Nera "Love's Flame" -The Kitchen Helpers-

I hope you liked Viera's story fragment, but now it's time to... bring the "hot stuff" into the party, it's Nera's time!

Nera "Love's Flame"

"During it's time walking the earth humankind held several large scale conflicts, but some of them were so... monstrous and gruesome that the scars left by them run so deep they even reached me... and they... still linger up to this day"

Mother Terra said as her expression turned solemn and sad, Noira and Viera asked why she was telling them that kind of story before sending them into their next mission, but The Cook knew right away... their next assignment would be about Terra herself, most likely their mission would take place not on an outside world as usual, but here on their own, instead he was asking himself a different question. 

"I don't think this is a retrieval mission... but then... who... or what is our target?"

Terra starts talking once more and confirms The Cook's suspicions, they are going to a large underground facility known as "The 3rd Nest" an old relic from an abominable war that was restored and repurposed just before the world ended, there, they worked day and night to create the perfect partner in hopes of easing or even curing the illness that plagued the population for more than a decade before the end of the world, loneliness.

The trio is sent to the 3rd Nest looking for it's core, which if what mother Terra told them it's accurate enough "would be a power source so big that could turn The Cook into a powerhouse, close or maybe even surpassing his original level before giving his life force to Viera and even before waking up Noira" thus, helping their efforts to restore the world — the problem is... the abandoned facility still shows some form of life readings, not human but also not animal, Terra declares that these readings may indicate some of the experiments are still active and roaming the place... suffering, she asks her saviours to put them down to rest if this is the case — The Cook is aware this is not their usual kind of assignment, they never had a "Search and Destroy" mission. As soon as they arrive they quickly notice that this was obviously a military facility more than only a research facility, not only it was very far away from any city ruins but to be able to enter they had to go into a private train station that led them underground but they had to go for several miles following the train tracks. The road went deeper and deeper until they found an enormous metal gate, thick enough to be the envy of any bank or bunker through a combined effort they manage to break open a hole in the vault-like gate. 

Once inside they found the people here died either of starvation or at the hands of other employees and some others by their own hand... the place was much bigger than they expected, at first when reading whatever document they could find that looked important the vision and mission of the company seemed good, true and even noble, — to bring an end to the loneliness that humanity was experiencing at that time by creating "partners" that were completely loyal and dedicated to the person it was made for.  — they kept descending until they found themselves in "authorized personnel only areas" with the need of special key cards to gain access to them, ignoring the need of them and breaking every door that was locked in their way they carried on with their mission but found nothing out of the unfortunately expected corpses each floor, then... with more than a dozen of underground levels above them they reach a floor where they found a small room with only one door that had a control panel on it's right side, the door presented a "Restricted Area" sign it, the material it was made of looked tough and suspiciously clean even though no one gave it maintenance in years, no rust or severe damage could be seen on it either.

"Probably titanium" The Cook thought.

The door was actually an elevator, the trio forced it open and broke the floor inside, used the cables to go down as far as they could. The structure of the next floors was completely different from the ones they visited before, low ceilings, corridors like tunnels, reinforced steel in every wall and passage, the printed documents where very few and kept in metal cases, most of them would be in the employees terminals but all of them were out of commission and lacked the power to even start. 

But even if the files they could find were scarce, they were pieces of a puzzle, a puzzle that was turning uglier and uglier with each piece. Each floor they descended things became stranger and stranger, but a bit more clear with each document they read. They were not only making "partners" for lonely individuals, these artificial humans had a learning program for not only to adjust to each person tastes but to learn how to actually replace them eventually, the company's motto was "Tailor-made for you" nothing but the truth, tailor-made up to a genetic level to be able to be completely compatible with them, the similarities between the user's genetic makeup and the "partner" only increasing with each passing day until the day they "assimilate" them and replace them as a better and improved "human" an individual who would not cause any problems and would be a respectable member of modern society.

This "company" and their "research" where not noble at all, it became apparent and even obvious why they chose to restore and "repurpose" this exact facility... the project was not original from them, The 3rd Nest was the cradle of this unfinished project during that abominable war and this company took over it and was trying to continue what was stopped abruptly when the war ended, but... what was the original project? who would develop such a macabre idea?

