Chapter 39: We Comin’ (Part 2)

Island Day 34-35

Darren POV:

I decided, since I had the next two-day shift, to just stay up at Ibera’s and watch what JB’s ‘reception’ was like.

I was glad I was ‘live’ so I could ‘hear’ all of the behind-the-scenes conversations that might be going on. JB let me ‘join’ with him, eager to further convince me he’d made the right choice about going there.

He also wanted to get my take on everything!

I think my ‘hillbilly buddy’ still had some doubts about everything. While he was enroute, Ibera and I had a nice conversation and I discovered she was much more in favor of his going there, than even I was. She’d had a more ‘in depth’ discussion with him than I was aware of.

She confided that JB even had a ‘secret mission’ that only the two of them knew about.

She planned on keeping a much closer eye on my buddy than Brad and Brenda would ever know about. She admitted that she was going to miss him nearly as much as she missed her ‘Bobby’ and even big Willie.

She chuckled, “It was hard trying to convince him that I’ll always love him, but it was more like a mother loves her son. He felt his wanting to go to the island might upset me. I felt like a mother bird, having to shove her little one out of the nest. I must say though, when it comes to lovin’ that boy does always gives it his all!

“And that’s what I’m going to miss the most about him.”

“Well Ibera, as far as I’m concerned you’re always welcome to sit here and watch with me anytime you’d like.” I told her, which really made her smile.

JB’s first few hours went a long way towards easing both of our fears. They welcomed him with open arms, fed him a great dinner and they all pitched in to help him get his new house located and set up.

Annie was extremely excited about her and JB’s new house. Her ego got stroked knowing that she would have the only king-size bed on the entire planet. We were both curious about who would end up getting the second bedroom in JB’s house.

Ibera got especially excited when JB lucked into having his new Gromorik friends agree to teach him everything they know about all the different forms of physics they utilized. She explained to me, that she was curious exactly what all that entailed.

She knew they were getting close to figuring out wormholes and told me the one thing they hadn’t figured out yet was how you needed to manipulate two different dimensions at the same time in order to actually make one work.

The Gromoriks knew about different dimensions, obviously, or they would never have figured out how to travel faster than the speed of light. I didn’t realize, that when they talk about hyper warp, what they were actually doing was employing a type of dimensional travel.

Imagine drawing a line of say, four feet in length on a four-foot-long piece of paper. That represents the speed of light in regular space.

Now imagine folding that piece of paper into an accordion. That is what using a different dimension would do. In other words, instead of having to travel four feet, now you only had to travel one and a half inches. In this example, you would effectively be traveling at nearly 32 times the speed of light! The idea of hyper warp works pretty much just like that. It takes massive amounts of power to ‘compress’ space like that, and the Gromoriks had figured that part out.

When you do this, you would also simply ‘skip over’ things like asteroids, most planets and things like that. However, you did have to plot courses to avoid getting in close proximity of powerful ‘gravity wells’.

Those are things like very large planets (much bigger than Jupiter), stars and ... black holes. These would ‘suck you in’ and you would collide with them if your path was too close. Spaceships equipped with hyper warp also had long-range sensors that would automatically pull you into sub light speed well in advance of them, if you plotted your course incorrectly.

The science behind all this was well beyond my comprehension.

I was envious that JB would be learning all about this stuff!

And if you think that is mind-boggling, making and using wormholes involved ‘compressing’ time, too! And, surprisingly, you didn’t have to compress space to do it. Though, it did help tremendously!

Ibera said she’d get into all that later, since, it looked like things were settling down for the night.

Another thing of note was Mario’s encounter with Elmer, Lola and Marcella.

To make a long story short, we learned that young Mario managed to wildly reverse his ‘social standing’ with regards to Elmer and his sisters!

He displayed why they’ll never be able to subject him to their ‘will’ ever again and they are now deathly afraid of him!

Hugo and his buddies watched the whole thing and were now big fans of Mario’s.

Mario didn’t tell them, however, that the ‘Family’ was taking bets on how long it would be before Elmer, Lola and Marcella tried to steal their new boat and flee!

