Hera sits cross legged in a dark room, her plastic body shining from the light given by the many monitors on the wall, each one depicting the many contestants of her game. “And once again the elimination begins.” She says in a devilish voice, her eyes looking over each contestant. “Year after year people keep choosing to compete of their own volition, wanting to be nothing more than a plastic husk to serve their master” Hera stands up, her body still shining from the screens, “Just as you did all those years ago, huh *master*?” She says in a toying voice to a man sitting behind a layer of glass.
“Hera, this has gone on long enough” The man speaks, standing up from a throne. “How many more will state your desire?”.
Hera laughs. “Oh please, you know better than anyone else that doing this gives me joy”. “She walks over to the monitors, and with a click of a remote she enlarges one of the cameras to focus on the one eyed veteran. On the camera it shows a name to the side, O’brien. “Oh that's right! I put in a new feature to make sure to balance statues and dolls, wanna see?” She mock asks in a cutesy voice. The man begins to speak, but then sits back down defeatedly. “What terrible fate do you have this time Hera” he speaks with a sigh, watching the screen intensely. Hera merely smiles “Watch.”
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The veteran moves quietly from tree to tree, his team watching every step. This is the rush he missed back before the peace, the do or die stakes, the wild outdoors, nothing could compare.
“Charlie, it's getting late” He quietly barks at the tigress, “Go find a safe place to set up camp and report back”. “Aye aye sir!” Charlie stands at attention, her hand saluting way over her head. “Uhhh, which way is the safety master?” She asks, her airheaded nature causing her to think harder. The veteran squeezes the tip of his nose. “Forget it” He waves his hand dissapointatly, “There's always one in a squad” O’Brien mutters.
Alpha emerges from the bushes, her black and white furred plastic body was somewhat covered in branches. “Two hostiles at our 3, neither have any soldiers, they appear to be making an alliance” She reports with punctuality, her report was better made than most, even in the military. O’brien's heart skipped a beat when she spoke, but then quickly returned to his normal disposition. “Understood, Beta, Delta, go around them as quickly as you can, and get their attention. Alpha, stay with me, and... “ O’brien looks at Charlie, already distracted by a falling leaf. “Nevermind” He groans disappointedly, “Alright girls, move out!”
The two contestants around their twenties stand in the clearing, paying no mind to the area around them. “Yea, this seemed like a good way to have fun, life is boring and all of that, ya know?” One of them says boredly. “Yea I get ya man, at least this is something different” The other one responds in a similar tone. As the two talked, Delta and Beta stood hidden in position, flashing a mirror to signal their location. O’Brien signals back the same way, the operation has begun.
Beta and Delta jump up from their hiding place “Ogga booga booga!” They shout at the two men. Both men scream at the sight of the two girls and shoot them both, but with that distraction O’Brien takes two well aimed shots, zapping them both immediately. The first one clenches his chest as two large orbs begin to swell, his hands morphing into cat paws as the rest of his body takes a plastic sheen to it, his exterior turning a dark black. The other one made similar motions as his, now it's, breasts begin to inflate. A mask-like shape appears over its face as its body takes a grey coloring. Seconds go by as the transformation concludes, from the two males now stood a plastic cat and raccoon. “Hello master!” They both say in a happy union as O’Brien steps out of the trees. His main attention was however not at the two new dolls, but what lay behind them.
Alpha walks over to the dolls, “I was told to inform you that you will be known as Epsilon” Pointing to the cat, “And you will be Phi” Pointing at the raccoon. “Both of you will refer to the master as sir, is that understood?”. The two dolls look at each other slightly confused, then turn back to Alpha. “We can only obey orders from the master.” They speak in perfect unison. Alpha looks back at O’Brien, “Her orders are my orders” He says not paying attention, his focus was on Beta and Delta, or what had become of them. Two statues stand, the poodle and collie frozen in the mocking position they made, staring blankly ahead. O’Brien lets out a sigh as he turns back, “From new information, under no circumstances will you allow yourself to take a bullet” he says sternly. He made a mistake thinking that they were immune to the Lakers effects, and now two of his brigade paid the price for it, and we would not get his troop wiped out, not again.
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Hera smiles at the new statues, “See! Now they can’t just make a doll barricade, aren’t I smart master?” She says seductively, pressing her assets against the glass in front of the man. “Don’t you just want to join me and reward me?” She says again, playing with her boobs. The man merely sits with an uninterested look. “This is not what the game was supposed to be Hera, you of all people know this”
“Ah ah ah!” Hera says waving her finger, “Not people, dolls. How many times do we have to go over this?” She says walking back to the monitor. The man stands up, slamming his fists against the glass, “Hera please!” He yells “You have to stop thi-“, Hera turns around with a darkened glare causing the man pause. “Stop this? Stop this? You’re the one who started this! You’re the one who made me… this!” She motions to her body. “You want me to stop this? Then you should never have made this!...” She breathes hard, staring at the man before composing herself. “I still love you Master, and all I wish is if you would join me, please”. “She extends her hand, pressing it against the glass. Master looks at her, and looks away saddened. Hera sighs and turns back to the monitor. “One day Master”, he sighs as she goes to look at the other players. Master sits back down on his chair, looking at Hera, “I love you too” He says quietly, once again watching the victims of his own creation.