Catching a Snake by it's Tail!

*One month later*

The summer break has finally come to a close. I have finally mastered shadow clones. I also discovered each clone had a downgraded copy of star platinum, which have about a quarter in strength compared to the original and had a range of 5 meters around clones. Pretty handy.

Mental computation and shadow cloning were multitasking on steroids. Completing homework, training, researching, chatting with friends, all while interrogating a guy held by his leg hanging on the rooftop. Just your daily life. Oracle was more than happy to have more hands for research.

Anyway I went visiting Tony in the breaks and had a fun party. Also met Coronel Rhodes and Obadiah Stane. Rhodes was fun to talk to. Hearing his experiences in the army gave me an fresh outlook on them. Not everyone was Ross or Stryker in there at least.

Obadiah always had the stupid fake smile on his face I wanted to punch soo bad. A little look into surface thoughts shown how he had plans to use me just like Tony, but failed miserably. I won't kill you now Stane. You still have to fulfill your job as a stepping stone for Tony.

Tony was apparently a fan of Enigma, or rather, his bike. Rhodey also told how the military were looking for ways to get me. Tony was trying to push my thoughts on it, guess he had a suspicion with my involvement on the bike, so I played him just like I did with Peter.

Fury had sent Coulson and Hawkeye to find Enigma, while Romanoff to infiltrate the school. He didn't have any data on the kid's abilities right now. I wonder if Natasha is gonna teach my class. Yea probably, considering 3 are in my class. But how did they do this under Mystique's nose was impressive.

Now here I am back in class with Peter discussing Reed's new theory on wormholes he just published, and lo-behold, the sexy spy comes. History huh. All the boys had their mouths hanging, except me, and surprisingly Peter. MJ looked at him and nodded to herself, while I chuckled at her behavior. What I didn't notice that the 3 behind me were observing me and nodded as well.

"Hello class, my name is Natalie Romanova, a pleasure to meet you. Your history teacher has left for a trip to Hawaii, so I will be your substitute for now." She introduced and the classes went by.

This time at lunch our table was bugged again and I was not comfortable with it, so I had Oracle send me a notification on my watch, which I looked at and frowned, then tried looking around and pressed it disabling all bugs with technopathy. The shield guys noticed my behavior and were surprised to see the feed cut-off. I have my limits to patience.

Me, Jean, Wanda and Laura often talk telepathically ever since that day. Kitty sometimes looked at us weirdly but shrugged it off. Is that the famous woman's intuition?

Anyway, except the history teacher, nothing new happened and here I am at night, back at job again but tonight it was a tad bit different. The low ranked goons were scared of me, but the upper rank didn't care. I also mostly stayed in shadows, so they have started doing things openly now. The more smarter and stronger the hero's get. The more trouble follows. One of my main reasons to hide my power right now.

Anyway there had been theft in bank, and the money got distributed in 12 cars, in the groups of three each going in different directions. The police were on three of the four groups, but sadly all three were duds while the real group was getting away. They probably staged those three groups and gave false information to police. Smart. If not for me.

The driver on the last car was smiling like a madman when he noticed some-thing on his side mirror that crept fear into him. I was following on my T-cycle while the people around were gasping. I immediately accelerated between the last two cars and threw balls of expansive sticky glue on the wheels, which put them on the halt suddenly. The last one even flipped. I did the same for the rear wheel of front one as well, and got ahead of it and stopped sliding sideways to face them.

They immediately bought out guns, so I accelerated forward and switched controls to Oracle, who knocked two in the front out, while I had already jumped and hit the face of the third guy with a knee-strike, knocking him out. Seriously, all the planning and can't even get a helmet. Not that it would have made a difference.

There were a total of 6 guys, two in each car. One was out, two on the ground while the other three had taken aim and ready to shoot, but I had already thrown batarangs at them. These ones produce an EMP-like electric wave which paralyzes any normal human in it's range for at least 5 seconds, leaving them sore later. I made gadgets for different classes of enemies, normal humans to Juggernaut himself. The wave made them drop the guns, before they could even shoot, and I approached them swiftly knocking two out with a chop on the neck. For the last one, I hooped the grappler around his neck and pulled towards me punching him in the face knocking them out.

After this I noticed all the people around me recording so decided to have a little fun. Oracle had the same idea as me so she drove T-cycle to me, shocking people seeing an self-driven bike. I patted her and said "Good Girl." My voice was like Red-X form teen titans show. The bike responded by changing the brightness of the lights on it with a little sound, making them startled again. The bike actually responded? I heard the sirens coming here, so swiftly mad my way out of there, doing a wheelie. The people were still flabbergasted, while the police lost sight of me quickly. Even the stealthy drone Shield was piloting lost me.

I spent my night catching a few people, who apparently never learn. Oracle was trying to find if the people caught were the masterminds, or was there someone else pulling the strings.

*next night, Dragon's Casino*

In the casino where everyone came to party, there was one guy who was extremely pissed of. The guy was Dragon, as he went by, the owner of this casino. He was a mutant, with snake like characters, but the man called them dragon-like, hence his name. He was well known around the area for his drug business, he was the only one that had deals with Kingpin in Westchester's, so he was extremely prideful.

