Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:37:06 -0500
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: TEEP ch 55

"Working hard I see," Kevin laughed as he entered the office Aaron had taken
over as his, on Sol Station, sitting down on the arm of his lover's Chair,
he leaned over and kissed him, before looking up at the monitor while
nuzzling Aaron's neck.

Laughing, Aaron playfully swatted Kevin before pulling him onto his lap and
kissing him soundly, "Insatiable...just the way I like my lovers." Grinning as
he gazed down into Kevin's eyes, "So what brings you up here instead of down
in the Core, placing it in hibernation mode?"

Silently cursing the clothes they were both wearing, keeping him from being
able to play with Aaron while he curled up in his lap, "Well, that's the
thing, I've been checking," Kevin sighed, "we can't place the Core back into
hibernation, not if we want to keep running both crèche's and all the
hospitals. We need the computing power of a fully awake Core to handle
everything we've started."

Thinking it over, trying to see the problem and not finding any, Aaron
shrugged, "Okay, well as long as the direct link is up and running to Altare
Prime, I guess it doesn't matter, it's not like anyone can gain access to
the Core, anyway."

Kenny, along with Brian, walked into Aaron's office, Kenny seeing feet
sticking up in the air separate from Aaron screamed out, "Orgy..." before
breaking into giggles as Kevin lifted his head and pouted at him.

"Sadly, no orgy," smiling, Kevin looked lay his head back down and looked up
into Aaron's face, "maybe when we get home this afternoon though, before
supper."

Swiveling his chair around so he was facing the door, Aaron smiled,
"Congratulations by the way Brian, you and Tommy both passed your exams, the
system sent me an email as soon as you finished your tests this morning...and
you," Aaron tickled Kevin in his lap, "When are you going to take your last
one, biology, I believe?"

Laughing and squirming in Aaron's lap, Kevin tried to fight off the tickling
fingers and sputtered out between giggles, "Thursday...I scheduled it for
Thursday."

Wheezing slightly from laughing so hard, Kevin looked up, "All of us are
planning to be finished by Thursday, and then we really can buckle down with
our specialties or projects."

"I'm proud of all of you, the way you have buckled down and absorbed
everything you could, to make up for lost time is amazing. So many of those
we have rescued are doing the same thing, taking after all of you," Aaron
grinned and looked at the clock; he still had time until he had to meet the
royals at Elswick.

"I checked on Pat this morning, but I forgot to ask, still asleep and no
nightmares?" Aaron was referring to the link the two had.

"Yep," Kenny smiled as he moved over so he could sit on Aaron's recently
vacated lap, "Still asleep and he's so much taller now."

"You know, I think he might end up being one of the tallest of the Clan when
he finally hits eighteen," Aaron thought, as he looked up, "not that I've
checked his potential or any of yours, for that matter, it's not that
important to me, it's what's in here that is important, "Aaron placed his
hand on Kenny's chest as he said that, glancing up at Brian as he hugged
Kenny, "So what are the two of you up to today?"

"Buying chickens," Kenny leaned back into Aaron's chest after saying that.

Glancing down at Kenny before looking up to Brian, Aaron looked at them
quizzically, "Buying chickens, okay, what types of chickens are you buying,
and why?"

"Lots of baby fluffy ones, so they'll grow up to be fried chicken," Kenny
told him seriously as he rubbed his tummy to offset being serious.

Brian laughed at Aaron's expression before getting out, "Broilers Mark
called them, that or heavy breeds. Kenny volunteered us for this, as Mark is
busy culling the herds, we'll be fine on beef and pork starting at the end
of the week, we are just going to buy a couple of million chicks today."
Grinning, Brian held up his P.A.D.D. "Tommy even gave me a list."

Choking back his laugh, Aaron shook his head sadly, "Brian...Brian...Brian,
you've been perverted to the dark side."

Giggling, Kenny put his hands over his mouth and talked though them, "Luke I
am your father, join me..."

Kevin had chosen that moment to take a drink from Aaron's cup and snorted
the juice out through his nose trying to swallow and laugh at the same time,
coughing as he wiped his nose he glared at Kenny before laughing, it was too
funny.

Laughing, Aaron held onto Kenny tightly as Brian looked shocked before he
got the star wars reference and giggled, "Just remember, Young Jedi, the
power of the dark side is greater," laughing, Brian made to tickle Kenny who
squealed and tried to hide behind Aaron. "Just remember Kenny our protection
detail is to protect us from outsiders, not from me."

"How do you plan to get that many chicks to the farm?" Aaron nudged Kenny so
he would hop down, getting up; he moved over to his desk and pulled the Clan
card out of the drawer and passed it over.

Grinning, Brian went to the terminal, changing the screen to outside Sol
Station; a ship half the size of the Ares floated there, "Xon was busy
yesterday; he modified this one so it has a huge transporter buffer on board
and it only needs a crew of fifteen."

Pulling up the file, Aaron looked at it, reading it out loud, "MR005, medium
range scout, crew compliment twelve," raising his eyes at Brian who
whispered back "gestalt team," he nodded, "weapons system, portation
torpedoes and planet buster missiles." Looking up, "alright, I suppose this
thing is built for speed then," he said, as he looked at that section.

"I think Xon wants to do a redesign on it after talking to you about it, in
fact he wants to redesign the whole fleet and scrap them to something he is
more familiar with and Pete is one hundred percent behind him on it," Brian
laughed as Ray and his team walked in, "Yes, well, Pete will just be happy
to finally be able to build his space fleet."

Aaron smiled, last night Xon and he had snuck off to the hot spring for some
private time to talk, though he decided he liked the way Xon talked, once he
had finished planting his offering deep inside his lover, he settled back as
Xon sensuously rode up and down on him as he told him his plans for the
Kathat command ship, his reasoning for wanting to build it; and then he
asked permission. Of course Aaron told him yes; after being told the
redesigns Xon had implemented; it would be half the size of the Reliant, yet
more powerful than two Reliants put together. Xon had come up with the
ultimate weapon system, the MCA's could be ported into an enemy ship even
through their shields, and quickly disable or dematerialize the ship from
the inside out. Port a couple of the MCA's into the engine room of a ship,
and within seconds, the ship would be powerless and without shields, nothing
the Confederation had at the time of the data grab could even begin to
analyze, let alone defend against such an attack, so he felt pretty
comfortable with them as warships.

"You know something," Kevin picked up on his Lover's pleasure and the
feeling he was hiding something.

