Part 11
"So what do you think about your first day off duty?" Ani asked, their bright, playful eyes smiling up at Alex.
"This might have been the most fun I've had in… well, a long time."
"Good. We've had a lot of fun playing with you." A mischievous gleam crossed Ani's face. "In fact… We've got one more game, something that Jay, Jane and I usually play together, but we think you might like it."
"Oh?" Alex's interest piqued. "I'm interested."
"I've heard you're a little bit like Jane. You enjoy being forced." Ani hit the word with just a touch of emphasis, echoing the AI's hypnotic usage of the trigger word.
Alex felt herself react instantly. Her shoulders dropped, relaxing into submission, and she was suddenly very interested indeed.
"Lovely…" Ani purred, smiling at Alex's reaction.
"I saw you watching the way Jay and I played in the car. So the three of us are alike, Jay, Jane, and I. We all like to be forced. We like a little bit of theater. We all like to be played with. But what it really comes down to is there's something deep in us that needs to have choice taken away, that needs to know something else is in charge. And that there's nothing we can do about it."
Ani's voice dropped to something more intimate. "So we play a game called 'Make Me.'"
"Ooh, I like the sound of that." Alex's pulse quickened.
"I've gotta remind you, we never want to harm each other." Ani's tone turned serious. "If someone's scared or in distress, or if something inside them switches and they need to stop, they call 'meta moment.' Or the AI detects the distress and calls it for them. So even if you're playing the game and you can't say no, you gotta remember, this is all in the context of the greater game. There's a pause button on all of it. Okay? You get it?"
"I get it."
"I'll tell you, meta moments are rare. We don't like to break the illusion, but don't forget that our care for you comes first."
Ani continued, their excitement building. "Now, we've all got our own ideas of how to be the best drone we can be for each other, for the house, for the AI. We're all very interested in pleasing it and making it happy. It's a fine line we dance. If you play with our crew tonight, you'll see. We'll take care of you. You call out the safe word if you need to, but in this game, we're going to be a little cruel to each other. Push each other's buttons, force each other to do things. It's going to be real hard to say no at times. You in?"
"I trust you. I trust all of you, and I'm very in."
"All right! So, you're not in your full drone suit, so we've gotta wire up some external hardware." Ani began pulling equipment from a drawer, their movements slow and deliberate. "You've felt the base system that Jane got you hooked into two days ago. This one's just a little… more powerful."
They held up various electrodes and pads, the metal contacts gleaming. "These two go on your thighs…"
Ani knelt in front of Alex, their fingers warm as they pressed the first pad against Alex's inner thigh. Their touch lingered, smoothing the adhesive edges with gentle strokes that made Alex's breath catch. The second pad went on the other thigh, Ani's hands sliding along the rubber stocking, taking their time.
"These two go inside your shorts on each side of your privates." Ani's voice dropped lower, more intimate. Their fingers slipped just under the edge of Alex's boy shorts, brushing against sensitive skin as they positioned the pads. "That's right, there. Perfect." Their hands pressed firmly, ensuring good contact, the pressure sending shivers through Alex. "Good, the shorts will hold them on nicely."
Alex's breathing deepened as Ani moved behind her, their body heat radiating close.
"These two go on your butt, just a little lower…" Ani's hands caressed down from Alex's hips, fingers tracing inside her rubber shorts, following the curve of her bottom through the rubber before placing each pad. "There you go, each side." Their touch was deliberate yet undeniably sensual, pressing each electrode until it adhered perfectly to skin, already sweaty under the warm rubber.
"Have you done much electro play?"
"No, this has all been my first time."
"Okay, that's fine. One of the big rules of electro play is never arc through the chest, so let me explain a little bit about these next two. At first blush it seems like they break that rule, but these devices self-ground. They don't go across or through your chest, just across your nipples."
Alex felt herself react, imagining sensation like that playing across her nipples. The buzz, the pleasure, the pain. Instinctually her shoulders dropped and she exhaled, her hips shifting forward. The horny need hit hard and fast when she thought about it. She remembered how they'd just left Sam in the other room, and how cute Ani looked in their drone suit, excitedly getting Alex wired up for play.
"I like the sound of that," she said, not hiding her arousal.
Ani grinned back at her.
"Now with this, we can do anything and everything to you. Your chest, your legs, your butt, your privates. We can bring you pleasure, and we can shock you. Hard. You see where we're going with this?" Ani asked as they reached around from behind Alex, pressing close to her and slid the wireless pads up and under her rubber sports bra, pressing them firmly into place
"Mmm hmm." Alex said, eyes closed and sinking into Ani's touch.
