Research Facility 12b - Ch. 03

Mei woke up naked. It was her first and only time, and she freaked the fuck out.

"Whoa, what the FUCK?!" She sat up in bed, pulling the covers up around her. Her heart pounded as she looked wildly around the room, realizing with terror that even the bed and sheets she found herself in were not her own. She was in someone else's room. The room was small, looking a lot like a cheap hotel room. The only other piece of furniture was a cabinet on her right. To her left was a window, but it looked like it was some kind of computer screen, because it showed some kind of screen saver or weird abstract thing. There was a door at the far end of the room, which wasn't all that far away.

Mei felt her anxiety growing, filling her with dread as she wondered who had brought her here and stripped her naked, whether she should scream, if there was any escape. The panic grew and grew and started to take over her mind and she couldn't breathe properly and she was scared and she wanted to go home home home home please god home....

Suddenly a wave of calm washed over her, and she sat back in the bed. Her breathing slowed, as did her heart rate. Her thoughts settled back down into her control, and she felt more peaceful than she ever had before. Her fingers and toes tingled, and she had a sudden urge to laugh. Was she high? What had just happened? She thought about it for a moment. Maybe she'd been drugged, and it had just kicked in? Mei thought that this should probably freak her out again, but it didn't. The overwhelming calm was just too powerful for even her most insistent anxiety to overcome.

In the middle of this calm, a noise startled Mei. Again settling back into the relaxing feeling, she watched as a screen slowly lowered itself from the ceiling, already displaying an image of the same abstract scenes from the window. There was no projector in the room, so Mei assumed it had to be a tv screen itself. Once the screen was in position, nothing happened for a few moments. Expectantly, Mei slid down further into the bed, feeling the silk sheets caress her naked form and making her shiver from how delicious it felt. If this weren't so frightening, maybe she'd be able to think about sleeping naked at home more often. Also, buying herself some silk sheets.

The screen flickered on, and Mei found herself watching a very strange scene. There were four people, and there seemed to be some kind of argument going on. One of them was a short guy who sat in a chair, arms crossed, looking pretty done with everything. Facing him were a man and a woman, and she thought the man looked pretty familiar. But even as angry as they looked, she couldn't focus on them, because most of her attention was on the fourth person. A young dark-skinned woman knelt at the feet of the familiar looking guy, staring off in the distance and saying nothing. She was topless, her large breasts drawing Mei's eyes. She felt that feeling again, the kind she got when a movie had a sudden sex scene she wasn't expecting. Except this time, instead of a quick there-and-gone sensation, it radiated through her whole body, and she found herself rubbing her hands up and down her thighs. What was going on?

"I wish I could hear what they were arguing about." Mei said, trying to get her thoughts back on track. No sooner had she spoken the words than the sound suddenly came on, radiating from throughout the room despite obvious speakers.

"--you need from me! None of this makes sense, and you're just sitting there like it's all perfectly normal and we're the ones being unreasonable!" The blonde woman was saying, pointing at the man sitting down. The voice matched the face pretty well, and Mei didn't think much about her one way or another.

"I've tried explaining, but you're just not getting it," the sitting guy said, rolling his eyes. He had some kind of metal sci-fi thing on his face, with a blue light on it. It looked like something out of Star Trek. "I get it, you're in shock, but you're not helping me make you understand what's going on here."

"Fine, we'll calm down." The second guy spoke, and Mei gasped. It was Alex, her cousin! Well, her stepcousin, what with second marriages and all, but still! It had been so long since she'd seen him, she hardly recognized him. His long hair was gone, he wasn't wearing the glasses she'd always seen him with, and he looked.... Mei blushed, the warmth traveling through her body and making her feel funny. He looked good, muscular and stuff. She remembered he'd joined the army or something, she just didn't expect him to look so... cute.

"I wish you would calm down," the skinny guy shot back, "this job is hard enough without you two freaking out and delaying the sexual payoff."

"The what?"

"Don't think too hard about it. I'll start over. But Emily I swear, if you interrupt again, I'm going back to my room and you're on your own."

