Burglar battles She stood on the roof of the majestic thirty storied HSBC building, the skyline of the old Courtlyn City could be seen sprawling on the East side and the Pacific on the West side, dark and bleak in the night with the exception of a sliver of silver moonlight reflected on the waters below, she had taken the better part of the preceding hour to admire the sights, but as beautiful as the scene was she had a job to do. The woman's sights were fixed on the high rise on the other side of the road. She was at a perfect vantage point for reaching her target, the top floor of the McFarlane building, an elegant twenty eight storied office building. The top floor office was converted into the plush private penthouse suite of the property tycoon Vincent Cavalante, over the years the former mafioso had made millions in property deals usually muscling out poorer families from their homes to build his garish commercial spaces, a good amount of that money was used to buying a large collection of artworks, some from the black market, and that was where the woman's interest lay for she was no ordinary woman, she was the infamous burglar known as the Scarlet Thief. She had been planning this heist for some time now, her target was the priceless artifact known as the red crystal dragon, a relic looted from the Summer Palace of Beijing when it was burned down during the Boxer Rebellion. A month ago her informers had relayed to her the news of an artifact being auctioned in the underground antiquities market of Istanbul. She picked up her binoculars and estimated the distance between her location and her target, "Fifty feet.. thirty degree angle", she estimated, her binoculars were customized to give an exact coordinate, it had costed her a small fortune to make, but it was worth it. She opened a small briefcase taking out a customized harpoon gun which she turned into a grappling gun. She adjusted the length and angle then fired, the gun provided her a direct line to the top floor of the McFarlane building. She took out another gadget from her brief case, a simple zip line hook, she took off her overcoat revealing herself in her skin tight burglar's attire, a tight fitting blue latex tank top and skirt which allowed for maximum mobility. She fastened herself on to the makeshift zip line and pulled herself down, slowly and smoothly. It was a clever plan, this way the Scarlet Thief ensured she bypassed every known security measure put in place in the McFarlane building. Vincent Cavalante had enough old enemies to worry about, he had beefed up his penthouse suite with some of the latest security systems, not the least of which was a state of the art safe in his penthouse, that was where he stored his most precious possessions. it took her about twenty minutes to get to the roof of the house, from here she would have to crawl down to the floor below. She had rehearsed he strategy multiple times, she would crawl in through the kitchen chimney, Vincent had a new model wide aluminium chimney installed recently, it was wide enough for her to fit in and bend through, not that it would be easy, but this was the safest and surest way in. The windows were linked with an alarm system, and the moment she touched them the alarm bells would ring, she couldn't simply open the door of the roof and walk down either, the locks were connected with a centralized alarm system which would detect anyone trying to break in that way and ring the alarm, that in turn would seal the penthouse apartment into a lock down, there would be no way in then. So, the Scarlet Thief made her way to the North end of the building, she saw the chimney jutting out of the kitchen. She estimated it would be about six feet from the ledge of the roof to the mouth of the chimney, it wasn't an easy entry, but she was ready. She positioned herself on the ledge and slowly crawled down grabbing on the ledges of the building till she was in a position to enter the chimney. She rested her left foot first and then her right, she was now effectively resting on the edge of the chimney and the ledge of the roof, one wrong move and she would fall down over three hundred feet to the road below. She took a deep breath and plunged into the chimney. Inside the chimney she crawled and contorted her way down to the kitchen, she kicked down the net to crawl out to the kitchen. It was dark inside, the lights were out, the same went for the rest of the apartment, the owner was not here. Vincent Cavalante had gone on one of his month long tours to Sicily leaving the house to the care of his mistress, of course the mistress didn't actually live here, she only ever visited in the evenings to make sure everything was in order and the occasional orgies she would indulge in when he was away. Scarlet reckoned that the mistress probably did not visit the