Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:29:56 -0500
From: ron <wolfwalker2@windstream.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 75

Aaron rolled over and kissed Brian.  Grinning at the sleeping form of his
lover, he reached down and found Brian was still very slick and he was able
to get all three fingers in him before replacing his fingers with his hard
cock.  Sliding inside him slowly in one smooth move, the gentle rocking
motions woke up Kevin and Aaron slowed down as he felt Kevin's fingers
exploring his backside, preparing him for his lover to make him the middle
of the sandwich.

Twenty minutes later, Aaron was sitting on the bench in the shower eyes
closed while the steam billowed around him opening his pores and sweating
out any dirt that had accumulated since yesterday.  Hearing the door open,
Aaron opened his eyes wondering which of his lovers was wanting a rematch
when he heard Brian tell Glen, "Good morning Glen, what brings you over here
this morning?"

Spotting the thatch of red hair, Aaron reached out and snagged the giggling
youngster and pulled him into his lap.  Kissing the top of his head, he
opened his mind up and felt the rest of the youngsters nervously hovering
outside the shower stall. "Brian Love, the rest of our sons are outside the
door wondering if it is safe to come in, would you invite them in?"

Looking back down at the youngster snuggled into his lap, Aaron grinned as
he heard the excited voices being escorted back in, "So little Dragon, what
brings you to our shower this morning?"

Glen looked up at his Sator and smiled shyly, "We wanted to shower and then
go flying to dry off.  Patris Doug and Kenny told us all about it.  They
told us we could only fly to dry with you."

"Oh they did, did they?" Aaron grinned as he heard the other chuckles from
his lovers.  Putting Glen back on his feet he stood up, "Well then, let's
get all of you washed so you can get to the fun part." Aaron started to wash
Glen's hair and back before washing Jay's hair.  Once finished he then
dropped to his knees and washed both youngsters' fronts thoroughly.
Standing he felt hands washing his back and grinned as he looked over his
shoulder and saw Calvin and Shane trying to reach as much as they could.

Once everyone was good and lathered up Aaron grinned as he moved to the
control panel.  "Kenny cycle in three," he laughingly warned them as he
tapped a few commands into the panel and they were half drowned with water
as the program he had created to prank Kenny started.  All too soon he heard
the shocked sputtering from the youngsters turn to laughter.  Watching the
countdown Aaron grinned, "Here we go hold on..."

Warm blasts of dry air buffeted them and within seconds the intensity
increased tenfold and the youngsters were giggling and screaming in delight
as they were blasted off their feet and found themselves floating mid air.
Amidst shouting of `Sator, we're flying' or `Sator, look at me' Aaron
enjoyed the emotional broadcasts of the youngsters before touching the
control pad and cycling down the intensity of the air jets very slowly.  All
too soon ,as far as the youngsters were concerned, the drying cycle was
finished and he let Brian and Kevin herd the youngsters into the bathroom so
they could brush their teeth before starting the morning.

Aaron let his eyes roam around the fields.  Hug duty was over for the moment
and he was watching their youngsters giggling as they helped their Patris
collect the eggs.  Joshua was cute as he struggled to fill the feeders with
Doug's help.  They were taking their chores so seriously, he thought.
Sensing a presence Aaron smiled as Thunder came over, placing her head over
his shoulder she pulled him into her body giving him a hug.  Rubbing her
nose, Aaron grinned as he ported to her back and lightly linked with her
mind as she reared up with a loud whiny and took off at a full gallop across
the pasture.  Several dozen steps later he ported both of them to the other
side of the island near the aquaculture facilities, a quick wave at Tommy as
he galloped through the tanks, he ported them to the fields to check up on
Brian.

Aaron laughed as the youngsters started for their wing and their tutor
session.  He poured some more juice as his eyes left the last of the
youngsters as they moved out of sight and fixed on Xon, "How goes discussion
with Sesek?  Have you progressed to the point we can move Volosh station
back where it belongs and open that system as the galactic contact point for
the other space-faring races?"

Xon thought about it for a moment before slowly nodding his head to the
internal debate he held.  "I believe so.  Fred told me last night he will be
ready to repair the damage to Oboxa today.  The day after she is released I
would think we would be open to a formal alliance."  Xon looked over at Tim
for a moment, before turning back, "Rolph has been a tremendous help.  At
this point everything is pretty much done.  I have held off on formal
introductions and the alliance signing until Oboxa has been treated and can
attend."

Aaron looked up for a moment as he thought things over, "We'll move the
station back to Volosh 9 tonight."  Glancing around the room and noticing
who was already gone to start their day, Aaron needed to get a move on
himself, he thought.  "Make sure they know how to get to Volosh 9.  Tim
love," Aaron glanced at his lover that was the head of their galactic
security, "could you join me for lunch?  I'd like to go over our Earth side
holdings and their status."  Getting a grin and nod, Aaron went around the
room and kissed the last of his lovers before porting out.

Five minutes later, Aaron was looking out his office window down at Earth
trying to come to several decisions as Toshi walked in for his morning meet
and greet.  Seeing Aaron standing pensively in front of the wall looking out
he slowly made his way over.  Standing next to Aaron he glanced sideways,
"The British have a saying that the Americans have copied, `a penny for your
thoughts', I believe is what they say."

Aaron chuckled as he glanced over, "Good morning Toshi."  Moving away from
the window to one of the couches, Aaron looked at Toshi as he walked over so
he could sit next to him and gave him a hug, "I'm afraid it will cost you a
lot more than a penny with all the thoughts running around in my head right
now."  Laughing he let Toshi out of the hug and twisted on the couch so he
was facing him, "I've just been going over things in my mind.  There are so
many things pulling at my time again, it will eventually calm down before
the next crisis rears its ugly head."  Changing the subject Aaron stared at
Toshi for a moment, "So are you meeting one of the clan this morning, or
were you planning on hanging around here?"

Toshi looked at Aaron for a moment, "If needed I can stay here.  I am
meeting with Derrick to go on the final walkthrough of both hospitals this
morning, then I'm not sure what we planned to do this afternoon." he trailed
off as Aaron turned away from the window so he could look at him.

