[M4F] Time Capsule [Script Flip]

Title: Time Capsule
Author: Indras1
Date of Revision: 6/2/2019

Summary:
	You work on a small ship in the asteroid belt as a surveyor.  Your employer is based on the moon, but you spend all your time going from one asteroid to the next, scanning for materials to be mined.  Today, you found something truly exceptional: a working cryo pod.  Inside, there's a woman that has been frozen for over eighty years.  When you get the pod back to your ship, you realize it has automatically activated, she's warming up, whether you're ready or not.

Possible Tags:
	[M4F]
	[Scifi] / [Hard Scifi]
	[Blast from the Past]
	[Blind Listener]
	[Alone in Deep Space]
	[Cunnilingus]
	[Creampie]
	[Cuddling]
	[Therapeutic Cuddling]

Sound FX:
	Voice Effect - There's a part where you're talking to the listener while she's in the cryo pod.  The voice should be muffled, like you're hearing through a pane of glass or plastic.
	Beep - I marked the places where either the ships computer (Nav) or some piece of medical equipment makes a noise.  This can be a simple chirp, or even replaced with a synthesized computer voice ("command confirmed").
	Button presses - Pushing buttons on the controls of the cryo pod.  Could also be tapping on glass, like it is a touch screen.
	Chair creak - Simple effect, totally optional
	Water bottle - Same
	Bathroom door - The bathroom is just a tiny shower with a toilet built into the wall, so it would have a sliding glass door, like you'd find in a common bathroom.
	Shower - Simple sound effect
	Clothing/zipper/Velcro - These are all put in as suggestions, do what you like!

Author's Notes:
	CONSIDER EVERYTHING AS A SUGGESTION!  Feel free to add/change any dialogue you like, flip the script, add or remove sound effects, you name it.  I'm totally happy with however you decide to make this script into your own.

Start Script:

Nav, open a new audio file.  This is addressed to Head of Surveying, Anson Randall, on Luna.  Encrypt with his key and send it as soon as I finish recording.

Begin recording.  [beep]  Anson, I am sending this straight to you, because I know you're going to want to hear it from me directly.  By the time you receive this, you'll be aware that I am already on my way back.  I had my Nav calculate the trajectory as soon as I got on board, and I am on my way at 20% thrust as we speak.  Yes, this is that important.  I'll start from the beginning.

I arrived at the second target asteroid around twelve hours ago.  This is... uh... 35A... XC4, I think.  The speed this damn thing spins is... intimidating, to say the least.  I can see why we've passed it up so many times.  But, I got the firmware update from the eggheads that was supposed to help with this.  I flashed all the drones and sent them out to survey.  Even with the new firmware, they had some serious trouble landing.  I lost 38 of them, but I got enough good scans from the rest to confirm what we thought.  Don't bother lecturing me about company property.  I'm quite aware how much those things cost.  We're definitely going to come back, we can try to recover some of them then.

Anyway, the scans showed lots of metal, in one crater right at the equator.  I know what you're thinking already... some metal-heavy rock crashed there and set the whole asteroid spinning like mad, and that rock is jammed in the crater, just waiting for us to come mine it out.  I thought that, too.

I was wrong.  It's a -fucking ship-.  U.N.S. Corvair.  I have no record of it, maybe you can find some history on it.  I can tell you exactly when the ship crashed, if you want to know.  Anyway, as soon as I got imaging from the drones, I knew I had to see it for myself.  I recalled the remaining drones and was able to land the ship on one of the poles and went to investigate the ship on foot.  Inside, I found the pilot of the ship!  You heard that right.  She's a damn corpsicle in a cryo pod.  It was hooked up to an RTG, which was about three-quarters dead.  Yeah, that tells you something right there.  This thing is over eighty years old.  The power output on the RTG was still keeping it regulated, probably because the ship was jammed in a crater in total darkness.  Just a little sunlight on the ship would have warmed it up every rotation, and would have drained the power to keep her frozen.  It would have failed sixty years ago if it weren't for that.  She's damned lucky.

But the display says exactly how long it has been running: 82 years, 3 months, and 14 days.  That's how I know when the ship crashed.  I immediately disconnected the pod from the ship and started dragging it back.  She must've rigged the pod to automatically begin the thawing sequence when it was unplugged, because it has been beeping and warming up ever since.

You can probably see my dilemma already.  There aren't good odds that she'll wake up.  Cryo wasn't reliable in even the best circumstances.  I may end up with a warm dead body.  But, alive or not, she and the pod are worth a fortune to the right researcher or museum.  I knew you'd want me to high-tail it back as soon as possible.

