untouched by all the years that had passed between them. Bright and shining eyes that never looked backwards, that enveloped him only with hope and with love.
Too many years spent analysing and appraising Dolls meant he couldn't possibly have kept from drinking in the sight of her, even if he hadn't wanted to. In every and all respects, Klukai had kept herself flawlessly maintained since he'd seen her last. Compared to how he'd often felt as if he was simply drifting from day to day, hardened by his memories and his losses as much as by life in the Yellow Zone, just looking at her like this was enough to give him pause and leave him swallowing heavily at the sight.
Even if he had no time to properly appreciate her, he already knew what his answer was, just the same as it always had been.
"…Perfect."
His T-Doll's beaming smile almost stilled his heart a moment.
"Th..Nh…"
Her eyes flickered and her cheeks flushed even brighter red.
She wanted to respond. She intended to say something back, to thank him and reply in kind. To tell him how handsome he'd become in the intervening years, the way the maturity of age suited him just as much as the vigour of youth, the way his muscular frame had matched 98% to her private mental simulations, how much the premature grey streaks in his hair spoke to all the battlefields they'd fought through together.
But, it had been far, far too long since she'd been held so tight against him, and almost as long since she'd heard such naked praise from him, the effect was far greater than usual. Almost a full third of her processing threads crashed on the spot.
Leaking out a shaky gasp, desperately trying to cool her overheating internals, Klukai simply squeaked softly and desperately rebooted all her lost sectors, allocating almost all her spare buffer memory to keep it from happening again.
"Ah?"
By then, he'd already swept her off her feet, holding her naked body gently in his arms as he carried her towards his bed.
Laying her down, he could only marvel once again. She was many times more powerful than him, faster, stronger, and likely smarter in a great many ways. He'd seen her incredible prowess in combat so many times that it'd become almost strange to see her without her gun… And yet, holding her like this, all he could see was just how much smaller she was than him.
She was so slender and so, so soft.
The heat of her breath tickling over his skin told him immediately just how easily her body was heating up at his touch. Her flat stomach raised up as she twisted her wide, round hips, wriggling into place atop the covers. Her large bust bounced hypnotically before his eyes as she propped herself up on an elbow, looking up at him with rapt anticipation.
Klukai was, without doubt, one of the most powerful, experienced and dangerous T-Dolls in the entire world. A machine purpose-built for combat, with countless victories to her name.
But right now, all he could see was a woman. His woman.
'Don't forget,' a certain Jade Beauty had warned him once, as her hands had encircled his, 'The woman you love is a machine.'
'I know,' his answer that day was the same as it was now, 'The machine I love is a woman.'
Crawling atop her, he wrapped one arm around her waist and the other around her shoulder, pulling her toward him as he eased her down-
"Eh?"
-Only to be caught entirely by surprise when she instead held her hand out to his chest, holding him in place rather than pulling him into her arms.
"Commander… I…"
Her fingertips stroked gently up and down his chest. Holding one hand to her lips, she looked away, her words barely more than a whisper as she offered him a coy smile.
"This body is a new frame…" her words were soft, but laced with suggestion, and her eyes were shining with mischief, "So… I've never…"
Her implication hung meaningfully in the air, and she looked up at him with half-lidded eyes as her hands slung slowly back around his neck, gently tugging him back to her embrace, silently urging him on.
He snorted.
"Are you underestimating me, Klukai?"
He understood this game instantly, and he knew better than almost anyone that T-Dolls didn't think of their bodies the way humans did.
"You already played that, 'It's… it's my first time, please be gentle…' card ten years ago. Did you think I could have forgotten that night? I certainly haven't forgotten all the hundreds of times you came crawling into my room after that."
"Heheh… Are you sure you're not the one underestimating me, Commander?"
For the second time in as many minutes, the Leader of Squad 404 took him completely by surprise, this time by not rising to his verbal bait. Had she really changed that much in the time they'd been apart? The Klukai he'd known always wore her heart on her sleeve, and he'd expected her to immediately lose her composure when her suggestive teasing was given such a flat response. He'd intended to push her down and press the attack the moment she'd faltered!
Instead, she looked up at him with a sly smirk and an expression of absolute confidence. She was as calm as ever… or at least, she was as calm as it was possible to be with her breath coming in heated pants and her cheeks flushed red with exhilaration.
"I understand you perfectly. And so, I know that you can tell I'm not lying. You saw my combat performance has improved, and I'm sure you can tell the difference just by looking at me… This isn't the same frame you held so many times before… It's completely new. Unseen by any other man, untouched by anyone else… Not even by you."
He swallowed.
Klukai pressed the attack. Her fingers traced a light pattern around the back of his neck and her voice washed over him with heavy implication.
"If you can dismiss my words so easily… Then, why are your excitement levels suddenly spiking?"
He'd miscalculated.
T-Dolls may not think of their bodies the same way humans do, but humans couldn't help themselves. Or at least, he couldn't. Makiatto, Centaureissi, Daiyan and even Jiangyu, they'd all taken new frames in the intervening years, but none of them had made any special mention of it, none of them had teased the desires that lay deep within his psyche like this.
