Chapter 13: A Clone's Deception.

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A CLONE’S DECEPTION

The ride home felt like an eternity for Tina, every nerve in her body screaming “you killed, you killed”. Tina felt every heartbeat pump through her chest, she had never felt this way. The dropship flew into the hangar and landed but when the door opened, Tina got an even bigger surprise. Clone troopers and infiltrators from all different garrisons, companies and battalions were all cheering for their top of the board sister who had finally got blood on her hands. The clapping and cheering was so loud that even the clone flight deck hand couldn’t get a word in edge ways about Tina’s after mission report which usually follows. But that didn’t stop her from reading it, even if nobody was listening.

“Haha, be honest it felt good didn’t it?” One trooper shouted.

“See we knew you had it in you the whole time!” Another trooper shouted as Tina pushed past.

“Using a sword for your first kill, wow you’re lucky, I had to use a crumby pistol!” An infiltrator said to Tina with a smile.

Tina didn’t answer a single one of them; she just pushed past them all and eventually made her way into her room where she promptly closed the door. She leaned back against the said door and closed her eyes before she felt her stomach rumble. She was going to be sick. She got into the bathroom and threw up in the toilet before flushing it and washing her mouth out with some mouth wash.

“Don’t worry about it, it happens to everyone after their first kill, it happened to me too.” A voice said from behind.

Tina turned her head round and saw Marie sitting on the edge of her bed, because everything happened so quickly, Tina hadn’t even realized that Marie was in the room.

“Oh hey, sorry, geez I didn’t even know you were here.” Tina said wiping her face with a towel.

“Aaahh don’t worry about, so it’s true then, you actually popped your killing cherry?” Marie asked.

“Yeah.......Yeah......But it was an accident, I was full of anger and I wasn’t thinking clearly, none of my anger was focused on Theron though.” Tina sat down on her desk.

“Wait, I’m not sure I follow.” Marie said with a confused expression.

“Theron’s husband was killed because he was working for one of our rival companies, he probably never did anyone any harm, he probably didn’t even know what was going on half the time, then our supposed non-clone leaders, sent in CI-1262 where that freak didn’t just kill her husband, but also her daughters and her other friends and helpers, basically anyone who was at her farmstead at the time. But that pathetic coward took joy out of keeping Theron alive and making her the sole survivor of that night, that’s what made her turn the way she did.......Who could blame her.” Tina explained.

“But that isn’t your fault Tina, you shouldn’t blame yourself.” Marie said in a comforting voice.

“Why shouldn’t I? CI-1262 is one of ours sisters, raised to kill without hesitation, Theron was NOT born that way, that monster inside her was created.......Created by US. How many more times has this happened that we’re unaware of, how many more families have we broken. ALL in a vain attempt to be the best business in the world at this line of work and don’t say it’s because that’s the business world because it’s really not, this is just the sociopathic corporate lackeys upstairs trying to push for more and more profit. But then all goes together, Theron would never have witnessed the horrors she did, she never would have turned into a vengeful fighter then I never would of killed her and she’d still be alive in peace.” Tina said with absolute venom in her words.

“We both know that CI-1262 can be very sloppy though, so who knows maybe that’s the only incident.” Marie tried to calm Tina down.

“But that’s not the worst of it.......The worst of it was Theron never actually killed anyone, yes she always beat them down and fight them until their bodies were pretty much broken, but she never once killed because her philosophy was never kill an enemy that is incapable of defending themselves. So for all the good I’ve supposedly done, the only killer that actually came out of that mission was me.” Tina said with her hands over her face.

“Remember though, Theron’s now at peace, it would of been more cruel to let her rot in her own mind, slowly going more and more insane from those painful memories, she’s back with her family now, where she always wanted to be from the start.” Marie said wrapping her arm around Tina.

“It never should have happened to begin with.....” Tina muttered.

“But it did and the events that set everything in motion wasn’t your fault, try to remember that. Speaking of which what do you think you’ll do next time you see CI-1262?” Marie tried to change the subject slightly to take Tina’s mind off of it.

“That low life coward? Well what can I do, if I do anything the only one who be punished for it would be me as I’d be going against what our non clone superiors stand for. Never question the mission, always complete the task regardless of the cost and of course the investors are always right.” Tina said after punching the table.

“Be right back I’m going to go splash some water on my face.” As Tina went back into the bathroom, Marie noticed that when Tina punched the table it caused a book to fall on the floor.

Marie bent down and picked it up but as she did a photo fell out, Marie grabbed it before it hit the floor and flipped it over to examine it. On the photo of course were Tina and Delsin, smiling and embracing each other. Marie’s eyes widened, she knew exactly what this meant and gulped before she quickly but carefully put the photo back and placed the book back on the table, she didn’t want to cause Tina any embarrassment so she pretended like she’d never seen it to begin with. Tina walked back out with parts of her hair slightly damp.

“*sigh*, that’s better, right I’m going to put my head down for a little bit, you’re welcome stay, just try to not make too much noise please.” Tina said kicking of her boots.

“Nah, it’s fine, I’ll leave you in piece, I’m going to see if any of the sisters are up for some poker.” Marie said. But she didn’t get a response as Tina had already fallen asleep on top of her bed due to exhaustion with everything. So Marie quietly exited Tina’s room. But as she left she almost bumped straight into CI-1262.

“So how’s our new killer doing?” CI-1262 asked.

“Yeah, she’s still doing better than you.” Marie responded with a wink before walking away.

