Over a thousand light years from planet Earth and 20 million years ago the jungle planet of Zeran exploded. Its dominant species had never advanced past the Stone Age. They were a bipedal race called the Zan, similar to the species called man on planet earth, which had yet to evolve. The Zan’s development had stalled, mostly due to a plant. They called it “The Love Plant”. The Love plant, because it had the remarkable ability to be able to spray its pollen into the face of female Zan. Only the females! Once sprayed, the female entered a trance like state, used the male Love plant to masturbate and then immediately sought out the same female Love plant that had sprayed her. The female plant was fertilized by the female Zan when she inserted its penis like stigma into her vagina, once the female Zan had completed the act of fertilization they would come out of the trance. But they would totally have no remembrance of anything that had happened since being sprayed in the face. The plants had no age limits and no guilt. How they came to evolve to have this reproductive cycle is unknown.

The problem was that beyond having been in the reproductive cycle of the plant, the females constantly sought the same kind of experience over and over throughout their lives. They didn’t know why, they couldn’t remember the experience, but something imprinted in their subconscious minds made them seek the male Love plant and relive the experience over and over again.

The effects of this on their civilization was drastic. The number of women available for marriage was very very small, only four women were available for every ten men. As a result men fought for the right to possess a woman, once wed there was no guarantee that the wife wouldn’t be drawn to a male Love plant. Once sprayed the marriage was over. Sometimes a man would have to challenge eight to fifteen suitors trying to win the hand of one woman. Each fight was to the death. As a result men who had ideas for the improvement of their lives were often killed before bringing those ideas to fruition. So their civilization was not advancing, and the population was also in decline.

They had no idea that a planetoid was hurtling through space on an intercepting course at almost seventy five thousand miles per hour. When it made a direct hit on the planet the impact caused both planets to disintegrate, flinging pieces of both planets away from the impact site. Eighty percent of the rock was captured by the gravitational pull of the other six planets and the star they had called Ramu. But the twenty percent that didn’t come under the sphere of gravitational influence of Ramu and the remaining planets, and left the planetary system and began a journey through the galaxy. Some of these asteroids were large, some small, many of them were grabbed by the gravitational pull of the closest giant star and as a result gained speed, many crashed into other planets, but some had gained the velocity and the right trajectory to be slingshot around them gaining even greater speeds. Some of those were slung onward toward another gas giant and once again were slingshot around it, gaining even greater speed. A very small number were slung toward the outermost gas giant and survived to once again gain speed as they traveled an arc and slipped the grasp of the planet’s gravity once more. Now traveling tremendously fast the ones that had survived left the system and entered the Milky Way Galaxy.

Two of these asteroids seemed locked together, constantly spinning around each other. They were about the same composition and size. Both were about the size of a short school bus, and weighed thirty tons. They traveled together in silence over the eons, their course was sometimes affected by stars they traveled close to. Sometimes their speed was increased, but sometimes it was degraded, but never was it a significant amount. They were never captured, their course or trajectory was changed by just a few degrees several times, but a change of one degree could alter the final destination of their travel by light years!

As luck, or fate would have it, the pair of asteroids entered the planetary system of a star named Sol and as it was affected by the gas giants in its orbit, they lost speed and their trajectory changed several times. The last change occurred while passing close to a red rocky planet, the fourth planet from Sol. It changed the course just one quarter of a degree! But rather than miss the third planet and burn up in the sun, it entered into a trajectory that would enable the gravity of the planet to capture the pair. The gravitational forces tore the asteroids apart, one into two pieces and the other into over a thousand. They slowed so much that they dropped into an unstable orbit around the planet named earth by its inhabitants. Then three years later they fell into the atmosphere and became meteors.

