Story by
Fossekall for me and
Reececav27 of our orcas accidentally getting sucked up into a desalinization plant and causing chaos.
Contains sugophilia, tube squeezing, toony property damage, and machine destruction.
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In Pine Bay, California, a new building gleamed in sunshine. An expansion to the local
desalination plant had concluded recently, modernizing the facility with brand new filters,
pipes and new intake ports.
While landbased spectators would have to wait for tours to see the facility up close, sea
based ones could be a bit more sneaky. And two orcas were among the first to do so, in the
form of Opunui and Hera.
“Big changes, eh?” Opunui said, idly gliding through the entry of the breakwater barrier,
followed by his friend..
The seafloor around them seemed desolate, just some sand surrounded by concrete walls.
A few of them with odd translucent pipes poking out of them.
“Hm, not sure about that. There was sand here before too.” Hera noted.
“Come on, you are not a bit curious? Look at this thing!” Opunui replied, swimming up to
that strange, clear tube from the side. “Where do you think it goes?”
Hera looked up, seeing a few modest towers dissipating some vapor. Potentially a good
few pipes as well, going in a strange maze.
“Surface stuff, nothing that interesting probably. I would not get too close to that thing
though.” She said.
As if on command, Opunui did the opposite of that, and pivoted to the front of the tube to
have a peek. Though only a little bit too late, did he realize water was being pulled into the
pipe, forming a nice invisible vortex around his very body. Suddenly he was pulled forwards.
SCHLUNK
The pipe went, followed by the orca's head and fins squeezing in there with surprisingly
ease. Though his blubbery middle prevented any further advance then that.
“G-guh.. Shoot..” He said, flailing his tail around some. “Hera, little bit of help..?”
She sighed and got closer, wrapping her finds around his tail before tugging at it. Then
again, with a bit more force, and once more. By now groaning with effort.
“I told you not to get close to that thing..” She said, with a bit of an annoyed tone.
One more firm tug made the pipe squeeze as Opunui was pulled back a few inches, before
sliding back in.
“Yeah yeah.. I didn’t listen..” Concern set in, as he could feel the suction building up.
“Can you hurry up..? I think I’m slipping deeper..!”
Hera groaned, pulling firmly, though her efforts had increasingly little effect it seemed.
“Calm down, no way you’ll fit in there anyways!” She huffed.
Though the facility itself was about to prove her wrong.
At the control room, a dragon dressed in a typical high-viz outfit sat by the wide array of
information panels and sipped a cup of coffee. Their nametag read ‘Max Kyburz’.
The dragon seemed rather content, and had every reason to feel that way. The first week of
operations had gone flawlessly, with nothing going wrong somehow. Quite the exception to
newer and bigger construction projects really.
Though, there was one exception. Among rows of green bars showing healthy numbers,
there was one labeled ‘Intake Pipe 5’, which had turned orange. The PSI indicator below
was slowly rising, indicating a blockage.
“That’s not right.. Maybe if I..” He said to himself, and navigated a mess of computer
menus. “Maybe a spike in suction can fix that. A suction cup operation..”
With a clattering of keys, the pumps attached to the pipe slowed down for a moment, before
their RPM rose sharply.
If this worked, that flawless record might be maintained for a full week. That could make for a
possible bonus if his boss got such news.
“I think you almost got it..!” Opunui said, feeling the pressure get a little bit less intensive.
Hera pulled once more, managing to almost get her friend fully out of the pipe. Things
seemed to be going well.
“See, this wasn’t so bad.” She noted.
Though right about that time, they could both feel the vibrations of a distant machine
spooling up. Promptly, the suction of the tube increased.
Opunui squealed as it tugged at his form. Any progress his friend had made was undone in a
moment as his formidably bulky body somehow managed to squeeze into the clear tube.
“Oh no you don’t!” Hera said, doing her best to keep a proper grip on the fellow orcas form.
The widest portion of Opunui’s form would within a short amount of time be compressed into
the tube, leaving him stretched out a bit, as all that mass had to fit in somehow. A drawn out
schlrrrrrk was heard, culminating in a loud schlunk as the tail of the orca slid in with ease.
Hera had a firm enough grip, that within a moment she too was pulled in along with her
friend. The little gap of water between her and Opunui formed a vacuum seal as her head
was lodged into the tube.
“Hey..! Stop that..! Ghrm..” She muttered, though by now it seemed too late. A final attempt
at pulling out proved futile, and she could feel her own body getting sucked into the pipe as
well. The view was framed by the glass, feeding into the concrete wall ahead of them.
There was a good view of Opunui vanishing, before she followed shortly afterwards. Leaving
them both in the dark embrace of the infrastructure.
The pressure was unimaginable, or it had been until now. Surrounded entirely by concrete
there was no chance of making the various pipes even budge. As such the pair were
cartoonishly compressed and stretched. They moved through those constraints in complete
darkness, at the mercy of the facility itself.
At some point both could feel themselves getting forced into an even more wretched spot,
with the grinding and strained noises of an electric motor heard as the system tried to
process them.
Whatever they were forced through, it was undeniably a relief to get forced back into a
regular pipe again.
A little while later, in the filtration building, the very foundations cracked. Pieces of concrete
chipped off and bounced upwards around a clear water intake pipe.
The compact form of Opunui then emerged from the floor, finally getting a bit of light again.
