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16.09% Rise Of Immortal Dawn / Chapter 28: Planting Some Seeds

Chapter 28: Planting Some Seeds

*** Author's Note ***

*** Sorry for not having a chapter ready for you yesterday. I ended up getting caught up in trying to describe what they were discovering about the new world and ended up having to trash it and start over last night because it ended up sounding like a late night National Geographic show. So I hope today's chapter is more captivating than it originally was before I had to rewrite it. And, again, I'm sorry for you having to wait two days for this one. ***

As they awoke the next morning Dawn jumped the luggage she had put in the storage room down so they all would have fresh clothes to wear for that day as well as the bathing suits she had wishfully packed for each of them. After they each had a short breakfast, Holly, Rachel, and Jessica eagerly rushed back to the ocean to go swimming again. But Stephan nervously looked at Dawn not having a swimsuit in hand and asked, "Ummm.... I don't see your swimsuit and I don't own one so I have to ask, were you serious about going skinny dipping yesterday? Because, while I think you look awfully cute and all, I don't think I'd be able to even look in your direction without blushing and dying of embarrassment. Especially being as I am nowhere near brave enough to go naked in front of anybody and am just going to go swimming in the suit I was wearing yesterday."

Dawn laughed heartily and, after catching her breath, answered as she tapped her head, "I appreciate you finally telling me you like me instead of trying to keep it hidden from a group of girls that all have the ability to tell how you feel. And as far as the skinny dipping, to be honest, growing up I kept hearing the creepy thoughts from the guards dad kept me surrounded with and how they wanted to strip me naked and grope me and other nasty stuff so I've never been comfortable even being close to naked around folks. So I wasn't really planning on going skinny dipping and was just teasing you knowing how you felt about me.

Plus, "she finished with a smirk, "If you men knew how to actually look at stuff you would have seen the bathing suit I bought for you when I went shopping last week." as she pointed at the suitcase they had prepared for Stephan.

He groaned in exasperation and partial relief when he found the swimsuit and then clarified with Dawn, "So no skinny dipping right?"

Teasing him she sighed, "If you insist." then turned to head outside.

Still not seeing her swimsuit, Stephan asked, "Aren't you going to go get changed and put your swimsuit on?"

Dawn laughed as she tapped her head again and said grinning, "You keep forgetting about our abilities. One of the things I learned how to do so I wouldn't have to give those guards the opportunity to see me even partially undressed was to jump my new clothes on underneath what I'm wearing." She then pulled out her waistband enough to show him part of her bikini so he could see it then walked out the door, leaving Stephan alone to get changed.

A short while later, as they were all relaxing in the comfortably cool water, Jessica gasped and said, "There are already plants here!"

Rachel lectured in response, "Given the stable climate and the hospitable conditions it was quite possible to find some form of life here."

Stephan added, "Yeah, for all we know there might even be aliens here. In fact, we might run into aliens of different types all over the galaxy."

Jessica then fumed, "No! Listen! I was looking around with my talent and I found a couple of fields with different types of plants in them. So I looked deeper and some of them are like some of the vegetables back home! So we might not even have to bring a huge load of food to get by. We could have it already growing and ready to gather up when we bring them here!"

"It's alien plant life sis. We might not be able to digest it and, Stephan scolded, "for all we know, it might even end up being poisonous."

"Wrong and wrong." Dawn stated, "I just checked on it and, while we won't know how it tastes until we try it, it is all edible and none of it is poisonous."

"Growing up I used to help my mom prepare supper so I might be able to see if it'll be worth it taste-wise." Holly volunteered.

Stephan sighed dejectedly and responded, 'We'll have to wait until next visit. We're gonna have to head back in a couple hours to keep up appearances for our cover story."

Rachel then grinned, looked at Dawn, and said, "We could always take a couple samples back with us so we would know if we needed to bring any particular seasonings back."

Dawn returned the grin and added, "Either way, now we know that on our first trip back we have to bring some farmers and a couple of the group of talents that will be able to help grow more seeds and prepare the ground for the fields."

Jessica giggled then stated, "Sounds like a plan. And since mister spoilsport says it's almost time to go, I'm gonna get as much swimming in as I can!" as she energetically swam into the the deeper area of the small ocean.

Later that evening, as they were finishing up with getting ready to jump back to the ship and head back home, Stephan checked to make sure that everything was ready and called to Jessica, "Jessica! HR! Dawn! Everybody come down here to the table! We have some serious adult business to attend to before we can go back home!"

As everyone then entered the room, Stephan had them sit down until Jessica, being the last one to enter, got directed to sit down at the head of the table. Feeling weird that he had made here sit in the spot that Stephan usually liked to sit in, Jessica asked him, "So bro, what boring stuff are you wanting us to go over with you about now​?"

