Squad Goals - Ch08
#8 of Comm - For Dreixes
Shodan is eager for April to arrive after being shipped from Charlene's place all tied up in a box, and she's ready to have some hardcore fun with her little lover. When she opens the box, however, she finds a rather traumatized squirrel waiting for her, and it's all she can do to comfort April while trying to figure out what happened.
**Unboxing the Squirrel
By: VeronicaFoxx
For: Dreixes**
Shodan was eagerly excited for the delivery to arrive. She'd had everything setup since the night before, but she kept double checking on her preparations, fidgeting. She hadn't been so excited and anxious since she'd first met her lovely little squirrel. She was very glad that April had agreed to be live-shipped like Charlene's little bun bun had, and she couldn't wait to have fun afterwards. She hoped it wasn't too hard of a journey, but from Foo Foo's state it was certainly not pleasant. The British squirrel was, however, quite a painslut and more than up to getting a little battered, so long as nothing was really damaged. The hyena just hoped that some of the horror stories she'd read in online reviews were exaggerated, or at least didn't happen to April. And, of course, she had to check on everything again: electric blanket to help soothe sore, cramped muscles; chastity belt with built in vibe egg to get the squirrel nicely edged without irritating possibly sore and/or raw insides and soothing lube with aloe vera for said insides; paw-gloves to let her work the kinks out of her shoulders after having them trapped behind her back for so many days but still keep her a bit helpless; a pacifier gag, 'cause her jaw would probably be aching fiercely, and the normal cock gag would be out of the question; electrolyte-heavy drinks and starch-heavy snacks, in case she was thirsty and/or hungry; and, last but not least, a big, happy 'yeen to hug and snuggle her until she was ready for a good, hard fuck.
Yup. Everything was still ready, laid out in a spread across the foot of the bed, with webcams setup to view the large mattress and the sturdy table beside it that she had dragged in for the unboxing. It was going to be amazing! Just like with Charlene and Foo Foo, the whole guild would be watching plus an additional stream on a time delay for other perverts to get in on it for a chunk of cash that would hopefully make up for the deficit of April not being able to play for most of a week, and the recording would net them even more. So the only thing left to it was the interminable waiting. Shodan hated waiting.
She preferred to be doing something, something constructive, being a part of things. It was hard to just sit on her hands and wait. Of course, she was chatting up a storm online, but that was just a minor distraction. She was getting to really miss April, which didn't help. She'd had to leave the squirrel in the gator gal's care while waiting for her to be shipped, and Charlene had kept her apprised on a daily basis, even with video so she could watch her sexy little squirrel slut squirm in the box, but after the shippers had come, there was no way to know what was going on. Well, she could check their site for updates, but it was all basic info. She should have thought to get a cellular webcam or something installed so she could keep an eye on her little girl for the whole trip. If they did this again, then she would, for sure. The not knowing was killing her as much as having to wait.
Her phone dinged, and she checked it then let out a cheer, seeing that her package was marked as "delivery in progress" instead of just "out for delivery." She rushed to the front door and flung it open, then rushed to the balcony railing to look out over the parking lot. Sure enough, the truck was idling, the driver fiddling with a clipboard by the back door, and the hyena wanted to scream at them to hurry the fuck up! But that would be rude, and they shouldn't have to suffer for her impatience, so she just stood there gripping the metal railing so tightly that she could hear her knuckles crack and tapping her paw against the cool concrete of the landing. Then the driver rolled up the door and climbed into the truck, disappearing from sight and forcing Shodan to wait even more while they did whatever in the back. After an endless time there came a whirring, a platform slowly folding out from the bed of the truck. The delivery driver stepped onto it with a dolly that had a familiar box strapped to it, lowered the platform, and began coming towards the building.
Shodan couldn't help her dancing feet and wagging tail, her jaws hanging open in a happy, eager pant. She watched them disappear into the lower level, then rushed over to very nearly fly down the stairs. She was pretty sure that she only touched the landings. The delivery person was shocked at her sudden appearance at the bottom, and possibly by her slightly crazed appearance, not to mention her inquiring outburst.
