Chapter 7: Look What The Clone Dragged In

[Trackman281]

LOOK WHAT THE CLONE DRAGGED IN

As the dropship landed and both Tina and Soph made their way down the ramp, Tina couldn’t help but wonder. Her fellow sister, another infiltrator with supposedly no independence what so ever had thought of her own name, now it may seem small in the rest of the worlds eyes but the fact that she was able to independently know what name she’d like to be called if she had a choice got Tina thinking. “If she is capable of something small like that, then how far does this stretch, can she genuinely think for herself? Is she able to think for herself? Are there other clones like me, but hide it extremely well?” Tina pondered at the idea, but stopped shortly afterwards. No, she has a defect, that’s the only reason she is so different from the other clones and if it wasn’t for her outstanding success rating they would have “re-educated” her a long time ago so there’s no way other clones would have these sorts of independent thoughts.........Could they? Tina and Soph got their mission success speech from the trooper waiting for them at the hangar and their twenty four rest hour period was now officially in effect. Soph turned to Tina. “Hey thanks for helping me make my first mission a success, I quite enjoyed the whole taking out a woman for her clothes kind of thing, it just I don’t know, made me briefly feel like something I wasn’t you know.” Soph thanked. Tina really wanted to hug her in response as it made her feel great knowing she may have opened another clone’s eyes to the fact that they don’t always need to kill to have a successful mission, but alas she couldn’t, clones were not allowed to show any form of true psychical or mental emotion what so ever, the most they could do was offer each other handshakes as a token of a successful business transaction, so Tina offered her hand. “No problem CI-1140, I’d be honoured if they ever put us together again for a mission.” Tina calmly responded trying to hide her joy. Soph shock Tina’s hand before they both saluted each other and went their separate ways.

Three days later and Tina’s sitting at her desk on her laptop just flicking through websites when finally she gets a message for another job and she is supposed to report to her own commander immediately, Tina was already dressed so she quickly threw on her thigh holster and shoved both a roll of her black tape and she popped in a syringe of her homemade knock out serum that she makes in secret as at last her next batch was ready. Tina made her way down to her commander’s office and knocked before entering. “Aaahh CI-1138, thank you for being so punctual, an improvement considering you’ve been tardy these past couple of times you’ve been summoned.” CI-1010 said while looking at her watch. “Yeah, because this time CT-2224 wasn’t hanging around here like a spare one at a wedding.” Tina thought to herself. “Thank you ma’am, I just thought it was duty to report to improve on my time keeping skills.” Tina said this time replying to her commander’s last sentence. “Good, well I’m glad to hear it. Now shall we proceed?” CO-1010 turned on her computer and flipped her screen around towards Tina’s direction, on the screen was a series of strange looking murders. The victims were a mix of both Female and Male; they varied of all ages and ethnicities. “Whoe, judging by the look on their faces, I’d say they suffered, hhhmmmm wait. They’re all pulling the same face.” Tina said examining the pictures and realizing that all the victims all seemed to have a frozen petrified look on their face. “God eye CI-1138, yes it seems as if they’ve all died from what looks like a form of cardiac arrest bought on by severe psychological trauma. There isn’t much that links the victims, the only thing we can find is that their professions are similar, they all seem to be teachers, professors for universities or lecturers.” CO-1010 remarked as she sat back in her chair. “Isn’t this a job for someone more qualified for this sort of thing, I mean I’m not a detective, I’m a soldier?” Tina wondered. “Well yes, but unfortunately a lot of our non-clone creators all have children that are currently employed as teachers and they’re fearing for their safety, so it kills two birds with one stone, for you see we nab the killer and show them off to the world, thus we get a hell of a reputation which means our stock goes up and that means more business comes our way, plus it also means that our little non clone creators children get to keep living, so you know win, win. Now then if you look on the screen this professor Mark Carrel, he’s staying at a hotel in this city tonight ready for a important lecture tomorrow morning, we believe he’s next to be targeted.” CO-1010 explained, as Tina looked at the screen, she felt her heart skip a beat. Yes it was a lovely city, it was a bussling metropolis with skyscrapers that reached the clouds but it was also surrounded by beautiful forests and lovely scenic views, plus around the most eastern part of the city there were a few buildings that overlooked mountains and had beautiful views of the ocean below, but this wasn’t the reason Tina felt anxious no, this was the city that Tina’s lover had been killed in and the idea of returning here gave Tina butterflies in her stomach. Tina kept it together though and just nodded to her commander unable to speak momentarily.

“Just for safety you won’t be going in alone I’m despatching a squad of troopers along with a medic to go in alongside you, just in case things take a turn for the worse, so here’s the plan, you’ll all be despatched to the roof of the hotel once there, you’ll patch in to the hotels security system and monitor the professor, once the killer attempt to make their move, you’ll swoop in hard and fast, job done you know.” CO-1010 explained as she swung her screen back round to her. “Yes commander, it may please you to know that I’m already good to go, so just give the word.” Tina rebuffed to her commander. “Excellent the squad will be waiting in hanger B03, get going soldier.” CO-1010 said before putting her head down to focus on a load of paperwork that was currently sitting in front of her. Tina got up and left the office and started to make her way towards the hanger, she felt incredibly sick, she wanted to avoid this city at all costs, especially after what happened last time she was there. When she reached the hanger she the squad waiting for her, the squad was made up of seven standard clone troopers, one clone sergeant and a clone medic that was already standing on a dropship waiting to get going. “I trust you’re ready to go soldier?” The sergeant asked. “Yeah sure, let’s just get this over with.” Tina responded, she really wasn’t thrilled about this at all. She got onboard the ship and the sergeant flagged the pilot and moments later they were in the air. On their way one of the troopers was flicking through her system when something caught her attention. “Hey sarge, I tapped into the professor’s laptop and he was in the middle of a video chat when the person he was talking asked him who was his guest standing right behind him, but before the professor could respond, the camera feed cuts off.” The trooper said. “Shit, looks like our friend has already made their move, its okay we’re moments from the drop point, just be ready to move.” The sergeant ordered. The dropship rapidly descended into the city and onto the rooftop of the hotel, the sergeant, her squad and Tina leapt out onto the roof as the dropship quickly departed from the area. Tina felt her mind race as she briefly looked over the rooftop and gazed at the city, but before she could go too deep into her mind a voice called out behind her. “Come on let’s get going!” The Sergeant shouted, Tina quickly snapped back into reality and followed her sisters down. They moved down the stair case until they reached the floor the professor was staying on, a trooper checked the make sure the coast was clear and they hurried to the door of the professor’s hotel room and stacked up. One of the troopers pulled out a skeleton key but in the form of a card which overrides basic locks such as a hotel room locks, the door opens and the squad head inside. “Infiltrator, stay out here and alert us if anyone comes, plus if less suspicious if you stand out there wearing your cat suit rather than one of us with our guns and armour you know.” The sergeant ordered. Tina nodded and waiting outside while the rest of the squad entered the hotel room and closed the door behind them.

