Adventures of Black Cat.

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.