Caesar73 wrote: ↑2 years ago
It please me beyond words, @Bandit666, that you appreciate my efforts. I do try to let my imagination run loose.
Just do that @GreyLord - the running wild thing
[/quote] I will try, [mention]Caesar73[/mention]. And now it is time for the next Chapter. See if you think it is sufficiently wild.
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Chapter 40 (M+/F, F/F) – Lou is put to Sleep
Sgt. Mullins and two of his troops are tying Helen to the pole of the Lou’s Ride. Jackson has just told the troops that they had pulled Helen’s feet high enough.
Helen said, “I am fine, Jackson. Pulling my feet up actually helps. It takes some of my weight and puts less pressure on the loops binding me to the pole. Okay, the last step in the binding process is to take one end of the remaining rope going through the ring and tie it to my hands. Then you can pull my hands into a strappado.”
Sgt. Mike asked, “How high should we raise your arms? Too much can be very damaging.”
She answered, "Lift my hands until my arms are pointing straight back. I could take it a little higher, but I think the appearance of straight back will work very well. You can tie the other end of that rope to the rope tying my elbows."
Everyone but Helen took a moment to admire the beautiful girl bound to Lou’s Ride. Helen said, “I wish I could take to look. Of course, when you do this for real to Carmen, she will be gagged. I assumed that you fellows don’t need any practice gagging a girl.”
Sgt. Mike said, "I think we will be alright there. But how is it for you? Remember, Carmen will be tied in that position much longer. Are there any pressure points harder than others? Anything that we need to adjust now or next time?”
“No, there isn't anything that I would have you change right now. And you are right. This position will get old very fast. But it is something that I could live with for a while."
The Sergeant said, "Thank you for your help, Miss Helen. Come on, men, let’s get her out of this rig.”
As they went about removing the ropes, Helen said, "You know you need two more practices for speed. Then, we should take the wagon for a little ride on the last practice. Right now, I don't have any suggestions for adjustments. But with a moving wagon, I might."
Soon Helen was back on the ground. Sgt. Mike said to Jackson, “That woman you have for a prisoner is one amazing woman. Someday I hope you will tell me the whole story about her.”
Jackson moved Helen away from the other and asked, “Are you sure you are alright? That was very stressful bondage. I’m asking as a Medico. I’m also asking because you mean a lot to me.”
Helen answered, "I'm very sure, Jackson. Thank you for caring. Carmen is a very close friend of Stella's, and I want to help make sure that she will be alright. When she agreed to do this, she did not know about a Lou's Ride. Now let's get back to the wagon. We can do a second practice before it becomes dark."
Helen called out, "Okay, Sergeant, we are in the wagon approaching the flats where the Diamond Bar forces are waiting for us. Rider's troops are in pursuit. You tied Carmen up in the back of the wagon." Helen scrambled into the bed of the wagon and reclined on the floor. “This time, I am not cooperating. See how fast you can get me rigged.”
Helen lay on her stomach in the wagon's bed. Two troopers grabbed her arms and stood her up while the Sergeant and four more climbed onto the barrels. The two troopers holding Helen passed her to two on the barrels. They pressed her back against the pole. Four sets of hands lifted her and positioned her feet onto the crossbar, and the extra two on the barrels helped hold her arms in position despite her struggles. Helen, of course, was not giving instructions this time.
Stella told Carlos, "It is good that we practiced this. Without practice, this could have been a cluster fuck. What does that mean, by the way?"
Carlos grinned, "As I read at Unihold, a cluster bomb is a bomb holding lot of smaller bombs. That can spread the bomb's effect over a larger area. In some wars on Earth, a large aircraft would unload a lot of cluster bombs onto a small target. If you happened to be in that target area, you were getting a cluster fuck. Then it became a term meaning that everything was going wrong."
Sgt Mullins proclaimed, “Alright, this was a success. Let’s get her down.”
Helen said, “Not yet. Leave me up here for half an hour. I want to see if anything becomes painful after being tied this way for a while. Better to find out now than to let Carmen hang in pain for a longer time.”
Tied the way she was, there wasn’t much struggling that Helen could do. She could try to push her feet down. That, in turn, pulled her shoulders upward. But the ropes binding her to the pole preventing her from sliding down also prevented her from sliding up. Her arms were locked into the strappado and didn’t have any movement. She just didn’t have any good options.
