Chapter 3
Sitting in a small room with few computers Ram and Vic called in the three volunteers individually asking them to program one of the computers and talking to them.
They were both unimpressed by Slick; he couldn't program the computer and came across to them as some lower form of slime. Celes came off slightly better, she could program the computer after a few minutes and they decided she lacked any serious long term ambition but she would make a good worker in the lower levels of the tribe.
As usual it was Java who caused the most interest. She had programmed the computer as fast as she could type and through out the entire assessment had remained cool and unfazed. Vic noted after a minute she seemed to understand Ram and began flirting very subtly with him. Ram had that look in his eye he got when he saw a girl he wanted, and from what Vic had seen of her Java would not hesitate in the slightest to use this fully to her advantage, he was defiantly going to watch her carefully, very carefully, and he would watch his back for her too.
So Slick was escorted away from the Techno complex but before he went he couldn't resist trying to persuade Java to go with him. She had been his most successful girl, he could do with her in his brothel, he might be slime but he knew which side his bread was buttered.
"Surely you don't want to stay here" he said cajoling her "Its the middle of nowhere, no shops, no people, nothing"
"I'll be ok" Java told him mildly amused by his futile attempts to get her back, like the last struggles of a fish trapped in a dried out pond.
"But-but, think of all you owe me," he said desperately reaching for reasons "I took you and Siva in, I fed you, I clothed you..."
"And you sold our bodies" Java said finishing his sentence "Don't we owe you so much" she said sarcastically
"Java" Slick said appealing to her desperately as two Technos appeared and began to guide him away.
"Bye Slick" Java shouted at his retreating back "I've hated knowing you" Good riddance to bad rubbish Java thought as he disappeared around a corner.
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Later that night as Java was settling into her new room someone knocked at the door, opening it revealed her new leader.
"Everything ok?" Ram asked smiling at her
"Fine" said Java opening the door for him. She hadn't expected this, she knew he wanted her but he was moving faster than she had anticipated. Ram sauntered in and walked around Java.
"Lovely quarters" he whispered into her ear as Java let go of the door and he rested his hands on the bare flesh of her hips that was revealed between her top and trousers. Turning around to face him Java pushed his hands away from her and stepped away from him slightly.
"What did you want to talk about?" she asked coolly. It seemed Ram was not deterred easily. Stepping closer to her he said
"I want you" and kissed her neck "And I wasn't planning on talking"
"I don't think so," Java said coldly pushing him away from her. He looked up shocked, as if he wasn't used to being told 'no'.
"You don't want me?" he said in surprise as if it was automatically assumed that every girl he wanted wanted him back.
"Yeh, I have standards, I'm not a slu!" Java told him opening the door. Ram walked out in silence, Java closed the door behind him and allowed herself a little smile, the good old treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen, worked every time.
Ram stalked down the corridor, he was furious, how dare she? he was her leader, she should be glad of the opportunity to please him. Going past his own room he flung open Opal's door. She was sat at a dressing table and turned to look at him. Without a word Ram stalked over to her, pulled her off her chair and pressed her against the nearest wall where he began kissing her. Unlike most other girls Opal didn't complain or resist at such rough treatment, she loved it because she knew when Ram got what he wanted she would get what she wanted.
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Slightly later that night, further down the hallway, Vic was sat in his room alone reading through a file on his computer. Hearing his door being opened he closed the file and swung to see who it was. Kiki, a Techno he had worked with, stood in the doorway.
"All alone?" she asked mock pityingly as she walked in, Vic stood up to meet her, she was younger than him but still tall, not much smaller than him. From the outfit she was wearing and the gleam in her eyes he could guess why she was there. He had been bored lately; maybe it was time to liven things up.
"Yeh" said Vic as she walked up close to him "I'm all alone"
"Well what can we do about that?" Kiki asked in a whisper as her hands snaked around his neck. He bent down and kissed her allowing his hands to stray around the back of her top. This was gonna be fun.
