There would be a moment afther her master made his remark in regards to her own question that sent a chill down her spine, her eyes would widen as she glared at the screen as if Ven's words confirmed the twisted reality that she in away already knew. Ven could read her thoughts, her mind was open to him thanks to their link, it was one sided but now clear that he knew everything she was currently thinking, it was even possible Ven knew everything she had ever thought since she fell into his cruel hands as her eyes would dart to his in a brief moment of fear as he answered her question about how many times she perished.

Ven would see the utter terror in her eyes as she glared at him, the realization hitting that he really did know everything going on in that thick skull of hers. He knew everything, he had everything. Ven would sooner sense that in her mind.... he was everything as he would sense if not for fear of being punished again she would have broken down in his lap and fell to pieces, but instead she was in such shock that she could hardly move as tearful eyes returned to the scene to look at the face of the agent she choose to be the model of her next vessel. Niko's would only snapback back to reality once she heard Ven's voice as he spoke into her ear, forcing her to jump, being startled by the hot breath rolling over her cheek and neck before looking to the sofa where Ven claimed he took the agent she choose.

Ven admitting that fact to her confirmed another twisted warped realization (even if that realization was wrong) that he personally had captured and raped each and every agents on the list.... Niko audible gulped at the fact, her eyes wide with broken nerves as she looked at the sofa where Ven would sense his pets imagination go wild and picture the redhead, this agent Minerva being laid out on the soft seat as he held her down and ravaged her as she screamed. That same image would flash to the memory of her self suffering the same fate, Ven raping her in the same manner as Niko's eyes would dart back to the screen before Ven gently took it from her hands and sat it on his desk in front of them.

Niko was speechless, her nerves shot as she was realizing how truly terrifying her master was. The thoughts racing through her head as Ven would sense that all fight left in her vanished, the only emotion left was the crushing despair, followed by pure submission that prompted her last and final test as Niko would see that her master reached past her to open a drawer and pull a blaster pistol still in its holders as he would set it on the desk in front of her.

Full of dread Niko's dull eyes looked at the weapon with shock as she wouldnt look away from the piece as he would explain the rules of this hunt she was to be part of.... fallowed by the simple understanding that the gun was now hers.

Ven would sense hesitation from Niko as she glared at the weapon, mixes of emotions would flood her mind as she raced through options.... Ven would sense that a brief moment she considered using the weapon on him, attacking him, but it quickly faded, followed by the thought of trying to use it to escape, however just as quickly that thought faded until the most prominent thought echoed in her mind.. turning the weapon on herself, killing herself in a desperate attempt to "escape" but that though only lingered as Ven would be satisfied to sense that her mind kept returning to everything she had just learned in the last couple of hours... Niko realized that there was no escape, she was a prisoner without restraints, without a jail cell, as she feel into the sick twisted realization that she was a slave and Ven was master and he literally held everything she was in the palm of his hand....

"I-I can have this?" Niko would say softly, still nervous as she would reach out and take the gun by its holster. Picking it up as she moved it to her lap where she un-holster the weapon to examine it before she would look up at Ven as the lone Hel'corian who arrived to take her stepped through the doors to her masters office. Niko paid the newcomer no mind as she looked up at Ven as for the first time he would see the broken look of defeat in his pets eyes.

"Master... I can use it in the hunt?" Niko asked, her tone of voice sounding more proper, less nervous now as she glared up at him as she was finally realizing her place. "...Can I use it on the participants?" Niko would ask as she would hold up the weapon as she sat in his lap as she would aim down the sight at the lone Hel'corian who stood waiting for her to join him before she would lower the weapon and dislodge the power clip before reloading the weapon agin.

Killing herself would do little good. At least if she wasn't thorough since he could place her in another body. Ven wasn't sure how long he had before she powered down completely and her consciousness would be truly lost. He let her make the assumption that the act was hopeless.

Still, he was monitoring the droid in case it ever went off line and there was a tracker place in it so he could locate her within a planet. Of course that was knowledge he kept to himself. If she were successful he didn't want to waste time searching for her and if she did go off line he wanted the means of a quick “rescue”.

