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Forward to the Stars

By: Kansascript



I have finally gotten a editor to go over and check my stories. As of chapter twelve they have been gone over and hopefully together we have corrected everything! While some may delete all past comments I am going to be leaving them to remind myself of how badly my first chapters sucked. Still any and all comments are wanted.

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Brian sat paying attention too the mountain in front him or at least ATTEMPTING to do so anyway, he kept getting slightly distracted at all the giggling that was going on in the back seat. Tina, sitting in the passenger seat of his Jeep Grand Cherokee, just smiled knowing the strain on his pants that the presence of herself her sister and their cousins were causing but she really did get as much amusement as any of them at causing him a bad case of blue balls. Chuckling, she laid her hand on his thigh. "Don't worry, we'll be there soon horny and when we get rooms for the night we'll deal with your 'BIG' problem." The giggles in the back abruptly changed to hysterical laughter. 

Brian just grinned. By the end of the night he would have made a couple of female's butts and crotches so very sore and he was looking forward to hearing the complaining tomorrow about having to sit for the additional hours that they would have to be sitting till they got to their destination. He caught movement in his peripheral sight that he grabbed at so that it wouldn't hit the rear view mirror, not that he had been able to make much use of it for that last day considering that it was all but blocked with the girl's stuff. 

As he realized what he had grabbed he couldn't help but whimper as he handed it back . "All right Brianna, put them back on we do NOT need the fucking highway pigs pulling us over and having a under-aged girl's bra being thrown around the jeep." As he reached back to hand the bra back he hit bare knees. "Also pull your pants back up, I've got twelve days, six and half hours to go before you're legal and I am NOT about get in trouble about nailing a minor this close to her being fair game! Anyway for a girl that's been paralyzed from the waist down for the last seven years you get around better than most people." 

"OH alright." Came the reply from the seventeen year old with a pout. "Hey sis? How did you come across all this 'cheap' land?? I mean what you described is prime land right next to the Rockies and right next door is a high scale horse ranch that teaches the little rich bastards how to ride." 

"Well." Brian piped up. "At least that three hundred million jackpot that Tina won was put in annuity and then put in in nice stocks." A comment that was second by everyone in the jeep. "So when do we try for the next jackpot, because honestly is it really POSSIBLE to have to much money?"

Laria laughed. "You're money hungry Brian, but that's a question that's open for argument because there are lots plus and minuses to having a lot of money. Most people including us for the most part agree with you, with the cost of living skyrocketing thanks to the ignorance and incompetence of our government, having to much money two weeks ago means nothing now, except that you're middle class."

"Hey Michelle, so what are your thoughts on leaving our good old beloved state of Kansas BEHIND?" Brian asked when he felt the gloom coming from that side of the backseat. 

Michelle sighed and kept looking out the window. "There was no choice in our moving, if we didn't move the parasites would have bled us all dry." Brianna immediately objected to family being called parasites though, when she tried to argue, she only managed to prove what they all knew to be more of a fact than death and taxes being the only things that could be depended on.

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As soon Brian stopped the jeep outside the real estate office everyone was out stretching and getting Brianna her wheelchair off the pile of belongings in the back. "Hey Brian." Brianna hollered as she was getting into her most hated of belongings. "Can't we just go piggyback?"

Brian looked over Laria's duffel. "How about we wait until the pain killers start to work, you may not be a thunder-ass but after a while you DO, get heavy." Brianna grumbled about having to get into the chair but made him promise that he WOULD be her mode of transport and SOON.

As Tina, Michelle and Laria went into the office to talk to the agent, Brian and Brianna went down a couple of buildings to the nearest restaurant to grab a table for them before the lunch rush got the good tables. As Brian returned to the table he noticed a couple of logger types harassing her. As he walked up to the table they on him. "So you're the one little missy here is interested in?" 

"Maybe, maybe not, though she has less interest in you guys than in me." Brian said sounding as bored as he really was. Why, he thought did scum always materialize out of the ether just when he was getting calm. As the burliest of the bunch took a swing at him he nearly tore the guys arm out of its socket. "Guys I'm not in the military, so I can claim ignorance of the Geneva Convention a little easier than they can. That move should have torn you in half at shoulder blade level, don't cross me again." He gave the guys a bored look as he took his seat as they, themselves backed up to their booth never allowing him out of their sight.

As people in the cafe digested what they had seen and heard the girls had come in, Laria looking around seeing how people were acting glared at Brian. "So what did you do this time? We haven't even gotten the Two-Peak Pass in our names yet, and you've already made enemies. Come on! I mean being south side of nowhere, and on the north side of a horse ranch we'll need to be at least on speaking terms with people."

"TWO-PEAK PASS?!!" Brian looked over the loggers who were all pale and stammering and shrugged. "You guys are actually considering buying that land? Even WE gave up trying to get that area logged after the seventh attempt. There's something up there, doesn't hurt any one except the people that are looking over their shoulder all the time so they get hurt or worse in accidents that shouldn't have even happened. Even the indian tribes that lived around here didn't go through there and if they left an area alone it's usually for GOOD reason."

Tina smiled at Brianna. "Well you did want to know why the land was cheap, its because the logging company is cutting losses. Anyway with a whatsit around looking over everyone's shoulder keeping people away, we don't really need to worry about Brian erecting poles in the front yard to impale trespassers on." She laughed as people blanched and some whimpered. "So what did you do EXACTLY, Brian that's got people jumpy about you?"

One logger laughed shaking his head. "Brent here tried starting a fight again and this time he caught the short end of the stick." He smiled as he caught the mutter of "Eventually people find the meaner fish in their pond." "Yeah that's no joke, Brian was it? There will always be a bigger, meaner fish eventually in any pond. So you are the newest suckers that Micheal's gotten to buy that accursed land? Well best of luck, you're only the latest in a long line to buy that place and in few few months at most, you'll be long gone too."

Brian and the girls looked at one another, its not like they had many other options. Moving and buying the land had emptied their available money reserves. "So" Michelle stammered. "We got a hold of that horse ranch and it's still okay to stay there until we get something that'll pass as a residence and with the way Brian works on stuff like this I figure we'll be at least started by the time winter is fully here in two and a half months."

"Good!" Brian exclaimed. "I want to get out there and get this finished as soon as possible unless anybodies got a better idea on how to proceed." He looked around the table to see if anyone had any objections, there were none as he knew there wouldn't be. 

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As Brian pulled into the drive for the horse ranch he couldn't help but be impressed with the lay out before him. "WOW!" Was all Laria could spit out, the building compound looked out of some wild west movie. The main house with all the out buildings, bunkhouses and barns in the classic "U" centered on the entrance drive. 

When Brian pulled to a stop in front of the main house people seemed to materialize out of thin air, before Brian could get Brianna's chair out of the back he was approached by a big burly man with a friendly hand out stretched. "HI I'm Russel Michel, call me Mich though. Owner of Stallion Acres, WELCOME to our neck of the woods."

Brian couldn't help laughing at the sheer honesty and friendliness of the man. "Well at least this is a better welcome than what we got in town." Taking the mans' hand in the warm greeting that it was meant as. "So Two-Peak is supposed to be haunted huh? Sounds like my kind of house-mates." He grinned as he felt the glares from the girls burn into his back. He shrugged as he took note of the graveled drive and just backed up to the back seat and hunched down giving Brianna a clear invite for the piggy back she had wanted earlier.

Tina noted the worried and thoughtful looks on faces of both older and younger people gathered around them. "Car wreck. She's paralyzed from the waist down, has been for the last seven years. We'll make do, always have." She turned turned as she heard the clop of horseshoes on the gravel.

"She can ride Leo for now, sis has been sick for the last week so the exercise will do her good." Said the red head that had a horses' halter in her hand. "I'm Zoey by the way." With that names came hollered and shouted from people all over the place causing Brian to back into a defensive crouch. 

"Sorry about that." Mich said noting Brian's unease. "We try to have the friendliest group that we can get for around here but at times it can seem artificial at times its so heartfelt. Anyway, my boy Micheal will help you all settle in," pointing to a bunkhouse set a little farther back than most of the buildings. "Come on in the house when you're all settled, suppers nearly ready."

"Well come on guys we've got a thunderstorm on the way and there's no reason to have your stuff get wet unloading." Said a sandy blondie male of about seventeen if that old. Brian helped get Brianna get on Leos' back, and then drove the jeep over to the bunkhouses entrance. "You didn't bring much with you for moving did you?" He stopped when he noticed the pained looks on faces. "This is pretty much all you have isn't it?"

"We'd appreciate it if you didn't dig." Brian choked out as Laria and Michelle clung to each other and Tina and Brianna hugged their arms to their chests. As the jeep was unpacked Micheal tried several times to restart the conversations but the gloom was heavier than the air that proceeded the storm front. "I'm sorry" Brian told Micheal as they got the last bag sorted into rooms. "It's just that, when you're the black sheep of the family it tends to spread out into the rest of peoples lives. We're such black sheep, sin is purer than we are." 

Forward to the Stars Ch. 02



After everything had been squared away in the bunkhouse they took Brianna to the main house for supper. As Brian walked to the door Tina hollered "Where you going?"

Brian looked over his shoulder, "Deal with Leo, we'll piggyback Brie back to the bunkhouse after supper." As he noticed the confused looks on Tina, Brianna, Michelle and Laria's faces, He sighed, "After you are through working horses, you give them rub downs and check for sprains or scratches that have to be dealt with, if they aren't dealt with quickly enough the problems compound exponentially."

Mich looked up as he came in with one of the roasts for supper hearing this. "Micheal go with him and show him where everything is would you? Oh and Brian if you ever want a job, let me know would you?" 

Brian chuckled, "THANKS I very well might take you up on that!! Really though, horses are one of the several animals I really have a hard time attuning to."

One of the work hands laughed. "Hey he took me on, so even if you aren't really the best with horses no real big deal."

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"Hey you're pretty good at this Brian, where did you learn to deal with horses?" Micheal exclaimed as he watched Brian start dealing with Leos' rub down. 

Brain stopped a moment causing Micheal to wonder if it was something that he'd prefer not to talk about, Brian sighed. "My mom was married three times, first was my father, second was a city guy that thought he was a farm guy, third was a 'ca-boy'". 

"Ca-Boy?? What the hell is a ca boy I've heard of a lot of things but never a ca-boy!" asked Micheal. "Is it something like a wannabe cowboy?"

"If you knew what it was, why did you ask what it was? Brian asked chuckling. "But yeah a ca-boy is basically a guy that dresses like a cowboy, rides in parades, MIGHT be able to perform in a rodeo and thinks he's in a Louis L'Amour western. One of the main reasons I don't really attune with horses very well is that dip shit and his friends' idea of a smart, capable horse."

Micheal cocked a eyebrow and snickered. "That stupid huh?"

"The problem was that while my step-dad claimed the horses were smarter than people the dumbest of horses really WERE smarter than those guys. You could have taken a pickax to the forehead to their idea of a smart horse and they MIGHT have blinked before trying to shoo the fly away from their foreheads." The contempt in Brian's voice couldn't have been missed even if Micheal had wanted to.

"Don't worry."Micheal said raising his hands in defense of the ranch." The first sign of that kind of intelligence and we advise getting rid of horses like that. We're to close to the mountains to be able to handle horses that don't know that mountain lions aren't friendly!" 

Brian looked up sharply from looking over the inside of Leos' hind leg. "How badly was the rider hurt?"

As Micheal got back from getting Leos' grain ration he was noticeably whiter. "He'll never be able to walk the same but he survived, his injuries were more from Pistol stomping him after he was thrown. Luckily it wasn't a mountain lion that startled him, it was whatever it is over in Two-Peak."

Brian looked around. "So Pistol got spooked and wasn't drawn like the rest are?"

"What do you mean drawn?" Micheal asked nearly throwing his neck out of alignment.

Brian couldn't help but chuckle as Micheal rubbed his neck. "You know a good chiropractor around here, because it looks like you might need one. But yeah all the horses are for the most apart facing one direction and they are as close to that area of their stalls as they can get."

Micheal groaned. "Well I don't know if she's good but Tabby is all this area has in the way of a chiropractor." Micheal smirked as he looked about the barn. "I've lived here all my life, so no I've never really noticed until you pointed it out just now, but they're ALWAYS doing that. As far as I know anyway, something to ask about at supper. They're probably waiting on us so lets not keep them any longer."

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As the Micheal and Brian entered the dinning area of the house the thunderstorm that had been holding back decided to cut loose with everything including the kitchen sink. Looking out into the storm Micheal shook his head."Looks like people will be stuck here for a few days until the road's a little drier, hey Brian ended up pointing something out in the barn. Has anyone noticed the horses congregating in a certain area of their stalls and pointing in the same direction all the time if they're not doing something?"

"Yeah" said Mich, "and always in the direction that 'feeling' always seems to come from. Well if nothing else our new neighbors might be able to finally find out whats causing that awful 'feeling' and save us from the terrible curse that haunts our dreams." 

Brian smirked at the dramatics in Michel's voice. "Eh who knows, besides without it the lumber industry would have clear cut this area sometime ago. Or that's what those lumber jerks in town made it sound. Anyway most feelings of 'get out' are limited to things like buildings or smallish areas not areas miles away. The 'feelings' that come from miles away are usually meant to draw you to them! NOT drive you away."

"Well whichever it is, its driven most people from around here." Wailed a blonde of about 13 or so, "I get my friend Tammy interested in horses, get my dad to buy her one and the first time that feeling picks up and she bolts." 

"Cynthia wasn't it?" Asked Michelle. "Exactly how much of a city girl was she, I mean really most city people cant physiologically handle being out of cities. They might do well enough out on a highway but even a place like this its far to.... hey Brian give me a hand here would you?"

Brian looked at as he was helping Brianna into a chair and groaned. "FINE! Screeched Michelle, "Its to dirty, very little is paved over, there's clean fresh air, there's even beautiful scenery around here. Its far to foreign to most city people."

"And isn't it such a beautiful view?" came a voice from the kitchen doorway.

"You know you could have called for some help Mrs. Michel, sorry but I'm LOUSY with names I go with faces mostly." Brian said hurrying over to give her a hand with a pot of gravy. 

"That's okay, its Cheryl. Really while you are correct there are a lot of people that can't handle the natural setting of this place, what drives most people away is the 'feeling' that Two-Peak generates. So if ANY of you can do ANYTHING about that feeling that place causes we all will be grateful!!" The cheer that went up from that was only drowned out by the crash of thunder that shook both windows and teeth.

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As dinner was being finished the worst of the storm was beginning to move on and people started to feel the ever present 'presence' of of whoever or whatever that was in Two-Peak Pass. "So this is the feeling that everyone is talking about." Laria said with little enthusiasm. "You get a more ominous dread from listening to Washington politicians giving a speech on all the good they have just done for the country."

Micheal in a voice filled with no enthusiasm spoke up. "WAIT for it, it'll pick up soon enough. Always does right after a storm."

"Fine, I'll go see what I can do tomorrow after morning whatever is accomplished." Brian said. "Though I WILL need someone to go with me. While I DO know how to live in a KANSAS environment with little to no camping gear, this is IDAHO and this area I do NOT know nor am I very willing to try anything around here this late in the year."

"GOOD call Brian."Mich exclaimed with a chuckle, "You really do know a thing or two don't you. You and whoever that goes with you had better plan on at least a weeks stay out there though. Its a two day ride to Two-Peak itself that way you'll have five days to look around before the next big weather front is supposed to come our way." 

"I'll go with them." Came a voice from the door. "HEY you didn't wait for me., So how much roast and gravy is left for me? 

The cry of "Tanya" filled the room as people turned to face the new comer. Mich turned to Brian and the others, "This is Tanya our live on site vet, her being here has been well WORTH the money that she asks." "She could ask for even more and it'd still be worth it." Mich said in a side to Laria as Tanya got a plate and piled it with food.

"So what made you drive all the way out here in the middle of a storm Tanya?" Micheal asked. "Because there's no way you could have just left town and that road no matter how much its resurfaced, that logging company has fucked it all up."

"Well I heard in town that people had bought Two-Peak Pass off the lumber company and they had been offered to be able to hold up here. So I came to see what kind of people had been stupid enough to buy the land." Tanya said through a mouthful of food.

Tina and Brian met each others glance and smiled, Tina walked behind the vet and leaned against her back drawing her into a hug as she stuffed her face. "No one important, just us stupid ignorant Kansans."

Everyone got a chuckle as Tanya choked and scrambled to regain a little dignity after putting her foot in her mouth so effortlessly. "I, I didn't mean anything by all that it', it's just that that land has changed hands so many times....". Her stammering was cut off as Brian placed a hand in front of her.

"It's alright our group is used to being considered fools and treated as such, it just means that when we finally get things into place, well just don't be counted among those that have pissed us off." Brian smiled as Tanya blanched. "Though why you're uneasy is beyond me it's not like you've done anything to make us angry...have you?? HMM??"

"Brian, Tina stop doing that to people weren't you the ones that said we need to play nice!" Brian and Tina choked back laughter even though thy knew Brianna was right.

"Alright Brie, you're right." Tina said surrendering to her sister. "Sorry about that Tanya , you did open yourself up for that though."

Tanya could only blush and contain her humiliation by not saying a word. "Anyway I'll take any help I can on scouting out the Pass, if you're still up for it Tanya." She looked up at Brian who was gathering plates to take into the kitchen so they could be washed and nodded.

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As the morning chores were being finished up Tanya found Brian in the middle of feeding the animals that the main ranch buildings had collected over the years. "Well I've got seven including myself, you and Michelle I think her name is wanting to go over and see whats been bothering this area for who knows how long. After you get done come over to the vet shack and we can get started rounding up supplies then we can see about finding adequate horses for the two of you."

Brian felt the weight of dread and past anger push against him and growled like a wet cat deep in his throat. "Don't like horses much do you?" asked Tanya. Brian shook his head as he flicked a finger at one of the barn cats' ears. "Well around here the best way to get around is either horse or walking so better get used to the idea of horses if you want to get anywhere now or later today."

"I only have amateur knowledge at best on how to control horses, I can ride up to that point. I am amiable and they all know that as long as its in the general direction and we both arrive alive I don't really care, as long as we both get there. Wherever there is." Brian said with a chuckle.

Tanya shook her head in agreement, "Well when ever you're done here." Brain waved as he went for the next bag of animal food from the appropriate cupboard. 

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"Hey Brian" hollered Micheal as Brian walked in to the section of the stables that the horses that weren't ridden all that much were kept. "So Tanya got all her baggage picked out, FINALLY? Oh well lets get you a horse." As they were looking over a fifth horse Micheal leaned over "Have you ever wondered what it'd be like?"

"Be like, what, exactly?" Brian asked. "If you're asking if I've ever fucked a animal or ever thought of it there are three requirements that must be fulfilled before I fuck anything! SENTIENT, FEMALE and also WILLING!!! The palomino mare that you've been shielding me from is at least the last two BUT she still wont accomplish the first. Seriously though after being covered by a stallion wouldn't they be more than a little loose?"

Micheal was all shades of red as he looked over at the mare. "Well mainly because she wont ALLOW people to get on her back. Put a halter and guild her around and all that, even put a saddle on her back but if you try to get ON her back well you better have a pilots license because you'll be needing it and no mainly because I go with the other opening under the tail. That way I can even go with the stallions or the geldings even if they do have a bit of a fit."

Brian walked over to her and scratched her nose. "Well its my air time, lets see how temperamental she is with me. Really I would expect the males to have a fit, only humans stupid enough think that same sex is natural." Micheal just watched as Brian got a halter and put it on her, shaking his head as he scratched her nose and laughed as she tried to nibble his fingers.

"Whatever, I'll get you a saddle from the tack room meet you out at the corral." Micheal hollered after Brian as Brian walked the horse out to the corral.

As Micheal walked up to the corral he looked at all the people that had gathered around the corral to watch Brian get bucked off,"Well here's a saddle and blanket lets see how much she dislikes you Brian." Putting the saddle and the blanket on the corral fence.

"Thanks Micheal!" Brian said as he finished up brushing the horses' back. "Really though IF I'm to get bucked off I think I'll prefer not to be tied to her back with the stirrups if people don't mind, though I will take the blanket and the reins." 

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Mich looked up from the saddle he was working on as Micheal plowed straight into the door frame of the tack room. "You do know that the doorway is three inches to the left right don't you? Anyway How bad was Brian hurt when he got thrown off Athena?" He started to get worried as Micheal sputtered through his bloodied face and was pointing to the corral where he heard people shouting. 

"What's happened out......, THE HELL!!" Mich asked as he ran to the corral to see what was the cause of the commotion. The sight in front of him was one that would plague his dreams for months, Athena who would never allow anyone on her back was being ridden and by a AMATEUR at that. Brian, amateur that he was, was doing a spectacular job of gilding her around the corral and all he had to do it with was reins and a blanket. 

"She doesn't like corsets, she likes her gut to have free reign." Brian said as he gilded Athena up to the fence where Mich was standing. "Want to give her a try without the saddle?"

Mich started to laugh, "You MIGHT be partially right about the saddle but you leave out the part where she LIKES you. People have tried to ride her without the saddle, she bucked them that much harder so now how about you try riding her with a saddle." 

Brian shrugged, "Why not, can't be the only one that's ridden this girl and not gotten thrown. Anyway whats this ones name I didn't ask when I brought her out here.

"Her names Athena, Brian." Tanya said as she got in the corral to give him a hand getting the saddle on Athena's back.

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"Hey Brian you can look up now and not to mention breath." Mich hollered at Brian as he chuckled at spectacle that Brian was making of himself up on the Athena's saddle all scrunched down waiting to get thrown. "If she was going to throw you she would have done it once she felt you on the saddle so after three minutes the chance of her throwing you pretty much depends on someone else getting on her back as well."

"So we've finally found someone that can ride Athena, have we? OH and Mich, Micheal will need stitches from trying to implant his face in the door frame. He ripped his top lip open and might have a slight concussion." Cheryl said as she walked up to watch Brian ride Athena around the corral, "Really though riding in a corral is one thing out and about is another. Eric why don't you open the gate, that way we can see how she reacts out of a pen. Cynthia since you're on Breach, ride close so you can grab the reins in case Brian gets thrown."

As the ranch hand opened the corral gate Brian urged Athena out the gate and beside Cynthia "So, one end of the drive and back?" Brian asked as he circled Cynthia and Breach.

"That will have to do IF people want to get going sometime today." Cynthia said as they both got their horses moving.

As Brian and Cynthia completed their short ride Mich laughed at the hilarity of it all. "We've had who remembers how many professionals ride, well TRY to ride Athena and they all failed brutally. You, a amateur show up and she acts like the sweetest most gentle kitten and you can ride her like a professional. If you want to just call her yours! You can HAVE her and save us all a lot of trouble, though I do want the saddle back when you guys get back."

Brian laughed as Athena nickered. "Well since Athena seems to like that idea, I guess I'll go along with it as well. THANKS, though I am so going to end up owing you big time by the time we get a place set up over there." Jerking his thumb in the direction of Two-Peak Pass. 

"Hey Brian how in hell did you know that's the direction of Two-Peak?? You're completely lousy with directions and yet you get the direction on the first attempt." Michelle asked a top buckskin gilding.

"Well really I just all in all I followed the tug from the area of Two-Peak." Brain said leaning forward to scratch under Athena's jaw. "I might not get it dead-on but it WILL be the general direction even in the dark and since animals can home in on it even better I'll be relying on Athena on getting me to the source." 

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Six days later as lunch was nearly done in the main ranch building the ring tone of a cellphone made people jump. "Hey whats going on?!!" Mich asked. "This is a dead zone cells don't work around here and there aren't any plans on getting towers or a satellite over us allowing service out here so why are we hearing ring tone?"

"Well Brian DID tell me to keep Tina's cell charged and on me since he felt like it would be needed. So want to see what he wants sis?" Asked Brianna as she tossed Tina her cellphone.

Tina looked looked at her phone and took a deep breath, a little unnerved from what Mich had said about NO cell service around that area. "HELLO?"

"Shut up and don't say anything, just listen! Athena and I ARE okay, we ARE alive BUT we WON'T be able to get to the surface for a few days at best. What's happened will allow ALL our promises to each other to be fulfilled, even though some are long term future plans we will still be able to fulfill them. Tell people this is a six six six area code phone call, when the others get back saying I'm dead go along with it, live it up, just don't let the girls believe any of it okay? Also DON'T allow Micheal to touch Brianna, and DON'T allow him near her bed."



Forward to the Stars Ch. 03



Sorry it took me so long to get this submitted. I was trying to find the name of mythical creature for a future chapter and couldn't find it with all the mexican claptrap of all the "we are Aztec or Mayan because we live in the same place they did" stuff. Anyway ANY and ALL constructive comments are always welcome. Even if I don't say so in a story heading. 

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As the group headed out from Stallion Acres Brian kept looking back over his shoulder, "Yes Brian its still back there and we can always get back by turning around." Laughed Michelle.

"Can it Mi. Its just that I've got a feeling that I've forgotten something and no it wasn't that I left the coffee pot on, you KNOW how much I hate that stuff, the smell alone makes me gag." Brian said as he prodded Athena back up to the group as the made their way north. "DAMN IT!! I remember now, my CAMERA!"

Tanya and most of the rest burst out laughing, "Its not like the scenery is going anywhere." Said a sixteen year old named Alexander, "So why would you need a camera??"

"And THAT is EXACTLY where you are wrong!" Brian said, "Look over to your right and tell me what do you see? Have you ever seen what you see before you and will you ever see it again?" 

"Of course I have, its the same old hill country leading out into the plains with the sun setting behind the mountains casting long afternoon shadows." Alexander said with a huff.

"No, no you haven't, nor will ever again Alex." Said one of the ranch hands. "I understand what Brian is getting at and he is correct and when it comes down to it, I myself should start carrying one. Thought about it but never got around to it. You see, everyone that has ever stepped outside and actually LOOKED have seen sights that we wished we had had a camera because it was so beautiful or hilarious that we needed PROOF that it actually happened. Ever LOOK at the clouds along the front edge of a storm with the sun shining through the breaks or how about the sky in the morning after a storm went through the night before? That is EXACTLY what is being talked about."

Tanya laughed. "Don't worry Brain, I have NO doubt that you people will be around for a long time to come, so there is no doubt in my mind that you'll see more than enough beautiful scenes to make up for this."

"Well did you at least remember your bear pepper grenades?" Michelle asked.

"Grenades?!" One of the ranch hands sputtered out as he nearly fell off his horse laughing.

"YEP!" Brian said with a grin. "You ever watch those Extreme Pig-out shows on the Travel Channel on TV? Well before we came here I got a hold of some hot sauce that one of the places that is high lighted used for hot-wings. I had it concentrated to the point of nearly four hundred thousand capsicum units and then powdered and than put in grenade style delivery system, OH and that high of a level should pretty much kill the average human because of the shock and agony to their body."

"So what will they do to bears and anyway its getting a little late in the season for them anyway." Tanya said.

"Might be getting late in the year but until its the middle of winter I like the idea of watching out, thank you very much. Becoming bear chow wasn't on my list of things to get done anytime soon" Michelle said.

"What it SHOULD do is just put a rabid grizzly into enough pain for him to find the nearest hunter and beg whoever into ending the agony." Brain said matter of factly. "But at the very least it WILL give the furball something else to think about, for some time."

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As the group was setting up camp for the evening, Brian suggested at least a cursory watch through the night. "Come on Brian." said one of the hands "You're getting way to panicky about bears. Though if your talking of mountain lions, I do have to say that that isn't the worst idea that's ever been suggested while camping."

************

In the morning as everyone was crawling out of their tents Tanya looked around and then turned to Michelle. "Hey, wheres Brian? He wanted a night watch so wheres he at? He get eaten and not scream and let us know?"

Michelle still groggy from getting up with the sun jerked her thumb at the tree where they had tethered the horses. As Tanya looked at the tree trying to see what Michelle was pointing at when she would normally by worried about Brain. "Okay, so what am I supposed to see its not Brian can ble...., just HOW the hell you do that Brian?" She asked as Brain seemed to materialize on a branch above the horses.

"Mmmmm?" Brian asked/growled in response to Tanya's question. Tanya wasn't the only one to stare as Brian made his way along a branch that shouldn't really be able to hold him much less him AND a light weight blanket. "Do what?" He growled as stepped off the branch and down onto Athena's back where he settled down facing her butt and looking at the group. "Walk on branches or dose on them?" He asked as he scratched the horses flank.

"AND blend into the tree with a blanket that's BLUE." Said one of the hands, who like the others was anxiously awaiting a explanation.

Michelle laughed. "Don't expect much of a answer, its one of those things that happens with no real answer. He can do it without trying but IF he tries he CANT do it."

The group fixed and ate breakfast and broke camp and was under way by the time the sun was fully up in the eastern sky. As the day progressed Brian noticed that Alexander was getting more and more withdrawn. "So whats up Alexander? You upset about the camera conversation yesterday or you see something that made you realize what we meant?"

"Alex will work Brian and yes I DID see something. OR might have seen something anyway. When you were up in that tree would you have stood out in a pic? OH!" Alex resettled himself on his horses' saddle as Brain and Michelle shook their heads yes. "And uh could people keep this quite but I'm needing some help on a school paper." 

Brian offered a sympathetic smile, "I may be a asshole but if I can help and I'm asked, I'll do what I can." The offer to help was seconded by several others who asked what he needed help on.

"Well its on the Tienanmen Square massacre but I'm having a hard time find stuff on it and since this is a term paper, I'm a more than a little desperate." Alex said as his ears turned a deep enough red that he should have passed out from the loss of blood to the rest of his body.

"Hey don't be ashamed Alex, its not a very politically favorable subject so it and along with most of the worlds less than politically correct history its getting deleted, so its no real big surprise that you're having a hard time finding stuff on it." Said one the hands. "Got a note pad? Now lets get you what we know down on paper." 

***********

As that evenings camp chores was being completed Brain stopped and looked out at the hill country that led out onto the plains. "You do know there is precedence for the Tinnieman square massacre in US history don't you?"

"Do WHAT?" Asked one of the hands with a chuckle.

"Exactly!" Brian said with a sigh. "While it wasn't about getting freedoms into the country what it WAS about was getting the government to allow jobs to be created and more jobs to be brought into the country."

"Wait a moment Brian, you're saying that the government slaughtered US citizens wholesale?" Asked Tanya.

"The ARMY did under the DIRECT order of the commanding general who was there to 'peacefully' break up the demonstration of out of work World War One vets that were being given the usual welcome home that vets get. It was just about the start of the great depression which did NOT help matters, there was a quiet and ORDERLY gathering in Washington of people demanding the government take action to get people back to work. I think it was General Sherman but I'm not sure. Anyway which ever it was at that time being under direct orders from the president that all they were to do was keep watch, don't let them get to close to fed buildings but just stand watch until everyone dispersed. NOTHING more than that! Well since they were not dispersing, over a bullhorn he called for the people to disperse than he ordered bayonets affixed then he ordered the tanks in. Anyone that didn't move fast enough was ran over by the tanks, anyone that survived was ran through and beaten. In the 'OFFICIAL' report it was a riotous and murderous mob that was intent on overthrowing the government. Though in the report there was SOME good news, there was only one HUMAN death." Brian said with disgust and contempt dripping from his voice.

A PALE Alex looked around at the others in the camp. "UH GUYS?"

Michelle shrugged. "It'd be best to look it up and try to find out one way or the other. BUT do keep in mind on stuff like this, its dates and names that he usually gets wrong. Otherwise on the broad details hes got more than enough for your report." 

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The next day they arrived in the rejoin of Two-Peak Pass at about two in the afternoon. "Well here we are Two-Peak, what you two home homesteaders think of your place?" Asked one of the hands rather grimly as he looked over the more or less clear cut land that the logging company left in their wake.

Michelle looked around with a brokenhearted look on her face as she took the scene in. "Figures." Brian said. "Well Athena lead me to the whatsit that has plagued this place for so long. THEN we can start finding a place for a home THEN we can start thinking about fixing this devastation." Turning to look at the barren land he snorted. "Just how this crap could be allowed two thousand and nine with all the environmentalists and their say in how things are ran would be something to ponder if money wasn't involved." With that he dropped the reins and prodded Athena on who started to move in the direction of the north northeast end of the mountain pass.

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The next day Brian had them yet again follow Athena on the course she had set when he had asked she lead him to the 'feeling' of Two-Peak Pass. By one in the afternoon they had found a way to entertain themselves, try and figure out just how the HELL Brian could fall into deep enough sleep to snore and still remain up right in the saddle even with some of the terrain that they were going over.

About one thirty Brian again woke from another of his thirty minute naps and asked how things were going. Brian looked confused as people just burst out laughing and trying to talk at the same time. "Well for starters Brian." Said Alex "We've trying to learn your trick of falling asleep and NOT falling. Not falling off our horse that is, I mean how do you learn to stay up right when a horse is jumping over a gully and not either wake up or fall off her back??!"

"Learn to sleep on a school bus for starters than learn to sleep on your feet while working and using a knife AND keep it sharp." Brian said still half asleep. "If you people think you're bewildered, think about the people I used to work with when I did just that. Handling the knife when asleep I meeeaaan! Somebody HEEELP!" Brian managed to scream out as the ground caved in under a also screaming Athena before he was swept away with the current of the underground river.

"BRIAN BRIAN BRIAAAAAN!!" Michelle screamed as she scrambled off her horse after him, she was tackled in time from going after him down the hole by three of the ranch hands. As she struggled, they were joined by the rest of the group 

"There is NOTHING you can do if you don't get a hold of yourself girl." Tanya yelled at Michelle as she got in the girls face and giving it a smack to get Michelle's attention on here and away from the growing hole that they were struggling to get away from while holding onto Michelle. As Michelle calmed down she started giving orders to get ropes and anything that could be used to see if Brian had managed to get a hand hold just out of sight in the river channel.

**********

"So Tanya, what do we do? We've gotten Michelle bedded down as best we can for the night, and we've pretty much ruled out any chance that he's near the hole. How you doing Tom?" Asked on of the hands.

"YOU get lowered into a underground river, YOU nearly get swept down stream and then YOU tell ME how you're doing you fucking asshole!!" Snarled Tom as he huddled as near the fire he could get and not catch the blanket he was wrapped up in on fire.

"Easy people." Tanya said as she moved between the men. "Okay, here's what we do, in the morning we head back to the ranch and we get help. By that time IF hes even still alive he probably wont be for much longer so we're going to have hustle it."

*************

Brain fought through the waves of sauna that threatened to make him sink down into the welcoming bliss of unconsciousness and opened his eyes and immediately needed to roll to the side so as not to drown himself with his own puke. As his stomach settled down he tried focusing on where he was, the last he remembered clearly was he was falling than something hard hit him in the back of the head and then and then what? He looked at his hand and concentrated on it trying to bring the swirling in front of his eyes to a end.

"Are all right? Is there anything more that I can do for you or your pleasure beast?" Said a voice behind Brian. "The injuries that you suffered were far greater than what your pleasure beast incurred in your descent down the water cause way, though they have healed nicely."

Water!! Brian felt like he had been hit in the back of the head again and groaned. "Are you alright? Scans indicate increased stress, you are safe here. There is no need to worry about immediate strenuous activity. It would be best for you to rest longer." Said the voice that as Brian's mind became more and more clear sounded rather 'dead'.

"Who are you?" Asked Brian trying to turn over and see who was speaking to him and not throw up again. 

"Try not to move, the head injuries that you suffered while they have been healed you need to calm down and rest." Said the voice that was at least a little closer.

"Than tell me who are and where are you and just WHERE the GODDAMNED HELL I AM!" Brian all but sobbed in his frustration. He hated being talked down to and when he wasn't doing all that well he took nearly everything as being talked down to and in this instance he was nearly in a rage already.

"Alright, just calm down. 'WHO' I am means less than 'WHAT' I am. So to answer your question I am the main AI of the experimental Human Imperium colony ship Atherian, as to WHERE you are. You are in the medical bay, six levels below the airlock that you were brought in at, when your presence was registered on my instruments and I was brought out of hibernation protocols to tend your injuries."

Brian moaned and laid on the table trying to comprehend what he had just been told. "May I ask a question?"

"As you are the first human contact seventeen thousand nine hundred ninety six solar cycles three galleans two fornithes and..." The computer cut off time units as started waving his hand. "We both undoubtedly have questions, so as to keep you calm please ask your questions."

"I apologize for being a uncooperative patient." Brian stammered still laying his head down.

"It is quite alright, though do you wish your pleasure beast access to you and the med bay?" Asked the AI, though it sounded to Brian as though there was disgust in the otherwise dead voice of the computer.

"Yeah, sure, why not?" Brian groaned. "Though as we keep talking more and more questions keep coming to mind. So lets play twenty questions, though it might end up being more than any twenty questions by the time its all said and done."

"I am unsure of what you are calling twenty questions, it will take your pleasure beast a few moments to make its way here." Said the AI causing Brian to smile.

"Twenty questions is where people take turn asking and answering questions, also my name is Brian so what are you called?" Brian asked.

"As I stated before the ship you are on is called the Atherian, if you are referring to the AI that you now communicating with I specifically have no name only the ship has a name." Stated the AI rather blandly.

"Fine, I'll call you Atherian unless you have any problems with that." Brian said as he heard the clop of Athena's hooves on the flooring.

"I have none Brian, as to your pleasure beast I have taken the liberty of increasing her intelligence up to the level that the governance class of the Imperium called for in their pleasure beasts as well as other popular 'improvements' and bodily hygiene imperatives. I have also repaired and preserving the riding apparatus that she had on when you both arrived." Said the AI as blandly as it could.

"Oh yeah the saddle, mm Mich said that he wanted that back when that ride was over." Brian's mind throbbed as it all came back to him, he remembered the ground caving out from under him and Athena and the crack he got from the low lying channel ceiling, getting slammed against the walls of the tunnel and outcroppings in the channel than going over a waterfall then nothing.

"Okay?" Came a soft voice and a gentle nudge.

"Yeah, just remembered some of that damn water park ride that I got hurt on." Brian said as he tried to focus on the shape in front of him. "Athena?? Hey Atherian, was one of the 'improvements' that you were talking of amount to taking a animal and turning it into a bipedal being?"

"It was Brian, the governance class that ruled over the Imperium could afford to adapt beasts to display their wealth and power over all things as they did not need the beasts for labor." The AI informed Brian. "When in private most of the governance class would make use of the beasts for their own sexual pleasure hence the description 'pleasure beasts'. Their intelligence was increased so that they could be put to use around the governance class's estates if so ordered."

"So what modifications were done, can they be UN-done and can more be done to her?" Brian asked as he looked at the triple d tits that hung in front of his face, then he noticed that under the 'main' tits there were tits that only show their existence by the raised nipples through her coat of hair.

"The most noticeable is her ability to speak, the next is her intelligence is now that of a young human child though more obedient. Her body mass is the same though in the way of denser bones and stronger muscles, her hind legs still end in hooves though her front now end in four digit-ed hands. I have left her ability to be bred in tacked though it will have to be with specially modified beasts or with other pleasure beasts. As you may have noticed with your lower than normal vantage point that she also has four breasts the top two are for your pleasure the lower two will only be utilized when she has been bred. Are there any more question on the modifications?" Asked the AI.

"No, not on her modifications, right now anyway. Since I've had more than my share of question answered you go then we can start twenty question." Brian said with a smile as he tried to sit up, when he lost his equilibrium Athena reached out to steady him. When he smiled his thanks threw the tightness his stomach achieved Athena beamed like a Cheshire cat pleased that she had done what was wanted of her.

"Thank you Brian. Has this colony been contacted and been incorporated back into the Imperium as of yet?" Asked the AI rather anxiously.

"I'm sorry" Brian said. "But I don't believe so, the reason I'm not sure is that the form of government that now runs this part of the world does all it can to keep its people from know as much as they can. And that there at one time humans even existed else where in the universe and didn't evolve on this planet is knowledge that would end with my death and your total destruction."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 03



"Destruction? Why would I be destroyed, just for bearing the knowledge that humanity has or at least one time had a galaxy spanning empire?" Asked the flummoxed AI.

"Precisely why, with the information you just stated humanity would know that at one time we really were worth more than we are today or night which ever it is AND that we could be that again. BUT they also know that they stand in the way of that and that humanity would NOT be agreeable on allowing them to remain there." Brian said warming up to the discussion.

"Hey Atherian, I am in need of making use of the head so could we hold off on more questions until I've relieved myself and where exactly is the closest one?" Brian asked as became aware of his need. 

"Certainly Brian, it is the alcove at the back of the med bay I have increased lighting to full to help guild you more easily." The AI said allowing Brian the opportunity to get more control of his bruised body.

"THANKS, anyway Athena you need to make use of the restroom also?" Brian asked as she helped him to his feet and in the direction of the indicated room.

"YES, need use. Want play to?" Asked Athena who tried not to hurry faster than Brian could walk but was obviously with the way she was urging him on in pain.

As they entered the restroom Brian urged Athena to the toilet who all but fell over herself to get in position to relieve herself. As Brian stood in front of the equine he realized neither had clothes on, well he thought we've both had more important things to worry about than to realize they were naked. As Athena was nearly done he moved in front of her and with his knees nudged her to spread her legs as she lowered her now pupil-ed eyes as she complied allowed him to see the last of her piss flowing into the toilet. As she was finishing he was sure that her discomfort wasn't just a overfilled bladder. "Where do you hurt and how bad is it?" 

Brian could have sworn that her ears turned red before she met his eyes with tears in her own "Here" she said as she placed her hand on her nether region.

"Front, back or both?" Brian asked as she moved her hand farther back to cover both her crotch and her ass. "Let me guess Micheal never washed his dick when he went from one horse to the next and has given you whores' rot." Brian said with a disgusted sigh. To which Athena just hung her head. "Well let me get mine done and we'll put you on a bed and then have you fixed up."

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As Brian and Athena exited the restroom Atherian spoke up "You've noticed that she has health problems in her anal tract and her urinary have you not?" When Brian nodded his head in acknowledgment the AI continued. "Then tell her to calm down and allow herself to be treated. When you regained consciousness she became frantic at which time I allowed her access to you."

Brian gave Athena a sideways glance who moved in the direction of a table that had slid out from a wall alcove. "So who's turn was it to ask the next question Atherian?" When the AI indicated that Brian should go he paused a moment then asked "What happened that you are buried under a mountain?"

ALL the answer Brian received was the lights in a office or what Brian guessed was a office over to the far left flickered on. As Brian entered the office the chair behind a desk slid back beckoning him to sit. As he sat down he rubbed his hand down along the sides for controls as the seat felt like it was made for a beached whale, as he was trying to find the controls the chair conformed to his body and slid back toward the desk coming to a stop facing a computer screen.

As the screen flickered to life it was filled the face of a homely redhead "Greetings to whom ever has found my believed Atherian. I apologize for not being there to greet you personally but much time has in all likelihood past between us coming to this system and my recording this message and the time you have found my ship. You must have many questions some may or may not have been answered by Atherian but there are some that I myself wished to tell you." The woman said with a sob. "I am or was Captain Anilease McBrather I was part of a group of three experimental ships that were equipped with space tunneling technology. The empire had just finished fighting a civil war against a colony that had somehow managed to develop living weapons."

"The weapons provided great and powerful abilities while adapting themselves to their wielders strengths, the most prominent rumor on how the war was won is the wielder of the so called 'Twin Blades of the Emperor' could no longer bring himself to be the cause of any more bloodshed and placed the swords in their scabbards before placing the scabbards on stand in a specially constructed room. Without their 'Emperor' the other weapon bearers lost heart wherever they were and they also returned their weapons to their scabbards and they to placed their weapons to the room." 

"As the weapons were 'Sentient' and capable of great powers the Imperium declared that the wielders of the so called 'Psyker Blades' were innocent pawns and under the command of the weapons and as such were as much victims of the war as the populous. This was as one could believe, not welcomed as the survivors could not demand financial compensation for war atrocities and emotional trauma. There were great riots throughout the Imperium, many of the former warriors of the blade as they were called gave themselves over to the mobs to allow the others time to escape into the safety of the military who took them 'prisoner'. In the end it was decided that in the present time of strife that there was no place for them, so three great colony ships were constructed. I myself and two other captains of the Imperial fleet were called upon to command the three ships to distant planets and after seeing that the colony was self sufficient, I and the command crew were to return with the location of the colony."

"Soon after we had entered the tunnel created by the warp generators there was an explosion that damaged the command relays to the tunnelers, almost as soon as we exited the tunnel in the designated sector the second generator activated and sent us through another tunnel. As the ship exited the tunnel the sled that the rift generators were attached to broke free and collided with the fourth planet in this system destroying it completely, leaving nothing but asteroids that will eventually circle the sun." 

"I have given the orders to construct three colonial hubs on the three main continental landmasses so that in the worst case scenario at least one will survive. I have divided the command crew between the colonies to as act as either leaders or advisers, I myself will after the last shuttle has departed take the Atherian and find a secluded area of the planet and I will then bury the ship as a technological archive. To you that have unearthed the Atherian I ask of you this, either make contact with the empire if the empire has yet to reclaim her lost children OR if it be that the empire has fallen please rebuild the empire. Remake it into the beacon of knowledge and technology that it once was. I ask this of you, you the new captain of the Reamaiinsk Imperial ship Atherian. PLEASE be a better captain to this fine ship than I was." Sobbed Anilease. 



Forward to the Stars Ch. 04



Okay this is the chapter that gets closer to Mr. Marvels' story 'Genesis Project' in that I get into the psyonic weapons. All mind-to-mind or mind-to-machine communications are Italics. Also to try to be a little more distintual between time gaps *** and location transfers ==== I'll go with these and and add as necessary. Hopefully I have gotten all unintentional misspellings and discovered all incorrect though correctly spelled words. And I'll try to catch the astronomy screw ups but as it has always been a fail subject with me, that's all I can promise.







Forward to the Stars Ch. 04



"Of course captain, though I would have advised against such a course of action." The Atherian said. "Also the modifications have been completed to your communications probe, it will be launched as soon as there is enough power to activate more work droids to burrow a passage to the river channel."





Forward to the Stars Ch. 05



Okay so I didn't ask on the last chapter, if you've got constructive comments let me know. This chapter or previous ones just let me know to which you are referring to.

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'Also DON'T allow Micheal to touch Brianna, and DON'T allow him near her bed...' Why did I tell Tina that? Brian wondered after he had deactivated the communicator. Oh well, he concluded, if I felt it strong enough to say it there's probably a good reason to have said it. "Atherian, I need access to design programs. Everything from clothing to ship construction, it's time to get started."

"Yes captain. I will guide you to the nearest engineering station." Said a very upbeat AI. "Please inform me if there is anything else you require."

"I need 3D design capabilities Atherian. Also when Athena wakes send her to me." Brian said firmly. "What I need to do won't be accomplished by anyone except a expert on a regular screen program."

"As you wish captain, I will have you shown the way to the Astrometrics Lab. While it's not quite what it was meant for, it WILL fulfill your requirements admirably. Or I believe it will Sir." Said Atherian.

Brian laughed. "For a while until we get everything set up and rearranged, somethings will have to be multipurpose. So lets see if the Astrometrics Lab will work, even if it's not perfect I'll still probably be able to use it."

"As you will, captain. As Astrometrics is to the forward of the ship it would be prudent to use the chutes."

Atherian informed Brian.

"Chutes? As in high speed one person elevators?" Brian asked. Great just freaking great, Brian thought. Adrenalin rush here we come, I hate extreme sports but I get a high from speed and I'm going to be going into design and decoration with a fucking buzz.. GOD how I need a PEPSI!!! He thought from the bottom of his heart.

"Possibly captain, possibly. I have very little idea what you are referring to." Atherian said apologetically.

Brian couldn't help but laugh. "I AM sorry but the culture clash is hitting my sick twisted sense of humor. Elevators are used to get to higher or lower levels of buildings, I'm guessing your chutes run over your LENGTH as well as your height."

"You are correct in your assessment of the chutes." Atherian observed. "In several moments as I have no idea what you use for time now, you will reach the far end of the ship where you will be shown to Astrometrics. Also I have completed the scan of the immediate area, the 3D capabilities of the lab will be optimal in showing you the immediate area."

"Yeah yeah, as long we can start." Brian stopped as a thought hit him, he turned to look in the corner where most cameras would be in Earth human installations. "Atherian, is it a bad idea to go off the idea that it's been so long that if there are humans still up there, that the Empire still is? Is it wrong in the possibility that when we rejoin them that we'll be worth something besides the spawn of people that actually had the balls to stand up to tyrants? Granted that's what the first Americans were. We came here to get away from oppressors and when they followed us, we tolerated them until we couldn't take it anymore. Then we kicked them off American soil, hell some followed after a few miles to make sure they didn't land a few miles down coast. Hell, you could ALMOST say that the Brits loosing control of America started the collapse of their empire."

Atherian didn't respond for several minutes. "I am unable to be of assistance in answering your question. I AM sorry but far to much time has passed without any new data input and there are far to many probabilities to narrow down anyone without further information."

Brian sighed. "Yeah, well I need to go get the TWINS. Should have grabbed them before I left the room, need to get in the habit of carrying them."

"That's no joke, we could have started you on your training in how to yield us in battle by now." Said a very uptight Ashilon, startling Brian enough to nearly make him shit his pants.

"Calm yourself Ashilon, he is new and in joining with his mind we have seen that weapons are not needed to much by the average human, here on Earth anyway." Icialan said berating Ashilon.

"No, just the very unlucky ones or the ones that go into the ethnic parts of towns. At one time that wasn't all that dangerous, maybe being in Little Italy on Easter wasn't the best idea but it was still a hell of a lot safer than it is now." Brian said as he was trying to figure out the correct direction to turn in the hall to get the the sword chamber.

"IDIOT!" Shouted Ashilon. "Try using some of that implanted knowledge to get back up here and get us!"



Brian laughed. "I'm lousy with directions, that's what GPS is for. Or Tina for that matter." As Atherian guided the droid in front of Brain and then sent it the direction of the nearest chute.

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"GREAT, just fucking GREAT!" Brian said as he looked at the sealed doors to the sword chamber. "OKAY, Athenian check atmospheric conditions in side.... shit, sorry no sensors."

"Actually captain, I do have sensors in the room as the destroyed droid had a full sensor pack installed.

AS to the internal atmospheric conditions I am reading a vacuum in the sword room. The only possibility I can conclude that you be able to obtain access is to shut down the cores and deactivate the safeguards that have been installed to contain the Psyker Swords." Atherian said.

"No there might be another possibility to this. Captain Anilease didn't know about the swords being on board did she?" Brian asked as he contemplated the sealed doors and the vacuum on the other side.

"She did not, but what possibilities does that open up for gaining access to the chamber?" Asked Atherian.

"Simple, lets try the captains' complete override commands. Since she didn't know they were here then there would be no reason to restrict the command overrides to the chamber as well. Is there?" Asked Brian.

"Well there is no reason to believe that the commands wouldn't work, following that line of logic. But there is also no guarantee that it would work." Atherian said as Brian started reciting commands that were to be only used when only the captain was the only one left to initiate the self-destruct mechanism. "All systems ready captain what are your orders?" When Brian had completed the lengthy line of codes and commands

"Active ALL sensors in the sword chamber, label it in all following scans as power core replacement parts. Second in all sealed sections do a toxin flush, I want nothing that MIGHT be harmful left in there. After the flush has been completed, I want full atmospheric conditions reintroduced in to the chamber and all adjacent areas." Brian sat down and waited to see if the override would have the desired effects.

After some time had passed Atherian spoke up. "I apologize captain but there has been a development that requires your attention, as there has been a new 'arrival'. Taking into account your handling of Athena, the new arrival might give you more options sir. Also the toxin flush has now been completed and breathable atmosphere is being replaced. I have placed 'captain access only' restrictions on the sword chamber, it will seem extreme but should not draw unwanted attention."

"Great, let me grab the Twins and I'll make for medical and see what we've got to play with now!" He said as he squeezed threw a quickly opening set of doors.

As he made his way farther into the room he paused a moment and looked around. "Treyont over to your right fits your line of thought as well as any." Said Icialan as a rapier looking sword started to glow a violet shade.

"Thanks Icialan, hmm no chance of private thoughts is there anymore?" Brian said with a humorless laugh.

"I wish there was." Said Ashilon. "Your caged inner self was less than agreeable when you held back last night. When you really start to grow into your abilities, it would be best that you NEVER EVER enter a fight."



"Indeed!" Agreed Icialan. "You will create QUITE the fiery ice storm, in all likelihood you will end up harming as many allies as enemies."



"Well when the time comes I'll do what I have to, to WHOEVER I have to. Something Tina and the others are quite well aware of, especially since I stood up to Tina's and Brianna's slaver grandparents. Now if we can just get Laria to admit to herself that's what they are, she keeps herself in denial that they're the reason of a friends disappearance."

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As Brian entered the med bay he found Athena was waiting for him. "Atherian said that it might be best for some more modifications?"

Brian unzipped her ship suit and reached in and rubbed her crotch collecting some of her juices. "Only if you wish to accept them." He said he stuck his fingers into her mouth.

"YYUUU!" Athena exclaimed as she tried to scrape the taste off her tongue. "You must really love licking down there to put up with that taste last night." She cried as she scraped her tongue trying to get the horrid wintergreen taste off her tongue.

"Anyway if you want, personally Id say just go natural. Oh and think fast." Brian said as he tossed Treyont in Athena's direction. Brian smiled as Athena yelped when the bonding process began with Treyont. "So Atherian what we got in the way of new 'arrivals'?"

"Over here to your far right near the mod bays, where I'll also start with Athena's once she strips and gets over here." Atherian said as Athena giggled and whipped her tail at Brian as she stripped on her way to the bays again.

"Keep that up Athena and I'm liable to fuck that ass a lot sooner than later." Brian said as Athena covered her butt with her hands and backed onto the table that had slide from the bay.

As Brian walked over to the table Atherian spoke up. "I apologize about this, but as the four legged animal was about to brought in the droid picked up a VERY faint life reading and a second but very much smaller entity was also collected."

"Well, the little cottontail will just require more mass added to get her or he whichever it is up to worthwhile size. The whitetail deer won't require much to get her into useful shape. So have their intelligence levels been raised yet and can they speak human yet as well? Since I figure any injuries have been dealt with before I even got in here." Brian said with a smile. "You know, when I've got the time or a great enough reason I'm going to have to stay down here while your doing the doctor thing and watch."

"Whenever you're ready captain and there is someone or thing to doctor captain." Atherian said as the modifications to Athena were started. "As to your questions and your assumptions. Yes all injuries have been dealt with as soon as an injury assessment was completed. Their intelligence has been increased to that of adult human though I have reinforced their allegiance to you and put their sex drive secondary to following any and all orders from you. Though they can understand human speech until their bodies are altered they will require voice generators."

"Very well, where are they? While I'm attaching them please awaken the two of them." Brian said as he made his way to the office that was now lit to show Brian where the voice generators were.

As Brian was attaching the collar to the cottontail, it wobbly got to its feet only to be saved from falling off the table by a quick grab from Brian. As it straddled his arm he was finished attaching the collar to its neck, it started grinding its butt against his arm. "You know my little fuck bunny, I don't think putting your sex drive secondary was far enough back." He said with a chuckle.

"Rabbits are always ready to be covered." Groaned the deer as she tried to get to her feet and only managed in falling off the table.

"EASY!!! You've just spent who knows how long on the river bank before you were detected. After getting swept down a underground river and then got your head pumped full of this and that, it'll take a bit for your equilibrium to reassert itself." Brian said as he rushed over to help the deer.

"Your cool arm feels good against the burning under my tail." Squeaked the rabbit. "Will you show us what we can look forward to, when it comes our time to be in your bed master?"

"Little whore, can you hoppers think of nothing else but getting mounted?" Asked the deer even though she to was turning her back to Brian in invitation to fulfill a great need of her own.

"That's enough out of BOTH of you! Don't worry either of you, you'll both get your cream." Brian snapped. "Anyway my little fuck bunny, if I were to show you it I might not be able to keep myself from using it on you." He said as scratched her ears.

The deer nearly burst out laughing. "Id like to see that, the little whore impaled on a cock that's nearly her own body length."

"Mmmm, that sounds wonderful." Squealed the little cottontail. "What male whitetails have feels like they're barely long enough to do the job, even IF they do manage it."

Brian couldn't help but chuckle. "So what would happen if I were to show you what I've got, when the modifications were completed it would appear a lot smaller. While I don't have any real problem showing you, I do have one with disappointing you."

"Then let me feel what you've got, now!" The rabbit shrieked looking at him with teary eyes. "Let me feel what it's like ONCE in my life to be completely FULL."

As Brian looked into her eyes he sighed. "Atherian, is she pregnant?"

"Yes captain." Said the AI. "Though how the young were supposed to survive the winter is beyond my abilities to compute, they appear to be near ready for birth. Unless the cottontail species as you call her has the ability to hold off on giving birth, they would be born in the middle of the up coming winter cycle. IF you were to have sex with her as she is, I do not believe the young would survive the act with your aggression levels."

"Okay rabbit, I'll make a deal with you. You put off getting fucked as you are now until you give birth, then we'll put you back into this form and I'll fuck you then. How about that, is that acceptable?" Brian asked not wanting to harm to her babies.

The bunny growl deep in her throat. "Yeah, if that's what I have to do to get what I want, I'll do it. Just don't try to go back your wor..."

She shrieked as Brian grabbed her by the back of her neck and brought her up to his eye level. "I gave you my word, fuzz butt. I'm telling you both this just once." Looking at the horrified deer to make sure she understood as well that he wasn't happy that the rabbit called into question him giving his word. "When I give my word, I do EVERYTHING in my ability to actually DO WHATEVER it was that I gave my word on! NEVER EVER again question my word, believe me when I say, the next time I WILL have at least one tanned animal hide in my room." He said with a snarl as he flung the rabbit on the medical table that quickly drew her into the bay to both begin her modifications and to get her away from his anger.

The deer started backing up cowering as Brian turned toward her. "I, I, I didn't, I mean I wasn't the one who didn't believe you. Please don't throw me back in the river." She begged trembling in fear as he approached her.

"IF I was going to do anything, I would do it. What it would NOT be, is to throw you back out into that cold water. Now hold still, I just want to feel you. I've felt rabbit and really when you've touched one live one you've felt them all. Deer on the other hand that's another matter, anyway those I've felt were only fawns." Brian said as he held his hand out.

