Chapter 6 : "Let's Make a Deal!" 

When they put her in her cage, Ashley immediately curled up in a fetal position 
and began to cry. Great, wailing sobs escaped the tormented girl's throat as she 
recalled the horror of what had happened to her. She couldn't get the memory out 
of her head ; how Astronema had so cruelly taken her virginity, the gift she was 
saving to give her first love, and how Astronema had taken it in a manner to 
brutal, so inhuman, so painful... Even when exhaustion overtook her and she fell 
asleep, the memory of the heartless violation would come flooding back in 
horrifying nightmares and she would wake up screaming and crying. 

In the pitch-blackness of the cage, Ashley had no real track of time, and so she was 
stunned when the lights flashed on and Ecliptor and two Quantrons entered. As they 
did every morning, she was fed and watered and then they grabbed her by the arms and 
led her away. They walked down a long hall through the ship. They walked in silence, 
the only sounds being the clomping of the Quantrons boots, the soft thumping sound 
that Ashley's delicate bare feet made as they tread on the cold metal floor, and the 
occasional whimper of anguish that, despite her best efforts, occasionally escaped 
Ashley's lips. Her knees bucked when she saw the torture chamber, but there was no 
stopping them bringing her in. 

Before her Ashley saw an armchair. She was forced to kneel before it, and straps 
connected to the floor were wrapped around her knees and ankles, securing her legs 
on the floor. Astronema smiled, and quickly pulled her pants down, exposing her 
pussy. She sat down in the chair, and Ashley's wrists were secured to straps on the 
arm of the chair. Astronema grabbed Ashley's hair and forced her face upwards. "Well, 
my pretty Yellow Ranger, now is the chance to repay me for how nice I've been to you. 
Suck me!" A wave of nausea consumed Ashley at the thought. She contorted her face in 
disgust. Astronema looked up from Ashley and nodded. WHAM! One of the Quantrons 
brought a stroke of the whip down on Ashley's exposed ass. Ashley let out a shriek and 
another when another stroke of the whip found its mark. Ashley cried out. "NOO!! NO!! 
I'LL DO IT! JUST STOP!" "All right, then," said Astronema, "Go ahead." Fighting back 
the urge to vomit, Ashley stuck her tongue out and touched Astronema's cunt. As soon 
as she felt Ashley's delicate tongue touch her genitals, she grabbed Ashley's hair and 
forced Ashley's face into her crotch. "Lick! Use you tongue, Yellow Bitch! Lick me!" 
She motioned to the Quantrons who struck Ashley with two more strokes of the whip. 
Ashley's cries of pain were muffled by Astronema's crotch. She was consumed with 
humiliation. But most of all, the pain and terror consumed her. She stuck her tongue 
out, and despite the revulsion she felt, she went to work licking Astronema's cunt as 
hard as she could. She would do anything, ANYTHING to save herself more pain. 

Astronema moaned with pleasure. "Oh, yes, you little Yellow Whore," she sighed, "lick 
me!" Astronema twisted Ashley's hair in her hands. Ashley, desperate to please her 
torturer out of sheer terror of what would happen to her if she didn't, licked and 
licked and Astronema got more and more pleasure until finally, Astronema could feel 
herself getting ready to come and she grabbed Ashley's hair even tighter and cried out 
to the Quantrons. "Whip her! WHIP HER!" The Quantron plied the whip mercilessly on 
Ashley. Ashley jerked in her bonds every time the whip hit her, muffled sounds of 
anguish being the only sound that escaped the union of the wretched girl's face and 
Astronema's juicy cunt. Consumed by sadistic ecstasy, Astronema, still holding Ashley's 
hair in her hands, jerked Ashley's head back and forth, using Ashley's pretty nose to 
massage her clitoris and rubbing her victim's wailing mouth back and forth across her 
pussy. Finally, Astronema came. She came in great waves of pleasure. She looked down 
at Ashley's pretty face, now covered with Astronema's come juices and her own tears. 
She smiled at her victim. "Now, Ashley, you were a good girl. So we're going to call 
your friends now." Ashley perked up at the sound of that. What could Astronema mean? 
"But first," Astronema continued, "we need to make sure you don't ruin things." She 
motioned to the Quantrons. They untied Ashley and dragged her to the torture table. 

