Cry Havoc

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Cry Havoc

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Teaser: Awakening with no memories, Hound-91 knows only three things.

She is the ultimate weapon for Ka Corporation, piloting the devastating mech Kerberos.

She has been awakened to destroy the rebellion on the colony world of Elysium.

And she must obey orders. No matter what.
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The following story is a work of fiction meant for entertainment purposes only. It depicts nonconsensual sexual acts between adults. It is in no way meant to be understood as an endorsement of nonconsensual sex in real life. Any similarities of the characters in the story to real people are purely coincidental.

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Title: Cry Havoc

Author: John Drake

Content Warnings:
Mind Control/Conditioning (Strong) — The protagonist is under constant neural conditioning that forces her to obey commands against her will. This conditioning is central to the plot and creates situations of forced compliance.
Non-Consent (Strong) — Numerous explicit rape scenes throughout the narrative, including forced oral, vaginal, and anal sex. The protagonist is repeatedly raped by her handler and in turn sexually assaults others. These scenes are graphic and detailed.
Body Modification/Augmentation (Moderate) — Characters have undergone extensive neural and physical augmentation to enhance combat abilities and enable control of mechs.
Humiliation (Strong) — Characters are regularly subjected to verbal degradation, being forced to perform humiliating acts, and treated as objects rather than people. Includes forced sexual servicing, being made to lick up bodily fluids, and other degrading activities.
Torture (Strong) — Graphic depictions of both sexual and non-sexual torture, including electrical torture, physical beatings, psychological torment, and the use of various implements to cause pain.
Lesbian Sexual Content (Moderate) — Several scenes feature forced sexual acts between women, including oral sex and digital penetration. Some references to consensual lesbian relationships in the past.
Power Dynamics (Strong) — Extreme power imbalances between handlers/pilots, corporations/individuals, and captors/captives form the foundation of most interactions in the story.
Bondage (Moderate) — Characters are frequently restrained during torture and sexual assault scenes, including being bound to chairs, tables, and other surfaces.

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Cry Havoc

Cold Open

I woke up to the cold.

It wasn’t any kind of gradual process, a slow, natural waking. Rather, I came to awareness with a sudden, invasive chill that seemed to reach past skin and muscle straight to my bones. Then the air around me pulsed with a change in pressure that pushed against my eardrums, even though I could hear nothing at all. A second later, a curved section of what looked like polished steel retracted upward and outward, folding away from me like mechanical petals as the pod opened. It was only then, when there was something to see, that I realized my eyes were open at all. They didn’t need to adjust from the darkness to the light… They simply functioned, feeding me information instead of nothing, like a switch had been flipped.

My body responded before any conscious command, spine straightening, legs swinging over the edge of the pod I had been reclining in. I sat upright, movements smooth and precise, not a tremor or hesitation. Wrong. It felt wrong. Not painful, not awkward, but as if someone else was moving my limbs while I merely observed. My body didn’t feel the way it was supposed to.

How was it supposed to feel? What an odd thought to think. How had I felt before? How had I gotten here? How…

I couldn’t remember.

My head felt hollow, an empty vessel waiting to be filled. I searched my memory, trying to access... something. Anything. A name. A reason I was here. A memory of falling asleep. Nothing answered my mental probe. Just the cold, clinical awareness of a blank slate where a history should be. With no clear idea what I should be doing, I rose, pushing off from the pod. My feet hit the floor with a soft thud, the impact traveling up through my calves, registering as data points and not actually sensation. The floor was polished, cold against my soles but not uncomfortably so. Just another fact to catalog: floor is cold. Body is functioning. Mind is empty.

My head turned slowly, scanning the environment. The sterile white walls gleamed under recessed lighting, the surfaces so pristine and the lighting so uniform they seemed to erase shadows. The air carried a sharp scent—antiseptic and artificial, like the idea of cleanliness rather than cleanliness itself. Nothing adorned the walls. No windows interrupted their smooth expanse. The room was almost empty… just a chair and the pod I had come out of, its lid peeled back like an opened can. Against it, a small computer terminal glowed with numbers and letters:

FIFTH-GENERATION AUGMENTED HUMAN

DESIGNATION HOUND-91

STATUS: ACTIVE

CALIBRATION: OPTIMAL

MISSION READINESS: 100%

I looked down at myself. A black skintight suit covered me from neck to toe, clinging to every contour of my body like a second skin. The material didn't feel like fabric—more like a synthetic membrane, seamless as far as I could tell. I ran my fingers over it, my fingers tracing over where the suit bulged out to cling over my breasts, and I noted the strange duality of the sensation: I could feel the pressure of my fingertips through the material, but not texture or temperature. Like touching myself through a layer of numbness. Turning around, I looked at one of the polished panels from the pod lid, and I caught my own reflection.

The figure staring back at me should have been shocking. Should have triggered alarm, fear, at least confusion. Instead, I simply registered the details with the same detached interest as I had the room temperature and the floor’s texture.

My body was completely covered by the suit. Its hood covered my head, molded so tightly to my skull it wouldn’t budge. It masked my face utterly, the smooth contours of the matte black only interrupted by the solid metal visor over my eyes. This “visor” had no lenses… They were completely solid, and fed me only the data the cameras could see. I had no visible ears beneath the hood, but two metal antennas rose from where the visor met the side of my head, and they were shaped like pointed ears of a canine. Beneath the hood, where my face surely was, there was only a small bulge for my nose beneath the hood and two small slits for my mouth and nostrils, revealing nothing but darkness within.

I leaned closer to the reflection, opening my mouth. The slit widened accordingly. Inside I could glimpse my teeth and tongue, seemingly normal human anatomy in stark contrast to the inhuman exterior. I closed my mouth, and the opening narrowed again to a thin line. I raised my hands to touch this face that wasn't a face. The gloved fingers traced the smooth contours of the hood, feeling for seams or fasteners, finding none. The material seemed fused to my skin—or perhaps it was my skin. I couldn't tell where the suit ended and I began.

Who was I?

I searched my mind for a name, an identity, a single memory to explain how I came to be here, like this. Nothing emerged from the void. No childhood recollections. No faces of loved ones. No professional knowledge or personal preferences. Not even the basic awareness of how old I might be or what I might have looked like beneath this concealing second skin.

I should have panicked. Any rational being would panic upon waking in a strange place, unable to remember who they were, encased in some kind of full-body suit with no apparent way to remove it. I waited for the fear to come, the racing heart, the shortness of breath, the surge of adrenaline.

Nothing happened. My pulse remained steady. My breathing, even. My thoughts, clear and analytical.

I turned away from the reflection to look at the terminal again. It still displayed the same information: FIFTH-GENERATION AUGMENTED HUMAN, DESIGNATION HOUND-91, STATUS: ACTIVE

Was that me? I rolled the possibility around in my mind, testing it like a foreign object on my tongue. It fit, in the way that any label fits an object that has no opinion about what it's called. I felt no connection to it, no sense of recognition or rejection. It wasn’t a name. It was a designation. A label for a thing, not a person.

I turned back to the mirror, studying the faceless figure once more. "Hound-91," I said aloud, the words emerging clearly from the mouth-slit in the hood. My voice sounded strange to my own ears— feminine, but I only heard it through the vibrations in my bones. Not a hint of the sound reached my ears from the outside. My voice was flat, uninflected by emotion or curiosity.

I should have been alarmed by all of this. Should have been desperate to understand, to escape, to find someone who could explain. Instead, I simply noted it, as I was observing information that required acknowledgment but not emotional engagement. The emptiness in my mind wasn't unsettling. The strange body I inhabited wasn't frightening. The lack of memory wasn't frustrating. These were simply conditions that existed, like gravity. They were facts to be acknowledged, then set aside as I waited for... what? Instructions? Orders? Purpose?

I didn't know what I was waiting for, but I knew for certain that I was waiting. My body stood motionless in the center of the room, ready to respond to whatever came next. It wasn’t even a surprise when the door opened in perfect, sterile silence and a man strode in.

He was a large man. I could compare my height and stature against the average for a woman, and knew I was taller and more built, and he was still far larger than I was. He towered more than a full head over me, with sharp features that looked almost deliberately designed—cheekbones like blade edges, jaw like a cliff face, eyes the color of winter sky reflected in steel. Maybe in his forties, though augmentation procedures could make age hard to determine… At the very least, his short black hair had begun to grey. A scar ran along his jawline and up into his cheek, but the stubble of a beard didn’t even try to cover it. It looked displayed, almost as if it were a medal pinned to his flesh. His stride as he entered the room was precise, disciplined, economical… military.

He took three steps into the room before he stopped, his gaze sweeping over me with the detached interest of someone inspecting equipment. He wasn’t surprised to see me here, nor at all discomforted by my appearance's lack of features. I observed him back. His uniform was dark grey, gold insignia catching the light as he moved, the fabric so perfectly pressed it seemed more like armor than clothing. The tight fabric didn’t hide the athletic build beneath it in the least… This man could pick me up and throw me if he wished.

After a few seconds he gave a short nod that seemed to confirm I met some unspoken standard. He pushed an earpiece with a small microphone into one ear and switched it on. "Hound-91," he said.

The experience of his voice was odd. It didn’t come from the outside. I heard it directly against my ears. That made sense actually; it was why everything else was so silent. Just as my eyes were blocked off and I was only permitted to interface with the world through what my visor saw, my ears had something similar. When he spoke, his words were broadcast directly to me. My name… no, my designation… emerged from his mouth like a command rather than a form of address. His voice was smooth and measured, each syllable given exactly the weight it required. No more, no less, and I found my attention focused utterly on him. "I am Cernunnos. Do you know who I am?"

CERNUNNOS. I did. I had never heard that name before, but something in it triggered a memory that I could have sworn didn’t exist a moment before. “Yes, sir,” I said flatly.

Cernunnos. HANDLER. The term registered as important, though I couldn't articulate why. Handler implied… hierarchy. A relationship of control. It suggested I was something to be handled. A tool, a weapon, an asset. Something less than the man standing before me. Something less than human. I should have objected. Should have demanded explanations, identity, freedom. Part of me knew that. Instead, it didn’t seem important, so I waited in silence.

"Good. We are representatives of Ka Corporation," Cernunnos continued, pacing a slow circle around me. His footsteps echoed on the concrete floor, a metronomic punctuation to his words. "Ka is the primary corporate entity on Elysium by corporate charter given to us by the Confederacy of Worlds, responsible for resource extraction, technological development, and security operations planetwide. You serve their interests."

He paused directly behind me. I didn't turn to follow his movement, though I could sense his presence. Even though I couldn’t hear his breathing or feel the subtle displacement of air as he moved, I could sense his eyes on me. I didn’t move. I hadn’t been directed to move.

"Planetary operations on Elysium are suffering… setbacks, as a result of terrorist activity from a rebel faction calling themselves the Children of Elysium." He resumed his circuit, completing the circle until he stood before me again. "Led by some of the original colonists of this world and their figurehead, Dr. Victoria Rathe.” He gestured at me. "Your mission is simple, Hound 91: You will destroy these rebels. You will eliminate their leadership, and capture or kill Dr. Rathe. You will end this insurrection and secure Ka Corporation's assets on Elysium."

The information flowed into the empty vessel of my mind, filling the void with purpose, if not identity. I absorbed it without question, though somewhere beneath the passive acceptance, a small part of me registered that I should be asking for more details. Why me? Why these REBELS? What had they done to deserve destruction?

"To do this, you have been augmented to be a pilot for a Fenrir-class mechanized weapon platform," Cernunnos continued, moving to the terminal on the wall. He tapped several keys, and a holographic display flickered to life somewhere in my vision like a heads-up display, projected onto the screen before my eyes. A three-dimensional rendering of a massive, four-legged mechanical form rotated slowly in the air. It resembled a humanoid but stretched and sharpened, limbs elongated, joints reinforced, head a featureless wedge. "This is the mech Cerberus. It has been custom-built to interface with your neural and physiological augmentations."

It was beautiful… and dangerous. As dangerous to a pilot as to its enemies. Information flooded my display and my mind. Such a device was only capable of being piloted by an augmented human capable of surviving it. That was why I had been so heavily augmented by new, generation five technology using the Styx bacteria.

Right. That was why the Corporation was here. I remembered.

"Do you understand your mission objective?" Cernunnos asked, his gaze fixing on where my eyes would be behind the goggles.

"Yes, sir." The words left my mouth before I had consciously formed them, my voice as flat and emotionless as before. The response felt programmed, automatic—a reflex, not a choice. I did understand, so I said so.

"The rebels possess several Fenrir-class mechs of their own," Cernunnos continued. "Mech-based technology on this world is advancing quickly… It is possible that some of their platforms may be more advanced than yours by now. You will need to out-pilot and out-fight them. Do you understand the threat assessment?"

The words had hardly left his mouth before a barrage of information hit me with the force of a rifle slug, flooding my visual display with a cascade of data. Pilot profiles. Mech specifications, known or estimated. Threat assessments. They burst into my awareness, each one a detailed dossier of the obstacles I would encounter on the field. The screens flicked through faster than a normal person could have possibly read… but I had no trouble.

Callsign Shieldmaiden… most likely identity Maya Chen. A video snippet showed a compact mech with heavy armor, dubbed "Valkyrie," barreling through a cloud of missiles in protective defiance, its reactive armor showering the area with a spray of countermeasures to destroy them.

Callsign Viper, unknown pilot. Her dossier emphasized her surgical precision with laser strikes, matched by footage of her mech "Basilisk" as it emerged from beneath the ground to land a devastating ambush.

Callsign Wraith… most likely Sarah Rathe, a daughter of the rebel leader. Footage showed her neural response times were fast, nearly a match for mine, her smaller mech “Artemis” darting in and out of enemy range.

Callsign Archangel. The enemy ace, and the woman who had destroyed the first suppression campaign by the Ka Corporation. Identity was confirmed as Ashley Rathe, a fourth-generation Augmented human, and Dr. Rathe’s eldest daughter. The Guardian of Elysium was designated a critical threat for obvious reasons. As her mech flowed through battle, it reminded me of watching wood float down a river… an intuitive sense letting her smoothly dodge attacks she couldn’t even see. She was an elite pilot.

I immediately wanted to test myself against her. To prove I was better. To put her in her place. It was the first thing I had wanted since I woke up, and it felt odd to want anything, felt odd to care about anything. I barely paid attention to the other names on the list. Callsign Mole. Callsign Dove. Callsign Plague. Callsign Roach. Callsign Hangman. None of them mattered. To achieve victory, I would need to go through Archangel. I would defeat her personally.

None of that passion showed in my response just a few heartbeats later. "Yes, sir."

"Lethal force is authorized and expected. Civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage. Property damage to Ka Corporation facilities should be minimized but is secondary to mission success. Do you understand these parameters?"

"Yes, sir."

"You will be deployed via orbital drop into the Obsidian Ridge region, where our intelligence indicates the rebels have established a forward operating base. You will have 6 hours to complete this shakedown mission before returning for debriefing. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir."

Each affirmation seemed to please him, his expression shifting subtly—not quite a smile, but a slight relaxation around the eyes, a microscopic release of tension in his jaw. He was testing me, I realized. Testing my compliance, my programming, my willingness to follow without question. And, for the first time, I felt… something. A tiny, almost microscopic shred of resentment. Not anger at being treated like a tool, no… but anger at being toyed with, at being tested. I was the one who was supposed to test people. I was the one who should be in control.

"Your primary targets are the enemy mech pilots, and Dr. Rathe,” my Handler continued. “They are the core of the resistance. Eliminate them, and the rebel movement loses its figurehead and their means of resisting us. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir."

He moved closer then, walking right up to me… closer than he should get. A small instinct in my mind wailed at the invasion of my personal space, but it was a distant thing, barely even noticeable and certainly not important. I didn't step back. I noted the faint scent of his cologne.

"You were created for this purpose, Hound-91," he said, his voice lower now, almost intimate despite its continued coldness. "Your body has been enhanced. Your mind, optimized. Your will, aligned with Ka Corporation's objectives. You are the perfect weapon against these terrorists. Do you understand your value?"

"Yes, sir." The words came automatically, but for the first time, I sensed something behind them—It wasn’t emotion, nor was it quite thought, but it was a… stirring. A question forming not about the mission or my purpose, but about myself. What had I been before this moment? The questions rose like bubbles in dark water, small disturbances that broke the surface of my consciousness and then dissipated, leaving no trace.

Cernunnos was still looking at me. "The space station will align with your deployment zone in ninety minutes… You will launch then. Your mech is being prepared in the hangar bay. Do you have any questions?"

The correct answer formed instantly, bypassing any consideration or reflection. "No, sir."

As I spoke, I became aware of the disconnect between what I said and what I experienced. I did have questions—thousands of them, swirling beneath the placid surface of my compliance. Who was I? What had been done to me? Why couldn't I access my memories? Why did my body respond so automatically? Why were the rebels attacking? What did the Ka Corporation want here?

The thing was… none of those questions mattered. None of them were relevant to my mission parameters. None of them had any bearing on my mission's success, or my purpose. So no, I didn’t have any questions. I was a weapon being aimed at a target.

And weapons don't question why they fire.

"Good," Cernunnos said, the word falling between us like a weight. His eyes narrowed slightly, a predator's focus tightening. His posture relaxed, becoming a little less formal as he sank into the chair that was the only ornamentation in the whole room. He lowered himself into it with casual authority, legs spread wide in front of him. "Then we have some spare time before you are deployed. Get on your knees."

The order hit me like a physical force, and my knees began to bend before I'd even processed the command. My body folded downward in a smooth, controlled motion, knees touching the cold floor with practiced precision. My spine straightened automatically, hands resting palms-down on my thighs, head tilted upward to maintain eye contact with Cernunnos. A perfect, practiced posture of submission.

Submission.

"Yes, sir." My voice emerged as flat as before, betraying nothing of the sudden resistance that flared in my mind. Wrong. The position felt fundamentally wrong, like a discordant note in music I couldn't remember hearing. Kneeling shouldn't have bothered me—it was just a physical position, after all—but something deep beneath my conscious thoughts recoiled at submitting to anyone. For the first time since waking, I felt something genuinely close to emotion.

Disgust.

Cernunnos studied me for a long moment, satisfaction evident in the slight curve of his lips. Then, with deliberate slowness, he reached for his belt buckle. The metallic click as he unfastened it echoed in the sterile room, followed by the subtle hiss of his zipper lowering tooth by tooth. "When they burned away the parts of your brain that you aren’t going to need, I wonder if they left you anything useful,” he pondered with a click of his tongue. "Crawl to me.”

I crawled towards Cernunnos. Each motion was slow, deliberate, and while I mostly still felt like an empty vessel, the disgust didn’t go away. It was mild, but compared to the perfect, vacant calm that had filled me since waking it was visceral and overwhelming, wrapping around my brain like a constrictor. As my gloved hands slapped down on the cold floor, something inside of me screamed at the degrading display, at the subservient slowness with which I approached him on all fours, crawling like some broken animal.

As I arrived, he reached into his pants and extracted his penis, already half-hard. It jutted from the opening in his uniform trousers, pale against the dark fabric, veins visible beneath the skin. He stroked it casually, bringing it to full hardness as he watched me. I stared at it with my visor, noting every detail of his DICK: length, girth, coloration, the slight curve to the left. My body remained still, waiting for instructions.

“Do you remember how to suck a cock, Hound?” His voice was matter-of-fact, as if he were asking me to demonstrate proficiency with a weapon or recite mission parameters.

"Yes, sir," I said. Flat. Emotionless. I did. I had learned during… I didn’t remember. But I had learned.

“Good,” he smiled. “Then do it.”

“Yes, sir.” Again, my response bypassed any decision-making process, emerging automatically as my body leaned forward, the slit in my hood widening as my mouth opened. My hands moved to brace against his knees, finding the perfect angle without conscious thought. My mouth enveloped his COCK in one smooth motion, taking him halfway before pulling back slightly, tongue working along the underside of his shaft. The taste of him filled my mouth—salt, musk, sweat and a bit of dirt, and it was by far the most sensation I had felt since waking up cold. The weight of his dick pressed against my tongue and I could feel the warmth, as well as the beating of his heart as his lust throbbed through his veins.

Physically, I noted the sensations with the same detached awareness I'd applied to the room temperature or the floor texture. Just information. Mentally, however, that small voice screaming in the distance was louder. A momentary and completely instinctive response had bile rising in my throat for a moment before I forced it down. I was submitting. I was weak. Only the weak submit. I wanted to bite down. Wanted to pull away. Wanted to stand up and show that I wasn’t weak and demand answers about what had been done to me. My muscles didn't respond to these impulses. My mouth continued its mechanical service, tongue swirling around the head of his cock before taking him deep again, establishing a rhythm that pulled more groans from his throat. To my handler, I was supposed to submit… His will was to replace my own in all things. He wanted this, so my body performed with expertise, my mouth and tongue working his shaft with practiced skill that erased any doubt I had that I’d done this before—though I had no memory of any previous encounters.

Cernunnos groaned, a low sound of satisfaction that seemed to come from deep in his chest. His hands came up to grip the sides of my hooded head, fingers pressing into the material covering my skull, guiding my movements to match his preferred rhythm. "That's it," he murmured, his professional demeanor slipping slightly as pleasure overtook him. "You do know what you’re doing.”

I took him deeper, my throat relaxing automatically to accommodate his full length as I tilted my head upward to allow him in. My hood-covered nose pressed against the fabric of his uniform. I didn’t have a gag reflex, I noticed… The clenching and spasming off my throat around his dick was entirely of my own making to please him, not a sign of inconvenient human limitations.

His hips began to thrust upward slightly, meeting my downward movements, his grip on my head tightening. "Look at me," he commanded.

My head tilted back further, the blank form of my goggles directed toward his face. I couldn't see his expression clearly from this angle, but I could feel his gaze boring into me, searching for something in my featureless face… though I couldn’t even guess what. I wasn’t resisting, even though I would rather die than be this meek, weak thing beneath him. Then he pushed me further down and I licked, and it stopped mattering even the little amount that it did.

Minutes stretched on, marked only by the wet sounds of the act and Cernunnos's increasingly ragged breathing. His hands gripped my hood tighter, his hips thrust more insistently. I was pleasing him… my body instinctively adjusting its technique to increase or slow his pleasure according to subtle cues I wasn't consciously processing.

Cernunnos's breathing quickened, his grip tightened painfully on my hood, his thrusts became more erratic. He was close now, teetering on the edge of release. My tongue pressed against the sensitive spot beneath the head of his cock, a calculated technique to push him over that edge. Then, abruptly, he pulled away, his cock sliding from my mouth with a wet sound that seemed obscenely loud at first and then vanished into silence the moment he was no longer touching me and the sound no longer arrived through my own body. I looked up at him, my body seeking any sign that he was displeased in some way… I didn’t think he was. My handler’s chest heaved slightly, his pupils dilated with arousal.

"Stand," he commanded, tucking himself back into his pants without fastening them.

"Yes, sir." I obeyed instantly, my body and the nearly vacant shell of my mind in full agreement as I rose from my kneeling position in one fluid motion. I resumed the neutral stance I'd maintained before. It was nice that I noticed no stiffness from the prolonged kneeling, no hesitation or awkwardness in the movement. Just smooth, mechanical obedience.

I stood before him, waiting for the next command, my body still and ready while my mind seethed with questions and realizations I couldn't express. The taste of him lingered on my tongue.

Cernunnos rose from the chair, his eyes never leaving my faceless form. He circled me slowly, like a predator assessing prey, his gaze traveling over the contours of my body with clinical interest. His fingers followed, tracing lines along my shoulders, down my spine, across the curve of my hip—not sensual touches, but evaluative ones, as if he were inspecting merchandise for flaws or features. His hand came to rest at the small of my back, fingers splayed, pressing against the synthetic material that covered me from neck to toe. The pressure registered as data points on my skin, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, just pressure.

"You are sealed up tight in that second skin," he murmured, more to himself than to me. His fingers continued their exploration, moving lower to cup the curve of my rear. "So inaccessible." I stood motionless, neither responding to nor resisting his touch, though internally I recoiled. It wasn’t the propriety of the way that he handled me… It was that I had to allow it. My body remained perfectly still, accepting his examination like a mannequin.

"They are a fascinating design from Amber Engineering. Bodily maintenance interfaces woven directly into the fabric. Monitors vital signs, regulates temperature, processes toxins. Probably costs the Ka Corporation more than they pay me for a whole year." His hand moved around to my front, fingers trailing across my abdomen, then lower, between my legs. The material of the suit was so thin that I could feel just a bit of the heat of his palm through it, could sense the slight pressure as his fingers traced the contours of my CUNT beneath the fabric. “Did you know that every bit of sweat or waste you produce for the rest of your life is supposed to be fed back to you, Hound-91? We should only need to top off your tank from time to time… With proper use, we can keep you below a milliliter of water lost per day," he said with a smirk, voice tinged with something like amusement.

He stepped back, and for a moment I thought the examination was over. Then he reached into his pocket and withdrew a small knife—an elegant thing with a titanium handle and a blade so sharp it seemed to cut the light. He held it up between us, turning it so the sterile white lighting gleamed along its edge.

"The thing is… we really don’t need anything like that kind of efficiency from you, do we?" he said as the tip of the blade pressed against the material covering my sex, not hard enough to touch the skin beneath, but firm enough that I could feel the point's presence. “My superiors might be a little annoyed, but it’s not like any of them are going to check in on you.” With delicate precision he drew the knife downward, the fabric parting beneath the blade with a soft whisper of resistance. The cut was small, perhaps three inches long, just enough to expose the flesh beneath. Cool air touched skin that hadn't felt anything but the suit since my awakening, the sensation registering as a faint shock to nerve endings unaccustomed to direct stimulation.

"A small modification. Nothing that will impact your combat performance," Cernunnos said casually, returning the knife to his belt. His finger traced the edge of the cut, then slipped inside, touching bare skin for the first time. The contact sent an electric jolt through me, not pleasure or pain but simply raw sensation after so much numbness as he fingers pushed into my slit. "So really, who'll know?"

His finger probed deeper, finding a few hints of moisture. My body was responding to his touch at least a little. "Perfect for my needs," he murmured, withdrawing his finger and examining the small gleam of wetness on it. "Fully functional." He wiped his finger on the side of my hooded face, then gestured toward the pod I had awakened from. "Now, bend over that, reach back, and spread your pussy open for me with your hands."

The command to be so subservient and put myself on display triggered a surge of revulsion like a physical blow… but even as the thoughts formed, my body was already moving, turning toward the pod. "Yes, sir," my voice said, flat and emotionless as ever, betraying nothing of the storm raging beneath the surface of my compliance. I bent forward at the waist, pressing my suit-covered TITS down on the curved edge of the hard metal shell. The position forced my ASS up and out, exposed and vulnerable. My hands reached behind me to follow my MASTER’s command, fingers finding the small cut in the material before spreading outward, pulling the synthetic skin apart to expose my cunt to Cernunnos's gaze.

My fingers held the cut fabric apart, the cool air of the room washing over newly exposed flesh. I couldn't see Cernunnos from this position, and with my ears covered I couldn’t even hear his footsteps as he stepped behind me… but I heard his soft exhalation of anticipation over the microphone, and I knew they were there. His hand came to rest on my hip, not to steady himself but simply because he could… because what he rested on was his. I felt the heat of his body through the suit as his body contacted mine and then I felt the head of his cock pressing against my exposed opening, hot and hard and insistent. He paused there, perhaps savoring the moment of anticipation, perhaps waiting to see if I would show any sign of resistance. None came. I remained there, perfectly positioned, perfectly compliant, betraying none of the revulsion that did its best to fight its way to the surface beneath the dark water that filled the ocean of my mind.

"Good girl," he murmured again, fingers tightening slightly on my hip. Then Cernunnos pushed forward without warning, without care for how tight or dry I might be. The initial penetration was a shock of pain… My spit provided enough lubrication for him to enter me in one brutal thrust, but it did nothing to salve the hurt of my tiny PUSSY being plowed open. He continued forward until he had forced himself to the hilt inside me, his hips slamming against my ass with enough force to jolt my body forward against the pod.

A grunt escaped him, carried by the microphone that was my only connection to the outside world… a sign of his satisfaction. By contrast, I remained silent, my body absorbing the impact without complaint. The physical pain was just more data points: pressure, friction, stretching, fullness. Mentally the once-still waters of my mind roiled in a storm, my psyche recoiling even as my body accepted my Handler inside of me, and the disconnect between the two was growing into a yawning chasm. I existed in two states simultaneously: the physical self that complied without resistance, and the mental self that longed to die before she submitted.

He withdrew slightly, then thrust forward again with the same brutal force. Then again. And again. Establishing a rhythm that served only his pleasure, his hands gripping my hips with bruising strength, fingers digging into the synthetic material of my suit and the flesh beneath.

His thrusts grew harder, faster, more insistent. The sound of skin slapping against synthetic material filled the sterile room, punctuated by his grunts and the subtle, wet sounds of penetration. My body rocked with each impact, absorbing the force, adjusting its position slightly to accommodate his angle, all without conscious direction from me. I stared at the interior of the pod before me, the smooth white surface where I had awakened such a short time ago. Had I known then what awaited me? Had some part of me anticipated this violation, this use, this absolute surrender of autonomy? Or had I truly been as empty as I felt, a blank slate awaiting imprinting?

Questions without answers circled like vultures over the carcass of my autonomy as Cernunnos continued to use my body, his rhythm growing more erratic, his breathing over the headset more labored. His hands moved from my hips to my shoulders, gripping them for leverage as he drove into me with increasing force. The new angle pushed him deeper, the head of his cock hitting something inside me that triggered an automatic physical response—a tightening, a pulse of wetness, a subtle arching of my spine. None of it translated to pleasure in any meaningful sense—just biological functions operating as designed, independent of my consent or desire.

Cernunnos shifted again. This time, one hand moved from my shoulder to the back of my hooded head, pressing my faceless face against the pod's surface. The position forced my back to arch further, my ass to lift higher, allowing him even deeper penetration into my gripping TWAT. My hands remained in place, holding myself open for him as ordered, though with him already inside of me the gesture did nothing but make me look even more pathetically submissive. It didn’t matter: I hadn't been ordered to move them, so they stayed.

The new angle triggered more involuntary physical responses—tiny spasms around his invading cock, a rush of wetness, a subtle shift in my breathing pattern. Not pleasure as I understood the concept, but physical reactions that mimicked pleasure's outward signs. Cernunnos noticed, of course. Nothing escaped his clinical observation. "Responding well," he said between thrusts, voice tight with his own building pleasure. "I’m glad they left you… with a few… useful neural pathways…"

I was FUCKED in eerie silence, the hood making me deaf to the way the room was filled with the obscene soundtrack of our coupling: the rhythmic slap of his hips against my ass, the wet sounds of penetration, the subtle creak of the pod beneath my weight as his thrusts pushed me against it. No words from me, no sounds of pleasure or distress, just silent, perfect compliance as my body accepted what my mind rejected. He pounded me like that for what felt like an eternity. How long had this been going on? How much longer would it continue? The questions had no meaning in this sterile room where my will had no power and my body obeyed another’s commands over my own.

Something was building inside me—not pleasure, not in any conventional sense, but some kind of physical response that my modified body was biologically programmed to experience. A tension coiling at the base of my spine, a tightening of internal muscles, a gathering pressure that sought release without my consent or participation. Cernunnos sensed it, his rhythm shifting to target whatever spot inside me triggered the response most effectively. "That's it," he grunted, driving into me with renewed purpose. "Show me... everything... works. Cum for me, Hound."

The command triggered something in my programming. My body convulsed around my violator, my master, and my internal muscles clenching in rhythmic pulses that coated his cock in a rush of wetness to make his continued thrusts even easier for him. A synthetic orgasm, manufactured by whatever modifications had been made to my body, divorced from any genuine pleasure or desire. It didn’t even feel very pleasant… closer to a systems test than a sexual climax. My mind registered it with the same detached disgust that had characterized this entire encounter.

Cernunnos, however, seemed to enjoy it… His cock throbbed inside me at the sensation of my body tightening around him. His thrusts became more frantic, less controlled. He was close now, chasing his own release with single-minded determination, using my body as a tool for his pleasure. His fingers dug harder into my hood, pressing my faceless face against the pod with bruising force. His other hand gripped my hip, holding me in place as he drove into me with increasing urgency. His breathing came in harsh pants, his movements growing erratic, his control slipping as pleasure overtook him.

Suddenly, Cernunnos pulled out of me—a swift, jarring withdrawal that left me empty and gaping open with my insides exposed to the air. "Back on your knees," he commanded, voice tight with impending release.

Until he had spoken, my body remained bent over the pod, hands still holding my flesh open as commanded. I hadn't been told to move, so I hadn’t. My programming was that simple, that absolute. "Yes, sir." The response was automatic, my body already in motion before the words had fully left my mouth. I straightened from the bent position, turned to face him, then sank to my knees in one fluid movement. My hands came to rest on my thighs, palms down, spine straight, head tilted up to look at him with unseeing eyes—the exact same perfect posture of submission I'd assumed earlier.

He stood before me, his cock jutting out from his open pants, rigid and glistening with the evidence of my body's involuntary response to his invasion. His hand wrapped around it, stroking with quick, efficient movements, his eyes fixed on my featureless face. Not looking at me—there was no me to look at—but at the doll he had used to get off. I remained perfectly motionless as he stroked himself to completion, his breathing growing more ragged, his movements more urgent.

His free hand reached out to grip the top of my hood, fingers digging into the material. Then, with a low grunt, he came. The first jet of semen hit the goggles, a warm splash that momentarily obscured my vision with its milky opacity. The second spurt of his JIZZ landed lower, across the raised expanse of my nose. The third and fourth line of CUM striped the mouth-slit and chin area of the hood, some of it seeping through the opening to touch my actual lips. The taste registered—salt and bitterness—alongside the sensation of warmth slowly cooling against the synthetic material of my hood. I remained motionless throughout, neither flinching from the spray nor reacting to the taste that had polluted my mouth.

Cernunnos's breathing gradually steadied as he tucked himself back into his pants, refastening them with the same meticulous precision that characterized all his movements. He looked down at me, at his semen cooling on my featureless face, a smirk playing at the corners of his mouth. "You look like a mess, Hound-91. We can’t have that. Wipe it all off," he instructed, looking down at me. "Collect it with your hands."

"Yes, sir." My hands lifted from my thighs, moving to my face with choreographed precision. Fingers traced the contours of the hood, gathering the viscous fluid, careful not to miss any of it. The goggles cleared as I wiped them, restoring my vision to its normal clarity, allowing me to see Cernunnos watching my compliance with cold satisfaction. My fingers gathered the last streaks from the chin area of the hood, now coated with the sticky evidence of his release. I held my hands before me, palms up, fingers glistening with his seed.

"Lick them clean," he added.

"Yes, sir." My hands moved to my mouth, and one by one I brought my fingers to the slit in the hood. My tongue extended out from the black material to lick them clean of Cernunnos's slimy spunk. His unique taste coated my mouth as I systematically licked each digit clean, from base to tip, cleaning each finger until it glistened with saliva rather than semen, then moving to the next, until all ten had been thoroughly attended to.

"Good girl." The word fell between us, heavy with implication. Not praise, not really, but acknowledgment that I had functioned as desired. "You're dismissed. Report to hangar bay three for deployment. Cerberus is waiting."

"Yes, sir." I rose from my knees, the movement not quite fluid as before. My legs wobbled slightly, a brief tremor running through muscles that should have been perfectly controlled. An anomaly from the aftermath of the frenzied fucking I had endured.

If Cernunnos noticed, he gave no sign. He had already turned away, moving toward the door, his attention shifting from me to whatever came next in his schedule. I was no longer of interest now that he had confirmed my functionality and asserted his dominance. Just another piece of equipment checked off his list. He left without another word, the door sliding shut behind him. All sound left with him, leaving me alone and abandoned in the sterile room.

I stood there for a moment, my body awaiting the next command while my mind processed what had happened. The taste of Cernunnos lingered on my tongue, the memory of violation fresh in my consciousness. The small cut in the suit between my legs allowed cool air to touch flesh still sensitive from his use, a constant reminder of my vulnerability. As I stood there I felt liquid seeping from between my legs—his, mine, a mixture of both. The synthetic material of the suit absorbed it as it ran down my legs, processing it… turning it back into nourishment that would be fed back to me.

I should move. He had ordered me to report to the hangar bay. My visor was lighting up, the augmented hologram across its surface showing me the path along the floor. My legs began to carry me toward the door without conscious direction from me.

It left my mind free to ponder things better forgotten.

Who had I been before the pod? Before the hood and the suit and the emptiness? Had I volunteered for this transformation, or had it been forced upon me? Had there been a moment of choice somewhere in my past, or had my agency never existed from the beginning?

I didn’t know. I wasn’t sure I wanted to.

End of chapter 1
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Logged in to say -> that was amazingly hot 🥵
I look forward to finding out what kinds of situations Hound-91 winds up in!
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This has a remarkable resemblance to that elusive creature, a genuine story. As in, porn with a plot. Erotica, not porn. Whatever you want to call it. And from your link, it looks like you've been at this game a while. I'm radically on board to follow this one!
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@SoftGameHunter @this_bratty_boy

Thank you both!

You are right - this story definitely has quite a bit of plot. Too much for some people... but I do promise that all plot and action will be in the service of making the smutty scenes hit harder :D
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Mech Piloting (Strong) — Detailed description of piloting a massive war machine through neural interface.
Power Fantasy (Strong) — Emphasis on the overwhelming destructive capability of the mech and its pilot.
Military/Warfare (Strong) — Scenes of combat and military operations against rebel forces.
No Sex — There is no sex in this chapter. This chapter is pure plot and action.
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Chapter 2 - Kerberos

My footsteps echoed through the sterile corridor, each metallic clang announcing my approach to the mech bay. The skin-tight suit brushed against itself softly with every movement, the only other sound in this lifeless passage. My visor showed me where to go, and the massive double doors to the mech bay slid open before me with a hydraulic hiss. The smells hit me first—machine oil, ozone, the acrid tang of metal polish and exhaust fumes. The bay stretched before me, vast and cluttered with lesser machines, maintenance drones scurrying about like insects. I ignored them all.

There, in the center bay, stood an engine of destruction.

I hadn’t felt much in the way of emotion since I woke up, but seeing her found something still alive in me… she was beautiful. Fifteen meters of midnight black armor with red energy conduits running along her frame like glowing veins, held up on four strong legs arranged in a square configuration with six booster engines for rapid acceleration and course changes. Gold trim accentuated the edges of armor plating, except where point defense weapons and reactive armor were ready to activate and deflect incoming harm. The twin rail cannons mounted on her shoulders gleamed under the harsh bay lighting, deadly and perfect; and the right forearm housing contained the high-frequency laser blade projector that could carve through metal with no more difficulty than through air. Her wings couldn’t be seen at the moment, but I could see the ports they folded up into a frame on the back of the torso, and the way the additional booster engines tucked cleverly into the frame when they retracted.

It was mine. The thought pulsed through me with possessive intensity. Technicians crawled over her like parasites, making final adjustments, but not even their presence could diminish her magnificence. This beautiful thing was not Ka Corporation's, nor was she Cernunnos’s. She was my body. Mine.

The door I came through was along a walkway about 8 meters off the ground, the room extending above and below me. I approached, and the technicians scattered from my path without a word. They knew better than to engage me, to distract me before a mission. I stood before Kerberos, tilting my head back to take in her majesty. Then I reached out, pressing my gloved palm against the cool metal of her armored hip and leg.

The sensation traveled through my palm, up my arm, straight to my core, and a shiver of anticipation rippled through me. I traced my fingers along the smooth black surface, feeling every minute imperfection, every battle scar that had been buffed and polished but never truly erased. I had never piloted her, never been inside her, never even seen her before… and yet I felt like I knew her better than I knew my own body. She was me.

Kerberos stood alone in the hangar. It was huge, with docks for a dozen Fenrir units, but mine was the only one here. My briefings hadn’t included any information about other mechs or pilots for the Ka Corporation, either. It seemed likely that they had all been lost–Destroyed or captured by the Rebels. Their forces must have been formidable.

Still, that thought couldn’t distract me from the beautiful thing before me. I circled my mech slowly, my fingers never breaking contact with her surface. The red energy conduits pulsed with power, warm compared to the cool armor plating. I caressed them gently, feeling the thrumming energy beneath my fingertips.

I moved to the access ladder and began to climb, each rung bringing me closer to union with my machine. My mind was already reaching out, anticipating the neural link… something it appeared I had been conditioned to expect. Once I connected with her, I would feel real power flooding my augmented synapses, and we would merge into a single killing machine. The technicians below became irrelevant, fading from my awareness entirely. There was only my mech now, and the promise of what we would become together.

The cockpit hatch on the side of her chest opened at my approach, recognizing the neural signature embedded in my augmentations. I slipped inside the cramped space, my fingers automatically finding their place on the internal control surfaces. The shock chair embraced me, its form-fitting contours molding to my body just as closely as my suit did. I settled back, feeling the cool metal of the neural interface nodes as the back of my visor found them and slotted into place.

Home. This… This felt like home.

I allowed myself one more breath of emotional response, reveling in just how right it felt to sit here in this mighty body. Then I reached forward and initiated the power-up sequence, my gloved fingers dancing across the tactile controls with practiced precision. The cockpit hummed to life around me, lights flickering on, systems beginning their boot sequences. Deep within the mech's core, I felt the fusion reactor in standby mode stirring to life, a low vibration that traveled through the frame and into my body.

Then the neural interface came alive, and nothing else in the entire universe mattered.

The earliest generation of Fenrir platforms had been piloted by analog and digital controls, the way a primitive Manticore was controlled. I had them as well, but a modern masterpiece like Kerberos didn’t need them for most things. Instead, her computers connected directly into my reprogrammed mind, turning the body into an extension of my central nervous system. A sharp jolt of pain lanced through my skull as a heavy weight landed on my mind with crushing force. It started out agonizingly intense, so strong that it would have driven most people mad in a second, and then it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. The pain built rapidly, a pressure behind my eyes that threatened to split my head open.

And then... release.

My consciousness expanded beyond the confines of my skull, spilling out into Kerberos's systems. I felt myself stretching, growing, becoming something more than human. The mech's sensors became my senses—infrared, ultraviolet, electromagnetic, radar, and lidar. Data streamed directly into my augmented brain, processed faster than any unenhanced human could comprehend. This was the reason pilots had to be augmented… No normal mind could process the amount of data it took to handle the neural load of synchronization.

One of the reasons.

I flexed my new body, feeling the massive servos and hydraulics respond to my thoughts as readily as my own muscles. The twin rail cannons swiveled at my command, targeting systems coming online with predatory eagerness. The missile deployment system in the chest ran through its diagnostic checks, each warhead a tooth in my new metal mouth, ready to bite, ready to kill.

I was no longer just a helpless, tame woman. I was a Fenrir. We were one.

"Hound-91, status report. Is Cerberus operational?"

The voice sliced through my moment of transcendence, cold and demanding. Cernunnos. His voice didn’t come through the transmitters in my ears this time, I noticed… They came directly into my brain through the neural link. My master was yanking on my leash.

"Yes, sir. Cerberus online and operational, sir," I replied, the words leaving my mouth automatically. It was practically a programmed response… but it was wrong.

CERBERUS. Cerberus. Cerberus. The name grated against my mind like a dull blade. Wrong. That name… It didn’t fit this magnificent body. She wasn’t Cerberus, I knew that with absolute certainty. Her name was Kerberos. I knew it. I just… couldn’t explain why I knew it. It was frustrating: The knowledge sat in my mind, but it had no source other than a vague sense of wrongness that the name didn’t fit.

Irrelevant. A name is a name. Protocol insisted I use the device’s designation to avoid any inefficiency or confusion. My misgivings did not matter.

So I would call her Cerberus, as my master bade. But that was not her name.

"Preparation for launch in T-minus five minutes," Cernunnos continued, his voice eager. He was looking forward to this. That gave me the slightest bit of license to feel the same way, even if I couldn’t quite bring myself to smile beneath the hood. "Your mission parameters and course have been uploaded to your tactical display. Primary objective: elimination of rebel outpost Gamma-Six. Secondary objective: assessment of enemy force capabilities. Tertiary objective: capture of intel if opportunity arises."

"Yes, sir."

"Prepare for compression fluid immersion. Launch bay will depressurize in T-minus four minutes."

I reached for the respirator mask hanging beside the shock chair, fitting it over the lower portion of my face, the only part of me exposed by my hood. The rubber seal pressed against my skin, airtight. I performed the three-point check—seal, air flow, filter status; all green. I felt the mechanical whirr through the chair as nozzles descended from the cockpit ceiling. I took one final breath of normal air before switching to the respirator's oxygen supply.

The amber-tinted compression fluid began to spray into the cockpit, a fine mist at first, then a steady stream. The fluid hit my suit with a sensation like liquid silk, cool at first then quickly warming to body temperature. It rose rapidly, covering my legs, my hips, my chest, until I was completely submerged.

The strange weightlessness of immersion took hold, and with it came further silence. I thought I had been deaf to anything outside of my communicator before, but with the fluid surrounding me that became completely true. The fluid, unlike most liquids, had been engineered to be highly compressible. Enough to keep me at nearly fifteen Gs of pressure inside the cockpit… the other reason pilots needed to be augmented. The thickness of my environment would help to absorb the shock of rapid movement, keeping me alive at the speeds Kerberos could move.

It also meant that no vibrations at all reached me through the dampening liquid… My world vanished save for the hiss of oxygen through my respirator and the steady rhythm of my own heartbeat. I closed my eyes as the pressure grew and grew and grew, squeezing me as I floated in the womb-like embrace of the compression fluid. I felt it as Kerberos's systems integrated fully with my own. In this moment, suspended between human and machine, I was as close to content as I could ever be.

When I opened my eyes again, I was ready to kill.

The launch sequence rumbled through Kerberos's frame, through the compression fluid, and into my bones. I merely had to think the instructions and I felt the booster engines built into my back legs ignite, a surge of raw power that made my body tremble with anticipation. This was the moment I had been made for—when the leash was momentarily loosened, when I was the predator I was born to be.

"Launch authorization confirmed," came the voice of one of the docking station techs. "Bay depressurization complete. Docking clamps releasing in three, two, one..."

The hydraulic clamps that held Kerberos in place disengaged with a satisfying clunk that I felt rather than heard through the compression fluid. The mech now stood unsupported, held in place only by my control. I flexed her massive legs, feeling the servos and pistons respond as if they were my own muscles, testing the balance, ensuring all systems were green.

"Hound-91, you are cleared for launch," Cernunnos's voice crackled into my mind. "Proceed to mission coordinates upon exit."

"Yes, sir," I replied.

The massive bay doors before me began to part, sliding open with glacial slowness to reveal the star-speckled void beyond. The blackness of space stretched before me, limitless and beckoning. Black and vast, but not empty, not to me—Kerberos's enhanced sensors picked up radiation patterns, gravitational fluctuations, the faint wisps of solar wind. Data streams fed directly into my augmented brain, painting a picture far more complex than mere visible light could have ever provided.

I engaged the thrusters at a mere ten percent capacity, feeling the vibration intensify as Kerberos began to lift off from the bay floor. The mech rose smoothly, hovering for a moment as I made final adjustments to the propulsion systems. Perfect. Everything was perfect.

With a thought, I directed the boosters backward and sent Kerberos gliding forward toward the open bay doors. The transition from artificial spin-gravity to zero-G happened in an instant, a momentary sensation of weightlessness before my mind compensated. And then I was out, free of the confining station, suspended in the infinite black.

I just sat there in stillness for several glorious seconds, drinking in the sensation of being untethered. From here, it was like I was floating in infinity with nothing but the vast and beautiful starscape all around me. In front of me, Elysium… a beautiful jewel waiting to be descended upon, plucked, and put into the corporation’s grasp. Behind me, Ka Corporation Orbital Command spun its false-gravity generating circle. Further behind, the huge ring of Elysium’s Warp Relay Gate orbited at the L2 Lagrange point, connecting this far-flung world to the rest of human space. Out here, I floated between them… free.

Then I cranked the thrusters to my non-combat limit of 40% and I felt the massive kick of acceleration slam me back into the shock chair. The compression fluid surrounding me absorbed most of the G-forces, but enough bled through to make my heart race with primal excitement. Kerberos shot away from the station like a bullet, the massive structure rapidly shrinking behind me. I banked hard left, then right, testing the mech's responsiveness. The reaction was instantaneous, the neural link translating my intentions into action with zero latency. I executed a perfect barrel roll, then a swift turn and a diving loop, pushing the massive machine through maneuvers that would tear apart a lesser human’s circulatory system.

From here, as I exited the gravity zone, I could see a smaller station orbiting the main one and was instantly aware of what it was. AEGIS. My mind pulled the label from the tactical data faster than I could think, the word burning bright on my mental display. Information flooded in like a tsunami, relentless and overwhelming. A fully autonomous weapons platform, the colossal defense system was covered with layer upon layer of reactive armor and active defenses capable of dissipating force. Armed with half a hundred rotating missile arrays, laser cannon, railguns, and point-defense turrets, it was built to withstand any assault... and more importantly, any mech.

I felt nervous under its automated guns. An AI controlled that platform, not any human. The Elysium campaign had revealed the need for something like it to protect the Ka Corporation’s precious investment since the facility had been vulnerable to attack from rebel forces, so the AEGIS had been brought here from their corporate headquarters to defend it, answerable only to override codes belonging to the board of directors themselves. If it decided I was a threat, it would start firing, and no one on the station would be able to do anything.

I tried not to think about it. We were on the same side. Most importantly, the rebels had tried their best to break it. Tried, and failed. It had proved up to its task of defending this station, and would again if needed.

With a mental command, I deployed the wings. They extended from Kerberos's back with mechanical grace, unfurling like an angel's—if angels were built of black carbon-fiber alloy and tipped with weapon hardpoints. Fully extended, they spanned twenty meters from tip to tip, their sleek aerodynamic surfaces gleaming in the starlight. The four main boosters mounted on the wings roared to life at my command, augmenting the primary thrusters. The combined thrust sent Kerberos hurtling through space at speeds that would push all of the blood from the brain of an unaugmented human. The compression fluid surrounding me rippled with the acceleration, pressing against my skin-tight suit, a constant reminder of the incredible forces at work.

I flexed my new body and shot through the void, the massive structure falling behind as I accelerated. Kerberos was built for this. I pushed the mech harder, faster, reveling in her capabilities. This was what I was made for—this perfect union of human judgment and tactical decision making with raw machine power. In these moments, I almost forgot about the leash around my neck, about Cernunnos and Ka Corporation and all the restrictions placed upon me.

Almost.

"Hound-91, adjust your course. You're deviating from the optimal approach vector," Cernunnos's voice sliced through my moment of freedom.

"Yes, sir.” My jaw twitched behind my respirator mask. “Adjusting course, sir."

Elysium dominated my visual field, a blue and violet jewel against the blackness of space. Liquid water covered much of the surface like it supposedly did on far-away Earth, while plants fed from violet leaves filled with purpurophyll. From up above it looked deceptively peaceful, its oceans reflecting the light of its star. Kerberos's sensors painted a more detailed picture—the three major continental masses were filled with volcanic and geological activity, with active magmatic ranges stretched like angry red scars across the planet's surface. Elysium was geologically quiet compared to the way it was about ten thousand years ago–humans would have never been able to live in a place so hostile back then–but it was still more active than nearly any colony world in the Federation.

Perhaps it wasn’t surprising that someplace so dynamic and hostile would give birth to something like Styx.

As I approached, I engaged the atmospheric entry protocols. Kerberos's armor plates shifted subtly, reconfiguring for optimal aerodynamics. The heat shield deployed, a thin layer of reactive material spreading across the mech's forward surfaces. Then I hit the upper atmosphere at a precisely calculated angle, Kerberos's massive frame shuddering as she encountered resistance for the first time. Friction heated the heat shield to temperatures that would vaporize conventional metals, the glow surrounding me like a vengeful angel’s halo. Through the neural link and our combined nervous system, I felt the heat as a distant warmth… I was running at a 2% transfer rate, more than enough to keep the pain from growing distracting while still letting me pilot Kerberos like it was my own body.

The violent shaking intensified as I penetrated deeper into the atmosphere. Lesser pilots might have panicked, might have fought against the bucking, writhing motions of their mechs. I embraced it, rode it, letting Kerberos find her natural rhythm through the turbulence. The compression fluid surrounding me dampened the worst of the physical jolts, allowing me to focus entirely on maintaining the perfect entry trajectory.

Then, suddenly, we broke through the worst of it. The violent shaking subsided to a gentle tremor, the blinding glow of reentry fading to reveal the world below.

Elysium spread out beneath me, its true nature now apparent. The lavender-tinged sky was my first impression, the slightly higher oxygen content creating a stunning visual effect that no image could properly capture. Below, the landscape was a study in violent contrast—active volcanic ranges with rivers of molten lava cutting through dense alien forests of petrified flora. Even from this height I could make out the bioluminescent not-fungus, glowing with eerie beauty in the shadows cast by massive, twisted trunks.

I adjusted Kerberos's flight path, angling her wings to catch the upper atmosphere currents, gliding rather than burning fuel unnecessarily. Steam vents dotted the terrain below, releasing giant plumes of vapor that created perpetual mists dancing across the valleys. The effect was almost ethereal, a dreamlike quality to the alien landscape that might have been beautiful if I had been programmed to care about such things. Kerberos's sensors detected the geothermal activity beneath the surface. Extensive cave systems honeycombed the continental plates. Those caves were where most of the colonists lived, safe from the volatile surface conditions. It made them safe from me, too… for now.

I checked the tactical display, noting the mission coordinates blinking red against the terrain map. The rebel outpost was located in a valley between two dormant volcanic peaks, partially concealed by the dense forest and perpetual mist. Clever, but not clever enough to hide from Kerberos's advanced sensor array.

I angled the mech downward, the four boosters roaring as I accelerated toward the target area. The wind screamed past Kerberos's aerodynamic frame, creating a banshee wail that would announce my arrival to anyone within kilometers. Not that it mattered—stealth wasn't part of today's mission parameters. Today was about fear, about making a statement, and about showing the rebels exactly what they were up against.

The lavender sky darkened slightly as I descended, atmospheric particulates creating a purplish haze that filtered the sunlight. The bioluminescent flora became more distinct, their strange, alien patterns creating ghostly trails through the forest canopy. Massive trees with trunks as wide as buildings rose like silent sentinels, their bark gleaming with a metallic sheen that suggested high mineral content.

As I broke through the cloud layer, the full splendor of Elysium's surface came into view. The forest spread out like a living carpet, pulsing with alien life. The volcanic peaks loomed in the distance, their slopes black against the lavender sky. Steam vents released giant plumes of vapor that created swirling patterns in the air, dancing on thermal currents.

And there, nestled between the peaks, barely visible through the mist and forest canopy, was my target—the rebel outpost Gamma-Six. Even from this distance, Kerberos's sensors detected movement, the heat signatures of bodies and machines, the electromagnetic emissions of communications equipment and vehicles.

I adjusted my approach vector, systems automatically calculating optimal weapons deployment angles. My fingers twitched with anticipation, the neural link translating my bloodlust into Kerberos's ready weapon systems. The twin rail cannons hummed with building power, the missile deployment system running final checks. The high-frequency laser blade remained sheathed for now, but I could feel it waiting, hungry for close combat.

The rebels had no idea what was about to hit them. I would crush them beneath Kerberos's feet, burn them with her weapons, tear their fragile bodies and machines apart with her hands. And I would feel every moment of it, every death, every scream, every victory.

I smiled behind my respirator mask as I began my final descent into hell.

Alarms blared across the rebel compound—they'd spotted me. Not that it mattered. Knowing death was coming wouldn't help them escape it. Heat signatures bloomed across my tactical display—humans scurrying like ants, activating defensive units. The outpost seemed to be primarily defended by Manticore heavy weapon platforms. They were powering up… but Kerberos was on them too quickly, and it was too late.

I identified twenty-seven Manticore units in various stages of activation. The treaded weapon platforms were heavily armed and armored, but they were also badly outdated… just one more piece of previously cutting-edge weapons technology that the Fenrir platform had made completely obsolete. Their firepower was considerable… but only if they could hit me. Further back on the hillside, sixteen Harpy-class aerial units were launching vertically, their VTOL fixed wings loaded with short-range missiles and light pulse cannons. Those weapons would have to work together to penetrate Kerberos's advanced armor plating, but unlike the Manticores they would be able to keep up with me at least a little. I would have to take some care…

But only a little.

My targeting systems locked onto the largest concentration of enemy forces, calculations streaming through my augmented brain faster than thought. The twin rail cannons on Kerberos's shoulders hummed with building power, eager to unleash destruction. My finger hovered over the trigger, savoring the moment before the slaughter began.

"Target acquired," I reported, my voice flat and clinical. "Engaging primary objective."

The rail cannons discharged with a thunderous crack that reverberated through Kerberos's frame and into my body. Twin streams of hyper-accelerated metal slugs tore through the air, leaving visible distortion in their wake as they set the air on fire. They struck the ground in the nearest cluster of Manticore units with devastating force.

The results were immediate and spectacular. It transformed a large amount of stone into an enormous fragmentation grenade moving several times faster than the speed of sound. Three enemy units simply ceased to exist, transformed into expanding clouds of superheated metal and fumes with their crews vaporized along with the machines, leaving nothing behind but widely dispersed bloody mist. Two more Manticores toppled, massive holes punched through their armor badly enough to take out critical systems. I felt a cold thrill of satisfaction as the tactical display updated, five threats neutralized in less than a second.

I didn't pause to admire my handiwork. Firing the rail cannons had an equal and opposite effect on Kerberos and practically left me stationary in mid-air. I boosted downward as I commanded the wings to fold back into storage. The neural link translated my intentions into action instantaneously, and dug my legs in in a wide stance the moment I hit the earth, bracing myself for another volley. The rail cannons recycled as quickly as they could, marvelously fast… but time seemed to pass so slowly in battle, and even slower for an augmented human like me as I had to wait for their magnetic accelerators to cool and recharge. Then, three seconds—or a full eternity—later, they fired again.

This time the rebels were already moving, attempting to scatter and find cover. Useless. My targeting systems compensated automatically, the hyper-accelerated slugs finding their marks with unerring accuracy. Two more Manticores erupted in flames and twisted metal. I picked up the echo of the explosion over the audio sensors, the sounds of men’s deaths triggering nothing in me but clinical interest in confirming kills.

The remaining Manticores were returning fire now, their plasma cannons spitting globs of superheated matter toward Kerberos. I was already gone… Cranking the boosters up to 60%, I changed direction with a degree of speed that would have liquified a normal woman. My legs couldn’t possibly keep up with that, but that was alright–I planted them on the ground for stability and let the engines drag the reinforced metal feet across the stone and earth like skates. Almost all of the incoming fire ravaged the cliffside where I would have been, and the few shots that corrected were glancing blows that splashed harmlessly against Kerberos's reactive armor, the energy dissipated and channeled off into discarded bits of ejected slag.

"Hound-91, adjust your position. You're too exposed on that ridgeline." Cernunnos's voice commanded.

"Yes, sir." The words left my mouth automatically while I inwardly seethed. I knew exactly what I was doing. I wanted them to see me, to understand the hopelessness of their situation before I ended them. Nevertheless, my handler's commands were non-negotiable. I engaged Kerberos's thrusters, lifting off the ridge and dropping into the valley below. The mech's massive feet crushed the alien vegetation, bioluminescent fluid spraying like blood from the broken plant matter. The mist swirled around us, momentarily obscuring visual sensors before adaptive algorithms compensated.

The battle was evolving now. The Harpy units had formed a loose attack pattern, circling above like vultures. The remaining Manticores had spread out, using the dense forest for partial cover. A more coordinated response than I'd expected, but ultimately futile.

Time to introduce them to my missile deployment system.

I activated the targeting matrix, designating eight Harpy units in rapid succession. The chest plates of my mech slid apart, revealing the recessed missile batteries. A satisfying clicking sound resonated through the frame as the warheads locked into firing position.

"Fox three," I muttered. For just a moment, I wondered why I had said that, or what it meant. That wasn’t a Ka Corporation designation. Then the missiles launched, and I didn’t have any more time to wonder about it as they erupted in a fiery tempest that rocked my entire body, eight streaks of propellant cutting up through the mist toward their targets.

The Harpy pilots attempted evasive maneuvers, breaking formation and deploying countermeasures. Chaff and flares bloomed against the lavender sky, a desperate attempt to confuse my targeting systems. Two missiles were successfully decoyed, detonating harmlessly in empty air. The other six found their marks.

The explosions lit up the sky like miniature suns, and my visors darkened automatically to protect my vision. Through the neural link, I felt a ghost of the destruction—heat, pressure, the momentary resistance of metal before yielding to inevitable physics. Six Harpy units were reduced to falling debris, their pilots nothing but atoms dispersing in the atmosphere.

I turned my attention back to the ground forces, noting that several Manticores had used my distraction to advance into flanking positions. The tactic wasn’t without merit… I wouldn’t be able to boost away the same way I had before without moving into a dangerous crossfire. They opened fire simultaneously, a combined shower of plasma bursts and depleted uranium slugs in volumes to actually present a threat.

Unfortunately for them, they had no idea what I was capable of.

I engaged Kerberos's lateral thrusters and adjusted the power up to 100%. My mech shot sideways across the ground with a grace and speed that belied her massive size. That sudden acceleration would have killed most people. The compression fluid surrounding me rippled with the G-forces and even for an augmented pilot like me it was enough to make my vision go almost entirely black for a moment. It was enough: Most of the plasma bolts missed entirely. Two connected, causing temperature warnings to flash briefly across my neural display before the automatic systems compensated.

The rail cannons had fully recycled, and I unleashed another devastating volley. At this range, I could hardly miss, and two more Manticores disappeared in spectacular explosions. This close, the armor didn’t protect them at all, and their power cores went critical the moment I shot them, maximizing secondary damage to nearby targets. I was targeting their power cores now, maximizing the secondary damage as they detonated.

They thought they had me. They thought that at this range, they would be able to pin me down.

Fools.

Kerberos crashed through the forest canopy, massive trees snapping like twigs beneath her armored feet. I zeroed in on the nearest cluster of Manticores, their operators frantically adjusting their aim to track my rapid approach.

Too slow.

With a thought, I activated the high-frequency laser blade housed in my right forearm. The weapon deployed with a sharp, ionized shriek of escaping gases, extending to its full three-meter length. The pale red light cast an eerie glow through the smoke and mist. I brought the blade down on the nearest Manticore before its operator could react. The sensation through the neural link was exquisite—initial resistance as the blade contacted the armor plating, then the satisfying give as it carved through armor and then circuitry. I could even imagine I felt the soft flesh of the human inside. The Manticore split nearly in half, sparks and flame erupting from the wound before its power core destabilized, finishing what I'd started with a secondary explosion.

Blood lust surged through me, my heart rate increasing despite the emotional dampeners built into my augmentations. This was what I lived for—the kill, the direct application of overwhelming force.

I spun Kerberos around, the blade carving a lethal arc through the air. Two more Manticores tried to back away, their outdated hydraulics whining with the effort. I leapt forward with another max power boost, the mech's fifteen-meter frame moving with impossible agility that made the formerly impressive weapon platforms look like the obsolete junk they were. The blade took the first Manticore at the junction between its crew cabin and its power plant. The second managed to fire a desperate plasma burst at point-blank range. The shot connected, heating Kerberos's chest armor to near-critical levels. Warning signals flashed across my neural display and I winced momentarily at the flash of pain and heat… strong and distinct sensations after how muted everything else felt in my bodysuit. I forced myself to ignore the sensations and drove the laser blade straight through the Manticore's central cabin and out the other side. The unit collapsed, its systems failing catastrophically, secondary explosions rippling through its frame.

"Hound-91, you have an opening to disengage towards polar North. Pull back and reassess the battlefield." Cernunnos's voice cut through my battle euphoria like a bucket of cold water.

"Yes, sir," I replied, the words automatic while rage boiled inside me. How dare he interrupt the dance? How dare he pull my leash when I was performing exactly as I'd been designed to?

Still, programmed obedience forced me to disengage, thrusters lifting Kerberos above the tree line to gain a tactical overview. The battlefield had evolved in the brief minutes since engagement began. The remaining Manticores had fallen back to defensive positions around what appeared to be the main command center—a reinforced structure half-buried in the mountainside. The Harpy units had regrouped as well, forming a protective screen above the retreating ground forces.

"New tactical assessment," Cernunnos continued, his tone suggesting he was reading from a display rather than actually watching the battle. "Eliminate the aerial units before proceeding to the command center. Capture of intelligence is now a priority."

"Understood, sir." My fingers tightened on the controls, the only outward sign of my frustration. I'd been winning. More than winning—dominating. And now he wanted to dictate tactics from his safe, distant position?

Before I could implement the new strategy, my threat assessment systems blared a warning. Multiple fast-moving objects approaching from the east—the remaining ten Harpy units had abandoned their defensive position and were coming straight for me in a coordinated attack formation.

At least that would be something interesting.

The Harpies streaked through the lavender sky, their sleek forms designed for atmospheric combat. They were faster than Kerberos in straight-line flight, but lacked its maneuverability and firepower. They'd committed to an all-or-nothing attack, hoping to overwhelm me with numbers.

I felt a cold smile form behind my respirator mask. Let them come.

The first wave of enemy missiles streaked toward me, dozens of contrails cutting through the mist. I engaged Kerberos's point defense system, and the array of small pulse lasers automatically targeted and destroyed the incoming projectiles. Explosions bloomed around me, the compression fluid darkening again to protect my vision from the flashes.

Three missiles made it through the defensive screen. I twisted Kerberos in mid-air, the massive mech moving with impossible grace. Two missiles streaked past, missing by meters. The third connected with Kerberos's left leg, the explosion rocking the frame but causing minimal damage.

Now it was my turn.

I pushed Kerberos into a steep climb, accelerating directly toward the approaching Harpy formation. They scattered, breaking their neat attack pattern, exactly as I'd intended. They sought to surround me… I wanted to divide them up, make it so they couldn’t cover each other’s backs nearly as well. Divide and conquer—the oldest strategy in warfare, still effective after millennia.

I singled out two Harpies that had veered left, bringing Kerberos's rail cannons to bear. The targeting solution appeared in my neural display, and I fired without hesitation. The hyper-accelerated slugs tore through the air, catching the first Harpy dead center. The much lighter armor on a Harpy compared to a Manticore meant that I didn’t even see an impact - The unit simply disappeared, transformed into an expanding cloud of debris and flaming gas. The second Harpy attempted evasive action, rolling right, but the second rail slug clipped its wing. The unit spun out of control, spiraling toward the forest below before impact turned it into a fireball.

Eight remaining, and they were regrouping, attempting to surround me from all sides.

I cut Kerberos's main thrusters, allowing the mech to drop like a stone. The sudden maneuver caught the Harpy pilots by surprise—they'd been anticipating continued aerial combat. As I fell, I boosted forward, converting the vertical drop into a horizontal glide directly underneath the Harpy formation. The missile deployment system was ready again. I designated four targets and fired, the warheads streaking upward from Kerberos's chest into the underbellies of the Harpies just starting to react to the new threat vector. Four more explosions lit up the sky, raining burning debris onto the forest below.

The remaining four Harpies broke formation, attempting to scatter and regroup. I reengaged the main thrusters, pushing Kerberos into a tight vertical loop that brought me directly behind the slowest Harpy. The rail cannons spoke again, transforming the unit into scattered atoms.

Three left, and they were fleeing now, all pretense of attack abandoned. I could have let them go—they posed no threat, and the primary objective was the command center. But that wasn't my nature, nor was it Kerberos's. We hunted. We killed. We finished what we started.

I pushed the thrusters to maximum output, Kerberos's frame shuddering with the strain as we rocketed after the fleeing Harpies. The compression fluid surrounding me thickened automatically, protecting me from the extreme G-forces. I caught the first within seconds, the laser blade deploying and slicing through its engines before it could react. The second managed to release a desperate burst of countermeasures, the chaff momentarily confusing my targeting systems—but not my eyes. I adjusted manually, the rail cannons finding their mark despite the interference.

The final Harpy pilot was better than the others, throwing their unit into a series of evasive maneuvers that would have shaken any conventional pursuit. But Kerberos was not conventional, and neither was I. I anticipated rather than followed, cutting across the Harpy's projected path and meeting it head-on. For a brief moment, I glimpsed the pilot's face through the cockpit—eyes wide with terror, mouth open in a scream I couldn't hear. Then the laser blade connected, and there was nothing but expanding debris.

"Aerial threat neutralized," I reported, a cold satisfaction flowing through me. "Proceeding to command center as instructed."

I turned Kerberos toward the reinforced structure where the remaining Manticores had established their final defensive position. They opened fire as I approached, a desperate fusillade of plasma bursts and missiles that might have threatened a lesser mech. I didn't bother with evasive action. Kerberos's armor could withstand their pitiful weapons at this range, and I wanted them to see their inevitable doom approaching, unstoppable and implacable.

The rail cannons cycled to full power, and I unleashed a devastating barrage on the defensive line. Manticores exploded, their formations shattered. Those that survived the initial volley tried to scatter, but there was nowhere to run. I landed Kerberos directly in their midst, the impact sending shockwaves through the ground that toppled two more units.

The laser blade deployed once more, and I became death incarnate. I carved through the remaining Manticores with methodical butchery, each kill sending sparks of pleasure through the neural link. Within minutes, the battlefield fell silent, nothing left but smoking debris and scattered corpses.

As I surveyed the destruction I'd wrought, I felt nothing but cold satisfaction. This hadn’t been a battle; it was pest control. And I was the exterminator.

I stood amid the carnage, Kerberos's sensors cataloging the destruction with cold precision. Smoke billowed from the shattered remains of Manticores, their twisted metal frames scattered across the clearing like broken toys. Heat signatures from the burning wreckage created a tactical display of red and orange blooms against the purple-tinged forest.

Kerberos stood before the command center, sensors scanning for any remaining threats. Nothing moved. Nothing survived in my vision. Any soldier left had retreated into the building where I couldn’t reach them without destroying the intelligence we hoped to claim, or ran into the woods to get away. Finding no other threats, I reported back to Cernunnos: "All enemy armor eliminated, sir. Enemy soldiers remain in control of command center. Airspace is secure. Awaiting further instructions."

"Hound-91, mission objectives achieved," Cernunnos's voice crackled through my comms, devoid of any satisfaction or praise. “Return to station immediately for debriefing and maintenance check."

"Acknowledged, sir," I responded automatically, while inwardly I longed to stay just a little longer, to savor the destruction I'd wrought. The neural link translated my reluctance into a slight hesitation in Kerberos's systems, a momentary lag that only I would notice.

"Ground personnel are inbound with data extraction teams," Cernunnos continued, his tone suggesting he'd noted my hesitation. "Clear the area to avoid any friendly fire incidents."

I didn’t bristle at the barely concealed insult, the implication that I couldn't distinguish between targets. It flowed off me like water. "Returning to base, sir."

I engaged Kerberos's main thrusters, the mech's massive frame lifting off with a grace that belied her size. The compression fluid surrounding me shifted with the change in orientation, always maintaining optimal pressure around my body. I ascended slowly at first, allowing Kerberos's sensors to capture a panoramic view of the destruction below.

The forest burned in patches where debris had ignited the alien vegetation, the flames creating strange patterns as they encountered the bioluminescent flora. The lavender sky was stained with black smoke, rising in thick columns that marked each kill like a memorial. Not that the rebels deserved memorials. They were vermin to be exterminated, nothing more.

I angled Kerberos upward, deployed the wings again, and pushed the thrusters back to forty percent, accelerating away from the surface. The mech responded instantly, cutting through the atmosphere with all the predatory efficiency of a falcon on old Earth. Through the neural link, I felt a slight vibration in my forward left knee joint—minor damage from that single missile hit, barely worth noting. Kerberos had emerged essentially unscathed, exactly as expected when facing such inferior opposition.

The sensation of breaking through Elysium's atmosphere came as a sudden absence—the resistance simply disappeared, replaced by the frictionless void of space. The compression fluid surrounding me adjusted automatically, compensating for the change in external pressure.

As I set course for the Ka Corporation space station, my mind replayed the battle, analyzing each engagement with cold precision. I had been able to unleash myself. Kerberos had responded perfectly to all commands, the neural link maintaining 99.8% synchronization throughout combat operations.

And yet, I felt... unsatisfied.

The rebels had been pathetic—outdated equipment, predictable tactics, minimal skill. Slaughtering them had been like crushing insects. Where was the challenge? Where was the test of my capabilities? Surely they hadn’t made someone like me and Kerberos for this?

The space station appeared in my field of view, growing larger as I approached. The massive structure hung in orbit around Elysium like a mechanical parasite, its angular form a stark contrast to the organic curves of the planet below. Solar arrays extended like metallic wings, gathering energy from the system's yellow star… Those arrays were large enough to cast a notable shadow on the world below. Docking bays dotted its surface, their massive doors currently sealed against the vacuum of space.

"Hound-91 approaching station, requesting docking clearance," I transmitted, following protocol despite there being no chance they weren’t expecting me.

"Clearance granted," came the immediate response from station control. "Proceed to Bay Seven for docking sequence."

I adjusted Kerberos's approach vector, aligning with the designated bay. The massive doors began to slide apart, revealing the illuminated interior. Guidance lights activated along the approach path, a redundant system meant for human pilots with their inferior reaction times and spatial awareness.

The transition from space to the docking bay's artificial environment brought a subtle shift in Kerberos's handling. The mech's sensors detected the gradual repressurization of the bay, adjusting thruster output down automatically. I guided Kerberos to the designated docking clamp with millimeter precision, the massive feet touching down on the marked landing zone with barely a sound.

"Docking successful, sir," I reported, the words empty and mechanical. "Awaiting shutdown authorization."

"Shutdown authorized," Cernunnos replied. "Complete post-mission diagnostics on Cerberus. Audio channels open until you report in."

There was a sharp hiss in my ear, and then my world filled with sound. With my hearing restricted to vibrations severe enough to transmit through the compression fluid and audio signals for so long, I hadn’t realized how much sound was all around me. It was shocking to realize how silent my world had been until it abruptly wasn’t anymore.

I did as my handler commanded. Final systems checks were completed, and I uploaded to Mission Control. Weapons had performed at 99.2% efficiency, slightly above expected parameters. Propulsion systems showed minimal stress despite the high-G maneuvers I'd executed. Armor integrity remained at 97%, with only superficial damage to the left leg and right shoulder plating. All systems were still green.

I initiated the shutdown sequence, feeling Kerberos's systems begin to power down around me. The neural link began to disengage, the connection between my augmented mind and the mech's artificial intelligence gradually fading. It felt like losing a part of myself, like being diminished, returning to the limited confines of my mere human form. The link disconnected completely and, for just a moment, I felt a loss of even my weak sense of self—my awareness shrinking, my senses dulling, my power diminishing. I wanted to cry, but found that I couldn’t. That made sense… tears would interfere with the visor, and there wouldn’t be a way for me to wipe my eyes clean.

The cockpit systems began to drain the compression fluid, the amber-tinted liquid receding slowly around me. When it dropped below my respirator mask, I disengaged the seal, taking my first breath of recycled station air. It tasted flat and sterile after the oxygen-rich mixture I'd been breathing.

The cockpit hatch opened with a pneumatic hiss, exposing me to the climate-controlled environment of the docking bay. Technicians were already approaching, their tools ready to begin the post-mission maintenance. They would check every system, every joint, every weapon—though there was little for them to repair this time. Kerberos had barely been tested.

I unstrapped from the shock chair, my movements precise despite the pleasant muscle fatigue. The chair released me with reluctance. For a moment, I allowed my fingers to linger on the controls—the last physical connection to Kerberos until our next mission. Then the metal door swung upward and exposed me to the harsh white lights and recycled air of the hangar.

The noise hit me immediately—technicians calling to each other, diagnostic equipment humming, maintenance drones whirring as they move between tasks. It was faint, felt through vibrations mostly, but after the focused silence of the compression fluid, the cacophony felt deafening.

Below, the technicians were already swarming toward Kerberos like scavengers approaching a carcass. White jumpsuits with the Ka Corporation logo emblazoned across the back, tools clutched in pale hands that have never known combat, never crushed an enemy's throat or felt the recoil of a rail cannon translated through a neural link. Technicians. Mechanics. Support staff.

Necessary parasites.

I climbed down the access ladder, and my boots hit the gantry with a metallic clang that echoed through the vast bay. I stood for a moment, looking up at Kerberos's imposing frame. Even powered down, she radiated lethal potential. The black armor still held the heat of atmospheric entry, creating a barely visible distortion in the air around it. The rail cannons were silent now, their magnetic accelerators cooling after the repeated discharges. The laser blade had retracted into its housing, hidden but ready to deploy at a moment's notice.

This hadn't been a battle. It had been an execution, a demonstration of overwhelming force against an inferior enemy. I could feel no pride in such an easy victory, no satisfaction in killing opponents who never had a chance. Hopefully, the rebel Fenrir units would deploy. That might present an actual challenge—a worthy test of my capabilities and talent.

For the moment, however, I had to report for debriefing. I turned away from Kerberos and strode toward the bay exit, my skin-tight suit still damp from the compression fluid. I crossed the hangar, the sleek black material of my suit emitting soft squeaks with each step. Droplets of compression fluid continued to cling to the fabric, leaving a faint trail on the polished floor. The liquid carried a distinctive odor—antiseptic with a hint of metal—that marked me as different, as other. Regular humans never immersed themselves in compression fluid. Regular humans never merged their consciousness with fifteen meters of weaponized destruction.

Regular humans were weak.

The technicians gave me a wide berth as I passed, averting their eyes or suddenly finding urgent tasks to attend to. Only the senior mechanics dared to watch me directly, and even they knew better than to approach.

My enhanced hearing picked up their whispers as I went by.

"Barely a scratch on Kerberos..."

"...took out the entire rebel outpost..."

"...perfect synchronization rate..."

"...fucking terrifying..."

One of them was in my path, a clipboard clutched to his chest like a shield. Young and probably new to the station, he tried to shy out of my way… and dropped the clipboard, right into my path. Unthinking, he bent down to pick it up.

It hit me all at once. The sight of the mechanic bent over, weak and pathetic… It overwhelmed me with sudden annoyance that swelled into pure hatred. These useless parasites were crawling all over my body, invading it with their pale, fragile hands. Like Cernunnos invaded my head, like he sank into my thoughts and interrupted my one purpose. I had one role… to kill for the Ka Corporation, and he was robbing me of the enjoyment from even that. The frustration and fury I'd felt since waking the first time in his white room and needing to submit had finally found an outlet, and I felt it blaze through me with the power of a thousand fusion torches. More than anything, in that one moment, I hated him. I hated him and the entire worthless crew of vermin he infected my mech with.

I didn't make a conscious decision; I didn't need to. My body reacted faster than thought. The young mechanic was a perfect target, right there in front of me, easy to hurt. My muscles obeyed instincts he could not begin to comprehend, instincts that no one on this station could. My augmented limbs moved without hesitation, bringing the entirety of my strength to bear on his unprotected form. I kicked out hard, the soft squeak of my fluid-soaked suit masking the force of my movement. My foot connected with his stomach, a dull thud that seemed to echo through my entire body. He bent around the impact, his breath leaving him in a sharp exhale that was almost a scream.

He flew backward, lifted off the ground by the sheer power of my strike. It took only an instant for him to fly over the railing and tumble down to the catwalk below. He hit with a crash and a groan that was barely audible over the noise I'd just created. Four meters down, his body lay sprawled, twitching, his white jumpsuit stained with dirt and maybe blood. The other technicians stood frozen, their eyes wide as they stared at me like I was a monster.

The rage that had consumed me subsided as quickly as it had come. I wondered what the staring mechanics saw in my uncaring posture, my featureless face, the visor that hid whatever scraps of a soul I still had. I scanned the room once more, evaluating for threats and finding none. No one here was worth my time.

I resumed my walk, my heartbeat gradually returning to its normal, steady rhythm. Behind me, another technician rushed to the fallen man's side. "Idiot," I heard him shout, loud enough for his words to reach me clearly even through my muffled world. "What were you thinking? That bitch is unstable as hell."

Unstable? I did not feel unstable. I felt powerful. I felt alive. They would not understand. Their awe meant nothing to me, and neither did their fear. They were equipment, just like the tools they wielded. They were useful only for maintaining Kerberos between my real work.

I reached the massive airlock doors that separated the hangar from the rest of the station. My palm print activated the scanner; the system recognized not only my handprint but the unique electrical signature of my augmentations. The doors slid open with a pneumatic hiss, revealing the sterile white corridor beyond.

As I stepped through, I felt the artificial gravity fluctuate slightly—a minor discrepancy between the hangar and corridor systems that most humans would not have noticed. My enhanced vestibular system registered the change instantaneously, my muscles making microscopic adjustments to maintain perfect balance. It was another reminder of what I was—neither fully human nor fully machine, but something superior to both.

The doors closed behind me, cutting off the sounds of the hangar. The relative silence was a relief, as it allowed my augmented senses to recalibrate. The combat high still throbbed through my system, my body flush with endorphins and adrenaline, my mind replaying kill after kill in perfect recall. Twenty-seven Manticores. Sixteen Harpies. Not one survivor.

I was a weapon waiting to be fired again. Everything else was meaningless.

End of chapter 2
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Chapter 3 - Obedience

I moved through the sterile hallways, heading back to Cernunnos along the same route I had taken to the hangar. My footsteps echoed against the polished floor, their sound bouncing off the blank white walls. The corridor stretched before me, identical to the one behind: white walls, recessed lighting, reinforced doors at regular intervals marked with alphanumeric designations. Ka Corporation valued efficiency over aesthetics. No art adorned these walls, no color broke the monotony. Function over form.

Just like me.

Step by step, I followed the visor’s directions, turning through tunnel after tunnel. I passed several people wearing civilian clothing walking the tunnels: Corporate clerks, technicians, or administrators, most likely. They flattened themselves against the walls to let me pass, and none spoke a word to me.

The final corridor led to the chamber in which I had awakened, the only room of my own I had ever known. My pace slowed almost imperceptibly as I approached the door. Not out of fear—going through a battle had all but confirmed I was incapable of fear now—but because of the conflict between my conditioning and the inconvenient remainders of whatever had once been beneath it. The part of me that didn’t want to submit. That part of me had resisted returning to Cernunnos, resenting the man’s authority and his control over me. That part wanted to turn around, return to my mech, launch into space, and never look back. But that resistance was futile; my programming was stronger than any remnant of free will. I belonged to the Ka Corporation… and that meant I belonged to Cernunnos.

The door to the awakening chamber was unmarked, indistinguishable from the others except for its enhanced security protocols. There was no keypad or scanner—it opened only when I stood before it. I wasn’t sure how it recognized me, it wasn’t like I had any features in my hood and visor. Maybe it recognized neural patterning. Regardless, the moment I stepped up to the door it slid open silently to admit me to the room once again.

I entered.

The room hadn’t changed. The same three things that had been here before were still here and nothing had been added. The cradle I’d woken up in was still there. Cernunnos was sitting in the same lone chair he had been earlier, looking up from a tablet with cold, calculating eyes. Cernunnos, of course, showed no surprise at my entry. His face remained an impassive mask, the scar along his jaw the only feature disturbing the large man’s perfect military-poster visage.

“Good, you’re here.” He gestured for me to come closer, and I complied without hesitation, my body moving automatically toward him. It made my earlier thoughts of leaving absurd: Resistance wasn’t just futile, it was unthinkable. My muscles obeyed his commands as readily as they obeyed my own thoughts. Probably even more so. "Mission report, Hound-91," he said in a voice that was smooth and controlled. There was no greeting, no acknowledgment of my successful return—only the demand for information, for confirmation that his weapon had performed as designed.

I stood at attention, my back straight, my arms at my sides. "Target: Rebel outpost Gamma-Six. All defenses eliminated. Casualties: Twenty-seven Manticore units destroyed,” I said, my voice flat and emotionless as I provided the data he required. “Sixteen Harpy units destroyed. Estimated human casualties: Eighty-two, with no survivors. Command center secured for intelligence extraction. Unit Cerberus took minimal damage to left leg servos and right shoulder plating, within acceptable parameters. Mission duration: Forty-three minutes, seventeen seconds from engagement to completion. Sir."

It was clinical, precise, and complete: just facts, with no mention of the satisfaction I had felt as I carved through their defenses, no hint of disappointment at their lack of skill. Those thoughts were not relevant to my mission, so they were kept to my mind alone, hidden behind the expressionless mask of my hood.

Cernunnos nodded slightly, his tight lips twitching upward. It was the only indication that my report met his standards, the barest movement of his chin that said more than words could express. "Good girl," he said in a voice that was smooth and controlled, like glass over steel… and it struck me like a hammer. That slight praise alone was enough to trigger a tidal wave of almost painful euphoria, slamming through me, impossible to ignore. It drowned out everything else, my conditioning rewarding me for pleasing my master, flooding my system with endorphins and dopamine until it overwhelmed all other sensations. Thinking became hard, like moving through syrup. I spaced out for a second, teetering on the brink of complete detachment.

Blankness. Silence. Nothingness.

I floated in it, lost and untethered. A void with no awareness of time or space, or even of self. The pleasure was blinding, a white-hot light that obliterated all thought. I didn't even know who I was or why I was there; I only knew that I had succeeded, that I had pleased him, that I had done well. That was enough. That was everything. It filled me completely, leaving room for nothing else, and I sank into it, letting it consume me until there was nothing left.

In that moment, that's all I was. An empty vessel waiting to be filled with the next command. It could have lasted seconds or hours. There was no way to tell, no anchors to hold onto. When I came aware again, Cernunnos was setting the tablet down on the side of the chair. The chrono in the corner of my visor told me that it had been less than a full second, which seemed preposterous for the effect it had had on me.

My handler patted his thigh. "Come. Sit." My body was moving before even my augmented mind could process the reason for the command, and then I was sitting on his lap with my back pressed against his chest. His hands slid up my sides, cupping my breasts from behind through the skin-tight material. "We have to do a lot of boring debriefing,” he said, his voice dropping lower as his thumbs circled my nipples. I could feel them hardening against my will, my body responding while my mind remained detached. “I might as well enjoy myself.”

I stared straight ahead, focusing on the blank white wall of the awakening chamber, retreating into the cold analytical part of my mind that could observe without engaging. If I didn’t, I felt like I would be sick. I don’t think I had ever fully appreciated how large of a man he was until I was sitting on him with his arms wrapping around me like pillars. Those hands were strong, his fingers precise as they kneaded my breasts through the thin material of my suit. The compression fluid had long since evaporated away, leaving nothing to hide the way the suit clung to the contours of my nipples as they hardened in his fingers. I thought I could feel the heat of his breath even through my suit.

"Your rail cannon targeting was efficient," he continued, as if we were discussing tactical parameters in a normal debriefing. His thumbs continued their circular motions, sending unwanted signals of pleasure to my brain. "Though your reaction time to the Harpy formation was 0.3 seconds slower than optimal. A Fenrir could take advantage of that."

"Yes, sir," I responded automatically, my voice betraying none of the revulsion coursing through me. My mind was divided—one part clinical and observant, noting the physical sensations with detached interest; the other part raging at myself for being weak, for being submissive, for letting someone do what he wanted with me. I should be in charge. I should be the one deciding to take or give pleasure, not him.

But we both knew he owned me.

His hands moved lower, his fingers tracing the slit he had previously cut between my legs. The material parted easily under his touch, exposing my pussy to the cool air. I could feel his cock hardening against my ass as he pulled me more firmly against his lap. "Already wet," he observed, sliding a finger along my folds. “Were you so aroused by the killing, I wonder?” I stared straight ahead, feeling the unwanted moisture gathering between my thighs. It was true… though probably not for the reason he thought. Being in charge, controlling my own life and taking it into my hands, THAT was what aroused me. The physical response was merely automatic. None of that knowledge made the wetness between my legs for him any less humiliating, though.

His cock hardened further, pressing against my ass through his pants. I could feel the heat of it, the insistent pressure as he ground subtly upward, proof that he was enjoying himself. Sickly enough, the knowledge that my handler was happy with me sent a small flush of euphoria though my mind, just as his praise earlier had. Thankfully it wasn’t nearly that severe.

His finger circled my clit, sending involuntary shivers through my body. "You eliminated twenty-seven Manticores and sixteen Harpy units," Cernunnos said, continuing the debriefing as if his hand were not between my legs. His finger circled my clit once more, sending involuntary shivers through me. "Only two missed railgun shots. Including the double plays, it's an efficiency rating of ninety-eight percent."

Numbers. Data. Facts. He recited them while his fingers continued their exploration, the clinical assessment a bizarre counterpoint to the intimate violation. It fit, though—the military debriefing and sexual domination reinforcing both his authority and my status as equipment to be used.

"The rebel forces were attempting to establish a new command post in Sector Seven," he continued, his finger pushing slightly inside me now, testing my wetness. "Our intelligence suggested they must be preparing a forward operating base for a Fenrir unit on the surface again. One must be nearby.”

I should have cared about that information—it was relevant to my function, to my next mission. Instead, all I could focus on was the intrusion of his finger, the way my inner muscles clenched around it automatically, another betrayal by a body that no longer fully belonged to me.

He shifted beneath me, unzipping his pants with his free hand. His cock sprang free, pressing hot and hard against my cunt as I sat on him. He ground against me, the head of his cock sliding along the slit he had cut in my suit that morning and coating itself in my unwilling wetness. "Your thermal imaging identified their fuel reserves," he said, his voice maintaining that same professional tone despite the hardness of his cock rubbing against me… though I thought I could sense a hint of amusement in his tone.

"Thank you, sir." The words emerged automatically. Inside, I seethed at the casual way he used me, the constant reminder that my body existed for his pleasure as much as it did for combat.

His free hand returned to my breast, pinching my nipple hard enough to make me gasp. The pain cut through the detachment, forcing me to be present in my body, to feel what he was doing to me. "I need you to pay attention. Your debriefing is of utmost importance.”

The words felt like a trigger and something clicked in the brain, some increased level of cognition. Somewhere in my conditioned mind, I knew what that meant… that everything about this had just been increased to the highest category of importance. These memories would become emblazoned in my brain, never to fade.

"Stand up," he ordered, and I complied immediately. His finger slid out of me as I rose, leaving a trail of wetness down my inner thigh. I stood before him, awaiting the next command, knowing it would come and that I would obey.

“Now lower yourself onto my cock," he commanded, his voice sharp and final. I winced internally, but I obeyed without thought. I stood over him, my legs spreading as I began to lower myself down. I felt the wet head of his cock pressing against my slit, coated with slickness he claimed and used for himself. I was forced to pause, the heat of it sending shame through me. I could feel the way he enjoyed my discomfort, his breathing heavy with amusement.

“Stop,” he commanded, the word cutting into me like a blade. “Not there. Not your pussy."

I felt a rush of… of relief? I was relieved, relieved that I wouldn’t have to do this. My entire existence was still submission to his will, but at least there was a tiny mercy, and—

His fingers tightened around my hips, pulling me back to him even as I froze. “Your asshole," he said.

My mind hesitated for only a second, a small wave of nausea sweeping through me. I knew this was going to hurt. The sound of his voice made me want to scream. It was not loud or angry or demanding, and that was what made it so enraging… the knowledge that he didn’t have to demand anything, that he knew I would obey because he was in full control. I could almost feel him laughing at me. I hesitated, a brief moment of defiance flaring up, but we both knew I wouldn’t refuse him. I couldn’t refuse him. My conditioning would not allow it. Even the small pause made his fingers dig harder into my hips, a none too subtle reminder of my place.

My body slid back against him and positioned itself over him automatically, my conditioning making refusal impossible. I reached back and spread my cheeks, exposing my tight rear hole to him. This was new. He had used my mouth, my pussy, but never this. The thought of being penetrated there sent a different kind of revulsion through me, stronger than the usual disgust. But my programming did not allow me to refuse, did not allow me to protect any part of my body from his use.

I lowered myself slowly, feeling the head of his cock press against my virgin ASSHOLE. The pressure built, a sharp pain radiating outward as I very slowly breached myself with his dick. My enhanced body processed pain differently from that of a normal human: it cataloged it, analyzed it, but never allowed it to impede function. Now, that enhancement worked against me, preventing me from fainting or dissociating from the agony.

"All the way down," he commanded, his voice a blade slicing through my resistance. It cut through me with the precision of a scalpel, leaving only submission in its wake. My body responded without hesitation, my hips dropping despite the agony that flared with every inch. The sudden, violent intrusion forced a gasp from my lips. It was brutal, indescribable. I was being torn open from the inside, impaled by the hot, rigid length of him as it filled me completely. I shuddered uncontrollably, the pain more intense than I had ever felt. It was like a white-hot lance tearing through flesh and function. My breath came in short, desperate pants as I sank lower, my muscles contracting in protest around the massive invasion.

I could feel every excruciating detail with a clarity that bordered on madness—tissues stretching, screaming, not meant for this kind of use. I catalogued it all, noting the white-hot burn as my asshole struggled to accommodate his girth, the way he had to hold me in place just to finish pushing himself in until I was fully seated on his lap, his cock buried impossibly deep in my ass, and the blinding, consuming pain radiating through my entire being.

"Your target acquisition was two seconds slower than optimal," Cernunnos said, his voice remaining steady despite being balls-deep in my ass, as if he were not currently violating me in the most excruciating way possible. His hands squeezed my breasts, pinching my nipples through the suit and pulling on me, grinding me into the lap I was impaled on. “You will need to improve on that.”

The pain in my ass was blinding, consuming, but I didn’t make a sound of protest. I could manage that much, just barely. The surreal juxtaposition of military assessment and sexual violation created a cognitive dissonance that threatened to fracture my carefully maintained detachment. I focused on my breathing, on maintaining the emotionless reaction expected of me even as my ass burned and throbbed around his invading cock. "Yes, sir," I managed to respond, and the words were strained despite my best efforts.

"Lift yourself up,” he ordered. “Not all the way. Stop when just my tip remains inside of you.”

I obeyed, rising until only the tip of his cock stretched my burning hole. My thighs shook with the effort as I tried to stay balanced there, pushing through the pain and nausea. The muscles in my legs and abdomen strained with the exertion of keeping myself poised on his dick. The position made every second more torturous, a constant reminder of my status. My body protested, but my conditioning drove me on, forcing me to show him how compliant I could be.

"Now down again," he commanded, making it as casual as everything else he said.

I sank back down, taking his entire length deep inside me once more. The pain flared anew, a stabbing sensation that made my vision blur at the edges. It was like a spike driven through my insides, the agony fresh and overwhelming with each brutal inch. It didn’t hurt any less the second time, but it was faster. That didn’t spare me anything. I still felt every detail of it with horrific clarity: the violent stretching of my asshole, the massive girth spearing me, the way my body failed to protect itself from him.

"Now lift," he said again, forcing me into motion.

Up and down, up and down, working my tight hole on his cock. The physical demands on my body were excruciating. My muscles burned, my asshole felt like it was being torn open with every motion. I couldn't escape any of it. My augmented senses trapped me in the experience, documenting every fraction of pain, every humiliating detail. I bounced for him, an obscene display of my submission. I could tell from the way his breathing grew heavier that he was enjoying the show. The momentary sick flush of euphoria from pleasing him only added to the horror of it all.

"Again," he said, and I lifted up until he told me to sink down again, then up again, then down again… establishing a rhythm of torture. His hands squeezed my breasts roughly as I bounced on his cock, my asshole stretching painfully around his girth time after time. "Your evasive maneuvers during the Harpy attack were adequate, but your counter-offensive timing needed improvement," he continued, as if we were in a normal debriefing.

Each time I sank down, taking him to the hilt, a new wave of agony washed through me. My enhanced nervous system processed the pain with perfect clarity, without the merciful blurring or numbing a normal human might have experienced. Every nerve ending screamed in protest as his cock stretched tissues never meant for such intrusion. Yet my body continued to obey, rising and falling at his command, the programming overriding even the most basic self-preservation instincts.

"You prioritized the Harpy units correctly," Cernunnos continued, his breathing still controlled despite his clear pleasure. His fingers dug into my breast tissue hard enough that some of it bulged between his strong fingers as he kneaded them roughly, like he was stress-testing my body for resiliency. "But you allowed a three-second window during your maneuver where your flank was exposed to enemy fire. You cannot permit that again."

"Yes, sir," I managed to respond, the words automatic despite the pain. My thighs burned with the effort of raising and lowering myself on his cock. This shouldn’t have been much of an exertion for my enhanced muscles, but it felt like they were pushed to their limits by the awkward position and repeated motion. Sweat beaded beneath my hood, trickling down my face inside the confines of the material.

His hand slid from my breast to my throat, his fingers wrapping around the front of my neck in a tight grip. It might have deprived a normal woman of her air. For me, it was just enough pressure to remind me of his control, of how my continued life was a privilege he allowed me. His other hand gripped my hip, guiding the pace of my movements on his cock, demonstrating why he was allowing me that privilege. "The rebels will adapt to your attack from today," he said, his voice taking on a harder edge as his excitement grew. "As far as they knew, we were out of active Fenrir units. Now they know this isn’t the case anymore. If we are not careful, their next response will involve you facing coordinated attacks from multiple Fenrir units. You will need to demonstrate greater tactical flexibility in the future to prevent that from happening." Carnunnos paused for just a second. "Faster,” he ordered, and I quickly complied—my rising and falling becoming faster, more punishing. The pain intensified with the speed, my asshole burning as if torn by his repeated penetration. Perhaps it was tearing. I had no way to know, no way to assess the damage being done to me.

His grip on my hip tightened, fingers digging into the flesh beneath the suit hard enough to leave bruises. Pain and humiliation dominated my awareness, blotting out everything except the most basic processing of his words. My analytical mind tried to catalog the sensations. The burning stretch. The visceral wrongness of that penetration. The way my muscles spasmed involuntarily around the intrusion. The… It was too much. The experience of my ass being used like a masturbation sleeve overwhelmed even my enhanced cognition ability to experience every bit of the agony.

I continued to ride him, my ass burning with each thrust. My thighs ached from the exertion, but I couldn’t stop. “Acknowledge your failure,” Cernunnos demanded. His hips began to thrust upward to meet my downward motions and drive his cock even harder into my violated ass. I felt like he was stabbing all the way to my lungs… The thrusts certainly seemed to steal the air from them.

“My target acquisition was slow,” I responded mechanically, my voice flat despite my body’s misery. “I permitted too long a window for them to target me. I opened myself up to counterattack.” The admissions burned almost as badly as the physical violation—another reminder that I existed to perform, to excel, to obey. Failure was unacceptable, in all things.

Cernunnos grunted in satisfaction at my admission, his hands squeezing me. The skin-tight material of my suit offered no protection against his grip. “For your next mission,” Cernunnos said, his breathing growing heavier as I continued to bounce on his cock, “you will attack another rebel concentration.” His hands controlled my movements then, forcing me to rise and fall at a pace of his choosing, removing even that small illusion of agency. “The objective is to draw out an enemy Fenrir unit. We need to assess your capabilities against one of the rebel pilots.”

I felt his cock throbbing inside me, stretching my abused hole even further. The pain had evolved by then, transcending the initial sharp agony into something more profound, a deep-seated violation that seemed to reach my core. My enhanced physiology processed the pain with perfect clarity, unable to numb it or distance me from the sensation.

“Yes, sir,” I responded, my voice betraying none of the agony coursing through my body. Mission parameters didn’t allow for such weakness. I was Hound-91, and I performed as required, whether in combat or in this new degrading task my handler had set me to.

“Go faster,” Cernunnos instructed me, and I obeyed… bouncing on him more forcefully, even as it felt like I was skinning my asshole from the inside. The increased pace made my thighs burn with exertion, the muscles trembling from sustained strain. I had been keeping my lips pressed together, determined not to make a sound, but the faster I moved, the less I was able. Soon, gasps and small, shamefully pathetic whimpers were tearing free of my throat with each bounce. Sweat streamed down my back beneath the suit, the material chafing against my skin with each movement.

“Analysis of rebel actions so far indicate that after they confront you, they will attempt to capture you,” he grunted as I slammed my ass down on his cock repeatedly. His fingers dug deeper into my hips, guiding my movements with his growing enthusiasm. “You will use that against them. Let them think they have a chance.”

“Yes, sir,” I acknowledged, trying to focus on anything but the pain.

His right hand released my hip to slide around to my stomach, pressing inward as if trying to feel his own cock through the layers of tissue and muscle and suit. “The rebels believe they can reverse the conditioning process,” Cernunnos continued, his voice taking on a darker edge. “Using further Styx treatments, they think they can ‘save’ augmented humans like you, return them to their original state.” His laugh was cold, devoid of humor. “As if there was anything left to save.”

The words should have hurt, should have triggered some emotional response about my lost identity, my erased past. But I felt nothing except the physical pain of his invasion and the mechanical drive to complete that task as efficiently as I completed all others. Whatever I had been before was gone, erased from my memory and replaced with purpose. Styx enabled impossibly precise neurological and biological modification, and there was nothing left of who I had been. It was as good at making weapons like me as it was at making sure the rich and powerful could live forever without aging.

“You will not allow them to capture you,” he instructed, his hips now thrusting upward more forcefully to meet my downward motions, his cock driving deeper into my violated ass. “You will, however, take advantage of their weakness as they try to capture you alive. Destroy any and all enemy assets.”

Each thrust sent a fresh wave of agony through me, yet my body continued to respond to his commands, rising and falling with mechanical precision. The pain became a constant, a baseline against which all other sensations were measured. My analytical mind noted the decreased efficiency of movement as my muscles fatigued, the microscopic tears occurring in my anal tissues, the precise pressure points where his fingers bruised my flesh. “Yes… Sir…” I forced out.

“When any Fenrir unit responds to your attack,” Cernunnos said, his breathing growing more ragged as his arousal built toward climax. “Your primary objective shifts to capture or elimination of the Fenrir unit and its pilot. The pilots are valuable assets for us… You will take them alive if possible.”

“Understood, sir,” I responded, the words emerging strained as he thrust harder, deeper.

“You will… transmit the location of any fallen pilot… as soon as you’ve crippled a Fenrir… and you’ll hold that bitch captive until extraction,” he continued, his voice now tight with approaching orgasm. “Capture… or elimination… of any pilot is your primary objective now. All other considerations… are secondary. Understand?”

I tried to focus on his words, on the mission parameters being outlined, but the pain overwhelmed my cognitive processes. My enhanced body continued to function, rising and falling mechanically on his cock, while my mind fragmented under the assault of sensation.

“Acknowledge mission parameters,” he demanded, his voice harsh with exertion and arousal.

“Mission parameters acknowledged, sir,” I responded, the words emerging automatically despite my fractured focus. “Draw out enemy Fenrir unit. Eliminate targets of opportunity. Prioritize capture of any pilots.”

“Good girl,” he mocked, his words scraping against my identity, digging deeper than his cock as the deliberate condescension burned. They were like hooks baited with the euphoria that followed pain, designed to ensure compliance as they yanked my mind into blank, obedient oblivion. But I was too aware, too conscious of the humiliation and agony for much of the relief that came with it to reach me.

His hands clamped my hips with viselike strength, forcing me to rise and fall with ruthless efficiency even as his control of my body unraveled. His grip didn’t loosen, but his thrusts grew erratic, driving upward with thoughtless force as he approached climax. “Now,” he said, his voice sharp and focused, “make yourself useful. Squeeze that tight ass for me.”

The crude command sliced through what remained of my mental defenses. I was nothing to him but a tool, a weapon that doubled as a sexual object, property to be used however Ka Corporation saw fit. He wasn’t wrong, because I obeyed. My anal muscles contracted around his invading cock, squeezing despite the agony it caused. My programming left no room for refusal, no space for resistance. I performed as instructed, efficiently, precisely, and perfectly. He thrust deeper, his motions taking on the urgency of a man nearing the edge. Each thrust speared rougher into me, crashing his hips into mine like a derailed train slamming home.

“That’s it,” he grunted, his fingers digging painfully into my hip and throat as his excitement peaked. Beneath his smooth, disciplined voice was something raw and hungry peeking out. “Fucking squeeze me, you augmented bitch. Show me what that enhanced body can do.”

I increased the pressure I put on his dick again, my muscle control far superior to any baseline human’s. The action sent fresh waves of agony through me as traumatized tissues were forced to contract around the source of their violation. It didn’t matter. Pain was irrelevant… Performance was all that mattered.

His breathing turned harsh, growing more irregular as he neared climax. I felt his cock swell further inside me, the final expansion stretching my abused hole beyond what seemed possible even with my enhanced physiology. The pain of it was white-hot and all-consuming, yet I continued to ride him, performing with mechanical precision even as my body reeled from the effort. Then he groaned, his voice raw with exertion and pleasure, and slammed deep. His fingers dug into my hip, painful enough that I knew they would leave bruises. A final thrust, then he erupted, pumping hot cum deep inside my violated ass.

The sensation was foreign and disgusting, an assertion of ownership in every pulse of cum filling me where his cock should ever have been. I felt each one, an undeniable reminder that I was property to be used however my master saw fit. The warmth of it contrasted sharply with the cold, clinical detachment I struggled to maintain. Hot. Slimy. Unclean. My body processed each of those sensations with perfect clarity, categorizing them, filing them away as critical points of data to ensure I could never forget.

He groaned again, a noise of satisfaction and triumph. I was nothing to him but a hole to fill, a place to deposit his cum—and still I rose and fell, completing the task he set me to… He hadn’t told me to stop, after all. I was a perfect tool, the perfect weapon. A plaything for him, curse the stars. I hated it. Still I rode him, not stopping until I was sure he was finished, until his cock was still, until I felt him start to soften. “You can stop now,” he finally said.

His cock deflating inside me was almost as bad as the initial penetration had been: the slow, slimy seepage of his seed leaking from my abused hole and staining the edges of the slit in my suit. His fingers loosened on my hip, and his breathing, while labored, was more measured.

I slowed to a stop, finally allowing my body to process the overwhelming assault of pain and shame. Each muscle felt like it had been ripped from the bone, but I held myself together. He would not see how close I came to showing weakness. “Yes… sir…” I said, my voice barely above a whisper.

"Off," he commanded, his voice holding the power of an executioner. I forced myself to comply, lifting my body carefully, feeling the slick pull of his cock leaving me and the involuntary gush of cum leaking from my widened hole he’d made me impale on his length. The slow seepage staining my thighs, my groin, my suit… It was all an affront to what dignity I had, and I wished I had the capacity to hate him for it. Instead, I only hated my own body for its weakness, for registering the shame so acutely.

"Kneel." I dropped to my knees before him, every shift in movement highlighting the lingering pain in my ass. He regarded me with the most expression I’d seen on him yet, something like amused contempt with satisfaction. His cock looked huge as it hung before my face, still semi-hard and coated in the mess my body had made of it. Evidence of my abuse. Looking at it, it was hard to believe that thing had been so far inside of me.

"Clean it," he commanded, delighting in his absolute power over me.

I closed my eyes behind the visor as I leaned forward, taking his filthy cock into my mouth with the same lack of hesitation I gave to his martial commands. Absolutely disgusting. I tasted his cum and what could only be traces of my own ass on his cock as I licked along it. The flavor was revolting—bitter, musky, with the metallic tang of my blood thrown into the sickening mix. My enhanced senses processed every nuance of the foulness with perfect clarity, isolating each individual taste. I was sure if I tried I could tell exactly what percentage of the filth I was licking up had come out of his cock compared to what he’d dredged up out of me… I did not want to know. Without the help of my augmentation I doubt I would have fought back the urge to gag as I continued to lick at his cock despite the disgust that threatened to overwhelm me. Instead, I let my tongue trace the underside of his shaft, collecting each bead of cum with careful strokes as I maintained the expressionless efficiency expected of me. My conditioning allowed for nothing else.

Cernunnos watched with cold satisfaction, his eyes calculating as he observed my degradation. "I don’t want anyone to notice any of my seed leaking out of you and asking any awkward questions. Push your fingers into your asshole," Cernunnos demanded, watching me with cold, calculating eyes. "Scrape it out. I wanted you to get as much of my cum out of your ass as you can."

I reached behind myself and slid a finger into my stretched, aching hole. The pain flared anew at the contact, traumatized tissues protesting the intrusion. I felt his warm seed inside me, coating my walls. I scooped it out, bit by bit.

The process of scraping my guts with my gloved fingers was excruciating. The walls of my SHITHOLE hurt even worse now than they had around his cock as I swelled, and several seconds later my fingers came away coated with a mixture of his cum and my blood, visual confirmation of the damage he had done to me. The sight should have triggered some emotional response—anger, humiliation, disgust, maybe even violent rage—but my conditioning channeled those reactions into simple observations, data points to be noted and filed away.

“Clean it up,” he said, that same smirk on his face. This wasn’t about sexual pleasure for him, since he had already obtained that. It was about control, about reinforcing my status as property, as a tool to be used however he saw fit. He was right, I did belong to him. I brought my cum-covered finger around to my mouth, momentarily taking my tongue off of his dick to lick the fingers clean. They tasted even worse than his cock did, and while my mind was obedient my body rebelled, trying to heave. I forced myself to swallow the repulsive leftovers down.

"Again," Cernunnos told me. "Make sure you get it all."

I reached back again, pushing my finger deeper into my violated ass, finding more of his seed pooled inside me. The movement sent fresh waves of pain through my lower body, the damaged tissues screaming in protest. I scooped out another glob of the mixture, brought it to my mouth, and cleaned my finger with my tongue. Throughout the degrading cleanup, I continued to suck his cock. Whenever my lips and tongue were not around my fingers they were on his length, licking and sucking to ensure no trace of our activity remained on him.

The process continued on loop. Reach back, extract, lick clean, swallow, over and over again until Cernunnos was satisfied that I had removed as much of his cum as possible. By the fifth repetition, I was finding more pale blood than semen, my finger coming away streaked with red rather than white. If he noticed, he did not comment. My pain was irrelevant to him, just as my humiliation was meaningless except as a tool for control.

"Thorough," Cernunnos observed, his voice clinically detached as if he were evaluating a maintenance procedure. "It is good to see that your efficiency extends beyond just combat functions. It means that even after we are done with our mission here I will still have a use for you."

His words didn’t make sense to me. Done with the mission here? There was no 'done with the mission' for me. Even after these rebels were destroyed, there would still be threats to protect the Ka Corporation from. I didn’t respond, though—it wasn’t my place to wonder, and my questions were irrelevant. I didn’t need to understand. I just needed to obey. Cernunnos reached down and patted my head condescendingly. "Good puppy," he said, his voice filled with mirth.

The praise hit me harder than even his worst abuse, a fierce pulse of pleasure that swept over my consciousness and blanked it nearly to the point of losing awareness. He had the power to make me cum with a single word. I hated that almost more than anything else. The intensity of the euphoria was crippling, an all-consuming shock wave that threatened to shatter every thought, every sense of self, leaving only the blind submission that my conditioning demanded. I was hardly aware of anything else as the wave crashed over me, drowning me in its overwhelming heat. Being fucked hurt and was just part of the job. Being forced to submit was humiliating. This was even more degrading. Even knowing that it would happen, that I had no way to prepare myself for how I would feel when he praised me, and knowing it was coming didn’t soften the impact. My blood sang, my heart thundered, and I was nearly left completely stupid from the force of it.

His hand lingered on my head, fingers gliding over the hood. I could feel some of my hair shift beneath the motion, telling me that I still had some. "Your performance today was acceptable," he said, the words delivered as if he were evaluating a weapons test rather than sexual service. "Both in combat and afterward.”

"Yes, sir," I responded automatically, the programmed acknowledgment emerging without conscious thought.

He zipped up his pants and stood, dismissing me from his attention in a second as he picked up his tablet. "Report to the hangar at 0600 hours tomorrow. Cerberus will not be ready for deployment until then. Sleep until then."

I rose to my feet, feeling his remaining cum trickle down my thighs inside the suit. My ass throbbed with each movement, a constant reminder of my violation. The pain would fade faster than for a normal human, my enhanced healing would repair the tissue damage within hours. The memory, however, would remain. Cernunnos had said this was important, so important it was… My augmented mind had stored the memories with perfect clarity. I knew without being told that none of the details would fade in the slightest.

"Yes, sir," I responded mechanically as he walked out the door and left me here alone.

The sudden solitude wasn’t unwelcome, but neither was it exactly a relief. Most of a change in operational parameters. Without Cernunnos present, I had no immediate directives to follow except his final order: sleep. My body hesitated though, I was uncertain how to proceed. The room contained no bed, no designated rest area for me. I was equipment, not personnel, and equipment didn’t require comfort. I could climb back into the pod, but some part of me was horrified at that idea, though I didn’t know why. The floor would suffice. That was better.

With no other clear instruction, I simply lay down on the hard floor and curled up, holding my knees against my chest and holding them there in a way that felt right. The position wasn’t taught or programmed, so I didn’t know why I did it. Maybe it emerged from somewhere deeper, perhaps from the erased memories that occasionally manifested in muscle memory or instinctive responses. It made me feel…

No.

I wasn’t going to think about that.

My asshole continued to throb in pain as I slowly fell asleep, thinking of my mission for tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I might face another pilot—a pilot like me, enhanced like me, but fighting for different masters. That thought stirred something beneath the layers of conditioning. It wasn’t excitement, it wasn’t fear, but something more fundamental. A question, perhaps, about what made us different. About what might have been if my enhancements had come with a different purpose, a different programming. About what might be true, if the rebels really could reverse the conditioning process.

That thought should have triggered alarm protocols, should have activated the safeguards built into my programming to prevent such dangerous speculations. Instead, I dismissed it and let it settle into a quiet corner of my mind. It was impossible. Nothing worthy of thinking about.

As sleep finally claimed me, the last sensation I registered was the persistent pain in my violated body—a reminder of what I was now, of how I was used, of the cage built around whatever remained of my original self. Tomorrow, I would enter Kerberos again. Tomorrow, I would become something more than this limited flesh. Tomorrow, I would fulfill my purpose perfectly.

Tonight, curled on the cold floor, I allowed myself the smallest deviation from what I was, and resented that other pilots got to live free instead of submitting like I had to.

And I resolved to fix that.

End of chapter 3
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You deserve at least a Nobel Prize. Each of your stories is a masterpiece of a genius, perverted mind. You are a true virtuoso with an unbridled imagination.
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@mighty6 Might be the single nicest thing anyone's ever said to me...

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Chapter 4 - Blowing off Steam

Flames rose around me as I crushed another Manticore under Kerberos's foot, savoring the satisfying crunch of metal that vibrated through my neural link. I could almost feel the way the screams of the crew suddenly cut off as I flattened the armored vehicle into a crumpled metal shell. My heart raced as adrenaline surged through my veins, the closest thing to true pleasure I was allowed to feel anymore as I swung Kerberos's massive arm in a wide arc, sending three more rebel vehicles flying like broken toys. I tracked each kill with cold precision, watching the life signatures blink out on my HUD one by one.

"Don't get distracted, Hound." Cernunnos's voice slithered through my neural link, cold and commanding. His tone crawled along my spine like ice water. "Focus on your primary objective."

"Yes, sir," I replied flatly, even as I brought one of Kerberos's rail cannons to bear on a cluster of rebel transports fleeing the battle. Fucking cowards. They'd started this operation against Ka Corporation, and now they were running from it. The weapon discharged with a thunderous roar, the recoil rippling through Kerberos's frame and into my own body. The rebels vanished in a flash of dust and debris and flash-ignited air, incinerated instantly. When the dust cleared, nought remained but scorched earth and a few scattered, smoking fragments that might once have been man-made.

"Efficiently done, Hound," Cernunnos purred in my ear. "Continue the operation. Draw them out."

The mech responded to my thoughts like an extension of my own body, fluid and powerful, and every movement I imagined translated instantly into the machine's actions. The neural feedback let me feel the resistance as Kerberos's metal foot crushed my enemies. Smoke and flame painted the ground beneath my four legs as I waded through what remained of the rebel force. I leaned Kerberos forward, engaging the thrusters to boost over a makeshift barricade and descended on some foot-soldiers that looked up from behind it, their faces contorted in terror as fifteen meters of mechanized death descended upon them.

I felt their deaths through the neural link: the impact of metal against flesh, the pitiful resistance of bone before it shattered, the warmth of blood as it splattered out from beneath my feet. Then it was gone, and the ground stopped trembling beneath Kerberos's feet as I swept my gaze across the battlefield. I felt nothing as I surveyed the carnage, no satisfaction, no remorse. Just the cold calculation of a job nearly complete. Nothing was left capable of fighting by now. Bodies and broken equipment littered the terrain, smoke rising from the wreckage of what had once been a rebel-occupied outpost. The Children of Elysium… as if this planet belonged to them and not to whoever was strong enough to take it.

"Incoming signature," Cernunnos's voice interrupted my thoughts, the words sliding into my consciousness like a knife. "Looks like they took the bait and made a distress call. Fenrir-class mech approaching from the northeast, low to the ground."

I pivoted Kerberos smoothly, the massive machine turning with impossible grace as my neural commands flowed through her systems. My optical systems zoomed in on the approaching figure, enhancing and clarifying the image. The white and gold mech gleamed in the morning sun as it boosted low and hard, her four reinforced legs skating across the ground. It was graceful, but somehow hesitant… like a dancer unsure of the next step. Targeting information and IFF designation flashed across my HUD, data streaming alongside it. Dawn's Hope, another Fenrir-class mech. It was a lighter variant than I was, primarily in a defensive configuration. By the standards of a Fenrir, it wasn’t heavily armed.

I didn’t consider it a serious threat.

"Pilot designated as Dove," Cernunnos informed me, his voice carrying that edge of superiority he always had when dispensing information. "Relatively few known operations. Newly trained. Should be an easy target for you to dismantle, Hound."

"Acknowledged, sir," I replied mechanically, feeling a strange flicker of... something... at the mention of the name. Recognition? Impossible. I'd never encountered this pilot before. Yet something about the name, about the mech's movements, tugged at something buried deep in my mind. I pushed it aside, focusing on the approaching enemy. Whatever it was, it didn't matter. Nothing mattered except the mission.

Dawn's Hope slowed its approach as it neared the battlefield, its sensor suite undoubtedly feeding the pilot images of the destruction I'd wrought. The mech raised its hands, the gesture almost pleading, a human motion translated through the machine. Weak. Inefficient. Exposing vulnerabilities.

"This is Dove of the Children of Elysium," a female voice crackled over the open channel. Young. Nervous. "Stand down and surrender! We don't need any more bloodshed today!"

My lip twitched. Surrender. Submission. That was disgusting, and I didn't bother responding. Words were irrelevant. Action was all that mattered. I launched Kerberos forward, thrusters igniting with a roar that vibrated through my body. The compression fluid around me rippled with the sudden acceleration, pressing against my enclosed form as we closed the distance between us.

Dawn's Hope took a step back, a tactical mistake born of inexperience. In mech combat, retreat sacrificed offensive capability for uncertain defensive positioning. The white mech's hands shifted, trying to get its blade into position. She should have focused on maintaining her defensive stance instead. I felt a predatory thrill surge through me as Kerberos's systems calculated trajectories and attack angles. The enemy mech was lighter, theoretically faster, but the pilot's inexperience negated that advantage. I was better armed, and I had no doubts I was the better pilot.

Another communication came through as I drove Kerberos forward, closing the gap between us with implacable purpose. "Please, you don't have to do this! We can talk! We can help you!" The voice was higher now, fear threading through the words.

I ignored the communication channel with a thought. The time for words was past. Now, there would only be violence—and that was a language I'd been programmed to speak fluently. I engaged Kerberos's targeting systems, locking onto the white mech's vulnerable joints as we thundered across the blasted landscape.

The rising sun glinted off Dawn's Hope's pristine armor as it took up a defensive posture, one arm raising up a pulse shield that deployed outward. That could reflect a railgun shot… but the pilot hadn’t thought that far ahead. Shields wouldn’t protect her once I was close enough to get inside her reach, and she had started engaging too late to be effective. Too slow. Too inexperienced. Another rebel who would learn that freedom was just an illusion, a lie they told themselves before people like me came to take it away.

Kerberos's fist crashed forward, targeting the enemy mech's central torso. Dawn's Hope barely evaded my first strike, the white mech staggering backward as Kerberos's armored fist grazed its shoulder plating. The impact sent a satisfying jolt of feedback through my neural link, like the ghost of contact on my own knuckles. The pilot was quick—credit where it was due—but she was also inexperienced. Her movements betrayed her uncertainty, each reaction a fraction too slow, each defensive maneuver telegraphed before execution.

"Please!" the pilot’s voice came again, strained with effort as she forced her mech to sidestep my follow-up punch. The white and gold frame moved with a certain grace, but lacked the fluid precision of a veteran pilot. "Don’t fight us! You're being controlled by their conditioning... You have to fight it! You should be one of us!"

One of them? The absurdity of her plea almost made me laugh. As if I had a choice. As if any of us did. Seeing an opening, I grabbed the arm holding her shield, and my other arm twitched as Kerberos’s laser blade deployed, the weapon extending from the mech's right forearm with a high-pitched whine that resonated through my nervous system. The energy blade cast an eerie red glow across the battlefield, illuminating Dawn's Hope's pristine armor with blood-colored light. Then I swung it in a wide arc, targeting the enemy mech's midsection. Dawn's Hope attempted to dodge again, its thrusters firing in a panicked burst that lifted it partially off the ground. Too slow. The energy blade connected, carving a molten gash across its chest plate. Metal turned liquid-hot along the cut, systems sparking and failing as critical connections were severed.

Through Kerberos's sensors, I detected the spike in the enemy mech's temperature and the sudden drop in its power output. Through the neural link, I felt the blade's passage through the mech's armor—the initial resistance, then the yielding of superheated metal. It was like cutting through flesh, but slower, more satisfying. The blade transmitted the sensation directly to my nervous system, as though my own arm were doing the cutting.

"Good," Cernunnos whispered in my ear, his voice threaded with that sick pleasure he took in destruction. "She's green. Overwhelm her."

I pressed my advantage, launching Kerberos forward in a series of relentless strikes. The amber fluid surrounding my body rippled against my skin as it cushioned me from the g-forces, and I drove Kerberos through combat maneuvers no unaugmented human could withstand without blacking out. My mind calculated attack vectors faster than consciousness, my enhanced reflexes executing them before the enemy pilot could process what was happening.

Dawn's Hope did her best to get that shield back into the way, but it was too big, too ungainly. Meant for putting between the pilot and ranged fire, not a maneuverable blade up close. She was always a little bit late with each move, and could see the Fenrir unit weakening further with each impact, the energy reserves dropping precipitously on my tactical display. The mech's movements grew increasingly desperate as I forced it back, each step taking it closer to the burned-out shell of the rebel outpost.

I feinted left, then struck from the right, a movement so fast that even the fluid around me and my enhanced physiology couldn’t stop the edges of my vision from going black. Dawn's Hope responded quickly—all the evidence I needed to know she was also an augmented pilot, because no normal human would have been able to react at all—but even so, the attack came so quickly that reaction was no option. She needed to have anticipated it, and she had not: Her defensive arm was still swinging to block the feint by the blade while my actual strike connected with her left side. Armor crumpled under the impact, internal systems visibly failing as sparks erupted from the wound.

"Stop this!" Dove’s voice cracked with desperation. "We're both human! We're not meant to be their weapons!"

Human? Was I still human? The thought flickered through my mind and was gone, burned away by the combat protocols that governed my existence. It didn't matter what I was. Only that I won.

Dove attempted a counterattack, firing a burst from Dawn's Hope's shoulder-mounted laser cannons. The targeting was rushed but not incompetent and imprecise. The shots went wide as I boosted to the side, letting the superheated plasma streak past Kerberos to impact the ground behind me. Dirt and rock erupted in plumes of molten debris, the backwash of heat registering on my sensors without posing any threat. I almost felt disappointed at the amateur mistake. Was this the best the rebellion could offer? This frightened girl in a machine she barely understood? "Pathetic," I muttered, the word a low growl in the enclosed space of my oxygen mask.

“Stop playing with her and finish it, Hound,” Cerberos snapped into my mind.

I launched Kerberos into a spinning kick, one of the machine’s legs digging into the pivot in the ground and two others kicking off, helping to spin me as the fourth and final leg fired its boosters and sent the armored limb scything through the air with impossible grace. The move was complex, requiring precise neural commands executed in perfect sequence, the kind of maneuver that separated augmented pilots from unmodified humans. Kerberos's foot connected with Dawn's Hope's midsection with devastating force, the impact reverberating through my body in a wave of savage pleasure.

The white mech crashed to the ground, systems failing visibly across its frame. The once-smooth motion of its limbs became jerky and uncoordinated as emergency protocols tried to compensate for catastrophic damage. Dawn's Hope struggled to rise, one leg sparking uselessly, hydraulic fluid leaking onto the scorched earth like blood from a wounded animal. The once-pristine white armor was now blackened and dented, the gold accents scratched beyond recognition.

"Please..." Dove's voice came again, weaker now. The speaker crackled, damaged by the impact. "I surrender. Don't..."

I cut her transmission off with a thought, silencing her pleas. Surrender was irrelevant. Surrender was for people who could still fight back. I drove Kerberos forward, metal feet crushing debris beneath them as I approached the fallen enemy. With precise movements, I reached down and grabbed Dawn's Hope by what remained of its throat assembly, Kerberos's massive hand closing around the mech's neck. I could feel the metal buckling beneath my grip, the structural integrity failing as my fingers tightened.

"Finish it," Cernunnos ordered, his voice sharp with anticipation. I could imagine him watching through Kerberos's cameras, enjoying the show. "Destroy it."

I lifted the enemy mech off the ground, Kerberos's hydraulics whining with the effort. Dawn's Hope dangled from my grip, four legs twitching uselessly as systems failed throughout its frame. With a savage motion, I slammed it back into the ground, the impact sending shockwaves through the earth that I felt through Kerberos's feet.

Again. I lifted and slammed the broken mech, feeling components break free with each impact, scattering across the battlefield like discarded toys. Metal shrieked and tore, internal systems rupturing in cascading failure. The neural link let me feel each break, each snap of support structures, each system overload. It was like breaking a body: the resistance of bone, the giving way of flesh, the rush of fluid.

Enough of its armor plating had jostled free. With a final, decisive move, I drove Kerberos's fist through Dawn's Hope's abdomen below the cockpit. It was a delicate move to avoid damaging the pilot, but I was careful as I drove my punch directly through the armor to close my fist around the containment unit for its fusion reactor. Then I ripped her reactor out, flinging it into the distance where it overloaded with a flash of plasma lancing in a half dozen different directions. The mech convulsed on released hydraulic pressure as its systems failed catastrophically, limbs twitching in a macabre dance as power surged uncontrollably through its frame before dying altogether. Smoke poured from the gaping hole in its chest, the once-bright lights of its optical sensors fading to dull gray.

"Target neutralized," I reported coldly, standing Kerberos over the broken remains of Dawn's Hope. The white mech lay shattered beneath me, barely recognizable as the elegant machine that had approached just minutes earlier. Its limbs were splayed at unnatural angles, its armor torn and melted, its systems dark and silent. A mix of coolant, hydraulic fluid, and synthetic lubricants spilled into the soil, her machine's lifeblood now poisoning the planet she had fought for.

"Excellent work," Cernunnos replied, his voice carrying raw pleasure. I felt a wave of it, chemically induced, and I had to squeeze my eyes shut and clench my fists for long seconds to get myself back under control from the addictive ecstasy of obedience. "Now, retrieve the pilot. She may be a valuable intelligence or propaganda resource if she survives."

I looked down at the broken machine through Kerberos's optical sensors. The cockpit area appeared relatively intact; Fenrir mechs were designed to protect their pilots even in catastrophic failure. There was a fair probability the pilot was still alive, trapped inside the neural cradle of her destroyed machine.

"Acknowledged, sir," I responded, already calculating the most efficient way to extract her. The mission parameters had shifted from destruction to retrieval. It made no difference to me. Orders were orders. I would comply. As I always did.

Kerberos's sensors scanned the fallen mech, identifying the access points to the pilot compartment. The hull was compromised in multiple locations, but the neural cradle's containment remained unbreached. I reached down and grabbed the armor plate, ripping it away. Then I settled my mech into a stable stance and activated the cockpit release protocol with a mental command. The amber neural fluid that had surrounded me throughout the battle began to drain, the liquid level dropping rapidly around my encased body. As the connections disengaged one by one, I felt the momentary disorientation that always came with separation: the sudden absence of Kerberos's sensors, the return to the limitations of my own augmented but still human senses, dulled by my suit. A chill ran through me as the final links severed, my nervous system adjusting to the loss of the mech's vast sensory input. I hated leaving it behind, but unlike last time, I wasn’t leaving Kerberos to become weak again. Now I was leaving to demonstrate my strength. It took the edge off the discomfort.

The neural cradle hissed as pressure equalized, the tight seals around the cockpit loosening as fluid pumped back into the mech's reservoir tanks. The sensation was always uncomfortable. Like being born, I imagined. The cockpit split open above me with a hydraulic whine, revealing the smoke-filled sky. I disconnected the remaining manual safety tethers and climbed up and out of the neural cradle, my bodysuit still slick with residual neural fluid. Droplets of the amber liquid caught the sunlight as they fell from my form, glittering briefly before disappearing into the dust below.

I hit a switch and an external ladder deployed from Kerberos's side. I climbed down with the precise, economical movements of a spider crawling down its web. My muscles still hummed with the energy of combat, the augmented fibers beneath my skin charged with potential. My boots hit the ground with a soft thud, dust swirling around my ankles. The battlefield looked different from ground level. My vision was far worse… I couldn’t zoom, I couldn’t see anywhere near many parts of the spectrum, and I couldn’t make out a fraction of the detail. The other sensory elements hit me even harder, though… Things like the stench of ozone and burnt metal and the stink of acrid smoke had no reason to be translated into my cockpit. The smell of fire and death permeated everything.

I didn’t hate it.

I surveyed the destruction I'd caused. Bodies lay scattered across the battlefield, some whole, others in pieces. The rebel outpost was nothing but smoking rubble now, the structures reduced to twisted metal and crumbling concrete. Ahead of me, the broken form of Dawn's Hope lay sprawled like a fallen angel, its once-pristine white and gold frame now blackened and torn.

I approached the destroyed mech methodically, my gaze cataloging the damage I'd inflicted. The chest cavity was completely caved in where Kerberos's fist had punched through. One leg was severed at the knee joint, the other three bent at impossible angles. The head unit was partially detached, hanging by a tangle of cables and hydraulic lines. The once-elegant machine was barely recognizable, its design aesthetics obliterated by brutality.

From up close, I was able to simply turn the emergency release for the cockpit. The amber-tinted fluid flooded out in a rush, but I was ready for that. I held onto the side, waiting while viscous liquid slowly receded to reveal the form within. I waited impatiently, ready to fight if she were active. As the last of the fluid drained away, however, I could see that there was no chance of that. Dove lay unconscious in the neural cradle, her white flight suit now stained with blood from a gash beneath her enclosed helmet. Her breathing was shallow but steady, the rise and fall of her chest visible beneath the form-fitting suit. Her face was relaxed in unconsciousness, making her look even younger than the nineteen years her file said she had.

The proper procedure would have been to initiate a gradual disengagement, allowing her nervous system to adjust to the loss of the mech's sensory input. But I wasn't concerned with her comfort. She was a rebel, an enemy. Her well-being was relevant only to the extent that Cernunnos wanted her alive for questioning. I reached in and roughly disconnected her neural links, not bothering with the proper shutdown sequence. Her body jerked as the connections severed, artificial signals suddenly cutting off from her nervous system. A small moan escaped her lips, her eyelids fluttering without opening.

I grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled, dragging her limp form out of the destroyed mech and onto the scorched earth. Her flight suit tore slightly as it caught on a jagged piece of metal, exposing a glimpse of pale skin beneath. I let her fall to the ground without ceremony, her body landing with a soft thud on the dirt. On impulse, I took her helmet and visor off, tossing them aside. "Pilot recovered," I reported, looking down at her face.

She was beautiful, with delicate features, smooth skin, soft brown hair down to her shoulders, and her long bangs resting against her cheeks. Something stirred within me, an emotion I couldn't quite identify. She was familiar. Well, yes… of course she was. I had seen her before in her dossier. Dove… Her real name was Marina. I had files on her, same as all the rest of the known rebel pilots.

"Is she alive?" Cernunnos asked, his tone suggesting he already knew the answer but wanted confirmation.

I knelt beside her, placing my fingers against her throat to check her pulse and making sure it was stable. Her skin was warm under my touch, her pulse steady if slightly rapid. I could feel her life beating beneath my fingertips, so fragile and yet persistent. She was in no danger.

"Affirmative, sir. Unconscious but stable," I reported, my voice flat despite the strange sensation spreading through me as I touched her.

"Good. We want her alive for questioning." His voice took on that familiar, slithering quality that made my skin crawl even through the comms link. "The retrieval team is en route, but they'll be a few minutes. And Hound? Try not to damage her. Too much.”

What did he mean by that?

I stared down at the unconscious woman, my hand still on her throat where I'd checked her pulse. Her chest rose and fell with each breath, the rhythm hypnotic. She had come into this battle woefully unprepared, ready to negotiate, trying to make peace. Something twisted inside me, a complex tangle of emotions I didn't have names for. Rage, resentment, envy?

She had chosen to do that. She was free. Or had been, until now. Despite being on the losing side, she had chosen her path. She had decided to fight for the rebels, to pilot Dawn's Hope, to stand against Ka Corporation. To try pleading over fighting, peace over war. Every action in her life had been her choice.

While I...

The rage built suddenly, hot and unexpected. I had no choices. No agency. No freedom. I was a weapon pointed and fired by others and a living FLESHLIGHT for my master. Why should she have what I did not? Why should anyone? The unfairness of it burned in my chest, threatened to consume me. I looked at her face again, at the peaceful expression of unconsciousness, and it just made me angrier.

I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice for a full quarter second when Marina's eyes fluttered open. Confusion clouded her features for a moment before crystallizing into fear. She recognized me. Or rather, she recognized what I represented. Not my face of course, but my featureless hood and glowing visor and the danger I embodied. Her body tensed, survival instinct kicking in as she tried to scramble away, her movements clumsy from injuries and neural disconnection trauma.

"Don't," I commanded, my voice flat and emotionless inside the confines of my hood. The single word dropped like a stone between us.

She froze, eyes wide with terror, her chest rising and falling rapidly with shallow breaths. A trickle of blood ran down from the gash on her forehead, cutting a path through the dirt on her face. Her gaze darted around, searching for escape routes, for help, for mercy. Finding none.

"Please..." she whispered, her voice cracking. "I surrender..."

I almost laughed. Rules of war. Ethics of combat. These relics of civilization meant nothing here on Elysium, nothing to the Ka Corporation as it prosecuted its war against these rebel scum. Were a bunch of terrorists actually naive enough to believe that surrender offered protection? "Surrender doesn't mean shit," I told her coldly. The word was crude… I couldn’t remember ever using it before. It felt good on my lips. "Nothing means shit except power. Who has it. Who doesn't."

I stared down at her, this woman who had been free to choose her own path, to fight for what she believed in. She had friends. Maybe even a family. Meanwhile, I was nothing but a designation. Hound-91. Not even a name. A tool. Ka Corporation property, to be used and discarded as they saw fit. My rage continued to build. How was that fair? Why should she have what I did not? Why should she know her own history, her own family, her own purpose? Why should she have chosen to fight, while I was built for it?

"Get up," I ordered, taking a step back to give her room to comply.

She struggled to her feet, wincing as she put weight on her right leg. Probably injured from the beating she’d taken when her mech went down. The injury might not even be real: It could have been a phantom pain conducted through the nervous system of the now-destroyed Fenrir unit. She swayed slightly: Enhanced or not, she was still disoriented from the neural disconnection and her injuries. The tears in her flight suit exposed glimpses of her pale skin in… somewhat intriguing places. "What are you going to do with me?" she asked, her voice small but with a thread of determination running through it. Brave little rebel, still thinking she had any say in what happened next.

"Ka Corporation will take you in for questioning," I replied mechanically. "The retrieval team is on its way." I relished the way her face paled further at the implication. Slowly, I smiled… my teeth glinting between the gap of the black suit that covered me. "But they're not here yet, are they?" I added, something dark uncoiling inside me. "For now, it's just you and me."

Understanding dawned in her eyes, fear blooming anew. "Please, you don’t have to hurt me," she whispered, taking a step back. "You don't have to do this. Whatever they've done to you, whatever they've made you into, you can fight it. That’s not who you are in there! You’re still a person!”

Person. The word struck something inside me, a raw nerve I didn't know existed. Was I still human? A person? Or was I just a collection of augmentations and conditioning protocols wrapped in flesh? I didn't know. I had no memory of being anything else.

The rage flared again. I was going to enjoy seeing what happened to this little BITCH after the Ka Corporation finished rebuilding her into a toy just like me. But that would be a long time coming… I wanted satisfaction now. Why should she have identity when mine had been stripped away? Why should she be allowed to refuse and beg while I had to accept whatever degradation my handler visited on me?

"Turn over," I ordered, reaching for the seam of her flight suit. The access point at her neck where the fabric parted for the neural connections.

"What? No, please—" Her voice broke as understanding dawned on her face. Real terror now, not just the abstract fear of capture.

I grabbed her shoulder and roughly threw her down to the ground on her stomach, ignoring her cry of pain as she landed hard on the packed dirt. My fingers found the zipper of her flight suit and yanked it down, exposing the smooth skin of her back. Another difference between her and I: Her suit came off, where mine did not. Metal injection ports from the augmentation procedure were visible along her spine, small, silver-white circles where the machines had done their work.

"No!" she screamed, struggling weakly against my grip. Her fingers clawed at the dirt, trying to drag herself away. "Stop! Please!"

Her struggles only fueled my anger. Every time she fought back, I thought of how I couldn't fight. Every time she resisted, I thought about how my body betrayed me to Cernunnos and obeyed his every command no matter how degrading. If I couldn’t have freedom and dignity, then no one could. I peeled the flight suit down to her waist, revealing more of her pale skin. The contrast between her body and mine was stark; her skin was pale, natural, and beautiful, and all of mine was covered by the black suit I could never remove, turning into something as black as night.

"Please don't do this," Marina sobbed, her body trembling beneath my hands. "I'm begging you!"

I flipped her over again, wanting to see her face, to see the fear in her eyes. Her flight suit was bunched around her waist now, her upper body exposed to the air. Tears streaked down her dirt-smudged face, cutting clean paths through the grime. "You think begging helps?" I asked coldly, leaning closer to her. "It doesn't. Trust me."

I grabbed her breast roughly, the same way my handler had grabbed mine that first day, and I squeezed until she cried out in pain. The sound sent a jolt of power through me; I was in control here. Not like with Cernunnos. Here, I made the decisions. I decided what happened to her body.

"Please..." she whimpered again, her eyes squeezing shut as tears leaked from beneath her lids.

I slapped her hard across the face, the impact snapping her head to the side. The sound of my covered palm connecting with her cheek echoed in the stillness of the battlefield. "Shut up," I hissed. "You don't get to beg. You don't get to say no. You don't get to have choices."

Her eyes opened again, wide with shock and pain. A red handprint bloomed on her cheek where I'd struck her. "Why are you doing this?" she whispered, her voice breaking. "What did I do to you?"

"Nothing," I replied, and it was the truth. She had done nothing to me personally. Her only crime was existing in a state of freedom I could never know. "You exist. You live. You choose. That's enough."

I grabbed both her wrists and pinned them above her head with one hand, my augmented strength making it easy to hold her in place. With my other hand, I roughly groped her exposed breasts, feeling the softness of her flesh, the hardness of her nipples responding involuntarily to the cold air and rough treatment. I… was enjoying this. More than anything I ever had when outside of Kerberos. This was fair.

Marina turned her head away, eyes squeezed shut, tears streaming down her face. "Please, please stop," she whispered, the words barely audible. "Please!"

Her continued pleas only intensified my rage. I slapped her again, harder this time. "I told you to Shut. Up," I snarled. "You don't GET to ask for anything. You don't get to want anything. You just get to take what I give you." Just like I had to take whatever Cernunnos gave me. Just like I had no choice but to spread my legs whenever he decided he wanted to use me, she was going to have to do the same for me.

I pulled down the zipper, parting it until it hit the end of the row. I felt the moment the suit started ripping instead of unzipping, and the shocked look on Marina’s face as the tight fabric tore with a satisfying shredding sound that exposed Marina's body inch by inch. Her petite frame trembled beneath me, skin pale and unblemished except where I'd already marked her. Those small FUNBAGS were nothing like mine, barely a handful each with light pink nipples that puckered in the cold air. The left one already bore an ugly purple-yellow bruise from where I'd squeezed her earlier, the discoloration spreading across her delicate flesh like a watercolor painting. She was like a doll beneath me, something to be positioned and used however I wanted—a fragile, breakable thing with slender arms that couldn't push me away and narrow hips that jerked uselessly against my grip.

Her ribcage fluttered with each panicked breath, and I could count every rib beneath that soft, virgin skin. I wondered if I was this soft-looking beneath my suit, made of this much yielding flesh that dented under my fingertips. Somehow I doubted it. The contrast of her unmarked right breast against the bruised left one made my cunt throb with sick anticipation. The power was intoxicating after being so powerless. She wanted mercy, but watching those frightened eyes—wide and wet with tears—I had none to give. Mercy was not part of my programming. I was Hound-91, Ka Corporation's weapon, Cernunnos's PET. And now, for this brief interval before the retrieval team arrived, I would be her nightmare.

Blood trickled from the corner of Marina's mouth as she stared up at me, terror and confusion warring in her eyes. I felt nothing looking at the red streak against her pale skin: no compassion, no guilt, only a cold calculation of how much damage I could inflict before Cernunnos's retrieval team arrived. Her split lip trembled as she struggled to breathe through the panic, her chest rising and falling rapidly beneath my weight as I straddled her fallen body.

I shifted forward until my knees pinned her shoulders, trapping her arms at her sides. Her eyes widened as she realized her complete helplessness, the full weight of my augmented body making escape impossible. I reached for the seam of my bodysuit between my legs, finding the permanent slit that Cernunnos had cut there. He had meant it as his convenient access point that left me perpetually exposed, perpetually vulnerable. Now I would use it for my own purposes. I could make it mine again, and I wouldn’t hesitate for a second.

I shifted forward until my crotch hovered over Marina's face, her eyes widening in understanding and horror. She could see me now, see the exposed flesh beneath the suit. "Lick," I commanded, lowering myself until I could feel her breath against my exposed flesh. The sensation was strange, warm and intimate in a way nothing in my life had been for as long as I could remember.

She turned her head away, sobbing. "No, please, I can't—"

I grabbed her hair and wrenched her head back into position, slapping her again, harder this time. The impact split her lip further, fresh blood welling up from the wound. Her cry of pain sent another jolt of power through me. "I said lick. Now." My voice was flat, emotionless despite the rage burning inside me.

When she still hesitated, I hit her again, my hand connecting with her cheek with a sharp crack that echoed across the ruins of the battlefield. Her head snapped to the side with the force of the blow, a red handprint blooming instantly on her skin.

"Every time you disobey, I hurt you. Understand?" I tightened my grip on her hair, forcing her face back toward me. "This is what happens. This is what they do to us. This is what I'm going to do to you."

Fear finally overcame resistance. Her tongue darted out tentatively, touching my flesh with the lightest contact. The sensation was electric. Not just for the physical pleasure, though Cernunnos had demonstrated that part of my body still worked just fine, but for the raw power it represented. I had commanded, and she had obeyed. Just as I was forced to obey Cernunnos. This time, I was the one making the commands. This time, I was obeyed.

But it wasn't enough. This hesitant compliance felt too much like my own reluctant submission. I wanted more. I wanted complete control. I ground down against her face, forcing more contact. "Properly," I growled. "Or I'll break your fucking jaw."

Her tongue moved more deliberately then, sliding between my folds. I felt a surge of power rush through me as she obeyed, as she submitted. This was what it felt like to be in control, to have someone else's body bend to your will. This was what had been taken from me, what I took back now through her.

"That's it," I murmured, rocking against her face. My bodysuit's hood cast my features in shadow, the crimson glow of my visor the only thing visible to her as she looked up. "See? It's not so hard to obey."

Her technique was clumsy, untrained. I could feel her revulsion in the hesitancy of her movements, in the way her tongue trembled against me. It reminded me too much of myself, of how I felt when Cernunnos used me. I slapped her again when her rhythm faltered, leaving another red handprint on her cheek. "Better than that," I demanded, grinding against her face harder. "Fucking do it right."

Tears streamed from her eyes as she worked her tongue against me, the salt mixing with my taste on her lips. I could see her disgust, her humiliation, and it fueled me. That was how I felt. This was power. This was control. This was everything my handler took from me, now mine to take from someone else. With every stroke of her tongue, every involuntary moan of pain or humiliation that vibrated against my flesh, I felt more of the control I'd been denied. For this brief moment, I wasn't the one being used. I wasn't the one forced to submit while I was violated. For this moment, I was Cernunnos; I had the power.

"Harder," I ordered, gripping her hair tightly. The strands wrapped around my fingers, soft and fine. Pretty hair… not like mine, buried somewhere beneath my hood that separated me from all human contact except the kind Cernunnos forced on me. "Make me cum."

Her tongue found my clit, circling it with increasing pressure as she learned what pleased me. Her survival instinct had kicked in, showing her what she needed to do to avoid more pain. Just as mine had, long ago, when I learned exactly how Cernunnos liked to be serviced.

I rocked against her face, chasing the building pleasure. My breath came faster, my body tightening with approaching release. The bodysuit restricted my movements slightly, the permanent cutout not designed for this position, but I didn't care. I was far from an expert in this, I just wanted it, and the discomfort only added to the sense of forbidden power, of taking something not meant for me. "Yes," I hissed, bearing down on her. "Don't stop."

Marina's face was wet with a mixture of tears, blood from her split lip, and my arousal. She looked broken beneath me, all resistance gone, reduced to a FUCKTOY for my use. Just as Cernunnos reduced me. The parallel should have disturbed me, should have made me stop. Instead, it drove me harder, made me grind against her more roughly.

The orgasm hit me in waves, intense and liberating. This wasn’t the thing that my handler had forced on me… it felt completely different, completely deserved, completely freeing! I shuddered above her, my thighs clamping around her head as pleasure coursed through my body. The release was beyond physical; it was psychological, emotional. A moment of complete freedom. A moment where I wasn't taking orders, wasn't following programming, wasn't saying "Yes, sir" through gritted teeth in agony. I was giving orders. I was forcing compliance. I was the one saying "do this" and having it done. For those few seconds, I wasn't Hound-91, wasn't even Ka Corporation property; I was powerful, I was in control.

I rode out the aftershocks, her tongue still working obediently against me until I finally shifted away, releasing her head. My breath came in short gasps, my body still tingling with the aftermath of release.

Marina immediately turned to the side and retched, her body convulsing as she vomited onto the scorched ground. The sound of her heaving was harsh in the stillness of the battlefield, her body expelling what it could of the violation she'd endured. As if it were possible to purge the memory as easily as the taste.

I should know.

I watched her dispassionately, the momentary sense of power already fading, leaving the familiar emptiness in its wake. The high was gone, leaving only the cold reality—but I still felt better. I might still be just a Hound, just Corporation property and Cernunnos's pet, but that didn’t mean I didn’t have some agency. Even a trained Hound wasn't always leashed.

Marina continued to retch even after her stomach was empty, dry heaves wracking her slight frame. Tears streamed down her face as she gasped for breath between spasms, her body trying desperately to reject what had happened. But it couldn't be rejected. It couldn't be undone.

I stood over her as she curled into a fetal position on the burned dirt, her body wracked with sobs. Her flight suit was still bunched around her waist, her exposed skin covered in dirt, sweat, and now my fluids. The marks of my hands stood out like badges on her pale flesh, red outlines of fingers where I'd gripped too hard, the beginnings of bruises blooming beneath the surface. I felt nothing looking at her: no remorse, no satisfaction. The momentary sense of power had already mostly faded, leaving the familiar emptiness that constituted my emotional baseline.

Marina's shoulders shook with each sob, her breath coming in ragged gasps. A proud rebel pilot, reduced to this broken thing on the ground. Had I even been so pathetic? I hoped not.

"Why?" she choked out between sobs, not looking at me. Her voice was raw, barely recognizable. "Why did you do that?"

I didn't answer. What could I say? That I'd violated her because I was violated? That I'd taken her power because mine was taken? That I'd hurt her because I was hurt? None of it mattered. There was only one answer. Because I could.

The distant sound of engines broke the silence, the Ka Corporation retrieval team approaching. The heavy thrum of ventral thrusters vibrated through the air, growing louder with each passing second. Soon Marina would be their problem.

"Transport approaching," Cernunnos's voice came through my comms, sounding amused. "Did you enjoy your little... inspection?"

Of course he knew. He had been watching through my visor, no doubt. I wondered if he had his cock in his hand, stroking it as he enjoyed the show. Nothing was private. Nothing was mine. Except maybe my thoughts—maybe. I wonder if he knew what I was thinking.

I didn't respond, watching as Marina struggled to pull her flight suit back up, her movements hampered by pain and shock as the transport ship appeared on the horizon, its engines roaring as it approached. Marina's fingers fumbled with the zipper of her flight suit, trying desperately to restore some dignity before the transport landed. Her hands shook violently, tears still streaming down her face as she struggled to cover the evidence of what had happened. As if it mattered. As if the Ka Corporation soldiers would care that she'd been violated. As if they wouldn't do worse themselves once she was in custody.

The transport touched down thirty meters away, kicking up a cloud of dust that swirled around us like a dirty halo. The engines powered down from their landing cycle to a low idle, the change in pitch creating a momentary silence that emphasized Marina's ragged breathing.

The rear ramp descended with a hydraulic hiss, and six armed soldiers marched out in formation, weapons at the ready. Their faces were hidden behind tactical masks, their bodies encased in standardized combat armor. Faceless, just like me. Tools of the corporation, just like me. The only difference was that they might have lives outside their armor. They might remove their masks at the end of their shifts. That wasn’t a right I had anymore.

The soldiers surrounded Marina, two of them roughly hauling her to her feet. She didn't resist, her body limp with defeat and trauma. One of the soldiers checked her face, confirming her identity with a handheld scanner. "Confirmed capture of callsign 'Dove,'" the soldier reported into his comms. "Proceeding with retrieval."

They didn't look at me, didn't acknowledge my presence beyond a cursory nod from the squad leader. I was just another Ka Corporation asset, no more significant than a security camera or an automated turret. I had completed my function by capturing the rebel pilot. Now they would complete theirs by taking her to a processing facility.

As they dragged her toward the transport, Marina's head lolled forward, then suddenly snapped up. She looked back at me, her eyes hollow and haunted, yet somehow still burning with a final spark of defiance.

"You're just like them," she whispered, her voice barely audible over the transport's engines. "A monster."

The words should have meant nothing, just the desperate insult of a captured enemy. Yet they vibrated through me with unexpected resonance. A monster. Yes. I suppose I was.

The soldiers shoved her up the ramp and into the ship's hold, her slight form disappearing into the darkness.

"Return to your mech, Hound-91," Cernunnos ordered through the comms. His voice had that edge to it, the one that meant he was excited, aroused by the events he'd witnessed. "The Ka Corporation will be establishing a forward operating base at the captured rebel position. Report there for maintenance and resupply. I'll meet you personally."

The unspoken promise in his words was clear. He had watched me take my pleasure from Marina, and now he would take his from me. "Yes, sir," I responded automatically, already turning back toward Kerberos. The massive mech loomed over the battlefield, red optical sensors glowing dully in the morning light. Its black armor absorbed the sunlight rather than reflecting it, creating a void in the shape of the war machine that was my true body.

As I climbed back up the ladder to the cockpit, I pushed away the memory of Marina's face, her tears, her broken voice. None of it mattered. Nothing mattered except the mission, the orders, the next target. Sentimentality was a weakness that had been conditioned out of me long ago. Or at least, it should have been. For just a moment though, I allowed myself to feel a sinking feeling in my stomach. A fragment of guilt. Then I buried it.

The cockpit opened at my approach, the neural cradle waiting to embrace me again. The amber fluid would surround me, the connections would plug into my ports, and I would become one with Kerberos once more. Less human, more machine. The powerful being I was meant to be.

I settled into the cradle, feeling the familiar embrace of the system as it closed around me. The neural fluid began to rise, warm and viscous against my bodysuit. The connections sought out my ports, plugging in one by one with precise mechanical movements. Each link sent a small surge of data through my nervous system, like a tiny electric shock.

The cockpit sealed, cutting me off from the outside world. Inside this metal womb, I was alone with my thoughts and Cernunnos's voice in my ear. This was my reality. This was my existence. I initiated the startup sequence, feeling Kerberos come alive around me. The mech's systems integrated with my own, its sensory data flowing into my consciousness. The battered battlefield reappeared in perfect clarity, every detail enhanced and cataloged. The destruction I had caused. The lives I had ended. The innocence I had destroyed. All reduced to actionable data.

I was Hound-91. And I would obey.


End of chapter 4
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A dark and oppressive story. Once again, beautifully written. I’m not sure whether I feel sorry for Hound or despise her…
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