Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:48:25 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: teep chapter 61

Chapter 61

"Welcome love, I am proud of you Tyler Stranton, "Aaron smiled as he opened
his eyes and saw to his horror something had gone horribly wrong, a black
and silver Dragon launched out of the hole in the courtroom towards the
sounds of fighting and he saw the MCA's busy removing everything from
downtown. Tyler's pathed, "What the bloody hell?" summed it up perfectly
Aaron thought.

"What the hell?" Aaron got out before Judge Johnson yelled out, "On behalf
of the judicial system of Bixby county, I surrender, for the love of God, I
surrender."

Aaron's head twisted to the side as a sheriff called out on the tail end of
Baxter, "On behalf of the Bixby County Sheriff's department, I surrender."
Looking at the form in the opening in the wall, an enraged Pat who was once
again pulling energy into plasma and it was taking shape; he thought, oh
shit, before rushing over and grabbing Pat's shoulder draining the energy
into his own body. "Pat, control yourself love, before you incinerate
everyone in sight." As Pat was startled out of his rage, Aaron thought to
himself, anger management classes for all his lovers would be needed if this
kept up.

Shuddering as he felt the energy and rage drain away from him, Pat turned,
trying to capture the last bit of righteous anger that was being drawn away
and found himself face to face with Aaron, then his words registered, and he
slumped in the arms of his lover, "Sorry had a slight flash back to when you
were hurt, I hope I didn't hurt any of our people, I don't think I could
handle that."

"They had the good sense to port out of the area, "Aaron told him, as he
looked out the hole in the side of the building before looking into the
center of town and the empty buildings, "Whoever is releasing he MCA's
please place them in standby." Shaking his head in amazement, Aaron turned
to face the frightened people, scared shitless was more like it, he thought,
facing Baxter and the sheriff he tilted his head, "I was going to go on this
long rant about this is the third time someone from my Clan had to come to
this part of the state and do an intervention or rescue, what the hell is
wrong with you people?"

Pointing to the judge, Aaron sighed, "I know there is good in this state, in
the people here, Judge Johnson is proof of that...But damn the bad is really
outshining all of you." Still sighing on and off, Aaron looked back at the
hole in the wall, "Dammit, now I have to fix the wall." Looking at the
ceiling  he extended his mic but did not activate it, instead pathing at the
same time he spoke out loud, "Tim, Pete could you port over one of the MRB's
we have a hole in the wall to Judge Johnson's courtroom that needs to be
fixed."

By this time, all the other judges including the ones from superior court
the next floor up were standing and gawking at the wall or lack of it as
they gathered to find out what the hell was going on. Baxter approached
Aaron hesitantly as he watched this strange device appear and start to close
the hole up from the outside in, and the wonderful thing was the areas being
replaced looked like they belonged. "I'm truly sorry Aaron; this whole thing
blew up out of proportion too quickly, on everyone I think."

"Baxter, if the good decent people of this state don't take it back and
soon, this whole place is going to look like Iraq does now, or a lake, one
of the two," Aaron looked at the hole which was almost gone as a second MRB
appeared inside the courtroom and started to replace the wall.

"Baxter, did I hear you right you surrendered to his Majesty," Frank walked
into the room and looked around, the window that used to be in the wall as
back now, the things, whatever they were, had replaced the window for some
reason, glancing along the wall, it is more likely it was because of the
architecture, the spacing of the other windows.

Baxter rounded on Frank incredulous and pointed out the window at where the
towns square and police station used to be, "Are you going to argue with
someone who can do that?"

Holding up his hands as if fending off an attack, Frank smiled, "Oh hell no,
I just wanted to make sure I did not put my foot in it, when I asked for
advice."

Aaron closed his eyes, rubbed his temples and turned around, "Advice, most
sane people after seeing what we do to those attacking us run away
screaming."

Frank laughed before leaning against the table and realized the prosecutor
was not breathing and no one seemed too worried about it as he jumped off
the table, "Yes well," he started now really off balance. "Yes well, Baxter,
I expect you will get the kids from the defendant upstairs in my court, she
was arrested again, for the third time this month for stealing, and the
politicians in their infinite wisdom and their three strikes and you're out
laws leave me no choice if she is convicted again, and I feel she will be."

"What did she steal?" Aaron wondered why he would be asking for his advice,
maybe the kids were gay he thought and he wanted him to take them hopefully
on that order.

"Food to feed her kids, she was caught stealing food again, the bad thing is
it was from a dumpster, she has tried everything to get help, and the CPS
and other services keep rejecting her, or want to take her kids instead of
actually helping her out, "Frank explained, wondering what happened to the
prosecutor as he settled down on the other table.

"I'm not sure what kind of advice I can give you, or what you want really,"
Aaron looked at the judge, half listening to him as he was listening to the
reports from Clan security and Friedrich who had responded with the Marines.

"Because if he surrendered, I have a window of opportunity to do what is
right, Hell, every time she has been in my courtroom it is for the same
thing, digging for food out of a dumpster, but the law says it is stealing.
We've failed her and many others and if we, however briefly, have suspended
the state laws, I can do what is right and keep that family together and
order some real help to be given instead of having my hands tied," Frank's
speech was intense as he looked at Aaron.

Aaron chuckled, "Well, what are you doing sitting here, go do what is right,
my people probably will be here at least until dark." Rushing out of the
room, Frank grinned, finally he would be able to do what he knew needed to
be done.

"Does that go for the rest of us, including borrowing some of your
telepaths?"

Aaron looked around to see who had asked that and saw an elderly formidable
looking woman step forward, "Yes, I guess it does."

Baxter smirked as his fellow jurists rushed back to their courtrooms and
glared at the groaning man in the doorway who was protesting.

"You can't do that, STOP...you'll screw up my record."

Pat looked depressed in Tyler's arms and Aaron could feel his downward
spiral, moving the few steps over to Pat's side, Aaron pulled him into a hug
and linked with him, "I'm not mad at you, and none of our people got hurt,
it seems you inherited my temper, Love, without my experience dealing and
controlling it. We'll get you there, don't worry." Kissing him as he smiled
he felt Pat sigh and feel slightly better, knowing that Aaron was truly not
mad at him, "Why don't you and Tyler head home, or at least to Sol Station,
use the conference room if you need to shag each other silly," he mentally
leered at him causing Pat to giggle.

