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The lost colony Chapter 1 - Generation ship A long, slowly rotating metallic cylinder, this is all what you would see if you could watch the 10 km long generation ship traveling through space. That is, you would probably see nothing, since there were no external lights and the surface was polished. Even in the empty interstellar space holes and steps were preferred sites for dust accumulation. The surface was perturbed only at the tips of the cylinder, with the telescope in the front and the exhaust tubes of the ionic engine in the back. These engines had been used for the last time long ago, at the beginning of the journey, when the ship had to be first accelerated, since then the fusion reactors kept producing energy to sustain the life in the ship. You would think it was stationary, but in fact it was rushing at a speed of about 0.1c in direction of the distant star, surely the brightest in the sky, but still, a star. Actually they where already quite close, compared with the original distance. They successfully traveled already through the icy region in that star system which would correspond what was called Oort's cloud in their long distant departure point: the Sol system. Still, many months would pass (it was strange how people sticked to those temporal notions, days, weeks, hours, the last person who really watched live a natural sundown died many generations before) until the ship reached the orbit of the habitable planet and much more time until the chosen orbital path would decelerate the ship enough to allow the landing of the colony. This, of course, if they decided to stay in that planet. Heather watched at a safe distance her husband, with his face illuminated by the computer screen. He was so involved in his work that he didn't notice she was standing close to the entrance door of the, now empty, bridge. Less than twelve days before and for months before that, the bridge was swarming from people running from workstation to workstation, while supervising the computer controlled arrival of the generation ship to the target colonial star system. All astronomical observation, performed by the many generations which preceded them, was insufficient for the delicate operation of approach to a star system. Small celestial bodies usually populate the exterior parts of a stellar system, requiring many course corrections of the large vessel and the action of the laser guns to evaporate the smaller, no easy task considering their velocity and size. Of course, operations were performed by automatic systems, but no one would, however, be crazy enough to leave this to an artificial intelligence alone, and constant human supervision was needed. Heather approached cautiously, when she was near, she made sure to produce some noise. She knew how annoying it was to be surprised when concentrated in the work. Her husband looked at her, smiled, but kept silent, looking extremely tired. She said, "Come to bed, it is late." "I will go, I' m just watching the last recorded transmission of the automated probe." As the ship approached the star system, several automated probes were launched, to arrive much earlier to the only planet orbiting in the comfort zone of that star. Some probes were designed to land in the planet, others orbited the said planet. The activities reminded a lot the early heroic days of space exploration, when mankind first investigated its own solar system using robotic probes. The existence of the planet was known much before the ship even departed (that was the reason that system was selected for the travel), that it was habitable, was also known, spectrograph analysis performed before the departure and during the travel showed that the planet contained water and an O2 -N2 - traces of CO2 atmosphere, but details were not known. The probes brought "bad news," at first: the planet was going through a severe ice age, in which the whole planet was frozen, except for the open oceans. Average temperature at equator was 242K. This was not that strange. It is believed that Earth itself went, at least once, through a similar phase, called snowball earth. It was just bad luck to arrive exactly in this geological moment. The colony was divided, one half defended they should continue the travel to the secondary target. This had been considered before the departure. It was a known risk in space travel, to arrive in a system unfit for colonization. Another half of the colony, however, was tired of space travels, they wished to feel solid ground below their feet, and not the "tin can," as they called the ship which had been their home since their birth as well as of their parents, and their parent's parents, and so on. Exotic ideas had been suggested: triggering a greenhouse effect by massive CO2 injection in the atmosphere, constructing underwater cities. All these ideas were fantastic, since it would require many generations surviving in that harsh environment to get some effect from them. Heather' s husband, Paul, was their Captain, so leaving or staying would be his decision. Old navy traditions, dating from the time mankind traveled the world oceans with sailboats, was kept in space travel: the captain had the last word about these matters. This decision, however, was not easy, he was sure, whatever he made one, he would gain the other half of the colony as his enemies. Heather asked again, "The signal was confirmed?" "Yes, with remarkable regularity, every 23 days, exactly when the sun is in the zenith of that spot and exactly for 4.3 minutes, it is