Escape to Alpha
Copyright© 2025 by Charlie for now
Chapter 3
Science Fiction Sex Story: Chapter 3 - A young officer in an alien planet’s military space force is sent with two other space explorers back to the supposed origin of mankind a millennium or so after it was thought to be decimated. Alpha, they called it. Due to extenuating circumstances, when she arrived on Alpha, or Earth as we know it, she was alone. Not knowing, and even fearing what she would encounter upon landing, it turned out pretty well. Pretty well for her and for what was left of Earth’s severely diminished population.
Caution: This Science Fiction Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Fa/Fa Romantic BiSexual Military Science Fiction Aliens Space Polygamy/Polyamory Politics
It was different, shopping there, especially with a man following me, but again, not much had changed, save the styles. I found a dress that fit me well, in the teenager’s section, some high heels in the shoe department, thankfully they were in style on Earth as well, then I picked up some other things to wear while I was here.
Charlie had told me to buy what I needed, or wanted, and that as a guest of his country, he would pick up the charges and another word wouldn’t be said about it. I took him at his word. The dress was gorgeous, and the shoes were decadent, bordering on sexy. He asked if we wore hose, stockings, on Omega, for our legs. I told him we did, so he took me to that area of the women’s department. It was almost fun having him show me around. In the lingerie section, I picked out a couple of cute bras right in front of him, then some matching panties. I saw his smile.
I was short on Omega. I knew that. I was short there on Alpha, or Earth, as well. At a hundred and fifty centimeters, I was less than their measurement of five feet tall. I think Charlie liked short redheaded girls. The young lady that helped me with a tape measure was taller than I was, and quite a pretty woman with hair an attractive shade of blonde. Charlie never even noticed her. When he saw me pick out the bras, I’m sure he could see they were tagged as a 30C. Did you know men smile with their eyes, too?
Thankfully I was short waisted, so most of the tops I liked fit just fine, and since we wear mostly shorts and short skirts back home, I availed myself of a few of those as well. He helped me pick out a pair of heels to wear with them, too. If I could get him to venture back to Omega with me, he would love walking around in New Columbia. What he seemed to like as I was picking around were very close to the current styles back home.
We pushed the shopping cart to the checkout, he paid for all of it, then on the way back out to his vehicle, I asked him, “Charlie, do you have a home here?”
“Absolutely. I have a house right down the street. We live on base for the most part. As the base commander, I kind of need to be around most of the time. If I’m on vacation or temporary assignment, my deputy takes over, but I’m here most of the time.”
“How big is it?”
“Chalen, as an emissary of your world, I don’t know if it’s appropriate for you to stay at my house, but I’m certainly willing to put you up, if you feel you would be more comfortable with me than alone at the VOQ.”
“I think I would. I know nobody. I know no place. I don’t know anything about your world, other than it’s not that much different than mine, save the old-time vehicles. I don’t even know where to eat, and I don’t have any money, save the precious metals and gemstones onboard The Messenger.”
He immediately stopped the car on the side of the road. “The what?” he asked, quite animatedly.
“We keep riches onboard in case of emergencies. In case we have to buy our way out of a department store and can’t find a handsome, generous colonel to bail us out. It’s common, Charlie. Don’t tell me your aircraft pilots don’t have an emergency stash of something valuable.”
“No, honey, they don’t. They carry their ID cards and such, and a credit card for their own use, but we have no other country to fly to. No one to capture us. Outside the range of our helicopters, there is no sentient life on this rock that we can find. The planet is uninhabited outside our domain. Our very small domain. Plants and such are starting to grow back, but slowly. Do you want to go to the hangar to secure that door? ‘Please’ is a very easy password to remember.”
“It won’t open again for anyone unless I tell it to. We’re fine. No one is going to take the gold and platinum and diamonds and rubies and emeralds off The Messenger. Are you all right, Charlie? You pulled over quite suddenly. Are you well?”
“Yes, hon. I’m fine. That just caught me off guard, the gold thing, but it makes sense when I think about it. Should I hold you for ransom and try to exchange you for your riches?” He grinned and waggled his eyebrows.
“You’ve bought me lunch, pretty clothes, attractive shoes, sexy underthings, and called me both ‘honey’ and ‘hon’. You can have my riches if you take me home with you and let me take a bath. Please tell me you have a bathtub and hot water there.”
“You’re in luck. That was one of the first things they got back up and running. The water and the sewer systems. Everything else just fell into place. Farms, food, fuels, all that unnecessary stuff, but by golly we had toilets and hot water running into our bathtubs and showers within just years after the Scalar left our ruins behind them.”
I giggled. I had to admit, as serious as their situation was, his explanation was funny.
His home was nice. By Omega One military standards, it was quite roomy. I asked him about it.
