Journey to the Year 1,000,000,000
Chapter 8
[Note: This is a Science Fiction story with some erotic scenes. It is
not
a story with erotic scenes in every chapter. Some chapters have incredible sex scenes, but many others have none.]
Two days later, they noticed a change.
"There are a lot of happy people here, Michael," said Victor.
"
Some
people are happy, Victor," said Taylor.
"You're right, or at least, you were right," said Victor. "There are 42 men and 22 women on this planet. That means, not counting Suki and Elizabeth, that there are 20 happy women, and 20 happy men. That also means there are 22 unhappy men. Or rather, there
were
."
"What are you saying, Victor?"
Victor gave an enigmatic smile. "Come with me to the forest, and see."
Taylor followed Victor to the small wooded area where they collected fuel for their fires. The small wooded area had suddenly turned into a larger forest, with big trees.
And hanging from the branches of these trees were... women.
They were hanging from their necks, somehow physically attached to the trees. They were all nude. And all beautiful--blondes, redheads, brunettes, all with large breasts and perfect faces.
Taylor looked at them. "Are they alive?"
"I'm not quite sure how to answer that," said Victor. "Pull on one of them and see."
Taylor looked up at a blonde hanging above him. His head was at about the same height as her vagina, which had brown pubic hair. He tentatively reached out for a wrist. It felt warm. He pulled gently, and felt/heard a tearing sound, and the body came crashing down to the ground.
"Hehe, heheheheh," said the blonde.
"What is this?" Taylor asked.
"Humanoid, sort of," said Doctor McCrae, coming over with a hand scanner. "Just like the others."
"Others?"
"A whole forest full of them, all women," said McCrae.
"Are they alive, Doctor?"
McCrae made a face. "Sort of. They're alive the same way a plant is. But if you're asking me if they have any consciousness, I'd say no."
Taylor looked at the forest of hanging, nude women. "Why in the world...."
"I think you have your answer there, Michael," said Victor.
Taylor looked several trees over. He saw Crewman Spinelli, reaching out to squeeze a redhead's breasts. He had a broad smile on his face as the redhead giggled.
"As you said, Michael, there were twenty unhappy men on this planet," said Victor. "But I predict that very soon, there will be none."
"Do you think our crew, and these... these living dolls?"
Victor gave him a knowing look.
********
Victor was right. The situation changed quickly. Soon instead of there being twenty two unhappy men in the encampment, there was only one. Or two, if Victor didn't partake (Taylor didn't know and didn't ask). And then they were treated to the spectacle of Ensign Raleigh breaking up with his 68 year old girlfriend, Doctor Iris Weatherby.
"The balance of power has changed, Michael. For the first time in human history, not everyone with a vagina can automatically be guaranteed sexual satisfaction," said Victor.
Taylor didn't want to know. He saw the men, his men, going into the forest, and coming out sometime later. They had sex there, in front of each other, out in the open. They were becoming animals.
Taylor didn't stop it. He couldn't stop it. But he didn't go into the forest. At least, not for that.
But one day, he did go into the forest, and his jaw dropped.
He saw Pam.
She was hanging by her neck from a tree. Her breasts looked large and juicy. She was like a ripe fruit, just waiting to be picked.
He stared into her eyes. He imagined he saw something there, a spark, maybe. But he knew there was no intelligence inside of it. It was just an overgrown sex toy.
Even as he watched, some intelligence, or force, caused the body to drop to the ground. Pam dropped on her back, and started giggling. He stared at her face, and body, and the opening between her legs, and felt aroused and horrified.
"Well, go on, Captain."
Suddenly, Suki was at his side. "This is what you've been waiting for, isn't it? I heard you were pining for some blonde girl back on Earth. I presume this is her. So go to it. Fuck her hard, Captain. Fuck her hard like you won't fuck me."
Anger flared in Taylor's eyes, and he slapped her across the face. She looked shocked for a moment. But then she gave a smile. "At least that time it was real. At least that time you meant it." She walked away, leaving Taylor to deal with his confused feelings.
********
When Elizabeth heard the news, she couldn't believe it.
But Karen Levenson told her she had seen it with her own eyes, and did she want to go have a look?
Elizabeth's first instinct was to say no. But she found herself following Karen into the forest. She tried to shield her eyes from all the naked women. By now many of them had dropped down to the forest floor. Some of them had their legs bent and spread. They had obviously been used. And in every direction she had to shield her eyes to avoid the sight of her fellow male crewmembers, completely naked, as they thrusted against their new sex partners who were lying lifelessly on the forest floor.
"Uh uh uh uh," came the familiar voice of Wade Tanner. She couldn't divert her eyes because she was practically walking over him. She saw his buttocks moving back and forth, as he thrust between the legs of a near lifeless blonde. As she passed, he looked up, embarrassed. "Oh, hello, Elizabeth."
