The Spider and The Sorceress

Spider Woman felt a sense of sudden movement as she stepped through the door of the non-descript brownstone, her head spun for a moment and she paused to clear her head. The sorceress Zatanna seemed unaffected and she closed the door, leaving the pair in darkness.

Soft words of magic dispelled the darkness as candles flickered into life and a friendly fire blazed in the fire place, filling the room with soft warm light. Spider Woman looked around in amazement at the walls lined with books, the Doric columns leading up to the glass domed ceiling.

"Where are we?" She asked as she followed Zatanna to a large table covered in books and scrolls that sat roughly in the centre of the room.

The raven haired sorceress smiled, " We stepped through a dimensional doorway, welcome to my place, a nice little cosy refuge from the everyday world. Like it?"

"I do" Spider Woman replied, "So, do you think your library will have the information we need?" Spider Woman moved to stand close to Zatanna as the sorceress leafed through a tome, scanning the yellowed pages intently.

"Hopefully, I have a fairly good collection of magical lore but if not we should get some pointers. Now this is interesting..." Zatanna stopped on a page and bent forward to scan the tangled script more closely.

Spider Woman reached down and slipped  a cloth from her boot and squeezed it, releasing the micro beads of chloroform the cloth was seeded with. "Find something?" she asked as she stepped closer to stand right behind the unsuspecting Zatanna.

"Yes I think this is what we nnmpphhhh???" Zatanna straightened and started to turn then gasped in shock as her left wrist was seized in a grip like iron and the cloying smell of chloroform filled her nostrils as Spider Woman clamped the cloth over her face with no warning.

" Shhh...just breathe Zatanna...just breathe and it will all be over soon" Spider Woman whispered in Zatanna's ear. The sorceress tried to pull her hand free to no avail, grunted as Spider Woman forced her left wrist behind her, and high up her back, "Ghnnn!!! EFFF OOO!!!" her furious protests were answered by a softly mocking chuckle from Spider Woman who held Zatanna pinned almost effortlessly despite her furious struggles.

Zatanna clawed desperately at Spider Woman's arm with her free hand, trying to pull it away, give herself a clean breath, a chance to use her magic but she was no match for the red clad heroine's strength, the cloth remained in place, the arm as immobile as that of a statue. The cloying sickly sweet smell of the chloroform was stronger, every breath she took weakened Zatanna further. In less than a minute her struggles began to wind down, her eyelids grow heavy as the chloroform soaked cloth did its work. "Mmmpphh???" she whimpered softly as her arm dropped to her side and she began to sag toward the floor.

"Are you asking me why?" Spider Woman asked,  "Hail Hydra...that's why" she purred into Zatanna's ear just before the sorceress succumbed fully and went limp. Spider woman held the cloth in place for a few seconds more, to insure Zatanna wasn't faking, then tossed it aside and cradled the unconscious sorceress in her arms. "Now Zatanna, my masters and I have many questions to ask you, and you will tell us everything we want to know, but don't worry...I am sure you will find my methods of interrogation very, very pleasurable. " Spider Woman looked around, " Hmm...Now, let me see. I wonder where your bedroom is?"

A Dee n Me Production with art by and story by me.

Zatanna is owned by Dc Comics and Spider Woman is owned by Marvel Entertainment. I claim no rights, used for entertainment purposes only