Chapter 20
It took an additional week to get everyone into position for the night assault on the school. The biggest problem that John and Ben identified was how to safely handle two hundred or so brainwashed girls without anyone noticing.
A large warehouse near the airport had been rented and set up as a type of temporary hospital facility. One of the hangers at the ranch was being converted into a large dorm facility while the mission was underway. The girls would be knocked unconscious and taken to the warehouse. Once the facility had been cleared, charges would be placed and detonated, destroying the school. Plenty of evidence would be carefully placed to indicate that the school had really been some kind of terrorist-cult training facility.
After the school had been taken care of, Ben, Kathryn, Amanda and Diane would be working to restore the girls' minds while John's folks worked to identify them. Everyone knew that the girls might have psychological problems down the road, but they hoped they could minimize the damage and return them to their families.
The first part of the plan called for the capture and retrieval of Senator Forsythe and company. Ben and his small team were sitting in a van near the Forsythe home waiting for them to go to bed.
"You know, if they stay up any longer it's going to cut into our schedule for the rest of the evening," Kathryn said.
"I know," Ben said frowning.
"How do we know they are still awake, anyway?" Trooper Moss asked. He was a member of Heather's Delta team, and was actually a pretty impatient person.
"The last time Ben and I were here I planted some listening devices; they are still in the bedroom having sex," Kathryn replied. "Ben dear, please put the Forsythes to sleep. If I have to listen to this guy whine anymore I might put his ass to sleep... with my fist."
Ben: "Already working on it dear, just be nice to trooper Moss for a few more minutes. Heather said he is a good guy; he just hates waiting." After a few more moments, Ben grinned. "Heads up everyone, they finished up a couple minutes ago, and it sounds like they are going to sleep. Let's get ready. Kathryn, what's our point of entry?"
"Servant and delivery door on the south side. The alarm keypad there is set for silent entry so as not to awaken the lady of the house when the maid arrives in the morning." She snorted. "We'll be sure not to wake her now either."
The team chuckled with her as they started making their way to the indicated door. The entry team consisted of six people: Ben, Kathryn, and four strong men from the assault teams to carry the targets out. The troopers had rebelled slightly at the thought of the mission commander and his sister leading them into a potentially hostile situation until Heather ordered them to follow the pair's lead.
Entry into the house was quick and silent. While Kathryn made it look like she was entering the alarm code, she was really shutting the whole system down. There were far too many detection devices inside the house for it to remain active, but the four troopers they were with didn't know that.
Once they were inside, the four men did a marvelous job of covering them as they moved from room to room, making their way to the rear stairs just off the kitchen. The troopers had been briefed that the two girls they were after had intensive training in hand to hand combat, so they had insisted that they be paired with Ben and Kathryn in an effort to protect them. Ben and his teammate, Trooper Willis, were the first up the stairs. Ben noticed that Willis was getting a little edgy because this was going far too easy. "Willis, relax; sometimes things actually do go according to plan," Ben whispered to him.
"Not very fucking often, Sir!" Willis grinned back, but seemed to relax a little.
Ben: Kathryn, I'm going to wake one of the girls up, and have her go to the bathroom. Willis is a firm believer in 'things never go as planned'. I think if we do this, it will help keep our cover for the mental powers. She can always fall asleep again on the toilet; lord knows she got wore out tonight."
Kathryn: "Why don't I 'place' her there? I don't want to take the chance that she'll notice anything out of the ordinary."
John: "Good idea, Kathryn. I suggest that route. Ben's right; our troops think we are wizards anyway. At least this way they'll know we are fallible."
Ben held up his fist to signal a stop, and he touched his ear as if listening to something. "Go ahead, Katie. I'll pass back that someone is going to the bathroom." He leaned over to Willis who was close to him, and whispered in his ear. "It sounds like one of the girls is in the bathroom; she must have had a pretty full bladder too."
Willis winced. "What did you say about things going according to plan? Let's just hope she doesn't want a snack."
Ben nodded, and continued to 'listen'. After a few moments, he leaned over to Willis again, "I think she fell asleep on the can; I didn't hear her walk out of the bathroom, and unless she is taking the king of all shits, I could swear I hear her snoring."
"Well, if she's awake when we get in there, you get to take her out! I'll watch!" Willis said smiling.
