Jim was told that the plant impregnates women and kills men, but clearly that wasn't an exact description of what it did. The hiker hadn't herself gotten pregnant... though one might say the plant impregnated itself with women.
So if that wasn't accurate, then what would it do to men?
He decided to find out, because he had a pretty good guess. He told the Melissa clone that he needed to do some experimenting and that she should drag him away if the plant tried to kill him in any non-figurative way, then stripped and lay down near the plant.
The plant's flower spit dust into his face, and he found he couldn't move and was falling unconscious. He fell to the ground, unable to stand, as the plant used its tentacles to drag him to where a bulb was ready to enter his body... This time, the bulb just went into his mouth and down his throat and it was uncomfortable, but didn't seem so much like [censored] any more.
Jim woke up some time later, the taste of the plant still in his mouth. Melissa was just watching, a little confused. "Melissa," he immediately said, "it's safe. I was just testing the plant to see if it would hurt people, but I'm okay. It's not a nice thing to remember, so you should go home and forget I ever tested this." He put on his clothes, gave the clone his phone number and watched her leave.
After that, Jim waited in front of the plant. Part of the plant swelled ridiculously large, forming a pod, which burst open just a few minutes later. Revealed was a woman--a woman that looked exactly like Jim himself. The plant hadn't invented long hair, or makeup, or nail polish--this woman was a duplicate, down to moles and everything else, and much more exact than Melissa's was, aside from having changed sex. The woman opened her eyes and looked at Jim. "I... I'm a girl!" she said, examining herself. "Wait a minute, you're... you're me! What happened? Did you copy me and turn me into a girl somehow?"
Well, that showed what it did. It didn't exactly kill men, it created a clone whose masculinity was killed... Basically, the plant created cloned women regardless of whether the original was female.
"Don't worry," said Jim. "I'm your master now."
The clone looked a little confused but seemed to go into a trance. "Of course," she said.
Jim gave the clone his clothes and told her to put them on. Then he motioned the clone towards the side of the truck and let her in, telling her to stay there. He finished digging up the plant and put it in the back of his truck, then drove home.
He unlocked his front door and gave the clone some orders. "When I snap my fingers, you'll be normally awake. Go and act normally. All you remember is having sent the other Melissa home, then having been somehow turned into a woman. You don't know that the plant has anything to do with this. You want to be a man again but you just can't think of a way to change back, so you won't even try. You'll not even notice my presence until I talk to you." Then he followed with a few more orders.
"Yes, master," said his female clone. Jim snapped his fingers and the clone no longer seemed to be in a trance, but she didn't notice Jim either. She walked into the house and looked over herself again, still as if she was Jim surprised by a new body, muttering curses. She even pulled her pants down and fingered her pussy once, just to see that it was real; she jerked back, surprised, at the sensations from touching her clit. The clone then pulled her pants back up (however ill-fitting) and watched some TV. Later she brushed her teeth, went over to the bed and lay down.
Thu Jun 14 06:16:31 2007