2019-06-21 - spike - The New Shop 120

Author: spike
Title: The New Shop 120
Date: 21 June 2019

Chapter 120
I opted to wear the matching boots with my leatherman outfit this time. A full day of pleasure and no way to communicate. I couldn’t even feel the ECG harness under the shirt.

Muir cap on, I handed the armband to Alpha, stepped into the case and took the pose.

The moment Alpha plugged the mesh suit into the base of the display, I froze solid.

He closed the door. “Enjoy, Arty. I won’t bother you with the mic this time. I‘ll turn off your ears. Nothing to disturb your ecstasy.” There was a click and silence.

It wasn’t long before it began and I was swept away into an eternity of the most exquisite sensations it’s possible to have. Or so I thought.

I closed my eyes and relished in it. There were a few less intense parts to this program, probably to give me a rest, and during those, I did open my eyes again.

Brief snapshots of life in the store. Customers came and went, a few handed over large folders, probably giving their details. A dog without a tail stumbled past and another, probably Bomber, threw a bone with his jaws for him to chase. I’ve got no idea how long it was, the clock behind the counter was gone, but… Bethan.

She seemed excited too. She grabbed Alpha by his leather tie, dragged him across the counter and planted a huge kiss on the forehead. He stumbled back with a look of dismay and said something. She laughed.

Then he handed her an envelope and before she left the store again, I was swept away by another cycle of bliss.

The next time I opened my eyes, the store was dark. The sensations in my ass subsided to nothing but a tingle. Time for a sleep, perhaps? But then… Something new.

A new sensation in a new place. The tingle moved from my ass to my cock! More than that, the inside of it… The cock tube! Oh fuck, so there was more to this suit than just the ability to use me as a billboard?

The tingle grew to that familiar semi-orgasmic one. I could feel myself building up to a huge cum shot and then… It stopped. Oh fuck, it was edging me and without manipulation, without the need for even an erection, the need for the doctor’s super-viagra, it kept me on edge for hours!

It was even more masterful than Five had been. The edging continued as the ass began again. Ecstasy even more intense than it was possible to conceive of and never once did it bring me to the point of climax.

Then, another sensation joined in on the fun. My nipples. Never my most sensitive of parts but with everything else going on, oh my god it… I… Oh fuck!

The sensations continued to play me like an orchestra until… I… I think I must have passed out from exhaustion because the next thing I knew I was on my back and someone was shaking me.

It took a while before I stirred. I was in my cage. I turned.

“How are you?” It was M’s voice.

“As you’d put it, absolutely knackered.” I shook with laughter. “Fuck me though, I think mine was even better than yours, M! How did I get here? How long?”

“Q sent a portable mesh suit power supply when I had mine. We carried you here frozen. You know how long, sir. A day.”

“No, how long have I been out?”

“Oh, sorry, sir. Three days. Thought you would’ve woken up yesterday, I was only out for two. Don’t worry, we fed and watered you and collected your piss.”

“Collected… How? Freeze me again, haul me out and”

M chuckled. “No, sir. These new chastity belts come with a few accessories. A tube connects to the piss hole. No need to make a mess. It has to if you think about it. That’s how we’re podded. How the tubes to the dog cocks work too.”

“Wait… Three days? So the slaves haven’t been sent yet?”

“Nah. Well, Khan has, but Q realised you’d probably want to say goodbye to a few of us, especially me and Twelve. Right now though, you need to get to the rec room.”

“Q called?”

“He called me, not a general call to all golds this time. Something’s happening and you might want to be there to intervene.”

“Intervene? With what?”

“He just told me to tell you, You might need this.” M handed me something. Something small, metallic, rectangular.

I looked at it and flipped the lid. Flipped the flint. A flame ignited. “Why would I need a Zippo?”

“He said you’d know what to do with it. It’s about the blob. Alpha…”

“I thought I said calling it the blob was off limits, M!”

“I just needed to use it for clarity, sir. There are still a lot of blanks.”

M opened the cage and I clambered out but god, when I stood my legs felt like Jell-O.

“I think I’ll need your help, M.”