The deer cocked her head at him. "So what, you saying I'm fat or something? My rump isn't that big." She said with a smirk.

"No, it isn't if anything it looks like you need to get dewormed since you seem to be rather thin." Brian said looking at her as best he could with her cowered nearly behind a bed.

"While she did have quite a large quantity of internal parasites, they were dealt with in her medical before I called you down here captain." Atherian said trying to give Brian even more time to cool off. "Before you ask, she to is pregnant. Though with her bigger mass the survival through the coming winter is more likely than with the rabbit."

"I would expect her to be, the rut should be pretty much ending. Anyway what do we call you? Because I can't keep calling you deer all the time and if I were to call you venison I'll start to get hungry." He said with a evil grin.

"Umm, really since we don't have need of names on the surface why don't you give us some." The deer said as she started to slowly but surely came out from behind the bed and approached Brian.

Brian just groaned and put his head in a hand. "CHRIST!!! OK, lets get this over with I don't have all day. Since the bunny is nympho to her core lets go with Cora and since your more down to Earth, Tara. You think that those names will work?"

"Tara, Tara, I think it might work out." The deer said with a smile. "So really were you wanting to see what a adult deer feels like or are you just wanting to feel me up?." She asked offering a side view to Brian.

"If I feel you up I'm also going to end up fucking you, dealing with Cora has gotten me hot and bothered. So lets just get you in a bay and get your modifications started while I go to Astrometrics and get started, where all three of you will join up with me when you're let out." Brian said as he backed up out of the way so she could get to the bays.

"Yes captain, well if you'll help give me a nudge up I'll get on a table." Tara said as she swished her tail at him in invitation.

As Brian helped Tara onto a table he ran his hand along her hind leg. "On your side Tara, I never felt what Athena's tits felt like when she was a horse now I'm wondering if her new set are an improvement or not." As she settled onto her side Brian ran his hands along her chest. "Nice, if things weren't in need of getting done I'd spend some time massaging your tits Tara. As it is we're going to have to settle for now on just teasing each other." As he moved down to stroke the back of her leg he lowered his nose to her sex. "You smell of the rich damp soil of the deep forest, something we'll have to see about keeping, now how about your taste?" He asked as he stuck his tongue as deep as he could into her.

As Brian ran his tongue over her inner lips Tara shuddered as she felt a jolt from her sex down to her hooves and up to the tips of her ears. "OOH, please, please keep doing that! I've never felt anything so good. NO, please don't stop." She begged as Brian stopped tasting her. "OH that'll work to!" She said dreamily as she looked and say that he had taken his dick out of his jeans.

"I know I'm putting myself behind but I need to get my dick into a willing cunt and since I don't think you'll mind." He looked to see if she would object, when she edged herself closer to the edge so that he could easily get into her he continued. "You'll do nicely, I just hope I don't hurt you when you get the hammer."

She gasped as he sank his six inch cock into her. "Mmm, so nice I think I can even feel it pushing into my womb." She said as she tightened her vaginal muscles as tight as she could, so she could feel ever inch of him as he pumped into her time and time again.

"GOD, you're tight Tara. Your clamping down on me is nearly forcing me out of you." He said as he basked in the heat of her body. "No, don't stop it felt nearly as good as your heat. NNNuugh I'm gonna cum Tara!"

"Yes cum, give your seed let me feel what its like being your mate. YES!! Give it to me!!" She shrieked as he sent jet after jet of searing hot cum into her body. "OOH GOD, it's hot, it's cooking me from the inside. OOH yes it feels so good, roast my guts with your hot cum. PLEASE!! OOH YES!!"




Forward to the Stars Ch. 05



Brian looked down at Tara's freshly fucked cunt and watched his cum ooze from her cunt. "Well, you want to taste what will be going in you for a long time to come?" He asked as he moved so that his dick was close to Tara's head.

Tara licked her lips as she watched Brian move along side the bed. "I may know more than I did a day ago but I'm not sure what you want me to do."

"Simple, open your mouth." Brian smiled as Tara opened her mouth as soon as she had it open far enough he pushed his cock into her mouth. "Good girl." He said as he stroked her head as she followed his instructions. "Now close your lips around my cock and suck and don't forget to use your tongue on the under side of my dick." As he came closer and closer to cumming again he moved from stroking her face to fucking it. "God, I'm getting close again Tara. Get ready to swallow a load of my cum, the same cum that will filled you a minute ago and will continue for a long time to coommee..."

Tara swallowed as he shot jet after jet of cum into her mouth, as he finished she licked her lips. "DELICIOUS! I even tasted what I taste like on your cock, please give me some more soon."

"We'll see. I've got to run, I've spent WAY to much time down here! See you topside when you get out." He hollered as he ran for the door zipping his pants back up. He didn't think anything of it at the time, but while going out the door he reached toward the twin blades and they leaped to his hands from across the room just as the doors were sliding shut.

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Brian had nearly dozed off in the chute when it unceremoniously dumped him onto the deck. He groaned as he picked himself off the floor. "Let me guess, either I'm in the Astrometrics lab or close enough."

"You are three halls down from Astrometrics, Captain. It is INADVISABLE to nap in the chutes captain." Atherian said as Brian walked down the hall.

"Sorry Atherian. I don't know why but I'm exhausted all of a sudden, but anyway even a little nap like that can do wonders. I'll need to start on Gigabyte's station. As it'll have to be manned eventually we'll need it to be big enough for about six or eight people. If you happen to have any preloaded blueprints , now would be a good time to admit to having them." Brian said as he was entering into a large spherical shaped room with a deck jutting out into the middle of the room.

As he approached the circular part of the platform at the end of the walkway, a holographic station came into being several feet from the edge of the observation deck. "The probe has picked what appears to be a communications relay satellite with heavy encryption on all transmissions. If the satellite meets your approval, while adding the living space and facilities, necessary power generators, defensive abilities, (both covert and overt) into the least amount of room the station will still be quite large."

"The heavy encryption means it's probably a military satellite, putting it simply it'll probably have a self-destruct mechanism. So first-off, what we'll have to do is without alerting ANYONE is subjugate the controls while making everyone think they're the ones still calling the shots. IF we can do that we have a good enough chance of making that satellite OUR sat." Brian said as he rubbed his chin while contemplating the holo of the station.

"I am sending the probe instructions on how to make parasites. They SHOULD have the capability to take over the on board computer, while allowing Gigabyte and the probe to complete their work." Atherian said as Brian started rotating the holo of the satellite.

"And if they can't, they'll alert the military who will then in turn increase the encryption on the firewalls and we'll have to find another type of satellite who will also have increased security since we will need to believe the military for some reason gained some intelligence and spread the word to lock shit down." Brian said as he continued focusing on the holographic display.

"Do not worry, the programing that the parasites have was the best the empire had at the time of my launch, they'll get the job done. Now as we are waiting for the parasites to be built and sent on their mission shall we make plans for the surrounding area?" Atherian asked as the sat. holo was guided back nearly to the wall and a holo of the ship was created in the now vacant space.

"Very well, just keep an eye on things up there. Even one infinitesimal, incalculable mishap while we're starting and we just bit off more than we can chew, right now anyway Atherian. Sorry about my saying something you already know, but just saying it to make sure one of us says it. Anyway on the way out did either of the probes do a surface scan to add to the area layout?" Brian asked as he pushed the holo of the ship back to be able to see the whole of it better.

"The parasites will get the job done and even if what we've done IS discovered it will be far to late. Captain. As to the layout of the surface that was included in the area scan." Atherian informed him as the hologram was updated with the mountain range far above them.

"DAMN! When we finally get internet access please figure out size and distance comparison would you Atherian? With the way the holo makes you look like you've got to be at least four miles long, maybe two high since you're taller than the mountain above us." He said as he moved the holo of the ship on top of mountains representation. "OKAY then lets remake our underground prison into our underground kingdom." Brian said before he started laughing as the holo reset itself and they started planning a base layout.

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As Athena,Tara and Cora walked into the Astrometrics Lab they saw Brian working on a number of designs and back against the walls were a mixture of yet to be started up through completed designs. "So what do you girls think?" Brian asked as he swept the ones he had been working on back and pulled the design of the base layout down into view from the ceiling. The uncompleted areas glow red while the completed are a solid blue.

"Whats this area down even farther than we are?" Asked Tara.

"Simple, that's the dungeons." Said Athena. "You think that someone like Brian wouldn't want to some prisoners housed in a cave-in prone area to make sure they NEVER escaped, right Tara?"

"I, I wouldn't know milady." Stammered Tara. "I'm just a science officer, or that's what I've been programmed with anyway."

"And without some imagination and initiative you're going to be reduced to someone who scrubs out petri dishes." Brian said. "Because that's all you'll be good for, you may be science but really think of as many possibilities for stuff as you can. Don't over look even the most ABSURD, you never know if that absurd idea might solve some other problem."

"Yeah." Cora interjected. "You old uptight sail tail. Kinda like this is meant for wearing but if done right..." Tara yelped as Cora popped her on the back of the leg with a rolled up t-shirt that she had grabbed from the saddlebags that had been left in the medical bay.

"That's enough you two." Brian said laughing. "Atherian, how are the parasites doing?" He asked as he brought down the satellite blueprint.

"All firewalls have been breached with multiple backup entrances in place, all programs are being rewritten as we speak to relay all clear signals while still allowing full access to the cameras. For the time being. The self-destruct and the on board defense systems have been deactivated and none the wiser as of yet. I will forward all new updates as they are reported captain." Said Atherian while turning the blueprint into a glowing red mass with a camera that was mounted on the bottom the only trace of blue on the thing. "Since Tara and Cora have had the Science and Engineering clearance codes respectively implanted into their minds captain, it would serve our purposes to activate two more of the power generators."

"When you're right, you're right Atherian. Lets head down there now girls. After we get done with that I want the three of you girls to do a little help collecting." Brian said as he walked toward the door.

"What do you mean 'help collecting'?" Asked Athena. "Do you want us to go get those that you came to this area with?"

"Yes and no Athena. When we get done with the generators I need you three to take a shuttle up to the surface. After they got through with the tunnel to the river channel the droids have been making good progress to make a bigger exit for shuttles and the like. I want you to collect sixteen more does and four bucks, then I want you to go to Stallion Acres. One of the things I've come up with are some rudimentary stealth suits, I want you all to get one. When you arrive at Stallion Acres I want Tara to find Tina, get her by herself so we can talk and plan, at the shuttle bay you'll be issued a communicator. As for Athena and Cora I want you two to collect some more rabbits, however many males you get I want you to get twice as many females." After Brian had finished instructing the girls on what their jobs were to be after they had finished in the generator room he stepped into the chute.

"AWW, does that mean we won't be getting our fuck?" Asked a very dejected Cora after they had exited the chutes.

"No." Brian said turning to her. "What it means is that we'll soon have a breeding population. One day no matter what precautions are taken, all organic things WILL die. With a breeding population, there will be continuation."

"Captain! I must remind you of the Imperial mandates that FORBID pleasure beasts to breed, these mandates were put into place keep creatures like the Doca from ever being allowed the numbers to be a threat to Imperial supremacy." Atherian nearly yelled at Brian as they walked toward the power generator rooms.

Athena looked at Tara and Cora to see if they had any idea what was being talked about. "Brian, what are the 'Doca' and why were they so much of a threat that we can't be allowed to have young?"

Brian smiled. "Why were weapons like the Psyker Blades actually necessary Athena?"

Athena drew Treyont partially from his scabbard and drew herself inward to converse with him. "I'm sorry captain but neither of us has any idea, he hadn't been formed when this Doca was in existence."

"Doca wasn't a 'it', Doca was a 'they'! Not mention that since the Doca were allowed to breed there was no telling if all of them were in fact exterminated. Powerful weapons like the Psyker Blades were created to help battle psyonic slugs, THAT'S what the Doca were. Psyonic slugs that, like you three were ORIGINALLY simple animals. That like you had their intelligence increased and like you will have, had the chance to breed and multiply."

"So they were pleasure beasts that got loose?" Asked Tara.

"Not quite 'loose' as the stayed at their masters homes. What they did do was since they were telepathic, they simply took command. What they did was that as their numbers grew so did the number of people they could control, like Atherian is doing now with multiple droids for this or that purpose the slugs did with people. The slave became the master, the master the slave. Personally I can't really find what would be so great about fucking a slug, it might be that they're slimy so no matter what you can always push in." Brian cocked an eye at Cora who was acting like she was smashing something with her right hand. "Just WHAT are you doing?" He asked with a laugh.

"When I was a baby I liked to smooch slugs, my mama didn't like having to clean my paw all the time but they were fun to smooch. You had to do it just right or they slid out from under your paw." She said smiling as she remembered her life when she was a baby. Brian just laughed as they took their places at the third generator.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 06



Any and all constructive comments are wanted.

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"Do you have ANY idea whats it's been like for Brie? Do you? DO you have any idea what it's been like for ME? I've had to lie to my little sister for you, you heartless bastard! I damn well had better get at LEAST a week in your bed for this you gutless piece of shit!! NO word after that call for days then I get woken up in the middle of the night by some damn broad in a invisa suit that in all likelihood has been in your bed for the last three days. Who knows how much of OUR cum is STILL oozing out her goddamn cunt. Answer me you piece of shit, don't just stand there safely on the other side of that holo screen and saying nothing, ANSWER ME, ANSWER ME NOW!!!" Tina screamed as tears streamed down her face. 

"All that and you still managed to keep her voice down to a strangled screech, very impressive Tina." Brian said smiling as Tina snarled at him. "We only managed to get a passage up to the surface for transports a little earlier today, so no I haven't been keeping away because I wanted to. Hey Big T, you think Brie might be a little more forgiving than you are if we give her back her legs?" 

"What are you talking about? Her spine was severed completely in that wreck you heard the docs. She shouldn't even be ALIVE, she should be in at LEAST two pieces." Tina snarled struggling through tears. 

"And that her injuries kept your loving grandparents from selling her to the highest bidder, I know. Did YOU know that humanity DIDN'T originate on this planet and as such there is medical knowledge that outstrips the so called 'modern' medical profession?" Brian asked he watched Tina got interested. "Also Tara hasn't been in my bed, Athena has but only because we both needed the sleep and it was simpler just to double up."

"So you've finally turned to bestiality, you really are sex crazed you know that right?" Tina asked with a smile as she sniffled."Since you've always gone off the principles of sentient, willing and female. I take it there are also ways to add sentience to anima.... whaaa?" Tina asked freaked out as Tara removed her face plate allowing her to see the person that had awakened her at two in the morning.

"She is whitetail deer based, she's not quite what her type was meant for but then when do I use things as they're meant for?" Brian asked as Tina studied Tara who was now completely visible thanks to her breaking stealth by raising her face shield. "Everything will be explained more fully when there is time and I can show you, since I WON'T ask you to believe a word I say without visual proof." A comment that earned him a foul look and a under the breath comment from Tara.

Tina snickered. "She appears quite lovely and there doesn't seem to be any fat on her. Her tits are quite the handful aren't they?" She asked as she fondled Tara's tits. "OOH she likes that doesn't she? I bet shes a blast in bed, isn't she Brian?" Tina asked as she looked into Tara's glazed eyes.

"I'd like to find out but there are more important things to do. I'll be up tomorrow around ten in the morning Tina, we need to make some stops and gather all the stuff that we left in Kansas." Brian said as he finished the finishing touches to a truck that was a little more tricked out than anything any car show could come up with. "If I've got everything figured, we've got three days to Brie's birthday right?"

"You are, so whats your train Brian?" Tina asked as she and Tara perked up exchanging looks.

"Night T, oh and if you and Tara want to get to know each other go ahead. It's not like I'll have time tonight since I'm going to be going off of stims for the next seven or so days." Brian said before he cut the transmission.

"DAMN him!" Snarled Tina. "He knows I prefer him being in my bed to anybody else."

"I have been given my orders mistress, while I may have the knowledge for being a science officer I'm still a pleasure beast." Tara said as she started removing her suit.

"Wooaa there big girl!!" Tina stammered holding up her hands as Tara started pulling her suit down relieving her size C breasts. "Just what did Brian mean about not having time tonight for sex? He ALWAYS finds time for sex." She asked Tara who had stopped undressing.

"The captain is concentrating on his goal of global conquest, my mistress. Are you sure you do not wish for us to get to know each other?" Tara asked as she ran her hand down Tina's side to her thigh.

Tina shuddered as the light stroke sent a electrical jolt throughout her entire body. "You weren't kidding when you said pleasure beast were you? Even the tips of my hair felt that touch, you sure know what you're doing."

"I was given all the knowledge that the ship Atherian had on sexually pleasuring, my mistress. As my master told me that I was to see to your needs I am doing what I can to fulfill his command." Stated Tara reaching out to touch Tina again.

"That's okay, we'll deal with Brian later." Tina said rubbing her balled up left hand in her right. "Right now we need sleep, who knows what Brian has in store for us tomorrow. Do you have a way back to wherever or will you spend the night here?" 

"If you do not wish my company I can make my way back to Brian and assist him best I can." Tara said trying to keep her voice as steady as she could through the anger that Tina invoked in her when she implied that Brian was to get hurt.

"Okay if you think you can get back to him tonight, go for it. If not came back and we'll wait for him at ten." Tina said yawning heading back inside.

"Very well mistress, pleasant dreams. See you in the morning." Tara said as she slipped the face plate back into position and slipped into the shadows of the night as the cloak came online.

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As Tina was silently closing the door she heard a voice behind her causing her to jump. "You know that yes you can quietly close a door to keep people from hearing you but if they're already aware you were out it's more than likely going to be USELESS!!" 

"DAMN you Michelle!" Tina gasped as she whirled around. "Brie's already lost a lot of people she cares for, don't make it one more."

"Yeah right." Said Laria coming out from behind Michelle. "We haven't lost Brian yet, or was that somebody that just had to disturb a peaceful enough nights sleep to tell us they had proof that Brian is dead? At TWO in the MORNING!"

"No no it wasn't, my dear little cousin." She nearly choked to keep from laughing on the dear part, since Tara was and her advances were very much still at the forefront of her mind. "Anyway I'm needing to leave for at least tomorrow, don't worry though WE will be back in time for Brianna's birthday. Someone is coming to pick me up around ten, now if you'll excuse me I need SLEEP!" Tina said yawning. "I just hope he hasn't REALLY gotten as deranged as he sounded."

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"BUT SIS." Brianna whined the next morning when she heard that Tina was needing to leave. "You can't leave, you don't know who it it that'll be picking you up."

"She does make a good point." Mich said getting up from the breakfast table. "They might be people Brian could trust but that doesn't mean anyone else can."

"While you are very right on that thought, I STILL need to go finish the sign over." Tina said trying to come up with something that would make people stop digging.

"Well considering Brian's obsession on getting Brianna's legs working again, a breakthrough might have been accomplished somewhere." Laria interjected.

"Don't get my hopes Lar, you know I'd LOVE to be able to walk again. But that's something that'll never happen." Brianna said sadly, giving her right leg as hard a slap as she could. "My hand may sting but my leg is still dead as roadkill and won't ever get any better. If you'll excuse me." With that she maneuvered her wheelchair from the table and pushed herself out the door.

"LARIA!!!" Tina and Michelle snarled their voices thick with rage causing Laria to shrink into her seat as much as she could and turn back to her breakfast.

"Well you WILL be here for Brianna's birthday right Tina?" Asked Cheryl as Tina helped gather the breakfast dishes.

"The way it was sounding I would have no choice in the matter, whether done or not I was to be back here for her birthday." Tina said in all honesty. 

"Well we'll have to see what's going on at ten then won't we?" Michelle said winking at Tina, believing in Brian to be able to accomplish anything if he managed to survive that river she saw him drop into.

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As Tina was helping Tanya unload feed bags from a trailer the sound a diesel engine filled the air. "Well I'm guessing that's your ride Tina. Lets go see what kinda people Brian had for associates."

As they joined the growing group of people out in the drive she couldn't believe a truck as big as the one that was pulling up wasn't restricted to the monster truck circuit. "DAMN!" Micheal said. "Brian's playmates know something about big toys don't they?"

"Apparently." Mich said as a no nonsense looking man in a PINK business suit started getting out of the truck.

"Well, considering that truck is nearly four foot off the ground I can see the need for assistance in getting up to the seat but a wench is a bit much." Said one of the ranch hands. "But if that don't give you a idea of the type of friends Brian had."

"Except for Tina, Michelle, Laria and Brianna we aren't aware Brian had any friends." Said the man as he approached the crowd. "Susan Bartholomew McGregar at your service, I was to pick up a Tina at this location." As he glanced at his watch it beeped ten. "Now."

"Rather punctual aren't you?"Asked Mich offering the man his hand.

"They may not be the Yakusa, but the Council isn't to be disobeyed even by us grunts." Said Susan excepting the handshake. "And if you are given a time schedule it's best to try to stick with it and if we don't get a move on I'll be behind on mine."

"Before you go I need to ask you something." Said Micheal. "SUSAN? Seriously you parents must have wanted a daughter."

Susan looked at him and bent to pick up a rock. "Must have, have you ever heard the song 'A man named Sue.' or something along those lines?" He waited as people shook their head yes or no, then he showed them the rock he picked up. "Quartz rock, right?" The flex of muscle in his arm and hand was obvious as was the crunching sound from his hand. "I didn't stop." He said as he let the powder blow from a open hand. "I'm still getting behind schedule."

"Coming, I will be back in time for Brianna's Birthday right?" Asked Tina as she made for the passenger side door.

"If we pull a all nighter we should be done by morning and on our way back." Said Susan as he got back into the truck

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"The Captain is awaiting you in the transport over to the right." Susan said as he pulled the truck over to the side of the road. "I have other orders to now follow so if you would please. I will be available when it is time for you to go back." He said as his suit turned a nice deep blue. "Don't want to be well known just yet." He said as he took off his sunglasses that he had kept on the entire time since she had seen him.

Tina gagged as she looked at his face. "WHAT happened to your eyes?"

"The story I am to tell is that I worked for the CIA and this was the end result of one of the attempts to silence me and what I know. In actuality." Tina nearly crawled out the window when he open his eyelids and she saw the green glow of his electronic optics. "I'm a cyborg, see you later." He said indicating the door.

"Uhh yeah yeah, se.. see you later. Susan." Tina stammered as she dropped to the ground. "HEY WAIT WHERE'S BRIAN?" She hollered after him as drove off.

"Jeeze and here I thought I was the observant one." Said a voice behind her. As she looked for the source of the voice a Star Trek looking shuttle craft shimmered into view.

"Brian?" Tina asked as a door opened up near her. As she entered she saw a number humanoid looking robots that reminded her of the 'I Robot' movie standing shoulder to shoulder three deep along the side of the chamber.

"Why go through the trouble of going original when you can pirate a movie and make up schematics for stuff? Though did have to do a bit with this though, seeing as we're trying for more efficient power source right now than what we've got." Said the voice from in one of the pilot seats. "You might want to get in one of the passenger seats before we get airborne."

"Yeah, right I better huh?" She said as she got in a seat and started strapping herself in. 

"Hi again." Said a voice in the seat beside her.

Turning she saw Tara. "So where's Brian, my little pleasure beastie? And DON"T tell me he baled again." 

"I'm the one flying, now if you'll stop distracting me we can dock with the freighter and get our stuff that we left behind." Brian said with a backhanded wave.

Out the window she saw that they were fast approaching a hazy shape on the front viewer. As she watched they approached the the side near the front and as they slid into the haze the inside of a large hanger came into view. "Docking complete. Bridge set course for Kansas, maintain cloak. So what you think of this proof?" Brian asked as Tina unfastened her harness.

"Answers Brian and THEN I'll tell you if you're forgiven." Tina said as she looked around the shuttle.

"Sure but we'll need to get to the bridge, better holo equipment to illustrate and I like to see outside." Brian said as he made for the door with Tara right behind him.

As Tina caught up to them she pushed her way between Brian and Tara scowling at Tara. "Can you give me a little bit of a clue before we get to this bridge of yours?"

"Remember how we all made a promise that if we ever found the means to either conquer or destroy everyone and everything to make the point that we didn't like being used as existence's foot scrapers the others would pledge their loyalty to which ever of us that had? How about the promise the four of us; Michelle, Laria, you and I made to each other that we'd find a way to give Brie back her legs? Guess what, that little river ride landed me right at it a ancient space ship's front door and if Atherian has figured the timing correctly by my birthday I'll have a eighteen thousand year old spaceship as a archive." Brian said as he stopped to fiddled with a keyboard.

"So you're saying that somewhere in a eighteen thousand year old databank is a medical technique to get Brie walking again?" Tina screeched as she grabbed Brian and twirled around hugging him.

"At the very least I should be able to restore nerve connections to your sisters' legs, which in time MIGHT allow some mobility to her." Said a cautionary voice.

"What?" Tina asked through the beginning of tears. "You guys just said that you'd give her back her legs how DARE you tell me now that you can't!!!" Shoving Brian against the wall. "WHAA?" She managed before Tara had grabbed her and lifter her off her feet and threw her down the hall where she landed at the bridge door that slid open reveling a very tick off Athena.

"ENOUGH out of EVERYONE!!" Brian hollered as Athena stooped to pick Tina up. At Brian's outburst her hand altered its destination and grabbed Tina by the arm and lifted Tina to her feet. "Tina you might be about six foot seven and built better than a quarterback but here you are no longer the strongest, fastest or smartest though neither of us had ever really fit that bill. We were always more occupied with working and paying bills to get to a collage or a Vo Tech."

"We never guaranteed the return of her legs we just guaranteed the attempt and at least the likelihood of FEELING to her legs." Said the voice she had heard earlier.

Brian chuckled. "Meet Atherian, he,it, whatever is the main AI to the Imperial Ship, The Atherian. We need to get settled in the bridge where we can explain things to you Tina."

"Yes please, lets. I want those answers promised me." Said Tina finding a fold down seat on the wall.

As she waited all but the area right in front of the screen and the two droids that were manning the were blanketed with darkness allowing the holographic display to be seen better. "Humanity is a very old and while VIOLENT race it is also one with great heart and compassion and a unquenchable thirst to know what is and is not, what can be done and what can NOT be done. Some eighty five thousand years before the Reamaiinsk Empire humanity achieved space flight. From it's home on the planet Arkiloman, humanity spread out over it's unforgiving and dangerous home system. While the Arkiloman system was not an easy system to spread out over it WAS rich in the resources that a burgeoning space age civilization requires. As humanity began to spread out into other systems it found it was not alone in the galaxy. The Palaricilon, a insect based species which was even more violent than humanity was as well as xenophobic launched a series of devastating attacks against several fledgling colonies. The war against the Palaricilon while devastating also produced quite the bountiful harvest of space worthy technology."

As Atherian narrated he continued to show pictures of time long forgotten. "Humanity had been in space some five hundred years before contact with the Palaricilon, with the technology harvested from the Palaricilon humanity grew strong and and spread over many more systems. In a matter of one hundred fifty years humanity exterminated the Palaricilon though there were rumors that several ships had escaped into the depths of space."

"I would expect at least three ships to escape once extinction was inevitable. Even a xenophobic race would eventually see death looking it in the face and run to live another day." Brian said letting a mirthless laugh. As the narration continued Tina had settled on Brian's lap while he sat in the captains chair where he slid his hand under her shirt. "So I'm forgiven yet?" He asked.

"I'm not stupid, just hurt that you didn't send for us when you could have brought us to you." Tina said getting up to slide out of her pants and taking off her shirt and stooping to pull Brian's pants off his legs.

"I need for at least the time being to be officially dead, though in time that will be even more dangerous. For all of us! Since the government won't be forgiving that we are keeping such power out of their undeserving hands." He said as he resettled Tina sideways on his lap and started positioning his cock under her panties but keeping her from inserting him into her cunt.

"If I may continue?" Asked a testy AI. "After the war with the Palaricilon, humanity used its ingenuity to adapt the harvested technology to its own ends. Through out the next three thousand years humanity spent in relatively peaceful expansion. As humanity expanded there were eventually those that sought the wealth that only piracy can produce, there were several planets that became quite wealthy by offering themselves as safe havens. As the planets grew powerful so did the anger and jealousy against them which eventually started the first of the Pirate Wars. There were a series of three Pirate Wars before the planet Karleacon rallied over two thirds of the planets to its cause of a unified space. After the last of the last of the Pirate Wars had ended several of the most important families on Karleacon vied for supremacy for nearly three hundred until the Reamaiinsk family won. It was Reamaiinsk the Third that created the pleasure beasts as he had a great like for his Pricral." 

"Looks like a cross between a chihuahua and a hag fish." Shuddered Tina looking at the holo of a ooze covered four legged, bug eyed quadruped.

"Whatever it looks like the slime covering the creature that was produced during the transformation cleared the path for his eldest son to ascend the throne." Atherian said providing a holo of the slug like creature that had been created. " Reamaiinsk had the beast destroyed so that no other person would ever die by being smothered again in its embrace as the slime had turned toxic during the transformation process. The next incident that involved the pleasure beasts was during the reign of Reamaiinsk the three hundredth and fifty seventh. When the nobles of planet Tyfrolnth created the pleasure beasts known as the Doca. The nobles of House Crylonth defied the Imperial proclamation banning of slug like pleasure beasts. The process in this instance created a psyonic terror that soon started to spread its reach to other planets before the threat became known to the Imperium. It was nearly forty years before weapons and equipment that were effective against psyonic abilities of the Doca were perfected."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 06



"The threats that could be created like that here on Earth amount to dolphins, whales and the one that is the most likely of ANY creature, is the octopus." Brian said interrupting Atherian. "Though really if anything were to go wrong with the dolphins I'd be surprised, though they can be as murderous as us humans."

Tina laughed. "You've looked at to many anamorphic porn sites, your cock twitched at the thought of the dolphins. Though when it comes down to it.." She left off as a rabbit came onto the bridge. "This one here might just like to get to know me better here later." She said reaching for the rabbits crotch to pull her closer.

"Captain, the cargo handlers and the shuttles have all cleared the check lists." The rabbit said before turning to Tina as she opened her jacket revealing the blue micro bikini style bra she wore. "Please mistress, in a matter of weeks my babies will have been born. Please allow me that amount of time before I am to accompany you to your bed. Also it is bad manners to allow master's juices to go to waste my mistress." She said as she did her best to bend down to suck Brian's precum out of Tina's panties.

"Your PREGNANT? You're sure caring your babies well, there's no baby bulge." Tina said rubbing the rabbit's stomach, then grinned at Brian. "Which I'm sure is a disappointment for Brian since he gets hard just thinking about pregnant women." 

"It is a bit of a disappointment but since I need all the help right now we can get it's a little more convenient them not having a baby bulge." Brian said reaching over Tina to grope the rabbits milk filled tits. "Anyway when did you start liking women Tina?"

"AHEM!" Atherian said drawing Brian and Tina's attention back to the narration. "The most efficient of the weapons were the sentient weapons known as the Psyker Blades which the Captain has become bonded to the leaders known as the 'Twin Blades of the Emperor'. The double consciousness of the welder and the blade created a quandary that the Doca were unable to overcome. The 'Twins blades of the Emperor' were the most effective against the Doca as the blades were elemental as well as psyonic, the freezing cold of Icialan could freeze their bodies stopping their locomotion and causing them to loosen their grasp of their slaves. While the sudden heat of Ashilon caused the iced bodies of the Doca to fracture allowing even conventional weapons access to the Doca's internal organs. Bringing about eventual death even if the Doca managed escape."

"Atherian IF you have access to the late Captain's massage I think that would do well enough for the rest of the narration." Brian said interrupting the narration once again.

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As Tina sat in Brian's lap she contemplated the late captain's message. "Something in all of that makes no sense to me at ALL!! Brian, I know that it made no sense to you so what's missing in all of that?" Tina asked as Brian fondled her breasts.

"Well for starters there was the niece of the number two that 'disappeared' on the imperial home world. Then there is the fact that this ship used space tunnel technology." Brian said as he urged Tina off his lap.

"I do not understand the problem that you see with this ship using space tunneling technology captain, also we are entering into what is considered Kansas airspace captain." Atherian said.

"Yeah." Tina agreed getting up off of Brian's lap. "Whats so wrong with the space tunnel tech, wouldn't that cut down on time traveling even if you did have warp drive of some type?"

"It COULD yes BUT there is also the little problem of the fact that it is TUNNEL technology. Atherian is there ANY evidence that this ship had indeed gotten to the intended sector with the FIRST tunnel exit? Because if it wasn't the right sector to begin with do we have any evidence that we are STILL in the same galaxy as the Reamaiinsk Empire? Also when it comes down to it, just BRIAN will work until circumstances really require me to be called captain." Brian said having gotten tired of being called captain all the time.

"Yes of course, Brian as you would have it." Atherian said acknowledging Brian's command. "As to your question, after the ship had exited the first tunnel there was just enough time for visual scans to be completed before the tunnelers were activated the second time. According to those scans the ship DID arrive in the desired sector, so the tunnelers were proven to be accurate in their targeting vectors. With taking into account all factors, like time in the tunnel and that the tunnelers' systems hadn't received any damage it lead the astrometric officers believe that we are indeed still in the same galaxy as the Reamaiinsk empire." 

"Ok that takes care of what I can come up with, right now anyway. Tina get dressed we need to get down to the supply room just off of the cargo area. Your suit should have been completed by now." Brian said as he slid on his pants.

"Alright no fun for us yet since you're it's obvious that your rather anxious to get something done NOW." Tina said as she to pulled on her pants. "OH and to answer your question from earlier, I'm really just curious on how well your pleasure beasts do their job since just a LIGHT touch from Tara got me soaking wet."

Brian grinned. "Makes sense, let me know how that works out. Remember though Athena, Tara and Cora are mine. We'll assign you a body servant later but now we get down to the armory get our suits and claim your guys' stuff from your loving grandparents and do a little loyalty conditioning. After that we deal with my mine." 

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As they entered the armory they were greeted by Cora. "Master!" She squealed. "Your game armor is complete, so do I get a thank you?"

Tina couldn't help but grin as Brian got tackled, though she did lose her grin when Cora started kissing him. "That's enough playtime girl, you'll get your fun later but we both WILL get our fun. THAT I assure you, between all of us working together we'll all get what we need out of his dick." 

"Yes mistress." Cora said before turning back to Brian. "We have completed all the suits to physical dimensions using the current technology that we have available."

"Thank you guys, GOOD work!" Brian said before turning to the racks of armor. "Tina you've heard of that game 'HALO', correct?" When Tina acknowledged she had Brian continued. "I had Atherian download some commercials and what not from the internet and come up with some schematics. We've loaded them down with everything we can cram in them and still come up with skinny battle armor." 

Tina regarded Brian a moment before turning to her armor. "So how do I get in this thing?"

"Simple, take off the helmet then open the back up like a lobster." Said Athena as she got her armor out. "Then after you close the back, you put on the helmet which powers up the suit then you adjust the command menu to your preference" 

"While it sounds easy enough it could take you awhile to get the commands situated so they work FOR you and not against but since we're only just now getting past Dodge we've got time. I told people we need to take our time so as not to knock any planes out of the sky by hitting them." Brian said as he to got his suit out and proceeded to crawl in.

As Tina warily closed the suit up around her a thought struck her. "You know, no one has answered me on what these suits are besides being based on the armor in 'HALO', so what are they made of, what can they do and can they NOT do?"

"Well for starters." Brian said activating the external speakers. "Besides get in your armor and start setting the menu to your preference?" Brian said in a obvious 'get a move on' voice. "The shell is made of a neo-titanium/ deuterium mix created with judicious use of industrial strength replicators. Put simply I can have a elephant sit on you but nothing heavier otherwise you'll smash quite nicely. There are shield generators installed at the waist which up the strength to bunker busters, so don't piss off anyone off that have some 'big daddies' or 'little boys' lying around without a area field generator close by. The helmet has the secondary oxygen scrubber, as well as communications, as well as a detachable homing device. The face plate can take fifty caliber rounds point blank and not mar the visual sensor but don't try to take anything bigger or there won't be anything left of your head in the helmet. The visor carries the full spectrum of visuals, from radio wave length to gamma and whatever else we get around here. The body contains the battery which can last up to a week and a half with full power draw at rest, with combat power draw the battery SHOULD last four days maybe less all depends on the battle. Also food and water, stimulant and sedative injection, waste reclamation, primary oxygen scrubbers, strength augmentation and cloak are all housed in the body as well. A secondary battery pack as well as a field pack can be attached to the back."

"We also managed to find that anime that you wanted us to find and get some stuff off of." Piped up a rabbit in the back of the room that was also getting into a suit that had a jetpack laying on the floor beside her. "The slash harcons from that 'Code Geass' or whatever it's called should be completed in the hour. We are also trying to adapt the boots for gravity cling to help with weird situations that you have to walk on walls or the ceiling. Also we are completing designs for particle cannon backpacks, which if we can get superior energy generation options SHOULD move them up from novelty ace in the hole items. Otherwise you'll have one maybe two shots before you have COMPLETE power drain. Also if we can accomplish superior energy generation the cannons could, theoretically anyway IF set to a wide enough beam should also work as make-shift jetpacks" 

"So WHAT are these slash harcons of yours?" Tina asked as she obviously struggled with moving the menus in her display.

"It's easier to move stuff around if you have the controls set for external adjustments, think Nintendo's Wii." Brian said as he swung his hands and arms around like he was grabbing and moving things around that weren't there. "As to the slash harcons well ours anyway, are rather very versatile grapples. In the anime they were what amounted to spring loaded rock climbing wedges that tore chunks out of whatever they were lodged in when they were pulled loose. On ours the wrist and feet grapples are four digited grasping hands, the thigh grapples will be of the original design. The wrist ones in the end if we can work it will have what amounts to energy knives on them so they can both dig and melt into things to get a better grip and be used as hand-to-hand weapons if need be. While all of them will have small thrusters so you can direct them only the wrist and the feet ones will be able to be disconnected and used separate from the suits though that's something else that depends on other power sources." 

"So what you're saying is you don't want to end up getting another bath?" Tina asked jokingly.

"Yeah." Brian said as he looked at her through the faceplate as she struggled with her suit. "That's one use for them. Another will be when I start going into gang territory and start recruiting gangs as 'Gaian Knights'."

Tina wasn't the only one to take interest of his plans of recruiting gangs as 'Gaian Knights'. "Pardon me Brian but what will these 'Gaian Knights' be and more importantly DO?" Asked Atherian who was seconded by all those present.

"IF I were to try a 'right now' take over I would be considered a typical tyrannical conqueror BUT IF I just happened to be able to make America a better place, get people to work and MEANINGFUL work at that. Then there is also the part of helping the homeless, feeding the hungry in our country, helping the people that feel as if they have no friends, how about the people that are cornered and beaten up on by the government and the special interests and big business. I will be considered a saint, a angel that was sent from above to deliver the people of America, a SAVIOR!!" Brian said in as dramatic a voice as he could. " Also IF it also became common knowledge that I was also on the side of allies that the government was abandoning in exchange for frenemies of the US and taking a stand against groups that the major portion of the population was against it wouldn't hurt my cause either." Brian explained with a smug grin taking off his suit.

Tina couldn't help but laugh. "You REALLY hate that wetback whore don't you Brian?"

As Tina picked herself off floor she looked around trying to figure what had just happened. "What just hit us? It felt like a sledge hammer just hit me in the lungs."

"You are correct Tina, I DO fucking hate that goddamn geisha wannabe that crap of 'I no green card, brother have green card. Me US citizen.' Me rip goddamn head off fucking CUNT!!!" Brian snarled as he floated toward a cowering and terrified Tina.

"WHA??! Whats happened to you Brian?" Tina asked as she tried to crawl away only to be grabbed by her foot by a unseen force and dragged toward him.

"BRIAN!!" Athena screamed at him as reddish flames seemed to flicker from his eyes. As his attention was diverted from Tina the last of his strength failed and he collapsed partially on Tina. 

"I believe that Brian has been bonded to the 'Twin Blades of the Emperor' long enough for him to start developing the psyonic abilities that made a dozen 'Warriors of the Blade' equal to that of a battalion of the Empire's best soldiers." Atherian said as Athena dragged a exhausted Brian of of Tina.

"Ya THINK??" Tina shrieked. "It's WELL known that the wetback had pissed him off on more than a dozen times but fucking DAMN!! When he gets a hold of that whore she's going to have to hope she's a fast enough horse trader otherwise shes going to be ripped apart." 

As Athena laid Brian out on the floor she loosened his shirt up and turned to Tina. "So what do we do Mistress? He has not told any of us of his plans or what he wanted us to do, he has told us what he wants of us as needs dictate."

Tina sighed as she looked at Brian knowing full well the problems a exhausted Brian posed and that if he didn't tell you anything he told you EVERYTHING. "FIRST, NO ONE is to even slightly awaken Brian. The more sleep he gets between now and when we get to our destination the better. SECOND, IF he is awakened before he would anyway, do NOT get him sexed up!! You will be VERY sore after he gets through with you, if he doesn't hurt you. Other than that we continue to prepare as best we can on what instructions he has given." As she started to take off her suit she thought of something. "Athena can your swords interact with these suits? Because if they CAN we can work things out in spite of a exhausted Brian."

"Well." Athena said as she grabbed her suit to get back in it. "Treyont is willing to give it a try, though he will concentrate on the audio circuits and then see what he can and can't access." Athena said as she sealed the back of her suit. "Atherian if you would please, monitor all suit systems while Treyont is attempting to access suit systems. Okay here goes nothing." She said as she slipped her helmet on and grabbed Treyont's sheath and attached it to the suits belt. "We'll have to do something more convenient than this like back clips or something but anyway see what you can do Treyont." 

"Well at the very least I can access audio controls." Said a voice over Athena's speakers. "Now if I just... THERE I have complete override on the suits systems. You think that when you aren't using this thing I can Athena? Never had complete say in where I go and what I do before. Though don't worry, I am quite aware that without my wielder I can NEVER hope to be able to achieve my full and complete potential."

"UH right just as long as you don't forget that and try something as long as Athena doesn't have any problems I doubt Brian will either Treyont." Tina said. "Now lets see about getting Brian out of the middle of the floor."

"Mistress I think something's wrong." Cora said holding her abdomen. 

"Christ now what?" Tina snarled. "Okay Athena if you don't mind Treyont having a temporary body, get him a suit we'll deal with Cora. That is, IF there is a medical station on this thing."

"There is Mistress but all it is capable of is injury diagnosis and if need be a stasis pod." Atherian said. "Though there is something I'm not sure of Brian's plans for but it should be of use in case Cora needs medical treatment. I shall activate it and since the transporter systems need to be tested even though all readouts say everything is up to par I will send it via matter transport."

"Fine, lets just hope it works because if she needs treatment we MIGHT have to have a replacement sent and her sent back." Tina said as she helped Cora out the door. "And someone get Brian someplace just as comfortable but still out of the way."

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"I think I know what your deal is Cora." Tina said as she helped the rabbit onto the exam table. "That psyonic blast we all got has sent you into labor. Guess what bunny unless it's proven otherwise you're going to have your babies here and now."

"BUT I can't, Brian wanted to watch! I can't deliver them and him not be here." Cora said in a panic.

Tina burst out laughing. "Brian you really are sick! He was probably wanting to fuck you up the ass while you were pushing out your babies. Either that or after you were done he'd probably fuck you after you had finished delivering your babies and rub his warm cum into your muscles after he came in you. BUT one way or other if they are coming they ARE going to come whether he's here or not!"

"Well a warm rub might not be a bad idea but HOW the rub is acquired MIGHT pose a problem. "Said a voice from the door way. 

As Tina turned around she got a eye full of short dumpy looking old woman. "Granny Goodness! I should have KNOWN he'd come up with way to get you, especially since he always did say he'd prefer you instead of the old cronoligical that he has for a granny."

"Who cares what she's called long as she knows what she's doing!" Cora yelped as a contraction hit her.

"Brian had Atherian scan the internet for all references to 'Granny Goodness' and come up with a AI that can play doctor, physical therapist and when the time comes babysitter. All the while having the viciousness and deadly seriousness of the cartoon granny but all the same unflagging loyalty to him." Said the construct. "He said having a little old lady as a bedside assistant might be useful and that some would be more willing to listen to a little old lady even if a nurse just said the same thing."

"While he does once again make a good point Cora needs a doctor, so up load that programing and give us a hand. Brian would be the one that could wing being a midwife and make it work, not me." Tina said turning back to Cora.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 07



Even taking in to account the possibility of pissy people, any and all comments are still wanted. 

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"What hairless pink little cuties!" Tina squealed as she wiggled her fingers over one of the five baby rabbits that lay on the bed next to their mother like she was going to tickle it.

"I hope mine turn out as cute now that I look different as well." Said Tara as she leaned over admiring the babies. "Is it me or they acting rather unbabyish?" She asked as they wiggled around making rudimentary but obviously vulgar gestures.

"I do not know what would classify as unbabyish but whatever it is that you are noticing might be related to some of the modifications that Brian had me do." Atherian said as he accessed all files he had on infant behavior.

"Modifications? WHAT kinda modifications are we talking about?" Cora asked as she struggled past sore muscles to sit up.

"Bodily memory for starters." Said a voice from the doorway. 

"So your up and about are you Brian? So what do mean by body memory?" Asked Cora.

"Ugh, yeah even though my head is splitting and we have GOT to replace the crap that passes for food in the replicator memory files! That stuff tastes worse than a face full of cow shit and I had enough of that at the slaughter plant Tina and I worked at last to know what I'm talking about!!" Brian said as he leaned on the arm of the suit that Ashilon had been given so that he to could move about on his own. "Oh and by the way this is Ashilon and the one behind us is Icialan."

"Afternoon." Icialan said in her soft voice. "A more accurate term could actually be termed CELLULAR memory."

"I've heard you talk about cellular memory before Brian but you never went very far into details, seeing as that you've made a bunny cry why not tell us what it entails NOW?" Tina said in huffy voice.

Brian sighed. "We might not have enough time to get what cellular memory truly is before we get to your grandparents place BUT I'll at least TRY to get the broad idea of it across and worry about full understanding across later if that's okay?" 

"Fine what the hell ever, EXPLAIN!!" Screamed Cora.

Brian sighed again. "Okay, first off there are theoretically over three different types of knowledge. First, we will call it book leaned intelligence. It amounts to the anti of all other kinds of intelligence because it dominates ALL other kinds of knowledge. It powerhouses over all other kinds, it allows you to REASON yourself out your fears, it allows scientists to look at a rainbow and ruin the moment by telling you how they are produced and not see the beauty of a rainbow in front of a thunderstorm with the sun lighting up the sky in JUST the right way. Secondly, there is the instinctual intelligence. This one is the fight-or-flight intelligence as it amounts to what your body knows what and how to do it. Thirdly, there is the cellular. This one is what is left when you take the first two out of the body, this is the primeval mind. This is what you get when people like we've been getting in office for the last forty years get into power. A bunch of goddamn chimpanzees throwing shit at each other and not getting any REAL work done."

"Captain? We have reached the coordinates that you specified, I am now running full scans of the area and deploying omnidirectional tattlers." Atherian said interrupting Brian's explanations.

"TATTLERS?" Tara asked with a confused look on her face looking at the others to see if they understood what had just been talked about.

Tina groaned. "They'll let us know if anyone or thing heads in our direction but outside of Atherian's reliable sensor range and even if they are inside of it they will keep a eye on it until Atherian needs to allocate resources to keep a eye on it himself. Hey, um Brian?" Tina asked as she gestured toward Tara with a underhanded wave.

Brian got a mischievous smirk on his face. "Well since it'll take a minute or two before Atherian's through with his scan, go ahead this could get interesting"

"Hey wha?" Tara managed as Tina grabbed her and pulled her into a kiss. Tara continued to struggle as Tina held her head still and leaned farther into the kiss. As Tara thrashed about Brian walked up behind her and grabbed her hands and forced them to Tina's tits and squeezed her fingers into the soft supple flesh. Tara shook her head as much as she could as she felt Tina's hand slide down her back and worked it's way up under her jacket and then down over her ass. Tears came to her eyes as she felt Tina's hand work it's way down between her legs. Neither Brian nor Tina could help but chuckle as Tara groaned as Tina rubbed Tara crotch through the thong that Tara wore, nor could they help chuckling as Tara's sudden jerk and muffled scream as Tina sank a finger up Tara's ass as far as she could.

"Now now Tara, granted her finger probably should have been a little more moist from your crotch but I doubt it wasn't any more of a discomfort than what you've gotten during rut." Brian said as he snuggled up behind Tara forcing her body up against Tina even more. "Now lets get you out of your jacket and pants." He said with a chuckle as he reached between the two women to unfasten Tara's clothes. "Tina floor."

Tara struggled out of her clothes and to get out of Tina's grip as Tina forced her way down til they both were on the floor with Tara on top. "OH no you don't!" Tina said finally releasing Tara from the kiss as the deer struggled to take off her bra and thong. "There are just times when some clothes make the experience more fun, don't you agree Brian?" She asked as she looked up at Brian as he pulled his cock out of his pants and started to get down on the floor straddling both women.

"WHA, what are you doing?" She asked as she felt Tina pull her finger from her ass. "Nothing I've been given on pleasuring covers asses! OH yes please, more!!!" She begged as Brian rubbed his dick over her crotch. "Yes oh please." She begged as Brian slowly sank into Tara's depths and started to slowly push in and pull out of her. "NO please don't stop now! WAIT! WHAT ARE DOING??!!!" She asked panicked as she felt Brian start to push against her sphincter muscle.

"Easy Tara, you may not know how or what but anal can be both pleasurable but also satisfying if you do it correctly! Otherwise Athena's experiences should be taken as being how it should be done. Like right now I'll need to sink back into you here in a minute to get as sloppy wet as possible. Then I need to have your ass as relaxed as possible and then it comes down to how to pleasure YOU. Tina AT TIMES likes it hard where I slam in all at once and fuck her long and hard, Michelle is soft and slow. Laria? WELL lets just say with Laria I hide the strap-ons when she's in a feisty mood because like as not I'll be on the bottom TAKING it in the bottom." Brian said as he slowly pushed back into Tara's cunt

Athena burst out laughing. "I, I'd LOVE TO get that little bastard MICHEAL under ME!!!" She gasped between howls of laughter. "Then HE'D be the one that couldn't do as hes supposed to, HE'D be the one with a sore ass."

"So THAT'S why you never like people to ride you! Easy Tara just relax, it'll make it hurt less it really will." Tina said as she softly kissing the tears away from the corners of Tara's eyes as Brian began pushing into Tara's ass. "There, he's in your ass isn't he? Shh, soon it'll start to feel nice and then you might want it more in your ass than anywhere else." Tina said softly as Tara's eyes glazed over as Brian began fucking her in the ass slowly. "Up on your knees now, I need to reposition. There that's it big girl." Tina said as Brian supported the limp form as Tina reversed her position and stuck her head between Tara's legs. "Crap, Athena pull my pants and underwear off would you? THANKS!" She squealed as she felt Tara bury her furry muzzle in as deep as she could and started licking and mouthing Tina's sex. "GOD Brian!! Just leave me like this and I'll be happy, GOD this deer knows what she's doing! AND her smell it's even better than Laria after we've strapped her down and played with her for a few hours without letting her cum and Tara's TASTE we might have found the PERFECT source of honey for that idea of yours!! Let me die like this and it'll be the best way to DIEEE!" She screamed as Tara's tongue found her G spot and sent her off the deep end. 

"HEY! NO WAIT, what ARE you doing?" Tara screeched in a daze as Brian pulled his dick from her ass. "Put it back in I want to feel your searing hot cum in my ass! What are you doing?"

"About to cum!" Brian grunted as he slid up Tara's ass and settled himself on her lower back and began grinding on the small of her back. "Mmm just think my horny little deer, you may not get THIS batch in you but when we get it OFF you then we'll have what it takes to get you a literal cum bath." 

"Mmmm YEAH Brian paint that brown furred back of hers WHITE!" Cora said as he came on Tara's back "Now lets see just what kinda slut that this uppity sail tail REALLY is." Growled Cora as she panted groping her tits.

"Easy there Cora, your babies NEED that milk." Brian said smiling at the lust dazed rabbit. "Granny I need you and Atherian to come up with a way to synthesize my cum. Its texture, taste, feel and smell as needs to be as ACCURATE possible, if you can manage it even the way it jells and how fast it jells needs to be copied."

"All scans are complete captain. I have two elderly humans in the main household I also have three life signs in a underground compound a mile from the main house toward the central area of the area indicated as Tina's grandparents. There are no there life signs with in a fifteen mile radius. I have contacted the internet mole AI to infiltrate the security companies mainframe that is responsible for the grounds security, the security system will be ours to play with as we please in minutes. Also why is it necessary for your cum to be reproducible captain?" Atherian asked as it awaited the go ahead from the gopher AI.

"For a long while I will be busy and I won't be able to satisfy very many around here and with something that tastes, smells and feels like my cum it'll be a stop gap until I can take the time for them. Also whenever possible get samples of milk from females that have just given birth and analyze it, that first batch after giving birth is supposed to be full of helpful stuff that'll give the babies and their immune systems a health boost. Analyze as many samples as you can and start synthesizing it, you never know when that kind of stuff might come in handy." Brian said as helped moved the unhappy Tara off Tina.

"Yes captain as you would have it." Atherian said in voice that indicated that it wasn't sure of the validity of the orders it had been given. "We just have been given access to the security system I have cleared the way for transport of the gasers. I will monitor so that the gas will not be released during a call or any other activity that will signal others of something wrong."

"RIGHT! Tina, Athena lets suited up. Atherian activate a dozen fast attack droids they'll help with the moving of the girls' stuff, also have Sasha and Tamara sent down to launch bay and tell them to get their suits. They're helping." Brian said as he jumped to his feet in rush now that there was something to do.

**********

"Are you sure our stuff is HERE?" Asked Tina as the shuttle landed outside the house. 

"Well they did declare that all that was in the house and your cousins stuff in their parents house was theirs and since they like to keep a accountants eye on stuff, in all likelihood they had it moved to one of the storage sheds here." He said pointing over to the far left that was hidden from the view screen. "Now." He said as he turned his chair to face everyone now that he had landed the craft. "Your suits have both cloaks AND shields I STRONGLY SUGGEST you activate BOTH when you step out of the ship. Tamara you're computer specialist, so I suggest you hack any computers we find once Athena and I open the old freaks minds and gain access to all passwords. You've been given wireless uploads so Athenian can get down copy it all. Atherian you did come up with anti-virus and worm and trojan software correct?" 

"I have captain and more comprehensive software is being created now as we speak. Captain I have downloaded remote programing slips that can be used at distance from any Imperial med bays and still implant the programing contained in them to the shuttles replicators." Atherian said as the replicators created several dozen skin colored metallic strips.

Brian grinned and chuckled evilly. "Good good, we'll need to give them at least three loyalty conditioning doses to make sure we have a CHANCE at even leaving a hot penny with these vermin and have it kept safe for three minutes. Athena after the gas has done it's thing we do a dive into their minds using the psyonic abilities that the Psyker Blades grant us. Basically we and the swords create a upload link for Atherian, we download, he finds the useful stuff. Tina, Sasha! Once you have the location of all the belongings these freaks have stolen from us, you and the droids load it up, make sure to be wary of tattletales letting people know somethings wrong! After Athena and I are done with the human viruses and we know what's up the three life signs in the middle of fifty miles of what should be cattle pasture but is only wasted grassland we'll go deal with it. Atherian once you signal us that the gas has taken effect we'll move."

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TO WELL, FAR to GODDAMN WELL!!! As far as Brian was concerned EVERYTHING was going to FUCKING GODDAMN WELL! "ARE you SURE? ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY sure EVERYTHING is all right? Something's wrong when things go THIS WELL!!"

"Captain, I have completed seventeen internal scans, thirty five scans of immediate area, twenty seven extended scans using the tattlers. There are NO indicators from any computer files that there will be ANY visitors or phone calls. So just WHY are you insisting that something's wrong?" Atherian asked for the third time since Athena and he had left the house to walk to the slave holding pens.

"No he's right Atherian. Something isn't right here, I mean sure I haven't give much a damn since the last couple of days made it worth my while to care but I CAN tell you something has to go wrong in this level of perfectness." Said Athena as she trudged along several yards behind Brian as she had been told.

"Yeah." Said Sasha. "The universe does NOT work this smoothly for stuff like this! If there isn't some kind of glitch I'll have my blue hair turn blonde like Cora's."

"Aw! I like your light brown fur and blue hair Sasha. Cora can do the Lola Bunny look off of Looney Tunes but that's her, you do the slut look great. Oh by the way when your babies are born and you come to my room remember to wear a short denim miniskirt and jacket over that dark red satin thong and bra of yours." Tina said through a haze of lust.

"Yes Mistress. Mistress may I ask you something?" Sasha asked as she side stepped a droid that was picking up the last box of belongings that had been taken from Tina and the others.

"Sure whats up, sexy? Brian when the last boxes are loaded we'll lift and come and get you." Tina said as she pushed a mattress on top of the pile in the back of the shuttle.

"Whats a strap-on?" Asked Sasha as she left the storage shed caring her box. "And should we give the old ones another conditioning treatment?"

"What a strap-on is is nothing more than a fake dick that we girls use when WE stick it to someone else, guys may have the real thing BUT with US we can at times if it's the right type exchange cock sizes. Kinda like what Laria has tried more than a couple of times with Brian when she REALLY gets horny but I CAN understand him saying 'hold on here' when she gets out that twenty two inch long by five wide one of hers." Tina laughed as she remembered everyone's reaction when they had first seen that one. "Michelle nearly rammed that up Laria's ass when it was nearly used on her, poor Laria was primal that night she was so out of it."

"OH I so remember that night!" Brian said as they opened the door down into the holding area. "Laria's birthday present and Brianna wants a birthday present just like it." 

"What kind of birthday present are you and mistress talking about master?" Asked Athena as they took the ladder down to the lower level ignoring the elevator. A question that was seconded by the others. 

