Chapter 17: Couples Who Game Together, Stay Together

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CHAPTER 17: COUPLE’S WHO GAME TOGETHER, STAY TOGETHER

Felicity and Elisha walk through a shopping centre holding each hands, before entering a clothing store.

“What do you think? Too baggy or not?” Felicity asks trying on a new jumper.

“Well it seems a little big around your shoulders but the rest of your body seems to fill out nicely.” Elisha gives her opinion.

“I think your right, maybe one size down should cover it.” Felicity pops the jumper back on it hanger before looking through the rest.

After around half an hour of clothing shopping, Felicity and Elisha are back on the streets holding hands and Elisha carrying all the bags.

“Hey I want you to meet a friend of mine called Tina.” Felicity says excitedly.

“No way.......You have friends!” Elisha says with a smile and a wink.

Felicity slaps Elisha’s arm.

“Haha, shut up. Yeah I’d like to meet her, she’s a fantastic woman and over this past year she’s really helped me through some difficult times.” Felicity added.

“Should I be concerned that this Tina girl might just be a rival for your heart.” Elisha says while pulling a jokey but slightly concerned face.

“Oh no, no Tina prefers men, which means I’m all your’s sweetie.” Felicity leans in and kisses Elisha on the cheek which causes Elisha to blush.

“Go on then, any friend of your honey is certainly a friend of mine, I’ll tell you what, you could invite Tina round to our flat and I’ll cook us all something special why you two catch up.” Elisha explains with her mind thinking of different recipes.

“Aaahhh you’re the best and.........Wait did you just say OUR flat?” Felicity’s eyes widened.

“Yeah, I’m formally asking you right here and right now, would you like to move in with me.” Elisha’s tries to cover her face with her fringe as she’s embarrassed.

“Nah I’m good.” Felicity says without hesitation.

Elisha’s face drops slightly.

“HAHA, the look on your face hell yeah I want to move in with you if it means you get to be the first thing I see every morning.” Felicity says as she wraps her second hand also around Elisha’s.

“Really, awesome, I have to work tonight, but what do you say tomorrow, I help you pack your things and screw it, let’s just it yeah.” Elisha says with excitement in her voice.

“Sounds perfect and I’ll contact Tina to see when she’s available.” Felicity realizes for now there’s no one else on the street so she quickly stops Elisha.

“But for now, come here.” Felicity and Elisha take a long slow kiss under a lamppost.

“God, what the hell would I do without you?” Elisha says with a massive smile on her face.

“Stop it, you soppy devil, come on let’s get home and I’ll fire up the grill for our lunch, I’m kind of in the mood for hunter’s chicken, how about you.” Felicity asks.

“Sound good to me sweetie.” Elisha responds and with that they check to make sure no one was watching them before heading off hand in hand.

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“Begin.” Prophet whispers over her earpiece.

Dozens of phantoms suddenly appear around a cabin forming two circles, the circle of phantoms activate a plasma shielding which coverers them while the second circle of phantoms behind them check their weapons and turn the safeties off. On a nearby ridge Prophet nods to a third group of phantoms standing next to her who proceed to load grenade launchers before raining down fire on a cabin that the two waves of phantoms have surrounded.

The grenades bombard the cabin, then when they stop the first wave of phantoms wielding the plasma shields advance forwards with the second wave keeping just one step behind them, using the shields as a cover that’s constantly advancing the second wave fire a nonstop barrage of bullets into the cabins walls and doors. At this time a panicked women is seen trying to flee the chaos only to be gunned down the first thing she tries to bolt.

“One infiltrator exterminated.” A phantom is heard over the comms.

“Move forward, continue the barrage.” Instructs Prophet.

A couple of minutes later the phantoms were now a few inches away from the virtually destroyed cabin. The phantoms stop shooting and they all take a knee, with this, one of the phantoms dressed in digital camo trousers and boots, a dark grey bullet proof vest, chrome gloves, a dark green scarf and full face covered helmet breaks the circle and proceeds to throw two flash bangs into the cabin, upon detonation, this phantom who is apparently wearing a short sleeve shirt as we can see she has Asian skin with distinct Mongolian tattoos down one of her arms, approaches the cabin.

When she enters she finds a second infiltrator, a woman who looks 31 years of age lying against a board, badly wounded. The phantom checks the board and sees that these two infiltrators were to infiltrate a castle converted into a museum and steal a priceless artefact, with this the infiltrator pulls out her side arm and approaches the wounded infiltrator.

“Please, you don’t have to do this.” The infiltrator begs.

“You’re right, we don’t have to, we just WANT to.” The phantom responds before immediately shooting the woman right between the eyes and killing her without hesitation.

“Second infiltrator has been neutralised, area is clean. No sign of alpha prey” The phantom says over her radio.

“Excellent work, all units engage camo and regroup back at my position, that’s two less infiltrators infesting this world and don’t worry about alpha, she’ll be in our crosshairs soon enough.” Prophet responds.

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Libido, Stasis and Tina walk through the hanger after returning from their successful mission and it doesn’t take long for Libido to spot Pierce with a group of his guards.

