The control board hummed and the multicolored panel of lights almost looked like a stained glass window as he sat in the pilot seat looking through the cockpit window of the research starship traveling over one hundred kilometers per second through space. The cabin lights were off and only the glow of the instrument panel was the only source of illumination. He looked thoughtlessly at the stars which were strange to him. None of the recognizable constellations from home existed this far from earth.
Lee stood up and stretched. He had been in cryo sleep since leaving Archeo IV where he had met his research partner. She had been there for three earth years studying the flora and fauna of the newly discovered planet. His mission was to rendezvous with her there, load all the samples she had collected and travel to the deep space science station in the Transit Galaxy for analysis. They would be docking at the space station there and were scheduled for a multi year study of the Archeo IV samples. They were seven days out from the station and were being awoken automatically to make preparations for arrival.
Lee made his way to the galley and searched for stimulant drink. Coming out of cryo was always difficult. All he wanted to do in the world was go back to sleep and not wake up for another month. He had never felt so drowsy in his life. After waking from past sleeps, he found himself drinking nothing but stim for a full day before he started feeling remotely better. He found one, chugged it down, and grabbed another to take with him back to the control panel. His partner wasn't scheduled to wake for another hour and he needed to go through the routine of checking their course.
He stretched again before sitting in the pilot seat and his flight suit stretched with him. Although it was skin tight, the fabric could stretch to twice its length. It was a bold royal blue, sleeveless top with shorts. His name patch and the Space Explorer insignia were on opposite sides of his chest. It wasn't much of a suit at all, but more hibernation pajamas. He was about to sit down when he noticed his reflection in the glass door covering up another set of instruments.
He had lost weight in cryo. Even though metabolism was slowed to next to nothing, his body had still been feasting on his fat reserves so that he had hardly any left. Now there was nothing to mask his muscular six foot frame. He had always made sure to stay extremely physically fit so that he would qualify for the Space Explorer program. The snug flight suit left nothing to the imagination. Every muscular detail was visible underneath the fabric showing each line of his abdominal muscles. He then looked down to his crotch. His shaft was clearly visible along with the outline of its head. His balls strained the fabric creating two lumps under his hanging penis. He thought it was an add choice for a uniform but he assumed it was practical in some way. He felt slightly aroused seeing himself so exposed and felt the fabric around his penis getting tighter.
He quickly shook his head and grabbed a loose fitting pair of sweatpants and headed to the main control panel. He studied the charts on the screen, did a couple equations (not that the computer couldn't do them, he just enjoyed it) and found that they were right on course. What to do with the next fifty minutes before his partner woke up?
He thought back to the day they first met. Lee had been told about her but they had not had any contact until that first meeting. He had studied her file thoroughly. She had just about every degree a person could have in the field of xenobiology. She was a champion swimmer for her college back on earth. She had spent two years in what was left of the African Congo rainforest studying gorilla behavior and was briefly taken captive by a rebel group before mysteriously escaping. Definitely seemed like she had the chops for this mission.
He didn't know anyone that had ever worked with her, but his project director said she was solid. He told Lee that he would trust no one else more with the job- even if she did buck the system occasionally.
When he stepped off the ship on Archeo IV, she was nowhere to be seen. Her camp looked undisturbed and recently occupied, so he figured she must be close by. He tried to reach her on his com, but received no answer. Suddenly, a large furry creature the size of a rhino came charging out of the forest. He quickly drew his sidearm, set it to stun and fired. The beast dropped a few meters in front of him with a loud thud. His heart rate already started coming down as he walked over to the sleeping creature.
It had massive fangs and sharp claws with what looked to be blood on them.
This isn't a good sign
, he thought. He opened the locator on his com and saw that she was just a few hundred meters through the trees. He pulled out his plasma rifle and ran into the forest toward her signal. Vines, leaves and twigs scraped at his body as he plowed through the underbrush, not wanting to waste any time. He was already sweating through his terra shirt when he saw a clearing through the trees. He immediately stopped to assess the situation.
He tried to control his breathing as he crept slowly closer toward the clearing. As he got closer, he saw that it was a pool fed by a waterfall, and in the middle there was a naked woman swimming with her back to him. Instead of calling out, he watched.
She truly is a champion swimmer,
he thought, as he watched her move with effortless grace through the water. He noticed a tattoo on her neck, but he couldn't make out what it was. He suddenly realized that he had better call out before she caught him being a pervert watching her swim around nude.
"Christine?" he shouted. She turned around, her body submerged to her neck.
"You must be Lee," she said, "Sorry, I thought you'd be here a little later. I wanted to get freshened up before you arrived. I've been in country for months and thought I might be getting a little ripe."
