Jim's surroundings finally solidified into a great dark room. Before him, a tall shadowy figure sat at a great control console.
"Mwahahaha-haaaaa!" the figure greeted.
Well, that doesn't sound promising, thought Jim. He dared suspect that the voice was not genuine, that it was one of those electronically masked voices you sometimes heard from people on television trying to protect their identities. Yet what could this person possibly have to fear from Jim.
"Welcome, Earthman, to the Koxol Galaxy. You have been deposited here by a process known as chronosynclastic infundibulization. You may call me simply the Senator, as that is my office."
It suddenly hit Jim. He had seen all this before! He was in the "Fun and Games" episode of the original "Outer Limits." But at least Nick Adams had a female costar, yet here he was on his own.
"Let me guess," said Jim. "Your civilization is so ancient and decadent that it's constantly looking for new ways to entertain itself. You've brought me here to be run like a rat through the maze of some sort of test of survival. If I lose, you'll blow up the Earth. You've blown up worlds before, and you'll do it again."
"I must confess, that is rather alarmingly perceptive of you," the Senator admitted. "However, it's a little more ... specialized than that. We are amused by your Earth because your species is doomed to frustration. Males such as yourself have such insanely insatiable libidos, and yet your societies do everything to frustrate you. One wonders: given true opportunity, could the Earth male's performance truly match that of his imagination?
"Here are the rules. You will be given ten of your Earth hours to mingle with a selection of females alien to yourself from within our Empire. Don't worry; though alien, you will find these females highly .... stimulating! You must give thirteen of those females an excellent 'screwing', as you might put it, within those ten hours. Succeed, and you get to go home to life on Earth. Fail, and the Earth shall be spectacularly destroyed. Audience! You may begin to place your bets now."
"Wait!" said Jim, but it was too late. A weird mist swirled aaround him, and he found himself somewhere else.
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