The Vespidian
Arc 8 Superficial
Chapter 18
Mmmm. I feel so fulfilled. My eyes peeked open and I yawned stretching. I must have fallen asleep at some point. My hands canvased the bed, bumping against some soft flesh and I coiled around it. It smells so good here, ah the smell of my mate. Neon Nurse, mm, mm. So soft and warm- ow something just shocked me! I sat up, looking her over… she was missing her arms and a leg! I picked one of the arms up and tried to put it back on. It didn’t work and fell back off. What vile fiend did this to you Neon Nurse?! Oh, oh right, it was me, I did this!
“Neon Nurse! Are you ok?” I asked, shifting her so that we were face to face.
She is just a torso! There were claw marks all over her and the fake flesh was ripped and gashed in a few places. Though surprisingly the head had been left mostly alone. There were a few bald patches where I can assume I yanked at her hair too hard and pulled it out. The missing leg laying across the room was missing several chunks out of it and had bite marks. It was even missing half the toes! Even the boobies had bite marks and oh no, the left one was missing the nipple! Was I eating her?! What the fuck is wrong with me?
What have I done? I guess I nibble… I will have to keep that in mind. I don’t think that I will be able to have normal sex or at the least not with normal people. I would likely have to go for the bondage stuff to restrain myself from getting out of hand. I hope Neon Nurse is alright, she was just laying there. I hovered over her. She looked at me blankly and opened her plush lips. She didn’t say anything and closed them after a short moment. She seemed disorientated and not entirely all here. Most of the lights on her had burnt out and her eyes were even more lifeless than usual.
I shook her a little, “Neon Nurse, snap out of it!”
She blinked, drool leaking out of the corner of her mouth. I stroked her face gently and she blinked again, “Mmnh. Oh… Ve… Vesper.”
She limply leaned against me and I felt like I wanted to cry. I broke her, I broke Neon Nurse! “Talk to me, please!”
She jerked a little and her stumps sparked as they rotated helplessly. She shivered uncontrollably, “That was… lovely.”
Right, right, she is a hardcore sadmaso after all. Is Neon Nurse actually more pervy than I am… nope. Though she does try. She leaned in and kissed me. I retreated, but she was incessant and flopped onto me, dragging herself along my carapace. Ow! Stop that your wires are shocking me. If she is doing that then she is fine, right? I picked her up and laid her flat on the bed. She stopped resisting and her eyes looked at me with expectations. Between her thighs looked particularly lewd and juicey… I ignored it. Normally I would be aroused seeing these big titties and that messy place down there, yet I wasn’t. In fact, my lady bits hurt a bit at even the thought of getting hot and ready.
“Are you ok?”
“I am functional, Vesper.”
“Your arms and a leg are off though,” I said, picking one up and placing it next to her.
“They are exchangeable. Are you satisfied, my love?”
I nodded. I don’t feel horny at all and Sub was passed out in there. I think she went comatose so… yeah, I think I am satisfied. I don’t remember fully what happened after she injected me, but seeing how rough of a shape she is in, it is pretty easy to tell things got out of hand.
“Neon Nurse, are you sure you are ok? I am sorry I did that to you,” I rubbed against her affectionately.
“Xava,” she said.
“What?”
“Call me Xava, it is my real name.”
“Xa… Xava?” I replied a little unsure.
She licked her lips and wiggled so I picked her up, “Yes Vesper, I love you.”
I hugged her, “I love you too.”
She nestled in against me and nipped at my neck, “This body is annoying, help me change back into my normal one.”
“How?”
“Hold my head.”
I did, gently holding it and she closed her eyes. I was about to ask what to do when it suddenly separated and the beaten torso fell lifeless onto the bed.
The head wiggled, “Ahhh, much better. It was hard to think with all those broken sensors clogging up my neural net with redundancies.”
“So you are really fine?” I asked.
“You are so sweet. I am fine my dear. Come close,” she whispered, I did and she kissed me again.
This was a lover’s smooch and we enjoyed it for a bit. My tongue explored her and she kept wiggling. We were like teenagers just smacking lips and hotly tongue wrestling in each other’s mouths. I pulled us apart after a short while, mostly cause I needed air and she wouldn’t let me have it otherwise.
“Neon… Xava. Thank you.”
“Mmm,” she licked her lips, “of course Vesper. Take me into my refitting room.”
I took her to the wall and it opened once she got close enough. I carried her in and looked over the dimly lit workstation. On the wall, there were headless bodies held in place like suits in a closet. All of them wore her tight white nurse outfit that was made of a pliable metal. Black arm length gloves covered each arm and below were the black stockings and boots. The skin was grooved and had the neon lights embodied, however, none of them were lit.
