Preview of R0-3R's Refinements
This is an excerpt from a story that you can read the full version of on either my Subscribestar page by following this link! Or with my Patreon page over here! It will still make its way to FA before too long, though. But every bit of support you can offer would help me so much!
Supporter Reward for Chaz!
Summary: The ground turns soft and sticky on Severa's stroll. Yet that is just the start of her problem as an upgraded and returned R0-3R is being tested, and the poor mired charr is already in its grasp.
Word Count (Full Version): 2144
Stretchy thickness stuck to her jaws, refusing to let her spit it free, her fingers weren’t mired but they also squirmed against the tackiness to try and remove any of it.
At first she felt all the more horrified, thinking it was moving and alive. Instead it was expanding, filling her mouth full, prising her jaws wide and even threatening to envelop her finger tips. Those fingers pulled back, it was a shade brighter than the ground her feet had fought but she finally noticed that the dirt itself had lost its sandy brown to a more pale shade. “Mmmh, mmhghh!”
“M…mmmmh?” It hadn’t dawned on her this might be deliberate until now, she looked up in shock for the source of that splat and her throat caught, a strange sphere hung in the air, floating above the trees. A reflective sheen coated it, making her think of white metal for a moment before it let out a quivering wiggle. Silently it launched two more white globs.
They sped as fast as a bullet and with unerring accuracy, splashing over Severa’s hands the impact and weight snatching them back away from her mouth.
Already the expanding stickiness had totally enveloped her fingers. Her hands tried to shake the stuff off, digits wiggling, trying to resist its expansion, yet as it grew outward it also pressed harder inwardly, folding her fingers, fisting her hands together. There wasn’t so much as a branch offering cover between her and the floating blob; she had to run! But how?!
Her feet worked the best they could, yet the ground refused to let her take a full step, forced to an awkward shuffling. The fur on her back ruffled as the airborne assailant drifted between her and the sun, casting its shadow over her as another barrage was loosed, splatting over her ankles, leaving her feet free, with another hitting her shoulders and neck.
The impact of the last one knocked her forward onto her knees. Winded, she could only tense and gasp as the shadow itself grew even bigger. The blob drew near before an unseen set of appendages reached out and grasped Severa. Rubbing the goo at her neck, somehow teasing it to slip around the front of her throat into a thickening band. Her hands also felt the touch as they were dragged behind her back, the inflating mass rounded off to totally lose definition. “Mmmhh! Mmmmmhh!” She tried to thrash and fight it, yet her struggles didn’t win free or even seem to upset the blob.
It was as impassive as though it knew it was totally in control and ignoring her struggles in the knowledge she would only tire herself out quicker. It worked on her with that same calm, its appendages able to merge and unlink with the gooey projectiles on a whim. Her now totally mitted hands were linked together behind her back, with a tether snared to her gooey-cuffed ankles.