As the trio carries on they start to wonder why they haven't encountered any of life forms mother Terra mentioned, uneasy and alert they continue pressing on and a few hours later they finally reach the deepest and last floor of the 3rd Nest, only to find yet another thick vault-like gate, maybe not as big as the one at the end of the train tracks but equally or even more sturdy.

"The core must be on this room!" Viera says.

"It has to be, there are no other rooms let alone this big" declares Noira while looking at The Cook.

"All right... let's bring this one down, but let's stay alert, something's not right..." he replies.

Again combining their efforts, they break the hulking gate, inside, they discover a secret laboratory, unlike the last floor this place was spacious, and the high ceilings look more like a cavern with extremely tough, giant, arched steel beams supporting everything in this massive room. As soon as they enter, they feel observed. 

Noira finds a file, like the rest of them protected by a metal casing, she breaks the safe as with the others, but inside she finds something different from the rest of the documents in previous levels, she pulls it out carefully... a black, thick, old folder, it looks like it doesn't belong to modern times, Viera and The Cook get close and to their surprise it contains information on the original project that started it all in the first place.

"CODE: Red Queen -The Temptress- Project" she reads, while the three of them raise their heads and look at each other, immobile for a couple of seconds just to be interrupted by a mature, sinister, enticing female voice coming from the shadows

"Yes..."Temptresses" is how they called us at that time, but now only one "Temptress" remains and that's me". The mysterious voice in the shadows calmly says.

Noira, Viera and The Cook quickly turn towards where the voice came from, just as they do this they realize they are surrounded by humanoid-like creatures with exaggerated female features, huge breasts, oversized hips and thighs, tiny waists and elongated limbs, none of them possesses a different face from the other, only a hunk of metal resembling a visor where their eyes should be and foot-long tongues sticking out of their drooling mouths.

"I don't know who you are but getting here is no small feat, I'll make sure to research every single inch and crevice of your bodies slowly once my pets are done with you, except you..." The Temptress looks at The Cook.

"I haven't had male company in over a hundred years" she pulls her tongue out and smacks her lips, "You'll die at the first week of euphoria, but what can we do about it?, the human body can only withstand so much pleasure before your heart fails and explodes!" she exclaims with aroused and breathy voice.

The female creatures leap towards the trio trying to grab them with their hands, legs and tongues, struggling they manage to bring down several of them, but they are too many, Noira and The Cook slash and cut in circular motions back to back with Viera in between while she shoots explosive charges with her grinder, they managed to keep the creatures at bay switching positions and covering each others backs, one shoots, the other cuts, while the last one parries, Viera reloads on this opening and they repeat the process until they hear something coming of several of the creatures mouths... voices, words.

"They can talk!" Viera yells.

"Love me!!!" one them says while lunging forward trying to lick the Cook's face.

"W-What!?, what did it...!?" exclaims The Cook surprised.

"Fuck me, fuck me!!!" another one says while Noira parries with the flat side of her weapon,

"S-She said fuck me! master, are they human!? we mustn't kill humans!" Noira says in shock.

The distraction is enough for them to break the rhythm and the creatures overpower them by numbers, Viera does her best using her grinder as a hammer, Noira loses her weapon in the confusion and kicks as fast as she can to break free, The Cook gets bitten by several enemies on the neck, shoulder and thigh and struggles to even stand. Overwhelmed the party tries to breath among the numerous creatures while trying to escape to regroup and formulate a plan, but no good comes from it, sinister giggles and moans can be heard coming from their enemies as the trio kicks, punches and desperately tries to break free from their enemies.

Are these crazies getting aroused when we hit them!?!?, why are they getting horny!? SICKOS! Viera yells.

The creatures start ripping off the clothes of the party while giggling, chuckling, whimper and moan loudly.

"Getting horny is not a bad thing if you do it with your loved one lil' Viera! a slap on your behind feels quite nice once you're into it!, right Master!? Noira Yells.

"That's true it's always a..." The Cook stops while he wrestles a creature that rips off half of his shirt. "Wait! stop that Noira!, now it's really not the time!"

