A Death March To The Fall Of Equestria

The next morning, Satou slowly rose from his slumber looking around him to find that nobody else had entered his room. Slowly climbing out of his bed, then stretching his arms upwards, his joints popping into place as he did.

He slowly walked over to his clothes drawer, grabbing some clothes out before putting them on. After getting all his clothes on, he walked out of his room towards the kitchen.

Satou stepped out of his room and looked around him. He found Sonya coming out as well, wearing a set of pyjamas.

"Oh, hi Satou. Forgot where I was for a minute… First time I've been to another world." Sonya greeted.

“I assume you exclude the world you were in before becoming a cat from that one.” Satou responded before adding. “I was heading down for breakfast. I assume you're going to get changed first. Also while in the mansion, unless we have guests; you can wear your clothes like normal if you want, just have the collar on just in case we get a guest.”

Sonya nodded obediently. "Sure thing." She picked up the Manipulator from her tails, and using an equip menu, switched out the pyjamas for her Protector's Uniform. Now with a belt, she hung the manipulator on it and followed him down to breakfast.

When they arrived, they saw Eliza and Marble cooking wearing aprons. Marble seems to be talking to Eliza who was mixing something in a bowl along with the mare.

“Good morning you two.” Satou said as he walked towards them. Both girls turn to them with their hands occupied with bowls of dough and large spoons stirring.

“Morning.” They both said though Marble has stuttered her word in nervousness. They both resume cooking.

Sonya smiled. "What is that I smell?" Sonya asked. She thought it was familiar, but had to ask just to make sure.

“Bread and Pancake.” Marble answered as she moved her bowl to gently pour down on a pan, Eliza put the bowl down on the counter as she went to wash her hands. Satou and Sonya noticed that she wasn’t wearing her mech gear except her black body suit.

“It’s rare that you're not armed to the teeth Eliza. What's the occasion?” Satou asked.

Eliza paused for a second then resumed her hand wash. “Update.”

“Okay... care to elaborate on that one?” Satou asked as he looked to Eliza in confusion.

Eliza tapped at her chin in thought. “Well, you know how computers or games get new things after updating?”

"Yes, but the update has to come from someone. They don't just happen. If I wanted to get an update for my matter manipulator, I'd have to develop it myself." Sonya interrupted. Then a lightbulb goes off in her head. "Which begs the question… where'd yours come from?"

“I would assume the person who made her.” Satou stated. “By the way, did this update have a name? From this, I’d say the Housewife Update 1.0.”

Eliza turned around and gave Satou a raised eyebrow. “Yes, it’s my creator. And no, the name is called Body Evolve Update 1.0. It adds new things that I couldn’t do before such as emotion processors, my skills on specific things, and my combat function such as my level limiter. I also get new abilities and moves that I couldn’t do before, for example, my VR Avatar which is who you were talking to during your training yesterday.” She explained.

“Okay, so you can now make clones of yourself, and you can act more human, along with acting like a housewife.” Satou responded.

“Not a housewife. I’m not even a wife.” Eliza huffed as she went to sit down at an empty seat. Sonya couldn't help but giggle.

"Well, I see annoyance is definitely one you aren't lacking in." Sonya noted, amused.

“Indeed.” Eliza agreed. “So, how's your first day staying here?” She asked Sonya. Wanting to get out of the subject before Satou says something that he’ll regret.

"Interesting, so far. I was pleasantly surprised by a number of things." Sonya answered. "Although… I really hate to ask, but there are a few things back in my world I may need a little help dealing with. I've got some artefacts to hunt down that are actually fragments of a god of creation, and I might call you two up when it comes time to actually retrieve one. If you're okay with that."

“I don’t know. And I can’t speak for Satou.” Eliza sweeps her hand in front of her and a menu screen appears but for some reason, Sonya can’t see it. Probably because it only displayed in front and not in the back.

“If we had a way to do that, and if we didn’t have anything on, I don’t see why not.” Satou responded with a shrug of his shoulders.

"That Matter Manipulator should allow you to teleport onto my ship at any time. It's as easy as pushing a button." Sonya said, pointing at the same one on hers. "Anyway, I'm thinking of heading out and looking for some resources. There might be some on this Equestria that I never found on the ruined chunks of mine."

“What do you expect to find?” Eliza asked while doing something on her menu.

"Hopefully, something that'll help out my friend, Crossed Wires. She's a magitech engineer." Sonya said.

“I see...” Eliza muttered, thoughts wandered.

“Well, if you ever need us, you can drop a message when that time comes.” Satou explained and then brought up a different topic: Today’s plan. “So... I need to see Dainn about a few things today, right?”

“Yes, after you're done eating; you should head out.” Eliza said while not looking up.

“Yeah, I know.” Satou responded calmly. “I’ll catch up with him later after I’ve had something to eat.”

Sonya sighed as she remembered what Eliza said about what she's cooking.

"Sadly, I'm a carnivore. To a degree. I'll stick with the meals I've stored in my Manipulator." She said, grabbing her tool and using it to place honeyed ham on the table. It came with a plate, at least. She started to cut a few slices off first, and as soon as she had a good breakfast cut out, she put the rest of it back in.

Marble brought the breakfast to the table and placed them in the centre. Each one has three stacks of pancakes and one bread. Bowed her head a sec before standing aside and waiting nervously.

Satou shook his head before saying. “You know, you should have set a bit aside for yourself as well.”

Marble, realizing she was being talked to; just waves her hands quickly. “N-no no, I don’t need to eat at the moment. J-just glad that others are eating my food.” She poked her fingers together shyly.

Sonya giggled. "You are adorable." She said between bites.

“Marble… what have you eaten recently?” Satou asked.

“Whatever I get my hands on…” Marble answered.

Satou could only sigh. “Eliza, could you grab us a second plate.” Before he halved the food that was on his plate.

Marble was going to say something but Eliza raised her hand to stop her. “She’s not like what you expect Satou.”

“I wish I could say that… but I don’t know anything about her, and I want to be sure everyone who helps here is cared for.”

