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               ECHOES OF THE PAST 

               Tiffany Tatts is a sweet sixteen year old student of Rowdy
               High School. Set in the city of Rowdy about twenty-five miles
               above and split by the same river as Delta City; the old
               mining town now a mix of industrial parks and farming
               communities and rail way line hubs is home to over forty
               thousand people. 

               It sits just over the state line of the thirty million
               populace of Delta City which thus forms a sticky unnatural
               barrier for police activities; as such it has always
               encouraged a natural safe haven for the illegal activities of
               residents of Delta City. As most of the well to do of Delta
               City refer to it; Rowdy is the 'Branch Office' of most of
               their back-up off the books nocturnal habitats. 

               Sitting in the natural pass between two mountain chains Rowdy
               has an odd blend of private winter sports and lower middle
               class non-skilled labor existence. It is the entrance and
               exit to hundreds of privately owned hunting and skiing lodges
               up on the mountain side. Almost all of the mountain land
               immediately around Rowdy is privately owned so there is
               little to no 'tourism' and the town remains relatively quiet
               outside of the constant illegal activity muffled by the
               corrupt law enforcement and local government. 

               People there go about their business they don't stare at the
               private helicopters that may whisk in and out at any second
               of the day to land on some quiet suburban street or the
               occasional body found lying in the gutter or floating down by
               the docks. 

               The rich and powerful of Delta City make sure to spread just
               enough wealth around in community projects so as to keep the
               populace happy and money laundered and enough quiet threat to
               keep the same populace out of their way.

               As such Rowdy has a baseball stadium, three bowling alleys,
               an opera house, a theatre district, movie houses, shopping
               centers, two eighteen hole golf courses, all far beyond what
               the local tax base could ever afford or maintain. A hospital
               that has some of the best facial reconstructive surgeons in
               the world. A spa, a health club, several gentlemen clubs and
               an airport that can land jumbo jets. And more brothels and
               bars and night clubs than the next seventeen states combined.
               It has no local newspaper or television or radio station.

               Rowdy is the Delta City riches privet theme park and it is
               run and owned and shaped by Delta City's criminal bosses.
               As such the local law and government officials are not just
               on the take they ARE an extension of the Delta City criminal
               bosses themselves. Their lieutenants run the city and
               friction between their bosses back in Delta City means
               occasional flare ups of violence between the extended
               families, houses, and officials of Rowdy. 

               It is not uncommon to see a squad car of police suddenly pull
               up outside the local power plant and exchange small arms fire
               with the office staff working there. Or the chief of police
               trying to poison the mayor. What would pass as surreal
               anywhere else is the normal everyday insanity of Rowdy. 

               Still it is the only city in America where the schools are
               not built like prisons and street crime is unheard of; who
               would rob a bank owned by a crime family?!

               And like the War of the Roses, the crime families do their
               best to keep their 'contentions' off the street and out of
               the way of the locals day to day unskilled labors.

               Taxes are low, wages are steady, and the booze is cheap in
               Rowdy and it is hard to find anyone packing up to leave its
               lower middle class suburban sprawl.

               Still a city of thieves is far from a safe place to raise a
               family and honest men do not live long in its dark mesh of
               shifting alliances and shadowy pay backs. When thugs are king
               crude cancerous violence paves the streets and all beauty is
               devoured in ravenous greed. Greed housed as wonders and
               virtue and high noble attainment that blasts all it touches
               to cinder and shame.

               Beautiful women in Rowdy disappear. Sexual harassment is
               common place. Collateral damage is dealt with in death. No
               one is safe from injustice in a world where anyone can carry
               a gun on their hip or a concealed weapon under their jacket.
               All brief passions lead to permanent death.

               To everyone's shock and horror a small task force of federal
               agents took up sudden residence in a small brick dilapidated
               building in downtown Rowdy. After six months and four dead
               agents the remaining six agents started to discretely seek
               out the local population of Aphrodite active gene super women
               and secretly ask for their aid in dealing with an entire city
               of corruption. 

               Thus Tiffany Tatts, all 4' 11" 101 pounds of her found
               herself exchanging her stocking cap pull over eye mask and
               leather jacket and motorcycle boots for a state of the art
               super heroine combat costume suit, and still somewhat
               hesitantly, joining along side the isolated feds in tackling
               the criminal elements; one crime at a time.
               As one must when the President of the United States keeps
               referring to Rowdy as a prime example of the positive power
               of deregulation and self empowerment of it's people. 

               There were no computer files on her no recordings she was as
               off the books as one could be; and she got to keep her super
               heroine name: KAT GRL. 

               Kat Grl now stood next to agent Zimmerman with her arms
               crossed under her perky full proud KK-cups as she leaned her
               narrow thin body to one side. "What exactly am I looking at
               here?" She intoned in her best deep practiced 'no bullshit
               all business' voice. 

               The agent filed through the paper files, paper files could
               not be hacked, and alternated between reading through them
               and adjusting his glasses. He was forty and like all the
               agents single with no family.

               "Sixteen hours ago one; Antalya Webb, age seventeen, was
               yanked off the streets of Delta City. Sole heiress to the
               Webb Tech fortunes there is reason to believe she may have
               been taken as leverage between the recent friction between
               the Bimbo and Hans families. Webb has strong ties with the
               Hans."

