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Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com <1st attachment, "Mission to a New World, Chapter 9.txt" begin> Mission to a New World (MF, ScFi, size, bond) By JackBro (JackBro_99@Yahoo.com) Summary: An X-rated science fiction story. Debbie and Brian are two explorers from Earth sent to an alien planet to recover a crashed surveillance satellite. On the surface live the Longtons, a humanoid, pre-industrial revolution culture where the women are subservient to the males. Debbie soon discovers why the women willingly allow themselves to be subservient, and in the end she wants to stay (M/F, F/M, exh, size, bond). * * * * * Warning: The following story is fiction, and the acts depicted in the story should remain fiction. It is intended for the entertainment of mature adults only. Be advised explicit sex is contained within and should not be read by minors. * * * * Chapter 9: The Next Morning D+4 I lay in bed exhausted. Light drifts down from the miniature skylights in the ceiling. The air already feels warmed. I figure it must be mid-morning, maybe the equivalent of 10:00 AM, but I lay in bed too exhausted and tired to get up. Josh kept me up half the night. He drained all my energy. I never received such an intense workout in my life. Hell, no Earth-bound woman ever did! Well, at least from any one man anyway. It would take a half- dozen Earth-men to perform to the equivalent of Josh. First his finger, then his tongue, and finally he fucked me and he fucked me and then he fucked me some more. Josh fucked me over and over again for what seemed like hours. He must have kept me up half the night with the most intense sexual workout of my life. "Good morning!" I jump at the sound of Brian's voice from very near. "It looks like sleepyhead finally woke." I weakly roll over to see him in the open doorway. He wears a smile on his face. In one hand he holds a plate of food. In the other is a glass of water. The sight makes me realize that I am starving. "You hungry?" Brian questions. My body's natural instinct for nourishment takes over. A burst of energy allows me to sit up. I slide the upper half of my naked body out from under the sheets to expose my large, firm breasts. I see the effect in Brian's eyes. Even though he's seen my bare tits several times now, his eyes continue to bug out of his skull every time he sees them again. His reaction would have bothered me a week ago, but now I take it as a compliment. Brian places the plate down on my lap and the drink in my hand. "Did you have a good time last night?" I think I blush. I see Brian wears a big sneer on his face. "It was, I guess, okay," I try to answer as nonchalantly as I can muster. I have a hard time speaking. I still feel tired. Brian laughs in reply. "It certainly sounded like you had a good time," He attempts to prod me on to say more. "I never realized you were such a screamer. You kept me up half the night!" I drink the entire glass of water in one great gulp as I think about his words. My throat feels parched. It even feels a little sore, maybe from all the "screams" he refers to. I don't think I actually screamed, but I certainly yelled and thrashed around a lot through the multiple orgasms. And what orgasms! There must have been a half-dozen in all, and they were all so damn intense. I've never had such powerful orgasms in my life. And then there was his orgasm! I still can't believe all his cumm. I think the young man cummed even greater quantities than the older Jelick. He jetted out so much and with such intensity that it made his already gigantic cock feel another 2 or 3 inches longer. "Are you all right?" I hear Brian question. He kneels at the edge of the bed, but his voice sounds far away. "Yes, I'm fine," I return from my orgasmed induced trance and start to eat. "I was just reminiscing." "About last night?" Brian questions. "Of course last night," I want to tell him but hold back. I do not need to tell him. He already knows. Instead, I take another bit of food. It tastes delicious! "Since you're apparently in a good mood," He tells me. "I need to talk to you about something serious. You might not like what I have to say..." "You mean we have to go?" I interrupt him with a mouth full of food. "No, not that!" He assures me. "Don't worry, we've got a few more days." I let out a sigh of relief and swallow. I do not want to leave yet, not today, not tomorrow, maybe not ever. I think for a moment and wonder if I will ever want to leave after last night. "It's about something else," Brian comforts me. "It's important, but first I have to ask about last night. Was it everything you expected?" "Oh God Brian! It was incredible!" I blurt out between mouthfuls of food. The dam