All of the troops, except Sgt. Mike, returned to the ground to wait for the order to release Helen. The Sergeant continued to stand on a barrel in front of Helen. "Helen, you are the most beautiful woman that I have ever seen. Seeing you tied on this pole, completely helpless and vulnerable, enhances your beauty and makes you even more desirable. It makes me wish that I had you in private and in my ropes. I'm sorry if I am speaking out of turn."
Helen said, "Sgt. Mike, for almost every night on this trip, I have cooperated with you and your troops, making escape attempts, letting your troops practice tying me up, and moving me around. None of your people have done anything improper with me. They have always been gentle and have only touched me as necessary to tie me or move me. But you have never touched me other than yesterday and today while tying me to this pole. I have been thinking about you putting your hands on me. Why haven't you?"
“That would be an abuse of my authority, Helen. I wouldn’t do that.”
Helen said, "When my hands and elbows are tied for the night, tonight, and before my legs are tied, I will ask if I can walk around for a while to get the kinks out from this hogtie. Could you be there to escort me?”
Mike answered, “Helen, I would like that a lot.”
“Then that is our plan. I think I have been up here long enough now. It is not comfortable, but it isn’t becoming worse anywhere. Your team has balanced all of the ropes very well. After one more practice in the morning and with a ride on the moving wagon, I think that we will be as ready for Carmen as we can be.”
“Helen, you sound like one of us, not like a prisoner.”
The Sergeant signaled his troops, and soon Helen was back on the ground. She did a few stretches and thanked the troopers for taking good care of her. The evening meal was prepared and eaten. Stella came to Helen and said, "Are you ready to bed down for the night?"
Helen presented her hand behind her back, and Stella expertly tied Helen's hands and elbows. Stella said, "Helen, thank you for what you have been doing. I know that you are doing it for my friend, Carmen, because of me. I appreciate it so very much." Stella kissed Helen on the cheek.
Helen asked, “My legs are still stiff from being hogtied on the pole. Could I walk around for a while before you tie my legs?”
The Sergeant had not gone far from Helen since she had been on the pole. "I would be pleased to walk Miss Helen if you approve, Miss Stella."
Stella had not missed how attentive the Sergeant had been to Helen. She smiled and said, "Why, thank you, Sgt. Mike. That is kind of you."
Sgt. Mike held Helen by her upper arm and led her around the small camp, circling further and further out until they were alone. They stopped and turned to face each other. Helen whispered, “Mike, you can kiss me now. And while you do, please put your hands on my body.”
Mike did not waste any time before testing the firmness of Helen’s tits. He also reached inside her pants. While her breasts were soft and enticing, her hips and butt were firm due to much physical activity. Sliding a finger around her labia, he said, "Helen, let's get you untied and out of these clothes."
Helen replied, “Don’t you dare stop what you are doing. You can take two seconds to drop my pants. Then I want you inside me.”
It may have taken three seconds for him to drop her pants, but not much more. Then Mike laid down on the ground with his back propped on a log. He pulled Helen down, straddling him. Helen helped guide her pussy onto his cock, clenched her teeth, and said, "Mike, I should have had you gag me. I am afraid my cries will bring the camp down on us."
Mike silenced her potential cries by pulling her face into a deep kiss which he held while they both exploded in mutual climax. “There, Helen, we solved your gag problem. Have we also solved the problem of the kinks in your legs?”
“Yes, Mike/”
They slowly uncoupled, and Mike helped Helen get her pants back on correctly. Mike said, "Helen, I will dream of making love to you in privacy and in a bed with you naked. I hope you share that dream with me?"
“I do, Mike. I do.”
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On 09/30/2216, Argonaut time, the Colony ship settled to the ground on Newhome, and its drives were turned off for the second time since they were ignited when the ship left Earth. At the midpoint of the voyage, they were turned off, and the ship was turned around to begin the process of deceleration. One last time, they would be ignited to lift the ship into its permanent home in orbit around Newhome.
The hatch opened, and one man exited, Admiral Joe Houston. Lou and Buzz greeted him. Lou said, "Welcome to Newhome, Admiral Houston. I won't ask you how the trip was since you just woke up a few days ago. You are in a safe environment here. Your crew can disembark and enjoy a meal on the ground and a night's sleep. Then, I know you will want to begin awakening the Colonist."