               "Simple extortion then," Kat Grl leaned forward to the pane
               of glass. From the sheet of bullet proof two way mirror glass
               the bright light of the small cell on the other side cast
               both her and agent Zimmerman in an unworldly glow as they
               stood in their own darkened room.

               "Nothing is ever simple in Rowdy." Agent Zimmerman tossed the
               file down on a small table covered in plastic sporks and
               paper plates and a microwave as the room doubled as a break
               room and joined her in looking at the lone figure in the
               small cell next door.

               "And him?" Kat Grl dropped her small gloved hands to her
               narrow waist and full round buttocks.

               "We think that is where she disappeared to," Zimmerman turned
               his face to look at Kat Grl who raised an eyebrow in surprise
               before she could recover her much studied and practiced 'bad
               ass' poker face and sexy nonchalant stance. "Meet The
               Absorbing Man," the agent continued. "One of the new breed of
               super mutants to come up out of the sewers of Delta City. He
               can swallow up a person whole and keep them inside him
               'alive' for; well we don't know for how long?"

               "Amazing. He would make a great advertising gimmick for a
               paper towel company." Kat Grl mused. "So if she is in there
               why don't you just, er, cut her out?"

               "I guess it doesn't work that way. Wish it did. I would cut
               the bastard open myself. He's nothing but strands of filament 
               inside him. Invulnerable, for all practical purposes. As far
               as the people he consumes or engulfs? Well, they only come
               out when he wants them to; alive or dead, again it's up to
               him. You cut him open and its just him; a mass of pulp and
               fibers. No idea how it works." 

               "Wonderful." Kat Grl stared hard at the huge hulking shape
               sitting on the rooms lone bench. He was a wall of a man. His
               skin gray brown and covered in small horns of random bone and
               patches of scales here and there. He wore a sleeveless under
               shirt and a pair of khaki pants and heavy work boots. His
               over all size was enormous. "He looks like he could tare his
               way through a bank vault. So why is he just sitting there?"

               "Oh, he could punch his way through those brick walls or come
               at us through this sheet of bullet proof glass in a heart
               beat. If he had a heart. Which I am told he does not. But he
               knows we can only hold him three hours. So he just sits there
               and waits. He has been here dozens of times over the past
               three months. Ever since the Bimbo family found him and
               cleaned him up and set him to work for them out here in
               Rowdy. He's their number one bag man now."

               As the agent finished talking the heavy metal door opened in
               the cell and agent Waller motioned the twelve foot tall
               monster of a man out.

               "That would be your cue to tail him," Agent Zimmerman nodded.
               "He's too fast and clever for us to follow him-" Zimmerman
               looked over his shoulder but he was already alone in the
               room. "Good luck," he whispered. "This time I think you are
               going to need it."

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               Kat Grl slid and shimmied across the roof tops. Her quarry
               was moving with languid strides down the poorly lit side
               streets of Rowdy. It was a heavily overcast night with a
               slight chill in the air and he had gained a jacket and trench
               coat and trilbly hat before exiting the feds small downtown
               fortified outpost.

               Kat Grl moved with supine grace and feline elegance as she
               flipped and twisted and rolled past the jagged roof line of
               three story buildings that made up most of the nonresidential
               buildings of squat flat Rowdy. Her slim body with its huge
               breasts and full round bubble butt made her look with her 'S'
               bent back like she would move with an awkward and fragile
               motion but she was like oiled shadow as she glided just over
               the shoulder and forty feet up from the massive hulk of a man
               she was tailing.

               He made no effort to hide and a few lone people nodded in
               recognition at him as they scurried out of his way as he
               sauntered past them. But why should he hide? He had just left
               the only 'law' in a forty mile radius and was now walking
               down the streets of his kingdom. It was unlikely the few
               remaining agents would leave their bullet riddled, car bomb
               blackened, little brick fortress and follow him into his
               world.

               Still there were other factions in the city and the uneasy
               day to day alliance was crumbling from the distant upheaval
               amongst the Bimbo and Hans. He may have walked with ease and
               unconcern but his small black eyes and ear-less skull kept up
               a constant swivel of darting piercing scrutiny of the shadows
               he passed.

               Downtown was always sanctuary. Only the feds could be hit
               there. All the other factions considered it vital for
               business to keep it free of open strife. Business there acted
               almost like fronts for embassies between families and
               factions and trade around the world. 

               But downtown was only four blocks and once you were past
               that. Well...

               A car started up suddenly and lurched down the street. He
               didn't even wait for it to declare if it was just a man
               running to the mart for some cold medicine for his kid or a
               car of thugs. He bull rushed and grabbed the manhole cover
               off the street and flung it like an Olympiad disk. It smashed
               through the car window even as the machine gun fire began to
               erupt from the figures leaning out of the side windows. The
               car swerved and recovered and raced on its way. 

               He had already jumped down into the storm drains before it
               had even opened fire.

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               The storm sewers of Rowdy were notorious. Even the mutant
               laden sewers of Delta City could not compare to their vast
               size and complexity. 

