The Visit

By Chelgi

Revised by Chulu

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As Diane left the mother ship she rolled her sled and looked

back to watch as the other four girls shot forth from the launch

tubes, in their sleds. "Come on slowpokes, we've only got three

days before we our furlough is over and we have to be back." she

spoke into the subcutaneous radio relay that tied them all

together as if they had telepathy. They only had to think whom

they wanted to talk to and they were online together. It would

work with any number of the girls at one time. They were all tall

heavily muscled girls, athletes that played as a team on an

intergalactic squad playing a game that would be recognized as

volleyball on any beach on Earth. They were each lying prone on

individual space sleds wearing tight space suits for protection

from the radiation and lack of air as they raced toward a planet

in a nearby solar system that the ship's instruments said had a

breathable atmosphere, and was in the range of habitable distance

from the mainline type star.

The others caught up to Diane and swarmed around her in a

barrel type formation with the clear tops of all the sleds toward

each other. "Hey, Di, How come we're going to this planet? It

don't have any civilization on it. No guys, no clubs, no

nothing!"

"You know a better place in range of these sleds?"

"Yeh Cheryl, let's go clubbing. We'd only have to spend

about a year in the sled to get to the nearest club, that I know

of, but you know of any closer?"

"Yea, for Cheryl, she knows of a Club we can go to instead

of that barren old planet. Where is it Cheryl? Just off to the

right of this star, I guess!"

"Ok, Ok, so we're not right in the heart of downtown

Galactic one, there's got to be something somewhere, where we can

go and have a good time.."

"There is, little honey, and this little planet's it."

"Come on Kat, lighten up on her, this is her first tour

with the team, she doesn't know that we don't always stay right

at home, and have the opportunity to play with boys all night

every night."

"Yeh, but Sylvia, I don't remember ever being this far out in

the arms before. Where in Hell's the coach taking us this time?

There aren't any teams for us to play this far out."

"Oh, the captain's cutting across the arms to save time and

he has this crazy idea that the mythical planet of Origin is

somewhere out in this area according to some old books he has and

some really ancient star charts he dug up somewhere when he found

we were going in this direction."

"OK, you guys, roll out and get in line, we're gonna be

coming up on the R&R planet in a few minutes now. I'll take a

roll around it to see if there's anything interesting to see, and

if there is we'll land there."

"Yeh, at least it's got an atmosphere and we can take these

damn suits off for a while."

"Hey, Kat, you bring a change of clothes?"

"Naw, I thought I'd just strut my stuff in front of all the

guys and watch their eyes bug out at the sight of a set of tits

like these."

"Yeh, maybe that would be a good idea for Kat to run around

naked, that'd bring any guys running if there were any in a

parsec or two."

"Yeah, maybe some handsome space pirate or lost millionaire

in his private yacht,d show up for that spectacle."

"You sure proud of them big ole' boobs of yours aren't you,

Kat."

"Sure am, Lil' Liz, too bad you don't have any to show off

at the games, so you could get a guy now and again."

"All right, guys, swing in line and follow me, we'll swing

around once then decide where to land. OK?"

"Sure D D. I'm on your tail. Liz?"

"Gottacha, Cherry?"

"Naw, some guy got her cherry a while back, but I'm behind

her anyway."

"Jesus, don't you girls ever think of anything but guys,

and sex?"

"Why silly? Is their anything else worth while?"

"Aw, you know Silly's got some guy back home she's mooning

over."

"It ain't never stopped her from letting some handsome dude

pick her up."

"I've got to defend Sylvia now, I've never seen any guy

pick her up.... at six four and two hundred twenty plus pounds

there ain't too many guys that CAN pick her up."

"Two twenty? What, is she on a diet again?"

"Liz, you're gonna' pay for that."

"OK, enough BS, where we gonna' land?"

"Shit... the only thing I see that stands out at all is

that little bunch of lakes about half way between the equator and

the pole, on the smaller landmass."

"Yeh, they're great, there'd be one for each of us. We

could each have our own lake and I wouldn't have to put up with

the rest of you."

"Ok, the lakes it is, unless someone else has a better

suggestion."

