Author Note: Hello again! This is another story set in the DizzyDills universe, involving the character Gwen. While the story makes reference to her origin episode, you don't need to read it to get an understanding of what's going on. (Also...it's kind of hard to find at the moment.) I hope you enjoy this story!
Special thanks to Elayn Wilde for editing this story and providing feedback.
Hoooo...okay, this is recording. Good. I'm recording this because hopefully somebody will understand this. Or maybe I can understand what happened by talking myself through this. I'm not sure.
My name is Gwen. I was never given a last name. Omni-Tron never gave me one. In fact, were it not for the top research head, I'd still be Subject-005. And it makes sense that they would call me that: I was their...creation. I was made in a test tube combining the genes of so many great minds and bodies. A work of perfection, they said upon my birth. Except, I wasn't perfect.
They added some things to my genes. One bit was of the Vixen...that species of women aliens that gave us a way to the stars. I feel the Vixen in my bloodstream. But there's something else: genetic code they found from the remains of an ancient race they found in the outlying colonies. There was very little evidence of who they were, other than that they seemed to be part of a large empire that possibly covered Earth among other star systems. We didn't even know what they called themselves, so we simply referred to them as "Those Who Came Before."
The thinking was, by adding these genes, I would become something even more than perfect, and find potential outposts from which Omni-Tron could find even more technology and wealth through some form of genetic memory. At least, that's how I understood it.
So. I'm something other than human. ...Make a note of that.
It's been four weeks since I left Omni-Tron. I didn't mind being their...
property
, but it was just...I didn't like being cooped up in that lab. You'd think that they'd put out their masterpiece, filled with the knowledge and wisdom of humanity and several alien races, for a few missions to show her stuff. Let her explore, let her earn her stripes among the stars, earn her value as an investment. But no! It was routine this, experiment that. And all the poking and prodding the eggheads did was so obnoxious. As though doing that and not actually going out there and finding it would be helpful. It was almost as if they kept me as a pet. If they were going to do that, at least acknowledge it!
So I escaped when an opportunity arose. Got on a ship wearing nothing but boots, fishnets on my arms, a pair of earrings with memory chips attached, and a lusty smile. I did have some help getting there, though. Speaking of, I wonder how Zuk is doing? I hope he got out all right. I wouldn't mind seeing him again. Just thinking of him and his...unusual member is making me wet again. Oh, not now! Must focus on this recording.
Besides, I deserve to give that Baakian an earful for putting me where he did! It wasn't the escaping ship, it was some random alien freighter that happened to be nearby during the breakout. The crew were jerks and were about to throw me out of the airlock. How was I supposed to know they were dealing with contraband? That was rather scary...and hot...well, it only got hot after I offered myself to the captain. But that's not why I'm recording this.
In any case, I managed to get over to a place several light years in the wrong direction, which, ironically, was ideal. I'm at the 15 Posts. They're this cluster of space colonies time forgot: ancient, somewhat decaying, and home to various outcasts and misfits. They function as a trade hub for the outer limits of space. Omni and the Federation have no reach here, so I have a place to lay low. Swell deal.
My mission right now is two and one: Find out what happened to Bravo Team and locate them, and get a hacker to decrypt these memory chips. Not necessarily in that order, not mutually exclusive from one another. But I can't do it in Omni/Fed space. Too dangerous, they're looking for me as I record this.
But of course, I couldn't just waltz into this place and find a hacker capable of this. I tried on the first day. Best hacker I could find -- some Dolmerite -- said the type of encryption used was something that required military intel background. He didn't have that. Might be able to find someone in the pirate regions, since many pirates need that skill set to perform big raids. However, he suggested I stick around and earn money: Decryption like that comes with a hefty price tag. "And I doubt the pirates would be interested in just taking you on." Fuck off!
Then again, he wasn't wrong about the money. I was only able to piece together some clothes on the freighter, which was all I had. Not able to pick much money off the freighter crew, I needed to earn it somehow. So I found this place I could get some odd jobs -- a pub/community center called Skara's -- and went from there. Maybe it was a bit stupid posting my name around, now that I think about it? But I don't know, I haven't faced any bounty hunters yet.
Most of the jobs were dull. A waste of my talents. Sometimes I did bookkeeping. Other times, repair work where a lithe body like mine could slip through small spaces. I even functioned as a bodyguard for some important person or another, then the next day be someone's model. Occasionally I'd perform at the Arena in Post 7 with their combat sports, but even when I won easily, the pay never went up. Jerks!
...Hmph, I feel like the only jobs that I enjoyed were the escort ones, and even those were kind of...meh. I mean, the pay was good, and there were some fun things about it. But it got boring most of the time. Lot of talking, a lot of pretending I actually cared about whatever scheme my client was going on about, even when I knew exactly how and why it would fail. Most of the time I didn't even have sex! What gall. Mmm, the ones where I
did
have sex were good at least. Especially that one guy who unraveled his arms into weird little shapes...that was
amazing...
Those shapes...inside me...Hold on a moment, I need to take care of something.
[pause in the recording]
Sorry. Sorry. I couldn't help myself there. What was I talking about? The jobs, right. I mean, I guess I was tempted to just post myself as an escort at this point. Any other work would've probably not had the same results. Could've easily been off this station in a month or two with a bit of planning. So that's why I went to Skara's that day: To formally post myself as an available escort. That's why...that...happened.
No, that isn't right. I think I was just looking for jobs that day. That's why I was there. It was a typical day, or rather it was supposed to be. I certainly planned on starting to be an escort soon, but I hadn't figured out the logistics yet. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, the reason I'm even recording right now is because of that..incident, and I need to lay out all that happened, because I can't get it out of my head. So now I'm just getting to that point.