It began with a series of beautiful, tall, muscular women appearing suddenly in the hinterlands. None of them was shorter than 6-foot-4, and the height ranged up to 6-foot-11. Fifteen sightings were confirmed in the United States within a week. More appeared worldwide: five in Africa, six in Asia, 12 in Europe, seven in Russia, nine in South America. Three even showed up in Canada, and three more in Central America. None of them were near cities, and when initially questioned by locals, it was, "Oh, we just moved into the neighborhood."
That explanation didn't hold up for long, as none of them had ID's. They did, however, all have odd-looking computerized hand-held devices that they would point at the male humans they encountered. They would repeatedly shake their heads at the results. No explanation was forthcoming.
Finally, one of them scanned me and did something different. She smiled at the result of the scan on her device. Then something very odd happened. The song "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock Of Seagulls began playing [it sounded like it was coming from her device,] and I stood and stared at her. "I didn't know those things played music."
"They don't," she responded. "Only this one song. Is it a song you like?" I nodded. "Good. Let us listen."
As the words "A beam of light comes shining down on you" emerged from the device, a beam of pure green light actually DID come shining down on me. A similar beam of violet light shone on her, and I felt my body being lifted off the ground. "What the...?" I gaped, open-mouthed.
"A magnetic substance has been deposited on us," she replied. "A powerful electromagnet is pulling us upwards against the force of gravity. Electromagnetic forces, as you know, are much, much stronger than gravitational forces." I nodded again. "We will finish our rise soon."
In a moment, I entered what seemed to be a small cloud, but I very soon found a spaceship hidden within. "Whoa! Alien space-babe, is this for real?"
By now we were inside the ship. A panel in the bottom closed. Lights on the ceiling lit up the corridor. "Very real."
"Why?"
"I'd like to give you the standard spiel about some dread disease wiping out all our men, but the truth is that we're all scientists performing an experiment. We have plenty of men of our species on our home planet, but Thk'shaan decided to see if we could mate with your species. That's what the scanners were for, to find some male with a compatible genetic makeup."
"Who's Thk'shaan?"
"Our leader. Oh, I'm Blt'meehk."
"I'm Anteros, which means 'mutual love'."
"We will call you Fhk'diimv. That is the male name with the equivalent meaning in our language."
"Fair enough." I gave Blt'meehk my best smile.