Chapter 2
Raquel was sure that her property would want more. “Who’s your mami?” Raquel asked her bitch who hadn’t moved since she came.
“Not you.” Rhea said barely above a murmur, too tired to put any energy into her statement or any fight into her statement.
Raquel shook her head. “Well, you’re night just got longer.” Rhea stretched her arm forward to crawl away, and Raquel put a firm hand around her neck. “Don’t you fucking move.” Was all Raquel whispered into her ear as she straddled her behind and leaned into her, and that was all she needed to hear. Against her every instinct to fight, all she could was ball up her fists. “Good girl.”
Growling at the bastard’s nerve, Rhea said, “What the hell are you playing at?”
Raquel kept her held down with one hand, while she massaged Rhea’s shoulder with the other. Too beaten from the match to feign much of a resistance and too tired from her recent orgasm, Rhea grunted and moaned through clenched teeth. “You aren’t making it to next week, I told you.”
Despite her situation, Rhea let out a laugh of disbelief “You’re joking, I’m going to beat that blonde bimbo, senseless.”
“The only bimbo here, is you, becasue you still don’t understand who you belong to.” Raquel delivered a spank to accentuate her point making Rhea squeal in pain.
“Get the hell off of me!” Rhea finally found the grit to put her arms on Raquel’s thighs and push her off, but she failed to budge her an inch.
“Not going for my wrist?” Raquel asked. “It tells me, I’ve already broken you.” She pushed harder and squirmed underneath Raquel as they leaned towards her. “Now submit.”
Raquel dragged her thick tongue just above Rhea’s choker, up her neck, and all the way up to her cheek, taking her time to savor in Rhea’s shock as her protests slowed. Once frantically trying to escape her, Rhea’s hands instead trembled as Raquel gave her a long lick.
When Rhea had done the same to Liv, it was a show of dominance, that shed’ beaten her, that she owned her. Now, she was Raquel’s bitch. Hidden behind her shades, Rhea could only guess the look that Raquel was giving her, but felt the casual dismissal as they adjusted themselves to straddle her stomach. She turned her head away to escape, only to see the strap on again, and shut her eyes tight. Her mind raced with thoughts of how to stop her, when Raquel let go of her breast, and grabbed her by her chin.
“Look at me,” Raquel commanded. Rhea gritted her teeth and looked at her with one half opened eye. “You may think that this was just a fluke, that you’ll get out of this. You’ll have another match against me, maybe even Liv, and settle the score. Hell, you might have even gotten desperate and started thinking maybe somebody will even help you beat Judgement Day, like Iyo or Bianca. If you’re really desperate, I bet you’re praying somebody like Tiffany would help you again but it’s too late for you.”
“I don’t need saving,” Rhea said as Raquel squeezed her cheeks together. “I can beat all of you on my own!”
“And that’s exactly why you’re going to lose everything.” Rhea’s attempt to protest was cutoff as Raquel smothered her mouth with her hand. “You never realized how pathetic you actually were. Now suck my cock!”
Raquel lowered her cock, dragging it under Rhea's nose, tempting her prey with the savory scent of her own ass cream before bringing it to her lips, an advancement that Ripley initially denied. But Big Mami's face, so threatening, so menacing! Denying could only mean a proper punishment which Rhea wished to avoid as much as possible, leading to her ultimately accepting the offered gift
Rhea Ripley took that cock into her mouth, for what likely promised to be the first of many times that night. Rolling her eyes, she bobbed her head up and down the shaft, sucking it dry, all while Raquel laughed and taunted. "That's it, suck Big Mami's cock! You'll make a good ATM whore yet, Rhea, I promise! And this is only the beginning! By the end we’re going to break you!”
Rhea groaned, impressively taking more of that comically large shaft down her throat as a single thought raced throughout her mind. "It's gonna be a loooong night!" Truthfully it already had been, but somehow, her thought couldn't have been more correct. Because like Raquel said, they'd only just begun and, most assuredly, the worst was still yet to come.
As the sheer ecstasy blessing her taste buds as she bobbed her head up and down Raquel's massive strap-on. What she had left behind on Big Mami's rod…it was so delicious, Rhea was nearly able to block out the complete and utter embarrassment spreading throughout her body from having to suck off someone who was better than in her.