As they entered the room they saw the back of the professor still sitting on his chair, the squad did a quick sweep of the room before going over to check on the professor, the clone medic approached but as she spun the chair around, the professor was dead, pulling the exact same face as all the other victims had. “Sorry sarge, he’s gone.” The medic sighed. “This is CT-9662 we have a situation here please report in.” But before the sergeant could continue, a thick yellow gas started to slip into the room. “MASKS, MASKS! CI-1138 stay outside, you don’t have a mask!” The sergeant yelled as both she and squad put on their gas masks, but something was wrong the gas masks weren’t working. Outside Tina could hear screaming, lots of painful screaming, her squad’s gasmasks weren’t working, she tried to kick the door open as hard as she could, but as she was kicking in the door the screaming stopped and the room fell silent then the sound of an air extractor began. Once Tina had finally kicked in the door she rushed inside and found her entire squad lying on the floor motionless, she lifted off one of the gas masks from a trooper and discovered that her face was frozen in fear, it was then Tina realised all of her squad her dead. “This is CI-1138 I need an immediate exfil; and a recovery team to this location, please follow the troopers earpieces at once.” But as Tina was relaying her instructions she heard a loud thump behind her, Tina turned and saw a figure standing there.

This figure was female, Caucasian, tall and slim, she wore black skinny jeans, brown knee high laced boots, it was hard to tell her age as she was wearing a heavily modified gas mask with two air filters, one of each side. Her mask had been altered into a cowl with the aesthetics of a hood and nose and the eyes of the mask emanated a horrific medallion yellow glow. The fabric itself of the mask seemed to be burlap with thick black layers of stitching resembling a smile where her mouth would be if she were not wearing said mask. She was wearing a brown shirt but this was covered by a thick brown trench coat that had had loads of stitches, possibly from where it had be teared multiple times and been crudely stitched back together, her coat has been modified to hold multiple vials and steel canisters of some sort of serum, on her wrists were two mounted guns, but instead of bullets, tips of syringes could be seen poking out, a flashing light appeared on her throat she seemed to have surgically grafted a permanent voice modulator on her throat to forever alter her voice.

“Well, it seems you’re late to the party, but don’t worry there’s always the after party.” This woman said, the voice modulator was making her voice deep and very gravelly. “Who, or what are you?” Tina asked. “My name has been dead for years but many of my former associates used to call me Kuebiko. A Japanese deity, a scarecrow like figure who while its legs could not walk it has comprehensive awareness and knew everything in the empire, while as you can see I can walk fine, but the name stuck with me so the name’s KUEBIKO!” The woman now known as Kuebiko explained. “You’re not the first crazy woman to appear in my life and I doubt you’ll be the last, but I’m sorry but I have no choice but to stop you and turn make you face justice for all these murders.” Tina relayed back to Kuebiko. Kuebiko just tilted her head sideways and stared motionless back at Tina. “Cute, but you don’t scare me.” Tina made her way to tackle her. She threw and few jabs and tried to get in a few chops but Kuebiko seemed to dodge everything, Tina grabbed both of Kuebiko’s hand and twisted her wrists around but this just made Kuebiko laugh. “Silly girl, by watching my hands you failed to see what the rest of my body was doing.” Tina’s eyes widened, as Tina tried to let go Kuebiko fired a dart from her wrist and a needle filled with yellow serum flew right into Tina’s stomach, Kuebiko stepped back and watched as Tina brushed the needle off of her. But it was too late, it was empty, the serum was in Tina’s system. “Hahahaha, give it a minute, it’s my own mixture made up of dopamine, yohimine, carbogen, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, L-34-dihydroxyphenylalanine, and corticotropin and a hint of LSD just for good measure. Now tell me your fears” Kuebiko explained.

Tina felt faint before falling to her knees, she looked up and saw several Kuebiko’s all standing around her before she fell through a deep dark hole. Tina landed in a circle and found herself surrounded by so many of her fellow clones all with glowing yellow eyes laughing at her. “Your nothing, never be one of us, should of killed you before you were born, you can’t save anything or anyone. Your nothing but a failure!” These hallucinations shouted at her, Tina grasped her ears, she wasn’t fully aware what’s going on, but the demonic laughter of her sisters laughing at her made her run, she ran and ran until she heard a voice. “Help me.” She saw a glowing light in an alleyway, but as she investigated she saw Delsin, he was covered in blood and trying to put pressure on a bullet wound, “Oh God, no, no, please not again. Hold on honey I’m coming!” She shouted she used both of her hands and applied pressure on the wound all the while ominous black figures of civilians approached her from behind. “Please help me, just stand there, he’s dying, call an ambulance PLEASE DO SOMETHING!” Tina pleaded but all the figures just stood there watching. Tina’s mind was racing, what does she do, she had to do something, she couldn’t do this, her heart was aching and her chest was tightening, then Delsin’s grip loosened as he passed away in Tina’s view. “Why......Why.” Tina lowered her head, she thought she had failed again, but suddenly Delsin’s hand grabbed her again as she looked up Delsin how now turned into a hideous and grotesque decomposing corpse. “You left me to die, you left me to die.” Delsin’s corpse said over and over again. “No, No I didn’t I couldn’t save you, I tried I really did, please don’t hate me, please don’t blame me. I’d never hurt you.” Tina said as she free herself from the hallucinations grasp. “Oh no, you get away free while I was left dying in a gutter and what of my family?” The hallucinations pointed at two hollow husks, one of his mother and one of his sister huddled together crying. “You killed my son, he should have never met you, if should have been you that died that day, it’s all your fault. YOUR FAULT!” The husk of the mother proclaimed. Tina pleaded but it all fell on deaf ears, finally Tina let out a frightened scream and screamed as loud as she could before she snapped back into reality. She was still in the hotel room, she hadn’t gone anywhere, well psychically anyway, though Tina felt her heart pumping way too fast, her chest was tight, her muscles were having spasms, she was having a severe panic attack which could lead to a heart attack, thinking quickly she rolled, that’s all she could do, she rolled to her former clone medic and pulled out an epipen and injected herself with it, she could feel it calming her heart down and her body was relaxing and after a few seconds later, she could breath more comfortably, she sat up and saw Kuebiko staring at her. “You talk a lot in your sleep you know, so you were in love, you wanted to be a wife maybe even become a mother someday? But all you did was get the one you love killed, you bought pain to his family, you got a life ended while you still exist, you failed as a soldier and you failed as a girlfriend, you would have failed as a wife and you certainly would of failed as a mother, you can’t protect anyone, you can’t even protect yourself, you are weak and all you need is another dose of my serum and your fate will be sealed.” Kuebiko taunted. Anger and sadness flowed through Tina, all she wanted to do was smash Kuebiko to pieces, but the serum still flowed through her body, she needed to get to a hospital and quick, Tina had to make this look real. She rushed at Kuebiko but instead she slid right through her legs, she felt a hand smack her on the back of her neck as she slipped under and thought it was Kuebiko trying to grab her, little did she know that Kuebiko had just slapped a small tracking chip on the back of Tina’s neck.

