"No, no, no!" a young woman who had just entered the threshold of adulthood banged her fists against the surface of a giant vault like metal door as she angrily cried out, "come on, open back up!"
This young woman was dressed rather peculiarly as she wore a full-bodied white on the top and black on the bottom spandex suit, with white lenses sowed in a white mask, and styling a pair of cyan ballet shoes decaled with cyan webs against a pair of magenta background flaps under her arms and her hood that she had up over her mask.
This young woman was the Ghastly Spider-Woman as read off the front pages of the Daily Bugle. With the proportionate strength of a spider along with a few other arachnid-like qualities Spidey tried her best to stick her hands on the slick surface of the vault like door as she leveraged her feet to stick on the side of the metallic wall next to it and tried to push it open like no tomorrow…but alas to no avail.
"You're wasting your time Web-Head," a smooth silky voice said behind Spider-Woman as the masked hero continued to try, and pry open the huge door. Standing a few feet away from the arguable hero was a definite thief, standing a foot or two taller and with a bust that heaved in a league of their own was the salaciously styled cat burglar the Black Cat.
Dressed in an inverted colored costume then Spider-Woman's, Black Cat wore a black leather cat suit that zipped up just below her chest showing off almost all her deep milky white cleavage. Other such accessories to complete her feline styled ensemble were a pair of white gloves with fur cuffs at the ends and a pair of matching white boots also with the same white cuffs.
With one hand on her hip and the other reaching for her face Black Cat tapped the side of her black goggles that concealed her face as the green tinted lenses changed color and became clear and transparent showing off the long silver haired woman's blue eyes.
"That door's magnetically sealed with a lock so powerful not even the Hulk would be able to burst through it," Black Cat stated as she folded her arms under her bosoms while thinking for a moment before adding, "Ok maybe not the Hulk but like who ever the second strongest person there is wouldn't be able to pry that door open."
"So can't you just pick it open?!" Spider Woman asked franticly as she turned around to address the Cat but remained sticking to the side of the wall while in a crouched sitting position, with her feet planted on the wall as she sat her bottom on the metallic surface. "I thought you're suppose to be a master thief?!"
"I am you little brat!" Black Cat shouted back at Spider Woman as she pointed one of her clawed gloved fingers up at the hero. "I've been studying the layout of this vault for a whole month! So, trust me when I say that opening that door from the inside is next to impossible. There's nothing to pick, break, hack or even crack from the inside of this storage facility!"
And that's where they currently were trapped in an old S. .L.D storage facility the size of a football stadium and buried deep below ground that it could survive an atomic explosion, which was its original intention as a fallout shelter before being refitted as a glorified modern-day secret storage closet.
"Like I'd ever trust a word coming from you!" Jumping and flipping off the door and landing on the ground with grace Spider-Woman started to walk over towards Cat as she pointed her own finger at the thief. "And I told you before Grandma don't call me a brat!"
The grandma comment was aimed more towards Cat's hair color then her actual age as without knowing it Spider Woman was only a few years younger than the thief. Cat didn't seem to be as riled up by the insulting nickname as Spider-Woman was with Her's as she slyly grinned the insult off and leaned a bit forward to match the slightly shorter woman at eye level.
"Ah what's the matter Baby Spider, is it passed your bedtime?" Cat asked condescendingly as she heavily patted Spider-Woman's hood covered head. "Why so cranky does Spidey need to lay down and take a nap?"
Spider-Woman didn't go off the rails which surprised Black Cat as the shorter slightly younger woman as she placed one hand on her hip and the other pointing at Black Cat's mouth as the hero replied smugly. "My, my, Grandma what a pretty smile you have but it looks like it's time to get some dentures don't you think?" the lenses in Spider-Woman's mask emoted in a way that made it seem like she was raising and lowering her eyebrows underneath it as she said the remark.
Black Cat immediately straighten herself up and quickly placed her hand over her mouth as she looked back at Spider-Woman in shock before her face traded in the look for rage. "That's not funny you little bitch!" she shouted as her voice was slightly muffled through her glove.
One Week Ago
Before the events that led to a certain Spider finding herself trapped in an unescapable underground vault, she attempted to thwart what she assumed was a regular B and E (Breaking and Entering) in an office building after normal business hours.
