Chapter 9
Donny

Awful visions of chaos and death filled my dreams. As I slept, I saw my innermost sorrows come to life. I saw my family being destroyed over, and over again. I finally woke from my nightmares around 4 a.m., and sat up in the dark in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. I sat there a few minutes as I regained my breath and calmed down before breaking out in silent tears. I felt such sorrow over losing my family, and my old life, to the invasion. I wept quietly to myself, so I wouldn't wake the others, but Lucky was right there at my side in the darkness. I felt his warm tongue licking my wet cheeks; a loyal friend.

I grabbed a flashlight and flipped it on to gain my bearings. As quietly as I could, I stood up and exited the room with Lucky, and headed outside to take a quick leak. I stood there in the cool night air, still naked, and pissed on my usual tree, as did Lucky.

As I stood there, in the back of my mind, I sensed a faint presence. It seemed very far away, but the most important thing was that I believed it was human. It didn't have the feeling of being alien to me. I felt its fear, love, and sorrow emanating from afar. Closing my eyes and concentrating on that feeling of connection, I imagined opening my eyes as if to see through the eyes of another, and it worked. I could see what they were seeing, but I couldn't control what I was looking at, they had total control of that. I could see from them glancing around what seemed to be a dark pit or hole with a cage-like lid on the top of it.

Wherever this was, I was sensing it must be a prison of some sort. The more I concentrated on this person, the more I realized they were young, younger even than me, and the others inside the mine. Then as they looked up to see a bright light coming from the top of their prison, an overwhelming feeling of terror washed over me, and the connection I had to the kid was gone.

"What the hell was that?" I thought to myself. I stood there naked in the darkness, wondering if I was just dreaming, or if what I had just experienced was real. Reason would tell me I was imagining it, but in my gut, I knew it was real. I called to Lucky and we ran back inside the mine.

"Guys, guys, wake up!" I yelled, as I ran back into the safe room. The three sleeping boys jumped, as I startled them from their sleep. Adam grabbed for the first thing he could get his hands on, which was a shoe, and held it ready to hit something.

"Guys, it's just me, chill, but wake up; I got something to tell you," I told them.

"What is so important that you had to wake us up at this time of night?" asked Chris, yawning.

"There's someone else alive out there," I stated simply. The three of them looked at me in disbelief.

"Where? Outside the mine?" Josiah asked, excited.

"No, no. The dog and I went out to take a piss and I got a weird feeling, like a presence, not real close but in the distance. I know, it sounds weird, but I concentrated real hard on that presence, and somehow, I could see what they saw. It was as if I was inside them or something, seeing through their eyes. I think it's a kid younger than us, and I think the monsters have him," I said.

The others looked at me as if I just went loony [mental] on them.

"Guys, I know it sounds weird as hell, but you have to trust me on this; I think if we don't try to help this kid, they're gonna die," I told the younger boys. They could all see I was being dead serious, and meant what I was saying.

"So, what do we do?" Chris asked.

Truthfully, I didn't have a clue as to what to do about it.

"Um, well, I can try to link back up with the kid to see if I can communicate with him or something. The last thing I felt from him was a feeling of total fear," I replied.

"I dunno, Derrik. I mean, we're kinda safe here. Who knows what could happen to us if we leave to go and look for someone that we aren't even positive is out there," Josiah said, making a point.

"You have a good point there, Joe, but guys, think about it, we may be the only other humans still alive who can help this kid. Also, we have an edge over anyone else that might still be alive. Remember, we have our special abilities now, so who better than us to help this kid?" I asked.

The boys could see the logic in my answer, but I could also see the fear and wonder on their faces. AJ looked straight at me with his onyx eyes and said, "I'm in. Let's go for it,"

Chris, too, reluctantly agreed to help.

"How about it, Joey; you gonna help or stay here alone?" AJ asked his cousin.

"Aw, man. Ok, ok, I'll help," answered Josiah. "But I got a bad feelin we're gonna regret this,"

Now in total agreement that we were going to help this kid, we all got dressed. We quietly filed out into the pitch black of the night. Once we got to the mine entrance, we turned the lights off for a minute 'til we were sure it was safe.

"I don't hear or smell anything," Chris said.

"Yeah, it looks clear, too," said AJ.

We flipped our flashlights back on and scanned around. I told the guys to be quiet and let me concentrate so I could try to re-establish my earlier link to that scared kid. This time I only caught flashes of sights and sounds. I wasn't getting a clear enough connection this time.

"I got an idea; let's go up as high on the hill as we can," I told the boys.

We all climbed to the top of the hill where I tried the connection again. This time it was much more intense. I fell to one knee as I felt the kid's mind.

"Oh man. I think the kid's in deep shit, guys," I said.

I sat down, this time determined to make a connection with the kid. I clenched my eyes shut and focused all of my thoughts on this kid. The harder I focused, the more strain I felt in my mind. I finally broke through what seemed like an invisible barrier in my mind.

God, please help me, I sensed the kid begging.

Can you hear me? I thought to this kid.

Yes. Is that you, God? Or is it an angel? Please let me die already, the child begged.

No, I'm not God, or an angel. My name's Derrik. I know this sounds weird, but trust me, I'm not an alien, I have what you could call special abilities that are letting me communicate with you. I want to try to help you. Do you know where you are? I asked.

I'm in a hole. The monsters have me and they're gonna eat me. Please help me. PLEASE! begged the kid.

By this time, I had sensed that it was a younger boy that I was in communication with. He was scared, alone, and didn't know what to do.

Ok, here's what I want you to do. I want you to think about the last thing that you saw before the monsters grabbed you. Think about it as hard as you can, as it may be the only way we can find you and help you, I thought to the boy.

He was sending me visions of things I had seen once before. I wasn't quite sure where I had seen them though. Then he sent a vision I recognized.

"He's near Kingston! He just showed me a vision of the post office I stayed at there, when I found AJ," I said, snapping back from my trance.

I dove back into the depths of my mind to ask the boy, Kingston, is that where you were when they took you?

Yes, he thought back to me.

We are coming for you. Try your best to stay alive and we WILL find you, I swear it, I promised the boy.

With that, I disconnected my thoughts from him and spoke to the boys I was with.

"Guys, if we don't get to Kingston and try to find this kid, he's toast. We all know what those things do. We can't let that happen to him," I told the group.

Now we were in unanimous agreement that we were going to help save this boy from a cruel evil fate.

"AJ, look around, since we're up here so high, and see if anything stands out to you," I said.

He scanned around the dark horizon and stopped when he was looking in the direction where the alien ship had crashed.

"I can see the aliens' ship, the one that crashed, from here; it's over that way, maybe four or five miles [6-8 km] away," he said, pointing.

It just so happened that the direction he was pointing was also the way to Kingston.

"Ok, guys, let's get back down to the mine and get ready for war," I said, making the boys gulp with anticipation.

Back in the mine, we packed as many supplies as we could into backpacks and crammed as much as we could onto the trailer and the ATV. We each took two guns and as much ammo as we could carry. While the boys finished loading it up, I dumped the gas I'd gotten in town into the tank. By the time we were ready, the ATV and trailer were heavily loaded down. For the moment, we had just enough room for the four of us, and Lucky, to fit on the ATV, and then it would be full.

The plan was to head for Kingston and stop at the crashed ship along the way. We were going to check for survivors and anything useful in the ship that we might find, and then head on to Kingston. I fired the ATV's motor to life with Adam literally riding shotgun while holding said weapon, so that he could be my night eyes in the dark. As we set out, I could only see just so far ahead of us with the head light, but he could see much further and clearer. We rode along with Chris keeping an ear out for any noises out of the ordinary.

It seemed like no time at all before we had ridden the five miles or so [8 km] through the woods in the dark to where the alien ship had crashed. It appeared to have come down hard since it was scattered all over the area, in pieces. We dismounted the ATV with our guns drawn, on our guards, just in case we were taken by surprise. As we approached the wreckage on foot, we found the partially charred remains of three of the pale-skinned aliens, the friendly ones. We went further into the wreckage and looked for any signs of life. We only found two more dead aliens inside, though. We were walking cautiously through what was left of the ship when we came to a room that looked important to me.

"Hey guys, let's check this room out," I told them.

"Why?" asked AJ.

"Well, because the sign next to the door says Armory. Maybe there's something in there we can use," I replied.

We walked inside and looked around the room. There were all kinds of strange things in there. Everything seemed to be made out of some kind of polished, shiny metal. The only bad thing was almost everything in there seemed to have been damaged in some way, possibly from the crash. One thing that did catch my eye was a device that looked like some kind of glove. I picked it up, slid it over my right hand, and instantly felt a tingly sensation in my hand. I held my hand out with the palm up and small bolts of electricity began to flicker from my fingertips. The boys were all in awe as they watched the glove. I decided to try something; I balled my hand into a fist and concentrated on the thought of a shock wave blowing out away from me. As I thought this, a huge burst of energy erupted from my fist, knocking the others on their asses.

"Holy, shit!" I was dumbfounded. I apologized immediately. "Sorry guys, I didn't know it was going to do that," when I saw what I had done just by thinking it.

They all got up in total amazement and began searching for devices to use for themselves. We were disappointed when we couldn't find anything else in the room that still worked, or that would help us in any way. We did have the glove, though; the Glove of Doom as Chris jokingly named it. All of the others tried the glove, but had no success in activating it. I guess my mental abilities were the controls to work it so the glove ended up becoming mine. I stowed it in my backpack and we went on exploring further into the ship.

We eventually found our way to what seemed to be the command center of the ship. Inside were two more dead aliens. I ran to a control panel and looked for some way to activate it. There weren't any buttons or knobs to work the device that I could find, so I tried something different. I placed a hand on the console and thought about what I wanted to see, and sure enough, the display popped up. I thought about where the monsters were, if they were close to Kingston, and where possibly they might have prisoners, or food, stashed. The screen showed what looked to be a small camp set up about 2 miles [2½ km] north of Kingston. The device told me that this was a food processing facility, a place where the monsters took their prisoners to be made into their food. If this truly was where the boy was he didn't have much time left. I took my hand off the console, shutting it off, and it shorted out, shooting sparks all over the place.

"Well, I guess that's it for that thing; it's junk now," I said. "Come on guys we have to get a move on. I just found out that the kid is in a food processing camp. Those THINGS are gonna eat him if we don't get him out of there," I stated.

"What the hell are we waiting for then?" Adam said.

We continued back to the large hole in the hull where we had entered. As we exited, we saw the sun just starting to peak over the tree tops above us. By 7 a.m., we had made it to the edge of the woods next to Kingston.

"Ok, boys, we go on foot from here. We don't want them hearing the ATV motor. AJ, I think you should lead the way, I mean you used to live around here and you can see things we can't," I said.

We concealed the ATV in some brush, and put the leash on the dog, then proceeded on foot towards Kingston. As we walked into the town itself, Chris began to sniff the air, as did Lucky.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Smells like something dead," Chris replied.

We walked farther into the town 'til we encountered our first sign of the aliens.

"Oh shit, guys, hide!" I said, quietly but sternly.

We all ducked for cover in an alley. I peeked around the corner to see one of those robots hovering in the middle of the street ahead of us.

"You think it saw us?" Josiah asked.

"Dunno, but let's not take any chances," Chris said.

An idea then struck me. I took my pack off and dug the Glove of Doom out of it, and slid it on, covering my hand and forearm.

"Guys I'm going to see what this thing can really do," I told them. I pointed my hand towards the robot and thought of an extremely high amount of lightning. A bolt of electricity shot from my fingertips to the robot and instantly fried it. The robot fell to the ground shooting sparks out all over the place.

"Wow," was all we could say. The glove was indeed a powerful device to behold. Fearing I might set off some sort of unknown power in it, I removed it and stowed it back in my bag, then we moved on. Adam led us to the northern most part of town at the base of yet another hill covered in trees.

"Stop! Shh!" Chris exclaimed. We froze instantly. He listened intently in the silence that was all the rest of us could hear. "Something's coming, coming down the hill towards us. It sounds like two sets of footsteps, and whatever it is, it's bigger than us," Chris said.

"Monsters?" Josiah asked, worried.

I again dug the glove out of my bag and slid it on. Just then, Lucky's ears perked up and he began to growl.

"Guys, whatever you do, don't shoot unless you absolutely have to. If there are more of them around they'll be on us like flies on shit if they hear a gunshot," I stated.

I had the boys and the dog bunch in close to me like before and I activated the cloaking shield to hide us. We stood there in a tight huddle and waited for the creatures to lumber down the hill to us. Hopefully, they would just waltz right on past us without ever being aware that we were standing there. Chris reached down to muffle the dog's growls as the sounds grew close enough for us all to hear. Sure enough, it was two of the hideous monsters stomping through the woods. As they got closer to us, they began to slow down until they stopped completely right in front of us, about 30 feet [10 m] away. One of them began to sniff at the air. I gulped in fear and anticipation of what was probably getting ready to happen. The alien that was sniffing turned and looked in our direction and continued to sniff. It then let out an ear-piercing sound that scared the living hell out of us. I knew then it was time to strike first.

I flipped off the cloaking shield and exposed our position to the monsters. They both roared loudly, and began to charge at us. I raised my gloved hand and the only thing I could think of was a huge shockwave to push them away, and then a burst of energy emitted from the glove and flung the aliens high into the air. They got right back up and came at us once more. This time I thought of torching them and a wave of intense heat flew from the glove, engulfing the aliens in flames.

"Shit, look out!" Chris screamed, as another monster had snuck up on us from behind and grabbed AJ.

"Adam, NO!" Josiah screamed out and, with all his might, punched the alien in the chest sending it soaring through the air. It slammed against a tree with a bone-crushing thud.

"Holy shit! You killed it!" Chris said in amazement.

"WOW! Thanks, cuz," said AJ.

"Well, well; looks like you had some unknown powers on top of the self-healing. That's cool, we can use some superman strength," I stated.

Josiah was totally amazed by his newfound ability. Then he looked at the alien he'd blasted against the tree and took on a sorrowful, worried face.

"I never killed anything before," he said, looking like he was about to cry.

"Dude, if you hadn't he would have killed me," AJ said to his cousin, as he hugged him for saving his life.

"Ok guys, enough talk, let's get our game face back on; there might be more of them out there. You hear anything Chris?" I said.

He listened for a moment before saying, "No. If they are out there, they're being super quiet."

We trudged on then in the direction of the alien base. Chris and Adam walked up front, as I draped an arm over Josiah's shoulders behind.

"Don't feel bad for killing that thing, dude. It damn sure was intent on killing us. Do you remember when it made that shrieking sound? It was calling to the other ones that it had found food. You actually did us a favor," I said to him, making him feel somewhat better about it.

By the time we crested the top of the hill, we were pretty well worn out. As bad as I didn't want to do it, we decided to hide in some bushes and take a break from the walking. We ate a quick snack, and then AJ poked his head out from the bushes to keep watch. I sat and closed my eyes to concentrate on the boy in the pit.

Are you still with us? I ask him.

Yes, please hurry, please! he begged me.

Don't worry, we're coming for you. We will be where you are soon, just try to stay alive, I thought to him.

"Derrik, come here," AJ said, excited. I crawled over next to him. "I can see the base from here. It looks like there are three aliens there and one ship. I can see six holes in the ground, too, and… oh, God!" he said, almost gagging.

"What? What else do you see?" I asked.

"A pile of bones and body parts," he said, trying not to gag. Three aliens remained between us, and the freedom of whoever was down there that might still be alive. "Wait," he said then. He took his sunglasses off and looked harder at the base. "They're all getting into the ship. Ok, it just took off. The place is unguarded right now," Adam said in excitement.

"Guys, on your feet, let's go!" I said, as we all sprang to our feet and ran the mile or so from the hilltop to the alien base.

We ran as fast as we could to try to get there before the aliens came back. It took about 20 minutes to get there due to bushes and other obstacles we had to run through and around to get there. Once we got close, we slowed to a turtle's pace with guns drawn and on our guard.

"Eyes open, guys. This could be a trick," I told them.

On we walked into the camp's confines and straight to the pits. The first one was empty. Next one had what looked to be dead deer and other large woodland animals dumped in it. Third was an open-toped pit full of processed meat for the monster's food that stunk badly. The fourth had the caged top closed and it appeared to have a few dead people in it, same for the fifth. We all slowly walked to the rim of the last pit. Its lid was also closed.

"This is our last chance guys; he has to be in there," I said.

The boys took up a defensive stance with their guns pointing at the lid to the hole. I bent over and looked down through the grill to the inside.

"Are you in there? It's Derrik. Can you hear me?" I yelled into the dark hole.

"Help me!" a small boy screamed from deep in the hole.

"Wait a minute!" AJ said.

He lowered his gun and walked over to the pit. He removed his sunglasses and looked into the darkness.

"DONNY! OH, MY GOD, DONNY!" he screamed frantically.

He dropped his rifle and tried with all his might to open the cover to the pit, the whole time screaming the name Donny.

Then Josiah said, "Donny? Holy shit it's my little cousin; it's AJ's brother!" before running over to the hole. By now, Adam was franticly screaming his brother's name and crying as he tried, to no avail, to open his prison.

"Put those new-found abilities to the test, Joe, and see if you can open that lid," I told him.

Chris and I had to literally drag the screaming and fighting AJ away from the lid so that Josiah could try to open it. I wrapped my arms around AJ to restrain him.

"Adam, let Josiah try to open it so we can get him out. Calm down, he's going to be ok now. We got him now," I said in his ear, calming him down some. We sat and watched as Josiah grasped the lid with both hands and strained to open it.

"It won't open guys. It's locked somehow," he said, sending AJ back into hysterics.

I was starting to get mad. I yelled at AJ, "Calm the fuck down, dude. Freaking out like that isn't helping us any and it's not getting him out of there any faster."

He realized what I said was right and calmed down a bit. I examined the locking device on the cage lid. I still had the glove on so I tried using it. I placed my gloved hand on the lock and thought of extreme freezing cold. Frost began to emit from the lock as the glove froze it.

"What the hell did you freeze it for?" Chris asked.

"This is why," I said, as I smacked the butt of my shotgun against the lock, shattering it into a million pieces. "Cold like that makes things break really easy," I explained to him.

Once more Josiah tried to open the lid. This time his strength paid off and the lid creaked open as he strained his small body to lift it. He dug deep down inside and, with one final grunt, flung the top all the way open.

"Tie this rope off to that tree," I said, as I wrapped the other end around my waist. I then began to descend into the pit. At the bottom was a young, very dirty, boy. Once I shined the light on him, I knew instantly he had to be AJ's brother. If he were older, he could be AJ's twin.

"Ok little buddy, I'm going to get you out of here," I told him.

He had almost no strength left at all to help me get him out as I lifted his dirt-covered body and tied the rope firmly around both of us. Then I wrapped his arms around my neck and held him belly to belly, while Josiah hauled us back up to the surface. As we approached the surface, AJ was right there waiting.

The small boy took one look up and instantly began bawling, "AJ, it is you!" he cried.

The guys pulled us out of the hole and Adam engulfed his baby brother in a tight bear hug and they both cried like babies.

"Oh God, bubby, I thought I lost you forever!" AJ cried to his baby brother.

"Guys, I don't mean to ruin your reunion, but we need to get the hell out of here. They know we're here now," I told them, as I sensed that some sort of force was approaching us from afar.

"Here, Adam, let me carry him. It'll be no sweat for me," Josiah said.

Reluctantly, AJ released the hold on his brother and Josiah scooped his little cousin up in his arms.

"Let's get the fuck out of here, now!" I said, wanting to get home.

We made a mad dash in the opposite direction from which we came into the camp, and we were on our way home. The run back to the hill was harder than it was going to the camp. We got to the area where we had encountered the aliens and their dead bodies were gone.

"Oh shit, that's not a good sign," Chris said, getting worried.

We ran a bit further on, 'til Chris warned us, "I hear something out there guys, and it sounds big."

Still, we kept running 'til we came upon what Chris had warned us of. Stopping us dead in our tracks, and standing on its hind legs, was a huge grizzly bear. The other boys grew scared, while I, on the other hand, felt a connection with the animal. I walked closer to the bear and stood directly in front of it.

"Derrik, no, it's gonna kill you!" AJ yelled.

I stared the bear right in the eye and it dropped down to its normal 4-legged position. Now it sort of whimpered, then turned and ran off. The boys stood there in total awe that it hadn't maimed me or worse.

"What the fuck was that?" Chris asked in amazement.

"I connected with its mind. I told it we weren't trying to hurt it and we were friends. It was scared is why it reared up the way it did. Once he understood we were friendly, he left. He also said he dragged the monsters off and left them in the bushes. They were fucking with his territory and he didn't like it," I said, giggling.

Once our encounter was over with, we continued on to Kingston. Somewhere in the middle of town, Donny found his voice and began to cry for his mother. He was so out of it, he had no idea what was going on, probably due to being dehydrated and not eating for so long.

"Guys, let's go in there and take a break; we need to give him a good checking over," I said to the others, as I pointed to a half-demolished house. Josiah carried his young cousin into the house with AJ right on his heels, worried about his little brother. I made a makeshift pillow from my backpack and Joe laid Donny on the floor, resting his head on the pack. Chris was one step ahead of me, thinking about taking out the first-aid kit.

"Good idea, dude, we might need it," I said, looking at Chris.

