From: hazemaster@aol.com (HazeMaster)
Subject: Men of Antarctica (M/M)
Date: 13 May 1995 10:56:31 -0400
Reply-To: hazemaster@aol.com (HazeMaster)

				MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
					Episode #25,
				by HazeMaster@aol.com

	"Ungrateful wretch!  Though I bestow on you a priceless gift, you
have not sense enough to know its worth!"

	Zodp'doq's Pleasure Chamber crowned Xyla'anta's Palace of Black
Crystal's Master Tower.  The rounded walls rose to three times the height
of a Drode Sex Pirate.  The Dark Lord's bed--a simple square platform of
burnished red Zharquoya wood covered with leather sheets and
comforter--occupied the cylindrical apartment's midpoint.  Suspended from
hooks in the crystal walls hung favored parts of Zodp'doq's prize
captives.  Still living necks, pectorals, biceps, shoulders, abdomens,
thighs, calves, buttocks, and genitals, twitched with sensation underneath
the clear glass skylight.

	"Miserable little twink!  To not appreciate a precious gem is
simple ignorance!  But to bespoil a treasure shows a wanton lack of
judgment!"

	Lord Zodp'doq and Khochya-bar-Qoq sat upon leather thrones.  The
Master of the Five Drodai'ic realms wore leather boots laced to his knee. 
Black leather jodhpurs adhered to the Brothel Procurator's loins. 
Zodp'doq's massive, furry chest glittered with fragrant oils.  His dark
brown nipples stood out firm and straight.

	Zodp'doq's own hands dressed Khochya-bar-Qoq.  Zodp'doq swept the
Prince's long dark, white streaked hair into a high coiffeur studded with
jewels from all the altiverse.  Zodp'doq selected a shimmering cream
colored gown of iridescent fabric, draping the robe in a diaphanous
overskirt of ever shifting rainbow hues.

	The oldest Drode Warriors gasped.  Zodp'doq transformed
Khochya-bar-Qoq into the image of his Royal Mother, Princess Tondaleyah
Rebekka, daughter of Admiral Antemodes Ahrkantepodes.

	"Pathetic airhead!  How dare you toss away a prize that could have
liberated your entire tribe, and trade it for a momentary trifle to
assuage your bloated appetites!"

	Stripped naked and shaven completely bare, young Buddy hung spread
eagled from the rack.  Purple welts boldly flourished on the Californian's
lobster hued buttocks.  A thick black candle dripped hot wax from the
Bud's asshole.  The tattooed emblem of a Brothel Harlot decorated Buddy's
skull and left pectoral mound.  Zodp'doq's silver nuptial rings no longer
pierced the Californian's cock and nipples.

	"From what you were to what you are, never has any Harem Favourite
fallen with such swiftness to such degradation."

	Zodp'doq spoke in sadness without rancor.

	The Californian's hardon betrayed Buddy's harshest shame.

	Zodp'doq's naked servants brought in wineskins, pastries, bowls of
fruit, and trays of pungent cheese.

	As Zodp'doq and Khochya-bar-Qoq supped, Drodes tilted the rack
horizontal, splaying spreadeagled Buddy face up. One Drode guard shoved
his rod in Buddy's mouth.  Another whammed his cockshaft into Buddy's
asshole.

	The court musicians grouped themselves around their Lord.  Swiftly
tuning their strings, the players commenced a much favored
piece--Zodp'doq's Twelfth Concerto Grosso.  The severed body parts
suspended from the crystal walls twitched to the music's jaunty tempo.

	The royal dancers swirled into the Pleasure Chamber.  Twirling
about the rack, their undulations matched the rhythms of the two Drodes
fucking California Buddy.

	Khochya-bar-Qoq whispered to Zodp'doq.  The Dark Lord guffawed,
filled his mouth with creamy pastry. Drode tongue slipped dessert between
the Captive Prince's lips.  The Drodes Guards shot their loads up Buddy's
ass and throat.  Two others quickly shoved their shafts up Buddy's twats.

	The music played.  The dancers twirled.  The disembodied fragments
jitterbugged along the walls.  Zodp'doq poured the wineskin down the
Prince's gullet.  The Drodes in swift succession fired their wads down
Buddy's holes.  Zodp'doq bent a serving boy across the supper table.  The
Dark Lord stuffed the youth's buttocks with drooling fruit. The other boys
eagerly lapped the sweet and sticky juices.

	The court musicians played Zodp'doq's Fourth Concerto Grosso.  And
then his Sixth and too exquisite Tenth (commemorating Antemodes
Ahrkantepodes' defeat).  The royal dancers sprawled exhausted on the
floor.  A regiment of Drodes fucked Buddy through his front and back
doors.

	Zodp'doq rose.  All music ceased.  Zodp'doq gave his arm to
Khochya-bar-Qoq and escorted His Highness to the rack.

	Khochya-bar-Qoq lifted his skirts and straddled Buddy's face. 
Animated by blind instinct, the Californian's tongue and lips began to
suck the Captive Prince's cock.  A saltiness and vinegary tang overlaid
the meat's Hermanuta sweetness.  Buddy thought that he recognized  . . .
but no . . . that could not be.

	Khochya-bar-Qoq's thick shaft pumped deep in Buddy's throat. 
Zodp'doq hooked Buddy's legs round his neck, spat on his callused palms,
and lubed his monster cockmeat.  Khochya-bar-Qoq's tool bulged, and Buddy
strained to keep his jaws from gagging.

	"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

	Zodp'doq rammed his spit slimed rod up Buddy's pussy hole,
sundering open the tight gates to Buddy's glory road.  Young Buddy writhed
between his two assailants.  His sphincters clamped on Zodp'doq's hard
pushing rod.  His tongue slurped up the precum drooling out of
Khochya-bar-Qoq's cockhead.  Again the Hermanuta's milky sweetness
overlaid with something tart and sour.  Yes?  No?  It couldn't be!

	At either end the twin despoilers rocked their hips in perfect
cadence.  Young Buddy quivered, pulverized between Zodp'doq's cockshaft
pounding at his prostate and Khochya-bar-Qoq's manmeat hammering his
throat.  His last night in the Palace of Black Crystal.  His final fuck
from Zodp'doq.