Eliza sigh. “She snuck along with the other maids. Turns out; she was trying to survive ever since her store was taken over by a caribou. So her plan was to disguise herself as a maid and hid among the others who came here.” Marble nods her head with her cheeks flush. “Would have worked “if” the ones bringing the maids and butlers here didn’t find her, which they did. They tried to take her back since she's not on the list and tried their luck on her, but I intervened and claimed her as my own. They tried doing the same to me but I put them in their place and they went running.”

“After that, she asked me to be her assistant and, well; here I am.” Marble finished Eliza’s story.

“Eliza… You could have just told me from the start.” Satou responded. ''What did you think I would do?”

Eliza shrug. “What would you do? I wasn’t thinking, just act by kicking those guys cahoot's.”

“Mostly the same… I was more referring to the fact that you seem to have been thinking that I would have kicked her to the curb, you know I’m not like that.”

“I didn’t. I wasn't even thinking of you at all Satou. Not everything is about you.” Eliza huffed, getting annoyed by his paranoia.

“I know that. I’m not that vain.” Satou responded with a smirk as he began eating the food they had prepared.

Sonya soon finished up, putting her dish away in her manipulator. "I'm gonna head out and explore some caves. Satou, if you don't mind, could you get me a copy of the list of laws in effect here? I need to know what I need to abide by since I'll be on my own occasionally."

“I’ll try my best to get you something.” Satou responded.

"Thanks." Sonya said, before walking to the front door.

Satou then looked to Eliza before whispering. “Maybe someone should keep an eye on her… just to be safe.” Eliza nodded, a second later; another Eliza appeared out of static who followed Sonya from behind.

“That's gonna take some time to get used to.” Satou responded with a shake of his head before he ignored what he had seen. Instead; he continued to eat with the real Eliza; who continued to eat hers.

After a few minutes, Satou finished and stood up as he said. “Marble.”

Mare stood straight up by her mentioned name. “Uh um, yes, i-is there something you need?”

“The food was perfect. Thank you.”

Marble Stone smiled. “The pleasure is mine.” She bowed slightly then straightened up.

“And, you can stop bowing… I’m not like the others, you don’t need to act like a slave around me… I’d prefer it if you didn’t, to be honest.”

“But, that’s what I usually do, doesn’t your kind do that?” Marble is confused.

Eliza gave an “oh” in realization. “She's doing it as an actual maid Satou. She's not affected by the collar and crystal cock.” That got an “oh~” from Marble, understanding why he said that.

“Wait… You’ve also got immunity to those crystals?” Satou asked as the mare nodded at this. “That amazing, I wasn’t aware that anyone else had immunity to it. You really are one special woman.”

Marble blush at the compliment. “Thank you.”

“It’s not a problem.” Satou responded as he stood up before saying. “Eliza. We need to take as good care of her as we can.”

““I” Satou, not “we”. She's my responsibility, not yours.” Eliza said then added. “But... I won’t mind every now and then.”

“Okay then, I suppose I better meet with the king, I’ll see you both later.” Satou responded.

“Bye.” Eliza and Marble said in unison, Eliza grabbed her empty plate then headed to wash it as Marble followed her as Satou headed for the palace.

Sonya approached the gate she had come in through yesterday. She had long since noticed Eliza following her but made no changes to her plan.

She stopped at the gate, greeting the guards. They notice her.

“Hey… aren’t you that new Abyssinian slave Mr Pendragon brought in with him yesterday?” One of the Caribou asked. She nodded.

"Yes, but I'm actually a Kineptic. Not a race native to Equis." She responded.

“So he got himself a real exotic slave this time, he’s lucky I’ll tell ya that.” A second Caribou responded, not knowing what a “Kineptic” is.

“Anyway,” The first Caribou began to say. “why are you going out without your master?”

"I'm just out looking for materials. I want to build my master something as thanks for his hospitality." She answered. Although it was a half-truth, at least it wouldn't pop out on a lie detector.

“Really now, and does he know that you're out alone?”

"He does. And he's got someone tailing me to keep me out of trouble." She answered. She didn't want them getting any funny ideas, but she wouldn't exactly say no to certain "tolls" to pay for being out alone.

“Really, if he has someone tailing you I suppose we can look the other way… for a price.” The first Caribou responded with a smile.

Sonya rolled her eyes with a grin. "How did I know you were going to say that? Alright then. Name your price. I have a feeling I'm going to like it."

“Simple. I want you to get us in favour of your master.” The caribou said. Sonya frowned… but took it in stride.

"Ah. I was expecting something else, but I won't say no to that. How do you expect me to do this though? I don't know much about him or you." She asked.

“I’m sure you’ll think something up.” The Caribou responded. “After all, get in the good graces of those above you and from that, you can get great things in this world.”

Sonya nodded. "Then let me offer you some advice. A good way to get on his good side is to treat women with some level of respect. If I'm right, he may be from the same society I'm from, in which women have the same rights as men. It'll be a step in the right direction. Beyond that, I'd say you've already done well by asking for that instead of sex like I expected."

“Well some of us already learned not to risk angering that champion, he’s no pushover like those before him.” The Caribou responded. “Besides, he’s like a demon when threatened.”

"Understandable. Most people like him can get that way. May I pass now?" Sonya asked.

“Sure go ahead, just don’t cause any trouble.” The Caribou responded before allowing Sonya to pass. Sonya smiled as she passed, getting her Manipulator out and set to Scan Mode.

“So,” Eliza started, as she walked beside Sonya. She wants to know more about this feline. “how's the adjustment to your new appearance?”

Sonya paused. Looking at Eliza, she had to ask. "What do you mean?" She wasn't sure what Eliza was referring to.

“You were human, right?”

"Yes. About 9 months ago. It's been a while, so I'm already used to the psychic powers, tails, and magitech." Sonya wiggled the fingers in her gloves at that last one. "And the part where I don't actually have fingers anymore."

“Were you a different gender before?”

"Yeah. But I'm not bothered by it. I hated being a guy anyway." Sonya responded.

“Why?” Eliza asked.

