A Ferengi

The big eared, big headed, short figure looked at Mai in disgust. He grinned toothily at her. "Human women are so disgusting! They wear clothes! Females are not meant to wear clothes. I should blast you and strip you myself." To prove his point, he leveled a blaster right at Mai, who was not really in a mood to strip, but in less of a mood to be stunned and stripped.

Mai slowly removed her phaser from her utility belt and tossed at the feet of the Ferengi. "Who are you, and how did I get here?" she asked, raising her hands in a show of non aggression.

"I was about to ask you the same question, human. How did I get here? I was on the bridge of my ship." He bent down and picked up Mai's phaser.

"As I was too" answered Mai. "It seems we have both been kidnapped by someone. My name is Mai Seiki, and I am an Ensign aboard the USS Constellation."

"I think we have both been kidnapped from our ships, Mai Seiki" replied the Ferengi, a little less threatening. He slowly handed Mai back her phaser, assessing that they were both in trouble, and that there was probably safety in both of them being armed. "I am Jex Nandar, Captain of the Ferngi vessel D'Takri. I apologize for my rude welcome."

Mai smiled. "It's all right. I probably would have welcomed you much the same way, except for the stripping part." She looked around the smooth room the two of them were in. There were no visible doors anywhere to be seen. "There's no visible doors to be seen, so I wonder where we are. Is this some type of a holding cell, or what?" She started to walk around the room and feel the walls, hoping to trigger some hidden passage, or exit.

Jex caught on to what Mai was doing and started feeling his way along the wall in the opposite direction. They circled around the entire room. It was Mai who found it: A spot in the far wall that her arm went right through. "Over here" she called to Jex.

"We must be cautious" said Jex. "We have no idea what's on the other side."

"Our only other option is to stay right here and let whoever **** us come after us. I really don't care for that option either. At least if we go out there, we might have a chance of escaping, or finding a more strategic place to defend ourselves from." Mai looked at the Ferengi. "Are you with me?"

"You have good sense for a female" said Jex. "I agree. Whatever awaits us out there is probably better than being caged and cornered in here."

"Okay" Mai took a deep breath. "On three we'll both go through here together. Ready? One! Two! Three!"

The two plunged through the hidden opening together, weapons drawn. Both were shocked at what they saw before them. They tried to fire their weapons, but were immediately disarmed by swift, flying tendrils. Then other tendrils quickly wrapped around their arms and legs, effectively immobilizing them, lifting them into the air. Other tendrils probed them, and snaked under their uniforms, crawling up their legs and down their arms.

Mai felt all the tendrils meet somewhere around her belly button. Then she heard the sound of ripping, shredding material. She knew the Ferengi was about to get his wish. She was being stripped by the tentacles that crawled under her uniform. Sure enough, shredded pieces of her Starfleet uniform flew off of her, leaving her clad in only her pink panties and sport bra. She watched in horror as a thicker tantacle crept up to the crotch of her panties.