My Swedish Vacation Chapter 19 by valerafon Jim is transported to the Artemis. This is a work of fiction and should not be read by anyone under the age of eighteen. Please do not read further if you are offended by violence and or sexual content. Chapter 19 Off to the Artemis "Wake up! Wake up!……….Come on!……..Wake up!" Brome was dreaming about Jim. One second she was kissing him and the next second, she was violently wrenched back into consciousness. As her mind tried to focus, she could barely see a large slender man kneeling over her sister, and he was not so gently nudging her shoulder and trying to rouse her as well. As her sister awoke, Brome realized the man was Ron and he was agitated about something. "Come on!……..Gotta get going!………I smell a storm!" he shouted to both of the women. Brome watched him a few more seconds as her mind started to clear. Dawn was breaking and she could barely make out his form as he frantically raced about the campsite stacking supplies into large piles. Finally, as Brome began to unzip herself from the sleeping bag, she asked, "What's the rush, Ron?" He stopped in mid stride and turned and faced her, and with a look of anguish on his face he shouted, "A big one's coming!…….Gotta get moving!" And as Brome worked herself free from her nights confinement, he asked her in an incredulous voice, "Can't you smell it?" As she became fully aware, she remembered him yelling something about a storm. For the first time, she felt a twinge of fear gnaw at her gut. As if in response to his last question, she found herself sniffing the air and found nothing unusual. Ron watched her for a second and asked, "See what I mean?" And then he was off again stacking the supplies. She watched him for a few more seconds hastily running about the camp. Even though she couldn't smell anything, she believed the man. One thing she had to give him, this man knew the swamp. Even as she framed her next questions, she was up and moving about, and Brome could see that Eva had been listening and was moving as well. "How much time do we have?…….What are we going to do?" she asked as she started to pick up the stacked supplies in preparation for carrying them to the boat. Ron did not stop this time. Instead, he continued his feverish preparations, but he did manage a reply to her questions. "Maybe four, maybe six hours before it starts to rain, and it's going to be a bad one!…….We gotta be wherever they are by then." This time it was sleepy-eyed Eva who asked, "Where's that?" The Cajun man stopped what he was doing for a second time, and gave Eva a look like she was some kind of a nut, but he did reply. "Wherever that is," he said with conviction. Brome didn't question his remark. It did make a strange kind of sense. Instead, she quickly moved off toward the boat with the first load of supplies. ------------------------------------ Gundy was ecstatic. She was going back to the convention. Today was the last day, and she thought she would have to wait until next year to see everything she had missed. But it was Monica who had made the suggestion, good old Monica! Monica even offered to stay behind and keep an eye on the guys for them. It was an offer the rest of the women just couldn't refuse. Darlene, Carol, and Cat weren't members and wanted to join, and even Helga wanted to see several of the special programs being offered today. Gundy didn't like leaving the men at home, but they were going to a couple of the special programs which were exclusively for women, and the idea of leaving the men in Macholand, for an extended period of time, was even more distasteful. So Monica's suggestion was greeted with appreciation from the rest of the gang. The men didn't seem to mind either. They were all pretty exhausted from the party last night, and the convention really wasn't guy oriented anyway. The one notable exception was Jim Prescott senior. Helga wanted him along, and he wanted to see what all the fuss was about too. She didn't answer his questions about Macholand though. He would find out about that soon enough when he got there. She knew it would be embarrassing for such a strong executive type to end up in Macholand, but it couldn't be helped, and he was going to have to get used to such things at some point. In her mind, the convention seemed like a convenient first step for the Wizard of Wall Street and the leader of Prescott Enterprises. Besides, Helga wanted him registered as well. So as the women womanhandled the men in their strong arms, bidding each a fond farewell and kissing them passionately, Monica looked on. And as she did so, an evil little smile spread across her face. Not five seconds after the women marched out the door and the men trudged back into their rooms to sleep last night off, Monica pulled out her cell-phone and made the call. ------------------------------------ It started to rain around eleven, and Jim thought Sarina looked a bit nervous. Every so often, she would look up at the sky and shake her head, and then make another call with her cell-phone. While this was occurring, her troops were busy preparing the contraband. One hundred boxes were moved from the huts and stacked neatly by the heliport. Sarina even had a number of the Cajun cuties helping. There seemed to be an urgency to their work, but every time Jim asked, Sarina would answer that their was really no problem. Just a half mile from that scene, Brome and Eva were staring, in wonder, at the island which had appeared out of nowhere right in front of their eyes. The Cajun man had stopped the motor and was staring at the island as well. But Jim was the first to recover. He pointed toward the island and said with conviction, "That's where they are!" Eva stopped staring for a moment and asked, "How do you know for sure?" Jim didn't look at Eva, instead he looked up at the sky and said with even more conviction, "Because, if they ain't there……… we're screwed!" Brome had to admire the Cajun man's logic. Instead of asking any more questions that wouldn't get answers anyway, she said in a voice that betrayed her emotions, "Let's get going!" But the Cajun man offered a word of caution before he started the motor again. "Can't make a frontal assault, too risky." He let his words sink in for a second as