"Hormones, and a complete lack of self-worth because I hated what I was." Sonya answered bluntly after silently considering her answer.

“Self-worth?” Eliza gave her a confused look.

"I never amounted to much in my old life. All I ever thought I was good for was as a servant to my parents. It took being an important factor in my Equestria's survival to get over that." Sonya said.

“So, what’s the benefit for you now that you're a female?”

"Well, my hormones don't hold my sex drive hostage as much, and I generally feel a hell of a lot calmer and more focused than I used to be." She said. "Plus, I don't constantly feel some annoying things dangling between my legs."

Eliza didn’t comment on that.

"Anything else you wanna ask?" Sonya asked. She made a turn into a cave that looked like it ran rather deep.

“Nothing I can think of... You?” Eliza asked as she summoned her gears back on.

"...Have you ever wanted to go to space?" She asked.

“Hmm… I never had before.” Eliza's voice became unsure. “I wasn’t created; right…”

"Eh. The glitch never really wanted to go to space either. They just did." Sonya said with a shrug. "And considering their medieval lifestyle, I doubt they even consider going to space after they settle."

“Are you calling me a glitch?” Eliza asked accusingly.

She chuckled. "No. The Glitch are a bunch of self-aware robots that originally were created to simulate evolution. A glitch in their software got them stuck in the medieval phase, and ever since, they've just been living life like they're human. Though they are sentient."

Eliza wanted to understand what she meant or if they were even talking about the same thing but left it at that. She sighed. “I told Satou that I was a mistake, I was accidentally created by my creator. Even ‘he’ doesn’t know I exist.” She looked up as though she’s trying to look up at the sky. “Going to space… I don’t know. I wasn’t given some personality structure for me to go by. So I never thought about it…”

"I see. Sorry to bring it up then." Sonya stopped as she discovered a crystal outcropping. Turning her manipulator to it, she scanned it. The electronic voice of Sonya's tool chirped.

"Enriched Empathic Crystal. This rare crystal is of the same crystal family as that which makes up the Crystal Empire. Its unique makeup allows those who know what they're doing to create self-aware golems or androids, or to create emotion-based artefacts."

Without a word about it, Sonya used her tool. The tip of it glowed, digitizing the crystal, chunk by chunk. Once it was gone, Sonya changed it back to Scan Mode. She didn't have much else to say, so continued her excavation in silence.

(Right after Satou finishes eating.)

Satou stepped outside and headed towards the palace, walking past the gate of the mansion and into the town proper. Sounds of Caribou’s talking or groaning as they did. There really isn’t anything new except a few stallions scratching their heads as they looked at a nearby newspaper stand.

Satou decides to walk over to it. A stallion standing nearby handed Satou a newspaper, pointing to the article on the front page which said: ‘New blue-collar coming into effect soon. What you need to know!’

Satou smiled to himself before looking at another article below that read: ‘A new collar will be coming into effect during the following weeks. This collar will be blue in colour and classes the mare wearing it as a working servant, these mares are not to be touched or used in public, and are treated with similar rights to their masters while out. For a mare to qualify for this collar they need to either own a business, hold an important job for their master or serve in military purposes.’

Nodding to the stallion as Satou passed the newspaper back to him before making his way towards the palace.

Just as he reached the front entrance to the palace is when he stopped. His eyes looking forward, calmly taking a breath before walking inside the palace. Once he got inside he looked around to find and hear the same sounds from his previous visit. He shook his head as he thought. ‘It’s a step in the right direction at least.’

Satou slowly walked through the palace towards the throne room. When he got there, he found a long queue heading towards the throne room.

‘I could be an asshole and walk past everyone,’ Satou thought before walking to the back of the line. ‘or I could be polite like everyone else and wait my turn.’

This got a lot of ponies in line in turn and saw Satou standing behind them. He got a look of confusion from the crowd as he waited. Nobody around him said a word and went back to doing their own thing, waiting for the queue to go next.

After an hour, Satou was standing at the front of the line just being second before the stallion. A stallion standing in front of him decided to speak up. “You do know that you could have just walked past us all and jumped the queue right?”

“And missing the conversations, why would I do that?” Satou asked sarcastically.

“Okay… maybe we all reacted a little badly to you waiting in line.” The stallion responded.

“A little?”

“Okay, very badly.” The stallion rubbed the back of his head.

“You could have reacted worse. If you had stepped back, I can bet; the second I took one step, everyone would have moved as well.” Satou stated.

“Maybe they would have.” The stallion responded before turning around to face Satou. Satou realized that the pony was not a crystal pony like all the others he had seen. His coat didn’t shine at all.

The stallion seemed to just be a normal pegasus who had a dark blue coat with a jet black mane and tail along with bright green eyes . The stallion says. “My name's Dark Haze. I’ve heard a lot about you.”

“I assume most bad.” Satou responded.

“Who knows. Some may be bad, others may be good.”

“Do you always speak so cryptically?”

“Only when I need to.” Dark Haze responded calmly as he suddenly walked out of the line. “I have all I need. We’ll meet each other again soon.” With that he walks off.

“What was that about?” Satou asked himself when the door to the throne room opened and a stallion walked out, dragging a sobbing mare by a leash. “I’ll need to keep an eye on him.” After a couple of seconds, Satou calmly walked into the throne room.

As the door closed behind him, his eyes looked to the front of the room. Diann sitting on his throne looking bored with Sombra sitting by his feet wrapped around them, her eyes looking towards Satou.

After a couple of seconds Dainn looked up with a groan before muttering. “Please; no more “Am I still allowed to rape a mare in private” talks… The answer is yes, now please leave.”

“Charming Dainn.” Satou responded with an annoyed sign and a shake of his head.

Dainn paused, looking up to see Satou in front of him. A look of relief clear on his face before saying. “Thank Faust, it’s you!” Looking to the guards that scattered around the room. “You can all leave us for now. You may need to turn a few of those outside away. We may be a while.”

“Of course our king!” All the guards shouted in unison before walking out of the room.

