In W'Kabi's seraglio, many gorgeous ex-villainesses live the high life. W'Kabi's never home...and that can get intense.
One of the dungeons is a snake pit. Down here, there are black mambas. There are anacondas. There are asps. There are fer-de-lances. There are vipers.
The ladies who attend to these creeps once worked for Serpent Solutions. Now, W'Kabi intends to rehabilitate them...with a left-hand ring. Alas, as far as most of W'Kabi's wives are concerned, the Ringer couldn't do a better job of that. Fuck, the Ringer couldn't do a better job if the Thunderbolts recruited him to do so.
Dangerously, Pearl Goss sets foot into the snake pit. For this, she transforms into organic pink pearl.
In this form, she changes the snakes' water. She moves freely about the snakes, fearing not their bite. First of all, their fangs won't penetrate the pearl. Second of all, her pink pearl form robs her of any body odor she'd have as a human. When the snakes flick their tongues, they smell nothing...and they let her be.
When Nico Minoru does it, she brings her Staff of One. With it, she calms the snakes, and forces them into a hibernation. She then transfigures their water into clean water. She then vanishes their excrement, and conjures big fat dead animals for them to feast on in her absence. For the smaller snakes, she conjures something smaller. These anacondas really don't want none, unless it's got buns...
Elisa Sinclair always does something similar, using Sight magic. Sylvie Lushton does something similar, too...with ásynja sorcery. Tanya Sealy does, too...with Darkforce magic. Giuletta Nefaria also uses Darkforce magic, when she does this.
When Karla Sofen does it, she uses the Moonstone to conjure a force field around herself. It protects her, as she makes a cleaner and sweet-smelling world in which the snakes to feed, drink, and be their horny selves.
When Eleanor Bishop does this, she does a Sydney Fox/Laura Croft. She brings her quiver. She's a clone of Kate Bishop. So, she fires many arrows, and strings the pit up with cables. Like a monkey, she climbs all over them, while changing the snakes' water. It's a bit less effective, but...you know the Hawkeyes. Like Sia, they love cheap thrills.
When Veronica Dultry does this, she starts by hypnotizing the snakes. She then becomes the dragonfly, flies around, and changes their water. If they wake, she hypnotizes them again.
When Justine Hammer does this, she brings her Crimson Cloak. She rides it like a flying carpet, all while avoiding the snakes. The bottom of the cloak shocks the snakes, if they strike it; just like an electrified dog's collar.
In a cellar, there's a wrestling ring. Here, many of W'Kabi's new wives fight one another. The usual patrons include Mary MacPherran, Melissa Gold, Karla Sofen, Hellen Feliciano, Davida DeVito, and Blanche Sitznski. They're all real titanesses among women. These six women usually fight each other to a standstill.
Sometimes, W'Kabi's other wives come down here to get stronger. These struggling stragglers include Pearl, Teresa Vasquez, Justine, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Faiza Hussain. Alas, they come down here less often. They're all more boxers, than wrestlers...
On the grounds, there's a shooting range. There's always much marksmanship to practice out here.
Ophelia Sarkissian comes out here to practice her striking. She surrounds herself with dummies of Silver Samurai and Wolverine...and gets to work, spraying venom as she goes along.
Melissa sets up jars, atop stumps. When she's ready, she rears back, and screams very loud. The jars shatter into sand each and every time.
Pearl comes out here to fling smaller pink pearls at things. She can generate them from her wrists, and from around her neck. She can generate them from her ears, too...but let's not get too graphic.
Maki Matsumoto never misses...rather like her mentor and lover, Dex...even so, she's never foregone an energetic attempt at marksmanship. First, she surrounds herself with a ring of wood. Then, she arrays as many glass bottles as she can all over them. The wood is stepped. She lines all of its surfaces with glass bottles.
Next, she gets a wire basket full of golf balls. One at a time, she throws them. There are just as many golf balls as there are bottles; she's made sure of that.
Eleanor comes out here to practice marksmanship, too. She uses trick arrows. And she doesn't just shoot normal targets with normal arrows. Most of her arrows may be one-trick ponies...but there's always more where they come from.
Becca Ryker's got a lot of prosthetics to speak of. She's got a shining blue light for a left eye. One of her arms is a cannon. With it, she destroys many wooden crates. Like a hardened Terminator, she terminates them, and reduces them to splinters. Her cannon rounds leave smoke in their wake. James Cameron couldn't do better than this, in her mind...
Valentina takes several firearms out here, and practices some marksmanship of her own. She seems to favor semiautomatic pistols. But she seems to also have fondness for Beretta firearms, and ivory-handled revolvers...
Faiza comes out here to practice marksmanship with her paralyzer pistol. She's inherited it from her predecessor, Nathan Garrett.
Janice Lincoln's got a lot of gunnery in the Beetle exosuit. She takes its gauntlets out here, wears them, and practices marksmanship with them. She has fun with both of them. Baron Zemo and Fixer really knew what they were doing, when they made this Beetle suit for her. They also knew what they were doing when they inoculated her with a nano-virus...
Cleo Nefertiti, a Coptic Arab, comes out here to practice marksmanship with her "venom bolts" She can shoot venom out of her hands. Where she is, many things dissolve. All they've got to do is get hit by one of her bolts. Princess Ahmanet couldn't do worse, in the new Mummy movie. Neither couldn't Gazelle in Kingsman: the Secret Service, for that matter...
Blanche comes out here to practice her striking, too. Hers leave a lot more rubble than Ophelia's do. But then, anacondas are bigger than vipers, aren't they?
Back in the bleachers, Maki finishes shattering all of the glass bottles. There are none left. And the wire ball basket is empty. If Maki were holding a smoking gun, this'd be the part where she blows across its bore. But of course, ANYONE can "never miss" with a PISTOL...
In a lab upstairs, Ms. Coriander does a Princess Shuri. She's the tech nerd of W'Kabi's harem. She does in W'Kabi's home what Shuri should never have to, considering that she has yet to upload her mind into an AI...like Edwin Jarvis and Arnim Zola. (Ms. Coriander does NOT recommend Zola.) Plus, Shuri's not omniscient. An AI could help her with that...if only... I've already said that.
Downstairs, and nude, Jennifer Takeda takes a hot bath. She's her own hot bath's power. Don't worry; she doesn't fart into the water. Rather, she can emit radioactive substances...including radiation. With her power, she heats the water and basks in it at the same time. With her power, it's hard to believe she's not kin to Radioactive Man...
In another cellar, Teresa Vasquez wears foot-long talons on her wrists, shrieks, spins, kicks, and slashes things with her venom-exuding talons. For this, though, she doesn't venomize the talons. There's no sense, after all, in wasting perfectly good venom on dummies...
By night, the seraglio's cloaked in darkness. And W'Kabi's STILL on his hunt...
Throughout the hallways, a sandy cloud moves. It'd be more in-place in the Arabian desert. Alas, that's not to say it doesn't have a place here...
At night, the dust clouds and the snake share the responsibility of "hallway patrol." In a seraglio, this is very important. Many lovely women live here. Any thief could break in during the night, and steal one of W'Kabi's jewels...or worse, their hearts...
At the end of the hall, the dust cloud settles, and takes a break. It rises, assembles, and takes the shape of a Vietnamese woman, materializing into her.
She's W'Kabi's final wife. She's Vinh Sa. If mischief happens out here at night, she knows it. Whether she REPORTS it or not, alas, is a different matter...
Down in the snake pit, there's an anaconda missing. She's Genghis Connie. There's just no telling where it could've gone...