Natalie Norcio

* Human
* Reptilioid

> I wasss in an interrogation room once... it didn't end very well for the person standing where you are.
>
> - Natalie threatening Tera whilst under interrogation.

**Natalie Norcio** is a character who appears in the HydroVerse series of comics, formerly a regular human until she decided to become part of the ominous Darkstar Corporation after losing her nephew Alex in a housefire caused by her activities, she trained intensely under the company and eventually proved her worth.

The CEO of Darkstar Corporation, Psychomaster, decided to award Natalie with a modified version of the lizard DNA serum that created Liza. Rather than creating an alter-ego within Natalie's mind like Martha's did, Natalie's serum only changed her physicality.

Natalie Norcio is a character created by theryanjake11.

## Appearance

As a human Natalie resembled a Latina with short, messy black hair with hazel eyes. Her work uniform consists of a blue jumpsuit with welding mask. Her casual clothes are mostly dark but not black. After her first encounter with Liza, Natalie lost her left eye and had to wear an eyepatch but she soon removed it.

After being transformed into a blue-scaled Reptilioid, Natalie possessed black claws, sharp teeth, and a red eye along with armoured plating protecting the front of her head. She donned black clothing such as a bra, black tights with a blue buckle, boots, and a choker. She would eventually be fitted with a prosthetic silver eye with a barely-visible HUD display.

During the events of Natalie II, Natalie was given new clothing by fellow Lizard Tilia which consisted of matching orange shorts, bra, arm sleeves, and tights that wrapped around the underside of her feet.

## History

### Early Life

Natalie Norcio was born to a successful engineer and an accomplished writer, she always had an interest in building things and went through a gothic phase in her early teens. Natalie’s passion for building made her spend a lot of time with her father who, during this time, would show her how many devices worked. At the age of 16, Natalie lost her dad during a home invasion. This caused Natalie to continue engineering for 3 years like her father once did, and when she bought her own house she developed an unhealthy obsession with creating “weapons” using stolen Corvus tech.

When Natalie's sister Lucy gave birth to her son Alex, Natalie was very excited to have a nephew and spent a lot of time with him. Natalie saw Alex as the one ray of hope in her life that kept her going everyday and often got excited when Alex came to stay with her for the day. Natalie began working as an electrician in her mid-20s at Genetyx Research after spending four years in education, she did this due to her mother becoming overbearing and not wanting Natalie to go down the same path her father did.

Both Natalie and Martha Crawford had a bit of a friendship, Natalie developed separation anxiety and didn't like not being with Martha for too long in public gatherings. When Martha managed to secure a job at Genetyx Research, Natalie tried to follow but was, as stated before, pressured into becoming an electrician. Since that happened, Natalie has blamed Martha for "ditching" her and the two eventually became distant over time but Martha often made attempts at contact only to be snubbed by Natalie.

### *Natalie: Reloaded*

Returning home after a day of fixing a malfunctioning door at the Genetyx Research facility, Natalie sits down inside her garage and prepares to begin work on a new weapon she is creating with stolen Corvus tech. Natalie gets a call from her sister Lucy, who lets her know that she will be looking after her baby nephew Alex for the day. Natalie agrees, as she sees her nephew as the one thing that keeps her sane in this world.

Natalie spends the afternoon looking after Alex as the child watches cartoons. Natalie begins to prepare Alex for bed and sings to him as he sleeps. Natalie receives a phone call from work reminding her about her night shift much to her dismay, with no one to babysit Alex she decides to go into work to cover her shift.

After working on one of the door panels, Natalie hears odd noises coming from one of the rooms and investigates.

There she discovers a green-scaled reptilian humanoid standing in Martha's office. The creature turns around and quickly zooms past Natalie in a frenzy, critically damaging Natalie's right eye with a swipe of its claws. Natalie receives medical attention after the attack and her eye is removed, she begins wearing an eyepatch administered by the medical staff.

