Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:04:54 EDT From: Moonweezle9@aol.com Subject: apocalypse chapter 24 Apocalypse chapter 24 We jump ahead in time now to the day before the group gets ready to test fly the ship for the first time. They have all worked hard in the last few days preparing and gathering supplies to take with them to their new home. They have gathered an abundance of things including any good lumber, building materials, and wiring they could find just incase they needed to build some sort of shack when they get to their destination. Most of the systems Adrien had put in the cave like the power and security systems have already been stripped out and packed away in the ships cargo area. The solar panels Adrien built that were on top of the hill were removed and also put in the ship. The last major thing to be removed from the cave was the Alien device they were using to power some of their stuff and run all of their electronic gear. "Hey Adrien are you sure that the ship isn't gonna crash and kill us all?" Chris asked. "I can not guarantee anything but I think we have done a good job on it. I believe we will be fine, but I am going to test the systems personally before we all pile inside." Adrien said reassuring the nervous little dude. we have already taken all of our bedding and clothes and belongings to the ship and we all had a sleeping bag and a pillow left in the cave to sleep on our last night in it. All of the food and provisions were packed and ready to go in the cart attached to the back of the ATV. We are all going to sleep together as a group tonight in the common area for security and just to say good bye to our current home. Adrien has gotten the cloaking shields working on the ship and the engines were working good enough to get us where we were going. I mean it's a space ship for shits sakes, but it is only going to fly a few thousand miles maybe. As for the power system in the cave we are going to dismantle the remainder of it in the morning before we leave for the last time, only so we can have the hologram to hide the mine entrance still running over night. Dinner would be something simple so that we didn't need to clean up much. The next morning came all too soon as we were piling the last of our stuff on the ATV to take to the ship to be loaded. Once we got there Adrein went right to work on the ship as the others unpacked the ATV. "Ok I have gone through the preliminary check list and I believe we will have a green flag tomorrow." Adrien said. "You sure you can fly this thing?" AJ asked him. At first he didn't know what to say. "I do not know for sure. I will do my best though. The systems are mostly automatic but we will have to program the destination." Adrien answered. "Ok just making sure." AJ said giving him a sarcastic thumbs up. Adrien looked at me and gave me the thumbs up with a puzzled look asking me what it meant. "Don't worry about it. He's being his normal self." I told him. "You mean obnoxious and rude?" Adrien said. "Yep. That's our Adam." I said laughing. "Look man it's still early enough I'm going to town for one last trip to get the last few things we need. I'm going to take Chris with me maybe his nose and ears might pick something up before I do." I told Adrien. "Ok I will get the ship ready to fly. I want to do a test flight to make sure the bugs are worked out before tomorrow." He replied. I gathered Chris and told him what we were going to do and we got on the ATV and headed to town one last time. "What are we going after?" he asked on the way. "Well for one thing sun block. If we are going to the tropics it's going to be sunny there all year so we are going to need it at first, and some swimming trunks. I mean I'm all for being nekked all the time but I don't want sunburn on my dick or my ass." I explained. We arrived at the outskirts of town a few minutes later with our guns at the ready as usual. We go into the wal mart which is now almost stripped of usable things and get what we need. "Hey you know what I just thought of something. Can't we just stop at another wal mart or something on the way to where we are going?" Chris said making a damn good point. "Damn that is a good idea bud. I may have to give you something special for thinking of that." I told him winking at him. "You mean what I think you do?" he asked. "Maybe. You want to?" I said hinting. With out saying a word his hands flew to his zipper and button of his jeans and in a flash they were around his ankles and his little shaft was getting hard rapidly. Since we were at the check out lane I helped him hop up on one of the counters and then I went to town slobbing his yummy little knob. He moaned like he hadn't had any kind of fun like this in a long time, even though I knew he did daily. I was starting to get into a good rhythm going up and down on him when something caught both of our attention making us stop instantly. I let his pecker fall from my lips and raised up to look at his face. "You hear it don't you?" I said. he nodded yes with a scared and concerned look. "Get dressed quick we have to get the fuck out of here now!" I said stressing now. He pulled his pants back up and I dragged him out before he even had them fastened. We jumped on the ATV and took of for the ship as fast as I could get the thing to go. "Come on dammit!" I said