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  • The Honey Trap – Part 3

    Chapter One of the Misha Kyle Trilogy

    The Honey Trap – Part 3

    A few days had passed, the police had returned her car and the prototype, and Misha’s anger had subsided somewhat, though she had come up with a few more extreme designs for her outfits during her darker moments, thinking of how she could use them on a certain slutty schoolgirl.  She’d never been particularly vengeful before, but the world had changed a lot in the last few months; perhaps she had changed with it, thanks to Honey.  If nothing else, she could repurpose the designs into some more hardcore offerings for her business; there would certainly be a market for them.

    Her phone rang one afternoon as she reviewed some art pieces she had commissioned, of a new mascot for the business.  Aside from the extreme restraint gear designs, another positive had come from the experience with Honey, namely that Misha now had a name she liked that would hopefully draw in more customers.  ‘Latex Leopard, LLC’ had a nice ring to it, and cats were always good for marketing, especially these days when sexy catgirls were all over the place, and one clad in hot pink leopard print latex would hit a lot of buttons. Glancing at the screen, Misha grinned, picking it up and swiping to answer.  “Hey, Kyou!”

    “Hey there, Misha,” Kyou replied cheerfully.  “Did all the pictures meet your approval?”

    “Of course they did,” Misha said.  Kyou had sent her the link with all of the photos from the last shoot earlier in the morning, and despite her worries at the time, as promised, all of the possible problems she had pointed out had been wiped away by the magic of his photo-editing software.  “I had wanted to call you about them later, but you know how busy I get.”

    “Are you sure you’re okay to keep at it so hard?  I mean, after everything that happened and what the police did…”

    Misha grimaced.  She had been angry, sure, and her faith in the law had wavered somewhat, to say the least, but her best coping mechanism had always been her work, and so that’s what she had thrown herself into.  It hadn’t failed her yet. “What’s done is done,” she said, at last, shrugging.  “I’ve got a lot more important matters to worry about; can’t keep dwelling on things I can’t change, can I?”

    Her eyes glanced to her design table, at the drawings that she had completed earlier that  morning for the new, more extreme designs for restraints and latex clothing.  Only hardcore masochists, or perhaps their doms, would ever consider purchasing such intense designs, but there was definitely a market out there.  But…Misha had someone specific in mind when she’d come up with the designs.  She’d never been one for revenge fantasies before, certainly, but if she ever managed to get her hands on Honey, the slutty schoolgirl would make a wonderful test subject.  Once fully locked into the multi-layered latex and heavy-duty restraints, Honey wouldn’t be getting out easily, and absolutely not without help.  Misha felt a grin forming on her lips as she had a vision of Honey begging her for release, but quickly shook her head.  No, it wasn’t the time for something like that…not yet…

    “Yeah, that’s true I guess.  You know you can talk to me anytime you need to though, right?”

    “I really appreciate it, Kyou.  You’re awesome,” she said, her smile returning.  She could sense his smile when he spoke again.

    “So, did you have any plans for this evening?  Gloria had been asking how you were doing and we kinda had some ideas for a little dinner get-together this evening if you’d like to join us.”

    “I wouldn’t want to intrude on your private time like that…”

    “Oh, no, that’s not it,” Kyou said, chuckling.  “We’d planned it for all three of us from the start.  A little dinner, music…kinky latex hijinks, that kind of thing.”

    Misha’s eyebrows rose.  “Kinky latex hijinks?”

    “Mmhmm,” Kyou replied in a throaty purr.  “Gloria had the idea, and we really started getting excited by it…maybe a little more than we should have.” He laughed, obviously excited.  “You’ve heard of those room escape challenges, right?  Well… the same kind of thing but with bondage gear.  Just the three of us, a lot of latex, leather, and metal, maybe some fun little things that vibrate.  What do you think?”

    “I…well it sounds really fun!  But I-”

    “Come on, don’t hide behind your work now,” Kyou said.  “Gloria’s already said that she won’t accept ‘no’ for an answer, and it’s my butt on the line if you don’t come.  You might not see me for a few days if Gloria has her way.”  Kyou laughed, having said the last part in jest.

    Grinning, Misha squirmed in her seat.  “I really don’t want to intrude…”

    “You wouldn’t be, I promise!  Totally up to you, but we’d really like to have you over tonight, Misha.  I think you’d enjoy it.”

    “Well…” Misha’s lips had already been curled into a smile, but there were already thoughts of the three of them in latex dancing through her head.  “Okay, what the heck?  I’ll be there.  What time?”

    “Great!” Kyou said, his voice almost a girlish squeal.  “Be here at six tonight, and wear something in latex; think fancy party like.  I know you’ve got plenty of dresses that fit the bill.”  Kyou paused for a moment.  “And bring any playthings you might want to try out tonight; Gloria can be a little insatiable sometimes,” he added in a quick whisper.

    Misha’s eyebrows rose, but she found herself giggling.  “Okay then!  I’ll be there!”

    “See you about six then!  I’ll start getting this place cleaned up!  Bye-bye!”

    “Bye!” Misha said, waiting till the phone clicked, making sure the phone had ended the call before she laid the phone on the desk.  The idea of having a play-filled night with Kyou and Gloria was certainly exciting, especially given how supportive they’d been the last few days.  She continued grinning, leaning over and resting her chin in one hand, her thoughts already going to what she was going to wear, and more importantly, what kind of entertainment she could bring along, reigning in her imagination as it threatened to run wild with half the shop’s inventory going into her trunk.  Now that it was cleaned up and with a few improvements in place, the prototype catsuit was definitely going, though.

    Misha actually forced herself to finish up early for once, giving herself an hour to drive back to her apartment and get ready for the special dinner.  In addition to the prototype, she had grabbed a few items from the office, carrying them in a small gym bag.  Once back home, she had taken a quick shower to freshen up, then got dressed.  Though she wasn’t entirely sure what Kyou and Gloria had in mind for the night, the concept had held her attention since the phone call, and she had decided to go with something simpler, but still elegant.  The dress she picked was black and sleeveless, but covered everything else from her neck down to her hips, hugging her curves perfectly.  She rolled a pair of opera-style gloves up her arms, leaving only her shoulders and part of her biceps exposed.  The tightness of the dress left no room for a bra, only a garter belt with matching latex stockings and a skimpy thong, though the hem around her hips wasn’t quite in hobble skirt territory.  A pair of moderate, four-inch open-toed heels finished up her attire, and Misha hurried to touch up her makeup and hair before heading out.

    Arriving at Kyou’s place soon after, Misha glanced at the clock on her car’s dashboard, seeing that it was just a couple of minutes before six.  With the evening sun already hiding behind some of the tall skyscrapers, casting shadows over the street, Misha parked at the curb and glanced back at the gym bag and the suitcase that contained the prototype, and another pair of matching cases, wondering if she should bring them with her.  Holding off for the moment, she wiggled up out of the car seat, snatching her purse, and then locked up before walking toward Kyou’s door.  She saw a few people on the street further down, one older man taking her in with a lingering gaze.  She grinned cheerfully toward him, giving a little wave that had him shaking his head and hurrying away.

    Misha pressed the button by the door, hearing the buzz of the doorbell.  She held her hands clasped together in front of her with her small purse, waiting.  After about a minute with no answer, she wondered if Kyou might not have heard, and pressed the button again.  Misha started as she heard the sound of a gasp and a moan beyond the door, faint, but definitely there.  Just as her imagination had started to try to fill in the details, the door unlocked and swung open.  Misha gasped in surprise, cheeks heating as she took in the sight before her.

    Gloria stood meekly by the door, wearing a revealing, curve-hugging latex maid’s uniform in black and white, complete with frills at the ends of the sleeves and hem of the knee-length skirt and matching headband.  Not an inch of her below her jawline was visible, though it appeared that her impressive breasts may pop the latex top of the uniform at any moment, especially if her fully erect nipples managed to poke through.  Given the way Gloria held herself and judging from the outline below the uniform, she wore a corset beneath the latex outerwear.  Misha couldn’t see much of Gloria’s face either, one of her eyes hidden behind her hair as usual, and much of the rest of her face covered by the harness gag and the wide, thick panel that covered the lower half of her face.  Her visible eye twinkled playfully at Misha as she held up her gloved hands, a stout pair of leather cuffs circling her wrists, held together by a single lock, motioning Misha inside with a sweep and a bow.  Matching cuffs encircled her latex-covered ankles but were connected via a short chain, a much steeper pair of heels on her feet than what Misha wore, stilettos that were just shy of hitting ballet heel territory.

    As Misha came out of her stunned state, she nodded to Gloria and stepped inside, hearing a very faint buzzing sound coming from the blonde woman.  Misha watched as Gloria closed the door, noting the way her ass likewise seemed to threaten to rip through the tight latex.  As the door shut, it chimed, and Gloria shuddered, moaning into her gag as the buzzing intensified for a brief moment, then went back to its slower speed.  “Um…hello, Gloria!  You seem to be enjoying yourself!”

    The taller woman nodded at Misha, obviously grinning behind the gag before wiggling her hips as she bowed again, gesturing for Misha to follow along as she started toward the elevator, her uniform squeaking.  Misha followed, noting that Gloria seemed to handle her restraints well, walking without issue despite her shorter steps and extreme heels.  As they reached the elevator, the buzzing that could only have been coming from one place intensified again, sounding almost angry as it flared up three times.  Gloria moaned softly, her hands going between her legs as she halted and squeezed her thighs together, her eye looking upward toward the apartment above.  “Crmnng, Mrhhmr CHmrr!“ (Coming, Master Kyou!) she panted around the gag, finally recovering enough to step into the elevator, motioning for Misha to follow.

    As the elevator started upward, another trio of insistent buzzes came from between Gloria’s legs, and she moaned, her visible eye rolling.  She looked to Misha, what was visible of her cheeks blushing.  “Mrhhmr Chmrr crn hm hr nmhrhnmnh hrmmhnmmh!“ (Master Kyou can be so impatient sometimes!) she said, her gagged voice breathy, heated with her arousal. Misha could hear soft music coming into range as they rose, sounding like something from a high-class Italian restaurant.

    Misha giggled, smiling at Gloria.  “Certainly seems that way,” she said at last.  Kyou must have had the vibrator tied to a remote, and to the doorbell and chime.  If that was what he had in mind for the pre-dinner antics, Misha could only wonder what was in store for later.

    As the elevator came to a stop on the upper floor, another chime sounded.  Misha didn’t remember that one being there before, though it seemed to have the same effect on Gloria, the buzzing intensifying again for several seconds as she opened the elevator gate and motioned for Misha to follow.  Wondering how many more chimes Kyou had set up since she was last in his apartment, Misha caught the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen.  “Oh my, that smells wonderful!” she said, breathing deeply of the scent of fresh bread, hints of garlic and pasta, with a distinct scent of seared chicken.

    Gloria led Misha to the studio area, and the area Kyou used as a living room and lounge.  Kyou stood beside the entertainment system, adjusting the volume knob as they entered.  He turned and smiled pleasantly at Misha, holding his arms wide as his eyes took her in.  “Misha, so glad you made it!  You look stunning!”

    “Oh, and you as well, Kyou!  That’s such a fancy kimono you’re wearing!”  Misha said, stepping to Kyou, who took her hand and kissed it, then pulled her into a friendly hug and kissed her cheeks, their outfits squeaking as they rubbed against each other.  His kimono was a deep blue, not quite as dark as his hair, which he had up in a bun, held in place with a quartet of long hairpins, each dangling with different colored beads.  The kimono was made entirely of latex, glistening in the evening light filtering through the windows of his studio, with a broad red latex obi about his midsection, tied into a wide bow at his back.  The front of the kimono was closed around his chest, but loose about his legs, which appeared to be clad in thigh-length white latex stockings, the feet of which were tabi-style, and nestled into a pair of high-heeled sandals, about the same height of Misha’s own heels.  “I swear, that is absolutely gorgeous!  Who made it, if you don’t mind my asking?”

    Kyou continued to beam, and looked toward Gloria, who stood silently to the side, squirming as the buzzing between her legs continued unabated.  “It was a gift from Gloria; I don’t think I can pronounce the name of the designer with any kind of accuracy, but they’re out of Italy.”

    Misha nodded, a small list of names going through her head; there weren’t that many who could design something like that and make it look so good.  “It really does look good on you.  Gloria has excellent taste,” she added, looking at Gloria with a grin.  “As does whoever chose her uniform.”

    Grinning, Kyou reached into one of his wide sleeves, took out a small remote control, and tapped a button; Gloria immediately started squirming more noticeably, the buzzing having intensified again.  “Thank you.  It suits her well, doesn’t it?  Better get started setting the table, Gloria; we’ll be along in a moment.”

    Gloria bowed to Kyou, turning easily in her heels and sauntered toward the kitchen, heels clicking as the chain between her ankles jingled.  Misha noticed how Kyou stared after her, and she couldn’t help but stare for a few moments herself, watching Gloria’s amazing backside in that tight latex.  “Is she going to model for some of your shoots sometime?  She’s so gorgeous!”

    “Probably not, unless it’s a private shoot,” Kyou replied as Gloria disappeared into the doorway to the kitchen.  “She’s got a high stress kind of job where she has to deal with a lot of people, so it’s kind of an escape for her to come here and spend time with me.  Not that I mind at all, of course.  It gets lonely here sometimes.”

    Misha nodded, looking back to Kyou with a playful smirk on her face.  He really did adore her; it was obvious by the look on his face.  “So, any more hints at what the after-dinner entertainment is going to be?  I brought quite a few things with me, even the prototype suit.”

    “Oh, great, Gloria was curious to see that one!  We’ve got some amusing games planned, I think,” Kyou replied, laughing as he turned back to Misha, his brown eyes sparkling, his tail raised excitedly behind him.  “There’s a bit of randomness involved, and a whole lot of squirming and struggling.  No penalties for the number of orgasms, either.”

    “Oh my,” Misha replied, blushing.  “That sounds rather intense!”

    “Yeah, but it sounds like a lot of fun, too, right?”  He put his arm around Misha’s shoulders.  “Come on, let’s start dinner.  It’s a recipe from Gloria’s family, and I’m dying to try it!”

    As they started toward the kitchen, Misha looked to Kyou.  “So, does Gloria work as your maid often?  She seems to handle the uniform really well, even with those little extras you’re controlling there.”

    “We…might’ve played around a few times,” Kyou said, smiling at Misha as they walked, heels clicking on the flooring.  “We switch around, though; sometimes I’m her maid.”

    Misha’s eyebrows raised.  “Oh, so you have a uniform too?”

    “Yep,” Kyou replied, winking at her.  “A few different ones, in fact, and not all of them in latex, and not all of them styled like the classic maid.  If you ask really nicely, I might consider showing you sometime.  Sounds like something Gloria might enjoy, a little date for just you girls, and your loyal kitty boy to serve your every whim and desire.”

    Misha felt her cheeks warm even more.  “Oh, wow, that does sound intriguing,” she said at last, though she couldn’t quite shake the thoughts of Kyou in a maid’s uniform from her mind as they came into the kitchen, where the delicious aroma of the prepared dinner threatened to make her stomach growl.

    Gloria had just finished setting the three places at the table as Misha and Kyou came into the kitchen, rising and giving a deep curtsey to them, making it look elegant even with the cuffs and chains upon her wrists and ankles.  She pulled one of the chairs from the table, looking at Misha and motioning with one hand.  Once Misha had been seated, Gloria did the same for Kyou, getting a kiss upon her cheek before she turned her attention back to the stove.

    In short order, Gloria had salads and drinks served, and soon had the main courses as well, along with fresh garlic bread out of the oven.  Kyou undid the ballgag that filled her mouth and finally assisted her in seating herself, giving her a break as he poured the wine for them.

    “This smells amazing, Gloria,” Misha said, looking over the feast.  “You did all of this yourself?”

    Gloria grinned, looking at Kyou with her visible eye as he returned to his seat.  “I had some help,” she said, leaning in to kiss his cheek.

    “I’m not the greatest cook by any stretch of the imagination,” Kyou said, laughing.  “Too much single living, I guess.”

    “I can sympathize with that,” Misha said, joining in his laughter.  She looked back at Gloria.  “Did you take classes?”

    Gloria shook her head, squirming in the seat as she sipped her wine.  Her hands were still cuffed, and the vibrator hadn’t stopped.  “I learned most of this on my own back in Italy when I was younger.  See, I raised my little sister Amelia pretty much all on my own for quite a few years, until gran-gran Claire took us in.  Amelia could be a picky eater when she was a kid.”

    “Oh, that’s really sweet!  Is she in Sentinel City too?”

    Gloria nodded.  “She’s here.  The whole family is here, in fact.  It’s been quite a while since we’ve called Italy our home.  We had so many more opportunities in the States, and we’ve absolutely flourished here.  Amelia’s the head of a big corporation, in fact, though she’s still a bit of a brat.”  Gloria smiled fondly for a few moments, putting her wine glass down before picking up her fork and knife, cutting into the chicken breast .  “But enough about me.  Tell me a little about yourself, sweetheart.”

    Misha took a bit of the chicken, moaning involuntarily at the delicious flavor.  It took her a few moments to recover before she finally replied.  Conversation continued between the three of them, going from one topic to another.  Though Misha wanted to keep her drinking to a minimum, she found she couldn’t help but follow suit with Kyou and Gloria, the wonderful food easing the way.  By the time they had cleaned their plates, Misha felt quite full, and more than a little relaxed, but not quite tipsy.

    Sometime later, with dinner finished, the trio found themselves within Kyou’s spacious living room, still giggling over one of Kyou’s jokes.  Kyou and Gloria sat to either side of Misha on the sofa, leaning against her, their latex outfits creaking as they rubbed together.  “Is it time we started the after-dinner entertainment, Master Kyou?” Gloria asked in a sultry pur, her fingers sliding over Misha’s thigh as her large breasts pressed against Misha’s arm.

    “If our guest is ready, of course,” Kyou said, patting Misha’s knee on his side as he purred softly, leaning in closer to whisper in her ear.  “How about it, Misha?  Shall we get started?”

    “Did um, you have anything in particular in mind, Kyou?  Gloria?” Misha asked, feeling suddenly very warm inside her latex dress.

    “Oh, we certainly do, sweetheart,” Gloria said, her breath warm on Misha’s ear, her lips finding Misha’s cheek a moment later.

    Kyou grinned, kissing Misha’s other cheek.  “I was thinking, Misha, that I have a very naughty maid who could use some very strict discipline; she’s been keeping me rock hard all evening and has done nothing at all to ease her master’s needs.  And there were all those looks she kept shooting at you across the table, hinting at so very much but delivering on nothing.  Don’t you think she could stand to be punished?”

    Misha licked her lips, glancing at Gloria, the blonde’s visible eye glittering with an eager energy. She had been sending some very steamy looks toward Misha throughout dinner, had even brushed a foot against Misha’s leg a few times.  Turning back to Kyou, feeling her cheeks warming further, her eyes dipping, noticing the bulge beneath his kimono, Misha nodded slowly as she brought her gaze back to him.  “Well, maybe she does…”

    “Would you care to do the honors, Misha?” Kyou’s grin widened.  “I think it’s only fair that our special guest takes the lead tonight.  You brought your new suit with you, right?  As I recall, that was a very impressive outfit, certainly befitting one in charge of punishing a naughty maid like Gloria here.  I could take some pictures while you work, give you an idea of what it looks like in action.”

    She hadn’t exactly expected that Kyou would offer Misha a chance to dominate Gloria tonight.  She’d expected some kind of kinky games, but nothing like that.  “I did bring the suit, but…” Misha took a breath, feeling her nipples aching beneath her dress as she smiled at each of them.  Time to spring a surprise of her own.  “…I didn’t bring just one.  I’ve actually had time to cook up a little surprise for both of you.  I bet you didn’t know that each of you had asked me to make a suit for the other, did you?”

    Kyou and Gloria both gasped, their cheeks reddening as they looked from Misha to each other, then back.  “Y-you actually have it done already?” Gloria asked, blinking.

    “Two suits?  In just a few days?” Kyou said, blinking.  “That’s really fast.”

    Misha’s grin widened, and her hands patted Kyou and Gloria’s thighs.  “When I set my mind to something, I get results.  It was kind of funny, though, both of you asking for the same thing within a couple hours of one another, and with each others’ measurements on hand.  Really cute, actually.  And I’ve even made some improvements to the design since you last saw it, and a few extra surprises.”  Taking a moment to let them start getting some ideas, sharing another look at one another before they returned their attention to Misha, Misha patted their legs.  “How about this, then?  We’ll get the suits out of my car, and all of us will get suited up, and I can show you both exactly how they work.  And maybe after we can see about who gets a punishment then?  See who makes the best impression on me, perhaps?”

    Gloria licked her red lips, letting out an excited moan.  “Oh, Kyou, sweetheart, I’m really starting to like this girl.  I think our little bondage game for later just got a lot more fun!”

    “Bondage game?” Misha asked, eyebrows raising.

    Gloria grinned playfully, raising a finger and waving it in front of Misha’s face.  “Ah ah, I still have to keep some things to myself.  Can’t go spoiling all the surprises now, can I?”

    “Yeah, I guess not!” Misha said, laughing.

    “Well don’t keep us waiting, Gloria,” Kyou said after a moment, rising from the couch, patting Misha’s shoulder, his voice taking on a more commanding tone, though still retaining a playful nature to it.  “Go get Misha’s things from her car so that we can see what she’s cooked up for us.”

    “He can be so demanding sometimes,” Gloria whispered to Misha, kissing her cheek again before she rose, standing easily despite the severe nature of her heels.  She grabbed the skirt of her uniform, spreading it as she dipped into a curtsy.  “As you wish, Master Kyou.  I’ll be back in a minute.”

    Kyou’s grin turned sly, and he reached into his kimono sleeve again.  The buzzing between Gloria’s legs intensified, and she shuddered, gasping.  “Better hurry, and you’d better not come before I give you permission!  Should I secure your cuffs before you go?”

    “N-no, Master Kyou!  That’s not needed!” Gloria said, a bit breathlessly, as she hurried toward the elevator, pausing only long enough to snatch Misha’s car keys from where she had laid her purse on one of the tables at the edge of Kyou’s photo studio.

    Once the blonde had disappeared from sight and Kyou no longer stared at her shapely rear as she scurried away, he offered a hand to Misha, helping her stand.  “So what kind of surprises did you put into Gloria’s suit?”  The chimes sounded as the elevator descended.

    Misha waved a finger, shaking her head.  “Ah-ah, I’m not telling, not yet.  It’s going to be a lot more fun for you two to find out together.”

    “No hints or anything?” Kyou’s tail wavered behind him, his ears raised.  “Please?”

    “Well…” Misha considered him for a moment, opened her mouth to respond, then closed it with a playful grin.  “Nope, sorry, you’re not getting anything just yet.  It wouldn’t be fair to Gloria.”

    Kyou put his fists on his hips, frowning at Misha, though it was obviously forced, and looked more like he was suppressing a grin.  “So you two have hardly spent any time alone together and you’re already thick as thieves, huh?  What chance do I even have?”

    “No chance at all really,” Misha said, shrugging.  “You know how it is; us girls have to stick together.”  She met Kyou’s stare for a moment and then started laughing with him.  “I should probably go help her with those cases; they’re a bit on the bulky side.”

    “Oh, she’ll be fine;  Gloria’s not as delicate as she looks,” Kyou said.  The next chime sounded, signaling that she had reached the front door.  His grin turned sly.  “Though she might be a little weak in the knees right now.”

    “Isn’t that a little mean?”

    “She’ll get me back sooner or later, don’t you worry about that,” Kyou said, chuckling.  “I suspect the next date night is going to be really interesting, especially if we’ve got those new suits to play with.  How did you manage to get them done so quickly?  Haven’t started developing super-speed, have you?”

    “Well…,” Misha said, pausing as she considered the question.  She wasn’t entirely sure where the time had gone when she had started revising her own suit and had gotten the orders from Kyou and Gloria.  Once she had set her mind to what she was doing, the hours just vanished; she’d remembered working through the night at least a couple of times since she had started the work, but as long as she had been focused on creating the suits and modifying the electronics in them, she hadn’t felt fatigued in the slightest.  It was only when she finally decided to take a break that the exhaustion had hit, forcing her to nap on the couch in her office for a while.  But then, once she had woken up, had some coffee, and got another idea for the suits, she had gone right back to work, almost as if she were possessed by a greater power of some kind.  She had known exactly what needed to be done, and did it with speed and confidence, never once second-guessing herself.  Maybe she was just getting to the point where she had mastered her craft?  “I guess I just got lost in my work.  Maybe I’m just starting to become a workaholic.”

    Kyou patted her shoulder.  “Well, however you did it, be careful about overdoing things, okay?  You’re always welcome to come and crash here for a few hours if you need a break from the shop.”

    “Thanks, Kyou,” Misha said, patting his hand.  The door chimes sounded again, and a few moments later, so too did the one in the elevator.  Misha hurried over to meet Gloria, but once the lift had come to a stop, she saw that Gloria had a determined look in her eye, though sweat now beaded on her forehead.  She held one case and the gym bag of toys in one hand, and had hold of both of the other cases in the other, handles clutched firmly together.

    Before Misha could raise the gate, Gloria hooked the toe of her shoe under the wooden lip, and with a surprising mix of grace and power, brought it fully open with but an upward tug, the gate actually crashing against the top of its track and bouncing back down a bit.  She smiled at Misha as she stepped delicately out, the buzzing still as loud as ever.  “Thanks, sweetheart, but I’ve got these.  Master, where should I put them?”

    Misha blinked, stepping aside as Kyou directed Gloria to another table.  She had to make two trips for those cases; it wasn’t so much the weight as the size of them, but still, that Gloria could manage all that wearing the maid’s uniform was impressive.

    With the cases resting on the table, Misha joined the pair as Kyou finally turned Gloria’s vibrator down to the faint hum it had been on most of the night.  “Well…I guess we shouldn’t waste any more time then, right?”

    Kyou nodded.  “Right.  We can each take a room and get dressed, then meet back out here.  I’ll even allow my naughty maid to undress herself, just this once.”

    “We can just get dressed here, together,” Misha said quickly.  Kyou and Gloria looked at one another, then at Misha, surprised looks on their faces.  Misha felt her cheeks heat a bit, but she continued.  “I’ve already worn mine in front of both of you anyway, and there are aspects of getting the suits properly settled that you might need my help with.”

    “Sure,” Gloria said, at last, her lips curling into a hungry grin as she finally looked from Kyou to Misha.  “That’s a wonderful idea, sweetheart.  Does Master Kyou approve?” she asked, a much-too-sweet tone to her voice.

    Looking a little flustered, his tail swishing, cheeks reddened, Kyou nodded quickly.  “Sure, yeah, as long as Misha’s comfortable with that, then I don’t have a problem with it.”

    “Good!  Now, here’s yours, Kyou, and here’s yours, Gloria,” Misha said, sliding the cases toward their respective owners.  She wasn’t exactly sure where the idea to dress together had come from, but she wasn’t nearly as nervous at making the suggestion as she would have been a few days ago.  She felt safe with the two of them, that she could trust them, so getting naked only to be fully suited once again was hardly a huge hurdle.  Not really.  “For the initial fitting, I’ll keep the controllers, just to make sure everything is working as intended, and to demonstrate how they work.”

    “Oooh, yes, ma’am,” Gloria said in a heated tone, already untying her apron.  Kyou raised an eyebrow at Gloria but began untying his obi a moment later.  With practiced ease, all three of them had their tight-fitting latex clothes peeled off and piled to the side, though Gloria insisted that Kyou be the one to remove the vibrator she had…suffered?…with the whole evening thus far, her thighs quite moist.  “It’s only fair; you put it there, sweetheart, so you’re going to take it back out,” she said in a honeyed tone.

    Misha felt herself warm as her eyes darted between Kyou and Gloria, both of them quite beautiful, and not the least bit shy about being naked in front of her.  There was something about Gloria’s voluptuous body that sent a shiver through Misha, though, something she couldn’t quite explain as her eyes traced Gloria’s amazing curves with her eyes.  She could look at Gloria forever…

    Blowing out her breath, Misha gave a quick shake of her head, the need to keep staring at Gloria passing just as quickly as it had come upon her.  It wasn’t so odd, was it?  Gloria could have easily been a supermodel if she wanted to, with a perfect body like that.   Taking her newly revamped suit in her hands, feeling the fresh, cool latex in her fingers, Misha undid the zippers and began sliding her feet into the lubricated legs.  The suit glistened, coal black but for the red highlights of the seams of the zippers.  Misha looked over to Kyou and Gloria, each having opened their cases, and were slowly taking out their own suits, looking over them with big grins on their faces.  Gloria’s suit was a deep crimson shade, with black highlights, and Kyou’s was in a midnight blue shade, not unlike his hair, with crimson highlights. At least for the moment, anyway.  That could, and likely would, change soon enough, another feature Misha had managed to get working since she’d had her recent bursts of inspiration, and one she was quite proud of.  That ability alone would place her leagues ahead of the nearest competition once she launched the product line.

    “Okay, so, when you get to the midsection, you need to be a little careful; that’s where the inserts you’ve requested are, and a special pouch in Kyou’s case,” Misha said, wiggling her suit up over her hips, feeling her own insertables sliding easily into place.  “Go slow there, make sure everything settles properly.  Kyou may have to have a hand getting his tail into the sheath, but once you’re past that section, it should be pretty easy going all the way to the neck.  Things get a lot more interesting once we turn them on.”

    Misha finished suiting up first, finishing by sealing the zippers beneath flaps that stuck in place with a simple pressing of her fingers along their lengths, making the suit look more seamless. The hood she would save for later.  Kyou still worked at wiggling his into place around his hips, Gloria taking a few moments to help him with his tail, but otherwise they had little trouble getting themselves zipped up and covered from the neck down.  “Everything feel okay?”

    Careful to keep her expression neutral, a bit of understandable nervousness creeping in, Misha watched as the pair’s hands explored their suits.  Kyou’s tail snaked back and forth as he swayed his hips, feeling at the bulge between his legs, and Gloria had busied herself with feeling up her sizable breasts after some stretches of her own.  As the seconds ticked by, Misha was feeling anxious that they might have detected some kind of flaws she had missed, or that she’d messed up on the measurements and the suits weren’t fitting right, or-

    “Oh my god, Misha, this is the most comfortable catsuit I’ve ever worn!” Kyou said suddenly, spinning about, stopping with his shapely rear angled toward Gloria, tail raised excitedly.  “Ever since I got my tail, I’ve never found one that not only fit, but allowed me to move it like I’m not even wearing it!  And there’s pretty much no discomfort around my crotch!”

    “I’d have to agree with Kyou’s assessment, sweetheart,” Gloria said, her eyes lingering on Kyou’s backside for a few seconds more before she too gave a graceful twirl, rising onto her toes as graceful as any ballerina, stretching her arms above her head to show off how well the suit hugged her curves.  “It really is like a second skin, Misha; the tightness in the chest is exactly what I wanted, no sense of being too snug at all.”

    Having finished her twirl, Goria and Kyou shared long, approving looks over one another before they turned appreciative smiles to Misha.  “These are amazing, Misha; I don’t know how you managed to get them so perfectly fit in such a short amount of time,” Kyou said.

    Beaming, Misha bowed her head, clasping her hands together in front of her, she shrugged.  “I uh, guess I was just really inspired.”

    “It’s more than that, sweetheart,” Gloria said, taking a couple steps closer to grasp Misha’s shoulder.  “You’ve got a talent for this kind of work, I’m sure of it. You’re going to be very busy once word of these gets out, I can guarantee it.  The entire family will want one, I’m sure; in fact, if you’re interested in more…unique applications, I’d almost guarantee you that Jennifer would be willing to consider your talents for a project she’s working on.”

    Misha looked up, eyes wide, her head already spinning at the thought of making suits for the rest of the Tempests.  “A…project?  What kind of project?”

    Gloria gave a small shake of her head.  “I’d rather Jennifer discuss that with you later; I’d hate to get the details wrong.  But I will certainly be letting her know about you.  Let’s come down out of the clouds for a minute,” she said, giggling as she patted Misha’s cheek.  “I believe you hinted at some additional features…and I know we both had some very naughty ideas in mind.”  Gloria turned her head and smiled at Kyou with a knowing look.  He shot a playful, tooth-filled grin back at her.

    “Oh, oh yes, of course!” Misha said, shaking her head to get her mind back on track.  “You’ll find your hoods in the cases as well; go ahead and do up your hair and get those on, and I’ll unlock the controllers and start the demonstration proper.  I think you’re going to enjoy this…”  Watching the pair return to their cases to fish out the hoods, Misha turned to her own, taking up two of the three controllers on the inside.  She had gone with the more secure design of having dedicated control devices tied to each suit instead of a cell phone app, though that was still certainly an option should someone wish to go with the cheaper route.  She booted up the mini tablets, having built her system on them in lieu of cell-phone sized controllers until she could finalize the design, but they were fully functional.

    Glancing at Kyou and Gloria, Misha saw that they were assisting each other with the hoods, having tied their hair back into buns.  Each deftly worked the hoods into place on their faces and guided the zippers downward, obviously having practiced this sort of thing before, finishing by pressing the latex flap over the zippers, rubbing it so that it was completely smooth and mostly hiding the zipper channel.  The design of the hoods meant that the masks extended all the way down to their collarbones, and did a decent job of hiding their hair in the back.  Misha took note of how their lips were highlighted by the zippered openings, and how the latex rimmed their eyes.  That was certainly one of the design challenges she still faced, of course, how to maintain the skin-tight appearance even with hair as long as Kyou’s and Gloria’s, especially for long periods of time, while maintaining comfort to the wearer.  She thought the current design would work, but without proper longer-term testing than a few hours of wearing her own mask while she worked on their suits, it was not yet a certainty.  But perhaps with a some more data, she could-

    Gloria turned toward Misha, smiling in a sweet, yet hungry way, both eyes visible now, and Misha blinked, realizing that she had been going off on a work-related tangent in her head.  With a quick shake of her head, feeling her cheeks warming, she tapped at the screens of the controllers.  “So, nice and cozy there now, right?  Not too tight or noticing any odd feelings?”

    “No, I don’t think so,” Kyou said, turning his head back and forth, his ears twitching in the custom-made pockets atop his head.  “I don’t think I’ve actually had a hood that fits quite so well, actually.  You got the ear slots just perfect.”

    “And they look so cute,” Gloria added, leaning in to kiss Kyou’s cheek.  “I’m very satisfied with what you’ve done, sweetheart.”

    “Well, let’s see what you think about this…I’m going to activate the suits now, okay?  This might be a little…different.  I have a default set right now for each of you, so just let me know if this is too much.”

    “I trust you, Misha,” Kyou said confidently, taking Gloria’s hand in his.

    “Mmmm, if Kyou does, then so do I,” Gloria said a moment later.

    Smiling, and with growing heat on her cheeks, Misha tapped the startup buttons on the screens, watching the status indicators begin to light up and progress bars start to fill.  Kyou and Gloria gasped at the same time as the hoods sealed to the suits, growing a bit more snug as the collars of the suits and hoods essentially merged with one another through what was basically vacuum-sealing; this would also be taking place on the flaps over the zippers on both the hoods and the catsuits themselves, ensuring they wouldn’t be easily removed.  Each of their suits shifted around their midsections, growing more rigid and narrowing slightly as the integral corsets formed and took shape, not too restrictive for the moment.  After this, the suits grew a bit more snug overall as any remaining looseness was smoothed out, the suit systems adjusting so that every curve was an even more perfect fit.  Finally, the suits shifted around their feet, forming a solid base, then shifting upward at the heel, growing into an integrated four-inch high-heel.  Misha was particularly proud of that feature, having just finalized it the day before; though the heels were made of the same latex compounds that composed the suit, she had found a way to change the way it behaved given a proper electrical stimulus, turning it rigid, not unlike how certain shape-shifting metals worked.

    “So…how does that feel now?” Misha asked as the status indicators showed all green on the displays for the default mode.  Power readings for the suits’ new integrated batteries were still showing ninety-nine percent.

    “Uh, that was a little intense,” Kyou said after a moment, stepping from foot to foot, feeling around his midsection with his free hand.

    “Mmmm, but in a delightful way,” Gloria said, taking a few steps back and forth, her heels making a slightly deeper, more muffled click on the wood flooring than her regular heels had.  “How did you manage a trick like that?  I’ve never heard of shape-shifting heels.  Well, not outside of magical footwear…in some stories I’ve read.”

    Though Misha noticed the hesitant addition from Gloria, and the quick look she shot at Kyou, she didn’t think anything more about it; maybe it was something to bring up again later?  “I…well, it’s really technical and boring,” Misha replied after thinking about it for a few seconds.  The truth was, she still wasn’t entirely sure herself.  She did know exactly how the mechanism was built and how she had designed it, but she didn’t exactly know where the idea had come from, or why it necessarily worked as well as it did; the whole concept had been a sudden flash of inspiration she couldn’t explain, but had just gone with.  “But you feel okay to continue now?”