“It is yours for use in the hunt.” The weapon was fully functional, the charge at the maximum and while it was a short range weapon it did pack a punch. Probably not able to damage Tinman but it would blow a sizable hole in the other droids she saw.

“You can use it in the hunt as you see fit. Outside of turning it on any of my men that will be bringing you to the planet or taking you from it. As an easy way to determine my men they'll be the only Hel'Corians. Any none drone if a droid is sent for you.

“Whatever you find during the hunt is yours to use as you see fit.” Ven explained. If there were no other questions she would be led to a shuttle taken down to a planet. The gravity was slightly weaker, the oxygen greater. The shuttle set down on a large island continent. It would take weeks to cross it from one side to the other.

A grove in the earth marked the path of a ship that “crashed”. As the lone Hel'Corian took her along she would note that the earth looked to be dug up. There were no scorch marks or fried vegetation. If she disobeyed her orders all she needed to do was get rid of this guard. There was a pilot back at the shuttle too. Only two to deal with, her best chance perhaps. Ven's ship was out there too but she could keep to the atmosphere and get into orbit on the other side of the planet.

Of course there was the whole battery issue and her body so security didn't have to be so tight now.

“You start here.” The Hel'Corian pointed at a ship, a fighter that had been marked up to simulate damage. If she looked systems of the ship were off line simulating damage it took to engines and shields. If she had the time and the know how she might have been able to get the ship online. The weapons still worked though she couldn't move the ship.

The guard left her to it after giving her a watch that was counting down to something once he started it. The time left in the hunt which was just under 4 days.

Not much had been explained to her though it appeared as if the scenario was that she was shot down by someone who was after her. In that case she might not have much time before they were here …

Nikoe's demeanor would calm slightly as she sat in her masters lap, her eyes still seemed unfocused and dulled as she glared up at him however. It was a look of hopelessness as she was finally broken and forced to realize her place as she gave up and instead heeded the Doctors advice and was choosing to submit and avoid further punishment. Ven might sense theses feelings slowly coming to the surface of her broken mind as she glared up at him with the eyes of a hated agent as he could see her head bob up and down showing she understood afther he answered her question.

"I understand master...." Niko said lowering the weapon, setting its safty and slowly placing back into the holster as she would remain in his lap. "I wont use it on any of your men......." Niko said with a calm tone before she would look to the crewmen who was awaiting her. Niko wouldn't move from her place on her Masters lap until he ordered her to stand and follow the Crewmen. It was a order she would obey and unlike the numerous times before Ven would sense that she did so willingly, the S.L.U.T program coaxed the feeling to serve but she was the one who acted on her own as she stood up, moving to the Helcorian crewmen who waited for her before following him out unless her master asked for anything before she left.

The trip down would be uneventful as she would be lead aboard a drop ship down to the planet surface. To her surprise the hel'corian who handled her didnt force her to perform any lewd acts for him during their short trip, from previous experiences Niko recalled being forced give her guards head or let them finger bang her, she was glad to see that she was allowed a slight reprieve for once as Niko relaxed in her seat until finally touching down on the planet's surface where she was finally greeted with the environment that this hunt would take place in....

The area was a large island it seemed from what Niko could see afther leaving the shuttle as the area was seemingly peppered with debri and wreckage from a crashed ship. Niko paused to look at the scene around her before she paused to look at the Hel'corian who point at the ship telling her where she was expected to go. The process was a but confusing but it seemed Niko was to be simulating a agent afther a crash landing? It was strange but Niko didn't complain as she would do as she was told and crawl into the cockpit of the "crashed ship" as she would pull the canopy down sealing herself in side before she would look over the ship systems finding the ship was merely "offline" and not actually broken. "Hmm.... Master said I could use whatever I found...." Niko said to herself. She didn't have the best computer technical skills, however Niko did have a slight understanding how things worked as she would out of curiosity begin to fiddle with switches and the ship's computer systems. She doubted she could get the ship to fly, but she didn wonder if the ship had anything board to help her through the "Hunt" her master so cruelly devised.

