Nemesis: Chapter 18

Abi was petrified that her TV bosses would find out that she had humiliated and stripped a teenager semi-naked in the gunge tank. They would be sure to fire her if they found out. Fortunately, she discovered that no one seemed to have filmed the incident. All the recordings that surfaced a few days after the incident, ended when she pied Mia in the face. The video of Abi's gunging appeared on the internet. The local news replayed it on TV when Abi was asked to do her first official outside broadcast. It was humiliating but gained her a great audience reaction. Early viewing figures suggested that she was going to be a great hit. Abi was almost in the clear, now all she needed was for Graham, Aiko, Parvati and Mia to keep their mouths shut.

She placated Graham by helping him gain a pay rise. That was easy. Though she now owed her new boss a favour, he never asked her why she wanted to help Graham. He presumed they must be sleeping together, which was odd, for she could do so much better. Abi then rang Parvati to ask for clemency. Parvati was eager to forgive, but on one condition, they wanted her to help them film a new ident. Abi agreed and asked Parvati whether she could contact Mia to apologise. She wasn't really sorry, but she wanted to sound sincere. "No don't, I've spoken to the girl, she was quite upset at the time, but the person who would like to speak to you is her older sister, Rosie. I believe you've already met", Parvati replied.

Rosie was really angry when she found out what Abi had done. But Georgia reminded her that she had done the same to Jessica a few weeks ago and Mia had tried to rip the woman's blouse off first. No one ever seemed to learn. Nevertheless, Rosie felt protective over her younger sister and was delighted when Parvati rang her to ask her whether she wanted her revenge. It was only a couple of days before the launch show and Rosie hadn't been to the TV studio yet. Everybody else who was competing already had; Rosie felt that she was at a major disadvantage. But since many of the games that they were due to play were in the process of being built and set up, Rosie realised that by taking a sneak peek at them now, she could turn this to her own advantage.

Arriving before Abi, Rosie began to take a look around. She recognised some of the apparatus from the Japanese show that she had watched online out of pure interest. She made a note to watch the clip again to work out her best tactics. When Abi arrived, it was left to Bianca to reintroduce them. "I am so sorry for what I did to your sister, it was completely unforgivable", Abi grovelled as the pair shook hands. "I should think so to", the blonde replied. "Now I'm willing to forgive and forget, but don't come near my sister again." "I promise you, I have no intention of ever seeing her again." Answered Abi, truthfully this time. Bianca led them to the dressing room. They were to wear tennis dresses, Abi's white, Rosie's light blue. They swiftly put them on and headed for the TV studio.

Here they met Parvati, for Aiko was busy publicising the show elsewhere. "Nice to meet you again Rosie. We've held you back until now to slowly drum up interest in the show. But now I think it's time to formally unleash you to the public." Parvati seemed generally pleased to see her. Turning to Abi, her mood darkened. "Now Abi, as part of our agreement, I want you to step into that gunge tank other there. To increase your humiliation, it will be Rosie who will gunge you. Abi sighed, she knew this was coming.

Rosie skipped over to the tank whilst Abi trudged slowly behind her. With the cameras rolling, Abi stepped inside as Rosie stood beside the cord mechanism. Smiling, Rosie pulled the mechanism down. Pink gunge rained down over the older woman. Slime crept inside her top and seeped into her bra. Parvati motioned for Rosie to pull the cord again. This time white light green gunge rained down over poor Abi, who tried to wipe the gunge from her hair. Parvati motioned for Rosie to pull on the cord one final time. Abi braced to hide herself from the gunge, but feeling nothing slime her glanced over to Rosie. This time the cord had activated a concealed tank high above Rosie's head. White gunge rained down on the unsuspecting blonde, who screamed in shock as it hit her. Wiping the gunge from her eyes, she failed to spot a stage hand come up behind her and pie her in the face. Abi fell about in stitches in the relative safety of the tank. A bucket of light green gunge was then thrown at Rosie from the side. Suddenly, a trap door underneath where Rosie was standing gave way and Rosie was plunged into a huge vat of custard.

Rosie shrieked as she fell into the vat, completely submerged, she was covered from head to toe in custard. What's more, her tennis dress gave her underwear absolutely no protection. As she climbed out of the tank a stagehand (Bill) poured chocolate sauce over her head, whilst another (Arjan) pied her in the face. Abi simply couldn't stop laughing. She was expecting to be the one being humiliated, this certainly was a pleasant surprise. She checked the floor of the gunge tank for a hidden platform was relieved to find no such mechanism.

"What did you do that for?" Demanded Rosie as she crawled out of the tank, custard dripping from every orifice of her body. Parvati spoke up first. "I contacted your sister yesterday to see what we could do to say sorry for her ordeal. She obviously demanded that Abi be gunged, but she also asked whether we could trick you into getting messy. She said that you had done something very similar to Jessica as Abi's heinous crime and so far, you have escaped any sort of messy retribution. Oh, by the way, she also asked whether Abi could spend some time to reflect upon her evil actions, whilst being pied in the stocks."

Rosie hid her fury, she'd been tricked by her sister. She had come on the show, in part to protect her sister's dignity, as well as to gain revenge. Why didn't she see this coming? Abi, complaining, reluctantly got dragged over to the stocks. Rosie's mood was lightened when Parvati asked her to tip a bucket of custard over Abi's head. Rosie upended the bucket in glee. A bucket of baked beans soon followed, as did a cream pie to the face. "Now to teach you a lesson", Parvati announced before motioning to Rosie. Rosie grabbed a pie and lifted up Abi's skirt. With her knickers on show to the camera, Rosie quickly covered them with cream as she pied her behind. Rosie then tucked Abi's skirt into her knickers to ensure that her lingerie remained on show to the camera. Rosie then slammed a chocolate pie into Abi's face to complete the reporter's messy humiliation.

Back in the changing room, whilst waiting for Rosie to finish her shower, Abi idly began to mess about on her phone. Randomly surfing the internet, she visited the gunge show's website. Casually flicking through the message board, one particular post caught her eye. One visitor was complaining that whilst Sophie truly deserved to gain her revenge over Ava, he wasn't really sure what Rosie had actually done wrong. Surely, in order for Mia to gain her revenge, Rosie ought to do something really nasty to her in the first place. Yes, she had gunged her in the video link, but that was set up by the show. Yes, she had been gunged a few times on the promo videos, but never by her sister. Of course, the author of the link was unaware of the many occasions when Rosie had conspired to gunge Mia. Abi meanwhile, only knew about the hospital gunging and that was set up too.

Rosie, wrapped in a towel exited the shower. In a moment of inspiration, Abi showed the message board to the blonde. Rosie, still fuming after being tricked by her sister, was piqued with interest. "Well this is a turn up for the books. How about we work together for once. I'll set up a petition, anonymously, linking to this message board. If we can get maybe a few thousand signatories, we could then show it to Parvati, who I'm sure will be willing to help us out. How many people do you think you could get involved?" Abi replied "darling, I work in the TV and newspaper business. Leave this to me. Just whatever you do, don't let us get caught."