Viral Apocalypse ( UC,CC/Slash Adult) (Complete)

[Tharos]

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Antar…

In the oceans of Antar, as with all other planets, the Omega Wave deposited the genetic samples and within the hour single cell life forms appeared. One hour after that the seas were teaming with fish and as the sun rose on the planets life was once more walking on the land.

Granolith Chamber…

“You know, they’re going to need a lot of help out there.” Max said as the Granolith showed images of the development on some of the planets.

Kalen smiled, “Yes they will. We got pretty far by ourselves the first time but if Antar had people looking out for them this time around…”

“Teaching them and junk?” Michael said

“Yeah.” Max said

“I do have a ship that can get up back there. We can stay in orbit and help here and there without them knowing we’re there.” Kalen said

“I had a hunch.” Max said, “But what about all those other planets?”

“There is only so much we can do, I can ask for volunteers to stay on as many planets as possible with my limited manpower. Building a base on the top of a mountain where they’d be out of reach is easy enough but it will be lonely duty.” Kalen said

“On a mountain? Sound like…I don’t know…like the gods of Mount Olympus?” Liz asked

“Well, we have watched humans for a long time.” Kalen said

“Yeah. This is all very nice but we do have kinda of a big problem heading our way at a thousand times the speed of light.” Alex said

“The ships that are coming here.” Max said

“Carrying the art, culture and an entire database of who they were. And travelling 24 hours ahead of them is a message saying that they were wiped out and that only humans are left.” Alex said

“Sooner or later, we’re going to give technology that can get humans out there.” Michael said, “And when they see that all those dead planets are alive again…”

“Like I said. Problem.” Alex said

“Well, assuming I can get the trajectory right, I can intercept the message and alter it. I can add to it that there was a plan for survival but there wasn’t any guarantee.” Kalen said

Max smiled, “But it just so happened that it did.” He said

“When do you leave?” Kyle asked

“The ship can be prepped within two ours for space flight.” Kalen said

“What about Troy?” Sam asked

“Oh…yeah.” Max said

“Who’s Troy?” Kalen asked

“Mr Troy. Father of Pamela Troy and resident Skin.” Max said

“Excuse me.” Kalen said

“Yeah.” Max said

“There is still a Skin around that you haven’t taken care of?” Kalen asked

“Sleeper unit. Found out not too long ago. And technically we have taken care of him.” Michael said

“So he’d dead?”

“No.” Michael said

“He’s more concerned about keeping Pam alive and sane. He’s moved to Canada and stays out of our lives…that’s the agreement.” Alex said

“In exchange for?”

“Not killing him and helping Pam’s little problem.” Isabel said

“He does know that if he stays on Earth he will die right?” Kalen asked

“Yeah. He’s got the husk degradation to about 4 years. Give or take.” Max said

“He only wants to make sure Pam’s okay.” Liz said

“Well then. At the very least you’re safe in the dome and he is just one Skin. I should get back to Alpha 1 and get ready. I said this before we went into stasis, goodbye. This is definitely the last time I’ll see you.” Kalen said

He and the Antarian that he came with him left, using the Granolith to transport them back home. The family then returned to the Mansion where Liz’s parents were babysitting their grandson. Liz immediately took her son into her arms and held him. As she looked into his eyes she couldn’t help but wonder how it could be that someone only a week old could save the universe.

Alpha 1…

After Kalen returned to his base and immediately order the full preparation for the launch of their ship. All his people looked at him like he was crazy but shook it off; they never expected their ship to take off once it had been parked. All resumed their duties. After a few hours it was ready.

The whole island shook and started to rise out of the ocean. All the trees, sand and mountains, everything that made the island look the part suddenly vanished leaving nothing but the metal hull of a spacecraft. As it rose higher and higher, the water was being blasted clear by the thrusts below the ship, leaving a hole in the ocean. However, eventually Alpha 1 rose high enough so that its propulsion technology didn’t affect the ocean and the mass of water rushed in to fill the void.

In the minutes after it cleared the ocean, the ship vanished in a ripple of energy. The whole thing was cloaked in a field of invisibility so that no one could see it as it ascended into orbit. For another hour it travelled slowly through the solar system and once it was clear it launched itself into hyperspace.

