Season 1, Episode 5:
Bunnies in Black
Part 6 of 8
A long, slender leg slipped out from the waters
of the bubbling grotto of the
"Mmm... this is heaven." Her hands held her small phone, which rapidly
texted her favorite secretary. "I
don't know why the other ladies hate this mission so much. I'm lovin' it! Hot soak, hot guys to watch... now this is a
mission. " Diamond Divine couldn't have
been happier at the moment. Yes, she was
supposed to be sneaking around, but she was keeping an eye out for the enemy. Whether they be aliens, bad guys, or nasty old
men on Viagra. She had to blend in, so
what better way to do so than relax, like so many of the other Bunnies here
did?
That was when the noise came. A noise unlike one she had ever heard before. The pitch made the screen of her phone crack.
The screech was a wailing moan, that of perhaps a banshee, definitely something
not of this planet. The screen shattered
into pieces completely before the deafening noise finally silenced. That was when Diamond's jaw clenched. You could mess with many a thing of hers, and she'd
shrug it off. But her phone? That made it personal. She was finding that alien, and she was
finding it now. She gazed down on her
poor, shattered phone. A senseless
victim. So she pushed the button on the
side that was the last resort back-up speaker.
"Girls, I think there's totally something by
the grotto, ‘cause it killed my phone! Ugh,
meet me here, ‘kay?"
She grabbed her tiny skirt and matching top to
quickly slip on before the others came. That
was the other rule of the area: you had
to be nude – no swimsuits. The strappy
heels she adored were snapped upon her feet, and she let her hair down in bouncy,
loose ringlets. She had to look good, of
course. Her hands slipped into her mini
purse to pull out one of the specialized weapons
Diamond happened to be ready just in time for the
others to show up. Red looked beyond
relieved. After leaving the sanctuary of
the bathroom, she’d had another run-in with the guy who just adored
"muffins her flavor." Emerald
was still disgusted by the entire affair and was ready to let Jay have it the
moment she got her hands on him, after what she’d had to deal with.
"So what's going on, Barbie?"
"I was in here, totally getting my spa on,
and this weird noise came and killed my phone! But no one even blinked twice at it but
me." She waved her hand around at
the others, who were too infatuated with each other and the sexual tension
rising through the steam to notice much else.
"Jeez, and I thought Blondie was always
horny,"
"Where'd the noise come from?" the
doctor asked.
Diamond pointed towards a small corner of the
waterfall, along a wall of the illusioned cave of the pool, which no one
occupied despite the coveted privacy it would have provided. Emerald raised a brow at it before looking at
the phone. "Damn, shit killed it. I'm
amazed you're alive without your lifeline."
Red's brow furrowed as she started examining
it.
"Hey!" the other blonde squealed. "I've been looking everywhere for
those!"
"Sorry, I owe you a pair, Di, I swear."
"Hmph."
She pressed a tiny button along the side of the
frame, almost invisible unless one knew it was there. A light flashed along the front of the lenses,
and suddenly, everything came into view. She stepped forward, brushing against a large
rock, which made a panel slide open to reveal a long, dark passageway.
Red grinned. "Nice.
This has cliché written all over it."
The ladies snuck down the hall, the wall closing
in fast behind them. It slammed shut,
and Diamond sighed. "They can never
stay open, can they?"
Emerald smirked. "Better for us; no one will see us here. I want this mission over and done. Jay owes me big time for this shit."
As the four continued down the hall, a soft
humming was heard. They all glanced at
the scientist who continued, oblivious. "Here
come the Men in Black... they won't let you remember..." She felt their gazes and blinked. "What?"
Diamond giggled. "Wouldn't we be the Bunnies In
Black?"
The brunette just rolled her eyes. "You're the smart one. They're gonna hear us."
"Em, seriously, these walls are almost soundproof.
The stuff in this passage is intense,
like devices built to absorb all the noise ‘cause they all operate on audio. I'm almost positive the only noises able to
get out are the ones on the really pitchy frequency, like Di heard."
Red looked over. "Like the aliens."
"Shame they're not like ET – that alien was
nice, but icky looking. I loved that
movie."
"I know whatever's controlling Hef is a
testy-ass bastard. Wait till I tell you
what I just had to-"
"I still say there's another explanation. I mean, come on. There's no scientific evidence even supporting
any credibility of aliens in any galaxy close enough to travel here, let alone
within the Milky Way galaxy, and-" Her
words were cut off quickly at the sight before her.
The path had led to a room that lit up by a
motion sensor. Inside was a large, oval-shaped
craft, in a space larger than even her lab. The metal of the craft looked reflective and
shimmered with glimpses of a rainbow. Little
lights bleeped around it with a soft humming. It was so much like a sci-fi movie's depiction
of a spaceship, and yet so very different at the same time.
"Wow!" was Diamond's simple reaction.
"Shit, that's huge."
Red was speechless.
"Wow, who knew the movies had it
right?" Red said softly, just taking it in.
"You okay?" Diamond asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright."
"Damn, that girl just got her form of crack,"
Emerald mused, watching the fourth girl with amusement. "It's like a nerd at a Star Trek
convention or some shit."
A loud crash came from back down the passageway. Emerald pulled out her gun, fully back in her
trademark bitch mode. "Great, what is it now?"
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“Um, ladies, I think you have company…” Jay warned as he peered
around the corner just in time to see a large group of Playmates headed towards
the grotto. He’d managed to sneak onto
the Mansion grounds through the staff entrance, and all he’d had to do was grab
an apron – a pink one with the Playboy Bunny emblazoned on the front in white
rhinestones – and the guards around the Mansion merely assumed he was a kitchen
worker. Now, using his watch to keep an
eye on the girls from a secluded corner just outside the kitchen doorway, he
could hear murmurs of a security breach and a call for all personnel briefed on
“the project” to report to “the headquarters.”
“What’s going on out there, Jay?” Brian asked as he, Mulder, and
Scully watched the scene unfold from the surveillance van.
“The girls must have tripped some sort of silent alarm…” Jay peered over again and saw that even more
Playmates – and several large guards – were on their way into the Grotto. “They’re way too outnumbered; I’m going in
there.”
“Just watch out,” Brian reminded Jay, as he, too, watched the
girls become surrounded by the Playmates who had already arrived at their
location. Mulder and Scully exchanged a
glace before looking back at the screen.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah…” Jay said with a sigh, as he crept his way
across the lawn to the pool area. Thankfully,
the secret entrance had been left open by the last person to enter it, and
after a quick look around to make sure he wouldn’t be spotted, Jay quickly made
his way to the girls.
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“There’s too many of them!” Red screamed as she struggled to jam
her elbow into the ribs of one of the Playmates who had latched onto her back,
only to have another Playmate take a swipe at her head.
“And it’s impossible to fight in these damn heels!” Emerald called
out, throwing the Playmate that lunged at her into the wall.
“Not when you’re used to it!” Diamond shouted as she kicked one
Playmate in the stomach and turned around to punch another one.
“Not all of us wear stilettos all the time!”
“Took you long enough!” Emerald snapped at Jay, as she managed to
subdue another Playmate and punch one of the guards. Jay shot the guard just as he was about to
attack Emerald again.
“You’re welcome!” he called back, still firing his gun but
throwing in a few punches at the attackers who now surrounded him.
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