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The astronomers at Mt. Palomar observatory were the first

to notice the ship from another star. They determined that it

wasn't a meteor or comet shortly before several smaller parts

broke off and headed for Earth. The astronomer’s technical reports

were barely out when it was obvious to nearly everyone that there

were interstellar ships approaching Earth. Five ships, each a

hundred and fifty miles long, moving from a tight, if ships that

large flying a hundred miles apart, could be considered to be

flying a "tight formation", and forming into a single line and

sweeping over the planet at thousands of miles an hour

immediately caught everyone's attention. The enormous ships

circled the globe once then slowed, and dropped into the

atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean. They continued east as

they crossed the coast of California, swinging slightly north and

dropping continually until they came to a complete stop several

hundred miles above Michigan. They turned and spread into a

circle, moving into a circular formation like the spokes in a

wheel and then began settling straight down just north of Grand

Rapids.

People couldn't believe that ships of that size

existed, much less could even think of landing. The military

stood by, with all their weapons, both nuclear and conventional

all aimed at, and zeroed in on the huge ships. But since they

hadn't really done anything that could be considered threatening,

if you don't consider threatening to squash half of Michigan by

merely landing on it threatening. No one fired on the ships. The

enormous ships did not respond to any attempts at communications.

Merely silently moved into position above southern Michigan and

began settling down. People from Chicago to Detroit stared up at

the one hundred fifty-mile long ships as they slowly came down.

The ships were arched up in the center and two long pontoon like

ridges along the length of the bottom had marks and scarring that

seemed to indicate that the gigantic ships sat on them when they

were aground.

By the time that the military decided that the huge ships

really were a threat to southern Michigan it was too late, any

weapons that would even stand a chance of being effective against

ships the size of these, would do more damage to the inhabitants

than the ships would, unless of course you happened to be in an

area that was under the titanic ships. Lansing, Flint, and Grand

Rapids were the biggest cities that were crushed by the landing

ships as they settled slowly, but inexorably to the ground.

Military units in the area began firing at the bottom of the

ships, completely ineffectively, of course. A bottom strong

enough to support a ship of that size would be strong enough that

any weapons short of a hydrogen bomb wouldn't do any damage to

it, and any effective damage from a hydrogen bomb was doubtful.

But when you are looking up at several thousand square miles of

ship bottom that is obviously going to crush you deep into the

ground, why not try taking a shot or two, or all you've got. If

it doesn't work, you're not going to have to worry about firing

without orders anyway. The ships touched down, and everything

under the landing pontoons was crushed into melted rock flowing

with the heat of the unimaginable pressure from the titanic

weight of those immense ships.

Diane had the girls swing into the defense wheel formation

for landing, not that they expected to have to defend themselves

from anything on this barren little planet, but regulations are

regulations and when landing on an unknown planet, regs called

for the defensive wheel formation. Anyway, it looked kinda neat

and when they popped the tops open they could all see and talk

directly to one another. As the sleds settled on the ground, they

noticed that the skids sunk in quite a bit.

"Watch it girls, the ground's a bit soft here. I don't

think we'll have any problems, but watch your step."

"Yeh, sure, momma, we promise we'll be careful." and a

thin laughter echoed through the thin air of the planet."

Thin laughter that was heavy rumbling thunder to the

surviving inhabitants of Lower Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and

Ohio. For as the colossal ships touched the ground huge waves of

heaving earth rolled out in the first earthquake the inhabitants

of this area had ever experienced. Titanic earthquakes that went

off the scale of every seismometer on Earth. Gigantic earthquakes

that leveled buildings from Iowa to New York.

The girls opened the hatches of their sleds laughing and

joking as they sat up and swung their legs out over the sides of

the sleds. People from Windsor to South Bend stared in shocked

awe at the enormous spectacle as the ships split in half

lengthwise, the entire top section rose, and women seventy to

eighty miles tall sat up in the ships, one woman to each titanic

ship. Spectacular women, awesomely beautiful women, athletic

and powerful looking women, dressed in skin tight leotard type

outfits that exhibited every luscious curve of their colossal

bodies. Men stared in adoration as they stood and stretched those

awesome and beautiful bodies. As the girls stood, each footfall

sent smaller earthquakes rippling out from their massive feet

like aftershocks from the titanic earthquakes of their landing.

