Shadowrun: Remember your Past, part 2

Story by Hermes12 on SoFurry

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#3 of Shadowrun: Shadows of Salt Lake

Robert Deckard goes to a clothing optional resort with his mother and his sister and got to see how nudists actually live. Also, Electra shares with Robert Deckard her greatest secret.


2067 A.D.

Five months later.

I was in my mom's car with my sister out on a family outing. My sister complained about the trip, but we were driving along I-15, which the Ute Nation maintained. The Interstate was still a freeway. At least the city maintains their own parcel of the Interstate.

"Mom, I don't understand why I have to go to some stupid resort and leave my friends behind," said my sister.

"Look, Zoe, if it's so important to you to communicate with your family," my mom began. "I can stop the car and have you walk back home. We are out here on this outing as a family."

"I don't like this, I'd rather be with dad," she said.

"This is your dad's idea," said mom. "Besides, would you rather be in Seattle or here in nature?"

"Where are we going?" Zoe said.

Mom answered, "to Sunnyvale Club in Sanpete County!"

"I just want to die," said Zoe.

"I think it will be great!" I said. "I've been wanting some time away from Mike."

"Yes, you need a vacation," said Mom.

"I thought the Utes kicked out everyone in Sanpete County, what gives?" asked Zoe.

"They made a deal with us that we still control Salt Lake City, Sanpete County, Mexican Hat," recounted mom, "Parowan and Vernal. They keep the rest."

Zoe asked, "Don't the natives harass us whites everywhere?"

"Yes, they do," said mom. "But not here. Not at Sunnyside Club."

We were in the cabin, and mom was taking a shower. We were cut off from any access to the matrix. Believe me, I know. I tried connecting with my KidsLink™. I had no signal, and I wasn't allowed to bring along a satellite hook up. Zoe was tired of the trid, since all we could get was THIS!. The family oriented channel showed old 2D programming from a century and 60 years ago.

I moved to the shower. "When are you going to be ready, mom?"

"I'm almost ready, kids," mom answered back.

Zoe said, "This vacation sucks! Dad promised me to take me into the Renaku Arcology in Seattle!"

"So you said, Zoe," mom said. "But we are here for fresh air and to commune with nature. I planned this as a family, and I'm glad Joe could make the change in plans."

"I still think this sucks!" Zoe said as she turned off the trideo. I sat back down and opened a magazine on volleyball. There were a lot of them. I started reading the articles on form and function.

"Zoe, lets try to have some fun here," I said. "Besides, its good to get away from technology for a while."

"I actually rather be hanging out with my friends instead," said Zoe. "Being apart of a social clique is part of adolescence."

"Who died and made you professor of sociology?" I said and Zoe, for a thirteen year-old, stuck her tongue out at me.

"You're so smart," she said.

The shower stopped, and mom walked out of the shower without a stitch on. She didn't bother to get dressed. I saw my mom naked only a few times in my life, and now I can add this one. Apparently, her breasts sagged and she had pubic hair. But she worked hard to stay thin. "Now kids, I'd like you all to give the club a try," my mom said.

"Yeah, whatever," said Zoe. "No way are you going to get me to go out there naked."

"I can't make you," said mom. "What about you, Robert?"

"Eh," I said, smiling. "I can go nude when I'm good and ready."

"You just want to check out the girls," said Zoe, I got another protruding tongue.

"Whats wrong with looking for potential girls to go out with?" I asked.

"I think it's sick," Zoe said.

I asked, "You don't want to check out the boys?"

Zoe said, "I'd like my boys fully clothed, thank you! I rather check out boys with my friends at the mall or the Renaku arcology, not here at mom's boyfriend's nudist colony!"

I walked out of the cabin, I couldn't stand it the vibes I was getting from Zoe. Oh, and for the record I was wearing clothes. Some nice shorts, a t-shirt, a light jacket and some tennis runners and I'm set. Already, I'm walking around to see what there is. There isn't any way I'm going naked now.

And there was a lot of naked people. But since I gotten out of my sister's argument over change, I thought I explore the club a little. I left the cabins and headed into the club and out, to check everything out.

Apparently, they had a swimming pool, several places where people could sit under a sun shade and talk, a volleyball court, a wide open field and wilderness. There was people of all colors, races - and I do mean races, and ages here. I saw three people who were as aged as they come with wrinkly skin. I saw a couple of fat people, whome I must admit I thought were out of place here.

