Chapter 274.

Chapter 274.

Chapter 274. The Planetarium, Operation Hook Up: The Show. (2/5)

Seemingly provoked, Zale raised his left arm up, hooked it over Izora’s shoulder, and pulled her closer to him.

Oh? Alicia’s action had led to an unexpectedly good result, it inadvertently pushed things along between the two of them.

Izora didn’t make things easy though. She swatted his hand away. Zale didn’t give up though and persistently moved it back every time she forcefully removed it. Eventually, as if tired of swatting away a pesky fly, Izora gave in and left his arm there.

After a while, I noticed Zale gradually encroaching upon Izora’s chest. His hand slipped under the lining of her tube top. He groped her left breast in his hand. Izora swatted it away three times before she gave in.

She even went and did something quite daring as if to suggest she considered his advances lacking. Like she was the one teaching him how to do it properly. She pulled his hand further down her tube top so his hand could fully encompass her left breast.

What the hell? Just how far are things going to progress between these two here today?

Does Zale think he’s going to get revenge by NTRing me? Sorry man, you’re being played if that’s what you thought.

While Alicia and I did our own thing, things escalated further between Zale and Izora behind us. When Zale’s right arm sneakily crossed under Izora’s armrest I was shocked. He rubbed his hand over her exposed midriff.

I could see Izora’s shadowy figure as her shoulders moved up and down quicker. Her breathing had picked up significantly.

Being given a front-row seat to such a show, I didn’t know how to feel.

Was I about to witness something I shouldn’t?

I thought to look away and give them some privacy, but curiosity got the best of me. I’d never directly watched other people in real life doing that sort of thing. It was always in recordings and whatnot.

Plus, I felt like seeing it in person could be a good reference for a scenario in a story later on. The current setting and mood had inadvertently given me inspiration for a scene I wanted to write.

Damn it, I wanted to see the sort of expressions they had in the act. It would make it easier to write the scene. Sadly, I couldn’t see them. I could only try to imagine it.

When Zale moved his hand lower, as soon as his finger touched Izora’s skirt she hit it away. She was making him work for it.

Zale placed his right hand on top of hers and held it firmly. Izora tried to shake it off, but she couldn’t. When she eventually gave up, Zale's head crossed the gap between their headrest.

When Izora’s head without warning jolted to the left, I was fairly convinced he’d licked her neck.

We’d been brought on a tour of our solar system from one planet to the next. After Mars, we visited the planet... no, dwarf planet, Pluto. I still couldn’t accept that they’d downgraded it even now. When I was a kid, it was a planet, thus, just leave it a damn planet.

Ehem, anyway, on our passing voyage through Pluto, once thought to be a boring inert ball of ice, existed an icy world replete with magnificent landscapes and geology. There existed towering mountains, giant ice sheets, pits, scarps, valleys, and terrains seen nowhere else in the solar system. For this time period, this was considered very new information about this dwarf planet.

It was not too long ago that a spacecraft had flown by this dwarf planet and revealed all sorts of new information about it.

We were shown Pluto’s beating heart made of nitrogen which controlled the atmosphere and climate on the planet. Traveling deeper beneath the icy surface we feasted our eyes upon a vast, liquid, water ocean potentially sloshing beneath Pluto’s surface. On our journey through the water, we saw how the planet could still potentially be tectonically active as a result of the liquid ocean beneath the surface. Venturing further, we were shown cryovolcanoes that spit out cold slushy cryolava.

The surprises didn’t stop there though, there were many more interesting little details of this inauspicious dwarven planet we’d once taken for granted.

When we emerged from inside Pluto the stars all shifted to the right as if we were turning around to look behind us. Rather than seeing Pluto which we’d initially entered, we suddenly found ourselves outside the coldest planet on average. The eighth, farthest away planet in our solar system, the bright azure blue Neptune.

Smallest of the gas giants, with a surface gravity almost Earth-like, it was a planet not to be underestimated as it had the strongest winds in the solar system which reached as high as twenty-one hundred kilometers per hour. Though not as well known for them, Neptune had rings; there were five known rings at present. However, they were rather difficult to observe compared to Saturn’s bright, bold ring which was why Uranus’s rings weren’t as well-recognized.

We dove headfirst into Neptune’s violent raging winds. There were vents beneath our feet all through the floor that sucked in air to simulate the winds we saw raging. It created a much deeper sense of immersion throughout our journey through the windy gas giant. When we emerged from the storm and came to a standstill, the vent ceased operation. We were now directly before a vibrant blue-green gas giant, Uranus, the seventh planet in our solar system.

Among all the planets in our solar system, this one was the quirkiest oddball that wanted to be different. It had a ninety-nine-degree tilt and rotated on its side around the Sun. Its core hardly radiated much energy as it had cooled off and when combined with its peculiar tilt, this planet could reach temperatures lower than Neptune’s. Because of Uranus’s odd nature, if one lived on it, they’d find a season would last forty-two Earth years.

Though Uranus was 14.5 times as massive as Earth, it was the second least dense planet losing out to only Saturn. If you were on the surface and could stand on the gas, you’d experience a gravitational force ten percent weaker than Earth’s. As with all the other gas giants, Uranus also had rings around it, thirteen altogether.

When the narrator finished with Uranus, we flew onward, directly through the gassy clouds of Uranus with the vents going off again. We passed through the center of the thirteen rings and beyond its twenty-seven moons on our way to Saturn.

As soon as we made it out of Uranus' cloudy atmosphere, the narrator made a corny joke about how bad everyone smelled after exiting your anus. There were some in the audience who got a small chuckle out of the narrator’s little joke.

Immediately after our exit from Uranus, our eyes landed on a yellowish-brown planet. Saturn, the second-largest planet in our solar system; considered to be one of the most eye-catching among the planets in our solar system due to its beautiful rings.

The seven distinct rings around it were immediately visible even when the planet was still a good distance away from us. We headed toward it at an angle perpendicular to its rings. The narrator passionately blabbered on about Saturn as we arrived at a field of debris. The projection on the dome rotated to give the illusion we were now taraversing through space parallel to the ring of debris. The size of debris ranged from as tiny as a grain of sand to as large as a mountain.

Those otherworldly rocks rotated about through space as we navigated through the chaotic storm within Saturn’s rings.

“Though this planet may look pretty, it’s also thought of as being one of the most unsettling.” The narrator suddenly said that as he paused for a moment. A creepy ambient track played before he continued, “These are the radio signals it emits, they’re considered by many to be the eeriest in our solar system.”

He wasn’t wrong, the ambient sounds the radio signals produced definitely caused one’s skin to crawl.

The image projected on the screen rotated again and Saturn moved outside our field of view. We accelerated and picked up speed in a certain direction. As we traveled away, Saturn’s ambient background track faded out until it could no longer be heard.