What Spider-Woman found where two thieves helping themselves to some of the encrypted data on a set of high-end computer servers that looked like they belonged on the Sheild helicarrier's digital storage room rather than in a hidden closet next to the watercooler of what Spider-Woman summarized as some kind of unassuming accounting firm.
"Keep her busy for a few more minutes!" a voice coming from someone standing in front of the user interface commanded as he (by the sound of his voice) continued to retrieve the files that the thieves where after while Spider-Woman found herself dancing with a black cat in the pale moon light.
Quite literally too as the glow of the night's full moon was the only source of light coming into the office through the glass windows facing other office skyscrapers.
Jumping over the wall dividers of a couple of cubicles Black Cat held on the top of the divider she stood on as she performed a swinging leg sweep at Spider-Woman who managed to flip in the air as she tried to pounce right back at Black Cat. But the silver long-haired vixen proved to be just as acrobatically talented as the spider by vaulting off the side of one cubical into another as she rolled on top of the desk on the other side.
"I got to say Tabby this is a big step down for you!" Spider-Woman exclaimed as she aimed her web shooters at the feline. "Normally your M.O. is jewelry stores or art galleries why the sudden change to ordinary cybercrimes?"
"What can I say Webs," Black Cat asked rhetorically as she pounced into the air and avoided the web lines like she was maneuvering over laser trip wire before landing on top of a large file cabinet. "A girl's got to keep up with the latest trends when it comes to larceny."
The lenses of Spider-Woman's mask became sharper as if she was narrowing her eyes underneath her disguise. "No this, this was too easy for you, it's all about the challenge and thrill for you Cat." Spider-Woman said as she pondered out loud before dramatically declaring. "This is a job isn't it you were hired to steal data from this place weren't you!"
"Wow you cracked the case there, Sherlock," Black Cat started to slowly clap at the masked hero. "You figured out our dastardly deed," Cat's voice was practically dripping with sarcasm at this point. "Who ever thought of hiring two professional thieves to steal something as exciting as digital…"
"We're done here," Black Cat's partner said as he already placed his own personal handheld laptop away and picked up the jug of water from the nearby cooler as he was already in the process of pouring all the water on the servers, thus shorting them out and destroying any data they had left on them. "Let the Kid twiddle her thumbs in the dark figuring out what we were after instead of just giving her the answers."
Spider-Woman stood silently on the top of a cubicle wall as she let the Man in the Shadow's words sink in. "How many times do I have to tell you Dusk I AM NOT A KID!" without even looking as she was currently facing Black Cat, Spider-Woman raised her arm up and behind herself firing a line of webbing at the man she called Dusk using her Spider Sense to aim right at his utility belt where he usually kept his tools.
Matching Spider-Woman's quick reflexes with ones that rivaled Her's, Dusk caught the web before it made contact with his belt and yanked the sticky white rope with one hand as if he just started a lawn mower.
With great strength that went with his super reflexes Dusk was more than strong enough to pull Spider Woman off her small ledge and sail into the air until she was slammed into a hard surface, back first. Before the masked hero could collect her bearings, she found her arms locked behind her back as the surface she crashed into was Dusk's muscular chest as he held her from behind.
"Let me go you Creep!" Spider-Woman demanded as she tried to free herself by trying to pry her arms apart from Dusk's hold but found herself at an impasse unable to escape from his grasp. Switching tactics, the Spider tried to give him a headbutt from behind only for the back of her hooded head to smack against Dusk's rock-hard pecks…wait why did she stop her failed headbutting with her head resting on said pecks…why was she thinking about his pecks…WHY WAS HER BRAIN SHOWINGER HER IMAGES OF DUSK HOLDING HIS ARMS AROUND HER WAIST INSTEAD OF PINNING HER BACK ARMS!
"Having fun?" Black Cat asked as she leaped in front of the held Spider-Woman, landing on all fours before slowly rising. "It seems that the spider is a little smitten with tall, dark, and brooding."
"WHAT ew gross!" that response did not help much with the argument that Spider-Woman should not be simply referred to as a kid now did it? Picking up where she left off the hooded heroine tried to break free from Dusk's grasp again this time trying to jump up and down using their height difference to her advantage.