Ben signaled the team to continue, and they moved to the last room in the hall. Ben silently told the team that everyone should converge on the bed, while Willis and he would head for the bathroom. After nods from everyone, he quietly opened the door, and the team slipped quietly into the room. Three almost silent pops were heard and the occupants of the bed were drugged to remain sleeping.
Ben stuck his head into the bathroom while Willis covered him. There, as naked as the day she was born, was one of the two pretty young girls that served the Forsythes as sex toys and protectors. She was leaning against the wall sound asleep. Ben fired a dart into her, and walked over to her. He took a hand full of toilet paper, and patted her bare pussy since Willis was watching. He grabbed a robe from a hook in the bathroom and got it around her, then lifted her into his arms for the short trip back to the bedroom. The rest of the team had already gotten some form of clothing on the others and seemed ready to go. The four men picked up their burdens and the team left the Forsythe home. The last thing to happen was that Kathryn re-enabled the alarm system. The hope was that whoever discovered the occupants missing would have a hard time figuring out what happened to them.
They arrived back at the warehouse and unloaded their burden into one of the holding cells. During the trip back, Ben dove into the girls' minds and returned them back to their own personalities. He also discovered they were both pregnant. That would complicate things.
Now it was time for the main assault. He and Kathryn, as well as their four teammates, got back in their van and headed for the school. This time, it would have to go according to plan; if it didn't, a lot of the girls were going to die.
Kathryn and Pasha were the first stage; it was their job to neutralize the security center in the basement of the admin building without being spotted and setting off an alarm. Ben knew that wouldn't happen because the people in the security center were already 'neutralized', but the team didn't know that. Kathryn and Pasha's real mission was to locate the hidden door to the underground area used for the actual reprogramming.
When Kathryn called clear for the security center, the roving patrols were taken out. These were made up of 'students', so non-lethal force was to be used, and the guards taken to the waiting trucks for transport back to the warehouse.
After that it was a building by building search. Students were taken back to the warehouse; the faculty members were taken to the main admin facility. Kathryn had found the entrance to the underground and, accompanied by Diane and a platoon of troops, began clearing it.
Kathryn: "Oh my god! Ben, Amanda, you need to get down here right now! We have a problem."
Ben: 'What is it, love? Is something wrong? Do we need to pull the teams out?"
Kathryn: "No, nothing like that, but you guys really need to see this. I'm in the facility manager's office."
Amanda: "We'll be right there, sweetheart."
Ben met Amanda coming from a different direction at the admin building, and headed inside. They made their way to the office Kathryn had indicated, using her mental instructions as a guide. When they arrived, they found Kathryn and Diane waiting outside the office, and two troopers guarding the door.
Kathryn stepped up to them to stop Amanda from simply going into the office. "Before you go in there, please remember that we love you, more than anything, or anyone else, ever could,"
Diane stepped forward, and took Amanda's hand. "Love, this is going to be the worst shock you've ever had. Just remember, we need to get the information out of his mind. Don't kill him."
Amanda looked almost fearful as she stepped up to the door of the office. As she stood, looking into the room, she began to shake. Tears fell down her cheeks, and she turned abruptly. "He's been brainwashed. They made him like this. He doesn't know what he's doing. That's the only explanation there can possibly be."
Ben stepped up to the door and looked in. There, sitting behind a large desk, was a man he thought he would never see alive. He was nude, and his cock was buried up the ass of a small girl that looked remarkably like a young Amanda. The girl, of course was asleep, but it was still clear that she had been crying.
Ben felt more rage than he had ever remembered feeling for a person in his life. He quickly dove into the man's mind looking through his thoughts and memories. He found no trace of programming, but he did find the damning evidence that he had been selected by Isaac Solms for his daughter. He was to figure out her plan, help her achieve it, and report the whole thing back to his Emperor. Eighteen years ago he had done just that. Except that there was supposed to be a recovery team waiting to grab the insolent bitch and the abominations she had created when they tried to escape. He had been so pissed he had made sure the team leader was brainwashed into thinking he was a ten year old little girl who loved to get ass-fucked and suck cock.
Ben dropped to his knees and threw up. This was betrayal of everything he thought he believed in. It was the utter destruction of faith. He used his telekinesis to lift the small girl from his father's cock and into his arms. He used his abilities to scan her mind and body, healing her, and trying to undo the damage the monster had done to her. When he found no trace of the small girl's original personality, he snapped. He picked up his father's sleeping body, with his telekinesis and woke him.
