It comes in the night. The dead of night.
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Something wakes me, and my startled mind races, reorienting itself. 5:48 AM. Almost time to get up. Brodsky is piloting, Mancuso is on watch. Our freighter is traveling 24,600 mph in its Hohmann transfer orbit's elliptical path. I sigh sadly at the realization that, even at this speed it will take four more months to reach Mars.
Already three months in, the four of us crewmen have settled into an easy daily rotation. 6 hours at the helm, doing absolutely nothing while the autopilot's computer takes care of everything; 6 hours on watch, though there is never anything to watch for; then 12 to do whatever we want. Like sleep and eat.
The three guys on board with me have all made it abundantly clear that sex is always in the offing. Tempting, especially with Ben, but I'm committed to Mike, who I'll see again on Mars. In 16 weeks.
Space is eerily quiet and I'd been sleeping soundly, dreaming of Mike, imagining our reunion. Looking forward to seeing him again, especially that special 9-plus inch part that gets hard whenever I want it to. Mmm.
I awake so wet, totally ready, but eschew a quick Jilling. Later. Time to get moving.
I hadn't heard Edwards leave, but when I peer through the gloom, his bunk is empty. To maintain our Circadian rhythms, the ship's lights mimic Earth's day and night.
I click off my alarm, slide out of my bunk, throw off my nightshirt, rub some deodorant in my pits, pull on the blue uniform top and pants, stumble into the bathroom and splash water on my face. Brush my teeth. Like every other morning for the last three months.
I catch my image in the mirror. Not bad for 28. I turn silhouette, push out my boobs and smooth my shirt over them. Nice; even I like them. I run a brush through my hair and make for the galley. The coffee aroma beckons.
Just as I am noticing the other odor -- unfamiliar, dusky and clammy -- I trip. Over Edwards. Or what's left of him.
I lurch back in horror. His head is skewed at an impossible angle and his guts are oozing out of the huge gash in his abdomen.
The hand that clamps over my face from behind is unlike anything I've ever seen. Ever imagined, even in my worst nightmares. Huge. Shiny purple tendons and muscles, only patchily covered by webs of gray skin. Claws.
Another arm surrounds me and lifts me up like I'm a toy.
The creature grunts with each lurching step towards the cockpit. It kicks Ben Mancuso's corpse aside rather than take the trouble to step over it. Ben, too, has had his belly torn open, and one arm ripped from his body.
As I suppress my gag reflex, I see the blood trail that leads to the cockpit. I catch just a glimpse of Allan's disemboweled body by the pilot's chair. I close my eyes to shut out reality. All of my shipmates are dead.
The monster stops in the anteroom, turns me, puts me down on my feet, and holds me fast with both hands gripping my arms. Any thought of escape is extinguished when the claws dig deep into me.
I open my eyes. And wish I hadn't. God! So revolting! 8 feet tall. Gruesome. Humanoid, with two arms and legs. Like its hands, its entire body has grayish-purple sinews stretched between silver-gray bones, all exposed between patchy webs of skin.
The creature's face is most terrifying. Gaunt, angular. Flared nostrils and a huge maw in which long, jagged teeth compete for space. Two black orbs, eyes I assume, have red centers that move as the beast scans me up and down.
It shudders and staggers. Recovers. Then shudders and staggers again, its knees nearly buckling. Something is wrong. Memories of sci-fi movies flood my brain, where the aliens were unable to adapt to Earth's atmosphere and perished.
Please, God.
Just as my fevered mind entertains the notion that I might survive another couple seconds, the creature cocks its head and sniffs. Sniffs again. Draws me closer and sniffs once more.
My sense of horror increases exponentially as the monster, sniffing all the while, lowers its head, its snout rubbing against my body. Moving down. Past my neck, past my chest, and past my belly, too.
To my crotch. I shudder, almost swooning when my legs go rubbery, but the beast holds me up as its nose bores into the cleft between my thighs. It inhales deeply.
I am stunned by the speed at which its hands release my arms, cross, grab my hips and turn me 180 degrees as it pushes me down on my back onto the floor.
