Chapter 48: Chapter 47 - The Insane Girl
---Wayne Manor---
Watching me take Cynthia away from inside the manor, Dorothy ran to the bedroom with Eri in her arms. In a panic Dorothy told the women that Cynthia showed up, and forced me to take her somewhere. Looking at her, as they didn't recognize the name, she quickly reminded them who she was.
"Wait you mean the stalker!?", Nejire and Melissa shouted, "He just left with her!?"
"She isn't someone you want to mess with!", Dorothy stated, "Clark must have done as she said because she would have killed us!"
"Fucking bitch!", Rumi snapped, "We were supposed to have a relaxing evening, and she ruined it!"
"We should trust Clark knows what he is doing.", Ochaco said, "We should be able to cook dinner, right?"
"I mean Nemuri and I did when we lived in our apartment.", Yu stated.
"I think she means more than using a microwave.", Nemuri chuckled.
"Oh...then maybe not.", Yu said.
"I can cook.", Rumi said, "Better do that than sit here fuming about that bitch ruining our night."
Going down to the kitchen the women had Rumi show them how to cook more than just frozen food. Deciding to make grilled chicken taco salad, Rumi got the ingredients and asked the girls to help chop the chicken. Handing Mina a knife, she tried using it like an ax which quickly got it taken from her.
"You have helped in the kitchen before, right?", Rumi asked.
"Eh...it's been a while.", Mina giggled nervously.
"What about the rest of you?", Rumi asked.
"I had a maid.", Momo stated.
"We ate out all the time.", Dorothy said, "When I came here Clark or Alfred took care of it."
"I helped my mother cook.", Ochaco replied with a smug smile.
"Same here.", Itsuka proudly said.
"My mother forbid it.", Toru giggled.
"I cooked for myself.", Toga said with a grin.
"I made a robot to do it.", Melissa chuckled.
"I helped boil some things.", Nejire shouted.
Rubbing her forehead Rumi said they would be doing a cooking class immediately to rectify this. Having the inexperienced girls wear special gloves so they didn't cut themselves, Rumi showed them the proper cutting techniques.
---Barcelona, Spain---
Sitting in a nearly empty restaurant on the beach, the four of us were sitting in silence as we briefly looked over the menu. Placing a drink order with a terrified waitress, I telepathically told her to let me know when stuff was ready and I would bring it over. Thanking me she ran back into the kitchen to hide.
"My darling, it is so nice to be at the beach with you.", Cynthia said with a smile removing her hat.
Falling out from underneath the hat her platinum fell all over her. Staring at me with yellow eyes I felt my skin crawl a bit in discomfort.
"The feeling isn't mutual.", I replied.
"It's okay, you will learn that I can be the best wife you will ever have.", she giggled, "I am sure you have some questions, please ask away."
"Why didn't you free your parents when you fled?", I asked.
"They would have slowed me down, and they are shells of their former selves. Your brutal punishment for our crimes broke them, if they were let out they would have a mental breakdown.", she said I brought our beverages.
"How did you stumble across all the people from outside this world?", I inquired.
"My Quirk allows me to do more than sever someone's life string, I can peer into their memories.", she answered.
"Life String?", I questioned.
"Hehe, when I look at people I see strings that tether their souls to their bodies. My Spirit Guardian can sever them killing the person instantly without so much as a peep.", she stated, "I can have my Spirit Guardian then inhabit the persons body to access their memories, but I have only seven minutes before the brain stops working."
"I see...", I said.
"I found them when I executed one of the many fleas that tried to get in your way.", Cynthia informed me, "It's my duty as your wife to share the burden of your work, and I do that by removing unnecessary people from the equation. I make them disappear, and have information sent to you."
"I know that much...I get your emails.", I sighed.
"All of them were scared, looking for safety, and told me a lot of things.", Cynthia said.
"That's why you brought Wonder Girl and Raven.", I stated.
"Precisely, I know you have a weakness to magic, red sunlight, and something called Kryptonite.", Cynthia giggled, "You aren't the only Superman in existence, and you are wanting to stop one coming here."
