Chapter 18: Black Widows Debut

The Fastest Man Alive
Chapter 18:
The Black Widow’s Debut

I got up from my desk to head for the office wall to get changed. I had a hidden compartment for my super suit. “Alfred Is the Widow suit ready?” I asked to the air. “Yes, it was prepared while you were sparring with Miss. Romanovna. Would you like me to notify her of her impending heroic appearance?” asked Alfred from the mounted speakers. “Yeah, tell her to suit up. We are about to dub her a hero and kick bad guy ass.” After telling him that I performed a quick change. The suit I am wearing today was a combination of the GODSPEED suit and the future FLASH suit.

I changed out the all white from the GODSPEED suit with the blue, but I was adding advanced tech like what was in the future suit. The spinal protector was made out of Adamantium to make sure that there are zero chances of it getting destroyed and in turn, crushing my spine. I had a full nano-tech system installed along the back area. Then on both wrists, I had smart, miniaturized hologram tech installed. For my helmet, I went with the GODSPEED helmet with the robust face enclosure. The whole helmet can retract on command with just a thought.

I figured out Tony’s sub-dermal implants and combined it with DR. OTTO’s neural connectors built into the systems so each operated with mental commands. The eye lens had my custom crystal refraction tech that provides me with a heads up display so that I no longer had to look at my arms for navigation and other things. I also solved the coms blackout associated with high speeds using Quantum Entangled communications gear. All suites in the future will receive these upgrades. Looking at myself over in the mirror, I looked Heroic. With that out of the way, it was time for the fun stuff.

When I went to the roof, Natasha was there with her mask off just waiting on the ledge. “Why am I here, and why am I in this thing?” Natasha asked me with a straight face. 
“We are about to introduce the world to the BLACK WIDOW,” I told her while standing up on the ledge checking over my web shooters. With a check on the roofs holo-projectors to make sure no one will realize we came from this building, it was party time. “Why are you on the ledge?” Natasha asked me while raising her eyebrows. “I plan to go in style to the shoot out. I know you already figured out those web-shooters, so I am going to show you how to use them for transportation. Remember its all about the leap of faith,” I told her as I jumped off the ledge.

FWIP!!!

I shot out a web line connecting me to the nearest ledge, and then I surrendered to gravity. This was so amazing, and I couldn’t wait to figure out flight. I traveled four blocks before bringing up my team display, and I should not have been as surprisedas I was. Natasha was a trained killer, dancer, and gymnast, so of course, she had no fear of going web-slinging. I took a peek over live coms since she was using the full head enclosure, and I caught her smiling. That was an exciting development for another time, “Overwatch; this is LIGHTSPEED and BLACKWIDOW please come in.”

“Overwatch clear on coms LIGHTSPEED, WIDOW, we have clear lines of communications, and we have the camera on the shoot out. We do recommend getting there sooner because the cops don’t seem to be in good shape.” Replied Jean from the Overwatch station I had built to help fight crime and keep track of any other operations we had going on.

“WIDOW, tell me how are the webs hooters?” I asked over coms. “I could get used to this.” Natasha relied back on coms. “Alright, hop on my back, and I will get us there,” I told her. With the BLACK WIDOW on my back, it was time to get into some action. We arrived on the scene just in time to find a massive car explosion in mid-freeze. Natasha didn’t even wait for my commands. Out of her wrist sprang webs, grabbing the cop that was about to be mulched by the shockwave frozen in mid-air like a ripple in the pond. With a tap on my back, Natasha jumped up, but since I had never told her about the features of my aura. Natasha was back to standard time after she left its boundaries. Natasha was currently frozen in time to my perspective, but I knew she could handle herself, so it was time for me to focus on saving people. 

