Shamus had only two months left on his term. He had volunteered quickly. The decision was easy. It was an adventure, a promise of a future and a way to get away from the things that weighed heavy on his shouder.
He remembered the day he signed. The first four years were over and the Lt. Colonel offered him a deal.
"Immediate promotion, two months training and you're off. Imagine the value you'll have to earth companies afterwards or an even longer career in the uniform" he said smiling. They were always friendly when trying to get you to reup.
But Shamus didn't hesitate. His hand signed so quickly he could feel the Captains bars being pinned on his collar before putting the pen down.
"Congratulations Captain" The Colonel said "If you do it right, you'll be wearing silver leafs like mine in no time at all".
His father had threatened to tell. The man was livid finding Shamus in bed with Connor one of his college chums. He was on leave and it all happened spontaneously.
They had engaged in satisfying each other during the years they shared a dorm room and an apartment. They didn't consider themselves lovers, just horny.
Since Shamus' father was retired military, he knew the man was serious about getting him kicked out.
The view across the rocky terrain was both desolute and beautiful at the same time. The millions of years it took to create the moon as he saw it was hard to imagine on earth. But when you saw it, the big bang became very real.
The dome was one of twenty now. There were more being contstructed, there always were. Shamus helped coordinate the structuring using the large computer screens and IC, instant communicator device he helped to invent.
He felt the Major's leafs given him after only two years. His computer skills, vision and creativity established his role on the settlement. In ten years time, there would be not only regular commuting flights to earth but actual settlers. In another year the second phase would begin of exploration trips from MoonDome to other planets.
The papers in front of him promised another promotion and asked for another four years. Shamus wasn't sure if he'd sign or not.
Turning he looked at MoonScopeLucas, named after the visionary and Science Fiction filmmaker who talked about much of what had become real. The larger then earthbound skyscraper telescope was so powerful, it revealed moons and planets in previously undiscovered mini universes.
"I'm here" the voice was deep and quiet. It flowed across the room and vibrated Shamus skeleton.
The Vermuse were a unique breed of being found during cave exploration on the dark side. Like pets on earth, they became attached to their owners and in fact seemed to seek them. Pooh, named after a childhood story character belonged to Shamus.
Pooh had slithered around the caves like it's fellow beings. The gray body seemed snake like but changed thickness and form taking an almost human like shape when around humans and rock like shapes around the rocks.
Shamus smiled. Pooh didn't have to vibrate. It was always "there" for him. It sensed and absorbed his feelings, emotions and needs. A bottle of water would be put on a table, food would suddenly appear, the door would be locked or answered, the lights would be dimmed all without a request.
Pooh felt his master's thoughts and somehow communicated without sounds. All the humans on MoonBase called it "vibrating" because the beings actually did vibrate more then use thoughts.
The low frequencies created became words in the minds of the owners.
Pooh had encircled Shamus feet in the caves. It had found the one with whom it could communicate.
Shamus stood and stretched. Nobody could see in the Platique surface and if they could nobody would object to the sight of Shamus now naked body. He was fit as most in the service were. He kept his skin smooth with the help of Pooh.
He lay on his bed and watched as the gray skin changed hue to one similar to his own. The Vermuse were thought to be dangerous until their need to serve humans became evident.
And that first time it was discovered their service was not limited to food serving, the quiet aknowledgement spread.
Pooh's body defined it's shape to the needs of Shamus easily enveloping his erection and at the same time fingering his erect nipples. Like a blob that suddenly grew appendages it found his sensative areas and stimulated them until Shamus was orgasming unlike he had in years past.
He felt Pooh and immediately the surface he touched felt like human skin, almost like Connor's. Shamus knew it was his own memory that prompted the change. And he had a creative mind.
The basement was damp but dark. It was where many freshmen and others went in the wee hours to do what they dared not admit. The darkness hid them from each other and themselves. Anonymous hands, fingers, penis, nipples, lips and butts were just that. The caresses, the kisses the moans belonged to the shadows. Shamus had gone there often leaving sometimes satisfied, other times more excited then when he went and still other times feeling empty inside.
He confessed to Connor, thinking they would change roommates at the end of their freshman year. "Am I gay or?" he asked Connor but really asking himself.
Connor replied in a whisper as if the room was full of their classmates. It wasn't. "I go there too" he said "I want to go there with you" He had turned out the light in the room and approached Shamus.