Clenching my fist under the table, I panicked as if that got out it would be a disaster. I was still honing my skills using the EM Spectrum so I hadn't perfected a means to reflect the radiations from the last two.
"Don't worry dear, I won't tell a soul about your weakness.", Cynthia promised, "Now on to more important things..."
Stopping me questioning session there, she pulled out a binder filled with classified documents. Reaching out to Wonder Girl telepathically, she twitched in response but relaxed when she realized it was me.
"Aren't you strong enough to put her down?", I questioned.
"There is more than just us here. If I hurt her she has minions close by that will rampage. Not only that...she has Captain Atom.", Wonder Girl replied.
"What!?", I shrieked, "I thought he died!?"
"He is critically injured, Supergirl managed to gather his energy to restore him. The containment suit isn't completely repaired as we had to leave before we could finish it. Right now he is in a containment chamber, and that is the only thing keeping him together.", she cried, "Superman, please understand that we don't want to help her. She has us by the throat and we can't stop her."
"What about Raven...is she being controlled by Trigon?", I inquired.
"Yes, but I don't think Cynthia realized who that is.", Wonder Girl said with a hint of fear, "She has almost provoked him four times already."
"Alright, I will get you out of this but I am going to need your help.", I told her, "Where are the-"
"Something wrong dear?", Cynthia asked getting the document she wanted to show me out.
"It's just...that's a lot of classified documents, how did you get them?", I asked.
Telling me that she got them from Nova's information network, she quickly showed me what she wanted to tell me. Contained in was a Section 13 document that had been intercepted by spies, and relayed to her. Within the document were supposed specs to my Quirks, my theoretical upper limits, and potential weaknesses. I knew of the existence of a document like this, but this one was different. Several people I was unfamiliar with were listed here on the list of scientists working on a means to keep me in check should I go rouge.
'I knew this would happen, people don't like things that they can't control.', I thought, 'They are targeting me specifically so they are at least intelligent enough to know I would slaughter them for targeting my loved ones.'
"They want to kill you dear, the names list there are the ones responsible for the creation of Nova.", Cynthia said, "We need to kill them now before they get any crazy ideas."
"I don't know these people, and they aren't in the Section 13 systems.", I pointed out.
"Nova's intelligence network can locate them. I have them working on that.", Cynthia promised.
"We have a quicker way, isn't that right Trigon?", I asked the possessed Raven.
Staring at me with her four red eyes, I gave her a smirk.
"I am surprised you didn't kill Cynthia already.", I said watching for a reaction, "A Demon should easily be able to kill here, why haven't you?"
Looking at Raven Cynthia looked puzzled.
"She couldn't hurt me if she wanted too.", Cynthia laughed, "All of them are under my control."
"I bow to no one woman.", Trigon growled, "You have served your purpose."
"What do you mean?", Cynthia asked.
"I wanted an audience with him, your usefulness is over.", Trigon said grabbing her by the throat, "Die knowing you have been a stepping stone for me."
Before she could command her spirit to kill him, he snapped her neck like a twig. Falling to the ground dead, I looked over at Trigon.
"You couldn't have done that sooner?", I asked in a mocking tone.
"You aren't going to say more than that!?", Wonder Girl shouted.
"If you knew the lives she took you wouldn't be saying that.", I responded, "So why is the All Might Trigon here?"
"No need to be smart with me mortal.", Trigon stated.
"Immortal, not mortal.", I corrected, "I am not like the Superman you are familiar with. Now tell me why someone like you put up with her crazy for so long."
"I come to you with a deal.", he said, "I want you to handle Superman-Prime for me."
"Haha, even you are worried about him?", I chuckled.
"He has destroyed several universe, and is surrounded by the Black Lanterns.", Trigon said, "As you can tell I am only able to possess a body as I don't have one currently."
"Couldn't you have gone to Constantine to have him help-"
"Constantine is dead...", Wonder Girl said, "He died early on during one of Power Girl's rescue missions."
'Jeez...Prime really has messed with the fucking timelines.', I thought.
"Alright, so you can't go to another universe to have Constantine get you a body. Since I am the only Superman you have access too you want to cut a deal with me.", I stated.