Fleeing for her life Tina slid out of the hotel room and ran as fast as she could down the hallway. Kuebiko pulled out a phone from her pocked and a blue light blipped up in a radar, the tracking chip was live, next she bent down and picked up a radio that belonged to one of the clone troopers, she dusted off and attached it to her harness. “Oh I’m going to enjoy breaking you.” She said to herself. Tina smashed through the hallway door and made her way to one of the hotels lower floors, she had to get out of there and quick. Tina attempted to run but as she looked back she ran and accidently smacked straight into 25 year old Latina woman named “Camilla.” She was wearing a white vest, bright blue skinny jeans, and a white hat on, she was wearing bright white trainers and she had big golden hopped earrings, her skin was a particular dark shade which meant she probably came from Peru. She had long shoulder length black hair with light brown highlights going through it. Both woman bumped heads and fell to the floor.

“Ow, hey watch it bitch.” Camilla said rubbing her head. Tina just got up and tried to walk straight past her. “Hey I said watch it you little bitch, ain’t you even gonna say sorry!” Camilla shouted, Tina didn’t have time for this and as she tried to walk away again she heard the clicking of a switch blade being pulled out, Tina turned around and saw Camilla with a switch blade pointing it straight at her. “Hey I just realised, you and I are roughly the same size.” Tina said realising this girl could help her more than she knew. “What so that means you can just bash into me then walk away without saying sorry huh?” Camilla protested. “No it just means I should have done this instead, so thank you for making me see the error I just made.” Tina said while smiling. “What are you on about, don’t make cut you.” But just as she said that, Tina gave a swift round house kick which booted the switchblade out off Camilla’s hand before spinning back round and gave a second kick right to Camilla’s head. As Camilla fell on the floor, Tina quickly jumped onto Camilla’s back and laid flat on top of her, she then put her left hand over her mouth and swiftly pulled her head to the side revealing an exposed part of her neck and with her right hand quickly injected Camilla with her own syringe of knock out serum. Camilla flailed around for a few seconds before falling unconscious. “Okay I see a lovely laundry room over there, so what say you and I go somewhere a little more quieter and shall we say....get to know each other.” Tina winked as she grabbed Camilla by her arm pits and dragged her into the laundry room. Once inside Tina got to work.

Despite the fact her shoes were laced up, Tina found it very easy to pull of Camilla’s shoes, next she quickly whipped off Camilla’s pink trainer socks exposing her bare feet, before she unzipped her skinny jeans and pulled them down her legs, revealing that Camilla was wearing a purple pair of panties with a little yellow ribbon just at the top. Tina flicked Camilla’s hat off before she pulled Camilla up by her wrists and laid her chin on her shoulders so she could easily grab the bottom of her vest and yank it up her back and over her head, this in turn caused Camilla to fall of Tina’s should and fell back down to the floor. Surprisingly underneath Camilla was wearing a white lacy bra, Tina thought she might wear a matching bra to go with her panties, but apparently not. Tina realized the floor must be exceptionally cold as Camilla’s nipples had got erect and were poking through the fabric in her bra. Next up Tina got the black tape she kept on her suit and proceeded to both bound and gag Camilla before seeing a problem, there weren’t any good hiding places for Tina to hide Camilla’s unconscious body. Then Tina had a plan, she scooped up Camilla who was now all bound and gagged and proceeded to stuff her body inside one of the washing machines, naturally though she didn’t close the door on the washing machine just in case she suffocated but none of the less Camilla was now safely hidden away. “I just hope who ever uses that washing machine next checks to see if it’s empty first, I mean you could benefit from having your mouth washed out with soap from what I heard but I know that you wouldn’t appreciate going for a spin cycle.” She joked as she got changed into Camilla’s clothing, she naturally let her keep her earring because her ears weren’t pierced anyway but even if they were, Tina thought that looked really cheap and tacky.

Now Tina had her change of clothes she walked outside and started walking down the street though as she was she turned back at the hotel she saw Kuebiko standing on the rooftop glaring down on her, those soul piercing yellow lights haunting Tina’s own gaze. Feeling frightened Tina just turned around and pretended like she couldn’t see her and walked straight into the centre of the city, Tina was walking around just looking for the first hospital she could see but every step felt like an eternity, her headaches were getting worse, the effects of the serum was getting stronger and all she could hear were whispers and every now and then she’d see what she could only assume to be hallucinations of Kuebiko standing on the other side of the street following her. Tina was about to ask for help when at last she saw a hospital being signposted, wasting no more time she hurried in the direction of which the sign was pointing and after a short while later she had finally came across a hospital. Just as Tina was about to enter the hospital she saw a figure hunched over by a wall. “Excuse my dear, can you help me with this door, I can’t see a thing.” The figure asked. Tina went over and helped up this seemingly helpless figure up. “Sorry but the entrance is over here, you’re trying to open a wall, you know.” Tina remarked. “Oh haha, sorry my dear it’s just been difficult to live a normal life since your friend shot me in the head.” The figure responded turning around and revealing to be a hallucination of the scientist Kulap Saae-Lim. Tina fell on her back in shock. “Bang, bang I’m dead, there’s fifty bullets in my head, one blue, one black.....” The hallucination of Kulap Saae-Lim taunted but Tina didn’t want to hear anymore and made a beeline straight for the entrance, once inside she peered round to see if the hallucination was still there, though thankfully it had gone, she turned to see a load of medical personal all staring at her. “Eeerr, haha, parking charges right, got to make every second count you know.” Tina said while rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment.