Dusk who Spidey could hear grumbled under his breath from Black Cat's brooding comment addressed his partner and said, "stop playing around and knock her out already." The sound of Dusk's gruff voice made Spider-Woman stop squirming around when she felt her knees buckle a bit…as an escape attempt not because she could feel the criminal's voice vibrate down her back and give her the chills!
"Oh, come on Dusky where's that big clever brain of yours at right now?" Cat asked while she reached over, gently, and somewhat mockingly stroked the side of Spider-Woman's face. "Aren't you all the least bit curious what this cute little Spider looks under that mask of Her's?"
When Cat's hand landed at the bottom hem of Spider-Woman's mask the young hero stopped moving even an inch in the off chance of her mask being compromised by her own movements. "D…don't," she whispered under her breath even afraid her voice would move Black Cat's hand up.
"She wears a mask for a reason, Cat." Spider-Woman heard Dusk say over her as she stood still. "Besides There's nothing for us to gain by unveiling her because and no offence Kid but I doubt there's someone famous or recognizable under the hood and mask."
"Ok, one ow some offence taken by that," it was true though Spider-Woman was not exactly a famous rich socialite or supermodel, so she did have a small advantage of anonymity if she was unmasked in a darken room like this.
"True but I bet some of her enemies would pay an arm, tail and a leg for an unmasking video of New York's cute little wall crawler." Black Cat snickered as she pulled out a smart phone and started to peel Spider-Woman's mask up.
"Cat seriously just knock her out already!" Dusk commanded while his hold on Spider-woman started to wane. "This is why I never wanted to work with you in the first place you can't take jobs seriously and be a professional except for short bursts at a time."
"Oh, I'm the unprofessional one, you asshole?!" Cat exclaimed halting on Spider-Woman's unmasking before she got to the hero's chin. "How many of our friends has this little brat put behind bars?" the cat burglar asked, "don't you think we owe it to them for a little payback?"
"What are you talking about you said a few days ago that you don't even like any of the losers this kid's put behind bars!"
"…So that doesn't change the fact that we can either sell her unmasking vid to those idiots in Ryker's Island or extort Little Miss Spider to play ball for us here on out!"
All the infighting between the two thieves was eating away at Spider-Woman's patience as she found her held arms getting a bit looser as Dusk continued to guard the Spider's identity from the Cat.
"Why are you even defending this flat chested twirp so hard for?" Black Cat asked managing to get Spider-Woman's attention, with the hero's breaking point just about to reach critical mass.
"Because she's just a kid!" Dusk shouted, "it's not real for her, she thinks it's some kind of game playing hero when she's obviously way over her head…"
"FUCK YOU!"
And that topped it off, Spider-Woman managed to get the slightly older criminals to shut up as she let out a long-deserved battle cry. Using her legs Spidey kicked Black Cat's phone out of her hand with one leg and then quickly delivered a kick to the burglar's face with another.
Black Cat was so distracted by Spider-Woman's cursing that she didn't react to the double kicks in time as the last one connected to the side of her face and propelled her across the office bullpen.
"Cat!"
But Spider-Woman wasn't done, not by a long shot, with Dusk the hooded hero planted her feet back on the ground and pushed with all her might to fling herself backwards with the intent of slamming Dusk into the wall behind them, only to end up smashing herself into the wall as Dusk had already let her go before she jumped backwards.
Time seemed to slow down for the Web-Head as she saw Dusk's silhouette stay in the darkness as he ran towards the fallen Cat who was lying next to a glass wall illuminating her body from the moonlight from outside.
And then time resumed and speeded up a little just as Spider-Woman crashed though the drywall and found herself stuck and embedded within the walls of the office building. When dust cleared Spider-Woman's butt and some of her lower back was stuck in the hole she tried wiggle herself free while her arms and legs were straining to grab hold of something to pull her out.
Looking at the two criminals with Dusk hidden in the dark and Black Cat in the moonlight, the hidden thief helped Black Cat to sit up right as she clutched her jaw in her white gloved hand, which was now stained red.
Putting her hand down Spider-Woman cringed and let out a sympathy hiss at the result of her strike on Cat, as the silver haired thief's mouth was dripping with blood and a look of horror displayed on the once cocky vixen's face.
