Content: F/f superherione bondage only.
Author: Artfulknot.
Teaser: The famous Black Cat/Felicia Hardy finds herself in a bind figuratively and literally when she is coerced by King Pin into robbing a little crystal store on his behalf. The store owner who was bullied by Felicia wants retribution against her through a literal binding. (read time 91 minutes)
Prologue:
In central Manhattan, Felicia sits in her luxury apartment in a way that blends civilian life and the life of the heisting. She is content with the antique and glittery sofa she sits on as she admires herself in the ornate mirror leaning against the wall-a mirror that has yet to be fixed upright because it is yet another trophy of her thieving career. Her success feels almost too easy as she remembers playing with security guards through re-direction and by making them catch expensive vases so that she can deliver a knockout blow and retrieve her prize.
Despite her successes, she still desires one thing she can't steal as easily-the heart of Spiderman. No actual diamond is more precious to her than him. As she is lost in contemplation and in fantasizing about Spiderman crawling to her in flirtatious ecstasy, she receives an unusual phone call on her landline of all things. Who could it be? Room service? Fire department? No, it is King Pin! A man whose shadow covers the skyline with a criminal network that extends into many functions of the city beyond Felicia's individualized approach through stealth and combat. He informs her, in a taunting tone, that Spiderman, her crown jewel, is being held hostage at the top of her apartment. In a aggressive transition from her seductive self to her predatory self, she slams the phone down and shows her claws to the mirror she admired herself in. She is a picture of frustration and shock as she finds herself in a bind between fighting for Spiderman or her own pride.
This dilemma also sets in motion a series of questions. Has King Pin and his henchmen done this by himself? How could he get away with this unnoticed? Is this a trap? Or are there greater or, perhaps, more supernatural forces at work? Felicia must choose between conceding servitude to King Pin to save Spiderman, decide to fight King Pin where he stands, or be indifferent and risk having her location exposed by King Pin. It seems as though she is in a no-win situation, or is she? She claws at the mirror she admired herself in a makes her way to the roof keeping mind the saying that she must battle like a lion but be cunning like a cat.
Part 1: Confronting the King
In a luxury apartment in Downtown Manhattan, Felicia, in her curvaceous form and trademarked catsuit with white gloves and bushy cufflinks, lays on her side on the noticeably antique but expensively restored sofa as she plots her next diamond heist. As she finishes drawing up a floorplan as to how she will infiltrate the next building she visits, she puts her notepad to the side and puts her feet. She then turns and lays on her side to look in the mirror. Her laying on her side gives one the impression of seduction, cockiness, and overwhelming confidence in her physical and strategic abilities. She then bends one of her legs to accentuate the fullness of her figure.
She sees herself the mirror on the floor, a mirror not yet mounted as it was a part of her most recent heist, and thinks to herself:
Hmmm if Spiderman was in the room, the chances of him resisting such a temptation in me is....low. If it wasn't that Mary Jane, I bet he would fly toward me like a bird out of a cage.
Suddenly, her confident demeanor takes a hit as she receives a rare phone call-a rarity in that her always being anonymous as a career thief makes her a recluse of sorts. She also uses a landline phone to ensure that no one tracks her signal through the phone towers. She picks up the landline phone and answers:
Felicia: Uhhh....hello?
King Pin: Ahhh Black Cat, you left a trail of litter behind in the form of Spiderman!
At first, Felicia thinks this is a prank call as she is disbelief, but quickly recognizes the voice.
Felicia: You have....MY spider! Get away from him you doughnut-shaped scum! I will claw you to bits if you hurt him!
King Pin: Meet me on the top off this apartment, I have a proposal for you that you will take IF you care for your web weaving collaborator. If you are not up here in 10 minutes, my own spidey senses will start to tingle to the extent that you might hear machine gun fire echo throughout. Understood?
Felicia slams the phone down and claws at her the mirror she was admiring herself in as if King Pins face was there. The contempt she feels for King Pin as a coward who is coercing by proxy (using Spiderman as a hostage) makes her want scale the building and use Fisk's fat head as beach ball. On the other hand, she knows that she must be cunning like a cat in her approach while standing strong like a lion. Without further ado, she makes her way to the top of the building by exiting from the balconing and by using her grappling hooks to get up.
The top of Felicias apartment is undergoing re-construction, but, she thinks, that the restoration company was paid off by Fisk Development Firm (King Pins construction front company) as a place to hold Spiderman in an abandoned setting and set the stage to coerce her through intimidation.
Upon reaching the top of the apartment where the construction site is, Felicia sees Spiderman's arms and legs shackled to a brick wall with his chest and legs showing signs of punishment where he was whipped. A quarter of his mask is also ripped and exposes his black eye.
Felicia as she runs over says: Spider! What the heck happened! Where is Fisk?!
Suddenly, she is stopped by two sentry guns aimed at her and Spiderman from afar. 40 feet away, Fisk/King Pin, with his trademark heavyset physique and suit that makes him look shorter than his lengthy 7,4 height, comes out of the shadows.
King Pin: You haven't won the ransom yet, Kitty cat.
Felicia: And you haven't won my mercy as I would claw that cheesecake face of yours to bits if I could. What do you want?
King Pin: Ideally, I would want both you and Spider-boy in chains, but why subdue a useful asset in you? I need minerals as in raw minerals to manufacture my own batteries needed to power tramcars used for underground smuggling. This way the batteries remain unbranded and, therefore, untraceable.
Felicia: I am a thief, dumbass. Not a miner who can magically extract quartz.
King Pin: You could do with a gag in your mouth, but besides that, you would not be mining but stealing from select stores. First, I want you to rob a little New Age crystal shop nearby as my informants tell me that they have raw magnetite in stock but not for sale as they are a part of the owners personal exhibit. Can you handle that?
Felicia: Couldn't you do that yourself, big boy? I don't bully girly retail workers. I am used to fighting armed security guys and wiping the smirk off of patriarch pigs like you.
King Pin: Despite such insolent remarks, I understand your disappointment but, as you know, the bigger the thief, the bigger the witness pool. Now, run along.
King Pin slides the envelope containing the address on the ground and stands near the cuffed Spiderman while he waits for Felicia to leave.
A few minutes later, Felicia jumps onto a nearby roof and opens the envelope containing the address. The store is named "Crystal Bliss" but she doesn't recognize it despite her knowing what most of the stores around where she lives are typically upscale. She thinks to herself:
How do a bunch of niche new agers afford the rent as small business upstarts? How do they afford the rent in a city as expensive as this? I might have to ask one them when they are under my one of my boots.
She goes on to figure that the store must be located in a low budget plaza strip and, upon arrival, what she figured turned out to be correct. The parking lot is all cracked and bumpy, many of the store signs are fading, and some store fronts are empty. It isn't that rundown, but certainly not the caliber of store that Felicia thieves from or fights guards in.
She gets on top of the roof of "Crystal Bliss" and easily kicks in the rooftop door with her hypnotically attractive but thick and powerful leg. She is able to enter into the store with ease after disabling the cameras from the maintenance room near the rooftop.
Upon entering the main store floor, she is surprised to encounter what looks to be daughter of the store owner. There is an awkward silence, but before she can scream Felicia covers her mouth a pins her against the wall. The girl looks early 20's with a moderately attractive physique as she looks like she had come back from gym based on her form-hugging attire.
The girl: *muffled voice* Please, don't hurt me! I am not the manager! I don't the code for the safe! *Felicia then turns her around and pins her face-first against the wall*
Felicia: Stay facing the wall with your arms spread. Keep it zipped until I leave.
With that, Felicia notices the raw magnetite on display in the corner and takes it from the storefront window. She then unlocks the door from the inside and leaves.
The girl Felicia just bullied leans against the counter and takes many deep breaths in shock of what just happened. After a few minutes, she goes from shock to anger as her facial expression changes from one of wide-eyed surprise to coiled up anger as her fists clench at the sight of Felicia walking away with nonchalance.
Part 2: The rebuttal
After robbing the store, Crystal Bliss, of the magnetite specimen King Pin wants to replicate in order to make batteries out of, Felicia, as she jumps from roof-to-roof, is annoyed with herself for not taking out the girl at the counter by stealth. She thinks:
How the heck was I that negligent? How could my reality be that warped? I was spotted by a damn kid when I should always assume that employees would still be working after close. With my police detection skills, I should be like a shadow when thieving but like a lioness when spotted. I hope she didn't film me leaving the scene as soon as I left. Oh well, at least I am not in as bad as situation as my love (Spiderman).
After jumping onto a roof that overlooks her residence, the luxurious Chelsea Heights, she sees King Pin waiting in the under construction top of the building guarding his ransom (Spiderman). Felicia closes her eyes and takes a deep breath to try and subdue her rage as she imagines caving King Pins pumpkin shaped face in like an actual pumpkin. After this breath, she descends onto the scene.
She lands in front of King Pin who greets her saying:
King Pin: Welcome back, my servant. Do you have what I asked? *Felicia stares at him in discuss as Fisk waits for a reply* Remember, no mineral specimen, no spider specimen *He then takes out the remote control for the sentry guns from his pocket and re-aims them at Spiderman*. Don't keep me waiting too long. Felicia then takes the Magnetite out of her hand woven sack (a sack made to avoid traceability if it were lost).
Felicia: I must ask, what do you really want this for? Is it because it reminds you of a double fudge cake? That is the last thing you need.
King Pin: You shouldn't be so insolent with your lover boy on the brink in a free fire zone.
Felicia: Oh, I think I should be. Catch!
Felicia then drop kicks the 1 pound magnetite raw mineral into Fisk's face that causes him to lose his grip on the remote as he tends to his face. Felicia picks up the remote and uses the sentry gun behind her to machine gun Fisk to death as she kneels out of the way. She then disables the sentry guns remotely and uses the grappling hooks from her gauntlet to peel the shackled off of Spiderman. Once finished, she hugs the battered Spiderman in a mutual embrace.
