A Word of Warning:
This story is meant as a sequel to this story http: / masseffectkink. livejournal. com /3083. html? thread= 6658571# t6658571 that was written on the Mass Effect Kink meme, where writers can post, anonymously, their stories with few, if any restrictions, of what they like. That includes; dubious consent, non-consent, mind control and so on. The story linked about contains a copious amount of non-consent, since it was requested by a prompt in the meme itself.
Here is a summary if you want the shortened version as the story is rather long. Otherwise, continue to the next chapter for the real story:
START SUMMARY
Ashley Williams, Council Spectre, is called in to go undercover to an underground tournament in Omega where a Prothean Artifact is up for grabs. The stipulation is that only women invited by Aria can participate and with a contact provided by Liara T'soni, an asari commando named Rhia, Ashley attends the competition.
Once on Omega, Ashley encounters Karen Shepard, who is merely an audience member, but recruited a few of her own team members to stack the odds to win the tournament in Liara's favor. Shepard tries to steer Ashley away from entering the tournament, but remains condescendingly obtuse about its true nature. Enraged, Ashley leaves her and meets up with her contact, who also made it clear that certain details about the event were left out in order to obtain her assistance. To Ashley's horror, the tournament, Total Domination, is a spectator show comprised of female fighters meant to use lubricious methods to dominate, overpower, and utterly humiliate their opponents for the enjoyment of Aria and the audience.
Before Ashley attempts to bow out, other competitors, plus memories of Shepard's previous attempt to dissuade her from entering, taunt her and Ashley, not willing to take lip from anyone, stays in with her contact and partner, Rhia. Initially, Ash attempts to win with brute force, but finds the rules are made so that the entertainment of the audience, rather than her military training, are what enables one to win. Reluctantly, Ash gets into it and throughout the evening, exchanges glances as Shepard, in the audience, as though her former commander is still taunting her.
Later on, Jack and Miranda, entered as Shepard's request, approach Ash and her partner and request to simply beat them, as biotics are forbidden in the ring, instead of completely humiliating them. Ash and her partner agree, but never intended to keep their word, as Ashley holds no respect for Cerberus or for Shepard for not informing her about the tournament earlier, and is determined to win.
Other competitors are defeated quickly by an unknown participant, even the antagonistic and physically abusive champion from previous years, or drop out as Ash is forced, by Rhia, to beat her when the asari's confidence shakes, having come within a hair's breadth of victory several years in a row.
For the final round, Aria breaks Ash's cover, rendering the entire audience hostile to her presence, being a Council Spectre. She promises a better show when it is revealed that Shepard had pulled some strings, possibly by revealing Ashley's identity, and allowed her entry into the competition at the last minute.
Ash, fatigued, is forced to go against a fresh, and Cerberus enhanced, Shepard and finds victory utterly impossible. During their scuffle, Shepard repeatedly taunts Ashley, either by saying that the video had been hacked and recorded so as to show her family or claim Ash wanted to be intimate with Shepard the whole time. Ash resists, but is clearly outclassed and a timely ending of the round shortly prevents an inevitable defeat.
Despite her best efforts, Ashley is soundly defeated and during her humiliation, Shepard says that what she was doing, and what she intends to do, was not to be cruel or vindictive, merely to do right by her crew. And since Ashley had humiliated Jack and Miranda out of a grudge against Shepard, Shepard now does the same to Ash.
Ash is then horrified to learn that due to Shepard's victory, she is free to do with Ash whatever, and however, she wants for as long as she wants. Ash begs for mercy to Shepard, aware of the environment of Omega and what it could do to her. Shepard gives her word, however, makes no promises in regard to Miranda and Jack who return the humiliate her.
To add to the spectacle, Jack and Miranda then allow the audience to participate in the humiliation in a limited manner. For hours, Ashley is forcibly used. Once completed, Miranda and Jack once again humiliate Ash. When it seems that it's finally over, Shepard informs Ash, in a twisted piece of irony, that she never intended to keep her promise in the first place. And so, she gleefully utilizes a torturous sex toy to render Ashley unconscious.
When Ashley awakens, she finds herself within Aria's apartment, wondering why she's still alive at this point. Aria informs her that Shepard has left, and Rhia has been banished, rendering Ashley without a method of escape. However, Aria reveals that she already knew about Ashley long before and intends to let the Spectre go to redeem herself in the eyes of the Council, keep the Council out of her business, and acquire a favor from a Spectre, by allowing her to deliver the artifact instead, since the trophy Shepard received was a fake.
However, the stipulation is that Ashley is to preform intimately for Aria. Begrudgingly, Ashley agrees. After that, Aria then reveals that she had no intention of releasing Ashley or the Artifact and intends to keep the Spectre as a slave, since once the footage of the competition is released on the extranet, the Council and effectively everyone she knows, will have nothing to do with her.
Amid gloating, Aria reveals the trophy one last time, only to find a single rose in its place. Enraged, Aria demands to know what became of it, however, Ashley was in no position to do anything. With the guards summoned, she orders them to toss her out an airlock. To her shock, she discovers that all the footage from the tournament, in addition to the security footage to discover who stole the artifact, had been completely wiped and threatens the guards if they don't dispose of Ashley immediately.
When all seems lost for Ashley, Rhia appears, kills the guards, escapes Omega with Ashley, and becomes her partner when she returns to Spectre duty. Back at the Shadow Broker's base, Shepard informs Liara that it was her whole plan all along to use Ashley as a distraction to get the artifact in the first place with Kasumi. Knowing that Ashley will want retribution, she informed Tali to hack into the video feeds and keep her activities in the tournament as blackmail material. When asked how she can be so cruel, Shepard claims that she does right by her crew.
END SUMMARY
The intent of the story was meant to be the standard erotic story with a bent of non-consent. However, the author, admittedly, had serious misgivings when he completed it, as his original outline had not progressed as far as it did. Even the justification for a supposedly Paragon Shepard that went so violently Renegade out of nowhere; that Shepard looks out for her crew, felt poorly executed, as per his words.
The story, as it was written, left me unsettled, along with a few others. It had, to my surprise, bothered me so much that I felt compelled to write a sequel fill (With the permission of the original author), which dealt with the harsh reality of such fantasies when taken into the real world and out of fiction, since it was supposed to be fiction in the first place. Because I felt that the Shepard at the beginning of the story, seemed so Paragon, that for her to go completely overboard with torturing, humiliating and degrading Ashley, despite her not being my favorite character, was baffling. So, I had to come up with an explanation as to why and this was the result.
Writing this story turned out to be cathartic for me and in the end, helped me to find that writing itself is a catharsis for me. And now I share it with you. .
