Of Mice and Warriors
Albotross groans as he comes too, caged up and in chains. He can feel the electricity coursing through it all.
Dumbass think before you leap, thats always been your motto. Well till the other night, but thats beside the point. He thinks as he tests the chain length. He can walk far, but can only reach a distance of ten meters around, and the cage walls are five meters further than that. He gives the chains a little pull and it shocks him for it. He goes back to the center his cage where the chains originate and sits. Nothing much he can do with his legs and hands chained down to the ground.
He hears a door unlock a short while later to his left and then footsteps coming around. He trains his eyes on where the footsteps are coming from and where they stop.
"No way! I gave him enough volts to knock him out for a week. How is he up already!" A female voice raves. Yeah thats Penelope alright. Hard to forget a voice that nasaly. He thinks, then he chuckles audibly, and he hears something drop from where Penelope should be.
Carson growls and Albotross hears him press a button. Albotross watches as the cage walls brighten and become like glass revealing Carson a few feet from the cage looking down at him.
Albotross growls back, "Hello old man, mind telling me why I was shock collared and am now in a cage? Or do you want me to kick your ass first, if so come on in and I'll tear you a new one!" He rants as he watches Carson's reaction. Then he gets up to stand at his full height, five foot eight making him three inches taller than Carson. And then squaring out his shoulders to make it look like he's ready to fight.. Penelope is next to a console watching what he guesses is monitors of his heart rate and resistance.
He gives a pull and she reaches to set it off. He drops the smile and the chain he's about to rip out the ground. When he does that Penelope backs away from the console button. Then Albotross sits back down bored of watching Carson fake bravery .
"So Penelope I'll ask the question that I've been asking myself, why are you here and why work for the man claiming to be my birth father, cause I've seen no proof otherwise." Albotross says as he glares at Carson.
Penelope doesn't answer, instead Carson flips his wrist showing a cut that's quite fresh. Albotross looks down at his own hand and a similar cut is their.
"We are child and parent boy. We share the same blood, tests proved it, if you don't believe me." He tosses a paper in to the cage through a slot in the cage wall.
On it is blood tests showing that Carson and Albotross are indeed related by blood, and DNA proves Carson is his birth parent.
If this is what my mother had to deal with then I'm glad she ran away. Albotross thinks as he looks at the man who sired him. The air about him reeks of "Obey or die" and frankly Albotross would rather die.
Albotross tosses the papers back at him then removes the wrap on his hand, and reveals his hands healed. "Problem is, father, that I heal faster than normal." He throws the rag down and stands up to do some stretches. Through all this Penelope stands by her console checking everything.
Time to give them both a little scare. He triples his heart rate and the machine goes off like fourth of July. He chuckles as they both go running around trying to see what's wrong. He regulates it then after a good laugh of watching them run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
Albotross sits again as they finally calm down. Carson walks over to Penelope and smacks her. While right now he doesn't like her even he can't watch a women be abused.
"If your machines fail me I will hurt you worse woman. Now I have to go prepare for tonight's guests, if he isn't ready then you'll be tonight's entertainment. Do you understand?" Carson says, Penelope doesn't look him in the eye but nods. Carson looks at Albotross then walks to a door and then up stairs behind them. Albotross waits till he's gone.
"Penelope, why do you listen to him, I mean I've been here what, a day, and only up for a couple hours, so tell me why you follow a man who abuses you?" Albotross asks as he fingers his cuffs. She checks his readings.
"You wouldn't understand, you've lived a safe life. I've been in his employ for a couple of years, and he pays good. I need a way to make a living. And if I show myself I could end up in jail again. So stay out of my life kid." She says, he feels the pulse of electricity and reacts to it like she wants.
It doesn't really hurt him so he just acts like it hurts. He falls to the floor and starts screaming and convulsing as the volts of electricity rushes through him. She stops it then goes back to checking the monitors.
He waits till she is pre occupied and undoes the locks on his cuffs. He removes the left first flexing his wrist, making circles and small sparks dance on his extremely dark grey fur. Next is the right one, he cracks his wrist and knuckle, more sparks flying off his fur. Finally both his leg shackles stretching his feet as far as possible popping his ankle.