Though it was not sunshine, it was those lamps land people had on boats and such.
The pipe meanwhile, had formed numerous cracks. A bit of water spilled out, but somehow it
was still able to remain in one single piece. Sending the two of its occupants upwards
towards the exit of it.
Unceremoniously, their bulky forms were both spat out into a steel canal of sorts. Opunui
groaned, the suddenly uncompressed body jiggling some as some relief had finally come.
“Heh.. Guh.. Good we are still in one piece..?” He said.
Hera sighed, before replying. “Could be better if you had not gone and poked that snout of
yours into random stuff..”
“Not my fault they keep building interesting stuff.. Where do you think this goes anyway..?”
“Beats me, don’t think it’s anything good though.. If any, you'll see it first.” Hera replied.
One by one, they slid over a surface skimmer, making it buckle underneath them. Then
they passed over a bigger grate that drained most of the water. Making it feel much more like
a waterslide.
“Oh, is that an exit?” Opunui asked.
“What do you mean exit..?” She asked.
Her friend yelped, as he stumbled downwards. With a little dread building up, she inevitably
followed after him, into a sudden drop.
Stumbling into it, she could see a big hopper, funneling the trickle of water going down there
into a hole in the middle. A hole that was currently sucking up Opunui’s tail with a slllrrrrrp.
And with an audible pwompf, she too ended up plowing into the hopper face first.
Kyburz had determined the pump operation was a success. The pressure readings had
dropped, and the blockage probably would be dealt with by the intake processing.
“Hey, have you tried the new coffee maker yet?” Someone said from behind.
The dragon turned around, and faced the fox standing there. He was a more experienced
coworker, who seemed as happy about the upgrades as Kyburz himself was.
“Yeah, good stuff! Goes well with a flawless system.” He said, taking a victorious slurp from
his own mug.
“..What is that blinking thing though?” The fox pointed out, pointing behind the dragon.
Caught off guard, Kyburz turned around in a moment. The screen was flashing with a red
warning, reading ‘Oversized Bycatch’.
“Huh.. What’s this..” He pondered for a moment. “Can you check the cameras for the
bycatch area?”
Dutifully, the fox got onto his console. A clattering of typing eventually brings the feed onto
the main screen.
Surprisingly, it revealed nothing out of the ordinary, water flowed through as usual. At the
same time, that alarm ceased.
“Guess it was nothing.” The fox said, shrugging while checking out other metrics.
Kyburz felt a bit more uncertain about this, though returned to merely monitoring the vitals of
the facility as a whole.
Just out of sight from the surveillance camera, a rubbery hose stretched and groaned, with
the hoists keeping it up struggling somewhat due to the combined weight of the orcas. Their
bodies made it bulge outwards significantly.
The hopper was a way for marine life to be safely escorted back out to the sea, if any were
caught. Right now, the return system was doing an herculean task of trying to process two of
the biggest mammals there were.
“This better lead out of here!” Hera grumbled, wriggling against the elastic confines.
The ride was a slow one it seemed, taking them up towards the roof, and back the way they
had entered. Though the creaking of the hoists was rather concerning.
“H-hera, think this is strong enough for uh the two of usss!” Opuniu began, though got cut
off by a sudden collapse.
The hose that led back to the outside world was pulled out of the wall, and water spilled out
of it. It dropped down towards the sorting system, specifically towards the main drainage
grate in the channel.
Opunui squealed as gravity made him rapidly slide through the hose, and face first into the
grate below. It proved entirely unable to handle his weight and broke, followed by him
appearing to be stuck there.
At least, until a slurping noise commenced, and it was blatant his chubby form was going to
get a tight squeeze for the third time today.
Hera followed and landed on the upper side of his flapping tail, getting pushed forwards
towards the intake they came from. She huffed, and laid in the water a bit.
“At least you got stuck.. Would not want to-”
SCHLUNK!
The sound from behind had interrupted that thought, and she could promptly feel herself
sliding backwards, with the tip of her tail sucked into a menacingly familiar metallic embrace.
“Come on, you are not even that big!..” She grumbled towards the pipe claiming her tail.
Though the pipe did not care for those objections, and she could feel the suction from it pull
her bulky form down into the depths. Hera did not want to admit it, but the system had clearly
won, and somehow the groaning metal was consuming her.
The dorsal fin was forced to fold up against her body in an uncomfortable manner, and
attempts at pushing herself out were cut short as the pectoral fins met the same fate. This
left her perfectly constrained, with the water surging above her head as it sunk deeper and
deeper. With a groan, she was eventually sucked in with another modest SCHLUNK.
The water pipe below the canal creaked and swelled out, with the metal giving way as the
blubber of the orcas filled them. Every flange that connected the pipes had bolts snap and
pop off, as the bigger bodies got pulled through the narrow and stronger spots.
This continued for a while, with each section rampaged twice as the two orcas followed
along on the same dark journey into the wall, where a sign above the tube said ‘Flow to:
Pre-Treatment’.
Back at the control room, the peaceful mood was once more interrupted as the pressure
warnings made themselves present once more, but only for a bit before several input errors
were reported.
“Huh.. How’d that happen?” The fox asked, and brought the camera back up.
The view was now one of a mangled canal, with loose tubes, broken skimmers, and busted
pipes. Somehow it had been torn to shreds while they had looked away, and whatever that
blockage was had advanced deeper into the system.