He nodded and held me by the waist as I put my arm on his shoulders. We made our way to the elevator.

The moment the doors opened to the rec room, I spotted them. Alpha had his back to me and Blank… It was shaking its head. It signed and with my enhanced eyesight…

“Don’t call me that, sir. Please. My name is Blank.” There was a pause. Obviously, Alpha said something. “What do you mean?” Another pause. “But I… I don’t… It’s impossible to… What is that?”

We made our way towards them and Blank spotted me. I twiddled, partly as a test to see if its eyesight was as good as mine yet. “What’s he saying to you, Blank?”

“He… He called me Tyler, sir! He said I was free!”

“Free? How?”

“He’s just… Oh fuck!” Blank stood with such force, the chair skittered across the room. It stepped back. “Keep that thing away from me!”

Alpha had obviously spotted what Blank had said to me and turned to see me under M’s arm.

“Keep out of this Artemis. It’s none of your business.”

I selected him and Blank on my armband. “Whatever you’ve said to it, it doesn’t like what it’s heard. You’re upsetting a friend so I’m making it my business. What the hell?”

“I’ve spoken at length to my master and persuaded him to release Tyler. He’s a free man. Or will be the moment the suit’s off.”

“He’s… But the suit! There’s… Oh fuck! Blank, I agree with you, stay away from that thing for now at least. It’s dangerous. Alpha, what the hell were you… I thought I told you to talk to it!”

“I’m giving him what he’s wanted for the past six months. I’m doing him a favour! Besides, it’s too late, now. Q gave him back his freedom.” He turned back to Blank. “Now stand still. That’s an order!”

I chuckled and signed. “Congratulations, Blank. You’re a member of a very exclusive club. I only know of one other slave who’ve been granted their freedom by Q. One thing… You, as a free man, outrank Alpha. He’s a slave. Currently, you outrank everyone down here. You don’t need to follow his orders.”

“But I don’t want to be free! I know what it means!”

“Blank, I… won’t call you Tyler. It’s clear you didn’t like that. Do you know who the other slave was? The other slave who regained his freedom? And he was removed from the suit, sir.”

“Who, sir?”

“No, sir. No sir to me this time. I was.”

“But… You’re here.”

“I know. Freedom means freedom to choose, sir. I chose. I gave myself back to him.”

“And you think… I could?”

We finally reached the table and I collapsed onto the chair beside Alpha, this time tapping into my armband allowing Alpha to hear me. “Now, as a free man, Alpha has no authority over you. If anything, you can order him about.”

Alpha’s gaze snapped to me in dismay.

I chuckled. “You didn’t think about that, did you?”

“Ahhh, shit! Why did you have to tell him?”

“You’re hurting a friend. You’d step in if someone did it to one of yours wouldn’t you? Of course I told it.”

I looked at what was on the table. It was black, five inches long and one half was thicker than the other, the thinner half looked like a handle. A scalpel handle. Sheathed perhaps? For something so dangerous, I imagine it’s the only way to carry one safely.

I pointed at it. “How the hell did you persuade Q to allow that thing off the island? He doesn’t even keep them in storage there. Every use, they’re destroyed afterwards! Do you have any idea how dangerous that thing is?”

“It’s just a fuckin’ scalpel!”

Blank seemed to grow in stature, it stood a little prouder, taller, a little more confidently. It pointed at the TV near the elevator. “Get Q on that screen.”

I nodded. “M. Get to the laptop and give Q a call.”

M turned back towards the elevator and froze in mid step as Q’s voice entered my ears. “No need for that. I’ve been watching. Make your way to the screen. Tyler, you may sit. Those restrictions only apply to slaves below the rank of gold.”

With M for support, I made my way there and sank onto the sofa with relief. Blank however didn’t sit. It stood until Q appeared and immediately sank to its knees. Again, Ten and Four were there, Ten with his fingers hovering over his armband to translate what Blank might say.

“You wanted to speak to me, Tyler?”

“Please, sir. Please don’t call me that.”

“Why? It is your name and you don’t need to kneel to me.”