Nodding his head laughing, Aaron glanced at the clock, time to get a move
on, in case James or Alfred arrived early, "Xon talked to me last night, I
like his persuasion techniques," grinning, Aaron pulled Kevin close, "Want
to go down with me, maybe pull Andrew and Edward aside, Andrew might need
some help packing, when they come visit on Friday, Andrew will be staying
permanently, I plan to start his resequencing Friday night."

"Sure," Kevin grinned as Brian and Kenny walked out ahead of them, "you're
not going to tell us are you?"

"Well, if you can keep it from Pete until tomorrow or when he finds out for
himself, I see no reason not to let you in on it early," Aaron waited until
he got the grinning nods of agreement before smiling, "After Xon finishes
building eight more replication centers on the shipyard arms and the
enlargement of the bridge, he is going to go to the station shipyards on the
other side of Centauri's sun and bring them back to life, after some
modifications like he did to the earth shipyard, he will start building the
command class vessels the Kathat only speculated about, with all their
capabilities merged with ours."

"So not only will they have warp drive, but gestalt stations so we can port
wherever we want?" Kevin asked as he grinned, "That is going to freak Pete
out when he sees them."

"I know, the other reason he is going to use the station shipyard instead of
the hollowed out moon shipyard, is he plans to redesign the moon base as a
repair and control facility, there is too much mass between the inside
hangers and the old smelters on the surface for the replicators to work,"
Aaron stopped where the corridor split, are you porting from the ship or
with us at the gestalt bay?"

Brian's answer was to extend his mic and activate it, "Leftenant, we will be
porting down to California first and work our way east, go ahead and head
for a geo orbit, one of us will contact you when it is time to start
transporting the first of our purchases up."

"Okay that answers that, but where are you starting your shopping trip? "
Aaron asked as they entered the gestalt room. Stepping over to the gestalt
generator, Aaron placed his hand on it pulling power up.

"Gene Corp, they should be expecting us," Brian smiled with a twinkle in his
eye.

"Um, as far as I know, they don't do poultry, so what are you after?"
motioning for Kevin to move close, Aaron tilted his head waiting for the
answer.

"Mark's list," Brian grinned before giggling, "Mostly it is AI samples to
improve the herds on the farm, a large order in two deliveries, plus we need
to seriously start a dairy on the farm, otherwise there will be no milk...or
chocolate not to mention no ice cream."

Pulling Kevin close, Aaron fake shuddered in horror, "Permission granted...no
chocolate, can't have that, can we?" Laughing, Aaron ported them to Elswick
to the laughing the rest of them were doing.

Appearing on the office side of the hostel, the security office to be exact,
Aaron smiled, "Good morning, Friedrich, everything ready for the onslaught
of the vultures?"

"Of course, Your Majesty, I've even prepared for the eventuality of having
several members of the Clan show up, all members of the press will be
running their signals back to the brig where my men will vet the signal
before it is allowed off grounds." Friedrich grinned evilly, "Several of
them are already complaining about censorship, but I just remind myself they
are possible students for Pete to explain SEX ED 101 and hold `The Talk'
with them."

Aaron and Kevin laughed, "That is truly evil," smiling as he walked to the
window and looked out at the grounds and the children playing between the
hostel and the hospital, "If that does happen, make sure I get the first
copy of the video."

"Can do, your Majesty," Friedrich looked at Kevin and nodded his head at
Aaron, asking what was up with him with a gesture.

Kevin was saved having to say anything by Thomas walking in, "Morning chaps,
the queen and family should be arriving shortly, in a few minutes actually
as they are forty miles out at last report."

"Good," Aaron told them without turning around, "I'm going to rely on all of
you to keep the reporters out of the new section of the hospital until I
give clearance, in fact, I want everyone kept out of the new section," Aaron
turned around and glanced at the surprised looks, "I, along with James,
Alfred and the Queen will be on the second floor; no one else is to go
upstairs until I say so, and I do mean no one."

Thomas looked at Friedrich to see if he knew what was going on and seeing
the clueless look on his face, cleared his throat, "I might have a bit of a
problem keeping Edward and Andrew from going up, or even Richard, James's
brother."

Cocking his head to the side, "Richard can go up, no wives or girlfriends
though," Aaron turned so he was glancing out of the side of the building as
he saw the red helicopter fly over and circle around.

"I'll handle Andrew and Edward, after all, Aaron only needs a half hour,"
Kevin knew what was going to happen, he also had a pretty good idea of what
would happen if the DNA maps came back positive, after finding out that the
battle crown passed down through Edward's grandfather's side had Alteran
gems, gems designed to link the wearer telepathically with equipment, it was
not hard to know what Aaron would do.

Tilting his head to the side, Aaron ported out of the room, startling
several of the Marines as he appeared on the landing pad.

Smiling as Friedrich and his teams ported out, Kevin offered his arm to
Thomas, "Shall we join them at the landing pad."

Hesitating a moment, Thomas gingerly laid his hand on Kevin's arm and
blinked in surprise as they appeared facing the royal helicopter with its
blades spinning down.

Aaron waited until the group of royals had gotten close before smiling,
"Good morning, Victoria," right away he noticed that she was the only woman
present; that should make things easier, he thought.

Escorting the group into the hospital, Kevin pulled Edward and Andrew off in
one direction while Aaron escorted the rest up stairs to the section that
housed bio-beds, entering one of the pods, Aaron smiled and pointed to the
bio-beds, "How about we take all of you at once," smiling as Alfred helped
his wife settle onto one of the bio-beds before going to the empty one on
the other side, Aaron started the scan on Victoria. "Normally a full
detailed gene mapping takes two hours, maybe three, it depends on the
person, what we are going to do right now is to do a general health scan and
then a partial mapping looking for certain gene groups."

"I'm still mostly confused; how does that crown you examined Sunday fit into
the puzzle of our being here today, not that I don't agree that full workup
is not a bad idea, after all, it did save Edward's life," Victoria asked, as
Aaron moved to her husband's side and started tapping things into the
terminal there.

"I told you Sunday that the red diamonds in that crown are not native to
Earth, well I had time to do some research, well truthfully I had the Core
do the research and give me the results, three thousand some plus years of
video and data takes a long time to go through." Aaron moved over to James'
side and entered his personal information before starting the scan, "The
mystery that is that crown starts around two thousand years ago, roughly,
that is."

"I've thought long and hard about how much of our racial secrets to share
with you, and I still don't have an answer. So let's leave it with the
blanks are things no outsider will ever know about and go from there,
roughly two thousand years ago, there was the start of a great famine in
parts of China, a place twelve of Clan Shaolin had settled to prepare and
build an army, an army to be used by the King of Altare in times of great
need," Aaron saw the shock on their faces as they realized the Shaolin were
Alteran. "During this time, they had to come up with a procedure to lock
away our natural born gifts to save their sons' lives, this was the only way
they felt they could save their sons and keep with their mission to build an
army to be used by the king when the time was right."

