The Flagpole
By Littlesilverstar, silverstar222b@yahoo.com
When two young ne'er-do-wells attack Todd, it's up to Monica to rescue him


AUTHOR'S NOTE: Monica appears in my previous stories Friday's Final Lesson,
Primary Source, Dog Jay Afternoon, and The Sun Amulet. Todd also appears in
The Sun Amulet.

Monica, an assistant professor of history at the local university, sat in her
office, pecking away laboriously at her computer as she worked on writing her
next book. Across the small room was her graduate assistant, boyfriend, and
now fiance, Todd. The shy graduate student had had a crush on Monica for a
long time and had eagerly said yes when she had asked him to marry her. Todd
was currently busy grading the papers written by the students in Monica's
undergraduate Mexican history class. The two of them periodically looked up
from their work to smile at each other.

Monica's cell phone rang suddenly. As she answered it and listened to the
voice on the other end, a frown appeared on her elegant face. Todd looked up
with concern.

"My mother was just in a car accident," she said as she hung up the phone.

"Is she okay?" Todd asked.

"She's fine. But I'm going to need to get out there." Monica glanced out the
window at the darkening sky. It was late Friday evening and the sun was
setting. "Do you want to walk out with me? You can leave those papers for
Monday."

"Thanks, but I think I'd better finish these," Todd answered. "Midterms are
coming soon and there'll be a whole lot more to grade. I don't want to let the
stuff pile up."

"Good point," said Monica as she stood up and grabbed her purse. "I'll leave
the office key on my desk so you can lock up. When you're done, come over to
my place. I should be done taking care of my mom by then. I'll have everything
in the bedroom warm and waiting for you." She winked. Todd got an immediate
erection.

"Thanks, Prof- I mean Monica. I'll see you soon."

* * *

TWO HOURS LATER

The two scruffy-looking young men furtively approached the Social Sciences
building of the university. One of them took out a wire and went to work on
the lock on the main door.

"The way I figure it, Rusty," he said as he picked the lock, "is that a lot of
students are worried about the upcoming midterms, and they want some
reassurance. And we can provide it to them. We break in, steal the answers to
all the midterms, and sell them for twenty bucks a pop. The students pass
their tests and we rake in the green."

"Good thinkin', Jimmy," said Rusty. Rusty and Jimmy were a pair of
twentysomething punk kids who had formerly attended the university but dropped
out due to laziness and lack of caring. Now they shared an apartment in the
college town, and spent most of their time playing video games and smoking
weed. They also liked coming back to loaf around the campus and look at
attractive girls. They worked occasional odd jobs, some legit, some criminal,
for money, but they always seemed to be short of it. This operation would get
them out of the red for a long time.

The door clicked open. With smirks on their ugly faces, Jimmy and Rusty walked
into the building.

"We'll start on the top floor and work our way down," said Jimmy. Rusty
nodded. In their schemes, Jimmy was the brains while Rusty was the muscle.

With a ding, the elevator doors opened onto the top floor of the Social
Sciences building. The two young thugs got out and started down the
hall...then stopped short when they saw a light coming from one of the
offices.

"What the fuck?" said Rusty. "You said there'd be no one here this late on a
Friday evening."

Jimmy paused. "I don't hear any voices. Must be someone working late alone. We
can take care of him."

They walked quickly but quietly down the hall until they came to the office
with the light. Jimmy peeked in and grinned when he saw only the small,
scrawny, and oblivious Todd seated inside, still busy grading papers. Jimmy
gave a thumbs-up to Rusty and both men stepped into the office. "Good evening,
buddy," said Jimmy.

Todd whirled around in surprise. "Who are you?"

"That don't matter," said Rusty. "What matters is we have a job to do and
you're in our way." He strode over to a visibly frightened Todd. Rusty was far
bigger than he was, and even Jimmy, though not as large as his comrade, had a
decent height and weight advantage over Todd.

Rusty suddenly punched Todd in the stomach, causing him to double over in
pain. Struggling to stand back upright, he swung his fist back at his
opponent, but Rusty dodged it easily and laughed, then punched Todd in the
jaw, stunning him.

