Eleanor opened her eyes as the strange door in front of
opened up. She was lying in some sort of machine and now the door to the
machine had opened. Gingering stepping of the machine, she looked around and
saw that Brian was in another machine just like her. And just like her, he was
just waking up.
She was about to step towards him when her eyes locked onto
the table between them. A red burqa was on the table and Eleanor couldn’t help
but touched it with her hand. She was holding it up to her face when a similar
voice called out to her.
“Ellie,” Eleanor looked up and saw that Brian had stepped
out of the machine. He was smiling at her. “That was some trip eh?”
Brian was happy and Eleanor had to agree with him. It was
some trip. “Yes, it was great.”
Brian nodded in acknowledgement and said the words that
would forever changed their lives. “This virtual reality program is superb.
Man, too bad it had to end. I wouldn’t mind living like that forever.”
A wave of strange feelings came over Eleanor. Her mind and
feelings were in flux and she felt that she would fall over. Then she sensed
the touch of the burqa on her face and she realized what she had to do.
“Who said it had to end?” she asked. She smiled at the
confused look on her husband’s face and placed the red burqa on top of her
head. Brian’s face changed and a great smile appeared on his face. Seeing that
smile, Eleanor knew she was doing the right thing as she let the burqa flowed
over her. Instinctively, she knew what the next step was.
Stepping forward toward Brian, she knelt and then bowed.
Eleanor then turned her head, rubbing her head against the feet of her husband.
A sense of contentment and pride filled her! Eleanor marveled at her submission
and how good it felt. She felt like she was floating in the clouds. She did not
know how long that lasted, it may have just lasted for a few seconds but for
her it felt like hours.
“Enough”
At Brian’s voice, Eleanor stood up. She looked at her
husband and even through the burqa, their eyes met. They knew nothing would ever
be the same again.
………………………………………………………………………………………………
The two monitors on the wall could have been showing the
same scene from a movie. Both monitors were showing a woman in a burqa kneeling
and bowing at the feet of a man. One of the monitor was showing Brian and
Eleanor, while the other was showing Brandon and Sandra.
And the two couples had all the men in the room transfixed. Mayor
Richard Evans, the man who put all this together, had a rueful smile on his
face. He couldn’t help but shake his head. In truth, he never thought the
experiment would have gone as well as it did.
Of the remaining men in the room, John Mitchell was the
first to recover. He looked away from the monitors to his fellow conspirators
and obviously liked what he saw. Looking around, Evans could understand why. Hal
Green and Anwar Brown, the two scientists in the group, both had a triumphant
smile on their faces while Rahim bin Ismail had a look of awe on his.
Evans understood what they were all feeling. It was a
feeling of seeing the impossible and trying to figure out how it was going to
benefit himself. They do not see the big picture likes Evans did; everything
was about to change for all of them!
“Gentlemen,” John waited for everyone to look at him before
continuing, “As you can see, this operation has been a total success.”
Rahim was the first to reply. “Will your programming hold?”
All eyes turned to Hal. “We believe so.” Hal said. “Our
virtual reality machines at Immersion can…transform the views of our subjects.
Usually it takes a few sessions before we can alter the minds of the subjects
but with the…mind-control gas provided to us from The Creed, the programming
now takes only hours to complete.”
“But will it hold?” Rahim asked again.
“Only time will tell,” to his credit Hal answered without
hesitation. “But yes, we believe it will. The minds of the four test subjects
are now forever altered.”
Richard Evans gave a small cough to get everyone’s
attention. The last thing he wanted was for the group to dissolve into an argument.
He understood he needs to grab the bull by the horns if he was to get what he
wanted.
“Everyone, about 20 years ago I set up the Male Alpha Party
in this small town of Water
Springs. The idea I had was to return the town to an older way of thinking,
when women were first and foremost wives and mothers, and to return men to
their natural position as undisputed leaders of the human race. Mostly, we have
succeeded. However, in a small town like ours, there will always be a tiny
group of men and women who do not believe in our doctrine. I invited all of you
here to fix this problem and it seems with the help of two of the groups, The
Immersion Project and The Creed, we have found a way to do so. Prof Hal Green,
Dr. Anwar Brown; let me to be the first to applaud both of you for a job
well-done”
The men in the room clapped their hands as the two
scientists made their bows to the room. Evans’ speech wasn’t exactly true. The
M.A.P original ideas were far more radical than making women wives and mothers
but he knew he had to be careful with the group. He even had a speech prepared
in case the experiment failed but frankly he had hoped to use this one. A
mind-control machine that takes just hours to forever altered the minds of its
subjects was without doubt an amazing achievement. On the applause died down,
the group discovered that Evans wasn’t done.
“However this project wasn’t the only reason why I invited
each of you here. The thing is we, the M.A.P, we are but a small party in a
small town. Like I said earlier, the M.A.P wanted to return men to their
natural position as leaders, and to return women to being wives and mothers.
Each of you in this room is a member of a group or organization that believes,
to some extent, the same thing.” Evans waited to see if anyone would disagree.
Luckily, no one did. He continued, “However we are all facing problems with
society at large. A simple example would be Sun Horizon. Mr. Rahim, you are
part of the Sun Horizon Group. Your company is multinational with interest
throughout the world but is based in the Middle East .
Your desire to import the company culture of Sun Horizon to America has
been met with protest and lawsuits.” Evans waited for Rahim to give a reluctant
nod before going for the finish. “I wish to invite Sun Horizon and each of your
group to setup a base here in Water Spring.”
The looks in the room ranged from shock to curiosity to
simple calculation of what this offer means. John was the first to ask the
question everyone was wondering. “Mayor Evans, what are you offering exactly?”
“Simply put, our mission of total male superiority is
something that is beyond the scope of the M.A.P. We can’t do it. We are a small
party in a small town. The M.A.P wish to expand, the town needs to grow, and
that’s the main reason why I invited all of you to my town. The only hope we,
any of us, have to accomplish our goals is to help each other. Alone, with the
political climate as it is now in North America ,
none of us has any chance.”
“But what is it you are offering?” John asked again. A
lawyer by trade, he was nothing if not meticulous.
“You setup shop in Water Spring, you invest in the town, you
help the town grow; and in return I promise that you will be free of any
lawsuits from our town. You do not have to worry about how legal your research
is or being exposed in the papers. In short, you setup in Water Springs and as
long as you do not harm the residents of the town, you are free to do as you
pleased.”