Even little Liz, at only seventy miles tall had feet that

to the inhabitants of earth were eight miles long and three miles

wide, with more tons of woman than could be calculated by most

computers crushing the ground beneath them. And Diane the biggest

of the girls, at eighty miles tall, had feet more than thirteen

miles long and four miles wide, and nearly twice Liz's weight.

Although Diane weighed twice what Liz did, it mattered little to

the inhabitants of the area which of the girls stepped on them,

for even little Liz's tiny feet turned trees, buildings, people

and animals into a thin layer of mud squashed deep into the

melted rock beneath eight miles of gigantic foot. Ok, so maybe

if Diane stepped on them instead of Liz, their bodies would be

pressed a few miles deeper into the ground, but they were just as

flat, just as dead, and just as unrecognizable as anything that

had ever been human. Either of the gargantuan girl's feet would

instantly turn a man into a very thin grease spot with the

slightest touch, at least, that part of him that didn't flash

into hot gas from the heat of the titanic, crushing pressure;

bones, blood and other non-flammable parts would form a

microscopically thin layer of organic film embedded in the

crushed and melted rock smashed deeply into the bedrock.

Knowing the air was thin but breathable even before they

landed, Kathy, had immediately pulled off her helmet, unzipped

her suit and was squirming out of it before the other girls had

even stood up.

"Take it easy, Kat, there aren't any guys here to impress."

and general laughter followed Sylvia's remark.

"Honey, I can impress guys anywhere, maybe even here."

She didn't know how right she was, as she tossed her suit

back into the sled she stretched her colossal naked body,

thrusting her massive bare breasts out and wiggling them

teasingly at Sylvia, men for hundreds of miles around gazed up in

awe at the magnificent mountains of her enormous tits. For in

spite of the terror these giant women were causing, Kathy's tits

were impressive. To the men of Earth as they stared up at them,

each one was a mountain range in itself. Although the men staring

up in awe at Kat's awesome breasts had no way of measuring, each

massive tit stood out arrogantly from her chest more than four

miles and was perhaps six miles across, huge even for a girl of

her size. The nipples rose as she massaged her breasts on their

release from the tight suit, and watching men for hundreds of

miles around stared in awe as each of those huge nipples swelled

to protrude more than half a mile from the two mile wide aurora.

A very impressive woman. Men on the ground staring up at her were

torn between terror and lust for this colossal giantess. Lust won

out for those not in her immediate area, but terror easily won

out for those near her, for as she moved about, each time her ten

mile long foot touched down hundreds of men died, quickly turned

to an organic film under the sole of her titanic bare foot, and

squashed miles into the earth beneath her unimaginably prodigious

weight.

It was only seconds before the others girls were stripping

too. Walking about casually laughing and joking at their freedom

from the tight spacesuits, for although the air was thin, it was

breathable and very pleasant. Cheryl waded out in the nearest

lake.

"Hey, girls, I don't think we're gonna' get much swimming

done here, look how deep this "lake" is." Standing in the middle

of lake Michigan, the water didn't even come to her ankles, "and

this is with my feet half buried in the mud!"

None of the giant girls even noticed the ripples that

spread from Cheryl's feet as she waded in the lake. But the

inhabitants around the edge of Lake Michigan sure did. The

little ripples from her gigantic feet rolled out in two mile high

tsunamis. Minutes after her first step into the lake, Chicago,

Milwaukee, and dozens of smaller cities ceased to exist,

inundated under millions of tons of water crashing ashore with

unprecedented destruction as they washed away every building

within several miles of the lakefront. Cheryl reached down, her

fingers dug a canyon into the earth four miles wide, two miles

deep and ten miles long as she grabbed up a handful of mud from

the edge of the lake and turned to threaten the other girls with

it. Unfortunately the canyon she had so casually and playfully

dug included most of Chicago's waterfront. Buildings, roads and

inhabitants crumbled in her huge fingers and were crushed

together unmercifully in her giant hand as she casually lifted

most of Chicago's waterfront, or at least the crushed debris from

it, seventy miles into the air and held it over her shoulder as

if to throw it.

