Failed Containment- Chapter 4: Project Gladius
#4 of Failed Containment
Alexander carried Sophia swiftly out of the feeding area and into the hall beyond the doorway. He used several of his tentacles to pull his mass along as he maintained his grip on Sophia. He would keep his word and make sure she survived as well. She was a burden, and Alexander's escape would be much more difficult with her in tow, but she did have her uses. Alexander felt bad for it, but the little bat's suffering was not half over. His absorbing of her energy was only the start of her pain.
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Meanwhile, as Specimen 1412 made his way through the compound, Professor Marker was hammering away at a terminal. "It's breached the feeding area and is making his way through Corridor Twenty-Four! I need a containment team there NOW! The use of full incendiary is not authorized, Tazer rods are enough to bring it down!"
His fox assistant monitored 1412's progress through the compound using the security monitors. "The Specimen seems to be taking the Feeder girl..."
Marker pressed the intercom button again, "The girl it's carrying is a D-Class! DISREGARD THE FEMALE AND CONTAIN THE SPECIMEN!"
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Alexander made his way through the metal corridors, having some knowledge of the layout from studying the maps when he initially sneaked in. As he neared what he remembered was the way to the exit, he heard rushed footsteps and several figures rounded the corner ahead of him and stopped. Security personnel clad in body armor and wielding more tazer rods.
"Contact front." one of them said, and the group readied their tazer rods. Alexander grinned, though the gesture was lost on the guards, losing translation when one had a mass of tentacles instead of a mouth. "Take it down, men!" The security team advanced.
Alexander moved quickly. Countless tentacles shot out from his mass to intercept the oncoming security team. Being nothing but thick, prehensile trunks of pure muscle, his tentacles impacted his adversaries' body armor with enough force to throw them back. They regained their composure quickly. The security team was knowledgeable about Alexander, they'd apprehended him before.
They retaliated from being thrown back and charged again, bringing their tazer rods to bear, striking Alexander's outstretched tentacles. Electricity shot right through the conductive slime rampant throughout his body, but instead of flowing right to his core and disrupting him, the current shot toward his burden. Sophia screamed as she was electrocuted with the voltage from half a dozen tazer rods flowing through Alexander directly to her. Alexander felt sorry for the girl, but better her than him. She could absorb the current, rendering the Corporation's electric weapons ineffective against him. He could get the pair of them to safety, so it was better for the both of them if she endured the shock.
The security team let out cries of surprise. "It's not working! The tazers aren't bringing him down!" they yelled. Alexander capitalized on their confusion, using his tentacles to impact the guards with all the force he could muster. Throwing them against the walls and knocking them off their feet, Alexander cleared the way past the guards. He then slithered past the downed bodies.
He came upon a familiar corridor and he knew he was close to the exit. "Hang in there, girly. We're almost out..." Alexander whispered to the girl in his clutches.
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"It's almost at the exit!" Professor Marker screamed, his frustration turning into genuine fear as his subject neared the exit. He could not afford to have the specimen lost. It could very well cost him his job, not to mention a thousand different reprimands for the loss of a camouflaged monster running freely in the public.
"DEPLOY THE GLADIUS PROJECT!" he yelled into the intercom. "Zeta-Class Priority under the authority OS Level Five!" he let go of the intercom and turned back to the monitor.
His fox assistant regarded him with a wary look. "Sir?"
The old badger smiled satisfactorily, "Let loose the leopard..."
Marker's assistant only gave a look of confusion before turning his attention back to the monitor.
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Alexander heard the alarms blaring. A voice came over the PA Systems "All personnel evacuate to the nearest designated Safe Area. Stay clear of the Main Exit Area. All personnel evacuate to the nearest designated Safe Area..." The shapeshifter figured they didn't want him to encountered any more personnel, but he almost didn't believe that he would be allowed to simply exit the Facility. Maybe they were just going to lock the doors on him. No matter, he thought, he still had enough energy to fry a lock, having made the conscious decision not to use electricity to stun the guards.
He neared the exit with his quarry, and came upon a massive room with a large arcing ceiling. The sight of the gargantuan steel doors that marked the exit. However, the exit was not as clear as he had anticipated from the alarm. A lone snow leopard clad in a skintight beige suit stood blocking the door. He got closer, and realized it was a female snow leopard, which immediately sparked his interest. The only thing that prevented him from approaching her head on, was the sword she rested on her shoulder that was twice as long as her arm.
"So," she said, "You're the big bad monster?"
Alexander regarded her curiously before sliding off to the side. The leopard girl pointed her impossibly large sword at him. "Uh-uh. Can't let you be heading that way, 1412." The shapeshifter squirmed. "Alexander..."
The leopard girl did something Alexander did not expect: she smiled. "Marie." The tentacle monster nodded. "Very well, miss Marie. What do I have to do to get passed that door?"
"Kill me."
"I don't think I'm going to do that."
"Then it looks like you're staying here."
