Harem In The Intergalactic Apocalypse

"What the hell was that about?!" I yelled at Melody, and she shrugged.

"I always wanted to try skydiving, but I don't trust parachutes. I knew you would catch me; Marley told me about the roots! I squeeze every last drop of info out of her!" Melody said, and I rolled my eyes.

"Please don't do that again. You are more important to me than this fucking world is, and if I lost you, the world would be fucked! Please, there isn't another person in the world that could replace you! I love the other girls because I love you so fucking much it hurts!" I yelled, losing control of my emotions.

Melody stepped back, flinching as if she had as if I had hit her, and then she came over slowly and hugged me. My pulse slowed, but I still felt like a mess inside; that had really scared me.

"I'm sorry. That was wrong of me to do to you. I knew you loved me, but I guess I really never really understood what that meant until just now," Melody said, trembling as I wrapped my arms around her.

"Without you, there is no me. I love to see you smile and hear your sweet voice laugh. You are the one that makes all of this possible and helps me keep doing the impossible. I will take the world on with everything I have as long as I know it to protect you," I said, my voice shaking.

"I will stop being so wild and difficult. I know this must be really hard for you, and I am not really helping with adding Chelsea, but you have to agree that she is going to need to be close to you to grow," Melody said, but I shook my head.

"Just stop being reckless. I trust your choices, even if I might fight them most of the time. A man needs to put up at least a bit of resistance," I laughed and kissed the top of Melody's head.

"I will, but I had better grow some wings! I want to be able to fly with you!" Melody complained, and I laughed.

"Well, Orphus did say practicing was the best way to get the results you want. If you are willing to listen and stay close, I will fly you up as high as I can, and let you fall a couple times, if you want?" I asked, and Melody looked up at me.

"You still want to?" Melody asked, sounding unsure.

"As long as we do it in a safe way, I have no problem with it. It's when you just do things by talking to me first that I get upset. From now on, when we make big choices, let's talk about them first, okay?" I asked, and Melody nodded.

"I promise that I will let you get to know the girls first from now on before adding any more into the harem! Once we hit ten, then you will have the main harem, then we can work on the side harems! You don't have to sleep with those ones, just do your thing and make them feel special to help them grow!" Melody cheered, and I groaned.

"Come on! Why does it have to be more women!" I complained.

"Oh! That's right! I don't think we have ever talked about if you like guys or not, right? I am not judging; we can add some of them if you want as well. I mean, there is only one spot left in the main harem, so we should be pretty picky," Melody rambled.

"What? No, I don't like guys that way! I thought that we were going flying?" I asked, but Melody ignored me as she went on.

"Yeah, maybe you might end up finding a female AI? If we made her a body, then you could make a connection with the AI, if you know what I mean?!" Melody said, elbowing me, and I slapped a hand over my face, groaning.

"You are not even listening to me!" I groaned, and she wasn't.

She was now cutting laps as she rattled off ideas.

"I already talked to Anya; Gaia and Sofia are going to join you tomorrow in the morning so we can get the Frankentree Project going. With those there, it should take a long to figure out some kind of special chamber that we can grow bodies in. I also thought that we might be able to grow some super-soldier type body as a defense. We could control them from safe places and be able to help you defend, right?" Melody asked, finally turning to me.

"That is actually a pretty sound idea. We can also store some in the Outpost Surveillance Trees, and you can control them remotely until I get there. Did you come up with that on your own?" I asked, impressed, and Melody nodded.

"Yup! I thought about when I heard about Chelsea and wanted to recreate some kind of gaming thing. I figured if we could figure out how to control the empty bodies, we could have arena battles and such, right?" Melody asked, and I walked over and kissed her passionately.

"Goddammit! And you're smart too!" I said after kissing her.

"Duh! I was always beside you at the top of the class, Bozo!" Melody said, sticking out her tongue at me, then asking, "So, flying?"

"What? You are already done solving all the world's problems? You have even figured out who the last harem member is," I laughed.

"Yes, I did! You just have to find her. I am sure there will be a female AI coming sometime in the future! For now, we just have to get ready! What kind of body do you think that we should give her? We could make her like a demon girl, or angel, like you?" Melody teased, and I rolled my eyes, scooping her up.

"I already have one little demon girl; I don't need two," I said with a laugh as wings burst from my back.

I jumped into the air, my roots sucking back up as I began my climb.