The men had lost their shame. All of them. They had become mindless sex creatures. And the worst part was that it was not because their minds were being controlled; it was just the way they were, given the opportunity.
"Are we almost there?" Elizabeth asked.
"I'm sure it was around here," said Karen. "Yes, it was hanging right there," she pointed at a tree. "It's gone now."
Gone?
Suddenly they heard sounds. Sounds of lovemaking. Karen went around the tree. "Oh. Oh no. Elizabeth, stay back!"
Something inside of Elizabeth caused her to do the opposite. She had to look. She had to see-
"No, Elizabeth, no," said Karen, trying to block her.
Elizabeth sidestepped her. She came around the large tree, and the first thing she saw was--
her own face, nearly lifeless, giggling.
And attached to her face was her body. But most of it was obscured, covered by a nude male body on top of it, vigorously thrusting between her legs.
Oh. My. God.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah, aaaaaaaaaah!"
Vincent Roman looked into Elizabeth's giggling face as he climaxed, filling her with his cum. And then he saw the feet just behind her face, and he looked up, and once again, he saw Elizabeth's face. But this face was not giggling.
"Oh. My. God," Elizabeth said. She had just witnessed Vincent ejaculating inside a sex doll who looked exactly like her.
"Elizabeth!" Vincent pulled out, but was suddenly embarrassed by his rapidly shrinking, wet penis. "It's not what it looks like!" he said, backing away from her.
"Really, Vincent? And what does it actually look like, then?" Elizabeth said, taking a step towards him.
Vincent pointed to the body, the exact copy of her body, with its vaginal lips crudely spread, with white liquid dribbling out of it. "It... she... it just appeared, Elizabeth. It...."
"Did it force itself on you, Vincent? Are you saying it raped you, that it had its way with you?" said Elizabeth.
"I, ah, uh-"
"Get out of here! Get the fuck out of here now!" said Elizabeth.
Vincent reached down for his clothes, but Elizabeth picked up a rock and threw it at him. It hit him in the back, and he went running. "If I ever see you back here, I'll break your head open, Vincent Roman!" she shouted.
She looked down at the other version of herself, so intensely violated.
Karen struggled to find the words. "Elizabeth... I'm so sorry... if I knew he was here, I would never have brought you to see this....."
********
And then came the next change.
Taylor returned to the forest. It was unavoidable, if he wanted to collect wood for the fires. More and more of the crew were shirking their duties, leaving the harvesting of the food and the gathering of firewood to fewer and fewer crewmen. They spent their time watching the waterfalls, or here, in the forest... but they weren't gathering wood. If anything, they were expending it.
Taylor averted his eyes from his... busy... crewmen. But now he started to see something different.
There were new kinds of dolls now.
There were men dolls as well.
He saw them, hanging almost lifelessly from the trees, totally nude, young, attractive men, already erect, ready to be used.
Taylor wondered whose desires had created them.
And then he found out.
He heard a deep feminine grunting.
He came around a bend, and saw a woman, mounted on top of one of the sex dolls. She was poling up and down. Her back was to him.
Taylor knew he should turn away, but he couldn't. He didn't.
When he came around to the front, he saw it all.
It was Suki Tanaka. Suki, riding up and down on some sex doll's erect penis.
No, not just some sex doll.
Him.
A physically perfect copy of him, Michael Taylor.
Suki saw him and smiled, not skipping a beat. "Do you like it, Captain? All I did was think about you, and there you were." She continued to ride up and down on his penis. Her breasts were sweaty; either this was not her first round, or she had been at it awhile.
"I like this version of you better," She said. "Less sanctimonious. Less hypocritical. Less complicated," said Suki. She bit her lip. "I feel it, Michael. I feel it. Oh, oh, oooooooh!" she cried out, her breasts heaving, as she stared him straight in the eyes, as she achieved her climax, while riding on his duplicate's penis.
If Suki was hoping for a reaction, she was disappointed; Taylor just turned and walked away.
********
"Could this be some kind of experiment, Victor?" said Taylor.
Victor shrugged. "Anything is possible... but I don't see what they would be testing for."
"To find out what we wish for."
"Well, that would be evident rather quickly." Victor made a face. "No, it doesn't feel like an experiment to me." He paused a moment. "I think... I think it feels more like... an amusement park."
"What?"
"An amusement park of the future. One where you get everything you want."
"Everything except escape," said Taylor.
"Does everyone want escape, Michael? You've seen people sitting in a daze at the waterfalls. Having sex in the forest. For some people, this is a paradise."
"And for you, Victor?"
Victor shook his head. "No, I'm fully rested now, batteries recharged. I'm ready to get out and explore again."