Chapter 5

“I think I found something, Slave Kim.”

“What did you find, Master? Oh, it looks like a heap of junk from a battle. Do you want me to come over to you?” She could see a video from EB’s primary camera as its manipulators moved through the various fallen robots.

“I don’t think that’s necessary. We can meet back at the panel faster. Why don’t you join me there.” He had picked up an interface probe and looked it over before dropping it to scavenge between another robot.

“What was that you picked up ... It looked like ... Never mind.”

“That was a slave communication interface. The dual purpose type that the cat bot had that you took in your anus.”

“Don’t tell me that!”

“I can give you a video if you like instead?”

“No, Master EB, don’t tease me like that.”

“I’m detecting signs of arousal in your voice, Slave Kim.”

“No, that’s not true. So please don’t tease me and call me that.”

“As you wish, Slave, I’ll meet you back at the panel once I find what I’m looking for.”

Kim could only pout as she stood there naked in the hallway. She sighed as she reached up to rub against the collar she still wore, her fingers stroking along the various modules attached. Kim shivered when she realized what she was doing and what those modules could do to her. And she couldn’t help but blush as she felt the charge of excitement go through her. ‘Really, I’m not like this.’ She thought to herself in denial.

Her hands next moved to the rubber straps that hung around her neck and went down to the large rubber ball that continued to bounce against her neck whenever she moved. She’s not sure why she kept it, but she saw that EB was still holding onto other straps. She was getting distracted and lifted the ball up to her mouth to feel it with her lips. What am I doing? She asked herself and quickly let go of the gag and started to walk down the hallway to retrace her steps.

She had found that EB hadn’t arrived by the time she did, so she decided to try to get a sight of the hanger bay with her own eyes. See how much of a problem it would be. She moved to the ship’s corridor and bit her lip with indecision. “Oww, I can’t keep doing that.” She made another bad decision and decided to rectify the lip biting by putting the ball into her mouth.

Damn it, this is exciting! She decided to creep down the hallway towards the ship. She did her best to keep from being seen, not that there could be anyone to see her. If they find me, I don’t know what they’d do.

“I’m at the panel, Slave. Where are you?”

She let out a gasp into the gag. At least it was muffled, but she heard the motions stop down the hallway. She didn’t know if she had been heard, and that fear caused her to shiver even more. She was a naked, collared slave girl wearing a gag trying to sneak up on unknown robots.

And she couldn’t even answer her Master. No, she couldn’t answer EB. She had to call him Master, but he was still EB. Activity resumed in the hanger bay, so she started to creep away from it to get back to the hallway. All the while, her teeth were clenched around the ball gag in her mouth.

When she finally got far enough away that she couldn’t hear the noise of the working robots, she got up and ran for it. ‘But, oh god, oh god that ... oh’ that was scary.

“There you are, Slave. Why are you wearing the gag?”

She blushed deeply and looked around, trying to spot the stealth drone that EB was using. But unfortunately, she couldn’t figure out where it was without any frame of reference. So she quickly covered herself, trying to protect her modesty, blushing profoundly and looking like a girl caught masturbating in the bathroom by her parents.

“Did you get lost? You should get back here so we can go over the next step.”

Kim looked down in embarrassment and started to walk back reluctantly. “Hurry up, Slave, you look like a kid that will get a spanking. You don’t want a spanking, do you?”

She shook her head and moaned into the gag, and started to jog towards where the panel was. She finally got there and remembered to take the gag out of her mouth, “Um, Hi Master EB. Did you find everything you needed?”

“For the most part, Slave. So why were you wearing the gag?”

“Umm ... Well ... You see...”

The camera drone moved closer, “You’re not going to try to lie to me, are you? That’s what a bad girl does, and bad girls get punished, right, Slave?”

“Eep, No.” She didn’t know why but this situation caused strange feelings in her, “When I got back here, you weren’t here, so I wanted to see the cargo bay with the ship in it with my own eyes.”

“But I gave you a camera view of it earlier, Slave. So why do you need another view? And you could have just asked. There’s a stealth drone there now.”

“I ... I didn’t think of that, Master EB.”

“And why were you wearing the gag?”

“I ... I bit my lip when I got to the corridor leading to the cargo bay. I didn’t think that was a good idea, so I used the gag to keep from biting my lip some more.”

The AI paused and looked over the naked woman, “You’re not lying. But you seem excited and aroused, more than you were before. Did you run into more of that goo, Slave?”

She shook her head quickly, “No, Master EB, I didn’t!”

“So this is the normal you? I see that bad decisions aren’t only caused by the goo then, Slave.”

“I can make good decisions, Master EB!”

There was a suspicious pause there, “Fine. Right now, I need to hack into the panel and hopefully into their system. I’m sure many alarms will be set off, and you will need to distract the bots. And lead them away from here.”

“Won’t they come right here?”

“I don’t think they’ve mapped the tunnels. They didn’t seem to be following any direction, so they’ll have to search for the tunnels to get here. You must keep them from this tunnel until I can finish hacking.”

