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Another one that was mostly setup, but far less interesting than some of the others. I am hoping the other two parts will make up for that, but this one I just had to get done in the hopes of clearing some block.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "This was one of those stories, people... and I don't think it was very good. Another one that was mostly setup, but far less interesting than some of the others. I am hoping the other two parts will make up for that, but this one I just had to get done in the hopes of clearing some block.", "writing": "By Right: Spoils, Part 1\n\nBy TerraMGP\n\n\tRuna took a small breath and let it out softly. She tried to focus on a few things. On the damp, slightly dank air. The wafting scent of candle smoke and melting bees wax. The dull glow of light shivering though the cavern lighting a clean-cut stone shelf draped with a simple bolt of satin cloth. The wolfess opened her eyes slowly and looked on to the small shrine she had set up. Her eyes tracing the items at hand. There was her sword, naturally. The two foot long haft of her Mk 7 ‘Valkyrian’ laid out along the whole of the shelf nearest to her. A pair of candles at either side of a runic passage she had carved into the back along with a nice intricate scene of a battlefield with one woman standing triumphant while the daughters of Odin came down upon the field of slain.\n\n\tAt the center of it all was a statue. Detailed and hand-wrought with only a few details carefully painted. The statue of a woman in old, archaic armor standing astride a rocky outcropping. The noble-looking wolf woman holding a spear in one hand and her other raised with a falcon mid-swoop moving to perch on it.\n\n\tShe traced a finger over the small devotional token hung on her neck by a delicate chain. A simple but detailed falcon of silver with molecularly purified bonded sapphire accenting the feathers and head, a simple triquetra accented by the same brilliant blue in the chest plumes of the figure. Runa gripped that necklace a moment before her paws dropped to her knees once more. Slowly and softly chanting an old Skald to the chooser of the slain as she took her time studying every inch of that intricate wall carving, then the statue, then the weapon. Seeking to better clear her mind and focus.\n\n\tThat simple act of worship was interrupted rather abruptly. Sharp impacts struck the cliffside surrounding her little cave. The sanctity of her quiet meditation quickly shattered along with her patience.\n\n\tThe wolf sighed and slowly stood. Her paw wrapped around the hilt of her blade and gripped it tightly. Knuckles turning bone white and paw trembling as she took a slow, measured breath and started her way out of the small cavern. Thankfully the exit to that cave made it easy to get a full view of the camp and in particular her own slave standing by the currently closed off gate, a small ‘window’ open to let the bunny see outside of the powerful force field.\n\n\tRuna strode her way out towards the prefab wall set up to block the only point in which sheer cliff face did not surround them. She hadn’t taken the time to don her tunic before leaving the shrine and as such made the walk across her camp bare-chested. Her athletic frame laden with toned and iron-hard muscle, her slightly above-average endowment on full display with the beautiful falcon resting between her near-perfect breasts.\n\n\tShe strode her way slowly towards the gate where Siv stood. The bunny holding a pad in one hand and fiddling with her glasses as she looked on at a group of black-clad figures standing on the other side of the wall. \n\n\t“Siv…” The wolf all but barked as she strode her way up to her pet, eyes cold and painfully unforgiving.\n\n\t“Mistress” The bunny whimpered back as shi swallowed hard. “I… we have some guests. There are some people here who…”\n\n\t“Siv” Runa growled “What day is today?”\n\n\t“F-Friday, Mistress” Siv whimpered\n\n\t“Yes, Friday. And what is it that I do on Friday?”\n\n\t“You… offer prayers to Freya?” shi asked nervously.\n\n\t“Right, and what am I doing now, Siv?”\n\n\t“Not offering prayers to Freya?”\n\n\t“NOT offering prayers to Freya.” Runa snarled, leaning in hard and almost knocking her pet over, before turning her icy, twisted two-colored glance over to the lined up set of low rent looking individuals at the other side of the wall.\n\n\tSiv tried to back off, only to feel hir owners paw wrap into that currently green-dyed hair. Gripping a painfully tight bunch of it and tugging her close. “Now perhaps our… guests… have good reason to show up. Maybe not. But regardless you will be waiting for me in the training room at the end of the day, alone. Am I understood?”\n\n\tSiv nodded and swallowed hard. Her lips trembled as she let out a barely audible ‘yes Mistress’.\n\n\t“So, then…” The wolf woman sighed as she let the handful of hair go and slowly walked her way up to the gate. Runas hair still covered her silvery prosthetic eye leaving only the natural blue exposed as she looked over the small band dressed haphazardly in piecemeal power armor. “I take it you are the reason I was roused from my prayers?”\n\n\t“Prayers, eh? Heh That’s right silly that is.” One of the figures, a large bison in heavy power armor, chuckled from under his helm. A smallish and rather lithe looking weasel walked his way in front of the other apparent mercs gathered there. He held his helm under one arm and had a rifle slung over his back. A few stripes and dinged up campaign badges on one spalder showing an erratic war history. “Eh now luv. You’ll have at forgive me boys ‘ere. I always tell em to behave but ya know how old soldiers can be. Don’t worry though. We just gotta spot of business and then we’ll be out of yer hair.”\n\n\tRuna quirked her brow a bit as the man walked up to the gate. She looked him over carefully. She took mental note of their posture and gear. However dumb they might have seemed she could already tell relaxing would be a rather poor decision. \n\n\t“And what business is that? I can tell you now, I am not hiring” Runa growled firmly.\n\n\t“Hiring? Heh, Hirin‘ she says. Nah, nothing like that, Luv. See it’s just that we ended up… misplacing a bit of hardware here on this rock. Last we heard you got yer hands on it. At least yer the only one fittin’ the description the good townsfolk gave ‘round here.”\n\n\tRuna nodded a bit, but said nothing. The man was being nice enough, but her eye was on the crew he had with them. A rail-gun equipped support gunner. Two men with micro-lances and the rather heavy bison with a massive war hammer and shoulder mounted rocket.\n\n\t“I am guessing by property, you mean one of the slaves I took?” Runa asked coldly.\n\n\t“Well sorta, yeah. I mean I don’t blame ya. After all how could ya know she was owned if ya just picked the lil scamp up. Not worth much but there’s a good deal of sentimental value and all that. So I just figured I-”\n\n\t“No.”\n\n\t“… I’m sorry wot?” \n\n\t“I said no.” Runa growled, cutting the man off again as she bared her fangs just a tiny bit.\n\n\t“Now c’mon luv you ain’t even heard me out ‘ere.”