	The two dicks swelled inside him.  Buddy sensed that the pair
would shoot their loads as one.  Zodp'doq moaned, and Khochya-bar-Qoq
noticed the Dark Lord wept.  A weary sadness overtook the Master's
countenance.  What was the Procurator mourning in his heart?

	Leaning forward, Prince Khochya-bar-Qoq slipped his tongue between
the Dark Lord's lips.  The two sworn enemies locked arms about each other,
syncopated bodies heaving as they panted and their knees began to shake.

	Zodp'doq's viscous cum scalded the Californian's road to glory. 
Khochya-bar-Qoq exploded, firing globs of scorching mancum into Buddy's
gaping throat.

	At once the Ross Ice Station's high tech guru realized his fatal
error.

	Moaning ecstatically, Lord Zodp'doq and Prince Khochya-bar-Qoq
volleyed their fiery payloads into Buddy's ass and mouth.

	The Californian swooned, his body hurtling through the altiverse,
tumbling down from galaxy to galaxy freighted by terrible new knowledge
which expelled him from the realms of adolescent innocence.

	Thick flaming globs of mancum consumed all the arrogance that last
night bloomed in Buddy's pussyholes.

	The harsh wisdom the Californian should have learned beforehand
now brought Buddy only painful stabbing sorrow.

	Toppling in a free fall through both time and space, spiraling
ever downward Buddy crashed amidst the Market Place within Xyla'anta's
Brothel of the Ten Thousand Inter-Galactic Sexual Pleasures.


				MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
					Episode #26,
				by HazeMaster@aol.com

	Inter-galactic freighter routes swallowed up Borsa and Na'achum.

	Wandering from star system to star system, the voyagers
encountered cargo handlers, orphan boys, and aged Ma'asatt veterans
recounting legends of the fabled Pentagonal Convent of the Healing
Sisters.  But no man knew the hospice's true location.

	The pilgrims journeyed ever onward through the altiverse, earning
their keep as sweated laborers.  The thrifty Borsa hid a trove of golden
coins within a leather pouch secured beneath his trousers.

	At length Borsa and Na'achum disembarked at Planet Genessia.  Once
the proud center of inter-galactic commerce, the planet's cities now stood
desolate.  Vast forests reclaimed barren fields, high branched trees
blotting out the daystar's light.

	Borsa and Na'achum rambled through the Royal Palace.  Towering
fluted columns bore capitals ornately carved with vines and leaves and
fruits.  Round arched clerestory arcades soared skyward to join richly
molded cornices supporting shattered roofs.  Sculpted freezes in high
relief portrayed the House of Zhiova'anah's legendary triumphs in blends
of blue and red and green and purple marble.  Parti-colored mosaics
sprawled over marble floors depicting Genessia's bountiful prosperity.

	The pilgrims' boots echoed thru vacant galleries.  Decapitated,
toppled statues balanced against collapsed altars.  Swift, sharp fanged
rodents scampered from fissures in the high walls seeking food. Questing
for light and air, trees forced their way through smashed foundations. 
Large pools of stagnant water filled reception chambers.

	Within the palace courtyard stood the Bazaar of the Caravans. 
Highly spiced grilled meats commingled their aromas with scents of animals
and freighter crews from many galaxies.  Vendors from all the altiverse
bawled out their shills competing for the crowd's attention.  Tumblers and
dervishes and jugglers and musicians performed amidst teamsters careening
drunkenly from tent to tent.

	Wrapping his muscled arm about young Na'achum's shoulder, Borsa
remembered Leonardis guiding him through the Bazaar on Planet Nadjz.  How
many earthly months or years ago?  Borsa lost track of time measured on
Planet Earth, could not recall the date the Ross Ice Station crew had left
Antarctica.

	Borsa bought Na'achum hot mulled cider; roasted poultry from the
Briz'n'prouzn Galaxy; skewered kabobs of curried Arvh'yah and pastry
shells of Re'eme'ediyah drenched in garlic butter.  The two men shared
desserts from Metayim, soft, fluffy breads oozing with gooey creams and
sticky fruit preserves.

	Leftover food from all the altiverse covered young Na'achum's face
and fingers.  Borsa laughed at his grinning friend.  The Marine filled his
cheeks with fresh water and slurped the manchild clean with his broad
tongue.

	Meandering between the merchants' tents, Borsa purchased two
sharply pointed  daggers to conceal within their tunics.  The Marine
bought himself a long, stout staff of hard Zharquoya wood, and then a
shorter, lighter staff for Na'achum.  He procured coils of densely braided
rope, and heavy, thick soled leather boots.

	Na'achum's face glowed with curiosity, the manchild eager to
incorporate new experience beyond his former ken.

	And so their ramblings took the pilgrims to the Sex Bazaar.

	Seven foot tall, massively bulked up guards with close cropped
hair presided at the auction platforms, torsos encased in tight black
guinea t-shirts scooped low font and back displaying delts and lats and
pecs and biceps.  Verkauffah merchants rubbed their hands outside their
leather tents, bellowing their sales pitches at the crowd.

	"Behold a dainty missy for a warrior's pleasure!  A modest maiden,
virtuous and virginal!  A tender morsel for the delectation of a fighting
soldier!"

	Enormous under his caftan, the merchant  smelled of wine, cooked
meats, and spices.

	The joy toy girls ready for auction stood upon wooden platforms
with their eyes cast down.

	Sharply Borsa recalled the afternoon aeons ago with Leonardis.

	"Yo, Little Brother, ya'll do got one hard and slimy dick between
ya legs!  Ya'll wanna be a little lady in the Bazaar of the Caravans?"

	The Lykanthine Commander could read Borsa's thoughts, sensing the
most minute gradations of his cockshaft.  Did the Marine from Brooklyn
yearn to be dressed up and painted like a living doll, a crinolined and
ruffled little lady?

	Even now Borsa felt his cockmeat swell between his legs, felt
drops of pre-cum dribble down along his thighs.

	"Big Brother Vinnie Borsa, have you brought us to this place that
we may view the shame of joy toy girls?"

	Na'achum's words pierced the jarhead's reverie.

	"All boys must serve their time before they earn the prize of
manhood.  But whether as a Little Brother or a Little Sister . . . ."

	Na'achum stared into Borsa's eyes.

	"Big Brother Vinnie Borsa, why is your countenance so dark and
troubled?"

