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Superia #10: Providence pt. 1
by Sigma
Prelude – 7 years ago
“Repent,” the big man said. When his victim didn’t respond, he grabbed her jaw with his gloved hand and lifted her head.
Nocturne looked him the eye, her arms shackled above her head. Her toned, naked body bore the scars and bruises of weeks of torture, injuries that her demon physiology were slow to heal because of the magic suppressing it. She looked at her tormentor and spit blood in his face.
His expression remained unchanged as a big gloved fist slammed into Nocturne’s rock-hard abs. She grunted and bounced against the stone wall behind her and then slumped over in her bonds.
“Repent, demon.”
“Ok…” Nocturne said. “I’ll admit it…”
He lifted her head again.
“I snuck in here, but not to steal one of your relics like you think.”
The tormentor raised an eyebrow.
“I did it to fuck your mom. She likes it in the ass.” She said it with a grin and then braced herself as a fist slammed into her face, knocking her head into the wall. The chains rattled and her tormentor grabbed her hair and lifted her head. He produced a razor sharp knife and put the tip inches from her right eye.
“Repent.”
Nocturne clenched her teeth as the blade came closer, but then looked behind him as the cell door opened.
Thera walked in, gasping at what she saw in front of her. She instinctively rubbed a hand against her pregnant belly, swollen beneath her robes and looked at Nocturne with pity in her eyes before looking at the tormentor.
“Master,” Thera said.
He looked back at her. “Yes, my child?”
“The Elders have summoned you.”
He nodded, his knife vanished and he dropped Nocturne before leaving the cell.
Thera watched him go and then turned to Nocturne. “Just...admit what you did. Maybe they’ll release you.”
Nocturne laughed and looked at the girl. “You’re sweet, kid.” She then looked at Thera’s stomach. “Congrats, by the way. How far along?”
“7 months,” Thera said.
“Boy or girl?”
“I don’t know.”
Nocturne looked up and stared for several seconds. “It’s a boy.”
Thera looked at her in surprise. She rubbed her belly and then looked back at the cell door and then reached up to touch Nocturne’s shackles. She hesitated, pulled her hand back, and then left the cell.
*
“Repent.”
Nocturne’s body bore magical glowing symbols, and when she didn’t answer, they flared, sending out a sustained surge of energy that made her scream. The light died down and she slumped over, her naked tits heaving as she bit back the pain.
“Just...fucking kill me already!”
“Repent.”
“Fuck you!”
Another surge and more screaming.
Thera lurked outside the cell before willing the courage to go in. Nocturne’s screaming died down and the tormentor looked back.
“Did you need something, child?”
Thera hesitated for a second before walking up. “Ma...may I?” she asked, motioning to the prisoner.
Nocturne glared at her.
The tormentor smiled and nodded, stepping back.
Thera swallowed a lump in her throat and then put a hand on his shoulder. Her magical tattoos flared and power coursed through them and into the tormentor. He let out a yell and then fell down, unconscious.
“Ooooh, hohohoho!” Nocturne laughed. She then looked at Thera. “Aren’t you a little short to be a Storm Trooper?”
“...I don’t understand. Storm Trooper?”
“Never mind.”
Thera quickly undid her shackles and Nocturne fell, but Thera caught her and helped her stand.
Nocturne gathered herself and stood on her own. She then looked at her torturer and walked over to him. She knelt down and put her hands around his neck.
“No!” Thera told her, pulling her back. “You need to leave, now!”
Nocturne looked at her. “Why did you do this?”
“What they were doing to you wasn’t right,” Thera said. She then chanted a spell and opened a portal.
Nocturne eyed the portal. “What’s your name, kid?”
“Thera.”
“Natalie,” Nocturne said of herself. “If you need to get away from these assholes, come to the Cluster and ask for Nocturne. They’ll know how to find me there.” She then put a hand on Thera’s shoulder. “I won’t forget this.” She then paused. “Oh wait, weren’t you pregnant the last time I saw you?”
A smile formed on Thera’s face and she nodded.
“What did you have?”
“A son, Aron.”
Nocturne smiled and nodded. “Told ya. Take care of that boy, T. I’ll see you around,” she said before stepping through the portal.
Thera watched her go and then looked down at the tormentor and sighed. “I am in so much trouble…”
I – Present Day
Naomi breathed deep when she felt Thera’s hand touch her on her naked waist. Then a second hand touched her thigh. Naomi lay back on her sheets and opened her eyes, seeing the dark skinned, tattooed sorceress standing over her, legs spread. Thera put her hands on her shapely hips and smiled and Naomi looked down to see a perfect reflection of Thera, the product of a spell she cast, using her body as her plaything. Their eyes met and Naomi smiled as the Thera standing over her spread her legs slightly.
“Wait…” Naomi breathed. “Which one’s the real Thera?”
“Does it matter?” the one standing asked. She then knelt down, bringing the dripping warmth of her throbbing pussy onto Naomi’s face. At the same time, Naomi felt a tongue push slowly into her vagina, and a surge of pleasure shot through her body as she grasped the sheets under naked back.
Thera sat on her face and began grinding her hips, making Naomi eat her out while the other Thera ate Naomi out.
Naomi gripped Thera’s smooth brown thighs, her moans muffled by their weight and Thera cried out, cupping her tits and pinching her own erect nipples. The other Thera fingered herself while eating Naomi, using her thumb to flick her own clit while two of her fingers moved around inside of her.
The Thera riding Naomi’s face grabbed and pulled Naomi’s hair with one hand and used the other to steady herself on the headboard. Her jaw was slack as she gasped and moaned. Her tits rose and fell with her breathing and she winced when she felt Naomi’s nails digging into her skin, but she squeezed the sides of Naomi’s head with her thick thighs in response.
The Thera between Naomi’s legs pulled them up over her naked shoulders and shoved her face in further, making Naomi buck as she dragged her tongue across the roof. She reveled in the warm, sweet taste of Naomi’s juices and took her time, making very drawn out, measured strokes of her tongue. Naomi’s muffled cries crew louder under the other Thera’s weight and the bed creaked under the three bodies moving about on top of it.
