Cronus seemed to have bought into Nicole's plan, for now. After being released from the whipping bench Nicole sighed as her arms were freed from the back of her neck. Stretching each arm she looked over at Cronus who was watching her intently.
"Just remember slut, if I feel you are not upholding your end of this agreement you'll not like what happens. Obey and report, that is your function now if you wish to have fair treatment from me."
"Yes," Nicole said, before quickly adding. "Master."
"Good. Now I'll get you into the slave halls tomorrow, you won't like the work I warn you but it is probably the best place to start your search. For now though it's time to head home, I'm going to have a bit of fun with you both."
Nicole gulped, even with the deal they had she was sure that Cronus's idea of fun wasn't the same as hers. He clipped a short chain to the front of her collar, and another to the back. before long Nicole was being tugged along behind Cronus, Jessica following after blindly. Jessica stumbled over a step and nearly pulled Nicole over, causing her to yelp as there was a sharp tug on her neck.
"Cronus, could you not take the hood off Jessica whilst we walk. She can't see where she is going!"
Cronus stopped and turned to Nicole, glaring. "Look slut, just because we have this deal does not mean you get to just absently blab your thoughts out when you like. You are still just a slut, maybe a lesson is in order to emphasise your position."
Reaching into his bag he pulled out a small metal disk and pressed it to Nicole's head, immediately she felt her entire head encased in the cold metal and assumed that, like Jessica, her head look as if it had been dipped in steel. The device shut out all light, and all sound. She could feel the device reach into her mouth and form some form of gum shield, the front seemed to seal over muting her.
She tried to plead with Cronus as she felt her arms pulled high up behind her back once more, but she knew it to be useless.
'Great Nicole, you and your big mouth!' she thought.
Still it was a simple message, do what you are told or else. With a sharp tug to the chain she tottered forward, totally at the mercy of Cronus.
It took some time for them to get to Cronus's house, given both Jessica and Nicole were blind and deaf the pace was considerably slower. Eventually though she felt the chain unclipped from her collar as she was pushed to her knees. The back of her collar was clipped to something on a wall as after that Nicole felt nothing, heard nothing.
Sitting there blind, mute and deaf she started to panic, the bondage hadn't bothered her so much but Nicole had always had a fear of tight enclosed spaces. This was pretty much hell, she'd rather be back in the stocks being punished, the physically pain was nothing compared to the mental pain the hood was causing her. Thrashing at her bonds she had no idea if Cronus was there or not, she tried to cry out but with her mouth sealed shut she barely managed a mew. The connection to the wall however allowed her little movement, and after a few minutes of fruitless fighting she sat back again the wall and completely broke down in tears.
Cronus watched on from the far side of the room fascinated as he drank a beer. He knew full well Nicole was trying to play him, she was trying to contact the sisterhood to feed information back or something similar, of that he had no doubt. He was surprised though by her reaction to the hood, after all she had just been painfully arse fucked and beaten for hours by his brothers and that combined with the desperate need the nanobots would be making her feel for his cum should have been more than enough to ensure her obedience.
It hadn't though, and he watched chuckling to himself as she thrashed at her bonds in her new predicament more ferociously than at any point since her capture.
"Everybody can be broken," he mused to himself. "Cronus you old man, remember the simple ways are sometimes the best."
He stood up and went off to have a shower, leaving the desperate Nicole to her own private hell. Jessica on the other hand was obediently sitting upright, barely moving. Checking the status of her training on his arm controller he nodded in approval, the omega training was taking hold much faster than he had hoped. Malik was right, these two woman could be the key to ending the rebellion.
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Tessa had been carefully tracking up the river side for over an hour now, the sun had set fast making traversing the river bed that much harder. It had been very slow going, there was a probe constantly going up and down the river scanning the jungle either side and half the time Tessa had to find cover and just wait out the probe's scans. One time she must have spent at least 30 minutes just waiting as the thing took an obscene amount of time to scan the section of river she was on.
She had developed a system where she waited for the probe to head past her then almost follow the thing for a while until it turned back. She would then find somewhere to hide and wait for the next cycle. The green sphere had just gone past for what must have been the tenth time when Tessa felt it was safe to move, but as she emerged from her hiding place something had changed.
The sphere was nowhere to be seen. Taking her time she carefully scanned up and down the part of the river she could see, looking for any signs of the bright green light but there was no sign of anything in the darkness.
"Hmm," she muttered under hear breath. "Where did you go?"
She emerged further from her hiding space and had taken no more than ten steps when a bright red light lit up in front of her. The probe was directly facing her and after a beam passed her up and down it emitted a number of beeps and it shot off back down the river in the direction of the camp.
"Shit!" Tessa said raising her weapon and taking careful aim.
The pulse riffle round smashed into the probe ripping it to pieces, scattering what was left over the river. Tessa paused, it was incredible just how loud that had been, having spent the night trying to be as quiet as possible her ears had adapted to the silence and the riffle going off sounded like a canon.
The section of river she had been on was pretty open, in fact it was so open that almost immediately she could see two red dots emerge at the far end of the river heading her way. Behind them two suited figures burst onto the river bank, their helmet lights lighting up the river bed.
Without another word, and forgetting the need for stealth she took off up the river away from her pursuers.
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Sensi's lungs had never hurt so much in her entire life, not even during some of the more ridiculous runs she had taken part in. She remembered one run around the edge of Biodome 1, it was by far the largest biodome and even on her 3rd and final lap of the 20km circuit her body felt nowhere near as bad as it did right at that point.
Aion was a machine, he maintained a near perfect pace and even the pitfalls of the forest floor didn't hamper him at all, even in near darkness. Carissa was clearly used to it as well, even if she too appeared to struggle with the relentless pace. They had been going for an age, only stopping for a few short moments to take on water. Aion had stopped up ahead and Carissa and Sensi staggered to a halt as they finally caught up with him. He was busy checking his arm pad for their position when the silence of the forest was shattered by a huge bang in the distance.