“Oh my god got to run ladies I’ve just spotted that hunky Pierce and his group of studs.” Libido quickly fist bumped Tina and Stasis before rushing over to Pierce and his men like a bat out of hell.

“Strange egg that one isn’t she?” Stasis remarked.

“Yeah, but she always has our so she knows that we stick together.” Tina responds.

“Pity her legs don’t though.” Stasis has a little jab at Libido.

Suddenly Tina’s earpiece starts vibrating.

“Hey you go on ahead, I got to check something.” Tina says to Stasis.

“Yeah alright, hey hang on I see CI-1262 or should I say Demon, having her dinner.........Where’s a stink bomb.” Stasis asks herself while running off.

Tina shakes her head and answers her call.

“Hello......Oh god Felicity hello, how are you........Well that’s great and yes I’m doing fine thank you.........Huh..........You have a girlfriend well congratulations I’m so pleased for you and I......Sorry......Come round for dinner, yeah sure I’d love to meet her, as it just so happens I’m on a twenty four rest period so I can come over tomorrow night..........Sounds great, shall we say six............Perfect see you then.” Tina hangs up the phone and a massive sense of enjoyment sweeps over her, she can’t wait to see Felicity again.

Tina then hears a ruckus in the canteen as Stasis comes running out laughing her head off with CI-1262 or as she’ll now be referred to as “Demon” chasing her.

“That’s disgusting you little immature defect freak, I’m going to punch you so hard you’re not going to know what day of the week it is!” Demon shouts as she gives chase.

Tina just rolls her eyes and shakes her head. “Some things just don’t change.” She remarks.

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“This is recording message number seventeen, my name is Evie Ward although I am more commonly referred to as Blink, and this message is for my daughter Shannon Ward.” Blink double checks to make sure all the lights on her computer her up and running.

“Hi sweetie, I still don’t know if any of these messages ever get to you or if I’m just needlessly talking to a screen. This message is going to be slightly different because I need you to understand. Your father and I didn’t don’t hate each other and you are not the reason to blame for our divorce. If anything I am.” Blink swallowed hard.

“Your father wanted me to stop being an infiltrator and live a normal life, it caused many arguments between us and now I know that he wasn’t doing it because he wanted me to be normal, no, no, he just wanted to keep me safe and then you were born and I STILL didn’t give up the infiltrator life...........He’d tell me every time I got home that you were asking about all day, asking......Is mummy safe, is mummy okay..........Yet I still didn’t stop did I.” Blink swallows hard again.

“Guess that’s why I lost the custody battle huh, look please listen to your father and be good for him okay, like me he only wants the best for you, so please, pay attention in school, please go to college then please go to university just.........Don’t become someone like me. Please Shannon. I have to go sweetie, mummy loves you with all of her heart okay. Goodnight princess.” With that Blink sent the video recording, hoping her daughter would see it.

Afterwards she loaded a picture of Shannon on her phone before reaching in one of her desk draws and pulling out a bottle of Captain Morgan’s Rum.

“Ahoy captain, permission to come aboard the SS Rat Arsed.” She joked to herself while cracking the bottle open.

Blink lay down on her bed and started playing an ASMR video on YouTube of raining pouring down on a calm autumn’s night, while she drank heavily from her bottle before passing out drunk.

The next morning Blink woke up face down on her pillow, still holding to her now empty rum bottle and her mouth feeling like the inside of a cement mixer. Blink chucked the empty bottle in the bin before running into the toilet and sticking her head under the bathroom tap, she drank and drank water for a solid minute or two straight before turning off the top and looking at herself in the mirror.

“Yep, what man wouldn’t consider himself lucky to wake up to you every morning?” Blink scoffed.

An hour later, Blink has showered, brushed her teeth and thankfully had some food and some more water before leaving her flat and making her way to an underground dive bar. She went through the entrance and down the stairs into the bar itself where a man was sitting in one of the booths in the corner.

He was wearing dark jeans with laced boots, a white shirt with a dark brown leather jacket over it, he had white skin, slicked back hair and medium length stubble.

“Rough night last night Blink?” He said as she sat down opposite him.

Blink didn’t respond.

“So what happened.” The man enquired.

“SHE appeared again.” She responded referring to Tina.

“Come on Blink, this is twice now, I thought you said you were the best at what you do.” The man said leaning back on his chair.

“I am it’s just......Ever since she’s put Atlantis Co virtually in the ground and forced me to take on jobs like this, I don’t know I just feel like I have to prove something, not to her but to myself.” Blink tries to think logically.

“Well that’s great but remember if you don’t do the job properly, I’m afraid I can’t pay you. Plus there are other hunters trying to get paid as well you know, you can’t just keep failing bounties, we all need to eat too.” The man says with a fairly serious tone.

“I know, I know, look I’m sure it’s a third time’s the charm sort of deal, so what do you have for me.” Blink explains looking around the bar at some of the other bounty hunters waiting to get their next job.

“Right well, I have a bail jumper, a car thief, a drug seller or another car thief.” The man said laying some pads down on the table.

