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- "LURE OF THE PANDA PEOPLE"@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
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- An erotic story set in the not-so-far future.
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- It was a warm day in late spring in he year 2014. Karen Ball had
- just gotten off work from her job as an artificial intelligence programmer
- for the huge North Am CRYSTAL HOLOGRAPHIC CO. It was 4 p.m. and she had a
- date that was so exciting that she could hardly contain her eagerness.
- If the people she worked with knew whom she had a date WITH, she MIGHT be
- in danger of losing her job, but that was all, there was nothing ILLEGAL
- in what she was going to do, and she hoped that someday MOST people would
- come around to her way of thinking that many others nevertheless shared.
- In fact she had several close friends that had enjoyed these special
- 'dates' and after hearing their erotic and sometimes rather wild and
- fantastic accounts of what they had experienced, she just KNEW that she
- would never be completely satisfied until she had tried one, also. Her
- friend Becky had arranged this date for her, and now she was almost at
- the address that had been given her. Her date's name was Bruce Pong, and
- he was a 'hybrid' cross between a Giant Panda and a man!
- This was her first time trying something like this, but deep inside
- her she had a wonderful warm feeling as she entered the front door of the
- apartment building, that it would not be her last! She climbed a flight
- of stairs until finally she was at apartment C-33. Nervously, as her
- trembling finger slowly reached to push the door buzzer, thoughts flashed
- through her head as to how such a wonderful thing as a Panda-Man could
- come to be. It had really all begun back in the late 1990's when a
- millionaire Biologist/Geneticist named Prof. Russell had, at the age of
- 60, secluded himself for several years on a small tropical island that he
- owned. He did not appreciate visitors, and never left the place until he
- died of heart failure in the early 2000's, having had all his supplies
- flown in. And strange supplies they were, indeed, any and all sorts of
- laboratory equipment and machinery and components and wild animals!
- No one could really figure out what the old Professor was really up
- to as he toiled long days on his island, running from one booby-trapped
- and electric-fence guarded compound to another at odd times, as reported
- by casual boaters who often wondered at his strange behavior. Some
- thought he was dangerous. others thought his mind had snapped, but no
- one really guessed the truth, and as he was stationed in International
- waters and nothing that he had ordered delivered to the island was
- considered to be any real kind of threat to anyone, people left the man
- that some called 'Old Looney' pretty much alone, if for no other reason
- than the heavily-fortified fortress-like aspect of the place that he had
- set up to keep people away from whatever he was doing.
- Oh, there were times that he radioed to the mainland for hired help
- to do construction work and other things that he was unable to do
- himself, but even they were allowed access to only a small part of his
- compound, and as soon as the work was done, he sent them back, their pay
- sent directly into their account back home from his Swiss bank. The
- people who worked for him did say that, although extremely odd and
- fiercely protective of most buildings on his island, he did seem to be a
- nice old man, and no one ever said that he was not generous when it came
- time to pay them, so no one really minded doing work for him. Anyway,
- one day after the turn of the new century, All of the radio links that
- Prof.Russell used to occasionally keep in touch with the mainland suddenly
- began beaming out a strong S.O.S. on many frequencies, interfering with
- normal radio communication. Unable to contact Dr. Russell and almost
- sure that something was wrong, a rescue team was sent to his island.
- Upon arriving, they found that all of the power had been shut off to
- the high-voltage electric fencing, electronic locks, and booby-traps
- surrounding his compound., but not to the interior of the buildings
- themselves., so it did'nt take them too long to get into his encampment.
- They found Russell on the floor of the first building, hand clutching his
- chest, radio control panel in his other hand, the long coiled cord snaking
- up to the main unit. On the wall they noticed that the main switch on the
- island's electronic defense panel had been turned off, probably by Russell
- himself. But why? If he did not want anyone on the island while he
- lived, why would he want to make it easy for strangers to get on it after
- he had died? Was there something here that he felt needed to be found
- quickly? One man touched Russell's body. It was already cold. However,
- upon feeling his chest, the man opened Russell's shirt and noticed that he
- had a small flat foil packet taped to his chest. It contained a note.
