Chapter 4: Inescapable Blue

“Now that your daughter has seen our facility, seen you’re in safe hands, and cares more about having her little kitty’s pussy to play with than how her mother might feel about being brainwashed…” A familiar voice roused Rachel from her slumber. She processed the words, but was too tired, too asleep to do very much of anything at all in response.

“Things should be much easier from here on in.”

Rachel quietly groaned. It was easier to open her eyes than before she’d lost consciousness, but it still was by no means easy. My strength… My body is still wrong. I can’t… lift myself up… can’t fly… can’t… Nnn… Straps feel like leather, but I can’t break through…!

Getting a look at her surroundings didn’t help lift Rachel’s spirits. Her clothes were gone, and she was strapped inside of what looked like a large cat carrier complete with a metal-door in front of her with the same mechanism for the handle that required pushing down on one side and up on the other to swing it open.

She must have done something to Raegan… She’s my daughter… my baby… Rachel shook her head, trying to push away the memories of the way she’d sucked her fingers clean. She tried her best to not remember the odd tasting milk in her tea and how perfectly lucid Raegan seemed. There’s some reasonable explanation… didn’t she always say something about wanting a cat…? She wouldn’t want me to be that cat…

I’m her mother…!

Rachel thrashed inside of her small cage, whimpering as she felt her small range of movement brush something smooth between the lips of her pussy. There was something inside of her ass, and feeling it pushing against the back of the cage made Rachel shudder. Something was hanging from it, something that felt long and heavy.

The Veterinarian’s sigh was so quiet it wouldn’t have been audible to anyone else. Even if her strength was suppressed, her senses still felt every bit as acute as ever.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, the heroine’s cage wasn’t flat against the floor. Rachel was lifted high enough for her face to be aimed perfectly at The Veterinarian’s dark red panties.

“But I won’t lie to a Maiden like you…” The Veterinarian sneered. “I’m not sure how you slipped up so your daughter knew who you were. I’m not entirely sure how she learned about my services, either. Your daughter is a mystery… but you’ve been one pain in my ass lately so I can’t say that I was very sad when she reached out to me with an opportunity to take Maiden Mercy off the board. I was expecting a shipment last week… and today. It’s like you were targeting me directly!”

“I wasn’t… but if I knew my city had someone like you in it? I would have!” Rachel smirked. Her mask wasn’t on her face, but this would hardly be the first time she was at someone else’s mercy. She’d been a heroine for over twenty years—longer than Raegan had been alive. Super science, magic and psychics had all found ways to overcome her powers.

As long as I don’t believe her lies… as long as I don’t let myself start to slip…

She can’t defeat me!

The Veterinarian sighed again only this time it was much louder. Then she laughed. It wasn’t full of false bravado, but oozed with confidence and measured cruelty. Rachel did her best to grit her teeth and restrain herself from giving the woman any response she might enjoy.

Have I ever heard of that name she called herself…? No… but that bust at the warehouse, they weren’t connected to anyone I knew… at the time I didn’t worry about it, I was too busy wanting to get home… Her heart skipped a beat in her chest. Home… to my daughter. Who is not the reason why I’m here…!

“I always love working on the tough cases so much more than the easy ones. When Raegan asked what animals I specialized in, and then told me not only would I be making a kitty… but making you into a kitty, well…” The Veterinarian purred. “I won’t mince words. I was fucking ecstatic.”

Rachel grumbled quietly under her breath as she strained to pull her hands free of the restraints only to feel them stuck fast. “I’m so happy for you.”

“You will be.” The Veterinarian laughed. A moment later, something bright, with feathers jutting out from every side, began to rake along the bars of the cage. “You’ll be so excited you won’t be able to stop mewling. For now, I’ll settle for showing you how much ground you’ve already lost. Follow the toy, kitty!”

Even gritting her teeth, Rachel felt her eyes darting to follow the bright toy as it moved back and forth across her vision. The resonant sound of the metal bars smacking against it echoed deeply inside of her skull, making her whole body wriggle and squirm back against the back of the cage.