He knew I had read his mind and took the kit out of his pack. I checked the boy over thoroughly, checking for broken bones and other injuries. For the most part, he just had scrapes and bruises, but he did have a nasty gash on his inner thigh that looked like it might be infected a bit. I took his temperature and he did have a slight fever.

"He's sick, guys. He has a fever and that cut looks infected. We need to get him back to the mine. We have stuff there that might help him. There's not much we can do with this first-aid kit," I told them.

"Please, Derrik, help him. Don't let him die, PLEASE!" AJ begged me.

I placed my hand on his tear-stained cheek and assured him I'd do my best. We tried to give Donny some water and he happily sipped it, but slowly, since he was so weak.

"Let's get him back to the mine. I think we're pushing our luck being out in the open like this so much," Josiah said, making a valid point.

As we were reloading our packs and getting ready to head to the ATV, Chris interrupted us, "Shh. I heard something. Sounded like a gun cocking, but quietly," he said.

"A gun cocking? That means there's someone else alive out there," Adam said.

"Yeah, maybe, but we don't know if they're friendly or not, so be on your toes," I said, as Josiah scooped Donny's little body up and we left the ruined house.

We trekked on to the woods on the far side of town with our guard up, looking for whatever had made the sounds Chris had heard. We were about 100 feet [30 m] from the edge of town when, from behind us we heard, "Don't move."

I spun around while raising my gun and pointed it. There stood a man holding a deer rifle, pointing it at us.

"Drop the guns," he yelled at us.

"No way, dude, you put yours down," I screamed back.

I wasn't about to put my gun on the ground. The other boys were a bit more shaken by the man than I was. AJ and Chris slowly lowered their guns to the ground and raised their hands.

Again, the man yelled, "Put the damn gun down, now!"

Still I wasn't going to do it. Josiah, being in fear, lowered his cousin to the ground and as he raised back up, BOOM, the man's gun blasted. I turned to see Josiah fly backwards from a gunshot wound to his chest.

"NO! JOEY, NO!" AJ screamed at the top of his lungs, as he ran to his cousin.

At that point, I saw red. I still had the glove on and I threw the gun on the ground. I raised my hand and, with all the fury, anger, and might in me, the glove discharged a lethal blow to the man, picking him up and flinging him backwards through the air in a way that no living thing could survive. He was thrown at a neck-snapping speed over the treetops as far as the eye could see. My attention was then turned to Josiah. He was lying on his back and gasping for breath, spitting out blood.

"Oh. fuck. Hang on, Joe, don't die on us," I said, starting to freak out a bit.

Chris sat next to him holding his hand and bawling his eyes out. I took AJ's hand and placed it on Josiah's chest over the bullet hole. "Keep pressure on it," I told him. He pressed down on it and began to pray for his cousin not to die. I dug through one of the packs looking for the first-aid kit again.

"Joey, NO!" I heard AJ scream.

I ran back to him and he had stopped coughing up blood and had closed his eyes. It looked like we had lost him at that point. The three of us all broke down in tears as we looked at his body lying still. Then… surprise! He opened his eyes wide and sat up.

"That fucker ruined my shirt," Josiah said.

The three of us sat and looked at him in wide-eyed disbelief. Coughing a little, he spit out a big mouth full of foamy blood, cleared his throat, and pulled his shirt off. Realizing he was alive and ok, Chris rose to his knees and engulfed Josiah in a huge hug, kissing him all over his face. AJ sat still in disbelief. I called his name and he didn't move. He just sat and stared at Josiah.

"Adam, are you ok?" Joe asked him. Still he stared. Worried, I walked over and crouched in front of him, and then I lightly smacked him on the cheek. He began crying like a baby then.

"You didn't have to hit him that hard," Chris said, complaining to me.

"I didn't hit him hard Chris," I responded. "Adam, look at me bud. Are you ok?" I asked.

He nodded his head as he cried. I took him into my arms and he cried into my chest like a baby.

"Why is all this happening?" he said, between heavy sobs.

"I don't know bud, but it is happening, and we have to get through this together," I said to him.

As I held AJ, Josiah crawled over and gave his cousin a hug.

"Adam, I'm ok. Remember, I got those healing powers. It hurt for a second when he shot me, but it was as if I fell asleep then woke up. And when I say it hurt, damn, did it," Joe said to his cousin.

I let loose of AJ then, and he grabbed his cousin in a tight embrace.

"I love you Joey, please don't ever leave me," AJ cried. Just then, Donny began to cry again.

"AJ? Mommy? Daddy?" he moaned.

"Go to your baby bro now," Josiah said, releasing his cousin's hug.

Before tending to his brother, AJ kissed his cousin on the cheek, and smiled with teary eyes. Josiah sat there then, shirtless and smiling at Chris, who was just happy his friend was still alive. He then crawled back over to Chris and planted a good wet kiss right on his lips. I was just as glad as the boys were that Joey was still alive. I lay down on my back and took a breather. I was so drained at that point, I didn't know how I was going to go on.

"You ok Derrik?" Chris asked.

"Yeah bud. I'm just worn out. This whole thing is taking a lot out of me. I feel like I could sleep for a month, but I know I can't yet," I replied.

We rested for a bit, totally off our game at that point. Anything could have walked up on us and we wouldn't know it was there. What snapped my tired mind back to reality was when rain drops started hitting my sweaty face.

"Come on boys, let's get to the ATV, and get back to the damn mine," I said, feeling like something inside me wasn't right. I was somewhat scared, but I wasn't going to tell the others yet.

Again, Josiah carried Donny and we proceeded to the ATV. It was right where we had left it. We all piled onto it and motored on back to the mine. The trip back was much faster than the trip coming since it was daylight and we knew the way we came. About an hour and a half later, we were climbing the hill up to the mine entrance.

"We're home dudes," I said, getting little cheers from them. I stopped the ATV in front of the entrance. The dog jumped off and ran straight to the closest tree to relieve his bladder. By now, my head was pounding with the worst headache I'd ever had.

"Guys, can you unload the ATV and trailer, then unhook the trailer? I need something cold to drink," I told them, before I went ahead into the mine. Inside the safe room, I opened the cooler and pulled out a can of Pepsi from the mostly melted ice. I cracked it open and took a big drink, and the next thing I knew, I was on my back looking up at the cave roof.

"Guys, come quick, something's wrong with Derrik," I heard Josiah yell, just before I passed out.

"Derrik, Derrik, can you hear me? Come on man, wake up," I heard AJ say, just as I opened my eyes. I found myself lying in the bed, naked and clean now.

"What the fuck happened? Last thing I remember, I was drinking a pop. Now I'm in bed naked," I said.

"You passed out, dude. We're not sure what happened," Joe said.

"Yeah, remember you said yesterday that you felt tired and worn out, and when we got back home, you passed out," Chris said.

"Wait, wait, wait; yesterday? What the hell, how long was I out?" I asked.

"You've been out cold for almost 20 hours. You scared the hell out of us," Adam said.

I sat up and got my wits about me and noticed the guys all had shorts on.

"Ok, what gives with the shorts? I thought we agreed naked was ok when we're in here," I asked them.

"Well, we kind of didn't want to spill the beans to the little one yet," said Josiah, referring to Donny who was sleeping a few feet away from me.

"How is he? Has he woken up yet?" I asked.

"No, not really, he just pops up like yesterday, every now and then," AJ said, worried.

I got out of bed and stretched my now sore body. As I stood up, I noticed the others' eyes transfixed on my goodies. "Gees, like you guys never saw my dick before," I said, laughing at them.

"Well, it's just been a few days since we did anything is all," Chris said, referring to naked play time in the mine.

I walked the few feet to Donny and checked his now squeaky-clean forehead for his temperature. He felt a bit cooler now than he had yesterday so I figured his fever had broken. I then checked his leg and saw the boys had dressed it with some clean bandages. As I was inspecting his little body, I noticed that he, too, was now naked. He had a cute, slight little body resembling that of Adam's, only smaller. His small two-inch [5 cm] limp pecker, lying above two marble-sized balls, looked yummy enough to eat, but now sure wasn't the time.

"Hmm. Looks like AJ's got a mini me," I said, giggling.

"Shut up," AJ replied, laughing too.

I checked his temperature with a thermometer and it read slightly above normal, but not much.

"Guys, I'm going to try and connect with him like I did before we found him. He might wake up then," I told them. I placed my hand on his smooth cheek and temple and concentrated on him.

Can you hear me Donny? It's me Derrik. Remember me? the one who found you in the hole? I thought to him. Just then, his eyes sprang open.

"I sure do remember," he said in a sleepy little boy's voice.

"Bubby!" AJ said, as he embraced his baby brother in a hug. "Oh god, I thought you were dead. I should have come looking for you," AJ said, before starting to cry again.

"Adam, you couldn't help it; you were trapped under that house. You can't blame yourself like that," I told him.

"Yeah, just be thankful we found him alive," Josiah said.

"Joey? Is that you?" asked Donny, wide-awake now.

Joe smiled and came over to greet his little cousin. AJ took his sunglasses off to wipe his teary eyes and that's when Donny noticed his eyes.

"You're not my brother! You're another monster! HELP!" Donny began to scream and cry, fearing his brother was not real.

"Donny, it is me. Who taught you how to swim and ride your bike?" AJ asked.

"Y-You did," Donny answered.

"Bubby, it is me. It really is. I know my eyes look weird but it's a long story. If you calm down, we will tell it all to you," AJ said, holding his brother's shoulders to keep him still. "Don't be scared of my eyes; it's still me underneath. I can see a whole lot better now with these eyes, but I'm still your big bubby," AJ said to him.

He then leaned in and said something to him that only they could hear and Donny answered, "Yeah, I remember," then he grabbed his older brother around the neck and began to cry tears of joy. The moment truly touched me seeing the two of them reunited. It also made the other boys feel good since they were now teary-eyed, too.

Time went by as AJ and his brother told each other their stories of what had happened to them in the last week or so. I sat trying to take it all in as my mind wandered in a million directions at once. It had seemed like I'd had to grow up all at once, but I wasn't sure of how I was going to do this. I wasn't sure if I even wanted to. The other boys had come to depend on me as being the oldest of the group, but sometimes I wondered if it was too much pressure for a kid my age.

"Derrik, you ok?" Chris asked me again.

I opened my eyes to see him staring me in the face. "Yeah dude, I'm ok, just letting my mind drift is all," I replied.

He began to giggle and said, "Well, from how hard your pecker is, I think you got a lot on your mind." I looked down and sure enough, I had a raging boner.

I laughed and said, "Oops, I guess I do," Donny looked over and saw me and began to giggle too.

"He's got a hard one bubby, look," Donny said, laughingly to his brother.

"Don't make fun of him Don, it's not like you haven't seen a boner before," AJ scolded him.

That statement stirred my interest so I peered inside of Adam's mind and I picked up on something that I never thought I would. AJ was thinking about how he used to bathe and have fun with his little brother in the bathtub, the naughty kind of fun that is. I dove even deeper into his mind then and saw a memory of his of how he used to suck his little brother off in the bathtub when they took those baths. I didn't want to say anything to AJ about it, but now knowing this got me even harder than before. I noticed that the others had taken notice to my cock being hard. Their dicks were all hard now, too.

"Adam, can I talk to you a sec in private?" I asked.

He nodded and we walked out into the mineshaft to talk.

"Wassup?" he asked.

"Sorry, but I kinda invaded your mind. I'm sorry, and I hope you're not mad at me now, but I know about the bath-time fun," I said.

He stood there silent, not knowing what to say.

"Guess you think I'm a perv or something now, don't you?" he said, looking like he was getting upset.

"Not at all dude, I think you're a loving big brother who just wanted to make your little bro feel good," I answered. He smiled then and hugged my still nude body. I could feel his partially hard cock poking me in the thigh through his shorts. Then he looked into my eyes, smiling as I planted a small kiss on his tender lips. "You think baby bro might be up for some fun with the bigger boys?" I asked.

He smiled and said, "Maybe, but I don't want to force him or rush him into doing anything with you guys. I mean, I know he would with me and probably Joey, but he doesn't really know you or Chris yet," he said.

Seeing his point, I just said ok and we went back in the safe room. It was nearly nighttime by now and the little bit of light in the mineshaft that came from the entrance was fading.

"Guys it's getting late out there and I'm fucking hungry as hell so let's eat," I announced, and Donny fully agreed.

He gulped down two cans of Pepsi and inhaled two cans of soup, and then he burped loudly in the way only a boy of nine could, long and gross, but it still made us all laugh. We didn't want to give him too much solid food yet since he hadn't eaten any in a long time. The liquids ought to be better on his stomach, I thought. Chris and Josiah had started to play their video games while I checked through the information device we got off the dead alien.

AJ and his brother were sitting and chatting to themselves. I tried not to eavesdrop on their conversation, but I couldn't help but hear a little of it. I heard AJ telling his brother about how we had our 'fun' time, and how we all slept in the same bed area together, naked. I also heard Donny telling his brother that he didn't care because they use to sleep like that, too, sometimes.

After a little while, I noticed AJ's eye lids begin to get heavy as he was chatting with his brother. Donny, on the other hand, seemed wide-awake, probably from all the pop he drank having gotten him wired. I found a file in the info device that said holo-display. I opened the file and a huge hologram appeared in front of me, displaying information stored on the device.

Donny's eyes lit up in amazement. WOW, he mouthed without actually saying it. While I looked at the hologram, I noticed AJ sitting up against the wall, asleep. I motioned for Donny to come over and sit by me. He shook his head, no. I sensed he didn't want to because he was still naked.

"It's ok little dude, I'm naked too. You'll see all of us naked in a little while, and besides, I already saw your wiener," I told him, laughing.

He finally said, 'what the hell', slid the blanket off him, crawled over, and sat his little naked body next to mine. He looked up at me and smiled, blushing.

"Little bud you can do just about whatever you want now. There's no adult to tell us no now. So if you want to be naked all the time you can," I told him.

"Ok, but maybe not all the time, 'cus this floor is kinda cold," he said, giggling.

I couldn't help but notice how much he looked like his brother when he smiled, aside from AJ having the devil-eyes. Donny had beautiful blue eyes, similar to the green ones his brother once had. I showed him how to mess with the hologram to make it move around and change shape, then I went over to his big brother.

"AJ, hey bud, wake up and get undressed so you can lie down," I told him quietly, as I shook him gently awake.

He stretched his body and began to undress then. Donny's eyes were locked on his brother as he stripped naked to lie down. As soon as Adam's head hit the pillow, he was softly snoozing. Poor kid had had a rough day. I hoped that was all it was. Then I noticed Chris yawning, which seemingly was contagious since Josiah then started to yawn as well.

"Guys, why don't you get ready for bed," I suggested.

Not about to disagree, they both began to undress for bed. Chris stood up and slid his shorts and undies down and stretched as he stood back up with is arms over his head. Donny's eyes were locked on the other two boys now, as they took their clothes off for bed. He noticed me watching him stare at the others and then got red in the face, as he grew embarrassed.

"Nothing to be shy over, little dude, we all stare at each other, and then some," I said, poking him gently in the ribs making him giggle. He seemed to like being tickled since he squealed like a little toddler as I poked his ribs. He got to the point where he was short of breath and I stopped to let him catch his breath again. "I gotta pee now," he said, still half giggling.

"I'll take him, I need to go myself," Chris volunteered. "C'mon little guy, let's go pee on a tree," Chris said, smiling.

"Are we gonna go naked?" Donny asked.

"Why not? Not like any one is going to see you out there," I mentioned.

Donny took Chris's hand then and the two of them ventured out into the dark mineshaft. Outside the entrance, the two of them stood next to each other and pissed on the same tree.

"It's scary out here," Donny whispered in the dark.

"It's okay little guy. If someone or something was out here, I would hear it. I got super sensitive hearing and I can smell stuff better than you and the others can, too," Chris explained.

Hearing Chris explain that, Donny felt reassured about the dangers of the night. They walked back into the safe room to see the rest of the boys lying in the bed. The bed was barely big enough as it was for the four boys, but now with Donny it was going to be cramped.

"I think a trip to town is going to be a must tomorrow," I said.

"Why's that?" Chris asked.

"Well we need to get Donny some clothes for one thing. We can't have him running around naked all the time. Plus, we need to expand the bed a little bit more now, too," I told them.

Chris lay down in his usual spot and Donny stood waiting to be told where he would sleep. He looked so cute standing there nude with his milky skin and cute face looking like the cat that ate the canary. He looked good enough to eat, especially his tender 2-inch [5 cm] limp mushroom hanging over his small tight little ball sack. The sight of him standing there like that got me hard very quickly. Donny noticed my little friend spring to attention and began to giggle.

"Your wiener got hard again," he chuckled, pointing at my dick.

"So? Get used to it, kiddo; you'll probably see a lot of stuff like that with us," I explained to the younger boy. He simply shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "Ok, now I guess we need to get you a place to crash, don't we. How about you sleep next to your big bro?" I suggested to him.

It seems he thought it was a good idea because he walked over to the far side of the bed and lay down next to AJ, on the small bit of bed area left. As soon as Adam felt warmth against his body, he draped his arm over his little brother and pulled him against his chest.

"Love you," I heard him say in his sleep. Somehow, he knew his brother was now with him, even in his sleep.

I messed up the little guy's hair then, and pulled the blanket over them. Once I was in my spot on the bed, it was indeed a tight fit for us. I lay on my side and snuggled up to Chris who was on his way to dream land. I couldn't help but give his small tool a quick squeeze just to let him know I still cared. He smiled instantly when he felt my grip. I was going to give him a bit of a thrill, but exhaustion was winning me over at that point so I gave him a few short strokes then released him.

"Maybe tomorrow," I whispered in his ear, making him smile again. I kissed him on the cheek, and then we were off to sleep ourselves.

Chapter 10
New Clothes… and Illness

Beep, beep, beep, my watch called out in the morning, waking me from a very deep slumber.

"Fuck, 8 a.m. already?" I groaned, as I shut the alarm off. I flicked a flashlight on and sat up trying to get my wits back. Lucky saw me and began to whine. He needed his morning time outside with his favorite tree.

"Gotta go out boy?" I asked, and he whimpered.

I got out of bed and was going to the door when I heard Donny say, "Can I go too, I need to pee."

"Sure, come on kiddo," I told him, lighting the way for him to walk over to me. Naked, we walked out to the entrance of the mine with the dog to relieve our bladders from the night. Lucky, of course, went on his favorite tree, while Donny and I stood next to each other and pissed.

"Guess where we're going today?" I asked him. He shrugged his shoulders. "We're going to Walmart to get you some clothes and stuff. I know their clothes suck, but it's all we got right now," I said to him.

"Cool. Can I get some toys?" he begged.

"I guess so, as long as it's not a bunch or anything big. We only have so much room on the ATV to haul stuff," I explained to him. He was all smiles then. "We're also going to get some more stuff to make our bed bigger, unless you want to make a bed of your own. You don't have to sleep with the rest of us if you don't want to," I told him.

"It's ok, me and bubby use to share a bed all the time," he explained.

Made me wonder what else the brothers shared in life. I watched then as he shook the last few drops off his pecker, half-hard from having morning wood. He looked to be maybe about 2.5 to 3 inches [7 cm] long if he was fully hard. Just the thought of it made me bone-up all the way. He saw it and giggled at me.

"What? It's just morning wood," I said, laughing.

"I know, bubby has it all the time, too, when he wakes up. I do, too, sometimes," the little guy told me. Hearing how his cock would get hard sometimes made me even hornier.

"Hey, why don't you go back inside and wait on the other guys to wake up. I'm going to stay out here with Lucky for a few minutes so he can finish his business," I told him, pointing to the dog as he was squatting to drop a turd. He agreed and walked back in the mine with the flashlight.

My real reason for wanting to stay outside was so I could relieve the built-up pressure in my cock from seeing Donny's hot little nude body. I wrapped my fingers around it and began to pound away at it. I stroked as fast as I could, thinking about how good it would be to taste Donny's little pecker sliding into my mouth. In no time, I tensed up and spasms of pleasure ripped through my body. I had to grab a nearby tree branch to keep from falling to the ground when my legs got all wobbly. I stood there as the orgasm wave washed over me and I drifted back to my senses.

"Holy shit, that was great!" I panted, and I now knew I had to have the small boy's dick. I had to figure some way to get him alone with me for a long enough time. Damn, why didn't I think of that before, I thought to myself. The trip to Walmart would be perfect to get to know Donny a little better.

Just then I heard, "Hey Derrik," from behind me, making me jump a little.

Josiah and Chris came walking outside, naked, to relieve themselves as well. As they pissed next to each other and yawned, I told them, "Guys, I'm going to take Donny into town today and get him some clothes and things. I'm also getting some more blankets and stuff. It's starting to get chilly around here at night."

"Who all is going with you?" Chris asked.

"Just me and the little guy, there's no need for everyone to go. Besides, I figured you two and AJ might want to have some fun while we're away," I said, winking at them. They got the hint instantly and smiled evilly. Back in the mine, AJ had woken up but felt lousy.

"What's wrong, Adam?" Josiah asked.

"Don't know, I just feel rough for some reason," he replied.

"Ok then, you better just relax for now. Are you hurting or what?" I asked him.

"Yeah, a little, my stomach hurts," he replied.

"Ok well, I'm going to take your little bro to town to get him some clothes and some more bedding. I guess I can stop by the pharmacy and get you something for your tummy ache, too," I said, as he lay back down.

