Moonweezle9

Apocalypse

edited by Maiocxx

Chapters 39-40

Chapter 39

After my conversation with AJ about the pills he took from the pharmacy I had to go somewhere to cool off.

I was a mix of emotions from being totally pissed at him to feeling sorry for him. What I was mad for was that he hid the fact that he was using drugs to sleep and those drugs almost killed one of the younger boys. He could have at least had the balls to say he was sorry for leaving the pills out like that for the others to find, and he could have had the balls to say he needed help because he can't sleep.

I also felt bad because he was suffering and now seemed to be hooked on these pills. I have taken the pills from him for now and I plan on going through the clinic and locking up all the drugs that might be in there. I had left him in his room crying from me finding out and I went to my own room to try to think and clear the anger from my conscience.

I guess, at some point, I fell asleep and woke up sometime in the middle of the night. I went outside in the cooler night air and just looked up at the stars and the unmistakable view of the monsters' ship in orbit. I wished for nothing more than for it to just move away and crash right into the sun and fry all of those bastards.

I walked around outside just enjoying the sound of the ocean washing over the beach and it seemed to have a soothing effect on me. I was still mad at Adam for hiding his pill secret from us but I wasn't as pissed as I was earlier. I walked to the bungalow he was staying in to see how he was coping. I let myself in trying to be quiet since it was the middle of the night. I figured the others sleeping here would be asleep.

Sure enough, everyone was asleep except AJ. He was sitting on the couch with the lights off and hardly noticed me as I sat next to him. "Adam tell me how bad this thing is with you not sleeping," I said softly.

"What's to tell. The last time I slept decent without the pills was when I got snared by that trap on the other island and passed out," he replied staring straight ahead.

"Dude, you gotta make me understand a little better why you been taking the pills," I continued.

He sighed and rubbed his tired eyes. "I take them because they make me pass out. If I don't I can't sleep. When I close my eyes its like I still have them open. I can see right through my eyelids like they aren't there. You have no idea how hard it is to sleep when you never stop seeing everything around you all the time," he replied getting a little misty.

"You're right Adam, I don't know. I need you to make me understand so I can try to help you. If me and Adrien can find a way for you to get some sleep without the drugs will you let us help you?" I asked him.

"Hell yeah I will! I hate the idea of taking dope to sleep. Please don't tell Donny his brother is a doper; he doesn't' know about it," he pleaded.

"I won't tell. The only bad thing about it is I think you may have to suffer till the morning when Adrien wakes up. Maybe he can think of some way to turn your eyes off so you can sleep," I said. I knew he was tired but there wasn't a thing I could do for him beside give in and let him have his pills back and I didn't want to do that.

"I'll be ok, I'll just play PS3 or something till he wakes up," he said yawning.

"Ok dude, and sorry about the pills. You know I can't give them back now," I stated.

"I know. Please don't tell anyone it was me that almost killed Cody, please," he begged.

"I won't, don't worry," I told him as I patted his thigh. "I'm gonna go and look through those alien files in the control room for a while. Maybe I can find some useful info we can use," I said before leaving him.

I sat going through the alien files and didn't really find much I could understand since it was mostly written in the monsters alphabet and language. Instead, I decided to see if the internet still worked and I got lucky. Most of the sites I tried were no longer on-line but it was amazing that the internet was still alive to this point. I surfed and surfed trying to see if anyone was still out there with access to the net or to see if it was all just automated sites left.

I found the site where Adrien had found the listing about a survivor he was talking about a long time ago. I was shocked to see that there were some entries made since the last time we checked the site and Adrien went looking for survivors. The latest one was about a month ago and was titled "please is anyone out there?"

I clicked on it just to see what was posted.

"Please. if anyone can read this, I'm all alone and I need help. My food is almost gone and I'm sick. I'm not sure how much longer I can hang on. I think I'm going crazy and if anyone is out there, please just reply to this message so I know I'm not totally alone,"

I felt so sorry for this person so I attempted to reply to him.

"Hi, I just saw your message. You might like to know you are not alone in the world, not completely anyway. There are lots of kids living here where I am and we are pretty safe. Put another message on here if you see this and let me know if you are still ok,"

I sat at the hologram till daylight and I noticed the sky begin to lighten up. I strolled out and just sat on the beach and watched the sun rise over the horizon signaling a new day coming to life.

As I sat there enjoying my alone time I sensed Adrien waking up and being fully awake if you get my hint. "Hey Casper get your dick out of Carry's mouth and come out to the beach I need to talk to you it's important," I thought to him.

"Can't it wait till she finishes?" he begged wanting to squirt his alien spooge in Carry's throat.

"I guess dude but make it fast ok," I thought. I sat for a little while longer and Adrien came out letting his nude body greet the morning sun with sunglasses on.

"What is so important you had to interrupt our fun time?" he asked sitting next to me.

"I kinda found out something yesterday by accident but it's something we gotta deal with. I found out who was taking the pills that Cody overdosed on in the old house," I said.

"Adam? You're kidding me?" he said reading my thoughts.

"No, and as bad as the whole thing is he kinda had a reason for taking them. He says he can't sleep unless he takes them to knock him out. I guess the aliens' gift of sight to him was a little more than he can handle," I explained.

"So where do I come in on this problem?" he asked.

"Can you come up with some way for him to turn his eyes off so he can sleep without being doped up? I wouldn't ask unless it was something that was important. He says he can see right through his eyelids when he closes his eyes like they aren't there. Can you come up with something to help him out? Please do it as a favor for me," I begged him.

"Ok, give me a little while to come up with something," he said before getting up to leave.

"Hey I saw another message from that person that you saw before on the internet. I replied to his message and told him to let us know where they were and if they're still ok," I said.

"Really. Wow! I wouldn't have thought the internet was working after I went looking for them last time and didn't find them," he replied as he walked away.

As I sat there naked as the day I was born looking at the bright blue water out there in front of me I couldn't resist. I ran full bore at it and dove into the waves washing up on the bright sand. The water was warm and felt great to a sore body. The temp had to be in the 80 degree range and felt just fine to me. I splashed around for a few minutes then got out dripping wet. I shook my head like a dog shaking the water from my hair and used my hands to ring most of the water off my arms and legs before going back inside the main building.

I went into the kitchen to get me a nice cold can of Pepsi and found Aiden sitting at the table. "Hey dude how's it going?" I asked him.

"I'm ok, I guess," he said trying not to look at me. I could sense he was uncomfortable for some reason sitting there with shorts on while I was a few feet away naked. I sat down across from him and he looked up at me.

"Um… I never, I never said thanks for getting me and the other guys out of that place," he said shyly.

"Hey dude, no problem. There's something I kinda wanna talk to you about. We are going to set up another colony in another hotel about a quarter mile [400 m] away or so down the beach. I was going to ask if Rebecca wanted to move there and kinda take charge there since she's the oldest person here."

"The reason we're doing that is that a lot of the people here think we are getting too crowded at this one place. What we were all thinking was whoever wanted to move to the other place can go if they want to, " I explained.

He got a kind of sad look then. "So you, you want me to go to the other place?" he asked in a sad tone.

"No, no dude, not at all. I was just saying it was a place where whoever wasn't comfortable living here with all of us being naked and the other stuff could stay and not have to worry about it. I only said it cus you are kinda not comfy with being naked around us and all and the other stuff that happened to you. I just thought you'd probly want to get away from all this stuff was all. I didn't mean to make it sound like I wanted you to go away," I said apologizing.

He half smiled then and said, "I don't think I want to go away. I mean I'm not comfy like you said with everybody seeing me naked, but I don't want to go."

"Hey that's fine. You can stay if you want. Personally, I don't think many people will be going. I think mostly it will be for people who we save in the future to stay," I said.

"You mean there's more people out there? Alive?" he asked wide-eyed.

"Yeah actually we kinda stole some info from the military and from the aliens and, from what we found out, there are like 50 thousand people still out there," I said getting a smile from him.

That smile! Wow, he was so gorgeous. If he liked boys I'd do him in a second no doubt! I just didn't want to try anything with him considering what he has been through since the invasion happened. We all have suffered to some extent, but what happened to him was, was, totally wretched. It was no wonder he didn't want to be seen naked or anything else. I got up, threw my pop can away and laid a hand on his shoulder.

I could feel him shudder slightly. I knew he wasn't comfortable with it but I left it there. "You don't ever gotta worry about anything like that here, dude. I swear it to god to you. No one is ever gonna hurt you again," I promised him.

He turned his head to look at me and I could see the tears on his cheeks. "Thank you for saving me," he said. Not for saving him and his friends; for saving HIM.

I had a brain-storm of an idea then. I could tell he was feeling a little down so I thought I'd show him how the ROOM works. I had him follow me to Adrien's work area where the room was so we could let him experience it for the first time.

Adrien was working on something but I wasn't sure what it was. "What's that?" I asked him.

"A solution to the problem we discussed earlier," he said.

"Oh, ok cool. Um, I'm gonna let Aiden have a turn in the room if that's cool," I asked.

"Yes it is ok," he replied. Adrien told me a message in thought then and I didn't know how Aiden was going to like it. "Derrik, for the room to work correctly he must be nude. It's just how it is programmed. If he leaves the shorts on it may complicate the programming," Adrien explained just to me.

"Ok I'll explain and if he doesn't want to, then he don't have go in," I thought back. I led Aiden in the ROOM and broke the news to him.

"Ok dude, now I know you've seen Star Trek before, right?" I asked him.

He nodded yes so I went on. "Ok, then you know what the holodeck is. This room is a kind of holodeck, sorta. It scans your mind and it makes a 3d hologram of the thing you want to do most. So all you gotta do is think about the thing you want to do most in the world and it will happen in here, kinda," I explained.

"Wow ! I didn't know there was such a thing," he said, smiling that hot smile again.

"Ok, now there is a catch to it and I don't know how you feel about it," I said making him raise an eyebrow.

"Like what?" he asked.

"Well Adrien kinda programmed it to only work if whoever was inside it to be… naked," I said and then paused.

He didn't say anything but just looked at me. "No one else is going to see me are they?" he asked.

"No way dude, not as long as you're in here," I told him.

"Ok, but I'm only doing it on your word," he said before taking a deep, sighing breath. Then he dropped the shorts he had on giving me a show of that godlike perfect body of his. He handed me his shorts and I couldn't help but stare at him.

"Truthfully and no shit here, dude, you got nothing to be embarrassed about. You have a knockout body and I'm being totally serious here," I said admiring him.

"Um, I can kinda tell that you're thinking that," he replied pointing to my now stiff dick pointing at him.

"Oops, sorry. Down little Derrik down!" I said looking down at my dick making him smile. "See, it's not so bad," I said breaking the tension.

"I'm only letting you see cus I trust you," he told me. He smiled and was totally melting my soul. I thought I was falling for someone I couldn't have.

"Ok, you hottie, I'll let you have fun in here for a while. When I shut the door, just relax. It will get a little dark in here, but when it starts you will be freaked out by how real it is," I warned him.

He smiled again melting me even more and I left him with his shorts in my hand and shut the door to the ROOM behind me. I operated the controls and set the room to make his fantasy come true. I walked over to Adrien then to see what he was working on.

"Well, it looks like you got his clothes off," Adrien said, noticing Aiden's shorts in my hand.

"Yep, and-how!" I said with a smile.

"Ok, point that thing the other direction. It's in my way," he said laughing and moving my hard dick away from him with his hand.

"Come on dude, you can't tell me he's not fucking gorgeous!" I told Adrien.

"I have to admit he is nice looking," Adrien admitted.

"So whatcha building?" I asked.

"A sleep aide for Adam. It is a kind of sleeping mask that will block his vision out when he puts it on. If it works right he should be able to sleep fine with it," he explained.

"Good! See if you can get it done quick because he's been awake since yesterday. I know he's tired, I saw him early this morning before daylight and he was still awake and he looked so tired," I told him.

"Ok I'm pretty much done with them all they need is to be tested," he said.

"Ok well give them here. The best way to test them is to see if they work on him," I said grabbing for the device.

"Easy my friend they are delicate. Be careful with them and be sure to tell him the same," Adrien warned me.

I took the mask to Adam's bungalow and he was sitting right where he was when I visited much earlier. Donny and the other boys in the room were up now and I could tell they were wearing on AJ's nerves.

"Hey Don Don, why don't you and the guys go play on the beach or something. Your brother needs to get some sleep," I explained to Donny and the twins who had crashed there the night before. I swatted each of them on their hot li'l butts as they left.

"Thanks for chasing them off. I got tired of listening to the moaning and shit," AJ said.

"Moaning?" I inquired.

"Yeah. They been sucking for like the last two hours now. They tried to get me to, but I can't even get my fucking dick hard, dude!" he whined yawning. I knew he was tired when he says he can't get a boner.

"No problem, dude. Here, I got you something," I said handing him the sleeping mask. It was a mask that covered his eyes and part of his face and it was like a soft metallic color. "Adrien made it for you, but we don't know if it's going to work," I told him.

He gently put it over his face and positioned it over his eyes. "Oh thank you god, thank you!" he said with a sniffle.

"They work?" I asked.

"Yes. Thank you Derrik, I owe you big time," he said sniffling back tears.

"Don't cry bud just lie down here and go to sleep. When you wake up I might take you up on that owing me thing," I said tapping his limp dick with the tip with my finger.

"Tell Casper I owe him a BJ for this," he said as, he lay down.

"I will, you crazy ass," I said laughing at him. He lay right there on the couch and within minutes he was out cold. "Good night Adam," I said as patted him on his smooth butt. I left him to rest making sure to tell everyone not to disturb him for a while.

I did my usual thing; just checked the place out making sure things were cool and I came upon the Amish boys. "Hey guys, how are you getting along here so far?" I asked.

"It is a little different. There is a lot of things we don't totally understand, but, for the most part, we like it," Jacob explained.

I saw that they had adjusted well to being naked and didn't seem to be too modest about anyone else seeing them. They had never been around electricity or running water or any of the other little things that we use ever day and take for granted. They absolutely loved the bathtub though, and they made that fact known. They had also made friends with most of the other boys and seemed to get along well with them from what I seen so far.

I ended up back in my own bungalow a short time later and got in the shower to rinse off the salt I had on me from getting in the ocean earlier. Instead of taking a shower and then making sure my dick was very clean, more than it really needed to be, I just rinsed the salt off and got out.

Walking into Adrien's work area a short time later I had a towel draped over my shoulder drying my hair with it. "Sup dude? What have you got done so far?" I asked him.

"So far I have laid out the plans for the power system and communicator for the other colony, and have started on building the power system," he replied.

"I thought we had just enough power cells to make this place work. How are you going to make the other one work?" I asked.

"Solar power. I am building a solar panel array to power the building. We will need to make a trip for special supplies, but I know where to go to get them," he said.

I didn't really want to know the details so I asked about Aiden. "How is he doing in there?" I asked.

"Just be quiet and listen for a minute and you'll see," he said smiling.

I did as he said and just listened and I could hear Aiden cheering and laughing inside the room and it was evident he was having a ball. "How much longer does the program have till it's done?" I asked.

"Well, he wanted to see a baseball game and the program is in the 9th inning so it shouldn't be long now till it's over," Adrien replied.

I sat and watched Adrien making his plans for the solar cells and waited for the hottie in the ROOM to finish up. A few minutes later I heard him cheer loudly so I guessed the team he liked had won the game. I gave it a minute then I knocked on the door. "Aiden it's me I'm coming in ok," I yelled before opening the door and ending the hologram program.

I walked in to see him smiling from ear to ear. "So what did you think?" I asked.

"It was awesome thanks!" he cheered. He didn't seem to mind at all that he was naked and I could see him right now.

"Shit dude, I forgot your shorts. I still had em with me when I left earlier and I left em in my room, sorry," I said.

"It's ok I guess. No one else is here, are they?" he asked, getting a little worried.

"Just us and Adrien. Trust me dude, you don't have to be embarrassed to let him see you. He likes pussy," I said laughing.

"You sure he won't laugh?" Aiden asked.