"As always, I shall take care of everything, perfectly. And that means a full understanding of all your tastes and preferences. That first night, ten years ago, I didn't have any experience… But now, I know everything about you. And you know that, too…" The delight in her voice was unmistakable. It ran like syrup down his spine, "Which is why, mmm, when I compare the readings… Commander, hehe, you're even more excited now?"
He was speechless. Of course, he'd expected that night to have been as important to her as it was to him, but he'd never imagined she'd have kept physiometric recordings of it for a full decade!
"Mmnn… Because you've been worried about me all this time, all these last ten years? Because you know there's no need to worry about anything anymore? There was never any concern, the spot nearest to me belongs only to you," Klukai's teasing turned gentle, but the well-earned arrogance in her voice was as clear as ever, "And, as an elite T-Doll, I shall show you without doubt, that there's no lover you could ever take that can match me!"
As if to prove every bit of what she'd just said, Klukai leaned up off the mattress, bringing her lips right to his ear, "Commander…" And then, speaking in little more than a breath, she whispered the words he hadn't even known he'd wanted to hear.
!
Everything she'd said had been frustratingly, embarrassingly, wonderfully true! He was already at his limit. Just seeing her like this, just holding her so close again, just feeling her love and her desire had been enough to leave his heart pounding and his cock pulsing rock-hard. Being caressed so gently, praised so adoringly, and teased so perfectly was almost maddening!
In all the time he'd known her, he'd never lost a single Night Battle to Klukai, but now, for the very first time, he felt as if she had him surrounded on all sides!
Her legs spread wide, and her smile grew wider.
"Grah!"
"Anh~"
He stopped holding back. Taking a firm hold of her slender shoulders, he pushed her directly back down to the mattress.
At the very least, he didn't need to try think his way out of this engagement. His decades of command experience made it automatic. If you were surrounded, waiting for them to come to you only ensured your defeat. Even if you knew they were expecting it, even if you knew it was what they wanted- the only thing that remained was a frontal assault!
Their bodies fit together perfectly, just as they had so, so many times before. Lining himself back up at her entrance was like coming home again after being far too long astray.
Unable and unwilling to wait another moment, he wrapped his arms around her shoulders, steadied himself in place, and then slowly pushed his cock forward. Her soaking wet pussy lips opened eagerly against his pressure, before being stretched open wide around his girth, all but inviting him in as he finally began sinking, blissfully, inside the T-Doll he loved so dearly.
"Gh!"
Klukai winced, throwing her head back with a sudden gasp, her eyes shooting wide open and her neural processors spiking to their limits.
His own reaction was much the same. For all her imposing presence, the bluenette Doll was a good deal shorter than him, and for all her impressive bust, her athletic body was a good deal slighter than his. Which meant that even as she wrapped her arms and legs tight around him, Klukai's (fresh, untouched, virgin) pussy clung to him even tighter still!
While he knew she'd set multiple layers of autonomous controls on her limbs to ensure she could never use more than a fraction of her bone-crushing strength to cling to him, that same mercy was not given to his shaft! Her pussy coiled around his shaft with absolutely ruthless pressure! And yet, even as her walls clenched vice-tight around his cock, they still opened up eagerly, wantonly, to just the barest amount of force as he rolled himself forwards.
Hot, wet, soft, unbelievably strong and still unmistakably yielding. The contrast was intoxicating.
Wrapping herself so blissfully tight around him, looking up at him with her face practically aglow with both love and desire, the proud, arrogant, elite Doll he adored was clinging to him with everything she had, squeezing, caressing and milking him as he opened up her unused depths, as he spread her inner walls wide around his shaft, and as he slowly, carefully, hungrily buried himself, inch after inch, inside her.
"Hn! Hhaa! J-Ja! C-Commander, ju-just like that!"
Despite her teasing suggestions and despite the words she'd whispered directly into his ear, Klukai was no blushing virgin. This elite Doll was the veteran of countless Night Battles fought in his dormitory, his office, around the G&K Barracks, and even a few times on the very battlefields they'd fought through together.
Holding tight around his shoulders and locking her legs around his waist, she was pushing her hips up to meet his, just as passionately as she had all those years earlier… or, at least, she was trying.
It seemed the new frame and all the years spent apart were affecting the bluenette far more than she'd expected. Just trying to raise her waist up from the mattress left her eyes shooting wide open, and each attempt she made to pull him deeper and further inside her left a new wave of pleasure washing through her, sparking up the full length of her spine and sapping every bit of her strength.
Her mouth hung wide open, and her head tossed weakly from side to side as her voice rang out with delight and her slender body shivered and shook beneath him.
Holding her so tight against him, he could feel every last quiver and tremble running through her, could hear clearly how her breathing turned into a ragged pant… and he could watch rapturously as the beautiful and severe Klukai's face took on a shameless, womanly expression that only he had ever seen.
The pleasure was maddening.
