No one under the age of fourteen has any sex in this story.

MYSTERY PLANET-

With the knowledge of the eventuality of NODE 4’s crew, things settled down for the human family in space and at Manhome, Earth. The Earth’s population had retracted to about four billion to better salvage and use its resources. And there were many times this population of humans spread all through the local quadrant of space under our OverLord (deemed number one from our perspective.)

The delay in the establishment of a God-sponsored kingdom under Christ seemed to have gone from being delayed to perhaps being altered in the face of the continued success of the dual authorities that had grown up in the meantime. After all, The Creator had changed his mind before. He said of himself that he adapts to the course of the outworking of his purposes. And it was evident that he was very positive about the current arrangement with his oldest son Michael, Jesus, as his executive officer and holding a light hand over the OverLords in secular matters and his direct interest and activities in sponsoring the worship of his father. This left The Creator free from his previous stated status as ‘on vacation’’ as it were from his creative works. With known space becoming occupied, but nowhere near being over-loaded, he was again being active in spreading known space out even more.

It was insinuated that there would be more OverLords, perhaps some of them having been obedient humans that had been raised to spirit life. And with this the possibility that humans would range far beyond current occupation of planets in the home quadrant.

With the advances of human space ships and continued use of the Space Highways, known and cataloged pathways across the universe using side-slipping technology and black holes, giving virtually instantaneous travel to any point in the universe as an entirety, the ships thus utilized grew very much smaller. Since the trip would be very quick, there was no need to take a lot along. After all the ships had imprinters that could make most anything they needed from about any mass available. And the crews were not sent as bodies, but as sperm and ovum to detail them to the needs of the attention getting orb.

So, in the spirit of this situation, a sixteen person craft was prepared to be sent out to a remote corner of our quadrant on the clues obtained by an astronomer who was located much closer to it. His readings had suggested that this orb, about the size of Earth and in the ‘Goldilocks Orbit,’ just might serve as the next to be established home for the human family. There was some indication that the humans would have to vary their bodily characteristics to make a go of it there, but humans had shown themselves to be incredibly adaptable, and with the reproduction facilities of the small ship, no one was worried about that.

So, the prebirth cargo and small ship left Earth (Urth) for that location and was not heard of for a very long time.

The location was so far from Manhome, that quite a number of jumps were involved. There was no plan to visit the astronomer, he might even be deceased by this time, so the ship moved directly to the subject planetary body.

When they arrived, the A.I. and related computers sent out probes and drones to capture the conditions on the planet. They found a definitely pastoral planet, with tall trees, wide grass covered plains and no sentient creatures that could be verified. However, there was evidence of a previous race having sizeable cities and some kind of biotics in the air that seemed neither plant, nor animal; sort of a combination of each. There seemed to be nothing on the planet that would be harmful to humans.

And so, the A.I. signaled the robotic team to produce the first eight humans as four couples. Because of techniques pioneered by an old Earth company, the personalities of the humans would be tailored for them to pair up in permanent couples. This would, it was thought, do a lot to keep this rather small group of humans friendly with each other with little or no jealousies involved.

Because of the biotics in the air, it was determined that the exploratory couples would need to build a sealed-up dome and use face filters when outside. No other safe guards seemed to be necessary.

So, they built the dome out of scrub trees sawn up and then glued together as beams and panels. For some reason. No one could generate any enthusiasm for cutting down the very large trees of a particular type. And with the dome in place, the four couples began their lives together as pairs and as a cooperative grouping. And the study of the planet advanced quickly ‘with the feet on the ground, now.’

With the intense studies and samples gathering, many things about this planet were learned. Most all of the vegetation was of a similar type to Earthen ones. Except for the trees. Though they resembled much larger versions of the Redwoods and Sequoia trees of the old state of California, there were some very obvious differences. For one, the fruit produced by the trees were not part of the reproduction cycle, but the result of it. And when they hatched from the limbs of the trees, they were soon disposed of by flying creatures much like those on Earth. So, there were intense discussions on how the reproductive cycle worked for these magnificent trees. By the way, the exploratory colonists were having a hard time thinking of a proper name for them in Latin. Familiarly, they were just called Big Trees and everyone knew what was meant by that.

In the meantime, the couples were very organized in their living arrangements and study responsibilities of the planet. But there was plenty of time for sexual fun, because entertainment was curtailed to them for the present to not subvert their pure convictions of what they were seeing and studying.

In their initial design they were made to be intensely sexual to tap off any boredom or other stressful feelings that they might have. And though they understood that they would not have children right away, they pretended that they would, both in their vaginal sex and in other sex as if they were ducking the issue. Anal became very popular among them because of its slight amount of kinkiness. And Oral became very prevalent among them, for the same reasons.

But when the mood would hit them (and it was often) they would seek privacy for their expressions of lust to each other. Somewhat of a curious action on their parts, because it had not been programed in them. But it was very firmly held to.