"Positive," I replied with a smile. He sighed and took a deep breathe. "Look bud, tell you what, how about you come out and meet and talk with Adrien a bit and I'll go get your shorts from my place?" I asked him.

"Ok I guess I can live with that, but he better not make fun or nothing," he said.

"Come on bud, he won't," I reassured him. He swallowed his fear and walked out with me to Adrien's work shop.

"Hello Aiden," he was greeted.

"Hi," he said back.

"Adrien, show him some of the neat shit. I gotta go back to my place and get his shorts," I explained.

"Ok, no problem," Adrien said.

I left them to chat while I fetched his shorts from my room.

"So you're like half an alien?" Aiden asked him.

"In a way yes. I was made in a laboratory by human scientists," Adrien replied.

,"What's it like? I mean to be you know, different?" Aiden asked.

"I'm not entirely sure. I don't know what it's like to be to totally human because this is all I have ever been. Maybe if you clarify your question I can answer it better," Adrien went on.

"Ok, umm, your eyes; they are so wild looking. Do they do anything special?" Aiden asked.

"Well I can see in the pitch-dark like it was daylight. I can see bones underneath someone's flesh. I can see energy fields and other sorts of things that a normal human eye can't detect," he explained.

"I saw that other hybrid thing when you rescued us. Did you look like that before?" he asked.

"Yes, I did at one point. I was never supposed to be more than a test subject for medical research but you can tell I have become much more than that," Adrien said smiling.

"Yeah I guess so. You don't look much like that hybrid dude does," Aiden pointed out. The whole conversation with Adrien somehow made Aiden feel at ease. He wasn't covering his perfect dick up at the moment and was just talking as if it were normal to be naked.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP" a siren in the work shop started to sound.

"I didn't do it, I swear," Aiden said holding his hands up in front of him wondering what the noise was.

"I know you didn't. That sound means that someone has posted another message on the internet," Adrien explained.

"No way! The internet still works?" Aiden asked.

"For now, yes, but we're not sure how much longer though," Adrien replied. He brought up a hologram display wowing Aiden who hadn't seen stuff like that before. He connected to the internet and went to the site that they had gotten the messages on before. Sure enough, there was a new posting.

"Derrik get back here fast!" Adrien thought to me.

I grabbed Aiden's shorts that I laid on my bed and ran back to Adrien's work shop almost crashing and killing myself in the process. "What is it?" I asked panting and out of breath and tossed Aiden his shorts.

Aiden stood up and put his shorts on while Adrien told me about the message. "A new posting to the net. I waited on you before I opened it," he said.

I sat down between the other two and watched as the hologram as it showed the message posting.

"Thank god someone else is alive besides me. Please, I don't know if you can help me or not but I'm almost out of food. And I'm all alone now. I think I'm going crazy. My electricity keeps going out and I don't know how much longer I can get on here,"

"Man, whoever they are, they sound pretty desperate," Aiden said.

The beeping alarm went off in the room again scaring me a little this time. Adrien said there was another message and it was from the same person. This time it told where they were and begged us to help if we could. I looked right at Adrien and I knew I didn't have to say a word.

"Yes you're right, of course. I know we must at least try," he said knowing I wanted to try to save this person.

"I have the longitude and latitude of where the location is supposed to be," Adrien said bringing up a map.

"Ok, what are we waiting for? Let's go," I said, being hyper to get going.

"Can, can I go too?" Aiden asked with pleading eyes.

"Whatta you think?" I asked Adrien.

"I don't see why not," he replied.

"Ok dude, go get dressed, and I mean all the way. Come back here when you get done and we'll gear you up to go," I told him. Aiden smiled that viciously hot smile and ran off to get dressed.

"Damn Casper, I think I'm in love," I told Adrien while watching Aiden leave.

"I am a telepath you know, you don't have to tell me that," Adrien replied. "Good choice though, my friend. Although I'm not sure you are his type," he said. I looked at him and he smiled. I thought he was joking but I wasn't sure what he meant exactly. The two of us ran off to dress, too.

We met back in the workshop a little while later dressed and ready to go, well for the most part, that is. Aiden didn't have any shoes on when we met up. "What's up?" I asked looking at his bare feet.

"None of the shoes you brought back fit me," he said.

"Dam dude, I never noticed your feet are so big," I said looking at them closer. I ran back to my room and grabbed an extra pair of Nike's I had for Aiden to use. He tried them on and they almost fit, but were a size too big.

"Cool, these will work for now. Thanks," he said putting them on.

When he had shoes on we gave him the gloves and safety gear to put on. Adrien put a mini cloaker on him and gave him a pair of special glasses and showed him how they worked.

Geared up and ready to go, I suggested that we stay cloaked and leave so no one sees us leaving and asked us a million questions. We made our way to the ship and cloaked it before leaving the island.

"Ok Adrien get us there ASAP. And remember, this person doesn't know we're coming so don't freak him out," I said making a point. Adrien put the ship in high speed and the land seemed to go under us in a flash and we were at the place where the person said they were.

"Dude this isn't the same place you went before when we got the message," I said noticing the difference.

"Yes, I don't know if it was me or the other person that made the mistake, but I went to where they said they were," he said as we landed in a grassy field.

"You feel that?" I asked Adrien.

"Sure do," he replied.

"Come on guys tell me too," Aiden begged.

"We can feel the presence of another live person," I said smiling.

"Really? Cool!" he replied.

"There is something else, as well. I am not sure what it is but I feel something else nearby," Adrien said.

I didn't feel the other presence, but his senses were stronger than mine.

"Ok, let's be careful, then. You bring the GLOVE with you?" I asked Adrien. He held his arm up showing us he brought the glove of doom with him. "Ok, keep it ready in case we might need it," I told him.

We went to the exit of the ship and turned our cloakers on before exiting. I could feel the tension in Aiden as we walked out into the open field. "Stay close to us," I whispered to him and he was almost glued to my side, which I liked somewhat.

We crept up to what looked like the remnants of a military base and then I saw a sign over what used to be the entrance of a building. "Holy shit dude, this is Space Camp," I thought to Adrien. We were in Alabama at NASA's space camp for kids. "I always wanted to come here," I thought.

The closer we got to the building the stronger the presence felt to me. "They are inside, likely in the lower levels," Adrien whispered. We went through the trashed entrance and listened intently as we searched the place the best we could.

"Dude, I don't think anyone else is here. Should we yell for them?" I thought to Adrien.

"It's worth a try," he said. He turned off his cloaker so I did the same and showed Aiden how to turn his off. As we descended into the lower levels of the building I could feel fear begin to take over in Aiden's mind. "It's ok dude, we're safe here. There's no monsters. Just make sure you don't trip or nothing," I explained to him. He was still scared for some reason though.

"You ok bud?" I asked.

"Yeah I just don't like the dark is all," he said sticking close to me.

"Hello! Is anyone here!" I said loudly.

We stopped and listened.

No reply.

"Hello! We know someone is here and we're here to help you. We're the ones you talked to on the internet," Adrien yelled.

We listened this time and heard a faint voice.

"That way!" I said pointing with excitement. We made our way through rubble guided by flashlights toward the voice we heard. "Ok stop stop," I said. wanting to get another bearing to the voice. "Where are you? We heard you!?" I yelled.

"In here," a voice that sounded like a kid said from just ahead of us.

We kept going and came upon a room that was sealed by a steel door.

"In here," Adrien said holding his hand in front of him.

We tried to open the door and it seemed to be jammed shut. "Can you open the door for us?" I asked.

"I can't. I don't have the strength," a boy's voice replied from the other side.

"Stand back," Adrien told us and yelled the same to the other kid. He lifted his hand that had the GLOVE on and shot some kind of electrical energy from his hand at the door and it seemed to make the door shrink and pull off its hinges. He stopped the energy and the three of us tried to open the door. It was heavy as shit but we managed to wedge the corner of it open far enough for us to get around it.

When we got on the other side of the door my breath was taken away by a very bad funky smell. I had smelled it before so I kinda knew what it was from. It was the same smell I experienced when I had gotten AJ out of his house.

There huddled in a corner was a kid sitting with his knees pulled to his chest. When we came closer and he saw we were friendly he began to cry, well what he could cry anyway. His cheeks and eyes were sunken showing me that he hadn't eaten a lot lately. He had on a Space Camp jumpsuit that was totally filthy and reeked something fierce.

"Come on dude, we're here to rescue you," I said, extending my hand to him.

He reached out and took my hand and struggled to get to his feet. It didn't take much effort for me to pull him up telling me he had lost a lot of weight considering he was nearly as tall as I was.

Once we had him on his feet Adrien turned to look at me. "We have to go now!" he said in an urgent tone.

"Why, what is it?" I wondered.

"Remember that other presence? It's trouble," he replied.

Aiden got a little scared then as we crawled around the steel door and I helped the other boy out.

"We need to get to the ship fast!" Adrien said as he tried to pick the weaker kid up to carry him.

"No dude, I'll do that. You got the glove on and we might need to use it," I told him. He agreed, so I picked the other kid up and carried him out with Aiden holding the flashlights for me. The kid felt like he didn't weigh much, maybe as much as Justin or Nathan does.

We rushed outside, turning the cloakers on, and ran towards the ship. I felt the ground begin to tremble and shake. That only made us run even faster.

Minutes later we were running into the ship and closing the door.

"Get them in the seats and strap them in," Adrien ordered as he started the ship up and we lifted off the ground.

I struggled to get the other two secured as the ship rocked and banked as we lifted upward. "What the fuck is going on?" I asked Adrien. He pointed to the view screen and I was astounded at the view. A mass legion of alien monsters were swarming the entire area where we just were.

"Holy shit dude, we were just in there!" I pointed out.

"They must have tracked the internet transmission and traced it back here," Adrien said as he got us the hell out of there.

"Damn we got to you just in time," I told the boy we just rescued. He began to cry with all the energy he had and thanked us over and over again. I told Adrien to take it a little slower getting home so I could prepare the new kid a little for what was to come.

What's your name dude? I'm Derrik, that's Adrien, and he's Aiden," I said.

"Jimmy" he squeaked out.

"Well Jimmy, I think if we were a little later we wouldn't have gotten to you in time. You don't have to worry about that anymore. We're going to probly the safest place on Earth right now," I explained.

"Are you guys spacemen or something?" he asked.

"Nope we're human, well most of us are," I said laughing and looking at Adrien. That's when Jimmy got his first good look at Adrien's eyes.

"What kind of eyes are those?" he asked.

"Well that's a long story, but basically he's half human and half alien. Good alien though," I explained. Adrien smiled and waved as he piloted the ship home. "Don't worry dude, just relax now. You're safe and we'll be home soon," I said. He seemed to be at ease then and we streaked homeward.

A few minutes later we were home thanks to Adrien accelerating our speed since the smell coming from Jimmy was quite harsh. The others were shocked to see us landing and wondered what was going on. The door opened and we were bombarded with questions just like I thought we would be.

"Where the fuck did you guys go?" AJ demanded.

"Dammit Adam, don't worry about it right now, ok," I snapped back, surprising him.

Adrien and I helped Jimmy to the clinic and laid him on one of the beds. "Just rest now man. You're gonna be fine now," I said patting his hand. I had warned him about us being naked most of the time, but I still don't think it prepared him. He couldn't help but look around at all the naked skin surrounding him.

"Aiden, Aiden! Where did you guys go?" little Henry asked him.

"We had to go save a new friend," he explained to the li'l guy.

"Ok everyone out now. We'll explain later. He needs to rest now," I yelled at everyone shooing them away from the doorway. "Umm, Rebecca I don't mean to be a bother but could you sit with him till we come back please?" I asked her.

"Sure. I'm glad to see you boys still want to rescue people," she replied. She sat with him while Adrien, Aiden, and I went and got our gear off.

I arrived back shortly to find Rebecca wiping Jimmy's face off with a wet rag. It's a wonder what a little bit of rubbing with a wet rag can do. I couldn't believe my eyes at what I was looking at. He was actually very ,very cute. Very nice blue eyes and a cute face. I tapped Rebecca on the shoulder and thanked her for watching him.

Jimmy looked at me and took in my whole body from head to toe. "I told you clothes were an option here didn't I," I said smiling to him. I of course was naked and didn't care who saw.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to stare," he said weakly.

"It's ok. If you want to stay you'll be seeing a lot more of it," I warned him. "How about some food? You hungry?" I asked. He smiled as big as he could and nodded. I had brought back a bowel of soup with me for him and few cans of soda. "Hope you like chicken noodle," I told him as I helped him get the food in his mouth. He ate the whole bowel and drank both sodas and belched loud.

"Sorry," he said.

"Don't worry about it we all do it," I said laughing. "Try to get some rest and I'll come back later and bring you some more and we'll see about getting you a little cleaner," I suggested. He agreed happily and closed his eyes. It was time for me to answer the question barrage I knew was waiting on me.

As soon as I walked out in the main room they hit me, "Who was that? Where did you guys go?" were just a few of the questions I got.

"Hey, chill for a second ok. Just relax and I'll tell you," I shouted at them all.

"Ok, first off, we rescued someone else. Adrien, Aiden, and me all went and rescued him. It was the kid who sent us an internet message a while back. We just now found out where he was so we went for him. All I know about him so far is his name is Jimmy. He's resting in the clinic right now so you all leave him alone. He's really weak and stuff and needs to build up his strength," I explained.

"You mean like me and my sister were when you found us?" Grayson asked.

"Kinda but he's worse right now, he's sick on top of it all," I said. "I don't know how old he is but I'd say 12 or 13. If you want to visit him you ask if it's ok to before you do. He needs to rest like I said," I told everyone.

Some of the others were excited about a new arrival, some could care less, and some were a little mad because they weren't told we were going for him. When I told them about the monsters attacking the place where he was right after we got him out they seemed to shut up.

"How did they know where he was?" Chris asked. "Adrien thinks they traced his internet message back to where it came from," I replied.

"Wait, if they traced his back to him then can't they trace ours back here?" Josiah pointed out making a critical point.

Without answering him I ran straight to Adrien and asked him the same thing. He didn't seem too concerned about it but I was freaking out over it.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much. I relayed our signal to a parallel land site before it went to the satellite system," he said.

"Ok, but tell me now, can they track it back here? In anyway shape or from?" I asked getting anxious.

"The way I did it. No. Trust me. I thought of that before ever trying to connect to the net," he said trying to reassure me. "If they try to track us they will end up in Siberia somewhere," he said.

"You're positive? I mean 1000 percent?" I asked him. He nodded yes and rolled his eyes. Now that I let my heart rate go down and stop pounding out of my chest, I needed something to drink to calm my nerves.

I went to the kitchen and chugged down a cold soda and grabbed two more for the road. I went back to the clinic to check on Jimmy to see how he was feeling. He was still asleep so I put a thermometer on his forehead to see how warm he was. He was indeed a little warm at 100 degrees [37.8°C], but in no danger of dying from it. One thing was for sure, when he wakes up the first thing that's gonna happen is he's getting a bath, he smells horrible.

Rebecca had wiped his face off some, but it did nothing for the smell. I left him to rest and ran into Chris right outside the door of the clinic. "Whats up dude?" I asked.

"I smell something weird," he said.

"What is it?" I inquired.

"I dunno but it's coming from in there," he said pointing to the clinic.

"It's probly Jimmy he's filthy," I explained.

"No, I smell that too but this is something different," he said sniffing. I let him in and followed quietly. He sniffed around and got closer to Jimmy, closer to his leg to be exact. "Oh dam it's coming from his leg," Chris said.

"What is it? Shit or what?" I whispered.

"I don't know what it is," Chris replied.

Being concerned for Jimmy I woke him up and he opened his eyes in a startled state. "It's ok man, it's me, Derrik. You're ok. This is Chris; he lives here too," I said settling him. "Is there something wrong with your leg you didn't tell us?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, I cut it a few weeks ago," he said in a stressed tone.

"No, you just lay here. We'll have to cut this jumpsuit off you to check it out," I said as he tried to sit up. He lay back down and Chris got a pair of scissors. "Ok, now are you alright with us taking this off you? I mean, I know you're kinda attached to it and all, but it reeks," I asked him.

