Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:43:33 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: Teep chapter 40

Opening his eyes, Aaron smiled as he saw Brian standing next to his bed,
hard cock inches from his face as he lifted the sheet to sneak in, licking
his, lips, Aaron moved his head and quickly surrounded the very hard piece
of flesh, licking just under the head as his lips moved past on their way
down the hard shaft. Looking up hungrily, as he started really sucking,
Brian's cock, at the loud intake of breath, he smiled around the hard shaft
and used his tongue to tease the head of the hard cock as Brian reached over
with his hands, steadying himself by holding onto Aaron's head.

Deciding to bring Brian to climax as soon as possible, Aaron reached around
and slipped a finger between Brian's clenched ass cheeks as he swallowed
around the head of Brian's cock a few times when he felt the lube already
applied, inserted two fingers and searched for the spot he knew would send
Brian over the edge when he found it and was rewarded with a sweet mouthful
that he eagerly swallowed, making sure to use his tongue to send extra
pleasure to Brian. Once Brian was spent, Aaron held him in his mouth for a
minute, until he felt Brian lose some of the hardness before he swirled his
tongue around the head of his penis, once more bringing him back to life,
slipping out from under the covers, Aaron stood up and led Brian to the
showers and activated the steam, once they were inside; and started to
properly kiss Brian and get him all hot and bothered before he entered his
lover.

Once the room had filled with steam and they started to sweat a little and
become slippery, Aaron moved on past kissing and teasing Brian with his
hands to nipple play with his tongue. It was on his way back up, that Brian
turned around and pulled his cheeks apart, "I want to feel you inside
me.please.now," he told Aaron, lust filling his voice and once he felt the
head of Aaron's hard cock at his sphincter, he pushed himself back firmly
until he felt the head pop past the ring and groaned in pleasure as he felt
Aaron sink slowly, ever so slowly, all the way in.

"YES." Brian hissed out in pleasure, as Aaron started to slowly move in and
out of him, as his hands moved around Brian's front, teasing him in all the
right places, sensing Fred move past him Aaron smiled when Brian yelped in
pleasure as Fred found the hard cock sticking out from Brian's body and
swallowed it to the hilt in one go. His brain went on standby as the
pleasure his body was getting from both the front and the back at the same
time sent him to new heights and every time he felt himself get close
something would reach out and calm him down without the pace being slowed.

Feeling fingers spread his cheeks, Aaron leaned back and felt his lips brush
Marks as he felt the fingers slip into him, loosening him up before Mark
sank inside him. Brian was the first to reach climax and filled Fred's
mouth, followed shortly afterwards by Aaron filling Brian.

Mark, breathing heavily as he rapidly thrust in and out of Aaron, felt the
muscles around his hard cock start to tighten then clamp down on him rapidly
so he let himself fall over the edge and shoot his cum deep inside Aaron.
Spent, he held onto Aaron's shoulders as he felt Fred move behind him and
reenter him; Fred thrust in and out at a furious pace until Mark felt the
shots of liquid hit his insides.

Slipping out of Brian, Aaron smiled after he kissed him, "Good morning,
Love." Reaching around for the soap, Aaron started to lovingly wash Brian,
and when he felt Mark slip out of him, he grinned and handed the soap over
his shoulder, so Mark could start lathering Fred up. Once everyone was good
and lathered, Fred reached over to the touchpad and activated the shower
cycle and they were thoroughly buffeted by powerful jets of hot water
rinsing them completely, before the drying cycle was activated.

Doing a quick sheet changing, Aaron bundled the dirty sheets up and took
them to the washer before following this morning's lovers up towards the
Clan hall, stopping to see a frowning Kevin sitting in the office chair as
he passed, Aaron kissed him good morning before looking up to the monitor
and cursing, "Son of A bitch, when did all this shit start coming in?"

"Sometime late last night, it looks like, it's going to take you an hour or
two to work your way through all these messages from the different
governments," Kevin giggled, glad it was not him.

Sighing, Aaron looked at his inbox, "Can you apply a couple of filters for
me?  Place all the invites in one folder and the meetings in another, things
like that; I'll get to them later on this afternoon, if I'm unlucky."

Openly laughing, Kevin's fingers flew across the terminal as he did as asked
and set the system to apply the filters, before jumping up and following
Aaron towards the Clan Hall.

After breakfast, as everyone broke up to go work with the tutor system,
Aaron motioned Xon over, "You've picked up control over teleportation very
quickly, while you might not have the memories of porting around, it seems
your body at least remembers, so this morning, we'll remove the limiter and
then introduce you to the gestalt, then you can consider your gifts mastered
as much as practical, and you can fine tune them in your own time."

Walking side by side to the med bay Aaron asked how his projects were coming
along, "How goes Pete's and your project to build a ship size replicator,
from what little I've read, so I know what the two of you are talking about,
it sounds like it's a doable project, yet at breakfast, Pete was getting
frustrated, so what is the problem?" tapping the top of the desk "Go ahead
and place your wrist on the sensor and I'll release the lock on the
limiter."

Doing as he was asked, Xon thought for a moment, "The problem is not a lack
of power or computer capability, but in the fact that there seems to be a
limit on how large an emitter we can create before the system can no longer
control the materialization on the quantum level, even by linking the
emitters we cannot get the control we need to replicate Ares class vessels."

Double checking the monitor reports for both Damien and Richard while he
thought about the problem, Aaron finished up and motioned for Xon to follow,
"Now I know enough about this technology to run it most likely, but what if
you tried replicating the ship in sections from the inside out and then
coupled a molecular welder array into the system so that as each section was
replicated the welder would join the two sections together."

Xon stopped halfway to the gestalt point and his brain kicked into overdrive
at the idea forming in his head, glancing over at Aaron who had turned
around several yards away when he realized he was talking to himself,
"Excuse me, Aaron, but I have had a thought and wish to reschedule the final
lesson for later this evening or tomorrow morning, you have given me an idea
that will eliminate the problem nicely."

