Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:35:44 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: Teep 42

Aaron, along with what seemed like half the Clan, were waiting in the
situation room as half of the WD758's were ported to the safe houses along
with those living there. The meeting had gone very well and most of the
college students had breathed a sigh of relief knowing that what had
happened at Berkeley house would not happen again. And while they agreed
that New York got off lightly, they were unsure if they had been punished
enough, in the end, they agreed with Aaron who had sat there in silence as
they talked, this was the last chance now that the world knew what could
happen, any further attacks and there would be no leniency.

Once the last of the collage house lads were gone, Aaron glanced around the
room at the Clan security, along with the military commanders, "I want to
get this over with as quickly as possible," staring at the military
commanders, Aaron started to give out orders, "Otto, the last twelve WD758's
are yours to use today, after you are finished with them, have them ported
to the safe houses, I would like to pull all our people out of New York by
supper time except those aboard the Ares."

Seeing Aiden in the back of the room with a P.A.D.D., Aaron smiled and
motioned him to come forward, "Aiden, I want to thank you again for
volunteering yesterday, did you have a talk with Colin, more to the point,
are you going to be okay with what you had to do?"

Aiden was going to just flip out of course he was fine, but he saw the
serious concern on Aaron's face, and knew he deserved a straight answer, "Am
I okay with it, yes and no, at the time, I was more than okay with it, now
after talking with Colin, I'm still working it over in my mind, but I will
be fine. It's not so much what I did, as how indifferent I was the whole
time; I thought I should at least feel something, after all people died by
my orders." Smiling, he tilted his head, "This little bit of information
though, makes the whole thing worthwhile as far as I'm concerned. So far, as
of last night when I went to bed, we had eighteen thousand confirmed rescues
of gay youths, at the rate they are pouring in this morning, I expect when
we finally leave New York, there will not be a single homeless or in danger
gay youth, well at least the ones that can get word to us."

"That's fantastic," Chris smiled, as he congratulated Aiden and the others
and then his smile died as he took one look at Aaron's face, it looked
pained, as if he was hurting physically.

"Aaron, are you alright?" Tim asked quietly, causing everyone in the room to
look over at him.

Shaking his head no, Aaron looked away as he tried to put into words what
was wrong, "Those numbers are so high, too high, and the gay community, with
its fear of anything to do with those under eighteen, is condemning the next
generations."

Curious, Tim went to a free terminal and pulled up census data for the state
of New York and then did the calculations, "Shit.Aaron's right, if we use
census data and then take the low figure of ten percent of teens that gives
us one hundred and fifty thousand gay teens country wide, roughly that is."

"But.But, that means with the new figures, roughly a third of all gay teens
are being rescued," Aiden was shocked as he sat back against the table.

"But how many of them are from New York to begin with, I mean, if your gay
and running, you go to one of three places, Florida, New York or California,
runners will eventually, if they are lucky, end up there, so how many of
these guys are from New York originally?" Pete asked as he saw Kevin and Tim
nod in agreement.

"It's going to take forever to process all those guys, and how many of them
need to be treated, the med bay is not all that big. It was never designed
to treat this many people at once," Kevin looked around the room and noticed
Carl rushing towards them.

"Oh good, I caught you in time, I was afraid to path you, in case you were
at a crucial point," Carl glanced around and noticed Aaron's face, "um, are
you feeling okay?  You don't look too hot right now?"

Aaron looked over at Carl as he walked into the room, "That depends, is it
more bad news I'm not going to like, packaged as good news?"

Carl stopped moving and stared at everyone before looking back at Aaron, "Um
no, I suppose it is bad news, packaged as bad news. Well more like a problem
and no one is sure how to handle it."

Dropping his face in his hands for a moment, Aaron sighed, "Maybe your
problem can take my mind of this other one, what's up?"

"Well," Carl pulled out his P.A.D.D. and looked down at it, "My problem is I
have about thirty five hundred patients, and only fifty trauma beds.
Everything from STD's to drug addiction to injuries from abuse."

Aaron peeked through his fingers and sighed again as he tried to come up
with a plan, sitting back up, he looked over at the command staff, "Otto, go
ahead and get a start on finishing up before it gets too late, CAG, if you
have a few people that can give him a hand, please do so. Chris, if you can
coordinate with the media, Aiden rescue as many as you can and put in place
some way these kids can make their way to us, maybe using the safe houses,
I'm going to leave that to the two of you for now, just let me know what you
come up with."

"Sorry to do this to you guys, but I need to stay here so between you, if
you can take the three juvenile centers in the city for me, I would
appreciate it," standing up, Aaron made his decision, if it took longer to
cleanup New York, so be it, he could always stall, his people came first and
those needing treatment would end up being his people, "Carl, in ten minutes
start moving your patients over to the trauma center, I'll have everything
set up and ready by then."

As people started to leave the office, Aaron sent a visualization of the
Trauma triage area to Carl, "Send your patients to the triage reception
area, if you would, Carl, before I forget, Aiden, have your teams that meet
these kids your rescuing send those needing treatment to the Trauma center."

With only his lovers and their guards left, Aaron smiled at them, "Be safe
and don't take any chances if you can help it. I expect you'll find some
teens that should never have been in those places in the first place, and
many of them will need treatment, so give me a heads up before sending them
to me."

Kissing each in turn before they gathered their teams and ported out, Aaron
closed his eyes and took a deep cleansing breath before porting to the
triage reception area of the Trauma center. Going to the console, Aaron
logged in and brought the system out of standby and set the settings for
disaster mode, disaster mode would configure the triage area as the central
entry point for the bio-beds and bio-tubes and warm up the transfer grids
and lifts.

Extending his mic, Aaron activated it after tying it into the communication
net for the hospital, "Attention all staff, DISASTER STATIONS..THIS IS NOT A
DRILL.three thousand plus patients arriving in five."