"My…my tooth!"
Reaching franticly on the carpet around her Spider-Woman saw Cat hold up a small white object that was covered in blood on one end as it rolled a small trail of crimson down Cat's already stained glove.
"I..I didn't mean to…" Despite her own predicament and the fact that Black Cat was her nemesis, Spider-Woman couldn't help but feel both guilt and pity for her fallen foe. "I'm…I'm sorr…"
"You just cost me a tooth you bitch!" Black Cat cried out through tears and pain as a look of fury and anger managed to make its way towards her surface.
Present
A week was more than enough time for Spider-Woman to get over her guilt in damaging Black Cat's once perfect shit-eating grin, that, and the fact that the young hero felt that it was the thief's fault that they were stuck in their current predicament so another cheap shot at Black Cat's expense came off no skin from Spider-Woman's mask covered nose.
While still glaring at the shorter hero and taking her hand off her mouth, Black Cat pointed at her missing lower left canine tooth as it was visibly absent in the thief's once flawless pearly whites as she spoke. "I have to wait at least six more months for this to heal right before a surgeon can even fit me with an implant!"
"Oh, and is that the same surgeon that fitted you with those implants?" Spider-Woman asked as she used her finger guns to point right at Black Cat's massive chest. "Maybe they can give you a top off of silicone when you get your tooth fixed, give you a two for one deal!"
"Implants?!" Black Cat shrieked, "Do this look like my girls are fucking implants?!" Cat then unleashed said girls by pulling down the zipper in front of her costume, revealing her black lacy bra underneath that was filled to capacity with Cat's clearly amble bosoms that looked to be on the verge of popping out of the constricting lingerie.
Spider-Woman's lenses shifted to the edges of her mask like her eyes underneath went wide-eyed like tea saucers before she held her hands up to block the magnificent mammaries beaming into her face as Black Cat's milky skin reflected the fluorescent lights of the vault into Spider-Woman's eyes.
"Put those away already," Spider-Woman said in an annoyed tone, "what is this gym class? Yes, we get it the puberty fairy sprinkled a little extra stardust in your training bra during your entry to womanhood." Looking back at Cat, Spidey couldn't help but get one last shot in. "Maybe that's why your brain never fully developed all your blood going into those extra-large sacs of fat in your chest, maybe you ought to call yourself Black Cow instead."
Cat stopped herself from throttling Spider-Woman because for one it proved that the little brat was getting to her, and two the twirp would be able to avoid the advancing charge. Letting out a small sigh and a shrug to go with it Black Cat decided to play at Spider-Woman's level as she leaned forward and used her arms to press her tits together in an attempt to intimidate the smaller woman, in both height and bra size.
"Ahhh, no need to be so jealous little Miss Spider," Black Cat said in a mockingly sweet tone, "just because those A cup mosquito bites won't get any bigger doesn't mean no one will find you attractive." Cat said continuing her patronizing "at least you'll have that charming spider-like wit to lure people in with."
Spider-Woman looked down at her modest bust and then at Cat's more generous one before using her spider like wit to say, "you know in like forty or maybe fifty years my tits will probably only droop down a few inches from where they're at now. But your giant fun bags will deflate so far down your chest that you'd be able to play hacky sack with them that is if you haven't gotten that hip replacement yet, Granny!"
It seemed that the Spider finally cracked the Cat as the silver haired beauty fumed like a smokestack as she tried to keep her cool by biting her lips down but the sour look on her puss and her face turning a bit scarlet gave away her boiling fury. What Spider-Woman said next was the last degree turned up for Cat's rage to blow steam.
"But hey look on the brightside when they cart you and your sad mournful, mournful sagging trail of boobs off to the retired villains' old folks' home while they fit you for dentures you can make up a whole new game for the elderly, tity sack!"
"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!"
"BRING IT ON, GRANY CAT!"
Black Cat reached into her cuffed gloves and pulled out a pair of black grappling hooks and the cables connecting them to her white furred gauntlets as she tied the tools, she used for scaling buildings as weapons by wrapping the cords around her hands like a boxer before holding out the hooks at the ends in each of her hands.
