<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/XfHbD.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>Khutulan Karpitskaya<br/>  <strong>Title:</strong> Crimson Dynamo<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong>  Resistance<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   Moscow<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong> Dr. Doom, that fell Chinese Mutant, Black Widow<br/></span></span><hr/><br/>Khutulan blinked rapidly, the hazy blur slowly dissipating from her eyes as she glanced over to one side, then the other and soon confirmed she wasn't falling but in fact on solid ground. Also, rather positively, she still couldn't hear anything and was shrouded by red emergency lighting, thus meaning the armor was relatively intact and the powerplant still operating. But as she stared forward, she saw the Black Widow, the flame haired traitor to her people, aiming some manner of pathetic firearm at her while nearby the Chinese mutant was nearby, a mild look of concern on her face.<br/><br/>Black Widow was saying something, but Khutulan couldn't hear as her memory slowly caught up to her mind and she realized Dr. Doom had unleashed a blast of energy that had knocked her on her armored butt and apparently Natasha had decided to betray Russia and its people one more time.<br/><br/>This was getting ridiculous.<br/><br/>Why would she support some gypsy bred Mystic and war criminal over her own people? Did she not realize their cause was just and righteous? She did not have to know Dr. Doom personally to know what kind of man he was. Another cunning dictator with a vision, who could dazzle the masses with silver tongued words, glitzy tchotchkes and a sad origin story. Truth was Dr. Doom was no different then any other despot. She expected such betrayal from the Chinese mutant, she was likely one of those who willingly marched to Mao's tune in the Great Leap Backwards. But Black Widow, she thought wouldn't be so easily seduced, considering her history. Did all that time in the decadent West teach her nothing? The only reason Crimson Dynamo decided to stop fighting was because she at the very least knew that Black Widow wasn't intending her cooperation with Dr. Doom to be anything but an alliance of sheer neccessity.<br/><br/>On the surface of it, Khutulan could understand the pragmatism of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but she was dismayed in the belief that Dr. Doom was anything but a serpent. One couldn't deal or bargain or attempt to manipulate a modern day despotic Caesar like Dr. Doom. The Roman Senate tried to do the same to Julius Caesar and look how that turned out. Or Munich in 1938. One didn't deal with people like him. They destroyed them at the first opportunity.<br/><br/>But even she realized the odds were against her now.<br/><br/>She would be of no service to the Motherland if she was dead.<br/><br/>To show she meant no resistance, she'd have to do something to show she meant no further harm. She had to expose herself to vulnerability.<br/><br/>So she just took off her helmet as she laid there and sucked in her gut as she groaned out her next few words. "I surrender," she said aloud.<br/><br/>For now... she thought to herself.