"Is that for me, is it, is it, is it?" she badgered the wolf, who just blinked up at her and pulled out his data pad.
"Are you... Sue-"
"Yes!" Shodan bit off a growl, hating her real name, then shrugged off the irritation in the excitement of the moment. "Yes, that's me. We're on the third floor, lemme get that for ya!"
She shouldered the wolf aside and took hold of the dolly, lifting both it and the box easily, then rushed up the stairs. She flung open the door to the apartment she shared with April and set the dolly down in the entryway, then retrieved her ID so that the driver could verify her identity, and ran back down. She signed off on the package, then had to run back up to retrieve the dolly for the driver, then sprinted back up to her apartment so fast she wasn't even sure her paws touched the stairs. She closed and locked the front door, then knelt down to caress the box, snuffling at the air holes to fill her nose with April's scent, hearing soft whimpers from inside. She gave it a gentle pat, wishing that she could already be petting her lovely little slut.
"Just a little bit longer, sweetheart," she assured the squirrel. "Just gotta get the stream setup and we'll get you outta there."
She carefully hefted the box once more and carried it into the bedroom, hearing some loud gags and muted protests from inside. She hoped she hadn't jostled the girl too badly in her excitement, and she made sure to take a few deep breaths to calm herself after setting the crate down on the table prepared for it. She hated it when her accent started coming through, hated slurring her words like some uneducated ignoramus, and that almost always happened when she got too excited. Charlene may be a proud southern belle who managed to carry it off, but hyenas had a bit of a reputation as laughing idiots that Shodan had fought against exemplifying for her entire life. She wasn't about to go onto a livestream sounding like some just-off-the-boat immigrant who barely knew the language.
She shot off a quick message to the guild and the stream, giving them fifteen minutes to prepare themselves, then shucked off the sports bra and tight briefs that were all she'd been wearing. Which might also account for the delivery person's consternation, come to think of it. They probably weren't used to seeing a nearly naked, beastly buff 'yeen coming at them with her jaws gaping like she was gonna give them a chomp. The thought made her giggle, but she cut that off before it could become much more, instead giving herself a quick brush, massaging her rather large boobs to work out that squashed feeling, and stroking at her clit to get it nice and hard for the viewers. The last was a feature that she was sometimes torn on, big enough to be a cock and packing her pants enough to make many a male jealous, scaring off as many would-be suitors as her size and muscular build did, but April had changed that for the better. The little love bundle was as big a size-queen as the 'yeen herself, though Shodan had rare opportunity to indulge herself in it, and loved that big, knotty clitty to death. She was gonna give that girl such a pounding!
Shodan couldn't help her paws from doing the tippy-taps as she counted down the minutes, a crowbar held between her hands. The tool wasn't really necessary; she could rip the damn crate apart with her bare hands, but it was the principle of the matter. One didn't do an unboxing like a child unwrapping a Christmas present. There was an etiquette to it, though she was really ready to throw etiquette out the window. Then the minutes became seconds, and she did her best to compose herself. She took a few more deep breaths, widening her stance to make sure her pussy was plainly on display below her erect clit, and arranged her expression into something more calm, confident, and pleased rather than like a toddler getting an ice cream cone. Then the timer dinged, and the stream went live.
"Welcome to April's unboxing," she said by way of introduction, glad that her voice sounded steady despite the fluttering in her stomach. "She's been packed up in this crate for the last six days, three in processing, and three more in shipping with everyone's favorite fetish merchant, XXXpressions." She patted the box gently and twirled the crowbar between the fingers of her other hand. "So, let's see what's inside, shall we? And then get to the good stuff!"
She carefully applied the crowbar to the seam of the crate's side, prying it partially open, then moved a few inches down the line and did it again, wedging the wood apart, then dropped the tool to the floor so that she could wrench the side off, revealing the red-furred femme inside. Shodan gave the camera a grin and a flourish of presentation, then knelt down to...