“Just get the first one,” she said and I did, lifting it down and laying it so that it was sitting upright.
I placed her head on the neck, lining up the grooves and inner attachments. It snapped into place, rotating until it fit properly. The pink lights glowed and she shifted, looking over her hands as she wiggled the fingers. Slowly she got off of her knees and stretched the legs. She cracked her neck a few times and clapped her hands with a smile.
“Much better! I can move again. I can… hold you again.”
She stroked my face and cupped my hands, nuzzling against them. Neon Nurse is being weird. I don’t remember her ever being this affectionate. I guess I did usually run away or hit her with something if she started trying to put the moves on me. This, this isn’t so bad. I could get used to this sort of thing. Wait we had some raunchy sex, does this mean we are like a thing now?
“Are we?”
“Are we?” She asked, cocking her head.
“You know… going out now?” I asked not entirely sure why I was so embarrassed, but dammit I was.
Her eyes lit up and she put a finger to my lips, poking it in, “I would love that Vesper. Whenever you feel your urges again, come to me and I will be sure to take care of them.”
“We are dating, right?”
Xava just smiled, “Is that what you want?”
“I… I think? We can have sex when I want, right?”
“Of course, well, maybe not whenever, but if it is appropriate, then I will be happy to accommodate you,” She smiled, though seemed a little down as she continued, “Was it only physical coupling that you wanted from me?”
Why would she feel sad? Wait does she think I only want sex out of her? I worded that poorly.
“No,” I said, “Of course not. It is not just the sex, though it is a big plus. We could cuddle and watch movies together… if you want.”
“That sounds nice. It appears someone is waiting,” said Neon Nurse turning to the door.
I looked over and Ichigo was there. I wonder how long she had been there. “You guys finally finished?”
We nodded and she entered the room proper. She avoided the bed, with good reason there was lubricant and my liquids all over it. She took a long look at the dismembered body that Neon Nurse had been in. Now that I think about it, this place looks like a murder scene out of a horror movie. Definitely, definitely can’t fuck normal people. I would be on the most wanted list in a week.
“Excuse the mess,” said Neon Nurse as various robos emerged all over, cleaning up the room.
“Glad I didn’t try to seduce Vesper. It would have been easy, but definitely not worth it,” said Ichigo with a troubled smile.
Neon Nurse frown, “So, you were after her.”
“It crossed my mind. Though clearly, my body would not hold up to her amorous pursuit. Nothing to do about it, I suppose, you can have her.”
“I can have her? You make it sound like you own her and she has no free will.”
“I am saying I am no longer interested in that, it was a good show you two put on.”
I covered myself, “You, Ichigo… you watched?”
She nodded, not particularly concerned, “I was a little interested. I watch, it is sort of my thing. You two are kinda cute together, you know?”
I nodded, “Mmhmm, I understand. Ichigo is a cuck.”
“What?! Am not. Geez, Vesper, it is always weirdo stuff with you. Then again, that is why you are interesting to watch.”
“Says the pervert who was watching me and Neon Nurse making sweet sweet love.”
“If you call that lovemaking, then sure. You were more like a ravening beast tearing her apart and using her.”
Xava interjected, “It was very passionate.”
I looked between the two, “We should have a threesome.”
They both stared at me and at each other, then looked away, “NO.”
“EH!?” I glowered, “It will be fun though. Just no pheromone stuff.”
“I am not sharing you,” said Neon Nurse with her arms defiantly crossed.
“I am perfectly fine watching. I am just a normal person, unlike you two,” said Ichigo, looking away.
“You are not! You read minds… oops. Sorry, Ichigo.”
Ichigo stared me down, “Are you serious!? You are so loose-lipped!”
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Xava nodded, “I already know, Ichigo.”
She gave Neon Nurse a surprised look, “You do? Wait, what the hell even are you, anyway? You are not human, definitely not human. You are a robot, right? This has been bugging me for a while now, since I can’t read your mind properly!”
“Interesting. Oh, please don’t flatter me. I am a cyborg, not a machine.”
Ichigo was giving her an assessing look, as though she were made of solid diamond, “If you are not a robot, then why can’t I read your thoughts?”
“Ah,” she replied, “Good to know that my neural dampeners are working against mind based supers. I was actually wondering as to how I was going to test them properly. Tell me, what do my thoughts feel like?”
I didn’t really understand what they were talking about. Ichigo closed her eyes, thinking it over, “Slippery, like an eel. Also, it feels like the thoughts are but echoes bouncing off of a distant valley.”
