http://www.asstr.org/~srb/ This story is a composite of a couple of different things I have thought about regarding futanari stories, I know the majority of writers here deal mostly in natural futa, that is born as one, or magical means. This is more of a sci-fi kind of story, so if it's not your thing you might want to mosey on by. Don't read if under 18 or illegal in your little corner of the world, like you'll listen. This should appear only on my website http://www.asstr.org/~srb/ F3, Futanari Palace, Pal's archive site, through Pal's yahoo group, on Pal's Forum... well, it basically should be wherever Pal's stuff is. Also at the Grey Archive, and some other places they might end up, they know who they are. This is copyright me, so don't call it yours. Feedback can be left here. I created all the characters, they are all fictional, and any relevance to anyone living or dead, is incidental BTW there is plenty of different portions which have been reused by numerous science fiction shows movies and books, including nanotechnology, rapid pregnancy, and various scientific mumbo jumbo, which I will try to keep to a minimum. (Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish…) THIS CHAPTER contains no sex. Chapter 10 Leaving on a Jet Plane, or, Don't Know When I'll be Back Again. Terra twisted and turned in the bed. Her dreams were dark and disturbing. Filled of horrific visions of what happened the night prior. Yoshi lying bloodied on the bed, face mask-forcing air into his lungs. Nadia hunched over in a pool of her own blood on the carpet outside her room. Standing in darkness with only a sliver of light shining into her eyes. The sound of gunfire. The color of blood. A knock on the door jarred Terra from a fitful sleep. Her body lurched forward, covered in sweat from the nightmare. She took a few moments, trying to catch her breath. She watched as Nadia went to the door, opening it. "Nadia? It's great to see you!" Said the voice from behind the door. Looking over Terra saw an elderly man. He was tall, and in good shape for his age. Clean-shaven he had a short gray hair that was tucked under a neat military hat. "It's been too long general," Nadia said, reaching out her hands as they hugged. "I wish this was under better circumstances." "I do too honey, I do too," he said, looking on towards Terra. "Is she…okay?" "She's been through a lot," Nadia said, looking over to her. "Are you okay Terra?" "I just…I don't know. I had a nightmare. I never had a nightmare before. I, I'm okay," Terra said, trying in part to convince herself. "Hi, I'm Terra." "I'm Nadia's father, but you can call me Gary" he said. "I'm afraid the pleasantries will have to wait. We have much to talk about." "I know, I know." Nadia said. "We're ready. Let's go get Yoshi," she said, following her father out the door. She wondered who was uprooted in the middle of the night to provide beds for the two of them. People had definitely been sleeping in there before, the beds weren't even made. She couldn't help but notice the looks they got from the servicemen and women walking around them. She didn't know if it was because of their tight fitting clothes or if it was because of her father. She didn't know whether they were more likely to see women who looked like them or a five star general. Probably a general. "Sir, the patient is, well, the patient is completely fine. She's better than fine, she's in incredible shape, and this is beyond anything modern medicine is capable of." Said a completely baffled surgeon. "Excellent, then we will leave shortly. Provide my assistant with every bit of information gathered about the patient, including the backups. No information is to remain here, no computer logs, no scanning records, and not even journal entries. Do I make myself clear?" General Bodarko said, not really asking. "Yes sir. She's coming to now, would you like us to send her in?" Said the timid surgeon. "Of course. Thank you doctor." General Bodarko said. The doctor left for a moment, along with a pair of clean cloths. Bringing it to Yoshi, he was surprised the girl didn't seem to have any reservations about changing. Shedding her medical gown she changed in front of him the way another man might change in the gym. "General Bodarko is waiting for you. I hope you keep your health." He said, leading the young woman to the exit. "Yoshi, my god man," General Bodarko said, amazed at the beautiful woman standing before him. This was nothing compared to the shriveled fifty year old man he was the last time they had met. "General Bodarko, Nadia, Terra, how's it going?" Yoshi said, hoping everyone would ignore the elephant in the room. He was still giddy from the drugs, which they had to overdue just to keep him under as the nanos were struggling to