GLYPH’s headquarters were located in downtown Braver City, and despite being one of the city’s older “businesses”, its facilities paled in comparison to the other big league organizations in town, at least when it came to the size of its HQ, and small number of external locations.
It was a fairly unremarkable building from the outside, nestled in between a bank and a bookstore. The actual entrance was a bit of a pain in the ass to get to, requiring navigating a few tight turns in the alleyway on the backside, along with a few flights of stairs. Paired with a lack of signage, and an abundance of other actual points of interest in the area surrounding it, GLYPH HQ was pretty much never home to visitors, which was for the best, really.
There weren’t very many employees either, at least not at the moment. Most of them were in the humble little meeting room on the fourth floor, awaiting the upcoming mandatory meeting.
Despite there being plenty of open seats, Ace was off to the side, leaning up against one of the walls, with his trusty briefcase planted on the floor beside him. It was his favored spot. Partly due to keeping his back safe from any potential threats, partly due to avoiding any potential lethargy from sitting around for long periods of time, and partly because he just felt cooler doing it.
BB was also there, to her personal dismay. She was slumped in her chair like a bratty child, arms hanging limp, knuckles on the floor, legs extended out in front of her. From the perspective of anyone sitting on the opposite side of her, they would just barely manage to see her eyes poking up over the table.
There were two “anyones” sitting on the opposite side of her, a few chairs down. First was Gabriele Graf, her muscular frame seated with perfect posture, waiting patiently. Her gray eyes weren’t focused on BB, however, but rather, on her neighbor, her granddaughter, Gisela Graf.
Gisela was playing a video game on her handheld. If you were to ask 90% of people who’d ever met her, they would tell you that they genuinely believed they’d never seen her do anything other than that.
And finally, a few seats down from BB, right by the front door, was Isaac, nervously fiddling with his thumbs, trying hard not to stare at BB’s ass as it hung over the edge of her chair. There was nothing especially remarkable about Isaac – hell, he wasn’t even an agent like the other four. He was a very recent hire usually assigned to more menial tasks like data entry and sorting through the mail, and he’d heard there was a meeting in the meeting room, and had assumed he was supposed to show up. The others hadn’t bothered to tell him he didn’t need to be there for whatever reason, leaving him to just sit around, awkwardly adjusting his glasses every minute or so, just to give himself something to do.
Eventually, the front door opened, and in stepped Malena Meralda, flanked by her secretary Saschia, who waved excitedly at everyone in the room, including Isaac, contributing to the young man’s lack of being given proper information.
“Good evening, everyone,” Malena said as she made her way to the farthest end of the meeting table, brushing her long, feathery white ponytail over her shoulder. “Mommy’s very sorry she’s late. I really do hate to waste your time like that.”
“Bullshit,” BB mumbled, still staring off into space.
Isaac, on the opposite end of the table, fidgeted in his seat, gulping down a breath. Malena was the manager of the North American branch of GLYPH, and his boss here at HQ, and she was also equal parts uncomfortably sexy and uncomfortably intimidating.
Saschia slid a little folder in front of Malena, who opened it up to see two FORMA cards inside – the [Mask] one that Ace had taken from Gunmetal, and the one BB had snatched from the Ballista Bros, which had the word [Rhino] printed on the front. “Here are the FORMA that Ace and BB acquired today, Mrs. Meralda!”
“My, what a magnificent haul,” Malena said, glancing over the top of her amber glasses at both Ace and BB, getting a nonchalant wave from the former and an under-the-table middle finger from the latter. “Mommy really is so very lucky to have you both~”
“Also,” Saschia said, extending a hand towards Ace like a TV presenter. “Ace wanted to inquire about a potential bonus for his performance today!”
Malena leaned forward on the meeting table, very deliberately accentuating her enormous breasts. Even BB stole the quickest little glance out of the corner of her eye before returning to her defiant ignoring. “A bonus? Hm…I suppose you do deserve one. Come swing by Mommy’s office when you have some time and we can talk about it, okay?”