'Well', thought Aaron, as the blue lights started flashing all over the
hospital, 'This is the first big test for this hospital and what it really
could handle.'

Victoria was enjoying the breakfast buffet with her family and the younger
Clan members who were catching them up with what had happened in New York
yesterday, when she noticed the bells ringing and blue lights flashing, she
was about to question what was going on, but noticed how confused the Clan
members were and then the answer came with a voice over the speakers.

"Attention all staff, DISASTER STATIONS..THIS IS NOT A DRILL.three thousand
plus patients arriving in five."

Startled, Victoria looked around as the Clan members and her grandsons
jumped up from the table and ran out of the atrium, "I might be too old to
do more than hold a hand or two, but I think we should go help out."

"I agree completely, Dear," her husband smiled down at her, as she took his
hand to stand up, "After all; I can hold a bandage with the best of them."

"Carl, I'm ready when you are, so start sending them over," Aaron pathed and
was rewarded a moment later with the first arrivals.

Damien stopped near the corridor leading to the security office, "You guys
go on; I'm going to see about getting us some help, I'll meet you in the
triage area." Seeing Kenny's questioning look, Damien smiled and mouthed
Shaolin, before running up to the security office.

The watch officer jumped up from his chair as one of the Clan ran into the
room and Damien smiled at him, "I need you to port me to this location and
then be prepared to port back a large number of people," Damien told him, as
he logged into the terminal and brought up the video feed from the hidden
Shaolin temple. "Right there, if you would," Damien pointed to the raised
dais on the screen.

"Yes sir, I can do that, if you will hold still one moment, I'll get you
over there and call for backup so we can port all of you back without
straining everyone." The watch officer remembered that the Shaolin were
Alteran and were scheduled to start arriving tonight. Pulling power from the
gestalt, he nodded, Right, porting in three, two ."

Damien looked around the dais and across the temple grounds and spotting a
passing teen, called out, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I can find the
elders, we have a slight problem and could use some help."

Being late to breakfast was not the way to start his morning, Master Lei
would not be pleased if he was late to practice, hearing someone call out to
him, as he walked through the courtyard, he glanced up towards the dais that
had captured his dreams the past few nights and his eyes about bugged out of
his head as he saw one of the Clan standing there, stopping, he tried to
think what to do as he really was not paying attention to what he heard and
figured the most that could happen was that he was yelled at and ran over to
the large log bell and picked up the hammer and started to beat on the bell
causing it to ring out across the valley.

"Well that is different, though I suppose it will bring someone here,"
Damien mumbled as he walked down the stairs.

Dropping his spoon into hot cereal the temple elder pushed back from the
table after hearing the alert bell being struck and rushed out of the hall
towards the square, along with many of the other Shaolin masters. Seeing a
strangely dressed youth standing near the dais, he slowed down and the first
thing he noticed was the crest on the young one's shirt. Stopping several
arm lengths away, he bowed, "Young Dragon, you have need for us?"

Damien raised an eyebrow, a habit he was picking up from Xon, "I know that
the evacuation is supposed to start tonight, but Aaron is at the hospital,
he called for all the staff to respond." taking a deep breath, Damien looked
over the crowd that was gathering, "There are at least three thousand
patients arriving right now, and I think he could use a hand," shaking his
head as he realized, "I think most of them are kids that we rescued, they
have to be." he thought, he whispered the last before running back up the
steps, "Any of you that can help out or have medical training, if you can
come up here you will be transported to the trauma center, I'm not sure how
much help Aaron needs, but any help will be better than the few people he
has now."

Dropping the hammer as he listened to the Clan members plea and ran to the
top of the dais, "I can at least hold bandages if needed." His running up to
the top of the dais broke the hesitation as Shaolin pushed their way through
the crowd and climbed the steps.

Smiling, Damien looked up at the hovering SE110, "Officer of the watch, the
first group is ready to port to Altair Trauma."

Aaron looked up as another group ported in and to his surprise, they were
dressed in browns and oranges of the Shaolin, looking at the group it
suddenly parted and Damien smiled as he walked through the people who were
dispersing to help out, "I thought it might be better bringing some help
besides ourselves."

Aaron smiled and pulled him into a hug and placed a kiss on his lips before
another group of teens were ported in, this was the group Kevin had told him
was coming, the group that were found hidden at one of the detention
centers, "Thanks, Love." Rushing over, Aaron noticed the Shaolin teamed up
with either staff or Clan member and were learning how things were done and
providing the muscle to move the patients and the hugs needed to provide
comfort.

"Prime, how may we be the most effective?" The Shaolin master asked, as he
moved over towards Aaron just as another group of teens was ported into the
open space, some of these bleeding heavily, answering his own question, he
rushed over to the teen closest to him who was wobbling on his feet and
caught him before he fell to the floor.

Glancing around, Aaron spotted a free bio-tube, "Bring him over here if you
would, thanks." Picking up the small case of sensors from the open bio-tube,
Aaron placed it on the cart as the Shaolin moved the teen over and placed
him gently on the bottom of the bio-tube, "Great, now, while I prep him for
treatment, if you can remove all his clothes, that will be helpful," Aaron
asked, as he cleaned the teen's temple before placing the sensor and turning
on the soma unit once it was in place. Handing the Shaolin a pair of
scissors, he cleaned the chest area before placing the sensor and looking at
the monitor as the deep scans started to show their results as another group
of four teens were ported in from one of the detention centers.

"Great, another surgical patient," Aaron frowned, before tapping his
communicator, "Theo, I have another surgical case, who's free?"

"Two minutes and I will be, what is it this time," Theo asked, as one of the
first year residents moved over to close, as soon as he finished.