the women's gaze returned to the island. Then he pointed eastward. "See where the island is closest to the eastern shore of the swamp……..We can swim for the island there." Even before the women could ask, he gave them the reason why. "I don't think we want to let anyone hear the boat motor." "That'll take time," Brome shot back. As Ron started up the boat and began to maneuver it slowly off channel and through the maze of cypress trees, he looked at Brome sympathetically and said in almost a whisper, "I'm sorry, it just can't be helped." Brome looked longingly at the island for a moment till it was hidden by some trees, but turned and nodded to Ron like she did indeed understand. Ron being more like Ron again added, "I just hope there aren't any gators or poisonous snakes over there when we make our swim for the island. Eva shook her head in disgust at the Cajun man's last remark, but just before she was about to add something to the conversation, she heard a loud noise off to the left in the water. Just great she thought, as her head turned and she spied the gator that made the noise. As the first crackle of thunder rumbled through the late morning sky, I thought I heard a strange noise. It sounded like a swarm of bees. In matter of seconds, the noise became visible. A fleet of helicopters appeared low over the southern end of the island. "There they are! shouted one of Sarina's soldiers. "It's about time! Sarina said disgustedly as another bolt of lightening lit up the quickly darkening sky. I watched stoically as a helicopter landed, was quickly loaded with boxes, and took off in a blaze of motion. As soon as the pad was clear, another helicopter systematically took its place. Sarina was supervising the whole operation, and even in the pouring rain, the whole proceeding was going off without a hitch. As I looked on helplessly and passively, I couldn't help but admire this very organized and forceful woman. Sometime ago, I had stopped reacting to my fate. For the most part, I had become just a reflection of myself, a walking zombie. In a matter of minutes, I knew I would be on the last helicopter, and maybe my last hope for freedom would disappear forever as I boarded it. Silently, I looked upward into the ominous sky, and said one final prayer, and thought of Brome. The woman could hear the distant buzz from their position, but couldn't see what was making the noise. Ron had grown very quiet as soon as the noise started, and he hadn't talked in nearly ten minutes. Finally, Brome asked, "Ron, do you know what that noise is?" He shook his head somberly before he answered, "Ya!…….It sounds like helicopters." Both women looked at one another as the realization of Ron's words hit home. How much longer?" Brome asked desperately. "Just a few more minutes," he answered back, never taking his eyes off the tangle of trees and vines ahead of the boat. To take the women's minds off the noise in the distance, he suggested, "You better get ready for the swim. " Both women listened to the noise for a second longer and Brome knew Ron was right about the noise as the low pitched hum of the helicopters grew louder. Could the helicopters be some plan of Sarina's Brome wondered? Even as she asked herself that question, she instinctively knew the answer and she started to hurriedly undress. Before Eva copied her sisters actions, she gave Brome a compassionate and tender smile. Brome stopped undressing and stared at her sister for a moment. She understood her sister's gentle glance completely and returned the smile. The moment lasted only a second more and then the two exceedingly beautiful but unbelievably formidable women started to rip off their clothes. Ron looked back at the sisters and did a double take as the women prepared for the water. His concentration was broken for a few moments as he watched the women hurriedly shed their outer layer of clothing. After all, Ron was a man. Ten minutes later, the last helicopter was in position and the few remaining boxes were being loaded. Sarina seemed to notice me for the first time as she gave me a big smile and held out her hand. I wanted to run, but there was nowhere to run too. I grudgingly gave her my hand and she led me to the last remaining helicopter. As we prepared to take off, I saw some almost naked women enter the clearing. They were running towards the helicopter at an unbelievable speed, and they were followed by a large string bean of a man. It took me only another second to realize who the women were. As soon as I recognized the woman running the fastest, I instinctively yelled out, "BROME!" Sarina's head instantly turned, and a moment later, I heard her yell, "TAKE OFF!" I was sitting between the pilot and Sarina. At that instant, I undid my seat belt and tried to reach across Sarina's body to open the door of the helicopter. Sarina, grabbed me around the head with one arm and slugged me in the jaw with the fist from her other arm as the helicopter lifted off the pad. My body went numb even before my mind went dark. Brome could see Sarina, clearly now, in the helicopter as she raced for it. As she drew near, she could see that Sarina was wrestling with a man. Her heart skipped a beat as she saw Sarina gain control of the situation and move the man close to the window. As the helicopter took off, she saw Sarina waving bye-bye to her with the man's hand, but she ignored the gesture as she focused on the man's face. It was Jim. With a great leap, Brome jumped towards the helicopter's landing skids and caught one with her hand, but as the copter moved off, she lost her grip in the rain and she came crashing back down into a large puddle of water. As she sat in the mud filled water, Brome watched the helicopter move off for a second, and then she smashed the puddle with one of her fists causing it to splash out in all directions. As Eva and Ron reached her, they heard her yell at the top of her lungs, "SARINA, I'LL FIND YOU IF IT TAKES ME THE REST OF MY LIFE!" Onboard the helicopter, Sarina instructed the pilot to make another pass, and as the helicopter swung around in a long arc back toward the heliport, Sarina settled Jim onto her lap. "Wave bye-bye to the woman you're never going to see again," she said in a sweet melodious voice to the unconscious Jim. But it was Sarina who again waved Jim's hand out the window down toward the ground. "Bye!