\n\n\t“I don’t care.” Runa grumbled “Let me make something clear. If a slave can slip though your grasp, it is free. Period. It is not my fault you took no time or effort to properly train or secure your property. If anything the townsfolk were simply lucky to find an escaped slave to trim the offering I demanded. You have nobody to blame but yourself, and next time you shall learn from your failures.”\n\n\t“Oi, now look here luv. That slave is ours. We paid good money for her and paid more for the upgrades we dug in. Who the hell do you think you are telling us wot we should be doin’ with our property.”\n\n\t“Someone with honor.” Runa said coldly as she turned on heel. That thick mane of rainbow tipped brown hair shimmering as the hidden rainbow below it flashed to the man.\n\n\t“Oi! You listen ’ere ya dumb bitch.” The weasel finally screamed. “I don’t’ know who ya think you are, but you got three hours to have that girl prepped and ready for us, or we’re comin back with our mates. Ya hear me? That bitch is our property and we ain’t leven’ this backwater world till we get it back!”\n\n\tRuna shrugged a bit, the weasel snarling in rage as he nearly pulled the gun free from his shoulder, one of his compatriots putting a hand on him to clam him down.\n\n\t“You, bunny bitch” He snapped. “You tell your boss she’s got… got five hours you hear me? Five hours! And she better find something to sweeten the pot by then or we just might take the rest of you lot for our trouble.”\n\n\t“I’m going back to my prayers.” Runa muttered as she waved her hand. Warning lights on the outside of the gate instantly started to buzz themselves to life as a trio of automated laser cannons built into the rock face around the wall slowly turned in to point at the intruders. “Bring the girl out of her confinement. I’ll look at her when I am finished.”\n\n\t“Yes Mistress” Siv said as shi nodded before turning back to the gate, walking up to the gate and smiling widely. A viciously polite grin on hir lips “I am sorry, sir.” Shi said politely “We are not accepting any solicitation today. Please feel free to return later.”\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\tScr1pt knew what was going on, at least in part. She recognized the methodology. The slight subtle noises, the IV and the banal, sensory depriving white ‘coffin’ cell that would keep her sensory input largely dimmed. One perk of being cybered out as far as the little bat was, though, was that it was hard to stay too bored.\n\n\t‘Steam and Aether’ was beaten its third time now, with a Noble/Bright save finally at full completion. She now had a veritable fleet of ships in ‘Shipyard Simulator’ and was now nearly caught up on her Dramady and Sitcom Holos.\n\n\tIt was hard to tell just how long she had been in the confinement though. If she added up all her hours gaming and binge watching since she got in here Scr1pt could probably get a good approximation of everything when accounting for a cabin fever accented sleep schedule. Unfortunately a mix of disruption to her data stream before being put in this box and the heavy signal insulation meant that she couldn’t get a signal out and could not update. Probably wise considering the damage she would do if she could actually get a chance to poke at the Ai of this place.\n\n\tThe lithe little bat winced a few moments and tried to spread her arms out just a bit, rolling her shoulders and struggling to arch her back enough that it would pop a bit more and give her a bit of relief. It wasn’t her first time in one of these lil beauties. Not by a long shot. But it was the first time they had tried arm binders instead of metal cuffs. They were a bit trickier to get out of.\n\n\tThere was a telltale pop and the little red-brown furred bat finally let herself go limp. Really if these little cells weren’t quite so cramped, and had a few snacks to replace the IV drip it would be near heaven… well that and a good network connection to a real hub.\n\n\tThe tensed up girl was finally able to settle back on the rather comfy pad lining her supposed prison for a good hour or two of coding when those nice big ears caught the sound of magnetic locks popping and the subtle slide of an impeller as her tray was finally brought out. Mercifully the light was a bit more natural than it had been when trapped and her heavy focus on keeping limber allowed the girl to pop up quickly the instant she had enough room. She even made it a few steps, before two heavily armed guards moved between her and the door out of the small lab.\n\n\tShe stopped flat and glanced around to find some hole, some opening. Stopped almost instantly by a rough paw wrapping around her hair and hoisting her up on her toes.\n\n\t“So, this is the cause of all the troubles” It was the wolf from before. The ‘new owner’ who had caught her just as Scr1pt got herself free of Butcher and his low rent crew. Scr1pt did her best to shrink back a bit and scrunched her snout up as the wolf twisted her hard. Going though her normal motions of trying to look pathetic… which was not difficult given her current situation.\n\n\t“Hey whatever trouble you’re having… don’t blame it on me” the little bat whined as she folded those big pierced ears down and swallowed hard “I… I didn’t, I don’t…” she whined “You got that box lined nice and tight. I can’t even get a signal.” Scr1pt blinked and squirmed for a moment, then yelped as she felt something hard, cold and metallic slapping around her neck. She yelped hard and reached up tugging hard as she felt a new collar slapped around her neck, and instantly felt a sudden burst of white noise signal flooding her jack. “Gahh! Take it off! Take that thing off of me. What is that?” She whined.\n\n\t“You know how to make it stop” Siv chuckled softly.\n\n\tScr1pt winced and sighed as she mentally shut off her wireless incoming system. A simple mental command cutting her off from the random signal emissions that were drowning out her data jack from broadcasting. The poor girl sighed and slumped in the wolfs grasp and tried to twist her body in a way to get her tiptoes on the ground. \n\n\tHer heart thumped hard in her chest for a moment as Scr1pt looked between her tow captors as best she could. The swimming, sickening sensation of data overload that had hit her head replaced with momentary relief as her reach into the facilities network was once again quickly curbed. \n\n\tThe bunny woman moved over to a rolling office chair near one of the work tables and rolled it over behind the girl, nodding for her to sit. The lithe little thing was scrawny even by bat standards. Her limbs veritable wisps and boyishly uncurvy body only broken up by a flattish rump and a small chest that stood out on her. Even with the smattered piercings along her nose, belly button and especially those large receptive ears, even with the small bits of tribal ink along her arms and chest and stomach, hell even with the slightly shaved side of her head that had now grown back out, Scr1pt had always felt plain.\n\n\tNow though she felt plain, and scared. Looking between the two women and gripping either side of the office chair as the little bat looked between them. “So, uh… nice setup you got here.” She laughed nervously.\n\n\t“How much?” The wolf woman barked\n\n\t“H-how much what?” Scr1pt asked\n\n\t“Don’t play dumb, little one. You were out of that tube a good thirty seconds. How much did you get?”