Speaking of that, if there's a tug between here and Luna that can help me slow down, I can crank the engine up to 50% thrust and shave a week or two off my trip.  Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to play it safe at 20%.

[sigh]  She's thawing, and I don't have a way to stop it.  The readouts on the pod are showing that there has been a continuous trace of mental activity since the pod was first closed.  She's still alive... sorta.  I don't have high hopes for her, I mean they only used those things because stasis drugs hadn't been invented.  She's most likely going to have some severe nerve damage, possibly even be nothing more than a vegetable.  I won't know for another hour or so.

[sigh]  I'm going to send this now and go check on her.  Reply immediately with any changes in my orders.  End recording.  [beep]  Encrypt and send.  [beep]

[scene break]

[voice is muffled, heard through glass]  Well I'll be damned.  Heart restarted normally... brain function looks... quite normal, actually.  She might even be lucid.  Breathing... Oh shit!  Air exchange isn't working... she's suffocating!  Fuck!  I'm going to have to open this case now!

[frantic button presses while mumbling]  Um... override... yes, immediate... confirm... and... [lid cracks free, air hissing][voice is now heard normally]  Damn, that air's cold!  Smells stale, too.

Hey!  If you can hear me, take a deep breath.  It's going to hurt, this air is a lot warmer than your lungs, but you have to get some oxygen in there!  Breathe, damn it!

[relaxing]  There you go.  I know, I know, it's going to hurt to cough.  Just cough out what you can.  I can't imagine what kind of nerve pain you're feeling... let me go grab my medical cart.  I'll see what I can do about that.

[nervously babbling while fiddling with some medical device]  They give us all top-of-the-line equipment.  Corporate doesn't want us failing to come back due to some injury or sickness if they can prevent it.  Really, they just want their ship back, but I guess us pilots benefit from that policy.  Anyway, I'm going to slip this around your forehead, it's for diagnosis.  Brain hemorrhaging and blood clots are pretty common after being frozen... catching that early is my top priority.

[sigh]  I can see the pain on your face.  Just hold on a bit.  Please?  [beeping from scanner][quietly to himself]  Ouch... look at all that bruising.  Thankfully, I can fix it.  I'm going to put you under for now, let the auto-doc do some work on you.  [beeping from some medical instrument][voice fading out]  I'll wake you back up in a couple hours, okay?  [pause] [quietly talking to himself, thinking she's out already]  I really I hope I can keep her alive.  [sigh]  Now that she's less blue... she's really pretty.

[scene break]

[voice slowly fading in, he's speaking in a direction away from her]  ...set the thrust to 22% as soon as I got the message.  Thanks for running those calculations for me.

As for our guest, I've got the auto-doc working on the tissue damage.  It's a lot less than I would've expected, actually.  There's bruising all over, which is normal for reanimation.  My biggest concern was in the brain itself, but it looks like that's all fixed.  I moved her out of the cryo pod as soon as she was stable, right now she's on a stretcher on the floor behind me.  She should be waking up pretty soon.

I'll update when I know more.  End recording.  [beep]  Encrypt and send.  [beep]

[chair creaks]  Whoa!  Whoa!  Hey there, calm down, please!  Just relax, breathe slow.  Lay back down, you need to recover.  [pause]  Yes, water, just a sec.  [gets water bottle]  Here, open up.  Good.  Relax.  [pause]  Yes, you're blind, I know.  It isn't permanent, it's from the swelling of the tissue around the optic nerves.  You're probably also really numb in your fingers and toes, right?  Yeah, cryo does that.  I'll fix everything I can with the supplies I have here, anything else can be handled at the hospital on Luna.  Mostly, you just need time.

The good news is that there's about a zero percent chance you'll ever go into a cryo pod again in your life.  Congratulations!  [laughs]  They've been obsolete for decades.  Um... you were frozen for... over 80 years.  [somber]  Yeah, I know.  It's crazy.  You're damned lucky.  Smart, too.  You must've set the auto-pilot to slam the ship into that asteroid and hopped into your cryo pod.  If you hadn't done that... you'd be floating off into deep space, out past the edge of the solar system by now.