“How long is that going to take?”

“I’m not sure, maybe 10 minutes. It depends on how distracted I am, Slave.”

“Oh, ok. So you want me to lead the Commonwealth bots away while you’re hacking?”

“Yes.”

“I can try to do that. And there was that battlefield you found a little away.”

“What are you thinking about?”

“Well, if they think that I’m a slave girl. And chase me, I could make sure to lead them to the battlefield, or at least in that direction to make it more believable?”

“They’re machines. They don’t believe in things, Slave.”

“Oh, that’s too bad.”

“But you’re plan might work. If we can increase the possibilities for them to believe that you’re a slave girl sent out scouting and then run back towards where they met the slaver bots before, they might calculate things based on that and follow after you.”

“Well, I have the collar, so that should be good, right?”

“I calculate a 45% chance that they would believe that if they could see it. The problem is that your hair might get in the way of their visual sensors.”

“And, if I’m running away, then they might not see it and only see a naked human girl.”

“Yes. So we need to increase your disguise.”

“How do we do that, Master?”

EB picked up one of the metallic ropes and looked at Kim meaningfully, “Put this back on your arms behind your back, and they’ll see it.”

Kim shook her head, “But my hair is pretty long. I’m not sure they’d be able to see it through the hair.”

“You have a point, Slave. We could braid your hair and maybe add an ornament or two to help with the disguise.”

“I guess that will work, but I’ve never been too good at braiding my hair, and it’s probably a mess.”

“It is a mess, but it should be fine if we give it a loose braid.”

“So where’s the battlefield? How do I lead them to it.”

The blindfold and gag were removed from Kim’s forehead as EB explained the fastest way to get to the battlefield. He moved the camera drone behind Kim and ran the manipulators’ fingers through her hair like a coarse comb. Working out any of the knots he could find and getting it to be more manageable.

Kim stood there as the camera drone braided her long hair in a relatively loose braid. When the drone got closer to the end, it took an O-ring that EB found at the battlefield, threaded the tail of hair through it, and then back-braided the remaining hair to keep the ring in.

Kim looked at the ring and her hair, “That’s interesting. But couldn’t I get caught by it?”

“Yes, so you’ll have to ensure you stay ahead of the robots. But it should flash in the light as you’re running. Think of it like the light an anglerfish uses.”

“Oh, I’ve never heard of those, Master.”

“Then don’t worry about it. Now place your arms behind your back, with your wrists together.”

“That’s different than what we did ... Ohh, that’s tight. I can feel my elbows pressed together. Like the first time, the drone bound my arms.”

“Yes, the rope will be more visible this way. And if you work at it, you might be able to grab this with your hands like this.”

She pulled on the rope from wrist to elbow and the second one that continued up her arms, pulling her arms even tighter. “Can I get a picture of this? Turn it off, turn it off, Master.” She said with embarrassment.

“What’s wrong?”

“It really pushes my breasts forward as if I’m offering them, and, and it really shows how naked and vulnerable I am, more than the other way, Master.”

“That’s the point, Slave.”

“Ooh, I guess so. Let’s do this then.”

“If you’re ready.” The robotic hands came over her head and pulled the ballgag back into her mouth. Kim let out a surprised cry that made it easier for the drone to tug the gag into her mouth. The straps were tightened down, so there was no way to push the ball out with her teel. She muffled out a complaint at the floating camera drone, but the only response she got was for it to place the blindfold on her forehead again.

She tried to complain again, and it picked up the paddle. Kim decided that now was a good time to escape and ran towards the corridor intersection leading to the ship. She couldn’t help but squirm as she stood there, waiting to draw the bots away, her thighs rubbing together. I need to let them see me enough to identify me and chase me. She blushed brightly. ‘I need to let them see me! Oh no, I don’t like this plan now. What if they record this and show everyone? Maybe if I hide around the corner they won’t see me till I start running, then they’d just see my back.’

Kim rubbed against the Behemoth’s wall as she peeked around the corner. She couldn’t help but chew on the large gag in her mouth, waiting for the Commonwealth robots to start advancing. Her thighs were also rubbing together as the fear and excitement started to drive her.

She didn’t have long to wait as she heard several bots coming down the passageway. She kept her head around the corner. The heavy O-ring EB had braided into her hair was hanging, providing a little more risk for capture. Seconds passed like minutes, and then she saw them.

Four sentry bots were walking down the hallway. All of them were of the same model, or close enough that Kim couldn’t tell. Each was a tall humanoid robot, almost twice as tall as she was. Each was carrying a weapon that scared and excited Kim. ‘Am I an adrenaline junkie?’ She asked herself as she kept watching the sentry bots.

One thing that surprised her was that each was partially covered with the same organic matter that made up the walls of the Behemoth.

She watched them come closer and chewed on the gag in her mouth. One spotted her and raised its weapon, and she barely had enough time before something came her way and impacted the far wall of the tunnel she was hiding in. Goo spurted out, and she narrowly avoided it. What are they shooting? I don’t want to get hit by that.