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Counter Earth Chronicles

Chapter 85: Corbin (You Needed Me Part One)

Day 293 (evening)

Citizens of the empire! It is with relief and elation that I am pleased to announced that the dissident rebel who brought about the six weeks of fear and dread across the five cities has been captured!

This heinous individual who wanted to exterminate my creations thereby threatening my rule and undermining my works and all that has been created, has been eviscerated.

The Neo as he calls himself, has been judged and will receive the living death for the twenty seven lives he took at Counter Earth Cosmetics, the fifth-teen lives at the High Rise Hotel, the ten lives at Star Bank, the nine-teen lives at the World Three Arena and the five lives at Warwick Castle.

Let his end serve as a reminder to all who oppose the empire! My empire! You will be found, you will be captured, you will be judged and you will be punished! THIS I COMMAND!!!

"The master is in rare form tonight!" I said as I cuddled my bear.

"He is entitled pet. He is denouncing his critics and solidifying his rule." My she beast said as we finished watching the special broadcast on her communicator from within her chambers.

"So, did he thank the knight core especially those from Wundagore Castle for hunting down the Neo?" I asked as my fierce ursine warrior put her arm around me and pulled me in for a hug.

"Not exactly Alex. His reaction was more like why did it take six weeks and sixty- six lives before he was eliminated?!"

(Wow, some people are never ever happy.)

"Well in reality it was much more than that mistress. He was actually testing his abilities. If he hadn't been stopped he would have hidden and chipped away at the empire for the next thirty four years undermining the High Evolutionary and allowing the rebellion to finally win."

My fierce ursine warrior momentarily turned away from me to drink some orange juice.

"Sorry pet, you were saying?"

"After the rebellion won, they exiled the dictator and installed Seth Slice as the new ruler. He would go on to initiate a reign of terror, hunting down every first class citizen and bringing beastials to extinction. So in reality the knights not only saved those here and now, but also future generations as well."

My she beast listened as she continued sipping orange juice before returning her cup to the night stand.

"Still have have that bad taste in your mouth?"

"Yes pet, Seth Slice. Nothing I do seems to get rid of it."

"Well mistress, you didn't have to maul him repeatedly."

"Remind me never to bite rebels again, they leave a nasty after taste." My warrior bear said frustrated.

"Did you try mouthwash?" I asked her.

"Umm Hmm."

"What about rinsing your tongue?"

"Affirmative."

"Flavored drinks?"

"I am doing that now pet."

"Then there is one other thing you can do." I said smiling at my lover.

"What is that pet?"

"You just need to replace that nasty taste with another, perhaps I can help."

"I would like that!" The brown bear growled as she threw me on my back and we kissed bear snout to human lips.

Day 295 (morning)

"Morning Bess, Tess, Dongo how was your week?" I asked my consortium colleagues.

"Quite productive." Bess beamed.

"Really productive." Tess added.

"How so?" Dongo asked.

"I got to play match maker this week." The female buffalo calf admitted as we started our weekly meeting via the hub. "I have two friends of mine that secretly liked each other. But neither one would admit it to the other. So I got them to start talking and they decided to go out on a date and guess what?!"

"Yes?" Bess, Dongo and I asked in unison.

"They became a couple!" Tess exclaimed.

"Great work sis, but I can beat that!" Bess said. "I was shopping yesterday I ran into a teenager who was seeking work. He couldn't have been more than fourteen of fifteen!"

"Why would someone so young be looking for employment?" Dongo asked.

"It turns out he was trying to support his mother who was too sick to work."

"Chronic disease?" I asked the male buffalo calf.

"Yeah. So instantly he became the man of the house- in addition to his education he had to support his mother."

"That is a lot of responsibility for someone so young." Dongo said.

"Well, I got him a paid apprenticeship with a few connections of mine. He is now learning a trade in addition to supporting his mother!"

"What was the trade?" I asked.

"Electronics!" Bess smiled proudly. "He is studying to becoming a hub technician. In a few years he may be coming for you Dongo!"

"Great work you two, but I have you beat!" The hyena said.

"Oh really?" The buffalo calves asked.

"Three nights ago I helped a suicidal woman. She jumped a knight here in World Two and grabbed his service weapon. She then aimed the weapon at herself and fired." Dongo said. "She claimed that her life was full of nothing but misery pain and suffering and she wanted out."