Returning home in a traumatised state and sitting down to resume work on her creation, Natalie begins fiddling with the piece of Corvus tech which causes it to begin heating up intensely, resulting in her hand being burned.

In a mixture of anger at her injury and pain from the burn, Natalie throws the piece of tech at the wall which only causes it to heat up once again in an unstable manner. The immense energy results in a blazing housefire that Natalie manages to escape but baby Alex does not. Natalie is then apprehended by the authorities as she begs them to look for Alex, the police refuse which causes Natalie to become hysterical.

After being escorted to an interrogation room inside the station, Natalie is asked a few questions due to her activities regarding weapon building and is also shunned by Lucy for the incident.

During the interrogation, Darkstar CEO Psychomaster suddenly enters and executes every officer in the building with the help of his mercenaries. Psychomaster believes Natalie to be a valuable asset to Darkstar Corporation and took her to his base of operations which was disguised as an abandoned complex. While at HQ, Psychomaster employed Natalie as a weapons specialist and was often impressed with her work within the field. As the years progressed, Psychomaster saw great potential within Natalie.

Quite impressed with Natalie's work on creating various weapons for Darkstar Corporation, Psychomaster decided to turn Natalie into a valuable mercenary that the organization could use to their advantage.

Calling Natalie to a meeting, Psychomaster reveals to her that he was in possession of a serum containing reptilian DNA that was extracted from Liza after the organization known as Corvus captured her. Psychomaster promises Natalie that with the serum, she will become more. Psychomaster proposes that with the serum, Natalie can finally go after Martha as Natalie blames Martha's constant praise for making her life completely miserable and filled with resentment.

With nothing left to lose Natalie takes the serum and injects it into herself, resulting in a painful transformation into a reptilioid ready for action. Psychomaster puts Natalie on an intensive training regime, enhancing her already great strength, and causing her to use human-style fighting skills rather than her claws and teeth.

With her new form, Natalie is given her first assignment by Psychomaster: To find and exterminate a group of Downpour Crime Syndicate members who have been selling stolen Darkstar weaponry in secret. Natalie ambushes the DCS group in an abandoned parking lot and makes quick work of every single on of them after a gunfight.

Satisfied with Natalie's performance, Psychomaster instructs her to go after a troubling lizard who had killed two Darkstar employees within a submarine approximately two beforehand. However, Psychomaster also informs Natalie about the supposed murder of her sister by a "reptilian creature" as well as claiming it to be the same one that took her eye, this causes Natalie to have an emotional breakdown.

Natalie is taken to the submarine and is dropped off, she goes inside and begins searching for the target but she is grabbed by the face by the lizard known as Lacertia before being taken up through the ceiling. Natalie and Lacertia clash as Natalie attempts to stab Lacertia but is kicked through the ceiling and onto the top of the submarine.

The fight continues and Natalie is impaled with Lacertia's horns, injuring her but she musters up the strength to push the red Reptilioid away before throwing her aside.

Lacertia leaps onto Natalie, attempting to remove her other eye, but Natalie smashes her through the floor and into the torpedo chamber. Lacertia pins Natalie down using her foot but the blue lizard manages to twist Lacertia's ankle.

Lacertia attempts to rush Natalie and use her horns only to become stuck on a pipe. Natalie uses her elbow to strike down on Lacertia, ripping off one of her horns in the process and using said horn to stab Lacertia in the throat. As Lacertia dies, she tells Natalie to make Liza suffer. Natalie is then ordered to exit the submarine as it will be destroyed, Natalie does so and leaps onto the helicopter as the sea craft explodes behind her.

Natalie is taken back to base where she undergoes surgery and is fitted with a new prosthetic eye.

### *Urban Lizard*

After having issues with hunting down the newly detected Urban Lizard, Corvus travels to Darkstar Corporation in hopes of assigning Natalie Norcio to go and hunt Urban Lizard down. Natalie is met by Corvus who asks her for her services, Natalie agrees and heads out into the city to begin her task. Using a van to disguise her presence, Natalie arrives on the Downpour Bridge as Urban Lizard had been spotted in the area.

