Chapter 12  The Avenger Gets the Blues



Retinoff was only slightly tired.  He was sweaty and exhilarated, but his enhanced penis had done most of the work.  He left the demoralized figure of the Black Leopard and paraded in front of his captives.  Who should he take next?  He glanced at the Jade Dragon.  She was so incredibly beautiful!  But he had already had her once today.  He wanted something fresh.  Nova?  Possibly.  She was still a virgin.  He hadn’t had one of them yet.  Or had he?  He remembered the blood with the Jade Dragon.  He couldn’t be certain but it seemed as if she had reacted like a virgin.  That was a puzzler.  He would have to take the time to figure it out.  But not right now.  Right now he was busy.  He made his decision.  He would let Nova suffer a bit longer.  Her lacerations must be paining her greatly.  He stopped in front of the Blue Avenger.  Why not?  She was certainly beautiful.  Not as well endowed as the Jade Dragon or Nova, but tall and slender and perfectly shaped.  He would enjoy pushing in between her legs and watching that lovely face contort as he spread her vaginal canal beyond anything she had ever experienced. 

He summoned in his assistants.  “Prepare her for me.  Strap her to the wheel.”  He would play with her first.  Then rape her in the most brutal fashion he could imagine. 

Kyla shuddered as Retinoff’s assistants approached her.  She had known that sooner or later her turn would come, but she had hoped that somehow she might be rescued before it happened.  After all, Suzi was still out there somewhere.  There was always a chance of escape.  That chance now seemed remote, however.

Six men lay hold of her.  Two took her dangling legs, one held her around the waist, and two took her arms.  The last man attached chains to her wrists and ankles.  She was then carried over to what resembled an old fashioned mill wheel.  It was about ten feet in diameter and three feet wide.  Her ankles were fastened to the bottom of the wheel and her arms were fastened to two separate straps at the top.  Kyla wondered at the purpose in securing her to the device, but she was sure that Retinoff had something brutal in mind. 

The assistants then tightened the straps on her wrists, pulling her body tight against the wheel.  Kyla controlled her reaction.  But she was already very uncomfortable.  Her body arched in the shape of the wheel and was stretched so tightly that her arms were almost pulled from their sockets.  She was very vulnerable, totally exposed to any attack.

Retinoff now approached her.  “Beautiful, Blue Avenger.  How long can you hold your breath?”  Confused, Kyla did not reply. 

The mad scientist smiled and touched a button on the wall next to the wheel.  The floor slid away from the bottom of the wheel.  In her arched position, Kyla could not see what was revealed, but Retinoff touched a second button and the wheel slowly began to revolve downward.  So gradually did the wheel move, that Kyla at first was merely mystified, but not alarmed.  But then the wheel turned enough that she was able to see that the wheel was slowly descending into a pool of dark water.  Now she knew what Retinoff had meant by his seeming off-hand comment about holding her breath.  If the wheel continued to turn she would soon be immersed in the water and only able to prevent drowning by the amount of air she could hold in her lungs.

“I have set the wheel to immerse you for a minute the first time, but each successive revolution of the wheel will be extended by ten seconds.  After six revolutions you will be submerged for a full two minutes.  That should really test your lungpower.  If you are still breathing after that I’ll see how you handle the build up to three minutes.  Have fun!”  As Retinoff finished his soliloquy Kyla’s bare feet dipped into the water.  As the water rapidly rose up to her thighs she gasped in shock.  The water was freezing cold!”

An evil giggle came from the mad scientist.  “Cold isn’t it, dear?  It’s not really pure water at all.  It’s brine, used in refrigeration and it has been cooled to several degrees below freezing”

Kyla wasn’t sure how she could endure this form of torture.  Holding her breath for increasingly long periods would be difficult enough, but withstanding the freezing temperature of the water would be a real challenge.  It was very likely that after a few revolutions of the wheel she would be suffering severely from hypothermia.