The other three boys just dug through our food stores to find a quick breakfast as I chatted with AJ, then I knelt down next to him and told him, "Dude, don't get real sick. I don't know what I can do for you if you do. I was gonna take your brother with me so you and the other guys can have some fun together. I know you guys have been through hell the last few days so you need a bit of pleasure. Just don't overdo it while I'm gone," I said, quiet enough so only he could hear me.

I know Chris also heard because of his super hearing, but he respected us and didn't say anything. I then patted him on the head to let him know I cared and went to get up. Before I could though, he grabbed me around the neck and hugged me tightly.

"Thank you for finding Donny. I don't know how I can ever repay you," he said, now with tears in his eyes.

"Don't worry about it, dude. Just get some rest and take it easy," I told him. Then I had a few words with Josiah and Chris. "Guys he doesn't feel very well. Don't let him over exert himself while I'm gone. Oh, yeah, one last thing; why don't you two show him a good time while I'm gone, too." They instantly got the hint and started to grin.

I dug through our clothes and found the smallest pair of shorts that Chris had.

"Ok, Donny-boy, let's see if these fit you. Chris is the smallest one next to you, and these are the smallest clothes we have," I told him.

He stood in front of me, still naked, and stepped one foot at a time into the shorts. I pulled them up around his waist and let go. Just as I thought they would, they fell straight to the floor, since they were too big. The other boys were a riot, laughing. Donny got an embarrassed look on his face then.

"It's okay, big boy, they're just jealous 'cause your pecker's bigger'n theirs," I told him, making him smile.

The others were giving me weird looks as if I'd insulted them. I looked at them and winked, and they finally got the point that I was joking to make him feel better. I pulled the shorts back up around Donny's waist, and he held them there this time, as I took some tape we got from the hardware store and wrapped it around his waist to hold the shorts up. This time when he let go, they stayed on him. They hung half way down past his knees they were so big. Normally they were at Chris's knee-level. For a shirt, we just put one of Chris's t-shirts on him.

Then I got dressed, and in no time, we were heading down the hill on the ATV, and into town. As we rode through town, Donny couldn't believe the devastation the aliens had caused in our world.

"Wow, everything is all tore up. All the houses are knocked down," he exclaimed, in awe and horror.

"Yeah, they really did a number on the Earth, from what we can tell. But it's not all bad, we have some friends out there," I told him.

"Friends?" he questioned, so I went on to tell him about the good aliens, and about how the other boys and I had gotten our special abilities.

"So that's how my bubby got those weird eyes?" he asked. I nodded yes. "Wow, wish I had super powers," he said, sounding a little jealous.

"You do. You have more will power than any person I have ever seen before to survive in that death camp as long as you did," I told him.

"Really? You think I got special power?" he asked.

"Yep, you have one of the most special ones of all," I told him, making him smile.

Soon we arrived in front of the Walmart. As we went inside, it was clear to me that someone else had been there besides the boys and me. All the cash registers had been broken open and had no money in them. I wondered what kind of moron would take money, of all things, now that it meant absolutely nothing; it was worthless now. I kept this to myself as we walked further into the store.

"Ok, dude, let's get you some clothes first, then some shoes, and then on to the goodies in the toy aisles," I said, making him jump for joy.

First stop was the underwear. Being only nine, he still preferred tighty-whiteys, so we had to figure out what size he wore.

"Go ahead and drop those shorts so we can try these on you," I told him, as I opened a pack of undies. He yanked the shorts down and stepped out of them, but was still covered up by Chris's shirt, since it was as long as a nightgown. "Ok, I guess you should probably lose the shirt, too, 'cus it's just gonna get in the way," I told him.

"What if someone sees?" he asked, being modest, since we were in public.

"Donny, there's no one else here to see you, besides me," I pointed out to him.

Looking around first to make sure the coast was clear; he pulled the shirt up and over his head, rendering him completely nude. Seeing him naked like that made my dick grow a little in my shorts. I knelt down in front of him and helped him with the briefs.

"These are too tight," he said, sliding them back off. I grabbed another pack next up in size and we tried again. I slid them up to his groin, and then with a little help from my wandering fingers, got his tender little two-incher [5 cm] to slip inside them. He giggled as I adjusted them on him.

"What?" I asked.

"That tickled my wiener," he responded, but he didn't sound like he minded it too much. Deciding to take a chance, I reached out my fingers and began to tickle the small lump in the front of his new briefs. He giggled a bit, then stopped, and just smiled broadly at me.

"Like it?" I asked. He nodded yes and kept smiling. I kept on rubbing him and he grew to his full size inside the undies. "Can I see how big it is now?" I asked. He nodded and placed his fingers in the waist of the briefs and pulled the front down. There before me was a beautiful mushroom-headed three-inch [7 cm] boner. I wanted so badly to sink it into my mouth, but I held myself back. Instead, I reached up and massaged the tip a bit with my fingers. His smile didn't fade completely, but it was replaced with a look of relaxation. I could tell the little AJ clone loved it.

"Feel good now?" I asked. Again, he nodded yes. Now I stopped for a sec and he opened his eyes as I pulled the briefs back down to his ankles. He stood there waiting as I again began to massage his stiff boy-tool. This time I wrapped my fingers around his skinny shaft and gently stroked him.

"Gosh, that's better than when bubby did it," he mumbled. I knew it! He just let the cat out of the bag, I thought to myself, since he had just confirmed that he and AJ had had some sort of sex play together in the past.

Now I began to speed up my stroking and his breathing became deeper and a bit faster. He was definitely getting into it now. When I looked up and saw his closed eyes and his half-open mouth, I couldn't help myself any more. My fingers took his rod by its base and I sank my mouth over it. He moaned slightly as the warmth and tightness of my lips met the tender skin of his boy-cock. His hands instantly found the top of my head and I guided his dick in and out of my mouth. I had my hands on his smooth butt cheeks, gripping and forcing them forward to thrust his member into my mouth.

"Oh my gosh, I gotta pee!" he started to say, just as an orgasm wracked his small body with waves of pleasure. He forced his dick as hard and deep as he could into my mouth as his body tensed up from the pleasure. Five more times he forced it into my mouth 'til he almost collapsed to the floor, as the last wave swept over him. I held him in my arms as he breathed hard and deep with his eyes closed.

"Oh my gosh," he repeated, "what was that?" he asked, referring to the orgasm.

"It's called an orgasm; wasn't it great?" I said. He nodded yes, with his eyes still closed trying to catch his breath.

"Can we do it again?" he asked.

"Not just now. Maybe later on, if the time is right," I said, laughing at his question. His first time getting off and he's already hooked on it. We sat there on the floor a while, with him on my lap, as he came back to earth.

"So, little buddy, how'd you like that?" I asked.

"I loved it. I never felt nothing like that before. Me and bubby use to play around in the shower, but he never sucked on me that way before," Donny replied.

"Glad you liked it," I told him, as I gave his now limp pecker a tickle, making him squeal. "Ok, kiddo, let's get these undies back on you and get you some clothes of your own," I said.

About an hour later, we had a cart full of new clothes, just for him. He'd picked out new shoes, shirts, shorts, etc. Then it was on to his favorite part of the store, the toy department.

Much to the little guy's dismay, the roof had collapsed on top of the toy department.

"Oh, man! Now I can't get no toys!" he whined. We picked through what shelves we could reach and he scavenged a few things he wanted and tossed them in the cart. Now that I had Donny's shopping done, we went to find more blankets and padding to make the bed in the mine bigger. By the time we were through, the cart was piled over the top with free merchandise.

"Come on, Donny, let's get out of here," I told him, as we headed for the entrance to leave.

***

Back at the cave, the boys were having a little free time to themselves. Not feeling so hot, AJ was napping on the bed while Chris and Josiah were starting to feel a little frisky.

"You wanna do it?" Joe asked.

"You know it. Let's suck each other," Chris answered him.

With that, the boys smiled in agreement, and got into the classic 69 position. In seconds, they had each other's hard little tools in their mouths. This went on for a few minutes before the obvious sucking and moaning sounds woke AJ from his nap.

"Hey, no fair; I wanna do it, too," he whined, as he rapidly got hard

Chris popped Joe's dick from his mouth and said, "Ok, I got an idea. How about we all suck each other at the same time?"

The cousins, not seeming to mind the idea, agreed to it and the three of them got in a circle, laying on the bed, and formed a daisy chain to suck each other off, with Chris sucking Josiah, Josiah sucking Adam, and Adam sucking Chris, all at the same time. This was a new experience for them and they loved every second of it. The thrill of all of this seemed to do its trick and all three boys seemed to start their orgasms at almost the same time. They forced their hard boy-cocks into each other's mouths, moaning heavily, as the cocks twitched in their mouths. They all collapsed in a heap on the bed, panting and heaving, and coming back to earth from the great pleasure they had just given to each other.

"Holy hell, you can suck good!" Chris told AJ, smiling at him.

"Yeah, so do you Joey," AJ told his cousin.

"Yeah and Chris is never bad," Josiah said, giggling.

They laughed and joked for a while, lying on the bed in a naked heap. About an hour into this, they decided to copy the activities of earlier, only changing position this time so they sucked the other boy. They sucked away on each other, and just like the first time, got off in each other's mouths very intensely. This time, however, the giggling and carrying on was cut short.

"Oh… Ow!" AJ cried out.

"What's wrong Adam? You ok?" Josiah asked his cousin.

"My stomach, oh, god it hurts!" he cried, with tears forming in his eyes. He lay on his side clutching his mid-section tightly. Not knowing what to do, Chris and Josiah tried their best to help and comfort AJ 'til Derrik got back, feeling bad somehow, because they thought they had caused his pain by having the sex play with him.

***

Coming through town with Donny on the ATV, we made one last stop at the drug store to find something for AJ's tummy ache. I grabbed anything on the shelf that was stomachache-related and tossed it into a big bag. Not really knowing anything about medicine myself, I grabbed a bunch of medical books, too. As I was walking out the door, I decided to grab two more items that were small, but special indeed. I got back on the ATV and tossed the bag full of meds in the back.

"Why did you go in there?" Donny asked me.

"To get your brother something for his upset tummy; he wasn't feeling good when we left. Oh yeah, I got us a special medicine, too," I answered him. Then I reached into my pocket for the two things I had grabbed on the way out.

"Cool, a sucker!" Donny cheered, as I pulled the candy out, one for him and one for me.

"It'll be our secret, ok?" I told him. He nodded as he happily unwrapped it and popped it in his mouth.

We rode back through the woods on our way back to the mine, and as we got closer, I picked up a sensation of great pain.

"Something's wrong," I said out loud.

"What?" the little guy asked.

"We have to get back to the mine fast," I said, as I pushed the gas pedal on the ATV to the floor. I had never driven the vehicle at that speed but safety was not on my mind as we tore up the hill to the mine entrance. As we came up to it, I slammed on the brakes, jarring Donny, and turned the engine off.

"Come inside, now!" I told him, as I grabbed the bag of medicine and ran inside. "What's wrong?" I said loudly, as I ran inside the safe room, there to see two naked boys hovering around a prone third, and looking very worried.

I ran over to where AJ lay in great pain on the bed, with tears streaking down his cheeks.

"What's wrong with my bubby?" Donny asked, as he began to cry.

"Joe, I want you and Chris to get dressed and take him outside with the dog. He's scared, and I know you guys are too. He doesn't need to see his brother like this, and I have to figure out if he's going to be ok," I told them quietly.

Donny stood in the doorway crying his little eyes out, while I tended to his brother.

"Come on Donny-boy, let's take the dog out. AJ will be ok, now Derrik is here," Josiah told his cousin, as he took his hand to lead him out of the mine. I wished that these guys wouldn't put so much pressure on me to come through for them all the time. I wasn't that much older than they were.

I knelt down next to AJ and asked, "How're you feeling, bud?"

"My stomach hurts so bad; it feels like someone is stabbing me or something," he answered. I grabbed the bag of goodies from the drug store and dug out one of the books. I thumbed through it and found the section on stomach pains. As I read it, I asked AJ questions. One question seemed to answer all for me though.

"Have you eaten anything unusual in the last day or two?" I asked.

"Yeah, I ate some berries a little while before we found Donny," he told me. He described them to me and the book said they were poisonous.

"Fuck dude, those were poison berries. That's why you're hurting so bad. The book says we need to get them out of your system. Have you thrown up or anything?" I asked.

"No," he cried, with a scared look on his face.

"Well, bud, we need to get you outside so you can puke those things out," I told him, as I helped him to his feet. I helped him to go outside the mine so he could empty out his stomach. The others were all sitting on the ATV, looking worried about Adam, when we came out. Donny, being scared for his brother, ran to his side.

"Bubby, bubby, are you ok?" he whined.

"Yeah, Donny, just go sit with Joey, I'll be fine," he tried his best to say, braving through the pain. Donny did as his big brother told him and we lumbered over to a tree.

"How do I do this?" he asked.

"Open your mouth," I told him. He did, and before he knew what to do, I stuck my finger in his throat making him gag and throw up. He heaved a few more times and just as he told me, some undigested berries came out. I sat his naked body down, and leaned him against another tree, as the puking ordeal had tapped his strength. He was breathing heavy, now, and trying not to cry. He wanted to look strong for his brother.

"Chris, run inside and bring out some clean water," I ordered. In a flash, he ran in and retrieved the water. "Here, drink this; we need to get some fluids back in you. I'm afraid you're going to have to do it again. We gotta get all those berries out," I told him, wiping the sweat off his pale forehead. He drank the water but didn't want to throw up again. I told him there was no choice. Again, I helped him up and as before, he puked from my gagging him with a finger in the throat. This time, mostly water with just a few more berry fragments, came out.

This time the throwing up weakened him so much he nearly passed out. He dropped to his knees and fell into my arms.

"I got you; I got you, dude," I said, holding onto him. Then I scooped his sweaty, naked body up, and carried him back inside. He had zero strength left and his body was like a rag doll. I laid him down on the bed and saw that he looked very pale. I got some Pepto from the drug store bag, and poured some in his mouth.

"Come on, dude, I know it's gross but you have to swallow it," I told him. He complied and swallowed it all. Then I sensed the most dreadful thing coming from him.

"No, you're not gonna die. We're not gonna let you. You can't die 'cus you got a reason to live now; Donny," I told him, after reading his thoughts of passing away. I tried my best to be the tough guy, but inside I was dying knowing he'd wondered such a thing.

Minutes went by, turning into hours, as we kept watch on Adam. He would fall in and out of consciousness periodically, due to being so weak. We kept watch on him and kept his body wiped off since he was sweating so badly. Donny never left his side after we got him back in bed. He even fell asleep next to him. Seeing the two of them sleeping next to each other like that made me think about how much the two of them looked alike and how they truly did love each other. It also made me think about my own family and all the friends I'd never get to see again. It broke my heart to the point that I had to leave the room.

I walked outside the entrance and broke down into tears. The thoughts and feelings of losing every single person and thing I loved was a lot for a kid my age to take and I guess I had reached the breaking point. I sat on the ground and just cried like a baby, not knowing what else to do. It was bad enough having to survive after what had happened to the World, but having to help these other kids to survive was a lot to ask of a kid like me.

"You ok?" a voice said, as I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I knew it was Chris. I didn't know what to say to him. I just looked at him through the tears in my eyes, my chin still quivering.

"I know it's hard Derrik. I feel just as bad as you do, but I can't change what's happened. All we can do now is live and try to be happy with our lives," he said, kneeling next to me. Hearing him, I knew he was right, but the pain would always be there. I wrapped the smaller boy up in my arms and we just held each other and cried together. He felt my pain and knew what I was thinking. Sometimes I thought he was the one that got the sensory gift from the alien and not me.

"Thanks," was all I could think of to say to him. After a period of sobbing and holding each other, I pulled myself together and dried my eyes. I sat with him and chatted for a few minutes until Josiah came out to join us.

"How's he doing?" Chris asked about AJ.

"Sleeping; Donny's still lying with him," he answered. While we were enjoying the fresh air, thoughts of other problems from the present began to creep into my mind. Thoughts of needing to replenish our food supply, thoughts of what to do when the weather turned cold, thoughts of avoiding the monsters now that they were aware of our being in the area. Not to mention all the other hormone-driven thoughts racing through my mind that were driving me crazy.

"Guys, I think that alien is going to end up making me insane with the ability he gave me," I said to the boys. "I can't get my mind to slow down for ten seconds so I can just chill out. I'm always thinking about something. I mean, it doesn't even stop when I try to sleep. I keep having these visions or bad dreams or whatever they are," I went on, telling them.

"Visions of what?" Joe asked.

"I don't know. I'm not sure if it's things that have happened, things that will, or just my damned imagination making me crazy. I keep seeing worlds that those monsters have destroyed and things like that," I answered.

The boys and I went on about our problems for a while just relaxing outside the mine. About an hour later, Donny came out to join us rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Hey little cuz, how's AJ?" Josiah asked him.

"He's still sleeping," Donny said, as he came to stand directly in front of me. "Is my brother going to be ok?" he asked me, with a serious look on his too young face. It seemed we were all growing up too quickly.

"He should be little guy. He ate those berries yesterday and they were poisonous. Now that we got some of them out of his system, he should be ok in a day or two," I told the nine-year-old.

Nodding thanks, he went and sat down next to Josiah, and leaned against him. My guess was that Joe and the brothers were very close by the way Josiah and Donny were acting.

"Guys, I'm going in to check on AJ. Chris, keep an ear out for trouble," I said, before going back in the mine.

I checked Adam's temperature and it had dropped a bit more. He was no longer sweating. I pulled the blanket back up over his tummy to his chest and sat down next to him on the bed. Apparently, he was sleeping well, since he had a nice-looking tent going where his dick would be. I smiled as my own dick swelled a bit from the sight. I thought for a second about pulling the blanket down to give him a great-feeling dream, but decided not to so he could rest. I closed my eyes to rest for a moment, next to him on the bed. The next thing I knew, Chris was kneeling next to me, shaking me.

"Derrik, wake up! Dammit, wake up!" He was speaking sternly, but not yelling.

"Wha… what? Huh?" I muttered, not knowing what the hell was going on. From my perspective, I had just closed my eyes for a second. In actuality, I had fallen asleep and been there for nearly two hours next to AJ. I glanced over at him and saw that he was now awake and looking better.

"Derrik, wake up!" Chris said again.

"I'm awake. What is it?" I asked.

"I'm not sure what it is, but I hear something coming. It sounds like it's walking on two feet. I heard crunching sounds like leaves and twigs being stepped on," he answered. I went from partially awake to full-on alert in a second.

"Boys, show time, get the guns. Joe, stay in here with AJ and Donny. Chris and I are going to wait in the entrance," I gave AJ a pistol and Josiah grabbed a shotgun. Chris and I both took rifles and I also grabbed the Glove of Doom, then headed for the mine entrance.

"Hear anything?" I asked Chris in a low tone.

"Yeah, lots. Whatever it is, it's not trying to be quiet. It sounds like it's running; and dude, it's on two legs, so it's not an animal," he answered, cocking his rifle, getting ready to fire. I slid the glove on and instantly felt a tingly sensation in my body.

"Chris, I got an idea. I wonder if this thing can make like a force field that looks like the side of the hill to hide the mine entrance," I said.

"Cool idea; let's see if it works," he said.

I concentrated hard on what I wanted the glove to do and the next thing I knew, the light coming through the cracks of the boards covering the entrance became shaded.

"Looks like it did something," Chris said.

It definitely did something. I felt a bit of strength being sapped from my body. Then Chris raised his gun to a firing position, and pointed it towards the entrance. I could hear the footsteps growing close, myself. It walked right up to the entrance and peered through the cracks in the boards. What I saw then, left me in shock.

Chapter 11
The Soldier

There, standing not five feet [1½ m] away was a man. Not just a man, but a man in full military gear. He was looking around with his gun in a firing position. We could only assume he was being chased by something. He was breathing heavily and looked tired.

"Chris! It's a fucking soldier! A human one!" I said quietly, but with excitement.

"Dude, I smell a monster coming, too. It must be chasing him," Chris answered.

The soldier then turned and walked about ten feet [3 m] away, and I decided we had better help him before he got killed. I walked through the force field to get him. I looked back after I walked through it and, sure enough, you couldn't see the mine entrance; it just looked like the hillside.

"Hey, over here," I said softly. The man turned and pointed the machine gun right at me. I held my hands out to let him know I meant no harm. He lowered it once he saw I was human. I beckoned him to follow me.

"This way, in here," I told him before I walked into the mine.

From what he could tell, I had just walked right through a rock wall. He stood, not knowing what he had just seen. I stuck my head and arm back through to wave at him to follow me. This time, on faith, he followed me into the dark mine. He stopped once he was inside and scanned around the gloom with his gun. I showed him I was there and he lowered his gun. I then put a finger to my lips to let him know to be quiet.

"What's chasing you?" I asked him quietly.

"One of the aliens. It's hot on my tracks," the soldier answered.

Just then Chris waived his hand to signal us to be quiet. He then pointed to the entrance to tell us it was outside. All three of us then took a position, with the guns pointing at the entrance. I peeked through the boards again to see an alien sniffing at the air. Suddenly it turned and faced the mine.

"Chris, how many of those things did you hear?" I asked in a whisper.

He stuck up one finger to tell me he'd heard only one. Not wanting to open fire with the guns and give away our position, I lowered my gun, and pointed the glove at the entrance. This time I wanted to turn the tables on the aliens.

"Get ready, but hold your fire until you have to shoot," I told them.