The van swerves and slams into a passing vehicle, Natalie then uses her grenade launcher to cause an explosion whilst calling out to Urban Lizard. Urban Lizard climbs onto the Downpour Bridge and encounters Natalie, Urban Lizard then approaches Natalie and believes that he is about to fight a supervillain.

Natalie then attacks Urban Lizard using her fighting skills, she then grasps Urban Lizard by his throat and attempts to use her enhanced strength to crush his airways. Urban Lizard then chokes up an acidic substance and spits it into Natalie's face which causes her great pain, Urban Lizard then jumps off the side of the bridge and into the water. A calm Natalie declares that she will find him again, and that he should enjoy his freedom when it lasts.

When she returns to the Darkstar base, Natalie requests that she and Urban Lizard be isolated somewhere so that she can kill him by herself, Psychomaster agrees but is also concerned that Natalie's failures will make Darkstar look bad. Psychomaster points out to Natalie that he had spotted Urban Lizard talking to a woman in the town of Krastav, this gives Natalie a new idea.

Atop a building, Natalie confronts Urban Lizard and challenges him to a battle seeing as how she was impressed with his skills after their encounter on the bridge and Urban Lizard agrees so as long as Natalie leaves him alone. Natalie then reveals that she has planted bombs around Krastav, threatening the lives of everyone living there including Urban Lizard's family.

Natalie states that she wishes to be in an isolated setting so she can analyse Urban Lizard's skills, Natalie then invites Urban Lizard to hop onto a helicopter she managed to secure for the transportation.

The helicopter takes Natalie and Urban Lizard to an oil rig, Urban Lizard then expresses his desire to fight her so that he can keep his family safe. Natalie instantly pulls out a laser cannon and shoots Urban Lizard in the chest with it, greatly injuring him. Natalie mentions that she tends to cheat sometimes.

As Urban Lizard attempts to recover from his injury, Natalie puts away her weapon and prepares to fight her opponent, during the beginning of the fight Natalie manages to gain the upper hand quickly.

She quickly takes him down and taunts him, Urban Lizard gets back up and tries to attack so Natalie attempts to deliver a kick only to have her leg grabbed. Urban Lizard then proceeds to swing Natalie and toss her onto the oil rig's crane, he then climbs onto it so that he can finish her off.

Natalie uses her tail to strike Urban Lizard and attempts to choke him a second time, she then pushes him away before taking out the detonator in an attempt to grasp Urban Lizard's attention. Natalie is quickly punched in the face by Urban Lizard, he then manages to take her down which causes her to drop the detonator.

Recovering from the attack, Natalie attempts to climb to her feet but she is then kicked once again by Urban Lizard which sends her plummeting down into the water below, however she manages to stay above the surface. Natalie then reveals to Urban Lizard that there were never any bombs, and that she fabricated her story so that Urban Lizard would have more of a fighting spirit.

Urban Lizard then decides to grab a large container, he then drops it off of the rig and it lands on the blue lizard who disappears from sight.

### *Martha/Liza Chapter Five*

Sometime after she lost her battle to Urban Lizard, Natalie was swept away by the ocean and eventually washed ashore Isla de Reptilia where she came face-to-face with Liza once again. Using one of her "weapon pods", Natalie used an enhanced minigun and opened fire upon the reptilian residents of the island.

Natalie succeeded in killing almost everyone on the island, but Liza and her friends managed to take cover and Liza was sent away on a small boat and ended up back at civilization.

    Natalie eventually made her own way back to civilization and intercepted the apartment building of recently rehabilitated criminal Anastasia Gregorevich, proceeding to kidnap her and take her to the Darkstar base.
With Anastasia locked up, Natalie approaches her and presents Anastasia with Darkstar's own rendition of Martha's original reptilian serum and injects it into the helpless woman. This results in Anastasia gruesomely transforming into a blue Pteranodon-like mutant, with Natalie planning to use her as a minion to help hunt down Liza.

