Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:31:06 -0500
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 46

Smiling as they appeared high above the Earth, Aaron closed his eyes and
snuggled into Richard as he let his fingers send the generators to standby
and released the link with his lovers.

Kenny, feeling his brother go limp, looked up and noticed all the older
guys, those that had done the work teleporting, looked tired, jumping up, he
ran for the small bar and the refrigerator full of energy drinks, grabbing a
handful of the energy drinks, Kenny rushed back and handed them out as he
cracked open the top and put it to his brothers lips, "David, drink this, it
will make you feel better."

Richard opened the drink container and nudged Aaron as he sat up with the
energy drink, seeing him open his eyes and smile at him, he stopped and
looked around, everyone else was frantically trying to get the others to
drink and Aaron seemed unaffected, "Um you might need this and then maybe
you need to look at everyone else as the guys are going spare over them
being so tired."

Sitting up suddenly, Aaron looked around and frowned, what the hell, he
thought. Swinging his legs over the side of the recliner he stood up and
pulled his scanner out of its pouch and stopping next to Derrick, did a
quick scan and not seeing anything physically wrong, tapped Derrick on the
leg, rather hard, causing him to sit up in shock, "Sorry about that, must
have dozed off, I was wrapped in this feeling of being totally and
completely loved I nodded off."

Tousling Pat's hair Aaron smiled, "That's okay, Pat brought you something to
drink, have a go at it while I wake the rest of the guys up."

Stopping at Kenny's side next, Aaron sat down and placed a hand on his
shoulder, "Hey, hold on Kenny," Aaron comforted him when he felt the worry
rolling off of him, "Nothing is wrong, other than your brother fell asleep,
like I did with Derrick; you just need to wake him up." Leaning over, Aaron
whispered in David's ear. "Love, it's time to wake up," getting a mumble
back that sounded like just another minute as David rolled over, Aaron
grinned at Kenny and shouted, "DAVID.if you don't get your butt off the
recliner and wake up this instant, you will never feel another one of us
inside you ever again."

David in a happy dream heard something or someone telling him time to wake
up, not really wanting to leave the happy warm place right now, he rolled
over. That is until his warm and happy dreamland turned into a nightmare as
this voice boomed across the mental dreamscape telling him he would never
ever be a bottom if he did not wake up. Jumping up and dislodging Kenny,
causing him to tumble to the floor, David looked around in panic, hearing
the giggling from his brother and Aaron, "That was not very nice, I felt
loved and wanted and did not want it to end. Glancing at his brother, David
chuckled at seeing him on his butt on the floor wet from having the drink
spill all over him, "Sorry Kenny," giggling madly, he reached down and
pulled Kenny to his feet and licked the side of his face, "MMM Cherry."

"Hey." Kenny danced back out of the way, "This was yours, but for scaring me
like that I think Aaron needs it more, he can have my Cherry," he grinned
impishly as he went over to Aaron and handed him the container in between
his fits of laughter.

Kissing Kenny in between chuckles, Aaron took the container and drank it in
one go before glancing around; it seemed the other two had been woken by Xon
gently, but it looked like Pete had resisted so he got honked hard by Damien
who was busy being chased by Pete. Laughing, Aaron glanced up and saw the
clock blink out and then come back to life with the local time while the
other eleven digital clocks came to life and listed the day and time on them
for the other stations as they too came to full activation. "Calm down Pete,
anyway it's time to go eat lunch, moving so he could gather Richard up, he
motioned Damien over, "Alright you two, I want you to pay close attention as
I port us back to the Clan Hall, I'm going to slow it down so you can feel
what I'm doing."

Arriving in the Clan Hall, Aaron kissed Damien and Richard soundly before
patting their butts, well okay, he groped them a time or two, but hey, they
were his lovers. Smiling, Aaron covered the frown as he noticed Ichiro and
Shoji, he would have to deal with them after lunch, they acted like hired
help or serfs half the time, this was going to be one conversation that was
going to be tricky, he thought, then he had to release Edward, that is if
Fred hadn't done so already. Seeing Fred smiling at him as he ran across the
lawn from the gestalt point, it did not look like he had released him, "Hey
Fred, you look happy; how about after lunch helping me release Edward?"

Jumping up into Aaron's arms, Fred laughed before kissing him and hanging
on, "Sounds good to me, I practiced all morning learning to intubate and
even got to help out and do several of the rescued teens being brought in,
so I'm good to go now."

Laughing, Aaron twirled around as he held onto Fred, "Congratulations Love,
you're one step closer to kicking me out of my office, now."

Landing on his feet laughing, Fred kissed Aaron one more time as he put an
arm around him and they walked together towards the buffet, "By the way, we
have a birthday party to go to tonight in the main dining hall, one of the
new kids from the Yin Kong," whispering as they got in line, "Actually, it
is one of the boys who was straight and asked to be altered Darren Knight is
what he changed his name to."

Kevin overhearing the conversation moved closer as he filled his plate,
"Actually, we could have a birthday every night this week easily, several on
Friday and eight on Saturday. Doug already ordered the gifts from the Clan
and I think he has them wrapped, Aiden and I were talking about this the
other day." Looking at Aaron, he giggled as he saw he had two plates full to
overflowing, one in each hand, "He suggested that those that actually do the
rescue be in charge of giving that little extra gift in person and maybe as
a clan we could just stop and wish them a happy birthday, that way we don't
get overwhelmed, the amount of rescues is going up by a staggering amount."

Setting his plates down, Aaron saw an arm reach over and add a third plate
to his pile, turning, he smiled at Shoji who had placed a plate of his
favorite mixed vegetable next to his meal he leaned over and kissed him on
the cheek, causing him to go all red and blush, "Thank you Shoji, I
appreciate what you do for us." Holding back his laughter as the embarrassed
teen bowed and moved back before practically running back to the kitchen,
Aaron sighed.

