Immortal Assassin - Book 1 - Immortal Assassin - 6 - Chapter 6

Chapter 6 -

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Siemens Academy - Med-Lab

Thursday August 23rd, 725 2E - 15:00 CST

Wednesday had passed in a dazed blur. After spending most of the evening and early morning with Eric Suzie had felt at loose ends without his presence. Cecilia had been doing research on the Telomere Enhancement Treatment and had become more and more tightly wound until she had finally snapped. She and Holly had gotten into a short shouting match when the older girl had admonished her for not paying enough attention to the ballet moves that she was being taught.

Cecilia had made a tearful apology a few minutes later and Holly had canceled the rest of ballet and skate practice for the week telling the girl that they would resume on Monday. Suzie had then told the two girls and little Ned that they would actually be leaving on the company’s private yacht to go to Eric’s home planet so that he could tie up a few loose ends. But she’d assured them that the ship had a full Holo-Simulation Center.

Finally the day had ended with everyone cranky and exhausted and Suzie had spent most of her night tossing and turning at the prospect of the painful treatment that Cecilia would be going through on the morrow.

Suzie shook off the daze of yesterday’s thoughts as she sat next to the med bunk that Cecilia was laying on. Suzie was dressed in a severe but loose fitting gray pant suit and she clasped Cecilia’s hand as they waited for the Med-Tech to enter and administer the TET Retro-Virus.

“This is going to hurt isn’t it?” Cecilia asked her eyes filled with a bright fear.

“Yes I’m afraid it is,” Suzie told her. “The Retro-Virus basically rewrites the telomere data in your DNA and causes some painful reactions,” Suzie told the girl squeezing her hand comfortingly.

“Thank you,” Cecilia said.

“For what sweetie?” Suzie asked.

“For being honest, for being willing to take us in when you didn’t even know who we were,” Cecilia said hugging her aunt tightly.

Suzie could feel damp tears staining the shoulder of her pant suit as the girl cried. “It’s alright sweetie, nothing like that is ever going to happen again I promise,” Suzie said quietly.

By the time the Med-Tech arrived Cecilia had cried her tears and was laying once again on the med-bunk.

“How are you ladies today?” the Med-Tech asked as she entered the room. “I’m Med-Tech 1st Class Jordan.”

Suzie and Cecilia greeted her.

“Now I’ll be administering the Retro-Virus here shortly,” Jordan said walking over to a locked cabinet and keying it open. “Did you have any questions before I do so?” she asked and Cecilia nodded in the negative.

“Alright then, here we go,” Jordan placed a bio-monitor patch against the right side of her neck and then used a Nanno-injector to administer the TET reo-virus. “I’ll be monitoring her vital signs from the control room. If you need anything just press that button on the wall by the comm,” Jordan explained before leaving.

“That wasn’t so bad,” Cecilia said right before sweat started pouring from every pore of her body.

“It’ll be alright sweetie,” Suzie said mopping her sweat soaked head with one of the numerous damp towels that had been set next to a basin of cool water on a small table near the head of the med bunk.

“I’m fine,” Cecilia grunted out and then clenched her teeth as her body arched upwards and a moan of pain passed between her lips.

Suzie wasn’t real sure what to do so she grasped Cecilia’s hand in her own lending her strength and letting her know that she was there for the girl no matter what. Suzie had to bite back a cry of pain herself as the girl’s grip tightened painfully on her fingers grinding them together with her pain induced strength.

Cecilia whimpered as tears of pain splashed from her eyes and then ran down her cheeks to impact with the surface of the med-bunk where they were instantly absorbed by the material.

“I’m here Cecilia, I’m here for you,” Suzie repeated over and over again as the girl wriggled and arched, moaning in pain and fear as the Retro-Virus went to work on her genetic material to help slow the aging process.

At one point the girl started bucking and flopping on the bed her eyes clenched painfully shut and Suzie attempted to hold her down to keep her from injuring herself or flinging her body from the bed.

Still clenching the girls hand she leaned over and found that the girl’s movements were too strong even for her normally enhanced strength.

“Chuck I need some more strength here or Cecilia is going to hurt herself,” Suzie muttered to the AI.

“Roger Suzie but this type of thing is dangerous if you peak to much Sister 14 is going to pop out of the wood work and you definitely don’t need to be caught on camera turning into a glossy black Amazon assassin,” CHCCC-14 told her.

“Just do it Chuck,” Suzie ordered struggling to hold her niece down.

“Alright, partial reversion in process,” Chuck said.

Suzie closed her eyes for a second and when they reopened they were completely glossy black, including the cornea, her nails and lips had also taken on the same shiny black tinting as well and she felt her grip on her emotions sliding away as if she were feeling them through a glass wall.

Cecilia bucked and arched, whimpering and crying in pain as the retro-virus worked its way through her body and finally after five hours of sweating and crying the treatment was completed and Suzie released her hold on the young girl’s body.

“Releasing partial reversion,” CHCCC-14 informed her as she dropped back into the seat next to the med-bunk.

Blinking her eyes they returned to normal and the blackness disappeared from her lips and nails.

Suzie still gripped the girls hand as she sat brushing strands of sweat soaked blonde hair from her forehead.

Cecilia’s eyes opened slowly, dried tears had crusted them partly shut and Suzie took a damp washcloth clearing away the crust.

“Is it over with?” Cecilia asked weakly here tongue darting out of her mouth and licking parched lips.

“It’s all over baby,” Suzie told the young girl wiping the tried salt sweat from her face as she attempted to sit up.

“I ache,” Cecilia said tiredly and took small sips from a cup of water that Suzie handed her.

“Considering you were practically bending your body in half from the pain I’m not surprised,” Suzie told her niece with a small smile.

“In half,” Cecilia whispered her eyes becoming large saucers.

“Yes in half, it took everything I had to hold you down so you wouldn’t hurt yourself,” Suzie told her. “And I must say I am very proud of you,” she told her niece.

“Thank you Aunt Suzie,” Cecilia said hugging her aunt and starting to cry again.

“For what sweetie, it seems the only thing I’ve done is give you material things and cause you great pain by making you go through this procedure,” Suzie said sadly confused.

“For being there for me and Ned, for actually caring enough to give us the things we need, for actually taking us in and making sure we had what we needed, you’ve spent more than just money on us,” the girl told her. “You’ve given us love and a home,” the girl explained pulling back and looking at her aunt. “I love you Aunt Suzie,” the girl said hugging her again.

If she had looked back up she would have seen tears tracking down Suzie’s cheeks and seen her biting her lip as she tried to control her emotions.

A few minutes later the Med-Tech returned and injected Cecilia with a Nanno-injector filled with a muscle relaxant and pain killers. “The pain should subside by tomorrow morning and the scans don’t show any torn muscle tissue or bone fractures so she should be fine, but I suggest at least a couple of days of bed rest so that nothing gets strained,” the woman told both of them.

“Will she be fit to travel in space by Monday,” Suzie asked the Med-Tech.

“Sure she’ll be perfectly fine, but just to be on the safe side I’ll write you a ten day prescription for muscle relaxants just in case she does manage to pull something. If any pain or muscle damage occurs immediately go to a Galactic Medical Association Hospital or Clinic so that the damage doesn’t become too severe,” the Med-Tech explained and pulled a blank Moly-chip from a pocket inserting it into her E-PADD she scribbled something on the E-PADD and handed the prescription chip to Suzie. “Would you like me to have a wheelchair brought in to take you back to your vehicle,” the Med-Tech asked Cecilia.

Suzie looked at Cecilia who just shook her head. “No we’ll be fine, if we can just have a few minutes alone here for her to catch her breath a little more,” Suzie said to the Med-Tech.

“Not a problem my next appointment isn’t for another forty-five minutes,” the Med-Tech assured them. “If you need assistance, once again just hit the button next to the comm unit,” the Med-Tech told them over her shoulder as she left.

After a few minutes Suzie leant over to unzip the small duffel that they had brought with them. “Okay which outfit do you want to change into?” She asked Cecilia holding up a set of sweats and another pile of clothes that contained a blouse, skirt, and light blue mono-film tights.

Cecelia waved a hand tiredly at the sweats and Suzie handed the pile of clothes to her.

