Desire in the Desert

Theo straightened his uniform again and glanced nervously at the old clock ticking away on the desk. He checked the exterior camera again. No one there. He turned the spit testing machine a quarter turn, then thought better of it and turned it back.

Theo had never actually met General Stencia in person. Sure he had seen the man on the stage during base orientation, but that was different. When Sarge had said the base commander was coming down for some demonstration, Theo was nervous. Did they know he had turned on the interior camera? That he had talked to the woman in the cell? That he had cum all over the lab equipment? He had cleaned it well, but according to CSI Miami you could see all sorts of things with a blacklight.

He scrubbed insistently at a spot on the desk that was almost certainly not semen.

His mind raced. There were so many questions that he had no answers to. Who was the crazy woman in there? Why was she chained up? Why was she being pleasured with exotic sex toys? Did anything that she had said really matter? Was any of it true? Or was it just the rantings and ravings of a mad prisoner? She had told him to avoid putting on something that they gave him? That it would control his mind? He hadn't been given anything, but it made him nervous.

O’Malley and Singh had thought he was crazy when he told them about the noises from inside the room. They hadn't ever heard those noises, O'Malley thought Theo was losing it, so Theo hadn't told them about turning on the camera, or what he had seen when he did.

Maybe they didn't hear anything because the scientists mostly came during the day, when Theo was on shift. Maybe they didn't hear anything because Theo was actually losing it and he had imagined everything, the woman and all. Or maybe, just maybe she was telling the truth and her voice was somehow being blo-

BUZZ

Theo jumped out of his skin, and nearly opened the door without looking. But the General would probably be more mad at him not following protocol than waiting a few extra seconds to enter.

Turning on the exterior camera, he saw the hulking form of General Stencia surrounded by five army scientists in lab coats. Stencia was an upside down triangle of a man, with broad shoulders, a thickly muscled chest and a thin waist. He had a piercing gaze that stared right into the camera. Theo quickly validated his credentials and buzzed them in.

As the General pulled the massive door open with ease, Theo jumped to attention and saluted.

"At ease, Private."the General said in a smooth baritone voice as the scientists filed in behind him, carrying loads of lab equipment and what looked like a large potted house plant.

"You new here Priavate?" the General asked, as Theo held out spit tubes for him and the scientists.

"Sir yes sir."

"Good man, Have yo-" The general stopped his expression contorting into one of fury. His face turned bright red and he breathed in to scream.

"PRIVATE! Why on God's green earth do you not have your safety lanyard on?"

Theo's shock was such that he could only eke out a quiet "Safety lanyard sir?"

"Don't you “safety lanyard sir” me! This!" The general pulled forward a lanyard around his neck with a metal rectangle attached to it, like an id card, but blank. Theo's body wanted to freeze up, but his training took over, forcing his mouth to speak.

"Sir. I was never issued one sir." Now that he thought about it, all of the scientists and the other guards had similar lanyards around their necks. Theo had never thought much of it.

"Banners! Why in our sweet lord's heaven was this private never issued a safety lanyard?" The general yelled.

One of the lab coats walked over with a fearful look in his eyes. He was more nervous than the others and had been giving directions to the other scientists about how to set up the equipment they were bringing into the small room.

"Uhh. I don't know sir. I would have to ask the Sergeant."

"Well don't just stand there Banners! Fetch him one right away!"

The doctor scampered off. Stencia examined Theo like he was a dangerous insect trapped in a spider's web.

"You hear any voices, Private? Any noises? Feel any strange urges near that room?"

There was one part of Theo that wanted to tell the General the whole truth. But that would mean admitting that he had been jacking off on duty, which was sure to get him a dishonorable discharge, and mean his mother would never get her green card. No. A lie was the only option.

"Sir no sir!"

"You a good Christian boy?"

Theo was a lapsed Catholic, but he had heard the General was a religious nut who was a deacon of the ultra conservative ChurchChrist in town. So he once again knew the only acceptable answer.