"Those two need to be altered, Shoji worships the ground you walk on and
Ichiro is so in awe of you it's not funny, I hid behind some trees the other
day as he and some of the Shaolin taught some of the youngsters how to paint
in the park, he's real good with kids and mostly happy," Fred whispered as
he sat down and bugged out his eyes at the three plates full of food in
front of Aaron, "Well, we know you're going to be here for a while at
least."

Laughing with his eyes Aaron used his chopsticks to pluck a shrimp from
Fred's plate and pop it into his mouth to Fred's yell of outrage, "HEY that
was MINE!!!"

Laughing, Kevin did not see Fred smirk at him and stab one of the shrimp off
of his plate until he was munching on it.

"I'll get with Doug later and make sure I have a list of those birthdays of
anyone under the age of.nah maybe I better just get a list of all birthdays,
I can spend a moment recording a personal message to all of them and check
up on their tutor scores or career plans and maybe nudge them in the right
direction, towards a mentor if that is what they want." Smiling as he
finished off the first plate, Aaron glanced at Fred's plate and laughed when
Fred responded by brandishing his fork over his food. "Aiden sounds like he
has everything under control, I think I need to invite him, Drew and Eric to
lunch one day this week so they can hear it from my own mind how pleased I
am with them."

Kevin noticing several old Shaolin porting in tilted his head and grinned
when Ichiro quickly got up and went over and greeted them, steering them to
the steam tables and placing empty plates in their hands when they tried to
gently dissuade the young man. What was truly surprising was the fact that
the Shaolin were almost completely naked with only a bit of cloth and
jewelry to identify them.

Not looking behind him, Aaron smiled at Kevin, "Greetings Shaolin, please
sit, you will have to excuse me but it is lunch time and I am enjoying the
delights created by Shoji and Ichiro."

"How?" Kevin let out as the Shaolin bowed slightly and sat down at the table
with them and greeted each of them.

"You honor us, thank you for including us in your meal." The elder Shaolin
smiled and bowed his head as he caught the pile of plates in front of Aaron
and his eyes widened.

Laughing, Aaron used his chopsticks as a pointer, "If you have the flaw
fixed so you can access your gifts, you too will eat more in one sitting
than you dreamed you ever could." Seeing their disbelief, Aaron smiled back,
"Trust me we expend energy at times, faster than we can take it in, it might
not seem like it, but using our gifts burns up a tremendous amount of
calories."

One of the younger Shaolin, the healer asked, "Is that why the sickness you
call breakthrough was so devastating, we were not feeding the children
enough?"

Nodding his head, Aaron swallowed, "The main reason really, as a teen enters
the second stage of puberty, and the hormones trigger the unlocking of the
gifts, the first sign of oncoming breakthrough is being sore, more so than
the day to day activity would warrant."

Smiling as he looked at Damien, "The only thing to do is to push as many
calories and nutrients into the patients as possible, have you been informed
of the red containers and the energy bars yet?" Aaron switched tracks,
causing the Shaolin healer to shift before nodding, "Good, then If you look
over to Damien, he's the one at the table to the right, the one with black
hair, laughing."

Seeing the Shaolin nod after finding Damien, Aaron continued, "Damien
underwent breakthrough last week, at one point, he was eating those energy
bars, three and four at a time, that was after eating a full meal, finally,
he was hurting too much and sick, so we placed him in a bio-tube to finish
the last couple of days of breakthrough without pain, if we hadn't, most
likely the next morning he would have looked at food as if it was a curse,
in the old days, we would have given him something so he would sleep for the
next two or three days and he would have woken up feeling better and with
his gifts unlocked. Somewhere in time, you lost that bit of knowledge, the
Core has the chronicles ready to be viewed and I'll do that tonight after
supper so I'll know for sure what happened, I'll make most of it available
to you to view after I've worked through it."

"We thank you, Prime," the Shaolin healer bowed as he sampled the meal in
front of him.

"There were several pressing issues we wished to address with you today, so
forgive us for intruding, Prime," the elder Shaolin bowed, then looked at
Shoji and Ichiro, "This is very good, thank you."

"As a group we wish to move to the station you brought over, we can learn
what needs to be learned while serving as support staff and with the help of
young Drew we noticed the hospital there is the most immense one in
existence, we can spilt up our duties so after several weeks, we can move to
the other station and man it while the rest of us live and man the Farm
while living on Prime." The Shaolin elder smiled, "If one is old like I am,
they can sense what is not spoken, we as a race will be moving there, and
the Clan has already made known the plans to move the temples including all
the livestock and groves in some strange advanced manner we do not know of
yet, but some of us will learn so we may help in the future."

"Our healers wish to start studying with your healers, one hundred and fifty
of us are ready to start working side by side in the med bay," the younger
Shaolin who had asked about the breakthrough sickness smiled, "I think you
will find our skills equal with most of your residents, we only need
seasoning with the new equipment and possibly some study on new ideas."

Mostly finished with lunch, Aaron smiled and pulled Ichiro down for a kiss
on the cheek as he placed a plate with the six leftover shrimp in front of
him, "Thank you Ichiro." Leaving off embarrassing Ichiro further, Aaron
laughed as he saw Fred had stabbed two of the shrimp of the plate and was
munching on them. "Hey now, I only stole one off of your plate," Aaron
chuckled missing Kevin snitching two shrimp also and popping them in his
mouth with a grin, looking back at the plate he pouted when he noticed only
two shrimp left and stabbed them with his chopstick as he glared playfully
at Kevin, "I never stole any of your shrimp."

