Page 19 of Soliv Four
She knew he knew it was an act for the benefit of the other males watching.
“Yes,” he whispered. “I’m going to fuck you senseless, then I’m going to take you in the shower and fuck you again.”
Angie gasped, still looking at the ground. She felt her nipples tighten, and her clit throb in response to his ‘threat.’
“Am I clear?” Tomak added loudly.
“Yes, mate,” Angie responded meekly, and raised her gaze to his nodding.
“All right, then. Let’s get back to work.” He turned and strode across the mossy field, and Angie double-stepped to follow him to a nearby strength training machine.
There was a weight rack beside it. Angie started some stretching exercises while Tomak went to work on the machine. They didn’t talk about what happened anymore. However, when they were on the training field after that, he played dominant, possessive alpha, glaring at males who looked at her with too much interest, and she played obedient submissive.
After third meal, Tomak and Angie went to the arena as directed and found a seat with his squad and their females. The guards were out in full force to keep hostilities between rival teams from erupting in a brawl. Once everyone was seated, the warden’s hologram appeared in the arena.
“Thank you all for coming. That was a wise decision on your part. First, I want to thank you for your efforts in training and fighting in top form. Our competitions are consistently leading broadcasts in the Empire right now. Especially popular are the deathmatches, the more violent and bloody, the better they like it. Therefore, we will increase them to every rotation span.”
That brought a chorus of boos from the inmates and females in the audience. That meant the best gladiators could face death even more frequently than before.
“I know, nobody wants to die, but that’s what our viewers are asking for, and they are the ones paying for your accommodations here. So, we are going to give them what they want.
“No one will force you to participate. However, if you or any member of your team refuses, your entire team will be transported to Sector two or five.”
“Bastard!” Tomak muttered softly.
“For those not familiar with those two sectors, just watch and learn. I’m going to show you two holo-vids of the welcome you can expect when you go there.”
The first showed a male left at the beach on Continent Two. He was accosted as soon as the shuttle left. A group of five males beat him, took his backpack of supplies, raped him, and left him for dead. It seemed that his attackers were alerted about his arrival.
“Oh, my god!” Angie whimpered as she watched the assault. Similar murmurs echoed through the audience. It upset her even more than the overseers had sent drones to record the assault, but no one did anything to stop it.
The next segment took cameras into the mines where Tomak and his men spent six quad-spans mining energy crystals for the Szeqart Empire. Violence was rampant because the guards were only there to keep the inmates working and meeting their quotas. The most powerful gang made the other workers pay protection fees in raw crystals from their day’s labor.
Even worse, the guards were apt to coerce sex from the women serving their sentence there, promising protection from the male inmates. The presentation hadn’t shown that aspect, Tomak told her about it. What happened next when they were thrust into the general population was displayed in appalling detail.
An inmate and his mate were sent into the mines together. A series of whistles echoed through the mine. The pair was quickly surrounded by a gang of nine men. Two grabbed the male and pounded on him while the others held the female and ripped off her clothes, which were the standard prison issue.
Four men held her by her arms and legs, slapping and punching her until she stopped struggling. She cried all while the fifth male raped her. Her mate screamed for them to let her go, swearing he would kill them. The men all switch places until every man in the gang had raped her while they made her mate watch.
Before they left, the female hung limply between them, and the men holding her mate punched him unconscious and left him lying on the dirt floor at the mine entrance, minus his supply pack.
The cruder males in the audience hooted and cheered the gang-rape, and some took out their cocks and stroked themselves. Angie found them utterly disgusting as she watched the ordeal of the other woman. Before it was over, tears rolled down her cheeks as she choked back sobs; she could hardly believe what she was seeing, or that the guards were just letting it happen.
Tomak almost broke his own rule, tempted to pull her onto his lap, and comfort her. Instead, he took her hand and whispered into her ear. “I’ll die before I’d let that happen to you.”
Angie coughed on a sob then said, “that’s what I’m afraid of.”
The hologram of Warden McKaro reappeared after the holovid ended. “The two teams ranked lowest at the end of the competition will be sent to Sectors Two and Five. The two highest ranking teams will compete for the championship. Your audience will decide who lives or dies at the end of each match. When one opponent goes down, the other will wait for the audience to vote on whether they want the loser killed or not….”
TWELVE
Tomak could hardly believe what they were facing in the coming rotation spans. The thought that his mate could be treated like that female in the holovid wrenched his guts. Even worse, management just let it happen. It made him want to kill someone, preferably the warden, especially knowing how they tricked the females into getting them there.
He glanced at Angie as they shuffled toward his flat. She still looked shell shocked. He didn’t even know how to reassure her. Tomak and his team were the best fighters in the games, but they weren’t invincible. A bad day at the arena could leave Angie without a mate.
“Hey, Boss, can I talk to you for a couple mini spans?”
Tomak stopped and looked up at the sound of his teammate. “Sure, Emon. Let’s step over here.” He motioned toward a far corner of the enclosure out of earshot of the other inmates returning to their quarters.
