The Perils of Victory
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:46 pm
Origin
MY name is Jordin Tyler and I’ve spent all twenty-four years of my life in Capital City. I’ve watched this town go from bad to worse as the crime and gangs have slowly taken over our once proud city. Growing up with a cop for a father you can imagine it was even harder around my house as the state of things deteriorated. He raised me with a strong sense of right versus wrong and duty towards the former but over the years things seemed to change slowly for him and consequently for me. I guess it must have been the lawyers, slowly turning the judicial and legal systems into a weapon for any and every criminal with enough money.
I still remember the last time I saw my daddy sober. He came home and told my mother they had let a mob boss (which one escapes me just now) walk free on a technicality. I remember watching him pull that bottle of whiskey out of a brown paper sack.
“They’ve made the system a joke,” he said to me sadly and broke the seal.
As I grew and watched him slip further and further into alcoholism I knew I had to do something, to find a way to take a stand! I decided to become a reporter, a hard hitting legal reporter or political journalist, someone who would fearlessly expose the filth and crime in my beloved Capital City!
My visions of grandeur subsided quickly. As a young attractive woman it’s easy to find work in front of a camera but hard to get any respect. And ambition like mine is a scary thing to anyone in a town run by criminals and villains. Even though I had no background in meteorology I soon found myself relegated to reading the weather in “aesthetically pleasing” outfits.
Then on my twenty-third birthday I received a gift from an aunt I had little connection with on my mother’s side. It was a silver belt. I thought it was funny, an out-of-touch aunt trying to send me something hip and stylish. I even wore it to the club with friends once. That very night I was attacked on my way home!
I soon learned that not only could this thug barely hurt me but also I was massively stronger than him! I beat him to a pulp on the street and staggered home in a daze. I realized quickly that the belt had given me power. It was not a long road to my realizing I could use my gift to help others and possibly break the hold that crime had gained on this fair city.
Almost over night I became a superheroine! I called myself Victory knowing that was what lay ahead for me. I admit I dressed scantly, wearing purple lycra hot pants and a matching halter top that left my toned stomach bare but it allowed for ease of movement in a fight. It also serves to distract most male opponents I face, seems it’s difficult to land a solid punch when they’re staring my plump C-cups or imagining my long slender legs wrapped around them. I found a pair of silver boots that matched my power-belt and completed the ensemble with a silver mask that hid my identity as Jordin the weathergirl.
I spent the next year working to break the hold crime has brought over this city. I started small, stopping a few muggings, saving a few women from being raped in alleyways. As word spread my enemies grew and I found myself in the position to make bigger impacts and as I did, more and more people took notice. On every side of the law. My superheroine career has become a growing success!
The gangs and mobs have not fully relinquished their hold on this city nor are they giving up without a fight but I’m ready! No matter what I face or how perilous the situation, I’m prepared for victory! …but will they be?
Part One
THE streets have been buzzing lately. Word is some hotshot escaped convict has come into my city looking to set up shop. I’ve got enough to deal with as it is without other problems snaking their way onto my plate. I beat answers out of a few common lowlifes. I get a name: Jacob Wilder, apparently convicted of everything from rape and murder to racketeering. An obviously dangerous guy he spent five years on the inside before orchestrating and achieving a daring escape. Not the kind of guy I’m going to leave on my streets! Word is he’s planning something big. Some of my unwilling informants say a bank job, others say an attack of some kind. All of them point to the same tool; explosives, home-made and big.
It wasn’t hard tracking him down, after all he’s on my turf. I find his hideout in an abandoned warehouse on the lower east side. I don’t waste time with scouting or recon, I want this scum out of my town immediately, preferably back in prison but I’ll be satisfied with otherways.
Jake Wilder jumps up from his work bench as I storm into the room. Knowing his time is suddenly growing short he draws his pistol and comes toward me. I smirk and move too quickly for him, stripping the gun away with one hand and flinging him across the room with the other. I'm brimming with confidence as his back and head hit the wall with a resounding "thwack"! He glares at me with unrestrained contempt. I smirk putting my hands on my shapely hips. His burning eyes drift over my statuesque body starting at my silver boots and rising along my long slender legs to my shiny lycra hot pants, with the silver belt resting on my hips. He continues up my toned bare stomach and however angry he seems his eyes still linger on my pert breasts, wrapped in the skintight lycra halter. My long brown hair falls about my shoulders framing a pretty face obscured by my silver mask.
“Who the hell are you?” he growls.
"I’m Victory, don’t act like you don’t know me,” I say sternly. “You should know I’d be coming for you sooner or later.”
"Actually," he groans standing. "I have no clue who you are."
An indignant frown washes across my glossed lips. "Well then you’re a fool! This is my city."
