Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:15:00 +0000 From: Andrew Passey Subject: The Amulet Part Ten (Young Friends) (Science Fiction) We stood on the small hill looking north towards where we'd come from in the previous world. There was a big farm over there with many people in the fields. They looked predominantly if not all black which was a slight surprise. My initial thought was that maybe we'd come through to a world where black people were the majority in the UK. Wanting to find out more we walked away from the farm towards the South Downs. With a bit of height we thought we should be able to get a better handle on any differences. "What the fuck is that?!" Lee exclaimed as we rounded a corner and saw in the distance on the downs a giant statue of a man on a horse. We headed for it and as we got there Lee gasped and read loud from the plaque.. "President Lee. The great victor of the war of the States. The founder of the American empire and for whom we shall be forever grateful." "What?Is it you?" James asked in confusion. "Fucking hell James, don't you know your history? General Lee fought for the south in the American civil war. Here it seems the south won and somehow an "American empire" was founded. But why here in the Uk? We had our own empire. It seems strange to think we'd become part of an American one. If we have and if the South won does that mean that slavery still exists and that's why all those workers were black? Well I say workers but quite possible slaves," Lee said, clearly much better read on history than we were. At this point I decided to try something I hadn't before, I held the amulet and asked for "History of President Lee, the American empire and the UK.". The amulet flashed some images and text in my mind and I was at least able to understand some of it. "Ok I have bad news. Lee is right and we're currently standing on part of the American empire. Though we willingly joined it from what I understand. Slavery is still legal here although it sounds complicated. But we're in a world that is not great for James. I've asked the Amulet to take us to another world but it says we can't until we find what we need. I don't understand and it won't answer properly, saying it's "complicated.". However it has told me we need to go south towards Brighton. I don't know more than that," I said in frustration. Matt looked at me with interest, "I'm beginning to think your amulet has been economical with the truth. It can't control where we go but it knows we need something from this world? Sounds unlikely," he said. I couldn't help but agree with him. The amulet was confusing me no end. Still, we had no better plan and so we started to head along the path we were pretty familiar with. After a few hours walking we hit the outskirts of Brighton. It was certainly more normal than the previous time we were here. In fact it didn't really feel a million miles away from my world. Well kept houses, local shops, although the looks we were getting certainly made us uncomfortable, particularly James. Rob seemed shocked by how busy it was and I guess just seeing adults out and about. We took a quiet path that skirted a housing estate hoping for some more anonymity. The plan was to get down to the seafront but then who knows. As we walked down the path we heard running behind us, "hey, stop!" A shout went out. "Get ready..." Matt said expecting trouble but on turning round it was just a boy my age. "Are you abolitionists? If so come with me, you have friends here," he said. I didn't really know what he was talking about but Lee did, "Yes we are, please lead the way," he said. Then Lee scoffed at the rest of us, "Am I the only one who knows anything about history here? Fucking hell it seems so!" As he said that it reminded me about the abolition movement here in the UK. I realised things might not be quite as bad as we feared. We followed the boy to a large well kept house covered with posters about abolishing slavery. He knocked and a man opened the door and invited us in. "You've come to volunteer at an exciting time. We're close to getting slavery abolished here in the UK. Since the twins arrived things have moved fast. It's like they're able to persuade people just with their words! Even locals who were very pro the whole thing seem to have mellowed. They went off to London with our leader Mike a couple of days ago and we're expecting news soon!" The man said excitedly. He then introduced himself as John. He asked us if James was a free slave and straight away the questions were making us a bit uncomfortable. We didn't want to tell the truth but we didn't want to lie either. However, we were saved as there was a commotion and the doors opened, "We did it!!!" a man said punching the air as he came in. "They've agreed to abolish slavery. The government will buy the slaves off the owners over the next few months and all slaves will be free by the end of the year. It's a day of celebration, and the twins were amazing as always!" He said smiling at two blond haired identical boys not much older than me. I had