Our Only Hope - S01 E30

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Our Only Hope - S01 E30

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 30

You could hear the sliders slam against the outside stops just before she screamed and pulled her legs back together. She screamed again as the sliders hit the inside stops. There were four or five more slams and screams as the sliders slid to the inner and outer extremes before slave cutie-pie was finally able to stop her legs mid-way and prevent further shocks.

She stood rigidly still for a moment, but then one of her feet moved slightly and she tried to pull her legs partially together to stop the slide. With both feet sliding freely, however, she overcorrected and slammed her legs together. This time she didn’t scream, but only yelped slightly as the current went through her feet and her cunt. She tried stopping her legs as they automatically spread from the pain of the shock, but she was unable to regain control and her left leg went all of the way out.

There was no loud slamming clunk this time, and no scream. There wasn’t even a yelp, just a low-pitched grunt as the current buzzed her left leg and her cunt. I could see muscle tension in her arms as she tried– unsuccessfully– to stabilize herself. Her left leg pulled in while her right moved out and she ended up hitting the stops with both feet, her left leg hitting the inside stop and the right leg hitting the outside stop.

Without pulling her right leg in, she moved her left leg out until it, too, was against the stop. Then, with her body vibrating from the shocks, she slowly pulled both legs inward until they were at the midway point. The look of relief on her face lasted for several seconds until one foot again started to move slightly. She pulled as hard as she could against the chains holding her hands, but the little stabilization that pull provided wasn’t enough and the whole cycle began again.

When the shocks hit, she threw back her head and again screamed loudly. This time much more loudly than she had originally screamed. She also lost control of her bladder and sprayed the stage. Obviously, the voltage had stepped up higher. Her body now more than vibrated. It shook violently as the higher voltage assailed her feet and her cunt, the current coursing through her legs causing them to shake like a cheap Elvis impersonator. She must have done a cleansing routine in preparation for going out with her Master tonight because she did not lose control of her bowels– or at least there was nothing to expel.

This cycle of pulling herself into the center and holding it for a few moments before losing control and slamming into either the inner or outer stops continued. The voltage evidently stepped up twice more, judging from the yelps and the increased shaking of her legs. Finally, shortly after the timer read 03:00, she gave up, letting her legs spread completely and hanging there from the weird posture collar letting the voltage bounce and shake her body like a marionette on a puppet stage.

When the timer finally ran out, there was a huge burst of applause from the crowd. Master Walter went back up on stage and called for some assistance from his security men. Four of them hurried up on stage and held slave cutie-pie while he adjusted the chrome spike down out of her cunt. When he removed the steel posture collar, she slumped forward and would have fallen if it had not been for the men holding her in place. Master Walter then stepped away and the men released her arm restraints and unstrapped her feet from the roller platforms. One of them then picked her up and carried her back to her Master’s table. When she appeared to have difficulty staying in the chair, one of the men produced a long, black silk scarf and tied it around her body under her arms to hold her in place. She sat there staring glassy-eyed at her own Master as Master Walter stepped back on stage to introduce another act.

While he was talking, I got up and walked to the elevator at the back of the club. I had seen enough. I now knew where Walter Monty was and where several of the hostages were held, including Master Tyrone and Mistress Tenesha. The only problem was that there was no way some simple trick out of Boris’ magic box was going to set them free. Master Walter was no Wyatt; his highly trained security team were not Bill and Ted; and the specially-constructed room beneath The Blue Deuce was no Colonel Boogie’s. I was going to need some serious help pulling this one off.

Luckily for me, among the few trusted people for whom Master Randolph had given me names was Sam Two Feathers. I knew Sam. I had helped him when his wife’s sister was abducted by some crazies who hated “Indians” but for some reason wanted Precious Rock as their squaw / sex slave. Sam knew who they were and where they were, but the tribal authorities wouldn’t listen to him because they considered him white. The local authorities wouldn’t listen to him because he was “just an indian,” and “it was an indian matter.” He needed a white man to act as a go-between with the racist white authorities and I was eminently qualified for that.

He would handle the tribal side of it. He was eminently qualified for that, or should have been. Sam Two Feathers was full-blooded Sioux, or at least as full-blooded as anyone can be anything, but he wasn’t on the official tribal registry and therefore was not a member of the tribe. His wife, Ruby Waters was removed from the tribal registry when she married Sam against her father’s wishes. Sometimes it’s nice to know that prejudice and bigotry isn’t isolated to one ethnic group.

We got Precious Rock back alive and intact, but she would need a lot of counseling and therapy before resuming her normal life. I had the foresight to take a couple of federal agents with us when we raided these scumbags’ love nest in the mountains. Their presence had a calming– or at least restraining– effect on Sam, so the four men who had abducted Precious Rock ended up alive, but would spend most of the rest of their lives in prison. In appreciation for returning Precious Rock, Sam’s father-in-law got Ruby Waters reinstated on the tribal registry. That means Sam Two Feathers’ children are official Sioux even though they live off the reservation.

