Tags: MC, MF, MD, GR, HU
Synopsis: A powerful being shows up at a wedding and is horrified at what he sees.
Note: 'My Erotic Fiction', which means a.) you cannot use or repost it without my permission. B.) It may be illegal or immoral for you to read. If so, don't. C.) None of it is real.
Note 2: This is a modified version of my submission to a contest on another site.
Note 3: Introduction to the B'Naf'By.
The B'Naf'by are a grand and glorious race from near the center of the D'OrfManch meta-galaxy. To try to describe them does them a disservice- they are at the same time far too complicated for the human mind to comprehend and simultaneously disgustingly ugly by any sentient standards. They are best known for gambling, although that is too mild a term for their massively complicated sports which have resulted in the loss of entire civilizations and at least one 'misplaced' sun.
The two B'Naf'by in most of these stories, Tak'Lon and Psat'Doo, have the task of monitoring a muddy rock in the Sol system. The Greater Galactic Council tasked the B'Naf'By with this task much as a human court might task a juvenile delinquent with community service. It is meant to be a humiliating task, a punishment, and a way to get a distasteful job taken care of at the same time.
To learn more about the B'Naf'By, consider reading the late, great Milton Frequetoast's celebrated tome "A Cultural Study of the B'Naf'Bian Empire from the Post-Cannibalistic Period to Current Time, With a Special Focus on the Influence of Gambling on the Intergalactic Stock Market and the Subsequent Fall of the Golariandians."
However, since his tour de force work is long out of print, the seeker of knowledge might do well to get a copy of "So You've Met A B'Naf'Bian! (Or, 'how to kiss your ass goodbye with dignity!')" at any local transgalactic tourist kiosk/towel dispenser.
Tak'Lon- There Goes The Gloom
By Paladin
And with a sudden burst of transporter energy, Psat'Doo was once again sharing a plane of existence with those quirky hoomans.
As he/she/it looked around (figuratively, he/she/it actually stayed perfectly still to avoid unwanted attention) he/sh... damn it, let's just pick a pronoun and stick with it, OK?...noticed he seemed to be at one of those delightfully odd human festivals called a 'welding'... or something like that. Something about joining two people anyway.
Continuing his investigation, be began to curse out Tak'Lon! The hslbtlr'd trummaolip reintegrated him as a statue! Not a majestic Greek statue or even a well-cast memorial to a fallen general, mind you, but one of those little damn things hoomans stick at the apex of the ceremonial confection- a whaddya call it... a 'cake topper'!
Ok... take a deep breath. What is going on here, and figure out what he could do to get out of this particular hell. Damnation- bad enough to have lost the bet, but to allow this sort of punishment was just sloppy game-playing on his part. Oh well- he'd make the best of it. How could he now make everyone's day a little brighter? Or, at least a little more surreal. Hmmm... lots of people to scan, and several have imbibed on fermented juices of various types, which always gives Psat'Doo a bit of a headache to read with his/her/its advanced B'Naf'By technology.
As he used his P.L.O.T. Device to scan the assembled hordes, the music swirled and several people began to march down the middle of the room. On his native planet, several women dressed thusly walking like that would most likely be marching to the ceremonial volcano in order to end their lives in humiliation over their horrendous outfits, but as he did not see a handy volcano, he cast his sensors to determine an alternative hypothesis.
Jumpin' Jehosaphat! (At least the thrice-damned hoomans had inventive curses!) That woman in all that white frippery was planning to enslave that male in the penguin costume in some sort of institution! She planned on making him 'something something obey something something until death do they part'! He scanned the penguin and saw that she had somehow convinced him that this was a good idea! How on shaltfnts can it be a good idea for a male to restrict his sacred fertilization duties to just one female- especially in a species as infertile as this one? I mean, come on! A mere two genders, just two feeding glands, three-fourths of a full solar year gestation period, typical litter of only one or two with occasional bursts of up to a barely tolerable level of five or six, and a breeding period of only about thirty years?
Something had to be done! Yes, yes, the Prime Directive and all that, but really- that was just a suggestion, like taking a side trip to see the great human achievements of Chernobyl, Boston's 'Big Dig', and the Mobro 4000 trash barge. But what to do? He considered correcting her flawed attitude, but when he scanned the other female units, he was astonished to discover they all felt the same way!