Venom

Kade

I don’t know what happened to Scarlet after she left, I prayed she was alright. I tossed and turned that night thinking about her, still dreaming of the world’s best fucking blowjob I’ve ever had; getting hard as fuck just picturing Scarlet’s head bobbing in my lap again. I wracked my brain all night thinking more about how to get her and Lucy out, what the name of that company was that I recognized the logo from the truck?

“Hey bro, you look like shit,” Mikey said sliding a cup of coffee across the table.

“Didn’t sleep much, too much thinking that got me nowhere.”

“Well, I have some news that might pick you up,” Mikey said cheerfully and I narrowed my eyes at him over the rim of the coffee mug.

“I heard from Morgan!”

“Morgan?” Mikey rolls his eyes at my cluelessness.

“The chick I used to bang who is on the force! Wake the fuck up, bro!”

“Shit! Does she know anything?” I practically burst with all the questions rising in my head again.

“I don’t know yet. I’ve been waiting for your ass to wake up before I called her back.”

“Well, I’m up! Let’s call her!”

He sat down at the table next to me and pulled out his phone. I anxiously wait as the ringing sound is finally picked up on the other end.

“Hey Mikey,” she answered in a low tone as if careful she wasn’t being heard by anyone else.

“Morgan, what did you find out!” Mikey got straight to the point.

“Look, I don’t know what kind of shit you two have gotten yourselves in now, but I didn’t get very far since this project is classified by the government!”

“Morgan, it’s Kade,” I spoke up over the speakerphone. “I don’t know how much Mikey told but I have security footage of my sister Lucy being grabbed from a nightclub alley and shoved into a van. The same van we saw leaving that guarded building! I have to find out what they are doing to them in there!”

“I’m sorry, Kade. All I have clearance for is who is affiliated with the project. It’s some biotech research company called Succubus.”

“Fuck! That’s it! That’s the logo I recognized from the truck!”

“It says here in the file a doctor by the name of Edison Jenkins developed a serum that they are doing trial testing on before taking the project globally.”

“Global!” Mikey and I repeat in a state of shock staring at each other.

“That’s what it says and I can’t read any further without getting authorization from a higher up. Sorry guys.”

“Don’t be, Morgan. You’ve helped us out a lot already. Thank you for looking into it and I hope we didn’t get you into any kind of trouble.”

“I think I’m alright on my end. I have to go but I hope you find your sister, Kade.”

“Thanks, Morgan.”

“And you guys need to be careful! Sticking your nose in government-issued classified business won’t get you put behind bars, it could get you fucking killed!”

We ended the call with Morgan and Mikey and I just sat staring at each other in silence.

“Fuck man.”

“Fuck is right! This is way bigger than I thought. It’s not about Scarlet and Lucy anymore, they plan to take this shit all over the world!”

“It would be a god damn massacre! A killing spree everywhere!” Mikey spoke exactly what I was thinking.

“We have to get everyone out of there and shut down the program before they grab more people off the streets and do even more damage!”

“The only lead we have is the research company, Succubus.”

“And that’s where we start. Grab your jacket and let’s go pay Succubus a visit.”

We hop on our bikes and ride across town to where I remembered seeing the logo on a building before. Pulling around back and parking our bikes on the street, the building is already far less secure than the compound Scarlet and Lucy are at. The parking lot was lined with delivery trucks all with the company’s logo on the side. One truck was open and parked at a loading dock. Box after box was being hauled into the trunk and I kept my eye on the delivery guy leaning against the truck.

“What’s the plan here?” Mikey whispered to me just as the guy removed his company cap and tossed it in his driver’s side seat. Gesturing to the workers loading the truck he’d be right back, that was our cue.

“Just follow me,” I whispered, staying hunched over as we ran to the truck. I grabbed the cap and threw it on, ducking my head down low so my face wouldn’t be recognized by any security cameras. Mikey followed me close in toe through the doors and down the horribly bright fluorescent-lit corridor.

“Hey, can I help you two?” We were stopped by what looked like a manager as he had a name tag and a clipboard.

“Yea, we’re the new recruits? We were just looking for you...Bob,” I said reading his name tag.

