Spark the Runner Ch. 03

Spark the Runner 3
The further continuing adventures of...

Author's note: This is a continuation of previous years' Geek Pride event stories, Spark the Runner and Spark the Runner 2. It isn't necessary to read the previous ones to enjoy this one, but you might find it entertaining...

In the spirit of fair warning, this continues the physical adventure, nonhuman relations and so forth.

The Geek Pride event isn't a contest. That being said, voting and comments are how I know how well I am pleasing you, the reader. Enjoy.

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"Ladies... please..." Spark was just coming down from his sixth cosmic orgasm at the tender mercies of Tonya and Okami. "I'm only human. I need some sleep before we go back to the Stargazer tomorrow..."

"Are you complaining, husband?" Tonya smiled as she wiped some errant cum from her cheek. "It is only eleven hundred hours. Or nearly. You have only been servicing us for three hours. Has being on Mars affected your stamina?" Spark knew she was teasing, but groaned anyway.

"Well something around here is making me prematurely age," he teased back. "But give me a four or five hour nap and I'll be good to go," he told her. "As long as we get some sleep before you go see Erliss... which I figure will be about zero-five-hundred again."

"Before we go see Erliss, Jamie," Okami corrected him. "She is going to want to sample you as well. She is, after all, female."

"I know," Spark moaned. "Very..." Tonya and Okami laughed and moved away from him.

"Would you like food, Jamie?" Okami asked as she exited the bed. "A light lunch?"

"Heaven..." Spark half-moaned, half-muttered. Okami smiled that weird Canilupe smile and headed for the kitchenette.

"I'm going to use the 'fresher, husband," Tonya told him as she, too, eased out. "Join me if you want."

"I'll pass," Spark decided. "Until you're done. If I join you, you would tempt me to join you and I'd just end up more of a blob of quivering protoplasm. I think I'll see if this poor excuse for a body can make it to the table..."

Tonya chuckled and moved towards the bath while Okami was pulling together a light meal in the kitchenette. It was a utilitarian apartment in the Hive of Planitia City, but it served their purposes. And the thriving quasi-legal businesses of Spoke Six had already paid off in their quest to win over the Cresco.

Most of what Okami put together was synthetic or locally grown. The one thing Spark splurged on -- he considered it a Requirement of Life -- was real, Earth-grown and imported coffee. Groaning slightly as the hot liquid warmed and soothed his throat, he took a moment to consider their position.

More than two weeks ago, Tonya Levin had come to him to find out who she was. Who she was turned out to be a lot more complicated than anyone suspected. She turned out to be a very special, probably unique construct and Spark's dive through her datamesh yielded surprising and scary results. She had been designed to control an alien species, currently on Mars, through sex -- for the sole benefit of the Organized Crime supergroup creating her. Beyond being self-aware, she had apparently made the transition from Artificial Intelligence to Actual Intelligence and had slipped her leash.

She, Spark and Professor Anatoli Lenox, the allegedly dead inventor of most of the psychodata integration technology now loose in the world, had hatched a plan to go to Mars and use her to usurp control of the aliens, before the mob could capitalize on her. Traveling under the assumed identities of Jamie and Elizabeth McLeod, they had met and befriended Okami, a Canilupe bitch also on the run from the government and the mob.

Two nights ago, he, Tonya and Okami had met and seduced Lewd Lou, the manager of the Stargazer Saloon -- an establishment down Spoke Six that catered to degenerates of all sorts, but mostly operated as a watering hole for clients that wanted good booze and didn't mind paying, and as a sex club for clients with all sorts of perversions, and didn't mind paying. They'd confirmed their suspicion that there were at least two Cresco working the "back room" and providing mind-blowing sex for paying customers. They'd managed an invite to come back and actually meet the aliens.

Aliens, in this case, didn't truly apply. Mars was full of mutants, engineered humans, non-humans like Okami who originated on Earth, and other non-humans like the Cresco who originated in other star systems. They were all alien to one degree or another, but in this case, the extra-Solar non-humans were the target of Spark's little team.