Neon Nurse nodded, “I see. Thank you for your feedback.”
“What does that even mean?” I asked.
“It means that it will be very difficult to read her mind, let alone mind control her,” said Ichigo.
“Mind control? Wait, you can do that Ichigo?”
“No, I am talking about if somebody else tried, like a Mind Diver.”
“I would hope so,” said Neon Nurse, “It was with Mind Divers in mind that I created this defense measure.”
“A little paranoid?” asked Ichigo.
“Not at all,” replied Neon Nurse.
Ichigo nodded and sat down cross-legged, “Ok, so I think we need to get to the bottom of some things. Normally I would be perfectly fine leaving things as is, but somebody has their eyes on me and that means that I can’t just leave it be.”
“You trust me now? How curious,” said Neon Nurse, sitting as well. Not wanting to be left out I joined the little circle.
“No, but seeing as how Vesper is on the list as well, I can trust your affection for her will make you help us.”
“List?” she asked.
“I overheard the kidnappers talk about how Mecha Fairy was on the list as well.”
“That is certainly a problem. Do we know who made the list?”
“No, but we know somebody who does.”
“And who might that be?”
Ichigo glanced at me, “Caroline Vasska.”
“EH! My mom?! Why would she know?”
“Your mother is in the know of a lot of the less scrupulous things going on. You ever wonder why she never sticks to any idols for very long? You ever wonder why most of the idols that were managed by her go missing within a month to a year of being transferred to another manager. Granted, usually, they are only gone for a week or two, but when they get back they act weird. And then there are the ones who just vanish.”
“I see, we will have to question her then, won’t we?” said Neon Nurse with some very dangerous eyes.
I looked between them, “You think my mom is in on it? Look, I don’t like her, but this seems a bit much right?”
“It is complicated. She is more or less being coerced into it. She doesn’t like it, but she doesn’t have much of a choice. Naturally, she doesn’t know that I know these things. Which is why it has been very easy to get information from the inside.”
“So she is being blackmailed? It should be pretty easy to force her to help us,” said Neon Nurse.
“Not blackmail, death threats and ones that they will follow through with. The suicide by two bullets to the back of the head and getting dumped off a bridge variety.”
“So then we have to ensure her safety or else she will not give us anything.”
“That would be the problem.”
“We are screwed then, aren’t we?” asked Neon Nurse.
“Not necessarily. We just have to pull at her heartstrings a little.”
“You mean,” said Neon Nurse and they both looked over at me.
Eh, what? Is there something on my face? Me? Uh oh. They are not thinking what I think they are… are they? I have a face not even my mother loves, you know! I complained, “No, no, no! There is no way in hell I am showing my face in front of her. She hates me. That will make things worse.”
“She is just in denial, if we worked at her a little, then we would get through to her. Wouldn’t it be nice to have your mother back, Vesper?”
“Well, sure I would love to have my mom and dad back together, but I don’t know about this.”
“If Caroline helps us then we could figure out who to take down.”
Neon Nurse sat there thinking it over, “I am afraid that it is not that simple. I assume your plan was to get them arrested and taken to court?”
“No,” said Ichigo, “We are going to kill them. They are far too powerful and influential to trust judges or even the prison system to actually hold them. As the rules of the rich and powerful say, Laws for thee, not me. In the meantime, we are going to be killed in retribution for even attempting this. We need names and we need help. I have a few trump cards up my sleeve, but I would rather not use them if possible.”
Xava nodded and stood up, “Normally I would oppose your opinion, however, with the state of things I am inclined to agree. We can’t trust the justice system here, and if we just leave it alone, they will keep sending people until Supers start coming after you two. Still, we need to know exactly who we are up against. I have a feeling I know one of the key figures in this, though it will take a bit more digging.”
“Who is it?” asked Ichigo.
“… I… Vesper, please leave the room.”
“What, why me?!”
“It is for your own good.”
“Vesper, you are terrible at keeping secrets,” replied Ichigo.
“So, so! If I don’t know then how would I know not to follow said person into a van that said candy on the side?”
Xava sighed, “You are not that stupid, are you?”
“No!”
“Then you will be fine.”
“But, but I don’t like being left out.”
“Fine, but you have to promise me that you will not act unless we are with you.”
I nodded, “Ok”
“Dreamer, might be involved in this. I am about eighty percent sure, but that still leaves room for error.”
“If it is Dreamer, then why did everybody make me get that sponsorship… wait that makes sense. I heard one of the goons say that a Super wanted to rip my mind apart and she is the only Mind Diver in the city. Wait so we are going to kill Dreamer? I mean I hate her, but is that really necessary?”