    After attacking Martha the previous night and trapping her in a mid-transformed state, Anastasia meets back with Natalie at a rooftop and informs her. Natalie becomes angered at Anastasia for not killing Martha despite Anastasia attempting to explain herself. Disappointed at her minion, Natalie decides to go and hunt down Martha herself but Anastasia joins her.
In an abandoned apartment, Natalie senses the partially changed Martha nearby and begins hunting her down. Martha spots a nearby manhole and decides to head into the sewers which leads her to a subway system, but Natalie finds her and attacks with her knife. Martha manages to get away by jumping onto a passing train, Natalie manages to jump on as well and confronts her target once again as Czarina joins her.

    Czarina attacks Martha with her wings, Natalie then appears and throws Martha into the ground. Natalie reveals her identity to a shocked Martha before picking her up by her neck, and pulling out her knife. Much to Czarina's protests, Natalie stabs Martha in the stomach and lets her drop to the floor. Natalie and Czarina leave as Martha begins to bleed out.

As they return to the building, Natalie mentions to herself that she is doing all this for her nephew Alex, she is then confronted by the surviving Martha who attempts to reason with her old friend. Natalie discards Martha's words as Czarina goes in for the attack. Martha manages to avoid Czarina, but is knocked to the ground by Natalie who then puts her boot on the injured woman's face. She then grabs Martha and carries her to the building's edge, Natalie then throws Martha from the building and smiles as she falls.

Suddenly Liza leaps from below and tackles Natalie to the floor, Natalie head-butts Liza off of her and the two face each other. Natalie recalls her attack on Liza's island, causing the enraged Liza to leap at Natalie and the two fly off of the building. They both land on the railing below, where Liza bites into Natalie's arm before kicking the blue lizard in the face which causes her to back away. As Liza attempts another attack, Natalie catches her wrist and chops her throat, causing Liza to fall to her knees. Natalie viciously grabs Liza and throws her into the air, she crashes through one of the windows into a café.

As Natalie leaps to the window and attempts to attack the downed Liza who uses her tail to knock Natalie over before rushing to attack by swiping Natalie upside the face with her claws, sending Natalie out of the destroyed window and landing on a series of beams below. Liza leaps down to continue her assault on Natalie, who mocks Liza's friends again which causes Liza to lunge at her. Liza and Natalie lock claws, with Liza promising to Natalie that she'll make her lose everything. This strikes a nerve with Natalie, who exclaims that she already has.

An angry Natalie shoves Liza away before striking her hard, causing Liza to fall onto the lower set of beams before Natalie leaps down to follow her enemy. Natalie pins Liza down on the beam and puts her hands around her neck, she then pushes Liza's neck backwards and a snap is heard. Liza begins to lose consciousness as Czarina appears and Natalie mentioning how she wants to savour the moment.

Liza suddenly lunges back up at Natalie, who grabs her enemy's arm and breaks it with a single chop. Natalie pushes the critically wounded Liza off onto a platform below and calls her weak before stating that she herself was weak before the fire that she believes Alex perished in. Liza catches notice of this, and reveals to Natalie that she had seen the fire that night and Martha viciously battled for control in order to rescue Alex, getting him away from the flames.

This revelation shocks Natalie and makes her fall to her knees in questioning everything she has done, hit with the fact that Alex is still alive and out there somewhere. Natalie leaves the area after coming to the conclusion that while she may have changed on the outside, she didn't change on the inside and leaves the unconscious Liza.

### *Yajukon: Retaliation*

Natalie makes a brief cameo climbing out of a wreckage visibly injured, she looks up and notices the giant Hydro-Girl in battle with Corvus' Malum form.