trying to push the gas pedal further and harder than I could go. "Adrien change of plans get every one in the ship now! Chris and I are coming as fast as we can. We're leaving asap." I said to Adrien through my thoughts. "I have already started the start sequence for the engines. I sensed the threat as well." He said back to me. We tore through the trees and brush still going as fast as we could up the hill to the ship. "Derrik I heard something but what was it? I'm scared." Chris said starting to cry. "It's them they're coming." I said referring to the monsters. Chris then began to freak out a little. "Hey don't worry bud. We're going to get to the ship then it's off to swimming and playing all day ok so don't worry. When we get to where we're going I'll finish what we was just doing." I said trying to calm him. Adrien had the ship online and ready for it's maiden flight since we repaired it after it crashed. Everyone was inside and ready for the flight and he had the cargo opening open so we could just drive right in with the ATV. I kept the ATV gas pedal to the floor as we approached the ship and didn't let off till we were inside the belly of the ship. As soon as we were inside Adrien closed the door and activated the cloaking shields. "Come on lets get to the control room." I told Chris who was still a bit shaken. We got to the control room and everyone was there sitting on the floor except the hybrid who was operating the control systems. The ship could only be controlled by some one with the mental abilities that Adrien and I have. Any normal person would have a hard time getting the ship to do much. "Adrien I know you wanted to test this bird out, but we need to go now. They are close." I said to him as he got the ship systems all going. "Who is close?" Carry asked. "Monsters! I heard them in wal mart when Derrik was su...." Chris started to give away what we were doing when we heard them but stopped in mid sentence. "It's a lot of them and they are on foot." I told everyone. Some of them started to cry in fear. I was a little scared myself. If we didn't die from the ship crashing with us in it then the monsters may find us and then we'd still be in a world of shit. "Every hang on." Adrien said as we felt the ship begin to shutter. He turned on the view screen and we could see the ground start to disappear under us. We were now in flight. "Derrik please take the other position please." Adrien said then a chair that we didn't know was there came up out of the floor. I sat in it and then something came down from the ceiling and stopped just above my head. "Try to concentrate on the ship." Adrien said. A beam of light then came out of the thing above me and shined on my head. All of the sudden it felt like I was a physical part of the ship. "Wow. Do you feel this to?" I asked Adrien. "Yes if you mean being one with the craft." He answered. "What is it?" Cody asked me. "It's like I'm part of the ship. It's wild. I can see everything under us. It's like being a bird and flying." I replied. We got over the top of town and Adrien stopped the ship in a hover. It was then we saw something shocking. The soldier that we had dealt with previously was running through town being chased by the monsters. "Holy shit look at all of them!" AJ said at the large number of beasts. I turned and looked at Adrein then. "Yes you are right." He said. The ship then shot a burst of energy at the monsters destroying them. "Wow did we just do that?" Donny asked. "Yes it was the ships ion cannon." Adrein said. "Cool! This is better than a video game!" Donny said then. We had saved the soldier from being killed, but maybe only for now. It was true he did cause us some hard times and pain, but we couldn't just condemn him to a death by those monsters. That would be inhumane even for us dumb kids. The simple fact was we saved him this time, but now he's on his own. He was too much of a risk for us to try to take with is again. He tried to kill Adam once and almost did kill Gavin when he shot him. The ship then under Adrien's control continued on over the landscape giving us an eagle's eye view of it. As we flew over the orphanage some of the others were saddened to see that it had been seriously damaged by the monsters attack. It was practically on the verge of collapsing. "Wow it's a good thing we decided to get to the mine." Nathan said. "Well Adrien I'd say that so far it's a successful test flight." Phillip told him. "Do you guys want to experience something out of this world?" Adrien said. Everyone looked at each other then and wondered what he was talking about. "Go for it." I told him knowing what he was going to do. "Whoa what the fuck?!" AJ said as he began to float off the floor. Adrien had temporarily disengaged the gravity in the ship making it feel like we were in outer space. It took everyone by surprise at first, but then the younger guys loved the sensation. "Wow this is like swimming with out the water." Justin said making like he was paddling in a swimming pool. After a short time of weightlessness everyone gently settled back to the floor getting a lot of moans and groans that the thrill ride was over. "I apologize but it takes a lot of concentration to keep the ship going." Adrien told them. I could feel my mind flowing even further into the ships systems as I began to figure out how to work