	"Na'achum, the Drodes deprived me of Commander Leonardis long
before I absorbed the Master's teachings.  So I must be Na'achum's Big
Brother while I still learn the Mysteries of Manhood.  That is my destiny.
 So be it."

	Borsa groped Na'achum's crotch and laughed.

	Na'achum blushed lobster red.  Borsa had caught him with a hardon.

	Borsa hugged Na'achum to his chest.

	"Perhaps the two of us need to consider the plight of our Little
Sisters."

	Borsa kissed Na'achum's lips.  The boy from Altra Nirah thrust his
tongue in Borsa's mouth and rubbed the Marine's close cropped hair.

	"Behold a dainty missy for a warrior's pleasure!  A modest maiden,
virtuous and virginal!  A tender morsel for the delectation of a fighting
soldier!"

	Borsa gazed at the auction block.  One joy toy girl stood taller
than the others.  Beneath a tightly curled flaxen haired wig, the maiden's
cheeks and lips were painted blushing pink.  But lacy pinafores could not
conceal the barrel chest and broad, square shoulders of a man who'd lived
a life of constant action.  Once.

	"Look closely at this delectable demoiselle and savor ripe fruit
ready for the plucking.  Never has Schnorer the Adorer beheld such a
precious darling as this pretty little lady.  No Emperor's daughter could
compare to such as jewel as this."

	The Verkauffah merchant thrust hairy paws between the joy toy's
legs and hoisted up the maiden's flouncy skirts. Long sheer white
stockings sheathed the sex toy's calves and thighs, a garter belt
sustaining them in place.  Sheer peach hued panties thinly veiled the all
too public private parts.

	Rolling his tongue along his glistening, wine stained lips, the
smirking merchant slowly caressed the joy toy girl's muscled thighs. 
Schnorer's grease smeared fingers stroked the sex toy’s crotch while the
Adorer lewdly humped the maiden's buttocks with his obscene paunch.

	"Here’s a delicious little snack for breakfast on the morrow. 
What valiant fighting man will nibble on this tender, dainty morsel? 
Which gallant warrior will make this little missy dance tonight and fill
her pretty head with juicy dreams tomorrow?"

	Schnorer the merchant spewed cigar smoke in the joy girl's mouth.

	The little lady's painted cheeks could not conceal her shame
filled blushes.

	Borsa's chest tightened and his stomach heaved.  The jarhead's
throat went dry as Vinnie recognized the sex toy on the auction block:
Master Sergeant Keith Schnuffler, USMC.

	"Ya just a fucking faggot, Borsa!  A maggot ridden piece a shit! 
This man's Marine Corps got no place for fucking sissy girls like you!"

	The jarhead's ears still burned.  The seventeen year old had
joined the Marine Corps to prove his manhood.  And in Antarctica he had
encountered Master Sergeant Schnuffler.

	"Ya fucking little pansy, Borsa!  Ya no good fucking cocksucker! 
What the fuck makes ya think ya got a berth in this here man's Marine
Corps?"

	Well destiny has surely played a merry prank on Master Sergeant
Schnuffler.  Self-righteous pleasure warmed the jarhead's heart.  Without
thinking the Marine swelled his chest, thrust out his rump, and scratched
his crotch.

	Then Master Sergeant Schnuffler raised his eyes and met the Marine
private's gaze.

	A look of recognition flashed between the men.

	Borsa watched Schnuffler quiver on the auction block, sensing the
shame surging within the Master Sergeant.  Borsa could feel the Sergeant's
manhood shrivel up into a little ball and blow away like ashes in the
wind.

	"What lucky soldier wants to guarantee this little pretty won't
get any sleep tonight?  What daring sky jock wants to keep the other fly
boys wide awake till sunrise listening to the little lady's cries of agony
and ecstasy?"

	Ma'asatt Flotilla Starship 69 had carried them into another
altiverse.  Zodp'doq's Drode Sex Pirates separated them from their Ross
Station comrades.  Neither had seen another Planet Earthman since that
fatal day on Planet Nadjz.  They both were strangers in a strange land. 
They both belonged to the United States Marines.  They both would always
be Men of Antarctica.

	"I hold this priceless pearl before your eyes!  What happy soldier
gets to feast on sweetmeats prepared by Kaduma Master chefs?"

	The gross Verkauffah merchant boldly tweaked the little lady's
nipples.  Reeking with pesto breath, he squeezed the precious darling's
mansack while he flicked her cockshaft's tender head.  Two grease smeared
fingers pushed deep inside the dainty morsel's hole of shame.

	But this maiden was Master Sergeant Keith Schnuffler, USMC.

	"Big Brother Vinnie Borsa, please explain the sudden agitation
raging in your breast."

	"Na'achum, my friend, tonight the two of us are gonna learn the
Mysteries of Manhood."

	"But who will teach them to us, Brother?"

	"We're gonna learn em on the fly, my friend.  We're gonna learn a
real man's ways through on the job training.  My friend, tonight we're
gonna do a bang up real man's job!"


					MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
						Episode #27,
					by HazeMaster@aol.com

	The night winds chilled the freighter compounds.  Lantern light
seeped out of the scattered tents, along with sounds of laughter, music,
sex, and gluttony.  A nightbeast's howls reverberated in the darkness. 
Sharp needled tumbleweeds rolled through the campsites.  From deep within
the forests nightbirds shrieked at one another.

	Silhouettes shimmied across canvas tents, a grotesque puppet play
distorting bestial acts within.

	"No!  Please!  No!  Please!  No!  Please!"

	"Ha Ha!  Our little lady is too delicate for the rough hands of
fighting men!  Our tender blossom needs to have her petals plucked!"

	"Please!  Don't!  Please!  Don't!  Please!  Don't!"

	"Ha Ha!  Hoist little Rosebud on the table and you'll get a shot
at both her dainty pussy holes!  Our precious morsel is a luscious pastry
treat!  Just squeeze the yummy cream out of her squishy center!"

	"Please!  Help me!  Some one!  Help me!  Some one!"

	Silhouettes jitterbugged across the tent.  A struggling figure. 
Grappling arms.  A tussle--

	"WHAT THE FUCK!"

	Night winds tangled the toppled tent amidst its ropes and poles.

	"CLEAZAR, BLUTUS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!"

	Freighter crews tumbled from the neighboring tents.  Through a
dense haze of cheap red wine from Astrombo and Hesterex, they tried to
comprehend the scene.