### *Natalie II*

After the battle between Hydro-Girl and Corvus' destructive Malum form had reduced all of Downpour was in ruins, Natalie had managed to survive the destruction albeit with minor injuries. Looking up at the giant Hydro-Girl with a sinister glare, Natalie believed that she was the cause of all this chaos.

Natalie immediately makes it her mission to track down her nephew Alex whom she has not seen in years, holding out hope that he is still alive. Whilst walking through a destroyed town centre, Natalie is attacked instantly by an unseen assailant and is knocked out cold. Natalie wakes up in a daze, being dragged inside an underground area by another reptilioid.

Natalie is brought before the self-proclaimed alpha of an underground organization of reptilioids who had migrated to the underground areas of Downpour known as Rourke, who takes an immediate disliking towards Natalie after noticing her prosthetic eye, declaring that she is not a real reptilioid. Natalie is then taken to an interrogation room and monitored by the reptilioid that attacked her earlier named Kes.

While she waits in the interrogation room, Natalie glares at Kes until Tera, Rourke's acquaintance, enters and begins questioning Natalie why she was on the surface. Natalie explains that she was searching for her nephew, and begins to refuse to cooperate with Tera who continues asking questions including one regarding Natalie's prosthetic eye.

Tera becomes tired of Natalie's stubborn nature so she orders Kes to attack her once again, Kes kicks the table over onto Natalie before stomping on her face which knocks her out once again. After she is thrown into a working area with other reptilioid slaves, Natalie wakes up to a band of lizards including the enthusiastic Dili who introduces her friends, the straightforward Agil, and the silent Serpe.

Natalie attempts to ask the friendly reptilioids if they have seen a human around, Agil mentions that he's only seen one around and it is taken care of by another reptilioid called Tilia. Natalie asks as to where she can find Tilia, but Agil warns that there are a lot of "goons" around. Agil eventually tells Natalie that she can find Tilia one floor above where they are and wishes her luck.

A nearby gate is lifted by Serpe enough to allow the thankful Natalie to crawl under and leave the working area, a concerned Agil and Dili look on. Moving through the nearby areas, Natalie comes across a goon and gets him into a swift headlock before demanding him to tell her the whereabouts of Tilia. After he tells her, Natalie snaps his neck instantly and makes her way down a hall.

As she is getting a soda from a vending machine, Tilia is instantly attacked by Natalie who pins her up against the vending machine and orders her to take her to where she keeps the human. Tilia does so and Natalie is overcome with happiness at seeing her nephew Alex asleep on a bed, evidently grown since the last time Natalie saw him.

The sleeping Alex then places his hand on Natalie's hand, holding back tears, she apologizes to her nephew for not being there when he needed her. Tilia then begins talking to Natalie, offering her new clothes as well. Alex then wakes up, he places his hand on his reptilioid aunt's face, clearly recognizing her voice.

Natalie places her own hand on Alex' face and expresses how thankful she is for getting to see his face again, she then questions Tilia on why Alex is here. Tilia explains everything, from a reptilioid attack on Rourke's home city and how he managed to escape and build his own following. She also mentions how Rourke once had a child of his own, but he lost his child during the invasion.

After hearing the story, Natalie thanks Tilia for taking care of her nephew and also proposes that she escape with her, Tilia refuses and mentions how she misses her own family sometimes. Tilia then decides to help Natalie escape with Alex. Eventually, Rourke learns that Natalie is here for the human child which sends him into a rage, and he kills two workers after questioning them.

Rourke makes his way to Tilia's room, Natalie and Alex escape via the ventilation system as both Tera and Rourke confront Tilia. Whilst running down a hallway, Natalie is suddenly attacked by Kes which also results in Alex being knocked over. Natalie is kicked in the face by Kes who then charges, Natalie uses her legs to push Kes into the ground.