compensate. "Fine, how are you Yoshi?" Nadia asked. "I feel young. I feel young." He said, giggling. "Could they find a smaller top for me to wear?" "What's wrong with you?" Nadia asked. "Nothing's wrong with me, I'm a futanari! Hey, that rhymes. Nothing's wrong with me, I'm a futanari" he sang in a high-pitched voice, over and over. "God man, pull yourself together!" said the General. "Oh, uh, yes, yes sorry sir. Just the painkillers, and the uh, woman hormones in me. Won't happen again," he said, trying to focus himself. "Anyone want to fill me in?" "It's a long story, and we've got a plane waiting. " He said, turning to the redhead, "Ever been on a plane yet Terra?" he asked. * "How do you know him Tom?" Kyle asked, as they were being led through a hallway. "We worked together when I was young. We were…acquaintances," Tom said. "Oh come now Tom, we were friends. I would like to be so again," Capistrano said. "We had a bit of a falling out my dear woman. I was working on a cure for the desyinatrinom disease with Tom. I came up with a breakthrough, but the amount of time needed to test it was…" he said, waving his hands as he searched for a word. "He was willing to take short cuts in order to get the fame," Tom said. "Oh come now Tom, you know I wanted to cure it just as much as you." Capistrano said. "Yes, but you wanted to get the name recognition." Tom replied coolly. "Oh, and you didn't? My cure was finished six months before your work would have concluded. How many lives saved in those six months Tom? Two hundred thousand? A quarter million?" Capistrano asked. "And at what cost?" Tom said, returning his question with another. "Eighteen volunteers Tom. They all volunteered, I never rounded them up and sent them in camps to die. Don't forget that." Capistrano said, remembering the first time he had argued this with Tom. "How many before it becomes wrong? You offered them hope from a disease they knew was fatal. The drugs available could have slowed the progress of the disease and prevented their deaths." Tom said, remembering the day when he found out. Capistrano never told him face to face, he had to hear on the news when they were accepting volunteers. "And your cure was never proven to work in the first place. I'm sorry dear lady, I did not mean to bore you with an ethics conversation." Capistrano said, turning towards Kyle. "Don't worry, as far as I know you're in charge of killing two friends of mine. Having locked me up was a good choice, as I will strangle you the moment I get the chance. I will then do everything I can to hunt down and kill the cold-blooded murderers of my friends. Then I will drink my morning coffee everyday from a cup made primarily of your skull. Maybe take the finger off at the knuckle to use as a handle." Kyle said, as calmly as one might order a meal at a restaurant. For his part, Capistrano never flinched, never reacted to the threat. "You are a very passionate young woman, I like that. What you don't realize is that I'm not in charge of the Martian government. I'm not in charge of the military. I am however the special advisor to the Martian prime minister. And also the only reason why you two are still breathing. " "What do you mean?" Tom asked, not really expecting an honest answer. "Why don't you stop your complaining and listen to me for a little bit. I didn't bring you up to rehash old times. There is something very important going on. Your people need you." Capistrano said preparing a speech he had gone over in his mind for weeks. While he was an accomplished scientist, he was nowhere near Tom's level of genius. He regretted that they would have to kidnap him in the first place, and the gruesome means by which he was captured. And now he had to try to get the trust and help of someone like that…the prime minister was lacking in panache. "My people?" Tom asked incredulously. * The newest line of helicopter/plane hybrids was the YDIT-72. It was designed to take off like a helicopter, but had wings allowing it to reach speeds unattainable by helicopters. Once it had lifted off of the ground, it would reach two-thirds full speed as a helicopter. Then a small jet would activate, and allow them to fly like any normal commercial plane. The benefit of this was having both speed and the ability to land in any circumstance, be it the desert, the jungle, inside of a city (or even atop a building), or even on the artic shelf. With the ability to get in quickly, land for deployment or extraction, and get out quickly, it was a boon to surgical strikes, capturing criminals and high-ranking officials, freeing hostages or POWs, among other applications. It also served nicely as a means of chauffeuring senior staff. Terra watched out of the window, amazed at the landscape below. With the electric