Fic: Voy City Chronicles #1 Part 3 of 3 - The Death of Fantastic Man and the Birth of the Danger Duo
Fic: Voy City Chronicles #1 Part 3 of
3 - The Death of Fantastic Man and the Birth of the Danger Duo
Author: Widdy
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek or Seven and B’Elanna unfortunately Paramount does so I’m just loaning their likeness and will return them when I’m done.
Feedback: Yes feel free to feed me.
Pairing: Belladonna Torrent/ Jennifer Sevens
Note: This a little something fun and different I have been working on this afternoon. Does contain the odd swearword and babble. Try to enjoy.
In a dank dark alley 5 minutes later...
I finally had everything set in place. I hadn’t wanted to go cliché but I’m afraid it was necessary. Since Jennifer Sevens had gone nuts and nearly killed the CEO of her News station they had promoted another young reporter called Taylor Cellar. She was a nervous little thing. The type that seemed to attract hero types. It was just my luck that Fantastic Man had decided to become her new protector since Jennifer Sevens imprisonment for attempted murder. I would have felt sorry for Jennifer if she hadn’t made my life a living hell, and wasn’t next on my list.
I smiled and watched with a maniacal joy as a blue and red blur smeared a path across the sky. It suddenly stopped and I could just make out the form of my former fiancé hovering midair as he looked left and right. Then he shot left and plunged his body downwards.
I felt my mouth drop open as my feet automatically carried me towards the workhouse. The idiot had gone into the wrong building. I had clearly specified that her enter the old whore house, not the old workhouse. What a numbskull!
In a dank dark Ally 5 minutes later...
I finally had everything set in place. I hadn’t wanted to go cliché, but it was called for. I wanted my revenge upon Fantastic Man and I had finally figured out how to get it. It was simple really, setting the whole thing up. Fantastic Man rescued one other person on a regular basis, and that was the classical pianist Harold Krib. Why I don’t know, it’s not like he had breasts, and I couldn’t see Fantastic Man listening to classical music, he seemed more of a nursery rhyme guy to me.
Still Krib seemed to get rescued at least twice a month, this made him a target. I kidnap Krib, I get Fantastic Man’s attention. Easy.
I smiled in anticipation as a red and blue blur streak across the sky and then suddenly stop dead. I could easily make out the face of my enemy as he worriedly gazed down at the roof of the building. I knew that soon that look of worry would be horror as I finally ripped him apart.
With a diabolical laugh I quickly strode towards the workhouse and my super evil trap.
At precisely the same time two women, each dressed head to toe in black, headed towards Voy City’s dilapidated work house and entered through opposite sides.
Inside the old workhouse 2 minutes later...
Looking down I noticed that there was a thin but clear path that led to the centre of the room. I cautiously stepped over the piles of rubble that had once been the walls and ceiling. Broken and rotten timbers had recently been moved and I frowned as I realised that my own noise in the next building had probably blinded me to what was going on right beneath my nose. I had seen a few vans but I hadn’t really paid it any attention. Unmarked vans were common place in criminal circles, especially when they were situated in the Dark District. I was distracted from my thoughts momentarily as I concentrated on the huge gaps in the rotten slimy wood floor boards. Moving cautiously I squinted as I moved into what was the centre of the building.
It was clear I wasn’t the only one who had planned to get Fantastic Man this night. I was slightly miffed that they had found a better way that I to attract his attention. I wanted to kill him, I would just have to swoop in and steal Fantastic Man from this person’s nose.
As I finally reached the centre I saw a thing of beauty. Some seriously high tech. It was a thing a truly marvel at. There was Fantastic Man suspended high in the air, his arms and feet restrained and his body covered in liquid metal.
I was impressed, I didn’t want to be, but I couldn’t help but be impressed by the genius of the work. It was light years ahead of the tech I sold to the other super villains and more on par with the stuff I made for myself. Someone had been working hard, and I quickly realised that my revised plan to steal Fantastic Man wasn’t going to work. Still I just had to kill him, he had wronged me and he deserved to die. I looked around and saw no one, I pulled out my secret weapon and with that in hand I stepped out of the shadows and delivered my catchphrase.
“Fantastic Man, meet your destruction.”
Inside the old workhouse 2 minutes later...
This was it. Finally I would get my prize, I had them both and they were both going to die. Slowly and painfully. I don’t mind telling you that it took a huge effort to keep my evil laughter contained. It was an annoying trait that I had developed whenever I thought of my revenge. I didn’t like it.
I swiftly made my way across the reinforced walkway I had created from the south door to the centre of the room. It had been necessary to get the things I needed to create of my large and wondrous trap. With the nanotech inside me, I could build anything out of anything. With the right commands my nanotech could make me a prefect bolt for bolt, girder for girder copy of the Voy City Suspension Bridge, or destroy it.
As I neared the centre of the building I marvelled at the prison of metal and wires my little babies had made. Chains of the strongest Inconel 625 bound Fantastic Man's wrists and ankles. While my nanotech coated his body, taking samples and providing me every scrap of information about Fantastic Man's physiology. It was only amount of time before I knew how exactly to destroy him.
With this in mind I clenched my fists and allowed my tubules to slither from in-between my knuckles. I stepped out of the shadows and struck an intimidating pose. I raised one hand and pointed my finger towards my captive and delivered my newly thought out catchphrase.
“Fantastic Man, prepare to be assimilated.”
As the twin shouts of ‘Fantastic Man’ mingled in the air causing all three (including the man in question) to look around puzzled; both women quickly spotted each other and matching frowns marred their brows. They each extended their weapons in each other’s direction. Belladonna her gun and Jennifer her tubules.
“What are you doing here?” Belladonna asked as she locked gazes with her fellow villain. Who also appeared to be a woman. Granted she looked a little strange decked head to toe in what looked like a black metal catsuit and 5 inch high heels. She looked like every techno fetishists dream, Belladonna swallowed hard being oneself as she had a vision of the woman in front of her pinning her to her bed and threatening to assimilate certain parts of her body with those tubules. She shook her head to dislodge the fantasy and tried to focus.