He glances down at his clipboard, running his finger down looking for something. Mikey tugs on my jacket to signal to get the heck out of here.

“Ah, you two must be Carter and Liam then?” the guy questioned looking back at us. I see an opportunity here, we could get in? A chance I’m willing to take.

“That’s us!” I nudge Mikey so he follows along. “I’m Carter, this is Liam.” Mikey extends his hand for a shake and the guy lowers his clipboard, obliging.

“Follow me to the front office. You came in the back way. This is where we load the supplies onto the delivery trucks.” Bob leads the way down the hallway and I make a point to walk slowly, glancing in every room we pass by.

“So this is a biotech research company, huh?” I casually strike conversation intending to get answers.

“Yup, we work with some local hospitals for cancer treatments and even on some government research.”

“Really? What’s the government hiding up their sleeves this time?” Mikey asks with a playful chuckle and we glance at each other knowing we’re walking on fucking eggshells.

“We’re working with a private sector of the government right now. Classified shit, so you two can’t be spatting it around town.” He turns around as he continues walking and we both nod in agreement.

“Right now it’s an experimental trial for the city. It’s been showing good results I hear so they want to expand; hence why we’re needing more recruiters. We’ve tripled the amount of production in just the last two weeks.”

“Shit! What are they making? An atom bomb?”

“A weapon of mass destruction, yes, in the form of vampires.”

Mikey halts his steps and keels over laughing.

“Bob, you’re funny as shit. Why are you busting our balls already!”

“I’m not fucking around with you.”

“Come on, you expect us to believe they have made people transform into vampires?” I question with clenched eyes playing along.

“How is that even possible?” Mikey adds.

“Our lead scientist Dr. Edison Jenkins invented a serum that causes a chemical reaction to their body. It changes the sensors to their brain so they want to kill; they need to kill without question.”

“Using people to bite and kill?”

Bob looks at us, questionably and laughs.

“I know it sounds crazy but I’m friends with some of the guards who work there. They tell me they become like robots more than people. Fucking hot robots who make you think they want to rip your clothes off and fuck you death.”

“So I take it, the guards have some fun with them?” Mikey laughs but the guy looks at him questionably and I nudge him in the shoulder to shut up.

“What? Come on, you can’t tell me they don’t take advantage of robots wanting to jump people’s bones in a secret locked facility?” Mikey kept going dangerously but Bob finally turned around again with a wide smirk on his fat face.

“It’s the newbies they say they have fun with. When they start getting the desire to kill it’s like a fucking high for them. They need to get off somehow and practically beg the guards for it. But they aren’t very dangerous yet. Rough, which only makes it sexier,” he says with a laugh and I feel my jaw lock in anger just thinking of Scarlet and Lucy.

“But once they hit their final stage and get their fangs and the venom injected, trust me you want to steer clear of them.”

“Don’t the guards worry about them revolting and trying to bite them?”

“Sure, but that’s what the antidotes are for.”

“They have an antidote!” It jumped out of my mouth more as a joyous reaction to the best information we have learned here and I pray Bob didn’t realize something fishy was up.

“Of course! You don’t think they thought of that with all the guards’ lives at stake!” He chuckled then paused outside an office doorway.

“Anyways, let me grab the papers for the new employee forms and we can get you set up with security badges. Then I’ll take your licenses and run it through the system for a required background check and criminal record.”

Bob steps into his office and Mikey and I are left in the hallway staring at each other. Times up and we both book it back down the hallway where we came from.

On our way out with quick steps, I’m about to toss the cap back in the parked truck but something else catches my eye making me go back.

“Kade! Come on!” Mikey shouts at me but I’m glad I stopped because I hit the fucking jackpot. On the inside of the truck’s visor was a delivery route schedule for the next two weeks. I swiped it from the visor and shoved it in my back pocket before we both took off around the corner back to our bikes.

“Phew, that was close.” Mikey laughs and slaps me on my back once we shut our bikes off and enter back inside the drug house. “What’s the next plan of action then Kade?”

I pull from my back pocket the delivery schedule and wave it in the air at him.

“Now, we wait until the next delivery.”