Aaron watched in amusement as Xon ran towards the house and disappeared
inside, eager to get started drafting his idea. Deciding he had time, Aaron
ported over to the Trauma center to get an early start on assigning his
residents a schedule and maybe, if he worked it right, an early end to his
day.

Buckling his belt, Brian stuck his head over the railing to the common room
and looked down at Pete and Xon engrossed in some type of schematics on the
big plasma monitor and waving at Tim as he walked out of his bedroom, "Hey
guys, Pat and Doug passed into the next scholastic level on the tutor, so
I'm going to keep my promise and take them to France for an afternoon of
sightseeing and shopping, any of you want to tag along?"

Tim looked up and waved, "No thanks, I'm going to head over to Elswick with
Kevin and David to meet with Derrick, did you try Tommy and Mark?"

"They're going to spend the afternoon in Belize of all places, something
about finding a nursery that has most of the items on Tommy's list," Brian
chuckled before glancing at Xon and Pete and finding they were in their own
little world right now, "Alright, I'm going to take off then, those two look
like we could drop a bomb in here and they would still ignore us, we should
be back by supper time."

Smiling as he noticed the two bouncing and excited ten year olds, Brian
looked around for Kenny, "Kenny decided not come with us after all?"

"He promised a couple of the Shaolin apprentices that they could come along,
he went over with Ray to get them, they'll meet us at the Trauma Center so
we can port out from there," Pat smiled as he jumped up in Brian's arms to
give him a hug and whispered in his ear, "Don't be mad at Kenny, he's trying
to be nice after scaring some of the apprentices the other day."

Smiling as he held Pat close, Brian pulled Doug over so he could grab on,
"You know we always seemed to like to hug Aaron like this when we ported,
that is until we learned to do it on our own," glancing at the guard
watching them with a smile on his face, "We'll meet you at Altair then,"
before closing his eyes to concentrate, and ported to just outside the
atrium in the back gardens.

Kissing Pat who was in his arms, Brian let him slide down his body until he
was standing on his own and smiled as he saw all the curious faces glued to
the window, someone was going to have to clean all those prints off he
thought with a giggle before spotting Kenny walking around the corner with a
group of Shaolin and three teens in the brown uniform of the apprentice, and
Ray and Friedrich following behind them. "We can use the gestalt in the
security office to port over, Doug had the highest scores so he gets to
start with a trip to the Eiffel Tower, Then Kenny wants to do some shopping
while Doug wants to go to the Louvre so those two trips will depend on which
we pass first ok?"

Kenny agreed with a smile as he pushed open the door to the security office
and led the way past the guard to the command office and the person on
portation duty, "HI, can we get a lift to the Eiffel Tower," glancing around
counting heads, "There are thirteen of us."

"Right away, Young Sir, if you all would pair up for transport with the
Shaolin I'll port you right over to the clearing in the park, a short walk
away," the young man grinned as he pointed to the live camera of the park he
had hacked into.

Looking at one of the Shaolin with his head tilted sideways as he looked at
him, Brian motioned him over, "Stand behind me if you would, and place a
hand on my shoulder, this is easier for the person doing the porting if we
are touching each other."

"Craning his neck around, Kenny grinned back to the on duty teleportation
officer, "We're ready, and thank you for doing this,"

Glancing at the paired group, he nodded his head, "Right then, porting in
three.two..port."

Ignoring the stares at their arrival, Brian noticed the policemen, "Right,
everyone has their passports, right," he asked, looking at his guys before
glancing at the Shaolin, "Make sure you guys stay with one of us, or at
least in sight of one of us just in case someone decides to be nosy and we
can cover for you.now let's go have some fun."

Waiting in line to get to the elevator was not too terrible, Brian thought,
as the guys got to know the Shaolin and their apprentices better, finally it
was their turn and they entered the elevator for the ride to the top.

Feeling confident that the clan had more than enough protection, Friedrich
did not feel bad about having to leave them so he could get over to Elswick
where Aaron was supposed to show up for an update tour of the grounds.
Glancing at his watch, he smiled at Brian and looked over to the Shaolin who
seemed to be in charge, "I think the Shaolin will be able to protect you
guys just fine, I'm off to meet up with Aaron in Elswick. I've watched you
all train and I'm impressed when you have that flaw fixed and then master
your gifts look me up as I need good people to help with Clan security."
Sensing they were pleased along with surprised Friedrich placed his hand on
the LSB to override it, "Let's leave it at I'm asking for those who are the
best that want to help out before Chris or Joe get a chance to ask for the
military end."

Waving one last time at the Clan and sharing a look and pathed warning to be
on their toes to his team Friedrich ported over to Elswick, he had about
half an hour before Aaron showed up and he wanted to go over the security
plans at least once before then.

"Wow, you can see for miles from up here," Kenny whispered as he looked out
over the railing and then glanced down through the wires to see the base
spread out below them, "And to think they built this over one hundred years
ago in one year with the ancient tools they had," glancing to Pat and Doug
he motioned them forward, "Do you want to see if Brian would let us eat
here, saving time, there is a restaurant over there," He pointed to the next
level which had a glass enclosed structure  with people eating inside it.

"I heard that, well I see no problem with it, we have to eat lunch sometime
and here is as good as anyplace I guess," Brian looked around before finding
and pointing to the stairs leading up, "Looks like the stairs are over
there, lets grab a sandwich or something and then we can head to whichever
is closet the Louvre or the shopping district, we can ask the waiter for
directions."

Being seated by the head waiter who had noticed the crests on the shirts of
four of the boys, once he had the menu's in front of them he hurried off to
the kitchen to warn the chef that they had dignitaries in the house and to
do their best.