“What am I doing here? It’s my Lair and I’m after him.” Jennifer said with a laugh, she couldn’t believe the cheek of the woman who was known as the Queen of Destruction to come into her lair and demand to know why she was here. That should be her line. Even in the gloom she could clearly make out the black mask covering the woman’s face, the tight black leather jacket, leggings and patent leather Doc Martins she wore. Jennifer had to admit it that the outfit suited the other woman; it spoke of the fact that she meant business and was very sexy.
“Him? Fantastic Man? Why?” She didn’t know that the newcomer to the Super Villain community had a grudge against Fantastic Man, still he was such a fool, most of the criminal underworld wanted him dead.
“Yes Fantastic Man. The why doesn’t concern you oh Queen of Destruction.” Jennifer finished sarcastically.
The coldness of her delivery caused Belladonna to stop suddenly. She knew that voice; it was one she was sure she had heard before. “You know you sound familiar, have we met?”
“No, I’m surprised though...” ‘You're the only bloody super villain who didn’t capture me’ Jennifer finished in her mind.
“Surprised what?” Belladonna asked as she started to move closer to the other woman.
Jennifer followed the Queen of Destruction’s lead and started to move closer to the centre of the lair. “That we haven’t met.”
“I’ve never heard of you.” Belladonna huffed, she didn’t know how they could have meet if the woman was a new to the Evil Scene.
“Well I’m the Assimilator.” Jennifer introduced herself, not the best Super Villain name she knew, but the ones she did come up with had already been trademarked. She would have suited the Queen of Destruction herself, she was jealous that the other woman had gotten to it first.
Belladonna rolled her eyes at the lame name and dropped her weapon, “Great, pleased to meet you, now get out of my way. I have to kill him.”
“No. Look Fantastic Man did this to me.” Jennifer screamed as she lifted her mask and flashed the skin of face melded messily with the metal of her Nanotech.
“He did? He’s not smart enough to have done that to you.” Belladonna asked in disbelief, she was surprised that she actually felt a flash of sympathy when the strange fellow villainess lifted her mask partially and revealed her skin broken by what looked like Mechanical implants. It was a mess and clearly hadn’t been something that she had signed on for. It looked like an experiment gone wrong, that was generally how most of the villain around had gotten their powers.
“He did it!” Jennifer turned hate filled eyes towards Fantastic Man. “I got fired and sent to prison cause of him and now he’s going to pay.”
The last part was mumbled but with those two little slipped facts Belladonna felt her eyes widen in revelation, “Jennifer? Jennifer Sevens?”
Jennifer felt her eyes open wide as she realised she must have spoken out loud. “Yes, I mean no.”
“You're a villain now?” Belladonna felt her mood darken and then lighten. She had planned to kill Jennifer anyway; this saved having to track her down.
“I don’t know who this Jennifer Sevens is.” Jennifer instead, but her protest sounded weak even to her own ears.
“Well isn’t it a coincidence that Jennifer Sevens gets fired and sent to prison and when she gets released two months later some woman melded with machinery shows up calling herself the Assimilator.” Belladonna finished with a smug smile. She wondered what the hell had happened to the beautiful blonde. Oh she had heard the stories and she would even admit to having had a laugh at the thought of her former enemy scared, but the reality wasn’t so pleasant.
Jennifer contemplated denying it further but just dropped her arm and retracted her tubules. “Fine I’m Jennifer Sevens, so who the hell are you?”
“The Queen of destruction.” Belladonna smirked.
“Who are you really?” Jennifer demanded as she stepped closer to the other villain and leaned into her threateningly.
Rolling her eyes at the threatening body language of the other woman Belladonna shrugged her shoulders and spared a glance towards Fantastic Man. She watched as he popped his eyes open and then glanced around before his eyes settled on them in shock. She felt hot breath on her face and turned back to Jennifer. Well she was going to have to tell her eventually, usually she liked to draw things out, but she really couldn’t be bothered tonight. She just wanted her revenge. “Belladonna.”
“Belladonna?” Jennifer asked faintly. It wasn’t a common name, she only knew one Belladonna. “Belladonna Torrent?”
“Yes.” Belladonna nodded as she watched Jennifer take a step back from her.
“Owner and CEO of Torrent Industries, major producer of weapons of mass destruction?” It was a fact that always made Jennifer feel a little guilty. Belladonna had started her company to produce water wells for third world countries, and then suddenly she started to produce some seriously deadly weaponry. Oh she still made the wells, but it didn’t really balance anything out.
“Yes.” Belladonna nodded once more with a smirk.
“The same Belladonna Torrent I made cry in advanced chem.” Jennifer didn’t know what made her bring that up; it must have been the smirk.
The smirk quickly disappeared and was replaced with a scowl, “Yes the one and the same. What the hell happened to you? You look like a giant tin opener.”
“Least my brain isn’t trying to escape through my skull.” Jennifer spat back.
Raising her weapon Belladonna pointed it straight at Jennifer’s head. “Bitch I should just kill you right now.”
“Well why don’t you?” Jennifer demanded.
Sighing Belladonna dropped her weapon again, “Fantastic Man comes first, he’s mine I’m killing him.”
“Have you seen me? Look at what that stupid fool’s attention did to me.”Jennifer fully ripped of her mask and showed the full extent of her injuries. Her left eye had been replaced by what looked like a zoomable camera lens. While a star shaped piece of tech, sat by her ear.
“Actually if I’m honest think you look ok.” Belladonna surprised herself because she actually meant it. It wasn’t so bad. I mean she had seen worse. Some of very her own experiments with cybernetics had come out looking like a hammer had been taken to a side of beef and a video recorder. While the woman before her wasn’t the classical beauty she once was, she certainly wasn’t unattractive.