Tina hurried through the hospital, she needed information, so she needed to find a nice quiet place where her and a nurse could have a chat, it didn’t take long for Tina to find an empty x-ray room, this was perfect. Tina stood with her back against a wall when at last a lone nurse came down the hallway. She was wearing the standard blue scrub trousers and shirt, she had blue shoes on, she had white skin, long black hair in a pony tail and she was about 35 years of age. Her name tag read “Jennifer”.

Tina waited and as soon as Jennifer was about to walk past her, using both her hands she grabbed Jennifer by her stomach and lifted her up off of her feet and quickly carried her into the x-ray room. “Hey, let me go right now mmmppphhhh.....” Jenifer was interrupted as Tina placed her right hand over her mouth while still holding her with her left hand. “Listen just answer me this one question and I promise I’ll let you. Now what do you to cure Hallucinations, please tell me I’m running out of time.” Tina barked, she slowly released her hand from Jennifer’s mouth. “Risperidone, you have to use Risperidone, but we keep it in the nurse’s office and you won’t get in there without actually being a nurse.” Jenifer replied. Tina put her hand back of Jenifer’s mouth and pressed her body up against hers. “A Nurse huh, when you wake up you’re going to wish you had kept that part a secret, now hold still.” Tina said. Jennifer’s eyes widened wondering what Tina meant but Tina gave a swift right hand straight to the side of Jennifer’s head and she slumped back into Tina’s arms unconscious. Tina carried Jennifer and laid her out onto the x-ray chair.

Tina pulled off Jennifer’s shoes before she undone the string on Jennifer’s trousers and proceeded to remove them from her body, underneath Jennifer was wearing a silky jet black G-string. Tina didn’t need to sit Jennifer up and her top had clips, she unclipped her shirt and ripped open Jennifer’s shirt letting her breast wobble about as she did it. Here we see that Jennifer was wearing a black silky bra but the fabric on the side was netting so when she was facing sideways you could get a great view of her bare breasts. After her top was removed, Tina went hunting around for something to tie her up with, as fortune would have it, Tina found a couple of boxes filled with medical tubes, bandages and spare stethoscopes. Tina wasn’t sure just much she would have to use to keep Jennifer bound, gagged and out of the way so she just used it all, just to be on the safe side, in no time at all Jennifer was gagged and completely bound from the tops of her shoulders all the way down to the tips of her toes. “God, you’re going to look like a caterpillar wriggling around when you wake up haha.” Tina joked as she got changed into Jennifer’s uniform. Once she was changed she chucked her old outfit or rather Camilla’s outfit into a waste desposal bin and off she went. Tina worked her way towards a room filled with all various liquids and medications and she saw another nurse wearing the exact same outfit as the one she was wearing. “Hi, my name is Jennifer, a patient’s come in having one hell of an acid trip and we need some Risperidone to help bring him back down.” Tina said using her disguise and impersonating Jennifer. “Oh wow lucky you eh. Anyway it’s down there third cupboard in, can’t miss it.” The other nurse said. “Oh right thanks very much.” Tina replied, she made her way down and opened the cabinet door, she had a bit of a rummage before she found it, she took out a box of risperidone and opened it up, inside she found a bottle and a needle. She quickly unpacked the syringe and pierced the lid of the bottle, squeezing as much as she could into the syringe before shoving it into her and squeezing it all into her. She felt her headache start to die down, it was working but it would take a minute or two before it fully started to take effect. Then just as she closed the door a hallucination of Delsin grabbed her by her throat pinning her to the wall.

“Moment of truth Tina! Who am I? Am I your friend? Your Lover? The one shred, one light, one bright shining star you clung to in this universe? Or am I your guilt? Crushing the life out of you because you can get over the fact that I’m dead? That you feel responsible? Who.........Am.......I? Why do you keep fighting me? Why can’t you let go?” He asked.

Tina’s eyes began to fill and tears rolled down her face.

“Because you were my everything.........And if I let you go........I’ve got nothing left.” Tina replied.

Just then the hallucination slowly turned to ash and disappeared before Tina’s tearful eyes. The medication had kicked in. Tina fell to her knees and let the tears pour down her cheeks, she angrily punched the floor in frustration, she’d never said those things out loud before and the realisation of the situation had caught up with her, she had begun the stages of acceptance but that didn’t make it any easier, instead it felt like Tina’s heart had been ripped in two. Tina gathered herself and pulled herself up off of the floor, she wiped the tears away and blew her nose on a tissue before she chucked it in a bin along with the empty box, bottle and needle before making her way back out, she had to call for help. Tina left the hospital and made her way down the side of the building, although as she was walking towards the exit she heard a sharp whistling noise coming from behind her. Tina turned around and saw a pitch black and empty car park with a sole lamppost in the middle and standing right underneath it was Kuebiko. Tina took a step and breathed heavily, the medication had worked which meant this wasn’t an illusion that was really Kuebiko following her. “No it, can’t be, how did you know I was specifically going to be here.” She said to herself. Kuebiko then pulled out the radio she took from the clone trooper earlier and waved it in the air before placing it to her mouth.

“Well, well you’re not dead and judging by that outfit you’ve changed into I think it’s safe to say you found an antidote for my little toxin, it doesn’t matter I’ve got plenty more where that came from haha.” Kuebiko spoke over the radio. Tina heard every word and responded. “I don’t know how your following me and to be honest I don’t really care, but know this, you can’t beat me and won’t beat me, I will stop you, I don’t know how, but I will stop you!” Kuebiko just laughed and picked the radio back up. “It seems like you’ve always buried your fears, locked them away deep in your subconscious. Hidden. But something is gnawing away in the darkness of your mind, isn’t it? Something even YOU can’t control.” With that Kuebiko put the radio away and dispersed into the darkness behind her.