Stepping back Suzie watched as Cecilia stripped out of the sweat soaked clothing she had been wearing and then helped the girl sponge off the remainder of the dried sweat salt and then get into the set of gray sweats.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Syntheria Arms Apartments - Penthouse

Thursday August 23rd, 725 2E - 18:42 CST

On the ride back to the penthouse Cecelia had fallen asleep but Suzie easily carried the girl to her room and tucked her under her pillows and comforter.

“Is Miss Cecilia alright?” Sylvester asked bobbing around the living room and cleaning.

“She’s quite alright Sylvester; the treatment just took a lot out of her. I want her to mostly stay in bed until Monday morning and she should take all of her meals in her room,” Suzie told the Auto-Butler.

“Yes Miss,” Sylvester replied confirming his receipt of the order.

Holly returned to the penthouse shortly after Suzie and Cecelia arrived with little Ned in tow still wearing his daycare uniform. The young woman was also juggling a large stack of thick school books that she had picked up for her soon to be resuming college courses.

“Looks like you’ll be pretty busy this quarter,” Suzie commented.

“Nah, not really, I’ve already read most of these books from downloaded versions but the professors require us to have these archaic tomes on hand just in case,” Holly said grunting as she set the stack on a side table.

“How much did it end up costing you,” Suzie asked.

“Way more than they are worth, about 2,500 GSC,” Holly said with a snort

Suzie winced at the figure and decided to give Holly a 10% raise. The books alone had just eaten up an entire two weeks worth of pay in one gulp.

“Let me help you take these upstairs,” Suzie offered picking up a portion of the stack.

“Thanks,” Holly said and led her up the stairs and into her bedroom where they deposited the two stacks on the small table in the sitting area of the suite.

“How’s Cecelia doing?” Holly asked sorting the books.

“She’ll be fine, just really tired. The Med-Tech pretty much said to let her rest for a couple of days but I’m going to make her stay down until we leave Monday morning to go with Eric on the Nautilus,” Suzie told her.

“Probably a good idea we don’t want her tearing any muscles or breaking any bones before she even gets to start playing Grav Disc,” Holly commented.

The two of them chatted for awhile as Holly continued to sort the books and then they parted for the evening.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Syntheria Arms Apartments

Friday August 24th, 725 2E - 22:00 CST

“I’ve got a surprise for you,” Suzie said as Holly came in after returning from her parent’s house.

“A surprise; what is it?” Holly asked confused.

“You’ll see it’s waiting for you on your bed,” Suzie told her with a smile.

Holly gave her a puzzled look and went into her bedroom to find a large box sitting on her bed. Opening the box up Holly pulled out the contents. The first thing was a re-breather that was made of a dark golden Nanno-rubber; even the masks lenses were the same gold shade; the next thing out of the box which she spread out on the bed was a full body Nanno-rubber catsuit with attached feet, gloves, and cowl, it was also of the same golden color, and the final thing at the bottom of the box was a pair of gold colored knee length combat boots with three inch soles.

“What’s this for?” Holly asked even more puzzled as Suzie came in the room.

“Remember we were talking about the Flesh Bender?” Suzie asked.

“Yeah,” Holly replied.

“Well I go there about once or twice a week and I was talking with the owner; seems he’s a pretty big fan of yours and he gave me this,” Suzie said tossing a pass-card onto the bed.

“What is this?” Holly asked picking up the completely blank pass-card that had landed on the bed.

“That my dear is your free membership to the most exclusive fetish club on Caruthers World,” Suzie told her smiling.

“You’re kidding me right,” Holly said her mouth falling open.

“No I’m not and we have an appointment with the owner himself, Augustus Santiago,” Suzie told her. “On that pass-card you are listed as Isabelle Mendez, the younger sister of my own identity at the club,” Suzie told Holly.

“Why is that?” Holly asked puzzled.

Suzie came to Holly and placed a hand on her shoulder. “Sweetie the Flesh Bender is a broiling maelstrom of opposing factions, names have power, that is one thing the Son’s Of Maerlin have gotten right throughout all these millennia,” Suzie paused. “If someone was able to find out your identity they may track you down and make you a toy of their own,” Suzie explained to the younger woman.

Holly felt a shiver run down her spine at the words. But she looked resolutely Suzie. “I’m willing to do it,” she said without a twitch.

“Good,” Suzie said and pulled a Nanno-injector out of her pocket and handed it to Holly.

“What’s this?” Holly said looking at the Nanno-injector.

“Ah, well,” Suzie paused. “The suit I gave you is very formfitting; you won’t even be able to wear any underwear under it and any body hair that you have will only get in the way,” Suzie told her a bit sheepishly.

Holly blushed slightly at the mention of not being able to wear underwear.

Suzie let out a small chuckle. “Don’t worry you can set it to either limit hair growth for awhile or totally eliminate it,” she told Holly.

“Isn’t this type of Nannite very expensive?” Holly asked.

“Yeah it is so if you want to save me money set it for permanent then,” Suzie said giving her a smile.

“Okay,” Holly said starting to place the injector to her neck.

“You might want to strip first,” Suzie told her. “Otherwise you’ll have hair all over the inside of your clothes,” Suzie explained.

“Oh,” Holly paused.

“Go ahead and strip I’ll go grab my own clothes and be right back,” Suzie said leaving the room.

Holly stripped out of her clothes and folded them neatly on the bed; pressing the Nanno-injector to her neck she depressed the button and after a few seconds felt a weird tingle course through her body as the nannites shut down hair follicles across her skin save those of her head hair, eyebrows, and eye lashes. She looked down and saw a light layer of blonde hair on the carpeting. “Whoops should have put a towel down,” she mumbled out loud.

“Don’t worry about it,” Suzie told the young woman as she came through the door.

Holly’s skin took on a light blush as the woman looked her over.

Suzie chuckled. “Don’t worry I’ve seen it all before,” she told Holly. “Here let me strip and maybe you’ll feel a little better,” Suzie said stripping quickly out of her blazer, shirt, and jeans showing her entire tanned body.

“This make you feel a little less embarrassed?” Suzie asked her.

“Not really,” Holly said and reached for the catsuit.

“Not yet,” Suzie told her shaking a finger and then dipping into a small bag that she had brought in with her; in her hand as it came out was a small container.

“What is that?” Holly asked looking at the container warily.

“Its body lubricant, if you want to be able to get into that cat suit you’ll need to use it,” Suzie told her with a small smile.

“I’m not really sure how to use that sort of thing,” Holly admitted chewing on her lip.

Suzie let out a sigh. “It’s not going to bite you Holly,” she told her chidingly.

“I mean while I’ve had you know fetishist leans I’ve never actually, uh took part in anything like this,” Holly said still chewing on her lip.

Suzie let out another sigh and opened the container and pulled out a small application pad. “Alright if you’re going to be that way, get on the bed and spread your legs and arms out,” the older woman ordered.

“Uh, what?” Holly said her eyes now wide.

“Come on,” Suzie grabbed the younger woman by the arm and practically flung her on the bed arranging her limbs to the desired position and then straddled the bed.

Holly felt the applicator start moving vigorously across her body then down her arms and legs.

“Alright flip over,” Suzie ordered moving away from the girl.

Holly flipped over reluctantly and watched Suzie’s firm tanned boobs as she continued to pass the applicator over the front of her body and limbs again, and flushed slightly as the applicator slid over certain other parts.

“Sorry about that but believe me this stuff makes it a lot easier to get the suit on,” Suzie said sincerely.

When Suzie was done wiping Holly down she stood up and started wiping her own body down with the applicator.

After a few seconds Holly stood up as well and looked at her body, her skin now had a slight sheen to it and when she rubbed at it she found that it felt slick, almost plastic like but no oil or greasiness to it.

“Why does my skin look so slick and feel weird?” She asked Suzie.

“The lubricant has nannites in it that basically turn the top layer of your epidermis into an almost plastic like substance that eases the ingress and egress of tight fitting clothes,” Suzie explained finishing her own application and her own tanned skin had taken on the same plastic like sheen. “Don’t worry it’ll wear off in about twelve hours or you can take a shower to clear it off,” she assured holly.

“Okay,” Suzie said returning the applicator to the jar and then tucking it back in the small bag she had gotten it from. “Now go ahead and put your suit on, it’ll still be pretty hard but the lubricant will make it much easier,” Suzie told her. “And don’t worry about tearing or stretching the material out of shape, Nanno-rubber automatically goes back to its original shape no matter what you manage to do to it,” she explained.

