It was almost 2:00, and Thea was standing at the front door of Capitol. Two young men came to the door. Thea stopped them.
“Sorry,” she said in her vocal fry. “We’re temporarily closed. Repairs.”
“What the fuck!” one of them said.
“Come back at five,” she said. “We re-open then.”
“Fuckin’ bullshit!” the other man said as they stormed off.
Thea’s cellphone rang. “Hello?” she said in her normal voice.
“Is Mark back yet?” Guy asked.
“No,” she said. “All the staff are in the staff room, though.”
“Do you think Mark called Ricardo and found out the meeting is fake?” he asked.
“I don’t know. It’s a chance we have to take. I’m locking the front doors and then coming over to you. Are the green Creeps set?”
“Yes. Everything’s set. It’s all or nothing. Petunia and all the others are in the sleeping room, about to wake up from their nap.”
“I’ll be with you in five minutes. Bye.” They hung up.
Thea went over to the staff room, looking inside and noting all the staff were there.
Where is Mark? she wondered; He should be here by now. Oh, God, please don’t let Mark suspect anything. That ‘policy changes’ excuse coming out of the blue was an awkward idea.
He came with his men in the back door, as Thea expected him to. She could hear them approaching in the hall.
“Cameron?” Mark called out. “Where are you?”
“By the staff room, Mark,” she said. Shit, she thought; Forgot my man voice again. Then in her vocal fry: “I assume you got my text about the staff meeting.” He nodded with a smirk as he came nearer to her. “Good. Shall we go in?”
“In a minute, Cameron,” he said with a smile suggesting he knew nothing. “Before we go in, let’s go in this room over here for a second.” Mark opened the door, and he and his men went in.
“OK,” she rasped, making sure he didn’t see her lock the staff room door behind her. “But Ricardo and Ken will want to start right away. We’ll have to make this quick.” She went in the other room, trying not to shake.
“Oh, let me worry about Ricardo and Ken,” Mark said, standing by the door.
Mark closed it when she was right between his men in the room. “Boys, grab her.”
They took Thea by the arms and held her struggling body on a chair. Mark tossed them a pair of handcuffs, which they put on her, the chain wrapped behind one of the thin poles making up the back of the chair.
“Mark, what are you doing?” she shouted as she kept struggling, her first two words normal, her last three in vocal fry.
“Enough with the fake man voice, Thea Cummings,” Mark said, grabbing her fake beard and ripping it off.
“Oww!” she screamed. “You bastard! You won’t get away with this! The police are coming, with the Minister of…”
“They’re all on my side, Thea,” Mark said. “You and ‘Jack’, or Guy Cummings, your kid brother, really, were plotting to take over and expose our business to the very people we pay to stay on our side.”
“Not all of them can be bought,” she said. “We know…”
“Did you know we had tech implanted in you while you were screwing—or pretending to screw—Petunia, the girl you’re trying to rescue? We put it in Guy, too. When Petunia was with you, and when his Commodity was with him, they rubbed their fingers in your ears, and tiny Creeps slipped in, fixing tech to your ears, brains, and even eyes. We could then monitor and record everything you see and hear, including your conspiratorial conversations.”
“You might have stopped me, but my brother has the app to put green Creeps in the staff. He’ll make them confess to the cop we know who’ll help us expose you.”
His men were using rope they had on them to tie her ankles to the chair legs.
Mark took out his cellphone and called Guy.
“Guy Cummings,” he said. “We ripped the fake beard off your sister. You haven’t sent those green Creeps into my staff room yet, have you?”
“Not yet, but I will if you hurt her,” Guy said.
“Oh, you were going to do that anyway,” Mark said. “So I’m gonna make this even more difficult for you. If you send out those green Creeps, I’ll sic the yellow ones you helped me program on all the Commodities in the sleeping room.”
“Go ahead,” Guy said. “I don’t care.”
“They’ll kill Petunia LeBar, too.”
Guy paused.
“I don’t care. Do it. I’m drugging your staff to help me, and the cops are coming now, as we speak.”
“And I’ll rape your sister. Here, I’ll let her talk to you, so you know my boys and I really have her.” Mark put the phone to her face.
“Go through with it, Guy,” she said. “Send out the green Creeps. I’m…” Mark undid her pants and pulled them down. “I’ll be brave.”