Not wanting to see what happens next Tina ran into the well-lit complex where shops and markets were light up with people, she needed to find somewhere safe to radio for an exfil, then spotted something unexpected, she spotted an Emo club, Tina rushed to the door and hid in some bushes which were just outside the front, a while later she spotted a lone emo girl making her way to the entrance.

This emo girl was 20 years old, she had pale white skin, she had long dyed black hair which she also had her hair dip dyed blue at the ends. She had a very slim body, she was wearing a black shirt that was covered in miniature pink skull and crossbones, she was wearing skinny black trousers that had multiple tears going through them as is the emo style. She was wearing black and white standard converse shoes and she was wearing black and white striped sleeves which went up to her elbows. She also wore a thick belt which went around the outside of her trouser and in big bold writing had the band “my chemical romance” written all over it. There was also a low hanging chain that was attached to her belt and trousers which swung down against her left thigh. Tina didn’t know it yet but this Emo girls name was “Abigail”.

Abigail was too engrossed on her phone while walking past the bushes where Tina was waiting to spring out from, once she was close enough Tina emerged from the bushes, she wrapped one arm around Abigail’s neck and one hand over her mouth and violently but swiftly yanked Abigail backwards into the bushes, once in the bushes Tina fell on her back and wrapped her legs around Abigail’s legs so she couldn’t kick, Tina could feel Abigail’s bum going u and down against her own crotch as she desperately tried to break free but it was hopeless and moments later, Abigail passed out fast asleep. “Phew, had more fight in you than what I thought.” Tina said to herself.

Tina unbuckled and removed Abigail’s belt, that was easy enough, but when she undone Abigail’s converses she had to really tug on them a few times before they came off her feet as was the normality with converse shoes, Abigail was wearing black socks with the phrase “life is boring” written on them, Tina quite liked them so she decides to steal Abigail’s socks and all. Tina then unbuttoned and unzipped her trousers before grabbing the ends of the trouser legs and pulling down and off of Abigail, thankfully the chain came along with it, next she grabbed Abigail’s sleeves by the fingertips and carefully peeled them down and off her arms being careful not to rip them, once this was done she grabbed Abigail’s shirt from the front, pulled up passed her flat stomach before pulling it over her head and onto the floor, Underneath all of this Abigail was wearing a matching set of bra and panties which both had a black and white squared patter, that which resembled a chess board. Tina quickly got changed into Abigail’s clothing before ripping the nurse scrubs into ropes and bound up Abigail nice and tight, but she still needed a gag, so instead of using a traditional method, Tina grabbed Abigail’s my chemical romance belt and wrapped it round her mouth before tightening the buckle at the back, that was that Abigail was now fully bound and gagged.

Tina felt a lump and reached into the pockets and found a black leather wallet with her ID in stating. “Oh well thanks Abigail, I know all you goth girls and Emo girls are two very different groups, but I can see why you all get ogled over.” Tina said sarcastically before going into the club. Once she was in she pushed her way passed everybody and got herself comfy at the next available table she saw before switching her earpiece back on. “CI-1138, I desperately need an exfil location, mission is Fubar, all my team are dead and the package is lost, also be advised the radios have been compromised, keep chats to emergency only, how copy?” It took a while but finally the radio crackled and a pilot got through. “I read you loud and clear the only exfil point I have for you is at the top of the HT building at the edge of the city, it’s the one overlooking the ocean, I’ll be there in two hours, I’m bringing additional troopers in case we have to come in hot, over and out.” The pilot responded. “Over and out.” Tina said before standing up, however just as she did, Kuebiko walked into the club and started scanning the room. “God damn, how do I get out here, there’s no way I can sneak past her, unless I actually use my disguise.” Tina planned. Tina watched as Kuebiko started to make her way through the crowd then Tina herself got moving, Tina waved her arms up in the air and pretended to be just an ordinary Emo girl dancing in a club, she eventually danced her way over to Kuebiko and intentionally bumped into her. “Hey unless you want to make out, watch where you’re going, yeah.” Tina said then proceeded to dance away towards the exit. Kuebiko just looked and continued walking when it hit her. She pulled out the phone and now the blimp was showing Tina was outside the nightclub, “Clever.” Kuebiko said to herself after she realised that Tina was the one who just bumped right into her. Kuebiko hurried back outside but Tina was nowhere to be seen, checking around Kuebiko checked behind the bushes and found Abigail’s still very much unconscious and still very much bound and gagged in her underwear. “VERY clever.” Kuebiko reiterated to herself.

Tina sprinted down the street before stopping to catch her breath, she then switched to a brisk walk and made her way through the city, she had been walking for a few miles before she felt a chill go down her spine, it wasn’t because of the weather but because of where she was, she stopped and stared down an alleyway she was passing. Down this alleyway were lots of flowers, and numerous pictures of Delsin, this was the alleyway where he was killed. Tina’s hand started, to shake and she swallowed hard before walking down, she hadn’t been here in years. She walked down and discovered two massive pictures, one of Delsin and his family and the other picture of him and Tina sitting at a beach in Italy. Tina shakingly touched the picture with her in it. “Your family.......They remembered me.......they knew how much you meant to me and I......I.....I failed you.” Tina whispered, she sat down in front of the makeshift shrine, she just wanted a moment of remembrance, a chance to reflect but her earpiece went off. It was Kuebiko.

“How does it feel girl, to stand on the very stones that ran with your lover’s blood? Do you feel sad? Full of rage? Or does your training help bury your feelings, hiding your true self? You are the product of everything you fear, violence, darkness and helplessness........Have your moment, pay your respects to your ultimate failure, I’ll be waiting at your extraction point.” With that the radio fell silent.