Once the two of them had ported out, Aaron looked around before starting for
the door, "I think it is time I find out what the hell happened, do you want
to join me Baxter?"

Rushing to catch up, Baxter ran past the bailiff and caught sight of Aaron
going entering the stairwell, once out on the street, he followed along next
to Aaron as he approached the crowd of Marines and saw firsthand the empty
town square, along with the missing police station, well partially missing
as the jail cells were the only thing still there.

"Friedrich," Aaron asked so much, as he said his head of security's name.

"P...Your Majesty," Friedrich quickly switched over seeing someone by Aaron's
side dressed in judicial robes.

"Steven...Steven Miller," Baxter yelled out in shock, causing the person in
question to look up through the bars of the jail cell and respond with a
sneer, "So come to look at your work, I should have known you were like all
the others, locking me up instead of finding me a home."

Aaron held up his hand, not that it was needed as Friedrich was captivated
by the spectacle off to one side.

"But...Steven, how long have you been in here, I had a meeting this morning
with your case worker who told me you were loving your new family," Baxter
looked so confused.

Steven, seeing the confusion and real emotions on the judge's face, paled,
"You didn't know," he whispered as he sank to the floor, looking up through
the tears he shook his head, "I've been in here since I left your court with
CPS a month ago, at least, unlike some of the others, I haven't been used."

Baxter turned, tears streaming down his face, he was about to plead with
Aaron to get Steven out of the cell. Thinking he would have to find him, he
stared as he came almost face to face with Aaron and Friedrich, "Please,"
pointing to the cell door, "he is not supposed to be in there."

Friedrich nodded and went over to the door and stared at the lock for a
moment to get an idea on how it was put together before kinetically moving
the cylinder and popping the door, he looked back up with shock as he heard
the judge tell the teen to seek their help.

Kneeling in the dirt, Baxter looked at Steven, "Steven look at me, I'm more
sorry than you can imagine. I want you to do something..." once he saw he had
the teen's attention he jerked his head backwards towards Aaron, "I want you
to walk out of that cage and go to the King, he is standing behind me and
tell him your name and ask for asylum, we failed you, he won't."

Steven stared at the judge he had spent the last month cursing as a liar, he
heard the words, but his trust was gone, he felt lost and more alone than
when he asked for help in the beginning, staring at the judge, not moving,
he just cried as he heard the judge plead with him.

"Come on Steven, you need to say the words...Please, they can give you a
better life," Baxter pleaded before sighing; Steven was well and truly lost
right now. Standing up, he came to a decision, he had lost one of the ones
he was supposed to protect and now it was time for the system to pay, moving
around so he was facing Aaron, he cleared his throat, But Steven interrupted
him.

Looking up, Steven was willing to give it one last try, if all else failed
he would take his own life he decided, looking up with pleading eyes at
Aaron he stumbled over the words and shrugged they would do or not, "I
Steven Miller request sanctuary, Asylum, whichever works."

Aaron looked at the teen for a moment and smiled, "I am Aaron Stranton,
Prime of Clan Stranton...and all the other nifty titles that go along with
being me." Smiling at the shy smile on Steven's face as he pulled himself up
off the floor, pointing to Friedrich, Aaron grinned evilly, "That is
Friedrich or walking weapon storage unit number one, take your pick,"
getting a small laugh from the teen along with a scowl from Friedrich and a
wink, "Friedrich is going to escort you to Sol Station, the space station in
orbit to get you checked out in the med bay, from there, you can either ask
for directions to my office or a place to sleep for the night until you find
out which of the options that will become available to you you're going to
pick."

Aaron smiled as he watched Friedrich hold out a hand after opening the door
and when the teen touched him he ported them both out and up to sol station,
looking around he found Kyle and motioned him over, "Kyle, mind telling me
what the hell happened and who was hurt?"

Sighing as he would rather have Friedrich do this, nevertheless Kyle looked
around, "Well most of the guys shooting at our people were taken out with
whatever the hell Pat did, the rest folded pretty quickly, once their
weapons and shelter disappeared. Until we take a good look at their minds,
we are thinking they are part of the shadow government that is getting
desperate, losing more and more control as the President and Governors take
back control." Glancing around as most of his forces were gone with the
prisoners now, "on our side, William was injured, his hard head and a
glancing trajectory saved his life, though I expect he will be plunged into
one of those horribly confining bio-tubes you are so fond of, the rest of
the injuries are flesh wounds for the most part, one broken bone, I think
from a bad twist. Another five minutes and we will be done and gone," Kyle
looked at Aaron who looked distracted.

"Chris, how soon can you and Joe and Otto get to my office?" Aaron pathed as
he looked around, it was time to take some preventative action he thought,
as he let his eyes settle back on Kyle and Baxter, "We're done here for now,
I think."

Baxter was nervous, he wondered how many of the other cases the CPS woman
lied about in his court, "I really hate to do this to you..." stepping back at
the intense stare suddenly directed his way he gulped, "Can I borrow some
telepaths while you are still in charge," pointing to the now empty jail
cell, "Steven was not supposed to be in there, in fact according to the
report I received this morning from the case worker, he was happy and loving
every minute of his new foster home, yet he told me he never made it to the
foster home I assigned him to, he said after leaving my courtroom he spent
the last month in here...and he mentioned something about at least he wasn't
used like a lot of the other guys."

Staring at Baxter, Aaron narrowed his eyes as he thought about what was not
being said, "Kyle..."

"Yes your Majesty." Kyle stepped forward already knowing what Aaron was
about to say, and he was right for the most part.

"I'm tired of all this shit, Marines and telepaths, bring them in and
blanket this area, get with Judge Johnson here and run every single CPS
worker through the telepaths and if found wanting, drain them dry then find
the kids and rescue them, place them in one of the crèche's for now," Aaron
stared at the jail cells, some full of people, and then at the Sheriff who
was standing looking awe struck at the fact the building was gone, "Run the
telepaths through the prisons around here, same rules as New York."

"Yes you Majesty," Kyle told him as he snapped to attention, once Aaron had
ported out; he looked back at the judge and the sheriff, "how much trouble
are we going to have with the prisons and the guards?"

