It Happened in Outer Space

We coasted toward a bent potato of a rock about the size of a sports stadium. A bit small for us really; we're looking for mountains of metals for the company to come turn into money; we get a percentage eventually. But we scan everything, and this dull rock rang the bell when we swept a beam across it.

"I'm telling you Babe this one is Big!" I glanced sideways at my sexy engineer, "That's Captain Babe. And to that point you're not Sciences, you're engineering. That return could be anything; just 'cause you've never seen a sensor return like it doesn't mean it's worth fooling with" Lili stood behind me, leaning over my shoulder. Smelling softly sweet, "Dan and Nell found a rock like this, and they retired!"

"They're old! They've been hopping rocks for twenty years! They were going to hang it up anyway! "It's not like we had unlimited fuel for the bee, but what the hell. "Oh alright, suit up and go stick a sensor probe in it." She looked like she'd won a prize. "You gonna help me Cap'n Sara?" "I'd better, you might miss a seal and cost the company a damn sexy engineer." Honestly, it's all for the comp'ny; I'd never order an extra-vehicular operation just to see her naked. I don't have to; she sleeps nude.

But even in a vacuum suit she's somehow sexy. Graceful and flexible as she climbed into the capsule-shaped work bee. "Check! Check, check!" I slapped the side of the Bee, "Gotcha, loud and clear." "When we're rich, we should buy ourselves an island." Like a kid. "Just don't bump into it, that thing's practically a beer can." I stepped back out of the airlock and sealed the hatch. "OK, I'm clear. Be careful hon, if 's solid gold it's not worth you getting hurt." Her voice through the comm was clear and loud, "Aww, you do love me, Cap'n Babe!" I retorted, "I'm gonna turn you over my knee when you get back!" She always has to get the last word "Promises, promises."

She scooted the bee the last hundred meters to the rock. Something bothered me about that rock but I'm no more a scientist than Lili. "First contact," she said as the sensor probe touched rock. "Hmm, that's strange." Oh Shit! "What's strange? Don't say strange." No reply. "Lili! Talk to me! You better say something Girl!" ten seconds passed. "Lili, don't make me..." Twenty. I was about to threaten to bring the ship dangerously close to the rock. "Oh. Oh, uh, nothing's wrong. I'm coming back." "Lili? You said something was strange...what was strange?" There was a hesitation, probably only a second or two but she sounded funny. "Nothing...nothing."

Lili isn't typically quiet. She chatters. If she'd found something or nothing, she'd be filling up the local waves, crowing or bitchin' And yeah, it's only a hundred meters but she sure closed the distance fast. I heard the Bee coming to rest in the docking ring and she's never one to come in hard; she's an engineer after all and she knows how delicate a work bee is. The Equalization light was green when I got to the lock so I opened up and went in.

The skin of the Bee was still smoking cold but the door opened and Lili climbed out. I was instantly relieved; she was moving on her own. Relief became alarm as white vapor poured like milk over the door's bottom sill, spreading over the chamber floor. Around my bare feet! It was strangely warm, with a smell like hot honey. I tried to back out...but my feet were stuck firmly to the floor as if I'd super glued them to the deck. Lili took her helmet off, but didn't move or speak.

A thought that was not mine came to my mind. "Do not be alarmed. You are safe." Lili nodded, "It hasn't hurt me. It did work me like a puppet after it...came in." I was in shock. "It? What the hell is It?" She had sounded odd over the comm, but she sounded normal now. "I don't know, it didn't introduce itself. An Alien!" "More alien than you know. We are not of this universe." I couldn't think of any smart alec comebacks. It was intelligent smoke, what could I say? "What do you want?" "To go home. But we need your help." "How the hell can we help?" Lili had her head together more than I did...

"We need energy. You and your partner can produce the kind of energy we need." Oh hell no! "What, you're gonna...turn us into energy?" I was starting to think furiously, we had to stop this!

"No. not convert you. We can harvest a kind of energy you produce." They/it must've done something, like the way they used Lili to fly the Bee back. My building panic faded to a calm. "Most of the energies in this universe are like shadows to us. We can detect them but not use them. Existing here is very expensive of our energy stores. We don't have enough left to create a portal to our own universe. But you in concert with your partner convert this universe's energies to a form we can use. We saw the flare of it and arranged to meet you with the scrambled echo from your sensing device."

"So, it's just a rock," I said, looking squarely at Lili. "There are metals, ones you would consider valuable, though to us this idea is somewhat strange. A useful thing has value, and most things can be useful. But strange to us too is this notion of corporeality. We exist as a unity without physical form.." Lili stuck out her tongue, "See. It was big!" Yes, but not as big as telepathic fog from another universe.

"So where do Lili and I fit in? How are we supposed to produce your energy for you?" I swear it sighed mentally. "Your linear perception of time is difficult. In the past, not distantly, something you did produced two powerful flares of golden energy. Very intense, more than enough to go home.". I looked at Lili and she met my gaze. Two flares, not too long ago? "It's talking about the other night" I blurted. "When we made love!" Lili finished. "It was pretty great."