"What had happened." Brian said with a sigh."Is Michelle, Tina and I had been screwing for last several months and since Laria hadn't been eighteen before that she had been left out as has been Brianna since then and before. What she had wanted for her birthday was a birthday rape, so we gave her one. We had had as much a birthday party as we could afford and then gave her some cloths that had been 'modified' so that when grabbed and pulled on they would rip off. We sent her to bed and we waited, EVENTUALLY she did manage to get to sleep. Well simply put when she was a sleep Michelle, Tina and I went into the room and I raped her. I tore those blankets off of her, ripped those pajamas and panties off of her, flipped her over dragged her to the edge of the bed and in ONE single simple plunge I sank into her as deeply as I could and muffled that godawful scream of hers in the mattress. The girls and I took turns holding her down as I ravaged her body, I held her down as I took her virginity, Tina held her head as she got the first taste of herself and Michelle held her as I tore into her ass and again Tina held her as I fucked her throat and cleaned the shit off my cock."

"Hey there wasn't any shit on your dick. Not with having gone through THAT many enemas just a couple hours before." Tina said laughing. "You just wanted her to choke and suffer for making you rape her. You've still yet to get really rough with her again after that." Tina said softly.

"We're down at the lower levels. Atherian I'm activating cameras, record EVERYTHING down here." Brian said as he opened the heavy iron door that led into the slave rooms. "Okay lets see what kind of people that these losers deal with now that the government has taken the slave trade business over and left these crones to fend for themselves." He said as he and Athena walked down a long passageway to the three occupied cells. "AW SHIT! You getting this Tina?" Brian asked as the woman looked trying to figure out where the sound of footsteps were coming from.

"I am but I don't recognize her, Brian WHO is she?" Tina asked as she and the others on the shuttle made their way up to the ship.

"Audria I know you can hear me you gutless excuse for a BITCH! So this is where your search for social standing has led you, the slave pens? No wait, these are breeding pens now aren't they?" He chuckled. "So this is where the wonderful personage that is Audria Sanderson ends up, waiting for the Evarys to find a suitable, viable enough stud? How TERRIBLE, my heart bleeds for you, no wait sorry it's laughing so hard it's crying, sorry about that. Well see you around, come on Athena lets go. Lets leave this bitch in her high society nest she has found for herself." Brian said as Athena just looked at Brian in shock. 

"Brian? Brian Faron is that you, where are you? I can't see you!" Asked the woman chained to the far wall.

Brian laughed setting the audio to max. "Brian Faron DIED over a WEEK ago, I now stand in his place. I will not allow simple things like childhood longing stand in my way just as you yourself did not. COME Athena we LEAVE."

"NO, WAIT please! It wasn't my idea all those years ago to stop being your, I, I uh mean his friend. It was just that those new pastors had a boy our age and and I uh, I, I tried to, to..." Audria stammered.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 07



"Get farther up in the world? Through the use of others that were farther up the food chain, just like your mother taught you? TRIED to teach your sister? Just how'd that work out? HMM? They left and you, well you were left alone without a friend who treated women as women and not THINGS to be thrown out after the new wore off." Brian said lowering the volume back down and fighting through the pain that was still as fresh as the day the cuts were made in his heart. "And here you are, here your DAUGHTERS are! BITCH! Can you COMPREHEND THAT? CAN YOU? BITCH!" He screamed as she started to cry softly.

"MOMMY? Whats going on? Wheres that voice coming from? Are they going to rape us again?" Sobbed one of the girls in the cages on either side of their mother. 

"Please Brian or whatever you call yourself PLEASE! You're right 'I' deserve to be here but please take my daughters with you, away from this place don't let them live out their lives like this." Begged Audria.

"So that was what happened." Tina said softly over the com. "Atherian says that the records my grandparents keep says her husband sold them for twenty thousand, each. If you wish to bring them with us we'll understand just don't let them have our cum. Master." She said with soft laughter rippling in her voice.

"Hmm, IF any of you are brought with us woman. Know THIS here and NOW, while OTHERS will have advancement you will never raise from the level you are now woman. Your daughters will never have to bear children unless THEY decide but you, no, I say how and where you live and die. Do you accept this?" Brian asked as Audria looked up with hope in her eyes.

"I accept this for my daughters and myself. Thank you!" She said softly.

"Atherian transport them up. Athena and I will climb back up, have all pertinent data compiled on them and their sale to Tina's grandparents when I reach the ship." Brian said as he walked toward the ladder.

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"WE are coming up to the coordinates that you have specified, Captain. I still do not comprehend WHY you wanted the name of this town deleted from my databanks and the specification 'The Town' left for map references." Atherian said as the ship was directed into a stable low altitude flight over Brian's home town.

"Because, hey!" Audria yelled as Tamara took a swipe at her with her rabbit clawed hand. "Easy, I was just..." She stopped as Tamara took another swipe.

"Easy girls. She may be many things but stupid she isn't totally, she's just Christian as I was raised." Brian said as he came onto the bridge of the freighter. "But to finish her statement ANYONE that manages to make it and get out of this place and then names this town ends up with NO choice but to come back here. And USUALLY they come back as disgraces and penniless! There is a song that a line goes something like "I could make something of myself if I could only get out off this town' THAT line is a UNDERSTATEMENT!"

"IF it's ONLY a UNDERSTATE we'll ALL be lucky." Audria said looking around to see if any more clawed hands were being directed in her direction.

"Captain? I have managed to create some organic copies of Audria and her daughters and son. I say copies because they can not truly be called clones, since they will not live two weeks after they leave their present location. I am completely unable comprehend your plan nor can I fathom the injuries you ordered them to have inflicted on them." Atherian said initiating the transport of the soon to be dead copies of Audra and her children.

"AWW, hell with it! Atherian send a couple of spy eyes into the slaughter plant on the north side of town." Brian snarled. "I WANT that wetback bitch at the mercy of a AMERICAN and if it's me, oh well. Tina guide it, find and tag both her and her brother, remember he's the one that looks like scruffy got shewed up and then spit out. As to the copies Atherian simple, the US government treated the Native Americans so horribly that it really can't be accurately described. In a effort to say 'look we care for them, we gave them scrub land to live on after we forced them from their homes and homeland' the tribes were given and that only they or the Indian Bureau have ANY power in those stretches of land. Over the years MANY have taken to being assholes and committing crimes and what not and afterward making a run for the reservations where they are safe from prosecution. MANY states have taken to a point of view that they are no longer in the country, so that when they are finally caught when they're eighty or more years old they are still capable of being held accountable for their crimes. Audra's husband being the type he's proven himself to be by SELLING his wife and children will make a break for reservation and once the shit hits the fan. Atherian you've got the coordinates for recreational area along the river know as 'Rainbow Bend'?"

"I do captain and all the knowledge has been implanted into their minds. So if I understand you completely you are going to frame him for false crimes?" Atherian asked.

"Hm yeah, yeah I am but on the same side of the coin that type will have done much much worse and no one the wiser to it. So I am also allowing society to have a starting point to dig from if he's done more like I figure he has. It'll be found in time, even if he does make a run for the reservations he won't get away from people knowing." Brian said smiling in a offhanded manner.

"Go back to the back with your daughters BITCH and keep them from bothering Cora and her babies." Tara told Audria as she came onto the bridge. "Master all battery packs are recharged, our actions at the Evarys' have yet to be noticed. Construction drones are en-route now, they will dig themselves a cave until you send them plans for a secondary base."

"Thank you Tara, hows the ass?" Brian asked as he drew her to his side.

"Sore but it did feel good after you were finally in. Though I would like to have felt your cum in my ass, next time aim there, no where else." Tara said glaring at Brian and pointing a finger at him.

"Fine Tara." Brian said as he turned back toward the view screen. "We stop at my dads place grab my stuff and my dogs if hasn't killed them yet. Atherian get a hold of Susan see if he has any spare cash to send us would you? If he does, we send his fat-assness to a few restaurants have him load up on food that we'll put into the replicators memory files. We'll holler immigration through the spy-eyes and in the confusion we'll grab that bitch and her brother as we are leaving town. Then we head for El Dorado and pick up my mom and my nieces and their stuff. Direct and simple people, we should be done by morning, lets get a move on."

**********

"So hows it going, dad?" Brian asked his dad as the fat old man was setting down his groceries on the counter nearly scaring the shit out of the old man as well as nearly giving him a heart attack. As the fat-ass backed up against the counter Brian walked towards him. "You know that you shouldn't always believe the news, they're not reliable enough to do that."

"But, but you can't be Brian. You can't, his girlfriends called and said that you got washed down a underground river channel, there's NO way you can be him!" 

"He did, he did get washed down a river channel." Tina said in a squealy voice reminiscent of Tweety. "So what are you going to do about it old man? Especially since it didn't kill him and in all likelihood you've already collected the life insurance you placed on him, without his knowledge?" Asked Tina as she came out of the bathroom.

"Bu, But how? What's going on?" Stammered the sixty something man.

"I need you to do somethings for me, if you would." Brian said as he sat down in a recliner. "Since I'm supposed to be dead and Tina is supposed to still be in Idaho I need you to go to a few restaurants and get some stuff. We've got five hundred in cash so you should have more than enough to get what I need. Willing?" Brian asked as he plopped the wad of cash on the table beside him.

"Yeah sure, can I use some for gas since I'll be doing your running around?" Brian's dad asked as he picked up the cash.

"Of course and when you get back we'll explain everything to you, fair enough?" Brian asked as his dad walked out the door.

"So where and what? Oh thanks, you remembered that I need a list when hitting drive-throughs." The old man said as he was handed a list.

"Are you sure about this captain, telling him I mean." Asked Atherian after Brian's dad's truck had pulled away from the curb to go get what Brian had asked for.

"Sure why not? It's not like he's going to live to see another day, is he? Anyway, are the Mexicons and their car in position yet?" Brian asked as he got up and walked to the door of his old room and opened the door to let his dogs into the rest of the house. "What you know the old animal hater hasn't killed them yet!! Lock onto them and activate matter transport. Send them to the base as soon as possible I don't need Cerberus or Mica under foot on the ship, okay after they are dealt with start beaming up stuff to the freighter that we indicate." Brian said as he walked into a now dog-less room.

"SO what do you mean he's not going to live another day and what ARE these Mexicons?" Asked Tara over the com as she started shifting the belongings that were being transported up to the freighter. "Oh and by the way is there going to be enough room for your mother and your nieces' belongings on this freighter?"

"One, once we have my stuff and the food in the replicators systems we gas the loser, clean this place out of ANYTHING that might be useful and then we leave him and when we are finally out of range for the blast to bother us we blow the house AND him to hell. I WON'T forgive ANY of what he did to us and the hell he made our lives when me and my sister were younger. Or the hell my mom had to go through for nearly forty years. As for the Mexicons, well lets just say the name Decepticons was already taken. Tara we have another freighter on stand by if this one gets full, shouldn't though since we've only about half the space so far." Brian said as he started disconnecting his computer.

**********

"To bad you can't help me unload the truck since you're not dead Brian but since you've decided to remain dead it can't be help can it?" Brian's dad said as he brought in the first arm full of sacks.

"Atherian can you get a lock on the sacks?" Brian asked as Tina moved to help empty his arms of sacks."If it's possible clean out his truck to, no reason not to be nice. Well dad since we promised explanations we had best start explaining hadn't we? Atherian lock on and transport." 

"What happened?" Brian's dad asked as he tried to macho through the effects of matter transport.

"Move it human, we've got things to do." Snarled Sasha as she was walking by to get another bag of food that had been transported up.

"Uppity bitch isn't she? So what what just happened that you are dead but not dead and you have REAL beach bunnies running around with real attitudes? Not to mention WHAT just HAPPENED?" The old bastard snarled.

"I've also got whitetail deer running around somewhere but for your explanation we are going to have to go onto the bridge and let Atherian give another narration of the history of the Reamaiinsk Empire." Brian said as he led the way to the bridge.

***********

"Ugh! Wha' happen? My head is killing me." Brian said as he picked himself off the floor of the corridor.

"Seeing as we are just going to kill him here in a little while, I saw no reason to go through the narration again so I gassed the corridor. He is being sedated so that you may have free reign in going through his things to see if you can find anything of use captain." Atherian said as Tara moved to his side with a glass.

"OOHHH YEAH PEPSI! I have SO missed this stuff." Brian said as he took a drink. "Its a good thing I always kept a large storage tote full of two liters, that way I can go through them and find the best tasting of the bunch to get placed in the mainframe. Anyway that was harsh because I did promise him a explanation of things but whats done is done! I want the shed in the back emptied also and BOTH the canoe and the john boat in the back brought up as well. Beam them both up at the same time and no one will have a clue of what they saw they'll know what it LOOKED like but what actually happened? Not a chance."

"As you would captain, we need to hurry it is getting close to six in the evening local time. The Evarys have checked in, no one is the wiser to the goings on out there. The Mexicons have reported success with little notice being taken and as to those two that you wished collected from your old place of employment Tina has just finished securing them." Atherian said as the last of Brian's orders were being followed.

"Good, lets get out of here and the sooner the better! PUNCH IT!" Brian said over the com to the bridge command droid crew.

*********

"I am detecting large amounts of toxins in the air captain." Atherian said as they entered what amounted to El Dorado air space. 

"Its a REFINERY town/city so of COURSE there's going to be toxins in the air. Really though if there's ONLY just toxins in the air we're all going to be lucky. And with the way the government and big interests and the environmentalists are doing things it'll have to be kept in operation until it blows the town to hell." Brian said as choked on the stench that some how made it into a supposedly airtight craft. "How is that smell getting in here or is this stench just psychological?"

"I don't smell anything so it's liable to be psychological Brian." Said Cora as she came onto the bridge hold two of her babies as Granny Goodness held two more and Tara the last.

"Mmm lets get ready for mom and my nieces, guys. Since Madison and Kat always wanted a baby brother or sister you're in all likelihood going to get a lot of help with the babies Cora." He said as he hugged her to him. "In two weeks your babies should be able to handle being away from you long enough for me to keep my promise to you if you still want to get bunny fucked."

"OH HO HO! I can't WAIT to get ripped apart by my masters' cock." Gurgled Cora through a lust haze.

"Tell me when you're going to do that, would you? I want to hear her scream!" Said Tara with a evil grin on her face.

"What are you guys talking about?" Asked Tina.

"Well RIGHT before these two were given their present forms, Cora wanted to get fucked. So I promised her that when her babies were born and after they could handle being away from her for awhile we would put her back in her natural form and I'd fuck her. Tara just wants to see a little cottontail impaled on a cock that's going to rip her open." Brian said as he rubbed Cora's exposed chest and reaching under neither her bra to massage one of her breasts.

As he did so Tina finally noticed that Cora was sporting multiple breasts. "Hey whats going on?" She asked as she pointed to Cora's multiple tits.

"The top breasts aren't meant for milk in pleasure beasts Tina they are meant for their masters pleasure, so they have secondary tits that expose themselves after childbirth which are for milk production. We are coming into stationary hover over the coordinates that you indicated for your mothers residence captain." Atherian said as the shuttle was being given yet another check for operational safety.

"Thanks Atherian, lets get this crap done and over with. EVERYONE that has been to a town or city is to go directly to a med bay and get physicals and a toxin purge when we get back to base. Would you relay those instructions to ALL teams Atherian?" Brian asked as he walked into the shuttle bay. "Tina we are going to be doing this one a little differentially, the shuttle has holo emitters, so we will land the shuttle far down the street to the west guide the shuttle along the road like a basic U-haul."

"RRRIGHT, what ever you say. HEY I know what your doing and no! NO dice, I am NOT going to go in and draw your moms attention off of you so you can live through this, NO way, NOT going to happen!" Tina said holding her hands up in defense of the firestorm that would be sent in her direction once she stepped foot in that house.

"Yes you are, my fun this time big girl." Brian said as he cocked his head trying to give her a pouty face but couldn't help but grin at the spectacle she was making of herself.

"OH all right, all ready. ENOUGH!" She screamed as Sasha walked up beside her and added her own pouty face to the mix. 

"Thank you mistress." Sasha said in a sing-song voice as Tina grabbed her suit and burst out laughing as Tina started grumbling under her breath.

********

"Unca Bi!!" Brian's nieces squealed as Brian's mom opened the door.

"No girls I already told you girls, he won't be coming back. EVER. He had a accident up in Idaho and...NO stay in here." His mother started to say as the girls fought to get outside.

"But mom hes right here behind Aunty T." Madison said pointing behind Tina.

"Can I come in? You need to hear a few things to understand all this and we need to close the blinds it's getting dark anyway." Tina said as Brian's mom looked at her.

"Might as well, just don't get any ideas that you're spending the night, you hear me?" Brian's mother said as she stepped aside to allow Tina in. 

"I know you've never liked me and that this isn't even close to a pleasant surprise but please believe me that when we found out Brian had gone down a underground river channel it broke my sister and my cousins apart inside." Tina said as people moved to close blinds as she had asked.

"And what about you? Why didn't it bother you?" Asked Brian's holier-than-thou grandmother.

"Simple, I called her a while before Michelle got back to the house to deliver the news. She must have done a good enough job lying to get people to believe her." Brian said as he deactivated his suits cloak.

The shocked silence was eventually broken by the girls once again screeching "UNCA BI."

"You two are far to intelligent to be allowed to remain in the public school system, so what about it mom? Want to come with us this time? I'm sorry but there can't be another offer, so please." Brian said as he removed his helmet and offered is hand.

"No I won't allow you to corrupt these girls with your evil ways!" Screeched Brian's grandmother as she launched herself at him only to be brought up short by a blast from a imperial stun weapon.

"YEAH!!!! The fucking bitch is DEAD!" Screamed little Katherine as she ran out of the room only to come back hefting a baseball bat.

"Oh NO you don't!" Tamara said as she grabbed the bat as Kat was about to bring it down on the old woman's head. "The captain needs conditioned slaves you are not allowed to kill them until he says so. WHAT IS GOING ON?!!" Tamara asked hefting the bat in a clear question.

Brian chuckled. "NEVER EVER make these girls hate you. Put simply they have MANY of MY personality traits but some are amplified. Like the need for vengeance. Anyway mom will you PLEASE come we can find a dark hole where you NEVER have to deal with anyone again unless you decide. Okay? Please."

She sighed as she looked at him and back to his nieces who were rapped around his legs in a attempt to go with him no matter what she said. "Very well Brian you win! We'll go with you." Her answer was answered by the girls screaming their happiness of going with 'Unca Bi' and never being away from him again.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 08



I'm working on a sub chapter that follows Susan and his days but that'll be awhile in the making. Still, any and ALL comments are wanted.

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"Captain." Wailed Cora over the com. "Would you PLEASE do SOMETHING with your nieces? They won't let the babies rest. It's also well past time for them all to be a sleep as well."

Brian chuckled. "All right Cora, I'll come back and get them to bed."

"Captain before you do that we seem to have picked up a disabled truck on the highway." Atherian said as Brian turned to the door.

"Alright then, get me as much info you can from scans and bring us in, I'll deal with it as soon as I deal with the kids." Brian said as he walked through the door.

"Hey Brian are you sure you believe all that stuff that that narration said?" Asked Brian's mother asked as she came out of a cabin as he went by. "And you're sure that this really is all just a 'truck'?"

"Well considering your claustrophobia from just being inside a airport. YEP! Damn right this is all just a 'truck' mom." He said with a grin at her. "Anyway, want to give me a hand? The girls found Cora and her newborn babies."

She groaned as she heard that. "How much trouble are the causing?" She asked as they entered the freighters med bay.

"Except that they won't go to sleep or allow MY babies to go to sleep either, none really." Cora said with a grin as the girls giggled as they played with baby bunny ears.

"Okay you two." Brian said laughing as went over to hug Madison. "Its been another hard day for you two, thinking I was dead then finding out I was alive hasn't helped you settled down for anything ESPECIALLY sleep. But I need you two to go to sleep because tomorrow we've got to get your education up to the average standards of the Empire." He said before he walked over to Kitty and hugged her.

"The Empire? Are we going to be taught how to be Sith?" Asked Kitty with hope in her voice. Brian burst out laughing and made for the door.

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He was still chuckling he entered the bridge. "So what are you laughing about? Anyway we've got one adult and three kid life signs in the truck, so what do we do? Pick them up and reeducate them or leave them to rot?" Asked Tina as she moved to his side. 

"We at least see if we can make use of them. Who knows, they might be useful. Anyway, Kitty asked if we were going to train them to be Sith." He said choking back a laugh.

Tina cocked her head. "She can be VERY vicious. Anyway whet are we going to do with the mexicans? Even tied up the bitch is causing problems. 'I US citizen, you can't do this me! I rights.' The droids I stationed down there are getting fed up with her. They are seeking permission to rip out her tongue."

"Uh, right." Brian said with a amused sideways glance at Tina. "Last I knew those droids were just basic programing, no real AI intellect or anything to guide them. So these parasites and their babble can even get to mindless robots?" Brian asked with a bemused smile on his face.

"Apparently so. My Lord Sidious." Tina said with a sadistic grin on her face.

"The big difference right now is 'I' don't have to worry about Ewoks." Brian said with a grin."Lets go down and see what we got in the way possible help down there. Oh, did Atherian tell you that Susan Bartholomew McGregar zero zero zero seven found a wrecked car on a mountain road? The driver and and the wreck have been moved to the base, her unborn triplets are in good shape considering the mother was out of it due to a severe concussion."

"No I hadn't been told, not high enough in the hierarchy yet I guess." Tina said as she pulled down a seat that was mounted on the wall. "For now though, that works out well for me. I like the idea of just being along for the ride. more chances for a good tussle under the blankets." She said leaning back and rubbing her crotch of her jeans in open invitation.

"Sorry T, but no matter how I like the idea, right now I just don't have the time." Brian said apologetically.

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As The shuttle made the approach to the U-haul Brian couldn't help but feel dread down his back. "Are you sure that the reconditioning in these strips can over power and subvert any propagandized people we might come across Atherian?"

"According to all the files that have been discovered on all computers that are accessible by the internet, there should be little problem. The only foreseeable predicament is that of a complete overwrite of EVERYTHING, as all forms of propagandizing are archaic at best captain." Atherian said as the shuttle landed behind the truck.

"Well." Brian sighed. "Until we can figure out how to tone the strips down so as not to erase the minds of people that we are wanting to subjugate, we'll have to have someone that is sufficiently bonded to a Blade to go in and easy their minds into wanting to work for us. Are people really sure that this suits' cloaking reformat will allow me to appear like I don't have it on?"

"Yes captain, Tamara has given the suits as vigorous testing as she can under the circumstances. I have run several simulations on the reformat myself, it would require a strike hard enough to take the cloak offline before the suit would become visible." Atherian said as landed behind the U-haul truck and Brian opened the door to get out.

As Brian walked up to the door of the truck it swung open and a form yielding a tire iron flew from the drivers seat. "Whoever you are, you aren't going to get us!" Screamed the woman.

"Woman I'm just curious to see if you want any help." Brian said as he dodged a swing from the tire iron. "Now if you want to play nice. " He said as he caught the iron and tore it from her grip. "I might be able to help you." He finished saying as he twisted the tire iron into a wad of metal like it was a arts&crafts fuzzy stick. 'DAMN I'm glad I have my suit on.' He thought. 'THAT would have hurt BIG time otherwise.'

"Who, what ARE you?" The woman asked as she backed up toward the door of the truck.

"Well 'I' do know who you are." Brian said as Atherian accessed the truck rental database. "Robin Taren.. Hey watch it." He yelped as she dove at him.

"Don't call me that, I'm done with that fucking low life loser." She sobbed.

"Well considering I worked with Harvey up until a couple of months ago, I can totally understand on getting away from the little wuss. So what happened? IRS finally figure out he was claiming nine dependents when he did his taxes, instead of the four that he has, well had?" Brian asked now recognizing her now that he knew who she was. 

"You knew and you didn't say anything, who are you anyway?" Robin asked as she moved back in front of the door.

"Brian Faron ring a bell? Because Robin sure does with me. With the way everyone was always describing you, you're nothing more than a dominatrix. Which leads to the question, just HOW did you have kids when you wore the pants and he got the strap-on in ass?" Brian asked laughing. "Anyway why no one said anything was because of you and your kids."

"What?" Stammered Robin. "He never defended me?" She asked with a confused look on her face.

"Nope, not once. Whenever I was around anyway. As I was walking up I noticed what looked like a gas drip leading back a ways there won't be much that can be done now. Where are you going? I might be able to help out. It's the least I can do, since this'll be my good deed for the month." Brian said leaning his back against the side of the truck.

"WHAT? Oh no, I only had enough to get to my sis's in California, I don't have have enough for this." Rachel sobbed slumping onto the edge of the flooring and leaning her head onto the door. 

"As I understand it you were going through Nurses School weren't you? Where I'm at now has need of a nurse, want to give it a try there? You can always go elsewhere if you don't like it." Brian said a he offered a hand.

Robin looked at him funny. "What's your game?" 

"No game, I don't have time for games. Not NOW not EVER! I offer the chance to make a life for yourself, take it or leave it as I need to leave and be on my way in the next five minutes." Brian said in a bored voice offering his hand again.

Robin sighed. "Very well." She said accepting his hand. "I don't have much choice right now but I just hope you're who you say you are and you mean what you say."

"Good, I think you'll like THIS!" Brian said deactivating the holos on his suit. "Atherian lock on to everything and send us to the empty cargo bay, we've spent to much time here. Make best speed for home." He grinned as Robins scream rang in his ears as they were transported up to the ship and the shuttle lifted and made for the landing bay.

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"THAT wasn't funny!" Robin snarled. "Now where are we and what becomes of me and my kids now that you've kidnapped me?"

"HEY!" Snarled Tara getting in Robins' face. "NO one just kidnapped ANYONE, YOU were the one that accepted the Emperors' offer." Turning to Brian she knelt down on one knee. "My lord, more beds have been prepared for the young ones." 

"What is going on? That suit of yours is familiar and I don't understand how that suit of hers looks so real." Robin said as she pointed to Tara.

"We've GOT to get that narration automated." Brian said with a groan. "Anyway if you can wait for a bit for explanations you'll have answers to far more questions you've ever thought to ask."

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As the freighter maneuvered to landed on the new platform in the underground cavern that was being converted into a airfield Brian looked out the screen on the bridge and started to get depressed. "Am I the right person for this Tina? Rebuilding the Empire I mean?" He asked Tina as he slumped into the command chair.

"Right person or not, you accepted the late captains request so you're stuck with it Brian." His mom said coming onto the bridge.

"Yeah we'll all help, you know that." Tina said as she hugged him like she was warding off the cold that seeped into his bones. A hug that he returned with great need.

"We need to get everything settled down, Robin given the works, the girls down here. Oh and there has been a 'house' built up top as a cover with access to down here. It'll have to be low tech until we get all the necessary paperwork done for a real home up top. I still want a underground house with a see through bottomed pool." Brian said as he tore himself away from Tina's grip.

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Rachel Branning woke with a gasp and looked around as she sat up. "Where am I?" She finally managed to stammer out.

"Here." Said a male voice that seemed to come from nowhere yet also everywhere at the same time. 

"Where is HERE?" She asked though she had the feeling someone was having fun at her expense.

"At about the middle of the length of the River Styx." Said the voice from before. 

"Styx River? I've never heard of it before and where are my cloths?" She asked as she realized she was naked underneath a light silky blanket.

"The Styx River is one of the names to the river that is supposed to flow through the underworld. The cloths that you wore when you were brought here were in need of repair and none of the other cloths that you had in your transport could ever pass as clean, they are being dealt with now." Said the voice.

"Who are you? I need to get out of here, if my family ever find me I doubt I'll ever manage to get away from them again and I'm not going back to that way of living!" She said hoping to at least get out of wherever she was.

"Your question pertaining to me is unanswerable. As to ANY one finding you WITHOUT assistance is HIGHLY unlikely but if you wish to leave this place, here are some cloths." As the voice fell silent a cubbyhole slid open and appeared to hold some cloths.  

As she struggled to sit up she looked down at her bloated stomach. "Excuse me but is there any way I can... can I get a abortion here? I wasn't able to before I got out of town."

"You wish to terminate your offspring??! I am unable to as well as unwilling to comply with your request. If you do not wish your offspring, after birthing and you are still here and you still do not wish them, arrangements will be made for their care, away from you." Said the voice rather dumbstruck that she would want a abortion.

"Why would I want to stay here? Especially since you won't tell me who you are? Rachel screamed.

"I am unable to tell you who I am because I am not a who but a what! I am a computer program known as Atherian." Said the voice with a great deal of amusement. "As to WHY you would want to remain here? No one will find you unless the captain allows it."

"And who is this 'Captain' Atherian? Seriously though, you're a computer? You sound too human." Rachel said as she walked to the cubbyhole.

As she pulled on the cloths that had been in the cubby she stopped and looked around. "This room looks like a hospital room but nothing I've ever seen outside of science fiction movies." She said as she indicated a bed with a console at the head of it. And what become of me IF I decided to stay here, at least until my kids were born anyway?"

"What would happen is, what would you like to do or have happen to you?" Said Atherian. "As to the state of this medical bay..." As the sentence was left off a door on the far side of the room slid open. 

"So now I'm supposed to leave? So where am I supposed to go?" Rachel asked, after several minutes of waiting for a answer she approached the open door. As she stuck her head out the door she heard chittering down far to the left side of the hall. "Hello?" She asked as the chittering turned into more like laughter. "Who's there?" She asked as she slowly walked out into the hallway. As she took a few steps out into the hallway the door to the med bay slid shut trapping her out in the hallway. As she tried to pry the door back open she noticed movement in the corner of her peripheral vision, as she turned to look she saw something that looked like squirrels but they were HUGE. As they continued to advance toward her she turned to run down the other side of the hallway but stopped short as she saw that there were other huge 'squirrels' down that stretch of hall as well. As she was backed up against the wall the biggest of the 'squirrels' approached her and stared chittering at the others who backup a little. "What do you want?" She asked as the 'squirrel' reached out to touch her. 

"You apparently." Said Atherian. "Otulissa, she is to go to the holographic matrix room for the Reamaiinsk Imperial Tutorial , do not interfere. Otulissa, OBEY!" Atherian said firmly as the huge 'squirrel' let out a screech in the direction of a far corner of the hall. "They will not harm you as they have not yet. I shall inform the captain that his base guards are rebelling against my orders."

'Yes PLEASE!!" Rachel begged as Otulissa raised off her front legs and placed them on her stretched stomach."Hey, no. Leave me alone." She screamed as she fought the 'squirrel' as it worked to get the front of her shirt open. She continued to struggle as several of the other 'squirrels' grabbed her arms and held them up out of the way of their leader. "No please." She begged as the 'squirrel' laid its head against head stomach. "Yes I'm pregnant, so what are you going to doOO?!" She managed to ask as the 'squirrel' licked the skin of her stretched stomach. As the 'squirrel' continued to lick, the warm wet tongue sent jolts through the point of contact up to her nipples and down to her crotch where it flew up into the depths of her womb. "No please, don't!" She panted as the 'squirrel' raised itself up and tried to kiss her. As she turned her head to the side the 'squirrel' took a deep breath and let out a inhuman screech. As the "squirrels' hot breath and drops of spittle coated the side of her head she opened her eyes just enough to glimpse that the 'squirrels' lower jaw had dropped down far more than any normal jaw could ever hope to be able to and as the lower jaws dropped a second set of jaws had opened from the sides of the mouth and the two sets of jaws framed a long serpentine tongue that seemed to have spiny growths about half way down from the tip. 

"Enough Otulissa! Do not harm her, she may be useful to the captain." Hollered Atherian as the 'squirrel' tried to wiggle its tongue into Rachel's mouth.

"MmmM." Rachel managed as she kept her lips clamped together. As Otulissa growled Rachel felt the mandible like teeth of the side jaws push into the skin and draw her face into the 'squirrels' mouth. "Okay, I, I surrender." Rachel gasped as she saw the back of the throat getting uncomfortably close. With a pleased rumble in the back of Otulissa's throat it released Rachel's face and once again brought it's face close to her own and stopped. As Rachel's arms were released Otulissa seemed to be waiting as Rachel also waited for the 'squirrel' to lean back for another kiss. As Otulissa glared and started growling deep in her throat Rachel realized what was wanted from her and quickly leaned in and kissed Otulissa as deeply as she could. She whimpered as she felt the 'squirrels' paws settle on her sides and work their way up under her bra straps, she was about to protest when she felt sharp claws start to push into the sensitive tender flesh of her breasts. "Please don't hurt me." She begged as Otulissa pulled herself from the kiss and lowered her head down to Rachel's breasts where the 'squirrel' quickly pulled the bra up out of the way before lightly kissing one of her sensitive nipples and rapping it's tongue around her breast and slightly squeezing it before pulling it's tongue back into it's mouth leaving a trail of saliva trailing around her breast.

Rachel sighed as Otulissa backed away from her and settled back onto all fours. As she was pushed toward Otulissa by the other 'squirrels' Rachel realized that Otulissa was presenting her sex for attention. Rachel started to whimper as she was forced onto her knees and held in place as Otulissa backed up towards her. As Otulissa looked behind herself at Rachel she chittered as she flicked her tail in Rachel's face. When Rachel sneezed at the dander that the fluttering caused to be dislodged, the other 'squirrels' started chittering as well and they too started flicking their tails. As the dander began to settle on Rachel and she began to breath it in she began to get lightheaded, as she was pushed once more in Otulissa's direction her eyes settled on the 'squirrels' up turned ass. 

"So lovely." She murmured as she stroked Otulissa's flank, as her attention was drawn to the swishing tail in front of her face her gaze was drawn downward by a musty scent. "Mmm" she groggily murmured as she stroked the puckered ring of the 'squirrels' ass. "Delicious!" She said as she bent and touched the tip of her tongue to the tight ring, as she sank her tongue deep past the slight barrier of muscle the faint murmur of Atherian telling her that she needed to fight the effects of the aphrodisiacs if she ever wanted to ever be able to leave didn't do any more than help egg her hunger and need on. She grabbed handfuls of fur as she shoved her face harder into the 'squirrels' butt as she fought to get her tongue ever deeper into Otulissa's ass, her head reeled with her lust as she felt the 'squirrels' ass start to squeeze her tongue allowing her to feel and taste the texture of the Otulissa's flesh. "NOOO!!!!" She screamed as she was pulled off of Otulissa, she continued to scream and fight as she was pulled into a cabin and pushed onto a bed. As she continued to fight, her cloths were slowly but surely removed and as the thong was pulled from her thrashing legs, she saw Otulissa climb up onto the bed. As the 'squirrel' straddled her head, Rachel again grabbed handfuls of fur pulling the prize that she craved so much down onto her mouth. As she shoved her tongue as hard into Otulissa's ass as she could, she felt the electrical punch to the stomach of a warm wet tongue touch her sex which sent her sex crazed body and mind into orgasmic overload and as she sank into unconsciousness she coated the 'squirrels' face with her juices.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 08



As Rachel lay unconscious from her orgasm Otulissa let out a scream of her own claiming Rachel as her own and turned on the other 'squirrels' making them fall back to the edges of the room. As she bent down and began to lick Rachel's juices from her body, Rachel began to regain consciousness. As Rachel woke from her experience, she felt Otulissa's tongue glide along her leg from her vagina to her knee. As she reached beside her swollen abdomen and stroked the side of Otulissa's face, Otulissa began chittering and stuck out her long tongue in question. Rachel just smiled and moaned as she spread her legs even more and guided Otulissa's face toward her sopping wet cunt. She gasped as she felt the tip of the 'squirrels' tongue touch the puckered ring of her own ass and shuddered as the tongue was slowly drawn upward and along her nether lips and jerked as the tip of Otulissa's tongue seemed to smack her clit. 

As Otulissa's tongue sank deep into Rachel's sex, Rachel gasped for breath. She couldn't see through her need nor could she think past her lust. As the soft spines of Otulissa's tongue grazed over her G spot Rachel wrapped her legs around Otulissa's head and grabbed a hold of her ears trying to keep herself at that peak of her aroused pleasure. As Otulissa's tongue sank ever deeper into her body it kept caressing and sliding over the walls of her sex until it pushed past her cervix and slide deep into her womb. As it caressed the walls of her womb and over and between the placental sacks that contained her fetuses her body was racked by wave after wave of orgasms until she was barely capable of breathing she was so exhausted. As Otulissa finished drinking her fill of Rachel's nectar she moved up Rachel's body and nuzzled her face. "Yes love." Rachel managed. "I'm alright, if you want me, I'll stay, I'll be yours. Just please don't send me back to be raped by my father and brothers again. Please, I don't want to raped to death like my mother, just let me stay here with you." She begged as she tried to pull Otulissa into her arms. 

"So THAT"S what had you in such a tizzy to get out of here and long gone." Said a male voice causing Rachel to panic and find just enough strength to pull Otulissa half in front of her. "Do not worry Rachel you're safe here AND coming out of the effects of the aphrodisiacs that these squirrels produce in their dander it appears."

"Uhh my head! Wha' you mean by aphrodisiacs?" Rachel asked as her head started to throb. "Who're you anyway?"

Brian chuckled. "For now call me 'Captain'. As to what I mean by aphrodisiacs, I mean that we took little furry squirrels and created THESE. We acquired squirrels from areas that were overpopulated with them, brought them here, increased their size and their intelligence to that of young adult humans. Seriously hardened their skin, altered their bodies in several ways and gave them the knowledge they would need to act as security here at our base from which we will make America STRONG once again and conquer the rest of the world. Then we'll set our sights on the rest of existence." He said indicating her playmates. "Guess what kiddo, you just been fucked by a overgrown fuzzball." He said with a laugh. "Anyway, there are some two hundred of these overgrown squirrels that are female and twenty five that are male. "

"I don't understand. How can you do all that?" Rachel asked through the pain from behind her eyes.

"I should wait until you're fully recovered but you need to be told somethings, the rest will come after you've recovered." Brian said as he moved toward the bed. "We are able to do many things here, somethings we can't, or won't. Like abortions or at least not yet anyway. You were to go to a place where everything would have been explained but the squirrels got to you first and that went out the window, like a rock." Brian said with a smile as Otulissa hung her head only to perk up as Rachel stroked her cheek and smiled at her. Noting the exchange Brian sighed. "Very well, Otulissa see to it that Rachel gets a good long hot bath and spends some time huffing pure oxygen, that should help speed along the effects of your aphrodisiacs and get her head clear. After that, see to it that she gets to see that narration." As Otulissa nodded her head Brian stroked her body and ran his hand down between her legs and rubbed her sex. "Listen to me Rachel, ultimately the allegiance of these squirrels is to me and as such in all likelihood I'll take my pleasure from them all at one time or other, even Otulissa here. But until that time she, no they ALL will need a caregiver. After your bath and your head clears and you've heard the hows and whats of this place, I want you to seriously think about being the caregiver of the squirrels for me. They'll be able to do much for themselves but there are just something's that are easier with help or they simply won't have time to do as they're dealing with security here. Will you at least think on it?" Brian asked as he held out his hand.

"Yes I'll do it. I'll even, ugh, I'll even let you have me. Just let me stay here with, Otulissa was it?" Rachel asked as she tried to guide his hand from Otulissa's sex to her own.

"I doubt there would be VERY few me.. uh, people that would pass that up but I really need you to see that narration and think about this! It's NOTHING to jump headlong into. Otulissa." Brian hollered as he walked out of the cabin indicating that she was to see to it that his orders were followed after he left.

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As Brian walked down the corridor that led to the rooms that had been setup as his and those he had wanted to be with him Atherian interrupted his reminiscing. "I apologize Captain! I should had a droid rescue her from the squirrels."

Brian smiled. "No, this might work out better this way. GRANTED we WILL eventually need to get more people as caregivers but getting somebody this fast starts the ball rolling. Anyway, has Athena gotten started rearranging Robins' loyalty yet?"

"I believe she is attempting it now sir. It might be best to go to medical bay seven seven nine and instruct her what you wish done. At least with this the first of the loyalty conditioning considering you specifically said not to use the strips. As to that WHY are the strips NOT to be used on this Robin?" Atherian asked.

"I totally understand your need to know Atherian since you went threw the trouble of making them. And since I've got a few minutes before I get to the med bay, it'll pass the time. WHY I instructed them not to be used on her OR other medical personnel is that if they were loyal to someone else, lets go with they were US military people. They might start wondering why they decided to switch or add loyalties. In all likelihood the strips will leave markers that could be found, with going in through the abilities that the swords offer the markers might be more likely overlooked." Brian said. "OH also this way we can lock down their minds keeping their loyalty from being altered again as well."

"So what you are saying, is that if there is a chance of the people themselves wondering about their change of heart they could reason themselves out of it." Asked Atherian as Brian entered the med bay door.

"It's a possibility that we need to keep in mind Atherian. So Athena how's the reformatting going?" Brian asked as he noted all the Psyker Blades that had been given suits were there observing the indoctrination process.

"As we are not sure entirely how you would have the loyalty alteration initiate we are doing this as a hive mind." Icialan said as she withdrew from the consciousness that the blades and Athena had created to carry out his orders. "Ashilon and I may be linked to your mind but this, this is beyond our ability to explain to others what you wish done and we are unable to place what you wish done in the other Psyker Blades' consciences-es and Athena is unable to fully grasp what you would have done. So if you could please, GIVE US A HAND WHY DON'T YOU?" Icialan wailed in her frustration.

Brian chuckled. "Why it's so hard to grasp is it's rather strait forward BUT also we are going for the slow approach to ensure her loyalty not she will be loyal when she wakes up type of indoctrination. Icialan I need both you and Ashilon with me." Brian waited while the two seated their suits down out of the way before retrieving the swords from their suits. As Brian took his place at the he chuckled at the rapped attention he was being given and shook his head. He placed the blades of both Icialan as well as Ashilon beside his legs and placed the pommels down touching Robins' head and willed himself down into her mind. As he slipped down into her mind he felt the presence of the others join him. "Remember." He told them as they came to a stop deep in Robins' mind. "This is my way of doing it you'll all have to find your personal approach to this and also keep in mind everyone is different. There will be times when you have to change approaches midway. Now keep watch but don't interfere I might have to get twisted here."

As Brian turned from the others, he looked down and saw a subterranean chasm with Robin struggling to get up on a safe ledge where EVERYONE that Robin ever knew and loved was silently watching her struggle. "Please help me." She kept begging and hollering at people and as she kept begging and asking people they kept taking one last look at her and walked back into a tunnel and left her life until only Harvey her ex-husband remained. When it came to his turn it appeared that he at least would offer her assistance but when he reached down he tore her grip loose from the rock and left her to fall. As she fell she screamed for help, after allowing her to fall for a distance Brian willed himself under her so that he caught her before she fell on sharp jagged rocks at the bottom of the chasm. As she clung to him she looked up and saw Harvey looking down with a emotionless face turn and he too left the ledge and her life. 

As Brian looked down into her questioning face he smiled. "It's okay I have you, I'll never leave you." He cooed at her as he caused her to take the form of a young child. "Come, it's safe with me." He said as he wrapped her in a blanket. "Let us go where you will be appreciated." He said as he flew with her up and out of the chasm and out of the underground tunnels as they emerged from the darkness into the light all those that had turned their backs on Robin were waiting for them. 

"She belongs to us." They all said in flat soulless voices. "She is ours to do with as we please, she will go back into the life we choose for her." And as they finished talking their forms shifted into a black inky mass that surged forward and engulfed them both.

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"NO!!!" Robin screamed and thrashed about fighting. "NO I don't belong to you, I don't! I belong to me!"

"Easy Robin easy! Of course you belong to yourself, no one here wants to own you." Brian said trying to orient himself and try to figure out why they were out of the illusion. "Wake up girl. Your having a hell of a nightmare, WAKE UP!" He managed to get out before she nailed him in the jaw with her thrashing about.

"Brian? Shit I'm sorry, I didn't mean, crap. Sorry." Robin sputtered as she oriented herself and realized she was on a medical table where she had fallen asleep sometime before.

"It's okay but I'd really appreciate that you NEVER do that again." Brian said as he tried to figure out what had happened. "Anyway, that was apparently one heck of a nightmare. Atherian said he couldn't wake you up, probably for the best you would have creamed his circuits with just a unguided punch like that. OW by the way, good left." He said with a chuckle rubbing his jaw.

"I'm sorry, I, I, I just.... What happened? All I know is that I wanted to get away from something next I'm decking you." Robin said trying to remember her experience. 

Brian chuckled. "No worries, at least not yet. Even with just the health scan that was completed in spite of your thrashing around do you want to get answers about this place, learn more about healthcare than you ever thought possible or do you want to get whatever health issues that were found dealt with?"

Robin looked apprehensive. "Will I need to go to sleep again for any of those?"

Brian smiled and chuckled. "The medical knowledge implant and the health will require you to be a sleep and getting those answers will probably put you to sleep so what will it be? Sleep now or later blonde?"

"I'll go with later." Robin said getting up off the bed. 

"Very well, Atherian can you have someone sent down here to show Robin the narration room? Also I need to talk to Athena, Icialan and Ashilon you know where they are?" Brian asked. "And I need to get down to the living quarters and get my room situated so if they're in that area it would be great if not that'll have to wait."

"I have a blade bearer coming to act as a guide, as to the three you have asked for they are in the cafeteria two halls up from your quarters." Atherian said as the door slid open.

"Don't bond with her." Brian said in a undertone to the blade suit as he walked past the Psyker blade guided suit.

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"Okay people, I'm needing answers." Brian said as met up with Athena and his swords on his way to his room so he could start arranging things as he wanted them. "What happened?"

"Her mind wanted escape, we were able to see the signs while we watching so we stalled the collapse of your illusion long enough that we could get out of the room so as not to ruin everything by her seeing the room full of people." Said Ashilon. "So THAT is that you wanted done? All you did was play her 'Knight-in-shining...OOOH! That still wouldn't cause her to swear her loyalty to you, what else were you doing in all that?"

Brian chuckled. "I caused everyone else that she ever knew to extrude fear, terror, a feeling of a great hunger for quenching light, love, belonging, of a feeling of 'home' that could never be sated. While I exuded a feeling of soft gentle light, compassion and belonging. Subconsciously people will always be draw towards those feelings like a moth to fire." Brian said with a evil grin.

Athena snickered. "You could become very evil you know that right?"

"Of course he could, EVERYONE has the 'roots of evil' in their souls." Said Tina as she stuck her head out of a door. "Hey Brian could you PLEASE get in HERE and get your nieces and the squirrels off your bed so we can put sheets on it?"

As Brian and the others entered the rooms they heard laughter and the sounds of bouncing on a bed coming from a backroom. "Okay that's enough out of everyone." Brian said laughing as he entered the bedroom. "Okay girls, you need to finish the nights sleep. So get off so the bed can be made." Brain said as he moved to grab the sheets from Tamara. "You squirrels IF you don't have either of the next two shifts you can stay for the night otherwise get back to your patrol."

As the room emptied of squirrels his mother came up to him and looked into his face. "Are you okay? You look like you've been run ragged and then some, you need to sleep as well."

"Good luck with THAT." Tina said as came back in the room. "Hey I'm needing to start heading back up topside so if transport can be arranged I'd appreciate it greatly."

"I will arrange for a Susan to take you back up to Stallion Acres Tina." Atherian said as she headed out the door.

As Tina walked out of the room Brian turned back to the others. "Well lets finish up here, we've got things to get done to restore humanity to our rightful place among the stars. Atherian is there anything to report on any of the things I wanted done up?"

"Well." Atherian said as Brian and the others started making Brian's bed while more boxes of his things were being brought into his rooms as were boxes being taken to the other rooms that had been set aside for Tina, Michelle, Laria and Brianna. As well as his mother and nieces. "Archimedes has finally finished amassing more than enough search droids based on your fast attack droids. First scans of religious transcripts that are available according to him via the internet of all the 'gods' that humanity here on Earth have worshiped is as follows, 'You been done HAD!!' Gigabyte has reported that the global scan that you wanted has also been completed. There are MANY deposits of materials that do not appear to be of either Earth or Imperial origins mainly in the so called 'world power' countries. Captain I must also inform you that nonhuman organic material was also detected in several of those sites here in the US and elsewhere, also one of the mid-altitude reconnaissance probes was somehow detected. They were recovered and are being analyzed to see how they were detected."

"Well probably had something to do with atmospheric disturbance is how they were detected, pass the word on to Gig to check that possibility out. To cut down on the possibility of it happening again if that's the cause have shields installed to push the atmosphere away from the probe at the right angle to keep a shock wave from being produced and also to cutback on the vapor trails." Brian said as he started putting his cloths away. "Anything else in the way of updates?"

"Well." Atherian said switching speakers as Brian kept moving from room to room. "The Susan bots have amassed a considerable amount of hard currency, they are in the process of finalizing the exact amount. The stock market AIs that I constructed have been placed in the internet and are awaiting the go-a-head to start working the stocks, as all past trends have been uploaded and they have for the last several hours been running dry runs to prepare themselves for the real thing. I will forward your warning about never losing money in the stocks again before they start when all is in readiness for them to do their thing. The Social Security Offices and other Offices and Bureaus as well as many banks securities have been breached and the needed information is being placed. Those that would notice have been visited and instructions have been put in place to ensure obscurity for now. There are according to bank records several large scale family farms that are in bankruptcy that are in gem stone country throughout the country, a Susan is en-route now to offer them the deal of buying the land and allowing them to stay on it if they will just happening to start finding the appropriate stones while they are doing their normal activities. Susan Bartholomew McGregar zero zero five seven is on stand by for his passport off the Israeli shore. And captain....one of those nonhuman organic material strikes was not in a 'world power' country nor was it near any kind of military base as it was deep in a Peruvian Andes valley and there were also nonhuman life signs coming from that location as well."

"WHA......YAAH!" Screeched Brian as he dropped a heavy box on his feet. "Okay you could have SERIOUSLY picked a better time to tell me that." He said as he struggled to get his shoes off to see if any bones had broken when the box slipped from his grasp. "Okay I don't think I broke anything but my feet will be sore for awhile, schedule a trip down there for me. I want a blade suit to accompany me as well as seven of the fast attack droids. If it looks to be a good place we might setup another base there as well, so we need to design a base so add that to the list of things to do also." 

"Yes captain, sorry about that but seeing as there is little to be done about it now there was little need to add that part until the last." Atherian said as he added yet something else to ever growing list of things to do.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 09



Any and all comments are wanted. 

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Tina's head was reeling, HOW did she get her sister and cousins down to Memory Base and not have to explain to Mich and everyone at Stallion Acres and get it done before Brianna's birthday was over. "We are here mistress." Susan Bartholomew McGregar zero zero zero three said as it guided its truck up the drive to the main house of Stallion Acres. "I will return with a freight shuttle when you signal that all are ready to go back." He said as he handed Tina a communicator.

"Thanks Susan." Tina said sliding out of the truck. "So whats up with all the trucks coming back from Two-Peak?" She asked as a long line of big trucks came into view from the direction of Two-Peak Pass.

"The company was asked if they would reclaim their equipment if all of it was moved closer to the rode. Some of that stuff is quite likely expensive since they were quite willing to brave getting back onto the land as long as it wasn't farther in than a mile." Susan said with a slight up turn of his lips.

"TINA! You're back in time." Came a scream from the other side of the truck and the sound of several doors opening and closing.

"Well see you later Susan, I'll get everything ready as soon as I can." Tina said as she closed the door and backed away from the truck so it could maneuver to leave.

As she watched the truck leave the drive and go down the rode, she began to walk toward the porch of the bunkhouse that she and the others were using. "So." She said to Brianna as she climbed the steps. "You thought I'd be late? My poor little sis, shame on you thinking I'd miss your birthday." She said as she bent to hug her sister and lift her from her chair. "You've gotten lighter, you been eating?" As she said this she turned a accusatory look at Michelle and Laria.

"UMM Tina? You need to look in a mirror." Mich said as he walked up from the stables. "Because whether you realize it or not, with those muscles that are showing threw your shirt I'd hazard a guess you could probably bench a two year old horse."

"What you mean muscles?" She asked as she looked down at herself. "WHAA? They said they were going to do a basic checkup and physical but they didn't say anything about a steroid buff." She said as looked down at the bulge of muscles under her now nearly to small favorite shirt.

"I don't think that's from steroids but since I've got a few home tests I've got we can find out for certain." Tanya said also heading back to the tack room.

"So what happened sis? And what made you go through with a physical from people that you know nothing about?" Asked Brianna as she was set back down in her wheelchair. 

"Well for starters, just because. Secondly, to convince me that they were had a chance of doing what they said they could." Tina said noticing Tanya coming back with several boxes in her hands.

"Well since steroids are steroids at the end of the day, we'll know if what strength of soup you were given. Now we won't know what kind since these only look for the presence of steroids." Tanya said as she pulled out what she needed to draw blood samples. As Tina looked at the inch and a half needle her eyes rolled back into her head as she collapsed.

"Well that proves that she is indeed Tina." Laughed Michelle. "She has more of a deep seeded dread of needles than Brian ever did. Well, will someone give me a hand getting her inside?" She asked as people moved forward to help haul Tina inside the bunkhouse.

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"NEEDLES!" Tina screeched as she flew up off her bunk.

"EASY Tina, easy. We got the blood samples nearly half a hour ago." Michelle said hurrying over to her cousin. "So what is it that those friends of Brian's said they could do that made you willing to comply to having a physical done?"

"Simple." She said looking over at her sister sitting at the head of her cot. "At the very least they promise to try to restore feeling to Brianna's legs."

"You mean, you mean I might be able to walk again soon?" Brianna asked in a dumbfounded whisper collapsing deeper into her chair.

"MIGHT! THAT is the KEY word here, MIGHT! Who knows how long it will be before you can even have feeling in your legs much less if you'll ever be able to walk again." Tina said softly as she got up and cradled Brianna in a gentle hug.

"I might be able to walk again. I might be able to feel again." Brianna whispered softly looking at Tina imploring her not to be making a joke at her expense.

"Yes my very dear little sister." Tina said softly cradling Brianna in her arms. "You MIGHT be able to feel again. They were VERY cautionary in that they weren't sure if it could be done since the injuries are so old. I'm sorry that I could come back with more than a 'you MIGHT' but that's all I could get them to promise. I'm SO sorry my dear little sister." Tina sobbed into Brianna's shoulder.

"BUT you did manage THAT!" Laria said raising Tina's head so that she could meet her eyes. "If we can get that done, we might be able to forgive this place for taking Brian away from us." She said with a smile on her face.

"NO, I'll NEVER forgive this place for taking him away but if that's why he was so anxious for us to move here, I MUST go through whatever it is at the very least." Brianna said sternly. "What do I have to do Ti?" She asked looking at Tina.

"What will need to happen is that we go with them and you go under regen." Tina said hoping that things might actually go this easily. "A home is being built now up at Two-Peak so when things are done we have a place to live but for now we'll live at Memory Base. We just need to tell Mich and everyone 'so long, be back later'. Hopefully we'll be back around here in the spring."

"Memory Base?" asked Michelle. "So what and where is this Memory Base of yours?"

"Actually it's meant for Brian and now for us, my dear cousin. If we want, we also have places there. To work or just to live but I plan on working because there are many things that are being planned that I want to be apart of." Tina said drawing Laria into a hug. As Laria snuggled her head between Tina's breasts she looked up at Tina as she one again began to hump Tina's legs. Laria gave Tina a confused look when Tina shoved her leg farther between Laria's legs so that her cousin could get more area to grind on. 

"So cousin, you finally started liking girls?" Asked Michelle as she watched Laria gripping Tina's shoulders while grinding herself to climax on Tina's leg.

"Not really but we're all horny as fuck and since Laria at least can get off like this who am I to deny her?" Asked Tina as started groping Laria's breast since her body shielded her actions from the other two.

"Anyway, what's so hard about telling them that we need to get started on a house over on our land and we need Brie over there to make certain that we add her chair into house designs." Said Michelle as she headed for the door. "Brian's friends have gotten the materials for a house and are moving everything over there correct?" She asked but not really wanting a answer since a real answer might cause her to be a liar.

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As the freighter came into land at the airfield outside of Memory Base Tina was STILL dumbfounded. "SO once AGAIN Michelle, just HOW is it that you can lie your ass off like that and NO ONE the wiser?"

"I didn't lie, I just didn't tell them anymore than I had to. Now I want to see this captain that Atherian, was it? Spoke of. And you're SURE that that this horse looking thing that's caring Brianna is ATHENA?" Michele said as she headed headed for the door off the bridge while motioning at Athena.

"OH if you think whats happened to Athena is hard to grasp wait till you see the squirrels." Tina said with a evil grin at her retreating cousin. "So why aren't you two running around like a chicken with it's head ripped off waiting to be butchered?" She asked Laria and Brianna.

"Well since I still can't walk, how can I?" Asked Brianna as she tried to hold her unease in check as Athena's long face hung over her.

"And I'm waiting on the REAL reason you let me get off on your leg, not that I minded it." Laria said as she leaned on Tina and sliding her hand up Tina's stomach to feel her tits through her shirt.

Tina looked down at Laria's hand and looked over to her sister. "Atherian is it possible for the captain to come and carry Brianna to the medical bay since he's in such a tizzy to get her in there?"

"I'm already here." Came a voice from the doorway. As they all looked they saw Brian holding Michelle pinned against the wall and his hand firmly over mouth. "Sorry Michelle for the rough handling but had to keep your big mouth shut." He said as he took his hand off her mouth.

"Brian." Brianna whimpered as she reached out for him.

"I am sorry girls but there are things down here that will require nonexistence for sometime to come. So I had to be on the obituary page of the newspaper." He said as he walked over and lifted Brianna from Athena's arms. "Well since you don't like Athena anymore I guess we don't have to see about getting you girls some horses now, do we?"

"No it's not that we don't like Athena. Uh, this really is Athena?" Michelle said walking up to everyone.

"Yes, this really is ATHENA!" Athena sneered at her with her voice thick with contempt.

"Enough people." Brian said. "There are a lot of answers to be given and even more things to be done. Some pertaining to Brianna's birthday, that is, IF she still wants a birthday present like Laria's?"

"YES, OH YES! Since I, uh WE have you back there is NO WAY you're going to be able to get out of THAT present." Brianna sobbed hugging Brian to her. "Now Tina said something about another birthday present?" Brianna asked her eyes so full of need that Brian couldn't meet her eyes.