A few times, the bed slammed back against the wall, making a thumping sound and the Thera riding Naomi gasped and grunted while grinding her pussy. She closed her eyes, bit her lip, and lost herself in the overwhelming wave of ecstasy that was quickly taking over. Before long, those feelings were all she could think about, and with Naomi under her, she felt herself coming closer to the edge.
The minutes stretched on. Naomi continued savoring her, and Thera felt her thigh twitch right before she screamed and released.
At almost the same time, Naomi let out a long, muffled cry, and her body shook as her juices flooded out, all over the other Thera’s face. The second Thera lifted her head, a wide, cum-soaked smile on her face, and looked down at Naomi’s quivering thighs as her cum pooled under them, staining the sheets.
The Thera riding Naomi’s face got up and rolled off of her while gasping for air and the two sorceresses fell onto the bed, on either side of Naomi as the three women embraced and lost each other in the pleasure-filled aftermath.
“Fuck…” Naomi gasped. “Hell of a thing to wake up to,” she said with a laugh.
***
“These superpowered menaces are a threat to our city!” The woman on the TV shouted to the gathered reporters in front of her. She was a conservatively dressed blonde woman named Sara Bradley, and she had been all over the news in Delta City recently.
“It goes beyond last week’s attack with the bird people. It goes back further than the giant monster a few weeks ago. These women have been terrorizing our city for years! They answer to no one! Enough is enough!” she said.
“Give me a fucking break…” Naomi groaned as she took more pancakes off the griddle and turned the sausage cooking on her stove.
She looked away from the TV when she saw Thera emerge from the bathroom in a bathrobe and drying her hair. The sorceress smiled at Naomi before walking over and putting her arms around her waist and kissing her on the side of the face.
Naomi stuck her thumb in the pancake batter and then held it up. Thera grabbed her wrist, put Naomi’s thumb in her mouth and sucked the batter off slowly. She licked Naomi’s finger clean and then moved her hand down the front of Naomi’s tight t-shirt, cupping her tit. She gave it a gentle squeeze and Naomi nuzzled her ass against Thera, feeling her tits on her back.
“You just got cleaned up,” Naomi said. “Am I gonna have to get you dirty again?”
Thera kissed her again and rested her chin on Naomi’s shoulder. “Well it’s not like we need to be anywhere for a while…”
Naomi smirked and flipped the pancake with Thera’s hand still on her tit.
“...The people of Delta City are not safe until these super menaces are held accountable!” Sara Bradley continued her tirade. “There needs to be oversight! Control! They need to answer to someone!”
Thera looked back. “Who is that?”
“Some raving lunatic,” Naomi said. “She’s been popping up on TV ever since the monster attack.” She grabbed the remote and turned the TV off. “Don’t worry about her. Food’s up,” she said before turning off the stove and griddle.
***
“So…” Naomi said, after eating pancakes. “You don’t have any of this where you come from?”
“No,” Thera explained. “No. We do everything with magic. I don’t own a phone. I don’t know how to operate a car. I only learned how to use a computer about a year ago.”
“Weirdo.”
“I am not a weirdo!” Thera protested with a laugh. “We just...live very differently.”
“Well, at least you don’t take vows of chastity,” Naomi said with a laugh.
Thera laughed too and they kissed before Naomi went back to her breakfast.
“So where is this Providence place anyway?”
“It moves regularly, but it’s never here on Earth. It exists in...how do I explain it? So, there is space between the dimensions. These places act as pathways between worlds and they are massive and very easy to get lost in. It’s sort of like how outer space exists between Earth and the Moon. That’s where Providence is.”
“That sounds like pain in the ass.”
“My order fled there centuries ago to escape persecution.”
“From who?” Naomi asked.
“Zealots who wanted to kill all magic users…” Thera said. “They almost succeeded. It’s a long story.”
“Shit…”
Thera went quiet and prodded at her breakfast.
“So, what, your folks live there?”
Thera snapped to attention very quickly. “No...I mean, I have close friends but...um...no real family to speak of…”
“Oh, well, you got us. Me, and Del, and Red, and that little annoying-ass houseplant and the rest. Why not just stay here full time?”
“I have duties to my people,” Thera said. “Perhaps someday, because I do enjoy it here, but not now.”
“Well, you’ve got a place to crash whenever you’re here,” Naomi told her with a grin.
Thera smiled and finished her breakfast. “I do need to return there today, actually. I’ve been gone for some time.”
“How long are you staying?”
“I don’t know. But I will see you when I return,” Thera said before getting up. Naomi got up too and they hugged and kissed. Naomi put her arms around Thera’s waist and looked her in the eye. She then looked down.
“Let me see that ass one more time, as a parting gift.”
Thera sighed and smiled, and then turned around and lifted the back of her robe to show a perfectly shaped and toned backside. Naomi smacked it once and Thera yelped in surprise and then laughed. “What are you doing today?”
“Del wants to go over strategy so I guess I’m hanging with those other jerks today. I’ll fill you in when you get back,” Naomi said.
“Ah, okay, excellent. Thank you for keeping me updated.”
Naomi grinned. “I wasn’t talking about planning.”
Thera suppressed a laugh. “Goodbye, Naomi.” She then called her staff to her hand and summoned a portal that she disappeared through after blowing Naomi a kiss.
Naomi smirked and began cleaning up.
***
Thera stepped out of the portal on the other side and into a large stone chamber toward a wooden door. She pushed it opened it to a modest home and inside found her six-year-old son, Aron and his father, Mathias, sitting at a table and going over a large tome.
They looked up when the door opened and Aron jumped to his feet and ran to his mother, hugging her legs.
“Mom! You’re back!” he beamed.
She smiled and kissed the top of her son’s head, briefly glancing at Mathias. “Hello, my darling. What are you reading?”
Aron ran and grabbed the book and brought it to her. “It’s a compendium about monsters. Look!”
“Ah, yes,” Thera said. “This is a good one. I’ll walk you to your instruction and you can tell me all about it. Wait for me outside.”
