WARNING: THIS STORY OF PURE FICTION CONTAINS EXTEMELY ADULT THEMES OF VIOLENCE, GORE, REJECTION OF AUTHORITY, SACRILEGE AND BLASPHEMY, AND INTIMATIONS THAT VERGE ON PEDOPHILIA. ANY RESEMBLANCE OF ANY CHARACTER TO REAL PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL. FURTHER, I DO NOT ENCOURAGE OR SANCTION EITHER VIOLENCE, DESTRUCTION, ABUSE OF AUTHORITY OR OF AUTHORITY FIGURES, OR THE SEXUAL USE AND ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN ANY FORM WHATSOEVER. THESE ARE FANTASY FIGURES WHO COULD NOT EXIST IN OUR REAL WORLD. IF ANY OF THIS OFFENDS YOU OR IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE IN YOUR LOCALITY, OR BELONG TO ANY HOTHEADED RELIGION THAT INDUCES YOU TO COMMIT VIOLENCE AT TO DEFEND IT, THEN DON’T READ THE FUCKING STORY. THE REST OF US, ENJOY. PLANET JASON By Chip Masterson The president paced the mock oval office and tried to pop his ears. Over a mile of solid granite rose above him and no matter what he tried, he couldn’t equalize the pressure. It made him surly. “I can’t shake this feeling of cowardice,” he told his aide, “hiding down here while people are left up there to fend for themselves against that sadist.” A four-star general, the country’s first commander-in-chief since Eisenhower flexed his fists and wished there was something to punch that wouldn’t cry like a baby. “Sir,” his nervous little aide said, “your daily broadcasts of strength and hope do more for the people than going up and being killed would. People are banding together and keeping the faith because you’re still alive, every day.” Of course, Jason hadn’t visited the US since his demolition of the former NORAD facility in Colorado. Traveling south to Antarctica at mind-boggling speed, he stopped to shove a few glaciers into the ocean and fuck with sea levels before swimming to Africa and working his way north. From there he branched east, hungrier to destroy the intense religious devotion of the Muslim world than by the feeble resistance slack Europeans offered. And the havoc Jason’s irresistible domination caused, from village to city, was more gruesome than anything the world had ever seen, from suicide bombers driving into him, only to come and praise his name in the instant before death, to others diving before the suicide trucks to protect him as if he needed it. Immolations and honor killings, mass suicides and equally mass desecrations of the Quran and various holy sites by naked, cock-stroking mobs stunned and shattered every social bond. When Jason destroyed the Dome of the Rock and grinding the rocky outcrop to dust with his flexing butt cheeks, live on Al Jazeera, the city went up in flames – but not before he pulverized the Wailing Wall to dust with one fist, and filled the Holy Sepulcher with jizz, drowning an entire convent of nuns driven to masturbatory death frenzy in the act. Iran and India both responded with nuclear blasts on Jerusalem, but Jason was not a casualty; by then, he was at Mecca, where crushed the holy meteorite by flexing it bits between his forearm and biceps and slaughtered many of the pilgrims by crushing them to death, hundreds at a time, in various crowded places. But then he disappeared, and seemed to be spotted everywhere at once. It made the president anxious. “Are you certain those broadcasts cannot possibly be traced to us?’ the president asked, lighting a cigar. “Impossible,” the aide assured him, almost cockily. “Even we don’t know where we are. Twenty-five facilities, each with eight identical bunkers radiating a mile off a central mine shaft a mile deep, each bunker fully stocked for five years. Broadcasts radiate by means of long wave radio that bounces off the earth’s core – same as the warning system should any facility be breached – so the signal is too big to pinpoint by the time it surfaces. The entire world’s linked supercomputers could spend a year working full bore and never find us. We’re as safe here as on the dark side of the moon.” The president chewed his stogie and wondered how good Jason’s hook shot was. Could Jason hit a target on the far side of the moon? Did he like risking it? “Let me see that report again,” he barked, jutting out a thick hand from the end of a thick forearm blurred with tattoos and veins. “I don’t understand a goddam word of it. Can you give it to me in English?” “It’s an statistical analysis we’ve pieced together out of the last data to come out of the … Black Hole Monitoring Facility,” the aide said, paling at the memory of what had happened there, “collated with reports from the Black Hole itself. Our teams are all over it - turns out there’s no other defense than Jason himself, and no one offered any resistance.” “What is it, some kind of bug, a virus, that infects these people?” The aide gulped. “No evidence of pathogens was found – even ordinary illnesses seem to be rare. After being … Jasoned, those who survive never get sick. They may starve to death because call they want to eat is his cum, but…” The aide shuffled his papers and added, “As a side note, nothing extraordinary was found, no elements that might suggest any sort of exogenous origin for Jason.” “I said English.” “From outer space, or the future, or any of those theories. The only odd thing.…” He gulped again, but didn’t want the president to bark at him any more, so he forged ahead. “Everything was coated in a thick layer of semen. Some of it still tacky, even weeks later.” “Then it IS a disease. Some kind of AIDS.” The president got that confused-and-angry look that made most of his staff wear Depends as a matter of policy. “No sir. It’s a matter of will. Jason’s will is simply stronger than anyone els—I mean, anyone he’s ever met yet,” the aide stuttered, not wanting to offend. “They say – the ones still capable of thought and speech, that is – they say his mere presence forces you to doubt everything you’ve ever believed, even who you are, and when he turns his attention to you, you cannot resist him. His will dominates yours, more than humbles it – erases it, replaces it. Most of the time by his mere presence. The stink of his semen bears the memory of his will like ‘a voice in your blood’ – that’s how everyone describes the smell. It commands them to obey.” The president glowered, not liking his use of the second person, but not wanting the kid to waste any more time crapping himself. “So can these people be – reprogrammed?” “We’re not sure. The compulsion is stronger than heroin. The damage done depends on how strong your will is to begin with,” the aide explained. “The weakest people turn into a kind of drone, a zombie fit for manual labor – farming, factory work, trash collection. They don’t seem capable of independent thought but are able to function enough to keep things going, milk cows milked and harvest crops. The most strongly-willed he corrupts before he kills them outright. Those in-between become a kind of sexual harem, personal slaves and overseers of the drones, some incapable of doing anything but weep without him. But they can talk at least.” The president nodded; this was the case with the few survivors in Colorado. “What are all those charts about?” he asked, waving at the report. “Extrapolating from what we’ve seen, the Jason-dominated area functions like a hive. Only instead of a queen, Jason is the regenerative force – the only procreator. All other males within the zone ceased mating – they masturbate and either eat their come or offer it to Jason by smearing it with his. No known woman has survived the mating experience – either killed by the act, process, mortally sickened by the sperm or drained of life by the embryo before it’s viable. “So that’s what he came out to look for,” the president realized. “Someone strong enough to bear his children.” “And force everyone else to stop,” the aide concluded. “We’re looking at an extinction event the human race hasn’t seen since before the last ice age. A new Super-Adam and his world of supermen.” Both men shuddered involuntarily and sat silently a moment. “What about the children already there? What has happened to them?” The aide flipped a page to jog his memory. “Jason doesn’t seem to care one way or another about children. Some got collected into camps by the drones, others wander in feral packs. He’s not interested in them until sexual maturity is fairly advanced.” Of all things, that seemed to be a kind of relief, at least. “So this Son of Hercules theory, we think there’s meat to it?” the president asked. The aide nodded, “It’s the only theory that meets all the facts so far. A random, centuries-later coupling recreates the original genes of some prehistoric superhuman hero-warrior, mutated by 20th century radiation and other chemicals, resulting in rampant hyperplasia of muscle tissue with no upper limit on the accumulation of strength and mass – not gigantism, but via super-saturated density, from muscles down to blood vessels, membranes, even cell walls – denser, heavier, stronger, yet still capable of normal, even superior, functioning. No limit,” the aide repeated, absently rubbing the nub in his pants, oblivious to the drool dropping onto his shirt, “until he becomes a kind of mini-planet, or living black hole. Spitting out the occasional violent energy squib – or child….” The president was barely listening, his mind drifting into visions of a world with no future, humanity replaced in one generation by a new breed of man. Like the Neanderthals. There had to be some way to stop him, some weakness … his pride? So far he’s been able to back up all his boasts, and had no known sentimental attachments. Maybe if he looked at that footage again… THUMP THUMP THUMP. Three short quakes rattled the facility and the president’s first thought was, ‘At least I know we’re on the west coast.’ But nothing more happened – that’s when the sirens went off. “He’s here! He’s here!” voices screeched and men panicked everywhere. “How did he find us?!” someone screamed. “We thought he was in Kashmir!” The president’s next bark died in his throat as his chief of staff broke in his office, a look of stark fear on his face. “We have to get to the vault, sir. Now.” “How the fuck did we not know this?” the president bellowed. “We can sense him coming a hundred miles away!” “Somehow he crept up on us – the satellites show nothing, we had no readings of any sort. He was just suddenly here! And it sounds like … he’s knocking.” THUMP THUMP THUMP. As if on cue, the quakes came harder, knocking things off shelves. The president turned on the aide and snarled, “You said all the world’s supercomputers would take a years to locate us!” The aide’s face drained of blood and his mouth hung open and the president felt a brief flush of prided that he could still do that to men – until he realized the aide wasn’t looking at him, but staring into the distance. Shaking him harshly, the president yelled into his face, “How could he find us? Who’s leaking information?” “He must’ve – I don’t – I can’t – Ooohhhhh!” The aide pissed himself blubbering. “Air cover! We need air cover!” The president ordered. “Already done, sir,” the chief reported, “666th Fighter Wing out of Waco is closest – we’re in Texas, sir – and they aren’t called the Old Reliables for nothing. Rendezvous in three minutes.” “What about the other facilities? Has he already hit them and we don’t know?” The aide snapped out of his fear again, clinging to the flotsam of his expertise. “No reports, sir, the longwave’s silent.” “Then how did he even know where to find this facility, and to pick this satellite bunker, out of all the eight?” the president marveled. “How did he come down right on top of us?” “What’s he waiting for?” the chief asked. ‘The bombers,’ the president thought. “Get satellite coverage of this area and the CAG on the line,” he ordered. Tension built as they waited for the fighters to arrive and the president realized the satellite photographs would come too late – all they’d show is aftermath. The loudspeakers crackled and everyone heard: “This is Champ, CAG of the 666th ORs and were are T-minus—HOLY CRAP!” An explosion obliterated his voice for a moment and the CAG came back on the line. “Something just shot from the surface straight through the body of the bomber carrying the nuke and kept going. The bomber’s breaking in half and falling, and – what’s that? Sir, we cannot find the target, repeat, we cannot find – JESUS CHRIST!” Gunfire erupted over the speakers, spurting epileptically. Another explosion, and then another brought frantic voices until finally the CAG’s voice broke through, thick with emotion: “Bogie IS the target, repeat, Bogie IS the target, this is confirmed. Target is reported to have snagged the nuke from the bomber when he tore through the fuselage and then hocked the bomb into space. Kermit, what you smoking? Could you confirm – wait, shut up! Target touched down to earth and relaunched, fuck he’s fast – faster than we are! He hit Springer, landing on the cockpit and crunching it in a bearhug, shattered glass and blood before the plane blew up – the explosion flung him high and he caught hold of Mike the Spike’s wing, which he wrenched off in mid-air – then kicked off the cockpit, crushing Mike in his seat, and shot straight at Kermit. Kermit tried pull up but he was too fuckin’ fast, man, target clamped onto the underside like a starfish. He’s too fuckin’ heavy, Kermit can’t handle the load. He’s punching holes in the body and ripped wiring and oil lines out. He’s – oh my God, he’s grabbed Kermit through the underside, and – oh, fuck, he ripped off a leg and pulled it through the hole – he’s reaching in again – an arm – the other leg – the plane’s spiraling but he’s kicked off again! He can’t fly but he’s sure making hash out of my squadron.” Another blast drowned out everything else and the president looked at the monitors, which showed a scene out of the London blitz, with fireballs in the sky and planes in chaotic positions, half of them shooting at the other half. The CAG’s choked voice resumed: “Gentleman Dan fired off two missiles but Jason caught them under his arms and rode them – pulled them, somehow – into a loop and – Good Christ, Dan is down, Dan is down. The explosion propelled Jason – unharmed, again! – straight into a hail of gunfire which has no effect, repeat no effect. He’s back down on the surface but off again like a goddam flea! Evasive maneuvers, evasive – Christ! He’s chasing us, hunting us - he’s so fuckin’ fast – CHRIST he’s got Iceman by the nose – FUCK HE JUST PUNCHED INTO THE COCKPIT – I’m gonna vomit – it’s like it’s in slo-mo, Jason reached in and tore Iceman out of the seat by palming his helmet, then he squeezed the helmet like styrofoam, his arm rippling and the helmet collapsing around Iceman’s head – he spasmed as brains and gore shot out of the cracks - and now – OH SHIT PLEASE GOD NO NO HE’S COM—” Silence. “Champ! Champ!” Silence. They only had satellite images of Jason flashing by, now riding a fighter and bending it backwards, now preventing missiles from launching off a wing and exploding in place, now deflecting bullets off his chest back at the pilot. Some of the fighters broke off to flee – expanded satellite coverage showed them exploding one by one, Jason obviously hurling missiles or bombs from mid-air at speeds faster than sound. The dry scrub of the plateau soon was littered with the flaming wrecks of the entire 666th Wing. THUMP. And Jason, bloodied and unbowed in the crater he formed with his own weight and power. Blackened by the soot of the explosions, the baked-on blood flaked off as he flexed and balled his fists together. The president’s jaw worked as he ground his teeth and suddenly he barked, “Nearest silo? How fast can we get a payload here?” The silence deepened and people realized what he was willing to do. “W-we have no warheads trained on this facility, sir,” the aide said. The nearest silo … fifteen minutes to reprogram, five to launch and,” he muttered, punched numbers into a hand calculator, then looking at the ceiling and counting, “six minutes to get here.” “Half an hour. Get it started. He can’t possibly get down here in half an hour,” he president said, “unless he finds the main access shaft.” “As soon as the air rout began,” the aide said, “I implemented the failsafe: all access shafts have filled with fast-drying concrete - solid.” “Failsafe?” the president glowered. “How are we supposed to get out?” “We have enough food and water to last five years – well, if there were only fifty of us.” The aide looked sideways cagily. “We may have to make some hard choices.” A blast that felt like an H-bomb’s little brother rocked the facility and knocked everyone on his ass. A new voice crackled over the speakers. “Th-this is Whorly McBeater, SkyCopter 1 for local WHAK-TV. The smoke’s pretty bad up here but it looks like this Jason feller just punched a hole in the ground. Not much topsoil here, ground sorta cracked open like a spoiled egg.” “McBeater, this is the President of the United States.” “Holy hat fulla crap!” the crackling voice came. “Honor to meet ya, sir!” “How did you get this frequency?” “Piggy-backed off the air traffic, Mr. President sir. Didn’t know it was you.” “Listen friend, McBeater, if that’s really your name, you are in serious danger. Leave our airspace immediately,” the president ordered. “Sir, with all due respect and freedom of the press and egg cetera,” McBeater said, “This is the hottest story in the world right now and we have an exclusive. I’m not about to – what the – what’s he doing? Gimme that!” A crack-clap sound that made you want to run and hide filled the bunker. Like lightning cackling when the storm center was overhead. But of course that was impossible. They were under solid rock. “What do you see, McBeater?” the president ordered. “Holy Jesus, I ain’t never seen muscle like that on man nor beast ‘n I been on safari in Africa. He reached into the crack he made like he’s lookin’ for