After merging with the skin in Laura's nose and mouth, Alex could assist her breathing even in an oxygen-deprived environment. He would only have to complete the development of his matter transmission skill and it would be possible.
He could do the same with her food-based sustenance. By manipulating and changing the saliva that she produces into a nutritious liquid, he could allow her to sustain herself without eating any food for any amount of time.
After this initial merging process, Laura was lost in euphoria. If her body was completely healed, she'd have climaxed at least a few times by now. She had already experienced a few mental climaxes. Finally, Alex could start actively interacting with her healing factor and pushing it forward.
Until now, he'd only been able to interact with the hosts' abilities passively, granting them a passive overall increase and benefit. But after this level 3 bond, he would be able to actively affect those abilities.
For example, if he formed a Level 3 bond with Spider-Gwen, he could complement her Bio-Electricity ability with much more proficiency and actively influence it through his lightning manipulation.
It was the same with Laura. After initiating the Level 3 bond with her, he could actively guide her healing factor to heal her quickly.
There was another benefit to this. As her body regenerated, Alex was able to simultaneously merge with her skin. He wouldn't have to spend more time after she heals up to merge with her. But there was another consequence to Alex's actions. Laura, for the first time in her life, was feeling unprecedented euphoria as her healing factor worked its magic.
Slowly, as her body formed up, Laura felt like she was on some sort of euphoric drug. Though one benefit to Laura's healing factor was that her mind was also protected. No matter how much pleasure she felt, she wouldn't go crazy or lose herself.
Alex didn't have to actively act to protect her mind as he had to do with his other girls.
Through the next euphoria-filled hour, Laura's body was completely regenerated and she was in perfect shape. It was as if she'd never gone through the harrowing experience of having her whole body destroyed.
Though the same couldn't be said about her mental faculties. Her healing factor prevented her from going crazy, but that didn't mean that she wasn't affected by the mind-numbing pleasure. Each moment of the merger sent her into a crazy euphoric state. And she experienced an hour of that. Especially after her lower half was formed.
She came so many times that Alex had to actively force water down her throat since she wasn't in a coherent state to drink anything herself. He didn't stop the process in the middle since it would stagnate everything and it would take him more effort to get it back on track.
Though there was a big consequence of Alex's forceful actions, Laura's healing factor would be going dormant for a least a week after this action. It made sense. Alex had overclocked her ability to an extreme level and it would go dormant after being overused in such a rough manner.
Using the analogy of the healing factor being a muscle, after such intense use, it was now extremely sore and wouldn't function for a while.
The situation wasn't completely without benefit though, after that period of dormancy, her healing factor would be reset and the negative effects on her ability due to her imprisonment would be completely gone.
The ability would function perfectly normally after that. It would still take some time for it to reach the kind of level that it could regenerate her whole body instantly, but it would at least be possible, unlike when it had been artificially stunted by the Bastion.
[Sleep…] Alex told Laura soothingly as he caressed her forehead with a gentle touch while providing her all the warmth that she required.
As an empathetic species, Alex had felt all of the intense feelings that she was going through. With this level three bond, he also realized something else. Something that affected all of his thoughts and plans for the future.
'As I form a deeper bond with my hosts, I'll start truly caring for them… Even the ones that I planned to use as no more than tools for me…' Alex recalled his initial plans for Farm Earth. He'd planned on bonding with a large number of women to generate a huge amount of EP but until now, he'd only bonded with MJ. He'd been training her to be nothing more than a sex slave to him, but he still hadn't bonded with anyone else yet.
The main reason was that he instinctively felt that he couldn't maintain so many bonds. It just wasn't a feasible strategy.
'Especially since I need to bond with at least one person in each of the versions of Earth. I'd end up bonding with at least 40 different women…' Alex knew that he needed to do something else. This wasn't a solution that would work.
The deeper the bond with the host, the greater the connection and the more Alex would come to care for that host. Things would become extremely difficult with so many people and he might not even be able to go all the way to the final stage of the bond with all his hosts. So he would be limiting the girls that he bonds with from now on.
It wasn't exactly a huge loss for him. Just because he wouldn't bond with the girls didn't mean that he couldn't have a relationship with them. So his inner horny pervert wasn't feeling any sense of loss.
The only sore point was that he still couldn't understand where the Bonding Rate bullshit fits into all this. It was a completely different setting and its growth factored in everything— The Bond Level, his emotional connection with the hosts, everything was factored into the Bonding Rate. But Alex had no idea what its deal was.
'Forget it. I'll just see how it all goes.' Alex decided to let things go with the flow, at least for now. Since he couldn't understand it in the short term, he would leave the problem to future Alex.
[ «Status- Host #7»
«Name: Laura Kinney (X-23) (Earth-Z)»
«Bonding Rate: 7%»
«Bonding Level: 3»
«Powers: Superhuman Physique (5->10 Tons)— Low Cosmic Healing Factor (Dormant)— Bone Claws (Vibranium-Adamantium Alloy skeleton)— Melee Mastery— Weapons Mastery— Espionage Mastery»
]
Another thing was that after merging with Laura's skin, Alex enhanced quite a bit of her physical prowess, directly doubling her physical attributes.
Alex looked at Laura's peacefully smiling face and felt that she looked so damn cute.
'She looks so cute. But we can't stay here for too long…' Alex thought as he let Laura sleep peacefully and took control of her body. He then extended his Mana Sense outward to make sure that there wasn't anyone approaching them, but he wasn't sure if the Bastion had troops that could bypass his detection, so he wasn't going to risk staying here to be ambushed. He had to leave quickly.
After the Level three bond, the enhancement that he could provide her increased by another fold. So, Alex's ‹Host Enhancement› ability could increase her stats by 5 times.
With this 5 times enhancement and the enhancement to her base stats, Laura's physical stats firmly surpassed the base stats of Alex's physique creation ability. So they would be able to get away from this general area much faster than if it was just Alex.
'Let's get going…' Alex thought while leaving the bunker in which he'd been merging with Laura.
'Where do I go, though?' Alex just now realized that he had no destination in mind. He and Laura were so focused on the whole escaping the Bastion thing that they had no idea about any other places.
'These abominations most probably also have their own territories… I hope I don't run into one of those.' Alex thought.
He's stopped and was contemplating what he should do.
'Fuck…' He had no idea what to do. And traveling without any direction might be even more dangerous.
'Should I wait for her to wake up? I'll see if she had some ideas…' Alex decided. He then spread out his Mana Sense to look for another bunker close to them. He was still going to change their position every once in a while.
Laura needed to get some rest after all that stimulation. He could've forcefully rejuvenated her, but he didn't want to do that kind of thing regularly. Unless the situation was actually dangerous, he would rather let his hosts sleep. This kind of forceful rejuvenation was similar to taking drugs. Although Alex's methods were nigh perfect with no side effects, real rest was still a better option in his opinion.
An hour later, Alex was still in the middle of nowhere realizing that there was a bunker present every couple tens of miles, which itself was unnatural.