“These prices are way too low, some of these wouldn’t even be able to cover my monthly rent. Come on, there’s got to be something with more meat on it.” Blink says flicking the pads back.

“Well there is, but as I say you’ve failed twice now and their other hunters here that want paying too.” The man says while also looking at the other bounty hunters around the room.

“Come on, just one peek.” Blink says with her hand out.

“Sigh........Fine.....” He hands her the pad.

“There’s a massive gaming convention in town today, and we’ve heard reports that a pyromaniac who goes by the name Seraphim got loose from jail the other day, now if I was this psycho, that’s where I’d hit, plenty of people in closed areas, perfect way to start a bonfire should we say.” The man explains.

“Uurrgghh, I’ve heard of Seraphim and I also know it was she who shall not be named was responsible for putting her behind bars the first time.” Blink recalls reading reports from Tina and Seraphim’s first encounter.

“Well here’s the kicker, the people behind this convention haven’t posted this on shall we say......Conventional boards like the others you’ve been on, so if this woman who keeps stopping you is just another company lapdog, I can assure you, she couldn’t of gotten wind of this.” He said with a half smile now.

Blink tapped the table with her finger nails thinking it over.

“I like the price of this gig, it’s nice and high. Alright I’ll take it.” But before Blink take the pad, the man puts his palm on it.

“You’ve failed the previous two bounties I’ve given you, please don’t fail this one, you’re starting to give my guild a bad name.”He winks at her with a smile before letting go of the pad.

“I’ll get it down and we will all be paid handsomely this time.” Blink says as she turns to leave.

“What do you do with your cuts anyway, I never see you with new weapons or outfits or jewellery or anything really?” The man asks.

“Come on, a ladies got to have some secrets.” In truth Blink always kept some of her cut for food and drink, but most of her cut went to support her daughter Shannon.

As Blink made her way to the convention she remembered studying the bomb type from a report that showed what time of napalm bomb Seraphim mostly used. With this also came the knowledge that she knew how to defuse them, the bombs were more than likely be planted behind the main stages, all she had to do was get inside and get to work. She also wanted to get this done quickly.....Just in case Tina was actually on her way to stop her from being paid once more.

Blink got outside the gaming convention, first things first she needed to both look the part and get inside, so it was simple she needed a change of clothes and an access card.

Blink witnessed loads of cosplayers lining up to get inside, so it didn’t take long for Blink to find an outfit that she liked.

An Asian women, who was 25 years old was wearing white baggy trousers, black socks, red running shoes, red fingerless gloves, black tank top, a black sleeveless leather jacket and small black satchel bag around her waist, she had medium length black hair, brown eyes with paint under right eye and a digital tattoo going down her right arm. Clearly she was cosplaying the character named “Faith Connors” from the gaming series “Mirror’s Edge”.

Blink made her way to her, casually swiping a phone from a woman who was too busy trying to get into a group selfie with her friends to even notice it was missing.

“Oh my god, love the outfit, you’ve got Faith Connors look exactly right.” Blink said to the woman.

“Oh thanks.” The woman replied.

“Say can I get a selfie, but aahh damn it, the sun really is reflecting off of my phone, say I’ll tell you what I see a lovely shaded area just behind that wall over, what say we take a quick walk over there?” Blink said with a smirk.

“Sure, but let’s make this quick.” The woman said.

“Oh don’t worry it’ll be over in a BLINK.” Blink couldn’t help herself with that pun.

Once they were safely behind the wall and out of sight of everyone else, Blink quickly took a photo of them together before handing her the phone.

“Well what do you think?” But as the woman focused on the phone, Blink quickly gave a sharp chop straight to the back of the woman’s neck causing her to fall forwards, but thankfully Blink managed to catch her before she hit the floor.

“Yeah I didn’t like the picture either, come on you, let’s get out of those clothes.” With Blink got to work.

She stripped the woman of her shoes, socks and trousers, before removing her satchel back and slipping the woman out of her jacket and tank tom, before she pulled the woman’s gloves off. It here we see that the woman was wearing a white thong and a black bra. Before Blink got changed she quickly pulled out a couple of zip ties from her pocked which she used to bind the woman’s ankles and wrist together before ripping a sleeve off of her own suit to use to gag the woman. To finish off she quickly opened up a dumpster that was round the side of the wall before lifting the woman’s unconscious body and placing her inside it before closing the lid, thankfully the dumpster was empty so at least the woman wouldn’t be hit with any foul smells should she wake up anytime soon. With that Blink got changed into the woman’s clothes, found the access card in one of the pockets and went back round to head on inside.

Once Blink was inside, she proceeded to hit the stages where they’d be the most people, the nearest one to her was going to be the Capcom stage who set to premier their next resident evil game, this would garnish a lot of attention which means she knew Seraphim might be watching. Blink also knew that she’d need to trick Seraphim in order to not get caught, she looked at the outfit she was wearing, she’d have to change outfits frequently so if Seraphim was actually watching, she wouldn’t get suspicious of seeing the same women at all the different presentations.

