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Wealthy socialite, Margarita
Van Pelt, was just putting the finishing touches on her makeup, preparatory
to leaving for a charity gala, she was sponsoring, when her orphaned niece
and ward, Fleur, came bursting into her room.
"Aunt Maggy, Aunt Maggy!
I just heard on the evening news, that your old friend Dark Adder escaped
from the State Penitentiary.
"Oh Dear! There goes
the banquet!" Margarita said with a slight frown, though secretly
she wasn't too unhappy for an excuse to escape a boring evening.
She was more concerned at the danger posed to the City, by the most dastardly
villainess in the State's history. Though only a few years older
than twenty-year-old Fleur, the vicious young woman, known as Dark Adder,
had committed the vilest of crimes, in her youthful career. The police
had seemed powerless, and if not for the intervention of the superheroine
called Wildfire, she might still be the sinister Boss of Bosses.
"Well, you know what that
means?" Margarita smiled to her niece.
"Yep, I'm all ready!"
Fleur grinned, and pulled off the robe she was wearing. The girl was almost
quivering in eagerness. Underneath her robe, the tall athletic, young
blonde wore a brief, red outfit and white boots.
Margarita swiftly changed
into a similar blue outfit. Like her niece, she displayed an amazingly
powerful, athletic form, and was even taller than the younger woman.
She shook loose her long, fiery, red hair, as she opened a concealed wall
safe. From the safe, Margarita took a small lacquered casket.
She opened the intricate oriental lock, and the lid snapped open.
Inside the casket were two
huge ruby pendants on gold chains. These were the fabulous Solar Rubies.
Margarita's grandfather, Nicholas Van Pelt, explorer, adventurer, industrialist,
and the founder of the vast Van Pelt fortune, had discovered the jewels
in a remote area of the Himalayas. The old man left them as a secret
legacy for his family. It was legacy of service, for the Solar
Rubies imparted incredible strength, and other incredible powers to the
wearer, drawing directly on on the rays of the sun for energy.
The two Van Pelt women almost
reverently suspended the pendants around their necks. Each
felt a jolt of incredible power blaze through her body.
"This is job for Wildfire
and Flame!" The younger woman said proudly.
Pausing only long enough
to telephone, Margarita Van Pelt's regrets at missing the banquet, Wildfire
led her young partner to the roof of the stately, old, Van Pelt Mansion.
Taking Flame's hand, Wildfire
said: "There's an old cabin, Dark Adder sometimes used as her headquarters.
We'll check that out first!"
Then the crime fighting duo
leaped off the high roof, into thin air. A moment later, instead
of plummeting to the hard ground, fifty feet below, they soared high into
the air, with the nimbleness of a pair of eagles.

In almost no time, the dynamic
duo reached their objective. The sun was just about to set, as they
landed in a little woods, a short distance from the old, deserted farmhouse,
that was Dark Adder's last known hideout.

