Wild Magic Party - Natasha

Natasha looked at the email for the umpteenth time and finally decided to take up the invite to the magicians' assistants and volunteers appreciation evening. If it had not been for the stipulation that invitees come in costume, she would have replied instantly. She had finally made up her mind to give her vintage Bat Girl outfit another outing, despite it being outdated and showing some signs of having been worn to every event in Natasha's calendar through the Halloween season. She did have time to get the purple spandex garment, with its integral hood with perked bat ears, dry-cleaned before the party.

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At the event Natasha was guided to a table by a waitress, who introduced herself as Hannah. She seemed happy in her skin, which was just as well, because that was all she was wearing except a coating of paint masquerading as a dress.

While she ate Natasha watched an old man greet them, telling the assembled assistants and volunteers how much the magicians wanted to thank them for their bravery, and a few of the magic acts on the stage at the end of the hall.

It soon became obvious that, apart from a few set-pieces, the magicians were turning up on stage and trying things out. The next act was a pair who had done another act earlier that had involved her waitress, Hannah.

Gabriel and Annika dragged a couple of posts, each on a small round platform and supporting a circle with a curtain hanging from it.

They asked Hannah to help by selecting a volunteer to help verify the escape that they would be attempting. Natasha was chosen and made her way to the stage.

"Hello, and what's your name," asked Gabriel as he shook her hand. Annika, who had met her at the top of the steps had not been so reserved and given her a hug.

"I'm Natasha."

"Great. It's good to know the name of anyone who will be restraining you. Because, I shall be showing you how to apply the restraint we have in mind, by tying up Annika and talking you through the process, then you will tie me up and then we'll have a race to see who can get out first."

"That's seems ok to me. I had hoped to be a bit more involved, but I guess there will be other chances later."

"Good," said Gabriel. "The method of restraint we have chosen is shrink-wrap, I guess, you know the stuff, that helps keeps your sandwiches fresh, except this is the industrial-strength stuff mainly used to hold things together on pallets while they get moved around."

In the slight pause, Natasha interjected, "I know the stuff."

"In that case you know that it is a little stretchy but difficult to rip without an initial cut and any cuts and rips are not repairable. Shall we start?"

Gabriel led Natasha to one of the posts, where Annika was waiting. She was holding a device which was a handle for a large roll of shrink-wrap. Gabriel took the device and asked Annika to get into position. Annika stood on the platform in front of the post facing the audience.

"As already noted, shrink-wrap is difficult to rip, but relatively easy to cut, so we need to be sure that Annika is not cheating by having any knives on her person." On this cue, Annika reached behind her back and with a zipping noise and a shrug she removed her dress, which she stepped out of and tossed in the direction of the wings. "That's a good start," commented Gabriel, "but most women have a set of sharp things built in." Annika made it clear that Gabriel was referring to fingernails by showing her nicely polished set. "So, to prevent them coming into play, Natasha, I would like you to fit these handcuffs to Annika's wrists behind the pole." He produced a set of handcuffs from his jacket pocket. Natasha fitted these, making sure that they were as tight as she could make them without actually hurting the assistant.

Natasha suddenly realised that she had handcuffed a naked woman to a pole in front of an audience; she blushed a little, but also smiled at the slightly kinky nature of the act. She was not entirely surprised, because she had seen them and her waitress on the Late Night Sexy Show.

"Of course," continued Gabriel, "if it was just handcuffs holding Annika in place, she'd be free in the blink of an eye; that's where the shrink-wrap comes in. This stuff comes with a paper strip so you can find the end. So we pull out a bit and get Annika to hold it between her ankles. Then we wrap the first turn around, so as not to pull the end from between her ankles, and stick it to itself. Then another turn with a little tension and finally, now that it is holding in place we can wind the wrap around Annika's body."

Gabriel followed his own instructions and easily using the handled roll-holder tightly wrapped Annika from her ankles to the top of her head, pausing briefly to have Natasha check that Annika had not released herself from the handcuffs, before wrapping her hands into place, and to make a small hole in the wrap that covered her face so that she could breath. He then cut off the film and plastered it to the top of Annika's head.