apartment today or if she had she had probably left, all the better for her, no witnesses. She walked about the spacious apartment, spread over 6000 sq ft , searching for the safe. She kept turning on the lights as she walked revealing the luxuriously decorated penthouse, this man had made a lot of ill gotten money over the years, and he showed it off with shameless pride. She took a moment to admire the decor of the living room before proceeding towards one of the bedrooms. Vincent had made two bedrooms, one for sleeping and one for whoring. The first one was occupied by a large king sized bed and a portrait of himself hanging behind the bed, depicting himself as a general riding a horse, "tch pompous jackass", Scarlet remarked. She decided to search through the bedroom hoping to find a safe somewhere. The long cupboard had plenty of clothes and a rack full of shoes, she even accidentally revealed a hidden cupboard packed with what looked like bondage gear, the sight of which made Scarlet raise an eyebrow and smirk, "hmm kinky, hehe", she remarked before closing back the cupboard. She kept exploring the bedroom hoping to find a safe but nothing showed up, she decided to leave and go to the next bedroom, "maybe I will find something of use there", she thought to herself. As she proceeded on to the bedroom, she heard a strange sound coming out of there, it was almost like the sound of someone moaning. "What was that..", she muttered to herself, she proceeded cautiously creeping with her back to the wall. She opened the door revealing a dark room, before she could turn the lights on, they turned on by themselves. "Wha the..." she gasped in surprise, and not only for the sudden lighting of the room. The 'pleasure room' as he called it, had a rather elegant wrought iron bed in the centre, and ominous looking hooks hung from the ceiling, the walls were lined with paddles, belts and whips of various sizes. The whole room was painted red to contrast menacingly with the black of the leather and wrought iron. Hanging from one of the steel hooks on the ceiling, was an older brunette woman, probably in her early fifties or late forties, bound and gagged in an intricately bound shibari harness, suspended a foot above the bed. She was also gagged with a ballgag and large silk scarf tied over her ballgagged mouth. The woman was alerted by the presence of Scarlet who looked at her with an expression of shock, "Uhmm ghmm mmhh hht hfff dhss mmhh mmhh!" she shook her head and moaned out. "who the hell could have done this?" she asked aloud. She tried to figure out what was happening, maybe she wasn't alone after all, but who else was there inside the apartment? "mmm MM MMHHHU UHMMMHHPHH!" the lady growled through her gag now demanding she be ungagged. "Who are you?", Scarlet asked the bound and gagged woman pulling off her gags, "uhhh.. I'm Laura, Vincent's mistress is who I am", said the woman, "And who the fuck are you?" "Talk like that and I will gag you back again!" Scarlet warned, "Just answer my questions, who did this to you?" "I got no idea I was just about leave the apartment, decided I um.. have some fun to myself for the night, then some.. thing just clobbered me, I couldn't even see what it was, and I got knocked out. Next thing I know I'm tied up with a million ropes and gagged with that ballgag and scarf. So are you gonna get me out of this or not?" "I will, first I want you to tell me exactly where is Mr. Vincent's safe and you will give me the password for it." "What? Funny someone asked me the same thing a while back, I don't know the password, but the safe's in the living room, behind the big tv. There's a switch somewhere on the wall, but I don't know where, Vincent never showed me the thing." "Hmm thanks." "You're welcome", she said derisively, "now how about getting me outta these god damn ropes?" "Hmm let me think", Scarlet replied, before taking the ballgag and shoving it in the mistress' mouth and buckling it tighter than before, then taking the scarf and tying it tight over her nose and mouth. "Heerhhhmghhmmm mmmhhff!", Laura protested, "Don't go anywhere sweetheart, I'll be right back", Scarlet said sensuously kissing her gagged lips and quickly groping her breast before walking away back to the living room. She took a brief pause to admire the bound and gagged beauty swaying gently in her suspension tie, despite her obvious signs of age, she was quite a fit slender and attractive woman, to quite a great extent she resembled the archetype of the gangster's moll, and it wasn't just her New Jersey accent, she thought to herself, 'maybe i'll have some fun with the mistress after I'm done', and a smirk grew on her face. At the exact moment she stepped out of the bedroom the lights all turned off suddenly, she was now effectively blinded. Suddenly she could hear a laugh