Part Four

The very next evening, Kajou and Tanukichi went over their strategy again against Riley, but they needed a better plan of attack to confront him because of his confrontational nature.

They had sent out Onigashira on reconnaissance to the mansion, giving her a chance at redemption, and she came back with a lot of good detail and pictures. She knew she would not be coming with them when Kajou and Tanukichi assaulted the mansion because she was still on thin ice betraying SOX to Gathered Fabric, but getting information was a start to regain their trust. She agreed to stay behind to monitor this situation through the Peace Makers or PM's. They would stay in constant contact.

With a plan in hand—with Kajou making a dirty joke about something else in hand—they arrived at the mansion. There was a hidden entrance underneath the mansion masked with a lot of shrubbery, and inside using the PM's, there was also a series of inner chambers. So, with a rudimentarily floor plan, they rallied with their plan with this information.

The plan was two-fold: First, they would confront Riley and to tell him to stop harassing Tanukichi, and second: expose the government's new plan for control the masses with these new "Shock Collars" that were to come out soon, which would completely turn Japan into a totalitarian regime without basic freedoms, a dictatorship run completely by the Moral Authorities.

The MAO had to be stopped or SOX, and the future of free Japan, was be jeopardy!

Under the cover of darkness, the moon obscured by clouds, they made the long trek up the mountain to the castle in the sky: the Tasei Mansion, making sure to avoid the winding roads or to be seen by any onlookers. It took them nearly an hour to make the journey.

Tanukichi plopped down on his butt, huffing. He was wearing his green track suit and would change into his SOX disguise later. Kajou wore nothing but her white coat. Once or twice, when a big gust of wind came, her coat blew asunder, and exposed herself. Everything about her was beautiful, Tanukichi thought. She could be very raunchy at times, but that was part of her charm. He had to admit he had fallen for her: hook, line, and sinker.

"That was a tough climb," he said, "but we're finally here. Time to get to work." He checked his PM and memorized the map given to them. Then, at that moment, another large gust of wind blew Kajou's coat up and over her head, for which she had to push it back down. Tanukichi blushed.

"Kind of breezy up here," she said causally.

"You should really think about wearing something underneath your coat," he said.

"You're one to talk, Garter Belt Boy, or did we agree on Tit Boy? I can't remember."

"Neither, it's Zen now. Oh, never mind, forget I say anything."

He stood up and got ready, undressed from his track suit, donned his mask, which was nothing more than a pair of white woman's underwear, adjusted his garter, suspenders and stockings, wrapped his track pants and top around his shoulders like a cape, and prepared himself for the onslaught into Tasei Mansion. They both knew the plan and it was time to make a penetration.

Looking at the 3D map on his PM watch, Tanukichi went to the area with the hidden door in the mountain side and brushed back the shrubbery. The door was right where it should be, but it looked like it hadn't been opened in years, rusted solid and sealed with steal hinges around the edges. But there was a handle, and he yanked on it. Just as he did, something unlocked, and he was able to pull it open.

Unexpectedly, a miniature 3D TV screen popped up on the inside of the door with Riley's face. "Greetings SOX members, I'm so pleased you accepted my wondrous offer to come tonight. From this moment on, your morality collars are no longer subjected to the Moral Authorities subversion. You can speak freely here under my electronic scrambler, which as soon as this door was opened was enabled. Please, enter my secret lair, and I'll be waiting for you at the end," the communication ended, and the screen jettisoned back into the ceiling of the tunnel.

"Awright!" Kajou said.

"I don't know about this, something's not right here," Tanukichi said nervously.

"Don't get your panties in a bunch, what can possibly happen?"

As they entered, a series of wall lights flickered on and they found themselves looking down a very long tunnel with a several wavy lines that were more or less haphazardly across the walls, floors, and ceiling. When they travelled several feet, suddenly the door slammed behind them locking them inside.

"What can happen she said?" Tanukichi said condescendingly, "I knew it was a trap—I just knew it!"

"Stop being so paranoid, whatever Riley can throw at us, we can handle it," Kajou rebuked. She fell the walls of the shaft, and said: "The walls are very smooth like they've been polished." Tanukichi agreed with her when he felt them, even mentioning the same about the floor and ceiling. "Smoother than a shaved…"

"Oh, very charming," Tanukichi said, before she could finish it.

Kajou grunted under her breath. "Shove it, Tit Boy," she retorted.

Tanukichi apologized. "Okay, before we go any further, let's come to a compromise on my codename. Just call me T."

"T. Boy it is."

