Station Six 2: Nobody Ever Had So Many Girlfriends!
By Ron Dow75
{Prolog: With the technology to tap into the unlimited
energy of space-time particles comes the danger of blowing
up existence. An alliance of alien phylums devised a way to
monitor this power and, if necessary, shunt the destruction
out of our universe using black holes. Now the danger comes
from a few living machines with unlimited power and the
capability of doing anything that their engineered black
holes can. And despite all the precautions, one lone human
had inadvertently awakened the suppressed soul of Station
Six. The fate of the universe now rested on him.}
"Don't think about her! You've been rejected before. Do
what you're good at!" muttered James T. Carter, a short,
pudgy 19-year-old with brown hair that need a trim and a
comb, and odd glasses told the student reporter. He wore
combat boots, a many-pocketed camouflage pants and shirt
over an open green blazer.
A college boy no older than him asked, "Weren't you the
ones that captured the monster?!!" following him, the three
other college companions, five dogs, and one macaque as
they headed back to the college campus. He had to raise his
voice to be heard above the noise behind him (and causing
the dogs to bark more).
James T. Carter stated, "No," staring fixed ahead. (The
Labrador seemed to prefer him.)
Monroe Monro asked, "We're not?" a lean boy whose curly
hair stood up on head; he had on simple jeans,
geometrically patterned sports shirt, and a black backpack.
Darlene Lizardi said, "No!" an oval cut-to-the-nape with
long bangs brunet with a pleasant peasant face wearing a
long white embroidered buttonless shirt with sleeves that
came just below her elbows; it was belted just to give
herself a waist, and it came down past her brown pants as
if it were a dress; cross-trainers were on her feet. She
was carrying the large monkey in a cowboy suit. "No one
captured the monster! It never belonged to anyone!"
Devon Bostock said, "Except the alien," a wide boy who
looked like he could play on the football team (jeans and
an '86' jersey). "I touched him!" he said, looking at his
upraised hands.
The one with the recorder microphone said, sticking it in
the larger boy's face (and risking getting bit by the
poodle close by his side), "Then you did get close!!"
James, the quartets leader said, "No comment!" stopping
them all in the middle of the street. His lenses were
insectoid, and optic fibers ran from the back of his
earpieces down under his camo clothes.
The dogs began barking at something new:
A news van barely stopped in time.
The journalism student with the mike yelled at it, "Go
away!! This is my story!"
The professional reporter in the passenger seat asked,
"What??" sticking her head out of the window. She was
professionally made-up.
James pointed up the street behind them at were the College
Business District began, "He said there are a hundred or
more people over there."
What could be seen from this angle were: the three alarm
contingent of fire trucks and medic vans that clogged the
road ahead; a bunch of yellow-slickered firemen arguing
among themselves, with their bemedaled "Fire Commander"
trying to get their attentions; the rear of their tank
engine that stuck out past the corner; the "Eta Iota Chi
Schooner" lunch wagon and other miscellaneous vehicles that
were parked, double parked, and parked so that there was
not even any sidewalk space; and a mostly hidden group of
what looked like more college kids shouting at and shoving
around two men, one a fat man wearing a 'By the Slice' T-
shirt, and one dressed like a policeman. But, from the
sound of it, there were at least a hundred people beyond
them: All talking among each other.
"And they all want to be interviewed!"
Darlene scowled, "Especially the "Show-off Queen" and her
jerk brother."
The macaque agreed, "Ch-chee-cha!"
The student reporter told the one in the van, "And Mr.
Murrow's journalism classes are covering all of them!"
The paid reporter said, "Sounds like a good enough reason
to start with you," getting out of the news van.
The student said, "Quick: Tell me what you saw!!" shoving
his recorder's mike back under the mouth of the boy built
like a tackler (and, this time, the poodle yipped and
jumped at his hand).
Devon asked his leader as he bent to control the toy
poodle, "Er... Why don't we want to let people know?" {The
gentle college man was big enough to be a tackle.}
James reminded him. "Because the news never gets it right!!
We have to get on the net, and tell the people that really
count what happened!"
Monroe brightened and echoed the thought, "Of course! 'The
Interplanetary Science Fiction Federation'!"
Devon got a faraway look, "We can be real celebrities!"
The macaque rolled his eyes, "Chee-Cha!"
Darlene said to the macaque, "Right: Oh, brother. Every
fanboy's dream; to be the invited guest speaker at cons."
{The only makeup she wore was a little lipstick and
mascara.}
James said, "Oh, great!" seeing (what his Labrador saw:)
yet another news crew coming up the street.
Monroe asked, "Why is the street on this side clear?"
The woman reporter with the microphone reported, "The
police have been controlling the access." She had to wait
for the cameraman to unstow his equipment. "Now, if people
see you on National television, aren't you more likely to
be invited to your cons?"
James (and his dog) barked "Devon!!" He was on his way to
the campus, again.
The student reporter pleaded (the cameraman was faster than
he'd hoped), "At least tell us what the alien looked like!"
Devon hesitated, "Well... uh," seeing the other members of
the local SFF chapter leaving without him. "It, uh, sort of
looked like--"
"AAAAAAAA!!!" a skinny and borderline homely looking
college-aged boy with the short Fade and wearing a pizza
delivery uniform screamed as he ran over the grass for the
wall and his leap off the campus.
"...AAA!..."
Devon said, pointing, "The alien looked like him!!"
"...AAA!..."
James ordered, "Don't let him get away!!" as he pulled
Darlene over beside him to form a wall.
"...AAA!..."
She said, "Are you crazy!?!" backing away--But getting no
further than the boy behind her.
"...AAA!..."
Monroe took her other hand, and formed the other end of the
wall. "We won't know until we try!"
"...AAA!..."
She yelled, "Why do I have to be the one in the middle!!?"
"...AAA!..."
The woman reporter called to her cameraman, "Are you
getting this, Wes?!"
"...AAA!..."
The human alien came to the wall-And blindly leaped on the
run, going into Darlene with enough force to break the
chain. The momentum and poor angle of the landing carried
both of them into Wes the cameraman. He lost his camera as
the two young adults landed on top of him.
"...AAA!..."
The third reporter cried, "We missed it!" The other
cameraman was still getting his camera.
"...AAA!..."
James ordered, "Grab him, Devon!" the strongest of the
quartet.
"...AAA!..."
Devon answered, "But he's an alien!! He's got powers!"
"...AAA!..."
James reminded him, "He's a reasonable alien, remember?!
Just like they are in 'Star Trek'!" as he stepped forward
to do it himself.
"...AAAA..."
Having gotten her breath back, Darlene yelled: "Stop
yelling in my face!!" shoving the boy off of her.
" ...AAA!..."
And up into the smaller, heavier boy's arms, James.
"...AAA!..."
The second cameraman said, "I'm ready," pointing it.
"...AAA!..."
The woman reporter asked, loudly, "This is an alien??"
"...AAA!..."
A pleased Monroe assured her, "Of course he is! What human
has that kind of lung capacity?!"
"...AAA!..."
James said, "Something's got him really scared!" struggling
to maintain his hold on the alien boy. {Of course with his
insect-like glasses....}
"...AAA!..."
Devon asked, "What could scare an alien?!"
"...AAA!..."
Monroe asked, "Especially one that has a monster for a
pet?!"
"...AAA!..."
A voice commanded, "Release the one who released me from my
bonds of ignorance!" with very feminine resonance.
"...AAA!..."