"This is the final piece." Ani held out a special locking collar with a slim black box attached and electrodes along the inside.
"You can still opt out if you want to," Ani said.
"I want this." Alex said, without taking time to deliberate. She looked at Ani and could feel herself dropping, could feel the arousal pooling. Without the suit, without the AI control, all of these reactions were just her body, just her mind. Aligning and activating, imagining what was to come, imagining being forced. And what would happen if she didn't comply.
Alex took the collar from Ani's hands and sensually wrapped it just above the other already on her neck, feeling its soft caress, the cold metal of the electrodes, the constriction. Never breaking eye contact with Ani, she ran the end through the buckle, pulled it tight seductively, and let the instinctual pleasure run through her as she closed her eyes and sank.
"Mmm. Alex…" Ani said quietly, looking wolfish and dangerous. "I get it. I get why Jane picked you. My gosh. Mmm!"
"Do you want to do the honors, or should I?" Ani held up a lock.
"You do it." Alex said, her voice barely more than a whisper.
With a click, Alex's fate was sealed, and she knew that she was part of the game now.
Ani hooked up the wires, plugged them into the power pack that was clipped onto Alex's boy shorts, and closed the cover over the wires, locking them in.
"Now. Come on, we're all ready. Let's go see what Jay's dreamed up."
"Well, looks like you're wired for sound! Take it that means you're in for our games?" Jay asked as they entered the room.
Alex nodded, walking in as Ani bounced on their tiptoes behind her.
"Eeee! I'm so excited!" Ani bounced toward Jay, then went a little feral, looking up at him, beating their fists on his chest, and yelling through gritted teeth with wild eyes, "ERHM SER EXCERTERD!!!"
Jay laughed a genuine belly laugh as he wrapped his arms around the excited little drone.
"As you can see, this game was designed for Ani. It's their favorite! We welcome you to our little crew!"
"There's one more thing," Jane said. "You're not in your suit, and Ani got you wired up for… coercion. But there's two parts to this game. The first is the ability to make each other do things, and the second is the ability to… distract each other from getting them done. So since you're not in your suit, we can't fire the pleasure devices there. So this is for you."
Jane presented a combination vibe and stimulator.
"Just let us know when you're ready."
Alex took the device and stepped to the side of the room. She stretched the boy shorts and got it situated. Even having shared so much with the rest of them, Alex still flushed, putting the device in front of them.
They caught on and busied themselves with conversation while Alex got ready.
"All right! We're all set. So the rules of the game! This is 'Make Me!'" Jay announced.
"Each round, there will be a challenge, and it plays a bit like truth or dare. You can either tell us the truth, and remember, we and the AI can see things like your heart rate and get a good sense whether you're telling the truth or not… and we pinky swear to be honest with each other. Or if it's something you don't feel like divulging, or you just want to get on with the game, you can say 'Make me.' At which point we'll draw a card, see what the next challenge is, and you must perform that challenge. No ifs, ands, or buts. If you take too long, we will, um, you know, make you!"
Jay's grin widened. "Players may choose to provide… coercion to make each other do things AND to prevent them from doing a certain task by providing distractions. Allowable distractions are causing stimulation, smack talk, other verbal misdirection, or reasonably playful physical restraint. We'll leave this up to the other judges, but if two other players deem that the task is completed or you should be let off the hook, that round is complete and we move on. Everyone understand? Ani and Jane, I know you know, so let's make sure we show Alex the ropes."
"Our first 'Make Me' challenge…" Jay flipped a card. "Hold a lemon wedge in your closed mouth for fifteen seconds."
"Well, you get an easy one to start. So, Ani, you're first."
"Let's flip over the question card…" Jay said, acting a bit like a game show host. "Ani, what is the first kinky thing you remember thinking or doing?"
"I was… seven, maybe eight." Ani started, remembering "We were playing some form of cops and robbers, and someone had decided that the robbers would get tied to the tree. For some inexplicable reason," Ani said with a smirk, "I was drawn to being a robber, and somehow always got caught pretty easily."
"I didn't quite know what it all meant. I just knew it felt good, and I played an awful lot of 'tie me up' after that."
"Love it," Jay said. "Jane, over to you."
"Swim team," Jane said. "The water. All of our fit, shaved bodies. And the swim cap. Something about it just entranced me. I tried my first breathplay with it. Well, the rest sort of rolled from there."
"That's a classic!" Jay said. "Alex?"
