Spring In My Step: Chapter 17

Story by RedSkunk on SoFurry

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#17 of Spring in My Step

How did Dr. Katy manage her feet of engineering? And what lies ahead for Collen?


"Well just one more question... When can I take this zip-tie off my feet? Its digging into my ankles and it really hurts..."

"Ohh right yes, one second!" Katy capitulated. She was midway through putting on a dry set of undergarments when she finally agreed to spare my ankles anymore pain. When she finished, she hurried over to the bedside, reached into the drawer to her nightstand and grabbed the best tool she had for the job, a pair of fingernail clippers. With two quick cuts my feet were free.

"Thank you so much..." I told her as I rubbed my ankles to relieve the pain and soreness.

"Yes well, we can't have you hopping off somewhere...hehe" Katy explained. Katy walked back over to her dresser to get another set of clothes to wear. She opted for a green skirt, a blue V-cut short sleeve shirt that nearly revealed her bra, and her typical torques lab coat. It was a sad sight to see that body of hers get hidden under that coat. It was certainly worth showing off instead of being sequestered. Even her cute tail was concealed by her drooping science themed get up.

But what was I thinking?! I shouldn't being admiring her, I should be mad. A stable minded victim does not suddenly lust for their captor. I forced myself to remember all the horrible and grotesque things she had done to me and Nyanni. I closed my eyes to imagine it as deeply as I could. I didn't want to lose myself, and my anger was a life raft that could save me from falling under her spell. This form brought with it so many sexual desires that could never be satisfied, I would need to work overtime to fight it. To fight her.

While I was in brooding meditation about Katy, she had procured a harness from some unknown corner of her room. Just as I had opened my eyes, Katy had already started to shove the harness over the top of my head. "This was originally made for a cat so you're gonna have to deal with the awkwardness."

Katy struggled to get the harness to fit over my head and the back of my ears. "OK just lift up your arm and bring it through here... good! Great! Wow it fits better than I thought it would!" She said proudly. It would seem that I had traded in the uncomfortable zip-ties in for something Katy could use to have even more control over me. Katy then grabbed her glasses on the night stand and put them on triumphantly and said, "OK, we are officially ready to go! How do I look? Am I glowing?!? hehe"

She wore those glasses seductively, looking down at me with a near genuine smile and a look in her eyes that that she was hungry to get back to this room after the meeting. This was going to be a big day for her even though I scarcely knew the reasons why. I got the impression by all the perversion she displayed and all the sneaking around last night and this morning that she had done this more for herself than anyone else. She didn't seem like she needed to prove herself to anyone. Maybe this was to show off more than anything, to parade around her prize for all the world to see. I just hoped that after all of this I could see Nyanni again...

With the harness and leash attached and wrapped around her arm, she was ready to go. She held me in her left arm and grabbed a clipboard with some papers attached, put it awkwardly in her left and hand opened the door with her right. This time she confidently exited her room, as she was turning around to lock the door, another female F3 type rabbit was just outside her door in the hallway.

"Katy!!! This is exciting! Oh my gosh!! You have him with you!? Can I see!?" This newcomer shouted with a voice full of youth and curiosity.

"Oh uh sure, just be gentle, don't frighten him." Katy said. She finished locking her door and turned towards the rabbit to show me off. She kept a firm grip on the leash that was wound around her arm and into her hand with the clipboard. I got an unmistakable vibe that Katy was being protective and cautious. The rabbit reached towards me as if to pick me up, but Katy quickly resisted and took half a step back, "Oh no no don't pick him, but you can pet him." she explained, "Collen, why don't you say hello hmm?"

"What, he can talk too!?"

"Yes of course he can, Collen this is a former lab assistant of mine, she handles genetic research now. Her name is Tessa, be polite!" Katy demanded.

"Uh..Hello..Tessa.." I stammered. When coming to terms with captivity, regardless of how you feel about your captors, sometimes a familiar face is preferable. Though I wasn't happy with the way Katy had treated me, the evil you know is better than the evil you don't. Tessa being a former lab assistant, she would technically be indirectly responsible for my plight. One of the enemies in my book.

"Wow so cute! He's just like a baby...haha! So you're headed to the council meeting now right? Mind if I come with? Since we're presenting together?" Tessa begged.