Ashley lay on the torture table, bound securely. Her arms were tied at her sides, and 
her legs spread wide. She watched with fear as Astronema wheeled up an odd looking 
machine next to her. The machine had a series of knobs, dials, and lights on it. 
Astronema picked up several wires and connected them to various plugs that were on the 
machine. All the wires had metal clips on the end of them. Astronema leaned over 
Ashley's prone body and fastened one of the clips on Ashley's right nipple. Ashley 
groaned as the hard metal teeth bit into the tender flesh. She groaned even louder 
when Astronema fastened another clip to her left nipple. Astronema then put clips on 
each of Ashley's cunt lips, and fastened one directly onto her clitoris. Ashley 
started to moan with misery when she realized what was in store for her. 

"Oh no, no, no..." she moaned, rocking her head from side to side, while Astronema 
clipped several clips onto the soft pads of her toes. "Oh, yes, yes, yes!" mocked 
Astronema, as she picked up two metal rods. She attached the final two clips to them, 
and then slid one rod into Ashley's cunt. The cold metal rubbing against the tender, 
abused interior of her vagina made Ashley shriek with pain, a pain that only 
increased, as did her cries, when Astronema rammed the other rod into her ass. 
Astronema strode over to the machine and flipped several switches. The machine 
started to hum. Astronema turned one of the knobs and Ashley went stiff with pain. 

Electric shocks started flowing through the wire, alternating between each of the 
different wires. Ashley would feel searing pain in her cunt, then her breasts, then 
her toes, then her ass! She thrashed wildly in her bonds, crying and screaming in 
pain as the current flowed through her nubile body. Astronema looked at her victim 
with satisfaction. She then turned and looked to Ecliptor, who motioned to her. 

"As you requested, I have opened a channel of communications with the Megaship." 

"Excellent," replied Astronema, leaving Ashley to suffer and twitch behind her. 
Ecliptor turned a dial and, on the viewing screen, appeared the interior of the 
Megaship. The four remaining Rangers (Carlos, Andros, Cassie, and TJ) were all 
busily trying to track down Ashley. 

"Rangers! R-a-a-a-ngers!" Astronema's voice filled the Megaship and the Rangers 
turned and saw Astronema's figure standing before them. Andros rushed forward. 

"Astronema! Where's Ashley!" Astronema smiled. "Ashley Who?" "You know who I mean! 
Where is she? What have you done to her?" Neither Andros nor any of the other Rangers 
could see that Ashley was in the same room as Astronema being tormented mercilessly. 
In the throes of her constant torture, Ashley could see and hear Andros. "A-a-a...
 A-a-n-n-ahhhhh..." She tried to call out to Andros to save her, but the pain was 
so overwhelming that all she could muster were broken cries of anguish. Astronema, 
completely ignoring the suffering girl, looked sternly at Andros. "What have I done 
to her? Nothing compared to what I WILL do to her if you don't comply with my 
demands!" TJ strode forward. "What demands?" "I want the Mega Crystal," Astronema 
said. The Rangers were stunned. The Mega Crystal was enormously powerful! Could they 
possibly afford to put such power in the hands of Astronema? Cassie went up to 
Andros and whispered in his ear. "Can we hesitate? It's Ashley, for God's sake! Who 
knows what that monster will do to her?" 

Andros looked at her with steely resolve. They had to do whatever it took to get 
Ashley back. "OK, Astronema. You get the crystal. Now return Ashley!" "All in good 
time, my fine Red Ranger," taunted Astronema, "all in good time. I'll give you a 
little while to get the crystal ready, and then I'll contact you with a time and 
place. And then I'll return your precious Yellow Ranger to you." "Unharmed!" 
insisted Carlos, while the other Rangers nodded in agreement. "Of course, I'll return 
her alive and well. Alive and well. Farewell, Rangers!" And with that, Astronema's 
image disappeared, and the Rangers went about preparing for the trade. 