Holly first watched as Suzie slid into and tugged up her own glossy black catsuit and then sealing the magnetic opening down the front, she noticed that the other woman’s nipples were clearly outlined against the material as were other things usually not seen in gentle company.

“Okay go ahead,” Suzie said smiling reassuringly at her. “Just don’t put the cowl and mask on till we reach Flesh Benders,” she suggested strongly.

Holly nodded and started putting on her own dark gold suit and found it was just as hard as Suzie had told her it would be, although she realized that if she’d still had body hair and hadn’t used the lubricant it would have been nearly impossible to put on.

Holly had a bit of trouble with the gold boots however, the laces ran clear up to the tops of the boots and Suzie had to help her lace them at first; as Holly had almost fallen over from trying to do it herself not used to the three inch thick soles and chunky heels.

“Okay there we go,” Suzie said tying the final knot and patting Holly’s leg as she stood up.

“Okay here are your membership card and a Cred-chip that I’ve loaded a couple hundred dollars on so that you can get food and drinks as well as be able to watch some of the exclusive shows if you want to,” Suzie said handing the two cards to Holly.

“I can’t take that money, you’ve already spent enough on me with this outfit and the Nanno-injector and even giving me a job,” Holly protested.

“Sweetie just take the card. I rarely get to give gifts out and believe me even with the salary I’m paying you to be my assistant and teach Cecilia ballet and figure skating you’ll quickly drain your funds; plus this is an anonymous clean card,” Suzie told her pushing the cards into her hand.

“Uhm, okay but where am I supposed to put them?” Holly asked clasping the cards.

“Oh duh, sorry,” Suzie bent down and Holly felt her touch through the Nanno-rubber as her knuckles brushed against her tightly clad thighs and blushed slightly. “Alright there is a slit pocket with a small amount of quantum flux space in them located on either inner thigh. They’re just big enough to fit the cards into and the flux space keeps it from being noticeable and uncomfortable,” Suzie explained taking the cards from the younger woman and sliding them into the two slits that had been revealed by her probing fingers.

Running her thumb back over the magnetic seals Suzie repeated the process on her own slit pockets and then pulled on a black leather duster and handed another to Holly.

“Why store them in slit pockets on the inner thigh?” Holly asked.

“Mainly it’s generally a pretty inaccessible part of the body to get to by a another person; two it’s the most sensitive part of your body so if anyone is fiddling around down there you are more likely to feel it,” Suzie explained.

“What’s the coat for?” Holly asked.

“Full of questions tonight aren’t we?” Suzie asked taking the sting out of the question with a smile. “But that’s good, foreknowledge makes you forewarned, and forewarned means your forearmed,” Suzie said cryptically. “The reason for the coats is if we have to get out of the car before the club, plus do you really want Ned or Cecilia to accidentally see you dressed like that,” Suzie explained.

“Uh no,” Holly said blushing slightly and pulling the coat on and cinching the waist belt.

“Okay then let’s get going then,” Suzie said pulling a small gold colored duffel bag out of the one she had brought with her and put Holly’s mask in it. “Color coordination is always a good thing,” she said with an impish grin and handed the bag to her.

Holly took the bag that had Isabelle Mendez written on a small tag hanging from the zipper and then watched as Suzie placed her own all black mask into a similar bag made from black nylon as well as a couple of other things she hadn’t noticed her bring in the room with her.

Suzie finished by zipping up her own bag and heading out of Holly’s bedroom. The two of them passed Sylvester in his charging carriage. “We’ll be out late Sylvester so if the kids need anything take care of it,” Suzie ordered.

“Yes Miss Marlowe,” Sylvester replied.

The two women left the apartment in the Aston Martin; Suzie activating the vehicle’s stealth systems and changing the paint scheme to a deep blue color, the serial plates switching along with the paint scheme.

Pulling into her spot in the parking garage Suzie put the vehicle in park and shut it off. “Okay once we leave the car just follow my lead,” Suzie told the younger woman and reached over to pull the girls cowl up. Snugging the Nanno-rubber up over the edge of her chin and tucking errant strands of hair into place. “That’s not to tight is it?” She asked.

“No it just feels kind of weird is all, my whole body feels constricted but at the same time it doesn’t really feel as if I’m wearing anything, except for down there,” Holly said nodding her head towards her thighs. “And I have to admit every time I move in this outfit I feel…,” Holly trailed off.

“Aroused,” Suzie suggested getting an embarrassed nod from the other woman. “Don’t worry you’ll get used to that as well and it’ll help put you in the right frame of mind as well,” Suzie explained cryptically.

“Okay now your mask is a little more sophisticated than my old one which I’ve also replaced,” Suzie said pulling out and unzipping the two bags; reaching in she pulled out the two masks. Suzie set her black one down and held up Holly’s dark gold one. “Now when I put this on just breath normally, you might feel a little claustrophobic at first but you’ll get used to it,” Suzie told her and placed the mask over the girls face and ran her fingers over the edges of it and then let go.

“How is it staying in place?” Holly asked her voice sounding far off through the re-breather system.

“These new masks have magnetic seals that lock it into place with an almost molecular level bond, to release it you just need to run your finger around the seal again. The masks are keyed for only your’s and my biometrics so if anyone else attempts to take it off they won’t be able to,” Suzie explained.

“Sounds pretty neat,” Holly said through the mask.

“Uhm, that reminds me,” Suzie said a thoughtful look on her face. “Can you imitate a somewhat Spanish accent?” Suzie asked her.

“Si,” Holly said and said something in rapid fire Spanish.

“I didn’t realize that you knew Spanish,” Suzie said surprised.

“Yeah, Spanish, Russian, German, French, Elharnian, Eld, and Evarian,” Holly told her proudly.

“Wow,” Suzie commented and pulled the cowl of her own suit up and locked her mask into place. “Okay just follow my lead,” Suzie told her opening the door and getting out; Holly followed her a few seconds later. Suzie walked around the car to her and looped her arm through the younger woman’s and leaned against her slightly and started walking towards where the elevator was; sashaying and swaying slightly as they walked. Soon Holly fell into the same movement and the two of them moved arm in arm.

“Hey Chiquita, very nice, why don’t you two come home with me and we’ll have a little fun peeling you out of those outfits,” a Spanish accented male voice called out as they passed.

“Sorry poppy,” Suzie told the man over her shoulder. “But Santiago is expecting us,” Suzie explained adding an extra little wiggle to her ass as they moved away from the man.

“Well maybe next time Katherine,” the man called out.

“Maybe Estefan,” Suzie replied.

Suzie led Holly to the elevator and slid out her own pass-card and then held her hand out for Holly’s as the girl fumbled slightly along the magnetic seal on one inner thigh and then handed it to Suzie.

After passing the second card through the two of them stepped through into the now open elevator.

“Okay, now Flesh Bender at first can be very disconcerting, watch as much as you like but don’t act like a newbie, just keep moving and I’ll introduce you to Santiago,” Suzie told the girl as the doors slid open and they swayed out of the elevator.

Holly was starting to get into the part of one Isabelle Mendez, fetishist and she had to keep holding back small moans of pleasure, she didn’t realize that the simple subtle movement of fabric against her thighs could cause so much arousal and wondered how Suzie was able to stay so focused; she’d have to ask later.

Men and even women stared at the two glossy Nanno-rubber clad women, some with lust, others with hunger. As the two of them continued their walk through the third level of the underground club Suzie greeted numerous people who knew her as Katherine Mendez and a few she introduced Holly too.

For her part it was hard for Holly not to gawk as they made their way past first the dance floor with its bird style cages suspended above the floor with single and couples performing numerous fetishistic and sexual acts. Holly felt herself blush numerous times as she realized what those people were doing. The dance floor itself was packed with people wearing everything from Nanno-rubber nun’s habits to being fully nude and showing it all.

Suzie finished leading the other woman to where Santiago was seated with his usual entourage of hangers on.

Holly was extremely surprised when Suzie let go of her arm and crawled into the man’s lap snuggling up against him and didn’t say a word as he started rubbing at her tightly clad thighs and let out a purr.

“Well if it isn’t my little black rubber kitty, it’s been almost a week since you were last here,” Santiago said.

“Oh, poppy, I had some things to take care of,” Suzie said purring.