breaks. The words flow out. I tell him everything. I tell him about what it was like to be fucked by an 10-inch cock. I tell him about how Josh fucked me over and over and over again until it seemed like it was never going to end. I even tell him about the orgasms: My orgasms! His orgasm! All the orgasms! It feels strange to relay this information on to a man, but I have no one else to tell and I have to tell someone. It is just like telling him about my masturbation of Jelick. It's like when I told him about the long pumping and the final crushing of Jelick's nuts in order to make him cumm. Talking to a man about such things feels strange, but I have to tell someone. I see it must be strange for Brian too, for his loincloth soon starts to tent. "I think it must have plugged me up," I look right at it as I relay the best part of the story. "I mean it was like his shaft was so big that I think it actually plugged up my twat. His cumm couldn't get out, so every time Josh squirted another load of seed into me, he just filled me up more. It felt like his already long length grew by another two or maybe three inches. He filled my pussy, my cunt, my twat, and he filled my everything! I still can't believe it!" Brian looks at me even more wide-eyed than before. I like the affect my story has on him. "And he squirted his sperm so hard inside me!" I decide to go into greater detail. "I never before felt a man actually squirt inside me, but with Josh I could feel every squirt. And he just kept squirting, again and again. God! It was like he had a limitless supply of cumm. I actually thought it was going to start coming up my throat after about the first minute. But the best part was the way it plugged up inside me. It felt like his 11-inch length grew to something like 12-or maybe 14-inches. It's just that the last few inches wasn't cock. It was this intense pressure from all his glorious male spunk!" Brian looks like he is about to faint and fall over. I think the blood from his brain must be engorging his cock. His bulge looks more pronounced than before. It is not nearly the bulge of Jelick or even Josh, but I don't care. It represents an aroused male, and I like aroused males. That's all that really matters to me. I only care about cock. All I see is Brian's cock, and it looks like his cock is ripe for the picking. My plate is empty. I ate my breakfast surprisingly fast, which I guess is because I was surprisingly hungry. Six orgasms in one night can take a lot out of a girl. "Is that all?" I show the plate to Brian. "Afraid so," He recovers. "Wow! You were really hungry. I even gave you some of mine." "But I'm still hungry," I try to sound like a poor, homeless little girl who hasn't eaten in days. "Can you give me any more of yours?" "I'm afraid I've already finished all of mine," He disappoints me. "There's no more." He fails to understand the hidden meaning of my words. When I ask for some of his, I do not talk about the food on his plate. I instead refer to the cumm in his nuts. A domineering lust rushes through me. I again think back to my domineer fantasy, the one where a naked male sex slave stands at the side of my bed. I think back to the fantasy where I order the gifted male to become hard for me; the one where I then entertain myself with him. "What about dessert?" I hint at my true meaning by glancing down at Brian's bulge and licking my lips as I say it. I see he now understands. "Wasn't last night enough?" He responds, amazed. I refuse to answer. Instead, I put down the plate on one side of the bed and reach over to him on the other. I reach over to take the tie of his loincloth and pull it free. His erection becomes uncovered. I see he has already started to pre-cumm. It must have been from what I told him about Josh plugging up my twat. Or maybe he's just horny from listening to me all night. "Much better," I sit back up and enjoy the sight. "Not as impressive as Josh's, of course, but not bad!" Brian takes a deep breath. I know this really turns him on. I see it in a slight twitch of his cock. "Let's talk some more," I invite him. "I like talking to you when I can watch your throbbing cock at the same time. What was it you wanted to tell me before? You said it was something serious?" "Oh, it can wait," He answers. "But you said it was serious," I push him to go on. "You said I might not like it." "Oh that!" He seems to remember. "It's nothing, really! We can talk about it later." His engorged cock gives me the reason he wants to wait until later. He wants relief. Hell, he needs relief! But he is not going to get relief quite so easy. First, I want to tease him. I want to talk dirty to him. After being a slave to a man for half the night, I am in need of a man to serve as my slave. "All