\n\n\tScr1pt blinked a moment and sighed “Two Terabytes. You are running an outdated and very low rent setup with Kenna. In fact pretty much all of your hardware nodes seem to be ‘Drassi ‘were. Glitch only knows why. Currently twelve mercs on staff, all corp employed through a subsidiary. Didn’t have enough time to access any larger networks and see who owns the merc crew. Badges all secure but openly displaying identities. Firewalls reasonably in tact. At most a good half-hour job. I was able to poke in far enough to see you have a QE off world… Four moles based on the feedback numbers. Not too shabby”\n\n\tSiv blinked “You got all that off of thirty seconds of scanning?”\n\n\t“I would have gotten more if your fire walls weren’t actually decent. Well, decent for ‘Drassi tech. and maybe if you weren’t chasing me all over.” Scr1pt sighed and slumped back looking around nervously “Of course I get the feeling you don’t want that do ya?”\n\n\tRuna smirked a bit and nodded. She ran a finger under the girls chin a moment as she looked her over. Tilting her new prize’s head to the side and looking at the implant point for the jack, along with a few metal studs now resting just under the partially regrown hair. “A man came by, little one Came up to my gates today. Said I had some of his property. I presume this is someone you know?”\n\n\t“Butcher.” Scr1pt sighed “Yeah, I know him. of course I know him. Here I thought I was finally gone.” The girl sighed softly. “Allright well I’m sure the bastard is waiting outside with a bunch of his goons. Why don’t I just-”\n\n\tScr1pt yelped as Runa shoved her back into the chair the little bat rolling backwards into the nearby desk and looking up in confusion at her current captor.\n\n\t“Oh no little one. No tricks. No getting away that easily.“ Runa growled “You aren’t going anywhere yet. Tell me about this Butcher.” Runa murred “Based on what he seemed to say, I am guessing you weren’t there to please the crew were you?”\n\n\tScr1pt looked off to the side and blushed a bit. The poor girl was admittedly shocked and more than a bit embarrassed by the question. A situation not helped as the bunny pushed her palm against those inexperienced mons. “N-no. No they didn’t. Of course not. Butcher doesn’t work that way. I was… I was just the tech doll, that’s it.” The poor girl stammered and shivered as she tried to scoot the chair away from the physical contact. Her eyes glancing nervously at the two grown women now towering over her.\n\n\t“Tech Doll?” Siv teased a bit as she slowly ground her palm in. She drew a few cute gasps and whiny moans from “What, they have a lil cutie like you and they just use you to break enemy networks? Seems like kind of a waste” Shi chuckled \n\n\t“Y-yeah well. It’s not like I don’t know about, about sex and stuff” Scr1pt mmphed. She wriggled and writhed and tired to back away. Siv inching her way forward. Hot breath breaking on over that prettily pierced face. “I mean they didn’t care too much what I did when they weren’t usin’ me. Plenty of games have sex and stuff in em.” She said firmly and lifting her chin up a bit. The little bat looking between the two and putting on her best tough face.\n\n\t“B-besides Butcher only hires mercs who like grown, muscley, masculine males. That way they keep their hands off the premo products. H-he figured a runt like me wouldn’t get touched.”\n\n\tSiv chuckled a bit and shook her head running a paw though the girls hair. “Like I said, seems like a real waste. But at least that is one mistake we can begin correcting.” The bunny grinned a moment and scratched under the bats chin. Shi started to look Scr1pt over slowly and carefully. Far more appraisal than the poor teched out girl was likely used to. A slow and not at all pure examination of the little prize as she growled softly and wiggled her nose.\n\n\t“Yeah well I.. I really don’t mind” Scr1pt muttered nervously. Her discomfort at the situation growing more by the moment “Though once you hand me over they’re probably going to ‘fix’ me so I can’t run away again.” Scr1pt winced a bit. That had been the threat made the last time she ran off, and this time she got the feeling it would be far more than threats and warnings.\n\n\tRuna shrugged a bit and smirked “I doubt that will be an issue” she murred. A bemused grin hitting her lips. The wolf looked back a moment and waved her hand. The guards at the entrance turned and each stood at attention. Faces obstructed and bodies shrouded by those thick black armored suits.\n\n\tEven with the data on who these two guards really were and what they really looked like, the pure visual impact of those blank figures with glowing red lenses set off every flight instinct the little bat had at once.\n\n\tA paw wrapped around the back of Scr1pts chair and lifted it, dumping the poor girl hard on the floor. “You get enough data on her current hardware?” Runa asked. The striking Norse woman wearing a predators grin as she gazed over the defenseless little bat.\n\n\t“Did a quick scan when she got here Mistress, and those thirty seconds were more than enough to ID her hardware.” Siv nodded eagerly “I can’t wait to get a few more parts in that pretty body of hers. Mmm and a makeover. Just because they don’t want to play with their dolls, that shouldn’t mean these idiots leave her all raggedy like this.”\n\n\t“Hey!” Scr1pt grumbled as she tried to get up. The bunnys paw pulling her up before she could get very far.\n\n\tSiv looked to Runa and bit her lip the moments bravado simply seeming to hide a wellspring of concern. “Mistress, are you going to be ok?” Shi asked softly.\n\n\tRuna shrugged a moment and looked the two over “Take the girl in and get her set up. I’m going to prepare. I am sure the little runt is going to try making good on his claim.”\n\n\tIt took a few moments for the poor bat to process what she had heard. Those big, pierced and slightly tattered ears perking hard “W-wait a second. You, you don’t mean… you aren’t gonna try and fight him are you? You can’t! Look, just like, give me a head start and tell him you never saw me or something. He’ll probably go easy on you.” Scr1pt bit her lip hard. She sure as hell didn’t want to go back to butcher… but she wasn’t a bad girl either. She didn’t really want to see anyone die over something this stupid.\n\n\tThe wolfess chuckled a moment and moved out the doorway, past the guards. Both black-clad figures quickly lock-stepped back into position and walked their way up to the bat, gripping each shoulder and looking down at her with those thick, glowing lenses.\n\n\t“You won’t need to worry yourself about any of that.” Siv chimed. The bravado in her voice clearly seeking to hide her fear, and failing. “Girls. Take our little friend off to the server room. We have something special planned for her.”\n\n\tAny compassion, altruism or worry the little bat had for these people vanished in that instant as she felt the guards carry her along. The poor little thing screeching and squirming as she was walked slowly down the hallways and prefab buildings. Scr1pt paid enough attention to seek an escape route, but for once it seemed she had captors who knew just how to hold her own frail and narrow arms without worry of breaking bones or harming her. Whoever the mercs were they were professional. Far more so than Butcher and his crew. Not that the bar was very high on that one.