Supergirl/MCU fic: Dutch Wonderland
This is a 375 word Supergirl/Black Widow drabble for the Advent Calendar challenge at 1_million_words: Natasha Romanoff and Kara Danvers are National City's favorite buddy cop duo--this is a companion piece to Code 4--ENJOY!
As National City’s top detectives, Natasha Romanoff and Kara Danvers have literally seen it all.
From bank robbers using freeze guns to citizens who could disappear through walls, nothing fazed the veteran investigators.
And for some unknown reason, the Christmas season always seemed to bring out the nuttiest of the criminal element.
It was only mid-December and Kara and Nat had already experienced some top level insane yuletide shenanigans: they’d broken up a brawl at a Grinch look alike contest because some of the participants hadn’t used "real" green fur, they’d stopped two women from clobbering each other over the last Suzie Snowflake doll on the shelf and now they’d just gotten a call involving a would be kidnapper and a ghoulish holiday lawn display.
“Okay, so imagine if Santa Claus had a sidekick who traveled around with him, beating kids who had misbehaved…”
Natasha looked up at her partner in disbelief. “Did you just say ‘Santa’ and ‘beating kids’ in the same sentence?”
Kara shrugged before shaking her head, “I know it’s crazy but according to German and Austrian folklore, Krampus carried birch twigs to strike at bad children and Belsnickel used a straight up switch stick to punish anyone who’s been naughty.”
Kara and Nat exchanged equally sickened looks before Kara continued. “They’re also psychotic gingerbread men Lumpy, Dumpy and Clumpy who play tricks on mischievous kids and Frau Perchta who carries a broom with her to keep misbehaving little ones ‘tidy.’ ”
Kara paused in her narrative when she noticed Nat’s decidedly murderous facial expression-- her partner was gritting her teeth so hard she could barely get her question out--"and this fool decided he wanted to create a snow globe depicting these monsters using actual people?”
Both detectives turned to look at their suspect, one Mr. Karl Bauer, a deceptively normal looking Austrian ex-patriate who apparently had a secret love for not only mad science but also for strangely demonic creatures associated with St. Nicholas.
“This punk realizes we aren’t living in the middle ages, right?”
Kara glanced back at their suspect before shrugging her shoulders. “Apparently he can’t tell the difference between Santa Claus, St. Nick or Father Christmas.”
Nat’s indignant huff spoke volumes. “He’s totally getting coal this year.”
Please enjoy the companion pieces to this series: Code 4, Industrial Hooligans, The Cracked Sugarhouse and A Mirthless Stable
As National City’s top detectives, Natasha Romanoff and Kara Danvers have literally seen it all.
From bank robbers using freeze guns to citizens who could disappear through walls, nothing fazed the veteran investigators.
And for some unknown reason, the Christmas season always seemed to bring out the nuttiest of the criminal element.
It was only mid-December and Kara and Nat had already experienced some top level insane yuletide shenanigans: they’d broken up a brawl at a Grinch look alike contest because some of the participants hadn’t used "real" green fur, they’d stopped two women from clobbering each other over the last Suzie Snowflake doll on the shelf and now they’d just gotten a call involving a would be kidnapper and a ghoulish holiday lawn display.
“Okay, so imagine if Santa Claus had a sidekick who traveled around with him, beating kids who had misbehaved…”
Natasha looked up at her partner in disbelief. “Did you just say ‘Santa’ and ‘beating kids’ in the same sentence?”
Kara shrugged before shaking her head, “I know it’s crazy but according to German and Austrian folklore, Krampus carried birch twigs to strike at bad children and Belsnickel used a straight up switch stick to punish anyone who’s been naughty.”
Kara and Nat exchanged equally sickened looks before Kara continued. “They’re also psychotic gingerbread men Lumpy, Dumpy and Clumpy who play tricks on mischievous kids and Frau Perchta who carries a broom with her to keep misbehaving little ones ‘tidy.’ ”
Kara paused in her narrative when she noticed Nat’s decidedly murderous facial expression-- her partner was gritting her teeth so hard she could barely get her question out--"and this fool decided he wanted to create a snow globe depicting these monsters using actual people?”
Both detectives turned to look at their suspect, one Mr. Karl Bauer, a deceptively normal looking Austrian ex-patriate who apparently had a secret love for not only mad science but also for strangely demonic creatures associated with St. Nicholas.
“This punk realizes we aren’t living in the middle ages, right?”
Kara glanced back at their suspect before shrugging her shoulders. “Apparently he can’t tell the difference between Santa Claus, St. Nick or Father Christmas.”
Nat’s indignant huff spoke volumes. “He’s totally getting coal this year.”
Please enjoy the companion pieces to this series: Code 4, Industrial Hooligans, The Cracked Sugarhouse and A Mirthless Stable