Wonder Woman meets The Chemical Master
By DK
Part One
The fifth heist in two weeks by black-garbed, well equiped and organized, teams of theives was beginning to annoy her. She had personally thwarted three of the capers, only to be disgusted by the lengths the mastermind behind these crimes would go to so as to remain anonymous. Her magic lasso compelled the men to divulge all information they had, but every address and phone connection she followed up on had been deserted scant hours before her arrival.
She was Wonder Woman, Amazon princess of Greek myth come to life, and had powers far greater than any mortal. And she was mad. The criminal in question obviously had no regard for common laws, the people who worked for him, or her authority. She was determined to catch him this week.
That evening, Diana Prince was furiously trying to figure a pattern out of these crimes when she heard gun shots outside her apartment. Spinning quickly into her alter-ego, she bounded for the source of the disturbance. Several blocks away she saw several men dressed in black loading the contents of an apartment into a panel truck. They had no idea what hit them. In her fury, she tossed two men through the sides of the truck. A third man was pointing a strange looking gun at her, but she removed her tiara and deftly tossed it disarming the man before a trigger could be pulled. A fourth man was attempting to flee as she ensnarled him in her lariat. Not seeing any other suspicious types, she began to question her captive. She had thought that she was thwarting another heist- but it turns out this was another base of operations of her opposition in the process of being moved. The man even knew the location of the head of the gang in a warehouse on the industrial side of town.
Not wanting to allow her opponent the opportunity to move operations again she immediately departed for the warehouse district. In her haste she did not see the fifth man in black on the rooftop with a two-way radio.The unseen partner instantly radioed in “yeah, she’s on her way- everything is still according to the plan. Best get ready in a hurry, though, she lit out of here in one big pissed-off hurry- and she hurt numbers 26 and 19 pretty badly-out.”
Wonder Woman made it to the warehouse in less than fifteen minutes-which would be something of a record if she travelled by car. She landed inside the chain link fence which surrounded the dilapidated-looking building. She knew she was in the right place, however, because she noted how the building only looked dilapidated: the chain link fence was recently installed, the structure appeared brand new under it’s rough facade, and many heavy duty power lines fed into the building. She was definitely in the right place- but was she on time?
Not wanting to give her opponent the chance to flee out the rear Wonder Woman burst through a locked garage door of the nearest loading dock- only to find a seemingly empty warehouse save for some crates lining the outer perimeter of the facility. As she walked through the maze of crates nearest her she noticed a video camera tracking her movements. Encouraged that not everyone had deserted the site she continued to the wide open center of the building. The building was vast- two football fields could easily have fit in this place- and Wonder Woman found herself drawn to the very center of the building- as a bullseye had been painted on the floor with at least a 25 yard diameter in which no items or crates had been placed. Directly in the center of the bullseye was a podium with six buttons and several blinking lights. Wonder Woman sauntered up to the podium, and when she got within 5 yards of it the lights over the bullseye were brought up three-fold, while the rest of the lights in the facility were switched off. Wonder Woman spun around but saw no signs of immediate danger, and warily crept up to the podium.
As she reached the podium a voice started to boom through loudspeakers on the outer walls “So nice of you to join us, Wonder Woman! Please press the button next to the green light so you can see me as well.”. Wonder Woman shouted “I will not! Show yourself, you cowardly thief!” At that, Wonder Woman noticed the aforementioned button click in, and the podium started to recess into the floor. At the same time, a television monitor started to arise from the floor, tilted at an angle as a stage monitor would be. On the monitor was a man in a very nice tailored suit wearing a black ski mask. The speakers bellowed “have it your way, here I am. I believe that you have been looking for me for a few weeks, my dear. I have had several financial setbacks due to your meddling in my affairs, so I have taken the liberty of scheduling this meeting to end these losses”.
“Scheduled this meeting???!? Who do you think you are?” replied WW
“Yes, I’ve brought you here - you didn’t think that I was so careless as to let any of my staff that would have a chance of running into your lasso know my whereabouts-unless I wanted you to know, did you? But I digress. I brought you here to prevent future losses, which arise from your interference.”
“And just how do you intend to accomplish that?”
“why, that should be obvious to you - by now-by ‘eliminating the competition!!!’ Team leader A - STRIKE!!!!!!”
At that moment, our villain enacted his choreographed plan. The video monitor instantly withdrew into the floor. The whole video conversation was simply a diversion so WW would not observe what was happening outside the circle of light she was standing in. WW looked up to see a circle of what had to be 40 black garbed men surrounding her. Eight of the men were running headlong towards her and had covered half the distance to her before she even realized the trap had unfolded.
As the first wave came upon her, she recognized basic traits of the men that were familiar to her- these were martial arts experts-probably Ninja. They attacked in unison, and she deflected two kicks with her bracelets, took a punch to her ribs that didn’t even phase her and vaulted over one of the attackers to put her outside the inner circle of attackers.She then deflected another kick, and much to her dismay, she heard a tinny sound when she did. WW realized that the Tabi boots of her attackers had razor knives in the toes. The next thing to cause her more alarm was the sight of eight more Ninja closing the circle. She realized part of the plan was to hit her from all sides at once- so she needed to remove herself from the center of the bullseye. She quickly grabbed the leg of the next man to attempt to land a kick and swung him around as a flail, taking out the remainder of the initial eight men and two of the second wave. But no sooner had she let her ‘weapon’ fly, did the other six close on her. Their attacks were more concentrated and better coordinated, and she took several punches to the shoulders, ribs, and thighs as she concentrated primarily on the razor toes of her attackers, successfully keeping them at bay.