Aaron did not even acknowledge the extra people in his office, instead going
right to his desk and looking at the three military commanders he had asked
to meet him, "Right, this is what I want you to do; the US is fracturing, at
a slower rate than before, but it is still happening, I don't want to have
to deal with several problems I think are approaching. So I want you all to
find every single nuclear missile and use the MCA's to remove all the
fissionable material, I want those things to be nothing but semi dangerous
projectiles, while you're at it, clean out all the places they make the
material for those bombs, breeder reactors I think they are called." Sitting
down, Aaron looked across his desk at the stony faces, "if you can insert a
fatal flaw into the launch mechanism at the same time do so, I would be
happier if those missiles never flew."

Propping his face on his hands, Aaron stared for a few minutes as he thought
things through, "I hate to say this but it looks like as the country starts
to unravel, we might be able to save parts of it by bringing them into the
two territories we already have in America, so I need plans thought about,
the best ways to do that, I'm sure it will be a chaotic time and a lot of
people are going to get hurt." Bringing up a list of governors that he had
met with, the window behind him darkened and a map of the US appeared with
the sixteen states in brown, examining it, he saw several states in the
brown areas still white, "If this happens..." he thought out loud as he
stared, "Not if, more likely when it seems..." he continued to stare and think
as Chris and Joe shared looks while Otto sat taking notes.

Touching several states so they turned yellow, Aaron looked at the map again
and nodded, "This will work," pointing to the map, "Start making inroads
with the states in brown, talk to the governors, or have Bill do so quietly,
the states in yellow if worst comes to worse plan on a fast hard invasion to
secure them, if the US unravels like I think it is going to. Now that the
shadow government is coming out into the open more and more," pointing to
the map, "Well, the U.S. will, if we are lucky and prepared, fracture into
three sections, with two of them merging with our territories, we can go in
and shore up the rest of the country later if we have to." Looking back at
Chris and Joe, "the real question is, do we have enough people, and do we
have enough resources to be able to pull this off without putting our people
at risk?"

Otto looked up after studying the map he downloaded to his P.A.D.D., "NO,
not if we have to go and secure the area's in yellow," staring at the map he
frowned, "The only way this is going to work is if we get a foothold in
those states in brown and clean them up before the shit hits the fan, the
problem is that at some point, word will get out and if the shadow
government is smart, they will start the shit storm before we are ready."

"What if we fire off interdiction barriers and surround each of the states,
then go in and clean them up one at a time and merge them with the
territories once validated as clean, if we send the spooks in ahead of time
to take notes, it can go pretty fast once it happens." Joe pointed to the
map, thinking about how the Reliant was able to enclose Israel in a short
time.

"And if the spooks find kids being abused and endangered?" Chris snorted, as
he looked over his shoulder at all the people staring at them intently, "I
think we can go back to our offices and plan this out, we can come up with
several different ways to do this and let Aaron get on with his day...and
guests."

Blinking in surprise, Aaron turned his head and saw a room full of people
and blushed, he had forgotten Victoria and James were still here, but he had
not counted on all the others, `shit', he thought, as he nodded, "Get me an
update sometime tomorrow to let me know what you've come up with as problems
and we can go from there," Aaron stood, letting them know the conversation
was over. Once they had ported out, he quickly turned off the plasma and
plastered a smile on his face as he made his way over to the couch and sat
down.

"Hello, I never expected to see all of you," waving his hand towards his
desk area, "Sorry about all that...So what brings you here?" Aaron asked,
hoping to change the subject quickly, but no go it seemed.

Chairman Woo very carefully picked out his words, "Do you have plans in
place to conquer the whole planet?"

Sighing, Aaron shook his head no, "No, I don't have plans to conquer anyone,
and I don't plan to now, this is a just in case plan, that I hope never to
open up and use." Looking over his shoulder at the Earth in all its glory,
"No, let's be honest with each other at least, we all know that half of all
nuclear weapons are under the U.S.'s control, the problem is, they are on a
downward spiral, they've slowed somewhat, but the honest truth is they are
still fracturing, and the scary question is who will end up with the nuclear
weapons and will they push the button."

Glancing around the room, he decided to be utterly blunt and honest, "Two
weeks ago, if something would have gone majorly wrong, I could have just
safely grabbed my people and moved to one of my other planets; in fact that
was the plan for the past hundred or so years," Looking at Andrew he pathed,
"Well it was the other versions plans, he never wanted us to come out in the
open like we have, and only after we were off planet."

"Then I met the Brits and even included them in my plans, for if the worst
happened, I could have kept them together long enough to transplant them to
one of the worlds being opened up, and save almost all of Edward's people,"
Aaron then pointed around the room to each of them as he ended up looking at
Woo, "now though, together, we will be announcing an open immigration policy
with each of your governments and things have changed again, instead of just
up and leaving the world to its own devices if the worst happens...I have made
a commitment, all of you have made a commitment, in flesh and blood."
Looking back at the Earth and sighing, "So, if the worst would happen,
instead of going off to forget about this world and all of you, I have to
make plans to step in and invade parts of it to stabilize the U.S....stabilize
the world."

Chairman Woo sat back thinking briefly about the honesty they were being
shown, "If the worst happens before you are ready...My countries armies are
yours to command."

Blinking several times, Aaron smiled weakly, "I thank you...hopefully this
will not happen and all the planning my people do will not be used." Looking
at the Russian who was clearing his throat with a sheepish smile, Aaron
tilted his head questioning.

"You, of course, will have command of my country's army also, I know that
the way you would work it would be for a very short time before they would
be home again," President Gorbivonovich smiled, "I was also wondering
something, you mentioned something about using your devices to remove
nuclear material from the Americans' missiles, can this technology remove
the material from other areas?"

"Very easily, why?" Aaron was curious as he had not skimmed any of their
minds in several days; they had been open and honest with him, so he had
stopped doing it as a matter of principle.

"We have several areas where accidents have happened, our Chernobyl is only
the most damaging one to my people, destroying so much valuable farm land,"
President Gorbivonovich leaned forward, "What do we have to do to have you
use your technology to remove this material."

"Pete, how easy is it to decontaminate an area using the MCA's, say for
radioactive material from fallout?" Aaron pathed, as he got an image back of
Tim and Kevin filling both ends of Pat while he and Tyler watched, having
already taking their turns.

"If I had a pure sample of the material you want removed, so I can get the
quantum signature, very easy, why?" Pete replied as felt fingers distracting
him by reaching between his butt cheeks.