“The unit commanders are at a time in their lives when most of them are married with families. For the most part, most military officers are married. It’s still the custom here to have at least one wife and a couple of kids.” I looked at him in question. “Children. Young ones.” I nodded. “The senior officer’s quarters, like mine, are made for that and a guest. Four bedrooms, and three bathrooms. It’s quite standard. Being single, it just gives me more room to move around, more windowsills to dust, and more carpets to vacuum. I’ll have the job for a few years, then when I retire, or move up a little, someone else will live here. They will probably be married and have a couple of rug rats.”
“Rug rats? So you do have large rodents to feed Ronen’s remains to?” I thought he was serious. I’d never heard of rug rats.
“No, doll. I’m talking about the kids I mentioned earlier. Little ones. Babies, toddlers, children, adolescents, or mankind’s curse ... Teenagers.”
I had to laugh. Charlie was so funny. “Rug rats, indeed. That’s cute. That terminology, rug rats, did not follow our people into space. Charlie, you called me ‘doll’. Are you trying to tell me something?”
“That I’d like to get to know you better? Yeah, I guess I am. Come on upstairs. You can use the tub in the master bedroom suite.”
He took my hand and walked me upstairs to what could only be the so called ‘master’ bedroom suite. From my experience, it was quite nice with a huge bed and very attractive furniture.
“I’ll put all your stuff here on the bed and you can take your time. If you need me, just holler. When you’re done, we can trade places, I’ll shower and get dressed and we can go out to the Officer’s Club for dinner. Sound good?”
“It sounds amazing. Thank you. And, Charlie, the inverse is true as well. I want to get to know you better, too. I don’t trust many men. Very few, actually. My luck with men, both related and not, has been abysmal. I see none of those traits in you, though, yet you control everything around you. I’ve been watching. I have not been your only task today, yet you have handled them all without losing track of me or my welfare for even a second. That tells me something. The way you treat people is telling as well. The one man I do trust, my organization’s commanding officer, is like you. If he wasn’t my grandfather, I might have chased him, but my grandmother would have frowned on that, I’m sure.”
“Yeah, that’s taking inappropriate to a whole ‘nuther level. Eeeeckkk. I take it you had issues with your father. Never mind. I didn’t mean to pry. Go take a bath. Relax. You can set the temperature and it will stay warm. We’ve also reinvented a lot of things in the last many hundreds of years.”
He left me standing there, me being ready to tell him about my past, and wanting to know about his. I grabbed my toiletries, figured out the tub and proceeded to soak the last month away. I left the door of the bathroom open so that he could hear me if I called out, but I needn’t have worried.
“Do humans drink alcohol back on Omega, hon?” I heard him ask from the other room.
“Yes. It’s still done. They have a lot of other ways to loosen inhibitions, too, but that is still one. It’s an ancient tried and true method, I would say. I wouldn’t have any idea what to ask for, so why don’t you surprise me?”
“I’ll be right back.”
“Can you bring something for yourself and keep me company? Just for a bit?”
“Sure.”
When he came back, he made a point of not looking my way as he set a drink down on the side of the tub, then sat on a chair near the doorway to the bathroom. He was being about as polite as he could be under the circumstances. I tasted it. It was quite good. Tart, sweet, mild, all rolled into one. He called a vodka tonic.
“Charlie, have you ever been wed? Been mated?”
“Not entirely, sweetie. I was close once. I was engaged to be married, wedded, to a wonderful woman. She was a great lady, but there was an accident and I lost her before we could make it final. It was quite some time ago.”
“I’m so sorry to hear that. Would it bother you for me to ask what she looked like?”
“No, not really. She was a just a hair over five feet tall, maybe an inch or two taller than you, and her hair was just a bit brighter red than yours. I know what you were getting at. Yes, Chalen, you are the type of woman that flips my switches.”
“I wasn’t being negative, Charlie. Just curious. I was mentioning my problems earlier, and I just want you to know a bit of my background, then I’ll be quiet.” I was using my hands at the time to bring water up to my shoulders and let it pour down over my collar bones and my breasts. It felt marvelous. It was the first real bath I’d been in for a month and a half. Showers get old after a while. “My father mistreated my mother, my uncle mistreated my aunt, and both tried to mistreat me at one time or another, but thankfully not at the same time. My mother and my aunt are both deceased now, thanks to those two men, and they wanted me to take over duties in their households as their woman. I escaped to a shelter where my grandparents were able to swoop in and rescue me. I repaid them by attending the Naval Academy as a cross train student from the Planetary Defense Command and graduated with honors. I have been on about three dates, with men, in my life, none of which was followed by a second. I’m leery of men in almost, if not every case, but here I am, in your home, absolutely naked, lying in hot water, completely at your mercy. I can’t explain why, except that when you held your hands out to me on the landing ribbon, I wanted to walk to you and have you put your arms around me. Do you have any explanation for that?”