\n\n\tFinally they reached a rather large room with a heavy set of doors. Doors The first doors at the end of a hallway she had seen. The bunny in charge waved her hand and sent out the signal to open them, revealing a room full of painfully primitive computer banks and an admittedly workable QE rig at the center of it all. The large domed cylinder thrumming softly to keep the data receiving assembly cool and shielded.\n\n\tThat was when it caught her eye, and she went stiff. Scr1pt winced a bit and started to struggle hard. Squealing and squeeking and squirming as she kicked her leg as she looked up in horror at the half-lowered metal cylinder resting at the back of the room behind the Quantum Entanglement rig.\n\n\tThe thrashing wore her out quickly and soon the poor girl was left to just stand there in awe. Her jaw slack and eyes wide. A mass of cables hung from the tube and at the bottom was a thick pool of warm oxygenated goo. A bright LED light thrummed slowly from below the rim at the bottom causing the liquid to glow. Pulsing slowly as if the object was somehow alive… and waiting for her. \n\n\t“You can’t be serious” Scr1pt muttered as she swallowed hard. “Why do you even have something like that around here?” She whined\n\n\t“I take it you don’t approve?” Siv chuckled.\n\n\t“Approve? Y-you can’t… I mean even Butcher was too good to use a Sapient processor unit. I-it’s not even stone knives and bearskins. It’s a fucking Rock!” Scr1pt knew all to well what she saw. In days long past starships and large would line up heavily augmented volunteers… or slaves in many cases… into tubes just like this. Putting their brianpower to work augmenting the primitive AI of the day. At best it was a temporary job carried out for a few years before the volunteer burned out. At worst…\n\n\t“… Like fucking fuses.” Scr1pt muttered fearfully. Swallowing hard.\n\n\t“I’m sorry” Siv giggled “Did you say something sweetie?”\n\n\tTweak looked up and trembled a little. She wanted to pull away so badly, wanted to get away. This all had to be a bad dream. “Why on Terra itself would you keep something like this around? How? You can’t seriously expect me to-”\n\n\t“Run it?” Siv giggled “You’re the one who seems to feel our AI isn’t strong enough little one. Besides, this is the chance you wanted isn’t it? Some way to escape? I mean I’m sure if you can beat our simple, primitive tech easily enough you can find some way to run before your dendrites all burn out.” She chuckled gently. A paw slowly caressed and scratched behind the poor bats ear tracing ever so gently over the jack with a small bemused giggle. \n\n\t“Y-you know that isn’t how it works!” Scr1pt said with tears streaming down her cheeks. “You know what those things do. I… I swear I am going to make you pay, make you all pay if I find some way out of that thing.”\n\n\tSiv chuckled and nodded a moment. “Oh I am sure you are. That is if you can get out of there. I mean if this really is as primitive as you say.” the bunny chuckled and licked hir lips wickedly. Shi slipped a paw behind that neck and stroked the bat girls fur softly a moment. A small little prick striking just behind the poor little bats left ear.\n\n\tScr1pt slumped and shivered hard as the whole world swam. Her stomach lurched hard as the two guards gripped her tightly once more and slowly moved the poor little bat along the floor. All but dragging her along towards the thick cylinder as they picked her up and slipped her legs first into it. The fluid surrounded her slowly, welling up around her thighs and nearly reaching the brim of the tube as Scr1pts thin frame sank in. Her limbs twitching a bit on their own. Small restless shivers as she sank down into the goo and felt the two guards slowly hooking small pads onto her head and a nice thick socket against her data jack.\n\n\t“Just… s… stop.” She muttered as the last few wires were hooked in and the guards stepped away. Scr1pt looked up and sobbed as the tub slowly closed. Feeling the goo starting to slowly rise, feeling the her limp and helpless body slowly encased and overtaken. Struggling to tilt her head up and away as it raised up her chest, then her neck, before finally overtaking her head. Scr1pt held her breath hard for as long as she could before finally gasping out and coughing. Her lungs filling quickly with the same fluid. Forcing its way in and replacing the sense of breathing with an odd drowning gasp that filled her body and ached so painfully.\n\n\t\n\n\tThat sensation only grew worse as the tube itself started to pressurize. Holding her body in place and slowly driving the girl up more, drifting up to the middle of the tube as her eyes slowly lulled shut just hovering in a blank sensation less nothing. Her head swimming hard. The wireless inhibitor shutting itself off, the socket forcing her jack to hardline mode. The world crashing down around her as her consciousness slipped into a large shimmering virtual void.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\tRuna let out a small sigh as she looked up into the clear violet-blue sky overhead. A few clouds drifting along lazily and the sounds of birds off in the distance. As before she had donned her battle armor, though this time switching out the configuration slightly. Her left arm covered in a heavy pauldron that dipped down near the elbow and tapered off while the right one was far more lightly armored. The piece was designed to give her protection in a charge and was studded with additional shield generators to deflect and absorb incoming fire. Likewise her neck and lower muzzle were covered by a thicker georgette that ran along her lower jaw with points to connect the helm now draped under her arm.\n\n\tWhatever puissant outfit had decided to test her mettle they seemed able to afford stealth fields and ECM on their armor or vehicles. Only faint traces of movement had been picked up to give Runa the faintest idea that the cowards were making good on their threat.\n\n\tShe brushed the long, thick mane of brown hair clear of her augmented eye to get a better look. The dust cloud of a large ground vehicle was kicking up off in the distance. Heavier than the transport they had used to show up there last time and probably more able to stand the rigors of real battle. More importantly, it was more likely to withstand the automated defenses at the front of the camp.\n\n\tRuna brushed her hair back and then quickly slipped the battle-scarred helm against her muzzle and down across her face. Her face and hair sealing in as it slipped down and slowly sealed into place, a long synthetic war braid hanging from the back and the paint scratched over her synthetic eye looking much like the actual scar she now bore.\n\n\tRuna pulled the haft of her blade from her back and hit the activation stud. The long photonic blade snapped to life and sliced effortlessly into the air as she dragged it slowly along the ground. The lone figure slowly sauntering her way forward in anticipation of oncoming battle.\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "By Right: Spoils, Part 1