'It seems that the long-term conflict in this world caused a lot of problems and the people decided to proactively take precautions…' Alex thought when he noticed the unnaturally large number of bunkers that he detected with his mana sense.
"Mmm…" Laura moaned a little as she was waking up.
[Morning, Laura…] Alex slowly freed her body from his control as she woke up.
"Morning Alex…" Laura took a few seconds to balance herself when she realized that she was standing.
[Why was I standing?] She asked confusedly. She didn't mention the merging process since their current situation was a little dire. She was planning to talk to Alex about that stuff later when they found some shelter.
[During the time that you were asleep, I decided to cover some distance and get away from the Bastion. I'd rather not deal with any more of those overpowered robots.] He told her.
[True… Where are we going through?] She asked him, thinking that he already has a plan.
[About that… I have no idea.] Alex was embarrassed when she asked him with a tone that conveyed her confidence in him. She'd expected too much from him.
"Oh…" She said.
[Yeah, I got no clue. I've been trying to look for some sort of human settlement similar to the Bastion but I haven't had any luck.] He told her.
[What about the information that you took from their servers?] Laura asked.
[No dice… They'd kept the higher secrets locked away behind a firewall. I had to cut my exploration short as the firewall started purging me out of the system.] He told her. He'd only been able to get the local data and research that the facility had from that terminal. And none of the information he'd got was related to the inner workings of the Bastion. Nor was there any information about communications with other communities.
Alex had some information about the Bastion's workings but it wasn't useful for now. There was a public governor and management in the city, but they were all mostly figureheads. The city was run by a subtle dictatorial influence that was enforced through the central AI that runs the city.
Alex's information wasn't of any substance other than the formula for Extremis along with quite a bit of research that The Facility had done on Laura. It was quite a large amount of stuff. They weren't only working with her bone marrow, they were also researching her flesh, blood, and even some organ tissues. Laura had gone through a very bad time there.
[So what now?] She asked. She didn't have any ideas and her knowledge about the current scenario was too lacking to make an informed decision.
[We should prioritize finding some shelter. The sun is about to rise. We don't want to be here for the morning surge.] Alex told her.
[Morning surge?] Laura asked. She was confused.
[The abominations are the most active for one hour after the sun rises and spread out in search of prey.] He told her.
[Wouldn't that mean that the Bastion has to fend off attacks daily? I remember you mentioning that they are attacked only once every few days.] Laura wanted to confirm some stuff.
[Yeah, those attacks are weekly mass waves that attack the city in bulk. But they have to fend off quite a few stragglers every day but the sentry turrets can automatically deal with them. Those main attack waves are the ones that require extra manpower.]
[I see.] Laura understood.
[Let's get going. We have a shelter in that direction a few hundred miles that way.] Alex pointed in the direction where he'd seen a shelter with his Mana Sense.
[All righty…] Laura burst out in a full sprint.
*BAM*
She crashed into the ground.
[Hahaha...] Alex burst out laughing as he saw Laura's face buried in the dusty ground. As she got up, she looked almost comical with her hair frilly and filled with dust while had face was also pretty dirty. Even her nose was broken from that damage.
[Shut up…] Laura grumbled as she ignored the pain in her nose, expecting it to heal up soon.
'Why am I not healing?' She thought to herself.
[Alex…] She asked and Alex understood her unspoken question.
[Ah, you see… Regenerating your entire body so forcefully wasn't entirely without consequences.] He stopped laughing and took a somber tone.
[Alex… What happened?] Laura was getting an ominous feeling.
[Well… You still have your healing factor, but it's gone dormant for a while. Think of it like a muscle. It was overexerted so it's unusable for now.] He told her
[Well, fuck… What do I do about this?] She pointed to her nose. She wasn't too stuck up on not being able to heal for a week. It wasn't that big of a deal.
[I'll help out with that…] Alex blocked the pain receptors in her skin and realigned her nose while fixing it there. It would heal up naturally in a while. [I'm not as good as your healing factor at this stuff, but you'll be healed up soon.]
[Thank you…] Laura was a nice girl who knew to appreciate Alex for his help.
[You're welcome. Now try to go slowly. Your physical stats have increased by 5 times, it'll take some getting used to.]
[5 times? Wasn't it 3?] She was confused as she thought that she would receive a three-fold increase in her abilities.
[That was before our deeper bond. As we bond deeper and our connection gets stronger, the enhancement that I can provide to your physical stats will increase.] He patiently informed her.
Laura nodded in understanding and started moving slowly in a controlled manner so that she doesn't fall face-first into the ground again.
Taking around 10 minutes to reach their destination, Laura reached the gate for the shelter.
[This the place?] Laura looked at the airlock that seemed to be the entrance of the bunker.
[Yep.] Alex came out of Laura's hand and seeped through the airlock, unlocking it from the inside. Laura went into the bunker for the sunrise and closed the airlock tightly.
[You need to train your strength…] Alex looked at the bent lever that she used to close the door.
[…] Laura was embarrassed.
[Come on, let's explore this place. Maybe we can find a nice open area to use as a training ground. I can't have you plant yourself face-first into the ground every time you run.] Alex had been assisting her in running at full speed so that they could get here in time.
[Hey!] Her protest didn't have any substance.
[Hey, Laura… Any idea about the location of the X-men?] Alex asked. He hadn't found any information about any other cities in the database so he had to get creative.
[No clue… But they should be in the same location as the old Xavier Mansion… It used to be in New Salem, I think. Not that it matters now.] Laura had a sad expression.
'On second thoughts, let's not go there. I'd rather not get discovered by Charles... I'd rather not gamble on him being dead.' Alex thought. A mind-reading all-sensing telepath was one of the worst possible enemies for him.
[Forget it then. Let's just go with the flow. We'll find something to do at some point.]
[What about the Bastion?] Laura wasn't done with the Bastion, she was going to get her revenge.
[Patience. That place is far too much for us. Let's slowly move up to it. With me, you'll be able to grow without limits and at some point, we'll get strong enough to decimate those Vibranium suits that they sent after you. Till then, we'll train.] Alex had already explained to her the nuances of the benefits that he provides.
[Sounds like a plan. Let's start now.] Laura was excited to train.
[Let's hold back for the next week. We need your healing factor to come back. I'll be doing extremely brutal training with you. Without your healing factor it would only be detrimental.] Alex's words gave Laura an ominous feeling.
[What do you mean?] She asked.
[We need to train your healing factor too. That means injuries, serious ones. I'll train your ability to the point that you can regenerate an amputated arm within a second.] He said nonchalantly.
[Fuck…] Anyone else in Laura's situation would be traumatized. She'd gone through a similar experience in the Bastion and wouldn't want to go through something similar. But just as her healing factor protected her mind, it also protected her from developing any true trauma about it. Her mind subconsciously suppressed the negative memories that would leave her traumatized with the help of her healing factor.
They spent some time setting up this place as a temporary base of operations. They'd decided to stay here for the next few weeks. At least until Laura got strong enough to contend against the abominations with relative ease.