……..Bubbye!" she sang out as she looked gleefully out the window towards Brome's figure below. Then just before the helicopter took off towards the coast and the Artemis beyond, her mood changed once again and she said in a very serious voice, "Game!…..Set!……And match, Brome!" After her comments, the pilot was instructed to set a course for the Artemis. Down below, Brome was helped to her feet by her sister Eva, and both women stared after the helicopter as it slowly disappeared. Ron on the other hand was staring at the women who were walking deliberately towards their position. He commented in a somewhat nervous tone, "Ah, ladies…….I wouldn't intrude on your thoughts just now, but I think you better look this way." Brome and Eva turned to see a large group of Cuties attempting to encircle the trio. Quickly Brome did a count. There were fifteen of them. In a very controlled and deliberate voice she asked Ron a question. "Do you think you can take three of them?" That question sort of surprised him, but he managed to say in a more controlled voice, "I hope so!" "Good!" she answered back. Then she started to walk towards the nearest Cuties. In the next instant, she was talking to them in a deadly calm voice, "Ladies, I would really turn around and leave here, if I were you……..I'm really pissed off at the moment, and you might get seriously hurt." Ron and Eva looked at one another and shook their heads in disbelief, but they both turned so as to have Brome's back. ---------------------------------- Five minutes after Monica had pushed the button on the security console, a soft knock came to the door of Evander P. Honeycutt's penthouse apartment. Monica who was on the cell-phone whispered into it, "They're here!" And hung up. When she opened the door, five stunningly beautiful women and one equally stunning teenage girl were standing in the hallway. They were wearing uniforms and hats that delivery personnel might wear, and on the back of the coveralls were the words Amazon Cleaners. Monica gave the lead woman a nod of recognition and moved aside so they could enter the apartment. Two of the women wheeled in an oversize laundry cart, and two others carried in large boxes. As soon as the women entered the apartment, they moved to the middle of the living room setting down their burdens and when they had done so, they immediately began to unzip their uniforms revealing bikinis underneath and unbelievable bodies underneath that. The woman who had acknowledged Monica moments before stopped next to her and introduced Monica to the teenage girl. The young girl who was standing just inside the doorway, followed the lead of the other women and started taking off her uniform as well. The woman smiled at Monica and began to speak, "This is my youngest sister, Amy. It's her first time. After you described the set up and the men involved, I thought it would be the perfect first job for her." Monica nodded in understanding and replied gleefully, "Oh it will be!……..These men will be no problem, I assure you." The woman smiled at the news and Monica added rather boastfully, "I would've handled them all by myself……..if I could have managed preparing all their bodies." The woman laughed, but added, "Lucky for us there's so many of them." By this time, some of the women had disrobed and were unpacking the boxes. From one of the boxes, a woman had already pulled out a little medical kit and she was setting up a laptop on the floor next to it. The other woman was pulling out of her box two large rolls of cellophane and some strange looking gags. After the teenage girl had removed her uniform, she asked in an antsy voice, "Where are they?" Her sister glanced at the young girl and then back at Monica and said, "She's a bit impatient!" Monica laughed, but whispered back, "Their sleeping, follow me." She motioned for the other four women to follow as well, and they headed for the rooms where the men were sleeping completely unaware of what was about to happen to them. As she watched her younger sister fall in behind Monica, the woman quickly began to unzip her coveralls as well. She stopped undressing for a moment to tell Monica something, "Thanks for letting us in on this…….We owe you one!" Monica stopped, turned back towards the woman and smiled. Then she looked to the young teenage girl, put her finger to her mouth and went, "Shhhh!", and then she started to walk again towards the bedrooms and the peacefully sleeping men. The group stopped in front of the first bedroom, and Monica motioned for the teenager to look inside. The girl known as Raven quietly opened the door and saw a sleeping man on the bed. "His name is Evander P. Honeycutt and he owns this penthouse," Monica told the excited girl. "And he's all yours!" she added. A big grin lit up the young girl's face, she turned to Monica and winked, then the young girl tiptoed in and Monica closed the door behind her. A moment later, she repeated the process at the door of the next sleeping man. In a few minutes, each woman had been apportioned a man, all except for Monica and Sky, Raven's older sister. When Monica came to Sidney's door she stopped and talked to Sky, "I'd like to keep this one," she asked hopefully. "I think that can be arranged," Sky whispered back. Monica pointed to the last room and said, "That one's yours!" Sky nodded and moved off, but before she went inside to surprise Harvey Milkwith, she whispered to Monica, "Thanks! After the men are on ice, I'll make sure headquarters knows the score with…….What's his name?" "Sidney Longfellow!" Sky did a double take when she heard his name, but managed to keep from laughing, and she repeated his name back to Monica, "Sidney Longfellow." Monica gave her the thumbs up sign and moved into Sidney's room. ----------------------------------- Ron had been in some hellatious barroom fights, but nothing could compare with what he had just been through. As a matter of fact, he was surprised he was still standing. He was fairly certain his nose was broken and both eyes were beginning to puff up and darken. But as he looked around the battlefield, he saw that all the Cuties were down and out with their bodies scattered about the rain soaked field, in haphazard positions, where they had fallen. "Are you all right!" he heard a voice say. He recognized it as Eva's voice. With her voice, came a picture in his mind of the two sisters fighting moments before. If the Cuties were tough, then these two sisters were some sort of she-demons from hell. How could two absolutely gorgeous women fight like he had just seen them fight? He had somehow managed three of the hellcats, but the sisters had managed four times as many between them, and as he looked at the sisters, he didn't see a scratch on them. How could that be? "Are you OK!" Eva asked again. The Cajun man worked his tongue around in his mouth for a second and spit out a tooth, but managed to say, "Ya, I guess so!