Lorna versus Natasha: Round One

"Because we're the FBI!"

Hawkeye Barton immediately pulled out his credentials, but Lorna was smart enough not to even look at them.

"I think you're impersonators. Get lost!"

Lorna said directly, "If you keep blocking me, I'll take you down too."

Lorna spoke with overwhelming dominance.

Especially with the look in her eyes and her subtle expression, Natasha and Barton, both elites themselves, felt deeply annoyed.

"Then give it a try."

Everyone present had their own pride. Faced with Lorna's words, they naturally could not just let it go.

So Barton replied, nocked an arrow, and fired.

Whoosh!

Lorna raised a hand, and the arrow was stopped under her control.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, clearly angered.

In her view, she had already warned the two of them, yet they still attacked her. They simply did not know what was good for them.

With a casual wave, she pressed the restrained Bullseye against the bellows. Then, controlling the bellows as well, she broke it apart into metal strips that formed a cage around him.

Bullseye did not resist at all. The moment he saw this, he knew he was finished.

There was no escaping.

Despair filled him.

The last time he had gone after Elektra, he had run into Ke Chen, someone who seemed to be a mutant.

This time, when he went after Elektra again, he had encountered this green-haired woman.

Ke Chen and the people around him were practically Bullseye's natural enemies!

Bullseye, who had finally come back to life, regretted it beyond measure. If he had known, he would have investigated properly...

But regret was useless now. He could only hope that the two FBI agents before him would defeat Lorna.

But that was clearly wishful thinking.

Natasha and Barton were both ordinary people. How could they possibly be Lorna's match?

Lorna turned around. Raising her right hand, which glowed green, she sent Barton, who was still preparing to shoot another arrow, flying into the air under her control.

With another wave of her hand, Barton's whole body flew away, his head slamming straight into a stone brick. He instantly passed out.

If he had been an ordinary person, that blow might have killed him outright.

The two-against-one situation changed in an instant, leaving Natasha and Lorna in a one-on-one fight.

"Barton!"

Seeing Barton taken down in an instant, Natasha's anger flared.

She was not afraid of Lorna's mutant ability.

After all, she had been trained by the Red Room and was its finest Black Widow.

Fear was an emotion that rarely appeared in her anymore!

Natasha was ready to show Lorna what she could do.

She sprinted forward and launched herself into the air, adjusting her posture midair as she tried to seize Lorna.

Mutants generally relied on their own abilities, and once someone like Lorna got dragged into close combat, Natasha could easily handle her.

And that was indeed the case. Lorna had no close-combat ability. Even with her mutant power, there was no reason for her to practice fighting techniques.

Because she simply did not need to!

Sure enough, before Natasha could get close to Lorna, her entire body froze in place.

Lorna merely raised her left hand toward her, green light shining from her palm, and Natasha found herself unable to move forward.

However, only her forward momentum had been restrained. Her limbs were still under her control.

"What exactly is going on?"

Natasha was puzzled. She was guessing at Lorna's mutant ability.

She drew the pistol at her waist, but before she could act, the gun was controlled by Lorna and sent flying away.

The Lorna before her seemed like a ruler controlling everything in the world!

No, there had to be something she could not control.

Natasha desperately searched for Lorna's weakness.

But then her entire body flew backward against her will.

Ah!

Natasha crashed solidly onto the rooftop. Even with her physical conditioning, the impact hurt.

But she also discovered that Lorna was controlling her through her waist.

She definitely could not control Natasha's body itself. She was controlling the things on her body!

In that instant, Natasha thought of Magneto.

She removed her belt, struggled to her feet, and charged at Lorna again. Sure enough, Lorna could no longer control her.

"I found your weakness."

Natasha smiled. As long as she got close to Lorna, she had a hundred ways to take her down!

"Did you?"

Lorna smiled faintly.

The entire world was her home ground!

Ever since her hair had turned green, Lorna had continually improved her control over her mutant ability.

Mutant abilities could be developed gradually, and the degree of control could increase.

That was why Professor X had founded an academy.

She grabbed with one hand, and everything around her that she could control moved to block Natasha's path.

Seeing the steel plate before her, Natasha's scalp went numb.

So she really controlled steel?

Or rather, magnetic fields!

Bang!

Natasha had no chance to fight back and was sent flying.

She simply could not get close to Lorna.

Natasha fell to the ground and could not get back up. She needed time to recover.

Fortunately, Lorna was not violent by nature and had no intention of killing them.

Lying on the ground, Natasha watched Lorna leave with Bullseye in her grasp and knew that she had been utterly defeated.

"This is only the first round."

Watching Lorna's retreating figure, Natasha thought to herself.

She had a competitive nature. Put plainly, she refused to admit defeat.

It was precisely that resilience—the ability to get back up after falling—that had made her the finest Black Widow and allowed her to break history.

Although this had been a crushing defeat, it had also allowed her to figure out Lorna's mutant ability.

If they fought again, as long as she was prepared, she definitely would not lose so badly.

But that would be far too difficult.

With Lorna's ability, it was almost impossible for a normal human to defeat her.

"Hey, quit playing dead."

After resting for a while, Natasha called out to Hawkeye Barton in the distance.

Barton, who had been lying there like a corpse, revealed an awkward smile.

Elektra grew anxious when Lorna had not returned after so long. She had just changed into her ninja outfit and was preparing to search for Lorna when she saw Lorna fly down.

"Do you know him?"

Lorna tossed Bullseye directly onto the ground.

The moment Elektra saw him, she was shocked.

"Bullseye?"

Facing Lorna's puzzled gaze, Elektra said in a low voice, "Ke Chen should have killed him long ago. How is he alive again?"

"Coming back from the dead?"

Lorna smiled as well, then seemed to realize something.

"His body is full of metal. Perhaps that's the reason."

"Most likely."

Elektra considered it as well.

She just did not know what kind of metal could be so powerful that it had brought Bullseye back to life.

But that had also become Bullseye's weakness. Lorna countered him completely.

Even if they fought ten thousand times, Bullseye could never be Lorna's opponent.

After all, his entire body was made of metal.

"How should we deal with him?"

Lorna asked Elektra.

Neither of them was soft-hearted. Elektra was a ninja and an assassin who had killed plenty of people.

Naturally, she would not do something as foolish as letting a tiger return to the mountains. She only wanted to kill Bullseye completely and never give him another chance to "come back from the dead."