Note: The characters in this trilogy will be familiar to readers of other related stories. A complete chronology of the adventures and travails of the heroines of this temporal continuum was prepared by an enthusiastic reader, Adam ben Yisroel, and will be appended to the the third story, "Early Retirement"
Like Mother,
Like Daughter. Part 3. Conclusion.
By
GW
The tide of battle flowed heavily in Black Valkyrie's favor, now, and Superlady stumbled away from the vicious Nazi, increasingly nervous about the outcome of the fight.
A gloating Elfrieda had no fears at all about the fight's outcome; she knew it was time to finish off her groggy foe with her brutal fists.
As Superlady staggered, head spinning, mewling in pain, Elfrieda took careful aim, and concentrating all the strength she had stolen from the beautiful blonde into her strong, left arm, she sent her fist crashing into Superlady's jaw.
Superlady, totally disoriented by the crunching punch to her chin, tottered a few steps, and then pitched headlong to the floor.
Knocked all but unconscious, the gallant superheroine still wouldn't give up; crouching face down on the floor, she did her best to get up. A gloating Elfrieda placed her foot on her fallen foe's large shapely behind, contemptuously countering Superlady's brave but feeble struggle.
As the World's Mightiest Woman vainly labored to rise, Elfrieda's foot cruelly pressed harder against her magnificently rounded rump, until she pushed Superlady down flat. Her gallant, useless struggle to get up sapping the last of her phenomenal strength, with a little moan, the fabled heroine passed out.
The evil Nazi was elated by her victory, but she was not a graceful victor. Before that night, no foe ever came close to prevailing over the mighty Superlady, in all her long distinguished career. Yet, for the sadistic Elfrieda even so unprecedented a victory was not enough. She longed to drive home her triumph, to rub her gallant foe's nose in her first disastrous defeat.
"Yes! It's time to teach this interfering sanctimonious bitch the penalty for annoying Black Valkyrie!"
It took several brutal, contemptuous kicks, for Elfrieda to roll the unconscious Superlady over on her back.
Even Elfrieda's brutal kicks didn't rouse the fallen crimefighter, though she moaned at the pain.
It was not until Elfrieda grabbed her golden curls and tugged her to her feet, that Superlady groggily came to her senses.
Though Elfrieda had dragged her up on her feet, Superlady was still dizzy and confused, and it took all her concentration to stand without keeling over again. Smirking in triumph, the vicious Nazi ordered America's beloved heroine to assume the humiliating stance of a captured prisoner of war.
Though Elfrieda had decisively knocked her unconscious, and her arms dangled powerlessly at her sides, the proud American heroine wouldn't admit defeat. She resolutely defied the Nazi, though her voice trembled uncertainly.
Elfrieda wasn't pleased by Superlady's stammered defiance. Angrily she began punching the defiant blonde superheroine again.
Brave defiance was not enough to counter superior brute strength. Superlady was helpless to protect herself from those murderous Nazi fists. As she sagged helplessly under the barrage, Elfrieda blasted a deadly right to her belly.
The brutal punch to her belly, dropped Superlady to her knee. Elfrieda grabbed her hair and pulled her head up, other fist cocked threateningly.
"Well?"
It was terrible humiliating shock to her superheroine's pride, but Superlady knew beyond doubt, now, she was beaten. The vicious criminal, she had sought for so long to apprehend, had turned the tables and captured HER. Gulping and snuffling, a mortified Superlady conceded victory to the odious Nazi superwoman.
Elfrieda's fist still cocked threateningly, she again ordered the sniffling superheroine to assume the posture of surrender. With another whimper and sniffle, Superlady dragged her aching battered body erect, and obeyed the Nazi's order.
Even after what happened to her mother, Superlady somehow never believed the same thing could ever happen to her. Oh, the ignominious disgrace! Though she did her best to face her first defeat bravely, Superlady couldn't repress her forlorn sniffles of woeful despondency, or hold back the tears in her anguished blue eyes.
The End.
A terrible turn of events, indeed! Superlady, the defeated, helpless captive of the diabolical Nazi! What would be her fate in Elfrieda von Richtofen cruel hands? Superlady's ordeal will continue, shortly, in "Early Retirement".