	"CLEAZAR, BLUTUS SHOOT THE FUCKING MONSTER!"

	Four gaping freighter jockeys quivering shirtless in the biting
wind.  Hovering by his bodyguards, Schnorer the merchant wrung his hands. 
Two bodyguards standing with guns at ready, pale faced, bug eyed,
sweating, swiftly breathing.  A joy toy girl cowering in the dust,
bloomers ripped off and skirts above her head.

	"CLEAZAR, BLUTUS!  SHOOT THE FUCKER, SHOOT IT!"

	The monster towered above the merchant's guards.  Two of its four
arms bore long wooden staffs.  Purple and red cancers covered the
monster's huge misshapen head.  The monster's eyes were blank, its nose
and ears sliced off.  Atop its shaven skull long strands of hair coiled in
a single upright braid.

	"CLEAZAR, BLUTUS--

	"GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

	"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

	"HEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP!"

	The chilling wind echoed monster's roar.

	The drunken freighter jockeys scrambled for their ships.

	Gibbering childhood prayers Schnorer collapsed upon his knees. 
Hiding his head beneath his robe's wide sleeves, the merchant pissed into
his trousers.

	Bodyguards froze.

	The four armed monster lunged.

	The long staff split the left guard's head.

	The short staff crushed the right guard's nuts.

	The monster seized the guards' Uzis.

	The monster stomped the cowering merchant's shit smeared rump.

	And disappeared into the darkness of the night.

				*****		

	Amidst the ruined Zhiova'anah Palace  firelight glowed.  The scent
of roasted, highly spiced Arvh'yah wafted between toppled marble pillars. 
Borsa and Na'achum sprawled on down filled cushions.  His blond,
ringletted wig incinerated in the fire, his make up scoured from his face,
United States Marine Corps Master Sergeant Schnuffler paced the marble
floor in fatigues appropriated from Schnorer's former bodyguards.

	Borsa and Na'achum scooped clean bowls of steaming vegetables
using rich seasoned breads from Ha'amentyr and Mendulah and Puertagalba. 
Sticky juices coated their mouths and fingers.  Pieces of meat and salad
greens nestled between their teeth.  The two men snuggled in each others'
arm, exchanging pungent kisses.

	"Yo, Sergeant Schnuffler!  Me 'n' my pardner’s had a busy day. 
We're gonna call it quits and hit the sack.  Over yonder's an extra
sleeping bag.  When you get tuckered out from all that heavy duty
marching, just curl yourself inside and sleep your gyrine head off."

	The campfire dwindled into glowing embers.  Borsa and Na'achum
made love twice, then soundly slumbered, bodies adhering to each other.

	But Schnuffler strode across the marble floor until the daystar's
pale grey light filtered down through the shattered roof.

	"Yo, Borsa, Borsa," Schnuffler knelt, whispering to the mound of
cushions.  "Yo, Borsa, can I get in there with youse?"

	Silently Borsa's hand unzipped the sleeping bag.  When Schnuffler
crawled inside, Borsa's hand zipped it up again.

	"Yo, Borsa listen . . . . Grunt, ya saved my butt back there.  I .
. . I wuz a motherfucking bastard to ya on Antarctica, but . . . but . . .
fuck, thank ya grunt for rescuing this Sergeant's ass."

	"Hey Bro, no sweat.  A jarhead's still a jarhead in another
altiverse.  Semper Fi, Bro, no fucking matter where or when."

	Schnuffler's fingers hesitantly squeezed Borsa's arm.  Borsa and
Na'achum shifted so that Schnuffler lay snuggled between the pair with
four arms wrapped about him.

	"Yo, Borsa . . ."

	"Yeah?"

	"Ya know that back on Earth, however fucking long ago that wuz, I
couldn't stand cocksucking faggots, made their lives hell until they quit
the Corps . . . ."

	"Yeah, Sarge?"

	"I . . . I . . . the Marines wuz for manly men, and not
cocksucking sissy boys.  I only wanted manly men to be Marines . . . .
When I wuz just a kid I wuz a high school jock.  Three letter man. 
Football, wrestling, and boxing.  Played all state linesman two years in a
row.  Always the manly thing.  Fucked my first pussy when I wuz fifteen. 
A hooker the coach rented for the wrestling team.  At seventeen I got some
Spanish girl knocked up.  Joined the Marines and never saw the cunt again.
 Two tours of duty in Viet Nam.  The Purple Heart.  The Silver Star. 
Three field promotions.  Bar girls in Bangkok and Manila.  Always the
manly thing."

	Borsa felt Master Sergeant Schnuffler tremble, watched the tears
rolling down his face.

	"C'mon, Bro, treat yaself to a good cry.  You fucking earned it,
Sergeant."

	"That day the ship landed on Planet Nadjz.  I escaped cuz the
Ma'asatt crew wuz all cocksucking fags.  They acted like real men,
specially the Krugkopfs and SZoids, but they wuz just a gang of faggot
cocksuckers trying to pass for manly men.

	"And so on Planet Nadjz I looked for real men to join up with . .
. and the Verkauffah merchants bagged me for a joy toy girl."

	Schnuffler surrendered to his sobs, his body rocking against Borsa
and Na'achum.

	Borsa stroked Schnuffler's back and rubbed the Sergeant's
shoulders.

	"Chill out, Bro, chill.  Ya made it through the night and now
ya're safe and sound at home."

	Schnuffler howled like an animal that gnaws its leg off in a
hunter's trap.

	"They fucking used me, Borsa, fucking used me like a fucking pussy
girl.  Ever since high school, Borsa, I hung out with manly men.  The
football team.  The wrestling team.  The boxing team.  Then the Marine
Corps wuz a few good men.  I always did manly thing.  Got shot in Nam. 
Went back and served another tour.  Four fucking years out in the jungle
killing geeks for Uncle Sam.  They fucking used me like a fucking girl!"

	Schnuffler's sobs wracked his body and his tears choked back his
words.

	"The fucking bloomers and the stockings and the petticoats.  The
fucking make up like I wuz a fucking Barbie doll.  And then the fucking
hands, the fucking greasy hands all over me, touching me everywhere,
squeezing my ass and pulling on my dick just like I wuz a fucking piece of
meat, a cunt, a twat, a hooker in some Bangkok strip club.

