When @Rob66 posted an open invitation to the Deviantart community to participate in the Secret Santa event, @glynco05 (Tina Josephine) considered that an obvious, “Hell Yes!” and signed up immediately! She expected it to be a fun chance to meet a few other BDSM enthusiasts and maybe flex her creative muscles a little. Nothing super serious. Just some low-key holiday fun.
But Tina got a lot more than she ever bargained for!
For one thing, Tina’s own Secret Santa @nyctophobia11 gave her Christmas present to her quite early. And what a present it was! Tina was gifted a superhero persona, and the powers and abilities to go with it! As the Blue Pearl, Tina now added enhanced strength and durability to her already impressive skills with firearms and tactics. Tina was also proficient in the basics of mixed marital arts, but more about that later…
Another incredible side effect of the gift that Tina received was that she now understood that the universe of DeviantArt was much vaster than she’d ever imagined. In Tina’s world, things appeared and functioned very much “normally.” The laws of physics are in control. Things that are most probable are usually the things that occur. Tina’s world did have an “adventure” every now and again. And, of course, it had bondage and other kinks. Oh Lord, did it ever! But there wasn’t much room for superpowers or comic book costumes or the like.
And yet, somehow, Tina had become the Blue Pearl. She REALLY had. It made no sense, at first. But it was undeniably true!
After a week or so of trial and error, and lots of experimentation, Tina slowly became aware of something transformational. DeviantArt was not just one universe. It was lots of universes. Maybe infinite universes. And when Tina entered the superhero world of her brand-new persona the Blue Pearl, Tina was actually stepping right through a crack between worlds. She was living in the 3-D rendering of herself in a different world with different rules.
This discovery was freaking amazing! Tina delighted in bouncing back between her “real” life as a submissive adventure seeking bad ass (as @joejanus calls her) and her new crime fighting life in a world that felt like a comic book video game. And making the slide between these two worlds became easier every time she did it. Traveling back and forth was becoming almost second nature, just like riding a bike. But that comfort level that Tina had achieve was a serious problem waiting to burst. Tina had stopped focusing as carefully as she had when world sliding was unfamiliar. She was just a little less precisewith the mental focus that allowed her to move through the cracks between worlds. And then, one time when Tina was extra distracted or in an exceptional hurry, rather than stepping into the increasingly comfortable and familiar world of the Blue Pearl, Tina missed her mark and found herself here!
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(That’s Tina over on the far left. She’s a bit blurry. She’s the blond in the desert camouflaged bikini.)
Tina found herself in a universe that felt VERY much like the one she expected to arrive in, the Superhero universe. Just as with that world, there was a 3-dimensional quality about everything and everyone. Colors and shading were slightly brighter and less blended. Contrasts were a touch sharper. This definitely wasn’t Tina’s world.
As when she first assumed the life of the Blue Pearl, Tina was absorbing the knowledge of this version of “Tina.” She was learning the rules that her other self already lived a lifetime with. And as Tina watched the combat sport taking place in the ring in front of her from among the excited cheering onlookers, Tina understood that she was now in a world of battle. A world where combat was almost the same as language. And by observing the impressive display in the ring, Tina realized that she was in over her head.
Tina still needed to get her bearings before she’d have enough focus to slip back to her own world. But her concentration was broken by the voice of the referee.
“Winner by submission, Gillian!!” The powerful-looking brunette released the brutal arm bar on the red head pinned beneath her. Gillian sprung up to her feet and pointed at the sullen looking woman standing by the ring post across from Tina.
“That was way too easy Mason! I thought you said your driver knew how to fight.” Gillian was beaming and Amy rubbed her sore shoulder from down in the dirt.
“She’s not my driver. She’s my bodyguard.” Alex Mason wished she could recall her statement like an errant email, but it was already sent, and Gillian laughed hysterically.
“That’s soooooo much worse, Mason!” And Tina felt a pit grow in her stomach as Gillian turned her attention her way. “Looks like the tournament is all tied up Josephine. Now it’s up to you.” Tina was frozen like a deer in headlights. “Get in there and kick Mason’s ass!”
“Wait, what?” Tina stammered. She concentrated. She desperately needed to remember what THIS Tina knew, and she needed to remember fast! In the meantime, Alex climbed slowing into the ring.
“Bondage wresting, right Tina?” Alex asked.
“I don’t…I guess so….yeah. Unless we can duel with, like, pistols or something?” Tina brought her talent with firearms with her from world to world, but it took her time to gain the proficiencies of the new lives she stepped into when she slipped through the multi-verse.
“Cute Tina.” Alex didn’t look super amused. “We all know nobody can beat you at bondage wrestling.” Some people helped Amy Nash out of the ring while others started dropping coiled loops of white rope in random places around the ring. “Let’s get this over with.”
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As Tina entered the ring, she felt like she was passing through some kind of invisible membrane. Once inside, everything appeared a little different. Objects gave off a strange aura. There was unusual shadowing everywhere. Colors seemed “off” again. Everything outside of the combat area almost appeared to be underwater.
