The crew of the Iron Vulture stood outside the medical bay, waiting to hear if Don Karnage was going to be alright. From what they knew, he had been exposed to radiation from Hacksaw's plutonium heart. Ugly Mug paced back and forth, trying to make since of how Shere Khan could have created an android. And if that was possible, then could there be more of them?
The door to the medical bay opened and out stepped Stinky Boot. The crew looked at him with grim faces, they were fearing the worst, but Stinky Boot's smile brought hope to the crew. "He will live, but he is very weak right now," he explained calming the crew.
"So what's our next move?" Peg Leg Meg asked Stinky Boot. The ship's medic had no idea on what was going happen. All he knew was that Captain Karnage needed rest and that meant the crew would have to be on their own for awhile.
However, Rebecca wasn't fairing any better. She was still having nightmares about Shere Khan. The dream always played out the same. There would be that evil tiger, he would charm her before raping her, then she would find herself pregnant with his child. Then, she would wake up and cry. Rebecca looked out the window after crying for a bit. All she wanted was to see her daughter again, but with the mission of stopping Khan from taking over the world made that impossible, but fate had different plans.
As the crew went about trying to find Shere Khan, the evil tiger was already nearing a new place to dock and get supplies. A lone scout plane spotted the Khan's air ship and radioed the Iron Vulture. Peg Leg Meg jumped up from her seat on the bridge and quickly changed course. If they hurried, they might have a chance at catching Shere Khan with his pants down.
The island of Santa Brio was nice place to set up shop for fishing and oil drilling. Huge sea tankers slowly worked their way around the bay, trying hard not to hit any of the huge fishing vessels. As the dock crews went about their business, they began to shift their gaze toward the channel. Coming slowly into port was the Iron Vulture. Many dock workers thought that the sun plus the heat was making them see things, but it was the massive air ship run by the great Don Karnage. When the Iron Vulture made its landing, out stepped the crew, they were being led by Jasmine.
A dock supervisor approached her and the pirates. He didn't care who they were as long as their money was good. "It's five gold coins to dock that thing you call an air ship," he grumbled. Jasmine and the pirates looked at each other, then the supervisor added, "And I shall need to know your name and rank."
Jasmine smiled and looked at the grumpy supervisor. "First mate Jasmine Karnage, and don't use that tone with me," she warned, then snapped her fingers as Ugly Mug walked up and pulled out his wallet.
"Make sure the ship is fueled and supplied by the time we get back," he said, handing the dock supervisor three times as many gold coins as he had charged them.
Now, one would have be a fool to accept that much money from a pirate, but the this dock supervisor wasn't know for honesty, unless the price was right. With a smile he said to Jasmine and crew, "Welcome to Santa Brio." The beautiful vixen bowed her head in thanks to the dock supervisor and hurried off with the pirates.
As the pirates went about their own business, Jasmine felt like seeing her father and mother. They didn't know about Anna being kidnapped by Shere Khan, but she knew that they would stop at nothing to get their granddaughter back. Hailing a cab, Jasmine headed for her family home. When the cab stopped, the beautiful vixen pained the fair and rushed through the gates to be met not by her mother and father, but by her loser husband, Richert Logan Smith. When he saw her, he was overtaken by joy.
"Jasmine, you're alive, I was so worried," he said rushing over to her. Before she could react, he grabbed her and tried to kiss her, but Jasmine pushed him away.
"Richert! don't get all romantic and smoochy with me," she growled staring daggers at him. " I know what you did when the pirates boarded our plane."
Richert looked rather uneasy as he recalled what he did.
"Yeah, you know what I am talking about," Jasmine continued. "You ran off and locked yourself in the restroom with your assistant."
Richert frowned. What was Jasmine accusing him of? Cheating no doubt. She must have been talking about the time he had been caught kissing Serena Moon at that business party before Anna's second birthday. Looking at his wife, Richert slapped Jasmine across the cheek, causing let out a cry of pain.
"You bitch!" he roared at a whimpering Jasmine. "It was one time, and I just didn't want the pirates to steal your father's will that Serena was keeping safe." Then he went into the house and locked himself in the bedroom.
Well, being slapped by her husband really made Jasmine mad, and she immediately began to come up with a plan to get even with Richert. While she did this, Hacksaw had tracked down Shere Khan to his private ship at the docks only to discover he was entertaining a very sexy white cat in a very sexy red bikini named Shelia.
"It's so big, Mr. Khan. I never seen a yacht this size." Shelia smiled, being very lucky to be treated to lunch with Shere Khan. Things were really looking up for Shelia. Who knew, maybe she would get a chance to spend the night with the wealthy tiger.
"I've given the crew the day off my dear, but the ship is fully automated," Khan said as he spooned some Beluga caviar onto his cracker. "Shall we go for a short cruise and have a wild time in the open water?" He looked up at Shelia who was thinking about something else. "Or maybe some wide fun in the bedroom?" he asked.
Before Shelia could replied, the sound of grinding metal caused the good mood to turn into a nightmare.