Ashley, who overheard the whole thing, was suffering tortures of the damned. She 
desperately tried to make herself visible, to call out to the Rangers but the pain 
was just too intense, she was suffering just too much, she just couldn't get the 
words out! The electric shocks were so overwhelming that she couldn't even form 
screams out of her mouth, just gurgles of pain. 

Astronema walked over to her and turned the dials down. The piercing shocks subsided 
to a low buzzing feeling. Despite her raw, dry throat, she managed to form words. 
"Andros... oh God Andros... save me Andros, please Andros please Oh God Andros..." 

Astronema wiped Ashley's hair from her eyes. "Andros? He didn't save you, now did he? 
He's not going to save you, is he? If you leave here, it'll be because I let you, not 
because your beloved Red Ranger saves you. He won't. He didn't even want to trade for 
you!" Ashley rolled her head from side to side, "No, no, that's not true, that's not 
true..." Astronema smiled. "But it doesn't really matter now, does it? I promised I 
wouldn't kill you if they made the trade, and I always keep my word. But you were a 
very bad girl, trying to let them know you were here, so you need to be punished. 
Here," she said, stuffing a rubber gag into Ashley's mouth, "we don't want you 
cracking your teeth just yet. And now, some punishment." 

Astronema turned the knobs of the machine to their maximum and the most intense 
shocks imaginable coursed through Ashley's body, wracking each part of her body with 
indescribable agony. She shook uncontrollably, biting hard into the gag, the shocks 
coursing through one part of the body, then another, then another, then another, 
making her feel like she was going to be ripped to pieces when finally, the enormity 
of her suffering overwhelmed her and she passed out. "Well," Astronema said, 
satisfied, "we've made a deal." She then wheeled over a table next to Ashley's 
secured form. The table had all types of instruments on it : pliers, soldering irons, 
clamps, forceps, clips, among others. She looked over everything with satisfaction. 

"Now," the monstrous woman said to Ashley's unconscious beautiful face, "let's have 
some fun!" 


Chapter 7 : Tale of the Toes 

A bucket of cold water was tossed on Ashley's face. She awoke, returning to her 
living Hell. Astronema leaned down close to Ashley's face. "Now, my dear," she began, 
"I am going to have fun with your pretty toes. You know, human toes are the most 
amazing things. They are so poised to feel pain, so able to feel intense, unbearable 
pain, and pain that consumes entire body, that they must have been designed for it." 

Ashley lay on the table, helplessly, as tears began to stream down her face. Astronema 
smiled and leaned down and licked away the tears. "Don't hurt me any more," Ashley 
begged, "I'll do anything you want, you know that..." "Oh, I know that," the wicked 
woman replied. "But right now, all I want to do is torture your toes." Ashley let out 
a pitiful whimper. Astronema laughed. "Oh, the fun we're going to have! I am going to 
torture each toe. Each of your beautiful, delicate, tender toes is going to be tortured. 
And I can't wait. Oh, you have such pretty feet!" And with that, she almost hopped to 
the end of the table and began to play with Ashley's feet. 

Astronema spent the better part of the next half-hour playing with Ashley's feet. She 
stroked the soft, delicate soles, enjoying how Ashley's feet twitched as she did. She 
kissed each toe, wiggled the toes between her fingers, all the while muttering, "Oh, 
such pretty feet! Such pretty, delicate toes! Oh, I love these toes!" she'd shriek, and 
then give one of Ashley's toes a kiss. Ashley was consumed with shame, misery and fear, 
she curled and uncurled her toes as Astronema played with them. Finally, Astronema 
stood up and looked at Ashley, and then her face twisted into an evil smile. "Let's 
have some fun!" she taunted. 

Astronema was ready to begin. Going to Ashley's left foot, Astronema tweaked Ashley's 
baby toe with her fingers. She stroked Ashley's foot, rubbing her finger against the 
soft, wrinkled soles. Ashley whimpered in misery. Then Astronema grabbed Ashley's 
lovely foot and, with one quick move, picked up a pair of pliers, grabbed the tiny 
toenail on the baby toe and, with one yank, ripped it out. Blood spurted from the 
exposed nail bed. "AAAAAHHHHHH!" Ashley threw her head back and let out a wail of pure 
anguish. The pain was so sudden and so intense that she almost passed out. Astronema 
laughed merrily at her victim's torment, for she knew it was only beginning. 