               Vast concrete mansions had been built under Rowdy city.
               Privet subway tunnels existed. Huge subterranean warehouses
               shipped massive cargos of illicit trade. Black market goods
               were loaded and shipped out along underground railway lines
               that emerged and merged with topside railway lines many miles
               out side of the city and across state lines. Old coal and tin
               mines had been converted. The underworld of Rowdy dwarfed the
               upper world in size and modern technology.

               And yet in stretches it was a place of darkness and raw rock
               natural caves and caverns.
               A warren of blind eyed fish in hidden black lakes and strange
               creeping shapes which even the bogey men of upper Rowdy
               feared.

               The criminal elements fought endless wars of skirmishes down
               here. Small bands of armed thugs attacking the loading and
               unloading of contraband freight by other small groups of
               armed men. Raids for territory, for confiscation of white
               slavers hordes, for disruption of goods, for sabotage, and
               forced recruiting. 

               There was never any truce in the underworld of Rowdy and when
               the top side truces broke down the underworld became hell
               indeed. With pits filling with bodies and the smell of gun
               powder and nitroglycerin burning the nostrils of the lone
               survivors as the large scrubber fans struggled in vain to
               purge the air.

               There had been one unspoken law. One understanding mutually
               agreed upon by all involved. That mutants and mutated plants
               would never, ever, be imported from the sewers of Delta City
               to Rowdy. They had never been naturally present and none
               wanted them to be there.

               Just before the feds arrived topside the mutants had arrived
               underside. No one knew how it had happened. Some said there
               were miles upon miles of natural tunnels and underground
               rivers connecting Rowdy to Delta City and simple slow
               migration had occurred. Others said that Dragon Queen had
               been employed by the Taint family to strengthen their
               holdings in Rowdy. Others said she was self motivated to
               extend her own mutant empire to another slice of the pie. And
               still others said it was a shipment of mutiods being smuggled
               out to an overseas buyer that had escaped.

               No one knew what really had happened. Just suddenly one day a
               mutiod had been stumbled across and then some mutiod plants
               spotted. And then more and more. A strong combined operation
               had burned them out of the central tunnels and pushed them
               back into the old mine shafts. But they were still there and
               nothing could be done to get rid of them now.

               There were four active Aphrodite gene super heroines now
               operating in Rowdy that the feds had found and encouraged to
               work with them. That was a rather high number for such a low
               level of population. It was even more astonishing when the
               feds found out that the local Rowdy crime families had a
               number of super powered women working for them, as well as
               mutated males. Most of these were 'imported' into the on
               going slow simmering crime civil war, but it meant there was
               a lot of super power muscle moving about in the shadows and
               daylight of a rather small backwater city.

               It was becoming popular for the big time movers and shakers
               to hire their own personal body guard super heroine or
               mutated male and so whenever one of the big names showed up
               in town to gamble or ski or take in some down time spa
               relaxing while the heat in Delta City cooled down the number
               of super heroines could rise dramatically. There was nothing
               like watching two hugely breasted slim power houses battle in
               a cat fight flying up in the air of a casino's main lobby
               while their 'masters' exchanged quips and snide insults below
               them.

               But for all intensive purposes the city topside remained
               relatively quiet while the crime wars feudalistic aspects
               raged below. As such no one who wasn't getting paid to be
               there did not venture into those labyrinths of death.

               *************************************************************

               It was with some reluctance that Kat Grl dropped off the one
               story roof top of a Baskin Robbins and rolled to a standing
               stop next to the lip of the open manhole. 

               She licked her thick pillow lips and glanced around her at
               the empty street. Somewhere a dog was barking and she could
               still hear the fleeing car shifting gears in the distance. 

               She had never been down into the sewers before. Not when she
               was working solo pre-feds in her homemade off the rack suit
               of leather jacket and mechanic boots and pull over stocking
               hat and now in her high tech fed supplied costume. She was
               certain her lack of being dead had something to do with the
               fact that she had never ventured into those sewers. And she
               sighed as she now lowered her self down into the hole and
               spent several exasperating seconds trying to squeeze and tuck
               her massive mammaries through the manhole opening.

               How that huge bulk of a creature had so effortlessly dropped
               down through the tight opening was utterly beyond her and she
               grunted and rubbed her sore tits once she was off the ladder
               and standing on the concrete lip that ran along the edge of
               the storm water trough in the center of the round circular
               tunnel. 

               Wire basket lamps poorly lit the tunnel so she activated her
               night-vision lenses in her cowl so she could make out the wet
               boot prints of her quarry where he had splashed to the other
               side of the tunnel's water channel and made for a metal
               hatchway a dozen yards away from her.

               Kat Grl effortlessly leapt over the channel of brackish water
               and approached the metal hatchway. It was 'tagged' with the
               spray painted street graffiti of the Dishonored street gang.
               A low ranking bunch of thugs who worked as errand boys for
               the Lowe crime family interests in Rowdy.
               They currently held only three streets topside but had
               managed to extend their underworld domain to include over
               forty tunnels with fourteen storage rooms and one fortified
               loading subway bay platform. The subway was owned and
               operated by the Hans and as such the Dishonored and Lowe had
               to pay a toll to transport or use it. 

