"We'll find you," Morgan promised.
A moment later Morgan was called away to the table, leaving Kei and Chris standing with the rest of the tribal men. Kei fidgeted, trying to keep from making any sort of noises or movements that would attract the attention of the guards again, but unable to keep himself from shifting and twitching. Chris seemed relatively unbothered, but he had also been the kind of person who would suffer in silence for as long as Kei had known him. The dark-skinned Futa who seemed to be the leader of this expedition had taken a special sort of shine to Morgan, but neither Kei or Chris seemed so lucky.
One of the Futas grabbed him and forced him along to the desk. The Futa behind it gave a questioning look. She made a gesture Kei couldn't see and the dark-skinned Futa shrugged before making an indecipherable note on her paper. He was forced into the next room, more because he couldn't force his legs to work than because he wanted to resist. The next room along was a communal shower, complete with lockers on the other end, some open and some locked, some smashed or warped in a way that suggested the way the women went about unlocking things was much more of a brute force approach.
"Cute one," An olive-skinned Futa wearing a skirt, an unbuttoned police shirt, a pair of sunglasses, and nothing else was sitting with her arms crossed and gave a jerk of her chin toward Kei. "Free-use pens?"
"If he makes it through the market," The Futa pushing him along grunted as she brought Kei up against one of the walls of the shower.
"So no, then," The sitting Futa spat on the floor.
"Maybe you'll be lucky this time," Kei's handler stepped back. They were both looking at him in a way that could only be described as predatory. It made him squirm.
"Considering I got the same type as Amber and her bitch daughter?" The officer laughed harshly, "You think if we rough him up a little she'll ignore him?"
"Not sure how much roughing up this one could take, he looks fragile." The handler groped herself lewdly when she saw Kei was watching, waving her oversized cock at him. "Might be fun, if you don't mind getting into trouble for it."
"We've got the whole night ahead of us," The officer stood up, but instead of going for Kei she headed for the open door across the showers. "Assuming the rookie doesn't make us work late."
As she was about to poke her head out, another giant Futa nearly rammed into her. Carrying a bucket of water and wearing something just shy of a hazmat suit, she was red in the face, though it looked more like anger than exertion. The skirted Futa gave her a look of anger.
"Fuckin A, why are we slowing down?" She pushed up her sunglasses and sat back down.
"I want my break," The hazmat set the bucket down next to Kei. "It's hot, I'm tired, I'm hungry, and this shit sucks."
"We're almost done, take it now and you're going to cut into dinner." The handler gave a look that suggested she didn't like the hazmat much either.
"Royal. Fucking. We." The hazmat mumbled under her breath and picked up the sudsy rag hanging out of the bucket.
Kei was cleaned, and in the process what limited body hair he had was stripped by the strokes of the sudsy rag. Then as the hazmat-wearing Futa walked back out of the open door he was locked into a chastity cage. Both the glasses-wearer and the handler seemed to take their time putting it on him, giving his body more than a few accidental brushes with their hands or their members. He was all but certain they were going to get bolder, but eventually they forced him along into the next chamber, where he was handed off. They left him with another Futa, this one in a slightly more proper and covering police uniform, though her cock still swung out of the bottom of her skirt. As she was taking him away, the other two leaned in and whispered to her conspiratorially. Kei could make out them asking what number cell he would be kept in.
He couldn't hear what she responded, but the uniformed Futa then led him to a cell down one of the wings. A few moments later another Futa came along to tattoo him, and he let himself be marked on the stomach and the back without any resistance. She went to the cell across from him after, where the man inside seemed to struggle and fight it. It only seemed to amuse her, and she overpowered him with the same ease as a parent manhandling their child. Then when she was done and had moved on, Kei caught sight of the man in the other cell.
"Kei!"
Chris was trying to find a comfortable way to situate himself, his tattoos noticeably more smeared and smudged than Kei's. He had also been completely stripped of his body hair (which for Chris actually represented a noticeable change) and slipped into a chastity cage. He scowled at Kei perfunctorily, but seemed glad to see him.
"Did you see where they took Morgan?" Chris hissed through the bars, having settled into an almost meditative pose on the floor.
"No, I think one of... them thought he was special." Kei whispered.
"They'll have that in common, at least." Chris sighed.
"I heard them say something about a market..." Kei leaned forward, "Like they intend to auction us off."
"Yeah, and if nobody is buying, the 'free-use pens' they said." Chris tried to play it cool.
"What do we do?"
"Depends on which one you think will be easier to escape from. Try your best to get sold, I guess."
One of the Futa workers had come along to feed them, and she hit her nightstick against the bars to quiet them down. They waited until she was out of sight, then Kei went to start eating. He looked up first and saw Chris picking at the food suspiciously.
"You don't think they put something in it, do you?" Kei asked nervously.
"Probably not," Chris still didn't seem to be eating, "They'll probably try to drug us before the auction, but they'll want us healthy until then."
"They wouldn't hold an auction at night, would they?"
"You're the scientist, take a bite and find out."
Kei was hungry enough that he was willing to risk it. The time to escape wouldn't be during the auction anyway. He took a few cautious bites. It tasted bad, obviously. It was prison food, but it didn't taste that off. As he continued to take slow bites, he saw Chris take one and then set his food back down.
"You don't taste anything wrong?" He asked Kei in a way that sounded more paranoid than anything.
"A little strange, maybe." Kei set his down, "But it's an alien planet. Their soil and water probably have an entirely different composition."
"You're probably right," Chris pushed his plate away regardless. Kei went back to eating, but couldn't bring himself to finish.
***
That night, Kei woke up to the sound of footsteps.
He had assumed it would be harder to fall asleep than it wound up being. In a new place on an unfamiliar and uncomfortable bed, worried about the future. But the day had wiped him out enough that one moment he was lying there staring at the wall and the next he was in the dark, listening to people approach.
It took him a second to get a grasp on things, because there were dozens of sets of footsteps moving and stopping and starting at different times and distances. The night suddenly alive with a great variety of sounds from keys jingling to cell doors opening. He worried for a second that he had misjudged things and they were about to be auctioned, but all he could do was hold still and wait.
Two sets approached close enough that he was pretty sure they were right outside his cell, then keys jingled and he heard a door opening. He was pretty sure it was his, but the sounds got farther away as they moved into Chris's.