Author's note: It shouldn't need saying that this is all highly implausible, illegal, immoral, and sick.
It gets a bit brutal, with rape not just brainwashing.
So, you know: Enjoy!
When you're a Villain, there are certain things you sign up for.
The risk of arrest, the risk of getting shot by police, the risk of getting hunted and severely beaten up by heroes. The risk of what happens when your secret identity is uncovered.
The risk of other Villains hunting you for their own ends.
Oh yes, don't believe that only Heroines get hunted, trapped and put through slave training by Villains. Villains get it worse.
There is a code between Heroes and Villains. Sure, heroes hunt and beat up Villains, but that's just the natural way of things—and nobody tries to kill anybody for real. Part of designing traps is making sure you don't use lethal force on a non-immortal opponent. Sure, Heroes and Heroines get trapped and humiliated by Villains and have compromising photos taken, that's also the natural way of things—but there are lines you don't step over. After all, you want the public to see, and you want the public to hate you but to hate you fondly and see you as entertainment, not hate you with contempt and fury and howl for your blood. Ever seen a photo of a Heroine totally naked? Ever seen the inside of their labia? Ever seen them wearing cum? No, you haven't, you've only seen their nipples and camel toe because they're always wearing panties. It's always quite tasteful bondage.
But Villains? Villains are fair game. If you're a Hero, you have a good-guy reputation to protect, but everybody looks the other way when Villains and Villains throw down. Keep bystanders out of it, and even Heroes will leave you alone. What do they care? It's better for them if we thin our own numbers. Heroes get sexually molested, but never truly abused. But Villains? It's game on torture, rape, brain-washing, drugs, long-term sexual slavery, you name it. Some just love how much damage they can do to a woman who is all but guaranteed to heal from it.
Trust me, being a female Villain is the job that takes the real balls. Some of us can't hack it after the first capture, and retire. But what do you do instead? Try getting a job with that on your CV. Anybody who thinks sex work would be a good option is probably already doing it—the hours are better, it's safer, and the pay is reasonably steady.
I've only been captured once. I got beaten nearly senseless and then raped good and hard for a day, by a thug Villain and all his goons, then discarded with the trash. Literally. They threw me into a dumpster. It took me three days until I could walk comfortably again, and I have highly accelerated healing. Try doing that to a Heroine and every goodie-two-shoes parahuman within flying range will be hunting your arse down like a dog.
Like the vast majority of my peers, I have no unusual powers. I'm parahuman, sure, but all I have are strength and endurance and toughness. I can't fly, I'm not physically indestructible or immune to toxins and I have no powers of influence or suggestion, so I had to rely upon years and years of damn hard training based on a precociously active childhood. Oh, and I have great but not perfect night vision.
The reason I became a Villain, not just a thief, though, had more to do with tossing up risks than with my innate übermenschery. Get caught as a thief, and it's all very depressing. Get caught as a Villain, and you get special treatment but at least you can keep yourself entertained and they put you where there's a high likelihood of being able to take advantage of someone else's breakout attempt.
Get caught as a thief and get discovered to have any sort of powers, though, and you get
special
treatment.
I became a Villain.
I chose dark greens and blues as my costume, simply because they blend into darkness better than true black. As my identity I decided to associate with animals not nouns or verbs, but since cats were overdone, bats were taken and I didn't feel very birdlike, I became The Lemur in the hopes it would confuse at least a few people.
Tonight, I'm on a job to order, hunting a small piece of statuary that my client wants in order to be a dick to the owner. I get a lot of contracts like that, and I like them. I get money without having to fence something tricky, and the motivations are usually clear enough to untangle.
It's one of those big, old houses that were built back when there was enough spare land to put them on. The owner is the third generation after the builder, and is mildly reclusive in the way of successful businessmen who have more time for business than public relations and make their money through shell companies and manipulation not one big, successful firm. That's fine by me, too.