Alex and Emily looked at each other, than back to the kneeling topless girl. "Okay, Steven," Alex sighed and walked over to sit on a nearby couch, gesturing for Emily to join him. "Start over, and we'll let you finish. We will ask questions, though."

Steven rolled his eyes. "Better than nothing, I guess."

Before he could continue, the entire screen froze. Mei was confused, then startled by another image of Steven popping up over the scene. He was wearing something different, a black turtleneck and pants, and he looked a lot more friendly. It looked like his customer-service face, and Mei couldn't help but giggle. "Hi, I'm Steven, and this is a pre-recorded greeting. What you've been watching is live, and happening elsewhere in the building. We'll return you there in a moment, but we wanted to give you an idea of what's going on. At least, a little bit." Mei bit her thumb nervously, but simultaneously felt her face get hot and her pussy start to throb. She fought the urge to start rubbing it, something she hadn't done for ages. Was she turned on? By what?!"

"You've all probably had the same two things happen to you," Steven continued. All? Mei wasn't the only one? "You've woken up naked in a strange bed in a strange place, with no memory how you've gotten there, right?" Mei nodded before remembering it was a pre-recording. "The other thing is, you've started watching this scene and think we're about to explain a lot to you. Well, unfortunately, you're going to learn a little bit less than you'd hope for, and what you do learn may distress you a bit. But more info's on the way, and you're in no real danger."

It was strange, but as he talked about danger and distress, Mei couldn't feel very afraid. In fact, she was positively vibrating from what she could no longer deny: she was horny! It made absolutely no sense, but she was more aroused than she'd felt in a long time, more than how her last three boyfriends combined had ever made her feel. Something was very seriously strange, but she couldn't help herself. As Steven kept talking, Mei took a deep breath and whipped off the covers, revealing her naked form in all its glory.

She was only nineteen, but her skin was covered in tattoos. She'd got one for her seventeenth birthday, and instantly came down with a tattoo addiction. Under the twenty or so tattoos of varying size and detail, her fair skin made for a perfect canvas. Despite her name, she didn't look Asian in the slightest, which was a long story she had long since tired of telling. Her hair was brown with blonde highlights, and for now she'd gone for the plain look of clear nail polish. She needed a new pedicure, though, she noted with a grimace. Looking down at her toes, she noticed her stomach again and sighed. She was by no means fat, but she'd been a short and skinny thing all her life, and the more recent extra weight and pooch was not very flattering. On the other hand, the extra weight in her C-cup breasts were a bit more flattering, no complaints there. She didn't have tan lines, didn't get enough sun for that. Mei distractedly ran her fingers through her full bush, shivering as her fingers brushed past her quivering vulva. Between her neglected bikini line and sensitivity, you could tell she'd been single for a minute, all right.

"All that aside," Mei realized she'd zoned out while Steven kept talking. "You'll learn even more when Alex addresses you in the courtyard. But to get there, you'll first have to get out of your rooms, and this is where a lot of you are going to have a hard time."

"That doesn't sound good," Mei murmured, tracing her fingers up and down her sides and enjoying the sensation in spite of her words.

"To leave your rooms, you're each required to masturbate." Mei almost laughed from how ridiculous that sounded, but Steven looked dead serious. "Your doors won't open until you've fulfilled this requirement, even if you stay in your room for days, so I wouldn't suggest stalling. You're already naked, and in the wardrobe next to you, in the bottom drawer, you will find some toys if you're so inclined. They're all clean and unused, it's up to you."

Mei didn't check the drawer, she wasn't really into toys. She knew she should be freaking out, wondering what kind of sex compound she had been kidnapped to, but again the sensation of overwhelming calm and the out-of-nowhere arousal kept her from panicking. Instead, she found a rising urge to rub her pussy with every ounce of her being. Instead she pulled the covers back over herself and kept her arms on the outside. She needed to know more.

"For some of you, the more sexually active and experienced (you know who you are), you're required to have an orgasm. Again, the toys are there to help you if you're freaked out and nervous."