- The note read, in part: "If you are reading this note, it probably
- means that I am dead. I have labored many long years on a project that I
- hope will bring harmony, peace, and unity to mankind. We have been in the
- 'space age' for over half a century and despite the billions upon billions
- of dollars spent on probes, telescopes, radio antennas, and other things,
- there has so far not been one shred of evidence to show that life exists
- anywhere else in the cosmos. I believe that it does, but it is currently
- beyond our means to detect or contact such life. In the centuries to
- come, when we have the capabilities to reach other stars, I feel that we
- will find much life, but also discover that INTELLIGENT life such as we
- consider such will be exceedingly rare. I have sensed for a long time
- the dissapointment coming from our failure to find other intelligence, and
- have felt the great longing and loneliness that humans feel in being the
- only true intelligent species on Earth. We can freely communicate with
- each other, it seems, but not with anything else. I have worked hard to
- change all that, to give mankind friends in intelligence and future
- companions who will keep him from falling into the boredom and stagnation
- that loneliness can bring. Please search the other buildings immediatly,
- and take care of and raise my children. God bless you.'
- "My Children", the medical team wondered. What the devil? Professor
- Russell never married. He HAD no children! Nevertheless, as they began
- to search the other buildings, they soon discovered what Dr. Russell had
- been doing. And the next morning it was making headlines all over the
- world. Inside were large cages and.....playpens, containing what appeared
- to be animals but most of them with the shape and form of young bipedal
- human children of two or three years, fur-covered bodies notwithstanding!
- Many were crying a strange yowl that was something of a cross between a
- baby's cry and a puppy's whine. There were dozens, of all types and
- descriptions! The team was standing around in utter astonishment at the
- way the situation was already when a 'child' that somehow resembled a
- wolfish creature reached for one of the female team members through the
- netting of his playpen and SPOKE, 'hungwy. pweese, bottle.' She fainted.
- After an 'inventory' was taken, it was found that there were 8
- 'children' who had wolfish characteristics, actually they appeared 'human'
- in body proportions only, and resembled nothing else so much as young
- Werewolves. There were 17 who looked, apart from their humanoid form,
- exactly like black-and-white giant pandas! Then 6 were found who
- resembled black-and-brown bear cubs, and 22 others whose apparent identity
- was not exactly immediatly certain. They all ended up being shipped back
- to the United States, which took immediate jurisdiction, and a fierce
- legal battle ensued for many years over ownership of them and the legal
- rights, if any, that they had. Other countries wanted them. Scientists
- wanted to study or dissect them. a few, narrow-minded individuals thought
- that they should be destroyed, or made slaves. but after being in the
- custody of researchers for a while, it soon became apparen that these
- young 'animal-kids' were at LEAST as intelligent as fully human children
- of a similar physiological age, and were much stronger in most cases.
- they were soon learning to read, write, spell, even create things as good
- as, or in some instances, BETTER than a human could do.
- It was soon decided that, given the gentle behavior they showed, so
- unlike the animals some of them resembled, and their great intelligence
- and learning ability, that they should be given the full rights and
- priviledges of any fully-human citizen, and that anything less would be
- cruel and inhuman. That was the start, nearly 14 years ago. Many of the
- Professor's 'children' it was found, reached full Adult body maturity in
- as little as 7 or 8 years, longer than it would take a 'pure' animal to do
- but shorter than the time it takes a human. Wether they would have a full
- human lifetime would not be known for many years, but one Doctor gave most
- of them possible life spans reaching into the late 50's, AT LEAST. It
- appeared that Russell had managed to create most of his 'family' by
- microscopically combining living DNA code from two different species, and
- then growing the embryo in tanklike artificial wombs and also using other,
- pure animal species as surrogate mothers. Since the DNA (and RNA) of
- any species is simply molecular code, it can be extracted from the cell of
- one kind and parts of it 'spliced' into the living egg cell of another
- species, without any danger or fear of rejection. In fact, the egg cell
- not only accepts the strange code as part of itself, but actually thinks
- it has been fertilized when this splicing has been done and begins to
- grow! Russell had apparently used human eggs he had obtained.
- The male cells did not necessarially have to be sperm, all Russell
- needed was the genetic code contained within any living cell from an
- animal's body., to combine with the egg. He had apparently exhaustively
- studied the maps of the millions of human gene bits compiled in the 1990's
- and had a thorough knowledge of what traits the most important ones were
- for. Some were for the color of eyes or hair, while other gene bits were
- responsible, if inherited, for disorders such as leukeimia or haemophilia.