“Alright, god I was only asking, uurrgghh grunts.” CI-1262 said to herself in confusion before shaking her head and walking away herself.

The following morning Tina had a massive breakfast, she ended up having, pancakes with golden syrup, runny fried eggs, toast with butter, bacon, sausages, baked beans, two fried slices and three caramel latte’s. Tina probably ate that much because she was still under the weather about yesterday, so most likely just felt like indulging, because well why not. After she finished she completed a few Sudoku puzzles that a previous clone had obviously tried to finish before Tina got here before getting up and returning to her room. On her way back every clone she passed she greeted her and simply said “Morning ma’am”. It seems that her hunch was correct from all those months ago, now that Tina had killed, the rest of her sister’s acknowledged her existence.

“Why, couldn’t I of gotten their approval another way, like I don’t know, building the great wall of China out of ice lolly sticks or something.” Tina thought to herself.

A week passes and we now join Tina in of her training rooms, exercising on a treadmill, when a notification watch she’s wearing, buzzes, her next assignment is ready. She was to report to the Majestic Magenta’s commander immediately. Tina turned off the treadmill, had a quick wash and some fresh perfume and deodorant before grabbing one of her cat suits and made her way to CO-5052 office.

“Hey no way, long time no see, how you been?” CO-5052 said when she noticed Tina walk into her office.

“Could be better Ma’am.” Tina replied.

“Don’t be like that, you know you’ve been the talk of the town around here these past few days, you know even the other commanders and had a bet going on saying how many more missions could you last before you eventually gave into your training and killed, I lost by two missions ago, but let’s just say you’ve made the commander of the Iron Armoured Core, very pleased Haha.” CO-5052 said with a smile.

“Can we please just get to the assignment commander, please?” Tina asked just wanting to change the subject of conversation.

“After your next kill already, I like your style. Okay here we go then.” CO-5052 said while turning on a holotable behind Tina.

“Tonight is one of the biggest fashion and modelling shows on the calendar, which means lots of wealthy people there and it just so happens that one of our own investors Mr. Jackson Riley and his wife Dalia Riley will be there, now his wife owns this, a necklace worth at least two hundred million on the common market which has been named *A Heritage In Bloom*, created by Chinese master craftsman Wallace Chan. It has a total of 383.4 carrots in stones, it also contains 72 white mutton fat jades, 114 icy green jadeites, 600 pink diamonds and 19 divine colourless diamonds. Truly a masterpiece. So our old time rivals at Atlantis Co has sent in there best of the best to get them. Allow me to introduce to you *BLINK*, she’s basically the equivalent of an infiltrator such as yourself.” CO-5052 briefed.

Tina watched as a picture of Blink appeared. Blink was around 29 years old, she had Ivory white skin, long Sparkling Amber hair tied back in a bun, she had Hazel brown eyes and her body was in peak condition, on the picture she was wearing a similar black cat suit like Tina’s, except hers contained rubber padding, just in case one of her targets didn’t go down with chloroform so easily.

“Blink here, is an ex-magician and from what I understand a pretty good one too. But apparently at one point or another she got bored and joined up with Atlantis Co. After she accomplished several stealth missions flawlessly, they reassigned her to their own infiltrator groups and that’s where she’s been since. Her real name is Evie Ward and she got the nickname Blink for her unusual ability to disappear and reappear on opposite side of the room as if by magic, erm excuse the pun to her old occupation.” CO-5052 said while clearing her throat.

CO-5052 then loaded up a picture of Dalia Riley. Who was revealed to be a 37 year old woman with a warm ivory skin tone, she was wearing a strapless pure white dress which went down to her knee caps, she had white high heels on with a black leather belt and golden buckle which went around her waist on the outside of her dress. Around her neck was of course the necklace *A heritage in bloom*.

“Now thanks to all of our meddling, especially yours CI-1138, Atlantis CO is getting very desperate, their stocks are falling hard, their investors are pulling out, there’s company layoffs happening all over by the hundreds. Yes sire it certainly is a bad time to be working for Atlantis Co. This means their getting desperate, which is why Blink has been sent to retrieve this rare piece of jewelry from one our own investors no doubt. Your job is a simple one CI-1138, you are to act as an out of sight bodyguard for the Riley’s and as soon as Blink makes her move, you step in a stop her, this defeat should put the final nail in Atlantis Co’s coffin and we’ll cement ourselves as the best company in our line of work out there.” CO-5052 said with a smile.

“Geez, chill out you’re starting to sound like one of those non-clone tyrants from upstairs.” Tina thought to herself.

“Yes commander, I won’t let you down.” Tina said acknowledging CO-5052’s briefing.

“We know you won’t and I even taken the liberty of phoning through ahead to have a dropship waiting for you at hanger 8.” CO-5052 said with excitement in her voice.

“Yes commander, consider it done.” With that Tina left and made her way to hanger eight.

On her way she grabbed her earpiece and a set of ready to use binders before hoping onto the ship and giving the pilot a thumbs up, which the pilot quickly prompted with an additional thumbs up of her own before seconds later ascending into the sky and making it’s way to the fashion show.

Once they arrived at the fashion show, the sun was just settling down for the night and the moon began its ascension into the sky. Tina was dropped off on the road leading to the fashion show, she couldn’t be dropped ion any closer, just in case Blink caught wind of her arrival.

“I’ll radio in once Blink has been taken care of and I can account for the necklace’s security.” Tina said over her earpiece.

“Copy, maintaining radio silence unless ordered otherwise.” With that the pilot took the dropship out of sight altogether.