"Tie him up," Jimmy directed.

"With what?" asked Rusty, looking around the small office for something
suitable.

"Use his shirt," said Jimmy. Rusty ripped the shirt off of a still stunned
Todd, then used it to tie his hands behind his back.

"Where should we put him?" Rusty asked.

A sudden smirk appeared on Jimmy's face. "I've got just the thing." He
whispered something into his friend's ear.

Rusty grinned evilly as he heard Jimmy's plan. "Guess what, you nerdy little
wimp," the big thug announced to Todd. "We're going to attach you to the
flagpole with your pants. Then we're going to hoist you up so you'll be
dangling there in your underwear." Both goons laughed loudly.

Rusty grabbed Todd roughly, while Jimmy began yanking his pants off. Todd
struggled and cursed until Rusty shut him up with another punch to his face.
Once Jimmy had Todd's pants off, Rusty began frog-marching him out into the
hall and down the stairs. Jimmy followed, still carrying Todd's pants. They
had gone outside and reached the front lawn where the flagpoles were when
suddenly a female voice called out, "What the hell is going on here?"

Monica stood there, looking beautiful but dangerous. The lovely young
professor was in her mid-thirties, but easily passed for younger. She stood
5'6" and 140 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair, dark brown eyes, and a
deep golden-brown tan. Her low-cut pants showed off her athlete's hips and
slim waist, and the sleeves of her white blouse were rolled up, displaying her
thick, muscular forearms. Her wrist measurement was over seven inches, and the
slightest movement was enough to make her superbly well-developed forearm
muscles ripple.

"None of your business, bitch," growled Rusty.

"Yeah," added Jimmy. "Now get out of here if you know what's good for you."

Monica stood her ground. "If *you* know what's good for *you*, you'll release
that...Oh my God, Todd!" she shouted as she recognized her man. "That's my
fiance you've got there," she snarled. "Now I'm really going to put a hurting
on you assholes." She raised her fists.

Rusty laughed. "A little girl like you?" At 6'2" and 215 pounds, he towered
over Monica. He dropped Todd on the grass and kicked him in the head to knock
him out. At that, Monica let out a growl of fury. With a high-pitched warrior
cry, she launched her muscular body into a tumbling pass towards him, starting
with a roundoff and then going into a series of extremely fast back
handsprings. As she perfectly executed backflip after backflip right at him,
Rusty froze like a deer in the headlights. Monica plowed into him, her booted
feet kicking him in the face and knocking him down.

Jimmy picked up a fallen tree branch and began sneaking up on Monica from
behind. Although at 5'9" and 170 pounds he was bigger than her, he could see
that her massive forearms were bigger than his, and that she was in excellent
fighting shape. But with the branch, he could...

"Oof!" Jimmy grunted in pain as Monica suddenly fired a perfectly aimed donkey
kick into his stomach. As he doubled over, she turned to face him with her leg
raised, kicking him in the head as she spun. A wicked one-two combination of
punches from Monica's leather-gloved fists broke his nose and blackened his
right eye. Laughing at her ability to dominate men physically, she headbutted
him, knocking him to the ground. As he fell, he dropped his branch, which
began rolling away.

Monica performed a front tuck somersault to take herself over to Rusty, who
was just getting to his hands and knees. She kicked him in the side, breaking
one of his ribs. Cursing with pain and anger, he finished standing up and
tried to punch her, but she blocked the attack easily with her thick forearm,
then punched him in the face, her leather-gloved fist creating a cruel, bloody
cut on his cheek. A spinning back fist nailed his other cheek. Balancing on
one leg, she kicked her victim in the face several times with lightning speed
with her other, sending blood spraying with each impact. A cartwheel kick from
her booted feet impacted his head and knocked him down.

Monica heard Jimmy getting up and approaching her from behind. She calmly
waited until he was at just the right distance, then did a perfect standing
back handspring, viciously crashing right into him and sending him to the
grass again. As he was down, she stomped on his face with her big black boot.
She followed that up with a savage kick to his stomach. Leaping on top of her
helpless victim, she punched him in the face several times with her big fists,
knocking him out.