"I'm not sexually active, that's not me!" Mei shouted. "I've had sex, like, four times."

"Everyone who just panicked a little," Steven continued, "and insisted that they're not experienced, congratulations! You're only expected to rub one out until the door opens, probably at the end of the video. Again, this is happening live, but I more or less know what's going to happen, especially because I'm involved, so I'll tell you it's going to look like a bit of a porn video. There'll be both straight and lesbian stuff going on, so those of you who aren't really into penises will be taken care of too."

Now Mei was really paying attention. She'd only ever been with guys, but for some reason the promise of girls got her excited, which was really weird. Again she fought the urge to masturbate, crossing her ankles under the sheets and squeezing her legs together, squirming as she realized that also felt pretty good.

"Before you leave, you'll find clothes in the rest of the wardrobe, though I hope you like black." Steven shrugged. "That said, enjoy yourselves, ladies. Though you really don't have a choice, do you?" Smirking, he disappeared, and the scene resumed.

"Which is why we supplement the 'real' girls with androids," non-recording Steven was saying, "there are some situations where fucking the real person would be too weird or taboo in some way. Remember, this facility is meant to measure how you and the girls respond to stress, sexual tension, and social hierarchies."

Mei was already confused. Androids? Was that why Steven and the kneeling girl had those metal things on their faces?

"You mean, some creeps are watching to see if everyone fucking each other will lead to us tearing ourselves apart." Alex retorted, looking annoyed.

"I guess," Steven shrugged, "seems like a lot of wasted effort, if those 'creeps' really thought we'd fall apart after going through the trouble of bringing us all together into this high-tech compound."

"So how do these androids work?" Emily asked.

"Finally, some more interesting questions." Steven said, then gestured at the topless girl who was still kneeling on the floor. "Maria, let's show your different modes. Lay back, take off your shorts, and spread those legs."

Without so much as a blink the kneeling girl, who must have been Maria, laid back, raised her hips, hooked her thumbs into her waistband, and pulled off her shorts, revealing her bare pussy between two curvy thighs. She opened her legs wide and grabbed them from behind her knees, fully displaying herself. Mei gasped, surprised with both Maria's boldness and what was only the third time she could remember ever seeing a woman naked. She quickly searched through her memory and nodded to herself. That one time at the gym, the porn video her friend Jessie had dared her to watch, and now Maria. She found herself looking closely, despite her embarrassment. Mei hadn't looked at her own vulva in a while, but she knew it looked different than this one. Maria's was completely hairless, with neat little lips that were ever so slightly spread.

"Right now," Steven said, "Maria is in Level One. For obvious reasons it's the default setting." He turned to Alex. "Anything in particular you'd like to see, straight boy?" Alex didn't so much as blink, leaving Steven to sigh and roll his eyes. "Fine, make the gay guy tell the girl to do sexy things. Maria, get up, turn around, bend over, and grab your ankles. Give Alex another eyeful."

Maria rose to her feet, her breasts bouncing as she moved. She then turned, bent over, and grabbed her ankles. Mei stared at Maria's round ass and parted pussy lips.

"As you can see," Steven said, "she'll pretty much do whatever you want."

Mei couldn't hold it in anymore. Confusing or not, she was deeply aroused, and she knew exactly how she wanted to solve that. Sitting up, she reached behind her and grabbed one of the pillows. She threw the covers off, unconcerned about being exposed anymore. She laid the pillow in front of her, then climbed on top of it on her belly. She felt her pussy rub against the pillow as she straddled it, and the pleasure that radiated through her whole body affirmed that she was very much on the right track. She began to slowly hump the pillow, grinding her pussy against it as she turned her gaze back up to the screen, where Steven had been explaining some more.

"She won't really interact with you or react to much in this mode, so it's really like having sex with a mannequin that can stand on its own. Not my thing, but hey. Maybe you have a thing for sex dolls." Steven said.

"Never even seen a sex doll," Alex said a little quickly. Mei laughed, thinking about her cousin using a doll and not being quite as grossed out as she thought she'd be.