clearly artificial..." This excited her, this was her area of expertise, as lead astronaut in the ship, it was her duty to investigate the possibility of life or technology existing in the target planet. The signal was measured as a strong electromagnetic energy signature, clearly technological. It had been first detected emanating from a point in the middle of a large mountain range, which was located almost exactly over the planet's equator. Now the information her husband gave her hope, it was not only a probe glitch, as the critics accused, the signal really existed and repeated every 23 day (when the rotation period of the planet became known, the day cycle in the ship was synchronized, therefore a day in the planet was the same as the day they were used to, as well as the month matched the orbital period of the planet). This was awesome, a technological signal changed everything, maybe there were living intelligent beings down there, this could be good or bad (to the best they knew, mankind never met aliens, but every sensate person in the universe knew this would inevitably happen some day). She was, however, tired, and knew the results would be there the next day. If there was something space travel taught to mankind, this something was patience. She said, "Come to bed, we will have time tomorrow to think about this, and I want to do some 'exercise' before sleep." Paul looked at her, with a smile in his face, in the ship' s society matches were calculated by computer, based on genetic profiles, the two of them, however, loved each other. They still had no permission to procreate, this was strictly controlled in a world which consisted of a 10 km long cylinder with 2.5 km diameter and with limited resources, but this didn't prevent them to have some fun whenever possible. Paul switched off the screen and followed his wife off the bridge, towards their cabin. Chapter 2 - The ruins The landing party consisted to seven couples, that is, seven adult males and seven adult females. Paul and Heather led the group, but there was also Carlos and his wife, Sara. Carlos acted as his second-in-command for the expedition. The remaining members were all experienced hydroponic farmers or physicians, if it was possible to plant something, they would all try it before the generation ship returned to the planet from its long elongated elliptical orbit. Satoru and his wife, Mariko, were not particularly tall, but both showed exquisite muscular mass, they would be in charge of the agronomic experiments. Liana and Werther were respectively main physician and nurse, they were backed up by Ronald and Larissa, as second physician and nurse. The group was completed by Helen and Thomas and Arnold and Ingrid, which were simply strong, they would be the ones that would execute the hard tasks if necessary. None of them had permission yet to procreate, but they were all married. This arrangement was an old tradition of space travel, whenever a portion of the ship' s population had to be separated from the bulk, it was required that the smaller portion would also be able to carry the colonizing ship's mission autonomously. The remaining over 50,000 members of the colony kept traveling in the generation ship, which was set to a long elliptical orbit, which would cross with that planet in about twelve planet months. As an exotic addition, a family of goats was included in the landing party. One intact male and a female with two female kids, this would provide both milk and meat, in case the landing party' s resources ran to an end. All data indicated that agriculture would not be easy under that severe ice age weather, but they had bags of seeds, just in case. The source of the signal was traced back to a set of ruins carved in granite rock of a mountain. The obvious idea of the constructors of that structure was to use the extreme geological stability of the rock. The entrance of the ruins were blocked by ice, but they managed to open a way through it using the laser drills. The interior of the ruins consisted of a bare set of tunnels and chambers, clearly artificial and alien. One could infer that by the monumental scale of the place. Whatever alien race build that, it was surely taller than an average man. The tunnels and chambers were empty until a large hall in the middle of the complex. This hall contained a large mirror in a wall, at least 5 m wide and 3 m tall, extending from the ground. This hall was located in the lowest quote of the whole system, deep inside the mountain. They also knew this was the closest point to the energy signal they measured from the satellite probes. Since this was the only room which was not empty, they decided to camp there. It was also the easiest place to heat up, since it was the most distant point from the entrance. When the 23rd day came, they had prepared probes and instruments to measure every aspect of the phenomenon. They observed as the mirror surface lighted up, emanating a yellow eerie light. Most of the sensors were set to measure the emanations of the electromagnetic energy they measured from orbit, but some were directed to that mirror also. The energy signature originated deep below in the mountain, showing that the whole structure was much bigger than what they had already seen. From the mirror, however, besides the light, the instruments measured a small but clear influx of air and heat, which seemed to appear out of nothing on the mirror's surface. The air and heat influx stopped as the light ceased. Since no one doubted the laws of mass and energy conservation, the only possible