After a couple of seconds, Dainn stood up before speaking to Sombra. “Sombra. You can get off me now, and… stop the act you live under.”

Sombra looked up to Dainn in shock as she ask; “Are you sure?” before slowly standing up.

“We know how he is. And maybe I should get used to acting like a good king in case those princesses overcome around.” Dainn responded. “That is why you were worried about the city and sorting that new collar right?”

“Above other reasons.” Satou responded, even though it wasn’t the reason he had currently been thinking about.

“I’m sure of that.” Dainn responded with a chuckle as he walked towards Satou. “Now, I think if we’re going to use the new collar, we need to find a slave for us to try it with. I was going to say we use one of yours… but being you didn’t bring one with you, I think we can use something different.”

“That is?”

“We go to the cells and pick someone out, and then you can keep them after.” Dainn responded as Sombra walked up to him with a leash in her mouth. “Sombra, you could have walked up to me and handed it over on this occasion.”

“Sorry master, force of habit.” Sombra responded as she connected the leash to herself before dropping onto all fours before sitting down like a dog as she stared up at both Dainn and Satou with the leash in her mouth again.

“You're not quite grasping this, are you Sombra?” Dainn asked, looking at her. “You could stand normally on two legs and hold the collar in your own hands until we leave the room.”

“But this feels right, master.” Sombra responded looking down sadly.

“We’ll work on it.” Dainn said, patting her on the head, getting a smile from the mare.

“A bit off topic Dainn… but you seem to act differently to the other Caribou I’ve seen. You seem to almost dislike how things are?” Satou asked.

“That's because I do dislike it...” Dainn responded with a sigh. “Before I became king, I travelled around the world and saw how other races were. I know that not all females are completely inept and that some are capable.”

“And you haven’t tried to make the changes before now, why?”

“Well… my father firmly believed that females of all races were like our own and made the laws… I can’t change those laws no matter how much I desire it, I can only work with the loopholes. You found one we can exploit so far.” Dainn responded.

Satou didn’t continue on the train of thought and decided to change the subject. “Okay back to why I am here. I take it you have a collar ready and someone in mind to use it on?” Satou asked.

“Of that I do. I’ve picked out a few of the captives that we have kept in the dungeons that should suit your needs.” Dainn responded as he held Sombra’s leash in his hands before the two of them made their way towards said captives.

As the group arrived in the palace's prison he looked at everyone in the cells as he found everything from ponies to dragons, but almost all of them look overly willing, many pushing their private parts up against the bars or kneeling at the level of Satou & Dainn’s crotches with their mouths wide close to the bars.

The group decided to ignore all of them as they pressed on through the maze of cells, some being tiny and cramped stacked on top of each other with others being large holding three of four slaves inside of it.

This continued for a couple of minutes before the group stopped as Dainn turned to a small rectangular room that had a glass window down the centre of it cutting the room into two halves.

After a couple of moments Satou turned to look across to the other side of the glass before he saw what looked to be a white screen with black markers indicating heights along the edge of it, a few seconds later 10 figures were marched into the room with chains around their necks attached to their collars and lined up in front of the screen.

Out of the 10 figures that had been lined up, three of them were ponies, two were dragons, one was a Zebra and a single Abyssinian and the other was a Caribou, however, the last one got Satou curious as he saw what looked to be a human-shaped figure.

The figure looked to be a young girl who couldn’t be much older than five years old and had seemingly been stripped of her clothing. She had long blond hair and what looked to be a pair of white wings on her back, her eyes were tightly shut with her arms covering her body the best that she could as she blushed.

Satou looks towards Dainn and he asks. “The little girl who looks to have wings. Who is she?”

“We know very little about her. She was a member of the resistance but during a battle, she was captured while they were retreating. We had her bound and kept in the cells hoping she’d sing and tell us everything. She barely knew anything of use so we kept her out of the public eye in case any resistance members came back for her.” Dainn explained.

“I take it, none did.” Satou responded.

“They didn’t appear to. The resistance doesn’t seem to care for each other's safety.” Dainn responded.

“Anything else about her I should know?”

“Well, there's one thing. She can turn into a bird.”

“A bird?”

“Yes. One that can pull as much as four earth pony mares by herself.” Dainn stated.

“And that means?”

“She’s very strong.” Dainn clarified.

Satou paused for a moment before looking at the girl. “Dainn, prepare the girl. I’m picking her.”

“You sure, I’m sure any of the reds would be better?”

“Dainn… You need to learn to see the value in a person beyond the collar. If you want to become a great ruler, you need to understand the worth of those that stand beside you.” Satou responded.

Dainn didn’t respond for a second before he chuckled. “And you see worth in the bird. Okay then, I’ll get her brought out. She has a weird rune on her chest as well, we’ve worked out it’s a more primitive version of the runes we use on the collars.”

“So I assume you can dispel it.” Satou responded.

“We could, but whoever had it before would know something happened. We’d rather the resistance member who owned her didn’t learn that she’s no longer his.” Dainn explained. “We’ve almost finished a few counterspells for it that will ensure she can be reclaimed without her former owner knowing.”

“Could I see those spells when you have them?” Satou asked curiously.

“We already have both, we just need to make them work together,” Dainn said before passing Satou two parchments. “If you want to try something, I'll get her prepared for you and bring her here, with the new blue-collar.”

“That would be a great help Dainn,” Satou responded, “and if we are lucky; I might finish off the application of this spell for you while you're gone.”

“If you manage that, I’ll make sure to repay you more than the bird.” Dainn responded with a smile before adding. “Sombra, stay here. He’ll need a test subject for the spell if he gets it working.”

Sombra just gulped nervously before nodding her head. “Yes master.” She calmly said. With that; Dainn left the room while everyone on the other side of the glass began to be filtered out of the room.

As soon as the door closed Satou opened both parchments onto a nearby table scanning the information on them as another screen appeared in front of him, both spells appearing next to each other each looking like cogs in a machine. “I swear if this is like a minigame or QTE I’m not gonna be happy.”

After a couple of seconds, the cogs on the screen began to turn seemingly to glow when they lined up, as Satou thought to himself. “It is like a minigame… This may take a few minutes, I really wish I’d started with two basic spells.”