Suddenly I dropped the force field revealing us to the alien. It started to let out a sound but was stopped very quickly by my actions. I used the glove in combination with my mind to grab the monster by its throat and stop it from calling to others. I used an invisible force to hold him there by the neck. I walked up to it to get some answers.

"Why are you here?" I asked it.

It let out some noises totally not understandable by either Chris or the soldier, but I knew exactly what it was saying.

Its answer to my question was, "To conquer you."

"Conquer us? My friend, you totally underestimated the human race," I told it.

Again, it began to make noises choked by my mental grip on its throat.

"There is no hope for you. Your kind will all die," the monster said, this time through its thoughts.

Hearing that made me show this thing exactly what suffering was. My mind lifted it off the ground into the air and let it dangle there as my grip on its throat increased. It began to flop and writhe around in agony, as I slowly strangled it to death. Finally, I ended its suffering by crushing its neck area making it instantly fall to the ground, dead. I then forced the monster through the air and flung it a great distance away. Once the glove had released its hold on the creature and my mind's energy returned to normal, I fell to one knee, breathing heavily.

"You okay, kid?" the soldier asked me.

I nodded yes, trying to catch my breath.

"You guys have a place to hide?" the soldier asked.

"Yeah, you're in it. We have a room right back here," Chris told him. Then the soldier, with no effort, scooped me up in his arms and followed Chris, carrying me to the safe room.

"Guys; it's us. We're coming in. Don't shoot. We got some company," Chris announced to the others. Once inside the room he lay me down on the bed next to AJ.

"How long have you kids been hiding in here?" the man asked.

"Since all this happened," Chris answered him.

"Wow! I can't believe you guys have made it this long on your own," the soldier said. "Anyone want to explain just exactly what happened out there?" he asked.

As I lay next to AJ, I again fell into a deep sleep from using the glove in a rage. I woke up sometime later to see the boys all sitting and talking with the soldier.

"What's going on? What happened?" I asked.

"You passed out. I'm Sergeant James Williams, U.S. Army Rangers," the soldier said.

"How did you get out there all alone like that?" I asked rubbing my sleepy eyes.

"I was part of a unit sent out here to assess the damage done by the aliens and search for survivors. My unit was attacked by surprise and everyone was killed but me," he answered. He was now sitting propped against the wall opposite the doorway, with his body armor and gear off.

"Here you go," Josiah said, handing him a PB&J sandwich.

"Thanks. I haven't had any real food for days now," the man answered. As I became more awake, I noticed the man wasn't that old, maybe in his mid-twenties. It was at that point he noticed AJ's eyes.

"God-damn kid, what happened to your eyes?" he asked in amazement.

"That's a long and probably unbelievable story," I replied.

"Kid, I never thought I'd live to see aliens invade the Earth. Right now, I'm open to anything you want to tell me," the soldier said.

I went on to tell him our whole story up to that day. He sat and listened in amazement, but believing everything I told him.

"You guys know what? Before the invasion, I would have called all of you crazy. But now, I believe every word of it," the man said.

We sat there, well into the night, talking and discussing all things of consequence about our future survival. About midnight everyone except the soldier and I was asleep.

"Why don't you get some rest; it's safe in here for the most part. They can't use their scanners in the mine," I told him.

Taking my advice, the man lay down using his pack as a pillow. Luckily for me he had unloaded most of its contents on the ground before falling asleep. I picked through it, being nosy, trying to find some kind of information that might help us out.

I came across a small map that had several locations marked on it. One was my home town which had a big red X over it along with several other locations on the map. I could only assume that it meant those places were destroyed.

There was one location on the map that was fairly close that wasn't crossed out yet. I looked through his notes and found out it was an old orphanage about fifteen miles [25 km] away. I remembered the place right away. I always thought it was some old rich person's house I saw set back from the road. I had ridden past it many times before in my parents' car. I never knew, 'til now, that it was an orphanage.

I studied his documents and made notes to myself of important things that might come up in the future. Sometime during the night, I again fell back asleep, this time lying on the mine floor itself.

"Derrik, you awake?" I heard a voice saying, while someone was shaking me awake. I opened my eyes to see Donny's little face looking at me.

"Yeah little dude, what's up?" I asked.

"I gotta pee," he replied. I looked at my watch and it said almost eight a.m. I sat up, feeling the pains of sleeping on the bare ground. My whole body was sore, and I had a chill.

"Ok bud, come on. Let's go pee," I told the kid.

I stood up and stretched my stiff body and noticed something else was stiff, too. Donny also noticed and giggled a little bit. I smiled to him and whispered in his ear, "Yeah, we know what those are for, don't we?" He smiled really big and giggled a bit.

We went outside to relieve ourselves. Today was a wet, cloudy day. There was a light drizzle in the air and the temperature was cooler than the day before. Not caring about the weather, Donny pulled out his little pecker and let the urine fly. I stood next to him and pulled out my stiff half-hard dick and let fly myself.

"Maybe we'll get to have some fun with these again soon," I said to the younger boy, as I reached over and touched his penis lightly.

"Yeah, that would be cool. I liked that," he replied, talking about the fun we'd had at Walmart. We finished our business and went back inside to find AJ awake.

"Hi bubby, how ya feelin?" Donny asked his big brother.

"Better, dude. Hey Derrik, will you get me some shorts and stuff so I can go pee? I don't want that dude to see me naked and stuff," he said, referring to the soldier.

I dug out a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and tossed them to him. As he stood up to zip the shorts up, I noticed he too, had some morning wood.

"Better watch that zipper. Don't zip your pecker up in it," I told him since he didn't have underwear on.

He took my advice and gently zipped the shorts, avoiding his cock. I stopped him and looked down into his devilish eyes.

"You feel better?" I asked.

"Yeah, really, lots better," he replied.

Then I rubbed the top of his cute head, and he smiled as he walked out to the mine entrance to piss. As I sat back down, I felt a definite chill in my body, like I couldn't get warm.

"Does it feel cold in here to you?" I asked Donny. He shook his head no.

Then I heard, "Nope, it's just right in here. You must be catching a cold," the man said as he sat up from his slumber.

"I noticed you sleeping on the bare floor last night and tried to wake you, but you wouldn't budge. You must be catching a cold now," he said.

Sitting up, the soldier started to slide his boots back on. As he was getting his gear back together, AJ walked back in, startling the man. He raised his gun and pointed it at Adam. AJ froze instantly and put his hands up in fear.

"Shit! Sorry about that, kid. It's just you get jumpy when you do my line of work," the soldier apologized.

Breathing a sigh of relief, AJ sat down next to his brother. By now Joe and Chris were stirring awake. Not really knowing the man yet, we had decided to sleep in our clothes; except for AJ who was already naked when the man first came into the mine. All of us were modest kids and really didn't want an adult to see us naked, especially one we didn't really know.

"So, what's on the agenda for the day, guys?" the soldier asked.

"Well, I was thinking about maybe going into town and bringing back some food and supplies," I told him.

"Okay, how about I go with you?" he suggested.

I agreed and we got ready to go.

"Guys, food run, okay? We'll be back in a few hours," I told them.

By now the others knew the drill to be on guard since not all of us were going to be in the mine.

Sergeant Williams and I got on the ATV and headed into town. This time we'd have to depend on our own senses, since Chris didn't come along with his super ears and nose. I brought the glove along, even though I was starting to think it was bad for my health to use it. We went through town checking things out before going to the grocery store.

"Oh man, someone's been here, too," I said looking at the food on the floor.

"What do you mean 'here, too'?" the soldier asked.

"Well, the other day we were in the Walmart and someone had been in there rummaging through stuff and it wasn't us that did it," I explained. Seeing my point, he raised his gun into a firing position and we checked the store out. Once we were sure it was empty, we loaded up a few carts with food.

"I haven't had any real food in weeks now," he repeated. I asked what he meant.

"I have been eating MRE's [meals ready to eat, K-rations, in other words] for weeks now," he replied.

He knew what kinds of food we needed and what would spoil so he loaded his cart with canned foods and food that was dehydrated. I also did that, but there was one luxury we could still enjoy. I grabbed a few bags of cookies and tossed them on the cart.

Once we had the food loaded on the ATV, we set off back to the mine. On the way I asked about the map and papers in his pack. He explained about the places with X's over them, how they were destroyed and there was no sign of life there. Then I asked about the orphanage.

"That was the next place my unit was going to check out before we were ambushed. We were about 2 miles [3 km] outside of town when they jumped us from the air," he said.

"So, that's where those monsters were going when we found Donny," I said. Puzzled, he asked what I meant.

"When we found the little guy, Donny, in the death camp, the monsters took off in a ship right before we got there. We ran in and got Donny as fast as we could and got out of there before they came back. They must have been coming after your unit when they flew away in the ship," I explained. He saw my point and we continued our talk.

"Are you still planning on going to the orphanage?" I asked.

"At this point, I'm not sure, kid. My unit was wiped out, I have no contact with my superiors, and I have exceeded my timetable to pull out of here," the soldier said.

"Don't you have a way to get a hold of your superiors? Don't you have a radio or anything?" I asked.

"No, the guy in my unit who was carrying our radio was taken by the aliens," he said. That's when I remembered the short-wave radio that I took from AJ's bomb shelter.

"Hey! Would a short-wave radio work? We got one back at the mine," I told him.

"It just might. If my superiors are monitoring the right frequencies, they just might hear it," he told me.

"When we get back to the mine, we'll try the radio to see if it works for you," I said.

We arrived at the mine a short time later, with the others greeting us at the entrance.

"Come on guys, let's get this food inside," I told them.

They all grabbed as much as they could carry and filed inside with it. After we got the food stowed away, I dug out the radio for the soldier.

"Well, here it is. Hope you can do something with it," I told him.

He turned it on but only static came out of it.

"Ok, we have to take it outside for it to work. It won't pick up anything inside this mine," he said.

The others and I followed him outside where he started to turn the dials and flip switches on it.

"Eagle to nest, eagle to nest. Do you read, nest?" he said into the mic, but only static came through the speaker. He kept trying turning the knobs different ways and trying different frequencies to call his base, but no response.

"Guys, I don't think this radio has the kind of range to contact my base. If we were a bit closer it might have a chance of contacting them," he said.

"Where's your base at?" Chris asked.

"The base camp is about 25 miles [40 km] west of here," Sergeant Williams said. That got me to thinking.

"Hey, Sergeant Williams, isn't that orphanage west of here, too? I mean you could go there and check it out and take the radio with you. You'd be a lot closer to your base at the orphanage than you are here. The radio might work then," I told him.

"Yeah, good idea," AJ said.

"Yeah kid, I admit, it is a good idea. But I can't leave you kids here in good conscience. It's not safe for you guys out here all alone like this, even if you do have your extra abilities. I just can't go there and call my base while leaving you here," he told us.

Then the wildest thing ever happened; Donny spoke up.

"Why don't we all just go with you?" he asked.

We all stared at the little guy in amazement.

"What?" he asked, looking uncomfortable.

"Little bro, I never knew you was so smart. That's an awesome idea. Why don't we just all go? I mean, it's gotta be safer than staying here being scared that those monsters will get us all the time," AJ said.

"Well guys, I'm all for it. If you kids are up to it, then I'm willing to try my best to get you there," the soldier said. We already knew AJ and Donny's votes; they were for going.

"Okay, let's do it," Chris said.

"Yeah, let's go. I would like to sleep someplace warm again," Josiah said giggling.

"Well kid, how about it?" the soldier asked me.

I thought for a second and considered our options. The others were all for leaving the mine and trying for the orphanage. I thought of the perils we might face on the long way there, but logic finally gave me my answer.

"Okay. I think it's best for all of us to try it. We can't stay here much longer. It will be winter soon, and then it'll be too cold to stay here anyway," I said.

Now that everyone was in agreement that we try to make it to the orphanage, we needed to come up with a game plan of how we were going to get there. Josiah suggested we take the ATV, but there's not enough room in it for all of us, the dog, plus the supplies and gear we would need to take along. We were going to need a bigger vehicle, but the only problem with that is, anything bigger than the ATV is a lot more noticeable. We didn't want to be seen going there, so we would need to stay in the shadows so to speak as much as possible.

That evening, Sergeant Williams, myself, and the rest of the guys, sat and came up with a plan of how we were getting there. We would go into town in the next day or two and look for a larger 4-wheel drive vehicle to use off-road instead of the ATV. It would be big enough to carry all of us and the supplies, and also be able to duck off the road if we needed to. The eighteen miles [28 km] to the orphanage wasn't really all that far to travel, but when you are trying to do it without being noticed, it makes it a little harder to do. We decided to only travel during the night to avoid being seen by the aliens.

"Okay, here's how we need to do this, guys. I will drive with my night-vision gear on and Adam, I'll need you to sit up front with me, since you can see in the dark with those devil-eyes of yours. Chris, I need you to keep your ears open for anything out of the ordinary. The rest of you guys just enjoy the ride. You probably won't get to see much since we're going at night. I'm going to be driving with the lights off," the soldier said.

Then something important occurred to me.

"Hey, we should wait to go 'til there is a new moon. That way there won't be any moon light," I told them.

The soldier agreed with me. He got out his papers that had a calendar on them.

"Okay, the next new moon is in exactly four days. We have 'til then to get ready to go. We need enough food to last us at least a week after we leave. We need to find a big SUV to hold all of us, and we need to take anything that is important with us. Once we're gone there's probably not going to be any coming back," he told us.

I knew exactly where to find the SUV in town. I saw one at my old neighbor's house when I was checking through town once. It was one of the few cars still left in town that wasn't destroyed. It is a big four door truck that should do the job for us.

As for food, that wouldn't be a problem. There were still plenty of canned and dry foods in the grocery store. And our important things; well, I don't think we'll be forgetting our video games and clothes anytime soon.

The Sergeant plotted a route on his map to the orphanage from town. He marked a line on the map right on the main road leading out of town; but, just in case, he also marked one in an off-road area to get there, too.

As we sat and went over the plans, I could tell the others were getting just as restless as I was. I sensed how much they all missed the naked fun that we have come to enjoy having with one another. That's when I noticed my dick tenting my shorts. I tried my best to sit in a position where no one would notice, but it didn't work. Chris saw me and started to giggle a bit. He kept it to himself, but he knew I was rock hard. I hadn't had an orgasm for days now, and I felt like I was about to explode, I wanted to get off so bad.

"Hey guys, I need to go use the boy's room. I'll be back in a little bit," I said, as I grabbed my gun to head outside the mine.

I had no intention of using the bathroom. I headed to a secluded area, out of sight but near the mine's entrance, and yanked my shorts down. I wrapped my fingers around my rock-hard tool and began to pump away on it. It was feeling great to the point where I had tuned out the outside world. My hand was flying up and down my cock when I heard a twig snap. I instantly stopped jerking and raised my gun.

"It's just me. Don't shoot!" I heard Chris say.

"Dammit, I could have killed you! Don't scare me like that," I said angrily, half naked, with my shorts around my ankles.

"Sorry, I just thought I needed to use the boy's room, too," he replied smiling.

"Okay, sounds good to me. Go ahead and finish me and I'll do you next," I told him.

He smiled and sank to his knees taking my small cock into his mouth. His tender lips began to slide back and forth on my smooth, hairless cock which sent me into orbit.

"Oh god, that feels so good Chris. Don't stop," I moaned to him.

He began to play with my balls with one hand and sped up his sucking. In no time my dick was pulsating in his mouth, firing off a dry orgasm. I put both hands on top of his head and face fucked him as hard as I could, as I felt the last few waves of pleasure wash over me. I released my grip on his head and he slid my dick from his mouth making a slurping noise.

"Oh fuck, oh fuck!" I moaned, as I almost fell on my ass from the intensity of the feeling that he'd just given me. I held onto a tree branch to keep my balance while I came back down from my sexual high.

I looked down and saw his cute little face smiling up at me, licking his lips. I instantly sank to my knees in front of him and wrapped him up in a deep passionate kiss. Our tongues explored each other's mouths and all over each other's lips. I then reached down for his shorts and slid my hand inside them to find his hard little-boy dick. As I massaged the hard mushroom-tip, he moaned deeply while our tongues wrestled.

I broke off the kiss and told him to stand up. As soon as he was upright, I yanked his shorts down and dove onto his boy-meat. He moaned loudly as he felt my tongue slide along the underside of his cock-head. I cupped both his butt cheeks in my hands and slammed his little dick in and out of my mouth, making a smacking sound each time his belly hit my forehead. Just like me, he put his hands on my head and forced my mouth down even harder on his eleven-year-old cock.

"Oh gosh! Faster! Harder!" he moaned softly. Not even a minute later I felt his meat stiffen up in my mouth and his whole body went tense as he took a deep breath. He forced my head down on him very hard, making sure he got everything out of this moment he could.

As he came down from his orgasm, his legs collapsed out from under him. He fell into my arms, panting heavily. Again, we kissed for a few minutes and rubbed each other's cocks.

As I broke our kiss, I told him, "I sure did miss that. Just you and me like that."

"Yeah, me too. I wish we had the time to do it in the butt like we did that one time. I loved that," he replied.

"Well, maybe we can sneak some time for it before we leave," I told him.

"Yay!" he said in a sarcastically cute way.

I definitely wanted his tender ass again, but I also wouldn't mind some fun with the other boys as well. Maybe I can figure out how to get away from the soldier long enough with the guys to have some real fun before we leave the mine for good. We went back inside to talk to the sergeant some more when we were done with our 'pee-break'.

Being in the mine all the time was definitely getting to be on the boring side. Kids our age should be out playing, swimming, riding bikes, and lots of other stuff; not cowering and hiding in an old mineshaft fearing for our lives. Maybe this attempt to move to the orphanage was for the better for us; or, maybe it's not the right thing to do. Only time will tell. But for now, we are living for the moment and planning for tomorrow.

We can only speculate on what we will find at the orphanage, if we even make it that far. Not knowing our fate and what lies ahead is anguish to me. I get so worried I can't stand it sometimes. I don't only worry about my fate, but I also worry about the other boys' futures as well. They have latched on to me as their leader and protector, and I don't want to let them down.

Chapter 12
Preparing to Seek the Orphanage

Two days after we laid out the plans to make a try for the orphanage, we were ready to make runs to town for supplies to take with us and to prep the truck for the journey.

"Okay boys, it's o-nine-hundred. Time to get a move on," the soldier said, waking us from our slumber.

"O-nine what?" AJ groaned, rubbing his sensitive eyes.

"It's nine a.m. dude," Josiah told him. Now being fully awake, thanks to Sergeant Williams, I stretched my sore body, then rubbed my eyes, too.

"Come on dudes, we need to get stuff done," I said, standing up and stretching some more. I knew from reading their minds they weren't too keen on getting up and doing work this early in the morning.

I headed outside to take a leak, and was soon joined by Chris, Donny, and the dog. As I pissed, I noticed Donny sneaking a peek at my stuff. Being silly, I wiggled it making my piss-stream dance in the air. It did the trick; Donny giggled away.

As we were finishing our business, the soldier joined us. He whipped his cock out and our eyes swelled to the size of silver dollars. From the size of his dick I thought he must be part horse. His cock must have been an easy 8 or 9 inches [20-23 cm] long, limp.

I sensed Chris thinking, Oh my fucking god! He's huge. It must drag the ground when it gets hard! I cracked up instantly. He looked at me and, when it hit him that I read his mind, he laughed too.

"It's true," he said laughing like crazy. Poor little Donny was totally lost as to what we were laughing at.

I leaned down and whispered in his ear, "Chris is talking about how big his thing is," Donny peeked around me and saw the man's one-eyed monster.

"Wow!" Donny said with no modesty. "Wonder if mine will get that big," the nine-year-old said, making all of us laugh.

"Maybe someday it will, kiddo. Mine wasn't really big when I was your age either," the man said.

Donny smiled at the thought of his dick possibly getting to be the size of an elephant's trunk someday. I finished up and went back inside the mine. Josiah was getting ready for the day ahead and AJ was sitting on the bed, leaning against the wall with his sunglasses on but no shirt.

"Come on Adam, we got a lot of shit to do today," I told him, but he didn't make a peep or move.

"Adam, you ok?" I asked, and still no response. I walked in front of him and waved my hand in front of his face, and he didn't move.

"Is he ok?" Josiah asked.

"I think he's sleeping," I said before grabbing his sunglasses by the frames and sliding them off his face. Sure enough, his eyes were closed and he was asleep. I slid the glasses back over his eyes and gently shook him.

"AJ, come on bud, wake up," I said softly, as I shook him gently. He woke up and looked at me.

"What happened?" he asked.

"You fell back asleep, dude. Come on we need to get a move on," I told him. I helped him up and he stretched his body.

"Sorry! I don't even remember falling back asleep," he told me.

I was starting to wonder if he was sicker than we actually thought he was. He didn't seem to be sick, but his energy level lately has been like zero. I decided to check through the medical books later to see what I could find out. For now, we needed to get to town.

We all piled on the ATV and the soldier drove this time, heading to town to prepare for our journey.

"Okay guys," the soldier started, "we need to go in three teams. Two of us will go to the store and get food, two will go the Walmart and get supplies and whatever else we need and one of you guys can go with me to get the truck ready."

It seemed like a good plan, but when the guys started to pair off with each other, I had to step in.

"Guys, I don't mean to be a dick here, but I think Chris and Joe should get the food. I'll go to the Walmart with Donny, and AJ, I think you should stay with the Sergeant."

