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The Slavering, Chapter 09 School and work kept her busy, but Cheri found time for robotics. Hease joined the team. He had little talent with tools, nor a practical grasp of the math needed for design but he was S-4-S with fabricators and fabblets. He translated Xi's vague ideas into physical objects that often worked the first time. He devoured the manuals for each of the machines and moved onto complex assembly while Cheri was still struggling with tutorials. He never did make a stand for the equipment in his chair. It became a running joke. "Don't sit on that." Hease pulled Xi to her feet. "It's not like you have a chair." "I have a chair. It's in use." "Where do I sit?" "Not on the machines. Hard enough to keep them in cal." "If only we had an equipment stand." "We have three." Hease looked around. "Where would we put another?" ******** Natrix looked at their first robot. They made suggestions but didn't purchase the design. The next monster that Biomass Eleven made excelled at combat. It sucked at sex. Cheri considered it. "We reinvented a repair spider." Xi said, "A ninja repair spider." "What do we call it?" "Ginsu?" Hease laughed. "Maybe the Army will pick it up." "Or one of the dojos." They demo'd it at Lao Fan temple. It was too big to fit in the van, so they walked it to Lao Fan. That got on the Channel 5 news. "Needs shoes," Cheri noted. "We're wearing out the pads. We also need chafing guards here and here. Hease?" "Give me an hour. I also need keys to the van." Master Remont purchased Ginsu. The team made a tiny profit, if you didn't factor in the capital outlay for fabs, a lathe and drill press, and two industrial makers. ******** Cheri re-examined the hacks that someone installed on her AVS rig. The style and the coding was different from the spyware code. The new code felt familiar and the comments taunted her. Someone knew her well enough to imitate her code. Cheri kluged up an ugly patch to prevent the same code from influencing her AVS rig again. Then she checked her work station. It was also infected. She checked the bots and tools she used to automate bug-hunting. Infected. The secretary in her Mem2. Infected. She bought a new work station. "There went next month's rent." She checked and rechecked the patch on her new work station. Then she applied the patch to her sugar suit and her spinal prosthesis. Now she could be confident that when she typed AVS, nothing could redirect her fingers, typing ZTX instead. Next up would be a patch for her Audio-Visual suite so she wouldn't read AVS when the display read ZTX. It was patient work. She rebuilt all of her tools from scratch. She discovered ways to optimize and streamline some of the tools along the way. This brightened her mood, somewhat. She knew she should ask someone to check her work. But. Hease could write in her style. So could Tesla. Any one of 4096 emulators, available to the public on-line, could also imitate her code. Time to learn new tricks. Cheri dialed. "Shiok Labs." Cheri asked, "Is Dr. Fowler available?" "Speaking." "Do you have tutorials for code?" "What are you looking for?" "Something they don't teach at Girls College. Anything that's not on the public webs." "End use?" "Animes. AVS rigs. The software in my head. I've been hacked. Someone knows all my tricks." "I'll set up appointments. Medical and HR." ******** "Guys," Cheri said. "I'm thinking about accepting a sponsor." Xi asked, "Who?" "Shiok Labs." Hease said, "We're working for DoD now?" "Only if you guys are okay with it. We would all have to consent to background checks." "What changes here?" Xi gestured around. "Documentation. We've been lax on sources and references. We needed to tighten that up, anyway, or some patent lawyer will troll us. Shiok Labs is the gov, basically. They love their paperwork." ******** "Feedback Systems Engineeering, animes, prosthetic libs, biomechanical systems." Dr. Fowler shook her head. "You're taking courses in biomechanics next year." "Yes, but I'm interested in what they won't teach me." "Take their courses first." "Why?" "Once you learn our methods, you won't want to use their methods. And you can't use our methods, carriers, or systems in your courses at Girls College. It will shut the whole campus down. Everyone will have to debrief." "Your methods are that much better." "Learn their way. Then we'll teach you our way." "What can I learn? Today." "Why are you interested in biomechanical systems?" "I've hit the wall in what we can do with hydraulics, motors, and tension." "No you haven't." Cheri grunted. "Good to know, I suppose. The monsters downstairs appear to be biomechanical. I want to know how they work." "Monsters downstairs." Dr. Fowler appeared in video. "What kind of monsters?" "Tentacle monsters. Failed attempts at Rescue! 