Smiling Aaron went over to the couch and sat down, "No, go on with your day
as planned.  I'm hoping for a quiet morning."  Spotting Derrick along with
Ton walk in he smiled, "Good morning, Loves." Sensing the hint of surprise
and longing from Toshi at his choice of words, Aaron glanced at him out of
the corner of his eye so he could watch how he reacted to his cousin.  Not
seeing any jealousy Aaron smiled as Derrick kissed him, "I'm going to let
the three of you get on with your morning."  Standing up he kissed Ton then
hugged Toshi before moving over to his desk.  Once the three had left, Aaron
let his fingers dance across the terminal activating every plasma in his
office, each showing different data streams, and sat back for a few minutes
letting his eyes take in the flow of information.

Tommy walked into Aaron's office.  Noticing all the plasmas going at once,
he glanced at each of them after stopping near Aaron's desk.  Seems half of
them had updates on the colony worlds, but the one directly to the left of
him caught his attention.  It dealt with the old United States.  The four
states that were the only ones left in white, or under control of democratic
leaders, were blinking.  That alone was enough to catch his attention, but
the rumors being reported coming from those states were troubling to read.

Picking up on the direction of Tommy's thoughts, Aaron sighed, "I know.  I
sent in the spook squads yesterday, most of the rumors and such being listed
there are from their reports...I'm playing with the idea of placing an
interdiction barrier around them and ignoring them afterwards."  Twisting
his chair around so he could face the plasma, "Almost all of the criminals
and trash, for lack of a better word, moved to those four states because
they could deal with the old system.  Some of the rumors are about gangs
crossing the borders; so far nothing has happened to our people, but they
are getting bolder."

Moving over to one of the empty chairs in front of Aaron's desk, Tommy
continued to stare at the plasma deep in thought. "Maybe you should line the
border with weapon drones.  There should be several thousand left over at
the shipyards; they never were deployed."

Changing one plasma to show the hanger over at the shipyard, Aaron smiled as
he saw row upon row of weapons drones silently sitting in their racks.
Sending a few emails to Chris and Otto about the drones, and how he would
like them deployed along the border to the democratic states, he sat back
after they had been sent, "Thank you, love.  I think they might make a
difference, and surprise a thug or two. Now, what has brought you away from
your playground to my stuffy office?"

Tommy smiled as he faced Aaron, "Two things.  I saw Pavel and Darren this
morning, and I wanted to give you a heads up that they are going to talk to
you tonight about going through a bonding ceremony like you did for Shoji
and Riku.  They want a son together, to grow up with Darren and Lee's son,
and want to be bonded first.  They plan to let the recording be posted to
the system live."

Aaron grinned, "It was only a matter of time before someone would post their
bonding ceremony and, after everyone sees the recording, I bet it is only
hours before the first request comes in looking to have their love
acknowledged the same way."  He grinned at Tommy who started to fidget, "I
wonder how long it will take before all of you are asked to officiate
instead of me," Aaron ended up laughing at Tommy's blush.

Looking away for a second, Tommy finally grinned.  He could think of a few
of the teens he worked with asking him to officiate.  "Well, the second
reason I stopped by has to do with several of my guys."  Pulling his feet
under him like Aaron liked to do, Tommy looked over Aaron's shoulder at the
Earth. "They released the first of the thesis studies they have been doing
on their ocean projects, and the scientific community is in an uproar.  If
it was not for the fact they had all the video evidence to back them up I
think most of the journals would have called them liars and frauds.  None of
them are very happy.  Not to mention all the offers to work under some
doctor or another, with the thinly veiled explanation of showing them how it
should be done," he ended sounding disgusted.

Aaron stared for a minute at the plasmas ignoring the information, before
pulling up the tutor logs for anything to do with oceanography and saw the
six master level thesis papers that Tommy was talking about.  "I'm going to
read their thesis papers, but why don't you have them stop by my office
tomorrow, I'll be on Centauri station.  I'll act as their adviser for now;
we can get their masters out of the way." Grinning as he opened the first of
the papers, "Why don't you have them politely turn the offers down, well as
politely as they want to respond with I guess.  We'll handle their
doctorates in house if that is what they want to do."

Tommy hid his smirk, "That sounds like a good idea.  Eventually I would
think we could be known as the best and most exclusive university in the
universe."  Not smiling like he wanted to as Aaron pierced him with his
stare, he became horrified when Aaron told him, "Keep it up, Love, and you
will find, instead of running your farms, you are running our university
stuck in an office all day long."

Taking one last look at the horror on Tommy's face Aaron broke out laughing,
"Maybe we need to give consideration to opening our own university.  We can
set it up on one of the empty worlds...I wonder if Theo has a group of
associates that would like to move and start a new project."

While Tommy was grinning, Aaron quickly tapped out an email and sent it off
to Theo before looking through the files of the worlds in the empire to see
if one stood out to build the academy on.  Before he could get started he
was interrupted when Friedrich walked in, "Aaron, there's been an earthquake
in California; pretty severe to the point several buildings have collapsed
trapping people inside."

Head snapping up to look at Friedrich, Aaron quickly found what he was
looking for in his security chief's public mind as he contacted the OOD,
"Parkfield, California was just hit by an eight point six earthquake, which
means Fresno and surrounds have suffered a lot of damage."  Bringing
Governor Tides into the connection, Aaron nodded towards him, "Lieutenant, I
need the ready Eagles in the air and dropping around Fresno and the outer
small cities and towns.  I need accurate firsthand accounts of the damage."

Not bothering to sigh at the salute as the OOD took off to get the Eagles in
the air, Aaron turned to Bill. "Bill, I will have the Reliant back in system
shortly.  Once he is here we will use our MCA's to remove the rubble freeing
the trapped people so we can get them to the hospital as needed.  I need you
to activate all local hospitals in the area where we can send the less
critical patients to them."

"Right away, your Majesty," Bill picked up his phone and started contacting
his staff.



Richard closed his eyes for a moment as the information started to filter in
through the re-designed teaching sensor.  He had Corey help design it so he
could download knowledge and skills directly into his mind.  The only
drawback was that he had to be actually doing the work for the knowledge
that went along with it to sink in.  Sighing he looked back at the plasma
and nodded.  It was done; the requested cats for the Beastmasters had
finally been created and a full two dozen embryos were floating in the
incubator chambers happily going about cell division.

Mark looked into the lab with Andrew close behind.  Glancing around he
noticed that Richard was wearing one of the temple sensors and became
worried, "Are you okay, Richard? Maybe I should call Aaron or Fred if your
pain is bad enough to use one of the dampeners."