“Was sir. As for kneeling, yes, sir. I do. I’m not Tyler anymore, sir. The blob was Tyler. My name is Blank, sir.”

“If you wish, I could give you another name and set you up in a life well away from your”

Blank held its hand up. “Please, sir. I owe you my life so I give it to you, sir, now that I can. I wasn’t lying when I submitted to you, sir. I didn’t do it out of fear, just as you suggested I shouldn’t. I don’t want to be free anymore. I know what’ll happen if I ever am.”

Q smiled. “What do you believe will happen should you be returned to a normal life?”

“For most of the blanks here, I imagine the loss of taste and smell is seen as that, sir. A loss. A sacrifice, sir. But for me…”

“Yes?”

“It’s a blessing, sir. I don’t have any self-discipline. I need it from you, sir. I need” It took a deep breath. “I need to be a slave, sir. If I ever tasted something again I know I wouldn’t have the willpower. I’d lose control and eat myself to death, just as I was doing before I was taken, sir. As I said, I owe you everything and now I can give you something. I do sir. I give myself to you. Freely.”

“And I accept your gift, Blank. You understand what it is?”

“I know, sir. Why would anyone want to go back to what they were in my situation, sir? I managed to travel over sixty miles on all fours and I didn’t even come in last! Then I ran a marathon. You’ve given me something I would’ve never had. I want that something to be of use to you, not anyone else, sir. And I know it’ll be for the rest of my life, sir. I know I’ll never be free and never want to be. I’d never felt prouder when you gave me this, sir.” It prodded its mark of ownership.

“Then I doubly accept. Understand this. Any slaves I may deem worthy of release, the offer will only ever be made once. This is your last chance.”

“I’m yours, sir.”

”Good. You’ve taken a large step towards earning yourself a name as a slave, Blank. A very large step. ”

“Earning… You mean, a proper name like Twelve, sir?”

Q chuckled. “I’d never considered Twelve to be a proper name in that way before, but if you want to see it that way, then yes. And Blank, you have no idea how much persuasion it took from Alpha to convince me to release one of those blades into the wild but he’d suffered so much and I almost believed his intentions were honourable.” Q’s tone became harder. Disapproving. “Alpha?”

“I admit it, sir. I… I did want rid of it, sir. Every time I see it… I… but I thought it’d want to be released, sir. It begged for it often enough.”

It was my turn to chip in. “Alpha, I told you to speak to it. I told you it’d changed. If completing a marathon wasn’t enough to convince you, it telling me that it was in love with the life here would have. If you’d bothered to ask it.”

“I could barely look at it!”

Q looked sternly down at Alpha. “Alpha, hand the blade to Artemis. Make sure it’s sheathed.”

Alpha reached into his pocket and withdrew the scalpel. He handed it to me.

“I think you know what to do, Artemis.”

“Yes, sir.” I flipped open the Zippo, lit it and paused. I closed the lid again. “Before I do this, sir…”

“Yes?”

“Permission to show Alpha what he might have done to Blank.”

“What did you have in mind?”

I looked around and… Yes… “One of the table legs, sir?”

“Very well, I’ll have my maintenance man replace it tonight.”

I forced myself to my feet and M rushed in to help. I held up my hand. “Not this time, M. You all need to stand well back.”

M froze. “What? Why?”

“You’ll see.” I staggered over to the nearest table and leaned on it for a few seconds. I looked back. They were all beyond arms reach, so, I stepped back and unsheathed the blade. It was incredibly thin, almost as clear as glass. I swiped at the table leg. It was like swiping through air. It was made of tubular steel and offered no resistance. The blade didn’t even leave a mark. Not even a scratch.

I resheathed it.

“Now, you can look. Especially you, Alpha. If you’d mishandled that blade, you could’ve done to Blank what I just did to that table leg.”

Alpha walked over and crouched, looked at it. “But you missed. There’s not even a mark.”

“Lift the table.”

The moment he did, the leg clattered to the floor. Well, three quarters of it did. I picked it up and held it, cut end facing Alpha. The newly exposed surface was mirror smooth.