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In the morning Java was sent to work in one of the defense teams. The Technos were divided into teams that worked on different things, four in a team plus a team leader. The team Java was assigned to be in worked on the development of new weapons. Java was impressed by the organization within the Technos, they worked on so many different projects it seemed they weren't planning on spending their lives in the Techno base, just as Java wasn't planning to spend her life as a lowly worker.
The team she was assigned to consisted of Jenai a very shy quiet girl who was expert on the scientific realities of making a weapon, Tempy a tall dark boy who dealt with the practical manufacture of weapons, he was very stubborn but lacked the subtly to get power and Sky a quiet stubborn girl with no great wish for promotion. Java considered none of these a particular threat in her campagain for power, they lacked either the drive or the intuition. However the team leader, Becka, was a threat; she was manipulative and sly but unfortunately for her Java was better at it.
Java set about undermining Becka's leadership immediatly and setting herself up in her place. She didn't care how she did it, stealing ideas, putting Becka down and blaming things on her, she did them all in her campagain to take the first step up to power. For example one morning they were stood around their workroom, they had a laser but because of its strange shape couldn't work out how to get it out of a holster quickly .
"This is no good," Tempy said in frustration after the third attempt at getting the laser out of the holster failed.
"This obviously isn't gonna work Java said looking pointedly at Becka whose idea it had been.
"Got a better idea?" asked Becka sarcastically from where she was sat, she was getting tired of Java's constant attack on her leadership
"Yeh actually" Java said walking from the doorway she had been leaning in and taking the laser from Tempy.
"What if" she said demonstrating on her own wrist "We attached it to our wrists?"
Tempy, Sky and Jenai walked over and began to examine the idea skeptically
"It might work" Jenai conceded "But it would need a different type of trigger" Signaling Tempy Jenai walked over to the worktable where soon a heated discussion about designs and triggers was underway. Java went with them and served as a reference point for ideas and questions, as a team leader should. Becka was left over the other side of the room obviously hoping her team would come to her for advice and prove that she was still their team leader, unfortunately nothing of the sort happened, eventually she was forced to saunter over casually and try to get her team to talk to her again, unsuccessfully.
Sitting in a small room with few computers Ram and Vic called in the three volunteers individually asking them to program one of the computers and talking to them.
They were both unimpressed by Slick; he couldn't program the computer and came across to them as some lower form of slime. Celes came off slightly better, she could program the computer after a few minutes and they decided she lacked any serious long term ambition but she would make a good worker in the lower levels of the tribe.
As usual it was Java who caused the most interest. She had programmed the computer as fast as she could type and through out the entire assessment had remained cool and unfazed. Vic noted after a minute she seemed to understand Ram and began flirting very subtly with him. Ram had that look in his eye he got when he saw a girl he wanted, and from what Vic had seen of her Java would not hesitate in the slightest to use this fully to her advantage, he was defiantly going to watch her carefully, very carefully, and he would watch his back for her too.
So Slick was escorted away from the Techno complex but before he went he couldn't resist trying to persuade Java to go with him. She had been his most successful girl, he could do with her in his brothel, he might be slime but he knew which side his bread was buttered.
"Surely you don't want to stay here" he said cajoling her "Its the middle of nowhere, no shops, no people, nothing"
"I'll be ok" Java told him mildly amused by his futile attempts to get her back, like the last struggles of a fish trapped in a dried out pond.
"But-but, think of all you owe me," he said desperately reaching for reasons "I took you and Siva in, I fed you, I clothed you..."
"And you sold our bodies" Java said finishing his sentence "Don't we owe you so much" she said sarcastically
"Java" Slick said appealing to her desperately as two Technos appeared and began to guide him away.
"Bye Slick" Java shouted at his retreating back "I've hated knowing you" Good riddance to bad rubbish Java thought as he disappeared around a corner.
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Later that night as Java was settling into her new room someone knocked at the door, opening it revealed her new leader.
"Everything ok?" Ram asked smiling at her
"Fine" said Java opening the door for him. She hadn't expected this, she knew he wanted her but he was moving faster than she had anticipated. Ram sauntered in and walked around Java.