Tina did just that she got her feet, went into a flower shop and used Abigail’s debit card and bought herself a bouquet of red roses, a candle and a small box of matches. Tina went back down the alley, she light the candle and placed it in front of the pictures before resting the bouquet of roses down. With that Tina sat down crossed legged and closed her eyes. She remembered all the joy they had, all the love and all the light that he and his family bought into Tina’s life, she remembered how powerless she felt the day he died, she remembered hiding it all behind missions and assignments, trying everything in her power so she didn’t have to face the reality of it all. Ten minutes past and Tina opened her eyes and got to her knees but she didn’t fully stand up yet. “I’m not sure I can do this, she’s better than me, stronger than me, she’s in my head, she knows how to break me....She has broke me.......I’m scared, for once in my life I’m scared, I know you’d say I’d find away, but there’s just always someone in this world better than you and it seems like today I found my better.” Tina monologued to the picture. “But I’ll find a way, I have to don’t I and after all of this is done I’ll go see your mum and your sister and see how they’re doing, I thought after everything that happened, they wouldn’t want to see me anymore......Apparently I was wrong, so i promise I’ll go see them, I don’t know how, but I will. I WILL. I love you with all my heart and I’ll never forget you, goodnight sweet prince.” With that Tina got to her feet, kissed her fingers and gently rubbed them over the picture, she made sure the flowers were secure and she kept the candle burning and with that she made her way to the HT building and on her way she was formulating a plan....

Once she got to the building Tina snuck round and managed to force open one of the ventilation ducts and climbed on in, once she was successfully in the building she popped out of one of the grates on the floor and proceeded to duck and dive around every CCTV camera she came across until she came up to an empty office, she deliberately smashed the office door’s window with her elbow and opened the door letting of a silent alarm. She hid in the office and waited. “This is Ramirez a disturbance was picked up and I’m the scene now checking it out.”

A female security guard came to inspect the noise, she had tanned skin, she had chocolate brown hair tied back in a ponytail, she had an average looking body, Tina reckoned she looked to be in her late twenties, she was wearing a grey coloured button t-shirt with a patch which read security across each shoulder, she had a black tie on, black skin tight trousers with an modified belt which allowed room for two sets of handcuffs, a pistol, a radio, a torch and a baton, she was also wearing black boots which just went over her ankles. Her name badge read “Ramirez”

Ramirez pulled out her torch and switched it on before pulling out her gun and inspecting the office. “Definitely signs of a break in please stand by.” Ramirez quickly relayed over her radio, she scanned all over the office and checked for any other signs of forced entry, little did she know that Tina quietly picked up a fire extinguisher. “Hey let me give you a hand with that.” Tina whispered in Ramirez’s ear. Ramirez jumped and spun around only see the end of a fire extinguisher coming straight for her face, it hit Ramirez right in the middle of her forehead and we fell backwards onto the office table knocking numerous supplies off of it in the process. Tina put the fire extinguisher down and checked Ramirez’s pulse. “Yep, she’s out, ouch that is going to hurt when you wake up.” Tina said realizing she may of Ramirez a little too hard.

Tina pulled Ramirez off of the table and onto the office floor, she removed her utility belt and untucked her shirt, before loosened and removed her tie, next Tina unbuttoned and removed Ramirez’s shirt and unlaced and vigorously pulled off her boots, with that she removed her trousers and Tina suddenly looked at Ramirez’s unconscious body. It turns out that under clothing Ramirez was wearing white nylon stockings held up with stocking suspenders, she was also wearing white see through panties with a white see through bra. “Wow, so it seemed you had a hot night planned for after your shift eh sweetie, well I hope you won’t be tied in her all night and you get a few hours to have some fun later and who knows, maybe you can keep the handcuffs for later as well, if you know what I mean.” Tina said suggestively, although secretly Tina was both jealous and envious that this guard was going to be getting some action tonight while all Tina had was a sadistic murderer waiting for her. Tina quickly handcuffed Ramirez’s ankles together before handcuffing her wrists round one of the table legs, this was better as all the table legs seemed to be screwed to the floor. Tina quickly removed the Emo sleeves she was wearing and used one of them as a gag and one of them a blindfold and wrapped both around Ramirez’s mouth and eyes. She then got changed into her security uniform and made her way to one of the upper levels.

Once she was up there she put her plan into action, she pulled out the gun and fired off several shots into an office wall before picking up the radio. “This is Ramirez, I’ve got an armed assailant up and they are shooting at me, requesting back up immediately.” Tina said impersonating Ramirez. “Copy we’re on our way!” Another security guard responded, with that done Tina quickly double tapped her earpiece so Kuebiko could hear. “Okay I’m the building and almost on the top floor, I haven’t seen Kuebiko anywhere, it looks like I gave her the slip, be on the rooftop in a minute.” With that Tina drew her gun and just waited. It didn’t take long before one of the lights at the end of the hallway smashed and two ominous yellow lights appeared in the darkness, it was Kuebiko. Tina raised the gun at her.

“Going to shoot me are we?” Kuebiko chuckled. “No I don’t kill; you’re not worth the bullet.” Tina snapped back. “Astonishing, a soldier who doesn’t kill. But fear reveals the truth, it erodes your self-control. Soon you will kill and become that which you hate the most, but I’m curious what else did you see when you under my toxin. A city engulfed in fear? Were you betrayed by those you trust the most? I enjoyed watching you drown in all your deepest, darkest fears....So what happens next?” Kuebiko boasted. Tina genuinely did feel scared but she was confident this would work. “Thank you for talking for a while, I needed a bit more time.” Tina responded as the door to the stairway flew open and three security personal came in guns drawn. “LOOK OUT she’s got a gun!” Tina shouted a fired several shot all around Kuebiko making sure she missed, with that the other security personal opened fire on Kuebiko but she managed to dive into a nearby office when she realized what Tina was up to.

