"Program. Alpha Nine Seven. Return," he said aloud in an unfamiliar voice. The teenage boy just stared at him like he was crazy. To Mark's great relief, the room started spinning and he could feel the vertiginous lurch of the time tunnel. Soon, he would be back in the present...
Or so he thought.
When he came to, Mark was still in a female body, a redhead again, no less. He was wearing the remains of bandage-like straps and seemed to be locked in a featureless white room. A man's voice was piped in.
"Good, you're awake. We apologize for having to restrain you, but with your genetically enhanced physical attributes, we were worried about the damage you might cause while in your sexual frenzy. The Ma-D units were bred for the rigors of Terradeen colonization. You were never meant to move in Earth society. We shall be preparing you for your journey now..."
"Bullshit!" Mark cried. "Program. Alpha Nine Seven. Return!" Again, the room spun.
"Are you all right, Lady Madeleine?" a pretty young woman in a maid's outfit asked. "I heard you yell."
Mark quickly checked out his surroundings. Still a woman. Still a redhead. Still a Maddie. She tried not to show her panic. Something had gone horribly wrong with the time tunnel She was even beginning to think of herself as female.
"No, I'm quite all right." Her voice had an English lilt to it. "Could you please tell me the date and where I am?"
The maid looked puzzled, but replied out of a habit of obedience. "It's the fourth of May, 1905. You're in you're parents' estate in Sussex." She turned to leave, but asked "Will there be anything else I can do for you? Anything at all?" There was no mistaking the look of lust in the maid's eyes.
Mark had never heard such a blatant invitation, but she had to figure this out. "Maybe later," she said before activating the return code.
She wound up in 1987 again. She soon discovered that she now existed at three points in time, and while she could jump between them at will, she could never go back to her own time.
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