"Pain," Richard looked clueless for a moment before touching his head in
dawning realization.  "Oh...Um, I'm not in any pain.  This is different from
the normal sensor; this one is a teacher," he told him as he tapped it three
times to deactivate it before pulling it off and stowing it away in a case
he pulled out of his scanner's pouch pocket.

Walking in slowly, Mark looked up at the plasma and back at Richard before
whipping his head back to the plasma and the cells dividing into embryos on
the screen.  "What in the name of the winds are those?"  Moving forward Mark
looked perplexed as it sank in that Richard said something about a teacher
as he took the sensor of his temple, "And what is a teacher?"

Sighing, Richard felt Andrew's arms wrap around him from behind.  "Those
twenty four embryos are the new species of great cat Aaron asked me to
create.  Unlike any of the other great cats gestation on this new species is
going to be one hundred twenty to twenty five days, almost a good two weeks
longer than the tiger which has the longest at one hundred and eleven at
most."  Smiling at the pride rolling off Andrew towards him, Richard turned
back to Mark, "And the teacher is another modification of Aaron's sensor to
play recordings from the med bay.  I had Corey design it so I could learn at
an accelerated rate by implanting the knowledge directly into my mind while
I did the work."

Worried, Mark moved over and looked Richard over carefully before brushing
his mind against Richard's, asking to be let in.  "Please let me in, Love.
I want to make sure nothing bad happened to your mind."  Once he had been
invited in, Mark looked around and felt that nothing had changed in
Richard's mind.  Leaving with a smile he looked at the grinning face and
kissed him. "How in the world did you ever come up with the idea to build
something like this?"

Grinning as he backed into Andrew, and wiggled his bare butt against his
cousin's crotch getting the desired reaction, "Well...two things hit me as I
was cramming, trying to get as much information possible  into my head after
being declared the healer of the Kesol.  I wondered if I could merge the
tutor with Aaron's replay sensor, and when I went down to the Core and was
talking with Corey he mentioned that it sounded like what I wanted to do was
what the version 1.0 crew came up with to reprogram the brains of the
youngsters and teens we rescued.  Once Corey explained what happened I had
him reprogram one of the sensors so it could do what I wanted it to."
Moving forward after feeling something long and hard start to snake between
his legs, Richard grinned when he moved back and felt a hardness nestle
itself in his butt cheeks.

Mark stared at the plasma for several minutes as he thought through things.
Blinking several times as he considered all the ramifications, he was
brought back to the here and now by sounds coming from next to him.
Glancing over he noticed Andrew slowly thrusting in and out of Richard while
Richard was very hard and groaning in passion.  Knowing his questions were
not going to be answered until Richard and Andrew had satiated their
desires, he knelt down and took Richard into his mouth, eager to bring his
lover to completions and receive his tasty treat.

Standing back up and waiting for Richard to come down from the pleasure he
had experienced, Mark smiled as he kissed him, "Love, I have several
questions about the neat little gadget you invented." Glancing around and
seeing Andrew still inside Richard, Mark ported all three of them up to
Centauri station, Aaron's office.  "You know, when Colin finds out what
you've done he is going to be after you to not only write up your findings
and plans on how to make the teacher, but have you build several of them and
walk him through their use."

Looking down at Mark's erection, Richard slid off of Andrew and sat down on
Mark after reaching for and adjusting Mark's erection so he could slide it
inside him.  "Not going to happen."  Sighing as he slid down on the hard
shaft Richard grinned at the shocked look and quiet moan of pleasure, "I
tied this sensor to the Clan Stranton marker so only we can use it, and I
have decided all information about it is considered a Clan Secret."
Bouncing up and down slowly, Richard grinned as Mark threw his head back as
the sensations started to get to him.  Picking up the pace, ten minutes
later as Andrew had his head between their chests doing his best to swallow
him which caused him to fire off another tasty treat and clamp down hard on
Mark's hardness he was riding.  The extra pressure was all it took to send
Mark over the edge, firing his load deep inside of his lover.

Touching the drying cycle after the three of them had fun washing each other
in the shower, Mark looked over at Richard, "Can any of us use the teacher
or did you tune it to your brain alone?"

Shrugging, Richard started to strap on his scanner and P.A.D.D.  "Any of the
Clan can use it..." looking up in thought, "Well, any of us that have had our
gifts released or started puberty."  Kissing Mark and Andrew he smiled, "I
never gave it much thought as I never planned to use it past tomorrow when I
finish up my last project...Why?"

Dragging Richard over to the terminal, Mark wanted to know if his suspicions
were correct, "Log into the tutor program please, then have it list your
academic achievements."

Wondering what Mark was getting at Richard did as asked and stopped frozen
in place as the tutor listed his achievements under his name.

Richard England Stranton

Doctorate Kesol Medicine

Doctorate Genetic Engineering

Masters Exobiology

General Education Degree

Mark grinned as he nodded, his hopes when he heard about the teacher had
just been proven true. Grinning at the shocked faces of both Andrew and
Richard, he leaned over and placed his hand on Richard's shoulder grinning
when there was no movement, evidently he was still in shock.  Reaching over
he kissed Richard soundly and finally let up when he heard the moans of
pleasure.

"How...When...I never thought that would be possible," Richard finally got out
as he shook off his shock.

"Well, it seems your invention did everything you hoped for, Love," Mark
grinned before looking at Richard with a serious expression.  "After your
next project I would like to be the next to use it.  I want to get my
Veterinary doctorate out of the way as quickly as I can, that and the
genetics one like you did."

Nodding slowly, eyes still on the plasma with his achievements boldly
printed there, Richard  logged out of the tutor.  "Okay, I'll give it to you
once I finish the project with the transporter integration as a healing
device..." He trailed off as the plasma went black before blinking back with
the notification call for disaster assistance.  Taking a quick look between
Andrew and Mark, Richard ported out, destination Aaron's office on Sol
Station.  Mark and Andrew ported out following him half a second behind him.

Appearing in the situation room, the three looked around taking in the
multiple screens of data and images on the large plasmas behind Aaron.
Richard glanced at the plasma showing the damage, eyes widening in shock at
seeing the eight point six flashing next to the word epicenter meaning it
was an earthquake.  Moving to one of the empty desks he logged in, changing
several of the terminal screens to see who was responding.  Finding only the
reliant he glanced back at Aaron, "Prime, we need to bring all the scouts
back to earth.  They can use their transporters to transport the trapped out
of danger a lot faster than we can rescue them with the removal of
inorganics, less damage to their bodies besides."