"You are stronger than the Superman of my world.", Trigon said, "You are the best chance I have of stopping him."
Asking how he knew of Prime in the first place, he stated that he had read Power Girl's mind. Nodding my head I understood now where this was headed. Making a deal with Trigon was a literal deal with the devil. Any deals struck with him were bound to cause problems for the other party as he was a murderous, son of bitch. I wasn't about to make a deal with him, but I was curious what he thought was worth risking my neck.
"I will give you my blessing to take my daughter.", he said.
"Ha!!", I said choking on my tea, "I think that is her decision not yours."
"She will do as I say.", Trigon promised.
"If she did she wouldn't have runaway from you in the first place.", I replied with a smirk, "How about this...you let her go, or I destroy you? I have a suspicion that you are weakened her because no demonic energy or magic exists here. If I went an got another Constantine I bet I could get him to exorcise you out of your daughter."
"You dare to threaten me!", he snarled.
"You killed Cynthia with brute strength, not magic.", I pointed out, "I bet you are barely powerful enough to teleport in this world. Do you feel up to testing that theory Trigon? Better yet I think I bypass the need for a wizard."
"What do you mean?", he questioned.
Red lightning danced around the room as my eyes turned red. Caught off by this he tried to escape, but I grabbed Raven's face.
"I had a long time with Flash, have a decent grasp of how these powers work.", I said with a smile, "I intended to use them on Cynthia after this meeting, but you killed her before I could."
"What are you talking about?", he growled thrashing around.
"I gained my Speed Force connection through the Reverse Flash, and also got his Negative Speed Force powers.", I said my body started to vibrate, "You will have to forgive me, but I haven't explored the Negative Speed Force that much. Let's just say I am going to roll back the clock to before you took over your daughter."
"Stop!!", he howled.
Exerting a good amount of mental power on this process, I didn't want to rewind her completely out of time. This was a literal experiment as I knew the Negative Speed Force could manipulate the users age at will, and I knew I could rapidly age people too. I was betting that I could regress someone like Eri could, and doing so that with Raven might release the grip Trigon had on her. Rolling back six months of time I let her go.
"Stop this immediately you fool!!", Trigon shouted.
"Not enough, let's add another six months.", I replied.
"Stop-"
Regressing him another six months, I felt a presence leave Raven returning back to the stone in her head. Released from the demonic control she groaned with pain as her body reeled from the sudden change.
"Where...where am I?", Raven asked me.
"You...you aren't anything like the Superman I know...", Wonder Girl said looking at me nervously.
"Raven, do you have enough control of your father or do I need to roll you back more?", I asked.
"I think I have him for the time being...how long have I been gone?", Raven asked Wonder Girl.
"Ten months or more...I am not sure.", Wonder Girl replied, "Are you really back?"
"Yes...I don't remember what happened after he took over, did I do something wrong?", Raven asked.
"Girl you have no idea how bad you have been.", Wonder Girl laughed before realizing something.
"Shit what about Cynthia's minions!?", Wonder Girl said.
"Already dealt with.", Vision replied touching down, "Master Clark sent us a message with their locations."
"When did you-"
"I read your mind.", I chuckled, "Another thing your Superman can't do."
"You seriously make my head hurt.", she replied.
"Alright, Vision please turn her body over to the police.", I instructed him, "Once you are done with that, return to base."
Grabbing Cynthia's book of secrets I returned home with the two women.
---Wayne Manor---
Walking inside the house, I was greeted by smoke coming out of the kitchen. Rushing over to see what was wrong, I found a distraught Rumi, Nemuri, and Yu looking at Mina and Momo. The stove was a disaster, the over looked like a bomb went off, and women looked like a train wreck. Sighing I shook my head at them out of frustration.
"Seriously...I am gone for maybe forty minutes and you destroy the kitchen.", I sighed.
"Don't blame us, Mina mixed up ingredients!!", Itsuka said, "She made a freaking edible bomb, and it blew up in the oven!"
"Hehe, I was just experimenting like all great cooks do!", Mina giggled.
"I don't think Gordon Ramsey makes his kitchen look like a warzone.", I groaned.