Susan (Suzy) and Annie Wright were amateur astronomers. At just sixteen and fourteen, they were very happy to have a Celestron Nexstar 8SE Telescope. They had proven to their Dad that they were very serious about looking at the planets and stars, spending countless nights at all hours looking at the cosmos and always astounded at the tremendous size and distances they were seeing. Because of their dedication, he had bought them this very advanced computer controlled telescope for Christmas the year before. Now they spent even more time peering into the vastness of space. They kept a log which tracked all of the stars, nebulae, and galaxies they had observed. They spent a lot of time looking at asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt, the Kuiper Belt, as well as the Oort Cloud. They were part of an international team of mostly amateur astronomers who looked for asteroids that could pose a danger to earth, called the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. International Astronomical Search Collaboration Suzy had become very proficient at programming computers. She wrote and entered a program of her own making into the Celestron, it monitored objects and calculated speed and trajectory. If an asteroid was detected on an out of the usual trajectory or speed an alarm would sound. The amazing thing about her algorithms was the speed at which it would do those calculations.

The girls had missed seeing Oumuamua, an Interstellar object, the first object to be detected entering the Solar System from outside of the solar system. It had come from the galaxy, and transited on a path that took it close to the sun, then it was slingshot out of the solar system. That had occurred in 2017. The second occurred in 2019. 21/Borisov was a comet that was not caught in the gravity of the sun, they missed it too.

Maybe with this program, they could beat the professionals and find another interstellar object. Then they would get to name it! So they would set the alarm volume as high as it would go, then go to bed with the window open. They lived out in the Sonoran desert fifteen miles northwest of Marana, Arizona. Both of their parents worked for Homeland Security. The sky there had very few reflective lights to interfere with the telescope.

They scanned almost every night, only the weather would prevent them from scanning, cloudy, and or high winds were the most common reasons. It was late June at 3:36AM when the alarm went off. The object was between Jupiter and Mars, almost to the Main Asteroid Belt. Its speed was over a hundred and twenty thousand miles an hour, and slowing. Its trajectory was presently such that it would miss the earth by a good margin. But it was heading toward Mars. The computer backtracked the course and found that it had come from deep space; it was the third Interstellar object ever found.

Knowing that there was alway someone working at the Anderson Mesa Station and the Lowell Observatory, she called the number that was on speed dial. The phone rang at least ten times, but Suzy didn’t hang up. Finally someone picked up the phone,

“Anderson Mesa, how can I help you!”

“My name is Susan M. Wright, along with my sister, Annie. We have found an asteroid headed inbound from Interstellar space. It is approaching the Main Asteroid Belt going over one hundred twenty thousand miles per hour on a trajectory to come close to Mars!” She gave the man who had identified himself as Brad Davies, who was a Grad Student working on his Masters degree, all of the pertinent data for him to be able to locate it. Purely as a precaution Suzie had recorded the conversation along with a date and time stamp! One never knows who might try to make a name for himself by stealing something like this!

Brad Davies had immediately entered the coordinates given into the computer that controls the big telescope. As it moved slowly into position, he was making the calculations to adjust for the distance the asteroid had moved, the distance the earth had moved in relation to the orbit around the sun, the distance the earth had rotated on its axis, and even the distance the earth had tilted on its axis. He had already figured out the difference in altitude and the distance between the telescopes.

The girl had given him everything he had needed to find the asteroid, including the exact time she had spotted it and its exact trajectory. Smart girl! After finishing the calculations he input the corrected coordinates into the computer. Once in position he began moving the telescope in the direction of the movement of all the same factors to adjust for the distance traveled after he had calculated the spot in space it should have been. If all of his calculations were correct he should be able to see the object in just a few more seconds.

Thirty long seconds later it, or rather they came into few. It wasn’t one asteroid, it was two rotating around each other. Brad had the computer start following the object and let it establish its trajectory. And establish the size of these space rocks.

When the computer had finished the calculations he had it figure the effect that the gravity of Mars might change that trajectory and gasp at the solution. He quickly had the computer run the calculations again. Without the influence of Mars’ gravity it would miss the earth by several thousand miles, with the exertion of the influence included, it lowered that distance to a factor of one hundred miles, give or take one hundred miles.

