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Chapter 16

The clicking of keyboards underscored the murmur of voices. The sound of people working their day jobs “from home.” Nicole always worked there when she found herself struggling. For some reason the energy of that place stoked her creative juices and the words flowed. One morning there and she was good to write her novel from home for up to a week. And then…

Did it, she thought, lifting her hands after completing the chapter. The story just reached the precipice of action. The next chapter would be so thrilling to write. She glanced at the clock on her laptop. Oops, I should’ve left thirty minutes ago.

She’d gotten a call earlier from Lady, Ms Crusader, and Night Stalker about what went down on the docks. MAAD men waiting in ambush. Evil Amazons trying to poach. Lady in the middle of it all. It was a disaster for the heroine, maybe for all three sides. Still, Lady did suffer a pretty significant setback.

Nicole’s sex throbbed just thinking about what Lady suffered. She well-knew the consequences of failure as a super heroine. Especially in Ocean City. And MAAD men weren’t the worst of the lot, either.

The busty blonde closed her writing software, and pulled up the local news stream as she finished her coffee. It was the Action 6 news stream, which before her capture Zephyr’s alter ego would be featured sometimes.

“Welcome back to Action 6,” anchor Kyle Wentworth said. “Our top story, local super heroine Lady got into a knock-down, drag out fight down on the docks late last night. Reports are up to three super heroines joined her fight against an unknown number of MAAD members.”

“Ha! Boy the Progressive, Amazon loving media sure cleaned that up,” a large man shouted. “I was there. We caught Lady fair and square, and fucked her up big time.”

“Emphasis on ‘fuck’ and all that shit,” one of his companions said.

The coffee shop froze, gasped, and looked at those vile men in horror. Apparently, they were not good at reading the room, so carried on.

“Let me tell you something, that little redheaded spitfire looks even better naked. Dayum. I’ll never forget the look on her face when I shoved my — ”

“That’s quite enough!” Nicole shouted, rising to her feet. Her body trembled with suppressed rage, and empathy for her good friend. Those were some of the men involved in Lady’s setback, so vile beyond words. “No one wants to year you bragging committing the unspeakable crime of — ”

“What the fuck are you, cunt? One of those bleeding heart Amazon lovers?”

“Yes!” she cried, others nodding in agreement. “Alpha Meta women sacrifice so much to protect — ”

“Fuck you, whore,” he snarled. He led five other men over to her, surrounding Nicole. One and all were well over six feet, so towered over the five foot eight blonde. She noticed all of their hands were clenched into fists, with angry faces above. “It’s fucking stupid bimbo whores like you that allows Amazons to oppress honest men.”

“There’s nothing ‘honest’ about any of you guy,” she snapped. “You’ve pretty much confessed to committing the ultimate crime against a woman.”

“She was asking for it,” he growled, leaning into her face. “Just like you are right now, whore.”

He really put the emphasis on ‘whore’ that time, voice filled with loathing. Nicole reeled back. While she was super strong, displaying that fact out of costume was a strict no-no. She had to protect her secret no matter what.

“Dude. Back off,” another man said. Several other men backed him up. “You’ve gone too far. All you are doing is proving we need super heroines to protect us from fuck-offs like you.”

The two groups of men glowered at each other, no one speaking or moving. The tension spiked inside that coffee shop and threatened to turn violent. Nicole felt she was the spark, the central figure, so had to leave to diffuse the situation.

Closing her laptop, Nicole stuffed it into her oversized purse and headed for the door. She felt the tension start to melt immediately. She started to relax as well. Violence avoided. But then at the door, she glanced back to see the MAAD men following her out.

Shit, shit, shit, she thought, and hurried toward her car.

Nicole made it to her silver BMW XB7. The locked clicked open at her touch, and she had the door half open before a large male hand slapped into it and slammed it closed. He shoved her shoulder to force her back against the vehicle.

“We’re not finished with you, whore.”

“I think you are,” another man said.

He was a middle-age man. Balding. Well-dressed, so looked successful.

“Fuck you, mister. We’re bigger, stronger, and outnumber you.”

“Tell my friend that,” the stranger said, and pulled a pistol. “Meet my little friend. I call him Justice.”

The MAAD men all lifted their hands, backing away from Nicole. She quickly opened her car door and tossed in her stuff.

“You want to ride with me, mister?” she asked. “It’s not safe for you here, either. These men are hardened criminals.”

Other men came up to the gunman, all with hands on personal firearms. He smiled at her.

“Me and my friends will be fine, Miss. I suggest you go straight home,” he said. “And I’m very sorry these scumbags threatened you this morning.”

“Thank you,” she said, got into her SUV, and got the hell out of there.

She did as advised and drove straight home. It wasn’t that far away. Nicole grabbed her stuff and hurried inside. Looking at the clock, she groaned and rushed into the bedroom.

“I am so far behind,” she whispered. “Ms Crusader is going to kill me.”

Ms Crusader’s alter ego wasn’t wealthy by any measure. Indeed, Sydney was a college student who worked part time as a waitress. And she needed every cent she earned to eek out a living.

“I have no choice,” she muttered. Nicole quickly stripped, then pulled on her Justice Girl costume. Last of all, she pressed the mask to her face and sealed it. “I am Justice Girl!”

Using her phone, she disabled her home security. She used hidden cameras all around the perimeter of her property to check her neighbors, and then up and down the street. After allowing three cars to pass, she double checked to ensure no one was in their backyards around her, and then rushed out and leapt into the air. The lightning bubble formed around her, low power to be quiet, and she shot straight up.

Hovering a thousand feet over her home, she first turned her home security back on, and then used her mask to scan the surrounding area looking for anyone that might’ve seen her leave. Finding nothing, she headed for the Ocean City docks. Not wanting to alert the bad guys, she had to keep the power lower to avoid the thunder her passage usually caused.

Justice Girl reached the rooftop where Ms Crusader waited impatiently with two minutes to spare.

“Hey, girl,” she called.

“Thank the lord, I was getting worried.”

“Well, my alter ego got attacked by a bunch of MAAD men because I had the audacity to speak up in support of super heroines,” she said. Nicole conveniently left out that she was already running late. “Some nice men, all armed with pistols, convinced the MAAD men to back off and let me leave.”

“MAAD is becoming a bigger and bigger problem,” Ms Crusader said. She cut her eyes over to the six-story building suspected of being where Zephyr was being kept. “I haven’t seen any bad guy activity this morning. Of course, we don’t know for certain Zephyr is inside.”

Justice Girl shrugged. “It’s our best clue so far. Besides, we can follow Randy Girl or Victory Girl when they leave. Maybe they’ll lead her to our lost friend.”

“That’s the dream,” the dark-haired beauty said, and sighed. “Pardon me if I just get up and go, but I’ve been up all night.”

“Don’t you have to go to work?”

She grimaced. “Yeah. There’s that. I don’t think I’ll be in any condition to help out tonight.”

Justice Girl hugged her. “Don’t think about it. Take care of yourself. I’m sorry. I should’ve realized you were up all night guarding Lady, and then came straight over here. I should’ve relieved you first thing this morning. I am so sorry.”

The weary heroine smiled and hugged her again. And then flew away soundlessly with her Wind Power. Justice Girl wished she could get around so silently. Then turned back to scowl at Wild Girls. That strip club and brothel had to be shut down after they rescued Zephyr, and the two evil Amazons put in prison forever.

“I will ensure it happens, too.”