The female creatures become even more aggressive and start squeezing Noira's thighs and breasts with their long tongues, while another one rips off Viera's dress completely,

"Now that you mention it, it doesn't sound bad! Darling! slap my butt when we get back home!" Viera giggles while yelling.

"Stop it you two! to able to do that, we have to BE ABLE TO GO BACK! FOCUS! and let's get rid of these weird lady creatures without killing them" The Cook yells while escaping from the grip of the slimy tongues.

"Aim to the metal chunk on their heads and hit them as HARD as you can! The Cook orders.

"Understood Master!" Noira replies, while contorting her body out of the slimy bits.

"Aye aye Darling!" Viera replies, while finishing reloading.

Viera makes all charges on her grinder detonate at the same time creating and explosion that sends everyone and everything surrounding them flying high into the air, The Cook manages to grab Noira's weapon and throws it towards her, she catches it and they proceed to impact at full force with the back of their blades all of the creatures metal "visor" while still on the air, they fall to the ground followed shortly after by all the knocked out creatures. Almost naked they shake of the dust from the little clothes they got left on themselves, Viera looks at them and gleefully exclaims.

"Glad you could knock 'em out before they made you knock 'em up Darling!"

The three of them look at each other and burst laughing, while "The Temptress" looks at them.

"What are they!? They are amazing! just incredible, I HAVE to study them and fuck that man brains out too, but to do it first I have to make them submit to me and with my debilitated state I don't think I can" 

The Temptress runs to the back of the lab and unveils a lone crystal cylinder, in it, a voluptuous female figure with long red hairs, connected to a number of tubes rests floating in a rose-colored fluid.

"I didn't want to take my perfect saviour body just yet, there are still things I need to figure out... but no matter, this is truly an emergency and desperate times require desperate measures"

The Temptress removes all her clothes and reaches out for the controls of the device, takes a deep breath.

"We are going to finally be one my dear Nera, I'll be you and you'll be me and we will restore this world to rule over it, once we do that, we'll never let humanity go stray again, ever! they will live by their real nature and not something some greedy bastards replaced it with! We'll be the true Red Queen!"

Pulling the first lever on the control panel the device turns on, the crystal cylinder lights up.

The party rushes to catch up with The Temptress, in seconds they find her.

"Stop!" shouts The Cook.

The Temptress turns around.

The Cook and the rest look at the crystal cylinder.

"Is that...!?" Noira exclaims confused

"A saviour!" Viera yells amazed.

"You will not interfere!"

The Temptress eyes change colour and glow with an eerie pink-colored light.

"SUBMIT!" she shouts with dominant and dirty toned voice.

Just as she says the word, her mouth emits a soft rose-colored mist that quickly turns into a cloud surrounding everyone in the area.

Noira, Viera and The Cook fall to their knees and almost instantly the three of them get their hands to their faces covering them.

"What is this!? I'm suddenly dizzy, I can't... focus, blurry vision... what the!? why I am having an erection? I want to have sex all of the sudden, why!? is this...so this is The Temptress power, damn it!" The Cook is baffled but manages to stand up and looks at The Temptress straight into her eyes.

"W-What's happening to me? Is that? am I dripping? from my.... why in heavens am I so wet!? I can't, I can't see well... Master? Viera?" Noira looks around for Viera. "Viera! there you are! huh? why do you look so...appetizing? he he he, hee... mmmm" Crawls towards her partner.

"My head is...SPINNING! why is everything so pink and pretty? hu, hu, hu" Viera dumbly  giggles. "Why am I getting wet down there? Noira? is that you? oooh you look... yummy..." Crawls towards Noira.

Noira and Viera kiss each other as soon as they are close enough followed by touching each other private's.

The Temptress laughs with high-pitched naughty laugh.

"Do you like it my pets? is just something special-special a Temptress can do, I can release your inhibitions and make you completely unleash your primal instincts! now you'll fuck the first thing you see until you're satisfied!" laughs loudly once more. 

The Cook slowly walks with clumsy steps towards her.

"And by satisfied I mean until you're utterly and completely drained and cannot even stand! or die... whatever comes first, oh well... let's hope the dying part doesn't happen because I want to study all of you" she turns around in direction of the device. "Now if you allow me, I have to become the ultimate life form!" throws her head back laughing loudly.