conclusion was that the air and heat was coming from somewhere else, on the other side of the mirror, which was in fact a portal. In the second time the portal opened, they prepared a long speer with a light and a camera in one of the tips. As the portal lit up, Heather inserted that tip at the mirror's surface, seeing it seemingly disappearing, just as magic. The camera sent signals to a screen and they observed, mesmerized, the images of another room, apparently identical to the one in which they were, in the screen. Heather retreated the camera just before the portal closed. All tests made in the portion of the speer that had been inside the portal was unharmed. That excited the whole landing party, they decided the next time they would send a drone probe, to stay a whole period on the other side. Since the battery of the drone would not last for 23 day, they programmed the drone to migrate outside the complex on the other side and use solar panels to recharge. The drone would use the opportunity also to make several tests on the other side. Every day the robot would return to the chamber at midday, to perform measurement at the mirror's surface on the other side. They believed the portal would open on the other side also in the 23rd day, but they could not be sure. By then everybody was convinced that conditions were safe on the other side, but they decided to it play safer. As the portal opened again, the drone which looked like a small square covered with solar panels and containing fans in the corners, flown towards the mirror and disappeared. That was the longest waiting period of all, when the portal lit up again, the drone appeared from the mirror's surface. The robot was unharmed, but as they accessed its memory, they realized it had recorded way more content than what it was expected from a 23 days period. In fact, the robot spent 437 days on the other side. There was a time dilation effect in traveling through the portal, as they anticipated as a possibility. There were also other findings to analyze. A good information was that average temperature was about 8 K higher than in the present side and that the soil seemed to be fertile. The situation would not be easy, but it looked like agriculture was possible on the other side. This was excellent news, after all the whole colonial population could migrate to the other side and establish itself, as it was originally planned. A final test was necessary, though. Some members of the landing party would need to spend a period on the other side. It was decided that four couples would remain in the present side and three couples, which included Paul and Heather, would travel to the other side on the next time the portal opened. Chapter 3 ? The machine The machine was old, if it had this ability, it would conclude it was over one million planetary orbits (in the present universe) or over 20 million solar orbits (in the other universe), the machine existed in both universes, so it didn't consider this indefinite age as a problem. It had not the ability, simply, because it had not been programmed to questions like this, of course, all detailed information since its initial operation was carefully stored in its huge memory banks. The recovery of this information, however, would require a set of commands and connections which were long forgotten, so it would never be of any use again. The machine had been built by an intelligent species whose members called themselves ?the seekers?. In comparison to them, mankind was merely coming out the caves and performing stone tool cavings. The seekers loved knowledge and had ten million years of technological development behind them when the machine was constructed. They conquered the stars, learned how to break the barrier imposed by the speed of light, managed even to travel even to nearby galaxies. Then they turned their attention to the parallel universes which seemed out of reach. They discovered this weak spot in the fabric of space-time, in which two parallel universes ?touched," in a regular and predictable way. Actually the weak spot corresponded to a cube of about eight cubic light years centered in a solar mass black hole around which that star slowly orbited in both universes. They constructed the machine to allow communication between them. The machine was only a focal point to allow the communication between both universes. The seekers used the machine, investigated the parallel universe, colonized it and then, they were gone. For almost one million years (in the present universe) the machine was alone, opening the portal every 23/437 days for no one to use, making use of the powerful energies released in the own big bang. All this was stored in its memory, but the machine itself, didn't care. It would continue doing this until, perhaps, that planet was engulfed by the growing red giant that star would become in the distant future. The machine registered a small perturbation in its solitary operation. If it were capable of curiosity, it would register a different intelligent species became aware of its existence. They inserted an instrument in the portal and kept it inserted between the two universes. This strained the machine, consuming much more energy than what was normal, but the machine could handle it. It analyzed the instrument and recognized pieces of technology which would surely be found in archaeological museums of the seekers. Then, in the next portal opening, a different instrument entered the portal and passed to the other side. The machine analyzed it, because it was its duty, and realized