"I kind of grew up… chronically online. Let's just say I spent more time with my screens than with people. The internet was pretty unfiltered. My first trip to pornhub, I was more interested in watching people be tied up in costumes than anything more graphic. That set some things pretty deep for me early."
"Fair enough. I think we've all been down rabbit holes like that as well. And that brings it over to me, and well, folks, this one's actually a little personal for me. I think I'm gonna say 'Make me.'"
"Now," Ani said, their eyes gleaming, "this is the fun part."
"Here, you can use your phone."
A URL appeared on Alex's phone, which she clicked. That brought up an interface with the four players and sliders for pain and pleasure.
"If you click the slider, there's more nuance, but you can just pull it up and down. It does the trick."
"So well, Jay," Ani said, "you better start going for that lemon."
On the center table, the lemon wedge was already prepared. Jay went to reach for it, and Ani didn't waste a single second, juicing the pain to 50%.
"Ah! Fek! Wha?" Jay exclaimed. "I was already doing it!"
"I know, I just like to mess with you." Ani flipped immediately to 75% pleasure.
"Ohhh, god," he moaned for a different reason now.
"Just a little distraction. Why don't you decide whether he's done the thing?" Ani said to Alex. "Every second that goes by, the pain creeps up 1%, but you can always hit him whenever you want."
"Okay, right… lemon," Jay said, trying to focus.
Ani crawled over to Jay from where they had been sitting, positioning themselves between him and the lemon on the center table.
"Oh, you don't want that little lemon. You want to just stay right here with us, listening to my voice, feeling that pleasure."
"There's no need to hurry. No reason to rush…" Ani drew out the words, gently lifting their fingers, manipulating an invisible interface.
"Oh god, okay, oh yeah." Jay squirmed, barely able to make an intelligible sound.
"Ani, you've gone right to playing hard here. Oh Christ…"
"Heh heh," Ani laughed seductively. "I'm not losing this time, Jay… I remember last week."
"Oh, thought maybe you'd forgiven me for that," Jay said in a strained voice as the pleasure continued to flow through him.
"Not even close." Ani juiced his stim more as the seconds ticked by. The pain crept up on the interface, but Ani didn't let up on the pleasure.
"I know, but just stay right here with me. Just look at me and listen to my voice. That's right. You don't want that. You just want to enjoy and stay, just sink into it. It's just a silly game."
"OW!" Jay exclaimed as the pain crept above 40%. "Now, oh, I… Oh, okay."
"Stay," Ani said more forcefully, moving the pleasure to 90%.
"Oh! Ohhhh! Okay… Oh. Oh." Jay was a quivering mess of indecision, wanting to enjoy the pleasure and sink into Ani's control.
"Just stay with me. You can do it. You can take it for me," Ani said, pressing their hands against Jay's chest, running their fingers down his arms. Their tone was seductive, controlling. "Such a good drone. Just obey. For me, you're not going anywhere."
The pain climbed. 61, 63, 65.
"Ohhhhh," Jay moaned, his muscles contracting, lost in the pleasure, lost in Ani's commands, yet feeling the urgency and fear of the pain building.
"Oh. Oh, God, Ani, I've gotta!"
"You've 'gotta' stay." Ani echoed back, their voice low and raw.
71, 73, 75.
"Fuck fuck fuck!" Jay said, and this time the urgency was too much. He bolted up, pushing Ani aside and lunging for the table. He grabbed the lemon, quickly putting it in his mouth.
"Well, you still gotta keep it there for fifteen seconds." Ani said with a knowing, rueful smile.
"Errrr, muverphuk," Jay said through gritted teeth, the sour lemon and the pain continuing to rise.
"5, 4, 3," Ani counted down, seeming to slow, "2, 1."
As quickly as they could, Alex and Jane hit the 'task complete' button on their interfaces. Instantly, the pain shut off and Jay relaxed, but Ani kept the pleasure high for a moment. He melted and moaned.
"Oh," Jay moaned, spitting out the lemon into his hand and leaning hard against the table. "Ah, god… you're not playing, Ani! That was the first round!"
"I told you. I am not gonna lose this time."
"Yeah, well, good play," he said, laughing a bit and catching his breath.
"Well, next round?" he said with an exhausted laugh.
"So how do you win this game?" Alex asked Jane.
"You lose the point if you don't answer and you disobey the 'make me.' The other players are allowed to distract you. If they're the one that stops you from obeying the 'make me,' they steal the point. The AI likes to… reward the winner with a little final bonus at the end."
"And a little bit of final punishment for the one with the lowest points," Jay added, "which is why Ani here is so sore at me for last time."
"It was a dirty trick," Ani said.