"Both groups had lost track of each other, and what was common knowledge
faded away, to be discovered by accident not that long ago and we welcomed
our own back home," Aaron finished programming the scans sat on the edge of
one of the free beds, "to make a long tragic story short, during the time
they tried to lock away our gifts without damaging themselves too badly,
making it a simple matter for us to repair what they did to themselves, they
experimented several times until they got it right. And those seven people
that were damaged, eventually made their way out into the world, they
volunteered to be experimented on, but still, they felt that instead of
staying where they were a constant reminder of what they had fallen to,
after the procedure was perfected they left and eventually one would assume,
they married and had children your way."

Thinking about it, "I know choppy isn't it, leaving a lot of the story out
makes it hard to understand and even harder to wrap your mind around my
explanation and you're trying to figure out how this relates to the crown
and you being scanned today." Aaron looked at the ceiling, trying to come up
with a way they would understand, "let's try this, you should know from
biology class that sperm is either X or Y and an egg from a woman is always
X. two XX's give you a girl and an XY gives you a boy." Catching their slow
nods he smiled, "one of the traits that Alteran's are known for is we only
produce Y sperm, never X."

"So finding that crown came from my side of the family, you added the
statement that I made, that there has not been girl born from my line, it
left you wondering then." Alfred now knew why they were being scanned, but
there had to be more to it.

"Yes, and it opens up possibilities and adds problems if it is true and not
just a coincidence," Aaron sighed, as he looked at the deep scan reports on
the monitor next to Victoria. Seeing she was not in that bad of health for a
person her age, he glanced at Alfred's monitor and noticed the red area on
the monitor.

Watching Aaron stand and move to her husband's side, Victoria commented, "I
can see several benefits at being tied closer, but I don't think you are
thinking of the same things."

"Maybe," Aaron looked up at the readouts and the warning of blockage of
arteries around Alfred's heart, "A little preventative medicine is needed
Alfred, roll your right shirt sleeve up, please," he smiled gently at the
man as he pulled the IV cuff out and grabbed the bottle of sterilizing gel.
Once the area had been cleaned and the cuff in place, he administered the
nanites that would dissolve the blockage before speaking again. Pulling up
the gene marker search, his fears were confirmed, there was one of several
Alteran markers in Alfred's genome, he was a descendant of one of the
genetically butchered Shaolin.

Moving to Victoria's side, Aaron smiled, "You're in surprisingly good heath,
a few things we might want to address next time you take a weekend off to
visit my kingdom, but nothing to worry about; you may get up anytime."
Moving over to James, he looked at the scan before nodding to him, "You can
get up whenever, and like your mother, next time you can get free to come
for a weekend, we can take care of that ulcer for you, or sneak back here
one day after supper and we can take care of it while you sleep." Closing
the file, he noticed the same marker as his father, he planned to analyze
the data later to compare it to the Shaolin to see how far it drifted off
from the original genome.

Chuckling at Richard's face as he looked at his scan results, "Must be clean
living, you're good to go with a clean bill of health." Moving back to where
Victoria was watching her husband closely, you can sit on the edge of the
bed if you wish, Victoria, Alfred will be another fifteen minutes, this is a
stop gap measure." Looking at Alfred, Aaron smiled, "I won't sugar coat it
for you, you had several major arteries to your heart with significant
blockage, what I'm doing is dissolving the blockage, this is a stop gap
measure only, I want you to disappear after the meeting on Sol Station this
afternoon, you'll be taken to the med bay, and as far as the rest of the
world knows, you went home with the others when the rest are ported back
home. I expect you can go home some time Friday morning if you're good and
cooperate by staying still in the boring bio-bed, you've got some serious
vascular blockages that need to be taken care of, so we are going to clean
them all out."

"And did you find out what you wanted to know?" Victoria asked, as she held
her husband's hand.

"Yes," Aaron sounded troubled, "It explains a lot of what Edward is going
through, and creates some problems for him to think about. On the one hand,
he has been groomed from birth to be king one day, and then I've reinforced
it and expanded on it, as I've been teaching him to be a leader for his
people. He is not willing to give that up, nor should he, but one part of
him wishes to have our gifts, so much so that he wants to have a child with
me that would be Clan, his way of becoming part of us."

Smiling at their indrawn breaths from the shocking news, "Oh dear," Victoria
muttered.

"Relax Victoria, I won't do anything to interfere with your line of
succession, and yet I do have to take into account Edward's wishes," Aaron
smiled as the cycle was done for the moment, removing the IV cuff from
Alfred's arm, "Okay, you can get up now, you might find you have a slight
increase in your energy, not getting as tired. I expect you will really
realize the change after we finish the treatment."



Friedrich glared at the Vultures as Aaron dubbed them, there were more than
he wanted around the place, one was too many in his mind, "Listen up,
several of you have been to one of these at our embassy before and the rest
of you, this is your first time. Keep in mind that you are not on British
soil and our laws are in effect, I'm sure you've all heard the rumors at how
some of the reporters arrested soon after we took possession of this embassy
were convicted along with what could have happened to them if the hospital
had been open at the time and a child would have been further injured or
sickened from their actions."

Turning around to face the reporters with a glare, "Oh, one more thing, just
because you are on what amounts to our soil, does not give you the right to
take pictures of any Clan member without his Majesty's approval, keep that
in mind please," Friedrich moved off to talk to his men, he was going to
have constant low level scanning of the reporters minds going on during this
news conference.



Thinking of Kevin, Aaron smiled as he felt him in one of the supply closets
with Edward and Andrew; they were straightening their clothes after having a
quickie. "To answer your question Victoria, it might be possible; I'm still
researching the ramifications of having an Alteran being King of another
country. I would want to make sure I've thought through all the
ramifications before taking that step, I am waiting for the full Clan
charter search to be finished, the only way I think this might work is to
create a new Clan for your family and make Edward the Clan Leader, as a clan
Leader, he would be allowed to rule another land or world, but still be
bound by our laws," Shrugging, as Kevin and the two princes appeared at the
end of the corridor, "It's complicated, because I would  want to make sure
your sovereignty is kept intact."

"Hello you three; are you ready for this zoo," Aaron smiled as he changed
subjects stopping outside the room the press conference was set up in.

Pulling his Clan Medallion out from under his shirt, and settling it on top
of his black silk Shirt Kevin took a deep breath and nodded as he fell in
behind Aaron while they entered the room. He, along with Andrew and Edward,
veered off to one side as soon as they entered the room, not wanting to be
in the feeding frenzy.

