Danika Sedova: Bounty Hunter Babe faces her most reclusive quarry to date; a wicked force that works from the shadows preying on the weak and helpless. Will she bring this mysterious menace to justice? Or is this one foe too devious for even her skills to capture?
Monterey, California
The refrigerated warehouse was quiet as the woman dressed in a black jumpsuit with a matte black bandolier slung over her shoulder slinked up to the perimeter wall topped with razor wire. Removing a knife from her belt, the woman edged along the wall to where the security camera aimed at the locked gate was positioned. Reaching up she cut the sheath of the wire of the camera, before taking a clip from the bandolier slung over her shoulder and snapping it onto the cable.
“Taking control of the cameras in 3...2…1, we have eyes.” A voice whispered over the earpiece the woman was working. “Setting record transfer pattern and stage is set ready for action.” She added as the woman walked over to the gate and removed a hand crossbow loaded with a blunt wide headed bolt.
“Is the target inside?” The woman asked as she lined up a shot on the big security light on the edge of the factory. Taking her shot, the bolt smashed through the lens and bulb, plunging the yard into darkness.
“It’s there, one car transporter loaded with four of the SandCat’s stolen from the Mexican Army.” The advisor announced as the woman holstered the crossbow and began to climb up the gate, vaulting over the razor wire before landing on the other side. “Be careful Danika, there are multiple Myrmidons on site, all of them armed, all of them fuelled up.”
Nodding and removing a silenced pistol, Danika headed across the yard towards a pair of trucks, the backs down almost as if they were ready to be loaded. Skirting between them Danika stopped as a figure pushing s cart loaded with two-gun metal grey reinforced crates. The figure wore a black boiler suit accented with a red chevron over the stomach, a fuel tank on his back that led up to a breather mask, and attached goggles. Flattening herself against the truck, Danika heard the figure head into the truck, before attempting to sneak past him, only for the door of the warehouse to swing open and a second figure to emerge pushing a similar cart.
The reaction of both figures was immediate, with Danika opening fire with her pistol, the mercy rounds bludgeoning the figure into submission, as they pulled their own weapon to bare. The crack of gunshots drew the figure in the truck’s attention and they added a staccato blast from their assault rifle joining the cacophony, forcing Danika to drop behind the cart from the second guard. As the blast of gunshots died down, a screech sounded from the truck as the guard ran towards Danika, his finger still thumbing the trigger to no avail. Raising up from behind her cover Danika vaulted over the cart and landed a blow to the man’s chest, before performing a leg sweep and knocking him to the ground.
“Status on the rest of the hive?” Danika whispered as she removed the mask of the man to reveal acid-burnt skin around the mouth and half-melted teeth.
“Unaware, the Myrmidons are not the smartest mercenaries around.” The advisor told Danika, as she turned and opened the cases being wheeled out to reveal anti-tank launchers and heavy machine guns. “But then they are all addicted to ‘Aroma’, to the point where they are constantly inhaling the raw uncut form.”
“Aroma needs cold temperatures to remain as a liquid, is it possible that this is a synthesis lab in addition to a stockpile for their stolen goods?” Danika asked as the doors opened, causing her to bolt into the shadows as another Myrmidon exited the warehouse, passing their unconscious hive members. Sneaking inside, Danika ducked into a staircase, heading up onto the gantry that ran around the warehouse, the four SandCat armoured cars parked in the centre of the structure.
Sneaking towards the site office, Danika slipped inside the room where two women lay, completely passed out, drooling an acidic saliva down their cheeks. Stepping over the addicts, Danika pushed the chair out the way and turned the computer on, slotting a USB key into the drive slot.
“Blackroot infestation spreading out, all the files are being submitted to the remote drive.” The advisor whispered, as Danika watched a charging bar crawl across the screen. “Once it’s complete we can head on out.”
“I want the lab dismantled before I leave,” Danika whispered as removed a pair of collapsible stun batons from the bandolier as buzzing grunts sounded from outside the office. Edging towards the door, Danika got ready for an ambush as the door opened and a woman dressed in a guard’s jumpsuit with the same tank and breathing apparatus walked in, her hair brunt off the scalp by the acidic by-products of ‘Aroma’. Buzzing and grunting the woman turned out of the room leaving the door open behind her. Sighing slightly, Danika walked over and removed the USB key, and turned the computer off before heading back to the gantry.