By TerraMGP

\tRuna took a small breath and let it out softly. She tried to focus on a few things. On the damp, slightly dank air. The wafting scent of candle smoke and melting bees wax. The dull glow of light shivering though the cavern lighting a clean-cut stone shelf draped with a simple bolt of satin cloth. The wolfess opened her eyes slowly and looked on to the small shrine she had set up. Her eyes tracing the items at hand. There was her sword, naturally. The two foot long haft of her Mk 7 ‘Valkyrian’ laid out along the whole of the shelf nearest to her. A pair of candles at either side of a runic passage she had carved into the back along with a nice intricate scene of a battlefield with one woman standing triumphant while the daughters of Odin came down upon the field of slain.

\tAt the center of it all was a statue. Detailed and hand-wrought with only a few details carefully painted. The statue of a woman in old, archaic armor standing astride a rocky outcropping. The noble-looking wolf woman holding a spear in one hand and her other raised with a falcon mid-swoop moving to perch on it.

\tShe traced a finger over the small devotional token hung on her neck by a delicate chain. A simple but detailed falcon of silver with molecularly purified bonded sapphire accenting the feathers and head, a simple triquetra accented by the same brilliant blue in the chest plumes of the figure. Runa gripped that necklace a moment before her paws dropped to her knees once more. Slowly and softly chanting an old Skald to the chooser of the slain as she took her time studying every inch of that intricate wall carving, then the statue, then the weapon. Seeking to better clear her mind and focus.

\tThat simple act of worship was interrupted rather abruptly. Sharp impacts struck the cliffside surrounding her little cave. The sanctity of her quiet meditation quickly shattered along with her patience.

\tThe wolf sighed and slowly stood. Her paw wrapped around the hilt of her blade and gripped it tightly. Knuckles turning bone white and paw trembling as she took a slow, measured breath and started her way out of the small cavern. Thankfully the exit to that cave made it easy to get a full view of the camp and in particular her own slave standing by the currently closed off gate, a small ‘window’ open to let the bunny see outside of the powerful force field.

\tRuna strode her way out towards the prefab wall set up to block the only point in which sheer cliff face did not surround them. She hadn’t taken the time to don her tunic before leaving the shrine and as such made the walk across her camp bare-chested. Her athletic frame laden with toned and iron-hard muscle, her slightly above-average endowment on full display with the beautiful falcon resting between her near-perfect breasts.

\tShe strode her way slowly towards the gate where Siv stood. The bunny holding a pad in one hand and fiddling with her glasses as she looked on at a group of black-clad figures standing on the other side of the wall.

\t“Siv…” The wolf all but barked as she strode her way up to her pet, eyes cold and painfully unforgiving.

\t“Mistress” The bunny whimpered back as shi swallowed hard. “I… we have some guests. There are some people here who…”

\t“Siv” Runa growled “What day is today?”

\t“F-Friday, Mistress” Siv whimpered

\t“Yes, Friday. And what is it that I do on Friday?”

\t“You… offer prayers to Freya?” shi asked nervously.

\t“Right, and what am I doing now, Siv?”

\t“Not offering prayers to Freya?”

\t“NOT offering prayers to Freya.” Runa snarled, leaning in hard and almost knocking her pet over, before turning her icy, twisted two-colored glance over to the lined up set of low rent looking individuals at the other side of the wall.

\tSiv tried to back off, only to feel hir owners paw wrap into that currently green-dyed hair. Gripping a painfully tight bunch of it and tugging her close. “Now perhaps our… guests… have good reason to show up. Maybe not. But regardless you will be waiting for me in the training room at the end of the day, alone. Am I understood?”

\tSiv nodded and swallowed hard. Her lips trembled as she let out a barely audible ‘yes Mistress’.

\t“So, then…” The wolf woman sighed as she let the handful of hair go and slowly walked her way up to the gate. Runas hair still covered her silvery prosthetic eye leaving only the natural blue exposed as she looked over the small band dressed haphazardly in piecemeal power armor. “I take it you are the reason I was roused from my prayers?”

\t“Prayers, eh? Heh That’s right silly that is.” One of the figures, a large bison in heavy power armor, chuckled from under his helm. A smallish and rather lithe looking weasel walked his way in front of the other apparent mercs gathered there. He held his helm under one arm and had a rifle slung over his back. A few stripes and dinged up campaign badges on one spalder showing an erratic war history. “Eh now luv. You’ll have at forgive me boys ‘ere. I always tell em to behave but ya know how old soldiers can be. Don’t worry though. We just gotta spot of business and then we’ll be out of yer hair.”

\tRuna quirked her brow a bit as the man walked up to the gate. She looked him over carefully. She took mental note of their posture and gear. However dumb they might have seemed she could already tell relaxing would be a rather poor decision.

\t“And what business is that? I can tell you now, I am not hiring” Runa growled firmly.

\t“Hiring? Heh, Hirin‘ she says. Nah, nothing like that, Luv. See it’s just that we ended up… misplacing a bit of hardware here on this rock. Last we heard you got yer hands on it. At least yer the only one fittin’ the description the good townsfolk gave ‘round here.”

\tRuna nodded a bit, but said nothing. The man was being nice enough, but her eye was on the crew he had with them. A rail-gun equipped support gunner. Two men with micro-lances and the rather heavy bison with a massive war hammer and shoulder mounted rocket.

\t“I am guessing by property, you mean one of the slaves I took?” Runa asked coldly.

\t“Well sorta, yeah. I mean I don’t blame ya. After all how could ya know she was owned if ya just picked the lil scamp up. Not worth much but there’s a good deal of sentimental value and all that. So I just figured I-”

\t“No.”

\t“… I’m sorry wot?”