"OK, who was it that suggested these nice little lakes, so

we could take a swim?"

Thousands of the inhabitants of Chicago that had survived

the initial tsunami, or being crushed in Cheryl's hand as she

scooped up and crushed half of Chicago in the palm of one hand,

suddenly found themselves seventy miles in the air, rapidly

loosing consciousness from the lack of oxygen in the thin upper

atmosphere.

Diane, Sylvia, and 9 year old Liz all pointed at Kathy as the guilty

party to have suggested this area. Suddenly the terrified

survivors trapped in the crushed wreckage of Chicago in Cheryl's

hand felt a tremendous acceleration crushing many more of the

already sparce survivors among the grinding wreckage of

buildings and land. Then suddenly all the remaining men, women

and children were hurtling through the thin air seventy miles

above lake Michigan and then over Lower Michigan at hundreds of

miles an hour with the crushed remains of Chicago, crumpled

buildings, roads and millions of tons of earth flying along with

them.

The handful of soft mud splattered against Kat's

magnificent chest clung for a moment then fell the fifty miles to

the ground at her feet. A few men landed where in their dreams

they would have liked to have been, but not in the manner that

they arrived there. Even though they were the biggest tits in the

world, smashing into a tit six miles across at several hundred

miles an hour is fatal, and if it wasn't, the fifty mile fall to

the ground was. There were no survivors to look up and see Kat's

gigantic feet coming down to crush them and the scattered remains

of Chicago into the dirt of lower Michigan as she scooped up a

handful of Michigan to throw back at Cheryl. Kathy wasn't

standing by a city of any size, so her handful of mud took only

small towns and rural farm houses as she playfully scooped up

some forty square miles of lower Michigan in one hand to throw

back at Cheryl, barely more than a thousand people were crushed

in her giant hand as she tossed the handful of dirt back at

Cheryl.

The two girls were laughing as they ran toward one another

and crashed together in the middle of lake Michigan. Still

laughing joyously they wrestled for only a few seconds before

they fell into the lake. Kathy, slightly larger and stronger than

Cheryl had the upper hand and was on top as Cheryl fell flat on

her back in the lake. This time there was a real wave as Cheryl's

colossal body hit the water. Water flew into the air more than

fifty miles and a sheet of water thirty miles across flew out

from their crashing bodies. A spectacular wave more than ten

miles high raced across the lake and scoured the land down to

bedrock for more than twenty miles from the lake as it crashed

ashore with unprecedented fury.

They looked at one another, still laughing and casually

tossed a couple more hands full of mud at each other, this time it

was nothing but lake bottom. Then they tried to wash the mud off

They’re colossal naked bodies.

"Shit! This damn little lake isn't even an inch deep! And

muddy too!"

"What do you expect after the way you two have been

playing."

"Any of the others any deeper?"

Sylvia laughed, "Naw, I waded, if you can call it that,

when it's less than an inch deep, in all of them. The deepest

place in any of them is where I stepped in the mud and that's

only a couple inches deep where the mud squished out from under

my foot. I think you guys are going to have to walk over to the

big lake over there." and she pointed east toward the Atlantic.

"If you want to get washed up before dinner."

"You cooking?" Kat ask of Sylvia.

"I guess so, just going to heat up some of the sled

rations. Go get washed. It's gonna' be dark before long."

"OK, I guess we might as well. Come on, Kat!" and Cheryl

reached down and grabbed Kathy's hand pulling her to her feet.

"This mud puddle's too shallow to wash in." and hugging one

another playfully they walked east.

Two magnificently built naked giantesses towering more than

seventy miles into the air taking twenty five-mile strides ambled

playfully off toward the East Coast and the Atlantic Ocean.

Suddenly the world was no longer a safe place. Every twenty

or thirty miles a couple of gorges ten miles long and three or

four miles wide and two or three miles deep appeared where their

massive feet had crushed everything. Regardless of what had been

there before the laughing girls arrived, when they passed,

tremendous valleys, deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon, were

left behind, and nothing recognizable other than crushed dirt and

rock.

"Hey, Kat, have you noticed these little lighter patches,

they're scattered all around and when you step on them they have

a little crunch to them. Did you notice?"