There is a protocol for reporting an object that was on a trajectory that could impact the earth. It involved the push of a single red button. It was a button that no one wanted to push. Brad pushed it! This initiated a flash warning message across the world. Every observatory received the coordinates and trajectory of the objects. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, located deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and NASA were notified. The Pentagon, specifically the new United States Space Force (USSF), and the President were notified. And the heads of the Anderson Mesa Station, Brad’s bosses were notified. A whole bunch of important people were woken up. By the time everyone was notified the pair of asteroids were over two hundred and fifty thousand miles closer to earth.

At its present speed the asteroids would arrive in approximately four hundred thirty one days. They were not considered to be planet killers, but if they hit the earth at that speed, someone was going to have a very bad day!

Brad was involved in writing his Masters Thesis. It was about Directed Panspermia, that advanced civilizations would populate the galaxy with life by sending the building blocks of life out to the stars in asteroids, whether broadcast in general directions or sent toward a particular star system. The amino acids or even DNA would be protected on re-entry to a planet’s atmosphere by layers of rock and ice. It was a fascinating subject and he was enjoying looking at meteors that had been collected for hundreds of years, cutting thin cross sections and examining them under an electron microscope. He had found evidence that could help prove that life was seeded, but proving that it was someone’s intent to do so was very difficult if not impossible.

Astronomers both professional and amateur around the globe kept watch on the asteroid pair that had been named N62624SAW. Both Susan and Annie were awarded the Astronomical League Award and the National Young Astronomers Award in 2024 for their discovery. In addition Celestron and NASA both bid on Susan’s program, NASA’s deep pockets won with a bid of one and a half million dollars, plus a full scholarship all the way through a Doctorate for both girls at any University in the country.

Both girls continued to check on their asteroids periodically. The NASA computer’s prediction about Mars gravity changing the trajectory was quite accurate, confirming the calculations that Brad had done. The binary pair of asteroids were indeed set on a collision course with earth. The military of the major military and space countries of the world discussed sending a nuclear tipped rocket on an intersecting course but couldn’t agree on who, what, and how in which to do it. By the time they did reach a consensus the asteroids had past the point that deflecting them was possible.

As they came closer to the earth, new calculations showed that they wouldn’t hit the earth directly if at all. There was a possibility that they would be captured by the earth’s gravity and become satellites at least for a while.

Brad and the Wright sisters became friends and corresponded by texting and emails. On the day the asteroids were due to hit, or not, they gathered together and watched as the ISS broadcast live video of their approach. The world held its collective breath and prayed that it didn’t impact our world, or somehow take away our atmosphere. Their speed had dropped due to the position of Mars as it passed. It was now going a mere 75,000 MPH. That fact, and the angle it was coming toward earth, coupled with the distance from the earth caused the two asteroids to be captured in an elliptical orbit going out fifteen thousand miles then returning to pass one hundred and twenty miles away. The stress on the asteroids tore one of them in half and the other disintegrated into thousands of small to large rocks. It circled the earth like this for three years.

