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Disclaimer: This story is about a society based on organized sex slavery. Though I tried to keep this story as erotica rather than smut, some of the story contains large amounts of sexual situations that could be considered "Hardcore". It goes without saying that this is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. This story is not to be distributed anywhere but Yiffstar.com. If you are reading this from somewhere else, please contact me at [email protected]

Recaptured

Chapter Five

Robbed

"Sixty-Four!"

"Sixty-Four!"

"Sixty-Five!"

"Sixty... Sixty-Five!"

The punisher wiped a bit of sweat off his brow. Tea and Tee were left panting as they hung limply from their chained wrists, their throats sore from counting out their own lashings. The whip was bad enough, but the strain on their arms made things even worse, since their toes barely touched the ground.

Tea knew that in dungeons like number three, they got the hardest punishment out of the way first. And it wasn't so bad. The whips Tea had felt in dungeons like number seven or eight were the really cruel ones. Those could cut through skin; these just left little red marks. Still, like most punishers, the one that was working with them was quite strong, so even the weak whip was used to its fullest potential.

"Alright, down you go," the leather-clad punisher said as he reached up to unchain their wrists. Tea looked over at Tee quickly and crossed his fingers in front of his chest. It was a signal that the two of them had thought up that morning before they were taken for punishment. It meant "Follow my lead" or "Do what I do", something that was proving to help Tee a lot, since Tea had mastered the art of kissing up to his Oasis superiors. Once Tea was sure Tee had seen the signal, he turned around and dropped to his paws and knees, starting to lick the top of the punisher's leather boot. Tee quickly copied him on the other boot. Tea knew this routine well. Licking the boot of the punisher after receiving punishment was a wordless way of saying, "I've learned my lesson". The action usually ended in a few more strikes, but actions like it were noted and often rewarded later.

Tea held his head down as the punisher pulled his boot away from his face and placed it down on his back, right between his shoulder blades. Tee wasn't sure what to do, so she continued licking as she watched. The whip came down on Tea's lower back three hard times, causing him to cringe with each one. The punisher switched feet and did the exact same thing to Tee while Tea licked the top of boot that had stepped on him again. Tee's mind was still filled with confusion, but it ended quickly as the punisher attached a chain to each of their collars and tugged them to their feet.

They followed as they were pulled over to another punisher who took their leash the moment they arrived. "'The Fennec Bandits', punished for failure to return at the end of wandering time," he said. "Well, maybe a good hour in isolation chambers will bring you two to respect your current method of captivity." Without another word, he started to pull them off to the other end of the large dimly lit room.

Against a brick wall were a series of small metal doors, all of them open. The doors were incredibly thick and locked with large vault-like wheels. The chain was taken off their necks and the punisher pushed them both to the ground.

"Crawl inside," he commanded. Tea started to crawl and Tee followed him, but she was quickly stopped by the feeling of a sharp whip crack on her back. "What's wrong girl? Do you not know the meaning of the word isolation?" A boot pushed her towards a neighboring door. She tried to catch a glimpse of Tea, but he was already out of her sight. She flattened her ears as the large door closed and locked behind her.

Blindfolds? Sure. A dark room? Why not? But silence... Tee just wasn't used to it. It was dead silent in the little room and pitch black. She felt around, just to see how much room she had. It wasn't much. There was absolutely no room to stand or kneel or even sit up. She couldn't even raise her head much without hitting it on the top of her container. It wasn't wide enough for her to turn around, either, and everything felt cold and metallic. The only good things she could find about the little chamber that it was long enough for her to lie down in and there was a hole at the top that she could only hope let air in.

With a little sigh, she placed her body down and rolled over, taking advantage of the cold metal to sooth her whip-marks. She immediately started to miss Tea. She hadn't felt a bit of masochistic pleasure in The Oasis before she met him and now that she was being punished without him, she realized something. She could never really enjoy pain unless it was with someone she truly cared about. She thought back to the old days with the FMC. She was quite fond of her owners there, and they were quite fond of her too. Not like here, she thought to herself. Here they don't love me at all! She sighed again and rolled over on her side, putting a paw on the wall that separated her from her partner. She knew that this isolation punishment wouldn't be nearly as bad if she had her loving fennec to keep her company.

Little did she know, Tea's paw was on the other side of the wall, doing the exact same thing. "Are they even allowed to split us up?" he said to himself. He wasn't sure, but if they weren't, he knew it probably wouldn't stop them. He was confused. He had only met Tee days ago and already a few minutes without her was more torturous than anything a punisher could do. It wasn't like he hadn't received isolation punishment before, but this was the first time he hated the loneliness more than the silence. Usually, he hummed to himself to keep himself company, but he didn't even remember to do that until he had been in there for half of an hour.

"When we get back..." the two fennecs said to themselves.

"I'm going to give him the strawberries from my food bowl."

"I'm going to give her the blackberries from my food bowl."

"He..."

"She..."

"seems to like them more than me anyways..."

The rest of the punishment was quite different and, thankfully, they weren't split up again. After their hour and a half in dungeon three, they were lead to dungeon four for their remaining two hours.

Dungeon four wasn't much worse than number three, but still just as dark and large as any of the dungeons besides number one (which Tea had seen only once, and it was basically a place to get an over-the-knee spanking). Many of the areas were closed off by large curtains, since being exposed during torture was something reserved for heavier discipline. It was one of these areas that Tea and Tee were lead to an unceremoniously pushed into, chain leash and all.

"Ah, is this my next job?" A feminine voice quickly caught both of the fennecs' attentions. They looked up to see a leather-covered tigress, wearing thigh boots with stiletto heels, a one-piece tight leather suit around her torso and crotch, long leather gloves, and a Zorro-style mask over her eyes. She took a piece of paper from the guard that lead Tea and Tee in and then dismissed him with a motion of her paw.

"A female punisher?" Tee blurted out the confusion that was in both of their minds, causing Tea to cringe. The tigress moved carefully over to Tee and grabbed her muzzle in her gloved paw.

"I trust you have no problem with that." She addressed the question to Tea as she held Tee.

"No Mistress, we're sorry. I think she just meant that there aren't any... or many female punishers." She grabbed Tea's muzzle in the same way, silencing them both and pulling them close to her considerably taller body.

