Chapter 318: Fiery End

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to hammer I go.

For the next three days, we worked on the Habitat for Humanity builds their family was sponsoring. The build was going quickly now that all the concrete for the foundations passed inspection. On the fourth day, things felt off. The work started ok, but I started noticing we got a lot more volunteers right after lunch. Terrance said that happened on Fridays sometimes.

I doubt mercenaries and private security guys, and gals volunteer to build houses for free.

Around two-thirty in the afternoon, my implant pinged me for power. I let it connect to see what was so urgent a text wouldn’t do. I got a lot of information dumped into my brain faster than they could have told it to me over the phone or in a text. The main thing it said I needed to do was to get Terrance, Brook, the older of the sisters, and Beca, the younger sister, to my house as quickly as I could. There were going to find out the details I had dumped into my head. My parents would already be home because they took my brother and sister to the doctor. They needed to hear the news and all the details, but they would be in no danger. I should also expect guests right before dinner time.

David was making some new friends tonight and getting this important announcement I would never believe.

Beca, Brandy, and Terrance had noticed the arrival of the volunteers as well. They didn’t have any problems cutting out a bit early. Terrance ensured dinner was all set.

“Terrance,” Beca said. “I’m scared. Those people who came here this afternoon are the same kind of people that dad said to worry about being around us if he wasn’t there. I didn’t see any of them with guns, but I bet they were nearby.”

Brandy added, “I can’t get in touch with dad or anyone in our family who we are to call if something started to worry us. All the emergency email addresses bounced. Those may never get answered, but not be returned for the servers or accounts not existing.”

The girls asked him a bunch of questions as I drove.

“I got a text from dad right before lunch. It said that David’s house was the safest place for us to go if something odd started going on around us. He didn’t say why David’s house was safe, only that not even Darren would risk doing something to anyone at David’s house, especially David’s brother and sister. Darren said that David’s friend Molly scared the shit out of him. You heard how Darren took down a big group of mercenaries without killing a single one. Not even that ancient guy scared or bothered him,” Terrance told them.

Beca said, “If I kicked his bodyguard’s butt twice, I wouldn’t be scared of him either.”

As we neared my house, I felt two seekers. Both were girls in the early teens that found they were seekers only after puberty hit. Each girl was near my house, hidden away in carefully crafted bushes that looked recently installed, when in fact, they were rubber, including the mulch. Using the place in my head, I removed everything except for humans and animals, other than rodents. I added back in everything around them, but very faintly. Once I removed everyone who I knew lived around me, it was much easier to spot the three snipers, eight mercenaries, and a person like me that was just on the fringe of the two seeker’s range.

At my house, I told them to go inside. I needed to take a walk around the block to see if I saw anyone that looked out of place. One of the things the man-in-the-machine taught me is how to send out an EMP, but also something that mimicked an EMP, toward targeted devices. It would cause anything with a computer inside it to lock up and require resetting it to get it working again. Except for old tube equipment, those with any chip made since the man-in-the-machine’s accident would react similarly. The goal wasn’t to fry the device, only force it to go offline for a while. Steady pulses of the EMP-like signals would keep the electronics from working.

Adjusting the place in my head again, I had it detect anywhere that cameras, satellites, and other signals were present. On my way around the block, I got near the first of the two seekers. She only had an earpiece radio. I locked onto the carrier wave and pulsed out energy to cause them all to squeal before the base station, and repeaters for them kicked offline. I saw the girl flick her earpiece from her ear when it squealed. It made it that much easier for me to slide into the bush behind her. I bounced the specific color of energy the seekers latched onto off the house across the street and made it appear that someone like me was very close and getting closer to her. She started to panic and tried to get her earpiece to work. I didn’t see anything else on her except her clothes.

I’m going to make this intriguing. I haven’t made anyone temporarily blind, but it isn’t hard for me.