Look, you and I are looking at a 42 day trip back to Luna, we have plenty of time to talk.  More importantly, you need sleep.  And a shower.  [chuckle]  When you wake up next, we're going to start flushing your kidneys.  You are going to need lots of water to push through the chems from the cryo process.  After that, we can start on food.  But, sleep first, alright?  [gently]  Close your eyes.  [humming for a bit]  Your family?  I'm sorry, I didn't ask.  I can find out for you.  My boss at Luna can dig up your records, but he's still about 60 light minutes away.  So if you promise to get some sleep, I'll request a digital copy, and we should have it in a couple hours.  Deal?  [soft laugh]  Sure, if you like my humming, I can keep doing it.  [resumes humming, fades out]

[scene break]

[gently]  Hey, I need you to wake up.  Come on, sit up for me and take a drink.  [pause, optional sound FX for water bottle]  Six hours.  The auto-doc finished up a few minutes ago and disconnected by itself.  But we need to keep pushing fluids.  Sorry, the remaining nerve damage can't be fixed with what I have.  You're going to have a few numb spots, and your optic nerves are beyond what the auto-doc can fix.  I know it is scary, but it will all be fixable once we get you to a hospital.  I promise.

Your records?  You were a pilot for the United Nations Space Program, right?  That only existed for a couple years.  It was badly managed, they went through funding too quickly and everyone pulled out of it.  Your records may exist on hard copy on Earth somewhere, but we can't get to it from here.  All we have is some basic information about your ship.  I do have information on your family, though!  I didn't open it.  Once we get time, I'll have Nav read them out to you, in private if you like.

Right now, though... how are you feeling?  [pause, then laugh]  Yeah, I bet!  Your kidneys are working overtime with all the water I've been pushing.  Do you think you can stand?  [pause, shuffling sounds]  Here... hold this door frame.  Take a minute to get your balance.  I dropped us to about a fifth of a G right now, so that should help.  It's only a few steps to the toilet, let me know when you're good to walk.  [laughing]  Alright, let's go then, take it slow.

[door slides open]  Don't worry, the design hasn't really changed, it's probably pretty similar to the one on your ship.  Give me your hand.  That's the tube, here, and the basin folds down.  With everything folded up and the door closed, this room is also the shower, just turn around, the controls are on the wall behind you.  [pause]  No, you don't have to turn on the suction, it will turn on automatically.  You, um... want some help?  [embarrassed chuckle]  Okay, I'm sorry... I'm sure you can handle it.  I'll just... step outside.  This is a little too cramped for both of us.  [door slides shut]

[quietly to himself]  Fuck.  What the hell was that about, huh?  You total perv!  Get your mind out of the gutter!

[louder, talking through the door]  Oh!  Sure!  Just toss your flight suit out here, I'll get it in the cleaner.  I'll hang up a robe out here for you by the door.  [door opens a little and closes, then the shower turns on]

[quietly to himself]  I'd better go find something to do.

[scene break]

Are you... okay in there?  [water abruptly stops, door slides open]  What's wrong?  [gasp]  Oh, hold on, I've got you!  No, it's okay, your legs... even with this low of gravity, your muscles will need time to adapt!  Here, put your arm around my shoulder.  No, it's fine, I don't care if you get me wet.  Here, I've got the robe here in my hand, stick your arm out, I'll help you get it on... [optional sounds for clothing being pulled on, etc]  Um, hold on.

[loudly speaks in the other direction]  Nav, reduce thrust to station keeping only.  [beep]  There, this will be much easier for us in zero G.  Now you can let go of me.  [pause]  There you go.  Here, there's a couple straps to tie in front.  So... how are you feeling?  I mean, do you think you need some more rest?  [pause]  Oh, right!  I'll get Nav set up to recognize you, and then you can go through your family records.  I don't expect there will be a lot of good news, unfortunately.  If you want some privacy, I can go shut myself in the shower and listen to some music...  No, I don't mind!  Here, let me pull you to the cockpit.

(OPTIONAL: Add lines to set up the computer and teach her how to use it)

[scene break]

So, do you want to talk about it?

I understand, it is going to take some time to process.  Do you want to be alone for now then?  No?  Well, um... I have an idea.  Since you should probably get more rest, and I'm sure you're awfully lonely... would you, um... accept some... cuddling?  [pause]  No, I mean... not like that.  But, I think maybe it would help you, like, not be so lonely?  Me too, of course.  I'm so sick of being alone...

Yeah?  Really?  Okay.  Well, I thought about this while I was alone.  You see, I really prefer sleeping while weightless, so I got a sleeping bag that attaches to the wall.  I usually just climb in and zip up and fall right to sleep.  But, um... this is a little embarrassing... it is specifically made for... two people.  Like, not JUST for sleeping.  [embarrassed chuckle]  Yes... that.  But, the only action it has ever seen is when I'm by myself and I get lonely enough.