    Kyou had taken a few steps himself, Gloria hanging back to watch as he glided along the floor, as if he were showing off on a fashion show’s runway.  “Yeah, I’m ready; these new shoes fit perfectly,” he said, chuckling.  “This is exciting!”

    Gloria peeled her eyes off of Kyou long enough to nod Misha’s way.

    Misha licked her lips and tapped at the controllers, starting an on screen countdown.  “Alright, this is going to apply the custom settings each of you requested for one another…minus a couple more restrictive options we’ll save for later.  This might be a little more intense than the last set, so be ready.  Three…two…now!”

    The controllers beeped, and Misha turned to watch her work in action.  Gloria and Kyou gasped as their suits shifted shape again.

    In Gloria’s case, a pair of cat-like ears grew from her hood, as did a tail-like extension from the base of her spine, while the corset grew tighter around her midsection, extending itself to just below her breasts and down to follow her hips, narrowing her waist by a few inches while pressing her large breasts upward as the under-bust padded ridges formed.  Faint buzzing began between her legs and over her nipples, her nipples quickly hardening and poking through the latex material, the latex seemingly growing tighter between her legs to highlight her lower lips, but then the latex shifted again, growing and seemingly inflating between Gloria’s legs.  Her lower lips were soon completely hidden by a bulge that looked very much like Kyou’s.

    For Kyou, the changes were a bit more drastic.  His corset grew and tightened similarly to Gloria’s, though not quite as tightly, as Gloria had said he was still getting used to wearing them when she had spoken to Misha about the features she wanted.  However, its shape mirrored Gloria’s, and in the same moment, Kyou’s chest grew, ballooning into a pair of breasts very similar in size and consistency to Gloria’s, complete with hardened nipples and buzzing of their own.  At the base of the corset, Kyou’s hips grew as well, expanding so that he had a quite distinct hourglass figure, his bulge twitching as the vibrators started their teasing.

    For both of them, their heels grew more extreme, the heel rising and narrowing, stopping just short of becoming what Misha would consider full ballet heels, remaining just barely in stiletto territory.  Teetering on their new footwear and getting used to the new shape of their suits, Kyou and Gloria looked eagerly over one another, but then gaped as the suits began to change color.  That was another feature that Misha was quite proud of, though she had to admit she hadn’t exactly understood how she had managed to modify the latex’s composition to make such a change.  For the moment anyway, both of their ears and tails shifted to match their natural hair color, while the majority of their suits became entirely skin tone, actually matching that of their wearers almost perfectly.

    “Holy crap!” Kyou exclaimed, sounding a little winded as he felt up his new body, eyes wide.  His hands brushed his enlarged breasts, squeezed at them, rubbed over his nipples, and he gasped again.  “I- I can feel these!  I mean, it’s like I have real tits!”

    Gloria likewise explored herself, hands feeling along the corset and moving downward.  She stopped short of feeling her bulge, though, her attention drawn to Kyou.  Her shocked look was quickly replaced with a hungry grin as she stepped forward on her extreme heels with no apparent trouble and reached out for Kyou’s breasts, pressing them together as her thumbs rubbed lightly over Kyou’s nipples, latex squeaking softly.

    Gasping, Kyou’s tail thrashed, and a pleasure-filled look washed over him as he struggled to remain upright.

    “Ohhh, I think I’m going to enjoy playing with these,” Gloria said in a throaty purr.  “Mmm, with tits like these, you’re-  AH!”  Gloria gasped, suddenly standing almost rigidly straight, her new ears twitching, tail thrashing about in surprise.  Kyou’s hand had found her new bulge, and was giving it a few experimental squeezes, his thumb rubbing over the general area where the penis shaft would have been.  Gloria groaned softly, eyes rolling back.

    “And I think I’m going to have a ball playing with this,” Kyou managed, grinning as he panted for air.  “I never imagined something like this was even possible!”

    Misha kept an amused smile on her face, watching as the two giggled and groped at one another, before they pressed themselves together, latex squeaking amidst their increasingly heated moans.  She felt herself getting warmer, especially her face, but not just because of the amorous play going on in front of her.  As much fun as the two were having, Misha just couldn’t manage to bring herself to tell them that she had not intended that particular effect for the suits.  In fact, she had no idea how the prototypes could even begin to simulate the sensations of actual breasts or male parts.  She ran through her design concepts, tried to recall those long, early morning hours when she had worked on the latex compositions and internal suit mechanics and electronics…but nowhere could she recall having something that even vaguely resembled such a feature.

    But…could she reproduce such a feature reliably?  If so, she would be lightyears beyond her nearest competitors in the adult latex clothing market.  What other sensations could she simulate, then?  The suits already had full body stimulation via vibration and even mild to moderate electrical shocks, but if they could simulate additional body parts, where was the actual limit?  There was so much uncharted territory suddenly laid out in front of her!

    A suddenly loud, passionate cry from Gloria brought Misha back to the present, however, and as she blinked, she saw that Kyou and Gloria were pressed firmly against one another, grinding excitedly, breasts and bulges squeaking and rubbing together.  Kyou’s eyes rolled back as he let out a heated groan, and she could tell that both of them were getting very close to a climax.  Misha felt her lips twitch, then a smirk formed upon them.  This was her demonstration, and it was far too early for anyone to be getting off just yet!  If anyone should be brought to an intense orgasm, it should be her!  It was her hard work responsible for all the pleasure, after all, and she did have the controls for those suits!

    Feeling a little surprised at herself, Misha turned to the controllers, squirming in her own suit as she reached out for the screens.  She wasn’t usually that dominant, but now, she found the position rather appealing.  To be in absolute control…of not one, but two willing, horny beauties who were eager to explore all the features of her prototypes, who were so close to a climax.  What would they do if those pleasurable sensations suddenly stopped?  If they found themselves on the edge, and just couldn’t make themselves take that next step no matter what?  Not without begging for it, not without pleasing Misha first, anyway.  Misha’s mind suddenly saw an image of Honey, trapped inside her own suit, squirming and pleading to Misha, Mistress Misha, or maybe Mistress Leopard, the personification of the company mascot?  Honey, on her knees, trapped not only within a suit, but with the most heavy-duty chastity gear possible, begging for forgiveness, feeling so many new sensations thanks to the sensory emulation features of the suit-

    Misha sucked in her breath, squeezing her legs together, realizing that the hand that hadn’t been going for the controllers was now upon her breast, massaging one of her erect nipples.  “No, not her, not now!  She’ll get her comeuppance eventually, but for now, she’s not allowed in my headspace, not tonight!”  Another heated cry from Gloria returned Misha fully to the present, and her naughty, latex-encased playthings.

    She quickly tapped a couple sliders on the controllers, toggling the settings on.  “Okay you two, that’s enough of that!  I don’t recall you asking me for permission for any orgasms!”  Only slightly surprised at the commanding tone in her voice, Misha turned to the pair, hands on her hips as she eagerly watched their reactions with growing amusement.

    They didn’t notice at first, as they were so enthralled in their pleasures, their desires driving them to continue their vigorous grinding, but after a few seconds, their passionate sounds faded and they looked from each other to Misha, then back again.  Gloria pulled herself away from Kyou and reached for her tits, which were now completely smooth, her hands feeling them up as if searching their shiny surfaces for something more than just her own nipples that had seemingly vanished.

    Kyou’s hands instead went between his legs, probing at his crotch and the now somewhat enlarged bulge, eyes growing wider above his reddened cheeks.  One hand reached for Gloria, feeling her enlarged bulge.  “D-do you feel anything now?”

    “No, not a thing…it’s like…oh, it’s so strange!” Gloria replied after a moment, reaching out to pinch Kyou’s smooth breasts.  “Anything, sweetheart?”

    Kyou shook his head.  “Just a very faint pressure, but I’m still so horny.  I mean, I can feel that I’m as hard as ever, but…”

    They turned to Misha together, eyes wide, mouths agape.  She smiled back at them, raising her chin.  “That, my lovely playthings, is chastity mode!  I felt that things were getting a little too hot and heavy quite a bit too fast, and that I wasn’t getting enough attention!”  Misha strode forward, keeping her pace measured as the two began to grasp their situation.  “If you’ll recall, I’m the one holding your leashes for now, so that means I am the one who determines exactly who gets to come and who doesn’t.”  To emphasize the point, once Misha was close enough, she reached out to each of their necks, making a circular motion with one finger against their throats.  Each of their suits shifted and changed its form again, the mutable latex forming a wide, stiff collar around each of their necks, complete with dangling leashes, which she took in one hand.

    “M-Misha, I don’t-” Gloria started, her mouth closing quickly as Misha raised a finger.

    “Ah ah, no speaking without permission!” Misha said.  She reached out to Gloria’s mouth with her free hand, grasping the tiny zipper that rested there.  With a gentle but firm tug, she sealed it across Gloria’s lovely, full lips.  Gloria’s eyes widened at this, but Misha wasn’t done.  Tapping her finger against the now zipped mouth of Gloria’s hood, Misha watched Gloria’s eyes grow wider as her cheeks momentarily bulged behind the mask, a surprised groan escaping her.  The hood had formed a mouth-filling ball gag within, the latex sliding past Gloria’s lips in an instant.  Then, as an added measure of security, the mouth zipper vanished in a ripple of latex, first forming a smooth, featureless surface, then rippling again, forming into a pair of exaggerated, red lips.

    “Oh, wow!  That’s incredible!” Kyou said, having watched everything that had just happened with Gloria with wide eyes.  “Misha, that-”

    “What did I say?” Misha said quickly, cutting off Kyou with a raised finger in front of his face.  Before he could say anything else, she likewise sealed the zipper over his mouth and tapped his lips, watching his own cheeks bulge as a gag was formed, and then as his own pair of exaggerated lips were created.

    Kyou moaned softly, reaching up to feel his face, glancing at Gloria with an amused glint in his eyes.  Gloria seemed amused as well, a muffled chuckle coming from her as she took in Kyou’s new lips.

    “There, now we can start the testing properly!” Misha said, her voice still holding onto that commanding tone she was quickly discovering that she enjoyed.  Misha raised the hand that wasn’t holding their leashes, forming a fist as she did a quick pawing motion.  “Paws up!”

    Uncertain looks turned to fresh surprise in Kyou’s and Gloria’s eyes as they mimicked the motion with their hands, the latex instantly reforming itself into smooth, rounded mittens over their hands.  That only lasted a moment, however, as the latex around their wrists bulged outward and flowed over their already useless hands, ballooning and growing until they had formed a pair of oversized paw mitts, matching the coloration of their ears and tails, but with pink paw pads mimicking those of cats.

    “Now you’re looking more like proper kitties!” Misha said, giggling with her own amusement as the two pawed at her, then each other.  After a few moments, she gave a downward tug on the leashes, pointing at the floor.  “Kneel; your mistress has something she must attend to.”

    Kyou mewed eagerly, lowering himself to his knees, Gloria following suit a moment later, making her own mewling sound, very nearly as natural as Kyou’s had sounded.

    Though it likely wasn’t needed, Misha nonetheless made use of a particular feature of Kyou’s studio which happened to be right in front of the kneeling pair, a flattened ring that normally sat flush into the floor, normally used for some of Kyou’s rigging, either for lights and sets, or for actual ropework, depending on the particular photoshoot.  Misha quickly looped the leashes through the ring and tied them off; the pair could struggle out of them if they tried, and Misha wondered just how playful her kitties were going to be.  Deciding that she should probably be extra cautious, she returned to their controllers and tapped the screens. Surprised gasps came from the pair as their high heels morphed, turning into paws that matched those on their hands.  That would make sure neither of them managed to get to their feet to try to run away!

    That done, Misha hurried to the case that had contained her own suit, plucking the hood out of it and quickly donning it, letting it seal in place.  Taking a few seconds to grin over at Gloria and Kyou as they playfully pawed at one another, apparently still trying to produce some kind of stimulus to get them over that edge that the suits were holding them at, she brought out her own suit’s controller and tapped at the screen.  She had a sudden idea for an even smaller control system, or maybe some kind of system built specifically in the suit, but had to file that one away for later.  Now was certainly not the time!

    Selecting several different customization options, Misha hit the button to activate the changes, and sucked in her breath as her own suit began to shift and change shape over her body, starting with a ripple at the top of her hooded head that spread all the way down to her feet.  It really was a strange experience, feeling the latex flowing and reforming, squeezing and lightly pinching as it morphed.  Strange, but arousing in its own way.  She suppressed a moan as her mind focused on the sensations, feeling her nipples harden, her pussy clench as her arousal grew.  Was this what shapeshifting felt like?

    When Misha finally turned back to face the two kitties on the floor, she noted the surprised looks in their eyes, feeling a surge of satisfaction shoot through her.  That was exactly the effect she had wanted.

    Her suit had changed itself quite drastically from the catsuit it had started off as.  The hood no longer covered her head completely, letting her hair fall naturally around a latex domino mask.  From her neck, black latex spread downward, forming into what at first glance was a leotard over her torso, with a pair of opera-length gloves upon her arms, her latex-covered fingernails now in green, resembling blunted claws.  However, at a second glance, the skin upon her shoulders and exposed thighs wasn’t actually skin, rather flesh-colored latex.  A red corset had formed about her midsection, not quite as tight as those of her pets, but still enough to slim her shape a bit and not nearly as tall, as it didn’t quite reach her breasts, and didn’t extend all the way to her hips.  A trio of belts formed of latex ran down the front of the corset, the rubber buckles in green as an additional bit of accent color.  Below her flesh-colored thighs were a pair of tightly fitting black thigh boots, a series of smaller red straps and green buckles traversing their length from near the top all the way to her ankles, the four-inch heels themselves in red, like the soles of the pointed-toe boots.

    “There,” Misha said, sauntering to the table and the bag of toys she had brought along with her that evening.  She unzipped the bag and reached inside, pulling out a riding crop, which she tapped against her left palm as she turned to face the two latex kitties, licking her lips.  “Now that I’m properly dressed, we can finally start exploring absolutely everything these suits can do!  I have a feeling it’s going to be a long night!”

    Kyou and Gloria meowed excitedly, turning their full attention to Misha as they rested on their knees, each raising a paw to her, their ears and tails raised attentively, eyes looking upon her with growing excitement.  Inwardly, Misha beamed.  She had a nagging nervousness that she had been suppressing as she had taken control of the two, wondering if perhaps she had gone too far, or whether they were really into what she had done.  Seeing their positive responses as they were now both meowing for attention and pawing at the floor, she let the rest of her lingering uncertainty fade away.  Tonight she was in charge, and she was going to enjoy herself!  She chuckled, walking to her kitties, riding crop tapping against her hand.

    The fun was only just starting.

    The End of the Honey Trap, Misha Kyle Trilogy Part 1

    Misha Kyle Will Return…


    Well, that certainly was a much better time for Misha, wasn’t it?  Though I think Kyou and Gloria may have wound up getting in over their heads once Misha got going with her special latex outfits.  She’s something of a mad scientist in that regard.

    Hope you’ve all enjoyed this adventure!  Misha will be returning as stated above; I’ve already got the second part of the trilogy planned out for the most part, and may have even started writing it by the time this posts.  Her encounters with the Tempest family aren’t done yet, and there’s still that dangling, Honey-colored thread that will have to be dealt with.

    What’s in store for Misha next?

    Stay tuned, and find out!  But for next week, something a little different…

    Until next time, Urban out!

    Hit me over on DeviantArt, or on my Discord server!  I’m usually always around, and would love to hear what you have to say!

  • The Honey Trap – Part 2

    Chapter One of the Misha Kyle Trilogy

    The Honey Trap – Part 2

    With her memory returning from whatever Honey had used to knock her out, Misha found herself furious, angrily tugging at the chains that held her limbs.  The vibrators kicked on again, immediately going wide open.  She squealed, biting into the ball gag and thrashed about, her anger at being kidnapped overwhelming the intensely pleasurable feelings of the toys, at least momentarily.  It wasn’t long before even her outrage was being subsumed by her body’s natural response to the intense stimulation, and she found herself panting and moaning.

    Just as she was nearing climax again, the vibrations stopped dead, and she screamed in frustration, jerking at the bindings again.  She could barely see thanks to the fog covering her lenses, but in the next moment, another feature of the suit activated, defogging said lenses, a little cool air circulating over Misha’s face.  Well, that was another system successfully tested at least…

    “Now, now, love, nobody’s getting off around here unless I’m included.”

    Misha went still and whipped her gaze toward the voice of her kidnapper, who had appeared in the darkened doorway, probably the bathroom. She stepped out of the room and to a nearby switch on the wall, and warm lighting came up, revealing that she was still dressed as she had been before, though holding a familiar control pad in one hand.  “That’s a really neat outfit you have there, Misha.  Where’d you buy something like it, anyway?  Controls are really complex, though.  It kept asking for this security code to unlock everything, but I guess I entered the wrong one too many times, and now it says it needs some kind of override?  All I can really do is play with the vibrators.  That’s pretty cool, though, huh?”

    “Whhash?!” Misha exclaimed around the ball in her mouth, eyes going wide as she glared daggers at Honey.  She’d locked the controls?!  The only way to unlock the internal locks of the suit now was to get to the interface at her office on her personal workstation!

    Honey sauntered over to the bed, one hand on her hip while she fiddled with the control.  “Hey, don’t get mad at me!  You should’ve come up with something simple like 1234 or all zeros or something!  Is it like a time lock?  Or do you have like a master or mistress or someone who can unlock it?  Kinky girl!”

    Misha screamed wordlessly into the gag as the vibrators started up again, on a lower setting than before, in fact, probably their lowest setting possible, just enough to tease her.

    Honey crawled up the bed and atop Misha, settling herself over Misha’s crotch and waist, grabbing up handfuls of Misha’s latex-covered breasts, working them in a circular motion while pinching Misha’s nipples between her fingers.  “You’ve got really nice tits, Misha.  A shame I can’t suck on them, though.  Those zippers must be jammed up or something, and I evenI tried ripping that suit open, but it’s like the strongest latex I’ve ever seen!  Still, we can find some ways to entertain ourselves, huh?”

    As Honey leaned forward, puckering her lips to try and kiss Misha’s through the latex, Misha snarled and threw her head forward, it being the most unrestrained (relatively speaking) part of her body at the moment.  She narrowly missed crashing her forehead into Honey’s face, the other woman jerking back at the last possible moment.

    “Hey now, I like it rough, but not that kind of rough!  Bad girl!”  Honey’s hands shifted, and then Misha squealed as her nipples were pinched through the suit.  “I swear, what kind of ungrateful bitch acts like that when I’m nice enough to plan this pleasant little getaway for us this weekend?  Sure, you might’ve paid for the room with your credit card and all, but I did all the hard work planning it!”

    She’d used Misha’s credit card?!  Was nothing sacred to this woman?!  Misha howled into the gag, thrashing beneath Honey and let loose with a string of angry curses and garbled threats.

    Honey had an amused grin on her lips at Misha’s response, and tweaked her captive’s nipples again, eliciting another howl.  “Oh, it’s not like it was that expensive!  I could’ve gone for the really fancy place uptown, you know!  Completely ungrateful!  Well, I know how to deal with the likes of you!”  Honey slipped backward and fell back on the bed between Misha’s spread legs, raising her own legs.  She deftly plucked her high-heeled shoes from her feet, wiggling her sock-covered toes.  The socks looked just as dirty as the ones Misha remembered having been used when she was kidnapped.  Honey lowered her feet quickly, pressing them over Misha’s face and nose.  “Breathe deep, love!  You’ll never smell anything so sweet as these!”

    If the stench coming off those socks is sweet, I’m a damn superhero!” Misha thought, holding her breath as Honey’s feet pressed over her face.  She was glad for the goggles on the hood, but with only two tiny nose holes for air, she didn’t have any way else to breathe.  Maybe an integrated gas mask should be an option on the next version…

    “You can’t resist me forever, Misha!  Gonna have to breathe sometime!” Honey said in a mocking tone, the toes of her left foot squeezing down over Misha’s nose.  “Go on now, you’ll really enjoy this, trust me!”

    Knowing that she wouldn’t, Misha stubbornly tried to roll her head side to side, tried to buck her body to dislodge her captor, but Honey was remarkably agile, easily keeping herself atop Misha and holding her feet firmly planted upon Misha’s face.  With her lungs quickly losing what air she’d manage to trap, and her struggles burning it much faster, Misha’s mind fought to come up with some way to wiggle out of the situation she found herself in, but realized she basically had no options to work with.

    “Lungs must be burning by now…” Honey mused, her toes pinching Misha’s nose again.  She began humming, and Misha could just barely hear a faint beeping.

    The controller!

    As the realization struck, Misha felt the plugs and pads inside the suit thrum powerfully, raging onto their full powered output.  Her teeth sunk into the ball that filled her mouth and she fought to resist her body’s need for air, but with the intense stimulation, she couldn’t resist the burning in her chest any longer.

    Fearing the worst, Misha gasped for air, sucking it in greedily through her nose.

    Though difficult, she did pull in air between Honey’s sock-covered toes, and Misha’s stomach churned at the strong aroma that filled her nose.  Her mind was at a loss to describe the power of the stench, though she imagined an entire team of football players having worn the same socks all season, for practices and actual games, having tossed them in a pile atop her head being somewhere close, maybe a step or two below what she experienced now.

    “Simply divine, hmmm?  That’s a Honey special you’re getting right there, love.  The food of the gods, even!”  Honey let out a haughty laugh, wiggling her toes over Misha’s face.  “Not to your liking?  Give it a minute, you’ll change your mind.  You know, I usually charge for this kind of thing; you wouldn’t believe how many people out there would give up their life savings for something like what you’re getting for free.”

    Misha couldn’t be bothered to dwell on what Honey had told her, never being one to kink-shame, but it definitely wasn’t for her!  She felt lightheaded as the continued odor filled her nostrils, though she managed to breathe easily enough as Honey’s toes continued to wiggle.  As she lay helplessly beneath Honey’s fragrant feet, the lenses on her hood fully fogged up again, and she noticed a peculiar shift in the scent.

    “Just keep taking me in, love.  You’ll find your situation a lot more bearable if you just go with the flow.”

    Sure enough, the essence of the powerfully pungent pungency began to change as it flowed through Misha’s nose, becoming noticeably less stomach-churning.  In fact, it seemed to be taking on a sharp, sweet scent, like some kind of fruity, honeyed drink.  Eyes rolling, her body felt warmer than it was a moment ago, and the buzzing vibrators in her nethers and upon her chest felt suddenly more intense as her arousal again spiked upward.

    That certainly wasn’t normal!  What was going on?!

    “Yeah, that’s the ticket…feeling all high on Honey’s special love funk, aren’t you?  Bet you’d be begging for me to let you come if you didn’t have that big ball in your mouth.  Come on, Misha, let me know how you’re feeling, and just maybe I’ll give you what you want.”

    Writhing beneath Honey, Misha again tried to pull her face away from Honey’s feet, but again failed.  The aroma made her body tingle and feel warm, and she felt the heat growing fast between her legs.  With an angry squeal, she shook her head violently, forcing her mind to overcome the aroused state her body had found itself in.  Through misted lenses, she glared down toward Honey and proceeded to give the ganguro her true feelings.

    Misha flipped Honey the bird with both of her bound hands.

    Gasping in surprise, Honey pulled her feet away gaping at Misha between her legs and sock-covered feet.  “You ungrateful little bitch!  What is it with you, anyway?!  I’m trying to help you relax and you keep throwing it in my face!  Fine!  You know what, I don’t care anymore.  I’m going to take what I want, and you’re just going to have to do without!”

    As Honey finally removed her stinky, sock-covered feet from the vicinity of Misha’s face and slipped off of the bed, allowing her a deep breath of fairly clear air, Misha could only wonder what was going through the woman’s head for her to get it in her mind that kidnapping someone to help them relax was a normal kind of thing, or that she just expected Misha to go along with it.

    Then another thought sent a chill through Misha.  Honey had said that she was trying to help her relax!  How could she have known about that unless she’d been listening in on her conversation with Kyou?!  How long had she been spying on them?  Did personal space mean nothing to her?!  Obviously not…

    Over at a nearby table, heart-shaped like everything else because of course it was, Honey had unzipped a gym bag and was digging around inside with an angry, pouty look on her face.  “Some bitches just won’t get the clue…” she muttered, picking up what looked like a panel gag harness with a thick penis-plug on the inside for the mouth, looking it over, then back to Misha, before she shook her head and dropped it back into the bag.  “Nah…not big enough…” she said, licking her lips.  “Now this one I think will work just fine.”

    Misha caught only a glimpse of the object Honey had removed next before the rainbow-highlighted blond had put it down on the far side of the bag, but it looked like a double-ended dildo with a harness.  Not liking where this was going, Misha tugged at the chains again, thinking that if she could just get one hand free she could quickly uncouple the other chains on her limbs and try to effect an escape, but they were holding on just as stubbornly as she had resisted Honey.

    Honey had pulled a coil of thin black tubing from the bag, along with another larger dildo with straps dangling from it, followed by a couple of smaller black leather belts and a vibrating wand with a rounded, bulbous head.  She flipped the switch, and a powerful hum filled the air for a moment before she flipped it off again.  She finally looked back to Misha with a smug smirk.  “You might think you’re going to enjoy this, but if you think you’re going to be allowed to come, then you’re going to be sorely disappointed.  Nobody’s coming in here besides me!”

    Getting the feeling that sex was about all Honey cared about, Misha set her jaw defiantly around the ball in her mouth and flipped her middle fingers at Honey again.

    “We’ve got all weekend, love.  You’ll be begging me properly before long,” said the ganguro as she brought her armful of toys and to the bed, dropping them between Misha’s spread legs.  She snatched up the control for the prototype again and slid her fingers over it.  “Limited options and all, but this ‘teaser’ mode sounds just right.”  As she tapped it again, the intensity of the vibrations inside the suit dropped dramatically, going down to a low, barely perceptible hum.

    Knowing exactly what the setting was for, Misha couldn’t help but groan, though she also narrowed her eyes defiantly.  The built-in sensors of the prototype should be able to determine just how close the wearer was to orgasm and stop all stimulation, keeping them on edge.  They should even be able to detect an outside stimulus and compensate for it to some extent, though the whole sub-system hadn’t been tested yet.  This was not what she had planned for a beta test at all!

    Honey tossed the controller aside, pausing to lick her lips and look over Misha.  “Guess what?”  After a moment of silence, Honey raised her skirt, revealing her white panties, with a sizable wet spot in the crotch.  “I’m feelin’ it, love, and when Honey gets hungry, she eats.”

    Feeling it was a rather strange phrase, Misha nonetheless was helpless as Honey climbed back onto the bed and put her hands upon Misha’s hips, sliding her nails down the smooth latex just hard enough for Misha to feel them.  Looking very much like a hungry jungle cat on the prowl, she picked up the large dildo and harness and started fitting them over Misha’s crotch and hips.

    Misha bucked and shook her hips back and forth, but this only amused her captor as she positioned the dildo just so, and then snugged up the harness over Misha’s hips, tightened up a third strap over her crotch.  Seething at what Honey was doing, Misha’s whole body was tense, her hands curled into fists as Honey finally finished her task and flopped back on the bed, raising her dirty socks into view again, wiggling her toes.

    “If you were a guy, you’d be getting a taste of these down here,” Honey said, rubbing her feet along the girth of the dildo rising at least a foot from Misha’s crotch, wiggling her toes along the shaft, working them up and down its length in what seemed to be a very practiced manner.  Given what Misha had already learned about Honey, it was no surprise that the slutty schoolgirl had a tried and true method to her footjobs.

    “But you’re not a guy; I know, I looked,” Honey said after a few more teasing motions with her feet, laughing as she got to her knees and scooted herself up to the dildo, pressing her wet panties against it and rubbing herself up and down along the shaft, a heated moan coming from her.  “So…this is all for me since you’re so selfish.”

    Who was the selfish one?!” Misha wondered angrily.  The last she had checked, ‘honey’ wasn’t a synonym for ‘hypocrite’, but maybe there had been a meeting about it she hadn’t been privy to.  Regardless, the fact that the dark-skinned, rainbow-haired schoolgirl was getting herself off on top of Misha left her livid, and she rocked back and forth trying to dislodge the clingy, horny woman.

    Misha’s withering glare had apparently gone unnoticed, thanks partially to those mirrored lenses, but also because Honey was far too fixated on the dildo, rubbing her panties vigorously along its length, the wet spot spreading to encompass most of the front panel of the skimpy material.  She had taken one hand to her chest, popping open her blouse to grope at her breasts, and had let out another loud, heated moan.

    Through her anger, Misha had a curious thought.  Exactly how old was Honey?  She was certainly acting like a super-horny teenager and looked the part, but the fact that she had a bag full of toys and had apparently practiced the art of kidnapping victims for her sexual escapades enough to be disappointed when one actually resisted her spoke of someone with quite a few more years behind them.

    That train of thought got diverted when the prototype started humming again, making Misha quiver beneath Honey.  The powerful vibrations immediately did what they were intended to do, driving the bound redhead quickly to another peak of pleasure, just on the edge of release, and, as predicted, cut off moments before Misha could come.  As she groaned with frustration, Misha narrowed her eyes at Honey, who had laughed, smirking down at her while still rubbing herself against the dildo.

    “Looks like you’re ready, love!  That’s just the kind of frustrated sound I wanted to hear.  I don’t suppose you’ve changed your mind and want to play along?”

    Misha spat a quick ‘Screw you!’ at Honey before she could think of the implications of how the woman might take it, and quickly gave an angry shake of her fists and bucked her hips, rolling from side to side to try to dislodge her captor.

    “Didn’t think so;  redheads are always the hottest when they’re angry, though.”  Honey licked her lips hungrily as she repositioned herself, rising up so that she was balanced with her feet on either side of Misha, her crotch positioned over the head of the dildo.  She quickly pulled her bra down, revealing that her nipples were pierced with a pair of silver rings, a stark contrast to her dark tan.  Then she pulled her panties aside, revealing her glistening pussy, and showing that her clit and labia were pierced with a trio of similar rings.  She practically dropped herself atop the large dildo, crying out in near-orgasmic pleasure as she took it fully inside of her.

    Misha was at first surprised that Honey could take such a large dildo inside all at once, and then thought better of it, realizing that she must have had quite a lot of practice at such things.  She looked on helplessly, her eyes wide as Honey began pumping herself up and down atop the dildo, her juices splattering over the latex of the suit and Honey’s thighs.

    Honey panted heatedly, both hands pinching and twisting at her nipple rings, her eyes toward the mirrored ceiling.  “Try to enjoy yourself, love!  I know I’m enjoying you!” she said between gasping breaths.

    For her part, Misha could only try to move away but continued to fail as the chains held her fast.  She was thankful for the prototype’s full covering of latex but was quite irked that Honey’s love juices were splattering all over it.  She’d have to give it a full clean up and sterilization just as soon as she could.  She was further angered when the vibrators started up again, teasing her own nipples and pussy, getting them hotter and wetter, and making her squirm.

    “Ohhh…I can feel you getting into it.  Just go with the flow, Misha love!  Don’t be so resistant!” Honey cried, pumping herself faster and faster up and down the dildo.

    Because Honey wanted it so badly, Misha felt obliged to keep resisting her, and did just that, biting down on her ball gag as she glared up at her captor, forcing her mind to think of anything besides sex and her situation.  Mostly she thought about what she’d do to Honey if she could just get her hands on her, making sure she was just as miserable as Misha before the cops were called in.  The suit’s vibrations stopped again, but the woman atop her continued her rapid pumping, her pleasure-filled cries becoming faster and louder.

    Misha grimaced as Honey came, the woman crying out in what could only have been an overly-exaggerated manner meant to make Misha feel jealous.  Her sex juices splashed and splattered as rapid pumping slowed into more deliberate, strong slams of her thighs against Misha.  Misha could smell the strong musk of Honey’s come filling the air, jerking her fists and feet against the chains angrily as some of it splattered against the lenses of her prototype.

    “Ohhhh my god!  Misha, you’re so good!” Honey cried in a breathy voice, falling forward so that she was upon her knees and elbows, her exposed breasts pressing against Misha’s as she looked down at her captive with that smug grin she wore so well.  “Don’t you just wish you could come like that?”  She rocked forward and back slightly, revealing that the dildo secured to Misha was still inside her, and no doubt she was still dripping all over the suit.

    As the suit’s teasing vibrations started again, Misha gave Honey an angry shake of her head and offered her a garbled piece of her mind around the ball in her mouth.

    Honey rolled her eyes.  “You’re no fun at all!  Should I have chained you to a desk in front of a laptop or something so you could check your TPS reports or whatever it is that you do for a living?  Maybe that would get you into the mood?  No?  Geeze, what does it take to please you, anyway?”

    Letting me go so I can slap you a few times would be great for starters,” Misha thought as Honey continued to rankle her.

    Honey picked herself up so that she stood on her knees, and leered down at Misha, her hips moving forward and back as she continued working the dildo inside her.  Her hands went to Misha’s breasts, taking firm hold of them and squeezing.  “You know, I think I’ve got you figured out, Misha love.  You’re one of those types who just can’t be happy unless you’re making others suffer.  That’s got to be it!  Why else would you not be getting into our little date night, hmm?”

    Misha rolled her eyes.  Honey couldn’t have been more wrong, but nothing she’d done so far had been right, anyway.  Why start now?

    “I’ve got just the thing for you then!  It’s one of those commands I still have access to on that suit of yours that seems just perfect for you!”  Honey looked around the bed, finally found the controller again, and licked her lips as she made a show of picking it up and looking down at Misha.  “Punishment mode sounds amazing, doesn’t it?”

    Misha tensed beneath Honey, sucking in a sharp breath as she steeled herself.  She hadn’t actually tested out the punishment mode yet, at least not for herself.  She knew what it could do in theory, sure, but as to exactly what it would feel like when the suit decided to go full power, she couldn’t say.  She’d never been particularly masochistic, at least not more than a spanking or a nipple tweak anyway, so this was new territory.

    Honey tapped at the screen, a warning beeped, and she tapped again to authorize the mode.  “Ohhh, that’s so neat!  I can’t shut it off since the whole suit is in lockdown!  Isn’t that neat, Misha?”

    Having almost no time to think up a response, or about how she had overlooked that particular aspect of the mode settings during the programming phase, or maybe it was just something Honey had ruined with all of her fiddling, Misha squealed as a sharp electrical jolt went through her nipples.  Honey even squealed, though in a more delighted tone, as Misha bucked beneath her and pushed the dildo further inside her.  “That hurt!  Oh, crap, I need to turn that down, or make a masochist special mode for that kind of pain!” she thought as the pain subsided, though the relief was short-lived as pinpricks of electrical discharge started playing over her feet, like little needles dancing along her soles.

    As Misha squirmed, Honey laughed, tossing the controller aside again, bouncing herself up and down atop the dildo, letting out a breathy moan.  “Maybe I should have started with this?  Oh, oh, oh!  I have a better idea!  You’re going to love this…well, maybe not, but I’m going to love this, and since you’re being such a stick in the mud, I guess I’m only out to please myself right now, huh?”

    How is that any different than normal?” Misha thought, jerking her legs as the pinprick jolts started randomly stabbing at her, moving slowly up her spread limbs.  It was obvious to her that Honey couldn’t care two licks about Misha right now, other than how she could use her captive for her own pleasures.

    Honey leaned to one side, picking up the gag harness from before.  As she worked the straps to straighten and align them, Misha caught sight of the gag itself and grimaced.  The inner part, the part she’d have to suffer with, was a thick pink penis gag, with a ball-like bulge at the base where it changed over to the much larger pink dildo, maybe bigger than the one she had strapped to her crotch.  The worst part of the design, though, was the fact that there were many small holes throughout both ends of the gag, obviously designed to make sure the wearer got the full flavor experience from the one using the dildo.

    “Be a good girl for once and let me get this on without a fight, huh?” Honey leaned forward, and Misha immediately turned her head away as the slutty schoolgirl reached for the zipper that held the mask’s mouth shut.  Honey grunted with annoyance.  “Always so difficult!”

    Almost as if it were aware that she was being unruly, Misha yelped as another sharp electrical jolt fired, this time in a line across her ass, then on the underside of her breasts.  The intensity put her in mind of being physically slapped, and she at once was happy that the effect was what she had intended, but not so much that it was currently being used against its creator!

    Honey’s hand shot out quickly as Misha tried to recover from the latest jolt, snatching her nose and holding tight.  Still with that smug smile looking down upon her, Honey seemed content to wait.  “How long will you last, hmmm?  Can’t breathe through your mouth, so…”

    Head jerking side to side, Misha was helpless against Honey’s intentions.  She couldn’t dislodge Honey’s surprisingly powerful grip on her nose, almost as if she were stuck there like her namesake.  Two more electrical jolts fired in succession against her ass, making her jerk.  She hadn’t managed a good full breath before Honey had closed off her air, so she already felt the burning in her lungs starting as she growled into the ball in her mouth.  The stinging pinpricks continued over her torso, right into the most sensitive parts of her underarms and breasts, causing her to jerk involuntarily.  Tears rimmed her eyes behind the fogged up lenses, and she let out a pleading moan as her lungs soon ached for more air.

