Stress Balls, Ball Gags, and Bad Decisions
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:48 am
Stress Balls, Ball Gags, and Bad Decisions
The drug deal had been a bad idea. They had distributors. They had networks. They had layers upon layers of distance between the street people and the money laundering. This was for the organizations protection. It was, by nature, expensive and inefficient. The cost ate deeply into profits, but the product produced so much profit that the piece of the pie that was left after every layer took its piece was still bigger than the gross national product of the country the drug came from. Except Junior wanted more. He wanted to cut out the “parasites” leaching off his families profits. He wanted to see the street price of the drugs actually put in his hands. No middle men, no third parties. No firewalls between risk and reward to protect the family. Just one arrogant bastard who thought that he knew better than the hard eyed old men who got through the war on drugs, the war between the Cartels, and survived to quietly pick up enough pieces to hold one corner of the market for their own.
Junior was not Jorje Mendoza, the Patron. Junior was not even Esteban Mendoza, the one who chose to play second to a succession of rising stars during the bloody cartel wars and quietly accept the loss of seventy percent of his assets when the caped crusaders responded to the blood bath by taking over from police and rolling up the networks themselves. He had cut his ties and took the loss, waiting a decade to quietly rebuild smaller and trade a smaller cut for another layer of safety. No, Junior thought betting big on the size of his balls and the fact that he had never been proven wrong in his twenty one years was a sign from god that he was the future king of crime. That put him in a room in the Pan Pacific with six bodyguards and three “gang leaders” that were actually two DEA and one FBI as he turned over twelve suitcases full of cocaine for as many duffel bags of cash.
When the badges came out, and the take down team blew the door, “Tiger” Thompson knitted his hands behind his head and knelt. His job was to keep Junior safe for the Mendoza’s, and this just became a matter for lawyers. Junior doubled down on stupid, and drew his tiny machine pistol and sprayed fifty rounds of .22 across head level for the agents. He cut down the plain clothes DEA and FBI, while flattening tiny slugs on the front of the helmets of the heavily armoured take down team. Tiger knew what came next, and tackled his boss, as his superhuman toughness absorbed most of the hail of return fire that hosed Junior down. He stopped every slug meant for his torso and head, even grabbed his arms so they would stay safe. Unfortunately, blowing the heads apart of three agents to start a gunfight escalates things quickly. Junior’s both feet and legs were shattered by multiple shotgun and submachine gun blasts. Doctors had to take his legs off above the knee.
Junior Mendoza rolled on his family, and as part of his deal with the DEA, he had them spin it so “Tiger” Thompson was publicly the rat.
“Sweet Willie” Stevens sat across the viewing plexiglass from his foster brother and grinned. Sweet Willie always grinned. He was a sugar pimp, his super power allowing him to get the sweetest and rarest of girls on his string. His product was so in demand that his business had switched from primarily an escort service to primarily an information brokerage because Sweet Willie’s girls were literally a breed apart from the whores run by other pimps.
“Relax bro. The family’s lawyers will look after me. I saved Junior from his latest fuckup. They may have to support the little idiot inside, but it isn’t like they can’t see he runs the prison network at least because with three dead agents on camera he isn’t getting out. I didn’t even draw a weapon, and took Junior down before he could get his ass killed. Worst thing that can happen is I keep drawing my pay for keeping the little moron safe inside, rather than on the streets. The family knows they can trust me.” Tiger said to his foster brother.
Sweet Willie sighed. Tiger was six and a half feet of calm black muscle, his super power making his skin and muscles bullet proof and able to bend iron bars. He never got angry, and he never got mad. He was good at keeping things calm. He had kept an angry white boy who was too quick with a knife and too angry to be talked down from getting himself killed until a decent (not great) foster home and a new brother could teach him not everyone was a predator out to hurt him. Sweet Willie trusted his brother, but he also knew his brother trusted other people way too far. Sweet Willie’s power was touch telepathy, sort of. His touch telepathy only worked with internal contact. For an abuse survivor that was not good; he knew what the people abusing him were thinking. For a budding pimp, it made any woman he was with an open book. Worse, he could take her through her every dark fantasy, find every single thing she was secretly yearning for and use it to train her that he alone could provide it. Sweet Willie got off on taking the wealthy and powerful, the perfectly controlled and proud ones, and making them part of his string. They made him money, because they were the kinds of women you could not buy, because they couldn’t be bought. Unless you had Willie’s number. The information they had access to on their own, or from bedroom talk from powerful men who felt compelled to try to impress the women in their beds they knew truly were out of their league was enough to give him better intelligence than some first world intelligence services. It also gave him even deeper trust issues.
“They have been shaking the trees too hard. They are flexing on the street, and it worries me bro. I got people who tell me their lawyers aren’t being permitted to see Junior, on Juniors say so. That doesn’t sound right. I think I am going to go visit the family and make sure everything is still cool.” Sweet Willie said, smiling softly. He had access. During college, he had been tapped with keeping Junior under control. He had made sure that Junior had “girlfriends” keeping him from doing anything stupid when he got told no. They were some of his special girls, so they were enough smarter than Junior that he never suspected his girlfriend and side chick were not his conquests but his handlers. The family always knew Junior was in need of handlers, and Sweet Willie had been the go to pimp even then. He had access; if he didn’t work for the family directly, he was the one they went to when they had high level guests that needed entertainment that would not only be discrete, but stroke egos and guide conversations subtly enough to keep dangerous and dominant men with conflicting interests from turning a social event into a war zone.