"Those weapons don't work like that. They will only work for those who are allowed to possess them." I said.

"Exactly. She was shocked when it didn't go off. I was walking by when the knight was about to take her in. Instead the knight and I sat down with her and talked. The woman had lost her mate and brother the previous week in a hover vehicle accident and her job that week- her time off to bury her relatives was not allowed; so she had lost everything that had mattered in her life and had nothing left."

"Oh my gosh what did you do?" Tess asked.

"I was able to find her stable employment with a better employer. The knight found her a support group to help her through this horrible time in her life."

"How is she doing now?" Bess asked. "Better the hyena said."

"Amazing Dongo!" I said.

"So Alex what did you do this week? And where have you been the last three weeks?!" My colleagues asked me.

"Uh, I was traveling." I said to the hyena and buffalo calves.

"So soon after starting that new job?" Bess asked.

"Must be a nice place to work!" Tess added.

"Actually, I don't work there anymore." I replied sheepishly.

"How is that?!" Bess asked.

"I was actually helping the knights with a case there."

"You were undercover?!" Dongo said looking at me curiously.

"Yes, and by the way I got you all beat!"

"How is that?!" The hyena asked.

"I helped the knights take down Neo- Seth Slice."

"WOW!" The three said collectively.

"You mean the individual that was responsible for the killings at Counter Earth Cosmetics?" The male buffalo calf said.

"And the two other businesses across Counter Earth?" His sister added.

"That is correct, I, uh well, gave them a tip- they got him two days ago and it was not easy." I said.

"How is that?" The hyena asked.

"When they raided his hideout he was ready and waiting for them and even after they had captured him the knights had a difficult time transferring him back to the castle."

"WOW." The hyena and buffalo calves said in unison.

"But he has finally been captured so everyone can breathe easier."

"Yeah, we saw the master's broadcast last night." Bess said.

"Great week everyone! That brings us to this week's new business." Dongo said. "We are still looking for members in Worlds Four and Five."

"I noticed that you didn't say anything about World Three." I interjected.

"Oh we have an interested party." Bess said. "We just haven't had a chance to interview them."

"That is good news guys." I responded. "It has been slow but the movement you have created is growing."

"It is a shame though." Tess said.

"How is that?"

"We could have used someone like Seth, his talents were amazing."

"Perhaps. But there is one big problem, Tess- the guy hated beastials and the High Evolutionary. He would rather have killed all of you then help the consortium." I said candidly.

"Remember mass killer?" Bess said teasing his sister.

"Which is even worse than the rebel who killed our father." Tess said.

"How are you two?" I asked.

"We still miss him every day." The male buffalo calf said.

"The pain and the loss will never go away. But it will ease with time." Dongo said. "Which reminds me, we have a project for you Alex."

"For me?" I asked the leader of the Consortium for Mutual Coexistence.

"Yes." Tess said. "We are helping a cub who was orphaned recently try to find a new home and family."

"It has been consuming a lot of our time this week." Bess said to me.

"Ok, where do I come into this? Let me guess you want me to help you search for a suitable family?"

"Actually no Alex." Dongo said. "We want you to cub-sit him until we can find one."

"So you want me to foster a cub?"

"Just until we can find him a new home." Tess said to me.

"Besides, you now have a lot of free time since you finished your training!" Bess said grinning.

"Hmm... I better get permission first. Mistress!"

I had to act quickly as my she beast was about ready to head off to work.

"MISTRESS?!" Dongo, Bess and Tess said in unison.

"What is it pet?" My warrior bear said entering the great room.

"PET?!" Dongo, Bess and Tess said in unison.

And so....

"This is your someone special Alex?" Tess asked.

"Yes, I live with a Knight of Wundagore." I said to the consortium members.

"Uh, how did that happen?" Bess asked.

"She adopted me." I said candidly.

"When did that happen?" The hyena asked.

"It is a long story." Lady Ursa said addressing the monitor. "Dongo is it?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Tell me about this fostering project you have for Alex." The bear warrior said addressing the three on the viewscreen.

"We have been trying to help and orphaned boy- Corbin try to find a new home and a loving family." Bess said addressing my she bear.