"I'll search the house, Flame,
while you look around out here!" Wildfire told her young partner.
"You be careful, now, hear!
Dark Adder is tricky and dangerous!"
"Sure thing, Wildfire!"
Flame replied cheerfully. She knew her aunt was sometimes overly
protective, and tended to shield her, from the worst dangers of their missions
of justice. While Wildfire sped off toward the house, Flame searched
the fast darkening woods. Her sharp, young eyes, made even keener
by the Solar Ruby round her neck, spotted a tunnel opening, hastily concealed
with brush. Flame tossed the branches aside.
"Guess I better investigate
this! It looks pretty suspicious!" The young crimefighter muttered,
a little smugly, not averse to being one up, on her experienced partner,
for a change. Without a further thought, she brashly plunged into
the tunnel.
Wildfire returned to the
wooded area, a half hour later. She had found nothing suspicious
at the farm house. Flame was no where to be seen. Wildfire searched
the area, a little anxiously. She knew her niece was headstrong and afraid
of nothing, prone to taking unnecessary chances. It had grown darker,
and it took the mature heroine a bit longer, than it had Flame, before
she found the concealed tunnel.
Wildfire stepped inside,
looking for signs of her young partner. She only took a few steps,
when she became aware, that the tunnel walls were designed to shield the
area from the life-giving rays of the sun, that powered the Solar Rubies.
"Uh-oh! I'm sure this is
the work of Dark Adder, and I bet Flame is down there, and without the
power of the Solar Ruby, too! I better get down there, myself, quick!"
Wildfire thought, resolutely. Then with a confident smile, the gallant
crimefighter murmured: "Well, even without the Solar Rubies, I guess
Flame, or I, are more than a match for that skinny, little witch.
Either one of us could handle her, with one hand tied behind our back!"
Wildfire hurried purposefully down the shadowy passageway.
When Flame entered the tunnel,
earlier, she found it too narrow, to fly. Without pausing, she ran
headlong down the long passage. Less experienced than her aunt; at
first, she did not notice the lessening of her Solar powers.
In the recesses of a cave,
at the end of the long, winding tunnel, a shadowy figure glanced at a wall
monitor showing the entrance of the tunnel. "Looks like I have company!"
The masked woman muttered,
It was only when the tunnel
opened into a large cave, and Flame paused a moment before entering,
that she realized that she had lost her Solar powers. "Huh!
this place must be shielded!" The young heroine thought. "Well,
we'll see if that does that nasty Dark Adder any good!"
Just then, Dark Adder, herself,
stepped out of the shadows.
"Well, what have we here?
You must be Wildfire's new little girl friend! I read about you!"
"I'm Flame!" The costumed,
blonde girl replied proudly. The gallant, young heroine eagerly confronted
the dastardly villainess. "Boy, it'd be great if I captured this
witch all by myself, without Wildfire's help! That'd prove to her, that
I'm ready for anything!" She thought. Capturing Dark Adder,
and breaking up her crime cartel, had been Wildfire's greatest coup.
It happened shortly before Flame joined her aunt, as a crimefighter, and
she was sorry she'd missed the fun. Now, she'd have a chance to make up
for that loss!

Dark Adder laughed at the
younger girl's serious demeanor. "I heard that you're Wildfires little
pussy sucker!" Dark Adder taunted the other girl. "She wanted
me to to go down for her, but I told her, that I might like girls, sometimes,
but not any old bag like her!"
In truth, when captured,
Dark Adder had tried to bribe her way to freedom by making provocative
advances to the mature redhead. Despite her hatred for the crimefighter,
the villainous criminal was, perversely, strongly attracted to her arch-nemessis.
Wildfire had been shocked, and, of course, indignantly repulsed the depraved
offer.
Flame, better than anyone,
knew that Wildfire was uncompromising, righteously heterosexual, and disgusted
by any sexual perversity, of whatever nature. Flame idolized her
guardian, and these filthy aspersions on the older crimefighter's character,
filled her with disgust and fury. The young crimefighter was so overcome,
by her anger at Dark Adder's insulting references to her beloved aunt,
that she forgot everything Wildfire taught her, in her eagerness to tear
the vicious criminal to shreds.

As Flame rashly attacked,
the crafty Dark Adder slipped to one side, and extended her booted foot.
A little shove, and Flame pitched headlong to the floor.

Flame's gorgeous breasts
had hardly splatted on the hard floor, when Dark Adder pounced on her broad,
muscled back.

Even without the power of
the Solar Ruby, Flame was an incredibly strong, athletic young lady.
She stubbornly forced her way to her feet, with Dark Adder clinging to
her back. Before Flame could benefit from her impressive feat of
strength, though, the wily villainess leapt clear.
Dark Adder darted to the
side,
and buried her fist in Flame's taut, young belly.
 
The young crimefighter doubled
over in pain, and Dark Adder karate-chopped the back of her neck, then
followed up, with a knee to Flame's chin.

Dark Adder hammered her fist
down on Flame's kidneys, and then grabbed two handfuls of the girl heroine's
skin-tight briefs. With a flick of her strong wrists, she somersaulted
Flame over on her back
End of Part 1
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