178 [BT] Passenger…

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"STOP! STOP RIGHT NOW!" I shout while she's still trying to eviscerate me with her Adamantium claws but she doesn't hear a word I say continuing to try and slash me to pieces hardly using any of the combat skill she undoubtably has after being trained to be an assassin and instead she continues to fly at me in a rage using no technique and since it appears words aren't going to help I'll have to try and beat her off using force and thankfully she's gonna make that easy for me with her using absolutely no technique and being angry which plays to my advantage and so with my eyesight now returned and recovered from the debris in it I make my move, subverting her expectations instead of continuing to dodge like I have been doing this time I instead lunge forward after one of her swipes to take off my head and not expecting this she doesn't react in time for when I ran into her tackling her to the floor where I hold her hands down against the floor and sit on her legs so she can't use her legs to try and kill me since she had a pair of Adamantium claws coming out of her feet as well and while she might be more highly skilled and dangerous than me she isn't stronger than me and I weigh more than her and so she can't do anything except struggle as I hold her down against the ground and while she could probably somehow get out of this by ripping off a limb or something and regenerating it (which people related to Wolverine are known to do) she won't be able to do that since I'm holding her down and she can't use her claws to do it and she can't use my own strength against me to rip off her arm or something and I won't allow her the chance so she's effectively stuck beneath me and she is restrained.

She continues to struggle underneath me like a rabbit animal trying to claw at me but with me holding her wrists down against the ground she doesn't have enough leeway to even get her Adamantium claws into me and since I sat on her legs instead of sitting on her midsection she literally can't even lift her legs from the ground which means she can't get the dangerous Adamantium claws in her free anywhere near me not that she has them out right now which means that I effectively have here in a deadlock and at my mercy and isn't that something because for the first time ever I have just trumped an actual good damned comic book character who would usually have plot armour but I just won and Wolverines daughter/clone lies undermine defeated and this is the first time that I've ever done anything of actual measure in this world and it's defeating a superhero who was made to be strong, enticing and amazing yet I who used to just be some random shmuck defeated her and it's given me a rush as I've never felt before, but I soon have to push this amazing feeling away as I've got more urgent matters to deal with such as the struggling young woman beneath me who's looking at me with a ferocious look in her eyes and she's currently trying to snap her head up at me to bite me but thankfully I'm taller than her and she's smaller than me so she doesn't get close to even biting the tip of my life but that doesn't mean she doe at stop trying because she keeps going at it like a woman possessed and I'm honestly getting tired of this plus I've got quite a difficult situation on my hands and I have to deal with it quickly.

"Listen to me, FUCKING LISTEN! Good, now that you've stopped acting like an animal we can finally fucking talk like civilised human beings instead of whatever it was that you were being." I try to talk to her calmly at first but when she wasn't listening to a word I was saying I blow my too because it running out of time and pull her up by the arms before slamming her back down and shouting at her which seems to have gotten her attention as she stops trying to bite my face off and instead starts to stare at me without saying a word but even so I can still see the aggression hidden behind her eyes just waiting to be unleashed, while she's now staring at me calmly and silently I can tell she's realised there is no way out of the situation she's currently in which is probably just why she wants to make an opportunity and she's currently hiding her time behind the mask of calmness just waiting for for the opportunity to strike but there's nothing I can do in this situation as I'm in a rush so I will just have to hope that my words reach her and if they won't then I will deal with that bridge when we come to it because right now I'm gonna do something that really stupid.

"Okay, now I'm sorry that I git involved with your situation but I was just trying to help a poor young woman who was down on her luck and being tricked into being a prostitute, clearly you don't need any help considering the claws you've got which makes wonder why you were actually following that sleaze bag but nevermind that. Now that you've just slit that pimps throat we need to get out of here before the body is discovered, thankfully the convenience store I went to is a while away down the street and there are only CCTV cameras inside and there was no one also in the vicinity apart from those two hookers who ran of scared straight away and in their business, they know what to say and what not to say so they probably won't be telling anyone about this (especially not the police) and so we can get away before the body is ever reported to the police. Most likely this body will be found by son thugs or homeless people but they're more liable to loot the corpse than report it to the police and since this body is gonna be out all night in the cold Rigour Mortis should set in and the time frame of the death should be around an hour or two when investigated by forensics which gives me a good enough already alibi and ill have an alibi at home but right now I have to get out of her and so do you, there aren't many things that can make a wound like that and so if you kill anyone else or they already have you on record due to the specific way you kill than they could be coming for you soon so it is in mine and your best interest to get the hell out of here. At the end of the day, this was a misunderstanding and we don't really have a proper grudge or anything between us so what say we let this be bridge under the water and leave each other alone, I go my way you go yours and hopefully we never see each other ever again, sounds like a plan." Then I wait a moment and while she doesn't reply she does stop breathing so heavily and starts to calm down slightly and I can see the rabidness and the aggression literary bleed out of her eyes and body and so I decided to take a chance, I slowly let go of her wrists quietly easing her hands away and bringing my hands back to myself although I am still sat on her legs and I'm about to get up since it seems like things are actually going well.

The next thing I know is that I'm the one laying with my back against the ground and she's on top of me and she's just grabbed me by the collar and pulled me up towards her and as quick a lightening her right fist is pressed against the bottom of my chin while she's still holding me up by her left hand which forces me to prop myself up by placing high my hands behind me flat on the ground and while this situation does look dire I know I can get out of this alive by acting quickly and shoving her hand from underneath my chin before she can do anything but there's an equal chance that she'll be able to unleash her claws and while she isn't likely to kill me there's a good chance she will take off some of my lower jaws and maybe even some of my tongue and I'm not sure enough in my limited regeneration to risk that but I will if I have to, all is silent and we simply sit there with me on the ground and her on top of me simply staring at each other in the eyes and waiting for the other to make a move and it's clear when I stay very still and don't say anything that I'm not gonna make a move and I'm not saying anything because I don't know what may trigger this crazy young woman and so we stay in the same position before she decided starts to slowly drag her fist away from the pit between my chin and neck and I praise whatever god that's out there thinking that she's finally gonna leave me alone and split but my hopes are dashed when her fist stops near the tip of my chin and suddenly two of her Adamantium claws spring out and run along either side of my face which frankly nearly makes me shit myself.

We continue to just stare at each other with her claws pressing against the sides of my face and I feel a great sense of security and unease at the same time because I know from the comics that X-23 better known as Laura Kinney only has a single Adamantium claw in bit her feet and two Adamantium claws coming out of her fists which she has out right now and so I feel a sense of peace knowing I can now act with impunity without risk but my meta-knowledge isn't invincible and there is a chance that she might have a middle claw as well since this is real life and I haven't seen her feet claws yet so there is every chance that she has a middle claw just waiting in there and it could come out at any time so I still don't make any moves, we continue to stay like this staring each other in the eyes and then she suddenly retracted her claws and stood up and backed away from me and seeing my opportunity I quickly worked my way back up to my feet and then I started at her confusedlynfor a second before I started to back away and then I turned around and ran back down the street all the way to my car to get out of this crime area as soon as possible and away from here to make sure my alibi is airtight and so I panicked and started t search my pockets for my keys and quickly found them an opened my car before getting in and starting the car.

Suddenly I hear the passenger car door open and close and when I look to my left I see the dangerous girl who was just threatening my life sitting in the passenger seat looking all casual. Laura Kinney, X-23 is sat in my car and she's staring at me with a blank look and I'm so fucking confused right now…

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