She could deal with the basic weakest abominations with ease, but even the mid-tier ones would be a challenge for her. Not to mention the regenerative kind that must be killed within seconds otherwise they'll regenerate perfectly. Every single one of those abominations' regeneration dwarfs Laura's current regeneration. Then again, Laura's regeneration is an ability of her X-gene and can be trained to get better. On the other hand, those abominations are stuck with their regenerative factor that cannot get better.
'At least they don't have any intelligence and only run on instinct.' Alex thought of the only consolation that he had.
…
An hour later, they went out of the bunker to see the situation on the outside. Alex himself was pretty unclear about the situation since all he'd gotten from the memories of that poor barista was some tidbits that she'd heard every once in a while. It's not like she'd seen something like this happen. And the information from the facility was severely lacking when it came to the abominations.
He hadn't even run into any abominations till now.
The airlock opened with a creek as Laura's head poked out of the hole in the ground.
[Anything to worry about?] Laura asked Alex since she knew that his senses were much better than hers.
[On your 7, a few hundred meters away. There's a ‹Grunt Class›.] Alex told her. He'd classified the abominations that he'd found out about in the memories of that girl, into separate classes of abominations.
‹Grunt Class› ‹Buff Grunt Class› ‹Regenerative Grunt Class› ‹Buff Regenerative Grunt Class›
These 4 were the most commonly found and were the only ones in the memories that he'd gotten from the Barista. He was sure that there were stronger ones, but he couldn't find any information about them in her memories.
'These are probably the ones that transformed from humans. There should be some sort of ‹Animal Class› too but I have too little information to classify it.' Alex thought.
[On it.] Laura noticed the ‹Grund Class› abomination in the spot that Alex directed. She got out of the bunker and closed the airlock before moving toward the abomination.
She finally got a close look at it.
It was a huge 5-meter-tall humanoid entity that seemed to be walking in a certain direction. Laura could tell that it was being directed to walk in a certain direction. Mindless monsters don't have such a straight sense of direction.
‹Grunt Class›:: Base level grunts. Common. Weakest abomination class. Superhuman Physique and regeneration. Appearance: Muddy green skin, 5 meters tall, skinny body build.
[Is there some sort of controller for these abominations?] She asked in her head with a dreadful undertone.
[There might be some ‹Leader Class› that can control these weaker grunts…] He told her his assumption.
[Should we kill it?] She asked. She understood that if there's a leader with some influence over these guys then they would be compromising themselves by killing it.
[We should just kill it. We can just leave this area and move to some other area. It's not like we have a shortage of bunkers.] He didn't care about leaving this place.
[Works, I guess.] Neither did Laura. Although they'd decided to spend some time in this bunker, the presence of this abomination changed their plans.
Laura slowly sneaked up to the abomination as she got ready for an attack. Alex had stopped enhancing her stats so she was able to have full control over her body and use her skills perfectly.
Soon, Laura was right behind the abomination and was about to slice its neck with her claws, but it abruptly dodged her attack and moved to the side while swinging its arm at her.
Laura was already prepared for something like this and swung her leg which had a claw extending from it. Her foot claw sliced at the abomination's outstretched arm as it pulled back at the last moment.
Though that action wasn't without any loss, it had lost half of its hand from Laura's attack.
"Arghh!!!" Its screech was loud as it seemed to enter an enraged state.
[Is that normal?] Laura asked as she saw the eyes of the monster glow a crimson red.
[I'm as clueless as you are here babe. It's not like I've fought these guys before.] Alex came clean with her at the worst possible time.
[What?! But I thought—] Laura wasn't able to finish her words as the abomination attacked her again with twice the speed. One good thing that she noticed was that it was only mindlessly attacking her. There was no strategy here.
As Laura dodged another attack she realized that she had to finish this quickly.
'No more probing…' She decided that in its enraged status which had doubled its stats, continuing the fight would get a little dangerous for her, 'Also, that screech might've attracted more of those guys here…' She also realized.
Laura's attacks got more aggressive and she swiped a claw close to the throat of the abomination which only pulled back due to the fear of death that it felt. Laura growled in annoyance, especially since she wasn't able to fight as freely as she was used to. Due to her healing factor going dormant, Laura had to pay attention to dodge the attacks of the abomination. Otherwise, she'd have finished it by now.
[Incoming! Behind you!] Alex's words alarmed Laura as she used the momentary distraction of the abomination after its abrupt pull back to dodge her attack. She quickly jumped over to it and pushed her claws into its neck and through its head, finally killing her opponent.
Though before she could take a breath of relief, she had to use the hand that was still stuck in that dead abomination's head to maneuver herself away from her current position.
Using her acrobatics training, she jumped over the 5-meter-tall giant's head and went behind it as it was falling.
Just as she jumped over, there was another claw that swiped the place where she was standing.
It was an 8-meter-tall giant with a far more buff build than the one that Laura was just fighting.
‹Buff Grunt Class›:: Stronger than Grunt Class. Common. Peak Superhuman Physique. Appearance: Muddy green skin, 8 meters tall, buff body build.
[I don't think you/I can fight this dude.] Both Laura and Alex said at the same time.
[I guess we have an agreement. Now allow me to control your body. You won't be able to outrun this dude without the enhancements. And your control over your base strength itself is also pretty lanky after the enhancement that came with my bonding with you.] He was blunt with her.
[Geez… You could've sugarcoated it.] She felt Alex taking control of her body and didn't resist. Though she felt that if she wanted, she could wrestle back the control from him easily.
This wasn't because Alex was weaker than her or anything. It was because he was taking a more gentle approach with her.
Alex didn't reply and within an instant, started running at Laura's top speed. He'd already left a part of his symbiote body on the dead abomination to devour it. After it was done devouring the dead abomination, the body was going to dissolve into nothingness after transferring all of its shared mass back to the main body.
[Fuck! This is how fast I am now?] Laura had realized just how much of a boost her physical prowess had gotten, [This is going to be a pain to train…] She also realized.
[That it is. But it's going to be fun.] Alex told her.
A few seconds later, they were already a few miles away from their spot. Weirdly enough, the abomination didn't actually follow them. But Alex wasn't going to be taking any chances. He had already camouflaged Laura on the way so that any other abominations that they run into wouldn't sense them.
Soon he saw a notification that made him glad for the risk that he and Laura had just taken.
[EP +0.01]
'That's new…' He thought as he looked at the notification for the tiny amount of EP that he received from that abomination. He usually never received notifications for increases in EP other than whole values.
'These abominations have an infinitely better efficiency in comparison to killing humans.' He thought.
'I have to make her stronger.' Alex got a new drive to make Laura stronger so that the two of them could easily contend with those abominations.
Soon, they were far enough away to stop and take a breather.
[Laura.] Alex called her after stopping and gave her back her body's control.
[What's up?] She asked confusedly. She'd thought that she could take a rest, leaving Alex to find the next shelter, but apparently not.
[We need to get stronger.] He told her.
[I know.] She nodded.
[I have to expedite the recovery of your healing factor.] Alex said.
[Oh? What's the catch?] She caught onto his tone and understood that there was some sort of catch.
