"Thank you," Lacey nodded at the attendant as she settled into her wheelchair. "I'll be back in three hours."
The attendant nodded back and offered her a salute. "We'll take care of the rest, ma'am. Take your time. If you don't mind the suggestion, Maria's is a great place to get dinner..."
"I'll take a look." Lacey itched to get moving, but the attendant was clearly a talker. She started to wheel away, but he stepped forward, blocking her path.
"Oh! One more thing." The man was probably in his twenties, several years older than her, but he still stammered as if she was his drill sergeant. "Um. If it's okay with you..." He stalled as he formed his thoughts, and Lacey looked past him towards the city street. "It's just, um, with you coming back so soon, I just think, you know, if..." He fidgeted with his coat collar, and Lacey tapped her thumb on the control stick for her chair impatiently.
She was about to just roll over his feet and spare them both the embarrassment of turning him down, when she spotted him. A man in UHN colors strutting down the street carelessly. So careless, his loose tie and unbuttoned shirt hung just low enough to show the tattoo on his chest, just a peek.
She recognized it, even from this distance. Even just a sliver. The broken chain and bones of Liberate Earth. She had crushed several Armors with the same symbol painted on their cockpits.
"I have to go," Lacey interrupted the man's pathetic proposition, and rushed past him, kicking up dust as her chair moved at max speed.
She watched the man step into an alleyway, without even looking over his shoulder. He was cocky. He had no idea he was being followed. This would be easy.
Lacey stopped her chair just inside the alley entrance, and climbed to her feet. She would be fine without it for at least half an hour. As long as she kept moving, she'd be fine even longer. The spy wouldn't know what hit him.
"Agh-! Don't!" Lacey's expression contorted with pain. Her arm, twisted behind her back, burned in its socket. "Please!" Four men surrounded her, each dressed in UHN fatigues. Not one of them a real soldier.
The bicep wrapped around her neck flexed, silencing her pleas. "Shhhh... It's okay, kiddo." The man's voice grated on her ears. "We'll take good care of you, right boys?"
A row of laughter surrounded Lacey as her legs wobbled. "You're hurting me!" Tears were forming in her eyes. Her taser lay at her feet, a reminder of her naivete. She should have turned back when the man stepped in the door. She shouldn't have tried to take four men at once. She shouldn't have thought they wouldn't notice her clumsy footsteps.
Breathing was difficult, the pain in her shoulder was overwhelming, and worst of all, her legs wobbled pathetically, ready to give out at a moment's notice. Lacey had given up on the fantasy of pretending to give up and suddenly making a run for it. She wouldn't be standing right now if not for the man supporting her.
The man groping her. Pressing his body against hers, thighs to neck. He cooed in her ear, pushed his hips against her erotically. One of the other men stepped forward, scratching his beard in thought. Without a word, he reached forward, and sank his fingers into Lacey's breast.
"Wah-!" Lacey's back arched, and she gagged for air as the first man tightened his grip. "Can't... breathe..."
The men didn't care. The bearded man massaged her breast, dug his fingers in deep enough to bruise, and finally, ripped her shirt open, sending buttons clicking over the stone floor.
The third man put his hand on her cheek, slid her hair back behind her ears. "Look at you. Never seen a girl look so pathetic when she cried. It really gets me going, you know?"
"She's asking for it," the first man affirmed, loosening his grip on her neck. "Go ahead, slut. Tell him how bad you want it."
Lacey choked on the air she desperately swallowed. Words escaped her, and the man grew irritated. Slap! "BEG, you whore!"
The fourth man, who was already stroking his dick, chuckled as Lacey whimpered a pathetic "please..."
The two men already groping her got more aggressive, three separate hands on Lacey's breasts, as the third man squeezed her jaw in his fist. "Please what?"
"I- I don't know! Please- stop! It hurts!"
Slap! Lacey's cheek was bright red, and the man shoved his thumb inside her mouth, gripping her jaw by the chin and tongue. He tilted her head back and forced her to look him in the eyes, which were burning with an unearned rage. "Not a fucking chance, you crippled whore. You're gonna need a lot more than a wheelchair when I'm done fucking you."
His cock was the first she tasted that night. But it wasn't the last.