Chapter 8: Keep Your Friends Close But Clones Closer

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KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE BUT CLONES CLOSER

Tina slipped in and out of conscious as she felt the dropship rapidly descend back home, she felt her body being transferred onto a medical stretcher and an oxygen mask being placed over her mouth, Tina kept trying to keep her eyes open, but sheer exhaustion and the bright beams emanating from the ceiling lights kept her from doing so, she could hear her fellow sisters talking as both her and CT-2224 but hurried past them straight into the medical wing but with so many voices all talking and gossiping at once, it was difficult for Tina to pinpoint exactly what they were saying. With that Tina closed her eyes again and fell back asleep. Tina next awoke again by the sound of unfamiliar voices discussing the situation. “Mitchell, would you please calm down.” A male’s voice could be heard. “Oh I’m sorry Nick, but did you just see the same report as I did? Our so called greatest product is lying their broken and damaged while the one who coursed is this maybe still at large, and your telling me to calm down!” The voice known as Mitchell could be heard. “Look, the assignment was still deemed completed, our asset still has the perfect record so we can still charge......” The voice now known as Nick get’s interrupted “But look at it, it’s lying there broken, and who knows what going to happen about that other thing just lying their next to her, it’s just a basic trooper we should dispose of it and count our loses on that one.” Mitchell says with venom in his voice. “HEY, watch it, they could hear us, how would they feel if they just heard you refer to them as things or it’s?” Nick responds. “I DON’T CARE, they are things, they’re our property, we can replace them as the snap of our fingers, they’re all just another number on our ever growing list, they’re all easy to replace and we can just toss their designation numbers and files straight into the archives!” Mitchell responded. “That’s enough the two of you, I will not have arguments among my committee members.” A third voice is heard, although this one is female. “Chairwoman Anna, please forgive us, it’s just this whole incident has left us all with a rather sour taste with our mouths.” Nick is heard. “I understand your concerns but I assure you gentlemen, everything will be fine and Nick I know you don’t us referring to these clones as things, but I’m afraid that is what they are. We created them, we own them, they’re are just a product to us to ship off and do what we please, now I know they live, they speak, they breath and they act just like us, but please remember Nick, they are just clones, they’re nothing more but investments to us, just tools to be used to line our pockets.” The voice now known as Anna explained. “Speaking of which, these two clones cost us money to breed which means we should recoup some of our loses on this, have the clone medics treat the two injured clones.” Anna carried on. “But Ma’am, what about the others? You know the deceased ones?” Nick asked. “Oh, just chuck them in the furnace then chuck their files in the archive vault, they can’t make us any money if they’re dead, so what good are they.” Anna cold heartedly responded. With that footsteps could be heard as the three non-clone suits walked away.

Now the non-clones didn’t know this, but Tina had heard every word of what they just said, Tina still couldn’t move, her body was in agony, but Tina could still feel and right now she was feeling betrayed. Tina started to realise just how little she meant to them, of how even the most revered soldier can just be thrown on the scrap heap and replaced just like that. Tina sighed heavily but she knew that right now there was absolutely nothing she could do, she slowly turned her head to the left and saw CT-2224 in the hospital bed next to hers, she wasn’t awake but she was breathing, surprisingly much to Tina’s delight. Tina took a deep breath, or well as deep as she could before the sheer rib agony forced her to stop and she tried her best to relax, she closed her eyes and thought about everything that she had just heard and everything that had happened to her before that when she was on the rooftop with Kuebiko, Tina just wanted this day to end, so with that she closed her eyes and fell back asleep.

Tina opened her eyes and sat up in the hospital bed, she was wearing a hospital gown and much to her surprise she could move just fine, she looked around and noticed that CT-2224 wasn’t in her bed either. Tina hopped out of bed and went to the clone medic’s station but there wasn’t anyone there? “Huh, maybe they’re all out to lunch?” Tina thought, Tina went outside yet there wasn’t anyone out there either. No clones, no non-clones, the whole places was just empty. “HELLO! Where is everybody?!” Tina shouted, but she didn’t get a response. Tina felt her eyes itch so she went into the bathroom next door and turned on the tap before splashing some water over her face. As soon as she finished she turned off the tap and spun around only to come face to face with Kuebiko who proceeded to grab her by her throat and smash her against the bathroom mirror. “HAHA, do you really you’ve gotten rid of me that easy, so what you thought chucking me off a cliff would be the end of it, oh no Tina. We’re just getting started!” Kuebiko proclaimed.

SUDDENLY, Tina woke up in an absolute pool of sweat and still unable to breath, “IT’S A DREAM, uurrgghh, it’s only a dream, just a lousy god damn dream.” Tina said to herself breathing a sigh of relief. She looked and saw CT-2224 still out cold in the bed next to hers and she felt her ribs with her right hand. “Ooff, yep they still hurt, okay I’m awake.” Tina checked herself to make she wasn’t still dreaming. “Oh hey you’re awake.” Tina turned and saw a clone medic walk into the room. “Allow to me to introduce myself, my name is CM-4119, I’m in charge of looking after you and CT-2224 over there, now I expect your tired of being on your back so let’s prop you up, then we can properly talk.” CM-4119 explained, she picked up a switch and gently let the adjustable bed sit Tina up until she was sitting upright face to face with the clone medic. “So, how long have I been out and what’s actually wrong with me?” Tina asked. CM-4119 picked up a clipboard. “Well you’ve been out for two whole days so you’re legs are going to feel really stiff, also your medical reports indicate that you haven’t got any broken bones, but three of your ribs are cracked, I’m not going to lie to you, it’s a good thing she stopped kneeing you when she did because if she had given you just one more well those ribs of yours would be broken in several parts.” The medic further explained. “Hey, what about her?” Tina was alluding to CT-2224. “Oh, she’ll be fine, her arm’s broken in three different places, her ankles is broken too and she has a lot of bruising followed with by a concussion. I’ve given her very strong sedatives while her body recuperates, but I’m afraid that injuries like this need time to heal, so I’ve put both yours and her account on hold for six weeks, to let you both heal properly.” CM-4119 said as she put the clipboard back down. “Hey, why isn’t there anyone else in here?” Tina asked after realizing that part from herself and CT-2224 there wasn’t any other clone being treated for injuries. “Oh, well you two are the only one’s here, you see it’s actually very rare for us clone medics to actually heal our sisters NOT on the battlefield, because we either patch you up on the field so you can keep fighting oorrr....You die, simple really.” The medic cautiously explained. “Ssssoooo that’s it and has anyone checked on us?” Tina asked further. “No sorry.” CM-4119 quickly answered. “So, none of our fellow sisters.......Not even our own commander wanted to see how her own soldiers were getting along?” Tina said feeling more betrayed. “Look I’m sorry CI-1138 but you know how it is, commanders only care about the soldiers that can actually fight, as soon as you get injured, you just become dead weight to them. CI-1138 you know how things work around here, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise to you.” CM-4119 continued. “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” Tina responded leaning her head back into her pillow. “Look I’ll let you rest up, I’ve given you some seriously strong pain killers to help with the pain, they’re the non drowsy kind so don’t worry about that, I’ll be outside in the office if you need anything okay.” CM-4119 said while going to walk away. “Yeah sure, thanks.” Tina replied.