"How's the caviar, Khan? Rich and delicate?" Hacksaw said as he stepped out of the shadows to reveal his new form to Khan and Shelia. "Just melts in your mouth, doesn't it?"
Shelia gasped in horror as Hacksaw appeared in front of them. "You like my new look? I hope you do, because it's the last thing you'll ever see."
Shere Khan shook his head. His day was already ruined by the android coming by unannounced, and scaring his pretty kitty. "Is there a problem, Hacksaw?" he asked, trying not to look annoyed.
Hacksaw turned to his left to hold an apple in his left hand as he effortlessly crushed it. "I can't taste anymore." He furiously stated, then stared at a vase of flowers on the table and yanked them out of the vase. "I can't smell."Then, he faced Shelia and said with a frown, "I can't... can't... FEEL!" He tossed the table aside, picked up Shelia in the chair and threw her overboard. Hacksaw smiled as he saw the sharks swarm Shelia and eat her bone and all. Now there was just one more person he had to deal with. Turning to Shere Khan with a pissed off look and says, "Now, it's your turn."
"You didn't think I'd leave you like this, did you? I told you it was temporary." Shere Khan scoffed at Hacksaw's threat.
Hacksaw grabbed a hold of him. "Liar! The doctor can't do anything for me!"
"Maybe not now, but someday. I got people all over the world working on this. It'll take time, but why do you care? You're practically immortal. So, go ahead. Kill me if you want to, but what then?" Khan calmly asked as he moved Hacksaw's hands away from him as Hacksaw had a puzzled look on his face.
"You don't know how this feels. It's driving me crazy!"
"So are you," Khan mumbled under his breath.
Later that night, Shere Khan was hosting a party for all the rich business tycoons of Santa Brio. One of the guests that was attending was Richert and his assistant Serena Moon. As the two foxes talked and mingled with the crowds, the pirates, Don Karnage and Jasmine watched them, waiting for when Richert would take Serena somewhere to be alone. It did take long as her cheating husband headed to one of the unoccupied studies.
But as she was about to fallow them, Harmond walked up to her. Jasmine forced a smile on her face and pretended to act like she didn't see Khan's investor.
"You're looking festive today," Harmond stated sarcastically, with her fingertips rubbing Jasmine's shoulder. "I sure hope a picture of you exposing your cheating husband makes the front page of the local newspaper. The people would love to see how stylish their new mayor's son-in-law is."
Jasmine continued her forced smile, "Thanks. I try my best to be stylish whenever possible."
"Really? I didn't realize that walking around a business-oriented party with a loaded .44 in your purse was in style. I guess I have some catching up to do with all the latest fashion trends."
"At least I didn't suck someone's dick to get a good paying job," Jasmine replied with annoyance. "And soon, Donovan and I get to go back to our lives."
"I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but your boyfriend really does have a wandering eye. I've seen him checking out some of the more mature women in the crowd. And believe it or not, I've seen him glance in your mother's direction a few times, especially at her marvelously sculpted legs."
"Leave him out of this!" Jasmine snapped. "Nobody is perfect, remember?"
Harmond nodded, "And I fully intend to watch him betray you like Richert has done."
It was a comment which made Jasmine gasp in horror. How dare that bitch make such a statement, and at this party of all places. Jasmine wondered how Harmond could possibly stoop so low.
"You some serious issues that you need to deal with," Jasmine said in a disgusted tone.
"And what exactly are you implying?"
"You obviously want to have sex with my boyfriend."
Harmond laughed, "Oh gosh no. That would be far too tame for a woman of my sexual abilities. I would want to go a couple of steps further than that. You know, tease him a little, play with him, give him what he so obviously wants."
The black froze in her tracks. She was completely caught off guard by those words. She felt appalled that another woman could ever say such a thing to her face. And she was just as shocked that those strange feelings she felt when she earlier that day when Don Karnage helped pick out her dress for the party.
If Jasmine was honest with herself, it was a slightly arousing fantasy. But it was just that, a fantasy. Nothing more. It was certainly nothing that she wanted to experience. Well, just not at the moment.
"Donovan loves me. He's my true love," Jasmine responded with a trembling voice. "You've got to be joking. I mean, he would never be seduced by a woman like you."
"I'm absolutely serious. Are you telling me that a warm-blooded woman with a healthy libido such as yourself has not been there to tend for his sexual needs? Your boyfriend is a handsome guy and I'm almost certain it's crossed your mind at some point while living with him."
Jasmine wanted to flat out deny it, but the feelings she had a short time ago prevented her from doing so. Even worse, that bitch Harmond was able to read her expressions and figure it out immediately.
"Shit," Sarah grinned nastily. "You have thought of this before, haven't you? Oh my, you're even sexier than I imagined. Good for you. I'm so glad that we could have this little meeting."
"You don't know what you're talking about."
"I don't? So you've never thought back to your first time with him?"
"I...I'm not that kind of woman," the vixen stammered. "I'm a respectable person. I'm a good mother. I could never see Donovan cheating on me."
