Thanks to markf52 and sorvinofan for the editing help.
All sexual encounters are between characters that are eighteen years of age or older.
Our morning run was like I said it would be, thirty very hot babes and one dude. During the run, I had a chance to shut out the world and think. I have so many questions, questions that I felt were going to be left unanswered for the foreseeable future. I wanted to know why they had wanted to augment themselves and be damn near identical, why the eye thing, why they were treating me like I am in serious danger, and finally, why start the Shield Maiden Security Group. They are keeping me out of the loop for a reason, and 'AIMS' and Gpop are in on it.
I had not realized we had run for six hours, and had others join our group, before Melissa came over to me and said, "We have eyes on us, and we need to get inside." Not wanting to argue, we went and cleaned up for the day and hopefully, get something to eat. Before we could sit down to eat, we were alerted that we had incoming visitors.
Four SUVs pulled up outside and parked in front of the building. Each SUV had four occupants in them. They got out and came in, and I greeted them in the foyer, asking them, "Can I help you?"
A man stepped forward and went to introduce himself, as I stuck my hand out to shake his, he said, "Yannik Kaiser."
"I knew who you were before you got inside."
Yannik looked a little confused and said, "You have me at a disadvantage, I don't know your name."
I took his hand and said, "Let's remedy that, I'm James Ashton. Now Yannik, what is it you were wanting from us?" I asked him.
"Before you and your cunts..."
"That's not a nice way to refer to my ladies, now is it, Yannik?" I said to him, as I increased the pressure of my handshake to the point of almost breaking bone. "I will not have you, or anyone else, disrespect my ladies, or me, in my house. Now as you were saying?" I never let go of his hand and kept the pressure the same.
"This is my building!" Yannik said.
"No, it's mine, I bought it from the bank," I replied. I escorted Yannik to the conference room and sat him at the table, while my nanites had been gathering information on Yannik all this time. I told Yannik, "You're not even in the top five people in your organization, you are more of a puppy who gets his ears scratched from time to time." There was a look of surprise on Yannik's face when the door opened and he watched as his men were led in, made to kneel on the floor, with their hands on their heads, by my Maidens.
I sat at the table across from Yannik, with my elbows on the table and my fingers interlaced, tapping my thumbs together. "Now tell me, do your bosses even know you're doing this? Oh, where were we? Ahh, yes, you mentioned the building and how it's yours."
Before we could finish our conversation, 'AIMS' alerted me that more SUVs were arriving. I had her lock down the building and get the Maidens ready. I told Yannik, "Stay, and be a good boy," and then walked to the front door. When I opened the front door there was an older man, maybe in his eighties, standing there. Gpop said, "No fucking way!" As I put my hand out to shake his, Gpop said, "That's Erik Himler!" then said, "don'..." as I took his hand in mine.
I swear I saw his eyes flicker, that's when my nanites alerted me that Himler is trying to control me with nanites. I asked, "Am I in any danger?"
My nanites told me, "No."
I asked, "What do the other nanites want me to do?"
"They want to make you complacent and agreeable," so I played along for shits and giggles. As we walked inside, I told Erik, "You won't need your entourage, so they can stay outside."
We walked in, going to the conference room, where we found Yannik with a broken nose and a bloody lip. "You said stupid shit to Ilsa, didn't you?" I asked. Ilsa got up and kissed me on the cheek as she left the room. I had Yannik's men follow her out. Erik walked up to Yannik, who was holding a handkerchief to his still bleeding nose, and asked, "What happened?"
"He said something stupid to Ilsa and paid the price for it," I told Erik, who shook his head and sat down next to Yannik.
As we sat there, as my nanites were getting a shit load of data on Erik, some of the data was Sci-Fi and Twilight Zone, rolled in with some Frankenstein, but who am I to judge weird shit. I told my nanites to leave his body before he left the building. Erik asked me, "What brought you to Australia?"