"Uh huh." Steven said, sharing a look with Emily, who looked as if she'd calmed down and began enjoying Alex's discomfort again. "Maria, Level Zero."

Maria closed her eyes, stopped breathing, and went completely motionless, still bent at the waist and exposed to everyone. It really looked as if she'd just turned herself off.

"That," Steven pointed, "is Level Zero. It's basically 'off', or 'sleep' mode. She's still completely movable and posable, if you're looking to use her as an art model or you like fucking unconscious women or whatever, I won't judge. But she's not moving on her own in this mode." He stopped to allow for questions, but Alex and Emily were as shocked as Mei was.

"Maria, Level Two." Steven gestured as Maria seemed to relax all over, the stiffness of her previous mode becoming more apparent. She stayed bent over for a moment, then slowly, seductively, uncurled her body to stand as tall as her small frame would allow. She turned to face the others and smiled, a warm, pleasant smile that filled Mei with a lust she had never known, especially not for women. "This mode," Steven said, "I call 'customer service' mode. She will respond to you, have conversations with you, and do whatever you tell her to. All while acting like everything you say is the best idea she's ever heard."

"Really?" Emily said. "Well, Maria, come straddle Alex, and let's see how he reacts to a naked girl tracing her nipples on his face."

Maria smiled even wider and walked over to the couch, even as Alex started to protest. Before he could say anything, she was on top, his eyes locked on hers as she slowly began to brush her nipples against his cheeks, tickling over his lips. Mei had to stop grinding for a minute as she caught her breath, eyes wide open at the scene in front of her. The porno she'd watched hadn't been very exciting or memorable, but this was pushing every one of her buttons. She started grinding even more frantically when Emily suddenly leaned over and started kissing Maria, the two making out like they'd just got home from the hottest date ever. Emily grabbed Maria's ass and started rubbing and playing with it, making Maria moan into Emily's mouth as they kissed.

"Emily," warned Steven. "We have a few more things to cover before the reader blows their load."

Emily reluctantly leaned back, while Maria beamed wider than ever. Mei thought she could see her pussy dripping even from the distance she was at.

"Now," Steven said, "this would be pretty good by itself, but eventually you start to realize all the androids act and sound the same in this mode. Sure, each android would have its own personality and mannerisms, but you'd start to realize they all sound the same, even the guy who was giving me a blowjob a few minutes ago." Mei raised an eyebrow at that one. What else had she missed? "The next mode," Steven said, "is what you probably want. Maria? Level Three."

Maria's smile softened, but didn't go away. It was as if she had been putting on a show, but now just ached to actually continue what Emily had started. "Hey, Alex," Maria said, her voice soft and thick with some kind of Hispanic accent. "You know, I like men as much as women." She lowered herself, resting her pussy on the suddenly very noticeable bulge in Alex's shorts. "We don't have to wait for Steven to tell us what to do, can I please ride that cock of yours? Emily can join in, if you're both okay with it."

There was a moment of stunned silence. Emily grinned, then started to lean back in to kiss Maria before Steven cleared his throat. "Wait, we're not finished." He sounded exasperated, but did Mei hear a note of interest in his voice? She could feel herself getting higher and higher on the mountain of her pleasure, but had no idea if she was close to orgasm. She'd never had one, so this was all new to her. All Mei knew, as she humped her now soaked pillow with all her strength, was that she wanted Maria and Emily to kiss her like that, and maybe do many other things to her.

"I agree with Steven," Alex managed, his voice nearly cracking. "How many more levels are there?"

"Two. Well, three. But you'll use only two more, for a total of five modes plus 'sleep'. As for this one," Steven adjusted himself in his chair, seemingly uneasy about his reaction to the two women, "Level Three is her full personality, but she's still obedient to you and fully supports your ideas. If you tell her to offer her ass for some anal, even if she's scared of the idea, you'll never know it. If you want to know how she really feels... Maria, Level Four."

