[Kurodamaya (Akadama)] Shigen Kaishuu (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha) {Hennojin}

Nanoha Takamachi and Vita hang restrained in numbered collars as living 'resources' inside a shadowy depot, where drilling machines and a hulking masked captor wring sobbing pleas from their slender, sweat-soaked bodies. A month after Nanoha vanishes and the search is called off, Fate Testarossa refuses to believe she's dead and sneaks into the facility where her friend waits in a pod — walking straight into the captors' hands. Between Nanoha's shrieking 'it hurts, stop!' under relentless machinery and Vita tearfully begging a captor who finally seems to let her go, the story dangles the question of whether rescue arrives before both girls shatter completely.