"This boring stuff, my dear sister," Stephan demanded, "was just found in the kitchen and it needs all of your attention so I can find out who the culprit is and give them a couple licks for messing up my brand new kitchen!" while he stared directly at her.

Being defensive, Jessica pleaded, "Sorry bro! I was royally craving some chocolate and couldn't help searching for it like crazy! You don't have to go for the licks! Just give me a bit to finish getting ready to jump back up to the ship and I'll make sure to clean it all up and make it look brand new"

Keeping a serious face, Stephan shook his head and ordered her, "No way out of it this time girl! Now I want you to stand up, face the wall, and then lean forward with your hands on the wall and your eyes held closed. If you don't I will double the licks!"

She meekly did as instructed and, while her eyes were closed, Stephan secretly waved for Rachel to bring something in from the kitchen as he then positioned himself behind Jessica and sternly told her, "Now! I want you to count out each one of these licks until I am done!"

He then gave her 16 spanking with the others repeating Jessica's count after each one and doing all they could not to laugh about Jessica not knowing what was actually going on until Stephan got to the 15th spanking. Then, after Stephan did the 16th one, Jessica finally went to throw her hands behind her to defend her backside from more spanks but Stephan quickly reached out and got her as he announced, "And a pinch to grow an inch!"

Jessica growled as she asked, "OK! Ha Ha. You got me! Can I sit back down now? Preferably on the couch so I can rest this bruised bottom?"

"No!" Stephan directed, "You can't sit down until after you keep those eyes closed as you turn around and make a wish as you blow out these candles."

She turned around and gasped when she saw the extravagant cake that had been prepared as she slowly sat down and then blew out the candles as she made a wish. With tears of thankfulness in her eyes she hugged her brother and asked him, "How did you keep such a big cake hidden away from me in that rocket? And how did you manage to jump it down here so quick without me knowing or seeing it?"

Stephan chuckled as he told her, "You're forgetting that I also have a builder skill that I was able to use to turn that grass looking stuff you saw out there in that field into this nice looking and wonderful tasting cake."

"Wow." She wondered, "I didn't even think about you being able to build it. Much less being able to change it into whatever you wanted it to be.! Thanks, bro."

Stephan gave her a hug in return as he said, "Glad you liked it sis. It was the best I could come up with on such short notice given how I originally expected us to be uneventfully back home after just a long hours and wasn't expecting to end up in another star system on a new planet that we plan on making our new home."


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Shannon_DeNure Shannon_DeNure

As I said at the beginning of today's chapter, I'm sorry for the unexpected delay but I couldn't subject you to the boring National Geographic episode the chapter had ended up turning into. Either way, please let me know what you think of the new chapter and I will do my best to keep putting out a new chapter every day as I lead you up to them exploring the universe further after they get the colony established with people that also have abilities like they do.

Chapter 29: Starting The Ball Rolling

With a plan in place, they jumped back close to Saturn's orbit the next morning and put the ship to start coasting towards Earth going at the 25% light speed they were able to hit on the way to Pluto before Holly and Rachel had started using their mover ability to push it faster. They then shut the engine down and, with no engine power, they set the engine to do a couple of short runs to make it look like they were experiencing engine problems and then continued to coast towards Earth with random engine runs set to last for longer periods as they got closer and were more likely to attract attention from other space agencies. As they finally came to the notice of earth's space agencies and their status was questioned, they stuck to their story of the engine having an electrical glitch that caused them to start getting unpredictable data from the engine and, thinking they were correcting an improper trajectory, they had put the ship on an unexpected trajectory before they had to shut the engine down and try to correct the problem. They also told them that after they had verified their actual course taking them towards Pluto, they used the small planet to perform a gravity slingshot that put them on a course back home and they had been using brief tests of the engine to perform small course corrections to keep them on course for the company's robotic shipyard to enable them to perform the needed repairs to the engine's electrical system. When they finally coasted to the robotic shipyards that Stephan had used to build the ship originally, they briefly used the engine to slow the ship down to a crawl and slowly floated forward until the robots were able to secure the ship to the dock and start doing a systematic checkup of the engine and appear to be doing an upgrade to the electrical system that looked to outside eyes like the needed repairs.

A short while after Stephan had given the robots instructions of what to do to the ship to get it ready for the next trip and had started them to making a bigger ship capable of carrying the needed future colonists, Greg and Angie arrived with their shuttle, Tesla, and carried them to the International Space Station. They then endured a day filled with a round of interviews set up to document what they said had happened to the ship and the speeds it had been able to reach before malfunctioning so that the information could be passed on to the various governments that might be interested in the engine's performance. After a brief rest, they then all boarded the Tesla and gladly returned to Earth.

