Transformations: Dr. De-Mona Ch. 5
This is the final chapter of Dr. De-Mona. Comments, as always, are welcome!
The story will continue shortly in Transformations: Morpheus.
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Ray, Rita, and Sugar stood in the hallway and stared at the destroyed security camera.
"What was the last thing on the feed?" Sugar asked.
Rita cocked her head to the side. "That demon bitch's hand closing on the lens. An hour earlier she was on camera getting off the elevator and leaving through the back entrance."
"She has her. She has both of them," Sugar said.
"We saw Mona leave," Ray said.
"And ten minutes later Demonica destroyed the only security camera?" Sugar said. "She took Dr. Karnes to Level 9, and she already had Bobbie Palmer down there."
"How?" Ray asked. "The camera wasn't destroyed till this morning."
"There has to be another way in," Sugar said. "Rita?"
Rita's eyes flickered back and forth. "I'm looking at the schematics... huh."
"What do you mean, 'huh'?" Ray asked.
"Follow me," Rita said as she walked to the rear entrance. She stepped through onto the loading dock. "When they were routing the air vent down to ten? They ran into what they thought was a small cave and they ran the ductwork through it -- it's ten feet from the main cavern."
There was a metal grate in the concrete. She yanked it up and dropped into the cavity beneath. "Fuck me."
"What is it?" Sugar said as she knelt beside the hole.
"Air duct with the side cut open. Cut open from the inside."
Sugar looked at Ray. "They dragged Bobbie Palmer through that?"
"Or she went through it on her own, looking for Mona," Ray said.
Rita held up her plastic hand. "Bobbie Palmer has short, dark hair."
"Yes."
There was a long, blonde strand of hair between Rita's fingers. "More people than just Bobbie Palmer took the air vent express."
***
Bobbie sat on the altar as Mona examined her. She shined the small flashlight from her medical bag in Bobbie's left eye.
Bobbie squeezed her eyes tightly shut. "Ow! Mona!"
"That hurts?"
"It's like a laser beam."
"Sorry, Butch." She held Bobbie's hand.
"You're trying to find my pulse, aren't you?" Bobbie asked.
"No. Just holding your hand."
"You're a terrible liar, babe."
"Can't I just hold your hand? It's been days since I was with you."
"I don't have a pulse, do I?"
"Don't be ridiculous. You have to have a pulse. It's just shallow and faint, that's all. If I was out of this stupid cave with real medical equipment, I could measure it just fine."
"I don't have a pulse, Mona."
"Shut up. You're not a doctor, Butch. I am. Open." She pressed a tongue depressor against Bobbie's lips.
Bobbie opened her mouth.
Mona gasped.
The fangs glimmered white in the low light.
"Close," Mona said.
"I had sex with her, Mona," Bobbie said. She couldn't look Mona in the eye. "I couldn't stop myself. I'm sorry."
"Stop it," Mona said. "They can make us do things. You couldn't help it. I wasn't myself either. We have more pressing problems."
"I betrayed you, Mona!"
"I don't care, Butch! You're here with me now and I love you. The only thing that matters is making you well."
Demonica walked into the chamber. "She is well. She's perfect."
Mona turned and stared at her. "I asked you before, and now I'll ask you again: what do you want from me, Demonica?"
Demonica smiled. "I want you to join me. I have a book from Morpheus with instructions on creating my children. A 'monster compendium' you might say, or an 'encyclopedia diabolica'."
"You want me to continue his work," Mona said.
"Think of it." She held up the book. "Within these pages are secrets to end human suffering."
"And a recipe book for making monsters, Demonica. What makes you think I would help you do that? Especially after what you did to Bobbie?"
Demonica raised an eyebrow. "Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? My book explains how to do it. You could use the book to investigate how to undo it."
Mona looked at Bobbie.
Bobbie gave her a weak smile.
Mona turned back to Demonica. "I don't need some two bit Jim Jones's book to find a cure for this, Demonica. I'll cure Bobbie, and I won't need your fucking Necronomicon to do it. Now, let me take her to Level 10 and help her."
Demonica frowned. "Pity. Tell me, Bobbie: how are your hunger pangs?"
"Go to hell," Bobbie whispered.
Demonica snapped her fingers.
Calvin Coombs stood up and walked to her, his swollen cock swinging between his thighs.
Demonica stroked it. "Full of blood, this one. Though he smells like a brewery. I wonder if you'll get drunk from sucking him dry?" She reached up and grasped the back of Coombs's neck.
Demonica shoved him toward the altar and he fell on his knees.
"Bon Appetit, Bobbie. Enjoy him. I'm afraid the Incubatrix won't be finding you another meal. Pity he's the last
human
here." She turned away and then stopped, looking back over her shoulder. "Oh, not quite the last, is he Mona, dear?"
"Goddamn you," Mona whispered.
"Honestly, why do people keep saying that to me like it's a curse or something?" She walked away into the gloom.
***
"We're going to need an assault team on Level 9," Sugar said.
The Church Agent looked at her. "I'm afraid we can't do that, Mistress."
Ray loomed over him. "What the fuck?"
"Havana has given us strict orders not to go to Level 9 and not to engage."
Sugar pushed past Ray. "Those monsters killed two agents including your leader. They slaughtered and ate them, Agent."
"Yes, Mistress," the bald man said. "And Havana has said we are not to engage."
Sugar turned away. "Useless!" She pulled out her cell.
"Who are you calling?" Ray asked.
"Maria. Hello? Who is this?" Sugar said. "Where is Mistress Marapova? We have to speak to her immediately."
Sugar closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. "This is a matter of life or death! What do you mean she is searching Manhattan for someone?"
"What's going on?" Ray asked.
Sugar held the phone away from her mouth. "That prosecutor in the federal case? Britt Connors? She's gone missing and Maria is searching for her."
Sugar shook her head. "I understand. As soon as you speak to Mistress Marapova again? Tell her to call Stallion's. We have a grave situation here." She closed the call. "We're on our own."
"Jesus!" Ray yelled.
"We have to get downstairs." She turned to the Agent. "Give me your gun."
"Mistress?"
"Sugar," Ray said. "You don't even know how to use a gun."
"No, but you do," Sugar said. "Gun. Now."
"Mistress, I can't do that," the agent said.
"Ray?"
"Sorry, pal," Ray said. He punched the agent in the face - from Ray's perspective barely more than a tap.
The agent's nose broke, and he went down on the hallway floor.
Ray took the gun from the man's shoulder holster.