The Blood Alliance, or Al'yans krovi, was a super-mob of terrestrial gangsters that controlled most of Earth's economy and government through varied and nefarious operations. When the Cresco first made contact with the humans on Mars and threatened to dominate the entire culture through their heavily sex-based influence, the avaricious mobsters had built Tonya with the sole purpose in mind of using her to infiltrate the Cresco, seduce and dominate them, and bring them under the control of the Alliance. They were so serious about it, they'd dropped fifty billion credits into her. They wanted her to be perfect.

They'd succeeded. More than they would ever know. Spark had likened her to the android character Helena in Rossum's Universal Robots... on the verge of being human, but without the pieces and parts of experience to fully make the transition. In a very weird way, Spark was falling for her. In an even weirder way, she was learning to love. They were in very uncharted territory with their emotions.

Last night, or rather early morning, they'd gone back to meet the Cresco and succeeded in impressing the threesome -- two males, one female -- with their sexual prowess by Tonya and Okami doing the two males, Asslur and Ossran. More importantly, they'd been invited back to "take care of" Erliss, the Alpha female and matriarch of the trio. She may have been Alpha to a lot more Cresco than just her two men. That remained to be determined.

"This is excellent, Okami, thanks," Spark told her as he chowed down. "You know, it occurs to me, you and I and Lizzie have been in each others' metaspheres quite a bit. Some for specific research purposes, some incidental to, I will admit, some mind-blowing sex. But I think you and I should take a dive through Lizzie's hidden programming. I think it might help if we were all on the same Cresco page, as it were."

"I think you are right, Jamie," Okami nodded. "Especially since the Cresco female may not react as typically as the males did."

"Then when Lizzie is out of the 'fresher, I think I'll get cleaned up, then we can all nap, then do a link up when we're rested. With plenty of time to recover before we go back to Six."

"That makes sense, Jamie," Okami agreed as she started clearing dishes to the sink.

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When Tonya had finished up, Spark told her of the plan, then set about doing as he had indicated to Okami: get cleaned up, grab a nap, then set up for a run through Tonya's metasphere. Now it was about 1500 hours and they were sitting on one of the apartment's beds, preparing to link up.

"The stuff the mob planted in her is fairly deep," Spark explained to Okami. "But because of the Professor's gadgets, we were able to isolate it and give ourselves a backdoor. The metastream is going to look really weird until we're inside -- all upside-down and spectrum inverted. Just follow my markers until we're in. Then things will straighten out and look like a normal datamesh."

"Can do, Jamie," Okami nodded. "Let me know when to grab on to your coattails."

Spark grinned at her use of the colloquialism. He had no idea where she'd picked up a bunch of the jargon she knew, but it was fun seeing it pop up at the oddest times. He and Tonya were using their remotes for the data link and Okami could ride that wave. He and Tonya also had neural net transceivers invented by the Professor so they could communicated point-to-point, without having to be exposed to the datamesh. Okami could ride that one, too. All she needed was a guide to get her into the stream.

"Okay, if we're going wireless, Lizzie needs to connect to me. Once we're connected, you can jump on. When I know we're all there, I'll lead the dive," Spark confirmed. "Everybody ready?" When he got affirmation from the others, he told Tonya, "okay... let's do it."

There was always something unsettling about connecting to a construct's datamesh. It was soft and amorphous, not hard and edgy like the non-biologic datasphere. Paths tended to bleed into one another, making pattern-tracking difficult, and in Tonya's case almost identical to trying to run a human. The big difference was, hers were much more organized, as if the product of a tidy mind. Like a human, she had multiple layers of mesh, organized around function. Like a human, Spark and the Professor had identified seven basic junctions, or anchor points, for her processes. They corresponded roughly to the seven chakras of the ancient Hindu traditions.

The people who had constructed Tonya chose to hide her Cresco programming among all seven, but primarily split between her second and sixth. Following their understanding of how it was supposed to work, they'd established one energy center as the Root, located near her perineum; a second around her uterus and ovaries, to be the Sexual control point; a third behind her solar plexus, to be the Body chakra; a fourth near her heart to be the Heart chakra; a fifth near her larynx, to be the Throat chakra; a sixth behind her forehead, near the pineal gland, to be the Third-Eye center; and a seventh at the top of her head, to be the Crown chakra.