Laughing, Aaron sent his thanks and told them to enjoy themselves; he would
have to take a rain check as he still had people in his office at Pete's
invitation to join them, blinking as he focused on Gorbivonovich once again,
"I have been informed it is very easy, especially once we get a sample of
what needs to be removed, as for what it will cost..."

"May I make a humble suggestion," Chairman Woo interrupted, "A question
first, the plan to remove the nuclear missiles from the American arsenal,
this will take place no matter what happens in the future, correct?"

"They will be gone before tomorrow night, I'm not willing to take any
chances," Aaron stated as he skimmed Chairman Woo's mind and smiled as he
saw the suggestion.

"Then may one suggest that if no one has these weapons, it will be best for
the world, and in the interest of saving time, if the honored comrade
happened to move the mobile missiles to the sites needing clean up it would
be very easy for you to widen the area of removal," Chairman Woo said slyly,
as he glanced at his Russian counterpart.

"That would only work if all nuclear weapons were removed worldwide,"
President Gorbivonovich mused, as he looked down at the Earth, standing, he
went to the wall and looked out and down at the Earth. Muttering to himself,
"Standing here changes one, maybe it is past time to move past..." turning
around he looked back at Aaron, "My vision of a new world security council,
you would not be comfortable doing this after the way the old one treated
you, but just this once, if you look around the room, between us we have
thirty five percent of the world's population in the countries that look to
us for leadership, if we add the countries we are allies with, I believe we
can easily increase that number to fifty percent. What I am getting at is,
the leaders of the most developed nations in the world are in this room
right now. We comprise three of the five open nuclear countries, and if you
take the US out of the picture, we represent three of the four, with France
being the other."

Moving back to the couch, President Gorbivonovich glanced around to the
other leaders, "There are four other countries that we know have nuclear
weapons, and of those four, Israel is behind your interdiction barrier."
Looking at Aaron he leaned forward, "What I am being long winded about is,
if we agree to remove our nuclear missiles, we would ask that you remove all
nuclear missiles worldwide, those that have them and refuse to admit to them
will be angry but without recourse, the only one who would have a legitimate
reason to get nasty would be France, and they are compromised as you told us
the other day."

Aaron leaned back in the couch and looked at them, the question in his mind
was whether he should share with them the fact that he had already removed
the nuclear threat of France, their missiles had the fissionable material
removed and a flaw inserted in the drive chamber that would cause them to
blow up if launched, just like he planned to do to the US missiles. After
being ignored by the French president, he felt justified as he knew that
there was an active plan to use those missiles to destroy his kingdom.

Edward watched Aaron as he thought about what was proposed and in a strange
insight he figured out France was already out of the picture, smiling with
the secret knowledge of figuring it out, he glanced around trying to tone
down his grin as the others started to look at him questioningly.

Finally after several long minutes, Aaron decided on discretion for now,
"Alight, I agree, I also agree to clean up your damaged areas and to remove
the spent nuclear fuel rods of your power plants while I am at it, the last
will be a little on the tricky side as I don't want to expose the spent rods
to the air, but I can get them done easily enough." Pathing back to the
shipyard where his lovers were resting and talking after their lovemaking
session, "Can you guys start a new project for me, I need to use the MCA's
to remove all the nuclear missiles worldwide, that, and use the transporters
to remove the spent nuclear fuel rods from some of the electric plants
before dematerializing them, or maybe it would be better to use several of
the MCA's and then cannibalize them, faster that way," he thought as Pete
picked up on the idea and ran with it.

Holding up a hand to stop the question being asked, Aaron listened in as
Pete told him, "We can easily do that and I take it you want to clean up the
Chernobyl site, that is the only place I can think of where your earlier
question would come into play. Do we need to do this covertly?"

"No, well not in China, Britain or Russia, and it will be an easy full
removal of the missiles in those countries," Aaron told him, as he saw that
they were powering up the system, and to his surprise, a map popped up that
he saw through Pat's eyes with every nuclear weapon on it. "Start with the
countries we know will be safe and schedule the others to be taken out just
like the Americans are going to be, and French were, starting once it gets
dark wherever they are."

"What do you want to do with the mass we get, like for the ones taken from
the ones willing to give up the weapons and such," Pete asked as he then
asked, "And when do you want to us to start?"

"Start with those countries that are not supposed to have them anyway,
covertly if you can, the rest, give them an hour to let their military's
know what is going on. As far as the mass goes, can you keep track of it, or
do we need to create separate blocks, I was thinking maybe use the mass to
create items on the immigration list," Aaron told them as he felt a
metaphorical hand caress his crotch and sent this laughter, "Enough of that,
I am not about to pop wood here in front of all these people, I still have
Edward to talk to and then I can go home and all of you can try your best to
take care of it, I've been saving up all day." Laughing as he broke the link
Aaron smiled.

"Sorry about that, but I was talking to Pete and some of my Clan," Aaron
kept the smile on his face as he looked around, "Here is what we are going
to do, right now, Pete is starting with the nuclear weapons in countries
that say they don't have any, well if it is night time there that is, in
about an hour, he will be ready to move on to your countries and remove your
missiles, once the missiles are gone, he will go back and start with the
spent fuel rods and end up tomorrow afternoon cleaning up any contaminated
sites, you just have to get a list to him so he knows where to look and what
for."

"By breakfast tomorrow, our breakfast that is, there will not be a single
nuclear weapon left on Earth," Aaron grinned at their shocked expressions,
"France will have their nuclear missiles made harmless, they'll have the
fissionable material removed, and a flaw inserted into the drives that will
cause them to fail if launched, by the time we go to bed tonight, America
and France will be at the same stage."

"On a separate subject, all the mass we recycle will be used towards
creating items for those wanting to immigrate; I'll just have to check to
see how much mass ends up being taken and what item off the list we can
recreate." Aaron smiled before standing so he could say good bye, "I told
Pete to give all of you an hour to get together with your military and warn
them what was going on, so they don't panic."



Lying back on the couch and closing his eyes as he rubbed his temples, Aaron
opened an eye when he heard the door close, turning his head he saw Toshi
standing there nervously staring at Edward as he started to get undressed.
Chuckling, Aaron closed his eye and relaxed, "Make yourself comfortable
Edward."