"Go for it," he said.

I took the scissors and began to cut the grimy thing off him starting at the neck and going down. It was supposed to be blue, but it was so dirty it was almost totally brown. We got him down to his undies and they were just as bad. I cut past his undies down the leg of the jump suite and he cringed in pain when I got around his left knee. I cut slowly the rest of the way and pulled them back away from his leg.

"Holy shit! Chris go get Rebecca for me fast!" I ordered him after seeing Jimmy's leg. The cut on his leg was infected and swollen badly. It seemed to be oozing puss somewhat and I figured that was why he was sick and had a temperature; the infection was coursing through his body.

"Jimmy we gotta fix your leg, man, It's infected really bad. I don't know what we have to do yet, but I'm warning you; it's probably gonna hurt. " I told him. He got a look of dread on his face then and cringed at the thought.

"Look dude, I know you hurt and feel shitty right now, but we're gonna fix you up, ok," I said patting his shoulder. He half smiled and a few tears escaped the corners of his eyes. I wasn't sure if they were from the pain of from being happy to be saved.

Rebecca arrived a few minutes later with Chris behind her. "Couldn't wait to get his clothes off I see," she said trying to make a joke. "Oh wow, it looks bad. Sweetie, this might hurt a little," she told him before pouring some alcohol on his wound. He cringed and his body went tight as the liquid burned.

I grabbed his hand and he squeezed with all his strength, which wasn't much, as she poured the alcohol on his leg. He began to cry openly from the pain his leg was giving him. "Chris get me some aspirins for him and some cold water," I said.

In a flash my li'l buddy had the pills for me and I put them in Jimmy's mouth. "Swallow them. They'll help," I told him. He gulped the water down and swallowed them eagerly. Chris brought me some more water and a towel and I began to towel off his face and head with cool water now that the pain had him sweating like crazy.

Rebecca was poking his leg with a needle, draining the infection from around his wound and the sight of it totally grossed Chris out. I could see him looking pale and like he was about to puke. "Chris go get Adrien for me, ok," I said trying to get him away from the sight. He almost ran out of the room going to Adrien's work area.

"Hey Casper, Derrik needs you in the clinic," Chris said panting and out of breath in Adrien's work area.

"I know Christopher," Adrien told him.

"Dang-it if you knew, then why'd I have to run here and get you?" Chris said a little pissed.

"Because he wanted you to," Adrien replied walking by Chris, patting the top of his head.

Minutes later Adrien arrived in the clinic. "How bad is it?" he asked.

"Well, it looks bad. I was hoping you could use your eyes to see how bad the infection has spread," I said.

He focused his eyes on Jimmy's leg then traced his vision all over the rest of his almost naked body. He didn't say it but he thought the answer to me. "Derrik it has spread. I don't want to say it out loud but it has spread to his private area. We need to do something for him fast or he could die from this," Adrien thought.

"Really I didn't think it was that bad. Then again I didn't go into his underwear either," I thought back.

"Um, Jimmy, I need to ask you to let me do something you might not want to," I told him. "I need to cut your underwear off you to check for the infection," I explained.

He nodded so, I began to cut the boxers off him from the waist down. We got our first look at his goodie area and it looked nice but, at the same time, bad. He was very filthy and swollen in places he shouldn't be.

Rebecca looked at me with a worried face when she saw what I was looking for. His inner leg was swollen up to his balls and his left butt was swollen as well.

"Ok Jimmy, I have to tell you. The infection has spread. It's worked its way up to your balls and it looks bad," I explained to him.

"I wondered why they hurt so much lately," he cried.

Adrien looked at me and then at Jimmy and saw the pain in his face.

Adrien put his hands on Jimmy's chest and inner leg near his wound. I knew what he was about to do and I had to stop him. "Adrien no don't," I said grabbing his arms.

"He could die Derrik," he thought to me.

"Yeah he COULD die, but if you do this didn't you say you probably will?" I pointed out.

"I can't let him lie here and suffer like this," Adrien said.

"Dude don't do it. We all need you too bad," I told him.

"Please allow me to help him," we heard a voice say from the doorway. We turned and saw Ian, the hybrid boy, standing there. "Please allow me to heal him. It is the least I can do to start to repay you all," Ian said.

"Ian do you know what this will do to you?" Adrien asked.

"Yes I do. I scanned your mind so I know exactly what it will do to me. I am doing this because I know you are all here to help me afterward," Ian said.

I looked at Adrien and asked, "What do you think?"

"His ability to recover afterward is more likely than mine is. It will affect him but not as severely as it will me, if I try," he replied.

"Ok Ian, but only do this if you really want to. We're not forcing you to," I told him.

"I will do it on one condition, he lets me scan his mind for doing it," Ian asked Jimmy.

"Yeah I don't care," Jimmy whined.

"Ok Rebecca stand back. This will freak you out! It's wild," I told her.

She moved a few steps back away from Jimmy as did Adrien and me to give Ian room. He laid his hands on Jimmy's chest and leg near the wound.

"Jimmy this will feel kinda weird at first, but it'll pass in a minute and then you'll feel pretty tired. Trust me, I know from experience," I warned him.

He nodded and Ian closed his coal black eyes. A slight glow emitted from the two boys and Ian's body contorted and went stiff as Jimmy stopped crying. The glow died away very quickly and Ian removed his hands from Jimmy and nearly fell to his knees.

Adrien and I caught him and helped him over to the bed next to Jimmy. "Is he ok?" Rebecca asked.

"Yeah, he just needs to rest now. That takes a lot out of them," I said referring to the hybrids. "Thanks bud you rest now," I told Ian as I patted his smooth bald head. He closed his black eyes and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Jimmy on the other hand looked a whole lot better. The wound on his leg had healed and the swelling had gone away. I felt his forehead and he didn't feel as warm anymore. "How you feeling?" I asked him . "Tired, like you said," he replied.

"Tired, but better, right?" I asked.

"Oh yeah I feel lots better. No pain at all now," he said smiling.

"Great you rest now too. When you wake up we'll get you cleaned up some," I told him. He smiled and closed his eyes and went right to sleep. Rebecca, Adrien, and I left them to rest.

"Thanks for wanting to help him like that," I told Adrien.

"Ok I'm lost here. What did you mean in there that he might die if he helped him?" Rebecca asked me.

"Well, he has healed me and the others so many times that it has more or less tapped out his ability to do it," I explained.

"If I try to heal anyone else it may kill me in the process," Adrien told her.

"Ok that's an easy answer then, DON'T DO IT!" she told him. "Derrik is right. You are needed too bad here, from what I can tell, to give up your life for someone else," she told him. Being the typical Adrien he just shrugged it off and walked away.

"Is he always like that?" she asked.

"Pretty much, but you gotta understand that he doesn't get sarcasm and things like that very well. He tries but hasn't completely got the hang of it yet," I explained.

She went on to ask me some other things about me and the other kids as we walked away from the clinic.

"Ok, I have to know a few things here. How do these girls think it's the right thing to bring babies into the world the way it is now? It seems like the one that is already born seems to be getting along fine, but what I'm worried about is the girl, Carry I think her name is, how long has she been carrying hers? She looks like she is about ready to pop," Rebecca asked.

"Actually, I think she's way overdue to have it. I don't know why that is but I guess it's because the baby is part alien," I told her.

"Alien what?" she asked in amazement.

"Yeah Adrien is the daddy of it. He's half alien so it makes the baby like quarter alien," I explained.

"Ok, that will be and interesting sight to see when she has it. Is there any idea what it's going to be?" she asked.

"Actually yeah we know it's going to be a boy. His name's going to be Michael," I said.

"How do you know this for sure?" she asked.

"Trust me. If my gut feeling doesn't fail me you'll see why in the future some time," I said grinning.

The next day came all to soon and I went to the clinic to check on the newbies and see how they were doing. As I walked in, Jimmy was sitting up in bed and smiled when I came in. "How you feeling today?" I asked him.

"Man, like a million bucks. I haven't felt this good in a while," he replied.

"Great. How about you Ian?" I asked.

"I am feeling rested," he replied.

I had to do a double take of him when I looked at him. I got closer and closer and I noticed his skin had gotten a little more of a fleshy tone to it. And he had started to grow light blond peach fuzz on his head. "Well I'll be damned! It looks like healing Jimmy is making you more human. Have a look," I told him, smiling as I handed him a mirror so he could see himself.

"Wow I have hair," he said smiling.

I put my palm on the top of his head and, sure enough, I could feel the stubbly hairs. "You're on the road to being a real boy now," I told him as I rubbed his head while he smiled.

"Wow! He does look different from last night, doesn't he? Wait! What the heck is he?" Jimmy asked a little confused.

"He's a hybrid. He's half human and half alien," I replied. It wasn't such a hard thing to believe now a, but a few years ago I would have thought you were crazy if you told me that.

"So you feel like getting cleaned up and stuff now? No offense, but you smell really bad, dude," I asked him.

"Um yeah, but I'm naked still," he said.

"So what, man. I am too. Now that you're awake, there're some things I need to explain to you about this place and the people who live here," I said. I went on telling him about how we like being naked and that we do stuff together in bed and all the rest. Some parts he didn't seem to mind much, but others he didn't really talk about when I mentioned it.

For some reason his mind was hard for me to read. I guess he had a strong mentality for me to not read him. "Ok dude, Now I don't know how you feel about what I told you so you have to tell me," I said.

He took a deep breath before replying. "Well, I don't really know, man. I don't really mind the naked part, but I don't know about some of the other stuff. I mean I don't have a problem with being seen naked, but I don't think I wanna be doing the other stuff you told me about," he said.

"Hey man, no one here is forced to do nothing. If you don't want to, fine, you don't have to, but I'll tell you now they are going to mess with you a little," I warned him.

"Why's that?" he wondered.

"Well, to be honest with you, most of us are horn dogs. And I'm sure that most of the others will agree with me on the fact that you are hot from what I can tell. I mean beside the fact that you need fed and cleaned up some," I said, totally embarrassing him.

"Since you're being honest with me I guess I can say that's not the first time a boy has told me that," he said smiling a little.

"Well dude if you aren't embarrassed for anyone to see your body, how about you follow me to my place and I'll let you use my hot tub to get cleaned up. I'll go get you something to eat while you're in there," I said, making him smile.

He pulled the blankets off his body and, giving me the second view of that nice, but skinny body of his, he stood up and smiled. "Man I haven't felt this good in a long time. Thanks for helping me out, man," he said smiling to Ian.

"Come on Ian; you come with us," I said, waving the smaller kid to join us.

The three of us strolled to my bungalow and we passed AJ on the way.

"Sup Adam?" I said to him.

"Nuthin. Just going to find Donny and get something to ea…," he began to say when he locked eyes on Jimmy's naked body. He studied him from toe to head and back down again. He concentrated his look on Jimmy's crotch as usual though he eventually moved his gaze up to Jimmy's face and smiled.

"See I told you," I said making him laugh a little.

"Hi I'm AJ," he said smiling at the hottie next to me.

"Wassup? I'm Jimmy," he replied.

"Ok AJ, don't you need to go find your brother now? We're heading to my place if you need something," I said as we walked away. AJ ran off to find his brother and anyone else he could talk to.

As we walked into my bungalow we saw Maxie laying on my couch. I walked over to him and shook his shoulder waking him. He opened his eyes a little startled and sat up.

"It's ok dude. You can lay in my bed if you want," I told him. He got up without a word and went to my bed and lay down.

I showed Jimmy and Ian where the hot tub was and turned it on for them. Jimmy stepped his skinny naked body into the water and slowly sat down in it. Ian sat on the edge of the tub and swung his legs in the water and slowly slid in. He was in nearly up to his chin in the warm water and Jimmy was up to his chest.

"Ok guys, just relax for a little while and I'll go get some breakfast for us," I told them. Before I left I checked on Max to see if he was ok. He was lying on my bed just looking out of the big window at the ocean.

"Hey hottie, don't you want to try that new surf board out?" I asked him.

"Yes but not now," he replied.

I felt his forehead and he felt a little warm. "Don't feel good?" I asked.

"Just tired," he said.

"Ok bud, just get some sleep if you want. I'll be back in a little bit," I told him.

I made my way to the kitchen and found Adam, Donny, Alicia and her baby, Phil, and a few others all eating. "Derrik why didn't you tell us who you was saving?" AJ said in an excited tone.

"What the hell are you talking about AJ?" I replied.

"You mean you don't know who he is?" Adam said.

"Well, I know his name's Jimmy. That's about all I know about him," I told them.

"Derrik, he's famous! He's a damn movie star for gosh sakes!" Alicia said.

"Huh?" I asked not having a clue what they were talking about.

"Derrik his name is Jimmy Benton. He's a movie star. Don't you know who he is?" AJ exclaimed.

Truthfully, I didn't know anything about what they were saying.

"Dude, he's been in a bunch of movies. He was in that movie The Flood. You know, the one where a guy was building a boat like Noah's ark. He played the lead guy's son," AJ said with excitement.

I thought hard for a second and, come to think of it he did look like that kid a lot. AJ grabbed my hand and dragged me to the main gathering area and went through the DVD collection we now had. He grabbed the The Flood movie and put it in the player. He turned it on and fast forwarded it to where he saw Jimmy and paused it.

"Look! That's him! That's the kid you brought back!" AJ said pointing and smiling almost jumping up and down like a little kid.

"Well I'll be damned it is, isn't it?" I said now seeing it was him indeed.

"We got a celebrity! We got a celebrity!" AJ said laughing and doing the cabbage patch dance.

"You silly fucker," I said pushing by his shoulder. He stumbled slightly and laughed his ass off.

I went to do what I originally came for and got some food. I made a tray of pop tarts and some soups with a six-pack of sodas and ,took them back to my bungalow. When I got back Max was asleep and the others were just enjoying the warm water. Actually. they were cutting up and splashing each other a little.

"Ok guys, I got some goodies for us," I said before setting the tray down on the table. I got in the tub with them and Jimmy's face looked much better with some dirt washed off it.

"Why didn't you tell me who you really were?" I asked Jimmy.

"Well you didn't ask and I thought you knew. Most people already do," he replied.

"Well dude, truthfully, I only saw you in one movie and you were a li'l guy in it. It was Family Time. You were the kid in the ball cap, right?" I asked.

"That was me alright," he said.

"I guess I didn't recognize you since you got older. You do look a little different now. But, either way, you're still cute," I said smiling.

He blushed and smiled again.

"Hey you want me to wash your hair for you?" I asked. He had nearly shoulder-length light brown hair that was very greasy and needed washed badly.

"I guess, if you really want to," he replied. He moved over some and I sat next to him and began to soap up his nasty hair. The whole time Ian was just sitting and taking in all that was going on. Just like Max, Jimmy seemed to enjoy the feeling of someone rubbing the top of his head. I had to wash his hair three times to get it clean and all the grease and filth out of it.

"Want a trim later?" I asked him

"Sure," he said.

I looked at the water and it was now a gross murky color, so I drained it out to replace it with fresh water. The water drained to the point that I could now see Jimmy's crotch and I got a little delight in it. He had semi-hard cock and it looked very nice. He looked to be about AJ's size and had a perfect mushroom head on it. A small little patch of light hairs rested just above the base of his dick. His balls were now hanging low due to being in the hot water for so long.

I whispered in his ear, "Want me to wash those hairs too?"

"I think I can manage that myself. There's only a few of them, but thanks, though," he said kind of laughing at his low number of pubes.

"Ok, but I had to ask," I said with a smile. "Hey Ian if you want you can leave. You don't have to sit here with us if you don't want to," I told the smaller hybrid.

"Ok but may I scan your mind before I go?" Ian asked Jimmy.

"Sure, I guess so. Is it going to hurt at all?" Jim asked.

"No, it's cool! You wont even feel it," I told him.

"Ok, sure. It's the least I can do for you to thank you," he told Ian as he leaned forward towards him. Ian put his hands on the sides of Jimmy's face and they both closed their eyes. In a flash it was over with.