Bandstand, Roswell Park, 4 ½ Years Later

The park was filled with people waving banners and cheering. Around the stand were lights that illuminated the park and large screens that focused in on the people on it, Alex, Isabel and their three children. The press were in attendance but this time none of the family minded, it was to be expected for this event.

Before the stand, with a camera pointed at her and had Alex in the background, a reporter spoke, “We’re here with the Whitman campaign and it has gone wild. It was announced a few minutes ago, Alexander Whitman has been elected to Congress for the state of New Mexico District 2 with almost 87% of the votes for himself and the remainder to the other candidates.”

“Katie, this is an unusual situation isn’t it?” said the studio anchor

“Yes, at 22 Mr Whitman is a full 3 years younger than the minimal age requirement for being elected to a congressional seat. However, special dispensation was granted by the president, the leadership of both parties and the Federal Elections Commission. It was granted last year after a poll was published that stated 76% of Americans would vote for him in any election, all in response to Mr Whitman’s achievements in the last few years.

He’s used his resources and connections with Antaris Technologies from brokering a Middle East peace plan that, has to date, lasted longer than it’s predecessors to the peaceful resolution of the Tibet and Taiwan situation with China. Last year, he stood with the Dalai Lama who praised Mr Whitman and the others of his family as true believers in peace and the best of what humanity has to offer.

Mr Whitman then surprised many by announcing that he wouldn’t run as either Democrat or Republican, citing that there were many aspects in both parties that he agreed with, while disagreeing with a lot of policies within them…too many to align himself with either party. Mr Whitman also said that decisions he would make would be made by his own consciousness and not with a party whip holding his arm behind his back. A standpoint that earned him an immediate 6-point lead over his opposition after saying it.”

“He certainly has had an astounding career in the last few years as have the rest of his family. Is it true that his wife ran his campaign?”

“Yes. Isabel Whitman managed his campaign and obviously, very successfully. They limited their budget to $15,000 and refused to accept financing from any big name companies and used their own personal funds and donations that came through the mail from New Mexico citizens. Congressman Whitman is quoted as saying “Should I be elected its because I won it, not because I bought it”. At first Mr Whitman didn’t believe he had a career in politics but consultations with his wife and others changed that position, all believe he has the respect and influence to make a difference.

Mrs Whitman designs an exclusive line of clothing, everything from jeans to lingerie and also has a popular line of beauty and hair care products. The Whitman’s will be celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary in six months and if rumours are true, their fourth child will be along soon after that.”

“Thank you Katie. It looks like Mr Whitman is about to begin his speech.”

The camera focused in on Alex. “Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you. You voted me in because you believe in me and I wont disappoint that…”

Just at that moment, the alien signal arrived. Max and the others spent months calculating the exact moment it would arrive and scheduled Alex’s speech to match it. As the high-energy wave that carried the signal struck, power systems shut down but not completely. The lights went out all over the planet but anything requiring constant power for safety was still fully functional, along with communications and that included television.

“Okay…uh…I’m pretty sure I paid the electricity bill this month.” He said out loud

Then the main part of the message arrived. On the giant screens, alien symbols appeared. The first streamed down like the ‘Matrix’ code, changing rapidly as it went and then onto a new set of glyphs that started from the bottom right hand corner of the screen moving to the left and then up, then came another and another.

“See there…the mathematical progression…and there…” Alex said, he didn’t understand anything that was up on the screen but if their plan was to succeed then he needed to portray that there was the possibility that he or one of the others could translate it. “It’s changing too fast. Is someone recording this?”

“Yes sir. The signal is being picked up all over the planet, satellites are relaying it automatically around the curvature of the planet.” Said a technician

The signal kept coming and coming. Millions of languages were quickly displayed over and over again. The whole signal constantly repeated itself as the world watched on. Every television or computer monitor the symbols appeared, on every radio sounds kept being transmitted out of them, even the radios used by the police were affected.