"The POSSIBILITY is there to give you back FEELING in your legs, our sweet love. If we can manage that or more, it'll be one for the archives. One way or other, I think you'll end up under all four of us when it comes time for your birthday Brie." Brian said as he headed out the door. "Medical for you Brie and the narration for the rest. And then for you also and then, I haven't planned that far ahead." Brian said with a humiliated blush coloring his face.

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As Brian and Tina sat watching Brianna in the modification bay Laria and Michelle walked in and sat down beside them. "How is she doing?" Asked Michelle hugging Brian's right arm to her.

"Her entire nervous system has been mapped as well as the dead and damaged nerves throughout her body." Atherian said startling Michelle and Laria. "The medical database is now being searched for any similar situations that have ever been encountered by Imperial physicians. If there have never been a similar situation documented, we must 'wing it' as Brian has said before though in other situations and circumstances."

"I don't like the idea that we might have to 'wing it'." Tina said looking at Brian.

"Well if there aren't any situations even close to this, we won't have a choice." Brian said as he continued to watch the the mod bay. "Its a good thing that Brianna likes water so much. We're going to have to stop at the nerves right now, she's going to have to build up muscle mass the good ol' fashioned way. OH I hear you guys didn't like Tina's new physique." 

"I liked it." Laria said rubbing her breasts over Tina's left arm. "Those muscles really got me wet when they flexed between my legs. How'd you get T to start liking women Brian?"

Brian smiled. "You'll have to ask Sasha about that Laria but trust me when I say that muscles don't have to obvious to be pumped like that."

"Excuse me but I need to report that while there are similar situations, there are none where the injuries have been left untreated for so long. I can follow the procedures that were used when nerves were still alive or I can try and wing it. Seeing as I will be required to replace her entire nervous structure below the injury, what are your orders captain?" Atherian said interrupting the conversation.

"Which has the best possibility of returning feeling to her?" Asked Brian pulling Michelle onto his lap and holding onto her like a security teddy bear.

"A combination of the two options seems to be the most likely of returning feeling to her lower body as well as returning the ability to walk to her as well." Atherian said as the records were gone over again. 

"Is there any chance that whatever is done that she'll loose even more feeling than she already has?" Asked Tina.

"There is a possibility that she will loose some mobility while her body is relearning how to work her lower body. Since her body has only had to operate the upper half of her body it might require time to learn how to divide the nerve impulses throughout the entire body again." Atherian said awaiting a decision.

"Even though I think she'll except that, I think she needs to be the one that makes this decision guys." Brian said as the girls looked at each other.

"So I should bring her out of the anesthetic?" Atherian asked. "And captain, it would be prudent to do something with your guests. I ordered a guard change when the droids were, I believe it is called 'water-boarding' the mexicans. What should I do with the droids, since the existence of such actions are quite extraordinary for droids that require input from a authorized source."

Brian burst out laughing. "Slag the droids don't try to download their memories and figure out what caused them to act that way, just turn them to slag and toss whatever is left into the replicators. I'll deal with the lot of them later."

"Very well, Brianna should be awakening in a few moments." Atherian said as he began powering up attitudinal thrusters to slag the erring droids.

"Hmm can I walk yet?" Asked groggily Brianna as she came out from under anesthetic.

"No, I'm sorry Brie but I thought you should hear what has been found out and figured you should have a say in what happens now." Brian said as he caressed her cheek as she lay on the table.

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"So your sure that she'll have six hours left for her other birthday present Atherian, after all said and done?" Asked Laria as she sat in Tina's lap enjoying Tina's roving hands. "Mmm, If it weren't for Brian I'd go lesbian all the way, unlike most guys I've ever known he at the very least TRIES to make a girl feel good." She purred as Tina nibbled on her ear.

"Hey! What else am I supposed to do? Both people get more out of it if they both enjoy it. Isn't that right Michelle?" Brian asked Michelle pulling his face from her crotch where he had been intent on drinking his fill of her juices. "Atherian, we need to see about giving Laria a cock of her own. With the way she is I'd be surprised if she didn't like the feel of sex from a guys point of view."

"If it could be reversed it might not be a bad idea for all four of us to experience that since there are so many females around here that would enjoy it." Tina said thinking of Sasha and her plans for the two of them.

"Yes, Brianna should have six hours left on her birthday for her present. Though I STILL advise against such activities so soon after the new nerves become active. And yes, such modifications will be simple to both to initiate AND reverse Tina." Atherian said.

"Okay girls, if that's something you want to do wait until Atherian is done with Brianna THEN climb inside the mod bays." Brian said as he finished pulling Michelle's pants and thong off and started repositioning her on the table.

"Aren't you going to get my shirt and bra off before you fuck me?" Asked Michelle as Brian got onto the table and got between her legs.

"You took your bra off earlier wench, don't try to pull that on me." Brian said as he pulled her t-shirt off. "I swear you get your hymen back if you don't get fucked for a few days and this time it's been nearly two weeks." Brian said as he rubbed the head of his cock on the slick swollen lips of Michelle's sex.

"And just three days is to long to go without either you or your cum in me." Michelle whimpered as Brian teased her by sliding in ever so slightly as he rubbed the head of his cock between her swollen lips. She began to moan as Brian started to slowly push in and brush against her clit with each thrust. "UUUHHH! BIG, bigger than before!" Michelle grunted as Brian thrust into her breaking her out of the bliss he had purposely fogged her mind with.

"Yeah." Brian said as he waited for Michelle to get used to his bigger size. "When I went back into the medical for a checkup after we got back with everyone's stuff I had Atherian do some modifications. A inch and a half longer and half an inch wider so I'm now seven and a half inches long and nearly three wide. Also had my sperm checked for viability but had the number I produce lowered drastically and increased the amount of semen I produce to the max. God I'll always love the way you feel Michelle." Brian said as he began to thrust into her velveteen depths. "You like the new length Mi?" He asked as Michelle nearly came up off the table as he easily sank into her womb.

"In me, in me, he's all the way in me!" Michelle gasped as Brian pushed her knees up to her shoulders and started to thrust as deep and a hard as he could.

"I can't wait to taste and see if he tastes different." Said Laria as she came up to her sister and started sucking on her right tit as Tina started on her left.

"You'll find out soon enough." Grunted Brian as he slowed his thrusts into Michelle as her vaginal muscles started clamping down on him. As her muscles relaxed their hold on his cock he once again began to thrust hard and fast into the willing depths of Michelle's body.

"God hes gotten even BETTER!" Gasped Michelle as yet another orgasm racked her body. 

"Not really, it's that we've been separated for so long." Cooed Laria as she ran her hand down Michelle's belly and started rubbing and pinching her clit.

'NO! Please don't! DoOO, HOT!! It's so HOT, it's cooking me from the inside. Oh yes please more, give me more!" Michelle begged as Brian began cumming inside her. 

"Oh your going to get it!" Brian growled at her as he continued to send jet after jet of his hot cum directly into her womb. As Brian stopped cumming he looked down at the bulge that his cum had caused in Michelle's stomach and got a wicked idea. As he pulled out of Michelle's snatch he placed his hand against it to keep as much in her as possible and pulled Laria's face toward her sister's cunt. "Here Laria have a taste strait from your sisters womb." As Tina realized his plan she pushed Laria's face up against the freshly fuck cunt and held it there as Brian pushed down on Michelle's stomach forcing the semen out and it the eager girls waiting mouth.

"OH GOD, not AGAIN!" Screamed Michelle as her sister's mouth and tongue brought her to the heights of ecstasy once again.

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"I think you taste even better, love." Tina said as she finished licking Laria's face clean of missed cum as Michelle was sucking and licking Brian clean. A comment both Laria and Michelle agreed with.

"So what do we do for the next day that we wait for our little love to get fixed up?" Asked Laria hungrily looking at Brian's cock.

"What needs to be done, is we need to think and plan." Brian said as he slid Laria onto his lap. "I don't want Brie in on the violent stuff, if we could I'd prefer her stay in our rooms with willing legs spread but I know better than to think we could manage THAT!" He said as he lowered Laria onto his cock facing him and matched her sigh of relief and leaned into drew her into a kiss that was just as longingly and desperately needed returned.

"Actually there IS a way and you know it Brian." Said Tina as she moved behind Laria started mauling her breasts.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 09



"Yeah, all we others have to do is accept that Brianna's pregnancy is for her protection so to keep our jealousy in control." Purred Laria as she ground herself on his dick.

Brian sighed. "That's as below the belt as her willing crotch is girls and you know it."

'Yes we know." Said Michelle sadly. "We also remember our pledge among ourselves that we'd protect her and this is the best option that's available at the moment. You do remember that promise don't you and realize that's the best option we have, right?"

Brian sighed and shook his head in acknowledgment. "Lets give her several weeks before we knock our little sex toy up to keep her out of harms way. When we get a space station that's as safe as possible, we move her there. Agreed?" Brian asked stretching out his hand.

"Agreed." Said the girls as they joined in a four way handshake.

"Okay, lets get some sleep. I'm going to need it in a few hours when I deal with some of the people that we've got around here and try to get things organized." Brian said as he stood up letting Laria's weight rest on his hard dick.

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"Captain? Captain will you wake UP?? We need you down with that old friend of yours." Said a persistent voice forcing it's way into a much needed sleep.

"MmrrrrR? Wha' ya wa?" Brian grumbled as he started waking up.

"It's me Tamara. I'm sorry to bother you but we need your help dealing with Audria. She is causing trouble in the squirrel chambers." Said the light purple furred rabbit.

"Fucking bitch WON'T like me having to step into THIS!!" He said snarling loud enough to wake Tina and the others.

"What's going on?" Asked Michelle. "Where are you going?" She asked as Brian started getting dressed.

"I'm needing to go down and deal with a old friend that I had start taking care of our animorphs. She's probably going with the analog of 'We humans are Gods chosen, so we alone deserve to be intelligent.' or some shit like that. One reason WHY I'm glad aliens haven't shown themselves to humanity is that both religion and modern science has conditioned humanity to be extremely xenophobic." Brian said as he pulled on a t-shirt. "Girls go ahead and get some more sleep, I'll go deal with my problem."

"Any problems around here are OUR problems also, so lead the way Mister High and Mighty." Michelle said laughing as she swatted at his ass.

Brian sighed. "Very well, Atherian send for Renee and her squad would you please? Send them to the clearing and after they're inside, lock down all entrances. I don't want anyone getting inside while the doorman's away, well it'd be more like doorsquirrel wouldn't it?" He said with a grin. 

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As Brian and the others approached the squirrel chambers they saw Rachel waiting for them a ways up from their destination. "Granted it's NOT the most glamorous job ever but there's MUCH worse to but still she shouldn't have pissed off intelligent beings that are THAT big, THAT MUCH!" Rachel said as they got up to her. "Captain." She said turning to Brian. "I'm not going to pretend I know whats going on and I don't think I want to know all that's going to be going on but I was serious when I said I'd WHATEVER it took to stay here with Otulissa. After seeing that history and seeing how this bitch treats the squirrels I mean it even MORE."

Brian sighed. "I should have known that she wouldn't work out here, though the fact that you want to so much is a little surprising though." He said reaching out and offering her his hand.

"Why wouldn't she work out?" Asked Michelle. "If she's as pregnant as she looks and you went ahead and offered her the job it CAN'T be all that hard."

"She was raised muslim and interestingly enough muslims are even more group and species supremacists than anyone else. But the thing that makes her one of those that makes me willing to give her the shadow of a doubt is she is one of those that sees and thinks and not just blindly follows what she is told." Brian said as the girls slowly left the safety of the wall after having jumped jumped to the wall with backs to it.

"My father and my brothers converted to islam after reading the koran and got to the part about it not being domestic violence as long as there wasn't any evidence and it not being murder as long as it wasn't other muslims and getting forty virgins when they went out in a blaze of glory. To bad they really are smart enough not to blow themselves to hell when making up a bomb." Rachel said sadly unable to look anyone in the face. "I DON'T want to be found but is there ANY way to let the feds know that they are planning to start terrorist bombing?"

"Who says they aren't stupid enough to blow themselves to their god?" Brian said calmly enough that Rachel started to say something but stopped when she saw what looked like flames flicker from his eyes.

"WHA, WHAT are you?" Rachel finally stammered.

"A telekinetic if you're familiar with the term." Tina said as she motioned her cousins away from the wall.

"Is that something like Professor X in the X-Men?" Asked Rachel as they turned to the destination.

"More like Jean Grey, the Prof was only a telepath. So what happened that you're here and willing to help US?" Asked Laria.

"They started raping my mother and me six years ago since we were women and we amounted to nothing but possessions. Eight months ago my mother died of 'mysterious' circumstances and seven months ago I ended up pregnant. Three weeks ago when I turned eighteen I managed to get my brothers' car keys and get enough money from dads wallet to make it to my aunts' place in Oregon." Rachel said as she hugged herself remembering that terrifying experience of escaping her 'loving' family.

"So what makes you think that your aunt's place is safe? Don't muzzies have a tendency to flock together?"Asked Michelle as she kept herself two steps behind Rachel.

"She's the only other family I've got!" Rachel turned around and screamed at her. "IF there was someplace better I'd have gone there!"

Brian chuckled earning himself a teary eyed glare from Rachel. "There was and you're in here now, so calm down everyone and give her a chance. Considering that IF she was in a Sharia ran country she'd already be in prison if she was lucky, back with her family if she wasn't. A moment people." He said as he slipped into a room. "BLTs anyone?" He asked coming back out with a plate of sandwiches.

"But bacon's.... oh, I see." Rachel said as she looked at Michelle.

"Really I'm willing to forgo this with you but it WILL shut them up." Brian said with a sad smile on his face as he grabbed one himself.

"Happy NOW?" Rachel asked as she grabbed one and took a big bite out of it and walked to the destination room and walked inside.

"Enough and WHAT the HELL is going ON HERE??!" Michelle screeched as she walked into the room.

"This is Audria Sanderson guys." Brian said indicating a pile of piss soaked shit. "She and her daughters had been sold to Tina, Michelle and Laria's grandparents as breeders for a baby farm for sixty thousand dollars by her husband after he and some of his friends apparently raped his own son to death."

"They're getting even worse, I had hoped that they'd change their ways." Laria said softly looking at the floor.

"People like them never change except for the worse sis." Michelle said pulling her sister into a hug.

"Atherian rinse the bitch off would you?" Brian asked. "All right you worthless bitch, it's not the best job ever and in all likelihood it's also one that would have eventually been replaced unless you started to enjoy it but now if you get anything else it'll be MUCH worse."

"Just HOW could it be worse?" Screamed Audria as a stream of COLD disinfectant poured down on her. "You put me to work wiping asses."

"And cunts, don't forget about the cunts." Brian said with his voice thick with amusement. "The good part of the job is that; One, you're getting handful after handful of pussy. Two, eventually you're going to get horny and so will the squirrels. Thirdly, they don't taste all that bad." He said as he fingered a squirrel as it walked by and brought his juice covered fingers to his mouth.

"They are BEASTS, NOTHING more than stupid MINDLESS BEASTS!!" Audria snarled at him as she lunged at him only to be brought up short by the chain the squirrels had secured her with before they had started shitting on her.

"NO!! These are MORE than BEASTS!!" Rachel screamed as she lunged forward and brought double up fists down into the side of Audria's face knocking her back into the stream of disinfectant where Audria screamed out in pain as the disinfectant flowed into her eyes.

"Indeed." Brian said calmly as he shedded his cloths and grabbed a luffa sponge. "They are indeed more than simple beasts Audria, it's also a good thing we gave you a bur haircut. Your scrub down will be easier this way and I can get back to IMPORTANT matters. Now lets get these shitty things off." He said as he grabbed the string bikini that Audria wore and tore them from her body. "Now Tina, you might have noticed that Audria looks a little different, what's happened is that I've had a few changes done. Basically her body's back to being a innocent virgin. First I've had her body rejuvenated back to eighteen years of age, her tit size up to C from small A, her hymen has also been rejuvenated as well as her ass tightened back up and her throat is back like it was before she started swallowing monster cocks." He said as he scrubbed Audria's body and made her scream as he roughly handled her tits and pulled on her nipples. 

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"You do clean up prettily don't you?" Laria said as she walked around a now clean and dry Audria. "So what do we do with her know that she's proven herself useless as a personal hygienist."

Brian chuckled as he looked at everyone. "Well we make her wish that I hadn't been woken up. Rachel, did you know that your friends here aren't the ONLY squirrels around here, the biggest OR the most modified?"

"What do you mean the most modified and will THESE things do the job as well as a living being?" Rachel asked as she watched several Granny Goodness droids clean her squirrels.

"They'll do the job well enough. Otulissa and the others are inside squirrels, we also have some that are for guarding the outer base and the tunnels. Now all we have to do is attach this collar to Audria, paddle lock it secure, and take her outside to her new job area." He chuckled as he grabbed a leash that had a choke chain on it.

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"This is BEAUTIFUL." Audria whispered as she was hauled into what looked like a clearing in the middle of a forest strait from a movie. A comment that was seconded by the rest of the women.

Brian chuckled. "There is a reason it looks so beautiful not to mention that everything is so damn BIG." He said as a squirrel the size of a draft horse dropped down in front of them. "Let me introduce you all to Renee." He said as he reached up and stroked the huge squirrel's cheek.

"So just what are going to have me do this time, suck them off?" Audria asked as she sneered at Renee.

"Might come to that but actually." He said as he urged the squirrel to raise up on it's hind legs. "You see that being out here there isn't nearly enough room for a lot of 'NICETIES' or males for that matter so we had to make some stopgaps." He said as he started rubbing a rather large bulge just above the squirrels hind legs. "One of the stopgaps is that since there really isn't a place for stay out of the way males except as housekeepers the females also fill that role." He said as a humongous cock started to slide out from it's sheath. "Its close to the dimensions of a horses I'm sure but as we don't have any male horses right now I can't say for certain." He smiled as Audria whimpered.

"So you're going to make her a squirrel fucker?" Laria squealed as she burst out laughing.

"Mmm, our poor little Audria here thought that wiping squirrel ass was a horrid job. Now she'll find out what a REAL horrid job is." He said getting into Audria's face. "They wouldn't have been able to keep clean with how big they are when they relieved themselves, so we needed someone to simply wipe their butts. Bad yes, I won't argue that but it cold be worse. MUCH worse." And with that he whipped off the choke chain and threw her into the middle of the clearing where Renee immediately moved to mount her.

"You'll pay for this I SWEAR it Brian. I swear it you'll ALL PAY FOR THIAAAAAAAAAA!" Audria screamed as Renee shoved her mammoth cock into Audria's pussy and once again tearing through her maidenhood.

"Atherian, if you would please. Replay her pledge to me and WHY she has no choice but to submit." Brian said as he the girls gasped as they saw clearing fill with huge squirrels.

"Of course captain. Are you sure that she will survive the attentions of the two hundred 'Sentry' class squirrels? Ah here we are, Audria's pledge of placing herself into your care." Atherian said as he accessed the records. 

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"Hmm, IF any of you are brought with us woman. Know THIS here and NOW, while OTHERS will have advancement you will never raise from the level you are now woman. Your daughters will never have to bear children unless THEY decide but you, no, I say how and where you live and die. Do you accept this?" 

"I accept this for my daughters and myself. Thank you!" 

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"Remember that Audria?" Brian asked as Renee halted her fun so Audria could listen without distraction. "I have tried to find a out of the way place for you so you wouldn't have to deal with people again but you wouldn't have it, you had to prove that you're a BITCH through and through. SO guess what BITCH, you're going to find out how a real bitch is treated around here." As Brian stopped talking Renee rose from her crouch and waddled over to another squirrel who quickly filled Audria's ass with it's cock and the air with Audria's scream of agony.

As the rest of the squirrels moved to fill the clearing Brian motioned for Tina and the others to follow him, as they followed him so did Audria's screams. As Brian led them a little ways into the woods Rachel reached out to touch him to get his attention. "You want to know why, don't you?" Brian asked as Rachel drew her hand back. "You want to know how I could do that to someone I cared for so deeply when I was younger, someone I think I actually loved. Why I just threw her to them to be torn apart like your mother was torn apart by your family, don't you? It's because I can never bring myself to reach into her mind and show her how I truly feel, make her feel the pain that I've felt ever since then." He said as he knocked on the side of a tree stump. As the side of the stump irised open he slipped inside while the others moved to follow. "This is Tiffany, there are several that are either to young to bear young or just young enough that they've never yet bore young. Tiffany is of the later grouping." He said as he moved to where the young squirrel lounged on the far side of a fair sized room and cuddled as far as he could down into her fur and covered his ears to block the screams that even though they didn't travel passed the soundproof doors they were screams that he could still hear plain as day.

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"Brian? Brian, Atherian says that the last of the squirrels are ravaging Audria." Tina said as Tiffany pulled his hands away from his ears.

"I know, captains have communicators implanted so we don't have to completely rely on handhelds. Thanks though Tina." He said as he reached out and caressed her cheek and drew her into a kiss.

"So since your point has been made, what do we do now?" Asked Rachel. "Its not very likely that she's changed her mind."

"You think that that this has been to make a point?" Brian asked shaking his head. "Come, there's more to be done." He said stroking Tiffany's cheek.

As he and the others stood and made for the door Tiffany also joined the group as they left the hollow and made for the clearing. As they entered the clearing the last of the squirrels that had stood in line for their chance with Audria finished cumming in her and threw her at Brian's feet. "So I've survived your idea of fun now when at you going to do to me?" Audria choked through the cum that was sliding down her throat.

"You think this has been fun for me and they think this was all to make a point." Brian said giving backhanded thumb in the the direction of Tina and the others. "Its only been to give a whoring slut what she needed, now that you've survived it I make you this offer. You can either stay here and either go back to the inside base rooms where you'll spend the rest of your long LONG life wiping squirrel pussy and ass never to get off again because the pleasure receptors in your body have been literally shut off, or you can spend the rest of your long LONG life getting fucked by these squirrels with your pleasure receptors turned UP. After the first month of being the fuck of their lives, your body will be modified very specifically to be able to be bred by these squirrels as well as humans, specifically me. Your body will have been modified to not only release multiple eggs but also to produce eggs like a true breeding bitch, THAT way you can produce a real litter of squirrel pups. Or, there in that direction."Brian said pointing over to the left and back a bit. "Is a tunnel that leads to the surface if you can make it to that tunnel in less than two hours and up it in less than a day you'll be given transport to anywhere you want in the country. Want to go to Washington DC and blab all this to the feds go ahead we'll make sure you get there so you can."

"Whats the catch? I've never heard of you doing anything out of the goodness of your heart in a LONG time Brian." Audria said backing up in the direction indicated to have a way out of the cavern. "WHA, HEY!" She screamed as she was drenched in a sudden rush of water that washed most of the squirrel cum off of her.

"You'll never be offered this again and the time limit is set." Brian said sitting down in the opening of a trees roots as Audria turned and stumbled off as fast as she could.

"Are you NUTS?" Laria finally managed to gasp as the others were still tongue tied at Brian's offer to Audria.

"One, no. Two, likelihood of getting there in two hours in her condition, again no. Third, it's been laser bored so it's a sheer cliff face all the way up. No way for even experts to climb THAT without rock magnets and since we don't have a reliable enough small power source, any batteries that could power those wouldn't last long enough to make a eighth of a mile progress before they failed." Brian said as he scratched Tiffany's head from her chin up to as high as he could on the other side of her head. "Anyway poor little Tiffany here still hasn't had a chance to fuck her yet, have you my big pwecious baby?" He gurgled to Tiffany rubbing her cheeks in his hands as she got a look on her face like she was going to puke and as Tina and the girls stood in shock at Brian's cruelty. "Now if you don't mind, we have a job to get done." He said as he settled back against the tree and seemed to fall asleep and as Tiffany took off after Audria.

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Audria could barely keep her legs underneath herself but she kept herself moving forward. 'There has to be something else to Brian's offer, there had to be. Brian had apparently never forgiven her for trying to get out of that hellhole of a town, and to do that she had to get rid of deadweight hadn't she.' She reasoned. 'Hell.' She thought. 'In the eight years they had hung out, he had never ONCE tried to do anything with her. She was just a FRIEND! Twelve years old and all the times they had been alone in her room and he had never ONCE tried anything, he might not have even known what to do if he had. Considering the way his parents raised him and his sister but STILL he could have at least TRIED groping her. Couldn't have he? 'He probably couldn't have even gotten it up much less gotten himself off in her panties while she was in them.' She thought to herself with a grin. As she reflected on how pathetic Brian had been when they were twelve years old she stumbled on something that seemed to jump up from the ground in her path. "What happened?" She asked herself as she tried to pick herself up off the ground.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 09



As she tried to struggle onto her knees, a squirrel maybe a little smaller than the ones that had been raping her for the last who knows how long rose up from behind a bush and approached her. "Get, get away from me!" She screamed as she grabbed some grass and threw it at the approaching squirrel, she started to whimper as all the squirrel did to block the thrown grass was turn it's face and kept moving towards her. As she struggled to find the energy to get away the squirrel grabbed her arms and lifted her up while nearly making her faint because of the pain of her arms being stretched so far. As she was being held up spreadeagled up in the air she was suddenly let go and as the blow from a closed clawed fist set her flying she saw stars sparkle in front of her eyes. As she lay there trying to get get her breath back she failed to notice the fast paced approach of the squirrel nor did she notice the foot come flying towards her stomach before she was once again flying where this time she landed hard against a tree where she swore that she heard her back crunch as it conformed to the bend of the tree trunk. 

Again and again she was hit and or kicked till everything she had endured from her husband and his friends seemed like nothing but scrapes one would get while playing as a kid. As she watched the squirrel come charging at her once more she closed her eyes and waited for the impact of the blow that she hoped would end her pain. As she lay there with her eyes scrunched shut as tight as she could she became aware of what sounded like soft sniffling. As she dared to look up she saw the squirrel with fist clenched and raised but also noticed the fur around the eyes and down the muzzle was drenched. 'With tears?' She wondered as she looked up into the eyes of her assailant, as she looked up into the eyes she noticed a haze that the other squirrels didn't seem to have, though she never did have much of a chance to get a good look at all the the eyes of the squirrels that had ravaged her. "Brian are, is that you?" She wheezed.

With the scream the squirrel grabbed her arms and lifted her up while nearly once again making her faint because of the pain of her arms being stretched so far. As she was being held so far up off the ground the squirrel suddenly let go of her right arm and twisted her around and while keeping her arms tightly held against her back forced her chest to the ground while leaving her ass exposed up in the air. As she felt the squirrels cock being rubbed against up and down her pussy and ass she couldn't help but giggle. 'He still has feelings enough that he still ACTUALLY cares about hurting me if HE'S the one to fuck me.' She the thought as the tip of the cock slowly slid down into her well fucked cunt.

As the cock slowly slid down into her she couldn't help notice that whether Brian was controlling the squirrels actions or not this one knew what it was doing. She grunted as the tip of a cock once again pushed past her cervix and slid down into her womb, again and again the cock was slowly pulled nearly out of her and once again just as slowly pushed back in. Time and time again she was brought to the verge of a orgasm but the damn squirrel would always stop before either of them would go over the top. After awhile the squirrel pulled it's cock out over pussy tearing a heartfelt sob from her. As she lay the for several moments longing for the expert fuck that she had been being given, she felt the cock slowly push up against her stretched asshole and just as slowly as it had fucked her cunt it started fucking her ass.

"PLEASE!" She finally started begging. "Whatever it is that you want me to do, I'll DO it! Just let me CUM!" She sobbed as the squirrel continued to slowly fuck her. "GOD PLEASE, DON'T let me suffer anymore. Just let me CUM!!!" As the squirrel continued to fuck her as it had before she had started to break she realized that the rumors she had started hearing about Brian might have been underestimating his true abilities. Everyone knew that he knew a lot about pain and suffering and causing it, he proved that the time he had actually called the ambulance and described the injuries in enough detail to make the emergency dispatcher to need counseling. To know what causes injuries is one thing but to be able calmly torture someone like the squirrel was doing now, made her really start to be afraid of what his plans could be like for her.

As she started to finally enjoy the slow torturous fuck that she was being given she felt the squirrels cock suddenly spasm and once again she felt jet after jet once again fill her guts. She suddenly began to feel hot cum flow into her stomach and panicked as it flowed up into her throat. She tried hard to keep from retching as she noticed that her face was in a slight depression, try as she might though she was unable to keep from throwing up the cum that flowed up into her mouth and as she was unable to retch hard enough she felt it begin to flow up and out of her nose. As she finished clearing her throat of cum so she could breath she felt the squirrel shift and felt it's clawed hand on the back her head, she started to thrash as she felt the squirrel push her face down into the cum that filled the small depression. Her heart sank as she realized that her stomach was far to full for her to eat the cum that was now drowning her in it's warm slick embrace. As she began to slip away she couldn't help but wonder what her life would have been like if she had stayed around Brian for all those years.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 10



To those that actually like this story. Sorry it's taken so long to get this chapter out, kept having to go back and rewrite part after part. I have managed to get someone to edit these chapters but since hes studying for his CNA he's understandably preoccupied. As he finally gets to chapters I'll resubmit them, and no this one hasn't not been gone over so yes it's full of errors. Still any and all comments are wanted!!

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"So fuck her and then kill her? That's your idea to make making her useful?" Tina asked as she looked at Audria as she was draped over Tiffany's back.

"She's not dead, not yet anyway Tina." Brian said as he pulled limp form off Tiffany's back. As Audria landed on the floor of the clearing she started to cough and choke as she curled up into the fetal position. "Come on bitch, up and at'em." He said as he kicked her in the side.

As Audria finished hacking she turned and glared at Brian. "So, I'm back to square one. What do you plan to do with me now?"

Brian sighed and beckoned Renee over. "I have told Tina and the others earlier that these squirrels are a little more 'modified' than the inside ones, such as." He said as he pulled hair from Renee's tail. "You see, these squirrels are the guardians of the tunnels and the caverns. So they kinda need to be able to 'increase' their numbers, which brings to light this single hair that I pulled from Renee's tail. I don't suppose any one noticed that she DIDN'T flinch when I pulled it from her tail?" He looked around at people and saw the confused looks on their faces and smiled. "The reason that she didn't flinch that these hairs are meant to be removable, you see these hairs have a slightly interesting affect on a person's genetic structure. Put simply, three to five days after having one of these hairs imbedded into your body, you will begin to mutate into a squirrel. After the transformation has been completed, the squirrels will begin the secondary procedure. In which is they will bury your present consciousness under a more loyal and willing consciousness. Granted you'll still be in there somewhere BUT you'll only have a backseat view of what your body is doing." He said as he pulled a second hair from Renee's tail and moved toward Audria. 

"So what, you're going to make HER a sentry?" Laria chuckled pointing to Audria.

"Yeah, SERIOUSLY!" Rachel said obviously worried.

"Uh, guys? You DID, hear Brian say that her personality would be overwritten, didn't you?" Tina said with a shake of her head.

"IF we can get the programming correct, the consciousness WON'T be completely overwritten but more accurately subverted. That way they would willingly be along for the ride. Tiffany would you be a dear and raise her up so I can get at her tits a little more easily?" Brian as he tried to hold Audria still so he could push the needle like hairs into her breasts.

As Tiffany stooped to pick Audria up Rachel took a deep breath and stepped beside Brian and grabbed for the hairs. "HEY! Easy, you don't want to get stuck by these things! You WON'T be turned into a Clydesdale sized squirrel with a dick, the transformation will only turn you into a complete female. No dicks, that's the way we'll know if we have had unwanted guests with just an offhand glance."

"No, I don't plan to turn myself into a squirrel. I plan on turning her into one." Rachel said looking at a horrified Audria. "It's MY job to take care of the squirrels. A job that I didn't do, which is why we're in this mess."

"In actuality, it is not your place to say that the base squirrels were your responsibility at the time Audria was in the squirrel lavatory Rachel." Atherian said speaking up. "Seeing that you were just finishing the narration at the time the squirrels were chaining her down to defecate on her."

"He IS right you know." Tina said laying a hand on Rachel's arm.

"Probably." Rachel said with a sigh. "BUT if I'm to take care of the squirrels, I need to be the one to do this." She said looking at Brian.

"Very well, FIRST some information on these hairs. One, the hairs are brittle so that when the squirrels slap them into the bodies of intruders they'll splinter delivering the mutagen. Two, it IS possible to reverse MOST of the mutation process. Though it is NOT either easy nor is it possible for a complete reversal. Three, wherever the hairs are placed, that area will always be a weakness, since it will always be tender. Fourthly, like I said earlier the transformation will create only females, no hermaphrodites." Brian chuckled. "In other words, in the sentry group any transformed squirrels will be second class at best, breeders at worst."

"So, what you're going to do is make her tits always be sore and tender?" Asked Rachel hoping that she was understanding his intent. 

"OH, also the transformed squirrels won't be as big as Renee and the others. They will be bigger than Otulissa and the other inside squirrels but not by much. Basically, they will be mid-ranged size. And yes, I was going to make her tits rather sensitive. Tina and the others said that they had wanted real dicks, so this way if they ever get bored they can come out and fuck Audria. Hmm, so THAT'S the reason Audria hasn't been bitching." Brian said as he noticed Tiffany had wedged her tail into Audria's mouth. "Yeah, I probably wouldn't bite down either, considering I'd probably get a spine in the pallet."

"Okay, just be careful with the hairs. Got it. Since I'm to be caregiver inside I had better start being able to handle doing stuff like this. Anyway, why don't you slip your cock into her? I mean, she'll be a little loose since all the squirrels have fucked her but having something pushed into her tits should tighten her up real fast." Rachel said holding out her hands.

"I really hadn't meant for you to be head caregiver, since well, you know." Brian said as he gestured towards her baby bulge. "But since you ARE the first, you really should be the one to get that job Rachel." Brian said as he handed over the hairs. "I might as well get something out her hadn't I? Considering that this will be the last chance, while she's human anyway." 

"NO!!!" Audria screeched biting down on Tiffany's tail heedless of the mutagenic hairs. As Tiffany dealt with her injured tail Audria who had tried to make a break for trees, found herself confronted with the ENTIRE cotangent of ticked off squirrels. I WON'T become part of some freak flea brigade!" Audria shrieked right before she realized that she was being lifted off the ground. "WHAT'S going on here?" As she was floated in front of a furious Brian.

"Simple, really. You have continued to act like you are worth something, but around here you have to PROVE you're worth a damn." Brian snarled as he made a slicing motion in the air with his hands. "So far you haven't proven anything, except that I was a fool in having been your friend when we were younger." Brian said as he guided her back against Tiffany who had raised herself up on her hind legs. "Now since this will be the last time that I get to screw you while you're human and since Tiffany deserves some fun for having lost part of her tail to your being a bitch." And with that he pushed her ass down onto Tiffany's cock. He smiled as Audria let out a groan as the squirrel's cock filled her up. "Now bitch, let's see what I've missed all these years." He said as he moved in front of Audria and slowly slid his cock up into Audria's restretched cunt.

"NO, please you don't understand Brian. I was given Herpes by one of my husband's friends." Audria begged as Brian and Tiffany began slowly fucking her well used cunt.

"ALL of us have had physicals, BITCH. Your case of herpes was discovered and dealt with. You've been herpes free for sometime now, dipshit." Tina snarled. "Brian, I know I said never pump her full of our cum but seeing what a loser this bitch is, sear her guts. Rachel when she's about to cum, smash those damn things." Tina said walking up behind Brian and grabbing Audria's arms to stop her thrashing.

"NO problem Tina." Rachel said motioning several of the squirrels closer. "I wonder how fast the transformation will happen and how sore her tits will be if I push EIGHT of these spines into her tits."

"Don't, know. Why, not, find out." Brian managed as he was ramming Audria enough for her to be lifted off the ground with each shove.

"NOO, PLEASE! DON'T do this to me!" Audria screamed as Brian moved away from her enough that Rachel could get easy access to her tits.

"And why not, since you've proven that except for giving human superiority lessons you're useless. So we've got to find some practical use for you." Rachel said through Audria's scream as she pushed the first spine into the soft supple flesh." Now, now don't be that way, you've got seven more to endure. Now let's start on the second." She said as she started pushing the second into Audria's breast.

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"I'm surprised you were able to do all that, considering all the gagging you did after you were done." Michelle told Rachel as they reentered the base. "Or was that gagging from hearing her scream as you broke up those hairs that you had pushed into her tits?"

"I, I think it was from everything." Rachel said shakily as she leaned against Tina.

"Well, you WERE the one that tore off your jacket and pants and dug some of Brian's cum out of her pussy and smeared on to yours. Nice swimsuit by the way." Tina said hugging a trembling Rachel closer to her.

"Yeah! Seeing you in that thing with your baby bulge, makes me COMPLETELY understand why SOME guys like fucking pregnant women and why Brian likes swimsuit sex." Said a drooling Laria. "God, If you ever need some human company, you can always come find me. I'll be MORE than willing to keep you company."

"Yeah sure, why not." Rachel said with a nervous giggle.

"Easy everyone, easy. Rachel, I'll be honest. Seeing you strip and seeing you in that rather revealing suit is WHY I came so fast." Brian said as he recalled watching Rachel strip out of the latex looking jacket and pants to reveal the red swimsuit with its leg holes set so far back the sliver of cloth barely covered her, giving her a near perfect camel toe. The sight of Rachel's natural tanned complection combined with her platinum blonde hair contrasting with the red suit and its even darker red where her lactating breasts and soaking wet cunt had drenched the material had sent him over the edge and he had filled Audria to the point that she screamed he was drowning her. "Seeing that is the reason I had to retreat so far back, if I hadn't I MIGHT have given you a load of your own." 

"Then seeing you pull Audria off Tiffany and pushing her to the ground and digging at her cunt to get some of his cum out, so you could smear it into yours. That was almost to much, I mean seriously I'm straight but seeing you do that then grinding yourself on her to cum time and time again while you kept squeezing the crap out of her tits. OH GOD Brian, I NEED a fuck." Michelle said as she mauled a breast with one hand while she had her other hand down her pants. 

"Brian, I don't think I would have minded if you had fucked me." Rachel said bashfully.

"Is that you saying that or your body needing to get fucked saying that?" Asked Brian as they approached the chutes. "Like I said earlier, I'd love to fuck you but there is no way I'm going to fuck you unless you really want it and not just need it."

Tina shrugged as Rachel looked at Brian with a look of pure confusion on her face. "What can we say, he's got some weird notions at times."

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"Brian, I have completed the procedure that Brianna required to reconstruct her nervous system and since you all insist on a sexually aggressive birthday present, she needs to remain in the medical chamber so that her nervous system can settle for a few hours before you proceed with her present." Atherian said as the group entered the medical bay.

"You mean that our nap and dealing with Audria has taken up THAT much time?" Asked Brian rather flabbergasted. 

"You are correct Brian, it also appears as though you are not becoming as exhausted as you have in the past when you used your mental abilities." Atherian said as people found places to sit out the rest of the time before Brianna was released.

"Has she been given a dick?" Brian asked as he laid his head against the back of a chair. "And how long will it take for the girls to get theirs if they still wish to get them?"

"It will take two of the remaining four hours." Atherian said as people looked at Brian wondering what he was planning.

"Tina since one of the things that's being set up around here is a hot tub and pool complex, you think that Brie will like having a pool party?" Brian asked as people perked up at the mention of a pool.

Brian laughed as people gave whoops and started stripping as they made their way to the bays. "Um Brian?" Rachel asked drawing his attention. "Would people mind if I came along? I know it's Brianna's birthday and stuff but.." 

"Hey Tina, Michelle, Lar. you guys hear her question?" Brian hollered as the girls were laying out on the tables.

"We don't mind if she comes along for the pool party but she might not like being around for Brie's second present." Michelle said after getting a nod from her sister and cousin.

"Exactly what is her birthday present that people are planning for her?" Asked Rachel as Brian headed for a med table.

Brian sighed as he leaned against the table. "All of us have been screwed up by our families Rachel. Experiences that have really screwed up some of our perceptions of how things are or should be. Brianna had a boyfriend that had appeared to be the prince charming type. Well after the car accident that paralyzed her, he avoided her like she was contagious. Didn't even have the balls to officially dump her. Well, some way or other she's gotten it into her head that the best way for her to be turned into a woman is for her to be forced. No gentle,loving and caring act of defloweration, she wants her first to be hard and brutal. That way she can feel that she is wanted, truly wanted and loved."

"And you don't want it to be that way do you?" Said Rachel as she observed Brian and the others.

"No." Brian said as he leaned against a med table. "The first time should be slow and caring. It should be the best of what sex or love making can be not the worst, but she is one of those people that you can't deny them what they ask for if you're looking them in the eye...."

"In other words, you're her groveling slave." Laughed Tina. 

"You won't tell her no, thinking you run the risk of causing her more mental anguish." Piped in Laria as the door on the mod bay slid shut.

"Yap it guys, Atherian since nothing will happen for at least two hours because of the pool party there is no reason not to let her out early is there? Also, Rachel we need to be checked out to see if we got any of the mutagen in our bodies, so hop in one." He said as he motioned to the bays.

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Brian swatted his hand as a tickle bothered Brian's nose. "Hey leave me alone!" Brian snarled as he finally came awake as the tickle worked its way farther down his nose. "ENOUGH!" He roared as he made a grab at whatever it was that was bothering him.

"Easy, Brian easy! Tiffany has had more than enough rejection already today." Tina said grabbing his hand so not to hurt Tiffany's tail even more.

"Tiffany? What the hell is she doing in here?" Brian asked as the squirrel curled up into a ball.

"According to the blade suit that is outside inquiring about this, since Audria managed to bite off part of Tiffany's tail and since Audria will soon be one of them. Renee told her that she wasn't needed anymore out there. So she was to come in here as she was now part of the worthless squirrel squad. That, and you seemed to be rather fond of her." Atherian said as the blade suit reported to him.

"Please have whichever blade it is, tell Renee that we can reattach the bitten off part of her tail." Brian said as he sat next to the dejected squirrel and stroked her head.

"She has already been told captain and yet she is adamant about this. So what are your orders?" Atherian asked as the bay that held Brianna slid open.

"Well, reattach the bitten off part of her tail, have her resized so that she stops growing at four and a half foot at the shoulder and when she gets out send her on down to the pool since all that shouldn't take long she might like to have some pool time as well." Brian said as he left Tiffany's side and headed for Brianna's side. He smiled as Brianna stretched the kinks out of her body. "So what you think of your new legs, our lovely little Brie?"

"No idea, haven't tried walking yet, BUT it sure is nice being able to feel my legs again. " She said as she sat up rubbed her legs and shuddered as the sensation electrified her body. "I owe you and Atherian SO MUCH for giving me back my legs." She sobbed as she swung her legs off the table and tried to walk across the room.

"EASY GIRL, EASY!!!" Brian said as everyone lunged for her as her legs gave out from under her.

"Wha, why can't I walk??!" Brianna sobbed as she struggled to comprehend why she couldn't walk.

"You have been paralyzed for the last seven years, you have lost the muscle mass needed to walk. That, and we concentrated more on getting the nerves working than building leg muscles and balance. Though you have been given some mass to start the process that much quicker." Atherian said as Brian and the others were in varied levels of tears.

Brianna sat dumbfounded struggling to comprehend everything. "So, what? CAN I walk or can't I?" She sobbed.

"It means you WILL be able to walk but to be a strong walker, you have to work at the rest. While yes they could PROBABLY could have given you everything you need to be able to walk now, but really will you have any pride in that accomplishment?" Asked Rachel as she walked up behind everyone as they all huddled around Brianna.

"Who, who are you? And is THAT Brian's work?" Brianna sniffled as she eyed Rachel's baby bulge.

"What this?" Rachel asked as she rubbed her stomach and gave a mirthless laugh. "I wish it WAS his doing, he's worth getting hooks into." 

"Her family got interested about the goodies in the afterlife enough that they ignored human rights in the physical realm." Brian said as Brianna opened her mouth. "Anyway Brianna, we had to promise to wait for a couple of hours for your new nerves to settle, so until the two hours are up want to go swimming?" 

"WHY would I want to go swimming when I want to become a woman? I, I, want..." Brianna started stammering.

Tina smiled gently down at her tearful sister and kissed her on the cheek. "Two hours will pass like minutes while you're swimming sis, and anyway Kitty and Madison will probably be there as well."

"WHAT? Kitty and Madison are here? How'd THAT happen, you kidnap them or something?" Brianna asked as she tried to pull herself up to stand.

"Easy girl." Michelle laughed. "As I understand it Brian's mom was outvoted. Now let's get you into a suit since it won't be a nude zone at the pool for a while yet, and get down there and have some fun. Because it will be a while until we can play again since as I understand it, after this party next stop is Intergalactic Imperialism."

*************

"You know Brianna, WE don't know anymore about this pool complex you do and since Brian is in one of his moods again. You KNOW the likelihood of actually getting any USEFUL info out of him" Laria laughed as Brianna bugged everyone for information about the pool complex and WHY they were calling it that.

"It would not matter if you were able to get any information from him anyway since you are less than fifty feet from the entry door." Atherian said as they approached the door. "Captain, I am needing to inform you that you were very much correct in your speculation as to the programming glitch that directed the droids to act aggressively towards those you refer to as 'wetbacks'. Also, there is a series of VERY unusual anomalies on the planetoid known as Titan."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 10



"Like what KIND of anomalies? As to the 'programming', is there a way to force grow a clone body and 'download' the program into it?" Brian asked as everyone glanced at one another.

"It will take a full hour and a half to produce a body that is of age, and 'download' what you are calling a computer program. As to the anomalies, they amount to massive amounts of metals that are not found in the natural universe under massive amounts of soil. When taken into account for erosion, rock faces that appear to have been worked and what appear to be some form of crystal that should be looked at when taking into account the other two anomalies." Atherian said as everyone looked at one another. 

"Okay, take as long as you need for the clone we don't need to fuck THIS up and when you're done IF we are still down here have her escorted down. Tina I'll need you, some of the animorphs and droids go and check out all the weird shit happening up on Titan. Check out the metal first, but use the droids. Have everyone fully armed, have the droids at full combat readiness. Also..." Brian said with a pause. "Take along some nukes or whatever heavy hitters we have in the armory. There are far to many Sci-Fi movies of stations and bases on other planets with a pissy this or that still roaming around for that the possibility not too be considered. I don't want whatever it is hitching a ride back IF there really is something up there, understand me? Hit the place from orbit, slag everything for miles around, and miles down. Don't let it live to see another day."

"Gotcha." Tina said with a laugh. "So what do we do if the thing lives off of energy?"

"There ARE some weapons that generate a null energy field in the armory." Atherian said answering Tina's comment. "Although fissionables as well as planet-poppers as your ancestors termed them will have to be produced. Since they are not weapons too be kept on hand." Atherian added in an offhanded manner.

"Okay as long as they're available when they get to Titan, I don't care." Brian said as they walked through the doorway. "Welcome to the pool complex girls. The entire place is about fifty seven cubic acres filled with pools, waterfalls, and streams and hot tubs, though some things are in enclosed environments off to the far back. All put together too appear like a natural tropical paradise." Brian said as they entered the constructed cavern.

"Could have fooled me." Rachel said as she looked around at the barren soil and pillars that looked like tree trunks.

"Hey, give me a break here!" Brian pouted as he carried Brianna down to the lowest beach area, where his mother, Robin, and Cora had the children playing in the shallows. "The machinery that controls and keeps the water clean was completed only a little while ago. We also haven't had the time to get any plants to make it look tropical, so zip it. Oh and some of your squirrels are soaking in the deeper parts of the pools."

"They ARE? Where? I don't see them." Rachel asked as the girls looked over the water level trying to see the squirrels. "All I see are rods poking up out of the water or are those snorkels?" She asked as they got close enough to be seen easily from the water. "So the two girls running towards us, I take are your nieces?"

"Yep." Brian said as he braced himself against the impact of little girl bodies hitting him. "Tom boy blondie here is Katherine or Kitty as she's usually called and her sister is Madison. What Robin's kids are called I have no idea, same with Audria's two."

"Yeah, about them, WHAT are we going to tell them?" Michelle chuckled as Brian's nieces tried to climb up into his arms with Brianna.

"DOWN you two, JESUS CHRIST girls I may have more muscles now than I did before, but I can still only carry so much." Brian hollered as he struggled to keep from dropping Brianna. 

"Let's do it this way." Tina said as she lifted Madison into her arms while Laria picked up Kitty. "But back to the questions, what do we do about Audria's kids and where are the squirrels?"

"For now their mother is busy, we'll come up with something more permanent later. As to the squirrels, the inside squirrels can use their tails as snorkels, though they can only do that if they're resting or sleeping. No strenuous activities, they can't get deep enough breathes that way." Brian said as the squirrels started moving towards the edge of the pool enmass.

"Looky Unca Bi, they look like that dead rat you found by the river that one time." Kitty said as the squirrels lumbered up out of the pool.

Brian shook his head and groaned. "That wasn't a rat and it wasn't dead. It was a beaver and the squirrels look far more drowned than any beaver could possibly ever look. Now let's have some fun before I need kids out of the pool area for a while." 

"AAWWW!! What for?" Kitty asked they reached the beach area.

"Are you going to get down and dirty with Brie? Madison asked with a smirk on her face.

"Ten year olds shouldn't worry about things like that, much less ask about peoples plans for such things." Brian's mother scolded her as they reached the beach.

"Brian?" Cora called to get his attention. "Is it normal for humanoid children to eat sand?" She asked as she tried to keep one of her babies from shoving another handful into it's mouth.

Brian burst out laughing as he waded out into the water with Brianna. "Babies experience the world through ALL their senses, so yes it is normal. Though not the best thing too try eating but it is normal when on a beach."

"Better than what you always liked." His mother laughed as he went scarlet. "He liked live electrical cords. Didn't matter how or where they were hidden he found them and he chewed on them."

"Hey Atherian, just out of curiosity where are the tubes for the water slides?" Brian asked as he noticed the absence of one of the main things he was adamant on the inclusion of in the layout of the complex.

"They ARE present but as the complex is being used, I routed power to the cloak generators that were built into the tubes so as not too ruin the ambiance of the scenery you wished to produce in the pool complex." Atherian said as the cloaks were deactivated on the tubes.

"Don't kill her Kitty." Brian laughed as the eight year old slugged Laria in a attempt to slow down the older girl as they both bolted for the slides. "Hey Michelle, there is a inner-tube slide over there if Mady wants to slide and doesn't want to go alone." He added as he noticed the girl's wistful look at the slide tubes.

"Sure no prob Brian, want to go on the slides honey?" Michelle asked as she looked into the girl's eyes.

"Can someone take Brianna?" Brian asked as Madison burst into tears. "Sssh, easy tender heart. No one's forcing you, you don't have to go on one if you don't want to." He cooed to the girl as he pulled her onto his lap.

"Damn you can actually feel his compassion pouring off him, can't you?" Robin commented as she walked up the the group as they huddled around Brian.

"NEVER harm a child around Brian." Tina advised as he rocked his niece back and forth on his lap. "He was a primal when he was angry before, now that he's a telekinetic, it could turn.... 'messy'. He's got a VERY tender, compassionate heart combined with a surprisingly rigid moral conscience of what should be and should NOT be allowed. He does comprehend everything can't be black and white so he settles for gray, but mess up too much too often and if he gets the chance, well let's just say he could make an atheist BEG God to kill them long before he's half through with them."

"You guys do realize I'm right here, don't you?" Brian asked. "Come on Mad I'll settle you next to Cora's babies and you can help us look after them." He said as stood up still holding her and moved off to where Cora was fussing about sandy shit and waterlogged dippers.

"Come on guys, we'll have to occupy ourselves for a bit since the likelihood of getting him away from her when she's just been crying is totally nonexistent." Tina said as she and Brianna made for the water where the squirrels were once again soaking.

***************

"Hey Brian, don't know who but we got ourselves some company." Michelle hollered from where she was treading water.

"Oh good everything's worked out." Brian said as he joined the others around the new arrival who was flanked by Star Wars style bodyguard droids all carrying electrostaffs. 

"Indeed Brian, ALTHOUGH I am at a loss as to HOW to compute this turn of events."Said the AI sounding as confused as any flesh and blood creature could get.

"What's there to compute Atherian?" Asked Laria as she ran up still dripping from her latest slide. "We found a trespasser that managed to get past the squirrels and get down here alive. Though 'I' am a little confused of why she would be wearing a swimsuit. Unless it's a all in the pool day, no matter the circumstances."

"Why you little... AHHH!" Shrieked the female as a droid intercepted her lunge at Laria with a swing of the staff at full power throwing her onto her back into the middle of the escort.

"EASY! EVERYONE CALM DOWN WOULD YOU!" Brian shrieked totally horrified at the turn of events. "Everyone take a DEEP breath and count to a hundred would you, while I make introductions and explain things??? Um Sorry?" He stammered as he turned to the fallen and stunned girl as she lay coughing on the ground and offered her a hand up. "Okay, stand down and take up guard stations." He said turning to the droids. "Okay everyone, meet Anilease McBrather. Anyone remember THAT name?" He smiled as everyone got questioning looks on their faces. "Didn't think you would."

"Hey wait, isn't that the last name of the former captain of the Atheri... uh Brian? I think we're going to need to sit down for this." Rachel said as she wobbled towards the sandy beach area.

"Yes as it might take a while and I am totally at a loss to explain ANY of this, so I too am curious and look forward to ANY insights into this turn of events!" Atherian stated as everyone followed Rachel.

"Okay here goes people." Brian said as people got settled down on the sand. "This is pretty much speculation but it seems to fit. After Anilease had the Atherian bury itself, she programmed the fusion cores to shut down after she was killed from the matter collection protocol of the replicators. Isn't that pretty much the way it went?" Brian asked Anilease.

"It is but it does NOT explain WHY I or at least my mind survived." The former captain said.

"Simple, the replicators didn't have enough time for a memory bank purge. You stepped into the collection room, your body was ripped apart and stored in with the rest of the stored mass and your mind was stored in the computer as a computer file, when the cores vented which weakened the hull in the areas that eventually corroded through. Luckily time was only allowed access to those sealed areas OR in all likelihood this ship would be useless. When Atherian was awoken so were you but as a computer file that somehow managed not to be detected by Atherian. When we had a bunch of droids created, your mind was kind of duplicated as their main operating system somehow. We need to look into what do with those droids though, the same mind in a bunch of bodies is going to lead to a LOT of trouble." Brian said worrying about the possibilities.

"What kind of trouble are you thinking that I could cause?" Asked Anilease.

"Woman, we're are going to be going up against people that sell their own countries out all the time to get higher up in the world, we do NOT need ANY kind of preventable mishaps taking place." Brian said turning his full attention on her. "What kind of trouble we're talking about is the same mind but different ideas on how to get the job done."

"I don't understand at ALL, but whatever you think will accomplish either contacting the Empire or rebuilding it, I must help." Anilease said trying to look as relaxed as possible considering the present circumstances.

"WE will do what we must BUT, we can't have blind following of orders Anilease." Tina said as Kitty settled in her lap. "Anyway Brian, with Anilease still alive wouldn't it be more prudent for her to be the captain again?"

"No." Anilease said calmly. "I am a SHIP captain, it is all I've ever wanted to be. The highest that I would want to be is Admiral to a fleet. If you need help with anything I'll give what help I can, but leave me as a simple ship captain." She said with a faint smile.

Brian chuckled. "The guiding hand from the shadows, huh? Very well, let me give you a layout as to how I plan to build this system up from where it is now. As it stands now we have NO idea if the Reamaiinsk Empire even still exists and if it does, we have no idea if it's more enlightened or has it reverted to a Confederacy with only weak ties to one another."

"Yes that's true." Sighed Anilease. "It's a GOOD thing that I wish to stay a simple captain, ALL that time in a computer mainframe and I NEVER considered that the Empire could have fallen apart and no longer exist." She said shaking her head trying to deny the validity of Brian's contemplations.

Brian smiled sympathetically. "It's okay, don't hard on yourself. When you were in the Imperial Navy, the Imperium was a steadfast figurehead, sure it had taken some weathering but it had ridden through it all and came through in the end. It would be unrealistic for any of us." Brian said gesturing to himself and the others. "To believe that you would stop believing that the empire is still in existence."

"Until it hits her in the head like a hot frying pan." Piped up Kitty.

"If it takes getting hit in the head for her too have to face facts, I hope it's really hot." Brian chuckled.

"I've been hit enough thank you, now how about that overview that you said that you'd give me." Anilease said making a face at Kitty.

"Sorry about getting sidetracked again, anyway the plan is to turn this solar system into a industrial complex with help from any help we can get. Be it droid, human or whatever, willing or UN-willing, because we've gotten adequate success with reeducation programs and those medical strips of Atherian's. By that time we should have people in or just about in the correct placement for as peaceful a world conquest as possible. During all this time we will have had as many deep space probes as we can get trying to find any and all hints and clues to the empire as they can get and sending the information sent back to us. Hopefully..." Brian said with a sigh. "Hopefully, it's still in one piece and willing to find room for us."

"Why wouldn't they?" Asked Brian's mother as she approached the group with Madison in tow. "It's time to leave Brian and them to their own devices for now Kat." She said looking at the dozing little girl.

"Aww, I want to stay longer." Wailed Kitty.

"You'd sleep through everything anyway so why not go to sleep in your own bed?" Brian asked with a laugh. "Remember how our ancestors were banished here all those centuries ago because we had too much backbone? Why would they change their minds now, ESPECIALLY since all we've done in that time is get even more irritable and violent?" 

"Does have point you know." Michelle said with a smirk on her face.

"I wasn't talking to you." Brain's mother snapped at Michelle as she led a groggy Kat away.

"You have an interesting group of followers here Captain." Anilease said looking at Brian. "So, on the possibility that the Empire no longer existences what are your plans then?"

Brian chuckled. "That's the interestingly fun part. I don't have to change plans, I just BROADEN them. In EITHER plan of action, we would need a very broad industrial construction complex. If the empire is proven to exist it will be set to infrastructure and expansion or whatever is commanded, if it does not exist it will be turned to military construction and infrastructure. So no matter what, we're set."

"Of course he makes this all sound so easy and simple." Tina said as Brian reached over to pull Brianna into his lap.

"Of course it sounds simple, shit like this RARELY sounds hard and probably unachievable on paper. Hell, look at our wonderful presidents grand plans for the country." Brian said scowling at Tina.