Blink pushed past various people cosplaying characters, with most notably all the males cosplaying Leon Kennedy and the females cosplaying Claire Redfield. Blink made way around the staging area before she suddenly got a strong whiff of something.

“Got damn, did that actually bring in real zombies for this, because that smells like rotting flesh.” Blink held her nose before it’s suddenly hit.

“Wait a minute that’s Durian I remember they identified that Seraphim hid her bombs around pure Durian spray so nobody who detect eh smell of highly flammable chemicals being leaked into the air, as she got closer to the main stage the smell became more prominent.

“Got to be behind there but how do I get round there.” It seems luck was definitely on Blink’s side today as her next clothing change was about to reveal herself.

Blink felt a tap on her shoulder then when she turned around she saw a women who was of Asian – American descent. This woman was wearing a thigh length red silk dress, she had black stockings on with black high heels, a black lacy bra could be seen poking out and she had a black choker collar on with a holster around her shoulder garnishing a pistol. She had black crude cut medium hair with hazel eyes. She was cosplaying the character “Ada Wong” from the “Resident Evil 2 Remake” from 2019.

“High look I need a descent photo of myself for my instagram page but I get the feeling like if I ask anyone else, they’ll just want to take a look at my tits in exchange.” The woman said holding out her phone.

“Eeerr yeah sure, but hey there’s a thick curtain over there, let’s go behind there then I can get a good few pictures of you posing without anyone staring at you eh?” Blink said pointing to a thick velvet curtain.

“Thanks, you’re the best, also I like your outfit but this is the Resident evil stage, so you stick out like Nemesis at a hairdressers.” The woman joked.

“I know right, but don’t worry I get the feeling I’m about to sort that problem out.” Blink said with her eyebrows raised knowing full well what was about to happen next.

Blink let the woman behind the curtain and swiftly closed it, in all fairness Blink did keep to her word and she took several photos of the Ada Wong cosplayer, descent one’s too no less. Once this was done and the woman was looking through the pictures seemingly pleased with them all she suddenly felt really sleepy and relaxed as if she’d just got in from a cold winters walk and was sitting next to a cosy fireplace, before moments later she made a faint moaning sound before leaning backwards into Blink’s arms where we see Blink had a nerve pinch tightly locked into the woman’s shoulder blade.

Blink laid the woman down before rolling her over and unzipping the back of her dress, she took off the woman’s holster before slipping her out of her dress itself, next she flicked off the woman’s high heels before slipping the woman’s tights down and off of her legs, revealing that the woman was wearing a black said panties to accompany her black lacy bra.

Blink got changed into her new outfit before grabbing some spare computer cables that in a nearby crate and tying up the woman before using the tank top she was originally wearing as a make shift gag. With the woman now bound and gagged Blink lift her up and placed her into the box where she originally got the cables from.

“You know at least I really did take those pictures of you, so you can still brag to your all your followers of how sexy you look, although you might want to leave out the part of where I knocked your arse out, took your clothes and left you bound and gagged in your undies. Or don’t whatever it’s your call.” Blink went to get out from behind the curtain.

“Night, night, don’t let the zombies bite.” Again she just couldn’t help herself.

Blink made her way behind the stage when no one was paying attention and discovered under a thick cloth was a bomb, next to a durian spray just as she predicated, Blink set a charge on the bomb that when once activated, it’ll burrow deep into the components practically melting everything in the bombs shell making it completely useless. With the first charge in place, Blink covered the bomb back up just in case someone found it or if Seraphim went to check on it and came out from behind the stage, it was time to go after the second bomb.

Blink looked at a floor plan that was stationed near the main entrance and amongst all the smaller presentation halls the next big one was being used by Kojima Productions to promote their new game. Blink knew this was her next port of call.

Blink didn’t exactly have too much trouble finding the booth as all she did was follow all the people cosplaying characters from the metal gear franchise, needless to say, Blink knew her video games.

Upon entering the area, blink made her way as close to the main stage as she could and sure enough the closer she got to it, the more and more she smell durian.

“Well, it seems Seraphim is a one trick pony.” Blink thought to herself.

After this thought Blink noticed a woman with white skin, long brunette hair tied back in a ponytail, dark green eyes and 33 years of age. She was wearing black ankle high laces boots, ripped black stocking with a weapons pack strapped around her right thigh, a beige ammo belt, a black bra and nothing else, a dark green glove on one hand and a long stocking like ripped sleeved going up her other arm, she also had beige suspender clipped onto her belt, she was carrying a makeshift cold war sniper rifle and she had thick black makeup going under her eyes, this woman was portraying the character “Quiet” from the video game “Metal gear solid 5: The Phantom Pain.”

Blink watched as the lady went into the ladies toilet, Blink wasn’t exactly thrilled with the look of her new outfit as it was going to be very revealing for her taste, but she didn’t know when her next opportunity for a quick change of clothes would come around so this was her only choice.

Blink followed her into the toilets and checked to make sure all the other cubicles were empty before she stood there and just checked herself out in the mirror, moments later the woman came out and washed her hands. Before she saw Blink looking at her.