As shameless as she may have appeared, Rhea couldn't help but feel wrong and awkward, despite how right the taste, or the feeling of Raquel's tip hitting the back of her throat, or view of the absolute mountain of a woman looking down at her all felt. It wasn't natural, nor were the sudden sensations of Raquel running her fingers through Rhea's short, blonde hair, which González ultimately took hold of and used as leverage to begin force-feeding The Nightmare her shaft.
Immediately, Rhea began to choke and gag, her throat hardly trained for such intense abuse but, unfortunately, Raquel didn't care. Several long, thick globs of spit trailed down each side of Rhea's mouth, the coughing and hacking that ensued after Raquel gave her a short reprieve only helping make that rod even sloppier. In again, this time more ruthless and forceful, Raquel using the back of Rhea's throat as a heavy bag, poor Ripley slapping Big Mami's meaty thighs but, to no avail.
"Fucking take it," Raquel growled, gripping Rhea's head tightly as she held the full length of her cock in The Nightmare's windpipe. With air running thin, Rhea slapped Raquel even harder, in a desperate attempt to try and beg for freedom. But all she found was more cruel torture.
"No breaks! No breaks!" Raquel hungrily assured before contradicting herself by beginning to pump her hips again, thus allowing at least a bit of air to flow and granting a small amount of relief. Of course, Rhea would've preferred a full-on rest from rough skull-fucking, but that wasn't likely…at least until Raquel was ready to move on to their next activity.
Rhea didn’t even have the pride left to hold in a shocked squeal as Raquel rolled her up, holding her by her ankles as she put them next to her head, and placed her strap between her folds as some sort of weak act of defiance. She only rested her forearm over her eyes as Raquel
“Move that arm out of the way.” Raquel moved her hips, rubbing between Rhea until she began to quiver. “Otherwise it doesn’t go in.” There wasn’t any need for a second warning. Rhea dropped her arm and revealed her full submission, her eyes pleading for more.
“Perfect.” Raquel was quick to grab her. Raquel took ahold of her hips and dragged her to the edge of the bed forcing a gasp in response, Raquel used one hand to keep her place and the other to guide the strap-on towards its puckered target.
Raquel pressed her cock against the tight hole and began to push slowly, taking great pride and a sadistic enjoyment of the brutality as she watched the grimace form on the Eradicator normally beautiful face, taking pleasure in the pain she was putting Rhea through.
Raquel continued to put more and more into her tight chute, it was easier to put in that last time and it was only going to get wider as Rhea would submit even if it took all night because tonight she was going to make sure of it, even if Rhea had to have a gape as wide as the Grand Canyon.
“Yep. I've seen how you are with a cock in your ass and, trust me bitch, it was wonderful. But now I wanna see how you work a cock. How you ride for your Big Mami! Understand?” A small head nod was all she could provide her Mami with, luckily for her, it was enough.
Raquel hopped onto the middle of the bed, resting in the center as waited for her conquest to join moments later. Thanks to the scrambled state of her Conquests brains, it took her a second to regain her bearings. Once she did, she crawled over and straddled her temporary mistress, lining up that cock with her surprisingly eager asshole and graciously accepting it inside.
The Eradicator’s asshole was even looser than last time but unlike last time, she didn’t hate how loose her asshole had become, she was so lost on riding Raquel’s cock. The rest of the world appeared to drift away as she did her best, grinding her plump ass up and down that rod. No anxieties, no fears, and most definitely no regrets about what she was doing at the time. Only her booty work and the immense joy she experienced while doing it.
Given that this was Rhea’s first time riding another woman's cock, Raquel was extremely happy with her performance. Her bitch had decided to face her old friend once more while her most private area was out of view, she looked into Raquel’s eyes with lust as Raquel could only imagine was the heavenly sight of that glorious ass at work.
Once more, however, Raquel took comfort in the expressions on her conquest's face. With her own dark eyes shining as she gazed into the eyes of someone who betrayed her and Liv. Raquel relished in sight of Rhea riding her strapon as she was breaking.
Rhea preferred to be in charge, but after losing control the last time, Raquel was letting Rhea choose how to get her ass fucked. It made Rhea think she was in control and back on top, the choice was in her skilled hands, and she made the most of it by continuously altering the pace and speed every few seconds, whether it was every inch or just the tip.
