Perverts 'R' Us

Them or Us

By Fintinman ( Sci-fi, mc, very little sex )

I'd like to tell you the story of Them or Us. It started about six years ago. I was a young boy of fifteen when they first came. The time, place, date, was Coral Canyon, Colorado, 12:00 p.m., August 28, 2007. It was a Friday and there had been bad storms for the last few days.

Then to top that off, I was told by mom that there was someone that I had to meet in the cave. I had gone down to look for whoever was there. I didn't see anyone at all for the first four levels. Then I got the shock of my life.

As I came around the corner into the lowest level, there in front of me was the biggest woman I have ever seen. She must have been a good nine feet tall with white everything. I mean everything was white, her hair, eyes, skin, even her robe. And the weird thing is, she didn't talk with her mouth.

I heard her say, "Greetings, Sire." Then she bowed down and I heard, "I have been sent to awaken you, for it is time for you to grow." I couldn't figure out what was going on. She reached out and touched my head and everything went black.

I woke up a few days later, not knowing what had happened to me. I thought that it must have been a dream because I awoke in my bed naked.

Then mom came into my room and said, "Time for you to wake up, Ralf."

I responded, "Mom, is everything okay?" She told me that everything was great.

I had grown up in a family that was of the Wiccan clan. Dad had been our family's head for the last twenty years or so and our family had been well liked by everyone for years.

My mother is a seer of the Wiccan clan. She and my aunt have had visions of invaders coming for many years, so when they did come, we were ready.

Dad was killed that first day. He was getting my ten-year-old brother Giorgio at a friend's house and they both died as the aliens started shelling Earth.

Now before I go on any further, let me tell you more about my family and myself. My name is Raphael Salar. Before this all started I was fifteen, 5'9" tall, 145 lbs, with light brown hair and a fair build for my size. But after I woke up I stood at 6'3", 190 lbs., with blonde hair and grayish blue eyes and a very muscular build.

My 33-year-old mother, Georgia, and my Aunt Bathe are identical twins. They are 5'5" tall, with red hair, green eyes, both 128 lbs, with 36C x 24 x 36 bodies They are so much alike that dad had said many times that he didn't know how he hadn't married the both of them. Bathe has always lived with us and she never married.

Next we come to my 12-year-old twin sisters, Cortinae and Cetonia. They look much like mom and Bathe did at that age. They are much smaller at 5'2", with only 32B x 22 x 33 bodies.

Then there is mom's cousin Shirley who also never married. At twenty-six she is 5'6", 135 lbs, with a 36D x 25 x 36 body. She has twin ten-year-old daughters, Brandy and Corrie who also live with us. They are cute for their age and are just starting to grow tits. They are 4'5" with 30A x 22 x 30 bodies, red hair and green eyes.

We all are of the clan, Thetas. Witches have been around for over a thousand years that I know of. But my paternal Grandmother Elisabeth had once told me that our lineage went far back beyond that time line.

We had been living in an old Victorian house on the butte, just overlooking Snake River. When the aliens came the sky turned dark and thunder sounded in the distance. Mom and Aunt Bathe told me to bring the girls to the cave, which my father had set up to be our new home when they came. Over the last year or so he had worked hard to finish it but it wasn't done yet. It would have to do.

I say cave because it is a natural bunker of sorts. It is really part of the Grand Canyon or if not, then it is close to it. The cave is under the house and has seven really large sections. The first is about 1000 square feet. Being the smallest it is our communications room. Then on the same level we come to the family room at just over 1500 square feet. A level down is the pool, which is no more than an underground stream that holds a 3000 square foot pond. It feeds a waterfall that cascades into the river in the valley below.

On the next level we have our living room and bedrooms. A level down from that we come to the storage rooms. There is a cold room or freezer at 10,000 square feet, and the stock room at 30,000 square feet which holds dad's inventions. Then another level down we come to the bottom one which is the live storage. It is where we keep our live animals and is just over 20,000 square feet. This room has a breezeway to the enclosed valley that is behind our home.

My dad Andrew Salar was thirty-five. He had been an inventor and a great one at that, and had sold his rights to the laser to the government a few years ago for two hundred and fifty million dollars. He then bought this land at mom's urging, and everything around it for about five miles. Dad then spent just about everything else he had to retro-fit this cave.

Mom had told dad all about the invaders coming. She told all of us that they would be too many to count, but with the right leader we would rule. Now that was the strangest thing that mom had said and it struck me the most.

She told us that the aliens were a meat-eating race. They only lived to fight and kill and then eat what they had killed. Now for a race of space-faring people they did some of the dumbest things I ever heard of. They stood 7 feet tall, about 500 lbs, with a greenish skin and orange hair. They could pass for us, that is if they weren't green with orange hair and two-inch fangs.

Have you ever seen a movie called "Underworld" where the vampire/ werewolf had long flags at the end of the movie? Well the aliens were a cross between that guy and the guy from "Blade", you know the one with the face that splits open in the middle, only with green skin.

They had bombed Earth city by city with a nerve agent that incapacitated everyone for miles around. Then they came and began to take everyone they could find. They were taking the people to their ships by the thousands, for what I didn't know but was to find out later. One thing that they didn't know was that the human race was of fighters who didn't give up without a good fight.

They had taken over the bigger cities from the West Coast as well as from some other continents. They had mostly cleaned out the larger cities and were working their way to the smaller towns. In the three months that they had been here, they had already taken or killed over forty million people. The governments of the world didn't stand a chance against so many aliens.

Mom pulled me aside that first day and told me that I was the new head of the family. I said, "Mom, what about dad?" Mom told me that my dad was dead.

I asked, "How do you know that?" She told me that she had felt him and my brother die. She was right; my dad had been killed by one of the bombs hitting his truck. That was what mom was told after they found his truck a few days later.

Now I'm not a dummy or anything like that, far from it really. Mom told me that I had to open my mind so that I could take over for dad. That was something I didn't think I knew how to do. Mom must have seen my plight and she told me not to worry about it. She and the other women would help me take care of that later. Well that night mom gave me a drink and told me to sip it. I did and man, that tasted like shit, but I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

As I said, these aliens were the dumbest bunch of things I ever saw. They came down to our cities with cargo carriers to fill their stores full of our people, their food.

Well I'm going to move on a bit ahead right now but I will come back to this later.

Now let's see. Earth people were being taken by the millions, and no one could do anything to stop the aliens. That is, not until after I had been awakened. You see that lady, Glacier, did some kind of stuff to my mind that made it open up to everything around me. I became able to see and hear things that I could not before. My mind was working overtime and everything I saw, heard, or read, I could remember. It was like I was aglow with power of some kind.

Here I go, getting ahead of myself again.

Well mom had the other women folk working around the cave for the next few days, doing all kinds of crazy things. Like for starters, mom had been feeding me this thick yellow stuff. It looked like a banana milk-shake, but damn it tasted like someone did something foul in a glass.

The first night after drinking that stuff, that's when the dreams started to show up. They were good dreams at first. I started to see the women of the family naked in my dreams and they were doing things to me as well as to each other.

Then after the first couple of days the women started to tease me even more. They started showing me parts of their bodies while I was awake and then a few days later, they started walking around without any clothes on at all. Mostly I was a walking, talking hard-on.

Now back then I had been home-schooled for most of my life. I thought I was your average teenager, but I now know I was not. I had a seven-inch dick when soft, and a good eleven inches when hard. What did I know? I started to dream about fucking all kinds of women, young and old. Well let's see.

Mom and the girls were teasing me constantly and by the second week in the cave, mom was giving me my dinner naked, while she would ride my dick asking me how I liked "my women". By the third week I was fucking all of them just about every minute of every day. And as the forth week started, something weird happened that changed our lives for good.

It was September 27, 2007 and the time was 2:00 a.m. I had been dreaming when there was a loud boom just south of town that woke us. Now town was fifteen miles away from us. In my dream I had been taking over these alien ships with my mind. I had dreamed that I had the helm frozen open in this first ship, which was a star cruiser, and had them crash into another bigger ship which they called a dreadnought. But in real life it actually happened.

The aliens had just lost eleven thousand troops and they couldn't figure it out how it happened. Now my mind seemed to only work after I fell asleep. That is when mom and the other women would tell me what I had to do. Over the next two months as the women slept with me, they were telling me to crash these alien ships into each other or into the ground.

I had blown up or crashed more than two hundred ships.

The cargo carriers that were still here were brought down slowly by me, and had their engines blown up. The aliens started to take out people who were trying to rescue the others. The fighting had gone on for days. Dad's laser had come into play, used on more than one of the Draconians as they tried to rush the Earth people who were using them. Like I said, the aliens were Dumb as they come.

We were talking at dinner one night about the ships crashing on Earth. I hadn't known that my mind had been doing all of this. I looked at mom like she was crazy when she told me that I had been doing all this stuff to the invaders.

Surprised I asked, "Mom, you really think I can do that?"