Brian looked at the apprentices who looked bewildered and kept glancing to
their teachers, "Guys, order whatever you want, don't worry about prices or
anything the Kingdom will pick up the bill.speaking of that, I understand
that most of you have been given the choice, out of curiosity can you tell
us what you think about your choices?"

Waiting until the waiter took their orders, the Shaolin in charge of the
group smiled, "Of our group of sixteen living on Altair, two wish to return
to the temple in New York to continue our work and keeping watch for
recruits, we six," his hand pointed to all of the Shaolin and apprentices at
their end of the table, "Wish to remain on Altair while the other eight wish
to ready the new temple, they are looking forward to the challenge."

Conversation was light and Brian filed away a large amount of information
for future reference, hearing the one Shaolin ask what they could offer that
was needed most besides help with the farms, Brian smiled, "Teachers, one of
the best things you can offer us is teachers. A large percentage of those we
have rescued have been abused and feel helpless because of how they were
treated, teach them to defend themselves and as their confidence in their
ability to take care of themselves grows, their sense of self worth will
grow with it. They don't need to be turned into Shaolin; they just need to
be able to feel that if they're threatened they have the skills or an idea
of how to defend themselves."

"Aaron and Colin were talking about this the other day, Colin who is a mind
healer wants Aaron to find several teachers who are willing to work with
those abused kids giving them the skills needed to defend themselves." Ray
entered the conversation and drew the attention of the Shaolin who seemed to
hang on his every word, "Colin thinks that if they knew how to handle
themselves it would help to put some of their demons to rest."

"We have noticed an increase in the number of those who watch us practice in
the late afternoon, they watch us with a hunger in their eyes," he looked at
his fellow Shaolin and they nodded in agreement to his unspoken question,
"Tell his Majesty we will chose those amongst us that are the best suited to
this task as soon as we get back and contact the masters."

Brian tilted his head and looked up at the ceiling as he sent the
conversation to Aaron and smiled at the return mental caress; he shivered
ever so slightly at the mental kiss, blinking several times, Brian grinned,
"Aaron sends his thanks and suggests that those chosen be amongst the first
to be moved over tomorrow night, he said that once your gifts are unlocked
and trained, he would like those chosen to work closely with Colin's
people."

Smiling and feeling for the first time, they truly were being welcomed, the
lead Shaolin smiled in gratitude, "It is like a dream come true to be able
to finally serve, and it is beyond a dream to find out that as we serve, we
are serving our own people," all of the Shaolin bowed to Brian as best they
could while sitting down.

The waiter came out with the check and noticed the circlet type crowns four
of them were wearing and the obvious body guards and decided it was too good
an opportunity to pass up as he swiped the card and asked another waiter to
go back with the receipt for a signature, begging off saying he needed to
use the restroom badly. Glancing over his shoulder as he walked into the
employee locker area he made for the phone after checking to make sure he
was alone, after all his brother would be very interested in knowing what
shopping area these foreigners would be going to next.

Signing the receipt, Brian smiled as he stood up and followed the group of
youngsters to the elevator for the trip to the ground level, he couldn't
wait to get to the shopping district, the waiter had mentioned the chocolate
shop and he had picked up on Pat and Doug's desire to buy Aaron some new
chocolate he might not have tried before.

Aaron ported to his cabin aboard the Asclepius and strolled through the
corridors stopping and checking in with his residents who had total control
of the hospital ship now, to see how they were doing, ignoring the awed
looks as he walked around the different pods, he answered questions and
offered suggestions to his residents as he made his way down to the triage
desk. Standing out of the way Aaron smiled as he listened to the staff going
about their duties efficiently; so far seventy percent of their patients
were teens or children.

"Asclepius control this is medical flight two niner, inbound with
two.victims of a flat fire, burns to sixty percent of their bodies."

Watching the staff jump into action, Aaron was satisfied that giving overall
control of the hospital and trauma center to Theo was the right choice,
after all, his time was getting eaten up at an alarming rate lately, which
endangered his ability to oversee his staff's training properly so he had
decided to concentrate on the main med bay exclusively for now.

Walking across the gantry, Aaron smiled as he spotted Friedrich waiting for
him, another wise choice, "Hello Friedrich, it's not surprising to see you
lurking here in the shade, but seeing the P.A.D.D. in your hand, and knowing
your distaste for them, what's on your mind?"

Smiling, Friedrich pointed to the device as he popped the chip out of the
slot and placed the P.A.D.D. back in his pocket, handing Aaron the chip,
"It's not that I dislike them, as they do have their uses, it's just I
noticed while in the service, before the change, officers relied too heavily
on them and were useless once they broke down. Granted these are nothing
like the ones the Germans have, but it is still a bad idea to rely
exclusively on them, as technology, even ours, can be fooled or miss-set
causing problems later on."

Walking next to Friedrich, while he thought about it, "I can see your point,
but don't become the other side of the equation, the P.A.D.D.'s can be a
vital tool for security work," Aaron told him, as he stopped near the old
hospital building and looked over the new one going up at an incredible
pace. Opening his mind to outside thoughts, Aaron turned towards the old
naval hospital, "Let's round up my lovers so they can show me around."

Privately wondering how he did it, he seemed to know exactly where all his
Clan was at any given moment, Friedrich followed Aaron inside the old
hospital.

"You broadcast that Friedrich, actually it is simple yet complex, think
about Colin for a moment and open your mind, as if you were going to
telepathically contact him, but instead just think about knowing what he is
doing," Aaron stopped inside the doors to the lobby, knowing his guys were
over in the embassy section.

Closing his eyes and trying what Aaron told him to do, Friedrich opened his
eyes in shock, "Son of a bitch, Colin's in his office talking to one of the
teen's Tommy brought back from Hawaii.how?"

Smiling as he watched Friedrich turn to him in shock, "Because the two of
you are mated, so you will always be able to find each other, just by
thinking about it, if you two ever add a third to your marriage, both of you
would be able to do the same for the new partner. The downside is, if either
of you are hurt, your partner will feel it as if it was happening to them,
but the pluses.oh the pluses of that ability, far out way that little bit."

