34 Lance – but now what? (2/2)

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”Ok, then,” I said.”So step one is to recruit these girls if we can, is that what I am hearing?”

” Yes,” Serina responded. ”My question is do we talk to them all at once or one at a time.”

”I think all at once. Yes, it is going to be chaotic, but if we set up the Medit correctly, we can cancel the knockout but still leave the girls sedated.

”On your head so be it,” Serina said, and so it was.

We were again dressed in our everyday wear instead of the Imperial light armor when we started to wake them.And if you must know, it took longer than you would expect to transfer from the armor to our everyday wear, I think I mentioned that we were newly married? Besides, there is something special about skin to skin contact that helps heal the soul.

A short, shapely girl with huge puppy-dog eyes and deep chocolate brown hair was the first to get the injection.We soon found out her name was Ashley and she was a senior in high school and was looking towards becoming a Doctor if she could fight the system and get into medical school. That we applauded her brought her to our side instantly, as apparently a women Doctor in 1948 was a strange thing. Just the luck of the draw or what I am not sure, but it turned out she was a pulp fiction addict and waking up after being kidnapped (again) by two aliens in a flying saucer did not totally freak her out. Just mostly it did….

Blonde Barbara was the next girl we woke up. Also as shapely as they come. Luckily she was Ashley's friend and neighbor.These two were the last ones to join the bikers little party and were only slightly traumatized as it had all been fun and daring until they saw what was happening to the other girls. To say that Barbara was freaked out of her mind is a gentle understatement.But contrary to the old wives tales, Blonde did not equal dumb. Again we lucked out.

Marjorie was the girl who we rescued before the nasty stuff happened. Still, to say that waking up in a UFO with a couple of actual space aliens after being practically stripped by a gang of bikers was not even more traumatizing was a safe bet. Bolstered by our drugs and in the arms of hysteria she just sat and looked at us. Not speaking, not moving.Marjorie worked in the local library and fortunately, Ashley knew her also.We had to leave her in the hands of Ashley and Barbara for the time being, and I think just being silently held by other two girls was helping. As I heard a slight sigh escape from her lips and her body tension reduce slightly.

We woke the two who had suffered the most at the same time. It seemed appropriate as the two redhead girls were obviously twins. (Think twin Maureen O'Hara just before Hollywood discovered her.)Serina had performed emergency first aid, so they were no longer feeling any pain. She had also cleaned them up which seems to make a difference to the girls. After what they had been through why being clean was that big a deal I have no idea but as they looked at each other, I could feel that it did.Serina went into a three girl huddle with them as they all cried and the two girls looked at me as if I was going to be road kill soon.It was not until after the tears slowed and Serina came into my arms, for solace, that the if-looks-could-kill glare that I had been receiving diminished.Later we found that they both were attending Annhurst College in Connecticut, but had come home on break.

It was only later that I found out just how lucky it had been that Serina had heard Marjorie crying. The number of female college graduates in this time period was in the single digits. For us to have found five girls who not only had looks but brains was unbelievably lucky.

Once everyone had cried themselves out and were as normal as one could be on a flying saucer orbiting the earth; the sight of which was just outside the cockpit windshield, even the possibility of which was even unthought of by all but one of the girls.Serina started our sales pitch.