Had she been in her original body Ven might have taken her before she left the room. He sensed her obedience as she moved on her own accord. Before she was out of the room he sent commands through the computers on ship to prepare her next body. Even if she came back intact she would need a replacement shortly after she was retrieved. As it were he could have transferred her into those bots without doing anything to them but they would be simple unappealing droids.

Her Hel'Corian guard had been under orders not to touch her unless she attempted to escape and even then it was only to restrain her. Nor did the pilot pay her any attention since he was busy. Bringing Niko to the ship and the starting point his duties came to an end and he went back to the ship. Soon after he and the pilot lifted off leaving her alone as she looked over the vessel.

Most of the ship systems didn't respond. Off line messages were common in most cases. But there were a few that did respond. The weapons were of little use though they did come to life she couldn't really target anything that wasn't in front of the ship. There were still two concussion missiles that she may have been able to use as a trap if the ship was tampered with. Even if she lack the proper skills she could set the devices to overload.

Sensors worked. She was able to pull up general scans the ship made before it crashed. Where she was, that there were mountains to the north with jungle surrounding her. Back towards the south was the ocean. There was no beach but rather a drop from cliffs to the ocean.

Maybe there were ledges and such she could climb down or hide on. People might not think she would go that way though if they sent any drones in that direction and they checked the cliffs she would be exposed unless she did find a place to hide, maybe even a cave.

The scans were more detailed in her immediate surroundings. There was a river in the jungle to the west, life forms were scattered and small. Most were scattered with small concentrations here and there near the river. If they were sentient they were small more likely they were things similar to monkeys or pack animals. Insects did not register on the scans but were abound as she would find. Fortunately nothing that bite or stung, at least not humans.

The ship also contained a flare gun, medical supplies, MREs, a canteen of water and even one grenade. Checking it the grenade produced an EMP pulse rather than an explosion. With it she could fry herself if not careful, even take out modern weapons.

She would find a few extra power cells for her blaster and even a blaster rifle though it was snapped. A knife for close in fighting and a few other things that were not of any real importance like extra clothes, the majority being uniforms. Make up, hair pins and even a datapad with a cracked screen though it still functioned.

A deeper look at the datapad showed it was a bit more than that. It was military grade adding in the function of a short range scanner/sensor and could be used to send communications over a short distance. Nothing that would reach orbit but a few miles to coordinate small unit tactics perhaps.

She had a bit of time before anything happened. Regardless of the direction she traveled in, if anywhere, about an hour later the hunters arrived. Circling around the crash site, scanning and looking for a place to land. That ship being larger than the fighter chose to land closer to the mountains, the only place clear enough to do so. They could have used weapons to clear a space for them to land closer in the jungle.

Whoever was hunting her didn't want to risk incinerating her should she be hiding in that area as slim as the possibility. That or the ship lacked weapons which was doubtful to say the least.

Niko's current body wasn't as meant for combat like her previous one was, her original body thanks to her personal augmentations she made with her interchangeable limbs. She cursed at the thought of not having those augments with her, however there wasn't much she could do, her master wouldn't allow her to augment this body and her old main body was damaged and still needing repair making Niko rely on scavenging for weapons on her own. Scanning the downed ship made it easier, she managed to find a host of supplies, notable the knife, datapad and even the grenade, however discovering the EMP grenade put her on edge given her currently body's weakness to a full EMP burst. Niko's original body was shielded to an extent, however the current host body she was piloting didn't have such defenses meaning she should use it only as a last resort.... luckily she found more battery packs for her baster, that knife and even the data pad that gave her the ability to perform short ranged scans, meaning she could better avoid hunters and wildlife of the planet. THe idea crossed her mind of using the ships missiles to blow up any of the hunters that got close, however that would require her to stay in this ship or near by and it wasn't an ideal strategy.