“Are you going to get set, or would you rather just forfeit?” Alex asked, annoyed. Tina noticed that Alex’s clothes had changed from a military-style “spectator outfit” to a mono-colored spandex wrestling bikini. Feeling slightly cooler herself, Tina looked down and realized her clothes had ALSO changed.
“This world has some really quirky rules!” Tina thought as she settled herself into a crouch that mirrored the stance of her apparent adversary, Alex. “Please let me slide home. Please let me slide home.” Tina mumbled. But she was far too out of sorts to make that dream happen.
“DING DING DING!!!”
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Alex reacted to the bell, lunging forward at Tina’s left shoulder in an apparent tackle attempt. Fortunately for Tina, take down defense was within the law enforcement-oriented combat skills she was well-versed in. She shifted her weight to her left and allowed Alex to glance off her and slip past her, landing on all fours.
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“Gotcha Alex!” Tina taunted, rolling onto Alex’s back and preparing to attempt a headlock. Alex did not respond. Tina was so focused on her own counterattack, she didn’t really notice Alex hooking one arm around Tina’s right leg, or that she’d snatched up a coil of rope in the left hand.
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Alex ducked her head and bucked her hips up behind her. “Fuck” Tina thought as she flew forward like a cowgirl getting thrown off the front of a bronco. Besides now being totally off-balance, Tina was now looking back at the crouched-up Alex and realized what her opponent had been up to.
“When did you get that rope, Alex?”
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“Are you feeling alright Tina? Because you’re usually much better at this.” Alex laughed as she leaned back pulling Tina over with her. That was when Tina realized Alex had frogtied her right leg while she’d been crouching down beneath her.
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“Not good,” Tina thought.
She threw herself forward and crunched her stomach and just managed to get herself upright. Tina grabbed for the knots binding her legs hoping Alex hadn’t had time to tighten them yet, but Alex had already moved on to Tina’s left leg.
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“Rock a bye baby, Bitch!” Alex slid one leg beneath Tina’s seat causing Tina to fall backwards with her hips raised up off the deck. Alex has somehow already halfway finished frogtying Tina’s other leg!
“Dang it!” Tina thought. One leg tied and useless, and in a forced recline, Tina had only her arms to try to fend off Alex who had the advantages of gravity or MUCH more talent on her side.
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Now with both legs tied tightly, bent in half, Tina was forced to remain kneeling. Not an unfamiliar situation for a self-bondage expert, such as herself, but she certainly wasn’t accustomed to having to fight this way. Surprisingly, Alex sprung up and gave a little distance, relinquishing her position of advantage.
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“What’s going on Tina? Are you throwing the fight?” Tina could tell from the look in Alex’s eyes that she didn’t ACTUALLY think this was just a rigged fight. Tina knew she was losing badly and didn’t really want to find out what would happen if she blew the tournament.
“Ssshhh. OK. Look Alex. This is going to sounds completely crazy, but…” Alex cut her off.
“You’re from “another world’?” Tina lowered her hands and dropped her guard.
“Wasn’t expecting that…” Tina stated, feeling foolish. “Hey!”
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Alex dashed around the hobbled Tina and locked her arms up under her shoulders and behind Tina’s neck.
“Maybe you’re new at world hopping?” Alex asked, adjusting her grip in order to free up one hand to grab another coil of rope. “We get a lot of you ‘real people’ here. This is a “hub world,” after all.
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Tina couldn’t answer. She was too busy getting her ass kicked. Alex rotated her entire body 180 degrees on top of Tina so that she wound up with her legs up around Tina’s shoulders. Alex deftly slipped her feet around Tina’s head and one shoulder, locking the modified scissor hold with her ankles and sitting back on her own ankles to pin her to the floor.
“Mmmmphhh,” was all Tina could muster with her face partially smothered by Alex’s hamstring.
“It must be pretty great being able to hop around into different peoples’ lives, like you do. But you know that screws up timelines and fate and all that.” While Alex explained, she went to work securing a rope to Tina’s arm that wasn’t caught up in the scissors hold.
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With the rope attached above Tina’s elbow, Alex rotated 90 degrees and onto the deck beside the heavy breathing Tina.
“You really need better cardio ‘other world Tina.” Alex teased as she used one of the frogtie loops to roll Tina over onto her stomach. Tina inhaled deeply.
“I would have it I’d have known I was coming to “Street Fighter” world instead of “Super Hero” world. I usually have superpowers, you know.”
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“Hang on,” Alex exclaimed as she bent Tina’s tied arm behind her and reached for the other one. “You’ve never been here before?”
“Fuck no I’ve never…”
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Alex shoved Tina face down onto the deck.
“That actually makes sense. It explains why you suck at this.” Alex now had the rope looped around BOTH of Tina’s arms above her elbows.
“Listen, just let me go and I’ll go home and never come back.” Tina suggested.
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Alex ignored Tina’s request and instead grasped Tina’s wrists and started working them back behind her back.
“But I don’t get how you hopped from your home world to that Blue Pearl world without passing through the hub first. Variants always have to pass through the hub. That’s how it works.”
Tina’s token resistance failed and Alex pulled her hands behind her.
