Saturday, May 9, 2020

Reaching Out

‘Come on in ladies, you’re in the right place, Mrs. Duyen was not feeling well so she asked me
to take her place.’

The five stunning beautiful nude women all with extraordinary figures hesitated for a moment
then, came forward confidently placing themselves in a line across from the teacher who also
matched them in lack of clothes and beauty.

Great, let's get warmed up with some stretching and then  we can move on to the lesson.
Just follow what I do,’ she explained and began putting them through a series of rapidly
intensifying stretches coupled with an accelerated pace that left them unable to keep up in
both area’s.  

‘I think Mrs. Duyen might have been too generous with her assessment of your abilities,’ the
instructor quipped as she terminated her lead, came to her feet and moved to the first woman
in line to her right.  ‘You favour your right side, you do not have proper balance, if I just push
here,’ she said. ‘And over you go,’ which the woman did as she fell over unceremoniously,

She moved on to the next woman. ‘Not anywhere near enough development in the shoulders
or middle back, you’re supporting all your efforts with your stomach and neck,’ she said, placing
her hands on either side of the woman’s torso and turning lightly flipping her onto her stomach
with a thud.

‘You hold the position well, but,’ the instructor said as she pinched the back of one of the
woman’s lovely thighs. ‘I displace one point and the whole structure collapses,’ she added the
sound of the woman’s body smacking the mat reverberating about the room before she finished
her explanation. 

‘Positioning is just as important as balance, most times the two go hand in hand, but not
always, sometimes position or where the position leads into is more important. Move to the
next sequence,’ he told the forth woman and as she did, she tumbled as the instructor moved
on hand in mid air, not hard, just slight enough that it was forced to land quickly and unsteadily
as the woman went over.

‘Now we come to this, the perfect balance of mind and body. Well structured, poised, elegant
all in harmony,’ she explained before blowing on the woman’s face next to a strand of loose
hair. It fell across her face, forcing a twitching motion and movement to compensate and it was
at that moment the instructor dislodged her with ease crashing her to the floor as well. The
instructor returned to her place and lowered herself elegantly into a Lotus position.  

‘Static position is one thing, active is quite another, you have to think ahead, like a chess game,
even if you find yourself in a disadvantageous situation, there is no need to compound it with
your own foolish mistakes. Even a long series of errors can eventually lead to success, the key
is making the other make the final fatal mistake from which there is no recovery, rather than
through your actions giving victory to them. Now having said all that it's time to see you in
action. This room is well appointed with mats, the walls are padded, so impact and injury
should be kept to a minimum. Attack me,’ the instructor said and the women looked at her and
each other before one asked.

‘All at once or individually?’

“Hesitation is the first mistake,’ the instructor added before one of her legs uncoiled itself like
a shot spring and slammed into the inside of one of the women’s thighs then upward into her
pussy. That woman doubled over in pain only to find her head captured into the bent leg of the
instructor as she whirled to her feet, her other leg connecting with the head of another woman
while her hands straightened in a open knife pose struck under the firm erect breasts followed
by a jab to both sides of her neck with her thumbs, the woman tumbled to the floor. The
instructor somersaulted forward, her body and that of her captured by the neck opponent
passing between the remaining two women, while the third woman, the one that had the blow
to her head staggered about trying to recover.  She left her go with but delivered a crippling
snap of her heel to her paradise again then a pinch to her neck that finished her from further
combat. 

The teacher did not hesitate for a second, she vaulted backwards into a reverse walkover,
both her feet smashing into the heads of the remaining two, launching them backwards,
their arms windmilling to keep their balance. The instructor turned about stepping her a series
of front tumbles before springing out of it and flying through the air each foot making contact
with the chest of women and sending them with such force into the padded walls that they
bounced back to her and each into a front headlock.  Alternating knees to their respective
stomachs took what little fight if any they had left in them out. She finished by turning them and
herself about then falling to the mat, their backs landing with such force that they bounced up
and hit again. The teacher released and stood up, the vanquished fighting for air on the ground.

‘Lesson’s over for today ladies.  Shower, dress and wait for me if you want in the changeroom
if not  you’re free to leave, the choice is up to you,’ she added and left them scattered about
the room in various states of pain and recovery.  

^^^

‘Well good to see no real damage done, at least not physically,’ she said. ‘You’re all fine
specimens nude, but if it's possible you’re all even better made up. Professional, yet stylish
and with just enough added to be sexy without taking away from the other, a delicate balance.

‘Better than our other balance I hope?’ one said. 

‘All of you are ten out of 10 to answer your question Mai Trang.’

‘How do you know my name? We pay Mrs. Duyen for her discretion, apparently we need to
rethink that and several other matters as they pertain to today and what just happened,’ Mai
stated and looked at the others.

‘I can’t argue against the latter part, but as to the former part of your question, she, I can assure
you is not to blame for me knowing your name and that goes for the rest of you as well,’ the
teacher added.

‘That just adds to my and I’m I speak for the rest of my classmates curiosity about you. Mrs.
Duyen isn’t sick is she which of course leads to a number of questions about her whereabouts
and of course the main question of just who you are and why you are here and so interested in
us, after all we’re just five businesswomen who are interested in fitness and self defense,’
another added.

‘Oh, I think we both know you all are much more than that. But why are we talking here. I have
reserved seating waiting for us at the Hanoi Skyline Lounge. I will meet those of you that are all
still interested there in an hour,’ she added.
If you chose not to, I will say my goodbyes now. It was a pleasure meeting all of you and I wish
you every success in the future,’ she then shook hands with each woman naming them as she
went.
                           She sipped her drink, the view of the old city below her as she waited. She had reserved the
best table in the lounge then made arrangements for them to be isolated from the other guests
so the talk could be free and frank, at least she hoped it would be.

‘But one never can tell,’ she thought just as the corner of her eye caught movement and she
stood up.  She motioned to the waiter to bring an extra chair over.  

‘Glad you decided to come and I see you’ve brought a quest. Welcome Hanh Oanh,’ she said,
shaking hands with the woman, not surprised she knew her name obviously having been
informed by the others. Hanh elegantly sat down, crossing her legs as she went.

‘I thought tea and some cakes would be welcome while we talk,’ the woman said with a
disarming smile and a sip of her tea before she started.

‘You have the excellent attribute of being curious without being to forceful, a well learned skill,
especially when I consider SALON
(South Asian Ladies Operatives Network) is entirely financed and run by independent female
small business owners. Oh, no use trying to look like you have no idea what I’m talking about,
I can assure you I do,’ she said looking at fake bewildered looks they flashed to one another. 

‘We do not know what you are speaking about, this is some kind of bad joke and a waste of
our time, come on ladies, we have businesses to attend to, at least that part of your story is true
Miss…..’ Trinh said as she made to get up and motioned to the others to join her.

‘Claire Baxter and if you’d care to look at this, perhaps it will peak your interest to stay.  The tea
here is the best and these cakes are yummy,’ she said tossing a manila envelope on the table
that she had held behind her chair out of view until now. 

Yen reached over and opened it, looked over the pictures, emails and notes, passing them
around.

‘Of course this is just a summary of all the Intel we have, but the concerning thing is that you’ve
been brought to the attention of a certain organisation. One might even say infiltrated in certain
areas, as you can see.

‘Some of these are my clients,’ Hanh said and others nodded the same as they looked at the
pictures and the notes attached to them.

‘As you can see from this timeline,’ Claire said, handing over another piece of paper, it seems
there’s a correlation between initial contact, establishment of client contact and the flow of
information right to the success of certain adventures by you ladies.  Success however has
been harder to come by say in the last three months or so,’ Claire mused.  ‘Hence the need for
advanced training, such as our encounter this morning.  Intel we intercepted from our network of
email threads told us all we need to know, just they are telling TRIDENT all they needed to
know about you.  Using Belt and Road to expand your operations is a brilliant concept, being
a small business you can fly under the radar, if you will, but there comes a time when you want
to expand, you have dreams of something bigger, nothing wrong with that, but unless you
have a plan and more importantly the means to execute it you can run the risk of drawing
unwanted attention. Now normally, not a bad thing, maybe you get rich selling what you built
for a great deal of money, maybe you attract competition and have to adjust and then there’s
this scenario, you attract the wrong attention and you get put out of business, permanently.
TRIDENT wants your model, just the model, they don’t want you, nor do they have need of
you judging from what I saw today.  They are not looking to acquire you, they will just replace
you with their own people, a kind of plug and play model of business.  Those clients of yours,
you all have them, they are in place to gain your trust, become a favourite and then kill you.
In fact  two of you have private spa sessions scheduled this week, one with this lady and
another with this one,’ Claire said tapping two people on photos left on the table.

By this point in the discussion the six SALON agents were stunned and shocked into silence,
the information was just washing over them and there was more to come as Claire was
determined to press on but then came a question from Trinh.

‘Who do you work for that you know all this assuming what you tell us is true?

‘We all know it's true, so let's dispense with that, your faces gave away that information.
I suppose I should be insulted if you've never heard of me or the agency I run.  Does the name
FORCE ring a bell with anyone?’ she asked to blank expressions from all.  ‘Well insulted or
proud of our secrecy or maybe both,’ she mused with a smile, a small laugh and a sip of tea.
‘Please ladies, drink up and eat, the food here is too wonderful to pass up. I will continue.’

The six looked at each other, questioning looks exchanged before they decided to follow the
advice, mostly because it was true.

‘Now back to these two ladies in question.  This one I know as Madam Yang. I’ve had several
encounters with her over my career.  If I was to speculate, I would say she always has you
attend her Hanh. She’s let slip she’s wealthy, loves your place, thinks you should expand and
has hinted, very subtly at first, that perhaps she could become an investor.  Maybe she’s even
passed that stage and you’ve onto the details, which if I was to speculate, would be something
along the lines of her being a silent partner, of course there would have to be ‘keywoman
insurance” just a common legal formality, made a million dollars on each of you.  Once
everything is in place, well accidents happen, even to the healthiest partners, don’t they,’
Claire smiled.  ‘Same go for you Kim?’ she added.

‘Her name is Han Go, everything you say is true, we have not signed anything, but it has been
discussed and I admit I was strongly considering it,’ Kim said as she looked at the others. 
‘Who are you again, Miss Baxter or better what are you?’

‘Well keep this to yourselves, but I’m a spy and Head of the aforementioned FORCE. We like
to think of ourselves as the “good girls” of the game. You know, keeping the world safe well
our counterpart, TRIDENT, there are the bad girls. Lots of fun, but then reality hits and well
the results are usually not so good for all concerned.  Having said that just because we are
“good girls” doesn’t mean we play as such.  You’ve had that experience already with H.O.T
and I.C.E..’

‘That kind of puts us at odds with you then, doesn’t it?’ Phan asked.

‘Fortunately, no fatalities resulted from that, what would have been harder to smooth over,’ Claire
stated.

‘How can we trust you, for all we know, you could actually be TRIDENT and telling us a big lie,
that would explain how you have all this knowledge,’ Mai suggested. 

‘Have you ever heard of a company called Mekong LLP?’ Claire asked unperturbed by the
question.

‘A small consulting firm, unique in that it's an all female company, I read an article in
Nu Doanh Nhan Businesswoman Magazine,’ Phan answered.

‘There associates of mine, independant, but they pursue the same goals, exclusively at a high
corporate level. I’d like to offer you ladies the same arrangement, but a more grounded level.
Our eyes and ears on the local level and well with expansion regional as well,’ Claire explained.

‘You still could be TRIDENT,’ Kim said. ‘If they are as bad as you say this would be right in
keeping with their modus operandi.’

‘If I had wanted you all dead, I’d have killed you this morning, frankly you’re all much too easy
to defeat, but training will make you better, again, though, that is a choice you have to make,’
Claire shot back.

No one said anything for a while, the ladies were in fact swimming in unknown seas and not
sure if the lifeguard Claire was there to help or sink them.