Niko would hasty collect the supplies she found, wrap them up in the spare sets of clothes she found and shove what she could into a makeshift backpack she made out of spare wires and containers, cobbling together flimsy gear for now as she would only pause the moment she noticed a ship coming in from some direction to land near by the crash site prompting Niko to get moving. She didn't want to be here when the hunters arrived as she would start hasty moving deeper into the jungle to find a place to hide for now with her weapon loaded and in hand as she moved, ready to protect herself if she needed too.

Moving into the jungle she was swallowed up almost at once. Nothing being around her if she didn't have the scanner she wouldn't have realized that the crashed vessel was so close. Moving along she saw the blips of those small life forms. They were all about though she did not know where. According to the sensors they were close.

If she attempted to avoid them she could do so for the majority of them. At times she was right atop one or two of them but failed to see where they were. They must have remained still when she was close. Not long after leaving the ship larger blips arrived there. They moved as a group with a great deal of speed. Faster than a humanoid indicating that they may have had a vehicle. If so it would be rather limited.

The crash site and maybe the mountains so the jungle did turn out to be better so far. There were twelve “things” the sensors not detailed enough to give her much information. Only that one of the twelve was different than the others. They split up, one remained at the ship while the others broke into groups of 5, 3 and 3 going in separate directions.

Drones zipped over head but with the canopy of trees they would be hard pressed to get any visuals. Even if they were sophisticated with life detection sensors or infrared she wouldn't show up. So far none of the groups closed in on her directly each being spread out. The one different alien being with the larger group somewhere to the far east.

After checking the scans Niko saw one of the humanoids. A black furry creature that had large ears like a bat. It resembled four armed monkey with bright yellow eyes. Perched on a tree branch about ten feet overhead it turned it's head to the side as it examined her.

Deftly it climbed to a lower branch only to regard her again. Large eyes blinking as it watched her.

Niko wouldn't waste a lot of time standing around afther she gathered up those spare supplies and hurried away into the jungle. She didn't want to stay in one place as she would slink off into the jungle with all that she could carry as she would struggle to find a route to avoid the coming search party that was going to investigate the area she was in to find her. She hated this idea of a hunt, however she had no choice but to play the game as she hefted the supplies onto her back and hurriedly ran, leaving the shup behind while watching her own transceiver as the radar blipped other dots showing her that roughly twelve diffrent strangers were out there looking for her.... breaking into groups.

Niko would instictivly duck as as she heard the sound of drones zipping over her, the tree shaking as they flew over so close she was afraid that they might of saw her as she crouched near a tree, looking up nervously just as her blinking eyes would notice the black furry creature with large ears like a bat hanging from one the the branches peering down at her with its large eyes.

Niko would be surprised by this as she would cautiously approach as she gently put a hand out. "Did the loud noise scare you too buddy?" Niko said as she would reach to gently pet the creature if it allowed her too.

As she approached the creature first scurried up the tree with ease. The multiple limbs assisting it. She noted that it's fingers ended in small claws designed to assist in climbing. They wouldn't do much in a combat situation other than irritate. From higher up it stared at her.

Cocking it's head to the side reminded her of a dog. As those large eyes took in the situation. Likely taking in the strangeness of her appearance as well as the drones the creature probably didn't encounter either if any. Then it approached slowly. Cautiously it allowed her within range.

It's eyes focused on her scavenged weapons indicating that it knew what they were. Chittering softly as she stroked the furry creature it repeated her action with a single hand tracing the back of her own.

It felt odd … a tingling sensation not quite like static electricity but she felt something far more than warmth that caused her to tingle a bit. Feeling like her hand fell asleep it drew that touch away as surprised as she was. Then it touch her again. A little more hesitant than the last time to similar results.

Her hand still felt that tingle though it lacked that sensation of falling asleep. In fact there was a charge. Her power levels increased, barely noticeable.

Again it chittered keeping it's tone low. That didn't sound like a growl or similar animal sound. The string of syllables sounded like a language. As Niko processed this it scurried away climbing higher. Then leaping into an adjacent tree it looked back at her gestured then leaped away again. Stopping to look around then checking on her once more. Gesturing in a fashion that indicated that it wished for her to follow.