There were no concerns about what the other Superstars would say or what it would do for her career. Rhea almost missed the build-up to what was expected to be another earth-shattering climax because she was so preoccupied on finding and grinding. Almost.
Rhea was thrown around until she was in the precise spot where Raquel wanted her to strike the last blow and turn her into Raquel's bitch. Raquel was able to raise them both with her strong legs.
That cock only ever moved inside its house, making her conquest writhe. She eventually relished the sensation as she recalled the moment where did this for the first time.
Just like nearly four years ago when this first happened, she was like a rat caught in a trap, she was stuck, her eyes crossed Raquel's. The two had been at one point inseparable, but ever since Raquel left Rhea was afriad this would happen. Liv dealt the first blow a few months back and now, Raquel was going to break her once and for all. Rhea had barely made her cum earlier, having barely gotten started.
Now, she didn't want to cum, and she didn't need to! To be honest, her head was too jumbled to realise anything but that this sensation had to endure. The pleasure of bottoming out was too much, and her heart was racing. She hated that she had started to enjoy this.
But now Rhea was here with a loose asshole that could comfortably take every inch of Raquel’s strapon, there was still traces of discomfort but that was only because Raquel was thrusting into her with full force, as the only sounds heard in the room where her squeals of pleasure and the ear-splitting smack of her juicy ass cheeks coming into contact with Raquel’s muscular thighs.
After every thrust, the last shreds of armour Rhea had were being smashed away with every pump from Raquel’s hips. The Eradicator didn't realize it was happening, or maybe she was too weak in the moment to even try and stop it. But she was powerless to the fact that Raquel was fucking her into submission, whether she truly wanted to submit or not.
It was Raquel’s decision, and the decision was made when Rhea injured her and Liv. This whole revenge tour was about taking everything from Rhea, even herself so that was all that was left was a broken husk of a Woman who used to call herself Woman’s World Champion.
Raquel mentally chewed herself out for not taking the risk after Bad Blood when she first returned so she would have this magnificent piece of ass for three months but she would make it up for it now. Squeezing it firmly, she felt Rhea’s magnificent ass. Feeling so much better now that she was so close to cracking this really stubborn woman, she continued to plunge her cock into the once-tiny hole hidden beneath those cheeks.
Raquel decided to put the final nail in the coffin, Raquel adjusted her conquest’s leg so that they were on her shoulder, Raquel started to thrust at a break neck pace and an unmatchable force, nobody could have survived, maybe an experienced bottom could but that wasn’t she was. She wasn’t trained to deny herself an orgasm, she wasn’t an experienced bottom like that.
Rheaa had no chance of surviving. Raquel had given her the privilege of cumming without permission the last time she was splintered on her strapon, banking on the fact that when the time came, her begging and pleading would be because she would be submitting to her and Liv. It was Raquel’s fault not hers. A small voice in her head was telling her she could’ve held on if she tried.
Rhea knew that cumming wasn't really her decision to make but, with that considered, it wasn't really Raquel’s either, Raquel had pushed her to the edge, her body was giving up on her, after over an hour of torture, and the groping, the spanking till her ass cheeks turned dark red, forcing her to clean her oa, the rimming, the rough fucking, it was too much for the unexperienced bottom and the results was squirting on Raquel’s toned stomach.
Rhea’s back arched in Raquel’s grip, her toes curled from the second most powerful orgasm in her life. It trumped the ones she experienced moments earlier.
Raquel scowled fiercely, visibly upset and pissed off by the bitch’s inability to stave off her urges, but it wasn’t enough as she continued to fuck her bottom through several more orgasms turning the once proud Women’s World Champion into nothing more of a husk of her former self.
It may have been an accident or it may have been on purpose, but Rhea had walked away in a recoverable state, it would be harder to pick herself from this level of depravity, her one saving grace was that she avoided verbally submitting to Raquel, but a part of wished she had submitted, the larger part of her did.
It took several minutes before she came too, the prevailing thought was that Rhea made it out of it, her bum was bruised and battered, and she probably wouldn’t be able to sit without a wince for a while, she had survived Raquel’s brutality. That was until she noticed that Big Mami’s sight never left her gaping asshole and it wasn't until Raquel spoke up that she caught wind of the fact that her endless night of torment wasn't over quite yet.