…….Can we leave this place before these woman wake up?" This time it was Brome who spoke, "How fast can we get back to civilization?" "Less than a day," Ron answered back. "If we go south, we're only miles from the coast. We can follow it to Grand Isle and charter a plane back to Houma." Brome considered his words for a moment, shook her head like she had made up her mind, and said firmly, "Then let's get going!" "Now wait just a darn minute," Ron answered back. "Let's not forget the storm. It will soon be suicide to go out on the Gulf in a small boat." "What's the matter?………a little pussy are we?" Brome taunted. Ron bit his tongue, and didn't answer her retort. Instead he tried more reason, "It will be quicker to wait the storm out……..Besides, soon nothing will be flying in this storm." While he tried reasoning with Brome, he could see Eva moving in behind her sister, and she looked serious. Oh no! he thought. Just what I needed another fight, and with a she-demon this time. "Forget you, Cajun man!" Brome said disgustedly, literally spitting out her words. Then as if she had already dismissed Ron from her thoughts, she added with a casual flip of her hand signaling to her sister, "Come on Eva! Lets go!" Then focusing completely on the Cajun man once more she said disgustedly, "I'm taking your boat, Ron!………And you can stay here with the Cuties!" As Brome turned to walk back the way she came, Eva struck. She grabbed her sister around the legs bringing her down with a tackle a linebacker would have been proud of. Both women fell into a big puddle of water skidding in the mud completely covering them from head to foot in the grimy stuff. Ron looked on for a moment as the women fought more like women for a change, scratching and clawing at each other and screaming at the top of their lungs. "Will you get over here and help! Eva shouted. The Cajun man did not respond immediately to Eva's cry for help. He was enjoying the cat fight to much and he didn't relish coming between sisters, especially these two. Rolling around in the mud with these almost completely naked women would be a dream come true, but Brome's mood seemed like it might take all the fun out of it for the Cajun man. Still, he knew it was the only way to get Brome's attention, so he reluctantly waded in. Five minutes later, while Ron held on tightly to Brome's legs, Eva tried to talk some sense into her sister as she held her firmly in a headlock. "Brome, just give me a minute," she pleaded. Slowly but surely, Brome struggles lessened, and she listened, but she did not stop struggling completely. "We have to wait! You know the truth in that!" Eva told her sister tenderly. "I thought you loved Jim too," Brome said angrily. "Things have changed," Eva answered back. Brome looked at Ron for a moment before she said, "So that's why your giving up." Ron held on to Brome's legs for dear life. He didn't have the slightest idea what the two women were talking about. "I'm not giving up," Eva said even more tenderly. "I'll follow you to hell and back if you want me too, but if we get ourselves killed, How will that help Jim?" Brome stopped struggling when she realized the truth in her sisters words, and began to cry. Ron listened to the two sisters, but didn't say anything. Instead, he held on to Brome's legs even tighter, just in case. "What are we going to do?" Brome asked in-between sobs. Eva looked at Ron and asked, "Ron, how long?" "Tomorrow morning, Ron answered. At hearing that bit of news, Brome broke out into even louder sobs. In-between her wails she added, "It's just that we came so far and we were so damn close!" Eva hugged her sister tightly and consoled her as best she could as Brome continued to cry and lament for some time, and the Cajun man hung on to Brome's legs, just in case. ------------------------------------ As soon as the door was shut, Raven tiptoed across the room and silently slipped into Evander's bed. She propped her head up on her elbow and hungrily stared down at the peacefully sleeping man, a mischievous and precocious grin spreading across her face as she contemplated her next move. This is going to be so cool she thought to herself. A few moments later, Evander stirred, his eyes opened, and he found himself staring into a beautiful teenage face. It took him a few seconds to realize where he was and then he asked in a startled voice, "Who are you?" Raven remembered a line from a movie and modified it some answering, "Why, I'm you're best day dream!" Evander stared at her for a long moment, his face undergoing a dizzying array of emotions in just a few seconds. First, he went from a look of bewilderment, to one of amazement, and finally to one of shocked concern. As his body finally began to stir, Raven with cat-like reflexes responded even more quickly. She grabbed his arms and forced them to his sides catching his upper body in a tight bear-hug. As she did so, she twisted his body so that he rolled over the top of her. Playfully, she kept his body in motion, turning him so that his body rolled over hers, in bed, again and again. The whole time she was laughing out loud enjoying herself tremendously. As she toyed with his overmatched body, she sang out so this time Evander could hear her thoughts, "We're going o have so much fun, little fella!