“Really?” Jennifer asked cautiously. “You called me a giant tin opener before.”
“Yeah hot even, I have always found technology fascinating, and I have never seen anything quite like the tech that infused with your body.” Belladonna shifted uncomfortably as she saw the smile of pleasure spread over Jennifer’s face. She wasn’t lying, she did for some bizarre reason think that the technology did something for the blonde. It gave her a hard, but sexy dangerous edge.
“Well its nanotech, I thought that it had to have something to do with Torrent industries. That was my next stop after I ripped Fantastic Mans balls off.” Jennifer confessed. She had planned to pay the woman in front of her a visit.
Belladonna glared Jennifer; she wasn’t stupid she knew what she was fused with. “I know it nanotech. I meant it’s just nothing found on earth so I don’t think going to my lab is going to help. In fact I’d say it’s from another galaxy.”
“Really?” Jennifer said interested in where the crap in her body had come from despite herself. She desperately wanted rid off it.
“Yeah, it has to be. I know a few people who might be able to help.” Belladonna pursed her lips as she thought about who could help the blonde woman. Dr Doctor was the first name that came to mind. He was an old bald creep, but a brilliant old bald creep.
Jennifer shook her head, first she had to destroy Fantastic Man then she could concentrate all her energy on getting rid of the technology in her body. “No... stop trying to distract me.”
Rolling her eyes Belladonna waved her freehand. “I’m not, look I get to kill him he broke my heart for you.”
“Me?” Jennifer asked puzzled, she didn’t see what it had to do with her.
“Yes you,” Belladonna shouted. “I’m over it now but I still think he deserves to die for that.”
“What have I got to do with it?” Jennifer asked. She felt her stomach drop as Belladonna crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows menacingly. “Oh no you don’t think me and him do you?”
“I was going to kill you as well, but considering what happened I think I’ll let you off.” Belladonna let her eyes scan down Jennifer’s body. She still had a nice figure despite the odd lump and bump that indicated a piece of machinery.
“Kill me?”
“Yeah.” Belladonna nodded.
“I have more interest in a stamp than I do in him. This idiot ruined my promising reporter career; I was going to be the next VCN news caster.” Jennifer screeched as she threw out a hand towards Fantastic Man.
The big oaf in question obviously felt it was time to interject something as he cleared his throat. “Ladies, Ladies, maybe you could talk about killing me later, maybe you could just let me go and I can save Harry and Taylor?”
Twin screams of no met Fantastic Man’s ears as he sighed and attempted to break free from the machine chains.
“Come on Belladonna, we had some fun didn’t we?” Fantastic Man asked as he looked towards his former fiancé, gracing her with what he thought was a winning smile.
Belladonna turned to him and fixed her glare upon him, “No, I have though this over, you had fun I mainly waited around for you.”
“And you got some progressive thing done in that time, why your Insanity Gun is number 1 on the list of weapons most wanted by Evil doers.” Fantastic man felt the need to point out. Much to Belladonna’s annoyance he was right.
“I bought one last week.” Jennifer added to further infuriate the dark-haired Super Villainess.
“See even Jenny has one.” Fantastic Man laughed smugly as he nodded his head in Jennifer’s direction. “That’s all down to me.”
Jennifer turned and clenched her fists hard, “My name is Jennifer you stupid fool!”
Fantastic Man laughed once more and tugged upon his chains. “Do yourselves a favour ladies and release me; it’s inevitable that I will escape. Your plan to kill me will fail.”
“Will it?” Jennifer asked with a smile.
“Yes.” Fantastic man said as he realised he didn’t exactly know Jenny’s plan a frown marred his brow. He knew she wanted to kill him, but the little details escaped him. “What is your plan?”
Jennifer’s smile increased and turned devious. “I’m not telling you that.”
“But its standard procedure,” Fantastic Man protested, he couldn't believe Jenny wasn’t playing by the rules. “It says so in the heroes and villains handbook version 56.”
“Well we are villains Fantastic Man we don’t follow rules.” Belladonna jumped in also smiling at Fantastic Mans annoyance.
“Bella.” Fantastic Man whined as he looked towards his former love.
“Don’t call me Bella; you lost that privilege when you dumped me.” Belladonna growled in anger.
“What? You used to go out with him?” Jennifer pulled a face as she imagined the cute little Villain getting hot and heavy with the big hulk they both wanted dead.
“Come now Bella so I dumped you for Jenny here, it’s time to move on.” Fantastic Man smiled stupidly not realising how close Belladonna was to blowing his head clean off.
Jennifer choked on her own saliva as she registered what Fantastic Man had just uttered. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “No he never, I’m gay. Have you been telling everyone we are together?”
“You’re gay?” Both Belladonna and Fantastic Man asked, one with surprised interest and the other with puzzled horror.
“Yes I’m gay and even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t fall for that buffoon.” Jennifer nodded as she looked towards Belladonna pleased to see a look of understanding and interest in her brown eyes.
“Hey!” Fantastic Man said in protest to the insult hurled at him.
“He is an idiot,” Belladonna agreed. She still held some feelings of anger towards Jennifer for their turbulent youth, but she realised her adult resentment was a little misplace. It just made her want to kill Fantastic Man all the more. But seeing as he had done them both a disservice she didn’t see why they couldn’t both profit from this. “Well seeing as we have both been wronged how about we kill him together?”
“Together, like we both blow his brains out and dismember him?” Jennifer asked, it was an interesting proposal and one that grabbed her attention. It could solve their fighting and mean they both got their revenge.
“Precisely.” Belladonna nodded happily glad that Jennifer understood what she was proposing.
“You know what, lets.” Jennifer said softly and she turned with Belladonna and took a step towards Fantastic Man her tubules raised menacingly.
“Now Ladies, think this through.”
“We have you dipstick.” Belladonna laughed as she holstered her gun, and pulled the huge twin pronged sword from her back.