Tina made her way up the road.

At the fashion show itself we see a female security guard doing her rounds, she was wearing a standard security guard uniform which was made up of, a blue button T-shirt, black trousers, black boots and a black cap with security written on it. She had an ammo belt which had a stun baton, mace and a pair of handcuffs alongside her radio. The woman herself was 24 years old, she had light skin, curly ginger hair tied back in scrunchie, green eyes and her name was Stephanie.

“This Delta zero four, it’s all clear out here, whatever was setting the alarm system crazy is long gone now.” Stephanie said into her radio.

“Copy that, probably just a wild animal snooping around for scraps, there’s a big buffet going on tonight so it wouldn’t surprise me in the smell of food is drawing them in.” A voice replied over the radio.

“Well either way, I’m heading back in, over and out.” Stephanie said on her radio.

But as soon as Stephanie was out of the light a dark figure grabbed her from behind clamping a chloroform soaked rag over her mouth. Stephanie tried to kick but she couldn’t work it out, her attack seemed like she had four arms, one around her mouth, one around her waist, one around her legs and one holding her wrists down. Within moments Stephanie fell limp and collapsed into a pile on the floor, to she was promptly dragged further in the darkness. Several minutes later Blink stepped out into the light now wearing Stephanie’s security uniform. Blink turned her head back with a smile on her face, it’s here we see Stephanie has her wrists and waist tied around a drain pipe and both her ankles and knees have been tied together with think but extremely durable rope, she has a white cloth wrapped around her mouth as a gag, it’s also here we see she’s wearing a Chiffon white push up bra and a pair of daisy white panties, her ginger hair now flows downwards as Blink took her scrunchie too.

“This is delta zero four, I’ve just found a racoon going through the rubbish but I scared it off, there’s no need to send anyone else out here for a while, I got it done.” Blink said impersonating Stephanie on the radio. Blink then tipped her hat to Stephanie’s unconscious body.

“Thanks girlie and don’t be too hard on yourself when you wake up, there was no way you could of prepared for me.” Blink said with a cocky attitude before heading inside.

With Blink already inside we now cut back to Tina who was sneaking around the bushes outside, trying to find a way in of her own.

“Hhmm a simple guest or attendee just won’t work, I need something that will allow me more access.” Tina said eyeing up potential clothing donors.

Suddenly a van pulled up in front of the bushes where Tina is hiding and a camera crew alongside a couple of news reports jump out, Tina was about to try and sneak past them when she heard a female voice coming from the van.

“Oh these stupid ear pieces why can I never get these things to go in properly.” A female voice was heard saying in the back of the news van.

Inside a 29 year old woman, with tanned skin, choppy medium length hair and pale blue eyes was standing there, she was wearing a yellow fabric skirt with a matching yellow fabric top, she had a black leather belt wrapped around her waist and a cherry red blazer over her shirt, she also had black high heels on. Her ID badge which was clipped to her skirt said “news reporter, name. Veronica.”

“This is hopeless I’m going to miss my screen time, now how the hell do you get these things to stay into your ears!” Veronica said with a more impatient tone this time.

“Yeah they can be a real pain, the trick is to get the bottom bit latched underneath your earlobe first, then secure the rest.” A voice said next to her.

“Oh thanks I......” But Veronica was cut short by turning and seeing Tina standing there, who proceeded to give Veronica a quick jab in the stomach with her elbow before lifting her elbow back up and dropping it down on the back of Veronica’s head knocking her out cold.

“Sorry about that, but look if it makes you feel better, if you remember what I told you about the earpiece trick when you wake up, then you’ll never miss your screen time ever again.” Tina justified to a very unconscious Veronica. With that Tina shut the doors to the back of the news van and pulled the curtains too.

Inside, Tina flicked off Veronica’s shoes before unzipping the back of her skirt and pulling it off of her, she then slid Veronica out of her blazer before undoing and removing Veronica from her shirt, it’s here we see Veronica was wearing sunny yellow panties and a midnight blue strapless bra. With this done, Tina quickly stripped out of her cat suit and tore it onto strips before tucking the strips into the blazer pocket. She then got changed into Veronica’s clothes and zip tied Veronica’s hands and feet together before using a news reporters microphone as a gag, thankfully the microphone was just small enough to fit inside Veronica’s mouth so she couldn’t spit it out nor would she choke on it.

“Huh, well nothing improvisation is there.” Tina thought out loud before she grabbed a recorder from the side and got out the van shutting the doors behind her, leaving Veronica bound and gagged inside.

A now fully disguised Tina pushed her way past the crowds of people waiting to gain entry and got in line behind a load of other news reporters. Who were showing their ID cards to a security team to gain access to the fashion show.

“Hi, I’m Peter Davies from channel three news and who are you?” A news reporter asked Tina.

“I’m Stephanie.......Smith from channel twelve news.” Tina bluffed.

“Huh no kidding, I didn’t think you guys were up and running yet, well good luck in there Stephanie.” Peter said as he showed his ID card to security.

Tina didn’t respond, she just showed Stephanie’s ID badge to the security personal and they waved her through. Once Tina was inside she couldn’t believe her luck she saw Jackson and Dalia Riley entering from the main entrance.

“Hi, I’m Stephanie Riley channel twelve news, can I have moment of your time.” Tina said.

“Look neither my wife nor I talk to reporters, so have a good evening yes.” Jackson responded.