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“I don’t know, Alex. All I know is that @nyctophobia11 gave me Super Powers. To use them I slipped into another world where things felt different, like they do here. I was on my way to be the Blue Pearl again, but somehow, I wound up here instead.”
Alex had Tina’s wrists tied and was getting ready to tighten and cinch them up.
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“But that doesn’t make any sense. How can you hop from your world…” Alex paused in her bondage assault of Tina to consider what was happening.
“Slip!” Tina interrupted. “It’s more like ‘slipping’ through a crack than hopping over a border, or something.” While Alex had been tying Tina’s wrists, Tina had remembered to flex her forearms to make her wrist circumference bulge a little.
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Alex flipped Tina roughly over onto her side and leaned down close to her ear.
“You really want to play semantics, or do you want to help me figure out the multi-verse ‘other world’ Tina?” Tinas arms were underneath her and out of sight from Alex. And she’d succeeded in saving a little bit of slack with her flexed forearm trick.
“OK Alex,” Tina stalled, “We can talk about the fake world multi-verse if you want.” Tina almost had one hand pulled through the rope loops.
“Wait. Maybe THAT’S it. You said, ‘fake world.’ I know you meant that as a put-down, but it’s actually true. The infinite universe is made of copies, or fakes, of the original world. The REAL world.” Alex was super distracted in deep thought. Tina got one hand loose. “Is it possible? Can you be able to hop worlds without going through the hub because YOU’RE the real Tina?” Alex looked down at Tina with a touch of wonder. And then she noticed her freed wrists. “What do you think you’re doing ‘real world Tina’?”
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Alex log rolled Tina over onto her belly.
“Get off of me you dang copy-world wrestler bitch!” Tina was frustrated. She’d nearly gotten out!
“Actually,” Alex said as she quickly retied Tinas hands behind her, “I’m not a ‘wrestler bitch.” Wrestling is more Amy Nash’s thing. I’m and adventurer and a treasure hunter.”
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Alex climbed up on Tina again, once more pinning her helplessly onto her stomach.
“The hub world may not be glamorous as ‘the real world,’ but it has a lot going for it. Think about it, since forever, everyone special enough to world hop has passed through here. Almost everyone, at least. Just not you ‘real world’ types.” Alex had Tina’s ropes cinched up super tight now. “Over a few million years, all of those world hoppers have left some pretty special treasurers all over the Hub. And the best ones are hard to reach. But I’m thinking you might just be the key. I’m thinking a ‘real world’ person can help me get the really good treasures hidden in this world.”
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Alex put the finishing touches on a hogtie. Even Tina’s hair was being used to pull her head back and force her to arch uncomfortably.
“That’s crazy Alec!” Tina chastised. “You gotta let me go. I don’t know anything about any treasures or about the Hub. I’m no use to you. Please, just let me go.” Tina struggled but Alex had done her job well. There was no longer any slack or leverage available to the exhausted escape artist.
“I don’t know ‘real world Tina,’ I want to see what we can do with you here in the Hub. You might even be surprised and like the place once you’ve been here for a little while.”
“Forget it,” Tina declared, “I’m going home, just as soon as I get myself focused enough to world slip again.” Tina was startled as something was pushed between her teeth, filling up her mouth.
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“I don’t think so. At least no time soon,” Alex laughed, as she strapped the ball gag securely into Tina’s mouth. “This gag is one of those ‘special treasures’ I was telling you about. It’s an ‘anchor item.’ It can’t leave the Hub. And as long as it’s strapped inside your mouth, neither can you. At least none of the fake world hoppers have been able to. I won’t know for sure if it works the same on you for a little while. But I’m fine with waiting.”
“MMphfffffff!! MMhhfffffff!!” Tina struggled and sputtered spit through the sides of the large gag. She was beaten in humiliating fashion and now apparently a prisoner in a completely foreign universe to a self-proclaimed treasure hunter. Desperation and confusion were overcoming Tina as her eyes began to well up with tears.
Alex stood up and, placed on foot on the back of defeated foe, and struck a victorious pose.
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“Don’t worry partner. I won’t tell anyone else here your little secret.” The combat membrane dissolved away, and Tina and Alex were once again in the Hub’s dessert environment. “And don’t worry. Even if you can’t help me get my hands on the treasures of the Hub, you’re still very valuable.”
The now visible crowd of spectators cheered wildly for Alex over her amazing upset victory!
“If nothing else, you’re the highest rated bondage wrestler in the Hub. That is, you LOOK like the highest rated bondage wrestler in the Hub, ‘REAL WORLD TINA.’ I can keep you around and beat you in the ring to climb the ranks. At least until you’re ranking tanks.”
“MMMPhrffff! MMMmfffff!” Tina grumbled into the gag as she wondered why they called the square-shaped venue a “ring.” Tina chuckled to herself. At least she still had her sense of humor. And Alex was a smart ass and antagonistic, but she didn’t come across as evil, per se. Tina sighed and went limp in her bonds. She’d world slipped to join a Blue Pearl adventure. She may as well try to make the most of an adventure with Alex here in the Hub….
To be continued???