               The Lowe were interesting as they were part of a new wave of
               crime bosses who had no base in Delta City but carried enough
               global market clout to chisel their way into the Rowdy black
               market trafficking which had an infrastructure that spanned
               all of North and South America. 

               Delta City may have been the number one access point for all
               things global with its deep water ports and merchant
               international airports but for all things internal for the
               American continents it was Rowdy that had all the mass
               transit wheels in place. 

               The major crime families of Delta City had long ago built and
               maintained fortified gate houses in the underworld and
               fortress like loading platforms. They had sunk millions into
               high compression bullet drone trains that could whisk cargo
               hundreds of miles underground in mere minutes. To be unloaded
               and dispatched on air drones or loaded into legal commercial
               transports and delivered door to door often by postal
               employees. Guns, drugs, women, slaves, the latest video game
               three weeks before its release, anything could be bought and
               received. Anything could be paid to be stolen and delivered.
               Everyone was instantly a criminal wither they knew it or not,
               in an empire of greed.

               The fact that the Absorbing Man had just entered territory
               controlled and claimed by individuals currently at odds with
               his employers may have been his way to avoid some of those
               secure gate houses between him and more friendly territory or
               it may have been that he had an 'understanding' with the
               Dishonored that was above and outside of any petty wars.

               Kat Grl opened the hatchway door and looked down at the
               freshly mutilated bodies still somewhat housed in their
               Dishonored gang jackets and recoiled slightly in disgust. "Or
               it could just be that he is taking the straightest shortest
               distance between two points and destroying anything that gets
               in his way as he goes."

               Kat Grl crinkled her nose under her cowl mask and bit her
               lower lip of her exposed lower face while carefully tip
               toeing over the bloody remains of what must have been three
               or four armed men. It was hard to tell. So many pieces.

               Kat Grl moved forward down what was once a service tunnel
               that quickly lead into what was now being used as a storage
               room.
               A small electric transformer station was set on one side
               behind a mesh of chain link fencing. The walls were riddled
               with pipes and conduct housing. Junction boxes both on the
               concrete wall and steel grill floor forced one to bob and
               weave as they walked. There was a card board table with over
               turned folding metal chairs where the dead bodies had
               obviously been sitting when the hatchway had opened and they
               had rushed down the short tunnel to welcome their uninvited
               guest. A large radio handset was wired into an open junction
               box next to the table. They had been eating Peter Pan peanut
               butter out of an open jar with Ritz crackers and drinking
               generic light beer. 

               "What a last meal," the young teen thought as she moved
               quickly through the room cluttered with storage lockers and
               shipping crates. A few bloody boot prints showed that her
               prey had not hesitated but made a bee line to the only other
               exit to the room; another hatchway still open leading to
               another short service tunnel.

               That brief tunnel led her to another open hatchway which lead
               her to a larger flood control room. Here were the main
               controls to dozens of pumps and flood gates to regulate the
               storm drains in the immediate area. To control such a point
               was to 'earn' wages from the city to maintain the function of
               the machinery and make sure it ran properly. This meant
               either doing the daily tasks of maintenance and checking
               gauges and printouts or letting topside city workers down to
               do it while providing 'protection.' 

               Kat Grl doubted the Dishonored had the brain power to work
               the large humming machines and dynamos all around her now as
               she moved up the metal stair cases and along the catwalks of
               the large room. And this suspicion was reinforced when she
               over took a group of men in work overalls who seemed nervous
               and looking around them uneasily.

               "Which way," Kat Grl hissed in her practiced low throaty
               voice. The three men armed with clip boards and neckties,
               glanced over her and then pointed quickly in the direction
               leading to a lower walkway and a hatch.

               This hatchway had been locked and heavily blocked with
               overturned file cabinets but now the cabinets were twisted
               bits of metal lying about the walkway platform and the door
               had been wrenched half off its hinges. This meant another
               tight squeeze for the busty young girl who could not budge
               the rented door hatch.

               "For a guy who only had about a fifteen minute head start on
               me he is moving very fast," Kat Grl panted as she increased
               her stealthy tread as much as she dared and tried to catch up
               to at least an audio edge of her target if not visible one.
               Her tech enhanced cowl costume cat ears were tuned up quiet
               high and she puzzled that she could not pick up the heavy
               gait of such a large man who she was certain could not be
               THAT far in front of her.

               This access tunnel a combination of raised metal grate
               flooring and concrete walls made several sharp angle turns
               and had a number of hatchway doors leading off to small lone
               rooms full of cargo crates.

               There was no sign and no sound of the man she was pursuing
               and she felt both frustration and anxiety as she forced
               herself to stop at every door and search every small room
               lest he end up behind her. And she did NOT want this thing
               coming up behind her!

               The tunnel finally gave way to a small room full of bunk beds
               and lockers as well as stacks of cargo and a small kitchen
               and a full size refrigerator and a small standing freezer.
               There were a number of small tables and chairs set up around
               the room and open face storage racks full of weapons and
               ammunition boxes ringed the center support pillars.