“Oh no, no you misunderstood me, I just wanted to know where you’d be sitting tonight should a two bit thief try anything foolish and damn right cowardice.” Tina said quite loudly hoping Blink was within ear shot somewhere.
Jackson turned and saw Tina give him a subtle wink, which he immediately twigged.

“Oh right my apologies Madame, we certainly can’t give out that type of information, but we do know that there might be a couple of seats four D and E, on row fifteen that I’m sure you’d like to meet.” Jackson said while winking back.

“Thank you for your time. Have a nice night.” With that Tina made her leave, at least she knew where to keep an eye on them now.

On the other side of the building we see Blink walking around when she stops after seeing a model making her way to a cat walk entrance. This model was 23 years of age, she was thin, she had white skin with long brown hair which had blonde highlights running through. She was wearing, white trainers with no socks on, dark blue jeans thigh length skirt, white semi see through blouse tucking into said skirt and she was wearing a fringe cream jacket with added tethers for detail, her name is Wilma and she was going to be part of the Spring ensemble models.

“Excuse me Ma’am, we’ve had reports of someone claiming to be a model when they really aren’t one, can you please take us somewhere a little more quieter so we can discuss a few things.” Blink asked Wilma.

“Oh heck, yeah sure, follow me; luckily I’m not due on stage for a little while yet. Follow me.” Wilma said pointing down a hallway.

“Lucky me.” Blink said with another smile across her face.

Wilma led Blink into an unused and a very quiet room, but as turned around she noticed blink now had a very angry expression on her face, she punched Wilma straight in her chest sending her off of her feet and crashing into the wall behind her, whacking her head in the process and knocking her out cold in the process.

“Abracadabra, you were a great assistant, but it’s time for my next trick, impersonating a bimbo of a model, aahh I see I have a volunteer, first I’ll need your clothes honey.” Blink said joking around, eluding back to her magician days.

Blink then unlaced and slipped off Wilma’s shoes, before yanking off her skirt and removing her jacket, she then slipped Wilma’s top up and over her head, revealing that Wilma was wearing a Lilac bra and a jam purple thong. She then miraculously as if by magic pulled a roll of duck tape out from behind her back and proceeded to tape up Wilma from head to toe in tape, leaving virtually none of her body on show, before finishing it off with several layers of tape around her mouth as a gag. Blink quickly got changed into Wilma’s fashion outfit and left the room, closing the door behind her hoping no one would use it for a while.

We come back to Tina who’s trying to find a good vantage point to hopefully spot Blink.

“Hhhmmm well I suppose I probably could get a better view if I was actually in the fashion show itself, well it wouldn’t be the strangest thing I’ve done all month. Or all week come to think of it.” Tina said after pondering with the idea of replacing one of the models.

Tina made her way to as far backstage as she could when she spotted one of the fashion shows makeup artists. This makeup artist was wearing, black leather trousers, black plimsolls, she had a white sleeveless shirt on, white skin with heavy foundation on her face and arms, she had brown long hair flowing down in a ponytail with a name tag which read. Vicky.

“Oh excuse me eerr Vicky does your name tag say? Hi I’m Stephanie from channel twelve news, all the other news teams only want to interview the models but I’m different, I want to talk to the people behind the scenes, the unsung heroes who make it all happen.” Tina bluffed once again.

“Wow, reporters never want to a page on us, yeah sure.” Vicky said with a smile.

“Oh but not here though, I don’t want anyone else stealing my story, can you take us somewhere more secluded?” Tina asked.

“Yeah sure, follow me I know the perfect place.” Vicky whispered before escorting Tina down a familiar hallway.

Vicky took Tina to a supposedly unused room however when they entered Vicky promptly screamed, this caused Tina to panic and quickly chopped Vicky on the back of her neck knocking her out before she even hit the floor, however it’s only when Vicky hit the floor, Tina saw what Vicky was initially screaming at as she saw a woman completely tapes up and unconscious whom we know as Wilma.

“What the hell?” Tina inspected Wilma’s unconscious body.

“This is CI-1138 needed immediate information so breaking radio silence; I need to know are there any other infiltrators on this assignment I don’t know of.” Tina asked into her earpiece.

“Negative CI-1138, you’re the only down there, why what’s up?” Tina heard CO-5052 respond.

“Nothing, it’s just I think I know how Blink is moving around. Back to maintaining radio silence.” Tina responded.

“Hhhmm the strikes were hard and fast, but I wonder why because it doesn’t look like she could put up much of a fight, judging by the way her hair is styled I’m guessing she’s one of the models, so maybe that’s when Blink will strike, but I wonder how? Oh speaking of which, can’t forget about you Vicky.” Tina said after turning her attention back to Vicky.

Tina removed Vicky’s shoes, then with a great deal of struggle she eventually managed to pull Vicky’s leather trouser off of her legs, she then helped herself to Vicky’s ponytail before swiping Vicky’s shirt off of her and claiming it for herself. Here we see that Vicky is wearing a shocking pink G-string and a devil’s red Balconette bra. Using the strands of her cat suit from earlier. Tina quickly bounds and gags Vicky before propping her up next to Wilma, so should Blink return, she find a little surprise in the form of Vicky which will indicate that Tina is hot on her trail. With that Tina got changed into Vicky’s clothing and exited the room.

“Leather trousers. Seriously, there’s so hot, tight and I can feel them sticking to my legs.” Tina protested in her mind as she heard the leather chaffing every now and then.

Tina entered the dressing room and witnessed models of all different ethnicities and wearing some of the most ludicrous outfits Tina had ever witnessed.