[We need to stimulate you. Heavily. I'll have to augment it with a certain type of energy that I control.] He hoped that she would agree. He was going to try to use his mana to awaken her dormant healing factor. He hoped that by absorbing magical energy, it would show some reaction. He could've gone with the route of using electricity to do this, but it would be counterintuitive. Electricity would be a forceful act and would up straining the ability even more, making it prone to going dormant every once in a while. On the other hand, using Mana would be like caressing it to wake it up while also magically empowering it.
[What kind of stimulation?] She asked with narrow eyes.
[Anything that would produce intense emotions while hyperactivating your body. Let's continue this talk after we go into a bunker. Keep going in the direction that I was going. Full speed.] He would have to convince and appease her a little.
[But—] She wanted to tell him that she didn't have any control over herself and might hurt herself again.
[Trust me. I'll be supporting you this time. If you fall and get hurt again, I'll be the one having to fix it anyway.] He seemed to be grumbling.
With slight hesitance, Laura ran at full speed.
And she tripped.
Though, this time, Alex supported her and controlled her legs to balance her again.
Laura who'd closed her eyes tightly in anticipation of pain was pleasantly surprised that she didn't fall.
[I guess you weren't lying.] She said.
[Of course not. Now keep moving. And if you stop again, I might just zap you with my electricity.] She'd stopped after that trip and Alex didn't like that.
[Fine, fine. Geez. I feel like training with you is going to be hell.] Laura felt that Alex was a trainer that was going to drill her to near death.
[I do more of a combination of hell and heaven combined. I'll make sure you get addicted to my training methods.] Alex's tone sent shivers down Laura's spine.
[Yeah? I'm looking forward to it.] Laura said with an anticipatory tone. She hadn't had a real life for years and even the prospect of hellish training to get stronger was seeming like a very pleasant thought compared to the monotonous stuff that she'd gone through during her imprisonment.
[You might not have come out of that facility completely sane.] Alex deduced.
[I take offense to that.] She said.
[Right… There it is. You see that gate. It's one of the bigger bunkers which should've had quite a few facilities and housed a large number of people.] He told her as he directed her to look at the bunker gate that seemed to be extending from the ground with only the gate being visible.
[Don't these bunkers have some people?] Laura looked at the gate and was confused that they hadn't found any living beings yet.
They had, but Alex ignored them when he saw the condition that those 'humans' were in. It was exclusively cannibals that were left within the bunkers. Everyone else had disappeared. Along with any possible resources that would've been left in the bunkers.
[I'm assuming that the Bastion has already swept a few thousand miles around their city to look for any and all bunkers with signs of life. This is why there are no leftovers in any of the bunkers that we passed. There are no signs of anyone leaving in a hurry either, which must be why there are no leftover resources.] Alex told her his assumption.
[That makes sense.] Laura agreed with Alex since his words made sense.
Alex didn't mention the cannibals since he didn't want her to worry or feel bad for them unnecessarily. Their mental states were very volatile, which may have also been why the Bastion didn't integrate them within the outer city slums. They could've fixed the mental states, but it was probably an unnecessary use of resources for disposable people.
She walked up to the sliding doors of the entrance to the bunker. It was like a half tunnel extending from the ground that led into the bunker. They just had to open the gate.
[Do I cut through it?] She didn't think that the bunker had any power.
[How barbaric. Allow me.] Alex said with a mock condescending tone.
[Right…] Laura rolled her eyes and put her hand on the external terminal of the gate. It was a sort of digital keypad that was powered down.
Alex entered the cyberspace of that terminal and forcefully used his lightning manipulation to power the sliding mechanism of the doors to open them.
[Let's go.] Alex told her, he was still connected to the cyberspace of the bunker. This was the first bunker that he'd found with advanced technology which didn't seem to be made by some overprepared homeowner. This was more of an official bunker that was most likely sanctioned by the government or by a large corporation.
Just as Laura entered through the gates, they closed back up, engulfing Laura in complete darkness.
[Okay, I need at least some light to see. I don't have true Night Vision…] Laura had really good eyesight to the point where she could see in the darkest of environments, but she couldn't see in absolute darkness. There has to be at least a weak source of light for her to see.
Those gates served as an airlock and not a single ray of light could enter.
[My bad. But there's no power in the generator to turn on any lights. The gate only opened since it has a backup internal power generator that I could charge. I'll guide you to look for the power core of the bunker so that we can charge it up.] He told her.
[All right.] She shrugged and started walking down the stairs that she'd seen.
When she reached the bottom, Alex guided her to the power core. He had to use Mana Sense to navigate around due to the complete absence of light in the underground bunker. Almost all types of night vision would fail in such a scenario. For this one needed true night vision where their eyes could produce their own light.
[I just realized that I could've just produced light using my lightning manipulation…] Alex said in Laura's head as they both reached the generator room.
[Well aren't you a smartie, Mr. Symbiote…] Laura was amused.
[You do know that I have a lot of leverage over you, right?] Alex wasn't amused.
[Oh yeah? Whatcha' gonna do? Spank my ass?] She teased and even wiggled her butt in the darkness.
[I was planning something more intrusive, but yes we could start with a light spanking.] Alex agreed and didn't waste the opportunity to spank Laura's ass. Making her butt jiggle with his hard spank.
"Hey! I was kidding…" She jumped and looked behind after feeling the slap on her ass.
[You're the one who invited me so tantalizingly.] Alex said as if it was a matter of fact, [Now give me a moment, I'll bring back the power.] Alex used his Lightning Manipulation to charge up the generator so that it could run for a while.
He was already in the system, so the lights automatically started turning on at his behest just as the power was restored.
[Now this is a nuclear bunker.] Laura commented as she looked around at the pristine condition of the bunker.
[That it is.] Alex agreed.
[This place has a nice lounge. Let's go there.] Alex started guiding Laura to the lounge. Neither of them mentioned the slight sexual banter they had just now.
…
Laura was in the empty lounge of the bunker, lazily lying on a couch while talking to Alex in her head.
[Back to my healing factor. How do I get it back?] She asked while lying on her back and looking up at the ceiling while playing with a ball that Alex had formed for her.
[Gentle hyperstimulation. That's the best way to get back your ability without any problems.] He told her.
[Normal words, please…] Laura wanted a straightforward explanation.
[I have to fuck you.] Alex was blunt.
"W-What?" She stammered a little.
[I have only two ways to awaken your healing factor. One is to shock you with electricity at small intervals to stimulate your nerves and awaken your healing factor. But that would cause it to be unstable and go dormant every once in a while. On the other hand, I have a unique energy that could bring you much better results. It's just that the infusion process is… intimate. Think of it as a really stimulating massage… of your insides.] He explained to her patiently.
[But…] She was hesitant.
[What? You don't remember how you were screaming 'Fuck me, please!' at the top of your lungs when I was regenerating your body?] Alex teased her.
[Hey, that was circumstantial. I don't want my first fuck to be an alien…] Laura mumbled mentally.
[That's offensive. And really? First fuck?] Alex was honestly surprised. Given Laura's personality, he'd expected that she wouldn't treat this kind of thing as a big deal.