"Another rape case, this teen has no colon left, it's shredded and his anus
is pretty much gone too," Aaron said, as he smiled as the Shaolin intubated
the teen and hooked up the ventilator as he fit the IV cuff. "I see you've
had some medical training, which will be a great help."

Looking up at the monitor that showed the damage in vivid color images, the
Shaolin scowled, "I have trained as a surgeon, though I am not familiar with
this equipment, which is beyond my dreams, by the way."

Aaron smiled, "You'll get a chance to become familiar with it later on, now,
if you can help out by Intubating those that Damien is working with, he
knows how to place the sensors and start the cycle," Aaron, seeing that the
bio-tube was clear, flipped the cover and plunged the red button home,
causing the lid to seal and the air to rush out as it was replaced with
regen fluid. Tapping a destination in the terminal, Aaron stepped away as
the bio-tube hissed, the locks disengaged and the cradle grabbed the now
freed bio-tube which rushed away, letting another cradle move into its empty
place and engage a fresh bio-tube.

"As you command, Prime," the Shaolin bowed and hurried over to Damien.

Shaking off the Shaolin's words with a frown, Aaron moved over to the area
where Carl was working side by side with Gordon, "how are our STD experts
doing?"

Carl frowned before sighing, "Luckily, most of these guys can be treated on
one of the bio-beds," smiling at the young teen he was working on, "you
should only have to stay on this contraption until tomorrow afternoon,
before you can get up and around, once you get up to your room, someone will
bring you a bowl of soup and some bread to hold you over until lunch time."
Carl ruffled the teen's hair and smiled down at him as he moved to the next
bed where a Shaolin was comforting a teen, telling him he was safe now.

Feeling a hand catch his, as he walked past one of the bio-beds, Aaron
turned and smiled at the young teen who looked to be no more than fifteen or
so and sat down on the edge of the bed, "Hi," Aaron pulled the teen into a
hug and felt the teen stiffen before finally relaxing as Aaron did nothing
but hold him and comfort him, releasing him, Aaron smiled, "You looked like
you could use a hug."

"Can you help me get my brother from the CPS workers, they split us up, and
I haven't been able to find out where they took him," the distraught young
man whispered.

"We can try," Aaron smiled, as one of the Shaolin sat on the other side of
the bed with paper and pen and hugged the teen to his side before asking the
teen, "Tell me everything you know about your brother, starting with his
name."

Leaving them to it, Aaron sighed as another group of teens were ported in;
it was going to be a long morning, he thought.

Kevin looked up at the razor wire atop the high fence and sighed, this place
looked gloomy and reminded him of the pictures he had seen of concentration
camps, and they wondered why so many non violent offenders ended up as
career violent offenders after being placed in these places. His mood was
dark as this was the last one on the list and so far, all the ones he had
visited had been nothing short of controlled chaos, where the weak were
preyed on and taught to be violent to survive.

"Sergeant, secure the building," Kevin pointed to the closed front doors and
waited for the Marines to clear the lobby. Once he got the all clear, Kevin
walked through the front doors and looked around skimming the minds of the
parents and staff, behind the barrier.

Staring at the heavy set woman behind the barrier who was glaring at him, he
concentrated on her for a moment before digging deeper as he approached the
barrier and she grabbed her head in pain, before falling to the floor
convulsing. "Friedrich, spread the word there is a secret section, in the
basement where they keep teens, for porn films or death fights.secure it."

"Now just one minute here, what do you think you are..mmmphh," the warden
shut his mouth as Kevin turned and faced him and dug deep and hard into his
mind, causing him to stiffen in pain.

Pulling the crystal out of his pocket, he slotted it into the neural imager
from the other pocket, quickly crossing the lobby he slapped it on the man's
forehead, as he yelled, "Sergeant, take a squad to the basement, here, take
a visualization, they're killing the kids down there," Kevin sent the visual
picture of the fight ring from the warden's mind and heard the sound of feet
running. "Aaron you're about to get a lot of trauma patients from this place
they were running a secret prison and are in the process of killing off the
kids." After pathing that message, Kevin wrenched the door out of the wall
in his anger as he stormed through the check point towards the cell blocks.

Because he was angry, he was not as gentle as he had been when he skimmed
the guards minds, most of them winced as he past them and several fell to
the floor in pain as he pointed them out, standing on the catwalk over the
holding area he glanced around, "Listen up, each and every one of you will
be telepathically scanned. A good many of you should never have been placed
here in the first place, and you will be going home or to a safe place
shortly."

"Um sir, several of the kids were taken out of here by several of the guards
this morning and I'm not sure where they took them."

Kevin ported to the lower level and glanced around at all the scared teens
and kids, frowning at the amount of preteens in this facility, he stared at
one of the younger kids crying all balled up, skimming his thoughts Kevin
pathed Friedrich, "They're being pimped out over in the administration wing,
I will be holding judgment here in a moment."

Friedrich nodded his head before pointing then motioning for several of the
Marines to come with him and ran back the way they came in the hopes of
finding the kids before they were abused any further.

Looking around at several hundred faces, Kevin realized that most of them
were very young, sighing, he pathed Aaron, "love, I need backup , most of
the kids here are just that, young kids, and I do mean young, I'll scan
them, but I don't think most of these kids should be here."

Aaron hearing the pathed message, looked around and motioned over one of the
Shaolin elders, "I'm sending you some Shaolin, where do you want them to
port in at?" once the Shaolin crossed the room, Aaron swore as the first of
the kids and teens from Kevin's teams started to arrive bloody and broken.
"Shit." staring at the Shaolin for a moment, "I need some volunteers to go
help Kevin and his team; they're the ones sending those kids to us."