Finishing the shrimp, Aaron stacked his dishes, "Let's start with your
senior healers, we will get them trained, they in turn can train up the
rest, they can spend the next couple of days working side by side with my
people and we will team the surgeons up with Theo on Altair Minor, we're
filling the trauma center on Altair Minor, well actually the rescued teens
and boys are taking up over half the beds over there and the sooner we get
your healers trained up, the sooner we can move them all up to Sol Station
and the med bays up there. I'll meet your teams at the med bay around four
if that will work for you," smiling as he watched the young Shaolin nod his
head with a smile, Aaron felt his pleasure.

"How long until all the Shaolin are moved from the hidden valley temple?"
Aaron thought about what was going on and started to plan things in his
mind.

"Tomorrow morning before lunch, prime," the elder smiled at how efficient
they had been.

"Tentatively we will do a quantum scan of the temple and surrounds on
Wednesday, after that we will remove the temple, and fields soon afterwards
that day, if at all possible for relocation to Altare Prime." Aaron closed
his eyes for a moment as he planned things out, "Okay, what we will do, over
the next week, is to repair the DNA strings of as many Shaolin as we can,
starting with the masters and working our way down, once you're comfortable
and have mastered your gifts, we will, towards the end of next week, start
moving you to Altare Prime and getting you settled in. By then, the temple
will have been moved and all the livestock and crops that need looking after
will be settled, I think we can have all of you moved in and comfortable
with your gifts in a couple of weeks, after that, I intend to start
funneling people to Altare Prime after we rescue them and they have gone
through alteration, they will need the stability the move will offer them to
restart their lives."

Glancing at the rest of the Clan who had gathered around, "No one that has
not been altered will ever enter the Centauri system, those we rescue that
do not want to join us will be moved to one of the other colony worlds."
Aaron pulled out his P.A.D.D. and brought up a list of jobs and descriptions
that needed to be covered on board the stations and downloaded them onto a
chip before handing it over to the elder, "All the possible jobs on the
stations and fleet, along with their descriptions are on this chip, the
Shaolin can chose what interests them and get further training." Cocking his
head to the side as the elder took it from his hand, "One of the things that
is not on that chip and probably should be is teachers, and you might want
to keep that in mind, those that can teach self defense or even the arts
will be needed to help give those we rescue the self confidence they need."

"We have seen a rapid increase of requests to learn to defend themselves
from those that have been rescued over the past week," the Shaolin elder
smiled, "we of course will honor such requests, we will also work as you
request to install a sense of self worth and the means of defending
themselves. Enough masters have volunteered to make sure there will be
classes in all places those rescued will dwell."

Aaron glanced over at the med bay as he thought things through, "We need to
start running the Shaolin through the med bay for DNA mapping and to get a
baseline of each person's health, I think that would be very good practice
for your healers," Sighing, Aaron picked up his dishes as he stood up "You,
of course are welcome here in the Clan Hall as long as you like," glancing
at the young healer, "Or even join me as I release another young man from
the bio-tube after being healed."

The elder Shaolin stood up, "We shall not take up any more of your time
Prime; the senior healers will meet with you outside the med bay as
requested," bowing slightly the Shaolin started to walk away and then he
stopped and looked around, "Prime would you deign to point us to the
portation area so we may get back to the city," the elder smiled, "I look
forward to being able to handle this myself, it is a strange feeling to know
I must rely on others for my transportation."

Aaron turned around while in the door to the kitchen at the request and
smiled and would have waved is his hands were they not full, as Tim
volunteered to port them to the city. Quickly going over to the sink, Aaron
washed his dishes and placed them in the draining rack before making his way
to the med bay.

Walking into the med bay, Aaron spotted Fred happily checking through the
reports for Edward, "Ready for this Fred?" Smiling, Aaron came up behind him
and hugged him tight and whispered in his ear, "The first thing you do,
before releasing someone, is to make sure all sectors are reporting green,
meaning he is healed. After that, you need to finalize the information in
the system, in effect you are closing the patients treatment file until
needed again, to do this, go to the lower left hand corner and tap options,
then you want to chose prep for release." Releasing Fred so he could do as
he instructed, Aaron watched on proudly as Fred let his fingers move across
the touchpad confidently.

Finished, Fred noticed the screen change and a flashing option appeared on
the touchpad, "It's given me the option to activate the release cycle,
should I tap it then?"

Moving to the other side of the bio-tube, Aaron glanced inside at Edward,
"Go ahead, once the option to release your patient appears, it's only a
matter of activating the release cycle and undoing all the equipment, the
thing to remember is to always turn off the soma unit last. Well, let me
back up a minute," Aaron smiled as Fred was watching him and the bio-tube as
it emptied. "The first thing to do, when the bio-tube opens, is to remove
the ET Tube, once the breathing tube is released, you wait a moment or three
to make sure that the patient is not one of the one in a hundred thousand
that has their throat start to swell up from the tubes intrusion. After the
breathing tube is removed, you can then remove the waste tube, followed by
the IV cuff and then the chest sensor and finally turn the soma unit off and
remove the temple sensor, leaving waking the patient up as the last step."

Fred nodded as Aaron listed the steps he needed to go through, stepping to
the end of the bio-tube as the lid unsealed and slid back, Fred looked at
the tube coming out of Edward's mouth, "Well when I practiced intubating,
there was a small device used to inflate the balloon to keep it in place,
but what do you use to pop the balloon, I don't remember ever seeing you use
something to do that or even scissors?"

"Good catch, that tells me you're thinking things through, instead of
parroting the information you've studied," Aaron was very pleased, "I
designed these tubes to have a breakaway inflator ring, go ahead and unhook
the ventilator and you'll be able to twist the ring at the top and you'll
hear a click, and if you had your ear next to the top you would hear a small
faint hiss. Once the ring clicks, wait a count of two and then very gently
pull the tube out until you see the blue line and then you can finish by
pulling it out rather on the fast side so the patient does not gag."