“It’s the diaries of a mad man, surely this isn’t really fashion, is it?” Tina said to herself.

“Aaahhh you’ll do, please do see Chelsea behind the curtain over there, she needs an artist to apply her makeup immediately!” A makeup artist manager shouted at Tina.

Tina thought this was perfect, she could knock out the model she was about to see then take her place, easy peasy, or so it seemed. Tina pulled the curtain back in a changing cubical and went in pulling the curtain closed again. Inside there was a tall Caucasian women, with long straightened Brunette hair, she had perfect white teeth and sapphire blue eyes, with long eyelashes, she was wearing an angel white Lingerie with ocean blue stripes at the top of her bra and panties, she also had white fishnet stocking on, with white high heels and a playful thin ocean blue gown which was meant for teasing.

“There you are, please hurry we go on in five minutes.” Chelsea said after seeing Tina was standing behind her.

“Well at least your already in your underwear so I’ll save time by not needing to strip you for your clothes, where ever they are.” Tina said looking around.

“What the hell are you abo......uuurrnnnnggghhhh.” With that Tina gave Chelsea a nice little nerve pinch on her shoulder and she fell straight into Tina’s arms before she laid her gently out on the floor.
“Now where’s your modelling outfit?” Tina wondered.

“Hey Chelsea five minutes until the Lingerie models go on, so let’s hustle.” A voice called from outside.

“Wait, that’s why I can’t find your outfit, because that lingerie is your outfit, ah Tina you can pick them can’t you.” Tina said after she realized she was replacing a lingerie model.

But at this point Tina had no choice, she quickly stripped Chelsea of all her Lingerie outfit until Chelsea lay completely naked at Tina’s feet. Tina then removed her makeup artist clothing and used the leather trousers and a rope to tie up Chelsea before she used an unused foundation brush from the side as a gag and quickly popped it into Chelsea’s mouth, it was unorthodox but it done the trick. Tina then begrudgingly got changed into Chelsea’s lingerie and did her best to apply as much makeup as she could before emerging from behind the curtain.

As she closed the curtain behind her, concealing Chelsea’s naked body, she watched Blink come off of the stage with the other spring wear models. Blink walked past Tina and gave her a sarcastic wink. “Does she know who I am or does she just find me attractive in this thing.” Tina thought to herself, but suddenly Tina was yanked by her arm.

“Will you get out there, your all going on now!” An elderly woman pushed Tina in line with the other Lingerie models.

Tina had no choice but to play along, just in case Blink didn’t know who she was and was just giving her a friendly wink, she couldn’t risk exposing herself yet. Tina followed the other lingerie’s on the run walk. As she walked should hear camera’s going off, lights were flashing and several people gasping with awe over the outfits. Tina was unfortunately the last one to come off the catwalk and began searching the dressing room for any signs of Blink.

Meanwhile Blink was following a maid who was wearing a standard maids uniform but instead of it being black and white, it was candy floss pink and white, the young maid who Blink was following was an Asian woman who looked roughly thirty years of age, she had her black hair tied back in a bun and under her maids hairpiece, her name tag read “Chi”. Blink followed her into a room where Chi started laying out a table for some of the VIP guests in attendance tonight, then when Blink made sure the room was clear she crept behind Chi and grabbed her by wrapping one arm around her neck and clutching her head with her other hand, she was applying one fast but efficient sleeper hold. Chi moaned and groaned for a bit but didn’t really put up much of a fight and moments later Chi had lost consciousness and was now at Blink’s mercy. Blink gently let Chi go to the floor, before blink got to work. Blink removed Chi’s maid shoes before pulling off her white leggings, next she removed Chi’s lace drawstrings from around her bust then removed her white apron which was tied around her waist. She then slipped Chi out of her short pink dress which revealed that Chi was wearing a neon pink pair of ruffled knickers to tease her guests and she was wearing a neon blue Bandeau bra. Blink reached into her pocket and pulled out a second roll of duct ape which she quickly used to bound and gag Chi before stuffing her under the table and placing the long table cloth over it which concealed Chi’s body nicely.

With her new disguise Blink made her way down to where Jackson and Dalia were sitting.

“Excuse Mrs. Riley, you have a very important business call waiting for you.” Blink said.

“Impossible my husband here handles the business side of things.” Dalia protested without taking her eyes off of the show.

“I know Madame, it’s just they said it was really urgent and they couldn’t speak to you then they’d have my job and I need this to put my children through school.” Blink finished with crocodile tears.

“Look do you want me to go.....”But Jackson was interrupted.

“No it’s fine, look I got this, I’m sure I can handle one phone call, besides if you remember, we have our little eye in the sky watching us somewhere so I’ll be fine.” Dalia said.

“Okay, but I’m here if you need me.” Jackson said, before Dalia left with Blink, unaware of what she had agreed too.

Dalia followed Blink into an office where she quickly shut the door.

“Okay so where’s my phone?” Dalia asked.

“It’s right here.” Blink replied, then with that she sucker punched Dalia right in her stomach before bringing Dalia’s head down and smacking it onto the side of a desk, she was out cold. Blink then bent down and examined Dalia’s dress before examining her ultimate prize, the heritage bloom necklace.

“Okay, time to put on a show.” Blink said with a smile.

Moments later we rejoin Tina back in the models dressing room, still hunting for Blink.

“Damn it, there’s no sign of her, maybe she slipped past, plus I seriously need to get out of this......well if you can even call it an outfit.” Tina said after looking down at her Lingerie disguise.

