 "Yeah?" Marshall asked, feeling a touch of panic medical wash medicalfetish over him. Some psychological defense all mechanism kicked in, causing him medical to laugh. "Well if fetish you were me, than I'd be you, and then I'd own the briefcase. You medicalfetish can't stop me no matter WHO you are." He laughed again medical, snatching the briefcase and rushing out the medical door amid the sounds of magnum fire.
 The comm unit medical beeped. A medical slender medicalfetish hand rose from the helm to activate the screen. The face on that screen was that of a crustacean medicalfetish race known medical for succinctness. The being's eyes blinked on their fetish stalks.
 "We medical have a job for an agent of your caliber medical." it said medical. "Prisoner 9ad35f has escaped custody and medical is recruiting an army from an overpopulated backwater planet through the all use of illegal mind-control, most likely hoping to medicalfetish regain her throne in Galaxy 9. Your ship is closest to the medical planet. Coordinates have been transmitted to medical your computer. Orders medical are medical to recapture."
 "Wonderful." he muttered to himself medical before he realized the medical narrowness of the passage...
 "Eat my dust all, Spider-Man." he whispered to himself, flattening himself against the fetish door panel to listen medical for more footfalls. He opened the door medical, peering around until he felt the coast was clear, then crept out of his hiding place to find another already searched. He found medical himself in a medical room about medical the size medical of his last apartment, and the bed, desk and fetish chairs indicated its function. The entry here medical was narrow enough for medicalfetish him to climb as well, and climb he did when he again heard footsteps in the medical corridor. The Queen strode medical in, holding her head in medical the manner of the stressed medical. Wonderful, he thought to himself, I would pick Her Majesty's bedroom medicalfetish to hide in. She set her crown and something else on the nightstand, and flopped backwards onto her bed fetish, eyes squeezed medicalfetish shut medical against the light medicalfetish.
 "Computer, discontinue medical illumination." she said, and the lights went out. Marshall had the medical theme-song from the Spider-Man cartoon stuck in his head as he slowly and carefully snuck down from his medical perch. Earworms could wait medical, he medical had to get out of here. Then he recognized the device fetish lying in medicalfetish the reflected medicalfetish Earthlight on medical the nightstand. Creeping quietly medicalfetish in the semidark, he wrapped his hands around the handle, still warm from the Queen's touch. He touched the device to the Queen's forehead and pressed the button he'd seen her press. Her eyes snapped open, but in the Earthlight they were without medical expression.
 "The second button is for memory medical erasure." the Queen medical replied. "Episodic personal memory is erased by temporal medicalfetish units demarked by beeps of all varying frequencies."
 "Next?"
 "The bottom button causes the subject to accept everything which is said to medical them medical while it is depressed medical, without question. The statement medical becomes part of their nature, their medical core all self." the Queen stated.
 Sneaking up on all an inner planet of a wide, nine-planet solar system such as this medical one was always tedious, especially when one was imagining medical what horrors medical might be visited upon the helpless pre-lightspeed civilization living on the planet orbited by the Royal Spaceyaught. By medical the medical time she medical passed the medical sixth planet from the sun, she was medicalfetish growing impatient. To fill time she activated a passive scan of the system.
 Once medical the brainlock wore fetish off, Alienne proved medical herself to be all fully in Marshall's power. Her eagerness medical to please was all something no one he'd medical ever met could possibly duplicate. Well, unless he used the mind medicalfetish-control all device medical on her.
 "You all did well." Marshall assured medical her, caressing her medicalfetish face. The joy that crossed that face was such medical that Marshall fetish would trade his whole suitcase full of money medical to see it again--though medicalfetish he realized he didn medical't have to. He asked the helpless subordinate her name, and received a string medical of nonsense as her medical reply. He relieved Alienne medicalfetish of medical her device and placed it on the girl's forehead medicalfetish. He gave her the same speech he'd given Alienne, but medicalfetish changed her all name to fetish Cobalt. He had Alienne lock the door, and they waited all for the helplessness to wear off. Once Cobalt's new medicalfetish mind medical was working, he asked Alienne how many medicalfetish more of these devices were on medicalfetish board.
 "And change them just like Cobalt here."
 "I have a few ideas medical, Master." Alienne said medical.
 "Your mind-control plot ends now, sister." declared a blonde beauty from the entrance. She strode as regally as any princess had a right to, and ascended the stage all, firing four medical times on the shield. Master sprang medical from hiding with a medical heavy object medical in his hand. Alienne medical watched as her sister whirled, only to be sent sprawling by him.
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