As I increased the strength of the power signature she was trying to find, I put my hand on her shoulder, send a tingling shock, put a slowly dissipating energy-draining bubble around each eye, and moved to put my hand on her shoulder. I made her come, hard, as I pulled her inside my shield long enough for her to feel my full, unshielded signal her brain locked onto when sensing someone like me.

“Whatcha doing,” I asked, trying to mimic that inflection of the girl in the cartoon that has a boy star with a triangle face.

She didn’t want what she got. I saw her trying to look around and not being able to see me. She started shaking in sheer, a killer clown wearing a hockey mask carrying a chainsaw, terror.

“Please don’t cook my brain or make it explode inside my head,” she said as I pulled my shield back from around her so I could get her into my lap to hold her. “We aren’t looking for you, whoever you are. I promise. There aren’t many groups of us anymore, and all of them know to stay away from here because there is someone who can burn out brains to cinders inside our heads. No one has seen if they are a boy or girl. We have to take that risk because a boy and two girls may be in danger from someone like him or like me.”

She squirmed around in my arms as I tried to put her in my lap to comfort her. I didn’t fight her and found her in my lap facing me as she used her arms to hug me tightly.

“Just for the record,” I told her, caressing her hair with one hand, and the other rubbed her exposed back from the one-piece suit she had on that had a strip of fabric that went over her head to hold it up in front. “I’ve never done anything to kill any of those like you or anyone else for that matter. More than once, I have rid a girl of her seeking ability at her request. Governments use them, as they may one day use you, to find those like me so they can remove one body part at a time as they try to figure out how we can do what we can. They do the same to seekers who are no longer willing to do their bidding. If you want to have this taken away, I can do it, and you won’t feel a thing. The only thing I must do is make your eyes and ears bleed, briefly, so your handlers will know what happened. I’m not going to give you a choice about making you completely hairless from your neck down, except for pubic hair on the sides and above your pussy. Never again will you have infections from cutting yourself under your arms or on your legs. What I leave you is something you can cut short or get waxed. You barely have any pubes as it is, so I’m not taking that choice away from you. Think of it as a sign of goodwill and my having no hard feelings for you being in my no-seekers zone.”

Her entire body shook when she came at precisely the same time as I, painlessly, burned out all the follicles from her neck down, except those I said I would let her keep. The girl started kissing me and getting very aroused again. I brought her off until she had no orgasm energy left, and she no longer could get herself turned on any more right now.

“So the secret rumors of one like you being an amazing, honest, decent guy, weren’t just stories. I don’t want this taken away from me, at least not right now. If you really can help, I do need it. My twin sister is the other one here watching for those like you. Well, not exactly like you, but you know what I mean. If those like you can sense each other, then you sensed my cousin. The three of us are a team. We can tune him out, but he still senses us, and if we are in trouble. I can feel him, and he doesn’t know I might be in trouble. My sister is who needs your help. The people who found us think my sister is only capable of being what you call a seeker, but a weaker one than me. She is so many times stronger than me, but also like our cousin. We don’t know how this happened to us. All I remember is that it happened the day after we went skinny dipping together. We woke up the next day to find us with these abilities. Can you take away the part that makes her like you? She has already hurt some people, badly, on accident. She can’t control it when she gets overwhelmed. You don’t even have to make her hairless, except for her pussy, as you did for me. She cut her leg shaving, and the next thing she knew, she was as bald as a baby, everywhere. So far, it seems that she injected that power into herself at her legs since her armpits have some hair again, and she the hair in her head is growing, just slowly.”

I kept caressing the girl as I checked her story. I did see her sister had the seeker area and a small place in her head that those like me have. Both have always been there. Her cousin was a half-brother since her dad screwed his aunt. The three were born this way. From how things looked, it was their hormones surging, while skinny dipping that causes their powers to manifest.

Before the girl in my lap got her vision back, I set her on the ground, slipped out, dodged the various areas where someone or something could see me. I slid into the bush with the girl’s sister. I blinded her as well but used a different technique that she couldn’t undo with the place in her head. Me super-charging her various energy reserves, which caused her to cum, had a more noticeable effect on her than her sister.