Upon landing the ladies gladly let Stephan deal with the mass of personnel from all of the different agencies that were throwing millions of questions at them, quickly grabbed what little they had left in their lockers in the changing room for the space suits, and went back to their respective homes to enjoy the quiet relaxation until Stephan had satisfied the information everyone was demanding of him.. Late the next day Stephan finally arrived to the office. Asking the others to gather with him in the conference room, he quickly went to his office and changed into a spare suit he had kept there for when needed and, after freshening up, he grabbed the paperwork he needed and went there himself.

Walking in he wearily told them, "I swear next time I'm gonna push one of you out in front of me and let you deal with that crazy circus you ladies left me with all the way up until they finally ran out of questions about an hour ago!"

"Ouch." Dawn expressed in sympathy, "I didn't know they'd keep you that long or even how they came up with that many questions. I thought it would be just a couple hours and then you'd be home by supper time."

"I wish!" Stephan sighed, "Each agency would have like two or three hours with of questions and then pass me off to the next agency all day long. And the closest I got to sleep was the fifteen minutes or so it would take them to decide who was next, come in and get all their questions prepared, and then wake me up demanding to know everything they could think of. I mean I even had one guy ask me if what I ate affected top speed of the engine while another asked me if I saw any alien structures on the far side of Pluto."

"Wow." Rachel chuckled.

Seeing Ranita coming up to the door, Stephan told them, "The reason I called you guys together though wasn't to fuss about leaving me to the wolves. I t was to give you a heads up on what Ranita has probably come to tell me has arrived."

"I guess all that radiation up in space made you psychic boss." Ranita shyly opened with, "I've got about a dozen press folks downstairs saying you invited them for something."

Smiling, Stephan told her, "Yes I did. Please put them in the big conference room we have downstairs for company wide meetings and those rare press interviews. Tell them I'll be down in about ten or fifteen minutes, please."

She acknowledged it and left as Holly demanded, "Whoa boss! What's with the press so soon?"

"That, my dear, is why I called you here." He answered, "After getting so much attention from almost all arms of our government along with a couple others I decided last night to go ahead and use this attention to help us roll out the colony plan. That way it gets at least a little bit of serious news before we get it put out there as a crazy waste of time and money or played up to just attract the cooky space nuts looking for aliens and all."

"So does that mean you want us there with you for serious business like visuals? Or did you give us a heads up so we know not to give too much info within hearing distance in case they have any roaming the halls looking for some inside scoops?" Rachel asked.

"A little bit of both to be honest." Stephan replied, "I'd like for you to come with me to the press meeting, but I was gonna let holly stay up here working on that new design. And, as for Dawn and Jessica, they'd focus more on Jessica being so young than on anything we had to say if she was with us while Dawn's dad would probably have a hissy fit if she was even in sight of the press without being able to promote his company and all their medical research and all that."

"Well Jessica stayed at home today saying she was gonna chill in that pool she had you build for her," Dawn explained, "And when it comes to the press and those nosy or off the wall questions some of them ask you, I'd much rather be up here out of sight. Especially if that one reporter that was halfway stalking me every time I was in public looking for some controversy on dad a couple years ago is down there."

Stephan laughed and replied, "That guy is the reason I have those spikes and electric car zappers and doorbells outside the house. Cause I got tired of him hounding me for info thinking I was friends with my neighbor or parking at the end of my driveway so he could try and watch your gate or use his binoculars to spy in on any windows he could see. I finally got tired of it and paid one of your guards to randomly drive out and circle around town without stopping for a couple of hours every day for a week so I could put all that stuff up to keep him away so I could work in peace."

"But anyway," Stephan concluded, "Just wanted to make sure we were all set and ready to play our parts today so we can start getting the ball rolling on this colony deal before we wait too long and have to push the ball harder to get it rolling and all. Now, Rachel, let's go ahead and get this over with before the press gets bored and start asking about our dating lives and what we had for breakfast or what color our offering to the toilet god was this morning and all sorts of even more awkward personal questions."

Chuckling as they left, Rachel complained, "But you know I love watching them squirm when I start going into detail about Holly and me knowing they can't print any of it without it coming off like they're writing some erotic porn story."

"Yeah," Stephan groaned, "but then they start hounding me wanting to know if I let y'all get intimate while at work, or if I participate, or even if I'm secretly running some type of sex shop. I know it's funny to look back on after they leave, but it's awfully aggravating to deal with while they're trying to dig up whatever dirt on any of us they can think of."


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Shannon_DeNure Shannon_DeNure

Sorry for not being able to post yesterday. I had to go get the cabinets we needed to finish the kitchen and ended up falling asleep while writing this chapter last night. I feel i should also warn you guys that these next couple of chapters are gonna be hard for me to get finished on time every day because i will be introducing another character along with trying to get everything set up for the next part without getting bogged down in the details so please bear with me and please please please let me know when i'm getting stuck in too much detail.

In closing, like usual, I have to ask you to please leave a review or comments and powerstones if you haven't already. The more powerstones you leave the more it helps Webnovel direct the story to those that might also enjoy it. Thanks

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