[I didn't exactly get to live a lot of life. I was created as a clone of my father and trained as no more than a weapon for the greater part of my life. Then I was freed and spent a few years getting therapy along with some mental manipulation by Jean to get rid of a very problematic mental liability. Guess what happened after that. I got captured again.] Laura hissed.
[Okay, okay, geez… Would you like to fuck me if I had a human face then?] Alex offered. Laura's life experiences were extremely traumatic.
[What? How?] She asked.
[I'm a slime species. I can turn into anything I desire. I've been on Earth for a while and observed quite a few people. I can create a unique face for myself on the basis of my persona that would be uniquely identifiable. I already have a human name, a human face wouldn't be a big deal.] He told her a technical truth.
[…Show me.] She wanted to see him.
He didn't say anything and black tendrils started escaping from Laura's body and started coalescing into a humanoid figure.
Within a second, Alex was standing in front of the couch that she was lying on.
"Hi." He smiled as he looked down at her.
"You're hot…" She felt like she was getting lost in his green eyes.
"We have the same eyes," Alex mentioned. Both he and Laura had green eyes.
"Yeah…" Laura admired him for a few seconds before beckoning him close, "Come here…" She extended her hand to him. It seemed that she didn't want to change her position.
Alex kneeled beside the sofa and got at the same eye level as her. Laura put her hand over the side of his face, "You look so… real."
"That's because I am real." Alex smiled.
"Well, that's good. Because you have to seduce me." Laura nodded with a smile on her face.
"What?" Alex smiled amusedly.
"You heard me. I'm not just going to let you have sex with me just like that. You have to court me. Take me out on a date, feed me some nice food, watch a movie with me… I'm not some easy chick that you can get into the pants of just cause you saved her from a hell prison." She told him aggressively.
Alex could feel Laura's excitement increasing as she listed out what she wanted. She hadn't had a normal childhood due to growing up in a lab as a mere test subject. And even in the Xavier School, she didn't make any friends early on due to her isolationist habits. She just spent all her time training. And when she was finally allowed to go outside, she was captured and used as a glorified blood bank for an entire city.
"I guess I have my work cut out for me, huh?" He smiled. He didn't mind her demands. Hell, Laura's so-called demands made him want to be more considerate of his other hosts too.
"That you do." Laura was anticipating how Alex was going to fulfill her demands. She understood that the stuff that she asked was unreasonable and nigh-impossible in the current situation of the world. That's why, even if Alex couldn't do that stuff, she would be happy just to see him try. It would prove to her that he cares and that would be enough for her.
"Let's start with a movie, shall we?" Alex decided to not delay by letting either Laura or himself be bored in this empty shelter.
"How?" She asked.
"I'll show you." He said with an excited tone.
He held Laura's head up from the couch and took a seat himself, putting her head on his lap. At the same time, the couch was pushed back by a few tendrils to make some space with the wall in front of them.
Laura was curious about Alex's plan and was feeling comfortable in his lap. She almost purred as Alex ran his fingers through her hair.
She looked ahead with curious eyes as a large pitch-black screen formed in front of them while the lights dimmed almost completely.
"You going for the full theatre experience?" Laura asked.
"Only the best for my girl…" One of his hands was caressing her hair and the other was resting on the side of her hip.
"Not your girl, yet." Laura shot back.
"Keep telling yourself that." Alex chuckled.
"You got any specific requests?" He asked her.
"Anything but typical mushy romance shit…" Laura didn't have any specific preference for now.
"Pulp Fiction it is then…" Alex loved that movie and he was glad to have found that on Research Earth. He wanted to rewatch the movie again.
"Pulp Fiction? Really?" She asked. She'd thought that he would find a movie with at least some romance so that it would set a nice mood.
"You know about it?" He was surprised.
"I wasn't living in a hole…" She was just about to say that but trailed off since she realized that she'd exactly been living in a hole, "I just know, okay…" She snapped.
"Chill, girl…You're the one who didn't specify the kind of non-romance movie you wanted…" Alex played with her hair as he enjoyed bantering with her.
"Fine. I guess we'll just watch the movie." She emphasized the just.
"Haha... You're so cute." Alex loved Laura's little nuances and nuzzled his face against her hair.
Since he'd decided to seduce her, he was going to go the whole nine yards. He wasn't planning on rushing anything with her.
His actions may be the result of how he was connected with her on a much deeper level and her horrible situation made him want to pamper and care for her a lot.
"Hey…" She tried to struggle, but the movie soon started and they both got engrossed in it.
"I wish we had popcorn…" Laura absently thought.
"Here." Alex bought a bucket of popcorn in front of her face. She was still lying on the couch with her head in his lap.
He'd made all the preparations for the movie. Using camouflage with extreme precision, he was able to project the pixel information that he was receiving from Research Earth's server directly on the screen that he'd formed. And the sounds were easy to stimulate.
"Where did you get this?" She asked as she grabbed the bucket and sat up, snuggling close to him.
"That's a secret." He looked at her with a cheeky smile.
"Tell me…" She whined cutely while shaking his arm lightly. She knew how to get answers out of a guy.
"You'd rather not know. Trust me." Alex told her.
"Come on, how bad can it be? I'm not eating other people, am I?" Laura joked as she grabbed a handful of popcorn and ate it, "So good!"
"Well… Not exactly." Alex told her and she froze with her hand mid-air, clutching the popcorn that she'd just grabbed again to stuff her face with.
"Alex… What is this?" She asked seriously.
"Sigh… Can't you just enjoy the movie without asking too many questions? I'll show you what it is." He said and the bucket of popcorn turned into a black bucket with pitch-black popcorn.
"It's me. Well, an extension of my body. I can stimulate it to taste however I want." Alex could do the same with any part of his body, even his cum.
Laura was left blinking her eyes for a few seconds.
"That's why I said you'd rather not know." He said and the popcorn turned back to look normal.
"Can you do caramel popcorn?" She asked. Deciding to push the weirdness to the back of her mind. She hadn't eaten popcorn for years and she'd be damned if she doesn't eat it after it was served to her on a silver platter.
'More like a cardboard bucket, but whatever.' She thought.
"Sure." The popcorn gained a caramel sheen and started tasting like caramel popcorn.
"There aren't any problems with eating this, are there?" She asked as she grabbed another fistful and stuffed her face.
"Not at all. Hell, you can eat as much as you want without feeling full."
"Awesome. Best date ever!" She loved their movie experience. Not that she had much of a dating experience, to begin with.
"Can you do the same with drinks?" She asked.
"Sure. Here you go." He handed her a glass of coke. And the best thing about these foods was that they were never-ending. She could drink tens of liters of coke from that glass but it would still be the optimal amount of full. Not completely full, but a bit more than half full.
…
In the MCU, with Wanda and Natasha.
Natasha threw a kick at Wanda's head but Wanda blocked her attack with her forearm while elbowing Natasha with her other hand.
Natasha used her hand to block her elbow and twist it around while using her leg as leverage to disbalance Wanda.
Nat pinned Wanda down between her thighs.
