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This story was written for Gamerfox as part of my Patreon request days for February 2018. It contains M/M sex between consenting adults.

From a World Long Forgotten

Caius almost fell to his knees as the doors sprang open with a gentle hum from whatever power source was controlling them. Pressing a hand over his muzzle, the deer practically sobbed. All his life, he had been following the clues. The few small shards of pottery, the impressions in the acidic earth that had long since worn away all but the faintest traces of what lay buried there upon this world. All his professional life he had been mocked and jeered at by the astroarchaeological community for even daring to propose that the second moon of the planet Altaris had ever supported sapient life, never mind a spacefaring civilisation that predated any of the Galactic Nine by millennia. All his life he had been considered eccentric by his peers at best, a raving idiot at worst, for daring to suggest that the progenitor species whose genetic heritage remained common through all the breeds and species amongst the Nine homeworlds might have been anything more than a primordial soup spread by meteors, fragments of some long, long dead world from which they had sprung.

But then, four days ago while investigating a minor magnetic anomaly deep within a cave system beneath the Western magnetic pole of the moon, everything had changed. He had fallen through an unstable level within the caverns, and as level after level of ancient rock gave way beneath the impact of the layer above, he had fallen what must have been hundreds of metres, his body being crushed and mangled by more and more rock all the while. He had been dead, for certain. And yet, when Caius had awoken atop that pile of rubble, his clothes and equipment gone, long buried and destroyed beneath the vast mountain of rock that had collapsed around him, he had been fine. Not just miraculously free from major injuries, but free from even a scratch... and, as it turned out, from the short-sightedness that had plagued him since birth.

Something had healed him. Fixed him not just of the life-ending injuries he had sustained when buried in the collapse of the caverns, but of his poor eyesight, and the slight ache in his right shoulder that had remained ever since he had first dislocated it almost a decade before. It hadn't taken long for Caius, naked as he was now, to discover the source of that healing power. A shimmer in the air. A fluttering cloud of silvery sparkles that moved in a swarm, and guided him off the pile of rock and down a corridor. A corridor laden with dust and dulled with age, but whose walls were not bare rock, but rather beautifully and pristinely painted metal, etched with a vastly ancient language some of whose characters vaguely resembled the Galactic Common, as though perhaps a precursor to its formation.

For three days Caius had followed the shimmering cloud of what he had swiftly deduced had to be some sort of nanomachines, watching as they repaired and maintained this vast complex of incredible old but advanced technology, far beyond anything even the current leaders of the scientific community could ever conceive. For three days he had worked tirelessly to begin to put together some understanding of the language written all over this vast structure without any of his equipment or its computerised translation programmes. Then, on the morning of the fourth day... or at least, the fourth cycle of the lights which illuminated this vast complex growing bright and more vigorous after a period of glowing more dimly, the cloud was gone. It was nowhere to be found, and thus with no-one and nothing but his archaeological instinct to guide him, Caius had begun to explore utterly and completely alone.

And now at the end of that same day, as he shook and wept and stared, standing before those open doors after successfully figuring out what upon the small electronic pads beside them was the correct sequence of keys for 'Open' as a command, he was alone no longer.

Before Caius stretched a vast chamber. A huge structure higher than the distance he had fallen, and far, far deeper in how much it stretched off towards infinity. Within it, upon the walls and resting in rows on what looked like vast shelves, were thousands upon thousands of pods. Cables traced between and disappeared into each pod, and all of them glowed with a pale blue energy. Vast swarms of the same silvery shimmers of nano-machines swept between the aisles of these containers, occasionally stopping and engulfing one before moving on in their patrol. Directly in front of Caius however, just a dozen or so metres away and drawing his full attention back towards itself before long, there stood one single pod. One pod on its own away from all the others, its glassy, curved window frosted over on the inside, but the lighting within granting the deer the sight of a vague shadow. A figure held within.

He stumbled forward, mouth agape as he carefully reached out and brushed at the glass, gasping at how cold it was to the touch. Nevertheless, the deer persisted in scraping and wiping away what seemed to be a good half inch of translucent frost, soon revealing in more detail what... or who lay within. They were huge. at least eight foot tall and, at a mere glance, male in their anatomical structure. The creature bore fur, and though such comparison was far from scientific, they resembled something between an otter and a grizzly bear in the shape and build of face, body and tail.

Caius tore himself away from the window of this pod, this device which could only be some form of cryonic stasis chamber, and moved hurriedly to the control panel beside it. Carefully he blew the dust aside, and his eyes widened as he regarded the small screen that was now visible upon the panel. A screen which amongst various symbols he could not recognise displayed one image that was all too clear to him. The flickering line of a heartbeat monitor, with a regular blip streaking across it.