He didn't think he was particularly out of shape, or out of practice, but even before his cock was halfway buried within her his own breath was coming fast and he could feel his balls clenching tight as the wonderful tension built hard and fast within him.
"Hhaa…"
Feeling her trying to shake her hips just as confidently as she used to tempted him with the desire to drive into her just as powerfully as he used to.
But, of course, he treated her gently instead. She'd asked him to, after all.
And so, cradling her gently in his arms, kissing her as often as he could manage between her gasping pants, and slowly rolling his hips forward… He pushed her waist all the way back down to the mattress, he pressed his body tight up against hers, he spread open even the deepest, innermost depths of her pussy wide around his length… And, slowly, carefully, tenderly, he filled his beloved T-Doll entirely with his cock.
"Ghh… C-Co-Commander! J…Ja!"
Meanwhile, Klukai was fighting desperately just to live up to her pride as an elite!
She wasn't supposed to be so easily satisfied, but being so close to the man she'd yearned for, for so, so long was already enough to fill all her emotional cores. Feeling him holding her so tenderly and kissing her just like he used to, being pushed down and pressed into the mattress beneath him just like before, feeling herself wrapped around him and feeling her body tight up against hers… It was all hundreds of times more intense and thousands of times more intimate than replaying the old memories and recordings she'd saved from back then. It was an experience she'd missed more than she'd even realised.
And, feeling the full force and power of his cock inside her again, feeling the sheer size of it spreading out her inner walls, feeling herself filled with him… was quickly destroying all the simulations she'd run of this moment through all the years that'd passed! All her mental preparations were shattering around her. They hadn't even begun yet, and Klukai could feel herself submitting to him just as eagerly and just as happily as ever.
It was everything she'd dreamed of, far more incredible than any dream could be.
It was a pleasure she hadn't felt in 10 years. A pleasure this frame had never felt.
"Gh!"
Which meant, not only was the Leader of Squad 404 feeling her pussy stretched to its limits, but her mental capacity too!
Klukai was well past the imitation breathing Dolls did autonomously, instead her gasps came in desperate, ragged pants, desperately ventilating all the heat she could manage as her head tossed from side to side and her legs locked tight around his waist.
She had already reduced her physical output to the bare minimum, just enough to stay locked tight around him, and buffered every bit of her excess memory to her overheating emotional cores and neural threads. Crying out his name, as well as her love for him, the bluenette fought with the same resolve as on any battlefield. Her pride was on the line, and so too was her determination to make him feel just as incredible as he made her!
But, even elite T-Dolls have their limits, and, both physically and mentally, hers were reached simultaneously.
She felt his shaft spreading open her innermost depths.
She felt her womb being pushed back as her pussy was stretched to the limit to fit his entire length.
She felt his body pressed tight against her, joined in the closest, most intimate way possible.
In that instant, the indescribable feeling of her previously unused pussy being opened wide and stuffed full with his cock was joined with the sheer fulfilment of knowing that every bit of him was inside her.
A feeling of blissful satisfaction she'd almost forgotten washed over her. The golden Covenant Ring shining atop her left hand flashed pink.
And Klukai came so hard that more than two-thirds of her processing threads crashed on the spot.
"!!"
Riding out the delight of feeling his lover climax around him, he held himself in place, stroking his fingers softly along her cheeks as she gasped and panted, as her body shivered beneath him and the flickering light in her eyes slowly returned to full strength. "Haa…" It took a little more than ten seconds for the Covenant Ring to return to its usual warm golden glow, and a little less than a minute for Klukai's panting to steady back to regular imitation breaths.
"Scheiß," she groaned, loosening her grip around his shoulders just slightly, she laid her head back into his pillow, looking up towards him with a warm smile and an expression of flushed satisfaction, "I… hha… I always forget how big this thing is…"
Despite all his years, he couldn't help but react to that, nor to the way her lips pursed as she felt his cock twitching inside her in response. Proud, prickly and self-assured, an unveiled compliment from Klukai was a rare thing, even for him.
"Oh? An Elite T-Doll forgot something like that?" Seeing her arrogant façade melt away to soft honesty made him want to kiss her… but it also made him want to tease her… All the time he'd spent with Leva and Lenna had probably been a bad influence on him, "Even though you stored my emotional readings from a decade ago?"
"E-Eh? N-No! I… I recorded all the details properly! I only, I meant… It's just… It's… different… Like this."
"Ah… You said earlier, you 'understand me perfectly', right? So, you're perfectly saying just what I want to hear."
!?
Klukai jolted in shock, and he immediately realised he'd gone too far.
"No! Th-That's wrong! Just because I understand you doesn't mean… Being perfect means that, I, wou-Mmmph!?"
Cradling her head in his hands, he crashed his lips against hers, forcefully cutting off her panicked explanation.
"Sorry, I didn't mean that," he admitted a moment later, speaking before she had a chance to, "There's nothing to explain. I've never doubted you."
He should have known better.