"It's a dirty game." He said back, enjoying the double entendre.
Jay smiled at Ani. "You certainly gave as good as you got, and you've got me back for it now!"
"Hmm, not quite yet" Ani said, and Jay swallowed.
The game continued, rounds blurring together in a haze of shared secrets and electric touches. They took turns revealing themselves, each confession drawing them closer, the air thick with arousal and anticipation.
"All right, Alex, how about you? Tell me about your father."
Alex knew the moment this question had started going around that there was no chance she was answering and bringing the mood down. She stuffed her feelings down deep and answered instantly, smirking and making a "nope" face, her voice full of projected strength and sarcasm.
"Yeah, I'm gonna take the 'make me' on this one."
"Oh all right, I wondered when we'd get the chance!" Jay's enthusiasm returned, his eyes lighting up with mischief. "Now, this challenge is a bit near and dear to me."
He reached into a box on the table and held up something dark and cylindrical, covered in white powder that dusted his fingers. The smell hit Alex immediately, anise and salt and something chemical.
"Have you ever tried Aussie licorice?"
"No…" Alex's nose wrinkled at the pungent scent.
"Alex, here, stick out your tongue. Give it a little lick."
Jay extended the candy toward her, white powder falling like snow onto the floor. Alex leaned forward tentatively, her pink tongue darting out to taste the offered treat. The moment it touched, her face contorted.
"Oh, God, ah, how? It burns!" She recoiled, her mouth on fire, lips tingling with an intense salty heat that made her eyes water.
"It's great when you get used to it, but, uh, not everyone's cuppa. It's a bit salty." Jay's accent thickened with amusement as he watched her reaction.
"Jesus. It tastes spicy." Alex wiped at her mouth, the burning sensation lingering on her tongue.
"It's just the salt, but it's a lot of it. It's got a good whack of black licorice underneath." Jay rolled the candy between his fingers, more powder cascading down. "I grew up on the stuff, but a lot of folks don't like it, so I figured I'd make it part of the mix tonight. Yeah, all you gotta do is chew and swallow the whole thing. Ready?"
"Mmm hmm." Alex nodded, though her body language screamed reluctance.
She felt her resistance building, every fiber of her being rejecting the salt and licorice abomination sitting innocently on the table in front of her. The residual burn on her tongue promised nothing but suffering. But beneath that resistance, something else stirred… Curiosity, need, the deep desire to discover what it truly meant to be forced. The electrodes against her skin seemed to hum with potential, waiting.
"Well, I said 'make me,'" Alex said with a wry smile as she looked between Jay and Ani, challenge clear in her eyes.
Ani's eyes gleamed with wickedness. "Don't tempt me, babe." With a flick of their fingers, Ani instantly sent Alex's pain level to 25 percent. No ramp, no warning.
"Oh!" Alex exclaimed.
"Okay, okay, I'll do it," Alex said in a hurried voice, starting for the table.
"Not so fast." Jane stepped between her and the licorice. "I think I know you better than that."
Jane's voice took on that familiar hypnotic cadence. "Now, stay with me. Remember you're mine when you're off duty. You just sink with me. You took more pain than that, your first night with me. There, see? With a little pleasure, it feels good. Feels real good. Let's even dial that up there."
Alex looked at Jane, felt the pleasure, and swooned, sinking back down onto her knees where she'd been sitting.
"Ha ha, there, I love that face… so blank, so dreamy. You're gonna make me want to keep you like this all the time."
"You're not getting this point, Jane!" Ani said, juicing Alex's pain stim up to 50.
"Oh!" Alex tried to get up and move toward the table.
"Noooo. Shhh shh, no baby, you're my little pain slut. You can take it, especially when I do this." Jane turned up the sensation more.
Alex felt the vibe and the stimulator thrum to life inside her, and her mind was a conflicted haze. She needed to move, she had to stop the pain. But why did it feel good? Too much, but still good. And oh, Jane lit up the pads across her nipples, and it should have hurt, but suddenly it connected her body like a triangle of light from her privates to her chest.
She slumped, and Jane caught her in her arms, cradling her in the rubber.
Her stomach muscles contracted and convulsed. Her hips pulsed forward.
"Oh, ohhh."
Any sense of shyness or holding back was gone as she grunted and moaned.
"Uh uh, Jane, not tonight." Ani said, with a playful fierceness. "Tonight, I want to make Alex do it. You asked me to make you, little drone. Careful what you wish for."
Ani didn't let up, driving the pain stimulation up faster and farther, not giving Alex time to acclimate.