‘I’ve taken up enough of your time, you need to think and talk it over and you have businesses
to run. I’d love to have you all and any others, I know there are more, but the choice is yours.
I’ve reserved this space for dinner in three nights, if you show up we can get going, if not I wish
you the best of luck. I won’t close the door if the answer is no, but I won’t push either.  It's open
should things go bad for you with TRIDENT.  You can reach me here, that’s a burner phone,
so no worries.  It was a pleasure to meet you all,’ Claire added and elegantly rose and walked
away the ladies watching her wonderful legs and ass sway across the floor, then they looked at
each other.

Acquisition

‘I’m sorry my lawyer is running a little late, that was her calling, she’s on her way,’ Hanh Oanh
said with a smile as she poured Madam Yang a glass of ice water.

‘You aren't happy with our arrangement?’ she asked.

‘No, the terms, both financial and structural are very generous. The delay emminants from my
lawyers lack of familiarity with Hanoi traffic.  She’s new to the city and still trying to get in sync
with its rhythm, shouldn’t be too much longer, I’m sorry,’ Hanh explained.

The two women talked for a while, rehashing the plans they had for expanding the business and
how exciting it was going to be.

‘Of course you’ll have to travel to set up new locations.  It's a good thing for Belt and Road, it not
only opened up new road and rail modes of transport, but now there are low cost flights to cities
that never had them before,  better almost unlimited opportunities for us, ‘Madam Yang was
saying as the door to Hanh’s office swung open.

‘Yes it certainly does open up more opportunities only I’m not so sure I’d classify more ways to
be killed as an opportunity, but of course I could be wrong, I just became a lawyer and hour ago,
who knew you could get a law degree online so quickly, but even with my vast lack of experience
I know a bad deal, a three pronged bad deal, to clarify, when I see it.’

‘Miss Baxter. I see you still haven’t lost your insolent manner,’ Madam Yang said in a wincing
voice.

‘What can I say, you bring out the best in me. Hence another plan of yours comes to nothing.
of getting to be a habit for you and I, I’m the winner your the loser,’ Claire smiled as she sat
beside Hanh at the table across from Madam Yang.

‘It's not too late Miss Oanh, we can still make a deal, a very good deal,’ Madam Yang explained,
leaning forward and looking right into Hanh’s eyes ignoring Claire.

‘What happened to “Hanh”, its Miss Oanh now and I have already made another deal, so have
my associates,’ Hanh answered just as coldly.

‘Wow it got cold in her all of a sudden,’ Claire chirped sarcastically.

‘Don’t you ever get tired of being a nuisance MIss Baxter, a nuisance that I’m growing extremely
tired of,’ Madam Yang stated sharply as she made to rise from her chair.

‘Oh, don’t start something you can’t finish,’ Claire said very coolly as Hanh tense in her chair.

‘Look, your upsetting Hanh, she thinks we're going to fight, fine with me, she can watch as I
break you apart piece by piece, Your arms, then your legs, then your fingers, toes before I snap
your neck. Please get up from that chair, because it will be the last time you’re ever out of one
again.’  

This was a Claire, Hanh certainly had never seen in the brief time she’d known her and
Madam Yang wished she hadn’t, this was a different Claire Baxter, she took her seat again.

‘See, we can all play nice, be professional and to that point, you’ll find you’re down five agents
today, just us  “good girls” being professional,’ Claire similed with a confident predatory grin.

‘I suppose you aim to eliminate me?’ Madam Yang mentioned as she casually opened her
clutch.
.
‘Uh-uh,’ Hanh said, a Glock 26 pointed at her.

‘My dear I was just freshen my look, a last request of sorts. Surely you wouldn’t deny me that?’

‘I have no idea of granting it either,’ Hanh answered then Claire picked up the conversation.

‘Today is a paradox for you Madam Yang, both the luckiest and worse day of your life. You
are free to go, the lucky part, your life is spared by us. However, that is only one side of the
ledger, the other is TRIDENT. No deal, a failed mission and five dead agents. I wonder how
magnanimous your superiors will be,’ Claire explained.  ‘Now off you go, you know that way
out, my client and I have a business partnership to sign. Lucky for all of us I’m a lawyer,’
Claire answered, not able to resist one more jab.

Madam Yang gracefully exited, her mind already plotting her revenge not only on the five
SALON agents, but what she would do to Claire.


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