Neon Nurse rubbed my face, “If only the world was a bit different, you could have been a real hero. We will kill her, it is too dangerous to leave her be.”
“Is she that dangerous?”
Both of them replied, “Yes.”
Ichigo elaborated, “If Mind Divers are left alone, they increase their powers exponentially by creating an army of loyal slaves who they use to capture and convert more people. Of course, this is assuming they are strong at minimum a Rank 6 and even then this a time-consuming process. Unless you were really really strong, then it takes weeks to fully brainwash somebody. However, Dreamer only has so many she can get her hands on so, we should be fine for now.”
“Why don’t we just kill her, now since we are already plotting to anyway? She is only going to grow stronger as she sways more people, right? What if a bunch of the people connected to this are only doing it cause she is forcing them to?”
“We need to find out who the clients are and the wear abouts of those who were taken. If we kill her, they will scatter like roaches and it will be nearly impossible to track all of them down,” said Ichigo.
“We need to flush them out of hiding so that we can start picking them off. Dreamer by herself is nearly useless. She will be as easy to kill as a normie. It is those around her that we have to watch out for. She will be guarded by Supers.”
A realization dawned on me, “Sunshine… oh, fuck me, Sunshine! We have to save her.”
Both Ichigo and Xava said, “No.”
“But it is Sunshine! We have to save her.”
“If we try to save her it is going to set off warning flags and we will be found out. Besides, she will likely turn on us if we do try to save her,” said Ichigo.
Neon Nurse pat me, “Vesper, we have to be very careful here. Sunshine was made by Dreamer, to begin with, so really there is no saving her. She has been under Dreamer’s control since the beginning. So if you think about it, she won’t do anything to her. Why would she? Sunshine is not in danger right now, but if you recklessly try and free her, both you and her will be.”
I felt some tears welling up, “Sunshine, we have to save her, we have to, we just have to.”
Ichigo smiled, patting me too, and even ruffled my head tendrils, oou stop that. “We will save her.”
“She is my best friend. She was the only one on the Junior team that liked me and I don’t know what I would have done without her. We cried together, we bathed together like twice, I even let her use my mint flavored dental floss one time, she let me sleep on her imagination clouds and cuddle with the kittens, and, and she shot me with dick lasers. If that is not what friendship is, I don’t know what is.”
“Dick lasers?” Asked Ichigo.
Neon Nurse just sighed, “It is a Moon Sailor thing.”
“Oh, right, I never did watch that show.”
“Really? We should watch it together sometime. It is a fun show,” I said, holding her hands.
“I suppose we could. Though we have much more pressing matters. Speaking of which, Caroline is downstairs,” Ichigo remarked.
“She has likely come to pick up Ichigo and you, Vesper since you never went to work today.”
“What are we going to do?”
“Go get your suit, Vesper. I and Ichigo will start up our conversation with her.”
“Won’t it record things?”
“No, I have disabled that feature for the time being.”
“Oh, ok. Be gentle alright?”
“We will see,” replied Neon Nurse.
Eh, I don’t like the sounds of that. I hope we can convince her.
I went to go get my suit from my room. It didn’t particularly take all that long, but I was afraid of revealing myself and ruining the semi-friendship that I had sprouted with my mom. It was nice talking to her and not getting things thrown at me or yelled at and beaten with plastic penises… ok, ok that only happened one time, but it fucked me up. It was all going to be over, she would treat things like before. I ended up eating some ice cream to calm my nerves. After a tub or two… ok three, I went back. When I arrived, they must have already told her most of everything and were in the bargaining phase.
“Caroline, we need your help. Vesper and I are being targeted.”
“So, so it is really her?” asked Caroline, staring at me.
“Yes, it is Vesper,” replied Ichigo, “Remember how we talked at length about how your daughter had been stalking me.”
“I do recall.”
“I can attest first hand that her obsession didn’t go anywhere. Although, I actually find it rather cute. She has pictures of me all over her computer and even has the same picture of me as a fairy as her background. It is her favorite.”
“You were on my computer?” My privacy has been invaded! I hope she didn’t find that folder…
“Well, you were busy and I had to do something while you two were passed out,” she said and then mouthed silently, “What folder?”
That is not fair! Stop reading my mind!
“I don’t believe it,” said Caroline, looking me over, “So she has been with the Hero League this whole fucking time and nobody told me?!”
“We told you, or rather tried,” said Neon Nurse eyeing her venomously, “Go on Vesper show your mother.”
“Vesper… is it really you?” she asked with pleading eyes.