A change came over Maria, her smile nearly vanishing. She continued to grind her pussy against Alex's crotch, but something had shifted in her. She no longer seemed interested at all in continuing her exposed performance. Alex and Emily both looked troubled, and for a moment even Mei felt some creeping doubts push through what had been an iron-clad arousal so far. She looked down at Alex. "Please, can I put my clothes back on?" Her voice wavered a little, and she looked embarrassed.

"No." Steven interjected before Alex could say anything. "Maria, rub your pussy and then lick your fingers."

She glared at Steven, but dutifully reached down, rubbed her hand on her glistening pussy, and licked the juices off her hand. She continued to grind on Alex's lap, but looked away from him.

"Steven," Alex said, his voice very tense and quiet. "What is this?"

"This, Alex, is Level Four." Steven was stony faced. "She'll do what you want, but there's no more pretending. You're going to know exactly how she feels, if it's in her personality to speak up. You're not going to like this mode much, but if you want your android to be more realistic, and feel like you really seduced your favorite celebrity, there you go. This facility's experiment clearly won't be all fun and games."

Emily looked a little less horrified, still looking at Maria with a hunger that Mei couldn't help but be aroused by. She'd continued humping her pillow, and started to imagine herself being held down by Emily, trying to get away while she kissed her and pressed their naked bodies together. This really got Mei revved up, and she began to moan into the bed and ignore the video as they began arguing again. Over and over in her head Mei pictured Emily kissing her as passionately as she had Maria, and as she ground her pussy into the pillow, she caught herself imagining it was Alex's dick she was rubbing against. What should have disgusted her had her screaming as, for the first time in her life, she felt herself teeter on the edge before slipping into a full, explosive orgasm. "Oh, fuuuuuuuck!" she moaned, her face twisted into sheer ecstasy. Her legs twitched and she gripped the sheets, grinding and grinding into the pillow as the waves of pleasure washed over her. She began to cry as the feeling overwhelmed her, the spasms curling her up as she held on for dear life. The sheets were ruined, soaked with her sweat and the natural lubricant of her arousal. As she laid there, recovering from the throbs of orgasm in the fetal position, she slowly started to again become aware of the scene continuing, the argument seeming to end.

"Okay," Alex sighed. "Let's get this over with. What's the last mode?"

Steven raised an eyebrow. "Maria? Level Five."

With a whimper, Maria leaned back and stood on her feet. With barely a pause to get her balance, she turned and ran back to where her clothes were on the ground. She stooped, grabbed them, and ran out of the room. Mei watched, still breathing hard, as Alex and Emily looked at Steven with a confused look on their face.

"I hope you don't look like that the whole time we're here," Steven grumbled, getting up from the chair. "It's not that hard, Level Five removes all restrictions. At that point she's like the real person she's modeled on. No more controls, she's embarrassed, she's going to run. If your android's on Level Five, you're going to have to convince her to have sex with you. Dinner, flowers, whispering sweet nothings in her ear, the works. That or force yourself on her, but you don't look the type."

Alex looked like he wasn't sure if that was a compliment. The idea captivated Mei, even as she still lay heaving on her wet pillow and bed sheets. Her toes curled, and she wondered how quickly she could recover and try that again. She'd never had an orgasm, so she'd never had to worry about it before. Right then, it felt like if she tried to touch herself again, she'd explode.

"Well, ready or not, it's time to address your ladies in waiting," Steven said, gesturing towards a nearby arch with curtains. "They should be about to leave their rooms, the majority of them at least."

As he said that, Mei's door shot open, making her yelp and cover up in surprise. A warmly lit hallway waited beyond the doorway. Mei hesitated, then quickly started searching the wardrobe for the clothes, only to realize her only option was a pair of tight yoga shorts and a crop top, both black. No bras, no panties, no socks. Shrugging, she dressed quickly and started to walk towards the door, checking her hair in a full-length mirror before she left. She still wasn't sure why she wasn't curled up under the sheets in terror, but she liked this feeling a lot.

As she left the room, she faintly heard Steven say, "Oh, and Alex? The settings for the implants are the same as the androids. Use them wisely."

To be continued....