Being wrapped up in her love again was just so comfortable and so relaxing that he'd fallen back to his old rhythms without a thought. Ten years ago, she would have laughed that joke off without a thought, but it wasn't ten years ago. The time had passed between them just as painfully for her as it had for him, she'd missed him just as much as he'd missed her. He needed to respond to that with sincerity.
He'd known Klukai for years, he'd trusted her with his life countless times and been trusted with hers in response, he'd seen all the sides of her she couldn't bear to show anyone else. Even if he couldn't claim to have a perfect understanding of her, he understood her in a way nobody else could. He knew that, for her, being perfect also meant being able to show him her honest, openhearted feelings. And he knew those feelings existed for him alone.
"Dummkopf..." she whispered in reply, her fingers tracing soft patterns across his back as her expression softened into a bright smile once again. Thankfully, the famed and feared leader of Squad 404 couldn't possibly have missed his contrition, not after all their nights together, and not with the full weight of his cock throbbing rock hard against her womb, "Nhnn… N-Now… Instead of making jokes… I suggest we make up for lost time."
Without waiting for an answer, she squeezed her legs around him once more, this time pushing her waist away instead, easing herself back into the mattress, and sliding his length an inch back through her pussy.
Taken off guard by yet another surprise attack, his voice rang out in a sudden gasp, but he took her cue all the same!
Rolling his hips forward, he pushed his cock into place against her womb, "Nnnn!" her voice resonated happily.
Rocking backwards, he dragged himself several inches back through her pussy, "Hhhaa!" her breath rang out, hot with anticipation.
Thrusting down, he drove his length into her firmly enough to embed her into the mattress, "J-Jaaaaa!" her voice sang with joy, and her Covenant Ring flashed pink once more.
And with that, and with nothing at all left holding them back, the two lovers slowly built themselves into a gentle, passionate tempo.
Cradling her head in his hands, whispering her name between kisses, he pressed the attack directly! Just as he had so carefully eased his shaft down the full length of Klukai's pussy, now he drew it back out, slowly and deliciously stretching out all the previously-untouched walls and oversensitive areas, taking all the time he needed to ensure that her new frame's walls were moulded to the size and shape of her cock just as thoroughly as her previous body.
And then, with both his body and soul blazing hot with desire, he pushed himself back through her innermost depths, straining her deepest walls tight around him, until his cockhead was once again resting against the entrance to her womb.
Again. And again. Without any need for speed or force, he surrounded himself with her and savoured every bit of her pleasure.
"Hhaaa!"
Klukai's movements weren't anywhere near as sure or as practiced as they'd been in her memories or her mental simulations, but her pride as an elite T-Doll spurred her on, even as the blissful sensations threatened to fog up every last node of her Neural Cloud!
Matching her pace to his, meeting even his smallest adjustments, was no challenge at all with her kinetic reaction speed, but getting her body to do what she wanted as electrifying ripples of delight continually washed over her was another matter entirely. Her fingers dug into his shoulders, her toes curled, and her voice rang out, again and again, calling his name and her love for him over and over. Higher and louder she sang, with each time she felt his shaft scraping out along the length of her pussy; deeper and more desperately she moaned, with each time she felt herself pressed down beneath his strength, held tight against him as every last millimetre of her inner depths was given up to his cock!
Clinging tight around the man she loved, Kulai's feminine back arched beautifully as she raised her waist from the mattress she was being slowly driven into, shaking her hips back against his thrusts and coiling herself around him with everything she had!
Her first orgasm had left her seeing stars. Clinging tight to her Commander, seeing his enjoyment with every single register of her emotional cores and feeling what felt like every bit of herself stretched out and wrapped around him, sent a series of incredible, irresistible aftershocks cascading through the bluenette, until she was crashing through a second orgasm sooner than she would have ever thought possible!
"Co-Commander! It's, it's too good! I love you!"
Her face was flushed hot, her eyes were sparkling with affection, the shining ring above her left hand was flashing between gold and pink in equal measure, and her body was shaking just as greedily as her hips as she met each of his thrusts with her own, "Klukai!" He could only repeat her words back to her, gasping his love for her right to her ear.
It really was too good, it was the taste of love ten years separated, and of passion he'd thought he'd never get to experience again.
Even though he knew he didn't deserve to be forgiven, and even though he knew he had no right to reunite with any of the Dolls that had once been his, he'd still dreamed of this night many times over so many long years. The thought of seeing any of his Dolls again had always filled him with a joy that only made the oppressive guilt even worse, and over time, those dreams had been twisted up by the same doubts and fears that plagued him.
With Makiatto, he'd worried if he could still be worth her honesty. With Centaureissi, he'd wondered if she would still smile for him. For Daiyan and Jiangyu, he'd questioned if he could still match their rhythm. He'd feared the idea of Suomi being mad at him, and he'd lain awake at night more than once to thoughts of Springfield scorning him.
But, for Klukai, for his beloved bluenette, he'd wondered if he could hold himself back.