coming from somewhere in the corner, it sounded feminine and sweet, she would have liked the sound of it, if it didn't feel so eerie, "hahahahahahah hahahahah", the mysterious voice sounded out, "this is almost too easy", the voice sounded out from behind her, just before she felt arms grab her. They held her mouth and midriff in a tight embrace, she could smell the sweet but strong scent of chloroform. Scarlet was caught off guard, but she was trained for such situations, she was a fighter and incredibly agile. Scarlet managed to wiggle out of her would be captor's grip and twist the hands that had grabbed her, but her captor was no pushover. In the dark, they were both evenly matched, neither could really see each other, but one seemed more invisible than the other. The captor could tell Scarlett from the faint silhouette cast by the dim moonlight, Scarlet on the other hand, couldn't tell who she was fighting, before she knew it, Scarlet was pinned down on the ground her right hand twisted behind her back and the captor sitting on her bent up left leg, "Ugh hold still!" the female voice of her captor spoke out. "You won't get me! I'm the Scarlemm mmmmmph!" "Shushhhh", the captor put her free hand tightly over Scarlet's nose and mouth, her hand was covered in what felt like a chloroform laden lycra cloth. She held it long enough to turn the struggling captive numb and out of breath. The Scarlet thief was now bested, she lay barely conscious on the floor. Her captor finally revealed herself, a dark silhouette showed itself and she finally noticed two eyes coming off eerily in the darkness. With the last moments of her consciousness she saw the lights coming on and the vague sight of a zentai clad woman standing before her. The next thing she remembered was waking up tightly bound and gagged and swaying, suspended mid air. She could see Laura in front of her swaying just like her in her suspension ties, she gave an angry look at Scarlet. "wh.. dhmm mmh", she moaned through her gag, she felt several layers of them on her face, a harness ballgag, some gauze tape wrapped over her mouth, and finally a large hermes scarf tied over her nose and mouth covering her chin as well. She felt the ropes embracing tightly over her arms, upper body and legs, and one tied very frustratingly over her crotch going through her vagina. She felt a bulging object jutting into her vagina tied firmly on her crotch, "what the fuck a vibrator?", she thought to herself angrily. "Ah so you're finally coming to", the familiar feminine voice sounded out, "Nice to meet your acquaintance, they call me the Zentai Burglar", she stood in front of Scarlet garbed from head to toe in skin tight black lycra. 'zentai burglar??', the name rang a bell in her mind, she had heard of a burglar by that name when she studied Courtlyn City while on her journey here. She had made the news after stealing a gemstone called 'the paperweight' from a wealthy collector in Courtlyn City. The stone went untraceable then suddenly, a year after the investigations closed, it mysteriously appeared in an Indian temple, its original home before it was stolen by antique smugglers. Scarlet never quite understood why this 'zentai burglar' did what she did, but she did not like it. Altruism made no sense to her, and to waste all that effort in stealing just to give it away? Where was the sense in that? She did however, perfectly understand why the 'zentai burglar' got that name and it was only too obvious, she was dressed in a zentai! The Zentai burglar walked up to her, "You know its not everyday I meet another burglar on one of my rounds. Who might you be? Scarlet.... thief?" she tried to guess, Scarlet only nodded in reply. "Ah so my guess was right then, you have a reputation for humiliating your victims, or so I heard. Well how does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine?" "Ughhmmh GHrmhhfblh mmhhf", Scarlet grumbled angrily through her gag, "What was that? I couldn't understand you, its hard to make out through that gag", "UMMMMHPH!", Scarlet moaned. "You know what would be more ironic? If we were here for the same thing. You wouldn't perhaps be looking for the Red Crystal Dragon would you ?" "Whuhmmm? Yhmm thmm?", Scarlet's eyes widened in surprise. "hmm I'll take that as a yes, well you'll be happy to know that I have it with me right here", the zentai burglar brought her hands from behind her back and showed the elegant gilded statuette before Scarlet, "Oh you can see it too Mrs. Laura", she then showed it to the other captive hanging in front of Scarlet. "MMHh WHmmhh", Laura looked with surprise at the artefact, it was incredibly beautiful. This was the first time she had laid eyes on any of Vincent's treasures, and she wondered what else was in there. "Savour this moment girls, its the last time you'll see this