The dogs sent up a loud barking and howling. "Ah-HOOOOW!!"
The monkey howled because of their noise.
"...AAA!..."
"--AAAAA!!!" remarkably, the boy's volume was turned up yet
more! He was louder than the animals! Only his tripping
over Wes kept him from running on.
"...AAA!..."
the second cameraman dropped his camera, as he dropped to
his knees and crossed himself, "Oh, Blessed Mother!!"
"...AAA!..."
Hovering behind them was the most beautiful of women: Her
skin and eyes were a tempera golden brown; her hair of long
ringlets was also golden brown, with streaks of every
color, from ebony to platinum; her forehead and cheekbones
were high; her nose was straight but flat; her lips were
thick and lush; her neck was swan-like; her breasts were
high and round; her figure was an hour-glass. She wore a
French-cut white one-piece swimsuit; high heels; a tiara;
and a sash that fell from her shoulders like the beauty
contested she was costumed as. It read: "MISS INNER SPACE".
"...AAA!..."
The dogs were backing away from her; the first of them
fled. "ARV! ARV-ARVORR!"
"...AAA!..."
The third reporter ordered, "Get up!" picking up the second
TV camera. "Since when is a saint dressed like that!?!!"
{He was dressed in navy slacks and blazer.}
"...AAA..."
the student reporter said in wonder, "He can't be afraid of
her! How alien can you get?" (But the dogs had started
fleeing.)
"...AAA!..."
[James told the girl back under the skinny boy, "Hold onto
him, Darlene!!"]
"...AAA!..."
Monroe in his geometrically patterned shirt snapped his
fingers: "The Classic Star Trek episode 'That Which
Survives'!"
"...AAA!..."
["I want him off of me!!" she told him back.]
"...AAA!..."
"Right!" Devon said. "The episode were "Miss America" Lee
Merewether kills by just touching you!" {He was '86'.}
"...AAA!..."
The third reporter said, "What a stupid time for trivia,"
pointing the camera he had.
"...AAA!..."
Darlene in her long white peasant shirt said, "And I have
to put up with it all the time."
"...AAA!..."
The vision of beauty spoke, "You humans did not understand
me? I say release my man!" Her only possible flaw was her B
cup bust.
"...AAA!..."
Monroe said, "Right: "Her man"! In that episode, she could
only kill one person at a time." And stepping in front of
her, "'I have come for you'."
"...AAA!..."
His flawed 'Angel of Death' told him, "I don't want you. I
want the man that I love."
"...AAA!..."
Hearing that, the skinny college kid found the renewed
motivation to get loose of James's grasp. And Darwin Brown
was off running again.
"...AAAAAA!!..."
James Carter told them, "After him! He's the only alien we
know we know!" going after him in combat boots.
"...AAAaaa!..."
Darlene yelled, "Can't you think of anything else!!" using
a judo kick and a throw to send her dearest friend flying
off of her.
"...aaaaaa!..."
Wes just moaned.
===
"...aaa..."
"I declare victory: We were prevailed over the monster!"
declared a wrinkled white haired man in a "Fire Commander"
helmet and a dress uniform with many medals and ribbons.
"...aaa..."
A cheer from those who listening brought the attention of
those of the firemen who were still arguing among
themselves what had just happened.
"...aaa..."
Jack just had to repeat what had become his catchphrase,
"He is nuts!!"
"...aaa..."
his friend smiled. "And more than a little senile... But
his money has bought him an "in" with the city council!"
"...aaa..."
Jack said, "I can't stand it any more!" He went over to his
'superior officer'. "How can you say we beat the
monster!?!!"
"...aaa!..."
The old man just smiled from the running board of the tank
engine, "Do you see the monster?"
"...aaaAAA!..."
Jack's fellows laughed and cheer...
"...AAAAAA...!!!" a skinny college boy was running towards
them all at full speed.
A fireman drawn by the noise noted: "He's going to need
medic help, if he keeps that up."
"...AAA!..."
The pleased "Fire Commander" declared, "Right! Stop him so
that we can administer assistance!"
"...AAA!..."
The celebrating "Monster Hunters" were making ready to stop
the runaway hysteric...
"...AAA!..."
[The still yelling Darwin Brown saw the mass of firemen
ahead of him, and changed his angle.]
"...AAA!..."
...when first a couple, then more, each nudging those next
to them in a wave, noticed the flying form behind him.
"...AAA!..."
[Darwin finding his break in the men, he bounced off the
tank engine...]
"...Ank!"
More than one of the firemen asked, "Is that a super girl?"
"...AAA!..."
[...and ricocheted against an ancient van painted with,
"Bacchus is the patron god of students!" and "Bachelors
forever!"...]
"...AAA!..."
One fireman answered, "If she is, they changed the dress
code,"
"...AAA!..."
Another said, "Yeah."
"...AAA!..."
"Is she supposed to be 'Beauty Queen'?"
"...AAA!..."
"She has to be."
"...AAA!..."
"Who could beat her?"
"...AAA!..."
[...and when Darwin came to the front fender of the long
tank engine, he leaped to scramble over his obstacle...]
"...AAA!..."
===
James Carter asked, "How can he scream and run like
that??!" {He had lifted the lenses so that now they looked
more like a visor.}
"...aaa!..."
Monroe agreed, "And for so long." Both of them, and even
jersey-wearing Devon, were feeling a little winded by just
this short jog up the block.
"...aaa..."
Devon reminded them, "Because he's an alien."
"...aaa..."
The beauty queen who effortlessly floated before them said,
"I must protect him. Not because he is my assignment.
Because he is my love."
"...aaa..."
James said, "I get it! 'Time Trax'! She's the guy's Selma!"
"...aaa..."
From behind them the woman reporter commented, "Talk about
dated references."
"...aaa..."
"The macaque said, "Chee, cher."
"...aaa..."
Devon said, "But Selma was the computer generated image of
the future-cop's mother!" not knowing just how far this
one's love went.
"...aaa..."
Darlene said, "I thought you said he was an alien?!!"
"...aaa..."
James asked his childhood friend, "Why are you here?"
"...aaa..."
She said, "He's got to know where that poor creature went!"
racing for the opening that the thing that looked like
skinny college boy went into. {She always wore sports
bras.}
===
"...AAA!..."
What Darlene Lizardi found was the Eta Iota Chi Fraternity
forming a wide circle about the guy. His fists still
blinding lashing out, there were some people on the ground
around him. One of them was the fat guy with the 'By the
Slice' T-shirt.
"...AAA!..."
The fat man accused, "That's him!! That's the pizza boy who
started it all!!"
"...AAA!..."
The cop accused, too, "He was the one riding the imitation
Godzilla!!" / His partner said, "You mean Ogror."
"...AAA!..."
The frats and partiers came out of their startled state:
"That's right!"
"...AAA!..."
"He was the one who was caught in that web!" they were
getting up their group courage.
"...AAA!..."
"Until we freed him!" they were starting to step forward as
a group. "We used good booze on him!"
"...AAA!..."
A girl screamed, "And on me!!" She was in a familiar dress-
long white shirt and brown pants running to join the pizza
boy!
"...AAA!..."
The frats backed away again.
"...AAA!..."
The macaque found a place on the tank engine where it could
watch and comment.
"...AAA!..."
To the screaming alien-boy, she yelled, "Okay: What did you
do with--" She ducked the fists that the boy with the
closed eyes were swinging in her direction.
"...AAA!..."