“Quite right, Capt. Harriman. I am happy that you could meet us. That allows me to have the pleasure of giving you a promotion. You are now Vice Admiral Lou Harriman. And Buzz Harriman, you are now Captain Buzz Harriman. In the few days that I have been awake, I read your reports avidly. Of course, we don't know the Space Command's thoughts of finding life on Newhome since we have been going away from Earth at near light speed. Excuse me. I do understand that they haven't even gotten the messages yet, so they don’t have any thoughts on the subject. This relativity thing is very confusing, is it not? We are on our own, aren't we?”
“Indeed, Admiral. I take it that you agree that we must take every step possible to protect the tribes here on Newhome?”
The Admiral replied, "Oh yes, I think that you have been absolutely right. Since they will allow us to settle here peacefully, we must not impose our ways on the tribes. But you say that they all speak English now? That is incredible."
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Providing a detailed history of the Colonists is beyond the scope of this narrative. Other books can enlighten you on all of the facts you might want to know. For our purposes, you must let this brief thumbnail sketch suffice.
Over the next year, ten more Colony ships landed, bringing the Colony population on Newhome to a total of more than eleven thousand Earth people. Towns were established as well as ranches, plantations, and mines so that Newhome could become self-sufficient as quickly as possible. A University was established. The educational level of the Colonists far exceeded the average on Earth, but they knew that future generations needed to maintain the current level.
The Bandits, as the tribes were now known, avoided contact with the Colonists except to raid the ranches, plantations, and town storehouses. They were careful never to take so much as to be considered a significant problem. At first, most Colonists took this as simply their due for settling on this beautiful new world.
But after a year passed, no more Colony ships arrived. The Colonists expected hundreds more. No communications came to explain why the arrivals had stopped. Different factions developed. Some resented supporting the University. Many resented the raids from the Bandits. The names of Lou Harriman and Buzz Harriman became anathema to most of the Colonists. Human nature wants to blame someone for troubles, and the Harrimans were convenient, although they clearly could not have had anything to do with the loss of Earth contact.
If Admiral Houston had been more able and had held the Colony together, he would have prevented many problems. He was a weak man where a strong man was needed.
The head of the University, Dr. Fred Kennison, gathered the senior professors. "We must make many tough decisions. We must do this not only for our personal survival but the very survival of this Colony. First, we must downsize. The Colony will not support us to educate all of their children. Then we must carefully educate those that are necessary for Colony survival. Key topics must be medicine and chemistry. Medicine is obvious. Chemistry is needed to operate mines and process ore. Mathematics is the foundation of all science. I will add something that you will not expect. Martial Arts. That will be necessary because there will be a lot of resentment of us among the Colonists. Only a few Colonists have any significant martial arts training. But among all of our staff, we have enough depth and variety of skills to train the rest of us. As the Colony loses its technology, which will happen in time, we must be able to defend ourselves.
“We will have to charge those who wish to study here dearly. That means that what we teach here must have obvious value to the Colonists.
“I think that we should act more like a monastery than a university and suggest that our name becomes Unihold. Our location is fine here outside of Kennedy. We have a lot of physical work to accomplish. We must build walls around our campus and become fortified. At present, we have bots to help us. It will still be hard physical work for us. Those without martial arts training will also find it hard work if we take it seriously. And we must.
“But, there is even more intellectual work to be done. Our electronics will give out in time. We must find a way to preserve our knowledge, at least as much as possible. Now we have access to the contents of all of the major libraries on Earth. We could not print all of that even if the entire Colony turned to paper production. So we will have to decide what is important enough to be printed and retained. That is such an awesome responsibility that it truly boggles the mind.
“We will convene tomorrow at the same time. I want all of you to spend your time between now and then, thinking hard about these things. Tomorrow, we will organize into committees to manage the various aspects of our tasks. Go now, and think of solutions. You are among the best minds Earth has to offer and are the best minds in this Colony. Our future depends on you.”
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Lou and Buzz kept themselves away from Kennedy, spending most of their time with the Bucks but providing counseling and training to any group of Bandits when asked. Lou touched base with the Aztecs as often as she could. She did have frequent communications with the head of Unihold, as the Colonists now called the University. He repeatedly asked Lou to join him. He said that Unihold needed her experience with the Bandits and her Martial Arts skills. After several years, Lou agreed to spend part of her time at Unihold.