Then I can worry after getting everyone to safety and out of the combat zone. I pulled cops out from behind vehicles. Then I had to move people that were sticking around to video the scene. Then once I made sure everyone was good, it was time to play sidekick to the BLACK WIDOW. Soon as I pulled up beside a vehicle and returned my perception to standard time, I was slammed with noise, but I was ready for it now. Inside my helmet, I had installed sensory proofing to stop myself from suffering sensory overload. I had auto transition lens tech installed and miniature sound dampers for explosions. Natasha finished her flip out of the air landing on the police cruiser that I was currently taking cover behind. “So want to throw the car at them?” I asked her from my crouch behind the vehicle snatching any stray rounds heading in our direction while the bad guys looked confused with the disappearance of the police.

Natasha only raised her eyebrow at me. “Aye, this is your show, I am just making suggestions,” I replied shrugging at her. Then Natasha pulled off a near-impossible dodge, and I had to catch the bullet heading for my face. I looked, and the asshole that fired at us was frozen mid shock, it seems he didn’t get the memo, and his ass was about to be grass. I was about to smash in both his kneecaps when I stopped after the look I had seen on Natasha’s face.  He was fucked, and he didn’t even realize it yet. “You can break him if it looks like an accident to the people recording and I am sure this goes without needing to be said but no killing,” I told BLACK WIDOW, because she had the killer look in her eyes directed at the fool that decided it was best to get a sneak shot in during our conversation.

Natasha didn’t even acknowledge what I told her, but she did launch herself clear across the fifty feet expanse of the no man zone made during the firefight. Natasha rotated during the mid flip and then brought down her leg in a heel drop.

CRACK!

There was a resounding crack from the gunmen as he slammed into the hood of the car he was behind. Then Natasha proceeded to destroy the rest. As Natasha was in a roundhouse kicking another while webbing up one more. I decided to gather up the weapons, as I picked up the last AK-47, I turned around to see the first guy she smacked down getting back up.

I was about to approach him and deliver a judo chop to the back of his neck when I noticed Natasha shook her head in my direction. Natasha did a roll then came upon him with a palm slam directed towards his knee. 

Crack!

His leg went out at a very awkward angle, then Natasha followed with a palm strike uppercut. With that move, his head slammed back into the car, and he was down and out. Natasha proceeded to web up the rest then turned to me and shrugged. Well, that was easy. Since everyone was taken care of it was time to make sure the cops were okay.
The cops were grateful that we came to the rescue. Although the male cops were giving Natasha a scared look, the two lady officers were eating it up with a female hero out helping. We left as we heard the paramedics sirens, but Natasha refused a ride back to the HQ. 

She wanted to try out her web shooters some more with swinging through the city. That was fine though because I found the girls were immediately TEAM BLACK WIDOW and I got overlooked somehow. I make all the toys, the money, and set everything up, but as soon as a lady hero shows up, I am the second fiddle: Go figure. 

No, I really wasn’t feeling salty at all — not one bit. After checking the coms to hear the girls talking up Natasha on some more crime in progress, it was time for me to make my moves. Alfred has files on the Mayor and Governor doing some shady deals, but what got me excited was the photos of the DA at some pony house getting his cheeks blown out by some big hairy guy. 

These photos were next level graphic, and I had Alfred self-destruct the nano-flys on principle. They were in the same room as the DA taking a thirteen-inch pole up the rear and then throating the thing. Yeah, it was a waste, but I didn’t want to look at those things and bring back up that scene in my mind. The last I checked he was happily married and was not out of the closet, so this was a nice in for blackmail. I want my hero team legal in the city of NY and not ride this odd grey area we had with the city’s authorities. 

The citie’s DA was on his private boat heading out to go fishing, so this was the perfect time to get to him and have him agree to my plans. Before I could make that pit stop and get the DA to agree to some new rules, I made a stop back at base to pick up a blackout unit. With my tools in hand, I followed the GPS tracking I had on the DA, although Natasha was disappointed about not coming with me for something like this. I told Natasha to enjoy being the female hero because I will have her blackmail the rest later.