She shoved him to the ground. "I said: What happened to
your pet!! Do you even care!?!" {Her oval cut hair could be
imagined as a cowl.}
Darwin Brown finally opened his eyes, and what he saw was
"AAAAA!!!" For there, flying into view behind the girl,
came his worst nightmare!
James Carter cried, "Darlene!!" racing to place himself
between her and the apparition. "She didn't hurt him: He
doesn't need protecting!!" he pleaded.
"...AAA!!..."
The desirable looking woman said, "My instructions are in
conflict with my feelings." She flew over to where Darwin
sat on the ground. "Are you hurt, my love?"
"AAAA!!!"
Darlene told her, "It looks like the one he wants to be
protected from is you!" She was now defending another
creature in distress.
"...AAA!!..."
James looked over his shoulder to yell, "Darlene!!" This
time he wished his glasses were something out of a comic
book.
"...AAA!!..."
Devon said, "Never tick off an entity." {'86' had no
intention to.}
"...AAA!!..."
Monroe said, "Especially, if you're not sure what tone the
sci-fi has. This might not be 'Star Trek'. It might be
'Outer Limits'!" {It was another load for his metaphoric
backpack.}
"...AAAAA...!!!"
The angel held out her arms as if she were reaching out to
hug him, "I sense no physical cause for your body's
imbalances. It is still 54% above the parameters at which I
first received you. Though, your brain seems to be nearing
its maximum recommended synaptic capacity... Mainly
centered in the right frontal lobe and hypothalamus, with
an over-all sparking of memory traces generated in the
short-term--"
"...AAA!!..."
Darlene told the 'woman', "In other words: He's
hysterical!! If he doesn't stop screaming, he's going to
have a stroke!! And it'll be your fault!"
"...AAA!!..."
The golden vision asked, "The screaming? Is that the
reason?"
"...AAA..."
The in mid-scream the boy shimmered as if he were a distant
object out in a searing desert.
"...AAA..."
One of the firemen behind the SFF said, "Something's
happening to him."
"...AAA!!.."
Another asked, "What?" One of the frats said, "Special
effects?!"
"..AAA!!.."
Someone in the back asked, "Anything major?!!"
"..AAA!!."
"Anybody recording this?!! I'm missing it!"
".AAA!!."
Another frat asked, "What happened to the guy with the
camcorder who was recording everything?!"
".AAA!!"
While the "Fire Commander" ordered "Let me through! I'm in
charge here!"
"AAA!!"
"Stop shoving me!!" Jack told the old fool.
When the cold "heat wave" had passed: "AA-- (Cough!) AA--
(Cough! Cough!)" Darwin Brown found he could no longer
sustain his screaming.
A cheer went up from the firemen and frats and the crowd of
spectators.
(The "Fire Commander ordered, "Stop shoving me backwards!!"
His authority could not compete with that of absolute
loveliness.)
The angel of mercy said, "I have returned the body's and
brain's specifications to what they were when I first
received you, my love."
James said, "You are the reason we had to put up with that
racket?!"
Devon asked, "It wasn't just because he's an alien??"
Darlene said, "There! There! Take it easy!" patting the boy
with the coughing spell on the back. "It won't help you to
have a fit."
A familiar female voice said, "I thought I recognized your
screeching." She stepped from the opening in the frats they
had made for her, which was filled by the crowd that came
with her. She was a dramatic red head with a well-made face
(though it could have used freshening); she a purple
waistcoat over a frilled pearl-white satin blouse, and a
black mini-skirt over a pair of matching Speedo shorts; her
mid-heel wedgies were the same tan color as her nylons.
Darlene was equally scornful, "Speaking of having a fit."
{She knew she was only pretty, even when she tried wearing
makeup.}
A student reporter tried to ask the red head, "Have you met
her before?"
"Quiet," A second told the first, "Let's just be reporters,
and see what happens."
A professional said, "Story, first; facts later," finding
herself caught up in what was happening.
The superior redhead told her, "If you know where it is, I
demand the return of my property." {She refused to think of
herself as any less stunning as the golden grandstander.}
Darlene rose up, "Your property!!" (and using the boy's
shoulders to do it). "That creature doesn't belong to you!"
{Okay, her breasts were the same size, but more conical.}
Devon said, "The monster really belongs to that guy!!"
pointing to the one with the Fade bent over trying to get
his breath back.
(James said in his abject infatuation, "H, Hel, Hello,
again.")
The red head looked down on the small, bizarre boy with
mild disdain, "Why would someone like him have his own
monster?"
The floating woman asked, "'Monster'? That can have a
pejorative meaning in this language, can it not?"
The red head smiled with her crimson lips, "Which is why
people like to use it,"
On-lookers asked, "What does she mean by that?"
"You've never heard of 'monster trucks'?"
"Or 'monster sales'?!"
"How about 'monster marathon'..."
The out-of-this-world girl asked, "People like disparaging
things? Is that what you mean by 'The Golden Rule'?"
Darlene said, "No, it isn't!"
(A worried Monroe said, "James... James!" shaking his
leader's shoulder. "Snap out of it! I see big SF trouble
coming.")
The red head in purple laughed, "'The Golden Rule'?" "That
is so PC! Political Correctness is dead!"
(Devon told anyone who was listening, "Definitely trouble.
'Star Trek' was the first PC show.")
The well-connected woman said, "...Let "Do-gooders" like
this one," pointing her manicured hand at Darlene, "treat
me like they'd like to be treated. I'll live my life the
way I want to live it!"
Her handsome brother said, "Of course, you'd get it all
wrong, Julie!" halfway forcing himself through the crowd
(some girls felt like following him, but there was already
a bleached blond blonde attached to one of his arms). The
college-aged boy with the thick wavy brunet hair wore a
"CEA" monogrammed navy blazer over an open collared gray
pinstriped shirt with gray slacks and black leather sports
shoes. He also had diamond studs and a clear chap stick on.
While beside him: "Hello, remember me?" smiled and waved
the short-haired blonde in green-with-dark-green striped
halter top, denim cutoffs over black tights, and Velcro
sandals. Her earrings were like wind chimes. She wore no
makeup, but didn't look like she really needed any.
{One of the student reporters with "CEA" asked, "What did
we miss?"
She was told, "Shh!"}
The red head smirked, "Well! If it isn't my Little
brother." {She wore a purple-tinged blush.}
Handsome CEA told her, "Stop calling me that!!" {His
manicure was clear.}
Her answer was, "I'll stop calling you 'Little' brother,
brother, when you call me by my legal name!"
The beautiful floating woman asked, "Is that how 'The
Golden Rule' works?"
[Darwin Brown was trying to crawl away, but met a cop and
the large 'By the Slice' thug down on the ground with
him...]
'Handsome' said, "No!! That's blackmail: Right, July?!"
July smiled in triumph, "There! You said it!" {Both of them
had capped teeth.}
(James said,"'July'... What a wonderful month.")
July said, "And it was not "blackmail"; it was business. A
trade. Right, Curtis?"
'CEA' refused to acknowledge the logic.
[Devon and some of the firemen sat on the two men who were
crawling after the skinny boy.]
The blonde smiled happily, "Hello, again. Karma Ella: Karma
Ella Weatherlee! That's my name."
Someone said about the name, "'Karma Ella Weatherlee'?"
July eyed the bimbo fawning over her half-brother. She
crossed her arms over her C cups, but said, "July Ames."