\t“I said no.” Runa growled, cutting the man off again as she bared her fangs just a tiny bit.

\t“Now c’mon luv you ain’t even heard me out ‘ere.”

\t“I don’t care.” Runa grumbled “Let me make something clear. If a slave can slip though your grasp, it is free. Period. It is not my fault you took no time or effort to properly train or secure your property. If anything the townsfolk were simply lucky to find an escaped slave to trim the offering I demanded. You have nobody to blame but yourself, and next time you shall learn from your failures.”

\t“Oi, now look here luv. That slave is ours. We paid good money for her and paid more for the upgrades we dug in. Who the hell do you think you are telling us wot we should be doin’ with our property.”

\t“Someone with honor.” Runa said coldly as she turned on heel. That thick mane of rainbow tipped brown hair shimmering as the hidden rainbow below it flashed to the man.

\t“Oi! You listen ’ere ya dumb bitch.” The weasel finally screamed. “I don’t’ know who ya think you are, but you got three hours to have that girl prepped and ready for us, or we’re comin back with our mates. Ya hear me? That bitch is our property and we ain’t leven’ this backwater world till we get it back!”

\tRuna shrugged a bit, the weasel snarling in rage as he nearly pulled the gun free from his shoulder, one of his compatriots putting a hand on him to clam him down.

\t“You, bunny bitch” He snapped. “You tell your boss she’s got… got five hours you hear me? Five hours! And she better find something to sweeten the pot by then or we just might take the rest of you lot for our trouble.”

\t“I’m going back to my prayers.” Runa muttered as she waved her hand. Warning lights on the outside of the gate instantly started to buzz themselves to life as a trio of automated laser cannons built into the rock face around the wall slowly turned in to point at the intruders. “Bring the girl out of her confinement. I’ll look at her when I am finished.”

\t“Yes Mistress” Siv said as shi nodded before turning back to the gate, walking up to the gate and smiling widely. A viciously polite grin on hir lips “I am sorry, sir.” Shi said politely “We are not accepting any solicitation today. Please feel free to return later.”

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\tScr1pt knew what was going on, at least in part. She recognized the methodology. The slight subtle noises, the IV and the banal, sensory depriving white ‘coffin’ cell that would keep her sensory input largely dimmed. One perk of being cybered out as far as the little bat was, though, was that it was hard to stay too bored.

\t‘Steam and Aether’ was beaten its third time now, with a Noble/Bright save finally at full completion. She now had a veritable fleet of ships in ‘Shipyard Simulator’ and was now nearly caught up on her Dramady and Sitcom Holos.

\tIt was hard to tell just how long she had been in the confinement though. If she added up all her hours gaming and binge watching since she got in here Scr1pt could probably get a good approximation of everything when accounting for a cabin fever accented sleep schedule. Unfortunately a mix of disruption to her data stream before being put in this box and the heavy signal insulation meant that she couldn’t get a signal out and could not update. Probably wise considering the damage she would do if she could actually get a chance to poke at the Ai of this place.

\tThe lithe little bat winced a few moments and tried to spread her arms out just a bit, rolling her shoulders and struggling to arch her back enough that it would pop a bit more and give her a bit of relief. It wasn’t her first time in one of these lil beauties. Not by a long shot. But it was the first time they had tried arm binders instead of metal cuffs. They were a bit trickier to get out of.

\tThere was a telltale pop and the little red-brown furred bat finally let herself go limp. Really if these little cells weren’t quite so cramped, and had a few snacks to replace the IV drip it would be near heaven… well that and a good network connection to a real hub.

\tThe tensed up girl was finally able to settle back on the rather comfy pad lining her supposed prison for a good hour or two of coding when those nice big ears caught the sound of magnetic locks popping and the subtle slide of an impeller as her tray was finally brought out. Mercifully the light was a bit more natural than it had been when trapped and her heavy focus on keeping limber allowed the girl to pop up quickly the instant she had enough room. She even made it a few steps, before two heavily armed guards moved between her and the door out of the small lab.

\tShe stopped flat and glanced around to find some hole, some opening. Stopped almost instantly by a rough paw wrapping around her hair and hoisting her up on her toes.

\t“So, this is the cause of all the troubles” It was the wolf from before. The ‘new owner’ who had caught her just as Scr1pt got herself free of Butcher and his low rent crew. Scr1pt did her best to shrink back a bit and scrunched her snout up as the wolf twisted her hard. Going though her normal motions of trying to look pathetic… which was not difficult given her current situation.

\t“Hey whatever trouble you’re having… don’t blame it on me” the little bat whined as she folded those big pierced ears down and swallowed hard “I… I didn’t, I don’t…” she whined “You got that box lined nice and tight. I can’t even get a signal.” Scr1pt blinked and squirmed for a moment, then yelped as she felt something hard, cold and metallic slapping around her neck. She yelped hard and reached up tugging hard as she felt a new collar slapped around her neck, and instantly felt a sudden burst of white noise signal flooding her jack. “Gahh! Take it off! Take that thing off of me. What is that?” She whined.

\t“You know how to make it stop” Siv chuckled softly.

\tScr1pt winced and sighed as she mentally shut off her wireless incoming system. A simple mental command cutting her off from the random signal emissions that were drowning out her data jack from broadcasting. The poor girl sighed and slumped in the wolfs grasp and tried to twist her body in a way to get her tiptoes on the ground.

\tHer heart thumped hard in her chest for a moment as Scr1pt looked between her tow captors as best she could. The swimming, sickening sensation of data overload that had hit her head replaced with momentary relief as her reach into the facilities network was once again quickly curbed.

\tThe bunny woman moved over to a rolling office chair near one of the work tables and rolled it over behind the girl, nodding for her to sit. The lithe little thing was scrawny even by bat standards. Her limbs veritable wisps and boyishly uncurvy body only broken up by a flattish rump and a small chest that stood out on her. Even with the smattered piercings along her nose, belly button and especially those large receptive ears, even with the small bits of tribal ink along her arms and chest and stomach, hell even with the slightly shaved side of her head that had now grown back out, Scr1pt had always felt plain.

\tNow though she felt plain, and scared. Looking between the two women and gripping either side of the office chair as the little bat looked between them. “So, uh… nice setup you got here.” She laughed nervously.