In an unexpected twist, Felicia's eyes widen as she is stunned by what she feels. She pushes Spiderman away and notices that it isn't actually him but a scarecrow! The chains that shackled him were plastic, the bricks on the wall the chains were attached to are plastic, the so-called Magnetite was a black boomerang chew toy for dogs, and the sentry guns were toy guns! In short, everything is fake! She then runs over to a gunned down Fisk, thinking she has been entrapped by him, but comes to find that he was just a life-sized wooden board hit by foam bullets. Suddenly, she hears hysterical laughter that seemingly came out of nowhere.
She turns around to see that it is Mister Mxyzptlk! The trickster! He is sitting on a dining room chair and laughing at Felicia with a beer bottle in one hand and a cigar in the other. In a reflex of rage, Felicia leaps with claws drawn towards the chair and, in expecting to crush the bothersome imp, crushes the chair while Mister dissolves into butterflies and re-appears on her far side.
Felicia: Want do you want from me?! You meddling garden gnome! Where is Spiderman?
Mister Mxyzptlk: Who said anything about wanting? Your reality is irrelevant to me as I just enjoy tinkering for its own sake. A can make my own Monty Python without any actors. Chance, luck, margins for error, fortune, and so on can all be damned! As for Spiderman, he was never here.
Felicia: Your fun ends here, one bad trick and you will be slashed to bits. Do you follow me?
Mister Mxyzptlk: I think someone is already following you!
Suddenly, a phone begins to ring in a pocket that Felicia never uses. She also does not own a cell phone, so how could this be?
She takes out the phone from her upper thigh pocket and notices that the screensaver is a picture of the girl she encountered earlier posing in the mirror and the caller ID says "Call from Crystal Clarity Pet Foods". Felicia then realizes that Mxyzptik slipped the girls (named Cassidy or "Cassie" as seen on the screensaver) phone into her pocket and that she was never robbing a crystal store-hence why the rock turned out to be a chew toy!
Felicia looks at the smirking imp in front of her with fury before she reluctantly answers the phone.
Felicia: Ummm are you the person who lost this phone? I found it in the park-
Cassidy: YOU! I recognize that voice. You hand-gagged me before stealing my phone and something else from the store!
Felicia: Look, kid, I was tricked into the wrong location, pet stores are not my usual hotspot at all but, to be fair, I will give you your phone back, but beyond that, no funny business got it? Meet me on the top of your buil-
Cassidy: NO! I will dictate where we meet! You will get your glamorous ass back to this store now with your hands up or I will report your location to the police. You look strong enough to evade arrest, but....Chelsea Heights? They will raid your room and take everything. So, what will it be?
Felicia: Fine, I will return to where we encountered each other, but, as I said, no funny business.
With that, Felicia abruptly hangs up and makes her way back to the store. She feels embarrassment and anger at being coerced by some yoga girl, but she knows that she can't risk having her ill-gotten fortune confiscated.
Within 20 minutes, she arrives back at the store and, before entering, looks through the store front window and sees Cassidy writing on a blank piece of paper. What could she be up to?
Part 3: Entrapment
Upon arriving near the storefront window, Felicia, a thief who is supposed to be as cunning as a cat but as powerful as a lioness, exhales in irritation in having been out-leveraged by, based on a few glances at Cassidy's phone, some TikTok yoga girl who, although fit, has never thrown a punch. The store was dimly lit with big closing sign in red letters near the display where she stole what she was tricked into believing was a real mineral rock.
The parking lot was, fortunately, 80 percent empty that gave her relief as people during regular hours might recognize her as a famous collaborator with Spiderman or as a cosplayer-the latter being the best outcome. The strip plaza itself was brutalist in appearance with a parking lot that was patchy to say the least. As she looks at Cassidy with a contemptuous demeanor while Cassidy is busy writing something on a blank piece of paper. Felicia thinks:
Felicia: What could she be up to? She is not seriously thinking about trying to exert more leverage, could she? Get it together Felicia! There is no way this girl can exert anymore leverage on me once I give her this phone. Then again, I should have insisted on a drop off point, but that blonde bitch had leverage! Ugh, lets just get this over with so I can unwarp my reality.
Felicia flings the storefront door open in a way that signals who the powerhouse in the room is despite the fleeting leverage Cassidy has with her blackmail through exposing Felicias geo-location (and likely place of residence) to police. Cassidy is initially startled by her entrance with an innocent look of shock before reverting back to the angry demeanor she had when she called Felicia on her own phone through the store phone. Felicia and Cassidy both stare at each other with laser-like precision in a tense moment of silence.
Felicia feels that her having to give Cassidy's phone back in-person under blackmail, especially to someone as underwhelming as Cassidy, is a embarrassing blow to her professional standards. Cassidy, knowing that she is less powerful and smaller is not embarrassed by the hand-gag Felicia used to silence her, but is outraged that a thief of seemingly high standards would bully a struggling pet store for what seemed to be play after a valuable bank heist. Cassidy is even more enraged by the fact that she and her mom do jobs on the side with Cassidy doing personal training (hence her current attire) and her mom being a yoga teacher who is currently out of town because she is hosting a retreat. She is also made even bolder considering that her dad separated from her mom in large part due to business-related stress. All this makes her even more protective in loss prevention.
Physically, Cassidy is 4-5 inches shorter than Felicia and with medium length blonde hair in a ponytail with a freckled face and a bright complexion that usually compliments her smile but is hampered by her current facial expression. She is attractive with a fairly curvaceous physique along with a bit of body fat that is hidden by her dark blue athletic body suit that elevates her butt. She is well put together, but not uncommonly so. She enjoy general/casual gym work, but is not highly trained.
Felicia, on the other hand, is also curvaceous but in the outstanding sense as a rare result of someone who is highly trained and is, therefore, functionally fit while retaining the shapely thickness of a model. She is a combination of sexuality, beauty, power, and agility whose form is made even more outstanding by her trademark catsuit. After their moment of silent tension, Felicia lightly slides Cassidy's phone toward her on the counter before saying:
Felica: There you go, in pristine condition. Now that your information-based leverage has ended, I want to exert a threat of physical leverage: If you tell anyone about this little scenario you got me into, or of my residence, I will twist you into a pretzel. Got it? I have deleted the memory of my previous location on your phone, so don't try this again if you think I have stolen something else.
As she turns to leave in a walk of arrogance, she is interrupted by Cassidy.
Cassidy: Stop! I didn't want you to surrender my phone, I wanted you to surrender yourself as well! Me and my mom can't afford to have bullies like you rob us for fun while we struggle to pay bills.
Felicia: Fun? Honey, I have fun robbing high-end jewelry stores not down beat places like this. I told you, I was tricked into this debacle for someone's....entertainment.
Cassidy: Oh shut up! You think I am stupid? At this point, I don't even want the police involved as I know you will easily evade them or, if caught, bribe the guards with money or those....assets of yours.
Felicia: Ha, you should want me in jail for your protection instead of me surrendering to you as these "assets" are beyond you. So run along you blonde d-
Suddenly, Cassidy pulls a gun and tells Felicia to surrender. Felicia, before Cassidy can finish saying "surrender", disarms Cassidy with her grappling gun that shoots out from her hidden gauntlet and pulls the gun towards her. Felicia unloads the gun before throwing it aside.
Felicia: Nice try blondie. This is my final warning to you: If you try to make me surrender again I will twist you into a pretzel. Now, let me leave calmly before this gets out of hand.
As Felicia turns to leave again, Cassidy foolishly tries to pull her back by the arm. Felicia responds to this by immediately putting her into a wrist lock with one hand. Felicia kneels in pain while Felicia stands tall.
Felicia: I told you! No more warnings. You will regret ever clashing with me you blonde bi-arghh.
Felicia's taunting is cut off by a bear taser Cassidy concealed by taping it to the back of her thigh where its color blended into her bodysuit. Felicia falls to her knees clutching her thigh until she is tased again by Cassidy at the waist.
Cassidy: Those assets of yours are looking more electric than usual, don't you think?
Felicia: Shut the fu-arrgh.
The last taser shot is jealously hit into Felicias butt as a mockery of her sexual assets. The shot stuns Felicia onto her back where she lays half-conscious and defeated in the middle of the store. Cassidy picks up Felicias arm to check if she can resist her, once she notices how weakened she is, she sits her up and wraps her arms around Felicia's waist to drag her up the stairs toward the inventory storage attic where overstock is kept. Noticing that Felicia is not fully unconscious, she tells her along the way up to "pick up her feet more" to "..relax your shoulders and back to make your transport easier for us both. If you can groan you can walk just a bit for me.".
As soon as they arrive up at the attic, spreads Felicia out on her stomach and spreads her arms and legs out wide to search her. After disarming Felicia of her gauntlets, utility belt, and some hidden lock picks hidden in other pockets, she reviews the floor-plan she was working on before Felicia returned so she knows where to position everything. In her sketch, Felicia is put in a ball-tie (also known as a fetal tie) and is attached to a nearby pipe in a de-cluttered area while a camera is already mounted in the corner for loss prevention. Cassidy thinks to herself:
Cassidy: It is time to put the rope bondage techniques my mom taught me when she was a shibari instructor before she switched to yoga. A ball tie, a tie that brings her knees near her chest, will keep this badass in check. I will tie her hands behind her back using a back arm harness and then put her in a bikini chest harness for extra punishment. I will tie her upper thighs, knees, and ankles together with simple double column ties but make them far tighter than usual. Once her lower body is done, bring her knees as close as I can to her chest in a "ball" shape. Alright, lets go and get er' done, Cassie!
20 minutes and many bundles of nylon rope later, Felicia is tied in a ball shape that looks like this (except the upper thighs are also tied and the bikini harness is more comprehensive):
Once the tie is fully complete, Cassidy recalls Felicia warning her that she would turn her (Cassidy) into a human pretzel with brute grappling ability. "Well", Cassidy says, "who is the pretzel now"? Before Felicia can respond in a weak tone of voice, Cassidy puts her lips together with duct tape and locks up the store for the night.
