“The final three, ladies, gentlemen, and the bulk of our viewers. Each of them has come a very long way, so we're just going to take a quick look over while they race for the ending.

The camera pans slowly over Amy, now in the depths of the Forest arena. The Irish woman looks as lovely as ever, a beautiful freckled thirty-year-old with large breasts and child-bearing hips. Her wavy red hair hangs down around her brow as she jogs through the underbrush, eyes scanning the ground for sharp rocks or traps. “Amy took brutal advantage of our late contestant Jasmine's kindness in the Carnival, surviving a rape by Saul DeLasse, and escaped from there with seconds to spare. She was luckier in the Tidal Pools and the City, managing to avoid the attention of Shen Lee and arriving after Janet's crushing failure – pardon the pun – and is now braving Charlton's forest in search of her final pylon.”

Attention shifts a short distance, where Sierra is crossing the space from the Tidal Pools to the Forest. The young refugee's pigtails are in disarray, but the young latino lady is undaunted as she methodically crosses the Forest. Her earlier caution is still in evidence, but she's pausing less often between dashes, racing against the clock to find the Forest pylon. “And in an odd bit of symmetry, Sierra is in the Forest as well. Like Amy, she started in the carnival, avoiding early explosions of violence by being as scared as a rabbit. She made her way to the City, where she heard the death of Janet, before crossing to the Tidal Pools – meeting Amy along the way. Too bad you didn't jump her, Sierra, there'd be one fewer opponent one way or the other. She followed Ling far enough to find the Tidal Pool pylon, but avoided getting killed by Lee in the process, and now she's on her way to her last pylon.”

“Finally, there is our dear gambler Miko.” Miko is desperately running across the Tidal Pools, panting and exhausted. The Japanese gambler, another larger-breasted beauty, is naked, disheveld, her breasts heaving with the effort of another sprint right after her first. “She managed to bargain her way out of a fight with now-deceased contestant Sonja, before crossing to the City, evading its dangers, and reaching the Carnival. There, she met Sonja again, and narrowly avoided being killed at the hands of her fellow contestant. She managed to trick her way out of the Funhouse, beaned Saul in the nuts, and ran for the Tidal Pools – where she promptly almost got taken down by Shen Lee. Only dear, sweet Ling's horrible death saved her. Now she's looking for safety.”

The camera cuts rapidly between the three girls. Amy almost steps on a protruding spike, but she's learned to pay attention to the ground and manages to dance through the vicious trap and carry on her way. Sierra is racing like an olive shadow, flitting from bush to tree as she covers as much ground as possible. Miko keeps to the high rocks, scanning the water below. She nearly slips, recovering a moment before a painful fall, and keeps running. The clock ticks across to 4:00 – only two hours left until the girls run out of time.

As Sierra crosses the forest underbrush, she hears a creaking sound, and spins to see a form moving through the woods behind her. With a silent gasp of terror, she bolts from cover, racing through the trees. In doing so, she still avoids a painful, bramble-filled bush – but in dodging it, she accidentally tugs very slightly on a tripwire left on the forest floor.

Instantly, the buried net explodes upwards, its delicate balance disturbs. Sierra's scream erupts as she is engulfed, the net's top drawing tightly shut as it rises, wires pressing into her as she hangs three feet off the ground. Thin metal wires dig into Sierra's skin, her cheeks pressed against a wire, more digging painfully into her breasts. Sierra struggles and presses, fitting her hand through one hole in the wires, but only manages to set the net spinning gently, trapped in a painful hogtie instead her metal cage.

“Didn't think any of those would actually work.” Charlton laughs, stepping out of the jungle. He strolls up to Sierra, and cheerfully sets the net spinning faster. Sierra tries to watch him, but she can't move her head to follow him, and is forced to close her eyes as the world spinning around her fills her with nausea. “Wonder how long we have…” Charlton mumbles. He stops the net facing away from him, and reaches into his pack. “You made it pretty far, girl.”

