Rotten Apple

Story by Kodyax on SoFurry

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I'm experimenting with a new direction in the vein of cyberpunk. This may be the first of a series of stories in that genre or I may just do the other tale and forget this version of events. In any case this is something I have in my head and will feed into something I run gaming wise in October 2012. Also included in here is a kind of homage to the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft who lived in NYC for a time. A lot of though went into this and will continue to be poured into this sort of scenario. I hope you find the tale enjoyable.


Rotten Apple

A V-22 Osprey flies over the ruins of New York City with the Statue of Liberty in pieces in what was the harbor as tentacles rise out of the water. The vehicle lifts up to avoid the grab attempt and approach the Empire State Building but whatever the creature is it remains unseen beneath the waves. It secures lines to the top of the skyscraper where originally it was intended to tether zeppelins and other airships.

On board the Osprey, a red furred wolf-bear in a dirt brown trench coat over a business suit of green latex in a body suit complete with power tie, snazzy sneaky, glitzy gloves and a brown belt with a number of green pouches that looks the fundamental crossbreed of the old rucksacks and fanny packs. Black tiger stripes frame his face as green eyes look through a black raccoon's mask. Standing in front of him is a blonde haired blue eyed man whose physique is just too perfect to be entirely natural in the attire of a rugged news caster.

"You remember what you're looking for, right?" The Ken Doll, whose name ironically enough is Kennedy Dollar, yells over the engine noise to the chimera.

"Yeah!" Kodyax Lupursyn yells back, more to be heard over the turbines than anything else. "Producer's daughter and the drone they took when they nabbed her."

"We'll have another drone following you as you look for them!" Ken explains. "It should make for some good footage!"

Kodyax gives him the thumbs up hand sign and wraps a handle to the zip line to barrel out of the aircraft with a mechanical bee about the same size and color as a toaster flies after him. Inside and around the Empire State Building it's deathly quiet with skeletons here and there as a reminder that people once inhabited the structure. None of the skeletons on the roof access are animate that Kodyax can tell but one of the skulls is a camera on a spindle mount that watches his arrival.

None of the elevators are apparently working so he takes the stairs wit a gun that combines an assault rifle, a shotgun and a grenade launcher into one sleekly designed weapon, at the ready. He maybe a ronin but Kodyax is no fool, the terrorist attack that took out New York City last century was as violent as it was singular, the use of psychic power hasn't been entirely ruled out as having been utilized that day. On a random floor he decides to do a sweep and find an office to sit down and rest in.

Zombies and ghouls infect the level he investigates with the ghouls being creatures Lovecraft wrote about in his stories and the zombies being like something out of a Romero horror flick. The ghouls are feeding on the zombies as they shuffle about and although only the zombies are dead com back to a semblance of life they do not register the ghouls preying on them as something they can eat. Unfortunately for Kody, he on the other paw is fair game as the hundreds of lost souls converge on his position.

The drone hovering above him catches all the action as Kodyax kicks in a door and enters an empty room which forces a bottleneck and increases his chances for survival. The office he randomly chose was a front for the terrorists who would devastate the city later. As a result of this fact the place is well stocked with high tech suicide bomber vests and other armaments.

Suicide bomber vests of the future are practically self attaching to their victims and can be remotely detonated. Kodyax tosses a few vests at the on coming zombies with enough accuracy that each one wraps itself around a former somebody easily enough and when Kody activates them it turns into a scene Michael Bey would have crafted with pride. The chain reaction from the explosion is enough to destroy more than half the zombies in the room with a handful of survivors.

Kodyax uses the old guns and ammo in the office to save on his own store of ammunition as he mops up the survivors of the blast. The ghouls leave him alone as they feast on the corpses with one tearing off the breast of what may have been a fashion model in life for a quick snack while another tears off some dude's bat and balls. Disgusted, Kodyax leaves the ghouls to their feast and goes looking for another office where he can lock himself in.