things. "Now that we have concluded the ship is safe to fly where are we going?" Adrien asked. "Damn good question. I had my heart set on the Bahamas, but I guess there are other places we could go." I replied. "We can try the Bahamas first and if that place is not good for us we can try some where else." Adrein suggested. I guess the course was set then. Grand Bahama Island here we come. We fly fro hours over the countryside seeing town after town that had been devastated by the monster invasion forces. Almost every where we looked there was devastation. The ship was not going at it's normal blistering speed that it was capable of when it is operating normally, but from what I could tell we were cruising around 300 miles an hour. In only a few hours time we were very far from home, further from home than some of us had ever been. We came upon a town in northern Georgia that looked relatively partially intact. "Wow check it out guys, building that aren't leveled." I pointed out to the group. "Wonder why they didn't mess this place up to." Carry said. "Uncertain, there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal about the geography." Adrien said. "Look a wal mart imagine that." AJ said pointing out that almost every town we had seen so far had a wal mart in it. Only thing was this one was still standing. "You guys thinking what I am?" I asked everyone. "Umm..shopping trip?" Chris said. "Exactly. There has to be tons of stuff in there that we couldn't get at home cus it was destroyed." I said. "I will land in the parking lot." Adrien said. The ship descended slowly to the ground and the landing legs deployed so we could set down normally. As we neared the ground a few light poles got in the way and were bent over to the ground like match sticks. One of the landing legs settled on the top of a brand new Mercedes crushing it like a beer can. "Hope he's got full coverage insurance." Cole said making every one bust out laughing. The ship left one huge foot print in the black top of the parking lot. Adrein opened the hatch then and lowered the ramp so we could get outside of the ship. I disconnected my mind from the ship and got out of the chair as it lowered back into the floor. "I will stay and monitor for trouble." Adrien said. "Ok I'll try not to be in there too long dude. I know you want to look around and spend some time with Carry." I told him as I left the ship with the others. Four of us had guns and had them at the ready as we approached the front doors of the place. "Every one in a tight group. Guns up and eyes open guys." I told every one. I didn't sense any presence, but that didn't mean there wasn't something amiss. We went through each isle and checked the place out thoroughly before we commenced to shop for free. "All right I guess it's all clear. Everyone grab a cart and go nuts." I said grabbing my own cart. We each had our own cart and the guys were talking about what they were going to grab. The younger ones of course wanted toys, and I was more concerned with what kind of food and supplies they had. We walked through the building as a group grabbing things here and there as we went. As we approached the toy department Zack, Justin, and Donny were practically drooling. The twins wanted a few things, but they were in no way as hyper as the littler guys were over the toys. We filled our carts to capacity then rolled them outside to load them. I went up to let Adrien know that the place was a jack pot and we could get a lot of supplies here so he agreed to keep watch a while longer. We all went back inside this time for the essentials like food and clothes and supplies. We all grabbed some new clothes and shoes for the next cart load. Carry took my cart this time out to the ship as I grabbed another and began to collect medicines and anything in the pharmacy we could use to fill this cart with. I rolled it to the front door and set it there then grabbed one more cart. This time I made it to sporting goods and took all the guns and ammunition I could just incase we may need it. As I breaking open a display case AJ walked up with an empty cart. "What should we put in this one?" he asked. "Grab a bunch of fishing gear and stuff and pile it in there. We are going to the tropics you know. We may need to catch fish to eat eventually." I said. He piled his cart full and took it out as I was filling mine up. In the end we had nearly 40 carts full of supplies and clothes and other things we wanted before Adrien even got to go into the building. "Ok I think you can disconnect now and get yourself some things." I told him as I came to the control center when I was done shopping. "O but I want to make sure you have a handle on the ship before I go." He said before the chair I was in rose back out of the floor again. I sat down and patched into the ships systems like before and it was like I was watching everything from a high place above us and I could see in all directions at once. Only then did Adrien leave and go inside with Carry. Carry helped him pick out clothes and things like that to fill one cart then he grabbed another for supplies he felt like we may need. He went to the hard ware department and grabbed every scrap of wire he could find and anything else that looked useful. Then it was a cartload form electronics. He had a couple laptop computers he wanted for