Spider-Woman geared up as well by simply raising her arms out and making her signature webbing hand gestures with her index, pinky finger, and thumb out while her middle and ring fingers were about to press down on the sensors of her web shooters in her palms, hovering just a bit over the triggers as she dared her opponent to make the first move.
"All right I searched the perimeter of this whole vault, and I couldn't…. are you two serious right now?"
Like their previous encounters Dusk's presence went completely over Spider-Woman's defense as she flinched and jumped back a little when Black Cat's current partner just seemed to appear out of nowhere as he stood between and a little off the side of the two combatants.
With the florescent lights beaming in all directions and not a hint of a shadow for the thief to hide in Spider-Woman saw Dusk for the first time with out the cover of darkness to make him almost invisible. Like the Wall Crawler, Dusk was garbed from head to toe in a complete black outfit that made him look like he was a living silhouette, literally!
Unlike Spider-Woman who had the lenses on her mask so you could at least know where her eyes were, Dusk's looked like a complete blank sheet as did the rest of his ensemble making it impossible to see any of the finer details of his body. He was at least or over six foot and had a muscular frame other than that the thief seemed to also embody the meaning of secret identity.
But the most unsettling thing about the guy wasn't just that his face looked blank or that his stealth rivaled Spider-Woman's, it was the color of his costume. Calling it just black didn't do the outfit justice nor did jet black or midnight black, it was the color of darkness itself. Spider-Woman had a hard time just looking at the guy as he stood there shaking his head in disappointment as he looked like his body just absorbed the light around him leaving behind a piece of starless space in the air.
"We're all stuck here for the next two days and not so much as thirty minutes pass by and you to already got your claws out," Dusk stated his normally gravelly voice sounded a bit more chipper and even toned. Even his demeanor seemed different just by standing in the open light and not hunched over and crouching in the dark, up till this point Spider-Woman was convinced that the thief was a vampire.
"Oh yeah like I'm going to just let the little Bitch slide on what she did to me!" Black Cat cried out as she pointed to her missing tooth with her grappling hook.
Folding his arms and turning his head to address his partner Dusk said. "You're just as responsible for your missing tooth as the kid is."
"Excuse me?!"
"Don't call me a Kid, tall dark and douchey!"
Dusk stopped and faced Spider-Woman who aimed her wrists at the thief in case he responded with an attack but instead he wagged his finger at her and said, "now, now you Kid superheroes these days so disrespectful."
Dusk then turned around and seemingly chose to ignore Spider-Woman as he turned his focus back at Cat. Is this, was this the same guy she faced and tried to thwart time and time again! It wasn't just the tone of his voice Dusk seemed like he was a completely different person than the cold, cryptic, and calculating master criminal she faced off against and lost to time and time again!
"It's the same as the last time we did the two-step mambo with Web Head over here," Dusk said as he nodded to the young hero. "If you'd just knocked her out with the Ethyl Chloride canister when we took the schematics for this place like I told you to do, she wouldn't have been able to kick you in the face."
While the not so dynamic duo talked a million different things were spinning around the Wall Crawler's mind. "That office building, they ripped off last week is connected to this underground bunker. And What the hell is Ethel Kloride and how would it be able to knock her out?"
"But oh no you had to tease and play around with her instead of taking things seriously," Dusk then proceeded to gesture over to the vault door as he added. "And just like last time instead of disabling the automatic timer before the doors closed you were too busy running around the top of those storage crates playing tag with her." The her being Spidey as Dusk dramatically pointed at the hooded hero.
"But, but, but she's so annoying!" Black Cat whined out, "I just wanted to tie her up and batter around the ceiling while we completed the job and lock her in here!"
"You were planning to leave her in here?!" Dusk yelled as he placed his hands on Black Cat's shoulders. "This vault wouldn't reopen for two days she'd die of dehydration before then!"
"I was going to tell the Avengers or S.H.E.I.L.D she was in here," Black Cat said in rebuttal. "You know after like a day later or at the very least when the camera I sat up recorded her peeing herself."
Black Cat pointed over towards above the vault door where the security camera that had been disabled by the thieving duo before hand, had a smaller compact action cam mounted over the lens of the bigger security camera.
"….Ok why?"
"Because it would've been funny after I uploaded the footage to the internet, duh." That duh was followed by a look of obviousness from Cat like it was an important task that needed doing.