Its knees are on my shoulders instantly, heavy. I can't move. I feel drops of something landing on my chest and trace the source to the gash in the creature's side. A serious wound.
Over the silent screams of terror inside my head, I hear my pants ripping. The air is cool on my privates, and I suddenly know what it smells. And likes.
My pussy, still dewy from my dream of Mike.
Feeling completely exposed, the desperate thought that I should have worn panties is extinguished by the realization that the monster would just have torn them off me, too.
Why am I compelled to look? No answer. I just am. I raise my head and watch in horror as the creature sniffs my cunt, rapidly. Fervently.
I recoil in revulsion when its tongue emerges. It is huge! Monstrous! Tubular. As big around as the barrel of a baseball bat. The same gray-purple shade as its sinews, but wet. Slimy.
Worst, it is prehensile.
I tremble, wincing as it slithers up and down my sex. When I instinctively try to close my legs, to protect my pussy, the animal moves it hands again, to my knees.
And wrenches them apart. I am splayed wide, and cringe, shuddering in horror as I feel its tongue begin to push in between the outer lips of my vulva.
The alien's sounds, half grunts, half huffs, become ever more avid as its tongue traverses my slit.
Though I have steeled myself against the inevitable, my neck lurches back, my breath chuffs out in a shriek, and I feel my soul wither and die as the beast's probe violates me.
Mike is big, his girth even more impressive than his length. But. Oh God. This beast's tongue is so huge it spreads me far wider than I've ever been. Ever imagined. It is slimy, slithery, and I feel it acutely as it undulates up my vagina. It pulsates with each beat of the monster's heart, and, as it inexorably wriggles deeper and deeper into me, my entire pussy begins to clench and pound in response to each of its throbs.
When the tongue bumps against my cervix, I flinch in terror at the thought that it will just keep going, tearing me, rending me, hemorrhaging me. Killing me, but ever so slowly.
It stops, thank God, and my head falls back, my cramping neck muscles unable to keep it up any longer.
The creature holds its tongue still, filling me completely. I feel my insides begin to tingle with each pulsation of the probe, and, as I lay stunned, frozen in fear, I become aware of the change.
The beast's breathing is more regular, less choppy and ragged. Its hands relax on my legs, and it shifts its knees to either side, off me.
My attempt to analyze what this change portends is obliterated by the feel of the elephant trunk-like tongue inside me rushing out, suddenly, rapidly. Completely.
I can't help but look, and see the creature draw it back into its mouth. It slurps and swallows. Then its tongue emerges again and snakes back into me. All the way. Once it plumbs my depth, it parks there, pulsating faster, seeming to suck at my insides. Then it withdraws once more, disappearing into that gruesome maw.
Only to emerge once more to invade my pussy.
Each withdrawal creates a vacuum in my vagina as it retreats, pulling its walls together, rubbing them against each other. They tingle, relieved to be empty, but then are rent apart, stretched too wide again. I feel my inner lips, drawn taut as a drumhead around its massive girth, pulled out each time the probe withdraws, then stuffed inside me as it slithers back in.
Over and over.
Then the beast quits pulling out completely. Who knows why? But I sense my situation is even more dire when the tongue ups its pace, cycling in and out of my pussy, ever faster and harder.
It dawns on me -- the realization that the creature is feeding on me, on my juice, and has figured out how to get me to produce more -- sometime after my first orgasm.
God help me, I try to fight it. So hard. But the combination of the tongue's girth, how it drags the hood of my clitoris along its entire length and over the tip, plus the incessant pulsing as the probe tongue-fucks me, it is all too much.
The tingles have already become acute, have passed the point of no return, by the time I even notice them. Helpless, I lay back transfixed as the fire kindles ever higher, growing and spreading until the conflagration consumes me.
When consciousness returns I realize the creature is licking my slit, coating his tongue with my juice, then sucking it into his mouth and swallowing. Over and over.
Having had its way with me, and finished cleaning up my entire pussy, the beast pauses.
What's next?
It must be over. I feel relief, ready, prepared to welcome death. To join my shipmates. I lay back, eyes closed, accepting my fate.