Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:04:09 +0200
From: Amy Redek <adultreading@gmail.com>
Subject: Cronos. Part Nine.

        This story is for persons of eighteen years or over.  All comments,
good or bad, are welcome and all will be answered.

        Part Nine

     `Bloody hell!' Audrey breathed out. `Damn good job they can't see
us. Just image the panic of a space ship suddenly appearing out of thin air
here in the middle of town.' They stood there and watched the hustle and
bustle for they were on the edge of the market, Brendan marvelling at the
fact that with the map co-ordinates now logged, they could pop into town,
over three hundred miles away in a matter of a second or two, do some
shopping and be back at the camp before a kettle had boiled.

     `Let's have a beer,' he said on a sudden impulse, grabbing her hand.

     `We can't do that! They'd freak out if they saw us suddenly appear out
of nowhere,' she said.

     `We'll find a quiet corner and take off our helmets and we are then
really here. We've got to prove that we can just travel over three hundred
miles in a matter of seconds,' he said desperately. She saw the logic and
agreed so they moved off, still flinching though when somebody walked
straight through them till they found a secluded courtyard with nobody
about.

     `Quick, helmets off,' he said and they did so and felt the heat of the
day strike them and they both stood and then laughed and hugged each other.

     `We did it!' Audrey exclaimed. `We could even go to Boston and give
your parents the fright of their lives.'

     `It would certainly be a shock. With the right map references, we
could travel the world in a blink of an eye,' he laughed. `Let's go and
have a beer, I'm thirsty and maybe something to eat,' he said taking her
arm into his. `Good job I brought some loose change with me.'

     So they wandered out into the market carrying their helmets and found
a cantina and had something to eat washed down with a couple of cold beers.

     `Have we enough money for some fruit and veg,' she asked as they
wandered through the market, `though you'll have to tell them what we want
for I can't understand a word they say.' He laughed and so they bought what
she pointed out and with a bag full, found a place for them to slip on
their helmets unobserved. They then walked back out into the square where
the machine was waiting for them, the people moving about completely
oblivious to the two of them walking up the ramp of the ship for it
suddenly to disappear as they set course for the camp.

     Audrey punched in the sequence of letters as they now called them and
the numbers before pressing the enter button. Three seconds later, they
were at the camp site, bypassing those squares they had to go through to
get to the town. Now they could do their market shopping in double quick
time.

     `Oooh it gives me the shivers to think that we could have walked
through the town stark naked and had sex on a market stall and they
wouldn't have seen us,' Audrey said.

     `You've got sex on the brain,' he laughed.

     `It's being married to such a gorgeous hunk of a man that does it,'
she said as she gave him a hug and a kiss. `Take me to bed and tell me how
much you love me,' she whispered in his ear.

     `After dinner,' he said. `If a man doesn't eat...'

    `...he doesn't have the strength, I know, you've said it once
before. Okay, dinner first and then bed,' she smiled and kissed him.

     They descended from the craft and went to the mess tent where she got
out two steaks and while they were on the grill, prepared a salad, all with
fresh things from their shopping. They didn't need to carry as much food as
they thought now that the town was so close in time.

     It was just getting dark when the meal was over, and as promised, he
went to bed early with Audrey. She was happy to do this and took her time
in undressing and letting him see her naked body and was pleased that it
aroused him. It was still covered by his shorts but it didn't take long for
her to get them off and take him in hand. She pulled him by his prick onto
the bed and immediately went down and took him into her mouth.

     She liked doing this and preferred it when he was really limp where
she could then bury her nose into his pubic hair as she had the whole of
his penis in her mouth. She also liked his smell, a man's smell and it was
to her now like perfume. Another part of his body she liked was his
balls. She would take the sac in her hand and gently heft them up and down
as if weighing them and also taking it into her mouth. Rolling his balls
around and feeling at how soft and fragile they were, those wonderful plums
that manufactured the semen that was not unpleasant to taste and
swallow. His tongue and mouth were also adored, especially with what he was
now doing after she had swung her leg over his body and moved so that her
sex was there for him to suck and lick at her as she was doing to him.