Mom smiled at me and said, "Yes you can, that and more, as well as anything else for that matter." She then asked me if I remembered Glacier. Mom told me that Glacier was of the Ben' a Shea. I'll get to them later too, so hang in there.

The next night after we had eaten, around 7:00 p.m. mom called me to her room. She told me to go look over dad's inventions and find something that would help to save the people of Earth. After about two hours I had found lots of boxes labeled Statist generator, Pulse disrupter, Gravity propulsion unit, Shield generator, Replicator, as well as some things I had never even heard of. There were boxes and boxes of that stuff down there.

I told mom what I had found and asked, "Why did dad have so much of this stuff?" Mom told me not to worry about it right then and to get some sleep. Around 6:00 a.m. the next morning mom woke me and told me that I needed to start working with my conscious mind. I looked at her like she was nuts.

She said, "Ralf, it has to be now, there is another invasion coming. There are going to be too many ships to do as you have in the past. These new aliens are not the Draconians but will be much nastier than them." She also told me that the new aliens had mental powers but not as strong as mine. I would need the practice and become stronger, fast.

Over the next three weeks I worked hard to strengthen my powers. Then the Reptilians came and they also were a meat-eating race. But they started in with the Draconians that were out in deep space. The Draconians that didn't leave when the Reptilians showed up had their hands full.

In the first few days out of the eighty Draconian ships left, nineteen fell to earth in flames. The Reptilians had sixty ships left and theirs were bigger and stronger than the Draconians. But as they continued to fight the night skies were alight with the weapon fire from both types of alien ships.

It looked like a lightning storm in space. Mom and the other women had gone into town a week before. They had gotten word to the government that we had weapons that could help to protect the Earth, and we needed help to set up a defense. Before long there were nineteen countries requesting help.

They were told to send representatives to our house for training with these weapons. The first two came to the old house on the top of the butte within six hours. I went up the back stairs of the house to answer the door.

There was a man who said he was from the Security Council and he was to take all the weapons into custody. I told him to leave my property.

The two guys with him said, "Mr. Salar, we received a request to come here and get some weapons."

Looking at agents Woffie and Comstock I said, "I am well aware of the request that my mother made for someone to come and get trained in these weapons. But I am not giving anything to aliens," pointing at Sandal. Both the guys looked at agent Sandal and then back at me.

Startled, Sandal said, "What are you talking about, Salar?" He then went on to say, "Come on guys, he's nuts. Let's just take these damn weapons." As he pushed past me I grabbed the little box off the belt of his pants. As it came off he changed into a lizard man. Both of the other guys pulled their guns and shot him.

After that was done and over they asked me how I knew the guy was not human.

I said, "Well the first thing I noticed was that his eyes were shaded as the two of you were not. Then I sensed that something wasn't right with him. He stood a little funny at times too. And then there was the mind reading thing that he was trying to do on me."

Both looked as if I was nuts, then asked, "Mind reading?"

I nodded yes and said, "Guys, there is something you need to know, so come on down stairs and we'll tell you all about it."

"So here we are," I said as we entered the lower rooms. Both of the two agents were awed at the sight of the lower levels.

They said, "How is this possible, there is no way that this place can be here. We have detailed files on the house and the valley below. When did this all happen?"

I said, "First off guys, this was the work of my father. Second, what I am going to tell you will in all likelihood make you think I'm nuts, but here goes."

I then laid out the plans of what I wanted to be done, as well as what mom and the other women had done to me and with me. After they were done listening they asked to see the weapons. I took them down to the store room and showed them how the things worked. I even showed them our own shield generator. They loved the phasers and disrupters.

They asked if they could call in some others to help. I told them no one else comes here without my clearance. Then I told them to have their agents come to the house upstairs so I could scan them. They called in some help.

About three hours later there were twenty-nine people as well as six more aliens. Comstock didn't even try to hide his new goal in life which was to kill all aliens. There were now seven dead aliens as the others tried to stop Comstock from shooting the men.

That's when I said, "They are not human." The other twenty-nine asked how I knew that.

Woffie just said, "He knows, take my word for it."

After taking the people down to the store room, I showed them how to use the weapons. Then I took them out to the valley floor to test the disrupters and phasers.

The next thing I knew there were fifty more people called in, and still there were five more aliens this time. The twenty-nine didn't even blink and shot the five aliens, beating Woffie and Comstock to their guns. Before long we had ninety-nine people at the house wanting to start a fight with the aliens.

I told General Livingston after he and his people showed up with the last of the helpers, "As of now I am the only one who can tell which ones are aliens." He asked me how this was possible. I said, "General, I have no idea how, I just know that I can." I told him about the shield generators and how they were to be used.

After that the next five days were a blur as the shields were set up around the Earth. And yet these aliens still sent wave after wave of invaders, trying to attack our home world. My dad's inventions worked great, and held off each attempt.

I was asked to come to Indian Springs to meet with the Under Secretary of the Security Council, the only government left. There I was asked to help build a ship that could fight these aliens. I told them that I had no experience with any of that, but I told the Under Secretary Mr. Bloom that my father had something that might be of some help.

At home that night after a long session with the women - yes sex - we all sat naked around the family room talking about how we should work this all out. I was told by my mother that as the head of the family, I was to tell them what I wanted done and it was then up to them to get it done.

Now I don't know about any of you out there but that's one hell of a responsibility for a fifteen-year-old boy. I went looking through dad's papers and found plans to convert space ships that could be made faster as well as stronger. It had all been worked out.

The next day at a meeting with everyone involved, I asked if anyone had any ideas to force these aliens off of our world and out of our space, and to take the fight to them.

Bathe was the first to come up with something. She told us that it looked to her like the first aliens were intent on looking for food. It was their only mission in life, no matter what the cost to their own race.

I stood and said, "Bathe, I think you have hit on something." We all talked long into the night, then around three a.m. we all went to bed for the night.

Over the next few weeks the leaders and I worked out a plan to refit the Draconian ships that were left on the planet with my dad's weapons and force field generators. It took us a few tries to get them working, but we were able to get three ships up and running well.

"We now have a space fleet," I said out loud. But to myself I thought, "Only three ships against hundreds, will we be able to win?" I needn't have worried.

The two alien races didn't have any kind of force fields. Their weapons were some kind of X-ray cannons which took a very long time to work. It was something like taking a magnifying glass to paper, but the sun wasn't shining enough.

Our first ship we renamed the PROTECTOR, our second was renamed VENGEANCE, and our third we renamed DAMOCLES. As we entered space on a test flight, Operations Control sounded off that the Reptilians were firing their cannons at us.

Oops, there I go again, getting ahead of myself.

After we tested our new refitted ships General Livingston as well as Mr. Bloom asked me to lead the attack against the aliens.

I said, "No way, look I'm only fifteen. What in the hell do I know about fighting aliens?"

Mr. Bloom replied, "Son, without the help of you and your family, we wouldn't even be here now." He continued, "The Defense Council and I have talked this over for many days if not weeks. We feel that with you leading our new fleet, we will win the day."

I told them that I'd have to think it over for a day or two. They told me to do as I thought right. And they also told me that I'd have the final say, one way or the other. Well needless to say I talked this all over with mom and the others and they were all for me leading the attack against the aliens.

The next week I had briefing after briefing with the people who were going to man the ships. Mom was also in on these meetings and gave some good advice, as well as her predictions.

We were to take off at zero eight thirty. Vengeance was to lead the attack under my command, followed by Damocles, then Protector. We attacked in a wedge pattern. As we entered space the reptilians opened fire with their X-ray cannons.

Fire Control called out, "Sir, they are firing their weapons at us."

I asked, "What are our shields reading, Lieutenant?"

"The reading is down four percent, sir."

I said, "Open fire on their capital ship with our phaser only."

"Aye sir," was her reply. Oh, I didn't tell you the Vengeance had an all-girl crew did I? Lucky, aren't I?

Their ship just blew up. I then said, "Open fire on all ships, all guns, disrupters and phaser." All around us the alien ships blew up. The first ten ships were hit with our disrupters putting holes through them. The next six were hit with phaser fire and they blew up.

As we were turning to take another pass, a Reptilian star cruiser tried to ram the Protector. As it hit their shields, the alien ship blew up.

The forty-one ships the Draconians had under their command had started to run from the Reptilians. Upon seeing three of their own ships taking out the reptilian ships, they returned to join in the fight and began to fire on the Reptilians again. I received a request from the Reptilians for a cease fire and a withdrawal.

My reply to them was, "All guns, open fire when ready."

"Aye sir," was Fire Control's reply. Five seconds later there was a full barrage of fire from our ships into the last fifteen Reptilian ships. After that the remaining Reptilians that didn't run were all killed.

I then called, "All guns, target the Draconians."

I received a request to speak with the Draconian's leader before I could open fire on them. Now this is the first time I had ever seen one of the Draconians.

So I said, "Open a channel for me to the Draconian ship, please."