"Is it over?" Jimmy asked.

"Yep, that's all there is to it," I said.

Ian looked like he was about to cry. "You ok li'l buddy?" I asked him.

"I am sorry about your friend. You loved him very much," Ian said to Jimmy as he sniffled back tears. Jimmy looked like he was about to be sick.

"Ok Ian, how about you go find the twins or Chris or someone and see if they'll play outside with you. I think Jimmy needs some time alone," I told the hybrid.

Ian agreed and got out of the hot tub. I, too, got out and dried the little guy off making his dick hard as I dried it for him.

"Is that supposed to happen?" he asked, looking at his uncut boner.

"Actually, yeah, more than you think?" I said. "Go ahead now, go find the boys and play," I ordered him.

Once he left I looked back at Jimmy. "Wanna talk about it?" I asked. He had a sorrowful look and didn't reply.

I got back in the water and sat next to him again. I was only slightly bigger than him but enough that I was a bit taller. The longer he sat silently the worse he felt. Eventually tears began to streak from his eyes and splash into the water.

"Just tell me what happened? I wont tell anyone else if that's what you want." I told him.

"I had to bury him!"

"I had to bury him with my bare hands," he said, before he started to cry openly.

"Bury who? What happened?" I asked.

He didn't answer at first but cried his emotions out. I wanted to comfort him but I wasn't sure he wanted any of that since we were naked in the tub together.

A few minutes went by with him getting it out of his system before he could talk to me again. "A friend that I was sharing a room with at Space Camp. Those things got to him and killed him. I had to bury him with my bare hands," he said heaving sobs.

"Ok, dude, just calm down. Ok, take a deep breath," I told him patting his shoulder. He calmed down a bit more and got his breathing under control before he went on with his story.

"What were you guys doing at space camp?" I asked him.

"We were in training for a movie that we were cast in. We were going to be in a space movie that was supposed to come out this year. It was going to be me, Randy Oster, and the other kid I buried that were going to star in it. Randy ran away when those things attacked us a few months ago and I haven't seen him since. When they attacked they killed my friend Josh and I had to bury him," he said looking as sad as could be.

"Damn, dude, I'm sorry to hear that. You have any idea if Randy Oster made it out alive?" I asked. I knew who Randy was from seeing him in a bunch of modeling photos on the internet a long time ago.

"I don't know if he made it or not. The three of us were the only ones that I know of that survived the attack where we were. We hid in an old rocket engine and waited till the attack was over. We were ok for a while. We had a bunch off those army meals that were dehydrated to eat that we found and we had power from a solar panel on the roof of the building we were staying in."

"One day we were just doing our normal things when we saw some kind of robot outside the building. Next thing we knew there was monsters all over the place. Randy ran away, and Josh and I got separated and I ended up hiding in a cooking oven in the mess hall. I didn't know what happened to Josh until I came out a long time later and found his body totally mangled outside the building. The monsters found most of our food and destroyed it. We hid some of it in case something happened and that's what I was living on till you guys found me," he explained.

"Fuck man, I feel horrible now," I told him.

From over my shoulder, I heard a sniffle come from the other side of the room. I turned my head and looked and Max was still lying on his side. I got out of the water and wrapped a towel around my waist before going to check him.

I sat on the bed next to him and looked at his face. "You awake?" I asked quietly. He nodded so I knew he heard me. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"I just feel real bad because of his story," he sniffled.

I felt his head again and he still felt warm. "I think it might be more than his story Max, you feel warm. Come on over and meet Jimmy, He's famous," I told him patting him on his side.

He slowly sat up and wiped a tear off his cheek. He got up and walked with me to the tub and sat his naked body down in the water while Jimmy watched the whole time. I took the towel off and got back in myself.

As we chatted, I had forgotten all about the food I brought and jumped out to get it. I handed Jimmy a soda and a pack of pop tarts and he smiled hugely.

"Man you're my new best friend," he said to me for feeding him Of course he was joking, though.

We got out of the hot tub looking like raisins and dried off. The three of us sat on the couch in my bungalow and talked some more, but really it was more of plan making than anything.

"Ok Jim, I have to ask you this and you don't have to be embarrassed about the answer. I told you about how most of us like each other. Well what I need to know is do you like boys in any way besides just being a friend with them?" I asked him.

"I don't know why?" he replied.

"Well, dude, I'm asking because we try to match people up so they can live together so we don't have bungalows that are over-crowded and ones that only have one person in them. What I was thinking was, how about you and Maxie, here, be room mates together? He doesn't really have a space of his own and he's kinda in the same boat as you with not knowing about what he really likes yet," I told them.

Max seemed happy that I was thinking of him and smiled. "What about the other place, Derrik? What if he wants to move there?" Max asked.

"Well Max, something tells me that he's not going to do that," I told him. I told Jimmy about the other colony we were going to set up and, like I thought, he wanted to stay here for now.

"Ok, one more important thing. How do you feel about being naked all the time? I know you've noticed that almost all of us are all the time. There's only a few of us that aren't comfortable with it yet. It's up to you if you don't want to be naked," I explained.

"Dude, I don't really care if you guys see me naked. Just don't try to get me in the butt when I bend over is all I ask," he replied making a joke.

"It's not even like that here man. No one would do that; well, except for maybe AJ or the twins," I said making Max laugh.

"Yeah they are the horn dogs around here," Max snickered.

"Basically, I guess you can call it a nudist colony with friendly benefits, sorta," I said trying to think of what to call the place.

"That's cool. I guess I can live with that. Not like I got a whole lot of choice," Jimmy said.

"Well that's what I'm getting at. We are going to set up the other colony really soon and people who are here now have a choice of staying here or going there. The lady that helped you in the clinic, Rebecca, is going to be the one in charge there and that place is going to be for the ones who don't feel comfortable with what we like to do here."

"Now Max here likes girls; he's told us that. But … not to piss you off Max … he likes doing stuff with us guys too. It's up to him that if he wants to leave he can," I said making Max blush again.

"Derrik, I never said I wanted to leave. I like it here," Max said.

"Ok, bud, I was just saying was all. If you don't want to go you don't have to," I told him making him feel better.

"Jim, when the times comes, the same decision is for you to make too," I told Jimmy.

He nodded and we all decided to get out of the tub. I had Max and Jimmy follow me to one of the smaller bungalows that wasn't being used and told them they could live there if they wanted. They both liked it, but there was only one draw-back to it. It was a one bedroom with a king-size bed. If they wanted to sleep in a bed, they were going to have to share one.

"How you dudes feel about sharing a bed?" I asked.

"Not like I haven't before," Max said making a point. I looked at Jim and he didn't say anything at first.

He walked over and felt the firmness of the bed and said, "I can handle it if Max can. Oh yeah, where the heck are you from anyways?" he asked about Max's accent.

"Australia. Can't you tell?" Max replied.

"That's what I thought. He rescued you from way down there?" Jimmy asked.

"Ok guys, how about I let you two talk about stuff for a while. I got to go see Adrien for a while," I told the younger guys.

I left to find Adrien and Max ran and caught up to me really fast. "Derrik, Derrik, wait!" he said gasping for air.

"Whatcha need buddy?" I asked, as he panted bent over with his hands on his knees. It took him a minute before he could speak.

"I was wondering, um, if me and Nikki, if we, you know, if we wanted to, do it, can you please tell me how? I don't have a clue what to do," he asked quietly.

"Well dude, I'll do my best, but I don't have much experience there myself. Tell you what. If you can talk her into it, let me be in the room with you and I'll help out to get you started. Then I'll leave you two to it. I do, at least, know where to put it," I told him laughing a little.

"Really? You'd do that for us?" he asked surprised.

"Well, yeah, of course. You think I never seen people fucking in the same room with me before. Yes, Maxie, I'll help you. You gotta talk Nikki into it first, but I got faith in you," I told him rubbing his shoulders. Truth was, hell yes I'd help him. Maybe even try to sneak something in his hole as he was getting in hers.

He smiled and ran back to his new place with Jimmy and I went to do my thing.

Days have gone by and things seem to be normal around here. Jimmy is adjusting well to living with us and seems to be gaining strength every day and also seems to be putting back on the weight he should have as well. Ian is learning to be more human and is even looking more human by the day. His white colored skin has darkened to that of a fair-skinned kid like a red head would have. The rest of the guys are getting on as usual.

The one's making the biggest discoveries and advances were the two Amish kids. They had never known electricity or electric gadgets in their lives till coming here. Every little thing to them was a whole new world of discovery. They both loved the fact that they didn't really have to do chores any more and would never have to worry about the corporal punishments they got before. They especially loved the video games and TV. Their eyes would always light up whenever they saw the TV and they seemed like a kid on Christmas.

Carry's belly was as big as ever and she was looking miserable lately having to lug all of that extra weight around. We had gotten the power system up and running in the second colony and the communications were working too. We had even made some trips there to clean it up and make sure it was ready for when some of us moved there. We had planned on making another trip to the warehouse store to get supplies for the other colony so it wouldn't strain the resources of this place.

I called a meeting tonight and everyone was there so we could decide on who was staying here and who was moving. Rebecca, of course, was going to be in charge of the other place and her baby brother was going with her. She allowed her sister to decide for herself and she also decided to go. Phil and Alicia decided to go and take baby, Chrystal. He thought there was just too much noise here for the baby to sleep sometimes.

I asked if anyone else wanted to go and I figured for sure Aiden would raise his hand to go as well. I was very surprised and pleased that he didn't and had decided to stay here with us. James, however, did raise his hand. I hadn't seen this coming and wondered why he wanted to go. I would ask him when the meeting was over. Aiden seemed to look depressed when James raised his hand, though.

Now that we decided who was living there, new living arrangements would be made here. Some of us were going to be moved around according to ages and things like that.

I asked James, when the meeting was over, why he wanted to leave and he answered, "It's not that I don't like living with you guys, cus I do. You guys are all great. It's , well, promise you won't tell anyone this, I got a crush on Rebecca's sister,"

"You know what? I totally understand, man. Like I said before, it's your choice, but think about this for me first. I think Aiden might need you around. I sensed he got depressed when you raised your hand to leave," I told him.

"I know. I think he likes me like a big brother or something. I hate to leave the li'l dude but I got to do what I got to do," he said, sounding like he was thinking of himself right now. I thought he was thinking more with his little head than his big one. I just let it go for now as I couldn't force him to stay. All I could do was support that perfect boy Aiden, when, and if he needed it when James left.

I suggested to Rebecca and Adrien that we let a hybrid live with them sometime in the future when we eventually find more of them. They both thought it was a good idea so that's what we would do.

The next day came too soon and the trip for supplies for the second colony was upon us. This time I was going, AJ was going … which he wasn't too crazy about … the hybrid Ian was allowed to go, and I thought I'd get Cheech to go. I borrowed some clothes for Ian and got him dressed and went to get Cheech. I knew he was in his bungalow but I also sensed he was engaged in something naughty as well.

Instead of knocking, I let myself in and was greeted by one hot-ass sight. There, lying on the bed was him on his back, his sister straddling his mid section riding his cock inside her pussy, and their little brother standing over the two with his little cock in their sisters mouth all at the same time. It was a hell of a family threesome of fun.

Cheech noticed me standing there watching with a raging boned-out tent in my pants just as he was about to blow his load.

"Oh fuck!" he said pushing Nikki from his stomach which forced her to spit out their brother's pecker. They all saw me, then, got very anxious and looked about to cry.

"Hey, hey chill. It's ok. I don't care what you guys do. And I won't tell anyone, either. Tell the truth, that was pretty fuckin hot!" I said starting to laugh a little.

"Something you want, DERRIK!?" Cheech asked, more than a little annoyed.

"Oh yeah, sorry. I was going to see if you wanted to go on the supply trip," I replied still looking at the sexual lusty scene in front of me.

"Fine, dude. I'll be there in a few ok," he said, trying to get me out of the room. I left them with a boner hurting from the pain of clothes restraining it.

"Sorry guys. I don't think I can finish now," Cheech told his siblings.

"Tell me about it. I wish people would learn to fucking knock around here," Nikki said, a little pissed.

"Nik I got to go help them or they wouldn't have come to ask me. Why don't you two finish having some fun and we'll see about trying again later," Cheech suggested to his siblings.

"Whatever! I don't think I can finish now," Nikki said in disgust.

Little Brandon looked a little upset and scared over what just happened. "Tell you what squirt. If sis don't wanna finish for you, me and you will have fun when I get home," Cheech told his baby bro, as he hugged his naked little body. He reached down and rubbed his little 3 inch [7½ cm] boner as he kissed him quickly on the lips.

"You promise?" Brandon asked.

"Yes buddy I promise. Hey, tell you something else. If sis won't finish for you, go and play with the twins. I'm more than sure they'd play with this for you," he told his brother, still rubbing his three-incher [7½ cm].

Brandon seemed to like that idea since he got along quite well with Cole and Cody. The brothers kissed one more time real quickly as a good bye kiss and Cheech got dressed.

Before he left, he kissed Brandon one more time and tried to kiss his sister bye. The two kissed quickly and hugged and he whispered in her ear, "Hey why don't you find that Max kid. I know you like him and he likes you. Go find him and fuck his brains out for him," he told her with a giggle.

She seemed to like that idea more than a little. "You know what I just might do that," she said with an evil grin.

He patted her on her bare ass before leaving and patted his brother on top of his messy hair.

Minutes later he arrived at Adrien's workshop and got geared up as Adam was bitching about something. "I still don't see why the fuck I have to go this time," he whined.

"Dammit Adam, I already told you. I need your eyes and I need you to check fit clothes for Jimmy," I said, getting annoyed at him. He was almost the same size body as Jimmy was. We had to get Jimmy some clothes since all he had was the nasty jump suit we found him in. AJ wasn't too happy about it but he got geared up and ready to go and bitched the whole time.

"Dammit AJ, you know what? If you don't want to go so fucking bad then fucking stay here ok! I didn't want to make Jimmy go because he's not strong enough yet. But if all you're going to do is bitch like this then stay here and I'll take him," I said, getting pissed off.

Adam stopped and looked at me with a frowned face and threw his gloves down on the floor before storming out of the room.

"Damn, what's up his ass today?" Cheech asked.

"Not sure. Oh yeah, sorry about walking in on you guys like that," I replied.

Cheech got a worried look on his face and looked right at me. "Don't worry, my friend, he didn't tell me but I already knew. Remember, I can read all your thoughts. And I will not tell anyone, either," Adrien said to Cheech, not even taking his eyes off his work.

"It was a hot sight, though," I said, patting Cheech on his chest and laughed. He just rolled his eyes and grunted. He helped Ian get ready and I went to get some clothes from some of the guys for Jimmy to wear so he could go with us.

Once I had stuff for him to wear, I went to his and Max's place to get him. Before I walked in I sensed he was alone and feeling pretty good at the moment. I quietly let myself in and saw him lying on the big bed with his fingers wrapped around his four inches [10 cm] stroking away at it. One thing was for sure he looked sooooo much better now that he was cleaned up and gaining weight back.

His smooth shaft with a nicely shaped mushroom head looked even better. His hand gently bouncing against his normal sized hairless balls was a nice sight as well. I could hear him softly panting as he was enjoying his fun, but as much as I'd like nothing better that to move his fingers and use my tongue on his dick, I needed him to get ready to go.

I cleared my throat as I turned to the side so as not to watch him directly when he noticed I was there.

"Shit. He said when he saw me standing by the door way.

"Sorry to interrupt, dude. Um, I kinda need you to get dressed and come with me. You can finish that if you want first, though," I said. I knew he could see the tent I had going but I didn't care.

"I'm not sure I can now," he said in a chuckle.

I looked at him seriously, then, and saw his fully hard shaft with its small patch of pubes above it. "Um, I could, you know, help if you want," I said hoping he would let me.

"Nah. I think I'm done for now. I don't think I could finish now even with help. Thanks though, I guess," he replied. Too bad for me I thought.