Pooh vibrated "I want to go there with you" almost as immediately as Shamus remembered that night. The hands on his bare chest and buttocks, the lips against his, the hard cock pressed against his belly was the same.
Pooh wasn't there when the alarm sounded. Shamus stepped into the cylinder for his toilet and shower. The room turned from shower to sauna drying his skin. He applied the hair cream, brushed his flattop and re entered his room.
Pooh had prepared breakfast and set out a clean overall uniform. The gold leafs on the shoulders gleemed. Pooh kept them shinny. The Vermuse liked shinny objects.
The view was the same as it was when he joined Pooh on the bed hours before. The sun's light continued as always. Today, he'd venture to the dark side. It would be a long trip and Pooh vibrated it's desire to go.
But the danger in taking attached Vermuse back to the area of the caves was they would assimilate with others like them and detach.
He liked Pooh. And he admitted he needed it to be happy on the otherwise desolate assignment. Pooh sensing his thoughts moved to the side of his legs where Shamus would reach and pet the instantly morphed dog like hair.
He felt the overalls being opened and his penis being enveloped. Somehow Pooh sensed his needs and began to massage, tongue and suck him. Shamus thought about stopping the Vermuse but something deeper said to Pooh he wanted the sex, so it didn't stop.
"Gawd Connor" Shamus said outloud as his body convulsed and released it's manufactored sperm.
He didn't know where the sperm went. Somehow it became part of Pooh's structure. He never saw the being release body waste nor eat for that matter. It just existed.
Scientists examined them and found only thei grey like structure of oddly shaped cell like structure. There were no organs, skeleton or circulation, only the structure of cells that constantly moved about.
"Pooh want Shamus" the vibration shook Shamus suddenly. He hadn't thought about it s far as he knew. Perhaps Pooh had a brain after all or was developing.
Shamus let the being unbutton the rest of his overalls and be led to the bed. He felt Pooh take on a form and insert it's thickness into him.
"I'm gonna fuck you" Connor had said one night. He didn't ask or beg. Shamus felt the boy move onto his bed and press his body against his back. His ass cheeks felt the hardness between them.
He didn't reply. The pain was expected as was the pleasure that resulted once Connor was inside him. It wasn't Shamus first time. He had fucked and been fucked in the darkness of the basement.
Pooh didn't vibrate. It's penis took on the thickness and length that responded to the unspoken needs of Shamus. He pressed back against it wanting more..and Pooh's shape responded. It went on for quite a bit of time. Shamus would be away from Pooh for a week and he wanted to remember this.
Pooh got harder and more forceful.
"What got into you last night?" Shamus asked Connor one morning.
"Dunno, just got goin and lost control. Did I hurt you?" Connor asked suddenly concerned. "I just turned into an animal ... just wanting to fuck you for hours"
"You did, it was hot" Shamus admitted.
Pooh moved Shamus on the bed changing positions. It's hands dug deep into his buttocks and it's penis stretched the intestines it had invaded. Since it would not orgasm itself, Pooh responded to Shamus' need and toleration.
A hand appeared and grasped his penis massaging until it became as hard as the one inside him. Shamus was startled the first time the Vermuse revealed an ability to develop as many hands and cocks as needed. It was like the times his body had been the target of multiple partners. He was 18 again being fucked and sucked at the same time.
There were times his mouth and butt were invaded simultaneously as well. This time his mouth was left to moan, groan, beg, breathe and gasp.
Pooh didn't tire. It's speed moved to create reaction in Shamus and when he orgasmed, Pooh would remain still at first then withdraw and change to it's original shape based on Shamus recovery.
"Shit Pooh, I wish you could come back with me" Shamus said sitting naked on his bed.
Vermuse were taken back on shuttles but as soon as the crafts entered the atmospher, they seemed to loose form and eventually become a rock like dust.
He let his bladder wash out residual sperm from his cock.
"You ready yet?" it wasn't Pooh's vibrations. Arnie stood in the room. Pooh had let him enter. He didnt' seem surprised to see Shamus naked nor Pooh straightening the bed covers.
"Yea gotta do one thing first" Shamus said as he pulled his overalls back on tucking his penis in last.
Shame went to the desk and signed the papers and rolled them into the neumatic tube. The sucking sound as it began to travel to the Admin sounded so final.
"Someone promised me I'd be a Lt. Colonel so what the fuck" Shamus said grabbing his bag and patting the head of the dog Pooh had reshaped into before leaving his room.
Deep down Pooh sensed it was part of the decision Shamus made.