The Watchwomen

Prologue, Part 5: Leaving The Legion

This is Part 5 of the Prologue for "The Watchwomen". Last time, we were introduced to the Legionnaire Sonya Pillsbury, one of many women who were apparently conditioned to obey Allie Bannister and the Diamond Legion without question, about a year after Allie murdered her former master Bryan and his infant son B.B. to take over the Birchwood Estate for herself and turn it into her own personal airborne base of operations. However, her brainwashing clearly seems to have wavered, as she begins openly questioning Bannister's increasingly brutal and ruthless methods committed in the name of female supremacy. Angered with her subordinate's perceived disobedience, Allie initially pretends to accept Sonya's resignation from the Diamond Legion.....but the moment Sonya leaves Allie's office, Allie promptly orders her two new minions George and Ringo to chase her down and assassinate her, believing she now knows too much about the Legion and could expose them. This time, we watch as Sonya attempts to beat a hasty retreat from the flying mansion.....

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As Sonya turned the corner and bolted down the hall as fast as she could, she could hear the rushed footsteps of both George and Ringo right behind her. She ultimately couldn't resist the urge to briefly turn around, and saw—much to her alarm—that they weren't that far behind her; only about five to seven feet or so. Still, she kept on running, determined not to let them catch her.

She did a sharp right turn and approached the descending stairwell leading to the second floor of the mansion; Allie Bannister's office had been on the third floor. As she neared it, George whipped out a ranged TASER and shot the two electrified wires out of it in Sonya's direction; the rogue Legionnaire just barely managed to perform a side flip towards her right, vaulting her body out of the way of the electrified wires and landing on her feet on the stairwell's side railing instead, now "surfing" down it as though it were a grind rail instead of taking the steps normally. Sonya reached the bottom in a few seconds, hopping off the side rail and continuing her stride without missing a beat; she didn't have an option, as both George and Ringo were still hot on her trail.

Ringo, rather than stopping to fire his TASER as George did, kept up his pace, rushing down the stairs right behind Sonya. As a result, he was now closer to Sonya than George was, and thus had a greater chance of catching up to her. The rogue Legionnaire then took them into a wide, rectangular antechamber with a few white pillars spanning from the floor to the ceiling; said pillars had golden engraved designs on their tops and bottoms. Sonya tricked Ringo into chasing her near one of the pillars, then ducked, grabbed onto the bottom of the pillar with both of her hands, and swiveled her entire body around in a complete circle at the base of it; this sweep practically took Ringo's legs right out from under him, and he fell on his back to the antechamber's floor while letting out a grunt of pain.

Sonya then extended her right arm towards George—who was farther, though obviously still gaining on her—and shot an electric chip into his neck from her combat suit's right bracer, stunning him significantly and taking him out of the pursuit for a few precious seconds.

Sonya didn't know whether Allie had sent anyone besides George and Ringo to apprehend her, but there was no way that she was sticking around in order to find out. With George and Ringo both temporarily down for the count, Sonya high-tailed it out of the antechamber, re-entering another series of labyrinthine hallways and taking erratic twists and turns in an attempt to make herself more elusive. The halls were practically nothing to people like herself or Allie Bannister; after all, the mansion was a place they inhabited regularly, and as a result, they knew their way around it like the backs of their hands. But to a complete stranger, it would've been like a maze.....a maze that one would likely never find their way out of.