Heading for the hallway leading to the new housing area, Aaron stuck his
head inside the first open room he came to and smiled as it was fully
furnished in a kid friendly design, taking a moment to look over the monitor
and terminal, he activated it and glanced through some of the sections
available and smiled as he recognized Kevin's programming style all over the
system and trying to log in, grinned as he noticed this terminal had its own
very private network, separate from the Alteran net.

"Derrick signed off on the work this morning, they finished up and Kevin's
crews are busy installing the terminals and monitors in the rooms and should
be finished by Monday, they finished a third of the family level and are
working on the second floor, so that starting after supper, we can start
moving families in here where it is more comfortable," Tim smiled as he
walked in the room and went over and Kissed Aaron.

"The construction crews have several surprises in store for you, including
the creation of a playground between the two buildings; they installed it
while there was a lull one day as they had outpaced the supplies available
and got it constructed," Derrick grinned as he hugged Aaron and felt the
pride in his accomplishment wash over him.

Following his loves down the hall, Aaron glanced over his shoulder, "Out of
curiosity, did your teams scan the building after it was finished for
listening devices or other nasty surprises?"

"We did and the scans came back negative, we also scanned the trucks as the
supplies were ferried in and they were all negative, well one truck, the
designer would not allow on base as he did not recognize the drivers, he
seems more security conscious than I ever expected a designer to be,"
Friedrich answered, as he followed Aaron and the Clan into the park play
area and had to agree this was a fantastic place for the younger kids to
play in.

Stopping outside the skeletal structure of the hospital, Aaron noticed the
workers finishing up the massive beam and girder assembly at the far end of
the site, stepping through what would be the front doors, Aaron glanced
around and noticed the site foreman spot him and start to rush over,
"Where's Kevin?"

Tim pointed to the ground that had yet to have a floor poured over it,
"About five hundred meters below us, he set an assembler remote to digging
the core bunker, and is installing the relays to our system core from the
one he brought over and installed yesterday, he should be done shortly, as
the terminals came to life about twenty minutes before you arrived."

Brushing his mind against Kevin's, Aaron received back a burst of warmth and
love along with the sense of five more minutes, "Five more minutes, he said,
so let's start with the second floor. How far ahead of schedule are your
crews running?"

"Supply wise, we're running about ten days ahead of schedule." Derrick told
them as they climbed the steps to the next floor.

Half an hour later, Aaron was examining the back of the building where it
abutted to the tarmac and the small five story building being built, a
miniature concourse that could handle everything from the AMT101 to the
standard RJ series jets. Pulling Kevin into a hug only twenty five minutes
later than he told them, he kissed him before facing the site foreman.
"Okay, so far you're running about ten days ahead of schedule, we planned
three months for the construction, so what is your estimate on completions
now?"

"Well now, you're Majesty, we be expecting to be finished in another three
and a half weeks, with this end being ready for final installation of
equipment in three weeks time. The bosses be adding some more crews starting
Monday, we be finishing ahead of schedule and with a tidy profit in the
coffers to boot."

"Good, then Edward made the right choice in recommending you to us," Aaron
smiled as he released Kevin from the hug and tilted his head as if listening
to something only he could hear. Slightly shocked at feeling Andrew enter
the base, Aaron realized that tomorrow would see another change to the Clan,
as it looked like he recognized Andrew as one of his lovers already. "Andrew
and Edward just entered the grounds, and Tyler and the AMT 101 are on final
approach."

Waving at the site foreman, Aaron gathered up his lovers into a group hug
before they turned around and started for the Asclepius to meet the royal
family for the trip back to Altair.

"Good Lord." James muttered, as the AMT101 came in for a vertical landing.

"I must say, I did not realize how large this plane was the other day,"
Victoria told her husband the duke, as the AMT101 rolled to a stop near
them.

Coming up behind Victoria and her husband, Aaron laughed, "He's actually on
the smaller side, I think on the trip back, we'll do an orbital insertion
and I'll show you something on the large size."

"Good Lord Man, I don't want to know how big something is, if you call this
small; I don't know if my heart can take it," James laughed before stopping
and turning back, "Orbital insertion?"

Motioning the family towards the lift that was descending from the belly of
the transport, "Don't worry James, there will be a fully trained physician
onboard in the guise of a visiting monarch," Aaron giggled in glee, as he
extended the mic down and tapped his communicator, "Joe, are you onboard the
Reliant, playing with your new toy?"

Laughing, Aaron motioned for the others to go ahead of him into the lift
which closed behind him, "Sounds like fun.the reason I'm calling is I want
you to make a run to the dark side of the moon, I'm going to do a quick
orbital hop and port us to the dark side so I can show you off, then it will
be a quick port back and you can go out and blow up some more asteroids in
practice."

Glancing at Friedrich as he listened to Joe talk, Aaron smiled, "Sorry Joe,
but Friedrich got to me first, he gets first dibs on recruitment, but I
wouldn't worry if I were you, after all, the army is on the larger size so
you should get plenty of transfer recruits." later then," Aaron laughed
before disconnecting and offering the royal family a seat, "Please sit
down.James, I just lined up your surprise," Aaron grinned evilly.

Sitting down in his command chair, Aaron faced the queen and her family,
"All kidding aside, since we are so closely allied, and two of your
grandchildren are being in a sense married into my clan, I want to share
with you something the world has only be speculating about with my
announcement of being the leader of sixty four worlds." Looking over his
shoulder towards the cockpit, "Orbital insertion Colonel; then stand by for
portation to the Reliant."

Facing the Royals once more, Aaron pulled up and swung around the terminal
and brought the command systems to life then brought the gestalt out of
hibernation.

Richard and James shared a look as all the plasma monitors came to life;
they saw the outside view and all the information scrolling on the side
screens as system after system changed from the red of standby, to the green
of active, Richard gripped his older brothers arm as the leftmost screen
flashed and the heading was titled weapons systems.