With a sigh, Ace nodded. He knew better than to agree to a private meeting with Malena, but he also, unfortunately, knew better than to think he had a choice in the matter anyway. While all he wanted was a little extra pay for his work, he knew the woman would somehow manage to get him to agree to even more work in the process. She always did.
Turning to the opposite side of the table to the Graf duo, Malena continued, “And how did the combat testing go, Gabriele?”
The proud grandmother smiled and gently patted the top of her still-gaming granddaughter’s head. “She passed with flying colors. She’s a natural.”
Saschia provided her boss with another folder, this one containing a written rundown of the results of the combat testing Gisela had undergone earlier in the day.
Seemingly satisfied, Malena closed the folder shut. “That’s wonderful to hear. And I have just the assignment for her to show her stuff in the field. Saschia?”
The succubus secretary giggled and floated across the room like she was a cloud towards the Graf family. She set down a folder for them, which Gabriele opened. Inside was a series of maps and blueprints of various newly-constructed office buildings not too far from HQ, along with some files on a few persons of interest.
“There are still remnants of Zephyr,” Malena explained, referring to a rival organization that GLYPH had mostly put in the dirt fairly recently. “They seem to quietly be trying to build themselves back up again. Be a dear and finish them off for Mommy, okay?”
Pausing the game, Gisela finally pried her eyes away from her handheld, reading through the files spread out before her. She then resumed playing, and said simply, “Got it.”
Malena planted a kiss on her fingers and blew it towards Gisela, just as Saschia returned to her side and gave her another folder. As her red fingernail guided her reading, she turned to Ace. “Oh, how exciting! It seems we’ve found another BUBBLE in the city.”
Ace groaned as he recognized the term (unlike the bewildered Isaac) and what that would soon entail, but there wasn’t much point griping about it, so he swallowed his annoyance and asked, “Where at?”
“An apartment building northeast of here. It’s not very big, but it should still be dealt with immediately.”
“Aye aye, boss…I’ll get right on that.”
“Actually, would you mind waiting a bit?” Malena asked. “We have a new field agent, and I would like her to accompany you. The interior of the BUBBLE seems a bit on the dangerous side, but nothing too serious for her, especially not with you there, Ace.”
Shrugging, he replied, “Alright. I guess I can show her the ropes.”
Malena’s eyes settled on BB next. “Since there aren’t any other pressing matters besides the BUBBLE, Mommy will have you tag along with them, is that alright, BB?”
BB finally pushed herself up from her slump position to sit properly in the chair. She then proceeded to slam her face onto the tabletop. No it ain’t fuckin’ alright!
Malena reached a hand out to touch Saschia’s arm. “Saschia, be a dear and have Dr. Ingram prepare the protective treatments for Ace and BB, would you?”
“Sure thing, Mrs. Meralda!”
After the meeting ended, the only two remaining in the room were Malena, and Isaac, and the only reason the latter hadn’t left immediately was that he didn’t want to get caught pitching a tent.
Right before he could sneak off, however, Malena walked over and took a seat beside him. “Hello, Isaac. How have you been?”
“Um, g-good.”
She set her arm across the back of his chair, settling her hand across his shoulder, allowing herself to lean in closer. Isaac’s cheeks reddened as he felt her massive tits push up against him in the process. “Hmm…this was a very important meeting only intended for field agents, you know?”
He shook his head, sweat starting to drip down the sides of his head. “I-I didn’t know! I’m sorry! I just-”
Malena gave him a smile and shushed him like a mother with a crying baby. “It’s okay. Mommy isn’t mad at you.”
He jumped in place as he suddenly felt her hand settle into his lap, gripping his hard-on through his pants.
She leaned in closer, staring directly into his eyes. Isaac found himself paralyzed – he wanted to look away from her to appease his anxiety, but he couldn’t. It was as if his eyes were being forced to meet Malena’s. Shit, he couldn’t even blink. “I just want to make sure you know that everything you heard here today is highly sensitive information, and should not be spread to anyone.”
He opened his mouth to assure her he wouldn’t squeal, but all he could do was let out a gasp as her hand unzipped his pants and started stroking him off.