Sweet Willie was flirting with Isabella D’Angello, who is one of the legal team. Not the ones who do the big meetings, but the ones who do the real work; they ones that look for both the legal angles to use, and the leverage the family can bring to bear, to come up with the short list of options for the big names to lay before the family head. He handed her a cupcake with a ridiculous amount of icing formed into a perfect red rose. She was perennially on a diet and hit the gym with the obsession of a woman who had a weight issue in puberty and could never really let it go. She also had a weakness for Sweet Willie and was under the delusion he didn’t know it. Sweet Willie made her laugh with a double entendre while she was taking a careful bite, and when she laughed she got red icing on her nose.
Sweet Willie gently scooped the icing off her nose, and proffered it on his finger, the red icing swirled around his finger tip making it look like a rampant cock, even as he smiled like an innocent school boy, giving the illusion this was an innocent act so that she could feel she was the one choosing this flirtation. She took it into her mouth and sucked on it lovingly. His power flowed into her mind, accentuating her sexual enjoyment of the act of sucking on his finger as she imagined doing it to Sweet Willie’s cock. As his power flowed into her mind through the contact, Sweet Willie smiled and said, seemingly offhand.
“Shame about Junior and Tiger. I trust the family is taking care of them?” Sweet Willie asked.
Isabella had a very compartmentalized mind. Simultaneously her personal side was dreaming about tying his hands to the top of the bed and sucking his cock to the edge of completion and then keeping him there for hours, making him confess his undying love before she let him shoot his cum into her loving mouth where she would make sure she alone could taste it. Her professional side was thinking something very different. Something about hiring mercenaries to make sure that traitor was taken care of. Ironic to send dragons to hunt tigers, but that was what it took to take down a superhuman traitor to the family.
Sweet Willie saw the image, Dragon ATGM, anti-tank guided missiles. They were going to kill Tiger. Some idiot convinced them the loyalist soldier any syndicate ever had was a traitor and they were going to kill him.
He was a professional, he touched the button on his cuff that sent an automatic alarm to his phone. He made a show of checking his phone, sighing, and telling Isabella he had some urgent business to take care of. He kept it to a walk until he was out of sight. He was on the phone to his own enforcers as he broke into a run for his car. “Where is my brother? Look out for kill squads, the family is doing something stupid.” Sweet Willie was half way through barking instructions when he heard the explosions.
An armoured prisoner transfer van had exploded. Two teams with heavy anti tank rockets had engaged it and turned the officers inside and the prisoner into so much burned meat, and the armoured car into a raging inferno of unrecognizable origin. The team responsible was heavily armed, and well prepared. The police who attempted to pursue were met with another anti tank missile, showing that no man could survive pursuing the kill team as they fled.
Everyone has their favorite superhero or heroine. When they are boys and girls, they tend to pick an idol they want to be like. When they grow up, they often find themselves fixating on the ones they would like to fuck instead.
Paladin was the object of much of this.
She had been an archeology student on a dig in the Spanish mountains when she uncovered Durendal, the legendary holy sword of Huon of the Horn. Transformed by its holy power, she was blessed with the strength of a hundred knights, armoured with the mantle of the Archangel Gabriel to turn aside all earthly weapons, gifted by the fairy King Oberon with immunity to magic. Armed with a sword that could cut through stone and steel as if it were warm butter, and the wings of an Archangel to fly, she was a vision of purity that sailed above a world too base for her perfection.
She had been an athletic girl, a blonde vision of a coed whose presence is short shorts and a halter top barely containing her breasts did much to make the whole dig team motivated to get up to work every day, even if her persistent rebuff of every attempt to get into those delightful little pants failed utterly against a soul that was even then too pure for this world.
The power of the blade Durendal magnified all that she was. Her already amazing clean cut girl next door beauty became beyond the best CGI artificial perfection. Her fit and toned body became like that of a Valkyrie, that of a born and trained warrior. Her naturally ample female assets were likewise magnified to comic book proportions.
To say that her red crossed white crusader mantle did little to hide her curves was true. The chain mail she had originally worn had been slowly blasted away, to be replaced with mail forged of holy light as the Archangels rewarded her purity with greater protection than any enchanted steel.
The loving telephoto lenses of her fans and enemies agreed that one thing this glowing holy mail was, was almost transparent. Her body was clad in glowing gold chain mail that you could almost see through, or totally see through with a computer filter. Only the damned crusader robe hid the tips of those amazing breasts and the soft valley of those amazing hips from view.
She was the go to heroine in the spank banks of most prisons, half of which she had filled. She was also one of the premiere superheroines for a reason. She didn’t do superhero speeches or strike superhero poses, she was just what she said. A Paladin. A crusader of Justice, unstoppable sword in hand, and golden armour of holy light wrapping her in the protection of her faith. She dropped from the sky onto the hood of the get away vehicle of the first set of mercenaries and put the engine block into the pavement. The airbags deployed to stun the driver and passenger, but when a mercenary from the back seat tried to bring his AR-15 up, she stepped onto the roof and drove Durendal down through it into the mercenaries brain.
Her voice magnified by her armour in a way technology had never been able to detect, it rang clearly in the ears of everyone in a half kilometer radius.
“To the armoured criminals fleeing the scene of the prisoner ambush. Surrender while you have all both limbs and life. You do not need both to testify.” Paladin spoke, giving her only warning.
In reply automatic fire splashed onto her armour and she dashed quickly towards the nearest car, cutting through automatic rifles and pistols, sometimes taking hands and arms with them as she disarmed the mercenaries, moving too fast to track, and utterly ignoring the small caliber gunfire. The far team had time to play their trump card, and fired their last anti-tank rocket at the glowing Paladin.
The footage would play in slow motion on half the screens in the nation for weeks. She turned to face the incoming missile, raised her sword into Tierce, hand near her hip, blade in line with her forward knee, and then lunged tip outward to impale the incoming missile with her holy sword. They explosion was directed by the lunging blade back at the last carload of thugs, including the launching ones, leaving them battered, bruised, unconscious, but alive. With a flourish and salute, she sheathed her sword, and raised her voice for emergency services to attend the captured criminals.
