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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