Okay, I saw A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers and by Blake Edwards, and that scene in A Shot in the Dark colored my preconceptions of a nudist camp. It was the funniest movie I have ever seen. I expected every man here to be like Hercules or Adonis, and every woman here to be proportioned like Venus or Freya. But no, there were rail thin people here as well as the fattest. Although there were people here that looked like Conan the Barbarian. But everyone, even the Utes, seemed to accept everyone here.

There was even children here. And I don't mean people just my age. But little babies to four year olds and so forth. All walking around naked and without being ashamed of their bodies.

"Robby?" said a familiar voice. I turned my head to see who it was and it was Electra, fully nude and with her family. Her body was beautiful, for a teenaged allosaur-human hybrid. And it seemed that Electra wasn't the only one in the family who was a changeling, her father had mood hair, basically on his head, on his chest - and it ran down his stomach to his loins. Meaning his pubic and chest hair was mood hair too. Even the hair on his thighs changed color.

"Hello, Electra," I said.

"Come, sit down," Electra said. "I'd like you to meet my parents!"

I sat down besides Electra. "Mom, dad," Electra began. "This is Robby!"

"Hey, nice to meet you, Robby!" said Electra's father as he held his hand out and I shook it.

"And it's nice to meet you, Robby," said her mother, and I shook her hand.

I nodded, "It's nice to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens."

"How polite," said Mr. Stevens. "Am I to be certain that you are here for fun then."

"I'm just checking out the sites here, trying to get used to things," I said.

Chaz said, "I'm surprised you haven't taken off the clothes."

I looked at the sixteen year-old. "Uh, what?"

Then I heard my mother with her boyfriend, Larry. "Robby, is that you?!"

I waved at her, and I see a relunctant Zoe in toe. My mother came in and said, "Hello, John and Mary!"

"You know them, mom?" I asked.

"I met them quite a while ago," she said. "While both of you were out, I go swimming and I heard so much about you and your relationship with Electra here."

Electra blushed. She may be a lizard girl, but I can tell when she's being embarrassed. "Uhm, I thought you wouldn't know," I said. "I thought I was keeping it a secret until I told you about her."

"She's special," said John Stevens, whose hair turned a neon blue color. "My little girl."

"Didn't it scare you when she changed?" I asked.

"Of course we were scared," Mary Stevens answered. "We saw our little girl change right in front of us. It was horrific as to what happened. We were all scared! She became withdrawn into herself, hiding herself and using sports to express herself. Then she saw you, and now she won't stop talking."

"That's comforting," I said.

Electra blushed. Well, I took it as my cue to leave. "Well, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, I have to go see what other kids my age are doing."

"It was nice to meet you, Robert!" said Mary Stevens.

"It was nice meeting you!"

I hurried to the basketball courts where the boys were playing. There was a lot of naked teenagers, and no one here acting and showing unnatural affection. They were just playing basketball.

"Do you want to play with them, Robert," my Mother asked.

"No, mom, we are here over the weekend. I just want to satisfy my curiosity," I said. "So, no one has any public sex here? I thought when the clothes came off, people started fornicating with each other."

My mother said, "Honestly, Robert, people can control themselves if they were naked in public. It's absolute control over the human need to couple. The World wants you to think that getting naked is an instant invitation to sex."

"But it's not?" I said.

Mother answered, "No, it doesn't have to be. How many bare breasts did you see here?"

"A lot. Many bare breasts, butts, and dongs of every shape and fit," I said. "And I couldn't be aroused."

"Imagine, what the world would be like if man had that same control," my mom said. "When your father left for Seattle, I demanded a divorce. But everything changed after words when I met John and Mary."

"Yes. Was the divorce about dad's Shadowrunning?" I asked.

My mother just nodded, "He became a criminal, and thought that Seattle was where it's at. He was going to make us rich by fighting the evil in the Corporations. He is completely getting mixed up in crime over there, and I didn't want you drawn into it. So I filed for divorce, and after that your Father got himself off the grid."

I started to think, "Mom, I don't want to hurt you, so I won't be a Shadowrunner."

"Thank you, Robby, it's good for you not to run the Shadows," my mom hugged me after having said that.

After that I studied the playing of the naked kids. All of them were working as a team. The boys were of mixed races: troll, human, ork, elf, dwarf - caucasian, african, amerindian, changeling, and possibly drake. Everyone playing basketball were having fun with each other on their own basis. It was like they were brothers, and it didn't matter if you were black or white, brown or brown red; they were just having fun. Is nudism a possible path to true brotherhood? Apparently, aside from the tusks and fearsome appearance, everyone acted as if there were no dividing lines.

