Rebelle's desperation

In her mansion, Rebelle ran around like crazy. She had stripped to nothing but her undergarments and her sneakers as she sprinted and skateboarded around the mansion in a frenzy.

"I'LL LEAK EVERYTHING DAMMIT! I'M INNOCENT!" Rebelle cried.

"Probability of your innocence is only 33%," her robotic pursuer stated.

Rebelle quickly reached a hidden stash of SD cards and smartphones and snatched them up. She then uploaded everything she had on them to her blog and Ewetube channel.

"I WOULD NEVER BRING HARM TO MADAM OOKUMA! SHE'S MY IDOL!" Rebelle yelled.

"Cease resistance," the pursuer stated as their mouth opened like a trash can lid and began unleashing a vacuum wave that sucked Rebelle towards them. 

Rebelle's skateboard flew into their mouth and was destroyed with a mighty crunch, however this also ceased the vacuum wave.

"Oi KR-0-K0W, don't chomp her, we need to torture her!" Benise glared as she caught up and pinned Rebelle down.

"Elimination would be more efficient," KR-0-K0W stated.

"And she'll be eliminated, but first she needs to suffer for her betrayal."

"I DIDN'T BETRAY MADAM OOKUMA! I BET IT WAS YOU SAYU-MMPH!?"

Benise promptly gagged Rebelle and bound her with zip ties before dragging her away by her hair.

"Subject has been restrained. Authorization for torture has been approved. However, subject must be delivered to Roborg union once torture is complete," KR-0-K0W stated.

"Very well. I'm sure Demon Queen Ruka will oblige once she's had her fun," Benise stated.

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Rebelle's muffled cries rang out as she was restrained to a chair.

The leader of the Demon Queen cult then appeared along with a few other cultists. One cultist walked up to Rebelle and immediately began shaving her head.

"NO! Damn you Benise! I know you did this! I'm not out yet though, I won't let you beat me or Madam Ookuma. I may be gagged now, but they'll have to take this tape off me in order to shove those drugs in my mouth. That will be my chance," Rebelle thought as she thought back to when she first met Ookuma.

15 years ago, England...

A seven year old Rebelle glared as she walked down the street.

"Damn those hoodlums, damn my poor parents, damn them all! Why could they not grasp that growing organic produce would solve it all!? But no, they did not want to invest in making organic, thus the hoodlums came and wrecked the farm. Why? Because we're poor. But we could have been elite and rich. Damn them. DAMN THEM!" she thought.

"My, you look troubled, is there anything you wish to discus with an adult?" a woman asked.

Rebelle turned to face Ookuma.

"As I thought, you are fluent in Japanese," Ookuma stated.

"Huh? How did you know that?" Rebelle asked.

"I heard about what happened to your farm. When I read that the farmer had a Japanese first name, I did some research and discovered she was indeed from Japan. I also heard that the stubborn man she married refused to grow fine organic produce despite the pleas of his intelligent daughter."

"You- You think I'm intelligent?"

"Quite so. Had he listened to you, the farm could have been England's finest Organic produce farms, but instead he decided to succumb to poverty and make due with growing inorganic waste. Sadly his wife foolishly followed him to doom rather than courageously trying to better her family's living state. You however, persevered. I heard as the hoodlums beat up your parents, you demanded they invest in the farm so that it could grow organic produce."

"How do you know all that?"

"I got it from the hoodlums I beat up and turned in to the police."

"Y- You beat them up?"

"Of course. I am much stronger than I appear. My name is Ruchi Ookuma and I am currently a Representative serving in the National Diet. I was wondering if you would like to accept a donation from me in order to become a chef in Japan."

"So you truly want me then. Well who am I to refuse."

"If you think you'll get more out of this deal simply because you have dirt on those hoodlums, you're out of luck."

"_!?"

I've heard you've quickly become quite the blackmailer. An associate whom I met at a political gathering mentioned how a young girl managed to get concrete proof of him colluding with the hoodlums."