"Sir yes sir." he said, pulling out a cross his mother had made him swear he would always wear.

"Good lad. Your faith probably protected you. But don't count on that alone. God helps those who help themselves."

Theo finished entering the spit tubes for all the men, and Banners returned with a safety lanyard. Theo noted that it looked different from the ones that the scientists and the general wore. It was thicker, more substantial. More a cube than a flat rectangle. It matched the ones he had seen on O'Malley and Singh.

"Don't take this off for any reason. Put it on before you get into the elevator upstairs, and don't take it off until you get back upstairs. This is very important boy. To preserve your immortal soul." The general patted him on the shoulder.

Theo obediently put the lanyard over his head, and he felt the world dim. Everything seemed softer, grayer, less interesting. He felt himself slump back into his chair. All of the equipment that the scientists were bringing in didn't seem as fascinating anymore. The questions he had been pondering about the women in the room seemed unimportant. Why would he want to find out what was in there? Why would he want anything?

He felt as if he was disconnected from his senses, or at least that there was a heavy curtain in the way, as the scientists brought the last of their equipment in and closed the exterior door. His ears felt like they were underwater, his eyes felt like he was straining through a mist to see. Theo buzzed them into the interior door and proceeded to stare blankly at a spot on the desk while they loaded the supplies inside and closed the giant interior door behind them.

Theo sat in silence for a moment, expecting to hear the woman's cries of pleasure. But the silence continued. He idly fiddled with the cube around his neck. It was made of a silvery metal with shimmers of blue, where had he seen that before…?

In a moment he realized. On the bars of the door. On the woman's manacles. Was this really something to protect him or something to bind him?

What had the woman said? They will take away your desire? Your ability to hear me? That seemed like it fit what he was experiencing exactly. What would the harm be if he took it off, just for a moment to test it out? It wasn't like anyone could see him in here.

He pulled the lanyard off his neck and the color in the world came rushing back. He could think clearly again, see clearly again, but most shockingly he could hear the woman's voice again like he had just taken off earplugs.

"Mmhmm. Yes. Come closer General and I will give you what you desire..."

"Not in a million years, demon." Theo heard the General respond.

If I’m breaking the rules already by taking off his lanyard, I might as well find out what is going on in there… Theo thought as he turned the interior camera on.

Inside, the woman was still strapped naked to the contraption, her legs and arms spread out beside her, her nipples standing firmly at attention on her perfect teardrop breasts. The scientists stood around fiddling with the plant, while the General faced off with the woman. She tossed her short, fire-red hair and laughed at him.

"You'll all give in eventually! Haha! What you desire will always break through."

Out of curiosity, Theo kept the camera on, but slowly lowered the lanyard back over his neck. The world went gray again and he lost the will to do anything but stare at a wall. But the image changed. The woman disappeared and there were just the men in lab coats standing around a plant on a stainless steel lab table with the general looking on.

Theo removed the lanyard and the world shifted back.

Which was the real world? Was the lanyard protecting him from some illusion the woman was projecting? Or was it blocking her from his view?

Theo decided that it must be the second. Because if the world with the lanyard on was the real one, then the woman wouldn't exist, so there wouldn’t be anything he needed protection from. Plus the world didn't feel right with the lanyard on, so he left it off, and looked back at the screen.

"... so watch what happens when we put just a few drops of the substance on the plant, but keep it far away from the subject. "

The scientist took a few drops of liquid and dribbled them into the soil around the plant. Theo recognized it as a lady slippers plant, which had a cluster of many long, thin, smooth green stalks. Each stalk was about the width of a pencil and between two and three feet tall.

As the red liquid sunk into the soil, the plant began to grow rapidly, its stalks doubled in length. All along the stems it erupted in little red flowers that almost looked like high heels.

"So, you can use it as fertilizer?" The General asked.