something – God, look at the way the muscles ripple and flow, bunch and grow, then grow again – back, arms, shoulders - then BAM the crack actually LENGTHENED ten, fifteen feet in either direction. Like he pulled it open with only his muscle. Straddling it on his knees, and appears to be doing something to it again--” KKKKURRRACCKKKK! “Holy cow! It just split open again, wider and longer and--” KKKEEEERUUUCK! “God almighty, three times! It must be a foot wide now, and a hundred feet long, or more! He musta slid some kind of bomb or device down there – Jed, see if you can get a close-up of that--” KKKKAAAAARRRRAXXXKKK! “Jesus God in Heaven, we can right down and there’s nothing in there! He’s ripping solid rock apart with his bare hands! Look at those muscles bulge and gleam with sweat!” Every time that gut-wrenching sound happened, the facility shook like a dog’s toy. Dust sprinkled down from the swinging lights and everyone stared at the ceiling with green, queasy faces. The president could imagine those big, thick arms, veins pumping over knots of animal brawn, jerking the earth open and cramming tons of solid rock sideways. But he knew where they were now, this was one of the largest expanses of granite in the state – no oil wells, little vegetation – just hard rock for hundreds of miles. They were literally land-locked – how much damage could he really do? Could he … could be break that lock? With his muscle? “Every time his back expands, so does the crack in the earth,” McBeater said shakily when he came back on the com, dropping the hick act. “A vast plain of muscle ripples and humps and widens, and the vast plain around him rips open, forming humps and bumps farther along, rock forcing up through the surface like bone splinters where the building pressure fractures the schist. It’s wide enough now that he can fit in sideways – he drops down but the recoil clamps the rock back against his chest – oughta pop him like a cherry but instead his thickness stops it – oh no, his arms, he’s using his arms! – he’s bench-pressing the rock away from him, forcing the crack to lengthen, rock to tear – it’s impossible! “The surface all around explodes with rock strata driven to the surface by Jason’s super-tectonic power. Now he’s bracing the crevasse open with his legs and turning sideways, one hand on each wall, like Hercules – and oh shit, that’s what he’s gonna do, I don’t believe it! Oh, heaven help you all, heaven help you all!” “What is it, man?” the president shouted hoarsely into the mike. “He’s working his way down! Like some kind of unstoppable spider! His head’s disappeared and the crack’s wider than ever – the deeper he gets, the heavier the rock, the greater the spring- back pressure – the earth doesn’t want to obey him, it wants to close back up - watch it tremble with the strain of fighting him, the entire surface in both directions popping with unrelieved tension! It’s rumbling now, marshalling more force as he wedges himself deeper, doubling its compression stress – but Jason, my God! Jason commands it, look how he fucking commands it! He demands the earth open for him and it can fight, it can buck but it cannot resist his authority! It has to give in, knuckle under his insistent dominance. It has to break itself apart, and look at the quakes registering! They’re racing out like waves, tremblors of frustration and fury radiating out in every direction!” ‘Like he’s fucking the planet with his whole body and Earth is helpless to resist,’ the president thought. ‘Its asshole just gets split open wide and wider, agonizing to take all of him but helpless to push him back out.” Half a dozen aides rushed in with long printouts. “Sir, I’m getting a report of an earthquake in Dallas--” “Dallas? No, Houston--” “El Paso--” “Corpus Christi--” The president looked around in growing alarm. “How big?” “Don’t know, sir, they’re--” “Ongoing, sir--” “They haven’t stopped yet, sir--” “They’re not stopping! They’re not stopping!” They just keep shaking harder and harder and longer and longer!” The staticky voice of the reporter drowns out the chorus: “The horizon is one big scrim of dust everywhere – below, he just be a hundred feet down, the crack is easily that wide and more – and he just keeps penetrating deeper and deeper – Look at that! His arms broke something loose and the ground slid ten feet – set off a quake that’s knocking down everything far as we can see….” “Sir, we’re getting reports from Albuquerque--” “Sir, a tsunami was sighted bearing towards the panhandle at 40 knots--” “Sir, Mexico City is reporting--” “Kansas City--” “Chicago registering a 3.4 no, 3.6, no 3.9 --” More static, more McBeater: “I can barely describe what I’m seeing – we are right over this Jason’s canyon – it must be a quarter mile deep and miles long - the earth trembles before his might and cowers from his arms – over there – in the distance, huge acre-sized portions of rock are starting to island off as deeper fissures meet – a dozen sinkholes and twice as many new hills have been born – the sound is so horrible, it sickens your soul – it grows and grows, the pressure down there must be intense but Jason shoulders it back with manly brawn, meeting and doubling it back…” “Sir, five oil rigs in the gulf have foundered, spilling--” “New Orleans has disappeared – swallowed up by liquefaction!” “The Mississippi is flowing BACKWARDS from St. Louis on--” “He’s churning the Gulf like it’s a goddam kettle of clams!” the president moaned. A screeching sound razored through their ears as the reinforced steel walls began buckling. Concrete failed as some unseen hand unzipped cracks in it while they gaped. Looking around in alarm, the president watched the steel bulkheads warp like softening rubber, the pressure groan reminding him of a sub sinking to the bottom. His security detail arrived – last chance to get to the Vault. He saluted grimly and staggered across the bobbing floor behind them. Abandoning his staff with a sick heart, the president ran crouching as the ceiling crushed lower and lower – machines began to spark and die as the collapsing structure squashed them. The earth staggered out of control around them, roaring like freight trains colliding and exploding all around them, but still the president’s fine ear could pick up the news copter narrating their doom. “It’s so wide now the sun is actually shining down into it – yes, get that shot, with the telephoto we can pick him out, he’s over half a mile down but crack is almost that wide – which means if he succeeds in breaking his way all the way down, the rocks at the depth of the current crack will have been shoved nearly half a mile away from each other – Godlike power – Huge masses of granite break free and shake into boulders that rain down upon him but they don’t affect him any more than the air strike did, shattering against his shoulders and then crushed to gravel by the shivering recoil when slides farther down. But he – he cannot be crushed, he cannot be stopped, the weight of the earth itself cannot smash him, he proudly holds it back with hands strong enough to make Atlas weep with envy. The arrogance of his muscle, shoving a whole planet around at will! Who could stand up to him? Whose God would dare cross him? He’d make God his punk, his fuckin’ punk, he’d fuck God in half and--” A new voice broke in: “Gimme that camera, yer comin’ all over it--” They reached most hard-core vault within the complex, the ultimate in presidential security: steel walls eighteen feet thick on every side and a door more like a plug or cork of Swiss cheese than anything else – it had to slide down and then in, and was secured by staggered rows of bolts four feet in diameter – and the president wondered if even that could withstand what was coming for him. Powerful stabilizers studded every side along with bores and shovels designed to survive the most violent natural or surface atomic strikes, then work its way inexorably back up to the surface through the rubble. It looked like a giant squat robot. “Or a really pimped-out coffin,” the President muttered as he was sealed inside. Except the soldiers had trouble securing the vault – the constant shaking had thrown the narrow door, out of whack and it took fifty men heaving as hard as they could to realign it enough to slide in. Once it caught, tractors pulled it home and the bolts shot through. Even with the stabilizers going full throttle it was hard to stand up inside. Jason’s violent manhandling of the Texas bedrock had continued for so long the damage couldn’t be calculated. Data feeding into the vault made him sit hard into the chair bolted to the floor. He didn’t need a news copter to narrate for him how Jason was fucking up the entire continent. Having splayed open over three-quarters of a mile of solid granite, Jason tirelessly kept penetrating the earth open like an back-alley trick. A Hercules reborn and on steroids, his sneering muscles were rearranging whole eras of geological