Chapter 15
And always use protection
I stood before the gate of the Queen's palace wearing running shoes, rubber gloves, a fanny pack, and an olive green condom. Two unconscious guards lay on the ground below me. One was starting to snore.
You know what--let me back up a bit, because this is a weird situation even by my standards.
"The revolution begins tonight," Raven whispered to me as I was doing the dishes.
"You're up early," I said. I was being sarcastic. It was almost four.
"My father finally agreed to give me the weapons this revolution needs. FedEx might come at any minute." She yawned. "So when they get here I need you to run down and get the packages. Make sure no one else opens them. Also, you need to make me some coffee."
I put down my sponge. "I thought we were trying to overthrow the tyranny, so that everyone would be free and equal and so forth."
Raven nodded.
"So make your own damn coffee."
"I have important strategic planning to do." She headed back to her room.
"Last night you spent two straight hours posting pictures of black frock coats to Instagram."
"Lots of cream but no sugar," she replied, and shut her bedroom door.
I had no interest in Raven's alleged revolution, and putting her in charge would make for the least competent government in human history. But I'd been leaving messages at the palace for Genie for the past week, and she never called back. I was down there often enough to qualify as a stalker, but the guards always blocked the gate with their spears and said she wasn't in. Or she was, but she was in a meeting. Or she was in the bath. I swung by twice more that afternoon, and apparently she takes some long baths. Serious toe wrinklage going on there.
I was getting desperate. I had to talk to her at least, find out why she ran off on me like that. It was time for drastic action--so drastic, in fact, that I was willing to get Raven Darkness involved.
And so I convinced her it was time for her revolution. She then had some hysterical phone calls with her father. Who apparently uses FedEx to send his superweapons.
FedEx[TM]. The supervillain's choice since 2018.
After the girls went to bed Abby and I went to the picnic table outside. There were two boxes, one small, and one almost three feet to a side, but oddly light. She opened the smaller one first, and pulled out a pair of nunchucks.
"Finally realized that a fan is not an effective weapon?" I asked.
"I just need more training with them," she said. She went into a martial arts stances and started whipping the nunchucks around, slapping them against her side and her shoulders.
"Yes, very fierce," I said.
She stopped, looking puzzled. "This hurts. Why am I doing this?"
"I often ask that question."
"The revolution does not need your snarky-ass comments. Bring me the ultimate weapon." I put the big box on the table. She solemnly cut it open with a knife, pulled out some paper wrapping, and lifted out a smaller box. She cut that one open, and slid out another box in styrofoam inserts. Which contained another box. Which also contained a box.
"What the hell?" I said.
"This is so dangerous," said Raven as she slid out box number six, "it has to be carefully packaged." A few minutes later, she got to a box the size of a package of tea. "I think this is it." She put on rubber gloves, and carefully opened it, and took out a box the size you'd put a ring in. "Okay, this is it." She opened it very slowly, grabbed a pair of tongs, and lifted out a single condom. The wrapper read "US ARMY - SPECIAL WEAPONS LABORATORY".
"Let me guess," I said. "It's a stealth condom. It's there but you can't even feel it."
"I said, no more snarky comments."
"No, wait. It's armour-piercing. You can get laid without even unzipping your pants."
"This, you jackass, is a condoom."
"What the fuck is that?"
"It's coated in fast-acting sedatives. Anyone who touches the outside of a condoom will lose consciousness."
"Anyone who touches my dick falls asleep."
"Yes."
"And this is your superweapon?"
She nodded. "My dad said the Americans spent 17 million dollars developing it before someone noticed it's useless, both for military and sexual purposes. Until now! You can use it to take out the Queen's guards."
I sighed. "I should have known. Someday, somehow, the US Army would weaponize my boner. I better take a leak before we put that thing on."
So anyway, that was how I ended up standing at the gate of the Queen's palace wearing running shoes, rubber gloves, and an olive green condom. The guards were staring at me, for obvious reasons.
"I was just doing some dishes and decided I'd go for a run," I said nonchalantly. "You guys put any money on the game tonight?"
The guards were both big soccer fans, as I'd discovered during my weeks of stalking the Queen. "I got ten euros on Arsenal," said the one on the left.
I chuckled. "Well, good luck to you. You're going to need it, betting on Arsenal."
"He never learns," said the other guard.
"You know," I said, "you can rub my dick for good luck." The guards raised their eyebrows. "It's like rubbing the fat Buddha's belly."
The guard on the left smiled. He'd always had a bit of a crush on me. He reached down and stroked my cock. Two times, and then his hand went limp, and his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed.
"Holy shit!" said the other guard. He crouched down to check on his friend, and with a jerk of my pelvis I poked my dick into his forehead. He started wavering. "This is...some kind of trick...isn't it..."
"Sorry, guys."
He slumped over on top of the other guard. The one on the bottom started snoring.