Fred reached over and unhooked the ventilator and put his ear near the tube
and listened as Edward's breath sounded funny coming through the tube,
glancing at Aaron and seeing him smile, Fred reached for the top ring and
twisted it around until he heard the click, not hearing the faint hiss he
glanced at Aaron who nodded before standing back up and gently pulling the
tube out with two fingers of his other hand on Edward's voice box, he had
learned that little trick from Gordon, it let him know the tube was inflated
correctly when he felt the balloon move against the voice box when he
jiggled the tube. Not feeling anything he continued to pull until he saw the
blue line then yanked the tube the rest of the way out of Edward's throat
and stepped back a moment when Edward seemed to choke for a second

Eyeing up Edward, Fred looked at Aaron, "Okay, how do you tell if your
patient is having trouble breathing or his throat is swelling, nothing
sounds odd yet?"

"There are several ways, the residents of course will check the monitor and
watch it closely for any sign of the BIOX level dropping or any warning
alerts. Those with more experience will count the patient's breaths and make
sure they are even and there is no discoloring of the lips, one thing you
can watch out for is if the patient is having trouble breathing they will
almost always twitch their head slightly as their breathing becomes uneven.
Edward has passed through the danger zone just fine," Aaron smiled as Fred
glanced first at the monitor and then stared at Edward's chest and mouth,
"It will take a little practice, now that you know the trick before you can
keep doing other things as you watch from rebound."

Fred nodded once, reached over and twisted the end of the waste tube before
gently pulling it out, laying it to the side, he leaned over and listened
for a minute to Edward's breathing, ear above his mouth before smiling, "If
the patient is going to suffer from rebound, could you hear it, like the
tutor states you can, as a whistling?"

Watching Fred remove the IV cuff, Aaron answered as Fred pulled off the
chest sensor causing the monitor to go black, "Truthfully, the only time
that really works is if there is absolute silence in the room."

Fred filed that away as he looked around and found the cover to the soma
unit and flipped the cover up so he could turn the key to the off position,
once he had, he reached over and pulled the sensor off of Edward's temple.
Looking at Aaron and seeing he was occupied, it looked like he was having a
pathed conversation, Fred leaned over and kissed Edward before pinching him
hard on the arm.

Edward woke with a start and grabbed his arm as he sat up almost jumping out
of the bio-tube, "Hey that hurt what the hell did you do that for?"

Fred glared, "That was for scaring me half to death yesterday. Come on you
need to get out of the bio-tube so I can start the cleansing cycle," Fred
stepped back and smiled at Edward, "Plus, you need a shower so we can get
you home before the rest of your family worries themselves to death."

Pulling his legs up, Edward started to swing around and it hit him and he
started to panic slightly "Why was I in the bio-tube, did something happen
that I don't remember?"

Finished with his conversation, Aaron smiled as he moved over and sat down
next to Edward and hugged him, "Yes it did, after our talk yesterday, you
were drained, so while you rested, I thought I would place you on the
bio-bed to get your physical out of the way, and a good thing I did too, as
we found a small aneurism in your brain, had we not fixed it, well, it would
have given you a lot of problems later on in life." Glancing sideways, Aaron
watched Edward deal with the news, so many things piling up on top of each
other he thought. Seeing Richard followed by the Lee brothers rounding the
bend, Aaron hugged him tight one more time, "Tell you what, give me a couple
of days to think about what we discussed yesterday, and to see what I can
come up with that will work for everyone, don't give up hope yet.okay?"

Smiling up at Richard, "Hey Richard, Edward here needs a shower and to get
dressed so I can take him home," winking at him, "Why don't you give him a
hand."

Chuckling as Richard dragged his older cousin out of the med bay, Aaron
watched them until they were out of sight before turning to look at Shoji
and Ichiro, catching movement out of the corner of his eye he pathed, "Fred,
come back in a few minutes, these two are going to be altered, or at least I
hope so, you can practice some more then."

Sliding down off the top of the bio-tube, Aaron moved away and hit the
activation key for the cleansing cycle and motioned for the Lee brothers to
follow him over to the desk, sat down on the edge and faced the two of them,
examining them, Aaron let his mind brush the outskirts of theirs and skimmed
their thoughts, "You've been here a couple of weeks now, how do you like it
so far, any problems?"

"I am learning so much and everyone likes my cooking," Shoji beamed as he
moved closer as he glanced back at his brother who was looking slightly
scared.

Panic gripped Ichiro, he could not move, he was afraid they were going to be
sent away, afraid he was going to be sent away, "Have we done something to
offend you," whispering in fear, "are you going to send us away, are you
going to send me away for not living up to expectations."

Ichiro was trembling in fear, seeing that, Aaron stood up and pulled him
close and hugged him tight to his body, sitting down, Aaron held Ichiro in
his lap as he watched Shoji look on shocked.  Aaron motioned him over and
had him sit down, leaning up against him, "No one is getting sent anywhere,
I checked your tutor results and you have done well enough to graduate the
outsiders high school, which makes me happy." Holding the trembling teen
close, Aaron comforted him, "You're a great painter and I hear a very good
teacher, very patient with the young ones, making them feel good about their
attempts."

Reaching down, Aaron let his hand run through Shoji's hair and felt him
practically purr at his touch, "I was wondering why neither of you have said
anything about becoming Alterans, I was hoping that you liked being with us
enough that you wanted to be part of our race." Holding Ichiro tight, "I
thought I would come out and ask, do you wish to be Alteran?"

Smiling, as he felt Shoji nod his head against his leg, Aaron watched and
listened to Ichiro and started to get suspicious and tried to think of a way
to test his theory, leaning over, he let his hand caress Shoji's face,
"Shoji, please stand and face us, I need to see your smile as I ask you
this."

Chuckling as Shoji jumped up grinning ear to ear, Aaron smiled as he pulled
Ichiro's face into his chest and adjusted the teen's body so he would end up
laying on him, "I need you to answer me from the heart Shoji, and I need you
to say it, do you want to be Alteran, don't look at your brother as it is
not his decision, this is something only you can tell me do you want this?"