“Yes, Mom, but I am not really me anymore. The me that you knew is long dead. I have changed a lot, but I still remember you and dad. I see you are still wearing the watch I gave you for your birthday.”
She touched it, “Tell me something else, from your childhood.”
“Hmm, well I don’t remember too much from back then,” I replied thinking it over. “Oh wait. I do remember something. When I was eight or maybe nine, me and some of the neighbor kids were running around out by the hill in the back. We found this giant beehive and being stupid kids threw rocks at it. One of those fucks tripped me with a stick cause I was faster than them and I ended up getting swarmed. I must have gotten stung like two or three hundred times and dad had to take me to the hospital. Oh, right, that was when I developed my hatred for hospitals and a phobia for needles since they kept injecting me with stuff. Oh yeah, remember when I was like five or six and couldn’t say stick and kept saying dick?”
Mom looked like she was about to cry, “It, it is you. Vesper to think you were so close. Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”
“You wouldn’t have believed me if I did tell you.”
“Oh god, how bad is it? You said you don’t have skin… we will find a plastic surgeon and get you skin graphs. We will fix this, we will fix this Vesper.”
“Mom, that is not going to help. I really appreciate the thought, but it is far too late for that. Well, I guess you should see,” I said, holding back my apprehension.
The suit unbuckled and lifted up gusting steam through the room. I stepped out, looking away from her, fearful of the soon to come screams and violence. I waited and waited, wincing and yet they never came. I peeked, my bluish black carapace was in full view, there was no mistake. I looked over at her and Mom had a very blank face, it was like she was dead inside.
She started laughing, “I- I see. So it was like this. So Saar was right all along. It really was you all along. I guess it doesn’t really matter anymore, we are all going to die anyway.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked.
“Oh fuck!” She held her face as though coming to a realization, “If they sent a capture squad after you, then you caught the eye of important people. They won’t stop and seeing as how you are here, then that means you killed the extraction people. Oh fuck me, we are dead. We are so dead. They are going to fuck us, with no lube and sandpaper razor dildoes, that is how fucked we are!”
Ichigo replied, “Stop being so dramatic. Just tell us names and we will deal with it.”
“De-deal with it!? Do you know who you fucked with?”
“The mayor and the local Hero League,” said Ichigo, crossing her arms.
She started laughing hysterically, “The Mayor! Haha, Oh that is good. You are looking way too small on this. This is bigger than that. We are talking Government, like CIA, like Chimera, global human trafficking rings, The U.N., Congressmen, and Senators! The President of the United States for fuck’s sake!”
Well, now I am scared. I didn’t think it would escalate so quickly and to such a degree. I think we are in trouble. Is this that out of the frying pan into the fire situations? But there was a silver lining there. I nodded, “Hmm, so wait are you tell me the President wants to fuck me?”
Xava slapped me on the back of the head, “Vesper now, be serious.”
“Sorry, sorry,” I rubbed my head.
Neon Nurse was thinking it over, she didn’t seem too worried about this. Finally, she put a finger up, “Oh, I already knew about Chimera, I suppose that CIA and the President would come with that as well. Really, there is no difference between the Government and Chimera. Well, that doesn’t change too much, it was going to happen eventually. For now, we should focus on the local pieces and deal with them.”
“You can do that. I am leaving with Saar and… if Vesper wants to come as well she can choose.”
“You are leaving?” I asked.
“You think I am going to stick around to get killed? I never thought I was going to have to go to South America so soon.”
“You can’t leave,” said Ichigo.
“What do you mean I can’t leave?”
“If you try to take off, they are going to know you know. So the best thing to do would be to act like you don’t know. That is what me and Vesper are going to be doing.”
“You are assuming they don’t know already. They ordered a retrieval and it didn’t happen and their men went missing, they are going to know something is up. These are very careful and meticulous people with almost unlimited power and resources, we can’t fight this.”
“If they are so connected, then why do you think you can run? There is no choice here, we have to fight, trust me, I would rather not have to deal with this,” said Ichigo with a rather dark expression.
“I don’t want to die!” cried my mom. I wanted comfort her, but I get the feeling, touching her would be bad. We are not that close yet.
“Your best odds of survival are with us,” Ichigo smiled, clasping her hand onto Caroline’s shoulder, “Don’t even think about selling us out either, I will tell them you tipped us off and I will drag you down with us. And don’t think you can lie to us, I will know. I read minds.”
“Wha-what are we going to do?” she shivered.
Ichigo nodded to Neon Nurse, “Set a trap.”
I am getting the distinct impression that they know things that I don’t. Wait a minute, a trap needs bait… who is the bait? It is me, isn’t it… Why am I always the bait!?