I told him, "On my last birthday I had received a package in the mail that said I had property in this building." I went on to tell him, "When I had graduated, I decided to come and check out the property. When I checked, the property was being foreclosed on by the bank, so I bought it. Cut to today, Yannik shows up and uses the "C" word to describe the ladies here and tells me that this is his building."
"So, you got a letter in the mail, telling you that you owned property in this building, and you bought it because it was being foreclosed on?"
"Yes, Sir, that's exactly what I'm saying."
Erik looked at Yannik and told him, "Get out and leave him alone." Yannik got up and left the room, while Erik and I stayed.
Erik apologized to me, and we shook hands, but deep down I knew this was far from over and we needed to get prepared for what was definitely coming. Erik left and the calm before the storm settled upon us.
As I was standing on the sidewalk, a car pulled up and was playing the song "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Pink Floyd, which seemed foreboding, but I had things that needed doing, so I got on with the day. I went to get some food in me and all the maidens stood there, watching me make a sandwich without making a sound.
When I finished eating, I stood up and spoke to the room. I told them, "No one is to go out by themselves, so use the three-person rule, and the carrying of weapons is authorized."
All the Maidens said, "Yes, Sir!" in unison.
Needing to think, I went to the penthouse, and when I sat down on the couch I was joined by Melissa and Charu. They asked me, "What are you thinking?"
I told them, "I want to buy the whole block of buildings, so I had 'AIMS' do a status check on them and she said that all of them were in financial distress."
Melissa asked me, "why the whole block?"
I told her, "We are going to need a hell of a lot more Maidens for what is coming." Neither Melissa nor Charu pushed the issue.
I began to tell them, "Erik Himler has done work for the Nazi's, trying to make super-soldiers for them. He was brought to the United States as part of "Project Paperclip" and helped charter DARPA, where he continued his research.
Gpop took over from here, "Himler is a demented genius, with a cruel streak a mile wide. When I got to DARPA, he was already old and about to retire. I worked with him very little but knew of him quite well, because he was very interested in my genetics and nanite work. He left shortly after I had made my first batch of nanites."
"So, he got some of your Alpha test nanites, and that's what he's been using all this time?"
"The nanites I have in me now are light years more advanced than the ones he has."
Gpop added, "Just having him here is a threat to all of you, and he probably knows you're enhanced."
"Yannik, the moron wanting to play mobster, brought us into the crosshairs of Erik. He isn't even a top tier player; he's the nephew of an area boss."
Melissa started to laugh and said, "He found out the hard way just how much pull he had, when he grabbed Ilsa's ass and called her a bitch. I would have loved to be there to see his face bounce off the table."
We all had a good laugh over that, when 'AIMS' cut in and said, "We can get the properties for between three-hundred-fifty to five-hundred million."
I told 'AIMS', "Get it done," and went for a nap. My sleep was fitful and unrelaxing, as the dreams were full of sorrow and despair.
When I woke up my heart was racing, and I was covered in sweat, as I pushed my love out to all my Maidens. The knowing, but not knowing what, we were going to have drastically befall us, was a bitter pill.
I got up and went to take a shower, I let the hot water pour down my body and wash the funk of the dream off me. My options are, I can run but shit like this has a tendency to follow you no matter where you go, or I can stay and fight and risk the lives of the women I love. The thought of losing one of my ladies hurts like a pain I have never known. I know that really losing them will be monumentally more painful.
The shower wasn't working, so I got out and called a meeting with my fifteen ladies, and Maggie. When they arrived, I told them, "Melissa, Charu, and I can't be in the same place at the same time," which was not received very well by Melissa and Charu. I went on to tell them, "One of you will stay aboard Midnight Sky and the other will fly home to the States, where each of you will have five other Maidens with you at all times."
Melissa stood up and said, "No! We are stronger together, so that's how it's going to be."
"Are you refusing to listen to me?" I asked. "I could unbind myself from all of you and send the lot of you, back," I barked at them. I turned to walk out of the room and leave, when 'AIMS' yelled at me, "As your mother, I will not let you do this!"