He was alive. This person, this individual held within this chamber, was alive.

Caius knew the correct way to proceed here. To leave the city. To find a way back to the surface. To bring people back here. More people with more equipment, better equipment than anything he would have possessed even if he wasn't without even a stitch of clothing upon his body. To study this site as a professional, and to respect the gravity, the enormity of what he had discovered here. To prove all his colleagues wrong, and show that he was every bit the serious archaeologist that they were.

Except... really, he never had been.

He had believed in this truth all his life, and they had not. They had denied him, and laughed at him, and mocked him for his beliefs.

He had never been like them, and frankly, given how wrong they'd been? He wasn't sure that he wanted to be like them. His way had gotten him this far, and maybe... just maybe, it could take him further.

The deer looked down at the dusty control panel once more, and brushed more of the dust aside. He revealed another screen-like interface in doing so, only rather than bearing symbols or readouts upon it, this bore a single larger symbol. The outline of a hand. Five fingered just like his. Palm down, fingers spread. He raised his left hand, checking that indeed it was the left which matched the orientation of the image. He took a deep breath, and extended it out over the panel. Slowly, heart racing and cheeks flushed as he felt his naked body tremble and his cock begin to swell with the sheer intensity of his excitement in that moment, he reached down, and pressed his hand to the panel.

Caius cried out as with a rushing hiss of motion, the silvery shimmers of nanites from all around the chamber rushed to surround and swarm him. They swept over, across and all around his naked form but never touched him, and as several flashes of light burst out from the swarms, blinding the deer as they bathed his whole body, he ceased any attempt to swipe them away as his panic settled and he realised he wasn't being attacked. Far from it, he was being scanned. Identified. He was being studied, just as he was studying everything here.

Then, the swarm dissipated. Or rather, it moved elsewhere. It divided into far more numerous, smaller swarms, each barely the size of a tennis ball, and they began to spread out as they raced across the distance of the huge cryo-stasis chamber. Only a single ball remained floating close to Caius, and he watched as it slowly ascended, moved back to float directly over the cryo-chamber in which the figure Caius had observed was resting, and then lowered itself down through some sort of vent into the chamber.

Upon the screen beneath Caius' hand, the outline of another hand vanished and was replaced by a series of what might have been numerical characters. A series which, after just a brief period of observation Caius could tell were descending. Counting down. He glanced up from the screen and into the chamber, and his eyes bulged as he saw something. Movement. Not of the flickering silver nanites, but of a pair of eyes. Eyelids fluttering, blinking. Eyeballs moving around, staring. A hand rising to rub at a face beginning to move, and then...

With a gentle hiss of pressure release, the pod opened.

The pod opened, and with a coating of silver nanites spread over his entire body like a semi-transparent suit, the figure within yawned, stretched, and stepped out like he was waking up from a pleasant nap.

He rubbed his eyes again. He blinked. He looked at Caius, recognising the deer's presence. Caius stood perfectly still as the eight foot tall anthro figure observed him. His antlers. His hooves. All the things that marked him as different, as potentially alien to this other creature.

"Ku'ree... reearra ma se teeshi domrell ket timbra alir pontal."

The other creature spoke, an expression crossing his face that looked strangely like... a smile. An amused, mirthful smile. When Caius didn't respond of course, that smile faded a little. The creature frowned, and raised a hand in a universally recognised gesture of 'hang on', before slowly taking a step towards the equally naked deer. Not wishing to offend by appearing scared or displeased by the other creature's presence, Caius didn't step back. Thus he and the other figure were soon side by side in front of the control panel, and the deer could only watch as the larger, stronger male brushed aside more of the dust and began to tap at several different sections of the sizeable panel.

All of a sudden, as he stopped typing, the silvery nanites surrounding him detached from his body and flew at Caius once more. This time though they didn't merely surround him, and the deer cried out, covering his hands futilely with his arms as they poured into his ears in a sensation that was deeply unpleasant in how ticklish it was.

After about ten seconds of course, the sensation of creatures swirling around his inner ear ceased, and carefully Caius removed the digits he had stuffed into his ears to try and scrape them out again in a panic. He looked up at the huge male standing beside him, and blushed as he saw the smirk present once more. Carefully, pointedly, the newly awakened creature cleared his throat, and spoke again.

"Reeara ma se teeshi..."

As he began to speak though, those unintelligible words faded away, and in their place, ringing with only the slightest humming, buzzing noise similar to that made by the nanite swarms, Caius heard Galactic Common.

