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Counter Earth Chronicles

Chapter 15: Something More Than You Are

Day 61 continued

Playing Alexander the rebel grunt was very easy; I was able to stroll right into the enemy encampment and no one was the wiser. Since it was dawn most of the rebels were asleep anyway.

The rebels I did see all appeared to be a bunch of thugs and ne'er do wells- young ones. It was hard to believe these people were responsible for the raids on castles Wundagore and Sevren and the murders of several beastials within.

"Alexander! How was the patrol?" I heard a voice say. I turned around to see a portly round faced rebel with black hair and brown eyes who appeared to be in his twenties. He was dressed in a tattered coat, gloves with a small side arm at his waist. Given the remote location of the encampment and the fact that the guy was rotund- he must have been the cook for the encampment.

"Same old same old." I responded. "The spy was alone. I thought for sure she was with someone." I told him. "Say where is she now?"

"She is tied up in Nick's tent." The portly fellow said. "He and some others have been trying to coax information out her for the last few hours. But she hasn't given up anything. Our fearless leader is going to start using other methods next. He told everyone to leave him be and to ignore the noises that may be coming from his tent for the next few hours- they will be quite ghastly."

"I wouldn't mind gazing into the eyes of our hated enemy- even if it is to tell her her hours are numbered." I said to the portly fellow with the round face. "I keep forgetting maybe it is the cold, where is Nick's tent again?"

"I know you're new around here and anxious to contribute to the cause- but before you go on any missions you need to learn the basics like where everything is!"

"Yeah." I replied.

"Over there." He pointed- "But are lovely leader doesn't wish to be disturbed."

"I think he would want to know that the spy was alone." I said to the portly disheveled fellow.

"Do as you like." He said. "I have to start breakfast. But don't say I didn't warn you though."

Carefully, and quietly I made my way to a lone tent on the edge of the encampment on the valley floor. The rebel leader did like to set his tent away from those of his subordinates. It must have been a power thing.

I took a quick look around to make sure no one was watching and then entered the dimly lit tent to find Lady Vermin. The she beast who was looking quite helpless, had been bound to a chair. It looked like she had been repeatedly assaulted from what I could tell; she had burn marks on her clothing and bruises on her face.

"Ah there you are! The ultimate life form!" I scoffed as I entered the tent.

"Ugh! Another one! You know, I just wanted some alone time with Mr. Shock not his underlings. Is that too much to ask?!" The bound rat lady said annoyed.

Apparently she thought I was my doppelganger Alexander and was quite plucky for someone that had been tortured for the last few hours. Of course finding her in this position I just had to play it up.

"The prisoner should show more respect to her captors! We have the ability to make your final hours of life very very uncomfortable." I said teasing the rat warrior.

The rat lady made a grumbling sound- and leapt from her chair leaving the binding ropes on the floor of the tent! She landed on me with great speed.

"Whoa! hey!" I blurted out under her weight.

"Would you like to say that again inferior?!" She growled.

(She was faking?!)

"My lady, I was just kidding! It is me Alex!"

"Prove it!" The lady rat grumbled.

"Yesterday morning you were admiring my loin cloth when you visited Lady Ursa. You said you liked the red one the best." I blurted out as she pressed her paw to my neck.

"Little Alex?! What are you doing here?"

"Trying to rescue you!" I said trying hard to speak.

"There is a rebel grunt here who looks exactly like you. You two even smell the same! I thought you were him." She warned me.

"You mean the 'Alex' of this world? Yeah I know, I met him. We had a nice long, long conversation- and I left him incapacitated on the hillside before I came here to rescue you.

"Did I say I needed to be rescued?" Lady Vermin asked me annoyed.

"No, but I saw the rebels capture you and lead you into their base." I responded. "Wait you let yourself be captured?!"

"After listening in on their meeting, I was looking for an opportunity to personally interrogate Nicholas Shock, their leader. The security was so tight- the only way I could get close to him was to let myself be captured." The she beast said.

"Weren't you scared they would kill you.....wait, Nicholas Shock is their leader? He is barely older than me!" I said as Lady Vermin pulled me to my feet. "

"He is, he is also the mastermind behind the rebel attacks at castles Sevren and Wundagore. But apparently not a particularly good one because he led us right to him and his bunch of thugs."