He got up and I handed him the clothes I brought for him to borrow and he noticed the tent I had in my pants from seeing him. He was going limp quickly but blushed when I saw him looking. I just put it in the back of my mind and waited till he got dressed. He had problems with the shoes since they were a little too small since they were Josiah's.

"These are a little too small. They're not wide enough for my feet" he pointed out. He followed me to Adrien's workshop and we geared him up to with the special glasses, knee and elbow pads, a mini cloaker, and a pistol for just in case.

The trip to the warehouse store was uneventful and we landed soon. It took us the better part of three hours to gather what we needed and Jimmy was giving out on us. He wasn't strong enough to come on this trip to begin with and now he was worn out.

"Dude just sit here in the ship and we'll finish loading up. I know you're tired and I shouldn't have made you come with us," I told him. He happily agreed and just sat in his seat in the operations room of the ship.

"Where is Jimmy?" Cheech asked.

"In the ship resting. He's wiped out from all of this. We shouldn't have brought him along. Fucking AJ! I don't know why he's so hard headed lately," I said getting a little mad at Adam for the way he was acting. Eventually I cooled off and the three of us finished loading the ship.

We still needed to get some clothes for Ian and Jimmy so we went looking for a mall or something. We found one that was partially still standing near Tampa, Florida and landed outside it. "Ian do you sense anything out there besides maybe animals?" I asked.

He shook his head no and confirmed what I was sensing. "No human's around, and, more important, no aliens." I told the others what we were doing here and to be on guard since we had never been here before. We turned our cloakers on and went inside and looked around.

We found a department store and Ian and I paired off and Cheech and Jimmy did and we went to find clothes that fit the boys who needed it. Ian and I looked around with a flash light in the dimly lit store and found the racks with sizes that fit him. I let him pick out what he wanted which consisted of striped t- shirts, cargo shorts, and a bunch of shirts with sports teams on them. For some reason he liked the colors on them. There was a few more important things we needed for him, undies and shoes of his own. I grabbed some different kinds of undies for him, boxers, boxer briefs and tighty-whities, and I led him to the changing areas.

"Ok buddy, take those shorts off and try these on and see what you like," I told him. He stripped the shorts off leaving him naked below the waist except for his shoes and started to try them on. First was boxers, and he thought they were ok. Next were the boxer briefs and he felt the same for those. He slid the briefs on and I guess he didn't know about adjusting his self so I helped him out.

When he had them pulled up I reached into his lump and moved his smooth uncut shaft around till it was pointing in the upward position. I guessed he liked the sensation because he got hard in no time. "Derrik, is my penis supposed to feel tingly like that?" he asked.

"Yep, bud. When you touch it like that it happens," I told him.

"I like that. Will you touch it more?" he asked smiling with those black devilish eyes.

I couldn't resist. To oblige him, I began to rub his hardon some. He smiled and goggled a bit so I knew he liked what he was feeling. "Tell you what bud, when we get home I'll show you some other stuff to do with it that feels good, ok? Right now, though, we need to get these clothes for you and find the others. So which ones do you like best?" I asked him about the undies.

He smiled and said, "I like these. They feel good,"

"Ok, bud, go ahead and pull your shorts back on and let's go find Greyson and Jimmy," I told him. He quickly put his clothes back on and we went to find the others.

We found Jim and Cheech in some kind of record store that sold clothes too. Jim had some shirts and stuff and was looking around. "Find anything?" I asked.

"Yeah a few shirts. Think anyone will mind I get these?" Jimmy asked.

"Dude, no one is left to care. Go nuts! Take what you want," I told him. He smiled a bit and began taking what he liked. I left Ian with them and went to find a cart for Jimmy to load his stuff in. He ended up with a cart of shirts with bands he liked on them and some hats and things like that. He also grabbed any CD that he wanted of his favorite bands.

When he had what he wanted here, we went back to the department store Ian and I were just in to find him some shorts and undies too. He picked out all kinds of cargo shorts and baggy shorts and then grabbed a bunch of boxers he liked with all kinds of stuff like Bart Simpson and things like that on them. I suggested he try them on now, before we left to make sure he got the right stuff.

He felt a little apprehensive about stripping in public like that. I explained that no one could see him while he was cloaked except for us because we had the glasses on. It relieved him enough to take his shorts off showing us that nice shaped yummy mushroom of his and he tried the undies on. It was a good thing I had suggested it because the ones he had didn't fit. They were too big and fell right off of him.

He grabbed some smaller ones and they fit fine. I told him that he had better get the larger ones to because he was so underweight that the ones he was wearing now wouldn't fit probably in a few weeks. He agreed and just grabbed a whole bunch of different sizes.

"If they wont work for me I'm sure someone else can use them," he said.

I agreed and he out them in the cart before pulling his shorts back up.

"Hey guys, I saw a shoe store where we came in so let's go there and see if we can get you dudes some shoes," I suggested. I could tell Jim was getting tired again so I thought it was a good time to get out.

We found the shoe store and went in. It was totally dark and we had to use flashlights to see. Ian was lucky here, because he could see like it was daylight in there. Ian found some cross trainers he liked that fit him good, so we grabbed those for him. Jimmy, on the other hand, was a little harder to fit. He could find some to fit his foot lengthwise, but they were too narrow and hurt his toes. Then, he would find some wide enough but they were way to long for his foot. We finally struck gold when we checked the last box in the storage room. They were a pair of red and black Nike's that fit him perfectly. We snatched those and went out to the ship to leave.

Inside, we stowed the new clothes and got ready to leave.

"Hey Derrik, since it's not too late, can I please ask you a favor?" Jimmy asked.

"Yeah I guess so," I replied, not knowing for sure what he wanted. Like I said, his mind was hard to read for me.

"Can we please go back near Space Camp? I just need to try to find Randy. I need to know for sure if he's alive or not," he pleaded.

I could hear the emotion in the question and I wanted to give in. "Guys, what do you think? Can you stand going on a search mission?" I asked.

The other two agreed wholeheartedly. So to Space Camp we went, again.

"Adrien I need you to bring up that satellite thing you got going and see if any monsters are still around where we found Jimmy," I thought, sending Adrien a message.

A few minutes later he answered me, "I do not see any ships present on the ground or in the immediate area, but that's not to say that robots may not be in the area," he thought to me. I decided to take the risk and go see if we could find Jimmy's friend, another celebrity.

We arrived near Space Camp a short time later and I could actually see the pain and apprehension in Jimmy's face. "Don't worry dude. If he's around here, we'll try to find him," I told him.

We flew around the immediate area and just looked for any signs of someone still alive down there. When we found the building we had found Jimmy in, it was totally leveled to the ground. "Man, that's where I called home for all those months," Jimmy said getting a little winded.

"Derrik stop the ship please," Ian said all of a sudden. I did what he said and he got up and walked to the other operator's seat where Adrien usually sits and sat down. Some laser beams or something shot down onto Ian's head.

"What the hell is that?" Cheech asked.

"Not entirely sure," I answered. This was the first time I had seen this. "Ian what are you doing?" I asked.

He opened his eyes and the next thing I knew the gravity in the ship turned off and we began to float out of our seats. "Whoa what the hell?" Jimmy said as he floated.

"Ian what's going on?" I asked again in a worried tone. Just then the ship was struck by some kind of impact and we were flung around floating inside. The ship began to move in all kinds of crazy directions at high speed and I started to get scared.

"What the fuck is going on Ian? Tell me now!" I screamed.

"They found me. They want to take me back," he replied.

"Who, dammit, who?" I said loudly. He made a hologram appear in front of us showing the aliens who we thought were good at first. "They made you? How did they find you?" I asked.

"Yes they made me. They have a telepathic link to me. That's how they found me," he replied.

"Well then, let's get the fuck out of here! Sorry Jim the search is going to have to wait for now."

The ship did more evasive actions and we could see another alien ship shadowing us and firing on us.

"Adrien we're being attacked!" I thought to him.

"Dammit, Ian, either do something or get us away from them," I yelled at him.

The ship suddenly stopped and the other alien ship overshot us and flew by.

"Shot that mother fucker!" Cheech screamed.

We fired weapons I didn't even know we had at the alien ship making several direct hits on it. Ian was pounding the hell out of it with hit after hit and it exploded right in front of us.

"Yeah take that fuckers!" Cheech said.

"Holy shit Ian, how did you learn to do all of that?" I asked him.

"Playing video games with the others," he replied seriously. We just cracked up laughing then. He didn't see why we were laughing though.

"Jim, I think we need to get home for now. Maybe we pressed our luck too hard today," I said. He was in total agreement so we headed for home.

Everyone was outside and completely delighted to see us make it home ok. I just wish we could say the same for the ship. It had burn marks all over it now and there were some parts damaged. It was nowhere near damaged as bad as it was when we fixed it back when we were hiding in the mine.

"How bad is it Adrien?" I asked. "Well the hull is breached so it won't be going to space any time soon. The engine system was damaged too," he said.

"That explains why we couldn't go very fast, then," I replied. "Can we fix it?"

"In time, yes," he said.

"Ok, well I guess we'll have to take the supplies to the other place the hard way," I said meaning by taking them on the ATV. Adrien just closed his eyes and hung his head and shook it.

"Sorry man we didn't know they were going to jump us like that," I said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"No it's not that. Now I know I have to break this link Ian has with the others," he said referring to the not-so-good aliens.

"Is there anyway I can help?" I asked.

"I think I will need your help on this. We are going to have to isolate the link and force it from his mind to break their hold on him," he replied.

I was willing to help the kid but there was a nagging question I had to ask. "Dude, can they trace him here? I mean they found us there, can they find him here?" I asked.

"I don't believe so. If they could, they would have been here by now," he said making a point.

The others were unloading the ship and I noticed AJ was missing in action. "Where is Adam at? He still being a dick?" I asked.

No one answered so I knew something was up.

"Ok, now, does somebody wanna tell me or do I have to start reading minds to find out? I asked everyone.

Joe came up to me and said very quietly, "Derrik, there's something wrong with Adam. He's not being his self lately. He's mean all the time and just being a dick a lot. He's even mean to Donny,"

I didn't know all of this, but I did know he was being a real ass lately for some reason. "Ok I guess I need to see what's up his butt," I told Joey.

I went looking for him and heard a commotion coming from the clinic. I walked in and AJ was there with a hammer trying like hell to break the lock I put on the medicine cabinet that had all the strong meds in it.

"What the fuck are you doing?" I yelled at him.

He turned and looked at me with a hateful look. "Adam if you got any ideas about using that hammer on me you better not even try it," I said getting red faced.

He calmed down a bit and looked at me and then the hammer. By now we had an audience outside the door from hearing me yelling at him. He looked at me for a second and then threw the hammer down.

"Just give me the fucking pills, Derrik!" he yelled at me.

"You want the fucking pills? Fine, I'll give you the fucking pills!" I said in a rage. I unlocked the cabinets, grabbed the pills from inside and started to walk out with them.

He tried to grab for them.

"Back off mother-fucker!" I said coldly to him.

I marched outside, opened every pill bottle and tossed them all into the ocean.

"No! I need those! You mother-fucker!" he screamed and ran and tackled me at full force. He started to pound on me and I fought back hitting him just as hard. We wrestled and fought for a few seconds till we were pulled apart by Adrien and Josiah.

"What the fuck is wrong with you AJ?" I screamed at him.

"I needed those, damn you!"he screamed back at me.

"Let go of me dammit," I told Adrien and he did.

AJ was trying to get away but Joey held onto his cousin and wouldn't let him go. "Let the ass go, Joe," I told him.

He let his cousin go and AJ ran out into the water trying to find any of the pills I threw there but they were all gone now, washed out by the waves. He dropped to his knees and started bawling. "Nooooo!" he yelled.

"What the fuck is wrong with him?" Cheech asked.

"He's fucking hooked on dope," I said.

"Damn that explains so much," Joe said.

Seeing his brother in such a state made Donny began to cry as well. Alicia comforted the little guy as I waded out into the surf to get Adam.

"AJ come on dude. Get out of the water," I said putting a hand on his shoulder. He evilly jerked away from me and just stared out into the water away from me. I tried my best to get him to snap out of it but it didn't work.

I walked back out of the water and just looked around to the others.

"Oh shit AJ don't!" I heard Phil say just before he tackled me from behind. "Mother fucker!" he screamed as he pounded away as hard as he could on my back and ribs.

Feeling the pain, I instinctively tried to roll over to get off of my stomach. I managed to roll him off my back and we ended up wrestling around getting in a good punch here and there. For some reason no one tried to stop it at first and just let us go at it. Somehow I got him on his back and I just saw red and gave him one good last shot right in his mouth. It was at that point that the others pulled me off top of him and held me back.

"Fuck you, Adam!" I was screaming at him. My emotions were out of control and so was my anger. If I would have known how bad it was going to get I would have never hit as hard as I did. Poor little Donny was hysterically crying and so were some of the little guys. The ones that weren't crying looked scared and worried.

I shook off the guys that were holding me and walked over to AJ who was still lying on his back, crying and holding his mouth. "Dude, I don't know what the hell is wrong with you. All I was trying to do is help your stubborn ass," I said down to him.

Then I walked away.

It wasn't till I got some distance away that I noticed he had bloodied my nose. I walked along to my place pinching my nose and wiping away what blood that came out. My mind was a flood of emotions ranging from anger, of course, to remorse for what I did to him.

I stuffed toilet paper in my nostrils when I got to my bathroom to stop the bleeding. He had gotten some good shots in on me since I noticed my ribs were hurting some and felt a little raw. I sat there just in silence just thinking when someone knocked on my door. "Come in Phil," I said knowing who it was.

He came in and sat down across from me. "So how bad is it?" I asked wondering about what damage I had done.

"He'll live. You busted his mouth pretty good," he explained.

"I know. I feel like shit because of it too," I replied.

"For what its worth, he shouldn't have done what he did and I think you might have went too far too," Phil said.

"I know, man. When he was hitting me like that, I just lost it. I feel bad for doing it, now but, at the time, all I felt was that I wanted to hurt him," I said.

"Yeah, I get the idea. How did we all miss him being on pills like he was?" Phil wondered.

"Not sure really. I do know he's gonna have a rough time for a while now that he doesn't have them any more. He's probably gonna be a real bastard for a while until he gets over this," I told him.

"Yeah it makes me wonder if we should leave his brother with him until he's better," Phil wondered.

"Well dude, I don't know about that. He might need Donny now more than ever. I'm pretty sure he's gonna treat him like shit for a while. Truth be known he'll probly treat us all like shit," I said.

"Yeah probably. Well I thought I'd just see how you were and let you know about him," Phil said as he got up. I watched as the chubby boy got off my chair and walked to my door. He waved bye then and left me to think.

Back on the beach after I walked away everyone kind of stood around waiting to see what was happening next.

AJ got up off the sand and spat out a mouth full of bloody spit. "What the fuck are you all looking at?" he screamed at everyone. He had a swollen lip and jaw that could be clearly seen were I had popped him that last time before we were separated. He stormed off mumbling to himself as the others watched.

Donny was a visible wreck and was crying badly. "Shh it'll be ok," Rebecca said as she knelt next to him and hugged him. "Ok, everyone, the show's over. Go do whatever now," Rebecca told everyone. She calmed Donny down with Alicia and Carry's help eventually and Rebecca took him by the hand and led him to the kitchen. She got him a cup of kool aid and sat with him.

"Your brother will be ok. He's just having a very bad time right now," Rebecca explained.

"I know it looked bad, but I don't think Derrik meant to really hurt him," Alicia told him. Donny just sat and sniffled a few times and was silent.

"Don't worry cuz AJ's got us, still. Even if he's a dick sometimes, we're still family," Josiah told his younger cousin.

"Yeah, but you guys don't have to live with him! I do! He's mean when he's mad like this," Donny explained and started to cry a little.

"Well bud, I'm sure someone else will let you stay with them if you don't want to be around your brother till he gets better," Alicia told him.

"You can stay with us if you want to," Max told him. "I mean we will have to make room but you can if you want," he told Donny.