Aaron snapped his head so he could look at Richard and smiled, "And we can
hold them in the buffers, releasing them in a controlled stream...Very good
idea, love."  Standing up he quickly tapped out a few commands in the
terminal causing a good section of the wall to blink and go dark before
splitting into a large number of screens as the signal went out for all Star
Scouts to respond.  After a minute or so Aaron looked at the plasma with all
the ships captains looking back worried at him, "Twenty nine minutes ago an
eight point six earthquake hit central California.  We have a large amount
of damage to deal with and quite a few people trapped." S eeing the worried
looks turn serious with concern, Aaron nodded once, "I want every single one
of you back here as quickly as you can.  Once you reach Earth orbit descend
to search grid beta and use your life form scanners and target every trapped
person you can find, then transport them into the buffers.  We can release
them slowly in the med bays after we rescue every one of them."

Aaron smiled and shook his head as they all saluted him before the star
scout fleet started appearing near Sol Station on their way to California,
muttering under his breath, "Damn pig headed military jar heads..."

Giggling, Andrew pulled Aaron around and kissed him, whispering once he let
Aaron's lips go, "They're military, Love.  Like I was told, it takes longer
to train them than normal people."

Staring at Andrew for a moment in shock, Aaron slowly chuckled as his words
sunk in before breaking into laughter.  Once he calmed down he noticed the
main plasma showed over a dozen star scouts spaced out around the epicenter
moving outwards.  Glancing to the left he smiled up at the territorial
governor, "Bill, it looks like this will be the quickest rescue on record.
I want inspectors in the affected area as quickly as we can get them there
so we can remove and rebuild all the damaged building and infrastructure."

Grinning, Bill looked into his pickup, "Aaron, this is unbelievable.  I
can't believe how quickly the rescue is going.  I'll alert all the local
hospitals on my end to prepare for any injured."

"Bill, all the serious cases will be transported to one of our hospitals."
Aaron smiled as he sat back and relaxed, "Most of what you are going to get
is the walking wounded, so to speak."



Fred hugged Rolph close to his side, wishing they did not have shorts on as
they waited patiently for the Kathat to show up.  Xon was supposed to bring
Oboxa, along with Opoku, to the med bay before taking Sesek back to Aaron's
office to finalize the alliance treaty.  Afterwards Aaron would stop by and
sign the document, and Volosh 9 would be open for interstellar visitors, the
only safe access into their empire for now.  Fred grinned at the memory, the
excitement from all the youngsters , his grin growing wider at the thought
of the rest of Earth finding out they were not alone in the universe.  He
couldn't wait to see the shocked looks on the world leaders' faces when they
met Sesek for the first time.

Releasing Rolph's lips when he heard footsteps behind him, Fred glanced over
his shoulder as Xon entered the med bay escorting their three Kathat guests.
Smiling as he and Rolph stood, "Right on time.  Nest Mother Oboxa, if you
would make yourself comfortable over on the bio-bed we can get started."

Setting her cane down next to the bio-bed, Oboxa carefully sat down before
swinging her feet around so she could lie down comfortably.  Adjusting the
pillow behind her head she nodded once, "I am ready for the procedure,
healer."

Nodding, Fred moved to the terminal activating it as he pulled the sensors
over, "Opoku," Fred glanced her way as he laid the tray next to Oboxa.  "If
you would place these two sensors for me, the smaller one goes on the left
temple, press firmly to activate. The larger of the sensors please place
midpoint on Oboxa's sternal arch.  The bottle contains cleansing agent for
the skin."

Opoku nodded, "Yes healer," as she watched him squirt a generous amount of
the cleansing agent on the white pad and cleanse Oboxa's right arm before
attaching a cuff with several tubes attached. "May one ask about the
function of the device you just emplaced?"

Fred looked over his shoulder after activating the bio-bed, eyes moving to
the scan report he had brought up from the other day to compare to the scan
he was doing now, "The IV cuff administers specialized nanites along with
any medications we would need to administer. The small sensor you emplaced
on Oboxa's temple is designed to monitor her brainwaves along with pain
control; it also has the ability to act as a soma unit placing the patent
into a deep sleep."  Pointing to Oboxa's chest he smiled, The second sensor
will give us second by second information about her biological functions,
blood chemistry is only one of them."

Tapping commands into the terminal once more, Fred leaned back and kissed
Rolph after he placed a chair behind him so he could sit down, "Thanks,
Love."  Administering two units of nanites, Fred pulled up the spinal damage
on the plasma and started to work on repairing the damage as he explained
what he was doing, "The nerve endings through the spinal bones are
compromised, so I plan to repair and regenerate the spinal bones.  At the
same time it will relieve pressure on the nerves thus allowing the
regeneration of the cartilage."

Opoku raised one eyebrow before staring at the screen and raising the other
in shock as she watched the bones move back into position and come together
whole once more; not only whole she saw but as if they had never been
broken, "How is this possible?"

Fred shrugged as he concentrated on programming the next procedure in, "We
control things on the micro cellular level, pretty easy actually."  Rolph
was the only one who noticed that not only did Fred shock both of them, but
that awe and then just a slight bit of fear creep into their expressions
before they got themselves under control.

An hour later, Fred stiffly rotated his neck and smiled as Rolph quickly
moved over and started to massage his stiff neck, "Thank you, Love...Oboxa,
you need to stay still for another twenty minutes while the system finishes.
Afterwards you may get up."  Grinning as he stood Fred glanced over, "I
think you will find you no longer need your cane, or have to worry about
further injury leaving you paralyzed."

Oboxa had been quiet after the revelation of the ability to control people
on the micro cellular level. Nodding her head still deep in thought, "I
thank thee for your skill, healer.  I am in your debt..." she trailed off
after noticing the young healer and his companion snap their heads up
towards the ceiling, eyes closed in concentration.

Turning away from the wondrous equipment when Oboxa's voice trailed off,
Opoku was surprised once more as she watched the healer and his companion
looking up with their eyes closed.  It reminded her of someone listening
closely to someone speaking from above and far away.