It worked, Tina ran up the stairs as quickly as she could, her muscles her aching in her legs but she had to push through it and get to the roof. Once she was at the roof the wind had started to greatly pick up, it seemed a storm was moving in, she looked over the edge of the building and saw angry waves crashing against the cliff face, in the distance lightning and thunder was beginning to roll in. Just then Tina saw what appeared to be the light of a dropship coming into view, Tina quickly whipped out the torch and turned it on and started waving it around. “HEY. PLEASE, I’M OVER HERE. PLEASE!” The dropship noticed her and pulled in for a pickup as the door opened she saw four additional clone troopers and one of them offered their hand out to Tina. But before she could grab it, a flurry of bullets slammed into the side of the dropship. “Shit LZ is hot, I say again LZ is hot, pulling back to safe distance.” The pilot told Tina but the sheer bolt of the bullets caused one of the troopers to fall out and land hard on the rooftop next to Tina. Tina looked as the dropship pulled back then she saw to the trooper. “Oh I don’t believe this.” Tina said to herself, the soldier that fell out was none other than CT-2224. “Ow damn it, okay so what’s got you all spooked that you need an immediate evac.” She said while getting to her feet. Suddenly they both heard a horrific laughter and looked up to see Kuebiko chucking a gun across the roof. “Wh-what the hell is that?” CT-2224 asked. “That’s the reason I’m running and now it doesn’t take a genius to work out what happened to the other guards.” Tina responded. “Look, I know we don’t exactly like each other, but please just this once we need to work together on this, I’ve seen this woman take out a whole squad of our sisters all by herself, we have to work together.” Tina said frantically. “Fine just this once.” CT-2224 acknowledged knowing the danger that was staring her right in the face. Tina walked one side and CT-2224 walked the other side of Kuebiko. “How strange, you both look similar to one another; still this just means I get to kill you twice.” Kuebiko said licking her lips under her mask at this prospect. CT-2224 just spat on the floor and readied herself.

The rain started to pour and the wind howled and blew the tails of Kuebiko’s trench coat but not a single took their eyes off one another. Both Tina and CT-2224 attempted to rush Kuebiko from both sides at the same time, they launched at Kuebiko with a series of blows and strikes but she was fast, very fast, she somehow knew how to doge every attack thrown at her, so instead CT-2224 tried a high kick but Kuebiko ducked gave a swift low kick of her own which slammed right into CT-2224’s ankle making a horrific cracking sound. While this happened Tina tried to throw a backhand at Kuebiko’s ribs but she countered and gave a swift elbow right to her mouth causing her to fly backwards hitting the floor hard. Trying to regain her balance on one foot CT-2224 attempted to pull out her sidearm but Kuebiko just grabbed her gun, yanked her arm forward and punched straight up under CT-2224’s elbow, with a horrendous noise CT-2224’s arm was now officially broken, she quickly pulled the knife out of CT-224’s holster and threw it at Tina. The knife unfortunately stabbed Tina right in her shoulder and Tina fell back in agony. “Whoops there goes your trigger finger HAHA.” Kuebiko said as she finished off CT-2224 with a swift boot to the side of the head. She then turned and set her sights on Tina. Tina pulled the knife out of her shoulder and slowly got to her feet. “Okay, it’s like having one hand tied behind your back, you can do this.” Tina joked to herself because if she didn’t laugh she was sure she’d cry. She attempted to throw a chop at Kuebiko but she just grabbed Tina’s hand a gave a chop straight at Tina’s throat, Tina stepped back coughing just in time to see Kuebiko swiftly kick her straight her stomach with the toe end of her boot, she grabbed Tina by wounded arm and violently yanked her back to her feet when she proceeded to knee Tina multiple times in the ribs until Tina had nearly lost consciousness. Tina fell to the floor, she couldn’t move her body, she pondered that maybe one of her ribs were broken as she just couldn’t move. Suddenly she felt Kuebiko’s hand wrap around her throat and lifted her up before she dangled Tina over the edge of the building. Tina didn’t do anything she just looked straight into Kuebiko’s yellow eyes and tilted her head slightly to the left, offering her neck as a killing blow. She could tell Kuebiko was smiling under her mask “Haha, and at the end of fear.......Oblivion.” Kuebiko remarked, but before anything else could happen a gunshot rang out Kuebiko felt a bullet hit her in the back, she stumbled backwards and dropped Tina on the floor, the shooter was CT-2224 who shot her using her other hand. “Clones are ambidextrous bitch.” She said before she passed out unconscious to the injuries. Using her very last little bit of energy Tina seized this opportunity, grabbed Kuebiko’s arm and using one of her own wrist mantled weapons squeezed it so it fired a shot of her serum straight into Kuebiko’s back, she had been shot by own serum. “Aaahh you think that’ll work on me? I was the one who perfected this serum, I was the one who tested it on myself I KNOW FEAR, I’m immune that means I.......No please.......Not that please I’m immune to fear.” It seems as if Kuebiko still had a demon or two left unresolved as the toxin started to take effect. “No I was a good girl, I conquered my fears, please don’t this to me, STAY AWAY FROM ME!” Kuebiko shouted at her own hallucinations, what they were we’ll never know. Kuebiko stumbled backwards and fell off of the side of the building but even though she was on the floor unable to move her body Tina still managed to use her good hand and grab Kuebiko’s hand before she fell to the ocean below. “NO, please let me go, they’re coming for me.” Kuebiko shouted. “Ow would please just stop scratching at me I’m trying to save you, you moron.” Tina said feeling extremely weak. But it just wasn’t enough Kuebiko scratched and clawed at Tina’s until she just couldn’t take it anymore and the muscles in her hand just broke forcing her to release her grip.

Kuebiko screamed as she plummeted down into the darkness below and out of Tina’s sight, moments later the collapse of the waves from the ocean drowned out Kuebiko’s screams and all fell silent. Tina laid back and let the rain come down of her face, she tried her hardest to take a deep breath, but it was just impossible, her body were too badly damaged and every breath to her felt like a stab with a broken piece of glass, suddenly several light appeared as multiple dropships came into view, once landed multiple clone troopers and medics jumped out and hurried over to Tina’s and CT-224’s assistance. Their own commander CO-1010 was on board one of the ships. “Get a dropship over to the hotel, we need to recover our fallen sister’s bodies and get a platoon down there, there multiple caves at the bottom of that cliff, find that killer’s body!” CO-1010 ordered as the troopers got to work she approached Tina who was currently being examined by two clone medics. Tina was exhausted both physically and mentally and she was starting to lose consciousness, she tried her hardest to stay awake as she was listening to the conversations around her. “Commander, CT-2224 has lost consciousness but we’ve managed to stabilize her, but we need to get her back immediately, she may have a concussion.” One of the medics said. Next she overheard one of the medics talking to her. “Hey CI-1138 can you hear me? She’s conscious but unresponsive it seems like some sort of trauma, we need to get her on board now commander.” The medic stated to CO-1010

Once they had finished their sweep the medics got CT-2224 and Tina on the first drop ship and left with the commander on board, on their way back Tina overheard a trooper talking to CO-1010. “Ma’am we sent two whole platoons down there, we couldn’t find anything, no signs of life, no bodies, nothing, the only thing we can suggest is that her body got washed out to sea I mean no one could of survived that fall surely.” The trooper explained. CO-1010 hummed to herself “Well then that’s it, we can be certain of anything I guess we’ll find out sooner or later especially if her body washes up on some shore line somewhere or maybe a shark gets to her first.”CO-1010 responded. Tina tried to relax but after hearing that piece of information, she really wanted to believe that this was the last time she’ll hear of Kuebiko, but in her heart of hearts, she knew.......Kuebiko had survived the fall, now what state she was in she didn’t know, but she knew it only be a matter of time.

