Art is commissioned from the incredibly talented ArtReplicant. Original story by me.
Greg suddenly released the pec claw and pivoted with lethal efficiency, using Wyatt's momentary paralysis to snake his forearm over Wyatt's neck and beneath the Beta's jaw in one fluid motion. He didn't give Wyatt time to process the shift. He didn't allow even a breath of relief. He simply transitioned one trapped arm into the other, creating a new angle of attack while his other hand locked around Wyatt's neck, cinching the hold tight. The Dragon sleeper settled into place with surgical precision, Greg's forearm applying pressure directly across the carotid arteries while his other hand cupped the back of Wyatt's neck, creating multiple pressure points that no amount of struggling could relieve. Greg forced Wyatt's spine to bow across the hard brace of Greg's thigh. Pain streaked from the base of Wyatt's skull through his neck as the muscles along both sides of his cervical spine contracted desperately against the pull. His shoulders were dragged behind their natural alignment, stretching the tendons across his chest while compressing the joints between his shoulder blades. Wyatt's body tried to rise with the pressure, but Greg's weight kept his knees planted, leaving his torso suspended in a punishing backward arch. Wyatt clawed at Greg's arm, yet every attempt to twist free only sharpened the strain. His abdominal muscles trembled from trying to fold forward while Greg continued wrenching his head and upper body in the opposite direction. His breathing came in ragged bursts, each inhale stretching his ribs wider against the unnatural bend.
Ethan watched from the edge of The Pack and understood immediately why Greg had chosen this over what Wyatt had just minutes before. It told Ethan exactly where this fight was going. With the smother, Wyatt had pressed Greg's face directly into his pit, reducing oxygen while making a psychological statement of ownership and control. It was humiliation wrapped in a submission hold, a tool for breaking the mind as much as the body. But Greg's was a different beast of a hold. There was no showmanship, no psychological warfare, no need to prove dominance through degradation. The carotid pressure would render Wyatt unconscious far more reliably than suffocation ever could, the blood flow to the brain cut off with mathematical certainty. The multiple pressure points, along with the nerve centers being compressed with the arteries, all meant there was no single angle Wyatt could exploit to escape. It was the hold of a man focused purely on tactical efficiency, on neutralizing a threat. Ethan had seen Greg fight before, but this was different. This was a fighter who had stopped holding back.
Then Greg's free fist drove into Wyatt's exposed abdomen with methodical cruelty. The punch landed hard and deep, forcing the air from Wyatt's lungs in a strangled gasp. Before Wyatt could recover, another strike crashed into his ribs, then another into his lower abs. Greg wasn't wild with these blows; each one was calculated, precise, designed to compound the agony. The strikes were brutal and systematic, turning the skin across his abdomen an angry red as Greg's knuckles hammered again and again. Wyatt tried to protect himself, but his body remained trapped and defenseless. Greg's fist drove into his solar plexus, and Wyatt convulsed violently.
The combined assault shattered him. Greg adjusted his stance and wrenched the neck crank harder while driving another punch deep into Wyatt's battered core. The fist came fast, then faster still, a relentless barrage that gave Wyatt no moment to recover. Each punch landed with devastating force, the impact traveling through his neck, shoulders, and spine in one brutal chain. A hoarse cry tore from him before he could stop it, raw and broken. His strength was draining fast beneath the rapid-fire assault on every part of his body at once. Greg's knuckles hammered into his abdomen again and again, the pace unrelenting, each strike landing harder than the last. The skin across Wyatt's core flushed deeper red with every impact, the repeated blows accumulating into angry welts that darkened with each new punch. The grinding ache in his lower back, the fire in his trapped neck, the concussive trauma radiating through his increasingly battered abdomen. It all converged into a single, overwhelming certainty that his body was failing. Still, Greg held him there, forcing Wyatt to endure the growing realization that one more hard wrench, one more devastating strike, could turn the searing pain into real injury. The SEAL was attacking him from every angle at once: neck, spine, shoulders, abdomen, leaving Wyatt no reprieve, no escape, no mercy.