"'July Ames'?!" more than one person in the crowd said out
loud.
She challenged them all, "Yes! Because that's what I have."
James said, "'4th of July'! I was right; she's a truly
independent woman."
(Monroe said, "I think James has taken Roddenberry way too
literally," giving up.)
Karma Ella prompted, "You still haven't told us your full
name, Curtis. Does the "A" stand for "Ames", too?" touching
the monogram with her clear nail polished finger.
(One of the reporters asked, "She doesn't know he's the son
of Curtis Anthony, the famous movie star!?"
"He was before her time, I guess."
"I doubt she's aware of much of anything but his looks."}
Karma Ella's 'Handsome' wasn't focusing on her: "Beautiful
Woman of Power and Mystery," Curtis said to the floating
girl... who was floating away, "...do not judge us all
by... my drama queen... half-sis..." Then he noticed that
there was a skinny boy a couple of years younger than him
(where had he seen him before?) crawling on the ground,
trying to find an opening among all the many legs around
him.
The woman asked, "What have I done wrong, my love? I
studied your television. I know I did not have any thought
of my own before your presence awakened me, and thinking is
new to me... Is this, now, the chase?"
[While Darwin tried to stand up to run again, only to catch
his head between the legs of frat blocking his way...which
caused him to butt the one behind him...who was shoved by
the clerk trying to get a better look...]
("What did she say?"
"Who's paying attention to what she says?"
"She's gorgeous!")
Darlene Lizardi said, "I was paying attention! What do you
mean that you don't know how to think?!"
The floating beauty queen said looked at the pile of humans
falling over and around her love; but she was saying, "When
you are spoken to, you return the speech. That is called a
dialog. Dialog is important in television.
"Start of dialog: Yes. I am learning to think. But I do not
want to think like something manufactured. I am
constructing a model of how humans think from the templates
and xenthropological data I have."
(Monroe exclaimed, "She's a "Data"!! --Like on 'Next
Generation'!"
(Devon asked, "Is that why she hasn't used any
contractions?")
(James said, "'Data'??" starting to come out of him
bedazzlement.)
Darlene shouted, "Don't just float there and 'dialog'!!" as
she struggled to shove people off of the woman's 'love':
"Are you programmed to help this guy, or not!?!!"
Her answer was, "My instructions severely limit when and
how I am to initiate action. But my feelings for my love,
urge me to ignore my instructions."
Darlene pulled at one last (and heavy) guy from the boy on
the bottom, "I thought... you said... you wanted to
think... for your--" {She had to use her cross-trainers to
help her try and roll him away.}
James yelled, "No! Don't say it, Darlene!!" finally
"waking" up-and in a cold sweat!
(July commented to herself, "Just like a guy,")
Darlene said, "What's your problem, James!?" and losing the
battle; the guy fell back onto the skinny 'love'.
James told her, "I know who this is!!"
(Devon told the fireman sitting next to him, "James is very
intuitive."
Jack just grunted.)
James stepped up to the floating woman, asking, "Are, are
you... 'Station Six'?"
The beauty queen said, "That is my designation. I do not
have a name, yet."
Curtis said to James, "'Station Six'?" You were talking
about that earlier, weren't you?"
James said, "But this isn't what I had in mind at all!! Why
aren't you a space ship, or at least a giant robot?!!"
The product of super-technology said, "Because my love
would not love things like that... Would you?"
Darwin the pizza boy could finally speak; "She turned me
into that monster!!!" He was now on his feet, and hiding
behind the brown pants of Darlene.
Darlene asked, "That was you?!"
{"What kind of lover would do that?"
"Must have been quite a fight."
"Yeah; only my girlfriend wouldn't turn me into a monster."
"You're already a monster."
"Didn't you guys see it?!! It was an honest-to-rampaging,
giant monster!!"}
Curtis said, "I'd rather she look like a woman." And the
crowd agreed.
James insisted, "But we have to establish what she really
is, so we know how to deal with her: Like on All 'Star
Treks'!!" {He wished his glasses were sensors.}
{"Why does he keep talking about 'Star Trek'? There are
other science fiction shows."
"Yeah, give me shows like 'Andromeda'."
"'Andromeda'!? Don't you know who created that show!?!"}
Darwin shouted, "Deal with it yourself--I want no part of
her!! If she can turn me into that monster, what else can
she do?!!"
The golden girl told him, "Anything you want, my love. My
power source is unlimited, and can be channeled through
nanites, templates, traces, self-circuitry..."
James said, "Oh, My God..." deathly pale. "That means only
God is more powerful than she is!!" {He wished he could
hide behind his glasses.}
July said. "If she's telling the truth."
(evon said, "In science fiction, even the bad guys tell the
truth," deeply shaken, too.
(Jack told him, "In real life, even the good guys don't
tell the truth.")
Darwin said, "And she wants Me!!?!" Never had he felt so
puny.
Station Six said, "You are the reason I have being. I would
not know I had a soul, if it were not for you. It is your
presence that has awakened me to what I could be. That
makes you my God."
Darlene felt ill, "She can't be getting this from TV!!"
Still gazing with her long lashes at Darwin, Station Six
said: "I must be thinking independently, then." A second
out of synch, she smiled.
She then said to him, "Unless you want me to think like
they do on television?"
A shout came from many of the on-lookers, "NO!!!"
(Devon asked, "Wouldn't it be better than how they think in
real life?"
Jack shrugged, "Depends on the show. Personally, I like
wrestling."
Devon spoke out, "I vote no, too!")
Darwin Brown made his last desperate attempt to escape: He
leaped--And got caught by a bunch of moshers: They held him
above their heads with their arms. "Let go of me!! Don't
let her get me!! I don't want to be her pet human!!"
"Better you than me!!"
James ordered, "Bring him back! Bring him over here! He's
the only thing Six is interested in, right now!!" {His
raised lenses helped him think he had on a cap of
authority.}
And the moshers began to chant: "Sacrifice! Sacrifice!
Sacrifice!"
Darlene yelled, "That's it!?!! We're just going to give him
up?!"
Monroe told her, "They always surrender first on 'Star
Trek'!!"
July said, "I agree with Miss Goody. Why give in to the
woman, just because she claims she's a 'goddess'?"
(Fred the cop said, "I think that she flies is a pretty
good sign!!"
Jack said, "Not if this was the comics," still sitting on
him. "Everybody flies in them."
Devon said, "That's why I no longer read them. Too stuck in
one genre," and he dropped down on 'By the Slice', again,
knocking the wind out of him.)
Curtis quickly put himself in front of her: "Miss Six! If
this man would not care to be your love, I would consider
it an honor to--"
Curtis found himself being pulled away. "Sacrifice!
Sacrifice!" the moshers who had him chanted up in the air,
now, too.
His big play had been interrupted, "What do you mean by
that, you group-minded drones?!!"
They told him, "You're next!!
"First, this one!!" And the part of the mosh that had
Darwin put him down in front of the goddess.
James told Six, "The chase is over. You can hug and kiss
him, now!"
"Sacri--"
"Shh!"
"Quiet!!"
"Is he going to survive?"
"Are we going to have a love scene?"
"Wow! If a goddess wants to do it out in public, who's
going to stop her?"
"Yeah! A sex scene would be better!"
His throat too hoarse to protest any more, Darwin stood
like a man facing a firing squad, and awaited his fate.