“Dammit.. Almost went a month without issues!” Kyburz said, and sighed.
“That must have been heavy to break through everything.. Maybe it’ll drop into the bottom
of the holding tank?” The fox said. “Anyway, let’s shut that line down.”
With a sigh, Kyburz moved along with the routine procedure. There was no way a boulder
could have been sucked in, could there? It would have to be something buoyant, and soft,
but what?
In the dark, there was suddenly some relief for Opunui. With a gasp he emerged from a
narrow pipe, but of course into one another that was only twice as big. It probably merged
with another one, maybe?
He was confused at what this place even was, and could not even begin to assume why it
wanted to have him. Clearly this was no spot for anything alive, in particular not himself.
He could feel a change in water pressure behind him, probably indicating Hera was still
along for the ride. Wherever it led to, he hoped she would not be too angry.
Eventually Opunui found himself launched into another place, this time with his whole body
feeling free at once. There was even light, and ample amounts of space.
It seemed to be a pool of sorts, with a blue wall going in a circle around a floor lined with
sand. It was an uncanny sight, such a strangely artificial setup. The thought of being trapped
here practically made him shiver.
Though that thought was shaken off, as he heard some muffled grumbling from behind him.
Looking around, he could see the rear half of Hera poking out of the intake tube. Not wanting
to risk any further anger, he swam over and grabbed hold of her tail, pulling it out with a good
bit of force.
The force made them both drift backwards, spinning around once before getting face to face
in the middle of the tank. One looking a bit more grumpy then the other.
“This is so your fault..” Hera grumbled.
Opunui took a nervous gulp, before thinking up a reply.
“Well, it could have been worse, you know?” He tried to reason.
“How? We don’t know where we are at all!” She said.
Through that, Hera had not noticed the flow which had been pulling the two of them
backwards. Towards the outtake pipe, sucking in a generous amount of water.
“Well.. No pipes here, we could just stay put you know, and..”
SCHLUNK
Opunui did not even have to guess what had happened, as the stunned expression on
Hera’s face said it all. Along with the drawn out schlrrrk behind her, the signs pointed to her
tail being sucked into another maze.
“You better pull well now..” She said, and extended her fins.
Opunui did his best, and grunted as he pulled, doing his best to swim against the modest,
but increasingly strong flow.
Eventually the pressure grew far too big however, and one pwompf sucked her formidably
bulky form in. Opunui did not have time to respond in any notable manner before he found
himself face to face with the tube, seeing his friend sink into the depths. Then the vacuum
forces pulled him in as well.
“Oh come on..” He idly muttered.
The blubbery form then sank in with a few jittery motions before it was all gone.
The tube leading out of the tank protested loudly as it had to carry those two further on their
disastrous journey. Bolts popped off and launched themselves across the room, smashing
things like a window, a lamp and some sort of control box with a bolt hitting the lock in just
the right manner.
The door of the box opened by itself, just in time for a jet of water to pour out from the
pressurized tube, giving the numerous PLCs within a most unwelcome shower.
The pair in the control room assumed the situation was resolved, and repair works had
already been ordered. The damaged section had been sealed off from the rest of the plant,
and surely that would be enough.
“Okay, is the rest of the stuff here working well?” Kyburz asked.
“Yup, the capacity should be able to meet demand for the next day, I think we got off easy
with this one to be honest.” The fox said with a modest chuckle.
Of course, this was spoken too soon. Another pressure alarm sounded, and they both
looked towards the nearest blinking red indicator.
“Wait.. Is that the settling tank? How did that happen?” The fox said, a bit bewildered.
Anything heavy was supposed to sink to the bottom, and remain there. And yet, whatever
this was had enough weight to tear through the facility. while being able to float.
“Shutting it down!” Kyburz said, and entered some commands to close the valves.
They looked up for a moment, waiting for good news. Only for a popup to appear, saying
‘Critical Communications Error, Manual Mode Engaged’.
“Shoot.. Okay, off we go!” Kyburz said, and pulled the fox out of their chair.
Putting on the mandatory helmets, they made their way into the Treatment Unit of the facility.
In the room hosting the Treatment Units, there was a bout of panic. The pipes bulged and
threatened to burst as the foreign objects made their way through them. Components were
shredded, framework fell apart, all complimented by flying bolts and chaotic water leaks. All
of it makes the assembled workers scramble to try and keep things stable.
It was all a menacing sight for the control room operators, who were in charge, and who
would have to form a plan on how to deal with it. After seeing the morbidly bulging steel
tubes in person, and how the contents slid through one section to the next, they moved to
do.. Something, yes, something.
Within the pipeworks, it was a rather strange sensation for the two of them. Every pipe had
been forced to expand to accommodate them, only for incredibly tight gaps to appear
regularly. It was like an intensive massage.
Once in a while that rhythm was interrupted by getting cycled through something like a poor
pump, a flow gauge, or a valve, with the machine components ravaged in their wake.
If any, the blubber largely softened the possible blows, though there was undeniable
discomfort, and a certain sense of humiliation to it all.
“Quick, stop that.. Whatever it is!” The fox exclaimed, and attempted to turn a valve.
The first of the two lumps arrived at the valve just as he tried to turn the wheel, but he found
it was rather impossible. Whatever was within there was malleable enough to force itself
through the shutter within before he had a chance to close it. All the while, the metal groaned
and bent.