“Trust me to pick you for my next disguise.” Blink said to the woman.

“Eerr, I’m sorry what?” But just as she said that Blink quickly grabbed the side of her head and smacked it straight into the bathroom mirror, not too hard of where the mirror smashed but just hard enough to knock the woman out cold.

Blink grabbed her by ankles and dragged her back into the cubicle before she locked the two of them inside. She didn’t have much room to work, but she made do. Blink removed the woman’s boots and tights before unclipping and removing the belt, she helped herself to the woman’s sleeve and glove before helping herself to the woman’s ponytail, it’s here that Blink realized she wasn’t wearing the correct bra size so she had no choice but to take this woman’s black bra, she unclipped it and removed it letting the woman’s natural bare breasts wobble down.

“Pffttt, show off.” Blink remarked at being slightly envious that this woman had bigger natural breasts than her own.

Blink used the tights from her Ada Wong disguise and quickly hogtied the woman before ripping a part of the dress she was using and made it into a gag, with this woman now bound and gagged wearing nothing but a black thong which also was a customary outfit part of Quiet’s in game design, Blink got changed into her new outfit, before lifting the woman up and placing on top of the toilet itself just so if any other woman came into the toilets there wouldn’t be any chances of them looking down and see her tied up virtually naked. With this Blink used the fake sniper to jam the toilet door shut from the inside and she swiftly hopped over the side of the cubicle, she gave the door a little nudge and thankfully the rifle held the door shut leaving the woman in their out of the way for a few hours at least.

“Now you sit tight in there and stay......Quiet........Ha, God I’m on fire today.” Need I say more about her bad puns.

Branding her new disguise Blink left the ladies toilets and joined the masses outside. Blink knew what she had to do, she pushed past many metal gear fans and of course she could feel many eyes gazing at her half naked body, although in some way she somehow didn’t mind it as it had been a while since she had someone lusting over her, so to begin with she enjoyed it..........But it got annoying after three or four minutes.

Blink made her way behind the stage and sure enough there was the second bomb hidden under a second thick cloth, Blink shook her head placed her hand on her forehead over Seraphim’s lack of creativity, but it made her job easier. With the second charge in place in place, Blink knew there’d be one more main stage as all things come in three’s.

She made her way back out and went back to the floor plan, it seems the third main stage would be presented by none other than Ubisoft.
With this Blink made her way to the staging area, determined to find herself an outfit which hid her good from leering eyes. Blink was a little bit more picky this time, she browsed many female cosplayers from various Ubisoft titles until at long last she found one she liked.

She spotted a woman who had pale white skin, blue eyes and brown hair tied back into a bun, she was 29 years of age, she was wearing brown knee high boots, with dark brown trousers tucked into them, she had a this black corset on with a white collared shirt underneath, on top of that she was wearing a long dark brown hooded leather jacket with red decals at the ends and bright shiny silver buckles going through the middle, she was also sporting a half brown cape with a red under layer. This woman was cosplaying the character “Evie Frye” from the video game “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate.”

“Excuse me hi, I love the outfit, you’ve been nominated to appear on stage as one of the best looking cosplayers in this booth.” Blink lied.

“Oh wow really, sweet that’s amazing, I have my own instagram page you know.” The woman said with glee.

“Sigh........Of course you do.” She whispered quietly. “So can I start my taking your real name please?”

“Yeah sure, it’s Jasmine.” The woman now known as Jasmine responded.

“Well Jasmine, what do you say we go into that room over there so I can ask you a few questions.” Blink pointed to a janitor’s closet.

“You know that’s a cleaning closet right?” Jasmine said confused.

“Oh yes, yes I just need to ask you a few details and some of them might be a little bit private so I just thought you might like to go somewhere a little more quieter so nobody could hear you.” Blink said secretly giving away her intentions to Jasmine.

“Great idea, thank you.” Jasmine replied following Blink into the cleaning closet.

Blink opens the door, turns on the light and let’s Jasmine go in first, once Jasmine is inside, Blink quickly slams the door shut behind and turns off the light, after this we hear some very sound of punches and some quick jabs with Jasmine making some “Ow” and “Ooff” noises before it all goes silent.

Seconds later the light turns back on and we see Jasmine against the wall completely knocked out with Blink rubbing her knuckles.

“Sorry about that, but I had to make this one quick.” Blink says as she gets down to it.

It didn’t take Blink long to remove Jasmine’s boots, trouser, jacket, half cape and her two shirts before undoing and taking Jasmine’s hair grips. It’s also here that we see Jasmine is wearing oak brown hipster panties and a lime green Bandeau bra. Blink hurried as quickly as she could and got changed into Jasmine’s costume before she once again used the stocking from her Quiet disguise to tie up Jasmine, Blink was stuck for anything as a gag so instead she opted to use the half cape she going to originally wear and used that as the gag. Now with Jasmine bound, gagged and knocked out, Blink turned the light back off and proceeded to leave the cleaner’s closet with her new look.