“And who is this golden clad beauty,” Santiago asked looking Holly up and down.

“That’s my sister Isabelle poppy, she so wanted to come here and meet you,” Suzie purred again rubbing herself against Santiago.

“Why don’t we retire to a little more private room,” Santiago said pushing gently against Suzie and standing up as she slid from his lap.

“Bring your little sister Katherine,” Santiago said and walked off towards one of the private rooms and held the door open for the two women to go through and then shut it behind him.

“Feel free to make yourselves comfortable,” Santiago said waving his arms at the seating arrangement. “You can also take your masks off if you would like, there are no surveillance systems in this room,” Santiago explained.

Suzie unsealed her own mask and Holly followed suit fumbling slightly and almost dropping her mask as she undid the magnetic seal.

“Miss Haffenbakker it is so nice to finally meet you,” Santiago said taking one of her golden Nanno-rubber clad hands in his and kissing the back of it.

“Now if you’ll have a seat, I need to speak to Suzie about something,” Santiago said turning towards Suzie and leading her towards a corner of the room.

Holly turned towards the seating area and sat down in the overstuffed couch and played with the built in Holo-Vid projector in the surface of the coffee table.

Over in the corner Santiago spoke quietly to Suzie. “Good job on Sunday,” Santiago commended her.

“Thanks but it turns out that she was a friggin Tantalan Infiltrator Drone,” Suzie told him in a low voice.

“That is most disconcerting I’ll pass that information on to some contacts at OFI,” Santiago said. “But for now there is another matter discuss, did you know that Martine Is Very Green,” Santiago slipped the command phrase into the conversation with ease.

Suzie stood absolutely still only a thin blue ring of her iris showed around her fully dilated pupils.

“Now take this and make Miss Haffenbakker the latest employee of Flesh Bender,” Santiago ordered handing her a tube of the Nannite laden lipstick.

“Yes Master,” Suzie said taking the tube of lipstick and applying the black lipstick thoroughly to her lips and then running her tongue wetly along it then adding another layer of lipstick.

“Now go do it,” Santiago ordered turning her around and pushing her towards the couch where Holly was engrossed in the live feeds of some of the fetish rooms.

Suzie walked languidly over to where Holly was sitting and dropped into the couch next to her.

“Have you ever watched some of this stuff, some of its pretty cool and interesting but some of it is down right gross,” Holly said pushing at the HH keys on the pad.

Suzie didn’t say anything as she turned and grasped Holly by the shoulders turning her.

“What’s up Miss Marlowe?” Holly asked confused not noticing that only a thin ring of blue could be seen in her eyes.

Suzie didn’t answer leaning forward and pulling Holly too her at the same time, pressing her lips to Holly’s and French kissing her with lots of tongue.

“Now I realize I said I was into fetish but kissing another wo…,” Holly trailed off as she was released by Suzie the green of her iris mimicking that of Suzie’s.

“Ah dear, Miss Haffenbakker,” Santiago said sitting between the two women and swiveling them around so that he could drape an arm around each of their waists and running a finger down their sides. “Well I have my little black rubber kitty and now I have me a little gold rubber kitty,” he chuckled and started rubbing his fingers between their legs and both women started moaning in pleasure. “I think I’d prefer it if you purred for me my little rubber kitties,” Santiago said pulling the two women in closer to himself and rubbing more vigorously and was rewarded by a pair of cat like purrs.

“Let’s have a little fun shall we ladies,” Santiago said standing up and moving around behind the couch.

“Now ladies stand up,” Santiago ordered and the two CHOATE infected women stood up. “Now unseal your suits if you would ladies and take off your cowls,” Santiago once again ordered and the women undid the magnetic seals of their catsuits and pulled down their cowls.

The two of them stood silently as Santiago considered his next order. “I want you two ladies to play with one another, roughly, kiss, grope, finger the whole works,” he ordered.

“Yes master was said in unison by both women and then they got down on the thick carpeting of the room and started doing just that. The two of them French kissed one another and bit at each others lips hard enough to draw blood; inadvertently Holly swallowed some of the black nannites that swelled from Suzie’s lips. Suzie reached down and fingered Holly sliding them up and down until she was moist while Holly moaned and played with Suzie’s tits through the open seal of the cat suit. Both of them moaned and writhed on the carpeting pleasuring each other and constantly switching positions.

Santiago didn’t get anything from the performance save for something he could sell on the GalactaNet and a sense of power as he forced the two of them to humiliate themselves.

After about an hour he finally ordered them to stop and seal themselves back up including their masks. “Alright ladies it’s time to get you two a change of clothes,” he ordered and with one woman clasped in each arm around their waists with him. Occasionally running his fingers over the taught material between their thighs, both women constantly snuggled against him purring.

At the back of the third floor where he held court he led them to a concealed elevator that took all three of them to level six. Newly created just for the purposes of the club’s newest attraction; the Suckle Lounge; currently it was empty as he led them through it to the dressing rooms at the back.

In the dressing room of the suckle lounge there were already forty-eight other young women seated stiffly in folding chairs around the perimeter of the room. Flesh Bender staff members and the clubs own Nanno-doc were there prepping the women for their new jobs.

“Get these two ready,” Santiago ordered waving for two club staff members to take the girls.

Holly and Suzie were led over to a pair of folding chairs and were methodically stripped of their Nanno-rubber catsuits and ordered to sit down.

As Santiago watched the Nanno-Doc injected each young woman with a Nanno-injector starting with Suzie and then stepped back tapping on an E-PADD. Suddenly the nannites they had been injected with came to life and completely black bulbous eyes coverings snapped into place over their eyes and the Nanno-doc tapped another key.

“Okay Mr. Santiago they are now undergoing training,” the Nanno-doc a rather portly slovenly fellow told him.

“Good, how long will it take?” He asked.

“Approximately an hour for the full effect of the training to take hold and then you can go from there,” the Nanno-doc said smiling.

Suzie and Holly’s dilated eyes watched as they were taught visually and programmed subliminally how to perform various sexual acts as well as exotic dancing, all the girls in the room were undergoing the same process.

“Oh, how delicious,” Lisette exclaimed as she walked in the door with Janelle trailing a few feet behind her. “I can taste the sexual tension in the room,” she said walking around the room caressing the naked women in various places eliciting more than one gasp of pleasure. “It makes me very hungry,” Lisette growled her pink eyes and lips glowing faintly in the rooms light.

“Restrain yourself Lisette; these girls have all been chosen for a specific reason,” Santiago told her.

“Oh, I know, I’ll find a small snack after the performance,” Lisette said.

“Good, now I believe it is time for them to be dressed,” Santiago said glancing at his wrist chrono.

“This should be most interesting,” Lisette said.

“Alright,” Santiago raised his voice so that his employees could hear him throughout the large room. “Get them dressed ladies and gentlemen we have less than an hour before the show starts,” Santiago ordered.

The women were separated into ten groups of five and then another Nanno-injector was used at their wrists, if the nannites could have been seen they would have showed them imbedding a bracelet like device in the wrist bones of each woman. Each one had a small Nanno-computer that kept track of what services they had performed for the evening and what customer those services had been performed for.

After the last Nanno-injection was completed and employees of the club had run diagnostics on them five doors slid open on each wall showing a small booth like device that had a door at the far end. A corridor could be seen just beyond the clear armor glass of those doors.

The manager of the Suckle Lounge stood in the center of the room. “Alright ladies enter the booths and once you do so spread your arms and legs and open your mouths wide, do not leave the booth until ordered to do so by a member of the staff,” the manager ordered the CHOATE infected women.

When ordered to do so Suzie and Holly stepped into the booths, spreading their arms and legs out they opened their mouths wide.

In Suzie’s booth two sheets of hot pink Nanno-rubber unfurled from the ceiling and moved up against her skin. Small Nanno-metric tubes extruded from the sides of the booth and the sheets pressed against her flesh and the tubes imbedded themselves in the material and started sucking air out of the area between her skin and the material.

The pink Nanno-rubber bonded to her skin and anchored using Nanno-factories that would cause the Nanno-rubber malleable to expand and contract in the same way that a normal Nanno-sheath would. The material made her head completely smooth and it even filled her mouth to the back of the throat but still allowed her to breathe properly. The Nanno-material also entered between the crack of her buttocks and coated the interior of her bowels and the material entered her creating a Nanno-rubber damn to keep foreign fluids from entering to far and caused her to spread wide allowing for ease of entry.