Astronema carefully stroked the delicate sole of Ashley's bare foot, smiling a horrid 
smile. She picked up a small screw about one half-inch long. She grabbed Ashley's 
shapely fourth toe (the one next to the pinky toe) and, holding it firmly, put the 
sharp point directly at the end of her toenail. Ashley started to wiggle, and so 
Astronema held the toe more tightly. She then gave a slight push, which caused the 
point of the nail to go just barely under the nail. 

Ashley shrieked as she felt the metal enter her tender flesh. Astronema then took a 
screwdriver and began to slowly turn the screw. With every turn, the screw dug in 
deeper under Ashley's toenail. Ashley began to wail in pain. "AAAAHHH!!! NOOOOOO!!!! 
OH GOD NO NONONOOOO!!!! AAAAAAIIIIIIIHHHHHH!!!!!" Astronema smiled wickedly as she 
continued to turn the screw. The screw dug deeper and deeper under the nail, and 
Ashley screamed and screamed and screamed. As the screw went deeper and deeper 
under Ashley's lovely toenail, the nail was slowly lifted off the toe. The pain 
Ashley felt was unbearable ; she didn't think she could stand it. Her screams filled 
the air. 

Finally, Astronema finished screwing the screw in. She then gives the screw a yank 
with the pliers. The grooves of the screw ripped through the delicate toenail bed 
and blood began to flow from where the screw was. Ashley screams got even louder 
and more frantic than before. She thrashed and struggled desperately against her 
bonds. The removal of the screw left a nice convenient spot for Astronema to grab 
with the needle-nose pliers, and she couldn't resist. Astronema rams one side of 
the pliers into the gap left by the screw, and with a vicious tug, pulls Ashley's 
toenail out. Words cannot describe Ashley's screams, and then she fainted. 

Astronema tosses cold water on the poor girl's face, and she slowly came around. 
"No more, no more..." Ashley whimpered. "No more?" laughed Astronema. "I don't think 
so! After all, you've got eight toes left, and I've got plans for each one of them!" 
And with that, Astronema picked up one of the soldering irons. She grabbed Ashley's 
lovely foot and, with her thumb and forefinger, held the middle toe securely. 

She brought the iron to Ashley's toe, and slowly started to slide it under the nail. 
Ashley's foot recoiled when the burning iron touched it, but Astronema held her foot 
and toe firmly. She continued to slide the iron under the tip of the toenail. Ashley 
began to scream and struggle wildly. The smell of burning flesh began to fill 
Astronema nostrils, and she closed her eyes and breathed in the smell deeply, sucking 
the lovely smell of Ashley's burning flesh. Ashley screamed and writhed about 
helplessly in her bonds. Astronema then took the iron and put it directly on top of 
the small, shapely toenail. She pressed down. The sizzling of the iron was lost in 
the din of Ashley's screams of pain. They were ripped raw from her throat as 
Astronema kept the iron on Ashley's toenail for five, ten, twenty seconds. 

Ashley screamed and screamed, her head flaying from side to side, tears flying off 
her face as Astronema, her face contorted into a smile of pure sadism, held the iron 
on the suffering girl's toe. Thirty seconds, forty second, fifty seconds. The seconds 
felt like hours to Ashley. She couldn't imagine the pain she was feeling. Astronema 
held the iron on Ashley's toe for over a minute before the pain overwhelmed Ashley 
and she fainted. When Astronema removed the iron and looked at the nail, it was 
completely burned black. It came out easily, making a small "ping" as it hit the 
floor, the sound audible in the silence that succeeded Ashley's faint. 