almost a pang of recognition as I saw them, they quickly walked through the room with Mike and headed upstairs. "They must be exhausted!" John said, "it's always hard work talking to politicians," he told us. We nodded as if we understood although actually I guess Rob certainly did! Mike then came back downstairs and came over to us. "Hello, we've not been introduced but the twins wish to see you," He said looking as surprised as were we. We followed him upstairs into a large bedroom converted into an office and meeting room where the twins were lounging on a sofa. Mike left the room at their suggestion and closed the door behind him which seems a bit strange. Who was in charge here? The twins? Mike? Once the door was closed the twins sat up and looked at us with slight smiles playing across their lips. Blond haired and blue eyed like me their gaze seemed really intense. They stood up and walked over to me. They then shocked me by hugging me, then pulling back and grinning at me. "Hello Four. Good to see you again," One of them said to me. The other nodded, "it's been a while!" I looked at them in utter confusion. "Do I know you?!" I asked. They looked at each and nodded. "Amnesia. Deliberate or accidental? Hmm, hard to read. There's a block. I can remove it but is that wise?" One said to the other before the other one nodded. "Interesting though. Four has been busy. Certainly likes sucking his dick." The other one said pointing at Alex. "What the fuck is going on?!" Alex said, noting my embarrassment. They giggled, "Sorry. We can read minds. We know Four who you call Sam. He's from our world. He doesn't remember although we can see his memories from the past three years. So you are his boyfriend. You suck each other's dicks but you haven't had anal sex yet although he wants to when he gets chance to talk to you about it. Ever since this morning when he found out Lee and Matt have been doing it," One of them said grinning at all of us. Alex blushed and looked at me in surprise, I shrugged. He then looked at Lee and Matt who'd both blushed bright red. "Do you guys have an off switch? Or do you just repeat everything you see? Anyway how do we know you're reading minds?" Rob said clearly a bit annoyed at the way the twins were behaving. "We'll prove it. But introductions I guess. We were Two and Three but in this world I'm Tom and he is Tim" the twin on the left said. We did introductions although I suspected they already knew who we were. "How do we tell you apart? Aren't you the same? You look the same anyway," James asked. Tom grinned at him. "I have a birthmark here," He said, pulling his pants and shorts down to show a birthmark above his dick which was a nice 3 inches long. "And I'm the dominant one in bed. We both like to top and bottom but I prefer to top while Tim prefers to bottom. " "Well thanks for sharing but I doubt I'll be able to use that to distinguish you! And I have to say I am sceptical about this mind reading thing. It sounds like a trick really!"James said with a laugh that felt a bit forced. "You can lie to yourself James if you like but we see everything in your mind. We can see the truth. I'd be perfect for you and you already know it. I know you like boys even though you pretend you don't. I know you like the idea of being a bottom. You like the idea having someone take charge in the bedroom. Having someone to share your body with. But you don't really like Rob in that way, you think he's too arrogant. If Sam wasn't taken then you wouldn't mind him doing it to you because you like blonde boys. So you want me and you want to be a bottom but you're too worried about what the others might think. I can tell you they won't care, everyone is partnered up apart from Rob who is now very interested in my brother," Tom said all this and James' mouth dropped wide open . He stood there in stunned silence. "So I think that confirms we can read minds. And yes Rob, I'm definitely interested and to answer your question, identical size to my brother so big enough to keep you happy. Now onto more important things. It's no coincidence Sam is here. What he calls the "amulet" brought him here deliberately to meet me and my brother. Our world needs us to save it. It will probably help if we explain it to you with images," Tim said, then my mind and clearly the others were filled with images. Memories of what I knew now to be my original world, although to me it was still not home. I saw a world like ours but a clear divergence. The crash landing of an alien craft in the early 20th century in the US. >From its onboard computer the germ of artificial intelligence was found. A large AI was built then expanded. But at the same time spies had sold part of it to Russia and a Cold War of AI entailed. Both sides developed more and more complex systems before both became properly conscious. The Russian AI splintered off into competing visions of how to achieve the goal of peace. At some point one of the AIs went rogue and attacked the US, bombs were dropped and vast areas of North America were decimated. The AI in the US then