“Okay!” Aron said before grabbing a bag and heading to the door. Once he was outside, Thera turned to Mathias, who stood up.
“Welcome back,” he said to her. “Word is you’ve had an eventful few weeks below.”
“I’ve been busy, yes.”
“Too busy for your child, apparently.”
“Mathias…”
He stopped her. “The High Magus have summoned you,” he told her. “Go on, walk him to Instruction. But then I would head right to the Council chamber if I were you.”
***
The Council chamber was a cavernous, imposing place dominated by stone statues of great and powerful magic users. At an elevated platform sat the Elders of Providence. Elder Ulric, Elder Sigor, and Elder Sabine.
They remained quiet as the doors to the chamber opened and Thera walked in. She paused, meeting the eyes of the elders, and then approached them when Sigor, who sat in the center, motioned.
“At long last, the wayward daughter returns to us,” Ulric said. He was a bald, thin man with a long gray beard. “Where have you been, child?”
“On Earth,” Thera said.
“Among the Untouched, yet again,” Sabine said. She was a woman with light blonde hair and weathered features. “Why spend so much time among those people, child?”
“They are my friends. They needed me and I aim to be there to help them.”
“And it’s because you share the Aphrodite gene with them, yes?” Sigor, a burly man with a black heard, said.
Thera remained quiet.
“That gene has elevated your natural affinity for magic, Thera. Your people here need your talents. Not those unwashed fools down there. It was one of them who nearly wiped our order out all those centuries ago.”
“I am aware of our history, Elder…”
“You would leave that adorable son of yours for brutish women whose only skill is in the application of force?” Sabine asked.
“I would ask that you leave Aron out of this,” Thera said. “Mathias watches him and…”
“Mathias is a loyal son of Providence, just as your boy will be,” Ulric said. “We have already decided the boy will be one of our students, just as his parents were. It would be nice if both of his parents were present to support his training.”
“I understand…” Thera said. “...But I cannot abandon my friends. I helped them defeat one of the old Leviathans and…”
“We are aware of the battle with Daggermaw,” Sigor said. “We are not ignorant to what happens down there, especially when one of our prodigies needlessly endangers herself to aid the Untouched.”
“Our order was founded on aiding people untouched by magic…” Thera said.
“Do not preach to us, girl,” Sabine said. “Yes, we were founded on that basis, but they turned against us, put us to the sword and drove us from our homes. Our ancestors lost family, friends, and lovers to those mindless fanatics. Let them kill each other while we remain safe here.”
“There are good people down there,” Thera insisted.
“Savages, all of them.” Ulric said and his fellows elders nodded in agreement.
Thera clenched her fist and looked at the three.
“Unclench your first, child,” Sabine warned. “Do not do something you might regret. A skilled sorceress though you are, you cannot overpower all three of us. Besides, you walk a razor’s edge with us, given your...history of defiance.”
Thera took a deep breath and relaxed.
Sigor stroked his beard. “There are those within these halls who would cast you out, especially after that incident where you freed that demon half-breed from captivity.”
Thera looked up. “Keeping Nocturne prisoner was wrong. You know that.”
“She invaded our territory. She should have been dealt with accordingly, but you thought otherwise. I would tread very carefully in the future, Thera,” Ulric warned.
Thera went to say something to them when a powerful rumble shook the chamber. She looked back and the elders all stood up. Thera then turned and ran out toward the source without a word.
*
She arrived at one of the instruction chambers, a place of learning, to find it reduced to smoldering rubble. Dead people lay among the ruins, her fellow magic users. Just moments ago, Thera had walked her son to this very place.
“ARON!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. She heard more commotion and ran farther. Before long, she reached a scene of several of Providence’s mages doing battle with strange looking men and women covered in strange maroon robes.
Thera didn’t have time to think when one leapt over a pile of rubble and fell toward her, screaming, with twin daggers in hand. She threw up a barrier but the man’s weapons cut through instead of being deflected.
Thera screamed in surprise and dodged, falling to the ground. The warrior grinned and licked his lips before raising the weapon and going to attack. His thrust was blocked by a sword and Thera turned to see Mathias standing over her with his sword held. He pushed the attacker back and circled his enemy.
“Go find our son,” he said simply.
Thera got up and ran. The deeper she went, the more chaos she saw, the more death. And then she saw a series of portals and more of the strange invaders. They were dragging some of the mages towards the portals, their screaming victims helpless to stop them.
Thera’s heart then sank when she saw some of the children who were being taught in the chamber were being taken too. She ran to help when then saw one of the warriors, a tall, muscular man with a shaved head, dragging a kicking Aron by his collar.
“Let go of me!” the boy demanded with fiery zeal. He bit his attacker, who howled and recoiled, and then ran away.
“Aron!” Thera called her son and ran to him. He got behind her and hid.
“Mom, who are they?!”
“I don’t know, baby,” Thera said, defending him.
His attacker smiled and cracked his neck. He then charged at Thera with inhuman speed. She raised her staff and threw a fireball at him, but it hit him and dissipated and he kept coming. Thera was so caught by surprise that all she could do was brace herself when he rammed her and knocked her into a wall.
He head bounced off the stone and she fell to her knees. She forced herself up when she heard Aron screaming and crying for her, but the big man blocked her view as he seized Thera by the throat and lifted her up. He looked her in the eyes while pulling at the plunging neckline of her robe, exposing her naked breasts, which he cupped.
“I think I’ll fuck the magic out of you, heretic…” He said.
Thera growled and struck him hard with her staff, and he reeled, stunned by the blow. Aron yelled and ran to his mother’s side, but the big man grabbed him and yanked him off the ground. Thera prepared to get up and fight when she saw someone approaching.
She was a tall, white haired woman in gleaming, white armor. She carried a greatsword in hand and had an imposing, authoritarian air about her. She fixed her cold gaze on Thera and stood at the big man’s side.
“That will do, Ranek,” the armored woman spoke. “Return with the others.”
Ranek nodded. “Yes, your grace.” He then tucked Aron under his arm and ran for a portal.
“ARON!” Thera screamed with tears in her eyes. She went after Ranek, but the armored women punched her in the stomach and doubled her over.
“Pathetic…” the woman said. She put the tip of her sword under Thera’s chin to make her look up. She then raised the weapon, preparing to bring it down.
“Celestea!” a thunderous voice boomed.
The woman looked up, sword raised, and smirked. “Ah, the three old fools, here at least.”
Thera looked back to see the elders standing behind her.
“What is this madness?!” Sigor demanded. He and Ulric stepped forward while Sabine helped Thera up.
“The beginning of the end for you,” the woman, Celestea said to him.
Together, Ulric and Sigor prepared a spell, a powerful wave of energy that they focused on Celestea. She held up her sword and deflected it, sending it reeling into a nearby wall that it obliterated. Thera and the elders are stepped back, gasping.
Celestea simply smirked and walked away, vanishing into a portal with her forces and the kidnapped mages and children.
“NOO!” Thera screamed, watching her son vanish. She ran, but Sabine stopped her.
“There’s nothing you can do, child!” Sabine said.
“Who was that?!” Thera demanded.
The elders ignored her and spoke among themselves in hushed tones.
“Who the fuck was that woman?!” Thera screamed.
“Celestea Domina.”
Thera turned to see Mathias approach. His sword dripped blood and he dropped the head of the man he was fighting. “She’s the zealot who nearly destroyed us centuries ago…”
“...What?” Thera asked, staring at him in disbelief. She then collected herself and got up. “We have to go find her. She took Aron!”
“You will do no such thing,” Ulric said.
Thera and Mathias turned to him.
“Our people are dead. The wounded need our attention,” the elder stated, motioning to the aftermath of the chaos.
“She has our son!” Thera said.
“You will remain,” Sigor told her.
Thera looked at the three elders. “You three are old fools!” she screamed before opening a portal and leaving.
II
“Naomi, good morning,” Asa Miyazawa, the heroine known as the Iron Crane said, a cup of coffee in her hand as Naomi got in the elevator with her.
“What’s up, Asa?” Naomi said back.
“You seem cheerful,” Asa said.
“Had my face deep in Thera’s snatch an hour ago,” Naomi grinned.
Asa narrowed her eyes in response to Naomi’s crudeness. “Where is Thera?”
“She went back home for a bit,” Naomi explained.
“Ah.”
“You ever been to that Providence place?” Naomi asked.
“No,” Asa answered. “None of us have. They don’t like outsiders, according to Thera.”
“So they just hang around in their fancy robes reading books or whatever?”
“You make it sound undesirable,” Asa said.
“Yeah, of course that’s something you’d wanna do,” Naomi teased.
The elevator arrived in the team’s headquarters and most of the others were already there. They stepped out to find Delphi, Madeline, Korina, and Cindy all gathered in the living room with the television on.
Cindy looked up and over and waved at them and Naomi hopped on the couch next to her.
“What’s up, Red?”
“Hey, hey,” Cindy said. “Why are you glowing?”
“I banged Thera this morning,” Naomi told her.
“That’ll do it,” Cindy answered.
“Is Thera not joining us?” Madeline asked.
“She went back to Providence,” Asa answered.
“Rhode Island?” Korina asked.
“It’s a magic fortress, where Thera is originally from, basically,” Delphi explained.
“Oooh,” Korina said. “Yeah...Xanthe’s explaining it now...and calling me an fool for thinking Thera is from Rhode Island.”
“Who are we missing?” Naomi asked.
“Lea and Veronica are almost here,” Delphi explained. “Then we can begin.”
Naomi looked around. “Where’s the weed?”
“Right here, Jackass,” Rebecca Wilson, the green-skinned heroine Thorn said, walking in and rubbing her eyes. She wore a t-shirt and a pair of panties.
“Did you sleep here?” Naomi said.
“Yes,” she answered. “I should still be asleep too. To think I hated sleeping when I was a kid and now I look forward to it.”
“Yeah, spankings are the same way,” Naomi said. Cindy cackled and the two them high-fived.
Delphi couldn’t contain her laugh and even Asa chuckled. On the TV, Sara Bradley was on a morning talk show on INN, still raging about the “superheroine problem”.
“This bitch…” Naomi groaned.
The elevator opened and Lea Timu, Bombshell, and Veronica Chambers, Mantis, both entered.
“Ah, everyone’s here. Good. I don’t want to waste any time,” Delphi said. Once she had everyone’s attention, she continued. “I don’t have to explain how we’re in the spotlight now ever since Daggermaw. As you can see, not everyone is happy with us. This woman has been using last week’s incident with those bird creatures to try and turn opinion against us. We need to be on alert.”
“She’s right,” Veronica said. “Even with Sentinel out there as our backup, we can’t be fucking up out there.” She then looked at the TV. “I’m quietly looking into this woman, because something isn’t right. She just popped up out of nowhere, and I don’t like it.”
“Yes,” Delphi said. “Not to mention that it’s been a while since we’ve heard from the likes of Riot and the Stone Man, and Sentinel still hasn’t found Brute or Mach 5 since their transport was attacked.”
Korina leaned in to Madeline and whispered. “Riot? Stone Man…?”
“I’ll explain later,” Madeline told her.
“So…” Delphi continued. “What we’re going to do is…”
Before she could continue, everyone jumped to attention when a portal ripped open in the middle of the room in a burst of energy. Thera stumbled out, and looked around and then saw everyone.
“Oh, thank the goddess, you’re all here!”
“Thera?” Veronica asked. “What’s going on?”
“Providence was attacked. They were able to shake off our magic. They took the children,” she said in a single breath.
“Oh, my god,” Madeline gasped.
“...And my son…” Thera then said.
Everyone paused and went silent and looked at each other.
“Wait, wait, wait…” Lea said. “T...your what?”
“My son. His name is Aron, he’s six.”
“What the fuck…” Naomi said, getting up. “You have a kid?”
“I need help rescuing him. The elders won’t send anyone, so I’m asking you...my friends.”
Naomi looked at the others and shrugged. “Suit up, bitches. Let’s go rescue our nephew.”
“Wait,” Delphi answered. “Who is the enemy, Thera?”
“Her name is Celestea Domina, and she has an army.”
Korina pause. “Oh….” everyone turned to her. “Xanthe knows her...or she knows her by reputation. She’s very bad news, the way Xanthe tells it. Xanthe says she’s an ancient Aphrodite and half...nephil-something?”
Cindy grabbed the gem on her choker when it flared. “Nephilim...Adros says they’re an ancient race of divine beings…Oh, this isn’t good.”
“So we have to go punch an angel?” Naomi said. “Let’s fucking go.”
“We can’t just charge in,” Delphi said. “We can’t leave the city undefended, not after last week.”
“This Domina woman has an army?” Rebecca asked. “Thera can’t do it by herself.”
“She’s not alone,” Naomi said. “I’m going.”
“It’s still an army,” Veronica said.
“Well then I’ll take the heavy artillery,” Naomi said, looking at Korina. “Come on, kid.”
“Okay,” Korina said.
“Adros can be a big help, too,” Cindy said.
“I’ll go as well,” Madeline said.
“I’m sorry,” Delphi said. “But we shouldn’t send both Xanthe and Adros, them being our two strongest assets. Cindy, you have to stay. Madeline, we need you to remain as well. There’s no telling how long this would take.”
Naomi sighed. “Del’s right. We’ll be fine. Just the three of us.”
“...Four…” Thera said, and everyone looked at her. “If Celestea is half Nephilim, Nocturne will be a big help in dealing with her. We’ll go ask her.”
“Yes,” Veronica said. “This is something best left to her. Good luck, you three.”
Thera nodded and quickly opened another portal. She, Naomi, and Korina all went through and it closed behind them.
Lea shrugged her shoulders and let out a sigh. “Anyone else hiding secret children from us?” She asked, looking around. She then glanced at Madeline, who perked up.
“Why are you looking at me?!” The blonde Brit quickly asked.
Veronica’s phone buzzed and she took it from her jacket pocket. She held it up. “Morgan? What is it?” She paused and then turned to the television. The morning show had been interrupted by a different broadcast and everyone turned their attention to it.
On screen was a man in dark green mask. He stood at a podium and behind him was a banner with a stylized snaked on it.
“Delta City!” he proclaimed. “Viper has returned. For too long this city has not known true fear, but that will change today. You will all feel the bite of of Viper’s fangs. My agents have placed powerful explosives all over the city. My armies mobilize. You will all cower in fear!”
As he spoke, footage changed to show tanks and soldiers in green uniforms, their faces all hidden behind shields, marching through the streets of the city and sending the population scattering.
“What the hell is this…?” Madeline asked.
“Viper?” Veronica asked. She looked at the others when they watched her, bewildered. “Oh, right, none of you grew up here. Viper was a big criminal organization that terrorized Delta City over 20 years ago. When I was a kid, they were everywhere. Then they just sort of vanished. People assumed Lord Viper had died. Where the hell has he been hiding all this time?”
“Perfect timing…” Delphi sighed, thinking about how Naomi, Korina, and Thera had just left. “All right, ladies. Let’s get work. I’ll contact Agent Fox.”
***
“Drugs, weapons smuggling, prostitution, racketeering, geez, Viper did it all,” Fox said, looking over data on a tablet while Lord Viper’s press conference played on a TV behind her. Sentinel agents were loading weapons and putting gear on. “How come I’ve never heard of these guys?”
“Viper’s activities rarely went beyond Delta City,” Director Escher told her via video conference. “But they had their hands in everything, as you can see. Then, one day, they just sort of quieted down. Lord Viper vanished. The government nabbed some of Viper’s other leadership, but most of them are either dead or in the wind.”
“Are the ones we have now leads worth chasing down?”
“I’ve already put people on it, but I don’t expect much,” Escher said. “Lord Viper was a very private person, to the point where no one ever even saw his face. It’s also entirely possible this man is an impostor.”
Fox looked at the image of the man. “Wouldn’t it be wild if he was hot?”
“Focus, Agent,” Escher said. “Your mission is to find and arrest Lord Viper and dismantle those explosives. Be warned, Viper was known for having vast resources, even more than what Sentinel has. Their scientists were also very adept at countering superpowered individuals. A lot of heroes and heroines fell to Viper.”
“Understood, boss,” Fox said. The call ended and another came in. “Speak of the devil. I’m guessing the girls are already going after Viper?” Fox asked Delphi when the call came through.
“Yes,” Delphi answered. “We’ll coordinate our actions.”
“You girls focus on bringing the pain. We’ll find the bombs.”
“That works,” Delphi said. “You should know, however…”
“Oh, I’m not gonna like this, am I?”
“We don’t have Superia, Thera, or Xanthe for this.”
“Is Korina in jail again?” Fox groaned.
“No. They went off-world. An ancient Aphrodite kidnapped Thera’s son.”
Fox stared at her screen for several silent seconds.
“Fox?” Delphi asked.
“I’m sorry, Thera’s what?”
“I know.”
Fox sighed. “All right. Well, let’s get to it.”
III
“...So, we’re just gonna let the fact that you have a kid go unanswered?” Naomi asked as she, Thera and Korina walking through a barren valley under a dull gray sky. “How the fuck did that happen?”
“Well,” Korina said. “When a man and woman are both horny enough…”
“Shut up, kid! You know what I meant,” Naomi snapped and Korina laughed at her.
“I was 20 years old. Mathias, my son’s father, and I were both trained as apprentices under the high Magus. We were paired together as the two most promising students,” Thera said. “So we spent a lot of time together. One thing led to another, and then nine months later, I was a mother.”
“Damn, he slipped one past the goalie on the first try,” Naomi said. “Is he still around?”
“Yes. He’s a good father, but there’s nothing between us. It was never really romantic,” Thera said.
“Just a couple of horny wizards,” Korina said.
“Why didn’t you ever tell us?” Naomi asked.
Thera sighed. “Can we do this some other time?”
“Thera, dude, come on. We should’ve known you had a kid,” Naomi insisted.
“I never told the others because I was afraid of how they would react,” Thera relented. “What we do is dangerous, and I don’t want everyone looking at me differently, not letting me help, just because I have a child.”
Naomi stopped. “Right, because we’ll just find another sexy witch, right?” She grabbed Thera’s arms gently. “You really think we’d turn you away for something like that? We do what we have to do keep the world safe for kids like him. You have a better reason than any of us for being there.”
“Wait,” Korina said. “I thought you joined because some biker totaled your car.”
“Now is not the time, kid!” Naomi growled. She then turned back to Thera. “Look, you have a kid, fine. We’re not gonna kick you out for it and one of those jerks says we should, I’ll kick her ass.”
Thera couldn’t help but smile.
“No more secrets, all right?”
“No more secrets,” Thera repeated.
“Sometimes, when I’m alone at HQ, me and Xanthe go through the lockers and try on other people’s costumes to see what she’d look like in them,” Korina said.
Thera and Naomi both stared at her.
“What?! You said no secrets,” Korina said. “Now it’s your turn,” she said to Naomi.
Naomi looked at Thera, who looked back at her and shrugged. Naomi sighed. “...I’m a little afraid of Asa…” she admitted.
“Really?” Thera asked.
“Yes! Because she’s a damn good fighter and she’s totally killed someone before.”
“Oh, yeah. She’s definitely killed before,” Korina agreed.
“Asa isn’t dangerous,” Thera said. “At least, not to us…”
“Look, forget it,” Naomi said. “Let’s just keep that between us.”
Korina piped up. “But you just said…”
“You want me to tell the others their costumes have Xanthe’s butt sweat all over them?” Naomi threatened.
“She’s right, Korina. That’s unacceptable,” Thera said.
Korina huffed and folded her arms. “If you could hear what she was saying about you two right now…”
“Look, let’s just go find Nocturne,” Naomi said.
The three of them climbed a ridge and when they got to the top, they found themselves standing in front of a massive, building-sized structure that the ridge overlooked. It resembled a gate with a sealed double door. On the door was the carved image of a warrior woman wielding a massive sword against a creeping tentacled horror.
“Oh, man,” Korina said. She took her cellphone from her pocket. “Damn, no signal,” she said before taking a picture.
“What is that?” Naomi asked.
“It’s called the Eternity Door. The woman you see there, her name was Miranda Engel, but she was an Aphrodite who went by the name Whisper. She fought the supernatural, mostly. The creature she’s fighting is called Null.”
“And what’s Null’s deal?” Naomi asked.
“Ending life wherever it finds it.”
“Oh.”
“Miranda sacrificed herself and sealed her soul within the Door to keep Null from invading our reality,” Thera explained.
“Wait…” Korina said. “So...she’s in there, right now?”
“Yes. Fighting Null, for all time.”
“That is so badass.”
“Yeah, mom was badass,” a voice spoke.
The three heroines turned to find Nocturne standing on a higher ridge. She jumped down and stood at her full height, brushing her hand through her short, white hair. She dusted off her trench coat. “I’ve been spending my whole life trying to figure out how to untangle her from that damn thing without letting Null in.”
“Your mom?” Naomi asked, pointing at the door.
“Yeah, but that’s a story for later,” Nocturne said. “What brings you two here?” She then looked at Korina. “Who’s this?”
“I’m Korina,” the teen waved.
“Natalie. Just call me Nocturne, though,” Nocturne though.
“We need your help,” Thera said. “Providence was attacked by Celestea Domina.”
“...No shit...I figured that sanctimonious bitch would pop up eventually. What happened?”
“She took some of the mages and many of the children. She got Aron…”
“Fuck, sorry, T,” Nocturne said. “You know where she went?”
Thera shook her head.
“Then we start looking.” Nocturne looked at Naomi. “I already know you can handle yourself, what about you?” she asked Korina.
“Oh, I’ve got Xanthe.”
“What the hell is that?”
“She’s an ancient Aphrodite. I turn into her.”
“Is it one of those deals where she pops up when you’re in danger?”
“Yup!”
“Huh…” Nocturne said, looking the girl over. She then looked over the ridge, a good several hundred feet drop. With a quick motion, she grabbed Korina by the arm and threw her, screaming, off the ridge.
“Nocturne!” Thera panicked.
“What the fuck?!” Naomi screamed and ran to the edge.
A figure leapt up and landed, causing the ground to shake. Xanthe stood to her full, impressive height, the picture of a powerful Aphrodite warrior woman. She put her hands on her shapely hips, her curvy body hugged by a skimpy, skintight black and white outfit with scraps of Korina’s clothes that ripped when she transformed. She fixed a heated glare on Nocturne.
“That wasn’t funny…” Xanthe said.
“Holy shit,” Nocturne said. “Neat!”
Xanthe rounded Nocturne. “I smell demon blood…”
“Thanks to my dad,” Nocturne told her, shoving her hands in her pockets.
Xanthe narrowed her eyes. Nocturne blew a kiss at her.
“If we’re gonna dance, let’s dance,” Nocturne taunted.
“We don’t have time for this!” Thera said.
Just then, she and Nocturne snapped to attention and turned when another portal opened. Everyone put their attention on it and Mathias emerged, sword strapped to his back.
“Mathias?” Thera asked.
“I wasn’t going to let you run off and try to rescue Aron on your own, despite what the Elders said,” he said to her. He looked at her companions. “Ah...Aphrodites...and the half-breed…I figured you’d appeal to her for help.”
“Good to see you, too,” Nocturne growled.
Mathias shook his head. “This party will have to do. Let’s go find Celestea and rescue our boy.”
***
Back in Delta City
“They’re fucking robots?!” Bombshell said as she stood in front of broken, twisted, and sparking Viper troops that she had taken out. Half a dozen lay at her feet and many, many more were charging toward her. She ran toward them, her powerful legs carrying her the distance and letting her close the gap. The soldiers fired energy rifles at her and she quickly dodged to the side, grabbed someone’s car and threw it through the air at them.
More Viper troops were destroyed and she used the distraction to leap through the air and smash them.
“Ha! Naomi’s gonna be sorry she missed this!” the big woman said before she heard a rumbling. Just ahead, a massive tank painted green rounded the corner and rotated its main cannon. It fired a blast of energy that Bombshell dodged, but before she could recover, it fired a second blast the sent her flying through the window of a nearby convenience store.
“Ow…” she groaned, picking herself up from the shelving she knocked over. The attack shredded her costume, leaving her toned, muscular body exposed. She leapt through the window to attack the tank when a fireball fell from the sky and destroyed it.
Blaze lowered to the ground and stood near Bombshell as ever more Viper troops closed in.
“How bad is it, Cin?” Bombshell asked.
“Everyone’s barely holding on. Sentinel is finding the bombs, but Fox said it’s taking longer than she thought.”
“Shit. We just gotta buy as much time as we can, then,” Bombshell said.
“You know, it’s weird...these guys remind me of a cartoon I used to watch as a kid…” Blaze said.
“Now it is not the time, Cindy!” Bombshell said before charging back into the fight.
*
Somewhere else in the city, Iron Crane weaved between laser fire and cut down more Viper troops with a katana. She looked around, seeing them flooding the city streets around her. “There are too many of them…” she lamented. “How could anyone possibly field an army this size without anyone knowing?”
“Crane, move!” a voice yelled.
Before she could find the source, Crane felt the ground under her feet shake. She moved just as something ripped it apart from below and a giant plant emerged and reached out with its many vines, smashing and grabbing Viper troops in all directions.
Thorn stood off the side, directing her creation to try and cover as much ground as possible and Iron Crane helped by cutting the robot soldiers down.
“Where the hell do they keep coming from?!” Thorn asked herself while controlling the plant.
“Behind you!” Crane yelled.
Thorn turned around and caught the butt of a rifle across her face that staggered her. She fell to the ground and before she could get up, several Viper troops surrounded her with guns pointed. Daggers flew through the air and cut them down and then Crane jumped in and stood between them and Thorn. She turned and offered her a hand.
“Are you hurt, Rebecca?”
Thorn took her hand and stood. “I’m fine. Thanks for the help,” she said, rubbing her stinging face. “This is bad. We might need to retreat.”
“Agreed,” Iron Crane said.
*
Dr. Hope erected a barrier of solid light in front of her and blocked several energy blasts. Right behind her, Mantis put several Viper troops down with her collapsible staff and the two heroines stood back to back.
“Veronica, I think we need to leave,” Hope said to Mantis.
“We can’t do that, Madeline. Sentinel still needs to time to find all the explosives.” She then spun her weapon and charged, taking down more of the robot troopers.
The Viper soldiers concentrated their fire and Hope put more power behind the barrier before forcing it to expand into the enemy robots, pushing them back.
“Well then Sentinel better hurry!” she said before turning around. “Oh, bloody hell!” She tried to raise another barrier but it was too late. Two Viper troops with jetpacks on zoomed toward her, carrying heavy cannons. She took the brunt of the hit when one fire at her and flew back into the car, denting its side on impact. She then collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Mantis turned around just in time to see her go down. “Madeline!” She ran to her, throwing her staff like a javelin and bringing one of the fliers down. The other one followed her, taking a smaller gun from his hip, and he fired it at the green-clad heroine.
“Ugh! Fuck!” Mantis cursed as a bola wrapped around her curvy body, pinning her arms to her sides and her legs together. It coiled tight around her ribs, just under her tits and brought her down. She fell to the ground, right next to Hope and tried to break free, but before she could do anything, she was surrounded by Viper troops.
She glared at them defiantly, and as many of them kept their guns trained, another grabbed her and forced her up before ripping the bola off. Two more then grabbed the heroine by her arms, immobilizing her. Another one of the troops then tore her costume off, leaving her mask on, and exposed her toned, athletic body.
Mantis froze in shock, and then looked in fury when another trooper walked up holding a video camera. “What the hell is this?!” she demanded. As one trooper filmed, another one fondled Mantis’ breasts. She grunted at being touched and the two holding her arms moved her back and pinned her against the side of a parked car. After they did, the robot fondling her began fingering her, too.
“Ugh...hey!” she protested, trying to break free, but the robot grabbed her by her neck with one hand and shoved two gloved fingers in her with the other. She let out muffled screams into the trooper’s hand as he shoved his fingers in deep. Her exposed nipples were erect and the trooper holding the camera walked around to get all angles. He zoomed in on the her tits, on the tightness of her muscles, on the juices beginning to flow out of the heroine and onto the glove of the trooper fingering her.
She shot a heated glare at the camera but moaned as her body bucked as the fingering intensified. Despite her efforts to break free, Mantis could feel herself weakening and she grew increasingly frustrated with her situation. The pleasure continued mounting and Mantis clenched her fists, trying to force it down, but then she felt herself twitch and she released all over the trooper’s fingers. Her knees buckled and she was only held up by the troops holding her. Her pussy dripped and she took several rapid breaths. Without ceremony, the troops dropped her to the ground and forced her hands behind her back.
“You bastards!” Mantis cursed as they began binding her wrists behind her, all while still being filmed.
*
“Cin!” Bombshell yelled. “We need Adros!” She was being dog piled by several Viper soldiers. With a yell, she managed to throw them off of her, and when another tank appeared, she charged forward and knocked it over by barreling into it with her shoulder, but she could see even more reinforcements flooding the streets.
Blaze was busy holding off even more of the robots, and when she looked up, she saw the jetpack troops coming at them. “I can’t get away long enough to summon him!” She said. “Adros, help us out here!”
“No,” the fire deity's voiced echoed just as the gem on her choker flared. “You know what I want.”
“I’m too busy to jerk off, you...jerk!” Cindy said.
“Should have thought about that before, Cindy.”
“Ugh! Adros!”
She was interrupted by the sight of a tank blast hitting Bombshell directly, and her teammate spiraled through the air and slammed into the side of a building before falling three stories and to the ground. She landed hard, leaving a crater.
“Oh crap! Oh, crap, crap, crap!” Blaze said running to her. She knelt down and tried to picked Bombshell up to retreat, but the big Samoan heroine was out cold and Blaze could barely lift her.
“They’re going to capture her, Cindy. If you don’t run, they’ll get you too,” Adros warned.
Blaze looked up and saw Viper troops closing in. “I can’t leave her!”
“Is it better for one of you to get caught or both?”
Blaze clenched her teeth, throwing desperate fireballs to stop the advancing robots while she tried in vain to lift her teammate. “Lea! Wake up!” she begged, but she got no response.
“They’re getting close.”
Blaze let go of Bombshell and stepped back. “Fuck!...I’m sorry, Lea,” she said before propelling herself skyward. “I hate you, Adros!” she screamed.
*
“Rebecca, we’re leaving,” Iron Crane said. “How many seeds do you have left?”
“I’m out…” Thorn admitted. “I used the last of what I had to make those,” she said, pointing to a hastily erected thicket of thorn vines that Viper troopers were currently destroying with flamethrowers.
“All right…” Crane said, clutching her sword. There were more troops behind them. “I’m going to attack. I want you to run when I do.”
“I’m not leaving you, Asa!”
“I will make my escape. We’ll separate and return to headquarters. I’m going to be the distraction. Take the subway tunnel,” Crane said, motioning to a stairway across the street that went underground.
“But…”
“Do it!” Crane snapped. “Go!” she then ran off, sword raised, to charge the enemy.
Thorn started to follow her, but then quickly ran for the subway entrance. Just as she almost reached it, a bola flew threw the air and wrapped around her. She tripped and fell to the ground. “Dammit!” she screamed.
Iron Crane turned when she heard Thorn. “Blast…” she groaned. She ran to go help her, but saw several Viper troops surrounding the petite green heroine. Several more cut off her path and Crane slid to a stop.
“I shall return, Viper…” she swore before turning and darting down an alley to escape into the shadows.
*
“...That’s...they’ve gotten everyone, Ms. Carter…” Morgan Mueller, Veronica’s assistant said to Delphi. The two of them were back at headquarters, monitoring the battle via various camera feeds.
“Only Cindy and Asa managed to escape…”
Delphi remained calmed. “What about Sentinel?”
“There are various reports that the field teams have been facing ambushes at some of the sites where explosives were planted. Agent Fox had no choice but to sound a general retreat in some places while Sentinel is in a stalemate in others. She’s en route now.”
“Dammit!” Delphi yelled, slamming her fists on the table. “How the hell did they slip past us like this?! Who are these people?!”
“Do we have to way to contact Naomi and the others?” Morgan asked.
“No. They didn’t take one of communicators with them,” Delphi said. She sighed and composed herself. “We aren’t going to beat Viper with brute force. We need to cut the head off of the snake. Morgan, I want you to go through archived data and look for any locations throughout the city that Viper used for bases. This army came from somewhere, and it resupplies somewhere.”
“Yes ma’am,” Morgan said before getting to work.
The door opened and Fox walked in, her expression harried and her tactical armor damaged.
“We are getting butt-fucked out there! No lube!” Fox said. “Please tell me the girls are faring better.”
“Everyone’s been captured except Asa and Cindy,” Delphi said.
“Fuck!”
“We need a new plan. Find their base and go after Lord Viper directly,” Delphi said, thinking aloud. “What are your forces looking like?”
“Quarter-strength. They’re bogging us down in skirmishes all over the city. From what I’m hearing, it’s the same for the cops. Anyone not deployed is being held back in reserve for reinforcement or to evac wounded,” Fox explained.
Delphi nodded. “I may need to see if I can reach Diabla...maybe even Muerte.”
“It looks like Saldana is a warzone too, ma’am…” Morgan reported.
Delphi sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.
“What about the Battalion?” Fox asked. “Over in Star City. Valor and Mirage and the others would be a huge help.”
“It would take them hours to get here,” Delphi said. “Ugh! If only Thera was here. She could just open a portal.”
“I still can’t believe she’s a mom…” Fox said. “More to the point, this whole thing is way too coordinated to just be a spur of the moment event. These fuckers know exactly where to hit and how hard.”
“Agreed,” Delphi said. “That’s why we need to move quickly, get our girls back and end this.”
“No, fuck you, Adros! We’re done!” Cindy fumed as she stormed in. Everyone turned and looked at her and she continued. “You wouldn’t help me the one time I really needed you! Fuck you!”
“What happened?” Delphi asked.
Cindy looked up. “I tried to get him to come out to stop those robots so I could wake Lea up and he said it wasn’t his problem! He said if I wanted him to show up, I needed to do the same thing I always do!”
“Ugh!” Fox groaned. “What the hell is wrong with him?!”
Just then, the door opened again and Iron Crane walked in. She sighed and lowered her mask, looking at the others. “This is it?”
Delphi nodded. “Everyone stay calm. We’ll figure something out.”
“Umm...everyone,” Morgan said, pointing to the TV on mute. They looked and Delphi turned the volume up.
Lord Viper’s shielded face filled the screen, once again from behind his podium.
“Delta City! Are these your heroines?!”
The image switched to the streets of the city. Viper tanks hovered through like they were on parade. Bombshell was strapped, naked and on display, to the front of one tank, screaming curses at the Viper robots. More Viper robots rolled slowly through the streets in armored jeeps with machine guns mounted on top. The lead vehicle had Mantis tied down on the hood, her naked body on display to all onlookers. The other heroines were being led by the other vehicles, with hands shackled and collars around their necks and chains connected to the backs of the vehicles.
The procession was surrounded by marching Viper troops who seemed to occupy every corner.
“Your defenders have failed you Delta City. And now they belong to Viper, to do with as we please. Delta City belongs to us, and this is the fate of all who oppose us. We will track down and subject the remaining heroines to this same punishment for defying us. Hail Viper!”
Fox growled and took a deep breath. “I really hope Naomi and Thera are having a better time than we are.”
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