"Lovely quarters" he whispered into her ear as Java let go of the door and he rested his hands on the bare flesh of her hips that was revealed between her top and trousers. Turning around to face him Java pushed his hands away from her and stepped away from him slightly.
"What did you want to talk about?" she asked coolly. It seemed Ram was not deterred easily. Stepping closer to her he said
"I want you" and kissed her neck "And I wasn't planning on talking"
"I don't think so," Java said coldly pushing him away from her. He looked up shocked, as if he wasn't used to being told 'no'.
"You don't want me?" he said in surprise as if it was automatically assumed that every girl he wanted wanted him back.
"Yeh, I have standards, I'm not a slu!" Java told him opening the door. Ram walked out in silence, Java closed the door behind him and allowed herself a little smile, the good old treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen, worked every time.
Ram stalked down the corridor, he was furious, how dare she? he was her leader, she should be glad of the opportunity to please him. Going past his own room he flung open Opal's door. She was sat at a dressing table and turned to look at him. Without a word Ram stalked over to her, pulled her off her chair and pressed her against the nearest wall where he began kissing her. Unlike most other girls Opal didn't complain or resist at such rough treatment, she loved it because she knew when Ram got what he wanted she would get what she wanted.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Slightly later that night, further down the hallway, Vic was sat in his room alone reading through a file on his computer. Hearing his door being opened he closed the file and swung to see who it was. Kiki, a Techno he had worked with, stood in the doorway.
"All alone?" she asked mock pityingly as she walked in, Vic stood up to meet her, she was younger than him but still tall, not much smaller than him. From the outfit she was wearing and the gleam in her eyes he could guess why she was there. He had been bored lately; maybe it was time to liven things up.
"Yeh" said Vic as she walked up close to him "I'm all alone"
"Well what can we do about that?" Kiki asked in a whisper as her hands snaked around his neck. He bent down and kissed her allowing his hands to stray around the back of her top. This was gonna be fun.
~~~~~~~~~
In the morning Java was sent to work in one of the defense teams. The Technos were divided into teams that worked on different things, four in a team plus a team leader. The team Java was assigned to be in worked on the development of new weapons. Java was impressed by the organization within the Technos, they worked on so many different projects it seemed they weren't planning on spending their lives in the Techno base, just as Java wasn't planning to spend her life as a lowly worker.
The team she was assigned to consisted of Jenai a very shy quiet girl who was expert on the scientific realities of making a weapon, Tempy a tall dark boy who dealt with the practical manufacture of weapons, he was very stubborn but lacked the subtly to get power and Sky a quiet stubborn girl with no great wish for promotion. Java considered none of these a particular threat in her campagain for power, they lacked either the drive or the intuition. However the team leader, Becka, was a threat; she was manipulative and sly but unfortunately for her Java was better at it.
Java set about undermining Becka's leadership immediatly and setting herself up in her place. She didn't care how she did it, stealing ideas, putting Becka down and blaming things on her, she did them all in her campagain to take the first step up to power. For example one morning they were stood around their workroom, they had a laser but because of its strange shape couldn't work out how to get it out of a holster quickly .
"This is no good," Tempy said in frustration after the third attempt at getting the laser out of the holster failed.
"This obviously isn't gonna work Java said looking pointedly at Becka whose idea it had been.
"Got a better idea?" asked Becka sarcastically from where she was sat, she was getting tired of Java's constant attack on her leadership
"Yeh actually" Java said walking from the doorway she had been leaning in and taking the laser from Tempy.
"What if" she said demonstrating on her own wrist "We attached it to our wrists?"
Tempy, Sky and Jenai walked over and began to examine the idea skeptically
"It might work" Jenai conceded "But it would need a different type of trigger" Signaling Tempy Jenai walked over to the worktable where soon a heated discussion about designs and triggers was underway. Java went with them and served as a reference point for ideas and questions, as a team leader should. Becka was left over the other side of the room obviously hoping her team would come to her for advice and prove that she was still their team leader, unfortunately nothing of the sort happened, eventually she was forced to saunter over casually and try to get her team to talk to her again, unsuccessfully.