Part 4: Detention
After Cassidy binds Felicia and locks up the store, Felicia sleeps in fatigue for about 2 hours and then spends the next 2 hours fidgeting in her ball tie in an attempt to gain better wrist position while fighting the remnant pain of where she was tased. The time, as seen on the cheap analog clock looking down at her, is now 3:00 am and Felicia is hoping that Cassidy is sleeping so that she is no longer under surveillance through the camera in the corner of the ceiling.
Initially, Felicia thinks she is in a dilemma as the camera is coercing her to stay put while the ropes restrain her, but after a few more looks she realizes that the camera doesn't seem to have any video relay capabilities that connect to ones mobile phone. She thinks to herself:
Felicia: Come on! You think the panopticon effect will work on me, blondie? You might have been the first one to tie me up after I gave you my complacency, but you can't trick me here. That camera is closed circuit and is limited to the monitors in the store. There is no way a TikTok yoga girl like you re-engineered it to watch me while you are scrolling in bed.
As the pain in her butt and waist begins to wear off, she squirms with a bit more thrust. Cassidy may have disarmed her of her gauntlets and belt, but she forgot to remove her gloves because she thought that the claws come from the gauntlet and not the gloves themselves. Felicia begins to claw at her box-tied wrists knowing that she will have enough upper body strength to slip out of the harness. After an hour and a half of light rope sawing and a gradual loosening due to more fibers coming apart, Felicia is able to slide the wrist bindings off at a frustratingly slow pace. She then slips off the harness and slashes at the ropes on her lower body to complete her escape.
Felicia then turns her attention to the camera in the corner and notices a darkly lit rectangular outline-it is a door that was obscured by the dimness of the place. Instead of tearing the camera off, a feat of strength she can accomplish without her grappling hooks, she decides to go and the delete the footage of her escape from the monitors so that Cassidy does not know how she escaped and to delete record of her identity. She approaches the door and flings it open but, before she can react, she is a startled by a sudden noise.
Security guard: Jolts up out of her chair after being woken up and says " Eta! Nossa! Eu não esperava isso!"
She then, out of shock involuntary pulls the trigger on her handgun taser and tases Felicia around the waist and butt area. Felicia freezes in pain and slumps up against the monitor desk.
The security guard who tased her is a recent immigrant from Brazil who speaks accented English-not fluent enough to read a textbook but good enough to communicate on a colloquial level. Her name tag reads "Ana Santos" on a dark blue buttoned up uniform with matching dress pants and boots. Near her name tag we see the letters "Paladin security" which is small outfit of a company that services the area. Cassidy paid her to watch over Felicia because security guards secure instead of police as policing entails jail, and jail is where Felicia knows how to escape. On the desk where Felicia now slumps, there is a lined paper notebook that, in Portuguese, reads: "1. Prisoner in catsuit is asleep. 2. Check her for any injuries that would require medical attention and search her as well. 3. Make sure prisoner is hydrated. 4. Check on her every two hours. 5. Only put in her in a more comfortable tie once the suit has been cut-off. 6. I tried cutting the suit off while she slept, but the fabric felt way too tough. I will resume trying once I have back-up".
Ana is both in a shock that Felicia escaped and feels a bit apologetic that she had tased her as she could have coerced her without resorting to sheer force. Despite this, she nevertheless guides Felicia onto her stomach, pulls the probes out, pulls her hands behind her back, and places her in 3 pairs of zip-tie handcuffs on her crossed wrists and then one pair for her ankles as that is all she had left.
Ana then drags her to the pipe she was formerly attached to and ties a loop around her waist before wrapping her around the pipe using the rope Felicia had cut to escape.
Once secure, Ana takes a deep breath to try and compose herself from the shock. She also feels conflicted because she is just a security guard who is being paid to do a job that is well outside the scope of her job description. Should she call the police? Abandon the job Cassidy paid her to do to save her career? How will Cassidy react to this change in Felicia's position?
Part 5: Taking the opportunity
As Ana Santos wonders what to do next, with Felicia pole-tied behind her and partially subdued internally by the aftermath of the taser strike, she curses herself for sleeping on the job and for not insisting to get back up in trying to cutoff Felicia's catsuit. She says:
Ana: Você está brincando comigo? Ana? Eu estava recebendo e acabei dormindo! I never do that! I thought the tie was inescapable. (She then turns to Felicia and wipes her leg to see if there was any coating on the catsuit that caused Felicia to slip the ropes. The thing is, Ana has assumed that slipping free was the only strategy Felicia could use!). Should I call Cassidy? No, I think she might get mad if she suspected I was sleeping on the job. Then again, could I propose to Cassidy that we put this garotagato in a cage?
As Ana thinks about how to handle the fallout of Felicia's attempted escape, Felicia uses her claws to cut the zipties at her wrist and the rope around her waist. Felicia also notices that her legs are strong enough to break the flimsy zipties at her ankles. Before Felicia fully escapes, she baits Ana into coming near to "check her leg because a probe have been left in". Before Ana can bend down, Felicia uses the ropes and the pole to pick up her legs and squish Ana's neck between her knees until she passes out.
After Ana passes out, Felicia slips below the ropes and then uses same those ropes and other remnants thereof to tie Ana in a spreadeagle position on a bed in the corner with no mattress that was likely put there to be sold at garage sale or as free furniture on the curb. Felicia takes Ana's phone as intel, tape gags Ana, and begins to speculate where Cassidy could have put her confiscated gear. She says to herself:
Felicia: Now that I have this guard or...reads name tag...Ana diva tucked into bed so to speak, I have to find my gear to ensure Cassidy can't blackmail me. The product designer who I bribed to work on the electronics of the gauntlet was in violation of the Defense Production Act that guards unknown customers or non-manufacturing companies like me from receiving component parts from across the border that could threaten national security. Then again, what do blondies like her know about such things? The store opens up at 9 and the time is 7, I will have to be thorough but quick.
Felicia descends to the shopfloor and sees that the storefront windows are closed which allows her to walk around without frightening or amazing any neutrals. The shelves are stocked with pet food and toys in a very narrow layout where big bags and storage bins are easy to notice. She then looks around the cashier desk but doesn't come across anything that is noticeable of could be concealed.
She then takes a look inside the breakroom at the back of the store but also sees nothing of relevance until something catches her eye: She sees a white board near the fridge that says "Wall of Shame" in the middle and with arrows pointing out from the middle at pictures of petty thieves caught on camera.
Felicia is then enraged to see that her picture will be posted on that wall as it says in the marker-drawn square where her picture would be: "Photo pending (thief turned in-house prisoner)". Felicia responds by writing over the blank text block "Not for long" after drawing an "X" through the word "pending".
Felicia than takes out Ana's cellphone and easily gets Cassidy's home address by matching her cell number to her whereabouts late at night through GPS. Felicia thinks it is likely that her gear is being held in Cassidy's apartment. Will Felicia be merciful and reconcile? Will she be diplomatic? Or will she use brute force? The ball is in Felicia's court, and there is seemingly nothing Cassidy can do.
Part 6: An awkward revelation
After obtaining the location of Cassidy's apartment, Felicia or "Black Cat" decides to leave the breakroom by exiting from the top of the roof to avoid being seen the parking lot. There are two sets of stairs: There is one that goes straight into the attic and there is another one that is behind a door titled "maintenance" near the attic door. As Felicia makes her way up the stairs and passes the attic door where she was held, she quickly peaks to see Ana awake but unable to kick at her bonds with much power due to the amount of tension on the ropes in her stretched position.
She then locks the attic door and notices a sign on the wall to her left written with permanent marker on a blank page saying "Warning: In-house holding place for thieves. If you want to enter ask Cassidy, Ana, or Abigail for permission". Felicia leaves a claw mark on the sign as a signature of failure but then wonders about Cassidy's overall motive saying:
Felicia: Hmmm, apparently I was not someone being placed under citizens arrest as a "thief" per se, but as a the first "in-house" prisoner as seen on the board. Damn, I am surprised she has that much ambition. I guess she thinks that I am her measuring stick for who is she capable of incarcerating-talk about pie-in-the-sky! Prisoners are only prisoners if you can hold them, blondie!
With that, Felicia departs from the door and ascends the short stair of metal steps leading to the top of the roof. Once she is at the top, she braces herself for a much longer walk to Cassidy's place as she no longer has her gauntlets or her belt that contains many things from lock picks to smoke bombs to avoid detection. Without her gauntlets, jumping from roof-to-roof is more dangerous as she has no grappling or grip aid.
Without her belt, she can't even a afford a taxi as her money is in there as well. She could take a few dollars out of the cash register, but she still might draw too much attention with her costume as a large portion of the public is familiar with her image as a vaguely recognizable figure on few newspaper clippings that, fortunately, find their way into the waste basket before anyone gets too curious.
She surveys the Plaza and sees a clothing store called "Winks" at the curved end of the strip that has the same roof access point as the pet store. The store is, as most things are at this time, closed and thus vulnerable to Felicia. She also doesn't have to worry about timing her jumps as the roofs are connected in the typical strip plaza style. After breaking into the clothing store, she leaves wearing clothes that conceal her catsuit as she doesn't look as shapely and strong. She is wearing a baggy black t-shirt, brown jacket, and ripped baggy jeans with her mask being covered by sunglasses and a black brimmed hat covering her white hair.
With this disguise, she easily walks to Cassidy's place on the side walk and goes over cross-walks at a leisurely pace. This gives her legs a rest as there is still some remnant pain from being tased four times.
When she arrives at Cassidy's apartment building, a building that looks recently built and is ideal for those who can't yet afford a house, she sees the low story balcony that is, based on Cassidy's social media pictures, the balcony that is a part of her residence.