"Funny I hear that a lot," he says straightening before me. "Well guess what honey, I tell you what I told everyone else… I’m taking over."
“Unlikely,” I scoff.
“Really? Well I doubt you’ll be to opposed one way or another... once my little… project… goes off,” he grins and looks over my shoulder.
Warily I turn to regard his "project". He tries to take advantage and springs at me but I catch him nearly in midair! I heft him with one arm, shaking my head disappointedly. I carry him backwards pressing him against the wall, my free hand curling into a fist threateningly.
"You have quite a reputation, Mr. Wilder," I say dismissively. "I hope that's not the best trick you've got..."
"Careful what you wish for," he snarls.
Suddenly he pulls a small black device from his pocket and presses it against the arm holding him. Pain shoots up my arm and I can't help but cry out! I pull my arm away dropping him, but quickly lunge forward with the other in a crushing blow. The wall shudders under my power but he slips just out of the way. Darting forward he presses that wicked little device against my firm thigh and again I cry out in pain and surprise. I drop to my hands and knees gasping, my slender body wracked with pain.
"Of course I know who you are and the truth is I came here specifically to lure you in, heroine," he spits the last word as if its very utterance is foul tasting. "This particular device is a modified tazer, it pumps out enough voltage to kill a normal person instantly, I figured it'd at least do a number on he despite her powers...and I was right!" He drops the tazer kicking it away. “Unfortunately putting out that kind of voltage it’s only good for a couple of shots but apparently that’ll be enough!”
I try to stand but even with my belt on his device has left me weak. How could I have let him get the drop on me this way? His muscular arm snakes around my neck, pulling me upright. I grab it intent to throw him off but my head is spinning and it takes a second to get my bearings. A second too long! His other hand quickly unbuckles my belt and snatches it off.
"No!" I gasp feeling my powers drain away.
He laughs and shoves me forward into the wall. I whirl to face him, the pain of her tazer beginning to subside however without my belt I'm powerless. I look down at my naked waist in dismay.
"Give that back you fiend!" I demand.
"Come and take it," he chuckles, holding the silver belt towards me.
I step forward reaching for it. Just as I do he pulls it away and slams his free hand into my stomach. The air bursts from my lungs and I stagger back, bracing myself against the wall. He’s stronger than he looks. He tosses my belt far out of reach and cracks his knuckles coming towards me. I take up a ready stance, defiantly intent to fight, but my expression is far from confident.
I throw a few punches, he slips one and lets the other land. It's solid but without my belt I'm just skinny girl with little strength to speak of. He grabs one of my hands as I launch another attack. I can't even pull it free. He manages to catch the other as well and quickly clamps both of my skinny wrists in one hand. Then he slaps me across the face with his free hand! A back hand quickly follows and then another slap. My head snaps back and forth with each strike, and my resolve breaks quickly. Another slap and I yelp in pain! A backhand and I cry out. The pain hurts less than the knowledge that I'm this little of a threat to him now.
Finally he shoves me back against the wall, a broad smile plays across his face. I cradle my stinging cheeks and glare at him. He takes a step forward. I throw a lightening quick kick but he catches my silver boot easily. A frustrated groan escapes my glossy lips as I teeter on one foot. He pulls my leg tauntingly, not quite enough to throw me off balance, just enough to let me know he easily could.
"Let go," I say threw gritted teeth.
"Have it your way!"
He sweeps my free leg out from under me and gives my boot a light shove. It's more than enough to send me sprawling to my back with a painful grunt. I try to scramble to my feet, this might be my chance...but he’s too quick. He pounces on top of me, holding my squirming body down and straddling my slender waist. I try to shove him off but again he’s able to catch hold of both my flailing wrists and pin them to the ground. I gasp and writhe helplessly, being overpowered now easily. I kick my legs and buck my hips desperately but even just his weight is too much. He chuckles, enjoying my futile struggles.
"You bastard get off of me," I growl. "Let me go!"
"Let he go?" he scoffs. "Oh but we've only just begun!"
"What are you talking about?"
"You said yourself you wanted to see my best tricks," he say grinning down at me. "Well I hate to disappoint, not to mention apparently I've got a reputation to live up to."
I groan dreadfully and shove against him feebly. He easily holds me in place. I can't believe this is happening. How could I let myself get caught so off guard?
"How did he know about my belt?" I moan dejectedly.
"What about…?” Begins confused, then realization dawns. “That’s the source of your power isn’t it!”
He laughs and a disgusted feeling settles in my stomach. I can’t believe I gave that away like this!
“I was just trying to start stripping your fine ass down," he says with a vindictive smirk. "Guess I can take my time ...You belong to me now!"