After several minutes Fred blinked and quickly walked over to the desk and
logged in bringing up a map of the available staffed trauma bays.  Only Sol
Station was fully staffed and the other hospitals down Earthside were
seventy five percent full.  Several commands later Fred was staring into the
pickup, his image being transmitted to Altare Prime Trauma Center.  "Prime
Trauma, this is Fred Stranton...All available healers report to Volosh 9
Trauma, prepare to receive wounded from Earth."  Tapping a few more commands
he tied his pickup into the central command net and smiled as he saw Aaron
look up and nod back at him in thanks, "Star Scout Fleet, this is Fred
Stranton of Clan Stranton...Volosh 9 trauma is ready to accept patients."

"Roger that Volosh 9... Star Scout Omega inbound with ninety in five."

Nodding his head Fred stood straighter as he pulled his mic down as his
hands traveled across the terminal. Finger hovering over the red flashing
square, his voice rang out over the station, "Disaster Stations...All healers
report to Med Bay...Incoming crush force trauma."  Touching the blinking
square blue lights starts flashing in the hallways and his voice started to
repeat as alarms rang out over the station.  Not bothering to explain, Fred
walked out quickly making his way to the triage bay, his thoughts
concentrating on praying that he had learned enough to do this.

Rolph seeing the questioning looks softly sighed, "One of the planets in our
Empire has had a disaster hit one of the communities half an hour ago.
Every Trauma Med Bay is on alert to receive injured." Stopping as he heard a
noise from the hallway, Rolph stared at a long line of Bio-Tubes rushed
past.  Frowning in thought he notice one of the Star Scouts appear on the
plasma that showed the docking area where the alien ship was docked, "Xon, I
need you to watch our guests.  I need to go help keep people calm."
Glancing back at the two sharing a look, Rolph politely told them, "I have
to leave you to go help with the injured.  Xon will be here momentarily."

Opoku stepped forward, "I am an experienced healer.  While I may not know
how to use your equipment or your species' physiology I can do basic first
aid."

Rolph stared at her a moment before nodding his head, after relaying the
offer to Fred and getting back a reply.  "Place your hand on my arm so we
can port out.  The hallways are not safe to travel with the automatics
moving Bio-Tubes around right now."  Appearing in the corner of the triage
bay Rolph looked around as he steered Opoku out of the way so incoming
healers had a place to appear.  Rushing over to Fred's side he left Opoku
with him before moving over to the area where the walking wounded were being
transported in.

Fred, not bothering to look up, motioned for Opoku to move to the other side
of the Bio-Tube, "Your offer of help is appreciated.  It would be a huge
help if you can remove the patient's clothing and apply the sensors and IV
Cuff as quickly as you can.  Then we will place the patient in the Bio-Tube
so we can treat them.  All except code patients will be sent to the
appropriate healer...Before I forget, you need to stay out of any area where
the floor is red, the automatics will not stop their movement in time for
you to escape injury."

"Understood, Healer," Opoku picked up the scissors and started to remove
clothing from one of the injured patients.  After applying the sensors, she
watched carefully as Fred placed a tube down the patient's throat and
glancing up at the screen she noticed it went into the patients lungs and
nodded her understanding.  What shocked her was the lid moving back and
sealing before a liquid rushed in, totally submerging the patient.  Watching
the tube leave the bay at speed she shook herself slightly before quickly
moving over to the healer's side to continue working.

"Star Scout Capricorn to Volosh Trauma,"

Tapping the side of his head Fred continued working, "Go ahead, Captain
Bridges."

"Be advised, we are holding multiple Code patients in the buffers...Sorry
Fred, but Sol Station is swamped with Code and trauma patients," Bridges
continued in a quieter voice.

Sighing as he smiled when Theo appeared, "I understand, Nathan. Theo just
came aboard, he'll handle the code patients, I'll handle the traumas."
Glancing around Fred spotted one of the residents, "Gordon, you're in charge
of the Triage bay."  Seeing the fear hidden quickly, Fred moved closer, "You
are ready for this, Gordon, trust me.  If I can be considered ready for all
this shit you certainly are."  Placing a hand on Gordon's shoulder and
squeezing it, Fred smiled before motioning Theo to follow him.

Walking across the hall, Fred took a deep breath as he picked up the black
servo gloves and slipped them on.  Repeating the mantra of, `brain alive,
the rest can be re-grown' several times, he took a deep breath and nodded as
Theo placed a comforting hand on his shoulder before moving over to his side
of the room as several Shaolin healers and apprentices rushed in.  Closing
his eyes as one of the Shaolin apprentices moved past Opoku, Fred took a
deep breath and let it out slowly as he opened his eyes focusing on the
bio-Tube and the apprentices; the one near the terminal, and the one
slipping on his own servo gloves.  "Right, let's do this people...Nathan,
initiate transport. We have position one and three staffed for code
patients, the other four positions are staffed and ready for the surgical
traumas."

Opoku watched in shock as patients started to appear in a display of
photons.  It was a choreographed display of skill that amazed her.  The
patients would appear in the Bio-Tubes with their clothes removed, and the
person nearest the terminal and screen jumped in and quickly placed the
breathing tubes and sensors before pushing the red button and jumping back.
She watched as the screen came to life showing the internal damage.  The
healer she had been assisting, who seemed to be in charge of the area,
glanced at the display before his hands started to move.  She moved closer
and watched in wonder as damaged areas were removed, or sealed, before the
patients skin was closed up.  Listening to the orders given, she finally
realized that the removed organs would be re-grown in place and she shook
her head slowly in wonder.

Fred, on his third patient, looked at the shell shocked expression on
Opoku's face for a moment before looking down and concentrating on his
patient.  The Shaolin apprentice's question about what to do about the
damaged liver made him smile in remembrance. "If you circle the damaged area
on the screen before placing an X through the middle and then tapping the
question mark it will give you a perfusion rating.  Personally I am not
comfortable with anything under eighty percent, unless we would have to
remove the whole liver then I will accept anything over fifty percent."

Following Fred's direction the apprentice smiled as he circled the lower
lobe of the liver and got the answer he wanted. Circling the second lobe he
tried again and grinned, "Both lower lobes being removed returns a reading
of ninety nine percent."