used embryos it had stored to develop children of its own, genetically engineering them to augment their abilities. To give them the skills it needed. It had a plan to wipe out the other AIs but one of its nodes was compromised. The one I was in. It opened a gateway and sent me through, and the twins to another one before it and the rest of the children there were destroyed. It sent a piece of itself with me though. The amulet. The power to end the other AIs. It sounded so simple. Go to my world. Go to the main hub of the now dormant AI. Activate it using the amulet and release a planet wide EMP blast which would take out all electronic systems including all the AIs. Leaving the humans to rebuild again. As the images finished I felt nauseous and dizzy and almost fell over. Alex held me up and put his arm around me to steady me. It was almost dark outside and I had no idea how long we'd been in that trance of seeing history play out. "Is all this true?" I asked simply. "Yes," Tom said gravely. "What's my ability!?" I was curious if I even had one. Tim giggled, "you're pretty dense Sam. You can communicate with the AI. It's in your amulet, well a part of it is. Although it seems you've not really used your ability much. Maybe that's safest anyway,"He said. "So was it the other AIs that sent someone after me in my world? Which is why we had to leave it before they killed us?" I asked, the pieces starting to fall into place. Or so I thought. "We don't know. It's possible that the AI made that up as it needed to get you out of there to get eventually to here. You'll have to ask it," Tom said. Had that bloody AI lied to me? I started to feel annoyed but then stopped myself. I had a bigger mission to think and I couldn't lie that everything that had happened to me since the AI has opened the first gateway had been a damn sight better than being stuck with my emotionally abusive parents. I'd had a real adventure although it seemed now we were playing for very high stakes. I had another question, "if I'm Four, and you're Two and Three what happened to One?" "We don't know. Maybe the AI can tell you? All we know is that we got sent to different worlds. It's possible One is still out there in another world or....." "Or what?" I wondered where this was going. "Or he ended up dead somewhere. Maybe he got killed by whatever is chasing you which must be connected to the rogue AI. Who knows? We don't unfortunately." "Ok, what now?" I asked, wanting to move the conversation on. I didn't want to think about people dying!. "We need you to open a gateway to our world so you can do what the AI needs you to. But we need to get to close to where we need to be first. The Hub of our AI in our world is in what is here the state of Colorado in the US. So we need to travel there. Open a gateway and then hope we have time to do what we can. Your friends can stay behind if they want to, they aren't vital for the plan,"Tom said, or was it Tim? They'd shifted positions and I couldn't tell! "No chance, we're coming with you," Alex said and the others nodded. "Ok well tomorrow we need to start thinking of our plan to get to Colorado. It might be a bit tricky but we can probably sort it. We're very persuasive when we need to be," Tom said with a wink at James who looked uncomfortable. "What about tonight? Where do we sleep?" Lee asked, no doubt thinking of some alone time with Matt. "We've got a big house round the corner that Tim and I "own". Well persuaded the previous owner to give it to us!" Tom said with a giggle. "It's got four bedrooms and we're four couples so it should work perfectly!" Tom said with a wink. "Couple? I've only just met you!" James said, sounding slightly scandalised. "Don't worry. I won't bite....much. Anyway I can see from his mind Rob is already planning unspeakable acts with my brother so you're stuck with me. It'll be fine!" Tom said giggling as James looked embarrassed and Rob looked a bit guilty. I felt sorry for him but I already trusted the boys knew what we really wanted. And even if they didn't, well at least James would get a fun night of it. In a worst case scenario he could make sure Tom kept his hands to himself. Well try to, it did seem the twins could make people do what they want! We went downstairs and joined everyone else who were celebrating their achievements. We ate food and drank some beer before we went with the twins to their house. I began to suspect they knew even more than they let on when Tim showed me and Alex our bedrooms, with a tube of lube by the bed. "Did you know we were coming? And that we were couples?" Alex asked Tim as he showed us how everything worked in the room. Tim giggled, "Not quite but it's always good to be prepared. Tom and I have had a fair bit of fun with the local youth here. When you can read what people are thinking and if they want to mess around? Well let's just say it certainly helps get action! Sometimes admittedly they might need the odd mental block removed but only because it's preventing them doing what they want to. Now I have an appointment with Rob and his dick!" He