     With them both having their orgasm, it would take nearly an hour
before he was up and ready to now put himself inside her. With already
having come earlier, it made this session last that much longer which
pleased her no end of having his hardness constantly moving and pleasing
her. She didn't always come for a second time but loved to feel his coming
surge and splash into her vagina and still regretted it when he pulled
out. Never ever having felt so happy, either of them, they drifted off to
sleep.

                                                            *

     Next morning, they began to look for a Brontosaurus, and found a
herd. The beauty of the sphere was that it could jump about at will and
they could observe the animals without leaving it, just sitting up in the
dome. They followed three herds over the next month gathering enough
material to write many books on the subject when Brendan called a halt. He
was heeding his own warning of the danger of being too long in the
sphere. That they would continue to age at the normal rate but it only took
fifteen seconds in the helmet to have aged one hour. It doesn't seem much
stated like that, but over a long period of time it might appear as if they
had the disease of accelerated ageing.

                                                             *

     One of the reasons for Audrey's success of her thesis was that it was
about the first Brontosaurus remains to be found in South America for it
had been a widely held belief that they had only lived in North
America. Brendan had now pointed out that in just that one month, he'd
noticed that they were constantly on the move and it was always to the
north.

     They spent the next month writing a book that was simply titled
Brontosaurus on the lap top and when they couldn't add any more, sent it
off to Robin via the phone to his computer in the University. He eventually
got it published as being written by Professor's Fowler and Fowler and it
received great acclaim within their own circle but was much criticised by
the so called critics outside as pure fiction on the lines of Jurassic
Park. Though they didn't hear of this until a long time afterwards.

     After they had sent the book off, Audrey found a way of stopping the
revolving picture of the Earth on the computer that was opposite to the one
that showed the grid lines.

     It was the top row and second from the left marked if their ideas on
the alphabet and numbers were correct as G2. She had pressed this and the
globe stopped moving, though, typically, it stopped where there was only
water to be seen. She tapped this key again and it began to revolve
again. Quite excited at this, she played with this several times and
finally got it to stop to show the greatest part of the land mass shown.

     She was quite excited by this and it was with some trepidation that
she put her finger onto G3 and pressed it, her heart thumping inside her
chest and gave out a shriek of joy that brought Brendan over. For there,
down in the lower left hand side, a pin prick of light could be seen and it
had a small ripple of fading light moving out from the centre. This seemed
to pulse about every five seconds, the outward ripple like when a stone or
something is dropped in a pond. Strong waves at the impact then a lessening
of the circle the further it moves out until it faded away for another
pulse of light and the ripples to repeat themselves.

     `That's where we are on this land mass,' she cried excitedly, jumping
up and down in her chair. He had to agree with her supposition and asked
her to show him what she did. So she pressed G3 and the light faded and
then pressed G2 and the globe started spinning again.

     `We could go all the way to Russia or even China using this in
conjunction with the map over there,' she said.

     `Well we're not, we don't have the co-ordinates,' he said.

     `Let me find them on the other screen. We've got to find out if this
white spot that comes up on the globe moves or not?' she said plaintively.

     `It will take time to keep going from one plot to another and
recording each one as you go,' he said.

     `Let me try it Brendan, please,' she begged.

     `One hour, then see what the grid shows for the co-ordinates.' So with
pad and pencil, Audrey worked as fast as she could, noting down each page
as it were as she travelled in a northward direction until the hour was up.

     `Okay,' she called across to Brendan. `I've got the location. Can you
press G2 on the other screen and then G3 and see if the spot moves for we
certainly will considering the bloody number of grids I've gone through.'
He moved over to the screen and pressed those that she had said and saw the
light and the ripples.

     `Okay,' he said as he held the tip of a pencil lightly to the centre
of the white spot and Audrey put the code onto her screen and pressed the
enter button.

     They heard the familiar light hum and felt the slight tremor for about
three seconds and Brendan gave a shout.

     `It's moved! Only about a quarter of an inch, but it moved.' Audrey
gave a shriek and rushed across and flung her arms about him and kissed his
face.