Even when he'd lacked the words and the courage to apologise for what he'd done and all that'd come between them, every bit of his body and soul had still ached to embrace her, to take her in his arms and pretend as if nothing had happened. Just seeing her again had been agony on his resolve, talking to her, spending time with her, holding her close as her motorbike raced across the wasteland… It was a wonder he'd managed to keep what remained of his sanity!
Her competitive spirit had a way of igniting his own in a passion that'd played out across many different locations and battlefields. More than once in the years that'd passed since, he'd caught himself wondering -if he ever were to reunite with her- would he end up losing himself to those memories and that desire, would he be overcome with the urge to simply throw her down and reconnect in the most primal way possible?
"Nnn! Commander…"
In the end, just like his myriad doubts for all his other Dolls, his worries had been for nothing.
Makiatto did her best, just like always. Springfield's kindness had saved him as surely as ever. Daiyan and Jiangyu matched their pace to his own without missing a beat. Suomi had hugged him tight enough to bruise a rib. Centaureissi's smile had been so warm he'd almost dropped the tea she'd served. Klukai had forgiven him far more easily and far more completely than he could have possibly deserved, and… no matter the desire and passion that raged within him, in this moment, the only thing he wanted in this world was to show her every bit of his love for her. There would be time enough for everything else later.
And so, holding her tight against him, pressing her down into the mattress and driving her deeper with each thrust, biting back his own pleasure even as every bit of her seemed to wrap so tantalisingly tight around him… He maintained the same steady pace and tender force. He drew out every bit of his old memories and hit against every one of the sensitive areas he remembered from her.
Kissing along her neck, caressing her cheek, whispering her name, fucking her a full inch into the mattress, he made the bluenette T-Doll surrender moan after moan, gasp after gasp, sigh after sigh, as his body met with hers, as his cock spread her innermost walls wide around him, and as he did everything he could to stoke the pleasure burning within her into a raging inferno. As he fought with all the desperation he'd cultivated through a life in the Yellow Zone to make the woman he loved feel as loved as possible.
Gently but firmly. Powerfully but carefully. With all his pride as a man on the line, he made love to his beloved T-Doll.
Like that, the night passed slowly between the two lovers.
The Elmo continued to thunder across the wastes. The stars shone dimly through the windows. And, for these two, nothing at all existed outside of this room and this bed. Moments became seconds, turned into minutes, and passed by the dozen.
And all the while, her arms and legs remained wrapped tight around him.
The heat of her breath and the delight in her voice ignited and enflamed both his body and soul.
The pillowy softness and delicious squish of her huge breasts tempted him with every time he pressed down into her.
And, the rapturously wet, tight, heat of her pussy coiled around him, squeezed him, and threatened to milk every last drop of seed from his body!
Looking up at him with half-lidded eyes, dazed with lust and an expression flushed with both exhilaration and love, Klukai was pushing her hips up to meet his with just as much enthusiasm as ever, and with each time his waist met hers, and each time he felt the full depths of her tunnel wrapped around him, he could practically feel his resistance being sucked away!
Her movements weren't quite as skilled as he remembered -most probably due to the way her body was bucking and shaking so wonderfully beneath him with each time he buried himself inside her- but they were still the movements of an elite T-Doll doing her very best to wring him dry. Her walls clenched around him at the perfect moment to leave him gasping, her hips twisted upwards just enough to drive his cock through her harder than he'd intended, her lips met his her tongue led him to a dance of fiery passion.
And all the while, her sweet voice sang out his name and her ecstasy without a hint of shame or doubt.
When it was just the two of them, when she was wrapped up so tight around him, he got to witness Klukai's pride turning into pure, unrestrained wantonness.
His breathing slowly became ragged. His heart began thundering in his chest as his muscles began to strain. And slowly, even as he greedily devoured every second spent with her… the heat of desire burning within him began blazing into an unstoppable inferno! His restraint burned away, further and further, until it was all he could do just to fight back the pressure and the pleasure for another moment! Just to spend another moment buried to the hilt inside her!
"Gh! Klukai…"
"Ha, j-ja! Ja!"
Meanwhile, Klukai was being driven slowly, but inexorably, out of her mind.
As a T-Doll, she had near perfect recordings of all the times they'd spent together, right down to recreations of the emotions she'd felt and the pleasure that had surrounded her. But, no matter how perfectly she'd been able to simulate those old memories, no matter how many times she'd run them through her Neural Cloud in times of loneliness, none of those recreations could so much as hold a candle to the real thing!
It really was far, far, far too good!
All her planning, all her preparations, all her elite mental acumen vanished in the face of her Commander's love! It wasn't even that he was much more skilled than before, it was simply that she'd missed him, she'd yearned for him more than she'd ever realised!
She'd added redundancy to her calculations, she'd given herself a buffer of at least 20% to account for all the time they'd spent apart… but instead, feeling herself wrapped tight around him, feeling every last millimetre of her pussy stuffed full with his cock, feeling him knocking both gently and firmly on her womb, feeling herself holding her down so strongly and driving her into the bed so thoroughly… It was hundreds of times better than she'd anticipated!