…………..This is just too cool!" One desperate scream did come from Evander's lips before he was prevented from saying anything else. "Inga!" he yelled, but Inga couldn't hear his plea. A few rooms over Raven's sister Sky had made quick and efficient work of Harvey Milkwith. Oh! She managed to amuse herself with him for a few minutes, but her curiosity over her sister's handling of her man hastened her actions. Harvey was quietly and humanely squeezed into unconsciousness between Sky's all powerful legs. Then he was carried to the living room where she, in a very businesslike manner, wrapped his naked body in cellophane preparing him for transport. First, his arms were pinned to his sides and wrapped in the cellophane and then his legs were covered in the same manner completely and efficiently immobilizing them as well. In a few moments, he was bundled up like a mummy, but there was one difference. The wrappings were clear and his imprisoned body, except for his head, was completely encased in cellophane. After his body had been securely wrapped, the standard gag was placed over his mouth as well. It was procedure. A man might wake up and cry out before the injection could take hold. It was something that was not needed here, but Sky always followed procedures. No man ever woke up, prematurely, after Sky had squeezed him between her mighty legs. By this time, the living room was beginning to fill with other couples, and the women were in various stages of preparing their assigned man for transport. When the computer officer was done wrapping Harold Beamis in cellophane, both her and Sky went to the lap top, punched in each man's name and vital statistics, and waited. It only took a few seconds before the printer started to hum with activity. The two women tore the sheet off the printer, fitted the proper label and bar code into each man's ear tag, and secured the tag to each man's ear completing preparations. The computer officer then went to the medical kit and prepared the injections for the two men. As she watched, Sky's thoughts returned to her sister. After each man had been injected, sending each into a state of suspended animation, Sky was already walking towards the room where her sister was located. When she opened the door, she was relieved to see her sister had everything under control. Raven had been trained in all forms of combat just as Sky had been, and she knew her sister was completely capable of handling almost any man, but still it was her first time, and well, big sisters do worry. As Sky observed the scene before her, she saw that Raven had Evander in a standard head scissors. She had assumed a sitting position propping herself up against the head board while Evander tried to unsuccessfully pry his head from between her legs. While he did so, Raven was watching the helpless man in fascination. Sky watched her sister, with pride, for a few more moments then asked like any older sister would, "Is everything OK?" Raven reacted like any teenager might at an outlandish comment from an older authority figure. She rolled her eyes, shook her head in disbelief, and said sounding much like the young teen she was, "EXCUSE ME!…………..Does it look like I'm having any problems with Hercules here!…………I could take ten cream puffs just like him and not even work up a sweat!" Sky smiled at the remark then looked at her watch and gave her sister the bad news. "It's getting late. Bring him in to the other room so we can prepare him for transport." After her sisters comments, Raven's tone completely changed. "Pleassse! Just a few more minutes," Raven begged. Sky looked at her watch once more before responding, "Five more minutes and that's it! These guys may not be formidable, but their girlfriends are!" "Yahoo!" Raven yelled. Then she turned her attention back to the man still struggling between her legs, "Did you hear that little fella! We got five more minutes." A look of shear terror spread across Evander's face as he heard the news and he once again redoubled his efforts to pry his head free from it's sexy leg prison. As usual, he was unsuccessful. Sky watched the scene for a few more moments, her amusement and pride growing as she watched. Finally, she nodded in satisfaction at her sisters control over the situation, smiled contentedly, and finally closed the door. After the door was closed, Raven gave Evander's head one final burst of female power with her sexy thighs. Her legs quivered from the effort, but she didn't want him completely unconscious. That wouldn't have suited her needs and desires at the moment. Instead, she just squeezed him long enough to immobilize the outgunned man. When his head bobbed weakly, she let him go, quickly removed her bikini bottoms, and repositioned herself straddling his shoulders with her snatch directly over his face. When his senses cleared, he found himself getting a new order from above, "OK cream puff! Make me a happy girl!" When she was done with her command, she slipped her legs off his shoulders sliding herself forward and engulfing his face in acres of sexy girl parts. In the next instant, his head was lifted up and shoved even farther into paradise. At the same time, he could feel the pressure from her thighs as they held him prisoner in their firm embrace. Their overpowering caress popped his tongue out and he found himself silently obeying his mistress's commands. Ten minutes later, all of the men were nearly ready for transport except Evander P. Honeycutt. Sky nervously looked at her watch as she sat by the lap top waiting for Harvey's information to print out, when Raven finally appeared. She was carrying Evander about the waist, his arms and legs suspended a few inches above the floor as they hung limply down in her arms. "I'm hear!" she shouted out with glee. "It's about time!" her sister replied. "I was just about to come and get you." Then Sky looked at her watch again as the printer started to hum once again. "Get him ready!" she barked out to her sister even as she ripped the information from the printer. She looked at it for a second and handed it to Monica with a smile. "Everything's set. This will follow him through the system and after he's been reeducated, he'll be all yours once again." Monica took the label, placed it in Sidney's ear tag, and lovingly attached it to the sleeping man's ear. "Thanks!" she said and she meant it. As Monica looked about the room, she was supremely happy. Everything had gone exactly to plan, and not only was she going to be richer from the bounty, but she was going to get Sidney and his money as well. Finally, her thoughts returned to the other men and women scattered about the room. This time it was Monica who looked at her watch. She turned to Sky and said a bit nervously, "Better call the helicopter we don't want to press our luck!" The communications officer answered instead, "It's on its way!