     `Now we can cross the world,' she said, breathing heavily. `Let's go
take a look.' They went up to the dome and looked out at a forest of trees
that towered above them so that they were really hemmed in.

     `Where are we do you think?' she asked in a whisper.

     `Not the slightest idea. How many squares have we crossed?'

     `I don't know. I didn't count them,' she said in a small voice.

     `Well let's go back to where we were and you can count the number of
squares and I'll try and work out just how far north we went.' He went
across to the central well and looked at the reclining massaging chairs and
their consoles and just as Audrey joined him to descend to the map room, he
stepped away.

     `Audrey. I've had an idea. Go down to the globe and tell me if I can
stop it spinning.' She gave him a quizzical look but went down anyway. `Can
you see it?' he called out.

     `Yes,' she called back. He then went to one of the seat's console and
pressed G2. `It stopped!' she shouted out. He then pressed G3. `Now the
spot has appeared,' her voice getting excited.

     `Now go to the grid map and punch in the camp site code,' he called
down, `but don't press enter.' He waited a moment until she called out that
she had done so and he felt a shiver run up his spine as his finger hovered
and then pressed the symbol G1.

     There came the hum and the tremor and he looked out at the blur and
then he saw the familiar scene out of the dome.

     `What did you do?' Audrey said, appearing as by magic up through the
vacant space of the well. `I heard and felt us move.'

     `Come and look,' he said and she moved over to him as he wave his hand
towards the outside.

     `The camp site,' she breathed out, recognising the landscape though
the existing camp wasn't visible whilst they were inside the sphere. He
moved over to a console and pressed the button G3 first and paused a moment
before pressing G2.

     `That should put the world back into a spin,' he laughed and he took
her hand and they went down to the map room on the deck below where they
could see that the screen did indeed show the planet turning once again.

     `You took an awful risk,' Audrey said, looking at him a little
reproachfully, though the tone of her voice was full of pride, belying what
her eyes were saying.

     `A calculated one my dear. Now how many squares had we moved?' he
asked briskly. She quickly got her papers and counted through the list she
had written.

     `Eighty six. How far would that be?' He sat down and worked it out.

     `Just over fourteen thousand miles.'

     `In just a few seconds,' she said in awe. `Where did we land?' He got
up and they poured over a large scale map of South America and he put his
finger on a spot after using a ruler.

     `Using this modern map, we landed just north of the Andes in Bolivia,
near the town of,' and he peered closer to the map, `Trinidad.'

     `Trinidad? I thought that was in the Caribbean?'

     `Well there's a place of that name here in Bolivia,' he said.

     `We've got a place called Boston in England too. Did you know that?'
Audrey asked.

     `Yes and you've also got Hollywood and lots of other names down in
Devon and Cornwall that we have in America,' he gave her a smile that was
also a smirk. She poked her tongue out at him for his smugness.

                                                            *

     They slept that night in the mess tent for that was where their bed
would be staying. Though it had been his intention with its construction
that they could have it up in the dome, but now that they could travel back
in seconds, it was better left in the camp.

     He explained again to Audrey using this as an example.

     `If we sleep for eight hours a day, in three years we will have slept
for one whole year. We will be one year older by just sleeping. Now if we
slept those eight hours in the ship, it wouldn't be one year but only just
over nine hours at our present time but we will still be one year older. We
would be ageing too fast it would appear to the people who know us, so the
less time spent in the machine is better for us in this respect. Now do you
understand?'

     `Yes but we've still got to use the damn thing to get about and learn
what we can,' she argued.

     `I'm not disagreeing with you on that. It's just that we cannot just
waste time by being in there and not doing something constructive. We can't
go back to Boston after one year and look as if I've aged ten. What would
they think?'

     `That your wife must be bloody good in bed?' she laughed and dodged
the slap he playfully attempted, grinning at her reply.

     But she knew he was right and so that became the pattern of returning
when they felt it was time for sleep even though this could still be in the
morning sometimes because of this time warp.

                                                            *

     Brendan had made progress on the screen and keyboard he had been
playing about with, finding the shift keys, save and delete ones too. He
was now reasonably confident to tackle one of the three screens they hadn't
as yet touched and so sat in one chair and with his hand movement, had the
chair move round to one of these.