When Suzie stepped out her entire body was coated with the pink Nanno-rubber; every detail of her body readily apparent including, finger and toe nails, eyebrows and even the interior of her mouth, teeth, and tongue were a bright pink. The only thing not coated by the material was her mirror lensed eyes and she was lead out onto a stage down the corridor behind a large curtain and ordered to wait there, she was soon joined by Holly who was coated similarly in canary yellow Nanno-rubber.

Outside the stage a loud speaker groaned to life and Santiago’s voice came over it. “Alright ladies and gentlemen welcome to the opening night of the Suckle Lounge, let me introduce our first two performers Pinkie and Canary,” at the mention of their stage names Suzie and Holly sauntered out onto the stage where a long large stage was with fifty brass poles running from the stage to the ceiling and as each woman’s stage name was called they walked forward onto the stage and started dancing around them.

Unlike other exotic dance clubs the Suckle Lounge in the Flesh Bender was a full service exotic dance club. All a customer had to do was pick out a girl and she would do whatever they wanted them to do. With the girls being under the influence of the CHOATE they didn’t even need to be paid for it.

As a precaution to ward off diseases and other nasty things the girls had gone through the Nanno-rubber malleable sheath procedure and all the clients were required to strip naked and have a light coating of Nanno-rubber sprayed on their bodies so that the girls could easily pleasure them without chance of spreading any nastiness.

The girls danced and showed their wares for an hour before the clients started picking them out for personal service.

One older gentlemen with a thick main of silver hair chose the girl named Tangerine and had her crouched between his knees to service him. What the man didn’t know was that the girl was actually his twenty-three year old niece and that Santiago was recording everything going on in the Suckle Lounge.

Holly/Canary was chosen by a woman with long dark blonde hair and had her head forcibly between her knees as her yellow tongue dipped out and into the woman’s vagina causing her to moan pleasurably and her yellow clad hands were forced upwards to fondle the woman’s breasts.

Suzie/Pinkie found herself straddling a younger man bouncing up and down as they pumped in rhythm he then pushed her to the ground and took her doggy style after that. Throughout the Suckle Lounge moans and whimpers of pleasure as well as grunts of exertion could be heard throughout the room as Santiago’s Nanno-rubber malleable coated dancers serviced the customers. The scene continued through the night with whatever girls not currently engaged returning to the stage to continue their pole dancing.

At five in the morning the final Suckle Lounge customer was ushered out and the girls were taken back to the dressing room where the employees deactivated the girls Nanno-rubber malleable sheaths and then their eye lenses. Each girl was taken back to the point where she was taken from; some of which had been removed from their own beds in their homes.

“…so what do you think of the Flesh Bender Isabelle,” Suzie asked Holly as the two of them danced on the floor the varicolored lights glowing and bouncing off their Nanno-rubber catsuits.

“It’s pretty cool but I’m starting to feel a little beat,” Holly admitted to her friend.

“We’ll get going here soon. I just have to tell Santiago something and we can go,” Suzie said. “Just stay here and enjoy yourself I’ll be right back,” Suzie said pushing her way through the crowd.

Holly was enjoying herself; she always loved to dance no matter what kind it was and the looks she kept eliciting from the men and even a few of the women made her feel weird and sexually aroused at the same time.

She was just about to move back towards one of the bars for a drink when a bolt of pleasure shot up her body from between her thighs as she felt fingers expertly caressing her juncture.

“Hello dear,” a sultry voice greeted from behind and without the fingers ever leaving the sensitive spot a porcelain skinned woman with metallic pink lips and glowing pink eyes came into view; another woman in black Nanno-rubber body stocking stood behind her a wide grin across her face.

“You must be Isabelle, Katherine’s younger sister,” Lisette said.

Holly was barely able to husk out a yes as the waves of pleasure rolled through her. She knew she was in danger. She’d read about this type of person; a Mu Horseman; who could stimulate the base feelings with but a touch. She needed to get away from her before she turned her into one of the mindless Mu like the girl standing behind the pink clad figure.

“Get your hands off my sister,” Suzie said walking up and slapping Lisette’s hand away from between Holly’s legs.

“Oh pooh you and Santiago are no fun,” the woman pouted her pink lips compressing into a thin line.

“Stay away Lisette she isn’t something for you to feed on,” Suzie growled wishing that she could revert to Sister 14 and kill the Horseman.

“Well if you’re going to be that way, I’ll see you ladies around; Ta-ta,” the Horseman turned away leading the Mu by its hand back into the crowd probably looking for an early morning snack.

“Are you okay?” Suzie asked.

“Yeah,” Holly replied, “Was that a…”

“Yes, let’s go ahead and get back to the penthouse, I don’t know about you but I’m pooped out,” Suzie told her.

The two of them climbed back into the Aston Martin and returned to the penthouse to only take long enough to slip out of their catsuits and climb into bed. Holly nearly slid out of hers not used to her skin being so slick but after a few minutes of wiggling she was able to fall asleep.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World-Caruthers City

Syntheria Arms Apartments

Saturday August 25th, 725 2E - 10:00 CST

Everyone slept in late that Saturday even Suzie who was generally up at about seven hundred hours but for some reason her body demanded that she stay in bed and give it some extra energy.

Suzie felt rather bleary eyed as she dragged into the shower in the master suite’s bathroom. Showering quickly she dressed in a pair of gym shorts and a light cotton t-shirt with cross trainers on her feet.

Her intention was to do a light workout in the gym and then spend the rest of the day at the office getting things situated for her almost month long absence. Stopping by Cecilia’s room she found the girl sitting up in bed leaning against a plump array of pillows and Sylvester was just setting a lap tray down in front of her. The tray was packed with tons of food since the TET generally burned tons of calories for the first few days it was in the person’s system.

“How are you doing kiddo?” Suzie asked the young girl.

“Better,” she croaked slightly licking dry lips and then taking a sip from a glass of orange juice. “Better and I’ll be able to resume practice later today,” the girl said already trying to wheedle her way out of bed and back to her normal routine.

“Sorry kiddo, no way, the Med-Tech said at least two days of bedrest but you are going to get three. Holly can resume you’re practice sessions aboard the Nautilus Monday morning,” Suzie told her.

“But how are we going to get a decent run in or even skate practice if we are going to be cooped up on a ship for almost a month,” Cecilia asked crossing her arms defiantly and almost spilling the orange juice that she had forgotten was in her hand.

“Cecilia,” Suzie started to say sharply and then calmed herself. “I know you want to get as much practice as you can before the school year starts but there is only so much Nanno-technology can do and if you tear apart a major muscle group or seriously fracture a bone they won’t let you play,” Suzie explained to the girl.

The girl grimaced and sat up straighter in the bed. “I know I just feel like I’m letting you and Holly down by not trying my hardest to be ready for this season’s Grav Disc team,” the girl said in a miserable voice.

Suzie walked up to the girl’s bed and put a hand on either side of her face cupping it and tilting it so that she was looking Suzie directly in the face; small tears of misery tracked down her face. “Sweetie look at me, you aren’t letting me or Holly down, it’s not your fault that you need the rest, and we both understand that,” Suzie said with a small reassuring smile.

The girl returned the smile with a faint one of her own.

“Now,” Suzie said releasing the girl’s face and folding her arms below her breasts. “Finish the nice breakfast that Sylvester prepared for you and I’ll let you play some Holo-Vid games on the Net,” Suzie told her.

“Yes Ma’am,” Cecilia said her smile growing a bit.

“That’s better, have you decided what clothes you want to take with you on the trip yet?” Suzie asked sitting on the edge of the bed as the girl dug into her breakfast.

“Yeah,” the girl said around a half chewed mouthful of blueberry muffin and then swallowed before continuing. “I already downloaded the list from my E-PADD to Sylvester and he said he’d have everything packed by Sunday Evening in case I changed my mind,” the girl answered.

“Good, I’ve got to get a work out so if you need me just hit the auto-dial on the comm,” Suzie told her standing up and leaving the room.

Suzie was on an exercise bike and had pedaled several miles by the time Holly came into the room dressed in a striped leotard and a pair of mono-film tights and headed over to one of the weight training machines.

“So how did you sleep?” Suzie asked huffing out a breath; her face beaded with sweat and her hair and clothes dark from it.

