There’s Something Lurking in the Engine Room

“Oh, fuck off, Alex!” Jonah grumbled as he threw down his cards against the table. He had been beaten by the tigress, once again. The colorful cards with numbers and symbols printed on them scattered once they hit the metal surface of the dining table. There were a couple of laughs that could be heard once the big Saint Bernard began his little sore loser’s tantrum. The crew of the SS Infinity was having a game night after they swung by Earth and Alex picked up some board games that were popular on that the tigress’ familiar home planet.

“Hah, cheer up Jonah, it’s only your third time playing with Alex, and she’s the only one who knew of this game before today.” Smirked Tashi, a tall Clydesdale, and marksman, who was standing by watching the two duke it out with Alex’s special game of cards. “What’s it called again?”

“Uno,” said Alex as she gathered up the discarded cards on the table back into a neat deck again. “It’s Spanish for ‘one’, and you say it when you’re on your last card, Jonah,” the tigress stuck her tongue out at Jonah teasingly. The Saint Bernard rolled his eyes, clearly annoyed at the tigress.

“You’re lucky you’re my mechanic, or you’d be off this ship at the next stop,” he grumbled and crossed his arms over his chest. Jonah felt a couple of pats on his shoulder from a red panda that got up from her seat and brushed behind him. That was Lauré, the pilot of Jonah’s ship. “Alright, alright! Game night is over. I’m heading back to the cockpit, still need to program in the route, will you come with me, Captain? Go over the manifest and figure out where we need to stop first?” The red-headed red panda gave the large canine captain a big squeeze to get him to stop being angry at the tigress for beating him at what was essentially just a silly card game.

It took a couple of seconds for the large canine’s miffed expression to fade away, and the soft hands of the red panda helped. “I’ll beat you next time, Alex, you just watch,” he grumbled as he pushed himself out from his chair and turned his back towards the table. He and Lauré headed out the automatic sliding doors and to the cockpit, leaving Alex, Tashi, and Zach still sitting together in the dining area.

“Captain sure does hate losing,” Alex murmured.

Zach, the ship’s very own zebra, and onboard medic rolled his eyes. “The guy’s just pent up, hasn’t seen his husband for what, three weeks now? I bet 200 credits the next place we port is his home planet, where his hubby is,” he chuckled. Alex and Tashi gave each other a look before they both slowly nodded in agreement with the zebra’s theory.

“C’mon, the guy’s trying his best, he’s been working hard to get our cargo bay full so that we get fed and paid, don’t give him too hard of a time,” the Clydesdale murmured as he stretched his arms over his head and fought back a yawn.

With the deck of colorful cards still in her hand, Alex shrugged her shoulders. “It’s whatever, he’ll never beat me at it, but I’ll let him keep trying.” The tigress chuckled happily while shaking her head. She then raised the deck of cards in her hand up and looked to the two boys still seated at the table with her. “Wanna play a few more rounds?” The fluorescent lighting that illuminated the ship flickered a few times as the striped feline waited for her crewmates to answer.

“Sure,” Zach said with a smile, “But unlike our captain, I’m also pretty familiar with this UNO game, so don’t cry when I beat you.”

Tashi shook his head at Zach but nodded in response to Alex’s invitation for a few more games. “Don’t listen to him, you and Lauré are the only two on this ship who are from Earth and know what UNO is.” He turned to face the zebra and smiled, “He’s bluffing.”

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“Jonah, is it me, or are the thrusters a little shaky?” asked Lauré as she sat in the cockpit, setting the ship’s course and cruising through the dark and empty void that was space. Jonah stood in the cockpit with a tablet in his hand to check the manifest of what they had to drop off during the next stop and to keep the red panda company as she set them on course for their destination. Upon hearing her inquiry about the shaky thrusters though, he took his eyes off the tablet and walked up behind the panda to get a closer look at what she was talking about.

“They shouldn’t be, Alex just filled us up when we were on Earth,” the large canine furrowed his brows and reached his hand over to hold onto the right thrust control. He pushed it forward ever so slightly and could feel some resistance that wasn’t supposed to be there. He tried pushing the control lever up further with a little more force, and that’s when he felt the shakiness that the red panda was talking about. This time, however, the entire ship shook a little bit, causing some rattling and the lights to flicker. After feeling the shakiness, he let go of the thrust control and pondered for a moment. Meanwhile, the red panda put the ship on autopilot for the time being.

“That’s a bit concerning…” Jonah said softly as he brought a finger to tap at the underside of his chin. The light hum of electronics was heard after the two in the cockpit fell silent. Then, the lights in the cockpit flickered again, leaving them in complete darkness (save for the lights coming from the various instruments) for a few seconds.

“I’ll go ask Alex to go check it out,” the captain nodded to himself. He then handed Lauré the tablet he was using to check the manifest. “Set course for the nearest fueling station, then add Tera72 as the next destination. Leave it on autopilot, for now, don’t push those thrusters any further.”

“You got it cap,” replied the red panda as she took the tablet that was handed to her and began pressing, twisting, and turning all sorts of controls that were in front of her. Jonah turned around and headed back to the dining area where he last left the rest of the crew.

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“Uno,” Alex said with a wide grin stretched across her face as she laid down her second-to-last card, leaving her with only one card left. The card she put down was a blue number seven, even though putting on a poker face was one of the main strategies to winning UNO, Alex could not hide that grin on her face as she glanced to and from both Tashi and Zach’s faces, and her final card. What color or number could it be? Or was she the one bluffing this time around? Zach furrowed his brow before he pulled a card out from the draw pile, and Tashi did the same. With a shrug of her shoulders, Alex laid down her final card, a black "draw four" card, sealing the fate of the player whose turn it was next.

She won once again.

“C’mon! How do you always win!” Zach threw his cards down on the table and crossed his arms over his chest just like the captain did earlier.

“It’s a game of wit and luck, you don’t have any of that, Zach,” the tigress teased and laughed.

It was at that moment when Jonah came through the sliding doors. The sound of the door’s hydraulics making it known that someone had come in. All three of the crew members that sat at the table turned their attention to the captain and noticed the look of concern he had on his face almost immediately. That big dog was very easy to read, not just from his tail but his face as well.

“What’s wrong cap?” asked Zach. The captain approached the table and stopped once he was close enough for it not to be weird to start a conversation.

“Thrusters are shaky, did you remember to fuel up when we were on Earth, Alex?”

Alex nodded. “Yeah, juiced us up to 100% while we were docked there, it shouldn’t be shaky at all.”

Jonah nodded, “That’s what I thought, but Lauré said they were shaky, and I tried them out, they’re really shaky, even feels like they’re a bit resistant, can’t get them at full throttle without it feeling like they’re going to break, the whole ship shakes.”

“Is that what that was?” Tashi raised a brow and Jonah nodded.

The Saint Bernard turned to face Alex and put his hands at his hips, “Can you go down to the engine room and check for me? Make sure nothing is messing with shit down there? Take Tashi with you, in case something happens and you need some help.” Right as the large canine finished his sentence, the lights flickered a few times again, but this time, after about three flickers off, on, and off, they stayed off and the emergency backup lights came on, putting a red glowing tint over everything in the dining room. The idle hum of electronics slowly died down. The ship’s electricity had gone out, but it was still moving, otherwise, they would have heard an expletive echo out of the cockpit by now.

“Shit,” Alex grumbled and quickly pushed herself out of her seat and onto her feet. She wasn’t expecting to be fixing anything on the ship today and she certainly didn’t feel like it. She turned to Tashi and gestured for him to come along with her to check out what on (not) Earth was going on with the electricity.

“Take your radio, too, radio back to me when you get the power on and let me know what you see,” said Jonah. “And Zach, standby at medbay, just in case our little mechanic shocks herself with a wire, like last time.” Zach nodded to the captain’s order and headed straight to the medbay.

“Oh ha-ha, very funny, Jonah, just because I’m a cat, I like to play with wires,” she rolled her eyes and grabbed her radio from a nearby countertop. With her baggy pants, utility belt, and a tank top, the tigress was ready to fix anything wrong in the engine room.

The walk from the dining area to the engine room wasn’t too far. Alex and Tashi just had to exit the dining room through the door leading out into the cargo bay, head down a few flights of stairs until they were in the lowest level of the ship, and open up a big manual metal door that had the words “ENGINE ROOM” painted onto it with faded white paint. The red emergency lights were bright enough for Tashi to see just a few feet in front of him, but with Alex being a tiger, she had those darn good feline senses, so she could see just fine. No wonder Jonah picked her as a mechanic for his ship, lights go out? All good, we got a mechanic who barely needs a flashlight!