"Aye sir," was her reply. A few seconds later I saw on screen the ugliest thing looking somewhat like a Klingon, predator, and a saber-tooth tiger. Speaking really fast in some weird tongue (which turned out to be galactic standard) He said, "Bollworm sowka lepta, shemo theist batik sommew," at seeing my face.

He said something to someone off screen and then said something again which turned out to be Benddonies. It sounded a little better but I still was not able to understand him. "Jau, sd, n JA rem. Usw. Zp., Zc," he said again to someone and then he started to talk again.

"Please do not fire, we mean no harm, we surrender. Please don't kill us." He was finally speaking in a language I could understand.

I smiled at him and said, "We the people of Earth have come to take back our people that you have taken. We are not going to put up with a race of beings that feel it is their right to take members of our peaceful race for their own pleasure."

This Gerber mockingly said, "I am Buckleya, leader of the great Draconian fleet."

I replied, "You are the loser of your fleet. I am but one of many people of Earth. We stand together. United we will defeat you and all who come against us. You must surrender all your prisoners at once."

He said, "We have no prisoners."

I replied with anger, "You took our people, you will surrender them now or die."

He replied arrogantly, "We took only food to survive."

I got angrier and said, "Fire on that ass hole." As he went to say "No." Connie fired on him and his ship exploded.

Again there was another request to speak with me, this time from someone else. It looked like a troll with a great body. It turned out to be a captain.

"Please don't fire on us, we will do all we can to return your peoples."

My reply was, "You will return all our people or we will hunt down and destroy all of your race."

She turned and said something to someone and then asked, "Sir, may I send a recall to our other ships?" I told her they could, but if they attempted to attack us again all their people would be killed. I found out that this thing was a female of their race, and that she was a captain of the ship she was on.

I asked her, "Why did you take our people?"

She said, "Sir, we are a dying race. We are starving and we have no home world left due to this war. We have been fighting with these Reptilians and their masters for many millennia. We were once a proud race of farmers, poets, artists, et cetera. Before the great war we had a world that could support us."

"Then the Reptilians came to kill us and any others that tried to help. We had to take all of our ships and flee our world in search of a new home world to live in peace. But we have only found death wherever we go. I am sorry for what my race has done to yours, and would beg that you forgive us."

I could feel she was telling the truth. I said, "I am sorry for your people captain, but you cannot go world to world, killing the beings you find there." I then asked, "Captain, what is your name?"

She said, "Sir, my people call me Talcunt."

I said, "Talcunt, would you and your executive officer join my crew and me for dinner?"

"My honor sir," was her reply. I then told her to take a shuttle over around five. She didn't know of our time table, so I told her in galactic standard that we would eat at six bells. She told me that she and her executive officer would be there. I also asked her to bring over the ship's log.

Over the time that we waited for our guests to arrive I found out all I could about this race. This ship I was on had once been a freighter and had gone to many worlds. I found out that this race had once been part of another race called the Attouriens. They were at one time disliked by the Reptilians and their allies, but also feared by them.

The Attouriens were very advanced for a space-faring race and had enslaved the Draconians who had been farmers over ten thousand years ago. They had come to love and respect their masters. What I also read in the files was that during the time of the first Reptilian invasion an Attouriens settlement was killed by the Reptilians. This had started the war between the races.

It was time for me to go and shower and dress to meet our guests. Mom came to the bedroom and asked if she could talk with me while I got ready. I told her, anytime she wanted to. Mom asked if I'd sit down while she talked. I did as she asked.

Mom started with, "Baby, there's something you need to know before you meet these people."

I asked, "What do I need to know about these people?"

Mom said, "No, no not about them. About us, you mostly." Now mom had me confused. What could she what me to know about us, or me even? Mom was scared about something and didn't know how to tell me. I could feel her fear.

I asked her, "Mom, what is it?" taking her into my arms and kissing her neck. Mom wanted to kiss me back but I told her to tell me what was on her mind. Mom was relaxing as I worked down to her chest. She started to think of what to say and I was reading her mind before she could even say a word.

We were of the same race as the Attouriens. What mom wanted to tell me was that the Draconians would know who I was, as they came close enough to see me with their eyes and feel me with their emotions, instead of on a view screen.

I asked mom to explain what she was talking about. Then mom started to think of what she had been told by her great-grandmother, who also had been a great seeker of the clans. It turns out I am a direct descendant of King Tethus of Atlantis. He had been the true king of the Attouriens. Later, after the Reptilians and their allies had defeated the Attouriens on their home world, he had taken his people and fled to Earth.

"Now doesn't this beat all," I said to mom. "I'm a real live descendant of this king guy." I asked, "So mom, does that make me some kind of prince or something?"

Mom said, "No baby, that makes you king. You are King of the Attouriens and the Draconians as well as some other races." (I'll name them later as they come into this tale.)

Mom told me just to watch the Draconian captain's reaction on seeing me. "She will know who you are once she sees you." I looked at mom like she was crazy. She kissed me and said, "You'll see baby, you'll see." And damn if we didn't.

As our guests arrived, I was standing in the landing bay as their skip docked. I could feel them, they were very nervous at meeting me. Her Exec was worried that we were still going to kill and then eat them.

As they stepped off their skip, Talcunt fell to the ground crying. She was muttering, "Saha ka sacker ran," over and over. Her Exec did the same shortly after.

Then mom came over and whispered in my ear, "I told you, didn't I?"

I said, "Talcunt, please get off the ground and stand so I may talk to you face to face." She jumped up, begging me to forgive her. I smiled at her and said, "You are forgiven. Now we have much to talk about, come."

Over dinner we talked about the Reptilians and how they had followed the Draconians from world to world. She told me, or us, that her people had been running from them for eons. Now as I said before I am not the most intelligent person, but I had to ask.

"Talcunt, why have your people been taking humans for food?"

She replied, "Sire, we have been looking for a world where we could start to grow our own food. But every world we would stop at, the Reptilians would show up not long after. We were so rushed by them that we were barely able to take a small amount to hold us until we could find another world. As I have said Sire, we are farmers at most but over the eons we have had to take whatever little we can to survive."

I asked again with a little anger this time, "How long have your people been cannibals?" Talcunt didn't know the word.

Mom as always the diplomat asked, "Son, may I speak with Talcunt for a bit?" I left the room to take a piss. After I was gone mom spoke with the Draconians. She found out that they have always been meat eaters much like us but have only been eating humans for a short time.

Talcunt told her that just over a hundred years ago they had come across a small group of Reptilians on a small world on the other side of this galaxy. The Reptilians had killed many of the race there and after killing the Reptilians their group were so hungry that they started to eat the dead and that's when they started.

As I came back into the room Talcunt said, "Sire, we have all the information about our flight from the Reptilians' overlords, of how we have survived over the years. All is within our log."

I said, "That's good Talcunt, please give your log to Shirley," pointing to my cousin. About thirty minutes later I got a call from Shirley, asking us to meet her in the conference room with everyone else.

"We have a problem," Shirley said as she came though the door. Then she said, "Ralf, we are going to be in some deep shit real soon." I asked her to please explain what she was going on about. She told us that the Reptilians were only the first wave of this invasion. She went on to say that there were even bigger bad guys coming and we needed to be ready for them real soon.

"There are bigger bad guys that are going to come after us for what we did to these Reptilians," she said.

Before Shirley could say anything else Talcunt asked, "The Valine and the Kashi?" Shirley nodded yes as a reply.

I asked, "Who the hell are they?"

Talcunt said, "They are the Reptilians' overlords, Sire. They are the ones that took over the Attourien home world four millennia ago. They have the powers of the gods such as you, Sire."

I said, "That's just fucking great, now we have to fight with a bunch of psychics."

Mom said, "No we don't, you do." I looked at her like she was crazy. She said, "Ralf, you are the rightful heir to the throne, you and you alone must take these parasites out."

I asked, "And how am I to do that, huh mom, how?"

Mom smiled at me and said, "With this," pointing her finger at my head. I looked dumb for a minute.

Then I smiled and said, "That could work. Dad had something called a wave amplifier in his stuff. Let's get home and see if it works." We returned to our home in the cave and I went to work finding the box with the amplifier in it.

Over the next week I worked until I had a headache every day. I had worked about nine hours a day to get it tuned to my brain waves. Then it was just a matter of waiting for the bad guys to show up. The Draconians had returned with our people and were letting them go.

I was asked to speak with Mr. Bloom, so he would know what to tell the people of Earth. I did as I was asked. I told Mr. Bloom that we were due to be invaded by yet another race, much nastier than the last two. I also told him that the Draconians were now our allies. He asked me how and why I would do that.

I said, "George, we are at war with races that want nothing but to eat us. These people have been farmers and have tried to run from these aliens, just like we are going to have to do if we don't find a way to defeat them."

He asked, "Any chance that we can do that?" His face showed his worry.

I smiled at him and said, "Mr. Bloom, we are going to kick ass, but we will need all the help we can get." He told me that anything I needed and he could give, he would. I told everyone there at the meeting that we would have to refit the ships the Draconians have and make them like our other ships.

