Story: Curvy Rei

"You sure do talk a big game for a captured prisoner," Misato said. "If you're half as good at seduction as you think you are, then why are you our prisoner instead of the other way around?"

"Pity for your bruised egos," was Porn Star's immediate response.

"Avoiding the question?" Misato asked. "Very amusing." She took hold of the Rei lookalike's arm. Tried not to think about how soft and warm it was while locating a vein. Found one. And drew out some - that wasn't blood. If anything it looked more like LCL. How peculiar. "Well, if you won't answer questions maybe your body will."

"Oh! How threatening!" Porn Star mocked. "You make it sound like you intend to - gasp - violate me!" She pulled the blanket until it was just over her nose. "I- I thought you were better than that, Misato-senpai!"

Hrm. Misato looked down at this girl with a deep scowl on her face. Ever since this situation had started it had been like a bad dream. Porn Star's behaviour - and also her name - weren't doing all that much work to disabuse her of that notion.

“Really...” Misato asked in a tone dripping with disbelief. “You are trying to play the innocent little girl card now?”

"It's called sarcasm," Porn Star answered. "Grow a sense of humour sometime. Or do I have to seduce it into you?"

"You say that as though you could seduce me anymore."

To that, Porn Star pulled down the blanket and broke out into a wide grin. "So, are you going to stand there all day with that blood sample, or were you going to do anything with it?"

Porn Star took great and obvious satisfaction in watching Misato turn towards the syringe full of 'blood' with a sudden dawning remembrance. "R-Right!" she stammered. "This is probably the most advanced medical facility in the world. They're bound to have something that'll do a blood analysis."

"Blood is boring!" Porn Star called. "I'm more interested in other body fluids."

All of a sudden Misato was really, really glad that Asuka wasn't the kind of girl to get sex on the brain. If this was what she'd wind up like... Oh, but she'd probably have throttled the girl after the first day. Well, maybe things could have worked out if the redhead decided to target Shinji with that same stubbornness Porn Star put into carnal matters.

In any event she had to pick out the right equipment to analyse this blood. Where would that sort of thing be, anyway...?

"To the right," Porn Star called, seeming bored. "Look up. That shelf up there."

"This thing analyses blood samples?"

"No, but stretching up like that is giving me a stellar view of your butt. Goodness, but those plugsuits don't hide anything do they? I should find their designer sometime and give them a reward." The clone said while licking her lips.

Misato wheeled around with a murderous expression on her face. That cheeky tease!

"Fine, fine. It's on the counter to your left."

Oh, this thing? Misato looked it over. She'd seen devices like this before, but... Where was she even supposed to put the blood? Where was the on-switch? This was far outside of her area of expertise.

"Honestly now, how hopeless are you?" Porn Star harrumphed. She had soundlessly slid out of bed and up behind Misato without the woman even noticing until she heard that voice in her ear and a finger lingering gently on her butt. A powerful hip knocked her aside. "It's really easy to use this machine. You put the blood in here. Right? Then you switch it on here like so..."

And then Porn Star turned her attention back to Misato with an especially steamy look. The machine made a 'ding' noise and a nearby monitor flashed with information. Misato leaned in to read it and... "I can't make heads nor tail of this," Misato admitted. Porn Star made a snorting noise that was probably a laugh. "As if you could do better."

"Of course I can! Because I'm amazing," Porn Star declared, spinning around in place as if showing off exactly how perfect she really was. "And I'll tell you... In exchange for a kiss."

Misato stepped forward and grabbed hold of the back of Porn Star's head. Then she leaned in, inch by inch. The Rei copy closed her eyes and puckered her lips in anticipation, but Misato changed direction and instead put her lips next to Porn Star's ear and whispered "Or I could ask one of the scientists what it means. You know. The people who aren't under the control of the booty brigade?"

Then she pulled away and strode off with a cocky swagger. "Dummy!" she called back, leaving Porn Star fuming and steaming.

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Ooh, that Misato! Call her a dummy would she?! Turn her advances down, blowing her off like she was steam from a hot cup of tea? Well. All she'd really done was outsmart herself, hadn't she? Leaving her alone in here with the blood sample analyser and all this potentially useful data? Not a smart move. Oh dear, it really wasn't.

Porn Star grinned and tapped a few buttons on the machine's controls. Now, she'd have to be careful about how she did this. Obviously. The aphrodisiac qualities they were using were quite strong within their bloodstream, very potent. This data might even have been used to do something dangerous like develop a longer term antidote! And they couldn't have that! Not yet, at least. Not until they were finished setting everything up. When it was already too late, then they could have their “little victory”. Why, with this analysis they might even be able to counteract the purely visual aspect of their hypnotic sex appeal and that really wouldn't do!

So a little tampering was in order. She'd already isolated the proper compound, and of course the antidote. Then her brilliant mind - thank you Asuka - was able to formulate a quite different compound altogether. Namely: The compound that their inbuilt aphrodisiac was an antidote to.

It was quite the mark of genius, if she did say so herself. In their desperate attempts to isolate and identify a means to chemically inoculate themselves from the Dummy Plugs all they'd do instead was make themselves even more vulnerable. And the best part was that if they eventually held the offspring of a Dummy Plug, it would make their 'parental instinct' attribute hit them all the harder! They'd do it to themselves, all because of her genius.

"Never underestimate a Porn Star!" she cackled. "Hrm... I need a new catchphrase. If I'm going to be a successful villainous seductress, I absolutely must have a good catchphrase!"

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Do you know what the main weakness of smart people is? It's quite simple. It is a tendency, a bad habit, to underestimate people around them. All of their lives they've seen people do things that seem obviously wrong and wondered why, so it doesn't quite occur to them that something truly stupid is, in fact, also obviously stupid to the less intelligent people. When you realise that it becomes a heck of a lot easier to manipulate a person who is smarter (and also more arrogant) than you.

"It looks like you were right," one of the scientists said to Misato. "She's changing the data on the blood reading. Good thing we kept a copy of it or we'd never know what she'd changed."

Misato smirked. "I'd say it's more a good thing I was able to pretend not to know how a blood reader works. And that she didn't notice I'd already set the data to display on other monitors in the medical bay. Run an analysis on what she's changed - both what she's changed it from, and changed it to. I want to know the effects either of them would have on the human body, but be sure to keep it away from her."

The scientist nodded, then gave a furtive glance over towards the pilots sitting in the corner playing with the Rei's offspring. She totally and completely missed the gleam in his eye and the faint smile playing on his lips, in no small part because she was also doing the same thing.

"So what are you going to be doing in the meantime?"

"Me?" Misato asked. "I'm going to be keeping that saucy little minx preoccupied."

"Try not to be seduced by her."

"I'll try," Misato whispered, more to herself than in answer to the scientist. "But she's not making it easy for me."

Then again, maybe she'll be able to draw out a little more information this way...? No, best if she stayed the course. Play to her arrogance, make her trip herself up. She was bound to reveal something else they'd be able to use if she got careless.

Then again, given that she had gone about naked all day it was hard to imagine there was a whole lot more that she <i>could</i> reveal.

1. The games between Misato and Porn Star continue
2. Back with Rei, has she made her decision?
3. Up in the city, the subliminals are having their repercussions
4. Yue sets in motion the next stage of their scheme
5. Something else