The voice of deputy head Hunter sounded in the voice of the three agents’ ears. “We were able to track Caroline, Evelynn, and Aurora’s signal recently to an isolated cabin about a klick north of your position. Satellite imagery showed vehicles making their way up the road through the forest to the cabin. We are unsure if this is a safehouse, or a base, or what it may be but use caution. There were defensive measures along the road so you will be proceeding on foot.”
Three affirmatives answered his briefing before they checked and shouldered their bags. Leah was the senior agent on the mission, having participated in rescue missions before in her career. Her long brown hair was swept up in a ponytail behind her, while her taut firm body looked like her catsuit and boots had been spray painted on her. She looked at the other two girls with her, Ivy, a dark haired Asian, and Brook, a tall blonde. “Expect traps.” She instructed before directing them forward. “Any motion sensors, trip wires, anything. There’s no way this is an unprotected location. Ivy, take point.”
Ivy nodded before turning and disappearing into the underbrush, followed at a distance of a few feet by Leah and behind her, Brook. Using hand signals and flashlights, Ivy directed them forward using night vision goggles to spot potential traps and there were several of them. Soon they left the evac vehicle far behind on their way towards the cabin and Leah was very surprised about how well their infiltration was going, as other than a few traps there was not much going on. Of course, she just had to curse it as when she next paused, she didn’t hear Brook behind her anymore. She could hear Ivy up ahead as she pushed past another bush and disappeared behind a log, but she didn’t hear Brook. Peering behind her, a rustle distracted her and she immediately attacked forward only for it to be blocked. “Hey hey hey, it’s just me.” Brook whispered as she lowered her teacher’s arm.
Leah relaxed. “Don’t disappear like that on me again please.” She said as she turned back towards the path Ivy was making.
“Don’t worry.” Brook said before something was jabbed into Leah’s back and an electric shock ripped through her. “You will be though.” She said, the words barely heard as Leah blacked out.
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Meanwhile up ahead, Ivy was now alerted to the fact that her companions were no longer behind her. “Leah? Brook? Hello?” She whispered into the darkness, wondering where the heck they had gone.
With comm silence still in effect, she had no choice but to move forward without support. She took a deep breath and dove forward again into the underbrush. Twice, she spotted the glint of a tripwire in the moonlight and had to carefully move around it. Once she took the risk to disarm a trap in a trench that would’ve hindered their escape path, until she finally made her way to the top of a hill overlooking the cabin. Checking out the cabin with night vision binoculars, she ducked down as she heard a vehicle approaching and went fully prone on the ground, hissing as water dripped onto her head from a leaf but stayed still as an SUV pulled up outside of the cabin and came to a stop.
Making sure that there were no other vehicles coming, Ivy brought up her binoculars again to focus in on the vehicle that had just arrived. Two men emerged from the front seats, circling around to open one of the side doors. Ivy gasped as they pulled out a woman, who she could see was Leah. The senior agent no longer had her utility belt and her hands were secured behind her. What looked like handcuffs with a longer chain were ratcheted over her ankles, limiting her movement to short steps and Ivy could see a leather panel of some kind was buckled over her mouth to muffle her cries. The brunette fought the men, who soon had her under control and frog marched her towards the cabin. Ivy followed them with her binoculars, watching as Leah was taken inside before she looked back at the SUV.
She involuntarily gasped as her gaze swept back over the vehicle, spotting another woman standing beside it. Her heart tightening, she didn’t want to accept it but zooming in she saw that it was Brook. The men emerged again from the cabin and had a conversation with her before one climbed into the driver’s seat with Brook, while the other headed back to the cabin. They had been betrayed, a snake in their midst and it had resulted in not only Leah’s capture, but likely the disappearance of Caroline, Evelyn and Aurora during their routine training mission.
Ivy tore back through the woods, retracing the path that they had cleared as fast as her brain could process it. She couldn’t raise their evacuation vehicle on the comms channel without alerting Brook so she just had to make it all the way back to the vehicle. Ducking under another tree, she swerved around one of the traps that she had passed along the way and could just barely see the hidden agency vehicle back where they had started. With a bloom of hope in her heart, she momentarily took her eyes off the ground in front of her and ran through one of the traps that Brook was supposed to have disarmed when they first arrived, causing a net to spring up out of the ground and haul the Asian girl into the air. Crying out in shock, Ivy twisted herself so she could see the vehicle and all sense of caution went out the window. “HEY! HELP!” She screamed.
She heard and could barely see the car door open and one of the agents emerged before the car exploded in a giant fireball. Freezing in shock for a moment, she stared at the flames that lit up the surrounding forest for a couple moments before shaking her head. Get it together Ivy. She scolded herself. You have to get your ass out of here now without help.
The problem was that she was going to have trouble getting out herself. The net had numerous additional weights that had wrapped around her body, tightening the net so that it acted more like a cocoon around her body, trapping right arm against her thigh and her left behind her. With her knives stashed in the left part of her belt and her right boot, both were currently out of reach for her. She couldn’t reach her comms either, so there was no way to alert their base. This was a problem, and Ivy was learning very quickly that she was caught up in a web of lies, designed to ensnare everyone around the spider at the center and that spider was Brook. Twisting and struggling, Ivy began to work up sweat trying to find a way out of the net before she heard leaves crunching beneath boots and turned her head to see Brook standing beneath her. “Get away from me you traitor!” She shouted.
Brook put her hands on her hips. “So you saw that. No matter.”
A gloved hand reached up and took Ivy’s earpiece out of her ear before it was dropped to the ground and crushed. “No one will ever know, especially since you’ll be joining Leah and the others and disappear off the grid for the rest of your life.”
Ivy’s bravado was only going to hold for so long, and it came apart when she saw what Brook took off of her belt in the moonlight. In one hand was a taser, in the other was a leather panel with straps hanging off of it. The protrusion coming from the panel in the shape of a man’s penis. “Let’s get you prepped.” She said as the taser came up and Ivy blacked out.
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Brook returned home late. After an extensive debriefing back at headquarters, the agent had been grilled by the higher ups at the agency about the mission failure, which accounted for two dead, two captured. She’d been the sole survivor, which did cast some suspicion on her, but she had lied for a decade to all of those around her, it came like second nature. Shutting the door behind her, she leaned back against it and sighed. Now she had to plan her next steps and what advantages she could wring out of the agency.
Slinging her bag back over her shoulder, she walked into her bedroom and flipped the light on, only to be hit from the front and behind simultaneously by two men. Caught off guard and with fatigue dulling her senses, she was late swinging her bag around to attack the man in front but a taser from behind quickly ended all of her resistance as the electric shocks ran through her body and she fell to the floor. Working quickly once Brook was paralyzed, the men stripped off her jacket, top, jeans, and boots, leaving her in just her bra and panties. Her socks were balled up and stuffed into her mouth before duct tape came out to wrap around her head to gag her. Her wrists, ankles, elbows, and knees were then wrapped up in duct tape before she was curled into a ball and tape was run around her shins and back, pressing her breasts against her thighs. A large suitcase was pulled out of her closet and the helpless agent was stuffed inside before the men wheeled their new captive out of the apartment and down to their vehicle.
In a dark office across town, a man seated at his desk pouring over reports late at night got a phone call. Answering, he listened for a moment. “Good. You know what to do.” He said as he set the phone down and leaned back. “Just another bug in the web.” Hunter chuckled to himself, knowing that he’ll be waking up in the morning to some images of the six agents in stringent bondage.