"No, I hadn't. You mean like this one here?" and she

pointed her pretty toe at one of the grayish spots on the ground.

"Yeh! Go ahead, step on it, you'll see what I mean. It

kinda' crunches a little bit." "Is it safe?

I think maybe we should give Sylvia a call and let her check it out.

She likes to look at things like this, she's got that little portable

lab she keeps in the back of her sled, just for things like

this."

Cheryl said, "quit being a wuss, this stuff seams harmless."

Cheryl then stomped on some more grey stuff.

"See it’s just crunchy."

Kathy thought about it and then

swung her colossal bare foot out and stepped on the

light grayish patch Cheryl was talking about. It crunched under

her foot, and she giggled. "You're right, that's kinda neat," she said as

she wiggled her red painted toes. "There's another one, step on it. Step on it."

Cheryl stepped down and felt the little crunch under her

bare foot. When she picked her foot up Akron Ohio was no more, it

was a two mile deep hole in the ground ten miles long and four

miles wide.

"There's another one, watch!" and Canton ceased to exist.

"That's neat! It feels kind of funny when it crunches."

Hey look there's a real big one. Still feeling playful they

raced for the big one and found it was too big for just one step.

Both girls stepped here and there laughing as their titanic bare

feet crushed Pittsburgh to a thin paste deep in the earth. It

might have been too big for one step but it was not too big when

both girls were racing to see who could step on the most of the

crunchy little "growth". They noticed too that not only did it

crunch and disappear directly under their feet, but for quite a

ways around each step it seemed to collapse and condense.

"Hey, Kat, did you notice that it kinda retreats for some

little distance where ever you step?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well watch." and Cheryl carefully stepped on a higher

section of the whitish gray stuff. "See what I mean, it collapses

for several inches around where I stepped. See how it all sort of

flattened out around where my footprint is."

"Yeah.... I see what you mean. Think it's some kind of

protective reaction, or is it just so delicate that it collapses

when you step next to it?"

"Aw... Nothing could be that delicate and survive."

They looked over at little Liz. She was over near the waters edge. She was stomping her little feet very quickly over the grey stuff that seamed to grow around the edges.

"What are you doing," asked Kat"?

Liz said, while still crunching the gray stuff to powder, "I am playing who can crunch the most grey stuff. Like you both are," she giggled.

Kat and Cheryl ran over to where Liz was stomping, crushing everything in their playful path. They started stomping on where ever there was grey stuff. But Liz was a clear winner in this contest. Liz basically had her little feet together and almost looked like she was quashing grapes going quickly along the coast. She was young and had tons of energy, especially after drinking 3 cans of what we would call Red Bull. None of the grey stuff stood a chance. Sylvia shouted at them, "what are you gals doing? Your legs and feet are just covered in that grey powder!"

Kat responded as she stomped New York to foot prints, "were playing crunch the grey stuff."

Liz was down on Florida now, stomping away. So much so that half the state sunk into the ocean.

Sylvia walked over towards little Liz. She crushed Atlanta under her pedicure feet. Looking at all of Liz’s footprints, she pointed at Liz’s feet and said, "stop it, look at the damage you are doing to this terrene. This pointy piece you are standing on is almost all under water." Liz giggled, "look at the big grey patch you are standing on." Liz was right. Sylvia looked at her perfectly manicured feet and realized she was standing on a really big patch of the stuff.

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Sylvia said, "aw well, let's get washed off first.

We've got the gray powder all over our feet. I sure hope it's not dangerous."

"Sylvia, what are these little gray patches on the ground?

They're delicate little things that crunch when you step on them.

You got any idea what they are?"

"I thought you ding-dongs were going to go get that stuff

washed off. I don't know what it is, but we should probably get

it off, just in case."

"Just in case, what?" said Little Liz, half in a panic.

"Just in case it isn't good for you, what do you think I

meant?"

"What do you mean, it isn't good for us?" Now Cheryl was

worried too.

"I didn't say it wasn't good for you. I said just in case

it wasn't."

"But I have been stepping on them all the way," said Little Liz.

Her little legs and body was in a grey powder, that seamed to cling.