“Like a rock,” Holly answered setting the tension system on the weight training machine.

“Me to, although I’m surprised we both slept so late,” Suzie said her legs pumping out the miles as quickly as she could.

“Suzie you might want to slow down or Holly might notice something,” CHCCC-14 warned Suzie.

“Right,” Suzie replied mentally to the AI and slowed her legs down just before they started being a blur. She’d have to have maintenance done on the stationary bike before she used it next time.

“So how did you enjoy yourself last night?” Suzie asked.

“It was wonderful, I’ve never felt so alive,” Holly said. “Except for that incident with that Mu Horseman,” Holly said chewing on her lip at the memory.

“Yeah, Lisette is a bit of a bitch,” Suzie said panting.

“What was she doing there anyway?” Holly asked the tension bars and weight clinking softly as she worked her way through several reps.

“Probably showing off her latest toy, doing some grazing and Santiago seems to have taken her on as a partner. He’s wanted to open up an entire chain of Flesh Bender clubs and the Seven Deadly Sins would certainly have the capitol to help him do so,” Suzie told the girl.

“She’s downright scary,” Holly said shivering as she sat up from the weight training machine.

“Stay away from her,” Suzie warned. “She could drain you of all your emotions and turn you into a glassy eyed smiley faced Mu drone in less than ten minutes,” Suzie told her gravely.

“I definitely don’t want that to happen,” Holly said shivering again and increasing the weight allowance on the weight training machine; not realizing that the weight amount she had added was much more than she would normally have been able to move.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Flesh Bender Fetish Club - Suckle Lounge

Sunday August 26th, 725 2E - 01:00 CST

That night Holly and Suzie returned to the Flesh Bender and performed in the Suckle Lounge, Holly/Canary spent most of her time with the same woman she had the night before.

The woman once again ordered her between her legs and Canary’s long yellow coated tongue licked out pleasuring the woman.

Pinkie was very popular that night and spent most of her time entertaining male clients in the Suckle Lounge. Her superbly trained muscles sending groans of pleasure up from her clients.

Something odd happened that night however that no one noticed, most of the Nanno-rubber girls at one point or another had a ripple of black veins run across their bodies but it was over and done with so quickly that it probably wouldn’t have been caught by the human eye.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Syntheria Arms Apartment

Sunday August 26th, 725 2E - 23:37 CST

Nathan used Cecilia’s body to spy on her aunt and teacher; he found the planned schedule for the Nautilus’ trip to Plymouth with someone named Eric Barstowe.

Hmm, maybe I should toss a couple problems her way during her little visit to Plymouth, the emperor thought to himself as he spied on the girl’s aunt. Soon little Suzie you’ll be mine again and love being in my service like you did once, Nathan thought at her sleeping form and then returned the girl’s body to her bed.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Caruthers City Space Port - Docking Pad for the Civilian Large [Battle] Cruiser Nautilus

Monday August 27th, 725 2E - 10:00 CST

“Cecilia, Eric, Ned, Holly, I’d like you to meet the ship’s Captain Jaime Guillermo,” Suzie said. “Jaime I’d like you to meet my niece and nephew Cecilia and Ned Marlowe, my assistant Holly Haffenbakker and Eric Barstowe,” Suzie finished introducing everyone.

“Nice to meet you all,” Guillermo said shaking hands.

“Exactly what time will we be leaving Captain Guillermo?” Suzie asked after the introductions were complete.

“Our expected take off time is 12:00 hours Miss Marlowe,” the captain answered.

“Thank you captain,” Suzie said smiling at the captain.

“Certainly ma’am, your cabins have also been prepared for you as well,” the Captain informed her without being asked.

“Good and the Holo-immersion suite?” Suzie asked.

“The programs you wanted have been downloaded to its database Ma’am,” the Captain told her.

“Thank you again Captain,” Suzie said and led the others the rest of the way into the ship and to the passenger quarters.

The halls of the vessel were paneled in a dark walnut paneling and deep maroon carpeting covered the floors. The ship seemed more like a seagoing cruise ship than a moderately armed and armored privately owned battle cruiser, even the areas of the ship populated by the crew were more sumptuous than those found on other ships.

“Wow,” Cecilia said bouncing on her cabin’s bed when Holly walked in an hour and a half later.

“Alright Cecilia we need to get ready for takeoff,” Holly told her motioning at the armored cabinet that held the girl’s Skinsuit.

“Do I really have to Holly, it’s so hard to put on,” Cecilia said whining slightly.

“Yes, regulations require that passengers wear Skinsuits when entering and leaving an atmosphere,” Holly said her hands on her Skinsuit clad hips the Skinsuit she was wearing was a silver and gold color with the MACE corporate logo over one breast.

“Alright, alright,” Cecilia sighed and got up to open the armored locker pulling out her Skinsuit.

Several minutes later both of them were clad in their Skinsuits and met the others in one of the smaller salons. Ned was wearing a smaller version of Holly’s suit and sitting in Eric’s lap who was wearing a black and gold Theban Cluster Fleet Marine Corps Skinsuit, and Suzie was wearing a black one with white and gray highlights.

Also in the salon were a bartender behind the highly polished mahogany bar and a stewardess/waitress both also in MACE Skinsuits.

“That took a little longer than I thought it would,” Suzie said looking at the built in diagnostic panel on one arm that also contained a chrono.

“Yeah,” Holly said. “Someone didn’t want to get into her Skinsuit,” She explained.

Suzie sighed. “I know you don’t like wearing your Skinsuit Cecilia but corporate and galactic law require it when entering or exiting an atmosphere, which are the two most likely times that something can go wrong,” Suzie explained quietly admonishing Cecilia.

“I apologize Aunt Suzie, I’ll be sure not to dawdle in the future,” Cecilia said blushing slightly.

“Now let’s play some cards,” Suzie said smiling.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Caruthers World- Caruthers City

Caruthers City Space Port - Docking Pad for the Civilian Large [Battle] Cruiser Nautilus

Monday August 27th, 725 2E - 12:00 CST

“Do you have any threes?” Eric asked Ned.

“Nope, go fish,” Ned said gleefully.

Eric was just about to reply when an announcement came over the intercom system.

“Attention all crew and passengers we are preparing to take off from the spaceport please lock down your crash chairs and make sure that all items are properly stowed in stasis fields for transit to extra-atmospheric conditions,” the captain’s voice said over the intercom.

The stewardess walked behind the bar and the bartender closed and activated the liquor cabinet’s stasis field. The stewardess pushed another button and two crash chairs unfolded from the walls and the two of them sat down and the crash frames came down to lock.

“Hold on Ned,” Eric said as the passenger’s crash chairs moved from their normal positions into a row along the wall and the frames locked in place. “Now hold on little guy,” Eric said to Ned.

Suzie patted Cecilia’s hand. “I know that this is the first time you’ll do an extra-atmospheric exit outside of stasis,” Suzie said to the girl.

“I’m alright, I’m actually looking forward to this,” Cecilia said.

“I’m not,” Holly said gritting her teeth.

“What’s the matter Holly? I thought you’d been up and down to the ring dozens of times while you were attending Siemens Academy,” Suzie said.

“Yeah but I never liked doing it,” Holly said gripping the arms of her crash frame as the ship started to vibrate under the power of its counter gravity system.

“Now leaving Caruthers Spaceport,” the captain announced over the intercom system.

The ship’s counter gravity system whined sub-audibly causing most of the personnel to try and pop their eardrums as the noise caused an uncomfortable build up of pressure.

After about an hour the captain came back over the ship’s intercom. “Ladies and gentlemen we have now reached space; you may now unlock your crash frames and change out of your Skinsuits; all crew into duty suits please,” the captain ordered.

“It’s about time,” Cecilia said popping her crash frame and standing up and stretching. “Time to go do some exploring,” the girl crowed.

“Not so fast young lady,” Holly said getting up from her own crash chair and laying a hand on the girl’s shoulder. “You haven’t done any practice for close to a week now, and it’s time we got back to it,” Holly commanded.

“But, but, how are we going to do that?” Holly asked.

“This ship has several Holo-immersion suites on deck five,” Suzie told the girl standing up herself and then unlocked Ned’s frame picking him up.

“What’s a Holo-immersion suit?” Holly asked confused.