motor, the sound created by the vehicle was almost whisper quiet, which was useful to explain what happened. Inside it was rather bland. This specific hybrid was designed with more lavish accommodations. There were six large leather seats, two rows facing each other with the doorways closed on either side. The compartment they were in was soundproof, which was a necessity for its use as a government transport. The pilots had high-level clearance, but it didn't mean they could hear everything. "So Tom and Kyle were nowhere to be found?" Yoshi asked, after hearing Nadia's story about how they had gotten here. "Actually, we believe we know where they are. We have received information which seems to indicate that the two were abducted." General Bodarko said, picking up a folder from a briefcase. "Abducted, by who?" Nadia asked her father. "It appears that it was a Martian mission designed to get Tom specifically out. We believe Kyle was…a secondary target." General Bodarko said. "Why would they want Tom specifically?" Yoshi asked, slightly jealous. "Tom was not only one of earth's most intelligent scientists, he also was the creator of the nanobots. We believe that Kyle was taken because she was the only subject reported to have the nanos in her system." General Bodarko said "So mom's a guinea pig?" Terra asked worried. "What are you talking about general? I reported both my and Terra's contracting the nanobots days ago." Nadia said. "Yes, but we believed we had a leak. Which was unfortunate. We stopped reporting real information, even began reporting false information. The leak believes that the nanos are unsuccessful, that they don't work as of yet. There was a design flaw, which would take months to fix. We originally thought that the leak was simply a paper pusher trying to get some fame and money by reporting something to the press. We never imaged that a Martian agent had penetrated so far into the government." General Bodarko said "That's why they didn't go after me." Terra said. "Precisely my dear, they didn't know you were there to be attacked. Also the reason they believed they could remove Nadia and Yoshi from the picture, they had no idea the nanobots could save them. They believed the original nanos that Tom made weren't capable of working with assistance from the computer. They are not aware of these…foreign nanobots. This was all due to the bad information we were feeding him." General Bodarko said "And what happened to him?" Nadia asked. "The leak has been plugged." General Bodarko said coldly. "General…" Nadia began, interrupted. "He's sitting in a federal jail, awaiting charges for life in prison. Remember, there are no more executions, even for treason. And there are no Gestapo either, if that's what you're thinking about." He replied. "That's all fine and good, but why do they want the nanobots, especially if they don't work?" Yoshi asked. "That's going to take some explaining…" General Bodarko said. "As you observed earlier general it's a long trip." Yoshi returned. "Where are we going?" Terra asked. "We are going to go to the military base near Boston. From there we will debrief you and wait for a decision from the government." General Bodarko said. "Then I will fly to discuss things with my superiors." "What about Tom and Kyle?" Yoshi asked. "The government as of yet hasn't made a choice, but," General Bodarko said, struggling to find the appropriate way to explain it. Unfortunately, there wasn't an appropriate way to explain it. "But what?" Terra asked. "The chances of a rescue mission are unlikely. There is a good chance that any overt action on our half could trigger an interplanetary war. We are in no shape to wage war against the Martians. The government is likely to consider the planet more important than the two of them." General Bodarko put bluntly. Terra turned her head slowly towards General Bodarko. "So I'm not going to see my mother again?" The general had a lump in his throat. While he had sent women and men to their deaths before, even his battle tested will was tested by the emotions in the young woman's voice. "I will do everything that I can to convince the government to attempt a rescue operation." "And if it fails?" Nadia asked, with a hard stare at her father. "There are always other options." General Bodarko said. "What does that mean?" Yoshi asked. "I have already said too much. Trust me, I'm doing more than everything I can." The helicopter/plane was silent for a minute. While Nadia tried to read her fathers face to determine what he meant, Terra sat silently, wondering if she had seen her mother for the last time. She wanted to believe that there was a chance, but even Nadia didn't seem to believe her own father. They didn't seem to get along well, Terra made a point to ask