Mark chuckled at her pink panties, then began to unbutton her shirt.
“Do it, Guy!” she shouted. “Don’t worry about me. Don’t let these bastards stop you.”
Mark took the phone back from her. “Guy,” he said into it, “Three of us, me and my bodyguards, are gonna gang-rape your sister. In fact, to help us get nice and hard, we’re gonna use the orange Creeps on ourselves.”
Guy formed an enigmatic smile at that last sentence.
“She’ll get one up her pussy, too, so she can get nice and wet, like a good little bitch,” Mark said, then slapped Thea hard.
“Ah! You fucking bastard!” she shouted.
Guy thought, Oh, shit. The orange Creeps in her? Since when did he start using them on the pussy he fucks?
“Go find him, you two,” Mark told his men, who went out of the room seconds after. “As for me, I’ll keep little Thea here entertained. Normally I like to fuck my bitches raw. It’s the Sadean sadist in me, to put a girl’s pussy in pain. But I’d like you to enjoy this fuck, so it’ll make you feel like a slut, and traumatize you better.” He chuckled. He had her shirt undone all the way down, then he pulled it wide open to see her pink bra. A tight strap went around her to flatten her chest. He removed it. “Gee, they’re rather small to need to be strapped down, Thea.”
She spat on him.
He wiped it off his face, then ogled her bra. “So pretty in pink.”
“Fuck you!”
“Well actually, it’s gonna be the other way around, but first—“ he dialed his phone—“one thing I have to do.”
Dino answered his ringing phone as he and Leo approached the stairs. “Yeah, Boss?”
“Dino, if you see any cops or government people at the front door, take them to Room Five, make them some coffee, and tell them to wait for me. If they aren’t our people, quietly lock them in the room, so they don’t know. If they find out they’re locked in later, the door will be too strong for them to break down.”
“Will do, Boss,” Dino said, then hung up. He and Leo went downstairs and to the front doors, where Officer Van Gorder and Bill Shavick, the Minister of Justice, were banging on the door. “Thea must’ve locked the door. C’mon, Leo.”
Dino opened the door.
“You people are closed?” Bill asked. “I thought you opened at two. That’s what it says on the door.”
“We have a bit of a situation at the moment,” Dino said. “Why don’t you come with us?” He led Bill and the policewoman into Room Five. “Have a seat. There’s coffee over there. Help yourself. We’ll be right back after we’ve fixed this problem. Just wait.” He and Leo walked out and closed the door. Dino turned his key in the lock with impressive silence, putting his finger to his mouth to ensure that Leo wouldn’t say anything.
As they hurried off to find Guy, Leo asked, “Why’d you lock them in? They could get us all in trouble.”
“They could get us in even bigger trouble if they find out what we’re gonna do with Guy and Thea,” Gino said. “I’ll bet ‘Jack’ is in the Regulating Room. Let’s look there first.” They went back up the stairs to the second floor.
As they went down a hall, around the corner of which was the one leading to the Regulating Room, they heard footsteps. Dino gestured to Leo to stop and wait at the corner for whoever was about to come around.
Guy had just clicked his phone to make the green Creeps swarm into the staff room. He put his phone in his pocket and went around the corner.
Leo grabbed him, and Dino punched him hard in the face. Dino then punched him in the gut. Before Guy could shout for help, Leo cupped his hand around Guy’s mouth, and they dragged his struggling body over to the room with Mark and Thea.
They could all hear the staff screaming and fidgeting as the green Creeps slithered up their faces, and into their ears and noses. Mark wanted to turn the Creeps off, but he needed Guy’s phone to do it, for Guy had changed the access code to control the green Creeps. As much as they wanted to go into the staff room and help the staff, Dino and Leo didn’t dare, for fear of getting green Creeps in themselves.
Dino and Leo got Guy into the room, where Thea had her panties pulled down to her ankles, and her bra undone to expose her small breasts. They threw Guy against the wall and closed the door.
“Bill Shavick and some female cop are locked in Room Five, Boss,” Dino said.
“If they know they’re locked in, we’ll have some explaining to do,” Mark said. “Never mind, at least they’re not gonna hear what’s going on up here. It’s too late to turn off the green Creeps with Guy’s phone, but we can get our revenge on him, by hurting the people he loves.”