Fred smiled as he lifted his head, "That series of questioning commands can
be used for any part of the patient including broken bones.  By circling the
area and then tapping the question mark the system will give you very
detailed information, then YOU will make the decision...If this was a true
disaster the system would initiate treatment if we were overwhelmed, giving
you time later to take control...or at least that is what Aaron told me.  I've
yet to see us get truly swamped, and with the buffers I don't foresee that
ever happening."

Letting the apprentice close up, Fred removed his surgical frame before
stretching the kinks out of his neck and shoulders.  Smiling as Kenny pushed
a straw towards his face, "Hello lover..." sighing he glanced down at Kenny
who was grinning, "How goes the rescue?"

Pushing the energy drink back towards Fred's mouth, Kenny frowned, "The Star
Scout Fleet evacuated everyone.  Richard's idea saved a lot of people.  The
aftershocks are starting to roll through, and some of the buildings that
looked okay collapsed..."  Putting a straw in the second bottle of energy
drink, Kenny moved over and offered it to the Shaolin apprentice before
continuing, "There are two more Star Scouts waiting to transport their
patients out of the buffers. Aaron looks happy, which is confusing."

Fred smiled at Kenny, "Remember, Love, Aaron loves being a healer, and
misses it because he has all the crap he has to deal with being King."
Glancing over at Kenny who was lost in thought,  he noticed him smile when
he worked through what he said.  "Thank you for the energy drink, it will
help."

Kenny looked over at Fred, "Do you want a donut or two?"  Not waiting for an
answer, Kenny went over to the wall with the small replicator built in and
placed all the empty bottles on the pad and hit recycle.  Once they were
gone he tapped a few commands in and was rewarded when the transporters
beamed in a box of energy donuts.  Opening the lid he broke one of them
apart into small bite size pieces on his way back to Fred's side and started
to feed them to him.

Letting the delicious calories melt on his tongue as another patient
appeared Fred grinned, "You're a life saver, Kenny.  I love you."

Smiling back Kenny fed the rest of the donut to Fred before breaking up
another.  After Fred had eaten three donuts Kenny stared at him wide eyed as
he offered one to Fred's helper, who was also looking at Fred with an awed
expression as he could only get half a donut down before he felt sick.

Opoku was curious.  The eating or drinking of nourishment during surgery was
foreign to her training, though as she looked around she noticed that the
patients were sealed in a separate environment.  She also noted several
people were not offered drinks, or the donuts as they were called.  Instead
they were offered other nourishment and refreshment from containers that
were not red.  Very curious over the reasons, she noticed several of the
patients were definitely female. So this must be a sub-species, she
concluded, as such there might be a dietary reason.

Kenny stopped as he was walking past the Kathat healer grinning as he
thought of a new inexperienced race he could prank.  Considering his words
carefully he got a flash of her thoughts before it disappeared, grin
widening as his mind turned over the information. This would need to be a
several layer prank, he decided.  "You're thinking really loud."  Seeing her
shock he lifted the red box, "Unless you're Alteran anything packaged in red
would make you sick.  Each of these energy donuts contain the full calories
and nutrients for three days worth of meals.  Our metabolism is very
different than the rest."  Nodding his head he grinned as the first seed was
planted and he walked away leaving behind a confused healer behind him.

An hour later Fred sighed as Nathan's vice came over the speakers, "That's
the last of them, Fred."

"Thank the Winds," Fred sighed as he glanced around the room.  Removing the
servo gloves he dropped them on the cart as he smiled at his two helpers.
"Job well done, guys.  Why don't you go get something to eat.  I'll talk to
Aaron about putting off morning rounds tomorrow; that will give us time to
go over treatment plans without busting our balls."

"I heard that, Fred," Theo grinned as he walked over with the other healers
now that the surgical area was empty.  "Actually it is a very good idea.  We
can move morning rounds back to just before supper, a quick update as it
were, to touch bases to make sure no emergencies need to be taken care of
and back to normal the day after."  Grinning at the quiet groans from
several of the apprentices, Theo walked towards the door and looked out
making sure the floor had returned to the normal gray.

Opoku was confused once more as most of the healers, and the ones called
apprentices, made their way out of the room without cleaning up behind them.
It went against all her training to leave a surgical area looking like this.

Fred stopped near the door as he tapped the commands into the terminal to
start the cleansing cycle. Looking up he noticed the concerned and disgusted
look on Opoku's face along with her stiff posture as she scanned the room,
"Opoku...We need to vacate the room so the cleansing cycle can start."

Walking toward the young healer with both eyebrows rising towards her
forehead Opoku stepped out of the room.  Turning once she reached the
corridor she stared back into the room, stunned as a blue glow descended on
the room.  The shocking part was that the blood stains were slowly fading
away.

"The cleansing cycle removes everything organic from the room, then it will
sterilize everything in there so it will be ready for the next emergency."
Fred glanced up as he sent a message to Xon, "Xon, I'm exhausted.  Where are
you so I can drop off Opoku and get some rest?"

"I see.  Very efficient and logical," Opoku looked back into the room in
wonder, trying to come up with a way to broach the subject of getting
training in their equipment and techniques; not only that but getting
several working models for their use.

Looking away from Sesek and Oboxa for a moment, Xon replied to Fred with a
smile, "I moved us to Aaron's office, Love...I can feel how tired you are
through the link, I don't want you porting back home.  Let someone else do
it, love."

Escorting Opoku down several corridors, Fred finally came to Aaron's door,
"I need to leave you now.  I desperately need to get some rest. You'll find
your friends inside with Xon."  Giving her a half bow, Fred turned and saw
Kenny stick his head out of the security office door and smiled at him as he
made his way over.  Hugging him close he sighed, "I need a hot soak then
bed.  Let's get someone to send us home."

Worried as he looked up at Fred and seeing how wiped out he looked, Kenny
nodded as he glanced over his shoulder to his escort, "We need a ride home,
please."



Aaron sighed as he sipped his juice.  Looking over his desk at the plasma
with the colonization numbers on them, he turned to stare at the door when
he heard someone knocking, "Hello Adrian, how are you doing?"

Seeing how tired Aaron looked Adrian was glad he stopped by the kitchen
first.  Setting a large double chocolate brownie sundae down in front of
Aaron, he chuckled as Aaron went wide eyed looking at it before picking up
the spoon.  "I am doing a lot better than you are right now."  Waiting until
Aaron had eaten about a third of the sundae and perked up, he smiled before
sighing, "I don't want to add to your stress levels, but I have some curious
rumors and findings from England I want to talk over with you."