“I’ll show you,” Holly told her. “Now go change into your leotard and I’ll meet you in your cabin once I’ve peeled myself out of this Skinsuit and put on my own leotard,” Holly ordered.

“But I wanted to explore the ship,” Cecilia said under her breath as she left the salon and followed by Holly a minute later who winked at Suzie.

“Eric I’m going to get Ned changed out of his suit and change into something else myself, meet back here in about an hour?” Suzie told the man.

“Sure, it’ll probably take me that long just to get out of this thing,” Eric said grinning.

Tantalus Hive Mind - ACS-001 - ACW-001

Tantalan Imperial Palace

Monday August 27th, 725 2E - 20:00 CST

[Empress Query: Have our proxies taken control of MACE Corporation]

[Hive Mind Reply: No, a vote was passed not to sell the company to Tantalus Pleasure Products]

[Emperor Query: Why was the purchase denied, was the monetary recompense not sufficiently high enough]

[Hive Mind Reply: No, decision not to sell was pushed through by the CEO and President Suzie Marlowe]

[Empress Query: Why would she not sell her company]

[Hive Mind Reply: Sentimental Reasons]

[Emperor: We must gain purchase of this company to continue our infiltration of human controlled space]

[Empress Query: Does Suzie Marlowe have any weak points]

[Hive Mind Reply: At least three known weaknesses, Niece Cecilia Marlowe, Nephew Ned Marlowe, Personal Assistant Holly Haffenbakker]

[Emperor Query: Viability of weaknesses]

[Hive Mind Reply: Nephew Ned Marlowe weakness unviable, Niece Cecilia Marlowe weakness unviable, Personal Assistant Holly Haffenbakker Weakness 75% chance of viability]

[Empress Query: Is the design of the TSIU-6/13 series variant of the Tantalus Nanno-Virus complete]

[Hive Mind Answer: TSIU-6/13 series Nanno-viral variant is completed]

[Emperor Query: Would it be viable to use on this Holly Haffenbakker Unit]

[Hive Mind Answer: Viability is over 90%, the new Komodo Siren is also available]

[Empress Query: What is current location of Holly Haffenbakker Unit]

[Hive Mind Answer: Holly Haffenbakker Unit is currently aboard the MACE owned vessel Nautilus en route to UNSF controlled planet Plymouth]

[Emperor Order: Send a Komodo Siren to Holly Haffenbakker Unit infected with the TSIU-6/13 series of Nanno-virus]

[Hive Mind Answer: Order obeyed and filed]

Hyperspace Between Caruthers World and Plymouth

Civilian Large [Battle] Cruiser Nautilus

Monday September 7th, 725 2E - 07:00 CST

Cecilia found herself working even harder than she had before they had left the planet. The Holo-simulation suite was able to easily mimic the entirety of Bambridge Park and Holly had made sure to run her up and down each and every path in the park.

She’d also spent hours and hours in both a ballet gym simulation and an ice skating rink simulation.

Holly came into the gym that morning with a package and handed it to Cecilia. “I think it’s time for your first ballet performance,” she told the girl.

“Performance?” Cecilia asked surprised.

“Yup, I’ve got a one person simulation of swan lake loaded into the Holo-simulator and I’ve been kind of sneaky making you actually practice moves from the play,” Holly told her with a grin.

“Perform the whole thing,” Cecilia squeaked.

“Yup, you’re going to perform the whole thing,” Holly said and tapped the box. “Now change into that,” She ordered.

In the changing room Cecilia opened the box and let out a gasp as she pulled the clothes out of the box. Inside were a cream colored set of mono-film tights and a leotard with delicate lace around the bosom and sleeves, the same cream colored lace fell in numerous layers for the tutu, seed pearls were stitched along the hem and neck line.

Cecilia took a quick shower and changed into the costume and laced her toe shoes up as she exited the dressing room she entered the first act of the swan lake and was consumed by the story as she and the hard holography members of the caste performed the haunting tale of Swan Lake.

Cecilia didn’t even realize she had an audience until quiet clapping started after the end of the play and she bowed to her Aunt, Holly, Ned, Eric, and several members of the crew that had come for the performance including the ship’s captain.

“That has got be one of the most enjoyable versions of Swan Lake I’ve ever seen young lady,” Captain Guillermo said to Cecilia as the Holo-Immersion Suite shut down.

“Thank you sir,” Cecilia said suddenly feeling shy and embarrassed by the attention she was getting from the hundred or so crew members and her family.

“Looks like you’ve done a spectacular job Holly,” Suzie congratulated. “You’re performance was spectacular Cecilia,” Suzie told her niece hugging her, she was dressed in an elegant ball gown and the others were as dressed up as her.

After the performance and the congratulations Cecilia was allowed to change into a gown of her own and a not so impromptu banquet was held.

Theban Cluster - Caruthers Sector - Caruthers System - Yushima Limit

Civilian Frigate White Lightning

Monday September 8th, 725 2E - 16:29 CST

The bridge of the frigate White Lightning was quiet as the vessel fell out of hyperspace and entered real space, the bridge consoles rotated back to their normal positions and the white glossy re-breather faces looked at one another.

“Bringing hosts out of Stasis,” Dekras ordered.

“Bringing host out of stasis,” Dantalas confirmed.

“Brining host out of stasis,” Tavaria confirmed.

“Brining host out of stasis,” Mokel confirmed.

“I take it we are in the Caruthers system,” Sandra said and then blanched as she looked at the date code. “What the hell, why did it take so long to get here?” Sandra asked.

“We wanted to confirm that all Falcra were still trapped at the space station,” Dekras told her. “We apologize for this,” she said apologetically.

“That’s no problem Dekras, just please inform us of this type of thing in the future,” Sandra said.

“Once again we apologize, even after all these years bonded with humans we still have a hard time understanding the concept of time,” Dekras explained apologetically.

“Well it’s water over the bridge,” Isaac said.

“Yes, let’s go find this Black Pariah and destroy her,” Markus said.

“Let’s do some research first,” Sandra suggested.

“Where do we start,” Kathleen asked.

“Well probably the best thing would be to start with the news and police records,” Sandra said. “Markus and I will go to the police station and try to get our hands on one of the reports,” Sandra said. “Isaac you and Kathleen head over to the various new stations and E-papers and find out what you can from the reporters that were there that day,” Sandra ordered.

“Alright,” Isaac said as he stood up.

“Might want to change your look a little though,” Markus suggested.

“Oh right,” Isaac said and the glossy white Symbiotes they were wearing changed. The material was still glossy white but for the men it looked like they were wearing three piece suits while the women looked like they were wearing pant suits.

“That’s better,” Kathleen said as she grabbed Isaac by the hand and left.

“Alright, see you in a few hours then,” Markus said nodding to them.

“We better get going as well,” Sandra said grabbing Markus’ hand and dragging him out of the ship.

Markus and Sandra headed for the Galactic Patrol station located in Caruthers City and after flashing Markus’ SOCOM identification were shown into the shared office of Detective Sergeant Enrico Martine and Detective Sergeant Franklin Mullins.

“Kinda dressed weirdly for members of SOCOM,” one of the officers in the patrol bullpen said as the two entered the Detectives’ office.

“Yeah, who knows with those special ops types,” another officer said shrugging.

From the perspectives of the officers the two had been clad in glossy white Nanno-suits and jackets.

“Detective Martine, Detective Mullins, I’m Lt. Colonel Markus Vanderburgh, and this is Captain Sandra Sikorsky,” Markus said shaking hands with the two detectives as he introduced himself and Sandra.

“Nice to meet you Lt. Colonel, Captain,” Enrico said ending the hand shake. “But I’m not real sure what we can help you with.”

“We’re actually here about this individual,” Sandra said pulling an E-PADD out of a slit pocket from the interior of her glossy white jacket and handing it to Martine.

“Santiago’s assassin,” Mullins muttered looking over Enrico’s shoulder.

“Yeah,” Enrico said setting the E-PADD down with a still image of Sister 14 on it.

“Santiago?” Markus asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Yeah, Augustus Santiago, kind of a crime boss of the local underground, he runs the Flesh Bender Fetish club and it’s said that he has enough information to black mail the entire Caruthers World government,” Enrico explained and then tapped the image. “This person or someone who has the almost same physical description has been seen entering and leaving the suspected location of the club and she’s linked to the death of several dozen less than savory persons in both the government and underworld,” Enrico continued to explain.