"Why would you care?
Spider-Woman managed to get Dusk's attention again when she asked that question out loud, "why would you care if I was left stuck here?" she asked again.
From Dusk's body language it looked like the question took him by surprise as he looked taken back by it. "Are…are you serious?" he asked the younger woman, "because I don't want you to die, I don't want anyone to die especially if it's from a job I'm on."
"But why do you care you're just a two-bit thief?"
Dusk laughed, and it wasn't a heavy villain like chordal that Spider-Woman was accustomed from hearing from her rouge's gallery members, it was a genuine laugh. "Hey, I might be only worth two-bits but it's like you said I'm a thief," he stated with his arms at his hips like he was making a mock hero imprestion. "I steal things, not lives, Spider-Girl."
Spider-Woman's leneses went wide eyed from Dusk's declaration "Come on this is some kind of trick right, make me think you're a good guy and when I'm least expecting it…" She slammed her fist into her palm and shouted out, "SPLAT, there goes the Spider-Woman!" she emphasized the last word catching Dusk's usage of the younger version.
Dusk just chuckled, "first off I never said I was a good guy, come on I'm a thief I'm obviously the bad guy but I'm not a bad, guy." Using his hands as visuals Dusk separated the words bad and guys apart to make a distinction. "I like to think of myself as a professional, in the end of the day I kick back and relax not pace around a secret lair cursing the names of my enemies out loud and dramatically with a lightning machine in the background."
"Then what about your voice?" Spider-Woman asked as she took the opportunity to march towards Dusk and point her finger directly on his toned muscular toned pec…In a serious threating way! "Why…why…why does your voice sound all sweet and soothing instead of you sounding like you're gargling rocks while doing a bad Batman voice?" she said hiding the fact that she liked his bad Batman voice as it gave her the good kind of chills.
With her finger still at his chest Dusk looked up and away from Spider-Woman as he looked over his shoulder at Cat and said, "It's my own fault I should have gone Keaton instead of going full Bale."
"I don't know," Black Cat said with a shrug. "I gotta admit that whole I am the night tone was kind of doing it for me instead of your usual awkward geekiy voice."
Something suddenly clicked in Dusk's head as he looked back down at the shorter woman and asked, "wait you think my regular voice is soothing?"
Spider-Woman finally took her finger off Dusk's chest and jumped back a little as she held her finger in her other hand like she was trying to mend a burn. "Well..I…Ahhhh NO!" She shouted but not very convincingly as Dusk started to walk towards her, "I mean at least your fake voice didn't put me to sleep." As soon as she said it Spider-Woman had a voice inside her head ask her what that statement even meant.
Dusk ended up walking right past Spider-Woman with a curious hand placed on the bottom of his masked chin as he looked like he was analyzing the vault doors. He stopped and rolled his head slightly to Spider-Woman as he couldn't help but ask, "Oh so you're saying that the warm dulcet tone of my regular voice makes you think about you, me, and a bed?" then he really managed to fry Spider-Woman's brain by throwing out an "Oh you" hand gesture at the young hero as he let out a small giggle. "Oh, Spider you naughty thing you could at least buy me dinner first before having such thoughts of me putting you to bed."
"…WHAT?!" in frustration Spidey grabbed her head and ran her hands down the sides of her masked face as she looked over towards Black Cat. Whatever animosity she had at the busty feline was temporarily on pause as she asked the masked kitty, "he's got to be messing with me, right? Please tell me this is some weird head game he's using to catch me off guard."
Folding her arms under her bust Black Cat put her own negative feelings for the young hero aside for the moment just so she could be the one to really psyche the Spider out. "No that's really all him underneath that dark and tormented facade he puts up for the tourists is the heart of a genuine dork…but just between us girls when it comes to his head game it's always on point, he really knows how to put that gift of gab of his to work."
"WHAT?!"
"Alright ladies gather round it's time for a little lesson in metallurgy!" Dusk said still facing the vault door and addressed the women behind him by waving them over as Spider-Woman and Black Cat looked at the man in black, then each other, then finally back at him. "Does anyone know what the walls of this whole facility is lined with?"