“What do you want?” Sierra whispers. “I can give it to you. I am very…”

“Nah, I've had enough pussy tonight.” Charlton interrupts. “Just out for a bit of fun, now. Figure I've got an hour or so to play.” He walks in front of Sierra, pulling out a large double-headed dildo, its head studded with blunt spikes. “Why don't you just sit back, and relax. Have a last fuck.” He loops around again, and as Sierra whimpers pleas to cut her throat quickly, he pushes the dildo through the wires of the net, pushing aside the remains of her bikini to shove it deep inside her. He presses a button on it, and it shudders to life. “You'll like this monster. Let's see how many times it can make you cum.” As Sierra moans and shudders, he loops back around. As she opens her mouth to beg, he reaches up and forces a ring gag into her mouth, twisting her head painfull in the wires to clasp it shut behind her. She looks at him, whimpering, and he reaches into her mouth. “Just sit tight.” He chuckles, pinching her tongue with two fingers. Sierra screams in pain as he pulls her tongue through the wires, sliding a pair of thin sticks with screws connecting them out of his pocket with his free hand. Seeing him, Sierra screams again and tries to struggle, and Charlton tsks her. Quickly, he pushes the sticks on either side of her tongue, screwing them tightly together so that she can't pull her tongue back through the net. Sierra is still screaming, begging, and crying, but her words are meaningless grunts without lips or a tongue to shape them, and Charlton smiles. “Going to have to punish you for that.” He smiles, reaches down, and rubs sticks and dirt over her tongue. “A taste of your life.” He laughs, as the dildos painfully filling Sierra force her to orgasm. Charlton sits back and watches, as Sierra struggles, whimpers, and screams her way towards a second forced orgasm.

Meanwhile, at the Tidal Pools, Miko has found her goal. The Japanese girl climbs down, carefully studying her path before crossing to the pylon in the water. Taking a deep breath, she taps it quickly, and immediately starts climbing again as light breaks across the sky. Some distance away, Shen Lee sees the light from his position near the border, and explodes into motion.

In the Forest, two of the three survivors spot the tidal lights. Sitting on a rock as Sierra screams her way to a second orgasm and tries to beg Charlton again, the hunter shakes his head. “Lee's not on the top of his game.” He mutters. “Two girls in two hours down there. Going to be over soon.”

Not far away, Amy had been slipping through the woods, but the sound of Sierra's screams quickly convinces her to find another path. Now, seeing light fill the sky a second time, she bites her lip as she picks up speed. It's only five minutes later that she reaches the Forest clearing, and sees her last pylon. With a beaming face, she races to it, stops to take a deep breath, and taps it, instantly exploding into motion in the opposite direction.

Charlton, not far away, leaps to his feet as the pylon's light leaps into the sky. “…the hell?!” He mutters, then turns to Sierra. “Guess we have to cut this short, girl. Didn't realize anyone else was left over here.” Sierra barely hears him, suffering her way through another humiliating and agonizing orgasm. Blood drips out of her ass, creating a pattern of droplets on the ground, as Charlton crosses over to her, and she stares at him in pain and fear as he cups her chin in his hand. Charlton pulls out a strange metal rod and slides it through the wires, keeping Sierra's face from moving as she begins to scream again, watching the thin metal wedge approaching her eye. She closes her eyes as tightly as she can, and feels the rod touching her eyelids. A moment later, Charlton is sliding his fingers along the rod, and it blossoms open, two metal prods forcing her eyelids up and down, leaving her eyeball exposed as a sharp needle slowly pushes towards it. Sierra screams desperately, bucking in her net as the dildos keep forcing pleasure on her, and the needle gently presses against her eyeball. A moment later Charlton shoves the pick forwards, passing through Sierra's eye in an explosion of viscera and deep into her brain. She screams one last time, bucking in the net, as the shrap rod pushes layers of brain aside, tearing through sensitive nerves and creating blossoms of agony throughout her body. A moment later, she is dead.

“Not quick enough,” Charlton mutters, tossing his cigarette aside as he limps into the woods after Amy, “but it'll have to do.”

Now, Miko and Amy are racing for the central safe zone, with their Hunters in hot pursuit. Miko, hearing sound, dives into a crevice in the cliff face as Shen Lee appears. The hunter is moving silently, stalking across the pools. He glances into each space, and Miko forces herself further into the shadows, desperately hoping for safety. For a moment, Lee looks into her space, knife at the ready, and she freezes, not even daring to breathe. Then there is a faint sound, and Lee moves off in pursuit. Miko waits for a full minute before daring to leave.

And with good reason. Within a moment of her departure, Lee has heard the sound of her movement. Cursing under his breath, the hunter gives chase, and Miko explodes into motion, letting out a shriek as she sees her hunter pursuing.