it was another machine, like itself. The machine probed its programming and discovered it was very primitive. In human references, it would be like studying an insect's brain. Since it was artificial, no action was needed and the machine constructed an exact replica on the other side. It was like the little machine traveled through the portal. Next time (437 days of the other universe) the little machine returned to the present universe and the machine repeated the procedure, restoring the previous version allowing it to update its memory banks. The machine was capable of much more complex tasks, so it was like the present universe's version of the machine traveled to the other side and then returned. Then, in the fourth time in sequence, something more interesting happened. Several biological beings entered the portal. The machine analyzed them, there were two different unknown species, one intelligent and another, sentient, but not intelligent. It took milliseconds to the machine to understand the finer details of these species biology, and, in particular, DNA chemistry. The machine investigated them and determined that there were six individuals of the first species, three offspring- bearer (female) and three offspring-seeder (male), for the second species there were three females and one male. The fact that the machine understood the difference between female and male was not strange. The seekers observed, in their vast knowledge of the Galaxy, that life, provided it evolved beyond the single unicellular organisms, adopted sexual reproduction as procreation method. In most cases, exception were very simple organisms, this led to the division of the species into two groups, one which would produce the offspring the own body and the second, which was responsible for insemination only. The seekers speculated this was a way nature increased the efficacy and the survival rate of evolving species. As it was anciently programmed, the machine calculated the solution for each individual. Back in the early attempts of travel between both universes, the seekers observed that if the individual was transferred without change, severe and irreversible psychological issues developed. These individuals ended up suiciding themselves in horrible ways (usually destroying their reproductive organs). This affected even sentient but non intelligent beings, provided they were complex enough to have some degree of self-awareness. It took some experiencing to determine that it was necessary to invert the gender and change the age of the subject, when traveling through the portal. Even with their vast knowledge, the seekers didn't discover why this was necessary. Of course, the machine didn't know this, all this information was stored in many reports by eminent seeker scientists contained in the machine' s memory. The change of age was a consequence of the complex mathematics used in the solution. In principle the solution could be found which increased the age of the subject or which decreased it, the only unsuitable solution was to keep the age the same (since this would require the subject to be reproduced as it was in both universes). The female gender, however, always has a shorter reproductive life in comparison with the male gender, hence the machine was programed only with the solution which led to younger females. The mathematics, however, required that the inverse transformation (female to male) led to an increased age. Therefore the machine ended up calculating the solution for the ten individuals and processed the necessary changes as they traveled through the portal, creating a suitable version of the individual in the other universe and printing the brain information of the original individual. Chapter 4 ? Whirlwind The whole landing party was assembled in the great room, as they used to call the room which contained the portal. Carlos, who would lead the local party, was addressing Paul, ?Are you sure you don't want to bring more food with you?? ?Not necessary, we will need to stay for longer time there, so if we are unable to cultivate something, there would be no food enough to maintain us, it is better that you keep most of the rations and we bring the seeds and the animals with us.? ?I still think we should all go," he replied. ?It is too dangerous, we don' t know what expect us there, it is better you stay here, if we don' t return, you can go back to the ship and lead them to the next target.? Paul knew this would not happen, Carlos would send people after them if they didn't return in 23 days. The portal would open at least three times until the ship's orbit brought her close to the planet again to allow radio communication and Carlos would use all possibilities to rescue them, if they didn't return. That was the reason why he decided to split the group in two unequal parts. There would be enough people to build these 'rescuing parties' without compromising the expedition. Paul, however, trusted Carlos and his wife, Sara, to lead the support group. Paul and Heather were too adventurous, he knew, they would never be able to patiently wait for answers, they needed action. Carl and Sara, however, were more stable and less intrepid. It was just sad that their relation was not as good as his relation to Heather, they had a typical computer arranged marriage and there was no room for love in it, but they respected each other, so, when time came Sara would get pregnant of the two children she was supposed to carry. That is, if they didn't decide to colonize that planet, or, better said, that planet in the parallel