END OF CHAPTER 7

[tirepanted3]

A dark chapter, to be sure, but with some enjoyable light moments as well. I enjoyed Tina's takedown of Camilla (who seemed like she deserved it), as well as Jennifer accidentally suggesting to Tina that she'll need to disguise herself as a nurse.

Evil as she may be, I'm quite intrigued by Kuebiko. She's cruel and menacing, but there's a tinge of humor to her actions. I was hoping she'd engage in some uniform stealing herself in this chapter, but it would probably involve killing the victims, which I'm not a great fan of.

[Trackman281]

Thank you and I'm very happy you enjoyed it.

And thank you as well I'm glad you found Kuebiko to be an interesting character. She is officially Tina's arch nemesis because while Tina will have no problems going up against anyone else she'll always have a sense of dread when Kuebiko is on the scene. But with saying that I'm only going to use Kuebiko when it's absolutely necessary as I want her to be the kind of driving force in Tinas life of where everytime Kuebiko shows up Tina's view of the world is altered and she'll beome more knowledgeable with each encounter.

Haha yes unfortunately if Kuebiko ever needed to steal some clothing for a disguise she would end up killing that's why I'm trying to avoid any unnecessary killing for disguise purposes.

[esercito sconfitto]

wow first goth girls now emo girls, it looks like Tina has some preferences when it comes to stripping a girl

well, it was a tale full of suspence. Even too much for my heart

Trackman281, just make me a promise. That nasty woman/ infernal deity Kuebiko... make her die

[Trackman281]

I must admit I have seem to have given Tina a specific taste in her style of outfits she steals haven't I hahaha. All she needs now is mug a cyber goth girl and she'll have virtually completed them all.

Well thank you very much Esercito, I genuinely wanted you to feel suspense because if Kuebiko is going to be Tina's arch enemy I needed her to make a hell of an impact and I'm pleased that she did.

Aaahhh I'm afraid that is the one thing I can't promise you, Kuebiko's role in Tina's life is vital which means I need her to Live as she'll be the one that pushes Tina's to all of her limits and her ability to grab disguise's on the fly. Don't worry Kuebiko has just had that fall, she'll be in hiding while she recuperates and plans her next move, which means she won't be appearing again for a while, Tina will be able to tackle some more villains that's she used too and have some more easy paced infiltration missions. But one day Kuebiko will return.

[rufusluciusivan]

Nothing much to say about the uniform stealing scenes. They're as solid as usual. The first time at my knowledge that a victim is stashed inside a washing mashine. Always nice to see when you come up with a new idea. I enjoyed particularly seeing Camilla receive some form of karma. She didn't look like a particularly nice person (who pulls out a switchblade at someone that just pushed you without apologizing?) I always enjoy to see from time to time a 'victim' whose bad attitude makes the following uniform steal almost some form of poetic punishment.

The part with the Emo Girl was the best uniform steal I think. Once again, a seldom-seen type of girl and underwear. The belt-gag was a nice addition. Hopefully Kuebiko didn't care about the girl to do anything about her and left without harming her...

Speaking of which, good job at making the antagonist a credible threat. Her entrance alone was enough to show that she meant business. I agree that it would be a shame to kill her off too soon. She allows for more suspensful moments, and if all of Tina's infiltrations were just one classic mug-and-disguise after another, it could become repetitive in the long run. Seeing Kuebiko getting hoist by her own petard (or in that case, serum) was incredibly satisfying after watching her taunt Tina during the entire story.

To talk about something non uniform-related that I really wanted to mention, I'd just like to say that you're doing a great job with the character of Tina. You're really making a great job at making her sympathetic and relatable: she evolves in a dangerous environment where she has to suppress her identity and free will because doing otherwise would mean death to her, she lost her lover and cannot confide to anyone about her guild, she has no true friend (save maybe for Soph), all her sisters hate her, she isn't regarded as a human being but as a mere tool (and is treated accordingly) by her superiors... While I enjoy following the adventures and hijinks of a lot of characters on this Board, she's probably the one with whom I emphathize the most. You just want to see her succeed and get a better life! She carries the story perfectly.

[Trackman281]

You've got love missile guided karma haha.

No, no don't worry Kuebiko did not kill Abigail, I mean Abigail was still heavily unconscious when Kuebiko found her, and her fear serum only works if your awake or in a natural sleep, so if you get knocked out by any method, I doubt her serum would work or even it did you wouldn't see it working and that's what Kuebiko enjoys, she enjoys watching her victim reveal their deepest and darkest fears as her toxin takes hold over their minds. So no Abigail the emo girl is still alive.

Thank you very much, with all of Tina's adversaries there's this hint of humanity behind the madness, you can still at times even see the funny side behind them and you know that sometimes it can just feel like another day at the office. But then there's Kuebiko, this being just void of all compassion and human emotions, we still don't even know how old she is or what her face even looks like under that mask and that's how I'm going to leave I always want her to have this mystery about her as in. Who is she? Where did she come from? What was her original plan before Tina came along? What did she see when she was hit with her own serum? A lot of these questions will probably remained unanswered because sometimes the real fear can just come from not knowing haha.

Wow thank you ever so much, honestly that means a lot to me and I'm truly grateful for your kind feedback. I'm happy I've made a character that you can both identify with and even sympathize with. I really hope Tina will continue to make you proud in her upcoming chapters and I hope you will enjoy the more she evolves as a character. Yes life does seem like a never ending roller coaster for her, she has no true friends, no true allies, she'll never be truly valued as a living being because of what she is and the only person that bought her joy has unfortunately been...well you know. I believe at times Tina lives by the saying "Sometimes the best thing you can do is just survive" and right now that's all she can do is just survive. But honestly I know I just said it, but thank you again for you wonderful feedback.