Tina watched as the medic walked away before she examined her left arm, it was heavily bandaged and it still stung like crazy but this was just the body attempting to heal itself. Tina pulled back the sheets of her bed, “Oh charming.” Tina thought to herself as she realized that while the medics removed her clothing to tend to her wounds they hadn’t even given her a gown or anything, instead she was just wearing her basic military issued underwear. It took her a solid twenty minutes for her to swing her body round and sit at the edge of the bed. It took her another solid twenty minutes for her to get up and gingerly hobble her way round the side of CT-2224’s bed to get to her left side. “ow.....ow.....ow....ow.” Tina kept whispering to herself. “Aaahhh that’s better.” Tina sighed in relief as she sat down on the left side of CT-2224’s bed. Using her good hand Tina carefully held onto CT-2224’s left hand and squeezed ever so slightly. She realized that CT-2224 was also just lying in bed in her military issued bra and panties as well. “Hey sister.......Look I just wanted to say thank you, for you know saving me back on that roof top.......Truth is, I didn’t know you were about to shoot Kuebiko, so when I offered her my neck for her to finish me off, it wasn’t acting......I genuinely thought my time had come. Over the course of the night Kuebiko had just widdled me to nothing, I just didn’t have any fight left you know and the way she just overpowered the two of us without breaking a sweat I thought to myself.......Why fight? Why put myself through a slowly painful death trying to fight back, when I could allow her to end it quickly? Sssooo, yeah that’s it, thank you sister and I do mean that, I hope you get well soon.” Tina talked to a still very unconscious CT-2224 before she painfully hobbled back to her bed.

Days turned to weeks and everyday Tina felt her strength coming back, she regularly exercised, pushed herself through training regiments and her body eventually recovered and she was back to her normal fighting and infiltrating self. Once the six weeks had passed and she was cleared to get back into the field CM-4119 re-instated her account and in twenty four hours she would be back into the fold. Tina spent the next twenty four hours mostly in her room, she just wanted these last few hours to rest up and relax beforehand just to make sure she was one hundred percent ready, she spent a lot of that time just staring at the picture of her and Delsin, determined to replace those awful visions that the fear serum made her see with reminders of happier times. Once the twenty four hour period was over she noticed her account was back online, it didn’t take long either as shortly after it went live again she got a notification on her laptop, she was to report to CO-5052 of the majestic magentas immediately. Just as Tina had gotten herself all dressed and ready to leave there was a knock at her door. “Yeah, come in.” Tina said. The door opened and much to Tina’s surprise in cam CT-2224 still supporting a bit of a limp. “Eeerrmmm.......You look well....you still have a bit of a limp I see.” Tina said not knowing what quite to say. “Yeah, doc said I’ll have it for another day or two yet but that will pass and I’ll be back to my normal self.” CT-2224 responded. “So even though it was your mission I somehow ended up getting beaten and pummelled more than you, strange isn’t it.” CT-2224 carried on while closing Tina’s door. “Hey that wasn’t my fault, I never intended for that and hell I never even wanted that.” Tina said while getting her guard up. “Oh I know, I know.” CT-2224 just responded while looking left and right to make sure Tina’s room was empty. CT-2224 then raised her arms in a unfamiliar stance, Tina got her arms up in a defence position waiting for CT-2224 to try and strike her. Tina suddenly felt CT-2224 grab her, but Tina quickly realised that she wasn’t trying to grapple her or hurt her, no this felt strange, it felt warm and embracing. Tina lowered her arms and saw CT-2224..........Hugging her. CT-2224 had wrapped her arms around Tina and pressed the side of her head against Tina’s shoulder and was hugging onto her. Tina felt completely confused but she also felt overwhelmed with joy. It had been so long since she felt the embrace of another living person that she’d almost forgotten what it felt like, Tina wrapped her arms around CT-2224 as well and rested her head onto of CT-2224’s before pulling her in to complete the hug. They hugged each other for a good ten seconds before releasing each other. “What was that for?” Tina asked with a smile. “To say thank you for you know checking up on me.” CT-2224 replied with embarrassment. “You know the whole time I was lying there, no one and I mean no one bothered to come in and see how I was, not even our own commander for crying out loud. But you did CI-1138, you actually took the time to see how I was doing and everything and.........I heard what our supposed non-clone superiors said about us.” CT-2224 continued. “Wait, you actually heard that too?” Tina said surprisingly. “Oh yeah I heard them, frigging scumbags and judging by your response, you head them too, I mean okay fair enough I was barely with it and I couldn’t open my eyes but my hearing was working perfectly fine and I heard every word, just like you did apparently.” CT-2224 said while looking back at Tina. “It’s nice to know how appreciated you really are and how much worth you really have isn’t it.” Tina said meeting CT-2224’s gaze. She looked down at Tina’s laptop and realised she had a notification. “I see you have another assignment, I’ll leave you to it, just know this, from now on I consider you a sister, I know you enjoy working alone but if you ever need backup, give me a shout yeah and hey when you’re out there, don’t do it for the company anymore, just do it for you and YOU alone, I know that’s what I’m going to be doing from now on, now I know what they really think of us.” CT-2224 said. This filled Tina with so much delight and hope; at last someone else was starting to see things hr way and it would be CT-2224 of all people.