Aaron peaked up over the huge bowl, "Hold that thought until I call a few
others to discuss this," searching with his mind he called out,
"Andrew...Richard...Edward, can all of you come to my office? Adrian walked in,
he needs to discuss something about rumors in England."

Aaron had just finished his sundae and pushed the bowl away when Andrew and
Richard walked in; a minute later Edward appeared and put his pack down as
he pulled one of the chairs over.  "Alright Adrian, we are all ears." Aaron
smiled as Adrian sighed.

Looking out the wall at the Earth below Adrian sighed again, not wanting to
breach the subject adding to Aaron's stress, "I have been hearing some
pretty disturbing rumors from some of the immigration centers."  Closing his
eyes and slumping into his chair he sighed in frustration.  "Unlike what we
saw in New York and then California, when the worst of humanity left their
children behind as they fled the territories, we have gotten several very
strong rumors that the parents are abandoning their kids in England; but
this time they are not fleeing, and it looks like it has been going on for
decades."

Edward jumped out of his chair and stormed over to the wall and looked out,
angry beyond words, trying to stay calm as he got out, "Tell me what you've
heard, please."

Adrian stared at Aaron for a minute before he looked at Edward's back, "I
don't have proof, mind you...well, I have proof of a small number of teens,
but not as widespread as we think it really is.  We're talking about
thousands if what we think is true."  Adrian had kept this eyes focused on
Edward and saw he stiffened, "Your former Prime Minister accomplished his
goal of turning your people into serfs.  He created the largest welfare
state the world has ever seen.  Rewarding people for having as many kids as
they could monetarily, but penalizing them for taking proper care of them.
Add into the mix his government totally turning your education system into
the biggest joke around...Well, hundreds of thousands of your people have been
beaten down, then dumbed down.  The thousands of children of the next
generation not only will have a poorer life than their parents, but to be
truthful, it won't be long before the next generation has the highest
mortality rate of any generation, including during the war."

Edward had tears in his eyes as he looked out at the Earth.  Melting into
Aaron's embrace he turned his head and sobbed into Aaron's chest, letting
all the pain he was feeling for his people's betrayal out. Aaron turned them
around so he could look at Adrian, "Do you have a solution?  We have to plan
as if your worst estimates are true."

Andrew sat silently in shock, turning his head to look at Richard when he
spoke up with conviction.  "We build a series of Crèches around the country,
and we send the Shaolin in en masse."

Edward pulled his head up and looked at Richard confused.  Mouthing `what'
at him, he listened carefully as Richard explained, "Simple really.
Grandmother already gave Aaron the Letters of Marque, then the world placed
all the children under our authority.  So it really is as simple as going in
and doing what we need to.  We can model the new crèches along the lines of
the ones in New York.  We educate and train the teens and children, and then
offer them first right after they graduate to colonize one of the worlds and
grab their dreams."

Seeing that Edward and Andrew were hanging on every word, he smiled, "It
will take time to revamp the education system, time these teens just don't
have, but we can save this generation; or at least as many as want something
better."

Aaron thought about it, "That is going to make a large portion of the teens
jealous as hell.  Those that have not been abandoned will be hurt that they
don't have the same chance that their `poorer' age mates do."  Shaking his
head Aaron grinned, "No, the only way this will work is if any graduate to
our standards gets the option of immigrating to one of the colonies."

"You'll have to do this to any coalition country, you realize this right?"
Adrian asked, then turned as Andrew snorted.

"Only if they agree to let us build crèches in their countries," Andrew
snorted as he thought about it. "Those in our crèches are going to be
completely supplied with whatever is needed when they emigrate off world."
Thinking some more he smiled, "Well, it's not like it is costing us anything
really since we have the replicators now."

Standing up and stepping away from Aaron, Edward dried his eyes, "I'll get
with Derrick tonight after talking with Grandmother. We will have areas set
aside to build the crèches by noon tomorrow." Glancing back at Adrian he
smiled, "Adrian, would you join me explaining to Grandmother what we've
heard and decided?"

Watching Edward and Adrian leave Aaron turned back to Andrew and Richard,
"It's is a step in the right direction, but ..." Aaron looked over his
shoulder at the window, "Maybe it just might be better to move them all off
world instead of to a Crèche.  I was talking to Tommy before the emergency
popped up.  He was asking me about an idea he had for opening up a
university; actually, he wanted it to become the premier university in the
galaxy."  Looking back at the staring faces, "I think what we need to do is
pick one of the planets and just build our schools and Crèches on up there,
and move all the rescued there instead of plopping facilities all over the
world."

"A very good idea," Tommy smiled as he walked back in Aaron's office.
"While porting the MCAs around I did a search with Corey and found the
perfect planet.  It was the backup planet from the previous timeline; the
only difference is it is not tropical."  Tommy hugged everyone before
sitting on Aaron's desk and hijacking his terminal to pull up the data. "It
has four very distinct seasons and two large continents."

Aaron stared at the plasma for several moments as he read the overview of
Tommy's choice.  Changing the screen he gazed at the blue green world
orbiting Proxima Seven, "All right, borrow half a dozen of the replicator
ships and build the Crèche schools and the University."  Hands flying across
the terminal as he sent emails, Aaron grinned as Derrick, along with a
confused looking Toshi, appeared in his office after he called him.

Smiling at Derrick, Aaron motioned him over, "I have a project for you,
Love." Pointing to the screen, "The fourth planet orbiting Proxima Seven,
the new home of our galactic university; and on the larger continent, the
home of our new crèches, or it will be once you build them."

Derrick looked around frowning as he pulled chair over and sat down, "I
think I'm missing most of the picture here.  Someone want to fill me in,
please?"

Once Andrew and Richard finished re-telling what was said and decided, Aaron
looked over at Derrick, "I need you to take some of your replicator ships
and move them to Proxima as quickly as you can.  Concentrate on building a
duplicate of the youngsters' row from Altare Prime.  We need housing before
noon tomorrow if possible; the schools and infrastructure can wait a couple
of days."

Derrick pulled his P.A.D.D. out and started to scroll through designs,
smiling when he found the one he was looking for. "Okay, I can have the
first of several villages built before I come back for supper tonight."
Chuckling he placed the picture of the village on the plasma, "There is
going to be a group of teens very happy to learn their design is going to
finally be used."

