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“Why exactly do I have to do this?” Riley tested the cuffs currently holding her wrists behind her back. The willowy purple-haired girl had been stripped out of her superhero costume, leaving her standing naked in the mysteriously empty room aside from her cuffs, the chain running from them up to the ceiling, and her various ear and nose piercings. She wasn’t opposed to the idea, but being dragged to a mysterious room in a mysterious building was a little out of character for her partner.
The partner in question crossed her arms, giving her . “Because you said that I wasn’t up to catching more crooks than you.” Latoya Hill was about five-eight, large and curvy, with dark skin and cornrows; unlike Riley, she was still wearing her Safeguard outfit, a blue and gold bodysuit that hugged her curves.
Riley gave Latoya an innocent smile. “That doesn’t sound like me.”
Without so much as a blink, Latoya brought out a small recording device and pressed a button. Riley’s voice said, “There’s no way that you can take out more of those goons than me. Do you see this shock gun? You don’t stand a chance with your little zippy-zaps.”
Latoya turned off the recorder. Riley chuckled nervously. “Okay, that was obviously a joke. I was just provoking you into fighting harder.”
Latoya pressed the button again. Her voice on the recorder said, “Riley, you are obviously just trying to provoke me into fighting harder.”
“Not a chance. I’m just that much better. Listen, you know how confident I am that this gun is going to do the trick? If it doesn’t, you can do whatever you want to me all afternoon. And I don’t even need a win condition, because I’m not going to lose.”
Latoya pressed the button again, and the tape recorder shut off. “And what did the gun do?” she asked archy.
“It exploded,” Riley muttered.
“And?”
“And I couldn’t avoid the shockwave, and I fell over, and you had to save me from goons,” Riley said with a sigh. She looked up. “Which is really enough of a punishment on its own, right?”
By way of answer, Latoya threw a spark of electricity into the machinery in the ceiling. The chain began to ratchet up quickly, forcing Riley’s arms to rise behind her back. As she bent forward to try to relieve the pressure, she quickly yelped out, “Okay, okay, got it, not enough!”
Latoya twisted one finger, commanding the electrical circuits in the machinery, and the chain stopped. By this point, Riley was bent over almost double, breasts hanging down as she twisted to try to find a more comfortable position. “So it’s time for a workout,” Latoya said. “A hardcore one.”
“This seems like a sex game.”
“You taught me to multi-task.”
“I did do that.” Riley sighed, and grinned up at her girlfriend. “Okay, then. What’s the task?”
“Obstacle course. Ten minute timer. Each obstacle you miss adds thirty seconds.”
“I can’t do an obstacle course in a hobble chain!”
Latoya smiled. “Well, you can always give up.”
“Like hell I’m giving up. Turn it on.”
Latoya smiled. Picking a chair at one side of the room, she sat down and crossed her legs. Then she closed her eyes, lining up all of the machinery in the room and making sure she knew what the right voltages and switches were. She could have done it all by remote, but her body was electrical, and when she triggered one of the machines, she felt the power running through it. She could feel Riley pulling on the chains as if she was pulling against Latoya’s hands, through the faint static charge running up and down the metal. This was going to be fun.
She twirled one finger, and the chain rumbled to life, the wheels running along the thin metal crossbars that made up the ceiling. There was a magnet on wheels above, to give Latoya complete control of where in the room the strappado would force Riley to go. At the same time, a large digital clock on the wall set itself to 10:00 and began to count down.
Riley stumbled into motion, groaning from the pressure as the chain tried to pull her arms further up. It was tight enough that she couldn’t get more than six inches away from its moving centre, but the short chain between her ankles meant that she couldn’t just jog. She had to stay bent over, craning her neck to try to see the room as she shuffled forwards.
Latoya gestured, and a paddle sprang from the wall to Riley’s right, just out of her field of view. It slapped against her exposed ass with a resounding ‘THWACK’, then dipped back into the wall as Riley shrieked, jumping forwards as far as the chain holding her arms in place would allow.
“What the hell?!”
“Obstacle,” Latoya said laconically, as the clock ticked up to 10:07. “Watch out.”
“When did you install paddles? How did you find this place?” As the chain yanked her to the left, Riley began twisting her head back and forth, crab-shuffling sideways.
“It’s a Progress Patrol training facility. Vivian agreed to lend it to us for the afternoon.”
“Of course she - yeowch!” Another paddle had risen from the floor, delivering a resounding spank as Riley backed directly into it. The clock ticked up to 10:19, and Riley groaned. “Is it all paddles?”
“What? Of course not.” Latoya gestured, and a small panel in the ceiling opened, dumping a load of ice water directly on Riley’s head. The trapped woman shrieked and jumped, just as a third paddle swung down and rapped her on the ass. “But there’s a lot of them.”
Riley stared balefully at the clock, which now read 10:58. “There is a full minute more on the clock than when I stared,” she said, water dripping from her hair into her eyes.
“Yeah. You should dodge better. Here, I’ll help.” Latoya made another gesture, and the chain’s speed abruptly doubled. Riley was almost yanked off her feet as her arms were pulled backwards, turning to try and keep pace as she began to shuffle-run in circles around the room.
“How is this helping?” Riley yelled.
“You’ll move faster. Dodge obstacles better.”
“I can’t see the - aargh!” A post shot up behind Riley, and two flexible paddles shot out at the same time, each one slapping down on a different asscheek. “How are they so precise?!”
“Obviously I’m only triggering them when they’re in position,” Latoya said. “Memorize them.” As she spoke, a second bucket of ice water was dumped onto Riley’s neck and back, drawing another shriek.
“My arms are aching, I can barely see, how I am supposed to memorize - ahh!” Riley had stumbled to the right, into the path of the first paddle, and Latoya took the opportunity. Her ass was starting to look red from the constant barrage. “Latoya!”
“Obstacle course.”
“I’ll obstacle your - eek!” This time, Latoya had electrified a part of the ground that Riley was shuffling across, and she stepped directly onto the electrified pad, yelping and hopping clear. “Come on!”
“You’re doing great. Only… eleven minutes and thirty seconds to go!”
“Argh!”
Latoya laughed, settling back. She was pretty sure that Riley wasn’t going to give up until the timer was well past twenty minutes or she was on the verge of passing out, and she was equally sure that when Riley did give up, Latoya was going to carry her into the bedroom and ravish her thoroughly, which was exactly the situation Riley had deliberately provoked her into starting. Riley knew that Latoya had to be a little bit annoyed with her to get really mean, and Riley loved it when Latoya was mean.
So Latoya would let her have this. As a treat.
“YEOWCH!” Riley stepped on another electrified panel, and then jumped backwards from it straight into a swinging panel.
Latoya nodded appreciatively as the timer ticked up again.