“Hey before I go, this is going to be a strange question but if someone put like a massive books of names in front of you and said to you, pick a name and it’s your, which one would you pick?” Tina asked curiously. CT-2224 pulled a thinking face for a few seconds. “Hhhmm, I quite like this French name I heard once Marie, I’m not sure why I just like the way it sounds. Marie, see it slips off the tongue quite nicely.........Aaaahhh what am I going on about it’s a stupid name.” CT-2224 quickly shot herself down. Tina placed a hand on CT-2224’s shoulder. “No of course not, it’s the name you would chose for yourself, that’s your choice and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, it’s what makes you, YOU.” Tina said with a smile. “Well what about you?” Asked CT-2224. “Me? Well I’ve always been fond of the name Tina, I was working undercover once and a guy said guessed my name would be Tina as he said it suited me, haha the funny part is, I quite liked, but I didn’t let him know.” Tina said jokingly but in truth she was talking about Delsin. “Huh, you know I can see that yeah, yeah thinking about it Tina does suit you, yeah I like it.” CT-2224 responded. “The commander will be waiting so you better get going eh Tina?” CT-2224 said with a smile. Tina let go of CT-2224’s shoulder and gave her a smile back. “See you later.....Marie” Before walking away.

Tina made her way to the majestic magenta’s barracks and proceeded to go into the commander’s office. “NO WAY, I didn’t expect to see you come through my door again!” CO-5052 said with shock. “Yeah, well you know me, can’t keep a good infiltrator down.” Tina responded. CO-5052 waved her hand towards a seat. “Well then, take a seat and I’ll explain your assignment.” Tina took her seat. “Okey dokey then, so over this past week they’re been a series of thefts and abductions, you see numerous labs and scientific facilities around the world have been the targets of a series of randomised attacks. The attackers always seem to steal specific components before making off with the working lab technician currently working there at the time.” CO-5052 explained while showing Tina the reports. “You said seemingly random, in what way is this seemingly random?” Tina enquired. “Well, you see all the scientists and lab technicians that have been abducted right.” The commander explained. “Yeah, right?” Tina answered still puzzled. “Well look at this photo.” CO-5052 flipped a photo over for Tina to look and she realised that it was photo of all the scientists and lab technicians that have been abducted. “You see everyone in that photo has been taken or rather almost everyone, you see we’ve been doing some digging around and you see that one in the photo.” CO-5052 pointed to a white woman in her thirties who looked very thin and gaunt. “What about her?” Tina asked. “Well about two weeks before all these thefts and abductions happened, this one who I believe goes by the name of Elizabeth Fry was let go due to her wanting to explore......Military options, in the designs in their machines.” CO-5052 went on. “So, what you think that she’s behind all of this?” Tina scratched her head. “Well fair enough we don’t actually have any solid concrete evidence to go on, but the timing of all this just seems a little off, wouldn’t you agree. Anyway there’s still one more left to be taken.” CO-5052 points to the last woman in the photo, a white woman who looks like she’s in her mid fifties, her hair is greying but still maintains elements of blond throughout. “We believe she’ll be next to be taken, her name is Rachel Ward, so we need to go to her place of work, wait for her to get taken, then follow them and find out where there all be taken, then obviously work your magic.” CO-5052 giving Tina her orders. “Roger that, you can count on me.” Tina said while studying the photos. With that Tina got to her feet and made her way to the door. “Have the pilot ready in ten minutes, I’ll be waiting.” Tina said not seeing CO-5052 smile in acknowledgement before she left the room.

Tina loaded up a blow dart pipe which had been modified with a red dot sight before popping into a holster strapped to her thigh, she grabbed a single dart, see while Tina’s been recovering she’s experimented with a new serum of her own, a serum that completely hypnotises whoever it hits and puts them under their spell, you always had to make sure you licked the top of the dart so the serum would know who’s DNA is the one the victim needs to obey. Now unfortunately Tina was waiting for another load of her own suits to be made as she had used her last one on the last mission so she had to make do with a standard cat suit that was just too difficult to rip and make bonds out of. With that Tina, got onboard the dropship and moments later the dropship set off. On the way Tina adjusted her earpiece and tested it with the pilot, once both sides could hear each other perfectly Tina sat back and enjoyed the trip. A couple of hours later the dropship hovered over a facility and Tina rappelled down to the rooftop. “You know the deal CI-1138 I’ll be moving away to a safe distance, whether you end up, radio me in and I’ll follow your earpiece.” The pilot naturally explained. “Copy that, over and out.” Tina said before cutting off communications.

Tina made her way from the rooftop via the rooftops fire exit and made her way downstairs, she ducked and dived in-between corners and darted from room to room until she oversaw a testing hall where a group of scientists were discussing about a formula that was written out on a whiteboard, the scientist that was talking the most was none other than Professor Rachel Ward. Tina wondered how she would get down when she heard a lift door opening and a female lab technician carrying a clipboard came out.

This female was 25 years of age, she had jet black hair, white skin, she was wearing a white lab coat, a grey shirt, an oak wood brown skirt, black tights and a pair of oak wood brown ankle bottie shoes. Her name tag read “Chelsea”
Tina crouched down and hid behind a drinks vending machine and quickly gave a glance to make sure the coast was clear. When Chelsea made her past the vending machine, Tina leapt out from cover and grabbed Chelsea with one hand around her mouth and one arm around her waist. “Mmmmppphhh....Mmmmppphhhh.” Chelsea tried to shout through Tina’s hand. “Sorry Chelsea, but I think you could use a little break, don’t worry I’ll take over for you.” Tina remarked while reading Chelsea’s name tag, just then a door opened and two more lab technicians came through talking to each other. “MMMPPPHHH....MMMPPPPHHHH.” Chelsea tried to call for help but Tina’s handgag was locked to tight. Realizing the danger of being discovered, Tina quickly pulled Chelsea behind some thick plant pots and flowers and quickly gave a sharp but precise chop to Chelsea’s shoulder. Chelsea silently mumbled and her eyes rolled back before she went silent and drifted off to sleep, Tina listened for her heavy breathing before letting go of her mouth just in case she needed another chop, although thankfully it seems this first one had done the trick. Tina waited for the other technicians to pass before she emerged from hiding, grabbed Chelsea by her feet and dragged her into an unused testing room, making sure she grabbed the clipboard Chelsea was holding on the way.