Thankfully Tina’s problems were about to be solved as another line of models were getting ready to go on the cat walk. The woman at the back was a thirty two year old black skinned woman with medium length hair. She was wearing a black leather jacket with a white fur line, she had a pair on skinny blue jeans on and a lava grey V-neck shirt on underneath. To finish this off she was a pair of black leather Kitten heel shoes.

“Oh hi excuse me I’m Chelsea do you have a minute?” Tina asked the model.

“Hi I’m Mona, what the matter?” Mona asked.

“I can’t seem to unhook my bra, damn thing, can we quickly pop into my changing room and you can unhook for me?” Tina pleaded.

“Yeah sure, come on then.” Mona responded.

Tina led Mona into the cubicle that Chelsea was once using and after Mona came in, Tina gave her a nerve pinch right on her cheek before she saw Chelsea’s naked body and freaked out. Using her right arm she managed to catch Mona’s unconscious body before it hit the floor and using her left hand she quickly swiped the curtain shut again.

“Damn it’s getting a bit cramped in here isn’t it, I better make this quick.” Tina said after wiping some sweat off of her forehead.

Tina quickly stripped Mona of her jacket, skinny jeans, her shirt and shoes, leaving Mona in her leopard skin bra and her Siberian white tiger panties. Tina used the bra she was wearing bind Mona’s arms together then used the see through jacket she was wearing to bind Mona’s legs together, for a gag Tina used another one of the unused makeup powder balls from earlier from when she bound and gagged Chelsea. Tina got changed into Mona’s outfit and she felt a lot better not being so exposed compared to her Lingerie disguise.

However a few curtain cubicles down from where Tina is another model is walking past a supposedly empty cubical. This woman has Beige skin, long fair hair with Blonde highlights, she 31 years old and she has tweak wood brown eyes. She’s wearing chain detail Tartan plaid, straight corduroy trousers, a mustard yellow tank top and she has a pair of black and white sneakers on. No one else will know this but her name was Kirsten. As Kirsten was walking by she suddenly felt a hand wrap around her mouth and another hand wrap around the side of her head and forcefully yank her into the supposedly empty cubical, inside we hear several punching sound and a faint moaning noise from Kirsten before moments later it all falls silent.

Inside we Kirsten propped up against the cubical wall completely knocked out with a very satisfied Blink standing above her admiring her work. Blink didn’t even check to make sure no one had heard or seen Kirsten suddenly getting yanked away, as she was that sure of herself. So with this she slipped off Kirsten’s shoes, unzipped and removed Kirsten’s corduroy’s before grabbing Kirsten’s top and quickly yanking it over her head. Now we see that Kirsten was wearing a Navajo yellow shelf bra and a pair of see through salmon pink panties. Blink came prepared for this as she pulled out a roll of Gorilla industrial tape and quickly bound and gagged Kirsten. Now that she was out of the way Blink quickly changed into her clothes and left the cubical intent on taking Kirsten’s place on the catwalk.

Tina got in line and heard several other women get in line behind her. Moments later they summoned on the catwalk but as they were walking out Tina heard a voice right behind her.

“Well, fancy bumping into you hear, let me guess you’re here to ruin Atlantis Co again hhmm.” A voice said behind her.

“Blink.” Tina knew.

“The one and only baby, I recognized your face from all the debriefs and meetings I’ve had to sit through about some trouble maker causing Atlantis Co, serious and possibly permanent damages.” Blink added.

“Yeah and this time is going to be no different, I’m putting the final nail in Atlantis Co’s business coffin and shutting you down for good.” Tina said while trying to look like a modelling professional.

“I’ll bet, well you see dear old Dalia over there?” Blink said while also trying to look like a professional model.

Tina looked up and saw a smiling Dalia looking at them.

“In about fifteen seconds she’s going to get up and head into the private office to make a phone call, then boom that heritage bloom necklace is aaalllll mine.” Blink said with sheer confidence.

“I know your failed magician turned corporate thief, but even you aren’t that good.” Tina replied as they began to make their way back towards the other end of the catwalk.

While this was going on Tina quickly noticed Dalia getting up of her seat and walking away before giving Tina a wink.

“If you know I’m an ex magician then you should know this. A magician will make you work so hard to see the trick in front of you, that you’ll completely miss the real magic going on behind you, I’ll leave you with that.” Blink said as they were now off the catwalk.

“Yeah and just is that supposed to.......” But it was too late as Tina turned around, Blink has vanished out of sight.

Tina quickly ran round to Jackson.

“Your wife Dalia, where is she?” Tina pleaded.

“She said she needed to make another phone call, two in one night I’m starting to think she likes the business after all.” Jackson responded.

Tina quickly ran to the private rooms. “Why what’s going on?” She heard Jackson call out behind her. Tina went from room to room but it wasn’t until the seventh room she opened she found her, but not how she thought. She found Dalia bound and gagged but unconscious around in a pair of sequence silver bra and panties.

“Oh my god Dalia, what the hell happened in here?” Jackson shouted to Tina after seeing his wife like this.

“Wait......You said this was the second call she took this evening, when was the first one?” Tina asked with a hunch.

“About ten or fifteen minutes ago why?” Jackson answered while untying Dalia.

“That woman sitting next to you wasn’t your wife.” Tina said after realizing that the wink the fake Dalia gave wasn’t directed at Tina but rather it was directed at Blink.

