"Urrghh... what now?"
Waking on her back the Black Widow murmured, bright light gushing into bleary eyes. Blinking hard, Natasha Romanoff stared up through metal bars to the strangely swirling sky above; eventually realising she was in a cage.
The camp beyond looked like a post-apocalyptic junkyard; alien and human oddities left strewn around the enclosure. Glancing sideways Natasha saw a pair of round hills silhouetted against the sky. Leaning up and squinting, Natasha realised she knew that rear; the Wasp's swollen suit somehow built into this makeshift fort. The redhead swallowed hard; her prison was literally between Hope's legs; which meant the exit was...
Quickly checking the belts and straps that crossed her own leather suit Natasha scowled; she had no weapons and no tricks to escape. She was also in a state; the beautiful red hair and once pristine costume she was known for now matted with dirt.
Feeling a twinge in her belly, Natasha massaged her abdomen; remembering the unfortunate sequence of events that had brought her here. Rising on her haunches, the redhead squeezed her own behind:
"I hope you're ready to give it up widow..."
Realising she was being watched, Natasha twisted to spot another round metal cage neighbouring her own. Inside an unlikely pair stared back:
"What is this place??"
"You're in the Void."
"Which is what?!"
The woman just shrugged:
"The wasteland beyond the multiverse. The place where all the trash gets dumped..."
"Great, so I'm trash now."
"Someone at the TVA pruned you right?"
"Uhh..." feeling another twinge in her belly Natasha winced:
"Sort of..."
Looking to the more mature of the two, Natasha recognised a warrior woman; tight red leather costume and matching twin sai making for a dangerous combination:
"I'm Elektra. This one is X-23."
"My name is Laura."
Introducing herself tersely, Natasha picked up on a slight mexican inflection as she turned her gaze to the girl: the small brunette was dressed in a worn jean jacket and pants, the rips in her clothing almost fashionable. Overall the teen didn't seem like much of a threat.... Looking at that pretty face however, Natasha saw through the naivety; to the fierce animal just beneath the surface.
"Sooo... I'm guessing I can't expect a fair trial in the Void??"
"You can't even expect a quick death..." Elektra murmured, "not from her."
"And who's her??"
"I'll tell you who 'her' iz," the girl growled:
"Casandra Nova ยกUn imbรฉcil megalรณmano y psicรณtico!" Rattling off a string of foreign insults, Natasha struggled to follow the mutant's frenzied words:
"Un trozo de duendecillo muerto por dentro para chuparse los dedos de leche de nueces de tercera categorรญa!"
"Uh.. can I get that in English?"
"She said Cassandra Nova is a megalomaniacal, psychotic asshole," Elektra explained dryly back: "A finger licking dead-inside pixie slab of third rate dime-store cum-juice."
"She really said all that?!"
Cocking her eyebrow, Natasha balked at the kid. Grasping the bars between them Laura chose english this time:
"I said Cassandra can lick my mexican cinnamon ring clean and kick rocks all the way to bald hell! I don't care if she removes all my adamantium and fucks me inside out, if the last thing I do is stab that fuck-box, I'll die happy!"
"Wow..." Natasha exclaimed, looking to the elder of the pair. Elektra nodded before elaborating further:
"She's right. Although personally I won't be happy until I've urinated on Cassandra's freshly barbecued corpse and husk-fucked the charred remains while motorboating Domino's Double Ds."
Surmising this 'Cassandra' was worthy of the psychotic rant, Natasha frowned; put off by the pair's more graphic imagery.
"Oh you two are in sooo much trouble when I tell her what you just said..."
Hearing boots approach across the dirt, the redhead swivelled, expecting to face the real threat only to find a scantily clad asian woman:
Dressed in a purple leotard and boots, the costume revealed vast expanses of olive skin; ass and breasts just barely restrained by the slutty outfit. Purple highlights completing the look, the woman looked more like a sci-fi dominatrix than an apocalyptic survivor. In spite of everything Natasha sniggered.
"What?" The woman snapped as she approached the cage:
"Nothing... you're just, not what I was expecting to see..."
Rising up to eye-level the widow put her hand through the bars to attempt a friendly gesture:
"I'm Natasha Romanoff-"
"-Don't care trash."
Brusquely slapping her hand away the swordswoman approached the other two:
"Psylocke," Elektra hissed: "Cassandra's latest bitch."
Grinning darkly, Psylocke leant against the bars, keen to settle the score:
"Are you two lovebirds going to behave? You know fighting only makes it worse for yourselves."
"Don't be gross," Elektra muttered: "she's a kid!"
"She's an 18 year old clone of THE Wolverine. And I don't want a repeat of last time we let her off the leash..."
"Fine," glancing sideways at the silent girl Elektra nodded, hoping to quell Laura's raging instincts: "let's just get this over with."
Unlocking their small cage the pair spilled out.
"Don't..."
Predicting the little hothead's actions, Elektra sighed as Laura launched herself at their jailer; mounting the woman and tackling her to the ground.
"Hhrrggghhh!"
Claws emerging from between Laura's knuckles the girl screamed, unleashing a frenzied attack on the purple harlot. Raking only at dirt however, the brunette's sloppy approach gave her opponent the upper hand; Psylocke easily knocking X-23 away with her energy blade:
"Let's fucking go!"
Spinning her own twin sai, Elektra dived in to the fray. Skilfully dodging one and deflecting the other, the pair duelled in the between the Wasp's gigantic thighs as Natasha watched on helplessly from behind bars.
"Arrgh! -ahhh??"
Freezing in place both Elektra and Laura held fighting poses; their attack immediately stemmed by some invisible force. Smirking, Psylocke dematerialised her purple blade:
"You really shouldn't piss her off..."
"No fair!" Laura growled childishly, muscles straining against thin air. Witnessing their plight Natasha swallowed hard; realising how powerful this Cassandra must be... resistance was literally futile.
Disarming Elektra, Psylocke tugged the sai out of her hands:
"Better make sure you're not hiding anything else..."