Leo punched Guy as he tried to get up.
“And this is how I’m going to hurt him,” Mark said, getting out his phone and clicking on his Creeps app. “Good. Guy didn’t change the access code to the yellow or orange Creeps, as he had the green ones. Dino, turn on the TV. I want Guy to watch Petunia and all the other Commodities die, all the ones he’d hoped to save.” Dino turned on the wall-mounted TV in the corner of the room.
“You’re willing to kill off all your sources of profit?” Guy asked, wiping the blood off his mouth.
“Thought I was bluffing, eh?” Mark said. “I can replace all of them like that.” Mark snapped his fingers, hardly bothering to look up at the TV. All the Commodities were screaming on the TV as a swarm of yellow Creeps crawled onto their bodies. They frantically tried to wipe them off their arms and legs, but so many more replaced the ones wiped off that self-defence was futile. “I have people all over the world recruiting new Commodities. Families in Africa, India, Cambodia, Latin America…poor families actually sell me their 18-year-old daughters, sometimes sons, too. I pay them well, they kiss their kids goodbye forever.”
“Exploitative bastard,” Thea said.
“We’re gonna exploit you in a minute,” Dino said.
“I’m not so sure, Boss,” Leo said. “She’s awfully hairy. Almost no tits. Ugly body. Who’d wanna fuck that?”
“Fuck you!” Guy said, fiddling with his phone behind his back while lying on the floor. “I bet your mother is uglier.”
Leo kicked him in the gut.
“That’s why we use orange Creeps, Leo,” Mark said. “They give us the help we need when the woman’s body doesn’t inspire a hard-on.” He clicked an app to summon three Creeps.
“I’ll bet you’re just impotent,” Thea said.
Mark slapped her. “Boys, untie her legs, un-handcuff her, and lay her on the floor.”
As they were doing that, Mark looked up at the screen.
“The screaming stopped,” he said. “They should be burning up inside by now. Wait…what the bloody hell? They’re fucking!”
Guy grinned.
On the TV screen, instead of several dozen naked sex slaves writhing and squirming in agony from incendiary tech burning up their internal organs, they were all paired up in a huge orgy. Guy could see Petunia sucking a man’s dick, while another man was fucking her doggie-style. Arunny was sucking Petunia’s left tit while a third man was fucking her doggie-style, too. Since most of the lovers were women, there was a lot of lesbian sex to be seen.
“What’s the use of a revolution without common copulation?” Guy said, mocking Mark’s incorrect quote of the Marat/Sade. “You must have clicked the wrong icon on your phone for them, Mark. Clicked ‘orange’ instead of ‘yellow’.” He laughed, hoping Mark would believe him.
Mark looked back at the TV screen. Did I click the wrong icon, in my anger and absent-mindedness? he wondered. I thought I saw yellow Creeps on the TV screen. The room they’re fucking in is dark, so it isn’t easy to see clearly. Were they yellow, or orange? I’m getting sloppy.
“Well, I’ll just have to hurt you and Thea more directly,” Mark said. Three orange Creeps slithered under the door crack and into the room. Definitely orange, he thought as he saw them crawling nearer. I’ve gotta be more careful. He, Dino, and Leo pulled down their pants and underwear. “We were going to have orange Creeps for you and Thea, but now I think we’ll just fuck you two raw, as we normally like our bitches. Only orange Creeps for us three.”
Guy breathed an enigmatic sigh of relief at that last sentence.
The Creeps crawled up the rapists’ legs. Guy smiled.
“You’re taking those up the ass?” Thea asked, sneering.
“Why not?” Dino said in a shaky voice, smiling and shivering as the Creep went into his rectum. “We have…kinky…tastes.”
“Yeah,” Leo moaned. “They feel…good…up the ass. Oh!”
“Leo’s…bi…by the way,” Mark said, also shaking. “He…likes you, Guy. Ooh!”
Leo grabbed Guy and got ready to fuck his ass.
Guy struggled as Leo was undoing his pants, but Leo punched him in the gut. Guy’s pants and underwear were pulled down to his ankles. Leo knelt behind him.