Wanda tapped Natasha's leg three times in surrender.
"You've got better. You can hold me off for more than a minute now. It's a pretty solid improvement." Natasha praised Wanda.
"I agree. You're doing splendidly." Alex walked up to them both. He'd been acting as the referee for the fight while observing and understanding Natasha's fighting style.
They'd been training regularly for the past week and both Wanda and Alex had gotten pretty good at physical combat. Wanda was only able to hold Natasha off for a minute while Alex was able to hold her off for 4 minutes before caving in.
Neither of them had had a win against her yet. Then again, Natasha was technically the weakest of the three. It was just that her physical combat technique was extremely good.
"All right, you guys continue. I'll get going." Wanda said as she walked out of the gym of the mansion. Her training wasn't done, it was just the physical combat training that she was done with.
Their daily training lasted for 8 hours each day. The first two hours were for general physique training for both Wanda and Natasha where Alex helped them both increase their strength, speed, and stamina.
The next two hours were for combat training where Natasha trained both Alex and Wanda and sparred with them. Since Alex was far stronger than both Natasha and Wanda physically, he made sure to suppress his strength. If he just overpowered them with brute force, he wouldn't learn anything from Natasha.
After that, they separated and Wanda went out of the mansion to train her Chaos powers for the last four hours.
Meanwhile, Alex and Natasha spent those four hours training their physical combat prowess. That training was much more intense than what they did with Wanda since Wanda's forte was magic and her physical prowess wasn't too important. And that intense training not only helped Alex refine his technique quickly, but it also helped Natasha grow with her own technique.
The trio spent the rest of the 16 hours resting and enjoying their time in the mansion. Alex knew that doing nothing but training wasn't going to be beneficial for any of them and would be detrimental in the long run.
Wanda and Natasha's current stats looked like this after a week of training.
[ «Status- Host #3»
«Name: Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 24%»
«Bonding Level: 2»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (3 Tons)— Melee Mastery— Espionage Mastery»
]
[ «Status- Host #4»
«Name: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) (MCU Earth)»
«Bonding Rate: 13%»
«Bonding Level: 1»
«Powers: Low Superhuman Physique (1 Ton)—Chaos Magic»
]
As Alex and Natasha continued their training, Wanda walked out of the mansion. She couldn't train her powers inside the mansion since it might get damaged if her powers go haywire.
Especially since her unrestrained training with her powers had finally removed the dormant status from her Chaos Magic. Her powers weren't just limited to basic mind manipulation and telekinesis anymore. She had a lot more to explore now.
She walked out to the backyard and kept walking.
[Alex, can you please change my clothes?] She asked Alex mentally while walking.
[Sure.] Alex changed her clothes from her usual leggings and sports bra that she wears during physical training to her Scarlet Witch outfit. Apparently, the look had some significance.
This outfit wasn't something suggested by Alex.
When Wanda's Chaos magic awakened, there wasn't a lot of fanfare other than a slight energy spike. But what was weird was that the magic started overlapping with her clothes, i.e. Alex.
Her Scarlet Witch outfit wasn't something that she randomly came up with, it was something that was instinctively created by her Chaos magic.
In the end, Alex ended up merging with her Scarlet Witch outfit. Somehow, it also allowed him to gain rudimentary control over her Chaos energy. Otherwise, he would've needed a lot more time to actually use his collected Chaos energy in a combat setting like the Bastion at that time when he was escaping with Laura.
The scene looked pretty magical as Wanda walked out of the backyard and onto the snow-covered mountain while her clothes morphed into a blood-red bodysuit with a gown and a red tiara formed over her forehead.
Soon, it stopped looking as magical as she had to start climbing the snowy mountain with her bare hands.
[Why am I doing this again?] She was annoyed that he didn't let her use her magic for this.
[Physical training is important Wanda. Magic requires a strong conduit.] He wanted her to climb up to the top using her physical abilities rather than her magic. It was sort of a ritualistic thing where Wanda follows the exact same process every time.
[Aren't I already doing it though?] She grumbled.
[We've gone over this. The process is important. How about this for an incentive, I'll take you on a date after this. Just the two of us.] He wanted to show some love to Wanda.
[Just the two of us?] She asked with an anticipating undertone. She had volunteered as Hydra's test subject when she was just a teenager. She hadn't ever had the time or freedom to enjoy a normal romance so Alex's proposal was bound to get her excited.
[Just the two of us.] He whispered.
With that, Wanda seemed to have gotten motivated as she easily agreed to the difficult climb. She'd been crushing on Alex for a while and all she'd gotten was some sensual massages from him that led her to orgasm after the training sessions. His offering to take her out was done at the perfect time.
She'd been growing jealous of Natasha since she knew that he and Natasha were fucking like bunnies after every training session.
Alex timed the invitation perfectly so that he could appease her jealousy while also making sure that she doesn't take his presence for granted.
Soon, she was at the top, at her usual training spot for every day.
She felt the cold snowy winds hitting her face, her bare toes feeling the soft snowy ground as if she was connected to it. And she kinda was. This was the spot where she'd awoken her dormant Chaos magic. It had some unknown significance.
Neither Alex nor Wanda understood why, but they knew that this location meant something. Especially since Wanda noticed that her training efficiency at this spot was greater than at other locations.
Even her power output was greater.
'It's like a sort of Chaos energy concentrated zone…' That was what Alex assumed.
The awakening of Wanda's chaos magic caused the area to get permeated with Chaos energy and made her efficiency greater here.
'Or I could be completely wrong and it's like some sort of causality thing where this spot is designated as Wanda's home ground and she can harness more of her power here.' All he had were theories. They weren't concrete answers.
***
After Wanda was done training her magic, she went back down the mountain and into the mansion where she and Natasha would have lunch.
They would wake up at 6 AM every day, fresh as the sun, courtesy of Alex's help that allowed them to sleep with perfect efficiency.
Then they would do two hours of physique training, followed by breakfast. After which came 2 hours of shared combat technique training and 4 hours of separate training for Wanda and Natasha.
After that, the rest of their days were free.
Wanda went back to the house and smelled a delicious lunch.
"I thought that it was my turn to make lunch today, Nat?" Wanda asked as she walked into the kitchen and saw Nat wearing an apron over a hoodie and leggings.
"I know, but I wanted to make something that I remembered from my childhood. Melina used to make this." Nat smiled as she told Wanda.
"Melina?" Wanda was confused.
"My surrogate mother for a temporary period of time… It's a long story." Natasha wasn't planning to talk about her past yet.
"It's fine." Wanda smiled and took a seat at the dining table.
Soon, Alex also came and took a seat beside Wanda.
Since the three of them were living together, Alex had made it a habit to stay in his human form and not create any more bodies. At least not visible ones. The presence of two copies of Alex would be a little weird for both of the girls.
After lunch, it was time for both of the girls' training 'rewards'. Though today was a little different for Wanda.
Natasha went into her room alone to enjoy her time with Alex, but just as Wanda was getting up, Alex said in her head, [Let's not do the reward today.]