Seeing several familiar faces in the crowd, Aaron smiled at them as he moved
to the front of the room, "Welcome, I plan to keep this short, as of this
moment, "Aaron tapped a code into his P.A.D.D. which was linked to the
central Core system, causing the lights in the treatment pods to flare to
life as full power was brought online. The second half of the hospital was
now fully functional, "Elswick Trauma is now open for business, the first
Alteran hospital built and functioning outside our kingdom."

Smiling and waiting for the applause to die down, "I'm sure everyone is
happy to hear that, not only for the fact that a fully Equipped trauma
center was built and located in the Elswick area, or for the reason of all
the people who will benefit from this facility." Chuckling Aaron looked at
the camera's, "or even the jobs being brought to this area, I'm not foolish
enough not to realize the income potential this hospital can help generate
for the community and country through all the visitors that will travel here
to Britain, seeking treatment for their loved ones."

Looking at the assembled reporters, Aaron smiled once more, though he did
not mean it, "That ends the short announcement I had to make, since so many
of you came to record or report on this event, I will spend a short time
listening to questions, I won't promise to answer all of them, but I will
answer some, or I'm sure your queen would be willing to answer some."

One of the female reporters, the one who had met with Aaron the other day
stood up and smiled, "Thank you, your majesty, if you don't mind, I'll start
it off; can you tell me how many patients this facility can handle?"

"Three thousand patients at one time, we have two thousand bio-tubes, those
are what take care of the most severe cases, along with one thousand
bio-beds. I believe you all were given a tour this morning and told of the
capabilities of each. We also have a disaster triage area that holds five
hundred bio-tubes allowing patients to be transferred to Sol Station Trauma,
or Altair Trauma, thus linking this hospital with one of the others, greatly
expanding the number of patients that could be handled," Aaron smiled at the
male reporter from Sunday.

"Thank you Sir, I was wondering about something, after talking to several
car dealers and several petrol stations for follow up of your announcement
on Sunday, what is the cost of the engine going to be for retrofit and will
the crown offer any incentives. You see I've been talking to several
colleagues in the states, in fact, those covering some of the things you are
releasing in your new territories, and I would think the acceptance of the
new engines will depend greatly on the cost you see."

Glancing around, Aaron saw that Victoria looked slightly confused and
thoughtful, "Ah, the jealously factor, hopefully it does not rear its ugly
head too much," leaning forward against the podium, Aaron thought for a
moment, "Well...in new vehicles, the cost of the engine is around four hundred
pounds to the manufacturer, our engine will be priced at two hundred and
ninety pounds to the manufacturer," Laughing, Aaron smirked, "ours is
cheaper. So one would hope the savings would be passed onto the consumer,
but you're asking about retrofit," Aaron thought about it, "Tell you what, I
know the shops and service mechanics need to make a living, so I will offer
a ninety pound scrap metal allowance to the shops and keep the engine price
the same. Meaning I will pay ninety pounds for the old engine as scrap, I
will also offer to help emergency services out with their budgets by
offering to retrofit their vehicles free of charge, the other part of the
question, I guess Victoria will have to answer."

Stepping up, Victoria smiled, "We of course accept on behalf of all of our
emergency service departments your generous gift. There is already a crown
incentive in the form of free parking to electric vehicles or hybrids along
with lower road tax of over seventy five percent in some districts, after
careful consideration, We think that a ninety pound credit on whichever tax
one wished to use it on would be fair."

Smiling, the reporter started to sit down, "I think most would agree, Your
Highness."

"Can you tell us what other technology you plan to release to the kingdom
after the new engine distribution is in full swing?"

Aaron frowned, "No...not at this time." Glancing away from the reporter, the
woman was incised and raised her voice.

"And why not, I have a list of all the new technological advances being
released to the three territories you've added, what is wrong with our
people that you won't do the same for us?"

"Hilde," the man to her right hissed out loud enough to be picked up by the
microphones, "You know very well you're being rude and demanding, be quiet
now before you ruin it for everyone else. It was explained on Sunday that
there were certain things that would not be released to us because the royal
family would not marry into his Majesty's family."

"Well, it's not right, so many of the advances could help our people out,
not to mention the law officers who would not end up getting killed on the
job with the new armor being released," Hilde protested, still upset.

"But is it fair of you to ask one of the princes to marry into my family,
sure they would be able to have sons to carry on the name and linage, but is
it fair to them? Tell me would you cut yourself off from the opposite sex
forever if that was your inclination, just out of duty?" Aaron was curious
and was not being heavy handed, after skimming her thoughts and finding out
her brother had died in the line of duty.

"Gladly," Hilde spat out, and stood taller, "if it would save another
person's brother from being killed in the line of duty, I would do that and
more to get you to release the technology to our people." She looked over at
Andrew and Edward, "I would consider it my duty to my people and I, for one,
would crucify in the national media the first person who argued what they
were doing was the morally wrong thing."

Aaron raised an eyebrow as he glanced at Edward, who was looking at his
brother Andrew with a stunned expression on his face, "Be as it may, and it
gladdens my heart to know there are such tolerant people out in the world,
especially dealing with so many less than tolerant bigots as I do, the
answer for this day, this moment is the same, it has to be."

Frustrated, Hilde sat down and let her mind go over what was said and
latched onto the fact he told her no was only for today and this moment, she
vowed to herself to change public opinion to where they would demand one of
the princes marry him for their people.

Aaron raised an eyebrow again picking up on her thoughts, that would be
interesting to see and the debate that would open up would be intense, he
thought.

Seeing that there was silence, the male reporter stood up and asked, "Your
Majesty, there are rumors running rampant that you will soon be opening some
worlds for colonization, this sounds like something out of the BBC science
fiction shows, but with our own eyes, we've seen the huge spaceship and the
space station, then Monday a huge craft our experts are calling a dock yard
was moved into Orbit." Taking a breath, he smiled, "I guess I have two
questions, would it be possible to visit one of those facilities and bring a
camera crew to document the visit? And when can the average person expect to
be able to apply for immigration to one of those colony worlds?"

Aaron tilted his head and looked at Friedrich who looked horrified and
smiled, "The second part of your question, I can't answer until next week.
As far as the first part..." glancing around at the eager faces in the
audience he grinned, "I might be open to sitting down with you later, if you
and your camera crew are willing to undergo telepathic scans over your
intentions, then I would be open to allowing it. Of course, I would make
sure there was painkiller available and we would not dig any deeper than
would be necessary to make sure of your intentions."

