Chapter 8 : Astronema Gets Serious "Andros... Andros..." Ashley's pitiful whimpers filled the cell. Ashley's entire body ached from the punishment she had endured. Every part of her hurt, but worst of all were her toes, which throbbed with fiery agony all through the evening. During the evening, Ashley drifted in and out of troubled sleep. The throbbing aches in her body made it enormously uncomfortable when she tried to lie in any position on the cage, and the sheer terror of her situation made sleep difficult. But the exhaustion allowed her to get some sleep, albeit shaky. It seemed in the pitch-darkness that Ashley had trouble even telling when she was awake and when she was asleep - her thoughts, be they dreams or reveries -- alternated between wild fantasies of Andros bursting in to save her and images of Astronema's smiling face coming to resume her torture. When she awoke from one dream - a dream which ended with Andros somehow turning into Astronema, causing Ashley to wake up screaming - she found that the lights had been turned on and her daily ration of food and water left next to her. As she ate, she checked out her abused body. When she was first put in the cage, her toes were swollen and small amounts of blood still dripped from the ends of her toes. But by this time, though, the antiseptic and antibiotic had done their work, the swelling had decreased and her toes, although bereft of nails, had returned to their previously lovely shape. The door swung open and two Quantrons walked in. Ashley threw herself into the corner of the cage, covered herself with her arms and legs, and began to whimper. "No! I won't go! I won't! No!" The Quantrons, completely ignoring her, reached into her cage. Ashley struggled wildly as the two Quantrons dragged her out of the cage, kicking and thrashing. Ashley desperately tried to escape. But when she put her bare foot on the cold floor, spread her toes and tried to push off, her tormented toes sent a rush of pain through her and her leg buckled. The Quantrons dragged her down the hall, with Ashley whimpering pitifully all the way. The arrived at the door of the torture chamber and Ashley went wild. She started to kick, scream, thrash and struggle more than she ever had. Anything to not go into that horrible room again! Perhaps if Ashley was at full strength it might have been different. Certainly if she had been able to "morph" it would. But now Ashley was naked, tortured, and weakened, and the metal monsters' strength was too much and, despite Ashley's struggles, she was brought into the room, where Astronema awaited her. The sight of Astronema filled Ashley with so much fear, with so much pure terror that with one final lunge, she broke free of the Quantrons and threw herself at Astronema's feet. The Quantrons moved to grab her, but Astronema waved them off. Ashley visibly shook at her feet. "Please, Astronema, please... don't hurt me anymore, please don't hurt me anymore I can't stand anymore please I'll do anything only please no more please..." Astronema was pleased with Ashley's begging. "What will do you if I stop?" Ashley looked up, tears of terror streaming from her wide eyes. "Oh, I'll do anything, just don't hurt me anymore please..." her voice trailed of into sobs. Astronema looked down with disdain. "OK, my Yellow Bitch, lick my boots." Ashley didn't hesitate a second. She stuck out her tongue and began to lick all around Astronema's boot. This had to work, thought Ashley. If I obey her, she won't hurt me anymore. "Do them both," ordered Astronema. Ashley started licking Astronema's other boot. She went back and forth, licking with all her might, desperately trying to satisfy her tormentor. Finally, Astronema said, "That's enough." Ashley kneeled at her feet, her head down, still quivering in fear. Astronema rubbed Ashley's hair. "That was good, my dear," she said. Ashley looked up at her, her face filled with hope. She looked to the Quantrons. "Help her up," she said. The Quantrons helped Ashley to her feet. Ashley was so filled with joy and hope that she almost wept. Astronema rubbed Ashley's face with her hands. "That was very nice, Ashley, very nice." A tear crept out of Ashley's eye. She was going to be spared! "Now, here's your reward for being such a good girl." Astronema turned to the Quantrons. "Put her on the torture table!" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" screamed Ashley as they dragged her to the table and strapped her down. Once the wildly thrashing girl was securely tied, Astronema picked up a pair of wire clippers. She held it in front of Ashley's face. "Aren't these nice? Won't we have such fun playing with them?" Astronema mocked, running the clippers across Ashley's pretty face. Ashley was consumed with terror as Astronema snipped the clippers near her nose and near her mouth. She taunted Ashley by pretending to clip her lovely nose, her full lips, and her pretty ears. After she had tormented Ashley for a while, filling the helpless girl with fear, she was ready to begin the real tortures. With a wicked smile, Astronema stroked Ashley's firm, shapely arm until she was at her lovely hands. She grabbed Ashley's right hand and held the ring finger firmly. "Oh no... oh no... oh nooOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!" SNIP! Astronema snipped of the end of Ashley's ring finger, right at the knuckle. A wave of pain and horror overwhelmed her as blood spurted from the end of her finger. Smiling, Astronema took a hot iron and cauterized the wound. Ashley screamed and screamed, the agony consuming her. Still smiling, Astronema went to the screaming girl's left hand. She forced Ashley's hand down flat on the table, and WHAM! She drove a nail through the fingernail on the middle finger of her left hand. Ashley wailed in agony. Astronema went up to her face. "Well, Ashley my dear, did that hurt?" "YEEESSS! Oh God yes it hurts! No more, please oh God please don't hurt me anymore!" "Of course, Ashley. I want you to be happy. How about this?" And with that comment, Astronema raised the hammer high and smashed it down on Ashley's finger. Ashley couldn't believe the pain. Astronema took the hammer and brought it down over and over again, smashing the middle and index fingers of her left hand. Each crash of the metal hammer on Ashley's delicate fingers sent shock waves of agony through her entire body. Blood dripped from the tips of her fingernails as Astronema sent the horrid hammer crashing down again and again and again... Ashley was thrashing and screaming like an insane woman when Astronema put down the hammer and picked up the clippers again. With unbelievable cruelty, she snipped off Ashley's left pinkie and then cauterized the wound. She then cut off the tip of Ashley's middle finger, freeing it from the metal nail that held it to the table. Ashley's suffering was indescribable. Astronema stood back to relish the sight of Ashley writhing in unimaginable agony. It took a while, but Ashley's screams finally died down to a constant moaning that would have melted the heart of anybody with a soul. But to Astronema, the sounds were music to her ears. And she was ready to continue. Ashley went to Ashley's right pinkie. She grabbed it and bent it all the way back until the bone snapped. Ashley went rigid with pain, shaking and screaming as Astronema then bent the pinkie the other way. Then, just as Ashley thought she couldn't possibly feel any more pain, Astronema brought the awful hammer down on the mangled finger. Ashley strained at the straps that held her luscious, nubile body firmly to the table. Astronema grabbed Ashley's index finger and WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! brought the hammer down on it. Ashley wailed and wailed in pain as she felt the bone in her finger being crushed. Ashley's pain only increased as Astronema snipped the end of her finger off, cauterizing the wound. Ashley thrashed and screamed pitifully. Astronema stroked the thrashing girl's leg, following down the muscular thigh, shapely calves, perfectly formed ankles, down to her lovely feet. Her toes were still a bit swollen from the toenail removal they had undergone previously, but Astronema noted with pleasure that the swelling had gone almost completely down and they retained their loveliness. Astronema picked up a pair of pliers and grabbed Ashley's pinkie toe on her right foot, grabbed it with the pliers and squeezed and twisted until the bone snapped. And once Astronema had broken the pretty toe, she picked up a soldering iron and burned the soft pads of the toe. Wave after wave of indescribable agony flowed through Ashley's beautiful body. She jerked wildly at the straps, screaming her lungs out in pure anguish. Astronema, pleased with the initial reaction, continued. For the next two hours, Astronema had a wonderful time torturing Ashley's feet. She would grab each toe with the pliers and slowly, oh so slowly, twist and squeeze until the bone broke. She used the iron to burn the pads of Ashley's toes and the delicate tender sole of her beautiful foot. She put the soldering iron between Ashley's toes. She burned the top of Ashley's toes and the bottom of her toes, where they met the foot. She kept on squeezing and breaking and burning until Ashley's lovely feet were massed of blood, bruises, blisters, and charred skin. Ashley screamed and struggled and thrashed and screamed and jerked and cried and begged and screamed some more until she felt her throat would collapse. Astronema was flushed with pleasure as she watched her victim writhe. She leaned down, gazing happily at Ashley's tormented feet. The sight of Ashley's pretty feet so badly tortured, filled her with so much joy she thought she might come right then and there. She grabbed one of Ashley's feet, and started tweaking her broken toes, wiggling each delicate toe back and forth, bringing