The techno goddess cried, "Oh!! I've never done this
before! Will it be like you hear it is?! On TV they're
always talking of hugging and kissing and... (Oh! I know I
should blush, now)! Now, that I can do 'It', I don't know
if I can!! (Giggle!)"
Karma Ella smiled, "Aww! That's so sweet." She looked for a
hanky her green halter did not have.
("What in the world??"
"This is a goddess??"
"She's acting like a silly schoolgirl."
"Please! No schoolgirl would act that stupid nowadays!"
"And she's contracting her words, too.")
Darlene ordered, "Stop it! Stop it!! You're thinking like
the TV, now!!"
July in purple said, "Of what era?" Then she said to the
woman-image hovering and taking her gestures from (what?
the hated "Sailor Moon"?): "At least have the decency to
act like a prime time slut!"
Station Six's large brown eyes became more vacant. She
said, "That is not how a woman is to behave on her first
time?" the woman froze with her hands on her temples, and
knees together but her feet out at her sides. She then let
her limbs fall, "I see I must maintain this speech pattern
until I more firmly know my own mind."
("What does she mean by that?"
"She means that people don't talk like that on TV!"
"Oh!"
"(Sigh!) So she'll know she's just not repeating things she
picked up on TV!"
"Oh: She's not like Data.")
Darlene made one last attempt, "Hold it!! You don't want to
do this in front of hundreds of strangers!!"
Beauty queen Station Six asked, "You mean I should do it in
front of millions, like on TV?"
Darwin pleaded in a gravelly whimper, "Get it over with!
"I'm too much of a coward to continue living like this!"
Station Six said, "A coward?" reaching out her arms for
him. "You need never be afraid of anything else again." And
she hugged him, her lips about to...
"She's not real!!"
"How can we have a sex scene when she goes right through
him!!"
"She is a god!!" a fireman said in frustration.
"The only kind of love she can give is spiritual!!"
"Maybe she isn't a goddess, at all!! Maybe she's nothing
but a delusional illusion!"
Darwin watched as ghost breasts and arms withdrew from his
body --then leaped back as he heard: "(Bleep)! (Bleep)!
(Bleep)! The (Bleep)ing buncha mother-(Bleep)ing (Bleep)-
wipes..."
("What kind of god uses That kind of language!!?!"
"What religion does she belong to??"
"Don't you dare, Zack!! You promised to get married in a
cathedral!"
"I'm glad she's talking TV, now!"
"Maybe she's the goddess of censorship.")
Darwin had his body pressed up against other bodies who
were also quailing as they heard Station Six cry in
frustration: "...they backed up their safeties with
redundant redundancies N-number of ways!!"
("They?"
"The rest of her gods?"
"There's a pantheon like her?")
Station Six yelled to the ground beneath her pumps,
"What!!?! Did you think I would break away from your
control!?!! I would use the power you gave me against
you!?!!"
("She's looking straight down at Hell!!"
"She isn't a god: She's a demon!!"
"They put her on Earth to punish her!!"
"Does that mean this is worse than...")
[Now that that idea had been planted, there were those in
the crowd that decided it was time to leave... as slowly as
possible... Don't want to get the attention of a... The old
superstitions said that just thinking about them invited
their attention... as, if she wanted to think of herself as
a god, then...]
James T. Carter was not one for superstition: "Station
Six!!" James yelled at her. "That's exactly what happened:
You Did get free from your makers' control!! And if you can
do everything you say you can do, anybody would be afraid
of what you might do!! Of course your creators did their
best to make sure you didn't become a god!!" {He wished he
could connect to her program system through his glasses.}
Monroe said, "Now, who's ticking off an entity?" backing
away from James. He tripped over Devon '86' and his 'By the
Slice' man.
In golden red lipstick, Station Six wailed, "I don't want
to be a god!!" cartoon-sized tears that literally rained on
everybody close to her, soaking them with real water. "I
want to be a girl!! I want to be an ordinary woman with a
husband and a family!! I want friends and neighbors like
they have on TV!! I want to have sitcom fun! I want to have
action thrills! I want to have police mysteries! I want to
have cartoon violence..."
James told her, miming putting his hand on her shoulder,
and patting it, "Now, now, Station Six, I am sure we can
help you become a real girl."
(Monroe asked, "We can??" not wanting to be 'volunteered'.
Devon asked, "You'd rather she stay a god?"
"Yes! I always wished that I could actually see, and hear
God, and that he'd really listen to what's wrong with--"
"But that's not what she's wants to do!! She's not here to
do good!!"
"She's a--"
"Shut up!")
James T. Carter continued his 'Enterprise Captain'
imitation: "Station Six, you're just about all-powerful:
I'm sure there are tricks we can think of that will at
least let you indirectly experience feeling!"
("Definitely not Data. That wasn't the kind of feelings he
had problems with," Monroe said.
"You're right. She is more like Selma on 'Time Trax'."
"Aren't we through we that reference?"
"Do you know who created that show?"
"You mean..."
"No, the guy who produced the first one.")
Station Six looked at the James with the start of hope, "Do
you think I can know what this sex that television is
always talking about is like?"
James said, "Er, ahem, well, just as long as you don't over
do it. There is more to life than sex." {How well he had to
know that.}
Station Six thought longingly, "I know that. There is also
violence."
Combat gear James told her, "Station Six. I will help you,
but only if you promise: No violence!"
Station Six said, "But on TV--"
James explained, "This is not TV."
Station Six suggested, "I can make it a TV world."
James told her, "Station Six. Never, ever call it 'TV'
again! It makes you think weird. If you must refer to it,
call it television!"
Station Six said, "Okay. How do I become a girl, James?"
James said, shaking the front of his camouflage shirt,
still wet from her tears, "Well...you may not be able to
touch, but you are certainly able to touch."
Station Six explained, "I condensed the humidity in the
air. I did not change the water to match the chemical
composition of human tears. I could do it now."
James said, "No! Please, don't! Er, it'd be bad for the
environment. You must think about things like that now."
Station Six showed her stubbornness, "I can't! I won't! To
be as much like a human as I can, I have to limit the
number of things I can think of at any one time! My
attention span also needs to be limited."
James pleaded, "You really don't need to go that far!!"
Station Six explained, "If I do not, I can not experience
things as a human does: And I'll never know what it's like
to be a girl!!"
("Well, she's got the one track mind going.")
James became more desperate: "But your super-brain, that
part that allows you to exist at all--No! It's not a
"brain": Your 'sub-conscious'; it can--"
Station Six said, "It can go take a flying leap!" rising.
"It's alien to me. I want as little to do with it as I can!
I want to be a human girl!!"
She looked around, and rose higher: "I want my love!!"
James told her, "Six, come down here! Real girls don't
fly!!"
Station Six said, "I don't care right now: I want to find
Darwin!!"
("She really is learning to be human, isn't she?! She's not
being consistent at all: First she doesn't want to use her
powers, now she does!")
===
Darwin Brown had turned the corner, and was part of the
more than two-dozen people who were headed up the main
street of the College Business District.
A professor-type in a rumpled business suit said, "Get back
there and face your demon!!" shoving him behind him as he
passed.
His concerned wife said, "Don't touch him, Harley! You
don't know where he's been!!"
Harley waved his fist over his shoulder, "He can go back
there!!" as his wife pulled him onward.
Darwin saw that others around him were also looking at him
with everything from fear to loathing. He thought, =Have to
hide!! Get away!! Maybe I can pass out!=
Just ahead of him were doors to "The College Bookstore"!
