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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/KyleKKent on 2025-12-07 21:52:24+00:00.
RAK and Roll!/Shadows Over Centris/Koa’s Conundrums
Both teammates safely delivered Koa drives home at a leisurely rate. He had made a point of getting a more comfortable home where Nitta and Nikka could live with him. They were sweet girls, earnest and eager. But not the brightest and they were... very close. Honestly at this rate he expects a shift cut short to rush to a hospital.
Four little girls are coming. Four tiny little things on approach and potentially popping any day now. Not to mention Marisa is showing signs, but is still fairly early on.
All healthy. All homey and all so very, very soon to pop. The twins had lost more than one job due to jealous ‘cult leaders’ or however their bosses had stylized them. Thankfully Metak... are small. They do not need much food and honestly keeping them both fed and well housed barely bloated his bills in the slightest.
Not that they weren’t trying to get jobs. But the girls were not the smartest. They were struggling, but he was their anchor. Able to easily keep them up and up. They didn’t really like that though. So they were trying to get work as couriers. But couldn’t just grab packages and fly in their state. They needed vehicles. But they didn’t want to be burdens and he had to talk them into not doing anything drastic several times.
He lowers the aircar and pauses as he sees Nitta and Nikka fiddling with the flying platform on the little landing pad he had rented out for use. He lands and exits the vehicle. Both girls have paused and...
“At least you’re using your wings to handle the tools.” He says as he crouches down. “But I still don’t like you stressing yourselves. You need to relax for this part. We’re so close and I don’t want anything to go wrong.”
“But we don’t want to be useless!”
“Yeah! We’re the women, we’re supposed to be bringing in the money and support and helping out and we can’t even manage to keep things together! We can’t just... it’s so much.” Nikka says. “I... I’m not good enough...”
Koa crouches down next to her and pulls her into a hug. “You are. You just need to calm down to think clearly.”
“But everything keeps shifting around me and then things go from normal to smelling like I’ve been locked in an open sewer but not and it... it...”
Water drips.
“Oh no. It’s time.” Nikka says.
“Now?” Koa asks.
“I feel it.”
“Okay, Nitta. Call Marisa, tell her to join us at Lady Danwin’s Mercy Hospital. We need to go. Because if Nikka is starting, then you can’t be far behind.”
“So I’m going too?” Nitta asks.
“Yes. In the car please.”
“But what about the tools?”
“Not as important as making sure the kids come safely.” Koa insists as he opens the doors to his car and picks up Nikka to put her in the back seat. Nitta takes the front and he gets into the drivers seat.
“Marisa! Nikka’s babies are coming! We’re going to Danwin’s Mercy as planned!” Nitta half shouts into her communicator the moment Marisa picks up.
“Already!? Okay, I’m heading out, is there... wait. Did you have time to put the tools away?”
“No, can you take care of that please? I don’t want them to be stolen.”
“Alright, I’ll tidy up and meet you there with the bags! And brace yourself litle lady, you and your sister share everything so I’m willing to bet...” Marisa’s response is cut off by Nitta letting out a little shriek of shock and surprise as she suddenly soils the seat she’s on. “It’s your time too. I’ll be there soon! Just go!”
“We’re going!” Koa says taking off in the aircar and heading right for the hospital. He presses a button on the dashboard and it switches to an audio receiving mode. “Computer contact Lady Danwin’s Mercy Hospital, inform them that I am coming with two Metak with children on the way now.”
“There is a three percent higher than average traffic in Lady Danwin’s Mercy today.” The computer replies.
“Send the message anyways.” Koa answers the computer.
“Sending. Would you like to send any other messages?”
“Send... hmm...” Koa pauses. There had been something up with Amadi’s wife Abigail and Reggie had just had a very full day. “No. Deactivate for now.”
He drives through the traffic and Nikka is breathing steadily.
“You... don’t want them to know?” She asks.
“Reggie’s had a shit day and Amadi’s wife Abigail has been planning something for a while. Birthing can take a long time. Not to mention I can invite them over for a meal and we can surprise them.” Koa says with a grin and Nitta starts giggling before pausing and putting a hand on her stomach. “Oh that... oh. They’re squirming! They’re excited!”