- Still others apparently did nothing. What Russell had done was to make
- his own genetic-bit code maps of the animal species whose cells he was
- using, and using scanning microscopy and micro-lasers, had eliminated the
- animal traits that he found undesireable, such as those for undue
- aggressiveness, and spliced the remaining genetic material into the human
- DNA traits that he wanted, such as those coded bits representing the
- potential for high intelligence, upright stature, large brain size, and
- other items. It probably took him dozens of failed attempts for each egg
- cell that he finally succeeded in getting to grow and divide, but up until
- the day he died, he never gave up trying.
- And the surprises were still not over. It was never learned exactly
- how, for example, Russell had managed to obtain some live body cells from
- a Giant Panda, but it was speculated that a fellow scientist stationed in
- China or one of the world's major zoos had a hand in helping him obtain
- them. It was clear that of all the creations he had worked on so far,
- Russell was most proud of his Panda-people, not only because they were
- most beautiful of form and pleasing to the eye, but because they seemed
- to show the most potential for adaptability into the planet's family of
- man. Of all of the genetically-mutated life forms removed from the
- island, almost all showed at least human-level intelligence potential,
- although it must be remembered that this was human-type intelligence as
- interpreted by the thought-processes of another species! It could not be
- expected to be identical, but was instead a kind of intelligence all to
- its own, and no one could ever be sure what the end result would be.
- After removal from the island to the mainland, 2 of the Panda-human
- children died, plus a few from the other species types, of some unknown
- malady. it was rumored that some religious fanatic poisoned them, but
- this has never been proven. Another surprise awaited when the pure animal
- females of different types---bears, wolves, and others---were removed from
- the island and found to have been already impregnated with embryos as
- surrogate mothers. They began to give birth several weeks to a few months
- later, and this added 4 new Panda-people to the population, among 12 of
- other gene-types. As they grew, due to their gene-selected gentle nature
- and high intelligence and eagerness to learn, the Animal-children were
- allowed to mix and play with human children of their own general weight-
- range. There were a few non-serious accidents, mainly because the animal-
- children were surprised to find that their human playmates were so much
- weaker and more easily injured than they were. But it was not at all
- uncommon to see kids and non-kids playing together on a playground, or the
- 'weird' kids being invited over to their friend's house for dinner. And
- someone thought of giving these geneomorphs average American first names,
- and last names relating to their background in some way... as in the case
- of Bruce Pong, who was one of the original 17 Panda-kids!
- One final surprise came in the last few years when it was learned
- that some of the animal-people of the same mixed species type had managed
- to impregnate each other. Far from being sterile, these were not
- 'hybrids' at all, but an entirely new genetic variation or race of
- creatures that were fertile! Russell had done his work well. And it was
- found out that when the mothers gave birth, the babies were true to form
- to their parents....no freaks, throwbacks, or deformities. the world had
- indeed been given not one, but several races of non-human friends with
- which to associate and grow with. Many of them, especially the Panda-
- people, had no trouble finding jobs to support themselves or places to
- live, mostly due to their celebrity status. many were paid handsomely
- just to visit a clinic a few times every week and let doctors and
- scientists do studies and lectures on them. And, surprising as it may
- seem, at least the Panda-people had inherited something else from their
- human-spliced genes.....a year-round intense sexual drive.
- This had been rumored at for some years as the growing pandas were
- caught at least several times playing 'doctor' with their human
- friends...as ordinary human kids will sometimes do. But it really became
- apparent two years ago when a couple of the 19 adult Panda-people were
- known to have made an 'underground' pornographic movie., with humans.
- Such things were not illegal in 2014, but it was something that was not
- ever mentioned in 'proper' society, hence the 'underground' status of the
- movies. Nobody was really sure, anyway, exactly WHICH Panda-people were
- in the movies, because to most humans they all looked almost exactly
- alike!. But as all these thoughts flashed through her head in only an
- instant, Karen realized that that was then and this was here and now! She
- pressed the button and heard a buzz. a few seconds later she could hear
- the stepping of heavy padded feet and the door began to open, and she
- found herself looking into the face of what for all the world appeared to
- be the face of a Giant Panda like you see in the zoo, except that this one
- was a bit over two meters tall and standing upright, wearing a bathrobe!
- "Hello?" he spoke in a strange and mellow, pleasant non-human voice. She
- was looking down at the floor where he was standing at what she thought
- were black house slippers of some kind that he was wearing, until she
- realized that she was looking at his real, furry feet! "You must be
- Karen", he then said. "Won't you please come in? I think you're very
- pretty." Blushing as she entered his apartment, and wondering if he was
- coming onto her already, or just trying to be friendly?
- The air in his apartment had an odd herbal odor of some sort, but
- the place appeared to be very clean and spacious and lavishly furnished...