Speaking at the scene to her friend Detective Chastity Blake, she wasn’t liking what she was hearing.
“It makes no sense. Tiger didn’t roll on anyone. He just requested his lawyer and sat quietly to broker a plea deal for manslaughter, as he admits to being part of the attempted drug sale where agents got killed but had no involvement with the killing except bringing the shooter down, even if it was mostly to save Junior’s life. Junior was the one that rolled on his family, and no one made a try for him. If this wasn’t the Mendoza’s trying to shut up a snitch, maybe it was some sort of inter-gang thing, or some sort of power struggle in the family. If it is, then this wasn’t the last killing, it was the first. If they are using anti tank rockets in the opening skirmish, how bloody is it going to get before it is over?” The Detective whispered, her coffee cup shaking in her hands.
Paladin grabbed her hands with her own. “Do not worry Chastity. I will look into it.”
Detective Blake looked at the six foot knight in glowing sunlight mail kept from showing off a porn star’s wishlist body to the world by the demure red crossed white surcoat of the crusaders. “Um, Paladin, I know you mean well, but you don’t exactly blend”
Paladin grinned behind her helm, only her full lips showing in the playful smile as she told her friend an unsuspected truth. “You do realize that when I dismiss them, without the armour and the sword, I look quite a bit different. I have walked the streets of this and other cities every day since I found the sword, and no one has ever suspected my identity.”
Detective Blake’s eyes went wide. “What do you need?”
Paladin smiled. “I need a warrant for surveillance, which will be easy to get because no one has every managed to get anything near the Mendoza’s. Not even their bought judges even bother blocking such requests. Then I need one of those little camera balls with the microphone and wireless broadcasters. I will get into the club the Mendoza’s run as just another party girl. My armour and sword are magic. They come when I summon them, so I don’t have to smuggle anything in, if I need them, they just appear. I have enough mental magic to keep people from noticing me. All I have to do is get it where they will be meeting, then stay within range for the transmitter in my bag to pick up its signal and we get everything they say in their meeting on record whether I recover the device or not. If I get discovered, I just armour up and take them out for assault if they react with violence. Either way, we get them.
Meanwhile, Sweet Willie looked at his girls. The one who was blowing him right now was an Assistant District Attorney, while the one whose tits he was sucking on was a senior financial manager for the Mendoza’s money laundering operation. His mind was doing what it did best, letting these women live their fantasy of being sexual objects trained to serve the pleasure of their chosen master, while processing the information they brought him as tribute. The facts were clear. Junior rolled on the family like the useless punk that he was, and he made the feds paint a target on good old loyal to a fault Tiger instead. The family never bothered to check, never bothered to verify, they just killed his goddamned brother because Junior was a stupid gutless bitch. He was going to make them pay, but he wasn’t Tiger, he didn’t have the strength to go after them himself. He was a pimp, and information broker. Bitches and secrets were his weapons.
He would have to use those to break them.
His two pets were kissing to exchange a snowball, swapping his cum between their mouths as they kissed, desperate to show their submission to him. He stroked both of their hair as they whimpered in pleasure at his touch. The Mendoza money manager opened her mouth to offer.
“Sweet, I can start digging for you, I can find you away to bring the whole family down!” She said, stroking his thigh as she offered.
Sweet Willie smacked her face, firmly, not hard enough to damage, but hard enough to show he was not joking.
“No. You are my bitches. My bitches are safe. I don’t send my bitches into danger. Your only job is to keep me happy, and its my job to keep you safe. Now, let me show you how happy you bitches have made me. Get that sweet ass up on all fours, I am going to give you a reminder of the kind of magic Sweet Willie can work on you. My little lawyer, why don’t you scoot under your sister slut and kiss her little clitty better? Why don’t you show my what you learned in that women’s only college I found you at, and help her come just like you did, suma cum laude?”
His two bitches started working on their reward as he fucked them back into happy submission. No, the Mendoza’s had killed their loyalist soldier when they killed his foster brother. Tiger and he didn’t look alike, a blond pimp and a black enforcer, but they were the only family the other had. They never told anyone in the family about their relation. Politics in family can be a thing, and you don’t put people you love in the crosshairs. The family had killed his brother, and didn’t know it. He wasn’t going to give them a chance to kill one of his girls as they flailed around making stupid choices. He would find a way, a way to use his stupid useless telepathy, his pimp power as Tiger called it, to bring them down.
Find the bitch, find the way. That had been his path to power so far. It would be his path to revenge.
Two nights later, there was a big meeting with the Mendoza leadership in one of their nightclubs. It was a great place for a meeting because everyone had an excuse to come to the public part, and those “in the know” had ever reason to go to the private part, where the illegal gambling and very discrete drug trade for the social elites was conducted. It made the location secure from anything so crass as police surveillance or raids. The third layer was the family portion, where the highest level meetings could be conducted, just out of sight, but secure from any prying eyes. The vices indulged there had nothing to do with consuming drugs, they had to do with high level corruption, political favours, and quiet conversations about who is about to die.
Sweet Willie was going to be called into that meeting, the meeting about who has to die next, because Tiger was dead, and the case was still going forward. They didn’t know and would never expect Junior was the rat, they were going to keep stacking bodies while their shit of a son sold them out. Sweet Wilie was about to be asked in to a meeting to figure out who else they could kill to make this problem go away. He was armed only with his wits, no one whose name wasn’t Mendoza got to be armed in that meeting, and he didn’t even have a girl with him. He was out of ideas, and looking for inspiration in the bottom of a gin and tonic when he spotted her.
