A growing boy has to eat to keep his strength up, doesn’t he?Oh, yeah. I forgot about the half dozen eggs and four English muffins I had for a night...cap before going to bed. Maybe Mom had a point when she complained about her grocery budget.“We are gathered here today to recognize exceptional effort by one of our own during the recent flooding that threatened most of our homes and safety,” the Principal started off.I wondered who he was talking about, but pushed it to the back of my mind as. It was no longer a case of uniformed members of the military attempting to influence and control the actions of disorganized civilians but a cohesive unit of survivors with a decidedly military core of trained professionals.The headquarters unit appeared to enjoy their work and the screams of the female prisoners brought sharp looks from the disgusted fighters under his command. He allowed it to go on for almost an hour and then sent Corporal Sandy into their tent to ask the leader to meet with. "Ingrid, do we have any communications from the three visiting ships? Anything at all?" No," she replied. "They haven't sent any messages. And the damaged they did to the sensor network means that Diana can't get a close scan of them at all."I had pulled both skates off. I reached down to the bottom of my jersey top and was about to pull it up when James put a hand on my shoulder. "Meiko, get to our transporter station by the command post. We might need to teleport someone and I don't want to. “You look as if you're expecting to get some of this,” she observed. “Well I was kind of hoping, maybe.” He looked at Ashley, naked from head to toe and doing nothing to cover herself. “Not a good idea. Mom and Dad are due home just any minute now and I don't think they'd be too thrilled to find you boffing your stepsister.” Ashley stated it as a simple fact, not letting on that she too was disappointed. She felt compelled to add however, “And no, I don't need help with my shower.” Brad might.