piece, well at least in this house anyway. First thing tomorrow, I'm having this shipped off to China, the Chinese authorities even have a nice little reward for me in store". "Uhmm MMh mMMMH! HMMLL GHMMR YHMMHR!", Scarlet grumbled angrily through her gag and fought against her rope bindings, 'FMmkng pnnmkk grmhh Mmhh Ghrmmll HMM MMHHH!", The Zentai burglar approached the Scarlet thief and put a finger on her gagged mouth, "shushh, there'll be plenty of time to talk, when the police arrive in the morning. I'm sure you'll be able to talk your way out of that? I've heard you're good at it?", she taunted. "FMMKK YHMMH!", Scarlet moaned loudly through her gag. "Sigh! You're way too loud, I think I have to gag you some more", the Zentai burglar remarked before heading to a cupboard on the wall and took out one more big scarf and a lacy panties worn by Laura, she also took out an additional roll of bondage tape. She took off the scarf gag and put the panties over Scarflet covering over her gagged mouth. That made her respond with more futile angry moans. The Zentai burglar then put the scarf gag tied tightly over her nose and mouth, with the second scarf she tied it in a 'detective' style over her already existing scarf gag and then wrapped all of her head in with the bondage tape, leaving her eyes open and a small space for her nostrils to breathe through, "well I hope you enjoy Mrs. Laura's panties, you're going to be here for some time." "mmmmh mm mmmhhumm mmhh", Scarlet moaned out in a much more muffled manner now, her moans however loud and angry were completely muffled out. "I'm going to leave the both of you now, I hope you enjoy your company. Scarlet? I'm sure you have many questions, so I'm going to answer the one which is probably strongest on your mind right now, given your thief's instinct. How did I do it?",Scarlet looked intrigued at the Zentai Burglar, she was indeed interested to know how exactly she pulled it off. "Well let me reveal the secret of my success, to the both of you", she said pushing a hidden button on her waist which turned on a refraction screen on the surface of the suit, she was now invisible, save for the refraction of light around her body. The only part of her that was visible were a pair of piercing brown eyes. "Et Voila!", she turned herself visible again by pressing the same waist button, "and that my friends is the secret of my success, but there's more. You see I learnt about the artefact from one of my sources in the illegal antiques trade, the day it went on the auction. I started studying my target from that day on. Good thing Vincent had a kinky lifestyle, I found my entry into his home right there, posing as a bondage play partner. I took that chance conducting my recci of the apartment, the only thing I couldn't figure out was where his safe was, but strangely enough I heard him mutter out the password on more than one occasion, silly old fuck. Anyway, so on the day of the heist all I had to do was spend the evening inside the McFarlane building, I changed into my suit just before closing hours and basically, just stayed here. I could go in unnoticed and tamper with the building's security and I did. The rest of the way was a cakewalk getting into the penthouse, better still, Mrs. Laura was already there! I got in without anyone suspecting, tied her up and well.. you know the rest. Oh yeah and I actually saw you coming in through the chimney, not half bad I must admit. I should thank you actually, you managed to get the location of the safe from Laura here, funny how she opened up to you so easily and wouldn't tell me a damn thing! But whatever, its done. Now its late, my work here is done, so I bid you adieu!", the Zentai burglar gave a faux salute and bowed before walking out the door, but she stopped right at the entrance of the 'pleasure room', "oh one thing before I go..", she turned around and reached for a remote on the bed and pressed a switch, it turned on the vibrator that she had tied on the Scarlet Thief and took a lycra hood lying on the bed and pulled it over Scarlet's head blinding her. "Just wanted to make sure your night doesn't go boring", she said with a wink and a smile before non-challantly walking out the door. She turned on her invisibility as she went. The Scarlet Thief had been bested and she did not like it one bit, 'Zentai burglar eh? Damn you and Damn your god damn zentai!' she cursed in her mind, even as she kept wriggling and moaning in her bonds thanks to the vibrator. Laura looked at her almost enviously, she would have preferred to have one shoved in her too, but she guessed the Zentai burglar just liked to toy with her victims' minds that way. 'I'll get back at you, you'll see.. you'll see!', the Scarlet Thief promised herself, even as she kept moaning in pleasure and swaying four feet above ground.