Rocking on Risa

Posted on Thu Dec 18th, 2025 @ 5:16am by Lieutenant JG Kate Kono & Lieutenant JG Benjamin "Ben" Dalton

1,778 words; about a 9 minute read

Mission: Shore Leave on Risa
Location: Risa
Timeline: Current

Ben stood in the middle of the grand lobby of the Risa Hilton. Suitcases in his hands as he readied to check in. He was awed by its opulence and magnificent. There was a thirty foot fountain in front of him with half dressed women swimming and cavorting as mermaids. "Wow Kate, have you ever seen anything like this?" He asked his girlfriend even as one of the 'mermaids; rushed up to him, kissed him and threw a lei over his head and proceeded to do the same with Kate.

Kate giggled and twirled, the fragrant lei bobbing against her collarbone like a tipsy hula dancer. The petals tickled her nose, releasing bursts of tropical perfume that made her sneeze in little hiccuping puffs.

"I've always wanted to visit this place!" Kate said.

"If you would like a third to join you, or a fourth, just let the hotel know!" The woman—whose bronzed skin shimmered with what looked like actual gold dust—offered as she traced Ben's jawline with her gaze, lingering on his lips like they were the last chocolate truffle in the box. "I'm Jaye, by the way."
She gave Ben a wink that could've melted butter and Kate a conspiratorial smile that crinkled the corners of her kohl-rimmed eyes before sashaying away, her hips swinging like a pendulum.

Kate turned to Ben, her eyes as round as the pearls dangling from the chandelier overhead. "Did we just get invited to a threesome?" She laughed, a sound like a rabid chipmunk, as she bent to retrieve her floral-patterned weekender that clashed magnificently with her lei.

Ben stood transfixed as the bronze skinned beauty eyed him seductively, her trim figure swaying in front of him as she undressed him with her eyes. he nodded dumbly as she spoke of a third of fourth joining him and Kate. Then watched as she winked at Kate and sashaying away, ever eye in the lobby on her.

"I think she was suggesting having others join us sweetie." Ben replied, still a bit overwhelmed by the entire scene. "I hat to disappoint her but I want you all to myself."

Kate snort-laughed and dragged her flamingo-pink suitcase toward the turbolift, its wobbly wheel making it dance across the marble floor like a drunken ballroom contestant.

"You know what's wild? Most hotels, people leave behind boring stuff—communicator chargers, toothbrushes, the will to live after seeing the mini-bar prices," Kate mused, wiggling her eyebrows. "But on Risa? I bet they have a whole lost-and-found box of BABIES. Like, 'Excuse me, front desk? I seem to have misplaced my dignity and also possibly created a human being last Tuesday?'" She dissolved into a fit of hiccuping giggles that echoed in the turbolift as she watched Ben fumble with the key card, trying three times to insert it upside down before they could get the room open.

"Ben chuckled as Kate's running commentary. "I'm sure that happens far more than we suspected. Getting out of the lift the pair made their way to their room and after ben's troubles with the key card finally got into their room. Ben took three steps into the room and stopped. "Kate, come look at this." He said motioning her to stand next to him, his eyes on the biggest bed he had ever seen. With large opulent pillows and on the table by the window a welcome basket from where they stood the could see a bottle of wine or champagne and what looked like truffles and chocolates along with red and white roses in a diamond cut glass vase.

Kate gaped at a bed that could have comfortably housed the entire Klingon High Council, flanked by pillows the size of escape pods and a gift basket that threatened to collapse the mahogany side table with its bounty of exotic fruits, lubricants, and what appeared to be edible body paint in seven different flavors.

"Holy warp core breach!" she shrieked, eyes bulging like a Ferengi spotting latinum. "This planet is more bonkers than that time the transporter merged Commander Riker with a tribble! No wonder they wanted an orgy—this bed could support the entire graduating class of Starfleet Academy!" She catapulted her shoes across the room, narrowly missing a statue that probably cost more than their shuttle tickets, then launched herself onto the mattress with the gravitational abandon of someone entering a zero-G chamber. The springs groaned in protest as she pogoed up and down, her eye-length black hair whipping around her face like a malfunctioning tractor beam.

Mid-bounce, she spotted the corner jacuzzi—a swirling vortex of water large enough to dock a runabout. "Sweet mother of Vulcan! Is that a hot tub or a small ocean?" She wobbled to a stop, leaving two foot-shaped craters in the memory foam, and fixed Ben with a manic grin. "I'm experiencing total systems overload here! Do we explore the planet, get naked and make the bedsprings scream for mercy, or christen that ridiculously massive aquatic love cauldron over there?"