"So you're saying you're with them!?"

"Reina, I'm asking if you want a better life. And if you're wondering what I want in return, I want you to be my right hand woman and become the world's greatest blackmailer for me."

Rebelle suddenly burst into laughter.

"So I can fulfill my dreams simply by blackmailing your opponents? Very well. I assume you have the means to make the impossible possible."

"Very well. I now dub thee Rebelle," Okuma stated.

"Rebelle?"

"You were given the name Reina which is associated with zero. You however, chose to rebel against your poverty. Therefore, Rebelle is a far more fitting name for a young woman like you that will sail to great heights.

"Rebelle Milverton Adler. It has a much better ring to it than the name those deluded peasants gave me!" Rebelle grinned.

Back in the present...

As the cult finished shaving Rebelle devoid of hair and began stripping her to tattoo her, Rebelle struggled and screamed as she dug deep in her mind to find the solution to her problem.

"Damn those hairless robots! I'm going to have to spend a fortune to restore my hair follicles and my skin. But I'm nowhere closer to solving my predicament! Benise is my prime suspect, but then why would she destroy herself by leaking the footage I took of her? To get back at me and get into Illumous? No. She would have done it just fine if she had led the party to victory. To throw suspicion off her? No. She's been exposed and that makes her a liability to Illumous. But if not her, then who is responsible for all this!? Kabuki was clearly in the dark at first, but she must have learned the truth considering she then started debuting some of the footage I had taken as the weeks went on. Even mentioned someone gave them to her. Dammit! I never should have told Benise that! I bet she blabbed to save her own skin, and now I'm the prime suspect. I know Madam Ookuma sent those hoodlums to destroy the farm, but I'm grateful for it! I hold no animosity towards her!" Rebelle thought.

                                                                          ...

The cultists began to clothe Rebelle in their standard attire as tears poured out of Rebelle's eyes as her muffled screams began to grow louder.

"NO NO NO! HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME! YOU'RE ROBBING ME OF THE ELITE INDIVIDUALITY I'VE BUILT UP! Damn it! There's still so many more people I need to blackmail! Everything I had should be out now, but there were so many who I didn't have any dirt on! That damn detective Reika Yuzume most notably! I know she's involved in this. But that damn woman's intellect could only be countered by Madam Ookuma's. That and I'm not sure she was even- _! The tire tracks. They must be from Reika's car!" That's it! Reika was the one who burned down the house! She must have kidnapped Madam Ookuma and stolen the SD cards she had!" Rebelle thought as she stopped crying.

She now looked just like a standard cultist, however, her mind was still intact, though she would have to be quick in her response.

"MMPH NGH MMPH NGH MMPH NGH REIKA'S TIRE TRACKS WERE THE ONES WE SAW THAT NIGHT!" Rebelle desperately shouted as the tape was ripped off her her mouth.

Benise's eyes widened as the cultist holding the drugs stopped.

"True, those tire tracks weren't from Madam Ookuma's car- _! Shit! Back then, I was the one that was quick to tell everyone to disperse. And it was immediately after someone pointed out the tire tracks too! Shit! If I back her up, the spotlight will go on me! Plus some of the other members that were there will back her up! _! She's saying Reika did it though. Yes, I'll say-No! I can't defend her. They might think I'm trying to collude with her! Shit Shit SHIT! What do I say!?" Benise agonized in her mind.

"Searching for testimonies from those present during the raid. Testimonies found. Analyzing in process," KR-0-K0W stated.

Everyone waited until KR-0-K0W finished analyzing the data.

"Match found. Multiple testimonies report tire tracks of unknown origin. However, no footage of the tracks exist on record. Therefore, determining the origin of the tracks is impossible," KR-0-K0W stated.

"Yet how did you KNOW the tracks were from Reika's car?" Benise nervously exclaimed.

Rebelle's confidence shattered as everyone glared hostilely at her.

"Betrayal now 99% likely. Assimilation may resume," KR-0-K0W stated.