Once inside Tina turned on the light and put Chelsea down. She helped Chelsea’s arms out of her coat before setting it aside, Tina then unzipped Chelsea’s ankle booties and pulled them off her feet, then she grabbed the top of Chelsea’s black stocking and with both hands pulled them down and off of her legs. Next Tina rolled Chelsea over, unzipped her skirt and rolled her back over before she slipped the skirt down Chelsea’s thighs and off of her. Following this Tina grabbed the bottom of Chelsea’s top and pulled her up so she was sitting upright before she pulled Chelsea’s shirt up and over her head letting Chelsea’s body fall back down afterwards. Its here we see Chelsea is wearing a matching set of red and white candy striped bra and panties. Tina scoured the room for something to tie her up with but couldn’t find anything, the only thing she could find some clothes they used for wiping down the machines afterwards. “Well this will make the gag, but what about the bonds?” Tina thought to herself before she looked down at Chelsea’s black stockings. “That’s a shame, I was looking forward to wearing them.” Tina said disappointingly. Tina folded Chelsea’s legs backwards together then put her hands behind her back before she tightly bound them together using Chelsea’s stocking, Tina quickly tested the strength of the knot and when she was satisfied Chelsea wouldn’t be going anywhere anytime soon, she grabbed a couple of clothes and shoved them in Chelsea’s mouth as a gag. With Chelsea now out of the way, Tina stripped out of her suit and got changed into Chelsea’s clothing, making sure that kept hold of the blow pipe and her experimental dart by placing into the lab coat’s pocket, afterwards Tina turned the lights off and closed the door on her way out leaving a bound and gagged Chelsea in the dark.

Tina made her way downstairs and entered the room and pretended to look busy going through Chelsea’s clipboard as to not to raise any suspicion, Tina didn’t have a clue what was actually on the clipboard itself she just needed to look busy. Tina looked down at her bare legs as she still wished she could have taken Chelsea’s stockings. “Well, at least I shaved my legs the other day.” She thought to herself. But no one noticed as they all too busy with their projects. As Tina got close to try and overhear what the Rachel was talking about a massive explosion happened on the wall behind Rachel and the rest of her team. Suddenly a whole garrison of women all aged between 20 – 35 burst in through the smoke laughing manically and firing machine guns into the air.

All of these women were wearing black jean shorts, had various combat boots on, they all have shoulder pads on with different scribbles on them, some were wearing vests and some were wearing ripped sleeveless tops, some were even wearing bullet proof vests with grenade belts strapped to themselves that have been crudely painted all over, they were all coloured with strikingly bright neon colours, including, electric blue, shocking pink and highlighter yellow, this even ranged to their hair as all of them had their hair dyed one of these three colours. Some of them had piercings while others didn’t and some of them even had their bodies painted in the three neon colours while again others didn’t. Some of the women had machine guns sprayed different colours while other just carried baseball bats with emoji stickers all over them. Tina wouldn’t know but this was a clan of hired thugs who went by the name “The Neon Goons”.

About fifty members of the neon goons were now in the room and they were whacking and beating down anyone who they saw. While this was going on two more members of the neon goons bought in massive amplifiers and started blaring out loud heavy rave music. “WOO HOO, HOO, come on girls we can’t party all night let’s grab the one the boss wants and get the hell out of here, let’s tag this place too.” One of them shouted. Several members of the neon goons started spraying painting the walls with different symbols and crude swear words all over the walls while others smashed pieces of equipments and beat down technicians with their baseball bats. “HEY YO, this the bitch the boss wants or what.” One member shouts dragging Rachel by her hair over to the centre of the room. “No please, please don’t hurt me or any of my colleagues.” Rachel. Suddenly a gunshot was heard and the neon goons started laughing. “Ha, yeah little late for that college girl haha, now shut the hell up I can’t hear the music!” Another member of the neon goons proclaimed, this was of course a lie as the music could probably be heard about three streets down. The neon goon member then pulled a photo from her back pocket, “God would you hold her steady I can’t see the loser’s face.” The goon grabbed Rachel by her cheeks and glanced between her and the picture. “Yep that’s her, okay we got our girl let’s get going huh.” She carried on. Tina was hiding under a table this whole time, she needed a distraction, there far too many of them and Tina was not able to isolate one of them to grab disguise, no Tina just had to find a way to get onto one the trucks, Tina was about to get her distraction though. As one of the neon goons backs were turned a brave but very foolish female lab technician grabs a grenade from of the belts of the neon goons. “Okay....Okay....everyone just stay right where you are.” The nervous lab technical proclaimed holding onto the grenade. All the neon goon members then turned their attention to her leaving an opening for Tina to quickly slip out of the hole in the wall and climb underneath of the trucks that the neon goons arrived in.

The neon goons then started laughing and toying with the lab technician as they considered her a toy. “Well look at old big tits, here, pulling a grenade out on us Hahaha, how adorable.” One of the members shouters while the other just snickered and laugh. “Hey careful with that thing, they have explosive personalities and we don’t want those pretty fingers of your blown across the room.....Or do we? Hahaha.” A second member starting teasing. “We, we, were not afraid of punks like you.” The nervious lab technician tried to sound tough. “Oh you hear that girls, she’s not afraid of, well if that were true then why’s your booty shaking like you’re doing the hokey cokey eh HAHA.” A third neon goon stated while shaking her tits in the lab technician’s face. The rest of the neon goons started advancing forward making the lab technician stumble backwards towards a desk, what she wasn’t aware though was that standing behind her on the said desk was a neon goon member holding a baseball and smiling from ear to ear. “A hush falls over the crowd as a new batting start sensation takes to the plate.” A neon goons member shouts. The lab technicians looks momentarily confused before a baseball slams right in the side of her head and she hits the floor hard. “Oh my god, wham right out of the park HAHA. So she dead or what?” A neon goon member shouts while jumping up and down in joy. “Come on girls we gotta go otherwise the boss will lose her temper, grab the professor and let’s get going.” The neon goon member holding onto Rachel shouts, with that all the neon goon members fall back outside and clamber into their vehicles while chucking Rachel in one of the trucks as well before making they’re leave. “It’s been fun boys and girls, but we got to bounce so Buh-Bye.” The last member shouts as she hops onto the last truck. With that the trucks headed off down the street in a convoy like fashion with Tina holding on underneath one of the trucks.