Troy Residence, Toronto, Canada, Same Time

The time Mr Troy had waited for was approaching. He could feel his husk was become weaker by the day for over a month now and as a result his breathing was become more difficult as the poisonous atmosphere leaked in. His hexagonal device hasn’t powerful enough to provide him the long-term protection he needed. He made himself look strong for his daughter but couldn’t do that any more as he fell to his bedroom floor.

In his head he cried out for Pam while his device started to pulse with light. It picked up the signal but that didn’t matter to him, especially when his daughter came into the room. Pam looked at her father on the floor and ran to his side. “Dad.” She cried out

“It’s time Pam.” He said simply

“Dad, no…there has to be something I can do.” Pam said, her eyes filling with tears.

“I wish there was. I always hoped I could find away to prevent this, to see you become even more impressive…more beautiful. Not that it’s possible.”

“Dad…please. I need you. I don’t know what to do without you.” Pam said

“Yes you do. I know Pam.”

“Know…know what?” Pam asked

“You’re sleeping with that hybrid couple. You have been for 2 years. Pam…I love you more than anything. When your mother died in that accident, I blamed those hybrids when they had nothing to do with it…they were just there. I knew it but I couldn’t control how angry I got and I let that spill into your life when I shouldn’t have. I made you hide your relationships with those two and that I am sorry for.”

“Dad…I’m sorry. I should have told you anyway…”

“You did what you thought was right. I know they’ve made you apart of their family. I felt the change in you. All you need is a Sharing.”

“Please…I can’t loose you. I’m not ready…that machine…I still can’t use it right. The energy in me will…”

“Will not be a problem any more now that you’ve chosen your path. Not for you or your children. By becoming one with them, after a Sharing your body will adapt to the energy in you. That’s something I could never do for you. You will be able handle the energy in you and any you’re exposed to…and if you need anything more you will always have the device. It’s they’re turn to take care of you now.”

“Daddy…” she whispered

“Remember, I’m always apart of you.”

The husk quickly started to harden and crack. Mr Troy’s eyes glazed over and became grey; his skin rapidly broke apart into dust leaving the alien within. For a few seconds he looked up at Pam with his own eyes and smiled before his body became a pile of grey/green dust.

Pam wiped the tears from her eyes and took hold of the device. Her father gave her the instructions she needed for this day and she planned on following them to the letter. Carefully she placed it onto the middle of the dust and the machine came to life. It emitted light that started to spiral around and with it came a wind in the room. The dust swirled around the machine until it was all up in the air, the device pulling it ever closer and into it.

Before long there wasn’t a fragment of her father left, not his body and not his husk. When it was all done, the device had a beam that spread wide below it. It moved back and forth over and over again. Within that light, a very basic and non-functional husk with the appearance of the original formed. There had to be something for his daughter to bury and Mr Troy took care of that requirement. He made sure that it would fool the curiosity of the authorities and even created false medical records in the computers of the local hospital indicating he had late stage leukaemia.

Pam just knelt there by the empty shell for a long time before getting up to call an ambulance. It arrived, he was pronounced dead at the scene and the body was taken away. Pam went with him to the hospital, she was ready to agree to an autopsy as her father instructed but it wasn’t necessary. The authorities saw no need for it given his ‘condition’.

Later…

Instead of Pam walking home, she made her way to the local dome. She was in a daze the whole trip over and as she reached the gates they opened for her. Pam didn’t even notice it as she stepped into their forest. As if on instinct, Pam stepped off the main road that led up to the house and walked into the dense trees.

Her path wasn’t the most erratic one but it was pretty close. As she came into a very small clearing and was met by her two lovers. Both came over to her, her thoughts were screaming loudly to them.

“Pam?” Craig, her boyfriend, said. While he and the others were initially wary of Pam and her father, given that they knew of the encounters in Roswell between the Troy’s and their rulers. However, they couldn’t deny the spark between them. They tried to. They wanted to. But they couldn’t. It didn’t take long before Pam was drawn to their bed.