“Strange.” Jennifer said as she suddenly stopped and tilted her head to the side. Her nanotech was giving her strange reading, indicating that a huge build up of energy was coming from Fantastic Man.
“Yeah he is, I think its cause he’s an alien.” Belladonna laughed and took a few experimental swings loosening up her arm for the upcoming dismemberment. It was going to be fun.
“No not that...” Jennifer started but before she could finish she was knocked off her feet and propelled back several feet.
When she opened her eyes Jennifer scowled her body. She was covered in head to toe in what her nanotech told her was blood, flesh, bone and entrails. It wasn’t pleasant.
Before she could rise Jennifer found herself pulled to her feet by and irate little evil villain who was also covered in the remains of Fantastic Man.
“You killed him? We had an agreement that wasn’t fair.” Belladonna screeched, she couldn’t believe that Jennifer would do that. No she could believe it; she just couldn’t believe she had trusted her.
“I never.” Jennifer protested as she felt her foot slip in the parts of Fantastic Man covering the floor.
“What?” Belladonna shouted in disbelief as she tried to wipe some of Fantastic Man’s bits of her face.
Jennifer shook her head, “I never killed him; we hadn’t delivered our speeches yet.”
‘That was true.’ Thought Belladonna, you couldn’t kill a hero without delivering a riveting speech on how cleaver you had been. How you had captured them and had been waiting to destroy them for years. It was a vital part to closure, or so her physiatrist had told her. “Then what happened?”
“I don’t... Krib.” Jennifer suddenly shouted as she turned and started to cautiously make her way over towards the back of the room. The only other person here was Kirb.
“Clarinet Boy.” Belladonna cursed herself. No wonder Tom had run to the workhouse, he was always saving Harry. The Blonde had truly found something her would save over anything else, well apart from himself, she was jealous she hadn’t thought of it herself.
“Krib is Clarinet Boy? I have him...”
Belladonna followed Jennifer and they find the small room empty and Harry gone.
“Well that was anticlimactic.” She actually felt a bit sorry for the other woman. Her first attempt at evil hadn’t gone exactly to plan; then again it never did where Fantastic Man, Belladonna knew that all too well.
“Yeah.” Jennifer agreed dejectedly. Harold Krib was clarinet Boy, she could have killed him and then the explosion of Fantastic Man wouldn’t have been such a problem.
“I don’t understand.” It was generally the case that the good guys got away, she hadn’t quite expected hit to do it by exploding. She knew he was full of gas but that was ridiculous. Another thing was where the hell was Harry?
“I do Fantastic Mans dead, Harry's gone.” Jennifer marched into the room and picked up the ropes which had been burnt.
“It’s fishy.” Belladonna grumbled, something was wrong with the picture and she didn’t like to be bested, especially by a gimp like Fantastic Man and is Boy blunder.
“I have to agree, all the readings I took of him are strangely abnormal.” Jennifer quickly ran through the data her Nanotech had taken of Fantastic Man seconds before he ended up coving everything within 30 feet of him.
“Fantastic Man? Well he was an alien.” Belladonna snorted, strange didn’t really cover what he was.
Jennifer shook her head, “Not that, besides his blood contains serious amounts of explosive.”
“A self destruct mechanism?” It made a strange sort of sense, only thing was Tom wasn’t smart enough and Harry was a languages expert and a classical pianist, he just didn’t possess the skill.
“I guess, but I don’t suppose it matters he’s dead that what’s we both wanted.” Jennifer sighed.
“I wanted to kill him with my own weapons.” Belladonna whined.
“Me too.” Jennifer laid a hand on Belladonnas shoulder and turned her around and walked her from the room. “So now that Fantastic Man’s dead what’s next for you?”
“Well I was thinking steak and a glass or two of champagne, and then taking a look at those reading of yours. I feel strangely unsatisfied and I’m convinced that those can shed a little light on what happened? Care to joint me?” Belladonna finished with a small smile that Jennifer shared.
“Just for dinner and going through the data or do you want me for more?” Jennifer asked as she allowed her smile to grow. She had seen Belladonnas interest when she announced she was gay, now all she needed was a little conformation.
“I want you for everything.” Belladonna growled as she looked in to Jennifer’s eyes.
“Thought you would never ask.” Jennifer smiled at the other woman’s confidence.
“Have you thought about changing your name?” Belladonna suddenly asked as she and Jennifer made their way through the old workhouse to the outside.
“To what?” Jennifer asked, her name wasn’t great but she thought it had potential. Once she had sired up a bit of trouble it would be said with reverence.
Belladonna grimaced. It was a horrible name, which did nothing to enhance Jennifer’s power. “I don’t know something a little more evil, your name is lame compared to mine.”
Before Jennifer could defend herself Belladonna smiled and held out her hands, “How about Baroness Von Borg.”
“Hmmm.” Jennifer stopped and looked upwards. It wasn’t a bad name; it was actually very good, or very evil as the case maybe.
“It adds a noble touch, something foreign, and the techno interest.” Belladonna nodded to herself pleased with the name she had come up with. They would have to trade mark it or if it was already taken, just kill the owner. Simple.
“I like it; it has a certain ring to it. The Queen of Destruction and the Baroness Von Borg. It reeks of devastation.”
“It certainly does.” Belladonna agreed.
That decided the two evil villainesses made their way from the building and out towards Belladonnas limousine.
“So what shall we call ourselves?” Jennifer asked as she settled into the back of the luxury car and watched as Belladonna ordered the chauffer to move off and retrieved a bottle of champagne and two glasses.
“How about the Danger Duo?” Belladonna offered as she settled back offering one of the glasses to her new partner in crime.
“I like it, it says that we are dangerous and a duo.”
“So Danger Duo it is.” Belladonna smiled as she lifted her glass in a toast.
“And a Danger Duo we are.”