	"I wuz a manly man, but here they used me like a fucking pussy
girl.  The Marines, Borsa, the Marines builds men.  Only a few good men
can make it, Borsa.  They used me like a fucking little girl.  Pulling my
skirts up on the auction block.  Groping me everywhere.  Letting the
freighter pilots squeeze my nuts.  Letting the sky jocks stick their
fingers up my ass.  Making me lick them clean in front of every fucking
crew across the fucking altiverse.  I am a fucking US Marine Master
Sergeant!  They fucking used me like a cunt, a twat, a piece of quail, a
fucking joy toy girl."

	Pale white light filtered downward through the ruins.  Shadows
clarified into shapes and textures.  Borsa hugged Schnuffler to his chest
and let the Sergeant weep.

	"A manly man.  I used to be manly man.  Until they used me as
their fucking pussy girl.  I gave you hell on Planet Earth for being
queer.  And then you rescued me.  So now my ass is yours.  You are my
owner, Mister Borsa.  And me, who used to be a manly man and a US Marine,
I'm just a fucking piece of ass for you to play in while you get your
jollies."

	Schnuffler buried his face inside his arm, ashamed to let the
daystar find him.

	"Yo, chill out, chill out, Bro!  This altiverse . . . it takes our
lives on Planet Earth and flips them topsy turvy, like reflections in a
Coney Island funhouse mirror.

	"Chill out, Bro, chill.  You're still a Master Sergeant in this
man's Marine Corps.  You still outrank me, Sarge, and you are still a
first class asshole.  But hey, Bro, look, I learned a lotta heavy duty
shit back on old Starship 69.  I learned that I could be myself, and
that's just fine.  I can suck cock and be a manly man, and that's cool
too.

	"But one lesson I learned that really counts the most--you touch a
Brother's body with your body and you damn better touch him sharing love
and openness and joy.  Cause if you touch a Brother filled with lust or
fear or need or ignorance, then you are just a fucking Drode, a fucking
camel merchant, a fucking freighter jock.  I'm just a dumb grunt, Sarge,
but when we make it back to Planet Earth, I'm gonna preach that message
from streetcorner soapboxes in every town across the USA.

	"You grok one kinda love.  I grok another kinda love.  But if I
touch you with a love that you can't grok, my love turns into lust and I
become a piece of scum.  Whatever happened back on Planet Earth got
canceled when we crossed the space-time warp.  You wanna hitch a ride with
me and my man Na'achum from the Altra Nirah, that's just fine with us.  We
don't know where the fuck we're going but a jarhead always makes good
company.  But you do your thing, Master Sergeant Schnuffler, and you don't
pay no mind to anybody else's business."

	"Big Brother Borsa--look!"

	Na'achum leapt up excitedly.

	Borsa and Schnuffler stared in the direction of the manchild's
pointing arm.

	A tall tree sprouted through the palace floor.  Slowly the
branches stretched as if awakening from lengthy slumber.

	Borsa's nose twitched.  A sudden rush of mansmell.

	"BIG BROTHER LEONARDIS!"

	"Do you invite me to your sleeping chamber, Little Brother?"

	Crossing himself, Schnuffler fell to his knees.

	"Leonardis--"

	Borsa spread wide his arms.  A shadow fluttered on his torso.

	"Little Brother--you have become Big Brother to boys needing
guides and mentors."

	"Leonardis, the gifts you gave to me--"

	"Continue in abundance, Little Brother."

	A toppled, headless statue split in two, crashing against a
collapsed altar.

	The shadow vanished.

	Metal clattered upon the marble floor.

	Gold daylight streamed into the Zhiova'anah Palace.

	"Big Brother Borsa, look!"

	Na'achum knelt down and snatched the heavy chain out of the
campfire's dust and ashes.

	A circular medallion hung as a pendant from the central link.

	"Big Brother look!  A map!  A map showing the Forty-Nine Hypostic
Galaxies.  And a gold arrow pointing somewhere."

	"Somewhere, Na'achum, somewhere?  Don't you know where that arrow
points?"

	"The Pentagonal Sanctuary of the Healing Sisters?"

	"Beyond the Mountains of Taboullallou!  You coming with us Master
Sergeant Schnuffler?"

	"These Healing Sisters . . . will they let me inside their
Sanctuary?"

	"If you are man enough to ask for healing."

	Schnuffler embraced Borsa and Na'achum.

	"Looks like we're on our way!"

	Borsa placed the chain around Na'achum's shoulders, centering the
medallion on the manchild's breastbone.

	"And we're off!"

	Suddenly daybirds soared above their heads and sang:

		Step outta the woods,
		Step outta the dark,
		Step into the light!
		Step up to the door
		And bid it open!
		OPEN!


				MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
					Episode #28,
				by HazeMaster@aol.com

	Ten thousand miles of slate grey stone surrounded Duke.  No life
forms flourished on the dead moon Ahrkimaggeo.  Primordial cataclysms
sundered barren rock into tremendous slabs all balancing askew atop each
other like a jigsaw puzzle shattered by an angered child.  The arid desert
sprawled on every side towards the horizon.  But in the furthest distance
the Imaggae Crystals glittered on a mountaintop beneath the ink black sky.

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, guide me on my Quest!

	"May I find courage, strength, and perseverance to attain my
goals:

	"To comprehend the wisdom of Kaduma Masters on my Journey through
the Fearsome Night!

	"To unite Men of Antarctica scattered through the altiverse!

	"To restore the Ma'asatt Flotilla and redeem the Forty-Nine
Hypostic Galaxies!

	"To liberate my Brothers bound on Planet Earth!

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, guide me on my Quest!"

	Duke's words reverberated against lifeless rock.

	Setting one foot before the other Duke marched towards the
mountain range.

	Ahrkimaggeo did not revolve upon its axis, suspending Duke within
its timeless vacuum.  He strode forward until he tired, rested awhile
stretched out upon a jutting slab, then marched forward again.  Duke's
maroon leather pouch still held the Tauromitra's flesh.  The Tauromitra's
blood filled the Duke's maroon leather wineskin.  Flesh, blood, and hope
sustained Duke as he trekked across unending slate grey tundra.

	The mountain summits loomed closer and closer.  Imaggae Crystals
flashed, bright beacons beckoning Duke towards his goal.  Low foothills
rose out of the desert.  Duke estimated that after another rest stop and a
nap he would begin ascending--

	RRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRG!