"I get that all the time from the other punishers; I certainly don't need it from slaves." She pushed both their muzzles away, causing them to stumble a bit, then she took the chains attached to their necks and pulled them over to a soft chair near a table, which was covered in papers. It seemed like this place was an office of some kind. "Kneel," she commanded as she sat down. The two obeyed quickly, kneeling in front of her feet. "And I'm the best one here, you know that? Yet I keep on getting demotions thanks to these bastards. They want me in dungeon one, with the other female punisher! And they dress me up like some blasted dominatrix stereotype!" She read the paper with an angry jerk of her wrist, then slapped it down to her thigh. "And you know what they expect me to do to you two? Go on, guess."

They looked at each other, more than a little confused with the attitude of their punisher. Maybe she's just having a bad day, Tea thought. "To... punish us, Mistress?"

"Punish you," she echoed. "Ha! I should rub your backs and tell you to cause trouble with how they treat me. I don't even get paid half of what the males make, half!" She crumpled up the paper and threw it against one of the curtains, than leaned in to look at Tea and Tee. "And look at you two! Tiny little rogues are all they send me! I used to turn beasts into slaves!"

"Hey! We can cause plenty of trouble!" Tee blurted out again. Tea bit his lip as he waited for the expected slap at best, but only a taunt returned.

"Right, late after wandering time, you two are rebels!" she said sarcastically.

"We've done worse things!" Tee argued.

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"I uh..." Tea tried to intervene before Tee said anything else, but the argument was getting to intense for him to get a word in.

"I stabbed a kitchen guard!" Tee declared, almost proudly.

The tigress raised an eyebrow. "Are you serious?" She turned her gaze on Tea. "And what have you done?"

Tea thought of the least offensive thing he had done. "I... talked back to a guard, Mistress."

"Ugh, will you stop calling me 'Mistress'?"

"Come on, Tea, tell her something good!" Tee looked up at the punisher and pointed at Tea. "After I stabbed the guard, he picked the lock on a punishment cage to save me from a trip to the feeding pits."

The tigress smirked at Tee. "Maybe I misjudged you... but your partner here.." She got up, dropped the chains, and walked over to a supply closet that was in the curtained area with them. She then pulled out a large padlock and closed it, then tossed it to Tea. "Prove yourself, pick that lock."

Tea was truly puzzled by the situation. He thought he was going to get tortured by this woman, and now she and Tee were forcing him to reveal his most hidden skills. Was it a trick? Was this going to get him declawed? With a long hesitation, he started to move his claw tip around in the keyhole, shifting both the lock and his finger into a few different positions. Within a few seconds, the lock popped open and he held it up to the tigress.

She took it from him with a laugh. "Very good." She sat back down, motioning that the fennecs could stand up, which they did. She looked at Tee and smiled in a friendly way that she hadn't shown before. "I like you two. You've got more backbone than the average slave and your boy has some talent. Reminds me of the old days."

"Boy?" Tea started.

"Thanks! But we're not going anywhere for a while, so why don't you tell us about those old days?" Tee said, casually leaning against the table. Tea tried to relax too, but it felt so strange, in front of a tigress of all people, and inside a dungeon of all places.

"Well alright, that should kill some time. Do me a favor first though, scream so they think I'm doing my job."

Tee laughed, then did as she asked, letting out a pretty convincing shriek of pain, nudging Tea afterwards to do the same (which was about half as convincing). "How was that?"

"Perfect. So anyways, it all started about five years ago. I had been training for quite a while to become a punisher, in spite of the fact that everyone told me it wasn't a female's role in The Oasis. But I was such a natural at it that I qualified with flying colors and I was assigned to dungeon eight. Oh how I loved the slaves who came through there! Some punishers just got sadistic pleasure from anyone, but I got it from proving to the most disobedient and troublemaking slaves that I was stronger than they were. I suppose it's hard for you to understand, but I was only attracted to the true troublemakers, the ones that fought for their dignity until I broke them. Not like the ones here who cry when they're hit or just say 'Yes Mistress' and 'No Mistress' before I even do anything." She glared at Tea who reacted with a little blush. "And I'd get everything from giant beasts to skillful little thieves like you two.

"But then it all started going wrong. Other punishers were getting jealous of how much work I was getting and one by one, they plotted against me to make it look like I was screwing up my job. Over the past five years, I've been demoted all the way from eight to here, and they even had the nerve to take my pet away! So what if he kept on making holes in the walls..." She sighed and shook her head. "So now, I just don't even bother doing a good job anymore. I'm not going to get a promotion, but at least no one will be getting me demoted either."

Tee listened to the story sympathetically. "That's really too bad. I think punishment would be a lot better if there were more women running things." Tee, totally comfortable with the tigress, stepped up and ran a finger over one of her gloves. "I love these outfits too. I used to work for a group of miners before I came here and the woman who trained me wore something like this."

The tigress smiled. "I can't get over how nice it is to talk to a gutsy slave again. I know we're supposed to be anonymous, but..." She swiftly pulled off her mask. "My name's Angela."

Tee smiled and decided she better introduce herself as well. "Well, I'm Tee and this is Tea." They both showed her their collars to avoid the confusion of their names.

"'Fennec Bandits'. Sounds appropriate." She lounged back in her chair. "Well, Tea, Tee, I'm glad you two got into trouble. I haven't met anyone like you since I got a chance to meet that ex-lion guard."

Tea perked his ears up suddenly. How many ex-lion guards were there in The Oasis? He had to ask. "What was his name?"

"Name? I think it was... Jogger or something."

"Jagger?" Tea and Tee both said hopefully.

"Yeah! That's the one. Friend of yours?"

"Friend of his," Tee said, motioning towards Tea with her head.

"Do you know where we could find him?" Tea asked, still with a tone of hope in his voice.

"I suppose I could get you his cage number... And maybe assign you two to cage cleaning duty in that area if you're really desperate."

Tea was about to say yes, but he remembered that Tee was with him, so he glanced at her to make sure it was alright. She gave him a confirming smile, then Tea nodded to Angela. "I think that's the only way I'm going to get to him."

"That shouldn't be too hard. I can assign part of the work to be your punishment, but if you'd like, I can sign that on as your full-time job. That may be a little strange though; upper class slaves cleaning lower class cages."

Tee quickly grabbed onto Tea's arm. "Would that mean we don't have to work in the kitchen anymore?" Tea and Angela both nodded, but Tea was much more enthusiastic.

"Anything's better than working around Lars!"