"What?' Spider-Woman snapped back to reality as she did a double take between the two thieves trying to see if Cat had any idea on what he was getting at before choosing to address Dusk, "I mean what was that?"
"The metal that's lined around this place and what the whole vault door is made of, do you know what it is?" Dusk asked.
Leaping and landing right next to Dusk but keeping her guard up, Spider-Woman gazed back at the door and spoke. "Well, I couldn't pry open the lock and I can bench press a city bus so I'm guessing it's not your typical element found on the periodic table."
"The Web-Head's right," Black Cat stated as she stood on Dusk's left side opposite of Spider-Woman and with a hand on her hip she pointed her other hand at the door. "It's got to be one of the special kinds of metal out there, ones that get turned into indestructible or unstoppable weapons, what are you thinking, Adamantium?"
"No, it wouldn't make financial sense if it was," Dusk said with a head shake. "There's only a finite amount of that indestructium metal out there. S.H.E.I.L.D wouldn't have used what little adamantium they have in reserve for that vault door let alone this whole glorified whole storage space, guess again."
"Ok it's gotta be Vibranium," Spider-Woman stated with a nod. "That's like the second must indestructible metal, right?"
Dusk reached over to his waist to pull something out of a seemingly invisible utility belt. Holding out his hand Dusk showed that he had pulled out a small blue ball with a white star printed on it. He threw the ball on the floor and bounced back and forth a few up and down a once more before he chucked the ball like a pitcher on the mound and let it sail towards the vault door.
When the ball made contact, it bounced off the vault door and shot right towards Spider-Woman's face. As if the young hero knew where the ball was going to hit her, she quickly held out her hand intending to swat the ball away only for Dusk to catch the ball before it came within a few inches away from her face.
Stunned by his quick reflexes Spider-Woman's eyes under her mask matched her widened lenses in astonishment before she quietly muttered out, "nice catch."
"Thank you," Dusk said back as he placed the ball away, "and if the walls were made of Vibranium the kinetic energy from the ball would have been absorbed, making it fall right on the ground. And not bounce back."
"Ok I got it!" Black Cat pipped up as she dramatically waved her hand over towards the door and laid out her answer. "It's made…out of mithril!"
….
Black Cat blinked a few times before turning her head and seeing the blank stares Dusk and Spider-Woman were giving her, even with Dusk's expressionless mask she could tell that he was rolling his eyes at her.
"You know Mithril!" Black Cat repeated as she waved her hand again. "The metal from Lord of the Rings that were discovered by the Dwarfs in the mounds of Khazad-dûm!"
The blank looks Dusk and Spider-Woman were still giving Cat just made her double down. "Oh, come on don't look at me like that we all know space dwarfs are real are you saying Mithril isn't real too!"
"It's not," Dusk said tiredly, "the metal that the dwarfs of Nidavellir mine and forge is Uru, Cat not Mithril, that's still fictional."
Black Cat frowned as she folded her arms and spat her tongue out childishly at Dusk before he added.
"But you had the right theme going on, ladies what you are looking at is the mystical metal Nanominium. Discovered by the Britans post-Roman Imperial rule and just before the first Angleo-Saxon settlements this material was originally used to ward off fair folk magic but over the years it was discovered that you hit enough spells on this stuff the mystical residue inadvertently quenches and tempers the metal changing its crystal structure into a distorted state making it just a few ranks under adamantium in durability."
Now it was Dusk's turn to get blank stares, when he finished giving his little lecture on the metal Nano…whatever it's called, he saw that both Cat and Spider exchanged glances. The two women seemed to have settled their fight for now for a date in the near future, as they found a common enemy in the form of Dusk's ramblings.
"Wow, sucks it turns out that your dark and mysterious boyfriend is a colossal nerd," Spider-Woman sighed out in somewhat disappointment as her not crush lost some more of his mystique.
Black Cat responded with a, "Oh please," as if saying that Dusk wished that they were together as Spider-Woman addressed the faceless man.
"So, what you're saying Dr. Metal Expert Guy is that we can't get out of here from either punching the walls or using magic…which last time I checked none of us can even use."
Dusk seemed to have let the hurtful comments roll off his body as he turned around and started to walk past the ladies as he faced the facility himself, "Well no we don't but there's bound to be a confiscated or impounded mystical weapon or two somewhere out there. I'm just saying that if you come across it, it'd just be a waste of good magic."