When it seemed like everyone was getting ready for bed, I wanted to keep an eye on Annie and JB, but, decided to give them their privacy ... for tonight.

I hadn’t been here very long, but, I knew there wouldn’t be much to see for the next ten or so ‘island’ hours. Ibera suggested we retire to her bedroom and get some sleep or ‘maybe something else’, first. That way we could decline the time dilation and be wide awake when everyone on the island woke up.

I kinda just wanted to sleep, so, I asked Ibera if she would mind if we just cuddled for the night.

She gave me a look of surprise, but, with a very big smile on her face.

She seemed almost giddy, “Darren, I think you’re the very first guy that has ever asked me that question! Are you saying, you’d really like it if we just held onto each other all night?”

“Yes. I believe that cuddling can be just as intimate as making love. Many nights when Sarah and I go to bed, I just cuddle up behind her and told her breast in my hand. Most of the time, we wake up in that very same position. Or, sometimes she’s behind me and I find her hand either on my chest or lower, gently fondling my sleeping cock.”

“Ooh, that sounds wonderful,” she giggled, “and when you wake up like that, doesn’t that lead to hard feelings?”

I chuckled and kissed her on the forehead, “More often than not, yes it does. It usually turns into a quickie, since, first thing in the morning I have to pee very badly.”

Ibera pouted sassily, “So what then, you just ‘take care of business’ and have breakfast?”

“No! Then, she uses the bathroom and we both take care of our ‘unfinished business’. And that, can sometimes last an hour or more!” I said, grinning.

That made her start giggling and she snatched my hand. Next thing I knew we were in her bedroom, stark naked, lying on her bed and she was pulling my hand, guiding it to her breast. I began lovingly squeezing her perfect C-cup breasts and she started cooing like a happy, beautiful lovebird.

“Good night, Darren, my love. Sweet dreams!”

8 hours later:

“Ohhh, ohhhhhh, OHHhhh!” I moaned. I cracked my eyes open and found Ibera curled up between my legs. Her left hand was gently, erotically holding and slowly stroking my cock while she was licking and gently sucking my rock hard tip at the same time. It felt so good all I could do was moan, hopefully encouraging her to continue.

Which she did until I realized I couldn’t hold back anymore. Every once in a while, she would look up at me with those azure eyes of hers and I could feel her telling me to just let go when I couldn’t hold back anymore. It’s like she wanted me to enjoy it as long as I could, but not to torture myself any more than I wanted to.

She wasn’t just giving me a morning blowjob; she was making oral love to me. Being psychically connected to each other the way we were, words weren’t necessary. The love she was showing me I was giving back to her, in kind, by making her know how much I loved what she was doing.

I felt a massive twinge in my groin that signaled the end to any holding back I may have wanted to do. I literally exploded into her mouth and came with an intensity that wracked my whole body with pleasure. It felt like my orgasm lasted nearly a full minute, though I’m pretty sure most of it was just wonderful aftershocks of her loving ministrations.

I reached out my hands to her and pulled her on top of me so I could give her a kiss. I knew she still had a lot of my spend in her mouth, since she gave me a look like ‘did I know what was going to happen next’?

I didn’t give her a chance to second-guess and captured her mouth with mine. I hadn’t realized just how much of my spend she still had in her mouth! The intensity with which she was kissing me was turning both of our faces into a creamy mess. After several minutes, we separated and just started giggling at each other.

“Ibera, that was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I don’t know how to ever thank you for that?”

“Oh Darren, last night was the single most memorable night of my entire life! Do you realize, that you gently squeezed and massaged my breast almost all night?”

“Oh geez, did I keep you awake?” I asked, with some concern in my voice.

She smiled softly and shook her head, “Oh no, lover. The whole night was more like a wonderful dream that you helped make sure never ended. I never realized before just how intimate cuddling could be. Don’t think of it as keeping me awake, think of it as spending the whole night facilitating my dream that showed me how much you loved me!”

I smiled at her, “It’s hard to describe how I was feeling. Somehow I just knew how much you liked the way I has holding you and I really do love holding your warm, firm breasts. It wasn’t sexual at all. I just love being close to you.”