    “What’s that?  Is that a different tone I’m hearing?  Are you saying you’re going to be a good little playmate for once and not fight me so that I can get this in place?  What’s that?  I can’t hear you, love.”

    Whimpering, Misha nodded as best she could.  “Ysh!  Ysh, awl bwe gssh! (Yes!  Yes, I’ll be good!)” she managed to say, her lungs burning.  Another jolt hit her right across her lower back, making her buck and squeal weakly.  She saw stars in her vision now.

    “You’re gonna get it if you’re lying to me,” Honey replied at last, still holding to Misha’s nose as her other hand sat the gag down on Misha’s chest before undoing the zipper over her mouth; unlike the zippers further down, the mouth zipper wasn’t magnetically sealed, in the name of safety.

    Misha felt the coolness of the outside air upon her lips, and opened her mouth wide, trying to suck in as much air as she could manage around the ball as Honey’s fingers pushed in on either side.  As much as she wanted to fight back, even to the point of biting, she needed to breathe!  After what seemed to be forever, Honey managed to get her fingers on the saliva-drenched ball and pulled it from between Misha’s teeth, allowing her at least a few cool, deep breaths before she released her nose and brought the other gag to bear.

    Still sorely tempted to bite at Honey’s fingers, Misha managed to resist her baser urges, resigning herself to her fate for now, and let the penis-shaped end of the gag between her lips.  She winced, not only from the size of the gag but from the near-constant pin-pricks that assailed her body, making her jerk against her chains.  Honey pushed the gag deeper, and Misha gagged as it hit the back of her throat.  With just a bit more effort, Honey popped the ball end between Misha’s teeth and set to securing the straps around the captive Misha’s head.

    “That’s not so bad, is it?  You don’t do a lot of cocksucking, do you?  That’s really not that big,” Honey said, tugging the straps tight.

    Groaning, Misha’s eyes stared at the massive dildo now protruding from her face, feeling dizzy at just the thought of something like that going inside her.  Though grateful for the increased air coming through the holes in the device, she knew what she was in for, and wasn’t looking forward to it.  She cried out again as a strong discharge attached her right nipple, leaving it with a throbbing sting.

    “Ooof, that looked like it hurt,” Honey said, snickering as she finished securing the dildo gag harness, patting the top of Misha’s head.  “Guess you should’ve gone along with me, huh?  Oh well, too late for that now!  Do try to enjoy yourself, love; this is as much for you as it is for me.”

    Knowing that was a lie, Misha’s eyes watched through the fogged lenses as Honey finally rose up on the bed and pulled herself from the dildo at Misha’s crotch.  She could just barely feel the patter of juices dripping from Honey’s pussy as the slutty schoolgirl moved over Misha’s head, turning herself around so that she faced Misha’s feet.  Though it hadn’t touched her yet, Misha winced as more of the juices dripped from Honey’s glistening, hairless pussy and splattered against the mask’s lenses.  She could make out a rather pungent odor that mingled with the lingering powerful aroma of Honey’s dirty socks, knowing it was the scent of Honey’s lust.

    “Mmmm, I’ve been waiting for this, love!” Honey said, lowering herself quickly upon the dildo, barely even having to guide it with her hand.  She practically dropped her full weight upon it in one quick movement, screaming with what Misha assumed was pain, but could have just as easily been an intense pleasure, more of her juices splattering as she pressed herself down over Misha’s head.

    Whimpering, Misha was overwhelmed by the powerful scent of Honey’s pussy, and resisted breathing in.  She couldn’t see now, at least anything that wasn’t Honey’s most intimate parts, and the way the blond-haired slut was grinding against Misha’s face, she had her doubts that she could breathe anyway.

    Misha screamed and pulled her limbs against the chains, a series of quick, painful jolts from the suit landing all over her body, from shoulders down, far faster than even a well-trained man or woman with a whip could land blows.  To her disgust, Honey writhed atop her, moaning and panting as Misha’s struggles moved the dildo inside her.

    “Yes! Yes, that’s it Misha, love!  More like that!”  Honey screamed, bouncing herself up and down quickly, like a hyper child begging for candy.

    Having little choice in the matter, Misha let out a dejected groan, feeling Honey’s juices over her lips, and worse, sliding down through the holes in the dildo.  What felt like a booming explosion against her ass caused her to buck her hips upward, and she involuntarily gasped for air, getting little but the heated scent of Honey mixing with the powerful taste of her sexual fluids.  “This is so gross!” Misha thought, squealing angrily as she tried to wiggle out from beneath her captor, jerking her body, tugging at the chains holding her arms and legs, trying to sink deeper into the bed just to get away.

    Misha’s head spun as she panted for air through her nose, which Honey’s ass seemed to be blocking, getting nothing but the scent of Honey’s arousal mixed with perfume and rubber.  But, as the juices started into her mouth, she became aware that they weren’t what she had expected.

    Strangely, the flavor was…sweet, again like the slutty schoolgirl’s namesake.  As it trickled through the gag and over her tongue, Misha felt a distinct tingling sensation, similar to a really hot pepper, but it quickly became more intense and spread from her mouth down her throat, and then through her body, the more Honey rocked herself around the dildo.  Her body felt warmer, and a haze started to fill her mind, and Misha began to feel the intensity of the lust inside Honey, only in herself.

    And she wanted more!

    Then she snapped out of the strange pleasure haze as her tits were grabbed by two very strong hands, squeezing them and pinching at her nipples, and at the same time an electrical discharge landed atop her pussy, making her squeal.  “What is going on?!  Why does that keep happening?  I’m not enjoying this!  Why does it taste sweet?!” Misha thought furiously, grateful to the punishment setting for at least snapping her out of that strange feeling that had come upon her all of a sudden.  Whatever was up with her slutty, overly horny captor, it wasn’t normal!

    Though Misha resisted any attempts at pleasure for herself or her captor, Honey didn’t seem to notice, finally picking herself up from Misha’s face and allowing her to breathe, but only so that Honey could begin pumping herself up and down over the dildo.  Her sweet juices splattered all over the mask each time her pussy crashed down atop Misha’s face, and Honey squealed and moaned in a way that seemed to be over-exaggerated, but given how she’d behaved so far, maybe she really was enjoying herself that much at Misha’s expense.

    “Oh, Misha love, you’re just too good!” Honey cried, her fingers locking onto Misha’s nipples through the latex and tugging at them with each upward movement, eliciting pained squeals from Misha.  “Deeper, love, deeper!”

    Not intending to play along in the slightest, Misha nonetheless had little choice when another barrage of painful, quick discharges assailed her flesh, making her jerk forward, only to be met by the falling crotch atop her, pushing her back to the bed.  Honey’s full weight was upon her, and again she couldn’t breathe as Honey squeezed her thighs around Misha’s head, rocking herself around the dildo and making her lewd noises as her juices continued spilling into Misha’s mouth and down her throat.

    “I’m so close, Misha!  A little more!  Just a little more!’ Honey panted, still pressing herself down over Misha’s face while playing with her helpless captive’s nipples.

    Crying out with what little breath she had, Misha’s nipples got zapped beneath Honey’s fingers.  Her head spun as she fought to free herself, to breathe, to be free of the constant flow of the sweet-tasting fluids dripping through her gag.  “Just hurry up and get it over with, you slut!  Let me go!”  All she could smell and taste was Honey now, that strangely enticing mixture of sweet and pungent that seemed to fill her with a heated passion that wasn’t her own.

    It had to be like a drug!  It was some kind of drug Honey was using, like an aphrodisiac!  That had to be it!  That was the only thing that made any kind of sense as to why Misha’s body was all hot and bothered, and why she was starting to get a rush of pleasure for herself when the suit zapped her.  What else could it be?

    “Yessss…yesss…almoooost….” Honey panted, her crotch slamming against Misha’s face several times in rapid succession as she pushed herself toward climax.

    For Misha, she still struggled to breathe even with Honey’s ass out of her face.  The slut was positively pouring!  She had to clear her nose of Honey’s juices before she could even try to breathe in, but by then Honey had already slammed her pussy back down around the dildo, making Misha tremble with anger and annoyance.  “You’re going to regret this!  As soon as I’m out of here I’m calling the cops!” she thought, mentally screaming as her lungs begged for proper airflow.

    “Miiiiissssshaaaaaa!” Honey cried, slamming down upon Misha’s face once more before her thighs again squeezed around the trapped Misha’s head, even more of the hot, sticky fluids exploding and spilling over Misha’s masked face and through the dildo, even into her nose.  Honey still had a firm hold of Misha’s breasts, her nails digging into the suit enough to hurt as she seemed to hold on for dear life.  Misha’s body shuddered and shook as the punishment setting again fired, zapping her at random places.

    Misha could only whine helplessly, her lungs burning for air as her vision went starry and blurred, head spinning in a chaotic mix of disbelief, confusion, air deprivation, and whatever Honey’s drug-like secretions were doing to her.  The fact that she had no choice but to swallow so much of it made her even angrier.

    “Ohhhhhh my god…that was amazing, love!” Honey said, at last, leaning forward so that she was again on hands and knees, finally allowing Misha to breathe, though her dripping pussy was still firmly wrapped around the upper part of the dildo.  Misha felt fingers poking at her own latex-covered pussy.  “A pity really that you didn’t enjoy it, but hey, you’re being a little bitch right now, so you get what you deserve.”  And she laughed!

    Misha grunted angrily, too worried about breathing for the moment to try to manage a more fiery reply.  She bit down on the gag as her ass was zapped again, her jerking making Honey squirm and giggle.  “Oh, I hate her so much!

    “Mmmm…I think I could do that again…” Honey said, swaying her hips back and forth, then rocking forward and back, causing more of her juices to run down the length of the dildo.  “But, maybe I should just give you some time to think over our little getaway?  That sounds good, doesn’t it, love?  Maybe after a few hours getting zapped by that suit, you’ll be in a more receptive mood and willing to enjoy what I’m doing for you?”

    Not likely…” Misha thought, growling around the nasty gag that filled her mouth, and flinching as another painful jolt bit her inner thigh, making her wince.

    Honey let out a long, slow moan as she made a show of pulling the dildo out of herself, then plopped her crotch down on Misha’s chest, stretching her arms as if she’d just woken up.  Could the woman be more obnoxious?  At last, she climbed off the bed, taking a moment to adjust her panties before leaving Misha to be zapped by the punishment setting on the prototype before sauntering over to the nearby table.

    Humming to herself, Honey made sure to turn herself toward Misha as she rifled through the captive clothing designer’s purse, plucking out Misha’s keyring, and then her cell phone.  Honey shot her the most sickly sweet smile as she swiped at the screen, then started tapping at it rapidly.  “You really should put a password on these things, you know?  Or like, the fingerprint ID or whatever?  Anyway, I’ve decided I’m gonna go out for a snack and to find someone who’s willing to have a little fun with me and not be such a little bitch.  I’ll be back sometime in the morning and we can have a chat about how you’re sorry and willing to play along and be a good girl, and it’ll be awesome, I’m sure.”

    Not likely…you’re freaking nuts if you think I’m going to come begging to you!” Misha thought, narrowing her eyes at Honey as she approached the bed again.  She winced, getting a pair of quick zaps to her soles.  And to the fact that Honey had typed on her phone, Misha had a fingerprint ID setup on it; she must have unlocked it while she had been unconscious earlier.  Had she done anything else to the phone?  Anything to her business information on there?

    A whole new level of worry began to form in Misha’s mind.

    Honey held up Misha’s phone, showing her the text messaging screen, with a phone number already entered, along with a message.  “See that? It says ‘Honey-chan, I’m so sorry I was such a bitch.  I’ve changed my mind and want to beg you to let me go so that we can enjoy the rest of our weekend together.  I’ll eat your pussy and lick your feet or whatever you want.  I’ll be waiting for you at the motel.  Love, Misha.’  Sounds about right to me.”  Honey hit the button to darken the display, then leaned over with a sly grin and placed the phone in Misha’s hand.  “I’d be really careful with that phone, Misha love; it’s only got like five percent battery or something, so if you don’t want to wait till morning, don’t get too careless with it.”

    Misha wanted to strangle Honey at that moment but her anger was diminished and she yelped, the suit sending a particularly painful jolt right into her clit.

    Honey tittered, patting Misha’s head before she sauntered toward the far end of the room.  She snatched up Misha’s purse and her own, waving at Misha and jingled her car keys.  “I’ll just throw these in the car for you, so they’ll be safe while I’m out.  Can’t trust these love hotels sometimes; all kinds of weird perverts come here.  Though I’m friends with the receptionist, so maybe I’ll have them check on you later?  Just to be neighborly and all that.  See ya soon, Misha!”

    No kidding about the perverts,” Misha thought wryly, responding with an angry grunt as Honey quickly opened the door, locked it, and closed it firmly behind her, turning the deadbolt with her key.  Misha sighed heavily, tugging at the chains again, turning her head to eye her phone.  She hit the button to light up the screen, and sure enough, it was only showing about five percent charge.  She quickly dimmed it again and took a moment to reconsider her position, getting a series of low, pin-prick like zaps along her stomach and sides for her trouble.

    In the mostly silent room, silent but for the squeak of latex, groaning of bed springs, and her own breathing and grunts of pain, Misha worked her mind furiously to try and come up with an escape method.  The chains holding her limbs wide were not budging, and she couldn’t exactly scream loud enough to get anyone’s attention.  That kind of thing was probably normal in a hotel like this.  With the worry of her compromised phone already in her mind, the thought of her car keys and purse just being tossed in her front seat made her wonder if her vehicle would even be there if she managed to get out.

    As the minutes passed with the prototype shocking her every few seconds, never letting her get anywhere close to comfort, Misha grew extremely tired of the lingering taste of Honey’s juices that filtered down around the gag, to say nothing of the scent that turned less pleasing by the minute.

    At least the slutty schoolgirl hadn’t left her dirty socks behind…she could be thankful for that much, at least.

    Looking at the clock again, just after she’d received a massive ‘slap’ from the suit across her ass, Misha saw that nearly an hour had passed, and she was no closer to coming up with a brilliant escape plan.  Getting to the point that her body was getting stiff and sore, she looked at her phone, wondering if maybe she would have to suffer the indignity of texting Honey to get free.

    Absolute last resort…”  she thought, frowning around the dildo gag.  Her head jerked toward the door as she heard laughter outside, and some bumping along the wall and even the door itself a moment later.  Freezing, her heart beat increasing, Misha at once wanted to cry out for help, but was paralyzed by the idea of drawing attention and having a bunch of random people barge in, or even to have the cops called.  Imagine if that story hit the news…

    Her moment passed by quickly, though, as the voices hurried down the hall, somewhere out of earshot.  For a wonder the suit hadn’t zapped her at the worst possible moment.

    With her heart rate slowing, Misha again tried to consider her options.  How could she dislodge the chains?  It felt as though they were secured around the bed frame itself.  Checking her wrists again, she saw that the ends were secured to the rings on the built-in cuffs, which were not exactly heavy-duty, but were more than enough to keep her in place due to a lack of super-strength or enough leverage to possibly pop the ring out of its locking channel.

    Raising up, Misha looked toward the table, saw the controller still sitting there, but knew that even with it, she couldn’t free herself without the unlock sequence stored on the server at the office.  The idea had been to have the users set up their own security code for such things, with a master unlock code available should something happen, but that was still a ways out.

    A series of low-powered, rapid shocks hit her lower regions, alternating between pussy and ass, making her jerk and tense up, scattering her train of thought again.  Snarling angrily, Misha again fought at the chains, kicking and pulling and grunting, but falling short of screaming.  She just couldn’t bear the thought of drawing some stranger’s attention just yet.

    Not quite that desperate…but close…

    A few more minutes and a few more shocks later, Misha felt another sensation from the suit, a pair of quick pulses from the dildo inside her.  Blinking at the sudden change of stimulus, about a minute passed when it happened again.  Her eyes widened as her mind finally realized what it was the suit was telling her.

    The failsafe!  With all of the insanity that had been happening, she’d forgotten all about the failsafe she’d programmed into the system!  The pulses came again after another minute, and then started coming faster, recycling after forty-five seconds a couple times, then thirty, and so on.

    Please, please tell me that bimbo hasn’t screwed that up somehow…” Misha thought as the second thirty-second buzz came and went.  Thinking quickly on the matter, there shouldn’t have been a way through the remote to change the hard-coded safety features Misha had built in.  The idea was for self-bondage enthusiasts who may have gotten in over their heads to have a way out once the suit’s power was drained.  And apparently, the punishment mode ate the stored power a lot faster than just the teasing mode.  It was just a prototype, after all; once the base functions were tested, she could deal with finding a more efficient battery design.

    The second fifteen-second notice came and went, and Misha found herself holding her breath.  The charge should be almost gone, and when it was fully drained, the cuffs’ locking rings should disengage from the channel, like unlocking handcuffs…

    Almost in perfect unison, the rings at Misha’s wrists and ankles popped open with soft metallic clicks.  Squealing, this time with excitement, Misha shook her wrists, dislodging the chains.  She sat up and shook her ankles, the chains slipping out of the rings.  Dropping her phone atop the bed for the moment, Misha’s hands went straight to the back of her head, fumbling for the straps that held the gag in place.  Thankfully the slut had been far too interested in her own pleasure and Misha’s displeasure to have locked the harness, and a few seconds later she had the straps pulled from and quickly jerked the dildo out of her mouth, heaving a relieved sigh as she tossed it across the room at the wall.  The dildo harness around her waist soon followed.

    Knowing she should have gone for the phone immediately, Misha instead made the decision to get off the bed, staggering on stiff legs toward the bathroom.  Ignoring the garish ‘love’ theme that continued into the bathroom, she went straight for the sink, turning on the faucet, gathering water in her hands, and proceeded to wash her mouth out.  After spitting out her second mouthful, she snatched the bottle of mouthwash from the counter, seeing that the seal was still in place, and popped it, and wound up using the whole bottle, leaving her mouth minty fresh and slightly stinging from the cleansing alcohol.

    She reached for the towel hanging by the sink, intending to wash off the lingering stickiness that Honey had left all over her, but hesitated.  The cops would probably need that and her prototype as evidence… “I could strangle that woman!” Misha spat, just starting to get an idea of how much Honey had complicated her life, and would probably continue to do so for months to come.

    Returning to the main room, Misha went to the love-themed desk phone, picking up the handset, but getting nothing of a dial tone.  Grimacing, she checked the cord, and sure enough, it was cut part way down.  She went back to the bed and picked up her cell phone, seeing that it had dropped to three percent, but the signal was only a single bar here.  Plenty for a text message, sure, but likely not good enough to sustain a phone call, for any length of time.

    Misha turned her attention to the suit itself, finding that the main zippers were locked, as she had feared, but with nothing that was tied to the failsafe system; Honey had used the separate electronic locks to secure the main suit.  She hadn’t yet worked out how to tie the external locks to the cuffs yet, nor had she finished the design of the built-in locking devices she wanted to use.  A quick search told her that there were no keys to be had, no doubt Honey either had them on her or had put them in the car with the rest of Misha’s things.

    Cursing Honey yet again, Misha grabbed her nearly dead phone as well as the discarded controller and went to the door to the room, turning the deadbolt, but hesitated before exiting.  She’d never exactly been the kind of person to do her kinky stuff in public, but she didn’t see much choice.  She could try for a random room, to see if someone would let her use the phone, but she’d much rather just get out of the hotel and hope she could get to her car and get out of there.  With Honey being friends with people working there, it was untelling just how they’d react to her coming to the front desk.

    “At least they can’t see my face…” Misha muttered, turning the doorknob and hurrying out of the room.  The light in the hall was dim, as one could expect from a place like this, and she looked side to side, finding the glowing exit sign she’d hoped for about a dozen rooms down.  There was no way she was taking the elevator!

    Several minutes later, and feeling as though she were playing some kind of twisted take on a stealth game, Misha had slipped out of a side door and found her way to the parking lot, thankfully around the back of the hotel in a fenced in lot.  Noticing that the lot was on the full side, it took her several more precious minutes before she managed to locate her car, finally spotting her particular license plate.

    She hurried to it, and though expected, she was still dismayed that the doors were locked.  Worse, when she peered inside, she couldn’t see her purse or keys.  “Did she…take them with her?”  Thinking that a keyless entry system may be in order on her next vehicle, Misha went to the sealed trunk, biting her lip.  She had a way to find out, but…

    She dared to look at her phone again.  Two percent.  After a few more moments of consideration, Misha made the choice and opened the phone, took another look at Honey’s number and quickly committed it to memory, before she went to the main screen and opened a particular app.  She tapped the button she wanted as the phone dropped to one percent, and sure enough, she heard a few musical notes come from inside the trunk from the fob attached to her keyring.  “That bitch!” Misha spat, her phone flashing a red power warning before it shut itself off.

    Taking a long breath as she leaned against her car, Misha tried to think.  She should just call the cops from the nearest open store, but that could lead to a lot of questions she didn’t feel that she could handle at the moment.  She needed to get out of the suit first, but where was she?  How far was she from the office and the server she needed?  Frowning, she knew she’d need to hit the street.  She wasn’t worried about the durability of the latex of her feet, she’d made it thicker down there anyway, but the thought of roaming the streets dressed like she was didn’t make her happy.

    Although…with all the heroes and villains that had shown up the last few months, what was one more masked face wearing a skin-tight costume, right?

    With that thought in mind, giving her enough courage to continue, Misha headed around the building toward the street.  Traffic was light, but steady, and there were still people out and about.  Finally spotting the nearest street signs, she sighed.  She recognized the names, but if she was right about it, she was a good half hour drive from the office in the best of traffic conditions, to say nothing of trying to get there on foot; it’d take hours.

    But then a thought came to her.  “Kyou!” she said.  Taking another moment to gather her thoughts, recalling what she knew of the streets, she was fairly sure his studio apartment was much closer.  “Let’s see…two streets over there should be a shopping plaza…and then…about three blocks on down should be his place…” she whispered, forming the image of the map in her mind, or at least her memories of the last time she’d visited his studio a few months back.  Hoping she was right, and hoping that she wouldn’t garner much attention, Misha took firmer hold on her phone and the controller, and started down the sidewalk.

    It didn’t take long for her to start getting lingering looks from the people on the street, and it was only about two minutes before someone drove by and honked, yelling out ‘Nice ass, baby!’ as they drove by.  Feeling mortified at that, Misha very nearly darted down a dark alleyway to get all the eyes off of her, but somehow she held it together and pressed onward, praying that she wasn’t wrong about her location.

    Another few minutes found her at a busy intersection, the traffic from a more heavily traveled street causing her to have to wait at the crosswalk.  She felt over a dozen sets of eyes on her from just the people gathered around her, but not too closely, and saw multiple more eying her as they drove by.  If she hadn’t been hot within the latex outfit before, she was positively melting with embarrassment now.  As soon as she crossed the street, she would be able to reach the shopping plaza, and then it should be a straight shot to Kyou’s place.

    “Ohhh, you’re one a them super hero types, ain’t ya?”

    It took Misha a moment to realize that comment had been directed at her.  She gulped, not taking her eyes off the traffic lights.  “Come on…change already!

    “Yeah, that’s what you are!  Whatcha call yourself then?  Ain’t never seen you round before.”

    Misha bit her lip nervously, realizing that the voice had gotten closer, and from the way his speech was slurred, he had to be drunk.  She dared a glance back, and sure enough a man probably about her age and wearing a sweat and beer stained business shirt with an undone tie draped around his neck, weaving unsteadily on his feet, had come up to her, and she caught the scent of booze spilling off of him.

    “I said, what’s your name, hot stuff?  You off the clock too?  We could go somewhere’n have a drink…”

    The lights went yellow, the traffic slowing, then stopping as they turned red.  Misha felt very much like the drunkard was going to try and grope her, so she blurted out the first thing that came to mind.  “I’m the Latex Leopard,”, and then she took off at a run the moment the crosswalk sign went green, dashing as fast as she could across the street and weaving through the wave of people that had come from the other side.  The looks she received no longer concerned her; the only thing that she could focus on right now was getting to Kyou’s place and getting his help to get out of the suit.

    Thankfully before anyone else tried to engage her in conversation, Misha saw the shopping plaza she remembered, and finally slowed down to a quick walk, panting for a while as she caught her breath, the corset making it quite difficult to get full lungs, before she turned down toward Kyou’s place.  Thankfully the traffic, both on the sidewalk and the blacktop, was lighter beyond the plaza, and almost nonexistent by the time she turned down Kyou’s block.  There was his studio apartment, one light still on upstairs.  “Oh, thank god!” Misha breathed, hurrying that way.

    Though she scampered quickly up the steps to the front doors, Misha didn’t fail to notice the sports car that was parked out front, a bright red, expensive looking little two seat convertible, the roof up of course.  She wasn’t the best with cars, but she recognized the emblem on the hood as being one of the expensive ones, like a coat of arms with a horse in front of it.  Gloria must still have been there.

    Knowing that Kyou’s girlfriend was still with him made her finger hesitate before she touched the buzzer on the intercom.  Surely she wouldn’t be mad at her given the situation…right?  Misha didn’t really know anything about Gloria; was she the jealous type?  She didn’t think Kyou would have gone out with someone like that, but you never knew.

    An engine revved up and blew down the street behind her, passing by quickly before slowing and turning down a side street further on, but it was enough to get Misha moving again.  She didn’t want to be out in the open any longer than she had to.  Her finger mashed the buzzer, heard it sound, then mashed it several more times.  “Please, please hurry…” she muttered, stepping anxiously from one foot to the other.

    There was no answer, so she hit it again, and thought about trying to knock on the door when Kyou’s sleepy voice finally answered.  “Uhhh, yeah, hello?”

    “Kyou!  Oh, thank goodness you’re there!  It’s Misha!  I need help!”

    “Misha?  Wait, what’s going on?”  he asked, sounding much more awake.

    “I’ll explain everything, but please, can I come in?  I’m in a bit of a spot right now and really don’t want to be on the street anymore…”

    There was a brief pause, but then Kyou replied.  “Yeah, yeah, sure.  Just a minute, I’ll come down.”

    “Thank you, so much!” Misha said, blowing out her breath, feeling a bit lightheaded as a big weight seemed to lift from her.  A minute later she heard the door locks disengaging, and then it swung open, dim light spilling from somewhere inside.

    Kyou stood wearing a very short, dark blue bathrobe, more like a mid-thigh length kimono, really, his hair on the wild side, with sleep lingering in his big brown eyes.  He blinked, looking Misha up and down, his mouth opening and closing silently.  “M-Misha…come in, come in,” he finally managed, stepping aside and motioning with his hand.

    “Thanks again,” she said, hurrying inside and waiting for him to close up behind her.

    Kyou turned back to her, his nose twitching, no doubt picking up on the various scents hanging on to her.  “What happened?  I didn’t think you were the exhibitionist type…Uh, hey, come on upstairs, let’s get you something to drink and somewhere to sit, you look a little worn down.”

    Misha explained quickly what had happened after he’d left that evening as they took the elevator up.  By the time she had finished her recount of the story, Kyou had his coffee maker warmed up and had brewed her a cup, adding some cream.

    “Wow…that’s…that’s absolutely nuts,” Kyou said at last, leaning against the counter, running a hand through his hair.  “I just can’t believe something like that- Oh, hey, Gloria.  Sorry, things are a bit complicated.”

    Misha turned to look in the direction Kyou’s head had turned, in the direction of the bedroom she guessed.  Standing in the doorway was the stunningly beautiful, tall blond he had shown her a picture of earlier, wearing a flimsy little red nightie that really didn’t cover anything.  Her silky blond hair covered her left eye, and spilled about her shoulders in a somewhat more neatly disarrayed manner than Kyou’s.  Her full red lips were curled into a grin that sent a shiver down MIsha’s spine, but made her suck in her breath at the same time as she blushed.  “You didn’t tell me you had a rubber slave, sweetheart.”

    “I don’t…at least I’m pretty sure I don’t,” Kyou replied with a grin, holding out his arms to take Gloria up in a hug, kissing her cheek as she snuggled up beside him.  She was several inches taller than him, and her tits looked like they could swallow his head.  “This is Misha, the client I was working with yesterday.  She’s uh, had a bit of a wild night.”

    “Mmm, so I heard,” Gloria replied, turning her visible pale blue eye back toward Misha.  She seemed to be appraising Misha with her gaze.

    Misha squirmed in the seat, gulping as Gloria looked at her.  She felt herself flushing, and felt a tingle of excitement shoot through her as the blond scrutinized her.  But it passed quickly, and she managed to return her gaze to Gloria, managing a smile.  “Nice to meet you at last, Gloria.”

    “Oh, nice to meet you as well, sweetheart,” Gloria replied easily, her voice smooth and silky as she smiled at Misha.  “I’ve seen some of your work from Kyou’s pictures, and I’m very impressed.  I just feel bad that we had to meet with you in a situation like this.”  Gloria’s visible eye narrowed slightly.  “Can you tell me about the girl that did this to you?  She seems like a terrible nuisance at the very least.”

    “I definitely got that impression,” Misha replied with a sigh, taking a sip of the coffee.  “She said her name was Honey…” Misha started, and gave Gloria the full description, and how she acted.  More strangely, Misha found herself relating the more disgusting details of her encounter with the slutty schoolgirl.  She wasn’t quite sure why she did it, and she should have been completely mortified and embarrassed by the lewd descriptions of what she’d been through, but something about Gloria and Kyou put her at ease.

    Once she had finished, Gloria and Kyou shared a look.  Misha didn’t know what it meant, but they seemed to know something about Honey.  “Is there…something about her?  Do you know her?”

    Gloria shook her head quickly, offering a disarming smile to Misha.  “Oh, no, sweetheart, not her personally, just her type,” she said smoothly.  “I guess you should be getting out of that outfit, hmm?”

    Misha nodded.  “Yeah, and then to the police.  Can…can I get a ride back to my office?”

    “Sure, I can drive you; let me throw some clothes on,” Kyou said, kissing Gloria’s cheek again before heading toward the bedroom.  “Be right back!”

    “Mmm…hate to see him go, but can’t stop watching him walk away…” Gloria said softly, crossing her arms under her sizable chest, her lips curled into a hungry grin as she watched Kyou.  Once he was out of sight, she turned her eye back toward Misha, still smiling.  “I could…make a few calls for you.  See if some friends can find that girl.”

    “You know some people in the police force?”

    “More than I care to admit,” Gloria replied with a chuckle.  “The police aren’t the smartest cookies out there; I’d just hate to think someone like that is roaming around doing that kind of thing and that they couldn’t find her.  The people I know are a lot better at that kind of thing.”

    Misha considered what Gloria had said, wondering if she had meant a private investigator or something similar, but shook her head.  “I’m sure they can find her; she doesn’t seem like the type to try to hide.  She’s too full of herself for that.”

    Gloria nodded slowly, considering Misha for a moment before she walked over and behind her.  Misha followed her with her eyes, turning her head, but then Gloria had her hands on Misha’s shoulders, squeezing them lightly, breathing in deeply, as if savoring the scent.  Misha was suddenly nervous, wondering if she would smell Honey’s lingering scents, or her own sweat, over the smell of the latex.  “I couldn’t help but notice your outfit, sweetheart.  The craftsmanship is remarkable; I don’t think I’ve seen latex so finely made before.  It feels very sturdy, too, and am I right in that there’s been no real damage on your feet, even after walking all that way barefoot?”

    “Oh, I…”  Caught off guard, not expecting Gloria to have taken in so much of the fine details of the prototype, Misha quickly nodded.  “T-thank you for noticing that.  Yeah, as you can see, there’s barely any marks at all.”  Misha turned in the seat and crossed her left leg over her right knee, wiggling her toes as she knocked some lingering dirt off her foot.  The latex had held up perfectly on the trip.  “This is just a prototype, though, so I might’ve overbuilt it a little.”

    “Nonsense!” Gloria replied, leaning to the side so that she could look over the foot Misha had offered on display.  “I can recognize true talent when I see it.  From what Kyou’s shown me, you’re head and shoulders above the nearest competition.  How is it that I’ve not seen your work more often?”

    “Well…I guess it’s just that we’ve not got our name out there enough yet,” Misha said, her mind going back to business, her plight momentarily forgotten.  The fact that Gloria still held her shoulders, and that her large breasts were just inches above her head were only momentary thoughts, quickly forgotten.  “I’ve been trying to work with the marketing people, but I think we’ve come to the conclusion that the name of the business is just too forgettable; we need something else, like a mascot or something, plus a more sexy name.  But once this prototype’s ready, we’ll hit it big for sure!  It’s got so many features, you won’t believe it!  Full body pleasure induction, inescapable locking devices controlled by encrypted wireless controls, punishment settings, the works!”

    “Oh my, that does sound delightful!” Gloria replied, her voice a throaty purr.  “You do take custom commissions?”

    “Oh yes, absolutely! Anything from clothing to restraints to toys!  In fact-”

    “I’m ready!” Kyou said, stepping back into the kitchen, his hair tied back in a slightly more brushed ponytail, wearing a light jacket over his shirt and paints.  He paused, taking in the two of them, and grinned.  “Well, glad to see the two of you hitting it off so well.”

    “Of course, sweetheart,” Gloria said, patting Misha’s shoulder.  “I just have to hear more about this suit of her’s.  It sounds absolutely orgasmic!  I can call you later, right, Misha?”

    “Absolutely!” Misha replied, “Kyou can give you my contact; my phone’s dead right now.”

    “Perfect!”  Gloria patted her shoulder again and went to Kyou, taking him in her arms, planting a deep, tongue-filled kiss upon his lips, not the least bit shy.  Kyou was a bit breathless when their lips finally parted, but she kept her hands on his ass.  “Call me when you get back.  I’ve got an early meeting this morning, so I’ll slip on out after I clean up.”

    “Sure thing,” Kyou said, kissing her lips again, a quicker, less forceful kiss, but his hands found Gloria’s ass as well, and the two lingered a bit longer before parting.  Gloria waved at Misha, smiling as she slinked into the bedroom.  “Well, let’s get going, then!”

    * * *

    The next couple of hours were a blur for Misha.  She barely recalled the early morning drive back to her office with Kyou, only vaguely recalled starting up the server and the wireless charging platform to recharge the suit enough for it to recognize the encrypted unlocking signal.  As soon as she was out of it, she hastily threw it in a box and took a long, hot shower, brushing her teeth and gargling half a bottle of mouthwash to get the taste and scent of the horrible little slut off of her.  She didn’t really remember dressing again, but could recall arriving at the police station with Kyou, shaking, her anger having boiled up once more as she had started remembering all the details for what she’d have to tell them.

    She remembered being highly embarrassed and ashamed retelling the events to the police woman who had taken her statement, had collected the prototype as evidence, for DNA mostly, though the looks Misha had received from the woman hadn’t made her feel any better about the situation.  She gave them the phone number Honey had entered into her phone, now mostly recharged.  Misha had been assured that they would get the patrols looking for Honey immediately, and would send an investigation team to the love hotel to collect more evidence.

    That was about all Misha could handle, though.  By the time she had left the station, it was after sunrise.  Kyou had stayed with her the whole time, and had driven her back to her apartment.  She didn’t remember coming inside her apartment, only that she had collapsed in exhaustion onto her bed as soon as she had reached it.

    The ring of Misha’s phone dragged her out of her slumber, and for a moment, she couldn’t recall where she was, and fearfully thought she was still within the hotel room she had awoken in before.  But as Misha groped for her phone, finding her limbs free, and not feeling the pressure of latex over her body, she realized she wasn’t at the hotel.  As she opened her bleary eyes, blinking in the afternoon light filtering through the curtains on her windows, Misha remembered that she was in her bedroom, in her apartment.

    Hand slapping at her sheets, Misha felt the phone beneath, and tugged it away, snatching up the phone right before the voicemail picked up.  “Um, hello?” she said groggily.

    “Miss Kyle?”

    “Yes,” she said, rubbing her eyes.  “Who is this?”

    “This is Detective Cordell with the Sentinel City Police,” the man on the other end said.  “I’ve been assigned your case, and have some good news.  We have the suspect in custody; we just need you to come down and identify her in a lineup.”

    “What? Already?” Misha asked, surprised that they would have caught Honey so soon.

    “That’s right; she wasn’t making any attempt to hide herself, and was picked up on an unrelated charge.  How soon can you come down to the station?”

    Misha sat up on the bed, looking at her clock.  “Um…I can probably be there within an hour if traffic allows…well, it might take a little longer since I don’t have my car back.”

    “That’s fine, miss.  We should be able to get that back to you soon.  Just ask for me when you get here and the desk officer will get you back to me.”