The E-PADD showed two images; one of which was of the Black Pariah that had been caught on camera when she was fighting Eric Barstowe and his men; the other looked like it had been taken inside a parking garage and showed a woman of unknown age in a skin-tight black glossy Nanno-rubber catsuit with re-breather mask and thick soled knee high combat boots.

“What makes you think these two women are connected?” Sandra asked. “This first one appears to be wearing a Nanno-sheath of some sort while this one is just wearing a Nanno-rubber catsuit,” she said pointing to each image in turn.

“Generally the one in the Nanno-rubber suit shows up shortly before the other makes an appearance and kills someone, although of late she’s been showing up more frequently and in the company of this woman,” Enrico tapped the screen with his light stylus.

The next image showed the same Nanno-rubber clad woman but this time she was accompanied by another slightly shorter woman in a matching dark gold outfit.

“So do you think there are two assassins now then?” Markus asked.

“There is no indication of that and we’ve even run the plates of the vehicle they drive and it leads to a stack of dummy corporations so thick that it would probably take years to cut our way through them,” Martine told them.

“Sounds like a pretty professional set up,” Sandra mused.

“It is, plus our source before she disappeared told us that he’s been making in roads with the Seven Deadly Sins through this woman,” once again Martine tapped the E-PADD.

The image showed a porcelain skinned woman with deep black hair, wearing a dark pink sheath dress her eyes, lips, and fingernails the same dark pink. “Her name is Lisette and she’s a Horseman for the Sin Lust,” Martine explained.

“Why do you think he’s getting involved with the Seven Deadly Sins?” Sandra asked.

“Well for one thing our under cover officer, Janelle Genevieve was compromised,” Martine answered once again tapping the E-PADD again and showing two more pictures.

The first was of a young woman in a Galactic Patrol uniform the color stripe of Violent Crimes running up one leg of her mono-film duty suit as she saluted the camera. The second picture showed a low order Mu wearing a short sleeved and legged Nanno-rubber cat suit and slippers, her face was split by a lazy grin and her eyes, lips, and nails were the same pink color as Lisette’s had been.

“Is that the same girl?” Sandra asked.

“Yeah it seems that Santiago sacrificed Detective Genevieve to Lisette to get her backing to open up numerous Flesh Bender clubs on other planets,” Martine explained to the two.

“Interesting, maybe we should visit this Lisette,” Markus said rubbing a white Nanno-rubber clad hand against his chin.

“Why exactly is Office of Fleet Intelligence interested in Flesh Bender and Santiago?” Martine asked.

“We aren’t actually interested in Santiago but this assassin who we believe to be a Neo-Prussian Empire Black Pariah,” Sandra told him.

“You’re kidding me right?” Martine exploded in surprise.

“No, and we know exactly which one it is as well,” Sandra said pulling out her own E-PADD and bringing up two images one was of the assassin’s left breast that had a round insignia with the words Emperor’s Own 1st Black Pariah Regiment and the other had a Roman Numeral Fourteen.

“What’s that mean?” Mullins asked stoking a pipe to life.

“The fourteen means that this is Sister 14 and the former commander of the Emperor’s Own 1st Black Pariah Regiment the palace guards of the Emperor and as the spearhead of most of his offensive operations and as assassins and special operations troops,” Sandra explained.

“How did the leader or former leader of the Emperor’s own palace guard end up on Caruthers World as an assassin?” Martine asked.

“Does this mean Santiago has connections with the Neo-Prussian Empire?” Mullins mused.

“It’s possible that Santiago does have connections to the Neo-Prussian Empire but we’d have to check our files for that information,” Markus said.

“Or not, our information sources show that Sister-14 was thought destroyed approximately five hundred years ago,” Sandra explained.

“Five hundred years ago,” Martine choked on a sip of coffee.

“But with that low a number that would make Sister-14 over seven hundred years old,” Mullins said wide eyed.

“We estimate that Sister 14 became a Black Pariah around eleven 2E,” Markus told them.

Mullins let out a low whistle. “How long can a Black Pariah live?” He asked.

“The exact length of time that a Black Pariah can live is unknown, since all bodily functions have been taken over by the Pariah Nanno-Virus it is believed that they may be able to live until they are destroyed, possibly thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years,” Sandra explained.

“Where in the hell did the Neo-Prussians get that kind of technology from,” Martine asked.

“From the Falcra, during the 2nd Black Council war the Falcra approached the Neo-Prussians and sold them the same Nanno-virus that had brought them back from their hibernative state and the Neo-Prussians modified it to their own purposes,” Sandra told the two Galactic Patrol Detectives.

“Why hasn’t the Galactic Coalition Council done something about this?” Mullins asked.

“What can they do?” Markus asked shrugging. “The NPE is a sovereign star nation that isn’t even a member of the Galactic Coalition; if they can’t stop them from creating genetic slaves how would they stop them from using this Nanno-virus,” Markus said a note of distaste in his voice at the mention of genetic slaves.

“Exactly how many of these Black Pariahs are there?” Martine asked.

“Every Neo-Prussian Empire world has a single Regiment of Black Pariahs as well as a support staff of White Pariahs that do the technical and medical duties as well as a small transport and defense fleet crewed by Gray Pariahs,” Sandra explained.

“Jesus, there are more than one type of these things,” Mullins exploded.

“Actually there are four, but I’ll get to that fourth type in a minute,” Sandra told the two men. Originally there was only the Black Pariahs as we explained they were to be used as basically assassins and shock troops and as bodyguards for the Emperor and his family,” Sandra continued. “The second type of Pariah is the Gray ones these are used as crew members of the transport and escort vessels for the Black Pariah’s. Each one of Gray Pariahs has the distilled naval skills of every other Gray Pariah, the only time these see combat is if they have to punch a hole for the Black Pariah’s transport vessels or if they are directly attacked,” she told them. “As for the White Pariahs they have all the medical and Nanno-technology information that has been learned to date and are the ones that get the most updates from their control interface, they mainly serve as support elements for the command functions of the Black Pariah while in the field and as medical personnel for the Black Pariahs,” Sandra explained.

“You said there was a fourth type of Pariah,” Mullins prompted.

Sandra made Moi of distaste and shifted crossing her legs the Nanno-rubber of her suit making a faint squeaking sound as she did so. “That would be the Training Cadre, or more often referred to as the Silver Pariah, they are covered by a black Nanno-sheath like the regular Black Pariahs but their eye lenses, re-breather grills, and insignia are all done in silver and they act as trainers for new generations of Black Pariahs,” she explained in disgust.

“Wait I thought you said that the Pariahs had their knowledge downloaded directly to their brains,” Mullins asked confused.

“Yes they do but before they become Pariahs they must go through one of three Academies the IAEMS or Imperial Academy for Ecclesiastic and Military Studies, the IAENS or Imperial Academy for Ecclesiastic and Naval Study and the IAEMTTS or Imperial Academy for Ecclesiastic and Medical Trauma and Technology Study,” Sandra said pushing the mouthful of words out without a hitch.

“People actually volunteer to become Pariahs?” Mullins asked with incredulousness.

“It’s not like the Empire runs around stating the fact that Pariahs are nothing but computer controlled meat puppets that once infected can no longer think or act on their own with out specific orders from their controlling AI,” Sandra explained.

“Controlling AI?” Martine Questioned.

“Yes each Pariah is imbedded with an AI that is completely loyal to the Emperor and acts as a combat computer and control mechanism for the Pariah, although during battle it mostly does data analysis and recommends courses of action while the Pariah generally has a free hand to do battle using all it’s programmed skills and abilities,” Sandra explained more fully.

“God that is so sick,” Mullins said.

“They also start the candidates off at the age of 18 and run them through a rigorous course of study that not only includes military tactics, but assassination, dance, gymnastics, stealth, and many other things,” Markus added.

“And there is one of those things running around loose in our city,” Martine muttered in disgust. “Great, just great,” he added.

“Well generally Pariahs don’t go in for the whole mindless mayhem thing,” Sandra reassured him. “If used singly they are used to target a specific individual or small group, and if used in groups they are used as shock troops to break down enemy resistance for the Imperial Marines to come in behind them and mop things up and for occupation duty,” she continued.

The next couple of hours were spent in a question and answer session with Sandra and Markus giving the two detectives as much information as they could.