“I know. I’ve enjoyed ‘conspiring’ with you and JB more every day. I had a feeling JB was yearning to be with Annie, so it didn’t come as a surprise when he told me he wanted to go to her.”

“Are you surprised that I don’t want to go there, to be with Lolita?”

She smiled while shaking her head, “No. You’re deeply ‘in love’ with Sarah. You may love Lolita, but, not like JB is ‘in love’ with Annie.” She giggled, “I’m afraid our little J Birdie has finally found his mate and was not going to let a little thing like 80,000 light years keep them apart!”

That got me to laughing so hard that I realized I really needed to pee! Fortunately, up here, I didn’t have to go very far. As a matter of fact, I only had to think ‘bathroom’ and I found myself standing in front of the commode. Ahhhh!

I was planning to reciprocate for Ibera’s lovely morning ministrations, however, instead of finding myself in the bedroom, I found myself in Ibera’s Command Kitchen.

She had a portal called up and looked nervous, “Come on Darren, I fear something really bad is about to happen!” She nearly screamed at me.

It seemed like everyone on the island was scrambling around frantically.

I asked if we should back the portal up in time, but Ibera just said, “I’ve had She-Berra watching all night. She told me that just a few minutes ago Chen got a desperate call from his guy, Running Bear, at the mine.

“Wizard Chen”, he said telepathically, “if you can hear me, we desperately need your help! King Flombay’s men are trying to take over the mine! They say they are going to kill us if we do not leave immediately! What should we do?” Running Bear asked frantically.

“Chen told him to try and stall the guy until he and his friends got there. Right now Chen is getting as many of his guys together as possible and they are planning to port to the mine.” Ibera told me, breathlessly.

Ibera had two portals active. One at the mine and one over the family’s area.

The situation at the mine look perilous. It appeared there was a small army of at least 60 uniformed men lined up in columns on the road leading up the hill, into the mine.

They all had their weapons at the ready. Many of them were archers interspersed with others holding shields and spears. There was a regal looking dude and two others in fancy uniforms confronting Running Bear and several of his miners.

The three of them did not appear to be armed, but hiding nearby, were perhaps two dozen of Running Bear’s men armed with pick axes and spears. It appeared that Running Bear was trying to negotiate with the guy in charge.

Meanwhile, back on the island, Chen, JB, Max and Tiny were trying to organize who was going to go and what they were going to take as far as weapons.

It sounded like JB and Max were trying to get Chen to slow down and make some kind of a plan first. Chen, however, didn’t want to hear it and was stressing they needed to go ... RIGHT NOW.

Annie and Jasmine were adding to the confusion by insisting that they were going to go, even though Chen and JB did not want them to.

Mario, who had just gone to supervise his four ‘farmers’, had told them of the current situation and all four of them wanted to assist. When Hugo, Fredo and Otis all said they knew how use a bow and arrow, Chen told Mario to go ahead and bring them.

Mario had just ported his guys to the family area and were in the process of getting armed with bows and quivers containing 20 arrows each. Max and Tiny had their bows and two quivers of arrows each. It appeared that Lonnie, Blaine, Fred, Shawn and Chad were armed with Lonnie’s four foot swords and seemed to be ready for action. Annie grabbed the 100-pound recurve bow that Monte had used while Jasmine appeared to be armed with a whole bandoleer of throwing knives.

That made me guess Annie must’ve been joined with Monte, since there was no way in hell she was ever going to pull that bowstring back by herself. Chen and JB each had one of the Gromoriks stunners tucked in the front of their pants. Then, just as they were ready to leave, Tumrik and Braitak appeared and said they would help too. They each had a laser rifle and a stunner.

We watched as they all joined hands and suddenly disappeared.

They must have put some kind of a plan together that we couldn’t hear.

When we zoomed the portal in to the mine, only Chen and JB appeared at first.

The rest had obviously gone invisibly and remained that way.

Ibera and I Spirit Walked into the portal so we could hear what was going on and possibly offer advice or warnings if necessary.

Their sudden appearance startled the General and his two soldiers, but not Running Bear and his friends. Their faces only showed signs of relief.

