going for a walk

Thanks to these collars, we now had access to quite a few more floors. It appears key areas are still blocked off but I was surprised to see that Holy Casket became available. To no one’s surprise that was Sanakia’s prime choice. Personally, I was more interested in the control area. After all, that might be the place to disable this blasted collar.

It took a lot of barking and begging but I eventually convinced Sanakia to teleport us there.

Compared to the sprawling floors we visited up until now, this place was almost quaint. As the name suggests, the surface control area was located above ground in a huge tower, that let one oversee the entirety of the island. More importantly however were the large array of devices, clearly intend to control and monitor the entire structure.

Naturally, I was in no position to operate these computers and I certainly did also not find a way to disable this accursed collar.

Sanakia petted my head. “Umm…I don’t think it is that bad if you have to be a doggie for 24 minutes, my Lady.”

IT WAS TWENTY FOUR HOURS!

But even once my “punishment” was over I would still have to wear this collar. If I can not take it off by the time I have my match...

…

Perhaps it would be better to not think about that.

“My Lady, watch this!”

Sanakia was gesturing towards a particular monitor. It currently showed a map of the section called Buoyancy staff. Of particular interest was 4F where two dots were currently moving about.

How curious. Could these be Sylphid and Lucky?

Sanakia seemed to have come to the same conclusion. “My Lady! I shall go investigate!”

That was a very, very bad idea. Of course I attempted to convey as such to the overeager Sexy-Knight.

“Wan! Wan!”

“No. I can’t take you with me! You stay here! Bad Lady! Ummm...sit!”

Argghh!

You witless moron!

“Wan!Wan!Wan!”

But my frustrated barking was completely ignored as Sanakia teleported herself away. I attempted to follow but was immediately shocked.

It was far too early to assume that these two dots were actually our comrades!

They might be monsters, automatons or whatever else crawls around here!

But even if I wanted to follow her, I could not operate the teleporter like this. Or even move without getting shocked.

Meaning there was nothing to be done but sit on my butt and stare at the monitor. Sure enough, a third dot appeared on screen. Common sense dictates that this one had to be Sanakia.

…

It took them quite a while but the three dots did eventually meet up. Alright, now all three dots have stopped moving. I suppose they are talking?

…

I shifted around uncomfortably. These watermelons we consumed earlier were quite juicy. I felt the urge to urinate.

They are still standing around. What is taking them so long? Two of the two dots got suspiciously close to each other. This must be Sylphid up to her usual shenanigans.

After a perceived eternity, the three dots finally started moving towards the teleporter. There, the three dots vanished only to show up in the supply core.

Ah, I see.

Sylphid and Lucky can not show up here without the Savage Collars. It made sense that they would gather these first.

Soon after I watched them teleport away again and arrive at the research core.

The research core?

I could understand the supply core but why would they visit the research core?

They did not immediately teleport themselves away again either. Instead they started exploring B1F.

What in blazes are these imbeciles doing?

I could only stare at the monitor completely dumbfounded. After being done with the floor, they repeated the same with B2F, followed by B3F.

Madness. Are they attempting to search this whole structure? We do not have time to cavort about!

And as an even more immediate problem, my urge to urinate has gotten really strong! But even if I attempted to ignore the shock to move myself, Touch Starved had long since kicked in and essentially turned me completely immobile.

Impossible, will I end up wetting myself were I sit?

…

..

.

“Who’s a good girl!”

Sylphid laughed and immediately cuddled with me while I could only let out a soft whine.

“Such a good girl! Yes you are, yes you are. Eeeek, she’s soooo cuuuuuute!”

She and Lucky were indeed wearing Savage collars, but unlike my own they were clearly not in punishment mode.

“P-Please do not trouble, my Lady, even if she is most adorable this way.” Sanakia busied herself with rubbing an anti-freeze all over my body, curing me from my most recent and hopefully last case of freeze. “M-my deepest apologies, my Lady. I...kinda forget about you. I will make it up to you by giving you double treats today.”

“Lucky girl!”, added Lucky.

I am not a doggie!

Sylphid stopped her coddling for a bit to grin widely at me. “Soooo, I heard from Sana you basically turned yourself into a busty brainiac.” She guffawed. “That’s so you, Handsome!”

I do not see the correlation between my current predicament and my intelligence.

“But no matter how much of a smarty pants you are”, Sylphid continued her teasing. “You still ended up as a Doggie. That must be extremely frustrating and mortifying. Especially with that arrogance curse. Man, I wish I could understand what is going on in that head of yours right now. It must be like zoom whoah! Eek!”

The only thing coursing through my mind right now is abject horror upon the sheer extend of your idiocy!

“Hmm...that angry blush is soooo hoooot! Hey, Sana can’t we keep her like this?”, Sylphid asked and scratched me under my chin. To my undying shame, it felt remarkably good.

“Most certainly not!”, Sanakia gasped in outrage. “Such undignified behavior does not befit my noble Lady!”

Sylphid booped me on the nose repeatedly. “But think about it Sana, if Handsome’s like this we can go on walks with her, have her perform tricks for treats and cuddle with her as much we want!”

Sanakia blinked a few times and then rubbed her chin. “You do make a compelling case.”

I WILL MAUL YOU!

In the end it took these half-wits over an hour to return. My angry barks were only met with more laughter.

“Sorry, sorry, Handsome!”, Sylphid laughed. “We had our reasons, I promise! Besides, the idea of having you patiently wait for us like a good girl was way too juicy to pass up!”

These girls have no idea about the vicious punishment I will inflict upon them the moment I will be able to talk again!

“T-that is right, my Lady!”, Sanakia quickly added. “For in our quest to free you from your bondage we were most successful!”

Sanakia proudly held up four small pieces of wood.

RETURNWOODS!

“I found them”, Lucky added with a giggle. “And that’s not all!”

Lucky held up a small remote “With this we can control these collars!”

Hm. I suppose this was the reason why they fooled around in the research core. Leave it to Lucky’s frightening luck to solve all our problems

“Yep”, Sylphid nodded. “We can now easily remove them or disable certain functions or turn Handsome’s Doggie mode on and off at the push of a button!”

I mislike how you phrased that last one.

Regardless, I barked eagerly, hoping to finally get rid of this humiliating condition.

Sylphid gave a nod. “Right away Handsome but fiiiiiirst..” She addressed Sanakia with her biggest smirk yet. “I think you need to take Handsome for a walk. She isn’t quite house trained yet.”

I am going to exterminate them.