Clinging tight to his shoulders, scraping her fingers as hard as she dared into his skin as she scrambled for purchase, Klukai's mouth hung wide open, and her head tossed from side to side as she moaned and screamed and cried out every bit of the ecstasy she was so happily drowning in!
It wasn't fair at all!
Ten years meant far more to a human than it did a T-Doll! He didn't have any kind of perfectly stored records or physiometric readings to reference! He didn't have any kind of mental adjustments to simulate! All he had was some dusty old memories from a decade ago!
And yet, he was touching her just as perfectly as before! He was squeezing and stroking and caressing and teasing her in all her favourite ways. He was kissing her just as passionately and just as deeply as she'd admitted fondness for all that time ago! And not only was he scraping his shaft against all the most over-sensitive parts throughout her pussy, he was repeatedly hitting his cock against her very deepest walls, directly into the spot she liked best! Areas that had never been touched before in this body, a spot that had never previously been hit, he'd claimed both so easily and was driving against them with unrelenting precision!
As a T-Doll, she should have every possible advantage both in the battlefield and in the bedroom, so how was it that the only man she'd ever fallen in love with was one she could never seem to defeat!?
Another thrust. Slow and gentle, and powerful and firm, and absolutely perfectly aimed at driving her crazy!
"Ghh-HHAA!"
Her toes curled, her back arched off the bed, and her delighted scream echoed around the room! Another orgasm swept through her like a wave of bliss, her vision flashed white and her Neural Cloud was filled up with even more hazy pleasure, and it was all Klukai could do just to squeeze her walls around his cock in return!
Her mental load was faltering second by second. Him treating her so kindly and gently just meant the ecstasy that washed through her came again and again, cresting higher and higher with each time she soared over yet another peak. She was being slowly, carefully, tenderly sent flying from orgasm to orgasm, as the sensations cascaded within her and swelled right to the very edge of even the Elite T-Doll's limits!
Stuffed full with him and engulfed entirely in the sensations rippling through her, Klukai's entire body felt as if it was overloading with pleasure! What ragged breaths she gasped between moans weren't even close to enough to ventilate the heat surging through her cores!
Each time he buried himself within her, each time she squeezed herself around him, her vision flickered, filling her world with white sparks and filling her Neural Cloud with nothing but thoughts of him.
With every climax, another handful of her processing threads would crash, and by the time they'd rebooted, she would already be swept up towards an even more powerful crescendo!
All her buffer memory was long since allocated, and every bit of strength had been drained from her body. She had no space to retreat and no room to adjust. Moment by moment, more of her systems fell behind.
'Ah… It's just like back then… I'm so happy…'
What little space for rational thinking that still remained within her came to two clear conclusions.
First: He was about to cum. His cock was swelling even thicker and harder within her, driving her even more insane with pleasure. His breathing, his expression and the strain on his muscles were all exactly the same as they'd been in her memories. The knowledge that she'd at least succeeded in making him happy, that she'd finally brought him right to the edge of bliss, soothed a little of the bluenette's ragged pride, and her dazed expression turned into delight as she allocated the last of her strength towards egging him on.
"C-Commander! Commander! Pl-Please! Go ahead! Hhaa, inside! I want to feel it!"
Second: She was about to go into complete systems failure. Her overloaded, overheating cores and the absolutely rampant joy filling her emotional nodes were already spiralling completely out of control. It simply felt too good, far, far too good! In a new body, hyper-sensitive to delights she hadn't felt for a full decade, she'd never had a chance. Her Covenant Ring had been shining a solid pink for several minutes now, as she flew headlong from climax to climax, as she felt more and more of her processes crash under the sheer weight of the happiness flowing through her.
All that awaited the proud, beautiful T-Doll, was yet another incredible defeat, wrapped around the cock of the man she loved.
If Klukai had any regrets at all, it was that she currently lacked the ability to beg for it.
"!"
Spurred on by her words as much as by the way her entire body seemed to practically cling to him in one final desperate show of strength, the last of his restraint finally gave way!
Roaring aloud the desire he'd held back for so long, he slammed himself forwards, driving the T-Doll down, burying her deep into the mattress as he hilted his cock inside her, one final time! Her walls spasmed and coiled around him, and his shaft twitched and shook in response, holding onto the final moment right to the very edge of insanity!
And then, at long last, with a relief that was ten years in the making- he unloaded himself inside her! Gasping and moaning and beaming as he shot load after thick load of heavy, thick cum directly into her unblemished womb! As he flooded her entire pussy, painting her walls with his seed, dyeing every inch of her in his essence!
"!!!"
Panting and gasping, shaking and moaning, clinging to him with all she had left, Klukai came, and came, and came, and came! Over and again, with her vision filled only with white light, her Neural Cloud filled only with him, and her body savouring every drop of his release!
Her world collapsed. One by one, her systems were overloaded with bliss, with the feelings of love and excitement that seared away anything else.
She retained only barely enough consciousness to cry out his name one final time as she felt her womb flooded with him.