Upon finding said office he sits down into a nice big chair and closes his eyes; not to nap but to mentally extend his senses throughout the building. In a darkened room above him living human cultists of Cthulhu himself prepare to sacrifice a young woman to their obscene god. On the ground floor disciples of the same entity man a machine gun nest looking for trouble.

Many more floors are unoccupied by anyone but the dead than those that support living and undead inhabitants but what Kodyax sees is too horrible to relate to the drone attending him. Cannibal feasts conducted by ghouls, zombies and crazed cultists alike abound along with obscene rites that porn companies think they parody but might shock even veterans of such productions. In all the filth and disease none of what he was hired to retrieve is present so he looks for and finds a freight elevator that will take him to the sub-basement and from there to the subway and away from this place.

Outside the sun is starting to set as Kodyax creeps up on a room on a mostly deserted floor, the only mobile creature being a cultist in a green robe and whose equipment consists of a shotgun and her own Neural Interface Processor, or NIP for short which acts like an iPad, iPod and iPhone all rolled up into one cybernetic package, to contact her superiors if she sees something. As impossible as it might seem, Kodyax manages to sneak up on the blonde bitch of a human while she is watching porn on the web thanks to her NIP. He takes her into an office and strips her nude before tying and gagging her. She doesn't even offer token resistance as Kody hacks her NIP to see what she knows about his mission; which isn't much as she's just a flunkie.

She did "play" with the daughter on orders of her higher ups who wanted a porn show which she was more than happy to provide. In fact she gives Kodyax the intelligence wants easily in exchange for something he was already planning to do: fuck her. As part of her brainwashed mind considers breeding with a chimera as something to strive for as it means that with each monster she births there is one less human brought into the world and thus humanity's numbers are decreased. The fact that she would breed with him excites Kody's lust and gets him in the mood that much more quickly.

He starts by licking her tits which gets her moaning and texting him messages begging him to continue and treat her like the whore she knows she is. Kodyax suckles at her tits as the ancient band "My Chemical Romance" plays in their ears and minds as the girl's only attempt at vocalization is moaning. He adjusts his suit to let his canine cock telescope from his body still covered in latex which forms a ribbed condom around his stiffening shaft.

She texts a request to make sure the latex has a hole so he can squirt his semen into her womb when his climax comes. She offers to relate all she knows about the cult if he will just make her a monster mother. She names herself Mary Magdalene which is her name in the cult and the only one for herself she can remember as she squeals in ecstasy as he shoves his sausage into her willing box.

The cult is well aware that their operative is currently being compromised and what he's after is becoming known as Mary texts them as much. But the fact that they sent a chimera to retrieve their acquired assets pleases them. In fact they encourage Mary's betrayal of them; even as they prepare to receive the monster; a special place is being prepared for Mary to care for her and her child even if the ronin is even partially successful in his mission.

Kodyax has what is described in his day as a "Little Red Riding Hood" complex in which a chimera like him feels the need to sexually prey on humans. Mary is a willing "victim" and has been groomed from puberty to be a monster breeder by the cult so in her own twisted mind she's getting what she wants out of life with Kody's prick in her pussy. The harder he fucks her the better she likes it as in her heart right now she is singing praises to Cthulhu as she is fulfilling her purpose in life.

He howls when he climaxes and fills her with his seed which causes her to tremble in ecstasy. They share a passionate kiss before he leaves her where fucked her. After he takes the elevator to the subway below to continue his mission Mary's fellow cultists collect her and take her away to place her where her impregnation can be assured.

A stylized wolf's head is burned into her forehead as a kind of brand the ordeal of which she endures with a kind of sick pride. What nobody counts on is the side effects of her pregnancy as part of her DNA becomes corrupted and a kind of morphing process has begun where she will turn into a she-wolf with a side of fox and other bits of his mutated genetic code rewriting her own bit by bit with any subsequent pregnancies building on previous reworking of her own code and more of her body will change in response to the new and additional bits of DNA grafting onto her existing strands. Physically now it does nothing to her except turn her blue eyes an animalistic shade of orange and her blonde hair purple.