parts and lots of other stuff to. In the end he had gotten 5 carts of supplies and clothes himself. He had all kinds of things that I would have never of thought of in his carts, like bug spray. I never gave a thought to needing it, but we might. As he was inside getting his final cart of supplies with Carry she stopped in mid stride. "What is wrong?" he asked her. "Oh it's nothing." She said holding her stomach. Adrien put his hand on her stomach and then had an astounded look on his face. "Oh goodness." He said looking into her eyes. "What?" she asked not knowing why he said that. She thought she had a stomach cramp or something. "WE have...you and I have..."Adrien tried to say. "What?" she asked again. "Conceived." He said then with a look he had never shown before. It was a look of fear, happiness, and wonder all at once. "What? You mean I'm pregnant?!" Carry asked getting a worried look. Adrien only slowly nodded his head yes. "Oh fuck now what are we going to do?" she said starting to hyper ventilate. "Calm down. We will work through this I love you." He told her as her eyes began to tear up. "That's the first time you ever said that to me." She said as she smiled and hugged him. She was happy and scared at the same time of the thought of becoming a mother. "Are you positive I am... you know" she said hinting to her pregnantcy. "You could say that. I felt the heart beating." He told her. Now knowing why she had been feeling so bad in the mornings she continued on with him gathering supplies so the trip could proceed. In the ship they stowed the last of the carts of supplies and walked hand in hand to the control center where the rest of us were. "Eww gross!" Cole said as he saw his sister walk in holding Adrien's hand. "No grosser than you putting your brothers thing in your mouth." She replied making him scowl and us laugh. "We have some news." She said then. We all looked that the two of them wondering what was up. "Well let's just say it like this, uncle Cody and uncle Cole." She said. At first they didn't know what she was talking about but it hit me right off. "Are you serious?" I asked. They both nodded yes then. "I'll be damned." AJ said as he figured it out. "What?!" the twins both said at the same time. "She's pregnant you dummies." AJ told them. Their eyes grew to the size of pool balls then. "For real?" Cody asked and Carry nodded and smiled. This news left us all speechless and astounded. Could it be that Adrien has knocked Carry up in the few times that they have had sex? Evidently it may be so. "Ok, we'll be uncles just as long as we don't have to change any diapers." Cole said with a smile. I could sense Adrien was sort of happy but confused and scared at the same time. He was happy because he had shared in making a new life, and scared and confused because none of us knew how in the hell to deliver a baby. That would be a hurtle we will conquer when we come to it. After we had everything stowed in the cargo area we the ship lifted off and we continued on to our destination. We did make a slight detour on our way, some of the guys wanted to see Disney Land while we had the chance. I for one had never been there myself so we went for the hell of it. We weren't planning on landing or stopping, but just flying over to say that we have seen it before. We neared Orlando Florida a short time later and we could see the park from a distance away. Some of the younger guys were getting excited and antsy to see the place. As we grew closer and closer the sight before us broke our hearts. One of the most beloved places a kid could ever visit was virtually destroyed. There wasn't much left of the place, only a few buildings were still standing and a few rides had escaped destruction. Cinderella's castle was now in ruins. The Epcot center is a pile of shiny metal now. Zack started to cry because he thought the monster had killed Mickey Mouse and the rest of the gang. "Oh honey I'm sure that Mickey and Minny and the others all got away safely." Carry said comforting him as he cried. It did put a lump in my throat and a sore place in my heart to see this place like this. We were about to fly past the ruins when Adam spoke up. "Hey what's that down there? Look!" We slowed the ship to a stop and looked down at the earth below us. There in the ruins that use to be Disney Land we saw a person digging through what looked like a trash can. A few seconds later another joined them. "Holy shit survivors!" AJ cried out. "Should we land and see if everything is ok?" Adrein asked. "Don't know. What do you guys think?" I asked the others. "Of course we should." Carry said sternly. We descended to a low level just above tree top high before we turned the cloaking shield off. When the two people on the ground saw us hey freaked out. One ran away and he other dropped to his knees and dropped their head as if they were defeated and just had enough and were ready to die. We landed about 100 feet away and shut the engines off. Adrien opened the hatch and we all went out to this person. They didn't raise their head at all to look at us. I walked up to them and knelt down in front of them. "Are you ok?" I asked calmly. The head slowly rose and I got a look at the persons face. I was greeted by a dirty face and the nicest blue eyes I had ever seen. "It's ok we're not gonna hurt you." I told them. At