Reunited

In the end, she never broke. Even as Dogma tired again and again to tease and titillate her. To make her cry out and moan, beg for his touch or the touch of his machines. Lilly felt all kinds of torments in that bed. Her nipples were shocked with static, making her cry out each time. Her pussy was rubbed and stroked, robotic tendrils held her open down there as a metal dildo was sent to work. She moaned and tried to kick out, but her restraints held her in place and it stopped before she came. Again and again and again she was driven into a corner. Her senses blazed with want, her body shivered and shuddered, begging for his touch. Lilly had never felt so helpless, so absolutely defeated yet at the same time she held firm and strong. She gasped and moaned and writhed, shuddered and groaned. But she never begged. She never gave up. Never became the tamed pet that Dogma so clearly wanted her to be.

After what felt like ages, the restraints on the bed snapped open. Lilly had long since lost track of time and she lay there heaving for air. One of the Enforcers reached won, its metal hands locked around her and it half pulled, half carried her to her feet. Lilly's feet felt like led, her legs wouldn't take her weight. She moved awkwardly, not even really sure where she was going except that it was away from her. As the minutes ticked by, she began to recover herself. Her mind slowed and started to reform. She was gasping, but soon enough she was able to look and see where they were going.

The metal corridor had split off now. It entered a circular room which was lined with doors. A single corridor led upwards to the right, and it looked like it was the only way out. The robot didn't take her to that however. Instead it moved to one of the doors in the ring and the door slid open. Lilly blinked at the darkness beyond before she was shoved by a heavy metal hand. She stumbled inwards, and the door snapped shut behind her.

She spun with a shout, her fist rammed into the hard metal. It reverberated, and she could tell by the touch of it that it was augmented metal, made for holding supers. Not strong enough to stop her if she really tried, but...

Not as long as Frostfire was also in danger.

She sighed and turned. Her body was still trembling. She hoped vaguely that there was a shower in what she assumed was to be her cell. Surprisingly, there was. The room was actually quite large and looked more like one of those fallout shelters that you saw sometimes than an actual prison. There was a shower area, a small area fenced off for sleeping with a large bed. A table and even a small kitchen area with a limited but present amount of food.

She blinked in surprise. That was _not _what she had expected. Then again, she supposed it made some amount of sense. Dogma wanted to break her, he wanted to make her into a little pet for some reason. As much as it made her shudder in distaste, he wanted to use her body not destroy it. There was food here, and a shower to clean herself. A proper bed to sleep in. All to maintain her looks rather than for her own good.

Well, it didn't matter to her. She didn't intend to stay for long.

"Lilly? Is that you?" A voice came from the shadows. Lilly turned around, realising that she had missed someone in her sweep of the cell. She had a brief glimpse of white coloured hair and a pale, naked body before the other woman caught her up in an embrace.

"Holly!" Redwing cried out, freezing for a moment before she drew the other woman deeper into the hug. She felt Frostfire's body pressed against her own, their naked skin made contact and her stimulation starved body writhed for more. She pushed it aside, instead simply enjoying being near her old partner. After a moment they broke apart. Each of them took a long look at the other. Both were naked, though there was no shame in either of their eyes. As Lilly had said back in Dusklord mansion, they'd seen one another changing or getting washed plenty of times when they had worked together.

Holly Johns had pale skin and a limber body. Her arms and legs were toned, though of a slim build. Her hair was as white as the snow, and she wore it cut short. Like Lilly, she had not been allowed to keep any clothes. She was slightly shorter than average.

For a moment, Frostfire looked happy that she was here. Then her face fell as she realised exactly why Lilly was there. A frown crossed her features.

"So they got you too, huh?"

Lilly shrugged.

"It was a close fight but that shadow woman managed to bring me down with a cheap shot. I won't fall for it again. Never mind about me though, how have you been? What's been happening? Has Dogma...?"

"He's done a lot," Holly said. "He's been trying to break me down. Make me into his slave."

She gestured to the table where two seats had been placed. Holly and Lilly moved to them. The cold plastic felt chilly against her backside but Lilly ignored it. She focused instead on her friend.

"He's been trying to do the same to me," Lilly admitted. "But I think he thinks real life is a bad porn. That he can just molest me into wanting to serve him. " She rolled her eyes. "For a supposed genius, he's an idiot."

Frostfire smiled. Her face was delicate looking and fine. she had hazel eyes.

"I think he wants something from us," Frostfire said. "Beyond just being slaves, I mean. He's dropped hints now and then that we have some sort of grand destiny. Did he say anything like that to you?"

"It's hard to recall," Lilly admitted. "I was, um, pretty distracted. But I think he said a few things along that way. I didn't know what he meant, though. How did he get you? His power has been cut in half. Was it the other one, the Shadow Lady?"