Alexander regarded her silently, before saying, "I don't think so." He moved his mass toward the door, and saw Marie react without hesitating. A mechanical click was heard before he detected a flash of fire. Marie rocketed toward him and aimed a downward slash at the side of him that was closest to the door. Several tentacles fell to the floor, bleeding a dark purple blood.
The shapeshifter let out a cry of pain before slithering back. The leopard girl smiled at him toothily. "Sorry, Alex. I can't let you leave this place." Alexander sighed. "And there is nothing I can do to change your mind?"
The leopard girl shook her head. "Sorry."
"And you're fine with letting yourself just sit in this place's pocket? What are you? The monster police?"
"Project Gladius, my job is to use the Facility's toys to keep monsters like you under wraps."
"Thought you said your name was Marie..."
"I'm Marie." she said with a smile before gesturing with her sword, "This is the Gladius."
"Fascinating..."
Alexander moved to the wall before setting Sophie down. "All right..."
The monster turned back to the leopard girl.
"Let's dance, my dear."
Marie nodded before Alexander shot out several tentacles toward her. The monster intended to use the last of his electricity to stun the alluring leopard before making his escape. However, as fast as Alexander was, Mari was faster. Each tentacle was severed before it could get close.
The monster cried out in pain as his limbs were cut off, and frantically sprouted more tentacles in a hope to overwhelm his opponent. Slicing pain after slicing pain was his reward for his efforts. Marie was a master with that oversized sword of hers. He attacked from every angle, bringing to bear dozens of tentacles to go after her. Only one touch was what the shapeshifter needed to stun her, but she was entirely too fast. From any angle, her defense was impenetrable, her form was perfect. Marie gracefully danced between his appendages, severing each in turn with a flawless precision. Her face was a picture of mild interest, she severed the monster apart with an expression as if she were admiring a freshly picked flower.
Growing frustrated and in increasing agony, Alexander moved his central mass closer, bringing to bear two tentacles to each limb lost. Marie started to show signs of strain as the onslaught of appendages did not stop. Alexander felt a rush of satisfaction as he rushed in with his main mass.
Marie gave a grim look of determination as she raised her blade. Alexander, convinded of an opening, shot all of his tentacles toward her at once. He saw her press what seemed to be a small button on the hilt of her sword. He then realized where the flash of fire had come from.
The hilt of the Gladius erupted in a gout of flame that seemed to propel Marie toward the ceiling. The leopard shot upward, and Alexander's tentacles grasped air. However, Marie was now in the air above him, and the shapeshifter extended a web of tentacles in all directions, intending to catch his adversary on her descent as more appendages reached upward to grab her. Alexander felt a rush of satisfaction as he seemed convinced of his victory.
"You've lost, my dear."
The tentacle monster thought he saw Marie smirk down at him as she fell. Seeing another flash of fire, the leopard girl seemed to spin on her way down. Marie flourished her sword as she spun, turning herself into a whirling razor blade on a descent strait down. Cutting through Alexander's web of tentacles, she landed not too far from his main mass. With a flurry of strikes, Mari plunged the Gladius into Alexander's central mass. Purple blood flew in all directions as the girl laid into the monster with stab after cut after slice.
The pain was too much for the tentacle monster to bear, and all of his thoughts turned to gaining distance from the girl currently causing his blood to stain the concrete. Alexander retreated a distance, recomposing himself once he'd felt the pain stop. He looked up, and saw Marie standing where she had been before, still smirking. She had not pressed her attack, but instead held her sword with the hilt pointing toward him, the blade running along her arm and across her shoulder.
"You've lost, my dear." she said before pressing the button and holding it.
A gout of flame erupted from the base of the sword's hilt again, sending a wave of flame washing over the tentacle monster, who screamed in agony as his mass was burned away. Alexander writhed in pain as he frantically tried to escape the flames. Relief came when he heard Marie cry out in pain. The fire suddenly stopped, and Alexander turned to look at his opponent.
Marie was on the ground unconscious, and standing over her form was a suited foxgirl holding a tazer rod. Alexander looked very confused. "Wha-?"
The foxgirl smiled at the tentacle monster. "Alexander, get your feeder and let's go." She walked over to the exit doors and swiped a card, causing the doors to open. "Hurry up! They'll be here any minute!"
Alexander, figuring there would be time for questions later, obeyed. He slithered over to the unconscious bat girl and picked her up. He moved over to the foxgirl and followed. She led him to a black van, and pressed a button on a key she withdrew from her cleavage. "Get in."
"Yes, ma'am." Alexander slithered into the van. The foxgirl hopped into the driver's seat and started the engine. It was mere seconds before the van was peeling away from Site 24. "So..." Alexander said as the silence passed, "You got a name?"
The foxgirl looked at him through the rear view mirror, "Melissa."
"Well, my dear Melissa... forgive me if I sound ungrateful, but... where are we going?"
"To a safe place."
"Okaaay... why are you doing this?"
Melissa smiled at him. "Call me a fan"
"Fan?"
"Let's just say I don't agree with how the Facility treats some of its occupants."
"Fair enough..."