After a long and bumpy ride later the trucks all came to stop outside a compound hidden deep within a forest like environment. Tina watched as all the members of the neon goons disbanded from the trucks and dragged Rachel out along with them, before a big steel door opens and Elisabeth Fry emerges with four women wearing French maids outfits right behind her. “Wha-wha-Elisabeth? Why are you doing this?” Rachel asked nervously. “Aaahh, Mrs. Ward thank you so much for accepting my invitation and coming along to help with my little project, I sure hope these mindless buffoons didn’t harm you in anyway.” Asked Elizabeth. “Not me but they’ve hurt and maybe even killed numerous member of the scientific community and.” Suddenly she gets interrupted by Elizabeth. “Gggooooooodddd they didn’t hurt you, that’s all that matters, oh and it’s not Elizabeth anymore, she left after you unceremoniously fired me and humiliated me in front of everyone, now I go by the name GLITCH.” Elisabeth now known as Glitch protested. Glitch then stared up at some members of the neon goons. “WELL? Get to work then you barely functioning, cerebrally challenged monkey! Put her with the others!” Glitch shouted. Two neon goon members grabbed Rachel and dragged her in the compound. Glitch and her French maid assistance turned to leave. “Well then you preposterously insignificant buffoons, you may relax for a bit until I need your adequately standard assistance again.” Glitch said insulting her neon goons again.

As you know Glitch was tall, had pale white skin, she was very slim and gaunt. She had long and messy brown hair, she had dark green trousers on, light brown hiking boots, she was wearing a dark grey vest with a tortilla brown short sleeved dress shirt completely unbuttoned, she also wearing a set of black fingerless gloves and finally she had a set small circle rimmed goggles with orange lenses which were wrapped around her head, she didn’t have the goggles pulled over her eyes, they resting on her head should she need to do a welding.

Tina rolled out from under the truck and hid behind some oil barrels. She watched as yet even more members of the neon goons appeared, these must be the ones left to guard the compound while the others went out and did the job, there absolutely dozens of them and they all set up big blazing bonfires and set up at least a dozen big amplifiers and turned on their extremely loud rave music and started playing shooting games at empty cans while playing drinking games. Tina knew there was no point in trying to lure one of them away so she checked around the surrounding area to look for patrols. It wasn’t long before Tina encountered a lone neon goon member on patrolling the perimeter, Tina waited until she got behind a pumping room before she carefully pulled the blow dart pipe from her pocket and loaded her needle. She lined up the shot and blew into the pipe, the dark flew straight down and hit the neon goon right in the back of her bare leg. Tina watched as the neon goon let out a mumbled “Ooofff” before she started wobbling around and lent back against the pump room wall, dropping her gun in the process, Tina slowly crept round and got face to face with this neon goon before she quickly stood back up. “Can you hear me/” Tina asked waving her hands in front of the neon goon’s face. “Yes mistress.” The now hypnotized good responded. “Mistress huh? Hmm, well that wasn’t the response I was going for but at least I know it works. Okay you follow me behind these thick tall bushes at once.” Tina instructed. “Yes mistress.” The neon goon member replied. She followed Tina deep into the bushes and far away from anyone to see them. “Ssssoooo, firstly what is your name?” Tina asked. “My name is Phoebe mistress.” The neon goon member now known as Phoebe responded. “Good, so Phoebe how many of you are there in and around this compound?” Tina carried on “Approximately one hundred and fifty of us mistress, with additional staff inside.” Phoebe replied. “Hhhmm okay, what about this Glitch woman what does she want with all these lab technicians, professor and various components?” Tina’;s next question was. “We do not know mistress we are only the hired guns, glitch said that are brains are too small to comprehend the sheer brilliance of her master plan my mistress.” Phoebe responded. “Damn, not the answer I was hoping hhhmmm okay fair enough. Right then Phoebe next order.......I need to strip out of your clothes as I need to impersonate you okay.” Tina smiled. “Yes mistress.” Phoebe responded.

Phoebe was a 20 year old woman who was wearing the basic Neon goon uniform but she seemed to favour the electric blue look out of the three eccentric colour choices and Phoebe had a big electric blue star painted on her right cheek, she had white skin, electric blue hair and Phoebe seemed to have Heterochromia which meant she had one blue eye and one brown eye, Tina thought maybe she got into a punch up at some point which caused this, although judging by the way these neon goons act, Tina’s hunch was probably correct. Phoebe stripped all the way down to her electric blue triangle bra and her electric blue panties. “Do you want my underwear mistress?” Phoebe asked. “Eeerrr no you can keep those.” Tina said as she got changed into Phoebe’s neon goon outfit. Once she was changed she turned back to Phoebe. “So how I do I look?” She said jokingly to Phoebe. “You look like me mistress, you have taken my clothes so you can impersonate me mistress.” Phoebe responded. Tina pulled a face. “Hhmm wasn’t expecting you to reply to that, but okay.” Tina then discovered a pocket knife in Phoebe’s shorts and used it cut up the lab technician outfit she was wearing into a series of bonds and a gag. “Right Phoebe sit back against this tree, I’m going to tie you then gag you.” Phoebe sat back against the tree and Tina tied up and gagged Phoebe. “Right thanks for all your help, now when I snap my fingers you are going to go to sleep then when you wake up, you will no longer be under my control but you won’t remember anything of what happened here.” Tina explained. Phoebe just nodded her head as she couldn’t speak because of the gag. Tina snapped her fingers and Phoebe fell asleep almost immediately. “I genuinely can’t believe this stuff actually worked.” Tina chuckled at her now empty dart case. Now disguised as Phoebe, Tina made her way back to the compound.

Once she was back at the compound she made her way around the other neon goon members, she was as group of them were chucking up empty vodka bottles and trying to shoot them before they hit the floor, funnily enough they missed every time because they were drunk out of their skulls. She also passed some members arm wrestling while others put bets on who would win. Tina made her way past and managed to get into the compound with no resistance what so ever. “I wish every compound and secret base I entered was as easy as this.” Tina thought to herself. She stood on a lift and activated it which took Tina several miles underground before coming to a stop. Tina came out of the lift and snuck down the hallways of this underground base before she heard the voices of the scientists coming from a room a few doors down, once Tina got their she opened the door to find a production with a bulking but not yet completed war machine in the middle of the room, all the components that had been stolen were slowly being assembled onto the machine by the lab technicians that Glitch had taken captive.

