The decoded alien message had been on the internet for months. Scientists had
gleaned it from intercepted transmissions gathered by SETI-affiliated
radio-telescopes. The entire world could talk of nothing else. Of course a lot
of people thought it was a hoax, or gibberish—background radiation that only
seemed to have a pattern; still even they couldn't shut up about it. But what
really amazed everybody was that scientists could not make head not tail of it
even after a year of study. Some said they'd leaked it to the internet in hopes
of some savant somewhere seeing what they couldn't see.
Which I guess would be me. I'd been studying infrared spectroscopy data as
paryt of my heavy-duty post-doctoral work at MIT. One day, just for fun, I
overlaid the data from the alien's message with the Earth's infrared signature,
as seen from the quadrant the message had come from. Amazingly, the message
started to make sense! Though it was still garbled, it was clearly less garbled.
Over ensuing weeks I fine-tuned the infrared signature, keying it to narrower
and narrower sections of the sky—since each place in the universe would see
Earth slightly differently, each section of the sky meant a slightly different
IR signature. Then after seven weeks' work it had it. Not only did I know the
message—I knew exactly where it came from!
The message was plans for a device which would project the a person from our
world to theirs. The actual matter of the body wasn't sent, but projected
through some extradimensional layer of space, the same way light from a movie is
projected through the air, onto a screen.
Well, I didn't have a billion dollars to build the ting, so I turned it over
to the government after I got their agreement that I would be the first one to
go. And of course I held back one component of the plan—an item I could build,
an IR spectrographier. Their plans had a blank in that spot and wouldn't work
without it.
Everything vanished. Including me. There was nothing but my mind and the
desolate empty wastes of eternity.
Gradually, like someone focusing after encountering a blinding light, I
discerned a pinprick in the distance. It grew and became a world—a world that
looked a lot like Earth.
Within the space of a thought I was there, on the planet.
I was standing in a small room that seemed filled with mirrors. All around me
were reflections of the person standing in the center of the room, a person I
recognized as myself despite how startlingly different I looked.
The reflections I could see corresponded to what I saw and felt when I looked
down. It was an amazing body. Though I had no frame of reference I felt tall—my
feet, which were half again the size they'd been in the shower this morning,
seemed far away. Nonetheless they weren't so far away that I couldn't see that
there were three of them, all in a row, two rights and a left, at the ends of
long, gymnast-perfect legs. Yet even though I had three legs across I still had
a very tight little waist and abs so long it looked like there were two sets, a
12 or 14 pack of endless washboard abs. There was a fine pleasure trail that
branched below my lower navel to two groins, on either side of my middle leg.
And I could only barely register that hanging each of those groins was a big
ballsack and two long, thick, heavy cocks. I reached for those cocks amost
involuntarily—they wouldn't be real unless I touched them—and only then
noticed that I had four very big hands.
I was built like a brick outhouse—big heavy pecs, impressive biceps and tris
too on all four arms. But nothing was too big. It was all exactly the right
proportions, somehow, and I felt oddly pleased at this strange new body I'd
appeared in.
Obviously I'd been projected in this form in order to meet the aliens in a
form they were familiar with. I felt a warm thrill at the realization I would
soon be meeting aliens who looked like my own private wet dreams.
But what was with all the reflections? I looked up from my self-inspection
and realized they weren't reflections—they were other mes!
There were dozens of them, clustered around me. They all looked damn good,
and I felt distressing stirrings in my four oversized cocks.
They smiled, and the one nearest me said (in my voice): "Don't worry.
Your reactions are natural and nothing to be ashamed of."
Another approached me and said, "We communicate with other worlds in a
way you would call sensual. It builds a bridge of physical and emotional trust
between our worlds."
By the time he'd finished speaking the five nearest clones of my amazing new
body had clustered around me, and we floated into a pocket of time that was
saturated with pleasure and, what was more amazing, a deep sense of communion
with these souls that I looked like, or that looked like me. Every endless kiss
communicated the feelings of an entire people, and as we intertwined and
penetrated each other, our adamantine multiple cocks finding unexpected paths
deep inside our blazing hot insides, we literally made love between our
worlds.
The pocket of time came to a natural end, and we were all sated and flushed
with pleasure and emotion. I found there was little I had to speak, for we
understood each other. There was only one thing I had to say, and that was to
thank them for allowing me to experience their amazing form.
The "me" whose chest my head was resting on laughed. "We are
not in this form. We have come to you in your form!"
I was perplexed. "This is not my form."
The other "me" said, "It is here."
Another me, who was gently nuzzling my long abs, said softly, "Since it
is the mind that is projected, not the body, how you appear in this place is how
you truly are inside."
And I knew he was right. This was the body I wanted, both to have—and to
hold.
I closed my eyes. "Then may I never leave."
"That we cannot do. But we can do this," said the first clone.
"When you return, this form will be fixed in your mind. You will be able to
return to it at will."
I sat up. "Really??"
All the clones grinned at me, and said together, "Really!"
It was a sad parting, but I kissed them all and promised to return soon. I
felt my mind draining back into nothingness....
I went through endless hours of debriefing by the government, the scientists,
the Pentagon, the media—everyone. It was sixteen hours after leaving the
control module before I got home. I was so exhausted I could barely pull off my
clothes. I plummeted into my bed and fell instantly asleep.
I woke up only once in the middle of the night. I had time to notice I was
overflowing the bed, so that my three big feet were dangling off the end—they'd
gotten cold, I guess, and that's what woke me up. I rolled over and realized
there was someone else in my bed. No, it wasn't someone else—it was another me,
again! I stared into his eyes, and he into mine, and we knew we were one—this
wasn't a clone but a second bod, both controlled by my mind.
I cuddled my two awesome bodies together, intertwining six long legs and
eight long arms, and, with a brief kiss and two smiles of simply joy, fell back
into a deep, dreamless sleep.