               Another hatchway was open at the far side of the room and a
               short staircase lead down. She inched down it 'feeling' the
               expanse beyond and the larger rush of open air. The staircase
               ended on a subway platform that was heavily fortified with
               sandbags and two mounted machine guns. There were tarp
               covered cargo crate piles and several dollies and handcarts
               and a propane forklift on the platform. A chain link mesh
               fence had been rigged up from platform to ceiling with the
               only opening being a heavy gate that could be rolled back
               exposing the subway tracks. 

               The large man was there looking all the world like a normal
               transit commuter on a diminutive doll house scale subway
               platform. He was holding a telephone receiver up to his too
               large face and looking down at the ground as he apparently
               listened to it.

               Around him lay the yanked apart remains of what may have been
               four or five Dishonored gang members. A severed arm at her
               boot toe still held a smoldering cigarette in its lifeless
               fingers.

               She clung back in the shadows and watched as the large man
               reached over and pulled off the heavy chain and lock on the
               gate as if he were plucking cut flowers out of a vase and
               then he thumbed a switch and the gate drew back with clacking
               rusty moan. He continued to stand there for a while and then
               he put down the telephone receiver and waited patiently. She
               waited as well.
               After twenty minutes the sound of a distant subway train
               oozed up the dark tunnel until it grew into a roar and rush
               and screamed up to the platform drawing its long metal and
               glass shape to a reluctant stop. The large man waited until
               it came to a complete halt and then opened the sliding door
               in front of him and boarded the train.

               As soon as he was on board the door slid shut and the train
               started to lurch again into motion. Kat Grl bit her lower lip
               and narrowed her eyes, then creeping as fast as a running
               crouch would let her, she raced up to the now rapidly leaving
               train and leapt upon its side.

               Her extended razor claws sunk into the soft aluminum metal
               and she wiggled her way up on to the roof of the empty train
               car as it now raced down the dark tunnel.

               *************************************************************

               Upon the roof of the train car she reached up and dialed down
               her ears as the rush of wind and clacking of the car was
               rather deafening with them still being turned up. The car
               below her was well lit and full of cargo. Most of the cars
               that had whipped past her had been full of cargo as she had
               made her leap. 

               Now she carefully braved the shuddering jolting car rocking
               underneath her and the slick grooved train car roof to inch
               forward. Her claws were sharp and could gouge out a bank
               vault lock but the rushing force of the wind dragging on her
               body and the side ways rapid back and forth rocking made all
               progress nerve racking. One lost hold and she would be
               slipped off the car roof like a wrapper tossed out a speeding
               car window and she did not relish the idea of finding out
               what a wrapper felt like when it made it back to earth after
               its sideways tornado journey.

               She had counted the cars that had passed her before she had
               made her leap and she now carefully made her way back to the
               roof of the car that she reasoned housed her quarry. She
               turned up one ear and pressed it to the roof, but this one
               did not seem to be much of a talker. So she turned it back
               down and waited.

               The train stopped twice. Both times cargo was shunted and
               shuffled off and on by armed men, but her man did not get off
               and no one got on in his car. Though a couple of men got on
               with their cargo and rode in those cars.

               The third stop was at a very large station. This was not a
               mere platform. The train wheezed in to an area full of
               several tracks and a platform on either side. A switching
               yard there were two other trains lying dormant and even a
               large crane raising and lowering cargo nets. 

               The large man forced his door open and dropped off out of his
               car to the cinder covered ground and made his way across
               several open tracks moving toward the platform on that side.

               The platforms were bright but the dark switching yard was not
               lit by over head lights. A few spot lights were in place but
               the workers wore lighted hard hats or carried belt clip
               lanterns.

               The train started to rumble forward again and Kat Grl rolled
               off its roof and leapt aside making quickly for a lone unused
               forklift and hoping she was not spotted by anyone still on
               the train as she rolled behind it.

               Her target made it to the platform and made his way up on it
               were a dozen heavily armed and armored men chatted with him.

               There were mounted machine guns and some metal pill boxes and
               a couple of guys carrying flame throwers but the platform was
               open and not enclosed behind a wire fence as the last three
               she had seen were. It was several stories high and had raised
               metal box offices and large garage doors one of which was
               open and forklifts could be seen running cargo about inside
               what looked like an enormous warehouse.

               There were at least three small patrols with armed men with
               dogs that she could see between her and the platform as well
               as a dozen men working on the stationary trains.

               Kat Grl took a deep breath and started to hunchback crab-walk
               to the next clump of shadowy cover. She took one step and
               slammed her tits into the backside of a man in coveralls and
               clipboard drinking out of a thermos. She could smell the hot
               coffee spill over his chest and he suck his breath in angry
               surprised pain. She took him down with a sweep kick and then
               slipped on top of him burring his face in her crotch while
               she kneeled on his arms. He swatted and clawed hat her thighs
               and even tried to kick her in the back but his cries were
               muffled by her camel toeing muff and soon he was out like a
               light.

               Combat always got Kat Grl hot and combat that involved a
               man's face buried in her crotch had her almost as soaked down
               there as his shirt had been. She slipped off him and swung
               around the party with the dogs reaching into her belt pouch
               and spraying scent into the air from a small compressed
               canister. That would keep the dogs away as much as their
               masters tugs on their leashes would allow them to.