"How does Alex come into the picture?"

"We would like for the two of you to watch and care for him while we search." Dongo said addressing my mistress.

"How did he become an orphan?" My bear knight asked the hyena.

"Remember the Liberate Counter Earth Now movement?"

"Vividly. They had that sonic weapon they used to attack beastials." I said.

"They came to prominence after the attack at the Space Museum in World Four." Lady Ursa added.

"Well Corbin and his family were there the day of the attack. Corbin survived, his parents, grand parents, aunt, uncle, and cousin didn't." Tess said.

"Oh my gosh!" I said.

"He was captured by the group and was held prisoner before he was rescued." Bess said.

"He has been to counseling over what happened to him and he is trying to move past this horrible moment in his life." Dongo said. "But the first part will be to find a new family."

"How old is he?" My she beast asked the hyena.

"Eleven."

"The same age as professor Love's students." I said starring at Lady Ursa whom was deep in thought.

"Very well, we will take care of him. But that is only until he can find a new home."

Dongo, Bess and Tess nodded in agreement.

"That is great! We will bring him by later this afternoon." Bess and Tess said.

"Wow! So we are going to be looking after a little one!" I said to my she beast. "You are going to be a mommy!"

"Actually pet, it is going to be your responsibility to take care of Corbin." Lady Ursa said to me. "Remember, Dongo said that it was YOUR project. My position as a knight, the hours, the work and the situations I face are not very conducive to having a family."

"I respectfully disagree mistress Sir Wolf has a family and he makes it work."

"That is only because he has a mate and a governess to help him."

"Well yes, but he has a family." I shot back. "And you know what? We are a family too. You and I." I said taking her paw.

The rest of the day Lady Ursa and I researched mongooses, what they look like, what they eat, when they sleep. Well, I did. Actually it was the non-beastial type of mongoose.

My mistress on the other paw researched Corbin. His background was as the consortium had said, he was eleven years old. His family was wiped out by a attack from the Liberate Counter Earth Now group while visiting the Space Museum in World Four. He was captured by the group and was their captive.

Man, I do not know how someone can even recover from that. That poor kid.

That afternoon Bess and Tess swung by the castle accompanied by our new charge.

Anxiously, I greeted the two buffalo calves at the door of the lair.

"Wow, you live in Castle Wundagore?" Bess said as he entered the lair.

"Yes." I said simply.

"Nice." Tess said as she walked past Lady Ursa and myself.

"Oh and guys this is my someone special."

"Madam knight, a pleasure to meet you." The two said greeting my warrior bear.

"Nice to meet the both of you two, Bess and Tess." Lady Ursa said.

The two buffalo calves were still processing the fact that I lived with someone from the knight core or was it the fact that I called her mistress?

"Now I believe that you two have someone special as well?" My ursine warrior said crossing her arms.

"Oh yes!" The girl bison said.

"Corbin could you please come here?"

"We want you to meet your foster family." The boy bison said.

We all stared at the doorway as a brown mongoose boy in a green shirt and blue shorts peaked his head around the corner. He was a tad shorter than professor Love, very timid, but adorably cute!

I dropped to my knees as I greeted our new guest.

"Hi Corbin welcome to our **WHOOSH** home..."

The little mongoose boy ran right past me to hug Lady Ursa!

"Hi little one welcome to our home." My she beast started to say.

"He is like that- very shy and reserved until he gets to know you." Tess said. "Give him time."

"Well, we better get going. One of these days, you have to give us a tour of this place." Bess said to me.

"I can do that." I said as the two were leaving. "Hey, you can't stay for awhile?"

"Nope. Family game night." Bess said.

"We will contact you once we found a suitable home." Tess said.

"Wow. I guess what they have been through has brought Bess, Tess and their mother closer together."

(Ok. Let's try this again.)

"Hi, Corbin I am Alex Winter."

The mongoose gasped at my attempted greeting, darting behind my she beast.

"And that is Lady Ursa who you are trembling behind and cowering in fear..."

I looked at my warrior bear and she at me.

"It looks like he has taken a liking to you mistress. Could it be because you are a knight?"

"I don't think so pet. Come here." She ordered me.

I took a few more steps forward. Corbin ducked and covered like a Counter Earthquake had hit.