shrieks of agony from the miserable girl. Astronema then leaned down and started biting Ashley's tortured toes, digging her teeth deep into the pads and flesh of Ashley's toes. The feeling of her tormentor's teeth digging into her pain filled toes consumed Ashley with misery, adding to the piercing, all-compassing agony that filled her very being. Astronema let Ashley thrash and scream for a while. She then picked up two thick rods, both covered with sandpaper. She walked up to her writhing victim and, with put one end of the rod on Ashley's cunt and started to slowly push it inside. When Ashley felt the rough rod starting to slide into her delicate vagina, she went absolutely wild, screaming, thrashing, and struggling like never before. Astronema put her left hand on Ashley's lower abdomen to keep her still, and then continued to push the rod deep into Ashley's cunt. Ashley felt like she was absolutely being ripped apart. Her private parts were already sort from the treatment they had received and this was the worst pain imaginable. Ashley felt like broken glass was being rubbed into her as Astromena slowly and carefully slid the rough rod deep into her most delicate part. Her pain and suffering only increased when Astronema took the other sandpaper-covered rod and slowly slid it into her ass. Ashley's life had become nothing but pain. The pain consumed everything; there was nothing but suffering, nothing but pain, pain, and more pain. Every time she thought she had reached the pinnacle of pain, the limit to her endurance, there was always more, there was never an end. Her entire being had now become only pain, suffering, and the hideous smiling woman who was inflicting the pain. Once the two rods were deep inside her, the burning agony they caused never seemed to stop. Even the act of breathing made them hurt as they rubbed inside her. Her suffering was made worse when Astronema, luxuriating in Ashley's suffering, grabbed the ends of the two rods and started twisting and moving them around. This was it. Ashley was certain that she would be able to take no more - surely, she was being torn apart. The pain was so intense, so piercing, so overwhelming that Ashley was sure that Astronema was ripping her to shreds. Nothing compared to the tearing, ripping agony that had taken over every cell of her body. Nothing, that is, until Astronema, with a quick jerk, pulled both rods out of Ashley's cunt and ass. Ashley went still. Then she threw back her head, opened her mouth, and let out a scream of pure anguish. The scream went on and on, echoing off the walls of the torture chamber. Astronema stood back, still holding the blood covered rods, drinking in Ashley's voluptuous agony. When Ashley's scream started to die down - after almost a minute - Astronema was ready. She picked up the wire clippers and, going to Ashley's raw genitals, quickly and neatly snipped her clitoris off. Ashley jerked mightily, almost inhumanly, at the straps that held her to the table. Her screams of agony started anew. Then Astronema, eager to preserve Ashley for more torments, picked up the soldering iron and held it to what remained of Ashley's mutilated clitoris, cauterizing the wound. This new agony was so intense, so excruciating, so sudden and unexpected that Ashley, finally, was consumed by pain and mercifully passed out. Astronema was panting from exertion and pleasure. But her sadistic lust had been finally sated for now, and she motioned that the wretched girl should be brought back to her cage. Chapter 9 : The End of Yellow When the lights were turned on in her cell, Ashley simply lay limply on the floor of her cage. The torture had taken so much out of her that she could barely even function any more. The Quantrons grabbed her and dragged her down the hall - there was no way that Ashley could walk with the condition of her feet and toes. When they brought her into the torture chamber, as soon as she saw Astronema she was so filled with terror that her bladder let go and piss streamed down her leg. Astronema laughed, and motioned to Ecliptor, who tossed cold water on Ashley's legs to clean away the urine. Ashley looked at Astronema. "Please..." Ashley's voice was barely audible. "Please no more please..." Astronema smiled. "But Ashley, you're still so very beautiful," she said, fondling Ashley's breasts, squeezing them, rubbing them. She cupped Ashley's pretty face in her hands. "We've got so much more fun ahead of us, Yellow Ranger, so much more fun!" And with that, she planted a long, kiss on Ashley, plunging her tongue deep into Ashley's mouth. Ashley whimpered miserably. Astronema removed her tongue from Ashley's mouth and motioned to the Quantrons. They brought Ashley to the table where she was securely bound. As she was being bound to the table, Ecliptor walked over and gave her an injection, which burned slightly. Once he was finished, he walked away and Astronema walked over and started