"What the... ? Who the fuck are you? What are you doing with my toy? Put me down, right the fuck now!" the man demanded, still not realizing what was happening to him.
Ben had backed out of the room, and pulled the floating body of his father with him. "Shut-up, Father. You've betrayed your wife, your children, and the people of this planet. You have molested this innocent little girl to the point that even I cannot restore her, and I can find no remorse in your mind at all. Before I end your miserable, worthless life, do you have anything you want to say?"
The man must have heard Ben and had looked around. Spotting Amanda, he brightened, and smiled. "You've come back to me! Excellent! Your father will be so pleased!" His slow brain must have realized what Ben had told him, because he suddenly turned to face the angry man. "Father? You're my son? But how can you do... ? Aloya, what did you do to them?"
"You miserable piece of worthless filth! How could I ever have loved you? What did I do to them? I loved them, and raised them, all the while believing you had been killed by Solms! Now I wish you had been!"
"Since you have nothing to say, and I have all the information I need from you... Good-bye father," Ben said, and threw the screaming man down the corridor as hard as he could.
The corridor was roughly forty feet long, and had a concrete block wall at the end. The man hit the wall so hard he literally exploded on impact, shattering most of the blocks.
A mute guard handed Ben a blanket for the girl. She was very pale at what she had just witnessed, as was her counterpart.
Ben realized he had just exposed their secret to these two; he was loath to simply erase their minds, so he gave them the choice. "Ladies, I'm sorry you had to witness that. Now you know our most guarded secret. We have mental abilities others don't have. We can simply make you forget, but I don't want to do that against your will. I'll do it if you want me too, or you can simply swear not to reveal it to anyone. I'll let you decide, but please do so quickly, because short term memory is easier and has less side effects."
"Sir, I think we both knew there was something special about you, something special like with John. We'd never tell anyone about him, so I think we can make you that promise pretty easily. There's already speculation, but we'll not confirm it for anyone." The guard that hadn't handed the blanket to him said. The other one just nodded her head in agreement.
"I hope you know that neither of you have anything to fear from any of us. We'll never knowingly hurt you. That man," Ben pointed down the hall to the bloody mess. "Has done some very, very bad things not only to us, but to these kids as well. There is no court for his crimes, and no jail would ever hold him. He was a lot like us."
The women nodded. "We kind of figured that part out when you called him 'father'. Don't worry about us, Sir. From just what we saw of what he was doing to her," she indicated the sleeping child Ben held. "He died far too quickly."
"Thank you, girls," Amanda said. "Now, we need to finish this; we still have a lot of work ahead of us, and little time to get it done. At least now we know how Solms knew about you."
"Yeah, but if dear old daddy was working for Solms, how come he didn't create his own 'abominations' to counter us?" Kathryn said.
"He didn't know how," Amanda said. "I never got the chance to share the information with him, and it was only stored on my computer. We were worried about the data falling into the wrong hands."
"We can worry about this later; we need to get this finished," Ben said. "I'll take this one up to the trucks; are you okay to finish up down here, Katie?"
Kathryn smiled and took Diane's hand. "Yeah, as long as Deedee stays with me, she kept me from going ballistic on him when I first found him."
He kissed Kathryn and Diane. "Okay, see ya both later. We should be done up there in about an hour."
"We'll meet you back at the warehouse, Lover. Be safe," Diane said.
"You too," Amanda replied and led Ben back toward the entrance.
The rest of the evening went pretty much according to plan, except there seemed to be a lot fewer girls than originally thought. All in all only about ninety six girls were recovered from the school. Ben and Kathryn both used their senses to make sure they hadn't missed anyone, but there was no one left that they didn't know about.
After they had gotten as much information as they could get out of the staff, Ben mind-wiped them and left them in the underground complex. The computer section did their thing with the computers, and then destroyed the systems. All the buildings were left with doors and windows standing open, except for the underground facility, which they sealed. Solms and his people might figure out what happened, but law enforcement sure wouldn't... if they even got involved.
Michelle and Cori were helping at the warehouse because they actually knew a lot of the girls, and it was thought that seeing a friendly face might help the girls adjust to what had happened to them. Some of the girls had been quite young when they had been abducted, and had a really hard time adjusting. Others seemed to be doing better, and tried to help the others when they could.