Blond, about six feet, athletic build, moved like a lioness pretending to be a gazelle, tits that bounced beneath that dress like they were on a mission from god to give the world serious wood and shut off every male brain. The problem was the face. The face looked like a party girl out to have a good time. They eyes however were a different kind of predator. She wasn’t playing “the game”, she was hunting some. Oddly, no one gave her the once over at the door. She was new to him, so not a regular. On this night, even he got searched, but she moved through like nobody noticed her. That was not natural. People moved out of her way, so she wasn’t straight up invisible, but if he had to guess, she was working some sort of “ignore me” mojo that allowed her to blend. She looked amazingly hot, so from a distance anyone would think she belonged, but close everyone would find their attention fixed just a little faster on everyone else around her. It was a neat trick, but even his shitty touch telepathy gave his mind shields enough to block it out.
Sweet Willie looked longer, over the rim of his glass, and noticed her purse. There was a black circular ball as part of the bag’s bottom front edge. No one was giving it a second look. Blackmail was a big part of Sweet Willie’s business model, and he knew every type of ‘not on the market but it exists’ surveillance technology out there. That little gem was called a black diamond. It was a camera with 270 degree visual, full audio in super high definition, enough to get really good voice prints and even voice stress analysis. The only weakness, or secondary strength, is that it had onboard storage and a really low power transmitter. Good for maybe twenty meters. There was a booster unit that went with it that was as thick as two fingers and a little longer, but it was not stealthy at all, because it was a powerful enough transmitter to get through most passive signal blockers. Police intelligence units had to ask really nicely to be allowed to use them, the NSA fought congress to keep even the FBI from getting to use them domestically. The CIA gave them out like candy when they needed to make themselves popular with domestic intelligence and law enforcement, so Sweet Willie knew all about them. He also knew that hot blond would be cooling to freezing in the meat locker two floors down when she tried to get it into the third layer of the Mendoza security. You couldn’t beat tech scanners with mind control. Anything that broadcast would be detected. Anything that reacted to the signals they scan put out would be detected. Whether they had been noticing her or not before the alarm went off, the alarms would bring the muscle down on her for a quick take down, some hard questions after which the eventual bullet would be a mercy.
She had a mistake, but Sweet Willie had his bitch.
You couldn’t sneak that ball in, nor could you sneak a transmitter. You could not be subtle and get past raging paranoids. You needed balls. Great big brass ones, like the ones hanging beneath Sweet Willies second most dangerous weapon.
Paladin was moving through the crowd, looking for one of the faces she knew would be drifting out of the public area and into the secret half of the club. She had memorized all of the faces Detective Blake had given her. She would let the poor fool think he was picking her up, and then let him lead her into the den of iniquity. Her own magic would be enough to fog his mind enough to not notice when she took a little too long in the ladies room, time enough to infiltrate and plant her camera for the Mendoza family conference. She would let him impress her with the gambling and even put up with a certain amount of handsy male harassment if it kept her purse with its base unit in range of the Black Diamond camera long enough to get the evidence to bring down the Mendoza family. She was unprepared when a tall, hard bodied blond man with a laughing face and the cruelest eyes she had ever seen swung her against his body and twirled her onto the dance floor.
“You are far too beautiful to die tonight. What the Mendoza would leave of you could not be identified by dental records. That camera you have will not beat the detectors at the door to the private quarters, and the rooms are a Faraday Cage, so no signal is getting out of there to the unit in your purse. No sweet cheeks,” He said as he reached down and cupped her toned and well rounded ass in his hands, “If you want to get that in, you are going to have to let me smuggle your own sweet ass in there my way. Do what I tell you, and I will help you bring them all down.”
Paladin didn’t panic, she had been blessed by the Holy Sword Durandal, she could hear the truth, she could hear lies. Most people wove the two together almost unconsciously, deceiving themselves as much as others. This man spoke the truth.
“All right, what do I have to do.” Paladin said.
Sweet Willie spun her around on the dance floor, pulling her to him, grinding her against his hardening cock as he let his hands roam over her curves. He could feel her body stiffen in instinctive resistance, but as he kissed below her ear he whispered.
“I am a pimp. Not just any pimp, I am the one who supplies girls for the most elite family guests and parties, the one who managed to keep Junior from raping anyone in college because my girls were keeping his impulse control issues ass handled. You need to sell yourself tonight as one of mine. A proper upright woman of high education and status who got addicted to Sweet Willies depraved perversions and let herself get tricked into being a plaything. You have to sell that sugar, if you want me to get your sweet ass and that camera into that room when the meeting is on, right in front of god and everyone.” Sweet Willie whispered while his hand ground her ass onto his hard foot long bitch tamer, while his other came slowly up her side to openly caress her breast on the dance floor as he nibbled at her neck.
She opened her mouth to object, but her mind was working the tactical situation almost instinctively, and her truth sense was stretching to absorb the truth of his words. Not mixed, not slanted, not shaded. Straight unspun facts. While she struggled to deal with the lack of deception, her body was responding to his, she had been partially focusing on moving with him on the dance floor, so she had been getting into the sensual rhythm they had been producing, and her own body was that of a peak human animal, an athlete, a warrior, a creature of absolute physicality and passion. Such a creature has other needs, physical needs and instincts unrelated to battle, and they were all howling and clawing at her divided concentration for a chance to take the wheel. Her objection came out as a moan as she felt her nipples stiffen under his expert touch.
He took the decision out of her hands. He simply ordered her. “Enough wasted time. I will need to prepare you. Come now to the private half of the club. There is a room there for “entertainment”. I need to change your outfit and your attitude. When I am done, every eye will be on you, but not one of them will see you. No one is sneaking anything past the detectors, so we will do the opposite of hiding. You are going to be 100% revealed, and that is how we smuggle it in.”