Chuckling as he folded his clothes and moved over to Aaron and started to
unbuckle Aaron's pants so he could undress him, "I plan to, I never imagined
how uncomfortable clothes are until I started being around all of you
lot...budge up so I can pull your shorts off."

Doing as asked, Aaron pulled his polo up and over his head before kicking
his deck shoes off and sitting up, looking over at Toshi who was staring
intently at him, he grinned as Edward went over to one of the chairs and
curled his legs under him as he grinned over at Toshi challengingly.

Pointing to one of the chairs across from the couch, Aaron smiled, "If you
are not comfortable without clothes on that is perfectly fine, sit and
relax." Looking at Edward he smiled, "Is there a reason that you brought
Toshi with you for your talk?" what he really meant was is there a reason
you brought an outsider into his office when he planned to ravish your body
until you passed out from Cumming so many times.

Gulping as his body reacted to the look Aaron gave him, Edward nodded his
head with a grin, rearranging his hardness so he was more comfortable and
grinned wider at Toshi's indrawn breath, seeing him hard and very erect.
"Toshi and I have been discussing things; mostly he is very good at putting
together small bits of unrelated information and coming close to the actual
facts, he was secretly hoping that his cousin would be unacceptable so he
could fill the spot."

Aaron looked over at the other chair and noticed Toshi had gotten undressed
and was also very hard and shyly gazing at both their naked bodies. Groaning
in frustration, Aaron looked at Edward, "You know, for teasing me like this,
knowing I can't do anything about it, I should declare you bottom as
punishment. If we did not have a guest, I would throw you over the back end
of the couch and exhaust you." Shaking his head as Edward's grin just got
bigger he looked at the straining and twitching Toshi's leaking cock was
doing, "it is not fair to Toshi, what you're doing, Edward," the last was
said sternly wiping the grin off Edward's face.

Aaron skimmed Toshi's thoughts and found him to be lost in need to be
touched for the second time in his life, this time he wanted the touch to
actually get him off instead of just measuring him. Glaring sternly at
Edward which caused him to fidget and look down, Aaron sighed, getting up,
he moved over and stood to one side of Toshi's chair and gently captured his
face and kissed him, making sure he kept turned so Toshi could not grab him.
Kissing Toshi with all his being, he smirked as Toshi stiffened and screamed
into his mouth as he fired off his load.

Moving over to Edward, Aaron reached over and placed a hand on Edward's chin
and brushed his mind lightly against Edward's, "That was not fair to Toshi,
Love, it bordered on being cruel," seeing he did have the best intentions,
Aaron sighed as Edward let the tears out, he felt miserable after looking at
it another way. "I know you did not mean for it to be that way, but you need
to remember to make the decisions with the big head not the little one,
remember all my lessons on thinking things through, Love," Aaron leaned over
and kissed Edward gently before pulling him out of the chair and taking him
back to the couch, snuggling Edward in front of his chest tightly.

Toshi finally came down from the incredible orgasm, the first thing his mind
screamed at him as he was able to think again was he came that hard and
intense from a simple kiss, glancing down, he was covered in seed, his seed,
more than he had ever produced before. Smiling and looking up, he noticed
the towel in front of him and the sad look on Edward's face as he was
cuddled from behind, it was evident that Edward had not had release, unsure
what he was supposed to do, he asked, "Do you not wish to find release?
Should I be the one kissing you now?"

Aaron smiled round Edward's head, "I'm fine Toshi, I can wait until I get
home one of my lovers will help me out."

Not understanding, Toshi looked at Edward, "Should I help you out, Edward?
But...you've gone soft did I miss it or...something is wrong."

Edward smiled and shook his head no, "That's alright Toshi, I owe you an
apology, I'm really sorry for starting something that was not fair to you."

"I do not understand, I truly enjoyed what happened, I have never had such
an experience to fire my seed so hard and so much by a simple kiss," Toshi
shook his head, "You have nothing to apologize for, do you?"

"But I do, Toshi, I started something that you could never truly be part
of...and that is not fair to you, I should not have teased Aaron like I did,
not with you in the room...it put both of you in a bad position," Edward felt
Aaron grip him tighter and melted in his arms knowing that he had just been
foolish, but was still wanted, he knew that because Aaron was still hard and
holding him so tight, he could feel the love from him.

"I truly do not understand, Edward," Toshi looked at his counterpart and
friend then to Aaron.

"No sex outside the Clan, Toshi, and being an honorary Clan member, those
who are allowed to share themselves with us, as we share ourselves with
them, the rule affects them also," Aaron smiled, "What Edward started could
have resulted in the two of us having sex and the possibility of you being
drawn in, thus breaking the Clan law," he decided phrasing it like that was
the best way of Toshi understanding why it was wrong.

"Oh," Toshi said, as he looked around the room thinking about what Aaron
said, "I truly want what my cousin is being offered the chance of gaining;
my father would never entertain the idea of me taking that spot,
unfortunately. But I desire the chance to join with you."

"Both of you were talking about this and looking at it from different
cultural perspectives," Aaron hugged Edward, "You see, if Edward did create
a clan, a clan that would give him the best of all worlds as far as he is
concerned, our gifts, his kingdom and our bodies, as he already has our
hearts." Aaron felt the burst of love and pride coming from Edward, "But the
thing is, you have no idea about our culture, Edward does, and is more than
willing to not only adopt it, but has in a sense been living it, you, on the
other hand, have no true idea what it means to be Alteran."

Sensing Toshi was about to argue with him, Aaron held up Edward's hand to
stop him and giggled quietly at Toshi's expression, "One of the reasons why
the candidates are spending the next few days with the Shaolin on the
Station, after Wednesday they will interact with the Clan for the rest of
the two weeks, while in my kingdom, they will get to know us and we them.
One thing we noticed with Ichiro was a cultural problem; tell me Toshi, you
have a long tradition of the ruling class, any noble class really, of having
a mistress, and going so far as having children with them. How do you plan
to handle that when you are confronted with the new culture you want to join
that tells you it can never happen, how are you going to deal with
connecting to a female as you are one of those genetically that likes both,
how will you deal with it when you are married with no hope of
divorce...ever?"

Sensing Toshi's confusion, "Remember when Edward scanned you the other day,"
getting a slow considered nod, he smiled, "There are a total of eight gene
clusters that determine one's sexuality, all eight you are gay, at five you
can go either way easily, anything less than four and you would experiment
most likely but would truly be happier with a female."