Nodding his head Shoji looked at his brother, "Yes, but I."

Aaron cut him off, "That is all I needed to hear Shoji, Ichiro needs to make
the same decision and it needs to be from his heart." Smiling, Aaron picked
up the thought out of Shoji's surface thoughts that who would take care of
his brother's needs if he wasn't around and he was worried, "Relax, Shoji,
nothing will change, well you will be able to get around under your own
power, you'll still live with us and have a job cooking for us and with me,
you belong with us." Whispering in Ichiro's ear, too low for Shoji to hear,
"You belong to us.to me."

Feeling a rush of emotions from Ichiro, hope, love, need, an overwhelming
need to be owned, Aaron had his suspicions and they were just proven
correct, Ichiro was a submissive, spending the last little while skimming
his mind, he realized he was more submissive than Derrick, where Derrick was
only submissive in the bedroom, Ichiro was the ultimate submissive. Which
meant his contacting them for help all those weeks ago was something of an
extraordinary cry for help.

"Hey Fred, good timing, can you get Shoji prepped for alteration, while I
finish up with Ichiro." Smiling as he held Ichiro close, Fred nodded with a
smile and walked over to one of the empty bio-tubes and activated it. "Place
him to sleep as soon as possible, and then wait for me, he doesn't need to
see his brother like this."

"Hop up here Shoji and swing your legs around so they are inside," patting
the empty bio-tube, Fred smiled, 'I'm glad you finally decided to join us,
so much of the universe will open up to you now, my friend." Picking up the
gel, Fred cleaned Shoji's temple and grinned back at him as he placed it and
activated the soma unit, placing Shoji in deep sleep. Turning around, Fred
walked over to Aaron and stared at Ichiro a moment, trying to figure out
what was going on, "He's out, what's wrong with Ichiro?"

Sighing, Aaron looked at Fred not smiling, "I discovered something about our
young artist here, something his brother might not understand and would take
the wrong way I think, at least until it is broken to him the right way, and
without his brother present." Petting Ichiro's head, Aaron looked away for a
moment before nodding, at least for now he thought it would have to be this
way. "You see, I discovered Ichiro is a submissive and unlike Derrick, he is
a total submissive, aren't you my pet."

Fred stepped back in shock at Aaron's words, "Aaron what the hell?" pathing
the demand for an answer as he stared at Aaron.

"He is a total submissive, Fred, total, he needs to be owned to be happy and
to thrive and since we are the ones who took him from his old owners after
killing them, it is up to us to replace them and love him until we either
accept him ourselves, or find him someone who will, and we overlooked this
possibility." Aaron closed his eyes as he mentally answered Fred and sent
his discomfort over what he had to do, "I hate this, but it has to be done."

"Ichiro," Aaron called his name forcefully as he lifted the teen's face off
his chest and made him look at him, "Ichiro, I want you to stand up, face me
and get yourself very hard for me."

Ichiro smiled and stood up quickly and his hand flashed down to his soft
penis and started to stroke it as Aaron stood up and examined him from all
angles, Ichiro felt complete now that he was being ordered around again.

Aaron looked at Fred as he stared on in confusion and sent him his
suspicions and then the conformation he had found by dipping in Ichiro's
mind, seeing the dawning realization on Fred's face, he finally told him,
"skim his mind, love, if nothing else would prove it, read his mind as I do
what I have to, to make him stable, we can work later on making him more
like Derrick."

Seeing that Ichiro was hard and leaking slightly, Aaron moved close and his
hand snapped out and captured his face and gently pulled him around so he
was looking in his eyes, "You are mine Ichiro," stepping close so he was
inches away, Aaron reached down and gently but firmly grabbed his erection,
"this belongs to me, and through me, the Clan."

Tracing a finger, capturing some of the pre-cum gushing out the end of the
hard five and a half inches, Aaron used it to lube his finger up and with
unshed tears in his eyes, put his finger between Ichiro's butt cheeks and
without love or caring, pushed his slick finger deep into Ichiro causing him
to moan in pleasure, "This belongs to me and through me the Clan Ichiro,
leaning forward, Aaron kissed Ichiro aggressively and felt the release of
emotion from the teen, and knew he had it right, Ichiro felt whole and
complete and for some strange reason like he truly was loved and understood.
"This belongs to me and the Clan, you're ours now Ichiro, you belong to us
now."

Turning Ichiro around, Aaron pushed him towards Fred, "Climb in the empty
bio-tube, Ichiro, you are going to be altered." Once Ichiro's back was to
him, Aaron let the tears flow freely, he felt dirty, to use someone as a
thing like that to enslave them to another's will left him sick. Dropping to
his knees, he sobbed quietly as he felt the happiness and satisfaction being
screamed form Ichiro's mind, when his mind was cut off, Aaron knew Fred had
induced sleep.

"I would gladly kill the son of a bitch that called himself Ichiro's
father!!! To make someone that dependant on being owned, that submissive is
a crime against nature," Aaron sobbed, as the rest of the Clan started to
run into the med bay after feeling Aaron's distress.

Being hugged from all sides, Aaron finally got a hold of himself, after
several minutes, he wiped his eyes and sighed, "Too bad that fucker is dead,
right now I could gladly torture him for what he did, you all need to know
what happened and why," he sent the last, right before linking with all of
them, giving all of them the memories from the moment Shoji and Ichiro
entered the med bay.

Standing up, Aaron slowly and with each step moving faster towards the
bio-tube that had Ichiro in it, he stopped behind Ichiro's head, "I'm going
to try something here, it all depends on how deep the damage is, Fred,
monitor Ichiro's vitals for me, if his brain starts to get unstable,
interrupt me. Xon should have the mental discipline to break through to me,"
Aaron told them, as he stared at Xon until he nodded his head. Placing his
hands on either side of Ichiro's head, he closed his eyes, took a deep
breath and said a short prayer to the universe and the winds for good
measure that this would work.