“My…my dad. He’s de…dead.” Pam said

“Oh god Honey, I’m sorry?” Elise, her girlfriend, said as she hugged Pam

“I know to you guys he was just a Skin but…”

“No. He was your dad.” Craig said

Pam just held onto them both. “When’s the funeral?” Elise asked

“As soon as I can arrange it. The…uh…the husk that dad arranged was supposed to be able to fool anyone but I don’t want to take chances.” Pam said

“We’ll be there. All of us.” Craig said as he kissed her forehead

“My dad said that he was sorry for making me hide what we have. He was just…angry. He also said that it was your turn to take care of me now.” Pam said

“We will Honey. We will.” Craig said

Pam reached her head up and kissed him, and then kissed her. Her body pressed against theirs. “Make love to me.”

“Are you sure?” Elise asked

“I need you…I need to feel you.” Pam whispered

Elise kissed her and then Craig did. Elise pulled off her own top and then unbuttoned Pam’s. Craig stripped himself and for the rest of the night the three pleasured each other among the trees. Craig swore to himself that he’d call Max within the week, he wanted Pam with them permanently and he had the last of the Antarian water at the Roswell Dome, he’d need to get it here for a Sharing.

Living Room, The Mansion, 12:00 The Next Day

Max was pacing back and forth. He was waiting for a phone call and it was taking its time in coming. “What the hell’s taking them so long?” Max asked

“Yeah, you’d think they’d give up trying to translating something they can’t possibly do.” Michael said

“But by now they should at the very least know there will be problems. And thanks to Congressman Whitman’s Oscar winning performance last night, they should be at least asking us for help.” Max said

“You’re never going to get over calling me that are you?” Alex asked

“Why should I?” Max asked with a smile

“I know I don’t.” Isabel said, curling up to him.

Their plan had been simple. While there was an outside chance that a translation would be possible by government teams, it would take them years. Alex’s demonstration at spotting fragments and patterns was intended to show that they, meaning Antaris Technologies, could do the work faster. It was the only way that they could ensure that the government couldn’t cover up anything they get at the end of it.

**ring**ring**ring**

The phone rang out. Max moved over to it and took a deep breath as he picked up the handset, “Hello.”

“Mr Max Evans, please.”

“Speaking.” Max said

“Mr Evans please hold the line for the President of the United States.”

“Okay.” Max said

The line remained empty for a few seconds and then came another voice, “Mr Evans. The is President Kendall.”

“Yes Mr President.” Max said

“Mr Evans, Congressman Elect Whitman appeared to be able to work with the signal received last night during his election victory party. Given that none of our people have been able to get anywhere with this, I was wondering how that was possible?”

“Sir, we’ve been working on various new methods of mathematics. It’s apart of our recent technological developments, it’s why our competitors haven’t been able to successfully reverse engineer our products. Basically it comes down to a different way of thinking, we can spot patterns in chaos.” Max said

“I see.” Kendall said, “Mr Evans, may I assume that your own systems recorded the signal?”

“Yes sir. We have been going over the signal since last night and we’ve currently working on a translation program based on the patterns we’ve picked out already.” Max said

“In that case Mr Evans, I would like you to assist with the translations.”

“Of course Mr President, I would be hon…oured.” Max said

“Mr Evans?” Kendall asked

“Mr President, our program is coming up with something. If you don’t mind I should get to work.” Max said

“You will contact me when you have something?” Kendall asked

“Yes sir.” Max said

The president then hung up his end and Max hung up his phone. Max looked back to his family and smiled, he walked over to the metal briefcase on the coffee table and opened it. Inside were a lot of paper pages, each one with the translations for all the languages in the signal along with a copy on disk. They’ve had the translation sitting in their computer since Kalen received information on it and what was coming behind it.

“Well, I’m going to find something to do for a few hours.” Max said, “Care to join me Congressman?”

“Max.” Alex warned

“Well, do you?”

“Oh hell yes.” Alex said as he kissed Isabel and stood up to follow Max.

Max & Liz’s Bedroom, 12:30

Max and Alex were kissing each other all the way to Max’s bed; they were tearing at each other’s clothes to get them off. Within minutes of getting into the door, the boxer shorts came off leaving them both naked and painfully hard. The two just looked over each other’s firm, strong bodies, each was breathing heavily. Alex bent over and lightly licked both of Max’s nipples and then caressed the hard line of his pecks with long, languid strokes of his tongue.