Tina knew that Blink and whoever was with her would exfil via the roof as going out the front door was just stupid, Tina raced as fast as her legs would let her all the way to the roof. When she got up there she saw Blink standing there rubbing the heritage bloom necklace. But before Tina could say anything the fake Dalia came out from behind the vents and seconds later she pulled of her face mask revealing another Blink underneath, this also reveals that this second woman had stolen Dalia’s dress from earlier leaving her bound and gagged in her underwear.

“Well the last horse crosses the finish line, took you long enough.” The second one said.

“Wait I don’t understand, what’s going on?” Tina said in confusion

“Oh my apologies, this is my twin sister, you can call her *Knipperen*, we were born two minutes apart from each other.” Blink explains.

It’s here that Tina realizes that Knipperen is also holding a heritage bloom necklace in her hands.

“Wait there’s two of them, that’s just not possible.” Tina inquired.

“That’s because it’s not possible, one of these is a fake, now we know you like to fight with your fists but how are you with your brain?” Knipperen asked.

“You’re still not making any sense, start talking now!” Tina shouted.

“Why of course, you see when we realized it was you that had been sent to foil us then it turned a bit personal, see we don’t just want to beat you, we want to humiliate you.” Blink said.

“That’s right sis, but we’re also fair, so we are going to ask you one question, JUST ONE and if you happen to get it right we will hand you over the real heritage bloom, but if you get it wrong then we simply get away with it.” Knipperen continued.

Tina now witnessed Blink going one side of the room while Knipperen going to the other.

“Now fair enough, you could try to run at us and take it for yourself and yes you would succeed in tackling of us but this would cause the other one to let go of the heritage bloom and I’m sure you can’t take the risk of tackling the wrong one and losing the heritage bloom can you now?” Blink added on.

“Just one question, ONE and you’ll give it to me if I get it right?” Tina asked realizing she might actually have to play there little game.

“Yep that’s it, honestly.” Blink replied.

“Fine..........Ask away.” Tina said begrudgingly.

Blink and Knipperen looked at each other then smiled.

“One of us tells only and lies, the other tells only truths. By asking us only one question, you must decide which one of us has the REAL heritage bloom and which has the fake.” Knipperen said laying down the challenge.

Tina pulled a horrified face, she had no idea what to ask, she didn’t even know them, they’re was absolutely no single question she could ask to get them to reveal the truth.......Or was there. Tina’s face lit up, she had an idea.

“My question will be. If you were your sister, which one would you say has the heritage bloom?” Tina said with a smile of her own.

“Which one of us are you asking?” Said Blink.

“It doesn’t matter.” Replied Tina.

“Hhhhmmmm, well that’s easy it’s her.” Blink said nodding towards Knipperen.

“Of course it’s me.” Knipperen responded.

“Well then I choose you Blink.” Tina said pointing at Blink.

“What, why me, I told you it was her!” Protested Blink.

“Exactly, how can you be sure!?” Barked Knipperen.

“Well, if you were the truth telling sister then what you said would be a lie because you will answer truthfully what your lying sister would say. Therefore I can safely say that the answer will be the opposite of what you say. On the other hand if you were the lying sister then you will tell me what your truth-telling sister would say but it would be a lie, therefore the answer would still be the opposite of what you say...........Do you understand?” Tina monologued.

“Uh.....Uh....Of we course do. Gggaaahhhh fine here take it.” Blink said in a venomous tone as she chucked the real heritage bloom towards Tina while Knipperen smashed the fake heritage bloom on the floor.

“Enjoy your victory, next time we meet, you won’t be so lucky!” Knipperen shouted as both her and Blink zip lined off of the roof and into the night.

“Haha, yeah I’m sure I will, This is CI-1138 reporting in, the mission is complete I say again the mission is complete, both the Riley’s are safe, Blink has been foiled and I have the heritage bloom safely in my hands.” Tina said over her earpiece radio.

“Great work CI-1138, stand by for exfil.” The pilot responded.

Tina felt great, she had actually stopped a villain using her mind this time rather than using violence. But then all of a sudden she had a very strange thought.

“Hhmm the sister’s gave up this necklace quite easily they didn’t even put up much of a fight, which is strange considering their company, needs this to keep going and..........Oh my god No.” Tina suddenly remembered what Blink had said to her on the catwalk.

Flashback to Blink a few minutes ago. “A magician will make you work so hard to see the trick in front you, that you’ll completely miss the real magic going on behind you.”

Tina chucked the heritage bloom necklace on the floor and it smashed into a thousand pieces.......It was another fake. Tina closed her eyes for a second hoping it wasn’t real but it was real and Tina had just radioed in a mission complete to the pilot which also means that the pilot would have reported this in back to command. Just as Tina was about to try and give chase the dropship appeared in the sky shining it lights down on Tina to pick her up. Tina’s eyes widened in absolute fear........She had failed the mission.

Elsewhere we see Blink and Knipperen opening up a boot of a car. Blink pulls out and opens up a box before Knipperen takes the real heritage bloom necklace out of the box. With this they both look at each other and smile.

“Little did she know, we were BOTH lying.” Blink said as both sisters started laughing and getting into the car to leave with their prize securely in their hands.

END OF CHAPTER 13

[tirepanted3]

Ah, the long-awaited "spy vs. spy" chapter! Blink is a good character, and a worthy opponent for Tina. She's also got a wicked sense of humor, more so than some of the other villains. (Her little "magician" quip to Wilma was quite amusing, and a nice way to layer in her backstory.)