After a few minutes, half the cogs were glowing together but others were still dark before Satou looked to his side as a message saying (Skill - Spellcraft Used) appeared in front of him. “I wonder if I upgrade the skill, would it make this easier?” He paused, looking at the amount of available Skill points he had and stopped as he saw the amount he had remaining in total was only nine. Then stopped looking at the minigame in front of him before he put the skill up to five, before only a second later everything in front of him almost looked to simplify slightly.

He continued looking at the spells for a minute before he realised that the spells on the parchments were incompatible and would never work for a complete spell as they were.

Satou paused to consider his options. That’s when Enkvaros spoke up.‘Could the demonising spell I use work? I mean we remove the demon part and keep undying loyalty to the user, but we make the spell miss a lot of information so the scroll will be incomplete with only us knowing the full spell.’

“You think it could work?” Satou asked as they put the spell up in front of them separating it into two spells, one part forcing unwavering loyalty and the other embedding a demon inside whoever the spell was cast on.

Once this was done they placed the “Loyalty” section of the spell next to the information from the second parchment as both spells slowly lined up, the spell seems to be near perfect, with only a single minor flaw in it. That flaw being the target would imprint on the caster and after an hour be eternally loyal to them.

After a couple of seconds, Satou stopped creating the spell as a third parchment formed in his hand which he read over to find the information being written in a text that was unlike anything he’d seen before.

‘It’s written in my language, nobody will ever decode that, being there's no matching version to use to decipher it to their language, it won’t be usable by anyone else.’ Enkvaros responded calmly.

“And what does it say?” Satou asked, realising he couldn’t read the writing on the scroll himself.

‘Spell name (Realignment Contract). This spell forces unwavering eternal loyalty on the target towards the user, after an hour this spell is irreversible and the target's previous owner will see no difference in the target. This spell has an extremely high mana cost, and will drain a user's full mana bar completely, along with preventing mana regeneration from all sources for a week and a temporary cost of half the user's health and stamina, for 24 hours.’ Enkvaros explained.

“So I use this, then I’m viciously crippled for the next 24 hours with no skills or magic for a week. That's pretty risky. If something happened, we couldn’t really fight back effectively.”

A second later he looked towards Sombra who was shaking before holding his hand towards her. “Are you ready for the first test?”

“Wait… you're already done?”

“I think so, now to see if it works.” Satou responded before Sombra nodded her head as she faced Satou standing calmly as she waited for Satou to try the spell, however before he cast it he stopped and said, “With the cost of this one, I can’t try it more than once… and I’ll need to use it on the girl. I suppose fine-tuning it may be better than a risky test.”

“That may be a good idea,” Sombra responded, taking a breath as she did, as Satou continued adjusting the spell.

(Meanwhile...)

Sonya grunted as she wormed her way through a tight crawl space. She was getting pretty frustrated with these tiny tunnels, and she was beginning to lament how thick her hips were. "Damnit, I thought cats were supposed to be liquid." She cried out, in reference to a number of internet memes. Eventually, after the tenth tight space so far, Sonya began to reach for her Manipulator… but she couldn't. "Ugh. Damnit, and I can't reach the one thing that'd make this whole thing easier. Guess it's what I get for trying not to rely on it too much."

“We should have taken the other path.” Eliza said in annoyance with a huff before trying to push Sonya through with her hands on the feline's buttcheeks. “But you want to go this way. So stop complaining!” She shoved, eliciting a semi flustered grunt from Sonya. “But I have to say, you have wide hips. What do you do; doing buttcheek exercise?”

"No… I just refuse to give up my Pop-tarts." Sonya replied with a cute pout. With that shove though, it helped her reach the next wide cavern. She gasped for breath in relief when she made it out. "Oh wow… at least it's pretty here. Look at all these crystals."

Eliza crawled out of the gap and stood beside the feline displaced. Eliza looked up in awe at the ones on the ceiling. “They sure are.”

Sonya began to walk forth while watching the star-like crystals overhead. It was like the night sky had been moved underground. However, looking up as she walked left her blind to the ground. Eliza reached out and grabbed her and pulled her back, causing her to quickly lose and catch her footing. "Whoa!"

“Look where you're walking.” Eliza said pointing at a hole Sonya almost fell in. Sonya's ears folded back in shame.

"Jeezes. Did ya have to pull so hard though? Coulda just grabbed a tail." She advised. And then she realized where her head was. "Oh. Uh…" She pulled her head off Eliza's breasts. She was so flustered that she ended up stepping on a creature's sinkhole trap. A small puff of sand was all the warning she had before it collapsed, taking her into the ground. "Shi-!"

***Minutes later***

Sonya groaned after she landed. "Ugh… I'm so lucky I got a fall compensation augmentation. Otherwise, the fall damage would have killed me…" She mutters to herself. She quickly began to look around and observe her surroundings to gauge how safe it was. It was dark, so she instinctively reached for her Manipulator. But it was gone. "...I really need a better loop." She sighed, very upset that she had lost her tool again.

It was then a low buzzing noise was heard around Sonya. She suddenly stood on full alert, looking around on guard before something suddenly grabbed hold of her legs pulling them tightly together.

"Shit!" She drew her claws and attempted to swipe at the unseen binding only to keep hitting nothing but air as she kept trying to feel around for what was binding her legs. After a couple of moments something that felt slimy to the touch wrapped around both her arms pulling them tightly to Sonya’s sides as she was forced to the floor facing the ceiling. She meowed in surprise and immediately started wriggling. She kept trying to struggle free, but without sight, she didn't know how to handle this.

After a couple of seconds, something suddenly wrapped around her neck forcing her to try and breath in heavy breath forcing her to open her mouth before something dropped from the ceiling falling onto her face, as she felt something long and hard forced into her mouth creating a seal around her face. Sonya gave a muffled shout in surprise. However, she was beginning to see how helpless she was. She prayed Eliza would appear before she suffocated. Right now, she focused on breathing and saving her energy since she couldn't break free with raw strength. One might ask why she isn't using her psychic abilities. Well, you can't exactly use them well unless you know what you're doing. And Sonya doesn't know anything down here and can't see anything either. Knowing using it wrong could render her brain dead, she feared using it at all in this instance.