"Yes Majesty, I will gather volunteers and we will respond from the security
office," The Shaolin bowed leaving Aaron to quickly send the visualization
to the watch officer before running over and grabbing up another one of the
youngsters being ported in, this one had his throat partially slashed and
was quickly bleeding out, he kinetically held the wound closed as he rushed
to the bio-tube and hastily prepped him as Fred came over and held the servo
gloves so he could slide into them as the lid sealed.

Seeing more kids being ported in, Aaron shouted, "I need kinetics in here to
control bleeding, while hitting his head on his shoulder to activate the
communicator, "Surgical teams to triage stat."

Glancing at Fred long enough to see he was still close by, "Fred glove up
and attach the second surgical frame, I need another set of hands."

Fred paled as he gulped and nodded his head; he pulled a surgical frame off
the cart and attached it to the side of the bio-tube, "shouldn't you get one
of the others to help you, I mean I'm not trained."

"Fred, relax, you can help me, I know you can do it but I need another pair
of hands now not in five minutes when the others show up, this kid does not
have that long," Aaron sent reassurances to his lover, as he briefly looked
up and saw how pale he was, "Trust me, Fred you CAN do this."

Kevin started by scanning the oldest boys first and found most were in here
for simple theft or other minor crimes that the tuff on crime judges threw
the book at them, though there were a few that were placed here that were
innocent of any crime other than being unwanted. Stopping at a fourteen year
old that was in here for rape, Kevin gently dug deeper and found out the
other person in question was a year younger and it was consensual but as he
was older and the other boy's parents objected, he was convicted of rape.
"Innocent." Kevin started pointing out several of the teens who broke out in
tears at his announcement.

Hearing movement behind him, Kevin looked over his shoulder and smiled as
two groups of Shaolin ported in, moving to the next groups of teens, Kevin
noticed the Shaolin quickly moving among the youngsters and teens comforting
those crying as he proclaimed more innocent of the charges against them and
moved to the younger boys.

Fifteen minutes later, Kevin had separated forty boys out of the two hundred
for another scan, this time, he was going to go deeper to find out the
reason they were guilty of the crimes, as most of them were in for theft,
"this will hurt, though, if you cooperate it will be less painful, I want to
know the reason behind your crime."

"Before you begin Dragon lord, may we have your permission to remove those
cleared of crimes back to Altair for a checkup before we search for
parents," The Shaolin master bowed as he asked permission.

Kevin gave it all of two seconds of thought before agreeing it was a good
idea, "Have them transported to Colin's wing, they should be comfortable
there and his residents can give them a thorough physical," Kevin left it to
one of Friedrich's people to make arrangements as he went back to examining
the group in front of him. As gently as he could he inserted his mind into
theirs and sought answers to his question of why.

Unlike the other three detention halls he had visited, this one had the
highest number of teens and youngsters that never should have been placed
here in the first place, as quickly as he finished one of the teens, a
Shaolin stepped in and applied pressure to several points around the teen's
body to ease the pain. Coming to the last three teens who had been sent here
for violent crimes, Kevin examined them and frowned as they grabbed their
head in pain, these three were guilty of crimes against their own comrades
here in detention and had visited the basement on more than one occasion, as
an active participant, they would have to be judged. "Leave them be," Kevin
ordered as the three fell to the floor in pain as Friedrich and his Marines
dragged several men through the crowd of parents back into the room with
him.

Pulling a small sphere out of his pocket, Kevin used a bit of kinetics to
activate it, he released it so it could hover above them, seeing that
someone had dragged the warden in the room while he was busy, Kevin walked
over, bent over and pulled the imager off, before pulling the crystal out,
facing the prisoners and the crowd, he looked around before speaking. "I am
Kevin Stranton of Clan Stranton of the Kingdom of Altare. I claim rights of
judgment as next eldest of the Clan on this 8th day of August of the year
2004 TR."

Letting his gaze capture those on the catwalk; "If your son is not in his
room right now, he has been moved to Altair for treatment and preparation
for release. All save ten will be released, cleared of all charges, those
ten shall receive treatment and be released after being cleared by our mind
healers, these three," Kevin pointed to the teens on their knees in front of
him, "These three shall be tried under Alteran law, and justice shall be
done."

Tim having ported into the room after hearing that Kevin was to hold a
judgment, walked over to his lover, "Aaron is busy trying to save as many as
possible, so I shall stand for him my love," placing his hand on the side of
Kevin's face in a loving caress Tim moved to the side while he waited and
watched.

Standing in front of the three men, Kevin looked at Friedrich, "I'm
surprised you let them live, or that there were only three of them."

"Young Lord, there were seven more they did not survive, these three have
knowledge of other such places around the country," Friedrich answered, as
he stepped forward.

Frowning when he reached into his pocket and pulled one crystal out, Kevin
looked at Tim who nodded at the unspoken question, then pulled both his
imager and two crystals out of his pocket and handed them over. Looking at
the crystals in his hand, Kevin looked back at the three kneeling on the
floor before handing the imager back to Tim along with the two crystals,
"Hold them for the King's bench; I think Aaron will want to deal with them
personally."

Moving so he was standing in front of the sixteen year old, Kevin glared
down at him, "For the crime of rape, upon telepathic scan, I find you
guilty, for the crime of murder, upon telepathic scan, I find you guilty,
there are more crimes of course, but those two were committed while a
resident of this facility." Pointing to the seventeen year old and the other
sixteen year olds, "Your crimes are the same, while a resident of this
facility and each and every one of you committed these crimes gladly and
looked forward to doing so again and again. I sentence you to death; you
shall be removed from the gene pool, sentence to be carried out
immediately."

Before Friedrich could move over and use his weapon to carry out the
sentence, three Shaolin moved over and quickly grabbed hold of the teens,
and with a quick twist they breathed their last, with tears in their eyes,
they walked over and knelt in front of Kevin and Tim.