"And this test Edward ran on me, how many clusters came back?" Toshi asked,
stiffly.

"Five of the eight came back, so you are in the midpoint as far as sexuality
goes, we want to make sure you are going to be comfortable with the life
changing decision you are going to make if this happens like you want it to,
and I want to make sure you are going to be comfortable with our culture
that you would be asked to follow," Aaron picked up on the slight thoughts
of rejection and smiled as he held Edward, "This is not about accepting or
rejecting you, this is about making sure you come to ask for this with the
full knowledge of what would be required." Changing the conversation, also
confusing Toshi in the process, "have you talked to Ton, your cousin about
this, for all we know, he is being asked to do something he does not want
any part of, or he hates, he might even already have someone in mind that he
planned to spend his life with."

He had never considered that, Toshi looked out the wall to the earth below
and thought about things, he needed to speak with Ton, turning back, he
noticed the surprised expression cross Edward's face and heard a soft moan,
suddenly he realized Aaron must have found his way inside Edward, most
likely by accident by the way both of them looked, glancing at Edward he
noticed that he had suddenly become very hard and moist. Reaching for his
clothing he picked it up, if he was going to visit with his cousin, chances
were great that he was without clothes, "You have given me a lot to think
on, before I can go further with my questions, I need to take your advice
and talk to my cousin," Smiling, Toshi stood and bowed his head before going
over to the door slipping out, making sure the door was closed behind him.

Aaron, picking up on the panic from Edward, whispered in his ear as he
started to thrust in and out, "I know it was an accident, but now that Toshi
left us, I plan to shag you silly," Grinning as he reached around and ran a
finger across Edward's leaking cock head, applying pressure and stimulation
to the sensitive head, he grinned and lightly brushed his mind against
Edward's as he groaned loudly in pleasure.

Cleaning the cum off his hand with his tongue, Aaron grinned as he looked at
Edward who was catching his breath after his third load, Aaron had stopped
after Edward came the third time, not wanting to tire him out too much,
after all, they still had to talk about things. Smirking as he walked into
the bathroom and got a wash cloth to clean Edward up with, Aaron went back
and gently washed him before sitting back down and pulling Edward around so
his head was laying on his own washed lap, "Able to think clearly again,
without the need for sex clouding your judgment?"

Edward rolled over and felt the still hard cock brush his cheek, knowing
better than to comment on it as he had firsthand experience that Aaron was
more than ready to go again, "I think so, is there something wrong with me,
I mean, I have never acted so blatant before, not around someone like Toshi
who I know is an outsider, bloody hell I would never have gotten naked with
him in the room before and stripped you like that."

"Being oversexed, according to the outside world, is one of our traits,"
sighing, Aaron looked down at Edward, "How much have you found out about
your grandfather's family history, did they share any of what we discovered
last Wednesday?"

Scrunching up his face, Edward shook his head no, which ended up whacking
his cheek against something still hard, "they mentioned a few things about
the crown and I came to my own conclusions, nothing else, other than having
some health issues quietly fixed that is."

"Do you remember my interest last week in your grandfather's crown?" Aaron
asked staring into Edward's eyes and seeing the slow nod, "The mystery that
is that crown starts around two thousand years ago, roughly, that is."

"Roughly two thousand years ago, there was the start of a great famine in
parts of China, a place where twelve of Clan Shaolin had settled to prepare
and build an army, an army to be used by the king of Altare in times of
great need," Aaron noticed Edward staring at him intently before sitting up
so he could face Aaron. "During this time, they had to come up with a
procedure to lock away our natural born gifts to save their sons' lives,
this was the only way they felt they could save their sons and keep with
their mission to build an army to be used by the King when the time was
right."

"Both of us had lost track of each other, and what was common knowledge,
faded away, to be discovered by accident when I got curious about the
Shaolin, there was something about them that did not sit right with me."
Aaron got lost in thought, "I spent some time in the Core and discovered
that the Shaolin were actually the descendants of twelve Alterans from clan
Shaolin going back over four thousand years ago. I listened to the first
Shaolin as they recorded their words and their plan in the archives, and I
listened to them tell me that after their plans had been set and everything
was running as it should, they would kill themselves for their crimes,"
Aaron faced Edward with a haunted look on his face, "I held one of our own
in my arms as he died, he had refused treatment as was his right, as a
descendant of my Clan."

"His last recorded request as the keeper of the Shaolin chronicles was to
welcome our lost sons home, and we did as he asked. We welcomed our own back
home," Aaron finished the first part of the explanation as he turned and let
his eyes focus on the Earth outside the station, "To make a long tragic
story short, during the time they tried to lock away our gifts, without
damaging themselves too badly, so that it would be a simple matter for us to
repair what they did to themselves, they experimented several times until
they got it right. And those seven people that were damaged, eventually made
their way out into the world, they had volunteered to be experimented on,
but still, they felt that instead of staying where they were a constant
reminder of what they had fallen to, they would leave, after the procedure
was perfected they left and eventually one would assume, they married and
had children your way."

Looking back at Edward, "What this all boils down to, Edward is simple, you
are a descendant many generations removed from the Shaolin, that crown was
the key to my curiosity." Aaron smiled, "We've gotten very far off topic for
your original question, let's leave the answer to your question of being
oversexed as a natural part of what makes you...well you. But it does give me
the opening I needed to talk to you about your options, I have been putting
you off because I thought you were doing all the research on clans and were
leaning in that direction, come to find out it was your father and
grandmother," Aaron laughed, "That is what happens when you make
assumptions, and the reason why I've been putting off having the
conversation with you about having a son with you and the rest."

Edward stood and started pacing, "I'm confused, I was beginning to wonder
then I overheard father scheming about starting a clan with me as the leader
and thought the reason you had not talked with me yet was that you were
preparing plans, plans that would allow me to join you," stopping and
sighing, he chuckled, "And you thought I was the one coming up with the
plans...So where do I go from here?"

"If you could keep your kingdom, be a king to your people and be Alteran at
the same time," Aaron pulled Edward back down onto the couch, "Is that
something you would truly want?"

Without any hesitation, Edward smiled, "YES..." before laughing in happiness,
"Do you even have to ask me that?"