(this was the setup chapter. Don’t worry, it gets 100% dirty from here)
The drug deal had been a bad idea. They had distributors. They had networks. They had layers upon layers of distance between the street people and the money laundering. This was for the organizations protection. It was, by nature, expensive and inefficient. The cost ate deeply into profits, but the product produced so much profit that the piece of the pie that was left after every layer took its piece was still bigger than the gross national product of the country the drug came from. Except Junior wanted more. He wanted to cut out the “parasites” leaching off his families profits. He wanted to see the street price of the drugs actually put in his hands. No middle men, no third parties. No firewalls between risk and reward to protect the family. Just one arrogant bastard who thought that he knew better than the hard eyed old men who got through the war on drugs, the war between the Cartels, and survived to quietly pick up enough pieces to hold one corner of the market for their own.
Junior was not Jorje Mendoza, the Patron. Junior was not even Esteban Mendoza, the one who chose to play second to a succession of rising stars during the bloody cartel wars and quietly accept the loss of seventy percent of his assets when the caped crusaders responded to the blood bath by taking over from police and rolling up the networks themselves. He had cut his ties and took the loss, waiting a decade to quietly rebuild smaller and trade a smaller cut for another layer of safety. No, Junior thought betting big on the size of his balls and the fact that he had never been proven wrong in his twenty one years was a sign from god that he was the future king of crime. That put him in a room in the Pan Pacific with six bodyguards and three “gang leaders” that were actually two DEA and one FBI as he turned over twelve suitcases full of cocaine for as many duffel bags of cash.
When the badges came out, and the take down team blew the door, “Tiger” Thompson knitted his hands behind his head and knelt. His job was to keep Junior safe for the Mendoza’s, and this just became a matter for lawyers. Junior doubled down on stupid, and drew his tiny machine pistol and sprayed fifty rounds of .22 across head level for the agents. He cut down the plain clothes DEA and FBI, while flattening tiny slugs on the front of the helmets of the heavily armoured take down team. Tiger knew what came next, and tackled his boss, as his superhuman toughness absorbed most of the hail of return fire that hosed Junior down. He stopped every slug meant for his torso and head, even grabbed his arms so they would stay safe. Unfortunately, blowing the heads apart of three agents to start a gunfight escalates things quickly. Junior’s both feet and legs were shattered by multiple shotgun and submachine gun blasts. Doctors had to take his legs off above the knee.
Junior Mendoza rolled on his family, and as part of his deal with the DEA, he had them spin it so “Tiger” Thompson was publicly the rat.
“Sweet Willie” Stevens sat across the viewing plexiglass from his foster brother and grinned. Sweet Willie always grinned. He was a sugar pimp, his super power allowing him to get the sweetest and rarest of girls on his string. His product was so in demand that his business had switched from primarily an escort service to primarily an information brokerage because Sweet Willie’s girls were literally a breed apart from the whores run by other pimps.
“Relax bro. The family’s lawyers will look after me. I saved Junior from his latest fuckup. They may have to support the little idiot inside, but it isn’t like they can’t see he runs the prison network at least because with three dead agents on camera he isn’t getting out. I didn’t even draw a weapon, and took Junior down before he could get his ass killed. Worst thing that can happen is I keep drawing my pay for keeping the little moron safe inside, rather than on the streets. The family knows they can trust me.” Tiger said to his foster brother.
Sweet Willie sighed. Tiger was six and a half feet of calm black muscle, his super power making his skin and muscles bullet proof and able to bend iron bars. He never got angry, and he never got mad. He was good at keeping things calm. He had kept an angry white boy who was too quick with a knife and too angry to be talked down from getting himself killed until a decent (not great) foster home and a new brother could teach him not everyone was a predator out to hurt him. Sweet Willie trusted his brother, but he also knew his brother trusted other people way too far. Sweet Willie’s power was touch telepathy, sort of. His touch telepathy only worked with internal contact. For an abuse survivor that was not good; he knew what the people abusing him were thinking. For a budding pimp, it made any woman he was with an open book. Worse, he could take her through her every dark fantasy, find every single thing she was secretly yearning for and use it to train her that he alone could provide it. Sweet Willie got off on taking the wealthy and powerful, the perfectly controlled and proud ones, and making them part of his string. They made him money, because they were the kinds of women you could not buy, because they couldn’t be bought. Unless you had Willie’s number. The information they had access to on their own, or from bedroom talk from powerful men who felt compelled to try to impress the women in their beds they knew truly were out of their league was enough to give him better intelligence than some first world intelligence services. It also gave him even deeper trust issues.
“They have been shaking the trees too hard. They are flexing on the street, and it worries me bro. I got people who tell me their lawyers aren’t being permitted to see Junior, on Juniors say so. That doesn’t sound right. I think I am going to go visit the family and make sure everything is still cool.” Sweet Willie said, smiling softly. He had access. During college, he had been tapped with keeping Junior under control. He had made sure that Junior had “girlfriends” keeping him from doing anything stupid when he got told no. They were some of his special girls, so they were enough smarter than Junior that he never suspected his girlfriend and side chick were not his conquests but his handlers. The family always knew Junior was in need of handlers, and Sweet Willie had been the go to pimp even then. He had access; if he didn’t work for the family directly, he was the one they went to when they had high level guests that needed entertainment that would not only be discrete, but stroke egos and guide conversations subtly enough to keep dangerous and dominant men with conflicting interests from turning a social event into a war zone.