Tanukichi groaned in protest. "Never mind. Let's just see where this leads."

When they came to end of the shaft, two big round rooms awaited them separated by a divider. Each room was open, but had a door above. It reminded Tanukichi of a fun house maze where one door can lead you to the exit and the other takes you back to the beginning.

"You take the right testicle and I'll take the left," Kajou said.

Tanukichi looked at her strange.

"Oh, come on," she said incredulously. "We entered a chamber door after pulling back some shrubbery, that lead into a long, smooth tunnel, with lines all around, and now we find ourselves looking a pair of round rooms." She chuckled. "I cant believe you can't see it?"

Tanukichi thought back. "It does have that kind of a layout, doesn't it? It's actually quite clever."

When they went their separate ways, suddenly the doors slammed shut behind them locking each of them inside their respected rooms. Tanukichi banged on the door that had been open just seconds ago, but it was solid and wouldn't budge. He turned around, and shouted for Kajou, her voice was faint, but she said she was in the same boat but was okay.

A large projection screen flashed on one wall with Riley's face. It began immediately, Riley saying: "Greetings SOX members, this message has been pre-recorded, but it will serve each of you equally. Each of you are trapped in a private room and if you wish to leave it, you must follow a strict set of rules. Each room has a puzzle to decipher. Solve the puzzle correctly and you can move on to the next chamber, but fail to solve it in the time allotted, and you'll be punished."

Punished in what way? Tanukichi wondered.

Riley's image continued. "Each puzzle is designed with the SOX ideology, but he's the kicker: You can't rely on your partner or partners trapped in the other room. You PM's have been blocked. Your basic task is to solve the puzzle and move on, or suffer the consequences of your inaction. You have three chambers to make it through."

"What consequences?" Tanukichi asked, but then realized he was responding to a recording. What did Riley mean that the puzzles were designed with the SOX ideology?

A blue electronic timer appeared on the wall with an allotted start time of three minutes.

Oh man, what did I get myself into? He was ticked off with Riley, but now things had turned into some sort of survivors course. They called people like Riley "psycho-geniuses". Already witnessing what he had, Tanukichi had no doubt the guy was that. I underestimated him. I hope the puzzles aren't too difficult?

"Good luck to you," Riley said. "Your first puzzle will begin—now!"

A marble pedestal rose from the floor near the back of the room with a single goblet. Tanukichi went over to it and looked inside, there was a white thick substance and the gold-plated goblet was half full. He looked around the room, then looked back. What was this clue? Was this the puzzle he had to solve?

He picked it up and smelt it, it had a sweet scent, but under the base of the goblet were two symbols with one figure squatting and the second straight up with its hands in the air. The very first thing he thought of was something Kajou would probably think of as well, the first figure was sitting down on a male's member. The second figure was a little more difficult to decipher. Perhaps the figure was in a congratulations stance for something?

Then he had an epiphany. The first figure was squatting and the second figure was lifting its hands in the air in a form of exercise. They were exercising. What was the reason for goblet and the white think substance inside? The puzzle had to be two-fold. Then it struck him. Oh, come on—did he really? Is this Riley's…Did he really…into this goblet as a clue? Think, what does exercise and this have in common?

If Riley is that much of a mad genius, he had to put thought—albeit it perverse—into this clue.

Sperm is made up of protein. Kajou once wanted to add high does of protein into the urine test samples of all the male students at his school to make the medical staff think everyone was playing with themselves in the shower as a joke. Protein in powder form, which he took daily was needed to rebuild muscles after exercise, exercise(s) which was depicted on the symbols on the pedestal under the goblet.

Satisfied with his answer, he shouted out: "Protein helps with building muscles after exercise." But when nothing happened, he took in the clues again. He knew he was right. What was left to decipher? He looked at the timer on the wall, time was almost running out. He had less than thirty-seconds left.

He knew he had the clue right, but protein only helped the body when ingested. He slammed the goblet down on the pedestal. "No, I won't do it! I'll do these exercises, but I won't drink this, Riley!" His voice echoed the room reverberated. "Bring on the punishment. I know I can handle anything!"

The timer ended and a loud buzzer sounded like that from sports scoreboard.

Around of the back of the pedestal came two mechanical arms with two half-moon pieces of metal and they clamped around his pelvis, a third piece cupped him from underneath. It reminded him of a diaper or a chastity belt. He banged on the metal device and tried to pry it off, but it was locked on magnetically. All of sudden, it began to vibrate, and increased its pitch with unwanted consequences.

"Oh god, no!" he shouted out.

