The Kidnap Club

Calvin’s pants were removed as Fredrick and Lance inspected his briefs clad body thoroughly for any trace of a drawn on flag symbol. His shirt had also been stripped away. After no trace of the symbol was found, he was rebound and his red tapegag was removed.

“Alright Calvin, it’s pretty simple. When you’re gagged you stay quiet. When you’re ungagged I need answers. If you don’t answer, I will tickle you for increasing amounts of time. The sooner you tell me who the blue team flag is and where to find him, the sooner you’ll be placed back with the other prisoners and the interrogation ends.”

Over at the other side of the room were Ian and Josh. Both also stripped down to underwear as well as tightly bound and gagged with red duct tape. Ian remained stoic and tried to retain some dignity while Josh struggled and moaned helplessly. Calvin had seen Josh tied and gagged numerous times, but this was the first time he’d seen Ian in a helpless state. It was almost unsettling to see the usually dominant man at the mercy of red team.

“Josh over there already spilled a lot of information. Poor guy couldn’t hold his own” Fredrick taunted. Josh angrily shook his head and tried to tell Calvin something, but the tape held the words in his mouth. It was unclear whether Fredrick was bluffing in an effort to demoralize the prisoner.

“First chance. Tell us now and you can skip the tickling entirely” Fredrick threatened. His hands took position right underneath Calvin’s armpits, as Lance knelt right behind the hostage. Breathing heavily, he braced himself, having no means of resisting. But Calvin wasn’t about to give up right in front of Ian and Josh without a fight. “Three, two, one” Fredrick said, before digging his fingertips mercilessly into the captive’s pits. Calvin let out a howl of laughter before Lance clamped a hand over his mouth and tightly held his chin, concealing a good deal of the noise. Even if he wanted to, Calvin wasn't allowed to give an answer until the tickling stopped. A good minute of tickling took place as Calvin thrashed and his red teary face yelled helplessly into Lance’s hands, before the torture finally ceased.

Lance kept a grip even after the tickling stopped. “Now then, Lance is going to release your mouth for a bit. If you say the wrong thing, the process is going to repeat itself, and this time it will be two minutes of tickling. After that it will be five, then ten.”

Calvin endured, grasping onto his determination to impress Ian with his ability to stay quiet under pressure.

After a good five minutes of tickling, Fredrick seemed frustrated and tired out. Calvin was completely exhausted. “Lets take a break with this one” Fredrick said to Lance. “None of them seem to want to cooperate.” Red tape was once again applied to Calvin’s mouth, he didn’t bother resisting. The prisoner once again secure, both of them stepped out of the room, presumably for a bathroom break or something.

Sitting in tired silence appreciating the break from tickling, Calvin suddenly felt a pair of hands grabbing at his taped wrists. Kneeling beside him was Josh! Ian had a hopeful look of excitement in his eyes across the room. Josh must have somehow discreetly loosened his arm and leg restraints without Fredrick noticing. His limbs were free but his mouth was still taped and he was clad only in his low rise tighty whities. His finger went up to his taped lips signaling Calvin to stay quiet as Josh worked to get him free. Calvin’s tapegag was peeled off and loosened down to his neck.

Footsteps approached.

Thinking as fast as he could, Josh quickly plastered the tape back onto Calvin’s mouth, to his chagrin, and hid behind the door. Everyone in the room held their breath. If it was Fredrick then Josh was out of luck, he would be recaptured with ease.

It was Lance. Josh was incredibly lucky that the person he now had to neutralize was the only guy in the Kidnap Club who was smaller in size than he was. Thinking on his feet, Josh grabbed the nearest sock he could find and shoved it into Lance’s mouth from behind. Both of them lost their balance and fell to the ground. Josh quickly rolled over onto Lance and straddled him while holding the sock tightly in his mouth. Lance called frantically out for Fredrick but the usually submissive Josh was doing a remarkable job of keeping his voice muffled and muted.

Ian managed to scoot over and press his body weight onto Lance as well, allowing Josh to quickly grab the nearby roll of tape while keeping Lance’s mouth sock in place. All of them had to hurry because it was only a matter of time before Fredrick heard the muffled grunting. Josh quickly wrapped the tape around Lance’s head, keeping the sock in place before quickly wrapping his wrists and ankles together. Finally Josh could take the time to rip the tape off Ian and Calvin’s wrists.

Ian grabbed the tape and quickly secured Lance a little more thoroughly before stuffing him in the closet. All three of them still gagged and clad only in briefs, Ian signaled for them to make a run for it.

Calvin managed to grab only his jeans and hopped into them as he ran, also managing to peel the gag off his face. The three of them had gotten separated as the ran to different parts of the house to take cover and plan an escape. Tip toeing towards the backyard, he thought he might be able to slip out into the backyard and around to the front of the house without being noticed. Ian came from around the corner, without his gag but still clad only in his black briefs and followed. From the kitchen area they heard Josh’s gagged voice let out a startled laughter filled yelp followed by sounds of ruffling clothing and a series of fast movements. It was probably safe to assume Josh had accidentally run into Fredrick and was a hostage again.

Unfortunately for Josh this was now an “every man for himself” sort of situation, they were outnumbered and had to save themselves. Fredrick was a formidable opponent and Jackie, Todd, and other red team members were presumably in the area as well. They’d have to attempt a rescue mission later on after they’d regrouped with other members of blue team. . Carefully, Calvin slid the glass door open and they crept into the backyard.

Todd was there. Shit.

“What do you think we do?” Calvin asked Ian. “We might be able to sneak by him undetected, but its up to you” responded Ian.

Calvin suddenly felt himself run up to try and subdue Todd. This was the Kidnap Club wasn’t it?