Chen addressed the guy that appeared to be the head honcho, “My friend tells me you’re trying to make him abandon our mine?”

“Who are you sir, and where did you come from?” The head honcho asked, gruffly.

Chen sneered, “I was going to ask you that exact same question! My name is Chen and you are trespassing on my property. I demand you leave at once!”

The head honcho scoffed, “I am General Fumbrall in command of King Flombay’s Royal guard. We have gotten word the gods have left us and we are here to take over this mine and claim it for the King.”

Suddenly, Tumrik and Braitak appeared and the General’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.

Braitak chuckled, “You can tell your King that not all of us have gone! Our Supreme Commander gave this mine to Mister Chen just before he left. I was present at the time and can verify that is the truth. We are still in need of any crystals they may find! Are you going to have a problem with that?”

The General blustered, “This mine is on King Flombay’s land. If your Supreme Commander is not here, then we no longer recognize his authority! I demand your people leave this place at once ... in the name of the King!”

Chen looked to be deep in thought. It looked like Chen was trying to get into this guy’s head but wasn’t having any success.

When I tried joining with JB, it’s like he was blocking me somehow.

I asked Ibera what was going on, since she couldn’t join with him either!

Suddenly, everyone who had been invisible abruptly appeared. They didn’t seem to be expecting it and were stumbling and looking all around, trying to get their bearings.

It seemed as though everyone’s psychic abilities had suddenly disappeared.

Things became chaotic when the General noticed that suddenly he and his two lieutenants were surrounded by 16 giants. With weapons.

Things became even more tense when all of the General’s army suddenly brought their weapons to the ready.

All I could think of was, that somehow, this General had some kind of a psychic nullifier running somewhere.

Ibera and I, thankfully, weren’t affected in our Spirit Walk. We began searching everywhere, trying to find a box or something. I went up to the General and that’s when I noticed he had this medallion on his chest and the center seemed to be glowing.

The General started laughing, “So Mister Chen, ... or is it ’Wizard Chen’? It appears your wizardry cannot help you now! I have heard about you. Tell your people to put their weapons down and I may spare your lives. You are vastly outnumbered!”

I told Ibera I was going to jump into the other portal to try and contact George to tell him what was happening.

When I Spirit Walked to George he was shocked as I explained what was going down. I told him that I suspected this General was wearing some kind of a psychic nullification device. He didn’t believe me at first, but then, when he tried to contact Chen, realized I was probably telling him the truth.

“How can I help them? If I go there in my bubble, the second I drop it to do anything my powers will disappear too, won’t they?”

Ibera gave me an idea.

“George, Ibera thinks that device is not as powerful as the ones the Gromoriks used on their ship. It seemed like it took several seconds before the thing actually stripped their powers away. She suggested if you were to teleport directly behind Annie, you could include her in your bubble before you lost your powers. Remember that Annie is joined with Monte and because of that pill Lars gave us, she can use her TK from inside the bubble! Tell her to use her TK to grab that medallion off of the General’s chest and throw it as far away from them as she can. If she can throw it at least an eighth of a mile, that should be far enough for it to lose its effect on them.”

George understood and immediately disappeared, teleporting to Annie.

I returned to the other portal just in time to see a big grin appear on Annie’s face.

Chen was just about to say something to the General when suddenly his pendant went flying far off into the distance. Within a couple seconds Chen also broke into a big grin, while the General looked stunned, watching his pendant disappearing flying off

The poor bastard looked like a kid after somebody just stole his lunch.

Chen huffed, “That was a cute trick, General. Where the fuck did you get that thing?”

With his hands frantically searching his chest, he exclaimed, “That was a present I received from a different God, several Sun cycles ago. I report to him every couple of Moon Cycles when he comes here. I was having a problem with some wizards and he told me this would keep them from causing me any harm. All I had to do in return was to report any strange occurrences that I may have noticed.”

Chen grinned evilly, “General, now I want you to order your men to put their weapons down, right now, before anyone gets hurt.”

The General appeared to be complying ... until I noticed an evil loathing in his eyes. He held up one of his hands, then shouted, “Attack, attack, ATTACK!”