The cocooned Annika seemed to be able to do no more than wriggle. While her body was obscured she was still obviously naked under the layers of clear wrap.

"Ok, Natasha. Do you think you could do that to me?" asked Gabriel.

"You mean handcuff you to a pole and wrap you like that? I guess so. Are you going to be naked too?"

"Not quite." admitted Gabriel. He handed Natasha a fresh roll of shrink-wrap and a pair of handcuffs and shrugged off his jacket and ripped off his trousers male-stripper-fashion to leave himself in a pair of boxer shorts covered in hearts. "I'm not quite the exhibitionist that Annika is. Shall we get started? And only up to my neck, so that I can give you a few instructions about what to do next."

With a few guiding words from Gabriel, Natasha handcuffed him to the other post, changed the roll on wrap dispenser and began the wrapping process. Before covering his hands, she checked that the handcuffs were still on and tight and once she reached his neck, she wound the remainder of the wrap on the roll back down Gabriel's body.

"Right!" said Gabriel, giving a wriggle to show that he was tightly bound. "Now go over to Annika and check that she has been waiting patiently, and not cheating to get a head start. Then pull the curtain round her; we may be in friendly company, but we still don't want to give up all our secrets."

Natasha walked round Annika checking there were no damage to her filmy cocoon, and particularly checking that the handcuffs were still in place on her wrists. "She's still properly wrapped," called Natasha. The volunteer then turned her attention to the curtain that hung beside the post from the circle above. It took a few moments to locate the edges and then she dragged the rearward edge along the track round the back of the circle, initially forming a back drop to Annika's wrapped form and then concealing it from view, as Natasha completed the circumnavigation of Gabriel's assistant.

"Now, give me a final check and draw the curtain round me!"

Natasha crossed the stage to where the magician was still attached to the post by the wrappings that she had put in place. The volunteer did a double orbit of the magician; once to check that her handiwork was still untampered with and again to draw the curtain in place.

"Ok! Count to ten and if neither of us have freed ourselves go and check that Annika is not in trouble, because if she gets it wrong she may have accidentally closed up her breathing hole."

"Ok. Got it." Then slightly nervous, because she was the only person visible on stage, Natasha began to count towards ten. It surprised her a little that she reached ten without either the magician or the assistant emerging to claim victory, especially as Annika appeared to have got a twenty second head start.

Upon reaching ten, Natasha had a blank moment about what to do next, then she remembered that she was supposed to check that Annika was not suffocating in her wrappings. She strode over to the curtained post where Annika was and slid in through the gap in the curtains.

The audience waited. Moments later, they heard a yelp from within the curtained area; it seemed to be the volunteer yelping. A second or two after that Gabriel emerged from the curtain that had concealed him from view and he was once more wearing a jacket and trousers.

Gabriel paused briefly to acknowledge the audience reaction and then swept open the curtain of the post that he had been shackled to. Behind the curtain was a purple-clad figure with blonde hair. It took the on-lookers a couple of moments to realise that this was not the volunteer, who also had blonde hair, but the magician's assistant, Annika, whose hair was a brighter shade of blonde and did not wear glasses.

Gabriel produced a wrap-cutter; a hooked device with a small blade in the top of the hook, designed to cut the film without damaging anything that was wrapped by the film. With a single smooth swipe he slit the film and dragged it away to show that Annika handcuffed to the pole that he had been originally handcuffed to. She was wearing what appeared to be Natasha's BatGirl outfit, but it did not fit her as well, because it had been stretched to fit Natasha's body, through wear, and Natasha was a little taller and fuller of hip and chest than the relatively petite Annika.

Gabriel took the time while the audience assessed the situation to release the cuffs from Annika's wrists.

Once the audience had applauded there reaction, attention turned to the remaining curtained pole. Most of them knew what they were expecting and when the curtain was opened their expectations were met. Natasha stood on the small platform facing them with her body held in place by a envelope of clear shrink wrap. She was not in danger of asphyxiating, because a hole had been cut in the film for her face to look out of, with a few strands of her dirty blonde hair escaping to curl on her forehead. The thing that drew most attention was that she appeared to be naked; this was particularly obvious where her bust stretched the film, making it clearer, and similarly at her hips.