Tanukichi banged on it and kept banging on it, but the vibration increased. His knees weakened from the sensation, and it felt strangely good. So, this is what Riley meant by punishment/consequences? It was basically a vibrating chastity belt.

Through clenched teeth, he said, "Oh, my, god! Make it stop, please! It's…too much!"

He felt himself uncomfortably against the inside metal, it actually began to hurt. But he had to resist. He couldn't let it beat him. And yet, he had never felt anything like this before, it was so…

He shook his head. He had to fight it with every ounce of will power.

He had to get it off, so he banged it against the pedestal. He knew what it looked like, humping the pedestal. But he felt the vibration getting weaker and it slowed down with every hit, like striking an electric device against a wall, eventually it would brake.

He banged it as hard as he could against the pedestal and it finally stopped, then unlatched and dropped off. It crashed to the floor in three separate pieces. He put a hand to his face, he felt flushed and sweaty. He had kept his dignity against this metal monstrosity. He thought of the worse thing he could think of and his excitement disappeared.

He let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Suddenly, another door opened on the other side of the room. Tanukichi turned. His felt a little drained in battling the chastity belt, but he pulled himself together, and moved on. He checked his wrist PM and re-confirmed there was no signal before entering the second chamber. Riley was indeed blocking it, the place a great big dead zone.

Tanukichi treaded cautiously and he had no idea what to expect next in this twisted fun house of weirdness. The next chamber looked much like the corridor he and Kajou had first come through, empty with straight, smooth walls. He even felt them.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of something unlocking within the walls, and then cranking.

The door slammed behind him, locking him inside. He went back and banged on it, but to no avail. He turned back and found the walls suddenly had holes in them and things was being pushed out.

And he couldn't believe it, ejecting from the holes were rudimentarily sized members of all different shades of colour. They thrusted themselves in and out of the holes like some sort of amusement park game. He didn't know why, but he chuckled. The entire situation was just so laughable. He knew Kajou would get a kick out of it, too.

But what was the purpose of this room, and where was the clue to solve the puzzle?

Just then, as if things weren't weird enough, something poked him in the butt, nearly probing an area that was undeniably off limits. Good thing the fabric of his panties prevented such. But it made him jump and he found himself then dodging the ejecting wall members that acted like rubber swords, but they were hard as one poked him in the arm. They filled walls from floor to ceiling.

Another one poked him in the rear and he yelped because it got much closer to than the last one.

He didn't see it at first, but when he watched carefully, he saw that the thrusting of the members, five rows in each wall, and some in the ceiling and floors, formed a pattern of ejection. With this in mind, he found he could easily avoid them. He moved in and out of their range, ducked, and dodged. Some did get close and he felt their touch as they began to thrust more quickly the more he got to the climatic end.

He didn't know how long he had spent in here, but he figured time was running out. The far wall of the chamber seemed safe from attack and he finally made his way there—without further assault.

Suddenly, the buzzer sounded. Time had elapsed. And the members got faster, and then something popped up from the floor just behind him. A larger member had thrusted itself from a new hole. He narrowly avoided it.

He wasn't so lucky the next time when another one equal in size ejected itself just as quickly just where he was standing and came up at him, catching his panties and inserting itself inside, rubbing itself between his butt cheeks. He cringed and tried to pull it away, but the large member had him caught. If he pulled any harder, he'd rip his panties, and he'd have to run the rest of the strange gauntlet naked. Luckily, he had his track pants around his shoulders as back up.

But it didn't come to that. And as the member receded back into the floor, rubbing against him, and giving him chills with undignified thoughts running through his mind, he was able to get away, and avoided yet a third one as it came at him from the front, nearly delivering a surprise uppercut to his chin. With good reflexes, Tanukichi avoided it with a back stretch, pivoted to the right, and then pressed his back against the far wall. He breathed hard and then cursed Riley for even inventing such a place.

"These rooms are totally insane!" Tanukichi said in awe.

As he watched the members in the chamber recede and slip back into their holes, he turned it head, and found the wall had a hidden adjacent corridor he had not seen from the other side. It lead to a computer console with a large screen.

When he approached it, there were no traps to avoid, the computer came to life as if detecting his presence. There was no sound, only text on the screen in a font that could only be descried as ancient in the age of technology. The text was choppy and a little bit hard to read, but once he concentrated on it, it began to become more legible—it was in the form of an old video game from long before he was born.

There were a series of skill-testing questions and each included a method to test his "sex-telligence", the ability to express the very nature of what was SOX was trying to deliver back to Japan.

To be continued...