John's people were having a very hard time locating the families of the girls that had been taken. In most cases the whole family had simply disappeared, but in others they had been killed or framed for the girl's disappearance or death. Ben just couldn't understand why the abductors had gone to such lengths to eliminate the families of the kids they took.
There was one case where no family could be found at all: the little girl that Ben's father had been molesting. Her DNA had been modified so much that the closest the girl had for family was Amanda herself. Ben's father had been trying to recreate his wife from the little girl. Ben wanted to kill the son of a bitch all over again, this time, much slower. Since her personality had been utterly destroyed, Ben did his best to give her the memories of a loving family life with himself, Amanda and Kathryn. He gave her the memories he had of living as part of their family. Yes they were false memories, but ones based on truth. Amanda and Kathryn also helped with her memory reconstruction. She remembered everything that had happened with Ben and Kathryn, and how they all got to this point. In every way he could make her, she was basically his little sister, Megan. Amanda restored her missing hymen and repaired the damaged tissues in her vagina, bowels and throat. They let her sleep then, getting her aboard a transport going back to Colorado. Ben told Lizzy how to wake her up once she got back there. Lizzy was ecstatic to have a little sister.
Finally, late the next day, the only remaining things to deal with were the Forsythe's and the girls they had been using. Ben had allowed them all to wake up and had heard that the Senator was being very vocal in his demands to be released, immediately. He told one of the guards to tell him that if he didn't shut the fuck up, they would simply shoot his ass with another trank and he could sleep until he could be dealt with; he heard no more complaints about the Senator.
He went to see the girls first. "How are you doing?" he asked them.
"About as well as can be expected I guess," Julie said. "I still want to kill that son of a bitch. Is there anything we can do about his kid growing inside me?"
"Possibly, but nothing needs to be decided about that yet. How about you, April?" Ben asked.
"It still seems like a nightmare. I can't believe the things we did." She put her head in her hands and started crying.
Julie looked pained and held her friend. "It's okay, hon, they made us do those things! I know you didn't do them by choice. I know I sure didn't. Come on, baby, just let it go; it's over now, and we're safe."
"How do you know that? Do you know these people? Where are my parents? I want to see my parents!" April cried.
Ben knelt down by the girls. "April, honey, I'd be happy to get your parents for you, but I can't. They were in a car accident shortly after you were abducted. I'm sorry, honey, but they didn't survive."
He had hated to tell her, but thought it would be better if she knew up front. Trust was something these girls would be in short supply of.
"What about my folks?" Julie asked.
"From what we've been able to find out, there seems to have been a rash of accidents or other unfortunate incidents that either killed or imprisoned most of the parents of the girls we recovered from the school. Those that took you were very thorough in making sure no one looked very hard for you. I'm truly sorry," Ben said. "We'd like for you to come back to our base with us, while you figure out what you want to do. We'll take care of you for as long as you need."
Julie nodded agreement, but April was still crying too hard. "I'll take care of her, and get her to calm down. May I ask what's become of those pigs?"
"The Forsythes?" Ben asked. When she nodded, he continued, "Not much yet; they are in the room next door. I'm going to deal with them as soon as I'm sure you two are alright."
"Give me ten seconds in the room with them, and they will no longer be a problem for you," Julie offered. April shuddered and held on to the other girl tighter.
"I'm tempted, but I think April needs you worse right now," Ben replied. "Don't worry, I doubt very much they will see another sunset."
Julie cocked her head off to one side. "At first, I thought you guys were FBI or something, but I don't think even the FBI would have been able to pull off what you have. Now I know you're not a law enforcement agency. Who are you?"
Ben grinned; "As I told you earlier, my name is Ben, and I'm here to help you. The rest, you don't want to know yet. I imagine you'll figure out a good deal of it soon, but we try not to make it too obvious."
Julie snorted and shook her head. "You're not with the government at all. If that's the case, then you know about the asshole down in Mexico. If you plan on going after him, I hope you have a lot of people you don't care for on your team, because it's going to cost you. You need to have a DNA encoded bracelet or the automatic guns will cut you down within three feet of the front gate."
"We figured as much, so we aren't going to use the gate." Ben smiled to let her know she was on the right track, but also that there was a lot she didn't know.
Julie shook her head again. "Okay, I get it; you're not going to tell me anything. I can understand that. Hell, this time yesterday, I would have been trying to kill you. I thought there was something off about you and the woman you were with the first night I saw you. Somehow I get the impression if I had tried to hurt either of you, I wouldn't have been able too."