Yeah, well... I sort of had this "hopeless romantic" dream that my future wife was waiting for me out here in the belt.  That we'd find each other, fall in love, and make the perfect pair of asteroid surveyors.  I, uh, didn't really understand the concept of how vast the belt is.  We all work in our own separate areas.  Even if I wanted to meet up with another surveyor for some face-to-face, it would take days, and too much fuel, too.  It's very lonely out here.  I wasn't prepared for that.

But, yeah.  I still regularly communicate with my family.  You don't have that option.  Makes my loneliness seem trivial.  So, how about, at least for today, you share my sleeping bag with me?  Just to keep each other company?  I mean, even if you only want a shoulder to cry on... I think I'd really like to be that for you.

Yeah?  Okay!  Here, take my hand.  I'll pull us along, it's just on the other side of the cabin.  [pause]  Here.  [unzips]  Um, I'll have you get in first.  You put your back against the wall, and see these loops?  Oh, duh!  You can't see, sorry.  There's loops sewn into the bag on the inside all around.  There's two here for your arms, and a buckle for your waist... here, let me help.  [buckle clicks]

Now I'll get in.  I can zip us up now.  [zipping sound]  There are a few other loops around... uh, they're like handles, you know?  And a second belt, next to yours, so I can be either strapped to the wall next to you, for sleeping, or... I can connect it to yours [buckle clicks] so we're face to face.  Like this.

Hey, it's okay!  If you need to cry, let it out!  Don't try to hold it back.  Go ahead and put your head on my shoulder.  I'll hold you.  Just let it out.  [hushed comforting sounds for a while, possibly humming]

What?  No, you're fine!  I was actually just thinking about how wonderful it felt being close to someone again.  Just something as simple as hearing your breathing, feeling your body heat... it is so comforting.

[embarrassed]  Y-yes, that too.  I was really hoping you couldn't feel that.  You must think I'm a deranged pervert getting turned on while you are crying in front of me.  I swear, it isn't intentional!  If it is bothering you, I can go over next to you, instead of in front of you like th... [interrupted by her touching his face]  What?  [she kisses him, they keep going for a bit]

Well... it seems that kissing hasn't changed in eighty years.  [chuckle]

[kissing some more]

Is something wrong?  You look really embarrassed.  No?  [pause]  You're... "horny?""  I'm confused.  Like, some animals on Earth, right?  Or are you referring to my... uh, horn?  No?  Sorry!  I just don't recognize the term.

Aroused?  Yes, I definitely know what that means!  So, "horny" means aroused?  Interesting.  I wonder who came up with that.  I'll be honest, it sounds dumb, probably why it went out of style.  [chuckle]

But sure... I mean, you already knew I was... [awkwardly] "horny.""  Did I use it right?  [chuckle]  So, uh, did you want to, uh... I'm not sure what word you use.  [pause]  Yes, we still say sex!  But it wouldn't really work there, as a verb, right?  I'm not going to ask if you want to "sex" me... we would say "fuck" there.  Really?  You too?  I had no idea that word was so old...

Anyway, about the details... Did you use physical barriers?  Latex and silicone and such?  I know those were common long ago...  No?  So you are medically sterilized then?

[taken aback]  REALLY?  You're... fertile?  That's... insanely rare out here in the belt.  Basically any woman working out here gets the procedure done, then gets it reversed when she goes home to start a family.  Wow.  I don't even know how to process that!

Uh, hold on a second.  [unbuckles, unzips and gets out]  No really, it only takes like ten seconds, just wait.  [he grabs some medical device, it hums and then clicks]  Okay, I'm sterile for about 18 hours.  It's one of the auto-doc procedures.  Don't worry, it's totally painless, and it'll wear off by tomorrow.

So, back to where we were... [starts kissing her]

[whispering]  May I open your robe?

Oh wow... that's about the most amazing sight I've ever seen.  Can I touch them?  I'm just... wow.  Your nipples, they're so hard!  [sucks on one of her nipples for a bit]

I'm not sure where you stand on, uh, "cunnilingus" is the proper term, but we always just call it "tonguing."  [excited]  Yeah?  I can?  [pause]  Oh, it's just that on Earth, there's a lot of germophobia, so they have just about outlawed tonguing, or practically any other genital contact.  It's really common on Luna, but I've never had the chance to!