Rusty was just getting up again. Monica used a kip-up to get back to her feet.
She smirked at him and beckoned with her finger, taunting him to attack. He
obliged with a growl, charging at her. Monica elegantly pivoted and stopped
his charge with a side kick to his chest, laughing as he ran into her
outstretched leg. Before he could move, she broke another of his ribs with a
roundhouse kick. She then punched him twice in the stomach and once in the
jaw, sending new waves of agony through his midsection and knocking two of his
teeth loose.

"This is for my fiance," she said quietly but coldly. With that, she drove her
knee into her opponent's crotch. Rusty let out a high-pitched scream. As his
hands flew to his pulverized testicles, she cheerleader kicked him in the
face, knocking two more of his teeth out.

"And this one's for me." Monica performed a perfect spin kick on her victim.
Her booted foot impacted the side of his head and sent him to the ground,
unconscious.

Monica grinned wickedly as she looked down at her brutal and bloody handiwork.
She ripped off the shirts of both men and used them to tie their hands behind
their backs. She then untied poor Todd, who was just waking up.

"Are you okay, honey?" she asked, her face strained with concern.

Todd sat up with a groan. "M...Monica. You're here." He felt his head. "I
think I'll be okay." Todd looked around and saw Rusty and Jimmy out cold and
tied up. He looked back at his fiancee. "Wow. I wish I had been awake to see
you beat the crap out of those assholes. You're such an amazing fighter."

Monica blushed slightly. "Thank you, sweetie. Come on. I'll help you stand
up."

Todd got back to his feet, leaning on Monica. He put his shirt back on, then
retrieved his pants, which were a few feet away from the unconscious Jimmy,
and put them on too.

"So what happened?" she asked.

He told her the whole story. "I guess they busted in to steal something. They
said they had a 'job' to do. Then they...they

..." Todd's voice began to shake.

"It's okay, hun. I'm here for you." Monica squeezed his hand.

"They ripped off my shirt and pants and tied me up. Then they

...they said they were going to hoist me up the flagpole in my underwear!"

Monica's dark brown eyes flashed with rage. "Those fuckers."

Jimmy groaned and opened his eyes. Monica, noticing, approached him with a
determined look on her high-cheekboned face.

"Todd told me about your cowardly attack on him," she growled. "Now you're
going to tell me why you broke in."

"Like hell I am, bitch," he sneered.

Monica rammed her knee into his face. Blood sprayed out, staining her pants.

"I'm going to keep kneeing you until you tell me what I want to know or lose
the ability to talk...permanently. Your call."

He simply glared at her.

Monica kneed him again, the blow landing dead center on his nose. More blood
sprayed out. She began raising her knee a third time.

"No! Enough! I surrender!" Jimmy cried out. He confessed his plan for stealing
the midterm answers and selling them to the students.

Monica looked at him with disgust. She had a very low tolerance for anything
that disrupted academic integrity. "You and your buddy are going to deserve
everything that you're about to get," she snarled.

"Should I call the cops?" Todd asked.

"Not yet," said Monica, a cold and determined look on her face. Jimmy trembled
in fear.

Rusty chose that moment to wake up. He tried playing the tough guy for about
five seconds, but a punch to his face from Monica's leather-gloved, oversized
fist shut him up.

"Todd told me what you assholes were planning to do to him. Well, now we're
going to do the exact same thing to you." With that, Monica quickly ripped off
Jimmy's pants, then did the same with Rusty's.

Both men began begging and crying like the cowards they were. A snap-kick to
Jimmy's head and a stomp on Rusty's face shut them up. Monica then dragged
Rusty over to the big flagpole that normally held the American flag. Attaching
him to it with his pants, she hoisted him all the way up. When Rusty was at
the very top, dangling there in his underwear, she moved over to Jimmy.
Picking him up in a firewoman's carry, she attached him to the smaller
flagpole that held the state flag and hoisted him up too. Both men dangled in
their underwear, crying and humiliated for all the world to laugh at.

"Now you can call the cops," Monica said to Todd.

THE END

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