Donny just nodded slightly and it was decided. No one really knew were Adam went but they decided to let him cool off for a while because most of them knew how pig-headed he could be.

I sat in my place long enough to let my anger level cool down to a simmer and then decided to join the others.

"Hey everyone, can you all please come to the lobby. There's some things I need to say to you guys," I said, making an announcement on the intercom. A short time later I was waiting for everyone to come in and eventually they did, minus AJ of course.

"Ok everybody, first I'm sorry as hell about what happened today. I didn't mean to let it go as far as it did. I don't know if you have heard or not, but AJ seemed to get hooked on some sleeping pills and I caught him trying to steal some from the clinic earlier. When I took the pills away and threw them in the ocean you guys saw what happened. I normally would never hit him or any of you. Hell man, I love all you guys; you're the only family I got now," I said starting to cry some.

Seeing me cry made some of the others start to cry since they never really see me doing it.

"I'd never intentionally hurt any of you guys. I love Adam like a brother. I don't know why we got into it today, but we did. I surely didn't mean to hit him in the mouth as hard as I did, just like I'm sure he didn't really mean to bust my nose. When he tackled me, for some reason I lost it and I'm sorry for that. If he were here I'd tell him that to his face."

"I got a bad feeling he's going to be in a bad way for a while. It seems like he's really hooked on those things bad. He's got a rocky road ahead of him and we have got to help him through it," I told everyone.

I walked over to Donny and just wrapped my arms around the little guy. "I'm sorry buddy. I didn't mean to hurt your brother," I said in his ear. He started to cry some then.

"Come on guys. We know what happened was wrong and what needs to be done now. Let's go find AJ and bring him home whether he wants to or not," Phil said.

We split up in groups of three or four and went looking for him since none of us had a clue where he ran off to.

Eventually, he was found, just before sunset, about a half mile [800 m] up the beach sitting by some palm trees. Josiah, Adrien, Chris, and Max found him. "Come on cuz let's go home," Josiah said trying to get him to follow.

"No. why the fuck should I?" AJ said through his swollen mouth.

"Adam why do you have to be so damn hard-headed all the time for? You started the fight, not Derrik," Joe pointed out.

"Fuck you too, Joey," Adam said slinging sand at his cousin in a pissed off tone.

"Fuck me? Fuck you Adam! You know you're a real fucking dick some times. You know how bad your brother is feeling right now because of what he saw happen today?" Joe asked.

"Why did Derrik send you guys to get me? Cus he don't want to?" he asked.

"No he's out looking for your stubborn ass too," Max replied.

"Fuck him," AJ said in a hateful tone.

"Man, I don't believe your ass. Man are you a hard-headed asshole. Dude, he feels shitty because he hit you today. He fucking cried cus of it and you know just as well as we do that he don't cry over nothing," Chris said in an agitated voice.

"Just go the fuck away and leave me alone, ok," AJ snapped.

"Dude, listen to you. Your mouth is so swollen you can hardly talk. You know what? You're going back with us even if I have to drag you, and you know I can," Joe told him stepping over to him.

AJ stood up and looked down the few inches at his younger cousin. "Dude, you hit me and I'll knock your dick in the dirt," Joe told him.

AJ just stood with his swollen mouth and his lip started to quiver. Tears slowly began to stream from his eyes.

"Adam, all we wish to do is help you. You know you can't stay out here, deep down inside, so come home with us," Adrien told him.

"Come on cuz, come home," Josiah said.

AJ didn't say anything but just started walking toward home ahead of the others.

"Derrik we found him and he's coming home," Adrien thought to me. I knew we were in for a long road ahead and I also knew we were committed to helping him through it.

Chapter 40

The biggest thing going on right now is Adam's recovery from being hooked on the pills. He's basically been a real son-of-a-bitch toward everyone lately, especially to his brother. I have lost count how many times he has made Donny cry from yelling at him. He tries to yell at me and the other older guys but we tend to put him in his place. I just tell him if he keeps it up toward me I'll kick his ass again. That seems to shut him walk away.

I know for a fact he hasn't been sleeping much. I can tell from the constant worn-down look on his face. I hated to see him like this but, at the same time, it was his own fault. He should have told us, to begin with, that he couldn't sleep. Maybe if he had, he would have never messed with the drugs. He's been leaving him alone. Donny has tried to show him he cares but AJ always seems to make him walk away in tears. It was one of these occasions that set my temper off.

I noticed Donny walking out of his and AJ's bungalow crying his eyes out. I knelt in front of Donny and just wrapped my arms around him as he cried. "What did he do now?" I asked him.

He sobbed heavily and told me, "He, he told me he hates me and told me to go away," It made my heart heavy to hear him cry like that from what his brother had told him. I had the little guy sit down on the porch of the bungalow and told him to wait.

I got up and forced the door open to their bungalow. AJ saw me standing there while he was lying in bed and just rolled on his side facing away from me.

"What the fuck do you want…?" he tried to say but didn't get to finish. I grabbed the bed from underneath and turned it over, dumping his ass in the floor. I grabbed him before he could get his wits about him and dragged him to the big bay window with one of my hands on his neck and the other on his upper arm.

"Look damn you, LOOK!" I said forcing him to look out the window at Donny who was sobbing away. "He's crying his eyes out over you! He loves you so fucking much that it's killing him to hear you say you hate him. He's all you got in the fucking world and you are treating him like trash! I should just kick your ass right now for that!" I shouted into his ear in a hateful tone.

AJ then just teared up without a word and began to break down and cry. "I'm sorry! God I'm so fucking sorry!" he said falling to his knees. He collapsed into a crying heap on the floor then and just bawled.

Donny rushed back in with wet cheeks and saw his brother on the floor crying with me standing over him. "Why'd you hit him?" he yelled at me.

"I didn't, buddy. I think he's got something to say to you, don't you Adam," I said to AJ.

Donny walked over to his brother and knelt next to him. AJ sat up and looked into his brother's teary eyes. He engulfed Donny in a crying hug and dragged him down to him. "I'm sorry I'm so fucking sorry. I love you," he told his brother as they embraced tightly. They were both a crying mess now and I knelt down next to them and hugged them both.

"That's a good start," was all I said to him.

Some minutes later we all separated and I set AJ's bed back up. "Sorry for dumping you, I was just totally pissed," I said.

"I know. I deserved it," he replied.

I looked at him with those wet black eyes and could tell he truly felt sorry now. I guess the last week of being without pills has had an effect on him. At first he was a real prick but now he's a manageable ass. "Ok you still need some time to get over this stuff, but keep in mind, man, you have to live with us so try to watch how you treat people, especially him," I said, pointing to his baby bro.

A tear escaped his eyes and rolled down his cheek. "Just get some rest and when it's time Donny can move back in with you," I said. AJ lay back down, not to sleep, but to battle the withdraw pains he was feeling and his brother left with me.

"Is my bubby going to be ok?" Donny asked.

"Yeah, squirt, in time he'll be fine again. We just have to be here for him and help him get over this stuff," I replied. To try and make Donny feel better I had a great idea. "Hey, squirt, you wanna play some baseball?" I asked.

His face lightened up then and he nodded yes smiling wide. "OK then lets find some of the other guys and see if they want to play too," I suggested.

In no time we had a baseball diamond drawn out in the sand of the beach and had plates from the kitchen to use for bases. Almost everyone wanted to play and we had enough people for two small teams. Some of us like me would a for both teams so we had enough to cover the whole field.

Some were just watching because they didn't understand the rules of the game. That would be the smaller boys and Ian who didn't understand what to do. Jimmy, even in his weakened state, had decided to play with us.

Everything was going great till Max hit a fly ball which Chris tried to catch. I guess he had lost it in the sun because it came down and bopped him right in the right eye. He grabbed his face instantly and began to bawl.

Max had a look of dread on his face for what he was partially responsible for, or so he thought anyway. I ran over to Chris and checked him out. He wasn't bleeding but the swelling had already begun to pop up. "Yep, you're definitely gonna have a shiner from that one," I said checking his eye.

"I'm sooo sorry Chris," Max said apologizing.

"Not your fault. I lost it in the sun," Chris said sniffling.

Adrien escorted Chris inside and got him a rag with ice in it to put on the swelling. The two came back out a little while later and Chris was now a spectator. We all took our places on the field again and were having a blast till Josiah came to bat. I don't know how we forgot but we did forget about his super strength. We remembered all too well when he hit the ball breaking the bat into splinters and launching the ball into orbit.

We all watched the ball streak out over the ocean and out of sight. Everyone looked at Joe then and didn't say a word. "Oops, sorry guys I forgot," he said with an embarrassed giggle.

"Dam Joey, now we can't play no more," Chris whined.

"Well, we can't play anymore for now anyway," I pointed out. There was no winner in the game since Josiah's hit tied the score.

I looked around at every one and no one moved. I took it upon myself then to get them to still have fun. I dropped my ball glove and ran straight out into the water. I was soon followed by almost everyone else. Chris had decided he had enough fun for one day and just sat in the shade of a palm tree and watched us. Carry wanted to join in but just didn't have the energy from having to carry around the unborn Michael in her tummy.

The littler guys were having a total blast from Cheech and Josiah tossing them up into the air and letting them splash in the water. They were squealing with fits of joy from the experience. We played in the surf till we were nearly exhausted and then got out. We rested on the beach in the shade for a while before we went back to our bungalows for a break.

I had been letting Donny stay with me for the time being, so we went to my bungalow and got into the shower together. I made sure his hair was clean and salt-free before I went on to make sure other parts were squeaky clean.

"You wanna have some fun, squirt?" I asked him.

He knew what I meant and nodded yes.

We got out and I dried us both off and before we even got to the bed we were both hard as rocks. I didn't waste any time getting down to business and sank my mouth around his throbbing three incher [7½ cm]. He moaned in delight as I sucked like a madman on him.

I got him about halfway to orgasm when he stopped me. I let him slide out of my mouth and looked up at him and smiled.

He smiled back and asked, "You wanna put it in my butt?"

That was all the invite I needed to get up and find my bottle of lotion. I rubbed a good amount on and all round his hole and then put a good coating all over my dick. I asked how he wanted to do it and he told me to lie on my back and he would get on top of me.

We got in position and he sat straddling my legs with his pecker and mine almost touching. "You sure you want to do this?" I asked.

He smiled and nodded again, got up into position and put the tip of my dick at his hole. I held my shaft still as he slowly lowered himself down some letting my head slid in. He let out a little grunt and stopped.

"You ok?" I asked.

He nodded and said,"Yeah, I'm ok. I just got to get used to it is all," Slowly but surely he slid down further and further and my dick inched it's way into his hole until he was sitting on me with his smooth little nut sack resting on my tummy. He felt amazing wrapped around my cock like that and I think he liked the way it felt in him as well.

He slowly began to rock back and forth making the good sensation into a great one. I reached out and began to stroke his hard pecker as he rose up and slid down on mine. The squishing sound that my dick was making with the lotion on it made us both even hornier. I felt myself getting close now that he was riding me at a steady hard pace. "I'm almost there," I moaned.

"Me too," he replied as I stroked away at his little mushroom. He began moaning loudly, his body tensed up and I felt his pecker twitch and pulsate in my fingers. I also felt his hole clamp down on my dick which I forced as deeply into him as I could and fired my first drop into his ass.

Three more times that happened before he collapsed onto my chest with us both breathing heavily. We lay there for several minutes recovering from a great session of fun when he started to giggle.

"What ?" I asked.

"I feel your stuff running out of my butt and it tickles," he said.

"You silly boy," I said and poked him in his ribs tickling him. At this point my half limp dick was still in him. "Whoa! You keep wiggling around like that and I'll get boned in you again," I told him since he was moving around from me tickling him. I kissed him on the forehead and he smiled. "You and AJ do this a lot?" I asked.

"No, bubby likes to suck more," he replied.

I lifted him up so my dick slid the rest of the way out and he just lay on top of me. I could tell he was about to fall asleep but we needed to clean up before that happened. "Come on, squirt, let's take another quick shower and then you can go to sleep," I told him.

We got up and went back to the shower. And this time he bent over and I used the hand-held shower head to wash out his stretched-out hole. I watched as my juices and the lotion washed out of him and down the drain. I soaped up my dick then washed the lotion, my cum, and his butt juices off me.

Now clean again we went back out to the bed and lay down. He snuggled against me just like he did with his brother and quickly fell asleep.

For me, sleep didn't come very easy. For some reason I let my mind wonder and pick up on everyone else's thoughts. Cheech, Brandon, and Nikki were having fun in bed again, the twins were teaching Ian the joys of jacking off, Chris was falling asleep with an ice pack on his eye, Adrien was working on the space ship and most of the younger boys were asleep. But what stood out most was Max and Jimmy.

They had been roommates for almost a week now and seemed to be getting along great. Actually, they were getting along better than I thought, In their bungalow while Donny and I were showering they decided to do the same since the showers were so big, plus it made the whole thing go faster, no waiting in line.

They dried off and got in bed and were watching TV and before they knew it they were both hard as rocks. "You wanna take care of these?" Jimmy asked.

"Sure why not. Not like I haven't with the other guys," Max replied. They both took hold of their shafts and began to pump away at them.

I don't know if it was the tension in the room or just plain desire, but Max asked Jimmy, "You want to do it for each other?" He wanted Jimmy to jerk him while he did the same for Jim.

"Um, ok why not," Jimmy replied. They gently and nervously wrapped their fingers around each others dicks and began to slowly stroke each them. The feeling of another boy jerking him was apparently more than Jimmy could take and he shot his three drops of clear boy juice out and it landed on Max's hand. Maxie pumped a few more times getting every little dribble out of Jimmy before removing his hand from his shaft.

Max brought his hand to his moth and licked every little bit of Jimmy's juice off it.

Jimmy couldn't believe what he was seeing at that point. He had never seen another boy eat cum before, let alone his cum. "What's it like?" he asked Max.

"If you really want to know you have to try it yourself," Max replied, pointing to his dick that still needed to shoot its little load.

Unknown to most of us, Max had been eating his own cum ever since that one day he and I showered together in the old house. From that day when he tasted mine he was hooked and had been doing it since. Realizing what Max meant, Jimmy reached over and took hold of Max again and began to pump away on him. It didn't even take a minute of stroking to get Max into orbit. His body tensed up and three little spurts of clear cum dribbled out of Max's pecker onto Jimmy's fingers. Just as Max did, Jim pumped a few more times to makes sure Max was totally drained.

Reluctantly, but curiously, he brought the cum-covered fingers to his nose and smelled them. The odor was one he had smelled many times before from smelling his own cum. He opened his mouth and stuck his tongue out and gently dabbed it against his finger. He got a little dab on his tongue and closed his mouth to get the full taste of it.

Max opened his eyes and asked. "Well, how do I taste?"

"Not like I thought it would. I thought it would be all nasty and stuff but it's not all that bad. Kinda salty and stuff but nothing like I thought it would be." Jimmy replied.

"Lick em clean then," Max said with a grin. He watched as Jimmy stuck his fingers in his mouth, closed his lips around them and pulled the fingers out clean. He now had a mouthful of Max and thought it wasn't that bad. "Well?" asked Max.

"Not bad," Jim replied.

"Not bad? I thought I tasted like strawberries," Max said giggling.

"I don't think so, but you're not bad I guess. I don't have much experience but you're ok," Jimmy said laughing at him.

"Well thanks. You're pretty good yourself. I don't have a lot of experience at it either, though. You're only the fourth one I ever tasted," Max said.

"Wow four? That's a lot more than me. Who else have you done stuff with?" Jimmy asked.

"Well I tasted mine of course. Then there is Derrik's, Yours now, and I tasted another guy's a long time ago before Derrik and the others rescued me," Max explained.

"Who was the other guy?" Jim asked.

Max sighed and took a deep breath. "Ok since we're friends and more now I guess I can trust you to not tell any one about this. I uses to be in a military academy and one of the older kids used to force me to put his dick on my lips when he squirted cum. I hated it then. He used to force me to do it and I didn't want to at all. He was always so mean to me,"

"I didn't think I'd ever like to do stuff like that again till I moved in with Derrik and the others. It's actually kind of fun now. I mean I still like girls a lot, but we sort of don't have much choice of who we want to play with. Unattached girls are kind of limited around here," Max explained in that totally hot Australian accent.