3D beasts." "Grown or fabbed?" "Dunno." "Where exactly are these monsters?" "Under my apartment. It's on my porno, the one I did ... last month?" "We thought those were CGI." "No, they're real." Cheri blushed. "Very real." Dr. Fowler said, "Interesting. Can you come in?" ******** The psy-tech tapped an icon only he could see. "We removed or isolated the malware in your brain mods," he told Cheri. "Can't do much about the malware in your organics." "What malware?" "Life choices. The brain is an organic computer. Highly plastic. Influence, associations, habits. The choices you make when stressed. The power of suggestion." "I've been brainwashed." "Conditioning and response. I wouldn't call it brainwashing." "It's fixable, right?" "Establish new pathways. Overcome maladapted habits." He pat Cheri on the head. "We wondered how long it would take." "You knew I'd be hacked?" "It was good security. Tight coding. There's always better coding." "What keeps your firewalls from being hacked?" "Economics. There are easier targets. You are not yet a high-value asset." ******** "Guys," Cheri said. "Shiok Labs is on hold. Earliest we can get sponsored is next year." Hease said, "There went my unlimited budget." "You never had one." Xi asked, "What do we do?" "Slog through like the every other student." ******** Cheri comped the next semester of FSE and Biology so she could pick up courses in biomechanics. Self-study. As she opened Page 1 of the textbook file, she reminded herself: *There is a better way.* *Once you know our methods, you won't want to use theirs.* As a child, Cheri had learned coding from reverse-engineering the machines and devices that her father bought her. She could reverse-engineer this. It could be hacked. Knowing there was a solution would lead to finding it. ******** Four people and a bot showed up at Cheri's door. The lead worker was tall. Very tall. He had to bend down to get his face in the security camera. "Pest control," he announced. Cheri scanned them in four spectrums. Opaque in terahertz waves. Nobody's clothes were opaque in T-waves. Infrared, ultraviolet. Inconclusive. The leader of the team was ugly. Misshapen nose, spade-shaped teeth. Patchy facial hair and heavy brows. Cheri spoke through the outside speaker. "Let me call my landlord." The bot held an applicator. It looked like it might be pesticide. But it also might be a flamethrower. Cheri shook her head. She'd watched too much 3D. Flamethrower? The man spoke. "Doctor Fowler sent us." "Can I see some ID?" The big man in the opaque duster held up a company pass. Shiok Labs. Sergeant Dell Rigadosik. Cheri buzzed them in. As the team came in, Cheri noticed was that two of them were extraordinarily tall. And large. Rigadosik had to bend down to get through the door frames. Cheri's secretary highlighted names and rank on their uniforms. The second giant, Private First Class Shendee, was female. Probably. A spider bot with a tank and nozzle followed the first two. LOADER9. The following team members were close to Cheri's size. One was her height, meaning short. Male, Private Avonaco. The last one in was the shortest, yet. She had obvious curves behind her armor. Corporal Zanita. They came in goggling, each of them looking in different directions. All four humans were ugly. Zanita had buck teeth and a severe overbite. Cheri wondered why she'd never seen the men at the Bloop. She'd seen some fiercely ugly men there. And fucked them. Avonaco had an obvious bulge in the trouser department. Hung like a two- handed bowler. Unless he stuffed socks in his shorts. Cheri smiled. Zanita had a better mustache than any of them. It looked a bit like whiskers. "Clear." "Clear." "Three unopened doors." "What's in the loft, ma'am?" Cheri answered. "Industrial equipment and a bed. I can't let you into Tesla's room. This door is the props room." She pointed. "Toilet behind the curtain. Janitor's closet." Sergeant Rigadosik, nodded to the loft. "Is that a tentacle beast?" "Those are spare parts for our last construct. The beasts are downstairs." "Underneath?" He looked concerned. "How sturdy is this floor?" Zanita pulled out a device that looked like an infrared camera. "The floor will hold us. It won't hold them. I confirm one beast, maybe two. They know I'm scanning." Zanita moved the camera. "I see a second one." There was a loud thump on the floor. She jumped and then moved. She said, "It doesn't like being scanned." Cheri said, "Four monsters down there. Four that I met." Shendee spoke. "How did you get in?" Alto voice. Indeterminate sex. "They dropped me through the trapdoor. They let me out through the side door. They're quite friendly." Cheri coughed. "If you don't mind hours of fucky sucky." Shendee asked, "Why would you do that?" "I was making a porno?" "Show me this trap door." Zanita scanned the props