To be continued...
MY name is Jordin Tyler and I’ve spent all twenty-four years of my life in Capital City. I’ve watched this town go from bad to worse as the crime and gangs have slowly taken over our once proud city. Growing up with a cop for a father you can imagine it was even harder around my house as the state of things deteriorated. He raised me with a strong sense of right versus wrong and duty towards the former but over the years things seemed to change slowly for him and consequently for me. I guess it must have been the lawyers, slowly turning the judicial and legal systems into a weapon for any and every criminal with enough money.
I still remember the last time I saw my daddy sober. He came home and told my mother they had let a mob boss (which one escapes me just now) walk free on a technicality. I remember watching him pull that bottle of whiskey out of a brown paper sack.
“They’ve made the system a joke,” he said to me sadly and broke the seal.
As I grew and watched him slip further and further into alcoholism I knew I had to do something, to find a way to take a stand! I decided to become a reporter, a hard hitting legal reporter or political journalist, someone who would fearlessly expose the filth and crime in my beloved Capital City!
My visions of grandeur subsided quickly. As a young attractive woman it’s easy to find work in front of a camera but hard to get any respect. And ambition like mine is a scary thing to anyone in a town run by criminals and villains. Even though I had no background in meteorology I soon found myself relegated to reading the weather in “aesthetically pleasing” outfits.
Then on my twenty-third birthday I received a gift from an aunt I had little connection with on my mother’s side. It was a silver belt. I thought it was funny, an out-of-touch aunt trying to send me something hip and stylish. I even wore it to the club with friends once. That very night I was attacked on my way home!
I soon learned that not only could this thug barely hurt me but also I was massively stronger than him! I beat him to a pulp on the street and staggered home in a daze. I realized quickly that the belt had given me power. It was not a long road to my realizing I could use my gift to help others and possibly break the hold that crime had gained on this fair city.
Almost over night I became a superheroine! I called myself Victory knowing that was what lay ahead for me. I admit I dressed scantly, wearing purple lycra hot pants and a matching halter top that left my toned stomach bare but it allowed for ease of movement in a fight. It also serves to distract most male opponents I face, seems it’s difficult to land a solid punch when they’re staring my plump C-cups or imagining my long slender legs wrapped around them. I found a pair of silver boots that matched my power-belt and completed the ensemble with a silver mask that hid my identity as Jordin the weathergirl.
I spent the next year working to break the hold crime has brought over this city. I started small, stopping a few muggings, saving a few women from being raped in alleyways. As word spread my enemies grew and I found myself in the position to make bigger impacts and as I did, more and more people took notice. On every side of the law. My superheroine career has become a growing success!
The gangs and mobs have not fully relinquished their hold on this city nor are they giving up without a fight but I’m ready! No matter what I face or how perilous the situation, I’m prepared for victory! …but will they be?
Part One
THE streets have been buzzing lately. Word is some hotshot escaped convict has come into my city looking to set up shop. I’ve got enough to deal with as it is without other problems snaking their way onto my plate. I beat answers out of a few common lowlifes. I get a name: Jacob Wilder, apparently convicted of everything from rape and murder to racketeering. An obviously dangerous guy he spent five years on the inside before orchestrating and achieving a daring escape. Not the kind of guy I’m going to leave on my streets! Word is he’s planning something big. Some of my unwilling informants say a bank job, others say an attack of some kind. All of them point to the same tool; explosives, home-made and big.
It wasn’t hard tracking him down, after all he’s on my turf. I find his hideout in an abandoned warehouse on the lower east side. I don’t waste time with scouting or recon, I want this scum out of my town immediately, preferably back in prison but I’ll be satisfied with otherways.
Jake Wilder jumps up from his work bench as I storm into the room. Knowing his time is suddenly growing short he draws his pistol and comes toward me. I smirk and move too quickly for him, stripping the gun away with one hand and flinging him across the room with the other. I'm brimming with confidence as his back and head hit the wall with a resounding "thwack"! He glares at me with unrestrained contempt. I smirk putting my hands on my shapely hips. His burning eyes drift over my statuesque body starting at my silver boots and rising along my long slender legs to my shiny lycra hot pants, with the silver belt resting on my hips. He continues up my toned bare stomach and however angry he seems his eyes still linger on my pert breasts, wrapped in the skintight lycra halter. My long brown hair falls about my shoulders framing a pretty face obscured by my silver mask.
“Who the hell are you?” he growls.
"I’m Victory, don’t act like you don’t know me,” I say sternly. “You should know I’d be coming for you sooner or later.”
"Actually," he groans standing. "I have no clue who you are."
An indignant frown washes across my glossed lips. "Well then you’re a fool! This is my city."