"Hey, bitch, you think it's okay to cum without asking?" Raquel snarled and moved closer, giving her conquest another savage slap that caused her to squeal in agony. "Even better, did you think I would overlook that? Whore, I'm speaking to you!"
She backed away, still shaken up by the multiple orgasms she had gone through, she was afraid to respond but she plucked up her courage “I… It’s over. Y-you tried but you d-didn’t b-break me, I d-didn’t b-beg.”
Raquel cackled like a witch that had been driven mad “I tried? Bitch, I’m not done with you. I promised you I was going to break you, this isn’t over till you beg to cum because I’m just getting started.” She drew closer “The only thing I failed at was when I showed you mercy. From now, I’m going to treat you like the bitch you truly are. The last time I pounded that useless little fuckhole of yours, I should have made you beg. And now you believe that doing anything you want is acceptable? I won't put up with it.”
“Please Raquel, it’s done.” She tried to plead with her, but Raquel didn’t care for her pleas. She wanted to make her submit.
Raquel took a handful of that gorgeously battered ass and spreading it wide, giving herself an incredible view into the wide gaping asshole, she could see deep into her bowels, but she wasn’t done. Liv and I won't stand for any disobedience from any woman in the locker room but especially you. Your ass belongs to us, you’re going to beg to be used by us because you’re nothing more than our bitch. So I’m not going to stop till you beg me to make you cum, do you understand?”
Her eyes widened, as she cautiously asked “Promise, Big Mami?”
Raquel smiled “I promise you. Tell me the truth who do you belong to”
"Fine, fine! My arsehole is yours, okay? It's yours!" Rhea admitted this was her chance to escape with some of her dignity left, sure submitting to Raquel would make her their bitch, but if she could survive till Monday and then take back the title she would be fine but Raquel saw through it.
"I know you're lying," Raquel got back into position as her conquest tried to get away but Raquel grabbed her hips "But thanks for the preview. It needs a little work though, maybe try telling the truth next time. Think about that when I'm ruining your butt, okay?"
Those words shook her to her core for the umpteenth time tonight. They meant that the end was very much near for her life as a top in this business. Finally…after everything she had already endured, she had survived bottoming to Liv, she had survived bottoming to Raquel twice, once against her will, but her will changed as soon as their was a cock in her ass.
Raquel pushed her face into the sheets of the bed, put one hand on her hips and started to push the strapon all the way back into her conquest ass. She didn't wince in pain, she didn't squeal or holler. Nope. The second her asshole was finally invaded, all she could offer was a simple sigh of relief as if the biggest weight had finally been lifted from her broad shoulders.
Raquel kept fucking her faster and rougher than before focusing on quicker and harder thrusts trying to tear down her conquest’s self-control once again.
Although she had "imagined" what it would be like to give in to Raquel or to Liv, to be their bitches, nothing could have prepared her for really experiencing it. Begging to be fucked in the ass was a different matter from really getting fucked in the ass and she would have to choose her next step in life.
Rhea was running out of time, and before long, the sensation in her butt would become more than simply a guilty pleasure—it would become her reason for existing. It would be pretty soon before she could survive without something filling her arsehole. Unfortunately, "pretty soon" arrived soon after, accompanied by a bitter inevitability and one magic question.
“I can feel you clamping down on my cock, bitch, you want more, I’ll give you more! I will just as soon as you beg me for more?” Raquel saw her weakness and capitalized.
It didn’t take long for her to want more. She wanted to be fucked harder. Oh God, this was what she was most afraid of, because now not only was she moaning like a shameless little anal whore, but she wanted to be sodomized hard and deep until she came like a bitch with a dick in her ass again.
“Please,” The Eradicator whimpered out pathetically looking away, there was no trace of the ball busting top left, all that was left was the bitch who had broken by Raquel Rodriguez.
“I didn’t hear you, I want you to beg properly, submit to me. Don’t you want Mami’s strap-on? So beg your Mami, as if taking my cock is the most important thing you can do in your life.”
Raquel’s, that wasn’t right, her Big Mami’s words, she didn’t just hear them, they spoke to her core, it changed her life. It was the truth, she needed more, she wanted to feel Mami’s cock deep inside her, it was just too good, she wanted to belong to Raquel.