It was not apparent if Natasha was aware that she was naked under the covering of clear shrink-wrap, until she said, "I should have guessed what the real plan was!" and then after a pause, during which she noticed that Annika was wearing her costume, "So when do I get my costume back?"

"That depends," said Gabriel in a leading tone.

"Ok, I'll bite. It depends on what?" replied Natasha.

"Well, we could wheel you into the wings as you are and then release you once we have finished the next illusion, or we could release you now and you could help with the next illusion and we guarantee that you will have a costume by the end of it."

Natasha did not get a chance to ask what Gabriel meant by this, because the magician rushed off into the wings trailing a comment to the effect that he was going to get the illusion in question and a couple of extra bits that he had packed, but not expected to really need.

Annika was equally unforthcoming as she took the wrap-ripper to Natasha's sheathing of plastic film and then left her exposed and unable to cover herself, because her hands were handcuffed behind the pole, while the assistant hunted through Gabriel's discarded jacket to find the handcuff keys.

About the time that Annika finally unlocked the handcuffs, there was rumble from the wings and Gabriel returned pushing a tall cabinet seemingly made of three sheets of glass and a panel with a ring similar to the means of locking a water-tight door.

Gabriel parked the cabinet in the centre of the stage and opened the side opposite the panel. He then invite Natasha to step in and face the audience.

Natasha walked over to the cabinet, while Annika wheeled away one of the curtained posts.  Natasha was surprised at how narrow the gap she was being asked to put herself into. To squeeze into the gap she would have to remove the arm she had clamped across her chest, only partially hiding it, but, she reasoned, there is nothing that these people have not already seen, so what the hell.

Squeezing into the cabinet was more tricky that she initially anticipated, even pressing her shoulder blades against the glass rear she needed to adjust and slightly flatten her breasts to get between the sheets. Once in Natasha was instructed to move until her face was behind a round hole in the front glass panel. Gabriel assured her that the edges of the hole posed no danger to her, because there did not have any sharp edges. He also commented that Natasha seemed to have more trouble fitting herself inside the cabinet than its regular occupant, Annika, and put it down to the volunteer's lack of familiarity with equipment, and made no mention of Natasha's larger bust, although most of the audience had drawn the conclusion that in this instance size mattered.

With Natasha positioned centrally in the cabinet, Gabriel told her than she would have to move both her hands so that her arms were away from her body. This entailed Natasha removing her hand from her groin. During her moment of indecision, Gabriel closed the door through which she had entered the cabinet. She made up her mind that she would be a cooperative volunteer, especially as they had promised her a costume to return to her table in.

While Gabriel displayed Natasha's naked body by rotating her glass encasement, Annika returned to the stage, carrying instead of wearing the the volunteer's Catwoman costume; she cited the fact that it did not fit her at all well and that Natasha might need it if she did not like the costume they were planning to give her. The assistant took the remaining curtained post to the wings; Gabriel paused to allow the distraction of a large portion of the audience to pass, because he knew the impact of what he was about to do needed the attention of the audience.

"Are you ready, Natasha?" ask the magician.

"Do I have much choice, if I don't want to be returned to the audience in the buff?" queried Natasha.

"Honestly, no. Unless you want to get dressed up here. I guess they wouldn't object." Gabriel cast his eyes towards the audience.

"Ok, unless there's something else to do before things happen, I guess, I'm as ready as I can be."

"Good. Do let us know if anything hurts." The magician turned the wheel a quarter turn.

Natasha knew instantly that he had a crush on her; in a very literal sense. She felt the gap between the thick glass sheets, where she stood, decrease and the glass pressed against her toes and even harder than before against her breasts. The audience saw the area of breast flattened against the glass increased and cottoned on to what was happening.