"You let them capture and injure you just so you could have some alone time with the rebel leader?" I said as I noticed the scorch marks on her clothing and the bruises on her face.

"They are nothing." The rat warrior said. "I have learned how to withstand pain especially from interrogations. It is quite helpful for these types of missions." The rat lady said sitting back into the chair I had found her in.

I was shocked at what lengths she was willing to take- all for the empire.

(Wow, talk about everything for the cause!)

"Quick, retie me!" She ordered.

"Uh, why?"

"Someone is coming. I think it is him!"

I quickly did as I was ordered- but not too tight.

I had just finished when in walked the rebel leader Nicholas Shock. He had a medium build from what I could see with the jacket he had on, and appeared to be in his mid to late twenties about five and a half feet tall, blond hair with some facial scars.

"I am back with some more of my toys you oppressive scum!" He barked.

He appeared to be carrying a torture device in his hands. One I did not recognize.

"I will only ask you one more time you abomination! Why are your here?! For what purpose?!" He yelled at her.

"You will receive no information from me you filthy stinking human! You murderer!" Lady Vermin barked back resuming her cover. "When I get free I am going to, to..."

"I don't give a rat's ass about your empty threats!" The rebel leader countered. "After I am done pulling every last bit of information from you- you are going to die in the most graphic, painful way possible."

He turned to me while I was watching their exchange.

"Alexander I thought I made myself clear that I wanted to be left alone while interrogating this filthy stinking abomination?"

"Yes, you did sir, but I wanted to report to you personally. I finished my patrol and she appears to be by herself." I said to the faction's leader.

"Well then her master will never find her remains then. Nor anyone else for that matter. You hear that you rat bastard?!" He said directing his gaze back to Lady Vermin. She hissed in response.

"That will be all Alexander." He said.

"You know sir, I am kind of new around these parts- do you mind if I have a go at her? I have never seen a spy this close before. I wouldn't mind having a few cracks at her myself."

"She hasn't been saying anything to me or any of the others. Sure, have a crack at her." He said handing me the unit. It appeared to be some sort of electrical device.

"Um sir, I feel stupid for asking this- but how does this work again?" I asked examining it.

"You rookies! Let me guess, you skipped the class on enemy interrogation didn't you?!" He sighed. "You press these buttons here which creates a electrical spark to stun your prey. If you wish to just torture them you press this button here."

"Nice stun device." I said to him.

"Stun gun Alexander." He corrected me.

I approached the apparently demoralized rat lady snickering. "You know this is going to be fun!" I said staring directly at her.

Play acting, she just shifted her gaze to the side imitating a damsel in distress. I lifted up her chin to stare the rat warrior directly in the face and winked at her.

"Oh dear, I am sorry sir- I must not be doing it right." I said to the rebel commander.

Frustrated the rebel commander approached me.

"Is it like this? Or like THIS!" I said as I stabbed the device into his abdomen pressing the stun button.

He fell to the ground with a look of horror on his face while twitching rather violently.

"YOU TRAITOR! I took you from the slums and gave you structure, order and a purpose and this is how you repay me?!" Nicholas Shock said while staring at me well, in shock.

His statement regarding my, err Alexander's shock and betrayal gave me an evil and very delicious idea:

"Sir you are probably wondering why I did it? Why I betrayed you after you took me in from the streets." I said to the rebel commander.

He looked at me curiously as did Lady Vermin.

"Well, to put it bluntly sir I am a spy for the empire and I am a beastial lover." I told him gesturing to Lady Vermin.

The look of shock and betrayal on his face was one for the record books.

"Look at her- she is smoking hot!!! She is a hot piece of ass and awesome in the sack!! I am sorry sir but after some careful thought I had an epiphany..."

Nicholas looked at Lady Vermin and then at me.

"I like beastial pussy!!!" I exclaimed staring him directly in the face.

The rebel commander's expression was indescribable.

"Besides your methods, this units' methods are evil, murderous, wrong and doomed to failure. There are too many beastials on this world to take on by ourselves." I said gesturing to the bound rat lady.

Lady Vermin looked at me oddly too. Probably thinking I had gone mad.