Ben smiled at Kate's exuberance. It was good to see her happy. "I believe it is a hot tub but it's the biggest one I've ever seen." He admitted. In answer to your questions, we explore, see what there is to see for future reference, We get naked and make those bed springs, sing deliriously and then we get into that hot tub."

"Sounds like the perfect order of things. The Jem Hadar could totes learn from us!" Kate joked as she ran to the statue to get her shoes. She slipped then on and skipped to the door happily

Ben chuckled at her as he moved to join her at the door. "I'm glad you agree. makes the rest of the evening so much more pleasant.

Kate ricocheted out the door like a photon torpedo with ADHD, dragging Ben through the lobby while dodging amorous couples who were practically melting into the furniture. They burst into the blinding Risan sunlight that fried their retinas faster than a Klingon disruptor on high. The beach exploded before them in a kaleidoscope of debauchery—windsail boards zigzagging like drunken shuttlecraft, volleyball players with more appendages than regulation permitted, and a limbo contest where three Andorians were bent so far backward they'd practically become quantum singularities.

"Holy space-nuggets!" Kate shrieked, pointing at two blue-skinned Bolians who were grinding under a towel with the subtlety of a warp core breach. "Those zorp-brains are practically making baby Bolians right there! Mega-awksville! I suddenly feel like the most responsible carbon unit on the whole planet—I mean, I'm usually zanier than a tribble on espresso, but those two make me look more uptight than Picard trying not to contaminate a cave-person culture while his uniform wedgie is at DEFCON 1!"

Kate jabbed her finger at the blue-skinned couple with the subtlety of a malfunctioning phaser with legs, hopping like her shoes had suddenly developed anti-grav technology. Her arms windmilled so wildly she nearly clotheslined three passing Tellarites. "Holy quantum freakshow, Ben!" she shriek-gasped, her voice hitting frequencies that made nearby glasses vibrate. "Those Bolians are totally blueberry-bonking right in front of the whole beach! That's, like, mega-zorp levels of hot! I'm literally dying right now—someone call the new doctor and tell the USS Washington my brain needs a reboot."

After being dragged by Kate through the lobby, Ben cane to a sudden stop as Kate stopped and called out the pair of Bolians who were putting on quite a show for the growing crowd of onlookers. Ben found the whole thing distasteful and crude. He wasn't a prude by any stretch of the imagination. he and Kate had a fantastic sex life that they kept private. Which is what the Bolians should have been doing. He grabbed Kate by her elbows and literally pulled away. "Come on, We have sights to see and places to visit." He said harsher than he meant as they left the hotel the Bolians and the gawkers.

Kate at first looked shocked at Ben when he grappled her arm and swept her off her feet for reasons other than the norm but ultimately, that too caused her to grin from ear to ear as her own lover pulled her away from lovers of another sort.

"I hope that the places we go to eat have sex-free zones. Nobody wants to have to look at that while eating," Kate giggled. "Want to try any of the wind surfing stuff? Or what do you think we should try first?"

"I don't think what we just witnessed is normal even for Risa." Ben replied, glad to be clear of the scene. "I'm also sure that the places we go to eat don't allow any of what we just saw to go on inside their restaurants." he nodded, "Wind surfing is a definite I want us to try. Let's case the area and lay out a plan of what we want to do." He suggested.

Kate nodded and skipped around with Ben next to her. They approached an Ale-Bar next to the beach where a man was yelling at everyone exuberantly about what kinds of Ale they had.

"Welcome to the Ale-Twister!" The short latino man with balding features and a thick mustache stated. He had a bottle of Ale in both hands that he swung around as if the bottles gave him the ultimate power to rule the entire planet with nothing but charistma. "We have every kind of Ale you could ever want! We have Andorian Ale, Tograxian Ale, Romulan Ale, we got Hot Ale, Cold Ale, Spicy Ale, Midget Ale, Angry Ale, if there's any Ale out there that we don't have..." He finished that line up with something obscene while staring in their general direction. Kate flenched as she looked at the man as he oversold his product so bad that not even a quasar formed in subspace could compete.

Kate kept walking with Ben while specifically avoiding the Ale Salesman, blushing and laughing. They eventually made it all the way to the water to where the Jet Ski rentals were. They were more like hover-skis and highly advanced. Just beyond them, a sailboarding instructor was showing someone how to use the kite in preporation for their first sendoff.

"Oh that looks like so much fun!" Kate exclaimed.

After walking, exploring discussing options. Ben and Kate arrived at the water's edge. They stood in front of the Jet Ski rentals were. However ben's eyes like Kate's were drawn to the the sailboarding. "It sure does!" Ben exclaimed, "Let's go and see how much fun."


To be continued....

 

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