"Hey, lookit. The kitty cat's coming to." Said a deep, gravelly sounding voice.

"It's about time. I knew she'd be out for a while after that tranq dart ya got her with, but jeez." Spoke another softer, less gruff voice, this one obviously female.

"...mmmph... phgnh, whmmph hngphnd?" Mumbled the young tiger-girl, now revealed to be T.K., the heroic feline who had thwarted many an evil-doer on more than one occasion. As she slowly returned to consciousness, her head flopped around groggily, while her green eyes tried to focus in on her fuzzy surroundings.

Once T.K. had regained her senses, she noticed that she was still inside her own home, but was clueless as to how she ended up on the FLOOR.

"Wakey wakey, kitten." The mysterious feminine voice whispered. As T.K.'s keen hearing picked up on the familiar nickname of "Kitten", the young heroine turned her attention directly in front of her... well, as best she could from the ground... and though it was still dark, saw two pairs of feet greeting her.

The first set, from what she could distinguish in the dark, was covered by a pair of solid black, combat-style boots... the second set appeared to be a couple of monstrously large, almost rock-like clodhoppers.

After she had craned her neck up as far as her body would allow, T.K. instantly recognized the duo of intruders as none other than Morgus and Sonya... two adversaries, formidable she had to admit, that she'd had countless run-ins with.

"Whght ughr ygnh dughng nhg mghy hgnph!?!?" T.K. attempted to angrily shout, not noticing until that very moment that she'd been tightly gagged. But what seemed to disturb the young tigress the most was that when she tried to leap up and charge her unwelcome guests, her slender body refused to budge even an inch.

"Wghnt!?"

"Ah, ah, ahh. Sorry, but you're not going anywhere, kitten. We've been waiting for this for a looong time." Sonya chuckled as a twisted smile crossed the white tigress' muzzle. T.K. thrashed and bucked violently, but her body simply refused to cooperate. She knew right away that she'd been tied up, but NEVER like this.

The tiger-girl's hands had been tied behind her back, each wrist bound to the corresponding elbow. Her legs were wrapped closely together above and below her knees. Even worse, T.K.'s ankles were tied painfully tight, with another long length of rope leading from her ankles to her arms, pulled SO incredibly taut that it had forced the tigress' knees up off the floor several inches, thus completing one of the most sinister hogties she'd ever had the displeasure of being roped into... no pun intended.

The last little... and embarrassing... fact that T.K. had taken note of is that Morgus and Sonya had even gone as far as to tie the tiger-girl's big toes together. A useless binding, but humiliating nonetheless.

'That's what I get for goin' barefoot on a hot summer night.' T.K. thought to herself as she continued to struggle against her bindings, grunting loudly through the wad of cloth jammed in her mouth, sealed off with duct tape.

Morgus, who had remained silent for almost the entire ordeal, finally let out a small, rocky chuckle.

"Heh heh... nice Pj's, kitty cat."

The tigress let another angered growl escape from behind the stifling gag as her cheeks blushed so faintly no one could tell.

Yes, this was indeed a degrading time for young T.K., ambushed in her own home, and hogtied... in her pajamas.

After eliciting a tiny chuckle of her own, Sonya lied down on the ground on her stomach, now eye level with her "captive" audience, playfully kicking her feet behind her, like a teenage girl reading a teen magazine.

"Well, kitten. I guess ya can't win them ALL, can ya?" This comment was met with more fierce thrashing and a few suggestive words from T.K.

As she returned to a standing position... an action T.K. would kill for right now... Sonya addressed her partner in crime.

"Hey, Morgus. Whaddya wanna do with 'er?" The white tigress said as she turned to her golem-like accomplice and smiled.

"I dunno. Teaming up was your idea, Sonya. You choose." The gray creature replied. He always was short on ideas. Good thing Sonya had enough ideas for both of them.

"I've got it! You got another tranq dart?" The tiger villain asked. Morgus said nothing as he pulled a needle-tipped dart from his trouser pocket, handing it to his partner.

"Perfect. Now hold still... oops, sorry." Sonya tittered as she was now facing the tightly trussed tigress, holding the tranquilizer as though she were aiming at a dartboard.

"...bulls-eye." She smirked as she tossed the dart, catching T.K. in the side of her semi-exposed midriff.

"Ugnh!" T.K. yelped as the dart pierced her skin, its numbing effect already taking place as it fought to drag the young tigress into a deep sleep.

T.K. was rapidly losing her battle to stay awake. As her eyelids seemed to weigh a ton at the moment, they slowly began to close, beginning her descent into unconsciousness. But just before her world faded out completely, she could hear the cruel laughter of her captors as Sonya gave the tiger-girl a few words of wisdom.

"Well, kitten. Looks like you and me are gonna have fun together for a long time..."