universe. Paul then addressed the whole group. ?Tomorrow we will depart through the portal, with me and Heather, Satoru, Mariko, Liana and Werther will travel to the other side and spend the 437 days, the remaining will stay here and wait for us the 23 days.? He could see in their eyes, the anxiety of the ones which would travel and the deception of the ones who would stay, but this was necessary. If all went well, the long travel of the generation ship would come to an end, even if this would mean colonizing a new universe. Next day, just before midday, they all met in the portal room. The expeditionary group exchanged their standard uniforms for thick clothes, mostly with wool lining. The group would stay 437 days in a harsh weather, working in agriculture, so there was no sense in wearing uniforms. They were pushing carts with large luggage. Not only clothes, but also all equipment they would need. As the portal opened, they all crossed it almost at once. Paul experienced this as if the whole world became white. He could feel the ground under his feet, but could see nothing. As he finished his step he felt dizzy and had concentrate hard not to faint. As his senses came back, together with the rest of the world, he felt something was different. As he searched for the remaining members of the expedition, he found no one, but only a group of strange people, male and female, which looked as disoriented as he was. Exactly at this moment, the portal closed. He was the first to ask something and his question was simply, ?Who are you?? Immediately he noticed his voice was different than what he was used to have, it was a female voice. Surprised he payed more attention to what he was feeling and realized a strange pressure in his chest. The tall, dark skinned man at his left asked, surprised, ?Paul, is that you?? His voice was strong and clearly manly, but somewhat, may be due to the intonation, Paul recognized, ?Heather?? The others were making similar discoveries, until Paul decided to put some order in the mess. His voice, however, was unfit to the task, so he signaled to Heather, who shout, ?People, attention!? They all kept still under that powerful voice. Asking who they were, they realized Satoru was now, what appeared to be, a 11 years old blond girl, Mariko, on the contrary became a middle sized dark haired male, who looked something like 40 years old. The most dramatic change, however, affected Liana and Werther, she became a tall, something like 2m tall, blond Barbarian type and he became what appeared to be an 8 year old Asian girl, surely prepubescent. These apparent ages were confirmed later by biological tests. Paul turned towards the mirror, and saw he was now a young, dark haired girl, older than Satoru, but not more than 16 years in appearance. Then he recognized what was the origin of the pressure he felt in his breasts, his thigh shirt was pressing the oversize breast he now possessed. The most strange change, however, was the one which the Goat family went through. Instead of the Father ? Mother and two female kids, now there were three male adult Goats and a young female. This meant that using the animals to produce milk was not possible anymore, only females with offspring produced milk and, obviously, that female produced no offspring yet. They remained in place for about 15 minutes, until it became evident that there was nothing to do until the portal opened again 437 day later. Uncomfortably, they decided to undress and use more appropriate clothes. Heather handed him one of her dresses and Paul felt awkward. He knew he shouldn't feel that way. Equality of genders in mankind had been attained long before space travel became current, but one thing was to consider females and males as equal, other was to become a female. The most awkward situation was Werther's . It was not easy to find something which would fit a young child, nobody was prepared for that, but finally they improvised a dress, cutting off the hemline of another piece, which belonged to Mariko. They decided to leave the cave system, which looked similar, but, somewhat different. As they left the caves, they saw a mountain landscape which was almost the same as observed in the other universe. The mountain tops were rounded and covered with soil, grass and trees. The temperature was low, but not so low as in the other side. The group felt disoriented, first they could not locate where this disorientation came from, but finally they discovered that the landscape was not equivalent, it was mirror equivalent. What was ?left" in the other universe became ?right" here and vice versa. They explored the landscape out of the cave and found out a spot which would be suitable for colonization. They built the tents they brought from the other side, but the awkward situation in which they found themselves caused a change of plans, instead of three tents, they mounted two and decided one would be habited by the females and the other by the males. The tents were large enough. Next they prepared the corral for the goats. They didn't care to separate them by genders. The first days in the other side were awkward. It was clear that the labor division from before made no sense anymore. The girls were unfit to do the hard work. They decided to switch to more basic labor division rules, with the ?males" responsible for the hard work of working the soil, while the ?girls" would take care of planting the seeds and caring for the plants. Hard work was welcome, it distracted them from their situation, but some fifteen days after the arrival, ignoring