“If you were to tell anyone what happened here, Mommy would be forced to punish you severely, and your time here would come to an end.” She leaned even closer, and her words became a whisper sprayed directly into his ear. “And you’re such a good, hardworking boy that Mommy would be devastated to lose you…”
With a wild yelp, Isaac thrust up into Malena’s hand, and blew a load powerful enough to hit the ceiling. A few drops also sprayed across her tits, dripping down into her cleavage.
Chest heaving, Isaac blurted out a very strained, “I-I promise I won’t say anything, Mrs. Meralda! I promise!”
Releasing her grip on Isaac’s cock, Malena brought a finger to her chest, and scooped up some of his cum. She licked her finger clean, then leaned forward and planted a big, red kiss on his cheek. “Good boy~”
Ace and BB both found themselves leaned up against the wall outside of the medical office, located on the first floor of the GLYPH HQ. Inside, Dr. Ivy Ingram was making the necessary preparations for their upcoming mission.
“Another new recruit, huh?” Ace asked aloud, not really expecting much conversation from BB. He’d interacted with her a few times, and knew how much she hated working for GLYPH. “Know anything about her?”
“Nnnope,” BB said flatly, chomping away at some gum.
“Figured. Hey, how’s your B&B doing, by the way? Shut down yet?”
“Still the best in the biz, of course,” she replied, with a noticeable uptick of positivity in her voice. “Should drop by sometime.” She tapped her elbow against his, a devilish grin on her lips. “Hired a new employee recently, and she’s pretty stacked.”
Ace chuckled. “Yeahhh, but that would require me to vacation in Breaker Bay. I’m more of a…Bora Bora or Dubai kinda guy, you know?”
“Tch. Aight then, ya bougie-ass bastard.”
“Maybe if you beg, I’ll consider it.”
BB blew a big pink bubble and popped it right in front of Ace’s glossy mask. “Blow me.”
The pair fell into silence for the next few moments, with BB’s shoe-tapping against the floor quickly growing faster as each second passed.
Fed up with waiting, she turned towards the medical office door, blurting out, “Oi! What’s takin’ this broad so goddamn lon-?”
Dr. Ingram suddenly popped up behind BB and jabbed her right in the cheeks with a pair of disturbingly-long needles. “INJECTION!”
BB squealed, hopping away, hands clamping over the tiny little syringe holes that had been poked into her pants and butt. “S-son of a bitch!”
Laughing, Ace held his arm out, wrist up, having already unbuttoned and rolled up his sleeve in preparation. “Good to see you again, Doc.”
The impish little Dr. Ingram, standing just shy of five feet tall, with a messy head of indigo hair, gave Ace a smile as she brought her hands up. For some reason, the lab coat she frequently wore had sleeves that were excessively long and baggy, which always kept her hands completely hidden. But whenever she had the opportunity to inject GLYPH field agents with her needles, she would somehow manage to free her hands from those massive tunnels of cloth without trouble.
“Heehee, you too, Ace!” the doctor said. Her eyes were wide open, focused on the exposed flesh that her syringes would soon be penetrating. Her tongue was fully hanging out of her mouth, and she was on the verge of salivating over the prospect.
“So what’s today’s recipe?”
“INJECTION!” Dr. Ingram roared, stabbing Ace’s arm with her needles. She had to take a few moments to giggle and bounce in place before calming down and looking back up into his mask. “The BUBBLE you’ll be infiltrating is filled with poisonous gasses that our lungs can’t handle. This will allow you approximately forty-five minutes of safe breathing, and prevent the gas from causing any permanent damage to your bodies.”
BB rejoined the two, shooting an irritated little scowl at the tiny doctor. “What about the newbie we’re bringin’ along? Where’s her shot?”
An exaggerated frown stretched across Dr. Ingram’s face. “Siiiiigh! I would love to give her an INJECTION!, but she doesn’t need one, unfortunately…”
“Hellzat mean?”
Ace shrugged, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder. “They should be waiting outside, so you’ll get your answer there. Though based on what the good Doc just said, I have a feeling I already know who our little rookie is.”