"Damn you! I knew you would betray Madam Ookuma and all of us!" Benise glared.

"NO! I WAS SET UP! REIKA KIDNAPPED MADAM OOKUMA AND MAO-_!"

Time began to slow as Rebelle came to a realization.

"Mao, Mao was also missing. But where would- No, it couldn't be. She acted nothing like- But Azami mentioned her strength. THAT'S IT!" Rebelle thought as she grasped the truth.

"MA-MMPH! M- Yeah, like smoke n-MAO-MMPH! NO-MMPH! ILLUMOUS- *Puff* Ah yeah, like smoke n sex," Rebelle cooed as the drugs took effect.

Rebelle had been assimilated and was now a rank and file member of the Demon Queen cult. Benise let out a sigh of relief as KR-0-K0W stood in silence.

"Like, make sure to give our new girlfriend, a hellish experience before we like ship her away to T. Phon Laqutte," Ruka cooed as she let out a puff of smoke as the cult gathered around their new member and escorted her away.

"I will remain until the torture is complete. You are permitted to leave," KR-0-K0W stated.

Benise nodded and walked away.

"That was too close for comfort, but now I can focus on getting into Illumous," Benise thought.

                                                                             ...

After the Demon Queen cult had their way with their new member, said new member was taken away by KR-0-K0W.

The two teleported to a facility where they were greeted by a robotic woman.

"EC-1-DNA, retrieval of the traitor to Illumous is complete," KR-0-K0W stated.

"Assimilation shall begin anew," the woman stated.

                                                                            ...

The cultist moaned in pain as she was transformed into a cyborg. A man wearing shades and a lab coat with long dreadlocks oversaw, the entire process.

"Assimilation will be complete in T-minus 4 minutes," the man stated.

"A shame she didn't die when the cultists began cannibalizing her. I would have loved to add her to my ranks," a man with a skeleton face and long beard mused.

The two men standing were part of the secret elite guard that directly served under one of Illumous' leaders. The man with the dreadlocks was Dr. T. Phon Laqutte, a cyborg and the one that controlled all the cyborgs of the roboborg union under a hive mind;while the skeleton man was known as Genghis Pyke van Ghoul, Illumous' top necromancer. The two were members of Illumous' Avarice faction and constantly argued with each other on what to do with prisoners.

"R3-B3-113's assimilation is complete," Laqutte stated.

"A shame, she would have made a better zombie than cyborg," Pyke grumbled as he vanished in a flash of purple and green flames.

R3-B3-113 sat up as her eyes flashed.

"Prime directive received. Duties, will be carried out," she stated in a robotic voice before teleporting away.

                                                                             ...

Hilda nervously sat before the Illumous council tied to a chair.

"Hilda, your incompetence has cost Illumous greatly," the leader glared.

"I trusted Ruchi!" Hilda cried.

"And there's the problem, you trusted that crafty little bitch. You were also SO adamant about letting her do her own thing, and now what!? We lost our guaranteed takeover of Japan!" Akuma fumed.

"Hilda, it appears that your judgement has been lacking. A shame. I had begun to respect you, but it seems I need to be in control of everything. Dr. Laquette, please microchip her," the leader ordered.

Laqutte appeared and clasped his hand over Hilda's head.

"NO! DON'T- __."

Hilda immediately went quiet as Laqutte removed his hand.

"Microchipping complete. Authorizing Harold Hakkin as admin for control," Laqutte stated before vanishing.

"Does that count as an assimilation?" Stromboli asked.

"Why do you ask?" Thrasher grumbled.

"We made a bet regarding whom would expand their army the most in a month between Dr. Laqutte and Genghis Pyke," another member stated.

"Well count me in. Month's not over yet."

"I'll enter a wager on Laqutte," Akuma stated.

"I say Pyke," Antonio stated.

"It seems the matter of Ruchi Ookuma has been discussed in full. Though it seems Reika Yuzume was also involved. We will need to keep a close eye on her going forward," the leader glared.