Sweet Willie was flirting with Isabella D’Angello, who is one of the legal team. Not the ones who do the big meetings, but the ones who do the real work; they ones that look for both the legal angles to use, and the leverage the family can bring to bear, to come up with the short list of options for the big names to lay before the family head. He handed her a cupcake with a ridiculous amount of icing formed into a perfect red rose. She was perennially on a diet and hit the gym with the obsession of a woman who had a weight issue in puberty and could never really let it go. She also had a weakness for Sweet Willie and was under the delusion he didn’t know it. Sweet Willie made her laugh with a double entendre while she was taking a careful bite, and when she laughed she got red icing on her nose.
Sweet Willie gently scooped the icing off her nose, and proffered it on his finger, the red icing swirled around his finger tip making it look like a rampant cock, even as he smiled like an innocent school boy, giving the illusion this was an innocent act so that she could feel she was the one choosing this flirtation. She took it into her mouth and sucked on it lovingly. His power flowed into her mind, accentuating her sexual enjoyment of the act of sucking on his finger as she imagined doing it to Sweet Willie’s cock. As his power flowed into her mind through the contact, Sweet Willie smiled and said, seemingly offhand.
“Shame about Junior and Tiger. I trust the family is taking care of them?” Sweet Willie asked.
Isabella had a very compartmentalized mind. Simultaneously her personal side was dreaming about tying his hands to the top of the bed and sucking his cock to the edge of completion and then keeping him there for hours, making him confess his undying love before she let him shoot his cum into her loving mouth where she would make sure she alone could taste it. Her professional side was thinking something very different. Something about hiring mercenaries to make sure that traitor was taken care of. Ironic to send dragons to hunt tigers, but that was what it took to take down a superhuman traitor to the family.
Sweet Willie saw the image, Dragon ATGM, anti-tank guided missiles. They were going to kill Tiger. Some idiot convinced them the loyalist soldier any syndicate ever had was a traitor and they were going to kill him.
He was a professional, he touched the button on his cuff that sent an automatic alarm to his phone. He made a show of checking his phone, sighing, and telling Isabella he had some urgent business to take care of. He kept it to a walk until he was out of sight. He was on the phone to his own enforcers as he broke into a run for his car. “Where is my brother? Look out for kill squads, the family is doing something stupid.” Sweet Willie was half way through barking instructions when he heard the explosions.
An armoured prisoner transfer van had exploded. Two teams with heavy anti tank rockets had engaged it and turned the officers inside and the prisoner into so much burned meat, and the armoured car into a raging inferno of unrecognizable origin. The team responsible was heavily armed, and well prepared. The police who attempted to pursue were met with another anti tank missile, showing that no man could survive pursuing the kill team as they fled.
Everyone has their favorite superhero or heroine. When they are boys and girls, they tend to pick an idol they want to be like. When they grow up, they often find themselves fixating on the ones they would like to fuck instead.
Paladin was the object of much of this.
She had been an archeology student on a dig in the Spanish mountains when she uncovered Durendal, the legendary holy sword of Huon of the Horn. Transformed by its holy power, she was blessed with the strength of a hundred knights, armoured with the mantle of the Archangel Gabriel to turn aside all earthly weapons, gifted by the fairy King Oberon with immunity to magic. Armed with a sword that could cut through stone and steel as if it were warm butter, and the wings of an Archangel to fly, she was a vision of purity that sailed above a world too base for her perfection.
She had been an athletic girl, a blonde vision of a coed whose presence is short shorts and a halter top barely containing her breasts did much to make the whole dig team motivated to get up to work every day, even if her persistent rebuff of every attempt to get into those delightful little pants failed utterly against a soul that was even then too pure for this world.
The power of the blade Durendal magnified all that she was. Her already amazing clean cut girl next door beauty became beyond the best CGI artificial perfection. Her fit and toned body became like that of a Valkyrie, that of a born and trained warrior. Her naturally ample female assets were likewise magnified to comic book proportions.
To say that her red crossed white crusader mantle did little to hide her curves was true. The chain mail she had originally worn had been slowly blasted away, to be replaced with mail forged of holy light as the Archangels rewarded her purity with greater protection than any enchanted steel.
The loving telephoto lenses of her fans and enemies agreed that one thing this glowing holy mail was, was almost transparent. Her body was clad in glowing gold chain mail that you could almost see through, or totally see through with a computer filter. Only the damned crusader robe hid the tips of those amazing breasts and the soft valley of those amazing hips from view.
She was the go to heroine in the spank banks of most prisons, half of which she had filled. She was also one of the premiere superheroines for a reason. She didn’t do superhero speeches or strike superhero poses, she was just what she said. A Paladin. A crusader of Justice, unstoppable sword in hand, and golden armour of holy light wrapping her in the protection of her faith. She dropped from the sky onto the hood of the get away vehicle of the first set of mercenaries and put the engine block into the pavement. The airbags deployed to stun the driver and passenger, but when a mercenary from the back seat tried to bring his AR-15 up, she stepped onto the roof and drove Durendal down through it into the mercenaries brain.
Her voice magnified by her armour in a way technology had never been able to detect, it rang clearly in the ears of everyone in a half kilometer radius.
“To the armoured criminals fleeing the scene of the prisoner ambush. Surrender while you have all both limbs and life. You do not need both to testify.” Paladin spoke, giving her only warning.
In reply automatic fire splashed onto her armour and she dashed quickly towards the nearest car, cutting through automatic rifles and pistols, sometimes taking hands and arms with them as she disarmed the mercenaries, moving too fast to track, and utterly ignoring the small caliber gunfire. The far team had time to play their trump card, and fired their last anti-tank rocket at the glowing Paladin.
The footage would play in slow motion on half the screens in the nation for weeks. She turned to face the incoming missile, raised her sword into Tierce, hand near her hip, blade in line with her forward knee, and then lunged tip outward to impale the incoming missile with her holy sword. They explosion was directed by the lunging blade back at the last carload of thugs, including the launching ones, leaving them battered, bruised, unconscious, but alive. With a flourish and salute, she sheathed her sword, and raised her voice for emergency services to attend the captured criminals.