Waiting outside the front door of the GLYPH HQ was Malena, Saschia, and a cute little lady with dark brown hair, bright blue glowing eyes, and a white jacket and navy blue skirt standing beside them, staring off unthinkingly and directly into the sun.
When Ace and BB exited the building and joined them, Malena gestured towards the young girl. “Ace, BB, meet our newest field agent, Annabelle.”
BB nodded her head in the girl’s direction. “Sup?”
Annabelle then proceeded to awkwardly shuffle over until she was standing in front of the two, clanking like hefty machinery with each penguin-like step she took. She then saluted with both hands at the same time, and leaned to the side, kicking one leg out. “Annyeonghaseyo, amigos! I am Annabelle Albright! A pleasure to meet you!”
Saschia pointed to the two veteran agents. “Annabelle, meet Ace, and BB!”
“Affirmative! Creating profiles of ‘Ace’ and ‘BB’!”
BB raised a brow, looking over at Malena and Saschia. “Uhhh…what’s her deal?”
“Annabelle is an android,” Malena answered. “GLYPH found her in the Alaskan wilderness a few weeks ago, and took her in.” She held a hand out to affectionately stroke the android girl’s head. “She’s now in our care, and Mommy wants to try giving her a shot at being a field agent. It would be a wonderful opportunity for her, would it not?”
Unsure, BB looked the girl up and down. Annabelle remained in her weird salute stance, not budging even a fraction of an inch. Her glowing screen-like eyes stared vacantly at her, likely awaiting some further instruction or question. “Uh…what does she, like, do?”
“Annabelle’s a wonderful girl who can do anything she sets her mind to~” Malena said, stroking the android girl’s cheek. “I’m sure she can help you two in all sorts of ways.”
“What kinda fuckin’ answer is…?” BB grumbled. “Well, whatever, let’s just get this shit over and done with so I can go back home.”
“Good luck, and have fun, my dears~!” Malena cooed, giving the agent trio a wink before heading back inside.
Saschia was on her heels, but she did stop for a moment. “Oh, actually! There’s one other thing you should know about Annabelle!”
“Eh?”
“She has some strange memory issues that we have not been able to deal with. Namely, every once in a while, her memory will completely reset, and she will return to how she was when we first found her. It shouldn’t affect your mission, but in case it happens while she’s in your care, that’s why!”
Saschia headed back inside, while Ace and BB started making their way towards the BUBBLE site. Annabelle followed, still walking like a penguin swaying side to side, each step sounding like someone was dropping a toolbox onto the ground.
BB blew and popped a bubble. “Tch. So if we teach her how to do this shit, she could just end up forgettin’ it all anyway?”
“Apparently,” said Ace.
“Well ain’t that a fuckin’ bitch-and-a-half,” BB sighed. “If she’s just gonna forget, then I ain’t botherin’ teachin’ her shit. You do it.”
Ace chuckled. “Well that’s the thing – I already did.”
“Eh?”
“I met her the last time I was in town. Went through the whole introduction song-and-dance, too.” He looked over his shoulder at the android girl, watching as a passerby accidentally bumped into her, then clasped at his arm to soothe it from the stinging pain akin to taking a hit from a non-BB-swung aluminum bat. “Seems like she doesn’t remember anything about that mission, though. That sucks.”
“What? You guys bond or somethin’?”
“No, but I told some really fire jokes that I can’t remember. Would’ve been nice to jog my memory.”
The heavy clanking of Annabelle’s awkward steps behind them had BB turning to look at her, brow raised. “Oi, why do ya walk like that anyway? Ya got a stick up yer ass or somethin’?”
Annabelle came to an awkward stop before saluting with both hands and kicking her leg out. She did not pay much attention to her surroundings, however, and ended up sending a trash can flying across the street, nearly smashing through a car driving by. “Negatory! There are no obstructions currently in my rectal port!”
“Huh. Even though her memory wipes out, she still does that little gesture,” Ace commented. “I wonder why?”
BB shrugged. “Eh. It’s pretty adorable.” She then continued marching on to their destination. “Let’s hurry up and get this shit done so I can go home.”
And there was Annabelle with her double salute again. “Affirmative, ally!”