Blink didn’t even bother going quietly this time as she knew exactly where the third bomb was so she went straight behind the third main stage, removed the cloth and set the charge on the bomb before covering it up again. With that done, Blink now how to find Seraphim herself. She gazed around the arena and noticed that above the arena was a series of catwalks, a perfect place for Seraphim to witness the carnage.

As Blink was making her way to the upper levels of the arena and towards the catwalks she detonated the charges and after a couple of minutes all three lights went green indicating that he bombs had been disarmed so even if Seraphim hit the switch now, it wouldn’t have any effect at all as the main circuit boards in each of the bombs was nothing more than scrap now. On the way she quickly found an unused office with a working telephone and called her Bounty guild master to get ready with an evac and to alert the onsite security teams.

Once Blink was on the deck as the main catwalks themselves, she was about to go on them when she heard a voice behind her.

“Well, if it isn’t the one who extinguished my flames before, I was wondering when you might show.” Blink turned around to meet Seraphim’s gaze who was wearing an outfit virtually identical as the one she had before and brandishing another makeshift flamethrower.

“Oh, you’re not the one I was hoping for, I guess that’s why I couldn’t see you down you below.” Seraphim said with a disappointed tone.

“It’s over Seraphim, you may not realize yet but I’ve already gotten you beat.” Blink said hoping to avoid a fight.

“Not a chance, there will be FIRE! You may not be the one I wanted, but at least you get a front row seat and the beauty of ever loving fire engulfs all those below, propelling those who accept it’s loving brace and BURNING all those who rejects it” Seraphim proclaims.

“You’re insane, you know.” Blinks points out.

You say lip balm, I say NAPALM!” Seraphim shouts and she tries to burn Blink with her flamethrower.

Blink leaps out the way just in the knick of time but is forced to ditch her jacket just in case the tails get caught ablaze without her knowing.

“How you ever seen a white phosphorous engulf a village, it’s like a sheet of white purity, bringing relief to all those who are fortunate enough to be under it!” Seraphim once again proclaims.

“Jesus how sick are you, you freak, there’s glamorous about that at all and there’s certainly nothing beautiful in it either.” Blink shouts back.

“Aaahh vanity thy name is humanity, beauty comes in all different forms, besides this world needs to burn, it’s a world shrouded in darkness, I just want to bring in a little LIGHT!” Seraphim tries again to burn Blink.

Blink slips out of the way and manages to perform a round house kick from the side of the wall, straight into Seraphim’s face causing to tumble backwards.

“There’ll be nothing but a charred stump by the time I’m finished with you!” Seraphim shouts getting her footing back quicker than what Blink had thought.

But Blink manages to fling her body out of the way as a third wave of flames race past her heat. Blink crashes her body hard into the opposite wall, but considering the alternative, this is something she can live with. Blink cat pounces straight onto Seraphim causing both women to hit the floor, Seraphim tries to kick out of it, but Blink punches her straight in her stomach, using this Seraphim attempts to burn Blinks hands but she lets go when she see’s Seraphim activate her flamethrower, when she stops to see if it worked all Seraphim see’s in both of Blink’s fists clutched together and smack Seraphim’s right in the face. Still undefeated though Seraphim manages to get one her feet up and clips Blink right round the side of the head which in turns causes her to fall off of Seraphim. Seraphim’s get back to her feet and pulls out the detonator.

“You cannot compete with the power of conflagration! Now any last words?” Seraphim asks with a seemingly victorious smile.

“Yeah........Fire a twill baby.” She jokes.

“HAHAHA. Very fitting.” Seraphim presses the button then nothing happens.

Her smile quickly disappears as she presses it several more times but still nothing happens, she looks towards Blink who she herself now has big smile on her face and it spinning of her devices up and down in one of her hands. Seraphim quickly realizes what has happened and lets out a shriek before waving her flamethrower around causing Blink to retreat onto the catwalks.

“”Fire is simplistic and beautiful, there’s no riddles or puzzles, it’s just beautiful, I won’t be stopped, not this time. This place and everybody in here MUST BBBUUURRRNNNN!!!” Seraphim unleashes a continuous barrage of flame which causes Blink to go back even further.

However what blink doesn’t realize is that she’s burning away att eh strings holding the catwalks in place, but Blink has noticed Blink quickly retreats backwards off of the catwalk forcing an enraged Seraphim to proceed even further onto the catwalks if she wants to be in burning range.

“My fire will never fade as ashes will always seekth embers.” Seraphim says poetically and lines up her kill shot.

Blink just clears her throat and starts pointing to the side of her. Seraphim looks and sees the fire eat away at the strings, Seraphim’s eyes and pupils widen but it’s too late and Seraphim plummets down to the arena below crashing through a table when she hits the floor. But despite all of this Seraphim gets to her feet and immediately sees that she is surrounded by people, but moments later several armed guards appear pointing their guns directly at Seraphim. Seraphim looks down and realizes that the fall and the crash has completely damaged her flamethrower beyond to use, so with this Seraphim put her hands behind her heads, gets down on her knees and bows her head in defeat.