"Looks like we were asleep for longer than expected. That, or you evolved faster than our models predicted. We will have to compare star charts and galactic drift to be sure, of course."

Caius chuckled dryly.

"O-of course..."

He tried not to let the fear, the awe, the fact that he was so overwhelmed he felt faint not come through in his voice. He failed. The other man smiled at him reassuringly, and before Caius could do anything else he was within the freshly awoken, ancient creature's arms. He was being embraced, lifted off the ground by arms that were gentle yet immensely strong, and kissed deeply, passionately upon the lips. His eyes widened. His body shook, and, in a moment of pure and undiluted surprise, Caius found himself kissing the alien but undeniably gorgeous male right back.

The kiss lasted some twenty or thirty seconds before Caius drew back, breathless and overwhelmed. Gently the powerful creature holding him set the deer down and released him from his tight embrace, but grasped one of Caius' trembling hands in his own instead. Without a word he began to lead the deer away, and it was only when Caius stumbled slightly, not intending to resist but simply not having expected to move, that he turned back to regard Caius curiously.

"It will be some time before the rest of my people are awakened. My pod was designed for a rapid re-awakening so that I could ensure our diplomatic status got off on the correct footing, but the requirements to implement that on a mass scale would have been impossible, even for my people. You... I hope this goes without saying, but... your intentions are peaceful, correct? And, by being the representative of your people awakening us, you are willing to accept the responsibility of conducting the initial diplomatic overtures?"

In the split-second that he had to think about it, Caius tried to remember his high school class on theoretical first contact procedures with an entirely new alien race.

He nodded warmly, trying his hardest for his smile to seem genuine. Again though the eight foot male clutching at his hand saw right through him, fixing him with another more genuine and reassuring grin of his pearly white teethed, whiskered muzzle.

"Good. But... please, don't be nervous. The first time in diplomacy is always a learning experience, no matter how much you've trained for it."

He began to lead the deer away from the main body of this chamber, and to a small antechamber off to the left whose doors had only opened up since the male in question was released from his cryo-stasis. As they walked, Caius finally summoned up the courage to speak once again.

"Forgive me if I should know this, I haven't had the time to fully familiarise myself with your written language, but... what is your name? Your title?"

The creature didn't stop walking, but he turned his head and beamed at Caius.

"For what little it matters, my title in my own society is Prince. Don't worry, we're not so barbaric as to hold to any class structure, it's simply a holdover of a title from far more primitive days. My name is Callistor, though if you do not mind a more informal usage, Cal was what I was known as to many of my friends and lovers. What is your name, if I may also ask?"

Caius introduced himself. Or rather, he began to, though after stating his name the rest of what he had been about to say, his profession and his reason for being here, all that somewhat trailed off as he was led through the now open doors and into the chamber beyond. Not some vast throne room. Not some science laboratory or even a simple meeting room.

They were in a bedroom, and it was to the large, lush looking bed upon its far side that the Prince guided them, before sitting down upon the edge of the deliciously soft looking sheets.

He tapped the bed beside him, and smiled as Caius' eyes widened, his cheeks flushed, and the deer sat down in overwhelmed confusion as to what was happening.

"Well, Caius... my new friend, I hope that in the truest tradition of my people, this first overture of diplomacy is the start of a long, prosperous and intimate relationship. We put ourselves to sleep so that when we awoke, we would have a galaxy of new companions to meet and love, just as we have loved one another throughout our past. And as the first of those races we seeded across the stars to find their way home... as the first person to step into our world and offer us the chance to hopefully share our love of life and all its endless wonder, I hope I don't seem indecent or inappropriate in saying how glad I am to be the one to share this first showing of our desire for peace and harmony."

Caius' eyes grew wider and wider as he felt the powerful hand that had been clutching at his own move across his body, from his hand to his thigh where it lay, rubbing gently.

"I... I h-hope we can be friends too, Cal."

He peered up into the deep, beautifully bright eyes of this ancient creature, the race from which his and perhaps all other breeds and species of anthrokind were descended, and gasped as the hand upon his thigh slid over to his still semi-swollen cock, and began to squeeze and stroke it delicately within its grasp.

"Good. I'm so glad, Caius. Now... lie back, and let us cease relying on the impreciseness of words to share our good-will and intent. Lie back, and let me suck your cock. And with every drop of cum, with every twitch of ecstasy I draw forth from you... and which you will surely draw forth from me, let the peace and love we feel for each other spread across the stars. Let our joy and our shared union resonate and be echoed across the galaxy, as has been our way for millions of years."

By Jeeves

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