Kate couldn't wait, a new drop of products was hitting the LeetCo site. She'd picked up a dildo from them a few years back and what had started as an impulse buy to replace her favorite toy had quickly turned into a bit of an addiction. She would freely admit that she was very much in love with the products and the company. To her LeetCo represented an old-fashioned customer first mentality that had generally disappeared otherwise. The product she'd received was built to last, so much so she'd actually called out various toys in her will. The thought of those clauses making her snicker at the idea of the executor blushing as they read them.
She refreshed the page impatiently watching the clock in the corner of the screen count down to the hour when the drop would happen. Her relationship with LeetCo had changed after she'd found them online, as a repeat customer they'd given her access to special collections that they didn't ordinarily sell to the public. Where the toys she'd bought before had been quite good, these had been full on lewd in their own right. She'd put a toe in those waters with a pair of 'Corruptive Latex Tentacle Panties with Vibrating Plugs'. After she'd put them on she'd barely taken them off.
It had taken her a few days to understand how to control the panties, but once she figured it out they had become her go-to underwear. She could feel full and slightly horny all the time while controlling her arousal to a razor edge margin. When she finally read the directions she gasped in understanding. The 'Corruptive' wasn't some idle marketing term, it was the critical bit. Without that the toy didn't work, the tentacles didn't tease, the arousal couldn't be controlled, and she would be left back at square one with garbage toys that weren't all that fun. From that point on she'd latched onto the tail of the corruptive tiger. Carefully picking toys that suited her needs and purposely selecting ones with the most of the stuff in them.
A chance email from the company awhile back had caught her by surprise. She'd been invited to come to the factory to participate in product development. She wasn't naive to the fact that LeetCo wasn't exactly a normal company, and she'd done plenty of research beforehand. Not that it mattered; while the company definitely had offices and warehouses throughout the world the factory seemed to be... missing. Her sources had told her that trucks showed up with product, but nobody asked where it came from. The company had a perfect tax record too, never taking common tax dodges. So much so they'd been audited fairly regularly. To call their public appearance straight laced was the understatement of the century.
So she'd accepted the invitation. She wanted to see where her toys were made to get in on the action. While it definitely wasn't her first clue, the corruptive was, the Non-Disclosure Agreement contract paperwork definitely cemented that LeetCo was well... not exactly of this world. So after signing a contract that forbade her from communicating secrets unless she was being tortured or otherwise coerced and valid in all dimensions and timelines, she'd waited for directions.
To her grand surprise she'd been directed to a small location in an industrial park not five kilometers from her home. Her previous research had indicated it was an R&D center, so this wasn't a huge surprise. But she didn't think it was so close to her. She did feel a bit disappointed though, she'd wanted to see the actual factory. She'd pulled up into the rather private lot after having her identity checked at the gate.
Kate hit refresh again, the page refreshed the product lineup completely changed from a moment before. A small popup come up in the corner of her screen. She almost clicked away before catching herself. She read it carefully; the product she'd contributed to was now available to select customers if she wanted to purchase one. Kate clicked on it without hesitation.
She walked in the doors, looking around in curiosity. Her eyes playing over what looked rather ordinary for a company so extraordinary. A voice called out her name: "Kate Islingdon?", she turned to face a perky receptionist wearing a ton of the best corruptive latex fetish and bondage gear she'd ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on.
"Yes that's me" she'd confirmed, her eyes scanning over the receptionist who just winked lewdly in return with a smile.
"If I can see your ID we can get you badged, and I'll have your guide right up!" the perky receptionist requested. She turned over her Driver's License, they scanned it with their phone and handed it back.
"Everything looks good, I'll summon Sierra or Simon to come get you!" they'd said before literally clopping off in hoof boots that Kate wasn't sure weren't part of them. She'd seen skin tight gear before, but the receptionist put that to a new meaning. She was pretty sure that gear was part of the receptionist and not just being worn.
A few minutes later a young black woman had come out of the doors to the back looking every moment the engineer. "You must be Kate? I'm Sierra, I work as a product development engineer here at LeetCo." She smiled warmly and offered a badge which Kate obligingly put around her neck on a very ordinary lanyard; she'd half expected the badge would be embedded a posture collar. Sierra had one of those infectious smile she couldn't help but return, and Kate beamed back at her.
"Good to meet you, I didn't think you'd be so close to me." Kate trailed off.
Sierra just chuckled and then got serious "Kate, you're well aware that LeetCo is... special. It's one of the reasons we invited you, along with being an excellent and devoted customer. But I think it's better if I just show you." She beckoned Kate through the doors into the back. Sierra clearly knew far more about her than she knew about LeetCo.
The doors led to a small hallway with two sets of hanging black plastic strips for airflow division followed by a blast of air and then there was just an elevator. As they stepped inside Kate's jaw dropped, the back of the elevator was glass, and she was completely unprepared for what she saw. "Yeah the first time usually does that." Sierra commented as Kate looked out the window on the many tiers of the factory complex bathed in the warm glow of a sun she knew didn't exist outside. Sierra continued as if anticipating Kate's next query "To answer the next question: Pocket realm. It's a lot cheaper than square footage in most places, and we can customize everything as we need. Safer too. If we need to create sub realms it's a lot less paperwork. Can't claim tax incentives for R&D though." Kate looked over at Sierra with an expression that said 'and the paperwork is what you're worried about!?'.
The entire thing looked like a massive circular tiered crater lined with facilities in neatly organized tiers. Weather and clouds stopped her from seeing all the way across as she gawked wide-eyed at the vista. The upper tiers seemed to be well planted and green, but the lowest ones looked a bit more industrial. There seemed to be distinct boundaries between sets of tiers going down too.
At that moment the elevator dinged as they reached the second tier down. "Let's gawk later at lunch, you have a few days here so let's get to it!." the perky engineer had near dragged her out of the elevator into the open air. A warm light wind hitting her face. She wanted to look around but instincts based on years of running her own businesses and public administration clicked in, and so she stayed tight to Sierra's heals as they moved down the tier towards the lab. To her left she could see a triple terrace of high-tech labs, each with scientists and engineers working diligently.