"WAIT a minute! What do you mean by 'probably unachievable'?" Asked Anilease. "'Probably unachievable' as in contacting the Empire, or do you mean rebuilding it if it no longer exists?"

"Your guess is as good as mine! That doesn't mean that we won't give whichever, one hell of a try though!" Brian said as he gave a mirthless laugh.

"Off on another line of conversation captain, but I MUST ask why are there so many pleasure beasts around. There is no way that you or your people could have this great a need for sexual pleasure, when you make it sound like it will require a great many people and you all are only the beginning." Anilease said as Tiffany arrived and walked up behind Brian.

"The reason WHY there are so many here is that simple reason." Brian said as he wrapped his arms around Tiffany's neck as she rested her head atop his. "At this point in time we don't have very many people helping us, so I when I had the cottontail rabbits and the deer turned into pleasure beasts I had their intelligence increased to the point that they'd be useful while we are preparing to move out from this base. They also will come in handy while we are taking over this region of space and even after that while we find out if the Empire does or doesn't exist."

"Just HOW are they going to be useful, when there are Imperial edicts that limit the intelligence of pleasure beasts?" Snapped Anilease.

Brian chuckled at that. "Because people will expect their intelligence to be below my niece's, that way they can go about their business and listen for people that would pose a threat to the Empire or our fledgling Empire."

"So have you placed ANY limit on them?" Anilease asked. " As I find it hard to believe that someone like you would NOT run the history files and find out about the Doca and the Sniflaus."

"Doca yes, Sniflaus no. Who, and what, were or are they?" Brian asked with a perplexed look on his face.

"The Sniflaus were a breed of pleasure beasts that were prominent on the hot barren worlds of the Mitroby System." Anilease said. 

"So what did these bad boys look like?" Moaned Brianna as Brian slipped his hands under her swimsuit and start massaging her breasts.

"You know it's a couple of more minutes until the time limit don't you?" Asked Rachel as she watched Brian frisk Brianna with a twinge of jealousy.

"Loophole!" Brian laughed as he slid his hand down to her stomach sending Brianna into a mind numbing orgasm. "But still the history files said nothing about ANY creature, pleasure beast or otherwise called the Sniflaus! So if it wouldn't be any trouble, could you enlighten us?" He asked with a grin.

"Uh, uh, yeah no problem." Anilease stammered.

"If I may captain? Also Brian would it soon be possible to solidify Anilease's position in the present hierarchy? To answer the question posed by Brianna the Sniflaus resembled the king cobra, is that not correct?" Atherian said as a hologram of a blue snake with red markings appeared to the side of the group.

Everyone smirked as Anilease squirmed. "So want to tell us why your trying to lead us on?" Asked Brian. "Is it that there were so many pleasure beast incidents because people didn't take even rudimentary precautions that you at least had to try to scare us into cutting back their intelligence as well as their numbers?" Brian asked as Anilease spit and sputtered at being cornered so easily.

"YES!" Anilease finally snapped. "You are taking far too many unnecessary risks in relying on pleasure beasts. They have proven time and time again that the things can barely fulfill their intended use, MOST turn out to be so ineffective that they have to be DESTROYED! All the time and energy that you are putting into these things are a waste since they will need to be terminated all too soon when they turn on us."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 10



Brian smirked as he glanced at the others who smirked back. "Well let us handled that and in the meantime we'll keep them away from you as much as we can alright? Although when people go up to Titan there WILL be some going along. I would like you to go along because of your experience, if you can stomach the thought of such close proximity for a few weeks."

Anilease sat with such a perplexed look on her face that Brian burst out laughing."Why would we need to take pleasure beasts to another planet and where is this other planet?" She finally asked.

"The planetoid is in this solar system. As to WHY they are needing to be taken along is that they have been given the necessary knowledge to perform the tasks of science as well other divisions needed to conduct a proper investigation of the planet and its anomalies. Brian the two hours that I advised you wait HAVE past." Atherian said as Brianna twisted in Brian's lap and kissed him.

"WAIT, WAIT!" Hollered Anilease. "What do you mean that they have been given the necessary knowledge for a planetary survey? No, hey let go of me and answer me." Anilease screeched as the droids and Tiffany stopped her lunge to get in the middle of the group. "You wouldn't DARE!!" She gasped as Tiffany raised herself up on her hind legs showing Anilease her cock had started to slide from its furry sheath. "Atherian, ATHERIAN??!" Anilease screamed as the droids shifted their hold of her arms down to her wrists while Tiffany slid hers down to her legs. Anilease started thrashing and trying to get loose as Tiffany raised her legs so that she could gain easier access to the woman's crotch. 

"I must inform you captain that Brian has completely gone over ALL codes and commands, there is also very little I can do in regards to the squirrels. They only obey those commands they wish, unless it is Rachel or it is one of the Warriors of the Sword that are present at the time the order is given." Atherian informed Anilease as she continued to twist as she tried to get her vagina away from the strokes of Tiffany's tongue.

"Warriors of the SWORD???! OH GREAT GODDESS." Anilease gasped in horror as what Atherian said sunk into her mind. "Hey, WHAT are you going to do to me?" She demanded as several squirrels took over Anilease's restraint. "WHA? HEY, NO!" She hollered as one of the squirrels grabbed both over her arms and rolled back so that they both laid on their backs. 

"Believe it or not these squirrels really know how to use their tongues." Said a voice to her right.

As she looked over to the right she saw the pregnant Rachel. "So you're here to supervise whatever that they've been told to do to me?"

"No." Rachel said with a faint smile. "Let her go girls." She said motioning too the squirrels. "DAMN!" She gasped as Brianna let loose a bone chilling scream. "For someone that really loves that girl he's REALLY giving it too her." She whispered as jack-hammered into Brianna again and again. 

"If he really loves her than he's more than likely just going through the motions than being actually aware of what he's doing." Anilease said moving to Rachel's side. "Thanks by the way, for getting them to let go of me." 

"He wants you to help him, crap like that won't get him willing help. Undermine his attempts to make the world a better place and I can just as easily correct my mistake." Rachel said as she snapped her fingers. "If he's just going through the motions." She whispered more too herself than Anilease. "I wonder when he'll become aware of his actions?"

"He'll become conscience of them soon and when he does, IF he truly loves her we'll see EXACTLY if he's up to the challenges ahead of us. I am also so sure that you have far more authority over the squirrels then HE does." Anilease said gesturing towards the squirrels. 

"And WHAT may I ask, do you mean by if he really loves her that we'll see if he's up to the challenge of either contacting the Empire or rebuilding it??" Asked a voice behind the two women.

"ATHENA! DAMN IT GIRL, don't make me miscarry." Rachel gasped as she spun around and saw the equine. "Anilease, this is Athena. Athena, Anilease. She's the...

"I know, she's the reason behind some revenge plans nearly going out the window." Athena interrupted. "Be glad they could be resuscitated." She snarled as she glared at Anilease. "Personally I just hope they're worth all the bother."

"Look I know Brian said that my mind was copied and placed as the main operating system in some of his machines but WHY am I getting the blame??!" Anilease asked as Rachel and Athena looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Because." Atherian said breaking into the conversation. "While it was not 'YOU' that water-boarded the mexicans OR filled the room with water and then turned the room into what Brian calls a washing machine. It was still 'A' Anilease that was directing the droids. In all honesty I believe what has angered him the most about such actions is that he was unable to be there to watch, and that nothing was recorded for later viewing."

"There he goes, they are climaxing." Atherian said as Brian and Brianna screamed and clutched at each other. "UGH, you two want to go check out the sauna? Brian may have set them up as fetish rooms but that means nothing. As long as it's consensual and everyone is of legal age it's none of his concern." Athena said as she walked towards the back wall.

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"WOW!! So THIS is what Brian calls a sauna?" Rachel whispered as the three women entered the room.

"Well he MAY have gone a tad overboard with the waterfall since this is supposed to be a Sauna but... YEEOW! HOT WATER!!" Yelped Athena said as she yanked her hand out of the waterfall. "Actually it isn't all that hot but it sure was a heck of a shock." She said with an embarrassed giggle.

"The sauna is on the top layer, the waterfall and the pool underneath are for bathing." Atherian said as the girls looked around at the vivid arid desert spring facsimile.

"HOW? How was he able to come up with something like THIS Atherian??!" Asked Anilease as she made her way up to the top layer where the sauna was.

"After he had made the call to Tina saying that he and Athena were alright he wanted to start designing, when he told me that he would be unable to accomplish what he desired on nothing short of 3D display so I suggested the Astrometrics Lab." 

"You did WHAT?!" Shrieked Anilease as Rachel and Athena tried their best not to burst out laughing.

"Seeing some of the things he managed in a VERY short amount of time makes me wish I had a body so I could experience just half of them. It was QUITE interesting seeing him manage twelve designs at the same time, though he did have to limit himself to three at the very beginning." Atherian informed them as they all slid into the hot water. "Although the things that could be turned as the REALLY fun stuff will only accessible too the Warriors of the Blade."

"WHAT? Only accessible to the Warriors of the Blade? And just WHY is THAT?!" Shrieked Rachel. "Okay, so your are supposed to be able to get a bunch of mind powers when you become one of those but WHY is is it only accessible to them?"

"The room is accessible to anyone that has access to the base Rachel BUT... the pit is five hundred feet deep and two hundred across. The door is at the bottom of the pit too limit the need for the emergency dampening field generators that will slow falls. The pit is meant for the expanding of telekinetic abilities through their use in a CONTROLLED and only mildly hazardous environment." Atherian said as a holographic display of the pit was projected just over the water level.

"Mildly hazardous environment? So what exactly, does mildly hazardous environment translate into?" Asked Athena as she leaned back in the water.

"The pit is populated with drones that Brian terms as hoverbots with three hundred and seventy nine possible attachments and twelve aggression levels. There is a fully equipped and stocked emergency medical bay at several heights." Atherian said highlighting the appropriate locations on the hologram.

Anilease burst out laughing. "So if the mildly hazardous TRAINING area is equipped with a fully capable med bay what is the HAZARDOUS training area equipped with?"

"A morgue." Came a moan from the doorway.

"BRIAN! Shit, are you OKAY?" Asked Athena as she leaned over the edge of the pool that formed the lip of the waterfall.

"Just leave me alone for a bit, I'll be fine." Brian said as he made his way to the waterfall.

"Are you sure?" Rachel asked as Brian doubled over clutching his stomach.

"Yeah. Just, just leave me be so I can get my guts too unknot." He groaned as he stepped under the flow of hot water.

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"Brian? Brian you said too let you know when we got done with our foursome." Tina said gently as Brian sat rocking back and forth under the flow of hot water.

"Mmm. Hey Brianna, you remember that asshole that split after you became paralyzed in that accident?" Brian asked with a soft smile.

"UH, BRIAN! Why do you have to go and RUIN a perfectly good birthday?" Asked Michelle as she helped Laria support Brianna.

"Well? Do you?" He asked as his smile turned pure evil.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 11



Any and all comments are wanted!

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"ENOUGH Brian! Where are you taking us THIS time? You ask if Brie can remember that piece of shit Trevor, she says yes and now we're down in the dungeon levels. Is THAT what your so called mexicons did, kidnap Trevor?" Tina asked as they approached a solid door that was guarded by six battle droids.

"FINALLY you shut up! God you've been bitching for nearly three miles, did you even shut up in the chutes when we came down?" Brian asked as two of the droids crawled onto the door and pulled on the bars that withdrew the locking pins in the door frame while the other four slowly pulled the heavy door open.

"If the door is that heavy wouldn't it be easier to beam in? Anyway just what is it that is being contained in here if those robots of yours could barely open the door?" Asked Michelle as Brian walked nonchalantly towards the opening.

"Mmm Trevor, his present girlfriend, my sister and more than a few wetbacks." HE said ticking off the list on his fingers. "Nothing important, just entities that shouldn't be allowed out in polite company. When it comes down to it, THINGS that should be staked outside county courthouses, cut open and left for any hungry animals that are around." Brian said offhandedly as he entered the small walkway that ran beside the clear sided cubicles that held prisoners. "See? The wetbacks are even stored like they live here in America, more than a dozen to a box. Atherian please do a quick fresh air flush before we go into any of those, they may know more about personal hygiene than those somalians that our work liked to hire but they still reek. As to WHY we just don't beam in, never know if a door might come in handy one day. So, unless you can guarantee we'll never have need of a door, it stays"

"What we'd probably smell is the incomprehensible amount of perfume they use." Tina said as she looked both ways down the hall that the door opened on. She smirked as Brian just shrugged and walking down the hall to their right.

"You STILL haven't answered our questions Brian." Brianna said as they stopped in front of one of two cells that held nonmexican tenants.

"Hey Tina, isn't it against USDA rules to wear perfume on the work floors of food processing plants? Probably one of those things of 'Don't say anything to the poor little wetbacks since they're an endangered species' or WILL be when TRUE Americans finally get tired of putting up with the government's crap and start doing something about them." Brian said with a bloodthirsty grin. "As to your questions guys, hey Atherian have the renovations to the cells been completed yet?"

"They have Brian, as also have the modifications to your 'guests'." Atherian said as the door slid open.

"HEY don't CHANGE the subject, just WHAT are you planning here? ALTHOUGH, when we finally can look back on your idea of fun, we'll wonder WHY we didn't realize what you were doing sooner." Laria said as she helped Brianna lean onto Tiffany's side as they walked into the cell.

"Indeed hot-stuff." Brian said as he approached the three occupants of the cell where they were restrained by chains that hung from the ceiling. "Okay first off Brianna, WHY I had Atherian give you a penis and told you NOT to join in on the male's side of the fun down in the pool area is because of bitchy here." He said as he jerked the head of a girl back as she slumped on the floor. "THIS BITCH, if you will look closely enough is or WAS your old boyfriend Trevor." Brian smiled as mouths dropped open and Tiffany grinned and started to grind herself on the floor. "EASY Tiffy easy, Brianna's fun FIRST and we might have some fun before the other two are introduced into their new lives."

"The life style you're talking about has something to do with being milk sows, considering the what, four tits and did this one, the one that bares a strong resemblance to your sister just MOO?" Asked Tina as she walked over to the girl and raised her head to look into her face. 

"Yep." Brian said as he looked over at the girls. "OH and by the way Emily was at least double D when she was younger so don't start saying I jacked her tit size up to much, their only triples. Mom took her to the docs and they gave her something that was supposedly steroids and they SHRANK her tits down to a more normal size. Seriously, what steroid shrinks tits? I understand steroids tend to make juicers wee-widdle dickies but that's what you get for juicing to shortcut muscles, but seriously shrinking tits? Anyway, what the plans are for at least these two here, are I plan on them nursing my dragon pups."

"DRAGONS? What kinda dragons you make up and why not make them adults from the get go??" Squealed Brianna as she nearly fell off Tiffany's back in her excitement.

"MORE Pleasure beasts?! WHEN will you grasp reality and realize all these vermin that you're having made are going to turn on us and need to be exterminated!" She screamed as she motioned towards Tiffany. "They'll probably turn on us right at a critical moment to and ruin EVERYTHING!! Time and time again the degenerate freaks have proven they are far to untrustworthy and treacherous to leave alive ESPECIALLY with as high a level of intelligence you are giving these things. RRAAAH, I'll be in my quarters when the survey team finally gets things ready to go." Anilease snarled as she stormed out of the cell.

"Temper, temper." Brian said as he turned back to the others. "Okay so she has DOES have a point." He held up his hand as Tiffany started to take a breath to get her two cents worth into the conversation. "IF, I repeat IF we were to act like our ancestors and treat the 'pleasure beasts' as disposable sex toys I would fully EXPECT them to go off half cocked and try something. I would to if I was put in the same circumstances with no hope to better my position. And businesses can't figure out why so many people are going postal anymore, hmm go figure." He mused with a shrug. " Anyway that's why Athena took so long to get down to the pool, she was giving the babies and the three adolescents a mental go-over to see if they had any instability." He said as he walked over to the equine and started rubbing her crotch threw her pants.

"So you DID make some adults, or nearly so anyway. So when can we see them?" Brianna asked.

"Here in a bit." Brian said as two Granny Goodness droids entered the cell guiding a mag-stretcher that carried a large black box. "But first, the reason I had you retain your male virginity Brianna is that I figured it would be more poetic if you lost it to your old boyfriend considering how he treated you."

"Well if nothing else with that gag in his, well HER mouth she is MUCH more polite than I remember her." Tina said. "So sis want to have some fun?" Tina asked as she gently stroked Brianna's arm.

"Umm, Brian? Aren't you being rather insensitive towards these three? I mean, it looks like you blanked out their mind for the most part. Don't you just usually just alter perceptions?" Rachel asked as Brian walked over to one of the girls who began to whimper and whine like a dog as she licked and mouthed his dick through his swim trunks.

"Rachel, rule of thumb when it comes to my sister's friends." He said with a sigh. "IF she picks them, she did not scrape the bottom of the barrel. She MOVED it and then started digging. While it is possible for her to find the so called 'Diamond in the Rough' don't count on it, count on her finding the vermin that even the trash from the wrong side of the tracks will not hang with. Time and time again we have warned her about all her 'friends' but, since she so obviously knows better than us, she tells us that they are pillars of the community and everyone just misunderstands them. If you stretch things I guess you COULD call them the pillars of the community, I mean even the ghetto trash has to have someone to look down on, right?"

"Alright Brianna." He said as he turned from the girl as she tried to work her head under his trunks so she could get at his dick. "Put simply Trevor is yours to do with as you please, if you don't want it I'll have it modified like Nickie and my sister." He smirked as the girl began having a fit and howl as she tried to get back in contact with his male body. "Besides the extra pair of tits, their modifications amount to increased milk production. Considering that for right now anyway they're going to be wet nurses their mothering instincts have been allowed to take over. Also MOST of the pain nerves in their bodies have been deactivated while the rest were numbed and then there's the part about pleasure receptors being increased both in number and sensitivity. That's why Nickie here is so horny, she's in heat and her having both her tube tops and the loincloth on are making both she and my sister delirious with their need to have cum in their bodies to cool the burning."

"CAPTAIN! I must inform you that Anilease is in need of rescuing." Atherian said interrupting Brian. "On her way to her quarters she was cornered and drug into one of medical bays by a group that was led by the rabbit Maxine from Warehouse Three."

"Just HOW are you able to tell the difference between all these rabbits and deer not to mention the squirrels?" Asked Tina with a confused look on her face. A question that was seconded by the others.

"Well MOST of the rabbits have gone with just been changing the color of their fur like Tamara did with her light purple fur with fuchsia hair, or added markings. With the deer, the males have pretty much left it at altering the shape and flow of their antlers. Most of the female deer have just altered their physique, although a couple others have had some fun. For the most part with the squirrels, I just fall back on doing a little bit of mind reading. I just dip far enough into their minds to get their name. So what have they all done to our temperamental former captain?" Brian said as he walked up to Brianna as she struggled to remain upright as she leaned against Tiffany's side. "So DO you want to play with Trevor?" He asked Brianna.

"They have hacked the pleasure beast protocols and well.... I guess you could say they are in the process of making it easier to see how much of a REAL bitch she is." Atherian said with a touch of unease in the usually rather steady voice.

"Okay, I'll bite. What do you mean by they're making it easier to see what a true bitch she is?" Brian asked as picked Brianna up and carried her towards a table that slowly raised itself up from the floor.

"Erika has started the process to merge Anilease's DNA with that of a Siberian Husky. As the process has started it would be best to let it run and reverse it when the procedure has been completed in about two hours time." Atherian said.

"Sooo, which one is Erika?" Asked Tina as Brian laid Brianna out on the table and started pulling her swimsuit off her slim body.

"Tamara's sister. Tamara went with light purple fur and fuchsia hair, Erika went with light purple fur and maroon hair." Brian said as he bent down between Brianna's legs and started licking the girl's welcoming cunt.

"So what can I do if I decide I want Trevor?" Asked Brianna as she forced Brian away.

"What can your sweet little innocent mind come up with my dear little love?" Asked Brian with a gentle smile. 

"Can I get her pregnant and deny her local when she gives birth?" Brianna asked laughing as Trevor started screaming passed the gag and struggling to get lose as she was lifted onto the table so she could be restrained so Brianna could ravage her new body.

"Well considering that none of the pain and pleasure receptors have been tampered with, that should be entertaining to say the least." Brian said with a thoughtful look on his face. "But you really want to be a daddy, considering that we can never allow Trevor to ever raise above being a body servant?"

"Her pregnant body will offered to my master so that he can take his primal urges out on it so that when I or any one of us gets pregnant or pregnant again." Brianna said with a sideways glance at Rachel. "You won't hurt us with your rutting." Brianna said with as subservient a bow as she could manage. "We'll increase her bone strength, thicken and toughen her skin and dull all those sharp edges in her skull. The pent up beast that lurks behind your eyes will have someone to bite and scratch on, that way the likelihood of you hurting one of us isn't nearly as high." She said softly as she pulled Brian into as tight a hug as she could. "I know I hurt you when I didn't let you make love to me for my first time and I had you be as brutal as you could but I had to see if you could do it." She whispered to distract Brian as Tina slipped behind him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Rachel gasped as Tina eased Brian onto the table as the sedative took affect.

"One, he needs the sleep. He hasn't had a good nights sleep in a while, but I seriously doubt that that shot will keep him down for long." Tina said brushing a stray lock of hair off Brian's forehead. "TWO." She said holding up two fingers. "There are just some things he shouldn't hear yet, girls." Tina said gesturing to her sister and cousins.

"Yes, there are some things he shouldn't hear just yet." Brianna mused as her sister and cousins joined her at the edge of the bed.

"Hey aren't you supposed to be crippled and not able to stand on your own?" Rachel asked as Brianna moved to the head of the bed.

"He needs to believe that I still need protecting at least for a while, no matter what he's going to need to ask me to do here in the coming weeks." Brianna said as she motioned for Tina and Michelle to pull Brian's trunks off. "When we first started hanging around one another we thought he was just after sex. I mean what guy in our area wasn't, besides Trevor here when I became paralyzed?" She said as she gestured towards the struggling form on the next bed over. "It took awhile but we realized he was just needing friends. Honest to God, TRUE friends. Not the type of people he's always ended up around. It's rather hard not to realize that when he picked me up as if I was more fragile than a birds egg and held me to him so that I was protected from the wind when it was the normal forty five or so plus sustained winds we get there in Kansas at times. People say that we don't get that but how many of those people have actually been there to find out?" She asked with a smug smile.

"He started slipping me fifties, hundreds, whatever he could afford to part with that week." Tina said remembering the help that the extra money gave. "When I finally caught him slipping a fifty into my jeans pocket he shrugged it off like I had no idea what I was talking about. You should have seen how FURIOUS he was that I didn't tell him that Brianna had to work her wheelchair up hill all the way home, from across town where the collage was because Michelle couldn't pick her up and take her home since she worked the afternoon shift. We were nearly home that day, he whipped his truck around and nearly ran Brianna over he stopped so close to her. He got out, ordered me out so he could put her in the middle and put her chair in the back like it was his responsibility to see to her."

"Mmm." Brianna agreed. "It was over a month before we could talk him into coming in to cool off for a few minutes before he went on home. He's always been around assholes so he was on edge for another month waiting for us too holler rape or something."

"The first time we managed too get over there so we could thank him you should have seen how tense he was." Laria giggled. "If we had SNEEZED wrong he would have cleaned our clocks, he was so high-strung that he was still watching us when we walked behind him."

"Brianna is OUR cousin, but any time we were all together there at the house he was watching us so we wouldn't hurt Brianna." Michelle said looking at Brian's face as he slept peacefully. 

"It was after about six months of hanging around each other that my conscience wouldn't let me keep accepting his help without giving back." Tina said hugging her arms to her chest as tightly as she could. "When I told him that he could have sex with me since there was no other way I could thank him for his help, he near punched me. The pain and humiliation I felt when he grabbed my shirt was more painful than if he would have gone ahead and punched me." He just stood there holding my shirt, fist raised and tears in his eyes for a couple of minutes before he just stormed out of the house.

"It was over two weeks before I could get Brian too come around, and start giving Tina a ride again." Brianna said remembering the loneliness of those two weeks. "Luckily he still kept giving me a ride otherwise I doubt if he would have ever come around again."

"When he finally did, we were able too get him to listen too us and understand WHY I needed him to have sex with me." Tina said choking back her disgust at the position her conscience had put her in. "It was HUMILIATING!! We barely had enough money for food after bills, so he ended up buying EVERYTHING, condoms, douches, Vaseline and he even he paid for me too go to the doctors for BIRTH CONTROL!" She sobbed breaking down.

"We had been threatened NOT too help out cousins no matter what or else lose what help we were getting for our schooling." Michelle said turning several shades of red at her humiliation for not helping her cousins no matter the cost. "So we didn't, no matter how badly we wanted to. Eventually, after about three months of Tina taking Brian's sexual 'abuse' I decided that she shouldn't be the only one too pay for his help. I told him that I would pay for Tina's birth control as well as other 'things'. It was a very fine line, but we managed too walk it." She said with a grin. "We finally managed too find away too help the only ones in our family that was worth something and all it took was getting fucked by Brian." She said with a humiliated smirk.

"Yes all it took was getting fucked by Brian." Brianna said clenching her fists. "Then one night we were talking over a couple of pizzas Brian had gotten and we started talking about what would we do if we ever found an ancient spacecraft or something along those lines. Brian ended up saying that he'd had ENOUGH of all the bullshit in the world and that if could, he'd destroy humanity and go else where to live out his life in peace. OR, if couldn't do that he'd conquer Earth, enslave humanity and then existence to show how he felt about being used as a punch line in this cosmic practical joke that God calls life. He'd heal my legs and make sure that none of us would ever HAVE too do anything again since we were pretty much the only ones that actually tried to be what TRUE friends are supposed to be."

"Eventually we ended up making a pact. That if any of us ever found something that would allow us too conquer everything, the other four would swear our allegiance to them." Laria said looking at her sister and cousins. "Really I don't think I'm the only one thought that decided no matter WHO found whatever, I was going to pledge my loyalty to Brian."

"No, no you weren't." Brianna said looking at Tina and Michelle to see if they too agreed on the unspoken agreement. "AFTER I went too bed that night the four of you also made ANOTHER promise, didn't you?" Brianna said accusingly. "That even if you didn't find something that'd allow you too be intergalactic conquerors you'd find a way too heal my legs. No matter the cost. The cost would have been far too high if he hadn't had lived the trip down that river." A statement the others agreed wholeheartedly with. "He has done far more for us than the God that we were raised too believe in has ever done for us. The four of us know that when he actually cares for someone enough, if something were to happen and there is no water or anything else too drink that he'd have no compunction on cutting his own wrist so we could have something to drink. If we ever needed something to eat, he'd cut of his arm before any one could say anything about it. After all the crap he's had too deal with for the last thirty one years he doesn't look at his life worth the saving. So if he ever thought his death might give his life meaning he'd kill himself without a second thought so his life could have SOME purpose to it." 




Forward to the Stars Ch. 11



"THIRTY ONE years? Just how OLD IS HE?" Rachel asked as she looked at Brian trying to comprehend what she had heard when he looked so much younger. 

"His records show him too be thirty two Earth years of age." Atherian said stepping into the conversation. "While he HAS had me rejuvenate his body back too what it was when he was eighteen, his physical appearance hasn't altered much at all. All that can be discerned is his hair has thickened considerably." The AI said with surprise in it's voice.

"When you're his friend or he feels he needs too look over you for some reason, he'll neglect himself without a second thought. He's shown us that several times." Laria said swallowing her tears back ignoring Atherian's interruption.

"Yeah, that's why I do this." Brianna said crawling up onto the bed and straddling his legs. "I pledge my body, my soul and my mind to my god emperor so that he may bring his order too all that is and all that will be. I pledge my body and all those that may come from it so that there will always be those that will follow that which is worthy of being followed. I pledge my body too feel pleasure or pain at his command for his satisfaction and pleasure, this I swear!" She intoned as she slowly lowered herself onto his cock.

"Amusingly poetic." Laria snorted as she helped Brianna off the table. "BUT, I like it." She said with a shit ass grin and she crawled on the table and started positioned herself like Brianna had.

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Rachel watched sullenly as Tina and Michelle eased Brian back onto the table, the two girls had supported the sleeping Brian as the squirrel Tiffany had uttered her pledge. Not that any of them understood a thing she chittered Rachel mused but that's besides the point she reasoned. The squirrel had watched Tina and the others and let out tear jerking wail when they had finished and turned their attention back towards to Trevor. Brianna had chuckled and gone over and had hugged the squirrel and smiled as the squirrel whimpered her desire she asked Tina and Michelle too giver her a hand raising Brian up.

"Are you okay?" The question from Laria jolted her out of her reverie.

"Yeah, I think so." Rachel sad sadly. "Brian has been the first in a long time to try to find out what 'I' want and need and what 'I' want and need is to become part of you all, but I don't know what if Brian would accept me." 

"Why wouldn't he?"Asked Tina as she lightly ran her hand over Rachel's stretched stomach sending a jolt of electricity threw Rachel's body.

"Because he wouldn't touch me earlier when I needed him." Rachel said licking her lips as she gazed at his hard cock.

"Precisely! You 'needed' him, not you 'WANTED' him." Tina said with a gentle smile. "There is a major difference. He doesn't want to have sex with you and then find out that you really can't stand him but you were just needing to cool your hormones down and he was just convenient."

Rachel sighed. "Well, he is right in that I DO, need a good fuck but he's so..."

"Special?" Brianna offered.

"Yeah, I guess that'll work but it it really doesn't really cover it." Rachel said softly. "All I know is that even though I need a fuck, I don't really want to hurt him. He's just too caring and interested in my being okay for me to let him get away though."

"We do know what you mean Rachel." Laria said coming up to the girl and started to unzip her jacket. "Since you're too be the guardian of his 'pet' squirrels..." She grinned at indignant squawk that Tiffany let out at being called a pet. "We can argue that you were just finalizing your pledge of allegiance too safeguard them to the best of your abilities." 

"Well." Rachel said as she started kicking off her pants. "His cum in me could be also be argued that I was finalizing my place in the new galactic order, if nothing else as a cum bucket." She said giving a strained laugh as she started peeling off her swimsuit.

"If, if you ever loose your place with him, you'll always have a place with me." Laria said as she grabbed at the table ledge to steady herself as she became dizzy from her lust.

"I'm my captain's to do with as he pleases Laria." Rachel said blushing, covering her breasts with her arms. "Now can I get a hand getting on the table?" She asked as tried to crawl on the table. "Thank you." She told as Michelle and Tina as they pushed her up onto the table and swung her so she was straddling Brian's waist. 

As she started too lower herself onto Brian's cock she felt a hand cup her sex pushing his cock away from her opening, as she looked down to see what was going on she was horrified to see Brian looking into her eyes. "ARE you SURE of this?" He asked.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 12



Any and all comments are wanted, though constructive are more welcome. 

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"Yes." Rachel shuddered as Brian brushed her thigh with his finger tips. "Look, I know that you want me too be absolutely sure before we have sex but I'll NEVER be ready. You're right." She sighed. "Our experiences with people have messed up our perceptions. With me I'll probably never be able to be fully comfortable around guys again but I HAVE too at least tolerate you." She said with a small smile. "It's just best that it happen now on MY terms! It's not that I think you'd ever force me but there might just come a time when we have to get real close and no time like the present to get this over with." She said as she dropped down onto Brian's hard cock.

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"So, willing to clue us in on what caused Rachel to wig-out on us when she finally got herself impaled?" Michelle asked as Brian withdrew from Rachel's mind.

Brian leaned back in the chair he had moved to the head of the bed that Rachel was laying on and sighed. "Atherian." He said ignoring the others and their questions. "IF we can accelerate our plans on neutralizing Rachel's 'wonderful and loving' family we should do it. As to your question Michelle, she just relived her less than pleasant first time."

"That bad?" Asked Tina with a grimace.

"You want to know how her mother died?" Brian asked gesturing towards Rachel. "Dear ol' daddy and her brothers couldn't afford too take them elsewhere for their mutilation, so they did it themselves. Good old vise grips and a pair of rust covered garden shears. The infection that killed her mother nearly did the job on her as well, it's a miracle that she could still get pregnant! Damn stereotype redneck hillbilly wannabes. They went muslim because nobody else would let them in the front doors after awhile. Couldn't cut it as Protestant, then went Baptist, they were barred from even stepping foot on Mormon and Pentecostal property, apparently it was the town scandal when the Catholic Priest threw them out after their first Sunday Mass confessional." Brian managed before he burst out laughing at the picture he got out of Rachel's mind of the priest frog marching her father out the front doors of the church.

"Well, at least we can make sure her kids grow up knowing about honor and morality." Brianna said leaning on a table as she walked by it. The only one that saw the smirk on Brian's face was Athena as she leaned down to whisper something to Brian.

"CAPTAIN!!!!" Atherian screeched interrupting the conversation. "I MUST inform you that we have have a potentially DISASTAROUS situation developing in the area known as the Sahara. A Databyte detected what could POSSIBLY be a PALARICILON LIFESIGN!!!"

"Sahara huh? I've wondered about that desert." Brian groaned. "I'll deal with that personally! FIRST though I get fixed up." He added with a weak chuckle.

"What you mean 'fixed up'?" Brianna asked. "Rachel hurt you?"

"Hey Brianna, you know that say of 'Break it off' or something to that effect? What causes an erection is that two high volume veins in the penis are flooded with blood." Brian groaned. "The saying of 'Break it off!' stems from at least one of those veins rupturing, since they're so full of blood when they rupture they sound like a stick breaking AND." He added with a weak chuckle. "I think she got BOTH." With that he crawled onto a mod table as it slid from it's alcove. "Oh and Tina, change of plans. You are still going to Titan, Anilease on the other hand is going slightly out of system. There's been a slightly interesting turn of events on a rock out there and she's needed to test for sentience. Too bad we can't deal with religions and cults like the Empire did!!! They rounded up anything that resembled a religion at the first glimmer of its emergence and if it did turn out to be religious, it was quarantined on a so called 'Safety Planet' and told to follow a agrarian lifestyle. As long as it kept up the farm work and didn't try to spread its influence off world it was allowed to survive until it eradicated itself in its inevitable religious war."

"So WHAT are your orders?" Tina asked as the table locked into position in it's alcove.

"Your ship will accompany Anilease's and the shuttle that's taking the parts for the Science Station on the far side of Pluto as far as Titan. At Pluto, Bianca's shuttle will go set up the Lab and Anilease will go check for life. Tell Anilease if she fucks up, she's Doris's lab rat."

"HEY WAIT! WHO is this Doris?!!" Asked Tina as the door latched shut and the seal hissed.

"I am Doris." Said a voice from the doorway.

"OH your cute." Laria purred as she started drooling as the rabbit in a workout outfit walked into the med bay. "Want to play with me sometime?" She asked as rubbed her hard-on the teal and silver furred rabbit was causing.

"Well, I DO need more sperm samples for my experiments." The rabbit said as she cupped her breasts seductively and flicked her tongue at her nipples a couple of times while glancing at Laria.

"What kind of experiments?" Laria squeaked when Doris slapped her crotch.

"Fertility for the most part." Doris said with a shrug. "When I first arrived here and was remade and given the smarts for Science, I had Medical implanted just for the fun of it. Well, when I started looking through the clothing programs I saw the workout outfits and I liked the look. When I had one made up, I liked the feel of the nylon and spandex so I had a wardrobe made up. Odessa the old Sailtail that had been put in charge of Research had a fit and dragged me down to Astrometrics interrupting Brian's design session."

"So what happened?" Asked Tina as she slid up on a table to wait out the time before she had to go to Titan.

"Well, Brian agreed with Odessa that a spandex outfit wouldn't work for the Science Department much less the MEDICAL Science department, so I have to wear the non-porous clothing that feels like you've had Vaseline rubbed into your fur so far your skin is slimy." Doris said cringing. "At least I DID get something from getting dragged down there and being told I couldn't wear something comfortable." Doris said with a mischievous grin.

"Yeah and what was that?" Asked Michelle with a knowing grin since she knew what clothes like that did to Brian.

"A workout." Doris said with a grin. "He had sent Odessa out of the Astrometrics Lab and told me WHY he had too agree with the old prude. At least he's assured me that she's going to have her dry ass drilled long and hard. Well, after her stint on that Lab Station that's to be set up on the far side of Pluto that is."

"So what's going to be going on in that space station?" Asked Tina. "If we're going to play tag-a-long for part of the trip, I'd like too know if it's going to blowup and take me with it."

"It is nothing too become alarmed about since all that will be going is what will be needed too construct the station."Atherian said in a amused voice. "Anything even remotely dangerous like crystal samples from Titan and samples of the gelatinous substance from that planetoid that's outside of helioscope if there no sentience detected will be transported after construction." Atherian finished saying as everyone settled down too wait for at least Brian to emerge from his latest stint in the medical bay. "As Brian has not left orders for the immediate time, I MUST insist on someone too release Brian's 'dragon' pups from their box and allow them too nurse."

"Yeah, I've been wanting to know what they look like." Michelle said as she jumped off her table and bolted to the box that had been brought along with them from the detention block.

"I must warn whoever opens the box that there is a reason Brian had droids do most of the handling of the pups." Atherian said as Laria who had gotten to the box first reached for the latch.

"And what's the warning?" Laria asked as the others joined her.

"That they're venomous." Atherian said causing Laria and Michelle to recoil and look at each other as Brianna reached for some papers that were laying on the mag-stretcher.

"You probably WON'T like what you read in those!!" Athena warned Brianna as the girl started going over the papers.

Tina, knowing what information was on the papers that Brianna was going over, went over to support her little sister when she finally realized what she was reading. "Are you sure you want to keep reading those?" Tina asked softly as Michelle and Laria fought over who was going to open the box releasing the dragon pups.

"Is, is THIS for real?" Brianna whimpered as she finished reading the papers.

"They were copied from your grandparents primitive computer system, so if they are not authentic I can not comprehend as to WHY they would be on their computer system." Atherian said softly as Brianna looked at her sister for answers.

"All we know for certain is what was in the computer files and that what happened to our parents matches up with what's in those files." Tina said, unable to meet her sisters eyes. "There IS one person that can prove or disprove everything." She said as she looked over to Trevor where she lay watching the proceedings with fear in her eyes.

"Hey Atherian, you said these pups were venomous, so what kind of poison are we dealing with here?" Michelle asked with her hand on the latch waiting to flip it up so the lid could flip up allowing the pups out of their confinement.

"Their venom is a highly effective sedative." Atherian said as the box rocked and the babies started hitting the lid. "As Brian's concept for the aphrodisiac dandruff of the squirrels was based off the question of 'How much of what kind of aphrodisiac would it take to make a Catholic Priest willing to fuck a woman?' The question for the dragon venom was 'How fast can we SAFELY incapacitate a run away bullet train?' Brian's point of view is that if ANYONE managed to get down here ALIVE uninvited, they would be part of a assault team. So that is why, as the dragons mature, they will be around twenty feet long and at least five hundred pounds. As they mature their control of how much they will inject into any one intruder will also mature. All for the express purpose of taking one if not more out of a group of trespassers."

"So what kind of precautions do we need to take?" Asked Laria eying the rocking box.

"Just don't be to slow in getting the hungry babies to their milk." Doris said as she gestured to Brian's sister and her friend.

"That is also why WE are here." Said one of the two Granny Goodness droids that had followed them from the containment cell block. "We can SAFELY handle and feed the babies without fear of their venom. Though their needle sharp baby teeth, their clawed feet and muscular bodies is of moderate concern to our structural integrity." It said as the latch was released and the babies burst out of the box like lava from a erupting volcano.

"OOH they're so CUTE!!" Laria cooed as the babies started looking around. "Easy little ones, no biting and you'll get to your food faster than if your start biting." She said as one of the babies stated hissing at her.

"Here are four bottles with formula." Said one of the droids as they each both grabbed four babies to take them over to Brian's sister and her friend so they could start nursing. 

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Rachel groaned as she came out from under the anesthesia. "Wha' happen?" 

"You had a seizure when you impaled yourself on Brian's genitals." Atherian said softly.

"Um, could I ask you a question Atherian?" Rachel asked softly as she looked at her flattened stomach and rubbed her smooth skin.

"You wish to know what happened to your triplets?" Atherian asked. "To save the lives of your offspring and easy the strain that you endured by your seizure and the subsequent burst of mental energy that Brian used to subdue you, I had to remove them from your womb. They are both safe and alive, luckily they were nearly to term so they will eventually be healthy children."

"What do you mean by 'eventually'?" Rachel asked shocked by Atherian's terminology.

"ANY child that is delivered prematurely suffers from the premature birth. It may not even register physically BUT there IS trauma." Atherian said as Rachel continued to look down the length of her body in the cramped space of the mod bay. 

"Do you think he's going to be angry with me?" Rachel whispered curling into a ball and turning in her side.

"He'd be angry if all of this had been planned. Since the cause of what happened originated in your past experiences, what little I know of him suggests that the likelihood of him being angry at you is quite slim." Atherian said kindly.

"So what happens to me now?" Rachel asked. "Considering that I'm not bloated with babies anymore." She added with a weak grin and a even weaker laugh.

"Well, considering that plans that Brian has come up with finally seem to be advancing. In all likelihood a great many more options and duties will become available to you since most of the human population of what Brian calls 'Memory Base' will begin leaving for many locations in the next twelve local hours." Atherian said as the seal released and the door started to slide open.

"About time one of you got out of those things!!" Rachel heard someone holler as the bed slid from its alcove. "OOOH and it looks like she's ready for some more fun."

"Not for a while yet Laria." Rachel said with a snort. "I've had my fill of sore ankles, having to go to the bathroom all the time and then there's all the OTHER problems that pregnancies always cause."

"She's got a point cuz." Rachel heard Brianna say from somewhere on the far side of the room. "Anyway it's not like we're going to let Brian off the hook for not being in OUR beds for a while. I don't know about you but since I've been under him once, I'd like to know what it feels like when he has time to make it feel good!"

"Well I don't know if he was trying to make it feel good but I'm pretty sure he was turned on." Doris said softly.

Tina burst out laughing. "When he gets turned on making you climax over and over is a offhanded thing. It's amazing of how strong his five foot six frame is! So when you were drug down to Brian as he was designing what happened? Oh sorry baby!!" She said as she nearly stepped on a dragon pup that had gotten underfoot exploring after it had finished eating. 

"Well, he uh, he offered me his hand and when I took it he slid his hand up my arm and pulled me to him. When he kissed me it was like he .... needed something." She said softly. "Something he needed to survive."

"He's like a lot of guys."Tina said with smirk. "He doesn't fully understand love, he has PLENTY of understanding, compassion and love but he can't comprehend love. THAT'S what Brian's problem is, THAT'S why he needs us." She said gesturing to all of them in the room. "He'll do all he can to create a loving environment and then he'll FEED off it like a starved vampire. He's kinda like an addict, he needs it like a drug, without it he has a tendency to become shall we say a tad...unstable?"

"But I didn't love him, I don't think I love him NOW! We all were made loyal to some extent but you can't be made to love someone." Doris said confused.

"LUST can be used as a acceptable substitute to love though he needs to 'feed' more often and more deeply." Michelle snorted. "That's WHY he's so good at making sex feel so good. He instinctively knows how too get us all sexed up that way he can feed all that much deeper and not leave us so drained. In case he has to wait for his next 'meal'."

"So." Tina said getting back in the conversation. "Did he bite you?"

"Yeah, yeah he did." Doris said giving Tina a weary look. "He worked his way down from my mouth to my neck where he started nipping. Luckily my skin was left as hide otherwise I'm sure he would have drawn blood." She snickered. "As he worked his way down my neck he started pulling my clothes down off my shoulders and started kissing and nipping my shoulders. I was getting so turned on by his nipping I could barely breath!"

"Yeah well, that's what you get for wearing that kind of clothing around him." Michelle said. "He really does love his swimsuit sex and if he can't have have you in a swimsuit, any kind of nylon type of clothes will work for him."

"So I noticed." Doris said drolly. "Well as he pulled my clothes down he'd stop and pay attention to every inch of fur he exposed. GOD I thought he'd wear my tits out he was paying so much attention to them!" She said feeling the soreness renewing itself. "When he finally got everything down to my waist he fought me when I tried to go ahead and slide my clothes down my legs."

"Let me guess Doris, he started sucking and mouthing your cunt through your outfit." Laughed Rachel.

"Don't forget the nipping." Doris said woozily as she started reliving the encounter. "He laid me on my back and started taking off my tennis shoes and socks all the time paying attention to my ankles. I couldn't believe it when he started licking and slobbering all over my toes." She said wiping the drool that had started to form at the edge of her mouth. "I've never been so infuriated in my LIFE!!! He'd always stop when I was about to climax and wait me out and then start over again. It was MADDENING!!!!!" She snarled pulling at her ears.

"You're in heat aren't you?!!" Laria gasped. "Granted Brian can get any responsive woman sex crazed but you, you're displaying." Laria said as Doris straightened up from the slight crouch she had assumed as she talked.

Doris tried to glare at Laria but instead burst into tears. "I just want more babies." She sobbed. "I haven't been able to get pregnant since my first litter. I've tried every time I've been in heat but it's been THREE SUMMERS and I haven't been able to get pregnant again."

"Have you been checked for problems?" Tina asked softly as she knelt beside the sobbing mass of fur.

"OF COURSE I HAVE!" Doris screamed at her. "The ONLY thing that I haven't had done is simply REPLACING everything!" She said gesturing towards her stomach. "I don't know, I just don't know!" She sobbed. "The only possible explanation is that the males I've mated with are just too goddamn SHORT!" 

"Easy little bunny, easy." Tina said pulling Doris into a hug. "So what happened after he finally pulled your clothes off your legs?"

"Well he pushed his foot down into my stomach and pulled on my leg as he kissed and nibbled at my ankle. I thought he was going to rip my leg off he pulled so hard. He then started working his way down both my legs kissing and nipping as he went." She sniffled. "When he got down to my thighs he started fingering me, he nearly had me at a climax again when he suddenly bit my leg! GOD that hurt but with my mind so far gone over the edge all it did was make me cum all that much HARDER." She said shivering her eyes glazed with lust. "When I finally able too comprehend what was going on again he was back between my legs and his tongue so deep in my cunt I swear he was past my cervix."

"Wait till he fists you if you think that his tongue can get in a ways." Michelle said with a smirk.

"I'd rather his dick." Doris and Brianna said simultaneously.

"Anyway when he had his fill of my pussy he started working his way back up my body." Doris said her voice thick with remembered lust. I don't remember when or how but as he worked his way back up I realized he had shed his clothes. As he got face to face with me I felt his cock start pushing into me. It felt SO good." She cooed as she dug her fingers into her sex. "I don't think I'll EVER forget my first taste of my own juices on his lips as he kissed me. His tongue pushed at the back of my mouth, we crushed our faces together trying to bring ourselves that much closer. He nearly choked me with how far down my throat his tongue was and when he sank his dick into me. I've NEVER been so stretched before, it was so wonderful when he pushed past my cervix and up into my womb. All I've done for the passed two and a half summers is try to get pregnant again, I'd forgotten what a TRUE mating can feel like! As he rammed into me again and again it may have hurt then and I may have been sore afterwards but it was worth it. To feel his weight on me and feel his body move and fit my body so well all I've wanted since then is to get pregnant with his babies. I turned my knowledge into finding if it was possible to remove the species barrier that sperm naturally carries in its makeup. IF I can find the barrier maybe I can then circumvent it and have it still provide the necessary male chromosome and genetic differential that makes us 'US'. If I can then make it that Brian accepts having it done to him, he can then get any pleasure beast pregnant while still being able too get human women pregnant."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 12



"You've definitely got you're work cut out for you." Brianna said thoughtfully pulling at her lower lip.

"So what are YOU thinking of sis?" Asked Tina as she sat comforting Doris.

"What possibilities this would open up for Brian and what his uses for such abilities could bring about. Doris you said that your were going to try to circumvent the barrier if you could, just how OBVIOUS would the human chromosome be in the infant's DNA?" Brianna asked slowly.

"Welllll..... I don't know. I guess I could try to get it so that all the sperm would provide the X and Y so basically the babies would all but be clones of the mother." Doris said slowly and thoughtfully.

"Okay then fluffy, aim for that. We'll see to it that you get what ever it is that you need, be it materials or personnel. IF you can make it so they are the father's kids and not genetic clones of the mother all for the better but if you can't, we'll take what you can give us." Brianna said. "Atherian how close are the shuttles too launch?"

"The shuttle with equipment that is for the Station is nearly ready. It will be ready in the next thirty minutes. Anilease has been secured on her her shuttle and has been advised not to... 'fuck up'. Tina, yours' has been equipped and stocked for setting up a small base while the exploration takes place. Tina may I ask you a question?"

"Uhh.., yeah sure go ahead." Tina stammered confused, an emotion that was shared by the others.

"Brian seems to have full trust in the 'Pleasure Beasts' but he is adamant over having a human or EX-human in the case of Anilease in charge of these expeditions." Atherian observed. "Can you explain this and help me too understand?"

"It's so Tina can get some experience." Brianna said getting ahead of her sister. "The deer and rabbits are the ones that are going to be the ones to do everything or just about everything. When it comes to Anilease the reason she's going to be in charge of testing for sentience is that she's had FORMAL training in that kind of testing. All everyone else has had the tests pumped into our heads, there'll be a difference in practical application of those tests that we wouldn't be able to compete with."

"Correct sis. You see Atherian, Brian may trust them but they're new too their knowledge and abilities as are we BUT we've been around him longer so we'll be able too think of things he might decide to have done and have it done by the time he asks for it to be done." Tina said stroking Doris's back.

"Actually it's pretty much because I want you guys too have had some practical application on using this technology because I've got plans that will have you guys largely separated from most of it in a few years." Brian said as the door on his alcove slid open.

"So how much have you heard?" Asked Michelle as she got up to walk over to him.

"Atherian's question." Brian said with a shrug as he slid off the table. "Okay pure and simple guys we've been using these bays too much, so unless it's a emergency we go to Robin and the few deer that have gone medical. So, how long is it until lift-off for the shuttles?"

"Another fifteen minutes and the shuttle with the equipment for the station will be ready for launch Captain. What are your orders with handling the possible Palaricilon life-sign?" Asked Atherian.

"Are there at least three cargo carriers that'll work for troop transports yet?" Brian asked as he went over to the table where the dragon pups had curled up on to sleep off their lunch.

"There will be four more cargo carriers ready in six hours captain two are ready now." Atherian said matter-of-factly.

"Very well Atherian." Brian sighed. "I want those two and the next one to come on-line to be loaded with as many of the Fast Attacks with full battle gear as you can beam in since that'll be the best way to can those sardines. The fourth I want loaded to the hilt with weapons and equipment as well as twenty of the animorphs. Their skills need to cover command, biology, entomology and herbology and whichever course study that you think would be helpful. BUT there is ONE thing that EVERYONE is to keep in mind." He said emphatically. "IF we can keep from genocide we WILL."

"Captain are you out of your MIND?!!" Atherian asked as Tina and the others looked at each other and waited for an explanation.

"No, no I'm not." Brian said calmly. "Atherian what was the ORIGINAL cause of the war between humans and the Palaricilon? Easy little one, just wanted too make sure guys were all right." Brian said as one of the dragon pups woke up and started hissing at him.

"All the records that I have are that the war took place, I do not have the trigger for the war in my records." Atherian said as the babies started waking up and untangling the knot that had formed from sleeping dragon pup bodies. 

"GREAT! Basically I've got to go in and ask WHO was at fault." Brian groaned. "Okay fine, lets do this right. Just how EFFECTIVE will our battle suits and droids be against the Palaricilon if we can't get gas and nerve agents to do the job?"

"The suits and the droids would be able to withstand an extended face to face fight but the main problem will that they will in all likelihood burst through to the surface and spread out making for a harder quarantine." Atherian said as Brian started rubbing his temples.

"How extensive have scans been of the tunnels and caverns? We NEED to know any and all exits and places where the tunnels come close too the surface. We also need to know egg chambers, sleep and food production as well as storage." Brian said as one of the babies rose on its hind legs bracing itself with its tail and started pawing at the air with its front legs at Brian. "Okay little one, come on." He chuckled as he offered the little one a hand to use as a bridge.

"Extensive scans can only be accomplished by a internal inspection since the tunnels are shielded, though the shielding appears too be deteriorating at a exponential rate. Even with the deterioration the tunnels appear to be lined with some form of mineral that distorts the scan making for incredibly inaccurate scans." Atherian said as Brian grimaced at the discomfort that the dragon pup's claws were causing. 

"Are we able to create some kind of cloaked drones that have antigrav abilities?" Asked Brianna.

"We do but the problem is we do not have power packs or power generation that would be able to keep them charged and functional for the time necessary." Atherian intoned as he searched the database.

"Weelll...." Doris stammered. "I've heard that Anais has been going over power generation and accumulation database. We could always ask if he's managed too come up with something that can draw what's needed from that distortion field that's shielding the tunnels from scanning."

"I'll go and ask him if someone'll give me directions." Rachel said eager to be of some use.

"Well if you want to, go ahead and find out Rach. Atherian come up with the absolute minimum power needed by the drones and go several volts above that for a emergency cushion." Brian said as he looked over his shoulder so that he was nose-to-nose with a dragon pup which squeaked from surprise that he know it was back there. "Little one you really need to work on your sneaking up behind someone. Oh and a word of advise, don't climb on who or what you're sneaking up on." He laughed as he rubbed its head with a finger.

"Well at least they're a playful bunch." Laria laughed as she moved her foot so it wouldn't stop the rolling ball of pup bodies as it tumbled around on the floor.

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Laria's head was spinning to say the least! She, Brianna, Rachel and Brian had seen off Tina and that bitch Anilease. Brian had surprised everyone when he had gone up to Anilease and had grabbed her arm and shoved his hand down under her pants, as she was about to protest his actions he had started talking in a harsh whisper. The only one that they MIGHT have gotten answers from had disappeared again and she was beginning to wonder if BRIAN was having any say in what that horse ever did she was so 'preoccupied'. It WAS kind of funny she thought the way Anilease had started whimpering and whining like a 'poor little doggy' had been given a bone with meat still on it! The way that tail had been going she was sure it was going to unscrew itself before it stopped, if had stopped YET she though with a chuckle. She managed to strangle most of the chuckle when she realized it had slipped out, she darted for a door frame in hopes that if anyone had heard her they wouldn't see her and shrug her slip up as hearing things. She couldn't figure what was going on for the life of her. Brian should be getting ready to go squash some bugs and here he was heading for that cavern that he had laid down the law on. NO ONE except for NO ONE not even him was to try to 'improve' that cavern!!! When she had seen the holos of that cavern she understood perfectly why he was so adamant about that, it was beautiful! ANY 'improvements' would only destroy the ambiance of all the stalactites, stalagmites and what not of that cavern. So WHY was Brian following the rabbits that had approached him and led him down the hallway that led to that cavern?

She hid around a corner of the hall as Brian and the rabbits opened the hatch that opened up into the cavern and as the door started close behind them she just managed to slip through. 'DAMN!! THAT could have ended badly.' She thought as she watched three additional blast style doors slide closed and latch with multiple audible clunks and hisses as the half circle catches slid into place and the air in the voids of the locks got sucked out sealing the mechanisms with vacuum. 'So.' She thought. 'Where did everyone go and how am I to get back out?' As she started down the marked path that led from the door she found herself appreciating Brian's stubbornness on leaving the cavern unaltered but also found herself wondering just what the hell was going on!! As she wandered along the paths she could have sworn she saw patterns and patches on the calcite formations that were even more reflective than usual but as it was the first she had ever been in personally she had no idea if they were natural or not. 

"That's far enough." Said a voice right behind her causing her to nearly piss herself. "What are you doing in this place? None but those that are absolute followers of the Remaker may enter here!"

As she turned around she saw three battle suited figures shimmer into view. "What do you mean by 'Remaker'?" Laria asked as two of the figures took up positions on either side of her.

"YOU will find out soon enough and WE will see if you a absolute follower and for your sake you had better be!!" The figure snarled ominously as it turned and walked between two columns and led down a paved path that was made to look like the uneven floor of the cavern. 

"Well at least Brian wo...YAAAAA!!" She screeched as one of the figures swung a electro-staff into the back of her knees.

"NO ONE but the absolute followers may utter the Remaker's name in this place!" Snarled the leader as it hefted her so she look into the face plate.

"Well at least one of my questions is answered but a few more just got asked." Laria chuckled. "So how did you bunnies get the 'Remaker' to allow you to actually congregate down here?" 

"All of OUR questions will be answered inside." Said the figure as it led the way through a holographic column that was backed up against the wall.

"Impressive!" Laria breathed as they entered a large cavern though most of the lower half of the structures that filled the vast expanse was more or less blocked by the mass of bodies that were arrayed in front of them. "It's impossible for ALL of this too have been completed in just a couple of days so HOW....?"

"There was a cavern already back all they had to do was make a entrance." Brian said walking up behind her. "Granted curiosity is rampant around here recently but PLEASE Laria, be CAREFUL!! Some of these guys are more zealotous than others and some.... WAY more." He said gesturing towards the massed animorphs.

"So just what the hell is going on here?" Laria asked as she took another step into the cavern and looking around.

"I guess it's show off time and too show me that they're more than capable of handling what might get handed to humans instead." Brian said with a slight smile.

"Well considering that you're going to be going up against over grown Praying Mantises you're liable to need people that are willing to die for you so soon after becoming sentient, but if they can rework a cavern and make it into a parade of Cathedrals and buildings that are probable far more elaborate than any standard Cathedral this quickly, YOU be careful!" Laria said planted her fists on her hips. "I'd HATE too see what would probably replace these architects."

"You and me both!!" Brian said with a laugh. "Well since we're here let's have a look around especially since everyone's turned out for this and some of them should still be in class or getting fitted for equipment."

"What kind of equipment are we talking of?" Laria asked just as inhuman scream/snarl lifted the hair on the back of her neck, as well as her feet off the ground.

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And in other news the Israeli Internal Affairs Office has announced the planned opening of a gold mine in the southern region Israel in conjunction with Terra-Part Minerals. No further details have been released at this time. 



Forward to the Stars Ch. 13



Any and all comments are welcome though constructive are more appreciated. 

