The sensation of the feather tip carressing the inside of her arches was driving her crazy. Thrashing against the manacles and restraints as she bucked wildly, she hated being tickled, especially there. Her giggles had finally graduated to full blown laughter, riddled with occasional snorts which served only to make Pathos grin a bit wider as he started tracing random designs on the bottom of her feet with the tip. Sliding it between her toes Danny gasped as she squirmed in vain trying to escape from this insane torture.

Tears streaming down her face from the endless torment attacking her defenseless feet. Whimpering as he eased off the feather, only occassionally flicking it over her arches or toes, her breathing steadied some as she panted glaring at him. "Let mehehe go! just hehe stopp!," The feather made a quick figure eight over her left arch making her jump more. "Jsssttt stahhpp!!!," squirming furiously as his feather lightly danced across her toe tips. Taking a step back to let her relax for a few moments to calm her down before he began the second round of torture. "Now Danny, one might get the impression that you rather enjoy this by all that laughing...I guess i'll have to keep this up for a bit,"

"No! no no no no! what do you want!," She pleaded, still trying to understand what the point was her free toes curling up as she tried to pull away, still trapped by the stocks. "Let me go...please I'll never tell anyone you're here, i'll quit being a superhero and i'll move the other side of the world! just stop!,"

Paushing to muse the offer and grinned evilly "Hmmm I don't think so, see...i've found that this a interesting way to feed, at least until you go insane from all of it," Pulling out a stiff bristled hair brush. "This should work rather nicely don't you?" "NO!! Anything! I'll do anything! anything please!" She pleaded as he started to drag the bristles acrss her soft sensitive soles forcing her back into a series of panicked giggles.

Stroking the brush across her arches and pads Danny sobbed through the rolls of laughter, barely able to breathe let alone beg anymore, her feet turning rosy under the constant attack. Scrubbing the bristles all over her feet the poor girl was turning hysterical as she writhed uncontrollably under Pathos's unrelenting torture. Squrming against her restraints squealing with laughter as she tried to escape, her strength ebbing from the constant tickling that was upon her poor feet as she started to lose conciousness...

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Elsewhere in the city

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Tigress enjoyed her patrols of the park, it allowed her to kind of take things easy, the trees were nice and it was dark, exactly how she liked it. It reminded her of India some times, not that she remembered much of it, she was only five when they brought her to America. Lounging in a tree in her costume, a black leather like singlet with padded boots to help muffle sound.

Moving her dark eyes across the park scanning for trouble or for aynything really, she checked her communicator, it had been almost six hours since Danny had checked in, and on a night this slow it meant only three things 1) She found a fight and wasn't sharing, 2) Found a cute guy and wasn't sharing, 3) Was back at home asleep. Stretching and scratching the branch she was on, arching her back as she stood up right.

It was time to get up and start moving around again when she heard a noise that caught her interest, gun fire, sirens, laser beams. Grinning and jumping out of the tree and running full force towards teh sounds, some two miles away. The noise had disapated mostly by the time she arrived on scene, surveying the area she spotted the trouble. Arthur Bird aka Omega, a super genius super villain teenager, liked robots and things that went BOOM.

Oddly his normal robot was gone, he seemed to be trying out a new Powersuit, this one was tearing the police units apart. Sighing she commed over to Danny's communicator "Farad! i'm on 12th and Hoffman St, Omega's got a new toy get here fast!"

She hissed into the communicator as she zipped over to a over turned SWAT truck, wrenched the door the rest of the way off of the truck and hurled it at Omega. It hit Omega and bounced off of his back, bringing a chuckle out from the deranged sixteen year old. "Hey now...thats not too nice kitty cat,"

Tossing the last officer off down the road and turning to face Tigress, his face concealed behind a darkened visor. "Been waiting a for awhile for one of you old timers to show up," He taunted, knowing that he was the youngest superpowered being in the city, and enjoyed rubbing it in their faces, especially the females who were very tempermental about their age.

Tigress growled and bared her claws as she crouched and lunged the distance towards him only to be repulsed by a concussive blast. "Tsk tsk tsk kitty cat, you should know better by now, and to think I made this thing to fight Farad, but all i have to reallytest it on is you...*sigh* you'll have to do as a Beta test then,"

Firing a series of concussive blasts towards her, most them haphazard and missed, knocking cars and asphalt everywhere. Dodging nimbly as she maneuvered closer to him grabbing up a chunk of debris and hurling it at him, he zapped it out of the air as she rolled behind the cloud of dust it created and lunged at him again, this time connecting and feeling a surge of electricity course through her body before she let go, wincing and hissing in pain

Backhanding her into the side of the nearby bank, some two hundred feet away Omega closed in on her, taking the offensive now, throwing punches and kicks at her, most of the moves initiated by the Powersuit's combat computer rather than his own prowess. Parrying as best she could, her bones jarring with every hit and her body aching from the concrete it was put through.

Omega grinned behind his dark visor and activated the screamers, a loud anti-personal sonic device, capable of incapacitating normal humans, to a mutant with super-hearing it should render unconcious, which is what happened to Tigress as she fell to the ground clutching her ears trying to block the noise as darkness enveloped her vision.

Omega summoned his airship, drug her onboard, his computer checking her vitals, ready to warn him if she should wake up, or when her vitals neared levels close enough. It was time to test out another of his inventions back home.

About thirty minutes later...

Tigress woke up with the feeling of suspended in mid-air, not a good start to her day, it was a dark room but her enhanced eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness and noted that she was infact restrained, spread eagle style in some sort of ring that shackled her ankles and wrists apart. Grumbling some about him taking her boots, the poor things were probably trashed from the fight, her outfit had rips and tears all over it from being flung threw a wall and several cars.

Testing the restraints as best she could, they held even against her enhanced strength, pouting she slumped down some, well her head sagged a little, she was stretched as tight as could go without pain. This would be tough to get out of, especially alone, where was Danny at? The lights flicked on, blinding her for a minute as he eyes adjusted to bright light.

"Well well well Tigress, it appears I have you in my clutches at long last...was that too much melodrama? i can never tell these days," Smiling as he wandered in wearing a lab coat with a utility belt. Popping his knuckles in a well practiced flex as he stood in front of her, he was a short kid, standing about five foot three. "At anyrate I have no doubt that you're wondering what sort of insidious device this is, it is my masterpiece, a device of ultimate supreme torture, capable of breaking even the most iron willed superhero!"

Tigress felt her eyes drooping as she yawned. "It bores you to death? is that it?" Sighing he shook his head, pulled a remote out of his pocket and hit a button. Lights whirred to life, machinery started up in the background then it died and the lights flickered off. "Well...that was embarrising..." Omega said as eh coughed a little, dim emergency lighting came as he looked around. "Damn...that thing was expensive to build," Tigress faked a pout as she taunted him. "Awww...poor baby your toy broke? does someone need his mommy?" Turning red he stepped right up infront of "You listen here!" Poking her in the stomach, making her giggle before she gasped and turned bright red. "Wha...ohohoho..." He grinned evilly as she shook her head. "I didn't mean it really!"

Grinning he dropped the remote back into his pocket and flexed his fingers as the started running them across her tummy causing giggles to come rolling out as he lightly brushed his finger tips. "Hmmm you're very ticklish...must be that regeneration...keeps your skin from building up any form of tough skin, keeping it all super sensitive," Giggling madly as he tormented her tummy. "Nnnoooohhahahaaa!" Squirming frantically against the restraints her head bucking wildly.

Tune in Next time for the next installment of X-Tkl.