Nothing seemed to happen for a second before a sweet-tasting liquid filled her mouth, causing her to hesitantly investigate what's in her mouth with careful interest. Using her tongue, she licked over the intrusion, trying to get a feel for its shape. 'Is this…? Oh. Oh, that's kinky.'Sonya thought as she began to realize this situation. 'And a little cliche for a porn story. I guess.' She had a dick in her mouth, tied up in a dark room. With no way to escape. Yep, that about sums it up.

The sweet-tasting liquid that was streaming from the intrusion continued flow pooling in her mouth causing an almost burning sensation to assault her taste buds as it covered her tongue. Having no choice but to swallow it, she let it slide down her throat into her stomach. The following feeling of burning lust told her she hadn't just swallowed cum. She clenched her legs together in reaction, and blush coloured her face as the aphrodisiac made her heart pump a little harder.

After a few minutes of waiting the liquid continuously filled her mouth as her lust continued to grow as a pool of liquid formed around her. After a couple of moments, her legs were suddenly released before being pulled wide exposing her soaked pussy to the world, the cold air going through the cave rushing against her exposed body. Sonya shrieked into her gag, instinctively trying to close her legs to ward off the cold air more than anything. She hated the coldness and struggled to ward it off.

It was then that Sonya felt something warm probing the lower half of her body seemingly creating a wall from the draft coming through the cave. Sonya was a little hesitant at first. But after a moment of the aphrodisiac affecting her, she let it in without a fight, having a feeling it would satisfy her desire for warmth and sexual satisfaction. Knowing the source of it was so close, she tried to peer through the darkness to see her molester only to see what looked to be white plating covering her vision that seemed to be moving closer to her. She was confused and didn't quite know what to make of this thing. And thus, she didn't really react in time.

It only took her a matter of seconds to realise her mistake as Sonya felt something forcing its way inside her moving forwards and backwards in a rhythmic motion as she seemed to sway with it before she noticed she was no longer against the ground and her face was directly up against her captured plating. Sonya was wishing she could see in the dark right about now. But now, she had little choice but to sit there and moan as she took it. Though thanks to the aphrodisiac, she was quite thoroughly enjoying the fucking she was receiving.

It was then that the creatures stopped moving as Sonya felt the appendage inside her begin to shift almost like it was opening up before a large object began to shift inside her pushing tightly against her as if it were being forced into her. Her face lit up, much like the ones from the "that's my fetish" meme. This was something Sonya would have loved, even without the aphrodisiac, thus the now fevered pitch of her moaning.

This continued as Sonya felt the process repeat 12 times in total as her belly body swelled as she began to look as if she was pregnant, her stomach almost rubbing against the floor as her ‘mate’ began to walk again, dragging her through the caves as it did.

Sonya's tongue would have been hanging from her mouth if it could. Sonya had thoroughly enjoyed that brief mating session. Her awareness currently reduced to the ovipositor lodged in her pussy, she hardly noticed or cared where she was being taken. She just kept squeezing over it in the hope she would receive more.

Sonya continued being dragged around the caves during which time she had been filled with at least five more eggs before she was suddenly dropped against a nearby wall her face facing it as her hands were forced into it, preventing her from looking around, she could, however, hear the familiar sounds of moaning all around her. She started to become a little lucid as she listened, letting her ears pivot every which way to hear.

'There's more girls here? All being used for breeding? Damn… I'm probably in no position to help. Maybe Eliza can track me using my manipulator though…' Sonya thought to herself. She shuffled in place for a second to get more comfortable. Feeling the eggs move inside her, she moaned again since this was very much her fetish.

After a couple of moments, she felt something force her legs wide again as another pressure was placed over her back, being followed by a similar feeling to before as something began thrusting into her again. She gasps and tries to look down, but with her head locked as it was, she couldn't see anything. But the feeling of this thing fucking her drove her up the wall, and she began trying to thrust back, with amateur skill.

This continued for a couple of minutes with the creatures behind her moving without sound just constantly thrusting into her, without a care for Sonya who just sat there moaning in enjoyment, fully expecting more eggs. Instead, she received a small torrent to something warm and liquid pouring into her womb. Sonya's back arched as much as it could while she screamed in climax. As she came, she began to feel a small pulse from each of the eggs inside her. It was now she understood what had happened. This one had fertilized eggs… and now she was really pregnant. This filled her with joy.

After a couple of seconds, the weight was removed from Sonya’s back before the creature moved away leaving Sonya to her thoughts.

'This is the best accident I could have hoped for~'

***Meanwhile***

Eliza stood over the collapsed hole Sonya fell in. She took a deep breath before reeling her right fist before putting enough force and smashes through the collapsed spot. It gave a rumbling sound before breaking since she stood over it she fell along with the broken debris down the hole.

Moments later she landed with her feet hit the ground. A mech helmet that's shaped like a diamond with the top curve back, a rectangular visor glass where her eyes are lit up dimly. She turned her head in each direction as the rest of her mech gear materialized on her.

Around her looked to only be a single continuous tunnel going in a single direction, the walls looking to be covered in a thick slimy substance that looked to be slowly creeping down the walls. Sonya's matter manipulator lay in a pile of goop by one of the walls. The slime seemed to suppress its glow.

Eliza, despite the slimy stuff; went over and pulled out the device out of the sticky substance. She checks to make sure it’s still in good condition, which appears to be slightly malfunctioning due to residue in certain parts. However, upon picking it up, a blue figure, likely an AI, appeared on a hologram screen.

"Phew… that stuff was nasty. Thanks… but we should probably find Sonya. Much as she enjoys what's happening to her, she has things to do in her own world, and I'm sure Satou will miss her. I can point the way for ya." The Avian AI spoke. This AI was very… animated.