There was no longer any pain or suffering, just uncomparable pleasure, she just had to give in and reach out to her Mami, she sealed her fate and became Raquel’s bitch. “I beg you Big Mami! Please fuck me harder! Make me cum! Make your slut cum like a bitch with a dick in her ass. It feels too good! Is that what you want to hear, Big Mami? Destroy my butthole, ruin me! Is that enough?” Her words were fueled by passion and lust before they turned into a soft whimper, “Is it enough, Mami?”
With a grin, Raquel simply answered, "Exceptional," before finally giving her bitch her wish, she thrusted even faster and harder as her conquest cried out in pleasure, repeatedly thanking her mami as she drove her own ass back trying to take her Mami’s cock even deeper inside.
Nothing about this should have been pleasurable for someone who prided herself on being a top, but she wasn’t a top, she was a delusional bottom, she should have submitted years ago, the pleasure of having another Woman’s cock so deep in her ass that a normal woman who would be sick but for her, it was the best moment of her life, nothing could compare except one moment but that was as similar to this as it could be, as she had doubt she would once again be pimped out to Liv as soon as this was done.
Her Mami quickly increased the tempo and slammed that ass with it, causing her to writhe from beneath Raquel. It felt so fantastic that it was almost like torture. Worst of all, she was aware that she would never experience such euphoria again.
A tear rolled from her eye down her cheek and onto the floor beneath her as a result of that serious thinking. She sobbed uncontrollably upon realising that she would never, ever again be the victim of such brutality.
“Don’t cry, you won’t ever go back to how it was. You're mine now and forever.” Raquel’s words were an epiphany, a lightbulb moment, it was the best thing she had ever heard, and her tears of misery turned to tears of joy.
She couldn’t go back, not after this, she couldn’t. She couldn’t go back to being a top knowing there was a world of pleasure so much better when she was a bottom. She was in love with getting fucked in the ass, she was in love with Raquel’s cock in her ass.
She couldn’t act as if nothing happened, she belonged to Raquel Bloody Rodriguez. She couldn’t be her rival or a star in the WWE, because Raquel and every top on the main roster would put her back in her place, allowing her to indulge in the pleasures, she had tried to hide from, guilt-free and she would love every second.
This time she had an epiphany of her own, she didn't have to break or submit permanently to Mami to get what she wanted! She realized that she could have the best of both worlds, she could belong to Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez but top everyone else.
“God…it's so good, Mami," She gushed, writhing against Raquel’s hands which still hadn’t moved from around her waist and her head, she tried to spread her ass cheeks even further in pure submission, trying to take her Mami even deeper "It's so good that I'm gonna- Oh fuck, I wanna-"
"What, you need to cum again? How pathetic are you, you worthless bitch? But I guess I can make your greedy fucking whore hole cum again. Just do it yourself, and do it properly. Beg for it like a good little bitch, and tell me who this juicy, fat fucking ass!"
Raquel didn’t even have to wait because as soon as the words left her lips, her bitch responded almost instantly “You do! You're my Mami! You own my ass” Her conquest admitted passionately, “You fucked it and owned it! I’m yours, you own me! I’m nothing but your bitch!.”
Raquel delivered an emphatic free hand to that battered bum, almost out of frustration. She wanted to make the bitch beg for more, to keep the humiliation of her best friend going forever.
“Please Mami, I’m yours, I will always be yours, I promise you, I belong to you.” She begged her Mami, trying to give her that orgasm she so desperately craved.
Raquel could see her bitch was on the edge, and if she made a mistake, Raquel may find herself in the same situation as earlier with bitch cumming without permission.
With the promise to continue the bitch's training later and get her to admit Mami's superiority, she decided to take advantage of the situation and cut her losses.
“Go whore, cum! Cum on my fucking cock” Raquel bellowed as she continued to drive her cock into her bitch’s chute at an alarming rate. She flailed on the bed like a fish out of water, only focused on cumming on Mami’s cock, and the growing feel in her ass made sure it happened.
It didn’t take long, sbefore he was cumming once more with permission in a pitiful display that ought to have been far worse but she loved every second, wishing this moment would never end.
It didn't have to end? She had already discovered the ideal escape path, so it most certainly didn't have to. Acceptance. She had to admit to her Mami that she wanted to be her bitch but she still wanted to top the pathetic bottom dwellers at the bottom of the roster.
It was the “best of both worlds" was something she could manage. She only had to reach out and ask her Mami for permission.