Now it was Max’s turn to moan in supplication as Alex’s wet tongue trailed over his skin. Michael found himself leaning forward on the bed to get a better view as Alex lazily encircled one nipple and then bit down, causing Max to gasp sharply. After tonguing both nipples until they gleamed wetly in the filtered light from the window, Alex sank to his knees and grabbed Max’s ass. He drove his tongue into Max’s bellybutton, licking and sucking noisily. Suddenly, Max’s cock jabbed Alex sharply in the chin. Alex pulled away with a mischievous gleam in his eye. Alex took hold of Max’s balls and swallowed his cock whole.

Alex’s tongue gracefully twirled over his length, their bodies felt so hard and warm against each. He trembled in his hunger and then realized that Alex was nibbling and tonguing all over his body. It was all sending shivers down Max’s spine. Alex worked his way back to his feet and started to grind his dick against Max’s. The two hard rods were like swords clashing together as they kissed once more.

Then Max broke the kiss and it was his turn to go to his knees. He quickly took Alex’s dick into his mouth. Alex looked down to his lover kneeling before him and Max gazed up unto his eyes as his cock slipped past his lips. Alex couldn’t look away and watched inch after inch slowly disappear down Max’s throat.

“Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God.” Alex groaned. Max, like Isabel knew what to do to his body and felt himself slump slightly. His knees buckled under the intense pleasure of Max’s sucking. Not once could he look at anything other than Max.

Max then stopped his bobbing and held only the tip of Alex’s cock inside his lips. He began rapidly vibrating his tongue on a tiny spot just below the head. Alex came hard. Long ropes of his white seed shot forth over Max. His hips jerked forward, his body rigid as every muscle strained with his orgasm. His scream of pleasure was abruptly muffled as Max jumped up and roughly turned his head to plunge his tongue down his throat. When Max broke the kiss, Alex collapsed back against him. Once again the hard male flesh of Max Evans surrounded him and as Alex returned to his senses, Max’s forehead rested against his, his eyes fluttered open and he saw Max using his finger to pick off drips of his cum and put it in his mouth, savouring the taste of his human lover.

Max released Alex and sat back on the bed as he watched him regain control of his senses. The dazed human knelt before the alien whose oral talents had just gotten him off and wrapped his lips around Max’s cock. Max’s dick was throbbing with need; Alex’s hands soon wrapped around him like his mouth and sucked away, bobbing his head and pumping with his hand. Max knew he couldn’t last; he didn’t want to, he just wanted to cum and that is what happened after only a few minutes.

“Ghnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Oh god…UGHNNNNN…Alex…UGNNNNNNN!” Max loudly groaned as his seed poured into the human’s mouth.

Alex swallowed every drop lovingly before joining Max on the bed. They lay side by side and kissed, their legs stroking against each other as the hands caressed. Once recovered, they made love. They moved into a sixty-nine position, Alex took Max from behind and Max did the same. They did everything two men could do to each other and were exhausted by the end of it.

Oval Office, White House, 16:00

Max’s jet took off from New Mexico and landed at Dulles where a limo drove him to the White House. Handcuffed to his wrist, which he hated, was the briefcase. During the flight, Max called the Oval Office and told the President he was on his way with news. The fact that Max Evans was coming personally got him immediately cleared for the building, his influence had spread considerably in the past few years.

“Mr Evans.” The president greeted

“Mr President, it’s good to meet you.” Max said

“I hear you’re one of the few people who have a worse reaction to speaking to the press than I do.” Kendall said

“So I’m told. At least I only throw up a few times these days.” Max said

“A few times? You’ve got it off lightly, last time I almost bit my tongue off trying not to blow up at them.”

“They do have that tendency.” Max said, “General Masters, it’s good to see you again.” He said greeting the general who was in charge of the military unit who took out the Skins and who worked with Kalen and Feln’s people.

“You two know each other?” Kendall asked

“Yes Mr President. Mr Evans and his associates helped us out a long time with a group of…well I guess you can describe them as a terrorist cell preparing to strike.” Masters said

“Well, the reason I’m here.” Max said

“You translated the signal?”