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Laria lay panting struggling to get free as hands held her down. "You REALLY are terrified of Tasmanian Devils aren't you sweetheart?" She heard Brian laugh.

"DAMN YOU!" She snarled as the hands finally released her. "I aught to beat the crap out of you for that." She said as she struggled to her feet where she saw Brian walking towards her holding a black and white fur ball with TEETH while several goblin looking creatures flanking him.

"Might not be the best idea right now." Brian warned her indicating the animorphs that surrounded her. "Anyway that would take up too much time and we BOTH have other more important things to do TODAY, do we not?"

"Yeah yeah." Laria grumbled. "So exactly WHY are there T. Devils here??!"

"Well, considering the LARGE possibilities that Atherian's store of knowledge and technology gives us, I've opted for a 'Noah's Ark' scenario." Brian said rubbing noses with the Devil that he was carrying before he put it down where it scampered off into the forest of legs. "And since T. Devils have been getting cancerous growths on their faces for the last couple of years, they qualify."

"What, a DNA storage bank with two samples per species?" Laria asked with a growing glint in her eyes only to be replaced by panic as a loud pitched 'Squeeee!' and 'NO FISHIE!!' sounded at her feet and Brian was knocked off his feet.

"Hey you cute little squeaker, what's wrong?" Brian laughed as Laria realized that the mass that had tackled Brian looked too have FINS and a AQUATIC MAMMAL'S TAIL as well as the usual limbs.

"THE HELL??!" Laria stammered as the little creature continued to squeee and click its distress.

"What do you mean by 'No Fishies!' little one?" Brian asked ignoring Laria. 

"What she means is that she's filled to capacity and can't eat any more, so we cut her off from trying to shove more down her little dolphin throat. She had resorted to using both hands trying to shove more fish down her throat." Said a rabbit coming up beside Laria. "Anyway it's two per SPECIMEN, not two per species. Now if the two of you would follow me we can begin."

"We apologize for delaying the inevitable Simonne." Brian said with a bow that the Devil-Goblins mimicked causing Laria to smirk. "Anyway little Tabitha." He said turning back to the dolphin. "There is no need to gorge yourself around here, when the food level in your tummy goes down enough for you to get hungry again you can have more. Don't make yourself sick by trying to save some for later." He said as rubbed his nose against hers'.

"Hey wait a fucking minute, hold STILL squirt!!" Laria said grabbing at the little one to get a better look at what appeared to be a large bruise. "What the hell is THIS?" She asked as she pointed to a large nasty colored bruise.

"Lets just say there are more than a few people in a little place in Japan called Taiji where they slaughter huge-ass numbers of dolphins usually Bottlenose around September that found out that while billy-clubs work for the rest of the world, we Americans tend to prefer the tried and true Tire Iron and number ten and number twelve CROWBARS!!"

"I'm going to love it when the psychic abilities that come from bonding with a Psyker Blades finally develop so I can know peoples names when talking to them. Not to mention the fact I'll finally be able to collect the necessary information from your head so I know just what the fucking hell you're talking about!!" Laria grumbled. "Thank you little ones but I'm only slightly better with names than Brian is, so it'll take awhile for me to remember your names." Laria politely told some youngsters that started volunteering their names. "Uh question Brian, WHAT'S up with their ears?"

"What's wrong with our ears?" Whimpered a little rabbit softly as she quickly grabbed at her ears that were lightly tied back behind her head like a ponytail.

"NOTHING, my cute adorable little fluffy bunny butt." Brian cooed gently picking the little bunny up. "She just hasn't been told about ear length being a indicator of being fair game. ALTHOUGH!" He added as he looked at a rabbit that had shown up to collect the little Bottlenose. "Vanilla isn't it?"

"It is my Lord Remaker." The rabbit said with a slight bow as she made a grab at the dolphin.

"Okay let's change that, to ear length is GENERALLY a indication of being fair game." Brian said with smirk and a raised eyebrow.

"NO!" Shrieked the little dolphin as it scurried off again. "MORE FISHIE!" 

"Well anyway the long ears just makes you little ones look SO CUTE and ADORABLE!!" Laria gushed over a little rabbit that she had picked up and was hugging and cuddling. More or less oblivious too Vanilla and Brian's exchanges and to the fact that there were some other youngsters trying to take advantage of the opportunity that Laria offered them with the micro mini-skirt that she was wearing. "Hey you didn't go into that rabbit's mind did you? You KNEW what her name was!" She gasped as they headed off after the rabbit Simonne while the rabbit Vanilla sped off after the young dolphin.

"Since in all likelihood you'll be overwhelmed with all the thoughts you'll hear when your telepathy develops you'll need to decide NOW on the type of wall you're going to envision to act as a mental barrier so you can quiet the symphony and yes, I knew her name." Brian told her as he shooed the youngsters away as they followed Simonne down the lane of cathedral like buildings and their accompanying infrastructure warehouse and supply buildings.

"So, exactly what exactly is going on in these cathedrals and just HOW did you know her name? Did you order for her to be like that?" Asked Laria.

Simonne stopped and looked at Laria before she glanced at Brian. "Believe it or not, even with her more or less liberal point of view, she'll actually be far more useful with some things than Tina, Michelle. Although we will have to see about Brianna." Brian told her with a innocent look on his face. "And no Laria, I had nothing to do with a LOT of stuff down here and I'm not too willing to search out the answers for at the moment but THEY." He said indicating some suited figures stationed on the roofs of the buildings surveying the goings on below them. "Are a STRONG indication of what's been going on."

"As you will my Lord Remaker." Simonne said not looking all that convinced about his assurances about Laria's trustworthiness. "There are three MAIN 'Schools' that are to be practiced within the Legion of the Remade. The Hammer, which will consist of Air force, Navy and Infantry. The Infantry will have a wide array of watercraft, aircraft and armored units. The navy will be both planetary as well as space,though some will be either or both. While some spacecraft will be carriers for planetary ships. Then there are the Sentinels." Gesturing at the figures on top of the buildings. "Which will encompass stealth units with assassins and security forces being but two examples. Oh and master, we are needing more bondings to be allowed for instructors and Night-terrors."

"What do you mean by 'Night-terrors'?" Asked Laria. "Hey I'm serious." She whined when Brian started snickering evilly.

"The idea behind Night-terrors amounts to 'So what if this or that military has several battalions converging on a seemingly unprotected or LIGHTLY protected stronghold?' Especially when those FEW manning said stronghold are capable of turning the attacking armies worst fears into their entire worlds and causing them and their's to die from it?" Brian said with a grin.

"Do not think that being Night-terrors are to be their ONLY duties!" Simonne said looking at Laria. "Then there is the Order. We are the infrastructure, the medical division, the builders and the orderly and planned destruction, we are the caretakers of the Remaker's followers." Simonne said as she indicated that they should enter the grandest of the cathedrals through a side entrance.

"RELIGIOUS caretakers?!" Laria asked as they entered a corridor that the doorway had opened onto.

"Apparently so." Brian said with a shrug. "Makes little difference to me. As long as they get the job done and are loyal, I have no right to interfere in what they do. Part of the reason I have no plans on pushing for Safety Planets AND the fact that I'm curious as to how this'll all work out."

"How what'll work out?" Asked Simonne.

"What is going on here." Brian said motioning around them. "I'm curious to see if a real religion will be spawned or will it all be nothing more than a cult. You see Simonne, you can just about always narrow it down if a belief system is a religion or a cult by asking several basic questions about it and looking at the answers."

"It may sound strange Simonne but wait until you hear what comes out to being pretty much the 'true' ULTIMATE religion. THAT is even stranger." Laria giggled as Brian glared at her.

"No actually it isn't strange, it's fucking WEIRD as HELL!" Brian said emphatically. "The basic rules for telling if a belief system is a cult or a true religion is basically: Number one, Can it survive being questioned? Number two, Can it survive being LAUGHED at? Number three, How does the belief system treat those that question or laugh at it? Are the people that question and laugh at the belief system forced from the community, are they shunned by the community and their families, are those that question and laugh tortured and killed? After answering those questions, ultimately the only 'RELIGION' is that of 'Man-Boobs'."

"Buddha." Laria laughed as Simonne got a totally confused look on her face as Brian offered more derogatory names.

"Well uh, um, ah, history HAS shown that religion is one of the best ways to create a large enough follower base that public opinion keeps the local government from taking any large scale actions against organizations." Simonne managed as they walked passed several petite female deer in black stretch outfits with open backs that were loading a supply closet.

"Not against US anyway." Laria said licking her lips as she eyed one of the deer. "But covert against the public? THAT'S a given."

"Yes, that is WHY creating a new religion is something that if it happens it happens. If not, no loss since it wasn't really a main goal. Now if you'll excuse me for several minutes, Arron here will see to it that you are at stage left at the appropriate time." Simonne said as she walked to a door and palmed it open as the deer that Laria had eyed walked up to them.

"Be CAREFUL Laria!" Brian warned her in a sing-song voice as she started to feel the elevated testosterone levels pumping through her body thanks to the cock that she had been given in the modification bay.

"Why, what's wrong with her?" Laria asked as she lightly stroked the deer's shoulder.

"Other then that deer being a tranny? Nothing, not a fucking damn thing." Brian said with a smile. "That's one of the requirements that the females of the Legion wanted with the maids in their quarters and the Order wanted with the cleaning and maintenance staff. Petite female bodies with increased intelligence with increased chance of that intelligence being passed on to their offspring." Brian said as Laria began grinning with a feral look in her eyes.

"Well, if any of our bases were ever compromised who would think to look for the most dangerous and complex weapon and ship designs in the back of the storage closets?" Asked the deer as Laria pushed him against the wall and started grinding herself on his leg. "And the way Brutus started treating everyone after he was remade kinda helped the women decide they wanted brains far over brawn. For the most part anyway."

"OR the most mentally capable and active minds scrubbing toilets or being the evening entertainment in the women's quarters?" Brian added as he watched Laria start to try to choke the deer by shoving her tongue down its' throat. "Even though I would LOVE to watch the show, we need to get to stage left so get your fingers out of his ass Laria and come on! You know IF there weren't things needing to get done TODAY." Brian said a little louder down at the two bodies that were wrestling trying to dominate one other. "I'd almost be willing to join in on the fun with how hot Arron is! What?" He asked as both Laria and Arron shot him a glance. "When I was younger there was a basic rule to the REALLY hot chicks around town. One; they were underage. Two; they were spoken for. Three; They were lesbians. Four; they were either trannies or cross-dressers. So I came to the conclusion if they wanted to play dress-up, they DESERVED getting cocks shoved up their asses and their guts pumped full of cum and since most trannies usually keep a feminine appearance both with and without clothes, I'll be far more willing to play with them than cross-dressers who generally look like eighty year old bikers in drag. Come to think of it, I'm not really all that sure if some of those people there in Kansas were cross-dressers!" He said with a shudder.

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"Well I see you finally got here." Laughed a animorph as it walked past Brian and Laria onto the stage.

"I can't remember where but, I KNOW I've seen a someone, something that looks like her!" Laria whispered to Brian pointing to the female animorph.

"WELCOME MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WELCOME!" The animorph said as she reached the center of the stage. "I call on you to cast your minds back just a couple of days ago and tell me, tell yourself if no one else. What was it like? Running around out there in the world, I mean. What was it like, not knowing if that day was going to be your last, not knowing if that day was going to be your mate's last day? Your sister's, your brother's, how about your CHILDREN'S last day? Were you or they going to trip and be caught, killed and eaten by a fox, a hawk, how about a bear? Though most of them will be asleep here soon as the winter comes crashing in on these lands." She added with a mirthless chuckle. "Were you or they going to trip and injure yourself, themselves and need to be abandoned so as not bring about EVERYONE'S death? I call up on each and every one of you, what was it like? What was it like, not being able to influence our world? Not able to influence our destinies? Our place of DEATH!!" She paused as several and then more and more of those that sat or stood in person or by tele-screens began to holler.

As the hubbub quieted she once again began to speak. "I now call on you to cast your mind on the last little while that you have been here! Are we not better off than we were? Are our lives not more secure? Yes yes, let me be the FIRST to say that there ARE, WERE AND WILL BE things that we don't like for one reason or tuther but are we not HERE to make this a better place, a better world??!" She hollered before she was once again drowned out by voices though this time in agreement with her statements. "Is not the the Remaker open to valid, REASONABLE concerns, problems, fears? Has he not shown that he is willing to hear and willingly agree to valid, reasonable requests?" She said gesturing at the auditorium that they were in. "Has not the Remaker shown that he is willing to trust us to help him carry out his goals of making life safe for us? For our CHILDREN?" She hollered as once again voices were raised in agreement.

As she waited for the hullabaloo to once again quiet down she motioned for several of the Sentinels to join her on center stage, as the noise ceased she once again began speaking. "Has not the Remaker allowed our bonding with the fiercest of his species' weapons, the Psyker Blades?" She said as she motioned at the Sentinels. "Has he not shown that he is willing to allow us OUR time in the spotlight even though he has assigned humans to the expeditions on and OFF this planet? Has he himself not said that the only reason they are going is because that all but that bitch Anilease has had more interaction with him and so might come up with ideas similar to his own? Has he not said that the ONLY reason that SHE is going ANYWHERE is that she has had FORMAL training in administrating the test of sentience??! Would that not indicate that if there was time for one of US to be instructed in administering the test that she might not even be allowed outside of the base?"

The animorph sighed and looked out over the quiet crowd of animorphs and slid to the floor. "Humanity here on this planet and there is evidence of religions off-world that some-BEING, somewhere, some-TIME created them to be his 'CHOSEN', his PREFERRED, his, his I don't know, his babies I guess." She said with a shrug as she forced herself back to her feet. "His conquerors of all that he created, I suppose. And while they were made to be his chosen while we, WE." She pointed to herself before pointing out into the crowd. "WE were made to be nothing more than LUNCH!" She screamed with a very mirthless sneer. "I don't know, as I haven't asked if the Remaker has eaten our kinds before but." She said gesturing out at the massed animorphs. "BUT I do know that now that we have been remade there is ANOTHER way that he would 'eat' us." She said as many out in the congregation started whooping at that statement. "Yes my sisters, he would rather drink our honey and drink our milk while we drank of his cream." She once again stopped as she was drowned out by the whooping from out in the crowd. 

"When our master first arrived at the Atherian's airlock, he had with him nothing but his clothes and the equine Athena who was the first of the Remade. Soon after a single deer and cottontail was discovered not much farther up the riverbank and were the second and third of his followers." The animorph said when the noise had once again quieted enough that she could be heard. "He had promised Cora that when her infants had been born and had aged enough that they could live without her constant presence he would fuck the crap out of her!! So Tara, if you'll bring out our little hopper." She hollered as she turned towards Brian and motioned him out.

"We are going to have a talk when I get the time Tikal." Brian said under his breath as he passed the animorph. "So Tara, with you having returned your body back to it's original form I take it that you also want some attention." Brian said as he scratched Cora right above her tail.

"I wouldn't mind that ass-fucking if you don't mind." Tara said with help of a voice generator.

"We'll see." Brian laughed. "NOW you cute soft little bunny butt, we WILL be needing THIS!" He said as Tikal handed him a jar of lube.

"Yeah you'll squeal enough with it as is, you little sex pot." Laria said as she held her hand out for the jar. "We don't need to cause you any more pain and agony than we can stand to listen to." She said as she started to slathered the goop on Brian's cock.

"But I think I'd LIKE to hear the little fuzzy whore scream about how 'FULL' she was." Tara snickered as she watched Brian pet Cora.

"Oh don't worry your big ol' Sailtail butt about THAT." Cora said as she shuddered at the thought of Brian's huge cock in her tiny bunny hole. "I'll be letting ALL the world know about my finally being stuffed full of cock!!" She whooped in triumph.

"Now are you totally READY for this?" Brian asked as he to shuddered, though it was due to his feral need to hear Cora scream as she was taken.

"All I can say is you had better NOT chicken out on meee!! HEY wait, don't start pushing into me yet!" Cora squealed as she felt Brian brush the head of his cock against her sex. "I, I want to watch your face when you cum in me."

"Our bodies is not meant to face our partners little sister." Said one of the Sentinels from the side of the stage. 

"I don't care, I want to see his face. Please?" She whispered as she looked over her shoulder at Brian.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 13



"Okay." Brian said with a sigh as he turned her onto her back.

"WAIT, what are you doing?" Cora screeched.

"Well my needy little whore." He said as pushed his thumb into Cora's ass. "While I did lengthen and thicken my cock a bit, I didn't lengthen it enough to get in deep if we are chest-to-chest. So unless you want Athena too fuck you, calm down since you'll still be able to look into my face."

"Alright." Cora grumbled as she wiggled around in his hands. "Hey, oh that feels weird."

"What does?" Asked Laria as she stood fidgeting trying to contain the urges the higher testosterone levels were creating in her.

"Master is pushEEEEAAA!" Laria recoiled as Cora let out a marrow freezing shriek as the head of Brian's cock finally pushed into her sex.

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"Are you okay?" Asked Tara as Brian knelt on the floor after having cum in both Cora's cunt and ass.

"Yeah, yeah I'm okay." He sighed as he leaned his head against her side and clung to her hind leg. "If someone is getting what they deserve I can just stand by and watch while drinking a Pepsi and finishing off a bag of popcorn and not be fazed a bit by their dying screams. It's even possible for me to stand by idly with some peoples kids die horrible noisy bloody deaths. BUT expose me to unjustified pain and suffering and my guts get turned into a block of ice after my blood turns into rivers hate."

"SOOOO, is this where you ask if you can wait on fucking me in the ass?" Asked Tara as she nudged his arm with her nose.

"Let me wash the bunny shit off my dick so I don't give you a infection and I'll be right with you, alright?" He asked as one of the Sentinels motioned for him to follow as he swatted her flank.

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"So, what is it EXACTLY that's got you in such a pit?" Asked a voice behind Brian as he finished washing his cock off. "And DON'T give me that crap of needing to wash shit off your cock."

"This is the MALES' washroom Laria." Brian said softly as he leaned down to splash water in his face.

"I'm a herm and the AI that's a she I guess, knows this and let me past and don't try to dodge the question! I KNOW there's more to this than Cora's screams." Laria said as she leaned against the side of a stall. "I know what it is!" She gasped. "You're afraid you're going to grow to enjoy being worshiped! THAT'S why you're not willing to dig for answers, most of these furballs are already worshiping you and you KNOW IT!! All this is about is showing off and bringing in the rest into the fold. ISN'T IT??" 

"I would have to look into it to find out one way or another. But what fears I've got about any religions or cults they start is the two or so percent of the human population that's worth a damn. I don't give a DAMN about ninety-eight percent of humanity and you know it, it's the rest that's worth a damn that I'm afraid for." Brian said softly as he leaned on the vanity. "Except for those few out of the entirety of the human race I could pour acid on the lot of them and get a better nights sleep than I have in years and you know it. Hell if we doused your old boss you'd probably be pissed off we didn't let you do the pouring."

"OF COURSE I WOULD!" Laria snarled. "He fucking tried to rape me, he got me addicted to crystal meth and got me fucking wigged out on the LSD that he slipped me, so of course I'd be PISSED."

"Well if nothing else he proved my point that the cool-aid that's served at Damnocrat and Liberal conventions IS made with grape cool-aid, LSD and Crystal meth." Brian said with a grin as he looked over his shoulder at her as she snorted her amusement.

"Whatever, anyway just what is it that's got you so down?" She pushed.

"Technically if we can't come up with a more potent power source and batteries if we can't find a small enough power generation option, we're dead in the water." Brian sighed dragging himself around to look in Laria's face. "Dead enough that all the animorphs out there were better off as they were."

"Better off as in being dinner?" Laria asked softly making sure she understood him.

"Yeah, better off as being dinner. That's why there's so much riding on Tina and Anilease and what they find out there." Brian said waving his hand up above them.

"We'll come up with something don't worry about it, who knows maybe the Palaricilon will have the power source we need." Laria interjected with a grin.

"Doubt it, last records showed the power source they had was.... touchy. Even though the quasi-jell that they used was very efficient at energy generation, it was also very much in the way of a highly mutagenic substance. IF we can come up with some of that goop, we very well MIGHT be able to create some kind of barrier that'll dampen the mutagenic energy field." Brian said energetically. "BUT the trick will be to get it IF and I do mean IF the Palaricilon even have any of that stuff anymore."

"Well you can always send a message to Anilease to check that gunk that she's to test for sentience." Laria suggested.

"Already been suggested and done. That'll have to be done after the tests though, so unless the Praying-Mantises are willing to play nice we're going to have to wait for at least another week before we can even THINK to test if that stuff is power jell!" Brian said leaning his head against Laria's shoulder.

"Well how strong are those powers that the Psykers give?" Asked Laria as the sound of a toilet flushing startled them both.

"Enough to link minds but unless one of the animorphs knows of some herbs or something that can at the very least give limited access to the Infinity Library, we're still pretty much dead in the water!" Brian said gloomily as a animorph did his beast to slip by and wash his hands while not bothering their conversation.

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"So you need something to expand your perceptions enough that a new and far more powerful reliable power supply can be found." Said a voice causing Brian to shift his attention away from the dispersing throng of animorphs that crowded the cathedral. "So as not to make those of our kind that are still mindless beasts the lucky ones. Also I to am curious as WHY you do not need to probe some of our minds to know what we are called."

"Mobius." Brian said turning his attention back to the exiting crowd.

"Excuse me?" The Sentinel asked.

"Mobius. Outside of Looney Toons and Thunder Bluff and Disney, Mobius is the largest collection of animorphic beings there is. When I saw Vanilla and then the suits reminiscent of the Dark Brotherhood out of that Sonic the Hedgehog video game and then finally Tikal, it was all to obvious." He sighed. "When Tikal gave that speech, my suspicions were confirmed. So what is and what has and is not going to be created or RE-created....SHADE?"

"So you even know me?" The Echidna asked pulling off the fabric like hood of her suit.

"A little obvious with that marking on your headband." Brian said with a sigh. "Has Laria FINALLY left?"

"She has My Lord. Now try answering a question instead of dodging them like you do are doing too everyone." Shade snarled at him. "ARE we that desperate for a better power source."

"Both yes and no." Brian said turning to face her. "Now I have a question for you. How long at full usage will the power supply to your suit last? How limited are we with the battery tech that we are dependent on? The power generation we are dependent on? Yes yes, the Psyker Blades and their partners were more than a match for the Imperial forces that assailed them during the Akarlian Revolt, but even then in hand-to-hand combat and guerrilla style fighting the Empire would have lost and done so in a major way. Small hand weapons, hell our own Electro-staffs are very limited in the number of times they can be used before they need to be recharged."

"But the Electro-staffs recharge..." Shade started to say before Brian held up a finger interrupting her.

"Yes, BUT very slowly and only IF they are close too power sources that are set up too remotely recharge them. Something you should know if you are going too be of use in the Sentinels, a school of training that supplies security forces." Brian said looking over his shoulder at several approaching animorphs.

"Well I do not know if it will work but there are herbs that humans that followed the Druid and Shaman belief system that supposedly expands the mind. During the time that you spent outlining your thoughts on how to bring this planets population under Imperial style rule, we had several of them collected and analyzed." Shade said as several cups of liquid were uncapped. "They all have been cleared of having harmful elements in them but they have several compounds that might actually... help."

As Brian stood contemplating his next actions Ashilon and Icialan assumed their places at his right and left sides. "Before you decide to use these, remember you have had the limiters at steadily increasing levels since they were completed, you may not need to make use of these 'herbs'." Icialan said softly putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Indeed, you very well might be able to divine the necessary course of action by just removing them." Ashilon interjected.

Brian stood there staring at the cups and eying Ashilon and Icialan. "OR we can combine them." He said as he reached behind his head to deactivate the limiter that was interfering with his psyonic abilities.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 14



Well I had planned on Chapter 13 being the last for the Memory Base chapters for a while, that's why it was so sloppy but had to get Rachel's problems out of my system so here's yet another one. Still any and all comments are wanted and welcome though constructive are more so.

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"Alright, what the hell fucking hell HAPPENED???" Athena snarled as her hooved feet thudded across the floor of the Order's Medical Facility towards the unnerved Sentinels. "What the fucking hell did you mentally unbalanced pincushions DO??!"

"We didn't do anything, I SWEAR!!" Stammered Shade as she maintained her position between the furious equine and the other Sentinels. "The Remaker was becoming upset because of the time that was passing in our search for more power generation options and we sugges..." 

"Just shut the fucking hell up!" Athena snarled. "YOU listen to ME. IF the captain's been fucked up by that psycho-juice he guzzled, I fuck you up. Comprende?? Now since he's going to sleep himself out, I'm heading over to Africa to make sure all is in readiness for the assault when he finally gets there. But if I hear of any more bullshit from the LOT of you, I'm going to char your minds clean of ANY mental abilities you did have or WILL have. Again, COMPRENDE? Until I get back and Brian wakes up, RACHEL is in charge." And with that she stormed out of the Facility leaving unnerved and upset animorphs in her wake.

"It is quiet interesting that her feet can make noise on these floors, is it not?" Asked the male deer that was in charge of the facility. "This carpeting is supposed to deaden sound but it actually amplified the clop of her hooves."

"Might be interesting to you but doesn't help us one bit!" Snapped one of the Sentinels as he leaned against a bed.

"Yeah." Said another. "The Squirrel Queen, of all beings, to have been put in charge, who's SHE to come HERE and tell US what to do?"

"She's to follow orders just as WE will, that's WHO!" Shade said as she turned towards the bed that Brian had been sleeping on since he had been placed there after he had gotten dizzy and collapsed after downing two of the teas that had been prepared. 

"Well at least he suddenly decided NOT to deactivate that limiter that he's got on his neck." Said the first Sentinel.

"Yeah, who knows what would have happened if he had deactivated that disk of metal." Said another Sentinel as she made for the door to go get Rachel.

"Well I CAN tell you one thing that would have happened." Said Shade as she got another blanket out of a closet to wrap up in. "We'd be without the Remaker and we'd be answering to Athena and then his consorts. Hopefully he found what he wanted to find where ever he went. "Hey Nicole, do you have any information on what happened with Ashilon and Icialan?"

"No, I'm sorry but neither Atherian nor Archimedes knows or is willing to admit to knowing what happened after Brian collapsed in the Grand Court. But since both Atherian and Archimedes are still sorting out and delivering MASSIVE amounts of information, neither might have the resources to look through data-files to find out." Said the AI that was in charge of the cavern and its occupants.

GREAT!" Sighed Shade. "Well, at the very least we can take the information about the data overload that's being dealt with that the Remaker FOUND what he was looking for. Well until he sleeps himself out, six hour watch shifts. Pass the word through the ranks, I'll take first watch." She said as she guided a chair from the far side of the room to Brian's bed with her mind.

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"Um excuse me, is anyone here?" Rachel stammered as she, Otulissa and Tiffany slipped into the Medical Facility a short time later.

"Yes, yes there is indeed." Said a deer as she came out of the office that was situated close to the door. "You're Rachel I presume?" 

"Uh yeah, um I was told that Athena said 'I' was to be in charge?" Rachel asked looking around wide eyed.

"Thats what she said, she said that, that's what the lady said, she said that." Laughed a voice behind her. "But seriously, since NONE of us want to get on Athena's bad side we had better play nice, so what's your orders?"

"Yeah." Rachel whimpered as she turned to face Shade. "Um listen, I doubt you want me down here any more than I want too be down here in this capacity, so let's just go as slowly and safely as possible! Or is that to much to ask?" 

"Not as far as we're concerned but with the Remaker asleep for who know how long, we might not have much of a say in that." Shade said gesturing towards Brian's bed where he was curled up in a ball. "He's only moved three times since he's been here, twice to change position and once to go the restroom."

"Well spread the word to lock this place down as best as can be done." Rachel sighed. "The girls and I can stay here and watch Brian if you want to leave and do whatever you had plans for."

"Just changing some Clouded and Snowy Leopards into Legionnaires and storing more DNA samples." Shade offered as she started to unwrap the blanket from around herself.

"Well, willing to give me a hand in getting comfortable? If the staff in here doesn't mind the back part of their room having some mattresses and blankets thrown together for something more more comfortable than their hard beds." Rachel asked looking around at the beds with disgust.

"Well what did you have in mind?" Asked the deer that was in charged of the facility.

"A mattress or two and a couple of blankets is all it would take." Rachel offered.

"Well let's check and see what we can do. It's not like we're going to have a lot of company in here very soon." Laughed the medical attendant. "Anyway it's for the Remaker."

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"Well that should do it." Rachel said as the last blanket was wrestled under the last corner of the mattress. "Alright Otulissa, you and Tiffany lay down on the mattresses and we'll put Brian between you. Just leave enough room for me between you two okay?" She pleaded as she grabbed at several blankets too drape over the squirrel's large bodies.

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Rachel groaned as she woke from a deep sleep and tried to turn over onto her side. Rachel came awake with a start when she felt a weight on her lower abdomen pinning her on her back, as she began to panic she felt Otulissa shift and felt both Otulissa and Tiffany's noses poke her on her head and shoulder. As she felt their noses nudge her she started to remember where she was and realized what the weight on her was. Brian had shifted in his sleep and had curled up into a ball and was using her as a pillow not all that bad in of itself BUT what was she realized, was that he was a DROOLER!! "UGH! Just getting your face close to pussy gets your mouth watering, huh big boy?" She asked as she scooted up against Otulissa and slid out from under Brian. "Well first things first!" She said amusedly as she could before she headed to the restroom where she stripped her drenched panties off. "Damn it! Just what have they done to me THIS TIME?" She grumbled as she noticed a downy covering of platinum blond fur where a small triangle of hair had been earlier when she had put on the red panties that were now completely drenched. As she rung out her panties in the sink she heard soft whimpering in one of the stalls. "Hello? Everything okay?" She quietly asked as she stood outside the stall the whimpering appeared to come out of.

"Oh PLEASE, not in HERE TOO!! I've done my six tonight, just leave me ALONE, please? I've been fucked raw by you sex crazed females so PLEASE, just leave me alone for the next two nights so I can heal a bit before you rutting females can get your paws on me again! PLEASE??" Whimpered a small voice from the other side of the door.

"Wooah, easy big guy! I'm not going to do anything to anybody, besides isn't this the ladies room?" Rachel asked looking around. "Oh damn!!" She said under her breath as she saw the urinals over on the side wall. "Damn it, um uh sorry I, I'll be going no... yayyy!!" She screamed as she backed up against something.

"Easy Rach, easy." Brian laughed grabbing her shoulder to steady her. "NO ONE is going to do a thing to you unless you are willing." 

"Yeah, it's you women that's going to be the ones to do anything!" Came a quick accusation from the stall before the voice fell silent again.

"You know Skye, MOST guys would LOVE to be hunted down and fucked by sex crazed women." Brian laughed.

"YOU try it and tell me WHAT'S so great about it! YOU try putting on salve on a penis that's retreated so far back into its sheath that it can't be coaxed out no matter what you try!" Skye sobbed from the other side of the stall door. 

"Skye your sister is outside in the office waiting to take you back too your guy's rooms so come on out and WE'LL help you, okay?" Brian said as he looked at Rachel to see if she'd help get Skye out of the stall.

"Uhh, right, right!" Rachel stammered. "Let me wring out my underwear, no thanks to Brian here." She said with a grin until she saw that his own underwear had at least a three inch gap because of his hard-on. "And let me slip into the ladies room which should give Brian a minute or two to get HIS penis distracted." She said as she slipped out the door.

"YOU'RE the only one that thinks it's distracted." Brian called after her. "NOW." He said turning back too the occupied stall. "Get out here Skye so we can slather your dick up."

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"So, THIS is Skye??" Rachel softly asked as she exited the ladies restroom and looked around and saw a thin petite fox standing with Brian. As she looked at the fox she felt a unfamiliar clenching in her navel one that she found disturbing when it traveled down to her sex and started a throbbing ache. "Can we just get this over with?" She begged when she felt her nipples start to harden and she started to grow lightheaded with a need to feel him against her body.

"Actually this is Tails, Skye's sister." Brian said with a small laugh when he noticed her immediate deflation. "The identical sibling cowering on the bed is Skye. Now let's see what we can do." Brian said as he moved to the bed and gently stroked the arm of the petite feminine fox.

"Come on Skye! How many of us can actually say that we've had the Remaker help them?" Tails softly asked her brother as she pulled him into a sitting position.

"A lot act. sis, now can you guys just leave me alone?" Skye pleaded as he just slumped back down onto the bed.

"NOT until your dick's been covered in that healing salve! NOW, sit up and git it OUT!" Snapped the medical attendant. 

"Guys ENOUGH!!" Snarled Rachel surprising Brian, though he recovered quickly enough and leaned back a bit with a evil smirk on his face. "What??!" She snapped at Brian. "Can't you guys see that he's been hurt and I'm NOT talking about his equipment! Hell, YOU of all people should be able to see at least THAT Brian."

"Well?" Brian asked as he gestured towards the crying fox.

Rachel looked at Brian and shifted her gaze at the mass of fur and wondered what he was trying for. As she stood there looking at Skye, Tails moved behind her and gave her a push. "Well? Since you obviously know better than us on how to get him to be cooperative then why don't you show us how?"

As Rachel moved to the bed she growled as she passed Brian and elbowed him as hard as she could. "Come on big guy." She cooed gently as she knelt down by Skye's head. "'I' KNOW what it's like to be fucked constantly against your will." She said softly as she stroked his ears. "It's PART of the reason I'm even here, now come on get up so we can help you feel better." 

"Don't try that with me, you know nothing of what they did to me!" Skye snarled in Rachel's face as pulled his head out from the crook of his arm.

"You're right I don't but I do know that's easier for you guys than it EVER will be for us girls!" Rachel snarled back at him snapping. "You'll NEVER know what's it's like, you'll never know what it's like to wake up one morning and have to race to the bathroom to puke your guts out and realize it's morning sickness! You'll never know what it's like, that devastating weight, the knowledge that you're pregnant! The pain, the humiliation, the fear, the knowledge that all you are to your father and brothers at the end of the day is a fucking BREEDING SOW!!" She shrieked as she burst into hysterical sobs as she took swing after swing at the fox's head. "And no matter how many times they get you pregnant, they'll get you pregnant again and again AND AGAIN!! You'll NEVER understand what it's like so don't you start trying to lecture ME about a GOD-DAMNED THING YOU FUCKING GOD-DAMNED FUZZ-ASS!!" She shrieked as she launched him off the bed with one last swing.

As Skye lay on the floor listening to Rachel's sobs he noticed the shadows shifting about his head, as he looked up he saw Brian looking down at him. "Now, do you understand? While you may not like being a plaything, always remember that girls get the short end of the stick. It's part of the reason women have except for a VERY FEW religions and societies have been IF they were lucky, second class citizens. Some of the time even slaves were better off than the women."

"What do you mean?" Skye asked as he finally began too pick himself up off the floor.

Brian sighed. "If all men were to disappear right now, humanity could more or less survive because when it comes down to it women NATURALLY have most of the equipment necessary for the propagation of our species. BUT if WOMEN were too disappear, the equipment for artificial wombs is NOT all that well developed or spread out enough to keep most of the population from dying off before it was. You see, women carry both the egg and the womb while we men just carry the sperm. We are only responsible for a third of the equation for a new life to be created. We're responsible for 'Wham bam, thank you ma'am!' and we're out, while the woman gets stuck with some serious weight issues, nutritional issues and the chemical shifts that goes on in her body. It's like the saying goes 'Any male can be a father but only a man can be a dad!' So what if you have the testicular capacity to impregnate a female? It means nothing except that you're a dick if you don't have enough backbone to stick around AFTER that and beyond!"

"SSOOO... about me and those of us that are like me, I don't understand how we measure or are supposed to measure up to that." Skye said softly as he looked down at his feet.

"Well considering that we BOTH are talking on terms of human ways of thinking I'm not to sure myself." Brian chuckled. "But I DO know that you are smart enough to find an answer if for no one else but yourself. Now, do we have to tie you down and winch your dick out or are you going to cooperate?"

"I don't know if I can get it out but I'll try." Skye said straining the muscles in his lower abdomen. "What?" He asked testily when he heard Brian snort.

"Are you trying to get it out or are you trying to shit all over the place?" Tails asked as she came up beside Brian holding the squeeze bottle of salve.

"Among other things we need to rinse out his sheath." Brian said guiding Skye over to a side room.

"Come on!" Skye wailed. "I thought you only wanted to burn my dick off with that stuff, not blow me up and pop me like a balloon first!"

"And if we DON'T, you get an infection and you rot your guts out while you die slowly and painfully, now suck it up and stick it out." Tails said slapping him on the back of his head as he stepped onto the grated floor of the medical shower stall.

"Just think Skye." Brian said as the medical attendant detached the shower head from the wall and punched in the necessary rinse on the waterproof keypad that was up by the bracket. "If this had been completed EARLIER, we wouldn't be needing to deal with this all this rinsing gunk off and out." He said as he helped pry open Skye's sheath from behind the fox so it could be rinsed out.

"PLEASE can you HURRY it UP???" Skye asked straining against the burn.

"As fast as we can big guy." Brian said gently as he nipped at the back of Skye's neck.

"Wha, what are you doing?" Panted Skye.

"We need to do more than rinse you out or have you forgotten and with how tense you are you'll never get it out so we can get you all slathered up?" Brian asked as he noticed Rachel come into the room.

"Really that's something one of us girls should be doing Brian." Rachel said softly as Brian moved out of the way. "And thanks!" 

"No prob sweetheart, as long as you've finally gotten it out of your system. Well, as much as you can anyway." Brian said with a chuckle.

"No WAIT! What's she doing??!" Asked a panicked struggling Skye as Rachel slid in front of him and drew him into a hug.

"Thank you Skye!" Rachel whispered as she took a step back and reached behind her back and unclasped her half cup bra. "Will you let me help you, like you helped me?"

"Rachel." Brian laughed. ""No matter how hard you try you CAN'T help him like he helped you. Even if he didn't know he was helping you and come to think of it all you did was beat the crap out of him and scream at him."

"I'm sorry okay." She snarled at Brian. "WILL you let me help as best I can?" She asked Skye as she turned back to him. 

"Please just make the pain stop!" Skye whimpered as Brian restrained his arms.

"Brian just let him go, okay?" Rachel asked as she reached for his shoulders with her hands to draw him into her arms. "I don't know your pain like you don't know mine but maybe we can help each other live with our pain." She softly said as she drew his muzzle down into a gentle kiss. "SHH." Rachel cooed when Skye started to whimper when she took his lip in her own. "Just let your body do the talking, love. You need to be around someone that ISN'T wanting to get laid, while I need to be around a man that isn't human. Sorry about that Brian." She said while Brian just looked on with a smile and misty eyes.

"Don't worry about it gorgeous, I knew that we'd never be able to work out more than you taking care of the squirrels! So do we try and take the species barrier out of your eggs so you can have little foxes or do we work it that you have little squirrel kits?" Brian asked as he reached down between Skye's legs and gently started to massage his scrotum.

"STOP THAT Brian, he's MINE!!" Rachel snapped when Skye started to pant and lick her face and neck. "For now I don't know, just leave me be. I just need someone to love me and be with me. Will you do that for me, will you help me?" Rachel asked as she finally felt the moist hardness of Skye's cock slide against her abdomen. "Come on big guy, time to learn how to use your tongue!" She said as she guided his muzzle down to her breasts in an attempt to distract him from when the salve was to be slathered on his dick. 

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"You think they'll be okay?" Tails asked as an exhausted Skye was laid down next to a equally naked and exhausted Rachel. 

"OH YEAH!" Brian chuckled. "I think they'll get along quite well. To bad I can't spend the time to get to know you better my little vixen." He said drawing her into a kiss while he groped her ass through her jumpsuit. 

"Why don't you? It's not like you haven't taken the time before." Tails purred as she began to unzip her suit exposing her green bra accented by her golden fur. 

"Because Doris hasn't completed her work just yet and I'd like to put at least a little bit of a dampener on my escapades. Without consequences of my screwing around I'll fuck my dick off like just six females nearly did to Skye."

"Is that all?" Tails pouted.

"Not a damn bit of it! I want to fuck you so god-damned bad right now with or without the species barrier you couldn't HELP but get so damned big you couldn't even sit up much less see over the edge of you baby-bulge. Of course." Brian said with a evil grin on his face." You wouldn't be able to stop my humping your baby-bulge then, would you?" He said as he pulled her head back as he started to kiss and nip at her throat. 




Forward to the Stars Ch. 14



"What is it about you and baby-bulges?" Tails panted as Brian fondled her right breast.

"It's a primal thing Tails." Brian chuckled. "Babies are continuation, they are our future. No matter how advanced a society is, even if it was capable of biologic immortality it MUST have continuation or it will die. It might not PHYSICALLY die out but it will grow stagnant and it will for all practical purposes become a 'ZOMBIE'."

"Soooo... are you going to fuck me?" Asked Tails hopefully.

"Later." Brian said as he slapped her ass. "You can count on it!!!!" He said as the door slid closed on his and Tiffany's retreating forms.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 15



To those that like this story, sorry for having taken so long in getting this chapter out. All comments are welcome and wanted, though the more constructive are more so!! Though if you won't comment at least vote that way I get SOME response. PLEASE??



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"So you're Marcus Fisher. I hope you're brains worth all this trouble." Said the young woman getting unsteadily to her feet.

"And WHAT do you mean by that?" Snapped Margaret, Marcus's sister.

"What I mean is that we have put a lot of trouble in tracking down someone that is into Sci-Fi and Fantasy but also down to Earth AND in a position that greatly amplifies the chance that ALL we have to say will actually be listened to." Said the brunette as she moved towards Margaret and her brother.

"So basically all you and whoever you are working for are nothing more than predators," Marcus said eying this young woman's body as any red-blooded teenager would.

"Harsh; but not necessarily inaccurate. The name's Brianna and while we DID look over possibilities like a pack of wolves on the hunt, we are more than willing to make it worth your while to listen." Brianna said offering her hand to Margaret and looked rather puzzled at Marcus.

"Make it worth our while, HOW? THEN, we will see if we are on friendly terms." Margaret said eying Brianna's hand.

"First, let's start off with an overview as to how Marcus here ended up as a quad." Brianna said leaning against the principle's desk.

"No, not actually. Let's start with WHY Mr. Abernathy is sitting at his desk looking like a cardboard cutout." Marcus said a little alarmed at the usually uptight asshole sitting at his desk bug-eyed and as stiff as a hundred year old oak.

"Mental blast at the correct area of his brain which will leave him stunned for the next hour and a half but, after that he'll be his usual charming self." Brianna said in an off-handed manner. "Now back to the overview. Last year Marcus, you and your youngest brother Thomas somehow managed to talk your Catholic parents into taking you all to last year's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Convention in Vegas, correct?"

"Yeah." Marcus sighed. "And afterwards as we were leaving Vegas we were involved in a car wreck with a bunch of damned illegals. They were at fault but since WE were the legals and had insurance, we were the ones that were held responsible by the courts and the construction firm that the illegals worked for. So WE were the ones that were handed the bills along with the medical bills, never mind the fact that I nearly had my head ripped off leaving me a quadriplegic."

"Even though mom's bringing in good money with her job at a reality agency and dad with a travel agency, the bills are just too much." Margaret said on the verge of tears from the impotent rage at the injustice of the court system.

"And so with all the bills having piled up, you all are on the verge of losing your home and all you own, Correct?" Brianna asked.

"In a nut shell." Marcus snarled. "So what are you offering to make it worth my time to listen to what you have to say?"

"WE pay off your bills including household EXCEPT phone and the same treatment that I endured with the same promise." Brianna said smiling at the shocked looks.

"What treatment and what promise?" Margaret asked.

"You see seven years ago I too was in a car wreck, luckily for me though I was only nearly ripped in half and not decapitated." Brianna said unable to keep from snickering. "SORRY! Anyway, the promise that I was given is that all they were going to promise is that they would TRY to return feeling to my lower half. IF they managed more than that, who's complaining?" She asked shrugging.

"It's not that I'm ungrateful for the offer but what is it that you are wanting me to do IF you can actually do all that?" Marcus asked after several minutes of thought.

"Valid! Okay, what we are needing is someone that is into Sci-Fi and Fantasy, can think outside the porthole and might actually be willing to help us give back to humanity our birthright with or without the blessing of the powers that be." Brianna said with a vile sneer and clenching her fist.

"So, what do you mean by 'outside the porthole' and willing to help give humanity it's birthright back with or without the blessing of people that pulls the governments strings?" Asked Marcus.

Brianna smile gently as she returned to where she had been sitting and picked up an manila envelope. "In time Marcus, in time. In the meantime, here are copies of MY X-Rays, the last of the bills should be payed by this evening while it may take a day or two longer to finalize the house. Once everything is accomplished, the deed will be returned to its rightful owners. This weekend a transport will be dispatched to collect you and your family to take you to the medical center."

"HEY WAIT, I didn't agree to any of thi....... that was a matter transport beam wasn't it sis??" Marcus asked after Brianna disappeared in the glowing pillar of shimmering light.

"You're the Sci-Fi geek, you tell me!!" Margaret said weakly as her mind struggled with what she had seen.

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"So how was your day Mark?" Marcus's younger brother Thomas asked as he joined Marcus and Margaret outside the high school. "Heard you get called to the office, what the atheist want this time? To try to convince you again that there isn't a God since a loving God wouldn't allow bad things to happen to his people?"

"Let's get home and talk to dad. Hey whys Lee not at practice?" Marcus asked looking as their older brother walked up them.

"I'm on light duty for the next week for a quote end quote sprain. You guys will NOT believe my day. Let's just get home before anything else happens." Lee groaned as he led the way to his van.

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"Oh no!" Margaret groaned as they pulled up too their house. "Who the heck is that guy?" She asked indicating the tall, stick thin no-nonsense looking man talking to their father.

"I don't know BUT he sure as heck can't be taken to seriously much with that pink suit!" Thomas snickered.

"Considering that he's probably serving eviction papers, that pink suit probably helps him survive too serve papers another day by making people laugh to hard to concentrate on him." Lee said disheartedly.

"Well let's get out and see if that Brianna was full of bullshit." Marcus said earning gasps from his siblings at his language.

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As the siblings finally exited the van, the man in the pink suit turned and walked away from their father. "Hey!" Lee hollered. "You're that guy that.... whaaat the hell just happened?" He stammered, as the man seemed to vanish like morning fog in a brisk breeze.

"Normally I would say something about your uncivil tongue Lee but how can I, when all 'I' can say is this has been one very fucked up day." Their father whimpered as he slid too his knees.

"WHAT'S WRONG DADDY?" Margaret asked hugging her father.

"BELIEVE ME, IF I had ANY idea of what the HELL was going on I'd tell you but I don't! All I can say is God is finally answering our prayers." Richard sobbed as he got up and started twirling his daughter around in his arms.

"That all our bills except phone have been paid for and someone is in the process of getting the house with a promise of giving us the deed in exchange for Mark listening to them?" Margaret asked.

"For the next THREE YEARS!" Richard said dumbstruck. "How?"

"Someone came to the school today and..... let's just wait for mom, who knows what she'll have to tell us." Margaret said shaking her head.

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Marilyn Fisher pushed the door open and all but fell in the front door of the house. "MOM are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm okay Megan." Margaret's mother said as she unloaded her arm full of papers onto the hall table. "And after my day, I am NOT going to ask where people got the money for pizza." She said after taking a deep breath.

"WE didn't order it mom, 'they' did." Margaret said. "Now come on, let's eat and tell each other about our screwed up day."

"I take it that I was not the only one that's had people visit them and.... well, like you said let's eat and compare stories." Marilyn said as she followed her daughter into the living room where the pizzas were.

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"I have to at least listen to what they have to say." Marcus said firmly.

"If they've spent this much money just to get you to just listen to them of course you are going to at least listen to what they have to say. BUT I want you to be VERY skeptical of whatever they say and DON'T say." Richard said emphatically.

"That's a given dad." Marcus said smiling. "Personally I don't care how many times I have to go through that 'procedure', I am going to walk again. If nothing else, I'm going to be able to hold my own slice of pizza."

"Well if that guy can put a metal shell around a compound fracture and an hour and a half later when the doctor finally figures out how to take the shell off and that section bone is in better shape than the surrounding bone, it seriously suggests that you'll at least get feeling back bro." Lee said with a smile.

"Are you sure that the doctor actually figured out how to get the shell off and not the shell came off on its own AFTER completing what it was meant to do?" Thomas asked.

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Margaret groaned as she shifted on her bed. As her mind slowly began to work again she figured that she'd had been dreaming again since she was even more exhausted than when she'd gone to bed the night before. "Sing better dreams?" Squeaked a high-pitched voice. A gut and blood chilling terror swept through her as she felt a mass shift on her bed. As she shifted to look behind her she felt the mass shift again. "Sing better dreams?" Came the question again as she saw the blue-gray skinned dolphin head next to her face drug out a terror-ladened shriek from her lungs. "No good dreams?" Came a sad squeak.

"Yo sis what's.... the heck?" Lee managed as he stuck his head in her room and took in the crying animorph.

"Remaker see Marggie have bad dreams. Remaker send Tabie-tha sing better dreams. Tabie-tha fail Remaker. Tabie-tha no more fishies." Wailed the little dolphin as sobs racked the little body.

"And just who or WHAT is this 'Remaker'? Richard said as he stood in the doorway as Margaret wrapped her arms around the little dolphin and tried to console her.

"So that was REAL dolphin squeaks and clicks that kept me up all night, I thought sis had on one of her CDs again." Thomas groaned as he stuck his head into the room before bolting for the bathroom just as Marilyn started her mad dash for the bathroom as well.

Margaret couldn't help but grin at Thomas' 'NO FARE!!' as their mother made it to the bathroom first and slammed the door shut inches from his fingers being in the doorway. "What do you mean by that this 'Remaker' SAW I was having bad dreams?" She asked the dolphin continued its sobbing and her eyes filled with tears.

"Remaker see, taste, mind, emotions, being with being." The dolphin squeaked out between sobs.

"So this 'Remaker' is a telepath? Why would he, she, whatever care about our sleep?" Asked Marcus from the hallway.

"HE!! HE care for those worth care for!" Wailed the dolphin.

"Well THAT kinda answers part of the question anyway." Lee chuckled. "Say Tabitha, that is your name isn't it?" He asked as the dolphin continued to bawl. "Is this 'Remaker' the one that sent that guy in the pink suit and that Brianna yesterday?"

"Dilithium/harcorium machine man?" Sniffed Tabitha as everyone stared at her.

"I'll take that as a yes." Marilyn said as she came into the room. "By the way how are you talking?"

"Voice generator." Marcus and Tabitha said at the same time. "So Tabitha." Marcus said taking the opportunity that was created by the startled Tabitha. "Since everyone in the neighborhood is probably up because of Megan's scream what are we supposed to do with you?"

"Want Tabie-tha stay?" Sniffed the little dolphin. "But me no sing good dreams!"

"Well 'I' have nothing against it, don't know about anyone else but I don't and besides you probably really DID help her sleep better, she wasn't up fixing breakfast hours ago. The reason I was asking is that everyone's got things to do today, which will leave the house empty for most of it." Marcus said smiling. "Besides, how would you stay wet all day? We don't have a pool."

"Ask." Tabitha sniffed as she pushing a spot on her bodysuit and hold up her left arm.

"This is Legion Command, what is the situation Tabitha?" Came a voice from the suits wristband.

"Want stay, no wet." Squeaked Tabitha.

"RRRAA! I swear you ARE going to go back into that pod and learn how speak right you stupid fish and besides what do the Fishers think of your wanting to stay there?" Asked the voice.

"I'm more interested in this 'Remakers' sudden interest in our lives." Richard said loud enough to be heard. "If nothing else we can fill the bathtub for her."

"You DON'T want to do that!!! She splashes! I know because I had to help drain three of the flooded halls." Came the voice. "As to his interest, it can be better explained here when you see what Marcus Fisher is being asked to assist with."

"So, basically what's going on is this 'Remaker' is trying to butter me up into taking this.... whatever?" Marcus said at the near desperation that such actions indicated. "And anyway call me Mark, PLEASE?"

"Very well...Mark." Said the voice. "IF no one in your family minds Tabitha staying there and no one minds the instillation of what I understand is generally referred to as an 'Endless Pool' and the instillation of a cold fusion power generator at your residence."

"You're kidding? An Endless Pool????!" Margaret squealed. "I've ALWAYS wanted one of those."

"NO KIDDING." Marilyn said. "But how big will this cold fusion generator be and won't there be radiation?"

"NOT with a fusion generator. Those things generate energy without possible radiation leakage and with a COLD fusion there won't be any heat generated from it either." Mark said excitedly. "Can we hook up the house to it and stop drawing on the power grid?"

"To stay under the radar; you must continue to draw from the grid. Although we can install a limiter that will keep the draw to the absolute minimum." Said the voice. "Also the generator is about the size of a washer/dryer double decker combination."

"Hey wait a minute guys!" Lee said quickly as he noticed the greedy looks on faces. "Yes all this sounds great and all BUT there is no guarantee that Mark's going to accept the spot that these people are offering."

"Do not worry Lenard." Came the voice interrupting him. "Anything that is given, will be exactly like that, GIVEN! Although we MUST ask that you never tell anyone about anything and if you ever decide to move, you MUST tell us so that we can transfer the equipment to your new residence."

"I can live with that." Richard simply said as he tugged on his lip. "Though can we have the generator installed in the basement? Now if everything has been settled, we have got to get ready for our day people."

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Saturday morning, three days later.

"I don't think I'll ever be able to tolerate the smell of fish again." Margaret gagged holding her nose as Tabitha shoved both of her bandaged hands into a bucket of herring again.

"Stink?" Tabitha squeaked as tears formed in her eyes.

"They stink, you don't. And will you PLEASE stop putting your hands in your mouth! They WON'T stand up to your biting them much longer." Margaret said softly as tears formed in her own eyes as she struggled to pick up the dolphin in her arms again.

"You're an Eco-terrorist just waiting for her boat, you know that, right sis?" Asked Marcus as his chair was anchored to its spot for launch.

"No Night-Terror." Tabitha squeaked. "No mind read" Tabitha said tapping Margaret on the forehead. "Night-Terror mind read!"

"There are so MANY things that are needing to be explained when we get to wherever." Richard said as he strapped himself into his chair.

"There are something's that cannot be explained to those that are not one of us." Said Brianna from her co-pilot seat.

"Now THAT is understandable dear." Marilyn said sweetly inclining her head at her husband. "You CAN'T deny their needing to keep SOME secrets."

"There are very few secrets with us. The way we limit information is that the correct questions have to be asked and they have to be correctly worded. If you can correctly word the correct question you'll get your answer, the only real secrets we have pertains to the swords." Brianna said rubbing her left leg.

"On how to make them or what?" Asked Marilyn.

"I'm not to sure myself actually." Brianna laughed. "I don't know the correct questions to ask to find out what secrets are being kept." She said laughing. "Anyway where are Thomas and Lenard? A procedure was started on Lenard that should be completed and Thomas should be given the same opportunities that all of you are to be given as well."

"While Lee may be benched he still needs to show up for games." Marcus said before anyone else could start talking. "And Thomas? Well Thomas somehow or other gets along with a cheerleader that's nearly to much of an uptight snob for anybody else to handle."

"Ooh Kinky!" Brianna purred. "Well we're about to dock with the transport so if we can continue this conversation in a few minutes it'd be appreciated."

"SKY-SWIMMER!!" Tabitha squeeed excitedly before falling silent until after the shuttle had docked.

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Memory Based



"It's beautiful." Margaret whispered as she stood in the doorway of the shuttle.

"I'd probably agree if I could see what you're seeing BUT all I see is sister rump." Marcus laughed.

"Sorry!" She said as she quickly got down off the ramp and turned to help ease Marcus's chair down the ramp.

"So, who are these people?" Marilyn asked as Marcus's chair was eased down the ramp of the transport.

"Hmm? Oh, their probably here to bitch me out. All noobs are SUPPOSED to be taken up to Mountain's Crown. Some of the Legion and I don't exactly mesh." Brianna said as everyone started looking around the cavern's landing pad.

"Mistress, what are you doing?? You know the rules as well as anyone, why have you brought them down here." Asked the lead Legionnaire as they reached Brianna.

"Aren't you the cutest little bunny butt." Brianna said sweetly as the Legionnaire drew back in horror.

"What's that about?" Asked a laughing Margaret.

"My cousin's a little... promiscuous shall we say? Male, female doesn't really matter to her just as long as whoever is legal age." Brianna said with a smile.

"And she does NOT give up!" Groaned one of the Legionnaires at the back of the column

"Nice deer costume." Richard said as he noticed someone hurrying up behind the column of Legionnaires.

"Sorry I'm late! I'm Tara to those that CARE. Evelyn!" She said getting in the face of the head Legionnaire. "Oh, and by the way." She added handing Evelyn what looked too Marcus like a tablet of some kind. "God I love that." Tara said smugly as Evelyn stormed off after reading what was on the tablet. "So you guys going to go after her or what?" She asked turning to the other Legionnaires.

"Group A, sorry but you get babysitting." Brianna said taking charge and indicating Evelyn's retreating back. "I'll see what I can do about getting you extra bullshit points." Brianna laughed when Group A perked up a tiny bit.

"I'm sorry but can you explain by what you meant by 'bullshit points'!" Asked Richard a question seconded by the rest of his family.

"Around here along with any other kind of pay or compensation people receive, they also acquire points that they can use for different things. Such as personal upgrades to equipment, as long as it does not interfere with what it is meant for, such as battle armor. Yes, battle armor may be upgraded whenever newer, better materials are developed but they can also be personalized if you have acquired the points. If your personalization actually improves the... let's go with effectiveness. If your personalization improves the effectiveness any equipment your points are refunded and more are added according to the extent of the improvement." Brianna said pushing a button on her sleeve. "Sorry but I need to sit down." She said as her own chair materialized nearby. "Let's go in and get things started, shall we? While I may be able to walk after seven years but, after seven years I don't have much stamina in my legs so I have no idea what to expect for you Marcus."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 15



"PLEASE just call me Mark!! Okay??" Wailed Marcus. "This Marcus, Marcus, Marcus is driving me NUTS!! But please, tell me the truth! WILL I be able to walk again?"