"I never claimed you three were the smartest gals in the

galaxy. Relax, I'm bringing my porta-lab, and I'll check it out."

"Good, because it was growing all along the edge of

the puddle. Until Liz pounded it to paste. It looks like it likes the water,

it covered the ground for several feet in from the edge of the water,

and about eight or ten feet from one end to the other. I think Liz got

half of it. We'll have to walk through the rest of it to get back to the ship."

"Hell, you've been stomping around in it naked and barefoot

every since we got here, even throwing it on one another, now

suddenly you're worried about it?"

"But if it's dangerous?" Kat was really worried now and it

showed in her voice.

"If it is, we already have to treat you, and my self

Probably isn't anything to worry about, and we've got a good

medical facility on the ship. Don't worry, little babies, momma

Sylvia'll take good care of you."

"Ok, but look and see what it is, OK?"

"Sure." and she walked back to the sled, taking out Kentucky

along the way, and opened the back of it.

She picked up her little portable lab kit.

Liz, laughed at Kat, "Hey, Kat, it'll make those big tits

of yours fall off, then you'd be flat chested like me." Which was

an exaggeration because it was only next to Kathy or Cheryl, that

Liz could be said to have little breasts, they were more than

adequate for her size. Not counting the fact that as a seventy

mile tall giantess here on Earth, they were quite literally

mountainous.

The two girls stepped into the water. Liz finished up Florida and walked into the water. Sylvia had taken most of the fun out of their who can crunch the most grey stuff.

The sun was getting lower in the sky and the enormous

silhouettes of the two giant women cast shadows many miles into

the Atlantic, and caused darkness to settle early where the

gargantuan shadows fell. Millions of people watched in awe, and

terror as the girls came out of the setting sun in a rain of

destruction. Men stared up at the monstrously titanic women's

naked bodies, and at Kat's fantastically enormous bare breasts,

torn between lust for the two beautiful women, and terror of

their gigantic destructive power.

"Hey Cheryl, look! This damn puddle isn't any deeper!" Kat

was standing twenty or thirty miles out into the Atlantic and the

water was barely covering her toes. Of course if you stopped to

think that her toes were nearly a mile thick it wouldn't be any

surprise. Then too there would be a lot of really deep chasms

just off shore New York two or three miles deep, several miles

wide and ten miles long. Giant footprints squished into the

bottom of the ocean by the girl's titanic weight.

"See if you can find a deep place. We've got to get this

junk off us. Sylvia said it might be dangerous."

"I didn't say it might be. I said it was possible that it

could be. Now see if you two can find a deeper place and rinse it

off. Go on out to the middle if you have to."

The girls spent several hours wading about, but were never

able to find anything any deeper than their ankles, which made

sense if you realized that their ankles were four or five miles

above the soles of their feet, and the deepest part of the ocean

is only a little over five miles deep.

Finally Kat squatted down and using her hand to scoop up

some water being very careful not to reach down and get more mud

began rinsing the dirt off her chest and body. Cheryl and Liz followed

suit and rinsed off as good as they could, but it wasn't very

comfortable trying not to get handfuls of mud when the water was

less than an inch deep to them. Boats, and ships floundered and

sunk in the tremendous waves generated by the girls scooping up

water and rinsing off their titanic bodies. They had gone so far

out into the Atlantic that only a few ships actually ended up

being caught in their giant hands and were lifted unknowingly to

be squashed against their skin and crushed as the girls rinsed

the mud of Chicago and lake Michigan off their gigantic bodies.

But giant tidal waves generated by their activities managed to

cause massive damage from Florida to England. Coasts were

destroyed and coastal villages were swept away as far away as

Spain and Norway. The Netherlands were completely inundated

beneath the massive tidal waves caused by the girls playful

splashing.

Meanwhile Sylvia had very delicately lifted a handful of

one of the little crystalline areas and placed it very carefully

under her microscope. She studied it for several seconds, moved

it about and then studied it some more. She swept the debris from

the stage of her microscope and turning to an area where the

girls hadn't been, walked very gingerly toward the area. Her

steps were very slow and deliberate as though she were walking on

something that was very delicate.

