All That Heat

Today I witnessed a fire started on Level 3 of ComCen. T. on the way to the workout center. Alex coming out. With a towel around his neck. Looking almost like an avatar himself. Insert evil grin. Except, of course, he's very real where T. is concerned. They paused. They stared. They did not exchange one word while they burned.

I do not understand these two. They need to go surfing to cool off.

So Many Commandos, So Few...

You finish the sentence.

I don't know about all this female obsessing, surf-crabs. I mean, it's just an avatar, yo. She's the one who made him naked! Females.

Peeking into you-know-who's journal:

I'm beginning to have fantasies about him. Not the avatar, but my monitor. I mean, I'm curious about...everything. I mean, what's he like? Besides being a bastard who likes to push my buttons. What kind of man would agree to have his brainwaves in sync with another woman while we sleep and dream? Okay, that makes me equally strange, I know. It just bugs me that he knows what I look like, how I walk and talk, even how I feel about things, and I don't know a single thing about him.

Worse, he says he's beginning to sense some of the things I see in virtual reality AND feel my thoughts. Feel my thoughts. I have no idea what that means exactly but I don't like that little smile he gave me when he told me that. I realize that part of the anonymity is important for the upcoming test but once that's over, I'm so going to look for him. It's got to be one of the seven, but which one? Gah.

Whoa, there's female frustration. She really needs a surfing buddy, dudes. Take her mind off...things. Hey, Flyboy invited her out to lunch after that! Kewl. He has a race car that goes very fast.

Family Ties

Today, Jed McNeil received an email from his daughter. She's been accepted to do an internship in D.C., in translation. She added that "hopefully," she "will be able to see him more." I think he should go see her more often. The girl's too independent on her own. Why, she even calls her own father, "Jed." Strange girl. Last time I saw her, she had green hair. Hope she's back to normal now. Green hair doesn't look good on a D.C. intern walking around international big shots. Maybe a job will tame that wild streak in her.

Introducing Number Two

I found an interesting description in Hell's entry that I know would perk your wavelets, dudes. If it were me, I would just list the height and the weight, but I guess women just see shapes differently:

"There is this one following me with his eyes that's really commanding. You just can't miss the guy. His name is Sharukh and although I've seen him several times already, he's yet to introduced himself or talk to me in any direct way. In fact, apart from Flyboy, none of them has really come up to me to say "Howdy." It's as if I'm not even here among them. It's as if I'm unimportant. A girl's ego could get mightily deflated by their attitude.

But I know I'm wanted and I know I'm the object of everyone's interest, including them. I'm the new toy and everyone wants to try me out. Kinky, kinky, kinky. They'll just have to wait for Test Day, whenever that is. Hmm, maybe I've hit on something here. Maybe that's why they are so damn inscrutably detached. They're waiting for Test Day. For me to fuck up? Because they are MEN, you know, and THE COS Commandos--they probably think nobody can do what they do. Well, I'm not doing things the way they do it, anyway, but men can get like that--all uppity and threatened. It happens. I've seen it during my training sessions at the other agencies while I was one of the candidates.

But back to Sharukh. Like I said, it's hard not to miss him. He's a big guy--big, broad shoulders, big arms, big chest. Also, he's very exotic looking, with longish wavy locks of black hair and the fiercest black eyes I've seen. All intense fire and burning secrets. Makes me want to know him better except I don't have the time! I'm always being pulled here or there. It also makes me wonder whether I've got my avatar wrong, if you know what I mean.

Shahrukh, naked, would certainly be impressive. I've seen him working out without a shirt, all pumped up and sweaty, and he would put the Avatar to shame. Watching him doing his martial arts kata, I can so picture him in some kind of medieval leather armor and swinging a broadsword over his head, those fierce eyes staring down his prey. Wow, I'm getting so imaginative these days! But really, he's really beautiful to watch when he does the kata. And he doesn't even look in my direction even when I sit and stare at him deliberately. The man has a heart of stone. Or gay.

When he speaks with the others, I've noticed an accent I can't placed yet. Not thick, just lyrical and educated. And he does like to read--I've noticed that too.

Why doesn't he talk to me? Is it because he's afraid I'd catch him saying familiar phrases?

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Dudes, she's good at description, isn't she? I can't do that. Medieval armor and swinging a broadsword? Yeah, that's our Shahrukh. He's a warrior at heart and not quite tamed yet. And she's right about his beautiful kata. He's really at one with the world when he performs the kata and very, very few warriors can achieve that. She should see him doing it totally naked at dawn on the beach. Dudes, she'd be spouting poetry then. Insert evil grin.