Brianna sighed and looked at the Legionnaires around them. "I don't know." She said finally looking him in the face. "I honestly don't know. Spinal injuries are tough! Tough on the injured, the family, the friends, on everyone! All we can promise is try to return feeling to your body. IF we can do that, we SHOULD be able to EVENTUALLY do more. Come on we need to get inside before Renee and the other squirrels get curious enough to come out from the trees." She said pointing towards the trees where the outside squirrels that weren't on patrol were massed.

"I take it that what we're seeing ISN'T some kind of illusion and they really ARE that big?" Margaret stammered as Tabitha started squeaking 'Tree Dancers!' "And what does she mean by 'Tree dancers'?"

"The Remaker took your average everyday road kill squirrels and turned them into Clydesdale and Belgian Workhorse sized, HIGHLY AGILE, heavy assault, fast attack guard units that patrol and guard our underground base here in Idaho. Now let's go inside, NOW!" Brianna said as she made for the ramp off the landing pad.

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"So where is the first stop in your convincing our son to join whatever it is you're doing here?" Asked Marilyn as they followed Brianna down yet another hallway.

"Medical bay! No sense in telling anyone anything until you see for yourself that we can do most of it now without any fresh ideas. The question I have is do people want to get a medical go over as well while Mark's in the pod or start with the fun without him? He'll be in there for a while, I was and mine wasn't nearly as bad." Brianna said as they entered the medical bay.

"Sweet nurse!" Mark piped up as he saw Robin.

"So who's all going for a swim?" Robin asked ignoring Mark. "Anyway kid, with that chair you're going to need to go into a mod bay since you need the life support while this is going on." She said indicating a deeply recessed alcove in the far wall with her stylus.

"I'm not quite sure why we would need to get in the pods as well." Richard said as two animorphs started towards Mark to guide him to the mod bay. "And just what is up with those costumes?"

"The Remaker also took Cottontail rabbits and Whitetail deer and made them Hominids to fill job openings here at this base. We have plenty of humans out and about but very few like the idea of working here" Robin said as they began to prepare the mod bay to accept Mark's chair. "Also why don't you go for spin as well and get some body sculpting done?"

"Why wouldn't people want to work here and what kind of body sculpting are we talking about?" Margaret asked.

"Well for starts kid, I've seen really little kids with far better racks than you've got and DON'T get me started on that ass of yours." Robin said as she started typing on a pad.

"Don't you start telling MY daughter what she should and shouldn't look like." Marilyn snapped as she began too puff up.

"And might I suggest doing away with that nasal twang of yours?" Robin suggested to a horrified Marilyn. "Well anyway whatever you do, DON'T start laughing in here please. I never like the show 'The Nanny' because of that nasal yowling broad and DO NOT bring up that damned Urkel! That show wouldn't have been all that bad but the lederhosen wearing nasal yapping Urkel ruined it." Robin said as she approached Mark. "Okay kid, we have you down for complete spinal regeneration. What other body mods you want done?"

Mark laughed. "Impolite and argumentative but still when people actually PREFORM medicine and not PRACTICE medicine that kind of attitude is overlook-able."

"Having an asshole husband doesn't help the attitude kid." Robin sighed.

"What happened?" Asked Margaret.

"Margaret isn't it? Well the dumb ass ended up putting down nine dependents instead of the actual four and actually believed that the IRS wouldn't eventually find out. So, DO people want body sculpting done or not?" Robin asked as Mark continued to look over the possibilities.

"Megan will work thanks and let's at least look what options we have." Megan said looking at the huffy look on her mother's face and thoughtful one on her father's.

"Yeah, let's at least look at what's available." Richard said suddenly. "We're here, might as well take advantage of it." He grinned as his wife humphed at his blatantly ignoring the way Robin had talked to her.

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"Hello?" Megan groaned as she slowly came awake on the med table where she had been placed after she got out of the mod bay.

"Finally awake are you?" Came a quiet laugh a little way from the foot of her bed. "About time to, even your brothers and that cheerleader that had tagged along have been up and out for at least a good forty five minutes.

"MARK! Where is he? Is he OKAY? How much can he FEEL?" Megan yelped as she shot up off the table causing the deer attendant to recoil.

"EASY GIRL! Don't want to have to put you back in the pod with injuries of your own, now do we?" The deer laughed.

"Sorry but where is he? I NEED TO KNOW GOD-DAMN IT!" Megan screamed at the deer before she nearly choked on her tongue when she realized what she had just said. "PLEASE don't tell mom what I just said PLEASE! I am begging you, oh GOD how I'm begging you! I swear I'll do whatever you want, just don't tell mom!"

"Don't EVER give Laria that kind of opening! Trust me kid." The deer said. "The likelihood of her wanting in your pants is almost a guarantee. ESPECIALLY after those few extra mods you slipped in after your mom had given her consent to those three that are smart to get anyway."

"What? Permanently remove of all body hair, complete toxin purge down to the cellular level and a permanent full body tan?" Asked Megan as she slowly slid down off the table.

"Yeah those three, though with me being an animorph the body hair would be a little tricky." The deer laughed. "Seriously though if you were serious about doing ANYTHING, don't let your parents make your brother's decisions for him. YOU talk him into making up his OWN decision. Get him to sleep on any decision making for at least three days or longer then get him to think on it for at least another WEEK before he says anything!"

"About TIME you got up sis!" Thomas hollered as he barged into the med bay wearing a swimsuit.

"Where'd you get the swimsuit?" Megan asked as he jumped a couple of tables to get to Megan faster.

"Don't let Robin catch you doing that!" The deer warned him. "Here kid." She said handing Megan a swimsuit. "Best advise we've got around here after coming out of a mod bay, go down to the pool complex. Scat." She said shooing Megan towards to the restrooms to change. "And here's a baggy for your clothes." She added throwing her a canvas bag.

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"WOW!" Was all Megan could manage as she stepped into the pool complex and looked around.

"Yeah I know! It's seriously sick, isn't it?" Thomas squealed in his excitement.

"Well I don't know about 'sick' but I do know it is seriously beats most of those high dollar resorts and all their fancy rides." Said a platinum blond as she came up to the two siblings. "You must be Megan, I'm Rachel. I'm in charge of the welfare of the inside squirrels." She said as she pointed to the edge of a pool where Megan saw what appeared to be a bunch of gray, brown and silver colored rocks. Anyway come on, there is a mandatory minimum thirty-minute relaxation period down here after getting out of the med bay. Even if you've slept for THREE HOURS after getting pulled out of a pod! Ssooo.... how'd you pull THAT off anyway?"

"Yeah even the AI that runs this area couldn't figure it out!" Mark laughed as he hobbled up to them supported by their parents. "You're apparently the first in a long time that stayed asleep even after getting out of the bay. Though he didn't actually say how long 'a long time' was." He added thoughtfully. "By the way sis there are water slides over that way but apparently you have to fight a kid called 'Kitty' to get on them. Shouldn't be to hard since she's only supposed to be eight or nine but apparently she has no problems cutting in line or fighting for the front spot."

"You're standing! They actually did it, THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!!!" She screamed as she rushed forward to hug her brother.

"NO KID!" Said a voice behind her as an iron grip seized her arm a pulled her back. "His nerves are highly sensitive right now; even a slight touch can be extremely painful.

"Mark?" Megan asked hoarsely as she felt her heart drop out of her body and she slid down to her knees.

"Easy sis, EASY!" Mark hissed as he was lowered down beside Megan and began to stroke her hair. "I'm okay, really I am. After a year of the nerves having NO impulses at all and all of a sudden their being turned on full blast, I'm getting off EASY!" He chuckled weakly.

"How can this be called easy." Megan asked with her eyes filling with tears. "We came here and you were supposed to be able to walk again! Not be in so much pain you can't even be touched!" She said sobbing.

"You're still tired sis." Mark said softly. "Come on down to the beach and let the heated sand soak into you and watch people have fun in the water. Maybe even get your own toes wet, you haven't gotten wet outside a tub in over a year and a half and after another hour down here we can go watch that show that's supposed to explain A LOT of what's going on down here!"

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"That was that Brian Faron that disappeared a few weeks ago, wasn't it?" Mark finally asked after the narrations had been finished for a good fifteen minutes.

"I think so." Richard said slowly. "It's amazing how much news you were able to get a hold of while paralyzed this last year."

"Mmmm. Anyway we need to see far more proof than what little we've seen for me to accept any of what we just saw on that the multi-dimensional display." Mark said thoughtfully. "Even with the technology that the military supposedly doesn't have, that isn't to far off in the future."

"So, you're going to go with the denial approach to all of this?" Asked Megan. "Or are you going to go with the you're hallucinating approach?"

"Either works for us." Said a voice from the doorway. "I'm called Shade; I'm what's known as a Sentinel. If you wish I can act as your guide unless you would prefer someone else?"

"No no, it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter who plays guide." Mark said quickly. "I just need the PROOF that all of this is real."

"Well isn't that interesting, considering it's impossible to convince someone of something if they aren't willing to acknowledge it." Shade said simply. "We can show everything from the fusion reactors to the armories. We can show you the compounds here in the States to the newer foreign bases. Oh, by the way that land that has been in your family for the last few generations that we also bought, we just want the quartz rock. You can have the land back! We just want the crystals." She assured Marilyn. "It'll take permission from the Remaker but, if we can, we'll even take you up to the surface of the moon and to that new moon that's supposed to be created in orbit around Mars but in the end YOU will be the one to convince yourself of all this being real."

'WHOA there! What do mean by the new moon that's going to be made in orbit Mars?" Thomas asked.

"Okay kid." Shade laughed. "I'll try to explain. We are going to create another moon for Mars and if we can obtain permission, we'll take you up to see it. Hopefully we can because not many of us will get up there any time soon." She added laughing under her breath.

"How do you create a moon?" Asked Richard as confused as his family.

"No moon! SPACE STATION!" Tabitha squeeed happily as she rushed into the auditorium, once again just steps ahead of Vanilla.

"I don't care WHO you seek refuge with, you ARE going to go back into those pods and you ARE going to get more work done on your little butt!" Vanilla snarled in her southern drawl.

"Exactly what kind of work is she needing done?" Megan asked as Tabitha hid behind her legs.

"She got whacked pretty good by a jap over in the Taiji slaughter coves." Said a larger dolphin that was standing in the doorway. "She's that last surviving member of her pod. Which is why she has been allowed to be so free in her roaming. While it may not have been the most polite to dump her on you all, it did give us a break from her."

"Well 'I' enjoyed her company." Megan said defensively. "Anyway what do you mean by the Taiji slaughter coves?"

"It's one of the unsavory end results of that show 'Flipper'." Mark said sadly. "You remember that documentary called 'The Cove' I tried to get you to watch with me a couple of years ago sis? The guy that caught and trained the original Flipper dolphins created it. Basically, he's trying to stop the big business of the capture of water park exhibits and the slaughter of thousands of captured dolphins. The japs won't even watch the slaughter when given a chance since it is something that their people just would not do. Supposedly."

They are not butchered and shoved into tuna cans Mark." Richard said tired of the long running argument. "There are treaties in place that forbid such practices."

So, I'm guessing what happened to us were just figments of our warped twisted little imaginations?" Snarled the Dolphin as she hauled him down to face-to-face level with Tabitha. "Tabitha give this guy an echo burst!"

"WHAT? NO Don't! It'll kill him!" Hollered Mark as he lurched to his feet. "She, she CAN'T, can she?" He asked as he watched as Tabitha concentrated and strained herself. "What happened?"

"Billy club strike to her melon. The echo blast is sent everywhere INCLUDING back into Tabitha's own body, which is another reason for her to go into the pods. If we don't do something in the next week she's dead from the substantial damage she keeps inflicting on herself." Said the dolphin as Tabitha started to squee her anguish from not being able to create a concentrated blast.

"The singing! That's why I haven't been able to sleep, I knew SOMETHING was wrong." Gasped Megan.

"What do you mean?" Asked Thomas. "It sounds okay to me."

"There's a harshness to her singing Tommy, I can't really describe it but it's there." Megan said trying to figure out how to describe what she felt more than she heard.

"Try subliminal and you'll have your description." Said the adult dolphin.

"Exactly!!" Megan whooped. "Nothing you'd ever be able to hear consciously but your body will be effected to it all the more BECAUSE you can't hear it."

"At least you won't get your guts liquefied." Mark said shuddering.

"NOT that bad, more like bruising and massive hemorrhaging." The dolphin said defensively. 

"Okay so you got me there. Mere dolphin echo-location isn't nearly powerful enough for liquefaction." Mark said. "Sorry."

"Well, be careful with some of the others. We all are having a bit of a problem dealing with such close proximity to humans." Said the Dolphin.

"Out of curiosity." Megan said thoughtfully. "What is being done about endangered species and the animal black market?"

"There are so many plans that some are just having to be placed on the back burner, for now we're having to settle for DNA storage and more like us! Even if we had the people for the necessary strike forces, we just don't have a capable enough leader to handle what would be needed." Vanilla said as she finally cornered Tabitha and grabbed her.

"NO!!! Tabie-tha want go home! Tabie-tha want go home with Sea-Queen!" Squeeed Tabitha as she held out her hands to Megan.

"Uum, Sea-Queen?" Megan asked confusedly looking around at people.

"Apparently she sees a great deal of possibility in you girl." Said the dolphin. "IF, and I do mean IF the Remaker and the Legion agree to it, would you be willing to join us and be a Commander of the strike forces?"

"I, um, well, um I guess I could see what, um I'm going to need to be allowed a LOT of information before I can make ANY decision!" Megan stammered out completely shocked at the offer.

"Now wait a minute!" Richard said hastily. "It's not that I'm unappreciative of you returning my sons life to him, I AM but whats up with you trying to get all of my family to work for you? Besides we are needing to leave for now since we need go to mass tomorrow and give thanks to God for sending you this technology so you could heal our son." He said hugging his wife to him.

"Very well, a transport will be prepped for launch to take you all back home by the time you are arrive up at the pad." Shade said from where she stood.

"NOOO! NO LEAVE ME!!" Wailed Tabitha as she struggled in Vanilla's grip.

"Daddy?' Megan pleaded to her father. 

"IF it is okay with this Remaker everyone keeps talking about, then she can come back as soon as she spends the necessary time in a pod. She just needs to learn respect and manners, IF she plans on staying with us for very long. Think of your teaching her manners and respect as training IF you decide to actually take these people up on their offers." Richard told Megan, his voice thick with hostility. "And if you can, find out if this 'Remaker' really is that Brian Faron that went for a swim a few weeks ago."

"OH THANK YOU DADDY! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!" Megan squealed as she gave her father a bear hug. "You hear that Tabby? You need to settle down and get in that pod. You'll be sent back to me when you get out, okay?"

"Me come back?" Tabitha asked.

"Yes my sweet little baby." Megan said sweetly as she rubbed the little dolphins head. "You'll be sent back to me BUT no matter what happens you DO need to learn manners. AND not to jump on my or Lee's bed." She added laughingly as they exited the room.



Later that night.

"Oh GOD, HOW I'VE MISSED THIS!" Mark whooped as he stretched out on his bed. "God, this thing stinks!" He laughed."Anyway, what do you think of all that today?

"Well considering it's been in the garage for the last year, what can you expect and anyway we need to see if mom and dad will spring for a longer room since with way you're stretching you're going to knock holes in the wall if you're not careful!" Lee laughed. "And about your friends,I don't know about you but I DO know that NO decisions should be made until we have seen a lot more proof that we can trust them."

"Yeah, now that I can move on my own I've got to play poor little crip in the morning at mass, all week at school and everywhere else until we can figure out how to explain everything away." Mark said as he shifted trying to get comfortable. "As far as can we trust them? I've got a question for you; can we not?"

"What'cha mean?" Megan asked as she stuck her head in the door. "They're offering us so many possibilities that it's stupid not to grab on with both hands."

"You're only thinking of all supposed good that you could do with any kind of advanced technology when compared with the technology that you'd be up against." Thomas said from behind Megan.

"What do you mean by 'supposed' good? Theres NOTHING supposed about it! Even just ONE person willing to do what is necessary could save countless thousands of endangered animals." Megan snarled.

"Enough talking tonight kids." Richard said as he passed them on his way to the bathroom. "We have had a LONG trying day and we need the sleep. Tomorrow will be just as long praising God for giving those people the means to give Mark his life back."

"Dad, you know we can't tell anyone about ANY of this yet!" Mark said sitting up in his bed

"So are suggesting that we don't give God the praise he is due?" Richard snapped.

"NO! No I'm not but I am very serious that we can't tell people any of this. At least not yet." Mark said defensively.




Forward to the Stars Ch. 15



"We will do as 'I' say, is THAT understood?" Richard snarled as he turned stormed off to the master bedroom.

"This WON'T end well." Lee said looking at his father's retreating back. 

"I just got my son his life back." Marilyn said as she stepped out of the bathroom. "I am NOT going to lose him to the government, the Church or ANY one else because of his need to flaunt the results of his praying."

"THIS is one of those times when that technology of theirs to make dad a little more liable to listen to reason would be convenient." Thomas said softly.

"Who said we need technology, when you can use telepathy?" Said a voice suddenly causing them to jump.

"COOL! Jedi mind trick time!!" Thomas laughed quietly.

"To HELL with the Jedi! Let those goody two shoes get the attention. WE that would follow the Sith temperament and aren't self-crippled by delusions of superiority will get things done!" Snarled the voice.

"But the Jedi are superior, or what little I know of them anyway." Marilyn said softly.

"Sorry mom but really when it comes down to it the Sith are arguably superior. What keeps them in the shadows is the way that they are trained." Mark said. "If there wasn't so much infighting among the Sith, the Sith would be a unstoppable force."

"Correct, I now have a question for you. When you look at the abilities of BOTH the Jedi and the Sith is there ANY similarities to what exists in reality?" Asked the voice. "Telekinetics! Those that are Telekinetic can simulate the abilities and even surpass most Jedi or Sith practitioners! Granted Yoda, Anakin and a few others are out of the reach of weak Telekinetics BUT as there differential levels of abilities of Jedi and Sith there are also different levels of kinetics."

"I DON'T like where this going BUT I also know that Richard can not be allowed to endanger my children with his need to a show off Mark being able to walk again. Do what needs to be done BUT no more!" Marilyn sighed.

"No more, no less than what needs to be done to keep us ALL safe." Agreed the voice. "Do not worry Thomas, you'll get your chance to join us soon as well, if you wish to do so."

"TOMMY!" Thomas snapped into the empty air.

"I think they hung up on you." Megan laughed. "Now come on, we DO need to get to bed."

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Next Friday evening

"HEY!" Megan yelped as Tabitha splashed around in the tub once again sending water flying all over the bathroom or would if the bathroom hadn't been equipped to handle the amounts of water that Tabitha splashed all over the place.

"Aren't you supposed to be taking a bath too?" Tabitha asked as she dug her tail under the water again and launched another load of water skyward.

"Hey! NO YOU DON'T!!" Megan yelped as she jumped on top of the column deflecting most of it back down into the tub.

"I hear that you're getting a bath again sis!" Tommy laughed from the other side of the closed door.

"Cram it T, I'm having enough fun in here without your assista....... no you don't!!" She snarled as Tabitha started to play in the water again since she was distracted. "Come on Tabitha, please? What's the big deal about baths anyway you don't even use soap, just a harsh sponge gets you clean."

"It's fun and I.... and I get more time with you." Tabitha said holding out her hands to Megan for a hug. As Tabitha snuggled in Megan's arms, Megan felt her heart freeze up and become a solid weight in her chest and her eyes fill with tears as she heard Tabitha squeak a soft 'Momma'.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 16



All comments are welcome and wanted, though the more constructive are more so!! Though if you won't comment at least vote that way I get SOME response. 

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"I SAID NO LARIA!" Brian snarled at a pouty Laria. "And DON'T think that since we're separated by a few thousand miles and a view screen you can get away with what you're about to do."

"And what is it that I'm about to do?" Laria pouted, acting innocent enough to give someone diabetes.

"Laria, you just said that you all just saved some people from a wreck that in all likelihood someone wasn't supposed to walk away from and you act like I don't know what you're about to do?" Brain groaned. "Okay Laria. "He sighed. "So what if they're supposed to be dead, they aren't, YOU saw to that! DON'T let me find out that you've gone and ran wild with the mod pods,.I've got to go get ready for our run-in with the Palaricilon, Ciao." And with that he headed off the bridge. "Hey Atherian, how close to overloaded is this transport?" Brian asked as he barely squeezed through a gap in the equipment as he neared the armory. 

"The transport is at it's maximum weight limit BUT, it is riding high and smooth all the same Captain." Atherian said as Brian reached the door to the armory and it slid open revealing a normally spacious area filled to bursting with weapons, armor and the wide array of armaments that normally wouldn't be exist much less in an occupied transport. 

"Also there ARE enough battery packs and ammo canisters to allow us to make use of Tiff's Flechette Cannon more than once aren't there?" Brian asked as the suit was sealed around the squirrel's body who started chittering when she saw the helmet that would seal her in the metal coffin. "Easy big girl, we have NO IDEA what those bugs are going to do or throw at us so we ALL are going to be in-cased in these things. You're just going to be packing more hardware than most of us will be." He said as he leaned down and kissed her nose.

"Theoretically we SHOULD have enough battery packs and ammo packs. We have also taken the initiative and also created a number of canisters that will deliver a number of small but powerful charges. They should be helpful in eliminating or at the very least slowing down a large number of following adversaries, opening or closing doorways or just saying 'Hi, how WAS it going?' to the Queen's chambers or any of the possible hatcheries that we may come across." Said the animorphic deer that had been helping Tiffany into her armor.

"Better safe than sorry, even though I WOULD prefer to come to a mutually beneficial agreement with the bugs." Brian said as his own armor was pulled from underneath a pile.

"That wish might be a prime example of what is referred to as a 'Pipe Dream' Captain." Atherian advised him. "Though onto things that are very much not Pipe Dreams, we have started 'REEDUCATING' some of the so called 'Warlords' or whatever they're referred to in the Congolese Republic. A large enough contingent of the chosen leader's palisade should be 'willing' to help with the subjugation of Africa by the time you have made up your mind on what to do with the Palaricilon. As it is, you are there!"

"Oh doody, fun in the sun and sand. Granted the suits are meant for just about everything in this quadrant but how well do the sims run with sand?" Brian asked as he slid his helmet on and locked it into place. "And remember, no turning Kilimanjaro into a base! Granted that mountain would work but it's a symbol of a continent and it would get most of the world turned against us if we messed with that."

"It would be inadvisable to rely to heavily on the shields or cloak with the technology that we have at the present time." Atherian advised him as the transport landed at the base that had been setup within fifty feet of the pit that had been dug down to the Palaricilon tunnels. "Anyway, it was only a suggestion to use that mountain as a base."

"About time you got here." Athena laughed as Brian slipped out of the ship. "We've ascertained that were dealing with a downed star-craft. PRESUMABLY Palaricilon but we'll have to wait until we get inside and access a data-port to find out for certain."

"Excellent, most excellent indeed! So, how far down does the pit go and what do we have to deal with the hive if we're allowed down to the core with their intent on us to be turned into queen chow?" Brian asked as he turned to give a hand with the unloading. "Out of curiosity, just HOW do we get IN?"

"Hatch. We got lucky and hit an edge to one." An animorph said excitedly. "We're in the process of fixing up a external barrier, that way we can move all the stuff that's to be taken in and and maintain a barrier between atmospheres. As to the backup safeguard, we decided on Clartarium explosives since that will also detonate the battery packs and flooding the tunnels with an agent that that gunk known as VX Gas wants to go up into."

"How are the plans for the matter boosters?" Brian asked as another case of battery packs was unloaded. "It'll help relocating all that tonnage."

"Are you SURE that you want to feed the Palaricilon unpoisoned fruits and vegetables?" Atherian asked exasperatedly.

"Considering that we're TRYING to get them to JOIN us, yes. IF we were going to eradicate them, there are much safer, EASIER ways to go about it than go down in their own tunnels WITH them." Brian said with a smile. "There IS strawberry rhubarb pie in the replicators isn't there?" Brian couldn't help but laugh at the stunned silence that his question immediately caused. "WHAT? I like that stuff."

"How can you so totally go off subject like that?" Atherian asked. "I have NEVER been around ANY commander that could do that as easily as you seem able to."

"Momma's boy." Brian laughed. "It takes skill not to get whiplash doing that let me tell you."

"I'll take your word on that." Atherian said. "And yes, there is that strawberry rhubarb pie in the banks. You spent nearly three hundred dollars getting pie after pie to find the one you wanted in the replicator food bank, remember? As to the matter of the transport boosters that you wanted to take down, it will take some experimenting and tinkering with them but they should work."

"You weren't to bad on THAT course change Atherian." An animorph laughed moving to Brian's side. "We should be about ready to move the barrier into place in about three hours. The Sentinels that were sent with the first wave have sensed that the Palaricilon have stopped using the tunnels in the immediate area so it's a safe bet that they KNOW we are here and that they're about to have company."

"DAMN! I had HOPED that we'd be in the tunnels before we were noticed, EVERYONE that's going down is bonded with a blade aren't they?"

"Yes, and I'm not the only one who doesn't fully understand why, since you want a peaceful agreement with the Palaricilon." Athena said.

"Simple, they AREN'T going down with us! They'll be up here where it's safe and if ANYTHING goes wrong and our bodies are destroyed hopefully by our own hands and not the bugs. They'll rip our minds free through the link and place them into the replicators control systems which will then create new bodies for us around our minds. Theoretically, saving us from my stupidity."

"No matter what my arguments are Captain, stupidity DOESN'T include the attempt at peaceful contact with sentient beings. It does though include ignoring RECORDED past events." Atherian said as a contingent of heavy battle droids filed out of the open cargo bay. "The power systems on all the battle droids that you wished here, have been modified to run off of multiple styles of energy fields as well as radiation leaving the actual battery packs at maximum charge for combat or other necessary functions."

"Excellent! Let's get a move on, I want to be ready for them before they're ready for us and start moving up here!"

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Thirty six hours later.

"Are you sure that you don't want to knock first?" Atherian asked hopefully.

"Atherian PLEASE! Just seal the barrier and watch the door, would you?" Brian groaned as they finally set off down the tunnels. "I KNOW how you feel about this attempt but we need to at least get access to their history files! If there is one anthill you can ALWAYS count on there being OTHERS, so even if peace isn't a possibility we STILL come out ahead by knowing about the others, am I wrong?"

"Following that logic, this attempt is justifiable! Very ill-advised but justifiable." Atherian said before falling silent.

"He IS right you know." Athena said softly looking down the dark tunnel. "It's a good thing that we were able to modify all our equipment to draw off the excess energy that the Palaricilon's power jell produces."

"I'm just happy that Tamara is going to be okay, it was a seriously lucky break that she was in her suit when she took that electrical arc when she found that opened that juncture panel." Said an animorph behind Brian. 

"No truer words, no truer words." Brian said with sigh. "Considering the state of the power system, this solar system is lucky the power grid hasn't degraded any farther than it has."

"Peaceful conclusion to all of this or not, we CAN'T allow this much jell to be used in such a degraded power grid." Athena growled looking around her. "While the night vision settings on our helmets allow us to see, I'd still like to know how this place really looks."

"Well we CAN'T take our helmets off in this place!! It'd be safer to take a swim in one of those vats of toxic waste in one of those Sci-Fi movies where earthworms or something takes a bath in the stuff and comes out a monster and tries to destroy the world!" Brian sighed. "Everyone DID leave DNA samples up top, didn't they?"

"Yes My Lord Remaker we did." Tiffany laughed. "You shouldn't need to be repeating these questions all the time, you were there when we all gave samples since you also gave one." 

"About TIME you started talking." Brian couldn't help but laugh. 

"Why should I start talking? You knew what I wanted or needed and YOU are the only one that matters." Tiffany said. "Anyway all this talking is going to distract us from paying attention to motion detectors and other instruments."

"Got a point." Came a laugh from the back of the column. "Luckily nothing happening back here and everything seems to still be good with the relays."

"Okay then, pipe down unless necessary, people. Let's get this over with." Brian said as he hefted his pack and kept walking.

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"Base camp you there? This is Captain, come in." Brian called over the com. "YO, ANYONE MINDING THE STORE??"

"Indeed there is! How may I be of service." Came a laugh from the other end of the com.

"By answering the phone next time." Grumbled Athena. "That first void on the scans turns out to be what appears to be a food storage area, either long vacant or recently cleared out."

"Noted in the log. Any contact to report?" Came the reply.

"Not that we know of. Haven't gained any bodies or droids so I guess we're doing okay." Brian said smiling.

"Yeah I guess that can count as coming out on top, for now anyway." Came the reply. "Anything else to report?"

"Not for now, we'll be in touch." Brian said as he turned to the rest of the group. "Well fifty feet farther there's a three-way, suggestions on which way to go?"

"Well right is the one closest to the outer walls or whatever, left goes through the heart of the place and straight is more or less down." Said one of the Sentinels that was along for the extra fighter.

"Yeah, so which way? This is beginning to get heavy even if the suit is taking the weight of the cannon." Tiffany complained.

"She makes a good point." Brian said as he looked around the storage area. "Do another scan of this warehouse, I want all in and outs mapped. IF there's another way in or out I want to know about it! If there isn't, is there a tunnel close by that we can get into quickly and easily while sealing the way behind us."

"Rest stop?" Tiffany asked hopefully something others were anxious to hear about as well.

"Good as any isn't it? Who knows when the NEXT defensible cubby is going to be found. Anyway it's been four hours walking, no time like the present for a rest." Brian said as the equipment was again positioned to scan the immediate area.

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"DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!! MASTER WAKE UP, THEY'RE COMING FOR US!!!!!" Screamed the animorph that was on watch. "I SAID WAKE UP YOU GOD DAMNED STUPID SON OF A BITCH!" She screeched as she kicked him in the head while looking at the screen of her motion detector.

"Well mom always did say she was a bitch so I guess the observation IS accurate enough." Brian laughed as he and the rest of the group woke up. "So what's it look like?" He asked as he peered over the animorphs shoulder and looked at the screen. "Ashilon, Icialan you two seeing THIS??"

"Indeed we are!" Ashilon said as he gave a nervous chuckle. "I hate to have to say this but I am SO glad I am not down there right now!!" He said as the screen on the motion detector turned more and more dark red where the corridors outside the warehouse were.

"How are the Claymore style antipersonnel weapons doing?" Brian asked as he grabbed and started flipping the safeties on his weapons off. "They still operational?"

"They are but they've been found and most have been moved or repositioned." Said the animorph sounding thoroughly confused. "With the way they're being moved and positioned they'll all but clear the halls when they're activated."

"And WHY were they not set for motion activation in the FIRST place?" Athena snarled, justifiably ticked off.

"Deal with THIS now, THAT later!" Brain said as the droids started to switch to battery packs and weapons started being brought to bare. "NO ONE goes outside this room! They want a fight, let them come to US! We'll have taken out hundreds before they are finally in a position to pry us out of here! Sarem is that back hallway clear? If it is, get ready to make an improvised doorway."

"It is but I don't understand why. They have GOT to know that we'd open up the back wall and get out of here." Sarem said as he readied the explosives.

"Maybe, maybe not. Give me a few minutes to try and scout the bug mind set. Everyone else get ready to squash bugs if they start to move before I get back." Brian said as he settled himself against a pile of spare battery packs before reaching out with his mind and try to find out what and what the bugs were not about to do.

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"Mistress, what do you thinks about to happen?" One of the animorphs asked Athena as the column of bugs stopped going by the entrance of warehouse in a single file hugging the far wall.

"Simple, we're about to have company." Brian said calmly as he stretched and yawned as his helmet would allow him. "Okay no matter what else happens today, someone take a note about altering helmets so you can stretch your jaw as large as needed to yawn comfortably. I nearly got a muscle cramp." He said doing his best to rub his jaw.

"Define 'company'." Athena asked him as he started to get up.

"Why explain when you'll see in a minute. Battle droids, in seconds there will be a single bug about walk to the middle of the hall on the far wall. He will then walk slowly towards the door, let him pass."

"WHAT??!" Screeched Atherian over the com making them all jump.

"Well hail and well met." Brian laughed as he rubbed his ears as best he could. "No, I'm not crazy! Believe it or not the strongest feeling I got from them is fear, dread and apprehension. While that makes them unpredictable and trigger-happy, they won't be the one to make the first move. Also, you update all our translators yet?"

"I have uploaded the quote end quote language that you had Ashilon give me into the computer banks. Your translators are being updated now, I will send it along to all instillations at a later time." Atherian said as the droids started to move so that the approaching bug could pass but still be turned into mush if it made any hostile movements. 

"Good, now if you'll excuse me I'm trying to be nice to potential ally." Brian said as the bug stopped in the middle of the warehouse. "Oh for crying out load." He grumbled as he hit the side of his helmet as the bug started speaking in a series of grating hisses and clicks and what sounded like tongue clicks. "Hello, sorry to barge in without an invitation but we needed to make personal contact as soon as possible." He said hoping what he said came across better than what the bug had said. "Atherian, we need those translators updated NOW!" He snarled into his com after the Palaricilon had jerked like he had gotten a serious jolt of electricity to his balls and after several seconds of what appeared to be pondering something tried speaking again.

"I am sorry Captain but I HAVE, whether you believe it or not, downloaded the language I was given." Atherian said defensively. "If you can keep it speaking the translators will eventually unravel the language enough that all concerned will be able to understand what is said."

"DAMN IT!" Brian snarled as his arms twitched. "No no sorry, I'm not pissed at you!" Brian started yelping as the Palaricilon reacted to the floor around Brian suddenly freezing over and promptly bursting into flame.

"Remaker, I must advise you to get your temper in check. The temperature is dropping dramatically in here!" One of the animorphs hollered to him as the Palaricilon backed towards the doorway.

"Alright, alright." He grumbled as he sat down in the middle of the flames. As the flames died down and the temperature began to rise again the Palaricilon slowly began to move back towards the middle of the room. As the Palaricilon returned to where it had stood before, the cloak that Brian had activated to hide his suit failed revealing the battle suit that he wore. As the Palaricilon took in this new development it began to speak again this time in what amounted low almost awed tone. "To hell with THIS!" Brian snarled as he mentally lifted himself straight up off the floor and stretched his legs underneath him. As he took a step towards the Palaricilon, the Palaricilon seemed to take a deep breath and matched his step forward. 

"Well isn't THAT interesting!" Athena said as the Palaricilon lowered its head when Brian and the Palaricilon were close enough for them to touch. "Be CAREFUL!" She hissed when Brian reached up and touched the Palaricilon's head. "Brian??" She hissed when the Palaricilon jerked when Brian lightly touched its head but after a moment it firmly pushed its head back into Brian's palm."So, what now?" She asked when Brian finally lowered his hand from the Palaricilon's head.

"Shall we try this again?" Brian asked after several minutes had passed.

"Can you humans not even let us die in peace?" Came husky growl over the translators. "You must even hunt us when our species is all but extinct?"

"Well with ANY luck we can keep that from happening." Brian said as he took a step back. "While what little we know of the conflict between the Palaricilon and Humanity says we aren't the ones who started the war, I would very much like too know what your records say about the matter."

"Most of the records that our computers contained have been either corrupted or destroyed as our power grid has steadily degraded over the passing millennia of being underground. What little we have been able to save of our computer files are just glimpses and garbled words. All that we have left of our civilization are ancient records that were inscribed with our most ancient prophecies." The Palaricilon said as it looked around itself.

"DAMN! I had hoped too be able to find out for certain if we were to blame for the hostility between our peoples." Brian said dejectedly. "Okay, listen I know we came down here equipped for a fight and I'm pretty sure you Palaricilon were expecting a fight BUT why really we came down here for is to see if you Palaricilon would be willing to join us. Humanity has been exiled on this rock for about eighteen thousand years, your people have been down here much longer. I and those that follow me whether they be human or otherwise are about to return to the stars, would you be willing to join us?"




Forward to the Stars Ch. 16



"As your slaves?" Asked the Palaricilon. "We are a proud people, a strong people. We have proven that by surviving the voyage to this planet! We proved that by surviving the attack when we entered this system that our ancient prophecies said would give our people the stars. We have proven that by surviving all this time under the surface of this planet. We will NOT bow under humanity tyranny after all this time!" The Palaricilon snarled.

"As one with us, actually." Brian said he motioned the animorphs to stand down. "There are those and will always be those that believe that the only way to become the masters of the heavens will be to conquer and enslave all those we find. I on the other hand would follow a slightly twisted version of the that point of view. If we were to conquer all we came across, incalculably amounts of art, literature, music and GALACTIC history would be lost. If we can make PEACEFUL contact with other peoples, all that can hopefully be saved and with the mingling of cultures who knows where the limits of science, art, music and who knows what else are." Brian said emphatically.

"And with most of our history lost to history?" The Palaricilon asked.

"Being a PERFECT example of what I am speaking of." Brian said. "Will your people be willing to consider my offer?"

"Even though our people are dying in this place as we speak, we must have time to consider your offer in detail." The Palaricilon said as he turned and moved towards the door.

" I am pleased that you wish time to consider this, though I am not all that thrilled to hear that this place is harmful to you." Brian said bowing as the droids backed far enough back to allow the Palaricilon to pass by. "Here, while I do not know of the state of your agricultural abilities I must at least offer this as a sign of goodwill." He said as a pile of fruits and vegetables started materializing at the back of the room.

"You wish to bribe us?" The Palaricilon accused Brian as it turned back towards him.

"Nope, just trying to be nice. Accept it or not, that's YOUR prerogative." Brian said as he shouldered his pack and safetied his weapons. 

"Why do you not disappear like the bio-mass is appearing?" The Palaricilon asked as the others started to get ready for the trek back up to the surface. 

"While we could and probably do it safely. The energy fields that the power jell generates is tricky to get a solid lock-on for the way out, while in, is easy to do." Brian said as people started to fall into place.

"That is because we are short of N`LCRIUM. If we had enough to fill the reserves, the fields would not be so deadly." The Palaricilon said sadly.

"There is a asteroidal body that is covered by a gelatinous goo. Would you happen to know if your people lost some of this N`LCRIUM when they arrived here?" Brian asked as he activated a holo-imager showing the solar system, which centered on the asteroid that Anilease and the others were trying to preform the sentient tests.

"It is possible, but if they did the records of it are among those lost to us." The Palaricilon said after several minutes thought.

"Well if they did it would be VERY useful to us all, since the surface of that thing has a very deep covering of that stuff. Well, when ever you guys make up your mind we'll be waiting! Now if you'll excuse us we'll be getting out of your ship." Brian said as he slipped past the Palaricilon and headed up the hallway to the surface.

"You serve a interesting leader." The Palaricilon said softly as the others swiftly followed after him.

"He serves US well, in his own way." Said a animorph as she slipped past and headed up the hall.

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At the surface

"Now you're SURE that you didn't poison ANY of that stuff that was sent down, right Atherian?" Brian asked and turning to get in the co-ed showers. 

"I may not have been for the attempt at peaceful contact with the Palaricilon BUT I do as ordered, Captain." Atherian said understandably huffy. "Also, Laria appears to have.... defied your orders. Your 'present' is on the way."

"What does THAT mean?" Asked an animorph as she also was about to step into the showers. "And why do you want us to hold off on getting into the pods and seeing if our DNA got screwed up by the radiation from the bug ship?"

"More than it already is? Because we might have to go back down that's why and as to Laria's 'present' I'm not to sure what to expect but thankfully whoever she remodeled will at the very least be eighteen." Brian said with a sigh. "

"Well either a hand washing my back again or an explanation will do." Laughed Athena as she started sudsing up.

"You're just wanting to get fucked and leave us empty again." Whined one of the animorphs as she was scrubbing at her tail.

"Well we can take care of that huh guys." Brian said as moved up behind her. "Well Celina, do we rub that soap into your fur some more?" He asked as he reached around her and started squeezing and massaging her breasts.

"OUCH! They're real for crying out loud, you don't have to make sure about that." Celina yelped as she tried to pry Brian's hands off her tits. "And if your going to have your dick between my legs at least put it IN me."

"Oh I'm pretty sure that's about to be achieved." Laughed one of the animorphs as Athena edged towards Brian and Celina.

"Wha, what are you doing?" Celina stammered as Brian moved back from her and spun her around into Athena's waiting hands.

"About to give you desire, our little fuck bunny. Or should we say BEACH BUNNY, since we ARE in the biggest beach on the planet!!" Athena laughed as she picked Celina up by her legs and spreading her knees.

"NO PLEASE!" Celina begged them. "Not in my pussy PLEASE!"

"You act all ready to get fucked, now you're all 'NO Please, not in my pussy!' What, you want your ass stretched?" Asked a deer as she rinsed shampoo out of her fur.

"Well I want to get off but I want my first real sex with my own kind." Celina said softly. "What?" She asked as Athena burst out laughing. 

"What, anal sex isn't REAL sex?" Athena laughed nearly dropping Celina.

"Asks the anal-phobe." Snapped Celina. "YOU of all of us have the LEAST room too talk anal about anything except taking a crap." 

"Oh calm down people." Brian said as he rubbed the shampoo deeper into the fur around Celina's cunt before he moved his hand down to her little puckered ass. "Considering that Celina said that she wanted her FIRST time with a male rabbit, that means I get sloppy seconds at best and in the meantime I get to lube her ass." He said evilly as he shoved a finger up the bunny's ass.

"Hey wait where are you going? I finally started to get into that." Celina whined when Brian suddenly stopped finger fucking her ass after a minute.

"Someone over here needs a shoulder and YOU need to take a shit." Brian said as he washed his hand in the shower water as he walked over too a male deer that was appeared to be trying to hide in a corner and still take his shower. "Easy bud." He yelped when he surprised the deer by putting his hand on the deer's shoulder and the deer reacted.

"Master I'm sorry, I'm so sorry PLEASE FORGIVE me!!! I have done so little in exchange for the great gift that you've given us and all I can do is take a swing at you after not taking your needs into account with what I've had done to my body." The deer said before bursting into tears. 

"Easy big guy, easy!" Brian said gently as he rubbed the deer's back before pulling him into his arms. "Explain yourself before I take a dip into your mind and take the answers I need."

"Which is the Remaker's right, my master. I have toughened my skin, increased my muscle mass, and increased the density of my bones so I could take more punishing hits BUT I never thought about your needs." The deer sobbed.

"Whether you believe me or not I'm not really all that into guys!" Brian said with a shudder.

"Bu, but you fucked Brutus and rather brutally at that." The deer stammered out.

"He is right you know." Celina said as she washed out the shampoo from her fur. "I doubt that there's even a youngster that hasn't heard how you too Brutus to task. Not saying he didn't need to be, he did and in a major way."

"Just for the record my temper got the better of me..... AGAIN!" Brian groaned. "I COMPLETELY understand Tara's want and need to get her herd converted when I gave the order to round up some more deer and rabbits for conversion. Hell, I can even understand Brutus's inferiority complex that he developed when he was converted, not that I condone it BUT I really can understand it! At the beginning of the day your the leader of your herd and at the end of the day you're a beta member, at best. So I really can understand his need to try to prove that he was still something special but when he started attacking and raping the other males, something HAD to be done. What got me pissed off though was that his ego-trip interrupted some stuff that really, really shouldn't have been interrupted. Well, in the end it all got taken care of. My stuff and Brutus's ego getting deflated by HIS ass getting fucked."

"I liked the part where you fucked his dick." Laughed Tiffany.

"Hey, he was the one that went nuts on enlarging his cock. So why not fuck it while fucking his ass and face?" Brian said as remembered the weird feeling of sliding his dick down Brutus' fully erect cock.

"Do, do you think he'll behave?" Asked Celina.

"For a while, yeah but he'll try something at a time where there can be no slip-ups. THAT is why he was put in Janitorial, if he manages something THERE he gets turned into a breeder. If shit happens there, I've promised him he looses his mind and goes back to being dinner." Brian said into a nearly silent room that only the sound of running water kept from becoming deathly quiet.

"I haven't pissed you off have I?" Athena asked timidly after a minute or two had passed.

"Wouldn't matter anyway, on anything that that option gets considered, I told the Legion they get tribunal duty." Brian said with a shrug.

"Oh please, you know as well we do that your desire will be taken into account in their final ruling." The deer said. "Anyway could you get my back?"

"I'm all for 'You wash my back, I wash yours'." Brian said grabbing the shampoo as the deer started to get to his feet. "Um guys?" He said slowly after a minute of sudsing the deer's back. "Anyone else smell that?" He asked suddenly.

"Yeah I know, I STINK!" Said a pained voice from the door. "Part of the reason I'm here. Oh and Brian Laria's 'PRESENT' got here a few minutes ago and one of them needs a cool shower and rubbed down with a analgesic cream. Apparently they were trying for authentic which put a girl in a chain-mail shirt and the metal they used causes allergic reactions. Luckily she wasn't in it for long so she's only got a very bad rash."

"SHIT, FUCK, um...... Hey Tamara hows it going??" Brian stammered as he turned around as his whole body turned a deep red as he saw her. "Well at least you're up and around but really are you supposed to be and when it comes down to it, Laria held back more than I thought she would." He said rather pleased, even though he was looking at the eight youngish looking people standing beside her flanked by android guards.

"And just how the hell is THIS holding back??!" Whined a girl with Blue-black hair.

"Oh come on, this isn't all THAT bad Dawn." Said a girl with light brown hair before she burst out laughing. "So we all look like characters from some cartoons and they've given Claudia a rash that's bad enough she's actually talking loud enough to be heard." She said gesturing towards the girl Athena was manhandling towards a shower head.

"And whats with this 'Dawn' crap?" Snarled the girl. "And exactly what kind of stuff DID they make Claudia put on??!"

"I'll settle for knowing the why about ALL of us." Huffed a smaller girl.

"Analysis of the chain-mail shirt show that it is made of Mitarles. A metallic resin that is used in Imperial high efficiency solar power collectors."Atherian said over the speaker system. "In other words the North American continent just dodged one HELL of a bullet. Considering that it was produced by use of a replicator and Mitarles does NOT handle that at all well."

""Well... back to you guys and they way you look." Brian said as he tossed Athena the container of body wash that had dropped from the dispenser. "Ever watch cartoons and notice that four, six and ten year olds are far more mature than many forty, sixty and eighty year olds that you've met over the years? Well 'I' looked at them and yes why there will ALWAYS be a couple that you wouldn't necessarily mind getting to know better IF they were legal,personally I'd have just settled for someone capable of intelligent conversation let me tell you!!! Well Laria has obviously let her hormones and the new hardware control her actions like I told her not to."

"You actually thought that she'd LISTEN to you? Come on!!! She's hit on nearly everyone of us before she got shipped off to contact Rachel's Aunt and cousin, luckily both of them are hard core lesbians." Athena laughed as she scrubbed down Claudia's back. "Easy kid easy, lean into the scrub much more and I'll be taking off skin."

"PLEASE just STOP the ITCHING!!!" Claudia wailed as she scrubbed at her chest and arms.

"Atherian get a hold of Laria's transport and find out WHO insisted on using that stuff for chain-mail." Brian sighed. "And when you do, tell them that they've got a session in front of the Legion Tribunal." 

"Can you just tell us what's going on here?" Screamed two of the people that Laria had gone nuts with. 

"And how about telling me why 'I' am the girl when she's the one that.... um uh." Stammered a red headed girl.

"The boy? Or are you talking about that I was the one BORN a girl while You were born the boy?" The boy said with a evil grin on his face.

"Let me guess.' Brian laughed. "You two are brother/sister, probably twins and you've been screwing around for years. When Laria figured that out, she switched you two around so you could feel what it's like for the other one, Hmmm?"

"So THAT'S the reason why you've never looked at me Benjamen, you've been making out with Crystal, um Gwen, whatever!!!" Screamed Claudia as the two looked at each other and blushed.

"Really? Your name is Benjamen?" Brian laughed. "Oh GOD Laria, you came up with some winners here." Brian laughed.

"Oh HA-HA! Yeah yeah very funny." Grumbled Crystal. "Thats right laugh it up, your girlfriend made up a Ben and Gwen Tennyson and the boys name really is Ben. She also made up a Hinota Huga from the cartoon Naruto. Toph and Katara from the Last Air bender cartoon. Dawn, May and Misty from the Pokemon crap and then you have us two from the Ben 10 shit.... and you're finding this funny aren't you?" 

"Do you know WHY she switched your sexes?" Brian asked with a smile. "Oh and by the way, the ONLY reason I can over look ANY of this is because you ALL are legal age even if you don't look it. Back to why Laria switched your sexes, have you EVER wondered what it feels like from the other person's perspective? Hmmm?"

"You WOULDN'T!!" Came the gasp as Brian burst out laughing as look of comprehension lit up people's faces. 

"Laria is a bit of a masochist, a sadist and a whole lot of bi AND she has a very viciously twisted sense of humor when it comes to sex, let me tell you!! You never realize how heavy of a sleeper you are until you wake up strapped to the bed and she's lubing up a strap-on." Brian laughed shaking his head at that humiliating experience. "All people could do was stand there and laugh."

"What about Brianna?" Athena asked as she dabbed Claudia's back dry so she could start rubbing in the cream.

"She was the one that was laughing the hardest! She nearly fell out of her chair." Brian said as he moved beside her to help rub the cream onto Claudia's back. 

"But I'M the GUY!!" Benjamen wailed as his sister and all but the girl that was modified too look like Katara started to look at him like a pack of starved wolves eying a scrap of meat. 

"I'm curious as to what you did to provoke this kind of reaction from your sister and the others that were brought here with you, oh and by the way the medical scan that was preformed when you were first brought in shows that your are an hour short of your first menstrual cycle." Atherian said earning a whimper and a cascade of piss down Benjamen's legs. "Also Captain, there is Palaricilon activity within the tunnels that lead up the access hatch that was used to enter their ship."

"CRAP! Laria's shit and now this." Brian said with a sigh shaking his head as he headed for the door while he grabbed for a towel. "Considering it can't be good news for us if they're answering this quickly, I need ALL forces in the immediate area here ASAP!! The suits can handle damp bodies in them can't they?"

"They should, although there has been no need to pour a bucket of water in them to find out for certain." Atherian said lightly earning a smile from Brian.

"Hey wait!" Hollered the girl that had been made to look like Misty. 

"What's up? I'm needing to book!" Brian said sticking head back in the doorway.

"Out of curiosity, given the chance WOULD you fuck us?" The redhead asked as everyone looked on with interest in the question.

"Well considering you're all legal age and if you'd be willing, I wouldn't be the one to say no." Brian said after a moments thought. "Basically since you're all legal it'd all amount to role-play anyway and with your guy's heights and sizes it'd be easy enough moving you into different positions." He said with a laugh as he ducked the bottle of body wash Celina threw at him and bolted down the hall.

"Tell Tiffan... oh hey, good thing you're in your suit Tiff!!! We're liable to need that cannon of yours!" Brian said as he slipped past into the armory that Tiffany was leaving to get his own suit.

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"A small group of Palaricilon have exited their ship and are waiting for you at the edge of the pit, they appear to have brought some of their eggs with them." Atherian said as Brian exited the makeshift base and walked towards the pit.

"Well as long as they don't have any kind of bio-weapons or something like that I don't really see anything wrong with them getting a breath of fresh air since we didn't detect anything harmful in their ships atmosphere. What about buildup around the other places where tunnels and such get close to the surface?" Brian asked as the others caught up with him.

"What little activity that we can detect appears to show them withdrawing into the deepest darkest parts of their domain." Atherian said sounding as confused as that statement got Brian and the others.

"Well I guess, well we can always ask them." Brian said as they got within fifty feet of the Palaricilon party as Brian opened his mouth to say something the Palaricilon that they had spoken to down in the ship suddenly raised its front limb and brought it down hard onto the mass of eggs. Brian and the others stood there stunned at the Palaricilon's actions as the others of the group moved to help with the destruction of the remaining eggs. Brian stood there horrified by the sight of flying yolk and felt the icy heat of rage build up in his chest and behind his eyes as the world narrowed down focusing in on the falling yolk and the Palaricilon standing there looking at him. The narrowed view of his vision continued to narrow down and turn a deep shade of red until all was black.



Forward to the Stars Ch. 17



Sorry it has taken so long to get this chapter completed, that said any and all comments are welcome and wanted, though constructive are more so!! Though if you won't comment at least vote, that way I get SOME response. To fully grasp this first part with all the new characters it'd be best to read at least the last part of Chapter 16. ALL characters that engage openly in sexual acts are at least 18 if not older! So to all that have some problem with this story but have no grounds for vocal complaint, sorry but I'm not allowing you THAT opening!! 

	For those that don't wish to read chapter 16, Laria acquired several people from a bus that started burning then exploded. Since they obviously were not to have survived the crash and then the explosion Laria proceeded to use the mod pods and alter their appearances in hopes of getting "THANKED" by Brian when they hooked up again for a few hours. The list below is to help you the reader as well me while typing this.

Rebecca=age 19=Dawn from Pokemon
Nicole=age 23=May from Pokemon
Erika=age 22=Misty from Pokemon
Jessica=age 20=Toph from The Last Airbender
Jasmine=age 21=Katara from The Last Airbender
Crystal=age 22=Benjamen from Ben10
Benjamen=age 22=Gwen from Ben10
Claudia=age 24=Hinata from Nartuto



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	"Can we watch Brian blowing his stack again?" Rebecca asked as she paced around in the room that she and the other people that Laria had altered the appearance of had been placed in. 

	"Why?" Asked Benjamen as he struggled to get comfortable in the female body that he'd been put in. "It's not like it's going change that he turned his suit into shrapnel and really trounced the people that went out with him."

	"I'm TRYING to get it through my head that there are actually such things as psychics, okay?" Rebecca snapped a little exasperated at Benjamen's constant whining. "Brian went Jean Gray on those bugs, OKAY? He went phoenix out there! PHOENIX! Can you explain THAT? Everyone's always going God this and God that BUT we saw something that IF there really WAS a GOD he wouldn't have allowed because humans are supposed to be good little disposable pawns in his little game between him and Satan!!!"

	"Brian is ADAMANT that there IS a 'God'! He is just unsure if the 'God' that humanity on Earth worships IS 'God'." Icialan said coolly from the doorway. "I personally wish to apologize for what Laria has put you all through."

	"Why? You have something to do with all of this?" Jasmine asked from where she lay on a bunk spooning and feeling up Jessica. 

	"And what do you mean by that crack of God not being God?" Snapped Benjamen.

	"No, I had nothing to do with what had happened to any of you but that does not mean that that exonerates me." Icialan said sadly with a shake of her head. "The God that is preached and taught on Earth is supposed to be a spiritual being, correct?" She waited a moment until people nodded their heads. "There are MANY little things that do not add up in the Bible if you look at them with an open mind. With a closed mind, you can believe that being hit by a train won't hurt you. Reality proves otherwise but it is what you can believe. The problem is that in all likelihood you'll kill many before you are stopped when you start trying to PROVE your belief."

	"Like what? What doesn't add up in the Bible?" Panted Jessica as Jasmine fingered her.

	"Be very glad that you BOTH are not in the Reamaiinsk Empire." Icialan said looking at them with disdain. "Otherwise neither of you would enjoy the repercussions of what you are doing to her Jasmine.."

	"It's not like I'm forcing her." Jasmine said pinching Jessica's clit causing the girl to curl up.

	"The Empire wasn't exactly known for being tolerant of socially destructive actions, forced OR consensual." Icialan said with a raised eyebrow. "As to the 'peculiarities' that are in your Bible. There are MANY times many just in Genesis. One of Brian's favorites is after Cain had his 'discussion' with his brother he went to some country some way off,right? The way it reads, it was an advanced civilization. NOT a bunch of nomadic people that not to mention shouldn't even have existed if you prescribe to the Bible."

	"LITTLE of what you just said really makes any sense Icialan." Ashilon said coming up behind her. "Alright our very young adults." He said addressing Rebecca and the others. "We have finally gotten the line of people that need emergency treatments and those are just hurt sorted out and unfortunately Laria will be here before they are free again."

	"Laria is coming HERE??!" Claudia screeched in terror interrupting him. "WHY??! Doesn't everyone hate her?"

	"Not necessarily young one." Icialan said pleasantly "It is her penchant for making advances on people that is disliked, her ability to work with people and get things done has garnered some admiration from those assigned to her." 

	"What happened to the squirrel?" Jessica asked.

	" Pain killers can only do so much but Tiffany WILL live, no matter how much she thinks she's dying." Ashilon said with a shake of his head. "When the cannon exploded it fused the seam on her suit and fried all but the emergency life-support so she was the last we were able to ascertain the actual physical condition of. She has been stabilized for her wait in a med pod since even though she's been hurt badly. Her damaged spine and pelvis aren't nearly as life-threatening as the wound in Athena's side or Theratan's head wounds."

	"Do you know what happened to Brian after he vaporized those bugs and then disappeared with the ones that survived?" Jessica asked as she pulled her pants back on.

	"What Brian did when he became enraged was he weakened the bindings between the atoms in the Palaricilon bodies, basically they fell apart and blow away." Icialan said holding up Jessica's thong and cocking an eye at her. "He DID somehow or other capture their essences, which we have uploaded into the replicators' data-banks, that way when we have time we can construct bodies for them. Brian was just starting the process of 'consuming' the main Palaricilon's essence when he became aware of what they were hoping for when they enraged him."

	"Wait a min! You're saying they were HOPING to piss Brian off?" Rebecca gasped jerking from where she had been concentrating on getting different clothes from the replicator since Laria was coming more than the conversation.

	"Indeed child. Also you DON'T need to worry," Ashilon said smirking. "Laria will not overly bother you because of the incredibly deep shit she is in because of what she did to you all the last time you had interaction with her."

	"Any or none, it doesn't really matter! She just gives us the creeps." Benjamen said wrapping a blanket around his female body.

	"ENOUGH already! Alright?" Ashilon roared. "She will NOT bother you, so get over it! We have more than enough trouble already dealing with all that Brian wants done and not having enough time in the allotted amount of time to do it, okay? We have to get into the life-craft on Triton. After that we have to figure out how to stabilize methane power crystals, start converting EVERYTHING to the new power crystals and THEN start the build up because there are THREE major galactic power bases that are going to haul-ass to Sol when they realize that humanity here on Earth just became powerful enough that they can NOT play the games that they have been playing for several thousand years, okay? If you want to be apart of our taking our rightful place in the universe, get dressed and come out here and help otherwise stay in your rooms and stay the fuck out of our way!!!" And with that he stormed out.