Hearing that puzzled Adam and he asked why.

"Well dude, you're sick. You don't need to overexert yourself. You need to take it easy," I explained. He didn't seem too happy about it, but he agreed none the less.

"He's right. If you are sick, you need to conserve your strength. Besides, you won't be doing much if you go with me. It'll be easy for you," the soldier told him.

"You can even take Lucky with you," I told AJ. He had a fondness for our K-9 friend.

A short time later we rode into town with guns raised and at the ready. I led the Sergeant to where the truck was and we parked the ATV.

"Okay boys, let's split up and get this done. Most importantly, be on your guard," the man told us.

Donny and I set out for Walmart on the ATV while Chris and Josiah walked to the store since it was only a few blocks away from the truck.

"You want to try on some more underwear?" I asked the little guy, making a suggestion and a joke at the same time. He got the point after a minute and began to laugh.

"Yeah, trying undies on is fun," he giggled.

I parked the ATV right in front of the entrance to the store and we went in for the supplies on our list, but first we made a stop at the 'Little Boys' department for some fun.

"Okay bud, we may as well get whatever we want while we're here. Let's get you some more clothes to take with us," I told him. He agreed with me, so I told him, "Okay, go ahead and strip those clothes off so we can try new ones on."

He did as I said and took his undies off without me even telling him. From the looks of it, he was already half-way stiff. This time I decided to be the teacher for him.

"Hey bud, did your brother show you how to whack-off yet?" I asked.

He shook his head no.

"Okay. Well, I'm about to teach you how to have fun with your wiener whenever you want to," I told him.

I took his silky-smooth little pecker in my fingers and rubbed him 'til he was fully hard. Then, I got into position behind him and took his hand and positioned it in the right way around his dick. He had it clenched in his fingers and I showed him how to slowly stroke his hand up and down. After a few strokes I removed my hand and he kept on stroking.

"How's it feel?" I whispered into his ear.

"Feels great," he said, enthusiastically.

I decided since he was having some fun, then why couldn't I have some too, so I unzipped my shorts and slid them down, then stood in front of the nine-year-old and began to stroke my own cock. His little eyes lit up in amazement. He stopped stroking for a second and watched me.

"Go ahead, little buddy. Don't stop," I told him.

He started to stroke himself once more. A few seconds later he asked, "Can I touch it?" referring to my dick.

"Yeah, I guess so, go ahead," I told him. He reached out with his other hand and touched the tip of my dick with his finger.

"It's warm," he giggled.

"Feel the whole thing," I suggested. He did that and a second later, his fingers were wrapping around my tool. His little hand felt so good on my cock. Without me even telling him, he started to stroke me.

"Oh Donny, that feels great. Don't stop," I moaned to him. The feeling of this little guy jerking me and thinking about what I was going to do for him drove me over the edge of the orgasm cliff.

"Oh fuck!" I moaned out, as wave after wave washed over me while he stroked me steadily. As my pleasure was ending, I was becoming sensitive and he was still stroking at full speed.

"Okay bud, you can stop now. I'm done," I said.

He smiled as he took his fingers off my dick and wrapped them back around his own.

"No, let me do it for you since you did it for me," I told him, after I came back down to earth from orgasm land. I had him set his naked body on my still exposed lap on the floor and I slowly began to stroke his tender boy tool. In no time his breathing began to change to shorter, more rapid breaths.

"Feels awesome, don't it?" I whispered to him.

He nodded 'yes'. I took my other hand and explored his smooth chest as I stroked faster and faster. He began to squirm and moan lightly so I knew he was getting close. I got an idea and stopped all at once which made him kinda mad.

"Why'd you stop for? It was feeling so good," he whined.

"Just wait, let's try something new," I told him. He was open to anything new.

What I had in mind was raising his body up off my lap and spreading his legs a bit. Once he did that, I positioned him so that my dick nestled between his legs and up against his smooth little ball sack as he sat back down. The feeling was like heaven to me.

"How's that feel?" I asked.

"Fine. I feel it against my nuts. It's warm," he said.

I wanted so badly to slide it inside him, but I didn't want to rush that too soon. Maybe someday, when he's more experienced at this new play. Instead, I moved his legs together clenching my dick in between them and against his smooth ball bag and ass crack. I went back to stroking his little rod.

As I stroked again, he began to squirm and wiggle around. The feeling was great for my cock. Next thing I felt was his body go stiff and rigid as he took a deep breath. I knew he was having his orgasm then, so I slowed down my stroking. A few seconds later it was all over. He sat in my lap, a deep-breathing limp-bodied lump of cuteness. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him and kissed his sweet little cheek.

"How did that feel?" I asked.

"Great! Now I know why my bubby used to do it so much in our room," he responded.

Once we both had our orgasms over with, I pulled my shorts back up and he slid his clothes back on. When he was dressed, we grabbed him some more clothes and went on to get the supplies that were on our list.

***

In the grocery store, Chris and Josiah were having a blast collecting food, and goofing off. They had a good game of bread football going using a stale loaf as a ball. They played for a while then indulged in a treat that we just can't have at the mine. They ripped open a box of Popsicles and ate them so fast they both got brain freeze.

"Oh god, that hurts, but I like it," Chris said holding his head and trying not to show the chilling pain.

In time their pleasure/pain diminished and they went on collecting the things on the list while chowing-down on whatever junk food they wanted, since it was all free now. They were truly having fun and, being kids, enjoying each other's company. When they had their carts full, they just pushed them right out of the store and the few blocks down the road to where the soldier and AJ were with the truck.

***

While the other three and I were collecting food and supplies, Sergeant Williams and AJ were trying to get the truck ready to go. Well, actually, it was more like the soldier was getting the truck ready while AJ just sat and watched. He didn't have a clue what to do to help out in this case.

"Mr. Williams, sir, do you think we're going to make it to the orphanage?" he asked, trying to pass the time.

"Well, first off, its Sergeant Williams, not mister or sir. I work for a living. To answer your question, I don't know if the place will even be there when we get to where it's supposed to be," the soldier answered.

"Oh, sorry," Adam said, referring to the mister and sir thing.

AJ sat patiently from then on hoping someone would come back soon. He didn't feel very comfortable with this man.

The soldier did a good walk-around inspection of the truck making sure everything was good to go for the trip out of town. He was checking the tires, making sure they could handle off-road terrain. He checked all the fluids making sure they were topped off. Then he got inside and had to figure out a way to start the truck, since the keys were long gone. He reached under the dash and began to rip wires loose. After a few attempts at crossing different wires together he got the right combination and the truck's engine fired up. Once he had the engine running, he checked all the lights and gauges on the dash. Everything looked good except one vital thing; it was low on gas.

"Dammit," the soldier said out loud.

"What?" AJ inquired.

"It's pretty low on fuel. We won't have enough to make it to the orphanage," he answered. "Where in the hell are we going to find fuel now? The gas station is flattened," he said, referring to the ruins down the road.

Just then Chris and Josiah came strolling up with shopping carts full of food.

"Hey cuz, catch," Josiah said, before tossing AJ a half-melted popsicle.

"Cool! Thanks Joey," he said in gratitude.

The fact that half the popsicle was already gone didn't faze AJ a bit. He opened it and finished it off.

"Joey, you know Donny's gonna be pissed when he finds out you didn't bring him one of these," AJ told his cousin.

"I know, but if I had, it would be completely melted by the time he got back here. So, my thinking was he don't need to know, does he? Just toss the stick away when you're done. Besides, I grabbed him some candy on the way out, so he should be cool with that," Josiah said.

The soldier picked through the carts to see if the boys stuck to the list.

"Cookies, crackers, potato chips, candy: you guys grabbed a bunch of junk food. Didn't you get what I asked for on the list?" he asked them.

"Well, what do you expect, we're kids, and yeah, we got what you wanted, too. It's in there somewhere," Josiah said, talking about the stuff in the carts. Eventually he did dig out the things that were on the list he gave them.

"Okay troops, let's get these carts emptied and sorted. We need to divide the things to take back to the mine and the things that will stay in town," he ordered the boys.

The three boys began to empty the carts out and sort everything into two piles. The one going back to the mine was understandably smaller, since they were only going to be there a few more days.

As the others were sorting the food, Donny and I pulled up in the ATV with a load of supplies and clothes. As Donny got out of the ATV, he was mobbed by Lucky jumping on him and licking him in the face.

"Stop, Lucky," he giggled, trying to get the dog to stop. I grabbed Lucky by his collar and pulled him off the little guy then brought him back to where the others were.

"Hey bud, gotcha something," I said, as I handed AJ a fresh pair of super-dark sunglasses.

"Cool! Thanks so much! These are a lot better than the other ones," he said, as he slid them on to cover his sensitive eyes from the bright sunlight.

"What did you bring us?" Chris whined when he saw what I gave AJ.

"This!" Donny beamed at them, pulling a new monopoly game out of the ATV.

"Now we got something to keep us entertained at the mine 'til we leave," I told them. Chris and Josiah seemed to like that idea. It took us a while but we finally got everything unloaded from the ATV, and got it ready to go.

"I got a question, where are we going to keep all this stuff?" I said.

"In the backseat of the truck. If we shut the door to the cab it should be okay until we leave," the soldier replied. The supplies aren't what I'm worried about at this point. The truck is almost on empty and I have no clue about where we're going to find fuel for it," he said.

"Well, can't we just look in some garages or sheds for some gas cans or something? That's how we got gas for the ATV sometimes," I replied.

"Well, normally that would be a great idea, kid, but there's only one problem with that. This truck runs on diesel. I don't think we're going to find that in any garage or shed," he replied.

It seemed we were in a real pickle now. I had no idea where in the world to find any diesel fuel. Hell, I didn't even really know what it was, exactly, only that some trucks used it.

AJ sat on the curb and quietly said, "Tractors."

"What?" I asked.

"Tractors. They use that stuff to run on," he said.

"Kid, you are a damn genius," the man said. "All we have to do is find a good-sized tractor that runs on diesel and siphon the fuel out of it and into the truck."

AJ seemed to be delighted about the compliment and solving the big problem of the day.

"Okay, Adam, Donny, and me will look around for a tractor in the farm fields around town," I said, before jumping back on the ATV.

We rode around town for a while looking for a big tractor and had no luck. We tried one last farm near the very edge of town by the woods and that's when Adam spoke up.

"There, over there," he pointed out into a wheat field. I turned the ATV and headed in that general direction.

"Stop!" he said suddenly. I panicked and slammed on the brake.

"What?" I asked, not knowing why he wanted me to stop. He grabbed me by the chin and turned my head to face forward. That's when I saw what he was talking about. There, in front of us, was a fresh crop circle in the field.

"What do you see?" AJ asked me.

"I dunno. It looks like a crop circle," I told him.

"Yeah, but that's not what I see," he said taking off his sunglasses.

"What is it bubby?" Donny asked.

"There's a ship there. It's just sitting there," he replied.

"Well, let me knock," I said sarcastically.

I closed my eyes and concentrated hard on contacting whoever might be there. Suddenly the ship revealed itself to us.

"WOW!" Donny said, surprised to see the shiny ship in front of us. An opening in the side of it began to grow wider. We then saw the unmistakable form of one of the pale-skinned aliens standing there.

Do you know who we are? I thought to it.

Of course, we know. You are the Endowed Ones. You were given abilities not of this Earth, the alien told me through his thoughts.

"It's ok. He knows who we are," I told AJ and Donny. I then walked towards him as he stepped out of the ship and into the field.

"Can you please tell me about any humans close to us? Maybe within 20 miles [30 km] or so?" I asked.

"That information you already have," he told me. His answer didn't really tell me anything. I didn't know if anyone else was out there or not.

"This one is the survivor. He survived the death sentence of the evil ones," the alien said me, referring to Donny.

Can you hear me young one? he said to Donny, who was hiding behind his brother.

"Yeah," he said hesitantly, shaking like a leaf.

"It's okay, buddy, these guys are friendly. They helped us. They gave us our special abilities. You don't have to be scared of them," AJ told his little brother.

AJ's words didn't seem to do much to reassure Donny. He was still cowering; scared of the alien, understandably so, after what the other aliens, the monstrous ones, had done to him.

"Please come forward young one. I mean you no harm," the alien told him.

Donny stepped around to his brother's side, but never released the hold he had on AJ's hand. The alien waved Donny closer to him.

"It's okay bubby, he won't hurt you. Just go to him," AJ told his brother.

Reluctantly, Donny let go of AJ's hand and slowly walked closer to the alien.

You have had a painful journey to this point, the alien told him.

"How are you talking? I mean you're not even moving your lips!" Donny asked, confused.

You hear me in your thoughts. Your companions have been given very precious gifts that no other Earthlings possess. Your friends tried to help one of our kind when they didn't have to, so now we return the favor. For you, Earth child, I unleash your Inner Animal, the alien said, before he extended his finger and touched Donny in the middle of his chest. An intense bright light emitted from the contact of the two and Donny fell to the ground unconscious.

"Donny!" Adam cried out, as he ran to his baby brother's side.

"He will be fine Earth child. His senses are simply overwhelmed and he is now sleeping. He will not fully understand his new abilities, just as you do not fully understand your own abilities yet. When he awakes, tell him to not fear the things he may hear, but to embrace them," the alien told us, before walking back into its ship.

The ship lifted off, then shimmered a bit before once again becoming invisible. Adam, though, watched it lift from a few feet above the ground to streak straight upward into the sky.

"Come on, let's find a damn tractor and get him back to the others," I told AJ as he scooped his little brother's sleeping body off the ground.

As we headed out of the field and back into town, I spotted what we had been looking for all this time.

"I'll be damned. Look over by that old barn," I said pointing to a tractor sitting there.

"Good! Let's get back and tell the Sergeant. I want to get Donny back to the mine," Adam said, worried about his most cherished thing in the world. Minutes later, we pulled back up to the others and they saw AJ holding Donny.

"What's wrong with Donny?" Josiah asked.

"Aliens," Adam said.

The soldier went into instant war mode, getting his gun and raising it to battle-ready.

"Where is it? Is it coming this way?" he asked.

"No dude, it's gone now. Besides, it was one of the good guys," AJ said.

Hearing the aliens were gone, he stood down then, lowering his gun.

"So, then what happened to Donny?" Chris inquired.

"The alien touched him on the chest. And you know what happens when they do that," I told him.

"Cool! What kind of power did he get?" Joe asked.

"We don't know yet, Joey. He fell asleep right after the alien touched him. All the alien said was something about his 'inner animal'. I guess we'll find out when he wakes up," AJ said.

"Did you boys have any luck finding fuel?" the sergeant asked.

"Yeah, there's a tractor out by an old barn at the edge of town," I said.

"Okay. You two jump in the truck," the soldier said, looking at Chris and Joe. Turning to me he said, "You stay on the ATV and lead us to where the fuel is."

Chris and Joe jumped in the truck and Lucky joined them. I led them to where we had found the tractor. The Sergeant pulled the truck up next to the tractor and shut it off. He opened the fuel cap and smelled the inside of the tank.

"Yep, that's diesel alright. Good job, soldiers," the sergeant said.

He opened the gas cap to the truck's tank and went into the old barn looking for some hose. He came out a few minutes later with a length of old water hose he had found. He stuck it in the tractor's tank and began to suck on it. Seeing him do that, Chris let out a little chuckle. I knew what he had on his mind.

"You little perv," was all I said to him, kind of laughingly, knowing he was being dirty-minded.

A second later the soldier spit out a big gulp of fuel and inserted the hose into the tank of the truck as the fuel flowed down from the tractor. He choked and coughed for a few minutes clearing the diesel from his mouth as the truck's tank was filled up.

"Great! We got plenty of fuel now," he said, still coughing. "Okay guys, it's afternoon now, actually, it's nearly 1500 hours [3 p.m. in military talk]. Why don't you boys head back to the mine and let the little soldier here get some rest. I think someone needs to stay here and guard the truck. If there is someone else out there, they could find our supplies and possibly even take the truck. I'll stay here and keep watch tonight," the soldier said.

"You're gonna stay here by yourself? What if one of those monsters comes around?" Chris asked.

"Well, if one comes around, I guess you boys will be the first ones to know it. You'll hear my rifle firing off at it," he answered. "I think I'll be ok this time. Last time they took us by surprise from the air. This time I got you guys. Derrik do you sense any of them even remotely close?" he asked me.

"No, but that's not to say that they aren't around, just because I can't sense them," I said.

"Chris, do you hear anything out of the ordinary?" he asked.

"Nope, just a few birds chirping, really," Chris answered.

"Okay then, I think I'll take my chances here tonight. I'll set up in a safe position where I'll be concealed from sight. That way they won't see me, and I can keep the truck in sight," he said.

"Ok, fine. Come on guys, let's get back up the hill," Adam said, eager to get his brother to the mine.

The other boys and I piled on the ATV and we headed back to the mine, leaving the soldier in town to guard our supplies and the truck.

At the mine, I backed the ATV inside the entrance as usual and we all dismounted. Adam carried his little brother inside the safe room and lay him down on our bed. I could tell all the events of the last few days were wearing on AJ. He looked so tired and worn down. I was starting to worry something might be physically wrong with him. He sat down on the bed next to Donny and looked like he was drained of energy.

"You okay dude?" I asked.

"Yeah, I guess I'm just tired. Plus, I'm worried about Donny," he answered.

"I don't think you need to worry about the little guy. Remember, the alien didn't hurt us when he gave us our abilities. Maybe he passed out because he's so much smaller than we are," I said.

While chatting with AJ, I sensed something naughty in Chris and Josiah's thoughts. I knew that they were both wanting to have some fun, since the soldier wasn't here to spoil it for us.

"Hey, you guys want to have a little fun since Donny's asleep and we don't have the army watching us?" I asked the others.

Chris and Joe were all for it, smiling from ear to ear and starting to tent out their shorts. I looked at AJ for his answer.

"How 'bout it, dude; you up to getting naked for a while?" I asked with a grin.

"Sure. On one condition. I don't have to do any work," he answered, not wanting to move much.

"I don't think that's gonna be a problem," I told him.

In a flash Chris and Josiah were naked and hard as rocks. As I was pulling my shirt off, Chris and Joe got into a heated lip-lock and began to fondle each other passionately all over their bodies. I looked at them and giggled to see how hot they were for each other. They began to jerk each other off while they had their lip-lock engaged.

Once I was undressed, I helped AJ with the last bit of clothes he had on. I gently took hold of his shorts and boxers and slid them off in one motion. As his undies slid past his cock it sprang up and pointed straight upward.

"Looks like you might be a little more up for fun than you thought," I said pointing at his hardon.

He looked down at his small boner and smiled.

"Yeah, I guess I have missed it for a while," he replied.

Now that we were all naked, wheels began to turn in my brain.

"Hey! I got an idea. How about AJ and Chris have fun and me and you will, Joe? I mean, it might be fun to try different stuff," I suggested. None of the others had any complaints at all.

"What are we gonna do?" Chris asked.

"Well, how about you let AJ give you what you told me about earlier," I said, referring to him wanting my cock in him. He smiled a mile wide so I knew he was all for it.

"What's that exactly?" AJ asked.

"You'll see. Trust me, you'll love it," I said with an evil smile.

I also decided to give Josiah a dose of what I wanted to give Chris, if he was up to it. I reached in my personal pile of stuff and dug out the lube I had stashed there and handed it to Chris. He took it and sat down next to AJ and squirted a big gob of lube in his hand. He rubbed it all over Adam's stiff little rod sending him into heaven.

"Gosh, I did forget how good that feels," he said.

"If you like that, wait 'til I do what I want to do," Chris said giggling. He stopped rubbing AJ's dick only to apply the lube to his own sphincter.

"Are you going to do what I think?" Adam asked.

Chris just smiled and nodded making AJ smile too. When Chris's hole was good and slippery, he got up and straddled AJ's lap and spread his cheeks apart. He began to lower himself on AJ's waiting boy meat. As the tip of his cock touched Chris's hole, AJ tensed up.

"Dude, relax. It'll go great once you're all the way in," I told him.

He did loosen up some and Chris lowered himself a bit more. As AJ's head slipped into Chris's pucker, the sensation instantly made AJ want more. He raised his hands up and placed them on Chris's hips to help him guide himself down the pole.

After about another minute, Chris was sitting on AJ's lap with his cock all the way inside him. Adam couldn't believe the warmth of being inside Chris. The sensation of having his whole cock squeezed at once was heaven to him. He lay there as Chris placed his hands on AJ's shoulders and began to slowly rise up from his rod. He rose up to the point where only Adam's head was still inside him and then slid back down on him.

Now that those two were off and enjoying the feeling of each other I turned my attention to Josiah.

"How about you? Wanna try that?" I asked him.

"Just like that or what?" he asked.

"Well, if you wanna do it like that I don't mind, but I was thinking maybe doggy style," I said. He shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

"Ok, whatever, as long as it doesn't hurt," he replied.

"You know I wouldn't do anything to hurt you guys. Plus, you know I'm gonna suck you 'til you explode, too," I said laughing.

He agreed to my doggy style request, and got down on his hands and knees next to Chris and AJ on the bed. I took the lube and squeezed a good glob into his tight pucker. I rubbed it all over his hole good and let my finger wander around in him a few times to loosen him up. Once I could get my finger all the way in him, I lubed my cock up and got ready.