Natalie manages to suspend herself in the air using a vent, wrapping her thighs around Kes and using her strength to snap the vicious reptilioid's neck. As Natalie hel.ps up Alex, Rourke smashes through a nearby door and attacks Natalie, taking her back to his lair. Rourke beats Natalie down and declares that she will not take Alex away from him, but Natalie manages to climb to her feet and prepare for a fight whilst Alex is lured away by the gang of reptilioids from the working area

As Dili leads her friends to the surface with Alex, Natalie is tossed into the air and lands on a nearby water tower where Rourke follows. Natalie is brutally beaten by the enraged Rourke, but Natalie manages to counter some of his attacks using her prosthetic eye and lands a few strikes. However they are not enough as Rourke manages to both impale her in the back with his horns and give knees her in the stomach, critically wounding her.

Serpe, the silent reptilioid, then tells Agil and Dili to "throw him". This shocks Dili as she is not used to hearing him speak, but he confirms his request and Agil throws him into the air. Serpe's head slams into Rourke's face which manages to distract him from further attacking the floored Natalie.

Unbeknownst to Rourke, the blow he gave Natalie caused her to choke up a DWC (Darkstar Weapon Capsule) before leaping onto Rourke and gouging his left eye with her thumb, she then shoves the shotgun into Rourke's mouth and pulls the trigger. This successfully kills Rourke and his lifeless body plummets off of the water tower and slams into the ground. Natalie jumps down from the water tower and embraces Alex who comes running towards her.

Natalie thanks Serpe for his help as Agil asks Natalie if she plans on leaving Downpour, she glances over at her newfound allies before looking back at Serpe with a slight smile.

### *Natalie III*

After Rourke's death, Natalie and her friends have succeeded in rebuilding their new underground home into a peaceful society where Natalie is being looked at as a leader by the reptilian inhabitants.

Natalie is first seen in the newly-opened target range being ran by Trent, helping test out the area. She finishes and prepares to leave but is suddenly met by Alex whom she accidently woke up with her shooting. Natalie apologises to her nephew and agrees to take him back to his bed, but not before denying him access to her guns after he shows signs of becoming interested in them.

After taking Alex back to his room, Natalie sings to him and succeeds in lulling him back to sleep. She kisses his forehead and leaves the room, meeting with Agil who has begun wearing clothing like everyone else due to Natalie feeling weird with her nephew being around mostly nude lizards. The two walk and talk as they approach a little campfire in the lower section of the underground settlement, joining with Dili who is cooking pigeons over said fire.

Natalie brings up how she has been thinking of the possibility of moving the lizards to a new and better home elsewhere, feeling concerned for everyone's safety after the arrival of strange portal storms happening above ground. This upsets Dili and makes her storm off with Agil following her, a guilt-ridden Natalie walks by a small shack and notices Serpe sitting by himself.

She proceeds to sit by Serpe, he mentions that he heard the conversation they had outside. Natalie tells him that she only wants the best for everyone else, especially for her nephew who never had a normal life involving school and instead has a "big dumb lizard" for an aunt. Serpe asks her if she truly thinks that, before handing her a drawing Alex did of her, referring to her as "cool". This causes Natalie to become emotional and speechless.

Thanking Serpe for showing her the drawing, she kisses him on the cheek before leaving. As Natalie relaxes on her mattress, she is visited by Dili who has come to apologise to her for how she acted earlier. Natalie reassures Dili she has nothing to apologise for, as she believes she should not have dropped such a thing on everyone like she did. Dili mentions how she had a talk with Agil, and agreed with the points he had made but Dili became content with their current home and that everyone is afraid of the outside world.

Understanding where Dili is coming from, Natalie tells her that they can search for a new home together. Natalie then suggests a party in celebration of searching for a new place, to which Dili asks if she can bring cups.

The party occurs and every lizard is going about their own fun, but Natalie suddenly becomes horrified at the realization that Alex has gone missing and begins questioning everyone else about his whereabouts. One lizard suggests that he might have ventured outside.