the gender was no longer possible for Paul. He began feeling some pain below ?her" bellybutton and decided to confide with Werther (they had already decided to use the fitting pronouns not to make things more difficult). In spite of looking like a young girl, ?she" still possessed the knowledge as trained nurse. After some examination, which was strange using those tiny hands, Werther, looking not very happy, because ?she" thought someday ?she" would go through the same process, came to a conclusion, ?As far as I know, it is everything alright with you, this pain, probably, is just the first signs that you are going to menstruate.? This hit Paul like a lightning bolt. ?She" knew there was something called menstruation, women went through every 28 days, but, other than seeing Heather dealing with this (and she was very discrete about this) ?she" had no idea what to do. ?She?" asked Werther. ?What should I do?? ?I guess, you have to use a pad or a tampon, otherwise you should endure, women do this since the dawn of mankind.? ?How will I find a pad or a tampon here?? ?I guess the former girls brought some with them.? Paul was devastated, ?she" wanted to keep discretion about this, but now ?she" would need to ask one of the ?males," for such an intimate thing. Werther wanted to take care of this, but Paul refused. ?She" was not the kind of person to run from uncomfortable situations. ?She" decided, though, to ask Heather for this, at least there was some intimacy between them. Paul sought ?him" in the field and asked for a private conversation. After ?she" explained what ?she" needed, Heather, instead of amused, looked with sympathy in ?his" eyes. ?He" confided, ?I had an accident the other day, and it was quite embarrassing? ?Which kind of accident?? ?I had a dream, and when I woke up, I had ejaculated.? ?That is normal, I had many of these accidents when I was younger.? ?The most disturbing part was the dream.? ?What was it about?? ?I dreamed we made love in the ship, as we were there.? ?And what is strange about this?? ?I dreamed I had the penis and you had the pussy.? That was really awkward. Dreams, as everybody knows, reflect our subconscious mind. Paul had already similar dreams, but ?she" dreamed with the present muscular male Heather. ?She" kept that secret to ?herself?. Heather then took the initiative. ?Let us take care of your problem.? ?He" sought in ?his" luggage and produced a lot of boxes, probably the whole provision ?he" brought to this universe. ?He" said, ?I used only tampons.? ?And what is the problem?? ?I have to show you how to insert and maybe you will feel a bit uncomfortable?. Embarrassed ?he" opened one of the boxes and showed one applicator. Then ?he" said, ?You have to insert this tip in your vagina and then pull this thing here.? Paul was also embarrassed, but ?she" decided to show courage. ?She" raised the hemline of ?her" dress, lowered ?her" panties, which belonged to Heather before the transformation, and did as Heather said. After ?she" removed the applicator, a string remained outside ?her" body. This was the first time she inserted something inside ?her" vagina and she felt strange, but not uncomfortable. Heather said, ?This allows you to remove it, when you want to exchange.? Paul dressed ?herself" again. Then ?she" noticed Heather had a hard dick. Both of them were embarrassed, but there was clearly sexual tension between them. They just did not want to acknowledge this yet. From the three couples, they were the best fit. Paul looked young, but was decisively in the fertile age, as the impending menstruation showed. To the others it was more difficult, Satoru and, especially, Werther, were too young. Of course, they were all consenting adults, but the apparent age added a new layer of taboo to the problem. That Paul and Heather would sometime succumb to their situation was evident, especially after what happened to the Goats. From the first day on, the male Goats started to fight for the leadership. This showed that, in the realm of the instincts, they would soon adhere to the new gender too. It was only the cultural aspect that prevented them to behave as the married couple they were. Their initial supposition that the female Goat (the former male Goat) was too young, proved also wrong, as they watched the winner of the fight contests (they had no way to tell whether this was the former female Goat or one of the female Kids) mating with the new female, which already showed signs of pregnancy soon after that. Paul's first menstruation took four days to finish. The only major annoyance ?she" had to endure, was exchanging blood soaked tampons from time to time. Heather meant ?she" was lucky, to have such mild menstruation cycle. Paul also enjoyed the practicability of the tampons, after some time everyone in the crew became aware of Paul's situation. Mariko borrowed ?her" one of her pads, to test, but Paul quickly returned to the tampons. They continued working hard in the fields, in spite of the cold weather the crops were growing fast and soon they would get the first crop. About the same time the former male Goat gave birth to three young Kids and began nursing them. This situation brought back Paul's erotic dreams. ?She" realized some action was necessary and it was ?her" duty to do so. ?She" asked, again, for a private conversation with Heather. When they found privacy, Paul said, ?I want to show you something.? ?What?? Instead of talking, Paul took ?her" dress off, remaining only with panties and bra. Then ?she" said, ?Take off your clothes, I want you.? Heather was