I got in position behind him and began to probe his sphincter with my cock's tip. I started pushing forward gently as he began to push back against me. My slick cock slid into him with little effort. In no time I was all the way in him with my smooth ball-sack rubbing against his. I placed my hands on his hips, and we were off to the races.

I began to guide his tight smooth cheeks back and forth on my cock. His tight hole felt awesome, and he didn't seem to mind the feeing much, either. He actually seemed to like it. One thing was sure; AJ and Chris were both loving it. Chris was bouncing up and down on Adam like crazy now. I could tell Adam was really getting into it.

He was breathing hard and slightly moaning a bit, but not too loudly, just enough to hear. Chris was another story; he was loving it. He was bucking up and down like a madman. Hearing those two go at it made me even hotter for the feeling that Joe and I were giving each other. I began to pound in and out of him faster and faster making a smacking sound as his ass collided with my abdomen. The feeling of our balls smacking against each other was really erotic, too.

"Oh fuck, YEAH!" Josiah grunted as I felt his tight hole squeeze down on my dick even tighter. He was having an orgasm from the sheer delight of the fucking I was giving him. He got off without even having his cock touched. The clamping force his hole was doing to my dick made my orgasm blast through me like lightning.

My whole body tensed up as waves of pleasure swept through me. At the end, I gave Joe a few really good deep thrusts for good measure. He didn't seem to mind a bit, since he moaned as I forced into him hard. I nearly collapsed on top of his back as my muscles went limp. I caught myself before we both fell onto the bed and then I slid it out of him.

"Gosh, that was awesome," Josiah said as he lay down on the bed to catch his breath.

"Sure as hell was," I told him as I lay down next to him.

We all lay there relishing in the delight of post-orgasmic bliss when Joe said, "I never thought it would feel so good."

We all snapped to our senses and sat up when we heard a voice ask, "What felt so good?

I looked over to see that Donny was awake now and rubbing his eyes.

No one wanted to answer him right away so he asked again, "What's he mean, bubby? What felt so good?"

AJ, not knowing how to tell his brother what we were doing just took a deep breath and was about to answer Donny.

"Hey Donny, come over here and I'll show you what I was talking about," Josiah told his little cousin.

Donny stood up, stretched his little body out and rubbed his eyes some more. He walked over and stood next to his cousin and waited for what Josiah was talking about. Joe then looked at AJ to make sure it was ok to show Donny a good time. AJ just shrugged and nodded to say it was okay.

"Your gonna love this Donny," Joe told him.

He got up on his knees in front of his cousin and, in a flash, engulfed Donny's little limp cock in his mouth. Donny started to giggle instantly.

"It tickles!" he giggled.

After a little bit of tongue work, Joe had Donny's little dong sticking straight out and begging for attention. Joe went back down on his cousin, this time in a back and forth motion, sucking his nine-year-old cock off. Donny's hands found their way to the top of Joe's head, and he began to buck his little hips back and forth meeting Joe's sucking motions.

I could tell he was getting close to the edge, as his eyes closed and his breathing began to deepen. Josiah sensed this, too, so he brought his hands up to Donny's tender white buns and began to guide his little cousin's dick in and out of his mouth even harder and faster. I heard Donny draw in a deep breath and grunt, as his eyes clenched tightly. His body went stiff and he nearly pulled a handful of Joe's hair out, as orgasmic heaven wracked his little body. Then, just as fast as it came on, his peak of pleasure passed. The little guy began to breath hard and fast as his legs began to twitch. Josiah let his little stiffy slip from his lips and he pulled Donny down into his naked lap to let his orgasm pass. About a minute later Donny opened his eyes and smiled at Josiah.

"How'd ya like it, bud?" Joe asked him.

"It felt neat. It felt just like when bubby and Derrik do it to me."

Hearing that made me think Oh fuck, why'd he say that? I looked over at AJ, and he didn't look happy. It was going to be a long night in the mine.

Chapter 13
We Arrive at the Orphanage

That night went on with a level of tension in the room radiating from Adam towards me. Everyone could sense he wasn't the least bit happy that I had had play time with his little brother without his knowing it. Poor little Donny thought his brother was mad at him for some reason. He tried to smile and be nice to AJ, but the favor wasn't returned. AJ just sat with a smug, pissed-off look on his face the rest of the night.

"Hey come on, we need to talk," I told Adam, asking him to step outside the mine with me.

"Yeah, I'd say we need to talk," he answered. He got up and followed me out to the front of the mine staying about 3 or 4 steps behind me.

"What the fuck is the idea of taking advantage of my brother?" he asked crossing his arms.

"Adam, dude, I'm sorry. I never knew it would get you this mad, to tell the truth. I didn't really think I was taking advantage of him. I mean, he was trying clothes on and one thing led to another and before I knew it, it was in my mouth. I'm sorry AJ," I said, trying to ask his forgiveness.

"Dude, I love my baby brother. He's all I got left. Don't you ever hurt him or try to make him do anything like that again without me knowing it. I'm not pissed at you for the act, I'm pissed because you did it without me knowing it. He's only nine. He can't decide some things for himself yet, okay? Now I'm only saying this one time; don't ever do anything like that unless I know it first," and with that, he turned around to walk back into the mine.

"Adam, I'm sorry. I never meant for anything like this to happen. Fuck man, I love all you guys. You're kinda like my brothers now. You're the only fucking family I have now. I am truly sorry I did that to your brother," I said to him, as I started to cry. I wasn't sure if it was from knowing I had no one in the world but these boys, or if it was from him being pissed at me.

He stopped in his tracks and turned to face me. I then saw his coal black eyes begin to streak tears down his cheeks as well. He walked back over to me and wrapped his arms around my chest. It took me a second but I wrapped mine around his shoulders and hugged him back.

"I'm not mad at you. I'm just upset, because that was supposed to be mine and Donny's special thing. We promised we wouldn't do that stuff with anyone else. I guess I fucked that promise up when he saw Chris sitting on my dick," he sniffled.

"Technically, Donny did. That stuff between us happened before he saw you and Chris," I said in his ear.

"I know, but I still feel bad, because he saw me. I didn't know about you guys 'til he slipped and spilled the beans," he answered.

"Are we okay, now?" I asked to see if this thing between us was over with now, asking if he was still mad.

"Yeah, we're cool. I'm sorry I got such an attitude toward you. I love my little bubby," he said, sniffling some. We stood there another minute just crying together, just for company and to feel someone who loved you hold you in a hug. We both needed that, now, when the world is so messed up.

I kissed him on his forehead and we broke our hug. I draped my arm over his shoulder and we wiped our cheeks and eyes as we walked back inside. I walked into the room first and as AJ followed me in, Donny looked at him with an apologetic look on his little face. Adam wiggled his finger beckoning Donny over to him. Donny slowly got up and walked over to his big brother, fearing he was in trouble.

"Sorry bubby," Donny said as his eyes teared up. See his little brother start to cry, AJ hugged him gently and buried the little guy's face in his chest.

"I'm not mad bubby. I just got upset is all. It's okay now. I love you lots," Adam told him, as he kissed him on top of his cute little head.

"Guys, I'm gonna say this one time only like I did to Derrik. Don't ever hurt him or make him do anything he don't want to. And don't ever, and I mean ever, do anything like what we did earlier with him unless I know it. You got that too, Donny?" he said to the room.

The others all agreed to Adam's demand, even his brother did. Now with the air cleared of antagonism we decided to strip down and try to get some rest. We had had a long day.

On cue my watch started beeping to let me know it was 8 am already. I looked at it and turned off the alarm.

"Damn, it feels like I just laid down," I whined to myself, still feeling tired. I tried to get up and that's when I felt Josiah's warm nude form lying nearly half on top of me. I smiled and moved my hand down to feel for his fun area. Sure 'nuff when I found what I was feeling for, I found a small morning boner. I tenderly began to fondle and stroke it making him moan slightly as he slept. After about a minute of that, he began to hump against my thigh. I guess he was really having a good dream now.

AH-CHOOO! Donny sneezed loudly, waking Josiah from his slumber. He groggily opened his eyes and focused them on me as he gained his wits about him. He then realized he was lying half on top of me and he was grinding his stiff rod into my thigh. Not only that, he also realized my fingers were wrapped around it as well.

He smiled then and said, "Wow! Nice wake up call."

"Well, maybe later we can make it a good night call," I told him, grinning. The others began to wake up as Donny continued to sneeze a few more times.

"You okay, bub? Your allergies messing with you?" AJ asked his brother. Donny nodded yes and AJ felt his forehead.

"Yeah, I think you're getting a cold or something," AJ said.

"I wonder why; it's frigg'n freezing in here," Chris whined. It actually was a bit chilly in the room, but there wasn't much that we could do about it.

"Yeah, you're right. It's a bit cold in here, but we can't exactly go turn the heater on, dude. We just gotta deal with it 'til we leave," I told him. We all got up and needed to go outside to take care of our morning business. Lucky was sitting by the door whining, wanting to go out. As I stood there and stretched my body, I felt the cool air creep into me.

"Fuck, it is cold in here!" I exclaimed. The cool air was literally making my stiff rod go limp. I grabbed a pair of shorts and pulled a shirt on before my shoes. I went out first to let the dog out and was soon followed by the other boys. We stood in a line next to each other pissing to see who could shoot the farthest. With amazement the one that won the contest was the one with the smallest cock.

"Wow Donny, I can't believe you can pee that far," Josiah said, laughing at his little cousin who was smiling wide.

"Yeah, mini-me, you sure can shoot it out there," I said laughing at the little guy, clapping for him as the piss still flowed out of me. The others started to clap as well. Donny got embarrassed and his cheeks got rosy red.

"Yep, my little bro might be small, but he packs a punch," Adam said, giggling about his brother's ability to out-piss us. We finished up and headed back inside the mine where it was a bit warmer.

We all put some warmer clothes on and had a quick bite to eat before we went back to town to check on Sergeant Williams. It seemed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were getting to be the norm for our breakfast.

"Hey guys, make a few extra sandwiches for Sergeant Williams, okay? I'm sure he'd like that better than those gross-ass MRE's he's got. I'm gonna warm the ATV up before we leave," I told them before heading out to start the engine.

A few minutes went by and the four younger guys came out with a bag of food and piled on the ATV with me. We took off for town with Lucky running next to us on foot. We got about half way to town when Donny told me to stop.

"What's wrong little man?" I asked.

"I'm not sure, but I coulda swore the dog just talked to me. I must be sick or something," he replied. That sparked something in my mind.

"Wait a minute. Lucky are you tired of running?" I asked the dog. He barked back to me. To me it was a simple dog bark, but to Donny it was totally different.

"Oh my gosh! Lucky can talk!" Donny exclaimed.

"What are you talking 'bout, bub?" AJ asked.

"Lucky, he can talk! Didn't you hear him just say 'Yes, I'm tired?'" Donny asked. We all looked at him like he was crazy.

"Holy shit! Your power Donny! That must be it. Remember Adam, the alien said 'your inner animal'. Hey Lucky, do you wanna ride on the ATV with us?" I asked.

Again, the dog barked out loud.

"He said 'Yeah his feet hurt'. Can't you guys hear him? It's just like you guys are talking to me," Donny said.

"No dude, all we hear is a bark. We don't know what he's saying," Chris told him.

"Well I can hear him and he says he's tired," Donny said smiling. He then told Lucky to jump up on the ATV with us and he barked a few times again when he was on board.

"He said thanks, and he can't believe I can understand him," Donny said. That is the little guy's ability; he can understand animals, well, dogs at least.

We then continued on to town to the soldier. He must have heard us coming because he was out in the open and waving to us.

"Hey Sergeant, we brought you some sandwiches. It's just PB & J, but they're pretty good," Chris said handing him the bag of food.

"Thanks soldiers," he told us. He sat down, for once off his guard since we were all there to pick up the slack. Lucky walked over and sniffed the soldier and barked a few times. Donny tried not to show it but he began to crack up laughing. No one knew why, though.

"Lucky said you need a bath bad. He says you stink," he replied, laughing now. The soldier was completely in the dark at what he said.

"We kinda found out what Donny's ability is a little while ago. He can understand what animals are saying," I told him.

He didn't seem fazed by that and kept on eating the sandwiches we brought him. I'm sure it was probably from lack of sleep or fatigue, but it was like he could care less about Donny's ability. He checked his watch as he ate and saw that it was ten hundred hours (10 a.m.) and stretched his weary body.

"Okay soldiers, I believe we can leave the supplies here for the day until tonight. I need some rest. We'll come back tonight and guard it again," the man said, yawning. We all crammed back on the ATV and proceeded back to the mine for the day, until night fell once again.

That day was a busy one at times and a slow one at other times. The busy ones were done by making sure we had everything we planned on taking with us packed and ready to go. The slower times were spent by either playing board games, or the occasional time of game play on the PSP's until the batteries for them died and needed recharging.

"Man, I hope that orphanage has a generator or something. It takes friggin forever to charge these batteries on the solar cells outside," Chris whined. The entire day passed that way with us being as quiet as possible while the soldier got some sleep. Late in the afternoon, just before the sun was about to set, I tried to wake the soldier up.

"Sergeant Williams, wake up," I said, as I gently shook his shoulder. The next thing I knew, in a flash he had jumped to his knees from a dead sleep and had a huge knife to my throat ready to slit me open.

"NO!" Adam screamed out. The soldier came to his senses and realized what was going on.

"Oh shit, kid, sorry. Just a reflex, I guess I'm jumpy lately," he apologized releasing me.

"Sorry? Sorry is all you can fucking say? You almost killed him!" AJ screamed at the man. Everyone could tell I was physically and emotionally shaken. I sat there just staring at him not knowing what to do for a moment. I slowly and quietly got up and walked outside of the mine. Outside I raised my hand in front of me and I then noticed it was shaking like a leaf in the wind, but I wasn't making it do it.

"Dude, you okay?" I heard AJ ask me as he and the other boys ran out to me. They all saw my hand shaking and they knew I was rattled.

"He, he… he could have killed me," I said stuttering.

"Yeah, he almost slit your throat," Chris said. I looked at him and then to my shaking hand again. The next thing I knew I saw black and that was it. The excitement and fear of the moment overwhelmed my senses and I passed out. The guys carried me back inside the mine and lay me down on the bed face up.

"See what you did! He passed out he was so scared of what you just did to him!" AJ told the man angrily.

"Kids, I'm sorry, but you have to understand it's what I have been trained to do. It's engrained in me deeply. I never mean to hurt him," he answered.

"Well, just the same, why don't you go to town and guard the shit so nothing happens to it, or the rest of us!" Adam told him.

"That's fair. Tell him I apologize when he wakes up. Who wants to drive me down to the town?" the man asked.

"Just take the ATV and keep it 'til tomorrow, okay. Come back up in the morning," Chris said. The man grabbed his gun and gear and headed down to town in the ATV.

"Guys, we need to watch out for that guy. He's gonna get one of us hurt really bad or killed. He almost did tonight. I mean, what if we weren't here?" AJ said, worried about Derrik. The boys all knew that they had to be on their guard from that point on to keep from being injured by the soldier, or worse…

***

The guys all took turns for the next couple hours watching over Derrik as he lay unconscious on the bed. Sometime late in the evening he came to.

Derrik sat straight up and wondered aloud, "What? Where?"

"Easy dude, just lie back down. You passed out earlier after you went outside. We carried you back in here," Chris told me as he sat next to me. I sat up then and scanned around the room. The others were sitting across from the bed leaning against the wall, playing a board game.

"Thanks for taking care of me, guys," I told them.

"No problem. You take care of us enough," Josiah said. I reached up to feel my forehead since I now had a splitting headache.

"Chris, dig through the stuff from the drug store and get some aspirin, please," I begged him.

He got the bottle and poured it out onto his hand. He tried to hand me one, but I reached out and took four from his hand, and swallowed them down. As I lay there in a bit of discomfort, I tried to lighten the mood in the room.

"Hey, who wants their dick sucked?" I asked.

I heard four distinct "ME! ME! ME! ME!" in response. I just chuckled softly, as my brain hurt now.

"Just kidding, guys," I told them.

Then I heard a bunch of, "Ahh, that sucks," and, "That's not fair."

"Damn, you guys know there are four of you, you can have fun without me, for once, if you want to," I told them. "My brain is aching, but I'd be more than happy to watch you guys," I told them.

AJ and Josiah smiled and looked at each other. The next thing I knew, clothes were flying through the air from the four boys' bodies. There, before me, were four beautiful nude preteens with rock hard little cocks. I smiled as I watched them pair off and go to town on each other, making their cocks feel great.

The cousins, Adam and Josiah, paired up and decided to suck each other in a sixty-nine position on the bed. Chris had Donny to play with.

Donny took the initiative this time and got down on his knees and took Chris's small dick in his little mouth. When Adam noticed that, he spit Joe's dick out just for a second to say, "Remember Donny, no teeth, OUCH!" Donny smiled with Chris's dick in his mouth and began to bob his little head back and forth. The boys were having a great time when Lucky let out a sudden woof, making Donny giggle like crazy.

"What?" I asked.

"Lucky said, 'Wow! You didn't even sniff his butt first!'" Donny told me, after spitting Chris's dick out and laughing at the dog. That made all of us crack up, too. The room was filled with laughter and boy love.

The laughter quickly died down as the boys went back to their fun. Before I knew it heard Joe and AJ both begin to moan and grunt, signaling to me they were both getting close. I looked at Chris and the little guy and noticed Chris beginning to look flushed. I could tell he was breathing deeply, so it looked like he was also getting close to orgasm. Seeing the boys enjoying themselves made me feel good, but my brain wasn't allowing me to join in with them. The aching pain was too much so I just lay there and watched my younger friends have fun.

"Oh, gosh yes!" I heard Chris moan out loud. It seemed little Donny was skilled with his lips and tongue. I opened my eyes to see Donny now sitting on his knees licking his lips and rubbing Chris's tight ball sack, as Chris was soaring high in the clouds. He noticed me looking at him and smiled as I gave him a thumb's up. The little guy just smiled wider and kept on rubbing Chris. It wasn't even a minute later when I heard Adam and Josiah both begin to moan and groan deeply and loudly. They were having simultaneous orgasms in each other's mouths. They humped and sucked each other for a few more seconds 'til they both spit each other's dicks out and began to breathe rapidly and shallow like they just ran a marathon. Josiah rolled off top of AJ a minute later, when he caught his breath, and curled up next to him.

"Wow! That was awesome. We gotta do this stuff more often," Josiah said.

"If I knew you liked boys, we would have already been doing it a lot," AJ answered.

Chris then spoke up, "Dude, that was great, thanks. It's your turn now. What do you wanna do?" Chris asked.

"I don't know, what do you wanna do?" the little man asked. The boys all chuckled at him.

"No, no. I mean do you want me to suck yours or what?" Chris asked again. Donny smiled big and nodded yes. Chris then had him lie down on the bed a few feet away from me and he got into position and went down on his stiff little rod. Somewhere, in all of the sucking and afterglow of the boys having their fun, I fell asleep.

I woke early sometime the next morning and flipped on a flashlight in the dark room. The boys were all in the bed sleeping soundly, along with the dog sleeping next to Donny. I grabbed my watch and peered at it through sleepy eyes to see it was only 5 a.m.

I quietly got out of the bed and made my way outside to relieve the bursting pressure in my bladder. As I stood and pissed, I thought of the possibilities of what we may and may not find at the orphanage tonight when we get there. I tried to remember what it looked like from the times I rode past it in the car with my parents.

From memory it was a huge old house that sat way back from the road and looked like something you'd see in some monster movie. I always called it Frankenstein's Mansion.

While I was finishing up, I felt rain drops start to fall on my face. It was still dark out at the moment, but it seemed like it was going to be a cloudy, rainy day. I went back inside the mine to get out of the rain and I heard the unmistakable sound of the ATV's engine growing closer. It could only mean that Sergeant Williams was coming back to the mine. I stood at the entrance out of the rain and waited for him. Sure enough, about a minute later he pulled up in front of the mine, wearing his rain gear.

"Morning soldier. Let's get the troops up and motivated," he said to me.

Knowing that the guys were all still in bed naked and they didn't want him to see them that way I said, "Ok, I'll go in and wake them up. They're still asleep. Go ahead and pull the ATV inside out of the rain." With that I ran back to the safe room and woke the others from what had been a good night's sleep.

"Guys, get up, now! The soldier's here!" I said excitedly to get them up quickly.

They all jumped up and, as fast as possible, began to at least put some underwear on. Just as the last one of them slid his undies up over his dick, the soldier walked into the room.

"Morning troops. It's almost o six hundred. Let's get up and motivated," he said loudly, as he entered.

"Six a.m.? Man, it's too early for this," Chris whined.

"Early bird gets the worm," the man said.

"I'd rather be the late one that gets the sleep," Josiah said yawning.

I still felt kind of wary around the man after what had happened the day before. I tried my best to keep my distance from him for the moment and I think he sensed that. A short time later the guys were all dressed and the Sergeant made an announcement.

"Ok, guys, from the feel of the weather it looks like it's going to be a wet day. I believe we should make a change in plans to bump up our time to leave for the orphanage as soon as possible."

"But why? I thought we were leaving tonight because it was a new moon?" AJ asked.

"I think if the weather stays like this for very long, we may run the risk of getting stuck in that old truck if we try going off road. If we leave soon, we stand a better chance of making it, okay?" the soldier asked.

The plan made sense to me, even though I wasn't going to tell him that.

"Come on guys, let's just get our stuff ready," I told the others.