However, on the first day of an extended up close and personal study of the Big Trees, a couple whose abilities were compatible, but their partner matchups were with others; found themselves in an embarrassing situation under the trees. It was found that the Big Trees put out some kind of emanation and sponsored a surrounding aura, that made sexual union a powerful mental goal, whether the couples were paired or not.

The first couple to experience this were in the course of their studies of one particularly large specimen of the trees, when they came out of a mental stupor with his cock up her vagina spewing out his sperm laden semen. Not that she minded at that minute at all, but it left some serious explaining to their mates that night and a wonderfully inspiring sight to anyone that had happened to see the video of it. From then on, the pairs to study were made of dedicated couples, and if an unmatched one needed to be used, everyone just looked other way and the actual mates took no notice. Especially if the guilty mates, made up for it that night in bed.

Later the A.I. allowed the two to view the video of their experience, in the name of science, of course. The A.I. had been recording all of their activities on the planet from the very first, to watch for developing anomalies. So, the video showed the unmated couple as going about their scientific exercises when all of a sudden, they stood up rigidly and threw off their clothing (But kept their shoes on.) Then with glassy eyes apparent from the closeups generated by the viewers, they moved together and with a lot of kissing and close quarters caressing, he got his penis mounted up against her pussy cleft and clit, one of his hands on a breast, one of hers across his back pulling them together and their lips welded together with active tongue play. Not terribly unusual, except for it not being a mated couple, and they were mentally evidently unaware of their sexual interchange at that time.

As her vagina lubed up, even more than usual, he moved down to sample its taste, and she soon did the same of his member. Then she guided him to be upright and she moved his cock to penetrate her vaginal entry, with her hunching down on it. Soon, with her complete and utter welcome, he emptied up into her and they then came to a stunned recognition of what had just happened.

One of the anomalies that was observed was that in addition to the emanations that were evidently guiding this through the female, the trees showed evidence that they were enjoying the process and the viewing of it working out. Just a suspicion of this, but likely.

After about a month of their habitation on the still unnamed planet, some changes began to be noticed in the Earther females and males. The men’s arms began to lengthen, their penises began to lengthen to eight or nine inches and their bodies began to grow up with a slight thickening. Not that their mates minded at all.

Also, the women, along with the men, began to take on a greenish tint to their skin coloring along with their eyes. And their bodies began to stretch up and their arms also got longer. Their hips area began to widen out somewhat and their vaginas were constantly lubed up for action. Their sexual appetites surged up too.

It was determined that the sponsor of these changes was the biotics in the air that were not being completely stopped by the air filters which were not fine enough. It didn’t help, either, that the personnel became somewhat lax in their use of the filters.

These changes brought about other changes, too. For one thing they overpowered the bodies protocols for nonpregnancies. After a six-month sojourn on the planet, all of the women found themselves to be pregnant. And of all things, what was produced was not babies as we know them, but leathery eggs with a baby’s embryo inside and it was laid by the mothers at the four-month stage of the pregnancy.

After it was laid, the mothers knew to store it during the day up their vaginas and at night against their bellies with them in the coital position. And this caused the love of anal to become even more important, to protect the young ones as they developed in the ever-growing egg. When they got to the size to not fit up the woman’s pussy anymore, then they were big enough to be just carried around in a baby carrier, just had to keep them warm.

And when they freed themselves from the egg shell, they were of about the same development as a normal human baby, but developed very quickly from then on. About six years to a normal one year of regular human development.

And during the first three generations when each generation of children got to the apparent ages of six years, the mothers became fecund for the next generation and reproductively driven again despite the opposition of the intended protocols for reproduction. One side benefit of this was that the women became lactating with the first birth and then because of this, was produced the only milk available on the planet. This was very appreciated by the male partners and generated a lot of, “Would you like cookies with your milk?” jokes. It took a bit for the ladies to think of a rejoinder to that.

One thing that was noticed about the eggs from the female humans was that they were very much like the ones from the trees, only the human ones actually produced babies, the ones from the trees did not, even if left alone. Perhaps the need of heat was the factor of the tree’s failures.

After the third produced generation, with the oldest of the children at the apparent ages of eighteen, something totally unexpected began to occur. As each of the youngest children got past the intensive portion of child care, the parents started disappearing,

Since, the remaining adults were very concerned, the A.I. produced a video to be watched by them, to alleviate their worries and give them a hint at to their futures, too.

The sharply focused video showed the first couple to disappear moving to the outskirts of the nearest grove of the Big Trees. They were a mated couple and seemed very serene as they walked up the hill, to a place appropriately distanced from the nearest tree.

When they got there and faced each other they appeared to be in some kind of trance, and their hands moved as of not their own volition. They undressed each other and this time took off their shoes, which allowed the growth of anchoring roots from their ankles and exposed feet. With their eyes staring intensely into the other’s, they clutched up to each other and she widened out her already wider hips to accommodate him. With the vaginal opening in plain view, she guided his cock head up and into it. Then she pulled them up together tight with their arms around each other and their lips sealed together permanently.