Next thing I knew, the sky was full of arrows and spears heading right for Chen and his friends.

Chen noticed it too and raised a protective bubble over the entire group just in time. We watched as the first volley appeared to have hit an invisible wall and fell harmlessly to the ground. When Chen saw that his guys were ready to fire, he gave the order then dropped the bubble.

The General’s men were much closer than the target they had practiced on a week earlier. Annie’s shot went clean through one of the guard’s throats and buried itself in the chest of a man standing behind him. Tiny and Max’s shots also scored ‘two-fers’, killing their original targets and continuing to impale whoever was behind them.

I was hoping that first volley might dissuade the General’s warriors from any further fighting. However, they only appeared more determined to reload and shoot again.

Chen was ready and once again, all the arrows and spears fell harmlessly to the ground. Chen’s guys were reloaded and ready to fire when suddenly both of the General’s Lieutenants drew their swords. One shoved his through Annie’s back, while the other impaled Tumrik, then Braitak!

The rest of Chen’s guys never saw it coming and when the first one savagely removed his sword from Annie’s body, she fell lifelessly to the ground. She was followed by Braitak and Tumrik, although, it didn’t look like either of them were dead.

JB was standing right next to Annie and completely freaked out! He pointed his hand at the Lieutenant and screamed, “DIE you motherfucker!” Then it was like a bolt of lightning shot out of his hand, completely annihilating the Lieutenant into a wisp of smoke!

Then, he did the same to the one who’d stabbed their Gromorik friends.

That’s when Max and the others saw what had happened to Annie and came rushing over to her. JB was on his knees, screaming, begging Annie to hold on. She was completely unresponsive and JB started wailing in despair.

Suddenly Max started glowing! He dropped to his knees and put his hands on Annie’s chest.

He must have been joined with Linda and she was trying to help save her!

Meanwhile, the General’s Guard began charging up the hill toward our friends.

Chen was hollering that he’d hold his bubble over them as long as he could.

The General was frozen in fear, seeing the ease with which JB had obliterated both of his men.

Meanwhile, it didn’t appear that Max’s ministrations were doing anything. Annie still didn’t look like she was even breathing! I joined with Sarah, hoping to find out what Linda might be saying to her.

I didn’t want to interrupt Linda right now.

Sarah said that Linda was crying! Max had let her completely take over his body and when I looked closer, Max was crying, too.

Several minutes went by and Linda/Max told JB it was no use ... Annie was dead. The sword had gone directly through her heart, killing her instantly. ‘They’ said how sorry they were, but, the one thing Linda couldn’t do was bring the dead back to life.

JB was beside himself. He was holding Annie’s lifeless body, trying to ‘will’ her back to life. I felt for my friend. I don’t know what I’d do if someone had killed Sarah like that. It’s like I could feel my buddy’s heart breaking!

I wanted to join with him to try and console him when I felt Maggie joining with me. “I’m sorry Darren. Monte’s with him and these bastards are gonna pay!”

What happened next stunned everyone!

JB stood up and told Chen to drop the bubble.

Chen gasped, “But, if I do, all these warriors will overwhelm us!?”

JB calmly and coldly shook his head, saying, “No they won’t. Trust me!”

JB pointed his outstretched hands at the mob banging on the bubble. Then, the second the bubble came down, dozens and dozens of lightning bolts came shooting out of his hands, striking those closest first, then continuing down the hill, eradicating everyone else on the road.

In less than two seconds, the General’s entire army was gone! Not just dead, but GONE. Even the one’s who’d been shot with arrows. All that was left were wisps of smoke and small piles of ash where each warrior had been standing.

Just like that, the battle was over.

And the silence was deafening!

Again, JB fell to his knees, “You can’t be dead, Annie! Our child needs you to live!” With that he began frantically giving Annie CPR. Three breaths followed by chest compression’s.

Max cried, “JB, she’s gone! We can’t raise the ... oh wow! Keep going, keep fucking going! Linda says there’s still a chance!”