In a flash The Cook moves behind The Temptress and the laughing lady cannot look down as something is preventing her from moving even one inch.

"I didn't notice before but... you look kind of tasty lady Temptress" The Cook snickers menacingly.

Taking her from behind his right hand covers her mouth and part of her chin, while his left glides passing her navel down to her crotch, tightens his grip and slides his fingers inside her using her privates as a handle to lift her off the floor completely and bends her over the control panel, exposing her rounded bottom, The Temptress tries to wrestle her way out, but it seems impossible, she realizes she may have committed a mistake she is about to pay dearly.

The Cook accommodates himself in a rough manner which The Temptress enjoys far more than she would have liked or dared to accept, while Noira and Viera enjoy themselves they soon join The Cook. Their eyes, pink coloured with the spell of The Temptress show all of them have long ways to go before the spell wears off, the hours pass and the two female saviours clap and laugh asking the male saviour to use the moaning lady to entertain them...

5 days later...

The Temptress awakes in the middle of a complete mess specially on herself.

"Well... isn't that the best party I had in over a hundred years?" She cuddles one more time in the chest of The Cook and kisses him on the cheek, "For a moment there I thought I was going to fucking die! oh wait.. more like, die fucking!" laughs to herself "Which... wouldn't have been a bad way to go actually..." She chuckles and tries to stand up but her legs doesn't seem to work.

"Oh no... my body! I knew it... I knew I shouldn't have... I used my Submission when my body was already at it's limit" She tries to crawl to the control panel but fails.

Noira opens her eyes and pokes Viera and The Cook.

"Is this the end? after so long... after surviving the wars... after the world's end...am I gonna die like this? I knew my libido was going kill me someday...I'm such a fool" She talks to herself out loud.

She keeps talking unaware the trio listens to her.

"Now we will never be one Nera my dearest, we will never restore the world to rule over it! if the humanity is reborn be sure it will go stray again! some greedy bastards will repeat the cycle and take away the humans nature for profit! OH THE NERVE! those bastards! now the ladies will never know the joy of feeling protected and loved! the gentlemen will never experience the happiness of having their own harem to protect and take care of! more weak and dirty humans will just go the easy way and wars will bring death, famine and destruction over mother Terra again!" she remains silent for a few seconds.

"Oh bloody hell this is the part where I'm supposed to cry but there are no more tears left in me! or any fluid for that matter after that sex marathon and I really want to cry" she goes silent and stares blankly at the ceiling. "Well... I guess this is it, when they wake up they will put me down and take Nera away from me, it is... such a shame, so many years..."

The Cook finally talks.

"If you're willing to talk, we're willing to listen Temptress" 

The now immobile lady, frightened by the surprise, asks if they listened to everything  —  they respond positively — once more, the Cook states that they are willing to listen if she is willing to talk, she nods her head with what little movement she has left on her body. She tells a bit of her story, how she was part of an old war human experimentation project that turned her into a Bio-Weapon, how she lived far longer than any human, how she watched the times change and how corrupt some humans can be, silently she worked at this facility sabotaging the "Cure for Loneliness" project that used the humans for their own nefarious purposes... the humanity was never quite in a good path, but they could be redeemed, if only they had a good leader... but then, the end of the world came before what she expected, and she was holed up here, safe, but also imprisoned, by then she already knew about Terra and her "Saviour" and how that could give the world and the humanity a clean slate to start over so she decided to create it, after all, time is all she had, thus giving birth to what it would be her last project, creating Nera the saviour, which is floating behind them, now after more than nine decades of work she is almost ready, as energy is something the 3rd Nest lacks she decided she would "soulbind" herself to Nera, because a human soul produces enormous quantities of energy, if her life was the price to pay, she would pay it gladly.

The party tells her their own story and The Temptress is so happy to hear it that finally her eyes become teary, and tells the group she would hug them if she could move, Viera laughs and apologizes shortly after. The lady explains than Nera is technically incomplete so she may have some failures that she was working on but her time is up and asks them to carry her, submerge her in Nera's tank and operate the device. The party ask if she is going to be okay.