As Jennifer touched her glass to Belladonnas and with a soft clink the limousine pulled away from the kerb, and two of the most dangerous women to ever walk the earth formed a partnership of unfathomable evil.
The End For Now...
Author: Widdy
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Trek or Seven and B’Elanna unfortunately Paramount does so I’m just loaning their likeness and will return them when I’m done.
Feedback: Yes feel free to feed me.
Pairing: Belladonna Torrent/ Jennifer Sevens
Note: This a little something fun and different I have been working on this afternoon. Does contain the odd swearword and babble. Try to enjoy.
In a dank dark alley 5 minutes later...
I finally had everything set in place. I hadn’t wanted to go cliché but I’m afraid it was necessary. Since Jennifer Sevens had gone nuts and nearly killed the CEO of her News station they had promoted another young reporter called Taylor Cellar. She was a nervous little thing. The type that seemed to attract hero types. It was just my luck that Fantastic Man had decided to become her new protector since Jennifer Sevens imprisonment for attempted murder. I would have felt sorry for Jennifer if she hadn’t made my life a living hell, and wasn’t next on my list.
I smiled and watched with a maniacal joy as a blue and red blur smeared a path across the sky. It suddenly stopped and I could just make out the form of my former fiancé hovering midair as he looked left and right. Then he shot left and plunged his body downwards.
I felt my mouth drop open as my feet automatically carried me towards the workhouse. The idiot had gone into the wrong building. I had clearly specified that her enter the old whore house, not the old workhouse. What a numbskull!
In a dank dark Ally 5 minutes later...
I finally had everything set in place. I hadn’t wanted to go cliché, but it was called for. I wanted my revenge upon Fantastic Man and I had finally figured out how to get it. It was simple really, setting the whole thing up. Fantastic Man rescued one other person on a regular basis, and that was the classical pianist Harold Krib. Why I don’t know, it’s not like he had breasts, and I couldn’t see Fantastic Man listening to classical music, he seemed more of a nursery rhyme guy to me.
Still Krib seemed to get rescued at least twice a month, this made him a target. I kidnap Krib, I get Fantastic Man’s attention. Easy.
I smiled in anticipation as a red and blue blur streak across the sky and then suddenly stop dead. I could easily make out the face of my enemy as he worriedly gazed down at the roof of the building. I knew that soon that look of worry would be horror as I finally ripped him apart.
With a diabolical laugh I quickly strode towards the workhouse and my super evil trap.
At precisely the same time two women, each dressed head to toe in black, headed towards Voy City’s dilapidated work house and entered through opposite sides.
Inside the old workhouse 2 minutes later...
Looking down I noticed that there was a thin but clear path that led to the centre of the room. I cautiously stepped over the piles of rubble that had once been the walls and ceiling. Broken and rotten timbers had recently been moved and I frowned as I realised that my own noise in the next building had probably blinded me to what was going on right beneath my nose. I had seen a few vans but I hadn’t really paid it any attention. Unmarked vans were common place in criminal circles, especially when they were situated in the Dark District. I was distracted from my thoughts momentarily as I concentrated on the huge gaps in the rotten slimy wood floor boards. Moving cautiously I squinted as I moved into what was the centre of the building.
It was clear I wasn’t the only one who had planned to get Fantastic Man this night. I was slightly miffed that they had found a better way that I to attract his attention. I wanted to kill him, I would just have to swoop in and steal Fantastic Man from this person’s nose.
As I finally reached the centre I saw a thing of beauty. Some seriously high tech. It was a thing a truly marvel at. There was Fantastic Man suspended high in the air, his arms and feet restrained and his body covered in liquid metal.
I was impressed, I didn’t want to be, but I couldn’t help but be impressed by the genius of the work. It was light years ahead of the tech I sold to the other super villains and more on par with the stuff I made for myself. Someone had been working hard, and I quickly realised that my revised plan to steal Fantastic Man wasn’t going to work. Still I just had to kill him, he had wronged me and he deserved to die. I looked around and saw no one, I pulled out my secret weapon and with that in hand I stepped out of the shadows and delivered my catchphrase.
“Fantastic Man, meet your destruction.”
Inside the old workhouse 2 minutes later...
This was it. Finally I would get my prize, I had them both and they were both going to die. Slowly and painfully. I don’t mind telling you that it took a huge effort to keep my evil laughter contained. It was an annoying trait that I had developed whenever I thought of my revenge. I didn’t like it.
I swiftly made my way across the reinforced walkway I had created from the south door to the centre of the room. It had been necessary to get the things I needed to create of my large and wondrous trap. With the nanotech inside me, I could build anything out of anything. With the right commands my nanotech could make me a prefect bolt for bolt, girder for girder copy of the Voy City Suspension Bridge, or destroy it.
As I neared the centre of the building I marvelled at the prison of metal and wires my little babies had made. Chains of the strongest Inconel 625 bound Fantastic Man's wrists and ankles. While my nanotech coated his body, taking samples and providing me every scrap of information about Fantastic Man's physiology. It was only amount of time before I knew how exactly to destroy him.
With this in mind I clenched my fists and allowed my tubules to slither from in-between my knuckles. I stepped out of the shadows and struck an intimidating pose. I raised one hand and pointed my finger towards my captive and delivered my newly thought out catchphrase.
“Fantastic Man, prepare to be assimilated.”
As the twin shouts of ‘Fantastic Man’ mingled in the air causing all three (including the man in question) to look around puzzled; both women quickly spotted each other and matching frowns marred their brows. They each extended their weapons in each other’s direction. Belladonna her gun and Jennifer her tubules.
“What are you doing here?” Belladonna asked as she locked gazes with her fellow villain. Who also appeared to be a woman. Granted she looked a little strange decked head to toe in what looked like a black metal catsuit and 5 inch high heels. She looked like every techno fetishists dream, Belladonna swallowed hard being oneself as she had a vision of the woman in front of her pinning her to her bed and threatening to assimilate certain parts of her body with those tubules. She shook her head to dislodge the fantasy and tried to focus.