Running outside with her friends, Natalie manages to spot Alex outside with a red female lizard known as Diabla. Natalie tells her to back away from her nephew, Alex does so and begins walking back towards his aunt which enrages Diabla and causes her to lunge her fist towards Natalie's stomach, sending the blue lizard flying into the ground. Diabla leaps into the air and tries to land another strike, but Natalie evades the attack as Agil tries to retrieve Alex.

Diabla notices this and holds Natalie's friend at gunpoint, Natalie notices this and quickly draws a colt python, shooting Diabla in the stomach and causing her to have to be dragged away by her acquaintance Kingston. Natalie hugs Alex and is taken back into their underground home with minor injuries to her stomach, where she is treated by Dili. The lizards converse about the identity of the lizard woman that attacked her, but they do not know. Agil points out how she resembled Natalie and could be a twin, Natalie dismisses the claim.

Turning towards Alex, Natalie tells him that he cannot ever leave like that to which he accepts his mistake. Natalie returns Alex to his room. In the underground settlement's own café, Natalie and her friends converse about the mission of finding a new home elsewhere as she makes a promise to find somewhere far away from their current location.

Natalie also announces that they must leave immediately which shocks Serpe and she reassures them that while they are on a pathless journey she will guide them as a leader, she also mentions that she has to deal with Diabla. A worried Dili points out the portal storms happening outside to which Natalie tells her that if they can leave the area before they start up again then the group should be fine. She tells Dili to round everyone up first and prepare for exit.

After venturing outside with Alex, Agil, and Dili, they are all confronted by Diabla who is holding Dili at gunpoint. Diabla threatens that she will kill Dili if they refuse to hand over Alex, Natalie refuses and instead challenges her red-scaled clone to a battle. After Diabla deploys her arm blades and lets Dili go, Natalie rushes her and immediately blocks a series of attempted attacks by Diabla before kicking her away.

Following Diabla into a junkyard, Natalie leaps back into action and engages Diabla who leaps into the air and tries to use her arm blades again only to be shoved back by Natalie who then fails to strike Diabla and is instead kicked in the back which sends her stumbling into a nearby structure. Diabla then attempts to swing her arm blades at Natalie who blocks with her arm resulting in the two reptiles getting into a lock. Natalie strikes again by repeatedly striking Diabla's ribs before the red reptile finally stabs Natalie in the side with her blades.

Barely affected by this attack, Natalie retaliates with a headbutt which causes Diabla to stumble backwards but regains her footing almost immediately and shoves a car into Natalie and crushes her up against the structure behind her. Diabla continues grinding the car up against Natalie before finally letting her drop to the ground, Diabla stands over her enemy and reveals herself as "Natalie Norcio" before attempting another blade attack but Natalie avoids the attack and kicks her attacker away which detaches the arm blade in the process and leaves it stuck in the wall.

Diabla lands on the bonnet of a nearby car as a furious Natalie grabs the discarded arm blade and tries to attack, but Diabla avoids the attack and bites into Natalie's arm before swinging her overhead which in turn dislocates her arm. Natalie slams into the ground as Diabla stabs her in the back twice before calling out to Alex who approaches, Natalie sees him and reaches out to her nephew.

Attempting to get him to come to her and holding a detonation device in her hand, Diabla is fired upon by Alex using an Uzi he concealed behind his back. This distracts Diabla long enough for Natalie to land an elbow-strike which succeeds in knocking Diabla to the ground. Natalie then stabs her with a discarded arm blade and pins her to the roof of a car, proceeding to kick said car all the way into the building built atop where the lizard settlement is.

Natalie spots the detonation device Diabla wielded and presses down on it, causing the bombs planted by Diabla within the settlement to go off and the entire structure collapses atop Diabla and the car she was pinned to. As Natalie approaches the wreckage, Diabla buries her way out of the debris and is questioned by Natalie.