Speaking at the scene to her friend Detective Chastity Blake, she wasn’t liking what she was hearing.
“It makes no sense. Tiger didn’t roll on anyone. He just requested his lawyer and sat quietly to broker a plea deal for manslaughter, as he admits to being part of the attempted drug sale where agents got killed but had no involvement with the killing except bringing the shooter down, even if it was mostly to save Junior’s life. Junior was the one that rolled on his family, and no one made a try for him. If this wasn’t the Mendoza’s trying to shut up a snitch, maybe it was some sort of inter-gang thing, or some sort of power struggle in the family. If it is, then this wasn’t the last killing, it was the first. If they are using anti tank rockets in the opening skirmish, how bloody is it going to get before it is over?” The Detective whispered, her coffee cup shaking in her hands.
Paladin grabbed her hands with her own. “Do not worry Chastity. I will look into it.”
Detective Blake looked at the six foot knight in glowing sunlight mail kept from showing off a porn star’s wishlist body to the world by the demure red crossed white surcoat of the crusaders. “Um, Paladin, I know you mean well, but you don’t exactly blend”
Paladin grinned behind her helm, only her full lips showing in the playful smile as she told her friend an unsuspected truth. “You do realize that when I dismiss them, without the armour and the sword, I look quite a bit different. I have walked the streets of this and other cities every day since I found the sword, and no one has ever suspected my identity.”
Detective Blake’s eyes went wide. “What do you need?”
Paladin smiled. “I need a warrant for surveillance, which will be easy to get because no one has every managed to get anything near the Mendoza’s. Not even their bought judges even bother blocking such requests. Then I need one of those little camera balls with the microphone and wireless broadcasters. I will get into the club the Mendoza’s run as just another party girl. My armour and sword are magic. They come when I summon them, so I don’t have to smuggle anything in, if I need them, they just appear. I have enough mental magic to keep people from noticing me. All I have to do is get it where they will be meeting, then stay within range for the transmitter in my bag to pick up its signal and we get everything they say in their meeting on record whether I recover the device or not. If I get discovered, I just armour up and take them out for assault if they react with violence. Either way, we get them.
Meanwhile, Sweet Willie looked at his girls. The one who was blowing him right now was an Assistant District Attorney, while the one whose tits he was sucking on was a senior financial manager for the Mendoza’s money laundering operation. His mind was doing what it did best, letting these women live their fantasy of being sexual objects trained to serve the pleasure of their chosen master, while processing the information they brought him as tribute. The facts were clear. Junior rolled on the family like the useless punk that he was, and he made the feds paint a target on good old loyal to a fault Tiger instead. The family never bothered to check, never bothered to verify, they just killed his goddamned brother because Junior was a stupid gutless bitch. He was going to make them pay, but he wasn’t Tiger, he didn’t have the strength to go after them himself. He was a pimp, and information broker. Bitches and secrets were his weapons.
He would have to use those to break them.
His two pets were kissing to exchange a snowball, swapping his cum between their mouths as they kissed, desperate to show their submission to him. He stroked both of their hair as they whimpered in pleasure at his touch. The Mendoza money manager opened her mouth to offer.
“Sweet, I can start digging for you, I can find you away to bring the whole family down!” She said, stroking his thigh as she offered.
Sweet Willie smacked her face, firmly, not hard enough to damage, but hard enough to show he was not joking.
“No. You are my bitches. My bitches are safe. I don’t send my bitches into danger. Your only job is to keep me happy, and its my job to keep you safe. Now, let me show you how happy you bitches have made me. Get that sweet ass up on all fours, I am going to give you a reminder of the kind of magic Sweet Willie can work on you. My little lawyer, why don’t you scoot under your sister slut and kiss her little clitty better? Why don’t you show my what you learned in that women’s only college I found you at, and help her come just like you did, suma cum laude?”
His two bitches started working on their reward as he fucked them back into happy submission. No, the Mendoza’s had killed their loyalist soldier when they killed his foster brother. Tiger and he didn’t look alike, a blond pimp and a black enforcer, but they were the only family the other had. They never told anyone in the family about their relation. Politics in family can be a thing, and you don’t put people you love in the crosshairs. The family had killed his brother, and didn’t know it. He wasn’t going to give them a chance to kill one of his girls as they flailed around making stupid choices. He would find a way, a way to use his stupid useless telepathy, his pimp power as Tiger called it, to bring them down.
Find the bitch, find the way. That had been his path to power so far. It would be his path to revenge.
Two nights later, there was a big meeting with the Mendoza leadership in one of their nightclubs. It was a great place for a meeting because everyone had an excuse to come to the public part, and those “in the know” had ever reason to go to the private part, where the illegal gambling and very discrete drug trade for the social elites was conducted. It made the location secure from anything so crass as police surveillance or raids. The third layer was the family portion, where the highest level meetings could be conducted, just out of sight, but secure from any prying eyes. The vices indulged there had nothing to do with consuming drugs, they had to do with high level corruption, political favours, and quiet conversations about who is about to die.
Sweet Willie was going to be called into that meeting, the meeting about who has to die next, because Tiger was dead, and the case was still going forward. They didn’t know and would never expect Junior was the rat, they were going to keep stacking bodies while their shit of a son sold them out. Sweet Wilie was about to be asked in to a meeting to figure out who else they could kill to make this problem go away. He was armed only with his wits, no one whose name wasn’t Mendoza got to be armed in that meeting, and he didn’t even have a girl with him. He was out of ideas, and looking for inspiration in the bottom of a gin and tonic when he spotted her.