               She was nearing the well lit platform and she decided it was
               time to go up high. She jumped up and scaled a the back side
               of the working crane gaining the top of its cab before
               leaping off while firing her grappling hook. 

               The grappling hook was a one off. You got one shot and then
               you could use the re-coil motor to pull you along it or
               something to you, but then that was it. There was no second
               compressed air cylinder to re-fire it as it took over forty
               minutes to reload and you had to take the entire thing apart
               to do that. So you got one shot.

               She fired in mid-leap and missed her target by a mile. The
               hook hit and bounced and caught on a lower support strut and
               she hit the re-coil taking the pain in her wrists with a firm
               bite on her tongue and converting the twisting torque into a
               semi-graceful half pike of her slender body and long legs.

               The battery powering the grappling hook died or the motor
               seized up with still a third of her ascent uncompleted and
               she swung her body in a smooth arc not forty feet above the
               men on the platform as she had planed but about fifteen feet
               and she cringed as her shadow fell just behind the group of
               men as she let go of the grappling hook and reached out with
               both clawed hands to latch upon a steel girder upright. 

               She was in the heavy shadows of the upper offices but not in
               the cross beams but instead clinging to a vertical I-beam.
               She was not forty feet above the men below but less than
               fifteen feet above them. One guy stretching to yawn might see
               her or a sneeze upon her part would bring all those laser
               sights upon her.

               No one seemed to notice her somewhat less than graceful
               maneuver of position but the large man with no ears tilted
               his head in her direction and then straightened back up and
               made his way along the platform to a gated area where guards
               opened the gate and let him proceed up the staircase beyond.

               He was going topside!

               *************************************************************

               Kat Grl has Aphrodite active gene enhanced agility and
               healing and strength. She out punch a heavy weight and take a
               blow from a baseball bat across the back of her head that
               would shatter the bat and leave her shaking it off. She could
               flip her body through a meat grinder of moving gears in a
               tower clock with only a few deft touches of her finger tips
               and toes upon the moving gears. But she possessed no super
               powers like flight or super strength or heat vision or such.

               Her new costume helped amp up her already enhanced sensory
               perception with built in gadgets and the military textiles
               gave her extra 'umph' from blunt force attacks. But mainly
               she relied heavily on her quickness and agility which made an
               Olympic gymnast look like a klutzy clod in comparison. 

               She could outmaneuver and dodge just about anything and she
               had enough stamina and endurance to win the Kentucky derby;
               as any boy fortunate enough to get between her thighs could
               tell you once he recovered enough of his breath in the
               hospital to do it!

               Her super flexibility and strength let her rush about in dead
               sprints with a pair of watermelons on her chest that would
               have crippled about anyone else. Other than some serious face
               slaps from her over endowed upper body and some serious
               blockage of vision of anything directly below her chest or
               butt she found her boobs and butt an incredible weapon in
               fighting crime. They distracted just about anyone man or
               women when she popped up in sight and they worked incredibly
               well when she was in her civilian guise in getting in to
               anywhere she shouldn't be and for getting away without paying
               for almost everything she couldn't afford.

               She had no hesitation in using her 'gifts' to her advantage
               and even the most cold blooded adversary would hesitate if
               she popped out a tit as he was pulling back for a punch.

               As such her costume consisted of a pull over cowl with cat
               ears and built in large lenses. The ears could be turned up
               or down for picking up sound but could also be tuned into
               various radio frequencies and cell phone conversations. The
               cat eye lenses could be turned to night vision and some
               enhanced telescopic or microscopic sight as well as a weak
               form of x-fay vision and heat signature trails.

               A wire ran down her cowl to her utility belt where powerful
               batteries powered the cowl. And where she kept a few smoke
               grenades and some sneezing and gas grenades and some various
               chemical deterrent sprays for dogs and men. She kept a one
               shot grappling hook clipped here as well. And a back up pair
               of electrified knuckles in case her gloves razor claws
               couldn't cut it.

               She kept a truncheon which could be extended clipped to the
               backside of her belt. It hung down between her butt cheeks
               and gave her suit a stubby 'tail' look. 

               Her suit was made of high tech military grade material that
               was almost impossible to cut or tear or puncture. It didn't
               lessen the impact of blows as much as a padded suit would
               have but she preferred the skin tight feel of her suit. It
               was like she was walking around naked. As if someone had just
               spray painted her body with black and purple paint. You could
               see every nook and crack and she ate that up.

               Her heeled boots were thigh highs and she wore them pulled
               over her body suit. The suit was designed so she could access
               her 'secret weapons' her tits at any second so the one piece
               rose up to just nipples and no further.
               In fact, her large nipples and puffy areola's spent most of
               their time above the sunken in lip of her suits top then
               covered up below it. Not that would have made much difference
               as the entire suit was semi-transparent. One could easily see
               her pubic patch and her ever hard clit but the suit cast no
               reflected light and she became almost invisible in it in the
               shadows.

               Her gloves ran up to her shoulders and tended to blend in
               with her cowl and the back of her one piece. So only her
               lower face and upper chest were left uncovered. 

               She wore her long auburn hair pulled back in a pony tail and
               it fell to her tailbone. Where it shook and swayed whenever
               her large gray eyes flashed with anger.