- Hell, she thought, it was a HECKUVA lot nicer than her OWN apartment.
- "Won't you sit down", he pleasingly asked, "and I'll get us something to
- drink?" "Oh....Yes", she finally spoke. "Forgive me., it's just that
- I've never had a ...date... with someone like you...I mean, someone as
- nice as you....I mean I've never ment someone like you actually in person
- before!" Bruce the Panda-man chuckled, "Yes, It's ok, I understand
- perfectly, I get that reaction from almost everyone. I'll be right back."
- He went into what was apparently the kitchen and in a few moments she
- could hear the tinkling of glass, and soon after he appeared holding a
- tall clear glass of pink liquid in each hand. "I like wine"., he said, I
- hope that does'nt surprise you. "Uh, not at all", she replied, "I enjoy
- it too. Are you an....uh....vegetarian also?" "Not really", he said as
- he sat down beside her on the overstuffed couch. "I eat some chicken or
- fish once in awhile, but don't really care for much other kinds of meat,
- so I guess I'm a semi-vegetarian of a sort."
- She noticed the many potted bamboo plants sitting around the
- apartment. "Do you eat that stuff, too?", She asked. "Only once in a
- while, as a snack of sorts. My gut is a little different from my wild
- cousins'. Actually, I really enjoy rice, cottage cheese, pudding...." he
- trailed off as he looked at her. His bathrobe had come open, and she
- could see that he was wearing what appeared to be a giant-size pair (about
- size 'XXXLLL' she would guess) of men's boxer shorts underneath., around
- his... well, he really had no 'waist' of sorts, but he was wearing them
- just the same. She noticed her stare and looked down towards his own
- lower body. She felt her face flush as she blurted, "Uh, I was noticing
- how big you are., I MEAN, how big the shorts you are wearing are! I mean,
- you uh, must be quite heavy?" "Not really", he said in such a nice voice.
- "actually, I'm overweight". "You know", Karen said, looking now at his
- black furry arm that was holding his glass of wine, "Until this moment I
- always kind of thought that this whole animal-men business has been some
- kind of huge prank with people in costumes or robots or something,
- but....you're real, ....are'nt you?"
- His thin, black lips, shiny with wine, curled upwards into a smile
- at both corners. "Gee, I sure hope so", he giggled. Still looking at the
- shiny black textured fur on his arm, she hesitatingly reached her hand
- out, and it hovered in midair. Fingers trembling, she asked, "May I---may
- I touch you?" "Sure" he replied, whereupon her fingers touched the smooth
- fur of his arm and, light as a feather, began to slowly stroke up and
- down. His fur was not quite as smooth as it appeared to the eye, but was
- not coarse, either. Taking her other hand, she massaged and felt of his
- heavy arm, feeling the strong muscles and heavy bones beneath, as he
- watched her with interest. Taking his paw, er..hand, she kneaded his
- short fingers slowly open and say that it was much like a human hand as
- far as manipulative ability was concerned, only the whole hand was heavy
- and covered with black fur on the back, and the fingers and thumb were a
- bit stubbier, though thicker, and instead of fingernails he had claws on
- the ends, which had been trimmed short. And the fingers had smooth black
- naked pads underneath. She was fascinated by his body structure.
- She lay her palm inside his, and he slowly closed his hand around
- hers, as if they were shaking hands. Her other hand, that was massaging
- his arm, continued to do so, and she let her face slowly sink into the
- wonderful cusion of fur covering that heavy appendage. "You...you really
- ARE real", she sighed, as she knew it was true., and she could even smell
- the soft, exotic, barely-there, natural, non-human scent on his arm. He
- sat the glass of wine down that he had been holding with his other hand,
- and replied, "Gee, like I said before, I sure hope so. Uh, may I touch YOU
- now? Would it be allright with you?" Her eyes were closed as her face
- lay buried in the fur of his arm, she looked as if she was in a dream, and
- mumbled, "uh-huh, You Bet!" Accepting her invitation, he slowly leaned
- his massive head over toward the back of hers and she could feel his warm
- breath softly carressing the back of her neck. He gently touched his
- shiny, moist, warm, wet black nose into her blonde hair and began drinking
- in her human scent, along with the scent of the perfume and shampoo that
- she had used. He looked as if he, too, were in a dream as he slowly drew
- in her natural scents, with a nose and olfactory arrangement that was
- many, many, many times more sensitive than even the best human nose.
-