Finder's Fees
Jun. 20th, 2023 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_a_wonder[Vanessa Kapatelis stares up at the blank white ceiling of her cell. The whole area is illuminated with harsh fluorescent lights that gleam off the chromed metal features of the room -- the frame of the observation window, the surgical machines and implements, the mechanically locked door, and the operating table that she's currently strapped down on. Vanessa is hooked up to monitoring devices and has been scanned by several free-floating mechanical devices that zip back and forth from small access ports in the walls. These ports would be too small for a human to access.]
[Vanessa is doing her best to breathe steadily and calmly, trying to find a calm center... a way to look at her current situation without panic. It's difficult, though. She never expected a discussion about kinks and past sexual experience to lead to being kidnapped, but Vanessa's life has been strange ever since her mother brought Wonder Woman home with her, back when Vanessa was thirteen. In a way, being kidnapped to once again be unwillingly operated on and turned into a cybernetic version of the Silver Swan is par for the course.]
[Is there any way that Wonder Woman will be able to find out about Vanessa's kidnapping? Perhaps, but it's not very likely. And it's even less likely that Diana will be informed in time -- 'in time' meaning, before the physical operations and the brainwashing begin. If Veronica Cale can hire a shapeshifting metahuman like Gemini to kidnap her, and then increase the payment within a day when demanded, then she likely also has enough money to hire Dr. Edgar Cizko.]
[Dr. Psycho... Vanessa shudders at the thought. He's a powerful telepath, and he has a personal grudge against Vanessa. Her mental defenses are naturally strong, something he hadn't expected in his first forays at tormenting her. But they have clashed often enough that he can get in and do damage quickly, before she can throw him back out. And his expertise is likely needed to brainwash her into the raging monster that is the Silver Swan.]
You are going to regret this, [Vanessa says to the empty room, and the recording devices that are no doubt present if out of her line of sight.] Diana may not come for me, but I won't make things easy for you.
[As far as Vanessa can tell, she's still within the same facility that Gemini delivered her to -- there was no being knocked out, and no transportation that she endured while awake. (She felt that tickle when Gemini's bladed arm was against her throat, but doesn't know that a tiny piece of Gemini's substance was transferred onto her throat. It's still there, having escaped detection by the scientists and their machines).]
[Vanessa is doing her best to breathe steadily and calmly, trying to find a calm center... a way to look at her current situation without panic. It's difficult, though. She never expected a discussion about kinks and past sexual experience to lead to being kidnapped, but Vanessa's life has been strange ever since her mother brought Wonder Woman home with her, back when Vanessa was thirteen. In a way, being kidnapped to once again be unwillingly operated on and turned into a cybernetic version of the Silver Swan is par for the course.]
[Is there any way that Wonder Woman will be able to find out about Vanessa's kidnapping? Perhaps, but it's not very likely. And it's even less likely that Diana will be informed in time -- 'in time' meaning, before the physical operations and the brainwashing begin. If Veronica Cale can hire a shapeshifting metahuman like Gemini to kidnap her, and then increase the payment within a day when demanded, then she likely also has enough money to hire Dr. Edgar Cizko.]
[Dr. Psycho... Vanessa shudders at the thought. He's a powerful telepath, and he has a personal grudge against Vanessa. Her mental defenses are naturally strong, something he hadn't expected in his first forays at tormenting her. But they have clashed often enough that he can get in and do damage quickly, before she can throw him back out. And his expertise is likely needed to brainwash her into the raging monster that is the Silver Swan.]
You are going to regret this, [Vanessa says to the empty room, and the recording devices that are no doubt present if out of her line of sight.] Diana may not come for me, but I won't make things easy for you.
[As far as Vanessa can tell, she's still within the same facility that Gemini delivered her to -- there was no being knocked out, and no transportation that she endured while awake. (She felt that tickle when Gemini's bladed arm was against her throat, but doesn't know that a tiny piece of Gemini's substance was transferred onto her throat. It's still there, having escaped detection by the scientists and their machines).]
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Date: 2023-10-06 11:45 pm (UTC)Not long after and Wonder Woman drops down out of the clouds, landing on two feet on the building roof and shooting the patrolling guards a ferocious stare.] Where is she? [Diana demands angrily,] I'll only ask once, where is Vanessa?
[In fact she knows exactly where she is courtesy of the piece of herself attached to Vanessa's throat, the questions purely for the guards and whatever security cameras trained on her. As expected the only answer she gets is the guards firing at her, the amazon's
carefully copiedlook of focussed determination setting into place as their bullets ping off herrubbermagic gauntlets. Unhooking the lasso from her belt with amimickedpractised ease, Diana whips it at the first guard, the golden coils wrapping around him, hefting into the air and hurling him bodily at the other guard to crash into a groaning heap.The lasso already disengaged, Diana sets off at a run across the rooftop, alarms already blaring as she kicks in the steel door to the stairs with ease and descends into the building. While she might know exactly where Vanessa is Gemini doesn't know the exact layout of the building and in any case getting lost will only help sell her act as Wonder Woman.]