this point I couldn't tell if this was a boy or a girl. They had shoulder length light brown hair and a cute face, you know the features that made a cute boy or girl only I couldn't tell through the dirt. When I heard the voice it told me that this was a cute boy under all that grime. His voice was slight and quiet, but I could tell it was a boys and also foreign to our country. "Are you real? Or am I already dead or dreaming?" he asked. "We are definitely real. Do you need help?" I said. "I though everyone else was dead." He said before he started to cry. "That we can't answer, but we are definitely real and alive. Can we help you some how?" I asked again. All he did was sniffle a bit. "We saw you digging in the trash, do you have any food?" Carry asked and he shook his head no. With out a word Carry went back inside the ship and grabbed some water and some food and brought to the kid. He looked at us like we were saving angels and thanked us over and over. "Who was the other person that was here?" I asked. "That was Tyson. He must have ran back to our hiding place." The kid said. "Who is he? He looked older than you do." Adam said. "He is my commanding officer. We were in a military academy in Alabama. We got to visit this place on a field trip and the space ships came and killed every one." The kid replied. I told the kid my name and all the other and he then told us his. "I'm Maxwell Corbin. Every one calls me Max though." "Ok Max we should really find your friend now. It's not safe to be out in the open like this." I suggested. "Very well, but he's not my friend really. We're just stuck with each other." He replied. I went back inside and grabbed a pistol and stashed it in my waist of my shorts and went back out to the kid. "Ok I'm gonna go with him and get the other dude. You guys stay here and go back in the ship. Adrien turn the cloak on just incase and we'll be back soon." I told every one. I stood outside the ship with Max as the others went back inside and then ship then vanished before our eyes. "Where did it go?" Max asked. "It's still there, it's just invisible now see." I said as I tapped on the ships hull. The two of us then walked quickly to the hiding place to try to find the older kid. "Commander Tyson sir, are you here?" Max said as we walked into what was left of a restaurant. As I walked in I was taken by surprise as some one grabbed me from behind in choke hold. "Why did you bring them here private?" I heard the other kid ask as I struggled to get free. "No sir they are here to help us!" Max pleaded. "No private they are the enemy in disguise. You have brought them in to our barracks and now they will kill us." The other kid said. I fought as hard as I could but I could feel the lights starting to go out as he choked me. "No sir stop!" Max said then ran over and tried to help me get free. "He's not an alien stop!" Max pleaded as he tried to free me from the bigger kids choke. I managed to grab hold of the gun I stashed, but I was in no position to shoot the older kid. I squeezed the trigger just before I passed out firing a shot in a random direction. The next thing I knew I there was only blackness. I woke a few minutes later with a scary jolt running through me. I was wide eyed and super sensitive to my surroundings. "Whoa slow down Derrik. You're ok now." AJ said as he steadied me sitting upright on the ground. I looked over and saw the older kid sitting on the floor and he looked to be tied up and gagged. "What the hell happened?" I asked not knowing. "Well we were in the ship and Adrien freaked out all the sudden and we all ran behind him to see what was wrong. He told us you was in trouble so we went looking for you. Adrien led us in here and we saw that dude over there choking you from behind so we kicked his ass." AJ said. "Thanks you guys I think you might have saved my life." I told everyone. "Shit dude don't mention it you did it for us a bunch of times." Adam said smiling. He helped me to my feet then and it took me a minute to regain my balance. "Man what the fuck is wrong with you? All I was trying to do was help you." I asked the older kid tied up. I removed his gag and he answered me. "I am protecting our barracks from intruders and you are definitely intruders." "No sir they were only trying to help. They gave me some food." Max tried to say. "Quiet private. I decide how do stuff here." Tyson ordered. "Dude you are fucked in the head." AJ said and I gave him the evil look for cussing again. "I'm sorry Derrik but he is. He is fucking nuts to think we are aliens and he is some kind of commando or some shit. Dude look around you this place sucks. You got no food or nothing here. And you're a dick for being mean to that kid." AJ told Tyson as he pointed to Max. "I hate to say it but I agree with his vulgarity completely." Carry said. I had made a decision to ask Max to go with us and I'm sure the others wouldn't just leave him here with this psycho marine wannabe. "I think I speak for all of us when I say this, Max you are welcome to come with us if you want. You don't have to stay here with him if you don't want to." I said. "Remember who you are private. I am in command here and I say we both stay." Tyson said. Max had a defeated look on his face and just said yes sir. "No fuck that! Max if you want to go with us and have food to eat instead of