"Sure why not, but we need to go now, they are expecting us...hehe and him.." Katy then gave me and phony hug to display her affection for me, though I would guess it was more to mark her territory.

We were underway, turning right down another corridor walking past the familiar walls and were finally coming close to the lab where I was held, where Nyanni was, and might still be. With all the power I could muster I pulled myself up away from Katy's arm and turned around to see if Nyanni was still there. Shock came over me when her cage was missing.

"Where is Nyanni!!" I yelled, "Where is she!?"

"Nyanni? Is that like, his girlfriend or something?" Tessa scoffed, asking about that which she was ignorant of, that which she had no business asking, and that which she should mind her own damn business of if she new what was good for her. Needless to say I was on fire inside.

"Collen, calm down, I told you you would see her again now stop making a scene." Katy said. She tightened her grip on my leash pulling me back down into her arms. I struggled to fight back, but it was useless, we had passed the lab, and Nyanni wasn't in there anyway. I acquiesced, in the face of her superior size but more importantly her power to control my life.

Next we passed the lab, or I as I recalled it, the sex dungeon. Where she paradoxically forced me to rape and get raped in the span of an hour. Its steel door still closed like a cold prison cell. My heart started to pound a bit faster at the thought of what I did in there. I closed my eyes and tried to think about a happy place far from here, where I did nothing I ever regretted.

As Katy took me down the hall, the small but familiar part of this facility vanished. We passed what looked like a main entrance to the underground building. Two sets of double doors were on the left but were completely covered by cardboard, duck-tape and black trash bags. Opposite of the doors was a reception desk, currently unattended. We entered another hallway just after the lobby, and where a group of other F3 rabbits were waiting. Some in lab coats and others in the official looking garb, similar in style to what the Abbess had worn though not as ornamental as hers. Grey fabric lined with golden lace, draped around their bodies like a rob with decorative head dresses laying between and around their ears.

We stopped at a closed door on the right along with the group as we waited to go inside. The other F3 rabbits were eying me and Katy, whispering to each other, presumably seeing me for the first time.

"I'm not gonna lie, I'm a bit nervous..." Tessa sighed, dropping her ears slightly.

"Don't worry, we have all the proof we need that we were successful right here!" Katy declared, bouncing me against her chest. I was barely paying attention though, seeing all these other rabbits peaked my curiosity, but also my anxiety. I clung to Katy's arm a bit tighter. Katy's responses regarding this meeting were nebulous at best, and my fate after this meeting was also unclear, though Katy did say I would see Nyanni again, so perhaps we would after this meeting? Therefore I would still be with Katy afterward? And not have to worry about being taken away by someone else for god knows what other experiments.

"So when can we finally go in and get this over with? Tessa asked.

"Oh you know these types, some kind of power play making us wait like this. They are just trying to establish their dominance you know...haha" Katy scoffed. Perhaps she was nervous too.

"I brought the easel in earlier this morning, its at the front next to our table." Tessa explained.

"Perfect, then we should be ready then!"

We waited for several more minutes until finally the door burst open with two F4 guards standing at either side of the door, one holding the door and the other trying to look powerful in a stoic stance holding their spear upright. In complete disregard for those who were waiting at the door before us Katy rushed in first followed by Tessa and everyone else. The room was huge, with seating for 50 or more people (bunnies?). The setup looked just like a courtroom, with the seats all lined up facing away from the door we entered, tables with chairs in front and more tables and chairs further ahead with seats facing us. Those seats were empty though. The room was full of chatter as it was filled with a majority of F3 rabbits and a scattering of F4's. Katy continued to the front of the room to the tables and placed me on the one to the left, then took a seat. Tessa, took a seat next to her. Katy and Tessa then both placed their respective dossier on the table.

Oddly enough, even amongst all these rabbits, I felt embarrassed to be there. I was embarrassed I was a rabbit. I was embarrassed to be naked unlike them. I was embarrassed to be shoved into the public light looking the way I did, which didn't make sense since I looked just like them. I didn't feel like one of them of course. Aside from my facade I wasn't one either. I shuffled myself on the table a bit closer to Katy to at least stop some of the curious eyes from the crowd from reaching me.