“We’re gonna…rape you both, then…kill you,” Mark said, shaking as he got on top of Thea, Dino holding her for him. “Then we’ll…kill that cop…and Shavick…in Room Five. Stop squirming!”
“You can’t kill everyone,” Thea said as she tried to get free of Dino’s grip and get Mark off of her. “Someone will find out and stop you!”
“I own…the cops…and government. I just…have to know…their price…Wait, this doesn’t feel right…I’m hot inside.”
“Not the kind of hot you were expecting, eh, Mark?” Guy said, smiling and noting the discomfort in Leo’s face. “Or you, Leo?”
“I-I’m burning, Boss,” Leo said. “Aah!” He fell on Guy.
“Me, too,” Dino said. “What’s in these Creeps? Unh!”
As Mark lay screaming and shaking on top of Thea, who was now more frantically trying to get him and Dino off of her, he was clicking icons on his phone.
“Remember those yellow and orange Creeps that got mixed up, Mark?” Guy said, finally getting Leo off of him. “I never sent them back to the supplier. I thought you and your thugs here would want to rape a few Commodities today, so I set up those Creeps at the last minute today, so your cellphone app would summon them.”
“I know,” Mark gasped. “I should’ve…figured it out…when I saw…all the Commodities…fucking on the TV. Ah!”
“As I said, I was hoping you’d use them earlier,” Guy said. “Before the meeting. Your monthly lunchtime fuck, with a Commodity as raw as we’d have been here now.”
“I just summoned…all the orange Creeps…to come here,” Mark grunted. “You won’t be ‘raw’…if you know…what I mean. Ah!” He fell to the side, shaking and groaning for a few more seconds before dying. Dino then dropped down dead, falling on top of Thea. She shoved him off.
“Oh, fuck!” Guy shouted as he looked at the door and heard the familiar screeching.
An army of orange Creeps was crawling under the door, and straight at Guy and Thea, who were only now pulling their pants up. Before they could do them up, Creeps were already on their thighs, crawling on their bare skin, racing for their anuses and Thea’s vagina.
“Oh, God! Guy!” Thea screamed. “They’re in me! They move so fast! Aah!” They were crawling up to her face.
Guy was shaking from two that were already wiggling up his rectum. He raced to get Mark’s phone.
“Can you…shut them off?” she asked, shaking all over.
“Yeah,” he said in a tremulous voice. “I even know…how to get…into Mark’s phone.” Guy tried desperately to control his shaking body, and especially his hand, to touch the right numbers on the screen of Mark’s phone to access the app. Guy traced a swastika along the numbers 3-2-5-8-7, then 1-4-5-6-9.
“How…do you know?” she asked, flailing her arms and legs, keeping her mouth closed tight, while Creeps were nearing her ears and nostrils.
“I watched him…behind his back,” Guy said, accessing Orange Creeps, then Disable.
All the Creeps lost their orange glow, just like Christmas lights being switched off; and they stopped moving, like insects on a farmer’s field sprayed with insecticide.
Guy’s and Thea’s bodies stopped jerking about. Guy dropped on the floor beside his sister. The immobilized Creeps on their faces and bodies fell off. They lay there for a few minutes, panting, trembling, and waiting for their heart rates to slow down.
Finally, Thea spoke: “Are the outer coverings of these Creeps going to melt inside us, causing the burning?”
“No,” Guy said, getting up. “The programming is supposed to make the incendiary content inside melt the outer coating, then burn you. I turned off the program, so we’ll be safe. If the coatings had melted, we’d be feeling it by now.”
Thea got up, and they both did up their pants.
“So, to get these things out, we’ll have to shit them out?” she asked as she did up her bra and shirt.
“Exactly.”
They looked down at the bodies of Mark, Dino, and Leo. Guy got the key off of Dino.
“Bastards,” she said, kicking Mark’s corpse. Blood gushed out of his mouth. “Eww. We’d better go get Van Gorder and Shavick.”
They rushed out of the room, then looked in the door window to the staff room: all the staff were either standing, seated, or lying on the floor, rocking or fidgeting, their eyes agape and staring in a daze.
“We need to bring Van Gorder and Shavick in there right away,” Guy said, “while the green Creep drug is still at its most potent point, to get them all to confess the truth.”
“You really think it’ll work?” she asked as they hurried down the hall to the stairs.