"We should not be working against the system, but within it! Hug a beastial, hug all beastials. Move them to our plight, get them to support our cause and eventually they will convince their master to grant us equal rights." I said hugging the bound rat warrior. "Sir peaceful coexistence with beastials is the new thing right now. Not these flawed misguided movements, and I can't wait to get back to her home to coexist with her all damn night!!!"

The rebel leader was floored by my monologue.

"Alex what are you doing?!" Lady Vermin whispered as I untied her from her bonds.

"Destroying my doppelganger's career here with this outfit with any luck." I whispered back to her. "You can continue now my love." I said playing it up.

"Thank you love. You are definitely one of our finest operatives." She said. "Now go and watch the entrance. I have been dying to get Mr. Shock alone for a little one on one...."

She bound and gagged the rebel leader to the same chair she had been sitting in as he was starting to recover. Lady Vermin then pulled out a device from her pocket and aimed it at him. The rebel leader closed his eyes thinking he was going to die. The end did come, but not the end he had been thinking.

I recognized the device instantly Lady Vermin was about to use and smiled. With a press of a button his clothes disappeared in an instant; he was completely naked in the chair and freezing in the cold morning air.

Lady Vermin took the stun gun I had used from me and gently placed it on the rebel leader's testicles.

"Now you filthy stinking human we are going to play a game." The rat lady said while sternly looking at the rebel leader- "Question and answer. I am going to ask you a series of questions. You are going to answer to the best of your ability. If I don't like your answer your boys here will get the SHOCK of their lives. If you lie to me. I will decapitate you. If you attempt to scream I will decapitate you. It is useless either way, I believe- there is a do not disturb sign posted outside your tent."

After what she had been through to get the rebel leader alone with her, I decided to let Lady Vermin have her fun. I sensed she wanted some payback as well.

The Q and A went on for about 15 minutes Nicholas Shock answered each of Lady Vermin's questions to the best of his ability for fear of being, well shocked.

For my part I guarded the entrance to the tent and deflected those who were curious about the sounds coming from inside.

"Hi, how are you doing? Yeah he is still interrogating her." I said to those walking by. I was amazed as to how disheveled the members from this outfit looked- fresh from the slums.

When the rebel leader wouldn't or couldn't answer anymore of Lady Vermin's questions, she shocked his testicles for good measure. It looked like he wouldn't be able to walk for a week or ejaculate for the rest of his life. We abruptly departed after that.

Lady Vermin placed a hood over Mr. Shock's head and left him bound and regagged to the chair and still naked and exposed to the elements.

I grabbed the stun gun placed it behind the rat lady and walked her with paws up out of the rebel leader's tent, out of the encampment and into the hillside.

"The boss told me to take her for her last walk." I said to the onlookers- mostly those who had guard duty that morning while the rest were asleep.

Since she was the scout and venerable warrior, I let Lady Vermin take the lead. I noticed that she was moving slower most likely from her wounds she sustained during her interrogation. I also noticed that the mountains surrounding the valley were covered in quite a lot of snow.

"You know little Alex, it was very brave of you to attempt to rescue me." The rat lady said when we were a comfortable distance away from the encampment. "I know at the start of this mission you were really really scared, I could see it in your eyes. But today you really rose to the occasion. Not bad for a house pet."

"You have no idea my lady." I said to her. "Wasn't that our agreement? You protect me and I protect you?" I told the rat warrior. "Besides if this so called ultimate life form next to me was really in need of rescue I was never ever going to let you live that one down."

"I wasn't fortunately, but thank you for coming anyway." The rat warrior said.

"I also see why you knights like these missions you go on- quite adventurous." I added.

"So why are we headed this direction?" She asked.

"This is where I left Alexander after I stunned him. He is in his undergarments with my clothes on top of him exposed to the cold cold air."

"Little Alex how did you meet your other-self?" The rat lady asked me.

"Oh- well- let's just say I was on my way to rescue you and I was trying to put together a plan when he stumbled on me...."

I told Lady Vermin about my encounter with Alexander and how we compared experiences before I subdued him and borrowed his identity and his tattered clothing to rescue her.

We soon arrived at where I had left him- unconscious at the treeline on the outskirts of the valley. That was good for us.

"He is so quiet."