Eliza nods before storing the device in her helmet, the AI now appears in her visor sight. “Sorry if your temporary stay in one of the data spaces isn’t comfy.” Eliza apologized as she walked through the single path available to her.

"It should be fine. I'll highlight the fluid trail on your visor. It'll distinguish her DNA from the rest. By the way, you can call me AVIAN." A trail highlights in front of them, leading from a large puddle.

“I see… AVIAN, how is your condition?”

"I could be better. Once Sonya has me back and performs a maintenance check, I'll be back in top condition." AVIAN answered.

“I can do that too, but I’m in the middle of installing at the moment.” Eliza thought for a moment before continuing. “Anyways, can you send in any data files that I can do an anti-virus check? Since you are in my gear it wouldn’t hurt to make sure.”

"Afraid not. Most of my functions are locked, without Sonya. All I have available to you are the tools necessary to find and rescue her." AVIAN replied.

“Sorry to be blunt but your device sucks.” Eliza said. “If that's all you can do in lockdown then I rather not want to rely on it. Especially if it's a life or death situation.”

"My device is a tool. Not a weapon. If one needs to rely on it in life and death, then clearly they need to rethink how it's used."

“I was talking about both, being a tool and a weapon.” Eliza states with a deadpan at the AI.

"My crafting interface can be used to make weapons. But the manipulator itself was never designed to be a weapon. In any case, watch the roof. I'm detecting hostiles ahead." AVIAN warned.

Eliza soon reached a path that seemed to split into two paths. Eliza observed and listened for something, anything that might give her a clue to which path she should take. The cum trail at least leads to the left, towards an open cavern. Moaning could be heard from both directions, however. Eliza turned a dial at the side of her head that went into X-Ray Vision mode on. Thanks to this, she could see Sonya bound against a wall and many other mares present.

Eliza went to the tunnel with caution, keeping herself hidden as she searched every way for any other lifeforms. There were, of course, many creatures around what appeared to be the hive. The whole area seemed to have many large ant-like creatures with snow-white carapaces moving around the cavern, many of them seeming to be looming over the bound mares.

At the very least, Sonya appears to be unguarded. She was sitting there, humming a song she knew from Legend of Zelda.

Eliza took one deep breath then rushed at the nearest creature; her mech sword ready on the draw in its safety sheathed.

However, as Eliza unsheathed her sword a group of lustful moans were heard behind her before she turned to see five bound mares behind her, two of which were being used by some of the ants before others turned spotting Eliza instantly before suddenly swarming her as each ant went into a sudden frenzy. Seeing this, she stopped and spun in place with a sword outwards, an energy field surrounded her.

Sonya stopped humming. '...Did I just hear a spin attack?' She thought out loud. She began struggling to turn around and see what was going on, but still finding herself unable to move enough to see what was happening.

Feeling the energy field reached its density, Eliza's feet slid in a circle as she put all her strength into this next swing, feeling resistance at first but gave way as her swing released the energy field like a barrier. The barrier shoots out and expands like a balloon. It hits all the creatures as it passes by; staggering them off balance. Small built up energy that latched onto them shot to another target while the one on that target shot to another, like a chain lightning spell, jumping from target to target faster than light. When they finished their last jump they gave a massive energy burst before zipping back to their first latched target and exploded like fireworks.

Everything was silent for a minute. Most of the hive was taken out, left twitching or dead. The rest began to retreat deeper into the Hive some of them grabbing ahold of the mares as they passed to take with them. Eliza didn't give them a chance as she zipped at them like a wolf hunting its prey; quickly sheathing and unsheathing her blade so the protection resets itself. She hits them to either let the girls go or knock them out like the others, those who keep going have been hit so many times that they are either unconscious or dead.

Minutes later and Eliza making sure that everyone was accounted for and no more of the ant-like metallic creatures within her detection radius decided that it’s safe. She activated her detector for any other of those creatures that are still around; it has been studying the creatures during the whole fiasco that it got everything it needs to do any detection on them.

This only took a few seconds as she found that almost all of the creatures had gone but there were four small indicators showing just above her head. Seeing it on her visor Eliza moved out from below and look up at the ceiling; to find the creatures above her looked to be shaped almost like some kind of bat, but instead of hanging upside down it seemed to be attached to the ceiling using its skin to camouflage itself against the mucus-like substance that covered the room.

‘Must have spotted it while I was dealing with the ant things.’ Eliza thought as she headed to Sonya who had a similar looking thing covering her face to that on the ceiling and still seemed to have her legs spread to support her as Eliza could clearly see her clearly pregnant figure.

Sonya stopped struggling when she heard footsteps behind her. She gave a small mutter as if asking through her gag if she could be released. Her answer was the creature aka Sonya’s gag got shocked off her by a sword. “Sorry if I was ruining your fetish.” Eliza joked as said women help remove the felines restraints.

Sonya chuckled as she rubbed over her pregnant belly. "It was nice while it lasted. Although I think I'll be taking one of those gag things with me~. Where's my Matter Manipulator?"

Eliza held her hand as if holding a gun horizontally, the Matter Manipulator appeared in her grasp. She twisted her hand the other way and let her fingers grip loose. “Here.”

After taking it back, she pressed a few buttons and started using some other tools to fully clean it off. AVIAN reported all functions fully operational, to which Sonya smiled. "Alright, AVIAN. Mind providing me with a capture pod?"

"Of course!" AVIAN highlighted it in her inventory screen, and Sonya took it out. Once it was in her hand, she cast a light over the area. "Hope you didn't kill ‘em all…" Sonya muttered.

Eliza gesture to the creature that was Sonya’s gag on the floor. “It’s still alive, just shocked it unconscious.”

She looked at it and gave it a scan to be sure. AVIAN'S voice spoke up with the scan. "Pacifier: a creature from the Hive whose purpose is to latch onto and control females, bringing them back to the hive using their own feet." Avian summarized. "Condition: unconscious."

"Ah. I see. Alright then, guess I'll take that one." She lobbed the capture pod at it, reducing the creature to raw data inside the square-shaped Pokeball-like device. The white light at its centre turned red, marking a complete capture. Sonya smiled and put it away. "All ready to go. I think I've done enough exploring for today."