Grinning, he started to sit down, "I'll email a list of crew to you in the
morning, then."

"One last question then before we have to go get something to eat for lunch,
before my next set of meetings start, "Aaron pointed to the small young
woman in the back.

Looking surprised at being called on, as she was covering the news
conference for the school paper, school starting up next week, they wanted
to do something about what was going on in their community as part of the
welcome back issue, "Um...well, I wasn't expecting to be called, not really
what a school student expected," she smiled slightly. "I suppose I should
start with thanking you for the certification you gave all the workers out
here on the project, my father is getting offers for employment daily, now
that he was certified for welding that new metal. So I guess my question
would be, if you are willing to train more of our people in your building
trades? And if you would consider training youth at the same time so they
have proper jobs to look forward to."

Looking at Edward as he thought about the answer, smirking evilly, which
made Edward nervous, Aaron answered, "I will consider it, and of course,
working with youth to get them trained will be included." Looking back at
Edward, "I was remiss in assigning your homework assignment last week,
Edward, so I think I'll give you this one, and I'll even give you two weeks
to get it done in." seeing Edward slouch and look like he was about to be
shot he laughed, "So Edward, your assignment is to come up with a list of
trades and using the terminal, equate them to our trades so we can go over
them and determine if training would be possible."

The young girl looked horrified that her innocent question caused one of the
royals to get homework, her expression caused a lot of chuckles amongst the
rest of the crowd and Victoria laughed as she moved closer to the
microphone, "I think my grandson was hoping that you had given him the last
two weeks off from your lessons before school started as bonus for good work
in his studies."

Laughing, Aaron grinned at Edward and winked, "Heavens no, he had a week off
for good grades, that is plenty long enough to rest."

Smiling and waving at those he had met before, Aaron made his way out of the
room followed by the rest of the group, making their way out of the
hospital, they started across the lawn towards the office part of the
hostel, halfway across the entry, they were intercepted by the barkeep
McGivens, holding a basket, "There ye be, I was telling me self that you
most likely missed tea having to deal with those people, so I put a luncheon
together for ya." Grinning as he handed it over he moved closer to Kevin,
"There be two servings of pudding for each of ya, I'm sure his majesty will
allow you each one serving, seeing he be taking the rest for himself."

Laughing, after thanking the barkeep, Aaron lunged for Kevin who danced out
of the way yelling back as he took off for the security office, "Hands off
until I get my piece."

Aaron of course, couldn't resist and took off after Kevin who was giggling
madly as he ran inside the building.

"Well, that is one way to relieve Aaron's stress," Edward laughed, as the
group thanked the barkeep and entered the office section through the
security door.



Kenny and Brian appeared in the parking lot of Gene Corp; Kenny, glancing
around at the tall glass and chrome building, was not as impressed as most
of the clients that actually came to Gene Corp. spotting the rolling fields
and white fences surrounding the place, he spotted the horses running
through the pasture a moment later and pointed them out to Brian, "I thought
this place was only cows and pigs."

"Oh no, Young Sir, we do equine storage and embryo's along with Cattle and
hogs as you mentioned," smiling, the CEO of Gene Corp approached them, "We
also do a small amount of storage for the local Zoo and for canine
fanciers." Waving them to walk ahead of him into the building, they were met
by several of the managers in the lobby, "I want to thank you for
considering us for the expansion of your dairy." He offered them seats in
the lobby, near the large television and the glass wall of the show ring,
"I've taken the liberty of having some of our most productive stock brought
in for you to look over, do you have a list of bloodlines you wish to
improve on?"

Brian looked at Kenny and they giggled together, "I'm sorry, but you see, I
think if you want to talk about bloodlines and all that, you really need to
talk to Mark, I'm in charge of the non animal agriculture. Mark and Tommy
who you met last time someone from the kingdom stopped by, were busy, since
the two of us did not having anything special to do this morning, we
volunteered to come back to Earth and pick up a couple of million chicks, if
possible and got talked into stopping here to inquire about a dairy herd or
three." Pulling out an Isolinear chip and placing it on the table, "Well,
besides the list that Mark asked us to give to you to improve one of the
major herds on the main farm planet, he said something about no new blood in
the main herd in fifty years."

Reaching over and picking up the chip, he handed it off to one of his
managers to download the information, "I have heard about the colony planets
and the possibility of them being opened up for visiting, so you're buying
trip today is not for the kingdom, but for one of the colony worlds," the
CEO mused as he sat back.

"No..." Brian blinked back as he picked up on the direction of the man's
thoughts, "This purchase is for the kingdom, though I suppose I can see how
it would be a benefit for you to be a supplier to the colony worlds, I can
mention it to Aaron, when we get back."

Giving it careful consideration, he asked, "I see, please do, I think his
majesty would agree that our dealings have benefited us both," clapping his
hands together, "Now, let's see what we can do for your dairy then, tell me
how many head do you currently run and what did you have in mind on ages?"

Kenny stared at the man on the other side of the room before looking over to
Brian and thinking real loud, "the man over in the doorway is really
creeping me out; something is not right with him."

Wondering why Kenny was being so quiet, Brian glanced his way out of the
corner of his eye and saw him staring intently at him, reaching out with his
mind to brush against Kenny's he heard the message that Kenny was repeating
over and over again, "I hear you Kenny, I'll let Ray know," Brian smiled at
him as he casually looked around in the lull of conversation and glanced at
the man creeping Kenny out and skimmed his mind.

Sitting back in a jolt, Brian found it disturbing that the man was mentally
undressing him and some of the images he wanted to do were a little weird,
coming from someone outside of the Clan, "That's just wrong, coming from
him...He's imagining me on a kitchen table and licking whip cream off my
nipples, now Aaron on the other hand or any of the others," Brian sent back
to Kenny who got wide eyed.

Kenny got the first taste of the green monster, jealousy reared its ugly
head and he stood up in an overly controlled manor and stalked across the
room, standing several feet away, he glared at the man, "You know you're
thinking way too loud, not only that, but he's taken and I am not happy with
what you are thinking of...LEAVE!"

Huffing slightly in annoyance at being pulled out of his fantasy world,
Larry glared down at the half pint pipsqueak that yelled at him, before he
could say beat it, several of the men, that now screamed security guard,
rushed over and he heard his boss order him to go upstairs.

"Kenny...Kenny, come here Love," Brian smiled as Kenny walked over and he
pulled him into a hug, "We can't be upset every time someone thinks things
about us, we're not the thought police after all, plus, to those outside the
kingdom, well, they've never had to worry about watching what they thought
about around others, they've not had to deal with telepaths walking among
them."

