If Sue Storm Can Drink An Entire Bottle In One Go, She Wins

One pink hand took in the three bottles lined up before Sue Storm's cage.

"Pretty simple. You need to drink an entire bottle in one go, without spilling a drop. You succeed, you win, I go along quietly. You lose, I let you go and you let me go. Three bottles, three chances."

The Invisible Woman frowned. She wasn't particularly known for her capacity for ****. Immediately, she started to think of ways around the rules. Yet simple as they were, there wasn't much she could do. It would be easy enough to deliberately fail, and leave here sober, just by pouring the bottles out on the ground. If she did succeed in drinking an entire bottle, it would leave her absolutely ****—and at the mercy of Porkum.

Sue chewed that thought over. She didn't trust the mutant pig-man at all. If she had her powers, Sue could have easily cheated at this game. Made the liquor appear to disappear, or funnel it into an invisible **** field in her stomach. Under the circumstances, however, the heroine knew she had been well and truly caught.

Porkum stared at her, but said nothing. The dark piggy eyes reflected the yellow light of the defraudium crystal. It was as if he could see Sue Storm's thoughts—and she hoped that he wasn't telepathic. If for no other reason than because he would realize Sue was stalling as she plucked up the courage to decide what to do.

"Let me see the vodka," she said.

Genially, the pig-man lifted a bottle and held it out, so that Sue could grab it through the bars.

Grey Goose, was what the label read. Sue didn't really drink liquor, but she recognized that as a top-shelf brand. There was no hint that the seal had been tampered with. The heroine made a show of the inspection. Then she looked up from the bottle and stared him in the eye.

"Why?"

"Because I don't entirely trust you," Porkum said. "And if I get you shitfaced, then when you stumble out of here drunk off your ass, I can make my escape. And if you just pour it all out or throw the bottle at me, well, I can leave first and let you go remotely—and I'll know that the beautiful Invisible Woman is a lying bitch."

Sue Storm frowned. She didn't like that the pig questioned her integrity. She liked it less than she had actually considered if the bottle could do enough damage to be worth throwing at him.

With a sigh, the Invisible Woman broke the seal on the bottle.

"When I finish this, you'd better keep your end of things," Sue said. "Or you will regret it."