The International Space Station had to boost out of the way of the debris three times. Over that time three satellites in low earth orbit, 240 miles or so, were destroyed, costing over a billion dollars in damage. During the three years of orbit the asteroids constantly slowed, earth’s atmosphere actually extends out over two hundred and forty miles, the ISS had to fire its engines occasionally to regain its orbital path due to the very sparse molecules of atmosphere creating friction that slowed it down. The same was true of the remnants of the asteroids. Only they had no way to boost out. As they slowed the orbit began to decay. The smaller rocks began to fall into the thicker atmosphere, not having enough mass to perpetuate their orbit. It made the other meteor showers look plain. At first the rocks traveling around seventeen thousand miles an hour were small enough to burn up, but then larger pieces began to fall. Some of these didn’t completely burn up and they would hit the earth. Most landed in the oceans of the world, they cover seventy percent of the surface of the earth after all. But some hit the land, some hit buildings, cars and factories. People discovered just what the clause in their insurance policy meant when it wouldn’t pay off for an act of God! Suzy and Annie had watched the light shows at night for three months, sometimes if the rocks burned bright enough, they could see them during the day. Then NASA announced that the big ones were about to fall. Weighing approximately fifteen tons each, they weren’t going to burn up, and there was a very good chance that one or both would explode as one did in 1908 over Tunguska Siberia, which laid trees over in a huge area, the blast was heard in London. In the twenty-first century the largest such event happened in Chebarkul, Russia in 2013. Smaller air bursts happen around the world, twenty to forty three times a year. Size and composition of the meteor has a great deal to do with the explosive force of the blast. If one of these exploded over a city it could be devastating.

Both girls were out most of the night watching the sky, NASA had predicted that at least one of the pieces would enter the earth’s atmosphere in the Southwestern United States. The girls wanted to watch it, they got more than they had bargained for! It came in at a shallow angle to the southwest of their location. Close to the border with Mexico. It was out over the Sonoran Desert, not much out there. It was brighter than the sun after it left the Thermosphere and entered the thicker air of the Mesosphere, then when it reached the even thicker air of the Stratosphere it exploded! The blast knocked down anything standing in an area thirty miles long and twenty miles wide. The blast wave hit the girls and threw them eight feet into their swimming pool. But that saved them from getting severely burned by the heat wave that followed the blast. Then pieces of the meteor began to fall, some were large, but most were small. A few were very large, twenty to thirty pounds or more. The girls huddled together in the pool’s Grotto feature that was made with several rocks stacked on top of each other to produce a waterfall feature and a hidden sitting area.

Rocks rained down for over five minutes, before gradually coming to a stop. The girls swam out of the grotto and to the ladder, getting out of the pool. They found that the landscape has drastically changed. Their house had been hit several times, the garage was totally demolished by a huge rock that had to weigh over a ton. The sands of the desert were covered in rock an inch to three inches deep, for as far as they could see. Their house was the epicenter of the debris from the asteroid explosion.

The next morning their parents came home to the devastation. They called their insurance agent who came out to the house to survey the damage. As Daniel Wright suspected, the clause about “Act’s of God” was cited by the agent as the reason his company might not be liable for paying for repairs. The agent took pictures and would submit the claim, but felt certain that it would be rejected.

Daniel called his lawyer and they discussed options if the claim was rejected. The lawyer, a friend, advised him that suing the insurance company would be a terrible idea! Their lawyers would play a delaying action game until a judge would order them to set a date for a hearing. Depending on the judge they could delay for two to five years and ultimately cost the homeowners what it would have cost to do the repairs in the first place. The girl’s mother, Bonnie, had immediately started cleaning the house, with girls helping. She was telling the girls what had happened to them when the meteor had exploded.

“We were flying our usual border patrol pattern, using the FLIR camera and calling in any groups that were walking up from Mexico. We were traveling East when a very bright light illuminated the interior of the Cessna, then an even brighter light shone for a few seconds and went out. Your father decided we needed to get some air under us and started to climb as quickly as that plane would go without stalling. It was a good thing that he had, because we had reached eight thousand feet when the blast wave hit us. It took him until three thousand feet to regain control of the airplane. Had we stayed at two thousand feet, well we wouldn’t be having this conversation!”

“Wow, Mom! That had to be scarier than having to hide in the grotto listening to the rocks hitting the ground. Just think of the irony, we discovered the asteroids and of all the surface of the earth it ends up here!” Suzy said.

Annie spoke up, “We need to do a Go Fund Me to get money to repair the house, or maybe sell the meteorite fragments! Or both! We need to call Brad, maybe it would help him with his thesis!”