said with a giggle, leaving us to it. The room was lovely with an en suite bathroom, a world away from sleeping in tents, washing in streams and shitting outside! Alex and I showered clean, I was feeling the most clean and normal I had for days, despite all the thoughts racing around my head. Afterwards I lay naked on the bed with Alex, summoning the resolve to ask the question that had been on my mind. "You know I love you Alex. But does it change things for you....that I was....er.....made by a machine?" I asked nervously, the words tumbling out. "Don't be ridiculous,.I love you whatever, you're still my Sam. Made by a machine or made by a man shoving his dick and shooting in a woman? Makes no difference how I feel about you...now....what did those twins say earlier. Oh that's right, something about you wanting to have sex with me," Alex said with a giggle, then laughing as I went a bit red. "Well Lee told me it was amazing and we've been together for a few months so I thought it might be nice to try it," I said nervously. Alex giggled again, "Fuck yeah. On one condition though, you fuck me as well as I fuck you. I'm not sure I want us to be all top and bottom bollocks. We can decide if one of us naturally prefers that role once we've practiced. A few hundred times or so should maybe do it!" He said and we both giggled. We decided I would do Alex first and we tried to work out the best position to try, obviously lying face down would give easy access but it felt a little bit impersonal. Suddenly I saw a flash of James on his back, legs wrapped around Tom's shoulders as Tom thrust in and out. That image faded with a "good luck" from Tom. The cheeky bastard was watching us while he fucked James! Oh well, at least I knew what to do! I told Alex to lie on his back. I then opened the lube and lifted his legs slightly. I gently rubbed some of it over Alex's hole, slipping a finger and then another in to loosen him slightly. I then positioned myself in front of him. I lifted his legs up so they were wrapped around my shoulders. His hole was there in front of me, almost winking at me. "You ready?" I asked as I lined my hard dick up to it. He grinned at me, "fuck yeah," he said and I gently pushed forward. There was a bit of resistance but then with a gasp from both of us I was half way in. I gently pushed until I was all the way in. It felt amazing, I was completely inside my boyfriend! It was so warm and his hole tightened around my dick. "You Ok?" I asked, wanting to check it didn't hurt. "Yeah, it's not like you've got much down there. I suspect you'll feel my dick a bit more than I'm feeling yours!" Alex said with a grin. "Cheeky fucker, I'll make sure you feel this!" I said grinning back as I started to thrust in and out, slamming my dick as deep into him as I could. This was taking the relationship to the next level. I guess back home we'd have waited longer but it already felt like we were older from what we'd been through. Those thoughts fell away as I lived in the moment of my hard dick thrusting in and out of Alex, the room full of grunting and groaning. I could see Alex's dick was dripping so he must be enjoying it. Then with one final thrust and an almost guttural cry I came deep in my boyfriend for the first time. Definitely not for the last though I decided. I collapsed on top of him and after we'd kissed for what felt like forever I checked he was ok. "Amazing, that felt really good. Thank god you decided to do it! Now I think my dick has an appointment with your arse," Alex said grinning and reaching for the lube. He gently lubed up my hole and we got into the same position we did it when I was on top. "Now see if you feel THIS!" He said smiling as he pushed his hard dick into me. It hurt at first, I could feel my hole trying to expand and stretch to fit him. Luckily he wasn't massive so it wasn't too bad, and once he was all the way in and held it there I started to get used to it. Then once he started properly fucking me it felt amazing! I was whimpering in enjoyment as he hit bits of me that felt really good. It didn't last as long as either of us would have liked but as he flooded me insides with his cum I had never been happier. We lay there afterwards in stunned silence before we went to the bathroom to do the inevitable cleaning up. Once clean we lay on the end, legs intertwined and holding each other close. "You know what this means?" Alex asked. "Erm no?" I replied. "We're no longer virgins! We lost our virginity and our cherry on the same night to each other. What a night! Best of my life!" He said enthusiastically. I kissed him before pulling back to smile at him, "every night with you is the best of my life. But this was pretty special! Can you imagine what my parents would say if they knew?!" I said with a grin. Alex looked serious at that, "Do you think we'll get to go home after all of this. And if we do, how will we adapt? We're not even 14 but we're living like adults. We'd go back to bloody school and teenage life." "As long as we have each other we'll always be ok," I said and kissed him again.