“I’m just lucky?”
Once again, I had to laugh. “You are funny, Mr., I mean Colonel Collins. Very funny. I’m the lucky one. I’m forty-two light years or so from my friends, family, and home, and yet I feel more at ease here, on a once ruined planet, than I do in my own home on Omega. That’s not normal.”
“I agree. Can I wash your back if I pretend not to look? You can even close your eyes, so I don’t see anything.”
Again, I just broke out in giggles. “Well, now, you have proven that you are a man, after all. Sure. Come on in. If you were betrothed, just maybe, you might know what a female body looks like.”
“I never said I hadn’t been around the block, just that I had never had a permanent mate.”
“Around the block?” I asked him.
“Girlfriends? The girlfriend experiences. An adult woman desirous of my touch? I’m not a virgin, Chalen.”
“Oh, okay. I understand that. I kind of am.”
“Kind of? That’s not like kind of pregnant, is it?”
I failed to hold back another giggle. “No, Charlie. Pregnancy is binary. You are or you aren’t. I’ve never made love to a man before, hence, I’m kind of a virgin.”
“Interesting,” was all I could get out of him. Well, that and his hand, his warm soft, soapy hand, on my shoulders and my back. He even did my upper arms, then kissed the top of my head and went back to the chair by the door.
“Thank you. That felt really, really nice. It’s been a long time for me. Since well before our launch, actually. I have a friend back home that sometimes shares herself a bit with me, as I do with her. I did say open and honest, and you agreed it would be best, right?”
“I did. Do I have competition for your charms?”
“Not a chance. Sella is a friend. A close friend, but a friend, just the same. Picture the girl that helped me with measurements at the store today. Sella maybe has a cuter nose and lighter blonde hair, but close. Not your type at all, unless...” I looked over my shoulder at him and watched him as he gave me a funny look. “Kidding. Sorry.”
“Never apologize for an attempt at humor, sweetheart, but please don’t push me out of the way, or put up a roadblock, like another pretty woman, until I get a chance to make my play for you. Is that something you can agree to?”
“Yes. Is that the polite way of saying you aren’t necessarily into polygamy or polyamory, but won’t turn it down sight unseen?” This time I didn’t turn around. I waited for him to answer.
“Yes. Here, on Earth, it is common practice now for a man to have two wives. It was so a long time ago as well, but only in a couple of cultures. It lost popularity. Not all men do it, of course, as some of us can’t even handle one woman, let alone, two.” Again, I thought he was funny. “It stems from the population problems after the attack. We needed to repopulate, and there weren’t enough men to go around. Seems the Scalar liked men better for some reason. As slaves, anyway. In any case, the surrounding areas were ransacked such that all the men were taken first, then they left before carting off with the women. That left about two hundred thousand, I think it was, extra women behind. I don’t remember all the exact numbers, but there were many more women than men, and we needed to get busy if we wanted to save the world. We’re up around a million and a half now, I think, and making progress. Is polygamy practiced on Omega?”
“In all its forms. Polyamory as well. Before, during and after wedding and mating. It’s not uncommon for post pubescent boys to have two or three girlfriends, all of whom get along. It’s normal. Multiple women marrying their mate in a wedding ceremony? That’s common, too. Several worlds are like that, but there are a couple that I know of where it’s just the opposite, a male and female mate for life and if one dies, the other one generally follows, or stays alone until they do. It takes all kinds to make the universe light up.”
“That’s true. Chalen, I’m going to shower now. I’ll close my eyes as I pass you so that you can’t see me without benefit of cover.”
I’m sure he heard me giggle as he walked right by me, into the shower stall, turned on the water, and started shampooing his hair. He never looked around at me. Not once. He really was a true gentleman. He shaved while he was in the shower as well, but unlike him, I did catch glimpses of him behind the clear glass walls. I also noticed his face was not the only thing he trimmed with that razor.
I dried myself, then donned my bra, panties, and some silky, shiny stockings he bought for me. I shimmied into the dress, then put the heels on. All in all, I’d say I did all right at the store. If I was a man, and I was attracted to short, little redheads, I’d date me, I guess.
“God, you’re gorgeous. You make that little dress look amazing. I really am a lucky man, aren’t I?”
“Thank you, Charlie. I’ll wait for you downstairs. Should I take all this stuff you bought for me to another room? You said you had four bedrooms. There should be one open, unless you have lingering girlfriend experiences still being taken care of.”
“Pick one, or feel free to leave it all here until we get back. Either one. It’s up to you. We can move it later if you want.”