The girls called Brad, on speaker, when he answered they said, “Guess where the meteor landed ... on our house!”

“I was just getting in my jeep to go look for where it hit! I’ll bring my swimsuit and come to your house instead!”

“We’ll have to be quiet, Mom and Dad have the graveyard shift this week!”

What no one knew was that the yard irrigation sprinkler system had come on just before sunup. While not all the sprinklers could work their way through the rock covering them, some did. Those that did, soaked the rock with liquid water for the first time in over twenty million years. Then the light of the sun, a much more energetic light than their previous sun, shone on them, seed pods began exploding silently. Still viable after all that time, those seeds that fell onto the sandy soil, immediately began sending roots down deep into it. By eight o’clock, the roots had found the water table and began absorbing great quantities of water. The seedlings grew at an astonishing rate, faster than dandelions. By nine o’clock their stocks were over a foot tall and had leaves similar to that of a corn plant, but a light purple. They had unfurled and were drinking in the sunlight causing the growth rate to double. Over five thousand plants were growing in an area just short of an acre. Interestingly, those seeds that were thrown into the pool died, while others blown into fresh water containers flourished until their water ran out. They didn’t die, they just stopped growing, their leaves curled up to limit exposure to the sun and retain the water they held mostly in their stems.

By the time the girls got around to going outside, the plants were three feet tall, about their limit in height. Rather than growing upward, they grew basically the same kind of sexual parts that an hibiscus has. Only these plants were either male or female. The female had a pistil whose stigma was a cylinder two inches in diameter and eight inches long, on average, resting on top of a style that was over a foot long. The male’s stamen had a similar arrangement with an anther about the same size and shape as the female’s stigma. Its filament was about the same size as the female’s style. but the male also had another stem that had a bulb on the end surrounded by petals, in a contrasting color of yellow or light green to the flower pedals which were iridescent blue, or purple. The scent the male flower exuded was different from that of the female plants. Both smelled like the perfume Shalimar, but the male plants had a vanilla-like smell mixed in.

The girls looked out beyond the patio to see a light purple sea of plants with beautiful large flowers over a foot in diameter. At first they didn’t notice that as soon as they stepped onto the patio, the center yellow or light green flower within a flower about six inches across, all swung in their direction and locked onto one or the other girl’s face.

Whether the plant recognized that the females were not Zan females it would be impossible to tell. They did however recognize that these two creatures that had come within their perceptive range were females. How they knew was a matter of much debate later. Some thought it was how they smell, others believed that the plant could see using a type of radar. They also discovered later that it didn’t matter what age the girl was, one year to ninety nine years old.

Of course the girls knew that these were unlike any terrestrial plant on planet earth. It wasn’t the color, there are several purple plants on earth, it was the speed at which they had grown! The smells enticed the girls and the shimmering iridescent colors enchanted them! They walked toward the nearest plants, the inner flower of the male plants turned with them, and locked onto their faces.

The effective range of the inner flower was just over ten feet, but they usually waited until the target was within half of that distance and facing directly at them before firing. As both girls approached the plants, drawn by both the smell and their color, two male plants’ inner flowers suddenly exploded into their faces, a cloud of gas enveloped their heads, their lungs filled with the narcotic gas as they gasped in surprise.

A strange and very alien feeling came over the two girls. They turned toward each other and smiled knowingly. Then they came together in a very unsisterly kiss. Their tongues became familiar with each other as they took each other’s clothes off. Nipples ached in wanting to be touched, pinched and pulled, hands followed the desire. Then they touched each other’s pussies, dripping with their own form of nectar from the two petals that protected their vagina; they had parted soon after inhaling the gas. Their stigma, located at the top of the petals had become engorged with blood as their excitement grew and continued to grow. Suddenly they were on the patio deck in a position that allowed them both to consume the nectar emanating from their respective holes. And drink they did, sucking each other’s clits until they both exploded in their very first orgasms given to them by another person.