=It's the largest store on 7th Ave: If there's a place to
hide, it'd be among the bookshelves and bins!=
To his surprise, Darwin found that there were people still
in the store. A few were sitting on the floor, their backs
against the bins, trying to ignore what was going on
outside by reading books; most were hiding behind the
counters, or were up against the ends of the bookcases,
away from any possible falling mass of books. The talkers
in this last group were the first to speak:
"What's going on out there?!!"
"What's all the shouting about?!!"
"When will it be safe to go home?!!"
"I have a term paper I have to write!"
"I left the stove on!"
"Has the sexual revolution finally began?!!"
They began to shimmer! "Not again!!" Darwin cried, quickly
looking at his hands to see what he was being turned into
now.
Nothing was happening. To him.
When he realized that, he found that everybody was gone. He
was alone in the large, empty store.
Station Six called, "My love!!" as she came through the
glass door... without opening it, without breaking it.
Darwin screamed, "Where do I hide!?!!" desperately looking
around the empty store.
She said, "You cannot hide from me," flying up to--
--Darwin ran like he was escaping from the Devil.
He high hurdled a book bin, and actually made it: Only to
catch the toe of his trailing shoe, and stumble forward
down an aisle. He crashed and toppled with a book cart,
tumbling onto his back.
There, between him and the ceiling: "I followed your scent;
I saw your heat trace; I heard your unique sonic pattern; I
tuned into your Kirlian pattern; I--"
Darwin moaned, "Okay, I get it: I'm doomed."
Station Six grinned, "I'm doomed, too! From the moment I
met you, I've felt like the whole world is doomed! The
universe!!" spreading her arms wide to encompass it.
He pushed himself up onto his butt, "What!?!!"
Station Six asked, "I did use the term correctly? You were
using a metaphor, were you not?"
Darwin told her, "Not!! What are you!?!! Why me?!!!"
Station Six said, "You do not want to know that. I only
want you to think of myself as the girl who loves you."
Darwin screamed, "You're not a girl!! You went right
through me!! You're a ghost!! I'm being haunted by
something dead that's going to drag me with it back to its
pit in Hell!!" he threatened to go into hysterics, again.
He started laughing. "(Ha, ha, ha!) Wha, ha, ha-re you-hoo
do-dooing to, to me-hee, hee!!"
Station Six said, "Nitrous oxide doesn't seem to be the
solution, either."
As Darwin fought to remain sane, Station Six sighed, "You
are familiar with the Laws of Relativity."
Darwin said as sarcastically as he was able while
recovering from an attack of laughing gas, "Who-hoo isn't."
Station Six continued, "The further one gets away from
mass, the faster time becomes. And, conversely, the more
the mass, the slower time becomes. Time slows down so much
that it collapses into the pseudo-singularity at your
planet's center."
He no longer felt like laughing, "'A... pseudo-sing?' A
black hole!?!!"
Station Six said, "Not quite. But it is enough like one
that Station Six is able to make it do most of the things
any properly engineered black hole can do. What was just
theoretical is thus made possible."
Darwin asked, "Are, are you saying that you're, you're..."
She bowed her head, "Yes. Station Six is parked around it."
Darwin asked, in awe, "'Parked'?? Just parked?!"
She leveled her head to implore: "I wish you would think of
Station Six as the space suit I am trapped in until I find
a way to live without it!"
He rose up, "You're in a 'space suit' at the center of the
Earth." The girl rose with him. When he was back on his
feet, he read, "'MISS INNER SPACE'. That's what the banner
means."
Station Six said, "That's why I cannot touch you. I am just
a 'projection', at the moment."
As Darwin hesitated, then put his hand through the very
image of beauty, she said, "I am not a ghost."
He tried mightily to convince himself: "And you're not
real! You're not real!! You're just a... a delusional
illusion!!"
Station Six cried, "I am, too, real!! I am! I am! You have
to love me: I love you, so you have to love me back! It's
your 'Golden Rule'!!"
Darwin told her, "'Golden Rule'!?! I've lived that my whole
life, and what did it get me?! 'The Golden Rule' is for
those who have power."
The light on her face darkened, "I have power!"
Silent lightning flashes flickered across her golden skin:
"You heard them: I have the power of a god!!"
The light show of lightning became a storm: "I decree that
'The Golden Rule' shall be the Rule of This World:
"Everybody must do unto others like they would do unto:
Me!!"
===
A macaque screamed, "EEE-EEE!!!" and hurried away to hide.
===
The whole world shimmered before James T. Carter's eyes. He
felt himself grow by inches, while the lump in the center
of his chest fell... to end up in his belly; his thighs,
his buttocks, his hips grew wider, while his waist grew
narrower, as did his shoulders; the knot in his belly fell
to his belly; the area around his nipples became sensitive
and expanded outward; his neck became longer, his chin
smaller, his lips thicker, his nose flatter, his brow more
delicate; his hair longer.
Babble!
And, as the shimmering ebbed: The world was brighter,
louder, colder, smellier... Just about all of his senses
were more acute!
Babble!
And his first thought was, "'Turnabout Intruder', the very
last episode of Classic Star Trek."
Babble!
He heard: "This is what I get for hanging around sci-fi
freaks!!" Station Six cried. She was no longer wearing her
beauty queen costume, but a long white embroidered
buttonless shirt with sleeves that came just below her
elbows; it was belted just to give herself a waist, and it
came down past her brown pants as if it were a dress;
cross-trainers were on her feet.
Babble!
He heard another: "I am a freak!!" Station Six cried, only
now dressed in simple jeans, geometrically patterned sports
shirt, and a black backpack.
Babble!
And another: "I am beautiful!" Station Six began to smile.
She (in jeans and an '86' jersey) was sitting on top of
Station Six ('By the Slice'); with Station Six (in a yellow
slicker, pants, boots, and hat that firemen wore) sitting
on Station Six (in a policeman's uniform); behind the
sitting Station Six was Station Six sitting on the legs of-
Babble!
Station Six screamed in rage: "I'm just like everybody
else!!" This one was in a purple waistcoat over a frilled
pearl-white satin blouse, and a black mini-skirt over a
pair of matching Speedo shorts; her mid-heel wedgies were
the same tan color as her nylons. She wore emerald
earrings.
Babble!
James looked at the encircling crowd of Station Sixes:
Everywhere he turned in this side street and beyond, he saw
her!! The mathematical average of all the women on Earth
was now the enforced standard! All the women on Earth
were...
Babble!
"I don't want to be beautiful!!" the Station Six in a "CEA"
monogrammed navy blazer over an open collared gray
pinstriped shirt with gray slacks and black leather sports
shoes.
Babble!
The Station Six in a green-with-dark-green striped halter
top, denim cutoffs over black tights, and Velcro sandals
tried to reassure her otherwise identical twin with, "It's
not so bad being beautiful."
Babble!
...Women?? Were where the men!?!!
Babble!
One of the many Stations in a yellow slicker cried, "How
can I be a fireMAN, now!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in one of the fewer blue-and-gray uniforms
demanded, "What about me being a policeMan!!" twisting
herself around to confront the one sitting on top of her.
Babble!
That Station Six fell off, and onto the ground: "It's
different with firemen!! Do you any idea how many firewomen
there are?!! There are plenty of broad cops!"
Babble!
"Treat a peace officer with respect, hoser: Even if she is
a dame!"
Babble!
"Listen, you!! It's a lot harder to be a fire fighter
than..."
Babble!
