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Tue 18th Jan 2022 01:56

Introducing Dragon Lady

by Dragon Lady

I was once a normal woman, in fact pretty petite by western standards at 4'10". I guess I always wanted to be a police officer, having grown up watching them protect and serve my community. Plus it was my patriotic duty as a citizen of the Peoples' Republic China. I was too small for military service, but I did well on the entrance exams and they wanted to hire women so I got the job. I started out as a traffic cop, then I moved to handling cases involving women and children. After ten years on the force, I finally got promoted to inspector status. I had to thank to Inspector Huang Yuen for the promotion, as he had the connections and the pull to get me the job. He was handsome, tall, muscled, and had just as much brains as brawn. I don't know what he saw in me, but maybe he knew I had a crush on him. We started dating weeks into the new job, it was against normal protocol but as he told me, "Honey, this is Shanghai. We play by different rules than Hong Kong."
 
Two years later, we got engaged but we got called to check out a smuggling ring in the docks. Unfortunately, Dr. Yin Wu was there along with his minions. They were far too powerful for us to handle, especially without backup. The twisted doctor tortured and murdered Huang in front of me, then started on me. I was about to break when suddenly a mystic energy surrounded me and pulled me away before he could land the killing blow. I woke up in an ancient temple and was nursed back to health. The monks of the Yengtao temple did their best to rehabilitate me, but I had to complete the final part: dragging myself through an obstacle course. Somehow through sheer mental will I did it. My reward was a bath in a glowing underground spring. I didn't care. Everything hurt. I dove into the spring, and I swam to the surface. I watched in awe as the glow engulfed me and remade me. I was now 5'7 1/2" with an incredible body and muscles strong enough to pick up a SUV.
 
The old Betty Wong was gone. I dedicated myself into using my new abilities, after all the dragon spirit told me that I was worthy of its power. I picked up four different martial arts: each of them a traditional art of China. I decided on a new name: Dragon Lady and got a custom suit of armor provided by the temple to my specifications. It was perfect! The masters of the temple even had the connections to change my ID and biometric information so I could keep a secret identity, even if those that knew me swore that I was taller, must've been working out a lot, and had gotten a makeover. By day, I was Detective Wong and by night I got to be Dragon Lady. I built up a reputation throughout China as a heroine. I even got promoted to the Ministry of State Security (China's equivalent of the FBI or MI5). I maintained it even when Dr. Destroyer wrecked the world, in fact I was one of the few who survived- I guess the Yengtao temple's magic was strong enough to protect us.
 
Yesterday, I was summoned to the temple by the masters. Master Nightwind told me that I was needed in America, in a place called Millennium City. I had heard of this place- what was once one of the most technologically advanced cities on Earth. "But why America? I have no connection there," I replied. "There is a Chinatown there, underneath the city. The Ancestor spirit has been summoned- great power was used to do so. We had thought the ritual lost, but someone found it and did it. We need you to investigate what happened there, to deal with the aftermath, and protect Chinatown. The Dragon has given his blessing." Well, with that note- I didn't really have much choice. So Detective Wong went on sabbatical, and I was transported to Chinatown via mystic portal. Thankfully I learned English as a kid and teen- thanks to American TV, the internet, and growing up in Hong Kong.
 
After exploring Chinatown, I heard explosions coming from a tunnel and checked it out. It came above the tunnel, so I popped out of the manhole and found myself near a firefight between Dr. Destroyer's agents and a group of superheroes. I met some sort of technomancer named Cypher who can command drones. His drones seem suspicious of me, as I am of them. I never cared much for technology, except when it makes life convenient for me, and I really don't like it when it makes things inconvenient for me. However, Cypher and I have a common enemy: Dr. Destroyer. Like Dr. Yin Wu, he will answer for his crimes against the Chinese people- and I look forward to exacting both their vengeance and mine.