……There's a pick up today off the coast and if we hurry, we can deliver the goods right to the Artemis!" ----------------------------------- I woke up somewhere over the gulf. My jaw hurt like hell and I rubbed it as I remembered what had just transpired. Brome had been so close. I couldn't believe she had tracked us so far so fast. That filled me with hope, but then I remembered were I was and that I was heading to some ship that would take me far away from my life and from Brome too. As I mulled that over, my hopes seemed to fade almost as fast as they had flickered into life. To stiffen my resolve, I tried to remember what Brome looked like as she ran for the helicopter. She was just as I had remembered her. It seemed so long ago when we were last together and happy, but it had only been a couple of weeks. So much had happened in that short time span that it was just a jumble in my mind. The only thing that came shining through were those green eyes of hers. They were my beacon. They kept me sane when everything else was a whirlwind around me, and right now there was quite a raging gale just outside. The wind jolted us about, and the storm finally intruded in on my thoughts and Brome's blazing green eyes faded and disappeared. As I returned to reality, I realized for the first time, that the storm was much worse here. We were buffeted about as the rain sleeted against the windshield. I looked at Sarina who was talking into the ships radio, and even she seemed worried as she spoke while glancing out the window and looking at the raging sea below. Off in the distance, I saw a black smudge on the horizon. As we drew nearer, the smudge changed into the form of a ship, and it didn't take me long to realize, that the ship was our destination. When we were along side the ship. We had to hover and await our turn to land. As we hovered in the howling gale, I could see a helicopter land on a large heliport on the stern of the ship. As soon as the copter was down, women raced towards it and started to off load the cargo. As I watched in fascination at the frantic activity below, I remembered once again what that cargo was, and it chilled me. Finally, it was our turn, and the pilot skillfully maneuvered the copter down right on the bulls eye in the center of the pad, but this time no one approached. Instead, I felt the pad immediately start to descend. Five minutes later we were in the bowls of the ship and far from the howling gale raging over our heads. When the lift stopped, Sarina seemed to notice me for the first time. She turned, flashed me a dazzling smile, and offered me her hand. I had no other choice but to accept it. As we exited the helicopter, hand and hand, several uniformed women approached. I was introduced and handed over to one of them all at the same time. "This is my consort, Jim! He has a sensor imbedded in his arm. Please remove it!" The woman nodded like she understood, and gave an unusual salute with her arm. She put her flat palm to her chest and then extended her arm out. In the same motion she made a fist with the extended hand and brought that fist to her head. It reminded me of something right out of a science fiction novel. It was one of Sarina's touches I was sure. I remembered how Sarina loved details. After the salute, the woman grabbed my arm and felt it like she was looking for something. After a cursory examination of both of my arms, the woman took my hand and started to walk with me to a destination I could only guess was going to be sick bay. She was like all the other women that I saw Sarina surround herself with. She was tall, extremely beautiful, and with that same arrogant smile that all of the women in Sarina's mercenary force had permanently embedded on their lovely faces. As we walked off, I turned and looked back one last time. I could see the copter being stowed by a large tow motor and the helipad was already rising, back to its original position, to seal off the ship from the foul weather raging outside. Already stowed in a long neat line farther down the immense hanger were the boxes that contained the sleeping men. By this time, Sarina was already deeply immersed in conversation with several women who looked to be high ranking officers aboard this ship. My concentration was broken on the group of women behind me when the woman guiding me by the hand began to speak in a thick German accent. "Velcome to ze Artemis," she said in a pleasant voice. I looked up into a smiling face. She seemed pleasant enough. What had she called the ship again? It was the Artemis. Sarina had named this ship appropriately enough. Artemis was the Greek name for the goddess of the hunt, and as I looked back at the boxes on the other side of the hanger one last time. I realized the that the present day Artmis had been a successful hunter as well. The woman intruded on my thoughts once again, "My name is Uma, you may call me that. I vil take that nasty thing out of your arm those nasty vemen placed their." As I listened, I looked her over thoroughly for the first time. She had to be well over six feet tall and with the modest heels she wore she absolutely towered over me. As for her name, she looked like an Uma. Her hair was fixed back giving her a matronly appearance, but what a matron. She was extremely beautiful and I estimated her age to be in the late thirties, but she could have been even older then that. Her voice was pleasant enough but it had a ring of authority in it. I just instinctively knew not to cross her. Maybe it was the uniform. She was wearing a dark blue uniform that looked like something right out of the SS, complete with hat. The only difference was that her skirt was low cut exposing much of a great pair of legs. The black boots were the final touch and they seemed to highlight the uniform perfectly. As I took a peek at her, I was sure Sarina