"Hey, kid!" one of them called, an elf. "Come and play basketball with us!"

"Is it okay if I stayed clothed?" I asked.

"Sure! You have the same parts as us, just come and play!" the elf said.

I walked on and became a part of the team. And I started to play basketball. For as long as I can remember, Michael and I stuck through thin and thin. He was an outcast at school because he could charm the birds from the trees. I was an outcast, because I am a scholar. Here, I felt accepted. I started playing basketball as if I was serious. Yes, having serious fun. My mother smiled as she went back in to the center, figuring that I was all right.

It was dusk, and we were having dinner. I don't know what happened, but Zoe shed most of her clothes in the intervening hours. Now I had my mom and my sister naked. I wasn't. I was simply not ready to get naked.

Electra still looked over my way, because the Stevens' were there too. They were having dinner, and Electra was having a diet that was mostly meat. Well, her teeth were curved like a predator's, so it's logical that an allosaur changeling is a predator.

I, however, felt like the only one fully dressed for dinner. Still, I wasn't ready to take my clothes off. I ate a steak and cheese sandwich pickles and a salad. I love Philedelphia steak and cheese sandwiches, and fortunately I don't get enough of them that they became a delicacy for me. Zoe had spaghetti in a meet sauce and cheese on top. My mother had cod and steak. I couldn't believe it, we were eating real food instead of soy and krill. Which is a good thing, because I'm allergic to soybeans.

For desert, I had cheesecake. Real strawberry cheesecake! "Why do the strawberries taste so real, mother?" I asked.

"Because, when Daniel Howling Coyote happened, he changed most of the land into wilderness and farmland," my mother said. "We are able to grow our own vegatables and ranch our own free range livestock."

"How come we still eat soy in the city," Zoe asked. Zoe was eating cake.

My mother said, "I'll tell you that later."

I finished my dinner and we left. Mother was still naked, and Zoe was just wearing shorts. I think she'll have them off in the morning. I, however, got a message on my KiddieLink™. As much as I love Thomas Jefferson, the parents and not society, should be the censors.

"Hmm, it's from Electra, she wants to meet me somewhere," I said. "Is it okay?"

My mother nodded, "As long as you behave yourself."

I grinned, "I play roleplaying games, mom. I'm in a demographic where we tend to be virgins at Forty. I'll be alright."

I waved and I followed the signal, using my link's limited Geo-Positioning System. It took me beyond the swimming pool into the wilderness - right to a little stream that flowed. Everything was natural here, it was surprising to me that the place resonated with life here. I sat down and idly played with the water. It was dusk, and getting dark. But I could still see wonderfully. The place was so peaceful.

"Robby?" Electra said behind me. I turned around to see that she was naked from the waist up. There was still enough light that I could discern color. Her bone ridges were wonderful, and even though she was strong and powerful, she seemed so gentle that she wouldn't attack me.

"Robby, there's something you have to know," she said as she came out of the bushes.

I asked, "what's that?"

"I love you, Robby," she said. Electra came out of the bushes and I finally got a real good view at her. She had beautiful hips, and a strong athletic body that goes along with those pert, athletic breasts. "I just have something to show you, that's all."

"I think you pretty much showed me all of it," I said. Then I saw it, a pink penis came out of her slit. A penis. I had to stay there and stare. Electra blushed.

"Please don't stare at me, it's making me feel self conscious," she said.

I stammered, "You have a -a -a - PENIS!"

She looked at me, and these tears started coming down her beautiful scaly cheeks. "Please, don't do that," she said. "I thought you could accept it. I thought you could accept me! Can't you accept me?"

"How did you get it?" I asked.

She looked at me, dumbfounded. "I was born with it."

"So, you are a hermaphrodite?" I asked.

She nodded. "I have both male and female in me," she explained. "But I expressed myself as female."

I came up to her and comforted her. I wrapped my arms around her as she cried. "I wish we can be together, Robby," she said. She turned around and we kissed again. This time more deeply. I felt the rise in my shorts and broke off our passionate kiss.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"If we stay here, alone, I might want to do something with you," I said. "I don't want to go that far yet."

"Hold me," she said. "It makes me feel protected."

"Lets go back to our cabins," I said. I stood up, and we held hands as we walked to our cabins. I knew her secret, she had both male and female parts. Her penis was wet and firm. I wondered why they didn't remove the parts in the first place. Then I remembered, the Year of the Comet was when she changed. Her parents couldn't afford the sexual assignment operation.