I found the DA with his autopilot on heading out of the bay, with a quick check around to make sure no one had us under surveillance it was time to make my move. With a toss, I sent some miniature override dampers to take over controls and keep the COAST GUARD off our tail for a while. The first move the DA did was run for his radio to make a call. Well, I’ll be damned, he was super skittish, and that might bite me in the ass later. Now I had to make plans to remove him once I can find a suitable replacement. With a sigh, I just sat in his captain seat while he was freaking out.

This was an excellent boat, and I was surprised he was piloting this all on his own, but I wasn’t so impressed with the DA. He was a pasty faced large Latino guy that has to be in his mid-fifties, he wasn’t overweight or anything, but he was balding on the top.  Ignoring his crying, I brought out the video of him being bent over a table while his big bear of a boyfriend plowed his asshole to seventh heaven. The look the DA gave me was one of pure horror, and I knew I had him. 

“So ready to stop crying and listen to my demands?” I asked from my seat. “Please, where did you get that?” Asked the DA, crying. “Don’t worry about where it came from just worry about the footage that I have,” I told him bringing up another video where he was getting triple teamed by three big guys. I had to shudder at that because I couldn’t even fathom how he was taking two up the back while sucking down a third. The guy had massive amounts of talent at least. “Here is what I need from you to make sure that this footage doesn’t see the light of day,” I told him while sending away the video. “The Mayor and Governor will be contacting you about a project with details of a hero group going around helping the police force. You are going to be all for it and suggest making them a special task force under civilian oversight to make it legal as well as protect the city from lawsuits. Star Industries will be your oversight group.

In return, this video goes in a deep dark hole, and you will have more legal authority in your prosecutions, helping you to keep your percentages up. That seems fair to me, and no one will be able to witness your impressive skills. I wonder how your kids in high school will feel watching their father spread eagle for a team to go to town on him.” When I said that I brought out the other video of him in front of a line of guys waiting their turn for his ass. The DA had decided to wear a mask in this one, but I had the whole footage of him driving there and getting ready. I did not need to kink shame him since he was a trooper taking over fifteen guys in one round, but damn I had to give him his props on this one.

When I brought up the video, he broke down crying, and that made the whole situation awkward. The man had sprouted a woody while watching the video’s and that left me speechless. Now, I felt like the bad guy in this situation, but I had to brush such feelings aside. This needed to be done so that I could have the top players in my hands. There was no way I was going to pay these assholes off when I could just blackmail them with their darkest secrets. “I’ll agree to it, just don’t release these please, I’ll be ruined.” squeaked the DA.

“Nah big chief, that asshole is already ruined but as long as you play ball when I come calling. You’re in the clear to do what you like to do best. Like getting those ass cheeks of yours blown out. And your wife won’t get a video, and she won’t divorce you..” I told him as I prepared myself to leave. “You’re just going to leave just like that?” the DA asked. “Yeah, I already got my agreement, so there is no reason for me to make more demands of you.” And with that, I was gone back towards the city.

While I was heading back towards base Alfred pinged my coms with a location that Psylocke appeared at fighting some six armed ninja lady. That was surprising because I thought she was going to stay off the radar longer so I couldn’t find her. Now that I had her location, I wasn’t about to let her escape me again. I sent Natasha the information on the Governor and the Mayor and made my way towards Taiwan. I needed to get information Psylocke had on the meta-hunters and how she came in contact with them. 

There was also my little payback to have. I doubt she was going to survive past today. With the thought of her being in that base willingly, I took a hard step blasting water up into a huge wave. I blasted myself up into the air heading for where she was fighting who I would guess would be Spiral. There were no other six armed Metahumans that I knew of other than myself.

TAIWAN

I followed the markers on my HUD, and it showed that this was the current location of Psylocke when a massive explosion went off near the shipyards docks. When I looked in that direction, red blips started to pop up on my HUD as Alfred was notifying me about cameras getting destroyed in that general location.

That had to be the location where they were having their showdown because there was no way I ran out here and she gets killed while I was here. When I got down to the street level, I found the ladies in a tangled heap with blades flashing in the light.

