Chapter 1 - Slander
Diahna tried to shrink out of sight as she walked through the city centre, which was hard for the six-foot-four amazonian princess even in her street clothes, the large video billboard blaring out the latest news for all to see.
Unfortunately, she was the news of the day, and not in a good way.
Instead, her paint-splattered face and black hair on the large display showed her anger all too clearly as the reporter stuck the microphone in her face. It hadn't been an unusual question at all, she'd answered it many times before, but it was just a combination of things that had just bubbled over in the moment.
"I'm going to track that slut down and put her away forever if it's the last thing I do!"
She winced at her own words, echoed through the streets, the only saving grace was that virtually no one even looked up or reacted in any way. If she was lucky it would be out of the news cycle in the next day or two... if she was lucky.
Penny Guin didn't deserve the vitriol in Diahna's voice and certainly didn't deserve to be shamed on national TV over and over again. The poor girl was mentally unstable and didn't really have control over what she was doing, Diahna knew that, even in that moment.
It had just been Penny escaping from Clamour Asylum yet again, this time by seducing one of the guards, that had gotten on Diahna's nerves. And where had she gotten the paint cannon from anyway?
She sighed and sped up towards her destination, trying hard not to go too fast and draw attention to herself.
She was still finding small splotches of paint in her costume and wondered if she'd ever get it all out!
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Diahna raced around the corner into the dark alley, Penny's maniacal cackle echoing off the walls as she tried to escape capture once more.
Diahna wasn't having any of it though, Penny had been on the loose for over three weeks since she escaped and it was well past time that she was returned to Clamour Asylum... if a little more battered and bruised than was absolutely necessary.
As she turned the corner she looked ahead and smiled... a dead end, Penny was trapped with nowhere to go!
"Give it up Penny, you can't outrun me and you have nowhere to go!" Diahna shouted as Penny was approaching the end of the alley.
"Hahahaha, that's funny Miracle Maiden, but I'm the one suppos'd to be telling the jokes!" Penny shouted back just as she came to a halt in front of the dead-end wall.
To Diahna's surprise Penny turned around and took a fighting stance, holding her heavy wooden cricket bat out in front of her with both hands. She looked ridiculous doing so, the pink and black outfit that was divided right down the middle each colour on one side, flipped in her hair, and contrasting the heavy white makeup she wore on her face. To put it even more over the top, Diahna dwarfed the petite four-foot-eleven woman even with both of them wearing heels.
Diahna smiled and came to a stop a few yards away, then in one quick, smooth motion, unhooked her lasso from her belt and threw it at the bat, snaring it perfectly. She tugged just a little to tighten it down and too late noticed the gleeful look on Penny's face.
A quick movement of Penny's thumb was the last thing Diahna saw before a surge of electricity flowed through her lasso and clenched every muscle in her body. It seemed to last for minutes, but when it finally stopped, Diahna dropped to the ground like a rag doll, slightly smoking as she heard Penny's gleeful squeals approach her.
Diahna was groggy but still conscious when Penny stood over her and kicked her lasso out of her hand, "Not so cocky now eh?" Penny said as she pushed against Diahna's shoulder with her bat.
Diahna felt the cold steel of the bat against her skin and realized her mistake, Penny had swapped out her normal wooden bat for a steel one painted like wood to fool her. As soon as her lasso had made a solid connection, Penny had sent an electric shock through it strong enough to knock out an elephant.
Diahna groaned and tried to stand up, "Still got a little bit left in ya eh? Here, let me help you..." Penny said and then placed the end of the bat on Diahna's midsection and sent an even more powerful jolt of electricity through it.
It was the last thing Diahna felt before losing consciousness.
Chapter 2 - Switching Things Around
Every nerve ending in Diahna's body was still tingling when she came around, it couldn't have been long, even a strong electrocution wouldn't have kept her out for more than a few minutes. As her senses came back to her she recognized that she was in a truck or van of some kind, she could hear the sounds of rolling tires and the bumps of the road as they were driving.
"That was quick! Glad I made sure to tie you up right away." said the sarcastic voice of Penny from just beside Diahna's head.
Diahna struggled against her bonds, but as she had already assumed, Penny had used her own unbreakable lasso to secure her in place so there was little point in struggling. She was laid flat on her back on what felt like cold hard steel, her lasso looking around her ankles, waist, wrists and throat. Her mouth was stuffed full with some kind of makeshift gage, so she tried to spit it out but failed to do that as well.
"Awe, don't worry, we'll be back to my hideout soon and then the real fun can get started!" Penny said then "bopped" Diahna on the nose before grinning like an idiot.
Diahna continued to struggle of course, and for the next little while things remained pretty much the same, the sound of the road and of her struggles, the only noises she could hear.
Eventually, the sound of the vehicle started to slow down and then she felt it make several slow-speed turns and even stop once, until the exhaust sound changed drastically and they came to a halt in what Diahna had to assume was Penny's hideout.
"Don't go anywhere... I'll be right back." Penny said and then turned and opened the side sliding, door and hopped out. True to her word, the doors at the end of the vehicle opened to once more reveal Penny, but this time with two big burly men at her sides.
The two men reached in and pulled whatever she was tied down to out and she got the first look at the vehicle, which looked like an old-time ambulance from decades ago. She didn't have much time to contemplate where they might even get such a thing as she was quickly wheeled away from it.
Diahna looked around what was a typical warehouse, with the windows all blacked out, and high ceilings. To say it was nondescript would have been doing it a favour and nothing she could see told her where she might actually be.
The only thing that really stood out was the large machine that the two men were wheeling her towards. It looked to be at least twelve feet high, a good six feet wide and it was hard to tell exactly how deep it went. On each side of it were two articulated arms, at the end of which were two helmets. Under the arm on the right side was a gurney, which she imagined matched the one she was strapped into other than the fluffy mattress and simple leather bonds. Under the left arm was an empty space in which she was quickly being wheeled towards.
Diahna's gurney was quickly positioned and then Penny grabbed hold of the helmet and secured it to Diahna's head.
"So it wasn't really nice of ya to call me a slut, you know? And it really bugged me for a while, but then I kinda got think'n about it, and well, I guess you kinda right. I mean, I do suck a lot'o cock and all... isn't that right boys?" Penny asked and the two henchmen grunted in agreement.
"You wouldn't believe what I had to do to get this baby." Penny said waving to the machine behind them.
"But, that got me think'n even more. Do I really want to be a slut? Or, is that, like, just what society has made me? So I decided to kill two birds with one stone, ya know?"
Diahna didn't know, following the deranged mind of Penny was at best a fool's errand, and at worst a ticket to join her in her insanity.