She yelped as something suddenly vibrated, something positioned precisely against her clit. Oh that’s… that’s… dirty…? Confusing…? Nn… Can’t go back, okay… fine… I don’t… need to follow this… stupid toy around… anyway… eyes… stop…!

Her eyes were every bit as sharp as her ears, and the toy kept raking along the cage. The sound wasn’t any easier for her to tolerate, and the bright colors… no… there was a light, a bright red light, and it had her eyes caught as she followed it back and forth. To anyone else, even to Rachel at first, the light seemed to be a single solid color. Watching it more closely—the only choice she had when her eyes refused to glance away—made it obvious that it was pulsing, strobing in a pattern that some part of Rachel recognized.

In spite of her attempt to keep them still, her hips were wriggling back and forth in the same rhythm, following the beat of a song that her mind only half remembered through a sea of brain-addling milk.

“Finding my toy… fascinating, Maiden? I always thought your body changed about eighteen years ago, and I never thought a woman with curves like yours would stay alone forever, but I can’t believe you kept the name. Doesn’t matter anymore.” The Veterinarian chuckled as she darted the toy back and forth, up and down, erratically tugging it this way and that. “You’re not going to be a person anymore.

“You’re going to be her kitty. She wants a playful kitty, a sexy kitty, a lazy kitty—”

“—stop trying to blame this on my daughter…!” Rachel hissed, her eyes still quickly twitching to follow each and every movement caused by a well-timed flick of The Veterinarian’s wrist. “I can see the light… you’re trying to distract me by talking to me, trying to lull me so you’ll be able to… to…”

Laughter filled the room as the toy moved faster, and Rachel gasped in alarm.

I… I need to follow it… I need… to keep… Nnn…! She whimpered. It felt less like she was trapped in the beam of the light, and more as though she would die without it. The light was exciting, enticing, and when it started to drift from her view a deep, sinking feeling in her gut, a tenseness in her shoulders, a sensation of the hair at the back of her neck rising—all of her body forced her into compliance. It was important she keep her eyes on such an important prize. F-fuck… This is… harder than I thought… what did she do to me…?!

I was just drinking some tea… what did she do to Raegan…?!

“Here… why don’t we make this game more fun? Kitties should enjoy when someone who knows how plays with them… and you’re not going to be an exception.” The Veterinarian made a sound with her mouth.

Rachel choked as the vibrator moved forward, pressing flush against her body. The vibration before had only been a gentle teasing, a faint suggestion of friction forcing pleasure through her sensitive flesh that was every bit as vulnerable to pleasure as her ears were to sound. Her sounds of pleasure and alarm caught in her throat, but her gaze continued to dramatically shift to follow that light.

My strength is gone… nnnhaa…! I can’t… fly… or I could catch it… nnnn…! But I… can hear… feel… see… ffff… She whimpered, trying to close her eyes only to feel them trapped open by the sight of the light itself. Her body refused to look away. It was too exciting, too important, too necessary. She knew on a physical level what a bad idea it would be to stop watching it move even if intellectually the idea was absurd. How is she… so good at… nnnhaaa…!

Each time her eyes followed the toy, the vibrations throbbed harder. It only took a few quick moments for Rachel to realize what was happening, but even her redoubled attempts could do nothing to keep her gaze frozen in place.

She’s training me… mmmmphhh… Pavlovian… Conditioning… Some part of me already wants this, or needs this, and I can’t… f-fuck… I can’t stop helping her…!

“That’s a good kitty…!” The Veterinarian’s voice dripped with cruelty and smugness, but the praise still landed. It still felt good. It made Rachel want to wiggle her ass and curl her toes. It was made even worse that it landed the same time as that vibgration pressed cruelly to her hypersensitive clit, nearly whiting out her vision with pleasure. “Aww, does the merciful little kitty enjoy that?”

“N-not a—fuck!” Rachel screamed, her eyes open so wide and twitching as tears rose to flow over her brown irises.