"You know, I totally agree. I love girls, and I never really thought about boys before. But now it's like 'why not', you know. It's not like there's a whole world out there to make fun of you for it now. I mean if there was a hot girl that liked me I'd love to do her, but it don't look like that's going to happen," Jimmy said.

Opening up to each other and agreeing on what they liked cemented their friendship even further, even though Jimmy was a little older and bigger than Max was. Their jerk off session was a definite bonus for the two as well. Max hadn't opened up enough with anyone else yet to do that before, except for me in the shower.

For Jimmy it was the first time he had ever had a sexual experience with someone else. Of course he had compared his dick size with friends before, but he had never done anything as far as what he did today.

As we slept, a system of storms moved in to the area and thunder was cracking occasionally shaking me from my sleep. After a few times, I noticed the storm seemed to be getting stronger. I wondered why Adrien hadn't warned us about the storms coming in. Or for that fact, I why Chris hadn't heard it ahead of time. I tried my best to get back to sleep as the rain poured down on my roof but it was a hard thing to do.

Donny didn't budge an inch from the thunder so apparently he was in a deep, restful sleep. I sensed a few of the others were awake and feeling anxious from the storm outside. The wind was blowing hard and the rain was coming down in torrents as we lay in our beds.

The next morning there was some minor damages to our home as we went around and inspected the place. The roof on a few bungalows, including my own, was slightly damaged. The damages could be repaired, but the problem with that was we didn't have what we needed to fix them and we didn't have a way to go back to the mainland to get supplies for the repairs since the space ship still wasn't fixed.

There was only one recourse for us to take. We were going to have to take the ATV and go to the nearby city of Nassau. We had to come up with a way to rig a cloaker to the ATV to hide it from the monsters once it went past our protective perimeter bubble that surrounded our resort.

I talked with Adrien and he agreed to prep the ATV so a few of us could go on a supply run. The answer to our problem was rather simple, I guessed. All Adrien did was boost the output power of one of the mini cloakers and attached it to the ATV. It would hide it and an area up to five feet [1½ m] around it in all directions.

I, naturally, was going and I needed one more person to go to help out. So I asked Josiah to go since I might need his super muscles. We got dressed and met up by the ATV and got ready to go.

We cautiously drove across one of the bridges that linked Paradise Island to nearby Nassau, making sure not to draw attention to ourselves. When we got to there it wasn't as ravaged as other places we had been before. The buildings seemed pretty much intact and the place seemed, in a word, nice. There was only one problem; there were no people to be found.

We saw several stores for tourists and plenty of hotels and restaurants and even a few mansions. After driving on we found what we were looking for, sort of. We found a grocery store that looked to be deserted. "Hey Joe, lets check it out. It might have some things we need," I suggested. We decided to stop and go inside to see what was there.

As soon as we walked in the door the smell of rotten foods overwhelmed us. Joe had to turn his head and throw up when the stench hit him. I had a hard time not doing the same myself. Once we got used to it as best we could, we walked around inside. The fruit was all rotten and all the meat was worm bait long ago. There were all kinds of canned foods and boxed dry foods we could take.

"What should we take?"Josiah asked.

"Well, I'm not sure. We came for supplies to fix the resort so we better get that stuff first. If we got any room left' we'll come back here and grab what we can," I said. He agreed and we made our way out of the horrid-smelling building. On the way out the door, Joey couldn't resist grabbing some junk food by the registers. He grabbed a sucker for himself and handed me one once we were outside. I gladly accepted and we drove off looking for a hardware store or something like that.

We found one a few blocks away and went inside and found what we needed just outside the back door. Joe made short work of the heavy slate shingles and carried bundles of them to the ATV, as I tried my hardest to carry one or two individuals at a time. Now confident we had enough for the repairs, we left.

The ATV was riding low from all the added weight on it and I was scared to put any more on it for fear of breaking it. "I think we'd better get this stuff home before we try to get any groceries from that store. We don't wanna put too much more weight on this thing, "I said with Joe agreeing.

We retraced our route back to the resort where we unloaded and then returned to the store. This time we were smart and brought along some air filtering masks that we found in the maintenance shed to cut down on the stench.

We loaded the ATV down with any supplies and food we could find and I went back inside for a few more personal supplies that I knew a few individuals would be needing. I grabbed some condoms for Cheech and Max since I knew both of them were going to be having fun with a girl. I grabbed some diapers for Alicia and baby Chrystal because she was always going to need them. I also grabbed all the aspirin and cold medicines and anything of that sort I thought we might need. We loaded it all in the ATV and took off for home.

While we were gone some of the guys were doing what they could to fix the damaged roofs of our homes.

We decided to take a different route home this time just to take a look around the area. We drove down one of the main roads around the island that wrapped around the northern coast of the island. We came upon an open beach to our left and it looked awe inspiring. It was one of those views you would see in a famous painting or something. I kind of slowed down a little just to take in the view when Josiah patted my arm and pointed to the beach ahead of us. I stopped instantly and looked at what he was frantically pointing at.

"Do you see that?" he asked quietly.

I nodded with out taking my eyes off it. I shut the ATV off and we cautiously approached something lying on the beach. I had my gun pointed at it the whole time in fear that this might be a trick. As we grew closer we could see what looked like a small humanoid body lying face down on in the incoming surf.

We stopped and I handed Joe the gun and he held it on the thing while I reached out to turn it face up.

"Holy crap is he alive?" Joey asked.

"I'm not sure." I replied.

It was what appeared to be a boy laying on the beach near death. His skin was badly burned from lying in the blazing sun and he was unconscious. There was no doubt it was a boy though; he definitely had the right equipment.

"Come on Joe, lets get him home," I suggested.

"You sure that's smart? I mean couldn't he be a faker like that one alien that copied me?" he asked.

"I'm not sure, but whatever he is he's hurt and needs some help so while he's still alive we have to try to help," I stated.

I scooped the boy's body in my arms and we rushed back to the ATV. I allowed Joe to drive it back to our resort while I held the kid.

"Adrien you know what's going on?" I thought to him.

"Yes, we will be ready for you when you arrive," he thought back.

"Let's go Joe the others know what's up and they're waiting on us," I said and Josiah mashed the gas pedal down.

Sure enough, when we arrived back home, a crowd was gathered outside waiting on us.

Adrien rushed over to me to see what I had. "Let's get him inside," he suggested after giving him a slight look over. We ran him to the clinic and placed him on the bed.

The crowd seemed to follow us in and I had to disperse them. "Hey, why don't you guys go and unload the ATV. We'll let you know if something happens," I said.

"Well? What do you think?" I asked Adrien once they were all gone.

"I'm not entirely sure what to think. He seems human enough, but there's one thing that may change that," he said. He looked as human as I did from what I could tell. Adrien turned his head slightly to one side then showed me what he was talking about. Behind the kids ears and going to about halfway down his neck were some kind of slits or flaps of skin.

"What the hell are those?" I asked.

"If I had to take an educated guess, I'd say gills," Adrien said.

"Gills? You mean like a fish?" I asked in amazement.

"They resemble them from what I can tell. It's the only explanation I have," he said.

"So he's a hybrid of some kind, then?" I asked.

"Looks to be. He seems to be part human and somehow part fish," Adrien said. As we checked the kids body further we found more evidence supporting this theory. In between the kids fingers were small flat webs of skin and there were more between his toes.

"I think you're right. It looks like he's half fish doesn't it," I said.

He was burned pretty good but his skin tone seemed like a normal human's. He had blondish hair that was fairly short and, for all intents and purposes, he looked like a regular kid.

Just about then he began to stir and opened his eyes slightly. As soon as he saw us he tried to leap out of the bed. Adrien and I restrained him since he was so weak. "Relax man you're ok now. You're safe," I said to him.

He looked at me and said "American?" in a foreign accent.

"Yes," I replied. He seemed relieved then and relaxed a bit. I couldn't exactly place his accent but it sounded Russian to me. "Who are you and how did you get here?" I asked.

"My name is Alexey. Please do not turn me over to them I beg of you," he said trembling a little.

"Don't worry we're not turning you over to anyone. Who are you running from?" I asked.

"My home government. I escaped from them and I ended up on a beach somewhere. That is all I remember until now," he said.

I could tell he was in pain and I wasn't sure if it was just from him being sunburned or if it was something else. I noticed Zack standing outside the door peeking in so I waved him over. "Zacky would you please go and get me some water for him." I asked.

He smiled and nodded and ran to get it.

"Are you hurt besides being sunburned bad?" I asked.

"I don't think so. I am just very tired and hungry," he replied.

"This is Adrien and I'm Derrik. You're safe now so don't worry you're among friends now," I reassured him.

He took one look at Adrien and knew instantly what he was. "You are one of the other experiments. You are one of the American series," he said.

Adrien nodded yes.

"Then you sense what I am thinking?" he thought to Adrien.

"Yes," Adrien thought back.

"So can I," I thought then to.

"You are hybrid as well?" he asked me.

"No I'm all human. I just had a sort of gift given to me by the aliens," I thought.

"What exactly are you? I haven't seen any records of your type In the information we have," Adrien asked him.

"I am amphibious prototype hybrid of the Russian government," he replied.

"So you're half human and half fish?" I asked.

"Something like that," he said.

"Ok man, like I said you're ok now so don't worry. Just get some rest and we'll try to take care of your burns for you," I told him.

Adrien asked to scan his memory and Alexey agreed. Adrien put his hand on his forehead and began to read his memories. "Wow I thought my existance before I was freed was bad. Yours was horrid. How did you cope with the mistreatment?" Adrien wondered.

"I did as I was instructed," Alexey replied.

Zack walked back in just then carrying a big bottle of cold water. "Thanks buddy. Meet Alexey. He's gonna be living with us now," I said.

Zack smiled shyly and waved to him.

"Hello," Alexey said in his thick accent.

"Where's he from, Derrik. He sounds funny?" Zack whispered to me.

"I am Russian, little one," Alexey replied. "Is he hybrid? That cannot be real," Alexey said making a little joke, pointing at Zack's big ole limp weenie.

"Nope he's just well endowed is all," I said patting Zack on his bare butt making him blush.

"Hey, squirt, if you want, you can go tell everyone else he's alive and who he is if. I know you're dying to," I told Zack.

He smiled and literally ran out of the room.

"How old are you Alexey?" I asked.

"I am what you would call 13 years old," he replied.

"You look so much younger, though," I stated pointing out he looked to be about 11. "Oh well, I guess it's cause you're a hybrid," I said. I couldn't help but keep looking at his crotch. He didn't have any pubes and he looked to have smaller equipment, you know like a 10 or 11 year-old's dick and balls. Anyway he looked to be circumcised already and basically yummy looking.

"Ok Alexey, why don't you turn over on your stomach so we can do something about that sunburn," Adrien suggested.

After taking care of the new kid's sunburn we allowed him to rest for a while in the clinic while Adrien and I were bombarded by questions from almost everyone out in the main hall. We went through explaining who and what he was from what he told us so far, but there were some details we needed to find out after he wakes up.

I was surprised to see AJ up and around and he actually looked better than he has in a while. I made a point to ask him how he was doing.

"Ok I guess. I feel like hell and I have a headache but I think I'm going to live," he said.

I was so happy to see him off the pills and in a much better mood than I had seen him in some time. As I looked around the place at all of the faces it was like something was out of place. I couldn't quite figure who it was, but some one was missing. It took me a few minutes but I did finally figure out who it was. Carry was no where in sight.

I asked the twins where she was and they didn't even know for sure.

"I dunno. I saw her a little while ago," Cole told me.

"Adrien any idea whats up?" I asked him about Carry.

"She is resting. The baby is taking a toll on her lately," he replied.

"Yeah, I guess that's probably so. Say, how long has she been knocked up now anyway?" I asked.

"Too long," he replied.

I started to laugh because I thought he had made a joke but he was serious so I stopped."What do you mean?" I asked.

"A normal human pregnancy term is 9 months, sometimes 8 or 10. She has been carrying Michael in her womb for far longer than that now. I can only guess that it is due to the hybridization. I am not sure at all how long the birth term is for alien species in me. For all I know, she may have to endure the pregnancy for much longer. I just don't know," he said with a sad look.

I could tell he felt bad for her being in such distress and pain from carrying his son inside of her. "Well, why don't you go and check on her for a while. I got some things to see to. I gotta help Donnie and the Amish boys build the animal barn we talked about. They want to be the ones to be in charge of taking care of the critters," I said.

"Ok. Sounds fair. I will see you later."Adrien said before going to his space.

Just as I was about to find Donnie and the other two boys, I was confronted by the twins standing side by side with a puppy-dog look on their faces. "Oh shit this has to be trouble. What do you li'l dudes want?" I asked them.

"We was wondering if we can have a turn in the hologram room." Cole said with a smile.

"Guys, I don't know if that thing will work on the two of you at the same time," I replied and their smile turned to frowns.

"Adrien will the ROOM work on two minds at once? Or is it strictly for one person at a time?" I thought to him.

"Good question. It hasn't been tested to work on two at one time. I guess this would be a good test for it. I will meet you and the brothers there after I check on Carry," he thought back. I waved the twins to follow me and the smiles quickly returned.

Minutes later Adrien arrived outside the ROOM and powered it up. "Now I must warn all of you this has never been tried yet so if anything happens I am shutting it off. If either of you begin to feel anything strange, speak up," Adrien warned them.

They stepped their cute little naked buns inside the ROOM. Adrien turned the machine on and we watched as the thing the boys wanted to experience came to be. They wanted to go to Disney Land, of all places. They looked amazed to see themselves fully clothed and in the middle of the Magic Kingdom. They were all smiles and giggles then.

"I guess it will work on two minds at once," I said watching.

"It would seem so but I am skeptical still. I believe it is working for them because they wanted the same experiences and they are so similar in their physiology," he replied.

"Derrik while we are here, I want to go over some things with you." Adrien began. "First I have come up with a plan to rescue some if not all of the surviving hybrids in Alaska. Second the space ship will be repaired soon. And last, but not least, I want you to make a promise to me," he said.

"Ok lets start from one," I said.

He told me of his plan for a small group of us to go to the base in Alaska and free the hybrids there and bring them home. Some were possibly sick or dying but he still wanted to try.

Second, the space ship was almost fixed and would be ready for flying again soon. The only catch was that he had to use parts from the weapons to repair the rest of the damage so now it's defenseless.

Third was most important. "Ok, now what did you want me to do for you?" I asked.

"I know you already have enough to deal with here, but I want you to make a promise to me," he said.

"Ok, sure, I guess, What?" I asked.

"If something happens to me I want you to help Carry raise Michael to be the best person he can be," he replied.

The statement caught me off guard. I wasn't sure of how to respond. I mean, without a doubt, I would help take care of him. It was just that he was confiding in me to raise HIS son. The question made me feel honored. "You know I will Adrien. I swear, if anything happens to you or Carry I will do my best to take care of him," I responded.

And. for the first time he stood up and, like a man, extended his hand to me and shook mine like a man. "Thank you. You don't know how much that means to me," he said.

Now that I saw a tear escaping the corner of his eye I pulled him into a hug.

After a few minutes, he grabbed a hand-held control device so he could monitor the ROOM and we left the twins to have their fun.

Donnie and the Amish boys were hard a to work feeding the animals we had collected so far. We were going to turn an old shack that was used to house landscaping equipment into a barn and stable for the animals. The pony we had found was now looking much better with its wounds healing and beginning to put on weight again. The three boys and I got to work on cleaning the building out and getting it ready by partitioning it off to make areas for individual animals. It was a sturdy building that we were pretty confident would stand up to the strong storms that occurred here during the summer months.

As we were working on the new barn, my mind couldn't stop thinking about what the world had become. Going from over 5 billion people to only around 50 thousand left, scattered in pockets here and there. I knew in my heart and from what Michael had told us that we would have a bright future, but only if we did the right things when chance presented itself to us.