room. She nodded. Rigadosik asked, "Where is the side door?" Cheri opened the door to the props room. "The trapdoor is here. Are those weapons?" Rigadosik patted his rifle. It looked like Army-issue. "These are for your protection." Cheri nodded carefully. "The side door is on the roof to the main building, one level down. Facing the alley. Hey, I'm headed out." She pointed. "Two blocks thataway. Coffee shop." She opened the trapdoor and showed them the office below. "You guys have run of the apartment. Don't shoot my roommates." "Show us the side door." "Sure. Just let me go before the bullets start flying." "These aren't bullets." "Glory hallelu. Look. I dropped in here with one other woman. We fucked and sucked until the beasties fell asleep. Then we snuck out the side door. I don't think the monsters are dangerous." Shendee traded a glance with Rigadosik. She asked, "Are you willing go down there again?" "That's a lot of fucking, lady. Serious?" Cheri looked around. "It took two hours the last time. And there were two of us." Shendee looked at Rigadosik. He said. "It could save us a fight." "I charge money for that sort of entertainment," Cheri said. The small man spoke. Avonaco. "How much money?" Cheri face-palmed. ******** "Xi, you sure you're up for this?" Xi shrugged. "There is no safe word once we're down there." "It's just sex, right?" Someone rang the buzzer. Cheri checked her security cam. It was Waren and the whole Star Production team. He came in uninvited. Waren had keys. "I got your message," he said. He looked at Xi. "This is the woman you're taking in? Not our normal demographic." Xi covered her chest. "I have tits," she said. "They're just small." Waren said, "Those are the soldier boys?" He looked over. "Girls." He looked up. "Women?" He tipped his hat. "Howdy, ma'am. Thank you for serving." He looked over to the other woman. "Respect." Rigadosik said, "Those are your beasts?" "They are. Adopted them nine years ago. Or they adopted me." Avonaco said, "That tracks." Waren said, "I found them in the Underground. Brought 'em up here. They eat rats, dogs, pigeons, cats. They use the toilet. They wash dishes. They're quite civilized. I send girls in to get fucked every two or three months." Avonaco asked, "Any trouble with starfish?" "Some. The starfish eat the smaller vermin. Roaches, bedbugs." "We'll be taking them off-premises." "You going to hurt them?" Rigadosik pat his shotgun. "Non-lethal rounds. We'll pull them out, stuff them into an airship, and take them back to our compound." "Those boys are like family," Waren said. "We watch Rescue! 3D together." "They watch 3D?" Waren nodded. "There are only four of them?" "More in Underground Fairview." Rigadosik turned to Cheri. "Whenever you're ready." Waren snapped his fingers. He nodded to Xi. "Racine." A woman with a clipboard appeared next to Xi. "Release forms," she said. "W-9. Application to join the union." Xi looked at the forms. "Why am I signing?" Racine said, "This asserts your amateur status. This is an application to join the AMA and to get a SWID. You'll need that if you work for us a second time." Xi hesitated. "Not sure about this." Racine asked, "Do you want to get paid?" Xi signed. Waren asked Xi, "Are you wired?" "AVS?" Xi asked. "Yes." "Oral?" "Yes." "You need a screen name." Cheri suggested, "Elsinore." Xi and Waren looked at Cheri, puzzled. Racine snorted. Waren said, "Elf tits?" Xi crossed her arms across her chest. Waren said, "Galadriel. You can be our fairy princess." Xi relaxed. "Galadriel is okay." Waren asked, "Are you wearing tearaway clothing?" Cheri and Xi exchanged a glance. Cheri said, "Nnn-no." Waren said, "Find something." He clapped his hands. "Make-up! Hair. Wardrobe. We need hero outfits worthy of Rescue! 3D. On the clock, people! Our soldiers are getting impatient." ******** "Handshake," Racine called out. "Parity. We're a go." Waren opened the trapdoor. "Same as before," He said to Cheri. "You can't enter the main room until the trapdoor is shut. As long as the office door open," he pointed to the room below, "we can't open the trapdoor. If you escape the monsters and hold the door shut in the office, we can haul you up with this strap. If you escape to outside, you're probably safe." Cheri arched an eyebrow. "Probably safe?" Waren nodded. "The monsters might pull you back in if you hang out on the roof." He smiled. "Happened twice before. So, if you escape, ya know? Escape. Don't hang out at the entrance to the dragon's cave." Racine said, "The women who got pulled back in were naked. Didn't want to go down to the street. Neither girl thought to come up here." Cheri adjusted the harness around her legs. She stepped out into the open space above the trapdoor. She spun in circles on the way down. The flat strap was supposed to prevent that. It didn't. She landed