     As the chair stopped, the screen lit up and he had it filled with
numbers down the left side and what he assumed was words on the right hand
side, though mostly filling it. The numbers were fairly far apart though
the words were on steady lines going down the screen.

     He was able to scroll backwards and then saw that even though the
numbers, sometimes close together, other times far apart, many words filled
the page. He went up through quite a few pages before stopping and began
scrolling back down.

     It was with a growing excitement that the numbers changed, well two
did. The first set of numbers didn't change and there was a space to the
next four numbers that didn't change either. Again there was a space with
another two that did change as he scrolled down.

     He'd found their calendar of sorts! He carried on down to the last one
and saw that the numbers read as 0012 1836 4706. The last two figures had
been 84 when he had stopped to go back to the beginning. Here, he scanned
across the words, a series of symbols with a space between the groups to
show that they were indeed words trying to comprehend where one sentence
ended and another began. On the third line came a set of numbers that
seemed familiar and having an inkling of what they might be, had the chair
move back to the grid map screen.

     `Yes!' he shouted, giving the arms of his chair a thump with his fists
that made the chair twitch and dither not knowing in what direction to go
from his hand movements. `Audrey!' he called out as he moved his chair
back, `Come and look at this!'

     `What is it?' she asked as she went over to stand by his chair, her
hand on his shoulder as she looked at the screen.

     `I believe I've found their log book.'

     `What's that?'

     `Travel diary. See, these figures on the left are their time date and
the rest is what they've seen or done, whatever. This,' he pointed to the
figures on the screens right, `is the last grid reference they stopped
at. The one where the ship was when you found it.'

     `That's wonderful,' she exclaimed. `Can you read it?'

     `No,' he said crestfallen. `But at least we're starting to get an idea
of their date system from this.'

     `Well it's not going to help if we don't know how they've arrived at
it. Like ours is based on the Earth going round the sun and the turning of
the Earth as it does so, you know, days and years.'

     `I know,' he said sadly, `but at least it's a start.'

     `Wait a minute!' Audrey said, her hand tightening on his
shoulder. `I've seen that set of numbers,' she said pointing to the group
of four on the left of the screen. `They're on the console of the Earth
turning.' She went over to that screen and they were there lit up on the
console. What she also noticed now was that their present grid reference
was there too. She moved back over to Brendan.

     `But if that's their date then, what do you think it is now? I think
we've established that over a hundred million of our years have gone past,'
she said.

     `I don't know unless we find some sort of calendar or clock in the
system. I'll clear this and see if I can find anything else.'

     This he did and began trying different combinations, noting down every
move he made. Sometimes he found something but without knowing their
alphabet, what came up didn't make sense. Audrey got bored watching him and
went and sat down in her chair and sent it round to the Earth screen.

     She began doing the same as Brendan, touching a key to see if anything
happened, noting it down. Five minutes later, she hit one key half way up
the console on the left and the date shimmered and now had a bold line
round it. This excited her and now she pressed the delete button and the
date disappeared. She already knew which key to press for it to return and
it did so. Now beginning to fidget in her chair, deleted it once again and
then type in a new set of numbers, 0041 1226 2791. She'd increased all the
numbers randomly, but was it years in the singular or in hundreds or
thousands, she had no way of knowing.

     `Brendan, would you come and look at this?' she said, so wanting to
press the enter button but it had to be his decision whether she did or not
for they were in it together if something went wrong. He came over and
stood as she had, his hand on her shoulder as he looked at the console. `I
think we can move the ship in time with this,' pointing to what she'd
done. `Can we try it?'

     `Well we were going to try it sometime so now is as good as any, but
be ready to cancel and get back to the original,' he said.

     `Here goes then,' she said and held her breath as she pressed the
enter button.

     The familiar hum came along with the slight tremor and the screen of
the earth went like a television set with its snow flake effect. It then
cleared to show just a haze where the Earth was and the ship was now
trembling quite a bit, something they had not felt before. They were silent
for a minute, the ship still moving slightly beneath them, the haze not
clearing from the screen.