"Hmm... he is afraid of you for some reason."

Lady Ursa picked up the terrified mongoose boy.

"It is alright little one. Alex is my pet he won't harm you."

Corbin looked at me then Lady Ursa and then went right back into hugging her. Deathly afraid of me. It was the weirdest thing.

"Corbin can you speak?" I asked the terrified boy as he continued to hug my mistress.

He nodded.

"Do you want to?" Lady Ursa asked.

He shook his head no.

"What did we get ourselves into?" I asked walking back into the great-room."

"I don't know pet, but he is your responsibility." My she beast said placing Corbin back on the floor.

"Mine?!"

"Remember Dongo said it was your project. As such I am leaving it to you. I also EXPECT you continue to perform your duties regardless." My bear knight said placing her paw on the mongoose- boy's shoulder.

"Yes mistress."

That meant in addition to cooking and cleaning I was also responsible for taking care of this adorable little mongoose boy who was scared to death of me for some reason.

"Corbin are you hungry?" Lady Ursa asked him.

He nodded.

"I suppose that I could find something for him to eat. Uh what do mongoose eat again?"

So we sat down to dinner that Monday evening or tried to. I served salmon with potatoes and greens for myself and my she beast. I tried to do the same for Corbin. As I did, I just received a cold stare before he jumped back to Lady Ursa's lap and hugging her and refusing to let go.

"Perhaps you should eat on the sectional pet."

"UGH." I said leaving the high table.

So I was stuck watching the hub while my mistress and Corbin ate together.

Afterwards we settled down to unwind that evening in front of the hub. Well tried to. Corbin continued cowering and hugging my she beast all through the documentary we were watching on the mongoose. None of what we were watching explained Corbin's behavior or why he was deathly afraid of me.

It was around 10 PM when my she beast decided that we should call it a night.

"Ok." I said as I started to follow her upstairs.

"Actually pet, given the circumstances- it would be better for you to sleep on the sectional."

(WHAT?!)

And so that night I spent it on the couch alone without my bear, her soft fur, strong arms, wonderful breasts, magnificent ass and her nubby tail.

The next morning wasn't any better. I was left out of our morning routine the exercises, the communal bathing and even the good morning sex. Although I am pretty confident that my fierce ursine warrior did not sex Corbin.

Breakfast was also the same as dinner the previous night. I ate alone on the sectional where I had slept previously while those two ate at the high table.

Inevitably 8 AM came.

"Alright Alex." My warrior bear said adjusting my loin cloth as Corbin watched.

"I hope you have a safe but productive day mistress." I said hugging her.

"I hope that you just have a day." She snickered leaving.

"Oh I am going to try."

(Alright Alex. Don't take it out on him, there has to be some logical reason.)

"Good morning Corbin, I trust that you slept well?" I said to the little mongoose boy.

The mongoose's eyes went wide with fear when I addressed him. The way he looked at me- it was like I was a one eyed alien thingie coming to wipe his mind.

I took several steps toward him and he dove under the kitchen table and started trembling badly.

"Ok, ok. I will leave you there."

And so I began my chores that morning- I cleaned the townhouse top to bottom, starting at the great room, then moving on to the kitchen and dinning room, then the upper rooms. When I came back downstairs Corbin had removed his shirt and shorts and was still shaking underneath the table!

(The hell?)

"Okay. I don't think he did that when he was staying with Tess and Bess."

The mongoose boy remained underneath the table and continued to tremble and shake. I decided to move on to the exercise room and laundry downstairs. I worked down there for the next several hours, cleaning and dusting.

As I came back upstairs around noon, Corbin had moved back to sectional. When he saw me, he darted back underneath the high table and started trembling again.

(That's it!)

I went to the viewscreen and contacted the buffalo calves.

"Hi Alex, what's going on?" Bess said.

"I having problems with our little foster cub."

"What type of problems?" Tess asked.

"See for yourself!" I said gesturing to the naked mongoose hiding under the kitchen table.

"Wow he has never done that before!" Bess said.

"He never did that while he stayed with you?"

"No Tess, he was smiling and quite happy. It is like he is genuinely scared of you!"

"Something is definitely wrong here. He won't talk to me at all and his eyes go wide with fear anytime I approach him. It is like the counseling has been ineffective."