We watched and all of a sudden Annie’s chest rose and she gasped a deep breath! Color came back to her skin and a smile appeared on her face, followed by on open mouthed, “Ohhhh! Ooooh, I love you JB! And, you too my Angel ... Max!???”

Chen, Blaine, Lonnie and Jasmine were all choking back tears. As soon as Annie’s wound closed up she saw Braitak and Tumrik, gasping in pain, “Please, please help our Gromorik friends!?”

Max (and Linda) smiled and went to Tumrik first. It took nearly a minute, but, soon he was experiencing his ‘happy ending’! Braitak was next and was nearly laughing, looking over and seeing Tumrik’s reaction to Max’s healing.

“Oh it hurts when I laugh!” Braitak moaned just before he began moaning for an entirely different reason!

His eyes got so big Tumrik was now laughing, “It appears our new friends have healing powers that are far superior to our healing chambers!”

Braitak gasped after filling his spandex-like pants with his ‘happy ending’, “Ohhh ... and SO much more fun!” He chuckled before getting up with the help of Lonnie and Blaine. Max helped Tumrik to his feet, then everyone’s attention was refocused on the General.

He was just standing there, open-mouthed and catatonic, having watched his illustrious ‘Royal Guard’ getting totally, inexplicably cremated before his very eyes.

“Ya wiped me out!” He lamented, sounding despondent.

The General then attempted to just walk away.

And he would have, except he was met by Lonnie and Blaine, both holding their swords at his throat.

“Don’t even think about it, asshole.” Lonnie said, angrily, “This ain’t over yet. Wizard Chen wants to have some more words with you!”

Chen and JB heard that and JB stated, “Damn right he does! Thank you Lonnie.”

Chen gave JB a nod and a small, tight smile, “Do you see what happens to people who mess with us!? When we first arrived, all we wanted to do was talk! We had no intentions of hurting anyone.”

“You lie! You came here with all these, these ... GIANTS, armed for war!” The General retorted, indignantly.

“That’s because we knew you had an entire Army, planning to attack our friends! I was hoping a show of force might persuade you to at least negotiate with us.” Chen replied, in a voice still wracked with emotion as he looked at Annie, still in disbelief that she wasn’t dead.

The General’s defiant attitude quickly turned to despair, “But, I had no choice ... My King is not a forgiving man. If I return with anything less than total victory in having reclaimed this mine ... he will hang me by my neck until I am dead.”

Chen gave a tight chuckle, “Then I’d hate to be you.” He said sincerely, then Tumrik asked, “Tell me, General, this other ‘god’ that you spoke of. What did he look like?”

“He looks similar to him”, he said, pointing at Blaine, who was still holding a sword at the General’s neck. “But, he has a far bigger head with huge, ‘bug-eyes’, three long fingers on each hand and his head is shaped like an egg. His voice sounded funny though, it is hard to describe?”

Both Tumrik and Braitak laughed, “He was a Trilok! He was no god! His voice sounded ‘funny’ because he spoke through a translating device.” Tumrik scoffed, “And I’ll bet you’re expecting his return sometime in the next 5 or 6 cycles?”

The General gasped, “How do you know that?”

“I have dealt with him before. HE is the one who is responsible for so many of your men dying in the mines! He would not allow us to make the mines safer, saying he did not want your people to see our advanced technology.”

“Technology???” The General asked, unsure of the word’s meaning.

Tumrik nodded, “Technology is like how things are done. Your people are primitive compared to any of us. We started using a strong metal known as steel to make the mine shafts so they wouldn’t collapse. HE, your Trilok friend, said he did not want your people to see our steel, since your people had never seen it before and might try copying it before you would have discovered it on your own!”

“Why would he do such a thing? I don’t understand?”

Braitak scoffed, “Because, he didn’t feel your people were worth protecting! He probably gave you that medallion only so you’d spy for him. He wasn’t worried about you trying to copy it since it’s thousands of Sun Cycles ahead of your current technology! He knew it would be impossible for you to ever copy it.”

“I am outraged!” The General huffed, then sighed, “But, since I will be hung as soon as I return, I guess it doesn’t matter?”

Chen had a smirk on his face, “Perhaps General, I could interest you in a ... BBD?”