"Probably not, but I'm happy we didn't have to find out; you're much prettier with a pulse," Ben teased.
"I think so too. Do me a favor, and kick that bastard in the nuts once for me, and another for April here. At least he'll know we are not happy with the way we were treated," Julie said.
Ben nodded. "Okay. The next plane for our base will be leaving soon; I'd like for you both to join us on it."
"We'll be ready." She snorted, "We're ready now, all we have are the clothes your soldiers gave us."
"We'll get more for you later; that's all we had right now, sorry," Ben said.
"Hey, don't worry about it! It beats the hell out of the robes we were wearing," Julie said, smiling softly.
Ben rose to his feet. "I'll let them know you're ready to go. My wife, Amanda, should be here shortly to take you to the plane. If you'll excuse me, I need to go deal with something unpleasant," Ben said as he left.
He opened the door and stepped into the room with Senator Forsythe and his wife.
"You? Ben, what the hell's going on here? Son, do you have any idea what you've gotten yourself into?" Forsythe asked.
"Actually, I have a very good idea exactly what I've gotten into. What you don't realize is who and what I am. Did you know Isaac Solms had a daughter?" Ben asked, smiling softly.
Forsythe paled at the sound of that name. "How did you hear that name?"
"That's not important right now, Senator. What is important is that your term is up. In the room next door are two very pissed off young ladies that all but begged me to let them loose in here for fifteen seconds. You see, we broke their mental conditioning, and removed all the damage you and your buddies at the school did to them. They remember who they are, but they also remember everything that was taught to them. Now they have all those skills, and their own personalities. You know, I was actually tempted to grant their request, but I think you've harmed them enough," Ben said.
The light seemed to dawn for the Senator then, and he looked at Ben fearfully. "What are you going to do to us?"
"We are going to kill you. If you had been tampered with, or programmed to act the way you did, then things might be different, but you weren't. Everything you did, you did of your own free will; for that reason you'll die," Ben said grimly.
"How do you know we weren't brainwashed? There is no way you can know!" Mrs. Forsythe said accusingly. "You're just looking for an excuse to justify your actions."
"Actually, I can know. I don't know if Solms told you that his daughter created a weapon to fight him or not." Ben knew that the Forsythes had been told, which was the reason Forsythe ordered the attack on CDI to begin with. "But, I think I should let you know that I am that weapon."
"You're the one that can read minds! But I was told that your sister had the same ability as you," Forsythe said.
"Look, I'm tired, and I would like to go home now. Come with me," Ben said as he led them up to the roof of the large building. Kathryn was waiting for them.
"We had a hard time deciding what to do with you two. Kathryn wanted to hurl you into orbit, were no one would ever find your bodies. I managed to convince her that you wouldn't survive the acceleration required to get you up there. You see, while my strength lies in mind control and the like, Kathryn here is really, really good with telekinesis," Ben explained.
"Yeah, he convinced me that simply throwing you into orbit would kill you in seconds, so I thought up something else, something I was curious about. I want to see if I can disrupt the molecular bonds that form an object; or in this case, a person," Kathryn said, closing her eyes and beginning to concentrate.
"Oh! I almost forgot my promise!" Ben said, drawing back his foot, and kicking Forsythe squarely in the testicles. The older man dropped to the roof groaning, clutching his abused manhood.
"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Forsythe asked.
"I promised Julie that I would at least kick him in the nuts for her and April. By the way, I think you should know that both of them have requested abortions," Ben told the woman.
The woman snorted. "That just goes to show how stupid you really are. Neither of them are really pregnant; they were programmed to believe they were so they could wet nurse some whelp for the doctor at the school."
Ben grinned at her; "That must have been some programming, because it put a fetus in each of them. They really are pregnant."
Suddenly, her husband screamed in pain before suddenly exploding into what looked like dust that was blown away in the gentle breeze.
Mrs. Forsythe jumped back from the spot her husband had been in, and looked at Ben with horror. "What did you do to him?" She didn't even scream as she too exploded into the fine dust.
"Damn! I think it would have been easier to toss them into orbit!" Kathryn said as she leaned heavily on Ben.
"Are you still okay with it? I mean, another way could have been found to..."
Kathryn interrupted him. "No, it's fine. But if there is a next time, I'm going to need a lot more energy. Let's get to the plane, I'm starving all of sudden."
Edited by BobMc and Rav