Eliza rolled her eyes before smacking the felines butt, drawing a light blush and yelp. “Whatever. Help me free the others, also clean up your vagina it’s leaking.” Eliza said as she went to free the other mares. Sonya giggled and rolled her eyes. With quick use of her manipulator, she put her uniform back on and went about helping free the other girls as well. Her uniform was a little tight and did nothing to hide her pregnant gut, but she enjoyed it.

It took some time but eventually got all the mares freed. Eliza was planning to help each on up to the surface since teleporting could be bad for pregnant ponies. Sonya made this task easy by simply using her matter manipulator to just dig a path up. With that they helped them out, Eliza planned to find somewhere that’s far away from the caribou’s. Upon reaching the surface, Sonya messed around on her crafting interface. After a good minute or so, she turned to the mares.

"Now then. I'm going to build you girls your own self sufficient place. You won't need to go anywhere or get anything from anywhere else as long as you can maintain it. But I'll allow you to choose where I build." Sonya informed them.

The girls all looked toward Eliza with looks of hope on their faces. She had been the one to save them, after all… but many of them were rubbing their pregnant guts. Chances are, many of them might want to build a new hive. And while Sonya wouldn't be against that, she'd have to talk about domesticating their new hive… somehow. Eliza gave a nervous look, she gestures for them to follow as her sensors detected a building in a snowy forest and led them there. Eliza sigh. ‘This is going to take a while.’

After half an hour of waiting, the door to the room Satou was in opened. Dainn walked in, dragging the girl from before into the room by a leash as she cried, tears staining her face.

“Satou, how did it go with that spell?” Dainn asked cheerfully as he threw the girl to his feet. The girl curled up in a tight ball and started crying.

Satou looked down at the girl, seeing that her body was covered in cuts and bruises with what looked like old whip marks along her back, but the strangest of all was what looked to be black burns over her arms and part of her face.

He slowly knelt down to her before raising her face to look at his, her eyes clenched shut tightly before he calmly asked. “Miss, are you okay?”

The girl in front of him didn’t answer, instead only shaking her head. Dainn placed the new collar into Satou’s hand without a word before walking to the other side of the room and sitting down on a chair.

Satou, however, chose to ignore Dainn and Sombra. Placing his hand behind the girl's head allowing her to rest her head against him as she seemed to freeze up at this.

“Don’t worry, I won’t harm you.” Satou calmly said as he rubbed the back of her head.

The girl stayed silent for a moment, slowly opening her eyes. She grabbed a hold of Satou tightly, wrapped her arms around his chest. Then continued sobbing, meanwhile; Satou rubbed the back of his head before looking to Dainn. “Maybe leave us for over an hour, then I should be sorted with her.”

Dainn only looked at Satou curiously but nonetheless did as Satou requested. He takes Sombra’s lead and leaves without a word.

Satou looked down to the girl who continued gripping him tightly as he looked at some information on her, only to find to his surprise a lot of information was filled out including her name being Filo, a Title being Displaced, with a class that said Monk along with the word owner below with the name Nathan Shield.

He then calmly looked down before saying. “Miss, now they are gone, are you okay?”

The young girl looked back up to him before shakily saying. “Yes, I’m… okay.”

“Do you have a name I can call you by?”

“Filo...” The young girl muttered, trying to hide her face again before pausing. Filo looks back at Satou and asks. “A-are… you like me and the others?”

“I assume you mean a Displaced by that?” Filo just nodded her head to Satou’s assumption. He simply nodded to her to her question with a calm response. “Then yes; I am.”

“Then… can you keep me away from the others?”

“Keep you away from them? Why?”

“All but Mr Isaac are cruel and scary, I’d rather risk it with you than them… But I’m still his slave, I can’t run away or he’ll come after me again.” Filo responded, fear clear in her voice.

“I can change that… But the only way to do it would be trading one master for another.” Satou responded. Filo looked up to him, her eyes wide. “But, I can’t promise the way will be painless.”

“Do you mean you could be my master mister… umm?”

“Satou, Satou Pendragon.” Satou introduces himself. “But only if you want me to be, I won’t force it on you.”

“Please… I want to trade from him to be yours.” The young girl responded looking at Satou while tightly gripping hold of the collar around his arm. “I’ll need to wear this right?”

“You would, but that may not free you from your old owner.” Satou responded. “I have a way to do it, but I need you to close your eyes and trust me… It may be P-”

Filo then cut him off. “Master, it can’t be as painful as being with them. Just do it.” She responded; standing up in front of him, not hiding any part of her form before closing her eyes. “I’m all yours master.”

Satou could only shake his head before he saw a small puddle appear under her as he thought. ‘I really hope it’s not the crystals making her act this way.’

He placed a hand over a large purple rune filled symbol on her chest before she seemed to shiver at his touch slightly. ‘This feels so wrong.’ Satou thought to himself before closing his eyes and muttering. “Realignment Contract” The symbol on Filo’s chest began to change from purple to black. Filo continued shivering, the pool around her getting larger while the process proceeded.

“Please master! Make me yours!” Filo shouted through moans before the light faded. She fell forward into his arms and a smile plastered over her face. “Thank you, Master.”

“It was my pleasure, Filo.” Satou responded, before moving the collar towards her neck before she suddenly forced her neck into the collar before saying. “I’ll be yours, I promise.” She seemed to rub her face up against Satou affectionately.

‘Okay, seriously hope she was scared of Dainn, and this Nathen guy and isn’t some really lusty kid.’ Satou thought to himself before rubbing Filo on the back of the head again.

“Oh and master. I am mentally legal, if you want me for that, I was 24 before this.” Filo responded with a cute smile. Sitting on Satou’s knee almost like a young child would before falling asleep in his arms.

“Great… just great.” Satou muttered before picking her up so she was resting her head on his shoulder, he supported her like she was a young child. He moved and sat on a chair and slowly let Filo fall asleep in his arms. “Eliza’s gonna hate me for this.”