Once they were at the large metal door, Tashi pulled it open and they went inside. After going through the door, they entered a narrow hallway that was lined with cabling and wiring on both sides, the floor was the same metal as the rest of the ship, although with more holes everywhere for better ventilation. Alex’s padded feet made little to no noise as she walked, but the horse following close behind her had hooves and not paws, so his steps were louder.

‘Clink, clank, clonk’. Alex could tell that he was softening his steps to not make too much noise.

“Can you see back there, Tashi?” Alex asked, slightly concerned.

“A little, the emergency lights are helping,” he murmured as he clip-clopped his way carefully behind her, trying not to trip over any loose wiring or uneven metal parts. “Here, you can take this flashlight,” Alex plucked a flashlight off her utility belt that hung loosely around her waist. Tashi took the flashlight and turned it on, a bright beam of white light immediately illuminating the area in front of him. “Thanks, now I definitely won’t trip over anything,” he chuckled.

It was slightly eerie being in a dark engine room and hearing nothing but the soft and distant sound of the engine humming. The two continued to venture further into the engine room, finally stopping at another door, although this one was unmarked and was at the end of the narrow hallway. Alex opened the door and stepped inside, with Tashi sticking closely behind. Inside was the engine, with even more wiring, different little boxes, and a big and complicated contraption that consisted of a lot of moving parts, that was a little higher up than the rest of the wiring and cable boxes in the room. Turning gears, coils, and belts. Alex stood there looking at the engine for a second before she brought her radio close to her mouth and clicked the transmission button.

“Hey, Jonah, do you copy? Over.”

Alex released the button and waited for the captain to answer. The radio clicked and some static could be heard coming from it before Jonah’s voice came through. “Yup, go for Jonah, over.”

Alex pressed the button again, “The engine looks fine over here, can you tell Lauré to try the thrusters again? Over.”

“Yeah, she’s gonna try them now, hold on to something, over.”

Alex backed up a little bit and gestured towards Tashi for him to do the same. She held onto a metal part of the wall as she watched the engine rev up as Lauré pushed the thrusters up to full throttle. The engine got louder and its various parts moved faster, but the ship remained steady and without any shaking. Odd.

Alex’s radio clicked again, and Jonah spoke. “Yeah, thrusters seem fine up here, no shaking, over.”

Alex let go of the wall and walked up closer to the engine again with a smile spread across her face. She was happy there wasn’t anything wrong with the engine, the engine was a pain in the ass to fix and would have required them to come to a complete stop before any work could be done to it. The tigress brought the radio close to her mouth again, “Awesome, I’ll figure out the lights now, I’ll radio in when it’s done, over.”

She clipped the radio onto her utility belt and stepped over to the side of the room. She ended up in front of this big metal box that was attached to the wall and had a big yellow sticker on it with a lightning bolt going through the center. She pulled the door open and it revealed a bunch of switches with cables sticking out from them on both ends.

Tashi still stood close to the wall and looked at the engine in awe, he hadn’t been down here before, and seeing how massive the engine was up close kind of had him mesmerized for a moment. As he shined his flashlight on and stared at the engine and its thousands of intricate moving parts, the Clydesdale hadn’t noticed that he didn’t close the door behind him when they entered the room. A shadow of something could be seen in the doorway, something big in mass, and it was trying to squeeze its way in through the door. The sound of the engine masked whatever sounds it would have made, and by the time Tashi turned to look at the doorway, there was nothing there.

The large mass was solid but also somehow a liquid at the same time. When Tashi turned to look at the doorway, whatever it was had slithered its way down through the grated metal floor and hid underneath them. Seeing nothing, the horse shrugged his shoulders and continued to look at the engine curiously.

The mass moved its way underneath the floor, gliding over the cables and wires that resided there. It managed to move behind Tashi before it rose through the grated floor behind him and cast a large shadow over him that he wouldn’t notice until he saw the shadow engulf part of the large engine. Whatever it was that was behind him was enormous, and it looked to him like it had three, no, four long and wiggly limbs. Right as he turned around to look, one of those limbs wrapped around his legs and waist and hoisted him up into the air. Another quickly went for his muzzle to keep him quiet, and yet another went for the flashlight in his hand and tossed it out the doorway, shattering it and extinguishing the white light. Tashi’s eyes widened, but he couldn’t make a sound.