Xon moved forward and placed a hand near Aaron's head and reached out with
his mind, "Fascinating, Aaron is attempting to restructure Ichiro's
personality profile."

"That sounds dangerous and uncomfortable," Kevin wondered morally if he was
okay with it, on the one hand, owning someone would destroy Aaron, on the
other, it felt like the lesser of two evils in a way, glancing around, he
slumped admitting Tommy's words were true.

"If this was anyone but Aaron doing this, well I would be the first to stop
them, but this might be the only way to undo the damage done to Ichiro.
Trust Aaron guys, he would NOT do this lightly," Tommy told them, as he
looked down at Ichiro.

"His heart rate just jumped," Fred sounded slightly worried, Pete thought as
he watched helplessly.

Seeing sweat start to bead up on Aaron's face, Fred pulled his scanner out
of its pouch and started to run a scan on their lover, "Holy Shit, he's
burning calories at a fantastic rate, what the hell is he doing that needs
so much fuel," Fred was in awe and worried.

Hearing voices, Kevin turned around and quickly blocked the entry, Richard
and Edward were returning and Richard looked concerned, "Hey guys, hey
Edward ready to go home?" seeing Edward all dressed, Kevin gently nudged him
back out of the med bay, "Let me get one of the security team to get you
back, Edward, Aaron is a little busy doing an emergency medical procedure."
Throwing his arm around Edward's shoulder he neatly diverted both teens from
the med bay and headed for the security office.

Ten minutes later, Richard and Kevin walked back in the med bay to see Aaron
still doing whatever he was doing and the rest of the guys looking more
worried than before he left, glancing around and seeing the river of sweat
running down Aaron's body, Kevin was about to call a halt to whatever the
hell was going on when Aaron gave one final gasp and let go.

"It's done." Aaron swayed as he released his hold and started to collapse.

"Grab him.Xon, get him on the bio-bed," Fred ordered, as he took control,
rushing to Aaron's side he squirted the sterilizing gel on Aaron's arm,
chest and head and not bothering with gauze he used his hand to rub it in
before hooking up the equipment and activating the scan. Hearing mutters and
questions he threw his hand up in the air for quiet and studied the
readouts, "He'll be fine, well at least from whatever he did, on the other
hand, after beating the shit out of him for scaring me to death, it might
take a few days to fix," Fred half laughed half sobbed in relief.

Giving the system several commands to push nutrients into Aaron, Fred walked
over to the cooler and pulled out an unopened box of energy donuts and
handed them to Xon, "He'll probably need to eat all of these when he wakes
up in a few minutes." Muttering as he walked back to Shoji to finish
prepping him, Kevin smiled as he heard him say something about "He'd better
have a damned good explanation".

Sealing the bio-tube Fred was slightly surprised to see he had clearance to
activate the resequencing cycle and locked it in, before moving over to
Ichiro and he stared down at him for several long moments before picking up
what he needed and quickly intubating him. He was just finishing activating
the alteration cycle when the nutrients and sugar finally kicked in and
Aaron woke up. Walking over to the bio-bed, Fred slammed his hand down on
the bed startling Aaron, "What the fuck did you do and why?"

Shoving the second half of the donut in his mouth, Aaron chewed it quickly
before swallowing, sighing he felt real fear behind the anger directed at
him from Fred, "I'm sorry Fred, for scaring you, I guess you could call what
I did micro surgery, I, for lack of words made Ichiro so he was more like
Derrick, and erased that little ownership ritual from his mind to boot, when
he wakes up, he'll be better, he'll still be a submissive, there was no
getting around that, but I was able to fix enough of the damage his father
did to him so he won't have this need to be owned.he won't be an ultimate
submissive anymore. I don't think I could have lived with myself if I had to
own him just to help him."

David gasped in shock, he had been doing a lot of research on submissive's,
after all he needed to know exactly how to treat and love Derrick, "Drop it
Fred, if he was an ultimate submissive, he would have eventually died, the
wrong word would have caused him to kill himself or even to will himself to
death," using his eyes to plead with Fred, "I'll give you the studies done
on ultimate submissive's, but trust me, if Aaron was able to fix Ichiro so
he wasn't one any more, it was worth every drop of sweat and every damn one
of those things he is stuffing in his face."


Fred stared at David and nodded finally, David had said that with such
conviction and horror that he believed him, "Fine, but no using your gifts
until you replace all the weight you just burned off and no porting or
telekinesis either." Waggling his finger at Aaron he smirked, "If I find
you've not followed my orders, there will be no nookie for you for two
weeks!"

Grabbing the fourth donut out of the box, Aaron looked around the room in
horror as everyone agreed with Fred, "I've created a monster!" reaching up,
Aaron palmed the sensor, removing it before sitting up and looking over his
shoulder at the monitor, "Did someone take Edward home?"

"I had Friedrich take Edward home, why are you moving around?" Kevin moved
forward and sat on the edge of the bed and glared at Aaron.

"Because I need to do things, and I can't reach the terminal lying like
this," Aaron relayed, as he sat up, scooted over so he could reach the
terminal and let his fingers move around the touch screen administering
nanite's and specialized nutrients and replenishing his fluids. Seeing the
glares, he sighed, "Look not a single person in this Kingdom is qualified to
do what I am now, I also have a lot of experience self medicating while I
lived by myself and I got hurt. As much as it warms my heart that all of you
care this much, I need to do this or I could be out of commission for
weeks." Not looking at his lovers, Aaron activated another scan and read the
results before finally pointing to the screen and the empty GI tract, "All
that lovely food gone, look at that and I know for a fact there was no
leftovers."

