Xenophilia -- Simon -- Part 1
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This is part of a project to touch up and publish an older series of works I had done in the past, placing them on Literotica. There are quite a few parts, so they will seem repetitive as more are updated, and since they are not being completely revised, they will show their age. There will also be some questionable content, and due to said age, may not be presented in the most palatable manner, as much as I may have believed I did those years ago. Please keep this in mind.
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It had all gone to shit.
First disappearances, then reports of damaged equipment, and now... aliens flooding the colony and snatching people left and right. And here was Simon, stuck in the showers, hoping he wouldn't be caught and murdered by them. He slumped against a wall, sitting upon a bench, groaning and running his hands down his face, lamenting his situation. He'd only just turned nineteen, after proving himself a bright little light when it came to software management and encoding. He'd managed to score a position at Victor's Post to help run the automated systems and the colony's intranet, as well as provide a small amount of assistance to those maintaining the 'dumb' Androids. All in hopes of earning a nice fat lump of cash, and most of all, impress the ladies back home, and finally get laid.
The way things were going right now, he was probably going to die a virgin. He'd barricaded himself inside the showers, tipping over several lockers in front of the two doors that allowed access to the block, hoping that if he kept a low profile, the creatures wouldn't find him. He also chose the showers because, as far as he knew, there were no large vents that connected the shower block to the rest of the colony, not large enough for those things to use at least. He'd learned quickly that the creatures ambushed often from the vents, dragging their victims up into the ducts and silencing them with unsettling quietness. No screams of pain, no cracking of breaking bones, no sounds of flesh being torn or pierced. Just cries of terror and then... nothing, save for the quiet thumping and scraping as they dragged their quarry away to god knows where.
Simon slumped forward, holding his face in his hands and running his fingers through his messy, sweaty short black hair. He gripped his scalp and shuddered.
"What the fuck do I do?" he said to himself. "Can I hold out here long enough? Will they find me? Is rescue even coming? What if they just level the place from orbit?"
Numerous questions issued from his mouth, and many more bounced around inside his mind. None of them could he provide immediate answers to. He considered trying to rig a connection to the intranet from within the shower block, hoping to gain access to the comms tower relay and send out an SOS.
But the relays, though they had access to the intranet, were encrypted so that unnecessary messages couldn't be beamed into space. Even though he had some low-level access to the relays, trying to break into the relay network from a shower block would trip so many defence algorithms, it'd be next to impossible; specific access was required, and the electronic locks and the intranet intercom system present in the shower block was barely on the same level.
On the other hand, any rescue ships might assume there were no survivors, and call upon the Colonial Marines to drop a nuke from orbit. It's what he'd do. Simon was also worried any tinkering would attract attention from the aliens no doubt prowling around, looking for survivors. Simon didn't know what they were doing with the people they captured, but he had no desire to find out first hand.
He would smack his hands down onto the edge of the bench and grip it tight.
"Alright, Simon. You gotta calm down. Calm the fuck down... you're in the showers. Yeah, take a nice warm shower. They can't get to you in here. Yeah, a shower sounds nice," he said, trying to compose his racing nerves. He felt somewhat safe in taking a shower; the block was designed to keep in noise whilst regulating heat build-up from steam. He was confident that the aliens wouldn't hear the running water, nor would they see the steam; it would be pumped out too far from the actual shower block to be traceable. They're smart, but he didn't think them that smart. They seemed more like animals than sentient entities... at least he believed so.
Confident in his decision, he made his way over to one of the shower stalls, each cubicle aligned to either side of a concrete and steel pathway that separated the two rows of showers, a thin metal grate running the length of the path, the concrete angled slightly inwards to drain water into this grate so that it could be recycled elsewhere. He chose a random stall and opened the door, beginning to strip down and placing his clothes on the ground in a manner that would allow him to don them quickly if he needed to.
Once naked, he shut the stall door behind him, not for privacy but to keep the steam trapped in for a little bit longer and make it nice and toasty. He would turn the taps and calibrate the flow until the stream and the heat was just right for him. And then, he just stood there, rubbing himself down lazily to get the warm water all over his body. He didn't care about wasting water, he doubted anyone was going to yell at him for it.
As he stood there, soaking up the pleasant warmth, he'd think back on the first time he began to suspect something was thoroughly amiss at the colony. The first person to go missing was some random nobody -- not that you really could be a 'nobody' in a place with only 300-so inhabitants -- but that anyone went missing at all was unusual in of itself. And then, several more people went missing over the course of a few weeks, and then more people began to vanish at a faster rate... until the culprits decided to launch a mass raid, snatching people as fast as they could.
He knew something was wrong for a while, especially when he noticed that the WeyYu scientists had placed unusual commands into the androids, though what they were, he didn't know; they were encrypted, so their exact instructions were unclear. Whatever they were, it didn't seem like the androids were able to enact them, rounded up and likely destroyed, Simon remembered seeing through a battered camera feed of a dark shape throwing one of the dumb androids into a vault.
He sighed out, wishing things hadn't turned out like this; one of the early missing persons was this girl, Haydee, a cute inventory manager he confessed to having something of a crush on. He'd been meaning to approach her, hoping to impress her with both his technical knowledge and his paycheck, but none of that mattered now. She was probably dead, alien food no doubt. Still... he remembered the sweet smell of cinnamon that always followed her, and that shapely ass tightly contained by her coveralls...
He winced as he realised he'd inadvertently given himself a half-rigid erection, and sighed out in frustration.
"Really? Now? Of all times?" he muttered to himself. It stung him a little, partly because of how such a simple thought had aroused him, but most of all, the knowledge that he may never get out of the colony alive, and thus would never have a chance to lose his virginity.
Still, if he was going to die, he may as well take this opportunity to rub one last one out. He took his cock in hand, and began to stroke, thinking on that cute girl that gave him the hard-on in the first place. He knew it was creepy, but again, he doubted it would matter now. Simon sighed out as the arousal took him, helped by the flow of the warm water around his body.
A loud clang made him almost slip in his stall, whipping about with his erection bobbing from his crotch uncomfortably.
"The fuck?!" he spat, his fear beginning to rise. Surely, they couldn't have found a way in, the vents were too small, and the doors were barricaded. He approached the door of the stall, and slowly cracked it open, immediately spying a steel panel from the roof lying on the floor. He glanced upwards, and noticed a square hole in the ceiling... and his blood chilled despite the hot water and steam that surrounded him, when he saw chitinous fingers wrap around the edge of the new opening. A second set did the same to the opposite edge... and then, Simon saw the top of the creature's domelike skull peek out from the hole, the rest of its head obscured by the edge of the remaining panels, slowly scanning for any signs of life.
Simon suppressed a gasp, and held his breath, cursing his stupidity; the vents were too small for even a child to fit, but that didn't mean there wasn't a goddamn void space large enough in the roof. They didn't need the ventilation to get in.
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I'm a goddamn idiot... please, please don't spot me...'
he prayed, just barely peeking around the edge of the door, keeping an eye on it but worried it would spy the barest sliver of him through the tiny gap. It had no eyes, but it definitely seemed to be 'looking' for someone. With bated breath, Simon waited... until it slowly pulled its head back up into the space, quietly and with somewhat creepy smoothness. He did his best to quietly release his pent up breath... until he heard banging above him, the roof panel directly above his cubicle beginning to bow under some sort of force or weight. He panicked, and opened the door, hoping to make a break for it.