The sound of the flashlight being shattered was loud enough to stand out from the loud engine noise and got Alex’s ears to flicker, but she continued to look at the cables for a few seconds before she turned around to look at Tashi. Or at least she thought she was going to be looking at Tashi “Can you shine that flashlight here for me? Even my eyes can’t read any… of… this…” Alex began to trail off when she noticed that the Clydesdale wasn’t there.

“Huh… Tashi?” She looked left and right for a few more seconds before she turned back to the wire box. She figured he wandered off somewhere, or maybe he saw something important that needed to be adjusted. Luckily, she had more than one flashlight on her utility belt. She grabbed it, switched it on, and held it between her teeth as she looked over the switches and ran her hands over them.

Then, the red emergency lights shut off, leaving Alex in almost complete darkness, save for the flashlight she had in her mouth.

“Fuck,” Alex muttered as she continued to read the different barely legible labels on the switches and cables. She reached the last switch in the box that had “main” written on it and noticed that the entire big red cable that was supposed to be plugged into it had been ripped out. There was a little bit of slimy residue left where the damage was done too. “What the hell is that?”

“Yuck…” she grumbled after getting some of the sliminess on her fingers. She reached down to her belt to grab some electrical tape and began reconnecting the cable back to the switch box that It had been torn out from.

The giant tentacle mass hadn’t just up and vanished, it simply moved to the other side of the room, with Tashi in its grasps and gagged. The tentacles found it easy to strip the draft horse of his clothing, and in no time, formed another tentacle to take care of coaxing the horse’s cock out of his sheath. Tashi let out muffled moans as the tentacle toyed with his sheath. The tentacle had an opening and was sucking the horse’s cock out in a literal sense. With the equine able to flail his arms about at first, the beast smartened up and coiled its ever-growing number of tentacles around his wrists to keep them where it wanted them to be. Slowly, Tashi’s cock began to harden and slip out from his sheath and directly into the suction tentacle of that thing in the engine room. The tentacle that had taken his cock also began to wiggle and move up and down in a milking motion.

Alex’s radio clicked, and Jonah’s voice echoed out from it.

“Alex, do you copy, over.”

Alex picked up the radio, pulled the flashlight out of her mouth, and clicked the button. “Yes, go for Alex, over.”

“Emergency lights are out, we can’t see shit up here,” Jonah barked in a slightly annoyed and aggressive tone.

“Yeah, I know, I can hardly see anything down here either, and Tashi is gone somewhere, can’t find him. But I did find the problem with the power, the whole main cable was ripped out of the switch, over.”

“Holy shit, how the hell did that happen? Over.”

“Not sure,” said Alex, “There’s some kind of glue here too, looks like it overheated and melted off. I’m gonna apply a quick fix, but you’re going to need to buy some new cable for me to put in here, at our next stop. Over.”

“Okay, sure, just let me know which one you need, over.” Jonah sounded relieved.

“Yep, I’ll fix it and be right up, Cap!” Alex said before she put the flashlight back in her mouth so she could continue rigging the cable back into place and hold it in with electrical tape. She bit the tape off and wrapped the last bit around neatly before putting the tape, and her radio back on her utility belt. She then moved her hand over to the switch that the cable had come out of, turned it to the ‘off’ position, and then back to the ‘on’.

Slowly, the soft hum of electricity and electronics returned, the noise mixing in with the sound of the engine. It took a few more seconds for the lights to kick in though.

With Tashi suspended in the air, his cock rock hard, and inside the tentacle beast’s milking tentacle, the beast moved its way back towards Alex and slowly crept up behind her as she waited for the lights to turn back on. The creature had no eyes that Tashi could see, so it was a wonder to him how it knew where the tigress was. Yet to be under constant bliss, Tashi tried his best to shout at Alex, but he could only do so much to warn her with a thick, slippery, slimy, and wet phallic shape tentacle down his throat.

The lights flickered a few times before they came on and stayed on. Happy with her work, Alex brushed her hands together before she turned around. “And that’s why I am the best mechanic alive,” she said proudly to herself right before she was faced with the tentacle beast that stood (or sat since it wasn’t using any sort of legs) waiting for her.