"How has he been with Lady Ursa?" The boy buffalo asked.

"Completely open and affectionate toward her."

"So it is just you?" The girl buffalo said.

"Watch this."

I walked over to the cowering naked mongoose boy underneath the kitchen table and lightly touched his paw. He screamed and ran upstairs.

"Something is definitely wrong Alex." The buffalo calves said together.

"Any luck on finding him a new home?"

"Dongo is still interviewing some prospects." Tess said.

"Hey did Corbin stay with Dongo and Doria?"

"Yeah a few days." Bess said to me.

"How did he react to Dongo's girlfriend?"

"They got along well." Tess said to me.

"Well we better get back to class." Bess said. "Good luck."

Just as I was walking away from the monitor, a brown ursine appeared on it.

"Mistress?"

"How is your day going pet?"

"Not so good. Corbin is very afraid of me despite my repeated attempts at kindness."

"I see."

"I made some inquiries and get this- he only acts that way towards me. Not anyone else! I wish he would open up and talk to me but he won't."

"I have an idea." My bear knight said. "I will talk to Sir Ram. Just keep an eye on him as best you can until I get back."

I wondered what my warrior bear was thinking?

The rest of the afternoon was much of the same. I finished cleaning and started dinner while Corbin returned to shaking and cowering under the table. I grew frustrated and decided to just let the cub be.

Just before 6 PM Lady Ursa showed up accompanied by Sir Ram.

"Mistress! Sir Ram."

"Evening boy." The evil beastial said condescendingly. "Where is he?"

"Under the high table." I said pointing.

"He is naked?" Sir Ram declared.

"He has been like that all day." I admitted to the two Knights of Wundagore.

"Hello little one." Sir Ram said in the softest tone reaching for the cub. "I understand that you are having some problems adjusting to your foster family. If you let me, I would like to help."

(Was that coming from Sir Ram?! The same beastial that slaughtered the remnants of the Liberate Counter Earth Now movement?)

Corbin reached out his paw to the knight.

"Come little one let's get you reclothed." My mistress said in an equally soft tone.

After placing Corbin's shorts and shirt on him the two gently carried him out of the lair to the science wing of Castle Wundagore to a room that I was all too familiar with Room B.

"The mind probe?!" I said walking into the lab behind the knights.

"Exactly. It will help us to better understand him." The ram warrior said.

"It will also help us to understand why he is so afraid, especially when you are near by."

Gently Sir Ram laid the mongoose boy on the chair I had been in the day of my arrival on this world eleven months ago. He then attached the device to Corbin's head.

"This device little one will probe your thoughts and memories and display them on this screen here. Do you understand?"

The mongoose boy nodded.

"Good now, I know this will be difficult I want you to think back to the last time you visited the Space Museum in World Four."

Corbin thought about that horrid day from this past summer.

"Good. Now I want you to show us all that happened. Don't hide anything." Sir Ram said taking the boy's left paw. Lady Ursa held his right paw and I stood behind the chair. All of us staring at the viewscreen as the machine displayed the boy's memories.

"Is this the ship the High Evolutionary arrived in?" The little mongoose said to a taller adult male next him. I surmised it was his father.

"Yes." The male mongoose said to him. Right next to him was an adult female, slightly shorter than the adult male. It was probably Corbin's mother.

"It looks awfully small." The adult female said.

"It says here that despite its size it traversed great galactic distances to arrive on our world." An elderly male mongoose behind the trio said.

"Well small or not it got its job done." An elderly female mongoose standing next to him said. Most likely they were Corbin's grand parents.

"Wow." That is amazing the young mongoose said.

"Hey guys we better get moving if we are going to finish this exhibit before the museum closes." Another adult mongoose said approaching with his mate and daughter_._ He appeared to be slightly older than Corbin's father. His mate appeared to be close to Corbin's mother in age and their daughter slightly younger than Corbin. Probably the kid's aunt, uncle and cousin.

"Right. Everyone ready?" Corbin's mother asked.

Together Corbin, his parents, aunt, uncle, grand parents and cousin left the exhibit moving on to the next.

As they left the display the group past a quintet of disheveled humans in the museum's hallway.

"Well if that ain't cute a bunch of abominations having a family outing." A blond haired, one-eyed man in jeans said staring at the family.