right," I accept his proposal. "We'll talk about it later, but first I want to talk about tonight." "Tonight?" He questions almost as though in a dream. "Yes, we need to talk about my needs for tonight," I tell him. "Josh served as a good introduction, but I was wondering who you have lined up for tonight?" "Tonight?" He questions dreamily once again. I notice his eyes are riveted directly onto my exposed chest as he speaks. I have a sneaking suspicion that he daydreams about breastfeeding on me, and the suspicion only tempts me to tease him even more. "Yes, who do you have lined up for tonight?" I question. "You know what I mean! Who is on the agenda to fuck me tonight?" This makes him jump and suddenly wake up from his daydream. "I was thinking about Josh's older brother," I propose. "Or maybe one of his older friends? You know, someone who's just a little bit older, which means he would be a little bit longer?" Brian looks at me wide eyed with shock. I can tell this greatly surprises him. He had expected last night to be enough - which it was - but I say it mostly to tease him. Still, I wouldn't mind having Josh's older brother or maybe one of his slightly bigger friends for the tonight. The thought of once more going through the same experience sends a thrill of excitement up my spine. Brian takes a hard swallow. "I'll see what I can do," He finally responds. "It shouldn't be a problem." "Good!" I accept with a thrill. "Now lets see you do it. "Jack yourself off." "What?" He shakes his head. "You heard me," I speak confidently. "Let me see you jerk off. I want to watch you jack yourself off." He hesitates only for a second, and then he reaches down to take it. Brian takes hold of his own erection. I think he is anxious. "Start pumping!" I order him while I sit up against the wall to watch. He does. He starts in right away. I notice his fingers become soaked in pre-cumm after only the second or third stroke, which means I must have made him quite excited the night before with all my yelling and moaning during my multiple orgasms. My tits probably make him even more excited now. "Pump faster," I order him to increase his speed. "But don't get yourself off. Stop just before you shoot. I have a surprise for you." Brian obeys and strokes faster. He also begins to breathe heavier and lets out short moans. I think my mention of a surprise increases his arousal still further. I know it increases mine. Three minutes later he stops. His throbbing cock is left naked and raw. The weak light of the room glistens off its surface. I suddenly find myself looking at a full, ripe erection soaked in its own pre-cumm. I love it. It is time for his surprise! Laying back down on the bed, but making sure my tits remain fully exposed, I turn to the side and move towards the edge. I turn to face Brian and his ripe cock, facing it head-on. With him kneeling and me laying, his cock becomes level with my face. I can look directly at it. It stands upright only two feet away. And then, without saying anything, I give him his surprise. I simply open my mouth wide and leave it open. Brian lets out a moan as soon as I do it. I thought it might take him awhile to understand, but Brian learns fast. I see I have nothing to worry about. Pleasant to my delight, he sifts his knees side-to-side and approaches closer. I don't say anything. I just lay there open mouthed and inviting. Brian's cock, I know from all his own self stroking, sits at the edge of an eruption. And from the way it pre-cums, I can tell it sits at the edge of a very powerful eruption. Little does Brian know how much Josh fucked me last night. I think he fucked me in every possible position and in every possible way. He even taught me a few positions I've never tried before. It's amazing what a girl can do with an 11-inch cock. There was one thing, however, he couldn't do. He tried, of course, but he was simply too big. He was too wide. His cock was too thick. I could not open my mouth wide enough to accept him. The only position we didn't try was oral sex, but now I have Brian to make up for it. I remain still as he inserts his hot, wet cock inside my mouth. First the thick head and then the long shaft, he slowly inserts his wet cock into my mouth. The musky smell of his cock is unmistakable. The taste of his pre-cumm is delightful. I purposely refrain from using my tongue in any way to stimulate it. I only use my lips to clamp down slowly upon his shaft. I hear him let out a low moan from just above me as he inserts about half his cock inside. He knows from experience how far to go. I feel him pull back out and then push in again. Brian fucks me in the mouth. In and out, in and out he goes. The moans start to get louder from above me. I know he is close. So