✅ Project SETI Trilogy

Chapter One - Part III: Insemination

          The three surgeons worked perfectly in tandem as soon as Nova fell asleep. Gabriel taped down his eyelids and the silicone retainers in his stretched earlobes first, and then he tucked the tied-back hair on top of his head beneath a disposable hair covering. As he did this, Gabriel took a moment to brush his fingertips along the freshly barbered short hairs along the side of his head. At the same time, Dr. Ali had turned off the anesthesia-nebulizer unit at the head of the table and was about to insert the endotracheal tube that would allow him to breathe while he was unconscious.

          Julia finished propping open Nova's vaginal canal with a smooth plastic speculum and was currently inserting a long plastic tube into it. Gabriel joined her and watched with keen interest as she slowly pushed it up into a precise position at the very top of the uterine wall with the help of the sonogram's imagery.

          Gabriel rested his hand on Nova's pelvis, then trailed down and pressed his fingers between his lips. He found his clit and massaged it as Julia kept fishing the insertion tube deep inside of him. During this, the familiar hiss of the ventilator began to sound off at regular intervals, alongside the steady beeping of Nova's resting and sedated heart rate.

          "Be a dear and take over for me?" Gabriel asked when he noticed Julia was finished getting the tube in position.

          "That's why I'm here, isn't it?" Julia stopped to flash him a smile as they switched tasks.

          Gabriel chuffed. He glanced over to see what Dr. Ali was up to—she had just stuck Nova's hand with a sharp, and was in the process of attaching a port to it. He went over to one of the supply carts and found a large needleless syringe that was all black, except for a bright neon blue logo with an ovular head inside of a triangle. Underneath was a label in bold: DXT SAMPLE #076.

          "You got the fertility shot?" Gabriel asked as he positioned himself between Nova's legs again and attached the sizable syringe on the end of the insertion tube.

          "Yep," Dr. Ali responded promptly and turned around with a small syringe to push into the port on his hand.

          Gabriel noticed how much Julia appeared to be enjoying herself. She started to rub increasingly vigorous and deep circles into the now-engorged nub above his opening, and as if Nova could react to it, his heart rate spiked from a steady 55 BPM up to 82 BPM, and then it dropped back down to the low-fifties again as she slowed down.

          "Look at you go, huh? Probably best for him to have a resting heart rate for this, don't you think?" Gabriel said as he and Dr. Ali stood by, ready to push their prospective syringes.

          "You and your damned sound logic," Julia stepped back and turned her full attention to the sonogram. "Alright. Let's do it."

          Dr. Ali looked at Gabriel, who met her gaze moments after and gave an affirmative nod.

          "Pushing 30mLs of the partnered fertility potentiator for sample oh-seven-six," she confirmed out loud, then pushed down on the plunger.

          Gabriel glanced down at his watch as the drug was administered. Exactly fifteen seconds after the full dose was in Nova's bloodstream, he needed to push the sample.

          Ten... eleven...

          "Vitals steady," Julia reported with the latest blood pressure reading.

          ... fourteen...

          "Pushing the sample. Vial reads zero seven six," Gabriel also confirmed aloud before he pressed on the plunger. He watched as a viscous green substance shot down through the tube and into Nova's body, and when it was out of sight, he turned his attention to the sonogram.