“Nearly there! We are nearly there, that’s it in the distance!” Koa states as he goes in a little lower than regulations and rushes towards the hospital.
“Danwin’s Mercy has responded. Platform Blue Twenty Two is reserved for you.” The car says and Koa sighs in relief as he quickly navigates around the area, finds the blue platforms and then lands safely at the twenty second as the nurses arrive, likely expecting to wait but clearly ready to rush both Nitta and Nikka in. Koa locks the car with a press of a button and keeps pace behind them.
“We have a third wife coming in. A Lirak Named Marisa who has the birthing bags. She’s locking up the apartment for us. While pregnant she’s not close.” Koa explains to an Administrator that had started following.
“I presume this means you’re the husband and father.” The Erumenta woman asks with the cloud that is her hair trailing behind them.
“That’s right.” Koa says as he notices that she’s not actually walking or running. She’s floating on a little cloud and keeping pace. He wants to do that. Something to look into later.
“And one of those Undaunted types?” She asks with a data slate she’s going over with one of those pens that people use when they don’t want to poke screens.
“Correct.”
“Okay. Which means you’re ready for paperwork.”
“We’re in the system. I’m Koa Jackson. We’ve been ready for a while. Our number Eight Two Five Five Five followed by six Zeros and then a Two.”
“That number is not long enough for registration.”
“Not Six Zero Two. Six zeroes as in zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero two. Make sense?”
“Okay and the first numbers were again?”
“Eight Two five five five.”
“Zero’s and the two... oh okay! Here you are. Alright, you’re confirmed here and with another one expected in a couple months with a Lirak. I’ll get everything streamlined. I take it the Lirak on the way is the expecting mother for later?”
“Correct.” Koa says.
“Alright. Thank you very much. We’ll take good care of your wives and daughters. Rest assured of that.”
“I plan to invite some friends over after the birth itself, to say nothing of the family of my wives.”
“Family singular? Oh yes, I see it here, they’re twins. Of course. Silly me.” The Director States. “Anyways I am Louisa Gale and I am the Ward Manager here.”
“It was Denisa Twintail last month.”
“She’s been promoted, I’m her replacement. But not to worry. We’ve had hundreds come through this maternity ward during my time managing and there’s hasn’t been so much as a bad case of the sniffles. Your family is safe. I assure you.” Louisa asserts and Koa nods. “Okay, I’m going to let you go now and will catch up with the last couple of forms. Do we have names for the children yet?”
“Yes, but in order of birth and not who they’re born to.” Koa says.
“And they will be?
“Hera is what they want the name of the eldest to be. Demeter will be the name of the second born. Athena will be the third born and Hestia will be the youngest.” Koa explains before a nurse stops him from rushing into the birthing room while they take initial evaluation of his wives. Leaving him with Louisa.
“Interesting names...”
Goddesses from Human Mythology. Not the mythology of my homelands but the point stands. Goddesses.” Koa explains and Louisa starts writing things down. After a moment she brings up the data slate and shows it to him.
“Did I spell it all correctly?” She asks him and he reads over it.
“Yes, but can I borrow the pen so I can write it in English too?” He asks taking the slate and she nods.
“Here.” She passes it to him and he writes their names down in English.
“Why didn’t they want to use names from your own mythology?”
“Because they looked at how popular the Greek goddesses were and really, really liked that. They’ve been trying to talk Marisa into having her daughter named Artemis or Aphrodite. The goddesses of hunting and beauty respectively.”
“I see...”
“Not to mention they got hung up on some parts of old Hawaiian mythology and declared it pretty yucky. And... it is. But you know, it’s from the time where math was witchcraft and the small island chain was all of reality. Ignorance can be forgiven.”
“No doubt.” Louisa says in amusement. “Now if you’ll excuse me. I need to enter some things into the data base... and you have a lot of waiting and comforting to get to.”
“Right... before you go, is it safe to make calls from inside the hospital? There’s no equipment it might bother?”
“No go ahead. It’s fine.”
“Okay. Thank you. I need to start calling in family and later friends.” Koa says before knocking on the door to where they’re taking tests and asking to be let in. Ten seconds later he’s holding both Nikka and Nitta’s wings in place of hands as they try to hide how nervous they are.
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