    “Okay, great!  I’ll see you in about an hour then!”  Misha let the detective end the call and hurried out of bed, feeling excited.  It looked like the police had done a great job so far!  She scurried off the bed and headed to the bathroom, cleaning up a bit and straightening up her hair before grabbing a quick bite from the kitchen.  She hadn’t eaten since dinner the night before and felt it would be better if her stomach wasn’t trying to talk over her at the station.

    Misha grabbed up her phone and purse, then headed out of the apartment, catching one of the buses to get her to the station.  Thankfully the lunchtime traffic was already thinning out, so there weren’t any major traffic jams along the route, but it still took a little over an hour for her to reach the stop closest to the station.

    The sidewalk in front of the police station was pretty busy as Misha approached, the parking lot filled with cruisers and other cars, and at least two of the big SWAT-style vans were parked near the entrance.  Wondering what all the excitement was about, Misha barely registered that someone had come out of the public entry doors until she heard her name and a familiar voice.

    “Misha!  So nice to see you again!”

    Skidding to a halt, Misha’s head snapped away from the SWAT vans and her eyes fell upon Honey, who wore a sickeningly sweet, smug smile as she waved at Misha.  “Y-you!” Misha stammered, feeling as though her world had just imploded upon itself.

    “Yep, it’s me alright!” Honey said, giggling.  She still wore the same slutty schoolgirl outfit, though her makeup had changed to a different pattern and tones.  She flipped her hair back and licked her lips as she continued to stare at Misha in a hungry, unsettling way.  “I have to say, I’m pretty impressed you slipped out of our little love nest like that.  Just full of surprises, aren’t you?”

    “H-how…?”

    “Oh, once I’d given my side of the story, they didn’t really have any reason to keep me here,” Honey said, a note of annoyance plain in her voice.  She even raised a hand, waving it at the station behind her dismissively.  “The police really can be reasonable if you just cooperate and tell the truth.  Of course, the poor, innocent schoolgirl act helps.”

    Misha’s anger flared suddenly, and she felt her nails digging into her palms as her hands balled into tight fists.  “I don’t know what you did, Honey, but you’re going to go to jail for this!  I’m going to make sure of that!  There’s evidence of what you did!”

    Honey returned a confident smile.  “Oh, Misha, aren’t you just the cutest thing ever?  Must be nice to live in a world where it’s all so black and white.  Go talk to the officer overseeing the case; he’ll tell you everything you need to know about why I’m off the hook.”  The insufferable smugness only grew as Honey blew Misha a kiss.

    Misha flinched as if she’d been touched by the horrible woman.

    “See you around, Misha.  Don’t work too hard, now!  Keep that stress level low!”  Honey said, sauntering off in her overly exaggerated hip-swaying manner, not a care in the world it seemed.

    Standing and staring after Honey in a mixture of anger and disbelief, eyebrow twitching, Misha’s brain just couldn’t fully process what had just happened.  How could the police just let her go like that?  Why wasn’t Honey locked up at least until she could be properly identified and sent before a judge to set bail?

    Finally snapping out of her fuming anger, Misha stalked up the walkway and up the steps, entering the station.  Madhouse seemed to be an apt word to describe the scene out front, as there were a couple of dozen people standing about in the waiting area, a mix of officers and civilians.  A lot of loud voices seemed to be shouting from the rear, a cacophony of women’s voices protesting their innocence or cursing out the cops.  As Misha approached the front desk, having to wait in line, she spotted at least two women dressed in French maid outfits, hands cuffed behind them, being led from one door down a hallway.  Between the strange surrealness of the scene and her situation, Misha barely registered her request to speak with Detective Cordell.

    She had to wait about fifteen minutes, but Misha was finally approached by an officer and escorted toward Cordell’s office.  On the way back she saw more of the women dressed as maids, sitting on several benches lined up down one hallway, all of them handcuffed, and all looking roughed up to some degree.  Wondering what had happened that resulted in more than a dozen maids getting arrested, Misha’s eyes swept over an interview room, and she had to do a double-take.

    There were three people inside the room, and over the din of the hallway, there was no way she could have possibly heard what was being said, but one of the people was a little girl, probably not even thirteen by the look of her, dressed as a maid with her blonde hair up in a pair of long tails, and bawling her eyes out to the woman sitting next to her in the business suit.  The man, probably a detective, in the cheaper-looking suit across the table wore an exasperated expression on his face as he looked back to the file folder on the table in front of him.  What was going on?  As Misha continued past the room, she caught sight of the crying girl’s face as she shook her head to some question and held her hands clasped in front of her, almost like she was praying.  Something about her eyes didn’t quite seem to fit how she was acting, something that unsettled Misha.

    “Miss?  This way,” said her escort, motioning into a room on the opposite side of the hallway.

    All thoughts about the little girl in the maid’s uniform vanished as she stepped into the office, about a dozen desks covered in papers and folders crammed into the main part of the room, with several smaller offices attached around the perimeter.  It was to one of the satellite offices she was led to, and an older man rose behind the desk.  His face had a haggard appearance like he hadn’t gotten much sleep, his graying brown hair oily, his goatee showing flecks of powdered sugar from the half-eaten donut on the side of his desk.  He offered his hand.  “Miss Kyle, I’m Detective Cordell.”

    Misha took his hand for only a moment, eyes narrowing as her anger flared again.  “So why was she walking out of here just now?  Why isn’t she behind bars?”

    Cordell sighed, motioning to the seat opposite him as he sat.  “I’m really sorry about that, Miss Kyle, but there’s just not enough evidence to hold her.”

    Misha felt her jaw drop, and she stopped halfway to the chair.  She stood again and slammed her hands down on the edge of his desk.  “What do you mean, not enough evidence?!  You have my prototype, my car, there has to be security camera footage, the hotel room… How can there be no evidence of her on me?!”

    The older man frowned, opening the folder on his desk, glancing up to Misha before he started going over the documents inside.  “The crime lab hasn’t completed their analysis, but preliminaries found only one DNA donor on the outfit you brought in, on the inside of the suit.  There was no trace of drugs or intoxicants in your system at the time you gave us the sample.  Camera footage we’ve been able to pull so far only shows your walk through the streets starting a couple of blocks from the hotel; that part of town is notorious for having almost no working cameras.  They found some hairs that matched her’s in your car but based on her statements, the two of you had a few drinks after dinner and decided to fool around.  Before you could do anything, she stated that you had gotten cold feet and ran out of the hotel in a panic.  The hotel room had already been partially cleaned by the time the CSIs got there, but there’s so much DNA in a place like that it’s going to be almost impossible to determine who is who.”

    Misha felt light-headed as the detective spoke, wavering on her feet and finally slipping into the chair.

    “The lawyer who spoke to her when she was brought in thinks there just isn’t enough to go on to build a case at this point, and the rep from the DA’s office was in agreement,” Cordell said.  “Without more evidence, it looks like a bad decision after some drinks and a case of she-said, she-said, your word against hers.  I’m sorry, Miss Kyle, but without more to go on, we had little choice but to let her go for now.  Things may change once the crime-scene people process all the evidence, but for now, there’s nothing else we can do.”

    Feeling numb, Misha couldn’t really recall what they had discussed after that, and barely remembered leaving the station and heading to the bus stop.  Things were still in a blur once she arrived back at her apartment, though as evening approached, her brain snapped out of its state of shock and went through an angry phase.  She wasn’t proud to admit that she’d been pretty hard on some of her pillows, and had thrown some things.  If nothing else had come of the visit, her confidence in the police department had taken a severe hit.  It had been almost casual the way he had told her about the situation.  The fact that they could find no evidence of Honey being on her screamed incompetence.  Or had Honey paid them off somehow?  A bribe to let her go?  Maybe she should get a lawyer involved…No, maybe not…could she or the business really afford that right now?  Could she even trust a lawyer, given how Honey had apparently talked her way out of the whole situation so easily?

    Misha sulked about her apartment the rest of the day, cleaning up after her outburst, and doing some exercises to clear her head.  By the next morning, she was thinking more clearly, and though she was still in a fragile state, she decided that focusing on her work was the best option for now.  She went back to the office and started back where she’d last left off, checking new emails and setting up new orders for her people to get started on.  She didn’t mention anything that had happened to her employees, though she did give Kyou a call during her lunch break to let him know.  He’d offered to come by if she needed someone to be with her, but she had declined, though the offer had certainly been appreciated.

     


    And that does it for part 2!  Certainly a trying experience for poor Misha, but adversity must be overcome to reach new heights, right?  Or something like that.

    What it basically boils down to is:  Honey’s a bitch.  And probably a pretty terrible person.  One can only hope she’ll have some proper justice in the future (hint hint).

    The conclusion of this story is on the way, featuring a much more agreeable night for Misha, and some more fun with latex!  Hope you’ll be coming back to see what happens!

    Till next time, Urban out!

    Hit me over on DeviantArt, or on my Discord server!  I’m usually always around, and would love to hear what you have to say!

  • The Honey Trap – Part 1

    Chapter One of the Misha Kyle Trilogy

    The Honey Trap – Part 1

    Misha awoke with a groan, her eyes slowly cracking open to reveal a sliver of light, then a brighter glow that made her wince.  She reached to rub her eyes, but her hand jerked against something and didn’t move any closer.  She tried again, recognizing the distinct sensation of a cuff pulling at her wrist, and the somewhat muffled sound of a chain rattling. ^

    Suddenly very awake, Misha squealed in surprise, feeling a thick ball between her teeth, her eyes darting down her body as she tried to sit up.  She was spread wide, her limbs secured with cuffs and chains going off the edges of the bed she lay upon.  Looking down at herself, she immediately recognized the outfit she wore: it was the prototype latex catsuit she had taken out of the office for private testing over the weekend.  The cuffs on her limbs were built into the suit, made of thick, heavy-duty rubber and set with stout metal eye holes and buckles.  The suit’s built-in corset had been secured about her midsection as well, squeezing at her torso as her breathing became more rapid as awareness returned.  She was fully hooded and collared from the feel of it, and the look of it as the built-in perspex lenses were starting to fog, and she was pretty sure there was something contained within the suit’s built-in condoms, which were likewise inside of her.

    She knew it for a fact a moment later as she became aware of something moving above her, and as she focused her attention toward the ceiling, she realized it was herself she saw through the mirror mounted there.  There she was, Misha Kyle, spreadeagle atop a large, heart-shaped bed, contained fully within her latest and greatest prototype bondage catsuit.  In the scant few seconds she allowed herself to look at her reflection, her mind automatically ticked off the various details, as if reaffirming she was really wearing it.  Glistening charcoal gray latex for the base layer, a slightly lighter shade of gray on the layer above, forming what resembled a pair of thigh-high stockings and garters with oval-shaped openings revealing her latex-covered thighs beneath them, the edges lines with a silvery-gray latex fringe.  Her arms were similarly clad, the highlight layer forming shoulder-length gloves, with similar openings for her shoulders.

    Atop these were the corset and chest harness, each made of stout black latex, their straps buckled tight and locked with the electronic padlocks keyed to the suit’s controller, complete with a crotch strap that held any insertables firmly in place.  Misha’s breasts protruded through the chest harness, covered in the charcoal gray of the base layer, marked only by the zippers over her nipples, providing easy access, though these were currently closed.  The suit’s tall collar was in place, thick and rigid rubber with a silver-gray latex fringe at her collar bone and beneath her chin, the cuffs on her wrists and ankles styled in the same fashion.  Her head was covered in charcoal gray latex, all of her features smoothed out by the shiny rubber, the mouth zipper currently closed, the built-in lenses mirrored, creating something of an endless loop between them and the ceiling mirror.

    Squealing again, more in outrage than surprise, Misha quickly looked around the room, seeing a lot of red, and more than a few heart shapes.  Most notably, the bed atop which she was secured was shaped like a giant heart, complete with red sheets.  The base of the lamps atop the nearby nightstands were heart-shaped, as was the jacuzzi across the room, and even the wallpaper was a god-awful shade of pink with thousands of red hearts flowing over it in a wavy pattern.

    How in the hell had she gotten into a cheap love motel?  Bigger question, how had she gotten locked into her own prototype?!

    * * *

    “Don’t you think the light is glaring off the latex too much?”

    “I’m using a polarizer on the lens, it’s not a problem.”

    The camera snapped several more times in quick succession.

    “Crap, the lube has smeared, it looks terrible there on her thigh!”

    “It’s barely noticeable; I can fix it in post.”

    More snaps as the latex-clad models moved into another series of poses on the makeshift stage.

    “Do you think the background looks too…cheap?  I mean, it’s just the warehouse…”

    The camera clicked a few more times, and Kyou finally turned to regard Misha, waving at the models to take a breather.  He held the camera to his side, cocking his head and shooting her a tired grin.  “Misha, honey, relax.  The background’s going to be blurry anyway with how I’m shooting the girls.  Have I ever disappointed you with my work before?”

    “No, of course not!  I just-”

    “-need to chill a little.  Look, you let me handle the photos, and you handle managing the rest of the business, alright?  Besides, we’re almost done, another twenty minutes tops; a little late to be worrying about things now, right?”

    Misha sighed, looking down, but finally nodded.  “You’re right, Kyou, as usual.  Sorry if I sounded like I was nagging you.”

    “Hey, it’s fine,” Kyou replied, patting Misha’s shoulder.  “All I ask is that you take a little time for yourself, huh?  You’ve been working like crazy just since I’ve been here, and you seem a little stressed out.  A few hours off won’t hurt you.  Maybe go out with your boyfriend for a while.”

    Misha giggled.  “I don’t have one.”

    “Girlfriend then.”

    “Don’t have one of those either.  Been too busy with keeping the business running to have time for something like that.”

    “Seriously?”  Kyou genuinely seemed surprised by that, his feline ears raising.  “I figured for sure you’d have someone in your life, being such a successful woman into all the latex and such.”

    Misha shrugged.  “Just never made it a priority, I guess.  Or I just never met the right person.”  She’d been on plenty of dates of course, but most of the people she’d met balked at her profession once they found out, or were just way too into it, just thinking about the sex that could have gone along with the clothing.  She had her work, though; it’s not like she could really spare the time to get involved with someone anyway.  There was just too much to do to keep the business growing!

    “Mind if I share a little advice?”  Misha nodded and Kyou looked down at his camera, fiddling with the lens and buttons before finally looking at Misha.  “You need to step back from work for a while.  Sooner, rather than later. You’re going to burn out hard if you keep at it like you are right now.  You’ll think you’re doing okay until one day you just suddenly realize that you can’t do it anymore.”

    Misha nodded slowly.  “You sound like you’re talking from experience.”

    “I am, hon, I am.  See, a few months back, I was going through a rough time and poured myself into the work.  I had a few days where I worked better than sixteen hours, even.  Probably would have ended up in a pretty dark place if I’d lost my love of photography from burnout.”

    “What did you do to deal with that?”

    “Made myself step away from work, for starters.  But I got lucky.”  Kyou smiled.  “It was about that time I met Gloria, and we started dating.  My whole outlook turned around once we started seeing each other.  Until you’ve experienced it, Misha, you just don’t know what it’s like having someone special in your life.  Even if you’re just in it to have a quickie every now and then, it’ll keep you sane, and keep you on the right path with your work.”

    Misha nodded again, blowing out a sigh.  “That’s good advice, Kyou.  Any advice on finding someone like you did?”

    “Put the job away for a while, take a few evenings or even the whole weekend off.  Get out and meet people.  Heck, do it online, even.  Just make it a priority.”  Kyou hefted the camera again, glancing at the clock on the wall.  “Hey, how about this?  You go finish up what work you can do before five, and we’ll go out for a drink afterward.  Nothing special, just a little dinner between friends to relax.”

    Rubbing her chin, Misha’s mind raced with all the work she had to do; she’d planned on staying until at least eight or nine that evening.  There were the new invoices to work on, the budget for next month, several new orders that had to be processed, more work on the prototype catsuit/pleasure system she had been building…

    “Hey, Misha, are you still there?”

    “Oh, sorry,” she replied, chuckling nervously as she ran a hand through her hair.  “I guess I really do need to take a bit of a break.  Okay, you’ve got a deal then.  I’ll run back to my office and finish up some invoices, and we’ll be out of here at five then.”

    Kyou gave her a thumbs up as he grinned and winked at her.  “Thatagirl!  I’ll take care of things here; I think I’ve left these girls hanging long enough.”

    Misha laughed as Kyou turned his attention back to the models, her gaze lingering on the scene of the three latex-clad women in various states of bondage.  They were all in different colored catuits, red, green, and yellow, with different outer designs imprinted upon them, each with a different type of heels of varying heights.  One was fully suspended between the other two with chains secured to a harness and cuffs, while the other two were on either side, one standing rigidly against a pole, strapped securely to it by nearly two dozen smaller straps, while the third was partially suspended, with Japanese-style ropework criss-crossing her body, one leg raised into a full vertical split.  All were likewise wearing hoods that fully covered their heads but for their eyes and mouths, but these were covered with darkened lenses, and their mouths were filled with ball gags that matched their catsuit colors.

    “Okay girls, another couple dozen shots and we’ll call it a day!” Kyou said as Misha hurried off, mentally telling herself repeatedly not to worry about the little details in the photoshoot, and that she had to focus on the invoices.

    “Nothing else but the invoices…no more work for today,” she muttered as she willed herself to pass the assembly room.  Her employees were hard at work filling custom orders in there, and she wanted to stop and help, but no, that’s not what she had agreed to with Kyou!  Shaking her head, she continued to her office, ignoring the piles of paperwork on one desk, and the scattering of plans and notes on her design workbench.  “Just the invoices…just the invoices…” she said to herself, sitting down at her computer and pulling them up to get to work.

    Before she knew it, Misha was putting the last invoice in its envelope, her attention drawn to the door as Kyou knocked on it, one big equipment bag over his shoulder, another in his hand.  “Oh, Kyou…time flies, doesn’t it?  Okay, just finishing up…” she said, sealing the document inside, affixing the postage and address labels, and adding it to the stack she had on the corner of her desk  “Let me just grab my things and we’ll get going.”

    “Sure.  Remember…no work tonight!” he said, grinning in that catlike way he was so good at.

    “Right, no work.  Just a…a little something for me to relax with over the weekend,” she said quickly.  She gathered her purse and business jacket, along with the paperwork she’d drop in the outbox on the way out.  Her eyes lingered on her briefcase, filled with various other documents and jump drives she could use for work at home…but she pushed away the urge to grab it, instead picking up a much larger, more solidly built case, the kind sensitive equipment was usually stored in for travel.

    “New outfit?”

    “Yeah…with some extra bells and whistles.  Could be a big seller for the holiday season if I can get it completed.  No, I’m not working on it this weekend; I’m relaxing with it.  It uh…needs a test run to look for any bugs,” Misha explained quickly, her cheeks heating a little.

    “Gotcha,” Kyou replied with a knowing grin, motioning to the hall.  “Come on, let’s get outta here.  We’ll head to that place over on 24th street we went to before, if that’s alright.”

    “Oh, Derringer’s Tavern?  Sure, that’s fine with me.”  How long had it been since she’d been there with Kyou?  A few months?  Nearly a year?  Misha stopped in front of the mirror before she turned off the lights, running a hand through her red hair to straighten a few stray strands, though her current hairstyle tended to flare out a bit wildly on the sides and back.  At least her longer forelocks had remained straight, framing her face and eyes.  She looked down, gave a quick once-over of her white blouse, making sure there weren’t any spots of dropped food from lunch, wondered briefly if she should button up the next button to hide some of her exposed cleavage, then thought better of it.  She plucked a bit of fuzz from her knee-length skirt, noting that her stockings still appeared straight through the thigh slits and down her legs to her red pumps.  Satisfied, she switched the lights off and stepped out of her office and hurriedly locked up, and followed Kyou out to the parking lot. She opened the trunk of her car, placed the prototype inside, and waved at Kyou as he got into his SUV.  She started up her car and waited for him to get moving, then took the lead toward the tavern.

    * * *

    Misha’s eyes crossed as there was suddenly an intense vibration between her legs.  She squealed into the ball filling her mouth as she tugged angrily at the chains holding her limbs wide.  Whoever had locked her into the prototype had inserted the toys as well!  The vibrators must have been on full power the way they shook her nethers, making her moan as she tugged at the chains holding her limbs.  The vibration buds built into the suit itself, specifically those on her breasts and nipples, came on a few seconds later, a high-pitched whine as they too were on full power.

    Moaning as she tried to close her legs, Misha began panting as she grew hot within the confines of the prototype.  The lenses of the hood were soon fogged up completely as her body reacted to the intense stimulation.  She rolled her head back and forth, spotting a heart-shaped clock on the nightstand next to the bed, showing 11:07 PM in big pink numbers.

    Biting down on the ball filling her mouth, Misha’s mind reeled as she neared climax.  Though she was in no way pleased with her current situation, she could at least take solace in the fact that her designs seemed to be working exactly as intended, pushing the wearer to a rapid pleasure high.

    Then the inserts and pads all died at once, and she could only hear the frustrated groan she made as her annoyance became immediately apparent.

    As she fumed, Misha realized the time.  It was after eleven!  She was missing several hours!  She thought back, recalling that she’d left work with Kyou…then was at the tavern, Derringer’s with him for dinner… What had happened after that?

    * * *

    Derringer’s Tavern was unchanged from how Misha remembered it from her last trip there:  a more traditional pub-like setting with lots of wood paneling and brass fixtures, lighting just bright enough to be pleasant but not on the level of a lesser bar, some classic rock playing over the speakers, and a pretty large crowd already showing up for dinner.  She and Kyou sat at one of the small elevated tables by the windows overlooking the street, the sun already dipping below the horizon as fall came upon them in earnest, the neon signs and street lights beginning to flicker on.

    The pair had been enjoying a light dinner and a few drinks, Misha having a bit of guilty pleasure by partaking of a burger and homemade potato chips along with some mozzarella sticks with a soda.  It was probably a recipe for disaster in the ‘keeping her figure’ department, but despite the constant nagging urge to pull out her phone and check her email, she resisted and was actually enjoying herself.  “So when are you going to show me a picture of Gloria?” she asked, at last, looking up from Kyou’s phone in which he had been showing her some of his off-the-clock photography.

    “Ohhh…might be a while,” Kyou replied with a chuckle and a sly grin.  “Pretty much all the pictures we do are uh…of a private sort if you get my drift.”

    Misha cocked her head and gave him a quizzical look.  “You’re being modest after all the latex fetish stuff you’ve done for me?  And your other kinky clients?”

    “There’s a little more to it than that…but…” Kyou turned his phone toward him, swiped at it quickly several times, then turned it back to Misha.  “…here.  It’s not the best picture…”

    The screen revealed a stunningly beautiful blonde woman, her silky hair falling over one of her baby blue eyes as she smiled seductively at the camera.  Just at the bottom of the frame, Misha could see a sizeable pair of breasts, or the top of them anyway, and the impressive line of cleavage in between.  “Oh, she’s gorgeous Kyou!  How haven’t I seen her before?  She has to be like a supermodel or something!”

    “I’ve told her she’d be a natural at it, but she’s actually pretty private when you get down to it.”

    Kyou’s phone buzzed, and another picture of Gloria popped up.  Misha grinned.  “And it looks like she’s calling.”

    “Sorry, just a sec,” Kyou said, patting Misha’s hand as he hurried outside to a more quiet spot to take the call.

    Misha sat back in her chair with a sigh, sipping at her soda.  Maybe she should find someone…the way Kyou’s face had lit up when he’d gotten the call made her a bit jealous for sure, but she couldn’t hold that against him.  She wasn’t exactly getting any younger, and with the way things were going in town and across the world with all those crazy superpowered people battling in the streets, who knew what was around the corner?  She picked up another chip, dipped it in the cheese sauce, and popped it into her mouth, chewing slowly as she tried to reason out just how to go about meeting someone without coming off completely awkward.

    Delving into her work seemed so much simpler!

    “No!” she said to herself, slapping her hand as it went for her purse and the phone inside.  She snatched up another chip and took another drink.  She quickly took another bite of her burger, glancing out the window toward Kyou.  He seemed a little surprised, but then got a much more playful look on his face as he turned and walked down the street a bit to get clear of the doorway area.

    Kyou finally came back inside a few minutes later, looking a bit guilty, ears drooping.  “Hey, Misha, I uh…Gloria’s wanting to come over, like right now.  Well, she’s actually already at my apartment; I told her I was with a client and she said she’d wait, but…”

    Misha shook her head, offering a supportive smile.  “Go on and get going, Kyou.  I wouldn’t dream of keeping you away from your girlfriend if she’s already waiting for you.”  She did raise her finger a moment later.  “I do have a condition, though.”

    Kyou grinned.  “And that is?”

    “You need to let me meet her sometime.  Just a little casual drink or something like this maybe, nothing fancy.”

    “I don’t think she’d have a problem with that, once I tell her a little about you.  She might even be interested in some of your outfits.”

    “Really?”

    Kyou nodded, flagging down a waitress and asking for a to-go box before he pulled out his wallet and tossed some cash on the table.  “Definitely.  You sure you don’t want me to stick around a little longer?”

    “It’s fine,’ Misha replied with a shake of her head.  “I’ll just hang around and finish up my dinner and head on home.  Try to get this work-free weekend thing started properly.”  Testing the prototype wouldn’t really be work if she was enjoying herself inside it, right?

    “Thanks,” Kyou said, stepping up and giving Misha a quick kiss on her cheek before the waitress brought the box for the rest of his burger and hot wings.  “I’ll follow up with you on Monday, should have the preliminary work done on the shoot by then…if Gloria doesn’t keep me too busy that is.”

    “Sounds like that’s happened before.”

    “Well…she’s very energetic sometimes,” he said with a chuckle.  He picked up his food and gave Misha a quick wave as he walked toward the door.  “Remember, no work!  See you next week!”

    “Bye, Kyou!  Be safe!” Misha replied, waving at him.  She blew out her breath once he was gone, leaning her elbow on the table and resting her chin in her hand.  She picked up a chip, dipping it into the cheese a few times, not really sure what it was she felt at the moment.  Was she a little jealous of Gloria and Kyou having that kind of relationship?  No, not jealous, maybe a little envious, but she had only herself to blame.  She’d always been a workaholic, and nothing had changed about that since she’d set up shop in Sentinel City.

    Misha was just about to make a move on the last handful of her chips and the last few bites of her burger when someone slipped into the chair Kyou had vacated some minutes ago.  Misha blinked, confused as she didn’t recognize the dark-skinned woman sitting across from her.  “Uhhh…can I help you…?”

    “I certainly hope so, love,” said the woman in a sultry tone and with a hungry grin, leaning against the table and cradling her chin in her hands.  This had the effect of greatly accentuating her sizable bust, clearly visible through the unbuttoned shirt she wore.  Though her skin was dark, her hair was golden blonde with rainbow-colored highlights throughout the long, curly twintails and bangs, a stark contrast to be certain.  Her makeup was on the garish side as well, a mix of bright pink upon her lips and brighter reds and purples lining her eyes and upon her cheeks, and a rainbow of colors on her fingernails.  She wore a plethora of bracelets of gold and brightly colored plastics upon her wrists.  “I’ve got a big hotel room and nobody to share it with tonight.  I’m certain you could help me with that.”

    It took Misha a moment to realize exactly what style she was looking at:  ganguro.  It wasn’t a common look in the States to be sure, and was a bit fringe even in Japan, but the woman who had sidled up to her table was pulling it off well, though it certainly wasn’t a look that Misha cared for, especially with the naughty schoolgirl look she was apparently going for.  “Uhhh…no.  Unless you’re looking for some suggestions for a new outfit, I can’t help you,” Misha said quickly.  Something about the woman put Misha on edge, not just her very bold assumption that Misha was looking for a hookup.  Granted, she wasn’t entirely wrong…

    “Oh, we’ll have so much fun together!  Why don’t we just slip on out and-” said the woman, her smile slipping as she only just seemed to realize that Misha had shot her down.  She recovered quickly, though, apparently undaunted as she turned up the seductive nature of her smile.  She reached across the table and plucked a chip from Misha’s plate, tossing it in her mouth and chewing quickly.  “I’m Honey, by the way.  Maybe I just wasn’t clear enough in what I was getting at?  Because I can get VERY clear, love.”  She licked her lips, taking another chip, adjusting herself so show off her cleavage even more.

    Was it going to take a flat-out, clear statement of her disinterest before Honey got the clue?  She obviously wasn’t getting the message, and went after another chip.

    Misha was about to get angry and speak up when she felt something soft brushing against her leg, quickly moving upward.  She looked down, spotting the woman’s sock-clad foot.  She wore those long slouch socks bunched up around her calves, a bit discolored from wear around the foot and lower layers.  Misha breathed sharply and stiffened as the woman’s foot slipped past her knee and between her legs.  She noticed a peculiar odor wafting up, saw the darker, sweat-dampened sole of the sock.  For a moment the scent rankled Misha’s nose, put her in the mind of what a long-worn gym sock might have smelled like, but then it changed, subtly, becoming sweet, like…honey.  Misha inhaled again, taking in the heady aroma, feeling herself quiver at Honey’s touch as her toes played along Misha’s thigh.  She became aware of herself blushing.

    “What’s your name, love?”

    “M-Misha…” she said, almost immediately.  Honey’s voice drew her eyes back toward the ganguro, just as she licked her lips.  Misha felt a sudden pressure against her nipples as they stood erect within her bra, and noticed a heat growing between her legs.

    “Ohhh, cute name, Misha.  We should get to know each other, hmmm?  You look like you could use a little fun tonight, and I’m tons of fun.  I can do things with you that you’ve never felt before.”

    Misha breathed in again, squeezing her legs together as the heat grew in her crotch, feeling Honey’s leg still there, breathing in that sweet, intoxicating smell coming from her sock.  Everything else seemed dimmer around Honey, even her voice drowned out the music and crowds around them.  There was just something so wonderful about her!  What could she show Misha that was so amazing?

    “What say we slip outta here and go somewhere more private?  We could make a whole weekend out of it, even  Wouldn’t you just love to spend a weekend with me, Misha?  We could explore places that you’ve never imagined.”  Honey’s foot pressed a little further, her toes brushing the front of Misha’s moistened panties.

    A tingle shot through Misha’s body, and she gasped, her mind aflutter with the possibilities of what Honey could do to her.  Very much about to agree with the ganguro woman, Misha heard her phone vibrate and ping loudly in her purse.

    Blinking, suddenly back in the real world, the scent she’d noticed earlier was forgotten, and Misha’s heated face turned angry, and she slapped Honey’s leg down and away from her crotch.  “Get your leg away from there!”  Noting the surprised look on Honey’s face, Misha snatched up her jacket and purse, and then stood up, pointing her finger angrily at Honey.  “I’m not interested, okay?  And I don’t know what it was you just tried to pull on me, but let me repeat:  I AM NOT interested!  I’ve got too much work to do, and you’re not my type; I’m not at all into the slutty schoolgirl thing.  Try an anime convention or something, and stay away from me!”

    Misha noted the continued surprise on Honey’s face as she turned and started toward the counter to pay the bill.  After a moment, she heard Honey calling out behind her.  “Okay, love, no sweat!  See ya around, Misha!”

    Turning her head just enough to see Honey, Misha saw the woman stand, noting the shortness of her pleated skirt, not even halfway down her thighs, and that she wore a steep pair of black high-heels, along with the sweater tied off around her waist.  Honey waved sweetly, blowing her a kiss before sauntering toward the exit.

    Shaking her head and blowing out her breath, still feeling the arousal on her nipples and between her legs, Misha quickly paid and headed to the bathroom.  Was she really so desperate that a touch from a stranger would get her all hot and bothered like that?  “No way,” she muttered as she slipped into a stall and took care of her business, taking a few extra moments for deep breaths and to calm herself down.  She plucked her phone from her purse, noted that it was a little after 6:30, and lingered as she noticed the email that had come in.  She had just about swiped to open it up, but willed herself to ignore it and stuffed the phone back into her purse.  “No work!  You promised Kyou!”

    Once she had finished up in the bathroom, feeling less heated, Misha put Honey out of her mind and left the pub.  The early fall night was getting rather cool as she walked down the block toward the parking lot.  Her thoughts were already on trying out her prototype as she turned off the well-lit street and into the slightly less-well-lit parking area.  It was packed as it was a shared lot, but she didn’t think much about it as she dug her car keys out of her purse and clicked the button to unlock the doors.

    She popped the door open and tossed her purse inside.  Just as she was about to get in herself, a strong arm wrapped around her torso and pulled her back.  She was just about to scream as a thick, slightly moist cloth was pressed over her nose and mouth.  In the light, she recognized it as a big, white sock with a dirty sole, and as she reflexively breathed in, the strong odor of a well-worn, unwashed sock filled her nose and mouth.  Though she thought she’d gag, instead she felt her body growing heavy and unresponsive, her vision growing dim.

    Misha felt lips upon her neck, and heard a giggle.  “I always get my prey, Misha love.  I absolutely adore it when they play hard to get; it gives me an excuse to do this,” said a familiar voice, in a sweet, seductive tone Misha recognized:  Honey!  “We’re going to have so much fun together!”

    Misha mumbled a protest, barely aware of the fact that Honey was groping her chest as the sickly-sweet aroma filled her lungs and she drifted into unconsciousness in Honey’s arms.


    Another piece I wrote a while back, well, started a while back and took even longer to finish.  Think I had started writing this during the period I was working on the Peculiar Predicament of the Pilfering Pink Pussy, as there is some crossover in the events that familiar readers may notice.  This is the first part in a trilogy of stories featuring Misha Kyle, a friend’s OC whom I brought into my superhero setting (and you have also seen in another story, though she was going by a different name at the time).

    There’s another OC whom I’ve brought into the fold as well, one Gloria Tempest.  Some may recall an appearance by her sister Jennifer Tempest during the events of the story Anything for a Scoop.  Though I’ve not gotten deeper into the involvement of the Tempests in my superhero setting yet, they do have a fairly major role eventually.  A thing to keep in mind, however, is that I’ve changed up their relationships slightly, specifically some of the women are no longer the daughters of Kyou and Gloria.  This is an alternate take on them to be sure, unique to this setting, but the Tempest’s creator has approved, so it should be all good.  More on that down the road.

    For now, I hope you’ve enjoyed this first part of three for this particular story, and will come back for the follow up next week!

    Until next time, Urban out!

    Hit me over on DeviantArt, or on my Discord server!  I’m usually always around, and would love to hear what you have to say!

  • Corporate Complications

    This is a story written last year as a gift for the one and only TooOooney on DeviantArt.  During the course of our chats, the idea of doing a story with our OCs came up a few times, and eventually the idea came to me to implement the story into my Sci-Fantasy setting a TooOoney-approved version of his character Vi (who has the most delicious…assets) interacting with a new interpretation of my Urban persona from some of my older works.  And it made for a great worldbuilding exercise for my ever-expanding setting.

    Story contains a fast-paced escape from some corpo goons, Vi in his natural state (in trouble and tightly bound) and Urban getting in way over his head.  Though I’ve not gotten started on it yet, there’s plenty of room for a sequel, assuming the Emperor approves.

    Enjoy!


    Location:  Miranan III, Vicori Virliana’s Estate, 65km outside of Shandania City

    Time:  00:19 Galactic Standard

    Urban opened the door, glanced around the garage, and found it empty but for the many expensive grav-cars parked within, just as he’d hoped.  The party guests were still busy with the entertainment; nobody would be wasting time out here when there were slaves to play with.  Adjusting his suit, Urban plucked the mirrored smart-glasses from his breast pocket and settled them over his eyes, starting toward the rows of vehicles.  Though it was well after midnight, the dim garage lit up as though it were midday, and he noted the various grav-cars, wondered how many millions of credits the collected value of them were, then shook his head.  No time for idle thoughts; he had somewhere else to be.

    He pulled the starter stick from his pocket and pressed the button; a larger black sport-utility grav-car beeped and hummed as the engine came to life, the vehicle’s grav-coil spinning up.  He could still hear his claws clicking on the concrete as he made his way to the vehicle, and gave it a quick once-over.  The outer glass was mirrored, but thanks to the enhancement from the glasses, he could see that the vehicle was empty save for a large metallic case in the rear storage deck.  His curiosity very nearly overcame him, but knowing he had little time, he pushed the urge away and got into the driver’s seat and inserted the starter stick into the dash, the red security lights blinking, then going green, the car rising from the floor as he settled himself into the seat.

    He received a notification on his personal HUD from his data skimmer implant that he’d received several files from the comm in his pocket as he threw the SUG into drive and pressed the accelerator, rushing toward the exit.  His ears twitched, and he glanced in the rearview mirror, swearing that he’d heard a squealing sound, but saw nothing out of the ordinary, just the rear seat and the top of that large case.  Something with the grav-coil maybe, could have been out of alignment.

    No status indicators ilt up indicating a problem, so Urban ignored the sound and continued on.  He turned out of the garage and toward the front gates, rolling the window down and waving casually at the guard posted there.  He got a wave in return from the huge, but bored-looking equinarian, and the large, fortress-like gates rumbled open, and he pressed his foot down on the accelerator again, hurrying on his way down the long approach and to the narrow mountain road that led to the estate.  The grav-car wasn’t equipped for high altitude flight, unfortunately, and though there had been such cars at the estate, they were in the private garage of the estate owner, Vicori Virliana, and Urban didn’t have the time to bypass that much security.