“Why are you doing this have you even thought about the ramifications of what you’re doing?” Tina heard Rachel’s voice and she quietly peered over the railings. “Indeed I have and the world will thank me for what I will accomplish, a world run only by the most intelligent of individuals, now naturally I will be the most intelligent of them all and when the time comes for me to take my thrown then you shall forever call me your intellectual superior or....” Suddenly Glitch gets interrupted. “You, you’re insane!” another kidnapped technician shouts. “NO that would imply either a mental illness or derangement. I suffer from neither.” Glitch proclaims loudly. “But with that being said, I find it unfortunate that I have to rely on you for some manual labour, now supposedly you people are the cream of the crop in this god-forsaken cesspool of a world, you ignorant Neanderthals should consider yourselves almost as intelligent as a retarted monkey.......So well done you cretins.” Glitch says sarcastically while clapping her hands. Tina realised that glitch was flanked both sides a total of eight athletically fit women all wearing French maids uniforms, however it seems that they’re evenly balanced by ethnicity , two were Asian, two were Black, two were Hispanic and two were Caucasian, all of them held MAC 10 sub machine guns and they all aged between 23-28. “Hey what’s with the women in the French maids, they your eye candy or what?” Rachel blurted out. Glitch just rubbed the middle of brow in frustration. “Uuurrgghhh I once read a theory by some moron who hypothesised that it was difficult function in a work place properly because of their colleagues wearing revealing outfits and so I hired these ladies as my personal guard but they had to wear these outfits to perform my test. In conclusion as you can see I’m distracted by them or their outfits at all, thus further debunking another stupid idiot’s theory, checkmate to me.” Glitch gloatingly said. Suddenly glitch felt her phone vibrate; one of the French maids took the phone out of her pocket for her and showed her the screen. Glitch pulled a disgusted face before announcing. “Well I have several hundred terabytes of performance data relating to the latest model rocket powered machinery I have to read through, so if you’ll excuse me.” Glitch and his maids make their exit.

Tina hopped down and made sure the coast was clear before approaching Rachel. “Oh great another one of her idiotic grunts here to watch over us.” Rachel sighed at a disguised Tina. “No, no, look my is Tina I followed you here, then I took out one of her goons from upstairs and put on her clothes so I could move around more freely, look I’m here to rescue you.” Tina explained. “Are you from the government?” One of the professors asked. “Something like that, look I can’t divulge much into it now, so let’s get you out of here.” Tina said in a hurry. “WAIT, wait look Glitch is building a war machine, this is still an unfinished prototype but if she succeeds and this actually works then she’ll be manufacturing a whole line of these things so she can use them to wage some sort of strange intellectual war on the world. We have to stop her!” Rachel pleaded. “So that’s why she kidnapped you and all of those machine components, to make sure this goes off without a hitch.” Tina realized. “Exactly, here I’ve one of the technicians has been secretly inventing this on the side, this a cryptographic sequencer, Glitch’s machine uses a highly impenetrable force field, but this is a two part biometric sequencer it will allow to override the machines technological components and shut the shield down should you need, but you must be close to it as its range is greatly limited.” Rachel explained passing the device over to Tina. Suddenly she heard clapping behind her and turned to see the French maids all had their guns aimed at Tina with Glitch clapping in the middle. “I must say, that watching you desperately fumble around on my CCTV cameras has exceeded my meager expectations, I am impressed. This must be how naturalists felt upon observing chimpanzees using tools for the first time.” Glitch boasts. “It’s over glitch, you can’t possibly expect to actually accomplish what you have planned.” Tina said while hiding the fact she had just slipped the sequencer in her back pocket. “Hhhmm well I couldn’t possibly say you’d ever offer me a battle of wits with that simplistic mindset of yours, but your feeble resistance makes it a pleasant change from the instant capitulation of everyone else. But alas you bore me.” Glitch said while raising her hands. Tina knew what was coming next so she grabbed the pocket knife that Phoebe was held and hurled it towards a pipe, the knife hit the pipe and erupted a thick sheet of white smoke which masked everyone’s vision. Tina quickly snuck up behind Rachel. “There’s a floor grate beneath us, use it, go get help, I’ll distract them GO!” Tina whispered in Rachel’s ear before she disappeared back into the smoke and made her out of the room.

“COME ON GLITCH, lest you think your girls aren’t up the task!” Tina shouted. “Oh you fool, pursuing a fruitless vendetta against me, how ambitious. Go get her!” Glitch shouted as her French maid body guards began their search. “Now then my little lab rats how’s my machine........WHAT!” Glitch shouted upon realizing that her prisoners have escaped as well. Meanwhile the French maids have split up and searching for Tina.

One of the Hispanic French maids, a young 23 year old women by the name of “Ashley” with curly brown hair tied back in a knot, searches one of the pipe rooms. Ashley creeps down until she hears a noise, she spins around with her gun up but doesn’t see anyone. Ashley believes it to be an echo of her own footsteps and continues walking. Moments later she hears the same noise again and quickly spins around again only to find herself still on her own, or so she thinks. Ashley sighs but as she turns around to continue walking she sees a shadow growing bigger on the floor, Ashley quickly looks up in the air. “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” Is all Ashley has time to shout as Tina comes towards her from the top of a pipe, Tina uses both of her knee caps and takes Ashley down by her shoulders, smacking the back of her head on the floor in the process. Ashley was knocked out. Without even saying another word Tina grabs her ankles and drags into a dark part of the pipe room where no one see them unless they were a few inches away.

Tina unbuckles and slip off Ashley’s pump shoes, before undoing her stocking suspenders and rolling each of white stocking down and off her legs, Tina then quickly undoes the back of Ashley’s maid outfit and quietly slips Ashley’s unconscious body out of attire before Tina quickly swipes the white hair band sitting on the top of her head. Here we see Ashley was wearing a black bra and white Brazilian cut panties. After she gets changed into Ashley’s uniform, Tina grabs a roll of blue duct tape that she found, clearly it was used for minor leakages, but Tina had other uses for it. She taped up Ashley’s ankles, her thighs, then she taped her wrists together and put several layers of tape around her torso taping her arms in place in the process before finishing her of by putting a couple of layers of tape across Ashley’s mouth. Now changed Tina stepped out from the shadows dressed in Ashley’s clothes and looked down at herself at the outfit she was now wearing. “Seriously.........Why French maid of all things?” She thought to herself while rolling her eyes, she didn’t bother grabbing Ashley’s gun as it wasn’t the other maids she was hunting.