Admiral Houston may have been a good admiral, but he was a poor Colony leader. He was too easily influenced by whoever had his ear at the moment. He finally sided with the factions that thought the Colony must control the Bandits and punish Lou Harriman. Finally, Houston sentenced her to death in absentia. When the Colony caught up with her, they would hang her.
Unknown to Houston, Lou was at Unihold at that time. Headmaster Kennison, as he was now being called, accepted that it was his responsibility to save Lou Harriman. The only solution that he could find was for Lou to disappear. And it would have to be for a long time. He had taken several sleeping pods from a Colony ship during the first year before they lost contact with Earth. It was for the use of research projects and was sitting in a Unihold storeroom.
The Headmaster told Lou what he was thinking, and she objected strongly. Going over the issues and options with Lou failed to produce any viable alternative. The Headmaster had anticipated that this might be her position and had four of his top Martial Arts instructors waiting in an adjacent room. When it became clear that they could not find an alternative and that Lou would not budge, he called them in.
“Lou, I respect you very much. I also value you very much. Since we could find no acceptable alternative plan, unless you follow my plan, Admiral Houston will hang you. And that is not acceptable. Accordingly, I must force you to accept my plan. These four are Masters of Martial Arts. Will you accept my plan, or must they fight you?"
Lou answered. “No, Headmaster, I will not accept your plan. And no, I will not fight you or your Masters. What will you do?”
The Headmaster told his team, "Bind her securely. Lou, I would have tried to include Buzz in this plan, but I know that you have been growing increasingly apart."
Lou did not resist as they tied her hands behind her back. She could tell immediately that she was not going to escape. The Headmaster asked, "Would you like to walk to your lander, or would you prefer to be carried?”
“I will walk, Headmaster. Will you inform Buzz about this?”
“I am very sorry, Lou, but no one can know anything about this. We discussed the details of my plan. I will go with you on this trip and see you to sleep.”
It was late at night, and they took her to her lander unseen by anyone. The sleeping pod had already been placed in the lander's storage area. Inside the cabin, they bound Lou securely to a seat. Lou remembered that Buzz had tied Jasmine in the very seat to which she was now bound years ago.
The Headmaster and two of the Masters took the remaining seats, and two of the Masters departed. The lander rose and set course for the Aztec area. The Headmaster said, "I have disconnected you from your body communications devices temporarily. When you awaken, they will be functional once again."
Lou said, "Headmaster, I believe that you are doing what you believe is right. You know that I disagree. Will you tell me when you will wake me?"
“Lou, I have no way to judge that. I believe that Admiral Houston will be deposed in a matter of time. I cannot say when that will be or that his replacement will be more reasonable about you. Hardships are mounting, and the Colony is feeling the bite of the Bandits. Sadly, they blame you for that. I wish that I could give you more comfort. You did the right thing. Had you known that contact with Earth would be lost, you might have devised another plan. But you did not know. And here we are."
The lander flew to a mountain in the Aztec region that the Headmaster had carefully chosen. It was not volcanic, and the Aztec people did not go there for religious reasons. The mountain also had many caves. The lander set down at the mouth of a cave over two-thirds of the way up the mountain. The two Master carried the sleeping pod deep within the cave.
When they returned to the lander, the Headmaster asked Lou, "Can we free you now? We are set on our course."
Lou responded, "I will walk, but you had better keep my hands tied behind my back. I don't know if I could take the three of you, but I would try."
“Lou, you are heroic to the last." They untied her from the seat and freed her legs again. Lou went with the men into the cave. At the sleeping pod, the Headmaster said, "I will give you a shot that will put you into a light sleep. That is a routine part of the suspended animation process. Then we will untie you and place you in the sleeping pod. When you awake, your new future will begin.
“I won't ask you not to hate me. But I know that you will make invaluable contributions to the society awaiting you when you awake. After you are asleep, we will make additional trips bringing you supplies you will need when you awake. Farewell, Lou Harriman.”
The Headmaster injected Lou. She tried to walk away, but they forced her to the ground and held her firmly. They stroked her face and tried to speak comforting words until she fell asleep. Then they placed her in the sleeping pod.
On their return to Unihold, the Headmaster used the lander to provision Lou in the future. Then he sent the lander to the Argonaut.