They had also, conveniently, followed the ancient system of assigning colors to each of these energy pattern centers, corresponding to the conventional wisdom: the first chakra was red, the second orange, the third yellow, the fourth green, the fifth blue, the sixth indigo and the seventh violet. This made sorting the patterns out a lot easier for Spark, and a lot easier to identify them to Okami. It was an interesting Western adaptation of an Eastern concept.

Although the Al'yans krovi had gone to great lengths to hide their programming, the fact that they'd concentrated on sex and metaphysics made isolating it easy for the Professor, and he'd worked with Spark to build in access points to the second and sixth energy centers for exactly this reason -- to be able to quickly and cleanly get to the majority of the data.

Spark felt Okami connect to him and started the dive. Mostly he stayed on the edges of Tonya's datamesh, which itself presented as a huge, multicolored, rapidly flowing river with complex swirls and eddies. He was headed for her second chakra to start... the orange one. Once inside, it was going to get very intense since both he and Okami would be directly exposed to the kinds of energy and patterns that made wonderful things like orgasms happen.

The swirls of red-orange and orange-yellow datastreams which surrounded the second chakra were mildly disorienting to the three psyches involved in the dive, but nothing to the chaos unleashed when Spark breached the containment wall of the Cresco programming, deep within Tonya's sexual responses.

Very powerful and very imminent orgasmic energy welled up and threatened to inundate all three of them.

Let it happen, husband, Spark heard Tonya's voice in his head. Let it happen, girlfriend... I will protect you. You will not drown in my libido...

By now, Spark had learned to trust Tonya and he did as she suggested. He let go his control and let the energy wash through him. He had no idea if he was physically cumming, but in this meta-world, he was exploding. Millions... billions... of multicolored datapoints, galaxies of multihued pixels swamped Tonya's datamesh and bled directly into Spark and Okami. It would sound cliché to call it a cosmic level orgasm, but that was pretty much what it was.

When the massive wave had washed over the three of them several times and the 'mesh was returning to normal -- or as normal as it got around Tonya -- Spark heard the smile in Okami's thoughts as they filtered into his awareness.

I will help you clean the sheets, Jamie, she thought to him. At least a third of it is mine...

Spark smiled to himself, thinking again how lucky they'd been to meet her and make her a friend. Then he got back to getting his game on.

As wonderful as that was, he thought back, I need you to see the Cresco oriented stuff. If I sound like a tour guide, I apologize. Let's move deeper in... they hid it fairly well.

He moved his way through Tonya's datastream, angling through a large pulsing blob of orange light. The closer they got, the easier it was to see that the orange light was made of many smaller points of light, of a large number of different patterns.

That looks a lot like a human DNA helix, Okami pointed out at one point.

It is, Spark told her. With three extra chromosome groups, two of which are sex related and one of those two is where the Alliance hid their programming. Think of it as an offer you wouldn't want to refuse. It appears a lot of their humanoid characteristics mimic ours. Or we mimic them. Whatever. We're going in to take a closer look...

Spark guided the trio up to a slowly revolving data point which was, as Okami had noted, a lot like a DNA double-helix. Spark pointed out the branch where the human XX or XY group would be.

Note that they are very similar to ours. Please also note the second group chained off that one. As far as we can tell, it has been engineered. It would influence and possibly control both the physical sexual reactions of the Cresco, mostly through pheromones as far as the Professor could determine, and their metaphysical reactions, which would be the more powerful. Being able to tap directly into sexual responses, both physically and metaphysically, would cause... what would you call it? Adoration?... on the part of the Cresco, male and female. Essentially, they would become fixated on the source, which in this case would be Tonya.

The programming piece is actually that red blob hanging off the side. It is set up to kick in whenever Tonya is exposed to Cresco sexual markers. It is subtle and would normally be outside of her awareness. It would simply influence the Cresco to do whatever she wanted. An extreme desire to please her. The Professor put a lock on it before we left, and gave Tonya the key to unlock it when she wants it.