on the desk below, disentangled from the straps, and sent the harness up for Xi. Cheri helped Xi out of the harness when she landed. They spoke each other's porn names. "Galadriel." "Jirem. What does Jirem mean, anyway?" "It's a spice. Jirem-mirem. Indian, I think." Cheri hopped down from the desk. Her boobs bounced in this outfit. The last time she was here, the monsters burst in through the door and pulled her from the office just as she hopped down from the desk. Nothing. She helped Xi down from the desk. Still nothing. The trapdoor opened again. Four camera bots dropped to the floor and five flying bots whirred about in the room. The trapdoor shut again. Both woman gave a thumbs up to the cameras. One of the flying bots looked strange. Instead of a camera, it had a pointy thing. Like a dart. Or maybe a syringe. Xi asked, looking at the oddly shaped bot, "Is that a mic?" "I think it's tall and ugly's toy." Xi laughed. "If it's his, he heard you." Cheri laughed. "Well, he's not the ugliest." Xi said, "He's not ugly at all. I'd do him." "Rigatoni?" "Rigadosik." Cheri walked up to the door. She turned the knob. Opened the door. Xi peered outside. "It's dark," she said. "The lights are off." The lights turned on in the main room. Xi said, "Thank you." The lights turned off for a moment then turned back on. Xi moved quietly to one side of the door frame. She looked into the room. Three tentacles reached into the doorway. They slapped Xi to the wall and hauled her into the room with a yelp. Cheri charged into the room. She made it two steps before she was grabbed from both sides. Clothes, off. It happened that quickly. Two tentacle monsters toyed with Xi. A third one held Cheri. The remaining monster slapped the military drone from the air. It yanked the battery pack from the drone and stripped it of rotors. All four monsters touched Cheri, caressing her with sensory organs that looked like a cross between a dandelion puff and an anenome. They paid particular attention to her mouth, her sex, and her breasts. Then, with a slap to her rear, they let her go. They pushed her to the center of the room. The monsters passed Xi around. She hadn't been penetrated yet. They teased her with the tips of each appliance. Cheri glanced at one of the camera bots. She covered her boobs with her hands. She knew, from playing with Universal View, that anyone in the audience could zoom in, from any angle. But she also knew that viewership and cume would accumulate if she posed like this. She reached for her clothes with one hand, while trying to cover both boobs with the other hand. The monster played keep-away with Cheri's clothes, tossing skirt and half-tee, bra and panties. One of them handed Cheri a pair of stripper shoes. These belonged to Xi, but they fit Cheri's feet. Perilously tall. Seven-cent lifts with twelve-centimeter heels. Cheri sat on a chair, which the monsters thoughtfully provided. She strapped in to the shoes. When she'd buckled the last buckle, the monsters pulled the chair out from under her while simultaneously lifting Cheri to her feet. They put the chair back into the doorway to the office, blocking the door open. Cheri stood, wobbling in the heels. "How do you walk in these things?" Cheri asked Xi. "Mmph." Xi's mouth was already full. Cheri fell, twisting an ankle, but a monster caught her. The monsters turned on the 3D. A view popped up from the Yellow Dragon. One of the girls on stage. Music blasted. They herded Cheri towards a stripper pole on a short runway. There were chairs on either side of the stage. Two of the monsters squatted atop three chairs each, one on either side of the runway. Cheri allowed the monsters to lift her to the stage. She started dancing, and twirled around the pole. She'd learned how to work the pole at the Bloop. One of the monsters toyed with Xi. It didn't seem like it was doing much, but Xi did rocket through a bucking orgasm as Cheri watched. The other monster scuttled to the ceiling, three and a half meters up. It clung to the rafters. It moved quickly. It scrabbled to the middle of the room, thumped the ceiling, then moved on. It repeated the action on a different part of the ceiling. Cheri's electric sense lit up. Buzzing. She realized she was being scanned. She could feel T-waves. Huh. The monster scrabbled across the ceiling again. It thumped the ceiling directly over Cheri. The scan stopped. Cheri's skin stopped crawling. She nodded to the beast above her. "Thanks." The two sitting monsters flipped coins onto the stage under Cheri's feet. Fifty-dollar coins and centurions. Cheri squatted for each coin. She stacked them by the pole. Cheri waggled her boobs at each monster. She fingered herself, and rubbed herself with tentacles. "C'mon, boys," she said. "Take me. Knock yourselves out." Cheri fitted a tulip to one of her breasts. It