And this was just the sort of thing that could do it.
"SHAZAM!" he called out, and grinned as the thunder came.
At first, Cologne wondered about just why the boy would do something so silly as to call out a nonsense word like that, but then she was distracted by the sound of thunder echoed on a cloudless day. It was a strange event, which was made stranger by what she saw next. Instead of the teenaged boy who she had thought would be a major problem for her, there was a busty redhead standing there dressed in a red uniform with a white demi-cape. "This is odd."
"You haven't seen the half of it," the girl told her with a smirk.
"Oh?"
"I still have to go get my old man."
"Who is...."
"Right now? Being driven off in that old truck. If I hurry, I should get to them before they get too far."
"And how will you do such a thing?"
"I've got my ways," the redhead told her, floating in the air before flying off.
"Looks like life is going to get very interesting...."
Shampoo had found herself resigned to what was going to have to happen. If she acted outside of the Village, then she could manage to make it so that no one would connect the disappearance of these two to her people, but there might still be clues. On the other hand, if she allowed them to take her in, there was a chance that she could manage to get them to release her soon enough. The problem was that she knew that if she let that young fool get her the home field advantage, it would be easier for him to find ways to force his rather disgusting attentions onto her, and she'd rather be celibate than to have that idiot even touch her.
Her only choice was to escape, and head away to where they couldn't find her. If she did that, then the trouble the Village would get from the old men would be minimal. But if they tried to protect her after she killed the two 'representatives', then tricks like poisoning the water or long distance shelling might be brought to bear. Considering the fact that she cared more about her people than she did about what those old men thought of her, there was no other choice. All she needed was an opportunity to make a break for it.
Oddly enough, her chance came as a surprise to her as much as to the two who had taken her as a prisoner.
The truck had been moving along easily enough, as it had simply followed the road as any long term resident would. There was no fancy driving from the Senior, and caution was tempered with experience.
But then the truck stopped as if it were hitting a boulder, with the entire vehicle coming to a sudden stop. Both rear tires came up for a bit, and all the occupants of the vehicle were shaken by the hit. They came to a stop, and once Shampoo managed to get her head up enough to flick her hair out of her eyes, she turned to see what had happened. From what she could tell, the elder of the two 'representatives' had knocked himself out on the steering wheel, and the younger one was not much better off.
However, that wasn't what really caught her eye, as she saw a shapely redhead pulling one hand from what had once been the front grill of the truck. With a relaxed stride, the other girl stepped around to the passenger side door, just as the Junior pushed it open and stumbled out of it. He fell out and landed with his face on the redhead's ample bust. In the first few moments, both the strange girl and the hormonal idiot seemed to be equally surprised by the collision, but when he pulled back, he clearly had enough sense to realize that what he'd bumped into was a pair of rather firm breasts. But, instead of merely stepping away, he actually reacted by reaching up to give the full mounds a confirmation grope.
"Pervert," the girl hissed in disgust, and flicked him like he was some sort of bug, which made him fly backwards into the truck, unconscious and dead to the world. Not that she seemed to think that it was too much, as she simply climbed into the back of the truck, snapping the chains that held the shackles of the foreigner and Shampoo to the truck. Then she tossed the fat man out of the truck and broke the Amazon's bonds totally off of her.
"You help me?" Shampoo asked, rubbing her wrists.
"Why not?" the redhead asked. "Do you actually think that I'd leave you to that moron?"
"Very glad that you not do that. But still.... This a lot of trouble for you."
"Not really. Besides, I couldn't let the overgrown panda go. And you needed help...."
"But you no pull off his bonds."
Her rescuer grinned. "I think that he needs to be kept out of trouble for a while, don't you?"
"Is true."
"Glad that you agree with me."
"Is no problem."
"Hey, we take what we can get. Unless that person is a pervert like that one. Then he gets what he deserves," the girl in the strange outfit told her as she picked the Amazon up and floated out of the truck bed with her.
Though the redhead seemed to have no real excitement over what she was doing, Shampoo was finding herself taking in everything with a wide eyed gaze. She, who had always prided herself on being a warrior, was finding herself in awe over this stranger. What she could do was nothing short of amazing, and it was clear that this girl was someone who had the sort of outlook that she'd always wanted to have. Here was someone who could, and would, act to do what was right, no matter the trouble it might cause her. The redhead was beautiful, strong, and brave, as well as having an air of intelligence that one could not deny.
All of it was just what Shampoo wanted to be like.
Unaware of the fact that the Amazon was now seeing her as some sort of idol, Mary Marvel let the girl stand on her own, and mentally congratulated herself on a job well done, while:
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