"To take a life is a heavy burden, even knowing it is by someone else's
orders," Kevin placed a hand on the closest Shaolin's temple and closed his
eyes, while Tim did the same for the one closest to him while Friedrich did
the same for the one next to him, several minutes were spent mind to mind
helping them to deal with their actions.

Leaving his hand on the Shaolin, Kevin opened his eyes and looked up to the
Marine Sergeant, "Strip this place of every record and trace back the money
from the warden, and seize it, it is time we went home."

"Right away young Lord," the Sergeant snapped to attention as the two Clan
members along with their guards and the Shaolin ported out. "Right, you
heard him, let's get this finished quickly."

Victoria stared at the empty triage room, so much hurt and suffering she
thought, as she held onto her husband's arm. Glancing up at the weary young
leader, Victoria smiled at him and her family as he thanked them.

"Well done everyone," Aaron smiled tiredly, as he set the cleaning cycle for
the triage pod.

"Secure from Disaster Stations."

"Have someone monitor the trauma pod as normal and I need a shower and a
nap," Aaron smiled at the visiting royals, "Sorry about your nice relaxing
weekend, but thank you for the help, I'll stop back after dinner and we can
catch up." giving one last wave, Aaron ported to the Clan Hall and headed
for his shower so he could get clean enough for a hot soak.

After a quick shower only long enough to get clean, Aaron grabbed a box of
energy donuts and a couple of bottles of energy drinks and walked over to
the hot spring munching a donut on the way, once there, he carefully placed
the drinks and the donuts near the waterfall and eased his tired body into
the warm water. Once he had dunked his head he picked up one of the drinks
and popped the cap before swallowing half the bottle in on go and grabbing
another donut. After half an hour and five and a half donuts, Aaron was
finally tired enough to nap and dragged himself out of the hot spring and
went around the corner behind the artificial waterfall to a small hidden
clearing that was only big enough to hold a hammock, and after climbing in,
he fell asleep.

A couple of hours later there was a search party out looking for Aaron, they
knew he was sleeping by the light mental contact they had attempted, not
wanting to wake him up, they started to look around when they did not find
him in his bed Tim and Kevin started to search around the Hall and the more
they looked, the more they worried as they were not finding him anywhere.
Spotting Kenny walking towards them with a red box and several empty red
bottles, Kevin called out, "Hey Kenny where did you find all that?"

Smiling, Kenny gestured with his head behind him, "I thought I would be nice
and clean this up for Aaron so when he woke up he would not have to worry
about it, he left it neatly piled next to the hot spring." Grinning, Kenny
stopped in front of them, "I left Doug and Pat curled up next to Aaron on
the hammock, even though we can't have sex with Aaron, I think I'm going to
ask that we be able to share his bed at night." Staring at Kevin and Tim
seriously, "We want our turn, we might not be having sex, but we want to be
close and cuddle like everyone else."

Tim looked at Kevin and pulled Kenny close, "I guess we have been kind of
ignoring the three of you haven't we, I guess it is because we know we can't
do anything sex wise with the three of you and we ignore you. Tell you what,
if you want to share my bed even if I'm having sex with someone else, you
can, just know you can never go further than touching and we'll be fine.
I'll talk to everyone else so you won't feel ignored anymore; you just have
to let us know about things we do without thinking about it, okay?"

Kenny grinned like he won the biggest prize at the fair, "Great!" he
squealed in delight, before rushing off to dump the trash in the recycler
bin.

Laughing at Kenny who was running down the path, Kevin stopped and looked
down the way Kenny had come from, "Out of curiosity, since when has there
been a hammock by the hot spring?"

"There wasn't one there last night; in fact there is nowhere to hook one up
at, near the hot spring," Tim sounded confused.

"I beg to differ, there is a large hammock behind the waterfall," Xon had
heard them talking and expanded their knowledge. "I find the concept of
hammocks to be fascinating; they do not have an equivalent on Katha'. And I
found them to be quite comfortable."

"I guess we truly never explored the Hall, did we?" Kevin looked sheepish as
he looked at Xon and then Tim, "I guess Tyler and Andrew can wait until
after supper," laughing at the thought, "Though they are about to burst, not
being able to have sex, saving it all for the baby making process."

Aaron slowly started to wake up, stretching slightly he noticed to small
bodies curled up on either side of him, opening his eyes, he smiled as he
saw both Pat and Doug cuddling one of his legs each. Squeezing them slightly
in a hug which caused them to lift their heads up and look at him, "Well,
fancy meeting you two here, did you decide to take a nap too or just climb
in to keep me company?"

"I don't think we fell asleep, we just wanted to be close to you like this,"
Pat whispered afraid that he would be told off.

Pulling them closer to his body after hearing the fear in their minds, Aaron
noticed they both were very hard and their erections were pressing into his
thighs. "I'm not mad at either of you; it was nice waking up to someone
cuddled up next to me like this. I'm going to get up and go round Tyler and
Andrew up before they blow up from not being able to cum," giggling as he
pulled the two close again, "I'll let the two of you take care of those
stiff woodies," Kissing each of them on the lips, Aaron picked Pat up and
deposited him on top of Doug while they both giggled, then he carefully got
off the hammock.

Chuckling as the two grabbed onto each other and started to kiss each other
with passion, Aaron threw them a cautionary reminder, over his shoulder, as
he rounded the waterfall, "Just be careful not to roll around too much, or
you'll end up on the ground; trust me it can hurt."

Feeling refreshed, Aaron walked down the path and smiled as he came to the
dining hall and saw Tyler and Andrew holding hands across the table from
each other. "Hi guys, are you ready to get this over with so you can have
unlimited fun?" he laughed as they both jumped up from the table, then he
smiled as he saw that Tyler was rock hard and leaking pretty badly and
Andrew looked to be in some distress too. "Sorry guys, but the situation we
had this morning was not expected; let's get those taken care of so you can
be more comfortable."