rewarded her by sucking on the nipple. Cheri squeezed another tentacle, extruding the male appliance. She teased herself with it for a moment, getting the tip of it wet. Then she stuffed it in her pussy and fucked herself with it. Victory! The monster snatched her off the stage and fucked her until she came. Then it set her on her feet and pushed her toward the side door. It slapped her rump. "Wait, no," Cheri turned and faced the monster. "This isn't what you did the last time." She stood, arms akimbo. The monster stood at full height. It made a threat display. Cheri attacked. She bounced off a tentacle. The fierce and scary monster kept her from falling. She grabbed the tentacle that steadied her. She put it on her breast. The monster picked her up. It put her closer to the side door. The music stopped. The 3D field faded. Cheri could hear mop-bucket sounds of Xi getting fucked. She heard Xi moan through another orgasm. Then the monster that held Xi passed her to the monster that had been minding Cheri. The monster that just finished with Xi loomed over Cheri. It turned her around. It pushed her toward the side door. "No!" Cheri started to turn around again. "Whoop!" The monster carried Cheri to the office. It set her on the desk. It knocked on the trap door four times, and left the room, shutting the door behind it. Cheri stared at the camera bot. "This is embarrassing," she said. "I've been rejected." The bot dipped twice. It went to the office door and tapped on it. The door opened. The bot scuttled into the other room. The door shut again. The trap door opened. Cheri looked up. Waren leered down at her. "What now?" she asked. "Can't leave your friend in there. The last time I sent one girl in, they fucked her for twenty hours and never did tire out. I'll call one of my employees. Mai owes me a favor. Wanna lift?" "Let me try one more thing." Waren nodded. He shut the trapdoor. Cheri eased down from the desk. She walked to the door, careful in these heels. The knob wouldn't turn. She knocked. The door snapped open. A monster hauled her out of the office. It reached in and dragged the gymnast's horse out into the main room. As Cheri watched, squirming, it fitted two dildos to the saddle atop the padded horse. "Wait, wait. No! Buh." Cheri grunted as each dildo pressed against a different hole. First the one at her arse slipped in. Then the one at her pussy. Cheri squirmed, easing herself onto the dildos as the monster pressed her down onto the saddle. It grabbed both of her ankles and slipped her feet into the stirrups high up on the horse. It fixed both of Cheri's wrists to her ankles. The monster fitted milkers to Cheri's nipples and a suction device to her clitoris. It turned on the milkers first. Cheri felt the suction pulse. Then it turned on the vibrating saddle. The monsters held Xi with her legs apart and rubbed Xi's pussy on Cheri's nose. Cheri sighed. She ate Xi's pussy. It tasted of semen and vegetable oil. After Xi came again, Cheri also came, bucking and squirming against the saddle. The monsters then mostly ignored Cheri, except to adjust the vibration of the saddle and to change the rhythm of the milkers. They fucked Xi through several more orgasms. When Cheri's legs cramped, a monster plucked Cheri from her saddle. They let her walk around for a while. They made her dance with Xi on the stage. Then they put Cheri back on the saddle, and stuffed Xi in all three holes. Mai sauntered out of the office. The monsters tied Mai to the X-frame and fitted a vibrating wand to Mai's pussy with a smart arm. After an hour of this, they pulled Mai, and then Cheri, and sat each of them onto the roof at the fourth level, outside. Their clothes flew through the door a moment later. The side door clicked shut and locked. Mai collected her clothes. She said, "Easiest workday ever." She got dressed. Cheri tottered up the stairs to her apartment. Mai skipped down the stairs to the street. Cheri buzzed herself into the apartment. She smelled her fabricators at work. She saw movement up in the loft. Hease? Waren and Racine were watching the action on the fourth floor on the 3D by the couch. Waren said, "It's not looking good for Team Galadriel." Cheri asked, "How's she holding up?" "More than forty orgasms. She passed out twice. The monsters have cum once each." "Not what I was asking, but okay." Waren shrugged. "No obvious trauma. She's earning her centurions. Ratings are way up. How are you?" "My pussy is still buzzing." "Did you really log on to Slavering 2?" "Yo. I was bored." "Awesome plug. Tantrell called. Subscriptions are up." Cheri went to the kitchen, waited as Lance finished interviewing the team from Shiok Labs. When it was her turn to speak, she asked, "Well?" Rigadosik said, "We're back to Plan A. Drop in. Shoot up the place. Haul away our monsters." "My