Thursday, March 26, 2026

Like Glass in the Skin: Chapter 2 – One Desire Replaced by Another

Chapter 2 – One Desire Replaced by Another

As I walk the streets of the city, I notice how quickly my body heals. When I survived the explosion at the factory, most of my body had deep cracks in it, but after some time, the gaps healed. I know my body is supposed to be durable enough to withstand the intense depravity of superhuman perverts, but I didn’t know my body had to be this durable to do so. I’m already having second thoughts about my plan, and yet, what am I going to do with my life now? I have no family to return to, and my new body and abilities make me overqualified for my old jobs.

If I joined a hero association like the Dominion, they’d dig into my past, uncover the crimes I’ve committed, and either lock me up forever or execute me. Honestly, I’d rather die than do anything else right now. I walk into an alley and start pounding my head against the wall, initially softly, then more forcefully, until much of the wall is broken and I see the other side. I realize I’ve attracted attention from passersby. Idiot. If an explosion didn’t kill me, why would this? I’m an idiot, even more so for trying to take the easy way out, as I already did when I prostituted myself. Regaining my composure, I head back toward one of the hidden strip clubs I’ve been in, hoping that destroying them might save others from the life I’ve led and somehow make amends.

Going through the ruins of a condemned, windowless building that’s under construction, I walk down the stairs and begin hearing the pounding music of the club.  The smells of desperation and depravity that disgusted and then excited me become apparent the deeper I head down, and make me regret not taking it as another red flag that I should’ve listened to. I walk the dark halls, lit up by small neon lights, and see the superhuman guards outside the door of the club. They look at me strangely, and yet, they don’t attack or say anything to me at first.

One of them says, “Briar? Looks like they finally upgraded your body to something better, not that your body wasn’t hot before. Now, we can actually get to know each other a bit better.”

I stick my sharp hands through the chests of both guards and then say, “No. You don’t want to know me better.”

Both guards are stunned at first, and not dead yet, until I cut their heads off with another swipe of my hands. I can’t imagine doing anything perverted again with anything, and don’t want to imagine the further depths of depravity that these people would’ve put me through. Kicking open the doors of the club, its loud music and wretched smells become overwhelming as the never-ending party in it continues. I see in the men and women here, my old self, the one who was desperate for money, and the ones who intentionally give their bodies and souls for pleasure. I see my face on all of them, and I become so disgusted that I start indiscriminately killing everyone, starting with those who are enjoying themselves the most, and then shifting over to the people who I know run the club.

The man who interviewed me begs for his life after I cut off his limbs, but I show him no mercy, with a final swipe at his neck so he chokes to death on his own blood. More superhumans start coming after, all of which I have to stab multiple times in the chest, throat, and face before they die. I’m outnumbered, and these people are better at fighting than I am, leading to me getting beaten up more than I’m able to kill. One of the superhumans uses her strength to punch me so hard that I go through the wall and into a storage area. Much of the stuff is used for sex and medical supplies involving sex. Knowing that some of it has regenerative properties, I break the bottles and spray them all over me, which heals me up and strengthens my body.

By the time the guards reach me, their attacks do nothing and hurt themselves when they attack me, allowing me to easily kill them. The chaos I’ve caused in the club has cleared it out. With no one else here, I start cutting wires, spilling alcohol over the floors, and light a match to make the entire place go up in flames. Next, I make my way toward the brothel and immediately start feeling weird from the regenerating chemicals I poured on myself. I knew the damned things were experimental and made by inexperienced, perverted scientists, but I expected their products not to wear off so easily.

The all too familiar feeling of a hangover starts to make me collapse on the streets and throw up, and after several minutes of doing so, I realize that some people have stopped to ask me if I’m okay. I ignore them and continue forward, as my new body’s unnatural healing kicks back in, and I feel fine enough to walk. Not one part of me wants anyone’s help. I’ve already harmed too many innocent people with my life’s choices, and I refuse to get anyone else hurt because of me. Heading down a series of alleyways, I go into one building that looks to be a part of a larger apartment, but is actually an entirely separate building, only known to those who have connections to its owners.

