Vixen S0.5E01: My Claw, Your Claw

**Issue 1: My Claw, Your Claw** is the first comic book-styled episode of the Vixen Season 0.5 series, consisting of 6 issues. In this issue, Mari McCabe returns to Central City, city to the The Flash, right after the battle against The Reverse Flash. She comes to seek revenge on S.T.A.R. Labs, who she deems responsible for the deaths of her parents in the fictional nation Zambesi. In this issue she settles in, meets Barry Allen and faces the bounty hunter that killed her parents for the first time.

## Summary

**CENTRAL CITY -**A boat named the "Greyfang" arrives in the Central City docks. While it mostly unloads goods, it also has one person tucked away in the cargo hold, a female passenger named Mari McCabe. She had a few unique character features, extra sharp nails that regrew themselves after broken off, and her hair was long. She was carrying a bag over her shoulder when she showed her ID to the harbor master. The harbor master welcomes her to Central City and Mari leaves the docks quickly. Mari McCabe enters a local shop buying a set of cell phones, depositing one of them in her bag, the other on her belt. She then rents a room in the Caberal Hotel in Central City and lays out a map on the table, with three visible marks were on the map. She quickly redresses into a dark grey, yellow suit with mask, equipping a bo-staff to her belt on the back, exiting the hotel room through the window.

Mari visits the first mark on her map, herself capable of staying invisible to the human eye, in a park in Central City, but she doesn't seem to find where she was looking for. The second spot however, she is awaited by a couple of thugs. Using her bo-staff she eliminates both, knocking them out for the police department to find them later. She seems to get tired, using her talents to stay invisible for the human eye and returns to her hotel room. Taking a hot shower, she is surprised when she hears a knock on the door. She meets Celina Crock, and her two daughters Ari and Jade, who asks if she had seen their cat, she got lost. Mari turns them down, saying she has not seen the cat. Feeding herself after the meet, she gets ready to set out for the third mark on the map.

Arriving there she finds herself face to face with Logan Gratha, a bounty hunter going by the name Diabullet. They shortly speak with one another, with Mari revealing Diabullet is the bounty hunter that killed her parents. Diabullet and Mari fight each other, but when the bo-staff seems to do no damage to Diabullet, by his ability to turn his skin into unbreakable diamond, she is knocked back. When he is about to deal the fatal hit, The Flash intervenes, knocking Diabullet down before he is able to deal the fatal blow. The Flash helps up Mari, saying the bounty hunter was a Metahuman. Mari pays no attention to him as Diabullet flees the scene and both she and The Flash chase him. She now focusses on her hearing, allowing her to hear The Flash communicate with Cisco Ramon at S.T.A.R. Labs, saying they are chasing Diabullet. Ultimately Diabullet gets away and Mari disappears from the scene before The Flash can approach her.

The next morning, Mari gets a coffee at a local coffee bar where she runs into Barry Allen and Iris West, who are enjoying a coffee break. She apologizes for running into them, spilling Iris' coffee, but Barry's reaction makes Mari understand he is actually the Flash. Mari leaves the coffee bar and uses her enhanced hearing to sneak into a phone conversation Barry has with Joe West, who explains there is a new player in town. She smirks and leaves the scene, marking the adress of CC Jitters as a new mark on her map. Later that night, she is once again dressed as her vigilante counterpart, sitting on top of the roof of CC Jitters. When a group of thugs she beat up a day earlier, return to CC Jitters to rob the place, she jumps down again, and beats them up once again with her bo-staff. Leaving them chained to the pole, Mari swears she'll find the hunter again.

To be continued...