Placing his hand on Kenny's face with a smile, Brian sent him an image of
him lying on the counter covered in whip cream while Kenny and Doug each
took a side eating their way down and Aaron walking in on them to get the
main prize.

Blushing furiously, Kenny muttered, "Damn," softly, before sitting down next
to Brian, the image burned into his mind before grinning in anticipation.

Chuckling, Brian turned back to the CEO and smiled, "Now then, to answer
your question, we need all ages I suppose, you see, we don't have a dairy at
all and we need to start one. We have the contracts and all, to supply
things locally to Altair and the islands, but we need to create our own to
supply the Kingdom now that the hospital is going full out and certain
somebody's have discovered ice cream," Brian dug his fingers into Kenny's
side at that remark, causing him to giggle and glare playfully at him.

"Alright," the CEO sat back thinking, "So is the dairy you are hoping to
start...no you probably need all three, don't you? Cheese, milk and cream,
when do you need the herds by?"

Brian smiled as he pulled out his P.A.D.D. to check on something else,
"Well, Mark said it would be a couple of days before the facilities where
finished, you can send him an email or three on what you find, I think he
mentioned that he wanted one breed that would be good across the board, he's
not partial to Holsteins at all." Standing up and pulling Kenny up off the
couch, he smiled, "Right, I think we've taken enough of your time,
especially as you need to be talking to Mark about selection and things, if
you can do video conferencing the contact information is on the chip."

Slipping his P.A.D.D. back into its pouch, they started for the door, "Oh
and if you are truly interested in becoming a site for off world export of
livestock, ask Mark to send you the file on the quarantine center and its
requirements, I would think you would want a separate facility from your
breeding stock," Brian pointed out the window to the horses running past
again.

Aaron looked around the conference room, moving over next to Victoria, who
was standing with her family at the side wall, which was more like a window
than a wall; he smiled as he followed their gaze down to the Earth below.

"I never dreamed I would ever be in space, even as a little girl when the
Americans landed on the moon, I never dreamed of one day being here, looking
down," Victoria smiled at her grandsons, "I bet the both of you have been up
here before and more than likely further out yet."

Aaron laughed and moved back to one of the couches, "Well, let's just say
that Andrew and Edward are the first non Alteran's to visit several of our
worlds," catching her curious expression, Aaron smiled, "Last weekend, the
Clan visited two of our worlds and I took theses two along for the day.

"Speaking of Alterans," Aaron caught their attention, "Tyler and Andrew's
son is doing fine, and I have enough material collected from them to create
ten more sons for them, and that does not count the second embryo in
stasis," settling back as he watched the group move away from the wall and
sit down, "I was thinking it might be time to let Andrew be resequenced,
future children that are not Alteran are secure, and with him living in my
kingdom as he finishes up his schooling, it would be easier for him to get
back and forth to the palace if he can do so under his own power."

Victoria sent a look at her husband and then James, Andrew's father, they
had been talking about this over the past couple of weeks, and with the
revelations this morning, she looked at Edward out of the corner of her eye
critically to see if he was jealous and instead he seemed to be happy for
his brother, "We of course, have been discussing this development, as our
original agreement was to wait until Andrew's son was born," looking at the
crestfallen expression on Andrew's face, she smiled, "It does not seem very
fair to him and the rest of the Clan, does it." Shifting in her seat,
Victoria grinned at Aaron, "So when would you want to do this?"

Looking at Andrew who was beaming in joy, Aaron chuckled, "This weekend,
Friday night to be exact, that way he can start school first thing Monday
morning," he really started to laugh at the horrified expression on Andrew's
face at the thought of going back to school.

Skimming Edward's thoughts, Aaron was glad to find no jealousy there, just a
hint of sadness that it was not him, he was pulled back to the conversation
as Victoria asked, "So, before the rest of the monarchs show up, can I ask
about the clan structure you seem to use and what it entails?"

Blinking, Aaron wasn't sure where she was going, but saw no harm in telling
her, "Well, Clans would be like your nobility class, there are a few other
rules governing a clan. Hmmm, let's see if I can make this understandable to
outsiders," quickly adding with a smile, "Not that I'm being negative
against outsiders, let me start by saying marriage is slightly different in
my kingdom, we of course have those who find a single partner to spend their
life with, like a marriage you are familiar with, then we have those that
are in a marriage to three or four people, then you have a clan Marriage."

Leaning back and closing his eyes as he explained things, "A clan is the
ultimate form of marriage, not only that, it starts with at least five
people, but it also has duties to the kingdom, the nobility part you see.
Clan Stranton, which I am head of, leads the kingdom currently; once Andrew
officially joins us, my Clan will have eighteen members, and there are very
strict rules we are governed by, like no sex outside the clan, except within
the charter." Opening his eyes and smiling at Edward, "the Stranton Clan
charter allows no more than four people to have provisional member status,
allowing them into our beds, it is designed as a way to bring new members
into the Clan, those we feel would truly be the best to lead and fit in with
us."

Edward was horrified and thrilled and saddened, "You gave up one of those
spots to me, knowing I could never be part of the Clan, you still gave it to
me," he was choked up and ignored the fact the rest of his family was in the
room, what they had given him was to precious, they wasted one of the places
for him.

Picking up on Edward's thoughts, Aaron opened his arms, "Come here, Edward,"
as Edward launched himself and landed in his lap, Aaron held him close as
Edward tried to come to grips with what he heard.

Victoria was stunned, Aaron and the Clan had given up something they could
not get back, not only that, that one act showed her how they truly felt
about her grandson.

Holding Edward tight against his body, Aaron continued, "A clan has to be
sanctioned by the crown for services rendered, as an example, Clan Shaolin
was reinstated and pledged their lives to the crown, they have probably the
most members of any clan, yet their charter is different, as only twelve
elders have the right to claim they are clan at one time, and their members
are free to marry as they see fit. So while only twelve can claim the title
of Clan Shaolin there are many who are Shaolin and represent Clan Shaolin."

Thinking about it, Alfred asked, "What about the children of the Clan,
surely after all this time the children alone would cause your clan to be
huge?"

Smiling, Aaron felt Edward had calmed down somewhat, "You truly are special,
Edward and we do not regret giving that spot to you, you are cherished.
Well, to answer your question, children of the clan are not normally bound
by the rules of marriage to the Clan, what happens most of the time is the
children will grow up and move out and go their own way, leaving the Clan,
or in the case of the original Shaolin, breakaway and start a new Clan."