Natalie asks Diabla to explain herself, to which Diabla reveals her situation and how she lost Alex in her universe much to Natalie's shock. As Diabla has a mental breakdown, Natalie watches Alex embrace her damaged counterpart as the portal storms start back up and Diabla is transported back to her own universe.

With everyone safe and the settlement inhabitants safely evacuated from the underground sectors, Natalie delivers a brief speech where she notes that she didn't "promise anything spectacular" but tells them that they all deserve a better life somewhere else and that she will keep them all safe. Natalie, Alex, and her friends plus followers all begin their journey out of Downpour City's ruins in search of a new home.

## Personality

During her human years, Natalie was often very distant from people and developed really bad anxiety in her teens, causing her to stay silent most of the time. She was easily irritable and would get mad at the smallest inconveniences. Natalie was not as bad mannered towards her parents, especially her dad who she preferred over her mother.

Natalie had a neutral relationship with her sister Lucy, but the two didn't talk to each other a lot and stuck to their own thing. In her years of education, Natalie kept to herself a lot and didn't talk to much of her fellow students, she rarely showed any emotion during classes as well.

The only other person that Natalie genuinely cared about was her nephew Alex, who she would spend most of her time with when she got the chance. Natalie would often volunteer to watch Alex with no hesitation, and her family noticed a change in her demeanour when Alex was born.

After her transformation into a reptilioid mercenary for Darkstar, Natalie became very strict and even developed major anger issues. During training, Natalie would often let her anger get the better of her and near enough kill Darkstar trainers.

Natalie also became very cruel and manipulative, leading Urban Lizard to believe she had planted bombs around his family's residence just to get a fight out of him. During her rivalry with Liza, Natalie showed no remorse in stabbing Martha in the torso and leaving her to bleed out despite the fact that they used to be friends. After she had left Darkstar Corporation, Natalie became more reserved and even made allies with some reptilioid workers living within the underground areas of Downpour city.

Natalie is very determined but sometimes it can come off as very sadistic as she caused mass genocide on Isla de Reptilia just to hunt down Liza who was helped off of the island by her friends. After leaving Darkstar and becoming somewhat of an anti-hero, she proceeded to take a brutal beating in order to rescue her nephew Alex and free the reptilioid workers from the underground from Rourke's rule.

## Powers & Abilities

### Engineering

Whilst she was human, Natalie showed great skill in engineering as evidenced by her attempting to create an advanced home security system in her garage using any materials she could find including technologically advanced Corvus equipment.

Natalie had taken apart numerous Corvus tech that she found scattered around Downpour, taking it apart to grasp the inner workings and use them to her advantage.

### Enhanced Strength

After her transformation into a reptilioid, Natalie developed enhanced strength and built upon it by a vicious workout regime in Darkstar's gym. Natalie is also capable of leaping to great heights as well as landing on her feet with little issue.

### Enhanced Agility

Natalie possesses great agility, able to catch her enemies off-guard with her swift movements.

### Enhanced Durability

Being a Reptilioid, Natalie possesses tough scales that can help her last in a fight.

### Enhanced Healing

Due to her regenerative skin, Natalie is able to heal from any serious wound within minutes.

### Claws

Natalie also uses her claws albeit very rarely, as the modified serum she was given has repressed her reptilian instincts.

### Darkstar Seeker

Natalie Norcio was fitted with a prosthetic eye in place of her left eye that was lost in an encounter with Liza. The Darkstar Seeker is capable of analysing environments, targets, and incoming threats.

### Marksmanship

Due to her Darkstar training, Natalie is highly skilled with most firearms she is given, especially pistols and Uzis.

### Hand-to-Hand Combat

Being trained by Darkstar Corporation has also given Natalie immense tactical skill, allowing her to do a considerable number on her opponents.

### Darkstar Weapon Capsule

Natalie is provided with a special piece of Darkstar equipment shaped like a tiny sphere that she swallows, and chokes up when it is needed. She then activates it in-hand and it forms into any weapon that is programmed into it.