Wanda's cheerful expression fell and she looked like a puppy who'd been abandoned by her owner, "What…" She looked at Alex who was sitting beside her.
Alex felt immensely proud when he saw her expression. The fact that she wasn't embarrassed about showing her disappointment with his words was in itself an achievement for him. He'd been working hard in getting her comfortable and open with him. To the point that she treats him like a true confidante.
[We have our date today. We can do it after the date tonight.] He appeased her.
His words had an immediate effect as Wanda got a smile on her face, "Fine. I'll watch some TV till then." She was excited again as she walked to the living room.
Alex inwardly smiled as he felt her happy feelings through the empathetic connection.
"Snuggle with me, Alex…" Wanda called him as she put on a show.
"You're really spoiled, you know that?" He told her as he followed her to the living room.
"What can I say, I'm a clingy girl." She looked at him with a cheeky smile, owning her clingy trait.
Alex had a helpless smile on his face as he sat on the couch and opened his arms invitingly.
Wanda practically jumped into his arms as she took a comfortable spot in his lap.
…
At the same time, in Natasha's room.
Black tendrils extended from Natasha's body as Alex's body coalesced in front of her.
"Hi." He smiled.
"Hi…" Natasha chuckled.
"There's something on your mind." Alex noticed Natasha's fluctuating mood.
"I'm worried about Steve…" She said while holding her left arm with her right hand and looking to the side.
"You're lying." Alex caught the master spy's lie. She'd already contacted Steve and knew that he was safe in Wakanda.
"You're unfair. You're bonded to me and can tell…" She tried to change the subject.
Alex slowly brought his hand to the side of her face and trailed his fingers down to her chin. He made her look up at him by gently pulling her chin up.
"The truth, Natasha…" Alex asked gently as he looked at her hesitant expression as bit her lips.
As she kept hesitating, Alex brought his thumb to her lips and stopped her from biting them.
"I was thinking…" She looked deeply into his emerald green eyes with her olive green eyes.
"Yeah." He was patient.
She took a deep breath, "We're bonded together, right?"
"Right."
"And it's for life." She said questioningly.
"Right."
"And what are your views on me finding a partner?" She asked.
"I'm your partner." He said with a flat tone, but there was an undertone of finality in his words.
"Yeah, but what if it's someone other than you—" She tried to continue and was interrupted.
"We're bonded for life, babe. There is no other partner. And there will be no partner. You can think of it as marriage, just on a far deeper level." Alex had a dark look in his eyes. He wasn't going to entertain any such thought.
"If that's the case, then what about Wanda? She's immature and doesn't realize the implications of your words, but you know what you imply with those words." She said.
"Natasha, baby…" He said gently, "I'm bonded with you. And I'm bonded with Wanda. Both of you are equally important to me. And both of you are bonded to me for life. Period."
"Then—" She was again interrupted by Alex.
"I know what you're feeling right now. You feel that lack of a connection with me. You don't have any issue with our bond, but you want an emotional connection. Isn't that right?" Alex understood what she wanted. Her thoughts were all over the place and she herself wasn't sure of what she wanted, but when Alex put it out like that, she realized that he was kind of right.
"I guess, yeah. We train, we fuck, and we eat. It just… feels a little artificial," She said.
"How about this? Tomorrow, I'll take you out. We'll take the jet. I'll also pick up some parts that I need so that I can modify the jet and we can go on a superhero date. We'll take down a crime syndicate— I was thinking the Mexican cartel, then we could go watch a movie, and we'll get some dinner, what do you say?" He asked her. He understood the problem that Nat had.
When it came to a normal symbiotic connection, both the host and the symbiote shared each other's feelings on a very deep level.
Alex's case was a little different. The empathetic connection that shares the feelings was only one way for Alex. He'd blocked his hosts from reading and understanding his feelings, but he was able to understand what his hosts feel.
This was the reason that Nat felt this disconnect. And as the level of the bond increases, the blockage that Alex had set up would also naturally disappear.
His words put a smile on Natasha's face, "That sounds like a nice plan."
They were both practically sticking to each other as they talked and with Natasha's agreement for the date tomorrow, Alex sealed the deal with a kiss. He wasn't going to skip Natasha's reward session.
As they hugged, Alex didn't notice the deep thoughtful look in Nat's eyes, nor did he realize that she had been masking her surface thoughts. She'd long realized he could read her surface thoughts whenever he wanted. She'd already come up with a countermeasure for his ability.
…
That evening.
"Where are you taking me?" Wanda asked with a smile on her face. Her eyes were covered by a silky red blindfold. She was wearing a classy red backless gown with matching red strappy heels. There was a slit running from the side below her thigh that revealed her leg as she walked. The dress had two thin spaghetti straps that went over her shoulders.
She was holding Alex's hand as he guided her to their date spot. He was wearing a typical black suit along with a Rolex that he'd found in the mansion. He may be a symbiote now, but that didn't mean that he wasn't a fan of collecting material items. Not every desire can be fulfilled by creating it using his symbiote body. Especially since he loved collecting watches in his original world too.
"Shush… If I tell you, then it won't be a surprise." He told her.
With the striking clothes that they were wearing, it would be impossible to get any peace in a public setting. Especially with Wanda's popularity as an Avenger. The government and authority figures may not like her, but everyone was a sucker for a superhero. They both would've been swarmed the moment they stepped foot in public. Not to mention that Wanda was a wanted person.
Wanda wasn't very used to wearing high heels so she ended up stumbling once or twice due to the snowy ground, though Alex was there to support her.
"All right, here we are…" He said as he went behind her and took off the blindfold.
What greeted Wanda was a snowy open dining area. The floor was snowy and there was a single table in the center with a white cloth covering it, with a candelabra illuminating the table.
"Open dinner?" She asked rhetorically as she admired the clear view of the night sky as the stars shined upon them.
"I thought that you'd like it." Alex walked ahead with her and pulled back the chair, letting her take a seat.
"Where's the mansion?" Wanda didn't see the mansion. And they had only walked for a few minutes, so she expected to see the mansion in her view.
"I camouflaged it. It gives the feel of us truly being in the middle of nowhere, with snowy mountains all around us…" Alex took a seat in front of her.
"It's amazing Alex." Wanda held his hand over the table.
"Only the best for my girl. Waiter." Alex called the waiter.
"Who's—" Wanda's question was left unspoken as a typical waiter with a thin mustache walked up to the table with a wine bottle in hand and two menus.
"Some white wine, madam?" He asked with a slightly exaggeratedly pretentious expression on his face.
"Sure…" Wanda was amused as she looked at the 'waiter' pouring the wine into her's and Alex's glasses. She understood that this was Alex utilizing his cloning ability.
"What do you think?" Alex asked her.
"Pretty cool. I have to admit." Wanda said and picked up the menu, "I can order anything?" She confirmed.
"Anything you want." Alex was completely prepared. He didn't tell her, but he'd made a trip to a close city to make the preparations for this date. Most of the preparation time today was taken by that round trip.
"All right then, I won't hold back." Wanda indeed didn't hold back.
