Page 23 of No Strings Attached

The squad leader walked over to her, squatted down, and put his nose directly into the blanket where it covered her pussy. He pulled in a deep breath through his nose, then stood and said, “Nothing.”

Vi made a grimace of disgust and thought,just one more humiliation for the lifetime therapy bill.

Qlu thought for a moment, then said, “Good. I think we’ll have this one moved from cage to chains and keep her here in the garden, since she won’t be a temptation to any of you. I have some activities planned for her, anyway, and it will be nice to keep her close.”

He gave a wave to one of the Trallians off to the side, who came forward and presented Qlu with a large wooden box. Qlu raised the lid and grabbed something, then thrust it forward at Vi. Confused at first, she slowly recognized that it was a huge, green dildo. She stared at in disbelief, then realized it had been modelled on the description of Garnox’s cock fromExtragalactic Love.

Before she knew it was happening, she burst out laughing. She actually lost partial control of her body and fell backwards a little, into Bobby, who easily caught her and held her upright. She turned in his arms and continued laughing with her facepushed into the crook of his arm as he held her up. She had tears streaming down her face, but she could…not…stop.

Eventually, she wound down enough to say, “What’s the matter Qlu, can’t get it up yourself?” while wiping her face dry and experiencing laughter aftershocks. Bobby kept his hands on her shoulders and stayed close to her back.

“Did you actually run off while I was reading so that you could have that made?” She chuckled some more. “Oh man, that is just…just…sad.”

Qlu had turned orange with rage. He stood up from his massive chair and stomped his feet, waving the dildo. “You won’t be laughing when they pound this into you!”

Vi looked at him for an exceedingly long moment, then coldly smiled, showing all her teeth, “Oh yes. Yes, I will. Because I’ll spend every minute of it thinking about how you don’t have any working equipment of your own to use instead of this pathetic, plastic dick-on-a-stick. I’ll laugh thewholetime, and you’ll know that I’m laughing atyou.”

Qlu screamed with rage, waved the dildo in the air, and stomped his feet like a child having a tantrum. He was almost apoplectic.

At the exact same moment, something boomed through the cavern. Bobby squeezed her shoulders in surprise, then they all turned toward the huge metal door as another boom came from it, this time accompanied by an unholy shriek that sounded an awful lot like, “Aye!”

Someone shouted, “the Garoxian!” and Vi whipped back around to Qlu, who was standing still in shock, eyes frozen on the door, just like everyone else. She shook out of Bobby’s grip and grabbed the giant green dildo from Qlu’s limp hand, swinging it and smashing it into the side of his head, dropping him. She gave him several good whacks on the head, body, and legs before any of his guards tried to intervene, but then Bobbywas there with his back to hers, baring his sharp teeth and making an extremely menacing hissing and growling sound. She could feel his thick tail slamming back and forth between her legs.

Vi dropped the dildo, grabbed the unconscious Qlu by the neck, and then twisted her body and let it fall into the chair. She pulled Qlu up by the neck and wrapped her legs around his torso from behind. “You motherfuckers better get that door open now if you don’t want me to kill your master!”

Given that these were slaves and she was threatening theslave master, she wouldn’t have been surprised if they had all just shrugged and let her do what she wanted to Qlu. Especially instead of letting a Garoxian into the protected space. But they were apparently very well-indoctrinated and rushed to get the door open in hopes of saving their master.

Acken and Mister Beastly burst into the cavern, swinging through the Trallians and sending them flying backwards. They made straight for her, still sitting in Qlu’s chair and keeping his unconscious body throttled. They simultaneously stopped, mouths hanging open comically.

She laughed, “Well, apparently Bobby and I make a good team, and you guys were an excellent distraction.”

Acken threw his head back and boomed laughter to the ceiling. Mister Beastly looked puzzled. A few seconds later, Trak appeared next to them and stood with his mouth hanging open.

She said, “Thank you, Trak. I assume you freed my saviors?”

He nodded, “Um, yeah. Although you…uh…don’t seem to have been in…uh…much danger.”

Bobby looked serious, “She was in danger. He was going to keep her here until the auction and do terrible things to her.”

Trak said, “Well, uh, good, then. Glad we could help.”

Vi looked around thoughtfully and asked, “So, do we own this asteroid now?”

They kept Qlu tied to one of the big trees in the garden, green dildo wedged in his mouth as a gag, while they started their housekeeping.

Vi walked past him and remarked, “That color looks good on you,” as she made her way to the Trallian staging area. Acken was rounding them up throughout the rock, while Mister Beastly was guarding the ones Acken dropped off.

First, they’d had to free the other captives. Trak had judged that he needed to send help quickly, so only took the time to free Mister Beastly and Acken. Vi wasn’t sure why he hadn’t let snake guy out, too, since he represented a pretty significant threat, but then she realized that none of them had really come to trust that he wouldn’t just as soon kill them as help them.

Vi, Bobby, and Acken had stood in the cage room after Trak led Friend, Caussus, Malachite, and Kompi—carrying the giant snail—back to the garden cavern. They stood, looking from the snake to the reanimated cyborg guy, and back. Vi finally turned toward the snake and walked over, looking up at him as he held himself high over her.

“Here’s the thing, snake guy. We don’t really care if you’re on our side to escape now, but we do care—really care—that you don’t kill us or betray us in some way. I get that you’re your own snake, not really a team type of guy, but there’s a difference betweennot with usandagainst us.”

“III aam not againssst you. Iii willl dooo nothing tooo betrayyy youuu. Youuu, and the Traaalllian, sssaaaved myyy liiife.”

Vi had shrugged and said, “Works for me. How about you guys?”

Acken had looked at the snake long and hard, then said, “I have heard it said that Ophidians are always honest. That is why no one likes them much, because of their brutal honesty. It’s also why they get used in espionage because they cannot be turned by an adversary.”

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