Spider-Woman looked over to the rows and rows of wooden crates the size of modern-day metal shipping containers as the wooden containers themselves made up a maze of sorts throughout the center of the storage facility like a labyrinth made up of planks.
"Is that what you two are after," Spider-Woman asked as she nodded over to the storage crates. "Someone hired you guys to steal something out of S.H.I.E.L.D's storage locker where they keep all the doomsday weapons?"
Black Cat just let out a small snicker, "No Sweety those goodies are locked away up in the helicarrier S.H.E.I.L.D has hovering around the Artic Circle, no this place is more like S.H.E.I.L.D's junk drawer."
"Well doesn't mean that they don't still keep old knives in it," Spider-Woman said under her breath. "I get it there's no way out, and you mentioned that the door's not opening until two days from now?"
"That's right which means before the job even, that we have less than a day to find the container full of MRE's." Dusk stated as he waved his handheld computer in his hand. "According to the facility's manifest, there should be enough food and water to last us for the next ten years, unfortunately, I have no idea which crate has them, so I suggest we start opening them until we find the prize inside…and when I say we I mean all of us."
'Are you serious?" Black Cat asked with a raised brow, "you really think that the kid is…
"Fuck you,"
"…going to help us?" Cat looked at said kid with skepticism when Spider-Woman quickly interrupted her.
"She is, if she expects to survive for the next couple of days." Dusk declared honestly as he looked towards the hero. "What do you say Webs, do we have a truce until that door opens again?" the thief asked as he added a valid point to the proposal, "or are you going to waist all your energy fighting us while slowly dying of dehydration?"
Spider-Woman looked back at the two thieves before letting out an annoyed grunt and said, "fine just for the next two days until we can get out of here. But I'm not going to waist my time just laying around I got my eye on you two creeps." Spidey emphasized her point by pointing her index and middle fingers at her eyes before aiming the digits at Dusk while panning over towards Cat. "Especially at you, Madam Funbags."
"Oh yeah this is exactly how I wanted to spend my weekend," was all Black Cat had to say at that.
"Then it's settled," Dusk said with a clap of his hands. "I'm going to check the middle stacks, Cat you go left, and Spidey's got the right, sound good?"
The two ladies replied with grumbles as they both huffed away from one another.
"…the faster we look the faster we don't have to worry about dying."
"Fine,"
"Whatever,"
Where Black Cat and Spider-Woman's responses to the proposal of a ceasefire as Dusk decided to lead by example. He then proceeded towards the first row of stacks from the center of the vault door. As the incomprehensible thief turned around and began his search Spider-Woman couldn't help but notice something about Dusk.
Or rather noticed two something's in the form of his ample backside as the man in black walked away. With his skintight costume it was a lot easier for Spider-Woman to realize that Dusk had quite the peach in the form of two big round, yet toned butt cheeks that seemed to almost sway back and forth between his curvy clefts.
"…Oh my god," was all Spider-Woman managed to utter out as she practically made salivating noises from gazing at the thick piece of man cake.
Black Cat did a double take between Spider-Woman and Dusk, "what are you looking at, ohhhh" she immediately answered her own question when she followed Spider-Woman's eye line and what it set it's sights on. "Like what you see huh?"
"…I totally take back the nerd shtick I said before," the web-slinger said as she mimed the motion of wiping the drool off her face with her forearm. "That costume leaves nothing to the imagination, and I finally get why that's a good thing."
Black Cat couldn't help but agree as she let out her own admiration for Dusk's ass, "Mmmmm, I said it before and I'll say it again, it is my duty to please that booty!"
"I think Freddy Mercury said it best, Fat bottomed Boys , you make the rocking world go 'round," Spider-Woman said quoting the late Queen.
"Ahhh, isn't the lyric fat bottomed gir…"
"Oh, please it was Freedy Mercury!" Spider-Woman snapped, "Everybody knows he meant to say, boys!"
AN: Dusk alone in a storage facility with two beautiful women…what could possibly happen next you wonder…tune in for the next chapter and find out!...
Next Time in Chapter 2: "Hey look I found a box of imported Wine from Asgaard!"