"We have a plan, then?" Both fennecs nodded excitedly. "Good, now if you'll both pick a knee to lie over, I think the reason for your demotion will be a lot more convincing with a pair of matching red cheeks."

From the assignment office, Tea and Tee walked back unleashed to the healer's office, walking a bit awkwardly thanks to their earlier punishment. Slaves didn't always get to heal after punishment, but Angela said that they were obedient when taking their punishment. The fennecs were quickly learning that the best friends to have were ones in higher places of power.

"It's like she knew every weak place to hit."

"I don't think those gloves hurt the process, either."

They walked into the healer's office and Tea stepped up to the desk.

"Minor injuries for two, please." The worker there slapped a key on the table without looking up, as usual. As the two limped off to their room, the healer's assistant that had brought Tea back to life the last time smiled at him, the female skunk giving a little wave. Tea waved back, surprised that she remembered him.

"Honestly, is there anyone here you DON'T know?" Tee asked. The two giggled as they went into their room.

Inside was one of the magic pools that, by now, they were both used to using. This one was different though. It was larger and circular so that the both of them could fit inside easily, with room to spare. With a relaxed sigh, they both started to bathe and heal their sore bodies.

"So who was that skunk out there?" Tee asked.

"Oh, I don't know her too well. She just took me out of my soul sphere after I went down to the feeding pits."

"The feeding pits... You know, I still feel bad about that. That place sounded like it was beyond masochism of any kind."

"Actually, it wasn't that bad." Tea couldn't stop himself from smiling as he thought back to what had happened, meeting Fox and everything.

"Really? What happened?"

Tea jumped back to reality at the question, stuttering for an answer. "Well I... I uh..."

"Come on, we're partners, you can tell me."

Tea bit his lip and tried to decide if he should really tell her or not. Finally, he decided that he better. "Okay... have you heard of the guy who stole gold from here a few months ago?"

"Of course, everyone's been talking about it." And they were. Fox's robbery was the only successful one ever made in The Oasis by an outsider, and it was only called successful because they didn't get the gold back when they "killed" him.

"Well they threw him into the feeding pits, but he didn't get eaten." Tee looked at Tea in disbelief. Already his story was sounding like something that would be told around a campfire. "He fought his way to this little room where he's been living for months, and he catches slaves now and then to keep him company."

"And why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Tee asked, still in a tone of disbelief.

"He told me not to. If word gets out that he's alive down there, then they'll send guards to go and kill him for real." It took a lot of convincing, but Tea told Tee his entire story as they soaked. Everything from how Fox caught him, to what they talked about and did, and The Black Plant that eventually finished the job.

"He must be starving!" Tee said after she started to believe the story.

"He was pretty thin and ragged... and his weapons looked pretty worn out. And hunting the monsters down there was the only way he could get any food."

Tee looked down at the pool in sad thought, then suddenly smiled brightly and perked her ears up, moving close to Tea. "Hey, we should help him!"

Tea jumped with surprise at the sudden change of moods. "Help him?"

"Yeah! We're Fennec Bandits! We can do it! We'll steal weapons and food and clothes and water for him and we'll take them down there! And maybe some paper and stuff so he can think of a way to escape!" She nuzzled against Tea and made a little murr to him. "Come on, it'll be fun!"

Tea laughed and turned to hug Tee. He didn't need any convincing, the idea was great! He desperately wanted to see Fox again and he knew that supplies were one of the few things keeping him from getting out of that hellhole. "Okay, we'll do it, but if we're going to steal..."

"Steal what?" The two fennecs yelped at the voice behind them. The healer's assistant skunk giggled softly. "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. I just wanted to drop off these towels."

"Um... how much did you hear?" Tea asked.

"Oh, not much, just something about sneaking supplies into the feeding pits to help a criminal escape." She grinned at the two shocked fennecs after hanging up the towels. "Don't worry, your secret's safe with me."

"W-wait!" Tee called after her as she started to walk out.

"What's your name?" Tea added.

The skunk glanced over her shoulder. "Just call me Fyre, with a 'Y', not an 'I'." Before the two could say anything else, she walked out and closed the door behind her.

Tea and Tee tried to find this "Fyre" that knew their plan, but they started to look too suspicious and were escorted back to their cage with their wrists cuffed. They waited inside until they were sure no guards could hear them before Tee quickly went to Tea's side.

"Do you think we can trust her?"

"Do we have a choice?" Tea glanced around the cage. "If she tells anyone, we'll be punished, whether we actually steal anything or not. We should just go as planned."

Tee nodded in agreement. "So when do we start?"

The two started to formulate their plan. There wasn't much to it, since they didn't know what to expect with the guards and anyone else who could spot them. Their plan mostly relied on their instincts and they would simply collect all the things they could. They'd travel close to each other, but never next to each other, so that the guards wouldn't expect another fox if they caught one. They'd start by escaping while on duty in their new cage cleaning job, then start with the hard part of infiltrating the armory. That way, if they got caught there, they could still start over. They then would have a way to defend themselves as they gathered items from clothing storage, kitchens, offices, and wells. The last one wouldn't be hard, since their class of slave was allowed full access to all water supplies.

"You do realize we're going to lose a ton of ranks if we're caught." Tea pointed out.

"When we're caught," Tee corrected. "And yes, I know that, but we when has that stopped you from doing anything before?"

Tea sighed gently. "Good point. I guess I'm just getting used to this nice cage."

It was a day before the fennecs were sent to their new job. They spent it running through their plan over and over again and trying to think of all the scenarios they might be put into. They were woken from a nap by a guard, who led them to their cleaning duty. They were led by chain leashes to the L-P single slave room, where their leashes were handed over to a rather unfit lion guard.

"Upper classes cleaning in here? Bah, what trouble can you get into? Just go to work on your own. There are soap buckets and rags over there." The guard tossed away their leashes, pointed towards a wall, and sat back down to read a book. Good, Tea thought to himself, a lazy guard always makes for an easier job.

Tea thought H-K was a bad place, but this was worse. He had only been there a few times, but he had forgotten what a rotten place to live it was. He dreaded the idea of lower class slave rooms that were even worse. This one was pretty dimly lit, almost completely dark inside the cages. There were few places to go or things to do during wandering time and no luxuries like showers or even toilets in some cages. Some of the slaves were kept in constant chains, gags, or blindfolds.