herself later why that was. She and Her mother were as close as could be, Nadia only called her father 'General'. "So why did they abduct Tom and Kyle then?" Yoshi asked. "Five months two weeks six days ago a large asteroid hit the former satellite of Mars, Phobos. The asteroid impact caused the moons orbit to deteriorate rapidly. Two weeks two days later the moon passed the Roche limit." General Bodarko said, taking out a large image gathered from telescopes, as well as detailed information from a locked briefcase. "What's that?" Terra asked, completely "It's the limit to when a celestial body orbiting a planet begins to either break up, or lose its orbit completely." Yoshi said looking over all of the data the general handed to him. "Yes, in this case the deteriorated orbit caused the moon to begin to break up. As Phobos entered, it's own gravity could no longer withstand the tidal force, or the secondary effects of the gravity of Mars. As the body disintegrates, the particles began forming rings around the planet. Much of the debris from the original asteroid began forming around these rings, which is the source of all the trouble." General Bodarko said. "You've been briefed very well General." Yoshi said, coming to the same conclusions moments earlier. "I've had good scientists to teach me Yoshi." General Bodarko said. "But two questions remain, why would they want Tom and why would they want the nanos? Phobos was classified as a c-type asteroid, nothing special about it. It's just made out of the same material as primitive solar nebula, nothing radioactive or harmful even if it entered the planet's atmosphere. If it's decay formed along the Roche limit so as to simply break apart, there's no real reason it should present any kind of danger, the least of which nanobots would be necessary." Yoshi said, his scientific interest taking over. General Bodarko wished he wouldn't ask questions he would rather not have to answer. Everyone in the room was cleared for the information, but that didn't mean he had to like explaining it. "I should have had you there to explain it to the senate. The real danger lays twofold. First, the moons orbit was very fast; every eleven hours six minutes it would complete a full rotation. But the body, as all C-type asteroids, was able to absorb ultraviolet wavelengths, which protected the people of Mars. With Phobos disintegrated, this former protection is now gone, exposing the people to new ultraviolet radiation." General Bodarko said. "General, that kind of radiation shouldn't be dangerous. The Earth is closer to the sun than Mars is, and the UV rays aren't an issue here. Even if it were a problem, sunglasses and appropriate clothing would solve that issue." Yoshi countered. "Yes Yoshi, I was going to get to that. The UV rays themselves weren't a problem. Until the debris from the asteroid was drawn into by gravity to the rings. The asteroid contains an unknown substance that magnifies the intensity of the UV rays. The effects were not noticed at first, as the moon was still orbiting. In fact, it had been orbiting faster and faster as it's orbit declined further, which hid the increasing UV levels from the public. But as the moon disintegrated, it's own non-lethal radiation prevented detection of the harmful substance as it was drawn into the forming rings. It isn't the UV rays themselves, it's," General Bodarko explained before being interrupted. "My god, that would increase the levels of…to…" Yoshi said looking at the projected numbers extrapolated from the gathered data. "What? What are you talking about? I don't get any of it." Terra said. She reminded Nadia of her mother as she would struggle to understand or make sense of the techno babble Yoshi or Tom would say. "The moon was hit by an asteroid. The moon goes around and around the planet Mars in a circle, called an orbit. But as the orbit declined, it got closer and closer to the planet. When it got to close, the planet's gravity started to tear it into small pieces. The small pieces will form rings around the planet," Yoshi explained, making motions with his hands imitating orbit to try to explain. "Why are small pieces bad?" Terra asked. "They aren't, not by themselves. But the asteroid that hit the moon contains this substance that magnifies ultraviolet rays. They are normal rays that are sent out by the sun, and are blocked out by the earths and by mars' atmosphere. But if the substance causes the ultraviolet rays to be magnified, then it creates dangerous radiation. And as the gravity disintegrates the moon, it will spread the substance over the rings like a fine powder, condemning them." Yoshi said. "So it's going to get hot?" Terra asked. "No, it won't get hot, it will just increase the dangerous radiation. UVA radiation is