Total Defeat

Was there a clue somewhere in all of that? Had my seemingly perfect day somehow been pointing towards an aquatic invasion of my home and I just hadn’t seen it? I doubt it, but I wasn’t very smart, maybe there were signs.

If there had been, no one else had seen them. Serenity island got bopped hard. By the time I got to town everyone was already getting round up by Soldiers in wet suits. They looked stupid as hell, but they had guns so I wasn't about to argue with them. Jasmine wasn't going to be in town anyway, so I went around all of that went through the jungle down to the harbor. Which was already fully occupied.

A life time of playing Metal Gear was really paying off for me here. I was dodging behind bushes, staring in awe at the manta-ray like planes flying over head. I crawled under a troop transport, and rolled out from under it just before it drove off. It was some epic shit. I noticed every male islander I came across was passed out, most of them looked like they fell asleep while doing normal chores. Meanwhile the women were being lead in lines toward a single parking lot that fed into the marina. Now that was some ominous stuff. It took a while for me to get to where they were keeping all the women. It was surrounded by guards, but your boy manged to get his way in there no problem. I just had to crawl around in the dirt like a total loser. No biggie. I've got no pride when it comes to staying alive. The parking lot faced the jungle on one side so I could hide in the brush without being detected.

They were making the women stand in lines, facing one direction. I was pretty close to the front of their line, so I could easily spot what I assumed was the leader of the operation. A woman in a wetsuit, but get this: She had a cape. "Hello dear leader." I dared to say out loud.

A wet suit, and a cape. I mean seriously.

A new column of women were brought forward to stand in line, and hot damn if Jasmine wasn't at the very front. Closest to all the biggest scariest guns protecting the leader. Fuck me. She couldn't have been at the back?

The math now became if I could grab her, and run without the both of us getting shot by a million guns. From from her to the bushes felt like a mile, even though it was just a handful of meters. I couldn’t imagine the two of us getting back to my long board.

I wanted to whisper her name, to hiss at her until she saw me. She was trembling and I wanted to hold her, but I was a coward. My mouth was open, but the words weren’t coming. I just stared as more and more women were lined up behind her.

After a while, a long while no more women were being paraded into the parking lot. No surprise there, they must have had every girl in the town lined up. What the fuck? Where were all the men?

“Welcome Ladies.” The caped one began speaking. Her voice was enhanced by some kind of microphone which clued me in to the fact that this was actually a woman speaking. Until then I hadn't actually noticed, I was too busy looking at the cape. Actually now that I was paying attention and not running for my life, all the soldiers were women. How progressive. “The Daughters of Thetis have liberated you from the hairy monkey paws of the men of this island. You may clap and cheer if you are so moved on this happy day.” Oh shit, not progressive at all!

She paused, and waited for those claps, and waited, and waited, and eventually the ladies got the hint and started a polite golf clap. It became a little more heartfelt when the guards raised their weapons, but I don’t think it was sincere.

“Yes, yes I see you’re all brimming with emotion. Well worry not my children, we will soon be boarding the ships that will bring you to your new lives. A peaceful place, free from the tyranny of men, where you can bond, grow, and work with your fellow sisters. A land under the sea.”

There was, not end to the commotion that created in the crowed. Wails, and cries, and shouts of protest exuded from all corners.

“Now I know some of you may be hesitant to accept this obviously grand gift. Which is why we will not be taking no for an answer, it’s what’s best for you. Your fear is from ignorance, you’re scared of us because we’ve attacked your island, but we’re here for your good. You’re worried about leaving the land of men behind, but that is because this is all you’ve ever known. Soon we will show you the joys, and purity of living within the sisterhood. Now I’m going to welcome every single one of you myself, before we whisk you away to freedom, so please be patient with me, I want to get to know all my children.”

She then gave some pseudo-nazi salute, and headed over to the first woman in line. She had a short conversation with the crying woman. I couldn’t hear it, but it looked like how a mother would explain something to a simpering child. Then she moved on to the next, and the next, and thirty two women latter she was to Jasmine.

‘Come on you coward move!’ My muscles weren’t doing anything, and hadn’t even budged for the last thirty women. I’d been screaming at them to grab Jasmine, but nothing. Nothing at all. Was my brain even trying? ‘Why can’t I move?’ There were tears in my eyes. I could barely see the conversation, and my heart beating in my ears, meant I couldn't hear it either.

I blinked away a few tears, and managed to clear a few things up. I saw this woman run a finger along the jaw of Jasmine, and hold her face in her hand. She squeezed my wife’s cheeks until her lips were pursed out, and then she leaned in…

“Nooo!” I roared out of the forest, stumbling every single step of the way. I’d been under that bush for at least and hour, and my muscles were cramping up, still I was going for it. I wasn’t going to let anyone hurt, or **** my wife!

My running was more like falling forward. I had an arm outstretched for Jasmine, I was going to grab her arm, and yank her away.

Only I didn’t even get close.

A body tackled me half way to my target, and I went down onto the asphalt. I flailed to get myself back up, but arms wrapped around my like an octopus, I was flipped onto my back, and a weight was sat on my chest. I had the heel of a foot crushing my right hand into the ground, and a knee resting in the crook of my elbow. Then the gun pressed to my forehead, felt like another problem all together. The woman above me was dark skinned, though I could only see a bit of her face, her wetsuit was covering the rest. She looked at me like I was less than then nothing.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.” I breathed out with faux calm. “I don’t want you to do something you’re going to regret.”

She smiled, and I saw her firing hand tense up. “Goodbye ape.”

“Waaaaaait!”

Oh thank god. That would have been such a lame way to die.

Then like the fucking goddess she is, Miranda came marching up towards us. Total bad ass. I recognized the voice. Though when she came into view upside down, I was a little confused as to why she was wearing a Wet suit. The Cape wearing woman joined her, and all three women looked down at me with clear pity. “Beautiful Thetis, this is the man I spoke of.”

Hell yeah Miranda! She’s standing up for me!

“He doesn't look all that impressive.” The leader, apparently Thetis spoke.

“None of them do.” Miranda conceded. “None the less, this is the reward I request for completing my mission.” Mission?

The older woman, who had a nice scratchy voice hummed about this for a while. “This is highly unusual, and goes against everything the sisterhood stands for.”

“Then say no.” Miranda demanded. There was such **** in her voice it sent ice down your spine. Hardly the tone of the beach bum you’d gotten to know and love.

Thetis hummed a second time. “Oh very well, I can’t say no to you.” She pinched Miranda on the cheek. “But you’re responsible for him, if he gets any of his stink on anything he’s dead.”

“Yes ma’am.” Miranda nodded with a bright face, and eager smile.

“Plus you’ve clearly become compromised by this world. So you’ll have to under go reeducation until you come to the correct conclusion that this man is of no value to our society.”

That declaration caught Miranda a little less pleasantly. She lowered her head submissively and looked at the ground. “Yes ma’am.” She whispered, voice hoarse.

Thetis sighed, and spared me another diminishing glance. “Get him ready for transport.”

The Woman on top of me nodded, and raised to butt of her gun towards me. “Yes ma’am.”

And then everything went dark.

I wrote a big action scene of Brett going through the island trying to find Jasmine, then said 'This isn't smut' Deleted it, and moved on with my life.