Astronema motioned to Ecliptor who tossed more water on Ashley. Ashley slowly came 
around to consciousness. She opened her eyes and, through her tears, managed to make 
out Astronema standing by her feet. When Astronema saw that Ashley was awake, she 
spoke. "Good. The Yellow Ranger is back with us. We can now continue." Ashley began 
to whimper and moan. "No... no more, please Astronema no more I'll do anything just 
please no more... oh, no..." Her voice trailed off into pitiful sobs as she saw 
Astronema pick up a pair of pliers and grab her foot once again. 

Holding Ashley's foot and toe securely, she grabbed the nail of the toe next to the 
big toe and slowly, ever so slowly, began to peel the nail back. Ashley wailed in 
unimaginable agony as the evil Astronema worked on her toe. Astronema slowly pulled 
the nail back until it was at a forty-five degree angle from the rest of the toe, 
with the nail bed exposed. Astronema then put down the pliers and picked up the 
soldering iron. She put the burning iron directly onto the sensitive exposed nail 
bed of Ashley's toe. When Ashley felt the pain, it was so intense and so sudden that 
she couldn't even scream. Her entire body tensed, her mouth opened in silence and 
then, after a second or two, a scream of such intense pain and suffering that it 
would melt the hearts of anyone with an ounce of human decency came from the 
suffering girl's throat. And then Ashley, once again overwhelmed by pain, passed out. 

Cold water brought her around again, and as soon as she was awake, Astronema grabbed 
the peeled back toenail and with one tug ripped it out of Ashley's toe. Again, the 
suddenness and the intensity of the pain were too much for Ashley, and, after another 
pitiful scream of pure suffering, she passed out again. Astronema was annoyed. How 
was she going to continue to torture Ashley if she kept passing out just at the good 
parts? Fortunately, she had a plan. She motioned to Ecliptor. "Ecliptor, take this." 
She handed the robot beast a package. Ecliptor took it. "What shall I do with it, my 
Queen?" "It contains strong smelling salts. As I torture her, you'll hold her head up 
and force her to watch what I'm doing to her pretty toes. If you see that she is 
starting to pass out, hold the salts under her nose. That should keep her awake." 

"An excellent idea, my Queen! You know that I am happy to do anything that will 
increase her suffering." 

"I thought you'd like it. Now, wake her up so we can continue." Ecliptor tossed water 
on Ashley and held the smelling salts under her pretty nose. Coughing and wheezing, 
Ashley opened her eyes. When she realized where she was, she began to weep and plead. 
Ecliptor grabbed Ashley's hair and forced her to look at her toes. Astronema stood 
there and when she saw Ashley looking at her, she smiled and said, "Now for this 
lovely toe," and she kissed Ashley's big toe. Ashley's face twisted in misery and 
fear. "No, please, no please for the love of God please no oh please no more stop 
please stop..." 

Astronema smiled and picked up a small piece of wood that looked like a thick 
toothpick. She positioned the pointed tip at the end of Ashley's big toe and then 
gave it a WHAM with a hammer. The stake drove itself deep under Ashley's toenail. 
Ashley screamed in pain and struggled, but Ecliptor held her head firmly. After 
Astronema saw that the stake was nicely under Ashley's toenail, she lit a match. 
She then lit the stake and it started to burn slowly. Ashley's eyes were wide with 
terror as she watched the flame get closer and closer to her delicate toe. Eventually, 
it started to burn under her toenail. Ashley shrieked and struggled and screamed 
horribly as Astronema looked on contentedly. Finally, the flame went out. Ashley lay 
on the torture table, panting. Astronema leaned down and kissed the toe once again. 

"Don't worry, my pretty Yellow Ranger," she purred to the terrified girl, "We'll 
return to this pretty toe later!" Astronema held Ashley's foot in both her hands and 
gazed at it happily. Ashley looked in horror at her foot : all five of her toes were 
bleeding from the torture. Astronema tweaked each delicate toe, smiling and laughing 
as she did. Tears streamed down Ashley's pretty face as she was consumed by misery. 
Astronema let Ashley's foot go and walked to the end of the table. She leaned close to 
Ashley's face. "So," smiled Astronema, "How did that feel? Did it hurt?" 

"Oh God, Astronema, please no more, please no more oh please..." 