We were contending with two separate alien species that wanted our world for their own reasons and in either case it meant the extermination of mankind. What is it about our world that makes it so desirable to other aliens to want to have?

The monstrous aliens wanted all life on earth for food and the other aliens wanted our world for themselves. Either way we had to fight back and overcome against both of them.

"Derrik? Yoohoo! Earth to Derrik! Did you hear me?" Donnie asked, snapping me back to reality.

"No. Sorry squirt, what did you say?" I asked.

"I said, do you think we'll find any more animals out there?" he asked.

"Well bud, I'm sure there's lots that the monsters haven't found yet. There has to be a whole lot in the oceans," I pointed out.

"Yeah, but we can't keep fish and stuff in our barn," he said with a goofy grin rolling his eyes.

"Yes, Donnie I'm sure we'll find more animals," I said bluntly. We went on working on the building to get it ready for more animals.

Over at the other colony everyone was getting along great, aside from the fact that Rebecca had to keep reminding every one to pick up after themselves constantly. Her younger siblings have come to our place at least every other day to visit and play with their friends here. Of course as soon as they show up the clothes fly off.

Alicia and Phil are getting along great and they are becoming closer than either of them thought they possibly could. Holding hands and the occasional kiss is the norm for the two of them now. Phil, on the other hand, enjoys the ocassional hand job or blow job from Alicia since she wasn't quite ready for sex yet from having baby Crystal recently. Rebecca, on the other hand, cried herself to sleep nearly every night from the depressing feelings of losing her parents and the rest of her family. She knew she had to be strong for her brother and sister and the others living with her now.

Still, her sense of self-esteem is in the toilet, so to speak. She has this huge responsibility on her shoulders and being a young adult and being forced into it all is straining her resolve to the core. Deep down inside she desperately wishes that she didn't have to be the one to deal with all these problems around her. But this is how life is for us now. She must carry on for the sake of her siblings and the others, if not to save her own sanity.

I sense that a tired and sore Alexey is awake some time later so I decided to knock off the work on the barn for the day and go see how he was doing.

I walked into the clinic to see him sitting up and smiling at me.

"Hello my new friend," he said in that Russian accent.

"Hi there. How ya feeling?" I asked.

"Better. I do need to rehydrate," he said.

"Well, I can get you a glass of water if you want," I suggested.

"No, no, my friend. You do not understand. I must submerge my body in water. If I do not, my skin and gills become dry and irritated," he told me.

"Oh, I see, now. Well, are you strong enough to get in the bathtub or would you rather go down to the beach?" I asked.

"Beach please," he said. I helped him to his feet. He took him a minute to gain his stability. I walked next to him as we were accompanied by a ever-increasing number of kids as we walked through the main building. By the time we reached the door leading out to the beach, the twins, Zack, Justin, Nathan, Donnie and Gaige were walking with us. They were all marveling at this new kid they just met.

They were all shocked to see his special features that the hybridization had given him. "Wow look at his fingers and toes," Cole pointed out the webbing on them.

"Yeah and look behind his ears guys. He's got gills like a fish so he can breath under water," I showed them. They were in awe of his special body additions.

"Can you talk to fish and stuff?" Gaige asked him.

"As matter of fact, yes," Alexey told them.

"Cool! Show us," they almost all said.

Alexey walked his nice naked ass into the water and dove in. He emerged a few minutes later a little ways from the beach out in the waves. "Wow! He held his breath for almost 5 minutes," Nathan said.

"No Nate, he wasn't holding his breathe. He can breath the water like a fish," I said. Just as I finished saying that, a small pod of dolphins began to jump out of the water between Alexey and us. The little guys were thrilled and I was impressed.

"Can we go out and play with them?" Gaige begged.

"I don't know buddy. Let's see what Alexey says."

"Alexey is it safer for the little ones to be in the water now?" I thought to him.

He never answered but hitched a ride on the dorsal fin of a dolphin and had it bring him to shore. He stood in the knee-deep waves and smiled. "Absolutely! These are friends," he said as the dolphins were splashing all around him and making their clicking sounds.

That was all the boys needed and they ran full force out to the water and jumped in. "Can I ride one of them please? Please?" Gaige begged.

"I will ask," Alexey said, before sticking his head under water to converse with the animals. "They say yes but only for a short ride," Alexey replied after taking his head back out of the water.

Gaige cautiously walked over to him and the dolphin and gently climbed onto the back of one. "Hold on tight to the fin."Alexey told him. Gaige grabbed hold of the dorsal fin and off the dolphin went taking him for a gentle ride, occasionally shooting a spout of water into the air from it's blowhole splashing him. The little guy was beside himself with giggles as he was having the thrill of his life.

The other boys all boarded dolphins as they rode around in the small lagoon we used to swim in.

Alexey swam with them as they were were having fun. "Join us, my friend," he called to me. I said what the hell and jumped in and swam with them. No sense in me missing out on fun for once. We had a total blast out there with those animals as Alexey and the dolphins put on a playful show for us as they jumped and splashed out of the water into the air. All too soon, the fun was over and the dolphins needed to go catch themselves some food.

The boys and I bid them all goodbyes and rubbed and petted them all over as they began to swim away from us.

Justin walked over and smiled at Alexey and asked, "What else can you do?" in a hopeful tome.

"Oh, nope. That's it for today, guys. Let the poor guy rest. Maybe he can call them back to have fun with us some other time," I told Justin, putting a spoil on the fun for today.

I told the others to all go take a shower to wash the salt water off and, as always, the twins go the idea to have a group shower. More like a group suck session if I knew those two.

They all ran off leaving Alexey and me on the beach. "So how about you? Do you need to wash the salt off?" I asked.

"Yes please. It dries skin out terribly," he said. I showed him to my bungalow and I allowed him to use my shower to wash off.

"Are you not joining me my friend?" he asked me from inside the shower. He didn't have to ask me twice to get in with him.

"So do you take showers with other guys often?" I asked.

"On submarine, always yes. Other prototype and I showered together always. It was necessary," he said. "So there was more than one of you?" I asked as I washed myself off.

"Yes two of us. He and I were made from same DNA strand," he said.

"Wait. Same DNA strand? Then wouldn't that mean he's like your twin or something?" I asked.

"Yes. Only difference between us was he had small fins and I did not. He had fins on arms and legs I have none," he said.

"Well, you do kinda have a little fin on your back like right in the middle," I said, touching it.

"Yes, so did he. Fins made him much faster than me in water," he said in that thick accent.

"Were you guys weapons or what? I mean, why did they make you?" I asked.

"We were amphibious soldier prototypes," he replied.

"So basically you've never known what life is like besides being a controlled test subject. Man, I hate how you hybrids are treated. What happened to your twin, by the way?" I asked.

"Destroyed when submarine was attacked," he replied with a hint of despair in his voice. He turned away from me slightly.

I put my hands on his shoulders and turned him toward me. I looked into those sad eyes and hugged him. "You loved him deeply, didn't you?" I asked in his ear.

"Da. da," he said in Russian before he began to cry. I just held him while he cried over his loss of a loved-one.

"It's ok to let it out. Everyone here has lost some one they love so everyone knows how you feel," I said to him.

"Net.(Russian for 'no') You cannot know how this feels. He and I were part of each other. I felt what he felt, he felt what I felt. We were perfect team," he said wiping his eyes.

"Well, I'm sure I don't know how it feels exactly, but trust me; I know how it feels to lose some one you love dearly. Let; s hurry up and get clean so you can go and meet the others. There are a bunch you haven't seen yet," I told him.

I couldn't help but admire his firm, toned little body. He stood a few inches shorter than me but looked great, regardless. His physique was obviously nice and he knew what I was looking at.

"You like my penis?" he asked after reading my thoughts.

"Umm, yeah actually," I said, a little red-faced.

"Is ok I don't mind." he said as he reached out to my delight and grabbed my swelling toy.

At first, I didn't know what to do, but I decided to use my big head for once instead of the one he had in his fingers. "As much as I would love do to that I'm not sure now is the right time. Let's just wash up and get out of here for now," I said. He didn't seem to be mad or anything but just agreed and let go of me and finished washing like what he just did was second nature to him.

In the work shop Adrien was hard at work monitoring the twins ROOM experience and working on plans to boost our level of security. "Hey whats going on?" I asked as I walked in with Alexey trailing me.

"Monitoring the boys in the room and making plans," he replied.

"Plans for what?" I asked.

"I want to steal a gun attack ship from the monsters," he replied.

I nearly choked when he said that. "What the hell for?" I asked with gawking eyes.

"Derrik, I truly don't know how long our shield will hide us from detection. I want us to have some kind of true security from the evil ones, both species of them," he said, referring to both kinds of aliens.

"What exactly did you have in mind?" I asked.

"Well I have been sifting through these files we 'borrowed' and I have discovered that this type of ship has a strong enough power generator to not just cloak us but to truly protect us with a force shield. It should repel any attempts to attack us. The real plus of it is the cloaking force shield will cover this island and the bigger one next to us with plenty of area around it." he said with a smile.

"Well that would be nice to not have to worry about being attacked any more. Ok what do we have to do?" I asked, now being in on his plan.

He brought up a hologram showing us what exactly he had in mind. "So we need to steal or catch another one of those hunter robots don't we?" I asked, listening to his idea.

He confirmed my question and so we made plans to catch one. The plan was to go to the mainland after the space ship was fixed and set up a type of lure to bring one or more of the robots in. once they were in range we would zap them with the glove of doom and bring them back here to be reprogrammed. He informed me that the ship was almost ready and we could carry out the plan soon, within a day or two.

As he was explaining I had a brain storm. "Hey Adrien why not steal 2 ships? I mean we need one for parts to make the shield, but why not steal another one to replace our beat up old ship? I mean it is on its last leg basically, isn't it?" I asked.

"True, that is true. See you do have good ideas once in a while," he said with a smirk.

So now that we had a plan of action all we needed to do was finish the ship.

A few days later we completed repairs on the ship enough to get it to do what we need this last time. It had no defenses now except for the cloaking shield. The engines hardly worked but they did just enough to get us there and back, no more super high speed flying any more.

Adrien, Josiah, and I got outfitted and ready to go. We decided to take Joey for his strength. We weren't sure what kind of things we would run into. Adrien had constructed a small device that emitted an electrical field that should draw in the hunter robots like bees to honey.

It took us a while to get there this time but we arrived at the coast of Florida and landed near the beach. Joe and I exited the ship with our mini cloakers on to set up the baiting device. Once it was on, the three of us set up in positions around it so that we could catch any robots that showed up.

Sure enough, within minutes we heard the low droned humming sound of one of the robots approaching. Adrien had the glove and was ready to zap it. It approached the device and began to slowly circle it. Before it could send out a signal telling what it found Adrien zapped it shutting it down, causing it to drop to the ground.

We ran over to it to make sure it was shut down. "It's de-activated, hurry let's get it in the ship and get out of here before more of them show up," Adrien said as he checked it.

Josiah used his super strength and picked the droid up and carried it into the ship. We secured it and then took off from the beach for home. We had turned the baiting device off before we left the beach but as we flew homeward we could see several hunter robots heading toward where we just were. "Looks like we got out of there just in time," I said watching the robots.

When we got home we rushed the robot to Adrien's work area before we could be hassled by ten million questions. We set it up and he got to work on it right away. Luckily it wasn't damaged by our abduction and he had little trouble reprogramming it. Once the new commands were loaded all it needed was a jump start, so to speak.

Adrien hooked it up to our main power supply and got it turned back on. He had it programmed to respond to his commands from the hologram system in his work shop.

It powered up and began to hover off the ground waiting to carry out its new mission. We opened the doors outside and let it out. Once outside Adrien hit a few buttons and the robot shot upward and accelerated as it got higher. When we lost sight of it we ran back inside to watch the hologram. It would show what the robot could see.

All to soon, we were entering the monsters, mother ship. "Ok, come on into the ROOM. I have set it up to show a 360 degree view of what the robot sees," Adrien said.

He and I walked in and, sure enough, it was like we were inside the monsters' ship. "Dam Casper, this is wild! It's like we're really there," I pointed out.

He shushed me as the robot went on carrying out it's mission. It first went to a main computer terminal of some kind and tapped into it.

"What are we doing?" I asked.

"Downloading data and uploading the commands to get the ships prepared," he said.

A few minutes later the robot left the terminal and went to some sort of transporter. In a flash the robot left the spot it was before and was now in the ship hanger. We looked around and the place was massive. It was larger than anything I had ever seen in my life. Larger by hundreds of times, if not thousands, than any sports arena in the world.

The robot began moving and found the two ships that had been prepared for it.

"Um, Adrien, won't the monsters be kinda suspicious of a robot taking two of their ships for no reason?" I inquired.

"Not really. I embedded a command that said the ships were needed to transport animals caught on the surface back to the ship for food," he replied.

"Oh, ok if you say so," I said shrugging my shoulders.

"If they didn't buy the story the ships wouldn't be there waiting for us," he said making his point.

The robot went into one of them and the other was set to follow the commands of the first ship. The door closed.

Once it was inside, the robot connected itself to the control panel of the ship. After that, the displays lit up and the ships were ready to go. "Ok cross your fingers, here we go," he said and me, being the smart ass I am, did just that; I crossed all of my fingers.

The ships lifted off and began toward a large opening door leading outside to space. One after the other they exited with no problem and as soon as we were out he cloaked them both and had them streak towards the surface.

As I watched what was going on around us it didn't look like the ships were coming here. "Wait! Where are you sending them?" I asked.

"Somewhere safe. I couldn't exactly just tell the ships to come here. That would give our position away to the monsters and they would know where we are," he explained.

"Oh, I get it now. Good thinking," I said patting his shoulder.

He had them land just outside of Miami and left them cloaked. "Ok they're waiting for us now. When we get there we must act fast to disable the locator beacons inside them. After we do that the monsters wont be able to track the ships anymore and they will be ours," Adrien said.

"Ok, but don't we kinda have a problem? Who are we taking to fly the other ship home?" I asked.

"Ian is the only other one that has the capability to pilot the ship we have back safely so he has to go," Adrien said. With that decided I went and fetched Ian from his new buddies, the twins, and got him dressed and ready to go. The three of us explained to everyone what was going on then departed to get our new prizes.

We landed near the two waiting alien ships and kept a sharp eye out for anything out of the ordinary. Adrien rushed into the first ship and showed me what to do to disable the tracking beacon in it while he went to the other ship to do the same.

"Ok Derrik, do it now," he thought to me, telling me to disable both beacons at the same time.

"Ok let's get out of here. They know where these ships were last so they will come looking for them when they realize both beacons aren't working," Adrien said.

He and I got in position to fly the monsters ships while Ian stayed in our old clunker ship and piloted it back home ahead of us. We stayed close to him because, aside from the cloaking shield, he was totally defenseless. It took some time to get home but we just barely made it before our old ship's engines gave out completely. The good thing was it was only about ten feet [3 m] off the ground when Ian was landing and they did decide to die out. The poor ship slammed to the ground with a loud thud and I'm sure it took Ian by surprise.

Adrien and I landed our ships close to Ian and ran to see if he was ok. We managed to get the door open and rushed in to get him. He had thrown to the floor of the ship and it looked like he was crying.

"You ok, bud?" I asked.

"I am not sure. My eyes are leaking and I have pain in my arm." he said.

"Ok, well your eyes leaking is fine. You're crying and that's supposed to happen when you feel pain. How bad are you hurt?" I asked.

"I have pain here but I will heal and survive," he said trying to shrug the pain off. "Ian I know you're new at this emotions stuff but it's ok to cry; we all do it. If you are hurt, let's go inside and take a look at it," I suggested.

The three of us left the broken ship and walked out to a waiting crowd wondering what happened. In the end, Ian's arm was just bruised and he was, overall, ok. Our poor original space ship has finally bit the dust and is, more or less, a junk pile now. It's all good though because it gave its final trip to secure us a new means of transportation.

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