Even Tee was a little horrified by the conditions. As they went to the first vacant cage, she spoke to Tea in a quiet voice. "Why do they even keep these slaves? Does anyone even use them?"

Tea shook his head. "They spend most of their time locked up, being disciplined, or very rarely, they'll do some kind of job. Some of them are actual criminals, but others were just disobedient."

They discovered that cleaning the cages was no treat. They were very filthy and the fact that someone would be forced to live in them sent shivers down Tee's spine. The food bowls were tiny and the beds were like rocks, with sheets that desperately needed mending. And not one of them had enough room for either fennec to stand up in, or even kneel much. After about five cages, Tee decided to speak again.

"So what cage did Angela say Jagger was in again?"

Tea had it memorized. "#1028."

Tee crawled out of the cage. "That shouldn't be too far off. Why don't we go visit him? We have to get going before long anyways." Tea nodded and the two counted cage numbers. Tea kept his nervousness down, trying not to think about what he was about to see, because he was sure he wasn't going to like it.

And he didn't. Cage #1028 held a sleeping Jagger, O-class slave. His body held scars as well as marks of more recent beatings. He was clothed in uncomfortable looking leather and chains and had a rubber ball gag secured in his mouth, held by a lock. For one who was once such a strong guard, he looked thin and sickly now. He was curled up on a bed that was much too small for him, with no kind of covering at all. Tea could see that he was shivering.

"Jagger!" Tea whispered sharply. Tee crouched behind him, a little shy and a little frightened by the state of the ex-guard. Jagger raised his head with a muffled sound of confusion. "Over here! It's me, Tea!"

"Mmmph?!" Jagger moved to the front of his cage and looked at Tea as if he were an angel. Tea put his finger to his lips.

"Shhh, hold on. I'll get you out." Tee and Jagger watched as Tea used his skill once again to pick the complicated lock on Jagger's cage, using only his claw. Tee then finally decided to become involved when the door swung open and she instantly went for Jagger's gag, trying to find a way to take it off. Eventually, she found it was made of soft rubber straps in one place near the center of the gag, and it was no match for a fennec's sharp teeth. She had it torn off in seconds. Jagger moved forward and instantly took Tee into a strong hug. He then paused and felt over the fennec's body, stopping when he touched a breast and suddenly realizing that he had the wrong fox.

"Oh, I'm sorry." For his bad condition, Jagger still had a strong, yet friendly voice. Tea couldn't help but giggle at the mistake, stopping only when he was scooped into the ragged arms of his old friend.

"Are you alright Jagger? It's been so long." Tea had to wiggle his way out of the hug so he could talk.

"Am I alright? Look at me; they haven't fed me in days. And after they do feed me, it will be days until I'm fed again. I've had one time out of this cursed cage in... oh who knows how long!" He could tell he was frightening at least one of the little fennecs with his anger, so he composed himself. "But the others, did they escape?"

Tea flattened his ears and looked at Tee. "Um... why don't you go and see if you can get him some food." Tee nodded and darted off instantly. "As far as I know, they were all caught and returned."

Jagger sighed. "I knew it. I knew when we got split up it was only a matter of time."

"But no one got this much of a demotion. We have to get you out of here, Jagger."

"Ha! This is a paradise compared to what I've been through. See this?" He pointed to his left bicep where there was a massive scar. "I got this as a U-class."

"U-class?!" Tea had to keep himself from shouting.

"That's right. I'm in this deep, Tea-ster. You'd better just leave me here and try to find your own way to escape."

Tea looked a little disheartened. "That didn't sound like the Jagger I know."

"The Jagger you know is beaten, cold, and hungry," Jagger snapped without thinking. Tea recoiled. "Oh... oh, I'm sorry. It's just..."

"I understand," Tea interrupted and reached forward to stroke his friend's face. Tee came back with a bowl of food, which Jagger gratefully started to eat from the moment she set it down. He was so hungry that he ignored the two until he had licked the bowl clean.

Tea smiled at his partner. "That was fast. Where'd you get it?"

Tee pointed over her shoulder. "I stole it from a coyote over there."

"What?" Tea shook his head. "Go find the food supply and refill it before you kill the guy."

"Alright, alright, geeze..."

"And who might you be?" He asked licking his lips clean and stopping Tee from walking away.

"I'm Tee, sir. Tea's told me a lot about you." Tee smiled up at the large lion.

"Tee? Tea? Wait a minute..." It took the fennecs a few moments to explain their names, since it was too dark for Jagger to read their tags. "A friend of yours?" he asked Tea.

Tea shook his head. "My partner."

"Partner?" Jagger chuckled heartily. "All those slaves I tried to get you to partner with and you go off and find one on your own. Well, I guess you do make a better pair than I could have come up with."

Tee smiled. "Thanks!"

"No. Thank you. I felt like I was going to starve, but now I feel my strength coming back already."

"Good, because we need your help." Tea formed a little smirk as the other two looked at him curiously. A new plan had just popped into his head. "Can you break any of your clothes?" He reached for Jagger's collar and felt what it was made of. "This is reinforced, but every reinforcement has a weak spot. Try to pull it off here..." Tea guided Jagger's paws up to the place on his collar.

"Are you sure this will work?" he asked.

"If you're anywhere near as strong as you used to be, it will. Now pull... really hard." Jagger clenched his teeth and started to pull with all his strength on the collar. Sure enough, it snapped off in the place Tea had pointed to. He smiled. "Okay, that's one down."

It took them a while to get off all the things Jagger was wearing, and Tea was thankful no guards happened to walk by. It wasn't easy because nothing Jagger was wearing had a buckle or a release of any kind. Tee took the time to go refill the bowl she had stolen. When she returned, Tea described his plan to the other two while they formed a pile of ruined metal and leather. After the leather was off, it wasn't hard for the other two to get into position. Jagger got to his feet for the first time in weeks and stretched out before going down to the floor on all fours in front of Tee. It looked incredibly silly, but Tee put him in a headlock as instructed by Tea and Jagger began to let out a fake string of struggles and whines. When Tea was sure they were ready, he darted towards the door of the slave room.

"Help! Come quick!" Tea ran up to the lion guard. "My partner's gone crazy and she's attacking one of the slaves!" The guard looked more irritated than concerned, but he got up quickly and dashed over to the scene, keeping one paw on the hilt of his sheathed short sword. With a rough push, he launched Tee away from Jagger, causing her to fall on her rump against one of the cages. She quickly feigned injury. While the guard was distracted with her act, Jagger sprung to his feet, delivering a haymaker to the side of the guard's face. Before he even knew what hit him, he was out like a light.

Most of the other slaves in the room watched in silence, although there were a couple of cheers when the guard hit the ground. Jagger made haste in stripping the unconscious guard of the cloth uniform he was wearing. It didn't fit quite right on him, but it was enough to look plausible. They all pushed the guard into Jagger's cage and Tea locked the door again, leaving a scene that looked like a beaten ex-guard slave had removed his slave clothing. He finished by strapping the sword to his belt and unrolling two leashes that the guard had handy. Tea and Tee raised their chins with grins on their faces. Step one in their mission had been completed.

"Assisting a slave's escape of all things! I broke a sweat beating that poor excuse for a prisoner!" Jagger yelled at the two fennecs as he tugged them down the hall, both of them doing quite a good job of looking terrified, leashed and cuffed, being nearly dragged towards the guards' wing.

It took Jagger a while to figure out exactly what room the guard lived in. As he searched, he had to act rude to the fennecs every time someone was watching him. He eventually found a door that accepted one of the keys he had stolen. He smiled and gently motioned to invite the fennecs in, then quickly turned to kick Tee in the butt as a tigress walked by. "That's right, get in there!" He slammed the door behind him.

Tee rubbed her sore rump. "Was that really necessary?"

Tea giggled. "Hey, it was convincing... and funny!" Jagger and Tea shared a laugh; a laugh that earned Tea a little ear-nip from Tee.

"Well, I guess this is my temporary home. But we have to act quickly. They'll find out something's wrong eventually. We have to escape by then," Jagger said as he removed the leashes of the fennecs. The home was small, just a room with a bed, an adjacent bathroom, and a few cluttered shelves.

"Escape?" Tee echoed.

"Who said anything about escaping?" Tea asked. Jagger blinked. "We're The Fennec Bandits and we have a job!"

"Wait, 'Fennec Bandits'? What are you two getting me into?" Jagger shifted uneasily. It took nearly an hour for the two fennecs to get their point across. They told him about Fox, where he was, why he was there, and what they intended to do. Eventually, Jagger saw some wisdom in the plan and started to add his own ideas, even though he still felt odd being forced into such a stunt.

"Really? Well that would make it a lot easier," Tee said.

"Exactly. So every time you steal something, bring it here. We'll make a little 'care package' and take it down together, all three of us." Jagger glanced around the room. "In fact, I'm sure we can steal some things from here too, to save time."

"But what do we do once we're down there? We can't just go back up after that many crimes, can we?" Tea said.

"Jagger can't, but we can. If all goes well, they won't even know that we're involved, or in the worst case, we'll be considered his assistants," Tee said. It was true. If the fennecs could steal without getting caught, it would be impossible to tell that they were part of anything accept for Jagger's escape.

"And then I guess it would be up to Jagger and Fox to escape together. It would be easy without anyone to slow them down," Tea added.

"Then what are we waiting for? You two go to work. I'm going to try to make myself look a little more presentable."

"Yes Master," the two fennecs replied with bows of their heads. Jagger smiled. Even though he didn't like slavery at The Oasis, the word "Master" coming out of a voluntary mouth was like music.

"Hey." Jagger stopped them just as they were about to leave. "When you say 'Jagger and Fox', you mean 'with Tea and Tee', right?"

The two fennecs looked at each other before Tea spoke up. "You might be better off alone. Tee and I can survive here; you two can't."

Jagger tried to say something, but Tee tugged on Tea's arm before he could. "Come on, let's go. We have a lot of work to do." The two left rapidly without another word.

"Now how are we going to get in there?" Tea poked his head around the corner to see a heavy wooden door guarded by two heavily armed and armored guards.

"I'm not sure..." Tee looked to her side and noticed a door next to them. "Hey, what's in here?"

"Looks like a storage closet to me. It's probably locked."

Tee grinned at her partner. "Then unlock it already."

Tea giggled softly and moved over to the door. "Keep an eye out for guards." The lock was an easy one and he had it open with just a few seconds of work. Silently, the two slipped into the closet.

Inside was a bunch of normal cleaning supplies and maintenance tools. Tee made use of the dim light that made it' way under the crack of the door and found a few tools she needed. Tea stepped back after being warned and Tee started to pick through the wooden wall with the tip of a small pointed saw. She nearly squealed with glee when she found the material behind it wasn't rock and that the wall was thin enough for her to puncture and cut with the saw alone. She worked as quickly as possible to make a moderately sized hole, trying to make as little noise with the tool as possible.

"I can get through this, no problem."

"You mean... dig?"

"Sure. I was a miner girl after all. Maybe I couldn't get through stones like the guys could, but I can handle this sandbox." Tee instantly started to dig a narrow tunnel through the sand, using everything she learned to make sure even the softest sand didn't collapse on her. She eventually came to a solid wall, made of stone, which took her a good half of an hour to chip her way through with a hammer and a little piece of metal that she found and used as a makeshift spike.

Eventually, a little fennec head poked out of a hole in the wall of the armory. Much to her relief, no one was inside. She called back quietly for Tea, who followed hesitantly. He had dug a few holes before, but never a tunnel, and never that fast.

The two sand-covered fennecs quickly got to work. They had a rule about what to take: sharp, light weight weapons only, and lots and lots of arrows. All of the weapons in the armory were pretty primitive, nothing more advanced than a simple crossbow. Things like gunpowder were non-existent to them and the Oasis relied so strongly on magic that they kept their weapons simple.

With multiple quivers strapped to their backs, sheathed swords in their arms, and matching double daggers sheathed at both of their belts, they quickly crawled back through the tunnel with their supplies. Tee went last, carefully destroying her tunnel as she went backwards towards the closet. Covered in sand but safe, the two fennecs allowed themselves a moment to giggle in the aftershock of the adrenaline they just felt. No doubt about it, fennec foxes were made for this kind of work.

"Go fast and try to not look suspicious," Tea said as they went out of the closet.

"Don't you think it's a little hard not to look suspicious when it looks like we could supply an army?"

"Then just be quiet. Here, we'll take a shortcut." Tea navigated his way through the less used halls of The Oasis, praying that he wouldn't run into someone at every turn.

Just as they thought they were home free, a problem struck. Tee came around a corner too fast and ran straight into the belly of a lioness, causing the fennec girl to stumble backwards and nearly drop her swords.

"And what might you two be doing?"

Tee was too shocked to say anything, so Tea quickly answered. "Oh, hello Mistress. We're on our way to take these weapons to a guard for an upcoming tournament."

"I didn't hear about any tournament." She narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

"We hadn't either, Mistress," Tee finally chimed in. "But Master asked us to run this errand. We're just following orders."

"Is that so?" The lioness seized an ear from each fennec with her fingers, pulling on them like they were naughty schoolchildren. "We'll just ask him about that, then. Where does he live?"

Tea squeaked out the answer and the lioness took them by their ears to Jagger's temporary room. When Jagger answered the door, he looked a thousand times better than he had just hours ago. His marks and scars were healed and he wore a silk bathrobe, looking like he had recently had a thorough cleaning.

"And what are you doing to my slaves?" Jagger asked calmly at the odd sight. Tea was always amazed by how well his friend could act, even in moments of surprise. In fact, he had learned a lot of his tricks from Jagger.

"They claim that you ordered them to get you these weapons. Yet you know as well as I that those below B-class are not permitted in the armory."

"Is that so? Well madam, did it ever occur to you that these might be my high ranking pets and I prefer to dress them in H-class clothing? Did you even bother to check their collars? Now let go of them." He shook the fennecs loose and moved out of the way for them to charge into the room before the lioness could check their collars.

"I... I..."

"I accept your apology. Have a good day, madam." Jagger shut the door in her face and leaned against it with a heavy sigh. "That was a close one." He smiled as he saw the foxes searching curiously through what they brought back, both of their tails wagging. "Well it looks like you've gotten quite an arsenal there."

"Yeah! We got plenty in case Fox breaks or loses one. And we got a bunch of arrows for him too." Tea smiled up at Jagger.

The large lion reached down to pet both of the fennecs' heads. Now that he was clean, he looked like Benjamin in a lot of ways. He was looking healthier and stronger than before and, like Benjamin, his tall and intimidating yet gentle self was returning to a figure that Tea once respected more than anything. They'd probably have a lot in common, Tea thought to himself. Then again, most strong lions, especially guards, looked very similar.

"So, how about you go out and steal up some food supplies, as well as some dinner for the three of us, and we'll spend the night here. The guy who's currently keeping my cage warm for me actually had a good amount of cash in his pockets, so I rented you two for the next few days. You won't get cage vacancy punishment that way." That was how the slave system worked at The Oasis; slaves would be rented for a certain amount of time, or purchased and turned into pets.

"Alright, let's go!" Tea nodded with a smile. They didn't need any rest. Their empty stomachs were enough to keep them anxious.

"Hold on. I found these with the guard's things. You'll be able to carry more things in them." Jagger held out two leather backpacks. They were a little big on the little foxes, but they were able to keep control of them. After giving a little bow of thanks, they set off, daggers at their waists and packs on their backs.

They knew that there was one kitchen that they'd have the easiest time getting into. Unfortunately, that kitchen was their least favorite one in The Oasis. They were thankful for the big floppy backpacks every time they passed a guard, since it was easy to conceal their weapons by tugging the leather down over them. As they neared the kitchen, they discussed a plan.

"We have to be as fast and unnoticeable as possible," Tea said. "We can't let anyone see us take anything, not even slaves."

"And if they do see us, we just have to go faster." Tee looked down at her daggers. "And let's hope we don't have to use these."

"Agreed." Tea shivered at the thought. When it came to thievery, nonviolent methods were always best, especially considering that a four-foot fennec with a dagger wasn't much of a match for an eight-foot lion with a broadsword.

Luck was with the fennecs once again, as the door guard was asleep on his job. The two bandits nodded to each other and took off in separate directions like little tan-furred darts. They both began to take whatever they could find, mostly basic things like bread and fruit. As Tee found a fresh batch of dinner rolls, Tea found himself a bounty of meats in a large refrigerator. He knew that they would spoil in a few days out of the coolness, so he only got a small amount. Anything had to be better than what Fox was eating in those horrible pits. He found a few empty jugs made of some kind of clay and decided that they'd be ideal for holding water.

His head then shot up as he heard a scream. He looked around quickly to see where it came from. "Oh no..."

"Let go!" Across the kitchen, he saw Tee, both paws seized in the death grip of a familiar guard, Lars. He growled to himself, trying to think of some way to help her fast instead of letting his building anger get the better of him. He tried to think of a plan, some way to distract him and run off, but he could already feel the furs on the back of his neck rise as he watched Tee thrash about.

"Shut... UP!" Her cries were silenced by a slap on her face by the heartless guard.

And that's when Tea lost it.

He snarled so loud that a nearby black fox slave turned his head. He threw his backpack down on the ground and jerked a dagger out of its sheath, into his right paw. He leaped up on a counter and started to charge towards the scene, leaping across two more counters and knocking off four bowls before he reached them. By the time Lars finally noticed the charging fennec, he was flying through the air with a look of bloodlust, dagger held in two paws over his head. With a snarl that scaled into a grunt, he collided with Lars, causing him to lose his hold on Tee and fall to the ground. Tea was like a cannonball; initially quite light, but he packed quite a punch at full pouncing speed.

Thinking only of the sight of his beloved partner getting slapped, he thrust his dagger into the stunned guard's lower neck, pushing it deep, then twisting it with an uncharacteristically vicious snarl. Tee watched, part in amazement, part in relief, and part in horror. Tea pulled his weapon out of the now motionless guard's neck. By now, a small crowd of slaves had formed around the scene.

"Tea!" Tea heard his name called behind him and he turned his head, instantly thinking it was Tee. But instead, he realized the voice had come from an albino squirrel. It was Fore! He leaned down to the guard and putting his fingers on his wrist. "You... killed him..." Tea flattened his ears in terror when he realized what he had just did. Thievery was hard enough to get away with, but murder? Forget it.

"I... I didn't..." Tea stuttered. His friend's paw ended up on his shoulder and he turned to find an unexpected smirk on the squirrel's face.

"Give me the dagger," he said. Tea stared at him, puzzled. "You heard me, give it to me." Tea hesitantly handed the weapon over to Fore. He took it and suddenly jammed it into Lars' neck, near the first wound. Everyone, including Tea made a startled jump or a gasp. "There... Sorry Tea, but if anyone's taking credit for killing this guy, it's me." He looked around the crowd. "Anyone have a problem with that?"

There were two kinds of slaves standing there. One kind was scared of Fore and the other kind hated Lars. There wasn't a single objection amongst them.

"Good." Fore chuckled as he looked at Tea's shocked face. "I think you should run."

It took Tee tugging on Tea's arm to get him back to his feet. Still stunned by the sudden events, Tea started to go off. "Th-thanks!" He dashed over to his backpack with Tee and put it back on. The two of them then made a beeline for the door.

"You." Fore pointed at a random slave. "Follow them until you run into a guard. Tell them a horror story about a crazed squirrel." He called after the slave as they ran out the door. "And throw in the word 'handsome'!"

Tea and Tee didn't stop running until they reached Jagger's room. Slaves running in the hall wasn't allowed, but they were going too fast for either of the two guards they passed to bother to do anything but shout at them. They pounded frantically on the door until Jagger let them in and they fell to the floor, panting heavily. It took them a few moments to catch their breath, then they both burst into laughter.

Jagger looked confused and a bit flustered by the desperate entrance. "Just what is going on?"

Tea had trouble controlling his laughter. "I killed Master Lars!"

"You WHAT?!" Jagger looked like he was ready to barricade the door at that statement.

"Relax, we're going to get away with it. I've done it before," Tee said, finally having calmed herself down. She slipped her backpack off and started to pull out a few things.

"Yeah! I'm going to have to do Fore a favor for taking the fall on that one."

"And don't forget all those other slaves that hate Lars."

"Yeah, they helped too!"

"Hey!" Jagger barked over the two over-excited fennecs. "So no swarm of guards is going to come busting down this door, right?"

"Right," both fennecs said simultaneously.

Jagger made a sigh of relief, allowing himself a little chuckle. "You guys had me worried there."

"Well, we might have a problem when he gets out of his soul sphere, but by then, we could be down enjoying a meal with Fox." Tea smiled as he opened his pack. "Here, look what we got!"

Jagger had fed himself in the guards' dining hall earlier, but he was happy to take seconds, sampling a bit of the stolen goods. The two successful thieves smiled at his expressions of approval. He smiled back down at them and tore off two pieces of bread, hand feeding the slaves. Tea always used to like when he did that for him, since it was a thousand times better than eating out of a bowl, and after a few bites, Tee was finding the same thing. She was starting to grow as fond of the ex-guard as Tea was.

Jagger sighed in delight at the old sight of Tea looking so adorable and so loyal. And the near perfect female copy of him gave him the same feeling. He couldn't help but comment on it. "This was supposed to be what we did every day, you know."

Tea perked his ears and looked up at Jagger, forming a sad little half-smile as he nodded. "I know."

Tee blinked as she looked at the two males. "What are you two talking about?"

"Should I explain or do you want to, Tea-ster?"

Tea giggled at the use of his old nick-name. "Why don't you, Master?"

Jagger nodded and turned his attention to Tee, who stayed kneeling next to Tea as she listened. "I'm sure you heard of our escape attempt." He waited for a nod before he continued. "Well that idea started when Tea made a decision. He decided that he wanted to become my pet, but neither of us wanted to do it in the normal way. We wanted to run away and be pet and master in a place where everyone was free. We could have done it here easily, but Tea wanted to see the outside world more than anything else. And how could I say no? So, we started forming a 'team'. There were about a dozen of us all together.

"With all the planning we did, we were able to escape The Oasis without too much trouble. What we should have planned more on, however, was what we were going to do after that. We spent days traveling. Tea insisted that I'd keep him on a leash so that we'd never be separated. At night, by our campfires, Tea and two other escapees would take the roles of slaves to the team, and they'd keep our morale high by serving us. I'll tell ya, nothing cheers up a slave that shouldn't be a slave more than having someone answer to their needs for a change. Everything was going well.

"Everything, that is, until a patrol found us. We didn't have much to defend ourselves with, so when three felines charged in, pretty much everyone except for me ran. Tea wasn't wearing his collar for the first time since we left." He paused his story to rub between Tea's ears. "I still regret that. I didn't see him, or any of them until long after I was taken back to here and enslaved. Every time they caught a new slave, they'd demote and punish me. I lost count after a while, but according to Tea, none ever found their way out." He sighed gently. "So it was a failure. But I didn't mean for this story to go on for so long." He broke off two more pieces of bread and fed them to them.

As Tee swallowed, she pulled Tea down to whisper something to him. They both snickered and then returned to their knees, holding their backs straight up. "Master?" she asked.

"Mmm?" Jagger cocked his head.

"Given that we just freed you, we think we should... 'boost your morale'." Tea smiled up at him.

"Like those campfire slaves," Tee added, even though it wasn't necessary.

Jagger chuckled as he gradually got the idea and rubbed both of the fennecs on their heads. "After all this time, how could I possibly refuse?" He reached for the leashes he had used on the two of them earlier, quickly reattaching them to their collars.

"What would you like us to do, Master?" Tea asked.

Jagger gave a sudden rough tug of the leashes, surprising Tee, but not Tea. "I want you little slaves to give me a good worshipping." He made a low growl. "And the one who does the best job is going to get a good fucking." Tee was confused by the sudden change in personalities, but Tea was just happy to see Jagger's old sexual side come out. He could be a gentle lion, but only when he wanted to be and given that he had months worth of a need to dominate stored up inside him, along with not one but two little slaves, what would be the point?

The muscular lion sat down on the bed, then moved to lie down before tugging the leashes to signal that he wanted the other two up on the bed with him. They were about to get to work, when he raised a paw. "No, this is too easy. Turn around, both of you." They did as they were told, a fox on each side of the lion's resting body. He gently reached for their cuffs and hooked them together behind their backs. "Okay, now you can get to work." Jagger moved one leash to each paw, watching with curiosity to see how they were going to go about doing what he asked.

They both looked at the sash of his robe first, knowing that would have to be out of the way. It looked like a pretty complicated knot, so they worked at it together. The two fennec jaws worked carefully to undo the knot, taking quite a while but eventually pulling it apart smoothly.

"Not fast enough." Jagger reached down and re-tied his sash in the same way. "Do it again." He didn't really care to train the slaves like this, but he was quite amused by their first performance and wanted to see it again. He made them repeat the process two more times after that until they were allowed to gently pull his robe open, exposing his powerful naked body, along with his large half-mast cock. Not knowing any better, Tee went for that first, an over anxious action that earned her the penalty of being tugged up to his chest, which she started to groom obediently while Tea was left to handle things below his stomach.

The two groomed the light soft fur of his torso happily, tails wagging a bit behind them. Tea's chest and Tee's breasts pressed against Jagger's body or the bed around him, since they weren't able to use their arms to support themselves. Eventually, when Jagger had formed a full erection (and so had Tea), Tea started to lick at his powerful looking groin, all the way from his generous balls to the slightly barbed tip of his shaft. As a large drop of pre rolled down the side of the erection, which Tea quickly caught and murred with its flavor

Jagger pulled Tea's neck up by his leash and held his face over the tip of his cock, only lowering it when Tea got the idea to put his lips around the shaft. Tea thanked his thick coat of neck fur which kept him from getting choked by the pull on his collar. He let his little face sink down on the shaft, perhaps a little deeper than he wanted to, with no paws to hold him up. After that was in place, Jagger lifted Tee up and commanded her to kneel and look towards his feet. When Tee got into the position, she found a large paw between her tiny thighs, searching around her sex, which had grown damp with anxiousness. He had let go of Tea's leash and moved hers over to his other paw, which he gave a gradual tug until she sat down on his paw, it being so large and strong that he could hold most of her weight on it like that, even though her knees took a bit of the pressure off of him. He moved his middle digit to the folds of her sex, teasing her clit before slipping inside her. She moaned softly at the entry. Jagger's finger was as thick as Tea's cock, maybe thicker!

Jagger purred lowly as he felt Tea work and let his finger instinctively explore Tee's tiny sex. He even made a few growls and a roar randomly, just to make the fennecs feel more dominated. And they loved every moment of it. Tee was getting progressively wetter around the invading finger, and a need for touch stirred more and more strongly between Tea's legs. As they worked and were worked on, Jagger reached for the daggers and sheathes at their belts, chuckling as he removed them and threw them aside. "Can't have armed slaves working on you." His calm voice in an exciting time made the fennecs feel that much more intimidated.

Jagger left Tee near her edge when he pulled his finger out, promising, "I have something better for you." He got up off the bed and pulled both the fennecs onto their knees in front of him by their leashes. He examined them as he removed his robe entirely, smiling as he saw the intensity of both their arousal and their continued willingness. He took Tea's leash and pulled him up to the top of the bed, resting his back against the walls there and forcing his legs apart widely, giving a simple command to "Stay". He then moved Tee to the middle of the bed and pushed her down onto her face, making sure her hindquarters were left raised. Understanding the position, Tee obediently moved her tail up against her back, leaving herself exposed.

The pleased lion took the leashes off of his temporary pets and tossed them to the ground before climbing back onto the bed behind Tee. He put his body over hers, dwarfing her under him. Her head was left under the lower part of his chest and he had to bend down quite a bit to press against her. His inward thrust was merciless and unexpected, which Tee couldn't have been happier with. She cried out with ecstasy into the bed sheets, arching her back as her small sex was stretched open and stimulated by the hard barbed cock. Her arch forced her breasts to be driven more firmly into the bed beneath her, adding to her experience.

Tea, meanwhile, watched and waited in the position he was left in, trying to keep his anxiousness to himself until Jagger was ready for him. Once Jagger was sure that Tee had braced herself properly under him, he leaned forward over her body and gave Tea's groin a long lick with his large rough tongue, causing him to squirm and close his eyes from the stimulation. His suspicions of what Jagger was going to do were soon confirmed. Without hesitation, Jagger used his entire mouth to engulf Tea's entire crotch, sheath, balls, and all. It was a trick Jagger used to use on him all the time to take advantage of their difference in sizes. He gave a single rough suck, causing the fennec to yelp with pleasure. It was followed by his tongue snaking under him, licking against his tailhole for a moment before returning to the main attraction in his mouth.

With everything and everyone in place, Jagger began to thrust his hips in and out of Tee, causing her to nearly howl with pleasure. If there was one thing she liked about The Oasis, it was that most felines had strong, big, barbed cocks, which were a dream to her masochistic side. The barbs didn't hurt much, but they were combined with a good stretching from the simple girth of Jagger's lionhood, enhancing the pressure and thereby making the scraping feeling against her inner walls more intense and slightly painful.

As his thrusts in the tight little girl began to form a steady rhythm, he started to focus his attention on Tea, giving his entire groin a good sucking at one time. Both of the fennecs sounds mixed in a sea of moans, Tea quickly starting to leak his precum into the waiting lion's maw. Even though it felt beyond good to the little male fennec, both of them knew that he wasn't going to cum without a little more help, so Jagger waited for a while, then started to use his tongue to stimulate the shaft in his mouth, pressing it firmly against the roof of his mouth, then rubbing it with the rough muscle.

It wasn't long before climaxes started coming left and right. Tee was the first to get off, howling as loud as ever as her inner walls pulsed around the shaft that she was starting to adore. Tea was second, matching Tee's howl with one of his own, as his hot seed burst into Jagger's throat and mouth. It was the first time Jagger had enjoyed drinking cum since he had been enslaved. Jagger played a little longer with the two foxes, causing both of them to squirm with the continued stimulation, especially Tea, but eventually, he pushed some weight down on Tee and started to fill her womb with a giant flood of lion cum. The feeling of it was so intense, that Tee was pushed to yet another orgasm, making happy cries of pleasure as she was stimulated in a way that only the cock of a dominant man could provide.

With all three of them panting for breath, Jagger let Tea out of his mouth and rolled over on his back, taking Tee by the shoulders to take her with him. He then carefully lifted her off of his shaft, giving the top of her head a little lick of thanks.

"We should get some sleep. Tomorrow's going to be a big day," Jagger said as he reached to unhook the cuffs of the two fennecs. Both of them got the same idea at the same time and they started to fluff the pillows under Jagger's head and pull the covers up over his body. They then both took a side of his body and curled up against it, their effectiveness and cooperation getting quite a few chuckles out of the lion.

"Goodnight Master," Tea said.

"Thank you for playing with us," Tee added.

Jagger laughed at how they said goodnight, giving a kiss to the top of both of their heads. "Some things never change. Goodnight Tea. Goodnight Tee."

Jagger slept better that night than he had in months...

To be continued.

Love,

Tea