Hearing no protest from the other side of the panel, Gabriel continued to turn the wheel until Natasha's face was occupying the hole in the front of the glass, at which point he accepted from Annika a steel bar which he rapidly inserted into the spokes of the wheel. Using that as lever he continued to turn the wheel until the resistance defeated the bar and caused it to bend.

Gabriel rotated the cabinet to show that all parts of Natasha were in contact with the glass and the one thing separating the two sheets was a paper-thin Natasha, her face sticking from the glass sandwich.

"How is that for you, Natasha?" the magician asked.

"I'm a bit surprised about how pleasant it is to be crushed flat, but I can see that if I had be dressed any buttons, zips or seams in the clothes would have dug in horribly. But you promised that I would get a costume by the time this was done; I don't see any sign of any costume yet."

"That's the next stage. I just need to flip this lever here." The lever was lost on Natasha, because it was on the outside of the opaque wall of the cabinet above the wheel. "Then I turn the wheel back a turn or three." After a short struggle getting the wheel started in the opposite direction, it span quickly until the glass walls were seven inches apart. Natasha's flattened body peeled from the glass plates and hung from the back of her face, which seemed to be suspended between the front and rear glass walls.

Gabriel opened the glass door that had been Natasha's entry into the cabinet and pulled on a ring in the roof of the cabinet. As he pulled Natasha slid sideways from the cabinet with her face supported by a glass ring hanging from the bar that the magician was pulling out.

"Any idea what kind of costume you want, Natasha, or shall we surprise you?"

"I'm not sure I can think properly with my brains crushed to the back of my face, so any costume you like, so long as it's sexy, but decent."

Annika reappeared from the wings with a trolley covered in a mix of stuff, the most prominent of which were cans of spray paint. Gabriel had a quick conference with his assistant. They each took a spray can and began shaking them.

It became clear to Natasha that Gabriel and Annika were planning on painting a costume onto her flattened body. "I thought you meant a real costume, not just some body paint. I'm not one of your waitresses."

Neither of the performers answered, but taking a side each (Annika at the front and Gabriel behind) they began to spray Natasha's naked body with paint. Natasha could not tell what was happening about what colours or designs were being used, but she could feel the cool of the sprayed paint as it touched her skin and could track where the spray was being applied. The audience could see that the flesh tones of Natasha's front were being replaced by black and assumed that the rear was the same.

With her body, arms and legs covered in paint, Natasha hoped that would be it and she would soon have her extra dimension back. She had longer to wait, while Annika and Gabriel took up small brushes and boards with small paint-pots in and began applying some details.

The details did not seem to take long and Gabriel slid Natasha back into the cabinet, closed the door and turned the wheel until the glass was touching Natasha again. Gabriel flipped the lever back to its original position and began turning the wheel in the direction that cause the plates that had crushed Natasha flat were coming apart again.

Natasha could feel the contact with the glass continue, but lessen as the the sheets parted from each other, but the contact did not feel as direct as it had while she was being squeezed flat; she put this down to her expanding to fill the space that was being made between the glass plates.

Soon Gabriel finished winding the cabinet walls apart. Annika returned from moving the art supplies trolley back into the wings, to open the cabinet door and provide a hand to steady Natasha as she slid out of the confines of the cabinet. Once out of the box, Natasha felt a little unsteady on her feet until she realised that she was now wearing four inch heels and compensated for them.

Gabriel came forward, taking the volunteers other hand, and lead them in a bow, while calling for the audience to show their appreciation for Natasha's bravery. They were not slow in offering that appreciation.

This was the first time that Natasha got to look at the costume that the magician and his assistant had painted onto her. The costume was obviously intended to be one of the sewn together CatWoman cat-suits, particularly associated with Michelle Pfeiffer. What amazed Natasha more was that it was made of mix of real leather and vinyl patches held together with real stitching.

As Annika escorted Natasha to the steps that would return to the banqueting tables, the assistant handed her the costume that BatGirl outfit and said, "Come and see us later, because you'll need some help getting out of that, because we did not have time to paint in a zip or anything like that. We might even see what we can do about a hood to go with it."