to fondle her breasts. Ashley looked up at her tormentor. "Please, Astronema, please," the wretched girl began, her voice low and raw from screaming so much. "Don't do this any more. Just kill me if you must but for God's sake don't hurt me any more..." Astronema threw back her head and laughed, a laugh so evil it sent waves of terror through Ashley. "But I promised you I wouldn't kill you, now didn't I, pretty Ashley? Ha-ha-ha!" Ashley burst into tears. "Please," she sobbed, "please oh please..." Astronema squeezed Ashley's breast and looked down at her. "But I've got such plans for you, Ashley, such big plans. I should let you know that you've been given a stimulant." She leaned over and gave Ashley an evil grin. "I want you to appreciate fully what's going to happen next!" Astronema picked up a scalpel and taunted Ashley with it, running the edge over her flesh and brandishing it in front of her wide, terrified eyes. Ashley shook, literally shook with terror as Astronema taunted Ashley, waiting for the stimulant to take effect. When Astronema was sure that the stimulant was pumping through Ashley's bloodstream, Astronema grabbed Ashley's right breast and squeezed, making the lovely brown nipple stand up. Astronema picked up the soldering iron and burned the nipple. Ashley wailed and thrashed in pain as Astronema calmly used the iron on the nipple, until the nipple was covered with blisters. Astronema then picked up the scalpel and slowly and carefully scraped the skin off Ashley's delicate nipple. Once she had skinned the nipple, she picked up some rough sandpaper and rubbed the tender, exposed skin. Ashley was going wild with pain. Astronema next picked up the scalpel and carved a small piece of flesh off of Ashley's breast. Ashley went frantic with suffering as blood spurted from the wound, but Astronema picked up the soldering iron and used it to cauterize the wound and staunch the flow of blood. For the next thirty minutes, Astronema merrily carved piece after piece away from Ashley's breast. Each time she sliced away a piece of Ashley's breast, she cauterized the wound with the iron. Ashley couldn't believe what was happening to her, the pain was overwhelming, she screamed, she thrashed her head from side to side, tears and sweat flying off her pretty face. When Astronema was finished, what was once Ashley's shapely right breast was now a small, mangled lump of burned flesh. Astronema smiled happily at her handiwork. Astronema then began to fondle Ashley's left breast. Ashley moaned and writhed as she felt Astronema fingers knead the breast. Astronema hands and forearms were covered in blood and she left bloody fingerprints all over Ashley's left breast as she squeezed, pinched, and fondled the luscious mound of flesh. When she had tired of tormenting Ashley by kneading her breasts, she picked up the scalpel. She sliced straight through her pretty nipple, and then made another cut through the nipple, making an "X" cut. Astronema then leaned over, put her teeth around the nipple and bit down hard. She kept on biting and digging her teeth into Ashley's nipple until she finally bit Ashley's nipple off. Astronema savored the taste and feeling of the nipple in her mouth. "Delicious," said Astronema, as she swallowed the nipple down. Astronema then took the scalpel and made a deep, small cut on the side of the breast. Ignoring Ashley's frantic screams of agony, Astronema then made three more deep cuts next to it. Putting the scalpel down, she then reached around Ashley's breast and digs her fingers deep into the cuts she made, her fingers imbedding themselves into Ashley's soft breast. She squeezed her hand into a fist and pulled, ripping away the breast. Ashley lost control, twisting, writhing, wailing beyond belief. The straps stretched but held the wretched girl firm as blood gushed from the mangled breast. Astronema then took a blowtorch and used it to burn the torn breast into a blackened, charred mass of flesh. Astronema wasn't finished yet, though. She then picked up the scalpel and reached into Ashley's cunt and used the scalpel to mutilate any piece of Ashley's genitals that she could reach. She then rammed the soldering iron deep into Ashley's mangled private parts, burning and sizzling away the delicate flesh. Then she rammed the iron deep into Ashley's anus. Ashley barely kept her sanity. Her face no longer looked human. It was contorted into such twisted agony that if you wouldn't know that she was once considered the prettiest girl in Angel Grove. Astronema's face was twisted with sadistic lust. She was covered in Ashley's blood. She leaned close to Ashley's face, a face that was still contorted in agony, and kissed her. She smiled at her victim. "Poor Ashley, poor, poor Ashley," she cooed, "I've done so many horrible things to you. I'm made you see so much that you probably wish you didn't, haven't I?" Ashley was in so much pain, shock, and horror that she