am I. I can't wait to finally swallow sperm. I had wanted to taste Josh's so bad the night before, but he was just too big for me. The best I could do was to lap the tip of his cock with my tongue as my fingers crushed his delicate balls. I have a devilish thought about doing the same to Brian. I think about taking hold of Brian's balls and giving them a good squeeze just like I did to Josh, but of course I cannot. He would never be able to survive the same abuse I gave to Josh's nuts last night. I try to hold out for as long as I can, but I can't help it. After only about a minute of face fucking, I attack. Suddenly and without warning, I attack my prey with no mercy. I ravish Brian with my tongue and suck him with all my energy. "Oh God!" I hear him cry out. I feel like crying out with the same words, but I can't talk very well with an erect cock in my mouth. Instead of voicing my pleasure, I use my tongue to demonstrate. I race it all over, especially across the slick head and pre-cumming hole. It takes only a few seconds after that. Brian cumms with the biggest explosion he's given so far. He cumms like it is the last cumm he will ever experience. To be continued... Comments Welcome (JackBro_99@Yahoo.com) <1st attachment end> <2nd attachment, "Mission to a New World, Chapter 10.txt" begin> Mission to a New World (MF, ScFi, size, bond) By JackBro (JackBro_99@Yahoo.com) Summary: An X-rated science fiction story. Debbie and Brian are two explorers from Earth sent to an alien planet to recover a crashed surveillance satellite. On the surface live the Longtons, a humanoid, pre-industrial revolution culture where the women are subservient to the males. Debbie soon discovers why the women willingly allow themselves to be subservient, and in the end she wants to stay (M/F, F/M, exh, size, bond). * * * * * Warning: The following story is fiction, and the acts depicted in the story should remain fiction. It is intended for the entertainment of mature adults only. Be advised explicit sex is contained within and should not be read by minors. Chapter 10: A Really Big One For Debbie D+5 I can't believe it! I am really going to get another one! Two nights in a row! And tonight is supposed to be even bigger! Word quickly got around. Josh told his friends, and then his friends told other friends. I don't know exactly what Josh said, but I can easily imagine him describing my performance. I wonder if he told his friends about how much I screamed. I question if he mentioned the way I thrashed about when I went into orgasm. Maybe he even mentioned my tight twat? I don't know, but then his exact words really don't matter. The important thing is that they all know. Every young male in the village knows I am an excellent fuck. I can't wait for another Longton to step downstairs and ravish me again tonight. I would have preferred to take at least one night off to rest, but we have to leave in the morning. Brian found the reactor core, so now we have a job to do. Tomorrow morning we will leave, although we won't really leave. We will only pretend to leave. In reality, we will circle back around to the core and then bury it. As much as my body needs to take the night off, I also have to consider the mission. It is either tonight or never. I have the choice of either allowing another Longton to fuck me tonight, or I will have to leave tomorrow with an unfulfilled pussy. My course of action is obvious. No Earth-woman in her right mind would dare pass up such an opportunity. I can't wait! Brian already tied me up. I'm tied much like the night before. I stand in the middle of the room. My arms are pulled high above me. My legs are spread wide to the hooks projecting from the floor. I stand completely helpless and vulnerable in the vertical swimsuit. I know a Longton man will soon walk down the stairs, take apart the hook that still holds up the narrow strips of cloth that cover my chest, and then he will have his way with me. He will start with my tits and then move to the rest of my body. I can't wait! The only problem is that I don't know who it will be. Several of Josh's friends eagerly volunteered for the opportunity to fuck me. They all want to fuck me, but only one gets the opportunity. "You're really going to like him," Brian teased me as he tied me up. "I'm told he's even larger than Josh, which means you are going to enjoy him even more." "Tell me!" I attempt to get him to spill the secret. "Please, is it Charles? Or maybe it's Larrymore?" Brian gives no hint of recognition in his eyes. Earlier he told me it was a name I should know, but I've always been bad with names. Longton names are especially hard to remember because of their weird pronunciations. "He's bigger," Brian teases. "I figured you can easily take