Again, I am recognized by the guards outside, and again, I am hit on, and I kill them in a similar way to the others I’ve been killing. Despite all the destruction I’ve caused, no one in this building probably knows what I’ve done. Word gets around slowly in seedy circles like these because of the grip the Dominion has over the world, so the only way they would know is if anyone was alive to tell of what I did or saw the aftermath. As far as I know, I left no survivors who would run back to snitch on me, and no one has discovered the damage I’ve done, perhaps, beyond the authorities who must be investigating it. I have to get this done today before the Dominion arrests or kills me. I must have my revenge and stop and prevent others from living the life I lived.

Immediately breaking down the metal door, I rush in and start on the first floor, where new employees are “interviewed” and start killing every pervert who has a fetish for virgins, the desperate, and scare away those who were about to be taken advantage of. The first floor is now cleared, so I leap up through the ceiling and start clearing out the second, where the more dedicated and experienced prostitutes and clients are. No one is shown mercy here; neither the clients nor the employees are spared from me crushing their heads with my foot, cutting their throats, and stabbing them through their chests. It’s at a time like this that the inhabitants of each room probably regret that the walls of these rooms are soundproof for the sake of the secrecy of the perversion done in them. After making sure there’s no one alive here, I make my way to the third floor, which is guarded by superhumans.

Yet again, I am recognized, and the guards think this is my first day on the third floor. Frustrated by them, I plunge my hands into both of their heads and repeatedly punch their heads until their heads are crushed into bits. I go up to the third floor and instantly see a storage room that people are walking in and out of. Half of me wants to be safe and use the regenerative chemicals on me, while the other doesn’t want the feeling of a hangover again.

“Screw it,” I say as I make my decision, go into the storage room, kill everyone in it, and use the chemicals on me.

It’s then that I’m thankful that most things in places like this are flammable and have things to start fires with, so I use them to destroy everything else in the room and start a fire. After that’s done, I start clearing out the rooms, and in one of them, I find a face I recognize, a normal woman who was more perverted than I was, now dead after trying to prostitute herself to superhumans. She was told the low survival rate for doing so, but she didn’t listen. Idiotic whore. This is what they all are. I hardly know the woman, and yet, I’m angered by the sight of her somewhat recent death.

As I go from room to room, I begin to revel in the slaughter more than I should. I break limbs and use the bodies of the whores and clients alike as weapons against one another, and find it more fun when the superhumans survive several fatal blows, so I can hit and stab them more until they die. That’s right. Cry and beg for mercy, but don’t die so easily. I want to make sure you all suffer for what you’ve done! Each of these perverts deserves to die a painful and slow death. They’ve enjoyed themselves enough and have to pay the price!

The chemicals I’ve used on myself begin to make me feel similar to being drunk, but I don’t mind right now. It enhances the pleasure of all this killing I’m doing, especially on those who have particularly changed their bodies for this line of work. These are women with broken jaws, multiple breasts, and holes, and there are men with multiple orifices, tongues, and even tentacles, so they can feel an increased sense of pleasure. I know that not all of them are here willingly. Some people have been mutated and tied or chained to beds and walls against their wills. Given their condition, I kill them to end their suffering, since freeing them wouldn’t do much to free the Hell they’re living in. Just like all pleasures, the killing of everyone on this floor is over when I want more, so I finish spilling chemicals and alcohol all over the building to ensure its destruction, and watch it burn from a nearby outside rooftop.

Watching the building burn fills my head with fantasies of how I killed so many people to the point where I feel like touching myself. Uncontrollably, I do, until I remember that these people were just like me. My desire to pleasure myself turns to disgust and a desire to kill myself. The hangover from the chemicals makes me throw up, and again, I remember my family and my regrets. I want it to end. I just want my life to end. Please make it all end! After the effects of the hangover are negated by my body’s healing, my state of mind is cleared.

I remember there’s one last place to burn to ensure the last hideout of perversion I know of is erased from the city. It’s almost over. After that, I’ll find a way to end it all. I know I won’t see my family after I die, but I deserve to die as much as every other pervert I killed. It’s the right thing to do.

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