"Orbital insertion in ten seconds and counting, your Majesty," the Colonel
called back as the color outside the windows turned pale blue and suddenly
flashed black.

"Victoria, welcome to near earth orbit and in a moment I'm going to take us
to the dark side of the moon," Aaron smiled, as the Queen craned her neck
and looked out the window at the earth far below them. Closing his eyes, he
visualized the AMT101 and the shipyard docking rings at the dark side of the
moon, pulled power from the gestalt he ported the plane to the construction
yards and smiled as the Reliant blocked out the stars as they approached.

"James, meet the Alteran Kingdom's AK Reliant, one of our larger vessels, of
course, he is designed for exploration and colonization," Aaron, proud of
the spacecraft, tapped a few controls and immense search lights bathed the
Reliant in brilliant light so they could see the true size of the
spacecraft.

Aaron chuckled silently while the royal family acted like hyper teenagers as
they plastered themselves to the window to look at the Reliant, "Good Lord,
it's immense," James whispered in awe as he gazed out the window.

"I've had two governments trying to get me to sit down and talk about
colonization and when I finally agree, the Reliant will be unveiled to the
world, and one day, I have a feeling Andrew will be in command of that
flagship," Aaron smiled as he called out over his shoulder to the command
deck, "Prepare for portation and approach to Altair."

Closing his eyes, Aaron ported the ship back to near Earth orbit and smiled
as the AMT101 started its descent back into the atmosphere, turning back to
his guests, he saw that Andrew was excitedly talking to his father while
Edward was fidgeting in his seat, "Alright, out with it Edward."

Pulling the case with the chip in it out of his pocket, Edward handed it
over, "I hope that by doing this assignment, I did not cause problems, it
seems that different departments in the government have already started to
change the building code standards." He winced at that admission, "it was
not my intention to cause this type of uproar with my questions, it was not
until this morning when I received a call asking when the target
distribution day was to occur that I realized that they had rewritten the
building codes to take advantage of the additive in the concrete mixes, that
I figured out what had happened. That and the military did not help matters
any when they released the rewrite of their standards." Pointing with his
finger to the chip as he sat back, "I asked Derrick for help with the
initial cost of the additive per bucket, and he gave me a figure of fifty
five pounds, I based my figures on that."

Pulling his P.A.D.D. out, Aaron popped the chip into the slot and downloaded
the files, before handing it back to Edward then he skimmed over the
proposal as the AMT101 approached Altair, scrolling to the section that had
distribution figures, Aaron looked up, "Why did you place a limit on
military acquisitions of thirty five percent?"

"Truthfully." Edward looked at his grandmother and father, "The admiralty
was starting to piss me off with their constant demands, and telling me that
they considered this additive vital for defense, telling me they would not
authorize its sale until they had their stockpiles first." Seeing his
father's frown, "They seem to have forgotten who is actually in charge, and
I had to have one Colonel arrested, after he got out of line. Thomas was
quite pleased to do it for me, the admiralty is still in an uproar over that
arrest, and to be honest, I told them one more word or demand out of them
and that the percentage would be lowered once more."

Snorting in disgust, Edward stood up when the pilot came back and announced
they had landed, "I know very well that you would not have given me this
assignment if you didn't intend to actually release the additive through a
business in our country, and I was not about to jeopardize it by idiots."

Standing, Aaron motioned for the others to follow him, "I'll look it over
thoroughly in a bit, and you're right, I do always have ulterior motives for
the assignments I give you." Smiling at Victoria and her husband, "Shall we,
I do think you will like exploring this part of my kingdom, you should
remember well how tranquil it is, Victoria."

Leaving the Louvre after an interesting trip that everyone enjoyed, Brian
held up his hand as he saw a television bulletin about the mall they were
going to go to first before coming here, the one the waiter had given them
directions to. Glancing at Ray and Brialey it was the Shaolin Tzu that
summed it up, "That waiter set us up, if we had done as he encouraged, we
would be in the middle of that terrorist attack right now."

Scanning the crowd around them, Brian contacted Kevin, "Kevin we need ported
back like right now, emergency, Love, we might be in trouble." Glancing at
everyone he told them, "Pair up we're leaving right now."

Kevin was checking the filters and several other items from the gestalt
chair in Aaron's office when Brian contacted him, and he slipped his hand
down, pressed the release buttons and grabbed power from the gestalt, "Let
me see through your eyes, Love." Finding them, he ported them in two groups
and after the first group arrived, he noticed something flash past where
Kenny was, and panicking he ported the second group direct to the office.

Tzu looked around the room he appeared in and the first thing he noticed
besides all the monitor screens encompassing all but two entrances was,
there was only a single chair occupied by one of the Clan and he was
undressed, eyes widening slightly, as several more of the Clan walked
through the one entrance also without clothes on so he averted his eyes to
the floor, as he felt a part of his body start to stir, he hoped his loose
clothing hid it from sight so he would not embarrass himself.

Smiling at Brian and nodding his head at the Shaolin, Kevin let his mind
pick up Tzu's surface thoughts and grinned as he realized the problem,
"Sorry about that, Tzu, but here in the kingdom itself, unless we need the
protection, we just don't like wearing clothing much. Since the group you
traveled around with today all wish to have your gifts unlocked, I suppose
it is okay for you to see the city of Altare, if you follow me to the
balcony, I have a terrific view that I think you will be interested in."

Brian was about to follow Kevin when a red light flashed on the screen,
"Wait a moment, would you Ray, in fact find Brialey if you would, and have
him come back here," he asked as he sat down in the recently vacated seat,
logged in and opened the flagged video transmission.