"He is probably starting to succumb." I said picking him up.

(Man, he was heavy.)

"And what are you going to do with him?" She asked curiously.

"We are going to take him back with us." I said candidly.

"And why would we do a thing like that?!" Lady Vermin said placing her paws on her hips. "We were ordered only to observe and report remember?"

"I do remember." I said quietly. "But he has valuable intel on the rebel operations- even though he is a low level operative and he can corroborate what the rebel leader told you. He also has my clothes and besides he is incapacitated and will die of exposure if left in this weather." I said.

The rat warrior reluctantly agreed and picked him up despite her injuries to take him back to our cave for interrogation.

We were about a half mile from the cave and on the lookout for rebel patrols when I looked at the valley floor and noticed a flurry of activity at the enemy base.

"It looks like they discovered what happened to Mr. Shock." Lady Vermin said.

"We better get back to the cave before any patrols see us." I gasped in horror.

"What is it?" She asked.

"My lady we have to get back to the cave now!" I stammered.

"What did you see?" She asked.

"Avalanche!" I stammered.

"What? Where? I don't see anything!"

Just then there was a slight rumbling noise coming from the hillside.

"It's coming and soon!" I warned her.

She dropped Alexander on the ground.

"Then we need to get going!" She said.

"No." I pleaded. "No my lady, we need to take him. I told Alexander I would not let him perish out here. I know his outfit killed beastials, but it would sadden me greatly if I died here. I mean the other me."

"A man of your word." She commented as she picked up Alexander hoisting him over her shoulder and we ran as quickly as we could through the snow back to the cave.

We were still a quarter of a mile away when there was another rumbling and a loud gushing noise.

"Hurry!" I yelled. "It has started!"

Some how we managed to get back to the cave just before the moving snow covered the hillside and the rebel camp at the valley floor. We heard muffled screams and yells from the distance as the rebels were buried in foot upon foot of snow.

Safe within the walls of the cave Lady Vermin and I huddled together with Alexander to ride out the avalanche. When the rumbling had stopped the entrance of the cave was buried; we had taken a direct hit. I pulled out my PDA to illuminate the dark space of the cave and in an instant realized we would be digging out for quite some time.

"It looks like we will be here for a while." Lady Vermin said. "I was hoping to head back by this afternoon."

"I was hoping too." I replied, "But in the meantime I think I need to look at your injuries..."

"I think first we need to tend to our captive." The she beast countered.

Lady Vermin used the light from the hover bike to illuminate the whole cave. I started to switch clothing with Alexander. But the she beast had other ideas. She left him in his undergarments and placed his clothes in pile on the floor of the cave save while I put mine back on. She then tied Alexander's hands and feet and placed him in the thermal unit to warm up as I attended to her wounds.

"How do you feel?" I asked her after I applied some ointment to a burn on her abdomen and some bruises on her face.

"Like someone used me for target practice."

Just then there was another louder rumbling and another gushing noise.

"Another avalanche?!" I stammered. "Crazy!!"

"Little Alex, I think our next order of business is to dig a hole so that we have enough air to breathe." Lady Vermin said.

"GAAH! What's is going on?"

We turned towards the back of the cave where the sound had come from. Alexander had come to.

(Damn, that was fast.)

"Where am I?" He asked. "The last thing I remember you- you tricked me!" He exclaimed.

"Oh yeah, that's right I borrowed your identity to save my colleague here." I told my other-self "...and then we came back for you."

"Why?" Alexander asked. "I wouldn't have done the same for you."

"Because we are going to torture every last drop of information out of you until there is none left." I said making an maniacal face at my other-self.

Alexander made a rather loud audible eep.

"Did he just eep?!" The rat warrior asked.

"Yup." I have never heard a warrior make that sound.

"That is because he is not." Lady Vermin said examining our captive. "He is very inexperienced- a warrior in training."

"I am not!" Alexander countered.

"Really?" I asked.

"I have had a month of training. Enough for guard duty."

"*Rookie!*" Lady Vermin coughed.

"So that is why you weren't astute enough to detect my deception." I teased. "Boy, it looks like you need more training."

"Ok so you are right. Where am I and why am I near naked?"

"You are back at OUR base-camp." I told him. "Remember I said that I wouldn't leave you to perish and so I didn't; you will be our guest for a while."

"So why did you and that thing over there tie me up?" He asked.

"You really hate that them that much?" I asked.

"This planet was ours before they started appearing!" He said hostilely.

"I am right here you know." The lady rat said irritated. "We have always been here just not in the form you see now."

"You were cuter when you were four legged." My other-self shot back.

"Ahem!" I said redirecting the conversation "The reason you are bound is that you are still our enemy. Despite our conversation, I can't read your heart and I have no idea of your intentions." I told him. "There is a possibility that you may mistake our kindness, generosity and mercy for weakness and repay that with treachery, deviousness and evil." I said to him sternly.

"This is for our safety and yours rebel. There has been more than enough death today." Lady Vermin interjected.

Alexander turned white at that statement.

"What do you mean by that?"

"As we arrived back here there was a horrific avalanche it sealed us in and most likely wiped out the encampment as well." Lady Vermin told him.

He stared at us in disbelief as there was yet another rumbling and gushing noise.

"That makes three. Lady Vermin said astounded."

"Alexander. If I were you, I would hug this beastial and say thank you."

"That abomination? Why would I do that?"

I moved the rat warrior to just in front of Alexander and then lifted my other-self from the ground pushing him into her.

"Hug!" I ordered him.

He looked at me with such apathy.

"Listen there is not enough love in the universe as it is and the hatred between YOU humans and beastials is only going to starve out the rest." I said to him sternly.

"You mean your love for these things can't compensate?!" He shot back indignantly.

"My friends and my mistress are the exception that proves the rule." I countered.

"But they are freaks and abominations! Rats and these other animal people were not meant to walk upright or even rule this world or anyone else for that matter!"

"Alexander how much do you value your life- your existence?" I asked my other-self.

"Not much as it is now, but I have hope that it will get better." He said candidly.

"Then hug!" I ordered him again.

"But why?"

"Because this freak of nature, this abomination, this ruler of humans picked you up and brought you back to our cave."

He stared at me in disbelief.

"She saved your life. If not for her you would have perished in the avalanches. They are not evil you know." I said mocking him.

(Well, most of them anyway.)

"Although you are both my enemy," Alexander said bowing his head. "Thank you Alex, thank you beastial for not leaving me out there to die."

(Well, close enough.)

"Alex you have that project." Lady Vermin said pointing to the wall of snow that sealed us into the cave. "I will take this one."

"I am on it." I said.

"Well if you really want to show your sincerity you can tell me everything you know about the outfit you WERE with no matter how slight." The rat lady told Alexander as she pulled him to a crouching position on his knees, with his hands behind his back.

Lady Vermin wasn't done yet though. She tied his bound hands and bound feet together so that he couldn't move while in the crouching position. She then teleported his undergarments with her device to his pile of clothes in the corner of the cave.

Alexander was horrified.

"Now listen to me Alexander. I am still bitter that you damn rebels captured me and that I was tortured by your so called leader- so I am going to take it out on you." Lady Vermin said in mock anger resuming her cover.

"But ma'am!" My Counter Earth counterpart protested. "I was just doing my job!"

"And I am doing my job trying to preserve my way of life from those that wish to destroy it!" She told him while gripping his testicles.

"We are going to play a game- Question and Answer. I am going to ask the questions and you are going to provide the answers. I know that you were a low level grunt in this outfit but I want you to answer to the best of you ability anyway. Keep in mind I interrogated your leader before I left your camp so if I don't like your answer or detect that you are lying I will 'CHANGE YOUR RELIGION." The she beast said tightening her grip on Alexander's balls.

"Alex are you going to let her do this?" He said looking at me.

"Hey I am a collaborator and a beastial lover remember? Besides she is my superior." I responded to the surprised rebel.

"Super superior." The rat warrior said with a smirk.

"This was the point about karma I mentioned earlier. Alexander. If you had worked within the system and not been an outlaw then you would not be in this predicament now. But for what it is worth, I think she is starting to warm up to you."

"And why would you say that?" He asked as the lady rat grumbled.

"She isn't using the stun gun for YOUR interrogation."

"ULP!" My other-self said as the warrior rat tightened her grip on his balls.

"Yes, ma'am I will try to answer your questions as thoroughly as possible." Alexander responded meekly.

I used Lady Vermin's service weapon to 'drill' a hole in through the unknown amount of snow that blocked the entrance to the cave. But it was a bit different from Lady Ursa's in that it did not have a range of settings only one.

I also listened to Lady Vermin interrogate the rebel grunt for the next hour. The interrogation took place as a stop and start exchange of questions and answers. I noticed that Alexander was under quite a bit of duress being interrogated by a supposed angry beastial (she was faking though) that could crush his testicles in an instant if she didn't like what he was saying.

"How long have you been with this group of thugs?!" The rat warrior asked.

"Four weeks."

"What were your responsibilities?"

"To patrol the valley, to look for enemies and possible invasions." Alexander responded.

"Why was this location chosen for the rebel base?"

"I can't be sure ma'am- but I think it was because it was forbidden to live here, remote, hard to get to, hard to attack directly and was always winter here because of the high altitude."

Lady Vermin continued... "It also is frequented by avalanches. Not too bright on your leader's part. How many of you were there in this group?"

"Twenty-five." Lady Vermin tighten her grip on Alexander's balls while growling at him.

"Make that twenty six including myself. Please forgive me ma'am." Alexander said quickly correcting himself.

"That's better." The rat lady responded.

"What operations was this group involved in?"

"Our ultimate goal was to bring down the High Evolutionary and to purge Counter Earth of his forces." Alexander replied shivering.

"Good luck with that boy," Lady Vermin said. "There are a lot more us then there are of you humans."

"We would have place you animal people in zoos had we won."

"Wrong, I think there would have been mass executions- genocide." The rat warrior said correcting the rebel and then the human population would have fought each other for what remained of the empire returning back to the wars of thirty years ago." Lady Vermin countered.

"We are fighting to put an end to the dictator's tyranny, his SPECIAL human sterilization programs as well as, the prejudice, hatred, bigotry, poverty and despair we are experiencing under his rule. We are fighting for equality."

"How did you join the rebels?" Lady Vermin asked.

"Nicholas found me in an alley one afternoon and offered me a opportunity to join them. I would be fed and receive training on their grand mission to bring down the dictator and rid the planet of his creations."

"That is admirable- against insurmountable odds. How do you rebels expect to win?" The she beast asked our trembling guest.

"I heard our leader talk about some sort of biological weapon the resistance had obtained and is trying to perfect. That was the reason for the raids to the labs in the castles."

"Was killing apart of the agenda?" She asked.

"I wouldn't know." Alexander replied. "I wasn't allowed to participate in the raids. I hadn't earned the right to."

"So you are just a warrior in training then hmm..." The rat lady said to the trembling now teary-eyed and scared rebel grunt. "What do you want out of your life?"

(I heard that one before.)

"I want to live in a world where I am treated equally as you beastials- equality. I want to have a successful career, nice home, a family and not to be looked down upon because I am human." Alexander said looking at Lady Vermin.

I was moved. Especially by his last words.

"What if our master granted you and the others equality?! Would you be content to live under his rule? The lady rat asked.

My other-self was quiet and then answered.

"I don't know."

"Is that all you know Alexander?" Lady Vermin looked at him questionably as she squeezed his balls again. Alexander nodded his head looking defeated.

Lady Vermin thought for a minute and then continued the interrogation.

"One more question rebel..." She asked. "Answer truthfully- between you and your doppelganger here- who has the cutest butt?"

I turned toward their direction when I heard that.

Apparently, Lady Vermin was trying to lighten the mood.

"Well rebel?"

"I, I don't know ma'am." Alexander stammered.

"At least you are truthful." Lady Vermin responded as she laid the rebel face down on the thermal unit and started fondling his ass. "Hmm. I would say that you two are about the same. If I could read your heart and know your true intentions- I might consider adopting you and making you my pet or servant." She said to my Counter Earth counterpart.

(Was she envious that her friend owned me and secretly wished for a pet human as well?)

"Anyway I think it is time I put you out of your misery." The rat lady said snickering while lifting Alexander from the blanket and placing him on her lap.

"You really are going to kill me?!" Alexander asked horrified.