friend is still down there." Rigadosik patted his shotgun. "Non-tox to humans. Might sting a bit." Cheri heard a scuttling sound from Tesla's room. "My roommates are home?" she asked. "Dunno. People have been in and out." Cheri knocked on Tesla's door. A tentacle monster dropped down from the loft. It bounced, then reversed direction, rolling in a mass of tentacles and lights towards the team from Shiok Labs. A camera bot scuttled into the Great Room from Cheri's room. The lights went out. The team from Shiok Labs opened fire on the rolling mass of lights. "Wait, wait!" Cheri yelled. "That's my tentacle monster!" She recognized the lights. The team continued to fire. Something big rushed past Cheri from Tesla's room. Monsters dropped from the ceiling. A monster burst out of the props room. The noise of automatic weapons and the phut of pneumatic shotguns stopped. Waren exclaimed in the dark, "What happened to my feed?" Cheri saw the 3D. The video was blurry now, feed from most of the cameras scrambled. The only working camera was focused on Racine, naked and in the embrace of a tentacle monster. Mop-bucket noises started, along with muffled curses and exclamations from Racine. The lights came back on. A mass of spare parts, some of them recently fabricated, rolled over to Cheri. It wriggled at her and made a querying noise. She pat it on one of the tentacles. Cheri had a good view of the team from Shiok Labs. She glanced at the 3D. The viewing audience had only one camera to watch. The team from Shiok Labs had been relieved of their weapons and clothes. The monsters held each team member from Shiok Labs and rubbed them lewdly with tentacles. Rigadosik looked misshapen and the Shendee looked worse. Giantism? Avonaco was piebald. Large patches of white skin on a nut-brown background. Large testicles. His cock looked tiny, in comparison. But Cheri knew, from experience, that it would be larger than she could accommodate without pain - or a lot of foreplay. Zanita had a tail? Something twitched back and forth. It was pale. And bare. Tentacle? The woman herself was nut-brown and hairy. Bare only at her nipples, knees, neck and face, palms, and the soles of her feet, which looked odd. Mop-bucket noises and the cry of a woman climaxing distracted Cheri. She looked. Racine was still getting tentacle fucked. Apparently, she enjoyed it. Unless the orgasm was induced. Those sucked. Induced orgasms ripped a hole in one's mind. Cheri hated them. Cheri counted six tentacle monsters. Seven, if you counted the kluge of cable salad recently assembled in the loft. Tesla walked out of her room. "Why do they only fuck girls?" she asked. She nodded to Racine. Waren shrugged. "Blame it on Rescue! 3D," he said. "I don't watch the male teams." A smile spread slowly on his face. "Glad for that, now." He pointed to Racine. Racine bucked through another orgasm. The monster set her down, put her clipboard in her hand and passed her clothes to her. She hugged her clothes to her chest. She handed her clipboard to Waren. "I quit." Then she walked, bare-arsed, to the front room. A moment later, Cheri heard the front door buzz open and shut. Xi stumbled out of the props room. "Is it safe?" she asked. Cheri rushed over and hugged Xi. "Easy on the nipples," Xi said, backing away. "Sore." "You're dressed," Cheri said. Xi shrugged. The monsters gathered all the weapons, including the sprayer. They reassembled the flying bot they'd torn apart downstairs. Minus the dart gun. They reactivated the spider bot. Then they put the team from Shiok Labs back on its feet and pushed piles of armor and clothes towards each team member. The monsters filed past. Each one pat Xi and Cheri on the head as it passed. Two of them slapped Cheri's butt. The last one out winked at Cheri with one of its eight eyes. It said, "Raincheck." Cheri looked over to Rigadosik. He shrugged into his armor. He nodded to Cheri. "They called for air transport. We're out." Zanita picked up panties with her tail. She stepped into them, fitted a bra over her boobs and stepped into her armor. She looked at Cheri, mustache twitching. "What are you looking at?" "Um, right. I should give you privacy." Cheri faced away. The team filed out of the front door, following the monsters. ******** After they'd left, Xi whispered to Cheri. "Did she have a tail?" Cheri nodded. "Shiok Labs," Xi said. "I've heard stories." "I might be interning there." Xi pat Cheri on the shoulder. "You'll look cute with a tail." Xi took a step forward. She winced. "Do you need help to the couch?" Xi groaned. "I need paracetamol. And an ice pack." "I have some salve they gave us at the Bloop." "I'll try it." Xi looked at the mass of spare parts that was almost a functional robot. "No more tentacles," she said. "What kind of robot should we make?" "Something without a dick."