“Where’s the lab?” Danika whispered as she slipped along close to the wall as two of the Myrmidons stood on the SandCat armored cars, buzzing at each other, seemingly engaged in an intense conversation.
“Refrigeration room, other end of the warehouse.” The advisor told her as a shutter opened beneath Danika and two more Myrmidons collapsed out of the room, choking and coughing as they spasmed on the floor. Their plight drew the attention of the Myrmidons on the SandCats, causing them to look up and scream drawing weapons and opening fire wildly, giving Danika the time to drop off the gantry to the ground, landing hard next to the now deceased guards. Out of ammunition, the Myrmidon’s dropped down and swung their weapons at her, their blows powerful but clumsy, allowing Danika to dance between them, stabbing them with her batons, electricity arching across them causing one of the attackers to convulse and drop to the floor. The remaining attacker landed a lucky hit on Danika, the blow causing the bounty hunter's stab to go wide and hit the fuel tank, sparks running through the apparatus, as the ‘Aroma’ ignited and shot up to the ventilator burning the skin of the Myrmidon.
Not that is mattered, the Myrmidon kept on striking even as her skin charcoalising until she was knocked out by a blow that sent her smashing into the side of one of the SandCats. As the Myrmidon went down the door to the yard swung open and another six Myrmidon’s entered, their numbers including the pair that Danika had previously knocked out, their guns swiveling as they looked for the intruder to their hive. Looking at the returning guards and then the room where the two dead guards had stumbled out of Danika ducked into the shuttered room and immediately began to wretch as she took a step inside, a thick black fog billowing from a broken canister. Staggering out, Danika collapsed next to the dead guards even as the Myrmidons advanced on her.
**
Danika opened her eyes blinking in the half-light as the stills pumped a thick pink liquid through tubes into the fuel canisters the Myrmidon’s wore while on duty. Struggling, Danika realized she was bound to a chair bolted to the ground and unable to move. Now awake she saw a pale-skinned woman dressed in a yellow jumpsuit, her face uncovered by the breathing apparatus the other Myrmidons wore, a mobile phone clamped in her hand.
“Yes, yes I understand.” The woman buzzed as she paced back and forth past the stills and the two Myrmidon guards that had their weapons aimed at the chair. “We had a minor leak; I’ve sent drones to clean up the mess. It wasn’t my fault we had a personnel problem.” She stopped and looked at Danika, horror, and anger etched on her features, “We…we will get it under control.” She gulped as she closed the phone and walked up to Danika, looming over her. “You have cost my operation thousands of dollars and hours of time we already didn’t have! Now, who are you?” The woman asked as she placed a dagger against Danika’s cheek.
“Please I am Sonia, a good girl from Russia, I look for Aroma.” Danika gulped, leaning on her accent to make her sell the lie. “Please I work for Aroma, you let me go.”
“An addict?” The woman asked as she slipped one of the ventilator’s off of the fuel tanks and brought it close to Danika’s face. “When I’m done with you, you certainly will be.” She continued as she clamped the mask onto Danika’s face. “Do you really think I’m an idiot, I’m Lady Invictia, I know that you are no addict.” She spat before turning to her Myrmidon’s. “Get her ready and make her presentable. And bring out another volunteer to test the next batch, our benefactor is not too happy about the discharge…” she stopped and turned to look at Danika, the young woman’s eyes flickering as the effects of the ‘Aroma’ took hold, “…and I don’t wish to risk their wrath again.”
**
Danika opened her eyes once again, groaning as she tried to sit up, the short red dress she was wearing shifting over her knees. Looking around she saw two tanks, their ventilators undeployed and ready for the Myrmidon’s who were addicted to them to start inhaling the mixture. While her hands were bound, Danika could still reach one of the ventilators and broke the locking mechanism, the acidic Aroma leaking onto the plastic cable ties and melting them away.