It didn't take long before the so called council started to fill the room from a door behind the large table in front of us, each with their own small microphone protruding towards them. They were all F3's, with stern looks on their face. They were here strictly for business. One would think that they would have a more delighted look on their face at Katy's success. Perhaps they had a lot more on their mind. They all took a seat facing us and laid their respective documents on the table in front of them. The murmuring the chamber slowly melted away to dead silence.

The F3 in the middle adjusted her microphone to better catch her voice while seated and spoke, "Dr. Katy if we could get started, will you please present your results of Project Chimera."

"Certainly Councilwomen Leera" Katy said eagerly, with a hint of nervousness in her tone. This was her moment. Though confident, I guess she was still a bit tense to have to speak publicly about it.

The doctor took a breath to compose herself, and continued thereon without a pause, "As you can see here our procedure has been successful. Not only have we proved the technique finally works, with further testing we are confident that the process can be scaled up."

"Doctor, if you would, for all of us here explain your process." The councilwomen muttered.

"Of course." Katy, gestured to her former assistant to grab the easel against the wall. Tessa complied and positioned it to be best viewable by the council and the people in the chamber. The first page was a blank white sheet.

"First we have to track down a healthy human, one young enough to be able to recover from the procedure. We have her holiness the Abbess to thank for that. We sedated the specimen..." Katy rambled on. Continuing her speech but that last sentence gave me pause. She was talking about me like a piece of meat! Just as I was finally warming up to her last night and this morning, I couldn't believe she was talking about me so coldly. Though maybe that's how they expected her to talk about me? Was this just part of the two faced game she had to play? I was getting more frustrated the more I thought about it, then I finally focused to hear more about my mutilation.

"We then surgically removed his testicles and preserved them in a freezer until the we completed phase 3 of the procedure. Phase 3 was made possible by advances in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats technique or CRISPR/CAS9 technology, first identified in the University of Osaka. Once his DNA and mitochondrial RNA was re-sequenced, it was a matter of closely monitoring his vital signs along with aggressive hormone therapy to keep the specimen from dieing during the restructuring of his physiology. Intermittent gaps between the failure of one organ and the initial operation of its replacement was mitigated through insulin injections, dialysis and other various forms of life support as the need arose. Though this was the case during this attempt, we are confident that this process can be further streamlined via adjustments in the genetic template used to edit his DNA. Essentially we can ensure that the new organs take over before the old ones fail. Minor issues like this are to be expected of course in the first successful run of the procedure... hehe" Katy nervously giggled.

I was unconscious during most of "Phase 3" and when I was awake I was writhing in pain. I had no clue she could be so meticulous and brutal at the same time. And 'this attempt'?! I had a feeling there were more before me, I suppose I should be thanking my lucky stars that I had survived the procedure, but I could hardly bear to think about the suffering felt by those before me. My experience was painful enough, but to die like that? My heart started racing... I felt dizzy, I was curious to listen to the rest of her bullshit but I didn't want to at the same time. I felt sick, but it was so silent I couldn't close her out of my head.

"Finally, after Phase 3 was complete, we then thawed and re-implanted his human testicles." Katy concluded.

"Excuse me, what was the point of removing then re-installing his testicles?" Councilwomen Leera inquired.

"Yes, according to the proposal, there is a requirement that he still provide fertile human sperm. Phase 3 of the CRISPR/CAS9 procedure however must be a ballistic approach and had they remained in the body they too would have been edited."

"Yes I see. Thank you Doctor Katy. Clearly, with your specimen here on the table in front of us you have been successful and I can speak for the entire council when I say we are proud of you and your teams fine work. The Chamber is now open for questions."

A councilwomen from the far right end of the table grabbed her mic and pulled it closer to her face and asked, "Has he fully recovered from the procedure? How soon can he be put to use?"

"We need one more week to continue to monitor his blood work to ensure that there is no rejection of his new organs and that his human DNA does not again re-assert itself. After that he should be available for use." Katy explained. My jaw dropped at the thought of what 'use' was going to mean. I didn't need her to explain it, because deep inside my mind I already knew what it meant. To be some sort of sex slave for the rest of them. Before I could think any more about it, a covered cart entered the room being pushed by an F3 in a lab coat.