“What am I doing here? It’s my Lair and I’m after him.” Jennifer said with a laugh, she couldn’t believe the cheek of the woman who was known as the Queen of Destruction to come into her lair and demand to know why she was here. That should be her line. Even in the gloom she could clearly make out the black mask covering the woman’s face, the tight black leather jacket, leggings and patent leather Doc Martins she wore. Jennifer had to admit it that the outfit suited the other woman; it spoke of the fact that she meant business and was very sexy.
“Him? Fantastic Man? Why?” She didn’t know that the newcomer to the Super Villain community had a grudge against Fantastic Man, still he was such a fool, most of the criminal underworld wanted him dead.
“Yes Fantastic Man. The why doesn’t concern you oh Queen of Destruction.” Jennifer finished sarcastically.
The coldness of her delivery caused Belladonna to stop suddenly. She knew that voice; it was one she was sure she had heard before. “You know you sound familiar, have we met?”
“No, I’m surprised though...” ‘You're the only bloody super villain who didn’t capture me’ Jennifer finished in her mind.
“Surprised what?” Belladonna asked as she started to move closer to the other woman.
Jennifer followed the Queen of Destruction’s lead and started to move closer to the centre of the lair. “That we haven’t met.”
“I’ve never heard of you.” Belladonna huffed, she didn’t know how they could have meet if the woman was a new to the Evil Scene.
“Well I’m the Assimilator.” Jennifer introduced herself, not the best Super Villain name she knew, but the ones she did come up with had already been trademarked. She would have suited the Queen of Destruction herself, she was jealous that the other woman had gotten to it first.
Belladonna rolled her eyes at the lame name and dropped her weapon, “Great, pleased to meet you, now get out of my way. I have to kill him.”
“No. Look Fantastic Man did this to me.” Jennifer screamed as she lifted her mask and flashed the skin of face melded messily with the metal of her Nanotech.
“He did? He’s not smart enough to have done that to you.” Belladonna asked in disbelief, she was surprised that she actually felt a flash of sympathy when the strange fellow villainess lifted her mask partially and revealed her skin broken by what looked like Mechanical implants. It was a mess and clearly hadn’t been something that she had signed on for. It looked like an experiment gone wrong, that was generally how most of the villain around had gotten their powers.
“He did it!” Jennifer turned hate filled eyes towards Fantastic Man. “I got fired and sent to prison cause of him and now he’s going to pay.”
The last part was mumbled but with those two little slipped facts Belladonna felt her eyes widen in revelation, “Jennifer? Jennifer Sevens?”
Jennifer felt her eyes open wide as she realised she must have spoken out loud. “Yes, I mean no.”
“You're a villain now?” Belladonna felt her mood darken and then lighten. She had planned to kill Jennifer anyway; this saved having to track her down.
“I don’t know who this Jennifer Sevens is.” Jennifer instead, but her protest sounded weak even to her own ears.
“Well isn’t it a coincidence that Jennifer Sevens gets fired and sent to prison and when she gets released two months later some woman melded with machinery shows up calling herself the Assimilator.” Belladonna finished with a smug smile. She wondered what the hell had happened to the beautiful blonde. Oh she had heard the stories and she would even admit to having had a laugh at the thought of her former enemy scared, but the reality wasn’t so pleasant.
Jennifer contemplated denying it further but just dropped her arm and retracted her tubules. “Fine I’m Jennifer Sevens, so who the hell are you?”
“The Queen of destruction.” Belladonna smirked.
“Who are you really?” Jennifer demanded as she stepped closer to the other villain and leaned into her threateningly.
Rolling her eyes at the threatening body language of the other woman Belladonna shrugged her shoulders and spared a glance towards Fantastic Man. She watched as he popped his eyes open and then glanced around before his eyes settled on them in shock. She felt hot breath on her face and turned back to Jennifer. Well she was going to have to tell her eventually, usually she liked to draw things out, but she really couldn’t be bothered tonight. She just wanted her revenge. “Belladonna.”
“Belladonna?” Jennifer asked faintly. It wasn’t a common name, she only knew one Belladonna. “Belladonna Torrent?”
“Yes.” Belladonna nodded as she watched Jennifer take a step back from her.
“Owner and CEO of Torrent Industries, major producer of weapons of mass destruction?” It was a fact that always made Jennifer feel a little guilty. Belladonna had started her company to produce water wells for third world countries, and then suddenly she started to produce some seriously deadly weaponry. Oh she still made the wells, but it didn’t really balance anything out.
“Yes.” Belladonna nodded once more with a smirk.
“The same Belladonna Torrent I made cry in advanced chem.” Jennifer didn’t know what made her bring that up; it must have been the smirk.
The smirk quickly disappeared and was replaced with a scowl, “Yes the one and the same. What the hell happened to you? You look like a giant tin opener.”
“Least my brain isn’t trying to escape through my skull.” Jennifer spat back.
Raising her weapon Belladonna pointed it straight at Jennifer’s head. “Bitch I should just kill you right now.”
“Well why don’t you?” Jennifer demanded.
Sighing Belladonna dropped her weapon again, “Fantastic Man comes first, he’s mine I’m killing him.”
“Have you seen me? Look at what that stupid fool’s attention did to me.”Jennifer fully ripped of her mask and showed the full extent of her injuries. Her left eye had been replaced by what looked like a zoomable camera lens. While a star shaped piece of tech, sat by her ear.
“Actually if I’m honest think you look ok.” Belladonna surprised herself because she actually meant it. It wasn’t so bad. I mean she had seen worse. Some of very her own experiments with cybernetics had come out looking like a hammer had been taken to a side of beef and a video recorder. While the woman before her wasn’t the classical beauty she once was, she certainly wasn’t unattractive.
“Really?” Jennifer asked cautiously. “You called me a giant tin opener before.”