Eyes widening in surprise as he opened the video feed and noticed the
Berkeley house was being invaded by police officers, and that Dorian was on
the ground holding his head bleeding and being yelled at, watching the scene
unfold in front of him, his eyes narrowed in anger as his fingers connected
the screen to the OOD, "OOD set condition red and prepare your Marines for a
rescue; Berkeley house has been invaded and we're putting a stop to it."

Eyes drawn back to the monitor, at the sound of a scream of pain, Brian
glared as he saw one of the officers hit Dorian with his assault rifle,
"Ray, it's our turn up now." Looking at Ray who looked angry, he stood up
and drew power from the gestalt, "Ray you are being tested do you accept."

Ray snapped to attention and with a hint of anger still in his eyes, he tore
his eyes from the screen and stared into the hard angry eyes set in Brian's
face, "Yes Sir, I am ready."

Brian didn't say anything, just ported them both to the OOD wardroom,
surprising the staff, glancing around the docking bay he noticed the silence
as people went about their duties and glanced back at the monitor that Ray
had activated. Tapping the table top touchpad several times to log in, Brian
looked around and cleared his throat; he was pleased as his voice carried
over the docking bay speakers, "I am Brian Woods of Clan Stranton, set
condition Red and prepare the Ares for emergency teleportation." as soon as
he finished, his finger touched a blinking area on the table top and the
room plunged into a deep dark blue as alarms sounded throughout the docks.

The officer of the day flew through the doors of the wardroom frothing at
the mouth because of the alarms, and paled as he saw Brian with his guards
standing there glaring his way and paled slightly before swallowing, "Um
Sir, your Marines are ready in the situation room."

Giving the OOD one last glare, Brian went through the door to the situation
room and Ray walked past him and brought up the Berkeley house video
transmission, as he stepped through the door, one of the Marines who was
looking their way shouted out, "Attention on Deck causing everyone to jump
up and stand at attention.

Brian pointed to the monitor, "Several minutes ago, Berkeley house was
invaded by armed men who are dressed in police uniforms, I have no clue nor
do I care if they are really police. I want them secured as soon as we
arrive and then I need our people to port the injured to the Med Bay for
treatment, you have sixty seconds." Turning to the CAG and Chris, "I want
the Ares ported to New York harbor, and fighters dispatched once you break
surface."

Hearing the sounds of a gunshot, Brian turned to the screen to see what was
going on, "Go NOW!  Secure that building...CAG I want some of your Screaming
Eagles ready to drop onto the White House if needed, and several to drop on
Berkeley right now." Seeing the Marines rushing the door of Berkeley House
on the monitor Brian glanced at Ray, it's time, Ray," Before porting out of
the situation room into the foyer of Berkeley house.

Chris ported out to the bridge of the Ares and the CAG glanced at the
nervous and sweating OOD, "Come on over here young man, we need to have a
talk before Brian gets back and reams your ass for not following orders
exactly, and not taking initiative, I expect."

Brian appeared in the foyer of Berkeley house and glanced around at the swat
members being thrown to the floor in the living room by his Marine forces.

"Release us, and it will go easy on you."

"Sir, we have a problem," one of the marines came downstairs with his
prisoner and pushed him to the floor in front of Brian and kicked his legs
out from under him for good measure. "This piece of shit shot one of our
students.sir, it was a head shot," he whispered as the swat member tried to
get to his feet and the Marine punched him.

"Secure the perimeter.Ray, take hold of that walking dead man," Brian
ordered as he walked over to the living room and glared at the secured swat
team, struggling to sit up. "Who's in charge here?"

"All of you are going to end up in jail for this, I'll see to it
personally."

Brian pointed to the loudmouth, "Bring him over here by the door and have
him read the plaque out loud," Brian moved to one side, as the Marines
dragged the man not too gently and pushed his face into the bronze plaque.

"Read it, scum." the Marine ordered.

Swallowing, the officer glared at Brian, "It makes no difference to me; we
had a legal search warrant."

Slapping the swat officer on the side of the head the Marine growled, "Don't
make me ask you again; read it out loud.NOW!"

Alteran Embassy

Berkeley House

Alteran Soil our Laws enforced

Brian looked at the swat team and noticed some were paling, "Where is this
so called warrant your leader is so proud of, then?"

"In his pocket," one of the officers yelled out.

The marine ripped the vest off the Sergeant and pulled the piece of paper
out of the inner pocket and handed it to Ray, who was closest and he passed
it to Brian.

Opening it up, Brian read it and then glanced at the address, staring at the
letter, Brian just got angrier, "Is there some reason you are invading our
embassy with a warrant written out for an address in the Bronx? Which is
nowhere near here."

Several of the swat team paled, as they realized that they had the wrong
house.

Brian noticed the glare the sergeant was giving him, and skimmed the man's
mind, he knew they had the wrong address and broke in on purpose. Glancing
around the room, Brian steeled himself for what he was about to do and
pathed Aaron, "Aaron, I'm at Berkeley house, it was invaded by Swat and I am
about to sentence several of the officers I thought you should know."

"Sir, we have a Captain Downs out here from swat approaching, he is asking
to talk to whoever is in charge," the Marine sergeant told Brian as he
walked into the house.

Brian shrugged his shoulders, "Let him in, if he wants to witness his men
being put on telepathic trial."

Aaron excused himself for a moment and pathed Brian back, "Brian, what
happened love?" After Brian sent him the burst of memories Aaron looked at
Victoria, "If you will excuse me, something has come up that I need to deal
with, I'll stop back after supper, but feel free to ask any of the Shaolin
for a tour or directions to the stable." Smiling and waving goodbye, Aaron
made his way to the security office, "I will be there shortly Brian, to
offer support just like I have done to everyone else who went through their
ordeal, remember, you do not have to go through with this if you don't want
to, I will take over for you at any time you tell me to."

"We don't negotiate with criminals, release my men," Captain Downs was red
faced as he held his temper from the other side of the gate.