"Well the issue is that the effects are temporary if it is far away from the specimen."

"So we need to keep it close to this demon to keep it going?"

"Well, not quite. Watch what happens when we place it closer to her."

The scientists took out a long pole and pushed the lady slippers plant closer to the woman, so that it was right beneath her body, where she was suspended upright and spread eagle. As they did, one long spindly stem grew taller, until it was right next to the woman's clit, it bent over ever so slightly and flicked it. The woman tensed in pleasure.

The thin tendril bent over again pressed in onto her clit and flicked it again, all the muscles in her body tensed and she let out a moan.

"Mmh!"

Two more tendrils started growing taller, until one pressed on each side of her vulva, stroking the lips of her pussy back and forth while the first stalk continued to flick her clit. She tensed against the restraints and cried out.

"Oh yes! More. Give me MORE!"

Theo could feel his dick getting rock hard against his uniform, but resisted the urge to touch himself lest he violate more rules than he already had. He did zoom in closer.

On the screen, Theo could see a clump of stems growing up and spiraling together to form a single cylindrical shaft, rounded on the top and perhaps four or five inches in diameter. It rose slowly, the stalks moving and slithering back and forth. As it did the two taller stalks reached inside her pussy and slowly spread it open wide.

"Oh god, Give it all to me. I need it. I am dripping for it!" The woman called out.

The head of the massive writhing column of stems pressed itself against the woman's restrained body, forcing itself inside her. At first it seemed too large to fit, pushing and pushing until finally it broke through with an audible squelch.

"Fuck yes!" The woman screamed.

As the column started slowly rising and falling, Theo saw a bulge in the woman's skinny lower abdomen where the shaft was pressing. Her abs flexed out as the thick appendage pressed her organs aside. It looked so hot that he came, just a little bit, in his pants.

"Well. Go on. Get some more from her while she's like this." The General said. Theo reluctantly zoomed back out the camera and saw one of the scientists sticking a needle into the woman's vein and extracting her blood. But it didn't look like blood, it looked like the red liquid they had poured on the plant.

"Oh please, yes, yes! Give me more! Deeper!" she screamed as the plant started moving faster and faster spreading her pussy wider and wider.

Theo saw a few more tendrils grow and shoot towards her anus, while others broke off from the main column to stroke her clit faster, in a constant stream of pleasure. As the stalks shoved themselves deep inside her ass, she screamed again.

"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuck!

The plant was pounding her like a piston at this point. Her naked body was dripping with sweat as she writhed back and forth against the restraints, unable to escape the massive shaft mechanically plunging into her body over and over again.

I'm- I'm- I'm- YES!"

Her body shook all over, tensing and releasing. The scientists slowly pulled the plant away. As stalks broke off from it, they immediately withered and died. The woman was sweating, the plant was dripping with her juices as the column was finally released from her pussy.

"Oooh…. Mmmhm. Why did you stop? I was just getting started."

"That's enough from you demon, So Banners, what does this tell us? When can I get my Alpha soldiers?"

"Well, we need to run some more tests, we need to find out a way that we can sustain the effects in the long term, without... the side effects you saw here."

"Can't the suppressors contain that?"

"Not with sustained use. But we are working on some promising potential options."

"Very well. Carry on," The General said, and turned towards the door. Theo was so focused on the sexy woman's heaving body, which was still panting hard and dripping with sweat, he almost forgot that he was the one that needed to let everyone back out.

He threw on the lanyard and everything went by in a blur, nothing of note happened because he didn't feel like anything was interesting.

When they were finally gone, he risked taking off the lanyard, and turning back on the camera inside the room. The woman was still panting, and sweating, but she was smiling, and staring right at the camera.

"I felt you watching. I know you resisted them. Good. I see great potential in you... Theo."

Theo shut off the camera fast and threw on the lanyard.

How did she know my name?

Part II: Freedom and Captivity

Chapter 6: The Test