And with that, with a look of unrestrained, wanton joy on her face… the leader of Squad 404 crashed completely.
Of course, the leader of the legendary Black Ops squad was not easily deterred, and barely a few minutes after rebooting herself back to reality, she was already pushing him down and forcefully taking the initiative for a revenge mission.
But, just as had always been the case in the past, one defeat was followed by another, and another after that. Even when she was the one driving him into the mattress, even when she wrapped her lips and breasts around his cock, and especially when she found herself counter-attacked, bent over and claimed so thoroughly she was moaning out her surrender on hands and knees. In every way, every place and every time, it had been her absolute defeat.
In the end, several hours and several rounds later, with the Commander's skin soaked with sweat and Klukai's internal battery dipping to just over 30%, the two lovers were lying tangled up in bedsheets, curled up around one another.
"It's frustrating how good you are at this," Klukai pouted, her fingers tracing a pattern across his chest as she spoke.
"Frustrating?" He laughed, tossling a hand through her hair in response, "You seemed to be enjoying yourself well enough just a minute ago."
"Hmph. It's frustrating," she repeated, "It's way too good. How is anyone meant to deal with that? It always feels like my Neural Cloud is going to melt down."
So saying, she sat up, rolling her shoulders and stretching her limbs out.
"Even after all this time, nothing's changed. In all the world, I'm sure there's no man better than you at making T-Dolls feel loved."
Even he couldn't help but blush at such effusive praise. As always, direct compliments from Klukai were as powerful as they were rare.
However, right when he was about to reply, he was taken aback by the sight of the bluenette's expression shifting to a victorious smirk, complete with an exhilarated spark shining in her golden eyes.
"No matter, though… You may think you've got the advantage, Commander. But you've already been outmanoeuvred."
"Oh?"
Tck Thshhhhh
The door to his bedroom slid open.
"Eh?"
The locked door to his bedroom slid open.
Sitting abruptly upright in bed, scrambling to pull the covers up over himself as his mind raced to catch up, the Elmo's Commander was left staring with an absolutely dumbfounded expression as Klukai's beaming, green-haired sister strolled happily into the room. "Eh?" he repeated, dully, staring in abject confusion as Belka shut, and locked, the door behind her.
"Commander! I let Klukai-sis go first, but you guys took waaaay too long! I looked like a total dork waiting out in the hallway like that!"
"You know better than to underestimate this man, Belka," Klukai warned, sliding around behind him and wrapping him up tight in her embrace, "Besides, I've saved you the best part."
Reaching down, her hands tossed away the covers he'd instinctively pulled over himself, showing off every bit of the man she was so enamoured with. His toned physique, built from a life of hard living. His indulgent expression, gained from far too many years dealing with Doll's strange quirks… and, his thick cock, still stretching up hard and rigid into the air, even after so thoroughly satisfying the woman blowing hot breaths along his neck.
"It's… It's been… a long time, Commander," Belka purred, her face flushing crimson and her expression shining with just the same exhilaration as her sister's, "Ten years of waiting… And then you made me wait even longer, till you and sis sorted yourselves out! It's not like I love you any less, you know!?"
'She was waiting for that?' Instead of the issue at hand, surprisingly, the green-haired Doll's words seemed to wash away a layer of fatigue he didn't even realise he was carrying, 'Geez… She really does dote on her sister, huh?'
For someone who'd been so close to him during his days in Griffin, and especially for someone who'd snuck into his bedroom almost as many times as Klukai, Belka had been surprisingly reserved towards him since their reunion. Always warm, always friendly, never cold, but also never quite inviting and never quite closing the distance between them.
He'd fretted about it a great deal, of course. But, he'd simply assumed it was his fault, that his decision to leave had hurt her, and that the passage of years had withered the love she'd once had for him.
Instead, it seemed that, all this time, she'd simply been keeping him a step away for the sake of letting Klukai work things out with him first, "Ha…" Despite himself and despite the abrupt change in mood, he couldn't help but smile. His whole body practically sagged with relief.
He'd said once that after all he'd been through, he couldn't seem to relax unless he was in the presence of Dolls. It seemed he was even more broken than that- he couldn't seem to truly relax unless he could make those Dolls happy.
"I love you too, Belka, I…" he paused, his mind halfway-exhausted mind finally clicking into place, "Wait, then, you planned this?"
Not just tonight, they must have prepared this since before even coming aboard the Elmo.
That also explained both the locked door and the suspicious timing… Klukai must have been talking to her sister on Level II, and unlocked it remotely.
"Fufufu. Commander, I told you not to underestimate me~"
Striding over towards them, Belka didn't waste a moment in stripping off her clothes, tossing her top away and kicking her leggings off with exactly the same careless abandon that had seen their clothes strewn around the room. Freed from the tight confines of her tunic, her massive breasts bounced with every step, and her wide hips swung from side to side with such overpowering allure. He couldn't have taken his eyes off her, even if he'd wanted to! His blood was immediately running red-hot once more.