designed the uniforms. She loved people around her to be dressed in appropriate costumes. A few moments later, we entered an elevator and she pushed the appropriate button, but she didn't leave my hand go. When the lift started moving, I looked up at her and she was smiling down at me with that same arrogant smile plastered all over her face. For some reason, I smiled back. I guess it was an act of surrender on my part. I was just so tired of fighting these women, and I knew I couldn't win. Seeing my reaction, her smile broadened even more and she added, "You are a very lucky man, no!" I didn't feel like a lucky man, but I didn't voice my opinion. Instead, I hung my head and kept quiet. That always seemed to work best with women like this. Uma ignored my reaction and had a few more things to say as the elevator door popped open. "Madam vants you prepared for later. First, we fix your arm, then you vil rest, und then we vil vash und dress you . Ve vill make you pretty for your mistress, no!" My mind said no, but my body language said yes. Uma's smile got even broader as she noticed my reaction, and we continued on to sick bay. ------------------------------------ Sky delivered the men to an abandoned airstrip in Catskills. There they were transferred to a waiting cargo plane which immediately took off for the south coast. As soon as the plane was airborne, Sky pulled out her cell phone and made a call. Moments later, she was in contact with the communications officer aboard the Artemis. The officer wrote down the information, tore the sheet of paper off the pad, and moved over to the women who were pouring over the charts on the bridge. The captain of the Artemis was there along with Sarina. They were engrossed in the storm and the present position of the Artemis. The officer approached, but silently waited alongside the captain of the boat. Presently, she was noticed by the captain who took the note and read it. As she handed it to Sarina, she commented, "This is not possible. These men will have to wait for the next pick up." Sarina read the note and stated, "I'd hate to loose this group. They're all rich and powerful men." The captain, thinking of her ship first said in an agitated voice, "But the storm? It's intensifying." "Hmmm!" Sarina commented as her full attention went back to the charts. Finally, she told the captain her plan, "What if we head due east. Could we skirt the storm and pick these men up?" The captain mulled over the charts for a minute or two and the position of the storm and pointed to a spot on the map. "If they can be hear by 1730 hours, maybe just maybe we can pick them up, but not a moment later!" Sarina nodded her approval. Then she added, "Will go to plan B if they don't make it. The men will be hidden in New Orleans till they can be safely transferred to the Cuties." This time it was the captain who nodded and then she transferred the coordinates and timing to the communications officer who went back to transmit the information to the plane. ---------------------------------- Gundy hurried ahead of the rest, opened the door, and yelled, "Hiram! I'm home!" She was greeted with complete silence. By this time, Jim Prescott Sr. and the rest of the women had made their way into the apartment as well. The apartment looked like a cyclone had hit it. Much of the furniture was pushed out of the way and there was paper and bits of cellophane scattered throughout the penthouse apartment. As soon as Helga saw the bits of cellophane, she felt a stirring in her gut. Carol Lindley asked the obvious, "What's happened?" Helga ignoring Carol's question barked an order to her two daughters, "Inga, Gundy, check the bedrooms." As soon as her two daughters were moving so was Helga. She went over to the sofa and picked up a piece of cellophane and examined it for a few moments. By this time her two daughters were returning with the bad news. "They're gone! And so is Monica!" Inga told the group. Then Helga was talking to Darlene, "Darlene, your a friend of Monica's, see if you can get her on the phone?" As Darlene started to dial, the group gathered around Helga as Gundy asked with a touch of concern in her voice, "Where are they mom? Then with her mood changing she said in a huff, "Boy! Is Hiram going to get it when he gets home!" Helga stopped examining the clear plastic and said to Gundy and to everyone in a very serious tone, "I don't think it's Hiram's fault dear. I'm afraid he and the rest of the men have been kidnapped." "Kidnapped?" Inga said incredulously. "Then this is a matter for the police." Her finance piped in. "No answer!" Darlene yelled to the group. Helga took it all in and then said, "No! no police. If I'm right about what happened then they'd be no match for this group of women." "Some women kidnapped our men?" Cat asked. "Yes, I'm afraid so. This cellophane is their trademark." Helga said sympathetically. "Was it W.I.C.? What will they do with them?" Inga asked nervously. "No! Not W.I.C.! There a counter group to W.I.C., like an evil twin to a good twin, and I'm afraid they will do the same thing to them that Sarina did to Jim. They are bent on world domination, and the men of this planet are just a means to an end." The group went silent till Gundy asked the obvious, "What are we going to do?" "Why find them of course!" Helga said seriously. "You can count on me!" Cat said. "Me too," Darlene and Carol piped in. Jim Prescott told Helga, "All my resources are at your disposal, including my yacht and my fleet of plains." Helga listened, and even as she listened a plan was forming in her head. "Good! The first thing will do is try and find Monica. I'm afraid it looks to me like she was in on this." Inga lost her temper at that bit of news and yelled out, "THE BITCH! Wait till I get my hands on her!" "I'm afraid your going to have to wait your turn," Cat said seriously. "Ah ladies, please." Jim interrupted. Then he asked, "Helga, you said the first thing. What's the second thing." "We're going to have to get W.I.C. involved. Remember, the men are carrying transponders." For the first time, a glimmer of hope went through the group. ------------------------------------ The men had been transferred once more to a helicopter near Biloxi Mississippi. There the storm