Alex had told both her and Natasha that they could eat however much they want and it wouldn't have any negative effects on them after the metabolic enhancements that he'd given them. Needless to say, they'd been pretty unrestrained in their diet.
Both of them had to micromanage what they ate for the longest time due to their own reasons. And having the liberty to stay as fit as always and to be able to eat anything they wanted was almost euphoric.
She quickly ordered ten different dishes. Alex had chosen a Sokovian-based menu since he felt that it would be a nice nostalgic trip down memory lane for her.
And Wanda noticed his efforts as evidenced by the glances that she was stealing at his face. And by the looks of it, she really appreciated his efforts.
Soon, when Alex noticed that Wanda was done with her choices, the waiter came to take their order.
After that, "Hey, Alex…" Wanda said.
"What's up?" Alex took a sip of wine from his glass.
"Can you tell me about your home planet?" She asked.
"Oh? What do you want to know?" Alex asked.
"Everything. What you did there, how life was there, what kind of culture you had, everything." Wanda was really curious about Alex's race and planet.
"Well, to be honest, my memories of my home are pretty hazy. All I know is that it's called Klyntar, and our race is also Klyntar." Alex was sure that Klyntar still existed since he could feel in the hive mind that there was a large concentration of symbiotes in a singular direction. He assumed that they were all in Klyntar and Knull hadn't awakened yet. Though the situation was pretty unclear to him. So what he told Natasha was the truth.
"So there's not much to go there, but since we can survive in the vacuum of space, there are myriad hosts that we have throughout the universe. A lot of the symbiotes even serve as a peacekeeping force in the universe." He was just going by his recollection of the Marvel canon, which itself might be a little inaccurate in the current circumstances.
He didn't actually know all this information since he didn't have any real memories of his time before waking up in the spaceship.
"How'd you end up on Earth then?" Wanda asked.
"Honestly, no clue. One day, I just woke up in a shuttle that crashed on earth. No clue how I got here or anything. That's also why my memories of my home world aren't exactly complete. I assume that whatever sent me to this world erased my memories from back then."
"Oh, you poor thing…" Wanda frowned with worry marred all over her face.
"Hey now," His hand glided to her cheek and Wanda leaned her face into his warm palm, closing her eyes. "It's not a big deal, after all, the only reason that I ran into you was that I was here. So I consider it a pretty nice boon." He said as he ran his hand over Wanda's cheek and hair.
Wanda responded with a slight giggle, liking his cheezy flirting.
"The food's ready." Before they could continue, Alex told her that the food was ready.
Following his words, the 'waiter' came with a trolly with all the dishes they ordered.
"Dinner is served…" He said in a pretentious accent and left. It left Wanda amused and chuckling at Alex's antics.
"Let's start eating." Alex was excited for Wanda to try the stuff that he'd made for her. He'd never eaten Sokovian food and was curious about whether or not she would like the food that he'd cooked for her.
"Mhmm… This is amazing." Wanda ate a bite of the Paprikash and moaned at the taste.
"You like it?" Alex asked.
"God this is amazing, just like home…" Before Wanda could get sad about her home and past, Alex cut up a bite of a different dish and put it in front of her mouth. Today was a happy date, they had all the time in the world to wallow in sadness later.
"Try this." He smiled at her as Wanda ate the bite from his fork.
They spent the next hour feeding each other and enjoying each other's company while eating dinner.
…
"That one's Pisces… You see those stars forming a V shape with the two circles at the ends?" Wanda told Alex as she pointed to a constellation in the sky.
They were both lying in the snow while Alex's arm was under Wanda's head. She was telling Alex all about the constellations that she remembered. They didn't need a blanket and were lying directly on the snow since Wanda's 'dress' was more than enough to shield her against the cold.
They'd both walked up to the spot where she usually trains since the view was better from there, Alex had even gone far enough to create stairs for them to walk up to the spot since it was a steep hill.
As she was laying down on the ground, Wanda could feel a faint but profound connection with the ground that she wasn't able to identify or understand.
"I'm a Pisces too." She looked at him.
"You believe in that zodiac stuff?" He asked.
"Not really, but it's fun to know that my birth month correlates to a constellation in the sky." She smiled.
"You're so cute, Wanda…" Alex bopped Wanda's nose as he pulled her just a bit closer to himself.
"I know. I wish we could just stop time at this spot…" She said absently.
"Isn't a moment important because it's fleeting though?" Alex said.
"That's profound…" Wanda chuckled and snuggled even closer to him.
"Look at me." Alex pulled her closer as she turned to look at him. Their faces were barely an inch apart, "How was the date? I hope it met your standards." He smiled as he felt himself getting lost in her fluttering eyes.
"It was… the best." She said with shallow breaths as she gazed deep into his eyes.
He didn't waste any more time and brought her in for a light peck before he pulled back. And just as Wanda was about to say something, he gave her a light peck again.
With each peck, he kept pulling her in closer and closer until they were both stuck to each other's bodies without even an inch of distance between them.
Then Alex turned, putting Wanda under him as he started kissing her with passion, pushing his tongue into her mouth.
"Mhm~" She moaned into his mouth at the sensations. Her back arched as she felt the cold snow directly touching her back, courtesy of her backless dress. Alex warmed her just enough that it was slightly uncomfortable but not too uncomfortable. He kept it at the exact point where she would feel an unsatisfied itch at the sensations of the cold snow on her back.
Alex's hands weren't free either as one of his them went to the slit that was at the side of her dress below her thigh and started caressing the side of her bare thigh, lightly running his fingers up and down her thigh. Wanda felt light tingles wherever his fingers touched her.
His other hand was on the side of her face, caressing her cheek and going down to her neck.
Soon, he stopped kissing her lips and moved to her neck, kissing her erogenous spots there while planning to give her a hickey or two.
"Oh, Alex~" She moaned his name as she ran her fingers through his hair.
Two hickeys later, Alex pulled back and looked into Wanda's eyes with a passionate look.
The spaghetti straps that were holding her dress in place disappeared as Alex brought his mouth to the part that covered her cleavage, grabbing the dress with his teeth and pulling it down. Revealing her glorious tits to the biting cold winds. Her little pink nubs were already perky due to her arousal and the cold. There was no bra since she was wearing a backless dress.
"So sexy…" He brought his hand to the underside of her breast while putting his mouth on the other.
"Oh, Alex~" She felt him nibble lightly on her nipple as he mauled her breasts. She was already feeling restless with this extended foreplay as she took shallow breaths and arched her back occasionally.
Meanwhile, Alex's other hand was busy teasing her thighs as he trailed his finger to her inner thigh, getting dangerously close to her covered core before pulling back, leaving her hanging with anticipation.
He repeated the process a few times as he switched between both breasts, giving both of her bunnies his equal attention.
"Alex~" She whined as she tried to get him to stop teasing her. She was just so aroused at this point and Alex kept teasing her and going on with the foreplay.
Hearing her pleas, Alex just gave her an infuriating grin that told her of his refusal. He was going to make sure that he was a writhing mess under him before giving her what she wants.
"Patience baby…" He told her gently as he kissed her lips before pulling back again.
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