“Bah, you worthless marsupials, I can’t seem to get anyone of this blasted radio, GAH those idiots and their pathetic microscopically brained automatons, good help is so hard these days.” Glitch says while chucking her radio across the room, when she hears footsteps behind her which sounded like the tapping of one of the French maid’s shoes. “Aahh took you long enough, I genuinely calibrated that you would have found her approximately thirty seconds ago.” Glitch gloated but as she turned around her face widened as all she saw was Tina standing smiling in Ashley’s outfit. “WHAT, no this can’t be my personal guard have been perfectly equipped to deal with you, plus there are eight of them and one of you this isn’t possible.........I HAVE THE EQUATIONS RIGHT HERE.............” Glitch shouted while waving a piece of paper around. Suddenly Tina punched Glitch in the jaw and she fell backwards and fell over the balcony. “My word, does that woman ever just shut up, geez” Tina remarked to herself, but just before she could check to see how badly Glitch was hurt and robotic arm rose up and slammed into the catwalk causing both it and Tina to collapse to the floor below. “You are staring with stupefied comprehension at a mechanised machine that I have perfectly calibrated to respond to precise and specific movements, in other words........I WIN.” Glitch had now turned on her machine and she was sitting inside and still to be fully completed cockpit at the front of the machine.

This mech was built almost human in structure, it had two legs and feet, two arms but instead it only had three fingers which act as clamps, it had a built in laser on one arm and a built in rail gun on the other arm. The torso was thick and bulky but this mech did not support a head or if it did, it had not yet been assembled. “BAH, look what you have REDUCED me too, psychical activities of this magnitude are beneath me. YOU.........Are beneath me. But if you cannot simply bow down when confronted by your obvious superior then I will stoop to your pathetic, pugilistic level and MAKE you!” Glitch shouted, enraged that she had to be fighting. Tina quickly looked down her top and it’s we see that Tina hadn’t forgotten the disruptor she had just tucked it into her bra.

Glitch fired up the machine’s force field and pulled the goggles from over her head and now over her eyes. She attempted to shoot Tina with the rail gun, Tina ran left and slid across the floor, Glitch attempted to stomp on her while she was on the floor but she did a fireman’s roll straight out of the way, Tina got back to her feet to see Glitch attempt to take a swing at her, Tina had to quickly cartwheel to the side narrowly missing the mech’s giant fist. Tina quickly pulled the disruptor out from her bra while Glitch wasn’t looking and hid it behind her back and re-focused her attention on Glitch, good thing she did too as Glitch had swung the mech’s arm back around and attempted to back hand her, Tina’s eyes widened as she saw the mech’s arm coming round and just thinking impulsively she jumped and twisted her body as if she had just performed a back flip in the air as the mech’s arms swung underneath her, landing slightly hard on her hands and feet, Tina felt the shock go through her wrists, but pushing through it she ran and slid towards Glitch, then while still holding onto the disruptor she held it down as she slid through the mech’s legs, as she slid through she turned and watched the mech ignite into a series of sparks as the force field shut down on Glitch. “What. No!” Glitch shouted trying to regain control of things, in anger she quickly spun the mech around and charged up the beam ready to fire on Tina, but Tina grabbed onto one of the mech’s fingers and swung herself onto its arm, she ran up the arm and grabbed hold to a piece of the torso just as the laser beam fired off onto the nearby wall. Tina lifted her body up and formed a missile kick position, then using all of her weight she swung around and using both feet kicked Glitch right in the right of the head and body causing glitch to plummet out of her mech’s exposed cockpit and fell crashing to the floor, with that Tina jumped off of the mech and landed straight onto Glitches’ back before punching her right in the back of the head knocking her out. Seeing her victory unfold before her eyes, Tina ripped some cables from the mech and tied up Glitch so she couldn’t move. “Where am I? What’s going?” Glitch said regaining consciousness. “How, I can only be possibly be beaten by people who have an IQ Of 150, so HOW is this possible.” Glitch muttered to herself then as she looked up she saw Tina smiling and twirling around the disruptor and she waited for the penny to drop on Glitch. “No! No! No! You cheated, this was not a fair fight, you STOLE my victory against you worthless, dirty cheater!” Glitch protested. “Uuurrrgghhh you put in an unwinnable and an unfair fight to begin with your mech’s little force field so was that in anyway a fair fight?” Tina smirked in response. “It WAS a fair fight, if you weren’t able to bypass the mech’s multilayer encryption, decipher its unique operating system and reprogram it mid-battle that doesn’t mean you get to cheat!” Glitch snapped.

Tina bent down and met Glitch’s gaze. “You know I’ve dealt with some crazy women in my time but honestly you are just a whole different ball game aren’t you.” Tina said. “HA, it’s okay to admit that I took to your limits and beyond and this is just the beginning as every time you face me I’ll be analysing your patterns becoming better and better until you just won’t be able to keep up with me, when will you learn, I’m playing a game of chess with you, first I have checked with you, next I’m going to mate with you..........WAIT you know what I meant, get your filthy degenerate mind out of the gutter.” Glitch said turning red with embarrassment, Tina just laughed and went to walk away when she heard police officers and swat teams coming into the compound. “Well that explains why your little army never answered.” Tina said realizing that the neon goons and the other maids have all already been arrested. With that Tina made her leave.

Rachel and her team were safely outside surrounded by police officers, Rachel wondered if Tina had stopped glitch and got out okay but as soon as she thought this she felt a nudge hit her shoulder, Rachel turned and saw Tina now wearing a policewoman’s uniform give her a wink and walk away, to which Rachel just smiled and whispered “Thank you.”

Back down below Glitch was protesting to her arresting officers. “How exceedingly droll, I won’t be needed a lawyer you jumped-up security guard, I will represent myself.” Glitch protested. “God get her out of here, she’s giving me a headache.” A police sergeant said. “Hey sarge, come take a look at this.” An officer said over the radio. The police sergeant got to the officers location and they saw a 28 year old white police woman with braded ginger hair bound and gagged with blue duct tape in her white bra and panties with ankle high socks on, she angrily mumbling on her gag, the sergeant pulled the tape off of her mouth. “What happened?” They asked. “Ggrr, it was one of the maids, she forced me in here, the she took my clothes and ran out, go get her she’s disguised herself as me!” The police woman angrily shouted while red with embarrassment.
But they were already too late, still wearing the policewoman’s uniform Tina had already left the compound and was getting ready to radio her dropship for an evac point, Tina’s mission had been an overall success and defeating Glitch was just the tonic Tina needed after her whole ordeal with Kuebiko and as she waited for her evac to arrive Tina thought to herself about what Glitch said before she left. “Go ahead Glitch break out and come find me if you like, but you’ll have to get in line because I’m hearing that phrase more and more these days.” Tina smiled to herself as she waved the dropship down with her stolen police hat.

