Just then a siren sounded from a tall tower in the center of town
followed by police, fire and ambulance sirens. Women gathered in the street to see what was going on and see what the emergency was. Cars pulled to the side of the street as emergency vehicles sped down the street and headed out of town. Then a voice came over the loudspeaker on the tower and said, “There has been a cave in at the mine, all emergency personnel report to duty. This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill.
“Holy shit,” Cassidy said. “This sounds bad, what should we do?” Dennis spun around watching all the women scurrying around getting in their cars and heading out to help. “I don’t know, I’m not familiar with this place. I’m not even sure where the mine is.”
Then a car pulled up and a woman called to them, “Want a ride? We need all the help we can get.”
Without hesitation, both Cassidy and Dennis got in her car and they sped out of town to the mine. “How far is it?” Cassidy asked.
“Two miles,” the woman answered.
Upon arriving at the mine, the woman parked her car and all three got out. There was already a good sized crowd surrounding a crane with a cable strung down into a hole. At the base of the crane was a man wearing a
yellow vest and hat with a radio giving directions to the crane operator. Up and down the cable went and the man with the radio was becoming more and more agitated
“What’s going on?” Cassidy asked aloud hoping someone from the crowd would explain.
“There was a cave in yesterday and six miners were trapped, they dug a hole to get them out and the escape pod they send down is stuck. They’re trying to get it loose by raising and lowering the cable. By the looks of his
expression, I don’t think its working.”
For the next hour the crane tried to move the stuck pod to no avail. The workers stood around, nervously waiting for good news and the women made supper. At around seven in the evening, the lead boss got on the intercom and made an announcement. “We seem to be having trouble with the escape pod, but before we try to dig another hole, we want to try
something. We need a volunteer to go down into the shaft we dug and kick open a latch. Once that latch is open, the pod should slide down the rest of the way. We need a person small enough to fit in the hole.”
Looking around, Dennis noticed that most of the women in the crowd had very large breasts, much larger than Cassidy’s. He knew that most of these women if not all would never fit into the shaft. He poked Cassidy and said, “You do it.”
“No fucking way,” she replied. “I’m not going into some tiny little hole. I’m claustrophobic.”
“You’re the only one with small enough tits,” Dennis said, realizing that anywhere else that would be something he would never say.
“My tits are not small,” Cassidy barked back.
Dennis pointed at the other women’s chests and Cassidy backed down. “I don’t care how big my tits are, I’m not going down in a hole.”
“You will save lives,” Dennis pleaded. “You have no tits, you do it!”
“My shoulders are far too wide,” he replied not knowing for sure if he was right. He didn’t want to go down in the hole either.
Cassidy stood and thought about it. If she couldn’t get attention from her awesome sexy body, maybe she could get attention from being a hero. In her mind, it was all the same. “Ok, I’ll do it, but I want a camera crew there to record the whole thing. I want this all over the news.”
“The television people are already here, all you have to do is volunteer.”
Cassidy stepped forward from the crowd and approached the lead man shaking her hips and twirling her hair. When she got in front of the camera crew, she announced she was the girl for the job and waved to the camera.
The foreman took out his measuring tape and wrapped it around Cassidy’s bust and gave the thumbs up to the crane operator.
“Ok Miss,” the foreman said. “The cable is already down the hole and we can’t send down another so you’ll have to slide down the cable that’s already there.”
“What if I slip, or let go,” Cassidy asked.
“Then it’s a ninety foot drop to the pod, unless you get cockeyed and stuck in the hole.”
“Then what?” Cassidy asked.
“Then we abandon this hole and start over.” “And me?”
“We find a nice marker and place it over your new grave.” “Can’t you put an emergency rope on me to pull me up?”
“Yeah, but if you got stuck and we had to pull you up, the rope would eventually cut you in half and leave you in pieces. That’s a fucking tight hole.”
“Then I change my mind. I’m not going down there just be get stuck and cut in two and buried.”
“Wait a second, all you have to do is hold onto the rope, the chances of you falling are slim to none. Just slide down and kick the latch. The pod, with you on it goes down into the hole and everyone gets rescued.”
“Ok, that sounds better,” Cassidy said nervously.
The foreman signaled for his crew to hook Cassidy up with some gloves and a clip to attach her to the cable. They slid her part way into the hold and signaled for her to start sliding down the cable slowly. It didn’t take long for her to disappear into the darkness of the hole and she was gone. It was then they remembered they forgot to give her a radio.