    He noted the GPS directions that appeared on the SUG’s dash screen, the onboard computer having linked to the comm in his pocket.  He was pretty much locked into the course until he made it off  the mountain road, but his destination was in the opposite direction once he hit the main highway.  The grav-car slid quickly around a particularly sharp curve, his hands on the controls steady, though maybe he had taken it a little fast.  The grav system squealed again, sounding almost nasally as he gunned the grav-coil coming out of the turn.  Still no warnings.

    Had the isolated mountain road been attached to the AD-Network, Urban would have set the auto-drive for a couple minutes and worked on hacking the vehicle’s computer and GPS, but as it was, he needed his full attention on the snake-like route that led away from the Virliana estate.  Still, he should have at least ten minutes before someone-

    The comm in his pocket buzzed and chirped, and the dash screen showed the incoming call details, flashing ‘BOSS LADY’ and displaying a rather angry-looking picture of a golden-haired elven woman with her own pair of smart-glasses upon her face.  That was Karelessia, Vicori Virliana’s long-time personal assistant.

    Shit.  That didn’t take nearly as long as he’d hoped.

    Urban pushed the accelerator harder and adjusted his grip on the controls, whipping the SUG around the next turn, skirting the edge of the narrow road, trying not to notice the thousands of feet separating the road from the valley floor below.

    The comm kept ringing, but Urban ignored it.  He had nothing to say to anyone associated with ‘the Emperor’; he’d not exactly been the most gracious host.  The comm stopped a few moments later, then immediately started up again.  As Urban tried to fish the device from his pocket, the call automatically engaged without him even hitting any buttons on the device.

    “I don’t know who you are, but you’ve just made the worst mistake of your life.  Stop that car right where you are, shut it down, and wait for my people to pick you up.  We’ll have a civil discussion about the mess you’ve gotten yourself into.”  Her voice was icy enough to make someone shiver.

    Just as Urban’s fingers finally got hold of the comm, he had to jerk the controls hard, whipping the vehicle around another sharp turn, the grav-cushion slipping, causing him to slide dangerously close to the edge.  That flimsy guard rail wouldn’t stop him at the speeds he was going.  The grav-coil squealed again, sounding almost angry at the abuse it was getting.

    The dash screen flashed red, and another pop-up appeared over the live call:  ‘WARNING!  Unauthorized access detected!  Your vehicle is experiencing a cyberattack!  Please stop immediately and shut down all network access!’  Worse, the onboard scanning systems detected three other vehicles that registered as friendlies coming out of the estate, speeding toward him.  Urban was very certain they were anything but.

    Shit, shit!

    “Last chance to stop peaceably.  You obviously have some impressive skills; perhaps we can come to an arrangement?”

    There was no chance of that; an arrangement from someone like Karelessia likely meant several forceful injections of lead into the body, assuming she wasn’t into the whole torture thing, and Urban was in no mood for either.  Thinking quickly as he slid around another wide curve, he dared a glance at the network connection indicators on the dash screen.  The vehicle wasn’t connected to the main planetary network; the GPS indicator was on, but the data connections were down.  The primary network indicator showed that everything was coming from the comm.  Probably something Virliana did so that he and his people wouldn’t have to worry about security breaches over an open network; he no doubt had his own private networks established and ran his entire operation through it.  Though he was completely above the law, why take the chance of someone playing with the emergency system and potentially shutting down his group’s vehicles via the law-enforcement and government only kill switch?

    Urban hit the button on the driver’s door, the window slid down, a rush of cool mountain air spilling through the opening.  “Nope!  Ain’t gonna do it!” he shouted, intentionally deepening his voice and slurring the words in his best drunken dwarf accent as he slung the comm out the window, slamming the button to raise the window again.

    “You can’t seriously think-”  Karelessia’s voice cut off mid-sentence as the call dropped.

    The dash screen flashed, then went to a basic map display beneath the additional information window:  ‘Unauthorized access attempt thwarted.  Congratulations!  You are no longer suffering from a cyberattack!  Please report this to local law enforcement as soon as possible.’ The popup lingered for a moment more, then another replaced it, stating:  ‘Alert:  You are no longer connected to a navigation network.  Alert:  you are no longer connected to an active data network.  Exercise caution; vehicle computer systems are operating with limited functionality.’

    Urban grasped the controls tightly, whipping them back and forth as the vehicle started down a serpentine section of roadway, the grav-coil squealing with each sharp jerk in the opposite direction.  He still hadn’t gotten a warning from the grav-coil system, so whatever was causing that noise couldn’t have been that bad, but it sure was annoying.  He glanced back through the rearview mirror again, catching a brief glimpse of three large, dark shapes speeding down the winding road in the distance; they were running without lights just like him, and they were driving just as fast as he was.

    He looked down at the case in the back; wondered what was inside it, and how much he could get out of it.  He’d overheard a snippet of the conversation on his way out of the basement, when he’d initiated a ‘forceful borrowing’ of the suit he now wore from one of Virliana’s goons, getting the now-yeeted comm, key to the grav-car, and a pistol and shoulder holster rig along with it.  Whatever was inside was valuable, something that could earn Karelessia a lot of money and set the corporate world on fire or some such; maybe Vicori Virliana would be very interested in buying back whatever his assistant had stolen away?

    Urban’s lips curled back in a wide, feral grin as he came around the last turn and onto a straight stretch and slammed the accelerator with his foot, revving the grav-coil to its limit.  If he played his cards right, he was going to make a killing off this operation.  All the data he had skimmed throughout the night, plus whatever scheme the Emperor’s assistant had cooked up.  All he had to do was get off planet and-

    High-beams lit up on the rapidly approaching end of the straight stretch, Urban’s smart-glasses immediately darkening to compensate for the sudden flare.  Two vehicles had stopped in the roadway, one in each lane, and several big and nasty looking goons were piling out, pistols and submachine guns drawn.

    Grin turning into a wince, Urban reacted almost without thinking.  He hit several buttons on the controls and manually re-balanced the grav-coil’s output, then pushed the accelerator all the way to the floor.  The grav-coil whined in protest as Urban jerked the controls hard right, the SUG’s dash screen flashing multiple warnings.  The vehicle slid up the rocky sidewall to his left moments before impact with the two vehicles blocking the road, at a near ninety-degree angle off the road.

    The case in the back fell against the side of the cargo area, threatening to fall against the glass.  A terrified squeal came from the case, sounding suspiciously like the grav-coil sounds he’d heard before.

    Wait, what?!

    The distraction was momentary, Urban drawing his attention back to fighting the controls. He caught a glimpse of the two goons on that side of their vehicle diving for cover, heard the sound of metal scraping on metal as his roof narrowly avoided a full-on collision with theirs, saw a flash of sparks, and then he passed them.  Tapping the buttons again, Urban leveled out the grav-coil’s output and put the SUG back on the roadway.

    The case in the rear fell flat onto the cargo deck, more angry sounds coming out of it.  What the hell”?!

    Bullets sprayed the rear of the vehicle, spider-webbing the rear glass, multiple bullets thunking against the rear hatch.  Urban reflexively pushed himself down in the seat, pulling the controls to enter the next sharp turn, taking him out of their line of fire.  The vehicle’s status display indicated multiple impacts, but no serious damage. Of course, someone like Vicori Virliana would have armored vehicles even for his goons.

    Knowing that time was short, and that he still had a lot of ground to cover, Urban readjusted himself in the seat and pushed the accelerator as far as he dared, sliding wide and dangerously close to the edge of the road.  He was almost to the highway, just a little further and he could pour on the speed.  Hopefully there weren’t any other tracking devices in the vehicle, because he didn’t have time to deal with them.  He just had to hope his pursuers were stuck on the road for a few minutes trying to get turned around, or better yet, that those three vehicles coming from the estate had collided with their buddies.

    He didn’t count on that happening, though, unless the gods were watching and feeling amused, perhaps.  He’d never been particularly observant or religious, so not likely.  Urban pushed the fleeting thought aside, glancing back through the mirrors as he came around a wide curve; nobody directly behind him, but he saw the headlights go out further back, and caught some shadowy figures moving around, waving frantically, the blocking vehicles pulling aside.  Not much time.

    The road banked more noticeably downward, and Urban spotted the glow of fast-moving headlights on the main highway through the trees ahead.  Another couple of minutes had him flying up the ramp and merging into the late-night traffic, sparser than he might have liked, but it did allow him to take off at a higher speed.  For the moment he hadn’t spotted any of his pursuers, but he still had the nagging feeling that he was being tracked somehow.

    Tapping his clawed finger on the controls, Urban wondered about his options.  Would they risk bringing in the local police?  Virliana probably owned them outright, so it would be simple enough to report a stolen vehicle and some sensitive data or whatever was in the case…but Karelessia probably wouldn’t risk it, especially if she was pulling this deal without the big guy knowing about it.  Too many questions would be asked, too many people who didn’t need to know would be involved.  Of course, some passing motorists could just report an SUG riddled with bullet holes to the cops, to.

    He could just walk away.  Take what data he’d skimmed inside the place and leave the SUG and the case beside the road.  And miss whatever massive payout he could get.  The curiosity of what was inside the case gnawed at him; what could be so valuable that it was going to shake up the corporate scene?  He couldn’t just let that slip out of his fingers.

    Growling, tail twitching between himself and the seat, Urban started looking along the sides of the highway.  He was going to have to improvise a solution since he was light on gear and even lighter on time.  A few kilometers from where he’d first gotten on the highway, he saw his opportunity.  “Simple solutions…” he muttered, and whipped the SUG down the next exit ramp, the suddenness of the maneuver pushing him against the door.  The squealing sound came from the case in the back again; what was in there?  Was it a person?!

    Urban pulled the SUG off the ramp and into a darkened service station, maneuvering by the automated fueling pumps and toward the back, and the garage he’d spotted from the highway.  He pulled the SUG into one of the empty parking spaces, right next to a battered old grav-truck with the garage’s fading logo on the doors.  He popped the rear hatch and threw the SUG into standby, getting out and jogging to the driver’s side of the truck.  A quick strike from the butt of the pistol had him through the side window, and a couple of minutes later, he had hotwired the grav-coil, the ancient vehicle shuddering to life.  At least it didn’t have a modern computer and judging by the data appearing on the dusty screen, the software hadn’t been updated in some time to remain compatible with the planetary data network.

    Hoping it would hold together and having his doubts as the noxious exhaust fumes started spilling from the grav-coil compartment, Urban quickly went to the case in the back of the SUG.  There he tugged at the case’s carrying handle, grunting as he pulled it out of the back, and promptly dropped it to the ground.  He heard a grunt, and an angry cry from inside, and froze.

    There was someone in there!  And they were heavy!

    Or maybe it was just the case that was heavy.  Eyes darting over the thing, Urban saw that it was reinforced metal, with several plates arranged in an almost puzzle-box-like manner, with several buttons in addition to the number pad on one side.  There was another smaller  box recessed into the surface of the case that seemed to be circulating air through the interior.  Tail thrashing, he was torn between trying to get inside it right then, but knew he couldn’t break the lock without his tools, and those weren’t anywhere close.  Who was in there?

    “No time, no time,” Urban said, grunting as he took hold of the case again and pulled it across the ground, then hefted it into the grav-truck’s cab atop the dirty floorboards.  Another fifteen seconds and he had the doors shut and was pulling out, heading down the smaller road through a residential community, the old clunker rumbling and shaking violently whenever he even tried to gun the engine like he had with the SUG.

    He took the scenic route for a good twenty minutes before exiting back onto the highway; by then the old grav-coil had warmed up enough to at least slightly surpass the speed limit, so he could almost keep up with traffic.  No signs of pursuit yet.  So far so good.

    It took almost an hour, but at last Urban guided the old clunker down the overgrown road, coming out of a stretch of trees in front of the burnt remains of an old farmhouse.  He circled wide of these and continued by a similarly torched barn and to the rear of the abandoned property and the hills that lay there.  Hoping that some lucky explorer hadn’t found what he’d left there almost two months ago, Urban navigated through more trees until he came out at a small clearing and the wide opening of a cave.  The grav-truck’s headlights, dim as they were, shone inside,through the brush that had been piled up to partially hide the entrance, and thankfully revealed the camouflaged outline of his interceptor.

    Urban turned the grav-truck around and backed up toward the entrance and pushed through the brush, and shut the thing down.  The old coil cut off suddenly, rather than slowly discharging, and the truck landed on the cavern floor with a violent thump, eliciting another angry series of cries from the case in what sounded like muffled elvish, which continued as Urban hauled the case out of the truck and toward his ship.

    Tugging the camo cloth from the small ship, Urban keyed in the entry code and fired up the ship’s systems, bringing the computer online as the power core came up.  The grav-coil began to spin up, followed by the TK drive.  The little ship was mostly engine, built for speed and maneuverability.  Urban was just about to exit the cockpit when the ship’s sensors flashed a warning, detecting at least five other ships coming toward them in a delta formation.  “Tracker confirmed,” he said aloud to himself.

    He looked at the case below him again, wondering how he could fit it inside the cargo area of the tiny ship.  His eyes turned to the screen again, making a quick calculation.  The incoming signals were moving relatively slow, but definitely heading his way.  Grav-craft, then, nothing equipped for space flight.  Hoping there wasn’t a ground team coming, though that would explain the slower speed, Urban flipped a switch, arming the deterrents he had buried outside on the trail leading to the cave.  But…the interceptor hadn’t been online for weeks, so its TK-drive was cold, meaning he couldn’t break through the planet’s gravity for at least another ten minutes.  He had maybe half that before the ships reached him.  And the cargo area below the cockpit was about two-thirds the size of the case.

    Could he hack the case’s security in less than five minutes?  He had a toolkit in the cargo area… “Damn it,” he muttered, momentarily cursing his own curiosity before tapping a button to link his personal HUD to the sensor readouts before hopping down and popping the seals on the cargo area, retrieving his hacking kit.

    Urban hurried over to the case and quickly checked for anti-tamper features, then found a few panels he could access.  He had his probes and wires clipped to the device in a few more moments and started trying for an electronic bypass; maybe he wouldn’t have to hack the lock system at all.  Teeth gritted, he readjusted the probes, checking for energy pathways.  The case’s locking system didn’t look like much on the outside but was definitely more complex on the inside.

    The ETA on the incoming fliers kept falling; almost before he realized it, he was down to three minutes.  “Shit!” Urban spat, having gotten nowhere with the bypass attempt.  The lock was overly complex, no doubt to prevent exactly what he was trying to do.  He pulled another device from his kit and slammed the cable into the data access port and watched as data started flowing over the screen.  Gritting his teeth, Urban started running through his list of codebreaking programs, hoping he’d get lucky.  He didn’t count on it, though; the case was locked with some of Virliana’s proprietary software, so unless they had actually used something open source as a base, it would probably take a more dedicated hacking attempt to get through.

    Two and a half minutes…the sensors updated their readouts, showing a vectored render of the incoming hostiles.  Definitely small grav-craft, probably carrying no more than five people each, but armed with miniguns and missiles.  Karelessia wasn’t fucking around.  The craft started to spread out, forming a wider delta pattern.

    A muffled boom sounded in the distance, somewhere in the direction of the farmhouse.  “Damn damn damn,” Urban spat, ears laying back, tail swishing angrily.  There was at least one ground based- Another explosion rippled from the farmhouse area.  At least two ground-based vehicles…  They’d be more cautious now.  The HUD updated the ETA of the grav-craft as they picked up speed, ninety seconds.

    Just then, the hacking tool beeped rapidly, flashed several times, then the locking bolts on the case started to disengage and panels started to slide.  “Thank you whichever deity might have been responsible for that,” Urban muttered, staring in surprise as the case opened up.  He would definitely owe them a bit of praise, if he ever found out who was responsible for it, anyway.  Maybe it was just good luck.

    The lid slid aside with a hiss, and inside the padded interior of the case, Urban saw a shape wrapped in black leather straps, what he realized was actually a very tightly bound humanoid, curled into a ball, the straps secured with some fairly heavy-duty electronic locks.  The pale skin was covered in sweat, its hands stuffed in pink bondage mittens and crossed behind its back, its head hidden within a similarly colored discipline hood with a gag and blindfold harness over it, the only parts visible being their lips around the thick ball gag and some sweaty reddish hair that protruded around the neck of the hood, along with some indistinct, padded lumps that hid their ears.  Urban noted the impressively large hips and shapely posterior which looked even bigger given the way the straps squeezed their flesh, and how tight that little pink thong was around their hips.  The general body type screamed elf aside from the unique hips and backside,, but there was something familiar about this person, something tickling at the back of Urban’s brain…

    The bound figure’s angry squeal and violent shaking snapped Urban back to the moment, a line of drool sliding from the ball gag and over their hooded chin.  The time in Urban’s HUD hit sixty seconds.  “Time to go!” he said, stuffing his tools in their pouch and slinging it over shoulder.  He grabbed the straps that held the figure in a ball, grunting as he hefted the bound form and headed toward the ship.  Not only was the ball-bound figure resisting, squirming and angrily trying to speak around the gag, but they were a bit heavier than their size would have indicated.  Maybe all that weight hadn’t just been from the case after all; or maybe Urban just needed to hit the gym; he had just spent a few weeks in-

    There was a loud ‘BRRRR’ sound from the skies outside, and bullets shredded through the trees outside, kicking up a cloud of dust as they tore into the ground outside the cave entrance and tracked across the front of the opening, ripping through the old clunker and leaving it a shredded, twisted, smoking mess.

    Urban grunted again, hefting the ball-bound elf over the edge of the cockpit and dropping them inside.  The elf thudded onto the floor panel with a very displeased squeal.  Urban slapped the cargo area shut and hopped inside.  The cockpit was tight already, and the addition of another body meant it was even tighter.

    Thirty seconds.

    Growling, Urban tore the suit jacket off and tossed it aside, then grabbed the straps, adjusting the elf’s position so that Urban could get his feet on the aetheric rudder pedals.  The elf’s face settled against Urban’s crotch, his legs going along either side of the elf’s head.  Urban sealed the cockpit, the canopy sliding into place and locking down as he revved the grav-coil and lifted off the cave floor.  The elf’s squealing was incessant now, and they were rocking back and forth, trying to free themselves.

    “Would you stop that!  I’m trying to get us out of here!” Urban spat, wincing as the elf’s face bumped roughly into his crotch, making him wince at the added pressure and sudden, sharp pinch he felt on his cock and balls in addition to the already painful pressure that had been present for some time now.  “Damn it, wish I could’ve found a key for that fucking thing on my way out…” Urban said through gritted teeth as he strapped himself into the seat.  He grasped the controls and shoved the throttle forward.

    The interceptor’s engines roared, the small craft shooting out of the cave like a bullet from a gun barrel; the elf’s squealing was even louder than the engines.  Urban was pushed back into his seat, and the elf’s face pushed even harder into his crotch.  Urban saw the grav-craft then, much too close to bring their missiles into play, but that didn’t stop them from trying to spray his ship with bullets.  Urban kept his ship low, just over the trees, weaving back and forth as bullets filled the air mere centimeters away.  He saw smoke rising from the direction of the farmhouse, and saw some familiar-looking SUGs, two of which were now on fire, some of the goons, too.

    Then they were gone, the interceptor streaking over the landscape.  The grav-craft were in hot pursuit, spraying tracers in his direction as they tried to pin him down.  Would they use their missiles?  Surely they wanted the elf alive?

    Urban jerked at the controls, sending the ship into a tight spiral to break no less than three attempts for a missile lock.  The elf between his legs screamed into the ball gag.

    Urban weaved low over the trees, coming out over a road a moment later, then shot underneath a highway overpass.  Bullets tore up the asphalt behind him, sawing through a cargo container that was being hauled by a large grav-truck.  He checked the TK-drive, saw that it still hadn’t reached enough power to break into orbit.

    With another tone indicating someone was trying to lock onto him with missiles, Urban poured more power into the thrusters and shot toward some kind of industrial park, multiple flame-spewing exhaust stacks and large containers illuminated by the orange glow of multiple night-time lights.  Though he weaved wildly, one of the grav-craft managed to get a lock on him, and in the next instant there was a shrill warning as they fired the missile.

    Urban squeezed his thighs around the elf’s head as he worked the pedals, doing his best to ignore the angry protests.  He pushed the control sticks forward and dove into the industrial park, weaving through the large, rounded chemical containers.  The missile struck one of them, but instead of the explosion he’d expected to see in the rearview display, he saw a burst of electrical energy playing over the surface of the tank.  “Ohhhh…crap,” he muttered.  They wanted the elf alive, but still, if one of those EMPs struck the interceptor, the chances Urban could safely land the ship without power were pretty low.  Though a near-miss would still mess up his power systems, maybe forcing him to land in a more controlled manner.

    Urban adjusted his speed, moving a bit slower, but weaved back and forth between the containers and exhaust stacks, a meter or less from impact at any given moment.  Bullets ripped through a container in front of him.  Urban pulled up sharply as the chemicals ignited and the container exploded.  He grunted as the elf’s face impacted his crotch as the g-forces pushed them both towards the rear of the ship.  The interceptor rocked in the blast wave of the explosion, but Urban forced it downward again, diving behind the raging inferno.  He saw other tanks impacted by the shrapnel, spewing chemicals into the nearby flames.

    Gritting his teeth, Urban pushed the throttle forward again, tensing his legs around the elven head that threatened to crush his balls.  As more containers started exploding behind him and his own sensors were momentarily overloaded by the input, he hoped the grav-craft chasing them were likewise affected.  With another blast rocking the interceptor, Urban spotted a possible escape route.

    He whipped the ship into a tight, sudden downward turn, spinning as he narrowly avoided colliding with the ground.  He leveled out a moment later, streaking down a drainage canal only centimeters above the ground as fire consumed everything above and behind him.  He thumbed the safeties on his own ship’s guns, a pair of light pulse cannons, and then pulled the triggers, blowing a hole through the bars blocking the way.

    The small ship shot into the narrow tunnel, fire following close behind, lighting up everything in brilliant blue and orange hues.  A few seconds more and the fires started to die off, and for the moment, nobody was shooting at them.  His sensors recovered a few moments later, still showing the five grav-craft, but they were moving away from the mess they’d created.  He slowed the ship, blowing out his breath.  The tunnel continued for another two kilometers or so, according to the readouts, which gave him a few seconds to-

    The elf snarled between Urban’s legs, raised his head, and headbutted Urban right in his crotch.

    “Ooof!”  Urban groaned, vision blurring momentarily.  The ship drifted, and he corrected immediately; if he impacted the walls down here and lost control, he’d never recover before they-

    The elf headbutted Urban again, harder this time.

    This time, in addition to the pain from the impact, the device Urban had been unable to remove earlier pinched his balls and twisted painfully, and he cried out from the pain, leaning forward, unable to breathe.  The ship rocked and jerked as one of the stabilizers scraped the roof of the tunnel, and he fought to correct their flight path before they went out of control.

    “W-would you stop that?!” Urban wheezed, blinking away tears that clouded his vision.  “I’m trying not to get us killed, okay?  I’ll get you free as soon as we’re clear of the assholes shooting at us!”

    The bound elf said something in an angry tone, but thankfully didn’t strike again.

    Urban winced as he adjusted himself against the seat, taking a moment to rub his sore package.  He could see the light of the exit ahead.  He looked at his displays.  The TK-drive had almost reached the minimum power needed to break the atmosphere.  He tapped at the console, pulled up some coordinates for the hyperspace jump.  He let the computer churn on those.  Hopefully they’d not had enough time to get a ship in orbit to intercept them.

    “It might get bumpy again, but hopefully won’t be for long.  I’m making a break for orbit.  Another few minutes to clear gravity, then we’ll be in hyperspace and I can try to get you free.”

    The elf said something else, but by then, Urban had squeezed the triggers, clearing the opening on the far end of the tunnel.  He ramped the engines up and shot out of the hole, brackish water spraying as the ship shot along the channel.  Sure enough, the grav-craft immediately changed course to follow them.  Urban pushed the throttle as far as he could, redlining the engines.  He pulled up and out of the channel, streaking beneath a highway overpass and then angled them on an upward trajectory.

    The ship’s missile lock warnings sounded.  As their altitude climbed, the tone went solid, and five missiles streaked toward them.  The interceptor vibrated violently as the engines pushed them higher.

    “So…if you’re particularly religious, now might be a good time to pray,” Urban said, gulping as he mentally compared distances between the missiles and them breaking orbit.  Already his ship was slowing down as gravity fought him, the craft shaking more violently.  The TK-drive…just a few more seconds…did they have enough time?

    The missiles drew closer.  Their ascent had slowed as the engines began to overheat, the sharp angle he’d put them on too much.  “Come on…come on!”  In a matter of seconds they would stall, and the missiles would strike; then they’d be falling for a few terrible seconds before impacting the ground in a fairly insignificant explosion compared to the ones from earlier.

    The TK-drive surpassed the threshold, and the activation button went green.  The missiles were almost touching the ship on the sensor readout.  Urban slapped the TK-drive’s button and heard the higher-pitched hum from behind them.  The ship’s flight smoothed out immediately as the drive engaged, enveloping the ship in its field.  Their speed began to climb higher and higher, and the missiles fell behind, the grav-craft having no hope of following them.  In a few more seconds the interceptor cleared the last layer of atmosphere and they were in orbit, and he cut the thrusters, watching as their temperatures started to drop.

    Blowing out a sigh, Urban relaxed in his seat as he scanned the space immediately around them, seeing plenty of ships, but none that looked to be on an intercept course.  The ship’s computer connected with the local navigation satellites and began final calculations on the course he’d plotted earlier.

    The TK-drive continued to build power, and by the time they cleared Miranan’s last lingering gravitic pull, the computer had finished the course calculations, and Urban engaged the fully charged TK-drive, stars elongating as they neared the speed of light before the  ship entered the multi-colored swirl of hyperspace.

    Urban released the controls now that they were locked on course; the first jump would last about ten minutes, then he’d make a few micro-jumps before setting course to his other, bigger ship, once he felt sure that nobody would be able to follow them.  He looked down between his legs at the bound elf.  “I hope you’re worth it…” he muttered, then more loudly said, “Okay, I’m going to try to get you out of those restraints now.”

    The elf nodded eagerly, and their head raised.  Urban’s hands went to the straps of the harness, which, thankfully, weren’t locked like the heavy-duty straps that kept the elf bound in a ball.  The harness straps popped loose, and in a few moments, Urban tugged at the big ball in the elf’s mouth, wiggling it, then jerking it more firmly to finally pop it free of the elf’s full lips.  The blindfold came away with the harness, revealing a pair of narrowed, amber eyes.

    There was a tickle in Urban’s brain then.  Who was this?  They seemed really familiar…

    His fingers went to the back of the hood and worked at the laces, tugging them free and loosening the discipline hood.  The elf started bouncing excitedly as Urban peeled the sweaty hood away, then shook their head, freeing their long reddish hair and sending sweat all over.  “It’s about time!  Even for a kidnapper, that was incredibly rude!” said the elf, long ears flexing as he glared up at Urban.

    Urban gulped, blinking back behind his mirrored shades, feeling a sudden cold fear grow in his gut.  His mouth dropped open.  He recognized the elf immediately.  This was Vicori Virliana’s son!

    I’m fucked!” Urban thought as the elf shifted between his legs and shook his bound arms.

    “You can remove the rest of these now.  Why haven’t you taken these off?  What are you waiting for?” asked Vi, looking up as suspicion and sudden realization flashed across his face.  “And why are you keeping me between your legs?  You’re a pervert, aren’t you?  You kidnapped me for your sick sex games!”

    “W-wait, what?!” Urban stammered, coming back to the moment.  “I did not!”

    “You did!  Why else am I on my knees between your legs?!  This is no way to treat royalty!”

    “I-what-you-” Urban shook his head and growled, his own eyes narrowing.  “You’re there because this is a tiny ass ship, and I don’t have a passenger seat!  And we were getting shot at by your dad’s goon squad!  I didn’t exactly have time to find a bigger ship!”

    “Well, you did kidnap me, so…”

    “I did not!  I wasn’t the one who put you in that case!  You were already kidnapped when I stole that vehicle and drove out of your estate!  I didn’t even know you were in there!”

    Vi’s lips pouted in a rather petulant way as he seemed to consider those points.  The suspicion returned to his eyes.  “So what were you doing there then?  Were you one of those nasty business people my father invited to that sick party of his?”

    “If I was invited, I wouldn’t have had to have stolen a car to leave, would I?”  Urban’s tail strained against the seat, trying to swish at his annoyance.  “It was your dad’s assistant who kidnapped you.  Karelessia?  Remember her?  I heard part of a conversation she was having with that ferakatian goon on my way out.”  Of course, he didn’t mention that he’d snuck up on said goon and had a very brief tussle, knocking him out before stealing his stuff, which had led him to the SUG he’d driven off the estate.

    Vi’s lips twisted into a more pouty expression, eyes still narrowed with suspicion, though the wheels finally seemed to be turning.  “Not that I believe you…but maybe…maybe that would explain why Karelessia was so insistent that I change outfits tonight and got fussy about it and suggested this thong; I don’t usually wear this kind of thing, just so you know; I’m a guy so don’t be getting any perverted kitty ideas.  And maybe that explains why she was looking at me from all different angles and snapping pictures with her comm.  She started doing that a few weeks back, said it was some kind of app for measuring you for new clothes or something.  I was kind of wondering when those outfits would show up… But that still doesn’t explain how I ended up in that box!  Hmmm…I know I didn’t have that much to drink tonight; I’m not a drunkard so don’t even think that.  I was in my room, looking through my clothes and-”

    Urban rolled his eyes.  How dense could this guy be?  “She drugged you.  Karelessia probably slipped something into the last drink you had before she started snapping photos of you.  They mentioned a buyer in that conversation, so she sold you to someone.  That’s what the pictures were for, to show off the goods.”

    Vi raised his head and reared back as much as he could in the tight leather straps.  “I am not ‘goods’, kitty!  I am Vi Virliana, son of-”

    “I know who you are, so please don’t go into the details,” Urban said quickly, not needing a run down of his family’s lineage just now; he’d seen plenty of interviews with the Virlianas in which both father and son delighted in telling about the many generations of royalty they came from.  “And would you stop calling me that?  My name is Urban.  And it’s pretty clear your dad’s assistant sold you out, probably so someone could ransom you off and she could worm her way into getting your father to hand over a huge chunk of his wealth to her.”

    Vi’s lips twisted into a frown.  “That’s very convenient for you, perverted kitty.  I still think you were involved somehow.  You weren’t on the guest list, so why were you even at the party?  Wait…I know!  You were going to kidnap me too, but Karelessia beat you to it!  So then you stole me from her so you could keep me for yourself!  It’s awfully convenient that your ship is just big enough that I’m forced to be on my knees, between your legs!  And you’re keeping me tied up and in this vulnerable position!  You’re a sick, twisted, perverted-”

    “Oh, for the love of the gods!”  Urban shouted, hands going not for the pistol that rested on his shoulder rig, but the toolkit that he’d slung over his shoulder when they’d made their frantic escape.  He snatched an electronic lockpick from the tools inside and leaned forward.  Vi wiggled back as much as he could in the confined space, then kept trying to pull away.  “Come here!  Damn it, I’m trying to free you, okay?  You want out of that stuff, right?  Hold still!”

    “Pervert!  You’re trying to use my innocent, royal body for your sick sex games!” Vi said, still struggling.

    Urban growled, his ears laid back.  He slapped the release for the seatbelts, shrugged out of them, and then clamped his thighs around Vi’s head as he adjusted himself in the seat, head bumping the canopy as he did.  As the elf squealed in protest, Urban leaned forward and jammed the lockpick into the tiny slot on the first of the locks, managing to hold it steady long enough for the ten or so seconds the device needed to break the lock, which popped open with a metallic ping, dropping to the floor.  “See, I’m freeing you, alright?  Just calm down!”

    Vi’s struggles lessened, though he still squirmed around enough to make the unlocking process a lot more difficult than it had to be; the number of locks Karelessia’s people had used on the restraints made it even more of a hassle, but after maybe five minutes, all the locks had been disengaged, and the strap harness was undone, the mittens as well, letting Vi stretch out for the first time in quite a while, though there wasn’t exactly much room for that.

    That task done, Urban blew out his breath, shoving the toolkit into a little nook next to the seat and settled back into the chair, spreading his legs as wide as he could to allow Vi as much space as could be managed.  He pulled the smart-glasses from his eyes, rubbing at them.  Soon as he got back to his other ship, he was going to hack a comm relay and get a message to Virliana and get this mess sorted out and return his son ASAP.

    “How much longer are we going to be in hyperspace?  I’m sore, I need to stretch.  It smells funny in here.  Can you speed this thing up?”  By now, Vi had managed to twist himself around so that he was facing away from Urban, leaning forward to peer through the canopy.

    Urban groaned.  Royalty… “We’re almost ready to drop out of hyperspace now, but I’ve got the ship programmed for another dozen micro-jumps to hide our trail from anyone who might be chasing us.  Then it’s a final jump to where I’ve got my other ship hidden, maybe thirty minutes, maybe longer depending on stellar conditions in the area.”

    “That long?  I thought you said this thing was fast.”

    The interceptor was fast, that’s what it was meant to do; it was basically all engine.  “It is; I parked my other ship a long way out, okay?  I didn’t want anyone finding it.  Look, we’ve got to revert to normal space in about thirty seconds, so can you scoot back a little?”

    “My legs are stiff!  I need to stretch them out!” Vi said in a whiny tone, turning to look back at Urban, lips pouting.

    “The only way that’s going to happen is if you get in my lap, and I’m pretty sure you don’t want to do that.”  Urban put his hands on the controls and caught the look Vi was giving him.  “Look, it’s not a pervert thing, okay?  I couldn’t do anything like that if I wanted to right now, thanks to your father’s entertainer dress code.  Now brace yourself.”

    “Entertainer?  You mean the…slaves?” Vi asked, lips curling in disgust as he steadied himself.

    Urban hit the button to drop them out of hyperspace as the tone sounded.  Moments later, a normal starfield appeared, and he reoriented the ship for its next jump, which would last all of thirty seconds, as would the following eleven.  “Yeah, that’s what I mean.  That’s probably why there’s a funk in the cockpit; I’ve not had a chance to clean up.”

    He double-checked the power level on the TK-drive, then confirmed the next course, and activated it, sending them back to hyperspace.  “I wasn’t captured or anything; I was there willingly.”

    Vi’s ears raised in surprise.  “What?!  Why would you do something like that?  It’s horrible what father does at those parties…”

    “I was…data skimming,” Urban replied slowly.  At Vi’s uncomprehending look, he explained further, tapping his temple.  “I’ve got a special brain implant that passively copies data that is transmitted through wireless connections when I’m close to personal comm devices.  I don’t know what I picked up because I’ll have to decrypt it all later, but if there’s anything good, I’ll sell the data for a good profit.”

    “Ohhhh…” Vi said, rocking as the ship reverted to realspace, banked sharply,then went back into hyperspace for the next jump.  His eyes suddenly lit up.  “So you’re…a spy!”

    “Yeah, that’s pretty much it,” Urban replied.  It probably wouldn’t matter to be level with Vi after everything they’d just gone through.  “I do a little bit of everything if I get paid enough, but spying is one of the things I’m really good at because I take risks few others do.”

    “Like…getting yourself enslaved to get into the party?”

    Urban shrugged.  “I know the slave trader; not the first time I’ve done something like that.  Actually learned the trick from one of my competitors.  I expected the obedience training, have dealt with that plenty of times; you’d be surprised how many big corporate types are involved in the slave trade…or not.  But I didn’t expect your father’s extra little control measure, and haven’t had a chance to break the lock yet.”  Male or female, the elder Virliana had not only kept his slaves in the collars and chains provided by the slave trader (Urban’s having been modified with quick release mechanisms, as had the other handful of spies that had pulled the same stunt), but had placed all of the slaves in chastity devices, and in his case, that was a painfully small cock cage.  He’d made a show of zapping each slave with the built-in shock function, just to make sure they knew that misbehavior wouldn’t be tolerated.  When he’d made his escape during the ‘after-party’ in which the guests picked their favorite slaves to play with, he’d not had time to locate a key for the device, and thankfully it hadn’t been set to zap any of the slaves should they breach the perimeter of the estate.

    “I see…” Vi said as the interceptor once again entered normal space and prepared for the next jump, his amber eyes looking momentarily at Urban’s crotch before turning away.  “I really can’t stand my father’s ways.  It’s terrible that he does that to people, and he absolutely refuses to listen to me about finding other entertainment…but at least I can stretch my legs knowing that I’m safe from any of your perverted intentions on my innocent body!”