“Yeah hot even, I have always found technology fascinating, and I have never seen anything quite like the tech that infused with your body.” Belladonna shifted uncomfortably as she saw the smile of pleasure spread over Jennifer’s face. She wasn’t lying, she did for some bizarre reason think that the technology did something for the blonde. It gave her a hard, but sexy dangerous edge.
“Well its nanotech, I thought that it had to have something to do with Torrent industries. That was my next stop after I ripped Fantastic Mans balls off.” Jennifer confessed. She had planned to pay the woman in front of her a visit.
Belladonna glared Jennifer; she wasn’t stupid she knew what she was fused with. “I know it nanotech. I meant it’s just nothing found on earth so I don’t think going to my lab is going to help. In fact I’d say it’s from another galaxy.”
“Really?” Jennifer said interested in where the crap in her body had come from despite herself. She desperately wanted rid off it.
“Yeah, it has to be. I know a few people who might be able to help.” Belladonna pursed her lips as she thought about who could help the blonde woman. Dr Doctor was the first name that came to mind. He was an old bald creep, but a brilliant old bald creep.
Jennifer shook her head, first she had to destroy Fantastic Man then she could concentrate all her energy on getting rid of the technology in her body. “No... stop trying to distract me.”
Rolling her eyes Belladonna waved her freehand. “I’m not, look I get to kill him he broke my heart for you.”
“Me?” Jennifer asked puzzled, she didn’t see what it had to do with her.
“Yes you,” Belladonna shouted. “I’m over it now but I still think he deserves to die for that.”
“What have I got to do with it?” Jennifer asked. She felt her stomach drop as Belladonna crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows menacingly. “Oh no you don’t think me and him do you?”
“I was going to kill you as well, but considering what happened I think I’ll let you off.” Belladonna let her eyes scan down Jennifer’s body. She still had a nice figure despite the odd lump and bump that indicated a piece of machinery.
“Kill me?”
“Yeah.” Belladonna nodded.
“I have more interest in a stamp than I do in him. This idiot ruined my promising reporter career; I was going to be the next VCN news caster.” Jennifer screeched as she threw out a hand towards Fantastic Man.
The big oaf in question obviously felt it was time to interject something as he cleared his throat. “Ladies, Ladies, maybe you could talk about killing me later, maybe you could just let me go and I can save Harry and Taylor?”
Twin screams of no met Fantastic Man’s ears as he sighed and attempted to break free from the machine chains.
“Come on Belladonna, we had some fun didn’t we?” Fantastic Man asked as he looked towards his former fiancé, gracing her with what he thought was a winning smile.
Belladonna turned to him and fixed her glare upon him, “No, I have though this over, you had fun I mainly waited around for you.”
“And you got some progressive thing done in that time, why your Insanity Gun is number 1 on the list of weapons most wanted by Evil doers.” Fantastic man felt the need to point out. Much to Belladonna’s annoyance he was right.
“I bought one last week.” Jennifer added to further infuriate the dark-haired Super Villainess.
“See even Jenny has one.” Fantastic Man laughed smugly as he nodded his head in Jennifer’s direction. “That’s all down to me.”
Jennifer turned and clenched her fists hard, “My name is Jennifer you stupid fool!”
Fantastic Man laughed once more and tugged upon his chains. “Do yourselves a favour ladies and release me; it’s inevitable that I will escape. Your plan to kill me will fail.”
“Will it?” Jennifer asked with a smile.
“Yes.” Fantastic man said as he realised he didn’t exactly know Jenny’s plan a frown marred his brow. He knew she wanted to kill him, but the little details escaped him. “What is your plan?”
Jennifer’s smile increased and turned devious. “I’m not telling you that.”
“But its standard procedure,” Fantastic Man protested, he couldn't believe Jenny wasn’t playing by the rules. “It says so in the heroes and villains handbook version 56.”
“Well we are villains Fantastic Man we don’t follow rules.” Belladonna jumped in also smiling at Fantastic Mans annoyance.
“Bella.” Fantastic Man whined as he looked towards his former love.
“Don’t call me Bella; you lost that privilege when you dumped me.” Belladonna growled in anger.
“What? You used to go out with him?” Jennifer pulled a face as she imagined the cute little Villain getting hot and heavy with the big hulk they both wanted dead.
“Come now Bella so I dumped you for Jenny here, it’s time to move on.” Fantastic Man smiled stupidly not realising how close Belladonna was to blowing his head clean off.
Jennifer choked on her own saliva as she registered what Fantastic Man had just uttered. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “No he never, I’m gay. Have you been telling everyone we are together?”
“You’re gay?” Both Belladonna and Fantastic Man asked, one with surprised interest and the other with puzzled horror.
“Yes I’m gay and even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t fall for that buffoon.” Jennifer nodded as she looked towards Belladonna pleased to see a look of understanding and interest in her brown eyes.
“Hey!” Fantastic Man said in protest to the insult hurled at him.
“He is an idiot,” Belladonna agreed. She still held some feelings of anger towards Jennifer for their turbulent youth, but she realised her adult resentment was a little misplace. It just made her want to kill Fantastic Man all the more. But seeing as he had done them both a disservice she didn’t see why they couldn’t both profit from this. “Well seeing as we have both been wronged how about we kill him together?”
“Together, like we both blow his brains out and dismember him?” Jennifer asked, it was an interesting proposal and one that grabbed her attention. It could solve their fighting and mean they both got their revenge.
“Precisely.” Belladonna nodded happily glad that Jennifer understood what she was proposing.
“You know what, lets.” Jennifer said softly and she turned with Belladonna and took a step towards Fantastic Man her tubules raised menacingly.
“Now Ladies, think this through.”
“We have you dipstick.” Belladonna laughed as she holstered her gun, and pulled the huge twin pronged sword from her back.
“Strange.” Jennifer said as she suddenly stopped and tilted her head to the side. Her nanotech was giving her strange reading, indicating that a huge build up of energy was coming from Fantastic Man.