Blood. There was blood dripping down the inner wall of the crate, trickling from April's nose. The hyena clenched her fists and did her best to hold back a growl at the carelessness of whatever idiot had made that happen. There was also some kind of pad wedged between the squirrel's nose and the side of the box, which hadn't been there when they'd put her in, so someone had opened up the crate and put it there. She ran a critical eye over her lover, looking for anything else out of place. Aside from the twitching and jerking of limbs, everything looked... She was making sounds, she was jerking around, she shouldn't be doing that. She'd known what was going to be happening. She should be happy, not looking like she was having a panic attack, hyperventilating, attempting to escape her confinement.
Shodan's ears tucked as she let out a soft whine of her own and began ripping the straps apart rather than taking the time to unclasp them. Within seconds, she had the shivering, sobbing squirrel held in her arms, tucked tight against her chest. April's fingers and prehensile toes were clutching at her fur so tightly that she thought the strands might be torn out at the root, choking on sobs so hard that she thought the girl might die of asphyxiation in between breaths, tears and snot and blood leaking out onto her chest. She simply clutched April tightly to herself, a wash of guilt and horror chilling her to the bone. All she could do was squeeze the squirrel against her, applying firm, comforting pressure, trying to let her body warmth ease the shivers that wracked the girl's body.
"I'm here, it's okay, you're safe," she found herself mumbling over and over again on a loop, her brain fritzed to the point of overload.
She had no idea what had happened, but the last time she'd seen someone like this had been- Shodan had to fight against the urge to ball her hands into fists, had to keep her fingers gentle, lightly scratching and stroking at the squirrel. The last time she'd seen someone like this, it had been brought on by rape. There was a boiling, burning, scorching rage threatening to overwhelm her, and she had to keep it bottled up, had to keep calm, had to be the supportive, protective girlfriend that April needed right now. The squirrel didn't need her to fly off the handle and start smashing things, not yet, especially not in front of-
"Shitfuck!"
Shodan hastily rose and moved over to her computer, cutting off the stream. She ignored the flood of messages from the guild and used her tail to swipe a clear space at the end of the bed, then pulled the electric blanket around them. She felt dead now, her rage suppressed, her guilt on hold, fully focused on just making sure that April was okay, that she could stop sobbing eventually, that she would stop trembling and shivering, that she was going to be alright. That was all that mattered. So long as April was going to be alright, everything would be fine. She just had to keep telling the squirrel that it was safe, she was here, she would make it right, everything would be okay. Eventually. Eventually everything would be okay. Right now, things were shit, things were terrible, something terrible had happened, but that was past now. Right now, nothing and no one was going to hurt her little snuggle bundle. They'd have to do it over her dead and dismembered body, and she'd make sure and take a few pieces along with her to hell. No one was going to hurt her little flower ever again, ever again.
"Tooooooooouched meeeee," April managed to moan out between sobs and gasping for air. "Touuuuuuuched meeee..."
The hyena petted at her back in long, slow strokes, lightly scratching, the other arm cradling to hug the squirrel against her. The girl was so small that it felt like holding a child, made all the smaller by her fear and agony, balled into herself and clutching at the only source of comfort left to her.
"It's okay, babe," Shodan told her. "You don't have to say any more than that right now. For right now, just rest. It'll be okay, sweetheart. I'll make it okay. I'm here, hun. You're right here, and you're safe. When you're ready, just tell me what you can, and I'll make sure this gets handled. I promise you, babe, I will make sure that this gets handled."
It took an hour before April stopped sobbing. Shodan held her the entire time, then made her guzzle down a sports drink to keep her from getting dehydrated. The squirrel was still shivering, though it was more intermittent, so they stayed under the electric blanket for most of another hour. The hyena was overheating badly with the heat, but she wasn't about to leave April alone. She chugged a few sports drinks herself and ignored her bladder when it began to complain. When the trembles finally stopped, April had to scramble for the bathroom and vomited up a rather impressive amount of bile. The hyena followed and continued stroking at her back, feeling helpless and useless and lost but knowing that she had to be there. Then the squirrel wanted a shower, and Shodan sat with her under the scalding water, helping her to shampoo her fur, though she found her hands being slapped away when she tried to touch the squirrel's stomach, and had to hold her through another round of sobs, hugging her from behind and letting the water cascade over them. When the water started getting cold, she coaxed April out of the shower, took them both for a cycle in the drying booth, then wrapped the girl in a fuzzy towelling robe for more snuggles. She carried the small female into the living room to sit on the couch and turned on the tv, just for some background noise and distraction, sitting with the squirrel curled up in her lap like a frightened child.
It was a while before April did anything more than just cling to her with the occasional sob, and it was wrenching to hear. "He touched me," she repeated, her voice barely even a whisper, broken and jagged like shattered glass, occasionally hitching and cracking, interrupted by whines as she held back yet more sobs. "It... it was all Jimmy's fault. The driver. He... he wasn't careful and... m-my nose... my nose got hurt... Th-th-th-theeeen..."
"Sshhh... It's okay," Shodan soothed, petting at her ears while she broke down once more. The hyena could feel something grinding inside of her, rattling, creaking, but she kept the rage locked up tight for now. "Take your time. You don't have to say it all at once. Just tell me what you can. I'll take care of everything."
"He... They... Th-there was blood... They saw it. H-h-h-had to open the... the box... W-w-was all... Jimmy's fault..."
She was pretty sure that April was leaving something out, but she didn't push it. It would come in its own time, hopefully, or she might need to dig for it. But not just yet. Right now, things were too fresh. So she just held her snuggle bundle and let her sob it out again, offering gentle pets and soft reminders that it was over. At least until she made the mistake of touching the squirrel's stomach again. She didn't begrudge April the scratches she received when the red-furred femme clawed at her arms nor the hot sticky vomit that was heaved up all over her paws. She just sat with her head in her hands, fingers prising at her skull, wanting to rip her own head off as April staggered her way back to the shower. She allowed herself about five minutes of self-recriminations before she heaved herself off of the couch to clean off her foot and get the puke out of the carpet before it stained. Then she plunked herself into her computer chair in the bedroom they shared, listening to her girlfriend's broken sobs over the sound of the water, and she suddenly couldn't hold it back any more.
The roar of anguished fury ripped its way out of her throat without warning, a ragged cry of impotent rage that seemed to drag its way up from the bottom of her very soul. She flung the chair against the wall, not caring that she would need to patch the sheetrock. She kicked the bed, busting a hole through the footboard, then smashed the mattress over and over again until the frame gave way with the shriek of screws being torn from wood. That gave her just enough control back that she was able to make her way to the third bedroom, their miniature workout room. She had a heavily reinforced punching bag there for just such times when she got too worked up, but she didn't bother using her fists this time. Her claws dug into it hard enough to puncture the reinforced canvass. Jaws that had enough bite force to crush a skull bit into it and wrenched, tearing out a large chunk to let sand spill down onto the slip-proof floor mat. But that wasn't nearly enough. She bit it again, heaving at the bag, hearing the clink and creak of the thick chain links that held it secured. Thankfully, the moorings didn't come loose. Instead, the bag tore further, ripping free of the chains so that she could bodyslam it against the ground, ripping and tearing and maiming it like she wished she could do to whoever had hurt her beautiful, precious, wonderful little flower.
When the red cleared from her vision, the punching bag was completely shredded, sand scattered all over the place, bits of thick cloth flung rampantly across the room, but she was able to think again. And she started planning while picking up the pieces. The fury simmered at the back of her mind, and she knew that it wouldn't be going away any time soon, but she was able to think again with the immediate need for violence sated. She could and would put in a claim with XXXpressions after getting April's nose checked out by a doctor. They had the crate with her blood all over the side, so there would be no denying that she'd been damaged in transit. What was going to be contested was if anything else had happened to the squirrel during transit. Shodan was pretty sure that nothing penetrative had occurred, but rape was still rape, no matter what form it took and no matter what shades of grey the law tried to create for such acts. She'd check the crate again, but she was pretty damn sure that whoever had done whatever would have gotten rid of the evidence. That meant they'd have nothing to take before either the company or the police, no way to prove any misconduct. So she'd have to remedy things another way. She knew just how to get that started.
The burly hyena bitch dropped what she was doing and stalked back to her computer. Her computer chair was sitting crookedly on its base and would need to be replaced, but that didn't matter just yet. She put on her headset and punched up Charlene for a video call.
The gator answered almost instantly with a, "What tha deep-fried Jimeny _fuck[/], Sho! It's been damn near six fuckin' hours! The hell happened?"
With a strategy firmly in mind, her anger had cooled, becoming something deadly chill, a little spike of ice in her heart that would burst back into an inferno the second it was allowed, but it was deathly cold for now. "I don't know yet," she said in a low growl, "but I have some clues. I need you to talk to CyberNinjaXray, xChocoHunterx, and DominoDancer. Whatever happened, I'm pretty sure it happened at one of the shipping centers. You should still have the tracking number. Give it to them. I need to know her entire route. I need to know every single person that might have come into contact with her. I don't think it was one of the drivers, though one of them busted her fucking nose. Jimmy, she said. I'll take that to the company, but you know as well as I do that they'll deny anything else. I need to handle this myself."_
The gator gave her a long, measuring stare. "You ain't plannin' on hoggin' tha fun all ta yerself, now are ya? I'd be mighty offended if'n ya left me out."
Shodan felt her lips peel back in what was most definitely not a grin. It was a threat display that the alligator easily matched. "I wouldn't dream of it. I would love to have you come along."
"Good then." Charlene gave a nod, settling things. "I'll get 'em on it. Might take 'em a few days, but I'll light a fire under their asses. Everybody's here for her, Sho. Make sure she knows that. Not sure if she's gonna need kid gloves or not, but I'll put out the word to check in with you first, if and when she gets back online. We'll take care of this. Mind if I send Felicia over ta visit for a few days? I think someone small like her might help out a little."
"Yeah, that might be good. Give me two or three days, and I'll let you know. I just want to give her time to settle first."
"Roger dodger, Sho. I'll shut everyone up and leave ya to it. You'll hear from me when we have somethin'."
The hyena ended the call and sat back, then found herself on the floor when the central support of her chair snapped. She managed to stop herself from putting the two halves through the wall, and just dragged them over to the front door for later disposal. Then she began dismantling the bed. They'd make do with the boxspring and mattress sitting on the floor until it could be replaced. She added the broken bed frame to the chair pieces, then checked on April. The water had gone cold again, so she helped the squirrel into the drying booth once more, then went back to cleaning the workout room. She'd managed to pick up the cloth and vacuum up as much of the sand as she would ever be able to get after half an hour, and she went to check on her lover again. April was still in the drying booth, slumped against the wall and passed out. The hyena very gently wrapped her in the toweling robe once more, then carried her over to the mattress, lying down to snuggle under the electric blanket and being very careful not to touch drape an arm across her stomach.
Two weeks later, Shodan was watching a movie alone in the living room, not really paying attention to what was on the television, when her phone beeped for attention and checked it. There was a message from Charlene: "Got him."
The hyena felt the predatory smile spread her lips and the cold spike begin to bubble and burn. It had taken most of the first week before April would give up the name, and she had been able to match it to the list that the hackers in her guild had produced. From there, they'd needed to get a few things arranged, but everything was now in place. It was the last thing to settle. Foo Foo had gotten her parents to hire them a lawyer, who contacted Shodan the day after April had been delivered, and they'd gotten in contact with XXXpressions through him. The company had been "deeply sorry" for what had happened at first. By the time the lawyer was done with them, they had begged to offer a silent sponsorship for the next five years. Whoever the bunny's parents were, they knew some very nasty attorneys, but Shodan hadn't been about to complain. They had their official apology from the company, compensation, and a guarantee that XXXpressions was going to be reorganizing its business model to exclude using third-party shippers from now on. So the only loose thread that remained had been Hal.
She headed for the bedroom to break the news to her snuggle bundle when she heard the voices coming from the direction of the bed. Foo Foo and April had been sharing it while the rabbit visited, with the hyena taking the couch, and she didn't intend to eavesdrop on them, but the words caught her attention.
"I just feel like such a fucking hypocrite," the squirrel admitted, and it was so soft that Shodan would never have heard it if she hadn't had her ears perked forward at the time. "All the stuff we do in-game, especially like what we've done to Kaliya... I... I just... feel like I deserve it, maybe, or at least like I shouldn't complain that the same kind of thing happened to me."
"No," the rabbit rebutted firmly. "That is not at all the same. In the game, there is always an escape, a way out of it. Even if you're in NC mode, you can always just exit. If there's anything that you really don't want happening, you always have an out. Kaliya loves it, trust me. She's coming to visit us at the end of next month, if you want to ask her yourself. What we do in game is always consensual. And how we play in real life? That's consensual, too. It's play. It's always play. You know, and I know, that any time we say to stop or that we don't like something, Shodan and Charly will stop, instantly, and that's the end of it. There's a huge difference between non-con play and being... raped."
"Are you really so sure about that?"
"Well, I should be. I've been raped before, twice. I was lucky that they left me my virginity. I didn't really take it that hard, I'll admit, but... well, first off, I'm a bunny, and second off, I'm a bit twisted, in case you hadn't noticed. I brought it on myself, on purpose, and that isn't me victim-blaming myself. I literally courted rape. I mean, I was twelve the first time and managed to get myself into a chat with a pedophile online and went out to meet him knowing what was gonna happen. Except he didn't want someone willing. So he made sure that it hurt, and not in the good, fun way. The second time, a wolf thought that I was too mouthy and decided to shut me up. He caught me after school and facefucked me unconscious, knotted my mouth, damn near drowned me in cum. Just left me lying in the parking lot behind the school afterward. I was lucky that my brothers found me. The pedo is... kind of a grey area, since I literally invited it, but the second one wasn't, and we took that one to court.
"The point is, that there's a difference, entirely aside from statutory. Neither of them would have stopped no matter what I said, and I very much made it plain that I wanted them to. They weren't interested in me having fun or taking care or anything except getting themselves off and making sure that I didn't like it. For one, it was a power trip. For the other, it was punishment. In your case, I'd say the guy was definitely on a power trip, and he probably gets off as much on thinking that you're too afraid of him to do anything as much as anything else."
Shodan poked her head into the room and knocked lightly on the frame, seeing the pair curled up together in the center of the bed, the rabbit's head nestled against the squirrel's shoulder as she hugged April from behind. "Hey, babe. Am I interrupting?"
"No, it's fine," the squirrel answered more loudly.
The hyena held up her phone and gave it a slight jiggle. "They got Hal. You don't need to come if you don't want to, but I'm gonna go meet Charly. I can leave Foo Foo here with you."
"I... I..." She sat up and took a deep breath, heaving it out in a sigh, and took the rabbit's hand between hers to give it a tight squeeze. "I'd like to go. You're... not gonna kill him, right?"
"No." The frost in Shodan's voice made the squirrel cringe, so she did her best to modulate it to something a bit warmer. "No, hun. I won't kill him. Punishment by law is nullification, and that's what I'm gonna do. I'll rough him up a little before that, but I promise I'll leave him alive."
"Okay then..." April nodded to herself, as if deciding something, then nodded again more firmly. "Okay then. I'll come."
"Good. Everyone shower up, get dressed, and we'll hit the road in about two hours?"
"Sounds good to me!" Foo Foo put in with a grin, then pulled April down into a hug and kissed her deeply.
Shodan just chuckled and headed for the bathroom. The rabbit had been good to have over, but she was going to enjoy having her girlfriend to herself again. Well, if April would let her near again. Hopefully this would settle things. It had to. It made her ache to have the squirrel afraid of her. Well, not of her precisely, though her rage fit hadn't helped things. April was afraid of not being able to stop her, which she could understand. She just hoped that it wouldn't last forever. She missed having her snuggle bundle curled up against her, even if they never had sex again. She just wanted to have her little flower brightening up her world again.
The End