Leo's Capture

Part 6

Victoria never had any account of Leo's information put in any computer, so it would be harder for his family and friends to find him. And even if Leo meditated to reach his family, he had no idea where he had been taken. They wouldn't tell him other than upstate.

Victoria now wanted to try something new. Her turtle had shown incredible resistance to pain after a hard workout in the dojo. But how could he hold up against a certain type of pain? She wanted to use a part on his body that didn't have bones in it. And she wanted to test how elastic his plastron really was.

She was choosing his stomach to do the test on. She had her men prepare a table for him to lay on and a bar that was going to be pressed into him, testing his pain limit there. The stomach was often a weak spot on anything. She was also going to see if his breathing changed too. And some weight was going to be added to a bar.

Once it was ready, Leonardo was retrieved from his quarters and brought to the room. After the x-rays, Victoria knew Leo might be thinking of trying to escape from here. Now she remedied that every time he left his cell, his hands were going to be cuffed behind his back. The only time he was loose was in the dojo or the courtyard. He was still kept shackled at the ankle in his cell.

Leo felt really vulnerable with his hands cuffed behind him. From where he was standing at the moment, he didn't like where he was. He saw the table with the binds. And he didn't see an x-ray this time. He knew something was up. But the moment they began moving him toward the table, he began to put up a struggle.

His arms were gotten a good hold on before the cuffs were unlocked, then he was pulled to the table as his cries were ignored and he was forced onto the table by some strong men. Then his limbs were all strapped into the bonds.

Leo now looked up at his captors nervously. He wouldn't show them fear, but he was looking at them to find out what was happening next.

He saw them bring out a bar, then some weights being put on to it. What would they be doing with weights and a bar? If Leo was going to be doing those, he needed his hands free.

"If you're wanting me to lift weights, I need my hands free to do it." Leo said.

"Silly turtle, you aren't lifting these. This is to do a test on you!" A man mocked.

"What test would that be?" Leo remarked back.

"A pain test." Victoria finally walked in and answered.

Leo gulped. Everyone who captured him always wanted to impose pain on him sooner or later. In this case, he wished it was never. His breathing picked up.

"Get it over him." She ordered. "And low to his body before I give the order."

Two big men had the bar and now walked up alongside the table, one on each side. They stopped at Leo's middle. They stood there now, holding the heavy bar with weights on it.

Leo stared at them for a moment, then he saw Victoria give a signal nod.

The bar had been a little low over his body, but then, the bar was let go of, and the heavy bar was dropped down onto his stomach.

Leo couldn't hold back his cry of pain as pain soared through his body the instant the heavy bar came in contact with his stomach.

Victoria saw that Leo's plastron had given in to the heavy bar. Now the turtle was just trying to breathe. Pain was everywhere inside him right now.

"Sure you're wondering why the bar is so heavy. It's because I just wanted to see what your plastron would do too." Victoria said.

Leonardo could barely concentrate on anything anyone said as he could only try to catch his breath back, as it had completely winded him. And trying to get his stomach muscles to keep the bar from completely crushing his middle. Extreme nausea welled inside him.