"Criminals, I think you'd better read the bronze plaque next to the gate
again Captain, and this time, if I were you, I would change your tone of
voice before I take insult, if you don't want to be present when your men
are tried for their crimes, it makes no difference to me, after all, we are
not the ones that created an international incident."

The captain glanced at the plaque that was pointed out and paled as he
realized it was not a hostage situation he was here to negotiate with, "Can
you hold on one moment sir, I need to speak to the commissioner and explain
what has happened."

Nervously, the captain slinked out of hearing and pulled his cell phone out
of his pocket then dialed a number, after several minutes, he nervously
walked over and cleared his throat, "if you would be kind enough to allow me
passage so I can talk to who's in charge about this horrible mistake, it
would be appreciated."

The marine sergeant motioned to allow the Captain through and led the way
back inside and into the living room where everyone had been moved to,
"Young Sir, the police negotiator is here as witness."

Brian lifted his head up long enough to see the officer his Marine sergeant
brought in, before he noticed Aaron port in and step to the back of the room
and release an SE110 from his hand which hovered in the center of the room.
Stepping forward, Brian glared at all the prisoners, "I am Brian Woods of
Clan Stranton of the Kingdom of Altare, and I stand in judgment on this 7th
day of August of the year 2004 TR. We will start with the one who murdered
one of our own," Brian pointed to the officer Ray was holding down, and Ray
dragged the man forward.

Pulling a crystal out of his pocket, Brian placed it against the man's
forehead and ignored the man's screams as he dug up the memories and
thoughts surrounding the raid, stepping back from the man, Brian glared in
hate at him, "So you went upstairs and when you saw two gay guys having sex,
you decided what was one more drug dealer dead, did you?"

Taking a deep breath, Brian looked at Ray, "Ray."

"Yes Young Sir," Ray looked back knowing what was coming and pulled out the
neural pistol.

"For the Crime of Murder of an Alteran citizen, I sentence you to
death.sentence to be carried out immediately," Brian spat out, as he moved
over to the other officer, the one in charge of the assault, as an
electrical whine shattered the still silence.

Brian looked at the swat officer as if he was something vile, "You are just
as much to blame as the other one, except in some cases you are worse than
that bigot, as you knew you had the wrong address and you knew this was an
embassy." He pulled out the neural imager and a spare crystal and as the man
struggled to get out of reach, Ray seized his head and held him still so
Brian could place the neural imager on his head and activate it.

Once the blinking stopped, Brian gazed hatefully at the man who could not
move or talk but was very aware of what was going on, "You deliberately
invaded Alteran soil, for that reason alone, I should order our troops to
destroy the state of New York, I want to know why you would endanger every
man woman and child of this state so you could come in here and kill my
people.WHY," Brian's voice rose at the end as he barreled his way into the
man's head and he started to writhe in seizures, disgusted at finding out
the reason, he reached out and grabbed hold of the imager. It seemed the
officer had seen Dorian herding a group of throw a way's into the embassy a
few short hours ago and spotted some of them as gay, in fact, some of them
he had fucked after threatening them with jail if they did not put out.

"You disgust me and your reason for invading us and creating an
international incident to protect yourself from being found out as a rapist,
deserves what is about to happen.I sentence you to removal from the gene
pool, you shall suffer the death of DNA." Brian yanked the imager off the
man's head and watched as he twitched on the ground before growing still,
pulling the crystal out of the imager, he handed it to Ray, "He has a son
that is just as bad as he is, sentence is to be carried out before
midnight."

Taking the crystal, Ray snapped to attention, "Right away, young Lord,"
before porting out in a shimmer of lights.

Brian looked at the rest of the nervous swat team members before glaring at
their Captain, "Take them away, they will be held for trial before the Kings
Bench, after that, post a security team at all our collage embassies. This
ends this trial on this date of August 7th of the year 2004 TR," he looked
at the SE110 as he said this and moved through the prisoners who were being
pulled to their feet so he could stand in front of Aaron.

Aaron placed both hands on either side of Brian's head at the same time his
forehead touched Brian's, closing his eyes, he let his mind reach for his
love's and let them merge so that he was sure no harm had or would come from
him taking two lives. Several minutes later, Aaron opened his eyes and
pulled away slightly and looked deep into Brian's eyes, "Well done my love,
I'm very proud of you, Brian Stranton."

"Let's get those kids out of the safe room," Aaron smiled, as he pathed to
Brian before the two left the living room to go to the kitchen, going
through the routine to open the passage to the safe room, "Love, would you
port them back to the med bay I have something I need to do."

Brian tilted his head as he looked at Aaron glance at the stairs leading up,
"Do you want company?" knowing this was going to be hard on Aaron to see
where one of his people was killed.

"No, I don't think so, this is going to be hard enough as it is and I have a
decision to make on New York's fate," Aaron told him, as he slowly walked
upstairs. Once past the stairway, he noticed the Marine sentry at one of the
doors, deep in thought he slowly made his way over to him and stopped as the
Marine slowly opened the door for him stone faced, but radiating sadness and
anger, walking into the room, Aaron noticed the tears on the Marine medic's
face, and slowly scanned the room, eyes taking in everything, burning it
into his memory.

"I'm sorry Majesty, there was too much damage to be able to get a neural
image, he's truly gone," the medic told him as he finished packing his
equipment up, "His lover is in critical condition, and while still alive
when he was ported out, there was no way of knowing how much brain damage he
suffered."

As the medic picked up his pack, he knocked the pillow to the floor and
Aaron's eyes were drawn to a bunch of wires and what looked like.  "Wait a
minute what's that." Aaron quickly moved to the bedside and as he moved the
sheet and pillow out of the way to see the medic followed the wires back to
the night stand and the shocked indrawn breath as the medic opened the night
stand drew Aaron's attention.

"Is this what I think it is," the medic pointed to the contraption nestled
in the top drawer with a glowing crystal prominent in the center.

