Outsides
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Somewhere outside the small room that was Parity's own personal dungeon, Lady Snare was preparing to break into Crey Industries and steal unfathomable amounts of their research. Somewhere outside the small room, Clawrizza was just waking up from the anesthetic that Lady Snare used on her and Parity mere hours before. However, lying inside the small room, bound head-to-toe and unable to ever test how tightly she was tied for fear of electrocuting Clawrizza, Parity was helpless intervene with either.
Parity looked down at the ropes that encased her. They didn't seem too thick, she'd snapped thicker before, but never before had she been tied with the ropes like these. Sensors embedded within the ropes meant that any struggling would register with some hidden device, a device that in turn would punish Clawrizza.
The room where Lady Snare had left Parity was of no help. There were no sharp edges that might cut through the ropes. There were no shards of glass, scrap metal, or any convenient cutting utensils. Not that Parity really expected Lady Snare to leave anything so useful around. No, the only thing Lady Snare had left Parity with was a small, hand-held computer, and that was only here because of Lady Snare's morbid threat that should Parity try to escape, she could watch Clawrizza suffer for the effort.
Parity watched the small device's screen as well as she could from halfway across the room. On the screen, Clawrizza was testing her own bonds. She was tied up pretty much the same way as Parity was; her arms were secured behind her back with many feet of rope binding the rest of her body. Apparently, the threat of torture was only a one-way thing, because Clawrizza was throwing herself fully into trying to break her bonds. Unfortunately, the catgirl was having no success.
Parity leaned her head back and looked up at the ceiling. She couldn't just stay still. If she waited for Lady Snare to return, that was an almost certain death warrant for both of them. A couple of hostages were only useful to Lady Snare if her mission failed. If she succeeded, though, both of them were disposable.
Escape didn't promise survival either. There was no guarantee that she could break the ropes. Even if she could break them in one mighty effort, Parity wasn't sure she could do it fast enough to keep even the small charge from harming her sidekick.
If only where was a way to turn the sensors off.
Parity's head snapped up, and she looked back at the handheld computer. There was a way to turn the sensors off, or at least a way to turn Clawrizza's shock collar off. Lady Share had to have shut that down when she demonstrated the sensors to Parity. And she had used that same device to do it.
That was it. If she could get to the computer, she could turn the sensors off. It wouldn't be easy, it might not even be possible bound as she was, but that was the best shot she and Clawrizza had at the moment.
Now all she had to do was get to the device.