"So you're saying that most of the Clans got their starts from the children
of the original clan, yours, but you have in place a system that you can
create a new clan for services rendered to the kingdom, not the crown,"
James said slowly, as he looked at his son, they had been talking about
Edward and had come to the conclusion he was not as BI as he claimed. "Does
a clan have to live in your kingdom or are there other rules that govern how
a clan must act?"

Shaking his head no, and thinking of the possibilities, "No, even with how
easy it is for us to travel in the universe, in the time it takes to blink
twice, I've considered letting some of the Clans act as planetary governors
as long as they have strong ties to the crown, otherwise, the day to day
operations of the empire would not leave me much time to do what I want to,
if you think I get cranky now, you should see me if I had to do nothing but
run the empire from the moment I woke up in the morning until I went to bed,
if that happened then I would not be willing to be so accommodating over
certain issues, hence you would be dealing with someone modeled on the old
King and not forgiving at all."

Giving Edward a nudge to sit up straight, with a smile as he pointed to the
clock, "I think we can expect visitors any minute, or when they finally tear
themselves away from the view." Laughing, as he pointed at the wall off to
the side, Aaron got to his feet as the door opened up allowing the first of
the visiting dignitaries into the room.

Aaron had, of course, expected Emperor Morimoto and the Danish King Jens
Rosencrans, but the surprise came with the Chinese premier and Russian
President that followed Emperor Morimoto into the room. Once everyone had a
chance to get comfortable, Aaron glanced at the two extras to the meeting
before tracing a pattern on the table top terminal, darkening the window in
four places, allowing images to be brought to life, four life bearing
systems were now displayed on the monitors for everyone to look at.

"Let me start off by welcoming you all to this discussion of possibilities,
one that started some time ago with Jens, as he asked me what it would take
to open one of these worlds up for his people to colonize it," Aaron sat
back as he gazed questioningly at the two he had not planned on being there,
"The first thing that needs to be said before we go any further, I want it
to be very clear that those who leave Earth and settle on one of my worlds,
even if that world is empty right now, they will fall under Alteran Law, and
look to the Alteran Crown for leadership. I understand from early
explorations with both Jens and Morimoto that this was more than acceptable,
as they felt it would ease overcrowding, yet they would gain the advantage
of a sister world in space, a place they felt, over time, would be a great
asset to their kingdoms even if it was not under their control."

Eyes never leaving the two newcomers' faces, Aaron tilted his head to the
side, "So, I guess my question is what are the intentions of the Peoples
republic of China and the Russian government and why are both of you here?"

Chairman Woo bowed his head , "Honored Dragon..." he started, and Aaron picked
up from his surface thoughts the fact he had watched the broadcast that went
out worldwide Monday and repeated with plenty of speculation, all day
yesterday, in fact the man had wet himself in fear over the plans he had
scrapped, seeing the video footage.

"Honored Dragon, the People's Republic has long had a history that
westerners have viewed harshly, it is our hope, by opening our borders to
free immigration to your kingdom alone, and one of these new colony planets
that the people that wish to live under a different rule will have the
chance while those who are more than satisfied with the present rule will be
happier," Chairman Woo bowed his head, knowing his mind was an open book if
it was so wished.

Rubbing his temple, Aaron looked at the Russian who smiled at him, "I am in
a similar situation, with the breakup of the communist party and the move to
democracy, my people are having a very hard time, jobs are scarce and food
is even scarcer, it is my hope by allowing those who dream and wish of a
better place could move to your kingdom, this open immigration policy that
you are contemplating would be a godsend to us. If even a fraction of the
people whom I believe wish to move, actually immigrate to your kingdom, my
country will be able to recover at a fast pace, jobs will no longer be
scarce, neither would food, we will be able to finally move onto solid
ground and heal the fractures caused by the breakup." President
Gorbivonovich told him as he pointed to Morimoto, "please do not blame the
honored emperor, he has a leak in his office, and we found out by the leak
in Chairman Woo's office."

"This morning between the three of us, we decided on full discloser of our
assets and spy's, after all we knew we would soon be before telepaths, we
wanted to come here with no secrets between us and the ability to say the
leaks have been closed," Chairman Woo told him.

Aaron thought about what he had just been told, and skimmed the man's
thoughts, finding he was telling the truth, he looked at the views of the
four colony worlds, "I want it to be clear that I am not running prison
planets, as you probably have realized by now, I don't run prisons, we
execute our prisoners or modify their minds." Trailing off as he gazed round
the room, three of the five permanent Security Council members were in this
room. Standing and moving so he could look down on the earth as he thought
about what was said and unsaid and how it would affect his plans.

Sighing without turning around, "If I let your people immigrate, they would
have to be told up front they would be under our laws, and that they needed
to use this as an opportunity to start a new life, build a new home. This
would not be a place to shunt your political prisoners or malcontents off
to, hoping they disappear, once they become citizens of my kingdom, they
would not be able to regroup and plan the overthrow of your government
without my sanction." Turning around and leaning up against the wall, Aaron
glared at the two, "And my sanction would only come about if you attacked
me, or mine."

"Agreed," Chairman Woo hastily told him, after what he saw he never wanted
to even think about taking any action against this man or his kingdom,
anyone who would even suggest such a thing would be shot.

"I also agree," President Gorbivonovich smiled as he pulled out a chip from
his pocket and placed it on the table, "A list of all eligible male children
of the ranking leaders of my nation for you to choose from, all have
volunteered to marry into your family to cement the opportunity for our
country to immigrate to one of your colonies."

Aaron stared at him for a moment before screaming in his mind, "Well Shit,
why me!!!" then when Emperor Morimoto pointed to the man to his right, "My
brother has agreed and my nephew is being shown around the station, we have
brought young Ton with us to cement the deal."

Eyes wider as he looked at the Danish King who smiled, well it was more of a
smirk, "I also have a nephew who is more than pleased with the idea, he is
currently touring the station with Ton.

Thumping his head against the back wall Aaron closed his eyes as Victoria
laughed when Chairman Woo offered up one of his grandsons, if that was what
was needed, and he did so eagerly. Opening his eyes and seeing the amusement
on the British faces, and the eagerness on the rest of the group, he turned
around and glared at the universe, talk about something coming back and
biting you in the ass, he thought.

Taking several deep breaths, Aaron turned around and made his way back to
the couch and plopped down, "Let's leave that for later, shall we?" sending
a glare at Edward who was trying his hardest not to fall down laughing, and
at Andrew's retreating back, as he rushed to the fresher he closed his mind
off to the offers and switched gears, hoping it would go away. Tracing his
fingers on the terminal, he pulled up a list and choosing a likely candidate
placed a fifth planet on the screen causing the Chinese and Russian leaders
to beam in glee.

