Pyntherian Saga - Part Seven

Pyntherian Saga — Part Seven

Based on an original story by Robert Moon

CHAPTER 7 - JAKE SPANNER JOURNEYS TO KHRANG’S FORTRESS

As soon as he was fully recovered from his near brush with testicle implosion, Jake met with senior Pyntherian council members to discuss their next action plan. They all knew that Emperor Khrang had to be stopped, but the question was how. The evil Emperor had already pacified nearly the entire planet’s population with his global EMP pulse, testicle-slaughtering pathogen, and his small army of massive, genetically-modified super soldiers. The Emperor had also finally begun rounding up Pyntherian women by the thousands, no doubt planning on incorporating them into his diabolical breeding program to create a gigantic army of his soldiers. If Khrang was allowed to succeed in his efforts, then he would become so powerful that no force in the galaxy, not even the fabled Space Rangers, could hope to stop him! 

The council revealed to Jake that they had located what they believed to be Emperor Khrang’s headquarters, a massive starship fortress that had landed in the planet’s tallest mountain chain, several thousand miles away. The ship was nestled near the peak of the tallest of these mountains, resting at just over 37,000 feet above sea level, more than 8,000 feet higher than Earth’s own fabled Mount Everest. Not even the strongest among the Pyntherians could endure such extreme altitudes, at least not without the sophisticated technology that had been rendered into so much useless slag by Khrang’s EMP pulse, and so Khrang’s fortress was essentially unreachable to the men of Pyntheria. 

But not, perhaps, to Jake Spanner. 

The big Space Ranger knew he had done all that he could for the Pyntherians from the council’s hidden underground redoubt. He had saved the balls of as many Pyntherian men as he could with his supremely potent sperm, so his usefulness to the medical team was at an end. It was going to take months for his distress signal to Space Ranger Command to bring any aid to the beleaguered planet, and by then, it will have already been too late to stop Khrang. Jake knew that his only option, his only chance to stop Khrang and spare the galaxy from his megalomaniacal plans, was to infiltrate the Emperor’s fortress and stop the madman himself. 

Jake announced to the council in his deep, rich, baritone voice that he intended to travel to Khrang’s mountain fortress, scale the titanic peak, find a way inside the massive star vessel, and put an end to the Emperor’s plans. Alone. 

The council erupted into heated conversation, with nearly every member present shouting for Jake to not throw his life away on a hopeless suicide mission. But the senior member of the council banged her gavel and called for order, and then calmly asked Jake to explain his reasoning for such a mission. The huge and handsome muscle man eloquently outlined the imminent dangers posed to the entire galaxy should Khrang succeed in breeding his super army, and that their only hope was to stop Khrang now before he could create that army. The only real choice was to send someone to confront Khrang inside his fortress, and without any of the advanced technological gear that might have allowed any of the Pyntherians to join him, only Jake was hardy and tough enough to have a chance at surviving the climb up the mountain. 

Jake’s heavy words silenced the council for many long moments, but the senior councilor broke the silence by agreeing with Jake’s assessment of the situation, and wishing the brave hero good fortune on his journey. The entire council feared for Jake’s life, but they all reluctantly agreed as well, and Jake was quickly provided with provisions, equipment, and anything else that the grateful Pyntherians could supply. 

Later that same afternoon, Jake was topside again for the first time in several weeks. A crowd of people had gathered to see their handsome hero off — members of the council, the mayor, the entire medical and scientific staff that had cared for Jake over the past 5 weeks, and even several dozen of the young men who Jake had valiantly saved from nullification. One of the young men present was the devastatingly handsome dark-haired youth who had been the final, fortunate recipient of Jake’s healing spunk. All of their faces wore a mixture of fear and hope as they wished Jake luck on his nearly impossible mission. Jake took the time to warmly shake the hands of each member of the crowd, exuding a confidence that boosted the spirits of everyone present. He then embraced the Mayor, her tear-filled eyes wordlessly expressing the tremendous gratitude that all of Pyntheria felt for everything that Jake had already done, and for the incredibly dangerous mission he now planned to undertake. With a final wave and a smile of grim determination, Jake set off, taking off into the woods at an astoundingly fast sprint toward Khrang’s fortress half a continent away. 

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Jake maintained a grueling pace as he ran through the forest. Even with the somewhat dense underbrush, the mighty warrior was able to maintain a mile-churning pace of over 25 miles per hour. He could have set an even faster pace if he took to the roads, but the big man felt that the cover provided by the forest gave him a better chance of arriving undetected at his destination. 

The mighty stud was able to keep up this punishing pace indefinitely, with only about 4 hours of rest each night, so was able to cover around 500 miles each day! At that pace, Jake found himself at the foot of the massive mountain chain only about a week after he left the council. He had avoided population centers along the way, as well as patrols of Khrang’s soldiers in their sleek, black hovercraft, and had arrived in the western foothills of the mountain chain with little incident. 

But now, looking up at the sheer monumental size of the mountains rearing skyward before him, even Jake began to doubt his ability to scale such awesome heights. He had heavy duty snow gear for the climb, gear that would have been woefully insufficient to keep a normal human alive at the higher altitudes, but that with Jake’s superior genetic engineering might allow him to endure the extreme cold of the mountain’s upper reaches. The young man was more concerned about the perilously thin atmosphere near the top of the peak, an atmosphere that would asphyxiate and kill a normal man in minutes and would push even Jake’s mighty lungs to their limits. But the huge man knew that all of humanity’s hopes were riding on his success, so he squared his enormous shoulders, readjusted the pack against his massively muscular back, and began his arduous climb. 