"Funny I hear that a lot," he says straightening before me. "Well guess what honey, I tell you what I told everyone else… I’m taking over."
“Unlikely,” I scoff.
“Really? Well I doubt you’ll be to opposed one way or another... once my little… project… goes off,” he grins and looks over my shoulder.
Warily I turn to regard his "project". He tries to take advantage and springs at me but I catch him nearly in midair! I heft him with one arm, shaking my head disappointedly. I carry him backwards pressing him against the wall, my free hand curling into a fist threateningly.
"You have quite a reputation, Mr. Wilder," I say dismissively. "I hope that's not the best trick you've got..."
"Careful what you wish for," he snarls.
Suddenly he pulls a small black device from his pocket and presses it against the arm holding him. Pain shoots up my arm and I can't help but cry out! I pull my arm away dropping him, but quickly lunge forward with the other in a crushing blow. The wall shudders under my power but he slips just out of the way. Darting forward he presses that wicked little device against my firm thigh and again I cry out in pain and surprise. I drop to my hands and knees gasping, my slender body wracked with pain.
"Of course I know who you are and the truth is I came here specifically to lure you in, heroine," he spits the last word as if its very utterance is foul tasting. "This particular device is a modified tazer, it pumps out enough voltage to kill a normal person instantly, I figured it'd at least do a number on he despite her powers...and I was right!" He drops the tazer kicking it away. “Unfortunately putting out that kind of voltage it’s only good for a couple of shots but apparently that’ll be enough!”
I try to stand but even with my belt on his device has left me weak. How could I have let him get the drop on me this way? His muscular arm snakes around my neck, pulling me upright. I grab it intent to throw him off but my head is spinning and it takes a second to get my bearings. A second too long! His other hand quickly unbuckles my belt and snatches it off.
"No!" I gasp feeling my powers drain away.
He laughs and shoves me forward into the wall. I whirl to face him, the pain of her tazer beginning to subside however without my belt I'm powerless. I look down at my naked waist in dismay.
"Give that back you fiend!" I demand.
"Come and take it," he chuckles, holding the silver belt towards me.
I step forward reaching for it. Just as I do he pulls it away and slams his free hand into my stomach. The air bursts from my lungs and I stagger back, bracing myself against the wall. He’s stronger than he looks. He tosses my belt far out of reach and cracks his knuckles coming towards me. I take up a ready stance, defiantly intent to fight, but my expression is far from confident.
I throw a few punches, he slips one and lets the other land. It's solid but without my belt I'm just skinny girl with little strength to speak of. He grabs one of my hands as I launch another attack. I can't even pull it free. He manages to catch the other as well and quickly clamps both of my skinny wrists in one hand. Then he slaps me across the face with his free hand! A back hand quickly follows and then another slap. My head snaps back and forth with each strike, and my resolve breaks quickly. Another slap and I yelp in pain! A backhand and I cry out. The pain hurts less than the knowledge that I'm this little of a threat to him now.
Finally he shoves me back against the wall, a broad smile plays across his face. I cradle my stinging cheeks and glare at him. He takes a step forward. I throw a lightening quick kick but he catches my silver boot easily. A frustrated groan escapes my glossy lips as I teeter on one foot. He pulls my leg tauntingly, not quite enough to throw me off balance, just enough to let me know he easily could.
"Let go," I say threw gritted teeth.
"Have it your way!"
He sweeps my free leg out from under me and gives my boot a light shove. It's more than enough to send me sprawling to my back with a painful grunt. I try to scramble to my feet, this might be my chance...but he’s too quick. He pounces on top of me, holding my squirming body down and straddling my slender waist. I try to shove him off but again he’s able to catch hold of both my flailing wrists and pin them to the ground. I gasp and writhe helplessly, being overpowered now easily. I kick my legs and buck my hips desperately but even just his weight is too much. He chuckles, enjoying my futile struggles.
"You bastard get off of me," I growl. "Let me go!"
"Let he go?" he scoffs. "Oh but we've only just begun!"
"What are you talking about?"
"You said yourself you wanted to see my best tricks," he say grinning down at me. "Well I hate to disappoint, not to mention apparently I've got a reputation to live up to."
I groan dreadfully and shove against him feebly. He easily holds me in place. I can't believe this is happening. How could I let myself get caught so off guard?
"How did he know about my belt?" I moan dejectedly.
"What about…?” Begins confused, then realization dawns. “That’s the source of your power isn’t it!”
He laughs and a disgusted feeling settles in my stomach. I can’t believe I gave that away like this!
“I was just trying to start stripping your fine ass down," he says with a vindictive smirk. "Guess I can take my time ...You belong to me now!"
To be continued...