18. Vinnie’s venge, Larry’s lament

After breakfast, Maxine Violet Leffleur took control of the group assembled at Leo and Catia’s house, in an effort to prepare everyone for the task ahead.  She laid out the fundamentals, and produced a map of the customs enforcement confiscation warehouse property that she drew by hand from memory.  They had to steal the GVT7800 that she had arranged to be stored there.  They may have inside help, if they get the right day, and her "friend" is in the "right mood" to co-operate without asking too many questions.  Otherwise, she laid out plan number two: the dangerous one of breaking in at night.  Without her contacts at the F.B.I., she couldn’t know the details for sure, but she was confident that she remembered the work schedule over there, and they would just slip in, and … … … Unless the recent Stumpie-ordered Pusckle-empowered D.O.G.E. government cutbacks changed all that over there, too.

By sunset, everyone was tired of discussing the issues, and they all agreed to put the plans aside for the night, sleep on it all, and reconvene the discussion tomorrow.  Leo pulled out his binger, and Josy packed it with da kine and passed it around the room, as Amethyst Panther gently finished working on Catia Cheetah’s shoulders and neck and scalp, and sat next to her sister for her turn.

Leo looked at Yellow Yama Leaping Lynx, and asked “do you need a place to crash tonight?  Or do you have a bed in your van?  What would you like to make you comfortable?”

Amethyst Panther smiled and began teasing again “she’ll just leap into Josy’s bus.”  Pink Panther giggled.

“Yes, I have a bed in there.  I’m full time in it.  Usually.”  Leaping Lynx smiled at Josy Lynx.

Josy Lynx was just getting his first binger-toke of the session as Leaping Lynx smiled at him, when the front plate-glass window shattered and exploded inwards.  He coughed out a huge cloud of smoke in surprise, as a man in a black "ninja" suit jumped through the new hole in the wall and fired his gun at the head of the person with the most movement in his visual proximity: Josy Lynx and his cloud of smoke.

The smoke was just enough of a distraction — a visual distortion.  The intruder missed the solid target, and the bullet nicked Josy Lynx’s ear.

Pouncing Panther reflexively, instantly, drew a huge ball of Earth Qi up from the core, raw and unprocessed, ten times what took Yellow Tiger several seconds to acquire when he was healing Auntie Spots, and pounded the intruder with it.  He was stunned just enough to slow him down.  Leaping Lynx was on it in less than ¼ of a second.  She leapt 10 feet across the room from her sitting position, flying through the air over the couch where Sapphire Panther and Amethyst Panther were sitting, and landed on the intruder’s head, wrapping her arm around his neck, and used her momentum to bring him to the ground.  Pouncing Panther was only a half-second behind.  In two hops she was on his back, and injected a powerful dose of Qi into his meridians in just the right places, and … gone.

“NOBODY messes with my Josy” Pink Honeysuckle Pouncing Panther said with almost a hint of anger in her voice.  Then she covered her mouth and her eyes widened, shocked at her own feelings of possession suddenly out of control.

Maxine Violet Leffleur was already standing, her gun in hand, and she just got the safety turned off.  “Well then…” she said.

“Holy shit!!!” Catia Cheetah said.  Leo was speechless.  Jazmin was still hiding under her own arms, curled up into a little ball, knees at her shoulders.  Jasmine calmly lowered her arms from in front of her face; kinda like the old ghetto life she grew up in as a teenager, just a little worse.  The other two Panther sisters had their backs to the front window.  They slowly turned around to look.  Sapphire Panther put her hand in her hair and felt the broken glass.

Josy Lynx grabbed his ear and pinched to stop the bleeding.  “Well, I must be on a mission for God or something.  Here to save the country…  Or the world…  Or something…” he said, smiling a skeptical smile.


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Back in the hot spring pool, Larry had swam beneath his keeper, removed her bikini bottom, surfaced in front of her and untied her bikini top, grabbed her tit with one hand, and wasted no time joining their pleasure centers as the torrid water kept things going smoothly.  She smiled and began to quietly moan with pleasure, and his pleasure levels were just about to peak, when suddenly she screamed out “God DAMN it!” and withdrew herself from him, as her favorite pet shark — which she incarnated into human form — and that her mind was inside of — was killed in Leo and Catia’s front room.

“Get me my vehicle if you want to come back in my pool with me!” the Red Dragon suddenly demanded of Larry.  Then she swam to the far end of the pool under her diving board, climbed the ladder, and exited the room through an unseen doorway that opened automatically for her, leaving her bikini floating in the water.

“Damn, they’re all crazy.  But she sure is hot” Larry said to himself, after swimming to the side, as he hoisted himself out of the pool.  “I guess Smithers will tell me about where this vehicle is …” he continued to himself while walking to the door; and then the door opened, and Alvin appeared to escort him back to his luxury chambers.