However, a wall of hazy, orgasmic euphoria concealed it.
Her judgment was clouded. What would have been the rational way to address all of her issues? It started to appear increasingly like a clear cop-out or, worse, a fabrication. Surely she didn't want to give this up? With just the last obstacle standing between her and triumph, she once again plunged even further into depravity.
After several more orgasms, Raquel finally removed her strapon from her bitch’s pipe, ending the second round of anal. Rhea was free to recover from the vicious spanking, from the multiple orgasms and allowed to think coherently once again, free to ponder the strange feeling of her gaping asshole as it throbbed as if trying to trap something that wasn’t there.
Rhea took that newfound freedom right to the feet of her Mami, she needed more. She crawled to her Mami’s feet, a shell of the woman she used to be, this is where she belonged at the feet of a superior woman, next to her Mami.
Rhea brandished Raquel’s feet in dozens upon dozens of kisses, it what was she experienced the first time she broke someone, she assumed it was a plea for more. And if that wasn't enough to sell her enthusiasm to her Mami, she then begged. “P-please Mami, can I have m-ore?”
Raquel was surprised by her bitch. “More?”
“Yes! Mami! I need more! Please never stop fucking me! I want to be with you! I belong to you!”
For the first time that night, Raquel broke out into a genuine smile, she had done it, she conquered her, and she belonged to her. Her bitch wasn’t immediately gratified with a response so she pleaded again to her Mami “Please, Mami, I’ll do whatever you want! Just make me your bitch! I need to be with you.”
Raquel was quiet for a moment before she unhooked her strapon making her bitch whimper pathetically, thinking she wasn’t going to get her Mami’s cock. Raquel walked over to her bag and returned holding a pair of familiar items to her bitch.
She had seen Raquel use this on her other bitches. A spiked collar, the likes of which a large male dog would wear, the only difference was this had a tag which said property of “Liv and Raquel”, it also came with a leash already attached.
Mami wrapped the collar around Rhea’s neck. Partly because it made her bitch look even more pathetic, she hid the key so her bitch couldn’t escape if she suddenly "came to her senses" Raquel was going to ensure her bitch would remain a broken shell of the woman she used to be. Just like she was always meant to be.
Raquel had declared on multiple occasions she was too busy and dominant to dedicate her time to one bitch was now doing just that. Raquel took the leash and shortened the lead dragging her bitch closer to her. “Clean my cock, bitch.”
Rhea didn’t even prepare herself with tentative licks, like earlier she immediately dived in like earlier. Though the current collar and the tightness on the leash made cleaning her juices off Mami’s strapon a tad bit more difficult than it would be without the collar and leash, she preserved knowing she would have got used to the collar.
She loved the collar around her neck, it reminded her she belonged to her Mami, she never wanted to get rid of it and why would she when she could taste her delicious booty cream? The second her own booty cream hit her tastebuds on Mami’s strapon, it became better than before.
Sadly, it could never really be said that she never fully adjusted to this rough treatment of her gullet, as she never got her choking in check. But at this point, the Bitch was so far gone that she was actually disappointed in herself for not having a better grip on how to properly deepthroat this dick.
So Rhea pushed even deeper earning a look of adoration from her Mami. “You're trying that again, huh?" Raquel pointed out but her bitch ignored, inch after inch disappearing into her gullet. Before long, she'd swallowed it all; now just to keep it there.
Raquel was happy to help in that department, lending a helping hand, literally, forcing Rhea’s head down, leading to her bitch coughing and hacking, just as she'd done during her other attempts. This time though, Raquel persisted.
Rhea pushed her gag reflex far past its limit, and sure, she hacked up enough to spit it the taste of her ass had watched off the strapon, but she kept her Mami’s cock in her throat for tens of seconds. Nothing could stop her now.
As strands of saliva pooled out from her lips and sounds of choking continued coming out from her mouth while her Mami had her anal cream on her strapon that was once again lodged in her windpipe, Rhea continued to look up at her Mami with nothing but admiration, she would no long go against her Mami.
“Wait here,” Raquel said. “I’m going to get your other master.”
Moving was never in the cards for her. She was still as Raquel left the room, lost in a bliss she could only muster an inkling of reluctance towards. She was only vaguely aware of the voice of the woman who broke her, faint behind the door, saying, “The threat’s been neutralized.”