"You're a secret slut Ms. Smith," Harmond confidently stated. "That's what you are. You're an overachieving cunt who tries so hard to act perfect and you've managed to suppress your sexual needs for all these years so that people would actually believe that you're so proper, but you're not proper. You're still that same whore from your high school days. I'm sure your boyfriend would love to help you rediscover that side of you."
Hearing those words lit a fire between her legs. Deep down she knew that Harmond was right. She knew that she had suppressed her sexuality for the sake of appearing as 'the perfect woman' in preparation for a business career. And she knew that she couldn't suppress it any longer.
At that very moment, Serena exited the privet study, fixed her dress and hurried away. The only ones who noticed her was Harmond and Jasmine. Both ladies knew what transpired in that study between Richert and Serena.
Harmond flashed a large smile, "Looks like your husband just had some fun."
The black vixen stared at the young investor for a moment. "I'll ruin that fool for cheating on me with that harlot. This is the last straw."
"You're making a wise decision Ms. Smith. I'm sure you'll even enjoy it. There's something about a wife giving her cheating husband a big dose of karma that drives me wild. It's the ultimate turn on and an unbelievable sensation."
Jasmine turned and scowled at Harmond. "Is that what this is about? A sick and twisted way for you to finally witness things that make you go wild?"
Harmond shamelessly nodded. "It is. I love these little things. I love reading about wives, husbands and swingers, real or not. And I've always wanted to see it happen, especially from a beautiful woman who has no choice but to destroy her husband's career."
Back in the study Richert was finishing getting dressed. There was a knock at the door. "It's not open, so go away." he said.
Jasmine came inside then, catching Richert trying to hide Serena's panties in his pocket. "Hey," Jasmine smiled as Richert turned pale. "What are you doing out here? I've been looking all over for you."
"Um, I had to make a call to the office. T here's, um... some stuff going down," Richert said.
"You're making Serena work on a Saturday?" Jasmine asked as she knew he was lying.
Richert made lie-making facial expressions. "But I didn't say Serena, why would you say Serena?"
Jasmine chuckled as Richert were unaware that Jasmine's father, Don Karnage, and Bradley Jones were listening in on their conversation. "'Cause she's your assistant. Who else would be at the office?"
"Right, yes. It was Serena," Richert chuckled. "Um, are we... Are you having a good time?"
"Yep. Yeah. Do you wanna come and dance with me, we'll grab a few drinks later?"
"Sure."
"Okay," Jasmine said as she secretly snatched Serena's panties away from Richert.
"Jasmine, wait, no. Jasmine, please, Jasmine. Don't," Richert pleaded.
Jasmine looked at the panties, smiled and looked up at her soon to be, ex-husband. "I'm disappointed, Richert."
"I can explain."
"Like, how can you explain this? Are you sleeping with her?" Jasmine questioned him as Richert looked at her with shamefulness and embarrassment. "I can't believe this."
"I swear it was just a little slip. Rome wasn't built in a day you know," Richert lied.
"Sleeping with your assistant? God, you're such a cliché."
From outside the study, Jasmine's father felt bad for his daughter as he only wanted what was best for her, but he could now see that Don Karnage was the best man for Jasmine and he was also Anna's biological father. "Jasmine, look-" Richert began.
"I knew it, man," Bradley said as he came into the study. "I knew you were a scumbag."
"You watch your mouth."
"No, don't talk to me like that. You know what?" Bradley began. "When you two were dating before Anna was born, I never liked you, but Jasmine stood up for you and she defended you and she told me to give you a chance. And the whole time, you've been cheating on her? I should be-" Bradley got a hold on Richert.
"You should what, little boy?" Richert asked. "You know what, you're just a 32-year-old burn out, that's all you are." Those words that Richert said hurt Bradley greatly as he felt nothing but numbness and wanted to set Richert on fire. But the cheating husband wasn't done yet. "Your mom's lucky she didn't get to see the way you turned out."
"Don't you ever talk about my mom!" Bradley retorted back as he sucker punched Richert.
"Okay, stop. Go back outside. Okay?" Jasmine asked Bradley as she turned to face Richert. "This is between us."
"Us? Jasmine, there's never been an us. You never wanted to have sex with me, and when I ever tried, you would go and spend time with Anna. Us? What a joke," Richert scoffed as he took Serena's panties back from Jasmine. "You know what, I only married you for your father's money. You stupid whore."
Jasmine started crying as Don and Jasmine's father came out along with Bradley to stop Jasmine from doing anything rash to Richert.
"I'm free at last," Jasmine chocked on her tears as Don hugged her for comfort.
"Jasmine?" Jasmine's father said, getting her full attention. "I'm sorry. I just wanted for you to be with somebody safe so that you and Anna would never, ever get hurt. But I can see now that Don will never hurt you like that." Then Jasmin's father looked at Karnage. "If you truly love my daughter, I will give my blessing Don."
Before a metal arm busted through the wall, grabbed Don Karnage, and pulled out of the room. It only took Don Karnage a minute to realize that his attacker was Hacksaw.
"Code Kill is here to crash the party and kill you, Captain Karnage!" the android laughed.