The reason for his anger was Enigma. When he showed up, he was just targeting small time crooks and didn't do anything to him. But after a while, he started catching his drug deals somehow, and the number's kept increasing. And the biggest blow was the fact that he left evidence on some of the officer's he had bribed under him, weeding out his influence on the police. He was pissed.

So he contacted his man in the Mayor's office to set him up. But the plan backfired. And now he was famous as well, all because of him. Kingpin told him he was not impressed with the recent problems and would have to switch from him if things went on as they were. So he planned a bank heist. His plan was perfect. Dummy cars of hired men as sacrifice. Sending wrong information to the police. Enigma always worked in shadows. It was flawless. BUT NO. He had to show up. He had to ruin everything for him. He was extremely pissed. Venom constantly dripping out of his teeth. He tried to calm down to drink again, but an explosion happened, making him more angry.

He threw the glass and yelled." WHAT THE F#CK IS GOING ON? I WANT THE ONE WHO DID THAT HERE NOW!!" he yelled, sending his cronies out of the room to bring the guy who did here. He was going to vent his anger on him. But suddenly the light's went down. He could sense his surroundings heat, so light was never a problem. But right now, he was scared. Any anger he had to catch and beat Enigma had turned into fear for him, now he was here. He heard gunshots, explosions, screams of his men as if they had seen a ghost. And the silence. He had his claws ready to strike, coated with his venom. He was scared, but he was still sure he could take him out head-on when he heard footsteps coming toward the door, and stopped in front of it. But the gate didn't move. Nothing happened. Now he noticed, he didn't sense any heat signatures coming either, just footsteps. And the silence was settling fear into his deepest depth's.

"Waiting for someone?", an eerie voice came from behind, which he never noticed. He swept is claws back in a frenzy, but he easily ducked and punched straight in the jaw, sending him tumbling over. It hurt like hell. He rose to look at him, but was filled with fear seeing him. He was standing there with his eyes, seeing through his soul. He was terrified. Yet, remembering his failure's because of him, fear turned into blind rage.

"You dare step in the Dragon's den, you won't leave alive" he roared.

"... so snakes think they are the new dragon's, eh?". This pissed him of even more, and he rushed towards him. Dragon had taken many down because of his speed, reflexes, and mainly poison. But none of that mattered. Enigma dogged every blow and hit back hard. In just two minutes dragon turned into a bloody zombie trying to stand. He walked towards him, picked him by the tail and cut it off. He cried and yelled in pain but no one came, then Enigma broke his limbs one-by-one.

"You have enjoyed killing parents in front of their children, rapi*g girls in front of their families killing them off and adding to your red-district didn't you." Every word he said sent shivers down his spine. He had finally started hearing sirens in the distance and hoped they would save him from this devil.

"Oh they will save you. But only barely alive." Enigma said and started pouring a liquid on dragon's pants. It smelled something like oil. This turned him utterly terrified and Enigma lit a match and said "REPENT.", and let the match fall on him igniting his jewels and he started screaming for help, while Enigma just placed the proof he gathered like he always does and disappeared into the shadows.

The police reached the casino with light's out and knew who had paid them a visit. They have started carrying gas masks just in case because of him. The chief of police of Westchester's was ashamed when Enigma had escaped, even more so when he learned the official was using police force like chess pieces to catch Enigma.

They turned on the light and went inside to see guards with guns littered on the floor. They feared the worst, but found only 5 dead. a squad was already making their way towards the screams, but were horrified seeing the condition this Dragon was in. They launched a full blown investigation and also used the evidence left behind to catch any accomplices he had.

Dragon also had a lot of info on other gangs in Westchester's so this lit a new hope, that they finally had to do something rather clean-up behind Enigma. What they didn't know was he left behind the evidence to let police do their job.

*The next day*

The media somehow already got their news form a source, which was actually Oracle. she had worded in such a way that people can understand there are both kinds of metahumans, good and bad, and how to differentiate them, and not view them in the same group.

This actually worked as media was showing digging into some meta-humans saving other's as well. Alex knew this would catch Stryker's attention and he would try to change the news, but he already had plans to deal with him. Both him and Trask. He was keeping an eye on Trask industries, AIM and Roxxon.

The kids were in full blown discussions about Enigma and metahumans. The leak about metagene, and how it could be present in anybody, made kids discuss what powers they wanted. I already had a few people in the Parliament who were giving about the new laws the should implement and completely disregard senator Kelly's registration with calling it violation of human freedom, according to the Constitution , and it should not be implemented on US citizens like this. The debate was still going, but Stryker couldn't do anything as his recent batch of adamantium mysteriously disappeared,*wink, wink*.

The X-kids were really happy how things were going and the three were saying thanks to me telepathically as they knew I did something. I just flashed my signature smile and they went red. Weird.( An- He really do be rock head)

The news of police raids also came out, but a few went dud because of some leaker's still in the department. This would lead them to do a thorough search as well. With Westchester and Eastchester mostly safe, I will be able to focus on New York. But some idiots just never learn.

*Stay tuned for more...*