	The ground beneath Duke shuddered as the stone plates gnashed
together.

	RRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRG!

	The heaving slabs threw Duke upon his back, tossing his legs into
the air above his head.

	RRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRG!

	A fissure opened in the rock, emitting steam and stench of plants
long dead and rotted.

	RRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRGRRG!

	A monstrous serpent thrust its head up from the cloven rock,
looming above the supine Duke.  Enormous red eyes glowered at Duke, two
handless clocks emitting lurid flashing light.  The serpent's fangs
protruded from its leering mouth, taller than any Lykanthine and dripping
scalding venom drops the size of volley balls.  The venom hissed and
sizzled as it splattered on the crumbling rocks.  The serpent's gaping
jaws opened wide as a cargo bay.  The monster's broad forked tongue
flicked to and fro like moist pink rolls of carpeting.

	Duke's heart pounded within his chest.  His throat went dry.  His
stomach twisted into knots.  The terrified astronomer pissed in his maroon
leather trousers.

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	The serpent's basso laughter stung Duke sharper than the monster's
fetid, nicotine filled breath.

	"Little Joe Kronenschild, the sissy boy of Madison Consolidated
High School, thinks he can walk right up and grab himself a handful of
Imaggae Crystals!

	"Little Joe Kronenschild, the sissy boy who jacks off every night
creaming for baseball captain Eddie Bauer, strolling off with Imaggae
Crystals?

	"Little Joe Kronenschild, the sissy boy who throws a hardon skinny
dipping cause he's hot for Mickey Zwackett's older brother, bringing
Imaggae Crystals back to Planet Earth?

	"Little Joe Kronenschild, the sissy boy who wets his jockey shorts
with precum staring at Coach DiFillippo's hairy legs, re-uniting the Ross
Ice Station Crew?

	"Little Joe Kronenschild, the sissy boy who watches Red O'Halloran
soap his cockmeat in the shower, overthrowing the Five Drodai'ic Realms
and restoring Kaduma Wisdom to the Forty-Nine Hypostic Galaxies?

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	The stone slabs shuddered and their dust enveloped Duke.  The
serpent's leering grin hovered over the Duke, its forked tongue flicking
to and fro, venom drops large as beach balls dripping from its gargantuan
fangs.

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	Deep laughter rumbled from the monster's belly as the Duke
remembered every shame filled secret.  Eddie Bauer's rounded, muscled butt
encased in dirt smeared baseball pants.  THE SHAME!  Big Paulie Zwackett
home from Paris Island, two humongous hairy balls hanging between his
legs.  THE SHAME!  Coach DiFillippo's muscled thighs covered with tight
black curls.  THE SHAME!  Paddy O'Halloran, the only uncut cock on the
school baseball team, soaping his foreskin clean and lathering his bright
red pubic bush.  THE SHAME!  THE SHAME!  THE SHAME!

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	The serpent's fetid breath enshrouded Duke as joyless laughter
growled out of the monster's gut.  Huge globs of venom hissed and sizzled
on the cold stone slabs.

	Duke rolled away and leapt to an adjacent rock.

	The serpent's neck rose from the fissured stone.

	Duke brushed the monster underneath its jaw with the Aquilla
feather.

	The serpent tittered, rising up upon its coils.

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	Duke saw the beating heart.

	Duke's fingers sought the miniature sword.

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	The steel blade flashed.

	"Heh!  Heh!  Heh!  Heh!"

	Duke plunged the sword into the monster's heart.

	SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

	Instead of blood, hot air stinking of long dead orchids spewed out
from the serpent's wounds.  The great snake tottered and collapsed,
deflated.  The monster's hollow green scaled skin fell lifeless on the
slate grey stone.  The huge head crashed upon the rocks, shattering into
fragments.  Two eyeless sockets glowered at nothing.  The sneering jaws
lay in a criss-crossed X.

	Leaping from rock to rock, Duke sliced the dead pink tongue and
wrapped it round his torso as a bandoleero.

	"Thank you, Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, thank you!

	"To you I dedicate this trophy of my Quest!

	"Thank you for guiding me inside my loins to find the strength and
courage to defeat the monster serpent!

	"Thank you, Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, thank you!"

	Duke vaulted over the deflated carcass, climbing to a ridge of
foothills.  Squatting, he ate the Tauromitra's flesh and drank the
Tauromitra's blood.  And there Duke slept in preparation for his next
adventure.


				MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
					Episode 29,
				by HazeMaster@aol.com

	Unmoving on its axis, slate grey Ahrkimaggeo distinguished neither
night nor day.

	Upon awakening, Duke lacked markers to estimate the hours he
slept.  But he had scaled the foothills rising towards the mountain range
upon whose summit glittered the Imaggae Crystals.  Duke gathered up his
leather pouch and wooden staff.  Stretching his arms above his head, Duke
ascended the first ridge offering passage to the mountain tops.

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, guide me on my Quest!

	"May I discover the serenity to focus on my goals:

	"To utilize the wisdom of Kaduma Masters on my Voyage through the
Dreadful Night!

	"To live as an example for Men of Antarctica trapped in the Five
Drodai'ic Realms!

	"To re-invigorate the lost Ma'asatt Flotilla and renew the
Forty-Nine Hypostic Galaxies!

	"To inspire all my Brothers bound on Planet Earth to create new
communities of fellowship!

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, guide me on my Quest!"

	Above Duke towered unbroken walls of slate grey stone.  But he
marched forward with a joyful heart, assured that the Imaggae Crystals--

	GGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGRGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGR!

	Huge boulders rumbled down the mountainside.

	GGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGRGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGR!

	Duke leapt leftward, then sprang the other way as rocks tumbled
about his path.

	GGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGRGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGR!

	Thick clouds of dust enveloped the astronomer.

	GGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGRGGRGGGRGGGRGGGRGGGR!

	The trembling hills pelted the Duke with pebbles.

	GGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGR!

	Atop the ridge the Boarlike Beast pawed at the ground with leaden
hoofs.

	Larger than any mountain ram on Planet Earth, the NG'phtorhnyde
bellowed at the changeless sky.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	Sharp pointed quills covered the Boarlike Beast's black leather
hide.  A crest of jagged plates extended down the NG'phtorhnyde's spine
and terminated in short spiked tail.  Three curved horns sprouted from the
Beast's long snout, and two sharp tusks protruded from its mouth.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	The NG'phtorhnyde dropped its head and charged at Duke.