“Yeah he is, I think its cause he’s an alien.” Belladonna laughed and took a few experimental swings loosening up her arm for the upcoming dismemberment. It was going to be fun.
“No not that...” Jennifer started but before she could finish she was knocked off her feet and propelled back several feet.
When she opened her eyes Jennifer scowled her body. She was covered in head to toe in what her nanotech told her was blood, flesh, bone and entrails. It wasn’t pleasant.
Before she could rise Jennifer found herself pulled to her feet by and irate little evil villain who was also covered in the remains of Fantastic Man.
“You killed him? We had an agreement that wasn’t fair.” Belladonna screeched, she couldn’t believe that Jennifer would do that. No she could believe it; she just couldn’t believe she had trusted her.
“I never.” Jennifer protested as she felt her foot slip in the parts of Fantastic Man covering the floor.
“What?” Belladonna shouted in disbelief as she tried to wipe some of Fantastic Man’s bits of her face.
Jennifer shook her head, “I never killed him; we hadn’t delivered our speeches yet.”
‘That was true.’ Thought Belladonna, you couldn’t kill a hero without delivering a riveting speech on how cleaver you had been. How you had captured them and had been waiting to destroy them for years. It was a vital part to closure, or so her physiatrist had told her. “Then what happened?”
“I don’t... Krib.” Jennifer suddenly shouted as she turned and started to cautiously make her way over towards the back of the room. The only other person here was Kirb.
“Clarinet Boy.” Belladonna cursed herself. No wonder Tom had run to the workhouse, he was always saving Harry. The Blonde had truly found something her would save over anything else, well apart from himself, she was jealous she hadn’t thought of it herself.
“Krib is Clarinet Boy? I have him...”
Belladonna followed Jennifer and they find the small room empty and Harry gone.
“Well that was anticlimactic.” She actually felt a bit sorry for the other woman. Her first attempt at evil hadn’t gone exactly to plan; then again it never did where Fantastic Man, Belladonna knew that all too well.
“Yeah.” Jennifer agreed dejectedly. Harold Krib was clarinet Boy, she could have killed him and then the explosion of Fantastic Man wouldn’t have been such a problem.
“I don’t understand.” It was generally the case that the good guys got away, she hadn’t quite expected hit to do it by exploding. She knew he was full of gas but that was ridiculous. Another thing was where the hell was Harry?
“I do Fantastic Mans dead, Harry's gone.” Jennifer marched into the room and picked up the ropes which had been burnt.
“It’s fishy.” Belladonna grumbled, something was wrong with the picture and she didn’t like to be bested, especially by a gimp like Fantastic Man and is Boy blunder.
“I have to agree, all the readings I took of him are strangely abnormal.” Jennifer quickly ran through the data her Nanotech had taken of Fantastic Man seconds before he ended up coving everything within 30 feet of him.
“Fantastic Man? Well he was an alien.” Belladonna snorted, strange didn’t really cover what he was.
Jennifer shook her head, “Not that, besides his blood contains serious amounts of explosive.”
“A self destruct mechanism?” It made a strange sort of sense, only thing was Tom wasn’t smart enough and Harry was a languages expert and a classical pianist, he just didn’t possess the skill.
“I guess, but I don’t suppose it matters he’s dead that what’s we both wanted.” Jennifer sighed.
“I wanted to kill him with my own weapons.” Belladonna whined.
“Me too.” Jennifer laid a hand on Belladonnas shoulder and turned her around and walked her from the room. “So now that Fantastic Man’s dead what’s next for you?”
“Well I was thinking steak and a glass or two of champagne, and then taking a look at those reading of yours. I feel strangely unsatisfied and I’m convinced that those can shed a little light on what happened? Care to joint me?” Belladonna finished with a small smile that Jennifer shared.
“Just for dinner and going through the data or do you want me for more?” Jennifer asked as she allowed her smile to grow. She had seen Belladonnas interest when she announced she was gay, now all she needed was a little conformation.
“I want you for everything.” Belladonna growled as she looked in to Jennifer’s eyes.
“Thought you would never ask.” Jennifer smiled at the other woman’s confidence.
“Have you thought about changing your name?” Belladonna suddenly asked as she and Jennifer made their way through the old workhouse to the outside.
“To what?” Jennifer asked, her name wasn’t great but she thought it had potential. Once she had sired up a bit of trouble it would be said with reverence.
Belladonna grimaced. It was a horrible name, which did nothing to enhance Jennifer’s power. “I don’t know something a little more evil, your name is lame compared to mine.”
Before Jennifer could defend herself Belladonna smiled and held out her hands, “How about Baroness Von Borg.”
“Hmmm.” Jennifer stopped and looked upwards. It wasn’t a bad name; it was actually very good, or very evil as the case maybe.
“It adds a noble touch, something foreign, and the techno interest.” Belladonna nodded to herself pleased with the name she had come up with. They would have to trade mark it or if it was already taken, just kill the owner. Simple.
“I like it; it has a certain ring to it. The Queen of Destruction and the Baroness Von Borg. It reeks of devastation.”
“It certainly does.” Belladonna agreed.
That decided the two evil villainesses made their way from the building and out towards Belladonnas limousine.
“So what shall we call ourselves?” Jennifer asked as she settled into the back of the luxury car and watched as Belladonna ordered the chauffer to move off and retrieved a bottle of champagne and two glasses.
“How about the Danger Duo?” Belladonna offered as she settled back offering one of the glasses to her new partner in crime.
“I like it, it says that we are dangerous and a duo.”
“So Danger Duo it is.” Belladonna smiled as she lifted her glass in a toast.
“And a Danger Duo we are.”
As Jennifer touched her glass to Belladonnas and with a soft clink the limousine pulled away from the kerb, and two of the most dangerous women to ever walk the earth formed a partnership of unfathomable evil.
The End For Now...