I agreed that we had one of those nights together, the one's we'll look back on from our retirement villa. But they detected our orgasm energy? Was orgasm energy even a thing? I mentally beat back my doubts with an equally mental "why would it/they lie?" Insubstantial pan-dimensional perverts into girl on girl shows? "How can that be? We had to be twenty or thirty thousand klicks from here when we..." "We have observed in the one who came to us, Lili, the events of your linear existence as she perceives it. A most static kind of existence. The times as you would say, and the places in her mind that the two of you engaged in...sexual activity match precisely with our observation. You could almost feel they/it's revulsion of the crude chemistry and physics of organic biology. Sloppy, animalistic. Physical. All the fun stuff!

"So, you want the two of us to engage in sexual activity. I suppose you'll have to be there when we do it?" "We can be imperceptible, but we must be physically present to harvest the energy.". Oh no..." The other night...when we did it, it was a special thing. It was perfect, but we humans are strange. It doesn't take much to put us off. What if we just can't make it happen? What if we don't...produce like that night?"

"We would remain here and now, waiting for you or some other humans to make the flare...". Lili looked at me, holding her helmet. She looked frightened. "Or hold on to us!" "We can barely interact with your plane of existence. You are barely real to us!" "You interacted with Lili right enough, and you're in my head too..." "Anything you produce we welcome. But if you can do what you did "the other night" we can go home."

It/they/them let us go out of the lock room; but I wasn't convinced we had any privacy. Normally unsuiting happens in the lock room but we had to get Lili out her suit in the salon. The Bee might be a beer can but a suit weighs over a hundred kilos. But once again my Lili was bare as a newborn and sexy as hell! "I think we ought to do it," I told my dark haired partner. "I think they're sincere." She looked uncertain, "What if they don't let us go. What if they milk us for orgasms?" I looked at her, "And that would be a bad thing? Orgasm'd to death in deep space?" She laughed at that, "I guess you're right. As long as it's you and me fuckin' those things are gonna get home quick as a bunny!"

"Speaking of bunnies, you're my favorite bunny!" I kissed her and she unzipped my flight suit and helped me out of it. "Why do we ever wear clothes?" she asked, "when it's just you and me in a climate control environment?" We're very nearly the same build. Slim but fit, with smallish breasts and hard little butts. "Because we'd never find any good rocks! We'd be too busy getting each other off..."

We fell upon the big couch, laughing, sometimes howling. Lili sucked one of my nipples then brought her sharp little teeth together until my teeth where on edge! I got my fingers into her short dark hair and growling in my throat, I got her off my tit. "Oh yeah, pull my hair and spank my ass bitch!" She actually loves it when I get just a little rough. I returned her nipple torture until she pulled me off by my dirty blonde hair.

I was on top, then she was on top, riding my raised knee. We kissed and wrestled and teased each other but as most often happens we ended up in a sixty-nine on the couch. Me on top with my tongue on her frilly lips and hers flicking my clit...then she slipped a finger into me so I did too.

And I had her hips bucking from my tongue and finger, I tried to hold back but she knows exactly how to make me cum... There was a sound like a thunderclap. It roused me from my post orgasmic bliss. The smell of warm honey was gone. "Oh Sara..." Lili moaned. "God DAYUM!" "I think we did it Baby, we sent the fog home." I got up from the couch.

Not only was the sweet smell gone but there was an ozone tang to the air. "Well I sure came!" Lili giggled. I too had cum though... "Did you hear a bang?" She shook her head no. "I'm pretty sure they're gone. We sent 'em home." She nodded vigorously, "Good! I'm through with aliens! That...being taken over, that was fuckin' creepy!"

"I think they might have been truthful about our spud out there. I think we need to do a discrete survey. Portables not tied to the computer. We'll both go out this time!" Lili stood up, "Yeah, your suits in the rack, mine we'll have to wrestle with!" I helped her lift the suit, "You sure are bitchin' for a rich lady who just came! "You think we're rich?"

Here's the thing. This rock was fairly "soft" and our very first internal scan lit up the screen. That softish rock had a vein of elemental silver branched like a stroke of lightning as thick as my leg and over a hundred meters long inside, Way too much to hit the metal market all at once, it would tank silver prices. "So what do we do?" Lili asked as we stood on the surface of "our" rock staring at the bright silver the mining laser had exposed a third of a meter down. "We just take a little. A few kilos we can offer up on the dark waves. Take the orbital references so we can find it again and we stay quiet. We don't retire, not yet."

"Why the hell not?" I expected this, "because when we retire we won't have a ship to come out here every so often for a few more kilos of silver any more." It's hard to express a sulk in a suit but she did, "I wanted to buy an island. Maybe on Caspia." I leaned against her in as close to a hug as a suit allows, "And we will Baby, in four or five years." I hauled back the charging handle on the mining laser. "Meanwhile, let's get us some silver!"