Damn, I'm so excited to try this!  Here, put your legs over my shoulders... [does a couple slow licks]  Interesting... [continues]

Faster?  Right!  Just tell me what to do!  [continues]  Higher?  [licks again]  Ohhh, right -there-.  [licking speeds up]

[between licks]  I have to say... you taste wonderful... so much better... than I imagined...  [continues licking for a while]

Uh, this is weird, my tongue is actually getting tired.  [pause]  Oh, sorry.  I guess I'm not very good at this yet.  You'll have to teach me how to do it better over the rest of the trip!

What?  Just say it.  [pause]  Oh you bet I do!  I'll have to strip off my suit... [clothes rustling, zipper, velcro, buttons, etc]

And I'll zip us back in together.  [closes zipper]  There.  They kind of designed this thing for zero G sex.  I put my legs in these loops, and then I can grab the handles by your waist to pull myself...

You... still want to do this?  We don't have t... [interrupted]  Yes, okay.  Here goes...

[pleasure moan]  Oh wow, you're so wet and hot...  and I'm barely in.  Just stop if I'm hurting you... [long moan]

[whispering]  Fuck, I'm all the way in you.  I'm... in a fertile woman.  I just...  Okay, I'll shut up and focus.

[improv sex sounds]

Closer?  Like... [pause]  Oh, rub my pelvis against you.  I'll have to wrap my arms around your back.

[his mouth is now next to her ear, they're cheek to cheek]

[grunting as he thrusts]  Is that better?

No, it's okay, I won't stop!

[improv sex sounds]

You're trembling.  Are you going to orgasm?  That's so hot!  No, I won't stop...

I can feel it, you're almost there... just let go...

There you go.  Good girl...

[stops thrusting and holds her close]

How was that?  [chuckle]  Good, I'm glad.

[exhales]  I could totally sleep like this... you know, pressed against you, inside you... it feels amazing just being here.

Huh?  No, I didn't orgasm too.  Did you think I was going to?  [long pause]  Oh wow, that's considered extremely rude.  A guy is supposed to ask permission first, especially in zero G, you know, because of the mess.  [pause]  You... you want me to?  Really?  That's... no, no, I'm just surprised.  [pause]  Well I sterilized myself because you're fertile!  Otherwise, I could still technically get you pregnant even if I don't orgasm.  It wasn't because I wanted to... you know...  I would never do that without permission.

[chuckle]  That's such an amazing thing to hear.  You really want me to, just so I will feel good?  Don't have to tell me twice!

[he leans back again, grabbing her hips, starts thrusting, but faster this time]

[talking between moans]  I've had sex before... a few times... but I've never gotten permission... to cum inside a woman... let alone a fertile one... the thought is so ridiculously sexy... I'm not going to last...

[improv to orgasm]

[panting]  Was that... okay?  [chuckle]  I feel fucking incredible.  My whole body is tingling... That was amazing.

[heavy breathing slowing down]

Hmm.  I didn't plan for this.  This is my first time actually finishing during sex.  If I pull out of you, we're going to have a mess... little droplets floating around the cabin.  [laugh]  Hmm...  Oh, I know!  [unzips bag partway to yell towards the cockpit]

[loudly]  Nav, resume course and set thrust at 2%!  [faint beep]

Okay, put your feet down so you don't slide out of the buckle.

[pause as engine kicks on]  There, now...  a little acceleration will keep the mess going in one direction... which would be down your thigh.  [laughing]  Hold on a sec, I have something to clean this up.  [bare feet across the floor as he goes to the shower and back]

Here, I only have the one robe, but I have a ton of towels.  Let me help clean up my mess.

I'll just clip them up over here...

Wow, you look exhausted.  As captain of this ship, I order you to get more rest.  And since I don't think you should be alone right now, I guess that means I'm joining you.

Nav, cut the engines and return to station keeping only. [beep]

Okay, I'm getting in.  [climbs in and zips up the bag]

Do you think you can turn sideways, facing away from me?  There, I'm going to buckle in behind you.  [buckle clicks]

[they're spooning in the sleeping bag, his mouth is by her ear]

So, this bag is really big normally, if you reach out, you can stretch your arm out all the way.  But, you're not supposed to sleep like that... you're comfortable, right?  So, there's a strap, here, with a loop.  Pull on it, and it will collapse the bag and... hold us together, to keep warm and keep from bumping around in zero G.  [strap pulling sound]

[whispering]  There.  Relax.  Close your eyes.  Save your worries for later.  Just breathe slow, and feel my body against yours, my arms around you.  [pause]  Hmm?  Oh, sure I can.  [starts humming, fades out]