Felicia climbs a nearby tree and is able to generate enough momentum to jump from the branch to the balcony and reach her destination. As soon as she lands on the balcony, she receives a WhatsApp video call from Cassidy who looks as though she is in the locker room at the gym, she answers the call and says:
Cassidy: Hello? Ana? Who is-
Felicia: Morning Cassidy, WHERE IS MY GEAR!
Cassidy: What the fuck!? How did you.......someone release you? Where are you?
Felicia: I am at your apartment and I will completely trash the place unless you tell me exactly where my gear is. So you be-
Cassidy: WHAT?! Don't you dare touch anything or I swe-
Felicia: Swear to what? You can't do anything with those weak arms. So, here is the deal, you either tell me the code to unlock this shiny new sliding door and where my gear is, or I kick the glass in. Simple.
Cassidy: You picked the wrong place to visit, cat-bitch, because I HAVE YOUR GEAR! *Holds her belt up* I carry it in my gym bag to make sure any friends of yours can't break in and claim them on your behalf. So I sug-
Felicia: MEET me here now or I will come down there and drop a 300 lb barbell on you! You little-
Cassidy: Let me finish! If you don't listen to my instructions, I will hand your gear into the police as items of suspected theft. Got it?
Felicia goes silent over the phone as her anger as been converted into concern. If Cassidy hands those items into police, a digital forensics team could trace the electronics to the same rogue product designer, a designer in violation of the Defense Production Act, that also helps mend Spiderman's web shooters! "Damnit" she says as she doesn't want to implicate her lover in any of this.
Cassidy: Hello? Cat got your tongue?
Felicia: Yes, yes……I got it.
Cassidy: You will follow my instructions? Great. Now, other than calling you "cat-bitch", I never caught your name, what is it? And what happened to Ana?
Felicia: It's....Felicia. Ana is safe but a bit bound.
Cassidy: Hmm, that is what I figured. Okay, here is what is going to happen Felicia: I was supposed to hold you until my mom was ready to pick you up, so I will arrange a plan for you to surrender to my mom. I will call you back.
Felicia sits on the nearby recliner in resignation but relief knowing that she dodged a bullet in the form of incriminating material evidence. She kicks herself for not texting Cassidy as Ana to check if she was at the gym, but she was surprised that Cassidy would take her gear with her. Even the great Black Cat can be tricked by the unexpected. 15 minutes later she receives a callback from Cassidy that she hesitates to answer.
Felicia: Yes?
Cassidy: My mom came back from her retreat yesterday and is leading a yoga class in a few minutes. You will surrender yourself to her at the studio named "Namaste Now". I have texted you the address. We have also notified the receptionist, so just walk in and check-in at the desk. Also, take off that stupid disguise. Cassidy abruptly hangs up.
Felicia is stunned. She can't believe she can't believe that she has been reduced to this, but she has no other option. She scales down from the balcony using the tree and makes her way to the stipulated address. Within 20-30 minutes, she arrives. Her route being slow in that she needs to periodically hide under objects like dumpsters or cars to avoid being seen in her trademark catsuit.
Felicia arrives at the studio and hides in embarrassment in the alley way as yoga students pile into the modest studio that can hold 20-30 students. Will Felicia be able to find a way out of this?
Part 7: Cathy and collusion
While Felicia looks at the students pile into the small yoga studio from behind a dumpster, a studio placed in-between a laundromat and a thrift store near a narrow one-way road, she can't help but hope that Spider-handsome (Spiderman), an associate and love interest, does not receive even the vaguest rumor of her plight as that would strengthen his relationship status with Mary Jane-someone who Felicia sees as not having the physical attributes or charisma to be worthy of someone like Spiderman.
Heck, as far as Felicia knows, Mary Jane doesn't even work out let alone train to attain a level of appearance and ability worthy of attracting Spiderman. Mary Jane, in wanting to keep Spiderman tied to her hip, would mock Felicia and expose her recklessness by contrasting her approach (intel gathering through journalism) against Felicia's approach of thieving with hand-to-hand combat and stealth. Felicia's approach ends up with her getting caught, and MJ's approach allows her to connect the dots so that Spiderman can plan effectively.
Unfortunately for Felicia, Spiderman can not save her as he would Mary Jane because Mary Jane always happens to be a damsel who gets strung up over shark pits or on Ferris wheels. Felicia is no damsel and does not want any of the sympathy or romance that comes with that title. She is an ass-kicker, not a symbol of peril. Her current situation, although embarrassing, was orchestrated by that damn Imp who tricked her to begin with.
As the students end their pre-session socializing and enter the performance room with their mats, Felicia gingerly makes her way from the alleyway to the storefront. She looks through glass from the corner of the large glass storefront at the smiley receptionist who looks as though she is talking on the phone to a friend based on her enthusiastic demeanor. Felicia gets irritated at the thought of this silly girl talking about her and imagines her saying "We are having a celebrity join us today. I am not sure if this chick is some cosplayer gone crazy or a real super villain. Apparently, she has been blackmailed into surrendering to this studio. You can't make this stuff up!"
The receptionist looks like a college aged yoga enthusiast who is studying physiology while she works part-time. She has a slim build but long legs in tight business casual dress. She is also a fake blonde like Cassidy. Felicia, as if she is being held by an invisible leash, enters the studio quietly and looks at the now wide-eyed receptionist who doesn't know what to say as she is struck by Felicia's outstanding appearance.
Felicia wants to sink into the ground. The only aspect of this scenario that eases Felicias embarrassment is that the studio is quite small and modest. After a few tense moments, the receptionist (named Lisa as seen on her name tag) breaks the ice by saying:
Lisa: Umm can I help you?
The receptionist, still being star-struck by Felicias presence based on her appearance alone, has forgotten about the notification of surrender by Cathy. Felicia is tempted to exploit the receptionists forgetfulness and get the heck out, but the invisible leash of blackmail holds her in place.
Felicia: Ya I am....here to see the mom of a girl named Cassidy?
Lisa: Oh, you are here to see Cathy? Let me check my scheduling chart looks into a small notebook full of book marks.
Felicia: I can go get a coffee and comeback if that is okay. Cathy and I will discuss new...uhh...bodysuits for yoga. They look like…..well…what I am wearing now.
Lisa: Damn, girl! You are a great advertisement for it. I will be the first person to buy one. *Felicia smiles in reply saying "great"*. Feel free to leave a stack of business cards on my desk if you have any on you.
Felicia: Uhh *reluctant tone* for sure! I don't have any on me right now, but our company has the business card design ready! *Lisa replies with a smile as she continues to flip through her schedule*I have to go now, I can meet Cathy somewhere else if she is too busy *turns to leave*.
Lisa: Oh, hold on, according to my planner you are here to surrender yourself to me until Cathy has finished leading her session. I thought her photo of you looked familiar. You are not a distributor, are you?
Felicia: *sighs* Yes, I am here to surrender. Can I just sit outside? I won't go anywhere.
Lisa: No. I know this is awkward, but she wants to you tied down just in case. Sorry. She owns this studio I don’t want to get fired. Please come around the desk and walk backwards towards me with your hands up.
Felicia does exactly as she is told. Once she gets near enough Lisa taps her on the shoulder, gives her a quick pat down, places her into position leaning over the desk, and pulls out a roll of duct tape. She tapes her eyes shut and tapes her hands behind her back in what would be a double column tie with rope along with two wraps around her waist that connects to the wrists. She then guides her into the storage room behind the desk and makes her sit on the ground leaning against a bunch of rolled up mats.
Within 20 minutes, Felicia hears students pile out of the yoga room and hears who she presumes to be Cathy socializing with them all in a confident and borderline cocky tone. Once they all leave, Felicia hears the door lock and the curtains come down. She then hears that same voice who, at this point, must be Cathy, tell Lisa to bring her (Felicia) to the workshop room in 5 minutes. Once the 5 minutes are up, she feels Lisa pull the tape over her eyes off and say:
Lisa: I am sorry about this *then looks at Felicia's impressive physique from head to toe*. Please don't hurt me for this, I just don't want to disobey Cathy because she has connections. *Felicia then stands up with her hands still tape tied under her own power*.
Felicia: I am also sorry my incompetence put you in this position. I don't what you did personally.
Lisa escorts Felicia to a room titled "Workshop or special events room only" and gently pushes her inside before shutting the door. In frustration, Felicia rips free of the duct tape. After doing this, she then feels Ana's phone buzz in her thigh pocket and sees a text from Cassidy saying "I am watching you. The cameras are mounted high up in the corner. Don't dare resist.". After slamming the phone back into her pocket with frustration, she turns to see Cathy finishing off a large Shibari fishing net. Cathy is in her late 40's with dark curly hair and a short and squat stature with her forehead barely above the lower chest line of Felica. She has a thick but generally unimpressive mom bod that is obscured by her tight yoga wear. Cathy comes from behind the net she made and says:
Cathy: You must be Felicia. Nice to meet you. looks at Felicia up and down I have to say you are a good catch even though you did rob my store. You are well endowed all over, have you done yoga before?
Felicia: I have never done a single yoga pose. All my poses are usually action shots of me kicking the asses of armed security guards on a CTV camera.
Cathy: Oh, wow. I think I recognize you from somewhere but...I can't seem to place you.
Felicia: I think I might be who you think I am.
Cathy: Oh my goodness! You are Black Cat? My daughter bagged you of all people? I owe her one heck of a birthday present in a few months!
Felicia: Uh, ya, that whole robbery thing was a misunder-
Cathy: Nope, this is not the place to make excuses. I don't want to hear it.
You have been hardwired to do heists by whoever raised you and, because of that, every excuse you make is a manipulation tactic to me. Now, get on your stomach, cross your ankles and place your hands behind your head.
As Felicia does as she is told, Cathy organizes the rope for their involuntary shibari session. 20 minutes later, Felicia finds herself in a low hand box tie that is then anchored to the middle of the rope net with he knees and ankles attached to it in a frog-tie. Cathy then takes down the net and uses it to wrap-up Felicia. Once Felicia is wrapped, she drags her out of the room from the cinch point of the net and takes her through the backdoor out to the small parking lot. She loads Felicia into the back of her Land Rover SUV and begins driving back to her house.