Then she heard the very faint whistling of air that passed over her right shoulder, and saw a shuriken land in the chest of one of the men facing her. He looked down in shock, the weapon sunk in 3/4”, giving WW the opening she needed. She grabbed the man and tossed him into two of his companions, removing all three from the fracas. She then let a roundhouse kick take down a fourth, and keep a fifth at a legs length of distance. Hearing the air part as only an Amazon trained to play “bullets and bracelets” could, she spun deflecting Shuriken and darts in all directions and directed two of the weapons she deflected at the last Ninja in the circle.
She then looked up to see twelve Ninja coming at her in an asymetrical pattern with darts coming towards her from the gaps. She deflected the first wave of darts into the rush and felled two more men before they reached the halfway point. She quickly glanced up to see rafters high above her head, just above those blinding lights and she leapt for the rafters 30 feet up. This would be her escape from the center, and she was confident that she could best the remaining men from the outside of the circle , where she could better protect her flanks.
What she didn’t see in her quick glance, due to the bright lights, and the stealth of Ninjas, was that already perched on the rafters was another trap waiting to unfold. Up above the lights was a team of four Ninjas with a net between them. As Wonder Woman leapt up, the four Ninja jumped off their perch and snagged the heroine in the net bringing her crashing back to the ground less than six feet from her previous position. As the four men and the beautiful princess crashed to the ground three more Ninja were flattened , while the four from the rafters rolled with the fall, one still twisted an ankle and two more were slightly dazed. WW was caught by surprise and had the wind knocked out of her, but quickly got to her feet.
The net proved to be her undoing, however. The net was slowing her reactions down considerably, and as she started to tear the ropes with her famous strength, the Ninja coordinated their efforts once again. Four more Ninja grabbed the corners of the net and began twisting clockwise around their prey. Several others started blowing darts at WW, and two were brave enough to close on the tigress.WW had torn a hole big enough to get one arm and her head through before the onslaught hit her. She tried desperately to deflect all darts and did her best to keep the close attackers between her and the darts. The men twisting the net could not pull her down, but they were seriously hampering her movement. Suddenly, a dart struck her in the back on her exposed skin near her right shoulder blade. One of the men close in yelled “direct hit, cease fire”, at which point eight more men rushed the net. WW, shocked that a dart had struck her, could not figure out why they would stop launching darts. She struggled with the net and managed to tear the seam down to her waist before the next rush hit her.
She started to deflect blows from every quarter, and landed a couple of mighty blows of her own , felling one man and dazing another, when she started slowing down. She was becoming a little sluggish and she realized the dart contained a drug of some sort. She was clumsily fighting off many of her attackers, but taking many blows to the upper torso. She then repeated an earlier tactic, and grabbed a fallen enemy and began swinging him in a circle giving her some room to breathe. But the drug was more effective as she exerted herself and she succeeded in becoming very dizzy as she spun. The men previously twisting the net quickly pulled in one direction, and the extra centrifigal force of the man she was swinging sent our heroine sprawling. As she awkwardly tried to get up a Ninja kicked her legs out from under her.WW was finding it difficult to concentrate but wildly swung at the man, hitting him with such force that she shattered his jawbone.She then pulled the net off her, and got to her feet.
The men let her arise seeing the drugged state of their foe. One man sauntered up to WW and she tried to kick him but he caught her leg and quickly returned a kick to her crotch. The force and placement of the kick caused Diana to inhale sharply and gave her a momentary loss of sight as the pain blinded her, but as she came out of the pain it cleared her head a little.Another man was already behind her however, and grabbed her magic belt, the source of her strength, from around her waist. She gasped involuntarily as she felt her strength ebb. A Ninja screamed “phase two complete”, at which point many of the Ninja started to vanish into the shadows.
Two of the men WW was closest to grabbed her arms and extended them out to the sides before twisting them down ,out and back up again forcing her to bend at the waist. One man came from the side and kicked her in the stomach three times before kneeing her once. Diana was slow in her senses but in a lot of pain, and finding it difficult to breathe. The man with the shattered jaw came up to her and before anyone could react slammed his elbow down on her upper right arm , breaking it in two. WW yelled in pain, and the two men holding her dropped her and detained the man with the broken jaw.
Two Ninja reappeared with manacles for her hands and feet and slapped their beautiful captive in them. The princess almost passed out from pain when they clamped her arms together. Between the pain and the drugs she could not even focus on resisting, much less form a plan for escape.
The larger of the two men then slung the raven-haired beauty over his shoulder, eliciting a sharp yelp of pain. WW was being carried off as if some barbarian had claimed a serving wench, her head and broken arm dangling limp behind the man, while her shackled legs provided the means for balancing his prey from the front. Her star-spangled derriere at head height for the rest of the men to ogle. The Ninja carried his prize to a freight elevator, sat her on the floor, and ominously pressed an unmarked button , before stepping off of the elevator. WW, barely conscious, could only put together one thought as she became dimly aware that she was sinking into the floor-{.....Magic Belt and Lasso gone....need.... where?...arm in pain...must try..huh?..some sort of elevator...........oh...can’t ..*}
END PART ONE!