"We just wanted to make something to eat since you were gone.", Ochaco said nervously.
"You disappeared, we were worried!", Eri informed me running over for a hug, "Where is the scary girl?"
"Haha, she won't be coming back.", I told Eri, "She is gone for good."
"You...you finished her?", Dorothy asked nervously.
"It...it's a long story.", I said trying not to bring the topic of Demons up around Eri, "These two will be staying with-"
"Raven!! Wonder Girl!!", Kara shouted running over to hug them, "You both made it out of there alive!! Wait...you aren't possessed are you?"
"No, he managed to do something to suppress it for now.", Raven replied.
Telling them to give me a moment, I cleaned the kitchen up immediately and then got food going. Asking them why they hadn't asked Kelex to dispatch a robot to cook for them, the women's faces froze over as they hadn't even considered that. Chuckling I told them they were crazy for forgetting they had access rights to make such calls. Serving us dinner I informed them of what I learned, leaving out the possessed Raven killing Cynthia out of anger.
"They are trying to make something strong enough to kill you?", Yu asked.
"Yeah, fortunately that will be incredibly difficult to do.", I chuckled.
"So about this binder, how much have you gone through?", Momo and Melissa asked.
"None, I just read the document about them making something to kill me if I crossed their line.", I replied, "After dinner I was planning on having Kelex go over the documents."
Deciding to grace us with their presence the others came down to eat. Grabbing whatever they want to eat, they sat down to discuss our next move. The women had no tact as they came down in very short shorts, and bras which while a relaxing sight caused the others to glare at me any time my eyes wandered. Explaining that I had secured allies on New Earth, I also said that I was contemplating moving the villains to the Moon Base so they could walk around more openly.
Unsurprisingly they said they were content lounging around here, working out downstairs, and being shut ins. Informing me that after living off the land for several months, living here was a nice change of pace. A bit irritated they didn't take the offer, I had really been looking forward to some more privacy with my girlfriends...as the last time two unwelcome visitors ruined the mood.
After eating dinner I asked Wonder Girl about Captain Atom since I needed to secure him for safety. Giving me coordinates I had Amazo go to pick him up, and take him back to the Fortress. As for the others I would have to go tomorrow to get them. Turning to Raven after that I decided to ask her for something to help me.
"I need your assistance acquiring some rather hard to find metals.", I said.
"Metal?", Raven inquired, "Isn't your barrier already enough?"
"I intend to build an armor similar to Primes, but I don't intend to make it singular purpose.", I stated.
"Okay?", she replied with a confused look, "Just let me know what you need from me."
Thanking her I took them to their rooms for the night, and then went to the Fortress for a bit.
---Fortress of Solitude---
Going to my private lab, I started designing the suit I wanted to make. The metals I wanted to use were Tenth Metal, Volatile Promethium, Uru, and Vibranium. Between Tenth Metal, Uru, and Volatile Promethium I would have magic protection and with Vibranium I would be able to reflect physical blows though from someone of his strength it likely wouldn't work. Thanos destroyed a shield made of it so Superman-Prime would break it.
'But that's why I will amplify the Vibranium with Adamantium and Amazonium.', I thought having Kelex calculate the strongest mix of the three metals.
All of the metals I could get myself, but the Amazonium would be the most difficult to get as the only place I knew where it could be found for on Themyscira as Wonder Woman's gauntlets were made of the stuff. I knew it had some ties to the Old Gods, but most of those old windbags were long dead.
"Sir, what do you intend to do with this armor?", Kelex asked.
"I intend to crush Prime and Injustice Superman.", I replied, "There is no luxury of talking things out with them, and I will have to kill them. Personal feelings aside, leaving them alive is too much for everyone to bear given what they have done. With all my power and knowledge I can't ever bring back the universes Prime destroyed, or the people the both of them have killed."
"There is always alternative ways.", Kelex said.
"In this case there is only one option to ensure more people don't get killed by them.", I replied, "Thank you for trying to cheer me up Kelex, but I have decided to do this for a while now. After seeing Kara's face when she saw Prime...he has to die."
