Your Next Challenge Is Here

We return from commercial break, with the image of a pineapple breaking off of a branch, and descending down to the earth into Skylar's palm. "Tada, welcome back folks." she gave an amiable wave to the camera then tossed the fruit up in the air, towards Olympias.

With her incredible body Olympias palmed the fruit without issue, prickles be damned. She held the fruit aloft like it was the sea shell of venus. This was by far the most beautiful, the most perfect of all the fruits that had been offered to them. And in her hands it was perfection, the circle found themselves staring at her and the pineapple mouths agape. She was... larger than life, glorious to behold. Their winner, their mistress, their pride.

Was it Helen's imagination, or did horns grow out of Olympias's head, ones that swirled around her head like a crown? Imagination... imagination they were gone now.

"Take a bite out of that and It'll purge you of any trait you want."

Olympias smiled, and set the fruit down in her lap. "I'll have to give it some thought."

Helen then gave her a nervous glance. What would she get rid of? Her? Her trait? Their trait? The trait had been a gift to her, Cleopatra's gift if she was being honest. Olympias' affection for her was an Artificial thing, one of Skylar's tricks. But Helen had genuinely fallen in love with the big overbearing lug. She'd taken care of her when she was a drooling idiot, a dog, herself, no one had ever loved her like that. But she knew she was an Anchor for Olympias. Everyone was talking about her great promise, how she could take this game over, but where were the points? Olympias had to play and run around just to keep Helen alive, why wouldn't she want to cut Helen loose? To be free of her. And then... Olympias had so many weeks of **** to take out on her... once her true self was restored.

"And that's the week everyone!" Skylar looked around the nervous room, who held now the terror of their new transformations, and the anxiety of what exactly it was that they'd become now that these traits had been sodered into their soul. "Time to start of the next, second to last."

"Oh no." Erica groaned. That line had an irregular sound to it, and irregular on this show was even worse than the usual.

"Oh yes." Skylar clapped her hands together. "We are very quickly careeeeeeening off the cliff of this show, and with just two weeks left we don't have any time to waste. That's why we're giving you a blast from the past for this week's challenge."

Erica bit pensively on her pacifier. Her informant whoever it was, hadn't mentioned this. Of course they hadn't mentioned the other back to back challenge either. Maybe they didn't know, maybe Skylar was springing these on everybody. Or maybe they just didn't want to confuse Erica with too many hints.

"Let's cast our minds back to the first challenge we ever had. Remember? Eight vengeful women come to you for ****? You used your brands to change their lives, them or their targets."

Mary and Elizabeth did not recall, but they'd been shown the challenge before they came on.

"Who could forget?" Olympias chuckled. She'd gone so hard on her target that she drove the poor thing into an Insane Asylum. She still visited Grace at least once a month, as was demanded by Eve during her first victory.

"Well we're doing a little redux of it. Challenge number six is about ensuring that all of you understand that Your master is truly the most important person in your life. As such, you must ruin your relationship with the person who previously held that position."

"What the fuck..." Boudica groaned. "That's just evil."

"Do it or loose." Skylar loved being in control. If they chose their old life they lost, if they truly wanted to win, then they would have to realize that master was the greatest good. She was a sneaky little bitch.

Mary tilted her head back, and laughed. "You're a cunt you know that, this is just too perfect."

"It's hard to imagine who that is for me." Helen scoffed. "Which of the many men who hoarded me like a prize could it be?"

Skylar nodded Helen's way. "Your targets will be uploaded to your phone, the shuttles will take you straight to your targets, and you have all week to do the deed. How you choose to ruin the relationship is up to you, but just know that we will consider using your brand to transform them enough. Performing such an act of evil on a loved one, should count don't you think?"

Olympias' face was set into a frown, more than usual. "Well I guess I know who I'm getting..." She sighed, and tossed her head to the side, not quite smiling. "...This should be easy for us mothers, what child hasn't proclaimed that we've ruined their lives?"

Helen thought about that, as best she could in her state. She hadn't even considered her own daughter making her list. How important could a person be if you abandon them for ten years? She tried to think of anyone in the whole wide ancient world she cared for. Her husband in some ways, Achilles in others. What a miserable life she had lived, was there no one alive who'd ever cared for her as a person, and not a prize? Yes, Priam, king of troy. Helen felt her simple heart break, and then realized it would be him. She had brought ruin to him, and his country, his family, his lineage, and he'd only been kind to her, treated her like she was his daughter, and not a plague. She frowned pensively, and began to dig at her fingers in anguish. This round would not be fun.

"What do you mean ruin?" Elizabeth asked her tongue flicking across her lips.

Skylar shrugged. "This round will be decided on by the audience, so it's up to their judgement. But ruin does conjure a certain image doesn't it?" She spread her arms, as gracious as any angel. "This is a gift. It's time to let go. Your former lives are over, we look now into the future. Scorn, betray, destroy any ties you have left to that miserably world you came for with it's petty chastities, and morals. Know now that your place is in the harem of hell, in perversion, in disgust, in ecstasy. Return to your homes as your true selves and discover what I have always known, that glorious Satan, your master is the only being in all the universe who could love you."