something bigger, especially after you told me about Josh plugging up your hole and then giving you two extra inches. I'm sure you can handle a little more." "Oh God!" I cry out, remembering my own words. "Well, at least he'll fit in length," Brian adds. "Width is another thing. And who knows what will happen when he finally shoots his limitless cumm!" "Oh God!" I cry out again. "Please! Tell me! How long is he, really? Is he really bigger than Josh!" Brian sits on the bed and shakes his head. "I won't tell - not yet - but there is something else I need to tell you instead." "What?" I question. I feel like I might be wearing him down. "It's the same thing I tried to tell you this morning," He replies. "Do you remember? I tried to tell you this morning, but you were more interested in blowing my cock than in what I wanted to say." I laugh. He is right. "And it was a very good piece of cock too," I try to embarrass him. "I really enjoyed every drop of your spunk." He smiles weakly. I'm in no position to embarrass a man, especially given my helpless state. "As I said this morning," Brian goes on. "You might not like what I'm about to say, but I think you really should know before we leave." His voice sounds serious. I grow curious about what he has to say. "It's about these Longton men," He stands to speak more soberly. "I'm afraid Space Command wasn't completely honest with you back on Crion. They did not tell you everything they knew about the Longton men." "What does that mean?" I grow even more curious. "They didn't actually lie to you," He emphases. "They just didn't tell you everything. It would have been very embarrassing, and they were afraid you might not volunteer for the mission if you knew." "Knew what?" I question. "Some of us wanted to tell you sooner," He hesitates. "If it was up to me, I would have told you long before we came down to the surface, but I was under orders." "Told me what?" I grow impatient. I find my attention drifting from my impending fuck. "It's about the Longton males," He speaks finally. "I'm afraid Space Command wasn't completely honest with you about the Longton males. The previous expeditions actually discovered some of what we found out." I can guess what he means. "Are you talking about their size?" He nods. "Are you talking about the size of their cocks?" I have to know for certain. "Some of it," He answers defensively. "They knew about their size, but not all of it! The previous expeditions discovered the Longtons were well hung when they went to the river to bath together. They couldn't help but notice their size, but that's all they knew. We had no idea how big they could get." "No way!" I refuse to believe him. "I read the reports! I have a security clearance. I saw everything." "Obviously not everything," He corrects. "It was kept out of the official reports. I guess Space Command felt it was too embarrassing." "No way!" I say again, but I can tell by the look in his eyes that he is serious. "You're not joking, are you?" "It's no joke," He speaks serious. I am shocked. I can't believe it! I can't believe they held such an important piece of information back from me, both now and while I worked in the lab. The reports from the previous expeditions said nothing of the Longton's dick size. That means the information was somehow kept secret, like maybe in another report that only men could read. "You're really not joking?" I question to make sure. "I'm really not joking." I shake my head in disbelief. "Why?" Brian shrugs his shoulders. "I just can't believe it!" I speak my thoughts out loud. "Why would they keep something like that from me?" "Maybe they were afraid you might hijack a ship to check them out," He laughs. I do not find it funny. I do not find his words funny at all! Such an important piece of information should never have been kept from me. We were supposed to be told everything. It could have endangered the mission! "But seriously..." He stops laughing when he sees my reaction. "I don't know the details. I don't know why the information was put in a separate, more secret report and kept from you. I wasn't around back then. Maybe it was just too embarrassing. Can you imagine Captain Rileymen briefing you on the Longton dick size?" He has a point, I suppose. I have a hard time picturing Captain Rileymen or any other male officer admitting a humanoid species has bigger dicks than Earth-bound males. "So they knew the Longton's were abnormally long," He summarizes. "But that was only when flaccid. They didn't know how big they were when hard." "Well, what were they thinking?" I question. "If a guy is hung like a horse when he's relaxed, he's naturally going to stick out like a tree when he's hard! What were they thinking?" Brian only shrugs his