"No more?" exclaimed Astronema, in mock surprise. "But we've got a whole other foot 
to go!" Ashley moaned in misery as Astronema laughed a wicked laugh and went back to 
the end of the table where Ashley's lovely right foot was bound. She stroked the 
foot, both on the sole and on top. Ashley whimpered in misery as she futilely 
twisted her foot in a pitiful attempt to escape from Astronema's hands and fingers. 
Astronema grabbed Ashley's squirming foot and held it steady. She picked up a small 
knife, and slid the point of the knife under the tiny toenail on Ashley's pinkie toe. 
Ashley wailed in pain as the felt the sharp point dig into her sensitive toe. Ashley 
pain got even greater as Astronema started using the knife to try and pry out the 
small toenail. Finally, after what seemed to the wretched girl like hours of 
Astronema digging and prying, the toenail popped free. 

Ashley screamed and screamed and screamed. As Ashley's screams finally subsided a 
little bit (subsided being a relative term, of course : Ashley was moaning and 
weeping in pain all the while), Astronema grabbed her fourth toe with her thumb and 
forefinger and wiggled it back and forth. "Oh, the pretty toe," cooed Astronema as 
the tweaked the shapely, small digit. She took a pair of forceps and forced the 
bottom point under the toenail. Ashley let out another wail of pain as Astronema 
lipped the forceps shut. She grabbed the end of the forceps, but didn't pull. She 
just held it, holding Ashley's foot still. She then picked up a small burner and 
held the flame directly on the metal just outside of the toenail. The flame heated 
he metal. Ashley hadn't stopped screaming from the pain of the forceps when she felt 
the heat burn under the toe and she began to scream even louder. She screamed and 
screamed and screamed. Once or twice, it looked like she was going to faint and 
when that happened, Ecliptor put the smelling salts under her beautiful nose and 
there was no solace in unconsciousness for Ashley, much to the delight of Astronema. 

The forceps got hotter and hotter and hotter. Finally, the forceps got so hot that 
it burned through the toenail and fell to the floor. Astronema looked at Ashley's 
toe and saw that the toenail had been split in half, with a gap in the middle burned 
completely through. Astronema grabbed Ashley's foot with both hands, and put one 
thumb on each of the halves of the toenail and pushed them to the side. When she 
was finished, each half of the toenail was standing straight up on the toe. Ashley 
was thrashing her head, screaming and drooling in pain as Astronema picked up the 
pliers and easily wrenched each half of the nail from the lovely toe. Ashley 
screamed and thrashed and struggled and screamed, and Astronema drank in every 
voluptuous moment of her suffering. 

Satisfied that Ashley was ready to feel more pain, Astronema moved to the middle 
toe. She picked up a hypodermic needle filled with acid and flourished it in front 
of Ashley's terrified face. Ashley couldn't imagine what additional horrors 
Astronema had in store for her. Astronema slid the needle under the toenail, and put 
a single, tiny drop of acid in. A single drop was more than enough. It began to burn, 
burn in a manner that drove Ashley wild. "AAAAHHHH!!! AAAAAHHHH!!!! AAAIIIEEEEE!!!!!" 
Ashley's screams echoed off the wall, as Ecliptor held her head firmly, making her 
watch what was happening to her toe. Ashley's toenail began to foam and bubble as the 
acid continued to burn away at the nerve endings under her toenail. She couldn't 
believe the pain. If Ecliptor hadn't held the smelling salts under her nose, she 
surely would have passed out by now, but she remained wide-awake and fully cognizant 
of the pain. The bubbling under the toenail - and the resulting agony - continued to 
increase. Finally, there was so much puss and foam that the toenail began to loosen. 
Once it did, Astronema picked up the pliers and ripped the nail off. 

Only the smelling salts kept Ashley awake. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! OH 
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDD!!!!!" Ashley's screams were music to Astronema's ears, and as 
Ashley wailed - absolutely wailed - in hideous agony, Astronema rubbed the exposed 
toe with saline solution. The water stopped the acid from doing any more damage and 
the salt, rubbed into the raw exposed nail bed, caused even more excruciating pain. 
Ashley's screams were louder than anything Astronema had ever heard. Astronema gave 
Ashley a few moments... she wanted to make sure that Ashley would be able to 
appreciate the next torture and she was getting very excited. 

