Should Have Let Me Die

I turned after kissing Titania and found Tamika. 

"Thank you Tami for saving our little girl, you did great," I put my hand on the top of her head and then slid it down and pulled her into a kiss.

"I'm glad you're back, the boys and girls have been crashing around in there for four days, kicking ass, then getting their assed kicked, and back and forth. You need to get out there and help them out, but it's pretty hard not to enjoy watching them all struggle!" Tamika said giggling as she hugged me and Kyla and kissed both our cheeks.

"That is not the explanation I was expecting, what are you talking about?"

"I can't explain, just come down to the lab on the bottom level! You have to see it! They have been at it for the last four days!"

Xelios came over with a knowing smile that I wasn't sure about. There was a little too much, I know more than you in her smile.

"What are you grinning about my little sugar plum?"

"Just happy to see you!"

"You're full of shit, I can see that knowing smile!"

"Oh? Am I? I think there might be some left in here!" Xelios said, turning to show her backside that she gave a little smack as she looked back with a wink and her finger on her lower lip.

I had never heard someone talk about shit and be so damn cute! The damn woman was walking away with a self-satisfied smile, and I knew I had just lost a battle. I just had no idea what game I was losing at this time.

"I can't catch a break can I?" I asked Kyla as we followed everyone to the front of the ship where the entrance was.

"I still love you, dad," Kyla said, hugging my neck, making me laugh.

"They still love me too, muffin. No, that just likes to make dad think he is one step behind, but they are wrong! I am at least three steps, but that's why I need all your moms!"

On the way down to the bottom floor, I stopped at the lounge. Nika had gone behind the bar with Dalmia, and the two of them were laughing. 

"Can I get a cold mug of ale for whatever I'm going to see? Since when did you two become fast friends? Where is Tamika?"

"Tami is glued to Violet's side, and I got tired of listening to their boring BBC Drone talk all day, so Nika has been showing me how to make drinks and stuff. Plus, we have been both helping Po and the rest of Breth's wives in the kitchen!" Dalmia told me as I spit my drink out getting a hiss from Kyla, but I had missed her, still good to see some things hadn't changed.

"A BBC what?!" I asked after putting my drink down and used my free hand to wipe my mouth off.

"She is going to be so mad that I told you! Bwahaha, she named it that just to see your expression, and now I'm going to die!" Dalmia said, but I could tell she was only half-joking. 

"Just get down there before she comes up here and finds you, and for god's sake, you better give it to her tonight! She has been a thunderhead for the last two weeks about you standing her up the night we all planned everything! She is going to explode if you don't relieve some of that tension building, and then we want a turn! After Titania, but we have been waiting for over a month…" 

Nika let her words trail off, but I understood, I had been not living up to my...duties. That was fine, I would get on it, but first, it was time to go see what all the fuss was about. I told the girls I would get on top of the situation and gave them both parting kisses as they laughed at me.

I left the drink and headed to the stair at the back of the boat, past the lounge, and went down with Kyla resting her head on my shoulders. The bottom was just one long hall with three doors, one on the right and on the left side. Kyla pointed to the one on the right side and I could hear noise coming from that side as well, so I walked over and pushed the button beside the door.

The door swung open and I could see the girls that had come down staring at three big screens...what the fuck was going on them? Since when did we have TV? Buddy, Moshi, Rena, Breth, and...was that Cable? 

"Honestly, I am so fucking lost I don't know where to begin. What the fuck are they doing? Are those hairless mini apes? Why are the trees so damn small? And why the fuck are they mud wrestling with them? Why isn't Breth just growing big and kicking the shit out of them?"

There were so many questions, but I had to let them catch up with the ones that I had, but the women all just laughed at me, and then Xelios came over with what looked like a blue soda...OH FUCKING YES!

"You did it didn't you?! You fucking made magic soda! They are already big! Wait…"

I turned back to the screen with a completely different outlook on the scene on the blue-tinted crystal screens. They were fighting giant hairless ape...as giants...and they didn't wait for me? LIKE FUCKING HELL!

"Are the brain smasher blocks turned off?" I asked as calm as humanly fucking possible.

"Yes? The Vector blocks? We had to turn them off to land, What do  you think of my BBC drones?" Violet asked.

Now, I was almost ready to explode with excitement, but there was something far more important than me in play here. I put Kyla down and she ran over to Mom, who picked her up as I walked towards Violet without saying a word. As I got closer she looked like a wild animal about to bolt as I stared her down.

"I am sorry that I haven't been the person that I promised you I would be, I will be more considerate of your feelings and the rest of the girls. Now, change that fucking name! Also is there a door outside down here?"

Violet jumped into my arms and I hugged her tight and close.

"It stands for Big Bad Camera Drone though!"

"I don't fucking care if it stands for Bubbles, Brownies, and fucking caramel, I am not calling it a BBC drone!"

"Just wait till you see them!" Violet snickered.