shoulders. "Logical, but not necessarily true," He tells me. "It doesn't always work that way with human males, and an alien creature is certainly going to be more unpredictable." I suppose he has a point, but I find his words difficult to believe. He misses the main point. Space Command lied. They knew about their big dicks the whole time, but they never told me anything about it. They lied to get me down to the surface. "Don't be mad at me," Brian defends himself as though he sees the simmering anger in my mind. "I don't care," I blame him anyway. "You could have told me earlier!" "But I was under orders." "I don't care!" I chastise him again. I wish I wasn't all tied up so I could take a slug at him. I have a sneaking suspicion that the contriving bastard waited until I was tied up so I couldn't fight back. "I hate you!" I yell. "Well then," He takes a step back as though afraid I really will slug him. "In that case, I suppose as long as you're already pissed at me, then I might as well tell you the rest." "The rest?" I ask in disbelief. "You mean there's more?" "Yes more," He answers. "It has to do with the satellite crashing into the surface. We are not going to double back and hide the reactor core tomorrow morning." "We're not?" I ask in surprise. "What are we going to do then?" "We're simply going to go back to the shuttle instead," He continues to surprise. "What? You mean we are just going to leave the core hear and let it kill a few Longton's? Are you crazy?" He takes another step back and speaks simply: "There is no core." I look at him in shock. "There really isn't even a satellite," He goes on. "It was only a piece of space junk that we crashed down to the surface." I fail to accept his words. I think I just stare back at him open mouthed. "It was all part of an elaborate ruse to get you down to the surface," He tells me. "What?" I don't believe him. "The real purpose of this mission was to research the sexual performance of the Longton males," He steps towards the door. "The only reason you were selected was because you had the biggest tits in the lab. They rightly figured a Longton male couldn't resist your size, and they also correctly figured that you wouldn't be able to resist there's either." "What?" I say again. "And incidentally," He adds just as he is about to turn back up the stairs. "It's nothing, really, but I just wanted to let you know the ship has you under observation. In order to properly research the Longton's sexual performance, I secretly planted four cameras in the walls." I stand in shock. I think my eyes practically pop out of my head. For a moment, I can't say anything. It takes a few seconds for me to process the information. Fake satellite? Sexual research? Cameras? "Brian!" I call out to him. "Brian!" I yell up the stairs. "Come on! Be serious!" I don't believe him. I can't believe him! I know he doesn't really have cameras hidden in the wall, although he could... I stop to consider it, and the thought makes me cringe with terror. I remember last night and the way I thrashed about. "Come on Brian!" I yell again. "Please! You can't leave me hanging like this!" I look around to try to find the cameras, but I know the effort is futile. I might be able to find them close up, but not from the middle of the dimly lit room. A camera could be nothing more than the end of a fiber optic filament looking out from between the stone bricks. The body and the transmitter would be larger, but those could easily be buried on the opposite side of the wall. I want Brian to walk back down the stairs to untie me so I can check. "Please Brian!" I can hardly stand it. I know his story about the cameras is only a tease, but I don't know for certain. I can't help but imagine the men back at Crion watching me on a monitor right now, looking at my chest. I take a glance down to look at what they are able to see, and then I think about what else they will soon see. "Oh Brian, please!" I can't stand it. My pulse races. My body sweats in anticipation. I no longer think of cock, but instead think of the audience that might be watching. I also notice something else. I can't believe it at first, but I can't deny it. I notice I've actually become wet! The thought of being watched excites me! "He's here," Brian yells from the top of the stairs. "Keep quite! No English!" "Ple..." I start to plead one last time, but then hold back. I know it will do no good to yell. I might as well accept it. The thought of a Big Cock returns to my mind. I again wonder who will fuck me tonight, and then I think about who might all be watching. To be continued??? Comments Welcome (JackBro_99@Yahoo.com) <2nd attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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