She could feel how wet she was under her outfit. Astronema then went to the toe 
next to the big toe. She picked up another of the soldering irons, this one with a 
smaller iron which ended in a point. She grabbed Ashley's foot and, holding the toe 
firmly, put the pointed tip of the iron directly on the toenail and pushed. Ashley 
screamed and wailed in pain, but Astronema, paying no attention to her victim's 
cries, pushed until she had burned a small hole straight through the toenail. She 
next took a fishing hook and, twisting the hook under the toenail, slid the hook 
through the hole in the nail. Ashley had screamed so much and so loudly that her 
voice was starting to rasp. Once the hook was in place, Astronema tied a cord to 
the end of the hook. She then took a fishing reel and placed it in front of Ashley's 
bare feet. She fastened the end of the cord to the reel. She looked at Ashley. 

Ecliptor was holding her head and she was watching what Astronema was doing with 
dread. Astronema smiled happily at Ashley. "Ready for some fishing fun?" she mocked. 
"Oh, no no no, please no don't Astronema please no... OH GOD!!! NOOOOOO!!! 
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" Astronema started reeling in the line. Ashley's toe began to 
stretch as the nail was pulled towards the reel. Ashley screamed in pain as the toe 
was being stretched. A tiny crack, from the knuckle of Ashley's lovely toe, was lost 
in the din of Ashley's screams. Astronema, still smiling, turned the reel slowly but 
steadily. The agony was absolutely excruciating. Ashley couldn't believe the pain, 
it seemed like there was nothing else in her entire being but one huge mass of agony 
as her toe was stretched out. When the toenail finally popped out, it was so sudden 
that Astronema almost fell backwards. 

Ashley's entire body started to convulse as the pain hit her. But Astronema smiled 
broadly when she saw that Ecliptor managed to keep her awake with the smelling salts. 
Astronema goes to Ashley's lovely big toe next. She picks up a nail file and rams it 
under the nail. "AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!" Ashley wailed in agony, sending waves of 
pleasure through Astronema. Astronema grabbed the toe and held it firmly. Then, 
still holding the toe with one hand, she puts the palm of her other hand on the 
file and wraps her index finger under the pad of Ashley's toe. She starts to push 
down. Ashley's screams of pain hit new levels. Ashley's world had become pain, just 
pain, nothing but pain as Astronema slowly, inexorably, tirelessly pushes down on 
the toenail, which slowly, starts to push the toenail up. Astronema kept on pushing 
down and the nail was lifting more and more off the nail bed and Ashley kept feeling 
more and more pain and was screaming louder and louder when the pretty nail suddenly 
popped out. 

Ashley's entire body went tense as the nail file fell to the floor, the "ping" audible 
in the sudden silence. Then a scream of such pure suffering ripped from Ashley's 
throat that it seemed like the very walls would shake from it. Astronema smiled down 
at the lovely toe, now bereft of a nail, with the blood dripping from it, and she 
leaned down and bit the exposed toenail bed with all her might, drinking in the blood 
that flows all over her mouth and tongue. Ashley was screaming and screaming and 
thrashing and thrashing. It almost seemed that she had gone mad from the pain, but 
Astronema knew that that was some time away. Astronema walked to Ashley's left foot 
and suddenly, without any warning, took the pliers and with a vicious tug ripped out 
the toenail from her left big toe. Blood spurts everywhere and the sudden intense pain 
finally surpasses the limit of human endurance for the miserable girl and, despite the 
smelling salts held under her lovely nose, Ashley collapsed into a dead faint. 

It takes a while, but with a combination of cold water and smelling salts, Ashley is 
woken up. Once she is awake, Astronema rubbed a strong antiseptic onto Ashley's toes. 
This served two purposes :first, it completely stopped the bleeding, cut down on the 
swelling, and it contained a strong antibiotic that prevented infection. Secondly, it 
was excruciatingly painful and caused Ashley addition pain. And then Ashley was sent 
back to her cage to recover.