At the bottom of the hole, where the pod was stuck, Cassidy felt
around for the latch she was supposed to move. She found it right away and pushed it with her foot sending the pod falling down the hole along with her still grabbing hold of the cable. As the pod moved, she felt a strange suction that caused a wind that blew around her hair. It didn’t take long before the pod reached the bottom, fell through the roof of the cave and and struck the cave floor with a thud. Cassidy bounced off the pod and landed in a puddle of dirty water.
“Are you ok?” a tall man asked her. He was muscular, wore a hard hard hat and no shirt. He looked like one of those guys that did strip shows.
Cassidy stood up and tried to act like she wasn’t in pain. She perked up her tits a bit, dusted the dirt off her jeans and smiled at the workman. It was then she realized she was missing a tooth. “Fuck, what happened?” she asked almost in tears.
“What?” Cassidy asked as if she had just heard the most ridiculous thing in her life. “Not pretty? Who are you talking about?”
“I’m assuming they sent you down because you didn’t have much to lose looks wise,” the worker said seriously. “No offense, but you aren’t much to look at.”
In shock, Cassidy grabbed her head and began to get dizzy. The comment didn’t register with her and she felt like she was going to faint. Then she became nauseous and threw up on the ground. Raising her head and wiping the vomit from her lips and hair she said, “Are you saying I’m ugly?”
“Ugly’s not the right word, I would say plain is a better one.”
“Plain? You might as well say I’m a dog,” she said spitting up blood from her missing tooth.
“Just so you know, where I come from, I am considered very hot, I am a porn star, I’ve been in over three hundred DVD’s.”
“What did you do in the DVD’s?” he asked.
“What do you think? I fucked, sucked and banged anyone they set me up with, I am a star.”
“No offense, but most of the women back home look better than you.” Livid and at the end of her rope, Cassidy walked over to the worker and punched him in the chest. Her hand bounced off like a rubber ball against his tight muscles.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Take that back before I punch you again!”
“You punched me?” he asked. “I thought a pebble hit me.”
Just then Dennis spoke up, “How’s it going?” to the surprise of Cassidy and the worker. Cassidy almost shit her pants.
“How the fuck did you get down here?” Cassidy asked. “I have super powers remember?”
“You said you couldn’t fit down the hole a while ago, and now you can?”
“Oh, I didn’t use the hole, I transported myself through the ground. It’s a new power i discovered. I can go through walls, and water, and mountains.
“I’ve been down here ten minutes, when did you discover this new power?”
“Five minutes ago, while I was waiting for you to get down here.” “I’m missing a tooth,” Cassidy said.
“I see that,” Dennis replied.
“Do you have a super power to fix that?” “Not that I know of.”
“Can you try, seems you might have more power than you thought." Dennis closed his eyes and concentrated on a new tooth for Cassidy, He waved his hands, moved his arms and wiggled around like a worm. Then
he looked at Cassidy and told her to smile. The tooth was still gone. “Sorry, didn’t work.”
“Do you need me for anything else?” the miner asked.
“No, but I do have a question,” Cassidy asked rubbing her tongue where here tooth used to be. “What do you mine down here?”
“Nothing, this isn’t an actual working mine, we just hang out here six days a week.”
“What? Why do you do that?”
“Because our wives are bitches, and its tradition, we’ve been doing this since the twenties.”
“So what do you do here all day?” Cassidy asked.
“Watch sports, play video games, stuff like that,” the miner replied. “This is so fucked. You’re wives, as hot as they are spend all six days a week dressed like hookers while you guys play video games in this dark hole.”
“Yeah, kind of sucks, we’re so acclimated to the dark that we can only come out at night.”
“Don’t you guys get horny? I mean you’re wives are in town and you are down here?”
“That’s not a problem, you see, we hire an escort service that sends girls down here nonstop twenty four hours a day. There isn’t a moment when someone isn’t getting laid down here.”
“And your wives are cool with that?” Cassidy asked. “I don’t know, I never asked them.”
“Do they know?”
“Yes, some of them belong to the escort service.” “So you might be fucking one of your buddy’s wives?” “I’m sure I have, I don’t ask for names.”
“Is your wife an escort?”
“Better not be, I’d fucking kill her if she was.”
“Wait a second, are you saying its ok for you to fuck an escort but not ok for her to be one?”
“You got it,” the miner replied. “Isn’t that a bit hypocritical?”
“If she wants to fuck, she knows where to find me.”
“If you want to fuck, you should know where to find her as well,” Cassidy replied.
“You’re starting to piss me off now, I think I’ll get back to my video game.”
“Do you get paid to play videogames and watch sports?” “No, my wife has a job, she pays for it all.”
“It is, now fuck off,” the miner said and he walked back to where he came from.
“Now what do you want to do?” Dennis asked Cassidy.
“I want to look around, see what they got down here,” she replied. “Can you use your superpowers to find us something interesting to look at?”
“I don’t have xray vision remember?” Dennis said. “But I think we should look over this way,” he said pointing to his right, he didn’t explain why. The two hobbled down a path lit up by lanterns placed in the walls every twenty feet. The current path led down a long tunnel with bare walls. Seemed to be a place that wasn’t used for video games or television
watching. “Check out these walls,” Dennis said like a geologist. “What about them?” Cassidy asked.
“I wonder what dug out this cavern? This doesn’t look like water wear.” “Might have been a race of mutant human like beings that evolved to live in caves,” Cassidy replied.
“I like that answer,” Dennis said. “I knew you were smart, but that was pretty good.”
“Or it could be volcanic, or tectonic in nature.”
“Let’s go with the mutant race of human beings. If they were mutants, what do you think they would look like?” he asked as they walked further into the cavern.
“Albino, definitely albino, with white hair and eyes. Really creepy. And they would squint a lot and move about using echolocation like bats do.”
“How many fingers would they have?” Dennis asked.
“None, they would have one flapper for a hand. That way they could burrow through the rocks.”
“Would they have a language?”
“Yes, but it would be nothing like ours, it would be more like chirping, like a bird speaking to another bird.”
“I see,” Dennis said. “I like that. How far do you want to go before we head back?”
“Are you a chicken shit?”
“Yes, and I have no bread crumbs to leave behind to follow back.” “Fine, we can stop here and go back,” Cassidy said with
disappointment. Turning around she saw an albino creature with white
squinty eyes and a flapper for a hand. “Oh my God Dennis, do you see that?” she asked.
Dennis jumped back a bit in shock and said, “Where did you come from?”
The creature replied with a faint British accent, “I was in the bathroom, why did you need to go?”
“He doesn’t chirp,” Dennis said to Cassidy. “I hear that,” she replied.
“Do you two need some assistance?” the creature asked.
“We were just heading back to the main chamber, we didn’t want to get lost,” Dennis replied.
“Really? Did they tell you about us?” the creature asked. “No, should they have?”
“I suppose so, we eat people like you,” the creature replied. “Are you kidding me?” Cassidy asked.
“No, not at all, I kind of like the taste of human, tastes like human. That’s a little joke we like to use before we eat you.”
“Are there more of you? We are two against one, we can take you!” Dennis snapped back assuming a defensive posture.
“Oh hell yes, hundreds of us, all over the place. We don’t usually come near the main cavern, we wait for someone like you to wander off.”
“I won’t go down without a fight,” Dennis said holding up his fists. “I wouldn’t expect you to, I’d expect you’d put up a pretty good fight actually. Makes your meat tenderer. The way I like it. Yum, I can imagine you now, chewing you up in my mouth.”
“Step aside,” Dennis said.
“No, I don’t think so,” the creature said. “I said step aside!” Dennis yelled.
The creature cracked a smile and rubbed where its nose should be. “You just wait a while until my family arrives and we’ll take you to supper.”
Dennis bravely stepped forward and tried to intimidate the creature into moving out of his way. The creature didn’t move, it just continued its stupid hunched over grin. Like it was missing dentures.
“What are you doing?” the creature asked. “Move or I’ll move you!” Dennis yelled.
“Go ahead, try,” the creature said with a smile.
Dennis stepped in close and pushed on the creature. It almost fell over. “Crap, I didn’t realize how strong you were, you work out?” the
creature asked.
“You’re a wimp, move or I’ll stomp on you!”
“Now don’t be so judgmental, I don’t get a lot of good nutrition down here. My arms aren’t what they used to be.”
Dennis took a swing and backhanded the creature across his head knocking him to the cave floor. There was no thud, it weighed about thirty pounds.
“That fucking hurt you bastard!” the creature said looking up at Dennis and Cassidy.
“I’m not sorry, goodbye,” Dennis said and the two humans headed back down the cave towards the main cavern.
“Wait a second, you didn’t get your wish!” the creature yelled. Dennis stopped in his tracks and turned back around. “What wish?”
“You get a wish when you beat me up,” the creature said. “Ok, I’ll play along, I wish I had all the money I ever needed.”
“Oh, sorry, I can’t do wishes like that,” the creature said. “I can only do small wishes, like getting the scratches out of your glasses lenses, or finding your keys when you lost them.”
“You made me turn around for nothing?” Dennis said. He then walked over and kicked the creature for good measure. “Now shut up and leave us alone.”