Alex began to snap more awake. There was an urgency, a need. Alex had to follow the order.
"That's right, drone, do what I say. Eat it." Ani commanded, with a touch of cruelty creeping into their voice.
Ani's harsh tone, married with the intense persuasion, clicked something inside Alex, and she stood, lifting Jane up around her. Jane let her go.
"Ughhhh," she grunted low and deep.
Jane looked sideways at Ani and flicked the pleasure up to 97%.
"Oh hoh!"
Alex's knees crumpled and she whimpered and grunted. Then, with all that pain, the jolt of pleasure, and the need to follow the command, she came. Hard and fast, kneeling there, a scream ripped out of her. She bucked and thrashed. "Oh oh, oh shit, OH shit, oh SHIT."
Ani beamed and grinned. Jane gave them a smirk and side-eye. The pleasure and pain continued to course through her, but as the orgasm faded, the pain remained. It seemed hotter and sharper.
"Hmm, a little thing like that doesn't get you out of this," Ani said, grinning like a cat.
"Oh, OH!" Alex said, almost hopping up as the afterglow faded and the sharp pain coursed through her. She grabbed for the licorice and popped it in her mouth, somehow still managing to retch as the intense salt and licorice flavor combined and stung her mouth. But soon enough, it turned sweet, and Alex chewed and swallowed.
"It's done, it's good," she panted, and instantly the pain subsided, leaving only the pleasure.
"Ohhhh, okay, okay, I think I'm okay. Okay," Alex said, not quite ready to let the pleasure take her again, feeling very tender indeed.
"Oh, oh… shit. Oh. Okay…"
"Jane almost stole that point from you," Ani said. "I just felt like I should help you along."
The game continued with each of them answering questions and taking turns going for the challenge and attempting to prevent the others from completing their tasks. Alex watched as Ani tried again to steal a point, this time from Jane, seducing her into staying, wading through the pain, enjoying the pleasure, being a good drone for Ani.
It was incredible to watch, and Alex could feel herself sinking too. God she loved when Ani turned on that domineering persona. Thoughts of Ani taking control of both Jane and Alex flooded her mind, and Alex found herself biting her lip and rocking her hips forward as she watched.
Jane couldn't help herself and sank deep into the pleasure of submission and control. Alex watched on her phone as the pain climbed… 80, 85, 90.
Jane moaned and writhed, and Ani just doubled down, juicing the stim and dominating her. "That's right. You're powerless now. Even if you wanted to move, you're just my little Drone, and I've told you to stay… still. You're stuck because you love it. You love suffering for me. You love following my commands." Ani drawled out the words, sensually extending the time as Jane's breathing came in ragged shudders through her nose.
"You'd stay just like this forever if I told you to, wouldn't you?" Ani said, their voice both cruel and seductive. "Such a mindless little rubber thing."
The pain climbed and climbed, yet Jane followed the command, stuck in place as if glued there, until at 100 the pain shut off, leaving only the pleasure, and Jane kneeling with Ani straddling over her thighs.
Jane came screaming, crying out as waves of orgasm wracked her body.
"And that's how it's done, folks," Ani said playfully, pushing Jane over and climbing off her. Jane slumped to the floor, still being wracked with shuddering convulsions, moaning.
Alex wondered if she'd ever been quite as aroused as she was right then. Considering the activities of the past few days, that was quite a high bar to set. She loved seeing Jane used that way, toyed with and abused. She loved the way Ani treated her. She definitely wanted to treat and be treated like that with Jane. Instinctually, she crawled over to her, ran her hand along her rubber shoulder, and let Jane curl up, her head resting on her chest as she shuddered and recovered.
"You're such a good drone…" Alex said, feeling Jane's reaction as she melted into her, cuddled closer, shook and vibrated more. "That's right. I'm still human."
Jane just nodded, thrilling at her touch.
"Well, I think that officially makes Ani the winner!" Jay said.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Ani exclaimed, arms held high in a V, dancing around like a sports star at the end of a game. Jay and Alex laughed at their antics.
"Well, Alex, do you mind helping Jane back to her room? I think that might conclude the day's activities. Thank you for playing."
"This was amazing. Thank you all for everything today."
"I think you catch my meaning here, but it truly was our pleasure in many ways." Jay's eyes sparkled with mirth. "We're excited to have you here. We hope you stay quite a while."
"I'd like that."
Alex sensed that Jane was rousing now, and she helped her up.
As they both stood, Jane gave her a look as if to say, 'Well, that was something.'
As she composed herself, they said goodnight to Ani and Jay, then headed back to Jane's room.