"Let's see we have the parents- Mr. and Mrs. abomination, then you have their parents granny and grampy abomination, then uncle and aunty abomination, their daughter and then little itty bitty baby abomination!" A red headed female said staring at Corbin_._

"Hey who do you think you are?!" Corbin's uncle said addressing the man.

"Oh us?" A browned hair man said to him.

"We are with the Liberate Counter Earth Now Movement."

"We are taking back this planet which is rightfully ours." Another blond-haired man said. "From you who took it from us!"

"The High Evolutionary will not let you." Corbin's father said.

"Our movement is small, but it will grow in time." The one-eyed man said aiming some device at the family. "Counter Earth belongs to humans and humans alone!"

I recognized the device the rebels were holding, it was the same one from my mission with Chemar, Izzy and the Knights of Castle Warwick! I also recognized some of the rebels as well. The same group who Sir Ram slaughtered with the prototype weeks later.

The rebel pressed a button. A sound was emitted from the device. Judging by the mongoose family's reaction it must have been very piercing. Corbin, his aunt, uncle, cousin, father, mother and grand parents collapsed writhing in agony right there on the floor of the museum.

"It works." The red headed female said to the one eyed man.

"Great we will connect it to the announcement system." I heard a familiar voice say._ _

It was my doppelgänger Alexander Winter.

He wickedly stared at Corbin's family as they pleaded for assistance. The first blast from the sonic weapon had injured them very badly; The family were convulsing.

Just then another sonic blast sounded through out the museum much louder than the first. When it ended. Corbin's uncle, aunt, cousin, father, mother and grandparents had stopped moving on the floor of the museum- blood was dripping from their eyes, noses and mouths.

"Mom! Dad! Wake up!" The mongoose boy said rubbing his parents. "Grammy? Pappy?" The boy said moving over to them. They were equally still. "Uncle John, aunt Kate? Karen? Please wake up!" Corbin cried.

"They will." Alexander said as he grabbed Corbin by the paw. "Just not in this life. I don't know how you survived all that but I am dying to find out."

It was then that the image on the viewscreen changed. To a cage within a rebel base. There were several humans rebels outside it poking at someone inside it. A naked and crying mongoose boy.

"Please I just want to go home!"

"You are home you freak." Alexander said entering the room_. "Now why didn't you succumb to our weapon?"_

"Let's find out shall we?" A blonde haired rebel said pressing the button on a device he was holding._ _

Corbin screamed.

Of course that poor kid was there the day of the attack on the Space Museum in World Four. The Liberate Counter Earth Now group injured fifty beastials and killed thirty including all of Corbin's family!

I was consumed with rage. I ran out of Room B trying to control my emotions, trying to compartmentalize it. But I was having a lot of difficulty doing so. That poor kid!

Carefully, I peaked into each of the lab rooms of the science wing hoping to find my quarry. I had hoped Sir Ram hadn't transferred him to another of his labs elsewhere.

I found him in Room F strapped to a wall with what looked to be a chastity belt tied around his groin. I soon realized what it was really for. He had been immobilized to that wall for days and that humiliating device was his only way to relieve himself.

(That monster, I am going to kill him!)

"ALEXANDER!!!" I said running into the lab.

Alexander Winter muffled something his gag.

I found a chair to stand on and went to remove it.

"Hello Alex how can I help you today?" He said condescendingly.

"You- you monster!" I dry heaved with rage. "You have done some wretched things in the past but I did not know you were at the Space Museum that day the Liberate Counter Earth Now Movement killed thirty beastials!"

"I didn't tell you about that?! I guess I forgot." My doppelgänger said rather smugly. "But yes, I was." He candidly admitted. "I helped the movement test their sonic weapon. In fact, I suggested using the PA system to maximize the effect."

Hearing that I lost it and started combing through the closets of the lab as he continued his admission.

"I seem to recall our first victims were a mongoose family visiting the museum that day. They died in the hallway all except their son. The others couldn't figure out how he had survived so we took him with us as sort of a test subject."

As he finished his story, I found a wooden broom in one of the storage closets.

"What are you going to do with that sweep me?" He said staring at me curiously.

"No." I said as I calmly turned to face him. "I am going to kick your ass."

To Be Continued....