I then said, "And we don't have a lot of time to do it, so man power will be most helpful."

Mr. Bloom picked up his phone and said, "Send in my aide please."

General Livingston asked f there was anything that he could do. I told him, "We will be working closely with the Draconians and they are going to be our new army. But they need to be fed, housed, and trained by our special forces."

I told him, "We have replicators that will be very helpful with feeding them, but I only have six. So perhaps you and your crew could take one and reverse design it, because I don't know how it works."

We found that Dad had put the designs for them in one of the boxes and we were able to build fifty of them overnight. They were installed within the week. The Draconians asked if they could work with us. I told them yes, and that it would be for their food supply for the people still on their ships.

After the replicators were all hooked up to their power supply and ready, they programmed in something that looked like cream chipped beef, with green bananas as a side dish. They called it Buccal. As it turned out, it was indeed cream chipped beef with green bananas. This I was told was the basic diet of the Draconians.

Well after we had everything set up with the replicators Talcunt wanted to know if she could bring her crews down to Earth for a short shore leave. I asked her how many of her people were left living. She told me that there were about one million two hundred thousand left still alive, mostly women and children. I then asked how many males were left and was told about four hundred thousand.

I then called Mr. Bloom and asked if they could set aside a large plot of land in the desert for the Draconians, far away from any human population. They would be content with any sort of land at all as they had ways of getting it to rain, and extracting water from deep underground that were beyond our capabilities. I was told that it would be set up within the next day or two.

Well let's see. Talcunt was now the Siroka, the supreme commander of the Draconians. As such, she started asking for things like farm tools and seeds to plant. They were given all they asked for, and they turned their desert town into a tropical oasis. It took them just under a month to turn Gybed Nevada, once a desert called White Sands, into a lush land covered with new green plants.

It was a miracle in itself. Once the government had seen what these people could do, they offered them the Salt Flats in Utah, another of earth's deserts. They took it happily. Now we had our new friends to help with the new invasion that was coming.

We started to work on the Draconians' worn out ships. The first ships to land were their star class destroyers. They were a little over two hundred and sixty five meters long by eighty meters wide. Each had an X-ray cannon in front as well as a sonic pulse drive. These were their fastest ships and they could travel at half the speed of light.

I can tell you now that was slow, compared to my dad's new FT-L drive. It could drive their ships at fifteen times the speed of light or faster. After the retro-fit we had ships that we could go into battle with that were something else. We gave all the ships front and rear disrupters, each with a ten gig pulse. Bad news for the bad guys that got in the way of one of them.

We gave them shield generators for a force field that could take a thirty gig blast at point blank range without doing damage to the ship. The ships were given four phaser banks on each side. That could give a five gig blast, continually. We even got one of dad's metal storm cannons mounted in the bow of each ship. Now that little beauty could fire a million rounds a minute with a replicator to rearm it.

For the power banks, we ran shield generators for each part of the weapons system and two generators for life support. We had the replicators building parts faster then we could put them together.

It took us five days to refit the star class destroyers and we renamed them "dark stars," such as the dark star, Valka, or the death star, Manchus. The six "dark stars" we now had would be our first line of defense. Now you can say that these ships were bitches in heat, they were real ship killers. With a two thousand man crew, they were hot-ass ships.

Then we brought down their dreadnought. This ship was six hundred and ninety three meters long by one hundred and twenty meters wide. This ship had ten sonic pulse drive engines, fourteen X-ray cannons and a splinter bow. (For those who don't know what that is, it's a bow that was on the Nautilus. You know, the one with captain Nemo, from twenty thousand leagues under the sea.)

It was so mean looking that anyone could tell, if this thing was going to ram you, you were dead. We gave this ship four disrupters on the front and back, with ten phaser banks on each side. Two pulsar cannons, one on each end. It now had fifteen shield generators for weapons and six for life support. This thing could take anything we threw at it.

It now had fifteen Ft-L engines. It had a top speed of seventeen times the speed of light. There was a new name for it as well, we called it "Nautilus". This bear could be a mean mother if it ever came to bear on you. Once that ship was back in service, we brought down their five carriers. Now here is where they had a good idea.

Each ship had two hundred support craft which looked like B1 stealth bombers. (You know, the flying wing.) I was requested by Talcunt to do everything we could for these crafts. They were their fleet's only support. Now these little ships were sixty feet long by twenty wide, with a X-ray cannon and a poor type of a weapon that no one from Earth knew what it did. Talcunt said it was a self-destruct device that the pilot could ram then blow up both ships.

"Well that is the end of that thing," I told my people. "Ditch it and make the craft as safe as possible for the pilots." Captain Alvine, an Earth Force flight designer, asked if he could work on this ship's design a little. I told him it was all his. He came back two days later with some big changes in the ship's weapons and shields. I approved all the changes and he was going to start work on them as soon as the parts were ready.

I asked, "General Livingston, do you have any rail guns that we could have?" He told me they had thousands of them. Each craft got four on each wing, with a replicator for the raw pellets. Each craft got a phaser on the tail and two disrupters facing front, and each craft now had shields that could take a ten gig hit without damage.

The twin engines were now four FT-L, and something new was added thanks to Captain Alvine, a hyper drive that he had come up with. It looked like the ship would just disappear, then it would show up elsewhere, ready to fire all weapons. Top speed was twenty-seven times the speed of light.

We renamed them "Stingers." Six months had gone by and the Reptilians or their masters hadn't showed up yet. Mom was telling me that they would be here soon. We were as ready as we could be, I guess.

We had sixty-nine defender class ships, over four thousand assault "Stinger" class fighter craft, ten support ships (the Reptilians' old cargo ships) with a reserve stock of five hundred fighters each, and an infantry of sixty thousand Draconians ready to fight for their lives as well as ours. God forgive me, if we weren't ready.

The time was 5:10 a.m., the date was November 7, 2009. I was awakened by the alarms going off all over the place. I called the bridge and asked, "What's going on, Charline?" That was the O.O.D.'s name. Charline Depute was a Lieutenant with Earth Force Command, formerly of the Algerian Navy. She told me that her long range sensors were registering a large fleet of ships coming our way.

I asked, "How many? She told me, "Shit sir, too many to count."

I told her I'd be there as soon as I was dressed. I also told her to sound General Quarters, no drill. That is also something we had done, got our crews down to three minutes readiness.

By the time I was on the bridge there was a Melee of activity going on. Our crews were ready and on station, already doing the charting to intercept the in-coming fleet.

I called, "All Ships."

I got a reply of, "Armed and ready, Sir."

I called out, "Ship's helm, take us to Vector 66353 by 419683 at quarter speed. We don't want them to know what we got until they are right on us."

We had planned out that we would send in ten of our fleet at first, letting them think we didn't have a chance to survive against them. Protector, Vengeance, Tempest, were the lead ships. Then Damocles, Chinchona, Billings, Slayer, Stalker, was the next line. Then Nautilus with her five hundred stingers, and then came the Carrier, Freedom, with three full carrier flight crews of 1500 stinger ships. We kept the rest back as our reserve in case they took us out.

There was a bright light. It looked like the sun had gone nova or something close to it, and then the world looked like everyone was going in slow motion.

Then we were right in front of the biggest fleet I have ever seen or heard of. There were over two thousand ships. The Reptilians were in the lead, followed by two the biggest ships I could imagine. They were as big as the moon, if not bigger.

I called out, "Fire at will!" Man it was like shooting ducks in a shooting gallery.

Our first pass was right though the middle of them. We had taken out over sixty of the lead ships, and on our return pass we took out another twenty-nine. The Nautilus had engaged one of their command ships. It was a Kashi ship. They were the overlords of the Valine as well as the Reptilians.

They were physic in some way. I felt them, as we turned for our third pass at them. There was a probe that felt like someone had a hot iron, poking me in my head. I pushed it back at them and then nothing. I ordered all ships to fire on their big moon base (a death star from Star Wars) they had.

The Kashi were a spider-like being. They didn't have the mental power to take me out but they gave me one hell of a headache. Then flight control told me that they were trying to pull back and regroup.

I called out orders. "Do not let them retreat. They are going to try another attack. If we don't stop them now, we never will." All of our other ships joined in the fight by dropping out of warp into the heart of them. They opened with a full barrage of fire with all weapons.

They had lost over half their fleet to us, and we just kept coming. The fight went on for seven hours or more, and we were winning. We did lose two stinger class ships to their attempt at ramming one of our dark star destroyers. The stingers were moving in to open fire on a Valine frigate, when they were hit by the hull of another Valine ship.

They tried so hard to escape from us but we chased them well past Pluto. (Did you know that there are two other planets out there too, that is if you didn't know that already?)

Well as we were closing on their remaining capital ship, we received a request to talk. I said, "Open a channel, please." There on the screen was this spider looking mother that must have been about ten feet tall.