	Duke froze, transfixed with memories from long ago.

	GGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGR!

	"Hey, Skinny Joey's real turned on!"

	Duke's fourteenth birthday.  Boy Scout Camp.  Senior Patrol
Leaders stripped Duke bareassed, stringing him up spreadeagled in between
two trees.  Covering Duke from head to toe with shaving cream and
chocolate syrup. Whipping Duke's butt with doubled over leather belts. 
Duke's face blushed brighter than his burning asscheeks.

	"Hey, Skinny Joey's got a raging hardon!"

	Duke longed to sink beneath the ground.

	"Hey, pull it off!  Yeah, pull it off!  Hey, pull the kid's bone
off, man!"

	Next summer Duke did not return to Boy Scout Camp.

	GGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGR!

	Nimbly Duke danced out of the charging NG'phtorhnyde's path.

	The Boarlike Beast pawed at the ground, then lumbered up the hill,
horns aimed at Duke.

	Duke crouched, then feinted back and forth with a boxer's agility.

	The NG'phtorhnyde snorted like a locomotive.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	"Hey, Mike, ya goin to the coach's place this weekend?"

	"Shsssssssh!  Can it!  Joey's not supposed to know."

	Duke froze behind the metal lockers.

	"Ya heard what happened when Joe spent the night at Jimmy's?"

	Duke's ears burned as he bunched his towel against his crotch.

	"Joe sucked off Jimmy and his brothers and their next door
neighbors."

	You fucking bullshitter!  We had a circle jerk and you came off
three times!

	"The coach don't want Joe messin up the weekend!"

	And Duke, an all state silver medalist, never competed in school
sports again.

	GGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGR!

	With thundering hoofs, the Boarlike Beast charged up the hill.

	Duke flung himself out of harm's way and rolled behind a ledge.

	Panting, Duke found Kare'enyi Na'aklyi's leather pouch.  A weapon
slipped between his shaking fingers.

	The NG'phtorhnyde spun about, enraged.  Thick clotted sputum
slobbered from its frothing mouth.  The Boarlike Beast roared, primed for
killing.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	"Hey Joe, ya wanna suck my dick or what?"

	A full moon lit the beach.  After skinny dipping, the fraternity
brothers sprawled nude on their blankets guzzling beer.

	"Hey Joe, c'mon!  Ya starin at my meat all night!  Ya wanna suck
me off, I'm cool!  Hey that's what brotherhood is all about!  C'mon and
suck my cockmeat, Joe!"

	Duke blushed deep crimson underneath the moon.  He couldn't keep
his eyes off Victor's monster meat.  His gaze betrayed him to the men of
Sigma Lambda Mu.

	"Go for it, Joe!  Go down on it!  Yeah, suck his dick off!  Drain
his balls dry!  Do it to it!"

	Duke dove beneath the white caps till the surging waves obscured
his shame.

	GGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGRGGGGR!

	The NG'phtorhnyde charged.

	Duke plunged the spear into its drooling snout.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	The Boarlike Beast crashed on its back, its leaden hoofs churning
the air.

	Duke drew his sword, slitting open the belly of the Beast.

	RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

	The slain NG'phtorhnyde imploded.  The Boarlike Beast had proved
completely hollow, an empty carcass filled with sound and fury.

	Duke rolled the NG'phtorhnyde on its belly.  Plucking its quills,
Duke studded his pink bandoleero with new prizes.

	"Thank you, Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, thank you!

	"To you I dedicate the rewards of my Quest!

	"Thank you for guiding me inside my heart for the serenity to slay
the Boarlike Beast!

	"Thank you, Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, thank you!"


				MEN OF ANTARCTICA,
					Episode #30,
				by HazeMaster@aol.com

	Imaggae Crystals blazed upon the mountaintop.

	Bright rainbow colored flames exploding from a volcano, the
crystals pulsed with energy.  Duke felt their  heat, their light, their
force field pummeling his body as he climbed higher and higher.

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, guide me on my Quest!

	"Guide me to--whoa!"

	Duke hurtled backward, flipping over in a double somersault.

	Landing smack on his butt, the Duke rolled down the hillside.

	Surging with laser flashes, the force field swirled about the
mountaintop, mocking the Duke's impotence.

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!"

	Soot belched forth a chasm to the Duke's left.

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!"

	Weird, cadenced chanting floated with the smoke out of the gaping
cleft.

	Ashes and soot blinded Duke's eyes with tears.  The stench of
burning meat assailed Duke's nostrils.  Duke sprawled out on his belly and
peered down into the fissure.

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!"

	The Duke gasped at the scene below.

	Taller than Lykanthines, lizardlike creatures walked upright. 
Yellow-green scales covered their bodies while broad tails hung down
between their legs and trailed behind them.  Jagged teeth crammed wide
alligator bills.  Three sharp claws protruded from their webbed hands.

	The lizard creatures garbed themselves in furs of slaughtered
beasts, embellishing their girdles with the skulls of butchered warriors.

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!"

	Chanting in cadenced tempo, lizard creatures marched about five
monumental cairns of piled up boulders.  Atop the four mounds at the outer
corners, bellowing carcasses of living Tauromitras roasted, skewered on
slowly turning spits.

	The central pylon rose above the outer four, a stone altar forming
a giant X crowning its pinnacle.  Duke shuddered as his eyes discerned,
through veils of stinging soot, the sacrificial maiden bound upon the
altarstone.  The maiden seemed to Duke touchingly young and innocent and
humanoid.

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!

	"Ya-nhah!  Ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-ya!  Nhah-ya!"

	Duke the astronomer uncoiled the serpent's tongue wound tight
about his torso.  Looping one end about a slate grey slab, Duke lowered
himself into the abyss.  Leaping from ledge to ledge, Duke descended into
the bowels beneath Ahrkimaggeo's cold, dead surface.  Ashes assailed
Duke's eyes.  The stench attacked his nostrils.  But the astronomer
dropped deeper down into the pit.

	The altar stone stood in the chasm's center.  Coiling the
serpent's tongue about an outcropping of rock, Duke swung out from the
cavern's sheltering wall, exposing himself to the chanting lizard
creatures.