was less intense. The pilot immediately set a course due south to meet the Artemis. On the bridge, the captain nervously looked at her watch. It was already 1730 hours. She was about to issue orders scrubbing the pick up when one of her watch yelled, "There it is!" By this time, the waves were washing over the deck and the ship was bobbing up and down making any type of landing extremely dangerous. Still the female pilot skillfully guided her craft safely on to the helipad. As soon as the copter was down a squad of women raced for it, and quickly off loaded the boxes containing the sleeping men. When the job had been completed, the pilot took off and headed for the safety of land. Following procedure, a squad member was about to open one of the boxes and run a scanner over the man when a large wave washed over the boat and drenched the group. The squad leader barked out an order, "Get them below!" The second in command who was carrying the scanner balked at the order and pleaded, "But sir, they haven't been checked!…….What about procedure?" Just then, another even larger wave washed over the ship and drenched the squad causing several of the boxes to move precariously on deck. "Get them below! There will be hell to pay if we loose any of the cargo!" the squad leader told her second. The second was about to say something when another wave hit. This time she motioned to the others to move the boxes out. ------------------------------------- I was sitting on the bed of a rather nice cabin waiting for Sarina to make an appearance. My right arm hurt and I was rubbing it. There was a band aid over the incision where the transponder had been located and removed. I was wearing a plain one piece outfit that reminded me a little of a toga without the frills. The garment ended half way up my thighs and made me feel a bit ridiculous, but that was how Sarina wanted me dressed. I even had on sandals. The storm outside had dissipated some or maybe we had moved out of its path. In any case, I wasn't being thrown around the cabin anymore. That allowed me to concentrate on other more important matters. As I mulled over my fate, I realized that standard guy clothes probably wouldn't be in my future. Sarina did love her men to be dressed appropriately, and that meant they'd dress as Sarina wanted them to. Of course, I wasn't allowed to wash and dress myself. Uma took care of that. She called me a consort and I was told such mundane matters would be handled for me in the future. I guess Sarina had plans for me. I remembered her talking about a female heir. I just wasn't sure how she planned on guaranteeing that. Just then, my thoughts were interrupted as Sarina walked into the cabin. She had on the same type of uniform the other women were wearing. Only hers was more elaborate denoting her station. As soon as she was inside the cabin, she threw her hat onto the bed and ordered me to, "Stand up!" I slowly got to my feet and waited. She was smiling at me and looking me over all at the same time. With out saying a word, she made a circular motion with her finger. I knew what she wanted. I started to slowly turn as she kept appraising me. "Perfect!" she exclaimed and then she walked over and started to fondle my cheek with one of her big hands. "I think I'll let you grow your mustache back," she commented to me as she continued to caress my cheek and look into my eyes. "Does that please you?" she asked. I nodded that indeed it did. I was starring into her dark cat-like eyes. They were so different then Brome's, but still hypnotic in their own right. Whenever I looked into those eyes, I found it difficult to break contact with them. The moment lasted awhile longer and then I was issued another command. "Now help me off with my boots," she ordered as she made her way to a chair. As I straddled her leg and began to tug at her right boot, I casually asked, "What happens now?" She placed her other foot on my rump and pushed. I went flying in the other direction landing in a heap on the floor, but I did have her boot in my hand. She laughed out loud for a moment and then she began to talk. "Where going to my reeducation center in Argentina. A camp cheerful to be exact. We should be there in a few days." As I listened, I picked myself up and prepared to take the other boot off. "Once there, I want you to get a taste of my reeducation techniques." As I began to tug at the other boot, Sarina placed her other foot on my butt and pushed again. It had the same results as before. She laughed a bit again and then continued on with her agenda for me. "Oh, I'm not going to change you. I like you the way you are. You have spirit……..Now get over hear and rub my feet!" I walked over again and knelt at her feet taking up her big right foot in my hands and started to gently message it as she talked. She stopped and smiled at me for a few moments as I worked. Then she continued on once again with her plans for me. "Will drop the cargo off there and we'll stay there for a few days. Then your coming with me to my secret island." I stopped rubbing her foot and parroted back her own words, "Secret Island?" "Yes, its a wonderful place. You'll just love it!" she told me excitedly. I didn't say anything. Instead, I started to rub her other foot. "There, you will give me a female heir!" "How can you assure that? Why?" I asked cautiously. "Oh it's quite easy, in this day and age, to insure female progeny. And I need an heir to rule after me because from there I intend on ruling the world." I stopped rubbing again and looked at her in shocked disbelief. She saw my reaction and started to laugh. It was a very sinister and evil laugh indeed. She interrupted her laughter to give me one more bit of news and I started to rub her foot again. "You are going to spend the rest of your days on that island." I stopped rubbing her foot again and she started to laugh even louder. I thought it was the most evil and sinister laugh I had ever heard in my life. To be continued………… Will Brome and Eva find Jim's trail again? And what about Helga and the other women? What will Camp cheerful be like? Will Jim be stuck on an island paradise making babies with a beautiful but evil woman?………Poor Jim! All the questions will be answered in the final two chapters.