It started to talk to us by saying, "Surrender to us now or you all will die."

I laughed and said, "No captain, you will surrender to us. I will not be accepting any other reply from you."

It said, "You have not the power to give the Kashi an ultimatum like that."

I said, "I am King of the Attourien Empire, and have the power to destroy all your species and any others that think my empire will stand for some lower class beings trying to take over my people."

I could see that I had surprised it, at hearing that the Attourien Empire had survived. And it said as much.

It said, "You lie, there is no Attourien Empire. We Kashi have destroyed them many millennia ago."

I said, "Oh is that so. Then how do you explain that your meager little fleet only took out two small fighters? And yet your fleet has lost over half of its own. Can you tell me? What do you think will happen, if I do not stop my scout fleet from shooting you all down?"

It said, "You don't have any other ships, human. This fleet of yours are nothing but Draconian ships. They are all there is."

"Oh really, do you think I would come after a force that is at least eight of your ships to one of mine, if I didn't have more ships coming in from deep space? If you would like to come to Earth in say three weeks, I think that is your flight time to Earth, I'll be glad to introduce you to our regular fleet. It is such a much larger fleet. It should be here in this system in about twenty-three hours and I could easily hold you off until they arrive."

I could feel his uncertainty at my words. I said, "Bloc' ac you are to shut down all weapons and surrender, or face total destruction." I then gave it a choice to choose by saying, you have one hour."

Bloc' ac said angrily, "How dare you to pretend that you have such a fleet."

I said, "Bloc' ac, I pretend nothing. If you wish to wait, then that will be fine with us. You have our time table. Feel free to guess wrong, and know that you have given your people a death sentence." I could now feel his fear that I wasn't bluffing.

Then as I waited for him to make his next move our Communications officer said, "Sir, we have an incoming message from one of our fleets."

I said, "Open a channel please."

Then someone said, "Sire, I Dinkas of Chengdu will be arriving within a few hours."

I asked, "Dinkas, for what purposes do you come to this section of space?"

The voice said, "Sire, we come to render aid to your majesty as our sovereign, as do the ben' ay' Shea, and the Toukley. Our fleets will be there shortly. Please hang on if you can, Sire. We only wish to aid you with your plight."

I said to the ship calling in, without closing our open channel to the Kashi, "Please tell your captains that it seems these Kashi dogs think I'm a fraud. I have already taken out half of their merger little fleet with just our scout ships. Would you please hold your ships to the outer realm of our space, until we have their decision?"

There was a rush by the Kashi commander and the Valine ships to surrender after that. I said, "So, I think you believe me now, don't you?" Bloc' ac did indeed believe that his ships were going to have to do battle with at least four fleets.

But if he only knew, the ship that had called in had only been my sisters' out on the fringe of space in their new ships that they had been testing. They had heard that the Kashi had attacked and they worked up this ploy hopefully to scare the Kashi off.

The Kashi didn't like the thought of surrender. But they didn't like the thought of being totally wiped out either. I had a communication sent to Talcunt, to send her people in and take over their ships and take care the prisoners. Shortly after that there was a reply from her asking what they were to do with our prisoners. I told her that we would work that out later and that she was to put them into the holds of the ships until I made my decision, one way or another.

Now the Valine was a lizard type being, they didn't breathe the same kind of air we did. So they were all put into their own holds for safe keeping. Talcunt told me that there would be many more ships coming to us shortly. I asked her what she meant. She told me that since the Kashi and the Valine had surrendered that all their lesser world holdings would be surrendering also.

I had Talcunt take the Kashi to a very high gravity planet where they would find it hard for them to move around. They would then be given food and supplies and be stripped of their space ships. They would have to learn to survive from there on their own. They didn't like it much, but too bad for them.

There were nine hundred thousand of them at last count. Each was fitted with a monitor so we could know what they were up to, and then they were sent to the planet's surface. We would check on them from time to time, just to make sure they didn't get into any more trouble.

The Valine wanted to just go back to their own world. I gave them the choice of returning to their world and having their ships taken from them, and not being able to build any other ships for five hundred years. That was their life span times three, as they live for over one hundred and fifty years.

Or they could also be set on a world like the Kashi, where they would have nothing but their own minds to learn from. They chose to return to their home world and be stripped of space flight for five hundred years. Icsh' a, took care of them for us. Oh, Icsh' a, was Talcunt's Executive Officer. He was now captaining his own ship, The Tempest, which was a frigate.

He had shown good sense and judgment, to think before acting. He was a truly good person. He had a wife and four sons and all were now part of his crew. He was enjoying the promotion he had earned. He was then to go on patrol around that sector of space.

The Kashi had brought all their ships, so with all their fighting people somewhere else they didn't have anything to say about it when the remainder of the Kashi worlds was told that the Attourien Empire had retaken their world. They were now members of my Empire and would be treated as such.

It had been a few months since the attack of the Kashi, when there was an alert from the sensor bank telling of incoming ships. I was informed that there was a small fleet of twenty ships coming in just over four hours. I asked who they were. The Communications control told me that they didn't know, and that they hadn't replied to hails. I ordered ready a small detail of ships to meet them at Ort cloud, our outer asteroid belt.

The Protector, the Nautilus, and the Chien were there within twenty minutes. As the small fleet came within range they were stopped by the Protector, and asked where they were going.

The ship returned our hail and told us that they were of the Ben' ay, Shea. I didn't know that there were any Ben' ay Shea left, but that too would be a big surprise.

The Ben' ay, Shea were a regal people and everyone wore white. They looked much like us but lived in a much higher gravity, and were much stronger, faster and also had a keener sense of their surroundings. They came aboard the Vengeance to meet with me and my family. We were asked by Mr. Bloom to return to Earth before the meeting, so that they too could get to meet with these aliens.

It turned out that Earth's governments had come to accept that they were to be part of the Attourien Empire. They would be known as the Terrain Defense Force and would be responsible for the safety of Earth. There would be only one government from now on.

It would be under the United Nations peace keeping force. They would make sure that no law was broken and that everyone would be a member of the defense force.

I had sent a shuttle to pick up the Security Council members so they too could be in on the meeting of the new allies. The world had changed for the better I hoped, but we shall see.

There's no telling what the future holds. The meetings had gone well with the members of the Ben' ay, Shea, and they had given me a really large plaque. They told me that King Thetas of the Attourien people had left it with them four millennia ago, in trust for his heir. I asked the ambassador how he knew of my ascendance to the throne.

He said, "We received a communication that the King of the Attouriens was at war with the Kashi." Puzzled, I asked again and was told that someone had heard the call from one of their ships that they were coming to aid the king of the Attouriens.

I smiled to myself about that one, but didn't say anything about my sisters. I thanked them and offered them food and drink and a place to rest. I told them that they would be able to rest, I would see them later and that I would host a meal for them later in the day. After all it was nine o'clock in the morning.

I took the plaque to my room and studied it for a few minutes. It was not like anything I had ever seen before. The thing was about five feet tall by three feet wide. The shield was yellow with a black upside down V on it. Below that was a W that had writing on it too. Then there were crossed swords at each point, with a black line going from one to another all the way around the shield. Right in the middle of it was an armored head, also with words I couldn't read.

Mom came in and looked at the shield and said, "That is the language of the old ones." I asked if she knew how to read it.

Mom said, "I will try, but Grandma Elisabeth can read it better than me."

We had a nice dinner that night with the Ben' ay, Shea and they told me that they were guardians of the throne. They have lived a peaceful life for over ten thousand years. Their mental powers were very strong and they had a good sense of humor.

I asked them if they could read the words on the plaque. They said they could, and would teach me their language and help me in anyway they could. We all went to bed that night with a sense of peace in our minds, something that had not been going on in almost a year. I slept great that night, and so did everyone else.

We showered and dressed and I gave orders to start the day. Then I met with Bunya, the leader of the Ben' ay, Shea. We worked for hours, with them teaching me how to say their words. I learned them very well too. I found out that night that the shield was an oath of office in a sense.

It read, "I, high lord of all under me, shall protect. To all that beguile me, I shall smite. To all that aid me, I shall aid." Then it hit me, there was a cross that ran in threes. All the words that the shield held were a three-sided code that only the true king could figure out. It was easy after that. The shield was to represent three things, Mercy, Strength, and Knowledge. That is something in itself, I thought.

The Attourien home world was long gone, thanks to the Kashi. So I now chose to make Earth my home world. It would become the center of the new Empire. I talked with the Ben' ay, Shea and told them that the Empire would be known from this day forth as the Terrain Alliance. And they told me that it would be so known.

We settled down after that to a peaceful life with the other races as they came to Earth with congratulations and their planets' oath of aid. We had gotten to know many different races, thirty-three so far, mostly all peaceful now that the Kashi and the Valine had been dealt with. The Reptilians that had survived were able to send word to Earth through our patrol ship in that sector, asking for help.