What does Cathy have in store for her?
Part 8: The cat bag
As Felicia lays prone in the back of the SUV, bagged by the rope-made net and the box tie, Cathy puts the air conditioning on for the back vents near where Felicia is bound. This little gesture, although humane, irritates her as she is being treated as someone who is vulnerable to overheating when she is a powerful ass-kicker who could knock one of the passenger doors of its hinges with one kick.
Cathy also puts on jazz music as if to indicate that the quiet tension makes her uncomfortable as she is all about "good vibes" or "finding your highest aura". Speaking of Auras, Felicia notices a Chakra necklace dangling down from her front mirror. Felicia says:
Felicia: So, you do Kundalini yoga or whatever to get more attuned with your Chakras? Cathy looks back in the mirror with surprise that Felicia would engage her in conversation
Cathy: Funny you mention that, I find that it helps my solar plexus Chakra to ensure that I stay firmly within my personal power.
Felicia: Why is me mentioning that "funny"?
Cathy: Well, I figured that the courage to tie you up without worrying about you escaping, and the ability to not be scared by your awesome appearance, was definitely the result of that Chakra being well trained. Don't you think?
Felicia: I think yogi talk is a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.
Cathy: Ha! At least I am not the one tied up
Felicia: Look, your daughter never let me explain myself fully, so I will do it now: I received a call from who I thought was King Pin who said he had Spiderman captive. He needed a raw mineral from this New Age crystal store to make batteries for these underground tram carts presumably for smuggling or whatever else is fat-ass wanted. This will sound silly, but I was tricked into stealing from your store by a reality bending Imp.
Cathy: Oh, really? You say yogi's practice "mumbo-jumbo" yet here you are blaming the supernatural. I might need to drug test and strip you to check for contraband with excuses like that.
Felicia: *Felicia is stunned at the prospect of being strip searched knowing she still has Ana's phone on her person. She then takes her alibi back* No, no, no I was just….desperate to understand why I did it. I take all the blame. I don't know what got into me.
Cathy: That is better, now be quiet.
Cathy arrives at her two-story craftsman style house and parks in her garage. Parking in the garage not only allows her to take Felicia out without the neighbors seeing, but it also allows direct access to the basement through a crawlspace underneath the workbench. She pulls Felicia out of the boot, sets her on her knees, and drags her through the crawlspace.
Upon reaching the other side, Cathy turns on the lights and Felicia is shocked to see a row of three prison cell cages in a grey-bricked room. Felicia says:
Felicia: WHAT THE.......What the fuck is this? Are you kidding me?
Cathy: Why so surprised? You of all people should know what a cell looks like.
Felicia: They don't even use barred cells like this anymore. I have always been locked in those dorm room-like cells, never whacky wild west shit like this. Did you...weld this all by yourself? A yogi like you?
Cathy: Ha! I might be a yogi, but I have connections that I won't get into.
Felicia: Wait, your daughter wrote on that bulletin that I would be a prisoner of the attic she held me in. Why would you build this when your daughter wants a prison in the attic of your store?
Cathy: Observant like a cat, aren't you? The attic is just a remand center where the caught person is held until they are transferred to me. Now, lets get you set up.
Cathy pulls Felicia into the middle cell. She takes the net off, unties her legs and then sets her on the bench that is near the cot. Before untying her hands, she shackles both her legs with cuffs that are chained to the bars of the cell underneath the bench. Felicia responds to this by rolling her eyes and saying:
Felicia: Where are my prisoner rights? I am not supposed to be shackled once behind bars.
Cathy: You are the most powerful person we have ever bagged, so I can't take a risk even with you behind bars.
Felicia: Huh? I am not the first one?
Cathy: Take a look Cathy pulls out a thin booking profile book from a nearby desk.
Felicia skims through the book containing 5 offender profiles. The first person is a boy wearing a high school uniform named "Eddie", second is man named Tyler who looks like he came from soccer practice, the third is a woman named "Alice" who looks like a girls scout, the fourth is a person dressed as a security guard who is named "Dan", and the fifth is named "Patrick" who looks like a delinquent biker. The pages show their faces and names, but the book is only a record of those who have completed a psychiatric and loss prevention program-hence why there is a checkmark next to their pictures.
Felicia: They were released after completing an on-line course? Seriously?
Cathy: Not fully released but released on conditions. Some exceptions will be made for you because your body is a weapon. So sit tight while I get the course set up for you *Cathy leaves*.
Felicia: This is so screwed up! She is profiting off of this in-house prison by making her captives take an online course. Instead of getting people arrested, she makes arrests and then coerces them into taking an online course to avoid an official sentence. The state of New York must have funded her little prison to profit from these courses. What joke!
Part 9: Connecting the dots
Cathy comes back with the laptop and a small coffee table to mount it on. She opens it up to a loss prevention course that is designed to prevent recidivism according to the "learning outcomes" introductory text block. Below this block there is a "WARNING" text block that demands that the course taker provide quality work so that they can be accurately profiled.
The course taker is then instructed to click on the "camera" icon to take a picture of themselves before starting. The background design of the web-page is a series of prison cells with no branding anywhere as if the web-page was made to conceal the identity of the developer. This prompts Felicia to ask:
Felicia: So, who designed this course?
Cathy: The Psychology Institute for Loss Prevention, what is it to you? Want to rob them in retaliation for making you do this? Go ahead, I would be the first to tip them off.
Felicia: I am sure you would, but I also want to know who welded these cages.
Cathy: I told you, I have connections. These cells can be claimed and re-worked from any abandoned prison. I ain't giving someone like you any more specifics.
Felicia: You are working unofficially for the State, aren't you?
Cathy: Just do the damn course. It should take you less than an hour. I will be back to check on you in 2. Sit tight. Cathy leaves after slamming the cell-door shut
The first part of the course Felicia works on is multiple choice as it relates to decision-making, the second is a questionnaire to understand her preferred vocation according to the RIASEC vocational personality test (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional), and the third part consists of long answer questions that asks to describe images to understand how she perceives opportunity.
Felicia quickly completes the course and revises it to ensure that it is "quality" work. She then opens up another tab to look up certain laws. According to New York Penal Law, official misconduct is unauthorized conduct that goes beyond the scope of ones jurisdiction of official duties. Two of these elements are "Commit a particular and unauthorized act relating to your office and official function. Keep in mind that merely committing an unpermitted act is insufficient to violate this element. You must also be aware that your actions were unauthorized; or
• Knowingly refrain from following or complying with a duty required by law or that is inherent to your position regardless of its nature and scope.
Felica: Bingo! Yogi girl here is working outside of her security duties as a storeowner by forcibly confining people and coercing them into doing this on-line course. This implicates so many people! Internal affairs of the police, their union, the company who welded these cells, the Institute she mentioned, and maybe more! First, I need to overpower Cathy to and blackmail Cassidy into getting my gear back. I need to get a hold of her cellphone to do this.
An hour later, Cathy unlocks the cell door to check if Felicia has finished. Cathy turns the coffee table towards her and sees the certification of completion page for Felicia "Black Cat" Hardy with her picture above the title of completion.
Cathy: Congratulations, cat. You are part of our small batch of prison gradu......AGH!
Felicia puts Cathy in a wrist-lock to get her closer to take a hold of her by the hair. She then takes Cathy's phone out of her pocket belt, takes the key-pin for the shackles out of the waistline of her yoga pants, and then throws Cathy to the ground.
Cathy: Ugh. I didn't know you were that strong.
Felicia: I didn't know you were that weak. Here is the deal, yoga girl, raises Cathy's phone tell your daughter to get her ass over here with my confiscated gear. If you or her refuse to cooperate, I call the police and leave with them with series of anonymous tips that you are violating New York Penal Law through official misconduct. You follow me?
Cathy: If you call the police, my daughter hands in your gear to....
Felicia: Ha! You take me down, and I will take you down with me. What is it going to be?
Cathy, in desperation, tries to tackle Felicia but has one of her legs easily swept from under her with a Judo foot sweep. Felicia then places her boot on her chest to hold her down and then says:
Felicia: Bad move, yogi-bitch. You closed the one opportunity you had to negotiate. Your last name is "Gordon", yes? Cathy nods in stunned silence
Felicia then calls the police and puts the phone on speaker. She asks the operator if she can speak to internal affairs regarding a person named "Cathy Gordon". She is forwarded clerk named "Bruce" who tells Felicia (going by the name of "Vanessa") that she will be placed on hold for a few minutes to retrieve Cathy's profile info. Felicia looks as Cathy's nervous expression and smiles to herself knowing that she is screwed.
Bruce then breaks this nervous tension by confirming that Cathy is a part-time civilian employee of the department. Felicia, a bit surprised by the news, then sees an opening to incriminate her by saying:
Felicia: Ya but, she has no powers of arrest or confinement, right? Yes? I took a look through her basement window and saw some shady stuff. I can get pictures if needed.
Bruce: Ma'am, you are not authorized to investigate the manner. According to her profile, she is an accredited member of our loss prevention program and security program as sponsored by the Psychology Institute for Loss Prevention. She has powers of arrest and can hold prisoners to decrease backlog in local jails as they are often full. Can I help you with anything else today?
Felicia: No…..you have been great. Bye.
A stunned Felicia looks down at a smiling Cathy who slowly moves Felicias foot off her chest and gets to her feet.
Part 10: Turning the tables
As Cathy rises to her feet, she stands tall in victory and feels as tall as Felicia despite being quite a bit shorter. Felicia is speechless and stumped she thought all the dots connected but fell short at the last moment. Cathy, still smiling, holds out her hand as a gesture for Felicia to give her the phone back. She says:
Cathy: What is the matter? A bit stumped? I thought you had me, but I knew you calling the police to report me would fail. Now, give me my phone back and your punishment for assaulting me will be more mild than what I want Felicia then drops the phone into her hand. Turn around and place your hands behind you back and Interlace your fingers Felicia complies.
