On a dark and cloudy night the streets of Manhattan are busy with traffic while up above on the side of a building is the cat burglar, Felicia Hardy. Her snow white hair blows in the wind as the moon shines on her black leather catsuit. She uses her gloves retractable claws to cut a circle in the window.
She tosses the circular piece of glass she cut out, over her shoulder nonchalantly as she giggles softly, "Like taking candy from a baby."
Reaching her hand in through the hole she made she unlocks and opens the window climbing into the building. Once inside Black Cat looks around seeing lots of valuable jewelry and gems. Her eyes immediately lock onto a huge emerald cut in the shape of a cats eye.
"Come to Momma..." She purrs approaching the display case.
Suddenly she hears a slight movement behind her. Spinning around she sees a blue skinned mutant with glowing yellow eyes. Dressed in white with short crimson red hair down to her shoulders.
"Sorry, finders keepers." Felicia hisses, flashing her razor sharp claws.
The mutant Mystique draws a pistol attaching a silencer to the end of the barrel. "We can either do this the easy way... or the hard way."
Before Mystique can even get a shot off Felicia launches a grappling hook from her white furry glove. The grappling hook yanks the gun from the mutants hand. As Black Cat leaps through the air with a kick that Mystique effortlessly dodges throwing a kick back of her own that sends Felicia into a nearby wall. Before she can react the mutant pins her arm behind her back and presses her up against the wall.
"I'll offer twice as much as the diamonds worth if you let me have it..." Mystique says into Felicias ear.
"No can do, Blue." Black Cat says throwing her head back slamming it into the mutants nose.
Mystique exclaims in pain as she stumbles back holding her blooded nose.
"That's it!" Mystique yells spinning around throwing a roundhouse kick at Felicia.
Black Cat tries to block with her fluffy forearms but the attack still sends her to the ground with a slight thud. Felicia gasps softly before rolling backwards to avoid an axe kick from Mystique that comes crashing down in front of her. Black Cat attempts to sweep the mutants legs out from under her but she swiftly performs a backflip evading the attack.
Gaining distance with the aerial maneuver Mystique tries to run for her silenced pistol. Felicia quickly chases after her, tackling the mutant to the ground. The two females roll around for a bit before Black Cat is able to mount her opponent. Attempting to swipe at Mystique with her claws. Raven dodges but loses a few strands of her shoulder length crimson red hair.
Raven pulls her legs up in between her and Felicia and uses them to launch Black Cat through the air over her. The cat bugler hits the ground with her backside absorbing most of the impact. Felicia rolls over strands of her white hair dangling in front of her face, with a quick breath of air she blows the hair from her face. Looking up Black Cat sees Mystique standing right in front of her pointing her silenced pistol at her.
Felicia suddenly forces Ravens hand up and the gun goes off firing a bullet into the pipes above. Smoke fills the surrounding area, Black Cat uses the chance to wrap her legs around Mystiques head. Using the momentum of her movement to swing her body around and throw the mutant across the room. Raven slams against the ground letting out a slight groan. She bears her teeth as she pulls a skull shaped capsule off her belt. She clicks a button activating a timer. Mystique quickly throws her skull bomb at Black Cat.
Black Cat screams immediately crashing through the window to escape the blast which completely destroys the fifth floor of the building. Luckily she catches herself on a flagpole of the building as glass, shards of wood and concrete rain down around her. She looks up to see Mystique on the roof of the building holding the Emerald Cat Eye. The mutant offers the thief a slight smirk as she boards her jet and takes off into the nights sky.
"That bitch..." Black Cat scoffs using her grappling hook to repel down into a nearby alley. She dusts off her shoulder and examines her retractable claws. The light catching the claws razor sharp edge, glistening in her emerald green eyes. She sighs softly and continues on home to get a night of rest.
In the morning Felicia wakes up and stretches slightly as a soft yawn escapes her pink lips. She gets out of bed and wonders over to the mirror on her vanity in her apartment. Brushing her pitch white hair before checking herself for injuries from last nights encounter with a mutant. Going over the battle in her head, Felicia knows whoever the assailant was she has extensive combat training. She also shakes her head in disdain, knowing she was too aggressive in her attempt to wrest the gem away from the mysterious blue skinned mutant she encountered last night.
Just then there's a knock at Felicia's apartment door. Glancing over her shoulder slightly, Felicia raises a pale brow. Dressed in leggings and a crop top Felicia walks over to her door.
"Hello? Who is it?" Felicia asks looking through the peephole of the door.
Outside her apartment door Felicia sees an elderly woman. Her skin wrinkled and her hair a frizzy, salt, and peppered mess. She wears an ill fitting moo moo and house slippers.
"Yes, it's your neighbor... I was just wondering if I could borrow some sugar, sweetie." The elderly looking woman responses with a weak voice.
Lured into a sense of false security, Felicia opens the door. Not thinking nothing of it until the old ladies eyes flash a glowing yellow like the mutants from last night. Felicias eyes widen as the old lady smirks slyly before kicking Felicia back. Stumbling back Felicia bumps into her kitchen table, grabbing a knife off the table she takes a couple swipes at the elderly woman. Dodging effortlessly before preforming an aerial backflip to kick the knife out of Felicias hand. The elderly woman catches the knife grabbing a handful of Felicias snow white hair, pulling her head back and holding the knife up to her throat.
"Now why fight... when we could be friends?" The elderly woman speaks with a younger sounding voice before shifting back into her true form. A blue skinned mutant with ruby red hair stands in front of Felicia as she holds a knife to her neck. Her glowing yellow eyes pierce Felicias soul as the mutant cracks a smile. "I gotta job offer for you..."
Felicia gulps and giggles shakily, "How much it pay? Heh..."
Mystique replies with simply, "Plenty..."
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