Waving at the two of them to follow him, Aaron made his way to the med bay
and instead of going around the corner, Aaron placed his hand on the panel
near the bend and a door opened up, smiling as he looked around the room and
the dozen or so incubators humming along in standby, just waiting to be put
to use, he walked over to the far end of the room and glanced at the monitor
for the incubator that he had prepped the day before. Checking the monitor
next to the small workstation, he smiled as there were an even dozen egg
cells produced from the sample from Tyler yesterday, deciding that maybe he
should do a 'just in case', he glanced over to Tyler, "Tyler before we begin
with Andrew, I'm going to ask you to donate a sperm sample we can place in
stasis, just in case."

"O.K, what do I have to do and is it going to hurt," Tyler glanced back to
Andrew for support.

"I assure you it won't hurt; quite the opposite, you will enjoy it very much
and it will take the edge off so you and Andrew will enjoy yourselves
longer," Aaron prepped a sample container, turned around and held it up,
"Simple, I am going to catch your cum in this container and Andrew is going
to toss you off while I kiss you senseless."

Tyler, slightly glazed looking, nodded his head as a grinning Andrew reached
around about the time Aaron placed the container over the head of his
erection and started to stroke him while Aaron carefully kept the container
steady and kissed Tyler in a way that the young man thought he was trying to
climb inside him through his mouth. Tyler was so horny from not being able
to do anything all night and most of the day that he screamed in Aarons
mouth as he came after seven strokes.

Careful not to spill any of the contents of the sample container, Aaron
moved it out of the way and pressed his body against Tyler's so that between
Andrew and him they kept Tyler on his feet as he panted and rode the after
effects of his climax. Once Tyler was steady on his feet, Aaron moved back
to the workstation, capped the sample and made sure there was no air left
inside before labeling it and placing it in the holder that would move it to
the stasis chamber.

Setting the console so it would fertilize two of the eggs and place the
others in stasis, Aaron turned around so he was facing Tyler and smiled,
"Better now," after getting a happy smile and nod, "Good, then you will
definitely be able to last longer as you make love to Andrew."

Removing another sample cup from the station, Aaron approached his lovers
again, "Alright here is how are going to do this, Andrew will be in front
while Tyler is behind, Tyler you will enter him and make love to him, after
he cum's the first time, you can change position if you want. I would like
to catch at least the contents of two orgasms before I process the sperm for
fertilization, of course, the two of you can go at it as many times as you
want, but every orgasm must be caught until I say otherwise, understand?"

Handing some lube to Tyler, Aaron screwed the sample cup to the long tube he
was going to encase Andrew's hard penis in and moved kneeling down and with
a wet gauze pad cleaned Andrew's cock which caused it to dribble out some
more pre-cum before he slowly inserted the tub onto Andrews cock and ran the
strap around the teen's back, before fastening to the other side of the
tube; that way it would not come loose. Fondling Andrews's very full balls
gently, Aaron heard him gasp in pleasure as Tyler started to finger him so
he would be loose enough for him to enter.

Andrew gasped out in pleasure as he felt Tyler's hard cock enter him slowly,
groaning out as Tyler's cock touched that place deep inside that heightened
pleasure, he wildly looked around as Tyler started to slowly thrust in and
out of him while his hands were playing with his nipples. Eyes locking on
Aaron who was smiling and hard as well, as he stood waiting and watching
Andrew growled out in lust, "Gods above, join in."

Aaron smiled as he moved closer and when he was in arms reach Andrew reached
over bending at the waist and swallowed him in one swoop, closing his eyes
as Andrew's started to suck him and twirling his tongue around the head of
his cock. Holding onto Andrew's head as he moved in and out of his mouth
Aaron noticed Andrew stiffen and moan as he shot his cum into the container
without being touched because of being so aroused from having Tyler inside
him while he was sucking off Aaron.

Tyler was thankful that Aaron had let him cum as he felt Andrew shoot his
load; his prostate was so engorged when Andrew came, it almost forced him
out and he worked hard at thrusting in and out without being expelled.
Leaning forward over Andrew's back, he kissed Aaron, trading tongues for a
while before he released him because it was too hard to really thrust inside
Andrew in that position.

Feeling himself get close, Aaron held back as long as he could before
filling Andrew's eager mouth several times as he let the feelings wash over
him and so powerful was his orgasm that he broadcast it to the others and at
the same time Andrew came a second time along with Tyler.

Pulling Andrew off his hard cock, Aaron brought his head to Andrew's and
kissed him hard and fast trying to get the remains of his seed from Andrew's
mouth before he swallowed the last of it, once he was sure he had swallowed
every trace of himself, Aaron smiled and pulled back as Tyler thrust in and
out slowly in his afterglow, something he had picked up from Aaron as a way
to stay very hard and enjoy the afterglow until it was time to start again.

Quickly changing sample containers, Aaron held up the vial that was half
full and resisted the urge to down it in one go, as it was the sacred seed
of one of his lovers, placing the container in the proper section of the
workstation, He sat down and tried to ignore the sounds of thrusting and sex
on the other side of the console as he watched the system cleanse all X
chromosome sperm from Andrew's sample so the only thing left would be Y
chromosome sperm. Once the sperm had been cleaned, he used the servos to
place half the sperm sample in the insemination chamber and watched the
monitor as the sperm took off like it was in a race towards the two eggs he
placed in the insemination chamber.

Andrew was fascinated as he watched the monitor on the wall, there was his
sperm traveling towards the eggs from Tyler, it made it more erotic to feel
one of his lovers inside him thrusting in and out as he watched the sperm
make contact finally with the eggs and try their best to be the winner by
piercing the covering. Finally, the race was won and he smiled as he felt
himself getting close as he watched his sperm pierce the eggs created from
his lover, leaning back against Tyler, he reached around and pulled both
their mouths together in a passionate kiss just as the second egg was
pierced by his sperm and shuddered as he shot another offering into the
waiting container.