Max unlocked the handcuff and placed the case down onto a table, “Yes sir. And it’s…amazing.” Max opened the case and took out one of the pages, “All the messages say the same thing…with a few differences. Names, locations, that sort of thing. Mr President, I am honoured to be the first to tell you that alien life-forms are real.”

“What?” Kendall asked

“I suspected it given the shear power of the signal. From what I can tell it was one message on top of another several million times over.” Max said

“So this is First Contact?” Kendall asked

“No. It’s an obituary.” Max said

“I don’t understand.”

“The pages go into a lot more detail but the gist of it is that there was an attempted invasion. Some kind of parallel universe sent a fleet of ships that were beaten back a few years ago but as a prelude to that invasion, the invaders used meteors and asteroids to infect millions of habitable planets with a virus.” Max said

“To soften them up?” Masters asked, already having been briefed by Max.

“Yes general. It went everywhere and shortly after the big fight, the virus reached a final mutation stage that cause mass extinctions.” Max said

“Obviously it didn’t go everywhere.” Kendall said, “We’re still here.”

“Yes sir. But this viral agent did come to Earth, the aliens in charge…Antarians from the planet of Antar placed the meteor impact on Earth to Tunguska in the early 20th century. Apparently we’re immune to the virus, we’re the only ones and they could never replicate that immunity. As such, this message was sent so that we wouldn’t be alarmed.”

“Alarmed at what?” Kendall asked

“Their great gift to humanity, the only true thing they have left to give.” Max said, “Coming in right behind this message is a fleet of ships. Each one carrying the culture of their worlds, we’re talking about alien art and literature, styles of clothes…everything that made them, them.”

“There sending it to us?” Kendall asked

“Yes sir. It also mentions something about a plan to try and save themselves but there isn’t any detail. It’s all in here; I should leave you to go over this. If you need me, I’m staying at the Watergate.” Max said

“Mr Evans, of course I shouldn’t need to remind you to keep this quiet just now?” Kendall asked

“Unfortunately sir, that’s too late. The data has already been sent to the media outlets I own.” Max said, “I’m sorry sir but I don’t keep this kind of stuff secret. This is meant as a gift and I prefer that mass panic didn’t happen when a gigantic fleet enters orbit.”

“Very well.” Kendall said, not looking happy, “I’ll see you later Mr Evans.”

“Thank you Mr President.” Max said and then left with a smile.

When they were sure Max was out of earshot and after being told by Secret Service that he was out of the building, the president turned to his advisors and generals, “Can we get to that fleet with our space technology?”

“I doubt it sir. Our space fleet is designed and built by Antaris Technologies. But their release of developments is always, always, months after they made the things. The ships currently registered to Antaris are faster than anything we have. Current intelligence said that they have vessels capable of reaching the edge of the solar system in less than two hours where hour ships have a maximum range of Jupiter in that time.” One advisor said

“Could we take control of the alien ships?” Kendall asked

“If we fire on Antaris ships…sir that would be a mistake. Their defensive technology alone…a lot of questions will be asked and it could cost you politically. Antaris has done a lot of good.”

“Very well.” Kendall said

“Mr President, if we don’t go public there will be a problem if Max Evans does…and he will, then there will be a significant problem. I suggest we go public ourselves, Mr Evans media holdings will have much more detail but that is understandable. We do a press conference with Max Evans standing with you.” Another advisor said

“I agree sir.”

“I take it the room’s in agreement?” Kendall asked

“Yes sir.” All said together

“Make the call.” Kendall said.

Living Room, The Mansion, 22:00

The family, including their parents and children were sitting and watching the television. The seal of the White House came onto the screen on every channel and there on the screen was President Kendall and Max. “See there’s daddy.” Liz said to her children while holding her 2-month-old daughter.

“Daddy.” Adam called out while bouncing in his chair before his younger brother dropped off.

“Yeah, definitely bed time.” Liz said

“Ohhhh.” Adam complained

“No, special occasion and all of you are dropping off.” Liz said

“Come on guys.” Michael said

“But Uncle Mikey…” Adam said

“No you need to do what your mom’s telling you to do.” Michael said

“Yokay.” Adam said grumpily

Michael, Maria and Tess all took the children up to their rooms. Liz carried her daughter up to her room and placed her into the crib in front of her bed. They all tucked the children in and returned to the living room. The President was describing what was in the messages in as much detail as he could and announced that Max Evans would use Antaris Technologies vessels to retrieve the fleet and put them into high orbit that would match that of the moon.