“What the fuck!” Alex jumped as she saw the semi-transparent jelly looking creature that greeted her with many, many open arms. One went for the waistband of her pants and pulled them off with her utility belt, while the other peeled her tank top off like a banana. With no time to run or scream, Alex was wrapped up in the tentacles, gagged with one straight in her mouth, her wrists bound, and her arms raised above her head. The tentacle beast wasted no time with Alex, it was quick to learn that her anatomy was different from Tashi’s and adjusted its tentacles accordingly. It coiled around her ankles and used the grip it had around her legs to spread them apart. Her tits out and her pussy spread like peanut butter on bread. A new tentacle came slithering up towards Alex’s pussy, phallic like the one it had stuffed into both her and Tashi’s mouths, but with two little tendrils for maximized female stimulation. It poked and prodded at her pink pussy lips a few times before it shot forward and spearheaded its way into her cunt, spreading her lips apart and pushing in as deep as it possibly could. One of the two tendrils came into contact with Alex’s clit, rubbing and teasing it.

“Mhnnfff!” Alex moaned through the tentacle that tickled the back of her throat. She couldn’t even bite down on that tentacle, it was way too strong, it was clear it intended to keep her lips from shutting. The tentacle around her leg coiled around it more and pulled her leg up higher, her foot sticking up almost awkwardly in the air. The tentacle wasted no time and started pulling out and thrusting back into Alex’s cunt immediately, spreading her lips wide, and coating itself in her pussy juice. She continued to moan and pant, although muffled by the tentacle, and her eyes started to roll back just a little bit. That ruthless tentacle and tendril were pushing all of her buttons.

‘Schlck, schlck, schlck, schlck” wet noises filled the engine room as the tentacles rapidly took advantage of the ship’s mechanic and her unlucky companion. Pile-driving her pussy while also sucking and milking the fuck out of that horse cock.

Having captured its two intended preys, the tentacle creature brought Alex and Tashi closer together in the air, it kept the horse close to the tigress, but not close enough for them to be able to break one another free. Still, the Clydesdale’s cock and balls were right up against the tiger’s leg, with his heavy balls resting on her thigh and his cock right at eye-level. The tentacle did the same thing with the horse it had in its grasps and pulled its tentacle off his cock before sliding back over it again. Simulating the warmth and wetness of a pussy very well for being some sort of Jell-O. Tashi’s cock began to flare under the mercy of the tentacle, although he didn’t have his eyes rolling back, he was moaning through the tentacle in his mouth just like his fellow crewmate was. The horse could feel his orgasm creeping closer and closer, and it seemed like the tentacles knew, too, because right as his orgasm began to build up and close in, a single tentacle coiled around his big and heavy balls, wrapped around them tightly and tugged them down a little.

“Mrrrhhfff!” Tashi moaned loud as the tentacles pulled down on his balls. He wasn’t going to be able to hold it in, not for long. His eyes widened and darted down to his manhood, worryingly looking at the tentacle around it and wondering what it was going to do with his seed once he came.

His cock pulsed and throbbed hard, and within a couple of minutes, his balls jerked upward and ropes of warm white horse seed shot out from the large hole in his flared cock. The tentacle bulged and rippled as he came, pulling his cum out and away from his dick and letting it flow through the tentacle. Tashi’s eyes followed his cum as it traveled through the tentacle, but he could only follow its curls and curves so far. He continued to orgasm and feed the tentacle his seed, not knowing where it was going, not until he glanced over at his crewmate, who was also being fucked silly by the tentacles.

The tentacles thrusting in and out of Alex, showed no sign of stopping, not until the cum that the tentacle beast had extracted from the horse began traveling through it. With one last thrust into Alex, the tentacle nestled itself as deep as it could go into her wet tiger cunt. The ropes of cum shot into her and began to fill her womb up. Not only that, but it also went into her mouth via the tentacle that was lodged there. Her neck bulged as she was forced to swallow the equine cum.

Tashi watched, his dick twitching more and more as he continued to empty his balls into the tentacle. As afraid as he was of what was happening, he couldn’t help but stare at his crewmate as she was pumped full of his cum.

She wasn’t the only one getting his cum though, as the tentacle going down his throat also fed him his own medicine. He swallowed without resistance; he still could not stop staring at Alex’s pussy.

After his cock stopped pushing out cum, he watched as the last bit of it was pushed up into Alex’s plump pussy.

Did he just breed her?

Discarded to one corner of the room, the radio on Alex’s utility belt made a clicking noise, followed by some static, and then Jonah’s voice.

“Alex, do you copy, the lights are back on, couldn’t find Tashi, over.”

“Alex, do you copy, over.”

“Alex, I repeat, do you copy, over.”

“Alex, me and Zach are coming down to see what’s going on, stay where you are, over.”

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Art by Twinkle-Sez 

Tashi by TashiGibson