Her superiors make a point to watch her as her pregnancy develops and make tentative plans to turn her into a sex slave for chimeras with their black market connections. In the meantime they send more female operatives in the coming days ahead to further send Kodyax on a wild goose chase while collecting more semen from him. All of them wear hooded cloaks of deepest scarlet as a means of identifying themselves as being open to being fucked by monsters, a practice soon adopted by cultists of other dark entities infesting the festering wound that is the ruins of New York City, with those degenerates insane enough to give worship and devotion to Shub-Niggurath especially open to the practice in their base camp in Central Park.

Following a lead into Central Park Kodyax comes upon a scene staged for his benefit. A black woman whose hair, nails and eye shadow are a rainbow of colors is naked save for her red cloak is doing a lesbian 69 with a swarthy skinned Arab woman whose face is obscured be a black veil incorporated into her hooded red cloak like some kind of assassin. Creeping up behind them is what looks like a tree at first but as it gets closer Kodyax can see three massive hoofed limbs and tentacles waving above its massive central body.

The African is eating out the Arab while the Arab is fisting the African as Kodyax is sitting back and enjoying the porn show. He doesn't make much of the thing in back of them until it gets a bit closer. The camera drone as a zoom feature that Kody decides to use.

Although a part of him is tempted to get an eyeful of the lesbian action front and center, Kodyax instead gets a better look at the monster "tree" in back. He searches his mind and finds what info he needs to defeat the thing as he changes the magazines in his weapon before taking careful aim. Targetting software he has in his cyber shades interacts with his NIP to provide him the heads up display in his peripheral hyper reality to ensure his aim is true.

While the two human females are rubbing their cunts against each other they notice the tentacle beast and scream as one. Whether this is an act or they are genuinely frightened Kodyax cannot tell and doesn't have the time to decide when the thing attacks the girls. Both girls do flips to acrobatically dance their way out of trouble, but the Arabian is less successful than her African activity partner.

Tentacles fill every orifice of the captured femme who looks less than pleased by the experience. Kodyax aims for the thing's main torso as the eyes of the Arab tear in pain as a general ripping sound starts to be plainly audible. It staggers back as the human in its grip starts coming apart at the seams and the only reason she's not screaming right now is because of the simple fact that her mouth is too stuffed to issue forth any kind of sound.

Kodyax uses up a whole clip of rifle ammo before he switches to the shotgun as he starts to shred it and in doing so he makes it fade from the general consensus reality of the waking world. Once the thing has been reduced to a memory, Kody checks in on the slaughtered one and is shocked to find her a near match for the girl he's supposed to find. At this point he has to call in for analysis.

"Nookie Monster to Ken Doll," Kodyax calls to Dollar who is quite annoyed by his choice of call signs.

"Ken Doll here," Kennedy growls with an annoyed tone; "What is it, Nookie Monster?"

"Daddy's Arab right?" Lupursyn says as he has the drone scan the corpse. "I'm not sure if this is our girl or not."

"I'm getting analysis data now," Ken says in a slightly worried ton and then heaves a sigh of relief, "Shadow clone, Thank God!"

"Not the original but a clone?" Kody asks.

"Affirmative!" Ken shoots back. "Not good news, but not as bad as it could be. But in order to do this they need special equipment. There's only three places they could do this. Sending data packet..."

"Pulling up map coordinates," Kodyax says as all three locations become blinking dots on a general map of New York City metropolis with a red dot to represent his current position and the locations are showing up in blue.

The New York City hyper map shows up as a green grid in front of him as the black girl licks at his scrotum. Each of the facilities is on an island: Coney Island, Ellis Island and Liberty Island. However, before he can begin his search he has the human to deal wit.

She is doing her best to convince him to fuck her of course in that she's doing a good job as Kodyax is looking for some place secure to bend her over and catches sight of what looks like a kind of temple that has been built to resemble the Greek Parthenon. In truth this is the center of worship for members of the cult and when he picks her up and takes her in there, the girl just smirks and nods her head. The temples has an altar of course where a sacrifice can be tied down and leather straps for just such a purpose.