just grunted, unable to really even speak. Astronema smiled even wider. "Well, then," she mocked, "I don't want to make you see any more than you have to!" And with that, she grabbed Ashley by the hair and held her head still. She then stuck her finger into Ashley's right eye socket and gauged her eye out. The eye hung on Ashley's cheek, held in place by the optic nerve that was still attached. The wretched girl wailed in unimaginable pain. Laughing, Astronema reached down and ripped the eye off. Ashley was screaming insanely, her mouth wide open, and Astronema pushed the eyeball into Ashley's mouth. Grunting, she forced Ashley's mouth shut and held her nostrils shut and shook her head until she swallowed her own eyeball. Ashley's misery cannot be described. Astronema then picked up the most evil device she had - it was a hand saw, but the saw was attached to an electric cord and when turned on the saw turned red hot. She went to Ashley's left foot and, putting her hand on Ashley's shin, started sawing through her ankle. Even in Ashley's condition, she sensed what was happening to her and she wailed. Astronema calmly sawed through Ashley's ankle, and the searing heat of the saw limited the bleeding by partially cauterizing the wound. It didn't cauterize it fully, though, and once Astronema had removed Ashley's foot she picked up the blowtorch and charred the exposed stump until it was black. Astronema picked up the severed foot and kissed it. Then, despite Ashley's struggles and screams, Astronema started in on Ashley's right foot. Ashley had reached new heights of agony. Only the sedative kept her awake, and only some inner strength that refused to die kept her sane. Astronema slowly sawed through Ashley's right ankle, and then charred the stump. But Astronema wasn't finished yet. She went to Ashley's arm and sawed through her right wrist, and then the left wrist, cauterizing each stump with the blowtorch. Astronema sawed with exquisite slowness, making sure that Ashley felt every pass of the saw through the flesh and bone. Her face was a mask of pure evil as waves of pleasure went through her evil body with each long, slow stroke of the saw. Ashley no longer looked or sounded human as she screamed and struggled wildly - her face was contorted into a hideous mass of pure pain and suffering, Once Astronema had removed both of Ashley's feet and both her hands, she arranged them neatly on the on the floor and took a minute to admire her handiwork. Then she went up and started cutting through Ashley's legs, just under the knee. She used long, slow, strokes, carefully sawing so that Ashley felt every second of what was happening to her. The blowtorch charred the new stumps as well. Astronema them went and sawed through Ashley's arms just under the elbow. There are not the words in any language to describe the hell that Ashley was suffering as Astronema slowly sawed her limbs off. Once this round of amputations was complete, Ashley needed to be slightly retied since the original straps held her wrists and ankles. But once she was tied again, Astronema dug back in with the horrid saw. This time, she sawed through Ashley's shapely thighs. It took a long time for her to saw through Ashley's muscular thighs. Blood was everywhere, Astronema was covered in it as she slowly, oh so very slowly, sawed through Ashley's flesh and bone. The exposed stumps were big, and it took a long time to char them black with the blowtorch. Despite having gone into shock, the stimulant kept Ashley awake during the entire ordeal, and it also kept her awake while Astronema sawed through her upper arms. Astronema stood back and looked at Ashley. Ashley was writhing, thrashing, screaming and drooling incoherently. With a smile, she reached into Ashley's screaming mouth and grabbed her tongue. With a scissors, she sliced several inches off it. Astronema then picked up a hammer and, forcing Ashley's mouth open with her fingers, smashed in all of her teeth. The stimulant was keeping Ashley awake, but nothing could keep her sanity. The pain had hit a level so far beyond anything that any human being could possibly endure that her brain gave up. Her entire being was only pain, she felt only pain, she thought of nothing but pain, pain was the only thing in her life now, no more thoughts, no more emotions, just pain, pain, and more pain. She barely even noticed when Astronema took her finger and gauged out her remaining eye. Astronema then took a steel pin and drove it into each of Ashley's ears, rupturing her eardrums. Astronema stood back, covered with blood, and looked at Ashley, or what was left of her and smiled. "See, Ecliptor," she said to her aid as he walked to her side, "See how I keep my promise? Won't the Rangers be pleased to get their friend back!" "Indeed, my queen." Astronema looked happily at the writhing, twisting mound of flesh that once was the Yellow Ranger. "Well, Ashley, let's make our deal!"