               She got angry easily and a lot. She was stubborn and willful.
               And the only thing that had kept her alive in her brash ways
               was the very powerful pheromones her Aphrodite active gene
               body whispered around her like an invisible cloud of lust. On
               dozens of occasions when her reckless enthusiasm should have
               resulted in her death she had instead found the business end
               of a different sort of 'gun' being thrust into her blushing
               face.

               She was utterly unlike her Delta City counterparts in that
               she enjoyed sex immensely and took tremendous vocal pleasure
               out of her forced sex rapes at the hands of those that had
               defeated her; so much so that she often 'wore out' those men
               and made her escape easily. 

               To this it must be added in her defence that there was no
               such thing as taking any criminal into custody. The local
               police and courts were criminals themselves. There was not
               even a hint of outward show of compliancy with the law. The
               cops and courts were used to keep the citizens in line and
               keep them showing up at work on time. 

               She could not defeat someone and then handcuff them and call
               the police. The police would merely take the handcuffs off
               the criminals and put them on her! No there was no penal
               system to make use of; she had to 'upset' the criminal order
               of things, disrupt the ease of their existence, and trip up
               their plans and deeds.

               In such a world using her body to sexually exhaust an
               opponent who had beaten her in combat or taken her in ambush
               and then escape was nothing to be ashamed of; it was in fact
               yet another brilliant success on her part of now being free
               to hit them again and again.

               Her's was a true guerrilla war of vigilantism. No courts or
               cops just bad guys needing a good pounding and if she could
               do that with her fists or her pussy it did not matter to her
               so long as at the end of the day their plans were upset,
               their goals in ruins, their power a little more chipped and
               scared than it had been the day before.

               In this way she could afford to loose many so called moral
               battles and in doing so ultimately win the war. She could
               trade a gang rape for an escape and knowing that the thugs
               plots for that night had been thoroughly uprooted and stopped
               and smile with proud glee at that success. She greedily
               traded a blowjob for information or a handjob as a thank you
               for some passerby's help and support. 

               This made her tremendously popular and successful in her
               endeavors where others only produced failure and their own
               corpses floating in a ditch. 

               Her active Aphrodite gene kept her constantly horny and in a
               state of perpetual tingling lust. The inevitable sex of
               defeat that her Delta City super sisters found demeaning and
               shameful she found as one of her job perks and thoroughly
               enjoyed it.

               If she could have fucked Rowdy city into a law abiding
               submission and constitutional compliance she would have done
               it with shouts of "BINGO!" Which is what she always shouted
               when she climaxed or had a joygasm of excitement. But the
               greed of the criminals in Rowdy was too rotten to the core to
               fuck away and the roots too spread around the globe to orgasm
               to sweet oblivion. 

               Sex was just one tool she had at her disposal and it was the
               one she used when all else failed. It had its place and time
               and hanging off a steel girder fifteen feet above a platform
               of a dozen armed men was not it.

               Kat Grl grunted as she pulled herself up the girder and made
               for the horizontal support beams of the metal office
               buildings above her and above them where she kept her eyes on
               the large fans and ducts leading topside.

               *************************************************************

               Topside proved to be something of a surprise. Rowdy was
               basically a small town with several industrial parks set at
               its edges and then expanses of farming communities beyond
               that. There was the river and its docks and the train
               stations which shipped grain and goods rather than people
               upon its long snaking lines. There was a very large
               entertainment section set up for the wealthy when they were
               in town and to keep the sequestered of their behalf from
               getting bored in the sticks.
               And then there was the mountains sloping up behind the town.
               These were covered in privet chateaus and ski lifts and
               hunting lodges again for the wealthy who tended to live in
               Delta City most of the year round.

               There were no 'rich' houses inside Rowdy it's self. The
               entire population was lower middle class. They ate microwaved
               dinners and watched game show re-runs. The opera and theatres
               catered to the rich criminal class or wealthy Delta City
               socialites in town for the weekend who stayed at the rich
               hotel next to the airport or up in their mountain side
               mansions.

               So it was with considerable surprise that Kat Grl found
               herself squeezing her huge tits out from an access shed hatch
               and into the opulent garden grounds of some walled estate. 

               She could see the mountains over the wall even in the dim
               overcast night sky so she knew she was still in the city of
               Rowdy but she had never heard of any well to do house inside
               the city limits its self. Some of the business fronts
               downtown had some very expensive tastes once past the privet
               guards inside but this was obviously a lavish estate and she
               was shocked to not have known of its prior existence.

               The subway access stairs debouched in to the extravagant
               grounds and Kat Grl made her way around the lone guard
               standing next to it and edged past another two talking
               together with tethered dogs on leashes to reach the main
               house its self. 

               It was a ranch style house with just one floor and the high
               walls hid it from any possible sight from a passerby but its
               large layout suggested that people in its neighborhood had to
               have some guess as to its presence.

               As she approached the house the guard dogs got a good whiff
               of her on the down wind and one popped wood and began to hump
               the second guard dog while the confused guard cursed it and
               the other guard dog handler began to laugh.

               She used her mini-computer on her belt to hack the outer
               perimeter security only to find it was off and she slid open
               the glass door and entered the house.