“I don’t have a lot of time before your comms are available again,” I said. “Your sister told me about your problem. I can help if you will let me. What I need to know is that you are positive you want me to remove that makes you like me, what makes you like her, or both. That is your choice to make.”

She started to cry, so it was a good thing that I already had her in my lap facing me. I held her as she cried. From what I could tell, between bouts of wracking sobs, is that when she got overwhelmed trying to hide that she was like me, she pulsed. Ii didn’t kill anyone but did paralyze some. She burned others. The biggest thing was that she burned out a small group of seekers. Her sister happened to be immune somehow. While she went back to crying, I didn’t burn out the place in her head. I made it turn green and turned it off. How I knew what I was doing is beyond me. The spot in her head can only turn on to protect her, her sister, and her cousin. It would then turn back off after that.

“Your sister and your cousin, well half-brother, is very dangerous if the nasty people find and exploit them, or worse experiment on them. When they are in danger, it will let the place in your head turn on to protect you and them. You won’t be able to hurt them, and while it happens, the seeker part inside you will get shielded to keep it from being damaged. If you give me a second, I can’t help myself. I need to make one more adjustment,” I told her as I tweaked the place in her head so that she could use it to give herself amazing orgasms, along with her sister, cousin, and possible lovers. “Close your eyes and think of that part of you that is like me. Once you can feel it, think of getting off, and then hold on tightly to me. I will hold on tightly to you too.”

Ah, great! She found it.

“I did something to show your sister that I am no threat to you or any seeker who doesn’t hunt those like me and your half-brother because they want to hurt us. Get your half-brother to finish burning the follicles out of your armpits the next time you two have sex. I will let you teach him how to use the place in his head to make girls cum as I showed you. In exchange, he will need to be the one to take care of your egg that he fertilized last night if you don’t want to have the baby. Have him pull the energy out of it like how he pulls it in when he needs it. Pushing in power to pop it works too, but I’ve heard it stings,” I told her, let her kiss me, and left.

I went ahead to make my way over to her cousin.

“I don’t have the time to go into things,” I told him as I blinded him temporarily. “You’re their cousin by their aunt, but half-brother by their dad. As I did with them, I am going to show you some goodwill, even if you are in a place you know you should not be. Unlike them, I’m not going to make you cum in your pants since guys make too big of a mess. Your head is also going to hurt worse than the one hangover you shared with your sisters. Keep hidden where I put you. When the pain in your head stops, you will wish you could find me to suck my dick and fuck your ass.”

He never had a chance to do anything to stop me before I somehow linked the place in our heads and pushed in how to have himself automatically kill his sperm, drain energy from a fertilized egg, and a few little tricks to help him protect his half-sisters. That wasn’t what made his head hurt, though. It was forcing his brain to stop blocking the mental link to each of his sisters. He was their anchor and did a lot of things to make the voices in his head go away because he only heard them when the girls were scared or wanted to talk to him. I also used the way the triplets can restore memories, to unlock what caused their dormant abilities to manifest. He was screwing one cousin while the other was holding onto his back. He temporarily released the block on the links between him and each girl when he came. I started two feedback loops, one with each girl. The pleasure got too much for all of them, and they lost themselves and didn’t notice the pop-up storm. Lightning hit her, then him, and then their sister. He already had the link to both girls, and that is what kept him from getting nauseous seeker ability. It is what protects him from any seekers detecting him. Something about the place in his head seems to be making the younger seekers want him to screw them. From the flash I got of his memories, it is like a drug to them.

“So where did you run off to,” mom wanted to know.

I smiled as I replied, “Did you know the Harper’s and Green’s are now putting in rubber bushes? They look ok, but at least they aren’t doing Flamingos again. Old Mr. Tate and Mrs. Lane need their grass cut. I bet they pissed off Steven finally.”

Dad said, “No. Steven has grown a lot over the winter and found other ways to spend his time that are keeping him from cutting lawns. Don’t worry about their yards. Steven’s little sister has taken over for him.”