He even had to duck away, as the wheel got launched off from the pressure, a jet of water
tagging along with it. The lump continued meanwhile, with the second one following it.
Kyburz attempted to target the source of the suction, however it turned out to be harder
than one would assume to find the correct course for the pumps. Breakers were tripped,
leading to lighting, AC and other processes shutting down. But somehow the pumps kept
running, even as one by one they were forced to handle enormous overloads.
With that, he decided to change tactics and grabbed a loose wrench, marching onto a flange
between the current position of the obstacle and the reverse osmosis filters. Anything caught
in there had the potential to cause a massive amount of destruction, as such he did his best
to loosen bolts, and hopefully just divert the pipe onto the floor instead.
Eventually the pipe split into three branches, each one a mere 33% the size of the one that
supplied liquid. Between the bulging pipes and that branch, Kyburz did his best to undo as
many of the bolts as he could, managing to deal with half a dozen out of a dozen.
Though then the objects got too close to comfort, and he moved out of the way before any of
the bolts would go flying.
Initially it almost seemed like a success, with the flange seeming like it was at its breaking
point. Bolt after bolt snapped as the huge lump grew in size, forced up against the narrow
gap.
Though suddenly, a muffled glunk was heard, and he could only watch as the mass forced
itself past the chokepoint, and ran into the middle one of the three pipes. A grand metallic
groan accompanying that as it was forced to stretch.
The second one followed, and just as it had passed the final few bolts on the flange came
undone. The pipe burst open, revealing a brief glimpse at what seemed to be a tail. Or so
Kyburz thought, but it was only a brief view as it got sucked up with a quick slurp.
That second bulge moved on, but not into the central pipe. Instead it was just about clogged
enough that the bulge diverted itself to the left one.
And just like that, the worst case scenario had come to pass. The very most expensive one
as well. Kyburz and the other workers could only watch in a dreadful anticipation of what was
about to happen.
After all of that, the massive lumps reached the reverse osmosis setup. Consisting of long
rows of stacked cylinders, assembled in a grid of fine filters, it was the most central
component of the facility, and separated salt from the saltwater itself. To do that, the water
was forced through a membrane that would only bring through it clean water.
The pipe leading into the racks split into even smaller pipes, and the final hope was that
they would be too small, and burst rather than somehow transfer the contents into the
cylinders.
Unfortunately, they did not do that, with the tremendous bulges somehow forcing themselves
into the smallest parts leading into the individual tanks. Bulging grotesquely, the massive
lumps pressed themselves against the cylinders before forcing themselves into them with
muffled pwompfs.
Within them, the orcas effectively crushed the fine filters within them, and pushed them
forwards. Eventually leading to the filters finally becoming perfectly jammed. As such, the
water which was still being forced into the system built up the pressure immensely.
From outside, observers backed off as the most central part of two of the cylinder racks
inflated themselves. Pressing into other cylinders, the metal seemed like it had turned into
balloons. However, that was not the case, and it slowly met its limit, building up a menacing
amount of pressure, creaking and groaning, water even started shooting out of the seams.
Pumps in the distance could be heard audibly struggling, and eventually almost grinding to a
halt with a tired rumbling.
And then, there was a blast. The setups exploded from the core and outwards, launching
cylinders, filter remnants, metal frameworks and more out and across the room. A surge of
water accompanied that. Eventually metal clattered into the floor, as more and more of the
framework and surviving pipes collapsed. Even a portion of the roof crumbled, with metal
sheet panels dropping to the floor.
Once it was all done, the workers emerged from their hiding spots, with Kyburz leading the
charge. The building did not seem at risk of collapsing if any, so he had to sate his curiosity,
and see what had ended up in there.
Laying sprawled out in the middle of the wreck, were two orcas. One blue with orange
highlights, and the other more purple. Both audibly groaned and idly squirmed about in the
wreckage.
Seeing the scene, and the cause of all the misfortunes of the day, Kyburz simply stared at it
all for a moment.
“..How?” Was all he uttered after a while.
A few hours later, a crane had managed to pick Opunui and Hera up, separately. Guiding
each of them back into the bay in a relatively gentle manner.
It had taken a while, not only had some land dwellers in green gowns had a look at them to
discount the chance of injuries, of which there somehow were none, but also they had spent
a good amount of time debating how to even move them out.
Opunui sighed, and took in a good, deep breath of the sea, so to speak. Making a playful
spin in the open waters.
“Almost thought I would not get back for a moment..” He said, with a chuckle.
Hera stretched and did a quick swimming lap as well, grateful both made it out.
“At least you won’t get back in there..” She said, and pointed at the intake pipe behind
them.
It had a makeshift grate installed over it now. Even if it was not active anymore, they clearly
took no risks, probably having set it up in a remarkably short amount of time.
“Yeah, well, I can live with that. How about we uh, head off?” He proposed.
“Good idea” She said, and led the way back into the open sea.
On land, Kyburz stood on the concrete quay, and observed as the orcas swam off. Taking a
sigh, as that had been dealt with.
“At least no one was hurt..” He said, and looked back at the effectively decommissioned
facility. “..Besides the budget.”