It seems like this story turns into a competition between Tina and Blink, based on who can steal the most uniforms. In the end, Tina mugs four women (Veronica, Vicky, Chelsea, Mona) while Blink mugs five (Stephanie, Wilma, Chi, Dalia, Kirsten). Sorry, Tina - better luck next time.

I like the little connection between Tina and Blink's first dusguises (both pretending to be women named Stephanie). Maybe they have more in common than they expect.

[Trackman281]

Many thanks tirepanted3 and I'm extremely pleased that you enjoyed the story.

Blink was a fun character to write and I enjoyed having a character that mirrors Tina's infiltration methods. One USB against another USB just like in many of your previous volumes.

I see you noticed my little nod there at both women choosing the name Stephanie. They do have a common interest in USB adventures. Even if their end goals are different.

I guess it can turn into a competition. After all when one USB character meets another USB naturally there's going to be some healthy competition, just to see who really knows there stuff.

[meditions142]

Love it. A guard take out and have to love a double use of the nerve pinch!

[Trackman281]

Many thanks meditions142, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

[rufusluciusivan]

The story begins with a nicely-done continuation of the previous part. Tina's potential rebellion against her higher-ups is taking shape. I especially appreciate the little ironic detail that Tina finally got one of the things she wanted (the acceptance of her sisters), but in a way that prevents her from taking joy from it (killing someone).

A solid story, more "light-hearted" than the previous one. Nothing much to say about the uniform stealings themselves: they were enjoyable and varied, as always. We were promised a lot of muggings, and this story certainly delivered. There were also yet other unheard kinds of gag. Foundation brush-gag. And microphone-gag. Gotta love the irony of that last one. Also, a few good lines from Tina and Blink, such as the comment on the leather pants or Blink's comment with a double-meaning when she says that she's lucky that Wilma accepts to help her. There were a few typos though.

Blink (and her sister) are a nice addition to the rogue's gallery. As true uniform stealers, they have the potential to be good rivals to Tina. In fact, I wished there was more interactions between them, or a longer duel with one chasing the other, and the two always putting on new disguises to try to trick the other. There also was a nice foreshadowing with Stephanie's scene, setting up the reveal that Blink wasn't alone.

If I can make a suggetion, when the story jumps from one character to another, it could be a good thing to leave a few lines empty or to use symbols to separate the paragraphs.

[Trackman281]

Many thanks Rufusluciousvan.

I do aim to please. I'm happy to you were able to see my hint that Blink wasn't alone with when Stephanie got mugged.

As I say Blink was a fun character to write. She won't always be with her sister, I just wanted to include her this time just because I knew what story I had in mind and I just went with it haha. Blink will be more of a recurring villain as she seems to have quite a strong and positive feedback from you all which is great. This means this could be the start of a beautiful USB rivalry between her and Tina. Just a quick side not if you type in Blinks sister name into Google you'll find it's the Dutch word for Blink. Just a nice little easter egg.

Yes Tina is now finally accepted but I wonder how long it will last. I mean she did just fail her mission and when your best of the best fails usually your bosses will have a word or two won't they. It will be an interesting return home for Tina I know that.

Well I realised your good self and tirepanted3 always come up with new uniforms and ways of tying up the victims so I thought to myself. Well why not experiment with some new gags. I'm pleased you liked them.

Yes I will take a page out of your book and place some key or symbol to let you know when we're with different characters. Just to keep the story flowing smoothly. Thanks for the tip.

I do want to quickly give you a heads up. Because Tina's next chapter will be her second confrontation with Kuebiko. It will be a long chapter. So while I'm writing it I'm going to give you a spin off chapter or rather an extended universe chapter. It'll star a new clone infiltrator I'm working on nick named "stasis". She'll be a very quirky and joyful character, she isn't dark like CI-1262 but while she does believe in doing the right thing, she won't be as angelic as Tina. If that makes sense

She'll use a heavily modified slingshot along side homemade pods filled with things like knock out gas or even just a solid pod to quickly shoot and knock out a guard with. She favours her slingshot because its small so it easy to tuck away and hide. It's incredibly silent and she just thinks it looks cool. This is purely an experiment character and if you don't like her then that's perfectly fine and if you do like her then I'll incorporate her into more adventures. Maybe even alongside Tina every now and then.

[esercito sconfitto]

I loved the story and enjoyed it while reading. There are many questions, as example about the poor intelligence work ( Tina realizing this is a lingerie event only after mugging a model...) or the problem previously experienced, to replace a lingerie model and forgetting in the process that she, Tina , doesn't have a belly button...

Many questions but only one real curiosity; Trackman, did you watch the recent movie "Anna" by Luc Besson? The whole tale seems to be influenced by the movie scenario...

The competition between Blink and Tina can be repeated in next chapters, it' s really a good idea..."hey how many girls did you strip? I mugged more girls"

[Trackman281]

Many thanks esercito. I'm pleased you enjoyed the story.

Haha thankfully I did think of that when she mugged the lingerie model that's why I made her mug one that has one of those see through netting gowns.

I actually have seen the movie "Anna" yes. But that wasn't an inspiration for this chapter, I just thought it would be a nice setting to use.

I can tell Blink has made quite an impression on everyone this is great news indeed. I'll have to think of a few upcoming chapters to which I can use her in.

P. S I do love those sorts of action films like the whole one person army type. Which is probably why I enjoyed Anna and why I absolutely love the John Wick franchise and Atomic Blonde. Charlize Theron is awesome.