mesmerized, but obeyed, as ?he" removed ?his" pants, it became clear that ?he" had a hard on. Paul was surprised, ?she" concluded that the popular say about black men was true. Then ?she" removed ?her" panties and bra, becoming fully naked, and laid ?herself" on the grass, saying, ?Come.? Heather obeyed again, removing ?his," boxers and approaching Paul with ?his," magnificent hard penis. Instinctively ?he" approached ?his" penis from Paul's vagina and inserted it. Paul was in the seventh heaven. The sensations were much better than what ?she" experienced in the erotic dreams and soon ?she" reached an orgasm, Heather continued stroking until ?he" ejaculated inside Paul. After that Heather laid ?himself" on the grass, exhausted. ?He," took the initiative to talk, ?This was good? Paul smiled, and said, ?Indeed.? They laughed. Then Paul said, ?I want to chose another name.? ?Why?? ?I don't feel like Paul anymore,? and completed, ?From now on, I want to be called Paula.? ?Nice to know you, Paula," answered Heather with a smile. After some time, Heather said, ?I guess, I am no Heather anymore too.? ?So, what is your name?" asked Paula. ?I guess, I look like a John now.? ?Hi John, I love you," answered Paula, and kissed him. After that, they returned hand in hand to the presence of the others and announced their decision to resume their marriage, as well as of using new names. For their surprise, this was well received and the other four members of the expedition decided to chose new names too. Mariko became Andreas, Satoru chose Mary, Liana decided he would be called Gunnar, fitting his Viking warrior look, only Werther remained indecisive, ?I want to select something Asian, but I have no idea of a good name? Andreas, being originally an Asian woman, suggested, ?Why don't you chose Yoko, I always liked this name?? So she became Yoko. After this, they all helped John and Paula to build the third tent, to which they moved their things. That evening, in their tent, John said, ?We were careless, before, we must take actions to prevent you to get pregnant.? Paula answered, ?Why? we should not feel restricted by the ship rules anymore!? ?But soon the portal will open again.? ?There is more than a full year before us, plenty of time to finish a pregnancy.? ?But you will need to return to the other side, to convince the others to come.? ?So what?? ?I don't think it is safe to go through the portal in a pregnant state, and if you get our child first, I don't think you will wish to abandon him or her for more than a year.? Against her wishes, Paula was convinced to start the contraceptive treatment with pills, which Heather followed in the ship before the travel. The other members of the expeditionary crew remained in gender segregated tents, until Mary had her first menstruation. After that she and Andreas moved to one of the tents, while Gunnar and Yoko remained in the other. What they did under close tent was their own business. So the life continued. Not much time after they moved to a separate tent, Mary and Andreas announced she was pregnant. Their son was born around three months before the portal would open again. Paula observed this with envy. Getting pregnant became her obsession and she was already cursing the need to return to the other universe. Chapter 5 ? Decisions As Paul went to the other side of the portal, he immediately missed the breasts he had for more than a year as Paula. Heather followed him, and it was nice to see the Heather he was used too, although he preferred the John version of her, but he would not say this to her, of course. For those who remained, only 27 days passed, but for Paul and Heather it had been over one year of life. One important result gained in this travel back was that their bodies in the present universe remained unchanged. They could not do this test with the drone, but the tests performed in Paul and Heather showed they didn't age a second after traveling through the portal (not even the 27 days). Paul united the crew and told what happened on the other side (without entering too much in detail about their sexual lives). After hearing this, Carlos asked, ?So, life on the other side is viable, but only with a gender change?? ?Yes, this brings difficulty, especially because the change in ages, but is manageable," said Heather. ?I don't know if the people in the ship will agree with the colonization in these terms," answered Carlos. ?I will not take this decision for them, I already decided to live in the other universe, but we must settle some rules," answered Paul. Then it was decided, colonization of that planet would be a free option, those who wished could go on in the generation ship to another star system, unless this became impossible by the reduction of the crew. They still had the hope that most of the colony would opt to colonize the other universe, in spite of the gender change. Before communicating this to the ship, they decided to perform another portal test, Carlos, Sara and the other members of the crew who remained in the present universe would travel to the other side in the next cycle, leaving Paul and Heather behind (this was not strictly necessary, but Paul feared if he went to the other side again, he would not want to come back again). Thomas and Arnold were not too happy with the gender reversal, but agreed in making a test, being allowed to travel back if they didn't adapt in the other side. They waited the next 27 days cycle together and then the crew departed. The next cycle was the hardest to wait. Heather and Paul were alone, and so they could