Aaron used the tiny joystick to separate the two fertilized eggs and tried
very hard to ignore the climax he heard coming from Andrew and noticed the
second egg was much stronger of the two as it was already dividing and
nudged that one to the side where it could be implanted into the incubator
while moving the first egg to the area where it would be placed in stasis
once it was in the middle of dividing. Once the system activated and moved
both eggs, Aaron watched the monitor to ensure that there was capture to the
womb wall and smiled as the eggs not only attached but seemed to divide once
more and the artificial womb started to grow around the egg, assured that
implantation had occurred, he dumped the insemination chambers contents,
after making sure the first egg had been transferred. Standing up, Aaron
released the band to the tube and slid it off Andrews semi hard cock as the
two of them stood there panting, covered in sweat, quickly transferring the
contents into the system so it could be processed for stasis, he hesitated
for a moment before picking up another small device to collect an internal
sample from Andrew to be able to create eggs from, and quickly, while Andrew
was off in bliss, collected what was needed before returning it to the
workstation and started the routine that would create eggs from the sample
and then programmed it to place the eggs, once mature, in stasis.

Finished, Aaron turned around and noticed they now had an audience, Pete and
Edward had come in while his back was turned, and Pete was caressing one of
the incubators lovingly while at the same time looking wistful. "Hello, you
two," walking over to Pete, Aaron pulled him into a hug and kissed him.
"What's on your mind, Love, going broody on me?" he said it in a half joking
manor, so Pete could have an out if he wanted.

"Is that silly of me wishing that my son was growing inside here right now,"
Pete looked up at Aaron, before looking back at the incubator.

"No, not at all," Aaron kissed Pete on the lips gently, "Do you want a son
now; we don't have to wait until later, we can certainly do it now if that's
what you want; you just have to let me know who you want to be the other
father of your first son and for them to agree."

Edward was standing in front of the monitor watching the group of cells
divide on the monitor, "I can understand where Pete is coming from," he
whispered. Pointing up to the monitor, "My little brother is going to have a
son before I do, I know that the embryo will be placed in stasis and he will
be born later, but still, there he is, my nephew." Feeling his brother place
a hand on his shoulder, Edward looked at him, "I am jealous of you right
now, more so than I thought I would be."

"I am sorry, Edward, but I do not understand, not really," Andrew looked
into his brother's eyes and hoped he was not about to lose his brother.

"Don't be Andrew, you have found something very special here and I'm happy
for you," Edward pulled Andrew into a tight embrace.

"Is having sex with us causing you problems, Edward?" Aaron asked quietly
and seeing the panicked look in Edward's expression took the few steps
needed to pull him in tight.

Panicked, Edward in a small voice cried out, "Please.gods please don't throw
me out, don't stop loving me."

Aaron, pulling Edward in close, picked the distraught teen's head up so he
could meet his eyes, "Never.never will we stop loving you," his voice was
forceful before he kissed Edward, showing him every bit of love and passion
he had for the teen. Pulling Edward totally into his own arms, Aaron
finished the kiss and looked him deep in the eyes, "You are part of us, now;
even when you have to leave us when you get married, you will still be part
of our hearts."

Edward, with tears in his eyes shook his head before laying it on Aaron's
chest and sobbing, he did not understand, not completely, he thought, but
then again he was not making sense picking his head up off Aaron's chest,
Edward glanced back over his shoulder up at the monitor and desperately
wanted that to be his son up there, a son that would be able to belong where
he was forbidden by duty of belonging.

Aaron picked up on Edward's thought and kissing his neck to get his
attention, "Edward, think about it that is not the way to."

"I have thought about it," Edward almost growled out, as he faced Aaron,
"I've thought of nothing else all week and I do know what I am talking
about." Pointing to the group of cells doing its best to generate a new
life, Edward looked back at Aaron intensely, "I want my son to be part of
something duty will not allow me to have, I want my son to be Clan and I
want you to be the father."

Bill Tides strode into the state house rotunda and nodded to the guards at
the front door, it was to be an emergency meeting between every state
lawmaker on both sides of the political arena and the state supreme court.
Standing in the center of the chamber, Bill looked around the gathered
politicians and all the empty seats that had been the results of his testing
of the upper end of government by telepaths. The Alteran telepaths had spent
the day separating those with the best interests of the people, and the
criminals taking almost half of their number from them, they lay in the jail
infirmary right now, recovering from the painful experience as the
prosecutors tallied all the charges against them. Before the silence had
gotten oppressive, he spoke, "I want to start by first being truthful to all
of you, yesterday, as I sat glued to my television as reports from New York
rolled across the air waves, I felt superior and smug, assured that we were
better than our counterparts on the east coast, I felt smug in the knowledge
that by bringing in telepaths to test us, we would pass with only a few
members being found wanting."

Glancing to his right at the court justices, Bill continued, "Time and time
again, I took delight in the failings of those in New York, as I knew
without doubt we were better, using the proof that Aaron had made his first
embassy in the outside world, here in San Francisco. I knew we had problems
in some of our departments, like the highway patrol and police departments,
but I did not even consider, to my shame, problems in the highest ranks of
government." He stared at the three empty supreme court seats, before
glancing back to the rest of the room, "I was assured in my mind at least,
that once the telepaths scanned everyone and had proven how forward thinking
we were and that we had the best interests of our people in our hearts, I
would be able to win the agreement to have a hospital like the one being
built in England right now built here in San Francisco. And along with the
hospital, we would be the focal point for the influx of millions of dollars
in revenue, our state would be the envy of the country as we ushered in the
future."