    “What?”  Urban asked as he reverted to normal space again.  Vi pushed himself back and landed on Urban’s lap.  Urban grimaced as Vi’s butt wiggled on his lap, pressing down against the cock cage.  “Wha-hey!  I wasn’t serious about the lap thing!”

    “Just keep your hands to yourself, pervert kitty; I need to stretch my legs!” Vi said, doing just that, sighing as he raised them and pressed his toes against the cockpit canopy.

    “Why do you keep calling me that?”  Urban asked with a groan, leaning to the side so that he could see the ship’s displays around Vi.  The elf had a shapely body for sure, and was very attractive, but Urban’s intentions couldn’t have been further from what seemed to be in Vi’s mind at that moment.

    “Because it’s what you are,” Vi replied, shifting on Urban’s lap as he lowered his legs and pressed them toward the aetheric rudder pedals, stretching his arms forward.  “You’d have to be if you admit to playing a slave multiple times just to spy on people.”

    “Look, if you want to get a shot at the big money, you have to take big chances, okay?”  Urban sent the ship into hyperspace again, wincing as Vi shifted again, not only causing the cage to pinch at his balls, but making his cock swell inside the tiny cage.  Urban might have been a different species, but he was still a male, and wasn’t immune to such things by any stretch of the imagination.  “You’ve had your stretch, so go ahead and get off me now.”

    Vi shook his head.  “No, I won’t get back on the floor.  That’s even worse than being here.  Remember, though, no touching!  Is there anything to eat?  I’m hungry!”

    Urban growled again.  Maybe he should just skip the rest of the short jumps and get on with the longer one… “There’s a box with some basic rations inside the storage area on the floor.”

    Not having to be told again, Vi leaned over, pressing his impressive rear more firmly against Urban’s lap as he went for the food, wiggling as he fiddled with the panel well into the next jump before he finally got it open and plucked one of the meal bars out, though the look on his face when he finally peeled it open said that he was not impressed, and even seemed hesitant to try the bar.

    As Vi tried to get at the rations, Urban couldn’t stop himself from glancing down at the elf’s impressively wide hips and backside; he must have gotten those features from his mother, because his father certainly didn’t have them.  Grimacing, Urban tried to concentrate on the ship.  All that wiggling around Vi had done had gotten Urban very painfully aroused, and staring at the elf’s backside wasn’t making things less painful.  Maybe he’d remove the damn cock cage first thing instead of calling up Vi’s father once they were on his other ship…

    The rest of the trip was a frustrating experience for Urban to say the least.  With each jump, Vi would raise up and twist about, trying to look around as much as he could while they were in normal space, and all it did was keep Urban aroused and in pain.  He was also frustrated by having to constantly try to peer around the elf at the ship displays; Vi seemed to have an uncanny knack to move in exactly the perfect spot to block Urban’s view at the exact perfect time.

    After what seemed at least three or four times as long as it actually took, Urban brought the interceptor out of hyperspace for the last time, near to an old asteroid mining operation that had been defunct for over a century.  He looked around Vi as the elf leaned forward to get a closer look, seeming genuinely excited to see something different, confirming that there were no other ships immediately within scanning range.  Keeping alert for any sudden power signatures, Urban guided the interceptor through the mess of broken machinery and floating asteroids, wincing as Vi shifted around on his lap much more energetically.

    The cock cage was definitely coming off first thing.

    Urban guided the interceptor into one  of the remaining mining structures embedded upon one of the larger asteroids, flipping on the forward lights.  Only a miniscule power signature showed on the scanners now, just as it should have been.  Relief flooded through him when he spotted his ship, a darkly-painted light transport, looking just as he’d left it.  He keyed the comm on the interceptor and sent out a signal to the bigger ship, causing the power signature to start to increase as the startup sequence initiated and life support systems came back from their absolutely minimum levels, just to make sure nothing froze up aboard the ship, more or less.

    He brought the interceptor low and spun it around to face away from the bigger ship, relying on his instruments to guide him beneath the ship to the docking area.  With only centimeters to spare, Urban eased the interceptor upward into the custom-designed docking port, letting the magnetized clamps grab the smaller vessel and pull them upward.  An armored panel slid into place below them as the ship continued to rise, finally coming up inside the transport’s cargo bay, the bay lights flickering on as the interceptor came to a rest.  Confirming that the atmosphere outside was back at normal levels, Urban popped the canopy open, cool, recycled ship air flooding in.  “Home sweet home,” he said.

    Vi scrambled off Urban’s lap, vaulting over the side of the interceptor to land gracefully upon the deck plates before he started hopping from foot to foot, turning back to Urban, looking suddenly very impatient.  “I need to use the bathroom!”

    Urban pointed down one of the corridors leading from the cargo bay.  “Head right at the first junction and then it’s the second door on the left.”  Urban watched Vi run off ih that direction, his eyes drifting to the elf’s shapely posterior as he ran off.  Shaking his head, Urban was reminded of the painful little device between his legs, and resolved to get that taken care of just as soon as they were away from the old mining facility on the way to making the call to deliver Vi back home.

    Once in the cockpit, Urban rapidly keyed up the various subsystems and powered up the transport’s TK-drive, gave a quick rundown of his pre-flight checklist, and confirmed everything was in order. He could run through the list in a couple minutes, but he took his time now since the ship had sat there for quite a while.  Finally, he keyed the ship’s intercom.  “I’m taking off now, might wanna sit down.”  Getting no reply, Urban unlocked the docking clamps and lifted off from the old mining station, guided the ship through the opening, and started out of the hazardous flight zone, keeping an eye on the sensor readouts for signs of any unexpected ships.

    Just shy of ten minutes later, the transport was safely in hyperspace, and Urban found himself in his workshop, stripped of what remained of the goon’s suit, with a cable plugged into the data jack of his implant, downloading everything he’d collected into the dedicated data core he used for such things, while he balanced on a stool with his legs raised, feet resting on the edge of the workbench, fiddling with the lock on the damned cock cage.  At first he’d thought it was a simple mechanical lock; that’s what it had seemed like when the atrocious pink cage had been forced on him a few weeks back at the start of Virliana’s obedience training, just a locking bolt that had clicked into place.  It had a uniquely shaped keyway, but that shouldn’t have made much difference, maybe an extra few seconds to pick it.

    However, upon closer inspection, there were some oddities about this lock.  For one, he couldn’t tension it at all, no matter how much pressure he applied.  Second, the three rows of very tiny pins wouldn’t even jiggle, like they were seized up completely as well.  Thirdly, the more he’d shaken and jiggled the device, the tighter it had gotten, to the point that it was actually rather painful now.

    Growling, tail swishing, Urban snatched up another tool, an electric lock picking gun, and swapped out the head to a memory-metal key impressioner.  He stuck it in the lock, gave it a second, then pulled it out, noting the various peaks and valleys on the tri-edged key impression, and stuck it back in the hole, then pulled the gun’s trigger, causing it to whir and click violently in the seized lock, sending wild, painfully stimulating vibrations through his caged manhood.

    “EWWWW!  Pervert kitty is playing with himself!”

    Having momentarily forgotten about his guest, Urban flinched at the sudden startled outburst.  Before he could explain himself, the cock cage sent a painful jolt right into his manhood, and into the tool, because it suddenly shot sparks.  Urban yelped, dropping the tool as he fell backward off the stool and landed on the deck.  “Owww…” he groaned, wincing and rubbing himself to ease the pain.  He was suddenly very worried about having just melted the tool’s head into the lock, but thankfully, when he looked at the tool on the floor, the head was blackened, but still intact.

    Vi sauntered over toward him, leaning over him.  “If you’re trying to get that off, normal tools won’t work.”

    Urban narrowed his eyes at Vi, then noticed what the elf was wearing:  a loose sweater and jogging pants, which weren’t quite so loose around his hips, along with a pair of sneakers.  “Did you go through my clothes?!”  And his long red hair was damp…had he been taking a shower this whole time?!

    That earned a disapproving frown from Vi.  “Did you want me walking around in that thong the whole time?  Why do you have so many girls’ clothes, anyway?  You really are a perverted kitty.”

    Growling again, Urban sat up, snatching the still-warm lock pick gun from the floor, and tossed it on the bench as he got back to his feet.  He checked the data transfer from his implant, and was relieved to find that the electrical jolt hadn’t interfered with the flow.  “I’ve had to go into a lot of weird places, okay?  I’m one of those ‘lucky’ ferakatian guys who looks good in female clothes, so sometimes I play the part.  A lot of places in the galaxy still don’t consider a woman nearly as threatening as a man, and a surprising number of people don’t know that ferakatian females are much larger than the males.  It just…boils down to a lot of sexual stuff in the end.  It’s a very lewd galaxy out there.”

    “Gross!  I do not want to hear about your kinky butt stuff!” Vi said, scooting away.

    “Kinky butt stuff?!  That’s not-”  Urban snarled, tail thrashing with annoyance as he snatched up another tool from the bench, this time a big powered drill.  He fitted a large, diamond dusted bit and gave the trigger a squeeze to lock it in place.  He’d just have to drill the whole damn core out.

    “That’s not going to work either.”

    Urban blew out his breath and slammed the drill onto the bench, turning his heated gaze to Vi.  “Care to explain?” he asked through clenched teeth.

    Vi held up a finger and started ticking off his points.  “That’s a mythril cage, so you’d need something just as hard to get through it.  It’s also enchanted, so you’d need an enchanted mythril bit to even have a chance.  Then there’s the zappy punishment thing that daddy likes so much; it only gets worse the more you try to get out of it.  Oh, and it gets tighter the more you try, too, so there’s that.”

    Urban stared flatly at Vi for a few moments as he leaned heavily on the edge of the workbench.  “I thought you said you weren’t into the same things as your father?”

    Looking somewhat offended, Vi crossed his arms and raised his chin petulantly.  “I’m not a pervert like you or him!  I read the billing receipts and saw exactly what father had commissioned from that arcanist.  Only the finest for the royal Virliana family, after all!  The only way out of that is to have the key, or get it disenchanted by an arcanist.”

    Growling, Urban’s claws raked into the surface of the workbench.  “Do you have any idea how expensive an arcanist is?  It’d take everything I make from this job to cover something like that!”  Just thinking of how much Virliana had spent on magical chastity gear was absolutely mind boggling; the dozens of slaves he’d purchased were a drop in the bucket by comparison.

    “Of course I do; I saw the receipts,” Vi replied.  “Not that they were listed as such, but you know.  You could just ask my father for the key of course…although…it’s hard to say what Karelessia has told him about what happened.  There’s no way he doesn’t know about it after you blew up that gas processing station.”

    “I didn’t blow that up!  The goons his secretary sent after me did!”

    “You didn’t have to fly into it, did you?”

    Urban let out a low growl again, and his tail continued to swish.  “It was either that or you’d probably still be in that case on your way to whoever Karelessia sold you to.”

    Vi brought a hand to his face, tapping his chin thoughtfully.  “True…though you’re quite the pervert, I do have a great idea that could work out for both of us!”

    Getting the sense that he was starting to see depths to Vi that he hadn’t thought possible based on everything he’d witnessed in their interactions before, Urban raised an eyebrow.  “And that is?”

    “We should go on an adventure!” Vi said excitedly, clapping his hands together, eyes sparkling with excitement.  “You seem like you know a lot about the galaxy, and I’ve not seen very much of it because father won’t let me off-world very often.  And you did say you would do anything for money, right?  It sure looks like it with that wardrobe… but I could pay you and you could be my bodyguard and take me around and see all kinds of stuff!  Maybe I could even be of assistance on one of your more dangerous kinds of jobs, like flying in to save you at the last minute and being the hero?  I think I’d be good at that.  And then we could-”

    “W-wait, cool your jets a minute!  How exactly are you going to pay for all this?”

    Vi rolled his eyes.  “I’m not exactly poor, you know.  And I have money that my father doesn’t know about from my own investments.  What?  You didn’t think I just sat around my room being a super-popular and super-out-of-reach personality all day, did you?”

    “Well…”

    Scoffing, Vi turned his head aside and raised his chin again, hands going to his hips.  “Fine, you just call up my father, and I’ll tell him you were the one who kidnapped me and I’ll go along with whatever lies Karelessia told him.  See if he gives you that key then!”

    Urban raised his hands.  “Hey, hey, hold up, I didn’t mean anything by that!  I’m open to other options, but there’s a lot of dangers here.  It’s not going to take them that long to realize some of their slaves are missing; there were other spies at the party that came in the same way I did, by the way.  So that’s going to give them something to go, and they will have scanner data from my interceptor.  It’s rigged for stealth to some extent, like not broadcasting an IFF, but they could eventually pin it down that I use that kind of ship.  Then there’s the secret corporate bounties that only go out to the very best hunters in the galaxy.  Another one of the spies who made me could offer me up if they thought they could get some money out of it.  And then there’s-”

    “But danger is part of adventure!  You’ll just have to teach me to be sneaky as we go.  I could be like a spy apprentice!  That sounds really exciting!”

    Urban groaned, rubbing his temple.  “It’s not as glamorous as the movies make it out to be…”

    “I know who the arcanist is who made those things,” Vi said.  “It’s always easier to undo something magical like that if you made it, and probably cheaper, too.”

    Urban stared at Vi, his expression somewhere between neutral and a scowl.  “You’re more devious than I gave you credit for.”

    “I am going to inherit my father’s business empire someday.  It’s not like I haven’t spent years learning about that kind of thing.  So, what do you say?”

    “Prove you’ve got the money first.”

    “Get me somewhere with a proper interface and I’ll do just that,” Vi said, rather smugly.  “In the meantime, I’ll write up the contract for your services.”

    Gaping, Urban did a double take.  “Wait, what?  A contract?  Seriously?”

    Vi raised his finger again.  “Never do any kind of business without a proper contract!  That’s one of the first things you learn.  That’ll just ensure that you won’t be doing anything naughty in our arrangement, you pervy kitty.”

    “Would you stop calling me that?!” Urban snapped, growling.

    “I’ll think about it,” Vi replied, “whenever you’re not standing naked in front of me like some kind of pervert.  Is there a tablet around here I can use?”

    Growling, ears laid back, Urban tugged the data cable out of his implant; the download had finished a while ago.  He snatched an unused tablet from a drawer on the bench and stalked toward Vi, handing it over without slowing as he headed toward his room.  “It’ll be a few hours before we reach the next system.  I’d better see plenty of credits in your coffers!”

    “Also, I’m hungry again.  Where’s the kitchen?  You’re not being a very good host by not offering to fix me something to eat.”

    Snarling, Urban slammed his fist against the nearest bulkhead.  There was no way he could deal with that arrogant elf much longer!  “Find it yourself!”

    “Meanie,” Vi muttered just before Urban rounded the corner and any follow up was drowned out by the hum and clatter of the ship’s systems.

     

    Time:  Approximately Ten Hours Later

    Location:  Zamao Inc. refueling station #4739, Sentinel Prime sector

     

    “See?  I told you I had plenty of money.  And that’s just one of my accounts,” Vi said, quite pleased with himself as he stepped aside, showing the screen of the tablet to Urban.  The two were in the lounge of Urban’s transport, which was currently being refueled.

    Urban snatched the tablet, eyes narrowed suspiciously, but immediately widened them, whistling.  Holy shit!  That was a lot of zeros… “And your father and Karelessia don’t know about these accounts?”

    “Of course not!  I have to have some secrets,” Vi replied, snatching the tablet back, tapping quickly on the screen.  “Now, if you would just sign here, I’ll transfer your initial payment over and we can get going on that adventure!”

    In the hours it had taken to reach the refueling station, Urban had, after throwing on some clothes, returned to his computer and busied himself with data decryption, grabbing a few hours of sleep once he’d set the automated processes up.  Anything his tools didn’t break, he’d have to try manual decryption methods.  Information gathered from events like that was usually no good to sell if it was already on the market from someone else, so time was definitely a factor.  Thankfully Vi had been mostly keeping to himself during that time.

    Urban took the tablet and saw the digital signature area, but then scrolled up to the start to read over the details…and kept scrolling…and kept scrolling…  “What the-?  How long is this contract?!”  It had to be a hundred pages!

    “Long enough to cover anything that I thought of that could come up during our adventure.  I just kept coming up with things that I could see someone like you doing to try and wiggle out of our agreement, so I wanted to make absolutely sure that it was very complete.”

    Growling, Urban narrowed his eyes at the elf.  “What do you mean, someone like me?”

    “A crafty spy, a greedy mercenary…a pervy kitty,” Vi said, shrugging.  “It’s simple business really.  I’m offering a proper rate for your time, with the option for additional benefits, and I even gave you a bonus for saving me from whatever Karelessia had in mind.  Feel free to read over it if you like.”

    Urban did just that.  Or tried to.  After the first few pages of legalese, his eyes started glazing over.  It was even worse than normal, having been written in that exacting way that elves preferred.  So much of it seemed to be reiterating the same points, like it had been copied and pasted, but then changed just enough to make it slightly different.  Hardcore computer code he could handle, but this stuff…  “Ugh…how can you write all that crap?”

    “Just a perk of being me; I’m really amazing at most things,” Vi replied.  His smug tone and matching smirk upon his face made it difficult to tell if he was trying to be funny or if he actually believed that.

    Urban thought back to the credits he’d just seen in that account, did some quick calculations in his head, trying to determine odds on when and what kind of trouble would be coming from Vi’s father or his assistant.  Was it really worth it?

    The constant pressure on his manhood made Urban squirm in the seat.  Was it worth tolerating Vi for a little while if it meant he could enjoy himself again without it costing him every credit he had?  The sooner he could get that damn cage off, the better.

    Sighing, Urban scrolled back down the overly long contract, then quickly signed it.  It’d take him days to read through that mind-numbing mess.  Most of it probably wouldn’t ever be brought up anyway.

    Vi took the tablet and did the same, locked in the signatures, and tapped at the screen a few times before shooting a wide grin at Urban.  He stuffed the device into the pocket of the hoodie he wore, then extended his hand.  “Great!  Now we can start our adventures in earnest!”

    Urban took the offered hand, giving it a firm shake.  For what it was worth, he was in it for the long haul now.

    How bad could it be?


    And there you have it!  I would like to think this was a fun mix of action and light kink that worked out pretty well.  I had fun writing it, certainly.  There was another version of the story that started well before this one did; in fact, this one’s starting point was more the midpoint of the original, which had more of a focus on Urban during the big party and less focus on Vi.  I felt it was dragging on far too long, though, so decided to speed things up quite a bit and jump right into the action.

    Hope you all enjoyed this one!

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    Until next time everyone, Urban out!

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  • State of the UrbanVerse (Personal Updates and more) – February 2023

    State of the UrbanVerse (Personal Updates and more) – February 2023

    My, my, how time flies.  Doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, but damn if it hasn’t been MONTHS since I last posted anything at all.  There’s definitely been some big events since I last updated everyone, and some big changes I’ve had to undertake, but I would like to think I’m finally starting to get myself back on track properly.

    So, let’s start with a quick(ish) rundown of what all has been going on with me since July of last year when I last posted a story.

    2022 Flooding in Eastern Kentucky

    Right around the end of July, my area of eastern Kentucky was hit by some of the worst flooding we’ve seen in my lifetime.  Some have called the event a ‘500 Year Flood’, and it was pretty damn scary for a lot of people.  While I was safe at my home during the rainfall, my family personally experienced it.  My mother and sister were visiting my mother’s boyfriend and his family and had to evacuate his home at about 3AM.  At the time, I was located a couple counties over, and had to receive updates via Facebook messenger from my mother that morning as the waters continued to rise, starting about 6AM.  They had moved their vehicles to the road, but still the waters continued to rise, and the roadway was blocked in both directions by trees and debris.  The water started getting up higher, and rose to within a few inches of the running boards of their trucks before thankfully it began to recede and they were not forced to try to climb up the hillside to get away from it.  It was about 10AM that our home lost power, so my communication was cut due to extremely poor cell service.  I ventured out after it was obvious that the power wasn’t coming back immediately.

    It was then that my mother and sister decided to return home, though my sister wanted to stay at my aunt’s place, which was well out of the flood zone and still with power.  By the time I had come out of the holler, my mom was almost back home, so we decided to meet up at the local bank and take one vehicle to survey the damage.  We had originally intended to drive around and see some of the harder hit areas, but decided to head home first, but saw that the water was coming up far too quickly at that point.  By the time we tried to get back up the holler, the road was blocked near the entrance (the only spot that regularly gets impacted by flooding), so we had to turn around.  Within the few minutes it took us to try and get up the holler, the water was already rising into the streets of the small town at the mouth of it, which I had never seen before.  So, we returned to my aunt’s place, where I wound up spending about three nights, though we could return to our home the following day, it took multiple days for power to be restored.  I just kept the refrigerator and freezer running with a borrowed generator throughout those days.

    I’m extremely grateful that my family remained safe and made it through, though her boyfriend and his family lost much of their belongings in this event, and are still trying to recover from it to this day.  To say it was a nightmare would be putting it mildly.

    Deaths in the Family

    Our family suffered a couple deaths during the second half of the year as well.  First was my uncle’s wife, who had long been suffering from various issues relating to lupus and other conditions, in mid-October.  She had been forced to spend several days/weeks in the UK Medical Center in Lexington over the last few months, and did not make it out the last time she went there; initially it seemed like she would pull through, but then things took a turn for the worse and she never recovered.

    Second was my mother’s boyfriend’s son-in-law; this one came out of nowhere in early November.  He had been dealing with diabetes, but seemed to have things mostly under control at this point.  He worked for the city, and had been working long hours trying to clean up the flood damage, driving a dump truck.  He suffered a bad wreck in late September or early October, which caused him to suffer ongoing pain.  However, unbeknownst to everyone, he would also become infected with flesh-eating bacteria, likely having come from all the filth that had come to be in and on the truck when he crashed.  He was suddenly unable to get up off the toilet one evening, and within a handful of days, he was dead.

    Ongoing Vision Problems and Diabetes Complications

    Even at the time of the flooding, I was having minor issues with my vision, as I had for some time, even before I quit my job in April of last year.  I had been suffering retinal bleeding, diabetic retinopathy, on and off for some time, even though I had (supposedly) been keeping my diabetes under control.  I tended to have one eye or the other cloudy due to this bleeding, so my vision was rarely great, and had received several injections into the eye to clear the buildup of blood, though throughout the spring and summer, I was mostly clear.

    This changed in late September, when I suffered a bleed in my left eye that quickly became one of the worst I had experienced.  My sister and I had gone out to grab lunch, a sandwich and fries from Arby’s, and stopped at Walmart to pick up a few things before heading back home.  As I waited in line, several factors came together to cause the bleed:  1) they apparently had their AC off, because it was warm in the store, and warmer at the checkouts, 2) even though my sugar was okay that morning, I had foolishly decided to eat the bun and fries at Arby’s, which raised it to higher levels, though I thought I would be okay, and 3) my blood pressure spiked due to stupidity at the checkout (it took about fifteen minutes for the people in front of us to finish checking out because the Walmart staff couldn’t figure out how a coupon worked; it took FOUR people to finally figure it out).  So, when I crouched to pick up the cartons of soda we had stopped for, my left eye spurted, and it continued to get cloudier the rest of the day.

    At first I didn’t think much of it, but after several days it hadn’t really begun to clear, and I had to see my retina specialist, where I received another series of injections to clear the blood.  However, unlike before, my eye would remain cloudy for several months, and I was basically operating with one eye through October and November.

    It was in November, when we were attending a birthday party that I suffered a minor bleed in my right eye, which, thankfully didn’t remain long, but did get me understandably worried.  I couldn’t understand why it had happened, as I had been keeping my sugar under control (again, so I thought).  I was okay after a couple days, and did alright throughout the rest of November, but then I suffered another bleed in my right eye in early-mid December, while the left remained cloudy from the bleed in September.  This one was more severe, and I was unable to see much other than vague shapes at the time.  I was a bit scared, to say the least.

    It was during the visit with my retina specialist over the latest bleed that the decision was made to perform surgery on my left eye to clear it out, while I received an injection in my right eye.  So, on December 15th, I underwent surgery to clear my left eye.

    This was, to use an apt saying, an eye-opening experience.

    I began to monitor my blood sugar levels more closely in the days following the surgery, while continuing my renewed research on what I could do to keep it under control.  I had discovered a channel on Youtube that seemed to offer the best advice that would work for me (it’s called Beat Diabetes, btw, and I highly recommend looking into what he has to say), but made some rather surprising discoveries about how my own body worked.  I began following the dietary guidelines (basically keto / low card with strict fasting, two meals a day only), but it was a rocky start.

    As I would discover during this period, I am an atypical diabetic.  For most, coffee (black or with cream, no added sugars of course) and beans are safe and won’t spike blood sugar, with beans being considered a diabetic super food.  In my case, however, I discovered that BOTH of these actually spike my sugar!  At the time, I was checking my sugar five times daily, and at first couldn’t understand why it would be so high either several hours after dinner (mom had fixed chili right after my surgery, with plenty of beans in it) or by lunch time, when I had been on an 18 hour fast (aside from two cups of coffee in the morning).  Coffee in particular would spike my sugar 50+ points per cup!  Even caffeinated drinks would cause it to spike up.  Thinking back to my days in the office, I would have a couple of cups in the morning, after checking my sugar, and would then have another cup or two at work, plus a caffeinated beverage at lunch time, so it was no wonder my health was declining and I couldn’t get a handle on my sugar.

    It was a difficult period in which I basically dropped coffee and caffeine pretty much cold turkey, but my blood sugar tests showed the changes immediately.  As the days went on, and throughout the holidays, my sugar levels would steadily decline.  I could handle teas fairly well as far as sugar spikes, and it would give me a little bit of a boost in the mornings.  After cutting out beans and pretty much all carbs, I actually began to experience low blood sugar for the first time, going low to the point I had to eat something sweet to get it back up, and had to cut back on my insulin injections.

    As it stands right now, since I started in mid-December, I have lost about ten pounds at least (I had lost five within a month, between doctors visits, with almost no exercise), and my blood sugar is staying fairly steady in the 110-130 range most days, with it being slightly higher on days when I have vegetation (salads or some other kind of veggies).  Even on days when I have allowed myself to stray a bit (like having some of the refried beans with dinner at the Mexican restaurant), it is coming down faster, and isn’t staying high nearly as long as it used to.  I have only been taking insulin if it is over 150 at night, and even then have reduced my dosages.  I am still mystified as to why it will sometimes rise overnight through my fasting period, but thus far it hasn’t been a major issue.

    The best part, though, is that I have (knock on wood) suffered no further bleeding in my eyes.  My left eye remains clear, and my right eye has only a few remnants floating about in my vision (basically just regular floaters at this point).  As March approaches (and my 40th birthday with it), I’m hopeful that I will continue to improve and may even reach the point where I can drop some of my medications completely.

    The Rocky Road Ahead

    This year has already been crazier than last year, and I’m not even going to get into the state of national and international politics.  For those of you who may not have heard, there was a pretty massive shakeup in the tabletop RPG space in January when Wizards of the Coast decided to pull some serious bullshit regarding the Open Game License 1.0a.  The quick version is:  the OGL has been in place since WotC released D&D 3rd edition back in 2000, and has been the standard license practically everyone in the TTRPG scene has used since then to publish their games.  This license is what allowed so many games to come out using the d20 system, for example, and why the Old-School Renaissance became such a big part of the TTRPG space in recent years, and is why D&D 5e has exploded in popularity the last few years, with tons of third-party creators making content for it.  So, Hasbro/WotC decided that since they weren’t getting practically all the money, D&D was under-monetized and that needed to stop.  They tried to pull some shady business to revoke the OGL, a document which, according to the guy who was primarily responsible for creating it, was, by its nature, irrevocable, and force creators to use a new restrictive license that would give WotC the right to take your content for their own use, require you to report your earnings to WotC, and if you made enough money, give them 25% of what you earned.

    Needless to say, this caused an uproar in the TTRPG space, and its aftershocks are still ongoing.  WotC is still making stupid decisions and cannot seem to just stop with their stupidity, and many of the bigger creators, such as Paizo and Kobold Press, are fighting back, either making a new OGL-like license that will be as ironclad as possible (and given over to a third party to control, so they can’t change it in the future) or creating their own game systems.

    As it stands, my gaming group are finally diving into Pathfinder 2nd edition, and are dropping D&D 5e (a change that I have wanted for years; I disliked 5e even before it was the popular thing to do), and I’ve been delving into other systems and games as well, like Cyberpunk 2020/RED, Castles and Crusades, and different flavors of OSR games.

    This has caused me some issues lately in terms of my writing progress, as I have been torn between wanting to develop my own gaming content (something I’ve done plenty of times before, only this time I’m feeling more invigorated to do it) and continuing to develop my UrbanVerse, which has multiple settings within it and thus my brain sometimes has trouble focusing in one area.  So, I’m going to try to find a balance to both, combining my RPG creation with my writing and worldbuilding efforts to some extent.  Before the OGL debacle, I had been trying to develop my own homebrew system based on the old Star Wars Saga Edition RPG, and that may continue, though it’s on hold for the moment due to learning Pathfinder 2e (I’m going to run the Abomination Vaults AP, starting with the Beginners Box adventure and mixing in Troubles in Otari as sidequests).  I’ve already got an idea in mind for a homebrew adventure/campaign setting that I’m probably going to be using for our eventual Castles & Crusades tryout as well that I’ve started working on.

    I do, however have several stories, a couple fairly lengthy ones, that are done and ready to post, as well as some that are fairly close to being finished, if I can keep my brain focused on them.  I will say that some of my tastes have evolved over the last year, and I have tended to want to focus less on kink and more on serious fiction, though the kink still seems to find its way in there regularly.

    Look for some new content coming up soon; I’m likely going to shoot for a post a week again, and may try to do a second post, gaming related, weekly as well, though we’ll see how this goes.  Though I’m not working at the moment, I’m likely going to be trying to find another job soon (eye surgery ain’t cheap!), and have also continued to try and develop my photography skills.  Plus, I’ve taken to ghost hunting again since last year, and have already been on three hunts, with several more already scheduled for the coming months.  I’ll probably be posting some details on those soonish as well, likely some video and audio evidence too.  It’s going to be a busy year, but I’m hopeful for good things!

    Urban out!

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  • Stumped for Rivalle

    Taking her time this morning, Rivalle sauntered along the trail outside of her private estate, the last vestiges of the morning fog lingering around the patches of forest and low hills rimming the main area of the property. She listened to the birds chirping as they flew about, pausing to enjoy a few sips of her steaming herbal tea. Moving on after a flight of purple and red birds flew off from the nearby bushes, Rivalle passed by a row of hedges dotted with brightly colored, perfectly manicured flowers in all colors of the spectrum, breathing in their sweet scents as she passed by.

    Though she spent much of her time in her office, she did enjoy the simpler moments she could spend with nature. As much as she’d grown used to urban settings, her elven blood still drew her to greener pastures from time to time. Simple pleasures, true, but even she needed to enjoy the peace and quiet nature afforded from time to time.

    The servant behind her shadowed her path, barely noticed but for the squeak of their body-covering latex catsuit and maid uniform, and the jingle of the chains upon their wrists and ankles. They certainly didn’t protest their situation, thanks to the mouth-filling gag and thick hood upon their head. Rivalle couldn’t see any aspect of their face, just the smooth outline of it beneath the latex; even their eyes were hidden behind dark lenses, their ears contained within padded, oval-shaped pockets; had it not been for the length of those ear pockets, which were filled with noise-canceling padding and earplugs, Rivalle wouldn’t have known the servant was an elf.

    After taking another sip of tea, Rivalle held her cup out to the servant, who obediently refilled the glass with more of the steaming brew, taking extreme care to balance the serving tray and pour the tea around the cuffs. Rivalle smirked, knowing that sooner or later, the servant would fail at their task, and she would receive a punishment. The servant knew it too. That would be another very amusing distraction.

    Putting that brief distraction out of mind, Rivalle continued along the path, returning her thoughts to the business at hand. One of her many holding areas for her various pets lay ahead of her, and it was a particular pet that had her interest this day. The building itself was nothing flashy, very utilitarian, and once she was inside, the sweet scents of the morning were replaced with recycled air, filtered and scrubbed, sterile. Rows of doors lined either side of the building, each with a different number stenciled on the outside and glowing panel next to them; there were no windows on the doors, though she didn’t need them to observe her playthings.

    Rivalle considered checking in on a few specific chambers while she was here, but decided to take care of business first. About midway down the corridor, she saw that the item she had ordered from one of her manufacturing facilities had been delivered, contained within a waist-high black case with the DSM logo in several places, as well as a series of barcodes and warnings in various languages.

    Finally reaching the door next to the case, Rivalle finished the last of her tea and placed the cup on the servant’s tray, and touched her fingers lightly to the door itself, channeling a bit of magical energy into it, just a small electrical current. A rectangular section of the door shifted and became opaque, revealing the cell inside.

    As expected, the occupant of the cell was where Rivalle had left her, in a state not unlike the others in this particular holding area. Although, unlike the others, this one realized that Rivalle was watching. Only a moment after Rivalle had activated the magical viewing portal did the occupant’s eyes open, her head lifting slightly, as much as the stout posture collar would allow, focusing on what would be just a blank door. The way her eyes narrowed and her fur bristled could leave no doubt that she knew exactly who was on the other side.

    Like the other occupants of this particular holding area, the woman inside this cell was an assassin, hired by one of the upstart companies that sought to destabilize DSM by removing Rivalle from the picture. It was a recurring theme over the decades and centuries Rivalle had managed the company. It was dangerous at the top, quite a bit more dangerous than some would assume. Rivalle’s collection of would-be assassins was a clear sign of that; she had nearly a hundred of them currently, and would likely have a few more within the year assuming they survived the attempt on her life.

    This one was a Ferakatian, a tall, lean, and muscular felinoid, with sandy-colored fur, mottled with orange and black spots, the fur of her twitching ears all black on the outside, the same mottled patterns on the inside. Her hair was long and wild, a warm shade of reddish-orange with a few mottled spots of black, spilling over her shoulders and framing her face. Her amber eyes glared at the door, angry and narrowed, perhaps with a hint of madness lurking within. Her tail twitched back and forth below her, the only part of her body that she could move.

    Rivalle did have mercy, despite what some would think. Was it not merciful to offer a prisoner, especially one who had attempted to kill her, some amount of freedom during their confinement?

    Of course, like the other assassins Rivalle kept, this one was completely unable to move her limbs; in fact, it appeared that she had no arms or legs at all, just silvery disks capped over the apparent stumps where her appendages used to be. Were she not secured to a framework built into the wall via a chest harness that wrapped around her breasts, held by a pair of robotic arms, she would be little more than a torso and head writhing on the floor. Her limbs were still there, of course, just contained within the small extra-dimensional spaces generated by the disks. The sensation varied based on the individual, with most experiencing a never-ending numbness, the feeling that their limbs were still there, but asleep. Others experienced more painful sensations as if the limbs had been truly severed.

    Of course, the assassin had been further restrained with a severe collar and head harness, her mouth filled with a large, penis-shaped nourisher gag beneath the muzzle over her snout. And her lower holes had been filled with large inserts attached to another wall-mounted support, which kept her clean and either in pleasure or agony, depending on the whim of the program that controlled the restraints. Judging by the dripping fluids and her erect nipples, each pierced with a pair of thick silver rings, she had just finished a pleasure cycle.

    Rivalle waved her hand over the door panel and the light turned green, the door’s locking bolts retracting before it slid open with a hiss. The scent of the assassin’s sexual fluids assailed Rivalle’s nose, but she kept her face suitably smug. “Murissa, so nice to see that you are enjoying your time as my guest.”

    A low, threatening growl came from Murissa, her tail swishing back and forth as she writhed atop the plugs that filled her lower holes, her jaw twitching below the muzzle as her eyes continued to bore holes into Rivalle, though her eyes were beginning the twinge of desperation and madness that came before the inevitable mental break. She had only been in the cell for a handful of weeks…or was it months?…either way, hardly enough time for her to have broken completely, especially given her inborn mental resilience, a trait common with psychics. Although Murissa wasn’t an especially powerful psychic, it did give her an edge when on the hunt, a unique way of tracking her prey.

    Rivalle’s lips curled into a slightly more amused smirk. “I happen to be feeling fairly magnanimous today, my pet. I feel that we can come to an arrangement that would be agreeable to both of us…one that would see you out of this cell and with gainful employment once again.”

    This caused Murissa’s eyes to narrow into thin slits, but her ears shifted, her tail’s angry swaying slowing. Of course, she was interested; she couldn’t possibly miss an opportunity like this. They came so very infrequently with Rivalle.

    “So eager to leave my care, are you?” Rivalle mused. She then lifted her left hand, making a quick motion with her fingers. The straps holding the muzzle in place unbuckled and pulled themselves free before the gag jerked out of Murissa’s mouth, trailing saliva from the tip of the long phallic shape, said tip having rested almost within Murissa’s throat. Rivalle let the gag float in the air close to the assassin, ready to go back in at a moment’s notice.