	"Ya-ya-nhah!  Ya-ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-nhah-ya!  Nhah-nhah-ya!"

	Duke hovered in the air above six hundred gnashing alligator jaws.
 Ripping the veiling from the sacrificial maiden Duke beheld--himself when
young!

	Bound to the altar's black stone X, Duke saw a boy teetering on
the verge of puberty.  Soft chestnut curls cascaded down over the
boychild's shoulders.  Duke gazed at smooth, pale cheeks; lips tinted
blushing pink.  Small melon breasts with pink nipples sprouted from the
boy's slender, hairless chest.  Below the tapered waist and narrow hips,
huddled soft, prepubescent genitals.  A stone protuberance impaled the
boychild's hole of shame.

	Duke turned away, terrified, from his boyish self.  Every dreaded
nightmare from adolescence into middle age confronted Duke.  Joey the
sissy girl, the pussy girl, splayed out incarnate as the lizard creature's
victim.

	"Ya-ya-nhah!  Ya-ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-nhah-ya!  Nhah-nhah-ya!"

	Seeing their offering at risk, the lizards scampered up the
boulders towards the altarstone.

	The stench of roasting Tauromitras overwhelmed Duke's nostrils as
the beasts' bellowings assailed his ears.

	Bound on the altarstone, the Duke beheld his abhorrence of
appearing unmanly.

	The astronomer turned his head away--then spun about to face the
black stone altar.

	Duke slashed the ropes binding the boychild to the altarstone. 
Gently Duke pried apart the boychild's buttocks, freeing his hole of shame
from its impalement on the carved stone phallus.

	"Ya-ya-nhah!  Ya-ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-nhah-ya!  Nhah-nhah-ya!"

	The enraged lizard creatures cast sharp pointed spears at the
astronomer.

	From the serpent's tongue wound about his torso, Duke plucked a
quill culled from the boarlike beast.

	Drawing his arm back from his shoulder, Duke hurled the quill at
the onrushing swarm of lizard creatures as an athlete intent on his prize
will toss the javelin.

	"Ya-ya-nhah!  Ya-ya-nhah!

	"Nhah-nhah-ya!  Nhah-nhah-ya!"

	The quill multiplied into twelve.  Each quill pierced the heart of
twelve lizard creatures.

	"Ya-hoo!" crowed Duke.

	He pitched another quill and watched another dozen dozen lizard
creatures crumble.

	"Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!"

	Emitting high pitched squeals, the lizard creatures scurried down
the chasm's deepest fissures.

	Springing from mound to mound, Duke slit the Tauromitras' throats
to end their misery.  Pausing at every spit, Duke drank the dark red
gushing blood, sliced off the Tauromitra's roasted ballsack, and devoured
its contents.

	The astronomer slung the boychild across his broad, manly
shoulders. Duke's thirty year old nightmare felt completely weightless.

	"Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!"

	Duke's crowing echoed through the vacant abyss.

	The astronomer shimmied up the serpent's tongue, emerging once
again before the bright Imaggae Crystals' pulsing force field.

	Duke hugged the lad against his chest, then pressed the baby pink
lips to his mouth and breathed his life into the slumbering boy.

	Waves of heat poured from the Imaggae Crystals as the weightless
boychild merged into the solid man.

	Hot flares of radiant red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet
erupted from the mountaintop. 

	The force field surrounding the crystals drew Duke inward,
surrounding the astronomer with realms of dazzling light.

		Step out of the woods,
		Step out of the dark,
		Step into the light!
		Step up to the door
		And bid it open!
		OPEN!

	Energy surged through Duke.  His body felt completely cleansed,
renewed, reborn.

	The Duke unlaced his leather pouch, filling it with Imaggae
Crystals.  The blazing, rainbow colored gemstones burned his hands, but
Duke persevered till his leather pouch bulged with the glittering prizes.

	"Caw!  Caw!  Caw!  Caw!"

	Aquillas gyred overhead.  Duke waved his captured plume and
floated up to join the soaring birds.

	Duke firmly mounted the fiercest Aquilla.  The mighty birds zoomed
off beyond the cold moon's gravity.

	"Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!  Ya-hoo!"

	Ahrkimaggeo and Vosaquatus orbited around the astronomer.

	Duke was the Master of the Altiverse.

	Hermanuta Serenissima loomed beneath Duke's feet.

	The planet of Kaduma Masters, Enlightened Warriors, and Healing
Sisters spread itself out before the Duke, an eager bride awaiting her
triumphant bridegroom.

	Duke seized the plume and floated downward towards the Mountains
of Taboullallou.

	The astronomer landed on this newest planet of his inter-stellar
explorations knowing that more challenges now awaited him.

	"Caw!  Caw!  Caw!  Caw!"

	High overhead soaring Aquillas formed the letter B.

	Buddy!  Buddy was safe among the Hermanutas!

	"Duke!  Duke!  Duke!  Duke!"

	A voice from Planet Earth rang out.

	"Duke!  Duke!  Duke!  Duke!"

	The astronomer pivoted--as Marine Private Vinnie Borsa rushed to
greet him.

	"Jarhead!"

	"Sky Doc!"

	"Brooklyn!"

	"Hahvyahd!"

	The men embraced, two reunited comrades in their trans-galactic
adventures.

	"Welcome to Hermanuta Serenissima!"

	"It's great to see a fellow Ross Ice Station refugee!"

	The pilgrims hugged as bells chimed out across the mountainside.

	Arms locked around each others shoulders the comrades hiked to the
crest of rolling hills.  Down in the valley Duke beheld smoke rising from
the kitchens of the Pentagonal Convent of the Healing Sisters.

	As the wide red daystar sank into far distant mountaintops, Duke
marveled at the old stone buildings; the orchards, vineyards, and
vegetable gardens; the pasturelands and cultivated fields of grain
spreading towards the horizon.

	"My widely traveled sons have rediscovered one another."

	An old man leaned against a gnarled tree.  His body seemed
translucent in the waning daylight.

	"Kare'enyi Na'aklyi, Noble Warrior!"

	The Duke knelt and kissed the sandled feet.

	Kare'enyi Na'aklyi embraced Duke and Borsa.

	"Come, join your brothers at the dinner table.  Your grand Heroic
Quest has only just begun."


			EPISODE 30 CONCLUDES
			MEN OF ANTARCTICA.

			BUT THE SAGA CONTINUES!


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