Todd was quite strong and Calvin was somewhat anticipating that Ian would be quick to help subdue him. Attempting to subdue Todd, Calvin tried to quickly grapple Todd and lock his arms in place.

He miscalculated and now there was trouble. Big trouble.

Todd easily broke free from Calvin’s grip. “The fuck are you doing?” He said, giving Calvin a firm shove. Ian finally arrived and successfully grappled Todd’s arms behind his back, but Todd was not in a playful mood. “Get the fuck off me, you guy’s know that I’m not a sub. I’m only here to capture others and this prick tries to get the jump on me?” Todd snapped, raising his voice.

Ian released his grip on Todd and broke character. “Todd calm down, he didn’t mean anything by it. We’re all getting kidnapped here, as friends. I’m usually not submissive either but it’s a friendly game.” Todd wasn’t persuaded and continued to raise his voice.

Jackie and Fredrick emerged from the house realizing there was now a situation, as did Ryan and Alex who must have arrived recently in an attempt to rescue their blue teammates. The flag game appeared to be temporarily suspended, as all were focused on diffusing the situation and none of the opposing members attempted to subdue each other.

Todd was still glaring at Calvin in particular. “Well? Got anything else to say to me?” In retrospect Calvin probably should have relented and apologized at this point, but he felt a wave of defensive pride and the need to defend himself. “I’m sorry if you were offended, but like Ian said, it’s a competition where we all are fair game. I did nothing wrong” Calvin retorted.

Todd’s eyes grew furious and he slowly moved forward with clear malicious intent. Jackie stepped in between and put his arm out, shielding Calvin and prompting Todd to pause. The others moved towards Todd but stopped as he did. “Todd, I’m warning you now, just calm down and let’s talk about this. If you try to hit him then things aren’t going to go the way you want them to” Jackie sternly said.

Todd took hold of Jackie’s shirt and tried to pull him out of the way to get to Calvin. The smaller Jackie was thrown a bit but he aggressively pushed Todd back.

With this display of aggression Ryan and Fredrick suddenly grabbed Todd, rushed him into the house as the others followed and wrestled him to the ground. The two were stronger than him and were able to tightly lock his arms and legs as they held him down on his stomach. “What the fuck! Get off m-“, Todd yelled before Ian knelt down and clamped a hand tightly over his mouth and grabbed the back of his head so he couldn’t pull away from it. “Todd I told you to shut your mouth. You’re going to attract unwanted attention from neighbors and potentially police. I’m not letting you go until you calm down.” Todd angrily grunted and squealed into Ian’s hand but he wasn’t getting free. “I already told you, this competition is fair game. When you first joined this club you also consented to capture just like everyone else.”

Jackie readjusted his ruffled shirt, slightly exposing his stomach. Calvin was the only one glancing over at Jackie in this moment and noticed the bottom of a red flag marking on his upper left flank. Their eyes met and Calvin quickly averted his gaze, pretending he saw nothing. He didn’t feel confident that he successfully pulled it off.

Todd stayed subdued and continued to struggle and grunt, but all of them successfully kept him restrained and silenced for a good ten minutes. Over time he seemed to be loosing steam and energy. Jackie knelt down and spoke to him as Ian continued to hold his mouth tightly. “You’re jeopardizing your place in this club right now. I don’t think any of us want to see you expelled. Let’s just be friends here. There’s no need to be so angry.”

At last Todd relented and stopped struggling and grunting. They held him for a minute longer just to be sure but eventually Todd was released. Standing up, he faced Calvin. “Sorry Calvin. Sorry Jackie. It won't happen again.” Both accepted his apology.

“Maybe you should sit out for a little while. At least until the flag game is over” Jackie suggested. Todd agreed and headed out.

Tensions finally began to simmer down and the game was ready to resume. “Alright, lets get a twenty minute head start to go our separate ways and regroup, then the game will resume” Ian said. Ryan came back from the kitchen holding Josh who was still wrapped up and gagged with red tape from being captured earlier. “Guess I’ll take this one back with us” Ryan laughed. Fredrick spoke up, “hold up, we only get a head start to retake our positions. We never said anything about freeing our respective prisoners. Otherwise you have to give us back Nate and Will.” “True. Sorry bud, he’s got a point” Ryan said to Josh, handing him to Fredrick. “Mmppphh!!” Josh clearly unhappy with this yelled into his tapegag. “Hush you” Fredrick said, disappearing with his captive.

“Your shirts still in the bedroom from earlier, you might want to go get it” Jackie said to Calvin. “Though I certainly don’t mind you continuing to rock the shirtless look.” Calvin was flattered but headed to the bedroom to retrieve his shirt.

Many thoughts raced through Calvin’s head. He still felt shaken from his encounter with Todd. He was very grateful that the others had rushed to defend him, especially Jackie.

Wait. Jackie. The flag! He had to tell the others.

He stopped before heading into the bedroom and turned around to see Jackie had followed him there. “Oh wait I just have to say bye to Ian real quick and make sure he got his stuff” Calvin said, moving to get by Jackie.

Jackie put out his arm and stopped him from getting by. Calvin felt a hot rush as he realized what he was walking into.

“Oh, no need, he already got his clothes and he shouldn't be leaving just yet, you can just go get your shirt” Jackie said. Calvin nervously quipped, “Ah, well I should say bye to the others then!” Jackie gently placed his hand on Calvin’s stomach, taking light hold of him. Calvin wasn’t getting away.

Slightly smirking, Jackie’s tone grew more teasing and softly said, “Calvin, it’s too late. Trust me, stay nice and quiet and go in the bedroom okay?”

Calvin was emotionally captivated and helpless. He walked into the empty bedroom at Jackie’s command. The door was closed in such a way as to not make sound, Jackie gave a mocking smirk as he quietly locked the door behind them.