Up above Blink flips off Seraphim before making her way out the building via one of the side entrances. Once she’s outside she quickly catches sight of a black SUV flashing it’s light at her, Blink smiles and makes her over before getting inside, inside the vehicle is the bounty guild master with one of his driver’s, the SUV pulls away.

“So how did it go, judging by that big smile on your face, I’m guessing it went well.” The man asked.

“Well let me put it you this, you going to want to check the account when we get back, because we’re getting paid.” Blink shouts with joy.

“YES, I knew you could it Blink, WOO, so did you run into her at all?” He asks referring to Tina.

“No she wasn’t there this time, just as you predicated huh.” Blink responds as she puts her feet up.

“Excellent stuff, oh hey you didn’t bump in any ghosts or ghouls while you were in there did you?” He further asks.

“There were loads of horror games being shown off in there so it wouldn’t surprise if there were one or two running around, why what’s the matter scared of spooky ghosts are we.” Blink said sarcastically.

“No I was actually worried about you as I know there’s a legend amongst infiltrators about a group of ghosts then haunt them.” He responded with a cocky smile.

“Wait, are you talking about the Phantoms? Hah, they’re ghost stories to scare new infiltrators, trust me they don’t even exist. But anyway why are you brining that up, this is a time for celebration.” Blink said looking for a bar or something.

“I only say this because they discovered a full riddled cabin with two infiltrators dead on sight, couple that with the others, they found that makes at least FOUR dead infiltrators and Christ we’re not even at the end of the week.” The Guild master says looking at his phone.

“Hey without being funny but with the state of the world today, infiltrators are becoming more and more in demand, so they were probably just overworked infiltrators who got sloppy and paid the ultimate price, besides that means more work us!” Blink says while sitting back.

“Yeah I guess you’re right, I just wondered how much of it was actually true.” As soon as he says that Blink leans in and gets right into his face.

“Right, read my lips very carefully okay because I’m going to say this once. THE..........PHANTOMS..........DO....NOT.....EXIST, you got that!” Blink insists, trying to put her guild masters fears to rest.

“Yeah, I’m just being stupid of course they’re not real, okay let’s go home.” With that the SUV speeds off down the road with a very satisfied Blink relaxing in the back.

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The front door opens and Elisha walks in before taking off her jacket and hanging it up.

“Hi honey, I’m home, how was your day.” Elisha asks putting her door keys down on a coffee table.

“Hey sweetie, I’m in here.” Felicity called out.

“Hhmm, oh right you’re in the bedroom.” Elisha says to herself as she goes into the bedroom.

Once Elisha gets through the bedroom door, she sees the bed covered in rose petals, lit candles on the bedside tables and Felicity is lying in the middle of the bed wearing a see through negligee and nothing else.

“You know I was thinking, you’ve been working so hard lately, maybe you just want to you know, relax for a bit.” Felicity says stroking her pillow.

“You know that does sound pretty good right about now.” Elisha says taking off her work shoes.

Felicity rolls on her back which allows Elisha to get on top of her and they both start to slowly kiss each other, after a few moments Elisha looks into Felicities eyes.

“I love you sweetie.” She says.

“I love you too babe.” Felicity says with a smile.

“Now let me get the light, because I want to go nice a slow with you.” She whispers in Elisha’s ear before she leans over and blows out the candles.

A FEW HOURS LATER.

We see Felicities negligee on the floor and we see all of Elisha’s work clothes on the floor, both women are sleeping in bed when a passing helicopters light flying past causing Elisha to wake up. Elisha gets up out of bed and looks over at Felicity who is still fast asleep, Elisha pulls the covers over Felicities shoulders before smiling and kissing her on the forehead. Elisha yawns as she quickly adjusts the curtains so no more light can shine in when suddenly her phone starts to vibrate.

Elisha rubs her eyes and walks over to her phone before taking it into the bathroom so she doesn’t wake up Felicity. Once inside she answers her phone.

“Hello?” She asks.

“Grab your gear. We found another infiltrator.” A voice responds.

“Yes my Prophet.” With this she hangs up the phone, revealing a cartoon Phantom as her screen saver.

THE END OF CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.

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a little help to visualize some characters presented above




the young asian cosplayer Faith Connors from the gaming series Mirrors Edge.




Ada Wong” cosplayer from the “Resident Evil 2 Remake” from 2019





Evie Frye” cosplayer from the gaming series “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate.”

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and Quiet!

Quiet” cosplayer from the game “Metal gear solid 5: The Phantom Pain.”

[rufusluciusivan]

Goodness, cosplayers! This opens up so many possibilities for unique sets of clothes! Well played. Also, huge thanks to escercito sconfitto for the pictures. Hard to choose a favorite this time, though I'd say either the 'Faith Connors' one (loved the excuse of the selfie) and the one with Jasmine (just love this kind of offscreen mugging - in which you only 'hear' the sounds of the punches and of the ows!; makes me think of some scenes in anime or cartoons).

“Oh don’t worry it’ll be over in a BLINK.” That pun is illegal sir!