relatively harmless; it gives most people sunburn as a reaction to protect them from more dangerous rays in small or moderate amounts. UVB rays can cause melanoma, or skin cancer, which can be cured relatively easily. Even the uveal melanoma, which happens to the eye, can be cured without a large degree of difficulty. But increased levels of UVB and UVC levels break down the DNA. It excites, or increases the energy level of the DNA, causing distortion of the DNA helix, in turn causing mutations as it stalls replication, creates gaps, and forces incorporation of unsuitable genetic material." Yoshi said, trying to wrap his mind around the ramifications. This could end life on the planet in one, maybe two generations. If there's a new generation to begin with. "And the nanobots would be capable of repairing the DNA, rewriting any mutations and eliminating cancer." Nadia said. "But as far as they know they don't work yet, so Kyle would be there to try to determine why they didn't work." Yoshi said. "If they discover Kyle has fully functioning nanobots, it could put her in danger. They wouldn't need her once they have the nanos. And they wouldn't need Tom either." "Where did you get this, General?" Nadia asked. "We have operatives in place, and that is all that I can say," General Bodarko said, knowing that his daughter wouldn't ask anymore questions about it. It was a phrase he had to say more often than he liked to his child, 'and that is all that I can say'. * "So you want me to help you…how?" Tom asked, amazed at the events occurring on Mars. Even with the information in his hand, he still found it incredible. "Well, we know that the nanobots that you've worked on were a failure." Capistrano said, handing over a falsified report that he believed to be genuine. "Failure?" Tom said, reading over the communication. It was forged in Nadia's signature, but it read like a government report. One from a certain General. According to what he was reading it would take him over a year to determine a fully functional nanobot system. "It's okay Tom, everyone has to change their hypotheses and attempt new ways. That's not the real reason we wanted you. Your earlier work on earth helped remove much of the radiation. We had hoped that you could help us figure out some means of fixing the problem." Capistrano said. "And you couldn't just come to me and ask?" Tom asked, despite all the information he read, he was still dubious. "I'm a dead man, remember Tom? I've spent the last six years on Mars; this is the first time I was even allowed to leave. I'm never going to know home again, never be at Fenway Park to see a game, never going to swim in the ocean again. I had to fake my death to get to Mars, to find my wife who was being held prisoner, her only crime being of her home planet. I surrendered myself to them to spare her life, and I'd do it again. Now I'm in a kind of indentured servitude." Capistrano said. "And you would have me in the same service?" Tom asked, still not wholly believing Capistrano's speech. "No Tom, I would have you breathing. Listen to me; they were going to bomb you from orbit. Blow the whole facility to bits, leave no survivors. I convinced them that your earlier work was worthy of your capture. You and everyone else were written off as dead, and I erased the marks between your names. They saw the nanobots as a super soldier program, and wouldn't let you finish your work." Capistrano said, remembering the difficulty he had endured. "So you want our thanks, is that it?" Kyle asked. "No damn it, I want you to save us. Tom, you swore an oath as a doctor, you can't ignore your people." Capistrano said. "They aren't my people. They bombed my people. I spent a decade trying to clean up the mess for my people." Tom said, getting angry. "They're humans Tom. What, did the kid on the corner bomb your planet? Did the single mother whose husband died from the radiation set off the nukes? Grow up Tom. What they did was terrible, and guess what, I was there, okay? I served six years, thinking my wife dead. When word came she was alive, I left my life behind to try to save her. Now she's lying in bed, she could be dead for all I know, and I'm here asking you for help. Help to save humans Tom. We're people, we're alive." Capistrano couldn't hide the frustration in his voice anymore. "And so you kidnap us and force us into helping. So what happens if he doesn't want to help?" Kyle asked. "Then we all die. I put my neck out on this one; your fate is the same as mine. And my wife's. The four of us go together. 'To be or not to be, that is the question' Tom?" Capistrano said, looking over. (This file was created by SomeRandomBastard (at) yahoo (dot) com, so send all flames there. 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