     `Stand by to send it back,' Brendan said. `I'm going up top to look.'
He quickly left her side to go and stand in the middle and lift his hands
to disappear up into the dome. As he went up he raised his head but
couldn't see the sky it was so dark and yet he knew it should be light. It
was until he got close to the dome's glass that he could see it was
whirling dust blotting out the sky. This is some earthquake he said to
himself, the vibration that bit more apparent up top. But it would still be
prudent to move back in time if that was the way they had travelled he
thought as he went down to the map room.

     `Well?' Audrey asked, an anxious look on her face.

     `There's a hell of a dust storm outside and it feels like an
earthquake or something. I think we should move.'

     Audrey turned to the keyboard and deleted the date numbers and typed
in 0069 1226 2791 and pressed enter.

     `I meant back not forward,' he said when he saw the figures on the
screen as the hum came and the vibration. The screen went fuzzy again for a
moment before settling down to show them the Earth again.

     `Oh my God!' they both said in unison as they looked at the screen in
awe. `Will you just look at that?' Brendan breathed.

     `The continents have divided,' Audrey said in a scared voice, which
indeed they had. The picture of the Earth now had that familiar look of the
American continent now divided by water from Africa and Europe, the land
mass of Asia disappearing off to the right.

     `It looks bigger too,' he said.

     `Meteorites?'

     `More like an internal upheaval if you ask me,' he replied. `Christ,
it's lucky it didn't split in half to shift that much of the land. Let's go
up and have a look.' They both went and elevated themselves up to the dome
and looked out to see that there had been a considerable change in the
landscape.

     `Look!' Audrey cried out, grasping Brendan's arm. `The Andes! The
ridge has gone and the mountain range is now there.' True enough, it was as
she said. For as far as the eye could see, the Andes moved away into the
distance getting higher the further north they went. `Let's go out. I want
to see if the event that happened has put the Earth on its proper axis.'
Brendan felt her shiver with excitement as they went down the central core
to put their helmets on.

     They were quickly outside to see that the terrain was much different,
less trees but now they could see the beginning of that mountain
range. They squinted up at the sun and then lifted up their visors. They
didn't even look at the camp site, but kept lifting and lowering the
visors.

     `Yes!' she cried. `The axis has changed!'

     `Must have been one hell of a bang to do that,' Brendan
observed. Their visors were up now and they could see the camp and it
conjured up a vision of cold beer in Brendan. `Let's go and have a drink,
I'm parched,' he said. She agreed and took her helmet off and shook her
head to free her hair and he loved to see that action and was very glad and
lucky he felt, for having married her.

     `How many years do you think we've travelled then?' she asked as they
sat at the clear end of the mess table, tipping up her bottle to drink just
like an American male.

     `A few thousand I think,' he replied, drinking his beer the same way,
`though I had meant for us to go back, not forward.'

     `Well we can now see where to go,' she said in her defence, `and we're
now getting close to our time.'

     `Yes,' he laughed, `only a few more million years or so to go.'

     `Well the sooner we can get to the nineteenth or twentieth century,
the sooner we can work out their calendar.' He looked across the table at
this vibrant young woman he had married and felt a stirring in his loins.

     `Well we've had an exciting day so I think we should go to bed,' he
said.

     `Bed? It's not that late and I'm certainly not tired and ready for
sleep,' she replied.

     `I didn't say anything about sleeping,' he answered her with a wolfish
grin.

     `Oooh you darling,' she said with her lovely smile, quickly finishing
her beer and went and jumped on the bed to wait for him. He laughed at her
exuberance and finished his beer before going to the bed and undressing
her. Then after taking his own clothes off, joined her, both on the bed and
literally by sticking his erect cock up into her inner warmth.

     `I love this bed and what we do on it,' she said with her arms round
his neck, loving his steady moving in and out of her, feeling her gripping
him each time he was fully inside. Brendan loved the way she tried to
squeeze him there as his cock throbbed and pulsated in this fashion as he
fucked his adorable lovely wife. It pleased him immensely when he was able
to bring her to an orgasm and always felt the relief of being able to let
go himself and see the delight on her face when she felt him surge within
her.

                                                            *