Aaron blinked in surprise and quickly looked back at the body trying to see
past the blood and damage so he could recognize him, "Get his body in one of
the bio-tubes in pod seventeen as quickly as you can." going back and
running his scanner over the crystal he told the medic who was about to port
out, "It's a neural imager crystal and it's been used."

"Colin.I need you to port to me as soon as possible," Aaron pathed, as he
very carefully traced the wires back to the bed, gathered them and placed
them on the night stand.

Colin excused himself from the group he was leading and ported out,
following the visualization Aaron sent, he appeared behind Aaron, "I heard
about the student.god's Aaron I'm sorry the medic said there was not enough
of his brain left to try my theory out." he stopped as Aaron pointed several
times at the wires on the night stand and the open drawer. Curios, he walked
over and looked in and then quickly around the room, "Son of a Bitch It was
Denny wasn't it, we were working on a prototype neural scanner and if he
used it as scheduled, I might be able to bring him back with only the loss
of several hours of memories."

Excited now, Colin carefully extracted the unit from the nightstand and
unplugged the wires as Aaron smiled in hope, "He's already in section
seventeen.I really hope your theory works,"

Cradling the unit to his chest protectively, Colin looked up, "So do I, I'll
do everything in my power.he was one of mine, Aaron," the tears broke
through and Colin gave a quick sob before he fought for control, "Right,
I'll let you know if the image is secure and if there is a chance as soon as
I know anything," Colin ported out of the building as Brian glanced in the
room.

Not seeing anyone but Aaron with a funny look on his face, Brian walked in,
"Was that Colin, I thought the medic said there was nothing to scan?"

Pulling Brian close for a hug, Aaron kissed him, "He was one of Colin's
students and together they were working on a new type of imager for his
project, so there might be a chance still."

Brian sobbed for a few moments before looking up, "I came up to tell you the
press has arrived, along with the mayor and the Governor."

Aaron sighed as he walked out of the bedroom, as several of the Marines came
in and started to bag everything up so the room was clean and tidy, when the
others returned home, they would not have to deal with it, looking out the
window at the end of the hall next to the steps, he saw all the news
vultures set up and two men talking as they kept glancing around the area
and back at the house.

"What are you going to do about them?" Brian asked, as he stood next to
Aaron, hugging him tight to his side.

"I'm not." Aaron trailed off, as he came up with an idea and he thought
about it and all the ramifications.

Picking up on Aaron's thoughts, Brian thought it over, "It might work, but
you still might end up turning this state into a parking lot, but I guess
it's worth a try."

"That it is, but if we handle it right, it might work, Xon, are you
available for a small job?" Aaron linked to Brian then mentally contacted
Xon.

"Aaron," Xon cocked his head to the side and looked up as he mentally
replied, "What may I assist you with, Prime?" eyes widening as Aaron sent a
burst of memories and then explained what he wanted him to do, Xon moved to
his bedroom, pulled out his battle armor and redesigned over robe. "I shall
handle it, my Prime, have no fear." Sealing the armor, after slipping into
it, Xon extended the mic and tapped the communicator, "Friedrich, I have
need for you and two security officers in battle armor to meet me in Aaron's
office as soon as possible." Going to the wall case where he had replicated
items from his own home, he pulled the Thal'os'cylys, or 'fang of honor'
from its bracket and secured the guard sheath to his waist and deemed
himself ready.

As he walked out of the bedroom, he noticed Pete and David notice him and
freeze, "Aaron has asked that I impress on the President the error of his
ways, Berkeley house was invaded and Denny may be lost beyond hope, it
depends on whether Colin's new procedure works and he is able to implant an
neural image in a repaired body and brain." stopping at the bottom of the
steps, Xon turned his head so he faced Pete and Kevin, "Brian has
successfully passed his ordeal, point three standard hours ago."

Aaron stopped at the door and stared out as he extended the mic and
activated the communicator, "Ares, your position and status? Eagle Squadron
two descend and acquire pre-arranged targets."

"Ares holding position thirty meters z minus surface New York Harbor,
condition standby stations," Chris's voice replied as Aaron walked down the
steps and the path towards the front gate.

When Aaron was three feet from the two men and the swarm of reporters behind
them, Aaron snarled, "ARES EMERGENCY ASCENT BATTLE STATIONS.EAGLE SQUADRON
TWO, ATTACK FORMATION NOW."

Staring at the confused and shocked men, Aaron turned slightly so the
camera's could clearly pick up his words, "The State of New York has broken
the 1941 treaty of Altare.  As such, a state of war exists between my
kingdom and this state, I require your unconditional surrender." Aaron
stopped as sonic booms reverberated through the city as the Screaming Eagles
descended and targeted the state house and several other key positions
around the state.

Xon, along with Friedrich and his two heavily armed men, ported into the
White House, the east wing to be exact where the Joint Chiefs of Staff along
with the leaders of both Congress and the House were meeting and glued to
the television in horror as they witnessed the events taking place in New
York. Several screams as they arrived caused everyone to look at them in
fear, stepping forward, Xon's robe acted like a cape and the military
members eyes were drawn to the nasty looking knife at his waist, "I am Xon
of Clan Stranton of the kingdom of Altare."

Extending the mic down and activating it, Xon's eyes never left the
president's face, "Squadron one, attack formation descend and
target."placing his hand on the hilt of his honor fang Xon stared a moment
longer as the sonic booms rattled the building, causing several windows to
shatter as the Screaming Eagles descended and took up positions around the
capitol. "The state of New York has broken the 1941 Alteran Treaty, and as
such it is ours to do with as we wish, by right of conquest.do not interfere
unless you wish the rest of the country to suffer the same fate."



Editors section:



RadioRanchers Musings: Can you say nice show of force? I knew you could.
That was rather slickly done. How about that waiter in Paris? He was not a
nice man. Too bad he hasn't been dealt a nasty punishment as well. Oh well,
there are, I suppose, priorities.

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

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