Their bodies seemed to meld together slowly and as the days went on, they took more and more of the aspect of the big trees, limbs and bark and all. When the others tried to communicate with them, all they could get was an immense sense of profound happiness and pleasure between them. And it seemed that the Big Tree’s limbs rose to a higher aspect in acceptance of the new tree among them.

This seemed to answer the question of what had happened to the previous colonists to this planet. And all of the original mates from the ship, met the same fate, none of them complaining at all. How satisfying would it be to be joined mouth to mouth, body to body and dick to vagina forever? I guess in our fantasies, we could guess.

The children were left behind and the planet was interdicted from then on to human visitations, and other species that might encounter it were forewarned.

It was opened to the movement of dedicated couples who were out living their age protocols to unite for one last permanent time on the planet, though. And the local children welcomed them in very well, and helped them in their preparations.

No one was ever allowed to cut down any of the Big Trees, with the understanding of what they really were. But the young ones left behind had plenty of the scrub trees, of the size of mature firs and pines on Earth to work with. Besides the large trees were producing a lot of oxygen for the planet, plus a very intense sexual influence.

Eventually it took on the name, ARBOREAL COUPLEX, for no reason better than a complete mind cramp on thinking of another more appropriate one.

Notes from the author:

It might occur to a reader of this story to wonder what inspirations caused its writing. For some of my stories it is hard to tell, because of my wide range of experiences in life, wide-ranging reading and stories that I have been told within my family. But, in this case, I have a good hold on what caused it to be inspired.

For one thing, it reflects the strong feelings that I have in coitus with an affectionate and responsive female. I seem to go into a kind of trance with its feelings, and it is accompanied by a very strong desire for it to never end. That is just continue on forever. This has on occasion generated a smiling response on the part of the female who enjoyed it too, but never the less was satisfied with shorter contained sexual experiences, to gently ask, “Sir, are you done, yet?”

Another factor is my love of my SPACE FLIGHT STORIES. They originally started as independent stories, but many of them followed a recognized pattern and so they grew into the saga that I have shared here. Several times I have thought that I had mined this story line to its completion, but I continue to find inspiration from its story arc, leading to newer stories from time to time. I suspect that if all the stories were ever gathered together in one volume, that it would be well over one hundred and fifty thousand words.

The last known inspiration came from the love of gardening shared by my wife and I in our early marriage and on. She came from a family of devoted gardeners, and so did I. But she loved it and I came to love it through my love for her. Early in our marriage, we lived in a brand-new trailer park in a brand-new mobile home. As a gift to my beloved wife, I built a twelve-foot long and six-foot wide self-supporting greenhouse along the back side of our trailer. I got a lot of credibility and appreciation for that effort.

We were dedicated gardeners and raised a lot of our seedlings from seeds. It involved transplanting them several times before taking them outside to harden them off for the growing season. My wife had gathered a bunch of three-pound coffee cans, common back then, to use for the last transplanting of our peppers and tomatoes before their eventual home in the ground.

One of them got left with potting soil in it on the back-porch stairs with us not noticing it for some time. One day as I walked by, I noticed twin stems growing up from the soil right next to each other in the pot. So, I nosed around in the soil and found the husks of two nuts, one a filbert and the other a hazel nut. They are closely related, but the hazel nut is longer in shape.

I showed it to my wife with the inclination to pull them up, after all we didn’t need a filbert/hazelnut tree on our small trailer park lot. But my wife remembered that we were going to move soon, because of a growing family and so she asked that we keep them. So, we did.

When we moved to our new (to us) home not many months later, we took the coffee can with the growing resulting tree with us, and found a secluded place on our half-acre lot for it to grow. And grow it did, the tiny fused trunk grew up to being a twin tree of thirty feet high and about the same in breadth, under my containing pruning. One side had the rounded filberts and the other had the longer hazel nuts, and as the tree grew, its production became amazing.

It produced so many, that it could supply us with ripe nuts all through the winter, and we were a family of five who loved them.

A side issue of note, was that the tree also attracted crows and western jays to our back yard. But I don’t know about the jays, but the crow’s bills weren’t strong enough to break open the shells. So, to our amazement, they would grab a couple in their bills and fly over our house to drop them on the two-lane pavement where the school buses traveled for them to crush open the nuts for the crows then to feast on. We knew this was no accident, because we could find no other area around our place where they dropped them.

Our neighborhood, was very propitious for the birds, as there were no predators of them except for the rare hawk or owl in our area. And so, the crows who typically live to about eight years, would seemingly live much longer in our area. Probably for more than fifteen years, I would guess. We lived there for about thirty years and seemed to recognize some of the individual birds.

Crows are very skilled birds with tools, and highly intelligent for birds, probably accentuated by their long life in our neighborhood. They ruled the roost there and since they are omnivorous, were welcome as they didn’t eat enough of our nuts to make a difference, but did help with bug control.

So, the combination of a twin combined filbert and hazel nut tree and my outrageous reactions to intimate connections with women, unsurprisingly were the inspiration of my story here.

And, …… we always believed that it was a crow that planted the original seeds in the coffee can!

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