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Chapter 14 by bigdamnvillain bigdamnvillain

What's behind door #2?

An ambush!

Wonder Woman shifts her stance slightly in readiness as the elevator door slides open to reveal a modest sized foyer. Two ferns flank a hostess podium, behind which stands a blandly attractive woman in a blue tailored suit. The chatter of voices and the muted clatter of plates and glassware drifts in from somewhere. The hostess smiles, utterly unfazed to have a superheroine in front of her, “Good evening sir, ma’am. Your table is ready. This way please.”

Your companion still looks like she’s half-expecting a fight, so you give her an exaggerated Ladies First gesture, which earns you a bemused grin but she relaxes slightly. She steps past you out of the elevator, and just as she crosses the threshold you reach out and goose her in the ass. Her head whips back to shoot you an irritated look --

Which means she’s distracted as her weight comes down on her foot outside the elevator and slips out from under her on the unusually-slick floor. She’s only off-balance for a second but she has to step all the way out to recover her footing, and while she’s preoccupied with that a weighted net drops from the ceiling on top of her. Before she can react, the net comes alive with electricity, shocking her with enough juice to fry a normal person. Diana screams in pain and falls to her knees.

Almost instantly the place is flooded with a sound that is almost too high to hear yet somehow also nearly too low to hear, as some kind of sonic energy ray shoots in from the right. The beam slams into the Amazon, who cries out louder and claps her hands to her ears. Hard to blame her – your fillings are buzzing like a vibrator and you’re 10 feet away pressed up against the back of the elevator.

Two guards in heavy body armor step into view from alcoves hidden on either side of the elevator door, their armor apparently protecting them from the sonic energy. The ‘hostess’ pulls some kind of long rod from behind the podium, and gestures to the guards. For a second it seems as if the fight might be over before it’s begun.

But before they can reach her, Wonder Woman lets out a primal roar and slams her bracelets together with a loud clang. The impact sends out a shock wave that knock you, the guards, and the hostess all back several steps; it also sets up some kind of feedback effect in the sonic attack, and with a sound of sparking and glass breaking the sonic device cuts out.

Ignoring the electric current shocking her, Diana surges to her feet and rips the metal net in two with her bare hands; it too shorts out in a shower of sparks. The Amazon Princess pauses to take a heaving breath, black hair free and disheveled, every muscle in her exposed arms and legs clenched in pain and anger.

The fake hostess has recovered her feet, and tries to ensnare the heroine with some kind of catch pole, like the ones dog catchers use to snare mad canines from a safe distance, except the open collar on the end is heavy metal with some kind of advanced circuitry. But Wonder Woman catches the pole with one hand and almost casually jabs it backwards into the hostess’ solar plexus, sending the young woman back down.

The guards have gotten up and pulled out some kind of shock sticks. Diana grabs the golden lasso off her belt, snaps it in front of her like a whip, and both the guards shock sticks go flying. She then rushes one guard, grabs and hoist him over her head like he weighs nothing, and throws him into the other guard – they both go down hard.

Shouted voices herald the arrival of more guards. Wonder Woman spins to her left and blocks a couple shots from some kind of energy weapon with her bracers. She then snatches up the hostess’ podium with one hand and throws it into the guards with a loud crash. She shouts a battle cry in what you assume is Greek, and tenses to launch herself down the hallway into her attackers…

And a heavy metal collar clicks into place around her neck.

The beautiful heroine turns in your direction to see you holding onto the other end of the catch pole she had so casually tossed away. The collar emits a humming sound, and a light flashes red then turns green. Diana grabs the pole and tries to wrench it out of your hands, but surprisingly you’re able to hold onto it, if just barely. Her eyes go wide as she realizes the collar around her neck is already dampening her powers. You meet each others’ gaze and you see in her eyes the realization of just how fucked she is. Then she’s tackled and you lose sight of her under a pile of guards.

What's next?

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