"Well, actually, yes I do," Aaron grinned, "Now that that is out of the way,
we just need to come up with the answer to what we are going to do about the
clan proposal your grandmother and father came up with...Hmmm..."

"You've had a thought about that," Edward looked at Aaron, wondering what
new miracle he would pull off now, all he cared about was that he was happy
and his mind was screaming in joy.

"Yes..." Aaron slowly said, as his thoughts settled down, "We are going to
have to do both, that is the only way to keep your kingdom from being
absorbed, this would allow your son to inherit the title." Smiling, Aaron
nodded it would work he thought. "Your sons Edward will be the beginning of
the new clan...not you. That way, the linage is not broken and gives us time
to create the clan numbers needed."

"We still need to work on the clan charter, it will need to be done and
finished before your son is born, as it will go into effect with his birth,
so we have some time, not a lot, mind you, but we do have time," Aaron
frowned as he looked at the door, "Now the question is, what is up with
Toshi and what do we do about him...Do you know why he is so set on having sex
with you and forming a clan?"

Edward glanced at the clock and sighed, moving over, he started to get
dressed, "I think the major part of it is his whole life has been
controlled, he has not been allowed to truly be himself or make a decision
on his own." Puling his shirt over his head he stuffed it in his trousers
thinking about what he knew, "I think he is feeling lost and unloved, from
what I have gathered, his whole life has been about duty, and there does not
seem to be any love in his life at all." Slipping on his shoes he frowned,
"I think he is desperate for love, even more so than I was before I met
you."

"Unfortunately, I have to go, as much as I would like to stay here or even
go back home with you, I have things I have to do," Edward smiled, "How much
of this should I share with my grandmother?"

"They only know part of the history of how you are connected to the kingdom,
you can share the part about the new clan and whatever you feel comfortable
with sharing about Toshi," Aaron smiled as he got up and went over and
kissed Edward gently. "I'll see you Wednesday for the announcement." Hugging
Edward on the way to the door he opened it and waved as Edward started for
the security office and a ride back to the palace.

Moving back to his desk, he brought up the gene maps of the pups so he could
get some work done on them before the meeting after supper, he had not
gotten very far when he heard a hesitant knock at his door. Looking over, he
smiled at the nervous teen in his doorway, "Hello Ru, come in, we can move
over to the couch, I think we will be more comfortable over there." Setting
the simulation to run with the changes he made to the genome, Aaron left his
desk and settled on the couch next to Ru, pulled him close and hugged him,
"So what's on your mind?"

Ru smiled as he felt loved and wanted as he curled up next to Aaron on the
couch, "I was wondering something, tomorrow we are to go down to Altare for
the next part of our orientation, we have been told when this happens we can
expect to spend our days outside of class with members of your Clan as they
get to know us while we get to know them, what will we be doing during this
time?"

Aaron felt there was more behind the question than was being asked, "Well,
all of you are going to be given the opportunity to spend part of your day
tagging along with one of the Clan, so you can see firsthand what we do, how
we do our jobs and interact with the people in the kingdom. I would think
most of you would use this time to evaluate our lives to see if you feel you
would fit in." Smiling, Aaron chuckled, "I think most of you have no idea of
what we do or what opportunities will be open for you now, most of you will
also get the opportunity to walk on one of the other worlds, to look up into
the sky and truly know you are no longer on Earth." Hugging Ru tightly,
Aaron grinned at him, "after another week of being around us day in and day
out, we will sit down again, this time I will be asking if any of you wish
to go back to Earth, and for those that do, a genetic deposit would be made
if needed, for those that don't, we will sit down and discuss what will
happen next, and after a visit to the med bay all those left will be taken
to our new home world. Those of you wanting to join with us, to try for the
chance to be Clan will then be moved in into the Clan compound and you will
eat sleep and work with us side by side, only then will the evaluations
start."

"I noticed that there are only nine Russian candidates left, sometime this
weekend one of the Russian teens went home, was that at his request?" Ru
asked, the true reason he came was to make sure they were not going to send
him away early.

Picking up on the thought, Aaron smiled, "The boy in question, Stefan, went
home yesterday. It seems he had a boyfriend at home and only volunteered
because he thought they had broken up, and he found out they had not broken
up and realized he would not be happy with us." Chuckling at Ru's relief, he
wondered if Ru would choose the Shaolin over his Clan, after all it was
something very familiar to him in a way.

"Thank you for telling me this, I was worried we were being tested and found
wanting, "Ru smiled as he looked over at the hologram of a DNA strand above
Aaron's desk, "May I stay and watch what you are doing, I promise not to
bother you."

Giving Ru one last hug before standing so he could move to his desk, Aaron
grinned, "I have no problem with that, you can even sit in on the meeting
that I'll be having in a few minutes, it might peak your interest to see
some of what we are doing."

Halfway to his desk, Mark, along with Damien and his pup walked in, Aaron
took the time to greet his lovers properly, with several long kisses, giving
the pup a scratch behind the ears he grinned as they settled around the
desk, Aaron pointed to the first simulation, "the simulations is almost
done, did either of you bring Donny with you, what about Bruce?"

"Donny had to stop at the station park with Dante so he could lift a leg on
one of the bushes," Damien smirked, Lady took care of that before we left,
he giggled when his wolfhound pup licked his face as she scrambled to get
under his chin to look over his shoulder.

Laughing, Aaron waved at Donny as he and his Mastiff walked in, "And Bruce?
Has anyone heard from him since he went to the tribes to make the offer and
line up some tutors?"

"Did I hear my name being spoken," Bruce laughed as his older pup walked at
his side calmly, once he sat down on the small couch near Aaron's desk
Ooljee climbed up and settled down next to him.

Grinning, Aaron looked at Damien having fun and smiled, "Damien if you would
link with Lady and have her settle down in your lap we can get started."
Once all the pups were calm and settled down, Aaron started, "I have looked
at the canine genome and found eight areas we can safely tweak, these eight
areas are the same, no matter what the breed." Pulling his list up and
placing it on the monitor he smiled as they looked behind him, "The first
thing is there is a way to easily double their life spans. The next three we
will defiantly do is to increase their stamina and strength and after that,
give them the ability to see in all color ranges like we do. These four are
definite, besides correcting the DNA damage from centuries of inbreeding,
the question is do we want to tweak them any more than that?"