Alexander sighed. He was very relieved to escape from his confinement, and if his rescuer was some animal rights activist, it only served to help him. Alexander dozed off as the rocking of the van lulled him into a sleep, the monster had lost a lot of blood. When he next awoke, the Van was pulling into a large concrete building. "Where are we?"
"Storage unit in the warehouse district." Melissa said as she parked the van.
"And you just happen to have one of those?"
The foxgirl smiled. "Dad was a pack rat. He owned a thrift store and kept all his 'merchandise' in the storage units. When his store went under, mom made him throw most of it away. Now it's practically empty, but dad had it paid off five years in advance, and apparently there's a 'no refunds' policy."
"How criminal."
"Well, suits our needs just fine, doesn't it?"
"A hidden place to lay low for a while... nice."
Melissa nodded. "And it's got a couple used couches and stuff. I can't imagine sleeping on a steel floor to be comfortable to anyone, even if you are made of tentacles."
Alexander nodded back. "I don't know how I'm ever going to repay you for this kindness, my dear... but I will think of a way."
Melissa smiled almost deviously, "I think I can think of a way..."
Alexander regarded her curiously, "Beg pardon?"
"Let's just say I liked the security footage of Professor Hathaway..."
"You wh-....oooooh. 'Fan' you say..."
Melissa nodded.
"Hm hmm hmmm... I do think I can manage to repay you then, my dear Melissa~" the shapeshifter said, snaking a tentacle around the foxgirl.
"Do you now?" she said back, suddenly being coy. Alexander took her playfulness as permission, and extended more tentacles. He looped his appendages around her clothes and peeled them off of her. He figured if he wanted to show gratitude, he would do so without ripping her clothes to shreds.
Alexander slid behind the foxgirl, rubbing her shoulders with his tentacles and drinking in the sight of her naked form. Melissa pressed herself against the monster's attentions as she enjoyed the massage. It had been a tension-filled day, and the massage felt wonderful to Melissa. "That feels wonderful, Alex..."
The tentacle monster gave a devious chuckle. "I know, hm hmmm" he smirked as he brought more tentacles to rub her lower back, her upper arms, and her sides. She jumped a little, "Heh... Tickles..." she said before Alexander started to run his tentacles along her thighs and stomach. The massage spread his slime all over her, Alexander made sure she was fully coated before he started his work. He pulled her into leaning back against him before he was fully supporting her weight. It seemed he was to be her chair as he pulled her into a reclined seating position on top of his central mass.
He snaked out several tentacles to run along her inner thighs and round behind. He looped a tentacle around the base of her tail and ran the appendage down the length. "Very lovely, my dear." Alexander whispered into her ear as she enjoyed the caresses all over her body. He pulled her legs open, and snaked a tentacle up between her butt cheeks, teasing her tailhole as it slid forward to run between her exposed lips, the tip resting on her clit. He rubbed this appendage back and forth, stimulating Melissa's entire underside. "Mmmmmn.... that feels... nice..." the foxgirl sighed as she lost herself in the pleasure.
Alexander ran two more tentacles over her shoulder and cupped her breasts with them. He ran them around her curves and rested the tip of his tentacles on her stiff nipples. Teasing her as such soon had Melissa moaning for more. Alexander wanted to drag the teasing out to get as much energy as he could from the foxgirl, he had to realize that this was for her, not him. So, he relented. He shifted mouths onto the end of the tentacles on her nipples, and set them to pleasing her. Two phallic tentacles placed themselves near both her lower entrances, and then slowly pressed forward. His slime provided enough lubricant that they both went in smoothly, stretching Melissa's orifices out pleasurably. She cried out in pleasure before another tentacle found its way to her mouth. Alexander could not afford her cries of ecstasy to find them captured again. She eagerly accepted him into her mouth and sucked the appendage greedily as Alexander wracked her body with pleasurable waves of pure excitement.
The tentacle monster drank greedily from Melissa as he sensed her approaching orgasm. It wasn't long before she clenched down hard on the tentacles mercilessly pumping her nether regions as she screamed a muffled cry around the appendage in her mouth. Alexander withdrew the tentacle to allow her to breathe heavily as she took in massive gulps of air. "As good as you expected, my dear?~"
"That was...*gasp*... amazing..."
Alexander caressed the foxgirl in her afterglow, gently allowing her to come down. He slithered over to one of the used couches and set the slime-covered girl down, allowing her to rest. "Glad you enjoyed it, my dear." Alexander whispered as he watched Melissa doze off to sleep.
He hoped she did not sleep long, there was still much to do. Still, he was relieved to be out of the Facility's clutches, but he wondered how long it would take them to locate him. They knew Melissa's personal info and it was only a short time before they came looking.
Still, he supposed, there would be time enough to worry about those things later. He figured they had at least the night, and so he settled himself down to rest and regenerate. It had been quite an ordeal. He'd barely managed to escape, but he did keep his word to Sohie. Even if it was only because of Melissa...
Feh, he thought, Melissa's help was only needed because of that leopard bitch.
"Next time, Marie. Don't expect such an easy win..."