Kodyax lays the lady cultist down and secures her to the altar as ruby gemstones set along its base begin to softly glow. Mist billows out of the mouths of statues placed with and without as Kodyax strips himself in preparation of taking the female human. While he is doing this, the girl whispers prayers of thanksgiving to Shub-Niggurath for the fucking she is about to receive.

Romantic music begins to play as he slips his phallus past the lips of her labia and she groans at him as she licks her own lips in anticipation. She moans as his soft sword is sheathed in the scabbard of her camel toe and more of the creatures he slew earlier start to gather around the temple. He lowers his muzzle to lick and suckle at her tits as he thrusts deeply before receding to near but not total egress as a prelude to shifting his position and sliding his shaft into her box a little deeper; a little rougher than before.

Nickleback's "S.E.X." starts to play as they really start to get into it wtiht the girl never making any vocalizations other than pleasure filled moans but Kodyax does his best to sing along as he tries to turn his fucking into a kind of pornographic performance production. Outside the tentacle things dace and cavort as the wave their limbs in the air as if they just don't care as they make the scene look like some sort of weird rave as they somehow managed to acquire some glow sticks. The drone that is recording all this flies in and out of the temple in an attempt at capturing all this footage as bizarre as it's all turning out to be.

Inside the temple a kind of transformation is taking place as the woman slowly but surely gets furry. Neither participant notices the changes as it happens as they are both too focused on fucking. A hole opens itself to accommodate the growing tail and truth be told the mist has hallucinogenic properties as the rubies glow brighter.

Eden's Crush's "Love this way" ironically follows Nickleback as the two get more and more into the business of procreation. Kodyax's knot starts to form as the girl completes her transformation to an anthropomorphic African Wild Dog bitch. They both howl in ecstasy when Kody climaxes and a feeling of contentment comes over them both.

She goes into a trance after copulation and Kodyax gets the distinct impression that leaving right now is probably a good idea and gets dressed quickly so he can vamoose. A section of the floor opens with stairs leading down as if on cue. Kodyax takes out an automatic to conserve ammo on his main weapon as he takes the stairs.

Taking the stairs is not such a bad idea as it leads him to a series of tunnels which leads out into the bay. On reinforced glass tunnel leads out to Ellis Island where the ghosts of immigrants from the distant past wander the halls in sorrow. Kodyax eventually finds a computer kiosk he can hack into for information.

Ellis Island as a domain is relatively easy to hack if all you want is information as the data stream presents the place as it was in its heyday. People in period costume tell him their stories as if he is walking through a video game. Kodyax grabs a map that gets downloaded into his NIP that shows the island as it is with some strange symbols in margins that includes the Yellow Sign for some odd reason.

Off-line Kodyax pays attention to the surrounding and finds amongst the graffiti he occasionally finds the Yellow Sign and every time he sees it he feels a little queasy. In addition, despite what the drone is not picking up Kodyax still feels like they are not alone but just not fully visible as the moving shadows happen only in his peripheral vision. Kody's other senses are registering something but exactly what he can't exactly determine.

Piles of rags lift with the wind and Kodyax thinks he sees a pair of dim lights in what constitutes the hood of a tattered robe that he perceives as rising briefly and then falls to the floor. Nothing overt happens to him but he senses something else is here with him as he uses the map to find the lab hidden here. The door leading to the area he needs to investigate is hidden and not obviously clear from the map.

Something unlocks and opens the door to the room he wants to go to which doesn't exactly sit well with Kodyax on multiple levels. The drone flies ahead of him and gets a fly's eye view of the facility which feeds back to Kody's eye shields and ultimately back to the ones who hired him as they see rows upon rows of glass tubes with nobody in them yet but this is a cloning factory alright. As a facility it looks abandoned and according to the data base Kodyax can get into the last batch hatched from here was six months ago.

