Heads up, this includes both identity play and corruption, as well as involuntary gender transformation and overall lewdness revolving around being taken over by a powerful alien entity, so if you're not into that, proceed no further! Otherwise, I really hope you like it!
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The OCS Looking Glass floated in high orbit above a desolate, grey world. Its long, cylindrical hull marked with the dents of meteoroid impacts from hundreds of years in service. Every movement of the ancient ship was slow, its hull creaking with strain whenever it jumped to hyperspace. Built for long distance surveying on planets claimed by the Oberon Conglomerate, one of its main goals was to seek out old life and the remains of civilizations. Several hundred alien races had been discovered in the area around Earth, and every single one had killed themselves off in one way or another. Some worlds they found were choked in industrial emissions, others scoured lifeless in nuclear armageddon. They rifled through them all, coming up with trinkets and artefacts from peoples whose names would never be spoken aloud again. The Looking Glass's crew called themselves archaeologists, scientists, explorers. But most called them graverobbers, sifting through the Great Filter for burial treasure.
The slate globe beneath them was no different. A large, planet-spanning culture had existed in what was now a wasteland. The planet's atmosphere had been ripped away in some kind of unknown calamity. One of the questions they had, after they discovered if the ruins were worth plundering of course, was what exactly happened to the world and its people. Chief among these curious souls was Doctor Arthur Singer was the Looking Glass's head xenoarchaeologist. The corporation itself had little interest in the affair of a long dead race, and the cost of such expeditions didn't fit into the budget of people dozens of lightyears away. Most of the crew were tasked with determining what valuable elements, if any, the planet still contained. The culture, art, and history of another dead world were of little interest to anyone but the most passionate. People like Doctor Singer.
He yawned, stretching back in his chair as his translator program ran through another series of pictograms. He had almost cracked a basic working form of the alien's language, but it still took painstaking trial and error to make sure he wasn't way off course. Even simple languages still had thousands of words, and in pictograms, each picture could hold a wealth of meaning. It was long, labourious work. But he loved it. In the dark mirror of his workstation's auxiliary screens, he saw that he looked rather rough from the long day's worth of work. His sandy hair was mussed and stuck up in parts, stains from a hastily gobbled meal marked his tight grey shirt and black pants, and his labcoat hadn't been laundered in weeks. He needed to pause for a bit. Maybe take a shower. Soon! Just a few more minutes and he was going to crack the code!
He picked up his slate, keyed the command for an audio log, and stood up from his desk. "Xenoarchaeologist Singer's Journal, October 1st, 2439. The Captain, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to call an end to excavation trips to the surface. The mineral survey team has finished its efforts, meaning I'm left with about half a hold worth of interesting curios, but nothing else. In case I forget, the keycode for the artefact locker is 450001. Not that anyone would steal a bunch of dead alien junk."
Strolling through the hallways of the small cargo bay, many of the storage slots were crammed full of items that Arthur was only beginning to discover the meaning of. It frustrated him that there might be the equivalent of a cultural Rosetta Stone somewhere on the surface, but he wouldn't get a chance to try and find it before the mining teams came in and tore the whole surface up for resources.
One object in the collection seems promising: It was a cylindrical stone stele, maybe a 40 cm long by 8 wide. Pictograms and other symbology covered it entirely. What set it apart from other interesting pieces was that it glowed. A strange, eerie green phosphorescence that drew Arthur's eyes straight to it when he pulled it out from a large temple-like structure. He figured it must have been an object of some kind of worship, though it might just have been the grave market of a leader. Without proper cultural context, he couldn't say for certain.
Even now, the strange stone called to him. It was so unlike the other objects in the collection. He reached out to touch it, but remembered that his hands weren't covered. It wouldn't do to get his greasy, unsanitary mitts all over such a potentially important discovery!
Equipping the proper gloves, he took the stele over to his workstation. For such a comparatively large stone, it was surprisingly light. He was certain it was stone, at least that's what the spectrograms said. The source of the light remained unclear, however. But the tests had determined it wasn't a harmful source of radiation, so only minimal safety precautions needed to be used when handling the object.
OBELISK.
The word appeared in Arthur's mind. He hadn't thought about it or called it up. It just popped into existence like a screen turning on. Obelisk? He supposed that fit. He knew other cultures that made similar structures. But Obelisk did sound more interesting than stele, so he mentally changed the name he used for the object. Obelisk. Made sense.
His slate pinged for his attention. At last, the translation program had finished! He had a simplistic dictionary to use in deciphering the alien pictograms. Holding the slate over the Obelisk's curved surface, the exterior camera turned the images into data, which in turn slid through his carefully crafted algorithms and turned into simple English.
"Storage...self...people...warning...danger." Arthur frowned. None of that quite made any sense. But that was to be expected, he reasoned. He was the first to get this far in the countless centuries since this planet was rendered uninhabitable. Despite his breakthrough, this may take months to peel through layers of nuance and meaning in the alien tongue. He chewed on the words he'd found so far. Danger? Warning?
NO DANGER. SAFE.
Though it might have been a mistake, he thought. Maybe there wasn't danger. Maybe it was safe. He continued his investigations, intermittently looking at the pictograms and using his slate to scan them into the database.
"Avoid the Light. See and Feel. Control." None of it made any sense, even when he said it aloud. Any further warnings didn't bother him, because he was pretty sure that some rock from thousands of years ago was safe enough. Safe enough to touch, maybe?
SAFE. HARD.
Something was going on, Arthur realized. He shook his head, trying to clear it from the sudden fog that had descended. What was happening? The words that were appearing in his mind were not his.
THE OBELISK. WE SPEAK.
The artefact was calling to him! He couldn't determine the gender, language, or even species that the voice belonged to. But somehow he knew. The words appeared to him, and he couldn't shut them out. Pleasurable feelings tingled down his spine, settling in his waist. It felt so good to listen to the voice.
He was horny. His cock, six inches and thick, demanded his attention. He set down the slate. Technically he was still on the clock, but who was going to know that he took a quick jerk-off session? Thankfully, the ship's intranet had a wildly varied selection of pornography, as almost any computer in human space did. He also had his own personal collection.
Flipping through his usual favourites, however, didn't inspire Arthur the way it usually did. He was incredibly hard, but he just didn't feel like jerking off to the usual stuff. He scrolled through categories, finally settling on Anal Play. He wasn't really a butt guy, but for some reason the moment he saw the dildo and an alluring rear end, he started leaking precum. That almost never happened! He set a playlist to run, and he got to wanking. Having to slip in and out of gloves all day gave him reason to have moisturizer available, which was plenty good to use as lubricant. He watched as hole after hole was defiled by toys, by cocks, by even random objects. Each seemed to stretch the anal ring to its limits.
He couldn't understand why this type of porn was having such an effect on him. Worse still, he was having problems finishing his jerk-off session. He could reach just before the edge, forcing pre to spill and mingle with the slippery mix on his fingers, but he couldn't get that extra mile. Something was holding him back.
INSIDE.
No...he couldn't! His erection flagged as he was filled with fear. Fear that he was being taken over by some kind of corrupting force.
THE OBELISK. INSIDE YOU.
His head turned to the object he had been translating. The glow was bright green now, and pulsing along its length. Was it some kind of ancient technology? How was it talking inside his mind?
He bolted up from his seat and reached for the emergency call button. It would connect him with security or medical, whichever he needed. He reached for it. And reached. And reached. The button seemed to slide further and further away the more he extended himself.
NO. SIT.