    The captive assassin let out a low groan, working her jaw, freed for the first time since her initial confinement, unable to fully articulate speech as she remembered exactly how her jaw was supposed to work. “You…” she croaked, her vocal cords likewise unused to speaking after so long. “You… have…”

    Rivalle rolled her eyes. This would take all day at this rate. She raised her chin and lifted her right hand, palm upward. “It’s a simple offer. I want you to assist one of my subordinates in retrieving something of mine, a person of very great interest to me. Once they are safely in my care, you shall have your freedom. A simple task for a hunter and assassin of your talent, no?”

    Murissa’s jaw shifted, and her head lowered against the edge of the posture collar as she continued to glare at Rivalle. “What…what are…you not telling me?”

    Chuckling, Rivalle’s lips curled into a sadistic grin. “So very much, but none of it you need to know. The offer is simple and with a very limited time to accept. Retrieve what I want to my satisfaction, meaning that they have suffered no permanent damage, and I will release you. Perhaps, if you prove yourself adept enough, I would be willing to make use of your services in the future. Is that not much more agreeable than this cell?”

    Rivalle could tell that Murissa was conflicted. The assassin surely didn’t trust Rivalle, as Rivalle didn’t trust her, as was wise when it came to wild animals, but that was so often the nature of business. An electrical hum filled the air, and Murisssa grunted in pain as a sudden electrical jolt shot through the plugs in her pussy and asshole, then arced over the rings in her nipples. Such perfect timing!

    As the hum faded, Murissa barred her teeth, either a smile or a snarl, Rivalle couldn’t exactly say which, given her lack of care to learn the nuances of ferakatian body language. “Very well,” she croaked. “I will do as you wish if it will get me out of this place.”

    “Excellent. It’s good that you’re so reasonable. Now, shall we go for a walk to discuss the details before you are delivered to my employee?”

    “Yes, a walk sounds wonderful,” Murissa replied in her rough voice, though her intense gaze had not shifted from Rivalle, very much the dangerous animal sensing an opportunity to strike. Her tail swished, and she wiggled atop the plugs. She was quite eager to have the ‘stumpers’ removed.

    Such a presumptuous creature to think she would be free of those devices so easily! No, there was something much more amusing in store for the assassin. Rivalle’s lips curled into a grin that may have rivaled the ferocity of Murissa’s, the ferakatian losing some of her prior excitement at the prospect of freedom.

    Rivalle let the gag fall to the floor and turned to the case, waving her hand over the control panel. With a series of beeps and clicks, the case unlocked and split open, a hiss escaping as the nitrogen it had been packed with rushed out. Rivalle stepped around the crate, smiling cooly at Murissa. A faint hum came from within before a louder mechanical grinding started, the object within being moved outside the crate.

    “What is that?!” Murissa hissed, her eyes falling upon the device as it came into view, at first narrowing, then widening as she took in the details.

    “A highly advanced piece of equipment from the R&D department,” Rivalle replied simply. The device that had been moved out of the crate whirred and several metallic clicks could be heard as it shifted its compacted form and expanded to its normal operating size and shape. “The concept was originally developed for some military contract or another, to build a highly efficient exoskeleton to boost a soldier’s performance. Naturally, we expanded markets onto the civilian front by modifying the designs to function for those who were severely handicapped, missing multiple limbs, or who could not survive without auxiliary life-supporting tech. That was…my, has it been that long ago now? Well, this is the prototype of the mark seven, so I suppose it has been.”

    The look of realization upon Murissa’s face quickly turned to horror as the felinoid assassin saw what the device was changing into.

    Rivalle continued to smile at Murissa, though it had taken on an undoubtedly more sadistic nature. If there was one thing that she truly enjoyed, it was watching her playthings squirm. “This device is designed just for you, my pet, to help with your handicap. With this, you’ll be able to move just as though you were walking using your own legs, and manipulate things just as if using your own hands. Of course, since this is for a new military contract, improvements had to be made, with the ultimate goal being to expand the operational combat time of soldiers in the field suffering grievous wounds.”

    The assassin hissed as the frame’s expansion brought its height over the top of the crate, the mechanical arms to either side of it clicking into place, the exposed mechanical insides being covered by a thin nano-carbonate layer that resembled smooth skin, but with a decidedly artificial look. Her eyes went to Rivalle, filled with that delightful look of horror. “What is it for?! You…you can’t mean to…!”

    “Oh, but I do! You’re an assassin, pet. One who came after me and killed several of my elite guards, and further destroyed several of my security robots. I simply can’t take any chances with you, can I?” Rivalle chuckled, snapping her fingers. The exo-frame stepped forward into the cell, turning in a circle before it backed into place beneath Murissa.

    The arms holding the assassin aloft shifted, the plugs within her pulling themselves free before disappearing into a panel set into the wall. She squirmed and snarled, glaring at Rivalle. “Let me out of these things! I’ll hunt your target as you wish, but this is not needed!”

    “I can assure you, it is,” Rivalle replied, leaning against the crate, angling toward the cell as she watched. “I’ve been quite curious to see if this new design will function as intended, and I could think of no better field test. The design of the frame will interface with your limb restraints and you will perhaps feel a bit nauseated at first, but before long, you’ll be moving just as if they were natural.” Rivalle’s voice may have sounded reassuring, but the smile on her face and look in her eyes were anything but. “Do stop squirming, though; the plumbing connections are somewhat larger than those you have been used to.”

    Murissa’s eyes would have melted Rivalle had she been that powerful a psychic. Though her rage burned hot, the assassin was just as helpless to resist as if she had still been secured upon the wall. The robotic limbs holding her aloft guided her over the frame, and the waist area opened wider, a pair of thick black plugs rising from within, glistening with lubrication. The precise movements of the robotic limbs compensated for Murissa’s squirming and positioned her over the plugs, lowering her upon them and skewering her with them in one quick motion.

    The assassin roared at Rivalle, a deeply animalistic sound, her face twisted in a mixture of anger, fear, and revulsion as the thick intruders were secured via an inflation mechanism. Murissa barred her teeth as she continued voicing her protests, an obvious wince coming over her face for a moment, no doubt as the internal mechanisms fed the tube into her urethra. The waist section of the exo-frame closed and locked into place, giving a look very much like that of a pair of hip-hugging jeans, complete with a hole for her tail.

    The upper part of the frame started moving then, a section rising upward at the back that resembled a spinal column, which then pressed against Murissa’s actual spine and to the base of the collar at her neck. As this clicked into position, the side sections rose and moved into position, the arms locking into place over the ‘stumpers’ with a louder click, and the sound of another locking mechanism sliding shut. The midsection began forming itself as well, into a form-fitting outer shell that resembled a bustier-type corset.

    As the exo-frame made its final adjustments, Murissa’s hissing and snarling faded, her jaw dropping against the posture collar, her eyes darting downward at the unit, looking rapidly from one limb to the next. The limbs extended and reshaped slightly, forming into a more lithe form, and with protrusions that resembled her natural claws at the ends of the mechanical toes. The suit had been programmed with Murissa’s measurements, and the shape-shifting metals were adapting themselves to match now that the device had connected to her. There were a couple more locking devices that rotated into place within the hip area, and several lines of blue-white energy began flowing through the limbs and rest of the frame, feeding power throughout. The only visible parts of Murissa at the moment were her head, tail, and breasts; everything else was covered by the exo-frame and collar.

    The assassin seemed overwhelmed for a moment, a brief look of helplessness passing over her face as she took in her situation, but then it was gone, her intense hatred again directed at Rivalle. She growled, grunting and shifting ever so slightly beneath the frame, shaking after a moment and gritting her teeth with effort. “I thought you said I could walk in this!” she snarled.

    “You can, pet, but only when I allow it,” Rivalle said, standing from where she had leaned on the crate before stepping around it. As she was now, the assassin was much taller than Rivalle, her species being naturally larger than many other humanoid species; well, the females anyway, ferakatian males were quite a bit smaller, more like the average humanoid. In fact, Rivalle eyes were level with Murissa’s exposed breasts for the moment. The moment didn’t last, because Rivalle raised a hand and motioned downward at the floor with a single finger.

    Murissa moved, the frame dropping her to her knees in one smooth motion, and shifted her forward so that her head was bowed, her arms on the floor in front of her. She snarled again, tail thrashing behind her as she shook her head back and forth, trying to will the frame to move.

    “Do you understand now? No, I suppose not entirely,” Rivalle said. She wasn’t going to tell everything, certainly. This was indeed a new prototype, but unlike previous designs that were purely mechanical, Murissa’s frame had been woven with magic from the ground up. The arcatech was designed very much like golems from the old days, keyed to obey specific people and to be unable to function unless instructed to do so. “What it means, to put it in terms you would understand, is that you will do nothing without my permission. I could leave you as you are now, and you wouldn’t be able to make that device move no matter how hard you tried. While you are upon my moon, you will have no freedom of movement that I do not allow. Should you attempt to assault me, even though the frame would prevent you from actually reaching me, you will be punished. Severely.”

    To emphasize her point, Rivalle made another motion with her hand, sending a mental command to the exo-frame. Murissa screamed, writhing within the unmoving frame as a violent electrical burst shot through her body, straight through the ‘stumpers’ to her nerves.

    The burst only lasted for a second, but it was enough for the assassin to be groaning and twitching inside the frame, her fur standing up. Rivalle couldn’t see her eyes given their downcast angle, but she could imagine the look as the assassin mewled. “Now that the demonstration has been given, do you wish to pursue our business, or shall I have you positioned outside to be used as a bird stoop? Or perhaps a fountain?”

    Murissa let out a hissing sigh but nodded. “I am ready, yes. I…understand what you have said.”

    Rivalle couldn’t resist the urge that suddenly came over her. “Mistress. Call me ‘mistress’, pet. Tell me you will obey your mistress.”

    Murissa’s tail swished angrily again, and she growled, but despite her resistance, she complied. “I will obey you, Mistress Rivalle.”

    It had been said in a cold monotone, but Rivalle could still sense the anger and rage roiling just beneath the surface. It was fine, though; she was already learning like a good pet. Even a ferakatian beast could be trained, it seemed. Another test was needed, though. “Good. Now that we have an understanding…you will kiss each of my shoes, as a sign of loyalty.” She silently released the restrictions on the frame’s movement.

    Murissa jerked suddenly, almost as if she’d been slapped by the command, but it may have been from the sudden unlocking of the frame. She glanced up, face still full of hatred, but then lowered herself further, putting her face to the floor. Obviously fighting her natural instincts that were likely telling her to bite, Murissa managed to control herself and placed her lips upon Rivalle’s left shoe, licking the tip, then repeating the gesture on the right one. “Is that acceptable…mistress?” she said in a hissing tone.

    “Good enough,” Rivalle replied, turning to her servant, who quickly refilled the teacup again before passing it to Rivalle. “You may rise and follow; I shall tell you of your target on the way to the landing platform. You’ll be setting off with my subordinate at once.”

    “Just tell me who I’m after and where they were last spotted,” Murissa said quickly. “…Mistress,” she added after a moment of hesitation. “I don’t need a babysitter.”

    Rivalle chuckled. “Oh, I’m sure you don’t. You’re such a big girl after all.” Rivalle made sure that it sounded as condescending as possible. The low growl that sounded from behind her as she started walking toward the exit told her she’d hit the mark. “Saida is not going with you simply as a babysitter. You will need a support technician for your frame, and you will need someone much more adept than yourself when it comes to dealing with people. Besides, she has intimate knowledge of your target, Reina Pridewing. Human, female, last spotted boarding a transport bound for the edge of the Demon Sector, and presumably to board another one going into it, to Aphelion Station.”

    “Demon Sector?” Murissa asked, her voice revealing a rather surprising hint of uncertainty, maybe even fear.

    “Don’t tell me that the unknown fills you with that much fear. It’s space like any other region of the known galaxy, simply locked away behind an ancient magical, multi-dimensional barrier until now,” Rivalle replied in a dismissive tone. “Or do you hold to your people’s superstitions about the region?”

    Murissa was silent for a moment as they passed out of the building. “They are just stories…mistress.”

    Rivalle wasn’t entirely convinced that was what Murissa thought, but it was good enough. There were other methods of getting her to obey than just the pain induction within the frame, after all, and Saida was well aware of all of them. “Then there shouldn’t be any difficulties bringing this human back to me, yes?”

    “None. Once I have her scent, she won’t hide for long.”

    In that statement, Murissa had sounded completely confident in her abilities. Rivalle took a sip of her tea. “Excellent. That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.” Rivalle tapped the frame of her glasses, which she didn’t need for reading nor for correcting vision. Rather, her glasses contained various arcane image enhancement modes and a HUD interface which was connected to her corporate networks. Having had the files prepared already, she pulled them up, blinked, and snapped her wrist toward Murissa to send the data to the receiver within the exo-frame.

    Noting the faint beep and flashing indicator near her mechanical wrist, the assassin raised her arm to examine it. The motion brought the small hologram projector online, a faintly glowing image appearing in the air in front of her. Aside from a detailed outline of the target’s history from birth to the present, a psychological profile, a list of likes and dislikes, and social media data, the file contained several images of Reina Pridewing, including the basic ID photo, but also several others showing full-body images, clothed and nude, typical styles of dress, even the different hairstyles she had worn over the recent years.

    The assassin growled in a low, curious manner after studying the data, eyes seemingly intent upon a particular image of Reina, as if she were staring eye to eye with the woman. “I see nothing about why this one is special to you,” she said at last.

    “She has taken valuable corporate data with her,” Rivalle replied smoothly. She knew exactly what it was that intrigued her about Reina Pridewing, and it had nothing to do with corporate secrets. Rivalle had begun a project over two centuries ago, delving into one of the greatest mysteries of the age, which, were she to solve it, would lead to unimaginable wealth and power. Though Saida had been brought into the fold, as had other agents before her, none of them possessed full knowledge of what Rivalle sought. “You will not need to retrieve any sort of data storage devices; the knowledge she took is within her. I simply need her returned in pristine condition.”

    Murissa rumbled in response, her eyes still focused on the image. She walked much more smoothly already, easily following behind Rivalle at a distance of about ten feet, the suit’s protective programming not allowing her closer for the moment. Her gait was even taking on a more fluid sway as her natural tendencies were analyzed and adapted by the magic within the exo-frame. “This won’t take long.”

    Rivalle raised her chin but remained silent for the moment. Reina was already beyond the Demon Barrier, had already reached Aphelion Station a minimum of two weeks ago, and from there, it was untelling which one of the various research stations, startup colonies, or mining operations she may have gone on to in the nearest of the explored regions. She may have even joined a deep space exploration team and was headed toward another of the seventy-two major star systems that had been identified before the sector had been breached, named after some of the most powerful demons on record.

    Murissa flexed her fingers, finally removing her eyes from Reina’s image, and noticed the claws that were built into her hand. The holo images flickered out of existence and she snapped her fingers, the claws extending as if they were her own, though these were actually refined mythril alloy. Another growl came from her, her lips sliding back to reveal her fangs as she looked to Rivalle, but only for a second before the claws retracted and she lowered her arm. “You will provide me with the gear I need, yes, Mistress?” She let the last syllables of the title linger into a hiss.

    “I’ve already had Saida load your personal equipment aboard the ship, as well as a selection of armor for your frame,” Rivalle said as they turned down another path, this one leading to the landing area for this particular part of her estate, dipping down into a wooded area. “Unless you’d prefer to go in as you are, of course. Your frame is composed of an impressively resilient alloy, though I suggest not testing that resilience more than you have to; it is an experimental prototype after all. You won’t exactly be close to a DSM repair center.”

    The assassin growled again, tail swishing behind her. “Understood…Mistress,” Murissa hissed again.

    The air was suddenly filled with the high-pitched buzz of engines on their pre-flight warm-up. Rivalle and her servant continued without change in their pace, though, she noted, Murissa came to a stop at the sudden loudness, ears flicking as she looked back and forth, her posture collar having reshaped itself into shorter design that would allow a greater range of movement, but would remain tight enough to remind Murissa that she was little more than a highly talented piece of property. She recovered a couple of seconds later and continued after them. Rivalle couldn’t have the noise of the landing area polluting her places of relaxation, could she?

    Once they had passed through the woods, they came out on the edge of the clearing that was reserved for the landing platform. It looked like any other landing zone at a modern spaceport, with four platforms and support equipment for servicing and refueling ships, complete with its own robotic maintenance crews. For now, there were only two vessels docked, one of Rivalle’s personal shuttles that she had come in on, and a larger long-range light transport from the private fleet she had collected over the years, most from those who had made attempts on her life.

    “Its name is the ‘Topaz Tigress’,” Rivalle said with a smirk, raising her voice over the whine of the engines. The growl of disapproval from Murissa was audible over the din, and Rivalle’s smirk grew wider. “A prize acquired from one of your predecessors who met with much less success than yourself about eighty years ago, refitted with the best tech DSM has on the market and some that isn’t. And there is your leash holder for this expedition.”

    * * *

    While Murissa’s immediate thoughts were centered around how she could possibly strangle Rivalle without the ridiculous contraption the elf had trapped her in frying her to a crisp, especially at the gall to have such a name for the ship chosen for the hunt, she nonetheless looked to where Rivalle had gestured. Another elven woman stood near the rear cargo lift of the transport, wearing a dark, lightly armored jumpsuit, the front of which was unzipped partially down from her neck to reveal her cleavage. This elf wasn’t as pale as Rivalle, and while shorter, had more meat on her bones, and wore her pale purple hair loose down her back. She was tapping away at a control pad, watching as a pair of loader bots stacked more crates on the lift.

    When she finally turned, she nodded deeply to Rivalle, almost a bow, really, and then turned a disapproving glare at Murissa with her purple eyes from behind her glasses, showing some of the same smugness that RIvalle had, just not as much. Was that just an elf thing? Murissa felt her fur bristling, her fingers flexing, claws extending, then retracting with a faint metallic scraping sound.

    She wasn’t going to like this elf either.

    The other elf, Saida, Murissa assumed, turned her attention back to Rivalle. “We will be ready as soon as this last load is secured, ma’am. I was not expecting you to arrive quite so soon.”

    Rivalle gave a dismissive gesture toward Murissa. “The assassin was more agreeable than I’d imagined,” she said, “and was quite eager to join the hunt. I’m sure you’ll have no problems with her.”

    Murissa wasn’t sure what it was that the red-haired elf had done, but there was definitely something in Rivalle’s gesture that made her nose twitch, her skin tingle. It was the same kind of feeling she’d gotten when she sensed Rivalle outside of that damnable cell every time she had come by for a look. The elf had used magic, of that Murissa was certain, but what she had done, it was impossible to say. It was simply a natural instinct Murissa possessed that had clued her in on such things, and had proved quite beneficial over her years as a hunter for hire.

    “Of course not, Director; the exo-frame is quite well designed. If there are any outstanding personality conflicts, I’m sure we’ll have a resolution by the time we reach Aphelion Station,” Saida said sweetly. “Any last words of advice?”

    Rivalle gave a smile that seemed absolutely malevolent, and looked down at Saida for a second, then up to Murissa, and finally back to her subordinate. “Don’t fail me. I don’t respond well to failure, especially from one of my AR&D division members. Mistakes happen, just see to it that they don’t become habitual, Miss Entoris. Trust me when I say you would not enjoy the consequences. Perhaps one day you will be able to ask your predecessor about what that may mean?”

    Rivalle turned gracefully and walked away, tailed by her hooded, faceless servant, Saida’s eyes widening with some realization as they followed the hooded servant. Murissa assumed it was worry that passed over the features on her elven face; she was certainly feeling quite uneasy herself at Rivalle’s icy comments. Saida’s distress was quickly replaced with anger as she spun and somehow managed to look down her nose at Murissa, though she was over two feet shorter than the ferakatian. “Well don’t just stand there, get aboard and prep for launch!” she commanded, pointing to the entry ramp.

    Murissa remained motionless, looking at Saida, lips curling into a snarl. She felt a faint hum within the frame, right between her legs, and she could guess what was coming. “Is there something I should call you?” she growled. As her nose twitched, she caught the elf’s scent, at once committing it to memory and detesting it. She smelled like wildflowers, but with a sharpness to the perfumed scent that stung Murissa’s nose.

    It occurred to Murissa then that she hadn’t picked up a scent from Rivalle, even when she’d been hunting her and had attacked the woman directly. She growled, her tail twitched again. Magic.

    Saida’s eyes narrowed, her arms crossing beneath her breasts as her lips curled into a disapproving frown. “You may call me Lady Saida for now. When I give you a command, I expect it to be obeyed. Do I need to remind you of your position already?”

    Tail swishing, Murissa gave a small shake of her head. “No, Lady Saida,” she replied, again flexing her fingers. This elf was very much emulating Rivalle in the way she carried herself and how she expected to have her orders followed, and that grated against Murissa’s nerves just the same, perhaps worse. The hum between Murissa’s legs grew more powerful, but when she suddenly started toward the ramp, it diminished, then faded. At least for the moment, she had a little bit of leeway on the leash but imagined that could change at a moment’s notice. There was a lot she didn’t understand about the frame Rivalle had trapped her in, and something about its nature wasn’t entirely mechanical, that was certain. More magic, most likely.

    Reaching the top of the ramp, Murissa turned toward the cockpit, noting that despite the apparent age of the ship, it was immaculate on the inside, every panel in place, no grease stains or electrical burns from shorts, even the padding along the sharper edges was unmarred, and all the lights were glowing warmly. Even the armor plating on the outside had been spotless. Had it been stored in a garage all this time? Her hair brushed the top of the corridor, and she felt as though she would be bumping the walls if she weren’t careful. It was without a doubt not a ship designed for races her size.

    “Your room is to the left,” Saida said, in a tone that was less informational and more commanding.

    Knowing that she was in for a great deal of pain over the course of the hunt based on Saida’s attitude to date, Murissa nonetheless approached the next door to the left and pressed the button, and watched as it slid open. She growled yet again, tail swishing back and forth as her ears laid back.

    The room was spartan, filled with equipment racks and lockers along three walls, and an array of monitors and diagnostic equipment on the fourth. In the center of the room was a large metallic surgical table with separate articulated extensions for the arms, legs, and head. Murissa could see the heavy-duty shackles secured to several spots, along with the various diagnostic connectors along the central axis of the table. Additional equipment was mounted in the ceiling above, looming overhead ominously.

    Murissa heard Saida snap her fingers behind her, and a switch clicked across the room. The table’s robotics adjusted and reconfigured it, shifting the table into a slightly reclining chair. “Sit.”

    Instincts telling her to grab the imperious elf and slam her against the nearest bulkhead until she lay crushed on the floor, Murissa felt the electrical tingle between her legs and along the disks that trapped her limbs and resisted the urge to try. Now was not the time, not when she was still so deep within Rivalle’s territory. Wordlessly, Murissa stomped into the chamber and turned to face Saida, easing herself into the chair. As expected, the stout shackles immediately clamped shut, and locking bolts slid into place at her wrists and ankles, thighs and biceps, with another crossing her midsection. Something clamped to either side of the collar about her neck, making it impossible to move her head. “What’s the matter, Lady Saida? Not afraid of me, are you?” she asked, hissing the elf’s name.

    Saida had crossed her arms beneath her breasts, finally able to look down at Murissa properly. “Hardly. I simply have no time to deal with you right now, and I know how curious felines can be; I don’t need you pawing through the ship’s recesses and getting stuck somewhere.” She pushed her glasses up her nose, looking quite smug as Murissa tensed against the restraints, jerking at them futilely at the insult. “You are classified as a cybernetic lifeform currently, and as such, this is a fully functional cybernetic maintenance facility, with full surgical capabilities. Since you’re a prototype, certain rights have been waived in order to ensure proper system functions at all times. When I have no need of you, you will return here until I release you. Understood?”

    “Yes, Lady Saida,” Murissa responded in a growl, fangs barred at the elf. Visions of tearing the elf’s jugular free from her scrawny neck flashed in front of her eyes; her flesh would taste wonderful, she was certain of it.

    “Director Volcarri gave you the data file on your target, yes?”

    “She did.”

    Saida finally entered the chamber, sauntering to Murissa’s side. Their eyes locked, Murissa’s heated hatred meeting cold indifference. After a few tense seconds, Saida spoke. “Then I suggest you begin studying her scent; you do hunt by scent, do you not?” Again, it wasn’t a suggestion. Saida picked up a cylindrical container from a nearby surgical tray. She twisted the lid, and there was a hiss of air as the seal was broken.

    Murissa’s nose twitched as the pungent scents started wafting out and Saida drew out a pair of skimpy purple panties, with some obvious signs of wear that still lingered. “Do you make a habit of collecting underwear from your corporate enemies?” Murissa smirked. “Or was it something else? Lover’s spat?” Murissa chuckled in a mocking tone.

    Saida’s eyes narrowed, and there was a sudden reaction from the exo-frame, namely in a burst of electrical energy that had Murissa’s living body rigid, her mouth frozen open as the electricity played through the limbs she couldn’t see anymore, feeling as though her very bones were feeling the jolt.

    As the surge stopped just as suddenly as it began, Murissa sagged against the chair, eyes rolling as she groaned. It took her a moment to focus her eyes back on Saida, who had returned to her cold smugness. She’d hit on something there, something that the elf hadn’t liked. Murissa was no telepath by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes she had her moments of intuition. She’d have to file that nugget away for later.

    Lifting the panties, Saida wadded them up. “Open your mouth,” she ordered.

    Murissa kept her mouth shut, glaring up at the elf. Only the humming and faint beeps of the equipment in the room could be heard.

    “Another lesson, then,” Saida replied in a tone of annoyance.

    Murissa’s nethers were suddenly in pain, an intense burst of electricity shooting from both plugs, straight through her, the rings in her nipples following a moment later. This was a different kind of pain than what the exo-frame had created before, still painful, but not as deep or close to her nerves. Still, she couldn’t handle much more. Gritting her teeth, Murissa snarled and jerked, finally throwing her head back. “Stop it! I’ll do as you ask!” she cried.

    “Of course you will,” Saida replied, the electricity continuing for a couple of seconds more before it finally ended. She held the wadded-up underwear out in front of Murissa’s face.

    Panting through clenched teeth, Murissa reluctantly opened her mouth, at last, allowing the frail elf to push the wad deep inside. They were tiny by Murissa’s standards, but already she was getting a strong flavor and scent wafting from them.

    “Fortunately, it seems that the target did not have time to do laundry before she took flight. A large beast such as yourself can’t be satisfied by just one pair, I’m certain.” Murissa’s eyes went back to the container, watching as Saida withdrew another pair, these black, and proceeded to stuff them alongside the first pair.

    Murissa’s hands clenched into fists, her tail thrashing below her as a third pair was stuffed inside, then a fourth. A low growl came from her throat at the indignity of such a thing.

    “So much room in there…I’m glad I took that into account when I stopped at the evidence locker,” Saida said, digging into the container again, this time coming out with two stained socks, holding them up with a look of distaste, the dirty imprint of the wearer’s soles and toes clear on the bottoms of them.

    Feeling that her mouth was already more than full enough, Murissa could probably have managed to bite down enough to cause Saida pain, but again resisted the urge until she could find a way out of the damned frame and those accursed things on her arms and legs. The elf’s delicate fingers stuffed the socks inside, cramming them into the remaining space in Murissa’s cheeks. The scent of days-old sweat assailed Murissa’s nose, mixing with the different odors of the underwear, all forming a definite, identifiable scent. She would simply have had to have sniffed them for a few seconds to determine that much; no need to fill her mouth with them.

    Saida wasn’t done, though, for she drew out another pair of socks, these even longer, probably knee length for a smaller humanoid than Murissa. The first one she folded neatly, making sure the stained areas of the toes were on the outside and pressed them against Murissa’s nose. The matching sock was brought around Murissa’s head and tied into a knot over the top of the first one, making sure it wasn’t going anywhere, and securing the rest of the stuffing in Murissa’s mouth. A final pair of panties were pulled from the container before Saida discarded it, this pair being fit, rather tightly, over Murissa’s head, the crotch positioned over the felinoid’s nose.

    The elf picked up something else that had been stored nearby, holding it up for Murissa to see. It was a metal-reinforced muzzle, with breathing holes at the nose, though there was no gag inside it, with a trio of straps that ended in locking buckles. “It’s mainly to prevent wild animals from biting, but I don’t believe we’ll have a problem with that for now.”

    She positioned the muzzle over Murissa’s mouth and nose, then guided the straps into place. Once they had clicked into position at the back of Murissa’s head, the straps tightened themselves, making Murissa grunt at just how tight the device became. Immediately her breathing became harder as all of her air was now coming through the small holes dotting the metal outer plate of the muzzle, further hindered by the socks and panties. The muzzle seemed to grow tighter, the plates shifting subtly to conform to her facial structure for a perfect fit.

    “Perhaps if you behave in a sensible manner it won’t be needed later,” Saida said, stepping back from the chair. There was a beep from her wrist, and she looked at the small device she wore there, its screen flashing. A smile appeared on her lips, and she took a final look at Murissa before she left the room, the door closing and locking behind her.

    A rumble came from somewhere outside the room, toward the rear of the ship, the rear cargo hatch closing. Murissa grunted and growled, twisting her head back and forth as she again tugged at the restraints. The smell of Reina Pridewing assailed her nose and tongue, and though she had never met the human, Murissa was already growing to dislike her, simply for providing such a method of humiliation to the smug elf. The engines hummed, pitching higher, and the ship lurched, lifting from the landing platform. In a moment, Murissa felt the pressure of rapid acceleration as the ship rocketed skyward.

    Twisting her wrists, Murissa activated the holo displays, again showing the various images of Reina Pridewing. She bit down, squeezing some of the human’s flavor from the moistened underwear and socks, snarling beneath the muzzle as she committed every inch of the woman’s face to memory, tying it to her scent, her taste. It wouldn’t take that long. Then she would consider what she was going to do with Saida, and then Rivalle, for the humiliation the two elves had already caused her to suffer, and the further humiliations she would no doubt be forced to endure on the journey ahead.


    This is another world building exercise I wrote a while back, developing some aspects of the setting and in particular exploring the nature of the setting’s big bad, Rivalle Volcarri, head of the DSM megacorp with century-spanning schemes and an uncanny ability to get what she wants.

    This story came about also to introduce the characters of Saida and Murissa, who were in turn developed as part of the backstory for an friend’s character, Reina Pridewing, for an online game we played a while back.  We had several good sessions before schedules and life intervened, but we do intend on getting back to the games eventually, especially once I get some more progress on my system tweaks and changes (I’m doing a homebrew based on the Saga Edition rules).  I’ve recently started working on this a lot more, and will be posting some details about it in the near future.

    But for now, I hope you enjoy this little tale.  I had the idea to use the ‘stumpers’ in a story, and then the idea struck to combine it with a combat exo-suit to control the wearer, and Murissa was a character concept I’d wanted to use for years, so everything finally came together in a satisfying way.  The sock and panty gagging is a bit over the top given the situation, but it was more a personal preference 😉

    Until next time everyone, Urban out!

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  • An Unknown Venture

    “As expected…the ASC has accepted our request to join them, but…”

    Rivalle rolled her eyes, glaring out of the windows of her office at the roiling storm beyond.  “But they did not allow us a full seat at the table.  They don’t trust us, Schneider, especially not with Veylani leading the charge out there.  It doesn’t matter; I’ve always played the long game, so this time will be no different.  Finish your task and report back to me at once.”

    “Yes, ma’am,” said Schneider, his mouth opening to continue, though Rivalle cut the feed before he could say anything else.  Lindermann could have gotten DSM a full seat even with the situation they had found themselves in, but Rivalle had yet to find a suitable replacement for him since Veylani had managed to usurp control over the doppelganger and taken back her company.  The fact that Rivalle had to pay licensing fees to Veylani to allow her fleet to make use of the new A-TK drives and super-carriers galled her to no end, but Rivalle had to reluctantly give credit to her former plaything; Releana Veylani had been quick to secure her place at the top of the food chain when that new drive technology had been developed to allow travel through the Demon Barrier, and her transport company had immediately become the hottest investment in the known galaxy.

    Rivalle tapped a button on her desk, and the isolation field that had been surrounding it dropped.  Her ears immediately picked up on the sound of heated panting and moaning mixed with a wet squishing sound.  She turned her chair to face her guest, her lips already curling into a smile, though it was nothing to do with the business she had just attended.  No, this smile was born of her sadistic nature, of her pleasure at watching Lila Darius suffer.

    Not the real Lila Darius, unfortunately, but a very similar-looking kerryn woman who had served in Lila’s place for quite some time now as one of Rivalle’s stress dolls; she couldn’t be bothered to remember her real name at the moment.  The real Lila Darius was off in the Demon Sector, having spearheaded the rush to begin exploring the newly accessible region of space.  It had always been something of a dream, to find a way beyond the Demon Barrier, an impenetrable maelstrom of radiation, violent electrical discharges, and pure raw magical energy that kept any probes or ships from passing through it.  Even skirting the Barrier had its risks, and taking a ship fully inside of it was suicide.  There were no safe routes, as it was always shifting and roiling like a violent sea, reforming itself almost like it were a living entity composed of pure chaos…but somehow, Veylani and Darius had found a way to modify the TK drives to allow safe passage through the Barrier.  DSM’s own Arcane Research and Development department had been trying to do that for over a century now.  How had those two managed such a feat?

    Rivalle remembered the day of the first breach well, like a fiery spike driven into her brain.  Each time these memories surfaced, she just couldn’t stop thinking of the humiliation it had caused her.  The fact that she had only found out about it after everything had already happened from a public broadcast from Veylani Transport made it sting all the worse.  A detachment from DSM’s largest fleet had been pursuing Darius and her tiny transport ship and had nearly caught them for capture and return to Rivalle.  Somehow that band of misfits had eluded them for months and had not only managed to retake Veylani’s transport company, but to discover a way into the Demon Sector.

    Even now, Rivalle fought the urge to snarl and lash out at her stress doll; Rivalle’s special guest seemed to be enjoying itself with the plaything, so she wouldn’t interfere.  Still, the memories burned hot within her mind as she recalled the special broadcast from Veylani, an emergency press conference she had called announcing something huge.  She hadn’t said much at first, instead playing a pre-recorded transmission from Lila Darius, apparently which had started in the midst of Rivalle’s fleet chasing her down in the space beyond Sentinel Prime.

    Darius had been completely in control, no panic at all as Rivalle’s fleet had closed in on her, had started by casually recounting the recorded history of the Barrier and the attempts to breach it, and had even shown video of the DSM fleet bearing down behind them.  As they had approached the Barrier, in what had been initially considered a suicidal attempt to escape Rivalle’s forced, they’d activated their new prototype drive, the very first prototype of the Advanced TK-Drive, and had flown straight into the Barrier.  DSM’s command ship had attempted, stupidly, to follow, as had several other ships, upon seeing that Darius’s transport hadn’t been immediately destroyed and had continued without issue deeper inside.  The lead ship had been obliterated by the Barrier almost before it had fully moved inside, and several other ships that had followed were severely damaged, two of them having to be completely scrapped once they’d limped back to port.

    Darius’s recording had continued, treating the chase as a minor inconvenience at worst.  She had shown several of her ship’s telemetry and sensor readouts, confirming they were on their way through the barrier.  They couldn’t make the jump into hyperspace within the barrier itself, meaning it would take them several hours to make the transition.  The recording had cut, then resumed, the chronometer display confirming it had been about six hours since they’d dove into the barrier.  Darius had confirmed the readouts again, then panned to the view from the cockpit as the Barrier grew less intense, then faded into the view of a distant nebula and unfamiliar stars beyond.  Though the Demon Sector had been named due to the fact that only seventy-two stars had been discovered by long-range observation, each having been named after a demon, it certainly contained countless more within its expanse.

    Veylani had ended the recording there, and was quick to bring Darius and her crew out for the media to see, answering what questions they could while providing copies of their ship’s sensor data as proof that they hadn’t simply faked everything.  Within the following week, multiple independent and corporate groups had reviewed everything Veylani had provided, and could find no signs it had been a hoax.  Veylani and Darius had somehow found a way into the Demon Sector.

    To say that had been a bad day for Rivalle’s company would be an understatement.  Stocks had fallen sharply when investors had pulled out and thrown their money behind Veylani’s company when she had made the proclamation that the Advanced TK drives would be available for lease from her company soon, and that plans were already in the works for an official scientific exploration to begin. 

    Still, Rivalle could manage some small comfort watching her Lila Darius stand-in writhing within the slimy grasp of a dozen tentacles.  The shokushu-juu seemed to be enjoying itself, its mottled green and brown appendages wrapped firmly around the kerryn’s limbs and neck, wound several times around her breasts, the smaller ends of those tentacles further wrapped tightly around her nipples, and the other tentacles pushing into her mouth, pussy, and ass, her flesh covered in a mix of sweat and slime.  She’d already cum several times, her eyes rolling in her head as the powerful psychic connection with the shokushu-juu overwhelmed her nerves and her mind.  The touch of a shokushu-juu was quite exhilarating, though prolonged contact tended to evolve into an addiction.  

