Tag Archives: Volontary

Unforeseen Side Effects

Seated at his desk, Dr. Philip Mouzer nervously flipped through the now updated personnel file of Captain Richard…no Rachel Strider. A former hero in the last galactic war, Captain Strider risked life and limb to bring the bloody conflict to a close. Now 40 later, a new battle is being waged and the good captain came to the R&D department determined to do his part on the front lines. Dr. Mouzer vividly remembered the day the old solder walked in and volunteered for ‘whatever would get him combat ready the fastest’. A knock at the door interrupted his thoughts as he quickly gathered the stacks of papers on his desk into a semi-respectable pile. After a quick ‘come in’, a beautiful black haired woman wearing a captain’s uniform strode in and saluted the scientist. Read more

Tailed

She peeked over her shoulder. She was being followed, there was no doubt about it. How had they found her so quickly? She knew that she couldn’t be more than a suspect at this point. Still there was no way her mental defences could hold up against the intrusive telepathic scans of the thought police. Scratch that, there was one way. All she had to do was say the trigger word. Along with the physical transformation, she had undergone months of hypnotherapy in order to create an overlay personality. All she had to do is say one simple phrase and all thought she needed to hide would be buried deep within her, her cover identity would become her true identity. She would be just a vapid, oversexed, girly girl. Only with her handler dead who would free her mind. The reverse trigger was a phrase she could go weeks, months, even years without hearing. This could be the mental equivalent of a secret agent taking his cyanide pill. There was not choice. “This is who I am now.” Read more