Many in the press corp. were immediately asking questions about releasing the mutated and lethal version of the virus on Earth’s populace. Max then took the microphone and assured everyone that full precautions would be taken. That no ship would be allowed to come any closer to Earth until it was certified as germ, virus and bacteria free. There was no need to risk exposing Earth to alien versions of those life forms that humans would have no protection against.

Max covered everything in great detail of what would happen. He didn’t want anyone to try something stupid to try and prevent the landing of the ships. Question after question were thrown to them and Max answered all of them perfectly. Max also announced that if everything was found to be safe, that Antaris Technologies would be proud to construct a museum that would house the alien treasures while working with government agencies in analysis of the alien ships. Of course, what he didn’t say was that the technology was already developed; they just haven’t bothered telling anyone. This would just give them the excuse they needed to make the leap in technology from what they already had.

15 Days Later…

Max’s ships met the vessels and for 14 days they spent time scanning every millimetre of the exterior and interior of the alien ships. Back on Earth, everyone was watching in real time. It was Alex’s idea so that everyone could see it all happen as it happened. The coverage on television and the people watching it was higher than the moon landing.

Then came the announcement. The ships were all completely free of any infection, everything about the ships were sterile. It was the last action of the aliens who sent them out before they succumbed to the plague. Within the hour of that announcement, the lead ship, the one from Antar, was landed on Earth. The chosen location was in the middle of Nevada and everything was secured. There were more press there than in New York and Washington combined and everyone watched as the giant cargo bay doors were opened for the first time.

There were hundreds of scholars, art experts, literature experts, philosophers and many, many others just drooling to go over the contents while scientists were aching to go over the technology. Max and several others were on hand through out the event. Several other locations were chosen throughout the planet for the other landings, each one close to a dome and office of Antaris Tech.

For the next few days the artefacts stayed in the ships while they were being catalogued. However, as soon as the museum was finished being built, they were all shipped and displayed for people to look at and for others to study them. The database was transferred to a multi-screen computer that let people browse through it at their leisure and was connected to the Internet. Within months, alien books were published in English and other languages from around the world.

The world learned more about the universe and astrophysics from that alone than they had learned in the past century. It contained information that would keep human scientists busy for decades to try and understand it. It gave the perfect opportunity for Max to release more books and ideas on the understanding of them.

Living Room, The Mansion, 13 Years Later

The entire family had gathered. Max, Liz, Alex, Isabel, Kyle, Tess, Michael, Maria, Sam, Lonnie, Ava and the grand total of their 22 children. After 13 years they had produced even numbers of boys and girls and all had rooms all through the mansion. Today they were all singing to ‘Happy Birthday’ to Adam as they stood around a giant seven-layer cake with 18 on it.

In the past decade, Alex stayed with congress for 5 terms before deciding to go for the senate. He was elected with even more votes than he got for his first congressional victory. The party went on for almost two days before they collapsed on the floor and slept. Max and the others were putting out new technology by the boatload; they had even constructed a monorail network across the country. The first line was built between Washington and Roswell and Alex used it everyday.

They had improved space technology to the point where they had built five space stations between Earth and the moon. They even constructed a bio-dome on the lunar surface. Every year they expanded the size of the dome and increased the amount of plants and fauna inside. Within the last year it covered one fourth of the moon and they shipped animals up. It became a variant of Noah’s Ark as it became the only place where many species were free from being hunted and no longer at risk of extinction.

The ‘alien museum’, as it had been dubbed, had quickly become the largest tourist attraction on the planet. It had millions of visitors every year but thanks to some subtle intervention from Max, it was ensured that no one would try to exploit the artefacts for profit and made sure that getting inside was free.