Their planet had been attacked by a race called the Wolfish. They were a primitive race in some ways; they looked like vampires with a really white skin and red eyes, and with two front fangs. They have had space travel for thousands of years but had been keeping quiet so the Kashi or the Valine didn't mess with them.

They had a planet ten light years from Luxor, the Reptilians' home world. Now Luxor is fifteen light years from Century Prime, which is four light years from Earth.

Icsh' a said that the Reptilians didn't have the power to defend themselves anymore and that the Wolfish were taking advantage of that fact. I asked if he needed help to deal with the Wolfish. From what he could tell me the Wolfish were taking their women and children. I asked if he wanted me to send more ships to help.

He wouldn't ask for help at first, but after telling him I thought that he was in over was head he told me that he didn't think he could take back the Reptilians without some help. I asked him how many ships he wanted me to send. He told me that the Wolfish had fourteen very large ships and they had taken over fifty thousand of the Reptilian women and children and they had killed over ten thousand men in doing so.

I asked what they would do with them now that they had them. Icsh' a, told me that they would breed the women, and use the children as slaves.

Angrily I said, "Slaves? I'll be there with help within a day or two. Keep guard until we get there, and stay safe."

He replied, "Yes sire, thank you for your help in this."

I said, "Don't mention it friend, we'll be there soon."

I ordered a fleet of forty ships to get ready to go to Luxor and aid in the recovery of the Reptilians from Omuta, the home world of the Wolfish. The fleet set out to Luxor with enough ships to take the whole system if they wanted to. Their orders were to recover all Reptilians and return them to Luxor.

A few days later I received a call from Icsh' a, saying that they had the Reptilians and were returning to Luxor, but they had to lay waste to ten of the Wolfish fleet. I asked if anyone was hurt. He told me that the only casualties were the Wolfish. They had tried to fight my guys and they lost ten of their twenty-six ships before surrendering to us.

The Wolfish ambassador came to Earth, asking for trade with us. They said, "We have many things that your people can use, but we need people to mine our ores, as well as breed more slaves and care for our young." They said that since we took their slaves they didn't have the forces to do what had to been done. I told them that slavery was not to take place anywhere inside my domain, and if they tried it again they would become the slaves themselves.

They didn't like the thought of me lording over them. They were going to be trouble if we didn't deal with them soon. I told their ambassador that if they wanted their ore mined, then they should do it themselves.

He said, "Majesty, as much as it would fix the problem, we cannot do that."

So I asked, "And why is that, Lupin? Your people are fit, are they not?"

"Yes Sire, they are fit to do that kind of work. But to do it would belittle us, when there are so many other races that will do it for us."

I told Lupin that he and his people were to work their own mines, and any other task that they would have another race complete.

He got insulted and said, "You ask that we Wolfish of Omuta do slave labor. You are asking for a war," he threatened.

I said, "So be it, Lupin, if that is what you want then you shall have it. But know this, after we destroy your ships and take your planet, where will your surviving people go?"

He didn't say anything else, he turned and walked away. He left Earth and returned to his home world. We didn't hear from them for some time after that.

Over the following year there were some attacks of small ships, but no one knew who was doing the attacks. We sent a ship into that sector to patrol as an observer, but there wasn't any sign of any attacks while they were there.

Then in late December of 201l we heard from a freighter called the Coria from the planet Uruguay. They sent an alert that three small ships had been following them since they had entered that sector of space. They were in fear that they would be the next target of the raiders.

Captain Walker of our new frigate Carstairs heard of the raider ships and he asked what the ships looked like. A view was sent from Coria's data bank. Walker ran it against all known ships but he couldn't identify them. So now he knew what they looked like and that there was someone new to worry about. Captain Walker watched as they attacked the freighter. They had some kind of force field, for when Coria returned their fire it did nothing to them.

The Carstairs went to the aid of the Coria, but didn't get to her in time to stop the attack on her from starting. But they were able to stop them from taking her crew and stores. The Carstairs pursued the smaller ships to a planetoid called Vesture, one of the moons of Omuta, where the ships just disappeared from view and sensors. Walker called in telling that the ships had disappeared, and he didn't know where to.

I received a request from the Uruguay to aid with the recovery of their ship and its people. Walker tried to find any sign of the small ships but he had no luck at all. We talked about a way to find them. I called a meeting later in the day to deduce what had happened to these raiders. Mom told me that they were there and we just had to find them. I asked if anyone had some thoughts, some ideas about this predicament.

There were fourteen advisors trying to reach a decision about where the raiders had gone. Then Walker asked if he could try something with some of his stinger fighters. I told him to do what he had to do to find out where these ships had gone, and then we waited to see if anything came up. Walker sent four stingers around the asteroid belt, as a way to hide their presence.

It worked very well too. They had been there for seven hours when another ship called in that they were being followed by yet another three ships. After data had been sent to the Carstairs, Walker told the captain that they were on their way. As the Carstairs came into scanner range the small ships ran for their base again.

It was discovered that the small ships had opened a gate in the planetoid. One of our stingers was able to see the last ship disappear inside the gate as it closed. Ensign Beth Franks in her stinger from the frigate Carstairs called in with her findings.

Captain Walker then called Earth, asking for help with this mission. He had sent a data dump of information about this base. I reviewed it with our advisors as to how to handle them. We talked for better then five hours about how to take the base. It came down to just blowing it up, and we hoped that we could do it.

Word was sent to Walker that he would have a fleet at his side within a day. He was to wait for them if he could, but he was not to let the pirate ships get away. As Walker reviewed his orders about how to handle this threat he asked if anyone had any ideas to contribute.

Helmsman Gurge from the planet Cainito said, "Sir, why don't we just hit them with our pulsar cannons? Surely they couldn't withstand the fire from them for very long, sir."

"That's a thought," Walker said out loud. He then turned to the helmsman and said, "Con, bring us about."

As Walker stood on his bridge the unknown ships were inside their planetoid, waiting for these aliens to leave the area once again. They had moved into the sector of space just over a year ago and had met with their sister race the Wolfish. This race has been known as the Lupine. They were also a race that believed that they were better than any other race.

For millennia they had taken any slaves they wished and even the Kashi and the Valine didn't want a fight with them. They had shown that they didn't feel they had to respect any other races. To them the other races were just slaves to be used, and then when they were no longer useful as slaves they were killed to feed their other slaves.

The Lupine were a very technical race, they had made many advances over the years. But mostly they had worked off other races advancements. They had found that they could have slaves early on in their space travel and had taken to being the dominate race from there on out. They were immune to telepathy and never feared the Kashi. As the Kashi started the war with the Attourien, they were taking Attourien slaves as well as other races.

Over the years they dominated most other races. If they found a ship in space they would capture it and use their technology to fit it to their own ships. After the Kashi had lost their reign over this sector, there was little to stand against them.

We back on Earth had heard nothing of these Lupine. So when we received word from Captain Walker that these ships had force fields, we started to think that there was another race that was as strong as us. Here was something that we needed to worry about. Their ships were smaller then ours and they didn't have as big an arsenal as us. But they were able to move around without us finding their base, at first that is.

Captain Walker sent word that he needed help with these new aliens and that their ships were faster than ours. He told us that these ships were moving around without him finding any sign of them. I told him that I was sending a fleet of forty ships to aid him with the capture of these new invaders. He seemed relieved that he wouldn't have to deal with them alone.

That night Mom told me that there was something wrong. She couldn't tell me what it was though. I told Captain Wesleyans who captained the Carrier Freedom that I would be going with them. I was taking the Vengeance as well as the Damocles and the Tempest.

We set out at six bells. At warp eight, we would be there within ten hours. Along the flight we planned out how to capture these new aliens. Icsh' a, told us that they hadn't known of this race for a thousand years but that they had been a very peaceful one back then.

I said, "Well somehow they have gotten very loud lately, and we will have to shut them down."

Walker told us that he was sitting right in front of their base acting like he didn't know they were there. There had been a few probes sent out looking for any other ships that could be trouble. None were found at the time, but we were doing our best to get there quickly.

As we exited hyper-space we met up with Walker and Ambassador Lupin. Walker told us that they hadn't opened their gate yet. I told our ships to spread out like we had planned.

We opened fire on the planetoid with everything we had. They had the damn thing shielded pretty well and we barely shook their base, or so we thought. About thirty minutes after we started, the base opened their door and out came a small ship, asking to speak with whoever was in charge.

I received their shuttle on board the Vengeance. Their ambassador told me that we were trespassing on their space and we were to leave before they retaliated. I told them that they were the ones trespassing, and that they had to surrender.

The ambassador laughed at my demand and told me that their base could take uncounted attacks from us. They would open fire on us if we didn't retreat. I told him that we wouldn't do anything of a kind. He told me that he would give his commander my demands but he didn't think he would surrender.

As he was leaving my office Mom came in with Lupin the ambassador from Omuta. Now Lupin I could read, where Ambassador Draco I could not. But as Lupin passed Draco, his mind came to full awareness of who he was and what he was doing there. I had to stop Draco from leaving as my mind read how they had worked together to undermine my orders about slavery in my domain.