We all began to pack the last bit of our stuff and take it out to the ATV. While we were carrying things out of the safe room, Sergeant Williams was hooking the trailer up to the ATV so we could take everything in one trip.

We weren't taking everything in the safe room with us. We had decided to leave some flashlights and lanterns and other survival gear behind in the mine just in case we ever needed to come back for some reason. Within about a half an hour we had the trailer and all the available space in the ATV crammed with our stuff and gear and we were ready to go.

"Guys, it's raining like crazy out so we better put on those rain suits we got from the general store before we leave," I told them.

We all got our suits on, and our guns ready to go. Finally, we were ready to pile on the ATV and leave the mine, hopefully for the last time.

The ride to town wasn't comfortable for us, by any means. We were crammed in the ATV like sardines in a can, what with all the gear on it, too. We barely had room to seat all of us. Donny had to ride in his brother's lap because of the lack of room. Josiah had to ride on the trailer sitting on top of the gear. The dog had it worst of all.

Poor Lucky had to walk the whole distance to town since we didn't have room for him on the ATV. The rain made our trip a soggy, nasty ride. If the ATV hadn't been all wheel drive, we probably would have gotten stuck a few times because we had it weighed down so much. Eventually we crossed into the town's outer limits and stopped for a moment.

"Adam, you see anything out of the ordinary?" I asked.

He took his dark glasses off and scanned around with his onyx eyes, looking for trouble.

"Looks clear to me," he replied.

"Chris, what about you? Hear or smell anything?" I asked.

"It's kind of hard to tell because the rain is messing with me. I can't tell really," he answered.

"Okay soldiers, weapons at the ready," the Sergeant told us.

We cautiously went on slowly with our eyes peeled. Some minutes later, we made it to the old barn where the truck was with no problems. Sergeant Williams had pulled it inside the old barn to keep it out of the rain. We pulled inside the barn next to it, jumped off the ATV and tried our best to dry off for a few minutes. The poor dog was soaked to the bone and as soon as he could, he laid down to rest his tired body from the long walk.

"Tired boy?" Donny asked him, getting a woof-woof in response.

"He said he's beat and cold," Donny told us. The man stood guard at the barn door with his machine gun, keeping watch while we unloaded everything off the ATV and into the truck. I found the bag with the old towels in it we got from Walmart and dug a few of them out.

"Here Donny, try to dry Lucky off the best you can," I said, tossing him the towels. The nine-year-old sat and dried the dog's wet fur while the others and I did our best to pack everything into the truck. It took some trial and error, but we got everything in there, albeit with little room to spare.

"Okay, we got it all in," I told the soldier.

"Great job troops! Let's stow the ATV away and get ready to leave town. I moved the ATV deeper into the old barn and we covered it with some hay that was inside, to hide it. The man then fired the truck up and backed it outside to warm up.

After a few minutes, the truck was warm and Donny had Lucky dried off pretty well.

"Okay troops, I'm pulling the truck back inside so we can get in out of the rain. Make damn sure you have everything you need for the trip with you before you get in, because we're not stopping unless we have to," the soldier told us.

As planned AJ, rode up front with Donny in the middle and the soldier driving. The others and I rode in the back seat with the dog. Soon we were rolling down the street heading out of town; heading to what we hoped would be a new home.

A few miles outside of town we came across a part of the road that was blocked by several cars that had been destroyed by the aliens in the initial invasion. We had to engage the 4-wheel drive and head off the side of the road into the grass to get around the obstruction. The truck handled that obstacle with no problem, but who knows how it will act if we need to really go off-road.

"I thought we were going all the way there off-road?" AJ asked.

"That was before it rained. We need to avoid getting off of the road if we can, now," the man said.

We motored on out of town and, so far, the trip was fairly uneventful, 'til I almost went flying through the windshield. The soldier had slammed on the brakes locking them up, making the truck come to a sliding stop. I ended up almost on top of poor little Donny.

"What the hell?" Josiah asked, rubbing his forehead from banging it on the seat in front of him. I crawled off of Donny and looked at the windshield to see a large splatter on the front end of the truck.

"What the hell did you hit? I asked.

"A deer, I think," the man said.

"Well, don't you think we should go check?" I asked.

He put the truck in park and we all got out to see what he had hit. Sure enough, it was a deer. It lay on the side of the road writhing in obvious pain. Donny began to cry.

"It's in pain. I can hear it's crying," Donny said, bawling. The deer flopped around for about another minute and then just lay there breathing slowly. Donny kneeled down next to it and told it, "It'll be okay. We're sorry. We didn't mean to hit you," through his crying. He sat there petting the dying deer as it was drawing its last few breaths.

"It won't hurt any more real soon," he told it, and then it died in front of him. He cried like the small kid he was. The whole thing made the rest of the boys and I feel just as bad as Donny did.

"I hate you," Donny said to the soldier as he left the deer's corpse and headed back to the truck.

We all got back in and felt a bit somber for the rest of the trip to the orphanage. Soon we were at the gate to the driveway leading up to the building and it had a huge lock and chain on it.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Chris asked.

"We leave the truck here and infiltrate the perimeter of the building to see if it's okay to go on," the man said.

"Dude, do you hear yourself? We have no idea what the hell you just said," Joe told him.

"He means we're gonna leave the truck and check the place out before we go in," I told him.

We all got out of the truck and walked down a way from the gate and found a gap in the fencing around the property. It was overgrown with brush and tress so we would be out of sight for now.

"Eyes open, guys," I told them. We walked through the woods with guns up and ready to shoot.

"Wait!" Donny said excitedly.

"What is it, bub?" AJ asked him.

Donny shushed him and was looking at a squirrel that was sitting on a tree above us.

"That squirrel told me to be careful; this place is dangerous," Donny said.

The other boys and I took the advice to heart. The soldier, on the other hand, thought his training would serve him better. He proceeded on in front of us without keeping aware of his surroundings. That's when I noticed his foot hook on what looked to be a trip wire. The next thing, I hear a snap, and I saw Chris being dragged upward into the air with his foot in a snare trap. The rest of us raised our guns and pointed them in all directions.

"Somebody, get me down, dammit!" Chris demanded. I shushed him and held up a finger, telling him to hold on.

"What happened?" the soldier said.

"You happened. You tripped that snare on him. It's your fault he's up there," AJ told the man, angrily.

I found where the trap's rope was tied off and cut it with Josiah standing under Chris to catch him so he didn't get hurt from the 10 foot [3 m] fall. When he was back on the ground, he cried that his foot and knee hurt him now. I could totally understand why, having seen him dangling by his foot so high in the air, and he was literally yanked up there by the trap.

"Come on, jump on my back. I'll carry you. Just keep a gun ready," Josiah told Chris.

Chris piggy backed on Josiah and we continued on. AJ dropped back next to me and he knew I could read his thoughts so he didn't say what was on his mind.

Dude, he's gonna get one of us killed, he thought to me.

"I know," I told him.

We continued on towards the big house.

"Stop, stop! I heard something. It sounded like a foot step and then a twig breaking, but I can't be sure with the rain falling," Chris said quietly.

We huddled in a tight group with guns in different directions.

Then I heard, "NOW!" and the next thing I knew, I was falling.

A few seconds later, I got my wits about me and saw that we had fallen into a large hole in the ground. We had walked out onto a surface that was rigged to collapse and let whoever was on it fall into the hole.

"What the hell?!" I demanded, shaking the cobwebs out of my head.

Then large rocks began to rain down on us from above. One hit little Donny right in the face busting him open just above his left eye. He grabbed it and began to bawl loudly as the blood ran.

"Mother Fuckers!" Adam yelled out in rage over his brother and he began to shoot upward with his rifle at whoever was stoning us. I raised my shotgun and cracked off a few shots myself. When whoever was up there heard that, the rocks stopped falling.

"Joe, I want you to throw me up there. I don't care if I get hurt. Just throw me," I told Josiah, who was wanting to use his super strength in our defense. He grabbed me by my waist, then gave me a toss and I flew up and out of the hole, tumbling onto the ground. I got up on one knee and raised the shotgun, butting it against my shoulder in the classic one-knee firing position, with my supporting elbow resting on my thigh.

"Hold it right there!" I screamed at the half-a-dozen kids standing there, holding big-ass rocks.

"Drop the damn rocks, now!" I screamed. They complied and raised their hands in fear.

"Please, mister don't shoot us," a girl, who looked to be about 8 or 9, said to me.

"Why the hell were you throwing rocks at us? You hurt one my friends!" I yelled at them.

"We thought you were one of the monsters," a boy said.

"Well we're not fucking monsters!" I heard AJ yell from the hole in a very mad tone. Now that the kids were disarmed, I lowered my gun to a ready-resting position from pointing it at them. They then lowered their hands.

"Do you have a rope? I need to get my friends out of there," I asked. One of the boys nodded yes nervously and I told him to go get it.

"Tie that end to that tree and toss the rest in the hole," I told him. The guys then climbed out one by one leaving Donny to bring up the rear.

"Donny, tie it around your waist and I'll pull you up," Josiah told his cousin. Donny tied the rope and held his bleeding head as Joe extracted him from the hole.

"Which one of you fuckers hit my brother with the rock?" AJ demanded, raising his gun at the kids and scaring them to death.

"Adam, they didn't know. They were scared just like we would have been," I said, as I pushed his gun barrel towards the ground.

"You're lucky Derrik here saved you is all I can say," AJ said, as he went to tend to his brother.

"We're sorry. We didn't mean to hurt you guys. We were just out here looking for food when we heard you guys making noises," another one of the kids said.

"How many of you children are here?" the soldier asked.

"Just us and two more in the building. There's no one else here," one of the kids said.

"Well kids, in the current situation, I have to declare military rule here. We have come a long way to get here. We don't have anywhere else to go at the moment, so we will be staying here now as well," the man told the kids.

Chapter 14

We were surprised to find kids here at the orphanage, and defending their home at that. They had caught us in a pit trap with little problem. The kids led us up to the big old house and showed us the way in. For some reason they weren't using the front door to get in, but were climbing in and out though a basement window.

"Why don't we just go in the front door instead of squeezing through this window?" I asked the kids.

"We're afraid one of those things might see us going in there and get us, so we go through the window," one of the boys replied. It took a few minutes for us to get in but we all wiggled through the small ground-level window.

Inside, the basement looked like a total and complete pig sty. It had an odor of filth and a funk I had never smelled before. The overwhelming odor was getting to Chris's sensitive nose. I saw him cover his mouth and nose with his shirt sleeve to keep the smell out.

"Damn, have you guys been staying down here all the time?" I asked them. It looked like they were living in the basement and never going out.

"Yeah, pretty much. We're scared one of those things will get us," one of the smaller kids said.

"Does this place still have power and running water?" the soldier asked.

"Yes sir, but we don't turn anything on at night. They might see us," a girl said.

"How big is this place? How many rooms and such are there?" I asked.

"There's three sleeping rooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a clinic, the basement, the head master's office, some storage rooms, and a common room," an older boy said.

"Okay, I guess if we're all going to be here for a while, we should know who's who. I'm Derrik, this is Chris, Josiah, Adam, Donny, and he's Sergeant Williams from the army," I told the kids living in the house.

"And this is Lucky," Donny told them, petting the dog's head.

"Okay, I guess we should do the same. My name's Alicia. This is Carry, Cody and Cole, they're brothers and sister. That's Nathan and Phillip in the corner. And that's Zachary in the bed and Justin sitting next to him," the oldest girl said.

"Good to meet all of you kids. From the looks of you all, you don't have many supplies, do you?" the man asked.

"No sir, we ran out of food in the freezer and pantry days ago. We been finding what food we can outside, and that's not very much," Nathan said. He was a cute boy looking to be about 10 or so.

"What's wrong with him?" I asked, referring to Zachary.

"He's sick. I think he ate some spoiled food," Justin said, sitting next to him. Zachary was lying on a makeshift bed on the floor. On closer examination I saw he was lying on a blanket on the cold concrete floor. I walked over to him and felt his dirty forehead. He definitely had a fever.

"Guys, he's sick. We need the med kit out of the truck," I told the others.

"Hey Derrik, can't you go into that trance thing you do and see if there's any aliens nearby?" Josiah asked.

"Good idea," I said, not thinking about checking for monsters.

"Okay, you check for aliens while we go and bring the supplies up to the building. Troops, when I pull up front, I need everyone available front and center to unload the supplies," the soldier handed out orders.

While the man went to fetch the truck, I sat down on the floor, closed my eyes and concentrated on what I wanted. I spread out with my feelings searching for alien presence anywhere even remotely nearby. So far, I couldn't sense anything, so I told the others, "I think it's ok. I don't sense anything close to us. I think it's ok to go out."

"What was he doing just now?" Carry asked.

"It's a long story that we'll tell you later, but he can sense when aliens are close. He says it's okay, so we can go out now," AJ explained.

Everyone except Zachary and Justin, who was tending to him, made their way up to the main entrance and outside to meet Sergeant Williams with the truck.

"How'd you get through the gate? We had it locked," Alicia asked.

"I shot the lock off and removed the chain. The rest is self-explanatory," the man said smugly. With the extra help of six more pairs of hands, we had the truck unpacked quickly.

"You have food? Can we please have some? We haven't eaten in two days," Cody begged.

"Sure, soldier, as soon as we get an HQ established and an order of command going," the soldier said.

"You know what; the army talk is getting old, dude. Let 'em eat. They're hungry," AJ said, getting an attitude. He definitely didn't like this man after all he has shown us so far.

"Come on guys, I'll make you some PB&J sandwiches," AJ told the hungry kids. He took a bag with the supplies with him to the kitchen, with six hungry kids right on his heels. He spread out enough bread to make each kid a few sandwiches and smeared a generous amount of peanut butter and jelly on them.

The kids wolfed the first sandwich down and saved the second one. They all seemed grateful for the gesture from Adam to feed them. Alicia walked up him afterwards and smiled shyly and thanked him in her own way. She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

He blushed, not knowing how to act or what to say in this situation. He simply smiled and told them they were welcome.

In the meanwhile, the others from our group, and I, were transferring the supplies and our things into the building from the truck.

"Where can we put our clothes and things?" I asked Alicia.

"You can take them to the sleeping room, I guess, since you say it's safe to go out now. There are two rooms for the boys and one for Carry and I," she told me. She pointed out which rooms were what, and the boys and I carried our things to them.

I opened the door to the first room and it was larger than I expected. It had four pairs of bunk beds in it with dresser drawers for each bed. It looked like some of the boys who lived here already had some of the beds spoken for.

"Guys, just put your stuff inside the door and we'll figure out where everyone's sleeping in a little while," I told them.

I wandered around the rest of the house and checked out every room. I found the clinic and it seemed to be well stocked with first aid items in case someone had a minor injury. It had two beds in it and seemed to be not used much. I came to the kitchen next where I found AJ chatting with his brother and one of the boys from the house.

"Hey guys," I greeted them. They waved back as I inspected the pantry and freezer. Miraculously the building still had power and running water for some reason, so the freezer still worked.

"Hey AJ, the freezer still works. I'm thinking next time we go for food; Popsicles dude," I said laughing.

"Popsicles hell, chocolate ice cream," he said laughing in return.

"Good idea. I think as soon as we get everyone settled and used to each other we'll go on a food run and fill the pantry and freezer up," I said.

"Food run?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah, we'll take the truck back to town and fill it up with food from the grocery store, then bring it back. Plus whatever else we may need," I explained to Nathan.

I left the three boys to explore some more. I found the master bathroom on the first floor. It was a gym-style bathroom with six showerheads on the walls of a large shower stall. It also had two urinals and three toilets in it with two sinks.

I looked around some more and found the headmaster's office. It was a typical office with filing cabinets and a desk in it. A door in the corner led to the headmaster's sleeping quarters. It was simple, with a bed and a set of drawers in it with a closet. I guessed that this room would go for the sergeant at this point.

I went and told him about the room then went on to check the upstairs out. It had the girls' sleeping room, the second bathroom and the second boys' sleeping room. I checked each room out and the boys' room was the same as the other, room for eight. The girls' room was a bit smaller, though. It only had room for four.

I checked further and determined the upstairs bathroom was the good one. Just seeing the upstairs bathroom, I made up my mind I would be sleeping upstairs. It had four separated showers and two separated toilets. The most important feature was the whirlpool bathtub that was enclosed by frosted glass so no one could see inside the tub.

"Oh yeah, heaven," I thought to myself. It had been so long since I had had a real warm bath. I couldn't wait to climb into it and test it out. I went back downstairs to the others and told them about what I had found. I walked into the kitchen to see AJ playing with the sink faucet.

"Derrik look, hot water!" he chimed.

"Great! That means that bathtub I found will feel wonderful," I said sarcastically. He smiled and was thinking, Yes! a bathtub! Cool!

I made my way back down to the basement where the sick boy, Zachary, was lying with Justin at his side.

"How is he?" I asked.

How would I know I'm not a doctor? Justin thought to himself. Little did he know I could read his thoughts.

"I know you're not a doctor, ok. I just asked if he was ok," I told him.

"How'd you know what I was thinking?" he asked me.

"Long story, dude. I'll tell you all later. For now, let's get him off this cold floor and up to the clinic. We need to check him out," I said.

I uncovered the small boy and picked him up in my arms to carry him upstairs. Carrying him wasn't much of a problem, since he was so little. He was about 6 or 7, I'd say, just small enough for me to carry on my own with no problem. I laid him down on the bed in the clinic and he opened his bright blue eyes for the first time.

"Who are you?" he asked me, barely squeaking it out.

"My name's Derrik. I'm here to help you get better," I told him. I put a thermometer in his mouth and, sure enough, he had a fever.

"How long has he been like this?" I asked Justin.

"A few days. Right after we ate the last of our food," he answered. His answer made me suspect. The last of their food would have made it the oldest of their food. I was beginning to think of food poisoning. Just to be sure I wanted to check him over to make sure he didn't have bug bites or anything like that.

"Okay Zachary; can I call you Zach? I need to get you undressed so I can check you for bug bites or anything like that. We gotta make sure we get you well and we need to give you the right medicine, okay?" I said to the little guy.

He nodded to tell me ok, so I began to slowly undress him so as not to disturb him much. I had him down to his underwear in no time and he was a mess. The poor little guy was covered from head to toe in filth, and the remnants of a piss stain were on the front of his undies.

"Okay bud, I know you probably don't want to do this, but I need to get those undies off you. They're really super dirty and I need to clean you up," I told him.

He told me 'okay' so I slid the nasty things off him. When I took them off, I got the shock of my life, "Wow!" was all I could say. I had never seen a dick on a six or seven-year-old as big as his was. He had to be nearly 3 inches [7½ cm] limp. He was kind of making me jealous in a way.

"What is it? Am I gonna be okay?" he begged me.

"Oh, sorry, didn't mean to scare you. It's just I never saw a kid your age with a pecker as big as yours," I told him. He tried to laugh but ended up coughing, instead.

"Whoa, easy, big guy. Calm down. Save your strength," I told him. I wiped his small body down getting all the filth off of him, and paying special attention to his groin area.

"Okay, I don't know if you want me to do this or not, but I need to wash your thing. It's got pee all over it and that's gross," I told him.

He didn't mind so I began to gently wash his good-sized soft dick. I didn't want to get him boned up with Justin sitting there, and with us in the room, so I just wiped him down quickly. His balls were still tight to his body, but he sure made up for it in length.

"So, why were you staying with him, like that?" I asked Justin.

"Because he's my best bud," he answered. He looked to be about 7 or 8 and just as dirty as Zach was.

"Ok, stay here with him for a sec. I'm gonna go get the medical supplies we got," I said, but just then Joe walked in with the bag of stuff I needed.

"Holy shit!" he said when he saw the naked Zachary.

"Damn dude, is that real?" he asked referring to his cock.

"Sure is. You jealous?" I asked.

"Yeah, a little," Josiah said giggling. I pulled a thin blanket up over Zach to conceal his goodies. Then I dug out some antibiotic pills from the bag and gave them to Zach.

"Take these, bud. They'll make you feel better. Try to get some sleep now, too," I told him.

He swallowed the pills and Josiah, Justin, and I left him in the clinic to get some rest and let the pills do their work. I went to find Donny to check the cut on his head where he got hit by the rock. I found him still in the kitchen with his brother going through the food supplies.

"Hey bud, how's the head feeling?" I asked.

"It hurts," he said holding a bloody rag on his fore head.

"Well, come on to the clinic and we'll check it out. Just be quiet when we get there. That little guy, Zach, is in there trying to sleep. He's really sick," I told Donny.

He sat down on the other bed in the clinic and I made him take the rag away from his head.

"Yeah, they got you good, bud. You got a nice gash right over your eye. You gonna let me take care of it for you?" I asked him.

I got a sterile pad and wiped the blood of his forehead and face then cleaned around the cut really good. He actually needed stitches but I wasn't about to attempt that. Instead I pulled the cut together the best I could and used a few butterfly bandages to hold it. I then put a band aid over it to keep it protected.

"Okay, sport, you're good to go. Your head still hurting?" I asked him. He nodded his head yes so, I gave him an aspirin and had him lie down in the bed.

"Try to take a nap. Me or AJ will come in and check on you in a little while," I told him. I turned the light in the room off and left the two little guys in there to try and rest.

The more I checked the place out, the more I found out about the kids who were living there. Some basics: like how long they had been there, how old they were, and that there had been more of them, but some tried to run away when the aliens attacked.