history with merciless brutality, at levels so deep new faults formed where the earth’s asteroid-hardened crust couldn’t take it anymore. These triggered older faults in violent chain-reactions as the continent struggled to release the crippling pressure his pecs and shoulders heaped against it, rendering the Richter scale incapable of measuring these ferocious tectonic convulsions. Already Jason’s bulging triceps had obliterated the record for the world’s fiercest quake, 1994’s ten-minute Sumatra quake, by doubling it and continuing unabated. With pure will and the beef to back it up, Jason bulldozed hundreds of cubic miles of earth inch by inch and foot by foot with distressing thrusts, then flexed his abs and lats and insisted on more room, compelled it to compress if it had to, shatter if it had to, so long as it got out of his way. With his pitiless legs securing every inch, he lubricated the newly parted crack beneath him with a steady flood of cocksnot. Even as the door was being set into place, the smell had crept through the hairline cracks and begun corrupting the will of the soldiers with an unslakeable, vampiric hunger for it and only it. The president saw their reddening eyes, clenching abs and burgeoning loads. He imagined Jason’s smirk as he felt the earth’s puny revolts batter themselves against his implacable hands, then quiver and slink away from him. The president heard the structure outside the vault crunching around him like a cracker box. Steel designed to withstand the pressure of a mile of granite buckled and creased under the relentless punishment Jason dished out, cubic miles of displaced rock desperate to escape into any cavity. He couldn’t hear the cries of all the brave, orgasmic soldiers and scientists being crushed to death like ants beneath Jason’s boot, but he imagined it anyway, to honor them: the ceiling and walls bending into them like some Hercules movie, but without Hercules to rescue them: quite the opposite. He tried not to imagine how they’d rub their cocks against the ceiling and walls that squeezed them as if they were Jason’s killing arms and pecs and abs, their bursting organs and veins as orgasmic as their spewing dicks. But he couldn’t resist picturing it – somehow the smell, THAT smell of Jason’s macho and ass-sweat, defeated the vault’s filters and invaded his sanctuary. And somehow, the thought of the men embracing death with orgiastic ecstasy rather than terror, somehow it made it … Better? No. Impossible. It isn’t better to die in the grip of self-pleasuring abandon, your mind and soul full of nothing but thoughts of His majesty. It was the worst self-betrayal imaginable. The president tossed his head back and forth, struggling to resist the insistence of that taint-scent. He had to face Him in full possession of his own mind and soul, and not enslaved with longing to curl up inside His armpit and be crushed to blissful oblivion by Jason’s careless stink. The smell of burning silicone followed an eerie sound through the vents as the stabilizers failed against Jason-generated pressures and concussions. The groaning turned deeper, grinding horribly and the vault shivered - something shifted, eighteen feet of steel seeming to flatten incredibly, impossibly – and the ping of stress fractures deep within the steel walls. For the first time claustrophobic terror gripped the president’s heart. He might survive long enough to stare down this muscle terrorist face to face. The entire vault crimped down half a foot, the steel rippling inward, yet everything shaking so violently the president would get battered to death leaving the chair. He fired all the excavation pistons and drills at once, trying to break up the rock before he got squashed, but Jason’s power flattened the bores and shovels before they could do any damage, his exertions beyond the capacity of any element to withstand. All the president heard was the fizzling grind of engines burning out. He was totally trapped. He looked down at his sidearm, and felt the call of the semen anchor his hand, preventing him from robbing the Master of his due. His lip curled as he mustered the will to fight that all-pervading scrotal stench. His gnarled arm trembled. Then his ears popped. ‘Huh,’ he thought, looking up. Like the pressure was … lessening. How could that be? The whine of succumbing steel ceased – and the rattling changed as well, carrying an echo as if the cavern had actually gotten bigger. A few of the stabilizers still worked and with the relief, were able to bring the vault to the gentle bob of a commuter train. But the black-hole roar of seismic calamity grew louder, meaning Jason was now manhandling a linear mile of rock in each hand, his arms of power wrenching the planet wide like ripe fruit. But somehow, something was holding it away from him. For a brief moment, he considered perhaps the real God did exist, and would save him, before realizing it was just a fluke of the disintegration that could not last. Then the heavy vault door began to creak. The entire area had been compromised so he had no hope it could be opened – except he didn’t hear the motors trying to open it either. Huh. The creak warbled into straight-out moan of torture, as if something had hold of it and was trying to rip it out with main force. Despite bolts four-feet thick running through and through. It had to be Jason – he had to be here. That the quakes continued meant he’d overloaded the rock strata with so much voltage it would take hours to shake itself out. Hours? Days, weeks even. The earth might seize and spasm for months from Jason’s cruel strength. The president wondered what the death toll on the surface was – whether any structure at all was left standing from Mexico City to Juneau, or whether, like tornados, the quakes had been only localized. Then he remembered the tsunamis rushing out to overwhelm Florida and Cuba. Jason, this living man, this macho God, had done more damage than the biggest comet ever to hit the earth from outer space. And he wasn’t done yet. So the President gripped the arms of the chair and winced as the power trying to dislodge the bent and bolted vault door turned into fierce tugs that challenged the stabilizers anew. The entire vault lurched as Jason dragged it across the floor. The ceiling began to change – to tent upward near the door, as if Jason’s mighty hands were deforming it to get a better grip. Just as the president was about to stand up, the vault began shaking more violently than it ever had during the worst of the quake, shaking and slamming up and down, it’s fifty tons like a dog toy in the muscle beasts’ grip. Chunks of steel ripped out from around the bolts, and remorseless hands yanked the four-foot-thick bolts out through the opening, bent and twisted with savage fury. More chunks tore out from around the bolts and sparks sputtered and flared. Finally, with a deafening, indescribable metallic howl, a series of harsh jerks wrenched out the last of the bolts and with it the final chunk of steel. It blasted free and careened against the boulders and rubble on the far side of the cavern, a pile of torn metal boulders and eerily coiled pieces like robots frozen in agony. The president’s belly lurched as he stood to face his enemy. He braced himself and dashed on jittery legs past the jetting steam and sprays of oil and water, practically collapsing when he was free. And there, before him, stood – someone else. Someone not Jason. Someone smaller, almost … child-like. Like a perfect child, a pint-sized bodybuilder of heroic proportions yet impossibly young. Just standing there, barefoot, in cut-off jeans. ‘Or ripped- out,’ he thought. “Who the hell are you?” the president barked. “Name’s Aaron,” the kid said. “I’m Jason’s son. Mr. President.” As if to prove it, he pointed sideways at the pile of steel chunks in a way that made his biceps ripple with tiny veins. He clocked a look to make sure the president noticed, and added, “I’ve been told I have abandonment issues.” The president gaped – gaped at his audacious statement, gaped at a child’s arm that suddenly exploded with titanic muscle, gaped at the complex density of muscle fibers covering this man- boy’s body like webbing. Every muscle gathered and flared as if some huge 400-lb bodybuilder’s musculature had been reupholstered onto the frame of a 15 year old boy by some mad scientist. Yet the muscles worked together so smoothly they couldn’t be the result of engineering. They gave no impression other than being utterly natural. As of that’s what we all were meant to be, all along, and had somehow fallen short. Shaking his foggy head, the President said, “But Jason claims – all our intel shows he’s at most nineteen years old. How could he have a fifteen--” “I’m eleven,” Aaron said with a smirk, enjoying the look of awed stupefaction he caused. “Look, Dad’ll be home in no time – good thing you never launched that tactical nuke, you’d only toast yourself and he’d be long gone.” “How did you know--?” “For now,” Aaron said authoritatively, “tell my Dad you did that.” He jutted his arm at the balled-up door and took a moment to admire the way his biceps popped up from his extended arm; he rotated it around so it looked like a zeppelin docking in a high wind. “I’m gonna duck into your closet here and take back the element of surprise.” The president heard himself say spontaneously, “Yes, sir,” before the kid’s arrogant smile jolted him back to himself. “Sure, kid, I’m game,” he added, thinking, ‘I’ve always been king of my world but I am out of my depth here.’ The ceiling cracked, gravel raining down and bouncing on the vibrating floor. The sound of deep rock exploding under pressure yielded the bright, vibrant splitting of granite made and the president’s short hairs rise. Immediately, a sticky drizzle of briny cockjuice matted them back down and gooped into his hair, falling in greasy blobs onto his uniform. The smell overpowered him at first and he swayed with vertigo as his pants sprouted a 4x4 load-bearing beam of hardwood and his asshole puckered, wet and slimy, like some autonomic self-lube response. The president hated his body’s betrayal and the deeper core of longing the odor of that essence aroused in him. The ceiling split open, fissuring along the tops of the chamber’s walls and grinding back across them. The president expected a blinding light but something huge blocked it. He stepped away in case that boulder fell through – except it wasn’t a boulder. It was Jason, pumped and pumping, inserting his hugeness where granite used to sleep. It took a moment to register but then the president could make out the gargantuan thighs and high-standing calves bracing and bursting dense strata, arms like John Deere tractors bullying it back while it rioted impotently against hard hands, pecs like world-record pumpkins growing before your eyes as his arms spread wide, and lats flaring like a wedge to crack the world in half. He watched in awe how the massive walls of granite rebelled like the clamping jaws of a dying beast, and how Jason’s blood-engorged, sweat-drenched muscles broke their power and forced obedience to his will. And riding before everything like a conquering tank rose the arrogant arch of his manliness, his bottomless cumsac fueling its constant gush and drool. He’d never imagined that organ could be so majestic, so terrifying, so fucking BIG – like a medieval weapon or war, or torture. A battering ram to shatter actual fortress walls. ‘Not to mention my ass cherry,’ he thought, feeling something run down his leg. The valley of bedrock cowered away from its master in a V as high as the sky. Nearly a mile wide at the top, it stretched from horizon to horizon, as vast and deep as the Grand Canyon. And dwarfing that perspective rose Jason himself, twisting and wreaking his will and leaving a scar that will never heal. Then, finally, with a grin of hard-won triumph, Jason roared with victory and gave a final goodbye shove that sent each side accelerating away with such force the implosions deeper in the earth sounded like war. He dropped down to the floor of the cavern, crushing a crater that opened a split that ran through the president’s legs. He rose to his full height to display himself to his prey. The president’s guts twisted to be in such proximity to Jason. He could feel the singing power radiating off the muscleteen’s body, his muscles still flexing and twitching as they cooled down from their miraculous feat of brawn. Working his pecs and rolling his shoulders, his virility flooded the president’s mouth with drool and fired every synapse of submission and desire, awaking in the mere normal man urges he’d never dreamed were there. But when Jason cracked his neck and turned his handsome, unforgiving face to the president, his full lips curled in a smirk that said, ‘I know the effect I’m having on you, man, and you’re powerless to resist it Give in to my excellence and worship this.’ He popped his pecs rapidly, eyes gleaming with cruel delight as he watched the president of the United States press his fish into his groin, knees quivering, spittle overflowing his jaw. He worked his muscles a few more times so the president could try to grasp how supple they were, how ready. He scratched his head so his biceps would crowd his arm and the president whimpered in envy and yearning. For a moment, rational thought left the president and, like a puppet, he felt his body fire and twitch in response to Jason’s hypnotic movements, as if his nerves had been hotwired directly to individual parts of Jason’s physique. For the first time ever in his life, he knew what it was to want another man more than his own life. And wondered how he had lived his hollow life until this blessed moment. It was like he could feel his soul bending towards Jason, striving to leave his body and merge with Jason’s shadow, wanting to devote itself completely and eternally to following such masculine perfection. But something else inside him struggled to pull it back, to keep it, to remember who he was. The tug-of-war continued with wrenching agony as the president felt his strength fading against the unyielding demands of Jason’s birthright. He realized how so many people gave in to him. He was too much, on every lever, to resist. He could turn your mind to mush if he wanted to by just standing there, glaring into your eyes, daring you to maintain your identity. You’d have to let it go because he claimed everything as his due, everywhere around him. Either you give your self to him, or he takes it. And you don’t want him to do that. Oh Christ on the cross, no. Slowly, the resistance of the entire continent ground Jason’s last punitive thrust to halt. Yet motion didn’t cease – the canyon walls continued to twitch and convulse epileptically, throwing down little avalanches of stone. Sunlight blazing into the cavern gleamed off Jason’s sweat- drenched musculature. It took everything the president had to puff out his chest, point to the chunked door without letting his hand tremble and say, calmly and evenly, “I did that.” Jason laughed, a huge booming sound that filled the cavern as if it too could burst the walls apart. “Did you now?” Jason asked. Pointing non-chalantly up with this thumb, he said, “I did THAT. You’re a hard man to reach, Mr. President. Fortunately,” he added, tapping a finger against his obdurate, distended biceps, “I’m a harder man.” Following the president’s gaze, his fingers felt the underside of the muscle belly, letting his thumb run over the peak. The president shook his head like he had water in his ears and tried to fix his gaze on Jason’s nose, to avoid those eyes and that body of literal death. “I wasn’t about to let myself be trapped by you,” he said. “I’ve never hidden from an enemy in my life and I’m not about--” “Tsk tsk tsk.” Jason shook his head disappointedly, and the president felt a gulf of desperation open inside him. He marveled at how many levels Jason’s dominance operated at once. Jason looked at him coldly and said, “If you massed every computer ever invented together, I’d beat it, outsmart it, just like I did today in finding you. So don’t think I’m stupid enough to buy a sack of shit and call it a man. You’re a sack of shit, and you didn’t do that. So what did? You have some secret weapon, some robo-soldier for me to master and kill?” Jason didn’t look around; he crossed his arms in front of his chest and cocked his head to the side, drilling his eyes into the president and forcing him to look into them, his overwhelming magnificence stubbing out every instinct toward self-preservation. He smiled, relishing the sport of humbling a strong man’s confidence and pride by simply standing there. He liked it as much as he enjoyed physical slaughter. Maybe more. ‘Because the death of the soul is the only true death,’ the president remember his father saying one bright summer evening after a smashing Little League defeat. ‘The body will rise again on the last day, unless there’s no soul to inhabit it; then its dust will be forgotten. It’s the soul that matters.’ Feeling his soul getting lost in those deep, limpid eyes, he knew Jason wanted to kill his soul before he destroyed his body. The only victory he could hope for would be to deny Jason that. And sweat broke down his spine at the mere thought of denying Jason anything. “What, you don’t know about our secret weapon?” the president asked, feeling heady with rebellion. “I thought you had us all figured out.” Jason made a throat-clearing noise, the same one he himself used to instill fear in underlings; it really worked, he realized with prickly dread. “I don’t crack every secret in your little insect world,” Jason said in a weary tone. “I don’t need to. But if I have to go searching for whatever did that, it’ll just piss me off. More. And even though smearing the desert with your air squadron and then body-fucking the planet to get to you, the country’s prostate-in-chief, took some effort--” (he smirked to show his contempt for the damage he’d caused) “—I’m still man enough to best whatever your scientists could make with their erector sets.” He cracked his knuckles expectantly; it echoed like rifle shots. “They didn’t make me,” the kid called out from inside the ruined chamber. He walked out and popped his pecs, adding, “You did. Pops.” The president felt Jason’s attention leave him – completely. A icy sense of isolation enveloped him, like lost in a dark place. That too explained so much about the Black Hole. Jason scoped out his adversary with an electric, predatory lust. He sized up Aaron’s dangerous strength with jubilant expectation – finally! a half-decent challenge. His hands hung open at his sides as his body swelled and relaxed. “Nice try,” Jason said dismissively. “You’re too old, number one; and number two, no one’s ever survived, not mother or brat.” “Clear the cobwebs from your Alzheimer’s old man,” Aaron answered. “Once upon a time there was a babysitter. She’d seen you at her high school, a third grader smarter than their top students or teachers, who also broke every athletic record in the course of a single day – all those records still standing, of course. She’d heard the horror stories – expelled, home-schooled, parents unable to find anyone willing to baby-sit. They were your first prisoners. But she wanted you. She wanted you bad.” Jason’s face darkened terribly. “I raped that bitch.” “She saw how important that was to you, so she let you believe it. But that’s why she was there. To get you inside her, feel your strength, and make another one just like you.” Aaron took the offensive now, smiling and inching around to Jason while staying just out of reach. “At eight,” he continued, “you weren’t at peak maturity. Your sperm made her deathly sick, but she survived. The family moved away, and I nearly sucked the life out of her but she held on at least until I was tired of being cooped up and ripped my way out of her belly, crawled across the room and ate the first thing I could catch, bones, fur and all, dragging her corpse behind me by the umbilicus. I think it was a cat. She left a journal that told me a lot, once I taught myself to read at eight months. I’ve had what they call socialization difficulties. You could imagine.” If Jason had any feeling other than rage, it couldn’t break through to the surface. His rage held him and the president thought, ‘I wonder how old Jason was when he learned to read?’ “Where? Where did this happen?” Jason asked. That he didn’t know seemed the biggest insult of all. “Nova Scotia,” Aaron said. “Her parents took care of me for the first few years but they were terrified of me. As was only right. I destroyed their house in a tantrum when I was two. Brick, fieldstone – leveled it. Police said they died in a gas explosion but really - I was ready to cut out on my own and I couldn’t leave them behind as witnesses. Now could I?” “How did you live?” Jason was enraptured by the story, even though his face twitched with each new detail. “Elk, caribou. Not raw. I could tear apart a tree and make a fire in no time. I loved bringing down my first thousand-pound elk. Since I was only two, I don’t think it even noticed me. Until suddenly I held it kicking over my head and pulled its spine apart with my bare hands. That first winter I went north and lived off polar bears. Terrified the Inuit to see a naked toddler chasing down a fleeing bear and choke it to death, then proceed to flay and butcher it with my fingers. I would’ve shared but they stayed away and really, I needed the meat. I knew if I was going to find you and win your approval, I’d have to be a lot bigger, and stronger.” “Not there yet, kid,” Jason growled. Ignoring him with a smile, Aaron continued. “When I did come down to see what you’d become – a voice in my head held me back. Said it wouldn’t be a hugs moment. So I watched. Watched from the edges and filled my gut with bear meat. My body was spreading out too – I could eat a juvie grizzly in one meal. I loved crushing their ribs with my thighs while my thumbs pressed down into their skulls. I loved the way they fought and screamed. I imagined it was you. Every time.” The president smelled the testosterone arcing between them like Tesla coils. They began to circle each other, still at the greatest distance the ruined cavern would allow. Jason’s jaw worked and the president wondered if maybe, just maybe, this kid was stronger at a younger age than Jason had been. Was that what kept Jason from attacking? “You got off that bus a few stops early, sport,” Jason said threateningly. The kid laughed, raising the temperature in the room near to boiling. “I coulda whupped you a year ago, but not in that hick queendom of yours. I wanted to do it in public. That news copter up there will do. Not to diss the president.” “Why, kid?” the president asked. “Why was your first thought to kill your father?” “Because even if she wanted it, that doesn’t change the fact that he raped my mother. She gave her life protecting me, but what I inherited from you couldn’t protect her from me. I didn’t want to kill her – I just wanted to stretch out and eat something. When I realized she was dead, it was too late. So now it’s payback time. And believe me, the genes I got from here combined with yours? I’m like you squared. And I’m only getting started.” You’re getting ended, pipsqueak,” Jason said through gritted teeth. He grabbed his balls and squeezed, and heavy cum oozed out of his cock’s hungry mouth. “Believe me, there’s plenty more where you came from, and I’m not sentimental.” “Mental, maybe,” Aaron replied. Without another word, Aaron ripped open his jeans, exposing a stained jockstrap straining to contain his pendulous junk. “I keep mine on a tighter leash,” the kid added. “But believe me, in this cock fight? All bets are off.” The president felt dirty staring at him. After all, despite the physical maturity, muscle power and the murderous nature of his father, he was only eleven years old. Except he wasn’t a kid – he wasn’t at all like any other kid in the world. He was a new thing, in his own league and master of it. Super genius smart but thinking like a kid – a wild child who lived by his own strong arms alone. The worst of combinations. Jason’s face didn’t betray anything but his breathing sped up. He jerked his thumb at the sky and said, “So far, just a lotta talk out of you. I just did that. What did you do, that?” He sneered at the door. “I was breaking safes when I was seven and vaults when I was nine. Kids’ stuff.” “You’re right about that,” Aaron said. “Except these arms burst their first safe when I was five, and I blew my first vault at seven. In winter. From the inside. After tunneling up through the permafrost and concrete so quietly I never set off a single alarm. At least not until I pounded that big vault door outa the wall and took most of the wall with it.” “Sounds like you could use some discipline,” Jason said, eyes glinting. “Daddy’s gonna take you behind the woodshed for a word of prayer.” “You ain’t taking me nowhere, old man,” Aaron said, rearing back cockily and pointing at the top of the vault. “If you’ll notice, the rock was bearing down and crushing that tin can there. I stopped that – stopped YOU – and shoved the rock back up ten feet. Which is where it stayed. You moved it down and out, but I moved it back up against you and there wasn’t nothing you could do about it. Bow to your new master. Pops.” Aaron made his pecs danced behind crossed arms and despite being half Jason’s size, radiated such power and authority that even Jason checked his impulse to spring on him – the president could see his tense muscles twitching for release. Despite his threats, Jason didn’t move. Aaron rolled his tongue against his cheek, and said, “Like that? I know you--” But Jason was gone. So was Aaron. When the president could focus, Jason’s fist careened into the wall of the vault, where Aaron should have been. The eighteen-foot-thick steel dimpled nearly two feet from the blow and the vault skidding back into the wall. Aaron was behind him and, wrapping his arms around Jason’s sinewy waist, crushed in and heaved Jason into the air as if to slam him backwards against the floor. Except Aaron miscalculated Jason’s mass and staggered under the unexpected weight. Before he could regain control, Jason’s feet came down in a crippling strike that ought to have shattered Aaron’s legs. Instead, Aaron grimaced and, holding tight, used that momentum to slam Jason’s handsome face into the cavern floor. Jason kicked again and propelled Aaron hundreds of yards up the side of the new valley. Aaron twisted and used the rock to propel himself back down like a bullet, only Jason moved away in time and Aaron crashed into the floor, his fist blasting granite dust in a cloud. Jason dropped into the crater and when the dust cleared, the president saw he had the boy in a scissors