In the Forest, Amy has thrown caution to the wind, dodging bushes and tripwires as she dashes through the woods. A moment later, the brambles snap and crack as a bolo slices through them, narrowly missing her. Amy yells in terror, not breaking stride as Charlton appears just to one side, running towards her. The hunter lets a knife fly towards Amy. It hits her in the arm as she runs, and she screams again, glancing back at him. Charlton is gaining on Amy, and he grins viciously, reaching out with one hand to pull her to the ground.

Flush with victory, however, Charlton forgets that his right side was injured in his fight with Adrienne. As he grabs Amy by the arm, she pulls with all of her might, and Charlton loses his grip under a sudden spasm of pain as his stitches tear. Amy pulls ahead as Charlton staggers, eyes wide with pain as new blood patterns appear on his clothes, and he staggers to a stop, watching his prey vanish. “Point for Adrienne. Saving girls from beyond the grave.”

Miko, meanwhile, is holding steady. Shen Lee can't quite close enough to let a knife fly. Miko hits a patch of wet stone and slips, losing a foot of distance as she regains her balance. She is crying, breasts bouncing wildly as she races for the small safe area at the centre of the island. She can hear Shen behind her, gaining ground with every step, inhumanly focused on his prey. Ahead, she sees the smooth marble surface of the large open area that represents the central tower. Miko puts everything she has into reaching that surface. The world narrows to the monster behind her, and the one ahead of her. As she races, she steps onto the edge of the ivory-colored platform, and is rewarded by Shen's curse as she passes out of his jurisdiction. Safe.

And Amy, across the way, reaches the tower's ornate door.

Miko stumbles, feeling a sudden pressure on her neck. She gasps for breath, jogging towards the beautiful white communications tower. As she turns a corner, her breath becoming increasingly shallow, she sees Amy. Her eyes widen. “No…” She whispers in Japanese.

Amy sees Miko as well. She looks at her defeated rival. “I'm sorry.” She says softly, closing the door behind her.

Miko's breath is becoming shallower, as the collar around her throat slowly tightens. She reaches the door, fumbles for the handle. It won't turn. She pounds on the gilded door. “No!” She screams. “I did it! I avoided them all! I made it here!”

She sinks against the door, fingers fumbling at the collar. Still tightening, her breath is now ragged, breasts heaving more and more as she scrambles for breath. A fingernail snaps, leaving a trail of blood along the collar as it cuts off her windpipe, digging painfully into her throat and reducing her breath to a whisper. She feels herself growing hard despite herself, the lack of blood in her brain stimulating her body. “Please…” She whispers, no longer having the breath to shout. “I was so close…”

The collar constricts further, tearing into her skin. New beads of blood form, slowing flowing over it as it cuts off the last of her air. As Miko's eyes bug out, she screams silently, writhing naked on the ground as she desperately tries to pull the collar away from her throat. Finally, she loses the battle against fate, and slumps motionless on the ground.

“And that's it, folks. Our winner this year is the lovely Amy from Dublin, who has won a million dollars to keep her family safe, and probably a lot more in endorsement deals. Amy's an amazing girl – beautiful, talented, and just ruthless enough to survive Babequest.”

“And now, for our Hunter Awards. After tallying the results, it looks like Saul DeLasse is our winner, with five kills, each of them complex, violent, and beautifully cruel. For setting up his entire arena in a series of brutal deathtraps, and then tying girls to them like a B-Movie villain, Saul DeLasse has won the Audience Choice Award and a total of $240,000. Second place goes to Charlton Cole, with five kills – plus two near misses. Charlton was a bit quick a couple of times, but had a solid mix of pain and pleasure, and earned $225,000. Third place goes to Shen Lee, who managed to slice four girls to pieces through a variety of nasty tricks, and won himself $155,000. Fourth place goes to Janet Weiss, whose unfortunate death midway through the match left her with only two victims, although both were very lovely. Her estate will be receiving $90,000. The Audience Appreciation result will be given once we've had a chance to see what you all think – look for it to be announced next week. We also had an unusual number of girls not killed by any Hunter this year – two killed by other contestants, and a third killed by strangulation in the final minutes of the contest.”

“That's all the time we have this year. Thank you all for joining us for Babequest VIII, and thanks for your kind support of ExoCorp. Keep an eye out for our other exciting gameshows. I'm Max Huntley – Goodnight.”