The two men limped away from the crash.....it was a miracle they had survived!!!
They sat dazed looking at the ruined spaceship, it's crew cabin had somehow protected them when they had made impact....the rest of the ship lay in a trail of pieces that stretched almost to the horizon of this strange world!!!!
How long would it be before the fleet declared them as missing.....and even then they knew there was no way they would turn around to look for them....they would simply be considered as casualties and the fleet would move on!!! The planet they had been sent to scout....this very planet they were now sitting on....would be listed as potentially hostile, no one else would be landing here!!!
As the two mused on their fates they didn't hear the stealthy approach behind them.....they both felt a shock and then they felt nothing.....
There was a bright light over his head as Ensign John Roberts slowly came around....looking about he realized he must be in some kind of medical facility....it was unlike anything he'd ever seen before....there were instruments scattered around him that were beyond anything he could understand.....none seemed to be actually connected to him but he was sure, nonetheless, that they were monitoring him!!!
A door he hadn't seen slid silently open and a woman stepped into the room.....she took a look at the monitors as she stepped closer to the "bed" he was lying in....
She smiled and spoke to him....her voice was lovely but all he could hear was a trilling sound.....
He shook his head and tried speaking....
"I can't understand you.....my name is John....where am I?"
She smiled again and made an adjustment on one of the devices and spoke again....
"I'm sorry....I hadn't turned on the translation field.....are you feeling well?"
"I guess I'm OK....where's my shipmate.....is he well?"
"He is well....he was much better than you....you had many non-visible injuries....we feared you might discorporate before we got you to the Healing Center!!!"
"Non-visible injuries....you mean internal injuries?"
She seemed to consider this as it was translated to her....
"Yes.....inside injuries....below the flesh....but you are well now....soon you must see the Council.....they have many questions for you and your "shipmate" to answer."
"I have some questions too....where is my shipmate....when can I see him...."
"Soon....but you must rest now....the time is not full yet!!!"
He wanted to ask her what that meant but she mad a small gesture to a device and he went back to sleep immediately!!!!
This scenario played out several more times and each time he woke he now realized that it wasn't so much a bed he was in....it was more of a cocoon and he couldn't get up no matter how hard he tried....
His frustration was growing.....he needed to know what happened to his shipmate....Mike Valentine was a good man and god knows what they were doing to him....what they were doing to both of them....
It was different this time....it wasn't just one woman who came into his room this time....there were six....two of them were the doctors or nurses or whatever they were, he had seen both of them before.....but the other four were not looking pleasant....they were clearly some type of security.....and they were obviously armed!!!!
Armed women as security.....all of the medical staff he'd seen were also women....where were the men?
Without a word they slipped him from the cocoon bed he'd been in....he was naked but they didn't seem to notice....they gave him a garment to put on....it reminded him of something he'd seen in the history books but it covered him and he was grateful for that....
"The time is now full John Roberts.....it is time for you and Mike Valentine to approach the Council...."
The four security women fell in around him and he followed them through winding curved passages....everything was white and rounded....there didn't seem to be any corners....they turned this way and that and he was soon completely disoriented....
Finally they came to a large chamber where three women sat watching him being brought in....
He thought....this must be the council.....but where was Mike?
Another group entered but he they were all women.....he stood waiting and watching for Mike to arrive....
They were talking among themselves.....again all he could hear were trilling sounds.....he wanted to know what was going on as he stood there for some time.....his patience wearing thin....
"Hey!!!" he shouted, "What the hell is going on!!! What are you all talking about....where's Mike Valentine?"
The center councilwoman waved her hand and spoke....she must have turned on the translator field because he could hear her voice....sweet as could be...
"You are impatient John Roberts.....we have been trying to decide what to do about you....your shipmate responded to our treatments so much faster than you and he is beginning to assimilate into our society....."
"What treatments....where is he!!!!"
"Just look John Roberts....he is right there!!!!"
The woman surrounded by the other security squad turned and smiled at him....
"Hello Ensign....I'm surprised you didn't recognize me....."
"Mike!!!! How.....what have they done to you!!!!"
"The same as they must do to you John....if we are going to stay here you too must become a woman....."
"Oh my god Mike!!!! We have to get out of here....this is madness!!!"
From the corner of his eye he saw one of the security team pull a weapon and he sidestepped her and took the weapon from her as one punch knocked her down....he momentarily felt bad about hitting a woman but then he had to fend off the other three....which turned out to be surprisingly easy.....the other women all fled from the room....
He grabbed a hold of Mike and pulled him from the room....
"C'mon Mike....we've got to get out of here....."
"But John you don't understand....you have to let them change you....."
"Forget it Mike....I don't know how they brainwashed you but we'll get out of here and then we'll figure out what to do....."
"But John.....there's danger....."
He pulled Mike along with him until he came to a portal that had a window to the world outside.....
He tried waving his hand as he had seen the other do and the portal opened.....immediately it was flooded with grotesque creatures.....apparently the women weren't the only race on this planet.....and they were male....very obviously so....and they swarmed around them....
"Get behind me Mike.....I'll protect you from these things....."
"John you don't understand!!!!! These creatures breed among themselves....they don't want anything to do with women.....they want you!!!!"
But it was too late as John Roberts was lost in the swarm of writhing creatures....who carried him off as their prize.....his screams faded as they carried him away....
Mike Valentine wiped away a tear as he closed the portal....
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