Blond, about six feet, athletic build, moved like a lioness pretending to be a gazelle, tits that bounced beneath that dress like they were on a mission from god to give the world serious wood and shut off every male brain. The problem was the face. The face looked like a party girl out to have a good time. They eyes however were a different kind of predator. She wasn’t playing “the game”, she was hunting some. Oddly, no one gave her the once over at the door. She was new to him, so not a regular. On this night, even he got searched, but she moved through like nobody noticed her. That was not natural. People moved out of her way, so she wasn’t straight up invisible, but if he had to guess, she was working some sort of “ignore me” mojo that allowed her to blend. She looked amazingly hot, so from a distance anyone would think she belonged, but close everyone would find their attention fixed just a little faster on everyone else around her. It was a neat trick, but even his shitty touch telepathy gave his mind shields enough to block it out.
Sweet Willie looked longer, over the rim of his glass, and noticed her purse. There was a black circular ball as part of the bag’s bottom front edge. No one was giving it a second look. Blackmail was a big part of Sweet Willie’s business model, and he knew every type of ‘not on the market but it exists’ surveillance technology out there. That little gem was called a black diamond. It was a camera with 270 degree visual, full audio in super high definition, enough to get really good voice prints and even voice stress analysis. The only weakness, or secondary strength, is that it had onboard storage and a really low power transmitter. Good for maybe twenty meters. There was a booster unit that went with it that was as thick as two fingers and a little longer, but it was not stealthy at all, because it was a powerful enough transmitter to get through most passive signal blockers. Police intelligence units had to ask really nicely to be allowed to use them, the NSA fought congress to keep even the FBI from getting to use them domestically. The CIA gave them out like candy when they needed to make themselves popular with domestic intelligence and law enforcement, so Sweet Willie knew all about them. He also knew that hot blond would be cooling to freezing in the meat locker two floors down when she tried to get it into the third layer of the Mendoza security. You couldn’t beat tech scanners with mind control. Anything that broadcast would be detected. Anything that reacted to the signals they scan put out would be detected. Whether they had been noticing her or not before the alarm went off, the alarms would bring the muscle down on her for a quick take down, some hard questions after which the eventual bullet would be a mercy.
She had a mistake, but Sweet Willie had his bitch.
You couldn’t sneak that ball in, nor could you sneak a transmitter. You could not be subtle and get past raging paranoids. You needed balls. Great big brass ones, like the ones hanging beneath Sweet Willies second most dangerous weapon.
Paladin was moving through the crowd, looking for one of the faces she knew would be drifting out of the public area and into the secret half of the club. She had memorized all of the faces Detective Blake had given her. She would let the poor fool think he was picking her up, and then let him lead her into the den of iniquity. Her own magic would be enough to fog his mind enough to not notice when she took a little too long in the ladies room, time enough to infiltrate and plant her camera for the Mendoza family conference. She would let him impress her with the gambling and even put up with a certain amount of handsy male harassment if it kept her purse with its base unit in range of the Black Diamond camera long enough to get the evidence to bring down the Mendoza family. She was unprepared when a tall, hard bodied blond man with a laughing face and the cruelest eyes she had ever seen swung her against his body and twirled her onto the dance floor.
“You are far too beautiful to die tonight. What the Mendoza would leave of you could not be identified by dental records. That camera you have will not beat the detectors at the door to the private quarters, and the rooms are a Faraday Cage, so no signal is getting out of there to the unit in your purse. No sweet cheeks,” He said as he reached down and cupped her toned and well rounded ass in his hands, “If you want to get that in, you are going to have to let me smuggle your own sweet ass in there my way. Do what I tell you, and I will help you bring them all down.”
Paladin didn’t panic, she had been blessed by the Holy Sword Durandal, she could hear the truth, she could hear lies. Most people wove the two together almost unconsciously, deceiving themselves as much as others. This man spoke the truth.
“All right, what do I have to do.” Paladin said.
Sweet Willie spun her around on the dance floor, pulling her to him, grinding her against his hardening cock as he let his hands roam over her curves. He could feel her body stiffen in instinctive resistance, but as he kissed below her ear he whispered.
“I am a pimp. Not just any pimp, I am the one who supplies girls for the most elite family guests and parties, the one who managed to keep Junior from raping anyone in college because my girls were keeping his impulse control issues ass handled. You need to sell yourself tonight as one of mine. A proper upright woman of high education and status who got addicted to Sweet Willies depraved perversions and let herself get tricked into being a plaything. You have to sell that sugar, if you want me to get your sweet ass and that camera into that room when the meeting is on, right in front of god and everyone.” Sweet Willie whispered while his hand ground her ass onto his hard foot long bitch tamer, while his other came slowly up her side to openly caress her breast on the dance floor as he nibbled at her neck.
She opened her mouth to object, but her mind was working the tactical situation almost instinctively, and her truth sense was stretching to absorb the truth of his words. Not mixed, not slanted, not shaded. Straight unspun facts. While she struggled to deal with the lack of deception, her body was responding to his, she had been partially focusing on moving with him on the dance floor, so she had been getting into the sensual rhythm they had been producing, and her own body was that of a peak human animal, an athlete, a warrior, a creature of absolute physicality and passion. Such a creature has other needs, physical needs and instincts unrelated to battle, and they were all howling and clawing at her divided concentration for a chance to take the wheel. Her objection came out as a moan as she felt her nipples stiffen under his expert touch.
He took the decision out of her hands. He simply ordered her. “Enough wasted time. I will need to prepare you. Come now to the private half of the club. There is a room there for “entertainment”. I need to change your outfit and your attitude. When I am done, every eye will be on you, but not one of them will see you. No one is sneaking anything past the detectors, so we will do the opposite of hiding. You are going to be 100% revealed, and that is how we smuggle it in.”
(this was the setup chapter. Don’t worry, it gets 100% dirty from here)