I was fresh out of college when The Rogue struck for the third time.
Somoto. Northern Nicaragua.
Out of a present population of 40,000, The Rogue had personally warped nearly all 5,000 untransformed individuals, along with "enhancing" the transformations of subtly-transformed people, to his depraved desires, sexual or otherwise.
Like all of his other attacks, the rest of the world only became aware of this one when he allowed everyone to - a month after it began.
A UN coalition and WTEA forces, still emboldened at the great successes in Lithuania - against Cipkas' dictatorship, Afghanistan, Cyprus, and other locations of great Wave-induced turmoil, as well as having learnt well from their previous encounters with the rogue in his last organized attacks in Eswatini (Swaziland) and Laos, arrived to join what remained of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces and a good deal of already present Mexican and US troops.
The Rogue had taken it slowly. He had quickly ripped through a good deal of mountain villages before he had hit Somoto, but was now taking his sweet time.
It didn't look like he was going to attack anywhere else in Nicaragua at the time, and, at least to everyone's knowledge, he thankfully didn't, disappearing into the shadows without a trace after taunting the WTEA one afternoon.
All attempts to attempt to fight The Rogue, or at least to come in contact with him, were hindered again, like in Eswatini and Laos, by the "sex beasts" (the "Victims") he had created from the transformed populace.
Driven by the intense and unceasing sex drive The Rogue cursed them with, the poor creatures were not truly under his direct control, not slaves to his will, but slaves to their libidos. Unable to rest, sleep, eat, or think properly due to the overwhelming lust they continuously feel, the "sex beasts", no matter what their conscience or logic from their untouched intelligences tell them, were in a perpetual state of attempting to find relief, something that unfortunately would never quite occur naturally.
Despite the greatly varying configurations, all "Victims" share a few common attributes:
1. Like all victims of The Rogue, their transformations are irreversible by all means due to the "transformational lock" (refers to the ability for some Class II and Class III fleshweavers to render transformational control of targets to be ONLY in their control) he places on them. Due to this, NBM, fleshweaving, and all other transformee/mutant transformative abilities are entirely ineffective.
- Though changes are irreversible, rehabilitation, care, and medication given to victims of The Rogue can help enable them to be able to live normal lives once again.
2. Their bodily fluids, especially sexual fluids, are most often transformative, ranging from causing mild transformations to quite serious ones.
- After a good deal of mishaps in Eswatini, the WTEA developed and mass-produced cheap but effective military-use biohazard body suits that they distributed to armed forces around the world. They were used in Laos and Nicaragua to great effect.
3. They have raging, unceasing libidos that cannot be wrangled without continuous assistance.
- The WTEA was able to refine two of their widely distributed libido-controlling medicines for transformees into super-effective ones that, considering that a victim of The Rogue has a libido level of 150/100 (the average libido range of the "Victims"), they need only administer or be administered 2-4 treatments a day.
4. They are unable to relieve themselves by masturbating or by performing coitus with each other.
- The Rogue either configured their bodies in manners and shapes that would make masturbation impossible, or inflicted an instinctual mental block that too physically renders them unable to masturbate, no matter how much they would like.
- Through unknown means, The Rogue rendered it impossible for "sex beasts" to orgasm when performing coitus with each other or by using sexual masturbation devices. All attempts typically raise libido to unbearable levels.
- As stated previously, developed medications can aid with this issue.
{+} - It is due to the above attribute that "Victims" often sexually assaulted untransformed or Wave-transformed individuals in a desperate attempt to find relief.
In Swaziland, Laos, and Nicaragua, the "Victims" launched and pounced themselves at soldiers. Though it is highly likely that many were driven mad with sexual need, it has been stated by rescued and surviving "Victims" that they either wished to die for their actions, unable to live with themselves due to what they had done seeking relief, or because they were horrified at what they had become, and of their loss of control.
It is also the attribute that drives "Victims" to pay exuberantly high prices to prostitutes willing to risk transformation, or even to people to help masturbate them.
5. They often have hypersexed appearances, often having an unnatural abundance of both male and female sexual organs on their contorted and warped bodies in a manner that makes them seem "eldritch", like sexual body horror monsters.
- As they are irreversible, "Victims"' strange and often unfortunately monstrous appearances often make them extremely self-conscious or suicidal, and have hindered public understanding and acceptance of them, especially thanks to the known fact of their capability of assaulting non-"Victim" individuals.
- Many recovered "Victims" often emigrate to mutant colonies, either ones established by governments in the early months of the Fusion Wave, ones established due to The Rogue's attacks, or to independent colonies, often living alongside extreme mutants. It is in these places that they often can find acceptance and peace, away from the public eye.
Almost all of the "Victims" were killed in the first few months of the cleanup in Eswatini before the WTEA could mass produce and distribute special sedative gasses and darts.
Live ammunition is only used for extreme emergencies now, as rubber bullets and stun grenades are used to the best of soldiers ability to stun "Victims" before they can be sedated, either via darts or gasses.
It is then that they can be treated with the libido-decreasing medicine and safely transported to mass treatment camps where they can begin the hectic process of recovery, and restarting their lives.
I had just achieved my degree in medicine, and was training to become a nurse when this all happened. Something inside me told me that I had to do something, and that I couldn't ignore all of this.