And oh. Not gay, dudes. Just...looking for the right woman, I think he likes to tell his "twin" brother, Sullivan.

Big Unimportant Things

Dudes, do you really want me to continue with these Hell journal entries? I mean, don't you prefer my news to her take of her reality? Really. Hers is kind of skewed. She has very little information and she's not explaining anything well at all. What's yadda, yadda, yadda got to do with an Important Scientific Experiment like TIvRRV? Aha! You're now curious what the heck TIVRRV is, huh? Tooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaad. It's Helen's longwindedness about big male parts, and that's what you get:

"I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to see him naked like this. It's not REALLY naked, I know, but it's my mind and he's naked so pfffffft, I'm not going to overthink it. He's virtual reality naked; he's walking around me naked; he's inches from me naked. So to my senses, he IS naked and I get that girly hot feeling whenever he gets too close.

But I can't give that up! Not yet. I really love my avatar. Not HIM, but this beautiful creature. Damn his smart mouth, though. Do you know what he said when I asked him about his sudden big parts? He said something about "one should always be grateful for big blessings," or something like that. Gah. It made me want to give him a small penis. I just might do that one of these days.

I'm well aware of what they're doing, of course. They want me to think I have some measure of control over the whole program when they're busy playing with his brainwaves and mine. Once we are in sync., he told me it would reflect our virtual reality, what we see and sense together. I'm not comfortable with that idea yet. It's all right when I'm thinking about doing it during an operation but when your "partner" is naked and all you want to do is to examine his beauty and look DOWN there, it's totally unprofessional. But soooo enjoyable. Definitely so enjoyable.

I can't believe I'm horny about a stupid virtual guy. But that's what not having sex all these months would do to a healthy hot-blooded female. Working with these commandos is going to be too much fun. And Fly Boy--Yum. There's a commando I don't mind walking around naked...."

You see? Helen does not offer any insight about this Big Experiment. All she talks about is men and them walking around naked. Surely, that isn't what you want to know!

Still Waters

Heath Cliffe is Number Eight. He is usually in the background because he's a very important asset to the unit. He's Jed's "backup," for lack of a better word. There's a lot of responsibility there.

Heath is also The Interrogator. He studies the art of Dim Mak, an ancient martial arts "secret" knowledge about pressure and vital points in the body. This system is used in various ways by the masters--for self-defense, for holistic healing (such as acupuncture), and Other Things. He's very good at this. Very.

Heath is one of my favorite people. Unlike the other commandos, he likes to chat with me and asks me questions. He also doesn't mind me asking him questions. So we got rapport, dudes.

Heath has kept out of Helen's way, mostly because he likes to study people from far off first. But, don't be fooled. He's curious about her. I can tell because he hadn't asked me a thing about her. He's biding his time.

Cookie Crumbs

From Hell's journal:

I've been thinking a little more about the serum. They tell me that it's the newest version, much better, they think, than the first version. Notice they didn't say much safer. And after "experiencing" Armando Chang, I'm not sure whether it is, or not. But he's alive and isn't totally out-of-control, so....

Am I afraid? Not really. Not at this point, anyway. It's all about focus, and I've been in training for two years, focusing on the physical aspects of what's required of me. It's an automatic given to accept that dangerous missions come with dangerous risks. Besides, some of the commandos had used the first version and had attested that the drug worked in its capacity.

I get bored listening to the scientific explanation being drilled at me anyway. Yeah, yeah, pain suppressant, yeah, yeah, limbic and hypothalamus activity and their roles to the senses, yadda yadda yadda. So I'll be able to do with less sleep and can tolerate more pain--it all sounds physical to me.

I know that the big brass doesn't think about my abilities. Bring 'em on.

As for what I did to my trainer's avatar. Oh dear. The man looked even MORE gorgeous in virtual reality. I about wet my panties when I turned around and this...this...totally naked, well-hung man walked toward me. I don't know whether I can take this kind of temptation every session! But true to form, the man still talks like an arrogant asshole. Wish I can change that too.

Hell is the best of all the candidates. Nothing to worry about, dudes, nothing at all.

Personally, I think Hell should play fair and be naked in VR too. Just saying.

The Future So Bright

Lily Noretski's deprogramming is now completed. It is now up to her what she wants to do next in her life.

I think she's a good asset for ComCen to have but that SEAL dude of hers, Reed, will probably disagree. He's got mucho mullah, so he can take care of her any way she wants. But will she be happy?

A woman like Lily Noretski needs an active lifestyle. She isn't going to stay at home twiddling thumbs while her SEAL boy run all over the world. She should work for us on a part time basis. Just saying.