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Inspired by this art here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55703785/
Opunui: Opunui
Hera: Reececav27
Story: Fossekall
Fossekall for me and
Reececav27 of our orcas accidentally getting sucked up into a desalinization plant and causing chaos.Contains sugophilia, tube squeezing, toony property damage, and machine destruction.
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In Pine Bay, California, a new building gleamed in sunshine. An expansion to the local
desalination plant had concluded recently, modernizing the facility with brand new filters,
pipes and new intake ports.
While landbased spectators would have to wait for tours to see the facility up close, sea
based ones could be a bit more sneaky. And two orcas were among the first to do so, in the
form of Opunui and Hera.
“Big changes, eh?” Opunui said, idly gliding through the entry of the breakwater barrier,
followed by his friend..
The seafloor around them seemed desolate, just some sand surrounded by concrete walls.
A few of them with odd translucent pipes poking out of them.
“Hm, not sure about that. There was sand here before too.” Hera noted.
“Come on, you are not a bit curious? Look at this thing!” Opunui replied, swimming up to
that strange, clear tube from the side. “Where do you think it goes?”
Hera looked up, seeing a few modest towers dissipating some vapor. Potentially a good
few pipes as well, going in a strange maze.
“Surface stuff, nothing that interesting probably. I would not get too close to that thing
though.” She said.
As if on command, Opunui did the opposite of that, and pivoted to the front of the tube to
have a peek. Though only a little bit too late, did he realize water was being pulled into the
pipe, forming a nice invisible vortex around his very body. Suddenly he was pulled forwards.
SCHLUNK
The pipe went, followed by the orca's head and fins squeezing in there with surprisingly
ease. Though his blubbery middle prevented any further advance then that.
“G-guh.. Shoot..” He said, flailing his tail around some. “Hera, little bit of help..?”
She sighed and got closer, wrapping her finds around his tail before tugging at it. Then
again, with a bit more force, and once more. By now groaning with effort.
“I told you not to get close to that thing..” She said, with a bit of an annoyed tone.
One more firm tug made the pipe squeeze as Opunui was pulled back a few inches, before
sliding back in.
“Yeah yeah.. I didn’t listen..” Concern set in, as he could feel the suction building up.
“Can you hurry up..? I think I’m slipping deeper..!”
Hera groaned, pulling firmly, though her efforts had increasingly little effect it seemed.
“Calm down, no way you’ll fit in there anyways!” She huffed.
Though the facility itself was about to prove her wrong.
At the control room, a dragon dressed in a typical high-viz outfit sat by the wide array of
information panels and sipped a cup of coffee. Their nametag read ‘Max Kyburz’.
The dragon seemed rather content, and had every reason to feel that way. The first week of
operations had gone flawlessly, with nothing going wrong somehow. Quite the exception to
newer and bigger construction projects really.
Though, there was one exception. Among rows of green bars showing healthy numbers,
there was one labeled ‘Intake Pipe 5’, which had turned orange. The PSI indicator below
was slowly rising, indicating a blockage.
“That’s not right.. Maybe if I..” He said to himself, and navigated a mess of computer
menus. “Maybe a spike in suction can fix that. A suction cup operation..”
With a clattering of keys, the pumps attached to the pipe slowed down for a moment, before
their RPM rose sharply.
If this worked, that flawless record might be maintained for a full week. That could make for a
possible bonus if his boss got such news.
“I think you almost got it..!” Opunui said, feeling the pressure get a little bit less intensive.
Hera pulled once more, managing to almost get her friend fully out of the pipe. Things
seemed to be going well.
“See, this wasn’t so bad.” She noted.
Though right about that time, they could both feel the vibrations of a distant machine
spooling up. Promptly, the suction of the tube increased.
Opunui squealed as it tugged at his form. Any progress his friend had made was undone in a
moment as his formidably bulky body somehow managed to squeeze into the clear tube.
“Oh no you don’t!” Hera said, doing her best to keep a proper grip on the fellow orcas form.
The widest portion of Opunui’s form would within a short amount of time be compressed into
the tube, leaving him stretched out a bit, as all that mass had to fit in somehow. A drawn out
schlrrrrrk was heard, culminating in a loud schlunk as the tail of the orca slid in with ease.
Hera had a firm enough grip, that within a moment she too was pulled in along with her
friend. The little gap of water between her and Opunui formed a vacuum seal as her head
was lodged into the tube.
“Hey..! Stop that..! Ghrm..” She muttered, though by now it seemed too late. A final attempt
at pulling out proved futile, and she could feel her own body getting sucked into the pipe as
well. The view was framed by the glass, feeding into the concrete wall ahead of them.
There was a good view of Opunui vanishing, before she followed shortly afterwards. Leaving
them both in the dark embrace of the infrastructure.
The pressure was unimaginable, or it had been until now. Surrounded entirely by concrete
there was no chance of making the various pipes even budge. As such the pair were
cartoonishly compressed and stretched. They moved through those constraints in complete
darkness, at the mercy of the facility itself.
At some point both could feel themselves getting forced into an even more wretched spot,
with the grinding and strained noises of an electric motor heard as the system tried to
process them.
Whatever they were forced through, it was undeniably a relief to get forced back into a
regular pipe again.
A little while later, in the filtration building, the very foundations cracked. Pieces of concrete
chipped off and bounced upwards around a clear water intake pipe.
The compact form of Opunui then emerged from the floor, finally getting a bit of light again.
Though it was not sunshine, it was those lamps land people had on boats and such.