Patches of an inky black substance covers sections of the floor with a smell of mold wafting up to assail his nostrils. Kodyax isn't sure whether or not he's seeing things right but he could have sworn he saw a patch of moldy tar move of its own accord. The data base of weirdness that's he's had up on a peripheral hyper screen scrolls to a nasty ooze creature known to serve certain cultists and when one of the patches takes a swipe at the drone, Kody decides that he's seen enough; he shoots a few grenades into the area and moves on but peels a flyer off the bottom of the drone advertising a play on Broadway: "The King in Yellow" before looking for a way off the island.

Another tunnel tube connects Ellis Island to Liberty Island with the floating pieces of Lady Liberty far above him. Also above him are swimming zombies that are preyed upon by titanic nautili whose eyes seem to gleam with sinister intelligence. Kodyax hurries his pace to avoid notice of the harbor monsters.

Emergency lights cast the chamber into which Kodyax emerges in a state of illumination that is eerily reminiscent of blood. Shapes that look vaguely humanoid shuffle about as a constant droning moan is clearly audible. Against his own better judgment Kody orders the drone to turn on its spot light so he can better asses the situation as an eye almost as big as him floats into view below him as seen through the few apertures the room affords to the outside aquatic landscape.

Human zombies shuffle in and out of the spotlight as Kodyax rolls his eyes and brings out main gun and selects the shotgun portion as the magazine to be used. The drone records the battle as Kody does his best to keep the undead at bay. Heads roll as Kodyax meticulously makes his way beyond the chamber into the main of the island's man made interior.

Once he gets to what was the public areas of the island a poster catches Kody's eye as he looks for another kiosk to hack into. The poster advertises a production of "The King in Yellow" on Broadway and Kodyax does a quick search of the database and comes up with references to a play that is maddening to witness as well as possibly murderous to perform. Kodyax makes a note mentally to look where this play is being performed as a potential place of interest considering the cult that took the young lady that caused him to be hired in the first place.

A visitor's kiosk provides Kodyax a window into the local network and it's much like the domain on Ellis Island; Liberty Island is interactive and just as frustrating to get intel on. The map Kodyax downloaded at Ellis Island expands to include Liberty Island as well much to Kody's suspicion that something is amiss here. It's when he finds the lab that Kodyax gets a bit of a shock.

Weird creatures taller than Kodyax with a cone shaped body, twin lobster claw like hands, a head like appendage with two eyes and a set of tendrils and a sets of four horn like organs bundled into a single appendage move up and down the aisles inspecting the tubes and making notations by soldering them into metal paged notebooks. The creatures pay him no heed as he skulks about among them and Kody is keen to observe them and what they are creating. The things in the tubes are largely incomprehensible as they are a tangle of legs, eyes, claws and other assorted appendages and body parts, some of which are best off left unmentioned.

<Who are you?> A voice asks in Kody's mind. <And what are you doing here?>

<My name is Kodyax Lupursyn,> Kodyax states, <I was hired to retrieve a person and a thing.>

<We have not seen either of those before,> The voice stats matter-of-factly after Kody let it search his mind for visuals of what he is after.

Kodyax has little reason to doubt the voice so he departs and finds something akin to a matter translocator like those found on science fiction programs a little less than two centuries ago his time. Another voice asks where to and Kodyax on a whim says: "Coney Island" to which the device happily complies. He disappears from that station and is instantly transported to a similar booth somewhere else.

Two hundred years of science fiction memorabilia are on display as Kodyax emerges from the chamber which tells him that he went somewhere the question in his mind is where. Kodyax picks his way through the displays until he gets to a set of doors that open to the outside. Bright lights and circus music plays automatically through speakers as Kodyax visits Coney Island.

Automatons attired as clowns patrol the boardwalk and hardly take notice of Kodyax as they go through their programmed paces. Ferris Wheels, Roller Coaster and other amusement park attractions are going at full bore but the way things are going forward are horrific. Especially the games that have been in carnivals for all time.

Naked men and women with vibrators on the sexual quarters wait in various booths featuring carnival games that have murderous consequences as their victory conditions. Dunk tanks kill via gallows of guillotines as shooting gallery with real guns and crossbows for getting living beings all after prizes for killing their victims set up to take the fall. As disturbing as all this scenery Kodyax is looking see if any of the victims are the young lady he was sent to fetch as Ken Doll sends him threatening texts for him not to interfere.