The Lupine race had known from the start that they were breaking my law. They had worked with the Wolfish to take slaves for the Wolfish mines as well as the Lupine's off-world ventures.

I sent orders for our ships to be at full alert, and that we had to deal with some traitors of the realm. I also sent word to the base on Vesture that if they did not surrender we would have to use a new missile that we had, but we didn't want to kill them if we didn't have to.

Major Alvine, who had recently been promoted, had built it as a last resort weapon. It was a hyper-space anti-matter missile with a five hundred gigaton blast. It was called the planet killer. I didn't like the thought of using it, but if I had to I would.

The Lupine wanted the ambassador back. I told them that they could join him if they didn't surrender. Then I got an idea of how to get inside their base to take it from within. I called Icsh' a, over to tell him of what I wanted done. Within twenty minutes he was ready to go.

I told the Lupine commander that they could have the two ambassadors back and that I was sending them over. They said that they didn't want the Wolfish ambassador, just their own.

I said, "You're getting the two of them, since you chose to take slaves in my domain. Therefore you and your people have broken my law and you shall all pay for your mistake."

Icsh' a, had placed eight hundred pounds of high explosives in the shuttle's hull with a remote detonator. That in itself would open their dock door for good. It would kill anyone that was within a thousand yards of the blast.

I called to our ships to retreat to three kilometers from the base after the shuttle was launched to the base. We waited until it was just inside the door way then blew it up. This shut down their shields as well as their life support. I then told the Lupine that I would send in the Draconians if they didn't surrender. Now they weren't in fear of any race as a whole, but as indefensible as they were now they could not stand against a Draconian strike force.

Needless to say they surrendered and were taken into custody as criminals. They were charged as such and sentenced to the mines of Omuta for five years. Anyone that would attempt to do the same would join their brethren. No one after that tried to interfere with the running of the Alliance for many years. Time passed very fast and before I knew it I was turning twenty-one.

On my birthday the Alliance gathered to celebrate my passing into manhood. It was well known that a man becomes a man at twenty-one years of age. Most the races had enjoyed many years a peace and prosperity during my early years and were happy to thank me for their growth over the years.

There must have been almost ten thousand people at the party. I was greeting people from sunup to sunset, and most of the night as well. And out of all of them the only ones that I didn't like were Ambassador Aperea, the new ambassador to the Lupine, and his aide, Emu.

From the time of the capture of the Lupine, they had succumbed to being a working class world. They no longer had a choice in their ways. Of all the people that were there at the party, he was the only one who pissed me off. There was just something about him that didn't feel right. Even mom and the others felt it, and told me that I should watch out for him.

I told mom that I would be watching him and his aide. Over the next few days there were many times that these two were close to me. I could feel them and the hairs on the back of my neck would stand up. It became a reflex to move away from them. Then as the people were leaving our home in the cave, there was a loud noise in one of the lower levels. We all went down to see what was going on. Glacier was holding the ambassador and his aide off the floor by their legs.

I heard from Glacier that they were trying to plant a bomb that would kill everyone. Aperea said he wouldn't take this kind of insult from a mere slave. He demanded that I have her killed, to keep the peace treaty with his people.

I said, "Well it's like this Mr. Ambassador, you see this so-called slave is the Guardian of the Throne and anything she tells me is fact. Now as to you and your aide Emu, you have been trying to find a way to do me in since you got here. You and your underlings have tried many times to undermine me and my people. It's time that I teach you and all those that think you can win against me and my people. So you and Emu are hereby sentenced to death by hanging."

Now this was a ploy to get them to give up the others that had been plotting to kill me and overthrow the Alliance.

Emu said loudly for everyone to hear, "You told me that they would never know that we did this."

I told our guard to take them away. Emu broke within five minutes of me walking into his cell. He told me that the Lupine and the Wolfish were fed up with being a working class world and wanted it to go back to the way it was before I came to power.

I told him if he gave us the other members that he would be set free, and given a place to live as well. He told me that they would kill him if he gave me their names.

I said, "Well let's see here. You are in my jail waiting to be put to death, a death that will be very painful at that, where the conspirators will be hung and put on display for everyone to see what will happen to anyone who may think of trying the same thing. Or you could give me the names of all the people that are involved in this plot and you go free. You will be given a place to live where you will die of old age."

Then he told me that he would give me the names of the people that he knew of, but also he told me that the list was very large.

I called for a recorder, someone who records what someone else says, and he gave the names of two hundred and sixty-five people from his home world as well as nine other planets.

After the lists were posted I sent for the Lupine's new Ambassador Cowplop. He came with a worried look at being sent for by the emperor. As he came before me he was given a copy of the names and told that they were to be taken into custody for trial. I also told him that treason was not to be tolerated in any way, shape or form. If they had any problems with my domain they had a right to voice it in more diplomatic forms.

He bowed down to the floor and said, "As you wish Sire, I will see to this at once." As he looked at the list he said, "Sire, these are mostly the lords of my world."

I said, "If there is a problem then I'll just send in my Dragoons (our new name for the Draconian militia) and take them that way, but my justice will be served. There is no one in my realm that is above the law. Even I myself have a Higher Force that I must answer to. Return when you have these criminals in custody or you will be added to this list for aiding them, unless you can show why you shouldn't be added."

He told me that he would do all he could to get these people into custody. He left without any other communication. I heard a few days later that he was killed by a small faction still in power there. I had also called for the Ambassadors of Omuta, Canine, Bendorf, Haldea, Luxor, Valine, Faukindorf, and Chlamydia. They were told the same as Lupine's ambassador. And of the nine only four came with a request for help in taking these criminals. The rest didn't even try.

I issued warrants for those on my list, and anyone that helped them. The orders were sent out to all the worlds, and we were asked by the worlds that had people's names on them what right I had to claim these being as criminals.

"As Emperor of the Alliance and the true ruler of this galaxy, if these criminals are not brought into custody then I will send my fleet to take them and all your worlds will feel the bite of my words. Now choose your destiny, for this is your last chance at free will."

Of these four worlds they all chose to give up their people, for they knew what would happen if they didn't do as I wanted.

But Lupine didn't even try to reply to my orders. Instead they returned to their home world to gather more ships to try to take over the Alliance after the other eight worlds had sent the criminals to earth for sentencing for their crimes. While I didn't execute them I did put them on a planetoid we were using as a penal faculty, named "Oberon 1". They were all to stay there for five years, but the ones who were involved in the attempts on my life got ten years.

I had set up a justice system where the Ben' a Shea would be the court, but the nastier criminals were brought in front of me where they would be either executed or banished from Alliance space. And only two that were ever banished came back, to be killed.

The Lupine had started a war of sorts by taking small ships on the outer edge of the Alliance.

They had taken four small settlements on one planet called "Triune Vega" and they had taken about nine hundred people from this planet. The TV's as we called them, they were a mix of two hybrid races. They looked like little red men with blue hair. But they were Uruguayan and Bedizens by descent. They stood four foot tall and weighed just under one hundred pounds. They were very passive with everyone around them. If one them had been on Earth he would be the perfect slave, they were that submissive.

Our fleet had been re-fitted with many new armaments that the Alliance had come up with. Over the last three years our Alliance had come to work well together. Earth Force had the Ideas, while the Chorions had the know-how to work the metal. The Uruguayans had the man power and the Bedizens had the knowledge to work with our computers.

The whole Alliance was just that, a family of sorts, but no one alone could do all that they could do together. So with our re-fitted ships, we went off to rescue the TV's.

Oh here I go again, getting ahead of myself. I didn't tell you of all we had done.

The Earth Force people had been able to design a newer type of engine, where it increased the flow of power from seventeen light years an hour to over fifty. That was for the bigger ships, but the stingers were able to get well over that by a factor of five.

We re-fitted the dreadnought and added six Hyper-star drive engines and increased her power to shields and her weapons. She now held fifteen, ten-gig phaser banks per side, four fifty-gig Pulse cannons front and rear, and four disrupters front and rear. She had been fitted with four metal storm cannons as a back up, anti-aircraft weaponry. She had warp star drive to a factor of ten. We re-fitted her with two more splinters to her keel. She now had three on her very nasty hull. There was very little that could stand against her.

Our Dark Stars had been re-fitted also; each had their engines boosted with star drives to a warp factor of twenty. They had gotten their new weaponry also. Each had their disrupters upped to six per end. They had eight phaser banks per side to a factor of ten-gig each. They also had gotten six Metalstrom cannons, as anti-aircraft guns per side. Their shields had been upped to take a fifty-gig blast.

Our Carriers also had been re-fitted to hold five hundred stingers each with twenty Metalstrom cannons as anti-aircraft weapons. They too had shields that could take a fifty gig blast.