\t“How much?” The wolf woman barked

\t“H-how much what?” Scr1pt asked

\t“Don’t play dumb, little one. You were out of that tube a good thirty seconds. How much did you get?”

\tScr1pt blinked a moment and sighed “Two Terabytes. You are running an outdated and very low rent setup with Kenna. In fact pretty much all of your hardware nodes seem to be ‘Drassi ‘were. Glitch only knows why. Currently twelve mercs on staff, all corp employed through a subsidiary. Didn’t have enough time to access any larger networks and see who owns the merc crew. Badges all secure but openly displaying identities. Firewalls reasonably in tact. At most a good half-hour job. I was able to poke in far enough to see you have a QE off world… Four moles based on the feedback numbers. Not too shabby”

\tSiv blinked “You got all that off of thirty seconds of scanning?”

\t“I would have gotten more if your fire walls weren’t actually decent. Well, decent for ‘Drassi tech. and maybe if you weren’t chasing me all over.” Scr1pt sighed and slumped back looking around nervously “Of course I get the feeling you don’t want that do ya?”

\tRuna smirked a bit and nodded. She ran a finger under the girls chin a moment as she looked her over. Tilting her new prize’s head to the side and looking at the implant point for the jack, along with a few metal studs now resting just under the partially regrown hair. “A man came by, little one Came up to my gates today. Said I had some of his property. I presume this is someone you know?”

\t“Butcher.” Scr1pt sighed “Yeah, I know him. of course I know him. Here I thought I was finally gone.” The girl sighed softly. “Allright well I’m sure the bastard is waiting outside with a bunch of his goons. Why don’t I just-”

\tScr1pt yelped as Runa shoved her back into the chair the little bat rolling backwards into the nearby desk and looking up in confusion at her current captor.

\t“Oh no little one. No tricks. No getting away that easily.“ Runa growled “You aren’t going anywhere yet. Tell me about this Butcher.” Runa murred “Based on what he seemed to say, I am guessing you weren’t there to please the crew were you?”

\tScr1pt looked off to the side and blushed a bit. The poor girl was admittedly shocked and more than a bit embarrassed by the question. A situation not helped as the bunny pushed her palm against those inexperienced mons. “N-no. No they didn’t. Of course not. Butcher doesn’t work that way. I was… I was just the tech doll, that’s it.” The poor girl stammered and shivered as she tried to scoot the chair away from the physical contact. Her eyes glancing nervously at the two grown women now towering over her.

\t“Tech Doll?” Siv teased a bit as she slowly ground her palm in. She drew a few cute gasps and whiny moans from “What, they have a lil cutie like you and they just use you to break enemy networks? Seems like kind of a waste” Shi chuckled

\t“Y-yeah well. It’s not like I don’t know about, about sex and stuff” Scr1pt mmphed. She wriggled and writhed and tired to back away. Siv inching her way forward. Hot breath breaking on over that prettily pierced face. “I mean they didn’t care too much what I did when they weren’t usin’ me. Plenty of games have sex and stuff in em.” She said firmly and lifting her chin up a bit. The little bat looking between the two and putting on her best tough face.

\t“B-besides Butcher only hires mercs who like grown, muscley, masculine males. That way they keep their hands off the premo products. H-he figured a runt like me wouldn’t get touched.”

\tSiv chuckled a bit and shook her head running a paw though the girls hair. “Like I said, seems like a real waste. But at least that is one mistake we can begin correcting.” The bunny grinned a moment and scratched under the bats chin. Shi started to look Scr1pt over slowly and carefully. Far more appraisal than the poor teched out girl was likely used to. A slow and not at all pure examination of the little prize as she growled softly and wiggled her nose.

\t“Yeah well I.. I really don’t mind” Scr1pt muttered nervously. Her discomfort at the situation growing more by the moment “Though once you hand me over they’re probably going to ‘fix’ me so I can’t run away again.” Scr1pt winced a bit. That had been the threat made the last time she ran off, and this time she got the feeling it would be far more than threats and warnings.

\tRuna shrugged a bit and smirked “I doubt that will be an issue” she murred. A bemused grin hitting her lips. The wolf looked back a moment and waved her hand. The guards at the entrance turned and each stood at attention. Faces obstructed and bodies shrouded by those thick black armored suits.

\tEven with the data on who these two guards really were and what they really looked like, the pure visual impact of those blank figures with glowing red lenses set off every flight instinct the little bat had at once.

\tA paw wrapped around the back of Scr1pts chair and lifted it, dumping the poor girl hard on the floor. “You get enough data on her current hardware?” Runa asked. The striking Norse woman wearing a predators grin as she gazed over the defenseless little bat.

\t“Did a quick scan when she got here Mistress, and those thirty seconds were more than enough to ID her hardware.” Siv nodded eagerly “I can’t wait to get a few more parts in that pretty body of hers. Mmm and a makeover. Just because they don’t want to play with their dolls, that shouldn’t mean these idiots leave her all raggedy like this.”

\t“Hey!” Scr1pt grumbled as she tried to get up. The bunnys paw pulling her up before she could get very far.

\tSiv looked to Runa and bit her lip the moments bravado simply seeming to hide a wellspring of concern. “Mistress, are you going to be ok?” Shi asked softly.

\tRuna shrugged a moment and looked the two over “Take the girl in and get her set up. I’m going to prepare. I am sure the little runt is going to try making good on his claim.”

\tIt took a few moments for the poor bat to process what she had heard. Those big, pierced and slightly tattered ears perking hard “W-wait a second. You, you don’t mean… you aren’t gonna try and fight him are you? You can’t! Look, just like, give me a head start and tell him you never saw me or something. He’ll probably go easy on you.” Scr1pt bit her lip hard. She sure as hell didn’t want to go back to butcher… but she wasn’t a bad girl either. She didn’t really want to see anyone die over something this stupid.

\tThe wolfess chuckled a moment and moved out the doorway, past the guards. Both black-clad figures quickly lock-stepped back into position and walked their way up to the bat, gripping each shoulder and looking down at her with those thick, glowing lenses.

\t“You won’t need to worry yourself about any of that.” Siv chimed. The bravado in her voice clearly seeking to hide her fear, and failing. “Girls. Take our little friend off to the server room. We have something special planned for her.”