Dipping his head in shame as he looked to the Floor, Bill shook his head
sadly, "My arrogance was roughly slapped off of my face this afternoon, when
the telepaths winnowed our numbers down by half, and for that, I am ashamed,
and I apologize. If there is one thing I have learned from this, it is that
I have to model my behavior to those from Clan Stranton who lead their
kingdom, they truly lead from the front.always." Lifting his head so they
all could see the determination in his face, "And here and now, I vow to all
of you to lead like I should have been all along, we all know why we are
here tonight instead of on our way home to our families, so the question I
have to ask before turning it over to the justices is, does anyone not want
to go through with the proposed plan?"

After several minutes, Bill looked around, "Anyone? Is there no one that is
not in agreement then?"

Finally, an elderly statesman stood up and walked down the steps towards the
rotunda floor, holding up his hand at the surprised whispers and murmurs, "I
am not saying I am against the plan, but before we talk legalities, I would
ask that we be brought up to date with the happenings in New York,
especially those involving crime."

Chief Justice Alexander stood up, "What we do know is mostly from watching
the news broadcasts, the slight information that has been passed on through
the government that have not made it to the media yet are as follows.

Of the quarter million police officers, whether state, local or county
thirty percent of them overall or seventy five thousand have been removed
from duty for cause.

The numbers coming in from the judicial side are not complete, but it looks
like roughly fifty percent were removed for cause and as much as thirty five
percent executed on the spot.

There was one incident of a riot and it was put down immediately and the
participants tried on the spot after telepathic examination and they were
dealt with harshly under Alteran law.

The youth detention facilities were emptied of youths that should never have
been placed there in the first place, but the laws created by politicians
gave the judge no other choice but to put them there, and roughly a third of
those in juvenile facilities were never convicted in the first place, but
simply placed there by children's services and forgotten about as it was
easier than dealing with the children.

On the upside, in the past forty hours, there has not been a single crime
reported, not saying that there has been no crime, but people interviewed
are saying that it would be suicide to commit any crimes against others,
under Alteran law,

Also in the same vein, the average citizen while grumbling about being
invaded like they had been, have turned their opinion around completely as
each episode of abuse of powers was revealed and verified, then
telepathically proven to the world beyond any doubt.

By the time it was revealed what the state had done to the children in its
care; ninety percent of all registered voters were demanding that every
government employee in the state be scanned by telepaths all the way down to
school teachers. And I fear when it comes down to it, our heads will roll if
we do not show the public we are willing to go as far as the Alteran's have
in New York, when we clean up our own state."

Bill looked at his one time political rival, "Do you wish to speak up
against this motion then, Frances?"

Shaking his head no, Frances looked back at his colleagues, "No, quite the
opposite, but I wanted it read into the record what we are letting ourselves
in for, so later on, no one could say that they were not aware of what was
involved." Sighing, he stepped next to Bill, "Most of you know that my
grandson has been missing for the past three days. What no one knows yet is
that the state Marshal's have found him at the very police station we went
to three day ago looking for help in finding him. They had arrested my
grandson, stripped searched him and did a full cavity search on him before
tossing him in a cell full of adults, naked without protection."

A lone tear ran down Frances' face as he recalled the horror of his
grandson's ordeal, "He was there the whole time and in that holding cell
where he was raped countless times, and before anyone even thinks they did
not know who he was or that he was sixteen, they had his driver's license
out of his wallet in the evidence bag. His crime was." he struggled to get
the words out, "his crime was listed as jaywalking in a gay section of town
on his way home from school."

"As soon as we finish here, I am personally going to go to the Alteran docks
or call it an embassy if you want, and ask for asylum for my grandson and
medical help, and if the vote is against the motion, I shall go home and get
my gun out of the safe and find the officers that did this to my grandson
and kill them myself," Frances glared at his colleague's with a steeled
determination on his face. "This barbarity can not and should not go on any
longer and this is our chance to make things right, for the people that
elected us to see that their rights were guarded."

"I'm sorry Frances, for the suffering your grandson went through if you
want, when the vote is taken, I can call someone that can get hold of his
Majesty for you," Bill offered, as he was horrified to hear what had
happened to an innocent teen just because he was in the wrong place, and he
knew that without change brought from the outside, nothing really would be
done about it.

Standing up straight, Bill glanced around the room, "Does anyone else wish
to say anything before we vote? No one?" stepping forward, Bill rapped the
microphone several times, "Then at this time, I would invite everyone to
vote. And I must remind everyone that all three branches of government must
be in agreement," Bill told them, as he pushed his key into the slot and
twisted it activating his vote for the motion.

One by one the representative pulled their keys out and slotted them into
the desks in front of them, for the first time in the history of the
governing body of California, there was no debate, no rhetoric, just a quiet
determination to do what was right not what was easiest for them to stay in
control.

Bill looked at the screen and there were no negative votes by the justices,
then he looked at the legislative branch, the branch that held the state
assembly and the senate and again there was not a single negative vote and
to his surprise there was not a single vote to abstain. Tapping the
microphone once again, Bill spoke clearly, "It is the unanimous decision of
all three branches of the State of California's government to send a notice
of secession to the United States Government, and herby petition for
declaration of territorial status to the Kingdom of Altare."



Editors section:



RadioRanchers Musings: Oh well, this is a historic moment, this chapter must
be the answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and
Everything, Just Everything: 42

My goodness, that is a pretty strong statement, isn't it? California seems
to have made a very important decision. I wonder what other states will
follow in their footsteps.

Tyler and Andrew seem to have made the arrangements to become fathers, and
It looks as if Edward wants to be a father as well. There have been a lot of
people rescued and there have been a lot of people taken out of the system
of power. Maybe somehow things will finally be better.

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher