Silver Dreams Two - A Story In The Space Opera Style - 
By the Captain



Please Note: This is part two of the story, you really want to read the first
part, well, first.

<><><> SECOND PROLOG <><><>

He had the most amazing phone in the world! Instead of hands it had glowing
red numbers like his father's calculator. He could only understand of few of
the things that it could do, but the stop watch and alarm had been mastered.
Beside the time it also showed the date. He smiled at the glowing "1984" on
his wrist. His uncle from Texas said he had bought it from his work and it
must have been expensive from the way his parents had reacted. The tour
through the caves should have been more interesting to him, but his new watch
with it's space-age steel case and tiny black buttons would not leave him
alone. He looked up to discover that the tour group had left him behind.
Again. This was cool, he thought as he looked around the "Grotto of the Lost
Treasures" for the first time.

The sign on the wall told him how far underground he was. He just had to
calculate how many inches that was! Carefully, he took the watch off his left
wrist so he could use both of his hands. It took him several tries to enter
the numbers and then - disaster! - the watch slipped out of his hands and over
the side railing. Without thinking he jumped after it. For an instant he
thought he saw a bright flash of blue - and then found himself laying down on
the path with his watch safely on his wrist. "Kevin! Where are you!" his
mother called out, "Your father is waiting! We're going to stop for buffalo
burgers! What are you doing on the ground? You'll get your clothes all dirty!"
Still stunned at his narrow escape, he found himself dragged out of the cave
and into the sun light.

The sleeper thought for a moment, it had used more energy within a fraction of
a second that it had consumed in the last several centuries. Saving the young
boy was - interesting - the first interaction between itself and the children
of its creators in several thousand years. It had taken but a moment for it to
reach out with energy fields to catch the falling child and place it back on
the elevated pathway. Then it reached in and blocked the memory from forming.
A memory that would have scared the child. Outside in the parking lot, Kevin
rubbed a tiny scar, and hidden from sight a rice-sized crystal slowly swam
upwards towards his brain. The sleeper had now become the watcher.

<><><> SILVER DREAMS - CHAPTER FIVE <><><>

===[ Near Area 54 - Nevada ]===

General Granite grabbed the phone and shouted, "This had better be important!
Do you know what time it is?" He listened for a moment, his face turned from
angry to grim. After a moment he dropped the phone and slid off the bed,
standing up in the darkened bedroom. On the bed a short but very muscular form
shifted and turned to face him.

"Who was it my love?" asked the sleepy Ivic-Icen warrior.

"It was the automated alert system. It's programmed to call senior staff if
contact is lost with the base. It's probably some maintenance tech that forgot
to log something, but I've still got to check it out. Look at the time, why do
these things always happen at three A.M. when I'm off duty? You can stay here,
the way you work out you need more sleep than I do! I'll be back in an hour or
so."

He found his clothes laid out for him and quickly dressed, his companion
couldn't boil water but she was the perfect house keeper in every other way.
In fact he had discovered that she was perfect in some ways he hadn't even
thought of before. Since the streets were deserted it took him only twenty
minutes to drive out to the main gate of the base. Or, what was left of the
main gate. Something had ripped open the heavy steel gate and killed the two
security guards. Grim faced airmen waved him through. He could see that they
were in shock. What had happened?

As General Granite made his way to the main blast door he saw several other
signs of destruction. But nothing had prepared him for what he saw next. The
massive blast door, which was a slab of solid steel nearly six feet thick,
appeared to have been torn apart. There were no signs of weapons fire or
explosives. He had seen displays of brute strength before, but this looked
like something out of a comic book or fantasy movie.

As he stepped through the gap in the blast door he saw the demolished
chain-gun turret. Powerful enough to slice through an Abraham, it hadn't
stopped whatever had forced open the door. It was no surprise that all of the
lesser doors and gates had been tossed aside like tissue paper. As he walked
deeper into the base a Tech-Sergeant marched up to him a saluted, "General,
sir! We have moved the intruder into explosives bay two. Emergency repair
teams will be on site within the hour!"

"What - monster - did this!" General Granite finally asked.

The Tech-Sergeant blinked, "The reports states that she is a bar-maid from
Texas."

"What? A woman did THIS? What kind of weapon did she use?"

"She didn't use any weapons, General. The security camera caught everything.
It took one of the lab-techs to rig up something to electrocute her. He said
he saw it done in a movie. I don't know about that, but he won't be buying
beer for a long time!"

=====[ Farm House - Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

A small black object landed near Hadina's feet. Before she could react it
broadcast a powerful phase encoded electro-magnetic pulse. She could feel the
energy wash over and through her. No Imperial Battle mech, no matter how
shielded, would have remained functional after this powerful an attack. But
because of her hybrid nature Hadina felt only a momentary wash of pain.
Suddenly dozens of black-clad humans stormed into the house. She heard Panwoan
fall to the ground in the next room. Hadina moved, she was nearly a blur
because of her speed, but so great was her grace that she was silent as she
met and carefully dropped each of the humans who had entered the house. Less
than a minute had passed since the start of the attack and Hadina prepared to
exit the house in search of more attackers.

"Wait!" gasped Panwoan, "The have missiles!" In a flash Hadina was at the side
of the stricken plant-woman.

Hadina cursed the loss of the biorepair system, but the fusion of her and PRN6
had required some compromises. "Are you OK Panwoan? What have they done to
you?"

"Give me a moment," Panwoan smiled weakly, "Ever since I was captured by the
Empire using drugs I had worked to build up defenses against them. These, I'm
afraid, were hundreds of times stronger. I think that they expected to kill us
both with the first strike. Almost all of the toxin has be neutralized." She
stood up and looked around the room, "Good, you did not kill. We can not leave
out the front, but Sroghik is in danger!"

Hadina smiled, "Leave that to me! She should be doing her morning run and I
assume they will want to take her out at range." With that she silently moved
to the back of the house and glided through the back door.

=====[ Hillside - Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

The sniper was ready, his target was moving into the prepared kill zone. While
the muscle dwarf looked as strong as a tank, she wouldn't be able to survive
an explosive bullet in the brain. Time slowed as the sniper became one with
his weapon. The target was almost there, just a few more steps. The sniper's
surprise was total as his rifle was torn from his grasp and thrown hundreds of
feet away, he had only an instant to realize that the tall blond was about to
punch him. The sound of Hadina's careful strike was too soft for Sroghik to
hear, so she continued on her morning run. Her arms burned with strain as she
held the two-hundred-pound weight above her head. Moments later Hadina stepped
out from behind a tree and quickly explained what was happening.

=====[ Barn - Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

Ten minutes later the last of the human attackers had been relieved of their
equipment and stacked in the hay-filled barn. The group from the house was
added and the Ivic-Icen warrior given the task of guarding them. Back in the
house Hadina and Padwoan searched for answers. "What could be the purpose of
this attack?" asked Padwoan, "Did someone time this to match Sir Nelson's
weekly trip to Parrump?" She paused to answer the phone. "This is disturbing,
Mr. Bell says that Sir Nelson did not arrive for lunch."

"Can you extract anything from their minds?" asked Hadina, "If my captain has
been captured we must find him!"

For several minute Panwoan focused on the captured humans, Hadina could tell
from the pained expressions that the process was unpleasant. Good. If Hadina
did not restrain herself the experience could become extremely unpleasant, and
final.

"These people have little information," Panwoan reported, "Most were contacted
by email and paid up front in cash. Those that picked up the weapons met a
tall red-haired human female that remember as very attractive and very brutal.
That man was thrown across the room when he questioned the plan she had
presented. They all say she was very cold, and extremely strong."

"Could she have been a mech in disguise or perhaps an augmented human? We've
got to get backup, there's just the three of us here. Sroghik will stay with
the humans, come with me to the house!" Hadina said as she left the barn.

=====[ House - Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

As she no longer had the ability to make long-range electronic transmissions
Hadina was forced to use a modified iPhone. As she unlocked the device she saw
that she had received an email from someone she didn't know. Hadina was about
to delete the message when she noticed the subject line. Quickly she opened
the email and read it aloud to Panwoan.

TO: SILVERKITTEN44

FROM: ZEROSTONE

SUBJECT: SIR KEVIN IN DANGER!

THE HIDDEN HAVE TAKEN HIM TO THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING. YOU MUST SAVE HIM.
I WILL CONTACT YOU AGAIN WHEN IT IS SAFE. THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR ME NOW. WHEN
IT IS TIME WE WILL MEET.

"BattleNet, I need to access all project names for facilities labeled Mountain
King," requested Hadina, "This is a priority, Sir Nelson has been attacked! We
have also been attacked but our situation is secure for the moment."

"Understood. Three combat shuttles have been directed to your location. The
first should arrive in less than five minutes. We have found a listing for a
military research base matching the identification Mountain King. It is one
hundred and three miles north of your present location. This base was closed
in the local year 1973. It was used for the development of an early form of
energy beam weapon but the project was canceled due to high costs. Twenty
years later the same project was restarted using new technology in a different
facility. We have located the base but a low-level scramble field is making
high-resolution scans unreliable. Warning, we have detected energy signatures
which match that of primary-class weapon systems. A direct assault would be
very costly. BattleNet standing by to assist you, Princess Hadina."

=====[ Room 386 - Hilton Hotel - New York City ]=====

Princess Yelotai had just stepped into the shower when she heard the first
explosion. Someone, it seemed, was attacking her guard! Without hesitation she
ran out of the bathroom and into the main room. Before she could grab her robe
she was thrown back as the door to her room was turned into splinters. The six
men who rushed into her room were unprepared to handle her fury as she
launched herself at them. They were well trained and well armed, but they were
like children to her powerful muscles. Her back-up security detail found her
standing, her eyes still wide with anger, as the last black-clad human dropped
to the floor.

"BattleNet! What is our status!" demanded the princess as she grabbed a
communicator from one of the guards.

"Princess Yelotai, it has been reported to us the Sir Nelson has been
captured. We have located a facility that is heavily defended against direct
assault. Several of Sir Nelson's companions are in route to the facility.
BattleNet can not provide a complete assessment due to lack of information. We
recommend extreme causation as unknown technologies may be in use."

The princess thought for a moment then spun to face the nearest guard, "I want
the fastest shuttle on the roof of this hotel NOW! And get me the biggest gun
we make. If they have harmed Kevin it will be ME that swears blood vengeance!"

=====[ Perimeter Fence - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

Princess Yelotai managed to link up with the others just as they reached the
outer fence which ran around the abandoned military base. Even from here she
could make our the shimmer in the air caused by the powerful force field that
protected the base from attack from space. Such a field could be breached if
she ordered enough firepower, but then the base would be destroyed - including
Sir Nelson. His loss would be to great for the Empire - and for her.

"Thank you for joining us Princess Yelotai," said Hadina, "I see that you have
dressed for the occasion." The Imperial Princess wore a suit of form-fitting
reflective armor and carried a large weapon that most humans would for some
reason have called a BFG-9000.

Panwoan turned to face them, "I detect no human sentries guarding the
perimeter, but there are several near the building there! That may be the
entrance to the underground complex! We may advance under cover if we use that
drainage channel."

Sroghik smiled, she didn't always understand her new friends, sometimes they
saw things which she couldn't, but her chosen male was in danger and they were
coming to rescue him. Her muscles flexed and grew stronger with every step.
Those that had taken him from her and had attacked her friends would feel how
strong an angry Ivic-Icen female could get!

=====[ Entrance Bunker - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

Princess Yelotai ducked back, "There's at least fifty feet between us and
those guards. I don't see a way we can cross that gap without alerting them to
our presence. All of our ranged attacks would either not take them all out or
cause such damage that we would alert the base ourselves!"

"Throw me," said Sroghik.

"What?" asked Panwoan.

"Throw me! Right over there! After I land I can drop on top of the guards and
- deal with them."

Panwoan and Hadina looked at each other. "It might work," remarked Hadina,
"But which one of us will toss her?"

"It should be you, this task requires someone with quick strength," answered
Panwoan.

Hadina thought for a moment, walked over to Sroghik, picked her up, and tossed
her seventy-five feet. Princess Yelotai smiled and said, "Show off! Let me get
close to these humans I will show you I too have strength!"

Sroghik rolled as she landed, just as she had been trained. Carefully she
crept to the edge of the roof until she could see the two guards. With a grim
smile she dropped down and landed onto them. Her powerful blows were like
sledge-hammers, after an instant the two guards were no longer a threat.
Sudden shouts behind her made Sroghik spin around to see six more human guards
who were just now starting to aim automatic weapons at her. With a roar she
launched herself at them and managed to cross half the distance before the
first bullets hit her now fully expanded breasts. Trained to shoot at center
mass, the guards were firing at Sroghik's most protected body part. She
ignored the pain as hundred of small-caliber rounds bounced off of her chest.
Moments later the six guards were no longer recognizable as human.

Fifty feet away the others were surprised by the sound of brief but intense
gunfire. A few moments later the blood-covered Ivic-Icen warrior came back
into view and waved them on. Princess Yelotai remained grimly silent at the
sign of the carnage. Panwoan healed Sroghiks injuries as Hadina slowly forced
the massive steel door to open. This was something the others had never seen
her do before. While Hadina shows very little signs of strain, the
ten-foot-think blast door was slowly torn aside as if it were made of soft
clay instead of steel.

As they followed the slope down they cam to a second door that was less
massive but still stronger than a normal bank vault door. Panwoan stepped up
and grabbed the edges of the door, her body exploded in size as massive cables
of muscle grew in size. The plant woman's power could not be stopped as she
forced the door open, massive retaining bolts sheared in two by her brute
strength. She turned to Sroghik and remarked, "The next one is yours!"

Soon they did come to a third door. Sroghik leaped at the door and began to
pound it with her fists, the thick metal deforming with each blow. he others
stood back and watched as she punched her way though the foot-thick security
door. Though her hands were bloody, Sroghik was quite pleased by her violent
show of strength. As they continued on Panwoan again healed her.

The final barrier was a set of thick steel bars followed by a simple office
door. Princess Yelotai handed her giant gun to Sroghik and said, "This one is
mine!" Walking up to the bars she gripped on in each hand and pulled them
apart. The muscles in her arms and upper body grew, not as massive as an
Ivic-Icen female, but she was clearly now much more muscular that any normal
human woman. Within moments she had torn the bars free, tossed them aside and
kicked down the inner door. Stepping inside the new room she discovered a tall
red-haired woman dressed in an outfit which made he large breasts very
visible.

"OK sugar, you best turn around and march your skinny little butt right on out
of here," said the woman.

Princess Yelotai smiled, "What are you going to do - bitch - slap me around
with you floppy tits?"

The woman's answer was sudden and totally unexpected. She suddenly moved the
distance that separated them and punched the princess in the chest. Prices
Yelotai was stunned by the power of the blow and found herself thrown back
through the wall. Panwoan looked down at her friend who now lay motionless at
her feet and launched herself at the red-haired human. The battle was violent
and brief, the plant-woman found herself outclassed in pure strength and
unable to effect the human woman with her other abilities. She too was tossed
back towards the group. Sroghik fumbled with the large Imperial weapon but
could not figure it out.

Hadina slowly walked towards the tall woman, this was all wrong. No human
woman should be able to match the strength of Princess Yelotai and Hadina was
well aware of Panwoan's more secret abilities. So this couldn't be a normal
organic foe, but she wasn't a mech either, that Hadina would be able to feel.
It didn't matter, this woman stood between her and her Knight. And the
red-head would not stand because she now faced the Sword of Vengeance!

The woman leaped at her but Hadina stepped to one side and landed a powerful
blow to he red-heads body. Spinning around Hadina saw the red-head slam into
the concrete wall with such force that cracks appeared in the wall. The
red-head turned around and smiled, "Well honey, you're not quite as weak as
the others, but nothing made of muscle can stop me!" Suddenly the woman leaped
at Hadina and grabbed her around the chest. Hadina could feel the power
building up in the red-head's arms, slabs of muscle rose into view. This was
all wrong! The human female was showing some muscle but not enough to produce
the enormous pressure that Hadina was feeling. If Hadina couldn't break free
soon she would be crushed! And then she felt it - deep within the woman - so
shielded that only the faintest trace escaped to be detected - and then only
when they were this close - Hadina knew the secret. This woman WAS a mech, but
unlike any she had known.

Hadina's right arm blazed with a bright blue glow as she plunged it deep
within the back of the red-head. Before her foes could react Hadina pulled
free a two-foot cylinder out of her body. Instantly three hundred pounds of
liquid metal fell to the ground. In her hand Hadina could feel the trapped
intelligence straining to make contact with the now inactive body. Without a
pause Hadina snapped the cylinder in half and poured the contents on the
floor. Panwoan stumbled into the room just in time to see the evil black ooze
hit the floor and burst into flame. "That is the enemy?" she asked.

"No, I don't think that this hybrid mech was even intelligent. It was a
machine made to look human with an organic core," answered Hadina, "But I've
never heard of such a thing!"

"I have!" said Princess Yelotai, "We call them Bions. We don't know where they
come from, but the Empire has been fighting them for hundreds of years. We've
never seen more than one at any time and they always assume the shape of a
citizen before they act. We can be sure that the human this one copied has
been dead for some time. Give me a moment to rest."

Hadina looked at her friends, both Panwoan and Princess Yelotai were in bad
shape but recovering. If there was only one of these Bions then she felt there
would be nothing left to stop her form reaching Sir Kevin. He Knight needed
her, and she him.

=====[ Main Test Chamber - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

Kevin lay on the floor barely able to move. The tall red-heads had not been
gentile with him, he could feel several broken bones. Through the haze of pain
he watched two walk out of the large room and close a large metal door behind
them. This left six of the identical woman inside of the room. For several
hours they had been working on some strange machine that was unlike anything
he had ever seen. He had a guilty flicker of interest as one would lift a
massive component. But Kevin felt totally helpless and totally alone. Except
for the voice in his head. he moment one of the red-heads had tossed him
against this wall he had felt - something - a whisper in the darkness. He was
sure the blow had driven him mad.

And now his vision was failing him! All around him were discarded bits of
alien junk, many looked as if they had been build by different races. One
piece of junk was blinking blue. When Kevin picked it up a second object began
to blink blue. There was something - familiar - about this process. Kevin
fumbled with the two objects for a moment until he saw that they could be
snapped together. With that done a third item began to blink blue. Two dozen
strange components later Kevin had built - something - complicated looking. He
then noticed that a small black cube was blinking blue. Could this be a power
source?

=====[ Outside The Main Test Chamber - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

Hadina had smashed her way through several security and blast doors. Nothing
slowed her down. She could hear her friends running behind her but she would
not slow up. She could feel that her Knight was near. Hadina smashed her way
into a large chamber only to find two of the red-haired Bions. So, princess
Yelotai was wrong! The two human-looking mech leaped at her and she was forced
to jump away. Now that she knew their secret Hadina could easily defeat one,
but she did not have the speed to defeat two at once.

Princess Yelotai walked into the room, flicked off the safety and fired at one
of the Bions. A massive green blast shot from the BFG-9000 and encased the
Bion in an energy shell. She fell to the ground screaming, her voice exactly
the same as the dead human the Bion used as a template, but the body distorted
as the green energy destroyed all internal controls. After the green had faded
the Bion continued to twitch on the floor. Suddenly the Bion stood up and
pointed at the princess, "That stung like a bitch! But you're gonna need
something with a lot more juice to put me down!"

=====[ Main Test Chamber - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

As soon as Kevin inserted what he thought was a power cell into the device he
had constructed things began to move quickly. He could tell that the device
was starting to power up, Unfortunatly the red-heads had also detected that
and one was starting to run towards him. She was only a few feet away when the
device transmitted a powerful pulse of energy, Kevin could see a bright ring
of red and blue electric fire wash outwards from the device. As it hit the
red-heads they fell to the ground. The one that had been running towards him
fell on top of him, pinning him under her three hundred pound body.

Moments later - something - began attacking the massive blast door.

=====[ Outside The Test Chamber - Mountain King - Nevada ]=====

Princess Yelotai was stunned as the energy wave dropped the two Bions. But
Hadina wasted no time and launched herself at the blast door, the thick steels
crumpled under her fingers as she forced her way through. In the next room she
could see several of the enemy mechs, but they were all on the ground
inactive, "Panwoan! Find Sir Nelson while I deal with these machines!"

The others rushed into the room, but it was Princess Yelotai who found Kevin
pinned under the deactivated Bion. For a moment her muscles bulged as she
lifted the three hundred pound body and tossed it aside, "Panwoan! He's here!
Come quickly for he is badly injured - and - he seems to have defeated the
Bions all by himself! Look at this device he has constructed!" She closed her
eyes for a moment, "Even while we were coming to rescue him, he somehow found
a way to save us. Unfortunatly, the very existence of the Bions is a state
secret, so we have no way to formally thank him."

Hadina smiled as she ripped the control module from the last Bion, "Oh, I
think that between the four of us we can find - some way - to thank my
captain. We need a security team now, Princess Yelotai. Please contact the
fleet! This equipment needs to be removed. While I trust the humans, it is
clear that their security has been compromised."

Kevin woke up and tried to sit up, a gentle but very powerful hand stopped
him. 'Panwoan! You're here! Oh my princess, Hadina, you've saved me from those
clones! There was this blinking light - and I made this thing - and they were
making that thing!"

"My captain, those were not human clones, they were evil machines that the
Empire calls Bions. Their body is composed of a form of liquid metal which can
mimic organic life. The shape that they used was from a human woman that they
killed and copied. But Princess Yelotai says that in the past they have never
encountered more than one at a time." reported Hadina.

After Panwoan had helped Kevin stand up he looked around the test chamber. In
one far corner he spotted a stack of inactive Bion bodies, now only shapeless
white forms with arms and legs. "They make a complete copy?" he asked as he
walked towards the pile of bodies, "Too bad you didn't take a fingerprint from
any of these, that might have helped us identify who she was."

"How would that help us, my captain?" asked Hadina.

"Well, if we could discover who she was then we could find where they killed
her," Kevin answered.

"Of course!" said Panwoan, "That would be near their original landing site and
perhaps also near their primary base."

Hadina smiled at her Knight. A glow of pride grew within her. She had chosen
wisely.

Kevin stood near a pile of control modules, "Why is this one while all the
others are black?" he asked.

Hadina picked up the white control module and probed it with all of her
abilities, "That's odd, it does not contain the organic component that the
others do. It is a crystal matrix not unlike the core of an standard combat
mech. This one appears to be blank. Perhaps it is used to test the bodies
before the real controller is implanted."

"Could you program it, my princess?" asked Kevin, "Would it activate one of
these bodies, but leave it under our control?"

She smiled at him, this was one of her abilities which had been actually
enhanced by the merger. A task made simple because the core was a total blank.
It would not be as intelligent as a true mech, but she suspected that Sir
Nelson had a specific goal in mind. It took a few minutes for her to complete
the task, and she insured that there were no open channels for the Bions to
regain control. Hadina found the Bion body - interesting - but that a human
had to die in order to give it shape made it extremely undesirable to her. She
inserted the control module into a blank body and stepped back. "I have
programmed this machine to respond to you, my captain."

After a moment the body took the form of the now familiar red hared woman.
"OK, stand up!" ordered Kevin. In one smooth motion the Bion stood up next to
him. He looked at her, every mole, every wrinkle had been duplicated. She
looked like she was in her mid-thirties and in fairly good shape. In her black
high-heels she was taller than he was. "Bion, shift to original scan pattern.
Show me how she looked when she was first scanned." In a flash the Bion
changed shape, she was still the same red-head, but she now wore the uniform
of a bar-maid and carried a small purse. "Looks like we struck gold! OK, take
out your drivers license and hold it up so I can read it." They now knew the
identity of the dead woman.

Princess Yelotai walked into the test chamber followed by a large group of
Imperial Marines and field techs, "Don't tell me you've given Sir Nelson
another toy to play with? And why is she dressed like that? Did she work at a
store that sells owls?"

Kevin smiled, "Princess Yelotai, may I introduce to you miss Gale Storm. She
is from the proud state of Texas, home to tall women, tall drinks and the
secret Bion main base. My only question is, if they can take the form of an
organic creature, why is it always the same template? Couldn't they duplicate
several different people?"

"I can answer that!" said one of the field techs, "It's a matter of storage
space. All of the information used to make such an identical copy, the
appearance, the motions, even the personality, takes up an enormous amount of
data storage. Apparently whatever system they use can not contain more than
one template. My guess is that every planet is limited to whatever template is
generated first."

"So, if they wanted to make a copy of a different person they would - what -
have to take them to a different planet? Are their ships cloaked? Or do they
have another way to travel. Hey guys, what the heck is this thing," asked
Kevin as he pointed to the large structure that the Bions had been rushing to
complete.

"Its a very powerful transmitter, we've seen partial ones before. This is the
first one in an undamaged state, We don't know all of the details, but it has
an extremely wide bandwidth and is linked to a scanning platform. The ones
we've found in the past malfunctioned and destroyed the test objects, reducing
them down to the molecular level."

"Wait a second," said Kevin, "Do you guys have any form of teleportation?"

Princess Yelotai looked up and answered, "No Sir Nelson, that technology has
never been developed by the Empire."

"Well, I think I know why you've never seen a Bion ship," he remarked as he
looked up at the massive transmitter.

=====[ Back Ally - Naples - Florida ]=====

The leader smiled, his scout had picked a very interesting target. She was
black, of course, as were all of the women that his skin-heads gang-raped. But
this one was seemed extra special! She was tall, athletic and had large proud
breasts that she seemed to flaunt with every step. He didn't need to know her
name, she was just another college student taking a short-cut through the
wrong side of town. It was almost time! He gave the signal to his hidden men.
Yes bitch, he thought, time for the surprise of your life!

<><><> SILVER DREAMS - CHAPTER SIX <><><>

===[ Area 54 - Nevada ]===

On the screen the tall red-head screamed as a solid stream of bullets from the
chain-gun splashed across her upper body. Thousands of rounds sprayed back
from her, instantly shredding the three armed guards. With a swipe of her hand
the red-head smashed the turret and moved out of the chamber. General Granite
gripped the table, never had he seen such a display of raw power, not even his
new house-guest could come close to matching this. "And you say that we
stopped her? How?" he asked.

"It was Brandon sir, he rigged up some cables to the laser pump bank and when
she walked back past him the entire capacitor bank was discharged right
through her. For a second we didn't think it was going to work, but then she
screamed and this massive ball of fire shot out of her mouth. Since then she's
been - well - she acts like she's brain dead! We can't get her to talk, and
she's like a zombie."

"Show me." commanded the general.

A few minutes later he stood in front of a tall read-hared woman, somebody had
draped a lab coat over her as her original clothing had been stripped off of
her by gun fire. To the general she looked totally human, except for the fact
that she was as motionless as a statue. He spotted a heavy pry-bar on a cart
and picked it up. General Granite smiled and held the bar out to the red-head,
"Bend this!" he commanded. The Bion took the bar from him, and in a casual
show of brute strength, bent it in half as if it were wet cardboard. When she
was done she dropped it on the floor where it dented the concrete.

One of the lab techs waved to the general, "Look here, sir! We've modified an
industrial sonogram machine, everything else we tried just bounced off! The
only structure we can see inside of her is this tube." the tech pointed out
the details on a display.

"What is this middle section, it looks like it's empty?" asked the general.

"We're not sure, some of the guys think that the high-voltage made whatever
was inside cook off. Maybe that flame she burped up was something turning to
gas! I wish we knew for sure. But it sure looks like it's empty now. Right now
we've got a perfect simulation of a woman who's super tough and strong."

The general looked at the scan and then looked at the Bion, "This doesn't look
like any Empire technology we've seen before. Try to make some casual sounding
inquiries with the Earth Defense Force. In the mean time, check miss muscle
for prints. If she a copy of somebody I want to know who is the original!"

=====[ Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

While his companions continued the search of Mountain King, Kevin had returned
to the small farm that they were using as a base. Most of the material was
being brought directly to one of the research ships in orbit, a few items had
made their way to the farm. For once Kevin found himself alone in the farm
house. Out the window he could see a small army of mechs and troops setting up
a defense. Even a small army of Bions would have difficulty breaking in. With
a smile he slowly made his way down to the basement and the home of his new
toy.

The lights flickered for a moment and then came on with full brightness. In
the glare Kevin could see the Bion, now covered in a large blue tarp. As he
pulled off the covering he came face-to-face with the simulated human. "Well,
Gail Storm, you were one fine looking woman. I'm sorry that you got caught up
in all of this, but you will be avenged. So, if you don't mind, I'm going to
look for clues! Bion! Show me the original scan template without clothing or
accessories!" In a flash the Bion changed.

"This is exactly like all of the copies. OK, you guys nearly killed me and you
attacked my friends. Time for a little pay back. Bion, I want you to show only
the level of strength that the original had." He had the Bion stand in front
of a wall and tied her hands to two anchor rings with dozens of loops of duct
tape. "Bion, keep your toughness and endurance to whatever level you use
during combat."

"Bion, try to break free and - act like you're close to having an orgasm.
Respond to my actions, no matter what I do, as if I am bringing you closer to
having an orgasm." In an instant the red-haired Bion was moaning and straining
to pull free, her large natural biceps bulged into hard peaks. Kevin ran his
hand along her straining arms, feeling the surprising power. Suddenly the Bion
looked Kevin in the eyes and said, "I know what you want sugar, you want
this!" Her body - changed - as if she had been working out hard for several
years. In a flash the Bion's upper arms gained three inches of hard muscle and
she ripped her hands free.

Kevin felt trapped by the Bion who was clearly much stronger than he was,
"Bion stop! Keep away!" her shouted. The Bion ignored him and flexed her arms,
"Go ahead sugar, feel them! Feel my sexy muscles! You're the one I want! The
one who is marked!" Kevin reached out and felt her rock-hard biceps. Could a
human woman really be this hard? Just as quickly the Bion seemed to shrink,
her eyes no longer focused on his. She lowered her arms and stopped moving.
Did he have his clue now?

He tossed the blue tarp back on top of the Bion, now afraid to give any more
orders. "The one who is marked?" he muttered as he climbed the stairs back up
to the main floor, and a long cold drink.

=====[ Truck Stop - Dead Load - Texas ]=====

The motor home was at least ten years old and burned through nearly a quart of
oil a day. It was, however, the best that could be found on such short notice.
They had needed a vehicle large enough for the sensor array that the field
techs had installed under the roof. Now all they had to do was drive around
the back roads of Texas looking for Bion signals. They had found the last
residence of Gail Storm and it was difficult not to tell her friends that she
was dead and not simply lost. But the missing persons report brought a new
mystery. The Bion had taken her nearly six months before the invasion.

"Something led the Bion to Earth, and it was something that existed here
before the arrival of the Empire and the Ivic-Icen Armada. But what? We don't
exactly have any high technology. To most of you guys we're practically
barbarians," said Kevin as he drove.

Princess Yelotai, member of the ruling house of the Empire of Worlds, ran her
fingers along the seam of her daisy-print sun-dress. She already suspected
that those who were controlling the Bion had some how learned of the First
Epoch data matrix. It was the only thing she could think of that would explain
the massive Bion commitment. Too bad that the device that Sir Nelson had
constructed had destroyed itself as it functioned. But her top scientists were
tearing all of the equipment apart in search of clues.

"We have a faint signal coming from the north-east. We need to turn right at
the next intersection of roads," reported Hadina.

Sroghik smiled and studied her new weapon. The Empire had modified these pulse
plasma projectors to be much more effective against the Bions. Just in case
she made sure that she had with her at least ten extra energy clips. Sroghik
would have carried more, but she didn't want the others to think that she was
worried.

=====[ Old Gas Station - Dead Load - Texas ]=====

"Are you sure this is where the signal was? There nothing here but dust and
candy that predates Elvis," asked Kevin, "OK, I'm going to check out that
store room out back, maybe I can find something I can sell on ebay!" As Kevin
walked to the back of the abandoned gas station he noticed something odd. It
looked like someone had driven a truck behind back there recently and the dirt
by the door seemed pretty packed down. Like someone or something heavy had
walked there. Suddenly there was a blinding green light coming from with in
the store room and a strange mechanical sound, almost like chanting.

Kevin was sprinting back towards the motor home when the back wall of the
store room exploded into a mass of splinters and dozens of red-haired Bions
flashed towards him. "We've got company!" he screamed as he came up to
Princess Yelotai. He started to say something else when a silver spike
punctured his chest and dropped him to the ground. Princess Yelotai looked
down at the blood that covered her. She recognized it as his blood. She felt -
something - change inside of her. Time itself seemed to slow. And then she
moved.

Panwoan and Hadina saw that Kevin was hurt and started to move towards him
when they saw Princess Yelotai - transform - into something unexpected. Her
body changed into a larger creature of pure speed and power. She moved on the
Bion as a shark would a school of helpless fish. Each of her blows sent a
shock wave of pressure which threw up rings of dust. A few of the red-heads
managed to hit the princess, but she didn't seem to notice. Hadina was
impressed, Yelotai was destroying the control modules despite the protection
of the liquid metal bodies. When the last Bion lay destroyed at her feet, the
Imperial Princess howled at the sky and ran off into night.

"That's a new look for her, but I like it," remarked Sroghik.

"This will take some time, but I can replace his lost blood. Bring me more of
that bottled water!" commanded Panwoan as she pressed her hands against the
puncture wounds. This she could do, she thought, but what of Princess Yelotai
and the creature SHE had become?

=====[ Ten Miles East Of Dead Load - Texas]=====

The creature that was Yelotai snarled, the Bion stench had led her to this
small complex of buildings. From the look of things this place had been
abandoned by humans many years ago. Slowly she walked towards the main
building. Suddenly nearly a hundred of the vile creations stepped out to
surround her. She smiled, she had them right where she wanted them!

=====[ Old Gas Station - Dead Load - Texas ]=====

"You should rest!" said Panwoan, her face hiding emotions she dare not reveal.

Kevin grunted as he forced close the seat belt, "Look, you've repaired most of
the damage, I'll be fine! We've got to go after Princess Yelotai! Her loss
would be a disaster to Earth, and to me. We'll take that old service road, by
the looks of things that's what the Bion have been using to ferry stuff from
here to their main base. I don't see why the just don't move the landing
zone."

"My captain, some of the scientists researching the transmitter you found
believe that there is a minimum distance between sending and receiving
points," reported Hadina, "All of the surface-to-space communications channels
are still being jammed."

"OK, then it's just us. Do whatever you have to prepare, we're going in!"
Kevin started the badly dented motor home. Several of the metal rods shot by
the Bions had passed through the body and punctured one tire. Sroghik had
leaped at the chance to show off her increased strength by holding up the
front of the motor home while Hadina changed the tire. Because the road was
rough it took Kevin nearly thirty minutes to reach the complex. Hidden by an
expanding cloud of dust, Princess Yelotai screamed in anger.

=====[ Ten Miles East Of Dead Load - Texas]=====

Kevin climbed down from the motor home, on his back were strapped several
high-yield explosive charges and he carried a much lighter version of the
pulsed plasma projectile weapon that Sroghik now carried. While both would
take down a Bion, the larger weapon had a much higher rate of fire. "OK, we
know where our fair princess is. Let's see if we can give her a little back
up. Sroghik, why don't you see if you can get up that tower. Should be a good
sniper position. I'll check out that small building, it might get me enough
cover to be useful." He turned to look at his other companion and was stunned
by their transformation. Hadina was no longer the tall blond he had seen
moments before, she was now a goddess of iron and steel, as if the original
PRN6 had been upgraded into a super-mech-destroyer.

Panwoan's transformation was just as drastic. She had grown taller and wider,
with each of her rope-like muscles many times thicker than ever before. The
green-on-green skin Kevin remembered was now changed to a dark brown, as if
she had grown ultra-dense bark. Sroghik gave Panwoan a thumbs up and sprinted
towards the near-by tower. "Wow! You too sure look like you're ready to party!
OK, here's the plan! With the Bion busy dealing with you ladies, I should be
able to locate their transmitter and blow it up. That should slow them down
and just might drop this jamming field. Then we can call in a heavy assault
team and clean house!"

Panwoan and Hadina turned and moved towards the battle as Kevin moved towards
the small building he had selected. It looked sturdier than the other
building, so he hoped it had a suitable window for him to shoot out of. As he
moved into the building Kevin saw no open windows. As he walked across the
wooden floor he could feel it flex under his weight. He tried to pull a couple
of boards off the wall to make a window, but everything was nailed down too
tight. Finally he gave up and started to walk out of the door. Again the
wooden flow flexed under his weight - and something snapped! Within seconds
Kevin found himself plunging down a brick lined shaft, his rifle torn from his
hands, and finally landing on a stack of empty cardboard boxes.

In the exercise yard the creature that was Yelotai spun and dove into a pack
of her prey. Within seconds more Bion had been mutilated and lay broken on the
hard-packed ground. While they had been unable to hurt her, Yelotai began to
have doubts. The Bion seemed to have an endless supply of warriors, but she
was beginning to become tired. Suddenly she realized that she was not fighting
alone! At her side were two others, a powerful female knight and a massive
plant creature. Perhaps she would taste victory!

Kevin forced himself up and looked around. High above him, hanging on a bent
pipe, his rifle spun back and forth as if taunting him. He sighed and moved
into the small chamber which seemed connected to the bottom of the well. The
room was filled with junk from the 1950's, racks of strange alien equipment,
and a large glass-covered container that reminded Kevin of a disco-coffin. He
wiped the thick dust off the top of the glass and looked in. "Great! Another
Bion. But what the hell is this one doing here? Wait a second - this one's a
little different than the others. She looks more - buff - like she's been
working out for a couple of years. I've got to get some one to take a look at
this, it might be important!" Kevin started back to the well when he tripped
on a cable and fell crashing to the floor.

The cable sparked wildly as it was torn from the sleep chamber. Kevin was
blind for a moment as several objects flashed and exploded. Blind and frozen
with fear, he could only cower as he heard glass shatter and drop to the
floor. As his sight returned he looked up to see a tall red-headed woman
standing over him. "Please don't kill me!" he screamed.

"Why should I kill you, sugar? Where are we? Where are my clothes? And why do
my arms feel so - bumpy?"

Kevin slowly stood up, "Wait a minute! You're not an evil clone killer robot?
But that means - but it can't be - the Bions always kill the people they copy.
Unless - maybe they need a master copy if they're making a lot of copies! The
you must really be Gale Storm!"

"Will you please slow down and talk to me in English! What you're saying is
gibberish to me! You know my name, sugar, why don't you tell me yours?" Gale
asked as she searched the small room for something to wear.

Kevin blinked, "Oh yeah! I am so sorry Ms. Storm! My name is Kevin Nelson and
my friends and I were sort of searching for you. Or I should say we've been
hunting these machines that are copies of you. It's a little hard to explain.
That machine I busted must have been keeping you a storage so they could scan
you when they needed to. Looks like you've been getting six months of
simulated workouts. But the results look more like six years! They must have
wanted to keep you in good shape."

"In good shape!" Gale screamed, "Look at this! I've got bigger muscles than
most of the men I've dated! I'm a walking freak show! You tell me, would you
want a woman who looked like this!" she flexed her right bicep and help it
next to Kevin's face.

"Well, I might not be the best person to ask about that! But to answer your
question, yes I would."

"Now you're just kidding me - no man would - not many men - oh yes -you do
like this! I can tell just by looking at you! But what's this nonsense about
six months, is that really how long I've been here?" she asked as she sat down
on a dusty crate.

"A missing persons report was made out on you six months ago, so we think
that's when the first Bion arrived on Earth and captured you. That was two
months before the invasion, so we're still unclear why they came to Earth in
the first place."

"Invasion! What invasion! Was it the Russians? My dad always warned me to look
out for the Russians!"

Kevin sighed, "No it wasn't the Russians, though they did see their share of
fighting. Look! Just let me get you out of here and someplace safe. Hey, my
rifle's hung up on a pipe in that well. I bet if I boosted you up you could
grab it!"

The well was a tight fit for both of them at once. "You came down that to
rescue me? And it looks like you hurt yourself and lost you gun in the
process! That means something to me, I'll tell you that! Let's see if all this
ugly muscle, and yes I know you like it, is just for show." Before Kevin could
protest Gail bent down, grabbed him under the hips, and lifted him as high as
she could. "I've always been strong for a woman, Mr. Nelson. I even ran off a
couple of boyfriends when they figured I was stronger than them. If they could
see me now they would freak for sure!"

Kevin reached up and freed his energy rifle, "Not every guy feels that way you
know. I can't explain the - electric - feeling that I get when I come near
really magnificent female muscle. A strong woman is just more - alive - more
woman!"

As she put him down Gail remarked, "Kevin, can I call you Kevin? I am standing
at the bottom of a well - with no cloths on - and a total stranger - who
risked his life to save me - is telling me that he thinks my big muscles -
which I didn't have when I went to sleep - make me a sexy woman. Oh yeah, did
I forget the part where evil space aliens are making copies of me to take over
the world?"

"Let's see if there's another way out of here, I can't picture them bring all
of that stuff down this well. It's just too small," Kevin remarked as he tried
to slide past the muscular red-head. She took a step forward, pinning him to
the wall with her large firm breasts.

"Our relationship can go more than one way, sugar. Why don't you let me carry
the gun?" Kevin smiled and handed her the rifle.

Back inside the chamber Kevin spotted the outline of a small door. "Great,
it's locked from the other side! We need something to break it down. Help me
look for something heavy!" He started to search the small room when he heard a
heavy crash. Looking up he saw that Gail had kicked down the door. She stuck
out her tongue and ducked down through the now open doorway.

Beyond the door they found a large underground storage area. Long rows of
dust-covered incandescent lights gave off an evil orange glow that almost let
them see the entire room. Kevin recognized large stacks of inactivated Bion
bodies, still shapeless and undefined. "Oh my god! There must be thousands of
blanks here! They must be planning a total invasion! These are what the Bions
look like before the template gets copied onto them. They must have another
storage area where they keep the control modules. That's the thing that goes
inside the blanks and - ah - controls them. We've got to be careful, the
active ones are super strong and tough, but that rifle can take one down. I
hope."

Just then two red-haired Bions walked into the storage area and picked up a
pallet with ten blanks on it. Kevin and Gail ducked down out of sight until
the Bions had left. "They - they looked just like me! And they picked up a
pile of these body things like they were nothing." She turned to face Kevin,
"You better take this gun! If we live through this I will fuck your brains out
every night for a year!"

Kevin just smiled and pointed at a cabinet, "Let's take a look, that looks
like an old gym locker!" Moments later Gail had fished out some clothing she
said would fit well enough. She dressed while he looked for another exit. He
didn't really want to go the way the Bions had gone, but the only other door
was locked tight with a thick metal bar. As he was fumbling with the lock he
hear Gail come up behind him, "Let me show you what a woman can do, sugar!" As
he stepped back he saw that she had found a pair of black hot-pants and a
black tank-top which were so small they looked painted on. The white
calf-length go-go boots completed her jaw-dropping outfit.

"I worked at this one bar where the boss made me help unload the truck. None
of the other girls had to, but I did because I was so big and strong. If that
jackass could see me now he would crap in his pants! But I remember him saying
- lift with your legs! If he said it once, he said it a thousand times. Lift
with your legs!" Her suddenly expanding thighs looked like they were nearly
double in size. "Go ahead sugar, I know you want to feel them! Squeeze my legs
- feel what a strong woman feels like! And I feel strong right now!"

Kevin ran his hands along her thick, muscular legs, feeling the ripples of
strength as she pushed up against the metal bar. As the moments passed he
could tell she was punching harder - until - with a snap Gail ripped the metal
bar off the door. "Oh sugar - Kevin! I've never felt anything like that! I'm
keeping this bar as a good luck charm!"

The hallway beyond the door was dimly lit, only one bulb in five seemed to be
working. But at least it had stairs that were going up. Along the way they
passed several other locked doors. Kevin would stop and peak through whatever
small hole was available. At the third door he spotted something familiar.
"Hey! Look what we found! It's one of their teleport transmitters. And this
one looks like its working. We've got to get in there! That's the target for
the explosives I'm carrying!"

Gail stepped close to him, "When were you going to tell me you had bombs? We
need to work on out communication! OK, the bar's on the other side. Let's see
how tough this door is!" Gail stepped back and prepared to ram the door with
her shoulder. Kevin raised his hand and pulled out a screw-driver. As she
watched he pried out the pins from the three hinges. With a smile Gail pulled
the door out of the way. "Well aren't you the regular handy man! I just might
keep you around!"

The large room was empty except for the teleport device. On the scanning
platform was a foot-wide metal disk. Kevin removed the disk and placed all of
his explosives. He quickly armed the count-down detonators and rushed Gail
back to the broken door. "We've got to get going, in less than a minute those
bombs are going off!" Fifty seconds later they were up several flights and
near the ground floor. Kevin looked at his watch. "OK, hang on!" Suddenly they
heard the sound of the teleporter activating. Seconds later the bombs
exploded. The pressure wave from the explosion threw Kevin and Gail to the
floor and popped the lid off of the escape shaft.

Kevin found himself on top of Gail, who simply smiled and said, "You sure know
how to rock a girl's boat, Mr. Nelson!"

From the open escape hatch they could hear the sounds of the battle still
going on.

Yelotai could feel her muscles burning as she moved, the blood frenzy which
had fueled her transformation was starting to fade. She could tell than her
two friends were both doing poorly, with Panwoan moving as if she were
injured. The only good news what that the flood of replacement Bion warriors
had stopped. Could these be the last? A sudden burst of smoke from an
underground explosion told her that someone else from her side was still
alive. Could it be Sir Nelson? Was Kevin OK? On top of the tower Sroghik
waited for the signal to fire, her supply of energy clips waited by her side.

Slowly he inched his way closer to the edge of the open escape hatch. Kevin
motioned Gail to stay back. The last thing he wanted was for her to be
mistaken for a Bion. He raised his head up and found that he had a clear shot
at the back of a very large crowd of Bion. Three of his companions were
surrounded, and it didn't look good. He raised his rifle and began to pick off
the closest Bions. Sroghik saw his fire and smiled. It was time to play!

Yelotai felt the pressure ease up as energy fire dropped dozens of Bions.
Because she had a much better angle and a much faster weapon, Sroghik mowed
down ten for every one destroyed by Kevin. But because of his position, he was
able to pick off Bions who were closer to his friends. Only near the end did
the Bions turn to attack the snipers, but it was too late and they were easily
destroyed.

Kevin stayed where he was and called his friends to join him. Up close he
could tell that the three warriors were badly injured. Sroghik joined them
after a moment. She was the only one uninjured. "OK ladies, I have a surprise.
Please welcome Miss Gail Storm!" As Gail stepped out of the escape shaft and
into the light the others reacted in shock. Princess Yelotai stepped up and
sniffed her. Panwoan smiled weakly and slowly nodded. Hadina stood motionless,
her systems nearly depleted. Sroghik laughed and remarked, "It's about time
you found a human muscle-woman for the team!"

Gail spun around and pointed at Kevin, "You! Everything you told me is true!
Those wild stories about robots and plant people and - and - that short muscle
girl with the big tits! When you were shooting I came up and peeked at what
you were shooting at. They were me! Hundreds of me! Those things stole my face
and my body - and were going to take over the world? I was going to conquer
the world! Well, OK. I'm not as strong as you ladies, but I bet I can carry a
lot bigger gun than he can!"

"Oh yeah, I found this!" as he fished out the metal disk, "They were going to
teleport it back."

Princess Yelotai, no longer the monster she had become, took it from him,
"This is an old style data disk, it must be thousands of years old! We may no
longer be able to read this or extract the data."

"I can read that. I recently received a translation protocol from a human
hacker named ZeroStone. He described this disk in detail, but I thought he was
referring to something built by humans." Hadina took the disk from Princess
Yelotai. There is a physical encryption lock. It will be difficult to bypass
this. It will take some time and study, perhaps a standard Earth year to
complete."

"Or not!" remarked Gail as she reached for the disk. Hadina gave it to her
without comment. The tall red-head looked at the lock - licked her lips and
smiled at Kevin - and opened the lock as if she did it every day. She handed
it back to Hadina.

"How the hell did you do that?" asked Kevin.

"Well sugar, I was asleep, but I can remember people talking, like they were
inside my head. Most of the time I didn't understand a thing. But I remember a
picture of this thing coming up over and over, like a movie, showing you how
to open. Glad I could help!"

Kevin looked at Princess Yelotai, "She's got to be protected! The system she
was hooked up to may have accidentally fed more information to her. She may
know more about Bions than the Empire learned in hundreds of years of fighting
them!"

Sroghik looked up as several combat shuttles screamed down for powered
landings. Hundred of battle mechs and troops in heavy armor swarmed out to
secure the perimeter. "I guess the jamming field is down," she remarked, "Hi,
I'm Sroghik! Try this gun out for size!" he tall red-head took the large
weapon that was handed to her. It was pretty heavy, but then she was now a
pretty strong girl.

<><><> SILVER DREAMS - CHAPTER SEVEN <><><>

=====[ Construction Site - Naples Florida ]=====

The construction crew had left and the security guard was asleep in a trailer
a block away. Sounds of mixed wrestling filled the empty garage. The leader of
the skinhead gang could not believe his eyes. Four of his biggest men, the
smallest with twenty-inch arms, were barely holding their own against a single
black bitch. She was some kind of local tennis star, but he didn't figure that
any black woman could stand up against a real man. After far too much time his
men managed to clamp the thick metal chains onto her straining arms and legs.
After a few minutes of quick knife work the chains were all they she was
wearing. He smiled and walked up to her. She was nearly as tall as he was and
her struggles had given her dark black skin an erotic sheen.

Her athletic arms now bulged with angry muscle. He had to admit that she had
bigger biceps than some men he knew. Her breasts were full and firm, much
larger than most he had seen on white women her size. It was time to show her
who was in control. At his signal one of his men brought up a heavy metal
clamp and locked it onto her upper right arm. As the screws were slowly
tightened the inch-thick iron bands slowly dug into her flesh, pushing her
straining bicep down. A second clamp squeezed her other bicep flat. Now for
fun time. Another of his men brought out a tiny syringe and injected to
current date-rape drug of choice. In just a few minutes this black bitch would
be begging for him. And after he was finished his men would ride her until she
could not walk.

As he disrobed his men left the room. He liked to be alone when he took the
women for the first time. As he expected she eagerly took him into her, even
her cunt felt strong and muscular. Her first orgasm lifted him up in the air
as she arched her back. Though he weighed well over two hundred pounds she
effortlessly held him up. He couldn't tell what she was screaming under the
gag, but her tight fists and straining muscles showed her chemically induced
lust. He looked down and noticed that her bulging biceps were now slowly
bending the thick metal bands. This was one strong bitch! Her bulging muscles
felt almost as hard as his own!

She lowered her body to the floor and he began to ride her to a second climax.
As he felt her second orgasm build in strength he noticed that she was staring
at him with an odd look. Again she arced her back, nearly throwing him off of
her with the savage force. He heard two sharp metal "pings" as the bands
clamped on to her biceps burst open - her bulging suddenly biceps exploding in
size and hardness. This triggered yet a third orgasm and the skinhead leader
watch horrified as the muscular black woman tore free from the thick chains.
In a flash she had ripped her gag off and tossed it across the room, but
instead of screaming she grabbed his head and pulled him close for a lustful
kiss. He tried to resist but her strength was too great! When the rest of the
gang returned the black woman was gone and they found the gang leader leader
on the floor with nearly every bone in his body crushed and broken.

=====[ Dark Planet In A Dead System ]=====

The being had no name or body, though it remembered that it once had both. Now
it lived as part of a vast machine that had spread out over thousands of
systems. The expansion was slow, but it had time. Though it could not recall
how it had begun, it knew that it had lived for thousands of years. But in all
that time it had never been faced with a problem such as this. Somehow a
primitive people had turned a transporter into a weapon to be used against
him. The damage had been extensive, secondary chain explosions had destroyed
an entire wing of transport stations. It would take time to rebuild and
re-establish contact with the scout drones. Many missions would fail.

What made things worse was that this barbarian planet was one of the few where
physical evidence of his enemy had been found. Nearly three thousand drone
blanks had already been transmitted there, to take over this backwater planet
called Earth and begin real excavation. The enemy would be found and
destroyed. His scout drones were powerful but they had some limitations he had
yet to overcome. He knew what he must do. He would start production of more
advanced warrior drones and continue deployment of the biological solution.
Until they were complete he must conserve his resources. He had lost two
transmit stations and one receiver station. The locals must not locate the
remaining three teleport stations.

===[ Area 54 - Nevada ]===

"Here are the photos, General! As you can see there is a major deployment of
Empire and Earth Defense Force troops in this small area. The odd thing was,
we were notified of this BEFORE we were able to download these images from
space. We also received a complete tactical update and some technical
information about our intruder. It seems that they are called Bions, and yes
they are copies of a real woman. The Empire has been in a running war with
these things for hundreds of years, but we're the first planet to see more
than one. They report that the original was found and rescued." the
Tech-Sergeant reported.

General Granite looked up, "More than one? It looks like there are thousands
of these things! What the hell did they fight these with? Wait - let me guess
- it was that group of women that travel with Mr. Nelson. He did a good thing
at the UN, shut up a bunch of people that had no right judging the situation
AFTER the fighting was over. Hell, I read the classified report on the Empire,
they would have walked right on in and taken over Earth. You've got to respect
quick thinking, even if he did get damm ass lucky!"

"There's one more thing General, they also sent us information on an object
that the Bions were trying to get off the Earth. Sir, it is an identical match
to the artifact that our intruder had taken from secure storage! They are
asking if we have anything like it in our collection. What I don't understand
is why they don't just come here and take what they want. We couldn't stop
them!"

"Take a look at these photos son! Earth is at war again and these folks are
trying to keep a lid on things. That's why they are doing things through
channels like this. However, all they are asking for is that disk, right?
Fine, send them the disk. Did they give us any other information?"

The Tech-Sergeant held up a report, "The Empire has modified several weapons
that have proven effective against the Bions. We are going to be getting some
second generation weapons directly from them, bypassing the normal Air Force
channels. The President has signed off on that and given us special clearance
for these weapons as well as additional artifacts the EDF will be shipping to
us."

General Granite smiled, it would take months to repair the damage done by the
Bion, but the end result could be interesting.

=====[ Baker's Farm - Nevada ]=====

Sroghik led Gail down into the basement to where the captured Bion waited.
Gail gasped as she walked up to the motionless machine, "Oh my! Do I have all
of those wrinkles?" She walked around the Bion, bending close to get good
look, "This is amazing, it's like one of those out-of-body things! Though I
will say that I like the way I look now, all this extra muscle does makes me
look younger."

The Ivic-Icen female smiled, "Some men like a woman with a little muscle!"
Gail laughed as Sroghik nearly doubled in size as she flexed her now massive
chest and arms, easily filling her extra-large Hooter's shirt.

Suddenly the Bion lifted it's right arm and turned her hand palm out towards
Gail. Still laughing, Gail reached out with her right hand and pusher her palm
against her doubles. "I don't know if you should really be doing that!"
Sroghik was knocked down as a sudden burst of wind exploded from the Bion. A
blinding light, which was followed by a loud clang, stunned her for a moment.
As her eyes cleared Sroghik could she that Gail was still standing where she
had been, but the Bion was gone, replaced by a metal rod on the floor.

Kevin ran down the stairs to the basement yelling, "What the hell was that?
You made all of the lights blink!"

Gail slowly turned to face Kevin and smiled, "Looks like I got myself an
upgrade, sugar! Now I know why the Bions kill the people they copy, to keep
this from happening!" Gail raised her arms and flexed, her muscles grew in
size, though not as large as the Ivic-Icen warrior. Kevin reached out and felt
- steel - instead of firm or rock hard muscle, Gail had the feel of blood-warm
iron. "Help me little sister, show him how tough I am now!"

Sroghik glanced at Kevin and then punched Gail in the stomach. A soft thud
boomed in basement. Sroghik punched Gail several more times. "I can't hit any
harder, my hand is hurting!" Gail just smiled at Kevin and winked.

He looked around the basement and saw a sledge hammer, "Mind if I try my
hand?" Gail flexed harder, the shadows from her ripped abs grew deeper. Kevin
noticed that all of the wrinkles on her arms had vanished. He picked up the
sledge hammer - pulled back - and swung as hard as he could. He felt the
jarring impact as the head of the hammer smashed into her stomach and snapped
off of the shaft. He had a brief image of the head flying his way when -
suddenly - Gail had reached out and grabbed it in mid-air, "You do try hard to
impress me, don't you Mr. Nelson? Or should I say, Sir Nelson? Sroghik here
has been filling me in, Sugar." She stepped closer to Kevin until he could
feel the firmness of her breasts pushing him back against the wall. "I can't
do everything she can, I'm not built like she is, but I think I can do this!"
Suddenly Kevin felt Gail's breasts go from firm to steel hard. Though they
didn't increase in size, the sudden increase of pressure was painful.

Seeing his pained expression she quickly stepped back, "Oh Kevin! Did I hurt
you sugar? You're my knight in shining armor, I'd do anything for you! You
know that, right?" She stepped up again, this time her normal firmness, "You
just let me know, OK?"

From upstairs Hadina called out, "My captain, we've have an alert from Earth
Defense Command. They are calling for you!"

Kevin gently pushed himself out of Gail's embrace, knowing that even before
her enhancement she would have been much to strong for him to escape from,
"Can I get a rain check on that? Sounds like something's starting to happen.
Could be the Bions!"

As he made his way to the front room and the communication set, he saw that
Princess Yelotai was already there. "Sir Nelson, this is a very confusing
message. And I do not enjoy being confused. Please translate this for me!" She
thrust several pages of text that looked like computer printout at him. He
slowly read through the entire message - three times - and then sat down.

"How - how many ships did they send this time?" he managed to ask.

Hadina turned to him and reported, "BattleNet is tracking nearly six thousand
Ivic-Icen ships. No troop ships have been detected. These are all combat
ships, which include a large number of smaller craft of a design we have not
seen before. Though we have a much larger fleet available than we did before,
it seems that the advantage is theirs. We may have to consider their
proposal."

"NO!" screamed Princess Yelotai, "This is too much! Their demands are
impossible! We - we - can not do this!"

Gail Storm walked into the front room, "What's the matter Princess Yelotai?
Who is demanding what?"

"It's the Ivic-Icen, they've come back with a much bigger fleet." answered
Kevin, "Instead of being outnumbered three-to-one, we are now outnumbered
ten-to-one. Plus it looks like they've adapted to the tactics that beat them
last time. We have no choice."

"You can't do this," said Princess Yelotai.

Kevin smiled, "You made me a Knight Radiant of the Empire. Could I really run
away from this?"

"Sugar, you're making me worry. What do they want?" asked Gail.

"This fleet is here to take Sir Nelson back to the Ivic-Icen homeworld. If
they don't get him the fleet will attack and wipe out everything in the
system. He will go with them. And he will go alone. There isn't really a
choice," explained Panwoan.

===[ Ivic-Icen Fleet - Flagship - Command Chamber ]=====

Six hours later and Kevin felt totally alone. Which was strange considering he
was on a ship that held over fifty thousand crew. But only a few of the
Ivic-Icen around him spoke English and they seemed quite busy. A shuttle had
picked him up at the farm and brought him directly to the flagship. We he
boarded the ship he noticed two things, the ceiling was exactly two inches
short than he was and every female seemed to be in a contest as to who had the
largest breasts and muscles. The room that was assigned to him was larger than
he thought it would be, but the floor was much more comfortable than the bed.

All around him the crew spoke their native language, which seemed to fluid
bird-like quality. From time to time he would catch one looking at him, but
then they would quickly turn away. Kevin assumed that it was his fate to pay
the penalty for defeating the first fleet. He had been told that the ruling
council had ordered the fleet to come to Earth and return with him. All of the
puffed up muscle he was seeing must be from the anger and hatred the Ivic-Icen
felt towards him. The on-ship uniforms hat the females wore seemed designed to
show as much of their enlarged muscles as possible. They must want him to
realize how helpless he was, thought Kevin.

Most of the trip would take place in null-space, using a technology identical
to that used by all other known races, with the possible exception of the
Bions. During this time the view would be a dull gray instead of the pretty
moving stars he had come to expect. One of the females, named Bifuhik, started
a program to teach him the basics of the Ivic-Icen language. Since they had
three weeks and there was really nothing else to do, Kevin made good progress.
Finally he was able to ask, {Why do we do this? What is the purpose?}

Bifuhik stepped close to him, he could feel the heat from her expanded
muscles, {Your fate depends on the words you choose!}

===[ Bio-Survey Lab - Empire Scout Ship ]===

The lights from a thousand strange instruments give the large row a glow
similar to a department store Christmas-tree display. Two researchers take a
break from the around-the-clock survey to grab a half-meal and discuss the
latest findings.

"Are you sure that these test results are correct?" asks the younger
scientist.

"Yes, we have rechecked everything. A small percentage of the female humans we
have tested show a cell structure that was not in any of the earlier scans. It
is as if it were being introduced to the species even as we watch. But that
would be the pattern of a bio-weapon!"

"Have we identified what the new cell structure is?" asks the younger
scientist.

The older scientist explains, "Yes, and that is what worries me. It is a more
advanced version of the mesochandria that is found in the cells of female
Ivic-Icen. The human females are being modified on a genetic level to become
stronger! But it gets worse, besides the complex chemical which provides a
temporary strength boost, the human females will also be flooded with second
chemical which will increase their aggressiveness nearly a thousand fold!"

"That can't be! This means the Earth is doomed!" says the younger scientist as
he takes a bite of his PETA sandwich.

The older scientist remarks, "Yes, and Sir Nelson has already left the system
with the Ivic-Icen fleet."

=====[ Sunrise Apartments - Naples - Florida ]=====

Yolanda scrubbed herself clean until she felt her skin rubbing sore. Her head
pounded and her chest felt tight. She was so confused, the nightmare images of
her being captured by a bunch of drunk white thugs were mixed with her
becoming some kind of - sex monster - and nearly killing that big man. The
throbbing power still raced through her, it seemed to erase any shock from the
attack. She had always considered herself to be shy, except when it come to
sports, so her powerful lust scared the shit out of her. Why did she feel so
good, like she had just won a major sporting event? It must have been the drug
they gave her, but she had never read of any date-rape drug turning the women
into amazons! Even now, four hours later, she could feel that her sore muscles
were still nearly twice their normal size! She punched her stomach - it was
still hard as a rock!

She looked up at the clock as she heard her neighbor come home. After eight,
the nerd must be working overtime at the game company. He was sweet and smart
but Yolanda never dated white guys, especially white guys who were six inches
shorter than she was. And then there was the fact that he seemed more
interested in her biceps than her breasts. In the steam-covered mirror she
could she her that body was still very hard and very muscular. She turned off
the shower and dressed in clean clothes. He wasn't that bad, he did have a way
of making her laugh. That was more than she could say about most of the jocks
who were always sniffing around her. She smiled as she decided to go over to
his apartment. He was a guy she could talk to, maybe work out some of the
feelings that surged through her. She was very hungry right now, and maybe
later they would go out to get something eat.

<><><><><> TO BE CONTINUED <><><><><>

==========[ Silver Dreams Reference Section ]==========

BattleNet - The combined intelligence of all local Empire warships. It is used
to control the fleet.

Beashik - Female Ivic-Icen who was captured in California and brought to Area
Fifty-Four. It was lust at first sight.

Empress Bimaa - The seven-foot-tall ruler of the Empire of Worlds. Loves to
wear boots with six-inch heels.

Bion - Evil clone-like killer mechs with a chewy center. Sent on missions by
an ancient evil.

Destroyer Mech - They were originally created as defenders of a race long
gone. Fully independent, they have spent the years upgrading and searching for
a new planet to call home. They have been forced to raid systems for
replacement parts.

Grand Lord Marshall - The only full-male Ivic-Icen abroad the armada sent to
strip Earth of useful materials. As an average male of his race he is roughly
four-foot-ten and about as strong as the average twelve-year-old boy. He was
very aggressive and intelligent.

General Granite - Officer in charge of the ultra top-secret Area Fifty-Four.
Be sure to stop by the gift shop.

Hadhik - A well-endowed female Ivic-Icen who linked up with the same human who
stabbed her in the breast with an eight inch knife. After she proved herself
proof against 9MM bullets he proved that he was more than enough male to keep
her very happy.

Princess Hadina - Roughly two thousand years ago she was transformed into an
energy being and placed within the crystal matrix of a sword. Over the years
she has taught herself new abilities, including that of sending a part of
herself into other suitable metal objects.

Corporal Jackson - Fought an alien invasion in Iraq and came home to find two
new baby boys waiting for him in Texas.

Drew Jackson - While he worried about his younger brother serving in Iraq, he
never guessed that he would have to deal with an invasion in Washington.
Though he lost his favorite combat knife, he gained a very - flexible -
business partner.

Sergeant Major Moraines - A seventeen veteran of the US Marine Corps who
recently gained a new friend in Iraq.

Kevin Nelson - Our accidental hero with an active muscle fetish. He's an
average human who's read way too much science fiction.

Panwoan - A female Geenea, a race of telepathic plant-like aliens who can
display great physical strength and healing abilities.

PRN6 - An experimental combat mech from a canceled program. Kevin accidentally
says just the right things and flips her switch.

Dr. Reynolds - A human scientist studying the "other" UFO which was recoved by
the USAF during the 1940's.

Sslindar - A race of nomadic lizard-like aliens who just happen to be fierce
warriors with a strong code of honor. Their homeworld was destroyed by the
Ivic-Icen nearly a hundred years ago. Their race is scattered in several
fleets seeking a new home.

Sroghik - A female Ivic-Icen who freed herself from thousands of pounds of
debris after being brought to orgasm. She followed Kevin and talked her
sisters into surrendering to the human-led, and mostly male, defense force.

Gail Storm - Homecoming queen turned barmaid who was captured and turned into
a template for thousands of Bions.

Princess Yelotai - A member of the royal house that is currently running the
Empire of Worlds. She is a female Sarpeole, a race which shares some
characteristics with modern sharks. While it's not proper for her to crush her
enemies with her bare hands, she could

The Warlord - A really evil cross between Ming the Merciless and a tax
accountant. Get's killed. Or does he? Yeah, he does.