A false ending for Chapter 14

Then suddenly another mind lashed out at me, again nearly disabling my barrier before I was able to counter their attempts as well.

"Alex!  What the hell happened to you!  How the hell did you take over Wally like that!" I said when I recognized the mind of the second assailant.

"You fucker.  I'll teach you to..  Lana?!?  Noo..."

"Yes, Lana has been very helpful to me, haven't you been, my slut."

"Fuck me master.  FUCK me!" Lana said, naked except for the chains hanging from her neck, wrists, and shins.

Her mind..  Her beautiful mind...  It had been warped, perverted, twisted into that of a complete fuck slut, wanting only to serve her masters cock and nothing else.

"Toy!" Alex called to Eric. "Show your old friend how much you love to perform your new trick for your master."

"Yes, my lover," Eric said with a lusty grin as Wally walked up and dropped his pants.

I ignored Eric as he began frenching Wally's ass, concentrating on expanding my telepathic vision out to make sure there were no more surprise attacks.

That was probably the wisest thing I had done in a long time.  Unfortunately I discovered that while I was being distracted by Alex's show, somehow several of the other telepaths around us had managed to gain control of both Bridget and Janice and were preparing to join the other seven in rushing my mental barrier.

"I'm afraid you all don't have a chance against me," I said, hoping to stall their attack long enough to formulate a plan.  "If you try and take my mind, I'm afraid I will have to kill all of you."

"Kill us?" Alex laughed.  "You couldn't.." he stopped and started clutching his chest

"What you are feeling is the life being drained out of your heart," I said, using my understanding of the heart's control symbols to cause a mild attack.

That had been a mistake.  The other eight launched their attack, quickly overwhelming my mental barrier, but since they were all attempting to command me to submit, I was easily able to counter all their symbols since they were all using the same ones.

While my mind got used to automatically canceling their commands before they ever reached me, I carefully began searching out who the others were.  Vern and Ollie, Wally and Erin, Janice and Bridget... That made six out of nine...  Two of the others were women and were unfamiliar, but the third woman was..

"Young Lee, why don't you show your face while you still have the will to do it?" I yelled loudly.  "Or do you need help finding your way?"

The attack on my mind was instantly stopped, and for a moment I thought they were going to give up.  But just as I was about to attempt to probe Wally, I suddenly sensed them enslaving my other friends and was about to send them to physically subdo me.

I never realized how dependant the human mind was on the body to keep it functioning properly.  I was just about to blanket the entire group with a sleep command when I realized I needed something that couldn't be undone as easily as I would do it.  I needed something biological that once I had made their body release it, it would take time for their system to clear its effects.  But what?

"Shit," I said, finding the only thing I could think of was causing a small amount of their urine to get leaked into their blood supply.  I had accidentally done that to someone a while back, and it had caused their body to go into shock.  It was dangerous, and could be life threatening if I over did it, but otherwise I was in deep shit.

As the mob of people got up to attack, I blanketed them all with the blood poisoning commands.  My heart skipped a beat when they all turned very pale and passed out, but I couldn't take the time to check on them because Eric was taking a bite out of my right arm.

Every one of the telepaths attacked me with a different set of commands, causing me to only grab Eric in a headlock while I countered their onslaught of symbols.

Suddenly I detected a new telepathic presence entering the battle grounds.  There was a different feel to this woman, something of a Mistress of Mistresses, or a Queen more like.

I watched as the nine telepaths freely accepted her mental commands, instantly dropping their attack and waiting for her to command them.

"Oh shit," I muttered when I recognized the linking process I had been using for my Einstein link was being used to link the ten telepaths.  I had to stop it, and stop it fast, for I was certain this newcomer had the same vision as I had.

My options were limited, and my arsenal was nearly depleted of tricks.  I had my empathic abilities which I could perhaps use to stun them for a moment, but Wally knew a lot about that since I had told him.

As Alex was forming his link, I suddenly saw a way in.  I quickly captured Alex's eyes and pushed my empathic abilities to the limit in silencing his mind with an emotional turmoil I had copied from the twins.

But just as I was attempting to transfer the link from his mind to mine, I suddenly heard this voice speaking into my ears.

"Give up young one.  You are no longer in control of your own body, and you will soon be another of the many minions of Hera."

I couldn't believe it.  She was right.  I couldn't move a muscle.  I didn't understand how this could be possible when there hadn't been any symbols to come at me.

"You are confused.  Simply accept the word of your Goddess, and obey her command.  Do not resist as she makes you into whatever she wishes."

Symbols, flying everywhere, but none were at me.  Instead, everyone else in the room was being flooded by symbols I had never seen before.  An then she entered the lab.  A oriental woman, must have been at least fifty or so, but her eyes were as blue as that of a newborn baby's.  And the symbols...  Oh such beautiful symbols of such variety and color.  She was spewing them out like a god damn water sprinkler, altering the minds of every person in there to forget their own existances and... something else.  I couldn't quite comprehend what these new symbols did.

All of a suddenly everyone, including myself, got up and formed a circle around her.  We bowed like a bunch of savages worshiping their god, which is exactly what was happening.

Then I got up, and pulled out my coin..

MY COIN!  It was transmitting her commands!  But Alex wanted it earlier!  That meant I could use it against her some how.

Once I new the source of the symbols controlling my body, I quickly regained control of it just before I was about to drop my coin into her hand.

"Check this out, bitch," I said, right before I hustled out the door and ran like hell.

"Yikes!" I said, finding the doors blocked by hundreds of sleeping students.  "Shit!  What to do, what to fucking do!  GOT IT!"

I sat down in the middle of the hall, pulling myself completely within my inner self and began focusing my mind on the beings around me.

My vision showed the object I sought hanging around her neck, and as the combined efforts of the ten telepaths began attacking me with symbols I had never encountered before, I launched my own attack... at my coin.

You can imagine my surprise when instead of my symbols being transmitted out her own coin hanging around her neck, my spewed out new symbols, symbols that I instantly understood.  I was momentarily overwhelmed by the work I was having to do to hold off their attack, not really understanding how I was countering the symbols they were using... Unless my subconscious knew something I didn't.

Two mindless slaves carried my limp form back into my lab while I focused my mind on the goddess's own mind.  She had no barriers, for she didn't need them.  All she had to do is create the countering symbols just as I was doing.

I watched her carefully, learning more than I had the past two months in the twenty minutes she took in preparing me for sacrifice.  I was barely containing my anger and horror during those twenty minutes as she finished wiping out every trace of individuality from the people in the room.  I could not even tell the difference between Eric and one of the women from my team without opening my eyes which I wasn't about to do.  They were identical in thought pattern, identical in symbol streams.  My friends, my lover, all were just simple drones to the queen bee.

A Queen bee who couldn't link to more than eight people at a time.  Could it be?  Could that be why I was such a threat?  Could I be more powerful that this insane bitch?  All I needed was more information of how to use my abilities to match hers.

Or did I already have what I needed to defeat her?  Symbols.. The symbols which she had been using and I had never seen before..  They kept popping up in my head as rather important.  How did she make them.  What did they do?  And why wasn't she bothering to protect her mind from my probe?

"What the hell?" I said out loud, finding she wasn't able to counter such a simple thing as a probe.  Instantly I began downloading everything she knew about the symbols, finding that even she was someone else's slave, but somehow had been forgotten and was now simply insane.

Everything I saw, everything I learned from her I instantly understood.

(You're probably thinking this actually was a better ending than what I ended up using, but it went against my rule...  Too much power too quickly..  And there were a few other things which I decided I didn't want to use just yet, so I tossed it out and tried again.)