Plans Get Underway

It would be a hectic few hours for all involved, racing against the clock to get their plans in place. All had woken up as they had been when they entered the dreams, seated and fully fully clothed. Nothing dangling out, no embarrassing peeking out, underwear where they should be. After a quick debrief and finalizing their plans, they got to work.

For William, he got out the usual puff pieces to the tech magazines and journalists who were going to come anyway. He ordered the reporters and the writers to drum up viewers for the live-stream hidden behind the paywall, talking of prizes, seeing outstanding unseen sights, the future and bigging it up as much as possible. The publicity seemed to be working in getting people to sign up (though he suspected most would be doing it under a free trial) and the more eyes the merrier but it needed a more personal touch.

William called rival journalists who had been rather annoyed at Andrea turning a hard hitting media company CatCo into a publicity machine. He also called business rivals and those he knew didn’t like Andrea and would rather like to see her fall, had been invited for forms sake but both sides knew they were not going to come see her potential glory. A few off the record comments here “I saw a preview, this is a complete disaster. She will never live this down.” or chuckling tips there “You should come, Andrea has overreached herself and is going to be exposed for what she really is.”, the more rivals promised to come.

He had also reached out to contacts he had made in investigative journalism, figures who were perhaps not always in legitimate business but could be relied on to spot an opportunity and take advantage of changes to technology. Or rather turn technology towards their own perverted uses. It took a bit of cajoling and calling people who knew a guy who knew a guy but he was pretty certain he had managed to lure them in.

He had dreamed of **** for years, for what had happened to Russell and in all his imagination, at no point did Andrea with her kit off occur as part of his plans or dreams. If everything went well and Kara’s promises lived up to the exception, he still had a way to go but it would make his job to find out what exactly happened and what exactly Andrea is doing easier. Guilty, part of him knew he also wouldn’t mind getting a longer look at Andrea in her birthday suit but he wanted this to be **** for Russell, not about his own desires. As he activated his device, his eyes looked up to the Heavens, to where he hoped his friend was watching.

For Kara, keeping busy to distract herself from two certain incidents was important, she had of course gone to the tech department with a list of agreed fixes that needed to be done but she also arranged a meeting with Brainy and Lena, two experts who she had full faith in their ability to alter the program. Taking a few copies of the Dream equipment, she explained to them a rather edited version of what happened, one where her own clothes had stayed on.

“I know this is asking a lot, we need to stop Rojas, we know she is dangerous and concealing a lot of things. If we can take advantage of the errors in the system, it will distract her in the days ahead and make her ****. This would allow us more freedom to find out what she is hiding and might make her slip up, we might not get a better chance to change things then today.”

Brainy looked a little confused, perhaps not understanding the idea or fully understanding the full impact such publicity nudity would have. Lena looked thoughtful and Kara was worried, despite their rebuilt bond since she had revealed to Lena she was Supergirl, that Lena would not act against her friend.

It was Lena who spoke first, a reassuring smile “Don’t worry, I trust you Kara. If you say Andrea needs to be stopped then I will of course help you in any way I can. I may have a few ideas on how we can really make this work and make it something she won’t forget….”

Kara did not press what that meant, she had been away from CatCo too long and needed to return to help the publicity build up, she had faith in Lena that she could pull off the plan with Brainy and be responsible. Avoiding William as much as possible in the office, she did not want to imagine where his mind might inadvertently drift now he had seen what she wore under her skirts and trousers and being seen blushing by others among staff might raise questions.

When the time came, Catco’s most **** fashion reporter steeled herself, humiliating another lady like this was not something she wanted to do but she was running out of idea’s to find out the truth. To free this great power to hold the mighty to account, she needed to bring Andrea low so journalism not click-bait was the main priority. Time to enter this dream world once more.

For Andrea, she spent most of her time tweaking the speech, trying to make sure the lines zinged, making little practical adjustments to the presentation. Hampering her planning and mentally rewriting was when her mind wandered onto the embarrassing moments in the presentation, she was confident tech could sort it before but it added a little bit of nerves that she didn’t need. She found her eyes and focus drifting down to her cleavage as if to check that yes, her bosom really was tucked carefully away from the view of her staff. Every time the hard at work William walked past her door or popped in to update on the rising subscriptions, it added another reminder of that moment of seeing her naked breast exposed before William and Kara. The debrief had been quick but very very awkward, knowing they had seen such an intimate part of her brought fresh redness to her face.

Before she put on the device to enter the Collective Dreams, Andrea looked at the totem she often wore around her neck. It had been both a curse and a blessing since she had fallen into that hole in the jungle, it had saved her father and her company but it had come at a great cost. She never quite felt comfortable around Lena after that, there had been the debts owed, the pain of those she had lost. Perhaps now this would all be worth it? Perhaps when she basked for the adoring crowd, her moment of glory elevating her to being a the name on everyone's lips, everything else would fade away….