Forgotten - Chapter 4: A Cage of Their Own Making
#5 of Forgotten
The seven crewmates were dragged to one of the docking bays, the one they had turned into a living space for playing games or watching movies. A large place with lots of floor space. Each of them awoke to find collars locked around their necks, except for Doc, who instead still wore a seamless band of steel, and chained to hasps against the bulkheads, welded there by the androids. Sore from sleeping on hard deckplates, each moaned and slowly stretched, hissing at the aches in some cases. Syne and Cosyne were chained against one wall, next to eachother, Frost was chained to the far wall from them. To Syne's and Cosyne's right, Bell and Tanjent were chained. To their left, Tumbles was chained across from Bell, and Doc was chained across Tanjent.
Silently, Bell, held her cock in her hands a second, before shivering and tucking it between her legs, shutting her knees as she knelt. She had never been ashamed of her body before, but now, memories of her easily gained obedience and demasculisation fresh in her mind, she found herself close to tears. Her new member throbbed, it was hard from the memories, and she couldn't figure out how to stop it. Managing to hold back the tears, she looked up, her green eyes full of unshed tears and vulnerable looking for the first time any in the crew had seen. In front of her, she saw Tumbles looking back. His eyes were blue, but otherwise the same. Hard to be a ninja when your friends just saw you moaning like a whore in a cheerleader costume. He sniffled once, more than Bell had shown, and squirmed softly, stuffing his own member down and shutting his knees like Bell, for the same reason. They smiled at eachother softly, Bell letting out a very soft laugh beore looking around. Frost sat upright and alert, watching the others. Doc sat on her heels, looking around with her paws folded in her lap, the only one looking unashamed. Syne looked down at his feet, hugging his knees. Cosyne sat on his haunches, like a dog, and looked at his brother in worry, whispering softly to him. Tanjent, like Syne, hugged her knees and cried, loudly. Tumbles tried to comfort her, padding to the end of his chain to hug her tightly and whisper assurances until the cat pressed her head against his shoulder and purred gratefully, still crying.
As she looked up to whisper, "You don't understand, th-they know what I like.", Tumbles whispered back, cheeks crimson, "They know what all of us like, and as it turns out it's all pretty weird. D-Doesn't change who we are, right? You still like me, right?", he asked, speaking as much to her as himself.
She nodded, going on in a hyper mrewl, "Y-You don't understand though, it'll change who I am, I w-want...it didn't say, but it said I'd say it and-", Tumbles cut her off with a finger to her muzzle and a tight hug, "Nothing you could do could make us hate you. You're our Tanjy-cat, our tech, our little sister. So don't worry about it.", he whispered to her.
Tanjent shot a teary-eyed look to Syne and Cosyne, mrewled, "B-but-", and was silenced with a tight hug. Tanjent sniffled, staring at her brothers, then collapsed in the raccoon's arms for a moment before mrewling, "You've got a boner.".
Tumbles felt his face redden as he ruffled her hair and countered, "Well, you smell like heat, but I ain't complaining. Don't worry Tanjy, I ain't trying to mount you.". At this the cat's ears lowered and she shivered, crying quietly again, "You already know I wouldn't mind.", she whispered, somewhat bitterly.
As Doc tended to Bell, and Cosyne to Syne, Frost watched, eventually raising his voice and calling out, "Doc, are you okay?", Doc nodded to him, giving Bell a final hug and crawling back to her spot. "Tanjent, you alright?", her voice quavering, she called out, "Y-yeah, I'm alright.". Frost called each of them, and all of them responded but Syne. Syne just shook his head. Bell called out next, "What's wrong, Captain?".
Syne looked up slowly. "Everything. I... I've had secrets I barely even knew I had violated, I've gotten us all into this mess, and I haven't been much of a captain.", he admitted in a soft voice. Immediately the other six started talking at once.
"You couldn't have known-"
"It's not you're fault-"
"I'd have done the same-"
"We all make mistakes."
Syne looked up in disbelief. "You... You don't all hate me? After all this?", six smiles and shaking heads, with a couple tear-streaked cheeks and blushing faces. "E-even though I...", he swallowed as the burning thing's words echoed in his head, "I'm a Puppy?".
Cosyne giggled nervously and hugged his brother, "I'm a Pet, remember? Not too much better.", he barked shame-faced. The rest smiled, except Tanjent, who looked to her feet and mrewled, "I have no right to judge you, and even if I did, I wouldn't.". Syne looked around at his friends in wonder at their acceptance.
Frost spoke up again, "What are we going to do, and what was that thing?", he yipped.
Syne thought quietly to himself a bit, then woofed, "I don't think we're in immediate danger. That thing told me it was the thing that invented genetic species alteration of humans. It was angry, maybe insane, about how it's name had been forgotten. That thing was a trap, but not for us. It was meant for humans, and since none of us are humans, the trap wasn't sprung.", Syne noticed the looks of confusion and elaborated, "This wasn't the trap. The trap was a virus. Although what he described didn't sound like any virus i'd ever heard of. Scary thing, something truly nasty. Makes this sound like highschool hazing. This... He said this was a gift.".
Incredulous looks all around accompanied Bell's exclamation of, "A gift? I'd hate to see the Trap in action!".
"Listen, I got a couple distinct feelings from what it said to me before he caught the rest of you.", said Syne, "I don't think any of us are in any real danger, He... he likes us. He said we'd have to 'earn' this gift of his, but that we'd be able to do it.".
"So he won't hurt us?", asked Cosyne.
Syne hesitated a little before replying, "He won't kill us. He probably has no problem hurting us. Look at your paw, where he branded us. I think we'll have to work together to get out of here, in some specific way he's already thought up.". At that, a hatch opened to the rest of the ship, and one of the androids walked out; a femme black bear in appearance, strong as any robot should be, her panels covered in black fur. She had been made volptuous, almost matronly, by the creature in the red light, and her eyes glowed red now as well.
She walked to the center of the room and spoke, a soft, artificial, authoritarian female voice, "You're right, Puppy-Syne. None of you will be killed or even badly hurt. We will even rejuvenate you if it takes more than a lifetime to get out of this.". At this, a heavy, dreadful feeling filled each crewmembers' chest. She continued, "I am Mama Bear, the head of this ship, and the captain of your caretakers. We used to follow Tanjent, but it's illogical to follow a cat who aspires to become a toilet of sorts, and we would follow Syne, but we prefer our captains to be potty-trained.", with Tanjent and Syne now blushing furiously, Cosyne followed their lead as the bear-bot looked to him and added, "and House-Broken as well. None of you are fit to lead, so I will. Each of you has been assigned a caretaker, they've been altered to resemble you to avoid confusion. To prove your ability to live without assistance, each of you must disable your own caretaker. To gain enough of you're freedoms back to become capable of this, you will have to embrace your shames fully."
The bot looked for any signs of confusion before continuing, "A failed attempt will be met with harsh and humiliating consequences for all of you. A successful one will reduce the successful crewmate's status to the lowest it can go until the others succeed as well. This means if one of you disables your caretaker, you must live as your new station in life in an incapacitated and helpless state to prevent you from assisting you're friends until they all have managed the same.
"But there will be Rules, and Consequences. If we hear you scheming about how to destroy us, you will be punished. If you misbehave, you will be punished. Each week has seven days, that's one day dedicated to each of you. After we've set up, your first week will start, with Synesday. It will be a training week, to help you all better understand yourselves. On the last day, Frostsday, you will be evaluated for your behavior that week, alone and as a group. The next week will be a Discipline week, dedicated to punishments and rewards you have earned. At it's end, you will start a new Training week with whatever privileges and restrictions you have earned. And so on, until seven androids are disabled. Then you will be mine for one final test. If you pass it, you're ship will be your's. If you fail, I will reawaken the seven and we'll try again. Any questions?", the android finished her first explanation of the things to come.
The crew was silent, lowered ears and curled tails all around.
A purple and neon-green furred cat-bot entered the room, and looked down to Tanjent. "Heya kitty-cat! You need to make a crib for your baby-brother first, and a kennel for your beasty-brother. They have to be cute, and have enough space between bars to allow screwing, bottle-feeding and petting, but not enough for escape. They must lock, and have restraint points. Will you do this, and do it right?".
Eyes wide, Tanjent looked to her brothers, flat against the floor and whimpering, their eyes shut as they tried to ignore their warm, hard cocks pressed against the cold floor, unable to look at their friends. "N-no!", she mrewled, "I'm not gonna help you hurt them, go fuck yourself!".
The cat bot looked genuinely hurt as she mrewled out, "Potty-Mouth, Disobedience. 5 spankings for your first time, and one shaming for your disobedience.". With that, one hand grabbed Tanjent's neck-scruff, getting on one knee and tugging her effortlessly over her knee. The hand on her scruff shifted to become an arm over her shoulders while the cat-bot's tail held down her legs. The android's spare paw took a rubber cock-gag from it's side and stuffed it in Tanjent's yowling mouth, strapping it shut behind her head.
Slowly spinning to face Tanjent's ass to the center of the room, the cat-bot spread its' charge's cunnnylips wide, showing off their dripping pink as she declared, over Tanjent's crying, "My name is Mama-Tanjent, and everything I do will cause this.", wiggling the helpless cat's cunt back and forth, making her moan. The cat-bot pawwed at the real cat's clit until she was panting, until she screamed, cumming helplessly in humiliation and helplessness. As she came, the spankings began, five of them, Hard, scattered all over her rump. When finished, the bot let go of Tanjent, who scurried back against the wall on all fours and cowered, sobbing muffledly in shame and pain, her muzzle quite full, rendering her silent and hot from the idea of a cock always in her muzzle.
After her cries died down into drooling and suckling and tail-lashing, the bot tried again, "Tanjy-kitten, if you disobey me again, I'll have to shame your entire crew; and most of them don't have it as easy as being pawwed off. Not to mention if I have to shame you over and over, I might eventually have to let out your little secret. Will you please help me?", the bot genuinely pleaded, it's voice distubingly sincere. Eyes full of fear, Tanjent nodded, successfully black-mailed. She was unchained from the wall and leashed, walked to her workshop on all fours. As she left, the others heard her caretaker say, "Until ALL of the furniture is done, no beds for anybody.".