The pipe meanwhile, had formed numerous cracks. A bit of water spilled out, but somehow it
was still able to remain in one single piece. Sending the two of its occupants upwards
towards the exit of it.
Unceremoniously, their bulky forms were both spat out into a steel canal of sorts. Opunui
groaned, the suddenly uncompressed body jiggling some as some relief had finally come.
“Heh.. Guh.. Good we are still in one piece..?” He said.
Hera sighed, before replying. “Could be better if you had not gone and poked that snout of
yours into random stuff..”
“Not my fault they keep building interesting stuff.. Where do you think this goes anyway..?”
“Beats me, don’t think it’s anything good though.. If any, you'll see it first.” Hera replied.
One by one, they slid over a surface skimmer, making it buckle underneath them. Then
they passed over a bigger grate that drained most of the water. Making it feel much more like
a waterslide.
“Oh, is that an exit?” Opunui asked.
“What do you mean exit..?” She asked.
Her friend yelped, as he stumbled downwards. With a little dread building up, she inevitably
followed after him, into a sudden drop.
Stumbling into it, she could see a big hopper, funneling the trickle of water going down there
into a hole in the middle. A hole that was currently sucking up Opunui’s tail with a slllrrrrrp.
And with an audible pwompf, she too ended up plowing into the hopper face first.
Kyburz had determined the pump operation was a success. The pressure readings had
dropped, and the blockage probably would be dealt with by the intake processing.
“Hey, have you tried the new coffee maker yet?” Someone said from behind.
The dragon turned around, and faced the fox standing there. He was a more experienced
coworker, who seemed as happy about the upgrades as Kyburz himself was.
“Yeah, good stuff! Goes well with a flawless system.” He said, taking a victorious slurp from
his own mug.
“..What is that blinking thing though?” The fox pointed out, pointing behind the dragon.
Caught off guard, Kyburz turned around in a moment. The screen was flashing with a red
warning, reading ‘Oversized Bycatch’.
“Huh.. What’s this..” He pondered for a moment. “Can you check the cameras for the
bycatch area?”
Dutifully, the fox got onto his console. A clattering of typing eventually brings the feed onto
the main screen.
Surprisingly, it revealed nothing out of the ordinary, water flowed through as usual. At the
same time, that alarm ceased.
“Guess it was nothing.” The fox said, shrugging while checking out other metrics.
Kyburz felt a bit more uncertain about this, though returned to merely monitoring the vitals of
the facility as a whole.
Just out of sight from the surveillance camera, a rubbery hose stretched and groaned, with
the hoists keeping it up struggling somewhat due to the combined weight of the orcas. Their
bodies made it bulge outwards significantly.
The hopper was a way for marine life to be safely escorted back out to the sea, if any were
caught. Right now, the return system was doing an herculean task of trying to process two of
the biggest mammals there were.
“This better lead out of here!” Hera grumbled, wriggling against the elastic confines.
The ride was a slow one it seemed, taking them up towards the roof, and back the way they
had entered. Though the creaking of the hoists was rather concerning.
“H-hera, think this is strong enough for uh the two of usss!” Opuniu began, though got cut
off by a sudden collapse.
The hose that led back to the outside world was pulled out of the wall, and water spilled out
of it. It dropped down towards the sorting system, specifically towards the main drainage
grate in the channel.
Opunui squealed as gravity made him rapidly slide through the hose, and face first into the
grate below. It proved entirely unable to handle his weight and broke, followed by him
appearing to be stuck there.
At least, until a slurping noise commenced, and it was blatant his chubby form was going to
get a tight squeeze for the third time today.
Hera followed and landed on the upper side of his flapping tail, getting pushed forwards
towards the intake they came from. She huffed, and laid in the water a bit.
“At least you got stuck.. Would not want to-”
SCHLUNK!
The sound from behind had interrupted that thought, and she could promptly feel herself
sliding backwards, with the tip of her tail sucked into a menacingly familiar metallic embrace.
“Come on, you are not even that big!..” She grumbled towards the pipe claiming her tail.
Though the pipe did not care for those objections, and she could feel the suction from it pull
her bulky form down into the depths. Hera did not want to admit it, but the system had clearly
won, and somehow the groaning metal was consuming her.
The dorsal fin was forced to fold up against her body in an uncomfortable manner, and
attempts at pushing herself out were cut short as the pectoral fins met the same fate. This
left her perfectly constrained, with the water surging above her head as it sunk deeper and
deeper. With a groan, she was eventually sucked in with another modest SCHLUNK.
The water pipe below the canal creaked and swelled out, with the metal giving way as the
blubber of the orcas filled them. Every flange that connected the pipes had bolts snap and
pop off, as the bigger bodies got pulled through the narrow and stronger spots.
This continued for a while, with each section rampaged twice as the two orcas followed
along on the same dark journey into the wall, where a sign above the tube said ‘Flow to:
Pre-Treatment’.
Back at the control room, the peaceful mood was once more interrupted as the pressure
warnings made themselves present once more, but only for a bit before several input errors
were reported.
“Huh.. How’d that happen?” The fox asked, and brought the camera back up.
The view was now one of a mangled canal, with loose tubes, broken skimmers, and busted
pipes. Somehow it had been torn to shreds while they had looked away, and whatever that
blockage was had advanced deeper into the system.
