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Comrie ~ 'coming together'

by Cainneach McEinri

Language: English

Published: 2023-05-09. 335,930 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction

Content Rating: Older than 17

Comrie is a story of two groups coming together. One group is Sarah and her friends who we met in Mistaken Identity. The second is a group of aliens who survived a premeditated attempt to destroy the space ship and its crew. Due to circumstances, only a small portion of the crew survived. Due a lack of a captain and essentially no crew, the ship’s status is hibernation, with the surviving crew having limited access. The incident occurred more than a century before the two groups come together.

To solve the lack of crew members, the aliens decide to seek humans to fill the role. Due to differences in inherited traits, they hire human women, as surrogate mothers and men as sperm donors. Initially finding people to fill the roles was difficult, but word got around about the opportunity. So they began receiving offers to assist them in finding candidates. One who had recruited a group had not worked out so she needed replacement. She was in the midst of doing so when she saw Sarah’s group at a business function. So after gaining detailed information on them, she offered them to the aliens with nary a word to Sarah’s group.

Comrie begins with some of Sarah’s friends at a remote job, with her and another handling the office. The woman’s arranges for them to be drugged while eating lunch. Due the submissive drug included in their lunch, she easily abducts all of those at lunch. She close to remove them from their office using a tractor pulling a van style trailer. Once they are secured in the trailer, they are given a series injections. Several contain substances to alter their body and one is a sedative.

When Sarah and her friends are delivered to the alien representative, she is surprised that they are all sleeping. The representative is assured, that the group didn’t want to wake before arriving at their destination. The reason puzzles the representative accepts the answer. When the group arrives at their new home, each are given a complete physical. The medical staff is surprised that none of the group woke up during the physicals. In reviewing the data from the physicals, It was now clear that the group had been given treatments they had not authorized. If they were allowed to go to completion, it would be detrimental to their long term health. It could potentially make them unsuitable surrogate mothers. While they had the medical capability to avoid that, however doing so had other consequences.

Six months later Sarah wakes up to find herself alone in a very comfortable bed. In looking around the room she notices the reflexion of a woman in a mirror. It takes her a moment to realize that is her. As she is examining her appearance in the mirror, she notices a note on a near by table. Following the notes instructions she soon learns a bit about their situation. Her friends are fine and will all awaken over the next few days. Like her their appearance has undergone similar changes. As they wake up they discover that their relationship is a much more intimate one than they remembered.

When nearly everyone is up, they meet Amy's Clan, one of the alien’s clans. They soon learn that their hosts are some of the surviving crew members of an alien space ship. The ship is in this solar system due to sabotage and is currently stranded near Mars. During their initial meeting both groups realize that their situation is not quite what either of them thought. Their situation and what has happened to them offers them an opportunity to follow a very different path into the future. By coming together they potentially have a much different destiny. Thus, Sarah and her friends join with the space ship crew in an effort to restore the space ship to operational status. To do this they need more crew members. To do this, they choose to approach those graduating from college who don't have any living family.