digging in trash cans looking for food and have people that give a shit about you then you can come with us. You don't have to stay here and put up with his shit!" Adam said very sternly while his face started to turn red. I have only rarely seen him this upset, and upset he really was. "Commander sir, I think I want to go with them." Max said quietly. That made the older kid severely pissed then. "Private I forbid you to go." He said with a hateful look on his face. "Look dude if you want to stay here in this hell hole go for it. Just because you do doesn't mean he wants to or has to." I said. "Yeah come on Max get your shit and let's go." AJ said. I could tell Max was scared of the older kid even though he was securely tied up. Tyson stood up then and AJ pointed a gun at him. He was easily 6 to 7 inches taller than I was and outweighed me by a lot. If he wanted to he could have killed me and almost did. "This is treason." He told Max with a stare of hatred. "Yeah, yeah just shut up. I bet you feel like a real man picking on a little kid like that don't you." AJ told him. "Ah fuck it." AJ said as he struck the kid on the side of the face with the gun but knocking him out. "Oh no you killed him bubby!" Donny said starting to cry. "No he's alive just out cold." I said checking his pulse. "He's gonna have a head ache and be pissed when he wakes up though. Let's untie him and get out of here." I suggested. "Untie him, why?" AJ asked. "Well Adam we can't just leave him tied up like that can we. Even if he is an ass we shouldn't bring ourselves down to his level." I said as I cut the rope around his wrist. "Come on Max it'll be ok. He can't hurt you any more." I said leading the little guy out holding his hand. I could feel him trembling as we walked. I could sense he was truly scared out of his wits over everything that just happened. "It's ok bud really." I said pulling him closer and wrapping an arm over his shoulder. We entered the ship and I could feel a sense of apprehension coming from him. "Trust me it's safe. We rebuilt this thing our selves." I reassured him. He swallowed a big gulp and stepped inside with us. "In a little while we will be in the Bahamas and looking for a new home. I'm sorry we had to leave the Tyson guy there but we can't have a nut like that around us we already been through that once." I explained. "Cody, Cole why don't you guys help him get situated so we can take off." I told the twins. They helped him get ready for take off as Adrien and I got into our positions and readied the ship for take off. The ship recloaked and we then lifted off and began on our way to our new home. "Umm, Derrik if he's going with us shouldn't we get him some clothes and stuff to? I mean we got a lot but everyone got stuff they wanted, except for him now." Josiah suggested. "Good idea Joe, but we cat go back up to Georgia to that wal mart." I told him. "Ok but there's a little land still between us and the ocean." He replied. He did have a point and maybe we could find some stores intact to check out. "Ok good idea. We'll look on the way." I said. While Adrien and I flew the ship and operated the systems Carry and her brothers cleaned up the kid we just found. When they were done it was a night and day difference in his looks. "Wow there was a cute boy under all that dirt." Carry said making him smile. "Where are you from? Your voice sounds weird." Cole asked him. "I was born in Australia, Sydney to be exact. I moved here when my dad's job moved here a few years ago." Max explained. "How old are you?" I asked him curiously. "I'm 10. I'll be 11 in March." He mentioned. "In March, um what year was you born in?" I asked. "On March 14 1997." He replied. "Ok I'm afraid you're already 11 my friend. March was a few months ago." I said breaking the news to him. "Oh..." he said with a sad look. You could see the grief on his face from not even knowing what month it was and that his birthday had already passed. He was a small kid for 11. He was actually no bigger than Donny who was a few years younger. He was definitely cute though. The dirt and grime were hiding those good looks and now it he was bonerific, in other words he would make you hard in a second to see his cuteness. His clothes were tattered and dirty just like his body and he did have a slight smell, but that was expected all considering. He did have a very cute smile though and what looked like to be a knock out little body to. "Concentrate on the ship." I heard Adrein think to me as I noticed my thoughts straying to Max and I noticed I had popped a boner. "Sorry I couldn't help it he's a cutie." I thought back to Adrien. I diverted my attention to the search for a store to stop at to find Max some clothes and other stuff to have. We came upon a severely damaged mini strip mall and saw a half intact sporting goods store. "Hey Adrien let's try that place. There's bound to be some clothes still left in there. We may even find some stuff for our new home." I suggested. The ship descended once again and we touched down to the earth. OK Every one stay on the ship this time. I'm taking Max in with me to see if we can find him some clothes in the sporting goods store. If we find other stuff in there we can use and it's safe I'll send Adrien a message." I told the group. I grabbed a gun once again and started to lead Max out and AJ told