The improvised bondage tools return with Blink often using pieces of her clothes to gag and/or bind her victims (sleeves, tank top, tights...). Really shows her resourcefulness. Also a great variety of classic places used to stash the victims. Between the dumpster (thankfully empty!), the box, the toilet stall, the janitor closet... And a great variety of ways used to knock out these poor cosplayers. You seem to have had a lot of fun!

Uniform Stealing Board is now officially sponsored by Instagram by the way.^^

Plot-wise, I liked your idea to give Blink more depth by showing her more caring side with her family. (This makes me realize, where is her sister by the way?) Interesting to see her do a mission of which the goal is to save people. Shows that she's a different kind of antagonist for Tina. She's mostly an agent here for the money, and could even become an ally under some circumstances. Though now, it makes me afraid for her safety. She's starting to become sympathetic... Sympathetic enough to create a sad scene if phantom gets its hands on her?

Good to see a mention of CI-1262. Still a character I like to watch.

The last paragraphe was just begging to receive a DUN DUN DUUUUN!!! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cphNpqKpKc4 ) I wonder how Elisha and Felicity will react when Elisha'll realize who Tina really is.

Hoping to learn more about the motivations of phantom to eradicate all infiltrators.

[Trackman281]

Esercito - many thanks for helping with the pictures, everytime I try to upload a picture I always get a message saying I don't have the correct permissions. But that's fine, thank you again.

Rufusluciousivan - HAHAHA well I very rarely use puns in my chapters but when I use them, they're just......... Just awful HAHAHAHA glad you liked it.

Blink uses whatever she can at her disposal , she's more of an improv infiltrator and uses what ever she can get her hands on.

Don't worry about Blinks sister I haven't forgotten about her I'm just thinking for a reason to bring her back into the fold as I want them to have different mind sets, so don't worry she's still around but like all good infiltrators they like to work alone a lot of the time.

Aahh I was wondering if you were going to ask that about Blink, please allow me to explain you see......

Can Blink really considered evil, I mean yes she worked for Atlantis Co but she worked as one of their infiltrators and we never actually saw her kill anyone as all she did was knock out her targets. Now all we saw with Tina's company is that they just told Tina that she was a evil probably just because she was working with their rival company. It wouldn't surprise if Atlantis Co told Blink that Tina was evil for those exact reasons, good old corporate espionage. Now one might argue by saying Blink worked with Annie keys the anarchist which might lean her more towards the evil side, fair enough I see your point. But even then she never killed any woman she was replacing and if any one was going to kill. It really was just going to be Annie keys. Blink is Tina's rival that's for sure, but at the end of the day she's just an infiltrator trying to survive and times can get desperate.

The phantoms are a constant presence and by the looks of it more and more factions are starting to take notice of other infiltrators around the world getting killed, it'll be interesting to see just who bumps into them first and how things play out. Have no fear I know how all of this is going to play out.

Well felicity did say she was inviting Tina round to meet elisha didn't she. Oh yes it'll certainly be interesting when elisha realizes that alpha target is Tina. Stay tuned.

Many thanks for the awesome feedback Rufusluciousivan and of course I'm extremely pleased that you enjoyed the chapter, the most important part for me is that you all enjoy it.

[rufusluciusivan]

I like the idea of characters being morally grey, which is the case with Blink. On the one hand, she cares for her family and avoids bloodshed; on the other hand, she willingly assists people who have no such qualms. In terms of character development, she looks promising.
The inevitable confrontation with Elisha looks promising. Who will she choose? Her leader or her girlfriend?

[Trackman281]

Don't worry, all will be revealed in due time.

[tirepanted3]

Nice to see a Blink-centric chapter. She's developed nicely from her seemingly villainous origins. And it's an interesting change of pace from the usual chapters.

I confess I didn't know most of these cosplay characters (thanks to Esercito for the pics), but I was able to follow along just the same. Really enjoyed the "Faith Connors" scene especially - the selfie distraction seems quite effective in modern times.

The Felicity/Elisha thread continues to heat up. Can't wait to see where it's headed.

[Trackman281]

Thank you very much Tirepanted, always a pleasure to have some feedback from your good self.

Yes I'm not going to lie, I wondered actually to begin with if having Blink as the central character for a chapter would actually work, so I had to give her a genuine reason for what she does and I think if I had just thrown her in for the sake of it, it might of come across a bit strange, but at the end of it all, I was very happy with how Blink's backstory came to and I really want to continue with her side of things as it all progresses.

Aaahhh selfies, it seems infiltrators have found away to expose this because I mean after all, who doesn't do anything for a bunch of likes these days haha.

Yes this one was a bit of a gamble as I know there are a few video gamers on this forum such as myself, so that's why I included the characters name's who they were cosplaying and the games name itself, for those who weren't familiar with them. But thankfully as you said, Esercito posted some pics which hopefully made things easier.

The Felicity / Elisha story is certainly heating up, don't know why but I like writing these two just doing normal every day things like newly formed couples do such as, shopping, cooking and deciding who's flat they should stay over for the night. Their naturally will be a confrontation, we can all see it coming now, but I really don't want to get too dark with it, as poor Tina can't seem to catch a break these days with her bout of bad luck.