Lady Vermin didn't respond, but grabbed an item from our supplies before moving her paws toward our guest's genitals again.

"What are you going to- AH!!" Alexander screamed as Lady Vermin placed a collection flask onto the tip of his penis, gripped his testicles with her left paw and started masturbating the rebel grunt with her right paw- slowly.

"You have been under extreme duress for the last hour- I will show you mercy; I am ending it now." She said wiping Alexander's tears.

She some how brought our rebel grunt to a raging erection making him moan very very loudly. His orgasm soon followed as he came very hard into the flask.

"What was all that about?" I asked her.

"A gift for Sir Ram. He would be delighted to conduct a comparative study between you and Alexander here to see just how identical you are. He already has samples from you. Soon he will have samples from the OTHER you."

"UGH...." was all Alexander could say from his orgasmic bliss.

"He also sounds like you when you cum as well." She interjected.

"And how would you know about that?!" I asked the rat warrior. There was a pregnant pause.

The rat warrior tried to look very innocent while I blushed as I processed the meaning of her words.

"OMG! My mistress told you!"

"Actually little Alex Ursa tells me everything- from the way she cuddles you at night to the fact that she had to teach you how to make love to her because you had never made love to a female in your entire life. We are best friends after all."

Now it was my turn to be horrified.

"By the way, she thinks your timidness, insecurity and shyness is quite adorable."

"You furries aren't just loving and affectionate you're gossips!" I said to the rat warrior mortified.

"Well that is quite interesting to know." Alexander moaned.

"Quiet you..." I grumbled.

Lady Vermin fed Alexander some of our rations after returning him to the thermal unit. He was very hungry. But unlike his rebel colleges he wouldn't be missing any future meals or the rest of his life for that matter.

"How goes the dig out? The she beast asked turning to me.

"Very very slow. This snow is densely packed and is going to be hell to dig out of. If we don't run out of air first."

Just then there was another rumbling and gushing noise from outside the cave.

"Damn, a fourth one." I said frustrated."

"I have an idea." Alexander said. "My weapon- we can use it along with yours ma'am to cut through the snow and make a breathing hole out of the cave."

"That is a very good idea." Lady Vermin said. I handed her Alexander's side arm. She took a quick look at it- adjusted the setting and together with hers, we cut a hole through the drift to the outside world to bring air into the cave. Judging at the depth of the hole. We had been buried under sixteen feet of snow from the avalanches at least.- but now we could once again see into the daylight. I stared at what was the direction of the encampment. I did not see anything- movement, lights or anything. The entire valley floor had been buried under untold amounts of snow.

The rebels were most likely dead and Alexander had been the only survivor.

(I know what that is like.)

Lady Vermin joined me in assessing the state of our enemy.

"So what is our next move?" I asked.

"Our mission has been accomplished we should take him back as our prisoner." She said.

I looked at her.

"I know, I know Alex, our orders were to observe and report. Not take any prisoners."

"Besides," I interjected "He is going to be quite busy trying to leave this valley alive." I said. "There is most likely sixteen feet of snow everywhere even the trails the rebels used to get in and out and I don't recall seeing any hover vehicles at the encampment. I also think that the kindness and mercy we have shown him this as well as our conversation earlier will convince him to work within the system to bring about change instead of trying to destroy it. If he follows that path perhaps others will as well."

"Perhaps or maybe he will just join another rebel group." The rat lady said. "Anyway I exhausted as I assume you are as well. We will leave this afternoon."

"You mean we aren't leaving now?" I asked.

"Alex it is too dangerous to leave now." She replied. "The ground is probably still unstable we wouldn't want to trigger another avalanche or worse."

"Ok." I responded reluctantly.

"It looks like you will have to wait a little longer to snuggle your bear collaborator." Alexander teased.

"Don't start I replied."

"There is one more thing..." the she beast replied. "I don't think it will be wise to return Alexander's clothing to him until just before we depart. That way he will be dependent on us for his survival and less likely to betray us."

"What are you getting at my lady?" I asked the smiling she beast.

"It will be your responsibility to make sure our 'guest' doesn't freeze."

I looked at my other-self and then the lady rat again.

"Ick."

"What' s the matter Alex?" The rat lady asked slyly. "You don't love yourself?"

To Be Continued.....