Sam works as a private security consultant in the LA area. If you ask him what he does, he will tell you that he provides a scary face when rich people need to keep tourists and paparazzi away from their gates. I’ve seen his company at work and he definitely can provide more than just a scary face.

I waited until morning, got out an unused burner phone and re-registered the phone number to one of my standbys. Then, using my computer program, I texted him on his private number, “Hi Ho Silver to my favorite contrary. Need to talk. Burner phone #3. Text back time you will call.”

About fifteen minutes later, I received a text that said only, “14:05"

It was a little past eight in the morning, so that gave me some more needed sleep time. I woke up around noon and went down to the hotel restaurant for lunch. I debated taking a swim, but decided that a sunburn might interfere with the task at hand. Besides, if people saw me in swim trunks, they might wonder how a businessman from Ohio ended up with so many battle scars. I was waiting on my balcony when the phone rang at exactly five minutes after two.

If someone was somehow listening in on the call, they would have been very confused. Sam and I had talked about the Contraries in Sioux tradition. They lived their lives backward. They also talked backwards... sort of. Their answers were always reversed. When I called him my favorite Contrary, I indicated that this was to be a contrary conversation.

His first question was, “Is this W?”

“No.”

“Can you talk?”

“No.”

I then asked some questions of my own, beginning with, “Are you under any pressure from anyone concerning me?”

“Yes.”

I relaxed. The Monty brothers and their traitor within The Society weren’t pressuring Sam.

“What was the name of Tonto’s horse?” I asked.

“Silver,” He answered. Then he added, “The Lone Ranger rode Scout, Kemosabe.”

I laughed and said, “Enough contrariness. We need to talk in person.”

He said flatly, “High Rooftop Lounge, Venice Boardwalk, One hour.” Then he hung up.

It took me fifty minutes to drive to Venice Beach and another ten to find the High Rooftop Lounge. After I had climbed the stairs, the hostess came up to me and I said, “I am supposed to meet someone here.”

I was still trying to decide if Sam had given his real name when a young man with a very military bearing walked up to me and said, “Are you Kemosabe?”

The hostess looked shocked, but I nodded and said, “Yup.”

“Follow me,” the young man said and turned and walked to a nearly empty section of the club. Three additional very lean and muscular young men were standing near the outside edges of the roof. As we approached the table where Sam was seated, the man guiding me veered off and took up a post on the outside wall. All four young men were facing outward, forming a square around the table where Sam sat smiling at me. I had forgotten just how intimidating Sam Two Feathers’ smile could be.

“You look pretty good for a dead man,” he said as I sat down.

“What do you know about the Monty brothers?” I asked.

“I know you are after them,” he replied. “Master Randolph said you might be in touch, but... that was before the incident in Vegas.”

“Some poor sap stole the wrong truck,” I said slowly. “Unfortunate for him; lucky for me; they think I’m dead, so I’ve been able to infiltrate Walter Monty’s club here in LA.”

“And you need my help to capture him and free the hostages,” Sam said in his flat, bass-voiced way of talking.

“That pretty much says it all,” I answered.

“What have we got?” he said, leaning forward and setting a piece of paper and a pen on the table. I started drawing the layout as best I could remember.

“The only entrance seems to be the elevator from The Blue Deuce,” I explained, “but I’m betting there are fire escapes or rat holes out through the strip mall. We might be able to get in through there.”

“Have you looked at the Fire Marshall’s files on both buildings?” he asked.

“I think Boris would have checked that,” I replied and he laughed.

“Not unless he had someone on the inside or got a court order,” Sam said. “Those files aren’t kept on line. You have to go into the office itself to look at them, and you have to have a court order or be part of a Fire Marshall investigation.”

I said “Shit!” and Sam smiled at me.

“Luckily,” he said, “I have both... when I need them.” He then laid a small tablet on the table and brought up some images. There were three fire exits out of the hidden club area. Two led directly into the hallways. The third led through the dress shop.

“We will have to block the elevator entrance,” he said flatly, “and create enough threat and confusion that people will stampede out the safety exits.”

“How will they know they are even there?” I asked. “I was down there and didn’t see any indication of them.”

Sam smiled again. “In case of an earthquake,” he said in his flat way of speaking, “those doors will automatically open and guide lights will glow in the walls or on the ceiling.”

“Great!” I said, sounding much more animated than Sam. “Now all we have to do is arrange for an earthquake on cue.”

Sam’s smile widened. “Did you know,” he said, “that all elevators are required to have an earthquake sensor in the bottom of the shaft? And that a relatively small explosion would trigger that sensor?”

“Wouldn’t that be a little rough on anyone in the elevator?” I asked.

“I hate collateral damage as much as you do,” he said firmly. “There will be no one in the elevator because you will be the one triggering the blast. And with my help, Boris will have control of the elevator. But we have to go tonight before they move the hostages.”

Hopefully, the W team was about to score a surprise run in a game that was supposedly already over.

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To Be Continued...