The day dragged on and by early evening we had everything settled and everyone was getting to know each other. We all met in the dining room and sat down for a quick dinner of sandwiches and chips.

"Okay, troops, I think now would be a good chance for everyone to get to know who's who," the soldier announced. The guys and I all told the orphans who we were and how old we were and things like that. Then the time came for the orphans to tell us who they were.

First to stand up was Alicia. "I'm Alicia. I'm 13 years old and I'm the oldest of the house," She had light brown hair and looked pretty much like a normal girl of her age.

Next to speak was Nathan. "Hi, I'm Nathan. You can call me Nate. I'm 12 years old and glad to meet you guys," he said smiling. He was a cute kid, kind of on the skinny side, but cute none-the-less. Light blonde hair and hazel eyes.

"Hey, I'm Justin. I'm 8 and these sandwiches rule," Justin said taking a big bite of food. He was also a cute little guy with black hair and green eyes.

Next to talk was Phillip. "Hey. You can call me Phil. I'm 11 and I'm the house nerd." He was a big red-headed boy. Not tall, big, but he was more on the chubby side and wore glasses.

Now it was the other girl, Carry, who spoke. "I'm Carry, I'm 12 and these are my brothers Cole and Cody. They're both 10," She said, pointing at her twin brothers. Carry was not attractive to me. She had a big nose and was skinny. But her brothers were like cute little angels. They had the cutest smiles and looked great to me. Both about the size of Donny and every bit as cute as Donny. They had light brown hair and bright blue eyes. They both waved as they shyly smiled at us. There was no doubt they were identical twins and telling them apart was going to be tough.

"And the kid in the clinic is Zachary. We all call him Zach. He's the youngest of us here. He's 7½ years old and the adventurous one of us," Alicia told us.

"Well, the one of us who's not here right now is Donny. He's Adam's brother and he's 9. He's in the clinic taking a nap right now. That incident with the rock to his head gave him a headache, so he's sleeping it off. I could see the look on a few of the kid's faces that they felt bad for stoning us while we were in the hole.

"Look, I know we all kind of freaked out on you guys at first, but you did what we probably would have done if we were in your places, so don't feel so bad about it," I told the orphans.

We sat for about an hour exchanging stories of what had happened to us in the last few weeks. Then, when the topic of our special powers came up, we had to demonstrate to the kids a little bit.

I read a few of their thoughts which freaked them out, but they liked it. Josiah showed them how strong he was by picking up the whole huge dining table on his own. Chris could hear the faintest whisper of the kids and repeated what they said. I told them that Donny could talk to animals and understand them. When it came time for AJ to show off, I had to warn the kids.

"Okay guys, I know you can tell Adam's been wearing sunglasses the whole time. Don't freak out when he takes them off. He is just as human as you and me." Then I nodded to AJ to take the glasses off so he closed his eyes and took them off. He then slowly opened his eyes to adjust to the level of light in the room. When he had them fully open, the kids marveled at them.

"Wow! That's so cool! I never saw anything like that!" Nate said.

"What do they do?" Justin asked.

"Well, I can see like I can right now even when it's pitch-black. I can see aliens when they are cloaked and you guys can't see them. Plus, I can see all kinds of other weird stuff, too," AJ explained. Just about that time Donny came strolling in, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Hey bub, how ya feel?" AJ asked his brother as Donny sat down next to him.

"Better now. My head still stings a little," he answered. Adam put his shades back on and draped his arm over his brothers' shoulder and hugged him.

I noticed Carry stealing glances at AJ like he was a steak. I could see why she was looking at him like that. She had good reason because AJ was hot, and he loved his little brother, who looked just like him, and wasn't afraid to show it.

"Okay everyone, I'm going to go check on Zach now and take him some food. I'm sure he's hungry, too," I announced.

"I'm coming, too," Justin said.

The little guy followed me to the clinic to check on his best friend. When I walked into the room, he was still sleeping so I felt his forehead with the back of my hand. He felt a bit cooler now, like his fever was subsiding. I decided that the best thing for him might be to get some good food into him, so I gently shook him awake.

"Zach, wake up, dude. I got some food for you."

He slowly opened his eyes and saw me and his friend there. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and yawned big.

"Hey, sleepy head, look what we got, PB&J sandwiches!" Justin said with a smile.

Zach sat up slowly, remembering he was naked and kept the thin blanket pulled over his lap. The little guy definitely looked better now. He had some color to him, now, instead of the pale look he had when I brought him to the clinic. I took his temp before he began to gobble down the sandwich, and it had gone down a lot. He was now at 99.0 F degrees [37.2 C], just slightly warm. After he ate his food he lay back on the bed and stretched his small body out. When he did, Justin noticed something.

"Dude, are you hard? Your thing is sticking up in the blanket," Justin said, giggling and pointing to Zach's half-stiff little wiener tenting the blanket. Zach's face turned bright red.

"Hey, it's nothing to be embarrassed about, it happens to us all," I told the boys. "Better get used to it, guys. More than likely, you're gonna be seeing a lot of stuff you never saw before. Me and the guys I came with all sleep naked, so that's one of those things," I told them. The younger boys didn't seem to act like that mattered to them much.

"Justin, I'm not trying to be mean to you, but when was the last time you took a bath or shower?" I asked.

"Uhh…" he started to say.

"A long time ago, wasn't it?" I asked.

He nodded yes.

"Ok, I think since we have hot running water, everyone needs to bathe. Let's go see what everyone thinks of that," I told him.

"Zach you go ahead and rest for a little bit. I'll be back in a li'l while, okay?" I told the little guy.

In the dining room everyone was chatting and talking, and Sergeant Williams was looking over his papers.

"Hey sergeant, you can check that stuff in the headmaster's office; there's a desk in there," I told him.

"Good idea. I need room to spread this stuff out," the soldier said. Once he was gone, I popped the question to the kids.

"Everyone, I don't mean to sound like a dick, but EVERYONE here needs a shower bad. Me and the guys have been using bottles of water to wipe off with for weeks now. I can definitely use a hot shower," I told the kids.

"Great idea. We have been staying in the basement since the invasion. We haven't cleaned in weeks either," Alicia said.

"Okay, I think that you and Carry should take the upstairs bathroom first, and some of us will wait till you get done in there before we bathe. The rest of us will take the bathroom downstairs and get squeaky clean," I told the guys. That idea went into effect as Alicia and Carry went up to their room and got clean clothes before going to take a shower.

Meanwhile, I sent six of the boys to their rooms to get some clothes before showering. First to go was Donny, Josiah, and AJ from our group and Justin, Nathan, and Phillip.

I had to walk in and check out the scenery as the boys got cleaned up. AJ, Joe and Donny I had seen before, but the others were all new to me. Nathan looked to be normal size and looked just as nice as Josiah when naked. Justin had a cute little body for his age, trim, but fit, with a nice looking little mushroom cock. Seeing them was making my own dick a little firm.

Phillip was, how do I say this. He wasn't attractive to me. He was flabby with small boy boobs, and a small cock. For his age he looked to have a cock the same size as Justin's. The weird thing was, he was uncut. It looked weird to me and not attractive at all.

"Use soap you guys and for god sakes wash your hair good, okay?" I told all the boys showering. There was going to have to be two groups of boys to shower since there wasn't room for all of us at once in the shower room, or no doubt we'd all be in there washing and doing who knows what else. One thing occurred to me that I read on a pamphlet at school once. It was about uncut boys and how they should wash their cocks better than cut boys do.

"Hey Phil, come here a sec," I said, waving the naked chubster over to me.

"Ah, how do I tell you this? You need to wash IT really good since its uncircumcised," I told him. He just looked at me weird like he didn't know what I meant.

"Look at the other guys peckers, and then look at yours. See the difference?" I said in his ear so only he could hear. He nodded yes seeing the difference.

"Just trust me on this, bud, okay? Wash your dick good, okay?" I told him.

"How do I know when I washed enough?" he asked.

"Easy, wash it till you get boned," I told him laughing. He didn't seem to think anything weird about it and went back to showering.

AJ was washing his brothers' hair for him and I couldn't help but admire the love they have for each other. AJ noticed me smiling at him and his bro and smiled back. I then left to go back to the kitchen with the other boys, namely Chris and the twins Cody and Cole.

"Hey guys we're up next as soon as the girls are done," I told them.

"You mean we don't have to shower in the open room?" Cody asked.

"No, I guess not. The girls should be done first so we'll go to the bathroom upstairs. It's got the separate showers, right?" I said. The twins nodded yes.

"Why? Don't you guys like showering in the big room?" I asked them. They shook their heads no.

"Well, why not, guys?" I asked.

"Because everyone makes fun of us," Cole answered.

"What for?" Chris asked. The boys sat silently and looked uncomfortable.

"Look guys, if we're gonna be living here together like this, we need to get along and know about each other. So, you wanna tell me why they make fun of you?" I asked the twins. They didn't have to say a word and I knew why. I sensed Cole thinking, Because of what we did.

"Hey Chris, why don't you go get your stuff ready for the shower. I need to talk to them a second," I told him. He left and then I asked the twins about it.

"Guys, what's wrong? What happened? You can trust me. I won't judge you and I won't make fun of you."

Cody took a deep breath, "The reason we were put in this place is because our mom caught us playing around with each other," he said.

"Come on, I know there's more to it than that," I said.

A tear rolled down Cole's cheek, "She didn't want us because we played with each other's wieners 'cause our sister made us, and watched," he said, starting to cry. I couldn't help but think of how horrible it was for their mother not to want them for that reason.

"Boys, that sucks about your mom, but I'm not here to pass judgment. Bad things happen to good people in life. I lost my whole family when the aliens invaded. You guys didn't do anything to be ashamed of. I don't think your sister shoulda made you guys do it if you didn't want to, but if you didn't get hurt… " I trailed off.

"You don't think we're little sissy's or fairy's?" Cody asked.

"No way, dude," I told them.

"Guy's it's not bad if you liked it. Did you?" I asked. They both looked at each other then dropped their heads. I knew the answer was yes and they were too embarrassed to say it.

"Guys, it's okay. It's not a bad thing. Brothers do that stuff all the time, especially twins. And just to let you in on something, I like doing it, too," I told them. They both looked at me then.

"Really? You like doing that stuff, too?" they asked. I nodded yes to them.

"Look guys, if you liked doing whatever you did, that's great. It might just make you guys closer brothers. Why do you think AJ and Donny are so close?" I asked them.

"No way, they play with each other, too?" Cody asked.

"If I tell you the answer, it doesn't leave this room, okay? Yes, they do. AJ doesn't like to talk about it because he feels bad about it, so don't mention it in front of him," I said.

"What do they do?" Cole asked.

"Okay, I'll tell you, but, for now, it stays between us, okay?. The others I came with know about it but the boys here don't. They have sucked each other before," I told the cute dirty twins.

"Wow, really? What's that like?" Cole asked.

"Well, only way I can describe it is it feels awesome," I said to them. I could sense the dirty thoughts flowing through their minds like a river.

"You two never tried it?" I asked them. They shook their heads, no.

"Well, if you guys are up to it, you might learn about it someday," I told them dropping a hint. I hoped they would pick up on it and accept the hint because I'd truly like to see what they looked like once they were clean.

The twins' interest had been piqued by my talk of showing them how to have fun and from the knowledge they now had about Adam and Donny. Just about that time, the girls came in and sat down with towels wrapped around their heads to dry their hair.

"Bathroom is free now," Carry told, us referring to the upstairs bathroom.

"You guys go on up to the bathroom. I'm going to let Chris know it's open now and then we'll be up, too," I told the twins. On the way to fetch Chris, I walked past the headmaster's office and saw Sergeant Williams field stripping his rifle to clean it. I just shook my head at his total jar-head attitude towards life.

Arriving at our bedroom, I found Chris ready to go up to the shower. "Hey bud, showers open now. Looks like the twins and us will be in there together. I'm going to go down and check on Zach first to see if he's okay. If he's well enough he might be in with us, too," I told Chris.

Chris gathered his clothes and stuff and made his way to the upstairs bathroom. As I walked into the clinic it looked like Zachary had just woken up. He was rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Hey kiddo, how ya feeling now?" I asked.

"Lots better. My belly doesn't hurt as much now and I don't hurt all over anymore," he answered.

"Well, do you think you have enough strength to go upstairs to take a bath?" I asked him.

He sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. I helped him to his feet as his long little boy cock dangled over his little balls. He stood there for a moment trying to keep his balance, but he was shaky so I helped him.

"Think you can walk up on your own?" I asked.

"Yeah, if you help me, I'll be ok. But what if someone sees me naked?" he asked. I made sure he could stand on his own for a moment then I grabbed the blanket off the bed and draped it over his shoulders and wrapped it around his little body.

"How's that? No one can see that big ole thing you got now," I told him chuckling.

He smiled and we were off to join the other three boys in the bathroom. The room was a steamy haze from the showers running when we walked in. Chris and the twins had already stripped down and each was in a shower stall getting clean. I just wished I had been there to see the twins take it all off. Now there was one shower stall left and the whirlpool tub. I had wanted to try that baby out since I first saw it.

"Well bud, you want to take a shower or jump in that hot tub with me?" I asked Zach.

"Tub," was all he said.

Chris turned around to see us standing there then as he was scrubbing the shampoo into his short hair. He smiled to say hi to Zach. When Zachary unwrapped the towel from around his little body, Chris's eyes almost popped out of his head.

"Oh my god! He's humungous! " Chris said, ogling Zach's long pecker. Zach looked down and then tried to cover his dick up with his hands.

"Zach, you don't have to do that. You got nothing to be ashamed of. Shit, you should be proud of that thing. Show it off," I told the little guy. So he uncovered it and Chris got his second glance at it.

"Damn he's big. I wonder how big it really gets," Chris said.

The twins then half giggled. I'm sure they had seen Zach naked before, but I doubt they ever thought about how long he really got when hard. My view of the twins was obscured since they were in the far stalls away from me and the steamy room blocked my view, too. I figured I'd get to see them when the steam cleared and they dried off.

I turned the water on in the tub and figured out how to turn the jets on. In a few minutes the tub was filled and bubbles streamed all through it. I helped the little seven-year-old get in the tub first. Then I stripped down and stepped in with him the whole time his eyes were exploring my bigger body. I didn't bother to shut the frosted glass surrounding the tub this time because I figured nothing fun would happen anyway, just getting clean.

I sat down next to Zach as he laid his head back and enjoyed the feeling of the warm water relaxing his little muscles. I was also enjoying the tension being drawn out of my body by the hot water and bubble jets. I grabbed some soap and began to scrub down my arms to get the grime of the day off after falling into the pit outside.

As I was washing, I caught my first glimpse of the twin's bare bodies, as they walked out of the shower stalls. They had absolutely perfect bodies. My dick came to life instantly and was throbbing hard. They looked to be about 2½ inches [6½ cm] long limp with nice little sacks hanging underneath. Their bodies looked like boy-gods to me. Everything from their cute faces, to the tight tummies, to their toned legs, turned me on. As I enjoyed the sight of them, I realized that, as dirty as they were, there was no way they had gotten clean in the few minutes they had been in here.

"Hey Cody, Cole, did you guys wash your hair and use soap on the rest of you?"

At first, they didn't answer. I could sense they hadn't, because they were thinking, no we didn't.

"Guys, you need to use soap. You'll never get clean if you don't," I told them.

"We don't have any," Cody said, bowing his head in shame. Now I felt bad for saying that to them.

"Sorry dudes, I didn't know. Give me a few to make sure Zach's okay in here and I'll help you out," I told them. Just then Chris turned his shower off and stepped towards us dripping wet. The twin's eyes locked on his body as he walked over to grab a towel to dry off with. Seeing Chris naked was no new thing to me, but to the other three boys his body was a new thing to explore with their eyes.

"Any shampoo left in that bottle?" I asked Chris. He nodded yes as he dragged the towel over his wet head. As he dried his small body, I could see both of the twin's cocks swell a little. Not to the point of being totally hard, but maybe halfway. Chris didn't notice as he dressed and left the room waving to us. In all the focusing on the twin's hot bodies I forgot about the sick little guy next to me.

"Guys, go ahead and take that shampoo and scrub up. Wash your hair really good, too," I told them pointing to Chris's shampoo. They grabbed the bottle and stepped back under the shower heads.

"Come over in front of me, little guy, and I'll wash your hair for you," I told Zach.

Zach wiggled his little body over in front of me and sat in-between my legs so I had access to his little blond head. I squirted a glob of shampoo in my hand and began to scrub his short greasy hair. I washed his head completely and worked my way down to his neck and shoulders and then around to his firm little chest. He instinctively raised his arms out of the water so I could wash them and under them.

"Okay squirt, rinse off, then stand up so you can get the rest clean," I told him.

He rinsed his body off and then scooped water in his hands to rinse his hair. When the suds were gone, I helped him stand up in the water. I now had his limp 3-incher [7½ cm] staring me almost right in the face. He just stood there and didn't do anything.

"You want me to do the rest, too?" I asked. He smiled and nodded. The fact that I was going to get to wash his monster boy-dong was pleasure to me.

I started at his tummy and worked my way down the sides of his thighs and legs till I got to his feet. He lifted them out one at a time and balanced himself by holding my shoulders as I washed his little feet. I had everything washed up except for one final area.

"You wanna wash that big thing or you want me to go ahead and do it?" I asked, pointing at his pecker.

"You can, I guess, I don't care," he answered. Just as I was about to reach out for his tool the twins reemerged from their shower.

"All clean now?" I asked them. They both nodded yes together.

"Okay, not to be mean or not that I don't believe you, but come here so I can smell your heads," I told them to see if they had really washed their hair.

They looked at each other and then walked to the tub area together. The saw Zach in the tub with me and smiled at him. My goodness, their faces looked angelic when they smiled. Good thing there were a lot of bubbles in the water or they would have seen my cock go to full size from seeing their perfect bodies up close. Cody bent forward first to let me smell his head. He smelled clean as a whistle as did his brother who followed him.

"Okay guys, cool, you smell clean now, and look clean, too. I guess you guys can get dressed and do whatever for now," I told them. I watched as their tight pale little buns walked back to their shower stalls to get dressed. Now my cock was so engorged it was throbbing with every heart beat from seeing those perfect little bodies. I remembered Zach was still standing next to me in the tub with his one-eyed monster looking at me.

"Oh, sorry dude. Let the twins get dressed. Then we'll finish you up, okay?" I said. Cole and Cody left waiving to us as they walked by in shorts and t-shirts, carrying their dirty clothes with them. Now that they were out of the room, I could focus on getting the sick boy in the tub with me, clean.

"Okay Zach, you ready?" I asked. He nodded and half smiled. I took the soap and got a good lather going in my hand and gently reached out for his now nearly 4-inch [10 cm] half-hard cock. As my fingers made contact with his skin, he drew back slightly. I didn't know what to make of this at first, so I kept my hand going for his glands. My fingers contacted for a second time and this time he held his body still. I slowly slid my soapy fingers along the length of his rod as it quickly grew larger. In no time I was washing his full-sized 5-inch [12½ cm] cock. I couldn't believe that a seven-year-old boy could have a dick just as big as mine. It baffled me.

"This is so weird," I said chuckling.

"What is?' he asked me.

"I dunno. It's just you're only seven and your pecker is as long as mine is already," I told the youngster.

"Really? Mine's as big as yours is?" he asked smiling.

"Well yeah, it's about the same length, but mine's thicker, though," I replied. He gave me a look as if to say, "Yeah, right."

"You don't think mine's thicker, do you? Well let me prove it to you," I said as I stood up in the water to show him my hard cock. His eyes seemed to light up when he saw my boner pointing at him. I stood in front of him and sort of crouched down so that our dicks were at the same level. I then lined mine up next to his and, sure enough, I was a lot thicker than he was. The disappointing thing was the little shit was about a half inch [1 cm] longer than I was and he is only seven. I felt embarrassed by it as he laughed about it.

"HAHAHA mine's longer," he giggled.

"So, mine's still thicker. Plus, my balls are a whole lot bigger than yours," I said, while poking him in his ribs and making him giggle. As much as I wanted to just drop down and suck on that long rod, I didn't want to freak the little guy out. Instead, I just sat back down and chatted with him as I took a few seconds more to wash his erect boy-monster. Needless to say, I enjoyed every second of contact I had with his big dick, but the fun had to end sooner or later. We rinsed off and got out of the tub a few minutes later. As I dried his hair off, his cock was still about half hard and was very noticeable.

"Hey bud, I think you need to go and try to pee. We don't want the whole house to see you walking around with that big ole thing making your pants stick out, do we?" I asked.

He walked over to the urinal and tried for a second then I heard him grunt and a stream of piss flew out and splashed on the urinal.

"Okay, good job, dude. It went down a lot. Go ahead and get dressed. I'll be down as soon I get cleaned up, okay?" I told the youngster.

He dried off a bit more and slid a shirt on, then his briefs and some sweat pants, before leaving the room.

Finally, it was my turn to have some privacy to take care of business. I closed the frosted glass to the tub and grabbed my cock. I began to stroke and beat it like a madman needing the release of tension. All the excitement and stimulation I had had in the last little while was overloading my sexual senses and I desperately needed to release the orgasmic pressure. My soapy fingers flew up and down my rod, making a smacking sound as my hand collided with my abdomen and balls. I believe that this time was the fastest I had ever gotten off. It took me not even three minutes of wild stroking and a massive wave of pleasure flooded over me.

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