We, or rather you two, were able to impress the males, Asslur and Ossran, using just your incredible libidos. And your natural abilities. Tonya didn't have to unlock the secret weapon. But we may have to with the female, Erliss. We want to make absolutely sure she is enthralled with at least Tonya, and hopefully you and me, Okami. To that end, I'm not sure how the dynamic is going to work, since it's Tonya's ability.

Husband, Spark heard Tonya's mind in his, I have a theory on that, which we can discuss when we are done here. Okami, do you understand that if the programming works the way the Professor and Spark think it will, I will be able to bend them to my desires whenever I please? Simply by letting the Influence Program loose...

Yes, I understand, Okami replied. It is a good thing it is only geared towards the Cresco. I would already be your willing slave without it.

Spark was pretty sure he could feel Okami's sense of humor behind the remark. He hoped.

I will need to let you two know when I unlock it so that you can understand any strange changes in Cresco behavior. We do not know how long the effects last after exposure, nor after the program is turned off. I feel certain we do not want me to leave it turned on all the time.

Tonya had a good point, Spark noted. They had no idea whether the programming would simply enthrall the Cresco, or turn them into a pack of slavering stalkers.

Another thing we don't know, Tonya went on, is whether the program can be unlocked by an outside agent. The Professor was very careful, and we determined that Spark could not breach the lock and activate, or shut down, the program without my consent, which implies the Blood Alliance cannot, either. But we did not count on you, Okami. Your natural ability to run the datasphere might include your ability to get around the Professor's lock. I think, if you are willing, we should try.

Do we know what the effects might be? Okami asked. I would not want to trigger an event that would get us, um... noticed.

In theory, it should only affect the Cresco, Tonya answered. But we do not know that for certain. We are, at the moment, a fairly good distance from any Cresco presence and the air here is filtered. I do not know about any metaphysical implications.

Well... and Spark could feel Okami's reluctance, I suppose I could try. You simply want me to penetrate that red blob?

If you can, that would certainly indicate you can break the lock, Tonya agreed.

I take it the lock is that coruscating chain-like network covering the red blob's surface?

Yes, both Spark and Tonya answered. They could both feel a shift in Okami's energy, a much higher level of concentration, but not one which would necessarily get noticed by anyone not connected to her datastream. Their perception of the mesh covering the program shifted as it appeared to vibrate a bit, and then pool, with gaps appearing.

I think that would constitute 'unlocking', from the Professor's point of view, Tonya remarked. Can you put it back?

Again, there was a shift in the energy patterns of the mesh encircling the blob and it went back to the way it had been before.

That is impressive, Spark commented as the seams resealed themselves. So if something goes haywire, at least Okami can turn on or turn off the programming. They'll still be following Tonya's lead, though. We're obviously going to want the two of you linked at all times. Have we seen enough?

Getting agreement from the other two, Spark returned them to Tonya's primary datastream. Okay, ride's over he thought to them and broke his connection.

The bed was a mess. As Okami had suggested.

"I said I would help you, Jamie," Okami told him with a smile as she eased off the bed and began pulling the linens. "I don't know where the nearest laundry is, but for now we can let it wait."

"Lizzie..." Spark turned to her.

"Yes, husband?" she answered demurely, but with a sparkle in her eyes.

"Now cut that out," he faux-scolded her. "You'll get me going again. Every time I bump into your libido, you leave me exhausted. I need another nap."

"Is that a complaint, dear?" she asked, hamming up the innocence.

"Only an observation, Lizzie... and I really do need to take another nap. Then maybe dinner?"

"That's fine," Tonya smiled. "Shall I join you?"

"No!... I mean, no, that's okay... I'll just crash for awhile," Spark backpedaled.

"Jamie, did you notice where the laundry was, when you were out before?" Okami asked. "If you're going to sleep, I think I'll just take care of this. I don't remember any kind of housekeeping service with the rent."

"Nearest one is in Hub, third level, across from Three. Standard credstiks should work. Are you comfortable going alone?"

"I will go with her," Tonya volunteered. "We will leave your frail human body alone to get your beauty rest. That means, though, that you get to make dinner."