At the head office of Antaris Technologies, Pizza Dude had been hired. He was put in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. When he first took the job, his new assistant looked at his history and didn’t expect to see someone like him wearing a suit. He said as much but smiled when he learned the truth. While sitting at his desk Pizza dude looked as if he wore a suit and tie but as he stood up his assistant saw that he was wearing Bermuda shorts. When Pizza turned around, he saw that the suit front was just that – a front. The back had been cut away, tying around the neck and waist to keep it on but where the rest of the suit should have been, Pizza was wearing a Hawaiian print t-shirt. The assistant had to fight to stop from laughing when his boss came around the front of the desk and saw the footwear, fluffy green slippers. He knew then that he was going to love working there.

“Happy birthday, son.” Max said as he hugged Adam

“Dad.” Adam complained

“Hey, it’s either a hug from me or a kiss from your grandmother.” Max said

“Daddy.” Adam said cheerily with his arms extended and everybody laughed.

“I think I should be offended by that.” Diane said

“Sorry Grams.” Adam said

“Besides, the birthday kisses come from me.” Adam’s girlfriend said as she came up beside him and wrapped her arm around his.

“Oh I wouldn’t say ‘no’ to that?” Adam said as he looked at Haley. Their heads tilted toward each other and they kissed

“Awwwwww…” everybody said, causing the two to break the kiss

“Don’t you just hate family?” Adam said

“Oh I don’t know. Yours has its advantages.” Haley said

“So have you two decided where you want to live yet?” Liz asked

“Baring in mind there is a nice big clearing a couple of miles from here. Already protected by a dome and everything just rip for building a house.” Max said

“Is that your none too subtle way of asking us not to go across the country to build a dome?” Adam asked

“It was subtle. I was subtle wasn’t I?” Max asked

“Yes honey, you were.” Liz said

“Okay, we were actually thinking about Orange County.” Adam said

“What?” Max and Liz asked together

“You want to move to a place where the ground shakes a lot?” Isabel asked

“That sort of isn’t a factor anymore babe.” Alex said

“Huh? Oh yeah, I forgot we can prevent earthquakes now.” Isabel said

“Doesn’t mean to say the Earth still wont be moving.” Haley said with a sly smile to Adam

“Haley!!” Adam strained out

“Excuse us but Orange County? As in Newport Beach in California, two states away?” Max asked

“Actually dad, it’s about an hour away. Remember, that whole new monorail network you built that carries trains in a vacuum tube at 600 miles an hour. It’s the thing that Uncle Alex was using to live here and still be in Washington everyday.”

“You want to live in the OC.” Max said

All his children nodded as did their cousins and any significant others that were there. Max was able to impose an age restriction on his children, so that none of them left the house before they were 18. Adam was going to be the first to move out and set up their new house. The others would be following very soon but they had talked amongst themselves about where they wanted to go.

“Well. I guess we just have to start building a mansion out there. I’m sure there’s a nice big plot of land we can buy up.” Max said

“Are you sure you don’t want to live in a dome?” Kyle asked

“We’re sure dad.” His eldest said

“You guys have got the dome and if something happens we have the Granolith on standby to transport us back.” Adam said

Within the next week construction had begun on the new house and as soon as it was ready, Adam moved in with Haley. After that, one week after the 18th birthday of the others they all moved in. When the last one left, Max and the others walked the house and sat in the living room. Each commented how quiet it was. Before long they made up for it by making their own noise. They made love to their mates in the living room, by the pool, in the kitchen, in the games room, everywhere they hadn’t since their children came along.

Meanwhile, off in the universe, Antar and all the worlds that had been restored were developing along. Thanks to being carefully watched over by Kalen’s people they were becoming more advanced and there were no further attempts by the humans from the other universe to try it again.

While Max never saw Kalen or Feln again, ships from Earth eventually made it out to Antar and made first contact with them. Kalen’s ship remained cloaked throughout it but watched everything. As Kalen watched the ‘younger’ Antarians meet with aliens for the first time and knew that they were immune to the virus, he walked over to his terminal. A cure was found, the noble houses were safe and Antarian D.N.A was mixing with humans. Kalen accessed the file on his mission to Earth and updated the status – Mission Successful.

The End.

[Tharos]

Well, that's it.

If anyone spots errors i missed please let me know.