"Fascinating," Xon moved closer as he examining the screen, "If I had not
watched you consume the large volume of food one point five hours ago, I
would swear you had never eaten anything in your life by seeing this
screen."

Laughing, Aaron pulled the chest sensor off and removed the IV cuff, "I tell
people we have an incredible metabolism, but I think no one ever believed
me, truly believed me." Standing and stretching, Aaron moved over and pulled
Fred into a hug, "Thank you, but I will be fine, I agree to take it easy for
a couple of days which means all of you are going to need to take turns
porting me around." Stomach letting out a loud growl he laughed again, "I'm
off to the kitchens and a meal or three. After that, one of you needs to
come with me, we need to port over to the palace, I need to meet with the
queen and have a private talk with Edward, before he has another meltdown."

Feeling Fred stiffen in his arms, Aaron kissed him, "Fred it has to be done,
I am not about to go through what I did with Ichiro and end up doing
something similar to Edward because you think I overstretched and did not go
to Edward when he needs help." Sighing, Aaron pulled Fred around, "Look
Fred, I don't even have to read your mind to know this upsets you, but I
have certain duties I HAVE to do, and if spending time with Edward keeps me
from having to do something like this again, so be it. I also need to talk
over the arrival of Sol Station with the Victoria, the fallout about it and
the Reliant arriving, well I need to plan around it so I don't end up having
to invade or destroy a country. After that, I have the meeting with the
Shaolin which should take about half an hour and then the hug patrol topside
and the party tonight. Simply put, I have things to do that can't be easily
put off."

Seeing and feeling Fred's disapproval, Aaron sighed, "I truly am sorry Fred,
but this is what comes with being King." Kissing him gently as he finally
nodded, Aaron smiled, "Tomorrow is another day, I don't think I have
anything that can't be moved back except the hug duty and the birthday party
we need to stop by for tomorrow after supper so plan on me being around in
the Clan Hall all day."

"Promise?" Fred sounded lost and Aaron noticed how a few of the others were
upset as well.

"Barring an invasion or a calamity that I would be needed in the hospital to
treat patients, I promise," Aaron smiled, trying to cheer Fred up, "Hey, I
won't lie to you even to make you feel better, all I can do is say I will do
everything in my power to stay here unless lives are on the line.as I would
expect you to if the roles were reversed."

Stomach rumbling again, Aaron smiled as he hugged as many of his lovers as
he could before making his way towards the kitchen, of course he was not
expecting to be left alone which was a good thing as everyone followed him
and stared at him as he ate a sandwich or four.

"What do we do with Ichiro now?" Tim looked around the kitchen, meeting the
rest of the Clan's eyes as Aaron ate, "I mean we have a responsibility to
make sure he is going to be okay, after all, we took him into our home, in a
way I am the one responsible for him being cast adrift."

Aaron put his sandwich down and stared at Tim, trying to figure out how in
the hell he thought he could be responsible, "Tim." he said slowly until Tim
looked at him and he stared at him, "Love, you are not responsible, if
anyone is responsible it was the bastard you convicted. We really had no way
to know Ichiro was like this, remember, he hid it well for the most part. If
I had not been looking for both of their reactions by skimming their minds,
even I would not have found out about him, it's not like I routinely scan
every person I meet here in our kingdom."

Moving around the counter and pulling Tim into a hug, Aaron smiled at the
rest of the Clan, "We found out about Ichiro and we've dealt with it, let's
move on, and your right, what do we do with him, after all, you said it, we
brought him into our home." Releasing Tim, Aaron waved his hand, "Sure at
first it was until we could get him settled and make sure he wouldn't do
anything drastic, after while though, we just accepted him, almost like we
accept the security detachment that lives at the other end of the Clan
compound. If anything we should be upset that we made so light of both Shoji
and Ichiro, after all in a sense, they were trapped up here with us and we
left them hanging."

"But I told Ichiro he would never be Clan, at least until he changed the way
he looked at things. I made a right mess of that, he can never change
needing us the way I denied him, so what do we do?" Tim asked, from under
Aaron's arm before turning around so he was facing the rest of the guys.

Richard looked around at everyone as they thought things through and stepped
forward, "Well.I mean," sighing he looked away as everyone was staring at
him intently, "Aaron.you told us that only four people would ever be with
the Clan in a sexual way without becoming members, well three of them are
going to become members so do we have to count them, I mean yeah Andrew has
not become Clan yet, but he is and Tyler will be released from the
alteration cycle tonight and I already was altered, so do we have to count
the three of us, cant we add Ichiro, like Edward he will never be Clan but
yet he can get what he needs from us."

"That is taking a very literal world view from my or our comments though,"
Aaron thought about it as he cleaned up his dishes and wiped down the
counter.


Reaching over and grabbing David's hand Derrick looked seriously at Aaron,
"there are others out there that could and would be to Ichiro what the Clan
is to me, being a submissive the Clan has shown me that I don't have to be
anything but myself. The love and support all of you have given me, has let
me deal with being a submissive, realizing that for me at least." Derrick
faltered as he tried to put into words what he was feeling. Sighing and
gaining strength as David squeezed his hand, "I am submissive only in
regards to sex now, and only to those that are my lovers, all of you in the
Clan. The safety you have given me has allowed me to find myself and grow as
a person into one that is sane and happy."

Pulling Derrick over David kissed him, "In a way we have a lot invested in
Ichiro, and I'm not sure that I would be comfortable handing him over to
anther dominant, just because he will never be Clan." Shrugging his
shoulders as he looked at Aaron, "He's ours, Tim brought him here after
rescuing him." smiling at Tim, "As he should have. But we, all of us," he
waved his hand around the room, "never sent him down to the city, instead we
anchored him and his brother here and made him ours to watch out for,"
pleading with his eyes David stared at Aaron, "HE'S OURS."