Christine tilted her head back in the water to push back her hair and began swimming to shore. Lee turned his head to the side but found it hard to turn his eyes. As she came closer, he could see she was gorgeous. Her beauty was natural, strong and classic. She looked like the type of woman that could model for an 1800's frontier magazine. Her hair was a light brown with sun bleached streaks from being outside all the time. He was surprised by his reaction to her looks.
"You really blazed a trail," she said.
Lee chuckled as looked back at the jungle and saw the path of destruction he had left while scrambling to the waterfall. "Yeah, well I thought you may have been eate..." As he turned his head back around, Christine was standing on the shore draped in a towel that was barely covering her. His eyes first saw her glistening cleavage. Even with the towel, he could see her breasts were enormous. She had no tan lines so he assumed this nude bathing was regular practice. The thought of the water gliding across the skin of her naked body stirred something inside of him. He felt his blood being directed toward his loins. Her legs were smooth and muscular. She must have been about five and half feet. She was a vision.
"Eaten?" she said playfully. "Hate to break it to you but I'm the apex predator on this planet. There's nothing that would come close to having me for lunch."
"But this creature had huge fangs and claws covered in blood."
"That's what I've been calling a
shoveler.
The blood you saw is just juice from one of the fruits it eats."
Lee was struck by this woman. She had such a confident, commanding spirit but also a lightness to her. It was as if she had life completely figured out. She was more comfortable in this alien world than she probably was back on earth.
"Well no sense waiting, we have a long trip ahead of us."
They packed up camp quickly with the help of the service mech. They put Lee's sleeping shoveler in a containment cage and put it on board along with all the other specimens Christine had collected during her time on Archeo.
Once camp was cleared, they blasted off into orbit. Christine unpacked into her quarters while Lee prepped the cryo pods and double checked the nav computer.
"Alright nerd, I'm ready for a long nap."
Lee turned and was once again shocked by what he saw. Christine had changed into her cryo pajamas while unpacking. Her tits looked like they were vacuum sealed into the fabric. He had earlier regretted not getting a glance at them while she was swimming, but he felt like he was getting his second chance. They were perfectly shaped globes with nipples standing at attention. His eyes passed her tight stomach down to her waist. She had a perfect hourglass figure and her muscle tone showed right through her suit. He was eyeing the slit of her vagina through the fabric when he realized he'd been staring half a second too long. He returned his gaze to her face. She was smiling coyly while biting her bottom lip. Clearly she must have noticed his ogling.
"Well, uh... I guess this is good night. Thanks for picking me up," Christine said.
"Yeah, uh, no problem. Looking forward to working with you at the station."
Christine walked over to Lee and kissed him on the cheek.
"Sweet dreams," she said.
Lee felt his blood rushing to his cheeks as he watched her perfectly shaped ass jiggle as she walked over to her pod. He didn't blink as he watched her every curve lay down inside. She pushed a series of buttons inside and the capsule lid slid shut. There was a hiss of air and that was it. She was out.
Lee looked down and noticed that his cock was fully erect. The cryo pajamas did nothing to restrict his massive boner. He again felt the blood rush to his cheeks as he imagined Christine noticing his bulge right before cryo.
Did it happen before she turned around?
he thought. He couldn't believe the effect Christine was having on him. He had never felt this way before. Growing up in the academy, he had only been around other males and never felt any attraction toward them. The isolation of research work had hardly ever brought him into contact with other humans, let alone females of the same caliber as Christine. She was different. It was as if when she was around, she had this magical connection to his loins. He felt a fire burning that needed to be quenched. He walked over to her pod and stared through the frosted glass. He imagined touching her cold face with his warm hands. Feeling the soft flesh of her cheeks come back to life through his warm touch.
What the fuck, Lee,
he thought,
Fucking pull it together.
He pushed the thoughts out of his head and walked over to his cryo pod. He took one last look around the ship, knowing that he would be awakened if anything went wrong, and slipped inside the cryo chamber.
Chapter 2
Lee looked at the ship clock- four minutes had passed. He still wasn't quite sure what to do so he decided to take a shower. He was still drowsy and felt like the shower took three times as long as normal. He had to think hard through every step. Not only that, but his thoughts kept drifting back to Christine. He would start daydreaming about her while the water splashed on his body and would snap out of it finding himself lathering up his massive erection.
Must be an effect of cryo,
he thought. Lee had never felt like this before. He couldn't even name what he was feeling.
Lust?
he thought. That must be it. It seemed like every time he let his mind wander, it went straight back to the vision of her in her skin tight cryo pajamas. In his mind he could feel her every curve. There was just something about her, though, that he also couldn't stop thinking of. She was like no other woman he had met. She was not only brilliant, but she was brave and bold, confident and carefree all at the same time.
Lee turned off the water and grabbed a towel. His dick was still throbbing so he tried to find something to take his mind off of her. Of course, he decided to check on her cryo pod. The timer read twenty-four minutes. He peered through the frosty glass and studied her body. Every detail about her forced his brain to the same conclusion:
