Natalie Norcio

"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.

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.

A Fatal Accident
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. 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.

As Natalie resumes work on her new project, she fits a piece of Corvus tech to her creation but the Corvus tech proves to be quite unstable and the immense energy results in a blazing housefire that Natalie manages to escape but baby Alex does not. Natalie is then arrested by the authorities as she begs them to look for Alex, the police refuse which causes Natalie to become hysterical.

Darkstar Corporation
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 entered the building and executed every officer in the building with the help of his Darkstar agents. Psychomaster believed Natalie could be a valuable asset to Darkstar Corporation and took her to his base of operations which was disguised as an observatory.

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.

Becoming More
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 revealed 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 also 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 into the restroom and injects it into herself, resulting in a painful transformation into a reptilioid ready for action. With her new form, Natalie is given her first assignment by Psychomaster: To go after a troubling lizard known as Lacertia who had killed 2 Darkstar employees within a submarine approximately 2 weeks ago.

First Assignment
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Attack on 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.

Finding Isla de Reptilia
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.

Reptilian Rivalry
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 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 windmill tower 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 finds Martha and presents her with the disembodied head of fellow reptilioid Cassie. This horrifies the partially transformed Martha, who then jumps from the apartment's balcony and escapes into the sewers. Martha believes she is safe in the subway, but she is suddenly attacked by Anastasia who slashes at her with her wing blades.

Natalie confronts Martha yet again, this time attacking the defenceless girl by grabbing her by the leg and throwing her into a wall which greatly injures her. Natalie then proceeds to strike Martha in the face and reveals that Darkstar plans to create an entire army of strong and loyal reptilian foot soldiers. Natalie proceeds to pull out a knife and stab Martha in the side of her torso, Natalie orders Anastasia to return to their tower as Martha slowly bleeds out.

As they return to the windmill, Natalie mentions to herself that she is doing all this for her nephew Alex, she then decides on a smaller, simpler name for Anastasia. Natalie names her minion "Czarina" as she believes it sounds exotic and Anastasia agrees. Soon, Natalie is confronted on the windmill by Liza and the two have a brief conversation before they fight.

Liza is then attacked by Czarina with Natalie standing around watching it happen, Liza leaps towards Natalie and manages to deliver a right hook to the blue lizard's face but it proves futile. Natalie urges Liza to throw another punch and the green lizard does so, but Natalie catches her fist and then delivers a strong strike to Liza's arm which breaks it.

Natalie watches as Liza falls to her knees, Natalie begins to reveal to Liza that she and Martha are responsible for how she lost everything and even lost herself. As Czarina continuously slashes at Liza's back with her wing blades, with Natalie exclaiming about how her nephew died. Liza then tries to say something and Natalie allows her to speak. Liza reveals that she had seen the housefire years ago, the same one that Natalie caused.

She heard Alex's cries and Martha's mind began to fight for control to save the baby, Martha briefly managed to control Liza and save Alex from the fire. Liza gained control and tossed the baby at a group of firefighters, she then left the area. A shocked and speechless Natalie falls to her knees, questioning her own actions and what she has become.

Czarina delivers a final slash to Liza's back which causes her to pass out, Natalie then urges Czarina to leave and the Pteranodon mutant does so as she believes that Natalie is a "sad little reptile" for being so emotional. As she gazes out into the sunset, Natalie mentions how her nephew is out there somewhere and after apologizing to the downed Liza, Natalie leaves the windmill area after coming to the conclusion that while she may have changed on the outside, she didn't change on the inside.

A New Leaf
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.

List of Appearances
Urban Lizard

Natalie

Martha/Liza Chapter Five

Yajukon: Retaliation (cameo)

Natalie II

Natalie III (upcoming)

Natalie Reloaded (upcoming)

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
Whilst she was human, Natalie showed great skill in engineering as evidenced by her crafting weapons 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.

After her transformation into a reptilioid, Natalie developed enhanced strength, agility and durability, being able to fight in hand-to-hand combat as well as use numerous types of firearms. Natalie is also capable of leaping to great heights as well as landing on her feet with little to no pain, she also uses her claws albeit very rarely, she never uses her teeth to attack as the modified serum she was given has repressed her reptilian instincts.

However the modified serum might not have repressed her reptilian instincts completely, as she let her instincts briefly show when she killed Kes.

Along with her strength and skilled use of firearms, Natalie's greatest power is her prosthetic eye given to her by Darkstar after her left eye was lost to a brief encounter with Liza. Her prosthetic eye is able to detect weak structures as well as detect oncoming enemy attacks as evidenced when she manages to avoid one of many strikes attempted by Rourke. Her prosthetic eye is also capable of displaying current objectives.

Natalie also shows understanding of Darkstar technology, as she kept a DWC (Darkstar Weapon Capsule) inside her stomach until she choked it up after being beaten by Rourke.