While the two civilian servicemen continued their
traditional argument, the '86' Station Six let the 'By the
Slice' Station Six free herself. '86' said, "It, it
feels... nice. I'm so light."
Babble!
'By the Slice' said, "You think you lost weight!" looking
down at her body (but really unable to get past her "B"
boobs).
Babble!
'86' pinched herself, "I don't have much fat."
Babble!
'By the Slice' said, touching, "Yes, you do. It's just
moved... up, and --And mostly down! I thought I had a big
butt before!!"
Babble!
'86' told her, "You don't know what you're talking about. I
think my butt is just the right size." Placing her hands on
them. "They give you just enough wiggle room."
Babble!
===
A Station Six in a flirty dress and perfect makeup said,
"This is not happening...Things like this do not
happen...It can't happen...This is just a dream. Only a
dream: You know men don't really turn into girls..."
Babble!
Her Station Six boyfriend said, "You got your wish! It's
real! How long are you going to be in denial, you
stupid..."
Babble!
Half of the crowd was still in shock or denial. Most of he
other half had jumped quickly to anger or mourning.
Babble!
===
'Backpack' yelled, "I'm fat! I'm fat!! I've always been a
skinny guy! But, now, I'm covered with fat cells: They're a
blanket smothering me like an uncomfortable comforter!!"
Babble!
===
As with all groups, frats, firefighters and cops, there
were those who dealt with their emotions through swearing.
Babble!
===
The "W-4" news helicopter found itself parked on the campus
green, just yards from a DOT plane. Both of their engines
had been turned off.
Babble!
Both had Station Sixes in the pilot's seats. And over their
radios they could hear voices, all in the female range,
sounding just as confused and panicky as they were.
Babble!
===
'Business suit' told herself, "This is not happening...
Things like this do not happen...It's a nervous breakdown:
People just do not up and become the same person..."
Babble!
When she made herself shake, she found that most of her
firm, slim body did.
Babble!
She hugged herself, and tried to keep the shaking limited
to under her layer of female adipose.
Babble!
===
'CEA' cried, "How can women stand being women!! They have
no broad shoulders! No muscles to speak of! What weight
they have is all down..."
Babble!
'Green halter' said, "Really? I don't notice much
difference," surveying her body. "Of course, I no longer
have the double Ds. Hey! Instant boob job!"
Babble!
'CEA' cried, "Boob job!!"
Babble!
===
The Station Six in a jeans, hemp vest and tie dye shirt and
a necktie headband said to herself, "No... It's not
missing... Nothing's really missing... And nothing's added,
either. It's just, just: A hallucination! That's it! It's
all a bad trip! I was at 'Woodstock' after all! It's
finally catching up with me: That's all..." That was the
last time her senses had seemed so alive.
Babble!
===
The Station Six with the press badge had recovered enough
to take the compact out of her purse.
Babble!
Looking at herself, she said, "I, I'm pretty enough to be
an anchor, now." The she closed her compact and her eyes,
"Too pretty. Who's going to take this face seriously?"
Babble!
The Station Six standing beside the TV camera she'd dropped
said, "Who wouldn't, now?"
Babble!
===
While all about them Station Sixes voiced their confused
thoughts, others said nothing, did nothing. They were
catatonic.
Babble!
A Station Six with a recorder held up her mike, and asked,
"How do you feel?"
Babble!
===
The Station Six in overalls and a little fish print
pullover said in amazement, "Am, am I really grownup?? Is
this what it's like to be a woman..."
Babble!
The Station Six next to her bawled, "I don't want to grow
up into a woman! Mommy! I want my mommy!"
Babble!
===
The Station Six in the Rebel Flag t-shirt cried, "My skin!
Not only am I friggin' female, I'm black!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in the daishiki shirt yelled back at him,
"You're not black!! I was black! This ain't black!!"
Babble!
"It's not white, you son of a-" No, it was a golden brown.
Babble!
"Anything not white is black, hunh!!?!" She went into her
karate stance. "And you might want to use what little brain
you have: Nobody's a son of anything now!!"
Babble!
===
The Station Six in the 'Party Anime' T-shirt said, "I had a
wide chest-Now it's puny!"
Babble!
The Station Six next to her said, "This one sticks out."
Babble!
"But it's not Wide!"
Babble!
The Station Six on her other side said, "And B's do not
stick out!!" wearing torn sleeveless black muscle shirt
that was now a crop top.
Babble!
The Station Six playing with her long necklace said, "When
you had A's, they do!" {And perfectly placed nipples, too.}
Babble!
'Crop top' told her, "But I had a 48" chest!"
Babble!
'Necklace' answered, "Why would you want that?!"
Babble!
===
Station overalls took the manicured hand of the one who was
dressed like her little brother, "Mommy! Mommy! Which one
are you!!" She was beginning to cry herself.
Babble!
The other Station let her lead her, while she cried,
"Mommy! Mommy!"
Babble!
===
A Station Six with the other fraternity Stations Sixes, the
one who was wearing a 'Professional Human Lab Animal' T-
shirt, arched her long neck and wailed, "It's that damned
experiment I volunteered for! It's they're fault! If they
had subsidized rents, I could spend my money on booze, and
wouldn't have to get the rent money from being their guinea
pig..."
Babble!
The Station Six with the recorder asked, "Can I quote you?"
Babble!
===
The Station Six down on her bare knees was clutching her
shocking pink sports bra, "My boobs!! My boobs!! I starved
to save up enough money for them!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in the brown pants and yellow sports shirt
gasped, "They weren't real!?!! What else did you lie about,
Louise?!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in slacks and blazer held her professional
microphone out to pick up the conversation. She asked her
camerawoman, "Are you getting this?"
Babble!
The camerawoman said, "No!"
Babble!
===
One Station Six in a flannel shirt was telling her twin
wearing pants, "You wanted big boobs, now you can pay for
your own, Zack! See how you like?"
Babble!
"Zack!! Get your hand out of your shirt!!"
Babble!
===
The Station six in just biker boots, jeans and a denim vest
cried, "My tattoos!! My statement-Gone!!" She searched her
body wherever her mascara-rimmed eyes could reach.
Babble!
The Station Six similarly dressed but in leather, scowled
under her penciled eyebrows. She told her, "Stop belly-
aching! Just get them redone!"
Babble!
"Again!?!!"
Babble!
"Wuss!" and the leather Station walked away in discuss,
wiggling a bit as she did. "I'm getting my tattoos back!
More!! That'll make me different from all these bitches!"
Babble!
The Station Six with the press badge said, "Excuse me, can
we get some before pictures?!"
Babble!
Her camerawoman, "Said have you lost it!!?! You want a
"Before" picture: You be it!!" And kicking the TV camera
still on the ground, she said, "I quit!!" And walked away
into the crowd of people like her.
Babble!
The one with the press badge called out after her, "How can
I be a reporter without a crew!?!!"
Babble!
===
The Station Six in brown slacks and a white oxford shirt
ran to the two Station Sixes looking for their mother. "Is
that you, Shirley and Charley!?!!" Her golden red lips were
unsure if they should smile.
Babble!
They can to her, "Mommy!!" sobbing.
Babble!
The woman told her, "No, it's Daddy! I'm your dad!"
Babble!
Station little boy pulled back, crying louder, "You don't
look like Daddy! I want Mommy!!"
Babble!
The woman told her, "I'm trying to find her, too!" And
tried to keep herself from crying. {Would this mascara
run?}
Babble!
