ENF-128 - CLOUD

Item #: ENF-128
Object Class: Godiva

Containment Procedures: Captive specimens of ENF-128 are to be kept in a dome-shaped chamber at least one hundred metres in height, made from reinforced concrete, with doors located only at ground level. They should be fed on a regular basis to forestall disgruntlement. Containment teams sent in pursuit of ENF-128 should be equipped with helicopters, vacuum suction devices and multiple changes of underwear, since at least one pair is liable to be destroyed.

Description: ENF-128 is a species of aerial scavenger that appears, to the naked eye, almost totally indistinguishable from an ordinary cumulus cloud. It inhabits the skies of metropolitan and suburban areas, where, despite its alien nature, it generally passes unnoticed.

Mostly, ENF-128 just floats there. When it gets hungry, however, it "fishes" for women.

First, an almost-invisible thread, ending in a shiny silver hook, is lowered to street level, where it is carefully manipulated so as to snag the hem of a victim's undergarments. Then, it's reeled back into the sky. The unfortunate prey is hauled into the air by the back of her panties, all the way up to cloud level, a process that can take over an hour. Oddly, the panties never break. It is hypothesized that ENF-128 injects some kind of strengthening fluid in the fabric.

Once a woman is wholly inside the body of the cloud, surrounded by cool silvery mist on all sides, the billion tiny animalcules that make up the substance of ENF-128 go to work. They eat all her clothes except for her panties, dissolving them into fog with their tiny wet cold mouths. Then, the licking begins.

Finally, when the licking is complete and every last ounce of whatever substance it is that ENF-128 finds nutritious has been extracted from the victim's skin by a billion slimy tongues, two clothespins are placed on her nipples, and she is slowly lowered back down to the surface of the Earth. There, she is generally hung by the back of her panties from whatever high place ENF-128 deems suitable - a basketball hoop, perhaps. Or, in one memorable instance, the top of the Empire State Building.

It is not yet known what function the clothespins serve. Perhaps ENF-128 is marking its victims so it can avoid capturing the same woman twice, or perhaps it's simply trying to annoy them.