Believe it or not, it's often easier to break into somewhere when you can assume a certain minimum level of competence and seriousness about the security system. It removes a lot of uncertainty and gives you a proper job to do. That helps you concentrate.
I get through the perimeter alarms easily, and cross the outer grounds without leaving scent or attracting attention because I found my way into the camera data network and I'm wearing a suit that masks or contains all odours.
The movement sensors close to the house are a little trickier because they're independent, but since they're also not perfect and have false positives, I get by them by activating one, waiting for a guard to investigate, then ghosting past his back before the timer has wound down.
Getting into the house itself requires first climbing up to the roof. I had mapped out a course past the sensors, but have to take it in three carefully timed rushes to avoid human eyes.
Inside, I have to avoid cameras but my going is much easier.
Then I turn a corner.
She has no chance of seeing me, but see still makes me freeze.
She's dressed in a fetish maid outfit: Frilly skirt that doesn't quite cover her arse, visible chastity belt, fishnets, 4" heels, a waistcoat with nothing under it so her tits are hanging out, a chain between nipple rings, and her arms in a binder behind her back, so her posture is excellent. She's dusting with a feather duster attached to a face dildo harness.
I retreat back into the shadows like a startled cockroach.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck
.
Anyone, but
anyone
who has bondage girls hanging around is bad fucking news. There are plenty of ways for someone to be perverted and a Villain and to be into sadism, but at this level of power and money, only two people have bondage girls doing the dusting—lifestylers, and sick fucks, and lifestylers rarely have maids dusting this impractically, at this time of night.
I wait until I can see her eyes.
She's broken inside. She's so terrified she's numbed into hopeless submission.
She's not a lifestyler. He is a sick fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
What to do?
Not much question of that. I'm here, now. It's not far to my target, and I am
not
wasting all the effort of getting in, just to turn tail and flee when I'm this close.
I proceed with every sense ratcheted up to 11.
I see another maid, also dusting. I easily avoid two guards.
I make it to the gallery as described with no more surprises, nasty or otherwise.
I scan, I check, I double-check. I bypass two security systems.
The statuary is fairly nice, but wouldn't be worth a fraction of my fee, if it wasn't personal.
Oh, well.
I begin checking the base for triggers.
Something sharp punches into my left thigh.
Fuck!
I'm already moving, jerking it out and registering it as a dart as another one whistles through where I would have been if I had moved like a normal, predictable person.
Double fuck, drugged!
I snatch the statue and I'm moving, sprinting down the gallery trying to keep myself shielded from where that dart probably came from. I'm not done yet, my metabolism can deal with drugs a lot better than yours can.
Another one whistles past me.
I can feel numbness spreading through my leg, almost making me stumble. What the hell was the dose?
This is bad, this is very bad
.
Two guards burst through the door carrying drawn Tasers. The first one dies quickly. The second one almost draws a bead, then makes my life briefly difficult before he dies.
A second dart slams into my right buttock. It fucking hurts, and it fucking near panics me.
I jerk it out as well. It's a hypodermic, and it's fully depressed.
Triple fuck!
I barely make it halfway through the door when my left leg buckles. I try to catch myself, but my right is going as well. The numb feeling is accelerating up my torso.
More guards appear, and I can't do a single fucking thing about them. Even my arms are beginning to disobey me.
That doesn't stop them tasing me until I stop screaming because the drugs have given me merciful unconsciousness.
#
Waking up naked is pretty much a given.
I'm strapped to a table, arms above my head. Pretty routine, then.
I recover from drugs or concussion quickly, and go straight into diagnostics. There are straps around my ankles, knees, and my upper thighs right up near my hips. Also wrists, elbows, and just by my shoulders. One over my belly just above my hip bones, and then two straps crossed over my chest between my breasts. And one over my forehead pulling my head into a depression in the table. Yep, designed for as much immobility as possible short of chemical restraints.
"Exactly on time."