\tAny compassion, altruism or worry the little bat had for these people vanished in that instant as she felt the guards carry her along. The poor little thing screeching and squirming as she was walked slowly down the hallways and prefab buildings. Scr1pt paid enough attention to seek an escape route, but for once it seemed she had captors who knew just how to hold her own frail and narrow arms without worry of breaking bones or harming her. Whoever the mercs were they were professional. Far more so than Butcher and his crew. Not that the bar was very high on that one.

\tFinally they reached a rather large room with a heavy set of doors. Doors The first doors at the end of a hallway she had seen. The bunny in charge waved her hand and sent out the signal to open them, revealing a room full of painfully primitive computer banks and an admittedly workable QE rig at the center of it all. The large domed cylinder thrumming softly to keep the data receiving assembly cool and shielded.

\tThat was when it caught her eye, and she went stiff. Scr1pt winced a bit and started to struggle hard. Squealing and squeeking and squirming as she kicked her leg as she looked up in horror at the half-lowered metal cylinder resting at the back of the room behind the Quantum Entanglement rig.

\tThe thrashing wore her out quickly and soon the poor girl was left to just stand there in awe. Her jaw slack and eyes wide. A mass of cables hung from the tube and at the bottom was a thick pool of warm oxygenated goo. A bright LED light thrummed slowly from below the rim at the bottom causing the liquid to glow. Pulsing slowly as if the object was somehow alive… and waiting for her.

\t“You can’t be serious” Scr1pt muttered as she swallowed hard. “Why do you even have something like that around here?” She whined

\t“I take it you don’t approve?” Siv chuckled.

\t“Approve? Y-you can’t… I mean even Butcher was too good to use a Sapient processor unit. I-it’s not even stone knives and bearskins. It’s a fucking Rock!” Scr1pt knew all to well what she saw. In days long past starships and large would line up heavily augmented volunteers… or slaves in many cases… into tubes just like this. Putting their brianpower to work augmenting the primitive AI of the day. At best it was a temporary job carried out for a few years before the volunteer burned out. At worst…

\t“… Like fucking fuses.” Scr1pt muttered fearfully. Swallowing hard.

\t“I’m sorry” Siv giggled “Did you say something sweetie?”

\tTweak looked up and trembled a little. She wanted to pull away so badly, wanted to get away. This all had to be a bad dream. “Why on Terra itself would you keep something like this around? How? You can’t seriously expect me to-”

\t“Run it?” Siv giggled “You’re the one who seems to feel our AI isn’t strong enough little one. Besides, this is the chance you wanted isn’t it? Some way to escape? I mean I’m sure if you can beat our simple, primitive tech easily enough you can find some way to run before your dendrites all burn out.” She chuckled gently. A paw slowly caressed and scratched behind the poor bats ear tracing ever so gently over the jack with a small bemused giggle.

\t“Y-you know that isn’t how it works!” Scr1pt said with tears streaming down her cheeks. “You know what those things do. I… I swear I am going to make you pay, make you all pay if I find some way out of that thing.”

\tSiv chuckled and nodded a moment. “Oh I am sure you are. That is if you can get out of there. I mean if this really is as primitive as you say.” the bunny chuckled and licked hir lips wickedly. Shi slipped a paw behind that neck and stroked the bat girls fur softly a moment. A small little prick striking just behind the poor little bats left ear.

\tScr1pt slumped and shivered hard as the whole world swam. Her stomach lurched hard as the two guards gripped her tightly once more and slowly moved the poor little bat along the floor. All but dragging her along towards the thick cylinder as they picked her up and slipped her legs first into it. The fluid surrounded her slowly, welling up around her thighs and nearly reaching the brim of the tube as Scr1pts thin frame sank in. Her limbs twitching a bit on their own. Small restless shivers as she sank down into the goo and felt the two guards slowly hooking small pads onto her head and a nice thick socket against her data jack.

\t“Just… s… stop.” She muttered as the last few wires were hooked in and the guards stepped away. Scr1pt looked up and sobbed as the tub slowly closed. Feeling the goo starting to slowly rise, feeling the her limp and helpless body slowly encased and overtaken. Struggling to tilt her head up and away as it raised up her chest, then her neck, before finally overtaking her head. Scr1pt held her breath hard for as long as she could before finally gasping out and coughing. Her lungs filling quickly with the same fluid. Forcing its way in and replacing the sense of breathing with an odd drowning gasp that filled her body and ached so painfully.

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\tThat sensation only grew worse as the tube itself started to pressurize. Holding her body in place and slowly driving the girl up more, drifting up to the middle of the tube as her eyes slowly lulled shut just hovering in a blank sensation less nothing. Her head swimming hard. The wireless inhibitor shutting itself off, the socket forcing her jack to hardline mode. The world crashing down around her as her consciousness slipped into a large shimmering virtual void.

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\tRuna let out a small sigh as she looked up into the clear violet-blue sky overhead. A few clouds drifting along lazily and the sounds of birds off in the distance. As before she had donned her battle armor, though this time switching out the configuration slightly. Her left arm covered in a heavy pauldron that dipped down near the elbow and tapered off while the right one was far more lightly armored. The piece was designed to give her protection in a charge and was studded with additional shield generators to deflect and absorb incoming fire. Likewise her neck and lower muzzle were covered by a thicker georgette that ran along her lower jaw with points to connect the helm now draped under her arm.

\tWhatever puissant outfit had decided to test her mettle they seemed able to afford stealth fields and ECM on their armor or vehicles. Only faint traces of movement had been picked up to give Runa the faintest idea that the cowards were making good on their threat.

\tShe brushed the long, thick mane of brown hair clear of her augmented eye to get a better look. The dust cloud of a large ground vehicle was kicking up off in the distance. Heavier than the transport they had used to show up there last time and probably more able to stand the rigors of real battle. More importantly, it was more likely to withstand the automated defenses at the front of the camp.

\tRuna brushed her hair back and then quickly slipped the battle-scarred helm against her muzzle and down across her face. Her face and hair sealing in as it slipped down and slowly sealed into place, a long synthetic war braid hanging from the back and the paint scratched over her synthetic eye looking much like the actual scar she now bore.

\tRuna pulled the haft of her blade from her back and hit the activation stud. The long photonic blade snapped to life and sliced effortlessly into the air as she dragged it slowly along the ground. The lone figure slowly sauntering her way forward in anticipation of oncoming battle.

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