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Jake was no stranger to physical hardship. On the contrary, he had sought it out his entire life, training and pushing his spectacularly strong and resilient body to ever greater achievements. He had scaled tall mountains, swum in great ocean depths, crossed vast deserts, and endured extremes of temperature and gravity that even few other Space Rangers could have survived. But the combination of elements that he now faced as he struggled up the final few thousand feet of this fantastic mountain peak was testing every ounce of the mighty young man’s strength and resolve. 

The powerful Space Ranger had climbed the first 20,000 feet or so with ease, hardly even struggling to climb the lower half of the colossal mountain. It wasn’t even until 24,000 feet that Jake paused to don the heavy winter gear that would protect him from the extreme and deadly cold of the upper heights. In fact, he had climbed the first half of the mountain stripped to the waist, the gargantuan and perfectly sculpted muscles of his upper body glistening with sweat as he effortlessly shrugged off a temperature so cold and bitter that it would have given a normal man frostbite. Even at the 30,000-foot mark, Jake wasn’t yet really struggling. He had endured such altitudes before, and so he knew he could handle it, but it was near the limit of what he had experienced in the past. 

Beyond the 35,000-foot mark, however, the climbing became difficult even for Jake. The heavy winter gear kept out the worst of the cold, but a chill still managed to seep through into his gigantic muscles and incredibly thick bones, trying to sap his enormous strength. Worse, the incredibly thin atmosphere had even Jake’s mighty lungs struggling for adequate breath. The huge muscle man felt a fatigue he’d never experienced before, as well as a light-headedness that threatened to make him pass out. He knew that losing consciousness at such a high altitude would be fatal, and it was as much as test of will as it was of strength for Jake to doggedly lift one lead-heavy boot after the other and continue his climb. 

Though he only had a few thousand more feet to go, Jake knew that this would be the hardest part of his journey. With a determination that would have made any Space Ranger proud, Jake hunkered down, dug deep into his reserves of strength, and continued his laborious climb…

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Emperor Khrang sat in his command chair in his flagship’s central headquarters, his sharp eyes glued to the large central monitor. An outsider would have been forgiven for calling the chair upon which he sat a throne, for it was a grand affair wrought of more than a dozen precious metals and studded with priceless gemstones. Khrang felt such a seat appropriate for his tremendous station in life, and suitably impressive for when he broadcast his proclamations and commands to the cowed people of this backwater planet. 

The Emperor’s eyes were eagerly fixed to his main monitor as he watched a large, fur-clad figure slowly and arduously climb the highest reaches of the mountain peak. Khrang was deeply impressed by the figure’s incredible strength and tenacity for making it this far. He didn’t think any human, even his own genetically engineered super soldiers, could survive more than a handful of minutes at such dizzy heights, and his eyes watched with both amazement and a strange hunger as the bundled figure doggedly climbed higher and higher still. 

Emperor Khrang knew who that figure was and what he represented. Khrang had been closely monitoring Space Ranger Jake Spanner from the very moment he had entered the Pyntherian star system. The young space warrior had thought his ultra-modern stealth equipment had allowed him to land undetected, but in truth, Khrang had been watching the young muscle man every moment since before he had even landed on the planet. The Emperor had followed the young muscle man’s every movement, listened in on every interaction he’d had with the planet’s inhabitants, and witnessed every single one of the young man’s titanic, ferociously powerful, and heroically voluminous orgasms through the use of nano-cameras studded throughout Pyntheria, including within the ‘secret’ underground redoubt. 

And Emperor Khrang was powerfully impressed indeed. 

Oh yes, this young stud was no doubt the finest specimen of man ever produced by the Space Ranger Corps; more than that, he was the most incredible and powerful specimen of man ever born! And Emperor Khrang realized with a mixture of lust and greed that he wanted this bull stud of a man for his own purposes. 

Khrang admitted to himself that he had acted a bit hastily when he had sent his assassin robot to the Pyntherian’s hidden enclave with the intent of destroying the dashing young Space Ranger. At the time, Khrang had seen the powerful young warrior as a tiny but still potential threat, and thus acted to eliminate him. The fact that the mighty stud had survived, and with his gargantuan testicles still intact, spoke volumes about his tremendous strength and resilience, and Khrang was now quite thankful that the young man had not been destroyed. 

In fact, after the young muscle man’s stunning defeat of his assassin ‘bot, Emperor Khrang had held off on beginning his insemination program on the captive Pyntherian females. Just one look at this handsome and monumentally muscular young stud told Khrang that an incredible opportunity had landed almost literally in his lap. He was even more stunned to discover that the young man was immune to his manufactured testicle pathogen, as Khrang had personally designed the pathogen himself to be effective on every conceivable offshoot of humanity. He had apparently never counted on the extreme and unprecedented raw virility possessed by members of the elite Space Ranger force. But he was utterly floored when he learned that the young man’s supremely potent sperm could also act as a cure to the plague, sparing the balls of nearly 5,000 young Pyntherian men within the course of a single month, before the pathogen finished its diabolical work on the remaining male populace! 

Khrang’s devious and twisted mind reeled at the possibilities that such an heroically powerful young stud represented. Jake Spanner was even more powerful and perfect than the source material the Emperor had been using for his previous breeding experiments. Why, with Jake’s incredible seed, the Emperor could breed an even more powerful and unstoppable army, the likes of which the galaxy had never dreamed of! 

Indeed, Emperor Khrang vowed that he would make Jake Spanner his new stud bull for his upcoming breeding program. Provided the big man could survive the remainder of the climb to the top of the peak. Khrang decided that would be a fitting final test for the young man’s worthiness before he became the father of a new breed of super soldier. 

An evil and indulgent smile spread across Emperor Khrang’s sharp features. If and when young Jake Spanner reached the top of the mountain, Khrang planned to have a big surprise waiting for him…