“Dammit.. Almost went a month without issues!” Kyburz said, and sighed.
“That must have been heavy to break through everything.. Maybe it’ll drop into the bottom
of the holding tank?” The fox said. “Anyway, let’s shut that line down.”
With a sigh, Kyburz moved along with the routine procedure. There was no way a boulder
could have been sucked in, could there? It would have to be something buoyant, and soft,
but what?
In the dark, there was suddenly some relief for Opunui. With a gasp he emerged from a
narrow pipe, but of course into one another that was only twice as big. It probably merged
with another one, maybe?
He was confused at what this place even was, and could not even begin to assume why it
wanted to have him. Clearly this was no spot for anything alive, in particular not himself.
He could feel a change in water pressure behind him, probably indicating Hera was still
along for the ride. Wherever it led to, he hoped she would not be too angry.
Eventually Opunui found himself launched into another place, this time with his whole body
feeling free at once. There was even light, and ample amounts of space.
It seemed to be a pool of sorts, with a blue wall going in a circle around a floor lined with
sand. It was an uncanny sight, such a strangely artificial setup. The thought of being trapped
here practically made him shiver.
Though that thought was shaken off, as he heard some muffled grumbling from behind him.
Looking around, he could see the rear half of Hera poking out of the intake tube. Not wanting
to risk any further anger, he swam over and grabbed hold of her tail, pulling it out with a good
bit of force.
The force made them both drift backwards, spinning around once before getting face to face
in the middle of the tank. One looking a bit more grumpy then the other.
“This is so your fault..” Hera grumbled.
Opunui took a nervous gulp, before thinking up a reply.
“Well, it could have been worse, you know?” He tried to reason.
“How? We don’t know where we are at all!” She said.
Through that, Hera had not noticed the flow which had been pulling the two of them
backwards. Towards the outtake pipe, sucking in a generous amount of water.
“Well.. No pipes here, we could just stay put you know, and..”
SCHLUNK
Opunui did not even have to guess what had happened, as the stunned expression on
Hera’s face said it all. Along with the drawn out schlrrrk behind her, the signs pointed to her
tail being sucked into another maze.
“You better pull well now..” She said, and extended her fins.
Opunui did his best, and grunted as he pulled, doing his best to swim against the modest,
but increasingly strong flow.
Eventually the pressure grew far too big however, and one pwompf sucked her formidably
bulky form in. Opunui did not have time to respond in any notable manner before he found
himself face to face with the tube, seeing his friend sink into the depths. Then the vacuum
forces pulled him in as well.
“Oh come on..” He idly muttered.
The blubbery form then sank in with a few jittery motions before it was all gone.
The tube leading out of the tank protested loudly as it had to carry those two further on their
disastrous journey. Bolts popped off and launched themselves across the room, smashing
things like a window, a lamp and some sort of control box with a bolt hitting the lock in just
the right manner.
The door of the box opened by itself, just in time for a jet of water to pour out from the
pressurized tube, giving the numerous PLCs within a most unwelcome shower.
The pair in the control room assumed the situation was resolved, and repair works had
already been ordered. The damaged section had been sealed off from the rest of the plant,
and surely that would be enough.
“Okay, is the rest of the stuff here working well?” Kyburz asked.
“Yup, the capacity should be able to meet demand for the next day, I think we got off easy
with this one to be honest.” The fox said with a modest chuckle.
Of course, this was spoken too soon. Another pressure alarm sounded, and they both
looked towards the nearest blinking red indicator.
“Wait.. Is that the settling tank? How did that happen?” The fox said, a bit bewildered.
Anything heavy was supposed to sink to the bottom, and remain there. And yet, whatever
this was had enough weight to tear through the facility. while being able to float.
“Shutting it down!” Kyburz said, and entered some commands to close the valves.
They looked up for a moment, waiting for good news. Only for a popup to appear, saying
‘Critical Communications Error, Manual Mode Engaged’.
“Shoot.. Okay, off we go!” Kyburz said, and pulled the fox out of their chair.
Putting on the mandatory helmets, they made their way into the Treatment Unit of the facility.
In the room hosting the Treatment Units, there was a bout of panic. The pipes bulged and
threatened to burst as the foreign objects made their way through them. Components were
shredded, framework fell apart, all complimented by flying bolts and chaotic water leaks. All
of it makes the assembled workers scramble to try and keep things stable.
It was all a menacing sight for the control room operators, who were in charge, and who
would have to form a plan on how to deal with it. After seeing the morbidly bulging steel
tubes in person, and how the contents slid through one section to the next, they moved to
do.. Something, yes, something.
Within the pipeworks, it was a rather strange sensation for the two of them. Every pipe had
been forced to expand to accommodate them, only for incredibly tight gaps to appear
regularly. It was like an intensive massage.
Once in a while that rhythm was interrupted by getting cycled through something like a poor
pump, a flow gauge, or a valve, with the machine components ravaged in their wake.
If any, the blubber largely softened the possible blows, though there was undeniable
discomfort, and a certain sense of humiliation to it all.
“Quick, stop that.. Whatever it is!” The fox exclaimed, and attempted to turn a valve.
The first of the two lumps arrived at the valve just as he tried to turn the wheel, but he found
it was rather impossible. Whatever was within there was malleable enough to force itself
through the shutter within before he had a chance to close it. All the while, the metal groaned
and bent.