"Very well.", he responded.
"I will need twenty solar collectors built as well Kelex, can you coordinate that?", I asked.
"Can't you connect to the existing network for yellow-"
"I am not going to be using yellow sunlight, I will be using blue sunlight.", I said cutting him off, "In the event the armor can't help me stop them, I can dump all the blue sunlight we store into me. If I speed up my metabolism I should be able to touch on a fraction of Superman Prime One Million's power."
"Sir, may I offer a suggestion?", Kelex asked.
"Sure.", I said.
"Could you potentially make a pact with the Source like that Superman did?", he asked, "Your comics cite that it is theorized he made a pact with the Source."
Looking at Kelex, I looked at him like he was crazy. To get to the Source meant breaking through the Source Wall, and that was something I wasn't sure I could do. If I failed I would likely be stuck to the Source Wall for eternity like all those other deceased deities and those that came before me.
'I mean the suit would certainly help me with that, but...that is still practically a suicide run.', I thought.
"I will consider it.", I replied.
Designing the suit, and tweaking the solar emitters for blue sunlight I ran the numbers to figure out the amounts I would need. After crunching the numbers, I made note of it then went home.
---Wayne Manor---
"Look who finally showed up.", Poison Ivy said laying on my bed watching TV.
"Why are you all in my room?", I asked trying not to look at the eye candies in front of me.
"Bizarro needs to keep his cat on a fucking leash.", Blackfire said, "While we were bathing the cat decided to run amuck, and trashed the upstairs."
Having teleported to my bedroom I hadn't come through to see the damage. Poking my head out of the room I found the cat using the banister as a scratch post. Threatening it telepathically it ran back into Bizarro's room, and hid under the bed. Finding Bizarro watching Hero Tube, I asked him to please keep an eye on the cat as it went into other rooms it shouldn't have. Apologizing he promised to keep a better eye on it from now on.
Surveying the damage to the guest rooms I quickly determined that Sabertooth Cats weren't the best choice for him. Reflecting on my choices I should have gone with a Tasmanian Tiger, and passed it off as a cat. Having the robots come to fix it I knew this would take all night to repair and replace things. Returning to my room all the women cozy under the sheets with some of them even fast asleep. Wedging myself next to Toru, wriggled in between us before settling down for the night.
"You know lover boy you are more than welcome to come get cozy over here.", Selena said seductively.
"Not with a ten foot pole Selena.", I replied, "The moment I fix the Superman issue over there I am tossing you into the Batcave, and letting Batman take care of you."
"What about me? You gonna take me home?", Harley asked.
"As soon as you get the screws loose in your head tightened up. I am not sending you back to Joker, you deserve better than that freak show.", I replied.
"I am a grown woman, I can make my own decisions.", she stated.
"I reject that statement because your decision is to go get beaten with a crowbar by Joker. You need to have higher standards in your life instead of settling for him.", I replied.
"I am going to have to agree Harley.", Poison Ivy said, "Joker is no good, he doesn't give a rats ass about you. I saw all the scars he left on you, that is ridiculous."
"He was only disciplining me for being a failure.", Harley protested.
"Harley, you are a good looking woman who could easily have any man you wanted with little effort. Joker belittles you, beats you, and mistreats you on a regular basis in pursuit of Batman. To him you are only a means to an end, don't you see that?", I stated.
"Agreed.", the other villains said, "Dump his ass."
"If you want you can have a four way with Ivy, Clark, you, and I.", Selena snickered.
"Don't volunteer him for stuff!!", Kara shouted.
"Will you all be quiet.", Raven sighed, "Some of us want to sleep, if I want drama I will watch a soap opera."
Leaving it there, I went to sleep listening to Bizarro shout at his tv as he watched various Hero videos. Hearing him repeat All Might and Endeavor lines over and over I started to worry just how far Bizarro would go with this.
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Author Update:
Freaking praise the sun, I am finally caught up with work and can get back to normal releases again. This has been a shit show week, but I am relieved I finally got caught up. It is 2am now so I will start work on the next chapter in the morning. Thank you all for sticking with me during this rather hectic time.
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