Cathy then ties her hands together with a simple (but very tight) double column tie. After tying her wrists, she pushes Felicia down onto her knees and briefly leaves the cell to get something. Cathy then returns with four lines of chains with handcuffs attached to each end. She then says:
Cathy: These are needed because you will be cuffed spreadeagle on the floor of your cell. This is your punishment for assaulting me like you did.
Felicia: NO! I am not your damn plaything! I shouldn't even be here to begin with! Get away!
Cathy then puts her hands on her shoulders to try and control her, but Felicia is still too strong. She twists away, jumps onto the cell bars with her bound hands, and puts her knees between Cathy's neck. She squeezes until Cathy is unconscious and then uses the friction of the bars to break the bindings.
Felicia then chains Cathy spreadeagle in the middle of the cell. Once secured, she then takes Cathy's cell phone again and contemplates what to do. She knows that she has re-gained physical leverage, but she now needs to get out of her blackmail jam with Cathy's daughter threatening to hand in her confiscated gear to police. Felicia thinks to herself:
Felicia: Hmmm, I could use Cathy as ransom. Or I could just go to Cassidy's apartment and take it. I know, I will text Cassidy as her mom and tell her that I am coming over to take pictures of Felicia's gear to complete her prisoner profile.
Felicia then texts Cassidy posing as her mom, and Cassidy confirms receipt of the text and replies saying that she will be home later due to multiple bookings for her personal training sessions. Felicia, texting as Cathy, says that she forgot the code to her door and Cassidy promptly replies with the code instantly. Felicia then takes Cathy's car keys out of her pocket belt and drives to Cassidy's apartment.
When Felicia arrives she parks in the "guest parking" designated lot and, as she did before Cassidy made her surrender, climbs the nearby oak tree and flings herself from the longest branch to her balcony. She inputs the code to the sliding the door that is the same for the front door and walks in with swagger.
She expected to see her gear laid out neatly on the bed for her mom to find easily, but to her surprise, it is not obvious as to where she left them. She turns toward the large clothing cabinet and figured they must be there because where else could they be?
She throws open the doors and sees all her gear present in the form of her gauntlets and belt. She picks up her belt in victory but then noticed that her opening the doors triggered a tripwire that set off what looks like a fog machine. The thing is, this fog machine has been repurposed to shoot out anaesthetic gas!
Felicia stumbles to the ground and is completely defenseless in her semi-conscious state. Before she fully passes out she sees the door on the handle turning and, to her shocks, sees Ana Santos entering! She is wearing a mask to avoid breathing in any gas but is wearing the same security uniform. She then takes out a new cell phone that shows her tracking the phone Felicia stole from her.
Ana: Not so fast filho da puta! Remember me? Cassie felt something wasn't right when "Cathy" texted her, so I set a trap just in case. *Ana then knees down and tilts Felicias head up by her hair* I am going to enjoy my time with you, vagabunda. *Felicia then passes out fully*
Part 11: Room service
Two hours later, Felicia wakes up. She finds herself tied face-down in a spreadeagle position on Cassidy's bed. She has been tape-gagged and stripped down to her bra and panties. Ana left her mask on probably as a show of mockery that the great Black Cat has been stripped and bound by a security rookie.
Felicia then feels the leather of a belt slap across her butt. The belting stings, but it only stings with as much force Ana is capable of producing which isn't as much as the sound implies because Ana is smaller and less powerful. Ana laughs as she then whips the small of her back and then her thigh. She then whips her on the arm and says:
Ana: Come on, Miss catsuit! Claw me if you can, haha. I should call my Papai over, he used to be a prison guard in Sao Paulo and can teach me all of his ampliado interrogatorio techniques to use on you.
After a few more beltings to Black Cats butt, Ana receives a text from Cassidy. Cassidy says that her mom will come to pick up Felicia in 20 minutes and to get the dog cage ready. The modified dog cage is in the nearby bathroom and has been extended so that Felicia can just about fit in if she is in a turtle position. The cage has been tinted all around with jet black cardboard with a sign at the front saying "Dangerous dog, do not approach".
Felicia tries to loosen her bonds by rocking back and forth to loosen with knots. Ana notices and gives her another whip to the butt before saying:
Ana: Where are you going cadela de gato? Going clubbing? You make for a nice strip tease with those looks.
Ana's mockery is stymied when she notices that Felicia has generated too much looseness in the wrist nearest to Ana. Ana then begins tightening the wrist tie but is oblivious to the fact that Felicia has slipped her ankles out. Felicia then brings her knees to her chest, coils up, and delivers a side kick to Ana's temple-knocking her out instantly. Felicia takes off the gag and says:
Felicia: Ha! I thought you would have learned how to tie from our last encounter. If you can't tie, then you should have put me in that cage first thing, don't you think? She then stands over Ana When you wake up, you will find yourself in the dog house.
After locking Ana in the cage, Felicia sees her catsuit on the dresser and picks it up to see if it is damaged. After a brief inspection, Felicia is relieved to see that is wasn't cut-off but eased off after noticing that Ana found one of the concealed zippers that led to her finding all the zippers from her ankle, waist, and near her neck. Felicia quickly re-suits, puts on her gauntlets, and relishes the finishing touch by putting her belt on slowly. Suddenly, Felicia hears a knock at the door:
Cathy: knock, knock. Hey Ana! I am ready to take her. Cassidy is waiting for us.
Felicia swings the door open and pulls Cathy in by her shoulders. She throws her against the wall and silently gloats for a few seconds before turning her around and applying a rear-naked choke. Cathy passes out and is then place onto Cassidy's bed. She is quickly tape-gagged with her wrists zip-tied to the bedframe and her ankles are zip-tied together.
With these two majorly annoying people subdued, Felicia decides to subdue Cassidy in the parking lot so that she can't follow her. Once she is subdued, Felicia can then go back to Cathy's house and delete her prisoner profile on that laptop as she can't afford to be on record as the Black Cat. As Felicia Hardy, yes, but not as Black Cat. She also can not afford to be overexposed in public as that news will circulate and lead to someone calling the police. Felicia says to herself that if plan A (subduing Cassidy by stealth) in the parking lot fails, then plan B will be to take Cathy's car back to her house, go back to her former cell, and take the laptop with her profile on to. Once Felicia gets down to the parking lot, she says:
Felicia: Only 5 cars here and 1 of the 4 is Cathy's car. Now that I have my belt back, I can pick the lock if she has locked from the outside. Cassidy must have gone inside but I do not know the make or model of her car so I will take Cathy's car.
When Felicia arrives at Cathy's house, she is relieved to see no police presence as which means that Cathy didn't want to raise alarm to an extent that would get her accreditation revoked. Felicia opens the garage door, parks inside, and moves the snowblower concealing the crawlspace to the cells. Once she gets to the other side, she hears someone say:
Unknown voice: I have been following you.
She then turns to see that it is Javelynn! A professional thief like Felicia but, unlike Felicia, is also a mercenary. What will this encounter bring?
Part 12: The Confrontation
Felicia stares at Javelynn as if she has seen a ghost. She also feels a pinch of embarrassment because if Javelynn has been following her for awhile, then she has seen Felicia, her heist competitor and someone who stole Felicia's heist book to target places that Felicia planned to rob, be bound and embarrassed by a yogi girl who had her locked in one of the cells behind them. After a tense period of just starring with Javelynn relishing the tension and Felicia standing in stunned silence, Javelynn breaks the ice by saying:
Javelynn: I followed you since you left that apartment courtesy of Hawkeye *she holds up a wooden looking arrow that is actually an aerial tracking device*
Felicia: Oh, so you have only tracked me since leaving the apartment? *She hopes Javelynn confirms this to avoid the embarrassment of her knowing she was in bondage*.
Javelynn: That is correct! After stealing your heist book (also courtesy of Hawkeye after I tied his ass up and gave him truth serum) I had trouble tracking you down because you weren't in any of the planned locations, but his arrow was a useful substitute. All I had to do was input your nearest possible location, and then pick out the GPS feeds that showed the most suspicious/irregular movements. Once the best inference is made as to your whereabouts, I wait while anticipating where you will be next. Take a look:
Javelynn turns on the projector screen from the tip of the arrow and shows Felicia the informatics. The screen shows waves that are organized in a rainbow-like format and are color-coded to signify levels of irregularity according to each GPS inbuilt into every phone. In her inner monologue, thinks to her self: Phew, thank goodness for that. Had an enemy of her (Javelynn's) caliber found out I had been captured, then my credibility would be gone and no one would hire me to do third party heists or interfere in supply chains.
Felicia: So, are you just going to stand there and try to impress me with your craftiness? Or should we get this fight started already?
Javelynn: I thought you would never ask.
Act 1: Javelynn throws Hawkeyes stolen arrow at Felicia. Felicia catches this arrow with ease, but, much like a jab in boxing, this was just a set-up so that Javelynn could unleash a barrage of mini javelins from her gauntlets.
Act 2: The javelins, despite their speed, greatly lack in accuracy because they are not steadied by an arrow or crossbow. Felicia uses mazing runs, as if she were on an agility ladder, to try and close the distance. Felicia also uses small shields from her gauntlets to deflect her javelins.
Act 3: Once Felicia closes the distance, Javelynn attempts a jumping knee but Felicia ducts and uses Javelynns momentum to push her upwards into the ventilations duct and keeps hold of her leg under Javelynn falls to the ground.
Act 4: Felicia puts Javelynn in a toehold but Javelynn rolls out and attempts a spin kick. Felicia parries this kick and sweeps her standing leg and, all in one motion, puts her knee on Javelynns upper back and puts her in a straight arm-bar to dispossess her of the gauntlet.
Act 5: Javelynn pushes with her leg against the nearby pipe to slip out and roll of the arm-bar. She then unleashes a combination that are all rode with or parried.