Spiral had four blades in each hand and two more on her upper arms, Psylocke, on the other hand, was fighting with her katana and charged sword in the other hand. It didn’t look like any side was going to win this fight. With a mental command for the entire area to be blacked out, I made my move, and since Psylocke got me last time, this was my turn for revenge. Neither of them saw me coming. I deflected Spirals sword mid-swing heading for Psylocke’s neck while turning around and slamming my shoulder into Pylockes chest sending her flying.

Spiral had snow white hair and looked like a more muscular built version of  Laci Kay the Instagram model before my death. Spiral was wearing what seemed like an all black tactical suit with a large white X on the front. Around her calves she had some white looking leg warmers, on her knees were diamond shaped knee pads. Each of her six arms had a black sleeve with silver marks at each of her elbow locations. 

While I was checking her out, Spiral decided to swing her swords at me. Since I was a gentleman and liked fair fights, I brought out my other four arms and blasted lightning down each of the blades. Where I thought she would have dropped her swords, Spiral gritted her teeth and pushed through the pain. I was impressed with that, but I needed Psylocke, so this was the end for Spiral. When I was about to amp up the power and blast her back to kingdom come, I heard her mumble something about no one will stand in the way of her saving her sister. That was surprising because of my general knowledge of the comics and her background. Spiral never had family, and she was from some MOJO world dimension.

Then again CYCLOPS got three rounds to the chest, so life was not like cannon Marvel at all. Dropping the lightning at her, I could help but ask, “What do you mean you’re trying to save your sister?” I asked Spiral. “She was with the team that took my sister,” Spiral growled at me. Yeah, this was an interesting development, alright. “Alright, I also need information out of her, okay. So here is the deal we get what we want from her. Then end her so we can go rescue your sister.” I told her while walking towards the laid out Psylocke.

“You’re not here to save her then?” Asked Spiral giving me the side eye. “Nope, I found her escaping a Metahuman experimentation facility when I was destroying the base. She tricked me then made her escape. Once I sorted through all the data from the base, I found that they had paid her for mercenary work.” I told Spiral while growling myself. The memories of that ass kicking I did was ruined by the fact I fell for such an easy play.

Spiral raised an eyebrow at me when I called us Metahumans and smiled when I told her about smashing the base. With a hand raised I blasted Psylocke with a bolt of lightning, it might seem petty, but I was trying hard not to enjoy getting her back. Psylocke bolted upwards when she woke up, but I was ready for her, With a spartan kick to the chest she went back down. “Stay down, or I will put you down. We have questions, and you have answers.” I started, trying to keep my anger in check.

“Shouldn’t I be the angry one here?” Spiral asked me while cocking her head to the side. “I’m not a fan of traitors who keep our kinds in chains,” I replied to Spiral. “I am no traitor to any kind.” Growled Psylocke. “Did you not take payment to watch over a Metahuman experimentation facility and did you not  help them take her sister?” I asked Psylocke while pointing to Spiral.

“I had no choice. They have my brother.” Psylocke yelled back at us. Well, fuck more cliche’d bullshit, like of course, they would have someone of hers to force her to work for them. “Ugh, see this is the bullshit that I am trying to avoid. Where are they keeping prisoners.” I could not help but ask while rubbing my forehead. “What, you’re just going to trust her like that?” Asked Spiral in disbelief.

“I can tell that she isn’t lying, it’s one of my powers,” I told Spiral since there is no way I was going to reveal I can read someone’s biosignature. I wanted to get rid of her and not deal with problems, but that’s not what heroes do. The facility is underground; it’s Yushan National Park,” Psylocke spoke up fast once she realized I was going to help. I could only sigh at that because of course the base is located under some nationally protected grounds. “Fine, she can lead us there, but if she betrays us, I am killing her.” Snarled Spiral while turning around and heading somewhere. Psylocke held her hand out for me to help her up, but I turned away totally ignoring her.