    “It is as we had assumed it would be; DSM has permission to join the station, but not upon the ruling board.”

    The shokushu-juu’s flesh rippled, and it shifted the kerryn, spreading her legs wide as it turned her to face Rivalle.  The kerryn’s distant eyes focused upon Rivalle, and the tentacle slid from her mouth.  “Then our business venture has officially begun, yes?” she said, her voice echoing with another voice, wetter and deeper; that was the thing that held her tightly within its grasp.

    Rivalle nodded.  “We shall establish our presence at Aphelion Station, and then your forces can move in and begin directing things to our mutual advantage.  It shouldn’t take more than a month to have our part of the station fully up and running; I’ve had the ships prepared to launch all week.”

    “Excellent,” it said through the kerryn, its grasping tentacles writhing, tightening around the plaything, making her moan without its voice.  Then it spoke through her again.  “This plaything’s mind has information that interests me.  The one it stands for, this Lila Darius, is within the Demon Sector currently, yes?”

    “At last report,” Rivalle replied carefully.  Darius had been quite keen on diving back into the Demon Sector immediately, hoping to be the first to find some great treasure or make a bigger name for herself than she already had.

    “And you want this Lila Darius, yes?  It would…please you to have it?”  When Rivalle didn’t reply, the stress doll’s lips curled into a smile.  “What would it be worth to you then?  Your unofficial bounties have yet to bear fruit, yes?  And she has caused you so much distress.  Much distress indeed.  This one suffers much in Lila Darius’s place.  It would be much better to have the original here, yes?”

    “I’m not altering the deal we’ve already established,” Rivalle replied curtly.

    The shokushu-juu shifted, rotating the stress doll so that it was inverted, its head dangling toward the creature’s larger body, which rested upon a floating platform, while its tentacle-stuffed pussy was in a position more aligned to where its head should have otherwise been.  “Nor am I.  I offer another deal.  We can find this Lila Darius for you, yes.  We have hunters you do not, and ways you do not.”

    Rivalle steepled her fingers and leaned forward, but kept her face neutral.  “And what do you want in return for this?”

    The kerryn panted, hot and fast, as the tentacles writhed within her, but spoke again with the shokushu-juu’s voice.  “To say that I hold no desire to taste your flesh would be a lie, Rivalle Volcarri.  I can sense the strength of your essence.”  The way the shokushu-juu made the stress doll leer at Rivalle made its intentions quite clear.  “But that would not be conducive to a long-term relationship, yes?  Though our tastes are similar… Instead, in return for this Lila Darius, I simply wish to sample your other playthings.  You have a large collection, yes?  Rare and exotic, yes?  All with unique flavors to savor…”

    Rivalle raised an eyebrow, her mind immediately running through her many collected playthings, trying to decide which one the shokushu-juu was interested in.  It couldn’t simply want to sample her slaves; there was always another angle, especially when beings as ancient as the shokushu-juu were concerned.  By the number of tentacles this one possessed, it was at least twelve-hundred years old, if what they knew of the species was accurate, anyway.  It wanted someone specific at the very least, if not several of them; there were always layers of plot when the shokushu-juu were involved, so there had to be something more than simply playing with slaves.  “You wish…simply to sample my private collection?”

    “An extended sampling, yes,” it replied, easing the kerryn to the floor, forcing her to rest on all fours as the tentacles pounded powerfully into her lower holes.  “One must savor one’s pleasures, yes?  And…many doors lie before you, Rivalle Volcarri.  How many more could you open with such an ally as myself, yes?”

    Rivalle remained silent for a few moments, watching as the stress doll grunted and moaned, its eyes rolling again as the tentacle returned to its mouth, thrusting down its throat.  She continued watching as the kerryn’s body shuddered and went rigid, yet another powerful orgasm exploding within her.  The doll gagged and choked on the tentacle in her mouth, coughing up some of the whitish slime as the appendage pulled itself free.  The scent of the doll’s sex juices mingled with the strong, almost-stomach-turning odor of the shokushu-juu, forming something almost bearable. 

    “Very well,” Rivalle said at last.  It was a calculated gamble, an opportunity to learn more about what this particular shokushu-juu wanted, perhaps even what it was plotting, or even a weakness.  For now it was an ally, but they were known for plots that could easily last centuries.  Could she match wits with such a being?  Rivalle held a smirk in check.  Of course she could; she was in control here; the shokushu-juu tended to think themselves above other races, but she certainly held no such illusions.  Challenging opponents perhaps, but superior beings?  Hardly.  “I shall arrange for you to visit my private farm on an extended basis, and we can discuss our future business over the screams of my playthings.”

    “Excellent; a very good decision, yes,” said the creature.  “Send word to my ship when your preparations are complete; I shall remain here for a time, at least until after your first showing, yes?”  The tentacles slid out of the stress doll and finally released its hold upon the doll, and the kerryn immediately cried out in a mixture of overwhelming pleasure and pain as her sensitized nerves were suddenly experiencing sensations that were probably unlike anything she had ever dreamed of before.

    The shokushu-juu waved its tentacles at Rivalle in what she had come to understand as their version of a formal bow.  She nodded deeply in return as its hover-sled moved it silently to the door of the office, its quartet of humanoid attendants joining it beyond the portal: another scantily clad female kerryn it normally used for its mouthpiece, two heavily armed equinarian bodyguards, and a pale-skinned ‘succubus’, her demonic ancestry showing plainly through her tail and curled horns, her attire only slightly less revealing than that of the kerryn. 

    Once the doors had closed, Rivalle stood, blowing out her breath, and looked with disapproval at the kerryn twitching and writhing on the fluid-covered floor.  She hit a button on her desk.  “Have the cleaning crew come up here at once; might I suggest sponges and air fresheners?”  Rivalle ended the call before a reply came, then tapped another button to summon her own guards to deal with the twitching kerryn stress doll.  It would take some time for her to recover, but once she had, there would be some severe punishment in store for her.  Even if she’d had no way to prevent the shokushu-juu from reading her mind while it was using her for its pleasures and as a mouthpiece, the stress doll had caused Rivalle to have to make another deal she hadn’t wanted to make, all because of Lila Darius.  


    Hello everyone!  It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

    This is a story I wrote sometime last year, just a short character-building piece to get myself in the mindset of Rivalle, who is, as you may have guessed, the primary antagonist for my Lila Darius stories.  And I wanted some tentacle monster x catgirl action, so there’s that as well, lol.  As far as the timeline here is concerned… and I need to solidify that…but this takes place some time after the Lila stories I’ve already done (Lila’s Haunted Asylum Misadventure and Sealed Pleasures), after Lila and crew make a big wave in the galaxy.  This also serves as a bit of development for the tabletop RPG that I’m developing alongside the stories, as a major aspect of it will involve exploring the newly opened Demon Sector.

    I have a few other shorts like this done already (though they’re a bit longer), and have additional ones planned for the future as well to further build this setting.  I’ve also got a start on the next big Lila Darius story, namely the first one chronologically, which will tell how Lila met Kori and Releana and got on Rivalle’s bad side.  This is intended as a full length novel, and so far, I’ve gotten three complete chapters and have outlined the rest of the book, though I’ll be adding a new one to spice up the opening.

    I had intended to do a lot more posting of stories the last few months, but life has taken some strange turns this year.  Though I’ve kept up with my writing mostly consistently since the last story I posted, Anything for a Scoop, I was in a pretty rough spot mentally at the start of the year.  I was still dealing with the loss of my best friend from September last year as I had to take care of a lot of the paperwork that still lingered after his death, and my job had gotten to the point where it was basically killing me slowly.  New health issues just kept cropping up, my existing ones kept getting worse, and nothing was getting better at the office no matter what we tried to do to alleviate some of the problems.

    It was during the first couple of months that I really considered what I needed to do to change things for the better, so that’s when I decided to make my exit.  I needed a change, sooner rather than later, so I quit in early April.  I’ve been trying to get things in order for myself since, and generally, my health has seen vast improvements, especially my mental state.  I think I might have been approaching actual depression if I wasn’t already there, but now I’m feeling pretty good.  I’m getting my other health issues under control slowly but surely, and am trying to make additional changes to some bad habits that still linger from the office days.  Time is just flying by so fast, it’s hard to believe its been a full three months since I quit; some weeks go by in the blink of an eye, it seems.

    I hope you enjoy the story; if you liked it, please let me know!  I intend to get into a more regular pattern of posting going forward; I have quite a few stories that are progressing steadily, but also want to get a handle on my wordiness by doing intentionally shorter works as quick little word building exercises.

    Stay tuned, everyone!  Good stuff is inbound!

    Till next time, Urban out!

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  • June (?!) 2022 – Life and Writing Updates

    It’s over halfway through June already?!  Where does the time go?

    Warning:  This turned into a fairly long piece where I discuss what’s been going on in my life the last few months.  If you’re only interested in my future writing updates, search for “What’s Next on the Writing Front?” to jump to it.

    What’s Been Going on in My Life?

    So, since my last update…in February…wow, still doesn’t feel like it’s been that long…there have been some pretty significant changes in my life.  The biggest change…I quit my job.  After almost 15 years working at the call center / IT services gig, I had finally reached a point where I could simply no longer handle the daily drudgery.  I had a lot of factors that weighed into that decision, and it took me about six months to finally decide that quitting was the best option for me.

    As I told the guys at the office:  “My ‘give-a-damn’ broke, and I can’t fix it this time.”  Burnout was definitely a factor in this decision, but there was a lot more.

    Life is short.  That was made devastatingly clear to me in September of 2021 when my best friend, a man who was like a brother to me, suddenly died.  We had been hanging out since high school back in the late 90s, starting with our D&D group, then between sessions, heck, he lived with us for a while until he could get back on his feet at one point, and eventually we were even at the office together, as he started working there after quitting his prior job working as a butcher.  He worked there almost two years, and had developed health problems, but seemed to be on the mend, and was getting ready to make some big changes in his own life.  He was going to marry his longtime fiancé on their anniversary in October, and he had another, better job lined up.  He was literally coming into the office that morning to turn in his two-weeks notice, had just pulled out of the driveway of his fiancé’s home, and between the driveway and the end of her house, suffered a massive heart attack.  All indications were that he died pretty much instantly, so I can at least be thankful that he didn’t suffer.

    That was what really got me to thinking about what I was doing with my life.  Was I happy working with that company, doing that kind of work?  What about my own health?  We’d had plenty of discussions over the years about quitting our jobs and finding something we’d actually enjoy.  I’m fairly sure I was in the midst of a multi-year depression while working at that place.  I had become a hermit outside of our gaming group, my family could see that I wasn’t happy, sometimes looked downright hostile just being around people.  A place like that changes you, and usually not for the better.

    I’d started attending a photography class at one of the local churches back in January.  One of the things we learned very early on was that if you’re not happy with something, change it; this referred to the settings on the camera primarily, but that also applied to life as well.  It got me thinking a lot more.

    I’m approaching forty (will be there next year, in fact).  My friend would’ve been forty at the end of September.  My father and his brother both died in their mid-forties.  I’ve lived with diabetes since I was diagnosed in 8th grade, and my health was only getting worse.  Sitting at a desk all day was making it very difficult to control my blood sugar or lose weight; I’d try to walk throughout the day, but with constant issues to deal with as call center / IT services manager, it wasn’t possible most of the time.  The constant high blood sugar numbers has led to multiple instances of retinal bleeding over the last two or three years; I’ve had to have laser treatments two or three times to help shore up the blood vessels in my eyes, and blindness could result if this isn’t controlled.  I had pretty much no energy to spare for anything outside of work, and even then, my afternoon crashes were proving very difficult to work through (and still sometimes are).  I’d also started developing issues in my shoulder from keeping my arm raised at a certain angle to use the mouse at my desk, and I was usually not sleeping well, knowing that I couldn’t escape the office (even when I was off the clock, if there was a problem, and there always was, I’d get calls or messages at home about it).

    So, after months of consideration, I finally made the call in March, and put in my notice.  I gave them plenty of time, a month in fact, so that I could create tutorials for all the stuff I did and to train a replacement for the position.  My boss wound up deciding not to fill the spot, and wanted to take over most of my duties himself (this has not gone well according to the people I keep in contact with, lol).  April 8th, 2022 was my last day with the company, and I’ve been free and clear since.

    I immediately took a few days for myself and enjoyed a solo excursion to the Smoky Mountains before our family vacation there in May, enjoying getting to photograph some of the places I’ve never been to, and before the world went entirely to shit and gas prices skyrocketed.  Since then, I’ve been keeping busy with work around the house, trying to improve my health, and trying to break over a decade of bad habits I developed at the job.

    The struggle continues on those bad habits.  My YouTube habits are still an issue; seems like if I just watch one video, it’ll turn into a dozen, or more and my day is shot.  I’ve been trying to limit myself to watching them only if I’m working out, and have slowly been making some progress.  I’ve generally been trying to get more active, walking daily if possible (in addition to the morning bike rides), though had a period after Memorial Day where I was getting a ton of walking in…only to see my blood sugar keep rising even walking multiple times per day and keeping the carb count as low as I could.  I’ve still got a long way to go, but I think generally, I’m already healthier than I was at the office.  My shoulders are still having some issues, but not nearly as bad as they were, I’m sleeping much better now, and friends and family have reported a noticeable change in my demeanor for the positive.

    I’m still not sure how two months have gone by so quickly.  As I write this, I feel like it should still be like Tuesday, not Friday morning.  Most days seem to go well, then noon hits, and then its suddenly bed time.  And yet I don’t get nearly enough done, it feels like.  I’ve still been keeping to my daily writing habit for the most part, and have begun working on some RPG-related stuff that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now and just lost the will for while at the office.  I’m also trying to read more; I’ve got stacks of books that I want to read, and just never felt like trying to read them while the job continually drained my energy.

    What’s Next on the Writing Front?

    So, now that that overly long ramble is done, what’s next for my writing?

    I’ve not been idle since the start of the year.  I’ve written almost daily even though I haven’t been posting what I’m writing.  I have another huge story in the works, what will probably wind up being an ongoing series; I’ve got eleven chapters finished right now and took a break to finish up some other projects, with nine more already outlined.  My whole reason for starting this one was basically “What if Final Fantasy X had a more likeable protagonist (one who actually WAS the protagonist of the story and not just trying to say he was…), but was also filled with various bondage/kinky situations?”  A lot of the early story follows the general FFX plot, with the protagonist, Mayu, being something of a combination of Yuna and Tidus, a famous idol singer before getting sucked into the future and learning that she can in fact use magic and summon powerful creatures.

    I also have several new short stories in the works, plus a few I finished last year or earlier this year that are mostly ready to post, and I’m planning a sequel to the Pink Pussy story, as well as the ‘first’ Lila Darius book (chronologically the first, as it will detail how she, Kori, and Releana met and why they’re sticking together).  I’ve got a list of twenty-plus other ideas I’m developing for various settings, too, so there’s plenty to work from at this point.

    RPG-wise, I’ve been developing a post-apocalyptic setting the last few weeks that I’ve had in mind for a long time and simply couldn’t find the energy to devote to it.  Think Fallout, but instead of the future as seen from the 50s, it’s more like the future as seen from the 80s, and in instead of an alternate earth, it’s a fantasy world (kerryns, elves, orcs, etc) that has developed technologically because the magic ran out, only to suffer an apocalyptic, world-ending cataclysm of some form.  Along with this, I’m working on a modified version of the Star Wars Saga Edition rules to use with this (and eventually my sci-fi setting), as that particular system became my favorite d20 system (and while I have expanded my horizons a lot over the years, d20 systems are what I’m most familiar with; I started with 3e D&D on launch, and that was right during the height of our gaming time).

    Further, I hope to develop my writing craft more as I attempt to do actual short stories of 7k-10k words; for me, that’s usually a chapter, so I’ve got a long way to go.  The idea is to try some of these in the post-apocalyptic setting to help with worldbuilding, and probably branch out to my other settings as well.  I am also looking at trying some commission work as well.

    Ultimately, my goal is to start making money with my writing, and perhaps even with my photography.  Though the timing may not be great with what has happened in the world the last few months and money becomes much tighter, I do want to at least try.  I’m still trying to come to a decision on how exactly to go about these plans (and would welcome any suggestions you may have!), and will let everyone know what I finally decide when I get to that point.  I’ll still keep posting my writing publicly, though, even if it’s a few months later than it would be posted for patrons, for example.

    Additionally, as I’m trying to start reading more again, I’d like to get back into reviewing books to some extent, and not just the very-often-bad-erotica like I used to review back in the day, but books of all kinds that I may have read.  Though if some of the stuff I’ve read, and continue to read, can be sold and actually make some money, I’d like to think my chances are very good that my work would sell.  I’m toying around with the idea of doing audio reviews instead of typing them out, whether that means strictly audio or actual video, I don’t know yet.  I’ve always considered myself better behind the camera, not in front of it, so we’ll see how that goes as things develop on this front.  To see what I’m currently reading and what I’ve finished, check out The Reading Room.

    So, to close this out, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to read over what’s been going on in my life, and where I hope to start advancing my hobby into something I can actually earn some income with.  I will start posting some stories soon, probably around the start of July, which gives me a little more time to try and decide how I want to handle these various projects.  If anyone has any suggestions or advice, I’d love to hear from you.

    Till next time,

    Urban out!

    You can also reach me over on DeviantArt, or on my Discord server!  In fact, I’m usually always on Discord if you wanna chat!

  • Where Am I? – February 2022 Update

    Time certainly does fly, doesn’t it? Seems like it was just Christmas, and here we are, already the first of February. Though I haven’t posted any new stories since the last part of Anything for a Scoop, I haven’t been idle. I’ve been giving some time to trying a rotating writing schedule, switching between settings/projects on a weekly basis. This little experiment has been rather a mixed bag of success this month, but it’s not really been a factor of the rotation, rather, personal health issues. I suffered another retinal bleed a couple weeks back, and generally when that happens, I’m unable to write any significant amount due to the strain it puts on my eye. This isn’t helped by the fact that I’m staring at a screen all day at my job on top of that, so for about a week straight I was walking around with one eye closed a good portion of the day, waiting for the haze to clear up.

    Then, this last weekend, I came down with something that had me feeling like crap pretty much through Sunday; by Monday morning I was recovered enough to go back to work, and am feeling pretty good for the most part this morning. Had hoped to get back on the writing horse this morning, but unfortunately I have to go into work early to get ready for a new person to start, which I usually wouldn’t have to do, but I only got notice about them starting at about 2PM yesterday, which is extremely short notice.

    On the more fun side, I have been attending a little photography class the last few weeks at one of the local churches. First time I’ve ever attended something like it, and it’s nothing extremely formal or anything, but I’ve already learned a few things, so it’s definitely been worth the time invested. I really want to start focusing on my photography a lot more this year, meaning a lot more hiking and walking around, which will be great for my health too.

    I’ve also made the decision to try and find a new job this year; probably not that difficult due to the job market. I’ve been working for the company for about 14 years, and I’m just so tired of the IT field. I would love something that has me being more active and less focused on a screen all day, I just don’t really know for sure what I’d want to do. The big thing, though, is that I try to set a firm date of when I’ll make my exit; I feel like that will be the biggest step in moving forward; I’ve been ready to quit there multiple times over the last eight years or so, but keep finding things to keep me hanging on just a little longer.

    First time I started feeling like this, my old truck got the point I couldn’t trust it, so I had to get a new one, so that was at least 5 years I would have to try to stick it out to pay that off; just when I was at the point I was ready to quit then, I got a promotion. I stuck that out for about 3 years, at which point I had grown tired with that position and the attitude of a certain person immediately above me, so once I managed to pay off the truck early, I was ready to quit. Then that person wound up getting transferred to another part of the company and I got promoted to the number two spot in our department. This was right at the start of the madness that has engulfed the world for the last two years (it’s true what they say…the hardest part of the fifteen days to slow the spread is the first two years!), and I’m already feeling so very tired of it.

    Not only that, but I’ve had more health issues the last year or so than I’d had previously. It’s a combination of age (I’ll be 39 this year), and some of the issues I’ve developed are directly linked to sitting at my desk all day long. For instance, I’d never had issues with my shoulder until suddenly I could barely move my arm in certain ways, like barely lifting it over my head, and if I moved it too far in certain directions, I would suffer incredible pain. This just happens to be the shoulder that sits propped up on my desk all day holding the mouse. It’s a bunch of little things that have started to stack up, and I’m long overdue for a change, I think.

    Thanks for listening to my little ramble; I do have a few shorts that I’ll be posting soon, and am working on other stories as I’m able to, just not getting nearly the keyboard time I really want to devote to writing (outside of work, anyway). I’ll plan on posting something this weekend, so keep a lookout!

  • Anything for a Scoop – Part 8 (Final)

    Anything for a Scoop – Part 8 (Final)

    Jennifer sat before Delia, resting upon an office chair as if it were a throne, legs crossed, one latex-clad foot held inches in front of Delia’s face, an expectant smirk upon her full lips.  Delia was on her knees before this gorgeous woman, and she felt her heart racing.  She felt her arms still wrapped around her midsection, still felt the tightness of the collar and corset, but a quick look to either side revealed she was no longer inside her tube, rather in an office.  Jennifer’s office?

    “Why are you hesitating, Miss Emmerson?” Jennifer asked, her latex-encased toes wiggling.  Her deep brown eyes were narrowed, not angrily, rather, seductively, and now that Delia could finally see her face without the gas mask, she felt her own breath catching.  Jennifer was just so beautiful!  “I am simply here to explore your most hidden desires.  You wished to be here, did you not?  I made an exception in my schedule for you…are you going to disappoint me?”

    “No, of course not, Director Tempest!” Delia said, her voice trembling with anticipation.  She felt heat growing between her legs, felt that her nipples were achingly hard beneath the suit.  

    “Director?  That’s not appropriate at all for this meeting,” Jennifer said, almost conversationally, raising a hand to tap her chin.  After a moment of consideration, she looked back down at Delia, luscious lips curling into a wider, hungrier smile.  “You must address me properly, Miss Emmerson.  Be a doll, and call me…Mistress Jennifer.”

    Delia’s heart fluttered, and she felt a rush of warmth through her.  “Y-yes, Mistress Jennifer,” she said, voice shaking with anticipation.  “M-may I begin, Mistress?”

    “You may,” Jennifer replied, moving her foot just a bit closer.

    Delia leaned forward and pressed her lips to the top of Jennifer’s foot, breathing in the strong scent of latex mingling with Jennifer’s perfume, and felt her own head spin.  She lifted her lips, kissed another spot, then another.  Her arms tugged at the straps holding them in place, felt the suit pinching her skin, felt the rush of excitement it gave her.  She wiggled her thighs what little she could, wishing that the device that filled her pussy would provide some stimulation, something to deal with the growing heat and wetness.

    “That’s good, Miss Emmerson,” Jennifer said softly.  “Don’t be shy…use your tongue.”

    “Yes, Mistress Jennifer!” Delia said as her lips left Jennifer’s toes.  She immediately extended her tongue to the smooth, white latex, sliding it along Jennifer’s toes, then along the side of her foot, toward the heel.  She returned to the toes, licked them again, then went along the other side.

    For a time, Jennifer’s foot consumed Delia’s thoughts, the soft moans Jennifer made as Delia’s tongue worked with growing confidence to satisfy the woman’s desires.  After Jennifer’s foot had been thoroughly cleansed with Delia’s tongue, the living goddess sitting before Delia retracted said foot, pressing it against Delia’s forehead to push her backward.  Fearful that she may have done wrong, Delia instead watched as Jennifer uncrossed her legs, then recrossed them, extending her other foot.  “You may continue your work, Miss Emmerson,” she said, a breathy quality to her voice.

    “Y-yes, my mistress!” Delia said eagerly, leaning into Jennifer’s foot, lips pressing lightly upon her toes as she began with kisses, moving to use her tongue once she had shown proper love to Jennifer’s foot.  

    Delia heard herself moaning with disappointment when Jennifer finally pushed her away, looking up with what was undoubtedly a desperate look upon her latex-covered face.  “Mistress Jennifer?”

    Jennifer stood, looking down at Delia with a smug superiority that made Delia quiver.  Jennifer’s eyes were practically glowing in the light from her nearby computer monitor, promising untold pleasures.  Jennifer’s hands came to her chest, cupping and squeezing her sizable breasts, the latex squeaking as they explored.  “Do you desire more, Miss Emmerson?  What other thoughts dwell inside your mind?  It seems we have so much to explore…” One of Jennifer’s hands slid slowly down her body, slipping between her thighs, and a lustful moan came from the blue-haired woman.  “What would you do for the opportunity to please me here, Miss Emmerson?”

    “Anything, Mistress Jennifer!  Anything for my mistress!”

    * * *

    Delia awoke with a start, jerking wildly and crying out, forgetting momentarily where she was.  She panted, felt the collar growing tight as she struggled within the darkened confines of her latex-filled tube.  Her body was hot, her nipples aching, and she felt as if a fire had been lit between her legs.  She let out a shuddering moan around her mouth-filling gag, willing herself to calm down before the corset kicked in.  

    That dream had been so real!  She could almost still smell Jennifer’s perfume inside her rubber prison, could taste the latex…though that was probably just the gag.  Moaning, Delia squirmed as the collar eased its hold about her neck, her heart slowing.  She’d never had a dream like that before…she could tell she was horny as hell now, feeling as if she would combust inside the warm latex.  She shifted her hips, wishing that she hadn’t been so worked up; had she awoken from a dream like that in the bedroom in her apartment, she may well have snatched a toy from her dresser and taken care of her frustrations.

    Why am I having wet dreams about Jennifer Tempest?  Damn, am I going crazy already?!”  Delia shuddered at the thought.  No, it was just a coincidence, it had to be.  Some lingering effect from that gas she had breathed before she had been secured in the tube, maybe.  That’s all it was, surely… 

    Delia sucked at the mouth-filling, penis-shaped gag, vainly trying to calm her thoughts, but even as she tried to think on other things, her mind kept coming back to Jennifer.  She could almost hear her voice, could almost see her spreading her legs to allow Delia’s tongue access to her pussy, could almost smell- “Get your head on straight, Delia Emmerson!” she thought, grunting angrily and shaking her head what little she could manage.  “She’s just messing with you, Delia!  You know it, you’ve seen people try to manipulate you before, and Jennifer Tempest is so damn good at it, she makes it look effortless.  But you can’t let her win, not her.”  

    Even though she couldn’t see anything, Delia squeezed her eyes shut, forced herself to breathe slowly, willed her brain to think of anything but Jennifer.  “I’ll ruin you and this hospital, Jennifer Tempest!  People won’t stand for this kind of shenanigans, not when they know the truth!  When it’s all said and done, you’ll be the one begging at my feet!

    With no idea how long it actually took, Delia eventually calmed herself and drifted towards sleep once again.  Yet, despite her efforts, her thoughts and dreams once again went to Jennifer, looming like some divine being before her as she remained upon her knees. She heard her own voice, happily and eagerly proclaiming a perversion of her favorite catchphrase:

    Anything for my mistress!” 

    * * *

    High above the maximum-security wing of the Edgewater Institute, Jennifer Tempest sat within her office, sipping a cup of hot tea as she watched the live feeds from the monitor, wearing nothing but her makeup.  True, she could barely see Delia’s struggles within the confines of the containment cell, as little movement as the journalist had been allowed, but the reports from the devices monitoring her told Jennifer all she needed to know.  Delia was frustrated, aroused, and somewhere on the border of sleep and wakefulness.  Each time the journalist calmed down and tried to sleep, Delia would be receiving very subtle audio, visual, olfactory, and physical stimuli through the restraint suit and attached equipment, ensuring her thoughts went exactly where Jennifer wanted them to go.

    Jennifer turned her head to her right, regarding the figure who hung there, lips curling into a smile upon the rim of the teacup.  Nurse Stewart moaned and quivered, secured inside a suit that was identical to the one Delia wore.  The nurse hung inverted, however, legs spread wide from the spreader bar secured to chains hanging from concealed panels within the ceiling.  A vibrator with a large rounded head dangled on a rope attached to the bar, humming as it skittered and swung over Monique’s pussy, keeping the nurse on edge, but never resting long enough to actually allow her to get off.  Her arms had been resecured behind her back, and a pair of vibrators had been secured to the connectors over her nipples.  Her cheeks bulged from the gag that had been secured around her head with medical tape, a pair of Jennifer’s pantyhose, worn for nearly a week in preparation for this night.  Monique’s eyes rolled as she moaned pleadingly, squirming and looking at Jennifer, begging for a release that she wouldn’t have, at least not for some time yet.

    Monique had been quite eager to please Jennifer, coming to her immediately when Delia had approached her with her plan to infiltrate the institute.  Monique and her class from SCU had just been preparing to begin their studies within the hospital at the time, but Jennifer knew immediately that Monique was the type who wanted to climb the ladder as fast as possible.  It hadn’t taken much effort on Jennifer’s part to have the poor young woman more than willing to serve, and their plan to entrap Delia had been made.  Even without Jennifer’s subtle manipulation of Monique’s emotions, it would not have surprised Jennifer if she hadn’t eventually wound up exactly where she was now; her conversations with Monique had revealed quite a submissive streak within the ambitious young woman and plenty of fantasies that could be easily enough delivered.

    A beep came from the monitor, and Jennifer turned her attention back to Delia.  Another ‘dream’ sequence had begun.  Jennifer licked her lips, recalling the last few hours that she had spent with Monique.  Several cameras still lingered around her desk, though the visor Monique had worn when she had been playing the part of Delia rested on the corner of Jennifer’s desk, used to record the first-person perspective that was fed into Delia’s suit for her to view.  Everything that Delia would take as wet dreams had actually happened, only with Monique playing the part of a very submissive Delia.  There was plenty more footage they had recorded for Delia in the nights leading up to her infiltration of the facility, so she would not be left yearning for stimulation.

    Jennifer took another sip of the tea, set the cup aside, and pondered exactly how she would use Delia going forward.  The idea of having two nearly identical playthings did appeal to her, though having Sentinel City’s number one reporter under her thumb would prove to be much more useful in the long run.  The Tempest family could benefit from her ambitious and curious nature, certainly.  No, for Delia, there would be much more subtle manipulation involved, and she would be quite willing to assist Jennifer and the other heads of the Tempest family with whatever they may need, all the while serving the greater good by revealing Sentinel City’s dirty little secrets.  

    And the dirty big secrets. There had been quite a few shakeups to the city’s power structure over the last few months, and not necessarily due to those with obvious super-powers.  New names and faces, new projects that had been started without any obvious funding…and all of that on top of the return of magic to the world.  It had barely been a month since the flows of power had returned that someone had started crossing dimensions, and the fact that Claire Tempest had returned, the founder of the Tempest family long thought dead…

    Jennifer frowned.  Something was brewing in Sentinel City, and whatever it was didn’t sit well with her, or any of her sisters.  They had long ago given up on their darker, more destructive natures.  True, they still enjoyed their manipulations of and playing games with mortals, but outright malevolence and destruction?  She liked to think they had evolved far beyond such base desires.  Something…someone…loomed in the shadows, someone with immense power the likes of which none of them had seen in ages.  All of them could feel it, but none of them had been able to track it down, not yet.  

    Humans had their uses, certainly, and Delia could potentially go places the Tempests couldn’t; having a reputation like theirs meant that everyone in the city knew who they were, and many eyes were upon them.  Of course, much of the scrutiny came from their business activities, which weren’t always considered legal by the human authorities, and several of the heroes within the city had already caused headaches with their antics.  The Tempests themselves had little to worry about, at least historically, but now that magic had returned to Earth, and created actual super-powered individuals, who could predict what would happen?  Better to shift their strategies and adapt with the times, and lay their own groundwork to combat whatever was coming.

    If it was one thing a succubus didn’t like, it was someone trying to stake a claim on her territory, and Sentinel City had long ago been claimed by the Tempests.  That slutty little girl who thought she was a true succubus, the one who had kidnapped Misha a few months back, had learned that lesson well enough, and she was certainly not going to be the last one to know what it was to anger the Tempests. 

    Shaking her head, Jennifer stood.  Now wasn’t the time for such thoughts; it would take a while yet before Delia was ready, but Jennifer had the next best thing to deal with her frustrations.  She grabbed the visor on the desk and returned to Monique, whose head hung at a very convenient height for what Jennifer now desired.  She secured the visor around Monique’s head, the woman letting out an eager moan.  Once the visor was in place and turned on, Jennifer tugged the medical tape loose and pulled the wad of wet pantyhose from Monique’s mouth before she stepped into place, feeling Monique’s warm breath between her legs.  “Well, what are you waiting for?  Be a doll and service your mistress’s pussy!”

    “Yes, mistress!  Anything for my mistress!” Monique said eagerly, her lips touching Jennifer’s mound first with a kiss, then an eager tongue.  Monique didn’t actually need a trigger phrase for herself, as willing to submit as she was already, but Jennifer had already planned on implanting one into Delia that would make sure she didn’t become too willful, that she would do as she was told, whether it was Jennifer or another of her sisters.  They did tend to share their toys, after all.  Jennifer’s lips curled with amusement as Monique licked at her pussy.  It was perhaps a little ironic the trigger phrase she had chosen; Delia had originally come seeking information about Dollface, and now she herself was to be as a doll, a plaything for the Tempests.  Though Jennifer’s methods were nowhere near as crude as Dollface’s methods had been, by the time she was finished, Delia wouldn’t even realize she had such a trigger, and she would assume that whatever she did had been her own choice.  

    Moaning softly, Jennifer pulled Monique toward her, forcing the human’s face deeper into Jennifer’s crotch, enjoying the feel of her tongue at work.  Even though Monique had been experienced in eating pussy before, she had shown remarkable improvement since she had begun tending Jennifer.  “Such a good girl,” Jennifer said in a sultry purr, using her free hand to grasp the hanging vibrator, pressing it firmly upon Monique’s latex-covered crotch, eliciting a heated cry as the powerful vibrations finally stopped being more than just a tease.  “Good girls get rewards, Miss Emmerson.  And you’re a very good girl; so willing to do anything for a scoop, and anything to please your mistress.”


    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

    And here we are, the final part of “Anything for a Scoop”, revealing some lovely details about Jennifer’s plans, and laying some threads for future stories.  It seems that Delia has come upon a challenge she wasn’t prepared for, but that’s typical when one goes against the Tempest family.  Big thanks to JakTheRenegade/TheLairVerse for letting me feature Jennifer and include the Tempests in my superhero setting, and big thanks to Misha’s/Specialist Leopard’s creator for allowing me to include her as well (I know you usually prefer to remain anonymous, but if you want me to reveal who you are, just let me know)!  I’d like to believe that things are only gong to get better from here on!

    As I’ve said before, this was intended to have been a Kinktober 2021 short, but grew quite a bit larger than intended, but I think it turned out pretty good.  Could I have kept going?  Probably, but if it’s one thing I’ve been impressing on myself, it’s the need to have much tighter (bondage pun probably intended) stories that don’t linger too long and wind up in my unfinished and possibly abandoned pile of stories, as I had several of back in the day.  My goal is to continue improving my writing throughout the next year, and improving my output, maybe even finally going ahead with a Patreon/Subscribe star if anyone is willing to support me in such a way.  The ultimate goal is to eventually have my longer works published, though the content doesn’t make publishing on a platform like Amazon likely.  I do, however, have plans of writing other stories in the horror genre that aren’t necessarily kinky, so there is hope yet.

    Moving into the next year, I have plans for THREE larger projects, namely the sequel to P5, the first (chronologically speaking) story in the Lila Darius series, AND a new story in a new setting I’ve been working on probably more than I should have given the original inspiration for this one.  More details to come when the time is right, but suffice to say there’s some pretty intense kinky Final Fantasy vibes.  I have an assortment of shorter stories to share as well, and will continue making shorts as worldbuilding exercises as I continue to expand my universe and settings (some of you may recall that create-a-character poll I did a while back; that’s still coming with the characters I liked that came out of that, so that’s another thing to be looking for!).  If I can find the time, I also have ideas for going back to the abandoned stories pile and trying to finish some of the fan favorites, and probably revamping them a bit as well.

    So, big plans for next year!  I’ll probably be taking a break from posting for at least the next week, but keep on the lookout for new stuff to come!  Thank you everyone for reading and to everyone who has commented or critiqued my work, I thank you doubly, because your words are extremely encouraging and helpful to me.  I’ve not always been the best commenter myself, but I’ve been trying to make improvement in that area too.  Hope everyone has a great holiday season, and best of luck in the next year!

    Till next time, Urban out!

    Kinktober Keywords
    Cornered/Nurse
    Psycho/Crying
    Escape/Alien
    Stealth/Armbinder
    Asylum/Straitjacket

    Would love to hear any feedback you might have!  If you don’t mind, would you consider taking this little poll I’ve created?  I would love to hear what you think!  You can find it here!

    You can also hit me up here or over on DeviantArt, or on my Discord server!