Act 6: Felicia catches on of her punches and puts her in a standing arm-bar and uses it to throw her into the nearby pipe. Javelynn then ducts under Felicia's high spinning kick, but Felicia's kick was so forceful that is broke a facet in the water pipe and sprayed Javelynn in the face unintentionally.
Act 7: With Javelynn stunned, she delivers a definitive blow in the form of a drop kick that sends flying into the same cell that held Felicia. Felicia then delivers a side kick to her stomach that sees her bounce off the other side of the cell and then closes the door after also retrieving the laptop that she then clips on to the back of her belt.
Even though Felicia has won, she can not gloat for long as she notices what is eerily similar to the anaesthetic gas she encountered earlier coming up in huge clouds from the crawlspace. Javelynn kicks the cell door and yells obscenities at Felicia repeatedly, but she is quickly becoming more fatigued as the gas overwhelms the room.
Felicia, although weakened, kicks open the backdoor of the garage leading to the backyard. She stumbles out and drags her feet in fatigue while Javelynn falls flat onto her back. Felicia is still agile enough to scale two 8 feet fences leading her to the third backyard over, but when she reaches the top of the third fence, she is barely able to come down as she is on the verge of passing out.
Part 13: Caught by an old gunslinger and recruiting the new captive
As Felicia tries to come down from the third fence over, her claws lose grip on the wood and she falls back-first into the large bushes that cushion her fall and dislodge the lap-top from her belt. Her momentum, then, sees her roll out of bushes as soon as she fell in. When she looks toward the patio door to see if anyone has noticed her, she sees what appears to be a matronly and butch nanny in conservative dress look shocked by her presence. Knowing that she may call the police, Felicia looks to scale the small shed to see if she can grapple up to a chimney. As she gets ready to climb the shed, she hears the sound of a click behind her. She then looks behind her and sees that same nanny-looking woman pointing a revolver at her a few feet away. Felicia, in slurred speech, says:
Felicia: I didn't mean to alarm you miss. I am a vigilante who stops robberies in progress, I am just passing through and-
Nanny: SHUT IT! You aren't fooling anyone with that uniform and that figure of yours. These backyards are not your playground.
Felicia: I don't play, I have just doing my job to stop robberies because the police-
Nanny: I said shut it! And don't even think about moving. I have enough sport shooting trophies to know that I can shoot you with accuracy if you run. *Felicia then falls down as she drifts into unconsciousness*
Nanny: Ha! Stupid superhero wannabes taking drugs to perform better. Pathetic. You won't like what you feel when you wake up, sleeping beauty. My basement is the last place you want to be.
The presumed nanny is named Elizabeth Bates who was a state champion in handgun and rifle sport shooting in the 80's. She is a bit overweight with short graying hair, long green dress, and white heels that fill out her matronly profile but obscure her achievements in sport. She kneels down next to Felicia and tries to take her belt off, but Felicia came prepared as she remembered to activate the security lock that only she can unlock with her clawed finger. Elizabeth gets frustrated and decides to leave the belt on until she is ready to be wake Felicia up. Elizabeth also has been preparing to bind anyone who trespasses as she takes out many bundles of nylon rope from the shed.
She then proceeds to put Felicia's shins and thigs in a double leg binder and then ties her hands behind her back in a bowline tie. She then bundles Felicia into the garden wheelbarrow to transport her from the shed to the patio door from which she will unload her and slide her across the carpet by the rope tail towards the basement.
Back at Cathy's garage, Javelynn is woken up a few hours later by a splash of water to her face. She finds herself looking at Cathy and Cassidy upside down as she hangs by from the top of the cell 5 feet from the ground. Her legs are bound in a mermaid tie and with her hands zip-tied behind her back in a cross-wrist position. She has been fully undressed with her uniform and javelins scattered across the cell floor.
Javelynn: *wakes up with blurry visions that eventually focus* Wa..where I am I? Felicia? Cut me down and fight you coward! Wait, who are you two? You did this? *squirms in the rope*
Cassie: You bet we did this. We thought we had re-captured the cat-bitch, but, somehow, she escaped and we got you instead.
Javelynn: Huh? Re-capture her? She was being held in a basement prison by you two? With what police force?
Cathy: This is my little private prison for thieves who are forced to do a loss prevention course if they want release. Felicia was our prisoner because she stole from our pet store.
Cassidy: You two will share a cell as well, but as for now, who are you and where do you think she was going?
Javelynn: I like throwing Javelins and my name starts with "L", so figure it out. If you want to find the cat, untie me and and I can guide you to-
Cathy: NO! grabs Javelynn by her hair Nice try, but you, like the cat-bitch, are too dangerous to "help" us when untied. Give us a believable answer or we put you in a less comfortable position.
Javelynn: Well, us thieves know each other quite well, she was also nearly caught out by the same gas that put me to sleep, so I think she could have staggered over a few fences undetected. Also, couldn't you two figure that yourselves? I mean, c'mon, I have just been in a battle, my memory is hazy, and I am in a mummy of bondage while you two wonder about the damn obvious.
Cathy: pushes her head away in disgust I still didn't catch your name.
Javelynn: Don't you two understand syllables or phonetics? I like to throw javelins, and my name is Lynn, put that together and you get "Javelynn" says in a mocking tone.
Cassie: Well, Javelynn, we won't allow you to throw actual javelins anymore, but your combat skills are enough of a javelin in of itself. You will do what we assign you to do. Understood?
Javelynn: No, not understood, when I get loose you two are toast. I-
Javelynn is then cut off by Cathy who slips a fast dissolving capsule sedative into her mouth. Javelynn tries to spit it out, but she has already swallowed 90 percent of its contents. She tries to loosen her bindings, but within a few minutes her resistance fades and falls to sleep again.
2 hours later, Javelynn wakes up under her own power. She gets up from the floor of the cell and notices that the floor is now completely clean of all her gear that was strewn across it earlier. She also looks down at her legs and arms and notices that her uniform has been changed. She then looks into the small mirror above the sink and is shocked to see that everything except for her hair and face tattoo has been changed. They have dressed her in a tactical police uniform that fits like a catsuit with a bit of like armor around the shins, knees, arms, chest, and stomach.
In shock and anger, she shatters the mirror by punching it says to herself:
Javelynn: How dare those bitches do this! Making me do their dirty work?! *She then looks at the patch on her shoulder saying "New York State Police"* I toy with cops for a living, I am NOT going to be one of them! *She then side-kicks the door of her cell.*
Suddenly, the lights switch on and Cassie and her mom Cathy walk in. They are both in blue bodysuits and look as though they have come back from the gym or yoga class.
Cassie: Oh! Looking great. Feeling comfy in the new get up we put you in?
Javelynn: What is stopping me from ripping this uniform off, breaking through this cell, and smashing you both over the head with this chest armor thing?
Cathy: That is this: Pulls out a switch that makes a beeping noise on Javelynns ankle. She looks down to see that they put and ankle monitor on her that is now beeping and lights up in the color red
Javelynn: Is that.....an ankle monitor?
Cassidy: Give her a little taste of what it can do.
Cathy activates the ankle monitors defensive measures by tasing Javelynn. Javelynn reacts to this badly by dropping to the ground instantly in pain. Once falls to the ground, Cathy halts the tasing.
Cathy: Imagine getting tased like that for over 5 minutes. That is what you will receive if you try to take it off or if we decide to tase you if we think you are wandering too far.
Javelynn: Stop! Alright.. you got me. What do I need to do for you to take this off?
Cassidy: I don't think we need to give you detailed instructions. You are assigned to find Felicia and bring her back here. You know what to do.
Cassidy then walks over to the circuit board, takes the cell keys from inside its door, and then frees Javelynn from her cell. Javelynn then approaches Cassie and looks down at her trying to convey an intimidating and imposing message to her through posturing and getting up close. This tense moment of silence is broken by the beeping on Javelynns ankle monitor. She then looks over to Cathy who smiles at her while holding the small remote which indicates leverage. Javelynn then marches out through the garage door and slams it shut.
Part 14: Old wounds return once again
Felicia wakes up in Elizabeths basement and finds herself cleave gagged and chair-tied in the same tie she was dragged in by but with her waist tied to the frame of a dining chair. She looks out the basement window and notices that it is dark outside which may indicate that Elizabeth has gone to bed. Felicia then learns of the ladies name when she looks at a few plaques on the wall above a cluttered little book shelf. One plaque reads "From Templeton Tax Assessors: Employee of the year Elizabeth Bates" and the other 3 plaques are certifications of completion in firearms and restraints training for self-defense.
The basement itself is full of clutter in the form of furniture, ornaments, books, deck chairs, and other stuff that has accumulated throughout Elizabeths tenure at her residence. Felicia begins to saw at her bonds with her claws and quickly frees her wrists, waist, and her legs. She then slowly makes way up the steps and, when she opens the door, noticed that she has two cats, one that is, incidentally, colored black while the other colored white, with the white one sleeping on the couch and the other on an armchair. Interestingly, the black one has a tracking collar on him or her and the white one does not. This prompts Felicia to say:
Felicia: Ha, she collared her own pet cat but not me, the Black Cat.
She then exits through the patio door, picks up the laptop with her criminal profile on it from the bushes she fell into, then takes out the hard drive using tools for disassembly from her belt and a small flashlight that she attaches to her forehead. She then throws the laptop away in the usual City of New York garbage wheel bins and grapples up the nearest roof.
Once beyond the neighborhood limits, Felicia finds herself in a park that overlooks an small but abandoned prison called "Maplehurst". Upon seeing this prison, Felicia is tempted to go on a side quest as she enjoys exploring abandoned places when she puts her Black Cat persona aside and becomes Felicia Hardy. She begins walking towards it but stops herself because, if Javelynn has escaped, then she will have positioned herself for an ambush.
Felicia then feels a cell phone vibrate briefly in her thigh pocket and says:
Felicia: Oh, shoot, I forgot that I still had that Anabelle or whatever her name is phone in my pocket. I'll quickly take a look than crush it somewhere.