Alpha recoiled in shock. He fell onto his ass and shuffled away from it in horror.

“That could’ve been Blank, Alpha. Just as well M woke me, isn’t it?”

“Shit! How is that even possible?”

“It’s the only material capable of cutting these suits. Graphene can cut graphene. One molecule thick, the edge of this blade.”

Alpha began to weep. Tears streamed down his cheeks. “I’m sorry, sir. I’ve let you down. I let my feelings get in the way of my duties. Blank me, sir. Permanently. I don’t deserve a name anymore. I don’t deserve the responsibility you’ve given me.”

Q shook his head. “Alpha. I indulged this little bout of vindictiveness because I believed it might help you. I was prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. I won’t punish you for it but you do understand now? Blank has changed? It is a slave worthy of my ownership?”

Alpha nodded.

“Good, now please. Speak to it. If you can, make it a friend because I believe it truly is worthy of friendship now, as does Artemis.”

Alpha nodded again.

“Artemis. Destroy that blade.”

This time, I lit the Zippo and paused again, closed the zippo and tapped. “Sir, how long?”

“Held in the flame? Until the edge is glowing, then blow on it to make sure the blade’s burned away.”

I nodded, unsheathed it, held the blade upright, lit the zippo and held it against the top of the handle. The flame danced up the blade for a minute before the edge began to glow.

I closed the zippo so I could type. “Now, Alpha. I can’t blow on it like you can.”

He nodded and blew. The edge began to glow brighter, from red to yellow. With each breath, there was less of the blade until, a few minutes later, all that was left was the handle.

There was a sigh of relief from the TV. “Thank god that’s over. Alpha, never, ever ask that of me again. I will never release another such blade into the world.”

Alpha sighed. “I don’t blame you, sir! That could… it could…”

“It could sever someone’s arm or spine with absolutely no resistance. They might not even feel it until the arm detached or they suddenly lost the use of their legs.”

“I’m sorry, sir. I… I didn’t know it was something so… so… lethal!”

“Extreme care and a surgeon’s hand. That’s the only safe way to handle such a blade for suit removal. That’s how it was removed from Eleven. I would have stopped you before you began if Blank had obeyed and you’d unsheathed that blade, but I decided Artemis should be the one to step in. How are you, Artemis? It’s clear you’ve not fully recovered yet.”

I chuckled. “I… just wasn’t expecting anything like that, sir. How long did it edge me for?”

“Ten hours for that part of the cycle.”

“Ten? Fuck me, no wonder I’m feeling so weak, sir!”

“Quite. Now get back to bed. Don’t worry, these recovery days won’t count against your accrued free time. It’s clear you need it.”

“Thank you, sir. Are there any other surprises in this suit, sir?”

“No, no. Well, not a surprise as such. Full body electrostimulation was deemed a useful addition by my medical staff. If you’re ever frozen for an extended period again, it can act as a TENS unit to keep your muscles toned. The cock and nipples were just a pleasant side effect of that functionality.”

“I think pleasant’s too mild a term, sir. I don’t think we have a word that could describe it. Are any more going to be fitted with suits like this?”

“Only one other such suit exists right now and that one is reserved for myself. Yours… Well, you know I like to test things before applying them to myself.”

“Temporary?”

“Good lord, no. The rubber band around the midriff would completely block any electrical signals. Easily worked around when only two pixels need to be flipped, but with the pixel density of yours… Permanent is the only way and I intend to take it. It won’t be for several years though. Not until the island’s much further along. Not until I’m ready to retire.”

“And you’d wear it? A permanent suit?”

“Of course. I enjoy wearing them and have done for months at a time. A permanent one wouldn’t be much of a stretch, for me. I, of course, would not wear the chastity. Not the permanent one anyway.”

I chuckled. “But what about… I… Take it you’re not a master who likes to be fucked, sir. Can’t do that with the plug up there, sir.”

“Yes, well. We all make sacrifices but it’ll be worth it. I will still have my humans to fuck. Anyway, that’s all years away and I’m keeping you from your bed. Get some sleep. Q out.”