"My body may be broken but my soul still burns brightly... even more after that sex-ordeal you put me through Mister! I'm SHINING!!!" she answers with confidence.

The Cook replies.

"That was actually your fault"

"I know, and I don't regret it!" she smiles, "Now please would you help me one last time?, get the last battery and turn on that device for me dears!"

Noira activates the only energy source left on the whole facility, the one The Temptress has been saving for this moment, Viera supports the lady just at the edge of the crystal cylinder and The Cook operates the controls, just before pulling the last lever he asks the lady if they will see each other again after she bonds completely with the saviour, she replies.

"That is not possible my dear, once I bond with her, she won't have my memories, I'm no saviour after all, she could inherit my instincts and drive, that means she is gonna have my libido! you better take care of that between you three!" she laughs loudly.

"Wait! there's gotta be other way, I can give her a piece of my life force, she could...!" he says hastily, only to be interrupted.

"Don't... don't you do it harder than it is... I told you... she is incomplete, she needs me, hell! even with my soul she may not come to life! so... reserve that life force of yours in case I'm not enough deary!, I also left my notes for her, they are in my lab coat, along with instructions, give them to her will you dear?" a bittersweet but resolute tone permeates her words.

"I... I will... I promise!" His words carry sadness beyond his own grasp.

Noira looks at them and her eyes start to tear up, Viera cries and doesn't understand why, The Temptress asks her to let her sink in the tank.

"Release me gorgeous... it is time" she winks, her eyes get wet until a tear drops "Now...pull that trigger handsome! remember me when you see her face!... or her back! tears flow freely down her face while laughs loudly, Viera gently releases The Temptress into Nera's Tank, The Cook pulls the last lever, the tank starts to hum and lights up until the glowing fluid is blinding, everything turns white for a few seconds, then silence, not one ounce of energy remains in the facility, everything turns dark, Viera makes her hair glow with a soft warm light so they can see where they are, the tank is broken and Nera lies on the floor along with all the crystal cylinder contents, but she does not wake up, after several minutes nothing changes, waiting a bit more could be risky, but they do... nothing, Nera's skin starts to lose it's color, at the sight of this The Cook makes a choice and plunges his hand into his chest and rips another piece of himself as he did with Viera, then, he presses his hand against Nera's chest.

Her skin quickly regains it's original color and her brilliant red hair bursts into flames for a few seconds, the flames subside as fast as they erupted leaving her hair tips a bright orange with a touch of gold, The Cook smiles and Noira brings him the lab coat The Temptress left behind, without yet looking at Noira he states.

"She is like a flame... just like Temptress said... — my soul still burns brightly! — she still lives inside her..."

"Are you sad Master?" she asks while she pulls out The Temptress notes.

"I'm not...it's just that we didn't even ask her name... all this happened so fast..."

"I understand... Master... I think the immense power reading that mother Terra talked about was..." Noira looks at him, he interrupts.

"Yes, I know... Nera was the core, we have failed our mission but I don't think Terra is gonna get mad about this, I know she won't" He keeps looking at Nera's face.

"I think she is gonna be happy!" Viera exclaims

Both saviours turn their heads towards Viera.

"She has said before that if we are happy, she is happy, and I am happy we get a new partner and that lady sacrifice wasn't in vain!" Viera says with a big smile on her face, her little fang shows a bit.

All laugh happily for a moment, The Cook carries Nera in his arms and stands up, Noira opens The Temptress notes and smiles at what she sees, quickly she pokes her Master's shoulder, he turns around.

"Yes Noira?" he inquires.

"Look at this Master!" She opens up the first page on the notes and points at the signature.

"Love?" he says puzzled.

"It's her name Master, The Temptress's" she smiles openly.

"Her name was Love huh?, heh... that's a good name." He looks at the saviour resting in his arms, "And you will carry it Nera... Nera Love's Flame"

Viera and Noira chuckle and giggle, while the group opens The Gate to go home.

And that's it! a bit on longer side but I hope you don't mind and you can enjoy this NOT so little fragment of Nera's origin story, lemme know what you think in the comments.

I'll see you soon with the last fragment for now, cheers!