It was a nice warm night in a suburban city. Everything was quiet and calm. No soul could be seen around in town for it was high noon. Suddenly the peace of the night is broken by a police siren, and a silhouette of a woman can be seen. She seems to be running away from the police officers chasing her but they were no problem for her cause she was much faster than them until she reached a dead end in an alley. Apparently that was no problem too for with an unseen agility she jumped from wall to wall reaching the rooftops in no time but something went wrong, she grapples her throat driven by an intense pain and collapses to one knee:
-No, I must keep going. And with that she rose up and started running away, away from what she knew to be a dreadful life, a life she did not wished.
She now passed underneath a streetlight, she was very pretty but she was not human for she had a long cat tail, cat ears, cat eyes and even paws instead of feet and her hands were furry with beautiful white fur, she also had long dark hair contrasting with her snowy white ears.
She had almost lost track of the cops but a military chopper joined in on the chase just like another army vehicles. Apparently they wanted her really bad.
She was really ahead of them but when she was jumping from one building to another she felt the pain again and failed to reach it, falling a few metres into the ground losing consciousness, no one seemed to noticed though and continued with the search finding nothing and giving up in the early morning.
Three days after her escape there were tons of soldiers patrolling the town still looking for her. They were showing pictures of her to by passers, instead of being frightened or even surprised by her features, they just shook their heads like it was the most normal thing in the world. Indeed it was because in the 22nd century mutants were a normal sight. Due to recent technologies it was now possible to make mutants but most of them were natural ones because this new race of hybrids were able to reproduce themselves making them even more common to the world.
Our catwoman was lying still in the shadows for the pain was now constantly appearing. It seemed to come from something she had on her neck. It wasn’t a normal necklace it was more like a dog collar, but it was more then that, it seemed to be a high tech one and also the source of her pain. Due to the constant pain, it seemed she was focusing all her strengths in controlling her will to scream and without a bite to eat in three days she could not remember anything, only that she could not be seen by anyone.
A small cat was passing by unaware of her presence. She saw it and something inside her told her to open her mouth and let out some air like in a silent cry for help, only it wasn’t silent, because some sound came out of her mouth. She did not know what she had done but the cat must have understood for some time latter it returned with other cats that brought some food for her.
-They must think I‘m one of them-she thought-whatever they are.
She started eating what they had brought and soon she was able to stand or she would if her leg wasn’t broken from the fall. She was able to raise herself up using the wall for support and she could walk a bit but rather slowly and painfully. The collar still hurt her but she was getting used to it, the leg was worth of more attention for now.
With her cat escort she slowly climbed a ladder on the wall and reached the rooftops. At least now she was safe from anyone who would pass by the streets and see her but she still had to take care of the leg but she did not know how.
She suddenly heard a cough from behind her. It seemed to come from a pile of clothes in the corner of the roof and she saw it move and then the person underneath it rose up and she could see her. It was a little girl but her clothes were odd for someone who was sleeping on a roof. They looked almost new and expensive and the girl looked very healthy. Not the kind of person she expected to find in such a place but at least she knew she was not a danger for her. When the girl saw her she was surprised:
-You’re the one everyone is looking for. Oh no! You’re hurt, you need some help.
The catwoman’s leg was in a rather strange angle so it was easy to see it was broken.
-Come with me-she said- I’ll fix that right up.
Although she couldn’t remember how to talk she was able to understand her and so she followed her to a trap door nearby and went in.