This was like that. Sort of.
Admittedly, she knew this was her own damn fault. SHE had been the one to accumulate debt. SHE had been the one to gamble away practically everything of value to her. SHE had been the one who'd eventually gotten into a game where she'd put her own freedom up as collateral. SHE had known that one of the people attending that game had been in fact from The Corporation.
She had also known that getting drunk in such a game was a path to disaster she'd never trod before. She'd been confident at the time though. She was a ninja, one of the frakking Three Legendary Ninja of the Hidden Leaf (which was near Nara actually.) They wouldn't be able to trap or hold her if she lost this time.
She knew she was in REAL trouble at this point. She'd dropped her usual transformation, figuring an old woman wouldn't get any attention and wouldn't feel so damn... frisky.
Problem was that the technique wouldn't drop. It was almost as if her apparent age had become her real age. Her chakra levels had dropped, and her control was off. Add to that the distraction of having hormones more suited for 'giggly teenager' than anything else, and whatever else they'd done to her - and the situation was looking worse all the time.
Well, she just had to hope that Shizune was readying her rescue and they'd get out of here. Then she could try breaking the fuuinjutsu and whatever else they'd used on her.
Setsuna, formerly Meiou - now al'Saotome, felt content.
Everything was as it should be. She was now property of Ranma Saotome, as was Ami and Ami's mother.
There were many abusive and power-hungry Masters out there who would eventually have discovered what their Senshi-slave could do. Using those abilities against other humans, charging or extorting protection, and dozens of other equally disastrous paths would have been opened.
Instead she was owned by Ranma Saotome, who was about as likely to commit to such a course of action as he was to ditch martial arts and take up a career in opera.
She'd learned of his entering this world within minutes of it happening. She'd investigated and seen this as Hope. The boy had disdained many of the notions commonly accepted in this society, and while he wasn't so open about such anymore - he quite obviously was one of the few in this world set to be a better Master.
There was a chance where there had been none. So she'd begun manipulating things and making arrangements. Then faked documentation for her own enslavement and used a method only available to her to essentially back her identity up inside the Garnet Orb.
Ranma had two of the Senshi now. Others would arrive.
With the ninja Tsunade on their side, the chances for bringing in at least one of the group of ninja as allies had increased dramatically. Again, this increased the chance of a successful outcome of the overall mission.
She'd have to be careful within the home/dojo. Everything would be monitored. She could speak with her Master away from the home and seek to assist him. There was even a very good chance that the Rei unit would be amenable to the future.
This world was broken, after all. There were so many things wrong with it and would continue to escalate that wrongness.
Though she had to admit that she hadn't been quite ready for some of the reactions involved in the 'Fetish Sextoy Maid' brainstamping.
"Are you guys okay?" asked Ranma, apparently only noticing that his new slaves were all looking distracted or slightly ill.
"It is just a side effect of certain preparations, Master," said a red-faced Doctor Mizuno, who then whimpered a little in response.
"It's all perfectly normal," said Integra smoothly. "In the meantime, since you want to wait for your father's reappearance - we've prepared this little place for you and your slaves to get to know each other and recuperate."
"What do you get out of it?" asked Ranma, knowing there was a cost involved somewhere.
"You test some of our equipment and facilities while there," said Integra. "This company has a number of different branches and products besides slaves. All it requires from you is your agreement to allow us to monitor things from a distance."
"What kind of things would I be testing?" asked Ranma, still a bit suspicious.
"Washers, dryers, floorwax, new mop designs, things like that your minions could work with," said Integra. "Since you have two slaves with medical skills - there's medical equipment that that division is practically salivating with the data you could generate just having those two operating a day clinic or something."
"I suppose," said Ranma, not seeing a problem with that. It was just temporary after all.
"Then there's also your own profession," said Integra. "New training equipment, exotic high tech materials, things of that nature."
"Okay, I guess," said Ranma.
Setsuna watched things from her kneeling position, aware that the others had settled into similar postures automatically. With the exception of Rei, who simply stood and looked passively threatening in her own little maid uniform.
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