Getting to her feet Danika looked at the lab around her as the Myrmidon’s mixed a thick smoking black liquid from a tank marked Xiphos Biotechnology ETR-909 with the pink sugary syrup that was the main ingredient of the narcotic Aroma. While the Myrmidons were fixated on the lab work, Lady Invictia was pacing back and forth with a gas spectrometer clamped in her hand as she waited for the chemical to be completed. All parties seemed to be unaware of Danika being roused, even as she silently confiscated one of her pistols lying on the desk.
“Keep the pressure of the fume cupboards down.” Lady Invicta ordered as she turned to face her Myrmidons and the work, they were engrossed in. “The moment we hit the threshold we need to flood the chamber with refrigerant.” She continued, as the dial on the fume cupboard began to climb, the Myrmidon working on the synthesis reaching for a spigot with insulation around the pipe. Reaching out to twist the spigot, the Myrmidon recoiled as Danika opened fire, the rounds smashed through the glass of the fume cupboard, a sticky stinking smoke leaking out of the breach.
“You!!” Lady Invicta snapped seconds before the fume cupboard was ripped open, thick black smoke flooding out, swallowing up the Myrmidons, their skin erupting into burns and boils, the shockwave of the chemical reaction knocking Lady Invicta to the floor.
“Me.” Danika stated as she loomed over the prone chemist, “I wish you could remember this moment as much as I will.” Danika stated before taking one last shot, the body of Lady Invicta falling, blood pooling from her forehead. Not wasting any time, Danika bolted to the stairs up to the main warehouse, only for a figure to tackle her from behind.
“I plan to.” Lady Invicta hissed as she slammed Danika face first into the stairs. Struggling Danika threw the chemist back, before delivering a kick to her opponent's face, the blow causing Lady Invicta’s teeth to rattle, black smoke erupting from her mouth, and her eyes bleeding from the chemical exposure.
“What is this?” Danika asked as she began backing up the steps.
“It’s the death…death…of the Gods.” Lady Invictia coughed as he skin began to erupt into painful red blisters that began to harden. “The Universal…” the words were lost replaced by a buzzing shriek as she lunged towards Danika, only to be repulsed with a full clip of bullets unloaded into her. Not bothering to check on her, Danika dashed up into the warehouse, as the lab began to collapse, the remaining canisters of Aroma detonating into pink toxic clouds.
**
“And there we have it, the new reboot of Danika Sedova: Bounty Hunter Babe.” The tall pale-skinned man stated as he turned the screen off, before looking at the woman dressed in jeans and a tank top, her platinum blonde hair pulled into a loose ponytail who sat before him. “Far more edgy, far sexier, and a lot more dangerous than the last series that you were part of.”
“I’m sorry Mr Gere, I have to refuse the offer.” Danika stated as she got up from the chair she had been sitting in.
“Can I ask why?” Gere asked as he looked up at Danika, only to see her holding a pair of handcuffs in one hand, a small arm-mounted camera pointing at him.
“I don’t work with pedophiles,” Danika told him as Gere got ready to stand only for Danika to trip sending him crashing into the sofa in his office. “I’ve seen the footage; you really shouldn’t have perused this venture it gave me everything I needed to bring you to justice.” Danika purred as she stood over the man, even as he tried to get back to his feet.
“You think you can do this to me!” Gere roared seemingly unphased with the situation he was quickly falling into. “I’ll make sure you get deported you bitch! You’ll remember this when you are dying penniless in some despotic third-world country!”
“Oh, I plan to remember this moment as much as you,” Danika replied, before turning the camera to face her, blowing a kiss towards the lens.
Hadrien Gere was arrested for seven counts of indecent exposure with a minor thanks to the investigation by Danika Sedova and Tahlliana Entertainment. All information that led to his arrest was submitted to the FBI to assist with the pending trial. Please don’t emulate anything you have seen in this episode, Danika Sedova is a trained martial artist and investigator, as well as a licensed bounty hunter.
Please join us next week as Danika hunts down the so-called ‘Bow Hunter of El Paso’ in the shocking hunt for a serial cop killer.
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