hold around the chest. Those thighs were almost as thick as the boy himself was at their widest – and Jason squeezed them with cold-blooded cruelty. Aaron coughed and gagged and flailed his arms in a way that seemed almost comic. Blood gushed over his chin and air wheezed into his mouth. Then he started laughing, unable to maintain the straight face – he’d bit his tongue on purpose, for the effect. Jason sneered and flared his quads, bringing continent-cracking power to bear on the boy’s pecs. But Aaron kept giggling, and then grabbed the upper thigh with his hands – and pushed. His triceps bloomed and Jason grinned, grinding his thighs together. Then Jason’s grin hardened into a frown of effort – and it was Aaron who was grinning. Aaron’s arms rose, pressing that powerful thigh up off his chest and filling the space with diamond-hard boypecs. With a look of rage, Jason braced his arms and squashed his quads together until it was stopped by those pecs. Jason mashed muscles, the strain thickening his neck, quads grinding – but they didn’t give. Then Aaron pressed the leg back up again and said, “Two.” Like he was counting reps. Jason tried to lock his ankles but Aaron wouldn’t let him: he let them almost touch, then pressed them away. Toying with the bigger man. Jason reared up against his arms and Aaron exploded up, smacking that huge quad into Jason’s face. Slinging Jason into the air with fingers that pinched deep into muscle, Aaron began spinning him like an airplane. Faster and faster until he approached cyclotronic speeds, when Aaron let go Jason hit the granite at three Gs, plowing a shaft that blasted dust and rock back into the chamber. A concussive crack snapped through the facility – Jason, bracing against the rock to stop his trajectory. After a tense few seconds, a blur shot out of the hole like a rogue planet. A blur that Aaron stopped cold: taking no more than two steps backward, Aaron held Jason at arm’s length, his two smaller hands grappling with his father’s fist. The president gasped at such power. Aaron’s pecs striated and his arms twisted as he grinned with malice up into Jason’s stunned face. And the president heard something unbelievable: Jason’s impregnable bones cracking. For the first time in possibly ever, Jason’s face registered surprise and the first hint of fear. Triumph spread over Aaron’s face, his shoulders bunched and back humped, and grinning widely, he crushed Jason’s hand, broken bones gouging into his flesh. Sucking air, Jason’s arm bulged to yank it away but Aaron laughed and doubled the pressure. The air filled with the sound of obdurate bones snapping like rifle shots and Jason’s massive lungs struggling to inhale through his confusion and shock. Panic and terror broke across Jason’s face as he desperately struggled to pull away. Aaron savagely tugged him forward so hard Jason stumbled. Now utterly in control, Aaron sneered and bent the broken hand back so hard the wrist fractured through the skin, jetting blood. Holding in back in one hand, Aaron brought his elbow down on Jason’s forearm with a nauseating SNICK, driving the big man to his knees. Jason screamed. Utterly ignorant of pain until that moment, his body filled with wildly spinning terror, inflamed by being trapped by this boy, this man, this creature of unknown and – can it be possible? – superior strength and ability! Howling through the agony, Jason flailed his broken arm but Aaron prevented it moving. His free fist impacted the side of Aaron’s face with dynamite force and the boy was knocked off balance a moment – but recovered faster and snatched at that fist. Jason pulled it away, frightened of its power, and tried to bat or push Aaron off his shattered arm without getting caught. But Aaron was always slightly quicker and blocked every attempt, giggling again like he was playing with a puppy. Finally he caught Jason’s hand and their fingers interlaced, Jason using his superior size to overwhelm the boy and try for a crushing first squeeze. Aaron winced and struggled, losing precious inches as Jason bore down on him with desperate strength. But the cords stood out in Aaron’s arm as his grip tightened, Jason realized he was completely trapped. Helpless. At the mercy of a kid half his age and size. A kid with no mercy for him. Aaron savored his victory, moving Jason’s massive arms in circles. Tauntingly, he said, “Clap if Aaron is stronger.” Then he forced Jason to clap with shuddering pressure, driving his hands together. “That’s two for Aaron. Now, clap if you think Jason is stronger.” And he spread both their arms apart, the one dripping blood and the other spasming to contract against the might that held it splayed wide and vulnerable. “Once again, clap for Aaron?” Clap. “And for Jason?” Stretch. “Looks like all the votes are in, old man. Two for Aaron,” and here he crushed harder into Jason’s hands, “and none for you. With one abstaining.” Aaron looked at the president, and said, “I promise to get your vote before the campaign’s over.” Jason roared in pain and humiliation and struggled to stand. Aaron controlled him, pressuring him back into place. But Aaron enjoyed himself too much and discounted Jason’s recuperative powers, now fueled by torment and rage. Jason shot to his feet and lifted Aaron clean off the ground. He swung around and slammed Aaron into vault, creasing the dense steel. Then he twisted and spun and slammed him into the other side, collapsing it further. A vault built to withstand a mile of rock was being battered flat by these two muscle men. A third strike made Aaron let go. But not give up. Aaron ricocheted off the ground and leapt onto Jason’s back, encircling his waist with his long wrestler’s thighs and linking his arms around Jason’s throat in a full nelson – they’d never fit around his lats and chest. Aaron clinched his legs against those abs and tried to force Jason’s head forward. Jason’s neck and traps bulged to stop those arms, giving way slowly to their incredible strength. His good hand, sore and swelling but unbroken, scrabbled at Aaron but his own bulk got in the way. Aaron whispered into his ear, “Weaker than your own sixth-grader son. That’s gotta kill ya. I’m not even a teen yet – just wait ‘til those hormones kick in.” He clamped his body tighter, making vertebrae and ribs creak. “Maybe I won’t kill you,” he whispered. “Maybe I’ll let you be my slave bitch.” Jason struggled, nearing exhaustion from his exertions, but Aaron held him in his crushing embrace with merciless boy power. He kept taunting in his ear. “Bet by the time I’m thirteen I won’t even have to make you lick my feet. Coupla years, you’ll be so intimidated by me coming home you’ll squirm on your belly across the yard – in front of everyone – to see to my needs and make sure I’m happy. I won’t even need to beat your ass around the town when I’m not. All I’ll have to do is look at you cross and twitch my pec and you’ll piss and shit yourself and roll in it, weeping with fear.” His arms shook as they pressed Jason’s chin down into pecs and slide higher for more crippling leverage. “By the time I’m fourteen – Christ, imagine me at fourteen!” His quads peaked and fractured a rib and then pressed harder into it. “All I’ll have to do is look at you hard to make your heart beat so fast it’ll pop. ‘Course, by then, I should have to power to bring you back. Imagine that – you won’t even be able to die to escape me. Imagine waking up hoping you’re in hell, then realizing you’re still my property and I ain’t done using you yet. Imagine that – I can kill you whenever I want, by strangling you, crushing you, squeezing you, or beating you to a bloody pulp, then with the sheer strength of breathing my lifeforce into, raise you from the dead. And I’m only fucking fifteen! And you’d be what, 23? 