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but can’t do much more than lift and lower my hips. Am I in a
hospital? If so, it doesn’t look like any hospital I’ve ever been in before.
Above me is…nothingness. It’s either the tallest, darkest ceiling I’ve ever
seen, or I’m outside and that’s the black sky above me, yet there are no stars
and it’s deathly quiet.
    Cool
air brushes my exposed pussy. I squirm as much as the shackles will allow, as
if miraculously this time I’ll be able to break free. Of course, that doesn’t
happen.
    A
glass or plastic shield surrounds me, shaped kind of like an Easter egg. I’m
being held in some sort of incubator or pod.
    “Hello?”
I yell. I cringe when my voice echoes loudly in the small pod, the sound
pounding in my eardrums.
    My
heart races and sweat beads across my body. I look down at my nakedness again
and realize all my hair is gone. I am completely bare and hair free. My once
neatly trimmed bush is now as bare as a baby’s bum.
    I
turn my head and jerk slightly as I meet the eyes of a girl who looks about my
age. I am sure the fear and confusion I see in her eyes mirror my own. She also
lies in a transparent pod and is naked, shackled and spread-eagled. It’s very
strange to see her suspended in the air inside her pod. Beyond her pod is a
line of similar clear pods, with naked girls suspended in each of them.
    Holy.
Shit.
    What
the fuck is this place and what the fuck is going on?
    Soft
static filters into my pod then a voice speaks as someone is standing right
beside me. “Thank you for visiting our planet,” the robotic voice says.
    Our planet ? WTF?
    I
exchange frightened glances with the girl in the next pod.
    “Our
planet is dying and we need to repopulate it,” says the strange voice. “But we
need human female hosts to bear our seed. Our kind is no longer able to gestate
our spawn.”
    The
words sink into my brain. Oh. My. God. I’ve been kidnapped by aliens who plan
to impregnate me. I take everything bad back I ever said about my loser
ex-boyfriend. I’d give everything to see him again right now.
    I
turn and meet the eyes of the brown-haired girl in the next pod. She is crying.
I realize then I am crying too, but I can’t wipe the tears off my face because
my hands are shackled.
    Movement
catches my eye, and suddenly a frightening creature stands in front of my pod.
In fact, a creepy creature stands in front of every pod. Looking like something
out of the most terrifying sci-fi horror movie, their bodies are covered in
sharp-looking scales that ooze green slime. I just assume they are “he” because
a “she” couldn’t possibly be that fucking ugly. Where a face should be is a
mass of worm-like appendages before multiple shiny golden eyes. They look like
Alien vs. Predator meets The Fly meets my worst fucking nightmare.
    I
blink a couple of times, as if that will make my monster go away. It looks at me,
studying me from its freaky eyes, all the while the worm things on its face
freak out like long black maggots on a corpse.
    The
creature touches the top of my pod, and it opens up from above with a soft
whirring sound. I look up and see something lowering from the cavernous space
above. At first I think it’s an alien spider on a web. Being absolutely
terrified of spiders—alien or otherwise—I open my mouth to scream.
    As
the thing comes into focus, I realize a huge spider would’ve been a big
improvement over what I see.
    What
looks like a glass jar filled with yellowish liquid lowers into my pod,
hovering over my naked body. Inside the jar is a wriggling, slimy creature that
looks like something out of the movie Alien. The disgusting creature presses
its sucker-like mouth against the glass, like it’s trying to get out. A metal
hand-like contraption plucks the thing from the liquid. The glass bottle whisks
away but the slimy alien creature thing hangs above me. Drops of the yellowy
liquid it had been swimming in dribbles onto my skin. I squirm in my
constraints but can’t