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Shredder actually regained some strength after two days of rest. Probably due to his ninja training his body was able to recover much faster. The urge of breaking free and taking back what was his began to rise in him, as the thirst for revenge for what was done to him. He was ready to fight for his power and freedom. Karai was right after all he wouldn't give up so easily. She really knew him too well. But Shredder didn't take into consideration that the others also was ready to fight him and break him into submission.
When Rahzar and Rocksteady came into his cell to drag him out and take him to Karai, but Shredder really tried to confronting them.
"Come on, slave, you had enough rest. Now it's time for branding." Rocksteady addressed him.
The anger overcame Shredder. He tried to attack his abusers. Without his blades and with cuffed hands, it was harder of course, but that didn't matter to him.
"You forgot your place, wretched mutants. I am your Master! And you'd better remember that. Your betrayal already was a grave mistake. When I get my power back I won't show you two any mercy as well as for the other who defied me."
But the mutants weren't impressed by his threats.
"Oh look our slave has still some fight in him." Rahzar laughed. "Well that's good. It will make it only more fun breaking him into submission."
Gritting his teeth in anger, Shredder rushed forward to attack, but his hit was dodged and the rhino punched him hard into the stomach, making him hit the opposite wall. If not for his cuffed hands he might have succeed, but it wasn't the case.
Shredder coughed from the hard hit trying to catch his breath.
The two mutants towered over him.
"Are you done, slave? Karai already will be pleased to know that there is a reason to punish you hard now." Rahzar asked.
Shredder was still panting hard from the punch, but the look on his face was saying that he wasn't ready to comply.
"Hold him up. Need to teach him some lesson of obedience." Rocksteady told the zombie wolf.
Rahzar picked Shredder up, recuffing his hands behind his back and holding him facing the rhino.
Rocksteady flexed his fists looking at Shredder.
"I guess some punching will be useful to remind your place and punish you a little for your attack attempt."
With that Rocksteady hit with his huge fist he Shredder in the stomach quite hard.
Shredder groaned at the pain. Usually his breastplate would dodge such hits, but he was naked just now.
The rhino repeated his actions several more time.
Till Shredder was groaning, bent in half and gasping for air from the hard punches. Even a little blood escaped his lips.
"Hope you understand your mistake, slave. Though it won't save you from Karai's punishment nevertheless. Now keep going. We already wasted a lot of time on you."
Both mutants grabbed Shredders under the shoulders and dragged him in to the throne room.
"Ah! Finally. What took you so long?" Karai asked, sitting on the throne as the mutants entered, dragging Shredder to the throne and pushing him to his knees in front of Karai.
"This brat insulted us and tried to attack, so we needed to teach him a little lesson." The rhino answered.
"See. I told you." Shinigami stuck in "Show him a little mercy and he already has forgotten who is in charge now. He needs a constant reminder of his new position now."
"Shinigami is right." Karai addressed Shredder "I probably was too soft, deciding to give you time to recover. Well I swear now that for the nearest future you will have to try very hard to earn some mercy from us." Karai looked at Shredder, narrowing her eyes in anger. "As for your insulting and disobedience you, of course, will be punished hard."
"Place him on the table and cuff his hands." Karai told the mutants.
Only now Shredder noticed that there were several new additions to the throne room.
The metal table with several places for the cuffs was placed at the left side from the throne. A stand with different punishment implements beside the wall and stocks at the bottom of the throne.
The mutants picked him up and cuffed him to the table, placing his upper body and sticking out his backside for punishment. But Shredder still had fight in him. He wouldn't give them his dignity and freedom so easily.
"So," Karai began addressing the mutants "as our slave insulted both of you, you will give him ten lashes each by the implement of your choice."
"And you will be counting every lash, slave." Karai addressed Shredder.
Shredder visibly shivered as Rocksteady came to the stand and after short observation, picked up the leather long bullwhip.
"Oh I bet this thing will make your ass bleed quite nicely" she mocked Shredder, grinning with joy as the other swallowed nervously.
Thought Shredder's welts healed during two days, it still was pretty bruised and hurting.
Shredder gasped as the first lash landed on his backside. It hurt but he still wasn't ready to give up to the will of his torturers.
So he just gritted his teeth, showing that he won't comply so easily. He groaned with as another and another lash hit his bottom but didn't open his mouth.
"It's up to you but remember that the punishment won't start as long as you begin to count, slave. And I actually don't care will it be the tenth or the hundredth lash." Karai simply said standing aside with crossed arms.
Shredder only gritted his teeth more firmly, nevertheless he could've contain the groans of pain anymore. His back was covered in sweat from the effort. He felt that his skin broke already and the wetness of blood appeared.
After the seventh time as the whip landed on his ass, he finally cried out and begged.
"Stop! Please stop! I will count. I promise!"
"You'd better,slave! But I actually don't mind to give you even a hundred lashes." Rhino laughed.
Karai raised her hand for the rhino to take a break.
"Apologies to your masters for your behaviour and ask them to punish you! If you loose the count the strike won't be counted." She ordered.
Shredder took a deep breath.
"I..I am sorry.. for a.. attacking… and i..insulting you. Please…punish me, m…master" Shredder choked out.
Karai nodded to the rhino to continue.
"One." Shredder gasped trying to focus on the count.
Lashes came hard and without a break.
At the sixth one Shredder couldn't contain screams anymore. It seemed that the new lashes also opened the hardly healed old welts and now it hurt even more. He clawed at his cuffs, trying to escape the pain. But he passed only a half of the punishment.
After the tenth lash, Shredder was in tears, panting hard. His body shivered, covered in sweat.
"Give me that. I actually liked the result." Rahzar stretched out his hand for the rhino to pass him the bullwhip.
Shredder sobbed. Another ten lashes of the whip was waiting for him and it already hurt so much. He could feel some blood even running down his legs. The urge to beg for the torture to stop was almost irresistible, but Shredder kept reminding himself that it will only result in additional lashes. And he couldn't bear it anymore. His only option was focusing hard not to skip the count.
Rahzar swung the whip and landed his first strike on Shredder's bottom.
"O…one" Shredder choked through tears. His bottom hurt so much. But the lashing continued. No matter how hard he tried he still loose the count twice.
Eventually as a result, instead of 20 lashes, he suffered almost 30. His bottom was on fire. And blood ran freely down his legs.
"Now let's get back to what was needed to be done in the first place." Karai said "Is the brand ready?" She asked Shinigami.
Shredder shivered again, he was so distracted by his anger and the following whipping, that he totally forgot about the branding, Karai promised him earlier.
He looked with fear as Shinigami retrieved the hot brand iron from the brazier. He couldn't fight the instinct to get away, as Shinigami approached him.
Shredder screamed on top of his lungs as Shinigami pressed the hot iron on his shoulder, keeping it in place for several seconds. It hurt and reminded him as his face was burned alive many years ago.
The mutants uncuffed his hands and brought him before Karai, pushing down on his knees.
Shredder panted hard, trying to fight the pain.
"Hope you regret your disobedience now, slave." Karai asked.
"Y…yes"
Shredder yelped as the rhino brought his palm hard on his bleeding bottom.
"Y…yes, m…mistress." Shredder corrected himself.
"Let's see how long it will last." Shinigami smirked.
"Now get up and follow us. Footbots watch after him."
Shredder got up on his legs, wincing from pain and followed Shinigami an Karai out of the throne room. Two footbots followed after him from behind.
They entered his former room. But it was a bit changed. There were metal table, stocks and a stand with punishment implements same in the throne room. Shredder swallowed a lump in his throat, seeing this. That meant he could be punished here as well. But somehow he still didn't want to agree to be a slave.
"You forgot to kneel, slave!" Shinigami commented.
"I will not kneel before the two of you!" Shredder squeezed through gritted teeth.
"Will you allow me to teach our slave the consequences of disobedience?" Shinigami asked Karai.
"Sure! He is all yours." Karai waved her hand leaning to the wall and crossing her arms, preparing to enjoy the show.
"Place him in the stocks, in standing position." Shinigami ordered the footbots.
Shredder tried to fight, but the footbots were stronger. Grabbing him by the shoulders, they dragged him to stocks and placed his hands in to cuffs, then they pushed his legs open and also cuffed them. Now Shredder was immobilised completely.
"Well I guess I have the perfect idea how to punish our slave, so he will remember well what will happen if he doesn't kneel before his Masters" Shinigami said wickedly, observing the stand with implements.
She approached bonded Shredder with several chains in her hands.
Firstly she attached heavy clamps to his nipples connected with chain. Shredder groaned in return as the clamps dig hard into his nipples pulling them down.
"Oh that's only the beginning. After we are done you will be begging us to be able to kneel." Shinigami commented viciously.
Then she grabbed his balls and wrapped some leather strap with a metal ring around his ballsack.
Now Shredder was scared for real. He couldn't guess what Shinigami was planning for him.
His recognition came when Shinigami returned from the stand with the container full of weights of different sizes. Shredder shivered at realisation for what they were intended.
Firstly Shinigami took a pice of tape and sealed his mouth with it.
"Don't want to hear your whining" she explained.
Then she picked first weights and attached them to the chain connecting the nipple clamps.
Shredder groaned, as his nipples were pulled even more now.
Observing her job, Shinigami decided to add another weight to the chain.
Shredder groaned even more as his nipples were now painfully tugged by weights.
Next Shinigami attached two weights to the leather strap on his balls, getting a muffled scream from Shredder.
Shinigami smirked enjoyably getting two more weights, adding them to others.
Shredder cried into the tape. It hurt now. The weights were pretty heavy and his ballsack now was tugged painfully down.
Seeing that Shinigami picked another weight, he actively shook his head, begging not to do this. It was already too much. But Shinigami didn't pay any attention to his pleas, adding another weight and then another.
Tears were running down Shredder's face now from pain. His nipples and balls were in agony now. Shinigami was right the only case to lift the pain now, was to kneel down. But he couldn't, as he was cuffed in the stocks in a standing position.
"Yeah! This will make you think again about to defy our orders." Shinigami stood back enjoying the results of her work. Seeing as Shredder tried tugging at his restraints, groaning but not being able to escape the pain. "What you think Karai?"
"Yeah. Definitely. But I think he needs to understand one and for all that every time he breaks the rules, he will be punished severely.
You know, slave, when you decided to replace your men by the robots, it didn't seem to me the good idea back then, but they actually can be useful after all. For example as a spanking machine."
Shredder's eyes went wide. He looked at Karai horrified. "No! They couldn't! He already was in pain. And his ass was whipped to blood not so long ago. He won't be able to endure it."
But Karai was mercilessly determined.
"Footbots! Grab the paddles and beat the ass of our slave until you will be told to stop."
Footbots nodded in unison and rushed to comply the orders.
Shredder sobbed. Shaking his head he tried with muffled cries and sight to beg Karai for mercy.
The two Footbots stepped behind him with paddles preparing to lash his bottom. As the first hits of the paddles landed on his bruised bottom, Shredder jerked and screamed in to the tape.
But the movement made the weights swing, and that only brought more pain. Shredder was is despair, his bottom hurt immensely after the bullwhip and another lashing to it was just pure torture, so he couldn't just stay still, adding now more pain as the weights tugged his balls and nipples swinging.
"You will have time to think thoroughly about your behaviour. We will come back in an hour to make sure that you learned your lesson well."
Shredder could not believe it. No! No! They can't leave him like that for so long. He won't be able to endured such torture for a whole hour.
He cried in to the gag, begging not to leave him like that, but neither Shinigami nor Karai payed any attention. They just simply turned around and left the room, leaving Shredder at the mercy of the footbots.