END OF CHAPTER 8

[tirepanted3]

Some nice follow-up from the previous chapter in this one. Tina's recuperation from her battle with Kuebiko is well-written, and continues to humanize her (as well as CT-2224, or Marie - sounds like she's starting to grow as well).

Not much to say about the mission story that hasn't been said about previous chapters - it's another fun adventure with good use of disguises. The takedown of Chelsea was particularly good, particularly the use of her clipboard. It's also fun to watch Tina go up against a gang of Harley Quinns! Hypnosis is an uncommon means of stealing uniforms, but it was pretty amusing here.

I especially like how the story dealt with the policewoman at the end - just an afterthought, to give Tina one last disguise. Not every scene needs to be elaborately detailed, and this was a good example of a minimalist scene.

All in all, a very good chapter. If I had any criticism, it would be that sometimes the individual paragraphs can feel a bit long and overstuffed, which means the events can be kind of blurry. But that's not really a criticism of the story itself; just something to consider about writing them.

[Trackman281]

Tirepanted3 - Many thanks for your kind feedback and I'm happy you enjoyed the chapter, to answer your feedback.

Thank you, I really wanted to provide the aftermath I didn't want do the whole.........Oh yeah she's badly injured now miraculously in the next chapter she's all better with no explanation, I needed to show the aftermath to an extent. Yes, you see Tina is deliberately testing them, by asking individual clones what would their names be, she learning that they're all giving her different names and coming us with their own idea, which shows that maybe there could be some flaws in trying to make an army of clones like well......droids and yes I wanted to give CT-2224 some more, shall we say life.

Hhhhmmm wow I genuinely wasn't expecting you say the neon goons reminded you of Harley Quinn as I actually based their looks and mindset off of the Goon Squad from Rage 2. Well that's where their looks and personality came from anyway, the rest I just invented.

Well I thought I'd take a page out of your book, you always seem to know how to do off screen muggings perfectly, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Do you have any advice for me so I can make things a little less blurry for you? I know it's not a criticism, but if you have any useful tips or advice , would you tell me so I know how to improve on it please?

[tirepanted3]

I wasn't sure the Neon Goons were based on Harley Quinn, but that's what I was reminded of. (I think the baseball bats helped me make the connection.)

You did indeed do a great job with the offscreen mugging, so I'm glad I could help there.

Regarding the writing, I think it might help if you broke up the paragraphs into smaller ones. Like, if two characters are having a conversation, each line in the exchange should be its own paragraph. These little pauses and breaks go a long way toward setting the mood for the story.

[Trackman281]

Haha that's okay. I'm just happy I just made your imagination get lost in the story.

Ah okay I see what you mean. I always thought if I'd did that I'd run out space to post because when I get the characters talking. Then there doesn't seem to be an off switch as I know that the more they talk, they more we learn and the more they learn too. But yes I'll give it a whirl in my next chapter and see if I can improve. Thank you very much for the tip.

[esercito sconfitto]

1) despite your previous answer, I believe Tina is developing some hard feelings against the 'non clones'


2) hey the most embarrassed and ackward hugging!


3) the scene wit the "Neon goon" is difficult to interpret... drugged or hypnotised? or both of them?


if Phoebe is based on "Rage 2" she is probably hard to hypnotize

[Trackman281]

Esercito - I have the answers for you.

1. Yes Tina has always had a distaste for them ever since chapter one, I also think she's just happy that another one of her sisters is finally starting to realize that there's more to life than what they've been raised to believe.

2. HAHAHA, well CT-2224 (Marie) isn't exactly a hugger she thinks she's a hardcore soldier with no emotions, plus because Tina and her always seem to be fighting, it kind of took Tina by surprise.

3. Honestly it's a bit of both, it's kind of like a mind control drug, for example, if someone gets hit by this drug like substance then they will completely fall under a form of mind control and will become an obedient slave, but in order for this to work they're would to be a trace of the DNA from the person who uses it so the victim knows whom to serve, hence why Tina licked the dart first.

4. Oh no it's quite the opposite, Phoebe would actually fall under the spell a lot more easily than most and it's all because of her brain, you see the more strong minded an individual is then they'll have more power to resist the effects, but Phoebe and the rest of Neon Goons aren't exactly the most intelligent group Tina's ever come across. I mean look at them, they love to fight, they get completely drunk all the time and they all seem to be okay working for Glitch and as we saw, Glitch enjoys insulting them and belittling them whenever she can, any other group would just walk away from that, but somehow they don't, it's almost like they're oblivious to it at times. So yeah Phoebe would be more of an ideal target because yes psychically she's tough as anything but mentally she's pretty weak so it was easy for Tina to exploit.

I hope I've managed to clear the air on the parts you asked about.

P.S. YES that is definitly the outfit that the neon goons are wearing, so I see you found one of the Rage 2 cosplayer's I was originally looking at. BUT they don't all have that hairstyle, quite a few of them would have long hair.

[meditions142]

Trackman, you have out done yourself with the idea of the hypnotic dart. Very cool idea. Hope to see it used in some future stories.

Love it!

Oh, and definitely liked the description of the take down Chelsea. I love the image of Tina covering her mouth and dragging her out of sight then giving her a chop. And then getting ready to give her another one before determining that she was already out.

[Trackman281]

Meditions142 - thank you ever so much, I'm really pleased you like it.

Also yeah I can definitely have Tina use the hypnotic dart again if that's what you want. No problem at all.

[rufusluciusivan]

The advantage when you're late to comment because you're late to read the latest post is that it makes it easier to write the comment, since you can concur with the other praises.

Nothing much to add. Everything was already said. I agree with Tirepanted about the idea of having more spaced out text. The introduction showing the recovery of Tina and Marie was also a good addition. Still making Tina a very sympathetic character. I wasn't expecting CT-2224/Marie to receive character development, but I really like where you're going with her (In my opinion, a little plot-heavy and character development-heavy part is always of good thing, even if there's no disguising for a while.) Your villains (I'm counting the three 'suits' we briefly come across in the intro) are despicable just the way we like them. While their dialogues may lack some subtelty sometimes, it makes them instantly hateful and it's brilliant to watch them receive their comeuppance. The scene with the hypno dart was indeed interesting to watch. Maybe not the most realistic gadget out there, but it's justified in the context of the story and it can lead to intriguing new possibilities in the future.