Vixen S0.5E02: Clear City

Issue 2: Clear City is the second comic book-styled episode of the Vixen Season 0.5 series. It started production on May 13. Mari McCabe investigates the third mark on her map, but finds herself hunted by both the CCPD, The Flash and Diabullet, while at the same time learning another face from her past comes to Central City.

Summary
Central City - It was night when Mari McCabe was once again scouring the rooftops of Central City, on her way back to the third spot on her map. However a nearby police patrol sees her and reports it, Mari is almost at the spot when she sees the red streak approaching her position. Knowing the Flash is hot on her heels, she picks up the pace, using her enhanced hearing to listen in on passing police patrols. Eventually the Flash catches up with her, but she manages to disappear into the house of the third mark.

In that house, The Flash knocks down Mari, saying they need to talk. Mari says she is not interested. They fight again, The Flash getting the upperhand due to his superspeed, but the fight gets interrupted when an unseen assailant uses a blowpipe to knock out Flash. Mari apologizes quickly to the Flash and follows the unseen assailant to the second floor, where the assailant reveals herself to be a woman, Payton Bennett, and she and Mari know each other. Informing Mari the Elders have send her to bring her back to Zambesi, Payton engages Mari in a fight, but it is broken up by Diabullet who had returned to the hideout.

Payton Bennett and Mari fight Diabullet, who turns his arms in unbreakable diamond and Diabullet forces Payton out of the hideout, facing Mari alone. Diabullet wants to finish it, saying there is no Flash to save her now. They take it back to the roof, when the doors are knocked down and the CCPD invades the hideout. Both Payton and Mari disappear from the hideout and Diabullet, faced with an overwhelming CCPD force against him, surrenders himself.

Mari and Payton speak to one another, saying she is not ready to come back to Zambesi, Payton says she has 72 hours to get her revenge on Diabullet, if not by then she returns to Zambesi, she will face the consequences. Payton disappears into the night. The next day, Mari is woken up by knocking on her hotel door. When she opens it she is surprised to find Barry Allen staying in front of her. They speak shortly about why she is here and what connection she has to Diabullet and the unseen assailant. Barry ultimately invites her over to S.T.A.R. Labs.

To be continued...

Trivia

 * Payton Bennett is the first main character in the Vixen Season 0.5 series that has no history or sources in the actual DC Universe.

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