Bad Hell

Here...she can express it better than I can since I don't get the attraction of male appendage:

I admit it. I did a bad, bad thing. And serves him right.

Today they "introduced" me to my monitor. That is, he actually gets a physical body of sorts in my head for me to relate to. The program creates what Derek calls an "avatar," but he assures me this won't be anything like I've seen in any of my virtual reality programs before.

So of course I was all curious and eager to look at this "man" Derek created for me. Sheeeeeesh. Derek's a young nerd scientist's assistant, by the way. You know, the type that doesn't know anything about women. Or thinks he does. He created me a Fabio type avatar. All beefcake muscle and jaws like Conan the Barbarian. I wanted to conk that kid on the head.

Of course when I found out that I could change my avatar, I insisted on doing it myself! What, you think when opportunity knocks I'm not going to seize it?! I spent a good part of the morning with Derek playing around with the new man in my life. Sooooooo kinky. Derek was totally embarrassed but he'd been ordered to do as I say, haha. Life looks better. I have plans for revenge on that trainer of mine.

So I made him naked. Totally, gloriously naked. Let him walk around me like that for awhile. And I gave him the big dick, just big enough to be absurd. That gave me a delicious evil chuckle just remembering the look on Derek and Dr. K's faces. Oh, I wish I could see his face too when he sees his avatar.

He is a gorgeous example of the male specimen, if I may say so myself. After all, that's my fantasy male, except for the big penis part. But still, I haven't seen an erect penis looking so marvelous. Derek was bright red by the time I was done "playing." Pure evil genius me. Take that, Mr. Trainer. Mind games? Ha. I'm still first and foremost GEM, baby. We love mind games.

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You know, dudes, Dr. Kirkland told her it was all about giving her some control back. Man, did Hell make sure she took full advantage of that! That male appendage does look awesome when it's erect. Wonder what she's going to do in virtual reality to keep it in that constant state?

Mind games, huh?
Advantage, Hell. For now.

Legos

Just a few random puzzle pieces:

1) Heath Cliffe is Number Eight. He's Jed McNeil's back-up.

2) V-Program is now down to seven in number. We don't replace our Viruses quickly or easily, dudes.

3) I do not think Number Three's MIA/KIA file will ever be closed. That's Jed's cousin, you know.

4) Read about the Big Bang again on the COMCEN timeline link.

5) Hell must learn to work with these dudes. She's been out of the field for two years. I don't think all of them believe she's capable. She's going to be tested. I bet you my eight balls.

Hell Has Her Ways

Dudes, bet you're asking:

Why the need to synchronize the brainwaves of Hell and her monitor?

We at ComCen are testing the virtual reality environment at its most cutting edge. Two individuals, one with the controls, in two separate VR modules, testing to see whether they could "see" the same things. If they sleep separately, with their brainwaves in sync mode, would that affect their interaction? Would their interaction achieve a higher rate of success if they use the brainwaves synchronization during the VR session itself?

That's why the monitor's identity has to be a secret, for now. It makes the initial tests more objective. Not that Hell is helping. She's just recreated her monitor's avatar in the VR program into a naked...um...well-endowed male.

Dude, that is so wrong on so many levels. Because, you see, the monitor's strapped into virtual reality mode too and he will feel his body like the avatar. I'm thinking that male part of him is going to affect his performance. Dude...that's not fair on the man.

Ongoing Mission

Everyone's concentrating on Hell because that's the special project with the newest funds and toys. But ComCen has many things going on.

The number one ongoing mission is to squeeze Maximillian Shoggi dry. Leave him no room to run. Destroy his consortium of international weapons dealing.

It's been a long time coming. Marlena Maxwell did a great job, giving Mad Max our CCC version of the laptop. T will play her part too, and when the time comes, GEM and COS Command will get the guy responsible for their friends' deaths.

This is the mission Alex Diamond will finish. Mark my words.

And perhaps, when it's over with, he and T might have a tiny wave of a chance. Karma adds uncertainty to probabilities and percentages, though, and the ghost of a loved one--if I believe in such an entity at all--is powerful enough to mess up good mathematics.

Meanwhile...all eyes are on Hell. Why? Well, if she's going to play with the commandos, she'd better be something special. So what does she bring to the table?

Puzzle Not In Any Order

Jed McNeil
Heath Cliffe
Armando Chang
Michael Hunter
Alex Diamond
Shahrukh Kingsley
Jack Sullivan
*Drew de Clerq
*T
*Kostya Dashian

***Hell

Oh, just a list of names that you should know in the future, dudes, that's all.