speak freely. They made love, but both got disappointed. They soon realized they loved themselves much more as Paula and John. Finally the next period was reached and the portal opened again, Sara returned alone. Paul started the debriefing, ?What happened with Carlos and the others?? Sara looked amused and answered, ?She stayed to care for our son.? Then Sara told the whole history. In spite of the warning, they all felt uncomfortable with the gender change in the other side. The second group had more luck than the first crew, no female ended up prepubescent as Yoko. After a brief resistance (briefer than what the first crew experienced) they accepted their conditions. Sara began attending as Rudolf, because she was transformed in a red headed Germanic male type of something like 35 years old (this was the closest age transformation, since Sara itself was 32 years old, and could only be attested by biological examination). Carlos was Amanda now, and she was a petite Latin lady with dark hairs and about 18 years old. Ronald was now Irina, something like a 14 years old Slavic girl, and Larissa was Petros, 53 years old (since she was turned into a Mediterranean type, she decided to keep a Greek name). The other members of the crew were Thais, a black girl about 13 years old (the former Thomas), Lucia, a blond 17 years old Mediterranean girl (the former Arnold), Adamastor, a 46 years old black guy (the former Helen) and Arnold, a 37 years old Blond guy (the former Ingrid, who found funny to adopt her husband's name as her own male name). In the year the new crew stayed there (and in the almost 2.5 years the older remainder crew stayed in the other universe) Mary had a son and was pregnant of a second one (would be a girl, as the ultrasound test showed), Yoko started developing small breasts, and, of course, Amanda was pregnant. The transformation made a wonder for their relationship and they didn't take the same precautions as Paula and John (Paul and Heather). So Amanda was stuck at the other side, since they all agreed that no pregnant woman should travel through the portal. In spite of the initial reservations, neither Lucia, nor Thais opted to return to the present universe (it seemed they would soon follow the trend to get pregnant, Yoko herself told Rudolf/Sara she couldn't wait to finally reach puberty). It would be no wonder if the expeditionary group raised by four or five individuals after the next 27 days cycle. With this development Paul contacted the generation ship by radio. It was a complicated task, because the ship was 2 light hours away. The news caused a commotion in the ship and as Paul told they had an option between colonizing that world in the other universe with a reversed gender or continue the travel to another star system with the generation ship, most opted for the second option. Some had valid arguments to avoid going through the portal, for example, couples which had young children (especially those with infant girls) argued the age change acting in the children could cause psychological problems, the older couples also argued that the age increase of the woman would diminish their life expectation significantly. Most colonists, however, refused going through the portal due to prejudice and fear of the unknown, which was incompatible with the original mission of the crew. At the end, about hundred couples decided to colonize that world in the other universe. The caves were wide enough to host this amount of people, but they would be able to travel in groups of ten each time (this was the safe size estimation based on the time the portal remained open). A part of the animal stock of the ship was also included. Solved the situation, Paul and Heather resigned their leading positions in the ship, allowing the ones who would remain to chose a new Captain and a Lead Astronaut. Paul, Heather and Sara would depart the next time the portal would open. The ship would still take five months to be in position to disembark all the colonists who would travel through the portal, and since the ship had a new Captain, it was his duty to deliver all those people safely. The expeditionary group would stay in the other universe, receiving the newcomers each time the portal opened for something like 10 or more years. Paul and Sara were very eager to return to the other universe. Sara wanted finally to return to Amanda and to meet his child, which was most probably already 1 year old. Paul, in his turn, wanted badly to return at his position as Paula, meaning, in the bed, under John and expecting his child. Before the portal opened, however, Paul had an idea, ?It is possible someone meets this place in the future.? ?Yes, and what do you suggest?" asked Heather. ?We should leave a message here," answered Paul. He found out a rock on the floor which was brought inadvertently by them when they arrived from outside the caves last time. He took this rock and prepared to scratch the message in the wall, then Sara asked, ?Which message will you leave?? ?I already know," answered Paul and wrote in the wall, close to the portal, ?THE PORTAL OPENS EACH 27 DAYS, BUT BEWARE OF THE CHANGES? ?Why writing so ambiguously?" wanted to know Heather. ?If we tell what will happen, this person will probably give up going through the portal, but I cannot leave them without a warning.? Then the portal opened and they went trough. At the other side, happy to see John again, Paula wrote the same message, exchanging the number to 437. Just for fun, she wrote it on the opposing side, just as if it were seen through a mirror. THE END