Story: Succumilf

Three figures burst onto the rooftop, ready for the worst. Both Rei and Sora had a general idea that something bad had happened up here - with Rei taking the rear and Sora trying to take the lead... but Kenshiro had burst in ahead of them, done a forward roll, ending up on his knees with his burly arms crossed, ready to pounce at a moment's notice. Much to Sora's annoyance, as she'd really wanted to do this alone.

"If only I had more time to prepare..." he muttered darkly to himself while scanning the clearly empty rooftop. "I could've come in wielding a club, or maybe had a sword in my teeth, or -"

"Or set yourself on fire?" Sora quipped. She'd been joking, but both Rei and Kenshiro were nodding along with the idea in appreciation. "Anyway, it looks like Mayako isn't here. Nobody downstairs has seen her for a while, and the last she was seen she was on her way up here."

"You don't think...?" Kenshiro gasped, rushing to the side of the building. He looked over. "No, no parachute... And before you ask, no body either. She's outright done a vanishing act. Huh! Maybe... she parasailed over to the building over? Or used a rope bridge? People don't tend to look up, so she could've done that and nobody would have noticed."

Ignoring his ideas for the time being. The guy might be too awesome to be contained in mortal skin, but he wasn't much of a locked room expert. Not that Sora thought this was a locked room at all. Closing her eyes and concentrating, she could feel a faint... something or other. Out here, in the middle of the rooftop, there was something sort of off about reality...

A hand grabbed her wrist. It was Rei. Looking at her with deep concern.

"I don't think you should wander over there," Rei said.

"Oh?" Sora quirked an eyebrow. "Any particular reason?" She'd thought there was something off about this girl from the start. A rival for Mayako's affections, perhaps? Or someone else vying for the hero's heart? Either way, she might be an enemy.

"Don't tell anyone, but... I was kidnapped by some bad people," Rei said. "They took me into a dimension made of computers and the portal they used sort of... felt like this."

That didn't quite sound like the truth. Or at least, not the whole truth. She was at bare minimum engaged in a bit of lies to children, simplifying the truth as much as possible for efficiency.

"That sounds ridiculous, but if it's true... Then Mayako may have been kidnapped by associates of your kidnappers," Sora said. "In which case, we must exercise caution and find someone that could help us. We don't want to risk -"

"Risk getting caught out by one of us!"

Oh hell that was a very rough and drunk sounding voice. The air in front of her seemed to almost rip apart, with two meaty hands hauling reality asunder, an enormous muscular face with big bulging eyes peering out. It was a giant of a man, who stared down at the two of them before curling its hideous lips into an even more hideous grin.

"Boo!" he snarled at them. At which point Sora lifted her hands and sent a mystical fireball right into his big dumb face.

"Oh, by the way I can use magic," Sora said quickly to the other two.

"You sure can!" the giant said, and before Sora could do anything else his hands clasped around her neck and she was lifted bodily into the air by a single hand. Looking across, Rei was subjected to a similar fate. She waved her hands around, causing a line of 1s and 0s to appear like a whip in her hand. She lashed out at the brute, but to no avail. "Shame you two chicks ain't awesome enough to tango with -"

And then he was hit in the face by a chainsaw, which was then struck by what looked like a lightning bolt and then caught fire, and <i>then</i> switched on. The giant then tumbled backwards, dropping both Sora and Rei into the waiting arms of Kenshiro, who had slid across the roof on his knees to catch them.

"Tsk! You call that awesome?" Kenshiro scoffed. "Manhandling a couple of chicks way below your league? Kidnapping my cool boss? That ain't awesome! It's super lame! And now I'm heading in there to save Mayako! Just you watch me!"

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Deep breath now, Mayako. Deep breath. If this is the second arc, then what else is the pattern to it? You're the associate who has been taken against their will, and inspiring Kenshiro, the hero, to come on a rescue mission. That was a big check. In the second arc, the main thing to usually happen is a formalising of the 'main group' that will assist the hero going forward. Which would be...?

...

Damn good question actually. There would usually be some sort of rival character there, but not always. A love interest often factors into such groups, or at least a rival for their affections... A jerk with a heart of gold is usually there as well, maybe someone that used to bully the hero in some way but reforms, it was honestly kind of difficult to figure out. Either way, they'd probably run into a big bad mook that Kenshiro steamrolls with ease, then break their way into the facility itself only to learn that the mook was the lowest rung on the ladder and everyone else is way, way, way stronger than him. This would result in an intense training montage, culminating in a near miss rescue of her, the kidnapped associate.

She'd have nothing to do but sit here and wait it out, and then in time she'd see hints of an action, feign swooning over him, get carried out while clutching onto his rippled, chiselled physique and then she could let her succubus charms make his defenses crumble to dust.

That's the plan. That's the idea. That's it all laid out nice and easily. That's the way it was meant to go. That's how it should go, by any reasonable metric. There was just one enormous jumbo sized problem.

"Is there anything else we can get you, mistress?" asked the supposed big bad, who was currently rubbing her feet with hearts in his eyes, utterly and totally enthralled by her succubus charms. "Anything at all? Yoho! We're all too happy to please, aren't we lads!"

"Yes, sir!" his entire top tier team saluted at once, pitching tents in their trousers, every bit as lovestruck as the big bad himself.

How had this happened? How had it come to this? Mayako hated to admit it, but the problem came down to being a bit on the rusty side. Her intention had been to put her succubus powers into overdrive to seduce Kenshiro, but then she wound up getting kidnapped before she could really do anything with that, and so she'd accidentally put out a whole lot of seductive magic. More than she realised she'd been putting out there. In a matter of minutes, she'd reduce the brains of these idiots to jelly, and now the heads of this little group would do anything - Absolutely anything - that she wanted, so long as she was the one to ask.

Now, that might sound like an excellent opportunity to - say - walk the fuck out of here and go about her business, but there were two key reasons that she wasn't doing that. First: She wanted to be rescued by that handsome hunky idiot hero to push her own plans forward. Second - and this was a bit more long term - these clowns would be small fry to the bad guys Kenshiro would have to fight in the future.

Think about it like this. Each successive 'arc' the hero goes through has to have bigger and bigger stakes. The villains must be more powerful each time. Right? The idea that Mayako could just mind whammy them was laughable. If it was going to be that easy to take down the big bad, what would be the point of a hero? Send a succubus in to take care of any really big threat to the universe and spend a year or so in bed with him. Easy done.

Therefore: Kenshiro had to go through his second arc and do it properly. Which meant the training sequence, which meant having a harrowing life and death battle against the big bad of the arc, which also meant getting further information about bigger bad guys up the chain in anticipation of fights and arcs yet to come, and raising the stakes, and -

And... Actually, now that she was thinking about it, the 'destined hero' thing was kind of vague wasn't it? Mayako considered her position here. She was in the throne room for these guys, sitting on their actual throne with her legs crossed, causing her dress skirt to ride up her thighs a little. She popped the top few buttons to give them a hint of creamy, MILFy cleavage, then crossed and uncrossed her legs to help cement her control over them all.

"Alright mister... Cypher, was it? Could you please tell me all about your organisation?" she asked. Should she go for stern school ma'arm, or bubbly airhead here? Honestly, either of them would probably work against these goons. "As much as you can, as efficiently as you can, if you wouldn't mind...?"

If she was going to be stuck here dealing with this damned stupid situation, she was going to get as much information for herself as possible to help plan her next move! Hrmph! Accidentally brainwashing the bad guys with her raw sexual presence might be a minor setback, but she was determined! She'd make lemonade out of lemons yet!