She very slowly and very delicately scooped a section from

the higher portion of the white "crunchy area" she had so

carefully moved to and very carefully, moving ever so slowly and

delicately set it on the microscope stage. She stared into the

eyepiece for several minutes then moved it very slightly and

stared for several more minutes.

"Hey, all of you, sit down and don't move! If I'm right

you're not going to believe me. You'll all want to see this for

yourselves. DON'T come near me! Stay where you are! DON'T MOVE !

This has got to be the biggest scientific discovery in decades!"

"Sylvia, are we all right?" Kat asked.

"Yeah, you're all right, but I can't say the same for the

people of this planet."

"People of this planet? What are you talking about, there

aren't any people here." "Sit still, let me check this

further. Don't move, just sit down where you are and don't move."

Sylvia stared through her microscope for several minutes

without moving. Then looked up and very carefully leaned back.

"Diane, I don't know how to tell you this, but this planet

is inhabited by a civilized society. Men and women that look very

much like us, only somewhat smaller. They are microscopic! These

little "White patches" aren't some kind of fungus growth, they're

cities and towns! We've been killing people by the thousands with

every step we've taken. I don't know how much damage we've done

to them, but I can guarantee that each step we've taken has

killed thousands of them, especially when that step was in one of

these "Little White patches." The "Little Crunch" was the crunch

of buildings, streets and sidewalks. These people are so small

that you can't even see their tallest buildings without a

microscope.

"What do you mean, that there are germs here that look like

people? So what if we step on some germs, who cares?"

"Liz, that's not it, these are civilized creatures, even if

they are microscopic. These are towns and cities, not some little

hives, like termite hives. I don't know how much damage we've

done to them, and if we're liable under the interstellar

directives, but I can guarantee that we're in trouble if anyone

finds out about it."

"Well what if we don't tell anyone?"

"You don't understand, we have to. This is the biggest

scientific discovery of the century. A civilization of

microscopic beings! Don't you know what that means?"

"If it means we get in trouble for stomping on them, I vote

we don't tell anyone!" "Yeah, put your microscope away, and

pretend you didn't see anything."

"Kat, you're not really that dumb! We're on the radio, it's

on tape on the main ship, even if everyone there hasn't already

heard."

"Wait a minute. We didn't deliberately do any harm. We only

found out about them because we wanted to know what we had been

stepping in. And you had your microscope with you. If you hadn't

had that microscope we'd have never known. Surely they can't do

anything to us for that."

"I think you're right, I don't think we're in any trouble

if we can get out of here without doing any more damage."

"How can we do that? We have to get back to our sleds, and

if you say every step we take destroys thousands of them we'll

kill a million of them just walking back to our sleds. Even if

we're very careful."

"Diane, you're in charge. What do you think we should do?"

"I don't think there's any problem. Before we could be in

any trouble it would have to be put off limits, and it's not off

limits. The scientist would have to study them and make sure that

you're right. It could be just like a termite hive, like you

said. Termites have a very high level of civilization according

to some scientist, but nobody ever says anything if you smash a

termite mound. We'll finish our R&R and then report your

findings. The scientist would have to declare them a civilization

and officially put them off limits before we would have any

problem. Even if we were to deliberately squash millions and the

scientist then declared them a civilized race and put the planet

off limits, we're home free and clear. I don't think there's

going to be any problem no matter what we do. What do you think

Captain Berry?"

"I think you're right Diane, I've heard most of it and even

if it is declared a civilization and put off limits or even

offered membership in the community of civilizations people have

destroyed cities and people before without any problems. Go ahead

and finish your R&R and then report back to the ship. We'll

report it and see what happens. Have fun with your little guys

Kat!"

"Okay, that's the official word, have fun!"

"Yeah, I told you that Kat naked would bring out the men

from nowhere."

"Kat, how big do you think your tits are to these little

guys?"

"Yeah, Sylvia, Do you think they could appreciate my tits?"

"Well from what I could see in my microscope they are built

just about like us, it's not powerful enough to see if their

women have tits or not, but if they do I can bet you that a lot

of little men are appreciating those mountains of yours, and

believe me, to these guys those tits really are mountains. In

fact even little Liz's tits would be mountains to these guys."

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