Unfortunately for the unfortunately awaiting execution for the amusement of others Kodyax right now is under contract and thus has to move on after confirming that the lady he's looking for is not among them. A wall with a multiple posters catches his eye, especially one advertisement again announcing the King in Yellow play at the Apollo theatre on Broadway. Kodyax smirks to the camera drone and announces that it could be time to check out the lights on Broadway.

Kodyax descends into the subway to catch a train back to the mainland and Broadway proper. As he rides the train is randomly attacked by a titanic earthworm with a hardened carapace and a trio of saw toothed jaws. He is almost to his situation when the attack happen and so he does his best to pick through the wreckage to the station as a horde of zombies starts to advance on his position.

The worm gorges itself on the undead as Kodyax uses the distraction to make good his escape. Most of the theatres are closed up and down Broadway with those still operating converted to bordellos and pornographic venues. For most part the Apollo is shunned by the living and the dead but its marquee proudly displays the King in Yellow performed weekly, by the company of Hastur Horrorshow Incorporated.

Among the names on the playbills for the show is the girl he's after which raises more than a few hackles on the back of his neck. Kodyax strongly suspects this is a trap of some kind of trap but he has a job to do and goes in anyway. There is no sales person to buy a ticket from but the door is a revolving one and nobody is in sight which does nothing to allay his suspicions as he views the exterior from the hyper reality of cyberspace and confirms these is remote controlled cameras and guns providing some measure of security.

The drone can sense the other drone that was stolen directly Kodyax to it as he manages to defeat the security programs for the guns and cameras in short order. Inside the theatre it looks like something out of the 1920s perfectly preserved until now. The smell of blood and death is every where but it doesn't phase Kody in the slightest.

In a dressing room of the theatre they find the zombie of the girl they were sent to fetch, her death apparently past of the play she participated in. Kodyax swiftly dispatches the animated corpse and is instantly rewarded by the executive who just tuned into the stream within the hour. On a balcony where the technical side of things is handled is the drone that the one that has been following Kodyax around bonds with the stolen one and after about ten minutes the two are fused into one.

Once the drone is reconfigured it abandons Kodyax who is fully paid for his services but must find his own way out from the ruins of New York City. However, there is a news blimp coming to pick up the drone if he can get back to the Empire State Building in time. Kodyax is not happy about the situation but doesn't have much choice; although there is an extraction clause in his contract that he is going to enforce it if he has to threaten the blimp to do so.

Kodyax finds a motorcycle and makes his way back to Coney Island driving past gangs of zombies who notice him only after he's gone from the area. In the heads up display hyper object map Kodyax can see where the blimp is and where the drone is as he jumps the bridge to get back to Coney Island. Once he gets to Coney Island he goes to the science fiction museum and looks for anything that resembles a working jet pack or rocket pack.

He finds what he's looking for in a section dedicated to an obscure series called Interstellar Spy in a working prop. The time he has to get to zeppelin is rather limited so he teleports back to Liberty Island and makes his way up to the torch. From there he launches himself towards the Empire State Building to board the zeppelin much to Kennedy Dollar's surprise.

"How the fuck did you get here?!" Ken demands to know at full volume. "And so fast?!"

"Found this puppy in a museum on Coney Island," Kodyax states with a smirk and pats the jet pack. "And used it to play catch up. You didn't think I'd let you out of the extraction clause of my contract did you?"

"It did cross our minds since you found her as a zombie<" Kennedy admits with a fake smile. "But you caught the air ship home."

"I just got an e-mail?" Kodyax asks rhetorically. "Done and done!" He then takes off the jet pack. "Keep it in good repair."

"What!?!" Ken yells and then gets a note from his boss, "Oh; just great!"

Kodyax helps the crew get the drone into the zeppelin before it turns back towards Philadelphia. Kennedy is not happy at all with the footage as they make their way back home, at least as far as Kodyax knows it. The let him off at the 30th street station and from there he takes the train and bus back to his apartment.