He even had to duck away, as the wheel got launched off from the pressure, a jet of water
tagging along with it. The lump continued meanwhile, with the second one following it.
Kyburz attempted to target the source of the suction, however it turned out to be harder
than one would assume to find the correct course for the pumps. Breakers were tripped,
leading to lighting, AC and other processes shutting down. But somehow the pumps kept
running, even as one by one they were forced to handle enormous overloads.
With that, he decided to change tactics and grabbed a loose wrench, marching onto a flange
between the current position of the obstacle and the reverse osmosis filters. Anything caught
in there had the potential to cause a massive amount of destruction, as such he did his best
to loosen bolts, and hopefully just divert the pipe onto the floor instead.
Eventually the pipe split into three branches, each one a mere 33% the size of the one that
supplied liquid. Between the bulging pipes and that branch, Kyburz did his best to undo as
many of the bolts as he could, managing to deal with half a dozen out of a dozen.
Though then the objects got too close to comfort, and he moved out of the way before any of
the bolts would go flying.
Initially it almost seemed like a success, with the flange seeming like it was at its breaking
point. Bolt after bolt snapped as the huge lump grew in size, forced up against the narrow
gap.
Though suddenly, a muffled glunk was heard, and he could only watch as the mass forced
itself past the chokepoint, and ran into the middle one of the three pipes. A grand metallic
groan accompanying that as it was forced to stretch.
The second one followed, and just as it had passed the final few bolts on the flange came
undone. The pipe burst open, revealing a brief glimpse at what seemed to be a tail. Or so
Kyburz thought, but it was only a brief view as it got sucked up with a quick slurp.
That second bulge moved on, but not into the central pipe. Instead it was just about clogged
enough that the bulge diverted itself to the left one.
And just like that, the worst case scenario had come to pass. The very most expensive one
as well. Kyburz and the other workers could only watch in a dreadful anticipation of what was
about to happen.
After all of that, the massive lumps reached the reverse osmosis setup. Consisting of long
rows of stacked cylinders, assembled in a grid of fine filters, it was the most central
component of the facility, and separated salt from the saltwater itself. To do that, the water
was forced through a membrane that would only bring through it clean water.
The pipe leading into the racks split into even smaller pipes, and the final hope was that
they would be too small, and burst rather than somehow transfer the contents into the
cylinders.
Unfortunately, they did not do that, with the tremendous bulges somehow forcing themselves
into the smallest parts leading into the individual tanks. Bulging grotesquely, the massive
lumps pressed themselves against the cylinders before forcing themselves into them with
muffled pwompfs.
Within them, the orcas effectively crushed the fine filters within them, and pushed them
forwards. Eventually leading to the filters finally becoming perfectly jammed. As such, the
water which was still being forced into the system built up the pressure immensely.
From outside, observers backed off as the most central part of two of the cylinder racks
inflated themselves. Pressing into other cylinders, the metal seemed like it had turned into
balloons. However, that was not the case, and it slowly met its limit, building up a menacing
amount of pressure, creaking and groaning, water even started shooting out of the seams.
Pumps in the distance could be heard audibly struggling, and eventually almost grinding to a
halt with a tired rumbling.
And then, there was a blast. The setups exploded from the core and outwards, launching
cylinders, filter remnants, metal frameworks and more out and across the room. A surge of
water accompanied that. Eventually metal clattered into the floor, as more and more of the
framework and surviving pipes collapsed. Even a portion of the roof crumbled, with metal
sheet panels dropping to the floor.
Once it was all done, the workers emerged from their hiding spots, with Kyburz leading the
charge. The building did not seem at risk of collapsing if any, so he had to sate his curiosity,
and see what had ended up in there.
Laying sprawled out in the middle of the wreck, were two orcas. One blue with orange
highlights, and the other more purple. Both audibly groaned and idly squirmed about in the
wreckage.
Seeing the scene, and the cause of all the misfortunes of the day, Kyburz simply stared at it
all for a moment.
“..How?” Was all he uttered after a while.
A few hours later, a crane had managed to pick Opunui and Hera up, separately. Guiding
each of them back into the bay in a relatively gentle manner.
It had taken a while, not only had some land dwellers in green gowns had a look at them to
discount the chance of injuries, of which there somehow were none, but also they had spent
a good amount of time debating how to even move them out.
Opunui sighed, and took in a good, deep breath of the sea, so to speak. Making a playful
spin in the open waters.
“Almost thought I would not get back for a moment..” He said, with a chuckle.
Hera stretched and did a quick swimming lap as well, grateful both made it out.
“At least you won’t get back in there..” She said, and pointed at the intake pipe behind
them.
It had a makeshift grate installed over it now. Even if it was not active anymore, they clearly
took no risks, probably having set it up in a remarkably short amount of time.
“Yeah, well, I can live with that. How about we uh, head off?” He proposed.
“Good idea” She said, and led the way back into the open sea.
On land, Kyburz stood on the concrete quay, and observed as the orcas swam off. Taking a
sigh, as that had been dealt with.
“At least no one was hurt..” He said, and looked back at the effectively decommissioned
facility. “..Besides the budget.”
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Inspired by this art here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55703785/
Opunui: Opunui
Hera: Reececav27
Story: Fossekall
Category Story / Fetish Other
Species Orca
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 132.2 kB
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