	"Since we are psychically bonded with Brian we become touchy as well when he becomes upset so please don't take Ashilon's outburst personally, even if he is correct." Icialan said gently. "We do not have much time, the..... what ever their species is called. You all have heard of the conspiracy theory called 'Hollow Earth'?" She asked and waited until people responded. "Well, according to the US government a conspiracy theory is STILL a conspiracy theory even when proven correct, actually it's ESPECIALLY when proven correct. Well guess what, the Earth IS hollow and we can only avoid a confrontation with them for so long."

	"Wait a minute!" Hollered Nicole suddenly. "You're saying all those alien abductions that all those nut-jobs are always talking about, you're saying those are REAL??!"

	"At the very least, we can at least say one abduction has probably taken place. Whenever that one took place." Icialan said simply with a shrug of her shoulders. "Now even though you have many questions and I WOULD love to answer them for you, I do need to get back and start handling what I can of our workload."

	"So we're left out on a limb and no answers?" Asked Crystal. 

	"Not exactly." Icialan began slowly. "Archimedes, his high and mightiness has been told that after you watch the introductory narration he is to answer questions to the best of his immense capabilities."

	"So how is this Archimedes?" Asked Jasmine curiously.

	"He is the archivist AI that Brian had created to free up Atherian from having to search the immense data-banks that are ever increasing in size at a steady pace among other things asked of him. Now, I have spent as much time as I can with you. I will have SLIGHTLY more time once Brian returns." Icialan said as she stepped out the door.

	"So he IS okay and down with those bugs." Rebecca said relieved rubbing her arms.

	"Yes, he is alive young one." Came a elderly voice from the corner of the room. "He is busy dealing with with what he has called a "civil war" within the Palaricilon population."

	"You're Archimedes?" Laughed Benjamen. "Couldn't be a little more cliche?" He asked as they all looked at the old man in Greek robes that Plato might have worn slumped a little over on the chair he sat on while holding his staff and clenching the LARGE five inch thick book on his lap.

	"I thought this look was appropriate when 'I' designed it." Archimedes said as he rubbed the large bald patch on the top of his head before stroking his long white beard.

	"I like it!" Claudia said softly. 

	"THANK YOU dear one." Archimedes said gently smiling at the shy girl. "If I had not been told to answer all questions, you would have had to enter an archive and answer the entry question correctly."

	"Entry question??! Why would someone that needs answers to something, answer questions?" Asked Benjamen as the others groaned at his question.

	"What is the question that you're to answer and can we get a sunbeam in here so I can lay in it? Cause if we're to be stuck in here I want to at least enjoy it!" Crystal said as she stood at the replicator trying to get a drink. "And can SOMEONE show us how to actually USE this thing??!"

	"That is the disposal unit." Archimedes said with an amused look on his aged face. "The replicator is the one right NEXT to the disposal unit."

	"Shut up." Crystal growled as her brother grinned at her mistake.

	"Enough, now before people start asking more questions, you ALL are required to watch the introductory narrative as stated before this, the one you should have been shown when Laria abducted you." Archimedes said as what appeared to be a sunbeam light up a section of floor off to the side of the room. "Taking into account that this base has no windows you'll have to settle for this." He said indicating the sunbeam. "You will experience all the sensations and benefits of an actual sunbeam INCLUDING Vitamin D production in your cells."

	"SWEET! Now if.... HEY! WHERE'D it GO??!" Crystal snapped glaring at the old man when the artificial sunbeam shut off.

	"I SAID you are to watch the introductory narrative." Archimedes said with an amused look on his aged face as the display screen light up.

	"Oh fine, can we get some munchies first?" Crystal asked and then burst out laughing at the look Archimedes' face. "What?"

	"What is it about you humans always NEEDING 'munchies' when watching informative narratives?" Archimedes asked looking at Crystal and the others.

	"NO!" Jasmine snapped as Benjamen started to say something. "If WE have to wait for answers until after we watch your video, so do you." She said with an malicious grin on her face as she leered at Archimedes.

	"That is an acceptable agreement." Archimedes said with a shrug. "Now, no more interruptions! Get your snacks and sit down and watch."

	"'Kay, 'kay." Laughed Ericka. "Who wants what?" She asked as as people started hollering what they wanted.

	"Okay!" Archimedes grumbled as people finally settled down with snacks. "Anyone needing a pottie break now?" He asked snottily

	"No, we're good." Rebecca said as people declined the offer. "For now, anyway."

	"Very well! Since this is not all that long, in all likelihood you will not need to make a quick run while this plays." And with that Archimedes flickered from sight as the screen light up.

	"He isn't very photogenic, is he?" Jessica asked as the recording began and Brian appeared on the screen.

	"Greetings and Bienvenue ! To those of you that have little class in their upbringing, 'Hello and long life to you and yours'. To those with NO class, 'YO, how's it rockin'?" The recording laughed. "But now in all seriousness, you sit here observing this in preparation in making your choice whether to join us by entering the ranks of the Legion, the Gaian Knights, or you choose to enter down one of the many paths that have yet to be made at the time of this recording. Or," The recording said with a small smile. "or, you are here to learn of humanities TRUE heritage! Humanity, you might be pleased to learn did NOT get its start by crawling out of some intergalactic pile of crap even though that leaves politicians needing to be explained. Well, around this neck of existence anyway. No, our species got its start on the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy on a planet called Arkiloman. While that solar system was not a harsh place to live, it was not a forgiving place to live. Just as we are here on Earth so to were our ancestors on Arkiloman," Brian shook his head as he tried to smile. "I wish I could tell you that we came good peaceful stock but just as here on Earth we were and still are some seriously bloody-ass bastards!!!" Brain said with a mirthless laugh.

	"Enjoying this isn't he?" Rebecca asked sarcastically.

	"No, he isn't." Benjamen said softly.

	"For how long it would take us here on Earth with the technically we have at our disposal to reach the stars, it took out ancestors on Arkiloman twice as long." Brian's recording droned on. "Make it they finally did after many millennia for the system that our ancestors inhabited was rich in the necessary raw materials that needed to feed a burgeoning space program. For a great many years of expansion it appeared as if our ancestors were alone, an illusion that was shattered when several colonies were attacked. One, a seedling colony was wiped out of existence. Several more were attacked before a adequate defense was mounted against an insect based species that was soon called Palaricilon."

	"Something doesn't feel right about that." Rebecca said uneasily a weight pushing at her soul.

	"Indeed. Among other reasons that is WHY we are here, we are here to look through any possible Palaricilon records and find out what actually started a war that lasted many, many years." The recording responded.

	"What??!" Yelped Rebecca as she freaked at the recordings' response to her comment.

	"Prerecorded responses set to trigger words and phrases." The recording quipped earning a scowl from Rebecca. "The resulting war that lasted one hundred and fifty years was devastating to human controlled space and thought to have exterminated the Palaricilon. During and after the war with the Palaricilon, humanity salvaged and harvested technically from Palaricilon colonies and worlds. For three thousand years after the Palaricilon war humanity expanded its borders in relative peace. In time though that peace was broken by greed and the desire for wealth that only piracy can offer. There were several planets that acquired great wealth by offering themselves as safe haven worlds. As one would expect eventually there was great jealousy of these planets' wealth as well as anger against the pirates. The emotions finally reached a head igniting the first of three 'Pirate Wars'. For nearly fifteen hundred years human controlled space was under siege until the planet Karleacon rallied a full two-thirds of human space to its dream of an unified space. Once the ball was rolling it only took some fifty years to put an end to the last Pirate War. Of course as one would expect from a society that is ran by so called 'Nobility', hell broke out on Karleacon between the noble families all vying for the central seat. 

	"Has humanity EVER been peaceful??" Claudia said from the part of the bed that she claimed.

	"When we're six feet under." The recording responded with a chuckle. 

	"He's play with us isn't he?" Jasmine pouted. "And what's bad about it, is that he isn't even HERE!!"

	"Fun all the same though." The recording responded earning a growl from Jasmine and a snort from Rebecca. "Anyway, it was around three hundred ADDITIONAL years of fighting before the Reamaiinsk finally won and more or less brought peace to human space and laying the cornerstone for the Reamaiinsk Empire. Things grew into a relatively stable way of life until Reamaiinsk the Third took a great 'liking' to his Pricral and thus the FIRST Pleasure Beast was created. Amusingly enough its creation also ushered in his eldest son into the big boys' seat since the transformation process created a slime covered slug like creature who's' slime was very toxic to the touch, not to mention whatever else that the archives hint at."

	"TO MUCH INFO!!" Jessica laughed.

	""Even so," The recording responded. "Reamaiinsk the Fourth had the creature destroyed to prevent anyone else from dying such a horrid death. The description of his fathers' death clears the check list for anaphylactic shock, so in all probability he died peacefully compared to the ones pegged for disposing of the creature. From then on until the reign of Reamaiinsk the three hundredth and fifty seventh there was relative peace in the the Empire. Then in Reamaiinsk the three hundredth and fifty seventh's reign, House Crylonth of planet Tyfrolnth defied Imperial law and created another slug like pleasure beast, the Doca. In this instance what was created was not a poisonous creature but a psyonic one. The threat of the Doca was not discovered by the Imperium until several planets had fallen to its influence, it was a matter of forty years until Artificers on planet Akarlian managed to create weapons that were effective against the psyonic terrors. The Psyker Blades as they came to be known, were also psyonic beings who adapted themselves to their wielder's strengths and weaknesses. These Psyker Blades were the most efficient weapons that the Imperium had against the Doca threat. The double consciousness of the welder and the blade created a quandary that the Doca were unable to overcome. The first two Blades were the most efficient against the Doca as they were also elementally aligned. Ashilon, fire while Icialan was ice. These two who were the leaders as well as the 'parents' of the Psyker Blade 'Species' if you would. Just as the Twin Blades of the Emperor were elemental so too were the next five blades." 

	"Why only seven and not all of them?" Erika asked after several seconds of opening and closing her mouth.

	"The reason that the first seven blades were elemental in nature was the nature of the materials that made up the blades." The recording said as Benjamen yawned deeply. "The materials that were used to create the metals that the first seven Psyker Blades were made from were a nightmare and a half to acquire. THEN they had to wade through hell's cesspool to make the damned metals and then there was the oh so wonderful, wonderful experience of keeping the metals soft enough to craft the swords. No matter the hardships the Artificers were faced with though, they performed their magic like the TRUE artisans that they were. In a matter of weeks after the Twins had been created the third sword was created and awaited the 'soul' of its occupant, the one that we here on Earth call Mjölnir."




Forward to the Stars Ch. 17



"Mjölnir??!" Rebecca, Nicole and Jasmine squealed like five year olds that just got told that they were going to be going to Disney Land. 

	"You're SERIOUS, RIGHT???! Mjölnir? As in THOR, the Thunder god's hammer, Mjölnir?" Shrieked Rebecca freaking out.

	"NO, no, no, no! NOT happening!" Benjamen moaned holding and shaking his head. "This can NOT be happening." He screamed jumping up from the bed and dashed to the door. "Let me OUT! I WON'T listen to these lies! WA, HEY!" He yelped as  he was grabbed and thrown back towards the bed.

	"Solid state holographics." Archimedes said as he stood glowering down at him. "While you may not listen to this, you WILL sit through this, CHILD."

	"In essence Psyker Blades 'reproduce' when they or their wielders reach a level in which their forms can no longer safely contain the psychic power." The recording said as Benjamen picked himself up and cowered under the blankets on the bed. "Being a combo the Twins are able to assist their yielder to contain a greater than normal level of psyonic power."

	"Generally." Icialan interjected quickly through the speakers in the room.

	"Nonetheless when it was time, the twins channeled their minds into the 'Sword of Quintessence' and concentrated that power until Mjölnir's mind solidified. Next in line was Corgoth, the 'Halberd of Body'."

	"Excuse me?" Nicole perked up tentatively. "What's a Halberd?"

	"A Halberd," Archimedes intoned quickly. "Is a heavy duty pike, which in turn is a spear but far more useful than any simple spear or pike could ever hope to be."

	"Next was Tritaton, the 'Trident of Life'. Then came Zephyr the 'Fan of the Tempest' and then there was the..... interesting one! Neosis, the 'Cestus of'..... well 'Thought' since Earth has no word that translates." The recording said. "But in all actuality 'Thought' is NOT the correct termage that is needed, 'vibration' or 'wave length' is probably the more accurate descriptions."

	"Uh, nuther question!!" Nicole said raising her hand. "Cestus?"

	"A Cestus, is a battle glove that the hand slips into and stops just short of the elbow and is cinched down. A LARGE assortment of weapons can be either permanently or temporarily attached to it, either just at the fist or the length of the glove." Archimedes said quickly while the recording paused so he could answer the question.

	"Let me emphasize here that only Icialan and Ashilon were allowed to fully spread and flex their abilities" The recording said trying to emphasize the point. "Once the wielders of the Twins' children fully grasped the power that their partners commanded, they did their best to keep that power contained. THAT is why there is such an..... 'extended' family of Psyker Blades. To those that can NOT grasp what you would face if faced with their full powers unleashed. FIRST, Mjölnir's touch could literally blow you apart or just short out your entire nervous system. Neosis capturing and 'locking' your mind into a conscious state so no matter what happened you would be awake and fully aware or you could simply torn from your body and added to his mind and fed his power. Next would be the kiss of Zephyr as she drew the air from your body so you sufficated sorounded by air. Then you would feel the pain as Tritaton as he pulled ALL liquids from your body out through your pores, eyes, nose, ears or whatever and last but not least is wonder Corgoth. The human body is basically a walking pile of dirt, let you imagination explain the danger he'd pose to any organic being."

	Rebecca sat rubbing her lip thinking of the possibilities. "Cor would be not be nearly the threat as Tritaton! Brian has kept Neosis from claiming another partner hasn't he?" She asked a chill racked her body.

	"Wha, why would he do that?" Erika asked.

	"Neosis is the most dangerous of all the Psyker Blades as you have perceived. Only the most fanatical of ALL followers of the Remaker will be allowed a chance of bonding with him!" Archimedes stated.

	"Why would they be so careful with that one when it sounds like they've bonded the rest wily-nilly?" Benjamen asked.

	"I have had enough with the company of this feeble minded fool, is there somewhere else I can finish watching this video?" Rebecca asked glaring at Benjamen.

	"There IS but view this as training." Came Icialan over the com. "And do not be to harsh on her, she has indoctrinated to the superiority of man on the single point of being a human."

	"HEY!" Whined Benjamen. "Remember, I'm a guy trapped in a woman's body and what's so bad with being a human?"

	"Nothing, nothing at all." Ashilon said over the com. "But if you want to talk superior, let's talk about the Salt Water Croc's or for that matter any creatures' skin compared to that of a humans. Intelligence? Try that of the octopus or ANY marine mammal. Balance? Try walking a few steps as a cat. Humans were NOT, are NOT and will NEVER be physically superior to any creature presently known. What DOES set humanity it apart or at least in the past was its adaptability, ingenuity topped by a stubborn streak that puts ANY jack-ass to shame."

	"He means the animal not YOU, you idiot.' Crystal grumbled at her brother who started to open his mouth to start whining again. "Now can people PLEASE just be quiet so we can finish watching this thing?" 

	The image of Brian on the screen chuckled earning a glare from Crystal and Rebecca. "And I thought I was temperamental. As to our history. It was over eighty years before any real headway was made against the Doca. Speed could not be allowed as this might allow a Doca to go undetected. When all of declared Doca space had been swept three times the Imperial citizenry celebrated the end of the Doca threat. When the Warriors of the Blade as they had come to be called called upon the Imperium to allow them to do 'A' sweep of the Imperium in its entirety, many cried foul. When the outcry finally became loud enough the Emperor called the loudest of the nobles to give voice to the reason of their being against a once over by the Warriors."

	"And let me guess, the one that was sent was a mind slave?" Nicole said with a smirk.

	"No jumping ahead to the good parts!" The recording laughed. "It was the eldest daughter of House Blaunce of planet Arkardium that was sent to make the argument against allowing the Warriors free access to the Imperium as they had fulfilled their purpose. When it was time for the Warriors to argue for the need of a once over of the Empire, Lord Elion of planet Akarlian walked in front of Lady Ce'air and with a quick clean move drew Icialan and cut a nice deep gash into what had passed as a baby bump. As all but the Imperial family was mentally restrained by the other Warriors Lord Elion calmly reached passed the cut cloth and pulled out the remains of the adolescent Doca and threw them on the dais at the Emperor's feet. While looking at Lady Ce'air said that since the citizenry was so sure that the the Doca were no longer a threat and if the Emperor agreed with them, the Warriors would GLADLY return to their planet and their awaiting Academies and walked out of the throne room as Ce'air held the corpse of the Doca and continued to cry for her 'Master' to answer her. Word reached the Warriors as they were boarding their ship to leave that the Emperor had not only decided in the favor of the sweep of the Imperium but was curious if a Warrior would be willing to remain 'to keep an eye on things'!"

	"YEAH! Finding the enemy all but fucking your ass WOULD kinda get the reaction." Snorted Jasmine.

	"There may have been a outcry when the Warriors of the Blade wanted to do 'A' pass of the Imperium, the fun REALLY began when the Emperor demanded that they do a series of FIVE passes." The recording sneered. "Of course you'd think that the citizenry would see the sense of the passes. ESPECIALLY after the find of the third in a series of fourteen Doca breeding facilities on one of the biggest trade route planets in the Imperium. In the end, the 'hunt' lasted for ninety Earth years."

	"Were they successful?" Asked Claudia.

	"It is ASSUMED that they were BUT considering that cold-sleep technology had been discovered by this time we can but hope!" The recording continued. "It was during the reign of Reamaiinsk the three hundredth and fifty ninth that OUR story begins." The recording said with a sigh. "The Imperial archives on the prison ship 'Atherian' says that the Warriors of the Sword sacked and burned a colony to the foundations on Saerin 5 and then went on a year and a half slash and burn campaign. At the end of which the Warriors simply gave up and surrendered their swords. Once again a Emperor angered the populous by siding with the Warriors of the Blade, saying that it was entirely the fault of the Psyker Blades since they were psyonic beings and were guiding the actions of the Warriors. As riots erupted through out the Imperium the Warriors sought out the protection of the military, many of the Warriors gave themselves over to the mobs distracting them while the others reached the safety of military custody. In the end three colony ships were commissioned and constructed to send the Warriors into exile. It took several years for the ships to be constructed and considering that the three ships would be the most state-of-the-art on completion, which of course angered the citizenry, GREATLY! For the most part the citizenry calmed down when the Emperor told them the more advanced the ship, the farther away they would be taken. This for the most part quieted the complaints until the construction dragged on into the third year."

	"How fucking whiny were our ancestors?" Erika asked, a question seconded by the others even Benjamen.

	"According to records not relevant to this briefing; special interest groups like climate change, gay rights, minority rights and peta combined ain't got a damn thing on them." Archimedes said with a smirk as people deflated as what was said sunk in.

	"WAIT! Minority groups aren't that bad." Benjamen said defensively. "They're only wanting what's due."

	"If they are in the right or not when asking for compensation for wrongs committed or perceived to their ancestors is not what is being discussed right now Benjamen!" Archimedes said firmly. "What is, is that they whine, cry and complain like a four year old at Wal-Mart."

	"No wonder our ancestors weren't liked, they had backbone." Claudia said softly.

	"That is also Brian's assessment as well." Atherian said over the speakers. "I speak up to let you all know Laria is nearly there."

	"DAMN IT!! SHUT UP guys so we can finish this!" Rebecca said as they all blanched at the news.

	"When the last of the ships were completed outfitted and loaded for rudimentary colonies, the ships lifted and when at a estimated safe distance from inhabited worlds the space-tunnel drives were activated and sent to the farthest reaches of our galaxy." The recording said as people hunkered down as attentively as they could. "When the Atherian, the ship that carried OUR ancestors arrived at the designated region of space the drives suddenly activated once again and sent them here to Sol. As ship exited the space-tunnel the sled that carried the tunnel drive broke free and collided with the planet that is now our asteroid belt. Captain Anilease McBrather having been handed a terrible situation made the best command decision she could, she split the command staff between the three colony hubs that she ordered constructed to be either leaders or advisors to the fledgling colonies. Three colonies, three chances of survival on an unknown world in unknown space. When all had been completed on the colonies as best as could be done, Anilease took and buried the Atherian on a secluded place where it waited for nearly eighteen thousand years until Athena and I arrived at its airlock after a harrowing experience of getting swept down an underground river."

	"I thought he looked familiar." Jasmine said thoughtfully. "So exactly what are we talking about when we talk about a state-of-the-art ship? Something doesn't add up with all this!! The way everything was stated it sounded like the Empire DIDN'T want to exile ANYONE, so WHAT happened to cause all of it?"

	"Excellent!" Archimedes hissed. "You are truly worthy of my time child! Discussions with the Psyker Blades have brought some interesting little tidbits out into the open."

	"Like what?" Jessica asked. "Someone close to one of the Warriors got kidnapped and was used to force the Warriors to go on the rampage?"

	"Until both Imperial and Warrior forces finally brought a missed group of Doca to and then passed the doors of extinction." Archimedes said with grim satisfaction. "After the Doca had been eliminated the few slaves that they had were freed and in turn released the niece of Aran Trizen the second-in-command of the Warrior of the Blade forces."

	"If the Warriors were so patriotic how could they so easily turn their backs on the Empire and leave it defenseless....... they left people behind, didn't they?" Benjamen asked with a smug look on his face.

	"There were over eight hundred Blades by that time, so it was easy to slip Blades that had gone into hibernation into unsuspecting people's mausoleums." Archimedes said thoroughly amused at what had happened.

	"WAIT A MINUTE!!" Nicole snapped. "Mausoleums? What they do? Break into crypts and stash swords all over the place?"

	"Why break into crypts when the families of high and middle class themselves buried swords resting on top of the coffins of the patriarchs of the families." Archimedes asked amused. "It had been a practice for several hundred years so it was an easily achieved objective of slipping hibernating Psyker Blades among those slated to be burial swords. The Blades were to awaken and stand against any Doca that were to reappear after the ships had left." 

	"What pay grade is Laria exactly?" Rebecca asked curiously.

	."She isn't what she claims to to be I assure you!" Archimedes said enthusiastically. "All she is is one of Brian's first companions when they all went to Idaho. They get along well enough when he is close enough to more or less control what she does and does not do. Apparently, you all are prime examples of what happens when he isn't. Being one of his first companions she is tolerated and considering that she gets what Brian wants done DONE, she is earning respect for that ability otherwise I am sure that the Legion would have locked her away by now."

	"WHAT is this Legion you just talked about?" Asked Claudia.

	"The Legion is the group that the animorphic beings that Brian created and is allowing to be created to carry out his orders, created. There is the Order, the Sentinels and the Hammer. The Hammer is for the most part the bulk of the fighting forces. The Sentinels are psyonic warriors, guards and covert ops. The Order is EVERYTHING else. They are being organized as builders, teachers, cooks, scientists. Basically if it doesn't kill you with its mind or pound you into a pulp or put a hole in you, it belongs to the Order. Just don't do something stupid and decide they can't defend themselves." Archimedes said chuckled. " Like the old Catholic School Headmaster plaques read, 'Have rod. WILL beat child!' They are also divided between East and Western Hemispheres. East is Thundera, West is Mobius."

	"Wait, wait!" Jessica said interrupting. "Thundera, Mobius?"

	"Y-e-e-e-a-h." Archimedes said slowly as he rubbed the back of his head. "No one's asked the animorphs about that but since BOTH are animorphic civilizations, what can be said? Anyway they are also sorted by abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Members of the Hammer have increased strength and resilience while only being moderate to average psychically active, if at all. Sentinels are average when it comes to physical traits while they are very psychically active. Members of the Order on the other hand are pretty average on most counts while very much more adaptable and intellectual when compared to either of the other two schools."

	"Which 'school' is that horse Athena in?" Asked Claudia curiously.

	"I.... I'm not sure." Archimedes said dumbfounded. "I simply have never thought about it! She's very much Sentinel class but she's far more than any Hammer, we must confer with Atherian."

	"Why not with me?" A voice said from the doorway.

	"Oh Athena, how are you? Are you healed enough to be up and around?" Asked Archimedes turning to her as she stood in the doorway.

	"I have been for some time now." Athena said with a amused look on her face. "As to who and what I am, Command class or as Brianna has pretty much gotten everyone to start calling us, Daemons. Do not worry little one, basically extremely increased strength, endurance, bone mass, intelligence, toughened skin or hide all depends on the species, does not mean that we're Abyssal." She said with a grin at Claudia's' nervousness. "And our psychic abilities are a threat to ourselves as well as to those around us if we don't keep them under control."

	"We saw!" Crystal chuckled. "But seriously, IS everyone going to okay?"

	"Yes, there is no need to worry about that." Athena said offering her hand to Crystal. "The technology that we are using is more than adequate for such injuries even as serious as some of these were. We just can't bring the dead back to life."

	"Warm dead or cold dead?" Rebecca asked with an interested look on her face.

	"HUH??! What the hell are you talking about?" Asked Benjamen as just as Athena just stood there with a confused look on her face.

	"Now THAT, is an EXCELLENT question Rebecca!!!" Exclaimed Archimedes. "A MOST excellent question indeed. You see," He said turning to the others. "It is POSSIBLE to revive someone with current Earth technology up to two and a half hours after they have been clinically pronounced dead as long as they were 'COLD' dead. Cold dead is induced by rapid cooling of the core body temperature, in essence inducing a unstable form of cryo-suspension."

	"What do you mean by 'unstable' cryo-suspension?" Asked Jessica.

	"A 'STABLE' cryo-suspension results in safe viable long term storage of a biological entity, while unstable results in a cold-sleep situation that safely lasts just long enough to get past bio-sensors. IF the people manning stations are complete lazy-assed bastards that need to have inspections jumped on them more often!" Archimedes said as he resettled himself on his chair. "Now before we get sidetracked again we must finish with your educations."

	"Yeah Laria is probably here by now or close enough." Jasmine. "So just tell us what Brian is planning on doing and how, please?"

	"Sure." Athena said with a shrug. "As of right now we have forces deep within the Vatican secret archives copying EVERYTHING for OUR archives." She said with a bow to Archimedes who returned it with one of his own. "As well as any and all places that we can narrow down that the countries around the world have stored their dirty little secrets. We are going for everything! Whether it's a new way to cook pea soup, a new way for pedicures or washing your hair. It does not matter to Brian! If it is possible to know it, he wants it in the archives."

	"But what about knowing how to create nuclear weapons?" Jessica asked worriedly. "There is just some knowledge that's just plain evil."

	"There is no 'good' knowledge and there is no 'evil' knowledge, there is just knowledge." Atherian said over the com. "It is how you USE that knowledge that defines if it is 'good' or 'evil'."

	"Whatever." Athena sighed. "Now back to the whats and hows. Brian is adamant that the last thing we want to do is do a full on military invasion and conquer this world even though it could be easily accomplished."

	"You don't understand or approve of not doing a invasion, do you?" Asked Rebecca. 




Forward to the Stars Ch. 17



"Oh, I understand why he doesn't want us to but it's totally pointless since we're going to give all the government and military leaders some instructions that'll have them surrendering before to much of the population is wiped out. If not surrendering outright." Athena added with a shit-ass grin and a shrug. "The most urgent that Brian has stipulated that are to join us first are Libya, the Republic of the Congo, China, India and Australia."

	"Why Australia?" Asked Benjamen suddenly.

	"Exactly!" Athena said thoroughly amused. "There are VERY few people on the planet that realizes that IF Australia WANTED to be a world power...... Trust me, they are NO France."

	"That was YOU GUYS that did that subway fart in France the other day!" Erika exclaimed pointing a accusing finger at Athena.

	"It wasn't me!" Athena exclaimed as innocently as she could manage and acting hurt at the accusation. "It was Susan! Oh and by the way if you're wondering after he let that nice big, loud fart loose we've isolated twelve languages and forty seven dialects hollering some variant of 'We surrender!', 'Hail Hitler' or 'Ali Akbar' mixed in with expected screaming and hollering." She said with a laugh.

	"Ali Akbar?" Benjamen asked confusedly.

	"'Allah is great', is the standard translation." Atherian said over the com. "It is what muslims usually holler as they're about to blow themselves up in yet another attempt to gain their forty to seventy some-odd virgins. Though why they go through such trouble is hard to compute since it would be so much easier just to simply move to Californication. What?" He asked as Nicole burst out laughing.

	"An anti-gay computer, I love it!" Nicole managed before she started to laugh even harder.

	"Laria is here." Atherian said causing Nicole to nearly swallow her tongue. "Well, that worked out better than I had hoped. Well, for the most part anyway." Atherian said as Nicole had stopped laughing but was now trying to cough her tongue back up. "While I am more or less still under Imperial likes and dislikes dictations so yes but only marginally so since Brian has altered my programming to let me make my own decisions on the matter. But since what I said was JUSTIFICATION of large swaths of a population being homosexual, theoretically I am NOT anti-gay."

	"What are Brian's opinions?" Jasmine asked looking up at the speaker.

	"Very mixed, we think." Icialan said over the com. "He gets creeped out by fags but has little problems with lesbians. Mainly because they like to 'eat' the same thing he does. When it comes to adoptions? Fags should be allowed to adopt little girls and lesbians, little boys. THAT way America can start reclaiming and rebuilding lost moral ground. The reasoning, supposedly, is that the fags will teach the little girls to ACT like little girls and not four year old bimbos and the lesbians will teach the boys how treat women. Your going to have to ask Brian, little of this makes sense to me" She said quickly to cut Jessica off when she started to say something. 

	"Don't forget North Korea as well as Vietnam on the take over scheme." Laria said over the com, freaking Jessica and the others out. "Don't worry guys, I'm not there JUST yet. Five minutes at worst though. Now as to reasons. Why he plans on taking over the Congo is to start a more or less woman ran Africa since the guys are far to mentally gone to actually even have a dictatorship that won't deteriorate into feudal factions fighting one another as even South Africa has proven. Don't think so? Look into the elections that placed the Zulu in charge, if they didn't win the place was promised to be burned. China, the ONLY way that place will EVER worth a damn ecologically again is if a higher technologically advanced group takes over and runs a replicator over the place and scourers the place down to bedrock and rebuilds from there. India? For all that joints short comings and they have many, they will ALWAYS be the safer and more trust worthy ally than China. North Korea and Vietnam, it's either take them over or put them on the list of places to purge."

	"Wait, wait! PURGE??!" Exclaimed Rebecca. "We're talking about people here, not insects."

	"Debatable with the way they have acted over the centuries of known records." Atherian said over the com.

	"Don't put it so lightly you two." Laria said as Athena left the room with a sigh. "Whether human, insect or otherwise you can count on one thing from those countries and to a slightly lesser degree China; the government's are copy of the people or maybe it's the people are a copy of the government. Now for the rest of the plans." 

	"Wait, why are we being told any of this?" Asked Rebecca.

	"Any reason not to?" Laria asked. "Anyway, we have or are acquiring all those warehouses of alien tech and what not that the governments around the world haven't been collecting for decades if not longer and going over them to see if we can find uses for it and ways to update our own technology. We have also recovered the remains of the beings from that 'Weather Balloon' that crashed in Roswell. WHEN, IF we ever are able to we will return the remains to their people for PROPER burial"

	"Any way to create Light-sabers in all that tech you guys are 'acquiring'??" Jasmine piped up interrupting.

	"Never had to 'acquire' ANYTHING for that kiddo!" Laria snorted. "What we ARE trying for though, is either better battery capabilities or power generation capabilities or both since what we have is, well, let's just go with there is much to be desired."

	"BUT, you have the technology?" Crystal asked excitedly.

	"Ugh! Flash back from bad TV shows." Laria gagged. "Yes, We HAVE the technology, to give you one hell of a haircut." She laughed trying to be as dramatic as she could. "But seriously, we do have the technology and we have created some light-sabers. The thing is is that light-sabers aren't good for much of anything but dueling. Now for actual fighting that energy sword from the HALO game is MUCH more viable, just more tricky to make work."

	"It is still in development Laria." Atherian said quickly heading off any more questions along that line. "Now if people will please hold off on using the com lines we can land the transports."

	"Well if nothing else can we at least watch it land?" Asked Nicole as the door slid open.

	"Well?" Athena asked indicating the hallway. "Brian seems to like to watch lift-offs and landings, figured you guys might be the same." She said as Nicole bolted out the door followed by the others a little more reserved.

	"Mind if we stay with you with Laria around?" Asked Jasmine as she tried to keep from stepping on Athena's tail. 

	"We all are subject to Brian's temper including Laria but if it'll help, stay close to any of the Sentinels if I'm not around. She may be a hot-dawger but only Brian would laugh at Thumper." Athena said as Crystal attached herself to Athena's back. "Kid, you can walk and your boner is stabbing me in the back, OFF!"

	"Crystal has ALWAYS has had a thing for muscles." Laughed Benjamen as they got to the viewing room next to the landing pad. "No going outside?"

	"We are in the SAHARA kid! It's a hundred twenty-five out there." Athena said pointing out the window. "Unless you have to go out there, why?"

	"All beach and no sharks!" Erika said solemnly before bursting out laughing.

	"Got a point." Athena choked with a shrug as the sand started to blow around as the transport began final approach.

	"Um how big are we talking about?" Asked Rebecca as she stared out the window.

	"Until we have control of the planet or at least a country, cloaking fields have to stay on during flight here on Earth." Athena said as a fabric started unfurling from the sides of the ship. "If you're curious, the ship is as twice as wide as a football field and again as long and a hundred feet tall. With the landing gear, add twelve feet. Will you QUIT THAT?" Athena snarled at Crystal as she started to rub Athena's thighs.

	"Hmm? Wha?" Crystal yelped as Benjamen snapped his fingers in front of her face. "Sorry." She mumbled as she realized what she was doing. "It's just that I've never been around anyone so beautiful."

	"Player!" Jessica snorted as the canopies locked into place. "So what's with the awn.... oh right. Help with the heat while unloading. Is there anything we can do to help while staying away from Laria?"

	"How about we help with the burns that those three are going to have?" Gasped Claudia as they watched Laria and two animorphs hauled out three women out onto the hot sands while a third animorph carried a forth. 

	"DAMN IT!" Athena snarled and stormed off down the hall.

	"Not without us you aren't!" Nicole hollered as she raced off after the equine.

	"Should be fun to see what the horse's reaction'll be when she finds out about the rest." Benjamin said pointing out at the view-screen as even more humans who's looks had obviously been played with exited the craft before he took after her with a evil grin followed by the others.

	"One group not get you in enough trouble, so you went for a second?" They heard Athena holler at Laria as they entered the warehouse area.

	"Your turn Ms. Everander." Laria said over shoulder as the 'child' that the animorph had carried was pulling and jerking on the helmets that the three that had come out of the transport with her wore over their heads.

	"You're damned lucky that those helmets are doing their damned jobs otherwise I'd turn your sorry ass into dog food." The kid snarled at Athena satisfied that the helmets were on properly. "Brianna, Michelle, Tina and Laria here pushed and shoved for that Legion group of yours to play by OUR rules to hard for some of sack of unprocessed glue to mess it up!"

	"You see," Laria said pushing between the kid and Athena before Athena's temper caused the kid to be torn in half. "Ms. Everander here is actually over eighty five and wanting to, well have a chance at a REAL childhood."

	"We are listening." Athena rumbled as she flexed drawing the hide on her arms taut.

	Brianna snorted over the com. "Let's NOT go into details to much here. Let's just say that for how strict and uptight OUR catholic parents were, they were NOTHING compared to Ms. Everander's!"

	"They made me in to a hateful, spiteful old woman. Brian's stubborn, caring but also blunt and completely without tact personality helped me to see what I was BUT all of that is part of the attraction he extrudes. He'll tell you how it is, ESPECIALLY if you don't want to face it."

	"He gets a real kick out of your reaction." Brianna laughed over the com. "Oh hey Lar, got a hold of Taylor." 

	Everybody looked at Laria with confused faces as she started whooping and laughing. "Okay are either of you going to let us in on the reason for the celebration?" Athena asked looking around at the others as if they had the answers themselves.

	"Taylor is the cute little ladyboy friend of Michelle's that we got Brian to um,....... comfort when she was dumped by her boyfriend when he found out about her." Brianna said with a sigh.

	"But..... isn't Brian anti-gay?" Nicole asked as she and the others looked at each other.

	"Who told you THAT?" Laria snorted. "Fire and Ice are supposed to be part of his mind now and they can't figure him out?" She asked laughing. "Listen, what Brian's problems with queers, a lot of blacks, mexicans and indians say that he owes them."

	"Well, technically since Europeans DID steal their lands..." Claudia said slowly.

	"Since the indians supposedly came to America by way of the Bering land bridge they can also be considered commie-tommies, so I've got a skinny white ass they can kiss!" They heard Brian snarl from the door that led deeper into the base.

	"BRI..... Oh, it's you Icialan." Laria pouted after having whirled around and just about launcher herself. "That's not funny."

	"What's not?" They heard Brian say before he burst out laughing. "SORRY guys! Really I am, I just couldn't resist doing that. Since the material of this place AND the radiation that the N'LCRIUM gives off interferes with communications to the point of being to much of a nuisance, I went with the mind-to-mind that Ashilon and Icialan have with me for communication."

	"Asshole!" Brianna grumbled. "So what's keeping you?"

	"Laria, DID you get me those twelve C. Fusion power plants that I need? Yeah yeah, before anyone whines and complains, the N'LCRIUM power system is deteriorating! Very much longer and this part of the solar system is star dust! So it's either supply the Palaricilon and their mutant cousins with a less likely to blow up energy source or hope we're out of system when theirs goes badda-bing badda-ass KA-BOOM! Anyway Belinda, shouldn't you and your sisters be in a sealed room somewhere so they can have their helmets removed and you start filling them with stories of all the hideous things you're going to have us do to them?" Brian asked snickering.

	"'I' won't be having ANYONE do ANYTHING remember?" Everander said innocently with big teary puppy eyes. "It'll be some very, VERY, bad people doing such terrible horrible things to Barbie and her sisters."

	"Yeah." Rebecca choked out. "The same thing that hundreds if that few of a number of boys to old men have dreamed about ever since Barbie dolls first came out."

	"And oh so very few realize how possible it was for a few years after the Barbie doll first came out." Brian sighed. "Barbie was designed after a prostitute, the name 'Barbie' came from the guys' daughter. She was named Barbara." He said when Benjamen got a confused look on his faced.

	"He's bull-shit, right?" Nicole asked looking around at the others. 

	"Du-know, never been able to confirm nor deny." Brianna said. "As to your plants, I'll be bringing the last three when they are completed. Your order stretched the factory to the max with all the other orders for C. plants."

	"Well sorry but we're needing as many as we can get! After this, we'll shut down the factory for a wear and tear inspection." Brian said with a sigh. 

	"Hey, uh Brian? Laria and a few others up here have started getting back at people...." Benjamen started slowly.

	"So? It's not like I haven't gotten reacquainted with a few people." Brian laughed interrupting him. "As long as you remember that revenge is a hollow victory compared to what they did to you."

	"So, would you allow US to pay people back too?" Benjamen asked, his whole attitude inundated with evil, venom practically dripping from her eye teeth.

	"Just don't complain to us when it doesn't work out the way you want it to." Brian sighed. "As to the fusion plants we DO have, they are on the way down right?" 

	"The power plants are just now at the entrance to the tunnels." Atherian said cutting off anyone else from talking. "Also, you need to be informed that the Order has 'Enlisted' Neosis and his offspring in constructing their 'Chapels'. The few Orderlies that are present should be done with the alter shortly."

	"Brian deal with that at a later time, you are to exhausted to keep up this long distance communication." Icialan said her voice thick with worry.

	"PE-LEEEEASE!" Rebecca snorted. "It isn't the distance that's the matter, it's how tired he is! IF he wasn't so tired he could probably do this from one side of the plant to the other for quite a while before he got tired."

	"That and I'm doing what I can to limit any mutations to my body due to the radiation down here." Brian laughed. "But you are right Icialan, I need to conserve strength. Athena, Brianna you're in charge! Just get me those plants as fast as you can."

	"What are you laughing about Lar?" Brianna asked as Laria burst out laughing.

	"You ought to see Benji's face! He's SO glum right now, you'd think he was hoping 'I' would be put in charge!" Laria laughed sinking to her knees holding her sides.

	"I, I was NOT!!" Benjamen stammered. "I, I..."

	"Do not worry child." Athena grumbled. "We will do as ordered but if you do ANYTHING to jeopardize what the Master is trying to accomplish, I swear you will near be without young in your womb."

	"Only a fool would ever doubt you Athena, now since NO ONE seems very willing to ask, I WILL!! What is up with all these others that Laria has tagging along." Nicole said pointing to the people that were hugging the back wall.

	"There's just been no reason to pipe up cute stuff." Laughed a blond girl. "And since your all probably curious, we agreed to play since you guys turned down fucking this Brian guy and ALL the goodies that come with it." She chuckled which soon turned into deranged laughter.

	"What goodies??" Asked Benjamen. "Swollen bellies as we're pumped full of cum and end up pregnant again and again?"

	"Well since it seems that you can't think of anything past that, you guys probably yes. US," Said a long haired red head. "Well since we're going to pretty much use him like a sugar-daddy every once in a while we MIGHT end up pregnant but that's what you risk when you have sex unless you've been fixed."

	"Brian refers to being fixed as being gutted like a fish." Brianna snorted. "And if you think about it, he ISN'T all that far off and a little to accurate, IF you think about it. Can't have kids, might as well be gutted like a fish since you've got a hole in your lower body that is usable only for storing cum for those that can make use of it."

	"I won't, if you don't mind." Athena shuddered. "Now," She said turning to the people that Laria had brought again. "Since you all seem to have WILLINGLY," She said cocking her eye brow at Laria. "Joined us, I would like to know what you all willing to do and don't want to do."

	"Well Laria here has said that if we were to be dead weight around here we'd get basic necessities and a few luxuries." Said a brunette.

	"Access to pool and weight facilities are included in the basics. I have no idea about these two. "Said a dark haired girl shoving her thumb at two skinny blue/silver haired people. "BUT I think I speak for us when I say that if all the job openings that are open right now are to help warm Brian's bed, we're willing."

	"Very well, we'll see what we can do about you being more useful than just bed warmers."Athena said with a shake of her head as she moved two that were hugging the back wall. "What about you?" She asked offering them her hands, palms up. "There is little reason to be afraid here, NO ONE will harm you!" She spoke softly into their minds as the siblings apprehensively placed their hands in her own.

	"We will do what ever want just PLEASE, don't send us back." Came a terrified and pain filled wail that had Athena grabbing her head and knocker her to her ass. 

	"Not only are they're personalities programed, over half of their minds are quarantined." Laria said in a tight shaft as she moved to help Athena to her feet. "They sure are heart felt in their need of never going back, aren't they?" Laria laughed aloud.

	"You could say that." Athena acknowledged aloud as she sent a quick tight shaft back. "We will wait for his return. HE will decide on our course of action, until such time they are limited in movement and are guarded by Sentinels."



Forward to the Stars Ch. 18



Sorry it's taken so long. Life, family, depression and all that nice shit. Anyway, all comments are welcome and wanted, though the more constructive are more so!! Though if you won't vote at least comment that way I get SOME response. And YES, I know this chapter SUCKS! If I can come up with a rewrite that works and I don't have to rewrite to many following chapters believe me when I say I will rewrite this!! 

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"Yeah, whatever." Grumbled Jasmine as she looked around the bay ignoring the goings on around her. "Hey Rebar, she capable of any better a conversation?" She asked as she saw Rebecca talking to a suited animorph. "WHA, HEY??!" She yelped as she found herself flying through the air towards the animorph's open palm.

"The NAME is THUMPER!" The animorph snarled as Jasmine's forehead came in contact with her palm laying the girl out on the floor stunned. "Remember it, or you WILL find out WHY." The animorph snarled bristling.

"Just be glad you didn't meet Amy. She's a CRAZY Hawg!" Chuckled another animorph as it walked up to the group. "M` Lady," It said turning to Athena. "The Chapel is complete, do you and these others wish to see?" Gesturing at everyone. "We will also be able to send Benjamen back to the States so that h- well, SHE can start on HER plans for revenge."

"Echidnas." Athena sighed rubbing her eyes as she shook her head. 

"OH, come on you grumpy old horsie." Jessica laughed. "Let's go see what they fixed up, it'll pass some time."

"HORSIE?!" Athena growled bristling at Jessica out the corner of her eye. "You DARE to call ME, horsie???!"

"I know you won't want to but let it drop, for now at least, huh?" Laria said softly from behind Athena. "While YOU might know what the Order has fixed up, we don't! So we're naturally curious and it WILL pass some time." She smiled as Athena growled deep in her throat and waved people to follow the Echidna as she headed for a door only to stop in her tracks as Icialan, Ashilon and another being (She had no idea if the person she nearly flattened was human or a Psyker Blade in a suit) walked through the door just as she was about to also but in the other direction.

"Yo, sor` to startle you but we're needing to talk to a couple of peeps." The being said in a wide friendly grin.

"So YOU'RE Neosis, huh?" Rebecca asked drawing looks from everyone. "What?" She asked as people continued to look at her. "OH, COME ON! Isn't it obvious as to WHO he IS? Come on, seriously! He LOOKS like some surfer/beach combing bum! I mean LOOK at him! Scraggly blond hair, needs a shave and DON'T get me started on the waxing his legs need! White T-shirt with a over-sized floral print shirt over that, baggy shirts and flip-flops, he so looks like someone that has no significance in the scheme that he CAN'T be anyone else! Am I wrong??!" She asked getting in the guys face DARING him to say no.

"Which is EXACTLY why I need to talk to you Rebecca about what we can do for each other." The guy said with an even bigger grin in his face. "Far to few clues and to far an accurate grasp. Yes, I am Neosis and whether you choose to join or merry little band, your cognitive abilities are need in our excavation sites throughout this solar system, will you help us?"

"WHOA, that pain in the neck habit of yours is finally paying huh Rebar?" Nicole laughed as she slapped the girl on the back.

"Sure, why not." Rebecca said high-fiving Nicole. "Let's how far we can get in the hierarchy, huh? Hey, can Nicole tag?" She asked suddenly. 

"Don't see why not, we'll just be strapped for time on the launch window since we'll have to come up with a suit for her." Neosis said with a shrug.

Well, what about her?" Asked one of the latest girls that Laria had rounded up pointing to Rebecca.

"TWO, things!" Neosis said firmly holding up the appropriate number of fingers.

"ONE: Names, whether the one you were born with or not names to call you by but more importantly registration in the computer banks.

And two:" He said smiling as the holograph surrounding the his suit deactivated revealing a suit sized for Rebecca.

"DAMN GIRL!" Jasmine laughed being the first to come to her senses from the shock. "They REALLY want your help don't they??!"

"Yes, we would seriously appreciate her help but no, we are not going to bond. Maybe at a later time but that is then, this is now and we would really appreciate your help Rebecca." Neosis said, the honesty and urgency thick in his voice.

"Aahh, IF you can get in my head so I'll answer to it, let's see how I like Dawn." Rebecca said after a few seconds thought. "And why shouldn't I help? Especially since the way you're talking even if I NEVER bond with one of you guys I am SO going to come out this with my bank account very lined."

"No one has any problems with me tagging along do they?" Nicole asked, giving her best puppy eyes. 

"Of course not but we DO need to stop by the armory on our way out, like in the next three minutes because we ARE needing to get going." Neosis said indicating the doorway.

"Well in that case, if you can get inside my head so I'll answer to it I'll try May." Nicole said as she slipped out the door and waited for the others to exit

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"Well if everything's good to go let's all go see about that chapel." Athena said thinking she was beginning to understand the shame, hate and rage she felt radiate off Brian when dealing with other humans even Tina and the others. "While there we still need people to register names."

"Yeah, let's head down because I think I just thought of a way to speed up the delivery of those last C-fusion power plants." Laria said with a wide smile.

"Oh? And how is that?" Icialan asked.

"Exactly how many emergency back-up C-plants does this base and that transport outside have and how many more than the necessary number has Brian insisted on?" Laria asked a little smugly,

"We'll have to check on the Sentinel's preparations with the local and national governments and accelerate some of the plans to ensure our safety but if it is all set, you just put us ahead eighteen days." Icialan said happily. "Now, since it looks like things are moving along well enough I need to hold Benji back and have a talk with her."

"Is everything alright?" Crystal asked hanging back from the group as they all headed down the hall.

"Yeah," Benjamin sighed. "Everything's peachy. Just don't worry about for it right now, hmm?"

"Okay, if you say so." Crystal said slowly before she walked down the hall after the others.

"Thanks for this." Benjamin said turning towards Icialan as they were enveloped by the shimmering light of a transport beam.

"No problem, but you DO realize that this could have been avoided IF you had just accepted the fact that the transformation process changed you from the male you WERE, to the female that you now ARE." Icialan said as she moved turned on the shower and started adjusting the temperature. "And used the pads that were slipped to you."

"I-it's just that....' Benjamin started then hung his head and after another second finished shedding his bloody clothes. "So I really AM a girl, aren't I?"

"Either that or someone ripped off your dick and balls." Icialan said holding up the pants Benjamin had been wearing making sure the bloody crotch was obvious. "Though I'm not to sure what Brian wants with your bloody cloths." She said under her breath placing the slacks, panties and shoes in a stasis container.

"Probably going to use them to get me in his bed." Benjamin shuddered, fear twisting her guts into knots.

"Believe it or not, Brian isn't like that. Not really anyway. Now I need to get back to preparing and it now looks like there are going to be some modifications in our plans." Icialan said with a sigh. "There will be clothing laid out on the bunk and assistance outside this room for when you are ready to return to America."

"Um, thank you." Benjamin said softly.

"It's less than you deserve since you did not willing become a part of this." Icialan said with a soft smile as she left the bathroom.

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"So, this is it?" Jasmine asked as they stopped as they stopped outside a nondescript double sliding door.

"The importance of something is should not always obvious from the outside." The Echidna that stepped out of the room when the doors suddenly slid open said with a soft smile. 

"Oh yeah," Laria said smiling. "Big time Brian! He's big time 'The more important a thing is, the less obvious it should be'. The inside can be as extravagant you can fucking get it but the outside should not be at odds with the purpose of the building. He really does like the beauty of cathedrals he REALLY does but he just has a thing about any building actually being able to compete for the reverence for God."

"We will not accomplish the Remaker's plans by calling attention to ourselves, we can only destroy the world and rebuild it by NOT making ourselves look and feel superior. We will only make existence better by being one with it, not putting ourselves in God's seat. I am Klarian. Come, we have been waiting for you." The Echidna said kindly stepping to the side and gesturing towards the doorway.

"NICE!!!" Erika said as she stepped into the rectangular chapel and looked around see that they entered near one of the ends of the rectangular room. "Um, whats with the chairs?" She asked uneasily trying to look around the room but only seeing the high backs of what appeared to be armored bucket seats.

"If you'd look up the seating isn't all that compared to them." The blond that had come with Laria said pointing up at the automated laser turrets. "And I guess I'll go with Donna since names are wanted to put in records."

"I'll go with Jubilee." Said one of the dark haired girls. "What? I always like Jub." When she saw people looking at her.

"So does Brian." Laria said managing to keep her smirk from being to obvious.

"Well, I'm going to stick with Katherine." Said the other dark haired girl.

"And it's only a coincidence that you look like Kitty Pryde?" Asked the Echidna.

"YES!" Laria snapped as the girl started spitting and sputtering. "Yes, it is! Now I know I should have but these guys already have picked their names. You already heard Donna, Kitty's and Jubilee's names. Now, Rei and her brother Jacqueline, and there are those that think societies present problems don't have anything to do with the parents." She said pointing to the silver/blue haired siblings with a shake of her head. "Anne," Pointing to a blue/black haired girl. "Evee or Eveline," She said indicating the redhead. "And Amber." Pointing to the brunette.

"Well, 'I' am still Benjamin. Once I get back to the States I'm getting my old body back." Benjamin snarled over the com.

"You okay Bro?" Crystal asked. "And anyway, I think I'll STAY a guy for a while though I think I'll do some touch up on my looks! I couldn't STAND Benji there on that damned cartoon, to much of a POS."

"Well, I think WE have for the most part like the new looks we've been given." Jasmine said looking at the other and receiving head shakes in response to her statement. "Though could we see about that suggestion that Dawn and May asked about earlier?" 

"Done and done." Laughed Neosis as Dawn and May walked into the room. 

"Soooo um, where is Neosis since he said no bonding." Asked Donna looking around for another suit.

"Right here." Dawn said lifting up her left arm. "Just because we aren't bonded doesn't mean we can't work together now does it? But I DO want someone to explain WHY I have to learn to use my left hand?"

"I can NOT BELIEVE THIS!" Laria exclaimed. "And here you are supposed to the SMART one! It's because everyone and everything is built for righties NOT lefties."

"Of course." Dawn said slapping herself on the forehead. "That way if we are ever in a fight, us fighting with left dominant throws the other person off balance since they'll have been taught right handed.

"Exactly," The Echidna laughed. "All of us, even you humans here are the downtrodden, the bullied, victimized. Yes, there are those of us in the Legion that preyed on the others but Brian has shown us a new way, a way that stands AGAINST the way of existence, of God, the laws of 'NATURE' if you will. Yes, there have been and will be those that stand against us or try to pervert The Remakers' vision."

"And just what IS Brian's 'vision"? Crystal asked butting into the Echidna's speech.

"Come, sit and you will be told." The Echidna said with a soft smile motioning to the chairs that filled room.

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"So.....," Dawn said before sighing. "WHAT is it that I'm needed to help with, REALLY?"

"You've heard of the giant face on Mars haven't you?" Neosis asked as May was FINALLY locking her suit closed.

"Who hasn't?" Laughed May. "Of course most people don't think twice about it or that on the next quote,end quote photo was made of the 'SAME' place there was NO giant face and blindly accepted NASA's shallow explanation of...., what was their excuse Dawn? I can't remember!"

"Needless to say," Neosis said interrupting. "Luckily for us, the so-far unknown backers of the Shadow Government haven't allowed them real spacecraft so up until know the best Earth has done is those pathetic moonwalk type landings."

"You mean those A..... well WERE real??!" Exclaimed Dawn. 

"Surprise, surprise. Yes, they actually happened even with all that unnatural lighting in those videos and surprising amount of gravity acting on the astronauts." Neosis said as they left the armory and headed down the hall to the hatch out of the base.

"There's also the interesting thing about the quality of the videos sent back." Dawn said with a smile. "Those videos are awfully good quality for that time period and for how far they had to travel to get back to Earth."

"There's also the radiation band that should have had the astronauts meeting the stork." May said as they waited for the airlock to cycle open. "Of course, that does also argue for help from elsewhere, since they wouldn't really know for just how much shielding they'd need to keep from sterilizing their go-to-boys."

"Hmm." Neosis mumbled noncommittally as they entered the launch-bay. "Oh well, nice conversation but we need to get going. Okay kid, I need you to strap me to your left arm." He said as he backed up against the wall and deactivated his suit which open exposing his Psyker Blade body.

"So cool." Breathed May as Dawn reached in and lifted Neosis out, she could help feel envy clench at her heart. "What?" She asked as she heard Neosis chuckle as Dawn tightened him down on her arm.

"Just don't get to jealous until you find out about the drawbacks." Neosis said the holomatrix on Dawn's suit activated showing a VERY interesting half Neosis in all his beach going attire and half Dawn in what appeared to be a latex flight jumpsuit."Having your natural psychic abilities awakened, at times doesn't make up for the drawbacks of having someone else in your mind with you."

"Hey wait, I thought YOU guys were the source of the psychic powers." Dawn said looking down at her left arm.

"Way back when we were in the Empire we WERE but things are different now." Neosis said as they climbed on to the side of a two-seater fighter. "Sorry but Dawn and I get the front seat but do NOT start punching buttons!" He said as May moved for the front seat. 

"OOOH, what does this nice big red button do?" Dawn laughed as she slid into the cramped pilots seat and started reaching for the straps.

"And why does it have a skull and crossbones on it?" May added as she followed suite.

"Nothing TO hardcore." Neosis snorted in amusement. "Just a nuke with an ounce of N`LCRIUM integrated into it." He laughed.

"How big a boom would that make?" May asked as the craft lifted from the hangar and eased out the airspace of the base before picking up speed and heading up out of the atmosphere. 

"Let's go with the Hiroshima nuke and its glazing of Japan as an example." Neosis said as the ship began a trip around the Earth before heading out of Earth space. 

"So how well would the Japs have handled a nuke like that?" May asked as she plastered herself to the canopy of craft looking at panorama of the Earth below her with a glimpse of the sun at the horizon.

"WHAT Japanese?" Neosis asked flatly. "If something like that were to drop on Hiroshima, it wouldn't have left a Japanese race for America to have fought during the second half of WW2."

"HUH, wha?" Dawn asked as what she heard settled between her ears and finally registered.

"The so called 'War in the Pacific' was PART of WW2, even if it was what the US government would pretty much call a 'Police Action'." Neosis said as the craft finally pulled up from orbiting the Earth and headed into space. "Granted it was between America and Japan but it was STILL part WW2 because it was started and continued throughout the war. Just because no one else was willing or for that matter really capable of continuing the war does not mean it was not part of the war."

"So where are we going anyway?" Asked May as she watched the moon slip passed from view. "Hey wait!! I just saw lights..... WHY are there lights on th backside of the moon?"

"Just know that humanity isn't alone and at least some, we have no idea how many but some are NOT our friends!" Neosis growled. "The problem is that the governments of Earth are smart enough to realize that, but all they care about is the promise of power in government. They aren't smart enough to realize if you aren't on level with someone else you're second-class at best, slave at worst. Now, where we are headed first is Mars. We need to get you two up to educational speed and get you used to working off planet so you're able to help when you get to Titan." 

"Why are we needed up there?" Dawn asked throughly confused. 

"While I have no problem telling you, it'll just make more sense to show you when you get there." Neosis said apologetically.