23 dude! Think how long you’ll have to worship your god as he gets bigger…” Squeeeeze. Crick. “…and STRONGER …” Squeeeeeeze twist twist squeeeeeeeze. Snap. Stagger. “… and more macho than you dared dream possible.” Aaron’s musculature rippled across his hulking back and out his surging lats, his arms and thighs pumping to sizes that could rival Jason’s. Tossing his head back, he brought paralyzing force to bear on the teen musclebeast, each muscle instinctively seeking a weakness it could pursue. Jason’s body jerked with explosive bursts of power to break free but Aaron’s kid muscles encapsulated him in an unyielding death grip. “Face it,” Aaron said with a sensual smile. “I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be and I’m still a kid. The man I’ll become is more than your mind can grasp. Now say uncle.” The president could see the boy’s corrugated abs contract as he constricted his father. But Jason wasn’t done. He roared a strangled squawk and slammed back into the vault. The huge steel crate collapsed dented beneath them, the last of the lights insider flickering out. His quads exploded to press Aaron into the steel but it caved around Aaron’s iron back with a horrible groaning. The interior had vanished, and now 36 feet of steel stood between the two men and the bedrock. Jason pressed harder, forcing the steel to spread sideways behind them. Aaron yawned loudly and released Jason. As the brute muscleteen expanded his body to shake off the memory of those strangling arms and legs, Aaron his feet square against the small of Jason’s back and wrapped his hands around Jason’s neck. Arching like a cat, Aaron began bending Jason backward. The giant’s abs strained and failed to counter this new onslaught, spasming sickly under the skin. Aaron whooped to feel the bigger man’s spine lose against his superior kid muscle power. He smiled at his own bulging muscles as they rippled beneath his creamy smooth skin. Jason staggered forward, sensing that if he fell, the boy might somehow seriously hurt him – even kill him. Aaron had nearly bent Jason in half before the teen muscle beast accepted that he’d more than met his match. The president, distracted by his throbbing prick, nearly missed the look of utter despair in Jason’s eyes, a look that said, ‘I cannot beat him. He’s stronger and better than me at everything. And I’m helpless in his hands.” That crushing realization detonated rage in his chest so strong it overcome his mental collapse. A being of hulking thoughtless rage, Jason roared himself upright. Aaron huffed and strained but he couldn’t maintain his advantage against this new onslaught of power. Jason flexed every muscle, not to intimidate but out of total fury, and the fibrous balls and peaks and footballs of brawn seemed bigger than anything humanly possible. Jason’s back swelled and with a violent shake, he flipped Aaron off his back and around the front. Aaron twisted to come face to face with Jason, digging his knees in against Jason’s ribs. Jason brought his arms down against those legs and squeezed with diamond-creating pressures, trapping Aaron even as Aaron threatened to break his ribs. Fixing his father in the eye, Aaron pursed his lips in a way that forced Jason’s cock to spurt come in spasmodic jerks. Then Aaron wrapped his arms around Jason’s head and pulled his face into his own pecs, bearhugging it. Jason’s muffled bellowing sounded strange to the president, and so did the sickening sounds of skull plates shifting against each other. Jason tried to chew his way out but Aaron anticipated that and flexed his abs and pecs to keep Jason’s jaw shut. His triceps and shoulder bloomed red, the peaks of his biceps digging hard into that skull even as Jason struggled to pull away and rained resounding blows that only glanced off the boy’s tight hard body. Blood from Jason’s ears and nose squeezed out around Aaron’s laboring arms. His legs clamped more tightly against the bigger man’s ribs, making them bend and sing. Jason’s animal furor sank into choked gagging as Aaron’s tireless boy muscle slowly broke him down, muscle for muscle, mind against mind. He sank onto knee with a sound almost like whimper, the blows he drove against the boy’s back now almost slaps that did say of ‘uncle.’ Aaron kept whispering into his ear, “This is how you die, old man. In the loving arms of your faithful son. Arms that can crush you to death, and wad you up like kleenex. These are what arms are, what a man’s arms are, not those puny, fragile flippers you have. Feel--” (FLEX) “—what power is, FEEL--” (FLEXXXXX) “what arms are, FEAR” (FLEX FLEX FLEX FLEX FLEX) “what real arms can do to you when you’re so weak and puny to resist them, ADORE” (SQUEEZE CRACK SQUEEEEEZE SPLINKTPOPOPOP) “these strong loving arms of your master son, killing you.” Jason shrieked as his mind buckled under the totality of his helpless confinement, just as his brain was mashed by the boy’s terrible biceps. With a strangled screech of wounded desperation, Jason gripped Aaron’s neck in his catcher’s mitt of a hand – and pulled. And pulled. And Aaron felt his grip weakening, his biceps trembling and losing the tug-of-war. Screaming with the Herculean effort, Jason peeled Aaron off his body – but Aaron had one final inspiration. He shoved his hands into Jason’s open mouth. And pulled. “You like breaking things open? See how you like it, then,” Aaron said. Jason’s neck bullfrogged with the effort of closing his mouth, but Aaron pulled himself closer and conquered Jason’s jaw. “I’ll turn your throat into my cockpuppet until it splits open from my manly size. Because you know it’s what you’ve always wanted. But never had the guts to take.” A nauseating crack shot out and after a moment of silence, Jason’s squeal of pain practically deafened the President and started avalanches in the new valley above. Aaron pulled hard, yanking the broken jaw farther down until blood spewed out, gushing bright red. Jason’s screams blew sprays of blood that coated Aaron’s terrible muscles as wrenched the jaw back and forth, as if to tear it clean off. Jason’s fist came down on his head so hard it cracked like a rifle shot and Aaron fell the floor. Instantly Jason fell on him, pinning the boy under his knee and smashing his good fist over and over into the boy’s face. But Aaron kept laughing and laughing, hysterically giggling, each piledriver more ticklish than the last. With a final drowning bellow and full-body flex, Jason howled his defiance to the world and, using the boy’s body as launch pad, leapt off into the sky. Still laughing giddily, Aaron scrambled to his feet, shook his head and spit blood onto the floor. The president could see massive bruising already blooming over his body, damage Jason managed to inflict which Aaron pretended not to feel. His face in particular was swelling, promising two black eyes and a potato nose for awhile. Somehow, like with some boxers, it made him even more beautiful. “Sure,” Aaron said, his voice hoarse and grainy, “but you should see the other guy.” The president laughed, despite everything, and the kid grinned. “And you could, if he hadn’t run away from me.” Flapping his elbows like a chicken, he said, “Begawk!” Then he rolled back his shoulder and stuck out his chest proudly. “Guess we know who the new alpha male on the planet is.” “All due respect, kid,” the president said, “he’d just completed a labor of destruction unparalleled in human history. You were fresh. And he only had one good arm.” “Because I’m the dude who broke his other one,” Aaron shot back. “Something all your tanks and missiles and bombs and planes couldn’t manage.” He flexed his biceps, extended his arms to spread them like well-fed hogs, bunched them into monoliths. “And I don’t think Hercules is the right myth. Think Beowulf.” “Beowulf?” “Sure – huge monster breaks into the hall. Beowulf, a man among men but a quarter of Grendl’s size, wakes, leans up on one arm and with the other, grab’s Grendl’s monstrous arm and won’t let go. He rips the bigger arm off with one hand, still lying down. Then, taking his time, he hunts Grendl down in the monster’s own lair – the bottom of the sea? That’s no obstacle for Beowulf. He barges in and kills Grendl. Just like I’m going to do.” The president regarded him as both crazy and terrifyingly sane. “You think he’s going back to the Black Hole? Idaho?” “Yup,” Aaron said, nodding in a cocky, sure way. “I literally blew his mind. He’ll go back to the only place he feels safe. And I’m gonna take my time, so his fear can grow from day to day. He can know what it’s like to be doomed. Before I teach him more than he wants to learn about suffering.” Knowing there was no way to stop Aaron from doing what he chose, win or lose, the president opted for the simpler question, “What about me? Kill me? Make me a cock-puppet?” “Naw, you’re a sport, for a geezer,” Aaron said. “Besides, you might come in handy as my beeyatch. Think you can wrap your arms around my neck and hold onto my back without creaming all over me, you fuckin’ perv?” He grinned to say, Don’t deny it, I know you want to. The president felt a flare of rage and disgust – that kind of filth had never entered his mind until … until today. But the tent in his pants told a story he couldn’t deny, and frankly, was powerless to retract. So he said, “You’re so unlike any other boy as to be something different. Something new.” “I bet every pervert tells himself that. ‘The boy was in charge, Officer, HE molested ME..’” Aaron had him there. All the president could do was look at the floor in shame, where his inflamed manhood betrayed him, and say, “Never before. And I firmly believe, no other, ever.” Sidling closer, Aaron said, “Because of why? Because … I’m ‘special’?” He grinned insolently, enjoying the torture. He cocked his arm before his chest, making the peak jut out like some jock giving his date something to thrill to as she cupped it in her hand to walk at his side. “Suck it. Go on.” And to his shame, his pant-soiling shame, the president of the United States bent over and sucked that huge hard kid muscle until he passed out coming. THE END chipmasterson@yahoo.com