"I understand not wanting to lose one's cultural identity, but the first
thing those wanting to immigrate have to understand is that we shall use
English as a galactic standard language, those that are not telepaths do not
have the option of picking up a verbal language like we do, so to make
things easier, and knowing it is the most commonly spoken language next to
Spanish, we have chosen that as the language of choice." Aaron rubbed his
forehead again, ending up with his hand in front of his mouth rubbing his
chin before he stopped and picked up where he left off.

"Each of these worlds have passed a rigorous scanning and testing phase, the
testing phase lasted over fifty Earth years, testing the planet in question
against all forms of earth plant and animal life, and numerous human tissue
analogs, before being passed as safe for colonization," Aaron sneaked a
glare at the offending chip on the table. "Not that I expect you to pick one
of the planets right now, or even stating that each country may only
immigrate to the one world. In fact it might be better in the long run to
offer open immigration to all worlds at once, and leave the choice of which
planet to move to up to the person who is immigrating."

Pulling a small long thin case out of the side of his pouch, Aaron placed it
on the table before tracing commands into another part of the terminal,
causing a small section of the table to hiss and rise before sliding to the
side, pulling four chips out of the case, he placed them into the exposed
slots and traced another command. Finished copying the data about the five
worlds onto the chips, Aaron pulled them out one at a time and slid them
across the table, sealing the table top once more and placing the case back
in his pouch, Aaron sat back.

"I plan to announce the open immigration policy to those five worlds one
week from today; I planned to make the announcement from Hawaii, if we come
to an agreement, I will make room for you to stand next to me at that
announcement of those in my three territories being given the chance to
explore the stars and I make the colonization announcement," Aaron looked at
Victoria for a moment and gave her a look, when she smiled back at him as if
she was planning something.

"Immigration will take place in three waves, the first being farmers, to
plant the crops, along with medical personal to staff the hospitals, next
will be the tradesman and the support staff along with scientists, finally,
everyone else. It's all listed out on the chips, as these are totally new
worlds and are being started from scratch." Aaron looked at his notes on the
terminal touchpad, "There is also a list of items that must be brought with
the individual or families immigrating."

Leaning back into the couch, "I'm sure if they study the list of what is
available on those planets, including new species that are edible or not
harmful to the human race, there will be a lot of innovators looking to
develop new products for shipment to the other worlds and Earth, and they
need to plan ahead and make sure they have brought along the items needed
for their experiments and business ventures, as it is not on the lists."
Closing his eyes he finally made the decision he had been thinking on for a
while, when he first considered colonization, "One thing that might be a
problem for some of those wishing to immigrate from your countries is the
deposit needing to be made, a deposit, that after two years, will be
returned to the family or individual. It is designed so that those moving
there had a savings of capital to fall back on and not be a burden to the
community, a way to replace equipment or food, until the crops came in or
the new livestock was brought in, because of a disaster."

"If you look at the section, you will see a long list of deferments to the
deposit, an example would be a healer who had been certified in the use of
our equipment, if he agreed to a minimum of five years service, he would
receive a family deferment on the deposit, if one brought adequate supplies
to feed themselves and any livestock for a full year, there is a deferment
on the amount," Aaron looked around the room, "Frankly, I'm not looking to
make money here, as for the most part, my kingdom does not use money, don't
get me wrong, we have a monetary system based on gold, but except as a means
to buy from the outside, it is useless to us. What I am trying to do is make
sure the colonist can survive for eighteen months if something were to
happen, I'm planning for the worst, and I don't think a deposit of what
amounts to one thousand pounds for an individual is too high, after all, if
they planned properly and did everything with a good amount of common sense,
they will get that money back after twenty four months."

"I can see that would keep a large amount of my people from being able to
immigrate..." President Gorbivonovich told him, sitting back and thinking
about it, "Would you accept a government bond in the place of the deposit,
my government would guarantee those who immigrate do not starve as they
build their new lives." Leaning forward, he looked at Aaron, "It seems that
you are more worried about the immigrants starving before they can establish
themselves."

"True...the most dangerous part of a new colony getting on their feet is the
first couple of years and establishing the ability to feed themselves."
Aaron looked around at each of them before agreeing, "Alright, if your
government is willing to place an on demand bond for food if needed, then we
can do away with the deposits."

Seeing all the grinning faces, Aaron held up a hand, "Just to be sure you
are all on the same page, if there is mixed colonization and one of the
worlds for some unforeseen reason would falter, that means each of the
countries that had former citizens on that world, would have to come up with
a percentage of food towards the relief efforts."

After everyone agreed, Aaron sighed, "To tell the truth, I can't ever
foresee that happening, as once they become citizens of my kingdom, they are
mine to make sure they have what they need, I just want to make sure all of
you would be willing to jump in if there was an emergency. Chances are if
something happened, we would need to get supplies to the world quickly
before trying to figure out who was supposed to pay for what, I just want to
cover all the bases so to speak, and make sure if the unthinkable would
happen, the people would survive."

Andrew walked in with Brian and Kenny who was looking at Aaron funny,
"Aaron, is there something you want to tell us, maybe why we passed two
young guys in the hallway when we arrived who looked us over, they told us
they were to be offered as marriage prospects, so their country could
colonize one of our worlds."

Andrew giggled as he went over to the table and picked up the chip the
Russian president had placed there and slotted it home into his P.A.D.D.,
opening the file, his eyes opened wide as he showed it to Brian and Kenny,
each file had pictures of the person attached, and they started out clothed
and quickly devolved into naked pictures in several states including fully
aroused and with the obligatory cum shot scene.

Aaron dropped his head into his hands mentally groaning as he tried to
explain what had happened and he had no idea what to do about it, after his
comment to Jens to keep him from trying to marry a daughter to Kevin turned
around and bit him in the ass.

Editors' ramblings

RadioRanchers note: I can't begin to tell you the number of times that a
smart ass remark that I have made, has done just that, come back to bite me
in the ass. So far, thank God, I haven't been forced to marry someone
because of an off hand remark I have made. Of course, my not being a King or
any other royalty, I don't think the matter will rear its head in my case. I
just have to be careful as to which other universes or worlds I drop in on
unexpectedly. Lucky for me, I have someone that is quite good at predicting
things and can observe multiple universes easily. You can find out about
him, and a number of other interesting people in one of my stories, called
The Shimmering Ship, which can be found at HTTP://Crackerwriter.us
<http://crackerwriter.us/>  under Radio Rancher, along with several other
fine authors' stories. Oh dear, did I just plug one of the fort sites? Yes I
think I did.

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

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