"And you'd better not underestimate me either! Everything till now's been the prelude, y'know? The real show starts now!"
Klukai's hands ran teasingly along his side as she wrapped herself wonderfully tight around him, holding him gently, but firmly, in place.
Belka crawled across the bed towards him, her bright smile and incredible body tempting him into madness as her eyes shone with clear anticipation.
He swallowed, heavily.
Halfway exhausted as he was, it was only now that he realised what the bluenette meant when she'd said he was "outmanoeuvred." Without a doubt, he was caught decisively in the sister's pincer attack.
This was absolutely unprecedented! There was no way he could have ever expected this! In all the time he'd spent in Griffin, not once had Klukai invited Belka to his bedroom with her, nor had she ever accepted any of Belka's offers in return. Even when the UMP sisters had ambushed him and dragged him off to Squad 404's hideout, she'd simply waited till they were done.
Always, without exception, Klukai had fought every one of her Night Battles alone. Always proud, always fearless… and always defeated.
But, it seemed a lot could change in ten years.
"Commander, you should understand by now… When I say 'I am all you need', that means I will take care of everything perfectly. That doesn't mean I can do everything by myself."
Any other time, he would have been proud of her growth.
As it was, he was caught somewhere between utmost wariness and extreme arousal! He'd already given almost everything he had, he hadn't held anything back! He was absolutely unprepared for reinforcements!
"Ready yourself, Commander!"
"Here comes the coup de grâce!"
Even backed into a (very warm, very soft, and very loving) corner, he at least knew better than to simply brace himself for their assault! Surrounded on all sides, letting them come to him would only ensure his defeat! Drawing deep on all the stamina still left within him, he grabbed hold of Belka with one hand and Klukai with the other!
"I'll make you work for it!"
Putting his pride as a man on the line, his frontal assault began!
The next morning saw Colphne making her way to the Elmo bridge with a smile on her face and a spring in her step.
Today was a day for hunting Varjaegar, and on a wonderful day like that, there was nobody she wanted to see more than the man currently pouring over the central terminal before her.
"Coffee, Commander?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, that'd be good. Thanks."
Passing over the steaming mug she'd prepared, the medical Doll did a sudden double-take.
"H-Huh? C-Commander, are you okay!?"
The harsh life in the Yellow Zone had given him a kind of resilient, lean appearance, one that she was particularly fond of. It was the look of whipcord muscle and the sense of danger… But today, rather than lean, he looked practically hollow! His cheeks were sunken, he had deep bags under his eyes, and rather than standing firm as their leader, his legs looked so unsteady he seemed almost ready to topple over!
What in the world had happened to him!? He looked like he'd been practically sucked dry! As if he'd been squeezed and wrung out till there was almost nothing left! Stepping up on her tiptoes, Colphne could swear he'd even gained a few more grey hairs!
…
And yet…
"You look… huh… actually… You look pretty good, I guess?"
Despite all that, his skin was practically glowing. And rather than his usual serious expression, he was beaming at her with a smile that was downright infectious!
Staring at him so close like this, the shy medical Doll found a shy blush creeping across her face. She quickly retreated, shrugging off his explanation of "needing more sleep" (as if he ever got enough, she thought) and watched him turn his attention back to the work before him.
She didn't know anything about his past, or what it was that drove someone with the kind of connections he had out to this kind of desperate living… but, just for now at least, Colphne thought that he looked like a man who'd had the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders, at least a little.
Meanwhile, in the medical bay, Mayling (currently working overtime) was sobbing.
Sitting before her were two members of the esteemed Squad 404 that had been working with the past few weeks, both extremely impressive and extremely well-maintained Tactical Dolls. And both, who had come to her, first thing in the morning for emergency repairs.
"Wh-Wha-What do you mean you both need all your hip shock-absorbers replaced!? Bu-But, we didn't even fight anyone yesterday! How did this happen!?"
Thick, salty tears ran down the mechanic-cum-adjutant's face as another 6 hours of work suddenly materialised before her.
"S-Sorry…"
"It was unavoidable…"
Unable to meet her eyes, Klukai and Belka both smiled sheepishly.
A/N: Phew! Was meant to just be a really small and simple work. I envisioned it as about 3k words or so, just a quick break from my Danmachi writing to get something up sooner, but I ended up getting kind'a into it. Still only took a few days to do, so I'm pretty happy about that, 10k words this fast is not bad!
No need to worry if you're holding out for the next chapter of A Waning Silence, this only took me a few days, it wasn't a big distraction, I'll have another chapter out as soon as possible.
I'm not really planning to do anything more for GFL, which is why I included some small asides about the other Dolls like Makiatto and Centaureissi, but this was still really fun to write, and just my own little celebration of Klukai joining in GFL2.
As a random aside, in game the Golden Circlet above the girl's hands is called a Covenant Projection, but I figure calling it a Covenant Ring made far more sense. I have to imagine everyone in the setting thinks of it like that. So, no need to correct me if you were thinking to do so.
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