“Yes,” he said as they went down. “Sodium Pentothal is mixed into it; it’s like a truth serum. Besides, when Petunia and the others come down off that aphrodisiac, horny high they’re on, we can get them to confirm the truth about Capitol.”
“I’m proud of you, Guy,” she said. “You’ve proven what a good guy you are.” They grinned at each other.
On the first floor now, they could hear banging on a door. They raced over to Room Five, and Guy unlocked the door.
“Why were we locked in here?” Shavick asked.
“Because Mark didn’t want you to know that he just tried to kill us,” Guy said. “He ended up killing himself.”
“I told you he was crooked,” Officer Van Gorder said.
“C’mon,” Thea said. “Let’s go up to the second floor.”
They all ran up the stairs and down the hall, much of which had an army of immobile orange Creeps on it, to the staff room. When Van Gorder and Shavick looked through the door window and saw the dazed staff, Guy got out his cellphone, clicked on the app controlling the still-crawling green Creeps that hadn’t yet crawled inside anyone, and turned them off. They lost their glow, and now lay as still and dull in colour as the orange ones in the other room.
“Luckily, the door to the staff room closes tight enough to seal off any possibility for the Creeps to crawl outside,” Guy said. “Unlike the orange Creeps that were crawling into this other room.” He opened the door, showing the corpses of Mark, Dino, and Leo.
Van Gorder and Shavick gasped at the sight of the bodies, then winced at their half-nakedness.
“You said they killed themselves,” the policewoman said.
“Yeah,” Thea said. “That’s why their pants are down. They let the orange Creeps crawl up their asses.”
“Why?” Shavick asked. “Why kill themselves like that?”
“They weren’t trying to kill themselves,” Guy said. “Normally, orange Creeps are for getting the sex slaves ready for sex. These three wanted to get themselves horny—“
“So they could rape us,” Thea said. “Then they’d kill us.”
“Luckily, I had a box of these orange Creeps which had mistakenly been equipped with incendiary content meant for yellow Creeps, and vice versa, as we’ll see in the room where the sex slaves are kept to sleep at night. Mark used these wrong ones on himself and his two bodyguards, and so they killed themselves accidentally.”
“Sorry,” Shavick said, wincing and shaking his head in confusion. “Orange Creeps? Yellow Creeps? What are you talking about? All these things on the floor?”
“Yeah,” Guy said. “We’ll explain everything in time.”
“Let’s go to the sleeping area,” Thea said. “Mark used the wrong yellow Creeps on them, thinking he was going to kill them in revenge for our exposing his criminal business.” They were hurrying over to the sleeping area. “Again, lucky for us, Guy tricked Mark with the switching of the colours,” she continued, as they reached the sleeping area and looked through the door window, “and instead of killing the sex slaves, Mark caused them to do this.”
“What the hell?” Shavick said as he watched the naked women and men continue their orgy. “It’s like a porno film.” He chuckled; his and Van Gorder’s eyes looked away.
“Yeah,” Guy said, clicking his cellphone to turn off the yellow Creeps, of which the few still lying on the floor became immobile, no longer glowing. “We’ll have to wait a few hours for them to come down from their horny high. Then they’ll be able to tell you what’s really been going on here.”
“Do they have any clothes?” Officer Van Gorder asked.
“Oh, yeah,” Thea said. “There’s a locker room on the far side of the room, where all their clothes are kept. That door in the right corner leads to it.”
“It’s locked, but I have the key,” Guy said. “When they all come back to normal in a few hours, we’ll go in and get their clothes for them. But for now, let them indulge themselves, I guess.” He chuckled. “They aren’t hurting each other.”
“It seems to be the best sex they’ve all had in a long time,” Shavick said. All four of them laughed.
Is my sister Mary in there, in that orgy? Van Gorder wondered as she tried to find her among all the gyrating flesh. I don’t see her anywhere. Oh, well. I’ll try to find her later.
“In the meantime, let’s all go back to the staff room, and get confessions from the staff,” Guy said as they all started walking back there. “As I told you before, Officer, the green Creeps act as a kind of truth serum, a pacifier that will make them perfectly cooperative. I also want to demonstrate, in the Regulating Room, how we can make them say anything we want. That’s how Mark controlled them.”
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