"Shadow Lady?" Frostfire blinked. "Is that what you call her? Well, yeah, that's what happened. I fought him for a while when he showed up in the park. It was a trap but I thought I was handling. Then, just when I had him on the ropes, this woman came out of nowhere trailing darkness. Smacked me into the wall hard. Don't remember much after that. I woke up here. Her power is like something I've seen before. Dusklord, I think."

"Yeah, she's his mother."

Frostfire blinked.

"What, really?"

"Yeah."

"Really?"

"...Yeah..."

"Damn. Is he involved in this too? last thing we need is a team up between two of the strongest villains in the city."

"He's not involved," Lilly said.

"You sound really sure about that."

"The situation is....complicated but I can assure you he's not involved in this." She did _not _want to explain to her former partner that she had spent the last few days pretending to be the slave of her former nemesis who now might be her boyfriend. Nor did she want to explain her new relationship status to her fellow hero at this point either. She could just imagine how awkward it would be.

Unfortunately, she'd forgotten how well Holly could read her.

"Lilly?"

"Yes?"

"There's something you're not telling me."

Lilly felt her cheeks flush with blood.

"N-no there's not! Everything is fine!"

"You've been on patrol for a long time now..." Frostfire said slowly. Her eyes had narrowed. Lilly could see the light at the end of the tunnel and it turned out it was an approaching train. "And Dusklord hasn't been seen since. You seem pretty sure he's not involved. The two of you aren't..."

"We're nothing!" Lilly said. "Just hero and villain, that's all there is!"

She looked up.

"You're not buying this for a second, are you?"

"Not even slightly."

"Right. Well. Um. I don't want to give you the full story because its really confidential."

"Confidential." Frostfire raised an eyebrow.

"Very secret! I can't tell you what we've been doing but, um... well, the two of us are sort of an item now..."

"You're dating Dusklord?"

"Well, we haven't actually had any dates in the traditional sense but we're sort of together, so..."

"Have you fucked him yet?"

"Holly! That's not the sort of thing you ask."

"Lilly, we're naked in a cell. Inside of what is almost literally a sex dungeon. Belonging to a mad villain who is trying to break us into his slaves. If there was ever a time to be circumspect about sex, that time was so long ago that it went zooming past and is now up ahead again."

"Well when you put it like that," Lilly sighed. "Okay, maybe we've had sex once or twice. I genuinely think that he's a good guy! I mean, not a _good _guy. Obviously. But he's not like, super evil or anything. He follows his own rules. He doesn't hurt people who don't hurt him. Pays his people well. Doesn't cause trouble for those who can't afford to deal with it."

"I can't believe that you of all people have fallen for him! It's like bad shipping online! You're his nemesis! The two of you are supposed to hate each other!"

"Well, we never really did that," Lilly said truthfully. "We just sort of fought each other. We never really hated one another. And he's getting out of being a villain! _and _he has a tiger! His very own tiger."

"You mean the zoo's tiger."

"I've tried to get him to give it back," Lilly sighed. "It's probably a lost cause. If it helps, it's a very happy tiger?"

"It does not." Frostfire said. "Whatever. We've got a situation to deal with but we're totally going to talk about this later. Do you know what's going to happen if villains think they can just start seducing us into letting them get away? I get more than enough unwanted dick pictures already thank you!"

Lilly laughed despite herself and after a moment, Holly did two. The two women were, in spite of their condition, genuinely happy to see one another again and expressed it in a form of chortling laughter. Lilly didn't know what to say. That was why she was distracting herself with such normal chatter. It was just so good to see her friend unhurt and unbroken.

Suddenly, she had a terrible thought which stabbed through her heart and froze the laughter in her mouth. She looked around and then upwards, seeing the camera pointing down towards them. A frown formed on her face.

"I suppose that bastard is watching us even here, huh?"

"He was," Holly nodded. "But not right now. What, did you think I was just sitting here waiting to be rescued like a good little princess?"

Lilly shook her head with a smirk.

"Of course not. I should have known better. What have you been working on?"

"I've been learning," Holly said. "Listening to what Dogma has said. I pretended to be broken like he wants me to be. Done what he asked of me. It wasn't fun but I've been able to learn almost everything that I needed to know."

"Do you know why he wants the two of us?"

"It's not just us," Holly said. "He wants as many female supers as he can get. Not just heroes either. Villains too. He knows something is coming. Something big."

"The end of the world," Redwing said. "Or at least, something as good as. The Shadow Lady is going to bring it about. You know how it is. The old ''end the world of light and heat, usher in a new age of shadow and darkness'' thing."

Frostfire winced.,"Ah. That old song and dance. She knows she has to go through Avatar first, right?"

"I don't think she cares about that."

"She will when she meets him," Holly said fervently. "I've seen him fight seriously all of once and it was terrifying."

"Dogma gave her the key to do it," Lilly said. "I am not exactly sure what that means, but he did something to allow her to bring it about. In return she's working with him for now. She brought him to other worlds where he got his technology - the Enforcers and the collars among other things."

"That makes sense," Frostfire said quickly. "The end of the world thing, I mean. At first I thought Dogma was getting another group together. You know, a team to carry out some grand plan. Minions and henchmen and the like. But the more I looked at it the more it didn't seem to be that. I figured it out a day or so ago. It's not a group, it's a cult. He wants to build his numbers and then hunker down somewhere. Survive whatever is coming and emerge to rebuild. Since he's the only one who knows it's going to happen that means he'll be the one who emerges the most prepared. Supplies, weapons, food. He's going to stockpile it all."

"And us?" Lilly asked. "What is our part in all of this?"

"Babies," Frostfire made a face of distaste. "He wants us to be broken sex slaves for his chosen elite. You know how powers can sometimes be inherited? Well he figures that our powers are useful enough to have on his side so he wants us to pop out little soldiers for him who can inherit them. Once we're broken, his plan is literally to whore us out as payment to his men. Not just us either. As many female heroes and villains as he can capture."

"That's not going to happen," Redwing said firmly. "I am not going to be broken by him and you're clearly not either."

She thought for a long moment, trying to fit the pieces together. To come up with some sort of plan.

"You said that you're pretended to be broken?"

"That's right," Frostfire flushed red. "I wanted to know what was up and the guy had a massive ego. All I had to do was pretend that he'd shown me the whore I was - his words, not mine - and he answered almost every question I asked. For a smart man, he's one of the dumbest people I've ever met."

"All right," Lilly said. "You keep pretending to be broken. I'll keep resisting him. That way, he'll be torn between the two of us. Maybe he'll say something more to you out of frustration if I refuse to break. We also need to try and find a way out. But for that, we need to deal with this."

Lilly stepped forward and slipped her hand around the collar that Holly was wearing. it felt cold and hard, a red light flashed as she touched it. A warning.

"Your powers are totally blocked, aren't they?"

"I can't do anything."

"Mine aren't, but if I try to escape then the collars will detonate. Mine is fine - I can take it. But you'd die in an instant."

Holly stiffened.

"That's fine," she said. "I'll take the risk. I'm willing to die to stop someone like that from-"

"Don't be stupid," Lilly chided her. "What did I teach you when you were younger? People only start to talk about dying when they feel they've been beaten. We're not nearly that badly cornered yet. We have you and me. Dusklord is coming, I am sure. Beyond that, Dogma doesn't know you aren't on his side. He's probably hoping the sight of you broken will drive me to despair. All we have to do is figure out how to disable your collar and we're home free."

"What about that shadow woman? She trashed me. Even if I knew she was coming, she'd still be able to kick my ass, powers or no."

"Oh don't worry about her," Redwing said as her eyes hardened. "She got me once by surprise. Next time she won't be so lucky."

Lilly turned suddenly as the door to the cell started to move aside again. She wondered if it was Dogma or another enforcer but instead a new figure stood outlined in the doorway. He was a heavyset man who looked to be in his forties. Powerful build, but not extremely so. He looked more like a henchman than a super in his own right.

"Who are you?" Lilly demanded.

"This is the guy who is helping to hide us from Dogma's scanners," Holly said. "One of the new recruits who it turns out isn't as loyal as Dogma thinks he is."

"Yeah, that's right." The man stepped forward. He nodded to them both in turn. "I've been a henchman for most of my life. I've done some pretty bad things, but nothing ever like this. Dogma isn't the sort of guy I want to run loose, you know? But I don't have the sort of power to stop him myself. What I can do is help you two ladies out."

"Most of the time I've spent here so far was used either pumping Dogma for information or making contact with Henry here," Holly explained. "At first he didn't trust me and I thought that he might be a plant. He is a plant, but not one meant for us."

"I was sent here by someone else," Henry grinned, "And just happened to be in the right place to really screw with that bastard's plans. Here's how it works. Dogma's security system is advanced as hell and tracks your collars. I can't let you out without it screaming a warning and getting me killed. That wouldn't help you anyway - your collars would still go off. I can't turn them off either. I don't have access to that part of the system. But I can play with the security cams, the doors. Little stuff like that."

"All right," Lilly said. "_All right, _I think I know what to do next. We can't call in the league of heroes because then Dogma would just use the two of us as hostages against them. Don't know about you, Holly, but I do _not _want our friends to see me like this."

"You can say that again," Holly nodded fervently.

"But we can still get some help," Lilly went on. "Henry, can you get something for us if I tell you how to? Nothing too big. About the size of my palm. Getting it in might be dangerous but we really need it."

"I know the danger," Henry said. "Ever since I came here I've seen what sort of nutcase Dogma is. He's killed two spies already, you know? And not cleanly either. Bastard. But I'm not scared of him. If you tell me what you want, I'll do my best to get it."

"In that case, here is what we're going to do..." Lilly said. "Everyone come close, I think I know just how we can turn this around."