The text is a message from Ana saying "We have you right where we want you!". Before Felicia can react she sees a security car belonging to "Paladin Security Services" fly out in front of her with a canon-like gun being pointed at her from the back window. This gun shoots out into Felicia with enough force so that the net knocks her over and comes together at the bottom. Before she can claw free, Ana and her sister named "Abigail" as seen on the name-tag, hold Black Cat at gunpoint and say:
Ana: Mãos ao alto! Gata cadela!
Abigail: Fique parado aí! Don't make us nervous! Do not resistir.
When the net came together, there was also too opium powder bags at the bottom whose fumes release when they come together. Ana and Abigail, guns still drawn gradually make their way to the net to see if Felicia is limp. Once her unconsciousness is confirmed, they load Felicia into the boot of the car and drive nearer to the abandoned prison.
Many hours later, Felicia wakes up to a bright light in her face. The morning sun shines through the barred window and lights up the padded room Felicia finds herself in. Abigail and Ana have stripped her of her uniform and replaced it with orange prison clothes and shoes. The words on the back of her jumper say "Prisoner of Sao Paulo Corrections" in Brazilian Portuguese.
Her legs are tied apart and attached to a metal spreader bar and her arms are outstretched with rope armcuffs (similar to an arm band in shibari) made from ropework that are attached to chains that hold her arms up on each side. She is also gagged with a bite mask as either a gesture of mockery or some silly notion. The prison itself (Maplehurst) is typical of what you would expect as there is graffiti everywhere, rusted metal staircases, collapsed parts of the roof everywhere, peeling plaster, dusty floors, and all sorts of fragmented material scattered everywhere. Felicia was placed in the dilapidated padded cell room and is made to stand apart by a bar that Ana or Abigail probably picked out of the rubble due to how rusty it looks. The cell door also can't be shut because it is crooked and is off one of its hinges at the bottom. Felicia thinks to herself:
Felicia: What the fuck happened? I wanted to explore this prison, not reopen the damn place as a new inmate! I can't believe this! Damnit, I underestimated Ana after I escaped from her twice. Now she has bound me in an inescapable position.
Ana, Abigail, and a lady in a tight business dress come into her cell. The young lady in the dress wears expensive rings, has an athletic figure, silk-like hair, and looks like a model of sorts but is actually a Brazilian lawyer named Lina Garcia who works out of the Brazilian embassy and specializes in extradition law. As soon as Lina sees Felica, her expression changes from stern to a look that says "wow!" as she looks at Felica and a picture of her as Black Cat. In Portuguese, Lina says:
Lina: Oh my, she is a great catch. She is ideal for any espionage operations we would plan or in auditing police stations back home using stealth. She looks amazing as well-as if she came right out of a comic book.
Ana: We figured that if she is transferred to Sao Paulo prison, then your contacts there could make a slave out of her. She could dismantle those foreign mining companies stealing Brazil's wealth and she could even be used to forcefully get money back from the bank that scammed my parents with those mortgage plans.
Abigail: How will you be able to extradite her, Lina?
Lina: We are the embassy, hun, we have enough money hire a charter plane and label her as an extradition prisoner.
Ana: Who will supervise her on the plane?
Lina: One of you can act as prison officers on board, bribing an actual corrections officer is too risky. Let's go and make the arrangements.
All three women then leave the prison with Ana mocking Felicia with a playful claw gesture on the way out while Lina is careful not to dirty her leggings or her heels. When they arrive at the security car parked near a wall in the cracked parking lot, their expressions go from confident to concern as an SUV is parked next to them.
Lina: Who is this? Another person is helping to detain Felicia?
Ana: No. I was just us. I will see who it is.
Before Ana can go see who it, all three hear the word "FREEZE!". They turn around and see the old gunslinger Elizabeth Bates! She had tracked Felicia to the prison by hiding one of the collars she used for cats inside the boot of her catsuit. Elizabeth does not know, though, that the uniform is in Ana's car boot and not still on Felicia. She says:
Elizabeth: All of you hands up, now!
Lina: I work for the Brazilian embassy, I will am not to be threat-
Elizabeth: I don't care, hands up now! *All three put their hands up*
Elizabeth: It must have been you three that captured my prisoner after she escaped my house.
Ana: *pretends to look clueless* We were just…uhh…assessing the prisons ability to detain people. That is all.
Elizabeth: I am sure. Now, you, miss embassy Barbie doll, go get the rope from the back of my car *throws her keys toward Lina* and, as for you two, get on your knees and place your hands behind your heads. Don't try anything *looking at Lina* or these two get it. I am a former sport shooter, so don't try me.
Once Lina gets the rope, they are led into an abandoned processing office that Elizabeth waited for them in. Elizabeth guides the trio down onto their stomachs and ties their hands behind their backs. She starts a full body tie on Lina who she places on top of the desk and hogties. She then hogties Ana and Abigail and tightly connects them together with a thigh and chest-tie. She then ties Lina's thighs and then ties her waist to her wrists. She finishes the floorplan off by putting Lina on her side and connects her ankles and her chest to opposite sides of the desk with two single column ties. The trio is then tape gagged to complete the floorplan.
Felicia tries to break free but she can't generate any power with how she is tied and chained. She then hears a bang and footsteps and wonders what that was. She says:
Felicia: Who is there? Anyone?
Unknown voice: You don't want to know who it is.
The person who appears in the doorway is Javelynn! And she has Black Cat right where she wants her.
Part 15: Prison break
Felicia: What? Is that who I think it is? You are working for the cops?
Javelynn: Yes, it is exactly who you think it is but not who you remember. When you locked me in that cell, your former jailers tied me up and coerced me into capturing you. They are coercing me with this ankle monitor that they can use to tase me at will.
Felicia: They should tase you right now to even our helplessness.
Javelynn: They are on their way if not here already. All I need to do is bring you into their custody, and they take this ankle monitor off and give me my uniform and javelins back.
Felicia: You are going to capture me through someone else's work and not a 1 v. 1 fight? Shame, I wanted to go down with fireworks.
Javelynn: Not today, I am sure I will see you later, though.
Felicia: C'mon. Are you a mercenary or a mouse? You are not going to let little a tickling device like that ankle monitor replace your honor, are you?
Javelynn: You are tempting me….greatly.
When Javelynn moves in closer, Felicia makes her move by elevating herself using the arm restraints and then uses the spreader bar to hit Javelynn into the ground face-first. Once she has her pinned, she says:
Felicia: GIVE me your knife or I crush your windpipe.
Javelynn: I thought you wanted a fair fight.
Felicia: It is tit-for-tat. You find me helpless and I make you helpless.
Although infuriated by her position, she finds herself in a non-win situation and throws her knife with Javelin-like precision towards Felicia's hand. She cuts her bonds, leaps off of her, and cuts the ankle ties on the spreader bar. Javelynn then lunges towards Felicia with a superman punch but Felicia uses the spreader bar as a shield that Javelynn runs into face-first and knocks herself out. Felicia then drags her into one of the desolate cells and, to her surprise, the cell door still shuts and locks! She then has a hunch that her uniform must be in Ana's security car, but she might have to find out where Ana and her sister live to retrieve it.
As she walks through the prison, she tries to avoid stepping on nails or shards of glass as the whole place is a giant hazard. She makes her way out to the parking lot and, to her surprise, Ana's "Paladin Security Services" car is still there! She says:
Felicia: Oh, yes! I am so lucky, but why is their car still here? I don't sense that there is anyone patrolling the area. Who does that black SUV belong to? It might belong to that embassy lady considering it is a BMW, but whatever.
Felicia then uses a piece of metal she picked on her way out and smashes the driver-side window to open the boot. She looks in the boot and sees her full uniform see through that says in red letters "Property of extradited prisoner". She smiles at their plan failing and quickly undresses and re-suits. As she was suiting up, Elizabeth is in the process of tying up Cassidy and Cathy in the bondsman office space near to where the Brazilian trio were tied. Cathy and Cassidy are being tied together back-to-back in chest harnesses and full leg ties with Cathy's hands tied at the front and Cassidy's hands tied behind her. They are also tape-gagged.
Once secure, Elizabeth then picks up her rifle and goes out to the parking lot. She waits in anticipation in ambush Black Cat. Unfortunately for her, she is too late. As she looks into the parking lot with one eye, Felicia approaches her from behind and playfully taps her on the shoulder saying "excuse me". Elizabeth turns around and is easily dispossessed of her rifle and has her foot swept to the ground. She is strong, but no match for Felicia. Felicia throws her rifle to the side and says:
Felicia: I must thank you, Mrs. Bates. You paved the way for me to re-claim my gear with your proficiency in bondage. So, instead of punishing you, I would like to help you imprisoning these ladies for a term, you think you could do that?
Elizabeth: Ya..yes I can help with that, I told my daughter about the whole situation and she is on the way to help as well. Please don't retaliate against me, I didn't know you had escaped captivity when you entered me backyard. I found that out while tying the two blonde ladies.
Felicia: It is all water under the bridge.
Elizabeth: Where do you want me to take them? Can this prison hold them?
Felicia: No, two dangerous for guards let alone prisoners. I know of a small police station nearby that was de-commissioned a few years ago and is great condition. Take them there. I will get things like prison clothes and pay for any expenses.
Elizabeth: So it just the two blondes and the three Brazilian girls? Did you encounter anyone else?
Felicia: I knocked out a mercenary named Javelynn who is now locked in one of the cells. The doors unlock from the outside with no keys required.
Elizabeth: Okay, I will go fetch her now. It is a good thing I brought a whole box of rope with me instead of a few bundles.
Felicia: Indeed, take this *passes her a radio* and contact me if you and your daughter run into trouble. I will intervene if anything comes up.
With that, Felicia leaves the scene as she has heists to plan.
End of story.
Author Artfulknot.
Originally published: January 8 2026
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