               The enclosed glass patio lead directly into the main room
               where the Absorbing Man was just finishing up plopping out
               the young Webb girl onto a glass coffee table. Other than the
               fact she was naked and dazed she appeared unharmed. The room
               was filled with several men; most of them heavily armed and
               well dressed. 

               Kat Grl recognized a number of the men from the Hans family
               and blinked. 

               "You made a wise choice in switching sides, Absorbing Man.
               For brining us the girl instead of taking her to the Bimbo
               family stooges we will make sure you get a much better cut of
               things from now on."

               The Absorbing Man said nothing.

               "So, should we escort the young lady back to her worried
               papa?"

               "Not quiet yet. Mister Webb has been a good if... reluctant
               associate for us in the past. But what we really need now in
               this brand new future is a partner. Someone a bit more
               committed to our cause."

               "You sure about that, Tourniquet? I mean you run this by the
               home office back in Delta City? Because I am not sure Mister
               Hans is going to like this?"

               "I run the day to day here in Rowdy NOT any of the Hans!
               These are new times now. This place isn't just a three day
               stop over or hideyhole for Delta City old families. We are
               making some serious money of our own out here now."

               "That's big talk. And dangerous talk too. Not sure if we all
               here agree to play it that way."

               "Absorbing Man, this place belongs to our reluctant friend
               here. You want it?"

               Without a word the Absorbing Man shot forth a hand the size
               of a large ham and smothered the face of the armed man across
               from him. In an instant small bloody cones erupted out of the
               man's skin and clothes and then he simply erupted and twisted
               into pieces.

               "Impressive," the man referred to by the dismembered man as
               Tourniquet mused. "You sir, are going to go far. The place is
               yours. Keep the girl tight. It is long past time for us to
               make our move and declare our independence from those Delta
               City snobs. But when we do we are going to need muscle like
               yours to not only make them see our side of things but to
               take advantage of all those other gangs in town and make them
               swing our way or the highway."

               All the armed men plowed out the front door and into waiting
               limos which drew off with whines into the night. Leaving only
               the Absorbing Man and the naked teen girl and Kat Grl in the
               shadows brooding a plan.

               "You going to come in?" The Absorbing Man turned to a
               surprised Kat Grl in the shadows and glared at her, "or do I
               drag you in by your tail."

               Kat Grl slowly and cautiously entered the room. "I didn't
               think you could talk, big guy. Makes me wonder what else you
               can do." Kat Grl put as much bounce into her tits as she
               could as she slinked across the room edging toward the now
               moaning girl on the glass coffee table while trying to keep a
               sofa between her and the huge mass before her.

               "I have been here before. Not here, here." He jabbed a finger
               the size of a sausage downward at the carpeted floor. "But
               here. In Rowdy. In the same situation. But I was Tourniquet
               back then. I was the guy calling the shots and thinking it
               was time for some 'independence'. That was twenty years ago.
               I gathered up some of the gangs. I had plans within plans. I
               got riddled in the back with holes and tossed down into the
               sewers. And I ended up like this." The behemoth raised up his
               trunk like hands and looked at them. The ceiling must have
               been fifteen feet high and his head was damn near brushing
               it.

               Kat Grl had reached the edge of both the couch and the coffee
               table and she could feel her thighs tightening ready for
               liquid steel action. She could shoot her steel claws like
               darts. They carried quiet a bit of punch at close range. Of
               course it took the nano-bots in her gloves several minutes to
               grow more of them and after three sets you were de-clawed
               kitten.

               "Take the girl and go."

               Kat Grl froze in confusion.

               "Do it now. Before they think to send back some of their men
               to secure the place and keep a better eye on me."

               "Excuse me? I am a little confused. Didn't you just kid nap
               her and double cross the Bimbo family? Now you want to let
               her go and double cross the Hans family?" Kat Grl raised up
               out of her combat crouch. Usually the pheromones didn't kick
               in this fast. Was he already willing to trade the girl for
               her hot sticky wild screaming teen sex?

               "It's the past all over again. Slightly different but the
               same. I don't mind being me but I don't want anyone else to
               end up like me. I had family back then. Here in Rowdy. The
               town burned for days. Open gang warfare. I don't really want
               to see that again. I don't mind the thugs cutting each other
               down but I lost all my family and so did many others. If you
               take the girl back to Webb then it ends before it begins."

               "Ah, okay. But what happens to you?"

               "Nothing. I kidnapped the girl. I brought her here to Rowdy.
               I received new orders and followed them. They lead me to the
               Hans. So the new orders must have been faked by the Hans.
               Amongst the Hans and confusion the girl escaped with the aid
               of a super heroine... with huge tits." The creature before
               her smiled and Kat Grl smiled with him.

               "I prefer awesome tits but huge works. Think you could call
               me a cab, big boy?"

               "What do I look like? A doorman? Remember sweets, next time
               you decide to follow me it may not end so well for you. After
               all, you look good enough to eat." And the massive shape
               leaned down and grinned a Cheshire cat smile that looked like
               it could swallow a couch a glass table and two teen girls;
               and Kat Grl grabbed the groggy naked teen and flipped her
               over her shoulder and ran out of the house never looking
               back.
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