Stories of Tie Up Games

“No.”
“Please?”
“No.”
“GoGo, come on! Pleeeeeeeeeeease?”
“Yes.”
“Really?!”
“No.”

The two were in their shared apartment. Honey Lemon had just done the Ice Bucket Challenge in their bathroom’s tub, so GoGo was handing her roommate towels to dry herself off with. Meanwhile, a shivering Honey was trying to convince GoGo that it was her turn to do it.

“But you have to! I just nominated you to do it. You have to do it within the next 24 hours otherwise, you have to pay $100 in forfeiture.”
“Then I’ll just do that.”
“No way! Everyone else in our friend group did it. Hiro did it, Wasabi did it, Fred did it, and even Baymax did it. And he’s a robot!”
“Yes, I saw that video. Baymax did look cute in that raincoat. But GoGo, look. I get that it’s for a good cause. But I don’t see how dumping a bucket of ice on yourself has anything to do with charity. I’m just going to do what a sane person would do and just donate the $100 directly to them. Ok?”
“Fine…”

When GoGo walked out of the bathroom, Honey started to dry her hair. As she did, a thought started to slowly form in her head.

“Oh GoGo...you will do that challenge by day’s end. I will make sure of that…”

oOo

To practice accuracy when it came to throwing discs while in her superheroine persona, GoGo would blindfold herself and throw the discs at an archery board, trying to hit the bullseye as many times as possible.

Throwing a disc, GoGo lifted the blue cloth she used to blind herself and grumbled to herself. “Damnit. Hit the blue section. Let’s try this again.”

Lowering the cloth, GoGo took a deep breath, mentally preparing herself. Meanwhile, Honey Lemon had set her camera on a nearby table and crept up behind her roommate, bucket of icy water in her arms.

”If GoGo uses me for target practice because of this, it’ll still be worth it,” Honey assured herself, ”because, y’know, charity.”

Honey lifted the bucket up over GoGo’s head, ready to douse her friend. But suddenly, GoGo lifted her arm above her opposite shoulder as she geared up to throw the next disc, striking Honey in the nose. Stunned, Honey stumbled back and fell on her butt, causing her to spill the bucket’s contents onto her legs.

Turning around and lifting her blindfold, the engineer laughed at what she saw. “Hey, you spilled a little something on...all of your lower half,” she giggled before leaving the room.

“And I just washed these leggings,” the chemist grumbled to herself.

oOo

“So, why did you decide to have an impromptu escape training session?” GoGo asked as Honey sat her down in a chair and started taping her wrists behind her back.
“Simple: a villain could capture you at any time. So you need to be prepared to do this at any time,” the chemist answered, taping her roommate's ankles together.
“‘Any time’, you say? Even at a time you’re trying to pour a bucket of-MMM!”

Honey slapped a piece of duct tape over GoGo’s lips. “They could also silence you at any time, so you have to be prepared for that too.”

Honey stepped back, inspecting her friend’s bonds. “Ok, GoGo. Begin trying to escape now. I’ll be right back.”

Running to her room, the chemist grabbed the bucket of ice water she had stashed there. Quietly walking back, she noticed that GoGo was still trying to break through her bonds.

“Hey, GoGo,” Honey called out, figuring that her friend was too focused on escaping to notice what was about to happen to her. “You know what you should also be prepared for? This!”

Honey lifted up the bucket and poured the water onto the chair. But at the last second, GoGo was able to free her wrists of the tape and spring from the chair before she could be soaked.

GoGo peeled the tape strip off her lips. “So close,” she taunted as she used her fingers to pick apart the tape around her ankles. “A drop of that water nearly touched my hair that time.”
“But-“
“See, the problem was that you didn’t use nearly enough tape to restrain me. However…”

Grabbing Honey by her arm, GoGo forcibly sat her roommate in the chair and grabbed the roll of duct tape.

“It’s your turn to practice some escape training. And trust me, I won’t make the same mistake you did. I’m going to use lots and lots of tape for you…”

Honey could only gulp as her arms were forced behind the chair.

oOo

After peeling the last bit of tape off of her skin, Honey decided to put some space between her and GoGo and went to their team’s base for some training. GoGo decided to stay home and take a nap on the couch. An hour later, she awoke to a message from Hiro telling her to come to the base; Roddy, the man behind their base’s creation, had just installed a hot tub in the base!

Speeding to the lair in record time, GoGo immediately changed into her bathing suit (a yellow two-piece) and rushed into the spa room. Inside, Hiro and Honey Lemon were already taking a dip.

Upon seeing GoGo, Honey turned to the robotic genius. “Hiro, would you terribly mind giving GoGo and I some space for a few minutes? I want to talk to her alone.”
“Sure thing,” the boy answered, stepping out of the hot tub and exiting the room.

Hesitantly, GoGo looked around the room, making sure that there were no hidden buckets of ice water or restraining materials Honey could use on her. After making sure the coast was clear, the mechanical engineer slid into the tub.

“GoGo, I want to apologize for today,” Honey said. “I just wanted-“
“Hey, I get it. It was for charity. But I just don’t think it’s necessary to dump a bucket of ice water on my head and then give money to charity when I could just give to charity directly.”
“Yea...maybe you’re right. It is kinda silly-“

Suddenly, a sphere flew into the pool and landed at the bottom. Before the girls could react, the sphere opened up, suddenly causing the water in the tub to turn into a green slime. Both of their bodies were now trapped from the neck down in the slime blob.

Honey looked at the sphere-thrower, who had brought in two ice buckets. “Hiro! You were supposed to wait until after I got out of the tub to trap her!”
“”I’m sorry, Honey, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to soak you too!”
“WHAT?!” GoGo roared.

Hiro dragged the buckets up to the tub. Despite their pleas and demands, both buckets were soon poured, soaking their hair.

“Sorry, girls. But don’t worry, I’ll donate more to charityyyyyyyyyyyy!” the boy shouted as he ran out of the room.

Shaking her head to try to get as much water out of her hair as possible, Honey felt somewhat hurt and betrayed by Hiro’s betrayal. But GoGo just felt livid.

“So...this was just another stupid trick to get me to do the Ice Bucket Challenge?!”
“...yea...BUT I got soaked too! So...that’s gotta count for something, right?!”

The engineer just glared at her roommate with absolute fury.

“You’re gonna use me for target practice when we get home, aren’t you?”
“Yep.”