Mark looked at the DNA profile and the list Aaron had come up with, "How
about increased resistance to disease, that would be handy, this group here
you have highlighted looks like it handles the immune system, so it would be
beneficial to have a stronger immune system, especially if the Beastmaster
is on a long range patrol, out of touch with the beast healers."

"Good point," Aaron touched several places on his desk and started to change
the DNA string hovering above his desk, once the changes were in place he
smiled, "I forgot to mention that once the changes happen that they will be
dominant replacing the gene clusters on any offspring with the new changes."

Bruce sat back and smiled as Donny looked carefully at the list then back at
his pup deep in thought, he was planning on acting as advisor for the group,
he wanted Donny to shape the new clan, he already knew there was no way it
would not be a clan, modeled on the Shaolin most likely.

"If we do these changes, are we locked in, if in the future we find a
problem that needs correcting?" Donny asked, as he considered the changes
being discussed, the last three did not look like they were really needed,
not if they could correct all the inherited genetic flaws.

Considering the question and the thoughts behind it, Aaron made a decision,
"If we, or in this case, the three of you would find a problem that one of
the final three alterations would fix, we could do them...But only if they've
not gone and sired pups, otherwise we start getting into constant
alterations on top of alterations in differing generations."

Nodding he understood, Donny looked at Damien who smiled at him, "Then for
now, unless we find a problem, this list is more than I hoped for and good,"
sitting back next to his pup he smiled as he scratched between Dante's ears.

"Tyler came up with an idea while visiting a pet shop the other day; he
stopped to look at the puppies and his mind flashed back at the Beastmaster
movie we all watched." Smiling as he had their attention, Mark explained his
conversation with Tyler, "He suggested instead of the annoying rats that Dar
had, that we keep it simple, there are plenty of toy breeds of dogs for the
canine side, and for those who eventually chose cats, there are mini house
cats. He thought it would make things simpler if the Beastmaster teams had
only three main animals to worry about, horse, bird and dog is what he was
thinking."

"Birds..." Donny trailed off as he stared out the wall, "I never gave them
much thought but I can see that they would be helpful as scouts...eyes in the
sky."

Aaron leaned back in his chair and gave it some thought, "Don't get your
hopes up yet, I agree it might work out, I would have to study the genetic
maps of the predatory birds first to find out if they are even possible to
tweak or control, as I've never had any experience working with birds other
than poultry."

"Hawks and falcons are very easily trained, I have done so and have my own,
even my own Aerie or at least I did have before I volunteered," Ru popped
his head up over the end of the couch where he had been listening in
fascination to what they were discussing.

Aaron turned to Bruce and smiled as Damien looked startled and stared at Ru,
not knowing he was in the room, "Dogs or Cats?" Damien asked finally before
motioning him to come over.

Shyly walking over thinking he had done something wrong, Ru looked confused,
"I don't understand, what about Dogs or Cats?"

Sighing in frustration, Damien slowly tried again, "Which do you feel more
comfortable with dogs or cats, we already know about the birds..." thinking
about it he thought he'd better ask, "Do you know how to ride a horse?"

Still confused, Ru took the empty chair, "If I had to chose, then dogs, and
I don't know how to ride a horse, though I know there are special saddles
falconers use if they ride."

Damien looked at Aaron for a moment, then to Mark, "Is he planning on trying
to join with the Clan or something else?"

"The Clan, I think, though he is and has been fascinated by what we were
discussing, has Donny asked you anything about clans, is he still thinking
he wants to build a clan not a guild," Aaron asked as he smiled at Ru before
asking out loud, "Ru, would you be willing to work with Damien tomorrow to
go arrange for genetic mapping of several species of birds of prey?"

Smiling, Ru nodded his head, "I would be honored," he sat there grinning.

"So should we stop on our way back and pick up Ru a pup too?" Mark grinned
at Ru's shock.

Laughing, Aaron pulled out the clan card from his desk, "If he wants one I
don't see a problem with it, you might want to make sure he knows what he is
getting into first. Why don't you take him and Donny to the park and let him
know about the project, we need to head home in about half an hour, that
will give me just enough time to talk to Bruce about his recruitment
attempts, Loves don't push him towards the Beastmasters, if pressed, tell
him we could use another clan member that is willing to train the
Beastmasters, and whisper in his ear that this would be a way to show
leadership skills."

Once the three happy teens and bemused candidate had gone, Aaron glanced
over at Bruce, "How was your trip to the tribes?"

"Interesting, I met with the elders of several tribes, I have another
meeting set up where the elders of the nations will ask questions, more
likely after that they will ask to meet with you, "Bruce settled back as
Ooljee moved so he could put his head ion Bruce's lap, "I did get the
agreement of several of the best trackers in the nations to teach our
students, the price was not so much steep as interesting. They agreed to
fifteen students each for first choice of land on the new world you are
willing to set aside for the nations to move to, that and the inclusion of
six horses and one hundred head of livestock of their choice."

Aaron stared at Bruce like he lost his mind; tilting his head, Aaron felt
like sticking his finger in his ear trying to clear it out, "They want
what??"

Chuckling Bruce enjoyed Aaron's expression for a moment, "What they want is
first choice of land on the new planet, and the livestock and horses to work
the farm, they don't want money or anything like that, just a new home and a
new start."

Aaron stared a moment longer before pulling up one of the worlds on the
terminal and glanced down at the desktop, "Are they wanting first choice of
the five worlds I'm opening up or were they thinking that the people of the
nations should get their own?"

"What did you originally plan when you told me to ask them about moving, I
left it open ended," Bruce shrugged as Ooljee looked up at him.

"Alright, I did have another world I was thinking about when I mentioned
that so I will leave it up to them to ask about it after my announcement in
two days," Aaron stopped as Bruce's pup got up and stared at him.

Smiling, Bruce placed a hand on Ooljee, "Will do, this little guy wants to
go visit a bush, so I will talk to you later after dinner," staying long
enough to see Aaron nod he ported out to the park and the handy bushes.

Aaron closed down his terminal, pathing a general call to the Clan that he
was making his way home, he closed his office door and ported to Centauri
station on his way home.

Editors' ramblings

RadioRanchers note: My goodness, what is going to happen to Earth? Will
there be anything left as it is? And if so, do I care. I think a good clean
up is totally in order.

I really like Toshi. I want to see him become part of the Clan.

Great chapter!

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

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