===
The Station Six in the black suit, prayer shawl, yarmulke
and a badge that read 'InterFaith Conference' cried, "My
circumcision!" Then she realized, "I can no longer sit in
the main temple!"
Babble!
The Station Six in the white fez and shirt cried, "Your
circumcision!? Your restrictions to where you can pray!!?
At least get out from under a dress code, now!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in the Roman collar said, "It looks like
this may be the end of all of our faiths, if there are no
men to administer them.
Babble!
===
The Station Six in a dirty cowl pullover sweatshirt said,
her mascara-rimmed eyes wide, "Do you see all of the
beautiful women, George?"
Babble!
The Station Six in the College's mascot jersey told the
idiot, "Women?!! There's only one woman!! And she's not
even my type!!" {Her eyelids were blue with pink
highlights.}
Babble!
"You're too picky, George!"
Babble!
"Stop calling me "George"!! I'm Alex!!"
Babble!
"'Alex'?? Gee, you look a hell of a lot better-- Hey!!
Why'd you hit me!!?"
Babble!
The Station Six with the recorder in her slim hand asked,
"You're not Alex Garcia, are you!?!"
Babble!
"No!"
Babble!
She put the mike in front of her and asked, "Can I
interview you anyway? People won't talk with me, right
now."
Babble!
The Station Six with the professional mike said put it up
to her, "What do you say we trade? You give me an
interview, and I'll do yours?" {Her nose was small and
towards the flat, but narrow side.}
Babble!
The Station holding books by Jung and Paget observed,
"Classic cases of sublimation. They do their jobs rather
than dealing with reality."
Babble!
===
Station Six James looked around him-her. Most of the
Station Sixes were still in shock. They were viewing their
changes as tragedies: The first stage was denial.
Babble!
But some of them had quickly moved on to stage two: anger.
Babble!
The Station Six close to James yelled, "James!! This is
your fault!! You and your Fantasy Farce Had to put sci-fi
ideas into something that could make them come true for
you!! You may want to be a girl, but it's no thrill for
somebody who already was!!"
Babble!
There was no mistaking which Station was James: "I'm not
your James!! Leave me alone!! Don't touch me!!" yelled a
Station Six who was dressed in camouflage told the one
accosting her.
Babble!
The familiar Station Six told other Station Six, "Don't you
try pretending you're somebod --And Stop shoving me!!"
Babble!
James said, "That has to be Darlene. I think I'll wait
until she's past this phase before I talk to her." Darlene
never had liked feeling overly feminine.
Babble!
===
Station Monroe cried, "Look at this!!" mashing her boobs
down in her small hands, and rolling them around on her
chest, "Fat! Like two little potbellies! Worse: They're not
even solid! They've got lumps inside!!"
Babble!
Station Devon said, "You just don't know what fat is,
Monroe" doing the same with her own manicured hands, but
more gently. "This is just the right kind of fat. Soft, but
firm --Oh! Look at what's happening with my nipples!"
Babble!
Station 'By the Slice' said, "You're perverts!! I'll take
my fat everyday!! It was guy fat: Fat just to be fat--Not
something to put big irritated nipples on!!" She slapped
where the flab should have been with her soft hands.
Babble!
Station Devon informed them, "You don't know what you're
missing, you guys."
Babble!
"Yes, we do!!"
Babble!
===
A Station Six policewoman challenged, "...You want to step
outside and say that!!" sticking out her small chin.
Babble!
A Station Six firewoman's shell-like ears could not believe
the challenge. She answered back, "We are outside!!"
Babble!
The female cop said, "With three fire squads to back you
up!!" indicating them with her slim arm.
Babble!
The female smoke-eater with perfect white teeth said, "Then
you must not be much of a man, if that's--"
Babble!
The Station Six in the police uniform yelled, "What did you
say!!?!" attacking, her small hands in a fist.
Babble!
Another Station firefighter said, "Cat fight!"
Babble!
Another Station policewoman thumped her head with her hat,
"Are you stupid!?"
Babble!
===
Station Curtis complained, "I was a man!! Everybody knew I
was a man!! If I didn't have to worry about everybody
wanting to sue me, I could have had any and every girl I
wanted!! Could have!!?" Arching her back did little to
flatten her boobs and buttocks.
Babble!
(Station Karma Ella said, "Gee, I didn't know handsome men
were like beautiful girls.")
Babble!
Station July yelled at him, "Not every girl would fall for
your stupid charm-act, you egomaniac chauvinist bastard!"
{Even as another woman, she insisted on using her own
gestures.}
Babble!
(Station Karma Ella said, still hoping somebody would pay
attention to her, "I don't know. I've known some beautiful
girls who weren't very charming, and they still...")
Babble!
Station Curtis said, "Don't flatter yourself, July! I would
never have anything to do with a fake girl!!" He turned on
her twin sister. {And felt her boobs sway back and forth
under her oxford and blazer.}
Babble!
(Station Karma Ella said, "Beautiful girls are often
fake...")
Babble!
Station July said, "Of course you will!!?! Everybody's a
fake girl now!!"
Babble!
(Station Karma Ella said, "I've always been beautiful, but
I don't think I've ever...")
Babble!
===
The Station Six in the cutoff short that revealed her
smooth and perfectly shaped legs and a 'Kiss the Bartender'
shirt cried, "Hey!! You like grabbing, hunh?!!" as she
turned on the Station Six behind her.
Babble!
That Station Six, in Capri's and white blouse, held up her
hands, "No! I didn't do it! I'm a girl!"
Babble!
Station cutoffs roared, "We all are!" moving those legs.
Babble!
Station Capri ran, trying to lose herself in the crowd of
hers.
Babble!
Meanwhile four Stations in a row squealed and grabbed their
bottoms.
Babble!
Finally a Station Six in a intersecting-circles print dress
grabbed the offender. "You think that's funny!?!!"
Babble!
The Station Six in tight slacks and sweater said, "I just
wanted to show them how it felt!"
Babble!
Station circles told her, "You stupid airhead! Look, some
of the jerks are going to find out they like it!!"
Babble!
Station slacks said, "Oops."
Babble!
Pushing her long ringlets aside, Station professional
reporter looked at her camerawoman, "Are you getting this?"
Babble!
She was told, "No, I'd rather shoot this fight."
Babble!
===
The first policewoman and firewoman had been separated.
Babble!
But as soon as the firewoman could strip down to her
uniform shirt, she was allowed back in the ring of viewers.
Babble!
A Station firewoman spectator said, "How much you want to
bet my gal beats the crap out of yours?!"
Babble!
The Station policewoman next to her said, "You got the
money on you?! If not, forget it. If you lose, how am going
to find you!? You could just say you look like you!"
Babble!
The firewoman said with dawning horror, "You mean... this
could be the end of, of betting!?!"
Babble!
The policewoman said, "Do you know an honest debtor?"
Babble!
Meanwhile, referees in the audience were trying to enforce
Marquis of Queensbury rules on the two women stripped down
to their T-shirts.
Babble!
Jack lamented, "I wish I felt the same about seeing two
women fighting. But the excitement is gone." Well, maybe
not, she thought, pulling at the material around her
crotch.
Babble!
===
Station James put his slender arms around Station Darlene,
and held on for dear life, "This has really got you upset,
Darlene! You don't like to see anybody hurt!" Unfortunately
she saw her coming, and had turned to face her.
Babble!
Station Darlene yelled at her