Heviya was engulfed in total darkness. She was currently crimped inside one of the empty torpedo magazines for the Helldrivers aft launchers. Something sharp pressed into her upper back and her knees and elbows hurt horribly from constantly having to support her weight or hitting the confines of the metal casket, no matter in which direction she tried to turn. She guessed by the parched feeling of her mouth and throat that they had been keeping her locked up for more than 2 days. Also she had needed to relief herself and a puddle of piss had expanded below her naked body.
The funny thing was that this intended punishment was, by now, preferable to the young Earther to being outside and exposed to the constant abuse and violation by the lowlife thugs which made up the crew of the pirate ship.
Heviya went through a rollercoaster of emotions during that first week of her abduction. On the first day, after she had been raped by Cor, Yankinn, Alex and Ctirad she remembered that she had just wanted to die. On the second day the whole pack of the Helldriver crew ran a train through her, some of her captors using her two or three times in any way they wanted over the course of the day. The third and fourth day had been pretty much the same and on the fifth she had gone numb inside. On the 6th day sweet and innocent Heviya, who couldn't hurt a fly, wanted to kill everyone aboard the ship.
Heviya had kept count throughout those 6 days of endless rapes and humiliation. Her pussy had been sore like she had never before experienced and her anal ring was torn and battered. She was certain that she had a bladder infection from the constant fucking and every time her tormentors let her use the toilet she felt like razor blades were sawing at each of her holes. She had thought her situation could not get any worse but she had been wrong.
The pitiful girl totally went berserk, when Jo, a very hairy and unfit man in his late fifties wanted to use her mouth like a cunt. While he had her head over heels on the bunk she bit him with all the force she could muster and tore her teeth into the muscles of his cock until she drew blood. Then she drove the knuckles of her small fist directly into his balls with a perfectly executed uppercut, which forced the man to collapse beside her, screaming. She then made a mad dash for the airlock hoping to be able to overwrite the security codes to blow the atmosphere, her rapist and herself out of the compartment and into the void.
In her panic she had been totally oblivious to the fact, that Alex had been chilling in his bunk during watch below. The technician acted quickly and subdued the red-haired fury in a short lived hand to hand fight. He then dragged the struggling and screaming captive through the ship, soon assisted by his pal Ctirad and they had locked her into the torpedo magazine.
She felt like being squeezed inside a coffin and buried alive. Soon, she screamed for help, begged for mercy and drummed her fatiguing fists against the trap door above her until her knuckles started to bleed. After that she had cried in absolute misery until she had dozed off into a mix of sleep and unconsciousness.
When she woke up for the first time it had been to a soft metallic knocking somewhere to her right. First she thought it was the fading echo of a nightmare were she kept beating against the trap door until the flesh was torn of her bones but then she quickly realized that it was a systematic, recurring sound.
There were five short knocks followed by a pause and another knock, then a longer pause two quick knocks, pause knock, pause knock and another two quick knocks. The last part she recognized by the second output. (· · − − · · ) was Morse code for "?".
Every Confederate citizen was required to do 24 months of compulsory military service. In Heviyas case it had been only 12 months, since she was a woman. In 2287 the case of Aveline Ling against the Solarian Confederacy was accepted by the supreme court. The young woman from Io had claimed that she was discriminated against for being female by the liability to military service. Her argument was that she lost 36 months (When general con***********ion was first introduced it had been a longer period than nowadays) of her time which she could not use for her education and career in addition to the nearly 10 months a pregnancy would hinder her personal advancement.
In a narrow 5 to 4 decision, with 6 judges being women, the supreme court voted in Lings favor and allowed for a deduction of 9 months from her required service time. This had over the decades been extended and when Heviyas time came in 2357 women only needed to serve for one standard Solarian year.
The European con*********** had spent most of her time on a remote outpost on Mars. She had been trained as a wireless operator and that had sparked her interest in the origins of long distance communication. During some long and lonely night watches she had started to learn and practice Morse code. Later, as a crew member of the Penelope, she had shared this funny but until now fairly useless skill with Matheo, who was interested in anything which had the smell of ancient history upon it.
She concentrated on the knocking sounds and tried to decipher them. It was pretty hard to morse with knocking only since you could not as easily lengthen the signals like you could do with a light source or a constant tone. Still it was doable with some practice.
( · · · · · · − − · · · · · − · · · · − − · · ) That where the letters for H U T H R E followed by a question mark. "Heviya are you there ?"
She started to reply: (− − · · · − − − ) M I A M. "Matheo I am."
It sometimes took several tries until they understood each other but the two shipmates started to get the hang of it pretty soon. She told her friend what she had been put through for the last couple of days and he comforted her as best as he could. His last message read: " I am here with you"
Talking with a human being, that did not treat her like an object finally gave her back some willpower to live through this hell. Before she could signal another message over to Matheo. She heard someone pottering about the trap door above her. The plating opened and Heviya, who had been kept in total darkness for more than 36 hours blinked against the excruciating light.
A short scream escaped her throat as two strong pairs of arms yanked her out of her confinement. As her eyes adjusted she could see Yankinn, Alex and Ctirad standing around her.
"Time to wake up whore!" Alex greeted her. "After that stunt you pulled off the other day you are in big trouble, I can assure you. Jo, as you can surely imagine, is really pissed that you tried to bite off his cock."
"He will show you how pissed he is in a minute, cunt." Ctirad spit at her.
"Please, don't hurt me! I am sorry, I will do anything you want now, I promise." Heviya pleaded.
Yankinn, the sadistic half-Asian, did not even address her. He just smiled at Alex and Ctirad as he said:"Oh guys, this is going to be a fun day."