Aaron glanced around the room at everyone's expressions, "Alright let's
table this until tomorrow so everyone can really think things through, there
are two parts to this as Richard pointed out, if we do this, that means in
the future, there is the possibility of letting two others in our beds
without joining the Clan." Intending to get dressed so they could leave,
Aaron smiled at Kevin and looked at Tim as he walked towards the door,
"Before any of you think David could handle another sub with my help, I
think you should know, Ichiro already has a fixation on you Tim," cocking
his head as he thought about it, "Beside's me, he is also fixated on you Xon
for some reason, so if you can't live up to being a dominant, where he is
concerned, this whole discussion is moot."

Kissing Kevin and smiling over at Fred and pulling him into a hug with a
huge grin on his face, "Well Mr. Healer, Sir, since you grounded me, you'll
just have to help Kevin out, porting me around, so hop to it, time to get
dressed, guys." Giggling at the look on Fred's face, Aaron walked out of the
dining area and crossed the lawn, entering the house.

Ten minutes later, Aaron smiled as he walked out of his bathroom fully
dressed and found Fred sitting on his bed already dressed, sitting next to
him on the bed as they both watched Kevin dress in the closet, Aaron kept
sneaking glances at Fred before finally placing and arm around his lovers
shoulder, "What's wrong, Fred?"

Leaning into Aaron, Fred placed his head on Aaron's shoulder, "I was really
scared, then I was mad and upset and wanting you to do things my way, a way
that would make sure you did not take any chances, but if you did what I
wanted, then what about the others out there like me that would never get
rescued, that would never be given the chance to dream and belong like I do,
like we do now." Looking up at Aaron, Fred looked so sad, "I'm sorry."

"There is nothing to be sorry for, Fred, when someone you love is hurt or
you think they need to be protected, instinct tells you to protect them,
what you have to do is to remember that you control your instincts, not the
other way around," Aaron pulled him into a hug as Kevin hopped on one foot
putting his shoes on, placing his head against Fred's he whispered, "I love
you Fred," pulling Fred tight again before releasing him as Kevin walked out
of the closet ready to go, "I'll try to remember in the future to explain
things a little more thoroughly, so you don't worry so much, I have this
nasty habit of forgetting, not everyone thinks things through in the manner
I do, so they don't know what I'm doing."

Smirking at the thought that popped up in his head as Richard walked in
dressed for the trip, "You know, maybe the two of you need to shag Edward
silly while I'm talking to his grandmother, Richard and I can keep his
family busy long enough for you guys to tire him out, I mean really, these
outsiders get tired after a measly four times." Laughing, Aaron stood up and
pulled Fred up from the bed as all three of them walked over to Richard, "I
mean really, where's this so called staying power of youth that everyone
talks about."

Giggling, Fred looked at Kevin and winked, "I'm in for at least three times,
how about you?"

Laughing, Kevin shook his head and grabbed Richard who was making moaning
and slurping noises in between laughs and messed up his hair, "Do you have
any idea what to do about Edward's situation?"

"No clue," Aaron shrugged as they entered his office and Kevin brought the
gestalt generator online, "The only thing I can think of is to either find
him a lesbian to marry, and they both live closeted lives or building him a
cyborg woman to marry, and eventually having her have an accident and using
the incubators so he can have kids."

Sitting down in the chair and drawing power to replace his reserves, Aaron
thought things through out loud, "The problem is what he really wants more
than anything is to be Alteran, but if he goes though the process and is
altered, well he is going to be the monarch of another kingdom, not part of
ours."

Nudging Aaron's legs apart Richard moved between them so he could sit on one
of Aaron's legs and asked, "Is there a law or something that says if a
person is altered they have to be part of the kingdom that they have to stay
here?"

Searching his memory, "I don't think so," Aaron looked up at the ceiling,
"But is it fair to Edward or even us if we alter him and in a sense tell him
he can't really be part of us. Or that he can be part of our lives but only
like he is now, on the weekends, doesn't he deserve around the clock love
and support. I can tell you from experience that waking up alone each
morning is not something you can get used to."

"Maybe what we need to do is find Edward a Tyler of his own, except when
they have children we give them the offer to become Alteran's," Kevin threw
that idea out for discussion.

"I know the way Edward thinks, the only way that will work is if we take his
memories away of his love of us, are you really willing to do that, look at
what it could do to him." Richard looked at Kevin sadly, "What he found here
with the clan is what makes him the leader he is going to be; how can we
take that from him, he'd be in misery."

"That is NOT an option," Aaron stood up, offering the gestalt power to
Kevin, "This is another issue that will not be decided right now without
some thought, and some research in the Core over on Altare Prime, to see if
anything like this came up before and what they decided to do." Glancing at
the serious faces, "Not that I'm going to rely on what they did, its more
that I want to know what issues they considered before making their
decision, before I make mine. If I agree to alter Edward, I would want to
make sure it would not come back to bite us in the ass down the road and
have your family devastated over this, right now, Edward is only asking that
we take the samples that I harvested and use them to create a son of the
Clan, so he feels he belongs to us. We'll figure something out he can not
only live with but embrace, just not this week."

Smiling, Aaron motioned to Kevin, "Alrighty, time to make some security
guards change their shorts," laughing, he smirked, "My kind sir, if you
would, the front entrance to the palace is looking a little boring right
now."

Giggling madly, Kevin smiled as he pulled power into himself as the others
reached over and touched him, "Operation startle, in three."

A moment later the four of them disappeared in a shower of shimmering
sparkles.

Editors section:

RadioRanchers Musings: My goodness, I certainly hope they find a way to help
Edward. I think I might have said that before, of well, so be it. They were
my words, so I'm not plagiarizing anything. I am glad that Ichiro will be
happier. I wonder how long it will be before the Shaolin will have their DNA
repaired so they can come into their gifts?

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher