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The Risks of Artifact Hunting

by: Illyrian

"This is_seriously_ the last time I let you talk me into doing any sort of hunting on my own..." Cassie grunted, glaring up at a small video feed in the corner of her HUD. In it she could see her partner, a golden-scaled kobold, grinning back at her smugly. Once again, the Synth had let Arissa convince her to go on an artifact-recovery mission on her own. It would be an easy job, she had said. The artifact in question was an old power supply in a factory on part of a machine planet. The supply had a unique energy signature, so they were even able to pinpoint its location from orbit-a luxury they rarely had with most of their targets. Break into the factory, scoop up the power supply, get out, and be back to the ship in time for some afternoon espresso.

She'd only been working with Arissa for a few months now, but Cass was very quickly realizing that jobs rarely turned out to be as easy as she claimed they would be.

What she hadn't expected was the fact that the facility was still functional. All of the machinery and robotics inside were under the control of an old Superintelligence-basically primitive corporate AI that had a penchant for going rogue if someone so much as looked at it the wrong way. Add to that the fact that they were meant to be easily programmed by business users, and they were known for often ending up with less-than-savory personalities. Most had been decommissioned as more advanced AI began to crop up, but some were still in use at the edges of the galaxy. Others, it seemed, had been left to their own devices for a little too long.

"Oh come on, Cass. Seems like he just wants to be friends!" the kobold replied, a grin briefly flashing across her face.

"If this is your definition of_friends_ then I think I finally understand how you get pumped full of eggs once every few weeks." she huffed back, clambering over some piece of century-old machinery as she continued her trek back towards the area she'd first broken into the facility from.

"Friends? Friends have fun, yes? We will have soooooo much fun..." Their conversation was interrupted as a the old factory's speakers rumbled to life, the Superintelligence's voice seemingly projecting from all around her. Without warning, the conveyer belt she had landed on suddenly jerked to life, yanking her feet out from underneath her as it sped up then rapidly slowed down. Cassie's HUD flashed a brief warning of multiple incoming objects before a set of heavy manipulator arms grabbed ahold of her arms and legs, making short work of immobilizing her on her back.

"Arissa... You have officially lost coffee privileges for a week." she groaned, straining lightly against the arms holding her in place as she looked around for a way out.

"WHAT?! I don't think that's-okay, if I get you out can I have coffee?" The Synth made a mental note that she'd be able to make use of her companion's caffeine addiction in the future. Getting herself out of her current predicament, though, was her main focus at the moment.

"Fine! Just hurry up will you? I think this thing wants to be a bit more than just friends with me." More manipulator arms were descending from above-some tipped with claw-like appendages, others with grasping hands. Try as she might she just couldn't pull free of the ones that already had ahold of her! The new arrivals wasted no time in beginning to tug and pull at her flight suit, removing and tossing aside tools from her utility belt before settling for simply tearing away her clothing. Cloth had little hope of standing up against the machine strength pulling on it, and before long she was left naked. Those first four arms now kept her pinned on her back, spread-eagle on a conveyor belt.

"Such a pretty friend. Very, very pretty. Have waited so long for pretty friend. Have made... changes. Fun changes for pretty friend. Make friend feel good. Test?" With a heavy clank, the arms connected to the cuff-like manipulator hands keeping her arms and legs held down to the conveyor belt came free. On instinct she tried to leap off the belt only to discover that the hands were either tremendously heavy or held down by some other force. They didn't budge an inch despite several attempts at using her body weight to shift them. After a brief pause, the belt she was stuck on began moving and more lights kicked on further down the line. Cassie couldn't see much of what was coming from this position-all she knew was that she was headed toward some sort of enclosed machine.

"How long till you're down here? It's got me moving... somewhere. Not much I can do at the moment other than go along for the ride." The synth wriggled in her restrains as best she could, attempting to pull free. She looked up to see another arm descending from the shadows of the factory's ceiling, this time with a nozzle tip attached to a long, flexible hose.

"Dropping out of orbit now. Probably ten minutes? Maybe fifteen before I'm inside." In her HUD, she could see the kobold flipping switches and pressing buttons, the fiery glow of atmospheric entry causing her scales to gleam. Fifteen minutes was definitely not going to be fast enough with how quickly the conveyor belt was moving. Cassie removed her attention from the kobold to find the circular tip of a nozzle move up in front of her face, swaying back and forth almost like a living thing. A dribble of clear liquid leaked from the tip, landing on her right breast and beginning to trickle down her exposed skin. It felt slick, and left behind a thin trail of warmth as it went.

"Lube! Bringing another friend? Will prepare! Many changes made to processing facility. Fun changes! Do not worry, pretty friend. Processing will feel good!" Great! Now they were both going to get captured by a horny AI if the kobold's past luck held. She started another quick scan of her surroundings for anything close enough to grab onto, but was quickly interrupted by a gout of warm liquid from the nozzle that was now directly between her legs. In an instant, it completely soaked her thighs, pussy, AND ass with whatever lubricant it was using. All Cassie could do at this point was watch as the the nozzle was quickly brought closer, nudging right up against her sex before releasing another heavy stream of lube directly inside her. A shudder shot down her spine as the thing completely filled her to the brim in seconds. She could see more machines spring to life, lights switching on as the apparently re-purposed factory came back online for the first time in goodness knows when!

"Arissa? It knows you're coming by the way. So uh... be careful yeah?" Of course, she knew her partner wouldn't take that advice. The kobold very rarely did!

"Yeah yeah. Don't worry, I'll get you outta there shortly. Just about to touch down. Sit tight for a few more minutes and I'll be there to save the day."

"Considering how it's already lubed me up I really don't think we have a few minutes!" The conveyor belt had continued trundling along, moving her steadily closer toward large walled-off metal chamber. A pair of plastic flaps covered the entrance, meaning there was no way of knowing just what was coming up. The synth tried one final time to squirm free of the heavy cuffs holding her arms and legs in place before she passed through the flaps-but no amount of wriggling was going to let her slip free. The two plastic flaps parted around her as she passed through them, revealing a large steel-walled room that the belt she was on ran through. Her new surroundings were dimly-lit and only showed shadowy shapes of objects further away. The belt finally rumbled to a stop as it brought her to the center of the room.

"Hello friend! Beginning stage 1 of processing now. Scanning!" Cassie winced as the Superintelligence's voice boomed from speakers planted around the room-just as loud in here as it was out in the rest of the factory! Moments later a dull greenish glow appeared from above as whatever scanner was being used activated. A line of light swept over her form a few times, blinding her for a moment every time it reached her head before starting over.

"Listen, uh... friend. Why don't you let me go and we can have our fun another way, yeah?" she asked. Sure, talking down the centuries-old sex crazed AI probably wasn't going to do her any good. It was still worth a shot!

"No need! Have had much time to plan our fun. Friend deserves proper treatment! Good treatment, yes?" came the AI's chipper response.

"Well, I mean yes, but don't you think-"

"Scan complete! Primary friend is synthetic! Secondary friend biological. Noted! Beginning transfer of secondary friend to designated biological processing facility." The green light from above blinked off as the scan completed, giving her vision a chance to adjust slightly.

" Secondary friend? Arissa I swear if you let it catch you there's no way I'm making espresso for an entire week." she groaned.

"I uh... I'm a little tied up right now, alright? Didn't expect there to be drones waiting for me." came the Kobold's reply a moment later, voice crackling over their comms unit. "One of them-nnh! One of them managed to grab me and pull me into a chamber in its chest. Fuck! W-way more dildo in here than I expected~"

"Just try and get out if you can, alright? I don't want a repeat of when you were stuck in that drider's lair for half a week." Cassie glanced around, trying to figure out what the bulky-looking machines and objects around her were. Everything here was so outdated and heavily modified that it was incredibly difficult to make heads or tails of just what this machinery actually did.

"Do not worry, synthetic friend! Biological friend will be treated with the utmost care. Scans have shown she is quite flexible. Beginning stage 2 of processing! Endurance testing for synthetic friend." Multiple manipulator arms converged on her at once, each one attaching to one of the heavy metal cuffs attached to her wrists and ankles. Cassie found herself quickly lifted off her back and into the air, arms and legs still held apart. She looked down to see a large, pillar-shaped machine topped with a seat roll out of the shadows and position itself below her. The thing then promptly lowered her down onto the seat while maintaining its grasp on her limbs.

"Hey there, Superintelligence friend. If I promise to let you, ah... process me will you at least let go of me?" she asked, tail swishing back and forth as she tried to adjust and at least get a little bit more comfortable. The seat appeared to be made of some sort of flexible plastic. Not exactly the most comfortable thing for sitting on. She figured that wouldn't exactly be her main focus here in a few minutes.

"Negative! Must ensure all processing and testing is completed accurately, thus making restraints necessary. Restraints will be removed from both friends once completed!" the AI replied, just as upbeat as ever. "Endurance testing phase 1 is clitoral stimulation."

"Oh, you've got to be ki-EEP!" Before the Superintelligence even finished speaking Cassie felt the seat underneath her deform slightly, and moments later a jet of cool liquid sprayed directly against her clit. The sudden stimulation caused her to buck her hips, tail swishing back and forth and thumping against the machine below several times. Before she had too long to adjust to that sensation a blunt object pressed against her from below. For a moment it moved in a slow, small circle-then started vibrating at a low frequency after finding its target. She did her best to concentrate on anything but the constant pleasure shooting up through her body. Black coffee, no sweetener. Giving Arissa said black coffee. Now that would get a reaction! Unfortunately that train of thought didn't last for long without being derailed by the kobold herself. With her comms unit apparently left on, Cassie could hear every moan, gasp, and squeal coming from her partner!

"Biological friend's reaction to large penetration noted and added to profile." the AI chirped, before another jet of lubricant sprayed her clit and caused Cassie to cry out herself! Whatever it had been studying all this time in order to 'prepare' all of this was clearly been accurate! The synth did her best to keep from moaning, trying to avoid showing just how good the constant attention felt... before failing miserably after a third jet of lube once again soaked her clit. Cassie shuddered, her eye-panels shifting to display half-diamonds as pleasure ripped through her body. This seemed to be the reaction the Superintelligence was going for, as almost instantly it nearly doubled its efforts and before long had her hips bucking and rolling all on their own. Then just seconds before she reached orgasm it stopped, vibrator retracting and leaving her to gasp and squirm as she tried to press herself against it.

"F-fuck!" she panted, huffing and attempting to catch her breath as another involuntary shiver shot through her. "Is the edging n-necessary?"

"Of course! All parts of processing have been carefully designed to bring maximum pleasure. Orgasm will be achieved regularly throughout processing. Data on friends must first be collected! Phase 2 of endurance testing will now begin. Vaginal penetration combined with clitoral stimulation. Enjoy, friend!"

~

Cassie spent the next hour going through a total of 4 'phases', each time being brought to the brink of orgasm and then denied. The third phase involved both anal and vaginal, with the fourth and final phase increasing the size of both toys being used on her. By the time it finished she was more desperate to cum than she had been in ages-and it sounded like Arissa was receiving much the same treatment on her end of things if the noises she was making were any indication. Finally, though the toys stopped. Pulling away at the last second once again and leaving her gasping and drenched, dripping a mixture of her own arousal and the lubricant that she'd been soaked with repeatedly.

"Data collection complete! Friends' profiles have been updated accordingly. Adjusting processing parameters and configuration. Please wait, friends!"

"Hah... ahhh... S-shit. I-I'm not even going to threaten you with coffee privileges at this point. We just need to... phew. To find a way out of here. Deal?" she asked, taking a moment to catch her breath. Outside the container she could hear the noises of heavy machinery being moved around.

"For once, I think-hff. I think I agree with you Cass. That was... wow. Any way you can get free on your end? It's got me stuck in these metal cuffs and I don't think I'll be getting out any time soon." Arissa replied, sounding similarly winded.

"Same things are on me. I suppose... I could try and interface with its systems remotely. Might be able to figure something out there. That, or I'll end up either pissing it off or making it hornier."

"Might as well give it a shot. Dunno what it has in store for us so I suppose I'll advocate for NOT being fucked silly this time around." the kobold said with a chuckle.

"Ha! Only took you what, three months?" she laughed, shaking her head before briefly turning off her visual sensors to make focusing easier. There were a few vulnerable network access points scattered around the facility that might be useful. A few lines of text scrolled through her vision as she attempted to interface with the nearest one, brushing aside the antiquated security measures. She began to dig through the filesystem of whatever she had discovered, filtering through useless files and data in search of information about the Superintelligence or even just a way to circumvent it and shut things down.

At least, until she came across a text file titled 'Hello friend! Read!'.

"Damnit. It knows I'm digging around in things Arissa. Just uh... fair warning. I'm going to see if I can have a chat with it that way." she muttered, opening comms to keep the kobold informed.

"Sure, sure. Take your time. Not like we've got a horny AI trying to fuck us into oblivion or anything."

Had her eye-panels been active she would have simulated rolling her eyes, but instead she ignored the kobold's comment for the moment and opened the text file. At first it was blank, but after a moment it updated when a save operation was run.

Hello synthetic friend! Smart synthetic friend. Smart and pretty! She debated answering out loud, but decided instead to use the text file for the time being.

Hi there! Listen, if we agreed to have some of the fun you want, but not go through full processing, would that be okay? We're quite busy and can't stay too long. she wrote, adding the text below what it had written. It took her a moment to figure out how to save the file in the old system, then she settled in to wait for a reply. Seconds later, the file updated again with new text just below hers.

Full processing is necessary! Have spent much time planning fun for friends. Will not keep! Friends are not for keeping, but for fun. Fun and learning, for future friends! Will learn what friends like. What feels good for friends! Then make friends feel good. Can do many things. Many fun things for friends! <3 The AI's response was... about what she had been expecting.

Okay... How are you going to learn? She sent a shorter message this time, in hopes of keeping it talking. At the same time, she sent a quick encrypted message to Arissa asking her to try and figure something out while it was talking to her.

Many ways! Testing is one. Testing is done! Shows what friends' bodies like. Minds are different, though. How to learn what friends's minds like? Outside she could still hear things moving and rearranging. Keeping it talking was probably her best bet for buying them time to escape.

You could ask them, couldn't you? A brief shiver shot down her spine as she finished, feeling much like an aftershock of the orgasms she'd almost had moments ago.

Could! Not as easy as other methods. Synthetic friend makes learning easy! Different than me. Faster! Prettier too. But knows much about what biological friend likes. Profiles updated! Thank you, pretty friend!

"Oh. Uh-oh. Oops. Rissaaaaaa I... I might have fucked up. That wasn't a good idea." Cassie removed herself from the other system as quickly as possible, making sure to throw up some emergency firewalls and roadblocks within her own system as she did so. Not much she could do about that now, other than try not to interface with intelligent systems again in the future.

"What did you do? What happened? Is it mad?"

"Uh, not quite. Somehow it might have learned a bit about us through the connection. I ah... wasn't expecting it to be able to interface with me as well." She ran a scan of her own systems as quickly as possible, searching both for what it had learned as well as for anything it might have implanted or left behind. Thankfully that wasn't the case-but it did know about all of her kinks, now. As well as what she knew about Arissa's. "Shiiiiiit. Yeah it kinda maybe sorta definitely knows our kinks."

"Oh wow am I the one that gets to yell at you for once? All sorts of firsts today! Maybe I should make the coffee mysel-mmf! Nnh~ Glck!" All of a sudden the kobold was cut off, followed by the very distinct sounds of a blowjob coming across their comms.

"Arissa? Fuck. Okay, uhhh. I'll get us out of here somehow. Just... Your turn to sit tight for a minute, alright?"

"Biological friend's oral fixation noted! Proceeding with processing of biological friend. Remaining time: 10 hours. Total orgasms: 0. Separate instance of Superintelligence created for monitoring and interaction. Proceeding with processing of synthetic friend. Remaining time: 10 hours. Total orgasms: 0. Hello, pretty synthetic friend! Ready for fun?" As the AI spoke, the arms holding her in the air lifted her off the machine she'd been seated on while it rolled away. She was then lowered back down, set onto the conveyor belt on her back with her arms and legs spread apart before the arms detached from the gripping cuffs on her wrists and ankles. Once again the belt began moving, headed out a pair of plastic flaps on the opposite side of the steel room she'd been in.

"I uh... I guess so. What all do you have in mind for me?" For the time being she figured that going along with things was her best bet. Scanning her surroundings every few minutes for means of escape was likely the only real option she had! Making conversation with the AI would at least keep it somewhat distracted.

"Friend will learn! Some secrets. Will tell some, not fun to keep friend totally in dark. You like tentacles? Cum? Yes? Have much! Not real, but close! Created. Still making! Have had much time to perfect. Other things too. Scents, toys. Constructs! Biological friend likes eggs. Have many to put inside! Collars, too! Biological friend will be collared and taught to obey. Know much about both friends now! Friends will feel so good. Might even come back! Cass found herself once again outside that initial room, passing through the set of plastic flaps leading out as the AI continued to prattle on. She raised her head to get a look at what was coming and discovered that the conveyor belt simply... ended. There was a solid ten-foot gap in the belt through where it should have traveled.

"Oops, I think the belt is broken! Might need to take me off!" she called out, trying to squirm and press against her cuffs as it rolled her closer to the edge.

"No, silly friend! Primary processing stage beginning. Tentacles!" Just as she began to approach the edge of the belt four large tendril-like arms reached up from the edge and secured themselves to her restraints, locking into place with a soft click and then lifting her once again up and into the air. The synth looked down and found herself suspended over what appeared to be a pit full of writhing, grasping tentacles. They all appeared to be made out of some sort of flexible, rubber-like material-and were coated with what she could only assume was more of the lubricant from before.

"Oooooooh boy. Guess there's, ah... still no way I could convince you to put me down?" she asked, a light crimson glow from beneath her cheek-plates simulating blush.

"Friend? the AI asked in response, one tendril rising up from below to waver in front of her at eye level, the tip only a few inches from her face.

"Uh, yes?" For a brief moment, she thought it might be reconsidering. Maybe. Through her comms she could hear Arissa continuing to moan around whatever it was she was sucking on as well as the wet noises of something slapping against the kobold's scales.

And then it dropped her.

"Cum for me!"