Bain, Darrell & Berry, Jeanine Gates 01 The Sex Gates

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solar intelligence was discovered on any of them. No intelligent life at
all, as a matter of fact. If the gate entities were out there, they were
sure as hell keeping out of sight.
We all gathered in the great room to watch the documentary on the
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exploration. Russell and I were both as excited as boy scouts on their
first camping trip, Rez and Donna less so.
The marginal planets didn t sport much in the way of higher life, and
what was there was seemed to be antagonistic toward humans.
Several of the explorers were killed. The unfamiliar vistas and exotic
flora and fauna were disconcerting, like watching a science fiction
webadventure, yet at the same time knowing that the settings were
taken from real life; no graphics here.
Two of the promising planets did have higher life forms, some of
them similar to mammals in some ways yet wildly different in others.
One in particular got to me. There was no precautionary warning;
kids saw much worse violence in graphics almost indistinguishable
from reality every day. The alien creature had an elephant-like head,
complete with trunk, set atop a squatty body with crab-like
appendages, which it used to get around and grasp objects. It moved
slowly, almost as if it didn t care about its surroundings.
As we watched, two men edged up to it. The creature stopped and
waved a few of its limbs. It made no sound. Both men inched closer,
keeping out of reach of the three-clawed pinchers. When the creature
made no hostile moves, the men let down their guard and began
examining its body parts. The alien beast remained still, letting them
run their hands over it like an aloof cat permitting a bit of petting.
This continued for some time, until I wondered when they were going
to show something else.
The men grew careless. One was standing near that appeared to be
the creature s front, doing the recording, while the other was clipping
off bits of a shaggy mane resembling a cross between feathers and
pork bristles. Abruptly, the trunk shot straight out, knocking away the
recorder pointed at it and attached itself to the other man s chest. He
screamed as he tried to drag himself away. Within seconds, the trunk
bulged with blood being sucked from his body. He gurgled as he
collapsed, and the trunk followed him to the ground still attached to
his chest.
The other man backed away, fumbling for his handgun. He pumped
shot after shot into the alien life form before it sank down with its legs
tucked beneath it, like a huge dead spider. His partner was beyond
help by that time.
The scene switched to a dissecting table set up in the camp. The
spaceship was visible in the background on top of a small rise where
spike-like vegetation was growing.
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The trunk was sliced open, starting at the tip. The orifice showed a
black tearing-and-grinding apparatus concealed beneath the glabrous
covering, leading on to a muscled tube used for sucking out juices
from its prey.
I turned away, not wanting to see the rest. I felt sick, as though I had
eaten a meal of boiled caterpillars.
Rez faced me, her own face twisted with revulsion. Still want to go
colonizing? Both horror and concern were mixed in the question.
Not there, and not right away. God, that was horrible.
He gripped my hand tight enough to hurt. Good. I don t want to even
think about it. Not now.
We turned back to the screen. (Big screens were still in use for group
viewing or when one needed or wanted views larger than the
bodycomps could provide as yet.)
The rest of the program was tame by comparison, but that one
episode had made a believer out of me. If ever I did go into space, to
another planet, I wanted it to be very thoroughly explored first. I had
horrible dreams that night.
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