me "Have fun." then he winked his eye. Evidently he thought I was going in to see if I could work Max out of his clothes. Actually that is exactly what I was going to do, just not for the reason AJ was thinking. I wanted to get the nasty ones off so we can get nice ones on. I entered the building with the gun ready as usual and Max followed right behind right on my heels almost. "Let's check the place out first before we start shopping." I told him. It took us a few minutes but the place checked out ok. We walked around then just looking for a few minutes to find some things he liked. I grabbed an overturned cart laying on its side and we began to fill it up. The place was a jackpot for outdoor wear and items. I knew once we had Max some clothes and things I would have to get the others to come in and gather up some things to take with us. Max collected a lot of nice clothes, but he was lacking one thing only because I don't think he was thinking about it. "Um Max aren't you going to get any under wear? I mean you don't have to, but well you know..." I told him. "Oh yes I forgot all about it thanks." He replied. We went to the boys department and they didn't seem to have normal under wear. All they had was the supportive athletic types. Not very comfy to just wear casually. "Well kiddo I don't think we're gonna have any luck finding them here. If we see another store we will try there." I told him and he smiled. "Thank you for being so nice to me. No one is ever this nice to me." He said losing that smile. "Why's that?" I inquired. "My mom died when I was little so it's just been me and my dad for a long time now and he's always busy so I hardly ever see him. He sent me to that military academy so he wouldn't have to worry about me all the time. I hated it there. Every one was always so mean to me there. Commander Tyson was one of the highest ranking superiors at the academy. He was always mean to me. He use to always make me do the worst punishments when I did something wrong." He went on to explain. "Well dude you don't gotta worry about that any more. No more punishments or being treated bad. Now you got a lot of new brothers and an older sister to take care of you. I think you'll be happy once you get to know all of us better." I told him making him smile again. "Come on lets get your stuff out to the ship so I can tell the others about all this good stuff in here. I'm sure the swimming floats and rafts will be going with us once they see them." I told him. We walked back outside and the ship appeared before us once more and the hatch opened up. "Hey everyone this place has a lot of stuff. You guys go in and get what you want and lets get going again." I told the others. They all seemed to fly out of the ship and into the store to see what goodies they could find. Once Max and I were alone in the ship I suggested he change clothes into some new ones and out of the nasty rags he was wearing and get cleaned up. It appeared he didn't have much modesty about me seeing him naked at all because he stripped right down and stood before me naked. I couldn't help but admire his body. Perfectly shaped and proportioned with a nice smooth hairless shaft dangling above marble sized balls. He didn't seem to notice me staring at him with a boner tenting my shorts as he picked out some clothes to wear. He turned to face me then and noticed my boner sticking out. I looked down then tried to turn away from him so he didn't see so I didn't make him feel weird or anything. "It's ok I seen them all the time back at the academy in the showers. A lot of the older guys got big like that in there." he said. Little did he know I wanted to stick mine in his tight little ass and his in my mouth. I tried to change the subject and told him, "Umm, do you wanna wash off before you put the new clothes on?" "Sure but how?" he asked. I got him a towel out of the cargo area and wet it down some wit water and a little soap. He began to wash his nakedness off just as some of the guys walked back in. "Geez Derrik couldn't you wait to get him naked till we got to where we're going?" Chris said being a smart ass. "Ha ha smart ass funny." I snapped back as he and Josiah laughed. Max just went on toweling off as we made our little jokes not having a clue of what we really meant. "He does have a nice bod though." Joe said. "Uh, thanks I think." Max told him. He finished wiping off and pulled on some new shorts and a t-shirt then. He looked a whole lot better now that he was semi clean and in new clothes. "Wow much better." Carry said looking him over making him blush. He came to me then and whispered in my ear, "Has she seen you guys naked before?" "Oh yeah all the time we see her to. It's no big deal." I told him. "I've ever seen a naked girl before." He replied. "Well just wait you'll get to see her eventually, that I promise. And she will see you to."" I told him. The guys had brought in a few more cart loads of stuff from this store as well. They got snorkeling stuff, swimming floats and tubes and beach balls and all sorts of other good stuff to have fun with. Adrien had got maybe the only usable thing of the whole bunch. He found a spear for spearing fish to eat, or if needed for protection. We got that stuff stowed and were on our way once more with one passenger more than we had started with when we left the mine.