The plants were confused, always before the female had immediately turned around and submitted to the male plant. Whether it was a genetic change made by traveling in space, or it was caused by the physiological differences between the Zan and Homo Sapien, they would never know. What was known was that this might result in the death of Homo Sapiens on earth!

Suddenly both girls stood up, they both had a deep desire for more. They weren’t exactly sure what the more was, but they knew it involved the plant with the inner yellow flowers, specifically the ones that had sprayed them. Going to that plant they turned around and grabbed the stamen and without pausing they thrust it through their virgin barriers into their vaginas and began to move it vigorously in and out, in and out, over and over, again and again. After five minutes the girls felt the same feeling they had felt just moments before building up inside of them and both girls exploded in an even stronger orgasm, triggered by the plants anther. Then the anther exploded releasing a sticky liquid with pollen in it. Both girls fell to the ground in exhaustion. Just a few minutes later they were compelled by some primal force to go to the female plants. There they grabbed the pistil and inserted the plant’s stigma into their pussies. The stigma was coated with fur like short hairs, as they stroked in and out almost as vigorously as before, the fur collected the liquid pollen, each hair follicle was a seed. Once it had collected a spore of pollen it retracted into itself and began to change. Once again they felt the feeling building and both once again had tremendously powerful orgasms that relaxed their cervix and allowed more of the liquid pollen to drain from the uterus.

Brad walked into the backyard just before they climaxed! He stood aghast at what he was seeing. But as he kept watching he became more than a little horney! He couldn’t help himself, he extracted his dick from his pants and offered it to both girls, he didn’t care that they were both under eighteen. Actually, he didn’t even think about it. They both grabbed his larger than average cock and began taking turns sucking it deep into their mouths, as if they had been doing it all their lives. Was it another permutation of the plants? It didn’t take Brad long before he shot his load into both of their mouths.

Just as he unloaded, Daniel and Bonnie walked out onto the patio, they didn’t even notice the light purple plants, all they could see was a man taking advantage of their sweet and innocent daughter’s! They hadn’t gotten ready for work yet, and had yet to buckle on their service pistols. That was the only reason he survived that initial five minutes. But they were approaching quickly with a look in their eyes that didn’t bode well for Brad! He quickly zipped up his pants and began keeping the pool between him and them.

As Bonnie approached the girls the male plants inner flower locked on her face and as she leaned down to check on her girls the closest one burst open and a cloud of gas enveloped her head. For a stunned few seconds, Bonnie stared at her naked girls, then with a determination of a suicide bomber on a mission, she tore off her clothes and almost tackled Suzy in getting between her legs and latching onto her pussy with an open voracious mouth bent on sucking her juices out. Suzy wrapped her legs around her mother’s body and held her tight against her pussy. Within a minute she had built to a huge orgasm, then another, and another. Each time squirting several ounces of a sweet liquid down her mother’s throat.

Daniel looked at his wife in surprise, but a strange compulsion took hold of him, and he stripped off his clothes and started fucking his wife’s upturned butt in her pussy. Each downward stroke forced his wife’s mouth and tongue deeper into his oldest daughter’s pussy, making the girl orgasm even greater. After several minutes of frantic sex he orgasmed just as she did. Both of them fell to their sides and lay on the patio enjoying the aftershocks of a very satisfying climax.

Bonnie raised up and sought the flower that had blasted her face. Finding it she backed up to it and grabbed its anther and started shoving it in and out of her body. In her already heightened state of arousal, she started cumming within four strokes. But she kept stroking over five minutes until the anther exploded its sticky liquid deep in her pussy. Letting go of the now limp and useless anther, she backed up to the nearest stigma and began fucking it. Plunging it in and out repeatedly like a jackhammer on steroids. An orgasm was building and building until it suddenly exploded into the greatest orgasm of her life. Overloaded in pleasure, she passed out.