She took a deep breath as the wheel turned her head under the water.  She counted down the seconds of immersion: “60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55….”  The cold first shocked her body and then numbed it.  “… 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.”  Her head emerged from the brine.  Her body began to shiver with the cold generated by her brief bath.

“Very nice,” said Retinoff, his eyes fixed on her saucy, firm breasts. 

Kyla flushed.  Her delicate nipples were fully erect and prominently displayed through the thin material of her costume.  She was also upside down as the wheel rotated her upward.  Slowly the wheel descended once again, moving her back toward the frigid pool.  Her legs dipped into the freezing liquid.  This time the shock was not as great, probably because she was already wet and had adjusted to the cold somewhat.  Again she counted off the time.   This time, as Retinoff had promised she was under for 70 seconds.  And so it went.  The next time she had to hold her breath for 80 seconds, and then 90.  Holding her breath, however, was not her greatest problem.  It was the frightening cold of the brine that was her worst enemy.  Each time she was immersed in the liquid it took her longer to recover.   Already she was beginning to shiver almost uncontrollably.  She realized that she was not going to survive the ordeal.  There was only one chance.  During her training with the Jade Dragon and Master Zhou, she had learned some techniques of meditation.  She had become quite good at it, able to slow her heart rate and breathing on command.  It was her only chance.  If she did not succeed in slowing her metabolism she would either drown or freeze to death. 

She closed her eyes and went into a meditative state.  Her breathing slowed and her heart rate dropped.  By the time the wheel finished one full revolution she was fully relaxed, her chest hardly moving.  She was still aware of her surroundings, but now her body was almost oblivious to what was being done to it.  The deadly cold of the brine was no longer a threat to her.  She would survive!

Fortunately, for her, the novelty of watching her being dunked over and over again into the freezing brine had worn off.  Retinoff was not around to notice what she had done, and his assistants were too dull to realize that she was no longer endangered by the form of torture they had devised for her.  The mad scientist did not return until the wheel was giving her the three-minute treatment.  Had she not been in a trance-like state, she would have drowned.

“Well, Blue Avenger,” said Retinoff, “you are as resourceful as I had hoped.  I did not expect to see you dead when I got back and you have proven me right.  By the way, my assistants had instructions to stop the wheel if you got into any real trouble.  After all, we have not had a chance to get better acquainted.”  And here the little scientist licked his lips as he leered at her suspended body.

The wheel was still turning.  Retinoff went over to the control switch and stopped its rotation, but not before it had submerged her up to her neck.  “I’ll be back in a fifteen minutes,” he said.  “Let’s see how well you last this time.”

Kyla realized that even using her techniques of meditation she could not hold out much longer.  She simply lacked the level of meditative techniques that someone like the Jade Dragon possessed.  Sooner or later the cold would get to her.  She could feel the cold seeping right into her body.  She began to shiver.  Soon, she was shivering uncontrollably her teeth chattering so hard that she was afraid they might shatter.  “G…G…Got t…t…h…hold on,” she stuttered.  She could barely speak.  A few more minutes and she would be finished. 

How she lasted she did not know.  From somewhere she found the reserves of strength to fight off the cold, but eventually Retinoff returned.  “Well, Blue Avenger,” he taunted.  “You really are blue this time.  I would estimate that without some intense warming up you will be dead in only a few minutes.  Release her and get Hughie over here.”

Retinoff’s assistants rotated the wheel so that Kyla could be released from her bonds.  Hughie, huge but stupid, picked her up under one arm and carried her over to one of the benches.  “Hey Boss,” Hughie said slowly, “she’s all wet.  And cold.  Very cold.”

“Yes Hughie,” replied the little doctor gently, “and this is your lucky day.  I’m going to give her to you for your own private plaything.  It is your job to warm her up.  But you better hurry; I think she’s going to die.” 

Although mentally weak, Hughie did not have to be told what to do.  Laying the semi-conscious heroine on the bench he quickly stripped off her wet costume and then removed his own clothing.  He was already sporting a gigantic erection.  “I will save her,” said.  Spreading Kyla’s legs he prepared to enter her.



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