This story follows the short descriptive tales of the Blob, a fictional alien character, based in a post war-time, 1960's-esque civilisation. Miranda, a buxom girl of big heart and even bigger breasts, and her friend, Jane, a small and stout beauty of dark hair and hypnotisingly striking features, find discarded barrels of alien fluid. Overcome by the mind controlling power of the alien essence, the two girls mate, being assimilated into the first of a new race of slave women designed for only two purposes until their demise; to spread the precious will sapping fluid to every other human they can find, and give birth to humanoid aliens bred with the genetic ability to survive in Earth's climate.
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PART 7
Tension Distension
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A few hours passed and the day went past mostly normally. A few people rostered to the same shifts as Zoe missed her at work and went ahead and complained about her to her manager, but since she couldn't be found in her dorm and her friends hadn't seen her - conveniently, her ex-boyfriend had assumed she was avoiding him and as such didn't know where she was either - she was marked as missing.
In a hospital environment like this one, in a world where the terrors of humanity had come to blows with the threat of invasion by the unknowns of space, even the intelligent species on earth had, for the most part, reverted to pure survival. Where once businessmen in suits spent their entire life making, trading and losing irrelevant objects like money, cars and houses, once human-kind faced extinction such trends of money and power were forgotten for the simplicity of providing, and being able to provide, a service in return for other services from other people. This hospital was just one link in a chain of people able to provide a specific service to others so that they could receive assistance from the other links in the chain.
But in the same environment, one where a failing hospital was one that lost trust and in turn lost food, patients and supplies, one woman - a woman who might well have been out too late with one of any of the men and was still asleep in their bed this morning, hung over, drugged or just trying to convince herself she wasn't going to have to see the pregnancy ward for a dose of cleansers - held the lowest of importance. If she was missing, others would take their place. A manager would eventually try to find her and if she couldn't be located, someone else would be recruited to step up. They had children who would soon need to pull their weight and neighbouring towns often sent workers worth no help to them but possibly of use to other establishments would eventually thicken the ranks again. It was only a matter of time.
Thankfully for Zoe's shift manager, a truck of about ten youths was at that moment twisting its way up the driveways to the lonely hospital, preparing to offload the brats to the rough-and-tumble regiment of the medical facility in exchange for some much needed first aid supplies. Some thieves, some turned out for betraying their families, some homeless or family-less and some just straight up sold or selling themselves so their loved ones could eat. She would gleefully nab three young women - one old enough to take over the lowest duties under the manager's personal roster of responsibilities and two who would soon add their hands to the pot, taking them swiftly under her wing and rapidly breaking them into the life-cycle of repetitive, monotonous mid-nursery.
Sophie, new to the hospital, young and beautiful and naive, didn't take long to learn the less pleasant proceedings that went on at the hospital after hours. She also noticed, with the eye of a newcomer, of an outsider, that the operations at the hospital went on with a dull, indescribable sensation of blankness at times, as though a collective aura silenced the staff throughout the place at times. She didn't know why, but within a few days she found she had settled in nicely and even occasionally, though she wasn't sure she liked to admit how comfortable it felt to her, had echoed those silent, reflective times that came and went, passing unwittingly over the building. They were soft, aligning, as though the hospital's human population moved into synch together occasionally. It was somewhat seductive, alluring, as though they all saw equally and thought alike.
She would never know that it was exactly how everyone else felt inside the hospital. Never know that it was actually there, really happening to them all, an invisible link of will between hundreds of people. She would also never know - never until it came time for her to know - that that sublime companionship that came in great waves across the floors and halls of the place was the will of her Master, checking to see if she was there, listening out for his servants and sending silent thoughts of submission and happiness to his slaves. By the time she noticed it, she would be far, far past enslavement to him, long gone in a chained will of blissful capture, not caring to realise what had become of her.
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Steven had to go in first to get Zoe some clothes. With Zoe's concentration, Steven's brain saw the people inside the fuel station with ghostly, glowing outlines that dashed in and out of existence, but it was enough for him to evade the staff's eyes until he had what he needed. Miraculously, Zoe's vision picked him the perfect moment to exit the building with an arm full of clothes and food that would have him across to the bike before they noticed him, and, when they did, would question as to whether or not they had served him rather than chase him. No one could leave with that many pairs of shirts and pants and bags of food if they hadn't served them.
Right?
The bike pulled away and some time passed before they reached that specific part of the security tapes and saw that, in fact, they had all looked away the exact moment Steven had simply turned and strolled from the building stiffly. It was only once they looked at the tapes, too, that they noticed Steven had entered without pants on and had left with a pair of their own on.
'How the fuck...?' One asked the rest as they poured over the cameras.
Outside the back room, a hard-for-money youth with thick hood on pocketed some smokes and chips, but none of them noticed. They were stunned at the half-naked man who'd stolen half their cheap clothes while they were
watching the store.
Another hour later, as the sun was dripping down the blue sky and irradiating the rest of the day's clouds away, Steven pulled up on a small crest at the sign outside the next major town. Silently and autonomously, Steven and Zoe both surveyed the civilisation below them like robots, their heads and eyes swivelling to take in the masses of buildings and streets ahead. Though not as big, this town had suffered less than the town the hospital had been in, as this one was nestled in the gulley of a fully-surrounded valley. Hills covered it on all but two sides where roads split the sand of the countryside, leading to the next cities hours away.
Without a word, Zoe, now dressed in a moderately fitting thin shirt and jacket and long track pants settled into her seat once more and Steven pulled away, Zoe's inflated belly jouncing along with the bike's movements on the road, her gaze stony and bare. They pulled presently into a dark motel on the outskirts of the city circumference and stored the bike in a lot in the far corner. With simple two story buildings, single-space rooms and a wide parking area separating the buildings out, Zoe and Steven's accommodation was nestled in the shadow of the cliffs above, the sharpest edge on the natural valley. In truth it was most likely more of a crater, but this hadn't stopped the earth and trees from settling and growing here and human kind from later levelling it and putting a cute holiday-esque city in it.
In the cover of the shadows, Zoe and Steven disembarked the vehicle with Steven helping Zoe from the cab and stepped inside one of the doors hanging ajar near the bike. Steven entered first, Zoe's thick form taking her longer in getting to the room. Once all was deemed clear by Steven, Zoe entered and sat herself down on the bed. Neither person said a word and went about their actions as though observing a teeming silence after a lengthy argument, but this was not the case. Steven didn't need to talk to Zoe to know what she was thinking, nor did Zoe need to ask Steven what his actions would be. The two, inextricably and inescapably linked by the brain, thought as one.
Although not
truly