Standing so he could move closer to the plasma, Aaron stared at the design
concentrating on the layout before chuckling, "Someone has been perverted to
the dark side, I see.  Either that or Pete has taken up design when I wasn't
looking."  Staring a moment longer at the ultra modern futuristic looking
cityscape Aaron nodded, "Go ahead and build it.  Build it on the smaller
land mass, near the tropics if you can so the seasons are milder on the
kids."  Moving back to his desk he smiled as the first responses of his
emails walked in through his office door, "Greetings Shaolin, thank you for
coming so quickly."

Shaolin Xi bowed as he smiled, "Greetings Great Dragon, I came as soon as I
received your message.  How can we be of assistance?"

Richard smiled, "Thank you for coming.  It's Edward and me, I guess, that
need the help of the Shaolin the most."  Seeing he had the undivided
attention of the Shaolin master, "Adrian recently discovered something
rather frightening to us.  It seems the old government rewarded the citizens
for treating their children badly and abandoning them; not to mention the
education system was designed to keep them uneducated and at the level of a
serf."  Taking a breath he pointed to the plasma with the plans for the city
on Proxima Seven on it, "Derrick is going to build that city on one of our
worlds, the one Tommy found to build our Universities and schools on."
Shifting in his seat Richard tilted his head as he looked between the plasma
and the Shaolin, "Derrick told us he can have the city built by tonight and
ready to move the children we rescue into it tomorrow afternoon." Taking a
deep breath he leaned forward, "Now, my request is twofold: the station and
the city needs to be manned, but, more importantly, we need the left hand of
the dragon to scour my cousin's country and rescue all the children and
teens who are unwanted so we can move them to their new home."

Xi stared at the plasma with a small smile on his face, "Is this world to be
set aside for only males?" Shaking his head he smiled openly, "Forgive me, I
realize you said this would also be the world you will be building the
schools of higher learning on.  Our junior apprentices and their teachers
will be relieved to have a proper environment for learning...how long until
the schools and housing will be built?"

Derrick looked up from his P.A.D.D. where he was going through schedules and
how the replicator ships were being used.  "I can have them done by the end
of the week."  Looking over at Aaron he grinned, "I'm assuming you want the
whole gamut of higher level doctorate programs?"

Grinning, Aaron nodded, "Everything from accounting to medicine, the whole
range; and Tommy suggested that we make this university the most sought
after one in the empire."  Tipping his chair back as he thought about it,
"We can even use the campus to train the healers in our equipment.  It will
streamline our resources."  Setting his chair upright once more, he saw a
small flashing icon on his desk and wondered which of his loves had done
something to cause the tutor program to email their results to him.

Seeing that Aaron was distracted by something on his desk Xi smiled, "A
worthy project.  My clan shall be ready to assist Edward tomorrow.  We shall
make sure the station is properly staffed and the city has someone to
welcome those you rescue tomorrow, Dragon Lord...Until tomorrow, Great
Dragon." Bowing once more he quickly made his way out of the office, before
porting back to Centauri station on his way back to his clan compound.

Waving goodbye, distracted by what he was reading, Aaron shook his head in
wonder before looking up at Richard.  "Is there something you want to tell
me, Love, about your accomplishments?"  Seeing the confusion on Tommy's face
and the pride on Andrew's, he looked over at Richard and rephrased it,
"Calling Doctor Richard England Stranton..."

Richard looked over, broken out of his thoughts, "Yes well, according to the
tutor that is."  Shrugging his shoulders as if it was not important, "I had
Corey's help creating the teacher.  I guess the doctorate in genetic
engineering came about this afternoon after creating the new species of cats
for the Beastmasters.  Anyway, there are twenty four embryos that will be
decanted in around one hundred and twenty five days."  Tapping a message out
on the terminal to Donny asking him to stop by in the morning, he looked up
at the shocked expression on Aaron's face, "What?"

Shaking his head, Aaron stared at Richard, "I'm still trying to figure out
how you earned two doctorates and a master's degree in a week's time.  Even
with our modifications and Clan enhancements a week is just a little on the
short side."

Blinking at Aaron for a moment, Richard smiled shyly, "Well, that would be
the teacher's doing.  It is designed to implant information and skills
directly into the brain while wearing it.  The only downside is you have to
be actually doing the work for the skills to settle in permanently.  I had
no clue that using it would give me the degrees, I just wanted to be able to
be what you called me."

Scrunching up his face in thought, Aaron stared at Richard, mind racing to
figure out what Richard had done and how. "Okay...I can see how it works, and
I can even vaguely understand why you did something like this, but I think
we need to keep it within the Clan."

Grinning, Richard jumped up and hugged Aaron, "I already designated the
teacher as a clan secret, plus when I had Corey help me build it we tied it
directly into the Clan marker.  No marker, it won't work...Oh, I also added
a failsafe so the person using it had to be well into puberty before it
would work."

Aaron slowly let out the breath he was holding, "Good!  While I'm all for
giving our people a helping hand the possibility of misuse can be
frightening.  Hopefully Corey programmed the teacher so it could not
reprogram our brains, only install knowledge."  Sitting back and pulling
Richard back with him he looked over at Andrew and then Tommy, "So, which of
you are going to be the next person to use Richard's invention?"

"Mark asked to be next.  He wants to get his vet certification out of the
way, and his genetic engineering one too." Andrew smiled, "I am still
deciding what I want to specialize in.  I finally got the assignment you
gave me weeks ago done, including finding the staff for the project.  My
only question is, when do they leave?"

Aaron looked at the grinning imp across from him and shook his head.  He
should have known, "It will be a few months yet.  After all, I haven't even
told Pete and Xon that I want the searcher built." Chuckling he winked,
"Though I have to wonder if Pete snooped into the files and found the
searcher plans yet."

Tommy snorted in amusement, "I can almost guarantee he's not found them yet.
If he had, he would be whining and hounding you to let him build it."

Calming down after laughing, Aaron looked over at Tommy, "I think we need to
wait before telling him about the project.  We need to get the treaty
signing out of the way, plus all the rest of the little projects and
problems we've been working on before starting a new one."  Standing up
while still holding Richard close, Aaron kissed him before letting his legs
slide through his hands so his feet would touch the floor, "I think we are
done for today.  Why don't we go home and play with our sons, maybe take
them swimming?"

"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java
that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes
a warning, it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."