Electricity was coursing through her bonds, and through the cage itself. There was nowhere for her to run, nowhere for her to hide, and every moment the pain felt more and more intense. As Maiden Mercy electric attacks had always been her least favorite thing to deal with, especially sustained, but she so rarely dealt with such things from what felt like every angle at once with no clothes to insulate her from the sensations.

Biting current flowed through her body, making her shudder, shake, and pant as tears fell along her cheeks. Between her recent slumber being compromised by drugs, and her recent exhaustion by eye fixation, Rachel’s abilities to ignore the pain were virtually nonexistent.

Her body was strong enough to take the voltage without suffering any lasting damage. Though she was sensitive enough to feel the excruciating pain on a level even more intense than another woman might, her nerves, her skin, her muscles… all of her body was strong enough to take it. Unfortunately, even as the toy swayed back and forth, her psyche was not nearly as resilient to the effect of the exhausting, seemingly endless agony.

When it finally ended, Rachel was gasping for breath and not even attempting to resist the alluring bounce-and-sway of her feathered cat toy.

“Kitties don’t speak with words, Mercy Kitty.” The Veterinarian licked her lips, watching the heroine shudder as her sweat-soaked body shuddered and twitched from the aftershocks of the current. “Any time you don’t meow…? Then… zap!”

Rachel flinched back, half expecting another jolt right away.

“Oh don’t worry… I’m not going to use it unless you earn it, Mercy Kitty! To do otherwise… well… it would slow your training. Otherwise…” The toy flicked from one corner of the cage to another, and Rachel whimpered as she helplessly followed it along only to feel the irresistible rewards vibrating and shuddering through her body. “I would probably have you screaming until there was smoke rising from your hair and you thoroughly apologized for getting in my way.

“But animals…? You can’t treat them like people.”

N-not an animal… I’m a person…! Rachel whimpered, but she felt hesitant to speak up so soon after her last punishment. She tried her best to stifle her moans as her traitorous eyes earned her reward after reward, but the pleasure was as constant and mind numbing as the pain. Need to hold on for Raegan! Something… aaaahh… had to happen to her… She wouldn’t…. she would never do this to me…!

I can handle any humiliation… any… pain… p-pleasure… Her cheeks were flushed a deep, dark red, but Rachel’s expression was one of pure determination. As long as it means going home to her… being with her… protecting her…

“People you can expect to learn from their experiences, but animals like you…?” The Veterinarian tisked, a low laugh rolling past her lips. “You’re sticking to your stubborn pride. You’re probably thinking something so heroic, so noble, so pure… I wonder if your daughter is going to want to ride your face first, or tease that sensitive pussy of yours until your eyes cross…? Which would you guess…?”

“Don’t you say that abou—nyaaaaaaaaa…!”

Rachel’s cry was already feline, shuddering and trembling along with her body as the voltage grew stronger, and her resistance only continued to crumble.

Slowly moving the toy in a spiral instead of with dramatic flicks, The Veterinarian hooded her sunshine-yellow eyes. The pain continued, but so did the vibrations. Rachel’s naked breasts shuddered, rivulets of sweat sliding down to dangle from her nipples as her mouth opened wide, twisting as her eyes twitched.

“You’re so predictable, Mercy Kitty. You might fight me every step of the way… but you won’t take long at all.”

The pain stopped, and Rachel mewled in relief as her eyes followed the spiraling toy. Everything in her mind was moving slower, and every bare inch of her skin tingled in a way that was both compelling and horrifying.

Just… hold on… wait for the right moment… regain your strength… break free…

Do it for her…

Rachel watched as the toy moved back and forth, so slow she barely noticed the way the languid motion encouraged her eyes to hood, and her mouth to hang open. She barely realized the way that everything was moving so much slower, from her heartbeat to her breathing.

Do it for Raegan…

“Good kitty…” The Veterinarian slowly licked her lips as Rachel groaned under her breath. “Between your time with the ‘affirmations’ and playtime… I don’t think you’ll even take a week…”

Rachel let out a sound somewhere between a sob, and a pitiful feline mewl.