She doesn't noticeany of this as it happens. Albotross mentally hacks the computer system and he sees all the cameras that the house holds. Still Penelope doesn't see him till he stands up and knocks on the glass.
She jumps Back startled, then looks at him then the dials which must still be going. "How did you get out? Those locks should be unlockable and they were how I was tracking your heart rate." She says with a gaping awe struck face. Albotross just smiles and hides the sparks coming off his back.
"Oh, my bad, I stopped caring about those locks a while ago, and as for how I got out, come closer and I'll tell you some things that should help clear somethings up. As long as you don't tell dear old dad." Albotross says. Penelope thinks it over looking at the door worried.
On one hand she'd have something to hold against Albotross, on the other she might not like what she hears because of what Carson said already. She then walks over to the cage next to Albotross deciding that the good would out way the bad.
"Ok, so you were right, my life was very comfortable. But it wasn't easy, not by a long shot. I have been trained by my family to work the family business. My dad taught me how to open locks that are supposedly unlockable. And how to use martial arts skills. My mother taught me to shoot a range of weapons. My uncles taught me to fight hand to hand and make bombs." He says watching as her face changes from interest to awe.
"And do you want to know who my family is?" He asks as she watches him like he's a famous man she's dreamt of. She nods vigorously her head nearly falling back.
"My adoptive father, is Sly Cooper, married to Carmelita Fox. And my uncles who helped me train, are Murray in combat, and Bently in technology." She sucks in a breath, then lets out a puff of breath. "Well that explains a lot, you seemed a little to laid back to be truly trapped." She says matter of factly turning away.
"Oh did I say I was finished. Well guess you don't want to know my secret." he says like it's no big deal. This gets her attention quickly and she turns back to the glass with a quizical interest. Albotorss smiles widely and shocks her in two ways. He lets volts of pure energy fly his off hands, filling his cage then pooling right back into him. Then he literally shocks her, getting her leg to make her hop for a second to get feeling back in the limb.
"Wanna know about that now? And sorry for the shock, sometimes it's hard to control, but payback for knocking me out was due." He says, watching her grinning a little herself. She nods again slower not expecting much from him this time.
"So as I said I was raised by Sly and Carmelita raised me and my adopted sister. They're great parents, Alwyas took care of us before themselves. But dad was a little to free with me up till about eight. I love playing in the rain, back then even more so because hello I'm a boy." He says with a are you stupid tone. This succeeds in making Penelope giggle a little.
"But in all seriousness I wasn't very bright about nature than. So yeah,me and dad played in the rain a bit while waiting for mom and sis to get back with Bentley for the holidays. It was a simple game of hide and seek. Then the thunder and lighting came. I was in a tree when it struck, and wearing some chains didn't lighten my odds. The lighting literally ran through my heart causing a full body shut down. I fell out the tree and dad came to get me. Technically i was alive, everything except my heart was useless, the blood was moving to fast for me to use anything. Had that kept up though I'd have died. Mom arrived with Bentley just in time though. I now have a pace maker that is rewired to slow my heart rate down instead of pick it up. Doesn't mean that for following months I wasn't terrified to even step outside. Mom would always cry when ever I did during thunderstorms, sometimes she still does." Albotross says getting a little teary eyed.
"But the good side effect of that is that now I can control electricity. I can even use it to do different things that would be secluded to a mutants abilities, like in the comics." He says trying to lighten the mood.
She turns around tears in her eyes and holding in a sob. Albotross knew this would be her reaction, her racing heart in his ears said it all. He leans against the glass letting her sob some about the story he just unloaded on her.
She feels as if she knows how Carmelita would feel losing a child that she raised, and she thinks to one of Carson's pups. How she seems to be the only one that doesn't try to throw Penelope's old life in her face. And definatly wouldn't do to her what the rest of her family has done to her behind closed doors.
Then Albotross says, "Hey, Penelope, do you want to get out of here, I can help you if you help me." He says putting a paw up to the cage wall. She looks at him somewhat perplexed and answers with a nod.
"Ok Penelope, if you can free me from this cage and collar, I can get us both out of here." Albotross says when she finishes what he geusses is an emotional flash back. "I don't expect you to answer right away, so I'm giving you till the middle of the week to decide. Till then." He shoots a tiny bolt of electricity through the cage and right into her ear piece.
She squeaks expecting it to hurt in some way. Even when it doesn't she holds still. "T...Test...Testing, Penelope can you hear this, if so nod." She nods holding her ear, the volume lowers some. She looks at him and he has a genuine smirk plasterd to his face. "Didn't hurt did it?" He asks, his lips didn't move though. She shakes her head at his question, and her own disbelief.
"Alright, link successful, now we can communicate easier, just make like your talking to a friend whenever you wanna talk back. So now that all the pleasantries are out of the way. Why has my birth giver put me in a cage and what'd he mean set up for tonight?" She stops crying, her eyes red from the tears. "You've been brought here, to fight like a gladiator." She says looking at him with a sadness he never thought possible from her to another person.
So the bastard wants a fighter, my guess is its underground. Well to bad for him, he's gonna be disappointed with my new performance. He thinks to himself as he logs back into the computers and sees people arriving at the door.
She looks at him then and gets an even sadder look on her face."Even if I could leave I'd be dragged back to jail. As it is I sold myself to Carson and now he owns me." She says heading back to the console, he closes his eyes and talks through her ear piece, "What if I told you that I could find a loop hole in your little deal, cause if my hacking skills are correct," A article appears on her monitor, "My father also has the right to give you to some one. If that someone was, say me, I could simply set you free, and I can work a little on your sentence and get you a house arrest instead, you'd have to stay with someone till your parole says otherwise though."
She gets a glint of hope in her eyes, "If you can get me out of here and free me then I'll be in your debt." Albotross chuckles then goes and puts the shackles back on. The cameras show that Carson is on his way back to the cage. "Ok then, I'll talk to dear old dad, I'm sure he won't have a problem giving you over to the one you have locked up." He says through her ear piece again as he hears Carson come down. He puts a finger to his lips telling her to keep quiet about their conversation.
Carson comes in as Albotross gets back into a bored looking pose while Penelope watches his vitals and takes eyeball measurements. "Will he be ready for tonight my dear?" He asks walking over to Albotross's cage. "Yes sir, I'll just need to make some last minute measurements and he'll be ready." She says grabbing a measuring tape and walking to what Albotross assumes is the door.
He sits up as Carson nods and walks off again, Albotross puts out his arms and stands up straight as she takes his measurements. She stops half way after taking basic height and arm length measurements."Ok for a correct measurement I need you to undress." She says as she steps back to let him take off his clothes. His face turns bright red with embarassment at the image that brings to mind. Which he quickly dashes out of his mind.
"No way, am I dropping trough for you to get a proper measurement. I don't care how many naked bodies you've seen before, mine is for the eyes of my mate only!" He says crossing his arms and sitting cross legged. If Kittrina ever catches wind of him naked with another woman around, even for something like the physical Penelope is giving him, he might as well serve his man hood to a shark like fresh caught salmon.
She rolls her eyes, "You know we can do this the easy way or the hard way, hard way being I bring a machine in that strips you and holds you eagle spread." She says matter of factly.
He groans, "Can I at least keep my underwear on?" He asks taking off his shirt. She looks at him skeptically, "Dear what underwear are you talking about, your father brought you in fully changed, and made a statement of, no underwear could fit." She says as he grabs his waistline, sure enough there's nothing there. She taps her foot waiting for him to finish undressing.
Kittrina is gonna kill me if she finds out I had to let any other woman see me naked. He rants in his head as he takes off his pants, Penelope turns bright red and turns around looking away from his package.
"Look let's hurry this up, the faster you measure the faster I can cover up. And no I'm not shy, my mate had said if I touched another female she'd burn me." He explains as he covers up his family jewels. Penelope turns back around and measures the size of muscle mass and direct measurements of waist and leg length. He notices her face blush when she checks his thigh muscle, he growls and she hurries along. She finishes in a record three minutes and he dresses even faster than that.
"Bigger than his father, even when the man's hard as rock." She mumbles as she finishes writing down measurements. "Can you please think that to yourself, I don't want to know the sperm donors package size." Albotross says his face red in a weird type of embarrassment.
She turns bright red as she notices she was talking out loud. She walks out as he finishes locking himself back up. He sighs as she puts down her measurement pad and turns the cage energy back on. She looks at the door then waves him forward. "Look Albotross, if you can get your father to hand me over to you, cause let's face it either way I'm your caretaker here, I may be able to get us out of here." Albotross listens and nods and pops some joints, he was already gonna take her along anyway. His ears perk up, and he silences her glee quickly.
Carson comes back in as she puts the measurements away. "So is he ready?" He asks looking at Albotross. Albotross stares back, making a confused face for his sake. Penlope nods and presses a button that activates his collar and detaches his chains.
"Now listen boy, she's turned that new neck bling on you back on, if you do as I say, it doesn't hurt you, but so much as sniff at me or your family the wrong way." He hits a button on a remote, Albotross feels the energy flow through it, he pretends to be shocked.
Penelope gets a worried look till Albotross says in her ear, "Relax, its an act, frankly all he's doing is feeding me energy, I build up enough and I can move like a bolt. And my strength doubles so careful, also bring me something to read please, tonight after this stupid match. I didn't let him know, but I have insomnia." He tells her before he feels the surge stop.
He pants like he was really in pain. Carson puts the remote in his pocket and walks to the door, Penelope unlocks the cage and he walks in. Albotross stands on shakey legs, while it didn't hurt him, but being connected to the ground drained a lot of the energy too. He let's Carlson lead him out, Albotross winks at Penelope then ask.
"Hey Carson, I have quick request. Now I'm eighteen years old, and you didn't really bring me much in the form of a present, so how about you sell me Penelope, she doesn't seem like much but it will be something, and I'm stressed a lot, so she can be very useful."
He says with a grin that he hopes doesn't look too fake. Carson smiles back, and says, "Alright son, tell you what, you win tonight in under three minutes and she's yours, I'll bring the paper work down in a bit. But first you've gotta win." He says leading him up the stairs. Albotross chuckles as he sees Penelope's face bright red.
He feels eyes in front of him as they head up, then four more people are waiting on the other side of the door. Two full grown male wolves and a female along with preteen girl wolf.
Guess if dad wanted to drag me here, might as well introduce the entire family. He thinks.
They introduce themselves as Rick and Darren, the males. Their twins but one has deep sea blue eyes while the other has bight sky blue eyes. Other wise they look to be about six feet in height, with fur lighter than his and military hair cuts. Then Carrie and Samantha, the girls. Carrie looks to be just about thirteen, but an already full C cup bust sits on her chest and she's only about five inches shorter than him at the moment with tomboyish looking hair, and almost ice white fur. Samantha is a full D cup size and two inches shorter than him and a slimmer figure than Kittrina, with long auburn curls to match her fur color.
He greets himself with the name he was born and raised with, Albotross Cooper. Carson grimaces in disgust and grips Albotross's neck hard as he introduces himself. His "siblings" accept his choice in name and then he's lead to a back room after greetings and told to change into the gear in the room.
"Well here goes nothing." He says out loud as he changes into the gear. What was left out for him to wear was a silver breastplate and leg plates with a pair of gold gauntlets. He manages to tie the leggings on after slipping on a pair of leather pants. The breast plate was harder due to the fact that he had trouble tying it closed with how tight it was. Finally was the gauntlets. The only problem was tying one on than the other, but he manages to do it.
After ten minutes of just getting dressed,This will be easier than I thought. He thinks to himself as he signals that he's finished.
Man this was hard, doing this while studying for finals was killer. especially since I'm working this one and another at the same time. Check it out if you want, Darkfox Rising, is the name. Not as sexual, makes some of the same instances though, But in definate their is no sex what so ever. its a nice change of pace if I do say so myself.
Remember keep the balance!