The Second Machine
by Pan
Chapter 1:
"Ew," my 18-year old sister said, pushing me away in disgust. I quickly pressed the button as she stormed out and shouted back over her shoulder, "You're
so
gross!"
I'd been expecting that reaction. I was disappointed, but not surprised - after all, it was the sixth time I'd heard her say it. As far as my sister Edie was concerned, however, it was the first time I'd asked her to suck my cock - and the first time she'd rejected me.
People will call me a genius. They'll also call me a pervert, but that won't matter, because even as they object to following my every command, they'll obey.
Just like my sister.
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The first machine had been pretty easy to build; if you know as much about the human brain as I do, you know exactly what wavelengths to transmit upon. Every thought we have is electricity, after all, and if you can manipulate electricity, you can manipulate thought.
What you can't do, I discovered after months of testing, is fine-tune people's thoughts. Can't be done - the alterations are too subtle. They're almost impossibly small, and the slightest error would cause the changes of a different thought. I'd tried for a long time, but I was finally forced to admit - I didn't have the "mind ray" that I wanted, able to rewrite people's thoughts based on my every whim.
But what I'd discovered while meddling was fascinating in itself - I'd learned that by transmitting on the opposite frequency to the hippocampus's electrical pulses, you can cancel them out - and as we all (should) know, the hippocampus is where long-term memory is stored.
As long as I hit you at the right time, you'll forget the last ten minutes ever happened. Gone, as if erased from time itself.
After confirming that it worked on rats, I tested it on myself - I used a video camera and a meticulously-kept diary. I had a memory eraser - useful, but I knew that there was more that I could do. The ability to alter the brain's impulses directly is an almost totally-unexplored field - probably for ethical reasons, but I wasn't letting that stop me.
I knew that I had the potential to do anything. Great and terrible acts.
And so I built the second machine.
You can't fine-tune people's reactions, write their thoughts like you're programming a computer: but what you can do is block the part of their brain that compels them to act on their reactions. I could never convince Obama to hate America, but I /could/ get him to unnoticingly obey my commands to destroy it. As long as he was focused on how much he loved the US, he wouldn't notice that his actions were contradicting his emotion.
At least, that was the theory. It wasn't quite working, but since my first machine let me replay the same moment again and again, I could keep on refining my experiment until I was successful.
The next day, Edie didn't blink an eye when I asked if I could use her as a "test subject". I knew she wouldn't - I'd asked her the same question the last 7 days in a row, and she was always happy to help out. As far as she was concerned, I was just her nerdy brother - and she was one of the few people who saw the potential of my genius.
I hooked her up to the machine, watched as it scanned her brain function, and made a few notes. Over the past week, I'd become extremely well-accustomed with my sister's brainwaves. Without even looking at her, I could read her exact emotions, just by watching the peaks and troughs of her mind.
Today I was sure that I'd made a break-through - instead of trying to diminish the activity, I'd altered the machine so that it amplified her real reaction, allowing my changes to slip through unnoticed, and (in the process) bring her emotions back down to a more normal level.
Either this would work, or she'd be so disgusted by the idea that she'd throw up.
Part of it, I can't deny, was simply because I was horny and my sister was hot. Edie has always had a body to kill for, and the few glimpses I've had of her curves have left me curious as to what's hidden underneath her stuffy clothes.
But the main reason for using my sister as a test subject was simple - if I could make her do something completely against her nature, then I knew that I could affect anyone, anywhere at any time. If I could get my sister to suck my cock, then the human race was mine to play with.
I set everything up, asked her a few sample questions, and then got to the moment of truth, if you will. (and believe me, I hoped that she would.)
"Edie," I said, my eyes darting back and forth between my computer and her face. "Suck my cock"
My finger was hovered over the machine that would ensure the past ten minutes hadn't happened as she responded.