Then on December 27th, 2010, the Lupine attacked one of the Clonus' home worlds, killing everyone there. Ten million beings died that day. The Lupine didn't stop there, they were advancing on the Ben' a Shea's space and had taken out three of their colonized planets. Their space dock had been blown up as it tried to help the small planet of Torus, the first strike in their space.

Word had been sent to us and we had sent fifty ships to aid them. Twenty-nine of ours, ten from other Alliance worlds and ten of the Ben' a Sheas that were in our space dock being re-fitted. One from the Omuta home world that had been given aid rights, as they now were acting as guardians to the Alliance. With their leading war mongers working the mines or on Oberon1, they had taken to being good members.

The Lupine had got allies from another system, for they had some very nasty beings with them.

I was to learn that the Lupine had asked the Varies and the Agalinis to aid in their plunder of this system. Now the Agalinis were very war-like beings, they stood seven feet tall and weighed about three hundred pounds, with a fish-like look but they didn't live in water. (They looked like the creature from the black lagoon.) Then the Varies were also very warlike, they looked like a pug dog but with four-inch fangs. They stood six feet tall and weighed about five hundred pounds.

Both races were mean in every way you can think of. They killed for fun and played with the dying. As our fleet came out of warp space, we were met by two hundred ships. All the enemy ships had shields as well as some very good weapons. They had gotten hold of some of our ship's weapons. Even if they were the older types they still gave us some worries.

Like I said, as we came out of hyper space, we were attacked by all two hundred ships. They hit us with our own phasers, and they even had our Metalstrom cannons. Thank god they didn't have our disrupters. But they did give us a hell of a fight. We lost fourteen ships to their twenty-five. Our stingers were not a match for the Varies fighters. They were faster than ours and could take a good hit from our ten-gig phasers.

But we got lucky when they broke off their attack to regroup. The Tempest followed their capital ship which they called a star killer. As they were slowing for a turn, Icsh' a hit them with his disrupters, taking out their drive engines. Then as he passed the Nautilus drove straight though their hull, causing their ship some major damage.

They were dead in space, but still were firing their other weapons. That's when Vengeance and the Protector opened fire with our hyper missiles, set four to the center of their hull, blowing it into space dust. The shock wave though did do more to us than we figured it would.

By this I mean that as the shock wave broke outward it started to take out their ships and the wave kept building to the point that it also took us out. We were thrown somewhere that no one could have ever thought of. As we came to, I called for a status report.

Control replied with, "Holy shit, look at that!"

I said, "On screen." There on screen were over two thousand ships, fighting each other. Many looked like ours. I called out, "Who's who?"

Control replied, "Sir, we are picking up definite Draconians as well as other Alliance ships."

I said, "Send out our markers and let them know that we are coming to their aid."

I received a request from a ship called the At Lanus to identify ourselves. I opened a Chanel and said, "This is the Alliance fleet from Earth. Who am I speaking to, please?"

"I am King Tethus of the Attouriens Empire. Who are you?"

I said, "Sire, as for now let me say that I'm your grandson."

"I have no grandchildren sir," he replied.

I said, "I will explain later, sire, for now know you have aid. Please have your ships use our call markers sire, so we don't shoot any of your ships down."

I had the Communications officer send our markers out. Within a few minutes there were five hundred and sixty-four ships with our marker. Then we opened fire on all the rest.

The enemy ships didn't have any shields so we started to cut them down to almost nothing.

Within twenty minutes there were only about four hundred enemy ships still under power. They fled for somewhere else with eight of my ships in hot pursuit. The Vengeance pulled along side of the At Lanus and the King boarded my ship. I met him on the flight deck with my mother and exec. As the king walked off his skip he saw mom standing there.

With a smile he said, "Georgia, is that you?"

Mom bowed down and said, "Yes father, it is I." They hugged and she kissed him. He then shook my hand as we were introduced. We then showed King Tethus to our conference room.

As he looked around at all the new things he asked, "So young man, do you wish to tell me now, who you are?"

I said, "Sire, as I have said before, I am your grandson." He looked at me very wearily but still smiling.

At seeing his face I said, "Sire, please have a seat, we have a long story to tell you."

I started with, "Sire, we come from your future by four thousand years, due to a battle we were in just before we showed up here. Something had taken place to put us it some kind of time dive that drove us here. I am glad that we were able to change the outcome of this battle. For in my past you lost this battle big time, and were forced to flee to Earth where you had started over again. Now if you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer anything that you may want to know."

Questions he had, and many more requests as well. Their computers were slow and had very little compressed storage files. I had Shirley come to the conference room where she was able to show the king that I had been telling the truth, as well as how to data dump their systems for a larger storage file upgrade. Before too long we were asked to return to At Lanus, where we received a fond welcome from all.

I had been asked by King Tethus to help upgrade his fleet of ships. I told him I'd be glad to. After a few days of building their new AI's, we had all our files transferred over to his fleet of ships. And shortly after that, their AI started to refit the older ships with our new ideas.

A young lieutenant about sixteen showed up from one of the smaller ships one day.

She said her name was Talcunt Brewing. She didn't look all that bad, with brown hair and eyes, about 125 lb. and her body was rock hard at 36C x 25 x 35.

She said, "Highness, your grandfather is asking for you. She led the way to some kind of atrium where Tethus sat with mom talking over something. I was to find out that mom was going to be staying with Tethus as one of his wives. I was happy for mom, but also sorry that I was losing a bed partner. Mom told me that here was where she belonged.

So we were there about four months when yet another fleet came to do battle with us. Only this time they got the shock of their very short lives. They were the Varies as well as other ships from smaller worlds, way out in deep space. They came up against the Nautilus and the Protector and they thought that they were the old ships the king had used many times.

But this time they were out-matched. My ships had been out numbered twenty to one and they called in for help. I told Icsh' ac that we would be there in four minutes, well before they would be in firing range.

We also had three Ben' a Shea ships out there to come in behind them. I had four of the dark stars, Vengeance, Protector, Domiciles, and Billings waiting for the fifty-two ships to come into range. Captain Wilkins aboard the Nautilus asked for orders.

I said, "Don't fire on them until they fire first, but if they do fire wipe them out." Bankia of the Ben' a Shea on the ship Diligence reported that they were now behind the incoming fleet. As the ships came within range the enemy command ship sent an ultimatum, surrender or die.

I opened a channel to the ship and asked, "And where would you like your body sent?" That was the shortest battle that I have ever seen. They fired one round of some kind of sonic weapon. And we opened with disrupters and phaser. Our stingers opened with their metalstrom cannons and the incoming fleet was no more.

We did hold off on one ship just until the last ship was done. I opened a channel to the ship and asked, "So Kodak, you still haven't told me where to send your body." The look on his face was real good. With his dog face, he looked like someone had just shocked him with ten thousand volts and he was making that fish-face thing, you know the one like a fish out of water.

Well ever the dumb sucker, he tried to shoot at us. My weapons officer took him out with our disrupters.

The word got out after that not to come to this part of space with any kind of threat. Anyone trying it would be dead before they got a chance to think, all fucked up. The King had knocked up mom with twins and they would be the rightful heirs to the throne.

I myself was getting homesick for my own time. You know, movies and drive-ins, making out with a girl, all the good stuff.

Mom was happy, most of my other women were also content, but me I wanted more. I guess I liked the power or something, but I wanted to go back to Earth. Mom knew I wasn't happy here and she told me that I could go back if I wanted to.

Oh I didn't tell you but I had gotten together with Talcunt Brewing. And let me tell you she was a-brewing. Hottest babe who ever graced my bed! But that's another story.

I did go back to my time but it had changed, for the better I think. There were no wars anywhere. The Attouriens had changed the name from the Empire to the Alliance. I was not famous or anything, just a guy who happened to be part of the royal family.

Upon my return to my own time, I was appointed the Chancellor of War for the Alliance. Our ships were the most feared and the most loved throughout the galaxies, yes there were five now that the Alliance controlled. My fleet returned to Earth's space and others were allowed to return to their home worlds.

The Draconians still had their own home world, which was name Draco. The Ben' a Shea returned to Benddonies, all very happy to be home. The Colonies returned to Colossi and they all enjoyed their time serving the Alliance. The one Wolfish ship that we had with us returned to their home world, heroes, as their world had never become the warmongers they had been before. They were now peaceful and happy, mining their Ore and their crystals.

Oh you didn't hear, they now had a work force of two million workers with no slaves. For a small world they now were someone to know.

The Kashi were now members in good standing, as well as the Lupine, Agelaius, the Valine. They were only on small planets around the galaxies and they never became a major threat after our little talk back in the past. Earth now was the center of the known galaxies, and was the most important of all worlds. For this is where the Alliance started.

I know you're saying, "yea right." Well the King came to earth and started Atlantis like he had the first time. But every boy child of his descendants became the Chancellor of War. Only girl babies became Queen of the Alliance.

Well that's it for now. I hope you liked my tale. And if you didn't, well sit on it and let yourself know that there are others who do. Thanks for reading and look for the next tale from,

THE ONE AND ONLY FINTINMAN